Speaker 1: The following presentation Isabel Marvis Studio's production Welcome Back Truth
Secrets from around the World. It's time for another edition
of the fact Hunter podcast. As we record on this Monday,
June the eighth, twenty twenty six. I hope everybody had
a great weekend. Please check out our substack. The link
will be in the show notes. You can check out
our books and website as well. All of that is
in the podcast description. Today we're going to jump right
into things, and today's layer five of the exposing the matrix.
And of course longtime listeners know this is you know,
personal to me, the war machine and listen. I think
it's honorable for anybody to want to defend their country.
And notice I use that word defend Allah Red Dawn right,
there's people parachuting into America. However, one thing that we
can't deny is that we're very easily psychologically manipulated, whether
it's through the television, the newspaper, the Internet, the education system,
and you know, like Iran. Iran has been two weeks
away from a nuclear missile for over thirty years, and
we could make a thousand different examples, but the way
that our military has become functioned to work. It is
a war machine. And today we're going to jump into
the podcast. And for generations we've been told that war is.
You know, it's sometimes necessary, it's a necessary evil to
defend our freedom. And listen, every now and then it's true, okay,
But if you look beneath the headlines and the speeches,
I've documented the speech that George W. Bush gave at
Fort Drum while I was there in October of two
thousand and two, the flags, the slogans, the patriotism right,
the hearts and minds, there is certainly something that exists
that is much larger, and that is a permanent war machine.
You know we have seen over the last one hundred years.
You can actually and listen. I know the sub stack
I wrote today on June eighth was extremely long. People
always email me saying that they want a deep dive.
But when you write a deep dive, people right back
and say that's too long of a substack. I can't
possibly read that. But that substack I wrote today gives
you the story from eighteen sixty one to twenty twenty
in how just one hundred and sixty years this country
was completely flipped on its head. However, many of the
things that happened in twenty twenty happened one hundred and
sixty years ago. None of this is new, right, So
over that time again your politicians come and go, presidents change. However,
they're all I say this all the time. You've got
three hundred and thirty million Americans, or at least were told, right,
And you've got people from the same family either in
the presidency or running for presidency. And you think like
you could if you're a plumber that lives in Iowa
and you look at your son in the eye and
tell them that you know, in this country, even you
can be president of the United States. It's a lie.
You literally have to bow your knee to the hidden
hand to be a part of the Satanic Luciferian government. Right,
whether it's democratic or Republican, the war continues. They create
the new enemy's isis right that they create all this.
They give reasons, but that war machine never stops. Now listen,
for Christians, support for these conflicts are reinforced by a
prophetic system that teaches certain nations and certain wars play
a predetermined role in God's plan, and that is just
a heresy really, And as I wrote in my book
Exposing Dispensationalism, theological beliefs can shape even yes foreign policy
as surely as politicians in generals do. So let's pull
back that layer of the matrix and let's look at
the war machine and how it works. And we're going
to start with the business of war. And again they
present war as just one of these unfortunate necessities. We're
told that our leaders reluctantly send young men and women
into harm's way only when every other option has been exhausted.
Yet if we step back and examine the system itself,
a different picture begins to emerge. War is not merely
a foreign policy tool. In modern day America. War has
become an industry go back. And I've played it before,
I'm not going to play it today. But Dwight D.
Eisenhower understood this better than most. And he certainly wasn't
a peace activist, right. He was a five starred general
who commanded Allied forces during World War II. Yet in
his farewell address on January seventeenth, nineteen sixty one, he
warned the American people what he called the military industrial complex.
So he whether it was disclosure or a guilty conscience
on the way out the door. I don't know, but
he had witnessed the rise of a permanent ownership between
the Pentagon, defense contractors, politicians, lobbyists, weapon manufacturers. So his
concern wasn't theoretical. Before World War II, America maintained a
relatively small military during peacetime. After the war, a vast
defense establishment emerged that never truly demobilized. The machine and
repardon me of war became a permanent feature of American life.
And today that machine is larger than he could have
ever imagined. You have companies like Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grooman, Boeing,
General Dynamics. They generate billions upon billions of dollars from
military contracts. Their products range from missiles, fighter jets, surveillance systems.
Now what's big now the drones, right, radar equipment, and
quote unquote nuclear weapons components. Every conflict, every military build up,
and every new threat can mean additional contracts, increased production,
and higher revenues. Now, the relationship between Washington and these corporations,
they're not hidden. You have former Pentagon officials. They move
directly into executive positions within the defense firms, right, And
that's the thing. It's really something. Really when you look
at corporate executives who are appointed to government advisory boards,
you have retired generals appearing on your MSNBC and Fox
News as these military analysts while serving on boards connected
to defense contractors. That's why when you get these retired
military guys on the mockingbird media, they're up there to
scare you because every missile we fire, they have to refurbish,
they have to remake, they have to rebuild, and that's
money in their pocket. Lobbyists flood to DC to influence
spending decisions. You have members of Congress whose districts depend
entirely I'm looking at you, Alabama on military reduction, you know,
who support weapons programs regardless of whether military planners even
request them. The result is a self reinforcing cycle in
which the institutions that benefit from military spending possess enormous
influence over the political process. Excuse me, so, consider what
happens whenever tensions rise somewhere in the world. Okay, so
the first thing that happens is the stock prices for
defense contractors. They usually climb. Investors recognize that conflict creates demand. Again,
like I said, every missile fired must be replaced, Equipment
that is destroyed must be rebuilt, ammunition stockpiles must be replenished,
and new weapons systems are approved. All of that right now, Again,
does this mean that every single war is fought solely
for profit? Of course not. It's got to do with
control and population control, all of those things. And you know,
history contains many examples of conflicts that most people would
classify as necessary. Right. Sure, there's been some necessary wars, right.
