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0:003, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0. From the studios of W-OR, Q and Wisconsin, this is the Stand Up for the Truth Podcast. Today's issues overlooked headlines and biblical observations, equipping the remnant around the globe. Got your sword handy? This is Stand Up for the Truth. Wednesday, March 4, 2026. It's a fresh new podcast. Wednesday's headlines today with Mary and Tim Danielson. Take it away. Yeah, good morning, everyone. Good morning, Tim. I'm calling this podcast lighter fluid because it doesn't take much more than a cheap old big lighter to set the region on fire. Because Iran isn't just a talking point. It's this late hour. If we ask if this is prophetic, maybe we're not paying close enough attention at a biblical level. So we don't know all, we don't know all the answers.
1:00Of course, we don't, but with everything else that's going on around us, you have to account for all of these things even though we don't know every detail. So that's where we're going today, Tim. Is the scripture for us, Psalm 27? Yeah, Psalm 27, one through five. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid. When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies and foes they stumbled and fell. The one army may account against me. My heart shall not fear. The war may rise against me. In this I will be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord that I will seek. A one thing I have desired of the Lord that I will seek that I may dwell in the house of the Lord. All the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord to inquire in his temple for in the time of trouble
2:02he shall hide me in his pavilion in a secret place of his tabernacle. He shall hide me and he shall set me high upon a rock. Let's pray. Lord, we know that you watch over us, you take care of us. We know that as believers, no matter what part of the world we are in if we're going to lead godly lives and Lord, there will be persecution. But Lord, you have all of that in your hands and we've trusted you with our lives. You number the hairs on our head. You know, every cell in our bodies, you've created it. You keep it in the way that you want to Lord and we just want to give you all the glory and praise and thanks for that. And yet Lord, there is difficult times and even now as our countries at war and the region of Israel, the apple of your eye, and so Lord, we ask that you would be watching over the troops, American troops. We pray for the families of those that were lost. And Lord, we pray that even as our leaders are saying
3:05that there may be more casualties, American casualties. Lord, we just pray for that not to be the case. We pray that you grant Israel and it's ally America, the just the grace to be able to take this regime down and anything that would replace it, that resembles it. Lord, we just ask that you'd be blessing those troops that are still in the field and giving them wisdom. And more than anything, Lord, we know the most important thing is their eternity. As these souls pass into eternity, Lord, we know there's only one of two places to be. And we ask Lord that you'd be putting your name in their hearts and that your face would be towards them for good, that they would come to know you, Lord, that if any were to perish, Lord, they would be with you. So, Father, we just ask for that. We ask for our listeners, their families, and neighbors, and all, that they'd be healthy. Lord, that they'd be sharing your word and that we'd be increasing your kingdom simply by people being saved, sinners being saved.
4:06So we love you, Lord. And we just ask all of us in Jesus' name, amen. Amen, yes, today is the 63rd day of 2026. Today in history in 1837, the city of Chicago is incorporated. In 1865, Andrew Johnson made his inebriated vice-presidential inaugural in Trenton, Washington, D.C. He'd been drinking for the better part of a week and witnesses described his speech as hostile and coherent, repetitive, and egotistical sounds like a high-level politician to me. So, whoa, I know, right. Also in history, in 1917, Jeanette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the U.S. House. In 1918, the first case of the Spanish flu was recorded at Camp Funston in Kansas from there. The great influenza went around the world killing millions and millions of people. In 1966, in an interview with the London Standard, John Lennon declares that the band is more popular than Jesus now. That did not go over very well at all. And I remember that firestorm when he said
5:07the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. In 1985, the FDA approves a blood test for HIV used for screening all blood donations in the U.S. Yeah, that was pretty timely. Today is National Grammar Day. So you use those prepositions in apostrophes wisely and don't verb too many nouns. All right, it's National Pound Cake Day, National Suns Day, so hug your son. National hug a GI Day. What does GI stand for? We grew up with GI Joe, right? Well, not just for humans, but any item issued by the Army, GI means government issue. Yes, but I think it's just the GI soldiers are what we're talking about, obviously. Right, but it has been used over the decades for anything, GI bunk, GI canteen, you know. I never heard of it for anything other than just soldiers that's interesting. It's National Marching Music Day or Marching Band Day, so headlines. Wow, Iran unfolding and constantly changing, right?
