The Bill Martinez Show 03 30 26

0:00 Are you ready? Yeah, Okay, let's do it. Bill Martinez Live a program about current events, our culture, our values, our politics, and our future. And now Bill Martinez. Six minutes after they are right now, Bill Martinez here with the American Minute creator, the one and only Bill Fetter. Hey, Bill, how are you doing, buddy? Oh it's crazy be with you. Bill. Well, Happy holding week to you. What a great week. I mean, I love this this time of year because you know, spiritually, you know this, This just means so much to me. Bill, You know, this time to see this time of year. Yeah, yeah, Well, it is coming up on Christianity is the largest religion in the world around thirty three percent.

0:48 And since Easter is the most important day to Christians, Easter could be the most important day in the world right to the most amount of people, right exactly, And I am thrilled. Coming up on Palm Sunday. I do a weekly video for Turning Point Education, and the one we did for this coming week, I go through the seven feasts of Israel, and so in Leviticus, God gives the Israelites seven feasts and their year is agricultural, and so the first three are in the spring feast, to Passover on leaven, bread and first fruits. Fifty days later, it's a fiast of Pentecost, end of the summer harvest is the feast of Trumpets David Towman, and the feast of Tabernacles. But if we zero in on the first three, Passover is where the children of Israel sacrifice. The Lamb put the blood over the doorposts of our house so the angel of death would pass over. So the pedh was ordering the Israelites to throw their sons in the Nile river, and God said, okay, I'm going to do to you what you were doing to the Israelites, and so would kill the firstborn. And so if the blood is over the door, this symbolism is that the Lamb took the judgment instead of the people in the house taking the judgment. And obviously that is foreshadowing Jesus. So

2:22 interestingly enough, the Hebrew day starts at sunset and goes to the next sunset. So when Jesus thirty three AD celebrated the Passover meal with his disciples after the sun had set, and it was that night that he was in the garden of Kyosemite, and sweat and drops of blood and then you know, arrested and taken before you know the Sanhedrin, and then before Herod and Pilot, and then crucified. But he was. Crucified the next day, probably around nine o'clock. And so he was actually crucified on the same Hebrew day as Passover.

3:03 So here he's the Passover lamp sacrifice on Passover. And then in the Jewish calendar, the next day is the feast of unloven bread. Levin is symbolic of sin. It's yeast, and the Jews would get all the yeast out of their house, and that was the day that Jesus was in the tomb and getting all the sin out of the world. And then on the third day, the Jews celebrate the feast of first Fruits. So it's the. End of the barley harvest, and so they would bake the barley breads, and it's the beginning of the wheat harvest, and so they would take the sheaves of wheat and wave them before the Lord. And so Jesus rose from the dead on the feast of first Fruits. And so the apostle Paul says, Christ is the first fruit, and each man in his order after Christ's coming will be resurrected.

4:01 And so now in the Hebrew calendar you have the fifty days later is the beginning of that harvest, and so the Pentecost, So the sheaves came out of the ground at first fruits, but then the sheaves are are ready to be harvested, and so it's the beginning of the harvest of souls. And then at the end of the summer of the. Wheat harvest, they would blow the trumpets, and so you know, Postle Paul and the others say, well, at the last trump that Christ will return. And the yam Kapoor is that the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. That's when the high priests would bring the blood of the lamb and sprinkle it on the mercy scene. The blood actually changed it from a judgment seat into.

4:49 A mercy seed, yes exactly. And then the Feast of Tabernacles, the Jews would set up booths, you know, little shelters in their yard and live in it for a week to sort of camp out with the kids, but to remind them that they had come out of Egypt and dwelt in the wilderness, you know, with the Lord there as the pillar of Fire by night and God by day. And then the thought is that symbolica that is us dwelling with God forever in heaven. But it's interesting those first four feasts actually took place on the exact day that Christ was crucified as the passover Lamb. On Passover, he was in the grave taking the sin out of the world on the exact same day as the feast of unloven Bread.

5:38 And he rises from the dead on the Feast of First Fruits. And then fifty days later the Pentecost is the beginning of the harvest of souls, and it took place on the feast of Pentecost. So see what does that tell you Bill about God Almighty himself. I mean, this wasn't by happenstance. It wasn't coincidental. It was, as Jesus said, an appointed time, wasn't it. Yeah, there's a versusys in the fullness of time. Christ was born of Mary, and so I like history, so I like to peace out the timeline. So around fourteen hundred BC is when the triller Visral come out of Egypt and they get the Law from God, where the law says that these three times a year, springs tend to costs, and then end of the summer the Jews will make their pilgrimage to Jerusalem. And then you go to seven twenty two BC and the ten northern tribes of Visrael are scattered, and then five eighty seven BC, Judah is scattered to Babylon, and then some come back.

6:43 But now you have pockets of Jews around the world, and then the faithful Jews would make pilgrimage from wherever they were scattered back to Jerusalem. And then you have Alexander the Great conquers and spreads the Greek language. And then you have the Septuagint, where the Ptolemy, Emperor of Egypt, decides that he wants to have the Old Testament translated into Greek, and so now the entire Greek world can read the Old Testament. And then you have the Pax Romana. It's a one hundred year Roman piece from you know, Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar, you know about forty or so b C's were on sixty or so eighty and so and then so you piece it all together. You have the Jews coming from four corners of the world.

7:44 On the road system built by the Romans, all roads like the Rome and they come back to Jerusalem for their feasts, and then on the day of Pentecost they all get filled with the Holy Spirit, and people heard them speaking in their own tongues, right, they're speaking in all their different tongues. And then at the end of the week they go back to the four corners of the world taking the message that Jesus has risen from the dead and he's the Son of God, and we have the Gospel and eternal life. And they can communicate with all the neighbors along the way in the Greek language, and they can open up the scriptures in the Greek and say, look, you fulfill this, you fulfill this, you fulfild this, and if you think of it, you know, the Wickliff Bible translators would spend forty years translating one language, and so it would have taken a long time if there was not this Greek language and then road system, I mean, if there were no roads, it would take a long time.

8:37 And this poksromana if there wasn't. A peace where you know, it's hard to witness to somebody in the middle of a war. It was as if the entire world was set up for a rapid spread of a message, and so on the day of Pentecost's boom, within a week it's spread out around the entire known world. Believable. We've got to go to break. Stay right where you are because Bill Fetter has got a lot more to share with us here on Bill Martinez Live. Stay with us. Spring brings brighter days and more time to show off your Coal Styles. School drop off a chance for your outfit to shine in the morning, raise the sun filtering through your windows, practically a personal spotlight, and family walks, all perfectly timed for Golden Hour. Shop Coals for fifteen percent off and make the most of more daylight. Your outfits deserve it. Selick Styles All Friends, April fourth. Some exclusions apply see store coals dot com for details.

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14:36 Yeah, well, my website is Americanminute dot com americanminute dot com and you can sign up for a daily email there where I go through the history. You know, I hate to bring out, but in nine thirty seven a d on Palm Sunday, the sultan I think his name was the Al Hakim, known as the Mad Sultan. He decided to destroy the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. And this is when the Christians that were going on pilgrimage would come back and say, the Muslims destroyed.

15:18 The church over where Jesus had risen from the dead. And so this begins the cry in Europe for the Europeans to send help to these Christian minorities over there, and they do. It's called the First Crusade, and then there's nine major crusades. But this Al Hakim, I mean, he was so bad that he decided to destroy every church you could find and cut out the tongues of anybody caught speaking Coptic. Right, Egyptians were all Christian for six hundred years until the Muslims invaded, and the language of the Egyptians was Coptic. Coptic. Coptic, that's the Egyptian word for Egyptian. But Alhakim said, no, Arabic is the Muslims divine language, and so they cut out the tongues of people called speaking Coptic.

