The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This Is Your FBI This Is Your FBI The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community Fathers and Mothers of America Upon the training you give your children today depends the future of America Our system of free enterprise, personal liberty and democracy cannot exist without educated and enlightened citizens In about 14 minutes, our sponsor, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States will have some helpful suggestions for parents If you wish to equip your children to take advantage of all the opportunities the future offers don't miss this important message Tonight's FBI file, the Curious Coin Collector As August 14, 1945 crept onto the pages of history, the White House announced that the shooting in World War II had come to an end a victorious end that saw America and her allies triumph over tyranny Once again, this nation had managed to protect its basic liberties A wise prophet once said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty For liberty, freedom and democracy are not prizes that are won by a people and put on a shelf No people ever win permanent possession of these prizes For liberty, freedom and democracy are given only to those who first fight to win them and then keep fighting to protect them Tonight's file opens in a photographic studio located in a shabby frame house in one of the poorer sections of a large Midwestern city The proprietor of this establishment, one author Belton is just greeting a newly arrived customer Good afternoon, what can I do for you? You are the proprietor? Yes Mr. Arthur Belton? That's right Good, are you interested in some photographs? What do you charge for yourself?  What do you mean? I'm not taking those anymore But I was totally told wrong I'm mailing out these copies of that wedding yesterday, does each member of the family Oh, excuse me, I didn't realize you were busy All right, Erna, he's just leaving You are sending me away? Yes Wait a minute, what is this Arthur, who is this man? He called you a treacherous swine Just a minute, let me see the coin Did you bring this here? Yes Arthur, you were turning him away? I asked you to keep out of this. Oh, no. The war is over That has nothing to do with our friendship for those who carry this coin What is your name? Spangler Are you in trouble? Yes Erna, I bid you welcome Mr. Spangler Some ten days after the arrival of the mysterious visitor at the photographic shop The whereabouts of this same man became a matter of great interest to special agent Jim Taylor at the local field office of the FBI Oh, Jim? Oh, hello, Ross Boss tells me I've been assigned to the case you're working on Well, good How far have you gotten with it? You're right in at the beginning That's fine In fact, here's exhibit A right here That's blue denim shirt Well, I'd say the first thing we should do is have it laundered, eh? I don't think all the laundering in the world would erase this P.W. on the back Oh, where'd the shirt come from? It was found in an empty freight car out in the yards When? Just this morning How about the owner? Car's been standing idle for ten days It came in from the west That gives him a pretty good start, eh? Yes, but we've got one break I know who this P.W. is How'd you find out? This laundry mark here on the shirt I checked it in our circulars on missing prisoners of war Oh, I see He's Lieutenant Carl Spangler, former member of the Africa Corps Escaped from a California prison camp some fifteen days ago Here's the circulars, eh? Thanks It's a very complete description Yeah, he shouldn't be hard to identify If he's still here, don't forget our lead is ten days old You mean he might have been just passing through? That's it, Ross Oh, this is Exhibit B That crumpled piece of paper? It was found in the pocket of the shirt Any writing on it? Nothing visible, but look at these creases here It appears to have been wrapped around a small coin of some sort Yeah I'm asking the laboratory to check with a parallel light beam for indented marks To see if the coin left an impression on the paper That's it Then we start looking in a city of three million people For one man who has probably already left town Good morning, Anna Good morning, Carl Did you sleep well?  No, he went out Poor Arthur Why do you say that? Well, I would judge by his attitude these past ten days That he's not very happy about my being here Does that bother you? Not in the least My only concern is you What do you mean? How you feel about me Will you have your toast dry or buttered? Dry, please Here you are And your coffee Thank you, my dear Excellent coffee I'm glad Arthur always says it's too strong I have an idea that many things are too strong for Arthur How did you two ever get together? He was a friend of my father's He came to meetings at our house before the war Political meetings? Yes Arthur was very active for our cause Why did he turn me away? My friend in the prison camp who gave me the penny And told me to present it here Said he could be trusted That was true Why did he change? Because he wasn't being paid any longer We lost the war Remember? Tell me, Anna Why do you stay on with him? I don't know Do you love him? No Then why? Please, come Come here No I said come here What is it? I think that there was a very good reason For you not leaving Arthur You did not know it, of course But you've been waiting for me Carl And now that I have... Is that you, Arthur? Yes, sir Good morning, Carl Good morning I've just been talking about you With who? A mutual friend Arthur, what is this? I don't be alarmed, my dear I've been to visit Max Sebring Who is he? A former member of our organization here I told him you were staying with us He used to arrange shelter and transportation For people like you He still does, Anna He's going to take charge of Carl What do you mean? I regret to say that he's leaving here What? Max is transporting him to a farm Some hundred miles upstate Just a minute I believe I have something to say about where I go I'm afraid you haven't You understand an order, Carl This is an order from Max I thought you'd left the organization I have I only contacted Max as a favor to you How kind So, Carl, you will be at the corner Of 12th and Main Street at 830 tonight Max will pick you up in his car Ross, here's the latest flash An exhibit B Piece of paper? That's it Was it loaded with invisible writing? No Not a trace of any How about the coin angle? It was wrapped around one all right Foreign coin? Oh, an Indian head penny What? Why would anyone want to keep a penny wrapped up? So he wouldn't spend it Oh, wait a minute Oh, no, I mean it, Ross I think that Indian head was of great value to him As a rare coin? Oh, as an open sesame I don't get it Well, I may be way off base on this one But do you remember back before the war When we had our hands full of the boys from the bundle? Yeah Well, the key men in that setup Had various means of identifying themselves Sometimes they used an old coin Do you remember now? Yeah, of course Well, our escape PW could be using that same system And it's being sheltered by one of the old bundit? Could be, yes Oh, excuse me Taylor speaking Mr. Taylor, the girl at your switchboard Told me I should talk to you Who is this place? That doesn't matter I understand you're the FBI man Who was looking for an escaped German prisoner of war Yes, that's right If you wish to pick him up He'll be at the corner of 12th and Main Street At 830 tonight Goodbye Oh, wait a minute Hello? Hello? He hung up Well, what was that all about? An anonymous tip One where we could pick up our PW Really? The informer said that he'd be at the corner Of 12th and Main Street at 830 tonight You think it's a good tip? I don't know We'll follow up on it anyway Meantime, let's dig through the files And get a list of the ex-leaders of the Bund Are you all dressed? Yeah, it's on you It's too tall It looks fine Has Erna come back yet? No I wanted to say goodbye to her She'll be here before you go We still have almost an hour This place I'm being sent to What's it like? It's a beautiful farm You'll enjoy it very much Who lives there? An old couple I know of them Charming people I'd rather be here You're a soldier, Carl I said before, you must obey orders I know Who's that? Me Erna We're in here, dear Carl was afraid you wouldn't return in time What delayed you? I went calling Really? On whom? Max Sebring Erna I spoke to his wife She told me that Max has been out of town For two weeks Why? Why, that can't be I just saw him this morning He's in California His wife spoke to him on the phone Out there an hour ago Well, that's impossible This is the man who was supposed to have ordered me away Yes, Carl Well, I don't understand I do You're being thrown to the wolves Now, see here Father, you didn't speak to Max or anyone else You just wanted Carl out of here That's a lie Then suppose you give us the truth I have He probably has the FBI or the police on that corner Right now, waiting to pick you up I tell you, Max is in town Then call him on the phone Go ahead, call him I... No Then this was a trick? Yes I knew it Oh, look, Erna, I had to do it I didn't want any part of him in the first place I was through with everything he stood for And then I have to watch you day after day Waiting on him, catering to him, falling over him Knowing you were falling in love with him Right under my nose, I... I had to do it But you didn't get away with it He's still getting out of here I'm calling the FBI Oh, no, you're not Well, darling I guess I'll stay We will return in just a moment to tonight's FBI file Now, three questions and answers on the value of education First question How much better chance is a college-trained man or woman to become a leader in business, the professions or the arts than the individual who doesn't go to college? Are the odds 2 to 1, 5 to 1, 10 to 1? Taking who's who in America as a measure of leadership the odds in favor of the college-trained man or woman are 87 to 1 Right now I know that thousands of listeners to this program are saying to themselves my children are going to have those 87 to 1 odds in their favor Well, if that's the way you feel then you'll certainly be interested in an equitable educational fund Same question What is an equitable educational fund? 