People claim that the attack on Pearl Harbor left the
United States little choice but to respond militarily, pardon me,
against imperial Japan. But that in itself is quite the
conspiracy in itself. They knew for weeks that Japan was
going to attack. They completely cut off their oil chain,
their supply chain to get oil. They wanted it to
happen so they could get into the war, so they
could bail out the people who are running the war today. Right. So,
all of these conflicts, right, they involve direct aggression. You
have to declare enemies, clear objectives, right, And you don't
see that. You never see it if you say the
War on Terror, the war on drugs. There's no enemy.
The Korean War never officially ended. Look at the Vietnam
War consumed tens of was it fifty eight thousand American lives?
Millions of Vietnamese lives. And look at the Gulf of
Tonkin incident. It was used to justify a major escalation
in Vietnam. It remains one of the most controversial episodes
in American military history. What a prime example of the
powers that be? Right, the guy who was the Admiral
of the USS Maddox, just happened to be the father
of what would be one of the biggest rock bands
of the sixties. Right, the Doors just a coincidence. You
had the wars in Afghanistan in Iraq stretching across decades. Right.
I said this to someone the other day. There is
anybody who's been to Fort Hood within the last fifteen
years knows that on is it old ironsides that road
where there is the last m RAP. One of the
commanders while I was there, one of our company commanders,
he was in that m RAP, the last m RAP
out of Iraq in twenty twelve. And then if you
look at the news just the other day, a soldier
was killed there in a quote unquote training accident in Iraq.
So fourteen years after we pulled out of Iraq, a
soldier was killed in Iraq. Look at Afghanistan, right, That
became our country's longest war. Despite repeated promises that victory
was near, Iraq launched under claims that Saddam Hussein, well
we've heard the story before, he possessed weapons of mass destruction,
and people twenty years later fall for the same garbage
with Iran. These claims that will always collapse under scrutiny,
but the people involved, they're never held accountable. Time after time,
decade after decade, the wars proceede, trillions are spent in
countless lives are altered forever, and the contractors were paid
regardless of the outcome. A troubling pattern emerges when examining
these conflicts. Politicians lose elections, generals retire, but the institutions
that supply the machinery of war continues. And again, the
one thing we talk about quite often, right, we talk
about September tenth, two thousand and one, that the Pentagon
missing trillions of dollars. But if you don't account for
a few thousand dollars. They're got hammer's going to come
down on you. This country spends more on defense than
most of the world. We're talking hundreds of billions of
dollars flow through the Pentagon every year. Vast sums are
taking from the federal reserve, which doesn't look out for
you and I, the ordinary person. These sums are paid
through taxation, and they're pushed onto where grandchildren's grandchildren. Meanwhile,
the infrastructure in our country, we have outdated electric we
have potholes everywhere. Our infrastructure is a hot mess. It truly,
truly is. You know, this money appears out of thin
air for military operations abroad, while the needs of the
people here in the United States are frequently described as
too expensive. They always have money for missiles, but they
don't have the money for the people who truly needs it.
And peace is a problem. And if you're a Christian,
if you are a follower of Christ, and you don't
understand that peace presents a problem for systems that are
built around perpetual readiness and continuous production. Factories producing missiles
need orders, The contractors need contracts, lobbyists need programs to defend,
and bureaucracies need missions to justify these budgets. This is
why Americans should examine every proposed conflict carefully. And it's
not an issue whether or not the soldiers are brave.
They certainly are. The issue is whether or not genuine
threats exist. There are very few out there, and to
be completely honest with you, the threats don't come from
outside of this country. They come from inside of this country.
The people who subvert the media and Hollywood and pornography,
and the bankers. We owe it to ask, you know,
we owe it to ourselves and our future generations to
ask the hard questions and demand accountability before we send
our sons and their sons and brothers off to war
and then the funerals start. And for those for those
of us who have worn the uniform. You know, this
is a serious discussion that you need to look in
the mirror. We know the faces behind the statistics. We
remember the empty seats on Memorial Day. We remember the
folded flags, the phone calls, the names engraved on memorials. Listen,
they created these call of duty grand theft auto video
games to soften up you know, murder and killing or
is not a video game or a chart or a
talking point or a chapter in a history book. It
is measured in broken bodies, grieving families, and people who
never you are not the same person. When you you're
never the same person, a little bit of your flame
is extinguished and you never get it back because you
see things that you can't believe that another human being
would do. And in most cases that person doesn't even
know that person or why they're angry at them. In
many cases they're angry at them because, say, we invaded
their country. And I try to tell people, if you
were out front throwing the football back and forth with
your son and a bunch of Iraqis in Humvey's came
thundering down your street with two forty Bravos or two
forty Chucks, you know, facing in your direction, that you
would smile and wave and wink and mister, can I
get an MRI. No, you'd run for your safe and
get your your freedom seed distributor out. That's exactly what
you would do. What we as Americans are so terrible
about putting ourselves in the other shoe, and not just
as Americans, but especially if you're a Christian. And I
know there was a lot of times in my life
that felt uncomfortable and you can't change the past, but
you certainly can try to change the future. But I
think the video game aspect of it is a lot
bigger than most people realize. Just remember that the next
time that they start ramping up the war drums, right.
