Today's Issues continues on AFR with Tim Wildman and Fred Jackson
>> Fred Jackson: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to AFR again. It's Thursday, August 27th. We appreciate you listening. And Ray, Pritchard is in Florida. Ray is back in the saddle with us after being gone about a month. and then, studio with me is Fred Jackson. And now Steve Paisley Doradoff.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: all right, so we, again, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody who listens to American Family Radio and tunes into this show. We do have this available in a podcast form, don't we, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Absolutely. And, go to afr.net it is just a, a plethora.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, it is availabilities.
>> Fred Jackson: so I invite you to go there. Podcast. Podcasts for. Not only for our program, but, podcasts from a variety of our stars.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, like Bishop Jackson.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you need to download our podcast first.
Tim Wildmouth grew up attending Mississippi State football games with his dad
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: For today's priorities. Because when we look at the number, we want to be number one, okay. In the podcast on American Family Radio. I mean, it's college football season. Who doesn't want to be number one, right?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, that's right. That's going to any games this year, Tim?
>> Tim Wildmon: you know, I don't go as much as I used to. I used to make one game a season. Oh, yeah. what happened? I grew up. You've asked me this question now. Now you've been. You've unwound. You've unwound my whole life of college football. Because my dad, everybody's got their hobbies and what the interest and everything. But my dad, back in the 70s, Don Wildmouth, founder of this ministry, he was a Methodist minister, but, he would buy season tickets for Mississippi State football.
>> Fred Jackson: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I would get so excited when I would go to them in August. I'd be looking for the season ticket package to come in the mail, and I'd go the mail every day, you know, and then that one day they would. There were. The tickets would arrive, like Christmas. Oh, yeah. Better than Christmas because we were undefeated. Like, 0 and 0 was the record, you know? So, I would. But I'd look at the kitchen table and the color of the tickets and the. Hey, they're playing LSU this weekend. They're playing Alabama. They're playing Tennessee and Memphis. Or. And then you got your traditional Egg bowl rival game with Ole Miss. It's going to be at Starbull. Anyway, it was just so exciting to me as, as a, as a kid to. To have those season tickets in my hand. And my dad, you know, he sacrificed because we didn't have a lot of money, but, he would buy those season tickets because he wanted. He would buy four of them usually, because, me and, my, you know, either My brother, who's 8, or one of my two sisters, somebody in the family would go, sure, sure. But, yeah, those were. Those were fun memories I have of my time with my dad. He would take me to these games and, then Ray, I learned a. I don't know what you are thinking. I learned, you know, somewhere along 13 or 14, I learned that, being a Mississippi State football fan was going to be a rough life's path, so to speak. And that probably wasn't going to change. And so, you know, we all have our good and bads. Yeah. I still stay with. Yeah, you triggered me, Fred. You triggered.
>> Tim Wildmon: Doesn't matter. Win or lose, your team.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. No, it doesn't matter. Well, it does matter about your attitude. Don't win or lose.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But you're going to, you know.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But once you're a fan and it's in your blood for whatever school you pull for.
>> Tim Wildmon: Doesn't matter.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're not. You can't switch over, you know, you can't switch over.
>> Tim Wildmon: You can't. No.
>> Tim Wildmon: So one other thing about that. I was at the, one of the highlights of my sports life and my time with my dad. We were in Jackson, Mississippi in 1980 at a football game. We drove down from, Tupelo to Jackson three hours at the time, and they were playing the University of Alabama Roll Tide.
>> Steve Jordahl: I have to say that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. well, okay, that's fine. So we walk in the stadium and lean in against the goal post. As he traditionally did for the, Alabama Crimson Tide was the head coach, none other than Bear Bryant.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who coached Alabama through the 60s. And this, part of the 60s, I think, certainly the 70s and into the 80s, part of the 80s, till he passed, but so he's with his hounds, too. Cat. Cat hat on. I mean, this was. You just look and you go, that is Bear Bryant.
>> Fred Jackson: Wow.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right down there, you know, it's like, wow. You know. And, Alabama was a powerhouse as they were under Bear Bryant and a national powerhouse. They had won like 20, I want to say 27 games in a row or something like that at that point. and just, you know, just beat the stew out of every team they played almost. And so Mississippi State went, battled them tooth and nail for four quarters and ended up shocking the world by winning six to three.
>> Fred Jackson: Serious.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. No touchdowns. State had two field goals and Alabama had one field go. And Alabama drove down to the three yard line with like a minute to go. Almost punched it in, but they fumbled. Our guy hit him and they fumbled. But, it was, but so it was, it was defeating the number one team in America.
Bear Bryant was at Alabama from 1958 through 1982
And Bear Bryant made to have been there.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. Great moments.
>> Tim Wildmon: Course, after that game was over, the number of people who said they were there grew by like ten foot. Tenfold in the next few days. You know, anyway, that was a lifelong memory. When you say, college football, that's what I, that's my best fond memory.
