Darkness is Not an Affirmative Force, God Calls Us to Be His Ambassadors
Abraham Hamilton III Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
Abraham Hamilton III This is the, Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
Abraham Hamilton III It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite, delivering people
Abraham Hamilton III out of the bondage of mainstream media and the philosophies of this world.
Abraham Hamilton III God has called you and me to be his ambassadors even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment.
Abraham Hamilton III And now the Hamilton Corner.
Broadcasting Live from Orlando for the Homeschool Legal Defense Association's National Leaders Conference
Abraham Hamilton III Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner right here on American Family Radio, where we, where we are broadcasting live from Orlando, Florida, as we are here for the Homeschool legal Defense Association's 2026 National Leaders Conference. I'm so grateful to be here with you. Abraham Hamilton III is my name. Mr. J. Mac, producer extraordinaire, often imitated, never duplicated, is with us here on site. My main man, 100 grand. Mr. Bobby has got the board on lock, enabling us to broadcast on location for this evening's program. And we are ready to rock and roll at this very minute. Many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. And as you do so, I want to encourage you to do so with intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on family and welcoming his view to govern, guide and to guard your not only understanding, but your engagement in your homes.
Live Locally in Your Homes, Husbands Love Your Wives As Christ Loved the Church
I say it repeatedly and I will say it again today, refuse to allow the headlines of the day, the stories of the day, the, the lying, talking snake media to manipulate you away from doing what is required of you right where you are. We must live locally. And as you live locally, that most, immediate engagement outlet for your living locally is right in your own homes. You know, husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her. Wives, love and submit to your own husbands as unto the Lord. Husbands and wives together rear your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, with husbands being ultimately responsible for that. As I am telling you that making that statement. God knows the stations of life that we are in. God knows some of us are in various stages. Some of you have adult children that are not in the home anymore.
Exalt the King of Glory Starting in Our Homes and Welcoming the Lord's Grasp
Some of you are grandchildren. Some of you may be widowers, some of you maybe widows. Some of you may never have had children. But the reality is this. We must exalt the King of glory, starting right in our own homes. And if we would welcome the Lord to grasp a hold of us in our homes, there's no question as to what we could accomplish. And it is, it should be instructive for us that Western civilization, including our own constitutional republic, where democrat features flows from, it flows outwardly from, the revelation of the imago dei. It flows outwardly from the application of a biblical worldview to society. We must never forget that it will never work in the reverse. You will not be able to start with an assessment of the features of Western civilization and then work toward trying to, cultivate some semblance of godliness or biblical fidelity. It will not work in that direction. Because if you have a godless pursuit of ordered liberty, guess what? You're where you're going to end up. You're going to end up at the same place where the godless end up. But if we would humble ourselves, this is what God tells us.
Humble Yourselves and Submit to God, Darkness Must Flee When the Light is Turned On
If we would humble ourselves and submit to God, Satan has no course, no option but to flee from us. That is the reality. If we would humble ourselves, submit to God, the darkness must flee. Which is why I say repeatedly, darkness is not an affirmative force, but it reoccupies the space that is vacated by the light and all that is necessary. And we know this intuitively, what is necessary to vanquish the darkness is to turn the light on. None of us goes home at the end of a workday. Many, many of you are going to do that in a few moments. You're heading home right now. So none of us say, hey honey, would you turn the darkness off? Nobody says that.
Turning the Light On with Intentionality by Turning to the Word of God
It is because we know that what is needed to vanquish the darkness is to turn the light on. If to turn the light on, that's what we, we need to have done. So as you're making your transition from your part time jobs to your full time jobs, let me remind you, do it. We must all do this with intentionality. And in light of that, I want to turn to the word of God.
God Opposes the Proud but Gives Grace to the Humble, Reading Isaiah Chapter Nine
But I'm going to start with a principle. Then I want to revisit a, a biblical text we've been talking about for quite some time. In James chapter 4, the Lord says this very plainly, that God gives greater grace. Therefore it says God is opposed to the proud. God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble. When the scripture says God gives greater grace, the Greek terminology there is maison karus. God gives maison kairos. He opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. And as, and this is really a part of my personal devotions, I don't, I don't usually do this for the show, but I was reading in the book of Isaiah. In Isaiah, chapter nine, there's a portion of Scripture that God identifies in his Word.
Assertion Made in Pride and Arrogance of Heart Diagnosing Israel's Stiff Neckedness
He says that this is an assertion made in pride and in arrogance of heart in Isaiah chapter nine. It's wedged between the text in chapters eight and chapters chapter ten, when the Lord prophesied specifically through Isaiah that the Assyrian empire would be used to judge them. He says it specifically in Chapter 8, reaffirms it in Chapter 10. But in between those, as he diagnoses the problems that Israel is displaying a stiff neckness that they're not properly discerning. He says this in Isaiah chapter 9, verses 8 through 10. This is what he says. The Lord sends a message against Jacob and it falls on Israel. All the people know it, that is Ephraim and its inhabitants, I'm sorry, and the inhabitants of Samaria, asserting, ah, in pride and in arrogance of heart. The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with smooth stones. The sycamores have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars. And the Lord makes this identification because the people of Israel. This is specifically referring to the northern kingdom of Israel prior to their conquest by the Assyrians. And unlike the southern kingdom of Judah, there was no back seats, there was no comeback from it. And the Lord says, this assertion is made in pride. You recognize that the bricks are falling. You see something is wrong. You seeing things are happening. But instead of those things provoking and a humility and a repentance and a turning to God, the Israelites unilaterally concluded, oh, well, the bricks have fallen. Well, we'll just replace them with smooth stones. Some translations there say dress stones. We'll just replace them with dress stones. The sycamores have been cut down. Notice have been cut down. So these are not sycamores that have just fallen by feature of natural occurrences. The there is an external force that has been applied to the sycamores that has led to them being cut down.
Prideful Assertion of Rebuilding While Ignoring External Forces, Absurd Assertions in Society Today
The Israelites in an undiscerning yet God says, and a prideful assertion says, oh, well, we'll replace them with cedars. Why am I presenting this? I'm presenting this to us today because many people in our country right now look around and say, man, things are going awry. What do you mean? You got a city Supreme Court justice who doesn't know what a woman is. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? And I said, then during her confirmation area, I said, this is one of the most absurd assertions I've ever heard in a confirmation hearing because she's inevitably going to be a part of the deliberating on a case that's going to go up, go before her. And what's happened since you've been on the bench, that exact same thing has happened. You know, in our society we have in conversations, I never forget what the state of Tennessee had to argue, had to argue that it had the lawful authority to protect its minor citizens from genital mutilation and chemical castration. And you have people saying, no, you can't do that. It's Marat like that, that's. Guys, that is absurd. We're right now and let's just be real about this and I'm not advocating in favor of this, but remember how up in arms our society was when Micah Vick was fighting dogs and dogs are being killed and all that kind of stuff. Didn't we just see women showing up in pink to support a woman who wasn't fighting dogs?
The Assertion of Pride in Rebuilding Without Turning to God or Considering Deuteronomy 28
She strangled her own three children to death. what is going on with us? Guys? This is crazy. But we need to be mindful of the notion that it is used from God's standpoint to be an assertion of pride, to say, well, we'll just build it, we'll just stop, you heard this before, we'll just build it back better. We'll just go ahead on and do it on our own with no consideration of the necessity of turning to God. And I will remind you again that this is also the people that have a Deuteronomy 28 that the first 14 verses of the chapter have. You know where Fred Hammond's song came from? We're Blessed in the City. Well, guess what? That chapter has double the amount of negative consequences. 28 entire verses that say if you do not hearken diligently to the Lord your God, then these things will befall you. And the Lord said explicitly, when the heavens, if the heavens are shut up as brass and there be no rain, that's not an occasion for you to start going around and hopping around a, fire dancing before a pagan deity who professes to be a deity over agriculture. No, if the heavens are shut up as brass, it is because God is trying to communicate to you that you have violated his standards, that you've gone crossways with him. But if we had this continued assertion that we're just going to, we're going to just fix it in our own strength, we're going to humanistically make the change.
Humanistic Change in Our Own Strength is Pride, National History Shows a Goliath Story
We're going to, we're going to do this on ourselves. I want to point out to you that the Lord, through the prophet Isaiah says, be careful because that is an assertion of pride. And put that together with what we just talked about from the book of James. How does God respond to the proud? Our national history, the United States of America's history demonstrates that a king is not saved by the might of his army. Our nation's history is a Goliath story. We had no business as a fledgling nation of colonists dethroning King George. That's our national fiber and fabric. So when we ask, well, what makes a nation great? I am, I rejoice at the notion that we have the most robust military in the world. But you know what? The Lord that I serve it, he doesn't need the most robust military to be victorious. Our nation's history demonstrates that. More importantly than that, the Word of God demonstrates that. So then what's needed? A booming economy alone does not make a nation great. Well, what makes a nation great? The scripture tells us Proverbs 14:34, Psalm 33.
Righteousness Exalts a Nation, Sinners Bring Reproach, Generalized and Particularized Darkness
Righteousness exalts a nation. Sinners are reproached to any people. If you're wondering what is happening to our society, people going crossways, people who seemingly would be intelligent, come up with the most ridiculous assertions. The Lord told us Isaiah 60 first. When darkness covers the earth, gross darkness covers the people. You have a generalized darkness in the society and you have a particularized darkness in the minds of people. We shared the data on this show that from within the last 25 years, the numbers of unmarried young men between the ages of 20 and 39 years old is now almost 2 to 1. Now almost 2 to 1. Guys, the issue that we have most prevalently is we must return to the Lord. But here's the thing, here's the thing.
God Ordained His People to Be His Hands and Feet, Not Afraid to Speak the Truth
God has ordained his people to be his hands and feet. And if we are going to allow cowardice to govern us to where we are afraid to open up our mouths to tell the truth. To tell the truth. I told you guys my story. I didn't know anything about, political assertions and all these kind of things. The first time I heard the word conservative, it was launched at me as an insult. Abe, you just a conservative. I had no clue what it meant. All I, ah, knew and I told him this. I said what? I know that the Lord has saved me and he's given me this. It's called His Word. And I'm going to live with every breath and that he gives me to live according to what he requires of me. But we have to say something. We have to stand up. We have to be willing to do the thing. And again, it shouldn't be surprising that when the Lord says, you are peculiar people, that we actually are viewed as being peculiar to the world. I said a long time ago, I'm not interested in ingratiating myself to the broad roaders. I'm not interested in that. I remember one time I showed up on Right Wing Watch. You know that. That little thing was on the website Right Wing Watch. You put me on Right Wing Watch.