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Well, this case hasn't been publicized Very few people know that we're looking for Carl Spangler And how do you figure the call? Someone might just have been trying to turn him in and it didn't work out Oh, Ross, will you drive? Yeah, sure thing Back to the office? Yes, please Ross, where's that list of ex-bond members? Right here in my pocket There you are, thanks Those two names at the bottom are the only ones who still live here in town Sebring and Belton? That's right I don't remember either one of them I remember Belton all right What's the story on him? Native born American, Nazi sympathizer Very active with a bond before the war How about during the war? He was under surveillance I didn't get anything on him though I see These are the correct addresses on both of them? I believe so, Jim Well, it's too late to contact them tonight We'll get on this first thing in the morning How is he, Carl? He has regained consciousness That's good For a while I was frightened About what? Well, that you might have killed him I'm sure he'd appreciate your concern My only concern was the police Oh Is it safe to leave him alone in there? I haven't bound him, gagged I'm fine What do we do now? I don't know Obviously, we can't stay here Where do we go? Do you want to leave the country? To home? To Germany? Yes I should say not I'd much prefer to remain here You mean you've learned to like America? Not at all But if I were to settle down here Who knows Someday I might be very useful to the fatherland We both could be useful And I repeat Where do we go? What did you do before you went into the army? I was, I guess you'd call it a commercial artist Well, then we should go to a large city Preferably in the east Darling What would we use for money? Oh I don't know How much has your husband got? Four or five thousand But it's all in the bank in his name Checking account? Yes, but we can't touch it, Carl He signs the checks I think we might persuade him to sign one for us Carl Come, let's go see him Carl, he'll never consent to it Perhaps he'll have to Go ahead, Anna Thank you Good evening, Arthur And I wish to talk to you about something other important Shall I remove the gag? No, no, no, he can hear Arthur, we wish to go away We need money I understand you have several thousand in the bank We'd like you to write us a check for the full amount Carl, I tell you, he'll never do it Go and get his check for Gunnar I think by the time you return You'll be ready to sign Taylor speaking Morning, Jim, this is Ross Oh, good morning, Ross I was waiting for your call Are you ready to go calling on Belfin and Sebring? No, the boss has put me on another detail I'll be tied up on it for another couple of hours I see Ross, why don't you go ahead and interview them See what you can pick up, huh? Okay Who are you calling on first? Well, Sebring is the handiest Belfin is way up on North Main Street Well, if I finish here in time I'll try to meet you out there Anna Yes, Carl My time does the bank open Nine o'clock Don't you think you should be getting over there? It's almost set now I know, Carl, but I'd rather wait a while Why? I don't want to be the first customer They might get suspicious You said they know you're there Yes, but this is a very large check What are you looking for? The keys to the car You check the gas and oil when you go to the bank, huh? Yes, I told you I would Oh, here they are Tell me, Anna, does Arthur have a gun? Yes Where is it? In the dresser next to the bed Why? I think we should bring it along with us Just in case What's that? Someone's come into the studio What do we do? Go and get rid of them But we... What do I say? Yes Good morning Is Mr. Arthur Belton here? No, he isn't When will he be back? Well, I... I don't know Do you work here? I'm his wife Oh, I see My name is Dixon I'm a special agent of the FBI Here are my credentials Well? I'm looking for information Perhaps you can help me What sort of information? About a man named Spangler An escaped prisoner of war Yes We have reason to believe he's here in the city I wonder if he tried to contact your husband I wouldn't know You say you have no idea when he'll return?  Well, I've been ringing the doorbell here For the past five minutes I wanted to get into the studio We're closed for the day You work here, do you? Yes We're closed, I tell you I wanted to see Mr. Belton I'm a special agent of the FBI Oh? Well, there's already been one agent here to see him Oh? I'm Mrs. Belton My husband left here with the other agent I see How long ago was this? At least a half hour Thank you very much You're welcome Me, Ern Close the door quickly What's wrong? We've got to get out of here at once Did you get the money? Yes, but there was another FBI man waiting outside of the door when I came in Where is he now? I got rid of him How? I told him that the other agent had already been here with his husband away I see What did you do with the other one? He's in the bedroom without it Well then let's get out of here We'll use the back way, come on Very well Stand where you are Who is this? The FBI I had an idea you'd be here, Spangler Really? Yes Mrs. Belton told me my partner had left with her husband a half hour ago I didn't add up because his car is still parked two doors from this house Now where is my partner? In the bedroom Is he all right? Yes He'd better be Go on Superman, lead me to him Erna Belton was tried and convicted of harboring an escaped prisoner and sentenced to a term in the federal penitentiary Carl Spangler was returned to the custody of the United States Army Yes, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty And eternal vigilance might also be the motto of your FBI For the men who comprise the Federal Bureau of Investigation are forever at work protecting your security The wartime record of your FBI approached perfection for despite the constant work of enemy agents not one single piece of sabotage was ever committed within the confines of the United States That kind of vigilance is the type that was rewarded in tonight's case And that kind of alert watchfulness will continue to protect you, the American people so long as there is an FBI In just a moment, we'll tell you about next week's exciting case from the files of your FBI Again, let me remind you to check with your Equitable Society representative about the safest and wisest investment a parent can make for his children an equitable educational fund For obligation, he will also show you the Equitable Society's memorandum on the costs of higher education and some of the opportunities it opens Get in touch with your Equitable Society representative or call the nearest office of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Next week, we will bring you another colorful story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation The Sugar Swindler The incidents used in tonight's Equitable Life Assurance Society's broadcast are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation However, all names used are fictitious and any similarity thereof to the names of persons living or dead is accidental Tonight, the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Steiner Your narrator was Dean Carlton This is your FBI is written and produced by Jerry Devine This is Milton Cross speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community and inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time when the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States will bring you another thrilling story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation The Sugar Swindler This is your FBI This is ABC Broadcasting Company


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Going on everyone Sam here with late sports card drip in 23 moments. They're leaving baseball hobby 12-5 case number 6 random team style Look again at your random results as always could find those on the website under the results tab as well as a link in chat Good luck everybody It's been a minute Sam. Okay Give me a break preferably a kick cap kick cap really I could actually really go for kick cap That sounds actually pretty good Good luck here everybody Kodai Senga James Outman to 199 card as far out man Got base auto Willie Fannis for the Mets. Congrats Mets Arias and Brian Acuna That's fine unless it's like a really really big name Spencer Jones the 125 said then Raffaella Congrats on that Red Sox on the wave auto There you go Boston Ellie rookie and they're not Ellie rookie belly prospect card and Adley Rush We got a tech 299 Corbin Carol Nice one there congrats Dbecks gonna Peter. I believe yep Peter M good stuff buddy 299 Corbin at Carol Henry bolt base auto for the A's nice when they're Oakland Casas and James Outman Did they ever bring Ellie back down? No, I think he stayed up. Okay. That's what I thought Carol rookie to 150 Lazarus Oman says nice one there base auto Eric Brown jr.  