>> Steve Jordahl: So Bear Bryant was at Alabama from 1958 all the way through 1982.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. It's all through the 60s and 70s and into the 80s.
>> Steve Jordahl: He went 232 and 46 and nine ties. And you were at one of those 46 losses.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you know what he did after the game? Bear Bryant. Of course, this was. I don't think, I don't think Mississippi State was even ranked at the time. They may have been, but I don't think they were even ranked. And Alabama was, consensus number one. And then, Bear Bryant went into the Mississippi State, locker room, Locker room after the game to congratulate the Mississippi State players.
>> Fred Jackson: Wow.
>> Steve Jordahl: His class.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: For, for how hard they played and for pulling off the victory. This is after he had suffered a, A loss. Of course. It was rare for him anyway.
>> Steve Jordahl: Heather's dad is a, Was an insurance salesman, ah, businessman down in.
>> Tim Wildmon: Your wife.
>> Steve Jordahl: My wife's father in Columbus, Mississippi. And so he used, he would use season, tickets, to help sell insurance. I mean he was part of his.
>> Tim Wildmon: For, For University. Alabama.
>> Steve Jordahl: He had tickets, season tickets to both Alabama and the state.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: Because And my wife went to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because he did business in Alabama and Mississippi or something.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, because they were a family. Had were fans of Alabama and Mississippi State was more the business that got.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because he did business in this. Okay, I got you.
>> Steve Jordahl: but, but that My wife tells the story of going to like an Alabama game in the morning, and then hit heading to State in the afternoon after the game and going two college games in one day. That's a lot of football.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways, college football season is almost here for those who find a break from. Talk about reality, who enjoy a little break from The. The hard news of the day. Although when you're a Mississippi State fan, you get a lot of hard news, but you sign up for it. Or at least my dad signed me up for a lifetime of it. So you take. Hey, that's why victories are sweet to people who don't get them every weekend, right?
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Victories are sweet.
>> Fred Jackson: I understand.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to today's issues that your trip down baby boomer memory lane right there.
>> Fred Jackson: That's good stuff.
There is a lunar eclipse happening tonight. So, you know, a solar eclipse
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve, what's your first?
>> Steve Jordahl: I am looking forward to tonight. There is a lunar eclipse happening tonight.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, the blood moon.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. So, you know, a solar eclipse is when the moon gets between the sun and the Earth and the moon's shadow crosses the earth. And it just so happens God designed it so that the diameter of the moon is exactly the same from our perspective, the distances as the sun. And so you get this corona effect. Well, a lunar eclipse is when the Earth gets between the sun and the moon, and the shadow of the earth passes through the moon, darkens the moon. So if you are in the central time zone, you can see the eclipse begin. And by the way, if you're on the eastern coast, you can just add an hour to all of these times. But in the central time zone, the eclipse will begin at 8:23. It will reach its maximum, darkness at 11:12pm so on the East coast, it would be 12:12, and it would end at 2:01.
>> Steve Jordahl: And so you can watch it anywhere you, And if there's a. Hopefully you'll need a clear sky. Hopefully there will be one we. We're supposed to have, at least here in Mississippi. That's what our weather is supposed to look like. So, if you want to see the lunar eclipse, those are the hours. And,
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Ray, is a blood moon in Bible prophecy?
>> Tim Wildmon: Absolutely.
>> Tim Wildmon: Like the nights, Joe?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I didn't say that, but the blood moon is in the B3 places. Joel, chapter two and Acts, chapter two, quoted by Peter on the day of Pentecost. And then something about the moon, and turning to blood. Also, in the great cataclysms that are mentioned in Revelation, chapter six. So, Fred, it's there, right? That's right, it's there.
