Bishop EW Jackson: Welcome, everybody, to another edition of, the Awakening Podcast here on American Family Radio. Great to be with you as always. Thank you so much for your prayers, your support. Thank you for listening, thank you for contributing to this network and please continue to do so. We can't do it without you. praise God for His wonderful grace, but thank you for your wonderful works, because God works through people and he is using you to help keep this network on the air as a testament, ah, to his glory, his plan, his purpose, his vision for this great country of ours. So thank you very, very much. I want to talk to you about Columbus Day, because as you all know, there are forces in our country that want to do away with Columbus Day. And in fact, Washington, D.C. and four additional states have completely done away with it. Maine, NewSong Mexico, South Dakota and Vermont have obliterated Columbus Day. South Dakota celebrates what they call Native American Day. the others celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. Now, again, I'm going to say something very controversial. Maybe you've heard me say this before, but the reality is there's no such thing as indigenous people in North America. There's no such thing. the best, if you're going to be honest about it. Now, if you're going to be honest, and I don't mean any disrespect to the people who were here when the first Europeans arrived and began to settle. The Vikings came first, but of course, they didn't really settle North America. But with all due respect to the people who were here when the first Europeans began to settle this continent, they're not indigenous people. Their genetic background demonstrates that they are from Asia, Southeast Asia, to be specific. And they came across, what's called the Beringian Bridge, or, the, the Bering Bridge, which is now covered, of course, by the Bering Sea. It was a landmass then, but that they migrated across that and then migrated southward, as far as we know, all the way down to the tip of South America. But these are Asian people. So they're not people who are indigenous to this continent. Now, I say that again, not to in any way denigrate them, but to say all this stuff about indigenous people as if somehow they rose up from the soil of this continent. They did not. In fact, I've argued that the United States of America is perhaps. Now, I can't speak completely for South America, but this continent, North America, is perhaps the only continent on earth, as far as we know, in recent history, going back to the biblical history that we know of, that has no one living here in this country whose ancestors actually come from this continent, and that includes Native Americans. And, ah, boy, that, that'll cause the heads of liberals to explode. But what it does for me is remind us that we ultimately all have a common origin, that we all have common ancestors, that we all come from Adam and Eve, and we all come ultimately from the land near the Euphrates River. That's where our first ancestors lived, and everybody else, in one way or another, originates there. Now, of course, there's no question, if you go far enough back, obviously the closer you are to that region, the more likely you are to find people who are almost in those areas from the very beginning. But that is not so for our continent. So even this concept, at least in our case now, of course, Africa is much closer to that area. The Middle east is much closer to that area. places around there are much closer. Even arguably, Europe is much closer. But of course, America, you got to cross an ocean to get here, which is exactly what we, the people, we call the natives, which is exactly what their ancestors did. But, but they crossed an ocean on a landmass, a land bridge. So, but so you see, even the concept is, is politicized. And what is it intended to do? It is intended to create another victim class that somehow, quote, unquote, the indigenous people are victims of the bad white people. I mean, that, that's really the whole point. And the reality is that the people who were living here at the time the first Europeans began to settle were not victims of Europeans. They were really victims of history. And I want to go back. Oh, and by the way, several additional states recognize Indigenous Peoples Day, but they don't make it a holiday. They recognize it, but they don't make it. They don't substitute it as a holiday. They sort of leave Columbus Day in place, but also celebrate that. Alaska, California, Hawaii, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon and Wisconsin, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode island actually have Indigenous Peoples Day as a paid holiday. So state workers actually get the day off. And, they're actually paid for it if they work for the state. Obviously, private businesses have to do whatever they want to do. But my point is that this is not about recognizing or honoring anybody. This is really about politicizing. One more thing. Create a villain. Christopher Columbus politicized his existence and then create a victim class. The quote unquote indigenous people politicize their existence. And then you got one more group of people with a grievance. The grievance goes back, what, 500 years? 600. 