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Venezuela is the latest example of the fact that you’ll only get to vote once for Socialism

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0:00 - 15:00. Matthew 16:18. The course for the LORD’s church is already set. 15:00 - 31:00. When processing the 2024 Olympic Games opening blasphemy, remember the French Revolution of 1789. 31:00 - 48:00. Venezuela is the latest example of the fact that you’ll only get to vote once for Socialism. To donate call : 877-616-2396

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    Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light. This is the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio. It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite. Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media. And the philosophies of this world. God has called you and me to be his ambassador. Even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment. And now, the Hamilton Corner. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio. I'm your host, Abraham Hamilton, III. Joined by the corner contingent today we have right across from me, your friendly neighborhood with a haulic, perpetually in recovery, however. None other than Mr. Marty Sparks, light up the dark from N studio today. And in the screening room, we have double four, your trouble, the lean and mean, whatever pristine cold green ladies and gentlemen is in the building and we have Richie Rich Man the phone lines for us, and we are ready to rock and roll With today's edition of the program at this moment many of you In that most of you are making your transition from your part-time jobs where you generate an income To your full-time jobs your full-time jobs are where we Called to be an outcome and as you do so I want to remind you to do so with intentionality understanding that what goes on in your house is far more important, far more important than what goes on in the White House. Even when we have a White House currently occupied by someone, let's just say it plainly. He's not calling the shots. That's just the reality. And we're living in precarious times as a nation. And I want to share with you just something that the Lord consistently reminds me of, that gives me great comfort in these precarious times.

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    We're going to turn to the Word of God today in Matthew chapter 16. Matthew chapter 16 verse 18. This is where we're going to go. And as we're preparing for this, I want to just remind you that the first institution that God created was the family. He did that intentionally. He did that with specificity. He did that. Not only did it, but he recorded it for our benefit so that we would understand the primacy that we should place on family. It's very, very significant and especially when it comes down to the reality of being a parent, also known as chief, discipler. The facts are you don't get to go back and redo adolescence. You don't get to redo formation stages. So if you are in the place right now, and I know many of you who are listening to me, and God knows we're all in various stages of life. And we have a beautiful cross section of people from many different walks of life, many different stages of life who tune into this program. But I want to specifically take a moment to talk to those of you who are chief disciples, also known as parents. Let us work while it is day. You don't get to redo ages five, six, seven, eight. You don't get to go back and do 12 over again. You don't get to do 15 over again. A grandparents who are listening to me, we need you. We need you. Your children need you, your grandchildren need you. I know sometimes there are strange situations where grandparents may have a desire and the parents may be in a different place, in a different space. Listen, God knows he can lead you in those circumstances. I would never encourage grandparents to use cert or undermine the authority of their children. But what I have found in many instances when grandparents communicate to their children, even if the children are on the fence, about what they'd like to do with their grandchildren.

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    I found that the parents have been grateful. I know that's not always the case. There are always exceptions. But you do not get to go back in, there's no mulligans. There's no parental mulligans. That's just the facts, you know? So let us take advantage of the time that God has given us. Let us endeavor with everything in us to keep the main thing, the main thing, and make sure our priorities are properly established, that we refuse to allow even important impressing matters of the national sort, of the international sort, refuse to allow those things to encroach upon you, to where they are effective in nullifying the potency of your witness that God desires to come, to work in you first and secondarily through you. To the word of God, Matthew chapter 16, verse 18, is the primary text that I want to discuss. And this is Jesus speaking. He's responding to. Well, let me go. Let me take a few steps back. I'll go back to verse 13. All right. The script says this. Now, when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea, Philippi, he asked his disciples, who do people say that the son of man is? And they said some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. He said to them, but who do you say that I am? Simon Peter replied, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered him, blessed are you Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. But my Father who was in heaven, and I tell you, you are Peter. And on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