>> Steve Jordahl: Is it talking about an eclipse?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well. Well, go ahead, Ray. Well, I don't. You know, there was a book written, a few years ago that famously talked about the blood moons, and evidently that it was a sign of the soon return of the Lord Jesus. Well, Fred, I'm on the side of those who believe Jesus is coming again.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I, believe he's coming again soon. I don't know how anybody can. I don't know how you can look at this blood moon that's going to happen tonight and say definitively. How could anybody say definitively this is somehow related to the book of Joel or the book of acts or Revelation 6. All I know is the Bible does talk about, the strange astronomical events that will happen surrounding the return of Christ. maybe we should say the blood moon that's going to happen tonight may not be the book of Revelation fulfillment, but it reminds us of what the Bible does say ought to be a reminder. He is coming back. Everybody get ready. He's coming soon.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right. And all these other things. we've talked about weather a lot over the last couple of months. We've talked about earthquakes. Venezuela, Colombia, we've seen earthquakes in many different places, a lot of weather phenomena. The Bible talks about the earth groaning M and when I look at these stories, when I look at these events, this creation of God we call Earth, it is groaning and it is longing for a new beginning. And the Bible talks about there will be a new heaven and a new Earth. So, you know, we certainly don't celebrate the tragedies and it's horrible, the death tolls in Venezuela, earthquakes, etc. But at the same time, when we look at scripture, we look scriptural prophecy, we can see that we are approaching the end, there's an end to it, that the earth doesn't go on and on. And I believe the next step is the Rapture and after that the thousand year reign of Jesus Christ and then the new heaven and new Earth. So, I was talking to somebody the other day. They were looking at everything that's going on politically in this country, what's happening around the world. And we were just saying, you know, we ought not to get down and depressed about that because we have a tremendous future ahead of us as believers. You know, we're going to be part of this. The Bible says we're going to rule and reign with Christ during that millennium period and then a new heaven and a new earth. as you get older, also you celebrate the fact we're going to get new bodies. I do. one thing for sure, there's not going to be any hospitals or medical offices in heaven. And so it's all good ahead for us, guys. We ought to be optimistic and we ought to be able to talk optimistically and tell people what our hope is. And our hope is in Jesus Christ and what he accomplished for us on Calvary's cross and what that does for us, our relationship with the Heavenly Father and you know, who loves us and gave his Son for us. So it's all good news around this. We ought not to get too down about what we see happening in the news. I'm in the news business, but I tell you what, I try to look beyond that. That's why I have morning devotions. I get up early around 3 o' clock in the morning and I have my devotions. And I'm reminded each time we have a God who is in control. And whatever happens today, I, often think about this, whatever happens today, God is still in control.
>> Steve Jordahl: What will we be talking about on today's issues during, that time?
Steve: I would just say one year at a time, Steve
>> Fred Jackson: Today's issues.
>> Steve Jordahl: I mean, we love this show. It's fun to do. and we have good news during what time? During the thousand year reign, and the eternity with God.
>> Fred Jackson: I don't think I want to
>> Steve Jordahl: keep doing this, but we can talk about God's glory and all the things, planets he's created.
>> Tim Wildmon: I would just say one year at a time, Steve. Let's take it one year at a time.
>> Fred Jackson: can you imagine that today's cross,
>> Tim Wildmon: that eternal bridge when we get there?
>> Fred Jackson: All good news.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Ah, yeah, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Here's what Jesus is saying today. You know what's going on in Jerusalem.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because you know, the other day I was listening on my XM serious radio in the car. And channel 460 on XM series is the Billy Graham Channel, which you can listen to Billy's sermons 24 hours, hours a day. And this kind of ties back in Steve, to the, to the story about the, the blood moon he was doing. And this was a sermon from 50, 54 years ago called America. The handwriting is on the wall from Daniel, chapter five. That was great. Great. Billy preached this in his own, that inimitable style. And he said at the beginning of his sermon, which made me something, Fred, you should maybe think of. Billy said, okay, if you're going to study the book of Daniel, you need to have the book of Daniel in one hand, you need to have the book of Revelation in the other hand. And then he said, you need to have the newspaper in between because Daniel in Revelation will tell you what's going to happen. And the newspaper tells you what is happening, but the Bible tells you what it all means. And I think Dr. Graham was exactly right. Yeah.
The moon will appear orange red during tonight's total eclipse
So, folks, what time. Okay, I'm in the eastern time zone, so I got to be out there. What time do I need to be outside to watch this tonight?
>> Steve Jordahl: well, it'll start for your time. It'll start about 9:23. The best time to watch, according to what I'm reading, is go out around 11:30. Right. And you'll give yourself plenty of time to see the moon.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it's max 10:30pm for those in the central time zone, correct?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And then about 40, five minutes, later or so, you'll see the maximum eclipse.
>> Tim Wildmon: And the point being that because of the. I don't. Maybe, Steve, you can explain the science behind it, but the moon actually will appear to turn orange red.
>> Steve Jordahl: The shadow of the Earth covers the moon, and so the moon will be in shadow. And so, the way that'll look is that the. The. It'll be reddish because that's the light that will be able to bleed through.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then we'll all hear Cat Stevens in the background, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: We just might.
>> Tim Wildmon: Moon shadow. Moon shadow.
>> Fred Jackson: Huh?
>> Tim Wildmon: remember that song? You played that a few times, didn't you, as a dj, didn't you?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah. Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: He became a Muslim.
>> Fred Jackson: He did.
>> Steve Jordahl: His name is Yusef Stevens. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And moved to England, I think, or Britain somewhere.
>> Fred Jackson: All right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Tim, Fred, Steve and Ray. Go ahead, Steve.
Italian surgeons have successfully performed the first eye transplant using artificial intelligence
Next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: surgeons, at the university eye clinic in Molinette Hospital in Turin, Italy, have successfully performed the first eye transplant. This is a woman who was in a car accident, and they transplanted the healthy parts of one eye, into both eyes were damaged. One eye, the optic nerve was damaged, but the front part of the eye was good. In the second eye, the front part was damaged, but the optic nerve was good. So they just took the good parts of the eye and, and, transplanted it over to the one that was damaged. And she has one good eye, and it's working now.