6:09This will be difficult to update, but we'll do our best. We've got some statistics for you. My immediate thought, and Tim will talk about this in a bit, that Sunday, on Monday, we're poor him, and another Hamin has gone. And I talked about poor him last Friday, in case you missed it. But at that time, Kamini was still up and around, and he is no more. So, like I said, Tim's gonna talk about this shortly. I also thought about how Iran got its name in March 1935. The Shah requested that it be called Iran, instead of Persia, given that name by the Greeks, if Persia was. So it means land of the Aryans, and that's interesting. A-R-Y-A-N-S, the term that reflects the country's ancient, Indo-Iranian heritage, but then in the 19th century, German anti-Semites distorted the meaning to mean superior white race, typically Nordic, to identify for themselves a master race, to denigrate the Jews, the Roman gypsies, and the Slavic people. But Aryans were a social and religious group, not a race yet. Iranian leadership and Muslims are, of course,
7:11notorious, the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. So, use a few notes. Iran, when I read this at least, was trying to resume discussions with the US, spearheaded by Iranian security chief Ali Larizhani. He said that he denied a report saying that he reached out to Washington via Oman to resume nuclear talks, and then he said, we won't negotiate with the US. Trump on Sunday said Iran wants to talk, and has agreed to do so, but he says, of course, they shouldn't have done it sooner. He said it would have been so much easier, and more practical if they had done it sooner. Things would have gone better, but they waited too long. And he says some of the Iranians involved in negotiations in recent weeks are no longer alive. Most of those people are gone. He said some of the people we were dealing with are gone. And 49 Iranian leaders have been taken out, which is a lot. And then think last June too, many were taken out as well. So this has been ongoing. President also expressed confidence
8:11that a successful uprising was coming, noting the signs of celebration in the streets, and also expat Iranians in New York and LA. He says, you're gonna, it's gonna happen. So we're waiting to hear more about that. Trump gave his first substantial interview, post bombing to the Atlantic, and they've spent a decade trying to destroy him, and now they love him, and so it's just really kind of bizarre. He said he had three or four potential candidates to lead Iran, but they were all killed in the initial attack. Firebrand, cleric, Al-Arafi, a key figure in the seminary system and assembly of experts has emerged as the top contender and other hardliners. I mean, people are concerned that whatever would take their place will still hate Israel, and that's a reasonable concern. And it says a couple of things here. Israeli stealth fighter shoots down Iranian jet in historic first. Military launches broad-scale attacks against Islamic Republic, and so, yeah,
9:13they shot down a man Iranian jet. Very, very interesting. First in history, according to the IDF, the last time in Israeli fighter jet struck down another aircraft in manned air-to-air combat was 1985. And that was really, one of these war, yeah. War of the camps in Lebanon. Israel confirmed that broad-scale strikes were underway in Tehran, and other cities are being bombarded as part of the Israeli and US joint operation. The US has sunk 17 chips. That's a lot. They've hit 2000 targets. Israel has dropped 4,000 music musicians. Yeah, that means, wow. I heard it coming out of my mouth, and then I thought, there's too much there. 4,000 munitions. Nice. Since the Saturday, and the goal is to destroy missile launchers, because every missile launcher that Israel destroys saves lives in Israel, right? This is a big deal. Remember when the sky was full of all those scuds flying over to land in Israel, and yeah,
10:17they got to take those out. Right. He said it will last about four weeks. The Daily Mail says it's going to be a four week process or so. He says we're ahead of schedule, which I think everybody likes that. Reports of hypersonic missile strikes on Jerusalem by Iran. This like this, the CIA tracked the Itolla for weeks and handed intel to the Israelis. Kameini did not make any attempt to hide, which surprised me in a way. Why wasn't he in a bunker? But that's the arrogance, right? I think he had an article or a statement that said that they used the traffic cams in Tehran and Iran that they'd backed into those, and they could follow him where everyone. That's fascinating. And then, of course, the broadcaster, state broadcaster, and Tehran was struck early on to knock out broadcasting. And the question, of course, is could the war go global as more and more countries and assets in the region are impacted? That's how this particular article ends.
11:20You know, Netanyahu says with these ballistic missiles, they were very afraid of those. He said when they developed these, you got to understand that they eventually will intend to use them. And Netanyahu said this is what Trump understood. Vance said the admin had a clear limited objective for the operation. And Secretary Vice President, I'm sorry, Vance, said there's just no way that Trump is going to allow this country to get into a multi-year conflict with no end in sight and no objective. He's defined the objective as Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and has to commit long term to never trying to rebuild their nuclear capability. In other words, no more kicking the can down the road because how many presidents have kicked this Iranian can down the road, including Obama, and by... Oh, yeah, he funded it. If they funded it. Right, they funded it. And so I think Trump basically was saying, well, enough is enough that let's deal with this. Let's protect the entire Middle East. So we'll see how that goes. There's no signs of slowing down at the moment of this assault.
12:20So we'll see what happens every day. We wake up to something different. And the US has urged Americans to leave 14 countries across the Middle East. The State Department has closed a couple of embassies. I think more to come. The Gulf Cooperation Council warned Iran it would take all necessary measures, including military action in response to Tehran's missile and drone attacks. And this is fascinating to me how many on the left are citing, technically, citing with Kamani, which is unthinkable to me because they wanted to announce the entire thing. So it doesn't matter because it's Trump, they're just going to live in this land of, I don't care who else is involved, I hate Trump, which is so inhumane, it's ridiculous. The lives of Iranians mean nothing to them. The lives of unborn babies, you know, mean nothing to them, transgender children. Human lives mean nothing to them. If they have the strangest, I just, inhumane agenda that I have ever seen in my life. But to side with Kamani or to take Trump down
13:21over this is really saying more than I probably want to know about the left. So that's all I'm going to say about that. That's what's going on as of this morning. But Tim, you have a really interesting article to me here. And Jim Fletcher talked about it in a recent article as well. Did the Ayatollah try to blow up the temple mob before he died? Talk to us about that. Yeah, so here's this article. And it's from Adam Elihu Berkowitz. And this is Israel 365. You can get their app, you can get their, you can look up their website. It's an Israeli news source. Sunday was a tragic day in Israel. As an Iranian missile killed nine, some of whom were in a bomb shelter, left several missing and wounded dozens, including several children. In Beth Shamesh bringing the number of Israelis killed by Iranian missiles to 10, along with nearly 500 wounded. So some of these missiles are getting through that iron dome. And but a tragedy of a different kind was narrowly averted on Saturday,
14:22the first day of the war. As one missile landed just several hundred meters from the western wall and the temple mount, the missile hit the Sultan's pool, which is an outdoor events venue. Now this is actually just right there in the kidron, right next to the Jewish quarter wall within not just a hundred meters, just right up the hill, just so when they're talking about being close to the western wall, I went and looked up where this was in the park that this sits in. And we've been there, we've walked in and that's kind of where you come in, you wanna go through it to get into the Jewish quarter and the tour bus will bring you right into that parking lot and this was a year ago. But and then from there, you're just right in the center of the Jewish quarter and you go through and you end up by the western wall. That would have been, it seems as almost they had that accuracy because there's the Arab quarter, there's the Armenian quarter. I mean, if they're shooting missiles at that section, they've gotta have some idea of the accuracy. It's not just, you know, throwing rocks, sir.