500. And yeah, actually we're getting close to 600 years. The grievance goes back. So now you got something else to be. You got something else to be upset about. And as I said, the, the, the, the. The natives weren't so much a victim of Columbus as they just were victims of history. In other words, when Columbus arrived, even though European technology and weaponry and understanding of the world were still very rudimentary, but they were centuries ahead of the natives who lived here, centuries ahead of them, and they couldn't compete. So that's number one thing. I just wanted to get, get the. Set the record straight on that. So I would completely reject this notion, of indigenous Peoples Day. I fully embrace honoring, celebrating Christopher Columbus because I don't think it can be disputed that Christopher Columbus was a great man. Now, was he a flawed man? Yes, he was. Of course. Was there anybody who wasn't? You see, according to the left's sensibilities, there is not a single human being whose achievements are worthy of anything, particularly if that human being happens to be white. And even more so if he happens to be a white male. I don't care when he lived, I don't care when he existed, whether it's the present day or it's in the past. If he happens to be a white male, he is unworthy of any recognition for any achievement whatsoever because he is somehow inherently evil. And he is somehow the victimizer and oppressor of the quote, unquote indigenous people or people of color or, however they, however they choose to frame it. And as you've heard me say many times, I don't even accept the concept of people of color because I've never met a person who didn't have it. Everybody's got color. Everybody. It's just that some people have darker complexions than others. And to which I say. And so, I mean, the, the, the, the, the most wicked people have used that as an excuse to justify subjugation of others. But it's just one of many excuses they've ever used. If there's no complexion, they fight no, no difference in complexion. They found other excuses. Just as the British and the Irish were not differently complected and didn't have different melanin in their skin. And yet the, British yet oppressed the Irish, and they came up with their justifications for doing so. All the serfs of Europe had the same complexion as their feudal lords, and yet the feudal lords came up with justifications for subjugating all the serfs. This is a true biblical understanding of history, which is all human beings are fallen and all human beings have been, in one way or another prone to sin against other human beings. That's pretty much most of the nature of sin, right? The Bible says that fornication, promiscuity is a sin against one's own body, but it's also a sin against the person with whom you're fornicating. So all sin is in some way or another against other people, or most of it is. I mean, you can make some argument to some things people do, but I just believe that we are so interconnected that God made it that way, that one person's sin inevitably affects other people. That's just the way life is. Adam's sin affected Cain and Abel, but they weren't there to have done anything wrong. Adam's sin affected you and me, but we weren't there. We didn't do anything wrong there. We've all done plenty wrong other since then, but we didn't do anything at that moment. We weren't there, but that sin affected us. Sin is not contained. It spills out over the edges and affects and poisons and infects others. And that's just the way life is. I mean, we can moan and groan about it, but, we as Christians, though, we don't need to, because Jesus Christ has already given us the antidote. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Precious is that flow that makes me white as snow, Nor the fount I know nothing but the blood of Jesus. There's the antidote, there's the answer. There's the cure for everything that ails us. We don't need social justice. We just need the righteousness that produces true justice. M and true justice in a fallen world is not one person controlling everything and everybody, or the state controlling everything and everybody in order to bring about what it considers to be the perfect state, because all that produces is perfect oppression. M the real answer is to do justly love mercy and walk humbly with your God. There's the answer. Micah 6, 8. He has shown thee, O man, what is good? What does the Lord require of thee, but to do Justly love mercy and walk humbly with your God. So let's talk then a little bit about Columbus. Because first of all, Columbus was a devout Christian man who one has to believe based upon what he wrote in his journals and what we know about him, had a sincere faith in Jesus Christ. Now, sincere faith in Jesus Christ doesn't mean that Columbus was perfect or that he did everything perfectly any more than I do or you do. I'm a believer. I'm a sincere believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. But if I told you again, you know what? Because I'm a believer, I don't ever make a mistake. I don't ever say anything I shouldn't say. I don't ever do anything I shouldn't do, and I don't ever think anything that I shouldn't think. I'd be lying to your face. Now, the reality is I govern my life in such a way to avoid doing those things which God would not approve, to avoid thinking thoughts, thinking that he doesn't approve. I cast down those imaginations that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God to speaking words that he wouldn't approve. I don't let corrupt communications come out of my mouth to the full extent I'm able, and I conform my will to his will for my life. In other words, I try always to avoid making choices that I know are not pleasing to God or are not consistent with his will. But I still fall short. So Columbus is no different. I mean, this is the same argument we have about our founding fathers. Oh, they own slaves. Yeah. Well, you know what? If you've been born in their circumstances and lived in the same situation they lived in, and you would have owned slaves too, probably because humanity simply hadn't come to grips with the application of the moral principle of love, the Christian principle of love, to the application of the institution of slavery, which