Yeah No, I think you just pulled off toward the end of the year a little bit like some pictures figured them out a little bit more Yeah Alright sterling Silverado to 100 Alex Ramirez Congrats Mets nice one there Sterling Silverado for the Mets Hunter Brown Josh young rookie and an Oscar Coloss I got a hundred like a different design. It looks really good. I really like this though because that's new this year I don't think they had that last year. Yeah That one's nice. I like that too Volpi rookie Burleson base auto a bell by speed us going to the Tigers. Here you go the trait Kevin arrow Muncie Kevin parada base Marcella Meyer with your Crawford you Gilbert first our base auto for the Astros Congrats Houston True Jones and DL Hall. That's coming up. That's coming up soon. Let's go I don't know. I don't think I Michael Harris to 100 other one the other remote Up there nice one there for the Braves Michael Harris to 100 and base auto Yosue de Paula Going to the Dodgers on the base on Zika so far and Gary Mitchell should be yeah I think so I Think both of them are tonight. Yeah, double header. Oh Well, he walk is on. That's awesome. We're gonna wait for this to end Gold to 50 Masataka Yoshida. I saw in there for the Red Sox on the gold rookie Refractor Yankeel Fernandez to 150 for the Rockies. Yes or Mercedes and Mikey Romero spoiler alert everybody Charlie wins the thing Trish and causes 2199 Nice one there got base auto Jordan Beck going to the Rockies Kate Cavalli and Kyle Stowers What was the whole thing with Blanca? Was he like Dying or something and he wants someone to have a successor or I don't know I don't know if you I just think you wanted a successor. Oh I don't know I don't watch the movie a long time I don't know either to be honest. It's a very good question. They were gonna watch those new walk a movie coming out Looks like a musical Gold tech Adley Rushman to 50 nice. There you go. Congrats to the Orioles 30 30 of 50 Gabriel Gonzalez base auto for the Mariners James Altman and Matt Walner Brad and with a spot in certified the commanders bucks and 23 commanders in 24 and the emails so we've got I Said thank you to everybody there Kevin Al took the we knew that the bucks Cameron K with the Chargers and Chargers in 24 and then Jads in 24 the 23 and 24 and Matthew W with the chiefs in origins and the chiefs in certified 26 So thank you all there appreciate that again got to get flux filled up. That is the next break with spots tonight Base auto yasser Mercedes going to the twins. Yes, sir Merrill jet and Jackson chariot. It's an orange coming up by as orange 75 tomorrow Johnson I just won their pirates congrats on that Huh, isn't that water right? Howtman Not necessarily. No. Yeah. I was confused early I know what's going on Yeah, all right Gunner rookie Jordan back to 150 on the white speckle that is a cam collier to 99 on the white speckle as well Grats on that reds. W of the spot tomorrow base and Jordan Walker base. Hey, thanks. Jess. Pick it up two spots in flux It's up Jess. Jess G Flux down to 15 Jones add the rushman base on The rookie going to the pie Padres Jackson Merrill gots on that Padres Rada and a Cosks on to the next one our speckles Yeah, top left Right, it's gonna see the light got you Matthew with the lions in both origins breaks. Thank you there Matthew. Nice Appreciate your brother Lions now off the board in both origins One of the better fiends for sure in terms of quantity Brara Nolan Jones to 125 your Donnie De Los Santos. I am. I am actually Donnie. Let's go. You're correct. You're Donnie De Los Santos It'd be funny if you watched our brace. He's autoed your Donnie That is Daniel Montecino going to the Padres on the base on They were cool young I see a banger come out. Let's see a triple or a dual come out of here That would be awesome. Hold the Lawler and Drew Jones three, which is pretty cool. I did I ship that out That was sweet man. So that looks sweet to 199 Brian Acunha the twins Ambrose Tavares to 150 for the Braves capturing Bravo Congrats Bravo's Coonia and Ellie capturing alpha We're losing Bravo No, I know what Sam's gonna be doing. Yeah, right Corbyn Carol rookie to 99 Brady house on the white speckle nice one there for the mats and base auto Cole young going to the Mariners There you go, Seattle as a Josh young rookie with the throwback Jersey on and a Oscar Colas Marcel Amir Joshua Baez going to the Cardinals. It's up Jess How you doing? Thanks for taking a couple of flux spots appreciate you as always Joshua Baez base base and base Sorry about the Titans on sat on Sunday These levels looks promising Yeah, we're almost out of I think with this. This is the last sealed case. We have currently in the shop Shipe, I don't know if we have if we're getting any more. I don't know I Do not know it's all the update now. Oh, yeah, gonna Henderson Brady house gold. Logan. Oh hoppy to set up 50 Congrats on that. He loaves Viking so yeah, that's fair valid valid base auto William Burgoyle nice one there Phillies Congrats on that Philadelphia Jordan Walker Jackson Merrill That Vikings look they're playing some fun to watch football for sure Minnesota Viking. I agree mr. Dobbs Can Collier to 999 Kumar rocker lost a golden auction of his Ellie to 150 there we go Reds Congrats since he Bread s picking up the Ellie Daylock cruise refractor auto. Let's go man. Congrats there Brett. 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I heard it in my head, but I wasn't gonna say Fred's bot jaker Mayfield isn't in here right now Right guys about it's right in the background probably Matthew leave it or wave to 125 William Burgoyle going to the Phillies silver wave On the auto wall nerd Jonathan Aranda for the raise got the gilded sterling mixer coming up after this Which will be fun box of gilded and two boxes of this sterling Sound fun. I think it's gonna be fun. That's good.  That's not bad and the gold tech of I Get that's like a Acetate card, but Jackson holiday to 150 they used to have a standalone product called tops high-tech Edison Paulino base auto for the Red Sox See that makes up. Yeah, it used to be for football and Baseball like the mid 2010s. Yeah, and then I think they discontinued it, but the insert still is like in there and or in sterling Hmm, I know that's sick dude. I came into your chat when you hit that. That's so That's so now color match Johnny Bench. That's insane Yeah, I mean is Joshua. Bye is the over beguero nice one. There's also Gabriel Moreno. Is that good auto? There's the Leo for beguero 275 for the pirates on the orange I swung there. Yeah. He's got a really nice auto. I can't appreciate it like you guys Yeah He was really like I never obviously is way before my time, but but you still like No, enough.  Oh man 250 on the gold. Nice one. They're blue jays 25 of 50 Tucker Tillman Jackson holiday. Los romances von Grissom Barry sedan, Raffaella base auto for the Red Sox Spencer Steer and Max Meyer I think you should have bought the Vikings for 69 You know what I'm regretting not doing it. We got a black lava coming up everybody that one last Well, we'll do the I guess we'll do the auto first Sam Zavala Nice one there for the Padres big black lava. Let's see it. Let's see it.  Thank you, buddy So origins breaks are disappearing now, but yeah, we do have a full case divisional at the end of the night as well The black looks good. Yeah, black lav is a fire Unlike the autos Roger Arias base auto for the Yankees Congrats Yankees Kunya Ellie and Nelson Rada drop you guys a link again to flux really quick 15 to go now on flux So we're like halfway there basically 15 to go Flux Adley rookie Oh, Nailer to 199 for the Guardians That's on that Cleveland base auto Christopher Caro. I swung there for the Nationals Chrithian at the Cairo Casas James Alvin Victor doesn't lead the league in flocks by the year. I'll be very surprised. Yeah, honestly So Stuart there's to a hundred Michael Garcia Rookie for the Royals to the 99 Jacob Barry for the Marlins on the white speckled Cole young Roger Garas Christopher Morel, Raindon Cone base auto for the Dodgers I swung there at Los Angeles base and Josh young rookie. Oh, this is the in season tournament too. That's weird. Oh Yeah, that thing Brandon Hyde one ale manager of the year for the Orioles. He kind of deserved it in my opinion. He deserved it for sure Brandon Hyde. He's a stud Was he a player for a long time? I don't know to be honest actually Because Schumacher was the guy I want it in the wet because I showed you that card obviously He was like when I was a kid, right? He was He was good. See this one. Which one the radiating Expose a that's cool. Oh, yeah, those are nice. So they're numbered. Yeah, it's really it was number 20 or 50 really That's weird. And last year they were short numbered. They were short-printed, but it's good that they're numbered this year 20 out of 50 Yeah, the expose made this product so good. Yeah, I know it's so much better than last year, dude You could have made you could have done anything to make it was the issue last year. 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Amen, alright, so here's a really interesting story in the Bible. This morning we're going to look at this story, and we have a story here of a messenger and a messenger, and we're going to look at this story of this messenger, we're going to look at the man, we're going to look at the message, and I'm going to show you this morning some crazy parallels to some messengers that we're dealing with today. So what's the story here? What is the context of what's going on? Here we have this messenger that has come to the nation of Judah. We have King Hezekiah is king at this time, King Hezekiah has watched the nation of Judah has watched in the past just few years earlier the northern kingdom of Israel taken into captivity by the Assyrian Empire, and not only have they seen this, not only did they see this terrible event happen to their neighbors to the north, to their ex-brethren to the north, but they now are facing this same enemy that has come to them. So much so that the king of Assyria actually came across the borders and he actually took the fenced cities. What it means is that the outer cities of the nation of Judah, so the king of Assyria has overthrown the northern kingdom of Israel, Hezekiah the nation of Judah saw this happen, they were carried away into captivity, it was a terrible thing that happened, they all saw it happen. Now this country, this massive empire has invaded them, they came in, they took over the fenced cities, Hezekiah tried to pay them off, Hezekiah was a good king. The Bible says he trusted the Lord, we'll actually see in this sermon this morning and in this story, this morning in the Bible how much he does trust the Lord. But Hezekiah tried to appease the Assyrian king, he tried to, it says he cut the doors off the temple, the golden doors, because the king said give me money basically, he said please leave, please depart my borders, and he said give me all this gold. So he cuts, he takes the treasures of the house of the Lord, he tries to pay them off, does it work? It doesn't work. The