16:11 It's horrible. But that was on Palm Sunday, is when he decided to destroy the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. And so the second largest religion in the world is Islam. I tell people. In a sense, Islam is the religion of Cain. So you got Cain and able able worship God through the Lamb. And it's this beautiful picture. God is on one side, we are on the other side. We've sinned, and God is just. So God has to judge the sin. But the Lamb steps in and takes the judgment in our place. Yes, and so the lamb is God's way to love you without having to judge you. It's his plan. He cannot change his nature. He was like, God can do everything, well, yeah, but he cannot change who he is.

16:55 He is just, and he cannot change that he's just, which means he has to judge every sin, which means he could never be loved back because if he makes people that can love, but they step by line. He has to judge him. And so when the lamb takes the judgment in our place, the lamb is God's way to love you without having to judge you, because Jesus took the judgment and you're approaching him through Christ. That's why Jesus said, I'm the way the truth in life. No man comes to the Father except by me, because if you try to come any other way, you've sinned. You've got to get judged. Now, came wanted to worship God, but he didn't have a lamb. In his theology was works, and we know it's works because God told Adam the ground is cursed for your sake, and you'll bring forth fruit by the sweat of your brow.

17:36 Sweat is work. So Cain's trying to work his way to heaven, and so he piles all of his you know, barley or whatever it was, on the altar. And the question is, did Cain's works make him acceptable to God? No, if you do work, you can be proud of your works because you're doing more than your brother. And God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. If you're trusting in the Lamb a third person. You're implicitly acknowledging your insufficient in yourself and you need help, and it's humbling. But if there is no Lamb, it's just you and God, and your works can never be enough to satisfy its God and your pride. And so when it says that Kine's works were ejected as countenance fell, his pride was hurt. He was offended, He was embarrassed in front of his mom, dad, and brother, but that was enough, and then he gets fill full of hatred and anger wants to murder his brother.

18:29 They had the revelation of the Lamb. So it's almost like the spiritual descendants of Cain are always trying to kill the spiritual descendants of Able. But any religion of strictly works with no Lamb. It's a Cain's religion, like you know, the different you know, Hindus or Buddhas that whatever they do, you know, but it's. The same thing Bill that God said to you know, said to Kine, said, if you do right, will it not go well for you? That right was righteousness, If you do the holy thing, will it not go right for you? But Cain insisted on doing it his own way and not God's way. And that is the divide between you know, with all the religions that are out there right now, you've got the chosen religion that God has appointed for righteousness and salvation. And we are the markers, you know, those that believe in God. We are the light to the darkened world that wants to do it their own way, and you can't do it that way, right.

19:31 Yeah, I like in it too. Every other religion is man reaching up to God. Christianity is God reaching. Out to man. Yes, that he initiated it is that while we were at sinners, Christ died for us, while these other ones, well, if you're good enough, if you fast enough, if you you know, chop off enough heads, if you do whatever, you know. But we respond that he gave his life first out of love. And then we respond to that. But you know, people say, well, who in the Old Testament was saved, Well, those that believed in the Lamb. If you summarize the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, two things are clear law and Lamb the law six hundred and thirteen laws. But there's all these laws and God knew they would break the law. So after every law, he has the specified sacrifice that you offer to be forgiven. So all the sacrifices in the Old Testament, wherever blood was shed in sacrifice, that is foreshadowing Jesus. So they had faith in the Lamb to come.

20:32 We have faith in the Lamb that came. But salvation is through the Lamb. Yes, And it's sort of it's interesting. I've listened on my phone to the Bible, but I've listened through the book Job, like I don't know, hundreds of times, and it finally comes down to that. Basically, Job for forty chapters was trying to approach God as Caine. It's like, I did everything right, I was, I worked right and then filing it. Even sacrifices, if you remember, he did sacrifices for his children, thinking in case they did sin, I'm going to offer a sacrifice, right, he didn't know, but he just said, Hey, I'm offering a sacrifice for my kids because they had a party and I think that they may have sinned, so I'm going to cover them.

21:16 Yeah, they went on spring break right. Right exactly, so to speak. Yeah, But at. The end of it is when Job says, Okay, I admit all my works are as filthy rags. He goes everything that I've done, it's nothing compared to the righteousness of God. Basically, I'm throwing myself on your mercy. And then God said, that's all I wanted. I just wanted you to. Be humble and you know, and so then job receives the forgiveness. So we trust in God's mercy. We trust in his love rather than trusting And I hope I did enough good stuff. So I asked people, I said, are you approaching God as Cain or as Able? If you're still hoping you're good enough to go to heaven, you're approaching God is kin. But if you're approaching God is Able, it's like.

22:06 I'm not good enough. But this Lamb was good enough to take all. The judgment I deserve upon itself on the cross, and therefore I'm approaching this all eternally just God through the Lamb. He took the judgment for me so I can experience. The love of God. Now he fills us with the Holy Spirit. And then we want to go out and do all the good work so we can show the rest of the world how much God loves him. But that's the response. He loved us first. Yeah, you know, it starts bill the way I say it, It starts with faith, and you have to have some level of faith to where you can appropriate God's grace. Without faith, it's meaningless because you know, as Saint Augustine says, it starts with faith that leads to belief, that leads to understanding.

22:57 And that's the process that we go through as we come to know Almighty God and are blessed by his many blessings. Yeah, I am two things. That God is just and God is love. So on the just side he can't help. He is just, which means he has to judge every sin. And the thought is, well, Jesus is one person. How can one person giving his life pay for billions of us who have sinned? Well, Jesus is divine, and so he experienced that death on the cross in a dimension we will never understand. It says, a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. Jesus experienced that day on the cross as if it was a thousand years. And if you think of it, I have a degree in accounting, so I like things that balance. You take an eternal being Jesus, who is innocent suffering for a finite period of time. It's equal to all of us finite beings who are guilty suffering for an eternal period of time. We say that again, an eternal being who's innocent suffering for a finite period of time is equal to all of us finite beings who are guilty suffering for an eternal period of time. Infinity times finite equals finite times infinity. An unlimited being suffering for a limited period of time is equal to all of us limited beings suffering for an unlimited period of time. Jesus suffered the equivalent of eternal damnation in all of our places and experiences, as if it was a thousand years, and he's the only one who could have done it. Not of love for the Father, not of love for you and me. He became the lamb, and he took the wrath,

24:30 says in Isaiah fifty three, It please the Lord to crush him. Charles Wesley wrote to him, amazing Love, How can it be that thou, my God, shouldst die for me? Right? So God is just, he judges every sin, but he's love, and that he provided the lamb to take the judgment for the sin. So the lamb is God's way to love you without having to judge you. It's his way to get around his own just nature. In mathematical equations, there's constants and variables. In the equation of redemption, the constant is God is just, was is and forever will be just. The variable is who takes the judgment. You were a substitute, right and Jesus is our substitute. Well, well, we pray that this Easter will be the most meaningful and profound Easter you've ever experienced. And Bill Fetter, thank you so much for your blessing. You bless us each time you come on the show. And ladies and gentlemen, Bill Fetter is the American minute creator, a speaker, and best selling author. Bill, Thank you, God, bless you.

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29:14 How are you well? I'll tell you. I am feeling the pain of our TSA workers. I mean the third check that they're gonna miss John what they have done, and you know, you know, and I put it on both sides because I'm saying to John Thune, and I've said before I kind of like the guy. I don't like his results, though, and he's got to take off the gloves. I mean, he has just been patty caking with the Democrats way too long. I really am not sure he's on our side. Frankly, he has tried to obstruct President Trump so many times. He's I mean, he purposely won't let Congress go into recess to prevent Trump from getting his appoint He's through what Democrat would get away with doing that to a Democratic president?