Say What You Want, This is What the Word of God Teaches, We Are Ordained for This Moment
You know, I was like, what is that? You can say what you want, but this is what the word of God teaches. But we must have, we must have the wherewithal to say, listen, you can have your opinion, you can have your, your, Your delusion. You can say that this is, where you stand, but you have the right to be wrong. But I'm not going to allow your wrongness to cause me to be mute or to try to amend the truth of God's word. And here's the other thing, and I say this with repetition, but the fact that you and I are alive right now is not a conventional coincidence of modernity. Acts 17 says that God has divinely ordained before you and I ever inhaled or, exhaled one breath to be alive in this moment in. And then he told us why. So that we should seek God first. That, we would seek God and then be advocates of God being sought. So he's not surprised by the craziness that surrounds us. He's actually ordained us for this moment. So what are we going to do with it? What are we going to do about it? Will we love the Lord with all of our heart, our soul, our strength, and love our neighbors as ourselves? And that love for our neighbors is a love that is not based on convenience. But we love them in that fashion because eternity truly hangs in the balance. And if we have an eternal, seat for the love that we have and display for our neighbors, we'll have Jesus like compassion, which is not merely empathy. Jesus was moving compassion on the crowds. And guess what he did in response?
Love for Our Neighbors is Not Based on Convenience, We Have Jesus Like Compassion
He taught them many things. Guys, we've been ordained for this moment. Let's be about our Father's business.
A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
Joseph Parker Psalm 23, beginning at verse 1. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his Namesake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of, the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. All of Psalm 23,
Shining Light into Darkness, Homeschooling Movement Paved Way for Generational Disciple Making
Abraham Hamilton III Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
Abraham Hamilton III Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, everybody. We are live in Orlando, Florida for the 2026 homeschool Legal defense Association's National Leaders Conference. very simply put, I've, said this, and I'll say it again here, I believe that God allowed the homeschooling movement to be pioneered as a primary vehicle to, cascade generational disciple making and to pave the way for it to be done legally. when many of the pioneers of the homeschool movement in the 70s and 80s, began doing what they were doing, it was illegal in many states. And thanks be to God for the sacrifices, the courage and the conviction and investment that they made.
Assaults on Liberties Persist, Support HSLDA, pastors turned cowards by 501C3 Status
People like me and my lovely wife Maria can just breeze on in. But here's the thing. The assaults and the efforts to curtail those liberties are just as viable, if not even more today. So we must remain vigilant. If you are listening to this program, and I know there are lots of you who already are, discipling your children at the home and homeschooling, you need to join HSLDA because it is the premier ministry available to you to make sure that you are able to secure and advance your freedoms. And some of you who are listening are even second generation homeschoolers. It is because of your parents and grandparents investments that you're able to do what you do well. If you want to make sure that your children, and lord willing, your grandchildren have the freedoms that you enjoy, you, you need to support HSLDA right now. HSLDA.org is the website where you need to go full disclose closure. Most of you know I'm on the board for hslda and I'm grateful to God to be able to serve in that capacity. And the woman seated to my right is also on the HSLDA board. It is none other than the host of, the profound stirring purifier Heidi St. Jon podcast. It is the Heidi St. Jon, ladies and gentlemen. Please join me in welcoming her to the program.
Heidi St. John That was ridiculous.
Abraham Hamilton III In a good way. The best way possible. It was ridiculous. I Agree.
Heidi St. John Having me.
Abraham Hamilton III It's good to see you. It is good to see you. Really good to see you. Good to see you. Thank you for being here.
Darkness Reoccupies Space Vacated by Light, Pastors Hide Behind 501C3 Status Avoiding Truth
We had some conversations earlier today, and I wanted to continue those conversations on the air because you heard what I was saying just now. I often say on the show, darkness is not an affirmative force. It merely reoccupies the space that is vacated by the light. The simple reality is, in our nation, where we've been able to inherit the freest, most successful country in human history, that darkness can only advance without consent. That's right.
Heidi St. John And we're about to give it up. We're about to give it up. This is an amazing time to be an American. It's an amazing time to be a Christian. I've never seen more cowardice in our pulpits than I'm witnessing right now as I traverse around the country speaking to Christians. And I said, you know, at a church I was at, just a couple of days ago in Vero Beach, Florida, I said that what's happened is the C and the 501C3 has begun to stand for coward. It's turned our pastors and our. Our nonprofit leaders into cowards. And they hide behind the 501C3, and they'll hide behind it, and they'll say, hey, you know, I'm sorry, we're a nonprofit. We're not allowed to talk about that stuff. Which isn't true. No, by the way, not true. You know, the. The left has taken the lie of separation of church and state and infused it into the church and into our everyday conversations. And it's going to take courage.
Courage Needed to See 501C3 Stand for Courage Again, Not Mandatory for Churches
I want to. I want to see that. See, and 501c3 stand for courage again.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, well, that really, really makes me angry. Because if you're a church, you do not have an obligation to require to file or organize your assembly. As a 501c3 organization, by virtue of being a church, you are inherently exempt from federal taxation. A lot of people don't know that. It's on the IRS's own website, you know, it's on the website. I'll post a link to it in the show.
Heidi St. John Not kidding. I didn't even know that. I've been talking about this for years, and I didn't even know that's a fact.
Abraham Hamilton III You know, churches don't. Do not have to organize. As a 501c3 federal leader, you need
Heidi St. John to text that to me, brother.
Abraham Hamilton III I'm gonna.
Heidi St. John I'm gonna. I'm gonna light it up.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, I'll text it to you. I have it. I keep it at the ready because a lot of people say what you just said. I didn't know that the 501C3 racket was created. Yeah, I've seen it send to you right now. It's a racket was, was created as a.
501C3 Created as a Vehicle to Hinder the Church, Pastors Refuse to Support Christian Candidates
As a vehicle to, hinder the church.
Heidi St. John Well, it's worked.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, it's worked very well.
Heidi St. John It's absolutely worked very well. It has worked. And the number of pastors, I. You know this. In 2022, I ran for Congress, Washington state's third congressional district. And I approached probably roughly 200 pastors to say, listen, you know, Christian homeschool, mom, I live in your neck of the woods. I want to represent the values that made this nation the greatest nation on the face of the earth. I want to take those values to Congress. I want to represent them. And I would love the opportunity to speak to your church, to stand in the entryway, to just shake hands with your parishioners, to be able to hand out a leaflet to say who I am and please come out and vote. Do you know how many of those pastors replied to me in the affirmative? Out of 200?
Abraham Hamilton III No. I don't know.
Heidi St. John Two. Two. And, I'm here to tell you, Abraham, if the church would show up, if God's people would actually be the salt and light that he's called us to be, we would win.
If God's People Were Salt and Light, We Would Win, Righteous Are Bold As Lions
And we wouldn't just win marginally, we'd win in a landslide. If we took the principles of God's Word with us into the ballot box, we'd win. We'd win.
Abraham Hamilton III That is, that is. That's so true. it is. It's noteworthy. Look in the Book of Revelation. I'm sure I know you've read this. I have taught my own children this. when the. When the Lord lists those who have earned, qualified themselves for the Lake of Fire, and not only is it included in the list, but at the very front of the list, the first category of people who qualify for the Lake of Fire are the cowardly.
Heidi St. John Cowardice.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, the cowardly. Which is a contrast. One of the major features that Scripture explains is a characteristic of being filled with the spirit of God is boldness. For the righteous are as cowardly as lions. Did they watch the wizard of Oz? Righteous are as bold as the lion. There is a boldness that is produced there. And what's happening, what you're describing seems to fit this very well. Instead of being Salt and light. We're being lightly salted.
Heidi St. John Boy that'll preach.
Faith Should Speak in Every Area of Our Lives, Born for This Time in History
The Bible says in Psalm 107, 4, let the redeemed of the Lord say so. We are called to have a faith that speaks. Our faith should speak. It should speak in every area of our lives. And yet we see Christians who are saying, I'm just gonna stay here behind the four walls of my church and make sure that I get, you know, I get on the rotation for the potluck on Sunday and shame on us. You know, I loved how you ended your last segment when you said we were born for this time in human history. We've been appointed to live for such a time as this, and God has us here on assignment. The question is, what is the assignment? And will we show up?
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, absolutely. So, Heidi, since you posed the question, what is the assignment? What will we show up? Considering the fact that the Lord could have allowed us to be born in any other nation, I could be very easily be, you know, Chinese Hamilton. That's trans. That was a translation.
God Planted Us in This Nation, We Must Be Advocates of God Being Sought
That was a translation. You know, I could very easily be South Sudan Hamilton, you know, but the Lord allowed me to be a citizen of the United States of America. God. In the same text in Acts 17. Not only were we born for the time that God has planted us in, but the fact that we live where we live is a feature of God's design. Likewise, the Lord has his remnant in every country in every place. So full of the laws and the features. Article 4 guarantee of constitutional republican form of government. God knew we would inherit that. Does the Lord expect anything less of us than he expected of people like the apostle Paul knowing his rights as a Roman citizen to advance the gospel in the Roman Empire?
Heidi St. John No. And Paul appealed to Rome as a Roman citizen. He didn't hide behind you. I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ. You know, he didn't do that. He appealed to Rome as a Roman citizen in the United States of America. We are Caesar. We have this incredible opportunity, and there are a lot of people in this country now who are sitting in the halls of Congress, who are sitting in the Senate, who would like to see those rights stripped from us. You and I were talking about this today. the Islamification of America. It's happening on our watch. We are watching people who literally hate this country, who, you know, Monday morning are shouting, death to America, and Tuesday they're announcing a run for Congress. We gotta wake up. We gotta wake up.
Islamification of America is Happening, Muslims Are Not Here to Assimilate or Get Along
And this is where God's people can stand in the Gap and say, no, the Muslim faith is actually incompatible with the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution's not gonna defend itself. It's gonna take people who are willing and courageous and understand and honor and appreciate the sacrifices that were made so that you and I could live in the freest, most prosperous nation on the face of the earth. On balance, America has been a force for good around the country. What do you hear coming out of our leftist universities and out of our high schools? Oh, America is just a bunch of colonizers. Oh, America is just this evil place. I'm sure you've heard Hasan Piker talk how he hates America. Who's Hasan Piker hanging out with? Al Said. He's hanging out with Mandani in NewSong York. These people hate our country. And somehow we become so blind that we've allowed this socialist, mindset, this Islamist mindset to take root in our country. It's a cancer. And the only way to get it out is if people who love the country and love God will show up.
Islam is a Political System of Conquest, Not a Religion, Muslims Seek Sharia Law
Abraham Hamilton III It's funny you said that. I literally just shared on social, media, my X feed in particular, there were several Muslim clerics who were gathered and were speaking, explaining that Islam is not here in America to, get along.