15:23Yeah, you think. And so they were actually shooting for the Jewish quarter of the old city in Jerusalem. On Sunday, another missile landed on a highway on the outskirts of Jerusalem Sunday evening. Three people were wounded. The impact left a large crater in the road, hollowed out a traffic sign and caused heavy damage to several cars. But it was also clear that the Islamist regime was targeting Jerusalem. Ironically, a missile strike on Temple Mount would likely destroy the Muslim structures that dominate Judaism's holy site. Within Saturday's Jerusalem bound rocket is a hidden meaning. The first day of the war was on the 11th of the 9th Islamic month, Ramadan, in which the Muslims increase their religious fervor and Americans will connect this state as hinting at 9.11, the jihadist attacks that rock the US on September 11th, 2001, in which four coordinated Islamist, terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda, 19 terrorist attacked four airliners
16:23and flew one into each of the twin towers of the trade center in New York, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon, a headquarters of the US Department of Defense in Arlington County, Virginia, while the fourth plane crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field. We all remember this all too well. President Trump's attack on the Islamic regime and Iran came can be seen as a major blow taking out the largest government sponsor of terrorism in the region and perhaps the world. If we knew all the tentacles and what they call themselves, sleeper cells throughout the US and South America and the rest of the world, I think we're gonna be seeing a lot more as we go here. President, so he, first of all, that anything that can be seen as a sponsor of terrorism in the region, perhaps in the world, even killing the Ayatollah and dozens of regime leaders in a major step towards the president's stated goal of regime change. Reversing the Islamic takeover
17:24of the Iranian government in 1979, which was punctuated by the taking of 66 American hostages and holding them in the embassy for 444 days. But the Jews have their own 911 story in the Hebrew or their own 911. In the Hebrew calendar, the ninth day of the 11th month is Tisha Biyav, the ninth day of Av, an austere day of mourning for the destruction of both Jewish temples on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. While Sunni Palestinians claim that the Jewish site has spiritual significance for them, acclaimed denied by other Sunni Muslims, Iran and the Shiite region, religion, do not. Attribute any significance to Jerusalem. So I just learned that today, I shouldn't know that, but you know what, that's interesting to me. The Sunnis don't, they respect Jerusalem and recognize it whereas the Shiites do not. Interesting.
18:24It's not even in the Quran. Yeah, well, and that's the thing. Never mentioned. Yeah, so many people just, if they only knew. Yeah. What's not in the Quran, Quran, you know. So Ira has nonetheless supported Hamas and hisbola in putting Al-Akskah at the top of their agenda. The Ayatollah community was killed significantly during the Shabbat before Purim. You know, pay attention to this is very interesting. When the Jews read that portion of the Torah commanding us to wipe out the memory of Amalek from the world, remember Haman, the anti-hero of Purim, was an agageite, a descendant of agage, the king of the Amalekites, notably spared by King Saul in defiance of the direct divine command to destroy the nation. The focus of the missile strikes paints a disturbing picture linked with the Islamic regime to Amalek. The Iranian regime is targeting civilian centers in Israel, making it clear that they're waging war
19:26like biblical Amalek who targeted the elderly, the young and the weak, be lying their evil nature that kills without gaining any military or even monetary benefits, just to kill for kill's sake going after the weak. And now you can read these stories and they account of this in Exodus chapter 17 when Israel was coming out of Egypt and Amalek was doing this very thing. And then also in 1st Samuel 15, where Saul was commanded to wipe out every trace of the Amalekites and Saul being disobedient than a spared agage as a trophy of his own. And that's what's gone down through history, even to the point where now in the book of Esther was written in the exile in Persia, after the destruction of the temple. But here I'm the story is fundamentally linked to the Jewish struggle to rebuild the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. According to the Jewish tradition and the rabbinic commentary, the King of Hazarus used the holy vessels of the temple in Jerusalem
20:26during his lavish 180-day feast followed by a seven-day feast as recorded in the beginning of the book of Esther. The Talmud notes that the Akhash Shavrash, oh boy, I didn't look this enough, Akhash Shavrash also wore the garments of the high priest during this time. The rivalry between Mordecai and Haiman was deeply connected to the rebuilding of the temple. And that's so important, so significant. Haiman, a descendant of Amalek, worked to halt construction. If you get the connection there, Haiman would not exist if Saul had obeyed the Lord's command to completely wipe out Amalek and not spare Aegag. He kept Aegag in prison and Aegag has children after this. And Haiman's a descendant here of Aegag who shouldn't have ever happened. There he is, the funds Haiman provided to the King to destroy the Jews were later utilized to support the rebuilding of the temple. So it was turned around for good. Well, Hazarus remained opposed to the building
21:28of the temple. The story concludes with the eventual rise of a new king who traditional identifies as Darius II, the son of Esther, who allowed the rebuilding of the second temple to be completed. And just as the fall of Haiman ushered in a new Persian king heralding the second temple in Jerusalem, the fall of the Islamist regime may set the stage for the third temple, Reza Palavi, the exiled crown prince of Iran, who is being lauded by the Iranian people as their choice to replace the Ayatollah as the head of their country, visited the western wall part of the ancient temple complex in Jerusalem in April 2023 to promote peace between the Iranian and the Israeli people. His visit highlighted the historical connection to Cyrus the Great who helped to rebuild the Jewish temple to 2500 years ago. The visit fostered a hope of a new era of diplomatic relations,