29:59 Can you ima? Then Harry Reid doing that to Barack Obama would never happen. It'd be one phone call. So this is this is I think John Thune represents the wing of the Republican Party that wants to lose the mid terms. They want the Democrats to impeach Trump again. They want Trump out, they want Trump's populist faction out of power. They're willing to tank the country. They're playing chicken. They're willing to tank the country and let the Democrats take power in order to keep control of their little Republican Party machine. It reminds me of the movie all. Remember the movie Office Space. There was that character who loves his red stapler and they kept moving him around and they finally took away his red stapler and he said, okay, but I can burn this building down, and then he does.

30:52 That is John Thune. The Republican Party is his red stapler, and he's willing to burn the country down rather than let Donald Trump have his red stapler. That it is just that petty, It is just that contemptible. Don't listen to any of the slogans about oh by parisanship and Senate norms and conventions and traditions. While the other side is throwing molotov cocktails and smuggling twenty million foreigners into the country and letting Sharia courts operate around the country. John Thune talking about the vulnerable traversal, sunate, hall stick, trds, lot blah blah blah. Really, what he's saying is I can burn this building down.

31:33 That's it, John. How how many nominations are waiting still? The idea. There are hundreds that can't even keep track. I mean, here, we're a year and a half into this president's administration, and he is being stalled time and again. The resistance, as you know, they're in full swing, in full order. And meanwhile, as you say, you know, Thune and others are worried about things of no consequence. Well, certainly for the American people, some of. The blame goes to Trump because he keeps endorsing rhinos in primaries. Just stay out of the primaries. The National Party should not be evolved in the primaries. But back in the nineties, Carl Rove was pouring Republican money into primaries to keep open borders Republicans in office rather than actual conservatives. That was supposed to end when Trump became president, But for some reason, he keeps endorsing worthless rhinos who oppose him. He endorsed Lindsey Graham, who celebrated his impeachment and who hit under his desk crying like a little girl on January sixth, and claimed that the election integrity protesters were in the reccinis. I'm both scared.

32:48 I weent my pennies, I cried, I curled up in a feedaball. Oh my god, Trump, stop helping your enemies. You're gonna end up once you're out of office. You're gonna end up in prison with your entire family. They're going to bankrupt your whole family if you don't kick the Democrats out of power. And what's standing between Trump and the Democrats are the Washington Generals. The basketball team. For this job, it was to lose every night to the Harlem Globetrotters gracefully. And that's their job. That's all they know how to do. I mean, you look at John Cornyn here in Texas. He almost managed to get a Trump endorsement against Ken Paxson, who.

33:32 Is a conservative hero. Right. I wish Trump would be a little more vindictive and actually punish his enemies. I mean, he knows how to go after people who tick him off irrationally, like Marjorie Tilly Green and Thomas Massey and Rand Paul Yeah, okay, their pains in the neck. They're not nearly as bad as Lindsey Graham and John Thune and Kennedy Kennedy, I'm sorry, Cassidy. In Louisiana, we need to purge the Republican Party of these traders, Benedict Arnold was willing to sell out his country for a bag of gold and a commission in the British Army. He was going to hand over West Point with all its troops and all its weapons to the British. That is what the Rhinos are doing to America.

34:18 You know, John, And you bring up a good point here, and that is that you know, Donald Trump is an exposing agent. He's exposing this, and so you know after Trump what then? Yeah? Yeah, Well, I mean I'm not a huge JD. Bans fan. I feel like he's too close to Tucker Carlson and other toxic weirdos who are I think, doing a foreign intelligence operation to promote Islam in America. I mean you. Could like it needs promotion, John, right, right, it needs promotion from lazy dilettant, spoil wasp millionaires like Tucker Carlson.

34:59 I used to George W. Bush used to be the Republican I hated the most. He has been replaced by Tucker Carlson. But they have a lot in common. Both born into massive sums of money, both lazy dilettants who pretend to be Christian leaders who don't know anything about Christianity, don't know anything about history, and they follow whatever shiny object gets waved in front of their face. George W. Bush, on September twelfth, two thousand and one, announced that Islam is a religion of peace. Tucker Carlson's now on television saying that sharia law produces better societies than American constitutional law. He's saying this, Yes, he's praising sharia law. Now. He doesn't even people are saying he's on the payroll of Arab governments. He doesn't even need the money. He's worth something like eighty million dollars. Just he got it the old fashioned way. He inherited it, and then he made money, you know, from Fox and So I can't even chalk it up to bribery. I don't know what it is, except I feel like there are some wasps, some New England, white Anglo Saxon Protestants who resent Jews from becoming prominent, for becoming leaders in America. As the WASP kind of failed failed to lead, you know, gave up the group that built America. The wasps sort of just became like trust fund babies with a coke spoon up their nose and Now these Jews here seem to be asserting themselves. They seem to be doing things and running things and accomplishing things. There are enemy. Who do

36:30 they think they are? This is our country. My great grandfather founded a TV dinner company. Exactly. No, it's it's it's it's absurd. I don't know. I mean, you certainly know more about Tucker Carlson. It remains. He remains a mystery to me because it's like, what happened? Was he always? I mean, he and Kansas got together and had a couple of beers together, and they both went crazy together? What's what's the deal? I think it's spiritual warfare. Tucker Carlson, with his own voice, said he was subject to a demonic attack. He said he woke up with claw marks. I believe him. The problem is he didn't then go find a priest, an exorcist, or even a pastor. He didn't join some faithful church and get guidance. No, No, he's just winging in. I can read the Bible on my own, so he's gonna have his own religion.

37:30 Yeah. The devil hates pride, right. Pride is the profound original sin that Satan fell with but Tucker Carlson has an encounter with the diabolical and he proudly trots off to be his own pastor, pope and psychiatrist. And we can date it back to that attack is when he started having nutjobs and weirdos on his podcast, People Obsessed with Aliens, Obsessed with Jewish Conspiracies, saying claiming that Churchill was the villain of World War two. I mean, it's just it's like what it's watching a slow motion train wreck of a circus train full of cute animals and children, and you're just who this is. It is painful to watch the disintegration of a human soul on the national stage.

38:21 But that's what we're seeing with Tucker Carlson and Candae Owen and a number of other people who seem to be following them down the primrose path to hell. Well, you know, and this is what happens when you truly become disconnected from the truth and God Almighty. I mean, He is the source of that which is life and freedom and those things that are noble and righteous that you and I are pursuing. In others other believers are pursuing. And of course this all comes to mind even more so in this Lenten season. John, right right, I can't believe we're getting so so close to Easter, and I'm like, I didn't do very much. For lent Well, well, wait a minute, we got to go to break and then we'll come back and we'll talk more on the other side. More from doctor John right after this stay with us.

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43:15 John. Yes, Easter coming soon, and very soon we will be in Holy Week here and toward you know, after Palm Sunday we were chanting Hosanna, Hosanna, and then in less than a week we're crucifying the truth. That's something. This is a good time for us to remember all the people who are being persecuted for their Christian faith all around the world. In Nigeria, where there's a constant Muslim jiha against the Christians, and the world's not doing anything. In Iran. Christians are terribly persecuted, but the church is growing underground in Iran. It's growing faster than anywhere on Earth. And one of the ways that's growing is people are having apparitions of Jesus. Muslims are having visions of Jesus telling them, you know you've been on the wrong path. You're not seeking God the right way. Here's this Bible we smuggled into the country. I know the people at a ministry called Iran Alive, wonderful people, and they nourish and support the underground church in Iran. I suggest people check out their TV programs, Iran Alive. I'm working with them on my documentary about jihad.