I want to talk about manufacturing consent, and this is
I think something that a lot of Peo people's snooze on.
Wars are not sold to the public as business opportunities.
I think in the back of people's mind they say, well,
you know, if we take out Iraq, or if we
take out Iran, we get them gas prices down. So
maybe that's one psychological aspect of it or subconscious aspect
of it. But they're sold through emotion. Right. We saw
how they advertised nine to eleven, and I've told you
all the stories of the recruiters who had lines around
the block after September eleventh. But there's always a story
that's told before the bombs ever fall. They have to
tell a story. The threat must be identified, they have
to create the villain right, Fear must be cultivated, and
the public has to be persuaded that military action isn't
merely an option, but it's a necessity. And you know,
that process is as old as war itself. Modern governments
and media organizations have refined it into an art form.
Now the average person here in the United States doesn't
have access to intelligence briefings, classified reports, diplomatic negotiations, and
most people understand that where they I guess they understand
international events through television, newspaper, well not newspapers anymore, websites.
You know, government statements, whether it's on Twitter or forty
five forty seven comes out. That's how grave the situation is.
And Iran right, whoever controls the narrative, controls public opinion,
and people still to this day, after twenty twenty, still
have trust in this government, which is amazing to me.
And once that fear takes hold, that's when the skepticism
becomes difficult. Questions are viewed as disloyalty, doubt becomes suspicion,
and the American people who ask for evidence are accused
of helping the enemy. We saw that in twenty twenty.
Don't fall for that garbage again. You know, if you
are a Christian or just a solid American, you need
we need to demand that these people be held accountable
for all of this. But one of their most effective tools,
and we've talked about it, goes back to Bernez and
even further storytelling controlling your emotions. Humans respond to stories
far more readily than statistics and talking about propaganda tomorrow, Well,
I guess this comes out Tuesday. The sub stack I
put out today. Look how they normal they made where
they normalized I should say witchcraft and the occult. Go
check that out. But a single testimony can outweigh mountains
of evidence in the minds of the public. Governments and
media organizations understand this. Rather than presenting complex geopolitical arguments,
they frequently present emotionally charged narratives designed to produce immediate reactions.
You've got fear, anger, outrage, and sympathy, and they become
powerful weapons for shaping public opinion. I have a textbook
example of this We've described many times. Nineteen ninety, the
build up to the Gulf War, a young Kuwaiti girl
identified only as Naira testified before the Congressional Human Rights
Caucus through tears streaming down her fifteen year old face.
She claimed Iraqi soldiers had entered a hospital removed babies
from incubators and left them to die on a floor.
That story spread like wildfire through the American media. Politicians
they mocked it. They not mocked it, they repeated it.
George hw. Bush old poppy, he cited it repeatedly in
his speeches supporting military action, and the Americans were horrified.
You know, it was time to get that Saddam Hussein
and those evil Iraqi people taken care of once and
for all. Now there was only one problem, and that
was the story was false. The witness was later revealed
to be Naiira al Sabah, the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador
to the United States. Her testimony had been coordinated through
a public relations campaign connected to the firm Hill and Knowlton.
Subsequent investigations found no evidence that Iraqi troops had committed
the incubator atrocity as described. But once again, by the
time the truth emerged, the story had already served its purpose.
It was too late. That was late in ninety two.
Look at the Gulf of Tonkin. August nineteen sixty four,
the American public was told that North Vietnamese forces had
attacked US naval vessels in international waters. The incident became
the foundation for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted
President LBJ broad authority to escalate military operations of Vietnam.
For years, Americans were told the attacks justified deeper involvement.
Later investigations revealed that at least one of the reported
attacks likely never occurred. Radar readings, sonar contacts, and confused
reports had been interpreted as evidence of an assault that
probably never happened at all. Nevertheless, the resolution passed, the
war expanded dramatically, and more than fifty eight thousand Americans
ultimately lost their lives in Vietnam, and that pattern repeated
decades later in Iraq. The following attacks of September eleventh,
two thousand and one, you know, we were understandably fearful,
and we were angry, and we were all, you know,
fervently calling our loved ones, are you okay. We had
never seen anything like this in our lifetime. Our country
had suffered a devastating attack, and the citizens wanted answers.
And in that environment, the Bush Junior administration began making
the case that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
We were warned about chemical weapons, biological weapons. You had
Dashel and the anthrax, all of these things, and the
mockingbird media amplified these claims. You had government officials appearing
on television insisting that evidence existed. Members of Congress cited
formal intelligence reports, and of course anybody who questioned it
was marginalized as a trader. And we crossed that burm
from Kuwait into Iraq in March of two thousand and three.
There were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Years later,
many of the claims used to justify the war were discredited,
challenged or withdrawn. But again, by then the damage had
been done. You had thousands of American service members that
had been killed, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were dead,
Trillions upon trillions of dollars had been spent, Entire regions
had been destabilized. The architects, or i should say the
architects of the narrative, moved on and the soldiers and
their families and their loved ones lived with the consequences.
A key component of modern war reporting is embedded journalism,
and during conflicts, which really started a you know, the
Golf War was the first they say made for TV war,
But during conflicts reporters are often attached to military units,
traveling alongside troops and sharing their experiences, and while this
provides valuable access, it also creates an unavoidable dynamic. Journalists
who depend on military protection, transportation, and access may become
less likely to challenge the broader narrative than surrounding the conflict.