22:30sometimes referred to as the Cyrus Accords. In recent interviews, Palavi has frequently referenced this biblical connection and the Persian role in the Jewish temple as the basis for the renewed relations with Israel. That's amazing. Third temple talk here, people. So just as Haiman the egg-a-guite tried to prevent the rebuilding of the temple, Ayatollah Khameini, the spiritual heir of that mission, was trying to destroy the temple mountain, his final throes. So Rabbi Mordecai Ben Avraham, who lives in the old city of Jerusalem, wrote about the spiritual aspect of the ongoing war, and now it is focusing on the rebuilding of the temple. The architects of chaos in Taran attempted to commit the act of sacrilege. So profound, it would have torn the fabric of human history. Rabbi Ben Avraham wrote that they launched a ballistic warhead aimed at the heart of Jerusalem, and let's us be clear, this is not a military error.
23:31This was an intentional strike on the most sensitive 35 acres on Earth. Had the war had deviated by just a few degrees, or had the hand of Almighty not guided into an open amphitheater in the Hinnon Valley, it would have struck the temple mount. Consider the timing. We are in the month of Ramadan. At the moment of that strike, the mount was filled with thousands of Muslim worshipers in prayer. The Iranian regime, a regime that claims to speak of the name of Islam was willing to slaughter thousands of their own coreligists in the destroy the Al-Aksia compound, just a strike of blow at the Zionist entity. I believe this near catastrophe marks the beginning of the end of the regime in Taran by attempting to bomb temple mount. They have lost the last shred of their Islamic legitimacy. Even our neighbors, the Saudis, the Emeritus, the Jordanians, now see the truth. You cannot claim to be a vanguard of faith while trying to blow up its foundation. The protection of God defused the malice of man yesterday.
24:33He allowed our infrastructure to deal with the threat, but he also placed a hedge of protection around the mount. This is the moment for a global realignment. We must reclaim the anchor of our values and stand as a united shield against those who seek to burn the world down. Jerusalem remains. The mount remains. We remain witnesses to the miracle that calls us to a higher unity. Wow. Yeah. As we were saying, it's not mentioned in the Quran. And this is what's so interesting to me. So for them to claim ever that it's a holy site and then not care about hitting it, that proves to me that it is not. They played a card here that it's not historically a holy site for Islam and that they just admitted that. Yeah. And to be able to do something that's so insane and it does this leads to basically a loss of reason, just plain humanism. Oh, yeah. And that's what seems to carry on
25:34in a bloodthirsty religion like that. Well, I think it also does prove how late the hour is. Just by the conversation in this article, what they're looking for, what we're looking for, what Islam is looking for, all eyes are on the same thing, whether it's the 12th Imam of Islam, and they believe that bringing on violence and global war is required for that Imam to appear on the world scene. The Jews are looking for their Messiah. We're looking for the return of Jesus. I mean, it's a vortex, it's a swirling vortex of prophetic fulfillment. And I think a lot of people, when they ask questions, sometimes they'll ask me, is this leaving to Ezekiel? But of course, I don't know, we don't know the future. But everybody knows something is up. But I think we need to realize that there's a lot we don't know. We don't know the timing. Well, and that's tragic because it's the media's fault. The media is saying, everything's about Ukraine and Russia. Everything's about Europe and Russia.
26:35Everything's about the globalist, the W.E.F. Everything's about China. They don't focus in on what's been going on in Israel, except to say that they are war criminals for what's going on in Gaza. And so it's a fascinating thing. Well, and they don't know. They don't know. They're spiritually, they have absolutely no idea. So they look at this board of piece and they look at all these other things. And they kind of scratch their heads and go, well, I don't know, it's interesting. So they report it. But the Christian should be connecting as many dots as God gives us. And God is clearly having all eyes on the Middle East. I mean, they can think about China all they want. They can think about what will actually constitute the mark of the beast, whatever. But God will direct the attention of the whole world on Israel and the Middle East. Well, we know God is very closely involved because God's word is very closely involved with all these things. We're seeing it come right off the scriptures. And so this is, you know that he is closely involved with all these things.
27:35He certainly is indeed. This is Santa for the Truth in his headline day. Tim and I are talking about Iran. And when we come back, we're going to take a break. Shortly here, but there's one here. President Trump is right. The downfall of Iran's regime is unrelenting desire to practice evil. And that's absolutely true. And I love that God has given Israel so much firepower and so much a desire to defend their borders, which they should be able to do. So I love that part of this. But this is by, this is from Harbingers, by Brianna Clawson. And she's going to talk about this. Well, anyway, when we come back, we're going to talk about Operation Epic Fury, this joint military operation. A little bit more about this, but also about the downfall of Iran and their desire to practice evil against Israel and throughout the entire Middle East. So we are going to take a break for two minutes. And we are going to come right back with that article.