guy comes to Jerusalem, he sends a messenger to Jerusalem and he wants the whole thing. He wants Jerusalem. So here we see in 2nd Kings chapter 19, we see the story of this messenger, this Rebshecha. He comes and he talks to the messengers of the king and he's giving a very specific, he's delivering a very specific message from the king of Assyria. So let's look at the message that Rebshecha had, let's look at it first, let's go through this story and then we'll apply that, it's crazy the parallels that we see here with what we're seeing in our lives today. But the first thing I want to point out with Rebshecha, it turned to 2nd Kings chapter 18 and verse number 25. The Bible says this. It says, am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, go up against this land and destroy it. This is Rebshecha talking to the king's men. So basically Rebshecha, first of all he starts off and he says, God told me to come here. God told me to come and overthrow this city. He's like I am with God, he's trying to get them, he's trying to claim that God is with him and not with the children of Judah. But look, look at verse number 27. He quickly turns and gets angry and shows what he really thinks of God. In verse number 27 it says, but Rebshecha said unto them, hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words, hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you. This is the Bible folks. Rebshecha stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews language and spake saying, hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. Thus sayeth the king, let not Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying the Lord will surely deliver us and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.  Now watch verse number 33. This is a man that just previously, just a few minutes before, said the Lord sent me here. He said, the Lord is with me, the Lord told me to come here, and in verse 33, just a few minutes later, just a few words later, he says, hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria.  Where are the gods of Hamath, of Arpad? Where are the gods of Serapham? Hannah and Iva, have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? Who are they among all the gods of the countries that have delivered their country out of mine hand, and the Lord, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? Look, Rabbi Shaka had a godless worldview. He had a godless worldview. He came to the walls of Jerusalem and he said, he first tried to just appease them and take the easy road, but when he realized that they weren't going to listen, he says, look, we've invaded dozens and dozens and dozens of people with gods, and their gods did not save them.  He didn't believe in any of these gods, but this was his fatal mistake because he was 99.9% right. All those other gods were nothing. They were dumb idols, but here he came up against the holy God, the only one true living God, but he didn't know it, and it became his fatal mistake. To him, the God of Judah was no different than all the other gods that the Assyrian Empire had just been rolling right over. It was no different. But this was his problem, his fatal mistake. So look, he had a godless worldview. He did not believe in any God, and he lied about it at first, but at the end the truth came out. Even in verse 34, he says, even in Samaria, because look, he's saying even in Samaria it didn't save them, and he knew the connection between Samaria and Judah. He knew. He's like the God of Samaria didn't save them. What makes you think that you're God? He doesn't believe in any gods. He doesn't believe in any of them.  It cost this king his life. The second point I want to make about this messenger is this. Rabbi Sheka was trying to influence the people here. He had a very specific agenda. Rabbi Sheka had an agenda to gain power and control over Judah. That was his agenda. He came there to gain power over these people and to basically try to win without a fight. That's what he was trying to do. And what were his methods? What were Rabbi Sheka's methods? So he came there and he used all these terrible words. His first method was fear. He was trying to strike fear. That's why, look, that's why they said, could you please speak in the Assyrian language? We understand the Assyrian language. Speak to us in the Assyrian language, because all the people of Judah on the wall were listening and they didn't want, he said, no, I'm going to speak in your language because I want all the people to hear this. Because he wants to strike fear into the people. That's why he asked for the, that's why they asked for the language change. Because the messengers of Hezekiah knew that the people on the walls were listening to all these horrible things.  I mean, that's, everyone's like, that doesn't sound good. So he's trying to strike fear. Look at 2nd Kings, chapter 18, verse number 26, then said, Alayakim, the son of Hezekiah and Shebna and Joa and unto Rabshekah, speak I pray that ye to thy servants in the Assyrian language, for we understand it and talk not with us in the Jews language in the ears of the people that are on the wall. And right away he responds and he says, you know, hath my master sent to me thy master into thee to speak these words, hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall.  So he knows that everybody's listening and he wants them to hear it. So he was trying to strike fear into the people of Judah. So look, he's there, he's trying to, he's trying to push this agenda. And the main thing he uses is fear. The second thing is this, Rabshekah is pitching a different reality to the people. Look at verse number 31. I mean, was Rabshekah's reality real? Let's look at that for a minute. He's pitching this reality to the people, if you do these things, this will happen to you. If you listen to me, you will be able to stay in your own homes and all these great things, your life will be great. Was that real? Is that a reality? Look at verse 31 of 2 Kings 18, Harkin not to Hezekiah, he's saying, don't listen to your king, for thus saith the king of Assyria, make an agreement with me by a present. He's like, give me more money. He's like, you've already given me all this gold and all this silver. He's like, give me more and come out to me and then eat, eat every man.  And he's like, or you could eat of your own vine and every one of his own fig tree and drink every one of the waters of his sister.  Until I come, and then he says, he's going to take them away, right?  Can't you just see the people going to Hezekiah saying, man, it sounds pretty good. Why don't we just do this? We're going to have this great land, this great property. It reminds me of when Stalin, I don't know if many of you know this, but Stalin, after World War II, he tried to repatriate all Russians that had left the Soviet Union during the war and that had fleed before even the war started. And he started bringing all these people back. As a matter of fact, the Americans and the British like forcefully loaded people onto trains to send them back to Russia at Stalin's request after the war was over. Not many people know that. But he promised him, land, you'll have 40 acres of land. Come back, help rebuild the country. And he threw them all in prison or killed them when they actually got back. So you can about imagine, people didn't really want to go back when they heard this was happening. So it was kind of a big deal.  But look, back to the sermon. So he's sitting here and he's telling these people, you can stay in your homes. And when we do send you away, we're going to send you to even a better place. And you're going to have all these vineyards. And you'll have more than you have now. But look, the Assyrians were known to be brutal people. Throughout history, even secular historians will say it is well documented that the Assyrians were brutal, brutal people. They are known, turned to 2 Kings chapter 19.  Look at 2 Kings chapter 19 and verse number 28. This matches up exactly with what secular historians have found through drawings and artworks and things from the Assyrian Empire from this time. Look at 2 Kings chapter 19 and verse number 28. This is God speaking. OK, but look what God says. And look at the language that he uses. You're like, why would God use these specific terms? And I'll tell you why. In 2 Kings chapter 19, look at verse 28. Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back the way which thou camest. This is God speaking to the Assyrians, saying, I'm going to put my hook in your lips and my bridle in your mouth. Because the Assyrians, when they led away captives, they would actually put hooks through people's mouths. They would put hooks through their lips and they would wind them up in chains. This is well documented. This is what God has seen what the Assyrian Empire has done to the northern kingdom of Israel as a judgment, by the way. But he has seen it. He's like, you know what? Now I'm going to put my hook in your lips.  That's what God is saying here. But look, turn to Hosea chapter 13 if you need more evidence. Hosea chapter 13. So God was using what the Assyrians did to the people that they conquered. He was using that language against them as he was going to throw them out. Look at Hosea 13 in verse number 16. The Bible here is talking about the judgment coming to Samaria by the Assyrian Empire. And it shows more of the brutality of the Assyrian people. Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. I mean, look, it's terrible. These people were brutal. It was different than the Babylonian captivity. Not to say that there wasn't brutality in the Babylonian captivity, but it was much worse with the Assyrian Empire taking away the northern kingdom of Israel. Look, the 10 tribes that were in the northern kingdom of Israel, they literally ceased to exist. They were either killed or they were just, you know, assimilated out of his existence, basically, right? I mean, the people, at least in the Babylonian captivity that happened, you know, later on, at least, you know, they were allowed to return after 70 years.  