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>>  : As we watch world events unfold and fulfill Scripture, it's hard to believe anyone could doubt God and his Word are real. And yet there are so many who either question or completely refuse to believe it. The God who speaks is a 90 minute documentary that hits the doubt head on with evidence that proves God is real and His Word is the ultimate authority. Watch it anytime and invite others to watch with you. Just visit stream.afa.net that's stream.aca.net welcome to today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day. Here's your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. We thank you as always for listening to AFR. Today is Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026. And joining me in studio is Wesley Wildmon. Good morning, Wesley.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Good morning.

>> Tim Wildmon: Wesley joins us every Tuesday when. Tuesday, Wednesday. And Krish Woodward. Good morning, brother Krish.

>> Chris Woodward: Good morning.

>> Tim Wildmon: And Ray Pritchard. Ray, how you doing, my friend?

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, listen, it's all good here in central Florida. I think we must be. I'm going to. While I'm talking in my. Check the. Oh yeah, It's a balmy 77 degrees here in Florida, Tim. It's all right.

>> Tim Wildmon: 77. We're getting a little, that weather here, I think. here in North Mississippi we are at let's see what we're at right now. Can you be between the A and the T? My English teacher would probably tell me you can, you can't be there. we are 64, so not bad. But I think we're going to have early, early springtime across the good old US of A. And I know our friends in the north are looking forward to, they're looking forward to 55.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, oh yeah, and 60.

>> Tim Wildmon: But yeah, but yeah, it's, it's a nice pleasant area.

Did any of you guys get up and watch the blood moon this morning

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, Tim, I got, I got a meteorological question for you.

>> Tim Wildmon: I'm your guy.

>> Tim Wildmon: For you. Bring on that meteorology and for Krish and for Wesley. Did any of you guys get up and watch the blood moon this morning?

>> Wesley Wildmon: No, missed that.

>> Chris Woodward: We talked about it before we went, before we went to bed and nobody in my household.

>> Tim Wildmon: Did you check it out? I missed it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you know, it helps to be here in the eastern time zone because it showed here about 6 o' clock in the morning. Would have been more like 5 o' clock in the morning there in Tupelo, but, I staggered out of bed, you know, six, bleary eyed because before I went to bed, I thought, you know, hey, you never, you never know. And so I staggered out of bed, cleared the stuff out of my eyes. And what do you know, right there in the, in the western horizon, about, you know, a few inches above the horizon, there it is. You could see, you know, the blood moon happens when I guess the, the moon gets between the, the sun and the earth and the earth shadow covers it and it turns blood red. And, here in Florida, it turned blood red early this morning. Pretty cool.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, let me ask you this, how often does this happen? Because I'm pretty sure in the last, I don't know, year or so, my mother in law, called our family and said, hey, go check out the blood moon. Or maybe it was something else similar.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, she called and told you to go check out the northern lights?

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's it. That's it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. There's a difference. Okay.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's what I was at.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, but in the world of meteorology, I see how you.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. It's all the same.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's very close.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's why I'm only on, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays too.

>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, otherwise you're studying the stars.

>> Bert Harper: That's right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's all I'm good for.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, So, Right. so what, what did he, what was your. So it was, it was, it was as promised.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, it was pretty, it was pretty amazing. And by the way, Wesley, the next one's going to be on NewSong Year's Eve between 2028 and 2029. And you know, people, Bible prophecy experts know that, you know, Jesus talked about the moon being turned into blood and Joel talks about it. And then in connection with the sixth seal in the book of Revelation, the moon turned into blood. And so people have wondered if there's any prophetic implications. I'll leave that to the other scholars. I don't know that there's any biblical Bible prophecy implications of this morning, but it, hey, it was a cool astronomical event in the sky. And here in Florida for a few minutes, the moon really did turn blood red.

>> Tim Wildmon: I just know this, that when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's Amare. I do know that because wasn't it

>> Tim Wildmon: Dean Martin who made that song?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Yes, sung well, by the Olive Guards. Olive Garden singers.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Every fifth song, if you visit there, Yeah, what you did get it, right? Was Dean Martin. Dean Martin saying, that's, Amare.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, I've heard of him.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Thinking about moon pies at some point.

>> Tim Wildmon: Here we go.

>> Tim Wildmon: I said, when the moon hits your eye. Oh, okay, so you switched over to moon pies.

>> Chris Woodward: You get your mind on South Alabama.

>> Tim Wildmon: You must be from Mississippi, boy.

>> Wesley Wildmon: No, I'm just. I'm your son. I'm a background.

>> Tim Wildmon: For better, for worse. And I'm your dad. For better, for worse.

>> Wesley Wildmon: And we sometimes hear what we want to hear. Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: what. What? How did you get off on Moon Pie? I would.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I was. They sound similar.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I didn't see it.

>> Tim Wildmon: That's a girl, maybe.

>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know. I wasn't kidding. That's. I wasn't. That was. That's the words to that. When the moon hits your eye, like a pizza pie. That's Amare.

In Mobile, instead of a ball drop, they drop a big moon pie

>> Chris Woodward: Now, you mentioned moon Pie. I said you've got your. Your mind, on, South Alabama. people may not know this, but in Mobile, instead of a ball drop, they drop a big moon pie.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay.

>> Chris Woodward: For NewSong Year's.

>> Tim Wildmon: Do they really?

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, that's cool.

>> Chris Woodward: Now, Moon Pies, actually, they have a connection to Chattanooga, Tennessee, I think, originally. But for some reason, Mobile drops a moon pie.

>> Tim Wildmon: I don't know what to think about that exactly.

>> Tim Wildmon: Is it. It must just got to be illuminated.

