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We have an interruption tonight. That's a blessed interruption. I know that on social media I had posted that we'd be getting into this particular message tonight, and we still might do that. Uh, but we changed things up tonight. Um, you may or may not remember. I know this is Wednesday night. I think we made this announcement um on Sundays, but do you remember when we announced to you that um there was a a pastor in South Korea who took a stand, who took a stand for biblical truth, who took a stand for issues exactly how this church takes a stand. It's amazing. Up until an hour ago, uh, we had never met before. Um, he's he's right now here in America. Got in just very recently. Um, and he'll have to be going back to South Korea, uh, in a month to meet, uh, whatever God has in store for him there with a very hostile government that continues to seek to silence him. Um, in a country, South Korea, a country who that was predominantly known, of course, by us anyway, assumed to be anyway, uh, Christian. Um, now that number has dwindled down tremendously, and they had an election not all that long ago, and um, people weren't paying attention, a lot like people in America today. A lot like those in New York City. Uh, I hope not, but a lot like maybe those in California. And believe it or not, a free country known as South Korea voted in a communist socialist president. And um, he and his cabinet have been working overtime to undo all that is not only good about South Korea, but an extreme hatred for Jesus and for Christians. And Pastor Sun would not uh, back down from his commitment to the word of God and to biblical worldview values. And um, it's amazing because for those of you who have never traveled for Jesus in other parts of the world, especially where you don't speak the language, there's an there's a remarkable situation that takes place that only the Holy Spirit can do. And that is when you don't speak the same language, but you're brothers and sisters in Christ, there is a freakishly amazing, um, cornia that the Holy Spirit gives. And I don't get it. I don't need to get it. But how people can talk a completely different language, and you can be listening to them, and you feel one with them, only through God. And so he's here for just a brief period of time. He'll be going back to um, I think he's staying tonight up in Santa Barbara. But I, I'm asking for your grace to uh, exercise some some liberty here and and have him address us. Uh, his son Chance will translate, but we need to hear what he has to say. Uh, the Greeks called this a Kairos moment. California, America is in a Kairos moment. If time allows, it just so happens that I think the message dovetails into what he has to say. But if what he has to say just needs to be keep being said, then I'll let the Lord. This is the Lord's church anyway. It's and so um, he's been in prison, uh, for six months, uh, brutalized severely, treated and um, we'll just, we we know that by the grace of God, the Lord moved in some ways and had some people make some noise, and for right now, he's free. And um, he's here again for a short time to raise awareness to the American church that you better wake up because the unthinkable to them happened, and their country went socialistic communists, and the first thing on the chopping block was your freedom to exercise your faith. So will you please give a warm welcome to Pastor Sun and his son Chance?
[applause] [applause] >> I'm Pastor Son from South Korea. >> My oldest son Young and my wife Young Ray. I'm very grateful to your congregation and pastor Jack Hips. Uh, as I was imprisoned, uh, last December, Pastor Jack Hips and the congregation here brought up Chance, myself up to the stage, and you guys prayed for us. Just before we got here, we were staying, uh, we were spending time with, uh, Reverend Joseph Bontareno, and he's a pastor who, who had to lockdown, um, in Soviet Union gulag underground prison for nearly 10 years. It seems like Soviet Union and everything seems like long time ago, but it's actually happening in South Korea right now. Just like how you guys fought to worship during COVID time, Sacred Church, our church was the only mega church that fought to worship, and it was closed down. Secret church, uh, for a fact, it's almost twice as the size. I mean, it's a big church, but it's twice as size, uh, in Korea, uh, church. And the government was telling all churches to only hold five worshippers in such a big sanctuary. And I said to the government that we are not, uh, such a elephant circus, uh, elephant, uh, where we are just told to do things. But I decided to reject that. All media came to our church and denounced us. The government literally wrapped a rope around the church and shut down the church, and we decided to worship even outside during freezing cold time. There are numerous police officers and prosecutors came to our church. However, we decided to worship till the last day. If we are the one who just gives up on freedom of religion and and to worship, no one will protect it, and we'll just let it go. Christians and the congregation members are the ones who have to protect the freedom of religion. COVID did end. However, I had to go through 40 hearings until just two months ago for six years. It would be just like one day I would go to police office to get investigated, the next day going to going to prosecution's office, and the next day going to the courthouse to go through a hearing. And, uh, the Democratic Party has won the election, and they have they are trying to pass the LGBT law in Korea. The current regime who promotes communism is, uh, also proposing a law to shut down the church, which have a church that they don't like, or just like my father, what, um, whatever he said, or whatever a pastor says that they don't like, they will shut down and transfer all the assets and properties to the government. And they're also trying to shut down schools, alternative schools that are teaching biblical values. I said I criticized the current government for trying to pass this law and proposing this law that are led by the Democratic Party heavily, uh, in national assembly, and I was indicted on 12 charges. And the cell I was imprisoned was a single confinement with a width of less than three feet. There is no chair, no mattress like the US. There are only bugs. However, in my heart, sincerely, genuinely, I was so grateful and I was happy. Being able to be persecuted to glorify God and to protect freedom of worship and freedom of religion is something that I always dreamed about.