44:30 Well. And the thing is is you've got to imagine when you've got Muslims, this has been their life, their culture, their family, and they're impressed by a dream. And this is what you hear consistently is that you know, you go what happened, and go, I had a dream. And you can tell the way in which they tell you that they had a dream. John, It is so profound that it comes out of their very soul, the very depth of who they are, and it's so profound for them that they just have to walk away from their family, their culture, everything that they've been raised and walk away from it all. And a lot of countries, a lot of countries, there's a death penalty for leaving.

45:11 Yes, exactly, exactly these. People are like the martyrs in the Colosseum in ancient Rome. As a great book I'm reading called Answering Jihad by a former Muslim who became a Christian evangelist. He died recently, died of cancer last year. Terrific book, Answering Jihad, and it's all about what it's like to believe that your mission in the world is to wage religious war on unbelievers. That is the highest mission for any Muslim man is to wage jihad. Comes above charity, comes above even preaching. It is the highest calling of a Muslim Man. And the highest places in heaven are promised for jihad warriors.

45:52 This is why we can't have millions of these people living among us. Imagine the hot I's the highest set Aackerman of Catholicism involved human sacrifice or terrorism or poisoning the wells. You know you wouldn't want them in your country. The First Amendment gives them a loophole so that they can do this. But that's why we have to have strict immigration, and we're going to have to get a lot of people to leave. How screwed up are we, John, I mean to welcome an adversary like this that is a clear and present danger, undeniable. I mean, they clearly say we want to kill you, and we go, oh, come on in, you know, come into our neighborhoods. Don't worry about law and order here.

46:35 You can set up your own sharia law. That's okay, that's fine. Yeah, And you got Tucker Carlson saying sharia law is superior to the American Constitution. Absolute madness. That and the only explanation is spiritual like there are spirits of confusion sending people on down rabbit holes, obsessed with conspiracy theories they read on the internet. Why don't you go to your local school board meeting and try to stop them from having transgender propaganda pressed on seven year olds. There's a great organization, mass resistance. Everybody needs to know about mass resistance. They are the ones who show up at the school board and read aloud the obscene literature that these perverted school librarians are giving to seven and eight year olds. They read it aloud, and the people in the school board are embarrassed in appalled.

47:25 But will they. Approve that curriculum when they do read aloud, they're stopping the parents from reading it. That's right, because it's too obscene to read aloud, But we're going to give it to your kids. Unbelievable. There was just a Supreme Court decision saying the unbelievably obvious that parents have the right to keep their kids out of classrooms that are doing gay propaganda and transgender propaganda promoting the mental illness of gender dysphoria among young impressionable kids. Well, that's how bad the Democrats are. Yeah, and speaking of parental rights, to the decision that came down on social media, I mean this really brought the focus that parents, uh, you know, have a responsibility and uh and they should not be abridged in any way.

48:08 Yeah, you should outsource your children's development and spirituality to anonymous strangers in foreign countries running algorithms. Yeah, it's it's absurd and so and and this is just a tip of the Iceberg, John, I mean the judgment that they got. I mean, unless I misread something, I know the first judgment came down was about three million, and I think the second one was about the same, which I was surprised because I thought it was gonna be hundreds of millions. Sorry, I don't know this case. Why don't you laid out this? This is this is the Google and Facebook, uh social media case that was just decided this week. And the judgment came down that in fact, the U the system of of the of social media was purposely designed to addict our children.

48:58 Wow, this is what. Was decided in a courtroom. And so the judgment and I need to double check, but the first judgment was for three million, and I heard the second one was about three That's not enough to really change their evil ways. That's chump changed these people. People need to go to prison. People, people need to have their their entire net worth confiscated. There need to be there need to be consequences. Well, the tobacco manufacturers are going, wait a minute, how come we didn't get that kind of deal? Yeah? Right exactly. I mean for all the addictive production that they that they thrust upon America But anyway, that aside about five minutes left here, I wanted to address the mid terms, how critical it is, and also the Save Act that's been hanging in the balance here way too long.

49:47 Speaking of John Tune. Yeah, yeah, the Democrats want voter fraud because they cheat in the general election. The Rhinos want voter fraud because they cheat in the primaries to stop MAGA candidates from winning. So you've got a. Collusion of both the corrupt elements of both parties keeping a bill that has eighty percent public approval from becoming law. And now it looks like John Thune might outsource it to the Senate parliamentarian who was appointed. By Harry Reid, right exactly. Yeah, They one sleazy trick after another to prevent the American people from actually being represented. I mean it's staggering.

50:29 You got judges issuing lawless injunctions, taking away the president's executive power, turning loose recidivous criminal, criminal aliens on the public. All this stuff is enormously unpopular, but the system is rigged and they use loopholes, and of course you've got the media spitting it in the most outrageous ways. I don't envy the people in the Trump administration. They are. It's like you're a flee riding in a rhinoceros and you're trying to control the rhinoceros and get it to move in another maybe not run off a cliff. Right, That's how institutionalized the power of the left became after Obama and Obama turned our intelligence community into a political weapon, something like the East German Secret Police.

51:19 The stuffs that lingers to this day. John, That's right. I was happy to see General Flynn got a cast settlement as I saw the Department of Justice for the outrageous attempt to imprison him and his son over political differences. No crime was committed, no real crime was even alleged. And you talk about the reward on that, John, I thought that was meager. One point five million, yeah more, Oh yeah, I thought it was very I thought it was chump change. I mean, this, this fell out of the penny loafers of the DOJ. Here. Yeah, I mean remember the outrageous settlement to that fake sexual abuse case with Trump and that crazy woman and burged off god. Yeah, ninety million or something like that. It was absurd, Yeah, or even or even George Floyd twenty seven million.

52:07 Oh yeah, yeah, I'm dying dying on while on fenerol while resisting arrests. The insanity, But here it is. I mean, this is why the midterms are so critical, why the say AAC needs to needs to be passed, and that John Thune's got to fall on his sword at some point otherwise, I mean, what's his legacy. John disgrace. There are no monuments to Benett Arnold, and there will be no monuments to John Thune or John Cornyn or Lisa Murkowski or any of the other. In my last piece over a Chronicles magazine, which I recommend people read, I did something on the Texas Senate race, and I said, Rhinos are really like closeted gays in the early sixties.

52:52 They're putting on one face in public and then leading an entirely different life on the down law. So I just I've started calling them closeted democrats. I think that that's more appropriate because they have a spouse, but they're cheating on. Her, right exactly. Yeah, don't you know, just don't see, don't tell you know kind of thing. I guess you know, we're back, We're back to that again sticking our heads in the sand, thinking that somehow, some resolution, oh somebody else will resolve it down the road. But meanwhile, as we continue on with this, uh, this nuance and this facade, we're thirty nine trillion dollars in counting in debt. John, And the moment the Democrats take power again, they're going to open the borders to the entire Third World and we will be inundated and drowned, just like the poor people in Britain.

53:41 So let's talk. Let's all try to have a prayerful, peaceful Holy Week and remember the people who are actually being persecuted and do what we can to help them. Yeah, exactly, as we as we go into this this Holy Week, and it's such a hallowed time because it sets us up for the greatest gift that God ever gave us. John, right right resurrection. Yeah, because if there's no life after death, if there's no resurrection, then life is just a cruel joke, which is you know what scientific materialists have tried to convince us. Well, this is why you know Tony Compolo that i'd interviewed, he was probably one of the first guys I interviewed when I started on the air doing the show, and Tony had such a great sermon, one of the best sermons ever about it's Friday, but Sunday's coming, and if you haven't, if you haven't heard that, or it's been a while, I would recommend that you revisit that sermon.