>> Chris Woodward: Tupelo should drop like a, fried peanut butter and banana sandwich, because that was Elvis.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, well, anyway, we got

>> Wesley Wildmon: to get to the.

>> Tim Wildmon: We do have to get to the depressing news of the day.

>> Chris Woodward: And what I'm here for.

Chris Bell: At least six US service members have been killed in Iran attacks

>> Tim Wildmon: Going to do that right away here. I know there's some good news to report. And, of course, as we know, we are all praying for our country and praying for our president, praying for Israel, because, we are at war with, With, the Iranian ayatollahs. Well, he's dead, but the, Iranian forces, I guess you could say. And, So what's the latest, Krish?

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, well, I'm looking at figures from US Central Command. These are numbers that came out late yesterday, and praise God they did not update negatively, today. As of right now, at least six US service members have been killed, at least 18 wounded in operation Epic Fury, which, of course, began over the weekend. More than 1,000 Iranian combatants have been killed, but Iran is still out there fighting. I'm looking at numbers from the NewSong York Times this morning. Iran so far has launched about 390 missiles in 830 drone attacks. But the US and Israel and their combined attacks have taken out much of Iran's military infrastructure, to the point that they're pretty much head above water at this point, really struggling. Iran is now, President Trump does say, or has said that this, could take a few weeks. He's not opposed to it going further. And I do have a little bit of audio from the president himself if you want to play that.

>> Tim Wildmon: I would like to hear that. Okay. Is this from yesterday or this morning

>> Chris Woodward: or when it's from late yesterday? clip one.

>> Tim Wildmon: We have the strongest and most powerful by far military in the world, and we will easily prevail. We're already substantially ahead of our, time projections, but whatever the time is, it's okay. Whatever it takes. We also projected four weeks to terminate the military leadership, and as you know, that was done in about an hour. So we're ahead of schedule there by a lot now.

>> Chris Woodward: We'll, of course, continue to update this throughout the day on afn.

Ray: President Trump sounds tired, but he has three years left

>> Tim Wildmon: President Trump, and believe me, I understand, but he sounds tired. He does. Then he sound tired to you, Ray?

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, he does. And I watched part of that last, evening, and he looks tired. I commented a. Marlene, you can kind of see the bags under his eyes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. He's 79 years old.

>> Tim Wildmon: 79 years old and carrying tremendous pressure. And it feels like. I know he must sleep sometimes, but it feels like he's going pretty much 24 hours around the clock.

>> Tim Wildmon: Are you going to say, Wesley?

>> Wesley Wildmon: yes, a couple of thoughts there. One, he also has got three years left. That's a long time for someone.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's true.

>> Wesley Wildmon: also too, on the other hand, he's also very active as a president too. He's not a lame duck or not involved.

>> Tim Wildmon: But you. Yeah, I'm not saying. I'm not saying anything about his mental faculty. They seem fine. but he is.

>> Wesley Wildmon: It's an exhaustive job, at least right there.

>> Don Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: he rarely sounds tired. He sound like maybe his voice is fading a little bit there. But. But, you know, like I said, it's been a, It's a, it's been a very, intense. What. We're leading up to this even.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Leading up to our, And then you have to pull the trigger. You know, that's a, I've forgotten who said this, but maybe more than one president. He said that's. That's the most difficult thing in the world as president United States, is to decide when to send our men and women into combat, into fighting. And, and, here we are. he decided to pull the trigger. Did President Trump, jointly with the Israelis, because they viewed, and I think rightly so, Viewed the Iranian Ayatollah regime, Ayatollah's regime as a imminent threat to, world peace, such as it is, and to world stability and, and to America and to Israel, and unwilling

>> Wesley Wildmon: to meet and make a.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, yeah. Yes, they did meet. The Iranians did meet. In fact, we're going to play this next. Next hour or now the Wyckoff.

>> Chris Woodward: Oh, we can do it now. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

Steve: I saw him on Sean Hannity show last night

So. So, this gentleman. What's his name?

>> Chris Woodward: Steve.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. He. I was very impressed with him. I saw him on Sean Hannity show last night, and I thought, man, we need to play that clip.

Ray: President Trump's chief negotiator with the Iranians describes how negotiations went

Ray, what we're about to play and Wesley and our listeners here, because I don't know that y' all have heard it, what we're about to play, the gentleman you're about to listen to is President Trump's chief negotiator with, the Iranians. He and Jared Kushner, I think President's son in law, sat down in, Geneva in hopes of coming to a deal that was. That Iran was happy with and the US Was happy with, so that we could avoid what we're in now, which is full scale military combat, operations. Okay, so, do you know the background of this fella? He was in business, wasn't he?

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, he's got some sort of business connection with the President and Jared, but

>> Tim Wildmon: he's a very smart guy, very wealthy guy, and, and President Trump picked him to negotiate with the Iranians.

>> Bert Harper: Ah.

>> Tim Wildmon: of course, Marco Rubio's involved, Secretary of State too, but I thought. I thought I would at least. We would at least play here for our listeners some of his comments because he's describing what led, how the negotiations went. Do we have. We have that?

>> Chris Woodward: We do. It's clip 14 just to give you

>> Tim Wildmon: a little bit of a taste for, how these three. Three, days of negotiations went three separate times. Jared and I opened up with, the Iranian negotiators telling us they had the inalienable right to enrich all their nuclear fuel that they possessed. That's how they opened up. We, of course, responded that the President feels we have the inalienable right to stop you dead in your tracks. They then went on to say that beyond the inalienable right, to enrich, that. That was going to be their starting point. And Jared and I, just sort of looked at ourselves flummoxed and said, well, we're really in for it now.