had, existed before Christianity and continued to exist after Christianity. But eventually Christians who knew enough of the word of God and the love of God began to realize, wait a minute, this whole institution of slavery is incompatible with what God has called us to be and do. And Christianity was really the first idea. Christianity, is the first influence to say to the world, slavery is inherently wrong. Nothing else had ever said that. Christianity said that. So Christopher Columbus was a clearly devout Christian. He was a Catholic. But, I mean, essentially most people were. That was all that was known from about 300 AD or a little thereafter. once Constantine was converted, that was pretty much it. Now, there are those who argue that there were Christians Outside of the, the Catholic Church, the Holy Roman Catholic Church. And I had no doubt that there probably were. But clearly most Christian influence came under the aegis at that point of the Catholic Church and remained so, pretty much until, the Reformation. But we would be kidding ourselves and lying to ourselves to suggest that there were no devout Christians who actually knew and loved God during that time, as if to say, well, Christianity just took a break because the Catholic Church didn't allow people to really come to know God. I don't believe that anything is capable of keeping people away from God if they want Him. No church, no denomination, no institution, no propaganda, no lie. Sure, you can fool some of the people, but you can't fool everybody because some people are going to want to know God and they're going to come to know him because God is not going to hide himself from them. And I really believe that Christopher Columbus was a brother in Christ. I mean, I've got a book in front of me right now called the Light and the Glory by Peter Marshall and David Manuel. I've had this book for many, many years. I wonder if I have the date on which I got this book. I started doing that at one point, marking the dates when I got books so that I would remember how long I've had them or so I'd be able to document how long I've had them. And frankly, I don't have that. But at the very least I can tell you, well, the date this book, was printed. Wow. M. This book was printed in 1977. 1977. That's the year after I was born again. I was born again in 1976. And this December we will be celebrating my 50 years of walking with the Lord, my jubilee. So that means this book is 49 years old right now. But anyway, he, he the Light and the Glory. This book is really. The subtitle is Did God have a Plan for America? And of course, he talks about Christopher Columbus as part of that plan. And we know that Christopher Columbus was a man of tremendous courage because he set out to find, by sea, a land that was essentially unexplored, but that he knew existed from other, excursions and journeys that people had taken. He knew existed. But he set out to find a course by sea at that point, thinking he was going to India. He didn't find India, he found North America, technically the Bahamas. but getting the financing to make this trip, having the courage to launch out into the deep, into really unknown territory was just. I mean, it was Just a magnificent display of courage. And his primary motivation. His primary motivation, even though it certainly had an economic motivation and political motivation for Ferdinand and Izabella, the, King and Queen of Spain. But Columbus primary motivation was to spread the gospel, to find those worlds where the word of God had not been heard. And when they started on their journey, the men on their journey had never been more than 300 miles from shore. 300 miles from shore. And Christopher Columbus started out on August 3, 1492, and they stopped by the Canary Islands on the 9th and then set sail from there across what they didn't know. We didn't fully understand what we think of now. We don't even give it a second thought now, but across the Atlantic Ocean, probably sailing south, thinking he was going somewhere else. But again, before they got there, the, the, you know, the, the three ships, the, the m. what is. I don't want to, quote the wrong. The, the, what was it? The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. I believe I'm going by memory, because I didn't. Didn't review that, but I'll find that. But, but those, the three ships that they set sail on, which kind of separated from each other. And, and at any rate, the point is, it became a harrowing journey as they got further and further beyond the shore than they'd ever been. 300 miles. There was nobody on that ship that had been more than 300 miles from the shores of Spain. And, 33 days after they left the, Canary Islands, or 33 days from the time they had spotted the last land, 68 days since they left the shores of Spain, the crew just literally panicked because they had been so long since they had seen land, and they were now 3,000 miles from home. And I'm sure you all know the story. they left on August 3rd. On August 10th of 1492, Columbus had a mutiny on his hands. The men were prepared to, who knows, maybe kill him and turn the ship around and head back to Spain. And Columbus went into prayer and asked them for three more days. Three more days. And some say he was inspired by the three days. The resurrection, asked them for three more days, said, if we don't spot land in three days, we'll turn around and go back home. Two days later, they spotted land. It was the Bahamas, the land he called San Salvador. Our Savior. And, they were so elated, apparently. The water was just absolutely beautiful. The sand was just white. It was one of the most beautiful things they'd ever seen. They kissed the ground. They were so glad to be on land now and to have found what Columbus