>> Tim Wildmon: she was blind.
>> Steve Jordahl: She was, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: For a number of years, wasn't it?
>> Steve Jordahl: She was left completely blind after a car accident. And then, she was 67 years old when this surgery happened now. And, she had lost her vision in a severe car accident. and, her right eye, which had already experienced damage due to macular degeneration, suffered trauma from the accident. It damaged the retina, which covers the, Which converts light into signals and send those signals through the optic nerve. To the brain. and so they took the other eye and they replaced it. Now, I did something, I took this story that you sent around, Tim, and I put it into AI And I said, I told AI. I said, make me a chart, an illustration that shows the eye and the parts. What they did. And this is what. And I emailed this to, Brent. It's on our Facebook page. Ray, I emailed you a copy of this. This is what AI did, folks. you can go to our Facebook
>> Tim Wildmon: page, Today's issues Facebook page. Okay, gotcha.
>> Steve Jordahl: They, yeah. And this is all produced by artificial intelligence. This is what Chat GPT drew simply based on the text of this article. It's amazing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. Ah. The AI, GTP chat or the surgery
>> Steve Jordahl: for me, I. I asked you to do this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Both are amazing.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Both, yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: the surgery itself. So this lady, imagine being blind. Now, she could see. She wasn't born blind. She could see. And she had a car wreck, caused her to be blind in both eyes.
>> Fred Jackson: Am I right? Correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: And now she had, I don't know how, 10, 12, 15 years, something like that. She was blind.
>> Fred Jackson: Quite a stretch period.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And now she's able to see again because of this miraculous surgery that, was done. Which was the first time, you said
>> Steve Jordahl: in history, the first time they're reporting this as the first time in history that they've done an eye transplant.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. The eye is an incredible part of God's creation for human beings. What it does, light comes in, it takes that information, sets it to the brain. So we're actually seeing with our brains. we are, Ray, the Bible says we are wonderfully made. And I often think about that the deeper you get into biology and how our bodies work, these people who say we are here by an accident, we came from an amoeba, or something like that, they are simply not being honest.
>> Steve Jordahl: Darwin said that the eye was the fearful part. Fearfully, wonderfully made. The eye terrified Darwin because there was no way that it could actually have evolved. And so when he just shuddered at the thought of having to explain the eye.
>> Fred Jackson: It's amazing, amazing organ. And that's why, folks, you need to take care of your eyes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. yeah. Charles Darwin. Yeah. The father of, atheistic evolution. You're right, Steve. He said, basically paraphrasing, he said, I have my theories about evolution, Darwinistic, evolution on everything, but when it comes to the human eye, you got me. In other words, I can't.
>> Tim Wildmon: You read this before and it is still true. Today, the human eye is so intricate, so complex, it could not have happened through mechanistic evolution. it's the result of intelligent design. The ultimate intelligent designer, Our great creator God.
>> Tim Wildmon: It had to be a designer. You know, that's why I've always, accepted somebody who says I'm an agnostic as a reasonable, position to hold. Now, it's an unbelieving position to hold. Don't misunderstand. But to say I'm an agnostic is to say I'm not saying there isn't a God or a creator. I'm saying I don't know who he or she is, and I don't know how this all happened, but I'm not denying that it could be. There could be a God. An atheist says there is no God, period. And so I don't see how you can be an atheist.
>> Steve Jordahl: You don't have enough faith to do that, do you?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, no. When you look at creation, well, this is. But the Bible says too, right? When you look at creation and you look at something like the human body and the human eye and say that just happened by random chance over millions of years, that is foolishness. Just, absolutely an indefensible position in my view.
We'll be back tomorrow with more of today's issues
we'll be back tomorrow with more of today's issues. Hope you have a wonderful day for, today. Thursday. Yeah, you're right. Trivia Friday. Tomorrow.
Today's Issues continues on AFR with Tim Wildman and Fred Jackson
>> Fred Jackson: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to AFR again. It's Thursday, August 27th. We appreciate you listening. And Ray, Pritchard is in Florida. Ray is back in the saddle with us after being gone about a month. and then, studio with me is Fred Jackson. And now Steve Paisley Doradoff.
>> Steve Jordahl: Hey, everybody.
>> Tim Wildmon: all right, so we, again, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody who listens to American Family Radio and tunes into this show. We do have this available in a podcast form, don't we, Fred?
>> Fred Jackson: Absolutely. And, go to afr.net it is just a, a plethora.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, it is availabilities.
>> Fred Jackson: so I invite you to go there. Podcast. Podcasts for. Not only for our program, but, podcasts from a variety of our stars.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, like Bishop Jackson.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you need to download our podcast first.
Tim Wildmouth grew up attending Mississippi State football games with his dad
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: For today's priorities. Because when we look at the number, we want to be number one, okay. In the podcast on American Family Radio. I mean, it's college football season. Who doesn't want to be number one, right?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, that's right. That's going to any games this year, Tim?