>> Tim Wildmon: we have any more from him is that it?

>> Chris Woodward: That's it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Anyway, I was very impressed by his comments. He went on to say some more, Ray. But what he was saying was, that the Iranians were saying straight up, we're going to build nuclear weapons. And, whether you like it or not, what's they're left to talk about? And, and, President Trump, his administration offered free energy basically for Iran, didn't he? I mean, in other words, Iran said, we're going to use this for energy. And the negotiations were, well, then why are you building it underground?

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Why are you doing this underground? And then the president offered, well, we'll give you free energy. I think he was just saying that now that he may have had to follow through with it. But basically what he's saying was, if all you want is energy, we'll help you get energy.

>> Chris Woodward: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: but then they said no. So that only proved that it wasn't about, quote, energy, it was about developing a nuclear weapon. Okay?

Going to war with Iran is a war, not a declared war

So, again, it comes down to this, and I mentioned this yesterday, I don't mean to harbor or belabor. Harbor on a point or belabor a point, but I think it must be said again, because going to war like we are right now with Iran, it is a war. Not a declared war, but it is a war. You call it a conflict if you wish. it's a very, very, very, very, very serious, issue. In fact, Wesley, you were telling me, the feelings of you and a lot of folks who supported President Trump, you're supporting this effort, but you're, you're hesitant because you don't want to get us involved in a. For another. For.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Right, that's exactly right. Yeah, I would, I'm neutral on, on my own, I'm kind of wait and see. But, with the concern of this turning into something more than it is, but I'm not opposed, obviously, to getting rid of bad guys.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I mean, I know that's layman's term, simply, but which is why I'm back on, only on day, two days a week. But, but I, I, obviously, I'm not opposed to getting rid of terrorists.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. okay. And, and this, again, this is what it comes down to. It's really what you believe and who you believe. If you believe President Trump and Secretary Marco Rubio and others in the administration, and you believe previous administrations, what they've said about Iran, but if you believe that President Trump and Marco Rubio are telling the truth, that the Iranians were, within days or weeks, being able to have A nuclear weapon and maybe multiple nuclear weapons. And you had, you had to roll the dice to say whether they'll use them or not. You could, then you could just back off, bring all our ships home and say, well, we just hope for the best from these people, these, this evil empire. We do. We just hope they won't use this weapon of mass destruction. Also, they were, they were militarizing more with these, ballistic missiles. Right, the ballistic missiles, which are short, short of nuclear weapons. I'm not a military expert or ammo, but I do know that we're talking about, ballistic missiles which are not nuclear weapons but still can do severe damage from thousands of miles away. Right, so that's exactly right.

Tim Ferriss: Majority of Americans understand need to take nuclear weapons out

So let me finish this and then I, ah, want to comment. Ray. So if you believe President Trump and Marco Rubio and others in the administration are being honest and telling and that that's where we were, then I think the vast majority of Americans would, be, maybe not the vast majority, but a majority at least of Americans understand it was necessary to take these weapons out now to get this regime out of the way as much as we possibly can, because they were a threat to the region, they were a threat to the world and, and they were a threat to, to their neighbors, including other Muslims. And if they were to get their hands on a nuclear weapon, they would use it and they would hold it over the head of everybody. They would use it, because they hate, they hate Israel so much and they now they hate their own Muslim, Muslim brethren. they hate the Great Satan. America again, they're not controlled by, their control. They have been controlled, the Iranians, by a Islamic extremist ideology. Okay. it's apocalyptic. I mean, the Americans have a hard time getting our head around this. You don't reason with these people.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Like, like, like we are used to in the rest of the world. Even between the US and China or the US and Russia, the west, the east, these people are a unique set of folks in Iran. And if they were to get the nuclear, weapon, they would use it and millions of people might die. So, so President Trump and Marco Rubio again, assuming you believe that they're telling the truth, were faced with this decision, do we take this out now and take this on now, knowing we're going

>> Wesley Wildmon: to get rounded our terms.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. And try to end this or do we let it go on and then when Iran uses a nuclear weapon against NewSong York City or Los Angeles or wherever, or one of our, Tel Aviv and kills potentially, millions of people. Then people say, why didn't you do something to stop them? You could have stopped them and you did nothing. You did nothing to stop them because you were scared of the criticism that you might receive. I know that's a lengthy. Ray, go ahead and comment on, just said, or whatever you want to say about it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, first of all, Tim, what you've said is essentially restatement of what President Trump has said, especially that last part, that if they do develop a nuclear weapon and use it, no matter where it is, people are going to say, you had a chance to stop this and you didn't do it. And, you know, one little, one little fact in here, but it's not really little, is look at the response of the Iranian people inside Iran in America, in NewSong York City, in Los Angeles, in Chicago, the Iranian people are celebrating. They are celebrating the decapitation of the Islamic leadership. And they are hoping and praying that America and Israel will stay by the stuff and this time finish the job. And I know I'm not a presidential advisor, but if I were, I would say, Mr. Trump, Mr. President, stay by it. Let's stay over there. Let's keep dropping the bombs, send the missiles, whatever.

>> Tim Wildmon: We have to finish the job.

>> Tim Wildmon: Finish the job.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. So we don't have to do it again. Go ahead, Krish.

>> Chris Woodward: Some of the Iranians, or Iranian Americans that support what Trump and, Israel have done here are actually, Democrats. Matter of fact, we have a lady here, some audio, and I'm probably going to mispronounce her name, Moj Mahajra. she's an Iranian American Democrat. She was on cnn, of all places.

>> Tim Wildmon: She's a Democrat.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes, she was on cnn, of all places, scolding her party for being so negative about what's taking place here. Clip 16.