[applause] Freedom of religion is just is not something that we just got it for free. It has been someone has fought for it, and someone has been won as some someone has won to gain the freedom of religion. I was so, uh, comforted when I heard the news, uh, that Chino Hills congregation and Pastor Jack Hibs had my son Chance up to the stage and praying for, uh, for our church and me myself.
[applause] In January, I was released because I was sentenced six months, and that's that's the time when I was already in prison for five months. However, I'm on probation for a year. So, I don't know when I'll be go, I will be going back to the, uh, jail. The South Korean government is taking so many angles to attack me, my family, and the Tiger Church. However, I'm not worried about that and not concerned at all. Once free Hong Kong, how it was taken over by communism. Once freed South Korea, where pastors can't even criticize government for anti-biblical policies and laws. This is the reality. Many, many numerous people said nothing like this could happen in South Korea. We are given freedom of religion, freedom to worship, freedom in general. However, we shouldn't take this for granted. Just like how South Korea lost the freedom, it can come to your door in the US. The evil Satan is basically trying to use the power to imprison pastors and shut down and silence anyone that criticizes any policy or legislation that God doesn't like. Just because we are comfortable right now, just laying down watching TV, it's not going to help at all to protect our freedom. We're in the time of freedom and also prosperity, thankfully, uh, thanks to God. However, we shouldn't stay the same as how it is right now. We have to have a fresh heart. We have to look back to our art and ask ourselves what we should do right now and what could be coming up in the in the near future, right here. A lot of people keep their keeps keep, uh, silent whenever the freedom is, um, getting attacked. But whenever there's a someone starting from one person that fights for freedom, just like Joshua fought for freedom, there will be freedom that is God-given. And I really wish and pray that Calvary Church, Calvary Church, uh, Chino Hills, Sig Church, and us, all of us fighting for freedom of religion and also freedom general, that God, God will be happy and it will be preserved. And even if I go back to Korea, I'll keep fighting against the government that always trying to legislate anti-biblical policies and laws. However, I, I will keep fighting and I will be keep praying that I keep doing so. And please keep praying for us and keep fighting alongside as we are brothers and sisters in Christ. Thank you so much.
>> Thank you. [applause] Let's We're going to pray for you. We're going to pray. Yeah. We'll do it again. >> Something. Yeah. Let's come up and I'll pray. You translate. Yeah. [applause] Church. Church, let's remain standing and let's pray. And before we pray, want to translate? I actually, I didn't say much yet. Uh, we owe it to God to thank him, >> because the last time Chance and I prayed, his dad was in prison. >> So, we're going to begin by thanking the Lord. >> And then we will together agree that what God would have in store will be beautiful, great surprises of liberty and freedom for them when they return home. Heavenly Father, we come before you in the name of Jesus. Lord, we first of all want to thank you publicly that a long time ago we stood here and we prayed for the release, for the health, for the blessing to be bestowed upon Pastor Son, that he, Lord, would be kept by you and preserved by you, Lord, that his witness would be magnified. And Lord, you have done that and more. And so, Father, we pray as a church congregation, not just here, but across the United States, we ask you, Father God, to please whatever individual, whoever that might be back in Korea who has some form of authority, Lord, that you would hold their heart in your hand and change the course of what any man or system has put in place, and that your will would be done. Lord, we're not asking for special treatment. We're asking you for your common grace to carry this family through this challenge, >> and out of this church back home in Korea, there would be a revival movement that would awaken those who name the name of Jesus in Korea to follow you, Lord, with not only their voice, not only their prayer, most importantly with their feet, to not just know what the Bible says, but to do what the Bible says. And so God, we pray for a profound awakening. And Lord, we pray that you would stop the advancement of this demonic doctrine of socialism, of communism. >> And God, that we here in America would wake up >> and stop flirting with disaster. That America, >> that Korea >> would go back to the Bible >> in every way. >> So Lord, you have said that those who know their God shall carry out great exploits. Lord, we are looking to a great, great miraculous move of your spirit through Pastor Son, his family, and the church back home in Korea. >> We commit them, Lord, into your hands. And all God's people said, >> "Amen." Amen. [applause] >> [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> You can be seated. Uh, he was the first one, Pastor's son was the first one to come to Christ in his family. He had, he had no idea. He had no idea that God existed. Didn't know anything about God whatsoever. Had not heard about him. And his testimony is amazing. I was hoping he would get into that, but maybe some other time, right, when he's free to come back. But, um, yeah, I mean, it goes without saying that we better, uh, I don't think we have an option about getting strong. You're either going to get strong in Jesus or you're not. You'll either survive or you're or you're not going to. Your faith is either growing at times like this or it's withering. One thing is beautiful. We were discussing this this evening. The same testimony that is here in California and here in America is the same there in Korea and in their hometown is that we all agreed that, uh, something happened during the COVID era, and we all agreed that it was a very, very good thing, a great thing, because it separated, in many ways, the sheep from the goats. It separated, uh, ministers that are