>> Tim Wildmon: you know, I don't go as much as I used to. I used to make one game a season. Oh, yeah. what happened? I grew up. You've asked me this question now. Now you've been. You've unwound. You've unwound my whole life of college football. Because my dad, everybody's got their hobbies and what the interest and everything. But my dad, back in the 70s, Don Wildmouth, founder of this ministry, he was a Methodist minister, but, he would buy season tickets for Mississippi State football.
>> Fred Jackson: Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I would get so excited when I would go to them in August. I'd be looking for the season ticket package to come in the mail, and I'd go the mail every day, you know, and then that one day they would. There were. The tickets would arrive, like Christmas. Oh, yeah. Better than Christmas because we were undefeated. Like, 0 and 0 was the record, you know? So, I would. But I'd look at the kitchen table and the color of the tickets and the. Hey, they're playing LSU this weekend. They're playing Alabama. They're playing Tennessee and Memphis. Or. And then you got your traditional Egg bowl rival game with Ole Miss. It's going to be at Starbull. Anyway, it was just so exciting to me as, as a, as a kid to. To have those season tickets in my hand. And my dad, you know, he sacrificed because we didn't have a lot of money, but, he would buy those season tickets because he wanted. He would buy four of them usually, because, me and, my, you know, either My brother, who's 8, or one of my two sisters, somebody in the family would go, sure, sure. But, yeah, those were. Those were fun memories I have of my time with my dad. He would take me to these games and, then Ray, I learned a. I don't know what you are thinking. I learned, you know, somewhere along 13 or 14, I learned that, being a Mississippi State football fan was going to be a rough life's path, so to speak. And that probably wasn't going to change. And so, you know, we all have our good and bads. Yeah. I still stay with. Yeah, you triggered me, Fred. You triggered.
>> Tim Wildmon: Doesn't matter. Win or lose, your team.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. No, it doesn't matter. Well, it does matter about your attitude. Don't win or lose.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But you're going to, you know.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: But once you're a fan and it's in your blood for whatever school you pull for.
>> Tim Wildmon: Doesn't matter.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're not. You can't switch over, you know, you can't switch over.
>> Tim Wildmon: You can't. No.
>> Tim Wildmon: So one other thing about that. I was at the, one of the highlights of my sports life and my time with my dad. We were in Jackson, Mississippi in 1980 at a football game. We drove down from, Tupelo to Jackson three hours at the time, and they were playing the University of Alabama Roll Tide.
>> Steve Jordahl: I have to say that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. well, okay, that's fine. So we walk in the stadium and lean in against the goal post. As he traditionally did for the, Alabama Crimson Tide was the head coach, none other than Bear Bryant.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who coached Alabama through the 60s. And this, part of the 60s, I think, certainly the 70s and into the 80s, part of the 80s, till he passed, but so he's with his hounds, too. Cat. Cat hat on. I mean, this was. You just look and you go, that is Bear Bryant.
>> Fred Jackson: Wow.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right down there, you know, it's like, wow. You know. And, Alabama was a powerhouse as they were under Bear Bryant and a national powerhouse. They had won like 20, I want to say 27 games in a row or something like that at that point. and just, you know, just beat the stew out of every team they played almost. And so Mississippi State went, battled them tooth and nail for four quarters and ended up shocking the world by winning six to three.
>> Fred Jackson: Serious.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. No touchdowns. State had two field goals and Alabama had one field go. And Alabama drove down to the three yard line with like a minute to go. Almost punched it in, but they fumbled. Our guy hit him and they fumbled. But, it was, but so it was, it was defeating the number one team in America.
Bear Bryant was at Alabama from 1958 through 1982
And Bear Bryant made to have been there.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. Great moments.
>> Tim Wildmon: Course, after that game was over, the number of people who said they were there grew by like ten foot. Tenfold in the next few days. You know, anyway, that was a lifelong memory. When you say, college football, that's what I, that's my best fond memory.
>> Steve Jordahl: So Bear Bryant was at Alabama from 1958 all the way through 1982.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. It's all through the 60s and 70s and into the 80s.
>> Steve Jordahl: He went 232 and 46 and nine ties. And you were at one of those 46 losses.
>> Tim Wildmon: And you know what he did after the game? Bear Bryant. Of course, this was. I don't think, I don't think Mississippi State was even ranked at the time. They may have been, but I don't think they were even ranked. And Alabama was, consensus number one. And then, Bear Bryant went into the Mississippi State, locker room, Locker room after the game to congratulate the Mississippi State players.
>> Fred Jackson: Wow.
>> Steve Jordahl: His class.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: For, for how hard they played and for pulling off the victory. This is after he had suffered a, A loss. Of course. It was rare for him anyway.
>> Steve Jordahl: Heather's dad is a, Was an insurance salesman, ah, businessman down in.
>> Tim Wildmon: Your wife.
>> Steve Jordahl: My wife's father in Columbus, Mississippi. And so he used, he would use season, tickets, to help sell insurance. I mean he was part of his.