But look, there's no vineyards that they're going to is the point I'm trying to make here. They're, if they capitulate to this guy, they're all doomed is the bottom line.  You need to give up or you're all going to starve to death. But look, if they give up, things would not be great. They would all be murdered and tortured and terrible things. So basically, Rabbi Sheka was using propaganda and lies to try to get these people to do what he wanted them to do. That's the bottom line. So what did they do? And you know, he used, another thing that he used was sensationalism, right? He's just, he's over exaggerating everything from the good to the bad, right? He's showing this horrible situation on the downside and then he's over exaggerating everything on the good side as well. But it was all lies. None of it was true. Look at verse 37. How does the story end? How does the story end?  This is a huge army that's come up against them. Look at verse 37 of 2 Kings 18. The Bible says, then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent and told him the words of Rabbi Sheka. So they go at the end of the chapter and they tell the king what they've just heard. Because the king didn't hear this, right? They tell the king what they've just heard and they've got their clothes rent and they're just, there weren't a lot of trouble, they say to the king, all right? Now go to chapter 19, one chapter over and look at, let's continue the story. Look at 2 Kings 19, verse number one. And here's Hezekiah hearing the story and what he does. And it came to pass when King Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and he went into the house of the Lord. The first thing he does. And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shevna described, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos. This is Isaiah's time here, okay? And they said unto him, thus sayeth Hezekiah, this day is a day of trouble. Yeah, no kidding. And of rebuke and blasphemy. For the children that come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth. They go to the prophet Isaiah and they say, we don't know what to do. We've got this blasphemous guy. He said all these things to us. Help us. They come before the Lord. And look down just for sake of time at verse number 35. And it came to pass that night that the angel of the Lord went out. So basically Isaiah tells them what God is gonna do. God is gonna take care of this situation. God says, I will fight for you. And it came to pass that night that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians in 104 score and 5,000. 185,000 people. When they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. The Lord went out, look, no army went out here. The Lord's angel went out and killed 185,000 people of the Assyrian army. So Sennacherib, king of Assyria departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh. But wait, there's more. And it came to pass as he was worshiping in the house of Nisrach, his god, lowercase G, that Adromelik and Shazzar, his son, smote him with the sword, that they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhadan, his son, reigned and is dead. So God even makes it so the king that invaded died. And I'm sure Ravshaka had the same fate. So he had a fatal mistake of having this godless worldview because the one that came against him was the god, capital G, that he had discounted as not real. So what does this story have to do with us? What does this have to do? How can we apply this to today? Well, look, I wanna show you some interesting parallels this morning with this story of this messenger, his message. And the first thing is, let's just talk about the power of propaganda. The power of propaganda is incredibly effective. There's the reason that people do it for a living. There's its entire industries are based around it. Propaganda, the way that you present a message to people can be incredibly effective to whatever agenda you're trying to push is the bottom line. Look, particularly in cases like this, particularly in times of war. You know, a good example for us when I was thinking about this sermon, if you remember the poster of Uncle Sam that says, you know, it's got Uncle Sam with the top hat and it says, I want you for the US Army. How many of you have seen that? That one poster by itself was credited for swelling the ranks of the United States Army during World War I.  Look, other posters, there was other posters, it's interesting to go back and look at these older posters. Another poster from World War I was a poster of, it was called the Great War at that time. You can about imagine, it was the first World War, it was a big deal to people, right? Another poster that was really interesting was one that said, it's got a child talking to her father and the child says, daddy, what did you do during the Great War? So it's inspiring this masculinity to wanna be like, I better go do something in this time, right? Right or wrong, look, right or wrong, I'm not saying these posters are right or these posters are wrong, but I'm saying they're incredibly effective. The way that you present a message can be incredibly effective. And then there was all kinds of posters in World War I, in many other, it happens today too where the poster's demonizing the enemy, whether it be the Japanese or the Germans or whatever. They're incredibly effective. Now look, with the digital age, what I'm talking about is TV, internet, propaganda is in overdrive today. Propaganda is in overdrive today. So what I wanna focus on this morning is the media. And I wanna talk about the media and what the media means for us. And I wanna look at some parallels with the media today and this story in the Bible. Look, I'm not talking about necessarily just the news media, I'm talking about media in general, okay? So I wanna talk about the media. So what are the parallels? Because the parallels are striking. But the first parallel is this, like Rav Shekka, especially the news media, but the media today has a godless worldview. Turn to Proverbs chapter one. It's a completely godless worldview. They have a very specific agenda and it is not a godly one. I mean, think about it, from science, to national events, to world events, they're looking at all these things through a godless worldview, just like Rav Shekka did. I mean, how did it work out for Rav Shekka? I mean, he made this one mistake. This could be the whole sermon right here. He made one simple mistake. He had a godless worldview. Because look, think about it. If he knew that he was going up against the only one god that has all the power to do whatever he wants, you think he would have said the things that he said? He just didn't know. He didn't believe that that god was real. He said, it's just one of the other gods, in the lower case, G. He's like, we've been rolling over these gods like a freight train. What makes you think your god's gonna help you? The king of Egypt's not gonna help you.  He's like, we're just rolling over all the gods. They don't do anything. But look, it Proverbs 1.7, and I know you know this verse well, but the Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise wisdom and instruction. So look, if you're getting information from people that don't have the fear of the Lord, what, it's the beginning of knowledge. Like it's the start of it. So they haven't even started getting knowledge or wisdom. So do you think that it's gonna be correct? If they have no knowledge, another part of the Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. They have no knowledge. They have no wisdom. They haven't even started. It's not like, oh, they're halfway into it. No, they haven't started. I mean, that's what the Bible says. Look, Rabbi Shekka was wrong, completely. I mean, look, it doesn't even have to be sinister. If they don't fear the Lord, if they don't know, if they don't have a worldview, a fear of the Lord in their worldview, they're not gonna be correct. Even if they wanted to know the truth. Even if they wanted to know, if they don't have the fear of the Lord, they're not going to know. They're going to make mistakes, big ones. I mean, Rabbi Shekka's mistake cost him his life and 185,000 people of the Assyrian army. Turn to 2 Kings chapter 19. Just keep your place there. We're gonna be going back to that. But look, all these gods, it's just one more. Then God responds. God responds and tells him how wrong he is. I love verse number 22. It says, whom has thou reproached and blasphemed? This is where Isaiah is speaking for God here. They went to, they laid it before the Lord and they went to Isaiah and they said, what do we do? Ask God, tell us. Whom has thou, he said, they already said that he blasphemed. They already told Isaiah that this guy blasphemed the Lord. They said, whom has thou reproached and blasphemed? Against whom has thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? Even against thee, holy one of Israel. The one true living God. So like Rab Shaka, the media today is just, they're pitching, you know, this godless worldview. This godless worldview. Look, here's another one. Like Rab Shaka, the media today is pitching a literal different reality. Remember Rab Shaka says, hey, if you do this, this is gonna happen, which was just not true? The media today is, look, it's the same as Rab Shaka. They're trying to influence you. They're trying to influence you. And guess what? It gets even better because they use the same two tactics that Rab Shaka used. What are those tactics? Fear and sensationalism. That's the two tactics that they use. It's exactly the same. Look, if all, think about it, think about it. If all you did was watch TV, you would be convinced that the world is on fire today. But what's happening today? What's actually happening today? What is reality? You know, you would be convinced a few weeks ago that there's just dead bodies everywhere. I mean, that's the reality that they're pitching. Like I've had people over the last couple of weeks calling me and texting me from all kinds of different other states. People, places that I used to live, Texas. Man, are you guys okay there? It's like, that's crazy. What's going on there? I'm like, what's going on here? But I know what's going on. They got their face in front of the TV and all they're seeing is fires and bricks flying everywhere. And they're like, it's all in California. You know, it must be everybody, right? Everywhere. But sometimes you just need to turn it off. You just need to kind of look around for yourself. You know, go to the store.   