called versus ministers that are employed. It separated the rock stars from, uh, I don't know, the rocks. It's one thing to talk about the things of God, and then the hour comes to live it out, and you run. I'm grateful for the era of what is called COVID, and things that have come since. The whole gender, notice people, this is not a coincidence. After COVID, the churches were tested. Jesus had said in the scriptures, "Whatever can be shaken shall be shaken. What can remain will remain." The shaking has begun. The testing is now. And then the the gender argument and the debate. Then the racism, which is satanic. Uh, always abortion under attack. The issue of life, the unborn child, always under attack. Marriage is always under attack. The deity of Jesus, always under attack. That's normal. That's always been. That's always going to be the case. But notice how you guys has been escalating. This is by design. And yet God is testing. And so of late, right, it's been the issue of Israel. You think that's an accident? God knows exactly what he's doing. And people are failing the failing the test on all these gender test, life test, marriage test, the deity of Christ, and the Israel test. Everything I just mentioned to you is clearly, clearly laid out in God's word, the Bible. I'm not interested in people being attacked or people attacking. I'm interested in what is being said or done by them in line with scripture. And I got to tell you, man, everything that's going on, do not discount one moment. It's addressed right here. And Satan's doing everything he can to stop this book from getting into your heart. And I'm, I'm not, I don't need any laughs on this. I'm not being funny. Clearly, the things that Pastor's son has said about his own government has landed him in jail. According to those actions of that government, I should be in jail. It's highly probable that if this country goes the way it's going, I will be in jail. I'm not saying that as a woe is me. I'm saying I hope you're in jail with me. Because if you're not in jail, [applause] why not? [applause] If, if right now, look, if there wasn't the remnants of a constitution that is still keeping somewhat of a lid on this country, I'd be in jail. If Gavin Newsom literally had his way right now, I would be in jail. To him, that would be advantageous to to shut me up. But to you, apparently, what we've seen these last, this last week with what he has putting forward to implement upon your life these remarkable, un, never before seen in the United States of America taxes that you're going to be paying. No one has ever seen such things before. Um, what is he doing? We don't know. I don't think he knows. I think it's demonic, >> because it makes no sense. But know this. The spirits that are at war against God, they're invisible, but they find people, humans, to manipulate to get their argument across. While the Christian plays the fool and stays out of the war, Satan advances. And after listening and sitting down with with Pastor's son this evening, um, we better, we better pray. We better hope and we better do the best we can and leave the results to God. But this coming, uh, this coming November, um, I'm so committed to voting for liberty and freedom instead of this continuous tyranny that is going on in our state. I'm voting. Listen, I might take, I might take, I might do what my Democrat friends have taught me to do. I am not only going to vote for Steve Hilton. I'm going to vote probably 10 times for Steve Hilton, just like my Democrat friends do for their team. [applause] But friends, I'm telling you right now, >> you better look around >> because we have the opportunity to put into power and put authority to those who will rule over us by our choosing. Who are you going to choose? What are you going to do with the freedoms that you have? It's going to affect you. I personally, maybe this sounds grandiose, but God has always shocked the world, and he's done it often from a place called California. Is it possible that instead of California polluting 49 states with the things that it has exported over these last decade or so, is it possible that things could turn around? Could it be possible that for the first time we could send people to office in various positions that actually pray to the Lord Jesus Christ, who read his word, and who wants pastors to get involved on how to deal with some of the social complexities of our culture? They recognize that the government can't fix those things. Only the church can fix those things. When was the last time you, I can tell you when was the last time I was put in a situation like that? Never. Where a politician says, "This is what I'd like to see the church do because the church can do it better than anybody." If I were to give you an invitation to get involved, to join me in the streets of LA or Oakland, to take Christ on a multifaceted outreach, to go to the inner city of Los Angeles or San Diego, and some of you would have your expertise of this, that, the other, and to have the state's approval behind what you do. So much so that they even provide security just in case anything goes wrong that we would go in there and [clears throat] people would be talked to. We would have questionnaires to figure out with translators if need be. What is your name? My name is Maria. Do you have any skills, Maria? Yes, I can do this. I can do the other. Maria, do you want to remain homeless or do you want to better your life? >> I want to better my life. Okay, that's great. Maria, you, you go right over there with Susie, and she's going to be taught a skill. If this person's brain is fried on drugs and they're gone or they're demon-possessed, we can, well, that's our department, demon-possessed. But if they're fried on drugs or whatever, or they don't want to be off the streets, that's where we bring over this individual because the state has facilities to take care of that. Are you hearing me, people? >> Not only has the law not been applied in California, the laws that are on the books, but the church, to her shame, has not applied the love of God to those streets, the love of God to the neighborhoods. The change for California. I'm looking at it right here, right now. >> And wouldn't that shock 49 other