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    I've discussed this before, the Greek words for Peter and Rock are similar and sounding, and so Jesus is using wordplay. But the rock that Jesus says he's going to build his church upon is not Peter the person, but is upon the revelation that Peter conveyed, that he in fact is the Christ, son of the living God. The portion of the text that continually rings in my heart as a great source of encouragement, especially in these precarious times that we're living in is Jesus said, I will build my church, make no mistake about her brothers and sisters. God is still building his church. I talked to a brother today who ministered at a camp for young people, 24 young people, wanted to be baptized because of their giving their life to Jesus Christ. All over our country is happening in other but I want you to know all over our country, Jesus is still drawing people to himself in saving faith. All over our country, you won't see headlines about this, you won't see the Crescent News Network, purportantness, you won't see MSDNC, reportness, you won't see the talking state media reporting this, God is still building your church brothers and sisters. And then Jesus not only said, I will build my church, He then added and the gates of hell will not prevail against her, will not prevail against it. I've explained before, largely speaking, what our gates, gates are instruments that are promulgated by and large to keep things out. Jesus says, the gates of hell will not prevail against his church. So let me be clear about something.

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    It is no doubt about it. We're living in an age of massive deception. We're living in an age where the reality of spiritual warfare is evident on numerous fronts, numerous fronts, demonic activity is evident on numerous fronts, overt blasphemy all over the airwaves. You can't allow your children to watch the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games. And I saw people trying to argue whether or not, I mean, it's hilarious trying to argue it's whether or not, oh, well, that wasn't meant to be a mockery against Christ and against the Lord, the last supper and all, I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, stop, stop, stop. You got bearded ladies prancing around on TV. That's a complete mockery and denial of who God said he had made his image bearers to be male and female. And stop the presses, man. Stop the presses. It just amazes me, the, the, the, the, the, the, I know I know people like gymnastics and flexibility and all, but the amount of elasticity, elasticity people who are trying to bend themselves and contort themselves out of the saying, no, that wasn't an attempt to mock. Excuse me, God is the one who said he made them both male and female. Efforts to display men as women and women as men is a direct affront to God's divine creational design, in addition to the intentional efforts. And I mean, I can go down to show you the receipts, but I'm not going to do all of that. One, I'm not going to show the blasphemous stuff on this show. Secondarily, you know, discernment is a feature of spiritual maturity. You don't have to have, you know, green beret level discernment recognized. Bearded women and not necessarily an effort to, to be welcoming to the Christians who may want to watch this Olympiad, you know, but Jesus said not Abe, not Bobby, he's not here today. He didn't say it either. You know, The Everpresteane, Coke, Green, Y'all just see him, the man is always sharp, but he ain't said, Jesus said, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

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    So take heart, I know there are conversations about, people say, well, this is a threat to the gospel. Can I just tell you plainly? There's no such thing as a threat to the Lord's gospel. There are efforts to hinder the advancement of the Lord's gospel. There are efforts to try to destroy the Lord's church. There are efforts to persecute the Lord's bride, but make no mistake about it. And the scripture actually is the primary source that we have to confirm the demonstration of what Jesus said. This crazy thing by the Lord's bride. The more Nero attempted to persecute the Lord's church, something amazing happened. You know, it's like the Bebe kids, the ecclesiastical version, we don't die, we multiply. As the world is darkened increasingly, what happens is that people who are casualties the darkness, they invariably begin to look for a way out. That's why you have people like, we talked about Richard Dawkins as rebellious as he is. He wants to say things like, well, I'm a culture Christian. You know, I like the, you know, he likes to feature the Christianity. He just has the problem with Jesus. He doesn't realize what he's been working towards his entire life. Doesn't allow the cathedrals to stay around, bro. Think you've been trying to destroy. Now you realize, oh, and you're being overrun. Christian heritage is being overrun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Elon Musk talking about he's a cultural Christian. Oh, the cultural Christians now, huh? And I pray that the Lord would open their eyes that they fully understand to where they come to the place where they're not merely seeking seeking our Lord's hand where they seek his face. I want to challenge and encourage everybody who is tuning into this program now to refuse to become despondent, to refuse to attempt to, not attempt but to allow the flesh to drive your engagement in this time period.