Heidi St. John No, they're not.
Abraham Hamilton III that. So you rarely get this kind of candor, you know, you sometimes won't say rarely. It doesn't often occur. But he said it was Islam's compromise that led to the Muslims losing Spain. He says that. He said, yeah, he said that because we compromised, that's why we lost Spain. So we're not. We're learning from that era. We're not here in America to go along, to get along, and not here to assimilate. Yeah, no, he said it because I'm a Muslim, I should be expected that I believe Islam is the best. Islam is. Right. And yes, my goal is for America to become an Islamic nation. Yes, he said this explicitly. Yes, I want Sharia. M. Yes, I want Sharia. Which makes me think about Abdul Al Said because before he was running for the US Senate, he said himself likewise. He wants Sharia. But a few days ago in his interview with Jesse Waters on tv, he said, well, he's not trying to impose Sharia law on anybody. Should we believe him?
Heidi St. John No, he's a liar. He's a liar because he serves the prince of the darkness, the prince of the power of the air, who the Bible says is the father of lies. And so when someone doesn't serve the king of kings and the lord of lords, then he's serving the evil one. And so we know that he's lying. And actually, history tells us that he's lying. The Muslims are not here to assimilate and m Islam. And we need to stop calling it a religion. Islam is not a religion. It is a political system of conquest. And everywhere that it has ever gone, anywhere around the world. Watch what's happening in Nigeria right now.
Islam's Goal is Conquest, Not Assimilation, Muslims Seek Sharia Law in America
Everywhere that Islam has taken root, people have died. They are not here to assimilate. They're not here so that we'll, you know, turn five times a day and bow toward Mecca. They're here to say either you convert to Islam or be killed. Yeah, that's exactly what they're up to.
Abraham Hamilton III We'll pay the jizz you for a little while.
Heidi St. John Oh, yeah. Pay a little tax and then we'll kill you.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, yeah. And then we need to be clear about something. There's a reality of, you know, backslidden, slidden Muslims. And I said this all the time. I know quantitatively speaking, the majority of Muslims are not Al Qaeda, ISIS terrorists. But it doesn't require a majority. The estimates are that there are 5 to 6 million Muslims in America and the percentage of those who they determine call radicalized. And I even challenge that notion of radicalization, because I think you need to be honest about whether or not the people who they deem is radicalized, are they operating consistent with the teachings of the Quran, of the Hadith?
Heidi St. John Can they just call them nominal Muslims? yeah.
Abraham Hamilton III Or are they.
Heidi St. John You might be Muslim, but you're not following the Hadiths. You're not following Quran, because if you were, then. Then you and I are infidels and we should be killed for our faith.
Abraham Hamilton III Yes. That's what they.
Heidi St. John That's the truth.
Abraham Hamilton III That's what it's.
Heidi St. John I mean, I'm sorry if people don't like it. That's the truth. Read the Quran, read the hadiths. Right? Read how they treat women. Where are the feminists? I'd really like to know. I'd really like to know. As we're watching, the mutilation of young girls happening right here, now in the United States.
Radicalized Muslim Groups Buying Property, Establishing Mosques, Claiming Territory and Conquest
We watch how they treat their women. We watch how they view women in the public square, women at all. And I gotta tell you, I'm more concerned now than I have ever been. You and I both are friends with, Rick Greene, and I was telling you last night at dinner that, they recently had a close encounter with a radicalized Muslim group trying to buy property right next door to Patriot Academy in Constitution City, Texas. These people are moving into the, what we consider to be very safe red places and they are establishing mosques. And believe me when I say when they establish these places of worship, they are claiming a territory. That's exactly what they're doing. And I think it's time for Christians, and people. You don't even have to be a Christian to understand the history of Islam. And, and we need to have clear eyed conversations about it, not apologize for it. This is the truth. Are there backslidden Muslims? Yes. Are there backslidden Christians? You and I know lots of Christians who don't adhere to the Bible, who are sleeping around and not training their children up to love and follow Jesus Christ, but claim the name of Christ. Right. So there are Muslims who claim to be Muslims, but they are nominal Muslims. But if you're going to walk in the path of Allah, it's not going to be pretty for anybody who's in your path that doesn't convert.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah. And I was going to say when that, when the concept of colonization comes up, I think it's an, it's a remarkable omission that Islam has never discussed in the context of colonization that it is it without conquest and colonization, you don't get a Muslim North Africa, you don't get an Andalus, you know, an Islamic Andalus.
Islam is a Political System of Conquest, Not Religion, Dearborn Michigan Shows Colonization
It is not a social political system because it's not, it's not confined to religion. It is, it is a political system. It is, you don't get the establishment of the Caliphate, for example. Without conquest and colonization, it does not happen.
Heidi St. John Well, that's Dearborn, Michigan. Yeah, that's Dearborn, Michigan. It's conquest and now it's colon. It's colonization. Well, no, first it's colonization, then it's conquest. And listen, these people are running openly on their Muslim, their Muslim ideology. They're running openly that they want to, they want to see Sharia take place in the United States. When these people say who they are, we should believe them. We should believe them. And I don't know, I don't know what the. I had, was having this conversation with Rick Greene, with Bill Federer just a couple of weeks ago. I don't really know what the solution is except for us to begin city, by city and state by state, taking back our Christian, and our American tradition and saying if you're going to yell death to America in one, in one breath that you want to institute Sharia law. Bye bye. See you later. You know you can revoke citizenship from these people. Can we not?
Do We Have the Political Will to State Islam is Incompatible with Our Constitution?
Abraham Hamilton III Absolutely can't. We can. It's not a question of what can be done. The issue is do we have the will?
Heidi St. John Yeah. The political courage.
Abraham Hamilton III Because the United States of America. I just mentioned Article 4 of the US Constitution guarantees to every American citizen. So let me unpack a couple things. First things first. The ancient conversation about states rights is really a misnomer because the only within the American system of governance the only entity with rights is the individual. Is the individual. States have delegated powers. Well, who delegates the powers to the states? The people. The people. Article 4 of the US Constitution guarantees to every citizen a constitutional republican form of government. So any system of government that threatens that Article 4 right is by nature inherently unconstitutional. Now do we have the political will to state clearly this system of sociopolitical supremacy that denies our Constitution is incompatible with our Constitution? Do we have the will to say so?
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I think we need to have more conversations about utilizing the freedoms that we have to articulate clearly. No. Your system would subvert my Constitution, would deprive me, my wife, my six children of their Article 4 guarantee to be constitutional republican form of government. Our nation is not merely republic, it's a constitutional republic. What does that mean? And what does it mean to preserve that freedom for our children and our children's children? We need to have that conversation.
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Socialism is Unbiblical, Makes the State God, Leads to Human Misery and Rebellion
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Heidi St. John Contending on the Front Lines, Another Hamilton in the White House?
Abraham Hamilton III Welcome back to the Hamilton corner, Abraham Hamilton III here my guest is host of, the Heidi St. Jon podcast. a woman who's been contending on the front lines. Heidi St. Jon, thank you for being on the program here with me.
Heidi St. John Thanks for having me. I'm just waiting for you to announce a run for, for president. I was like, look, we're gonna have another Hamilton in the White House. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Abraham Hamilton III All right, well, you heard it here now. Just kidding. I wanted to ask this question because I didn't, I didn't intend for this to be kind of a Islam centric conversation, but hey, we're here already.
Michigan Attorney General Endorses Candidate Vehemently Hostile to Israel and Jewish People
I was sharing with you before we came on the program. Just today there was an interview from the Michigan Attorney General. I have her name here. It escaped me for a. Dannah Nestle is her name. Dannah Nestle is the Michigan Attorney General. She's a committed Nicholas Democrat. However, she's Jewish. She interviewed Syed and asked the question, is there room in a Syed perception of the state of Michigan for Jews? In light of this conversation. And the conversation ended with Dannah Nestle offering her endorsement for Abdul, Al Said, who is vehemently hostile to Israel and to Jewish people, yet she offers him her endorsement. We're seeing an ascendancy of this proverbial, and Bill Federer talks about it as well, this red green alliance, which I've explained to our audience here that it is not a novel feature. That red green alliance is literally what led to the Islamic revolution of Iran. It was Persia before the word Iran actually is a transliteration from Aryan. That's a lot to annihilate the Jews.
Marxists Lock Step with Islamists, Cultural Marxism Has Taken Root, Republicans Have Lost Their Footing
What do people need to understand when they see. Wait a minute, these Marxists seem to walk lock and step with Islamists in our country. What do people need to understand about that?
Heidi St. John Well, I mean, they need to understand that you can't have the Islamification of America without first becoming culturally Marxist. So that's what you saw in the Attorney General. You saw her, just bowing down and kissing the ring because she has a feeling. She's got a gut feeling. The, the Blue Dog Democrats are gone. Yeah, the Democrat party of the 1960s, the Democrat Party that my grandparents understood and they weren't Democrats, but I think, I believe that there is absolutely. I mean, actually if you went back, you know, 20, 30, 40 years, Republicans today are like the Democrats used to be. And the Republicans have really lost their footing too. Right. And so we're sliding farther and farther and farther into cultural Marxism. Even on the right.
Abraham Hamilton III Oh no.
Cognitive Dissonance on the Left, Embracing Ideologies Opposed to the American Way of Life
Heidi St. John And I ran against a guy when I ran for Congress who I told many people was so far right that he was lying left. And so you see people who Ben Shapiro calls are on the horseshoe, Right. Then you see people on the left and somewhere in the middle are common sense people. Al Sayed is not a common sense person. Al Sayed doesn't care one whit about the Jews. Again, we talked about this earlier. These people are liars. And this woman is a perfect example of, I'm going to burn the forest down for the trees. And so the cognitive dissonance that we see happening on the left right now, who are embracing ideologies that are absolutely opposed to the American way of life, opposed to our Constitution. Up until five minutes ago, Abraham, we believed and we agreed that America was the greatest country on the face of the earth.
Abraham Hamilton III Well, I still believe that.
Heidi St. John Right. We agreed. But as Democrats and Republicans, we agreed about this stuff. We don't agree anymore. We agreed that men are men and women who were men. We do not agree anymore. The chasm between the two, parties now, these two belief systems, these two platforms, is so great. We're not talking about Republican versus Democrat anymore. We're actually talking about good versus evil, right versus wrong.
Christians Have Abandoned the Sphere, Politics is Dirty, Separation of Church and State Myth
There is so much evil in our political system right now, largely because Christians have abandoned the sphere. We said, hey, politics is dirty. We don't belong in that separation of church and state. We're not allowed to talk about that. What's the one thing that you grew up hearing when you were a kid that we don't talk about at Thanksgiving? We don't talk about religion and we don't talk about politics. Except for Thanksgiving is nothing but religion and politics. And yet we were told, oh, you can't talk about those things. Christians don't do that in polite society.