54:41 It's so powerful and it's so encouraging, especially at this time with all the things that may be rough, five hour lines at the airport, our world upside down, that which is evil called good, good called evil. Where we are right now, that's only Friday, because Sonday. Can recommend a great a great movie, the movie Whiz with Joseph Fines, a wonderful movie about the Resurrection, seen from the point of view of the one of the Roman soldiers who helped to crucify Jesus. He encounters the Apostles, he encounters the risen Jesus. It is my favorite Passion Week Easter Week movie, Risen with Joseph Fines. It's available to stream and it's just a great way to spend Easter Sunday with your family.

55:23 Amen. John Zamerica is the author of No Second Amendment, No First, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism, and many other books. Doctor John has always thank you so much for. Being with you, God bless. How would you like to save money on nearly all your prescription drugs. We've set up a special toll free number for the RX Outreach Program. They're a nonprofit company whose mission it is to make prescription drugs more affordable to the masses. They don't take insurance, and in many cases, your prescriptions are even cheaper than your copays. They carry thousands of different prescription drugs, so whatever you're taking, there's a good chance they have it. No coup us are required, and this is not a discount card. It is pure savings on your prescription drugs. They specialize in generic meds for any chronic health needs. You have call with your prescription and find out for free how little you can pay for your prescription drugs. Remember, we don't take insurance, so call right now.

56:18 Eight hundred seven oh five six five eight one, eight hundred seven oh five six five eight one, eight hundred seven oh five six y five eight one. That's eight hundred seven oh five sixty five eighty one. Getting America back on track, Bill Martinez Live. Hey right now. Six minutes after the top of the Hour, Bill Martinez. Here, We've got Gary Benoy join us. He's the editor in chief of The New American. Gary. Welcome to show. Good to have you with us. Thank you very much. I'm so happy to be invited. Well, great to have you here to talk about you know what we've all been talking about, the Iran war.

57:03 And also you say, and the Constitution, right, yes, so break it down for. Us, okay, Well, the Constitution specifies the powers of the president as well as the powers of Congress when it comes to war. And simply put the president regardless of he's a Democrat or Republican, because democrats a violated the Constitution as well. To regard more powers, the president does not have the power of the king. He does not have the power to decide when to go to war. That is strictly up to Congress. Specifically, Congress possesses the power to declare war, not the president. And so what it should have happened is that Trump believed that the United States was really threatened, that the threat was really imminent, and that we needed to strike first because otherwise we would have been hit first. He should have gone to Congress.

57:56 And I know there are people Bill who claim that, well, gee, you couldn't that, because this could have happened very quickly in terms of the US being attacked. Well, we've been hearing that, haven't we, going back to nineteen seventy nine. Right, Well, when you talk about emine threat over that period of time, it's really not immina, is it. Well it isn't except when you're trying to negotiate with these people and they tell you, well, we've got all this, you know, this material in order to create eleven nuclear bombs, and you go, okay, what are we talking about? Is this something similar? If remember with Saddam Hussein, he had claimed he had the power, you know, to wipe out his neighbors too, and you know know, well, did he really have it or was he just pounding his chest and threatening his neighbors.

58:44 Well, I think history has shown that he really did not have it, because we were told when we invaded Iraq that the weapons the mass destruction were here, and they were there and they were everywhere, remember that, And that turned out not to be the case. But in this case, though, you do have the fact that, according to a US intelligence assessment that was put out by the US government, back in March of twenty and twenty five that they did not have a nuclear weapons program. So maybe that was true, maybe that was false, but that was what the US government was saying in March of twenty twenty five, and yet three months later we attacked Iran because opposedly the threat of a nuclear weapon was imminent. So was that allying then or was that a lie earlier? But regardless, when we did make that attack in June of twenty twenty five, we were then told by Trump and other officials and the Trump administration that we had completely destroyed their nuclear weapon threat, and all of a sudden, we have to do it over again this year.

59:54 Yeah. Well, obviously, like anything, you know, let's go back to Ron Reagan, you know, trust but verify, right, And they were relying on the information that they were getting from you know, some of the ground forces there from you know, Israel. We didn't have boots on the ground. This is, of course, the challenge and any kind of conflict is that, you know, there's there's nothing like having you know, ground floor information. Well that is true, but nonetheless you don't want to act on information you do not have. Do you know, we had the information that they still were developing a nuclear bomb or working toward developing a nuclear bomb. The bottom line is that Comeras should have made the decision.

1:00:38 The bottom line, too, is that was I Ran threatening its neighbors or was I Ran threatening the United States itself? Because the purpose of the military should be to protect the United States of America. Right, and it's interest exactly right, And and the other thing. I mean, and I'll tell you Gary, I'm a marine, Okay, So we are, you know, commissioned to be as they say. The President's owned that he can call us into any situation. And there's been situations whether you know, we go back to the Barbary Pirates. When Jefferson saw, you know, the Muslims were getting out of control there and said send in the Marines. I mean, they flinched and made it known that they were not for good. And so you have to in this situation with the commander in chief, I believe you have to have some and I think the Constitution gives it an allowance. I think one hundred and fifty days, number one, number two is all this stuff had been boiling, and I put a little bit of the ononus on Congress, It's like, you know, they sat there on their hands, saw this stuff coming, and they weren't. I didn't see them as being proactive.

1:01:53 In any way. And for me, I would like to see our government, you know, being more proactive on issues of this nature as opposed to turn and get into a political issue and being a bunch of Monday morning quarterbacks. Is that fair? Yes, I think you're making good points. But I will say with regard to the number of days that is allowed, that was under the War Powers Act, which was an act that was passed by Congress during the Vietnam War period to try to prevent the president in the future from unilaterally getting US into a major war without the involvement of Congress. But I would argue that the War Powers Act is actually unconstitutional, that we should go by the Constitution itself, not the War Powers Act. And the warning though in the Constitution is very interesting because it gives power to Congress to declare war. It does not say to make war. And there's a very good reason for that. And you find out why that is the case when you go back and you look at Medicine's notes where he records the debate that occurred at the Constitutional Convention. And the reason the founders use the word declare rather than make is because they did recognize that if there were a sudden attack against the United States of America, you didn't want the president to be in a situation where in order to respond to that attack immediately, he'd be vitolating the Constitution. Otherwise that what is said

1:03:26 makes so it's very clear that the intent is that Congress should decide when to go to war. And again, as I said earlier, Bill, when you have a so called eminent threat that occurs over fifty years or close to it, since nineteen seventy nine, there is not an emminent threat. But I think part of what's happening is that Congress likes to wash its hands of the whole situation, so they escape responsibility. But it is Congress's responsibility, and so somebody wants to be in Congress should exercise that responsibility. Exactly right, And that's what Congressman Thomas Massey wanted to accomplish when he introduced that resolution to say that the president should not go to war unless there's a declaration of war.

1:04:14 Well, I think that you and I are are seeing the same thing here is that there needs to be some proactivity here and that Congress shares some responsibility. And of course, you know when we talk about the Warp Powers Act, going back to Vietnam and going forward, how many times has it been used on both sides, Democrats as well as Republicans, And you know, to give them time for some reason or another. And of course, now in today's environment, the other issue you have is that you almost can't trust Congress. You know, Gary, you don't even want to be the commander in chief right now because if you're dealing with strategy and you you go to Congress and you say, hey, this is what I'm looking at. These knuckleheads can't find a microphone fast enough than a camera to get in front of and all of a sudden they're revealing all your strategy.

1:05:06 Well, I know that's a huge problem. But nonetheless, in order to go to war, UH in a justifiable way, you need to know why. You need to know that this you know, yeah, you need to know why, and you need to know that Iran is about to attack the United States. Now, obviously there are secrets, UH, that the Garment has that we do not want to make known to the enemy. You know that's absolutely true. But if Iran is ready to punch us, and the evidence is presented to Congress that Iran is ready to punch us, we're not telling the enemy anything they do not already know. So, uh, Congress really needs to make the decision. And I find an interesting bill to Oh j.