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    But remember what Jesus said, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against my church. And let that statement of inevitable truth drive your engagement to where you are apart. You are the hands and feet of Jesus. will advance his purposes, even in the face of overt hostility, even in the face of adverse circumstances, even in the face of a world that is revealing Western civilization, much like Judah and was confronted by the prophet Isaiah, much as we saw throughout the book of Judges, much as we see throughout script and various iterations, Western civilization has largely turned its back on the Lord. But that we loving our Lord so much so that we love what He loved, that we are moved by what moves him, that we recognize that the harvest is plentiful, the harvest is plentiful, and we welcome the Lord to drive us to be exponents of his will being fulfilled, that we are found doing what the Lord has called us to be salt and light in every iteration of what that means, refusing to be lightly salted. And we take advantage of the opportunities and the liberties that we still have to execute our Lord's commission. This is our privilege. This is our portion. This is our heritage. And this is what we must be about in this time period. We have the opportunity brothers and sisters in this day and age to be what our ancestors in the faith was in their times. And here's the hallelujah celebration point that after faithful labor here, eternal life, hours. A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker. Proverbs 31 is a chapter that's unique in a number of ways. It's largely what a young man, a young king remembered that his mother taught him. And you know sometimes if you're reading this passage you just might miss that. But remember this, this young man remembered a lot of things his mother taught him. It's so important to understand parents, are children are listening.

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    They're listening and learning from you every single day. You know, often the devil will try to tell you your children are listening to you, and parents sometimes will say, my children don't listen to me. Parents, they are listening. They're listening sometimes when you want them to, and they're listening sometimes when you don't want them to. They're picking up on things you didn't mean for them to hear because they are listening. So may we as parents and grandparents make the most of our time of teaching, training, guiding, and molding our children. Yes, they are listening. While in the emergency room with my wife, as she was struggling with the COVID-19 virus herself, and I looked at her, I said, are you scared? And she said a little bit, but I've been through worse. The certainty of mankind's history with uncertainty, an article by Peter Rosenberger. And then, as her fever was approaching almost 103, she started singing in Christ alone. alone. I placed my trust and found my glory and the power of cross. And that's how she has anchored herself in the certainty of Christ through her huge medical journey that has included 80 surgeries both of her legs amputated, 100 doctors have treated, 12 hospitals, and now the COVID-19 virus. And so when we live with those kinds of uncertainties, anchoring ourselves in Christ in Christ alone, that's the only place we can run to where there is certainty. To read this article and more, visit afa.net forward slash the stand. The devastation that occurs after a disaster is heartbreaking. Hi, this is Steve Tiber with ATS of Hope. What would you do if a tornado ripped through your community or hurricane flooded your home? What if you were facing the loss of a loved one? How do you even begin to walk the road to recovery? You know, since 2014, ATS hope has been traveling the country with our rapid response ministry. This ministry goes within 72 hours of a major disaster. We bring volunteers and leaders and million dollars of equipment to love those in need.

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    Our hope is simply to bring the love and joy of Jesus to those by helping them remove debris, tarp roofs, gut homes and help them sort through their belongings. To date, we've responded to over 50 disasters helping almost 6,000 families begin the rebuilding journey. Join us! We don't know when the next disaster is going to hit, but we do know that God cares deeply for those who will be impacted. Join us and learn more about the Ministry, go to 8daysofhope.com to become a volunteer today. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham. Hamilton the third here. Got a shout out to my people in Louisiana. On coming up, this is coming up soon, August 9th through the 11th. I've been invited to minister at the Arborn Church of Christ in Farmerville, Louisiana. This will be August 9th through 11th and I asked, would you guys like me to announce this on the air? So they asked, they told me that I can let you know if you're in the area or will it come to the area, you are welcome to join the D'Arborn Church family there. But I also have to let you know that seating is limited. Alright, so that we will have services Friday evening, Saturday evening, Sunday morning, and I believe Sunday afternoon, August 9th through the 11th. D.R. Born, Church of Christ is located at 1148 Stirlington Highway in Farmerville, Louisiana, zip code 71241. If you want to get more information from on this and we will post a link to the speakers page from aFR.net. You can go to aFR.net, right side, click on information, go down to the speakers page, you can get more information about that.