states? >> Could you imagine? Wouldn't it be great to have Texas be jealous of us for a while? Wouldn't it be great to see all these people wanting to move back to California to try to buy their homes they could now never afford? But do you hear what I'm saying, everybody? So, I'm, I'm, I'm, I hope not going to be alone, but I'm going to fight. What are you going to end up in jail? I'll be looking for you. [laughter] Because I'd rather get in trouble for what's doing, what doing the right thing than sit it out and be a spectator, which last time I checked, Christianity is a non-spectator faith. But I believe that people who care, they don't have to be Christians. People who care for California and care for their kids and grandkids, if we just got up off of our bottom and actually went and voted and knew how to vote, this place could change. And, um, I, I, I'll go a little bit more until it's time to end this, I guess. Um, you're going to be hearing of some tremendous, well, I hope so. Anyway, what I, this is what I understand. You, you should be hearing about some tremendous powers coming to bear, uh, upon the California election system in this upcoming election. Um, California suddenly has become the test. If California can conduct itself with integrity in this voting, even before the law that's going to be on, well, not the law, but you're going to have the choice in your ballot to vote for, uh, ID required to vote. >> Yes. >> Uh, [applause] I can't even believe I'm sorry. I'm so old. I can't even believe that's a thing. But the good thing is, uh, if what we're being told comes to pass, you're going to have to prove some form of ID even before you vote in this election because this, the voting in California is under profound, never before federal, uh, scrutiny, and there are agents. Yeah, it's good. [applause] So, here's what we're going to do. I'm not going to get into the study. I'm going to get you ready for this study for next week. And then, you know what? We have to trust God. Uh, maybe next week you should invite somebody to come with you next week. But you guys, uh, in, and what we're doing on Wednesday nights is the applied series. And we're looking at what Bible prophecy has to say about not only the future, but has to say about what is going on even now in our lives. Bible prophecy is not only current now, it's also forthcoming. And a lot of people don't want to talk about that. I don't think that's you, but a lot of people don't want to talk about it because, um, in a funny way, some people don't want to know about the future because if they know about the future, then they think they have to worry about it, which is a strange approach because if you know about it through God's lens, right? It, uh, the Bible says it brings you comfort. >> I don't know about you, man. If there's some things I don't want to know about, okay? If I'm going to go in for brain surgery, I am not going to go on YouTube and and search my, my particular procedure. Not a good idea. If, if you are going in for, you know, a brain transplant or something, don't Google it. You don't need that. So there in some ways, what's the old saying? Ignorance is bliss. >> That only works in some areas. >> But, um, I think if you're out in Newport Beach right now or Huntington swimming around and some guy with a drone sees that pesky 18-foot great white that keeps showing up out here, don't you think you'd want to know? >> No, man. Don't tell me. The guy might descend over your head with that drone and say to you from his iPhone or from his device, about a hundred yards behind you, there's an 18-foot long great white shark. It's the one that's been going up and down the coast lately, and he's coming right straight toward you. I think I would want to know that. I can't imagine somebody saying, "I don't want to hear this." Plug in your ears and say, "No, no, uh-uh." You'd want to know. Well, friends, listen, regarding Bible prophecy, in fact, Jesus put it this way, and you guys know it. It's the theme to the entire series. In John 14:29, Jesus says, "And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it does, you might believe." That's a great comfort. It's to comfort you. And so next week we're going to get into a study called "Are You Ready for What's Next?" But, um, I, I'll prime the pump this way right now. The United States, not exclusively. There are some nations that are accompanying us. Some of them are, or a few of them, European nations. Um, they are assisting in what's happening with Iran. And how long has it been now? This started on, uh, February 28th, if I have that right. February 28th, 2026. Uh, the United States and Israel went, uh, and frankly, for those who have a hard time with this, you shouldn't. You know, we went in, uh, to dismantle, to Iran's nuclear armament capabilities. And there's a lot of debate, uh, should we do that at all? And the US went in, and Israel went in, and, uh, it was all confirmed. There's no, no nation denies that they were making, uh, nuclear material to create a nuclear weapon because simultaneously Iran was developing highly, uh, sophisticated ICBM delivery systems, the rockets, with China's and North Korea's engineers in Iran working. So you have a great inventory of rockets already made, and you are also outside of your United Nations agreement where you are now operating illegally by having an unauthorized amount of centrifuges and m and materials able to make nuclear weapons. Are you hearing what I'm saying? That's, that's what they were doing, and they got caught doing it. And Israel basically said, "We know, they said that they're going to destroy us." Because in Islam, that is one of the primary rules of Islam. If you, if you're a Muslim here tonight, if you're honest tonight, Islam must destroy all Jews and take the land of Israel. It's funny. It never cared about the land of Israel until 1948. But be that as it may, that's the rule. From the river to the sea, uh, death, death to America, death to Israel, kill the great Satan, kill the little Satan. The great Satan is America. The little Satan is Israel. You know the chanting. Um, and so they said, they have said for 47 years, "We're going to destroy Israel first chance we get. We're going to destroy the West first chance