Abraham Hamilton III The fact that you have a Thanksgiving holiday is because of religion, Religion and politics.
Heidi St. John That's absolutely right. And so we've been brainwashed and led to believe that somehow, as God's people, we don't belong in the political sphere. And pastors stopped talking about it. We stopped encouraging our people to vote. I don't know if I ever told you this, but my grandfather was a pastor at a little.
My Grandfather Took Me Campaigning for Reagan, Politics Determines Policy, Policy Shapes the Nation
Yeah, at a little evangelical free church just outside of Portland, Oregon. Or as my friends in the south call it, the Gates of Hell, whatever. So just outside of Portland, Oregon. And so that's where I grew up. And my granddad took me campaigning in the 80s for Ronald Reagan. So my grandfather, a committed believer, a pastor, took me, his young granddaughter, door to door, door knocking, because they understood that's how you win elections. And he would say, my name's Dan Forsberg. I'm the pastor of West Haven Evangelical Free Church. This is my granddaughter Heidi, and she'd like to say something to you.
Abraham Hamilton III She'd like to say something to you.
Heidi St. John And I would say, hi, my name's Heidi and I'm here to talk to you about Ronald Reagan. He's really running for president. And my granddad told me that as a Christian I had an obligation, a, duty to this country to pay attention to what was happening politically. He told. He was the one who told me, Heidi, politics determines policy and policy shapes the nation.
What Has Happened to Our Pastors? Allowing Evil to Fill the Vacuum in Politics
God's people should be in the policy making business. My granddad told me that as a pastor, what has happened to our pastors today, what has happened to God's people, that we would pull ourselves out, out of the realm of politics and allow evil to fill the vacuum. Or at the very least, people who are not discerning. And this takes me right back to what's happening in Michigan. How did we get Dearborn Mission in? If Al Said gets voted in to represent the great state of Michigan, it will be because God's people stayed home. That will be the only reason that it happens. It will be because God's people stayed home. Because I guarantee you, Al, Said and all the other Muslims who are running for office and around the country are not there because they want to get along with the Jewish population. They're not there because they want to make sure that Christians have a voice in the House of Representatives when they get in.
Islamification of Communities, Europe is Finished, Fiqh Council Funds Muslim Candidates
And we see this happening in communities all around the country. They will Islamify that community. And if you go against it, boy, I'll tell you what. Look what's happening on the streets of London right now.
Abraham Hamilton III Hm.
Heidi St. John Europe is finished, as far as I can tell. Unless something really amazing happens, European, Europe as we knew it is over.
Abraham Hamilton III It's interesting because people like Al Said will say things like, nobody's seeking to assert an advanced Sharia one at the exact same time. And this is something I just found in my own research, that there's something called the Fiqh Council, the Fiqh Sharia Council of North America. F I Q H. And they are the council, that kind of oversees mosques and, imams in North America. And they just issued what they call a zakat. I'm sorry? They just issued a ruling concerning the zakat, which is the Muslim tithe that says that you can collect money at the mosques so that you can fund campaigns for Muslim candidates. And their most immediate goal in the effort to Islamize the United States of America is to get 30 new Congress members, Muslim Congress members elected to advance the cause of Islam in North America.
Conservative Turnout Low, Muslims Turn Out Over 90%, We Need to Get Up and Vote
Heidi St. John They're well on their way.
Heidi St. John They're well on their way.
Abraham Hamilton III Well, you got the squad already.
Heidi St. John You do. And the other thing that's horrifying about this is that conservatives are showing up on average, in the last election, the turnout was averaging anywhere from 27 to 34%. Conservative turnout, you know the rate of percentage that Muslims are turning out to vote. Upwards of 90%. Upwards of 90%. And then people whine and cry, scalp. Believe it. I can't believe you lost. Well, how about you get up off your couch and you go talk to your neighbor. How about you talk to your kids about voting? How about you talk to your church and your pastor and your communities and the place that you work and you talk about the differences between the things that we believe in.
Freedom and Prosperity vs. Slavery and Objectification of Women, Horrified at What We Allow
One is, one would bring freedom and prosperity, the other would bring slavery, the objectification of women. People say, the feminists say, well, we don't want to be objectify women, but yet they let men into women's space. They're going to let the Muslims run for office and require Kathi Hochul, the governor of NewSong York. What in the world? What a hijab. What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? I am, I mean, afraid is not the right word. Horrified is a better word. I'm horrified at what we are allowing to take root in this country.
Founders Would Be Turning in Their Graves, Midterm Elections Are Vitally Important
Our founders would be, or, they'd be turning in their graves if there was such a thing. Men bled and died so that we could be free and Islam would enslave. And that's the bottom line.
Abraham Hamilton III This is, I want to invite you to talk about this and I think it would resonate deeply having run for Congress yourself. One of the least attended elections in our country happened to be midterm elections. only to be seated by primary elections during the midterms. You know, lots of people complain about candidates in general elections, but they show up during primary elections.
Joseph Parker Yeah.
Heidi St. John You don't get the candidate you wanted in the general because you didn't show up for the primary. That's the truth.
If Republicans Lose Control, Impeachment Hearings Will Begin to Cripple President Trump
Yeah.
Abraham Hamilton III And that's what's happened election after election over time.
Abraham Hamilton III That's led to where we are now. But would you speak to the necessity of showing up during this midterm?
Heidi St. John I don't think there's ever been a more important midterm than we have now. If we lose, if Republicans lose control of either the House or the Senate, I guarantee the impeachment hearings are going to begin. What they're trying to do is cripple President Trump. That really is the bottom line. They know they can't get much. Not going to be able to get any legislation passed. So the point is to cripple President Trump so that he can't continue with his agenda without being persecuted and tortured and followed all through the rest of his presidency. And the other thing that is really important for people to understand is to the left in this country, politics is religion. And they treat it that way. They treat it that way.
Politics is Religion to the Left, Christians Are Tired, Muslims Are Showing Up to Vote
They treat it like going to church. And it doesn't matter the messaging that you give, as conservatives in, if people don't show up. Mike Ferris told me a long time ago that the surest way to lose was just not to show up to fight the battle. And more and more Christians, I'm finding, and actually conservatives in general, I think they're tired. I think they want to win, right? And so when they don't win, they just go, oh, well, it's not worth it anyway. And you and I were talking about this before we started the show today, that if they don't show up, the future of our country is hanging in the balance, because guess what? The Muslims are going to show up. They're going to show up. I was just in Wilmington, North Carolina, and they've got a very important election coming up in this midterm as well.
Local Elections Matter, Ruining the Country One Paper Cut at a Time, Laziest Generation
And most of those people in that room didn't even know that there was a Muslim man running for Congress in, the seventh Congressional District. They didn't even know I was speaking in Vero Beach a couple days ago. I said, how many of you guys know who. The President of the United States. Everybody raised their hand. How many guys know the vice president? Raise your hand. Secretary of War, raise your hand. you know. And I said, how many of you guys know who's sitting on your city council? One person. Yeah, one person. Our cities are not being ruined by the federal government. No, they're being ruined one paper cut at a time by people who are being elected to city councils, who want to see things like charade, don't believe in male and female, are the distinctions between the two of them. Who want to see parental rights stripped away from the parents whose kids are attending the broken woke, disgusting public school system. This is happening on the local level. And when we say all politics is local, if people don't turn out, and this means you got to do something. We're so. I mean, Abraham, as you can tell, I'm very frustrated. I saw this when I was running for Congress.
Forsaking Our Duty to Vote Gives the Country to Those Who Hate It, Cuban Immigrant's Perspective
We are the laziest generation of Americans ever to exist in this country, that we would forsake our sacred obligation, our duty to Vote and give it to people who hate this country and would like to see it upturned and turn into a communist nation is astonishing to me as someone who loves this country, as someone who loves it.
Abraham Hamilton III It's one of the things that is the product of us having generational inheritors of freedom, that we haven't been the ones who've had to shed blood to secure it. And it's always a stark contrast. I, in an effort to maintain perspective in many ways and also for a lot of different reasons, I watch things like, immigrants who come to our country legally and how for things that many Americans take for granted, like jury service and the opportunity to vote, they look at these as highlights of existence. like I have. I didn't even know this. I learned recently that Cuba, which is an island, that is a tropical island, that the Cuban citizens are not allowed to go to the beach. They cannot go to the beach. The beaches are exclusively limited to tourists because the communist Cuban government is so deathly afraid of their citizens attempting to escape the island that they forcibly prohibit their citizens from going to the beach.
Heidi St. John A very dear friend of mine escaped from Cuba on a raft. And he tried the first time and was, jailed. He tried the second time.
Abraham Hamilton III Jailed for trying to leave.
Heidi St. John Jailed for trying to leave. He tried a second time and was picked up by the United States Coast Guard. And he said the best day of his life was when he set foot in Guantanamo. Guantanamo Bay. Best day of his life. You can bet that that guy shows up to vote. Yeah, you can bet he does.
Best Day Was Setting Foot in Guantanamo, Don't Bring the Filth of Communism to America
He was in, Miami beach not too long ago. I mean, this guy loves our country like no one I have ever seen because he's experienced what it means to live in communism. And he walked down a, section of Miami and they had pictures of communist dictators on there. And he started going into the stores and going, what are you guys doing? You don't like it here? Go back. You want a communist country, Go to a communist country. But don't bring the filth of communism to the shores of the United States and expect us not to stand up against it. And yet that's what we're doing. And when people don't vote, that's what we're going to get.
Midterms Require Full Investment, Trump's Actions Via Executive Fiat, Not Permanent Congressional Action
Abraham Hamilton III Midterms, man, are vitally important and it requires a, full orbed investment. A lot of the battles that need to be fought need to be fought during the primary stage and at earlier, areas. But we can't. We don't have deloreans. We can't go back in time now. So what are we going to do now with what we have? And one of the major problems on the national level working its way all the way down to the local level, but on the national level is the reality is much of what President Trump has done has been done by executive fiat, and it has not been established or made permanent via congressional action. But if you look back and I talk about Mr. Ice Cream and Mr. Biden, you know, but a lot of the things during his administration was passed via congressional action. Whereas President Trump in his first term and his current term, most of what's been done domestically is a product of executive fiat, which will not be permanent.
Heidi St. John Last no.
If We Lose the Midterms, We're Going to Lose America, Vote Like Our Lives Depend on It
Abraham Hamilton III And if there is not a congressional basis to assert legislation that will be made permanent, we're going to see a repeat of what happened from 2016 to 2020. If you just be done again from 2024 to 2028.