Viewers see dramatic footage of troops in action convoy ops,
which we did have. It's very funny. We did have
a photographer with us when I took an ID in
what was that April or March of two thousand and six,
and the video is still around somewhere. But these what
we're trying to say is they're less apt to tell
the true story, and they understand if they do tell
the true story, the chances of them ever doing another
war report or being embedded with the unit are slim
to none. And that's slim leaving town right now. So
you know we've touched on this. Patriotism and obedience, listen.
Genuine patriotism involves loyalty to principles, constitutional government, and truth.
That is what a patriot is all about. It doesn't
mean following blind orders. Blind obedience requires none of those
things listen. A free people should never fear asking questions
of their leaders. They serve us. And the moment the
government stops fearing the people, we have problems. In fact,
self government depends on it. The moment people become afraid
to ask the question, the safeguards and deception begin to erode.
So fear is their most powerful tool. Fear convinces people
to surrender their liberty. Fear justifies censorship, its silences, dissent,
on and on and on, and Scripture repeatedly warns believers
against being ruled by fear. The Apostle poll wrote that
for God hath not given us the spirit of fear,
but of power and of love, and of a sound mind.
A sound mind evaluates evidence. A sound mind asks questions
and refuses to be stamped by panic or manipulated by
emotional appeals. Now there's the obvious, the human cost. Right.
You can talk about geopolitics, defense budgets, intelligence reports, weapons contracts,
on and on and on, but war is ultimately paid
in human lives. These politicians, we always say, by the way,
the military men in suits have been killing men in
uniforms for a millennia. Politicians speak in terms of adjectives
during generals, pardon me, speak in terms of operations, and
you know contractors speaking procurement, on and on and on.
You know the old narrative. But the soldier experiences war differently,
right for him. Wars not a policy paper. It's a
memory that never leaves you know, I've told you I
spent twenty four years in the army. I deployed seven times.
I spent four and a half years in Iraq. I
think I'm pretty sure I'm a citizen now. I spend
enough time. I should be getting those those oil you
know checks here any day now, and I should get
a nice little winter home in Baghdad or something. But politicians,
you know, they create them. Well, they don't. The puppet
handlers do. But the American public often hears the casualty
numbers right. Stats are easy to report because it creates
distance if they use numbers. Numbers don't tell you about
the wife who gets the knock at two am and
her world's about to change forever. Numbers don't tell you
about the child who grows up with photographs and a
folded flag instead of memories. Numbers don't tell you about
the parents who spend the rest of their lives staring
at an empty chair during holidays and family gatherings. And
I've told you before, those costs of war has names Commansard,
Major Timothy Bulliard, Captain David Van Camp. They weren't statistics.
They were husbands, fathers, sons, leaders and friends. They were awesome.
They laughed, they worked hard, they took care of their soldiers,
They answered the call when their nation asked, and like
countless others throughout our history, they paid the highest price.
And across the cemeteries of America stand row after row
of markers stretching beyond the horizon. Behind every stone is
a story, a family, and a dream interrupted from Normandy
to Korea, to Vietnam to Iraq, Afghanistan and the ones
on the horizon now, the dead continue to bear witness
to the terrible cost of war. Yet too often those
sacrifices are reduced to political talking points. Right, That's exactly
what it is. Their families don't go in, sir. If
they do, they're in a ridiculous position where there's no harm.
And again I want to say this as well. Supporting
troops and supporting wars are not the same thing. A
person can respect the soldier while questioning the politician who
sent him. A person can honor military service while demanding
accountability from leaders who commit forces overseas. In fact, one
could argue that the greatest respect a nation can show
to its troops is to ensure that they're never placed
in harms way without a legitimate and clearly defined purpose.
Those who have never deployed, you know, I think just
from the interactions, they imagine combat as an intense but
temporary experience. You can't really describe it. It's not twelve
months of shooting and bombings. There's days of waiting. Right.
If you've been in the army, you are a professional waiter,
you know exactly what I mean, right. But it's really
especially when we went on leave. So my third tour,
I was there from three to four for a year,
five six for a year. But that third tour was
November two thousand and seven until February of two thousand
and nine. That's four hundred and fifty five days away
from my family. But when you come home on that
block leave, you get fifteen days leave. You literally within
twenty four hours are whisked out of the battlefield, put
on a plane and then you're like in Disneyland and
you want to talk about the ultimate mind screw. You know.
I remember coming home from my second tour when we
took up pretty bad ID and we're driving down in
Colorado Springs. It's not powers it was the Academy maybe
Academy Boulevard, and there was a big bag of trash
on the side of the road, and I swerved, and
I'm always like, what are you doing? That's you think
it's an ID. It's you train for it, and then
you see it, then it happens. And then even back home,
you're three hundred and sixty five days or you know
the other case, four fifty five. You're programmed. And I
was in the Middle East every calendar year from two
thousand and three to twenty fourteen, with the exception of
twenty twelve. That was the only calendar year I was
not in the Middle East. And you know, your friends
and your family like, wow, you're not the same anymore.
Do you think, Wow, that's surprising. Huh. He's not funny anymore.