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    All right there, but this will be August 9th through the 11th. So basically, in a couple of weeks, two weeks, not this weekend, but next weekend, we'll be in Farmerville, Louisiana, looking forward to being with the brothers and sisters there and being a part of what our Lord will have transpire there. All right. The Olympics goodness gracious. So as I mentioned in the previous segment, I'm not going to play any video from that blasphemous display because quite frankly, sorry to me, it's around social media. Most of you, many of you have already seen it and I don't want to give a another view of that, of that trash frankly is what it was. was intentionally promulgated to mock. You know, I often reflect on this is this really goes without saying, there's no way they would have done anything like that in Paris mocking Islam. Because the opening of the Olympic ceremony would have been the end of the Olympics. That is Paris is the same country where they had the Charlie Hebdo affair from not too long ago over a cartoon, let alone an event where, according to reports, a billion people watch the opening to the Olympic ceremony, a billion people. And it's just further indication of the efforts that are being employed really to normalize the rebellion that is prevalent currently in Western civilization. It's interesting how easily people would like to enjoy the features of Western civilization, but we'll ignore what is transpired that created the fulcrum of what Western civilization became. You know, there is no Western civilization without the revelation of scripture. Oh, thank you, Robin is correcting my pronouncement of Darbon is Darbon, Darbon, Darbon.

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    All right, Darbon. Thank you. I get it together one of these days. But if you're not supposed to use the posture, why is it a posh or even the word, you know, I hate, hey, I'm not gonna make a problem. If you're not that I'm just saying, Darbon church of Christ in Louisiana, Farmer Villaluisiana. Alright, but getting back to this Olympic situation, it's just like many of you, I had a range of emotions when I saw it. And in my concern is not limited to, you know, you're from the is this is true. I know about words that are not pronounced the way that they are spelled. We'll start that. But it's sickening to me the evidence of the scripture's truth. Let me explain what I mean. Jesus said to us in the word of God tells us as it was in the days of Noah, you know, when men jettisoned any reverence for God and did what was right in their own eyes, You know, but I was right in their own eye. And it's amazing as many people that want to discount the existence of God, how frequently they seek to end to be specific to mock God as if you feel themselves in scripture. Now, I know the Last Supper portrayal is a picture. That's not a book chapter in verse scripture, but I'm talking about what God said he made mankind to be. You see, don't don't don't limit your ire to the depiction of the last Supper. Supper, I want you to take a few steps back and look at the mering of the Amago day. God has announced who he and how he has designed his image bearers.

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    Men continuing the perpetuation of the talking snake are living the reality of what did God surely say? You won't. surely die in the Hebrew there is you want moose moose you won't die die I mean which is deceptive in and of itself because when the conversation between the slithering snake talking snake and Eve is taking place Eve has no concept for what death is because there's no such thing as death prior to Genesis chapter three in the human experience so she is having a conversation that violates God's order from the top God said he delegated his authority to mankind mankind therefore had the delegated authority to rule over the beasts of the field. But the Genesis 3 phenomenon is a rebellion in the entirety because you have the beast, the serpent, conversing, and suggesting what is truth to God's image peers. Combined with, with the physical presence and functional absence of Adam, who as Genesis 3 lays out, was there the whole time. But when I saw that, it immediately made me think, well, not immediately, as I pondered it, rather I should say, as I pondered what happened in Paris at the beginning of the Olympics. The Lord brought back to my memory the French Revolution of 1789. Now, why am I bringing that up? I am bringing up the French Revolution and I'm mentioning the French Revolution of 1789 because France had subnumerous, subsequent revolutions that were less significant, but the French Revolution of 1789 is one that many who polyver seminal work on democracy, where the tokville observed in comparing the American Revolution and the downstream consequences to the French Revolution. He said he sought for the genius of the American experiment, the impetus of its fight for freedom, the impetus of its nation, and its founding. He sought for it, and its banking system didn't find it there. Sought for it, and its halls of government didn't find it there. It was not until he entered America's churches with the pulpits are flamed in righteousness.