Heidi St. John Can't lose the midterms. If we lose the midterms, we're going to lose America. And I think that's really true. We got to vote like our lives depend on it. because they do.
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Darkness is Not an Affirmative Force, God Calls Us to Be His Ambassadors
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Broadcasting Live from Orlando for the Homeschool Legal Defense Association's National Leaders Conference
Abraham Hamilton III Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner right here on American Family Radio, where we, where we are broadcasting live from Orlando, Florida, as we are here for the Homeschool legal Defense Association's 2026 National Leaders Conference. I'm so grateful to be here with you. Abraham Hamilton III is my name. Mr. J. Mac, producer extraordinaire, often imitated, never duplicated, is with us here on site. My main man, 100 grand. Mr. Bobby has got the board on lock, enabling us to broadcast on location for this evening's program. And we are ready to rock and roll at this very minute. Many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. And as you do so, I want to encourage you to do so with intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on family and welcoming his view to govern, guide and to guard your not only understanding, but your engagement in your homes.
Live Locally in Your Homes, Husbands Love Your Wives As Christ Loved the Church
I say it repeatedly and I will say it again today, refuse to allow the headlines of the day, the stories of the day, the, the lying, talking snake media to manipulate you away from doing what is required of you right where you are. We must live locally. And as you live locally, that most, immediate engagement outlet for your living locally is right in your own homes. You know, husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her. Wives, love and submit to your own husbands as unto the Lord. Husbands and wives together rear your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, with husbands being ultimately responsible for that. As I am telling you that making that statement. God knows the stations of life that we are in. God knows some of us are in various stages. Some of you have adult children that are not in the home anymore.
Exalt the King of Glory Starting in Our Homes and Welcoming the Lord's Grasp
Some of you are grandchildren. Some of you may be widowers, some of you maybe widows. Some of you may never have had children. But the reality is this. We must exalt the King of glory, starting right in our own homes. And if we would welcome the Lord to grasp a hold of us in our homes, there's no question as to what we could accomplish. And it is, it should be instructive for us that Western civilization, including our own constitutional republic, where democrat features flows from, it flows outwardly from, the revelation of the imago dei. It flows outwardly from the application of a biblical worldview to society. We must never forget that it will never work in the reverse. You will not be able to start with an assessment of the features of Western civilization and then work toward trying to, cultivate some semblance of godliness or biblical fidelity. It will not work in that direction. Because if you have a godless pursuit of ordered liberty, guess what? You're where you're going to end up. You're going to end up at the same place where the godless end up. But if we would humble ourselves, this is what God tells us.
Humble Yourselves and Submit to God, Darkness Must Flee When the Light is Turned On
If we would humble ourselves and submit to God, Satan has no course, no option but to flee from us. That is the reality. If we would humble ourselves, submit to God, the darkness must flee. Which is why I say repeatedly, darkness is not an affirmative force, but it reoccupies the space that is vacated by the light and all that is necessary. And we know this intuitively, what is necessary to vanquish the darkness is to turn the light on. None of us goes home at the end of a workday. Many, many of you are going to do that in a few moments. You're heading home right now. So none of us say, hey honey, would you turn the darkness off? Nobody says that.
Turning the Light On with Intentionality by Turning to the Word of God
It is because we know that what is needed to vanquish the darkness is to turn the light on. If to turn the light on, that's what we, we need to have done. So as you're making your transition from your part time jobs to your full time jobs, let me remind you, do it. We must all do this with intentionality. And in light of that, I want to turn to the word of God.
God Opposes the Proud but Gives Grace to the Humble, Reading Isaiah Chapter Nine
But I'm going to start with a principle. Then I want to revisit a, a biblical text we've been talking about for quite some time. In James chapter 4, the Lord says this very plainly, that God gives greater grace. Therefore it says God is opposed to the proud. God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble. When the scripture says God gives greater grace, the Greek terminology there is maison karus. God gives maison kairos. He opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. And as, and this is really a part of my personal devotions, I don't, I don't usually do this for the show, but I was reading in the book of Isaiah. In Isaiah, chapter nine, there's a portion of Scripture that God identifies in his Word.
Assertion Made in Pride and Arrogance of Heart Diagnosing Israel's Stiff Neckedness
He says that this is an assertion made in pride and in arrogance of heart in Isaiah chapter nine. It's wedged between the text in chapters eight and chapters chapter ten, when the Lord prophesied specifically through Isaiah that the Assyrian empire would be used to judge them. He says it specifically in Chapter 8, reaffirms it in Chapter 10. But in between those, as he diagnoses the problems that Israel is displaying a stiff neckness that they're not properly discerning. He says this in Isaiah chapter 9, verses 8 through 10. This is what he says. The Lord sends a message against Jacob and it falls on Israel. All the people know it, that is Ephraim and its inhabitants, I'm sorry, and the inhabitants of Samaria, asserting, ah, in pride and in arrogance of heart. The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with smooth stones. The sycamores have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars. And the Lord makes this identification because the people of Israel. This is specifically referring to the northern kingdom of Israel prior to their conquest by the Assyrians. And unlike the southern kingdom of Judah, there was no back seats, there was no comeback from it. And the Lord says, this assertion is made in pride. You recognize that the bricks are falling. You see something is wrong. You seeing things are happening. But instead of those things provoking and a humility and a repentance and a turning to God, the Israelites unilaterally concluded, oh, well, the bricks have fallen. Well, we'll just replace them with smooth stones. Some translations there say dress stones. We'll just replace them with dress stones. The sycamores have been cut down. Notice have been cut down. So these are not sycamores that have just fallen by feature of natural occurrences. The there is an external force that has been applied to the sycamores that has led to them being cut down.
Prideful Assertion of Rebuilding While Ignoring External Forces, Absurd Assertions in Society Today
The Israelites in an undiscerning yet God says, and a prideful assertion says, oh, well, we'll replace them with cedars. Why am I presenting this? I'm presenting this to us today because many people in our country right now look around and say, man, things are going awry. What do you mean? You got a city Supreme Court justice who doesn't know what a woman is. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? And I said, then during her confirmation area, I said, this is one of the most absurd assertions I've ever heard in a confirmation hearing because she's inevitably going to be a part of the deliberating on a case that's going to go up, go before her. And what's happened since you've been on the bench, that exact same thing has happened. You know, in our society we have in conversations, I never forget what the state of Tennessee had to argue, had to argue that it had the lawful authority to protect its minor citizens from genital mutilation and chemical castration. And you have people saying, no, you can't do that. It's Marat like that, that's. Guys, that is absurd. We're right now and let's just be real about this and I'm not advocating in favor of this, but remember how up in arms our society was when Micah Vick was fighting dogs and dogs are being killed and all that kind of stuff. Didn't we just see women showing up in pink to support a woman who wasn't fighting dogs?
The Assertion of Pride in Rebuilding Without Turning to God or Considering Deuteronomy 28
She strangled her own three children to death. what is going on with us? Guys? This is crazy. But we need to be mindful of the notion that it is used from God's standpoint to be an assertion of pride, to say, well, we'll just build it, we'll just stop, you heard this before, we'll just build it back better. We'll just go ahead on and do it on our own with no consideration of the necessity of turning to God. And I will remind you again that this is also the people that have a Deuteronomy 28 that the first 14 verses of the chapter have. You know where Fred Hammond's song came from? We're Blessed in the City. Well, guess what? That chapter has double the amount of negative consequences. 28 entire verses that say if you do not hearken diligently to the Lord your God, then these things will befall you. And the Lord said explicitly, when the heavens, if the heavens are shut up as brass and there be no rain, that's not an occasion for you to start going around and hopping around a, fire dancing before a pagan deity who professes to be a deity over agriculture. No, if the heavens are shut up as brass, it is because God is trying to communicate to you that you have violated his standards, that you've gone crossways with him. But if we had this continued assertion that we're just going to, we're going to just fix it in our own strength, we're going to humanistically make the change.
Humanistic Change in Our Own Strength is Pride, National History Shows a Goliath Story
We're going to, we're going to do this on ourselves. I want to point out to you that the Lord, through the prophet Isaiah says, be careful because that is an assertion of pride. And put that together with what we just talked about from the book of James. How does God respond to the proud? Our national history, the United States of America's history demonstrates that a king is not saved by the might of his army. Our nation's history is a Goliath story. We had no business as a fledgling nation of colonists dethroning King George. That's our national fiber and fabric. So when we ask, well, what makes a nation great? I am, I rejoice at the notion that we have the most robust military in the world. But you know what? The Lord that I serve it, he doesn't need the most robust military to be victorious. Our nation's history demonstrates that. More importantly than that, the Word of God demonstrates that. So then what's needed? A booming economy alone does not make a nation great. Well, what makes a nation great? The scripture tells us Proverbs 14:34, Psalm 33.
Righteousness Exalts a Nation, Sinners Bring Reproach, Generalized and Particularized Darkness
Righteousness exalts a nation. Sinners are reproached to any people. If you're wondering what is happening to our society, people going crossways, people who seemingly would be intelligent, come up with the most ridiculous assertions. The Lord told us Isaiah 60 first. When darkness covers the earth, gross darkness covers the people. You have a generalized darkness in the society and you have a particularized darkness in the minds of people. We shared the data on this show that from within the last 25 years, the numbers of unmarried young men between the ages of 20 and 39 years old is now almost 2 to 1. Now almost 2 to 1. Guys, the issue that we have most prevalently is we must return to the Lord. But here's the thing, here's the thing.
God Ordained His People to Be His Hands and Feet, Not Afraid to Speak the Truth
God has ordained his people to be his hands and feet. And if we are going to allow cowardice to govern us to where we are afraid to open up our mouths to tell the truth. To tell the truth. I told you guys my story. I didn't know anything about, political assertions and all these kind of things. The first time I heard the word conservative, it was launched at me as an insult. Abe, you just a conservative. I had no clue what it meant. All I, ah, knew and I told him this. I said what? I know that the Lord has saved me and he's given me this. It's called His Word. And I'm going to live with every breath and that he gives me to live according to what he requires of me. But we have to say something. We have to stand up. We have to be willing to do the thing. And again, it shouldn't be surprising that when the Lord says, you are peculiar people, that we actually are viewed as being peculiar to the world. I said a long time ago, I'm not interested in ingratiating myself to the broad roaders. I'm not interested in that. I remember one time I showed up on Right Wing Watch. You know that. That little thing was on the website Right Wing Watch. You put me on Right Wing Watch.