He's so serious about everything. You know, there's a lot
of things that different soldiers carry. Some carry the memories
of firefights. Other carry the memory of their brothers and
sisters who were lost. A lot of people, to a
certain extent, including myself, struggle with survivor's guilt. Some wake
up in the middle of the night decades later because
certain sounds, smells, and images refused to disappear. A lot
of combat veterans are not fans of fireworks. The term
PTSD has become familiar in American culture, But I also
say PTSD isn't just for is not just something that
belongs to soldiers. If you have experienced something traumatic in
your life, for some people, it's a car I don't
want to list all the things to trigger somebody, But
if you have a traumatic experience in your life and
it discards you mentally and it causes you distress, that's
what PTSD. But for many veterans, the trauma isn't a moment.
It doesn't go away when you get off the tarmac
after your deployment and they give you I'm gonna be
honest with you here, they give you the cheesiest classes.
When you come home. We had it's like a decompression
to before you go on your block leave. After you
get home, there's this decompression phase, and that for our units,
especially third Brigade, fourth ID out of Fort Carson, Colorado,
that's when we had a lot of our people getting
car accidents, people drinking and overdosing, and that's when we
saw most of our fatalities and casual These people came
home and couldn't handle the transition. And the reason I'm
saying all this is because all of that has circumstances.
If we're going to send our fellow Americans into combat,
it better be for a damn good reason. There better
be a real existential threat, and there hasn't been. So
you know, we could go on and on, but I'll
just wrap with this what I wrote down here. Every
cross in a military cemetery tells a story of devotion.
Every gold Star family bears witness to sacrifice. Every veteran
carrying invisible wound serves as a reminder that war never
truly ends when the shooting stops. As Christians, we are
called to truth. That means looking beyond slogans, beyond political speeches,
beyond patriotic theater, and beyond carefully crafted narratives. It means
remembering that every war ultimately involves mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, friends,
that are all created in the image of God. The
next time a politician appears on television demanding military action,
remember the faces behind the rhetoric, Remember the families, Remember
the funerals and the empty chairs. And remember the true
cost of war that is never paid by those who
profit most from it. Now, I want to close with
this part. You know, I've come out openly and talked
about wreaths across America, how they financially enriched themselves, and
there's so much more they can do without money to
help veterans. But two or three years ago, it was
shortly after maybe it was twenty two, I went to
the wreaths across America at the Bear, Delaware Veterans Cemetery
and we were I think it was myself, my son
and daughter in law. We were walking and there was
a mother you could tell she was hurting, just the
emotion on her face, and I just walk up. Oh,
I know what it was. She was walking to her
car and it had the gold star on it, and
she looked up to me and I was walking up
to her. She just fell into my arms, crying hysterically,
and then she pulled out this card. She said, you know,
this is my son. He was killed in I have
his card around here somewhere, he was killed in Iraq.
And I looked at it, and sure enough it was
a Tenth Mountain guy. I didn't know him, but I
was like I was in Tenth Mountain my first war
of Iraq. And she just needed that moment, that hug,
that reassurance, and God just led me right up to
her and it was a special moment I'll never forget.
And it was that same emotion when I was at
the Oklahoma City Memorial a couple of years ago. It
would have been the twenty ninth anniversary, and you could
see the pan on those folks faces was as real
as it was the day it happened. So just remember
that the true cost of war is never ever paid
by those who profit from him. I'm going to touch
on the prophecy connection briefly because if you read the
author's thoughts in my book Exposing Dispensationalism, you'll understand why
that book was so important to write, because you have
a lot of these prevalent preachers who think it's okay
to send our American sons and daughters to die for Israel,
and a lot of people just don't get it. And
for many Americans, support for foreign wars in the Middle
East is presented as a matter of national security. You know,
we've talked about all that nonsense. But for millions of Christians,
there's another factor at work, and it's theology. In order
to understand the modern war machine, it is necessary to
understand how certain prophetic teachings have shaped public opinion and
has influenced voting patterns, which really don't make a difference
anymore because everything's rigged, but it affects foreign policy decisions
and has so for much more than a century. And
the influence didn't emerge from the early Church. The Apostles
didn't teach it. It wasn't taught in the seventeen hundreds,
or it wasn't until the mid to late eighteen hundreds
when this nonsense started. The Reformer certainly didn't teach it.
I mean, go read Martin Luther's book about it. He
didn't mince any words. The system commonly known today as dispensationalism,
largely entered the Christian world through the teachings of John
Nelson Darby and again it's late eighteen hundreds. It was
popularized by C. I. Schofield, who was not a good man.
And again, right, we're all broken. I'm not saying that
God can't use someone who has had a rough life.
He's done okay with me, Right, I had some struggles
in my life. But this was not a good man
and his teachings were heresy. And if you read my book,
the second and third chapters, I believe it was as well,
you'll understand how devastating that reference book has been to
seminaries and has given, especially the generation before me. I'm
not going to use the word, but such a misconception
of what this world really is, and that the geopolitical
state of Israel. For the last eighteen hundred and fifty years,
nobody looked at Israel and those people like we do today.
But the central claim was quite revolutionary. But rather than
viewing believers in Christ as the contuin continuation pardon me
of God's covenant people, dispensationalism divided history into separate programs
and taught that ethnic Israel and the Church were distinct
people with distinct prophetic destinies. According to this framework, modern
geopolitical events involving the nation state of Israel became prophetic signposts. Right.