>> Krish Woodward: It is imperative the Democratic Party wake up and get past their dislike of Donald Trump, the President Trump, and, their feelings of international conflicts going on. This is about national security. This is about what is possible in the Middle East. This is about being a good, good partner to the Gulf states and what their aspirations are. This is about supporting the people of Venezuela. This is about dismembering our relationship with, or not dismembering, but resetting our relationship with China. Right now, 55% of the oil production that Iran produces goes to China despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine, you want to end that war? You have to. There is no getting around dismembering this Is it is non negotiable. It is not a want to have, it is a have to have. And it's not just for the Iranian people. I think you have to trust the Iranian people. We know this government better than anyone else.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, I Go ahead a couple comments. It has been. It has been refreshing that Marco Rubio did the other day lay out the objectives and in his

>> Tim Wildmon: He's very good by the way in

>> Wesley Wildmon: his explanation at no point in anywhere of. In it which I was being very sensitive to and paying attention to hoping he didn't and that's that there was no talk or anything that inquired nation building or anything like that. It was like we are going in to just to dismember. Let me read.

>> Tim Wildmon: we got him. Don't we have audio?

>> Chris Woodward: We do have some Rubio now he's talking about the talking to Americans. Keeping them abroad. Keeping them safe abroad.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, that's good.

>> Chris Woodward: That's the audio that we have.

>> Wesley Wildmon: But he mentions his. The objectives and that is to the destruction of Iran's ballistic missiles and naval capabilities.

>> Tim Wildmon: we're sinking other Navy ships.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah, yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: They're not going to have anything left.

>> Chris Woodward: No. And matter of fact they hit one of their own tankers yesterday when they just. Iran. They just started firing stuff willy nilly and they hit one of their own ships.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Willy nilly for us, if you would

>> Chris Woodward: there that Southern for. They started just guns ablazing. They started shooting everywhere wildly.

>> Wesley Wildmon: No, that was now guns ablazing. Also do that one as well.

>> Tim Wildmon: When you went to journalism school in the Associated Press book. where is Willy Nilly?

>> Chris Woodward: That's on page 12.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. No, I think everybody understands what you're saying.

Tim Ferriss: Do you see anything going on in world in light of prophecy

I tell you what, let's take our break right here. We have a guest. Yeah. Brother Burt, Brother Burt Harper will be in a lot to talk about. A lot more to talk about. I do want to ask right. Be thinking about this because I want to ask you, do you see anything going on here in the world in the light of Bible prophecy? Prophecy. now I think that a lot of Christians sometimes try to force shoehorn everything in the Bible prophecy. You know, if the Yankees win the World Series, they say, well that's in the book of Revelation, Brother Tim. but at the same time Bible prophetic Bible words are true and they are going to play out on the world stage over the. The course of what the Bible calls the last days. I'll talk to Ray about that and brother Burt, when we get back. Stay with us.

A Kansas boy accidentally skinned his knee on a briar patch

>> Don Wildmon: It's my turn.

>> Tim Wildmon: Here is your host for my turn. Don Wileman.

>> Don Wildmon: The 13 year old youngster was on his way home to a small, modest farmhouse in Kansas. But he skinned his knee in a briar patch. It wasn't much to fuss about, just a small scratch. He went on home and went about his chores without mentioning it to his parents. The next day he noticed that his ankle was swelling a little and that his leg was a little sore. But he still didn't mention it as he went about his farm duties the next morning. The leg was in bad shape, and when his parents came in from town that afternoon, they immediately sent for the doctor. After the doctor had examined the leg and saw the danger, he muttered to the parents that there wasn't much chance to save the leg. The youngster didn't quite understand what the doctor meant, so he asked him, and the doctor said there was a very strong possibility that they would have to amputate the leg.

>> Chris Woodward: No, you won't.

>> Don Wildmon: Cried out, the boy. You won't cut off my leg. I would rather die. Well, the doctor looked at the boy and became kind of irritated with his attitude. He stepped outside the door and was talking with the parents when the boy's voice called out, ed. Ed, come here. The older brother, hearing the cries of the boy, went past the doctor and the parents into the room. They listened as the boys talked. Ed, if I go out of my head and lose my senses, don't you let them do it. Don't let them cut off my leg while I'm unconscious. Promise me, Ed, you've got to give me your word. Well, the doctor didn't hear much more of the conversation because he began talking to the parents again. That's just about like a bunch of fool boys, he said. Shortly after that, Ed came out of the room. He stood in the door, legs spread apart and arms folded. The message was clear. The leg would not come off. The doctor tried to talk to the parents, but they told the doctor they would look at the leg again. That night they did look at the leg again, and it was worse. The boy's fever went up and the doctor told them that if he didn't amputate, there was a strong possibility the boy would die. But Ed stood his ground, staying in the door around the clock. He'd given his word. The, family, realizing Ed's determination, began to pray for the boy's leg to heal. The family were devout Christians. Mother and father, then Ed, and finally the other four brothers. All took turns praying throughout the night. There was someone praying. When morning came and the doctor looked at the leg, he saw a sign that the leg was beginning to heal. The swelling was going down. Well, in a few days the leg was completely healed and the young farm boy was back at his chores and hobbies. Years later, when Dwight David Eisenhower was elected President of the United States, a reporter remarked to his mother that she must be mighty proud of her son. With Ed in mind, her reply was which one simple faith is sometimes stronger than medical science.

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>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back everybody to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim here with Wesley and Krish. We thank you for listening to American Family Radio. If you want to watch this here show, we're ah, live video streaming at YouTube and Facebook and our own streaming service, stream.afa.net stream.afa.net that's our service that we video our own shows and we're not subject to canceling if we cancel ourselves because of something Ed says about hydro. What was it called? Chloroquine.