Say What You Want, This is What the Word of God Teaches, We Are Ordained for This Moment
You know, I was like, what is that? You can say what you want, but this is what the word of God teaches. But we must have, we must have the wherewithal to say, listen, you can have your opinion, you can have your, your, Your delusion. You can say that this is, where you stand, but you have the right to be wrong. But I'm not going to allow your wrongness to cause me to be mute or to try to amend the truth of God's word. And here's the other thing, and I say this with repetition, but the fact that you and I are alive right now is not a conventional coincidence of modernity. Acts 17 says that God has divinely ordained before you and I ever inhaled or, exhaled one breath to be alive in this moment in. And then he told us why. So that we should seek God first. That, we would seek God and then be advocates of God being sought. So he's not surprised by the craziness that surrounds us. He's actually ordained us for this moment. So what are we going to do with it? What are we going to do about it? Will we love the Lord with all of our heart, our soul, our strength, and love our neighbors as ourselves? And that love for our neighbors is a love that is not based on convenience. But we love them in that fashion because eternity truly hangs in the balance. And if we have an eternal, seat for the love that we have and display for our neighbors, we'll have Jesus like compassion, which is not merely empathy. Jesus was moving compassion on the crowds. And guess what he did in response?
Love for Our Neighbors is Not Based on Convenience, We Have Jesus Like Compassion
He taught them many things. Guys, we've been ordained for this moment. Let's be about our Father's business.
A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
Joseph Parker Psalm 23, beginning at verse 1. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his Namesake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of, the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. All of Psalm 23,
Shining Light into Darkness, Homeschooling Movement Paved Way for Generational Disciple Making
Abraham Hamilton III Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
Abraham Hamilton III Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, everybody. We are live in Orlando, Florida for the 2026 homeschool Legal defense Association's National Leaders Conference. very simply put, I've, said this, and I'll say it again here, I believe that God allowed the homeschooling movement to be pioneered as a primary vehicle to, cascade generational disciple making and to pave the way for it to be done legally. when many of the pioneers of the homeschool movement in the 70s and 80s, began doing what they were doing, it was illegal in many states. And thanks be to God for the sacrifices, the courage and the conviction and investment that they made.
Assaults on Liberties Persist, Support HSLDA, pastors turned cowards by 501C3 Status
People like me and my lovely wife Maria can just breeze on in. But here's the thing. The assaults and the efforts to curtail those liberties are just as viable, if not even more today. So we must remain vigilant. If you are listening to this program, and I know there are lots of you who already are, discipling your children at the home and homeschooling, you need to join HSLDA because it is the premier ministry available to you to make sure that you are able to secure and advance your freedoms. And some of you who are listening are even second generation homeschoolers. It is because of your parents and grandparents investments that you're able to do what you do well. If you want to make sure that your children, and lord willing, your grandchildren have the freedoms that you enjoy, you, you need to support HSLDA right now. HSLDA.org is the website where you need to go full disclose closure. Most of you know I'm on the board for hslda and I'm grateful to God to be able to serve in that capacity. And the woman seated to my right is also on the HSLDA board. It is none other than the host of, the profound stirring purifier Heidi St. Jon podcast. It is the Heidi St. Jon, ladies and gentlemen. Please join me in welcoming her to the program.
Heidi St. John That was ridiculous.
Abraham Hamilton III In a good way. The best way possible. It was ridiculous. I Agree.
Heidi St. John Having me.
Abraham Hamilton III It's good to see you. It is good to see you. Really good to see you. Good to see you. Thank you for being here.
Darkness Reoccupies Space Vacated by Light, Pastors Hide Behind 501C3 Status Avoiding Truth
We had some conversations earlier today, and I wanted to continue those conversations on the air because you heard what I was saying just now. I often say on the show, darkness is not an affirmative force. It merely reoccupies the space that is vacated by the light. The simple reality is, in our nation, where we've been able to inherit the freest, most successful country in human history, that darkness can only advance without consent. That's right.
Heidi St. John And we're about to give it up. We're about to give it up. This is an amazing time to be an American. It's an amazing time to be a Christian. I've never seen more cowardice in our pulpits than I'm witnessing right now as I traverse around the country speaking to Christians. And I said, you know, at a church I was at, just a couple of days ago in Vero Beach, Florida, I said that what's happened is the C and the 501C3 has begun to stand for coward. It's turned our pastors and our. Our nonprofit leaders into cowards. And they hide behind the 501C3, and they'll hide behind it, and they'll say, hey, you know, I'm sorry, we're a nonprofit. We're not allowed to talk about that stuff. Which isn't true. No, by the way, not true. You know, the. The left has taken the lie of separation of church and state and infused it into the church and into our everyday conversations. And it's going to take courage.
Courage Needed to See 501C3 Stand for Courage Again, Not Mandatory for Churches
I want to. I want to see that. See, and 501c3 stand for courage again.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, well, that really, really makes me angry. Because if you're a church, you do not have an obligation to require to file or organize your assembly. As a 501c3 organization, by virtue of being a church, you are inherently exempt from federal taxation. A lot of people don't know that. It's on the IRS's own website, you know, it's on the website. I'll post a link to it in the show.
Heidi St. John Not kidding. I didn't even know that. I've been talking about this for years, and I didn't even know that's a fact.
Abraham Hamilton III You know, churches don't. Do not have to organize. As a 501c3 federal leader, you need
Heidi St. John to text that to me, brother.
Abraham Hamilton III I'm gonna.
Heidi St. John I'm gonna. I'm gonna light it up.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, I'll text it to you. I have it. I keep it at the ready because a lot of people say what you just said. I didn't know that the 501C3 racket was created. Yeah, I've seen it send to you right now. It's a racket was, was created as a.
501C3 Created as a Vehicle to Hinder the Church, Pastors Refuse to Support Christian Candidates
As a vehicle to, hinder the church.
Heidi St. John Well, it's worked.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, it's worked very well.
Heidi St. John It's absolutely worked very well. It has worked. And the number of pastors, I. You know this. In 2022, I ran for Congress, Washington state's third congressional district. And I approached probably roughly 200 pastors to say, listen, you know, Christian homeschool, mom, I live in your neck of the woods. I want to represent the values that made this nation the greatest nation on the face of the earth. I want to take those values to Congress. I want to represent them. And I would love the opportunity to speak to your church, to stand in the entryway, to just shake hands with your parishioners, to be able to hand out a leaflet to say who I am and please come out and vote. Do you know how many of those pastors replied to me in the affirmative? Out of 200?
Abraham Hamilton III No. I don't know.
Heidi St. John Two. Two. And, I'm here to tell you, Abraham, if the church would show up, if God's people would actually be the salt and light that he's called us to be, we would win.
If God's People Were Salt and Light, We Would Win, Righteous Are Bold As Lions
And we wouldn't just win marginally, we'd win in a landslide. If we took the principles of God's Word with us into the ballot box, we'd win. We'd win.
Abraham Hamilton III That is, that is. That's so true. it is. It's noteworthy. Look in the Book of Revelation. I'm sure I know you've read this. I have taught my own children this. when the. When the Lord lists those who have earned, qualified themselves for the Lake of Fire, and not only is it included in the list, but at the very front of the list, the first category of people who qualify for the Lake of Fire are the cowardly.
Heidi St. John Cowardice.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, the cowardly. Which is a contrast. One of the major features that Scripture explains is a characteristic of being filled with the spirit of God is boldness. For the righteous are as cowardly as lions. Did they watch the wizard of Oz? Righteous are as bold as the lion. There is a boldness that is produced there. And what's happening, what you're describing seems to fit this very well. Instead of being Salt and light. We're being lightly salted.
Heidi St. John Boy that'll preach.
Faith Should Speak in Every Area of Our Lives, Born for This Time in History
The Bible says in Psalm 107, 4, let the redeemed of the Lord say so. We are called to have a faith that speaks. Our faith should speak. It should speak in every area of our lives. And yet we see Christians who are saying, I'm just gonna stay here behind the four walls of my church and make sure that I get, you know, I get on the rotation for the potluck on Sunday and shame on us. You know, I loved how you ended your last segment when you said we were born for this time in human history. We've been appointed to live for such a time as this, and God has us here on assignment. The question is, what is the assignment? And will we show up?
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, absolutely. So, Heidi, since you posed the question, what is the assignment? What will we show up? Considering the fact that the Lord could have allowed us to be born in any other nation, I could be very easily be, you know, Chinese Hamilton. That's trans. That was a translation.
God Planted Us in This Nation, We Must Be Advocates of God Being Sought
That was a translation. You know, I could very easily be South Sudan Hamilton, you know, but the Lord allowed me to be a citizen of the United States of America. God. In the same text in Acts 17. Not only were we born for the time that God has planted us in, but the fact that we live where we live is a feature of God's design. Likewise, the Lord has his remnant in every country in every place. So full of the laws and the features. Article 4 guarantee of constitutional republican form of government. God knew we would inherit that. Does the Lord expect anything less of us than he expected of people like the apostle Paul knowing his rights as a Roman citizen to advance the gospel in the Roman Empire?
Heidi St. John No. And Paul appealed to Rome as a Roman citizen. He didn't hide behind you. I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ. You know, he didn't do that. He appealed to Rome as a Roman citizen in the United States of America. We are Caesar. We have this incredible opportunity, and there are a lot of people in this country now who are sitting in the halls of Congress, who are sitting in the Senate, who would like to see those rights stripped from us. You and I were talking about this today. the Islamification of America. It's happening on our watch. We are watching people who literally hate this country, who, you know, Monday morning are shouting, death to America, and Tuesday they're announcing a run for Congress. We gotta wake up. We gotta wake up.
Islamification of America is Happening, Muslims Are Not Here to Assimilate or Get Along
And this is where God's people can stand in the Gap and say, no, the Muslim faith is actually incompatible with the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution's not gonna defend itself. It's gonna take people who are willing and courageous and understand and honor and appreciate the sacrifices that were made so that you and I could live in the freest, most prosperous nation on the face of the earth. On balance, America has been a force for good around the country. What do you hear coming out of our leftist universities and out of our high schools? Oh, America is just a bunch of colonizers. Oh, America is just this evil place. I'm sure you've heard Hasan Piker talk how he hates America. Who's Hasan Piker hanging out with? Al Said. He's hanging out with Mandani in NewSong York. These people hate our country. And somehow we become so blind that we've allowed this socialist, mindset, this Islamist mindset to take root in our country. It's a cancer. And the only way to get it out is if people who love the country and love God will show up.
Islam is a Political System of Conquest, Not a Religion, Muslims Seek Sharia Law
Abraham Hamilton III It's funny you said that. I literally just shared on social, media, my X feed in particular, there were several Muslim clerics who were gathered and were speaking, explaining that Islam is not here in America to, get along.
Heidi St. John No, they're not.