Otherwise, look, otherwise, Matthew 15, we just looked at this on Wednesday night, but look at verse 14. Otherwise, this is you. If you don't use your own eyes and all you're doing is following people and letting people with a godless worldview constantly tell you what your reality is, this is you. Matthew 15, 14, let them alone. They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. And here's the thing, you're not even the leader. You're the blind following the blind. If all you're doing is listening to people with a godless worldview. That's it. People, look, folks. People with a godless worldview, they have a different reality than you. They have a different reality than you and they want a different reality than you. So you say, why do they do it? Yeah, it's to push a worldview, a godless agenda. You know, maybe as simple as politics, power, those types of things. But look, here's another big driver. Same as Rapsheka. Money. Is that a shocker? Money. He said, give me presents. They already gave him all this gold and silver. Give me more. Look, here's the thing. Nobody will watch if there's a news reporter in Fresno and on the local six o'clock news and he's standing in a parking lot. He's like, you know what? The thing is, there's not really anything much happening here and it looks, oh, there's a guy going to Chick-fil-A and no one's gonna watch that. No one wants to see that. Sensationalism sells. It's that simple. You know what? That's why you'll see YouTube feeds of multi-riots because people will watch that. You know that YouTube, think about this for a second. This is mind-blowing. 300 hours of video get uploaded to YouTube every single minute. So here's an analogy. Think of it this way. Say you have a hardware store in town. Say you have a hardware store and every single day, 200 new hardware stores open up in your town.  Is there a market for it?  You're probably gonna start giving away candy and putting bounce houses out, like free pizza just to get everybody into your store to buy your hammer. That's why you see, that's where clickbait came from because people are trying to put out sensational stuff to get you to watch their stuff. The guy that's just out there just telling the truth and just, I don't believe he exists anymore. Maybe he used to. It's so hard to find him. It'd be, it's almost irrelevant at this point. But the guy that's just out there saying, hey, here's what's really going on. No one's gonna watch that. No one's gonna watch that. They wanna see the bodies loaded on the trucks. They wanna see the grave with all the bodies. They wanna see the fires. They wanna see the craziness. They wanna see all the sensationalism. And I got news for ya. It's only going to get worse because of money. Because the Cable News Channel wants you to watch their stuff. So they gotta have more fires and more craziness and more, I mean, it's not the truth. It's not reality. I mean, look, at any given moment in this world, something crazy is going on somewhere. I mean, look, I talked to my dad on Sunday night and I had a really interesting, he gave me some really interesting perspective and I wanna share it with you this morning. Look, first of all, none of this, as far as the riot, none of this is new. We burn the cities every 20 years in this country.  That's what we do. But look, here's the thing.  Let me give it to you. He said, let me tell you about the 60s. You know, 70 years ago, 60 years ago, 60 years ago, in 1963, the president of the United States was shot and killed. The entire 60s themselves were just covered, just spotted with riots everywhere, all the time. There was riots in almost every year that you can find. You know, from the civil rights movement and things that were going on. There's all sorts of riots. You know, there's riots. Let me read you a news article from 1965. On August 11th, 1965, Marquette Fry, an African-American motorist on patrol for robbery, on parole for robbery, I'm sorry, was pulled over for reckless driving. A minor roadside argument broke out, which then escalated into a fight with police. Community members reported that the police had hurt a pregnant woman and six days of civil unrest followed. Nearly 4,000 members of the California Army National Guard helped suppress the disturbance, which resulted in 34 deaths and over $40 million in property damage. There's riots all throughout America in the 60s and even into the 70s. I mean, from the civil rights stuff to the protests on the Vietnam War, I mean, think about that. The Vietnam War went on for 15 plus years, 15 years at the height of which 300 Americans were getting killed every single week. I mean, think about it. For those of you who remember 2003 and the Gulf War and all that kind of stuff, 300 a week were being killed in the 60s, right? In 1968, the president's brother was shot and killed.  Like hundreds of cities in the United States were on fire in 1968. 100 huge riots. 1969, think about this, 18 to 22 year old. So the Vietnam War's been going on. 1969, they started the draft. So you get a letter in 1969.  How about the government shows up on your doorstep and says, hey, hey son, you're going to Vietnam now. You know this war you've been watching for almost 10 years? You're going, buddy. You're like, Viet where? Some farm kid from North Dakota, you're like, Viet what? You're looking at your map? Where am I going? Why?  Those are crazy times. So I mean, look, people must have thought America was coming to an end. You know, I'm sure plenty of people did. So look, I'm not, look, and guess what? The same groups that were exploiting victims back then are exploiting victims today. The exact same groups. I'm not saying it's good. I'm not saying we shouldn't pay attention. I'm just saying put things in some context. All right? I mean, the world's not coming to an end. Jesus isn't coming back this afternoon, okay? But most of the time what you're watching, the media to bring it back, is just they're pitching a false narrative. So what do we do? What do we do, you say? There's all kinds of rap checkers out there. What do we do? How do we handle this? Let me just give you my two step approach to reality. All right, here's what you do. Here's what you do. Step number one is this. Everything that you view, you view through the lens of the Bible. That's step one. I mean, that will solve, look, that will solve the worldview issue. What did Hezekiah do? What did Hezekiah did? The first thing is he went to the Lord for answers. And that's what we should do. Everything that we look at, we look at through the lens of the Bible, period.  But you say, can I never watch or read the news? No, that's not what I'm saying, but you need to understand the context. If you know the Bible and you look at things through the lens of the Bible, it will show you how to read between the lines. You see what I'm saying? And guess what? Just like with rabshaka, most things start with something true. I mean, rabshaka was correct when he said, look, we have this huge army. We've just taken over the Northern Kingdom of Israel and now we're here. I mean, that was correct. All the other stuff from there, it all starts with something true. It all starts with a victim or something, with something true. It's the same thing with the riots. It all starts with a victim, a terrible event. Nobody argues that. But the problem is, having a biblical worldview will open your eyes to all the godless agendas that follow. Socialism, like communism, like anarchism, all these things, they're all there. They're all twisted up in this. And it's nothing new. It's nothing that didn't happen in the 60s or even hundreds of years before. These agendas are there to take advantage of situations and there's people pushing these agendas. And if you have a biblical worldview, you'll recognize it. You will see it. Don't trust it. And the second point is this. You look at everything through the lens of the Bible and the second thing is this. Use your own two eyes to determine reality. Please. You know, the media will always sensationalize everything because they have to sell it to you. They have to sell it to you, just like Rapshaka. Look, my faith in this last year, my faith in the media has gone to zero. I mean, I knew what it was about before, but it has gone to like zero now. Just because of, look, the media, the way that you need to look at things is through the lens of the Bible and it must be verifiable with your own two eyes, right? There's no trust anymore. You know, you can't trust Godless people. You know, I don't know why that surprises me or that did surprise me, but it shouldn't surprise you. Look, that's why I drove around so much during the lockdown. I was driving everywhere. I've never put so many miles on. I mean, sometimes you just need to turn off Rapshaka and see what's going on, period. And ask yourself, what is my reality? Look, there is nobodies in the streets. They weren't there. You know, just this last week on Tuesday, people would work like, huge riot, huge riot in North Fresno, River Park, you guys got to take a different way home. You guys got to do this stuff.  I got off work. I drove up there. I drove to River Park. There's nobody there!   Everybody's got to go home now and like, there's nobody there. Nothing happened.  