>> Don Wildmon: Chloroquine.

>> Chris Woodward: That stuff.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, hydroxychloroquine.

>> Tim Wildmon: That stuff. Ed kept bringing it up during COVID and every time he do YouTube would slap us down and I'd have to look over there at him like can you not zip it on your. And then he'd bring up what was the other thing that everybody was into. What I promected that word. That right there. They're right there. We get banned again.

>> Chris Woodward: This just in.

>> Tim Wildmon: No. So anyway, anyway, but we won't be banning ourselves.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's the point.

>> Tim Wildmon: We're also on X, right? So we're live video streaming on X now. How do we know we won't ban. Hopefully we're not going to ban ourselves. We. We do that. We to. We need to reconsider what we're doing.

>> Wesley Wildmon: We're also live on A too on A and X. There's.

>> Tim Wildmon: I didn't know there was an A.

>> Wesley Wildmon: There's no such thing.

>> Chris Woodward: They.

>> Wesley Wildmon: They cont. They do continue to grow and it is, it is a good thing. There's a lot of different platforms out there. In case one does ban, you can go to the next one that.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's true. What, what if, if you go on X, formerly known as Twitter. What do people need to do, Brent? They can search for American Family Radio on X and that will show us, show them our live feed. Search for American Family Radio and that'll get, that'll get them there. Okay.

Brother Bert Harper hosts American Family Radio's Exploring the Word

All right. Brother Bert Harper, stepped into the studio, with us. Bert is no stranger to our listening audience. He's a co, host of Exploring the Word each afternoon with Alex McFarland from 3 to 4 o' clock central time on American Family Radio. That is a live, most of the time they're live doing a, walk through the Bible, if you will, exploring the word of God. And what are y' all on Bert this afternoon?

>> Bert Harper: We're in Isaiah 66 books and, you want to go a little fast, but they're so good. How do you, you know, how many

>> Tim Wildmon: times have you guys been through the Bible now?

>> Bert Harper: Well, one time, all the way through, and we're starting over. We've done several, two times. But man, what it's been a journey for us. I mean, you know, here I've been pastoring for 50 years, but it's still there, guys. Something new that you've never seen before.

>> Tim Wildmon: So much in the word of God, the Bible, historically, spiritually, morally, I mean, so many educationally.

>> Bert Harper: Amen.

Wesley: Activate summit conference coming up this summer in Mississippi

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so, Bert, I'm going to get into. I'm going to ask, Ray and you about Bible prophecy for just a minute. I know you and Alex have written a book on that, Bert, that we used for our share a thon last time. But, we've got a conference coming up, this summer that we were going to be putting on here in Tupelo, Mississippi, our headquarters. And we've done this before and we have thousands of people, or at least a thousand.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. it fills up.

>> Tim Wildmon: We have a thousand or so folks come into town. We have a wonderful lineup of speakers and a great event, venue, a children's track. A children's track. How old?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Activate kids.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, Wesley, you tell us the name of the conference and then I won't Burt, tell us what he's going to be speaking about.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, I'm helping oversee our activate summit conference that we do each summer. and this year the name is Roots to Fruits, Grounding in the Truth and Growing in Grace. really emphasizing the marriage and family side of the of the Activate course. So this is a spin off. The gathering together is a spin off from our Activate curriculum that we have. And so each summer we take one of the topics. There's five topics. We take one of the five, and we spend more time on it. And this year's Marriage and Family and brother Burt is one of our speakers. We have a, we also have a kids track that goes on simultaneously with the adult track, and it's for ages 6 through 12. And,

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so how can people read all about this?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: And register.

>> Wesley Wildmon: You can register and read more information. You can see the speakers. you can also see some of the top schedule. Yeah, the schedule as well. And I'll mention the dates, and then I'll mention the, website they can sign up to. the dates are July the 16th through the 18th. You can register at activate.afa.net and also, one very important thing, and you, and I didn't even ask your permission, but it's already done, and that's that we're gonna have a live trivia on Thursday night family nights.

>> Bert Harper: Oh, we are?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Is Ed gonna be there?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Ed will be there. And jj.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. And JJ And M. Me and you. Yeah. So we're gonna do that on what night?

>> Wesley Wildmon: well, last time I mentioned you act surprise. I figured you would have forgotten again. So.

>> Tim Wildmon: So July the what?

>> Wesley Wildmon: July 16th is the night that we will have a family night where we have a live trivia.

>> Tim Wildmon: So this conference is Friday night, Saturday, and then.

>> Wesley Wildmon: No, Thursday. Friday. Saturday.

>> Tim Wildmon: Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Coming up this summer, July. What's the website?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Activate.afa.net and I've asked brother Burke to come on the marriage side of things to talk about the importance of their grandparents.

Tim Ferriss: Roots to Fruit is a Christian conference scheduled for next month

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, let me ask. Let me ask you about that. But first of all, so, folks, if you want to see about, our conference, and as Wesley says, we got up last year. It filled up last year. We have room for what, a thousand people? Something.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Yep.

>> Tim Wildmon: And it filled up last year. And we do have a track for kids ages 6 to, 12.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: So keep that mind. A track for kids, Simon. That's going on the same time the adults are in their session. And, it's going to be a wonderful, conference. It's at the Cadence Bank Conference Center. And, what's the website again? Real quick?

>> Wesley Wildmon: the most simplest way is actually afa.netevents afa.net events.

>> Tim Wildmon: And the conference is called Roots to Fruit. Roots to Fruit. Grounded in truth. Growing in grace. Burt, what's going to be your contribution here?