we get." That's what they said. You don't have to believe it or not. I'm just telling you that's what they said. But you also live 6,800 miles from there. So what do you care? I mean, you really don't care. But if you live several hundred miles away from there, you take that seriously. And if they're saying, by the way, um, let's say that you're here tonight and you're the, you're the Allen family. Let's say somebody across the street, no, no, let's back this up. Let's say somebody in Michigan is saying, "I'm going to attack the Allen family in Chino Hills, and I'm going to destroy them and wipe THEM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH." That happens every day on the internet, that kind of talk. Nobody takes that seriously. But what if somebody across the street from you says to you with their finger pointing at you, "Hey Allen family, first chance you get, first chance I get, I'm going to wipe you off the face of the earth." Does that have your attention? >> It better have your attention. Unless you're crazy. There's the reason that if that happens, you're supposed to call 911 if somebody does that. You're not going to call 911 if they live in Chicago. But you will call 911 if they live on your street. The proximity of Iran to Israel is on the same street. And Iran says, "We are going to destroy, according to our religion, every Jew on the planet, and we are going to capture the land of Israel. We have to do this. This is our doctrine, and it is their doctrine. It is the Quran. It is the teachings of Islam." Doesn't matter if you believe it or not. It's what they're going to do. And so Israel was going to respond with or without the United States. Did you know that they had already been operating to do such things? Pagers, cell phones, uh, what was the other stuff? >> Walkie. >> Walkie-talkie. um, insects, right? Exploding insects, exploding beetles, uh, all these kinds of things. Why? Because Israel believes they listen, they don't know what you know. You know that the Bible says Israel, with all the attacks that are going to come against it, God says, "Once I bring them back into their own land in the last days, they'll never again be uprooted." They're going to go through a lot, and they're going to have the worst future ever in the tribulation period, but the Bible says he's going to deliver. He's going to save a remnant of Israel. Israel's never going to ever, is never not going to exist. It's always going to exist, God says. And, and, and it's crazy that we're talking about a nation the size of New Jersey, and it's, and it has the world's attention. Why? Because it's the most hated place on earth. Why? Because of envy. Quite frankly, all of your cell phone devices, um, if you, you know, your cell phone device, if you have your device with you, if you circumcised it, all of the insides is Jewish. Did you know that, man? I've been there. I've been to areas near Naharia and Apple, Rathon. Uh, I mean, you, if you can think of the company, they're all there. It's the Silicon Valley of the Middle East. That technology that's invented in Israel is in your cell phone. It's in so many other things. They're smart people. No one, no rate, no, uh, ethnicity of people comes close to winning more Nobel Prize, uh, prizes than the Jew. Did you know that? No. I don't like the way that makes me feel. Well, that's your problem. Study like they do. It's not like they have a genetic gene that makes them smarter. They just apply themselves. Look, look throughout all of human history. There's been more Jewish Nobel Prize winners in all areas of of technologies than any other ethnicity of people. Go figure that. Uh, how is it that Israel, to this very day, is the biggest it's ever been when it comes to, uh, buildings and and high-rises and airports and all this stuff? And they use less water. In the year 2026, Israel uses less water than they did in 1950. Their w, they've expanded like a hundredfold, but their water consumption has decreased. How do you explain that? Because they've learned how to pull water out of the air. They can plant a tree in the ground and then put this funny little like a hula hoop around it at the bottom. And this thing was invented, and it pulls air, it pulls water, I should say, it pulls water out of the air that you can't even see and brings it and puts it on into the tree's roots. Israel was the first nation on earth to become water independent. Wouldn't you like to live in California to be water independent? Have, can you imagine? By the way, this is, I'm just saying that's one of the little tidbits of input I've had is I would like to introduce a handful of people to a handful of people in Israel on how to pull water from the Pacific and make California the first water-independent state in America. The technology is already there. [applause] The technology is already been done. It's just that nobody's doing it. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm, I'm talking about the religion of a people group that is designed to destroy not only all those who do not believe what they believe in, but with a vengeance, those who excel them, the West, Israel. And so what if the bizarre, you have to, I'm sorry to hurt your feelings. Let me just tell you straight up. The bizarre antics of what is now becoming incredibly familiar to many of us older people is how the United States is prosecuting or doing whatever it's doing in Iran right now is quite unnerving. Answer this. The greatest, most powerful military on the face of the earth has been dealing with, no doubt, a big military, a powerful military, but not a superpower. How is it that since February 28th, the Strait of Hormuz, ships keep getting hit, and Iran keeps sending rockets to Bahrain and Dubai and Kuwait and Jordan and, uh, Emirates? How is this happening still right now? We've blown everything up. I mean, I'm sorry. I haven't been there. I've been told we've blown everything up. Why are they still a threat to the world? I'm just asking you. Why are they still a threat? Why isn't this done? Why isn't this finished? Listen, do you understand? Tonight, in February, the Trump administration was extremely strong. Not tonight. Not tonight. It's weakening every day. Have you noticed that? >> Either