thought was India, which is why the natives were called Indians. But they weren't. I mean, you know, now we call them natives pretty much, but he thought they found India. Now, here's where it gets a little dicey, because, of course, as soon as they land, shortly thereafter they encounter these natives, which, as I've explained, ultimately they weren't really indigenous, but nevertheless, they were there first. Right? But from Columbus perspective, they were like children to them. Listen to what he says about them. When they landed. Columbus, wrote in his journal, O Lord almighty and everlasting God, by thy holy word thou has created the heaven and the earth and the sea. Blessed and glorified be thy name, and praised be thy majesty, which had deigned us, which has deigned to use us, thy humble servants. Thy holy name may be proclaimed. That thy holy name may be proclaimed in this second part of the earth. Second part of the earth. See how. I mean, even he had a rudimentary understanding of the world, but these natives had even far less understanding these Europeans in terms of technological advancement. I mean, he just sailed across a vast ocean. they had survived that voyage. They came with weaponry and understanding of warfare that these folks didn't have. But nevertheless, they didn't come with hostile intentions. Listen to this. How Christopher Columbus described, what they encountered. He said they seemed to be friendly, not angry. They were obviously happy. One could hear them laughing. One at a time, the timid inhabitants stepped forward and let themselves be seen. Says Columbus was impressed at what a handsome race they were. Tall and well proportioned, with no large bellies on them, but no clothes either, and as innocent as babes, quote, as innocent as babes when it came to the tools of war. For I showed them swords, and they took them by the blade and cut themselves through ignorance. And Columbus further goes on to say again in his journal, so that they might be well disposed towards us, for I knew that they were a, people to be delivered and converted to our holy faith. Rather by love than by force. I gave to some red caps and to others glass beads which they hung around their necks, and many other things. At this they were greatly pleased and became so entirely our friends that it was a wonder to see. I believed that they would easily be made Christians, for it seemed to me that they had no religion of their own. Or, Lord willing, when I depart, I shall bring back six of them to your highnesses, and that they may learn to talk our language. Now, does that sound like the brutal slave master who went in there to kill people and take what they had and this, that and the other. Now again, just as the settlers who came to this country from Great Britain and of course from other places as well, from Spain, from France, many of them probably came with very, very virtuous intentions, some of those intentions probably got compromised as they faced the reality of a brutal wilderness. Some very vicious natives, their ideals probably got compromised. Undoubtedly their flesh took over in some cases. Undoubtedly. But just to be objective about it, this is what the man was writing in his journal. He had nobody to impress. This is what he was thinking, approaching them with love and friendliness. Now, as I've said before, these natives weren't the mythological, virtuous, innocent, non violent people, that somehow is portrayed whenever folks want to just basically put down Europeans or anybody of European ancestry, in other words, to use their term, white people, by portraying them as monsters. You don't hear these kinds of stories because that's not what they want to tell. They want to tell you about the brutality, but you know what they don't want to tell you about? They don't want to tell you about the brutality of these natives, these people who were already there when Columbus and then the later settlers arrived. They don't want to tell you about that. I think I've shared with you all the massacre of 1622 when the, confederacy of tribes. oh, there it'll come to me. But the confederacy of tribes got together and by stealth and by deception, essentially befriended the, settlers until they got to a point, got them to a point where they let their guard down and they launched a vicious attack and killed three Hundred and forty two men, women and children. 342 men, women and children. Now, folks, that was in 1622. Do you think that that had any effect on the way the settlers thought about the natives? You better believe it did. But again, you don't hear about that because, you know, we're so busy ascribing to the European settlers, the pathological, and denigrating behavior of again, masters and superior beings. The European settlers weren't any different than the natives. They were all sinners, or they certainly all sinned and were all capable of sin. And sometimes one group may have been responsible for precipitating problems. Sometimes another group may have been responsible for precipitating problems. But I guarantee you this, there's nobody with innocent hands, nobody, no groups, because all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God. So this is where Columbus starts. Now, of course, one of the things they're looking for is wealth for Ferdinand and Isabel and, and they began to search for gold. And I think history certainly makes the case that the more important the gold became, the more brutal the explorers became, because basically some of them just got gold fever. And that's a real thing, folks, where people just get desperate for wealth and desperate for the money and for what it can do for them and will do almost anything to get it and keep it. And there are certainly historians who argue that that took