>> Bert Harper: Well, considering my age, Wesley came to my office and said, would you do a grandparents session?

>> Bert Harper: he didn't ask the quality or anything. He just saw how old he got.

>> Tim Wildmon: Gray hair.

>> Bert Harper: Gray hair. I filled the slots.

>> Tim Wildmon: you've shortened by about an inch in the last 10 days. That's right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: And I didn't see it either. I just asked him, like he said,

>> Tim Wildmon: what are you going to be speaking on?

>> Bert Harper: Well, I am going to be speaking on the role of grandparents in a family, in raising a godly family. I already know a few things we are going to concentrate on, and I will give a Preview here. Psalm 127 and 128, they go together. And I studying for this.

>> Krish Woodward: I.

>> Bert Harper: Again, I already said, when you study the Bible, you discover something new. In those two psalms together, it starts with a house, the family. It goes to the city, guards the city, and then it goes to the town, Jerusalem itself. And then the last verse in Isaiah 28 is, Israel the country.

>> Tim Wildmon: So don't give away your whole sermon now.

>> Bert Harper: I know, man. I won't do it, Tim. But that is where I discovered that just looking at it, it goes from the house all the way to affecting the country. And Allen Redpath, who is one of my. He's a. The secret to good preaching is obscure authors, obscure authors. Yeah, you know, not what everybody else quotes, but what you quote. But Allen Redpath said this. He said, no church is any stronger than the families that make it up. Okay.

>> Bert Harper: If you work in the church and the family doing what you should, if it will expand and it will grow, because it goes from what, roots to fruit. And fruit. That's the whole idea, guys.

We're going Trivia Friday July 16th to 18th

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so this is July 16th to the 18th. It'll be very pleasant here in Tupelo that time of year. I'm thinking maybe low 70s during the day, you know, upper 50s at night. So bring a jacket. So we got July 16th to the 18th. That's the. That's the normal weather that we have here.

>> Wesley Wildmon: So we've got brother Burt Harper, Pastor Jeff Schreve, Dr. Jessica Peck, Josh Wood, Katy Faust, and Laura Prether.

>> Don Wildmon: Bridge.

>> Wesley Wildmon: These are. These are going to be our speakers.

>> Tim Wildmon: And Ed Battagliano and Abraham Hamilton.

>> Don Wildmon: The third.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Abe would not make it this year. But Ed is.

>> Tim Wildmon: What happened to Abe?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Abe, also, I had a scheduling conflict.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, that. Would he tell you?

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's exactly what he told me.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so anyway, But. But Abe will be around. I Think they may be in town for people who want to come by and visit us here at our offices.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes, sir.

>> Tim Wildmon: In our studios.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Hopefully able those three days, we often have a lot of people also scheduling their tour to come visit, the, new building here at afa. And the schedule's up, too, so you can go to activate.afa.net and you can check in there. A live Trivia Friday, Thursday night. It's gonna be a lot of fun.

>> Tim Wildmon: We're doing live. We're going Trivia Friday. We're doing live from the event center there.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Someone Thursday night.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. Told a couple of our listeners about this, and they said you're gonna have to have a lot of shirts.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah, we got.

>> Chris Woodward: We gotta figure that out with a T shirt cannon.

>> Tim Wildmon: We got some new Trivia Friday T shirts coming out.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Like tomorrow. Well, whenever the Friday is.

>> Wesley Wildmon: So sign your family up. It's gonna be a lot of great, It's gonna be a lot of great speakers, a lot of great content.

Bird: There is general agreement among every Christian that Jesus Christ will return

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, now, on a more serious note, Bird, I want to ask you and Ray. And let me preface this by saying that both of you guys are in agreement on your theology and your, eschatology. Am I right, Bert and Ray?

>> Bert Harper: Ray. We're correct. So, yes,

>> Tim Wildmon: that's a better way. We're correct.

>> Tim Wildmon: You guys come from, What did you say? I know you're both Southern Baptist, but what's that view of the Bible basically called? Your view of the end times is basically called what, pre.

>> Bert Harper: Millennial. Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Pre Millennial. Okay. So we do understand that there are people who listen to us and who support us who have maybe a different view of things as it relates to the end times and prophecy.

>> Bert Harper: Correct.

>> Tim Wildmon: So that's fine. If you want to be wrong. You just. That's your choice. But. No, I'm teasing. I'm teasing. I don't want to run folks off. I want to say that we believe here at American Family Association, American Family Radio, that we all as believers, must subscribe to the essentials of the faith. And I won't go over all those now, but basically, the inerrancy of the word of God, the Bible, that Jesus Christ is the son of God. We must all bow before him and repent of our sins if we want salvation. all those the things that are in the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed, and those are things with respect to the end times and Bible prophecy, there is general agreement, I think, among every Christian That Jesus Christ is coming back to earth one day.

>> Bert Harper: That's a given. Okay, yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Jesus said he will return. As he left, you know, left the earth physically, I'm talking about, goes up into heaven. this, like you would see in a movie. I mean, Jesus went up into heaven from the Mount of Olives, right?

>> Bert Harper: That's it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Bert Harper: Acts, chapter one.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay? And he's coming back.

>> Bert Harper: He said, you have seen him go. You shall see him come in like manner.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay? So I think everybody agrees that that's going to take place now. The, the how that's going, what's going to lead up to that is where people might disagree some, and that's fine. We can all love one another and, and, and have our, discussions, and then, go away, brothers and sisters. That's the way it should be.