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    And there he concluded, America is great because America is good. The goodness flowing from the moral foundings of our nation, directly being attributed to reverence and submission to all my tall mighty God, imperfectly, absolutely. But having that as a foundational component led to, for to say, America is great because she is good. Then he added the warning, the moment America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. He made that observation in direct contrast to the French who sought to achieve la libretté that the Americans enjoyed absent any reverence for God. The 1789 to 1799 French Revolution, which led to the ascendance of Napoleon Bonaparte, One of the major features of what transpired after the bloody French Revolution of 1789 was their efforts to establish a work week, but they wanted to abandon any trappings of scripture, any trappings of God. And so they realized, well, really, there's only one explanation for the seven-day work week, it is because of the creation narrative. Six days of work in the seven-day of rest, well, they had the genius idea, not so genius, that we're going to change the work. We're going to have a 10 day work week. Oh, this happened. 10 day work week, replete with the calendars called a French Republican calendar. So, whether or not only we have 10 days in a work week, we're going to have three weeks in a month and you have 10 hours in a day. But they did this explicitly because they sought to build a nation void of God. Come on, look at the French Republican calendar, a 10 day work week. Well, not only was it impractical and didn't work out very well. This is funny thing when and men seek to achieve freedom without God.

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    It always results in abuse. And so I was reminded of that after watching the French display. And I get it, you know, whenever people want to lie in public, they always want to hide behind art. You know, you want to lie about intimate relationships between men and women. Yes, art. You know, you're gonna call pornography art. It's art, free speaking. It's not art, it's filth. It's abuse. It's corrupting. destructive. What we witnessed with the opening ceremony really simply a punctuation of what is in society. There are lots of people that object to a public display of a lack of reverence for God. When we walk by a lack of reverence for God on display every day, every day, every day, and I've said numerous times, man, the world is going to world. So as much as I was was called and as much as I was disgusted by the display, I was not surprised. I was not surprised because the world is going to world. Question I have for the believer is how much will we live what we profess, what we put into practice, what we know to be true, will we function as if we believe for the word of God's sake? And I know that God has a remnant in our nation. what I am speaking to is more broadly. Now, where are our true affections? Where are our true engagements? You know, I find it to be quite puzzling to have a people that are concerned, have people that are concerned about the public blasming me on display, yet they have homes of prayerlessness.

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    You know, hire appropriate hire at a public blasming display, but we don't necessarily prioritize worship of the Lord in our homes, you know, proper rebuke, disdain for the blasphemous French display, not as much interesting interest in being obedient in what we know God has called us to do. And I'm explaining this because the events and there's going to be kind of a themes throughout today's show that I believe the Lord is allowing the world to see what it looks like when the people become conveniently ignorant of the creator. This is what it looks like. This is what it looks like. You have a people who are boldly ignorant. You have a people who are brazen, who are brash in their rebellion. This is what it looks like. This is what it looks like because ideas have consequences. Bad ideas create casualties. people who are intent on rebelling against God, unfortunately, will eat the fruit of the seed they've sown unless they repent, unless they repent. So my concern, and I get it, I will never try to intrude in anybody's consciences. You know, I was saddened for people who have trained their lives to accomplish these athletic feats and things of that nature. But the The fact is God will not be mocked. It's not that God is slack concerning his promises.

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    He's just long suffering. When the scripture talks about God not being mocked, it's not communicating some type of like God is majoring on retribution. It's literally saying, oh, you can't mock God. No matter how big you think you may be, you can't mock God. You can try that. But it's not going to work. And it caused me to have sober, urgent concern for the people of France, yes, but more so for the people of our own country. You know, there are lots of folks that are talking about making America great again. Proverbs 1434, just echoes in my heart. Righteousness, exols, and nation. Sin is our approach to any people. And if we are not intentional about what God is requiring of us, our nation, we're not, nowhere near where we're not where France is currently. But with anyone object to the fact that we're on the exact same trajectory that led to France being where it is currently, we're on a similar trajectory folks. We're on a similar trajectory. And those who are seeking to establish some penchant of some semblance of American prosperity but void of God, I just want to warn you now What you saw with the Blue Man group is where America's headed. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins. You look at three of the four justices there in Colorado that voted to remove him from the ballot. They all came from Ivy League schools. Schools that had been created as divinity schools. What a picture of the apostasy in America when it comes to the church. Stay informed with Tony Perkins and his guests on Washington Watch weekdays at 4 p.m.