root in Columbus, ah, crew. And of course, just the attitude that, well, we're going to take some of them back with us. What is that? That's just nothing. But. But frankly, a person captured by the culture of their times, thinking we are the superior people. Look at us. Look at them. We're going to take them back with us and we're going to show them the superior way. Well, the fact of the matter is they did have a superior way of life. Didn't mean they had a right to just take people away from, the land upon which they were residing and where they lived. But again, it wasn't 20, 26, folks. It was 1492, You know, and I say, well, America's, birth, what, not quite 300 years later, right? Not quite 300 years later, but the world hadn't changed very much by that point. You know, I've said I divide the world up into two, major eras. Era. Era. Two major eras. One is the age of conquest, subjugation and slavery, where the world was essentially governed by force. Period. And even though the Roman Empire pretended to be something of a quote, unquote democracy, what did they do to the rest of the world? What did they do to the non Roman world? They conquered them and they never apologized for it. So whether you're talking about the Roman Empire or the Ottoman Empire or Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great or. Or Philip of Macedonia, that's the way the world was governed in that era. The era of conquest, subjugation and slavery. You conquered people, you subjugated them. You killed those who weren't willing to be subjugated. You enslaved those that you needed for your own purposes or that, an empire or nation needed for their own purposes. And that was just the way life was. And the next era doesn't begin, in my view, until after World War II, which is the era of cooperation in which you really no longer have, any nations that set out, of course, Putin is a throwback. Hitler was sort of the final major, leader dictator who was very clear he was going to take as much land and subjugate as many people as he could and kill anybody he didn't want around. He's sort of the last leader in the age or the era of conquest, subjugation and slavery. Like I said, Putin is kind of a little bit of throwback with his moves in Crimea and Ukraine. But prior to that, that's the way the world worked, thank God. I'm glad I didn't live in that era, aren't you? We live in the area essentially, of cooperation in which, knowing the devastation that war brings, most nations want to avoid it. And given the fact that land mass, boundaries are pretty much settled, nations are no longer looking at other nations thinking, well, we can subjugate them, we can take their land, we can put them, we can kill them or, put them in slavery and we can just take that over. Most nations are not thinking that way. Now. I believe in the great Tribulation, that's exactly what we're going to have a resurgence of, that some predominant nations are going to decide they're going to take the Holy Land, they're going to kill off as many Jews as they need to, and they're going to subjugate as many people as they need to. That the Antichrist is going to basically dominate the world, and I think he will dominate it by diplomacy initially and then ultimately by force. So that's going to be, in my view, my reading of the Bible, that that is going to be essentially a reemergence of a new era of conquest, subjugation and slavery. I mean, what do you think the mark of the beast is? It's the mark of a slave. That's what it is. It's the mark of a slave. It's the mark of a person who owes your obeisance and allegiance to the one who marked you. Remember, God told the children of Israel to, put their word, put his word on their hands and on their foreheads. And well, those weren't permanent marks in their skin, but the marks that Satan is going to have people put on their hand and on their foreheads, I believe, are going to be permanent marks that mark you as his slave. But that's prior again to World War II. That's pretty much the way the whole world worked. One could argue it ended a little earlier than that, maybe before World War I. But I think World War II is really the watershed moment in which that era ends. So My point is, we can wish the world were a different place. We can wish America were born at a different time, but it wasn't. America was born in the era of conquest, subjugation, and slavery. And I would argue that America became the most civilizing force in the world, second only to Christianity itself. Now, I refuse to celebrate people simply because they exist. I m celebrate God because he exists and because he's my Father and my Savior and my Lord. But what does indigenous people mean? It just means, well, there were certain people, they existed, not that they accomplished anything of particular note, not that they did anything of particular consequence or of any consequence. They just were. And because some would argue, well, they were victimized by Columbus, and therefore we're going to hail them and celebrate them, because somehow victimization is a virtue that we ought to recognize, which is just stupid. Now, Columbus was an explorer as a man of courage, a man of vision, a man of genius, a man of leadership, a man of faith,