That's why all those things had to happen. They had
to allow Japan to kill three thousand of our men
so we could help create the country that brought down
the Twin Towers on September eleventh, two thousand and one. Wars, treaties, borders,
and military conflicts were no longer viewed merely as political events.
They became pieces of an unfolding prophetic puzzle, and the
consequences of this teaching have been enormous. For generations. Millions
of Christians have been taught that virtually any military action
involving the modern state of Israel deserves unquestioning support because
opposing Israeli policy might place a person in opposition of
God's prophetic plan. You go into any Baptist church, and
not every sorry, if you go into many Southern Baptist
churches in this country and you speak bad of Israel,
you'll be shown the door. And politicians know this. The
religious leader repeat it from the pulpits those you're John
Hagges and doctor. My buddy sent me a message today.
I can never remember his name. Hang on a second,
here here, it comes. His name was doctor David Jeremiah.
And I'm not saying doctor Jeremiah doesn't have a good heart.
He has a good heart and he loves the Lord,
but he is so misdirected with his Christian Zionism. And
again the result is that many believers stopped evaluating conflicts
according to the Bible and now evaluate them through these
prophetic assumptions from the pulpit. And I said the other
day I was a guest on a podcast. I hope
it comes out soon. I want to. I'll definitely put
it in a show. Note see you walk and listen
to it. But people have learned to take their pastor's
words as the gospel instead of reading the Gospel for themselves.
And I firmly believe that now. One of the most
common phrases heard in Christian circle is you know, God
said I will bless them that bless thee and curse
him that curse thee. Right. You hear that all the
time from the Huckebees and the cruises. Pardon me, And
that comes from Genesis twelve three. Yet an important question
is often ignored. Who does that promise point to the
New Testament, the New covenant that's been around for two
thousand years repeatedly teaches that the promises given to Abraham
find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul writes
that the promises were made to Abraham and his sea,
which is Christ. Through faith in Christ, believers become errors
according to the promise, and the focus shifts from ethnicity
to faith, from bloodline to covenant, from genealogy to Jesus
Christ himself. And then of course there's John fourteen six.
There's no asterisk at the end of that. But countless
Christians have been taught that Genesis twelve three requires unconditional
support for a modern geopolitical state, regardless of its actions, policies,
or leadership. And you know, this becomes particularly troubling when
military intervention is justified using our Bible. And if your
pastor is doing that, you give him my phone number
and we need to have a talk. And I'm not
saying that lightly have my phone now. I posted it
in the show notes before. How many Christians have support
wars not because they carefully examined the evidence in scripture,
but they just believed what their pastor said. And you know,
the conflict in the Middle East must occur to fill prophecy.
How many have viewed escalating tensions as exciting developments rather
than human tragedies. How many have interpreted every military operation,
regional conflict, in every diplomatic crisis through their prophecy charts
instead of scripture itself. And that's a big problem when
theology shapes opinion. Big problem again. Jesus said he provided
the foundation that should guide every single Christian's understanding of salvation.
John fourteen six. He declared plainly, I am the Way,
the Truth, and the Life. And no man, no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me. Not through ethnicity,
not through national identity, not through mailing zip code, not
through genealogy, not through citizenship in a particular nation. Through
Jesus Christ alone, you are saved by His grace through faith.
That statement creates a serious challenge for modern systems that
imply some type of alternative covenant relationship that exists apart
from faith in Christ. If no one comes to the
Father except through the Son, then every single person requires
the same savior. And later this week, I'm going to
see that movie, the new Spielberg movie. Right Disclosure Day
or something like that, and that's at work movie. I'm
going to write it off that nine dollars and fifty
cents and that thirty six dollars bucket of popcorn, right,
because what they're trying They did an interview with Spielberg
and he said, well, if there are you know, alien beings,
then you have to question your God. Right is Jesus
Christ their savior as well? So what they're trying to
do and I've been saying it all along my other podcast,
the very first episode, why the lie? They want you
to believe in a false god? Right. They want you
to believe that you live on a rock that is
fourteen billion years old instead of sixty five hundred years old,
that you evolved from a fish from a frog, you know,
in a big bang. It's all a lie, And we
got to put on those glasses. Jew and gentile alike
stand in need of Christ. There's no set. The Book
of Revelation contains passages that many Christians rarely here discussed
in modern prophecy conferences. How about Revelation two nine where
Jesus declares, I know the blasphemy of them which say
they are Jews and are not but are the Synagogue
of Satan. Number one. If you type that on Twitter
or ex whatever it's called, now you get booted. A
Bible verse on most social media platforms, if you put
that Synagogue of Satan, you will get booted or at
least a warning. Why are they not allowing Bible verses? Hmm?
And you know the other thing is Jesus doesn't say
I'm not trying to be anti Semitic, I'm not trying
to be hateful. He simply states, I know the blasphemy
of them which say they are Jews and are not,
but are the Synagogue of Satan. And again in Revelation
three nine, behold I will make them of the Synagogue
of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not,
but douly. Ninety eight point six percent of the people
who live within the borders of Israel are either atheists
or muslim. This is a fact. Research it for yourself,
don't take George's word for it. There are hundreds of
thousands of more Christians in Iran than in Israel. Look
at how many Christian churches are in Iran. We're bombing Iran.