Abraham Hamilton III that. So you rarely get this kind of candor, you know, you sometimes won't say rarely. It doesn't often occur. But he said it was Islam's compromise that led to the Muslims losing Spain. He says that. He said, yeah, he said that because we compromised, that's why we lost Spain. So we're not. We're learning from that era. We're not here in America to go along, to get along, and not here to assimilate. Yeah, no, he said it because I'm a Muslim, I should be expected that I believe Islam is the best. Islam is. Right. And yes, my goal is for America to become an Islamic nation. Yes, he said this explicitly. Yes, I want Sharia. M. Yes, I want Sharia. Which makes me think about Abdul Al Said because before he was running for the US Senate, he said himself likewise. He wants Sharia. But a few days ago in his interview with Jesse Waters on tv, he said, well, he's not trying to impose Sharia law on anybody. Should we believe him?
Heidi St. John No, he's a liar. He's a liar because he serves the prince of the darkness, the prince of the power of the air, who the Bible says is the father of lies. And so when someone doesn't serve the king of kings and the lord of lords, then he's serving the evil one. And so we know that he's lying. And actually, history tells us that he's lying. The Muslims are not here to assimilate and m Islam. And we need to stop calling it a religion. Islam is not a religion. It is a political system of conquest. And everywhere that it has ever gone, anywhere around the world. Watch what's happening in Nigeria right now.
Islam's Goal is Conquest, Not Assimilation, Muslims Seek Sharia Law in America
Everywhere that Islam has taken root, people have died. They are not here to assimilate. They're not here so that we'll, you know, turn five times a day and bow toward Mecca. They're here to say either you convert to Islam or be killed. Yeah, that's exactly what they're up to.
Abraham Hamilton III We'll pay the jizz you for a little while.
Heidi St. John Oh, yeah. Pay a little tax and then we'll kill you.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah, yeah. And then we need to be clear about something. There's a reality of, you know, backslidden, slidden Muslims. And I said this all the time. I know quantitatively speaking, the majority of Muslims are not Al Qaeda, ISIS terrorists. But it doesn't require a majority. The estimates are that there are 5 to 6 million Muslims in America and the percentage of those who they determine call radicalized. And I even challenge that notion of radicalization, because I think you need to be honest about whether or not the people who they deem is radicalized, are they operating consistent with the teachings of the Quran, of the Hadith?
Heidi St. John Can they just call them nominal Muslims? yeah.
Abraham Hamilton III Or are they.
Heidi St. John You might be Muslim, but you're not following the Hadiths. You're not following Quran, because if you were, then. Then you and I are infidels and we should be killed for our faith.
Abraham Hamilton III Yes. That's what they.
Heidi St. John That's the truth.
Abraham Hamilton III That's what it's.
Heidi St. John I mean, I'm sorry if people don't like it. That's the truth. Read the Quran, read the hadiths. Right? Read how they treat women. Where are the feminists? I'd really like to know. I'd really like to know. As we're watching, the mutilation of young girls happening right here, now in the United States.
Radicalized Muslim Groups Buying Property, Establishing Mosques, Claiming Territory and Conquest
We watch how they treat their women. We watch how they view women in the public square, women at all. And I gotta tell you, I'm more concerned now than I have ever been. You and I both are friends with, Rick Greene, and I was telling you last night at dinner that, they recently had a close encounter with a radicalized Muslim group trying to buy property right next door to Patriot Academy in Constitution City, Texas. These people are moving into the, what we consider to be very safe red places and they are establishing mosques. And believe me when I say when they establish these places of worship, they are claiming a territory. That's exactly what they're doing. And I think it's time for Christians, and people. You don't even have to be a Christian to understand the history of Islam. And, and we need to have clear eyed conversations about it, not apologize for it. This is the truth. Are there backslidden Muslims? Yes. Are there backslidden Christians? You and I know lots of Christians who don't adhere to the Bible, who are sleeping around and not training their children up to love and follow Jesus Christ, but claim the name of Christ. Right. So there are Muslims who claim to be Muslims, but they are nominal Muslims. But if you're going to walk in the path of Allah, it's not going to be pretty for anybody who's in your path that doesn't convert.
Abraham Hamilton III Yeah. And I was going to say when that, when the concept of colonization comes up, I think it's an, it's a remarkable omission that Islam has never discussed in the context of colonization that it is it without conquest and colonization, you don't get a Muslim North Africa, you don't get an Andalus, you know, an Islamic Andalus.
Islam is a Political System of Conquest, Not Religion, Dearborn Michigan Shows Colonization
It is not a social political system because it's not, it's not confined to religion. It is, it is a political system. It is, you don't get the establishment of the Caliphate, for example. Without conquest and colonization, it does not happen.
Heidi St. John Well, that's Dearborn, Michigan. Yeah, that's Dearborn, Michigan. It's conquest and now it's colon. It's colonization. Well, no, first it's colonization, then it's conquest. And listen, these people are running openly on their Muslim, their Muslim ideology. They're running openly that they want to, they want to see Sharia take place in the United States. When these people say who they are, we should believe them. We should believe them. And I don't know, I don't know what the. I had, was having this conversation with Rick Greene, with Bill Federer just a couple of weeks ago. I don't really know what the solution is except for us to begin city, by city and state by state, taking back our Christian, and our American tradition and saying if you're going to yell death to America in one, in one breath that you want to institute Sharia law. Bye bye. See you later. You know you can revoke citizenship from these people. Can we not?
Do We Have the Political Will to State Islam is Incompatible with Our Constitution?
Abraham Hamilton III Absolutely can't. We can. It's not a question of what can be done. The issue is do we have the will?
Heidi St. John Yeah. The political courage.
Abraham Hamilton III Because the United States of America. I just mentioned Article 4 of the US Constitution guarantees to every American citizen. So let me unpack a couple things. First things first. The ancient conversation about states rights is really a misnomer because the only within the American system of governance the only entity with rights is the individual. Is the individual. States have delegated powers. Well, who delegates the powers to the states? The people. The people. Article 4 of the US Constitution guarantees to every citizen a constitutional republican form of government. So any system of government that threatens that Article 4 right is by nature inherently unconstitutional. Now do we have the political will to state clearly this system of sociopolitical supremacy that denies our Constitution is incompatible with our Constitution? Do we have the will to say so?
Preserving Freedom for Our Children by Articulating That Your System Subverts My Constitution
I think we need to have more conversations about utilizing the freedoms that we have to articulate clearly. No. Your system would subvert my Constitution, would deprive me, my wife, my six children of their Article 4 guarantee to be constitutional republican form of government. Our nation is not merely republic, it's a constitutional republic. What does that mean? And what does it mean to preserve that freedom for our children and our children's children? We need to have that conversation.
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Socialism is Unbiblical, Makes the State God, Leads to Human Misery and Rebellion
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Heidi St. John Contending on the Front Lines, Another Hamilton in the White House?
Abraham Hamilton III Welcome back to the Hamilton corner, Abraham Hamilton III here my guest is host of, the Heidi St. Jon podcast. a woman who's been contending on the front lines. Heidi St. Jon, thank you for being on the program here with me.
Heidi St. John Thanks for having me. I'm just waiting for you to announce a run for, for president. I was like, look, we're gonna have another Hamilton in the White House. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Abraham Hamilton III All right, well, you heard it here now. Just kidding. I wanted to ask this question because I didn't, I didn't intend for this to be kind of a Islam centric conversation, but hey, we're here already.
Michigan Attorney General Endorses Candidate Vehemently Hostile to Israel and Jewish People
I was sharing with you before we came on the program. Just today there was an interview from the Michigan Attorney General. I have her name here. It escaped me for a. Dannah Nestle is her name. Dannah Nestle is the Michigan Attorney General. She's a committed Nicholas Democrat. However, she's Jewish. She interviewed Syed and asked the question, is there room in a Syed perception of the state of Michigan for Jews? In light of this conversation. And the conversation ended with Dannah Nestle offering her endorsement for Abdul, Al Said, who is vehemently hostile to Israel and to Jewish people, yet she offers him her endorsement. We're seeing an ascendancy of this proverbial, and Bill Federer talks about it as well, this red green alliance, which I've explained to our audience here that it is not a novel feature. That red green alliance is literally what led to the Islamic revolution of Iran. It was Persia before the word Iran actually is a transliteration from Aryan. That's a lot to annihilate the Jews.
Marxists Lock Step with Islamists, Cultural Marxism Has Taken Root, Republicans Have Lost Their Footing
What do people need to understand when they see. Wait a minute, these Marxists seem to walk lock and step with Islamists in our country. What do people need to understand about that?
Heidi St. John Well, I mean, they need to understand that you can't have the Islamification of America without first becoming culturally Marxist. So that's what you saw in the Attorney General. You saw her, just bowing down and kissing the ring because she has a feeling. She's got a gut feeling. The, the Blue Dog Democrats are gone. Yeah, the Democrat party of the 1960s, the Democrat Party that my grandparents understood and they weren't Democrats, but I think, I believe that there is absolutely. I mean, actually if you went back, you know, 20, 30, 40 years, Republicans today are like the Democrats used to be. And the Republicans have really lost their footing too. Right. And so we're sliding farther and farther and farther into cultural Marxism. Even on the right.
Abraham Hamilton III Oh no.
Cognitive Dissonance on the Left, Embracing Ideologies Opposed to the American Way of Life
Heidi St. John And I ran against a guy when I ran for Congress who I told many people was so far right that he was lying left. And so you see people who Ben Shapiro calls are on the horseshoe, Right. Then you see people on the left and somewhere in the middle are common sense people. Al Sayed is not a common sense person. Al Sayed doesn't care one whit about the Jews. Again, we talked about this earlier. These people are liars. And this woman is a perfect example of, I'm going to burn the forest down for the trees. And so the cognitive dissonance that we see happening on the left right now, who are embracing ideologies that are absolutely opposed to the American way of life, opposed to our Constitution. Up until five minutes ago, Abraham, we believed and we agreed that America was the greatest country on the face of the earth.
Abraham Hamilton III Well, I still believe that.
Heidi St. John Right. We agreed. But as Democrats and Republicans, we agreed about this stuff. We don't agree anymore. We agreed that men are men and women who were men. We do not agree anymore. The chasm between the two, parties now, these two belief systems, these two platforms, is so great. We're not talking about Republican versus Democrat anymore. We're actually talking about good versus evil, right versus wrong.
Christians Have Abandoned the Sphere, Politics is Dirty, Separation of Church and State Myth
There is so much evil in our political system right now, largely because Christians have abandoned the sphere. We said, hey, politics is dirty. We don't belong in that separation of church and state. We're not allowed to talk about that. What's the one thing that you grew up hearing when you were a kid that we don't talk about at Thanksgiving? We don't talk about religion and we don't talk about politics. Except for Thanksgiving is nothing but religion and politics. And yet we were told, oh, you can't talk about those things. Christians don't do that in polite society.