>> Tim Wildmon: For, For University. Alabama.
>> Steve Jordahl: He had tickets, season tickets to both Alabama and the state.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: Because And my wife went to.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because he did business in Alabama and Mississippi or something.
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, because they were a family. Had were fans of Alabama and Mississippi State was more the business that got.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because he did business in this. Okay, I got you.
>> Steve Jordahl: but, but that My wife tells the story of going to like an Alabama game in the morning, and then hit heading to State in the afternoon after the game and going two college games in one day. That's a lot of football.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways, college football season is almost here for those who find a break from. Talk about reality, who enjoy a little break from The. The hard news of the day. Although when you're a Mississippi State fan, you get a lot of hard news, but you sign up for it. Or at least my dad signed me up for a lifetime of it. So you take. Hey, that's why victories are sweet to people who don't get them every weekend, right?
>> Fred Jackson: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Victories are sweet.
>> Fred Jackson: I understand.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to today's issues that your trip down baby boomer memory lane right there.
>> Fred Jackson: That's good stuff.
There is a lunar eclipse happening tonight. So, you know, a solar eclipse
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Steve, what's your first?
>> Steve Jordahl: I am looking forward to tonight. There is a lunar eclipse happening tonight.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, the blood moon.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. So, you know, a solar eclipse is when the moon gets between the sun and the Earth and the moon's shadow crosses the earth. And it just so happens God designed it so that the diameter of the moon is exactly the same from our perspective, the distances as the sun. And so you get this corona effect. Well, a lunar eclipse is when the Earth gets between the sun and the moon, and the shadow of the earth passes through the moon, darkens the moon. So if you are in the central time zone, you can see the eclipse begin. And by the way, if you're on the eastern coast, you can just add an hour to all of these times. But in the central time zone, the eclipse will begin at 8:23. It will reach its maximum, darkness at 11:12pm so on the East coast, it would be 12:12, and it would end at 2:01.
>> Steve Jordahl: And so you can watch it anywhere you, And if there's a. Hopefully you'll need a clear sky. Hopefully there will be one we. We're supposed to have, at least here in Mississippi. That's what our weather is supposed to look like. So, if you want to see the lunar eclipse, those are the hours. And,
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, Ray, is a blood moon in Bible prophecy?
>> Tim Wildmon: Absolutely.
>> Tim Wildmon: Like the nights, Joe?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I didn't say that, but the blood moon is in the B3 places. Joel, chapter two and Acts, chapter two, quoted by Peter on the day of Pentecost. And then something about the moon, and turning to blood. Also, in the great cataclysms that are mentioned in Revelation, chapter six. So, Fred, it's there, right? That's right, it's there.
>> Steve Jordahl: Is it talking about an eclipse?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well. Well, go ahead, Ray. Well, I don't. You know, there was a book written, a few years ago that famously talked about the blood moons, and evidently that it was a sign of the soon return of the Lord Jesus. Well, Fred, I'm on the side of those who believe Jesus is coming again.
>> Fred Jackson: Oh yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And I, believe he's coming again soon. I don't know how anybody can. I don't know how you can look at this blood moon that's going to happen tonight and say definitively. How could anybody say definitively this is somehow related to the book of Joel or the book of acts or Revelation 6. All I know is the Bible does talk about, the strange astronomical events that will happen surrounding the return of Christ. maybe we should say the blood moon that's going to happen tonight may not be the book of Revelation fulfillment, but it reminds us of what the Bible does say ought to be a reminder. He is coming back. Everybody get ready. He's coming soon.
>> Fred Jackson: That's right. And all these other things. we've talked about weather a lot over the last couple of months. We've talked about earthquakes. Venezuela, Colombia, we've seen earthquakes in many different places, a lot of weather phenomena. The Bible talks about the earth groaning M and when I look at these stories, when I look at these events, this creation of God we call Earth, it is groaning and it is longing for a new beginning. And the Bible talks about there will be a new heaven and a new Earth. So, you know, we certainly don't celebrate the tragedies and it's horrible, the death tolls in Venezuela, earthquakes, etc. But at the same time, when we look at scripture, we look scriptural prophecy, we can see that we are approaching the end, there's an end to it, that the earth doesn't go on and on. And I believe the next step is the Rapture and after that the thousand year reign of Jesus Christ and then the new heaven and new Earth. So, I was talking to somebody the other day. They were looking at everything that's going on politically in this country, what's happening around the world. And we were just saying, you know, we ought not to get down and depressed about that because we have a tremendous future ahead of us as believers. You know, we're going to be part of this. The Bible says we're going to rule and reign with Christ during that millennium period and then a new heaven and a new earth. as you get older, also you celebrate the fact we're going to get new bodies. I do. one thing for sure, there's not going to be any hospitals or medical offices in heaven. And so it's all good ahead for us, guys. We ought to be optimistic and we ought to be able to talk optimistically and tell people what our hope is. And our hope is in Jesus Christ and what he accomplished for us on Calvary's cross and what that does for us, our relationship with the Heavenly Father and you know, who loves us and gave his Son for us. So it's all good news around this. We ought not to get too down about what we see happening in the news. I'm in the news business, but I tell you what, I try to look beyond that. That's why I have morning devotions. I get up early around 3 o' clock in the morning and I have my devotions. And I'm reminded each time we have a God who is in control. And whatever happens today, I, often think about this, whatever happens today, God is still in control.