people are dying off or the socialist agenda is prevailing in this country. At this rate, America's being go, America's going to be in big trouble even before November. At this rate, here's the reason why. Did you know that? And by the way, I, uh, I completely agree with General Jack Keane. If you don't follow Jack Keane at the Institute of War, you need to do it. Jack Keane counseled the president and said, "Don't stop. Finish it. Don't let it be protracted. More people will die. It's going to be terrible. Stay on it. Don't back off." And, uh, if you know Islam, and, uh, I believe the word is hudna. I might be wrong. Don't quote me on it. I might be wrong. But when in Islam, you're losing the battle, you call for a peace treaty. And hudna is a peace treaty that you have no intention to sign. You call for a peace treaty, and you lull your opponent into or toward the peace treaty table while you rearm and you get your composure and you do whatever you need to do with no intentions of having peace because your global agenda is all-out war. And so they called for peace, and immediately Trump gave them, which was interesting. [clears throat] Uh, his choice is, uh, how long did he give him, Chris? Do you remember how long he gave him? Was it like 60 days or something? Whopper, something huge. 60 days. 60 days to stop 60 days of the, uh, MOU, is that what it's called? Memorandum of Understanding, which is not a peace treaty. It's simply an agreement that we'll talk about peace. But during the talks of peace, you can't throw bombs at each other. If you do throw a bomb, then we're going to bomb you, and it's all going to start over again. And some people say, "Well, Trump was, Trump knew what he was doing." Maybe he did. But it's interesting. They paused long enough, Iran did. And then how do we know it wasn't good? Because as soon as they started throwing bombs again, they struck, for example, a country that wasn't even involved, Bahrain. And what did Bahrain do to Iran? Nothing. What did Emirates do to get hit? He said, "Yeah, that is funny, Jack. Why is that Islamic nation attacking other Islamic nations?" Oh, my friend, everybody who has studied Islam, especially the Shia House of Islam, the Sunni and the Shia, makes perfect sense because you see, there's a particular branch of Islam that believes that it is up to them to create a global fiery conflagration of war. They believe from the Quran, how they interpret it, is, uh, it says that our Messiah will return when the world's on fire. That's up to us. That's what we're going to do. We will usher in his coming. That's what they believe. That's what they're doing. It just so happens that Iran is Shia, that believes that. Look, neither one of them are good, but one's worse than the other. Both will kill you. One will just kill you sooner. And they'll kill each other, by the way. They believe this right now. And what's shocking is that, and if you're from the Middle East, you'll say, "How did you know that? You're just a honky white guy." Because I, I've studied [clears throat] Islam for a very, very, very long time. I've spoken to several members of Congress in Washington D.C. on Islam. I'm just telling you. I'm just saying that the belief is, we cannot destroy Israel as long as America is what it is. And so if you read the me, the Muslim Brotherhood manifesto of 1928, you will find out what's going to happen next. By the way, everything that they've written, they've done. And what's going to happen next, they've written it in their manifesto. They're doing it. And that is to disable the West and then take out Israel. And their agenda is to infiltrate politics, infiltrate education, infiltrate the financial structure, and immigrate to America. So if you look in areas of security, be it physical security or cyber security, look at the increase of those who are Muslims that have gone to school, trained themselves, gotten their degrees, and that's where they're working. This is by design. You're under attack, but you don't know it. They're doing exactly what Sun Tzu said. When you attack an enemy greater than you, get your, get your great enemy to think that they're not under attack, financial or security, financial. Now, things may have, in fact, I'm not going to name the company because I don't want to get sued because they're massive. But there's a very famous bond company, household name. When I found out about that company, I made sure that I had no investments in that company anymore because boy is it layered and is it hidden. It's a, it's a tool to fund Islamic activity, and it operates in the US and, and beyond. Military. Did you know that in Islam, here in the United States, did you know that Muslims have deliberately, willfully gone into the United States armed forces to be trained by the United States government with the intent that when the time comes to use that skill against the United States? That is no secret. Did you know that? You should know that. Politics. They know where the power is. They have taken perfect advantage of the Christians' desire. In fact, I'm going to semiquote Mikhail Gorbachev. Mikhail Gorbachev, before Ronald Reagan said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Remember that? Before that ever happened, Gorbachev spoke to the Supreme Soviet. That is his, let's just call it, that's his cabinet. And one of the questions was asked, "What are we going to do?" The question, by the way, was this in response to, this is not, this is for real. You ready for this? In fact, at the, at the, uh, at the school, at the war school for the United States Marine Corps, this is taught. The man is a legend and a hero on a military tactic without firing a shot. Did you know that Ronald Reagan, when the United States and the and the Soviet Union was going toe-to-toe, head-to-head in the arms race, who could get the most nuclear weapons? Remember that? Somebody help me out with dates. When did, when did, uh, the movie, the first movie Star Wars come out? Anybody know the year? >> Say it again. >> Anybody know? 1977. Star [clears throat] Wars came out, and then I, I don't know the frequency, but subsequently there were other Star Wars movies. Did you know that Ronald Reagan saw those movies? You say, "So what?" Yeah, watch