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1:11:26 Right, that's a very good question. I do not define it the way it's defined by people who are supporting the war effort, that it's over a period going back to nineteen seventy nine. That's not imminent. Eminent I would say, is where we have intelligence of information that Iran is going to attack us, and that attack will happen every day, and of course US not you know, metter know the country because the US military is to protect these United States of America. And of course we found out that Iran, were we told did not have long range missiles. We found out this week they do have.

1:12:07 Well, they have long range missiles that could hit the United. States twenty five hundred twenty five hundred miles. Not exactly the United States, but certainly, you know, our allies there and now we're talking you know, NATO or you know, at that point, interests not necessarily the United States directly, our interests go ahead. Sure, but if we were to look at it that way, Bill, I would say this, how about Russia? How about Putin? Because I view that as an average adversary, that is a very authoritarian regime, and I don't believe the propaganda that communism has really you know, really been killed in Russia. So how about China that is an adversary? Or how about Cuba, which is just ninety miles from our shores.

1:12:53 So you know, there's a lot of enemies in the world, and there were enemies that have a lot of military capability. So should we attack Cuban? Now, should we attack Russia? Should we attack China? Should we attack other enemies? And and if so, what is the justification for that? And who should decide? Should the president decide by himself or should Congress decide? Well, again, you know, that's that's the question of the day. And even as we continue to debate it again to your earlier point, Congress is really, you know, failing in some ways. I mean, they'll they want to debate it and throw it out there if it's some sort of you know, some sort of political point as opposed to something that is I think much more serious and along the lines of the way you and I are discussing this is that whatever we do it should be connected to the Constitution. That that should be fundamental. But we are time and again avoiding the Constitution, uh, which is problematic, and you know, because I want to know what the rules of engagement are and also what happens if somebody violates the Constitution. And we've had a lot of violations of the Constitution recently that there's no consequence to it.

1:14:13 So then what does that do in terms of the credibility of the Constitution. Well, I think it makes it easier to violate the Constitution in the future. And I know one of the arguments that is made regarding what Trump is doing today is the fact, well, gee, Trump is behaving the same way as others did in the past, both Republicans and Democrats. And of course that's absolutely true, Bill, But the fact that we violated the Constitution in the past with regard to war powers does not mean that it's okay to violate the Constitution today. So the long range solution is we've got to get back to the Constitution, and in order to accomplish that, we have to wake the town and tell the people and get them involved. And that, of course is the entire rationale for the John Burges Society to create the understanding so that when people go into the voting booths and they decide to vote for candidate A or candidate B, that they look at that through the prism of whether or not those candidates are going to support the Constitution or if they're going to work to destroy the Constitution by not honoring their oaths of office. It's really that simple, and the American people are informed. I think we will get good government.

1:15:32 No, well, there's no question I've been saying for a long time here Gary, that we need to return to first principles. Yes, I mean, here we are, we're celebrating our two hundred and fiftieth year, and let's take a snapshot of the condition of America right now where it is and all these violations, these constitutional violations that we've had over the and we've kind of accepted it, said, well that's the way we've been doing it for the last three four decades. Well, just because we've been violating the Constitution doesn't mean that we just keep violating the Constitution, right, And so it's silly, it's not. But this is what happens when again, the three most powerful words in our constitution is we the people? Yes, if we the people subordinate our authority which we have to the ruling class, this is what you get.

1:16:21 That's exactly what's happening. And also, I would add, Bill, it really is not a case of Republicans versus Democrats. Now if compare the two, obviously you would have to rate the Republicans of today better than the Democrats of today, you know, again overall, but nonetheless, the Republican Party now is where the Democratic Party was that not that many years ago. So let's look, we have competition between the two major parties. But what is happening is regardless of who was elected Republican or Democrat, we keep moving down the socialist road and certainly look like an exception to that trend that has happened over decades. In my opinion, he was much better in his first term than in his second. But you know, Trump is violating the Constitution too, and you got to stop looking at the world in terms of Republicans versus Democrats, but look at the world in terms of is it constitutional or is it unconstitutional?

1:17:21 And I would add regarding that that if you had a Democrat in the White House, today, and the Democrats decided to attack Iran and do exactly what Trump did. You know what, I would bet you that almost every Democrat in Congress who is now complaining about what Trump is doing hooray. Oh yeah, exactly. I mean that it's it's filled with irony, there's no doubt about it, along with the media, because the media can't help themselves. I mean, ninety four to ninety five percent of what their report is purposely against Trump. But to your point, you're saying you either are for the constitutionary against constitution. We've been saying you either are pro American or you're anti American. Forget the parties. The party is just confused the stuff right, and their adversarial and so they just keep this contest going on so that we're each other's throats. But meanwhile they continue, as you say, to take us down this road to socialism.

1:18:17 Yes, and I love what you said too about your either pro American or anti American. And let's look at that. And I'm going to use the word Americanism because that's the word the jumbirds. I use the philosophy that an American would espouse. So that begs the question, what is Americanism, And I would point to the Declaration of Independence for that, which provides the philosophical basis for the constitution of the United States of America exactly that would be celebrating on July fourth of this year. And what does the declaration say? Well, it says that we have certain rights, that those rights are endowed by our creator, that those rights are unalienable, and that those include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that the purpose of government is to protect those rights.

1:19:05 So that's the philosophical basis of our constitution. Yeah, you know, and you're exactly right here, because if we were to you know, and I've asked our audience several times in the past, that take a look at the Declaration of Independence against the background of our government today. Yes, where where are the incongruities right now? And yet we're celebrating the Declaration Independents this year, right is? Well, we should, we obviously should. But but you know, let's not deceive ourselves into thinking that the government we have today resembles what the funding fathers sacrifice to create. Because, as you know, the further you get away from the origins, you start missing the point, and especially especially the way you know, our government is run, you know, and Ronald Reagan said it quite directly that there's nothing like a you know, a government bureaucracy that goes on to eternity. I mean, there's no refining, there's no adjustment in saying, hey, that was then, this is now, maybe we got a better way. Oh no, we just keep throwing money at it. It's not very intelligent. It's not very intellectual, is it.

1:20:16 And when you go down that road of socialism, I would say, the answer is not efficient socialism. The answer is not reform. The answer is to get rid of all these unconstitutional programs, to get rid of the welfare state, also even the warfare state in terms of going abroad for monsters, to destroy the military destrial complex. You know, let's have a strong defense, but a defense designed to defend the United States of America, not to build empire throughout the world. That's the way to get the budget under control. You never can make socialism efficient because government is inherently inefficient. It's that simple. And we saw example of that too in in Minneapolis, didn't we Oh where we saw you all the waste and fraud there.

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1:25:16 And this is according to a new report that's revealing more than a billion dollars in humanitarian assistants delivered over the past year, supporting food security, clean water, immunizations, and emergency relief efforts across the globe. As I mentioned Blaine Maxfield who's with us, he's the managing director of Welfare and Self Reliance Services. Blaine, welcome the show. Good to have you with us. Thank you, Bill, I'm glad to be here. Well. Humanitarian needs, as we mentioned, they're growing around the world, and this new report is highlighting the response. Share some insights from this report. You know, what does that support look like on the ground? Yeah, thank you so much. You mentioned the one point five billion in humanity aid that was provided last year.

1:26:02 This took place with about thirty five hundred humanitarian projects in one hundred and ninety six countries and territories all over the world. Of course, the report highlights people, those that are receiving aid, and also those more than seven point four million hours of volunteerism that took place to help in times of disaster, and those things that are taking place on the ground. So what does it look like on the ground. It looks like getting food to those that are in need, maybe a family that's facing hunger, Mothers and newborns receiving health care. Last year alone, more than twenty million mothers and newborns received vitamins and more than two hundred thousand pregnant women were screened so that they could get the aid that they needed during their pregnancy.