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Bishop EW Jackson: man who literally changed the world. Because while there are some who will argue that, you know, America would likely have been born whether Columbus set out, set sail in 1492 or not, maybe. But I don't see a scenario in which that's the case, because Columbus, he changed the dynamic of the world. He set the world on a path of exploration that ultimately led to the settlement of this continent. Now, again, you could argue someone else might have done it, but when? And what would have been the timing? And how might that have changed things? We don't know. But Columbus did it first. And we know the Vikings were here. There's evidence the Vikings were here, but they didn't come and set up any sort of settlement. They didn't come and actually begin to populate this continent because they didn't have the technological or the sailing wherewithal to be able to replicate what they did. I mean, to tell you the truth, I'm still, I am in amazement that they were able to accomplish that at all. But that's not what Columbus did. Columbus actually discovered this place and then made it possible for others to come here. He came back himself, I forget exactly how many times, but certainly made it possible for others to come here. And then ultimately, of course, European, nations, Spain, France, Great, Britain, began to compete for the settlement of this continent. And Britain ultimately won that competition, which set up the American colonies and ultimately the birth of the United States of America. In my view, we owe Columbus a great debt of thanks for his courage and his commitment and for his willingness to Explore and to do what no one, one had done before. So I, you know, people want to criticize, you know, Columbus didn't discover America, other people already here. But you know, I just have to laugh when people say stupid stuff like that. Well, we know he didn't ultimately discover a continent where people already lived, but from the perspective of the rest of the world, he did. Because nobody else understood that this place was here. that's all people are saying when they say he discovered America. But, oh, he didn't, he didn't discover America. Who do you think? I mean, it just, just, people just get so asinine and silly. Because they want to make a mountain out of a molehill, because they, they scream and yell about the denigration of certain select groups, but all the time perfectly willing to denigrate another person or group in the process to diminish their accomplishments, diminish their achievements. Basically say, oh, he didn't really do anything. Oh yes he did. Yes he did. Columbus did. Our founding Fathers did. And we ought to continue to celebrate them. We ought to celebrate people for their achievements and their accomplishments, particularly when those achievements, accomplishments and accomplishments have a dramatic impact upon the world. And anybody who says that Columbus didn't do that is lying to themselves. So I say down with Indigenous Peoples Day. Thank you very much. No disrespect to the people who already live here, but let's celebrate Columbus because that pioneering spirit, that exploring spirit, that spirit of courage and risk taking, is exactly what the pioneers to this continent brought with them and what allowed us to ultimately fulfill Manifest Destiny and turn America into a nation from sea to shining sea. I'll tell you folks, we don't need to be apologizing to the world and apologizing to everybody. Oh, we're sorry. No, we're not. No, we're not. Of course, if people have sinned in the past, that's regrettable, but we didn't do it. And everybody's got an answer to God. But the fact that individuals fall short of God's glory and short of the mark of perfection doesn't mean we should ignore great achievements as if they don't matter. Which is exactly what this concept of Indigenous Peoples Day is intended to do. Substitute a man who made absolutely world changing impact for a bunch of people that just existed. We don't know anything about them because there really wasn't anything much to know. I mean, sure, I'm glad, I'm sure their culture had unique things about them. They're probably worthy of Some study or examination or something like that, but they weren't reshaping the world map and they weren't drawing the sea lanes that would shrink the globe. Columbus was doing that. And we owe that man a debt of gratitude and we should never allow his name to be forgotten. Look, God bless each and every one of you. I hope I've given you something to think about, because right now our country is in an onslaught. It's facing an onslaught of an attempt to undermine every single institution of admirable influence. They want to turn the Smithsonian into some kind of woke institution that's promoting this Howard Zinn type vision of American history. They want to denigrate the flag, they want to denigrate the Constitution, they want to denigrate the Declaration, they want to take down the statues of the Founding Fathers. And on and on and on it goes. And, we need to uphold those things that we know, remind us that America is an exceptional nation. Let's do it. Whether they like it or not, George Washington said, all we can do is hold up a standard to which the good and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God. God bless each and every one of you. As always, thank you so much for your prayers and support. If you'd like me to come and do a Truth Tour event at your church, your organization, contact me at truthtourstandinc.net that's truthtourstandinc.net or you can call me at 757-375-6444. Don't forget, I'm also the host of a program called Truth and Liberty, which you can look [email protected]. you, can see it on, God TV, the gospel Truth Network. Just check it out. Google it. Truth and Liberty with Bishop E.W. jackson. I have another person who hosts with me. Sometimes we're together, but most of the time we're hosting our own show. And that is Alex McFarland, the great, scholar, and apologetics teacher and professor. so it's a wonderful program. Check that out as well. And in the meantime, you know what to do. Stand up, step up, speak up, refuse to back up because we cannot be defeated if we will not quit because we are on God's side. God bless everybody.