Abraham Hamilton III The fact that you have a Thanksgiving holiday is because of religion, Religion and politics.
Heidi St. John That's absolutely right. And so we've been brainwashed and led to believe that somehow, as God's people, we don't belong in the political sphere. And pastors stopped talking about it. We stopped encouraging our people to vote. I don't know if I ever told you this, but my grandfather was a pastor at a little.
My Grandfather Took Me Campaigning for Reagan, Politics Determines Policy, Policy Shapes the Nation
Yeah, at a little evangelical free church just outside of Portland, Oregon. Or as my friends in the south call it, the Gates of Hell, whatever. So just outside of Portland, Oregon. And so that's where I grew up. And my granddad took me campaigning in the 80s for Ronald Reagan. So my grandfather, a committed believer, a pastor, took me, his young granddaughter, door to door, door knocking, because they understood that's how you win elections. And he would say, my name's Dan Forsberg. I'm the pastor of West Haven Evangelical Free Church. This is my granddaughter Heidi, and she'd like to say something to you.
Abraham Hamilton III She'd like to say something to you.
Heidi St. John And I would say, hi, my name's Heidi and I'm here to talk to you about Ronald Reagan. He's really running for president. And my granddad told me that as a Christian I had an obligation, a, duty to this country to pay attention to what was happening politically. He told. He was the one who told me, Heidi, politics determines policy and policy shapes the nation.
What Has Happened to Our Pastors? Allowing Evil to Fill the Vacuum in Politics
God's people should be in the policy making business. My granddad told me that as a pastor, what has happened to our pastors today, what has happened to God's people, that we would pull ourselves out, out of the realm of politics and allow evil to fill the vacuum. Or at the very least, people who are not discerning. And this takes me right back to what's happening in Michigan. How did we get Dearborn Mission in? If Al Said gets voted in to represent the great state of Michigan, it will be because God's people stayed home. That will be the only reason that it happens. It will be because God's people stayed home. Because I guarantee you, Al, Said and all the other Muslims who are running for office and around the country are not there because they want to get along with the Jewish population. They're not there because they want to make sure that Christians have a voice in the House of Representatives when they get in.
Islamification of Communities, Europe is Finished, Fiqh Council Funds Muslim Candidates
And we see this happening in communities all around the country. They will Islamify that community. And if you go against it, boy, I'll tell you what. Look what's happening on the streets of London right now.
Abraham Hamilton III Hm.
Heidi St. John Europe is finished, as far as I can tell. Unless something really amazing happens, European, Europe as we knew it is over.
Abraham Hamilton III It's interesting because people like Al Said will say things like, nobody's seeking to assert an advanced Sharia one at the exact same time. And this is something I just found in my own research, that there's something called the Fiqh Council, the Fiqh Sharia Council of North America. F I Q H. And they are the council, that kind of oversees mosques and, imams in North America. And they just issued what they call a zakat. I'm sorry? They just issued a ruling concerning the zakat, which is the Muslim tithe that says that you can collect money at the mosques so that you can fund campaigns for Muslim candidates. And their most immediate goal in the effort to Islamize the United States of America is to get 30 new Congress members, Muslim Congress members elected to advance the cause of Islam in North America.
Conservative Turnout Low, Muslims Turn Out Over 90%, We Need to Get Up and Vote
Heidi St. John They're well on their way.
Heidi St. John They're well on their way.
Abraham Hamilton III Well, you got the squad already.
Heidi St. John You do. And the other thing that's horrifying about this is that conservatives are showing up on average, in the last election, the turnout was averaging anywhere from 27 to 34%. Conservative turnout, you know the rate of percentage that Muslims are turning out to vote. Upwards of 90%. Upwards of 90%. And then people whine and cry, scalp. Believe it. I can't believe you lost. Well, how about you get up off your couch and you go talk to your neighbor. How about you talk to your kids about voting? How about you talk to your church and your pastor and your communities and the place that you work and you talk about the differences between the things that we believe in.
Freedom and Prosperity vs. Slavery and Objectification of Women, Horrified at What We Allow
One is, one would bring freedom and prosperity, the other would bring slavery, the objectification of women. People say, the feminists say, well, we don't want to be objectify women, but yet they let men into women's space. They're going to let the Muslims run for office and require Kathi Hochul, the governor of NewSong York. What in the world? What a hijab. What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? I am, I mean, afraid is not the right word. Horrified is a better word. I'm horrified at what we are allowing to take root in this country.
Founders Would Be Turning in Their Graves, Midterm Elections Are Vitally Important
Our founders would be, or, they'd be turning in their graves if there was such a thing. Men bled and died so that we could be free and Islam would enslave. And that's the bottom line.
Abraham Hamilton III This is, I want to invite you to talk about this and I think it would resonate deeply having run for Congress yourself. One of the least attended elections in our country happened to be midterm elections. only to be seated by primary elections during the midterms. You know, lots of people complain about candidates in general elections, but they show up during primary elections.
Joseph Parker Yeah.
Heidi St. John You don't get the candidate you wanted in the general because you didn't show up for the primary. That's the truth.
If Republicans Lose Control, Impeachment Hearings Will Begin to Cripple President Trump
Yeah.
Abraham Hamilton III And that's what's happened election after election over time.
Abraham Hamilton III That's led to where we are now. But would you speak to the necessity of showing up during this midterm?
Heidi St. John I don't think there's ever been a more important midterm than we have now. If we lose, if Republicans lose control of either the House or the Senate, I guarantee the impeachment hearings are going to begin. What they're trying to do is cripple President Trump. That really is the bottom line. They know they can't get much. Not going to be able to get any legislation passed. So the point is to cripple President Trump so that he can't continue with his agenda without being persecuted and tortured and followed all through the rest of his presidency. And the other thing that is really important for people to understand is to the left in this country, politics is religion. And they treat it that way. They treat it that way.
Politics is Religion to the Left, Christians Are Tired, Muslims Are Showing Up to Vote
They treat it like going to church. And it doesn't matter the messaging that you give, as conservatives in, if people don't show up. Mike Ferris told me a long time ago that the surest way to lose was just not to show up to fight the battle. And more and more Christians, I'm finding, and actually conservatives in general, I think they're tired. I think they want to win, right? And so when they don't win, they just go, oh, well, it's not worth it anyway. And you and I were talking about this before we started the show today, that if they don't show up, the future of our country is hanging in the balance, because guess what? The Muslims are going to show up. They're going to show up. I was just in Wilmington, North Carolina, and they've got a very important election coming up in this midterm as well.
Local Elections Matter, Ruining the Country One Paper Cut at a Time, Laziest Generation
And most of those people in that room didn't even know that there was a Muslim man running for Congress in, the seventh Congressional District. They didn't even know I was speaking in Vero Beach a couple days ago. I said, how many of you guys know who. The President of the United States. Everybody raised their hand. How many guys know the vice president? Raise your hand. Secretary of War, raise your hand. you know. And I said, how many of you guys know who's sitting on your city council? One person. Yeah, one person. Our cities are not being ruined by the federal government. No, they're being ruined one paper cut at a time by people who are being elected to city councils, who want to see things like charade, don't believe in male and female, are the distinctions between the two of them. Who want to see parental rights stripped away from the parents whose kids are attending the broken woke, disgusting public school system. This is happening on the local level. And when we say all politics is local, if people don't turn out, and this means you got to do something. We're so. I mean, Abraham, as you can tell, I'm very frustrated. I saw this when I was running for Congress.
Forsaking Our Duty to Vote Gives the Country to Those Who Hate It, Cuban Immigrant's Perspective
We are the laziest generation of Americans ever to exist in this country, that we would forsake our sacred obligation, our duty to Vote and give it to people who hate this country and would like to see it upturned and turn into a communist nation is astonishing to me as someone who loves this country, as someone who loves it.
Abraham Hamilton III It's one of the things that is the product of us having generational inheritors of freedom, that we haven't been the ones who've had to shed blood to secure it. And it's always a stark contrast. I, in an effort to maintain perspective in many ways and also for a lot of different reasons, I watch things like, immigrants who come to our country legally and how for things that many Americans take for granted, like jury service and the opportunity to vote, they look at these as highlights of existence. like I have. I didn't even know this. I learned recently that Cuba, which is an island, that is a tropical island, that the Cuban citizens are not allowed to go to the beach. They cannot go to the beach. The beaches are exclusively limited to tourists because the communist Cuban government is so deathly afraid of their citizens attempting to escape the island that they forcibly prohibit their citizens from going to the beach.
Heidi St. John A very dear friend of mine escaped from Cuba on a raft. And he tried the first time and was, jailed. He tried the second time.
Abraham Hamilton III Jailed for trying to leave.
Heidi St. John Jailed for trying to leave. He tried a second time and was picked up by the United States Coast Guard. And he said the best day of his life was when he set foot in Guantanamo. Guantanamo Bay. Best day of his life. You can bet that that guy shows up to vote. Yeah, you can bet he does.
Best Day Was Setting Foot in Guantanamo, Don't Bring the Filth of Communism to America
He was in, Miami beach not too long ago. I mean, this guy loves our country like no one I have ever seen because he's experienced what it means to live in communism. And he walked down a, section of Miami and they had pictures of communist dictators on there. And he started going into the stores and going, what are you guys doing? You don't like it here? Go back. You want a communist country, Go to a communist country. But don't bring the filth of communism to the shores of the United States and expect us not to stand up against it. And yet that's what we're doing. And when people don't vote, that's what we're going to get.
Midterms Require Full Investment, Trump's Actions Via Executive Fiat, Not Permanent Congressional Action
Abraham Hamilton III Midterms, man, are vitally important and it requires a, full orbed investment. A lot of the battles that need to be fought need to be fought during the primary stage and at earlier, areas. But we can't. We don't have deloreans. We can't go back in time now. So what are we going to do now with what we have? And one of the major problems on the national level working its way all the way down to the local level, but on the national level is the reality is much of what President Trump has done has been done by executive fiat, and it has not been established or made permanent via congressional action. But if you look back and I talk about Mr. Ice Cream and Mr. Biden, you know, but a lot of the things during his administration was passed via congressional action. Whereas President Trump in his first term and his current term, most of what's been done domestically is a product of executive fiat, which will not be permanent.
Heidi St. John Last no.
If We Lose the Midterms, We're Going to Lose America, Vote Like Our Lives Depend on It
Abraham Hamilton III And if there is not a congressional basis to assert legislation that will be made permanent, we're going to see a repeat of what happened from 2016 to 2020. If you just be done again from 2024 to 2028.
Heidi St. John Can't lose the midterms. If we lose the midterms, we're going to lose America. And I think that's really true. We got to vote like our lives depend on it. because they do.
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