Sometimes Fresno's not on fire. Everybody that knows me from other states, I'm okay. We're getting by. It's like 85 degrees out today. It's beautiful out. But look, here's another thing. Here's something I do notice, right? Because we're, guess what? First of all, the soul winner, another sidebar. The soul winner will have like a pulse on the country, on the community, like nobody else. The soul winner will. Here's what I notice. And I was talking to Brother Frank about it yesterday. Things are getting less receptive in certain neighborhoods because people are, you can tell they're hard-hearted. You can tell people are hard-hearted in certain neighborhoods that we're going to. I noticed that. I've noticed it over the last three weeks. Things are less receptive. That's not good. But look, the soul winner will just buy the nature of the work that they're doing. We'll have their eyes open to the community like nobody else. More than the police, more than any community people. Because we're out there, we're out there just, we're out there just talking to the people. We're out there just, how are you doing? Walking on the street, how are you? We're from church. People generally don't care about, they're not going to be upset at talking to people. But I can tell a difference. In the last three weeks, so this is not good. You know, it's better. As soon as it gets over, you know, the whole attitude of it all, it's going to be better for the gospel. It's going to be better for the people. But look, so just keep your eyes open. Those two things. Look at everything through the lens of the Bible. Open your eyes. Open your eyes. But just imagine this. And here's something that's kind of sad. Imagine the person that has a godless worldview. Imagine this person for a minute. I mean, it's really kind of sad when you think about it. Imagine the person that just has this worldview where they're looking at the world that has no god. I mean, where there's no truth. There's no absolute truth. This is why, by the way, atheistic thinking, the atheist in his thinking will always fail. Because if there is no absolute truth and your truth is different than my truth, it just really comes down to whoever has the most power has the truth. That's what it boils down to. Translated into government, that's what it means. It means power equals truth. I have more strength. I have more power. My truth wins. That's what it boils down to. So all the intellectual thought that they think that they're putting into it, that's what it equals. Strength equals truth, if you're an atheist. That's it. Turn to John 18. Or just look at the front of your bulletin. Look, Pontius Pilate knew this. Pontius Pilate knew this. Look at John 18 and look at verse number 37. This is Pilate standing before Jesus. Pilate therefore said unto him, art thou a king then? Jesus answered, thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born. And for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth here hath my voice. So he's saying, yeah, I'm a king. That's why I was born. That's my purpose. And he says, everyone that is of the truth, here's my voice. He's saying to Pontius Pilate, look, if you're of the truth, you'll know this. You'll believe me is what he's saying. In 38, Pilate said unto him, what is truth? What is truth? Pontius Pilate had a Godless worldview. There's no truth. What is truth? Your truth is different than my truth. Look, Pilate had a moment of honesty there where he basically just said, you know, look, what is truth? Cause I don't know. That was a moment of honesty that Pontius Pilate had. He's like, I don't know what the truth is. What is it? Then it really plays out into what I just said.  What does it matter? Because guess what? He had the power to do it. So he did. Power equals truth for the Godless. Strong equals right for the Godless. Pontius Pilate was strong enough to do whatever he wanted to do.  Thus execute him. That is my truth. That became his truth.  And the Bible is the only absolute truth that exists. It's the only absolute truth that can be trusted. Whenever someone has a narrative that doesn't fit that truth, it needs to raise a flag for you, period. Look, here's what it all boils down to, folks.   He was pushing an agenda. It's the same with most of the media today. You need to recognize that or you will be led by the blind. You say, but I'm saved. Look, there's a lot of Christians that believe a lot of stupid wrong stuff because they're being led by blind people, because they're believing blind people, because they're not filtering things through the Bible.  It has nothing to do with it.   I mean, but it happens. But look, people, godless worldview, the blind, open your eyes and look around. Rabbi Shekka was a man with an agenda. His agenda was money and power. It's no different. He was willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get it. It's no different today. Turn to 2 Kings 19. Look at verse 14. Rabbi Shekka went back and then he wrote Hezekiah. He was not done speaking. He wrote Hezekiah a letter and he sent it to Hezekiah.  And he took the letter and in verse 14 of 2 Kings 19, the Bible says in Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers and read it. This is Rabbi Shekka's letter. And Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord.  He said, here's what's being put on me and he laid it before the Lord.  And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, oh, Lord God of Israel, which dwelleth between the cherubimms, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made heaven and earth. By the way, do you talk to God like this? Maybe you should. Do you speak to God in these respectful terms when you pray? Because I said, he prayed, right? And this is an answered prayer.  Look at how he speaks to the Lord. Do you get to bed at night and you're half asleep and you're like, hey, God. Ah, ah, leave fall asleep halfway through the prayer. Look, that's not how Hezekiah talked to God here. Look at verse 16, Lord, bow down thine ear and hear. Open, Lord, thine eyes and see. And hear the words of Sennacherib and that which hath sent him to reproach the living God of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their land. So it all started with that truth. He laid that letter before God. It all started with that truth. He laid it before the Lord. Look, we need to look at everything like Hezekiah did through the lands of the Lord. You need to lay these things, these messages, these messengers before the Lord, which is viewing it through what God has given you. He's given you the lens. He's given it to you. Open your eyes, look at things through biblical worldview and understand that it's the Godless that are pushing propaganda on you. Okay, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for today. I thank you for this great story in the Bible. I thank you for King Hezekiah and just the way that he handled this and was such a great example for us to just bring everything and lay it down before you. And Lord, I pray that you just, you just edify us through this story. Lord, with all the propaganda that's being pushed on us today, help us to know that it's just the blind and they don't understand that you are the true one living God. Lord, we love you. I ask that you bless the rest of today, soul winning and church this evening. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.


This series of scenes taken from actual nuclear weapons tests in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s gives a quick look at a project being undertaken by the Department of Energy in cooperation with the Department of Defense to preserve and release historic films. The Department of Energy, in keeping with the administration's openness initiative, will use many previously classified and unreleased historic nuclear weapons testing films as part of its effort to detail an audiovisual history of the nuclear age. The nuclear weapons testing program has led to today's sophisticated nuclear weapons stockpile. Join us now at Trinity as the first nuclear device is prepared for detonation. Anchored in the sheltered waters of the Bikini Lagoon below is an array of almost every type of naval vessel used in the past war. A bombing crew was competitively chosen. Major Swan cut the pilot. Major Wood, the Bombadier. The B-29 Dave's dream would carry them to the target. The bombing plane is nearing the target with its escort of photographic planes. There's the target. Bomb away! Atomic bomb has been successfully detonated. First you see a blinding flash, then comes the hemispirically shaped cloud that expands rapidly just behind the initial pressure wave. After the smoke clears, the characteristic mushroom cloud begins to form and shoot skyward. It puts in smoke of the explosion. Although obscured during the first two seconds, the ball of fire is still visibly red hot. The maximum temperature reached at the center of this ball, shortly after detonation, exceeds even the temperature of the sun. In less than a minute it has reached a point one mile above the earth. Although a beautiful sight, this swirling, boiling mushroom cloud is certain death to any living thing which approaches too close to its edge. On Bikini Island, over three miles from the point of burst, see the shockwave coming toward the camera. Watch those palm trees in the foreground. 50 yards from the epicenter. This ship's a stained, serious superstructure wreckage. Both stacks were a total wreck, and numerous other topside structures were badly damaged. The submarine's skate was located about 300 yards from the epicenter. The light fixtures, periscopes, and superstructure were demolished, but the pressure hull and conning tower remained intact. An interior machinery was undamaged. Four, three, two, one. These pictures of the ascending water column show the expanding cloud of spray at the base of the column moving outward and enveloping the ships in the target array. Great quantities of radioactive water from the column descended upon the decks of the nearby vessels, and ship hulls a mile away were drenched by the wall of foaming water. Photographic tower on Bikini shows the column composed of millions of tons of water rising at an initial rate exceeding the speed of sound. The water and spray from the explosion will fall for several minutes. Here again is an excellent photographic portrayal of the boiling foaming wall of water engulfing the ships in the foreground. This highly lethal spray was intensely radioactive. An advanced element of Joint Task Force 7 is surveying AEC's permanent test ground any we talk at all. More than 4,500 miles west of the California coast, with test time only moments away, final time signals are called by Colonel Price. Split seconds, separators from the detonation. It was decided to have a fourth test called the booster shot and was detonated on a 200-foot tower. Booster was then ready for detonation. Now for a look at the booster shot.  