Look at the churches that have been destroyed in Iran,
not so much the mosque. Look at the churches, regardless,
everybody interprets you know, eschatology different, but they demonstrate that
Scripture doesn't teach blind acceptance of every claim made in
the name of Jewish identity. And these principles are applied
far beyond revelation. Throughout Scripture, God's people are repeatedly commanded
to test, examine, and prove what they're taught. Always go
back to the Bahans, right. They were praised because they
searched the scriptures daily to determine whether Paul's teachings were true.
They didn't simply accept the claims because they came from
a respected teacher. How many times, and I'm guilty of
this too. Have you heard a great sermon? Do you
go home? Do you take notes to investigate what your
pastor said? Do you go back the next week and
say what about this? What about that? Or do we
take his word small H as gospel? Or do we
take his word capital H as gospel. The tragedy is
that many sincere believers and I'm not trying to bash people,
I'm not questioning people's hearts, but they've never been encouraged
to conduct that examination for themselves. Instead, they inherit a
framework that automatically interprets world events through the lens of
dispensational assumptions. Please read my book. Once that framework is accepted,
every Middle Eastern conflict appears to confirm it. Yet the
Christian's ultimate allegiance is not to a nation state, or
a political movement or a prophecy chart. It is to
Jesus Christ. That is why Christians cannot afford to accept
any teaching simply because it's popular, traditional, or emotionally compelling.
The standard must always be the scripture, not Schofield, not
the television preachers, not politicians Sola. Scripture a scripture alone,
and scripture points to one savior, one gospel, when covenant
fulfilled in Christ, and there's only one path to the Father,
Jesus Christ, our Lord's. The final segment is endless war
and endless debt. I'm just going to touch on this,
and every war carries a price tag. And in America,
when you have a military the size of ours, even
in peacetime, it's very expensive to maintain. Right, citizens are
encouraged to focus on the enemy, the battlefield, and the
political rhetoric surrounding conflict. Much less attention is given to
how wars are financed and who profits in How many
military conflicts reshaped the relationship between Americans and the government. Listen,
when Congress authorizes military operations, the money doesn't exist, the
government borrows it. The national debt grows and interest payments grow,
so future taxpayers inherit obligations they never approved. Wars that
would have once required immediate sack refe are now financed
through debt instruments, treasury secretaries, and monetary policies that most
Americans never see or fully understand. At the center of
the system sits the Federal Reserve. While many Americans assume
that wars are funded through existing government resources, the reality
is far more complicated. The federal government borrows enormous sums
to finance military operations, and those debts become part of
an expanding system that transfers wealth through interest payments, inflation,
and monetary expansion. The average citizen experiences the consequences. The
declining purchasing power. We're seeing all that right now that
often disappears disconnected from military spending, even though they're related
and the numbers are staggering. Just the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq alone consumed trillions of contray. And then again,
when they're in times of emergency, they have the no
bid contracts, so their buddies get the money, and if
there's no bid, they can write a contract for whatever
amount of money they want. That's the most controversial part
of the nine to eleven era. It's something so again. Meanwhile,
the average American is told that the nation can't afford
many domestic priorities, while hundreds of billions remain available from
military commitments around the world. And that's a shame. And
I'm sure I'm not the only person who drives around
town and sees the devastation and the told that this
economy and this world has taken on the American person,
the average American. We were at a fundraiser for the
local fire company Friday night. It was all you can
eat shrimp and pork. Man, it was good, but gentlemen
sitting next to me, we started talking about all the
people was Pride Month and how in the seventies if
you saw a man wearing a dress, they usually got
recommended for a psychiatric referral. Now they're held up as heroes.
And then he started saying. They started, it's funny because
we've talked about this before. They said, what happened to
all the mental institutions? And I told them very upfront,
I said, because there's no money in that, but there's
a huge profit in the prison industry. So the people
who used to go to these mental facilities, there's some
out there, very few. Some are part of hospital wings now,
but they're a burden to the hospital industry that would
rather put them in the prison industry. And because those
especially in Texas, with those contracts, my goodness, gracious, but
people are starting to ask those questions. Don't forget. War
has a remarkable tendency to expand government power, right and again.
During times of conflict, we're asked to surrender freedoms in
exchange for security. And remember the person who supports military intervention,
he does so because he believes it will remain limited
and he discovers that the consequences reached far beyond the battlefield.
The war expands, the debt expands, so does the bureaucracy
and surveillance. Who benefits, who pays, who gains freedom, who
loses power? Those are the questions that we have to
you know, if you're listening to the podcast, you've been
asking that question for a long time. The key is
getting that information to you one person. Just like disciple
making right. You get it to the next person, build
them up, educate them. Then they go out and do
the same, and eventually you have enough people awake to
make a difference. But people are hypnotized by the world
that we live in. It's not real. The money's not real.
Follow the money and you will discover why the conflicts
continue long after their original objectives. Follow the money and
you'll discover why peace can be surprisingly unpopular among those
whose fortunes depend on it. The war machine feeds on fear,
but it runs on money. And as long as people
focus only on the battlefield while ignoring the machinery behind it,
the cycle of war, the debt, and the expanding government power,
all of this will continue long into the future. So
as we close this episode on the war Machine, you know,
I find myself returning to the same question that has
haunted me since I first put on the uniform? Right,
who truly benefits from all of this? Now, when I
first put on the uniform, I'm like everybody else standing
in front of the mirror surreal, I'd stop to get
gas in my uniform, kind of shake my head. Look
at me, right, I'm Rambo Junior, one hundred and forty pounds.