1:26:51 On the ground, it also looks like disaster relief, whether it's here or around the world. Well, blame I can thank you enough for this report twenty twenty five Caring for Those who Need report because here in the West sometimes, you know, we're so disconnected to not really understand how people who are going to bed hungry they're waking up hungry and in pain. We just we can't quite fathom that concept here in the West. You know, and it happens all over and there are even parts here that's you know, that's the case, but that still does take place, and there is still need that's rendered all over the world. Well, and of course America has always been at the forefront, you know, to help out and and so you know, that's been our heart and maybe because we are givers in so many ways that you know, still it's still hard for us sometimes and as you mentioned rightfully, so that even here domestically, we deal with homelessness and poverty, right we do.

1:27:53 You know, last year the report highlights that more than thirty seven million pounds of food that we distributed to various food banks, which equates to about thirty million mills here in the United States. For disaster relief, We've tried to mobilize quickly and coordinate with community agencies. We'll often use our church meeting houses as command centers so that we can help get aid where it's needed. Most as quickly as possible. For example, last year, we were involved in devastating fires that took place in southern California. There are other disasters that took place, of course, in the southeastern parts of the United States. And you know, now.

1:28:33 We're watching what's taking place in Texas. So we work as quickly as we can to get water, food, and help people with cleanup. Well, Blaine, help our audience understand, I mean logistically this is an incredible operation and what has to take place in terms of, you know, getting the supply chain in place and you know, mobilizing all the people. You know, Explain a little bit more how that happens. You know, when a disaster, for example, disaster really issue, you know, take us through the process. If you would please, I'd love to a disaster happens, let's say here in the United States, and so we'll work with local agencies to see how our volunteers can help. When the timing is appropriate, We'll use one of our meetinghouses as a command center, and the volunteers come in and while they're coming in and giving assignments to go out to help someone in their home or to bride some food or relief. We have five large what we call Bishop Central storehouses, and we have a Desert Transportation trunking company, and so we mobilize and get resources that are needed. It could be things like chainsaws, it could be tarps, it could be water, it could be food, the supplies that are needed to really help. And then we'll get the word out through our member network and they will come and specifically over a weekend just render aid to anybody that we can.

1:29:54 You like, throw you just throw up the bat signal and everybody shows up. Right, that sounds like it. You have the bad signal and people come. And then people can see through the flyers and other things that we put out on the internet if you need help, you can. Reach us this way. And so they blanch out and we'll send our volunteers to help. And I got to imagine you're building up this network over the years, so you know what groups you can count on. And a lot of these volunteers they have been there in service time and time again, faithfully. Right, Yeah, we recognize that in times of disaster in particular, we think that communities know that the Latter day Saints will come and we bring friends with us. We recognize that we don't do this work alone, and so we collaborate with organizations all over the world, domestically and also internationally.

1:30:39 Some of the largest organizations like UNISEF or Save the Children. We have a long standing relationship with American Red Cross and World Food Program Care and others. We want to. Ensure that we can get our resources properly, incredibly distributed as fast as we possibly can. That's excellent. So how is your focus on self reliance helping build stability? Blane? You know, we love to partner our humanitarian projects with self reliance opportunities. I see this all over the world, where we can help teach a skill or a trade or some other tool to help them to get better employment, find a job, and demand. When we do that, this now becomes a gift that just continues to give and give and give. It happens perpetually. It helps their confidence, it changes the way they feel about dignity, and also it has a ripple effect on their children and their family.

1:31:32 When you've received the aid, you tend to want to look outside of yourself and help others, and so you look for ways that you can help more often in your community as well. Well, Blaine, how about you know we were talking about these network of individuals that you've built up over the years. When you send up the bad signal, they respond, if somebody wants to get involved? How can they? This is the greatest question that we get. How do I put my best intentions into action? We'd invite people to go out to a free nationwide platform that we have, just serve dot org. Regardless of your background, you can find more than three thousand volunteer projects every month. You simply go out to just serve dot org, type in your zip code, and then choose a project that best fits your schedule that's very close to you.

1:32:19 And how do collaborations? I love collaborations with organizations around the world help expand your impact. One of the ways that we've done that is we've partnered with many many different organizations, AID in particular to help us in our efforts to care for women and children. In those efforts, last year alone, more than twenty thousand women and children received appropriate vitamins, and more than two hundred thousand women were screened during their pregnancies so they could get the proper aid that they need. Often we take those things for granted, but it's something that's so important to continue to help with all over the world. Well blame. Maxfield serves as the Managing Director of Welfare and Self Reliant Services for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. In that capacity, coordinates the church's humanitarian efforts throughout the world. Blaine, just a sidebar between me and you. I'll let you know, my oldest son is in Germany right now on a mission, and so he's been back and forth because my granddaughter, his daughter, just delivered my third great grandchild, so we're excited. And then we got a wedding planning coming up in May that we're looking forward to, so we'll have a chance.

1:33:29 He's going to be able to come back home for a couple of days and experience a little bit of family history. So I just wanted to share that with you. So I appreciate all the great work the church does in the name of Jesus, and what you're doing here is just awesome. What about you? What motivates you? Blaine? I love to hear your stories about your family and congratulations for all those great things that are going on. I love to see people that are getting aid all over the world and the volunteerism that takes place for those that are rendering the What motivates me is my love of neighbor. We know that's a tenant belief, and as we follow Jesus Christ, we look to be more like him as one of his disciples.

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1:38:33 Welcome back America. Great to have you with us. Bill Martinez here and an old friend. It's been a long time since we've had a chance to talk with Joshua Ank. He's the president, chief story Officer of Site and Sound Theaters and an incredible operation, and he's got some great news to tell us about their latest chapter, a Great Awakening, that's going to be coming out next month. Joshua, welcome to the show. Good to have you with us. Oh, Bill's great to talk with you. It's always great to see you, so thank you so much for having us on your show. Are you kidding me? I mean I've been trying to get you back on I think for the last year and a half. I keep calling down there and saying, hey, can I get somebody to talk about the latest episodes and the latest theatrical events that Sitan Sound is up to.

1:39:17 So it was really I was really excited when I heard you were available and going to come on. So hey, so let's tell us about you know, the Great Awakening. Yeah, absolutely, well, my goodness. I mean, here we are right as a nation celebrating our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. It's a time when a lot of people are going to be talking about the word liberty, you know, and they might have different definitions of it. Especially come July, there's gonna be a lot of fireworks and a lot of confetti flying and a lot of noise and fun. I'm gonna enjoy it myself. But we really felt stirred as a ministry to bring definition to that word liberty and have that proceed the fourth of July, and we found this incredible true story of the Reverend George Whitfield, who is arguably the most powerful evangelist of all time, and the fact that he became not only friends with Benjamin Franklin, but business partners. This is a part of history that people have They have no idea.

1:40:22 A lot of people had no idea that he was a business partner with Benjamin Franklin. I know most people don't. Yeah, And George Whitfield isn't necessarily someone that we know a whole lot about, but we certainly know a lot about Benjamin Franklin. And when we learned that, it was the powerful preaching of George Whitfield behind his pulpit and the prolific communicator Benjamin Franklin behind his printing press. Their partnership is what sparked the most formative event in American history known as the First Great Awakening from seventeen thirty nine to seventeen seventy and so, you know, without them two together, I'm not sure if the First Great Awakening would have been as massive as it was. Because of Ben Franklin's promotional skills and getting the word out of where Whitfield's going to be preaching. Eighty percent of the colonists heard and saw George Whitfield with her own ears and their own eyes. It was a complete cultural overhaul for thirty years that led up to the signing the Declaration of Independence.