28:35And a whole lot more. We're going to also wander away from the Middle East for a few minutes. If we can, with a couple of other articles. So thank you for joining us today on Standard for the Truth for March the Fourth. And we'll be back in two with a whole lot more. See you on this. You're prayers and ongoing financial support. Keep our truth at any cost mission strong. Stand up for the truth.com. Welcome back to Standard for the Truth for this. Well, Wednesday, it is live. I mean, can you tell this is live radio. And so sometimes we're trying to, you know, time things, build the break into the end of it. Just say it. Just say it. We're trying to figure out crash. Yeah, you get it out like three times. Yeah, and we're sitting there saying, this is, I forgot my water. And I come in and they're like, uh, oh, is it time to, I don't know. Well, the clock is built into your DNA. Right. She's been in broadcasting your whole life, you know, so it's, yeah. And if we're done with what we can say about a thing,
29:37we don't want to start another article. So it's a dance. It's a dance, right? I should do a maritime flag, you know, like this is like, carry on, you know, it's a choreography. Absolutely. So anyway, yes, uh, uh, Harbinger's Daily President Trump is right. The downfall of Iran's regime is the unrelenting desire to practice evil, um, as, and I'm just going to, this is not very terribly long article, but I think this is a very interesting. We've got to acknowledge the spiritual battle that's going on behind the scenes that we can't see, which I'm grateful for, but it is going on every minute of every day. As Trump announced Operation Epic Fury, a historic joint military operation with Israel, conducting strikes across Iran, and resulting in the death of Kamani, one phrase stood out for its exceptional clarity. The president not only encouraged prayer for God's help in protection, he also pinpointed a spiritual reason when such a large scale operation was absolutely necessary. And this is interesting insight on his part. Trump stressed that we sought repeatedly to make a deal adding that diplomatic efforts proved fruitless
30:39because the regime just wanted to practice evil. Wow, that is insightful. The president should be commended for recognizing this reality. There are some ideologies so deluded and entangled with practicing evil that their actions can no longer be swayed by reason. The regime in Iran was a perfect example of this irrational and demonic mindset. Repeated and embarrassing military failures, economic turmoil, mass protests, and the collapse of its terror proxy network should have caused the regime to reverse course or at least lie low for a season, but these were not rational counterparts at the other end of the negotiating table. And that is absolutely true. And that's why we mentioned that he was not hiding. Kamani was just out doing his, you know, going about business as usual. And also that anyone would want to head up that country knowing there's a target on their backs almost immediately. Why in the world would anyone want to take that on? So that's another question that normal people have.
31:39The regime doubled down, laser focused on funding terrorism, rebuilding their arsenal, pursuing nuclear weapons, to carry out their, and I'm going to say, blinded ambition of destroying Israel and the US. As noted by Eric Sackelback, host of the Watchmen newscast, he says, despite the heavy blows over the past two years, none of these anti-Semitic and demonically driven bad actors repented. Since the 12-day war Iran has become even more arrogant and boastful, loving and constant threats against Israel and America, echoing the words of the president, Sackelback underscored that evil is relentless until it is utterly crushed. But how do we know that the Iranian regime and its supreme leader were satanically motivated? Through God's word, we know the devil is the father of lies and a murderer from the beginning, John 844. Demonically driven individuals are often consumed with delusion, working against their own best interests. Scripture also teaches that Satan has a relentless hatred for the Jews and Bible-believing Christians, and we see that in Revelation, Genesis, Ephesians, all these characteristics are unmistakably ingrained
32:41in the Itola regime. A photo of the Israeli Prime Minister speaking on the phone with Trump, after the commencement of the strikes, prominently featured a book on his desk titled, Allies at War, the Politics of Defeating Hitler, and Amalekas, as they both say. The book was not only a nod to the cooperation between the two Allies, but also the brutal ideology that they had joined together to fight. Hitler and Iran's supreme leader had a shared hatred of Jews and Western civilization. This demonic obsession against God's chosen is evident. Even as the flames of a defeated Germany burned around him, Hitler's chief regret was that he was unable to carry out his final solution of eradicating the Jews. The Nazi and Iranian regime's proofs stacklebex assertion evil is relentless until it is utterly crushed. Despite the death of Iran's supreme leader, with likely the regime in Iran's dying breath, it remains fixated on its desire to practice evil, firing ballistic missiles and UAVs toward the nation of Israel
33:41and US bases across the region. Please remain in constant prayer for the protection and wisdom of the nation of Israel and America's military and leadership as they continue to carry out Operation Epic Fury, or as the Israelis have dubbed it, Operation Roaring Lion. So yes, thank you, Eric Stacklebeck, for bringing in the spiritual aspect, which, you know, why do the nations rage people plot of anything? Because they're delusional. So I'm too, everybody, and something to look up, but what's interesting here is it really is pointing to God's faithfulness. He's gonna keep his word. He has to keep his word, or he's not God, right? And he has promised Israel the land, Abraham the land. And you know, yes, the last 2,000 years, the church age and salvation comes through Jesus and Jesus only. But he made a promise that he will keep with Israel as he said he would. And these things that we know. So interesting here now because we're seeing
34:44all this taking place and yet that's not even the end of it. That's not even the worst of it. That's not even the biggest thing we're gonna see. Not even close. Prophecynewswatch.com has this, what Trump is saying, decapitation was just the beginning, Trump warns. The big one is coming. Wow, 14 countries. That's how many evacuated evacuation alerts the United States has now issued in this rapidly expanding conflict with Iran, as it deepens. 14 warnings do not signal a short surgical campaign. They signal preparation. They signal escalation. They signal that Washington believes what's next is much bigger than anything that we have seen. So far. And then came the words that sent shock raves with throughout Washington and beyond. In a recent interview with Jake Tapper, President Donald Trump reportedly suggested that the big one is coming. According to Tapper's account, the President projected that this military operation
35:45could last about a month while cautioning that the timetable is fluid. He also hinted that more U.S. casualties may be ahead. And that's why we prayed that when he started this show. You know, when the leader of your country is saying that there may be more casualties, we have to be praying everybody. There's families of these soldiers and keep them in your prayers. Those are not throw away lines that Trump is saying. They're signals. Because if the United States and Israel have already eliminated Iran's long-tenured Supreme Leader, the Itolla Commandee, along with significant portions of the regime's upper command, what exactly qualifies as the big one? The decapitation of Iran's leadership was historic, arguably one of the most aggressive, regime targeting operations in modern warfare. Removing commandee and key figures within days sent a clear message. The objective was not symbolic retaliation. It was structural collapse. But decapitation does not always end a war.