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    And again, I understand the details based on what was present in the video. You know, the police officers in the video are announcing commands and she went towards a pot I believe they had something hot in the pot. But considering the distance they were, the police officers were from. Massey has depicted in the video and I know there are lots of investigation going on and I believe the officer who discharged his firearm in that instance has been indicted based on an unjustified use of, use of deadly force. It's heartbreaking. And I just, I pray for the Massey family and for the family. of this officer because this is horrendous, horrendous circumstance. And it's one of the reasons why we need to have a society that cultivates appropriate interaction with law enforcement officers. And based on the depiction in the video, and I know everything is being investigated, but it does call into question whether or not there was a reasonable perception and bother to just the firearm discharging officers, whether or not they were, whether he was under the imminent threat of harm from Sonia Massey. It's a heartbreaking scenario. Now I wanna continue on with the theme of, I believe God is displaying for everyone to see, you know, the scripture says over and over and over, you have eyes to see, you have ears to heal, him who has ears to hear, let him hear, evidence of where we are going as United States of America unless we change course. Many of you have heard me and I remember presenting this publicly. There's some events with the family research council. And when I said Venezuela is a contemporary example of what happens when any people embraces, when any people decide to embrace socialism. You know, you have people in our country that try to cloak the evil and the evils of socialism behind the term democratic.

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    It's like as if that makes it better, you know, like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, I'm a democratic socialist. Like that makes it better. You know, I'd be like, like my home was in the West coast of total. They don't make it, they don't make it any better fool. That doesn't mean the better fool, you know, calling it democratic socialism doesn't make it better, it's like, oh, oh, so this is, this is escrowment, but this is designer escrowment, like, that makes it better? No. And the Venezuela is a cautionary tale. And I'm bringing this up because yesterday, Sunday, Venezuela had elections for the presidency, right? And the first thing that came to my mom's like, I'm not scouring the details of Venezuelan politics. I'm like, why do I have an election on a Sunday? You know, and then I learned a little bit of studying, a little bit of learning. Oh, they set the election on that date because they wanted to commemorate the birthday of Hugo Chavez. Now, when you tell me that you have an election day dedicated to celebrate the birth date of Hugo Chavez, I already get an indication of where things is gonna go. You know, I kind of already have an idea. But the Venezuelan people have suffered, man. But I want you to take a few steps back and remember, Venezuela wasn't always a socialist nation. But, as well, even as we sit today, has the largest deposits of crude oil in the world. Used to have the fourth, fifth, third, fourth, and fifth largest economy, largest GDP, GDP in the world. Then something crazy happened. They went for democratic socialism.

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    attempt led by Hugo Chavez, similar to Fidel Castro and Cuba, by the way, where a violent coup of the existing presidency was attempted. Chavez failed the first time, but then shortly thereafter, Hugo Chavez was democratically elected by the Venezuelan people in 1998. I want you to remember that. Hugo Chavez was democratically elected in 1998. After he got elected, guess what happened? Now, Joe, I know the rest of this story had this unfolded. One of the first things that Hugo Chavez did, enjoying the benefit of the oil, the riches of the nation because of the prevalence of prevalence of oil, what are the first things he sought to do was use something called the Enabling Act for the express purposes of stop me if you heard this before, redistributing wealth from the mini according to their ability to the mini according to their knee. You heard that before? Of course redistribution of wealth. Followed by, drum roll please, Pfffffft, nationalization of industry. Followed shortly thereafter by, new regulations on the media, new laws for prison time for slandering public figures. Haha, yeah, yeah. All the way up to, ultimately, was the disarming of the Venezuelan populace. Through gun control. Prior to the gun control in possession from the government, you had the amendment, you know, that the Venezuelan people voted for of their Venezuelan constitution to allow the president to serve an unlimited number of terms.