But the longer you stay in and you understand, you
get older and wiser and more mature. You understand that
war is a business. Where As Smentley Butler said, war
is a racket, right, who benefits from it? It's certainly
not the young soldier who's standing guard in the middle
of a desert at three o'clock in the morning. And
it's not the wife trying to hold a family together
for a year at a time. You know, it's not
like the families of men like Tim Bulliard and David
Van Camp who paid the ultimate price while serving a
nation they love. Yet despite this enormous human cost, the
wars continue. We saw boots on the ground in all
these countries they promised to get us out of. The
budget grows, the deck grows, and the rich become richer,
and we become more insignificant day after day. And history
is filled with contradictions that should cause any thinking person
to pause. Americans were told Vietnam was necessary to stop
the spread of communism. What a farce that was right.
Decades later, all the questions are out there about the
Gulf of Tonkin incident that helped justify the escalation. You
had Admiral George Stephen Morrison, the father of Jim Morrison
from the Doors, who was connected to the naval operations
surrounding those events that were claimed fifty eight thousand Americans,
countless Vietnamese. Yet today even many historians disagree about the
prem that led the nation into that conflict. And a
generation later, you know, we supported Saddam Hussein in the
eighties during the Iran Iraq War, then all of a
sudden he became the dictator that had to be removed.
Two years later the ally became the enemy. Just another
cycle of war. And the same pattern appears through modern politics.
Right in a nation of more than three hundred and
thirty million people, why do the same names rise to
the top. The Bush family produced a CIA director, a
vice president, a president, another president, a presidential candidate. Right,
the Kennedys, the Clintons. What are we doing? What are
we doing here? Is it that we're working too hard
that we can't take the time to clean up the
country for our generations to come or is simply the matrix.
I'd really like to fix this, but I'm pretty sure
i'd lose my paycheck. That is quite the boundary, isn't it.
And that's why I said at the beginning of the
series all of these things were exposing. Once they get
in place and embedded, they're extremely difficult to overcome. And again,
it's not a call for arms. You can simply walk away,
but it takes enough of us to do so. But
we have to have that same moral conviction. And it's
got to start in the good book. All these families
and connected institutions and intelligence agencies and defense contractors, and
just like they said, and they live. Look, man, there's
no individual governments anymore, Are you serious? They're all connected
at the top. You had a few presidents that warned
about the concentration of power. Harry Truman said it on
his last day of office, and jeffk said it and
he got killed. Right that the truth is peace is
expensive and a threat to the elite, conflict is profitable, right,
Lockheed Martin raytheon NORTHP. Grumman Boeing General Dynamics, the relationship
between Washington and Israel. Right, That presents a huge for
the last thirty five years. That's what it's been all about.
Even Kennedy, which you know, I think most people are
starting to agree that Israel played a large part in it.
He pushed aggressively for inspections of Israel's Demona facility and
maintained a far more contentious relationship. But it was more
than that. It was Apak and others as well. He
had a problem with it. But in modern politics, support
for Israel appears to be one of the few issues
that receives nearly unanimous backing from both parties. That should
raise a question in itself. Right at the same time,
warnings regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions have been repeated since the
early nineties. Right for Christians, this conversation extends beyond politics
and enters the realm of theology. As I mentioned in
exposing dispensationalism, millions of Believers have been taught to interpret
Middle Eastern conflicts through a particular prophetic framework, and as
a result, geopolitical events are often viewed not merely as
foreign policy decisions, but its developments within an unexpected prophetic timeline.
And again, whether one agrees with that interpretation or not,
there is no denying that theology influences public opinion, which
influences elections, which influences foreign policy. So you know, after
all those years in the military end ten years to reflect,
I've come to a conclusion that most people, and they
look at me and they hear about my stories, and
they look at or I should say they hear my
stance today they feel uncomfortable. Whether I'm having a meal
with somebody or I'm having a chat, when I tell
them my stance, they get weirded out a little bit.
But the fact is, Look, the people who pay the
highest price for war are never the decision makers. Right.
The politicians stay in office safely in Washington, d c.
The contractors receive their payments, The lobbyists secure their influence
and their big paychecks. Right, And that's where these nonprofits
come into play. It's another major problem that we don't
get talked about enough. The television personalities move on to
the next story, but the graves, the memories, the physical wounds,
the invisible wounds, they all remain. That's why we have
to be willing to ask the difficult questions, not because
we hate our country, but because we love it, not
because we oppose the troops, we respect them in their lives,
not because they're cynical, but because history has shown that
our government, these intelligence agencies and these corporations who stole
power from us in twenty twenty and beyond, who got
belt out in two thousand and eight when we're just
told to fire, you know, chapter seven or chapter eleven
or thirteen or whatever, and these powerful institutions are capable
of pursuing interests that don't always align with the interests
of ordinary people. In the end, every listener must decide
what he believes. But after examining the records of the
last century, there's one fact that becomes awful difficult to
a nor the wars. They come and go, the administrations
rise and fall, the enemies change, and the slogans and
the justifications, but the machinery remains remarkably consistent. The faces differ,
but that war machine, the engine, and the war machine
keeps on running. The question every American should ask is
whether that's merely a coincidence or something much larger that
has been operating in plain sight all along. God bless you.
Our email is the fact Hunter atmail dot com. All
the links to the books and the websites, and everything
will be in the show notes. God bless you all.
Keep your head on a swivel, in Christ in your heart.
And until we meet again, my friends, we will see you.
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