this. When Reagan became president, Reagan asked his Department of War and all of the brains, "How do we create a system that operates from space that can shoot down any weapon launched against us, and so we'll never have to be concerned about the Soviet Union nuking us again?" Hey, how many of you are old enough that like with me, we hid under our desk and covered our heads in public schools here in America because we were going to be under nuclear attack by the Soviet Union? You remember that duck and cover drills? In England, a friend of mine, he said their schools quickly put up these white shields on the windows of their schools. And it was an old saying back then, "Paint the windows." If we're going to be attacked by the Russians, what do you do? Paint the windows white. What does that do? It keeps you preoccupied before you vaporize. That's all it does. And whoever sells white paint made a lot of money. Reagan said, "I want to, I want to know what it's going to take to operate from space and laser destroy rock, uh, incoming missiles into the United States so we don't have to think about the Russians anymore." And they said, "The technology doesn't exist." This is now known. It's not secret, of course. The technology doesn't exist. Yeah, but Reagan said, "How are we going to do it? I want to see how you're going to do it." Well, it's never been done before. I didn't ask you that. I want to know how it's going to be done. Well, sir, even if we were to do it, we don't have a budget big enough to even do such a thing. You know what Reagan said? Reagan said, "Somebody give me a piece of paper here." He signed it and he said, "Start today." And they said, "Sir, we don't have enough money nor the knowledge, materials, or the technology to create what?" And he said, "You're going to create Star Wars?" The Star Wars initiative. It was impossible. Reagan approved billions of dollars to spend on the development of what did not even exist, inspired by the Star Wars series. Listen, all the while knowing that the Russians, and we leaked, did you know we leaked information to them of what we were doing? How we were going to be, we got this going, and the laser tested out, this is going to be great, we're going to be able, they're, it was all fake. Did you know what Russia did? Russia went to work. Soviet Union, sorry. Soviet Union went to work to try to race us in this technology. But we have, listen, any socialist in the room right now, we have capitalism. They didn't. Both of these nations were racing. One pretending, the other one not pretending, terrified. We learned a lot of stuff, by the way, pretending out of all the, though. The money wasn't all lost. Some great things came out of it. But we had, we have a capitalistic society, and it only increased our national income because corporations were created and businesses were created, and people worked. And the Soviet Union couldn't keep up with that because they're socialistic. They just take money from people. They don't create money. Guess what happened? The Soviet Union, their bank, they ran out of money. They had no more. They went broke. Before all of that happened, you know what? Gorbachev told the Supreme Soviet, "We must act against the United States." When asked how, he said, "I don't know." But listen, but we must take advantage, full advantage of the American people to not want to know. Did you catch that? We want, we must take full advantage of the American people because they don't want to know. In other words, don't tell me anything bad. Just make my day happy. Don't tell me this. I want things easy and smooth. Don't talk about it. Well, thank God Ronald Reagan and his incredible, oh yes, when one of his leaders said, "It's impossible. It's going to cost us billions of dollars and we won't be able to do it in time." Reagan said, "That's right. We know that, but they don't know that." Islam, they know exactly what they're doing. They're taking advantage of your desire to not want to know. So, you think it's a sweet thing and it's a cool thing and it's a diverse thing for a Muslim to run for city office somewhere. And guess what? They can. But have you ever played the game Battleship? >> If you don't block, they'll take advantage. And so if you don't run for office or encourage people to run for office, they will. How do they get into office? They listen, they don't believe in the Constitution. They can't. It's against Sharia. It's impossible. They don't believe in it. They can't. If they tell you they do, they do not. They're lying to you. And that's, by the way, that's another thing I think that's T. T. What is T? The key is if I'm going to advance the cause of Allah, I can lie about anything I want. >> It's approved of. So, here we are. Orange County is on their heels trying to figure out what to do about the takeover, uh, of a massive proposed mosque to be built in Garden Grove. Fountain Valley is slated to be the next massive, uh, Islamic stronghold. UC Irvine, the school, is probably the biggest, uh, unofficial mosque in California, if you've been there. How did this happen? Neglect. How did this happen? Open borders. How did this happen? Illegal immigration. How did this happen? Legal im, legal immigration, every possible means. What I'm saying tonight, you would say, "What does this have to do in a church?" I listen, this is exactly how America got into the predicament.
She's in. You say, "Well, I read a book. I read a book about churches in America 200 years ago. So, they didn't talk about stuff like this. Oh, they did. Yes, they did. But it wasn't. Listen, it wasn't as bad then as it is now. Because right now, all of the freedoms that you and I do not exercise, they're exercising them to take those freedoms away from you. And that's exactly what Pastor Sun was telling us about tonight. Korea elected a socialist who did not believe in the election process, but they knew there'd be a lot of dumb people who want change. You know, change is a buzz word. You know, it is a label. People are sucker for change. Every one of us want change. We do. Every single one of us. We get. We get bored. Change it up. There's some things that are called foundations and you don't change them. You can stand on them, but you know how to change them."