>> Steve Jordahl: What will we be talking about on today's issues during, that time?
Steve: I would just say one year at a time, Steve
>> Fred Jackson: Today's issues.
>> Steve Jordahl: I mean, we love this show. It's fun to do. and we have good news during what time? During the thousand year reign, and the eternity with God.
>> Fred Jackson: I don't think I want to
>> Steve Jordahl: keep doing this, but we can talk about God's glory and all the things, planets he's created.
>> Tim Wildmon: I would just say one year at a time, Steve. Let's take it one year at a time.
>> Fred Jackson: can you imagine that today's cross,
>> Tim Wildmon: that eternal bridge when we get there?
>> Fred Jackson: All good news.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Ah, yeah, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: Here's what Jesus is saying today. You know what's going on in Jerusalem.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Because you know, the other day I was listening on my XM serious radio in the car. And channel 460 on XM series is the Billy Graham Channel, which you can listen to Billy's sermons 24 hours, hours a day. And this kind of ties back in Steve, to the, to the story about the, the blood moon he was doing. And this was a sermon from 50, 54 years ago called America. The handwriting is on the wall from Daniel, chapter five. That was great. Great. Billy preached this in his own, that inimitable style. And he said at the beginning of his sermon, which made me something, Fred, you should maybe think of. Billy said, okay, if you're going to study the book of Daniel, you need to have the book of Daniel in one hand, you need to have the book of Revelation in the other hand. And then he said, you need to have the newspaper in between because Daniel in Revelation will tell you what's going to happen. And the newspaper tells you what is happening, but the Bible tells you what it all means. And I think Dr. Graham was exactly right. Yeah.
The moon will appear orange red during tonight's total eclipse
So, folks, what time. Okay, I'm in the eastern time zone, so I got to be out there. What time do I need to be outside to watch this tonight?
>> Steve Jordahl: well, it'll start for your time. It'll start about 9:23. The best time to watch, according to what I'm reading, is go out around 11:30. Right. And you'll give yourself plenty of time to see the moon.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it's max 10:30pm for those in the central time zone, correct?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And then about 40, five minutes, later or so, you'll see the maximum eclipse.
>> Tim Wildmon: And the point being that because of the. I don't. Maybe, Steve, you can explain the science behind it, but the moon actually will appear to turn orange red.
>> Steve Jordahl: The shadow of the Earth covers the moon, and so the moon will be in shadow. And so, the way that'll look is that the. The. It'll be reddish because that's the light that will be able to bleed through.
>> Tim Wildmon: And then we'll all hear Cat Stevens in the background, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: We just might.
>> Tim Wildmon: Moon shadow. Moon shadow.
>> Fred Jackson: Huh?
>> Tim Wildmon: remember that song? You played that a few times, didn't you, as a dj, didn't you?
>> Fred Jackson: Oh, yeah. Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: He became a Muslim.
>> Fred Jackson: He did.
>> Steve Jordahl: His name is Yusef Stevens. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And moved to England, I think, or Britain somewhere.
>> Fred Jackson: All right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Tim, Fred, Steve and Ray. Go ahead, Steve.
Italian surgeons have successfully performed the first eye transplant using artificial intelligence
Next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: surgeons, at the university eye clinic in Molinette Hospital in Turin, Italy, have successfully performed the first eye transplant. This is a woman who was in a car accident, and they transplanted the healthy parts of one eye, into both eyes were damaged. One eye, the optic nerve was damaged, but the front part of the eye was good. In the second eye, the front part was damaged, but the optic nerve was good. So they just took the good parts of the eye and, and, transplanted it over to the one that was damaged. And she has one good eye, and it's working now.
>> Tim Wildmon: she was blind.
>> Steve Jordahl: She was, yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: For a number of years, wasn't it?
>> Steve Jordahl: She was left completely blind after a car accident. And then, she was 67 years old when this surgery happened now. And, she had lost her vision in a severe car accident. and, her right eye, which had already experienced damage due to macular degeneration, suffered trauma from the accident. It damaged the retina, which covers the, Which converts light into signals and send those signals through the optic nerve. To the brain. and so they took the other eye and they replaced it. Now, I did something, I took this story that you sent around, Tim, and I put it into AI And I said, I told AI. I said, make me a chart, an illustration that shows the eye and the parts. What they did. And this is what. And I emailed this to, Brent. It's on our Facebook page. Ray, I emailed you a copy of this. This is what AI did, folks. you can go to our Facebook
>> Tim Wildmon: page, Today's issues Facebook page. Okay, gotcha.