  22. 46:30

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. But remember this started with one vote. Hugo Chavez would have continued in power had he not passed away in 2013 from cancer. But when he passed away, who took power? Form a bus driver, his confidant, Nicholas Maduro, who now is running for his third term, the last election it even caused Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders is a de-election, and Venezuela was less than free. Yeah, Bernie, understatement of the year. You had massive energy in Venezuela. From a people who had just endured such an economic collapse, to where thousands of in israelan boulevards the local currency not worth anything like toilet paper with air using in vin as well american dollars because the nation is just gone on the government imposed fifteen pound per citizen diet whether trying to break in the zoo to try to fine food as this just happened and so there was a massive ground swell of support for the opposition to nicholas material but y'all know how to election pandale right but a couple of the other greatest hits. That just, I'm like, wow, man, this is happening right now. Hope the American people are paying attention. The opposition leader was actually a woman by the name of Maria Corina Machado. But Nicholas Maduro used his Supreme Court to declare Ms. Machado could not run for office for the next 15 years. So she garnered the support of a man by the name of Edmundo Gonzalez. And you should have saw, and I know this, because my wife and I watched a lot of this in real time.

  23. 48:30

    The Venezuelan people and Spanish talking about how excited they were that they know Gonzalez won the election. They won the election. They came out in the streets that was celebrating until it Monday morning to where the official declaration was. Who do y'all think it was? Did the player win her? Nicholas Maduro and out of Venezuelan people are decimated. It was interesting that when my doodle was campaign painting, you see. He said some of the quiet parts out loud, and that he said, well, I'm the only candidate that has the support of the military. Like, wait a minute, the do you say it here? But I want you to hear for yourself clip number one, go. I am the only candidate who has the support of the people's power and the communities. Because I am the only candidate who has the strong support of the Venezuelan military. And one of the things you need to be aware of, seeing places like Venezuela, the military is also the police. So he's just saying out loud what everybody already knows. That oh, we dare say we don't like, oh Nick, we'll have a visit. It's like, that's not the flex you think it is, bro. Saying that the military, you don't only have this water military, but you keep them on payroll because they're your goonsquad. To enforce your will upon the Venezuelan people that was already stripped from their private So all that they have now is right to protest, which if you know anything about Venezuela's history, routinely faces strong government reprisals. I'll just say it that way. But one of the other things that were interesting, that you had dignitaries from different countries who wanted to go and see just how free these elections were in Venezuela.

  24. 50:33

    And then something amazing happened. It just so happened that they weren't allowed to leave their home countries because of Venezuelan airports conveniently closed down to some of them. Listen to clip number two, go. Panama's Foreign Ministry says a plane carrying four former Latin American presidents has not been allowed to take off. That's after their destination country, Venezuela closed its airspace. The former Panamanian, Mexican, Costa Rican, and Bolivian presidents were planning and observing Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela. Caracas, however, denies that it prevented the former leaders from entering. President Nicholas Maduro is seeking a third six-year term in office. Now, it's interesting that dignitaries from those countries weren't allowed in, but guess where dignitaries from other countries were allowed in to view just how fair their elections were. People from Iran and from China and from Russia and from communist leaning, Colombia, They're people were allowed in to see just how fair the elections were why am I explaining all of this? Similar to the reason I talked to you about what happened in Paris guys make no mistake about it this Is what is going to transpire in America unless we change course? You know you got people talking about cackling camera like And you think it's just a game Guys, this is where this is the trajectory that we're on currently Do I have to remind you about all of the efforts to try to use the courts to toward President Trump's reelection bid? Do I have to talk about the continuous efforts to implement pieces of the communist manifesto, policy, policy plank by policy plank, little by little, get in the country addicted to these features of socialism and then to get the American populace more comfortable with saying things like democratic socialism.

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    Like stop the presses. We have people in our own country that were lining up ready to vote for a socialist. But you know, he put that little democratic modifier on the front of it. I'll tell you again, like I've said before, you only get to vote for socialism one time. The people in Venezuela, even in the capital city of Caracas, don't want Maduro, but guess what? They can't do anything about it because they voted for socialism once. and once socialism gets in, you think socialism is gonna say, oh, you know what? You think Maduro's gonna go, oh, you know what, I realized the people that Venezuela don't want me in office anymore. You know what guys, I'm going to resign. It hasn't happened. We better wake up in our country. We better wake up because you only get to vote for socialism once. And once you do, socialism won't allow you to vote again. Because as you know very well, The underpinning the undergirding worldview of socialism is an atheistic framework. The key of Western civilization was individual liberty, the rights and freedoms of the individual. The individual liberty and dignity of the individual is something that flows directly from the understanding of the Amago Day. Reject God the Amago Day is a casualty. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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