It involves you, personally, in laboratories and in the field, in little-known places and ways. Units of the defense establishment of the United States are learning to work with atomic weapons, learning to strike, learning to fence against the effects of atomic weapons, blasts, heat, light, radiation. Military units work continuously with the laboratories of the Atomic Energy Commission and their new weapon ideas. The services devise handling equipment and techniques that are practical and delivery methods that are deadly under any and all conditions of weather and warfare. Thirteen minutes from now, this airplane is going to drop an atomic bomb on your country. You will see it happen. A fierce international war rips through a small country on the North Yellow Sea called Korea. Russia has successfully detonated an atomic bomb. Now the Alamogordo of the Ural Valley is a fact. Now more than ever before, the balance of international power rests with atomic energy. With weapons moving steadily from assembly line to stockpile, moving to hidden subterranean vaults to be stored, ready and waiting. But stockpiling alone in this day and year is not enough. We need to develop and produce a greater number and variety and possibly even more powerful atomic weapons, weapons tailored for specialized uses and targets. The biography of every atomic cloud is essentially the same. The intense heat and violence of the fireball as it sears the sky causes the spectacular and colorful rust-like condition in the air around it. As the fireball cools, an enormous vacuum and after-wind is created, causing the desert floor to rise up into the cloud itself to form the characteristic mushroom stem. The cooling also sets up a rapid condensation in the air around the fireball that sometimes produces layers of ice crystals, literally an ice cap. Knowledge gained on previous nuclear weapons tests has produced the theory that once the cloud has formed and stabilized in the sky, the vitally significant fission products in so-called unburned fission fragments don't distribute themselves evenly, but tend to collect in very large invisible pockets, hot pockets, or cells inside the cloud. The particles that are suspended in these nebulous cells indicate many things that happen inside the bomb, as well as the efficiency of the fission reaction. So attempting to locate the cells and collect samples from them is a mission of the highest priority. We reenter our display areas close to ground zero, once RADSAFE okays us for the move up. Since the biggest value of the operation is for us to prove to ourselves that it can be done and find any weak points in the training, psychiatrists are with us to study our reactions before, during, and after the experience. It's quite an experience, no matter where you are to watch it. This kind of experience is immensely valuable for any military man. Participation in cactus supplied low yield coral soil data for comparison with results obtained in Nevada soil from shots of similar yield. Provided high yield data for comparison with low yield cactus data obtained in similar soil. Successful measurement of neutron flux and spectra were made for a number of ranges. In the structural effects studies on the B-52, sufficient data were collected to substantiate a correlation between measured and analytical responses. This will establish a workable and reliable side load computation procedure. Yucca, the first of the three high altitude shots, was prepared and launched from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Boxer. At 1125 hours on 28 April, when the Yucca balloon was released, the USS Boxer was operating about 90 nautical miles northeast of Nann Island, Bikini Atoll, maintaining a deckwind velocity of near zero. Two and one-half hours later, 1440 hours, at an approximate altitude of 85,000 feet, Yucca was detonated by radio command signal. Failure of the telemeter command transmitter to activate the canister instruments prior to burst time resulted in almost complete loss of data from the balloon drag line equipment. The aircraft mounted instrumentation provided excellent data. The teak and orange missile shots were fired from Johnston Island about 720 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu. Each device was sent aloft by an Army redstone missile. Attached to each missile were four pods released during the acceleration phase of the redstone. Three of the pods contained telemetry equipped instrumentation for the nuclear program. The fourth pod, programmed to be closest to the detonation, was utilized primarily for studying the vulnerability of ICBM structural materials. The first of the two missile shots, teak, was launched on 1 August. It was planned to detonate at 250,000 feet, approximately six miles south of Johnston Island. However, due to a programming failure, it burst directly over the island at the desired elevation. Orange was launched at 2330 hours from Johnston Island on 12 August. It was detonated at an altitude of 141,000 feet, approximately 26 miles south of the island. Capitulation of the findings in line with a general objective sought from teak, orange and yucca shows first that high-altitude nuclear detonations are characterized by the rapid development of energy phenomena. Spectacular was the extent of the fireball growth on teak, the highest of the three shots, a diameter of 10 miles in 10 milliseconds, accompanied by a striking visual aurora. Ethan Allen submerged to firing depth, and there it goes, Polaris on the way with a nuclear warhead. Right on the second, the missile detonated at the intended altitude at the target point. Service as rock missiles with nuclear warheads were taken aboard the designated firing ship, the destroyer Agarholm, and her backup, the destroyer Richard B. Anderson, and were stowed in their launchers by the ship's regular as rock crews. Intensive preparations stressed the most advanced safety and protective measures. All was in place and ready. A board Agarholm, the as rock launcher lined up on target. The rocket-propelled as rock headed toward target. In the foreground is the firing ship. 27 seconds later, the warhead splashed and penetrated to its depth. At this point, the service fuse completed the firing cycle and the burst exploded skyward. As the burst fell back, the base surge formed, a heavily radioactive cloud of spray and mist which spread to nearly one mile in radius. A few seconds later, the detonation bubble collapsed. This caused a new plume to be thrust upward through the primary cloud, and this impressive view of the shock wave spreading across the water was seen by the crew of another helicopter. Beneath the sea, the crew of Razorback experienced the effects of the shock wave in a strong shaking that lasted for 45 seconds. The prime missions of tactical aircraft is the delivery of nuclear weapons following a low-level approach to the target. The methods selected for delivery and escape will determine the success of the mission, as well as the safety of the pilot and the aircraft.  The landing through the gun side is accomplished with the sight depressed. When the piper crosses the target, the weapon is pickled manually. Lay-down is a very accurate method of delivery. Just before the weapon is to detonate, the airplane is pulled into a 15-degree climb with the tail toward the blast. With the thermal shield closed, this attitude provides maximum protection from weapon effects. The weapons are being loaded aboard the aircraft. In this case, both weapons are B-43s. Preparation for delivery of the second weapon, the pilot adjusts the AMAC for an airburst and checks his remaining weapon. He also selects loft on the CP-741. Because this is to be a loft delivery, when the IP is crossed, the bomb release button is depressed and held. This starts the computer. The operation of the 1962 Dominic test series conducted by Joint Task Force 8 included two types of tests. One involved a number of high-altitude nuclear detonations carried aloft by various missiles launched from the island and the other was a group of five airdrops over the ocean clear of the island but within the Johnston Island danger area. The first of the Johnston Island high-altitude firings was Bluegill. Ignition of the propulsion system appeared normal. The rain safety tracking radar lost track and it was necessary to destroy both missile and the warhead after a long flight when what was later analyzed to have been the correct trajectory. Next attempt of the high-altitude shot was Starfish on the 19th of June. It, too, was unsuccessful. 8th of July, Starfish Prime, the second try at Starfish, was launched and was entirely successful. The warhead detonated at an altitude of 400 kilometers, 31 kilometers south of Johnston Island. On 25 July, the four vehicle for Bluegill Prime had a one-of-a-kind casualty. It was diagnosed as a sticking fuel valve which caused a fire at motor ignition. Both missile and warhead burned on the launching pad. The pad was extensive as could be plainly seen next morning. Less visible but more dangerous was the long-life radioactive contamination of the pad area from the warhead. Four events, Checkmate, Bluegill Triple Prime, Kingfish and Tide Rope were all successful. In flight, the pilot will select an arm position. At release, a pulse of current is transferred from the aircraft to ignite the pulse thermal batteries. The parachute is deployed. With over 6,500 aging classified nuclear weapons development films located on Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico and a smaller number at Albuquerque's Pantex plant near Amarillo, this joint Department of Defense and Department of Energy effort will preserve and allow appropriate release of this valuable historic information.