>> Steve Jordahl: They, yeah. And this is all produced by artificial intelligence. This is what Chat GPT drew simply based on the text of this article. It's amazing.
>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. Ah. The AI, GTP chat or the surgery
>> Steve Jordahl: for me, I. I asked you to do this.
>> Tim Wildmon: Both are amazing.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Both, yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: the surgery itself. So this lady, imagine being blind. Now, she could see. She wasn't born blind. She could see. And she had a car wreck, caused her to be blind in both eyes.
>> Fred Jackson: Am I right? Correct.
>> Tim Wildmon: And now she had, I don't know how, 10, 12, 15 years, something like that. She was blind.
>> Fred Jackson: Quite a stretch period.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And now she's able to see again because of this miraculous surgery that, was done. Which was the first time, you said
>> Steve Jordahl: in history, the first time they're reporting this as the first time in history that they've done an eye transplant.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. The eye is an incredible part of God's creation for human beings. What it does, light comes in, it takes that information, sets it to the brain. So we're actually seeing with our brains. we are, Ray, the Bible says we are wonderfully made. And I often think about that the deeper you get into biology and how our bodies work, these people who say we are here by an accident, we came from an amoeba, or something like that, they are simply not being honest.
>> Steve Jordahl: Darwin said that the eye was the fearful part. Fearfully, wonderfully made. The eye terrified Darwin because there was no way that it could actually have evolved. And so when he just shuddered at the thought of having to explain the eye.
>> Fred Jackson: It's amazing, amazing organ. And that's why, folks, you need to take care of your eyes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. yeah. Charles Darwin. Yeah. The father of, atheistic evolution. You're right, Steve. He said, basically paraphrasing, he said, I have my theories about evolution, Darwinistic, evolution on everything, but when it comes to the human eye, you got me. In other words, I can't.
>> Tim Wildmon: You read this before and it is still true. Today, the human eye is so intricate, so complex, it could not have happened through mechanistic evolution. it's the result of intelligent design. The ultimate intelligent designer, Our great creator God.
>> Tim Wildmon: It had to be a designer. You know, that's why I've always, accepted somebody who says I'm an agnostic as a reasonable, position to hold. Now, it's an unbelieving position to hold. Don't misunderstand. But to say I'm an agnostic is to say I'm not saying there isn't a God or a creator. I'm saying I don't know who he or she is, and I don't know how this all happened, but I'm not denying that it could be. There could be a God. An atheist says there is no God, period. And so I don't see how you can be an atheist.
>> Steve Jordahl: You don't have enough faith to do that, do you?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, no. When you look at creation, well, this is. But the Bible says too, right? When you look at creation and you look at something like the human body and the human eye and say that just happened by random chance over millions of years, that is foolishness. Just, absolutely an indefensible position in my view.
We'll be back tomorrow with more of today's issues
we'll be back tomorrow with more of today's issues. Hope you have a wonderful day for, today. Thursday. Yeah, you're right. Trivia Friday. Tomorrow.
Surgeons in Turin, Italy, have performed what is being reported as the first eye transplant in history, restoring sight to a woman left completely blind by a car accident. The hosts discuss the remarkable procedure and how the intricate design of the human eye points to a creator rather than random chance. The panel also looks ahead to the lunar eclipse visible across much of the United States tonight, exploring biblical references to blood moons in Joel, Acts, and Revelation. They emphasize that while no one can definitively link tonight's eclipse to end-times prophecy, it serves as a reminder that Christ will return. Tim Wildmon shares personal memories of growing up as a Mississippi State football fan, including the 1980 upset of Bear Bryant's top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide. Ray Pritchard joins remotely from Florida as the hosts encourage listeners to stay hopeful amid world events.
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(00:00) Show Open and College Football Memories
(09:22) Lunar Eclipse and Biblical Prophecy
(18:33) First Eye Transplant and the Case for Creation
(24:15) Program Outro
Surgeons in Turin, Italy, have performed what is being reported as the first eye transplant in history, restoring sight to a woman left completely blind by a car accident. The hosts discuss the remarkable procedure and how the intricate design of the human eye points to a creator rather than random chance. The panel also looks ahead to the lunar eclipse visible across much of the United States tonight, exploring biblical references to blood moons in Joel, Acts, and Revelation. They emphasize that while no one can definitively link tonight's eclipse to end-times prophecy, it serves as a reminder that Christ will return. Tim Wildmon shares personal memories of growing up as a Mississippi State football fan, including the 1980 upset of Bear Bryant's top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide. Ray Pritchard joins remotely from Florida as the hosts encourage listeners to stay hopeful amid world events.
Chapter Markers
(00:00) Show Open and College Football Memories
(09:22) Lunar Eclipse and Biblical Prophecy
(18:33) First Eye Transplant and the Case for Creation
(24:15) Program Outro
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