36:45Sometimes it begins more a more chaotic phase. Iran's power structure has long relayed on layered command networks, proxy militias, asymmetric warfare doctrines. Even without central leadership, regional commanders in aligned militias remain capable of launching large-scale retaliation. Hezbollah in Lebanon, militia groups in Iraq and Syria, the Houthi forces in Yemen. The architecture of response is still intact. And when Trump says the big one is coming, he may be referencing the final blow designed to cripple Iran's remaining military infrastructure. That could mean sustained air campaigns against missile sites, cyber operations, targeting command and control systems, or strikes against naval capabilities in the streets of Hormuz. Or if it could mean something even more consequential, a coordinated campaign to permanently dismantle Iran's revolutionary guard structure. And if that was the case, we're not watching the end of a war,
37:45we're watching its midpoint. Evacuation alerts across 14 countries are not issued lightly. They're preemptive shields. And when the US government begins urging citizens to leave multiple regions simultaneously, including our key ally Israel, it signals credible intelligence of an imminent danger. It's not just theoretical risk. It suggests that the US officials anticipate retaliatory strikes not limited to a single battlefield. Retaliation could take many forms. Missile attacks on the US bases in the Gulf. Cyber attacks on American infrastructure. Terror operations by sleeper cells are lone actors, even like we just saw in Texas. In Austin, Texas, that guy just starts shooting people. They're attacks on embassies or civilian targets. If Washington expects retaliation to expand beyond conventional military targets, evacuation warnings make strategic sense. You move civilians first before you move aggressively.
38:47This signals or lines with another revealing comment. Trump has reportedly hinted that more American casualties may be coming. Presidents do not prepare the public for losses unless they believe the probability is real. And all I can say again is let's pray. Let's continue to pray for our soldiers. Yeah. Well, yes, a little lighter fluid here and there. And what do we have? All right, switch gears here. This is an interesting story. Progressive lawmakers, Bernie Sanders and Rokana unveil 4.4 trillion tax wealth, a wealth tax. I'm sorry, the backwards. A wealth tax targeting billionaires. So see if you can find the socialism in this article. You first Bernie. Yeah, you first Bernie. Proposed legislation targets 938 individuals and promises $3,000 payouts to families earning under $150,000. OK, I'll take $3,000. We'll take six, right, Tim? OK. Progressive lawmakers, Senator Bernie Sanders
39:47from Vermont and rep Rokana of California are targeting the billionaire class with a massive new tax proposal that seeks to seize trillions from the nation's wealthiest individuals to fund a sweeping government spending spree. We're going to take from the rich here. And not somebody that make billionaires pay their fair share act targets 938 individuals, including Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and the like for an estimated 4.4 trillion over the next decade, a movie claims is necessary to fix a corrupt tax code that has seen wealth redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. So we're talking about redistribution of wealth here. All right, anyway, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, this legislation demands that the billionaire class in America pay their fair share so that we can create an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%. We can no longer tolerate a corrupt tax code that enables billionaires to pay a lower tax rate than the average worker. We have a deep economic divide in this country. On the one side, places like Silicon Valley
40:49are generating extreme wealth. On the other side, families are struggling to cover the cost of healthcare, housing, and basic needs. We can tax billionaires on modest amount to make sure everyone has a fair chance while keeping our innovative engine. In other words, they won't miss it, right Tim? They won't miss it if we put our hands in their pockets. And it just sounds, people would love the love to get their hands on that money. But this is a capitalist society. I don't care if people like that are not necessarily. That it is a capitalist society. It says the core of the proposal is a direct 5% annual wealth tax redistribution, not just income exceeding a billion. They project, they project the bill will raise 4.4 trillion over 10 years, and then again, it cites some high profile figures to illustrate its reach. Musk would owe 42 billion to all of us. Never mind that if he earned it or not, he owes all of us 42 billion. He's been able to do with that. Right, right. To build the things he's been able to build that we all benefit from. That will surveil us.