So, what I was going to talk about was Ezekiel 38 and how Persia, which is mentioned in Ezekiel 38, will prevail in some way, shape, or form. Here's my hopes. At this current moment, Trump is up against the clock and he's up against a diminishing uh time of authority to do anything. If he loses the Senate, if he uses, if he loses Congress, it's over for him. He's done. He'll be probably impeached within a month. And that will go on until his term is up or he's some imprisoned or something. I don't know what they, what they'll do, but they won't stop. You say that would never happen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it does.
And here's my prayer. We know that Persia is going to survive long enough to attack Israel with Russia, Libya, Turkey, Sheba, and, and um, uh Sudan and just a handful of others. Maybe not. I might have named them. Go Goo Gomer. These ancient tribal names of Genesis 11:10 and 11. The B. Listen, you don't want to hear this. The Bible says Persia in the future is going to attack Israel. Persia is Iran. There's no mention of the United States in the Bible. That's either good or bad. It's up to us. I'm hoping for this. The Bible says in Ezekiel, and we'll get into it in detail next week, it says that Israel will be dwelling at peace and it will no longer have gates. And the people will be relaxed and then suddenly Persia will attack them with this horde coming down out of the uttermost parts of the north. And it says that the nations of the world will say, "Why have you come to destroy them like this?"
Here's my hope. My hope is that at least in the short term, Trump turns the Navy back around and heads them back because, you know, we pulled out. Did you know we went home? But I think some guys had, they had been home for four days and they were told to get back. Something's up. So now we're sailing back into the region as I stand here and the bombing has begun again. Here's what I'm hoping. The Iranian people, they want us to win. Did you know that? They want us to win. They want to be free again. They were not Islamic until 1979. They wanted, they want to be free again. And we just found out this week, go search it. 53,000. Now the number is out. 53,000. The IRGC killed 53,000 of their own citizens who disagreed with them in these last few months.
People, listen. Here's my hope. That we prevail and the IRGC, the Islamic Republican Guard Corps, is dethroned. And the crown prince, who is the rightful bloodline heir to the throne of Iran, that he's reinstated by the Persian people. That would be a good day. And that he could very well, it's within his wheelhouse. Imagine everybody, if he were to be installed for a, what if it's just for a short period of time. He will allow Christianity to be preached. What if someday, I get, someday soon I hope I get to walk up to this microphone and say, "Church family, since the fall of the Islamic Republican Guard, the king has now been reinstated since 1979 when his father was def, dethroned, the Shah." And I'm asking you guys to check your calendars and let's get our evangelism training course going, crash course, because we're going to Tran. We are going to cover the land of Iran and we are going to be preaching the gospel in cities and in villages. Wait. What if, what if God p? What if all of this is happening? Because Israel's got to feel safe before it attacks. That means something's got to change. But what if during the change or after the change, we get to go in there and preach the gospel? Don't say anything right now, but would you go? If I asked you, will you join me in Tan as we hold outreaches at the soccer, at the football stadium and we're going to preach Christ in in ancient Persia? Were to preach Christ. You know, Israel would feel safe. The gospel would go out. Who's to say that the rapture would take place after that or something happens after that? But church family, we'll see next week in detail from Ezekiel 38. That's your homework. Read Ezekiel 38 because there's some trigger words in there that are going to be very, very clear.
If you have the power to make a decision to change a culture in this country, it's called voting. It matters because there's a lot of Persians right now praying that this war ends with them having the ability to vote again or to at least have their king rightly stated, reinstated as has been for thousands of years there. Could you imagine? And remember Persia, that's where Daniel used to live. Ain't that amazing?
Father, we just pray tonight. We thank you for Pastor Son and his inspiration and his sacrifice. And wow, I don't know. Uh, how it's just a, it's you. It's you. When he said backstage tonight that after being beaten every day and tortured, that once he said he gave it to Jesus, that that he was going to give the torture to Jesus. Let Jesus be the, the reason and the purpose and the joy of it all. All the fear went away. All the, all the angst went away. He, he learned to embrace it. And he said, that's when freedom came. And how he's carried that into his, his life, that time forward. Lord, I pray that for all of us as a people, that we would embrace whatever uncomfortableness [music] is necessary for us to do something great, something that is honorable to your name and that is right. So Lord, we pray for the United States. We pray for our leaders. We pray that you'd bring salvation to President Trump and to his family. And God, that you would save, Lord, those that are around him and so many others. God, these generals and these, [music] you know, all of them. God, we pray, Father God, that we would very quickly soon see the liberation of the Persian people. We do thank you that we better pay attention to your Bible. It's never been wrong. May we bring our understandings in line with it. And we thank you for the cross of Jesus Christ. That he died there for our sins and rose again from the grave. That there's an empty tomb in Jerusalem. Christ is risen. He's alive. He's our Lord and Savior. And that we trust in you to forgive us of our sins. And we ask you to come into our lives and cause us to live for your glory. [music] We pray in Jesus name. And all God's people said, amen. God bless you, church. Let's stand together.