Do you see what's going on in the world lining up with Bible prophecy

All right, now, Bert, tell me, and then out then, Reagan, come in here. Tell me, do you see what's going on in the world right now in any way, shape or form, lining up with what the Bible says about the end times? Because the reason I ask you that, you know, I've seen so many, Christian authors especially, they wait for some world event to happen, and then they write a book about how it fits into Bible prophecy. And I'm going, dude, you're just trying to sell books here, man. Amen.

>> Bert Harper: I got a book in 1988 that said 88 reasons Jesus was coming back.

>> Tim Wildmon: I get so tired of that, man.

>> Bert Harper: Yes, I do, too.

>> Tim Wildmon: I get so tired of that. Anyway, you and Alex wrote a book, not related to anything in particular, I don't think going on right now, but just a view of the world as it is and how it relates to Bible prophecy. Go ahead.

>> Bert Harper: It does. God's timing is perfect. Man's interpretation of God's timing is questionable. I agree with what Chuck Colson said, and Ray may as well. There's no man, no church, no organization that has it right, because we're all human and we can't overcome that. Even the filling of the Holy Spirit and a view of the Scriptures, it leaves some things mystery. And his coming back is a mystery. I know it fits in. Ray, you may not agree, but you do see some aligning of the countries. And when you see that coming up, it is a little bit of a, I would say a view of what will happen, but that's happened a lot in the Old Testament. You have those. That's dual prophecy that that's taken place immediately and that which is going to take place Ultimately, and, it's, you know, a double prophecy, immediate and ultimate. So this, this war conflict, it fits in. But I don't think you can go to, Ezekiel 38 and 39 and say, oh, there it is.

>> Tim Wildmon: That is specifically mentioned.

>> Bert Harper: M. Exactly.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Right. Go ahead.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, everything Burke said, 100% correct. I do. I don't know that you can look at what has happened so far. And let's face it, Tim, where. This is what, day four, day five.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right, Right. We don't know where this is going.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right. I mean, where are we going to be next weekend, two weeks from now?

>> Tim Wildmon: That's true.

>> Tim Wildmon: war has a way of taking, taking unpredictable terms. So I don't have a particular, Bible prophecy to mention. However, Bert's point is exactly right. I remember what Billy Graham said that you need to read what you need to study the news this way with your Bible in one hand and with the newspaper in the other, because the newspaper tells you what's going on in the world, the Bible tells you what it means. And I think we have really some detailed descriptions of the world in the last days. Some of it comes from the Book of Psalms, some from Isaiah, a lot of it from Ezekiel and Daniel, Matthew and Revelation. And I think you can look at it. We need to, I think, pull the lens back away from say this week or next week.

>> Tim Wildmon: Sort of a 30,000 foot view.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Across the generations.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: One generation will see something happen, another generation will see something happen. And, you know, we had Alex on just the other day and he was talking about the fact, the reestablishment of the nation of Israel in 1948. And Bert, I think he used the term super sign, which that's an amazing thought, that Something happened in 1948 that had not happened since A.D. 70. Israel was reformed. The Jewish people were back in their homeland for the first time in 2000 years. That's not nothing in terms of Bible prophecy that really does matter.

Tim: Ezekiel 38 describes a confederation of nations plotting against Israel

Let me touch specifically on Iran, if you want to think about Iran in the last days, because the biblical name for Iran is Persia. And Bert has already mentioned this. You ought to read Ezekiel 38. I am not saying, Bert is not saying that what is happening is the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38, but Ezekiel 38 does describe an event in the last days when the nations around Israel, which I think must include Iran, it must include other Arab nations, it must include Russia, they are going to conspire together to wipe the nation of Israel from the Face of the earth. Persia is mentioned specifically in Ezekiel 38. So I'm inviting our listeners. You don't have to believe what Bert and I are saying. Read the Bible for yourself. Read it for yourself. Read Ezekiel 38. And then let me give you one other one, Tim. Psalm 83. In poetic fashion, the psalmist describes a confederation of nations that will try to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. And one of the nations mentioned is Assyria, which would be the modern country of Iraq and the modern country of Iran. So there will be a situation in the last days when the nations will try to destroy Israel. And God is not going to let that happen. How does this current war fit into that big, bigger picture? I'm happy to say only God knows, and also time will tell.

>> Tim Wildmon: You're listening to Today's Issues. That's the name of this show on, American Family Radio.

>> Bert Harper: Let me say one more thing about that.

>> Tim Wildmon: Imagine that a pastor's got one more.

>> Bert Harper: One more thing.

>> Tim Wildmon: A preacher's got one more thing to say.

>> Bert Harper: With all that's taken place in Iran before this happened, with the great number of followers and believers in Christ, we need to. The church needs to look at it as a missional moment more than how it fits into prophecy. M moment really, this is possibly a great opportunity. We don't know for sure, but there's. We talked to a girl yesterday on exploring the word that is from Iran, and she talks about how many believers are in Iran. Her family are still over there. Her brother got shot in the demonstrations that were held over there. And so it is an opportunity. The church, We've wasted so many opportunities before the Jesus movement in the 1960s, you know, they didn't look like us that go to church. You know, they're a little hippie looking, you know, and we don't need to waste this moment. Church needs to gear up and get ready. Just like MacArthur said about Japan. This is an opportunity for the Christian church to get into Japan and, you know, share Jesus Christ. We don't need to miss this moment if it presents itself, and I think it will.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Amen.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, if you got a. If you got. If you find out about who's doing that and how we can support them, let me know.

>> Bert Harper: I'll do it. We're going to be investigating.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, we need to defeat the evil regime, there who wants to use weapons against, you know, Israel and against America. But we also need, to use help.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Those that are, that are, that are, first of all, brothers and sisters in Christ. Who have been terrorized by the regime, over there.

>> Bert Harper: 40,000 killed. And many of them were believers.