41:50Yeah, well, there's that. Just saying on a capitalist, if you will, on a level of things get done because these guys have the wealth. That's true. Zuckerberg could pay us all 11 billion and Bezos would owe us 11 billion. I mean, I have no fondness for Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook and all the things that have come of that. The progressive side of all of this, the socialist side of all this that doesn't make any sense is you'll own nothing and be happy. You'll just rent what you need and we'll tell you what you get to rent. Okay, what week do I get to go around and build gates yacht? Yeah. When do we get to share that? When do all of these guys actually start moving into trailer parks and taking Uber to get to work? Well, based on there, what they believe. Absolutely. That's the picture they paint on these kids thinking that. We're going to make all these rich guys really poor. Well, they wanted this to be a safety net. I don't know if they want to turn it into this universal basic income. There's all kinds of tricks up their sleeve. A trillion Medicare and Medicaid expansion,
42:51building affordable homes. I'm for all of that, but I'm not. This is a capitalist society. I don't believe in redistribution of wealth. No matter how good they make the sound. To accept this revenue estimate is credible, you have to believe that 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires on their investments and their held businesses will have no economic ramifications worth mentioning. Senator Republican leader John Thune did not immediately respond to Fox News request for comment. Enough is enough Bernie Sanders continued in his statement. Billionaires cannot have it all. It's time to enact a wealth tax on billionaires and use this revenue to address some of the major crises. Facing working families, yes, I'm all for those things. That isn't how you do it. And is Bernie, who I know has two nickels to rub together? Is he going to contribute to our medical bills, or anything like that? Like I say, you first, Bernie. I just throw this stuff out there. And your family and everything that you're connected to. Yeah, right. And it's always the hypocrisy. The hypocrisy of saying, we've got to stop the fossil fuels
43:55and zero carbon while these guys take their jets are on the world. So I just threw that out there so that you would know what Bernie is thinking for families when actually it's ideologically. It does not sound. Yeah. The Bible teaches that every individual has the right to private ownership. The Lord gives who he gives the things he gives to. And yes, if you take things by illegally, if you take things by force, if you take things that don't belong to you, there should be judgment and punishment for that. You think of the whole Bernie-made-off thing. Yeah, he should go to jail, but show us that everybody else that's done what he's done. What about the people he use inside of trading who've been in politics, who are only supposed to have a couple $100,000 a year income and now they're billionaires? How did that happen, Nancy, and the rest of them? And so there's something that needs to be held to an account, a higher account, with just enforcing the laws that we have. Making the law, yeah. Well, and you think about all the steel magnates,
44:56and all of the late 19th century millionaires, railroad, oil, steel, all of that. They were in the right place at the right time. They had opportunity to build railroads across continental. Now, of course, the great leveler is death, because once you're gone, you don't have that anymore. So let God handle it. They can't take it with them. Whoever dies with the most toys wins absolutely nothing. And if you gain the whole world, but lose your soul, you're a pitiful human being. And so nobody made the carnogies and all those guys who've been on Jekyll Island every year. Nobody made them redistribute their wealth. And it's the same thing. And they're all gone on to their eternal reward. So let's keep it in perspective. If you can find it, the book is called The Creature from Jekyll Island. It's the Foundings of the Federal Reserve, which is not federal, or is it like that? Yes, and I don't know if there's any reserves anymore. But interestingly enough, if you have, here's the thing. They promote socialism based on envy, social injustice,
46:00and so forth. We have a right to these things, because I am suffering and all that. That's what they're teaching all these kids. Well, the envy about the wealthy and looking at that and seeing the class disparity and pointing that up and trying to make a big thing of that. Psalm 73 is the way a Christian should look at that. ASAP, he struggled with the wealthy that had no problems. And there was no pangs in their death. And then he goes on into the temple. And then he realizes, ah, the Lord has shown me what their end will be. And so like you said, they all will die. They all will face the Lord. And that's, he's promised to judge rightly. Class envy, Marx, Karl Marx. All right, go ahead. What you got? Well, this is a little bit of good news here, because we need to understand that this is coming to America. And is in America. We've talked about this many times. Pele Stein in New Jersey and the Dearborn Michigan, Minnesota. Well, Texas has been a bad look around.
47:01If you haven't been familiar with a rare foundation that's a R-A-I-Air Foundation, Amy Mech, M-E-K. This is from March 3rd, Dallas, Texas, a powerful rebuke to growing concerns about the influence of Sharia-based ideology in the United States. Texas voters set a clear and decisive message in the Republican primary by overwhelmingly supporting the mandate that Texas should prohibit Sharia, that is Islamic law. And that's a good thing to hear, folks, because that is a major aspect of what's going on around this country, the things that are being done in these Islamist communities. And they will just see how they do this. With approximately 95% support, the historic non-binding vote has elevated the issue of banning Sharia into a major political priority, not only in Texas, but increasingly across the United States.