1:41:28 You know, I was going to say, no Whitfield, no, Benjamin Franklin, no America. I mean this was so foundational. I mean God's hand was no doubt. God's hand was on these two orchestrating what needed to happen in order for these colonies to come together and embrace something that they maybe theorized about it, read about it in the Bible, prayed about it, but God gave it substance. There was no doubt that God had anointed these men and this time for this great experiment, did he not? Absolutely? And I think the the amazing thing is how the Lord providentially put two complete opposites together, you know, I mean Ben Franklin. You know, he came from a religious background. His father Josiah actually wanted his tenth son, Benjamin Franklin, to be a preacher, and Ben, as we know, ran the opposite direction, only to find out years later that he became the greatest promoter of the greatest awakening the colonies have ever seen. And so it's amazing how the Lord weaved that that thread, you know, together and actually redeemed that calling that was originally on Ben Franklin's life.

1:42:44 Happened. Even the story I'm sorry, Joshua, the story about Benjamin Franklin. When you know, the colonies were getting together and they installed right, they just it looked like it was going to fall apart. And who was it that suggested, Hey, maybe we should pray? Yeah, well friendly all people, right, absolutely, and you you just gave a really great insight to this film. We depict that scene in this film and it's probably one of the most powerful things that I've ever captured. As a director for film, the speech that he gives to the Constitutional Convention in June of seventeen eighty seven, when the colonies were fractured, when they were disagreeing. You know, he remembers a time from seventeen thirty nine to seventeen seventy under George Whitfield's preaching when they were unified, you know, when they had a shared experience. And now here he is, you know, sitting with his fifty five other delegates from all over the colonies and they are just you know, fighting each other tooth and nail over the smallest things.

1:43:48 And he stands up and he gives an incredible speech that is actually one of the most famous speeches of his life, and it's what really broke the deadlock that was present with the Constitutional Convention. So this film leads up to that impactful moment, and I can't think of a better thing for our nation to hear again, especially before you know, we get into the July month as his speech on prayer. Well, and for you, Joshua, I mean, I know, I mean, Sitan Sound has just been huge theatrical events and now you go from there, and yes, you've done some filming of the events and all that, but this is truly a fully dedicated film project for you.

1:44:33 What was that like? Yeah, this is actually our second feature film. And you know, for those who are watching and listening, Sitan Sound has been bringing the Bible to life on stage for fifty years. We're celebrating our fiftieth year anniversary as a ministry and as a storytelling company. And we have two theaters, one in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one in Branson, Missouri. And it was during COVID that we felt like, you know, why do we have everybody just coming to us to see a stage production. WHI don't we go to them? And so we started to make feature films and our first one, I Heard the Bells, premiered at the box office in twenty twenty two. It climbed to number two at the box office, stayed in theaters for a month and a half. And so this is our second feature film, A Great Awakening. It releases Easter weekend, April third. Tickets are on sale right now and it's absolutely an epic and immersive, inspiring film that depicts truth. Ninety eight percent of this film is based on facts. These events really did happen, and I think people are going to be inspired and surprised about this part of the history that they that they have never been taught.

1:45:42 Well, we've been saying, I guess for the last couple of years anyway, Joshua on this show that we need to return to where it all began. We need to just do it the first beginnings, right, And this is so critical and it's interesting. You know, in hearing you talk about Whitfield and Benjamin Franklin, that relationship. I was not aware of that, but what it brought to mine was another another revival that took place in an awakening that took place. We've had I think four four decided revivals or awakenings that have happened in our country in our two hundred and fifty years. Charles Finney says that a revival and an awakening occurs when it's most needed. My goodness, if we don't need one now, I know, a sidebar, right, But in considering the relationship between Whitfield and Benjamin Franklin, it reminds me of the relationship between Randolph Hurst and Billy Graham, if you remember.

1:46:35 Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I think that that's what the Lord continues to do and show. I mean, you know, even with you know, the most recent revival film, Jesus Revolution. I had a chance to spend some time with Greg Laurie at his church this couple couple of days ago out in California, and he is so fired up for this film and he continues continually posting about this film. He's like, you got to see great Awakening. You got to see a great awakening. I think because he sees the same elements that were present in the Jesus Revolution film, which is this is bigger than ourselves. This is not about us. This is about connection with the Lord and our savior, Jesus Christ, which is where true liberty is defined. That is the liberty that this film proclaims on that beautiful liberty bell is the verse from Leviticus proclaimed liberty throughout all the land, onto all the inhabitants thereof. And we believe, and actually we know that the Lord called us as a company site and sound to proclaim liberty throughout this land once again, and we're doing that with this film, A Great Awakening. The incredible story, an unknown story between the preacher George Whitfield and the all famous Benjamin Franklin.

1:47:54 And I love I love the word liberty because too it comes from God. He didn't come from our founding fathers, it didn't come from George Washington, It hasn't come from any modern day politician. This is part of our inalienable right that is God given, isn't it? Absolutely? And there's that's a scene in the film where Benjamin Franklin is sitting across the table from Admiral Howe at the dawn of the Revolutionary War, and Ben Franklin says those words. He says, you know, across that ocean, an entire generation of Americans have been raised up to believe that liberty is not a gift given to them by a king, but a right given to them by God.

1:48:38 And that's Ben Franklin saying those words. So, even though we don't have him history telling us that he was a professing Christian, we do know that he believed in providence and the move of God. And he's a man of evidence, you know, he's a scientist, and so he likes to see the facts. What he could not wrap his head around was this phenomenon that followed this George Whitfield and this move of God that was happening on the land. I mean he benefited from it by selling lots of papers and sermons that made him a wealthy man. But something must have sunk in because when it came time in June seventeen eighty seven for somebody to stand up and rally the Constitutional Convention delegates, it was him.

1:49:21 And that's what this film explores is how did he get there? How did Ben Franklin get to the place where he would stand up and say, you know that we have forgotten our most powerful friend. You know, do we no longer need his assistance? You know? He says, I've lived, sir a long time, and I can tell you this that God does govern in the affairs of man. And if if a spara cannot follow him taking notice, can empire rise without his aid? I mean, those aren't scripted words. Those are words from history that Ben said. And I think when people watch this movie and they see the evolution and the formative events that took place of that man Ben through the friendship of George Whitfield, I think they're going to be blown away and inspired and it's going to be I think an incredible move of God, not just a movie.

1:50:11 I can't wait, Joshua for it. The Great Awakening opening up next month. Give us all the details and the website people can go for more information. Yeah, it's actually only a week away. It's April third, so we keep saying spread the word. April third movie theaters nationwide. Tickets are on sale right now and they can go to a Great Awakening dot com, a Great Awakening dot com. And yeah, I would just say, you know, I'm a dad of four, and I feel like it's our responsibility to help train up our kids tea and show them parts of history that are not being taught in schools, and also for church leaders and ministry groups, lay that foundation before we celebrate the two fifty in July. Exactly. I have this sense, Joshua that this is an appointed time for this movie. And you know what happened.

1:50:58 When God appoints to time, you do not want to miss that appointed time, do you, man? From your mouth to God's ears. I couldn't agree with you more. I feel I got goosebumps thinking about it. Honestly, like something's happening, something is absolutely moving. Well, I'm excited, I'm excited for America. I'm excited for the world. Congratulations Joshua to you and the team at Site and Sound. Joshua's the president chief storyteller, responsible for spearheading the unique creative process from current show production to future product development and leading Site and Sound into the next chapter. Joshua, God blessed, Thank you for being with us. Take care, God bless you, and thank you everybody who's listening.

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