>> Tim Wildmon: By the regime.

>> Bert Harper: By the regime. I mean they just. This girl said her brother was there and they shot. They, he just shot him in the leg. Just, you know, they were totalitarian.

>> Tim Wildmon: Whether it be Islamic totalitarianism or communist totalitarianism, that's the same.

>> Bert Harper: No matter what it is, it's dictatorship

>> Tim Wildmon: and it's ruthless and brutal. And the way you suppress freedom is you kill people and intimidate them. And that's why, that's why it's so volatile right now in Iran. On what's going to happen is, we don't know. You say, well, why don't the people rise up now and take over their country? Well, they may do that and let's hope and pray that that does. I'm talking about the freedom loving people and the peaceful, peace loving people. But you got to remember this is what, 40 years now, generation, of suppression, brutality and almost 50. Yeah. And so psychologically, you don't just come out of your house and say, hey, everything's great when they, you know, you're gonna be shot by the people who are still supporting the regime.

>> Wesley Wildmon: And they did just two months ago. 40. Around 40,000 of them.

>> Bert Harper: What's different about this is the Internet has pumped into that area what freedom looks like. A lot of the other people in former, I would say uprisings for. Right, right. They did not have any kind access

>> Tim Wildmon: to the outside world.

>> Bert Harper: Got it this time they understand what freedom possibly, you know, that looks like

>> Tim Wildmon: I told Khomeini took away the Internet.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: a month ago.

>> Bert Harper: Because he knows where it's feeding.

>> Tim Wildmon: But I want to say I'm correct about this. I think Elon Musk did offered, the skylink. Is that what it's called? So Elon Musk was doing all he could to open up the Internet back to the Iranian people. But to my point, we need to support Christians and pray for the Christians there. Because as you say, what would be the best scenario is that that country becomes a Christian country. I know that, seems possible now, but you know, who knows, with this regime change, what can open up the possibility of the gospel spreading even more in that part of the world? Well, you are listening to today's. Thank you, Burt.

>> Bert Harper: Thank you guys.

>> Tim Wildmon: Appreciate it very much.

>> Bert Harper: Appreciate it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so you'll be speaking at the big conference we got coming up. The Activate Conference, right?

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right, the Activate conference. Go to afa.netevents.

Bert Harper: When you're speaking, will you have an interpreter

>> Tim Wildmon: hey, Bert, one other question. When you're speaking, will you have an interpreter for people you know, I'm talking about people from the north.

>> Bert Harper: Listen. They listen to me on exploring the word. And if I go to a place where radio is and I speak, they know the voice.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay? They know the voice.

>> Bert Harper: They know the voice.

>> Tim Wildmon: Either interpreter or some subtitles.

>> Bert Harper: I think we have sign language, too. Okay.

>> Wesley Wildmon: All right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you. That's Bert Harper. You're listening to today's issues. Krish, what's your next story?

What people are worried about is what's going to happen with oil prices

>> Chris Woodward: Well, let me mention this real quick.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, well,

>> Chris Woodward: I'm going all willy nilly anyway. we need to, don't, don't look at your 401k today. The good news is it's better right now than it was this morning and it was last night. But, okay, for example, and in the immortal words of President Tim Wildmon, stocks go up and stocks go down.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.

>> Chris Woodward: Right now, the dow is down 677 points.

>> Tim Wildmon: Sad face.

>> Chris Woodward: The NASDAQ is down 302. The S&P is down 89. Now, the good news.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Question mark face.

>> Chris Woodward: Yeah. The good news is it was a lot worse, when this show started. Things have somewhat gotten better, and maybe by the end of today, they won't be as bad.

>> Tim Wildmon: I think it'll rebound.

>> Chris Woodward: I think. So. We're going to have a temporary, setback now. It's not like the Dow has plummeted to 15,000, has lost their shirt. Praise God. It's not that bad.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Chris Woodward: President Trump right now is speaking from the Oval Office. maybe those, comments like, we knocked everything out in Iran. We're going to, we're going to win this war. It's not going to be prolonged. All these kinds of comments are going

>> Tim Wildmon: to be what people are worried about right now. clearly the Americans and the Israelis are going to end. The war in Iran will be over within the next few weeks.

>> Chris Woodward: I hope so.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. It'll be ended because Iran will have nothing left to fight with. So that, that is inevitable. That is going to happen. However, I think what the stock market people and economy watchers are concerned about is what's going to happen with the price of oil.

>> Chris Woodward: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Chris Woodward: I can give you those numbers.

>> Tim Wildmon: Which oil is converted into, it's traded globally. Getting out of my league here. But petroleum, Right. And gasoline that you put in your car. Okay. So that starts going up by a dollar a gallon, for example, you're talking about. That's going to have a big impact on the economy overall, and it won't be good. So I'm just saying that I think that's why everybody's watching. And you've got that Strait of Hormuz, that's what it's called over there, that borders Iran, that's only 20 miles across at some point that people, are worried about, you know, what ships are going to be able to go through there. I think, you know, hopefully the Americans will be able to get in there and clear the path for. For all the merchant ships to go through without being shot at by the Iranians. Ah.

President Trump announces that Iran's navy has been decimated

All right. And we, I think President Trump basically is announcing, that we have taken out their navy, the nav. The Iranian navy. They no longer exist.

>> Chris Woodward: Decimated as a good word to use for what we've done to their military capabilities.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, well, we will be back with Steve Paisley Jordov with more of, more news and information and analysis in five minutes. Stay with us. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.

Tim, Wesley and Ray talk with Chris on top news headlines of the day. Also, Bert Harper joins the program to discuss AFA's Activate Summit.