48:02And by the way, Rare Foundation and Amy Mech are Texas-based, but they talk about Islam everywhere. I would put out a call to anybody with expertise in these areas and the ability to have influence in these areas to be looking at Wisconsin. And here we sit in Wisconsin. I know that our broadcast goes farther than that. But in whatever state, you find yourself in, take up that challenge to begin to expose, because Rare Foundation exposes where the money's coming from. And they've done a great job. So look at what they're doing as an example. And if you have the ability to do so, I recommend it. The results reflect a growing recognition among millions of Americans that Islam and Sharia conflict with the core constitutional principles of these United States, including individual liberty, equality under the law, the separation of the church and state and supremacy of the United States Constitution. As coverage of the primary has noted,
49:03the ballot proposition has crystallized a debate that once was considered niche, transforming into a mainstream voting issue with the potential implications for future state and federal policy. The proposition, one of 10 non-binding advisory questions included on the Republican primary ballot functioned as an opinion poll intended to guide the Texas GOP, their legislative priorities, heading into the 2027 legislative session. While the measure itself carries no immediate legal force, the overwhelming margin of support sends a powerful signal that voters expect lawmakers to reinforce constitutional supremacy and prevent any form of parallel legal system from gaining and foot hold in Texas in their courts or in their institutions. Through extensive investigative journalism, in-depth reporting documentary-style videos, field research, grassroots mobilization,
50:05and national outreach, rare has documented patterns of foreign funding, non-profit structures used as fronts, institutional influence, coordinated strategies, the dual front G-HOD approach, internally forging self-sustaining Sharia compliant strongholds that isolate communities and reject American norms, while externally infiltrating education, politics, media, finance, and government through published, or polished, I should say, advocacy, lobbying for religious accommodations and exploitation of diversity and inclusion narratives to neutralize opposition and secure taxpayer resources. Rare's work demonstrates how focused investigative journalism combined with grassroots mobilization can elevate complex and urgent national security issues into the national conversation, particularly in political influence, influential states, such as Texas. In all, Wisconsin's a swing vote state, too.
51:06It's a major, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio. These are big elections, everybody knows it. The results of the primary suggests that voters are increasingly engaged with these concerns and reject any tolerance for ideologies or networks that undermine American sovereignty as public awareness continues to grow through reporting and debate. Citizens are calling on leaders to prioritize constitutional protections and ensure that no ideological framework or terror-linked operation undermines the rights and freedoms of better guaranteed under American law. Well, with Texas now setting a precedent through this resounding mandate, Rare Foundation USA is leading the charge on discussions in other states where candidates may soon face a pressure to address the issue directly and take decisive action against these threats. Wow, and that is something we absolutely have to watch. We're not just watching the Middle East, we're watching our own country. Here's just a real quick headline. We just have a couple minutes here.
52:07Islamization of Texas, Demi Houston Mayor praises rich Islamic culture hours before jihad, he slaughters infidels in Austin. I think this is what you were talking about, Tim earlier. Yeah, there was a gut, yeah. Yeah, it says- Sengali. While he graveled at Houston's Megharamadan iftar envying the rich Islamic culture he'd missed in school, boasting a funneling city contracts to Muslim-only groups, fantasizing about America living daily by Ramadan's principles to replace hospitals and police, a property of ala, clad jihadi, just hours later sluttered infidels, quote unquote, at an Austin bar during the same holy month, proving once again that submission invites supremacy, not unity, and this is something, it says in a nausea, hang on a second, let me just find this, in a nauseating display of capitulation and self-congratulatory virtue signaling, Houston Mayor John Whitmeyer took the stage at the 27th annual Houston Ramadan iftar dinner,
53:07held at the Bayou City Event Center to lavish praise on the Muslim community while conveniently ignoring the growing threat of Islamic supremacy right in America's backyard. Yeah, and that is some kind of strong delusion as well, I think, the so-called historic gathering, broadcast live nationwide on different platforms built as a beacon of unity, faith, and community spirit, code words for advancing the Islamic agenda under the guise of interfaith harmony, but let's call it what it really is a platform for dimmy politicians like Whitmeyer to bend the knee to Sharia supremacists while Houston's mosques receive high alert protection from the Houston police department amid global tensions due to Islamic threats. And I don't know Tim about people are saying sleeper cells and lone gunmen, absolutely we could see that again, we don't know. Well, it's the fundamentals of Islam. Islam, 600 AD, nowhere in all of that time since today to this day, there is no precedent anywhere that Islam came in and dwelt peacefully alongside
54:08any other sovereign government to embrace it, to invite their own, you know, without completely unraveling, they have to replace and the chiefest of all documents, you know, other than the scriptures, the Torah, the New Testament, and the gospel of Jesus Christ isn't diametrically opposed to Islam. It's not the same God, it's not Krizlam, and all those things, people need to realize that they cannot coexist with us, they have to replace us. Right, right, and we are in submission to Jesus Christ and one another, but they demand submission to them. So it is such, of course, our listeners know all too well. We're looking at, but we need to stay alert and of course do what we can with the ballot box, if this is an imminent threat in your community. So that is our headlines for March 4th on Wednesday. Kind of crazy, you know? Well, it's amazing. It's a crazy time, but it's amazing time to be alive. So thank you, Jesus, for that.
55:09Tomorrow, Melissa Hurray, and I'm excited to introduce her to you. Some of you may be know who she is, but I think she is going to be just an outstanding guest and then Alex Newman on Friday, talk about outstanding. Alex knows so many, many, many things, and he's fresh from the Orlando Prophecy Conference. So a lot of things I've been wanting to talk about, I've saved for Alex, so we will talk to him about many of these things. And of course, we want you to watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave and be strong, and let all you do be done and love. So there's a lot going on, there's a lot to accomplish. So go forth and accomplish. Have a great day. Cheers, bye.
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