“Operation Absolute Resolve” should provoke deeper study into how the once fourth wealthiest country in the world devolved to the point where people ate zoo animals to prevent starvation.

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11. 0:31Good evening, everyone.
12. 0:36Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton,
13. 0:40The third here joined by
14. 0:43the corner contingent right across from me,
15. 0:45my man, 100 grand, Mr. Bobby.
16. 0:47R-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-sa.
17. 0:51I asked him, what he had for lunch today?
18. 0:52He said, well, you know I had some rice,
19. 0:54some beans, and some Maduro Frito
20. 0:57Ha, ha, ha, ha-ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
21. 1:01Plata los Maduro, instead of
22. 1:05There's a gentleman who might be in New York right now is Maduro Frio.
23. 1:08He didn't say that, Joe.
24. 1:15And in this green and green we have produced extraordinary often imitated, never duplicated
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26. 1:20Ladies and gentlemen, we're ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program at
27. 1:24this very moment.
28. 1:26Many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your part time jobs where
29. 1:31you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
30. 1:35And as you do so, I want to remind you to do it with intentionality, recognizing the primacy
31. 1:42that God places on family and allowing that to govern and guide your engagements while remembering
32. 1:50God is sovereign over the very, the makeup of our various families.
33. 1:54He is sovereign over that.
34. 1:56But we recognize that this is a mechanism from which a station, if you will, from which we
35. 2:01We have been called to execute his mission, the great commission.
36. 2:07So as you make your transition, please understand that what goes on in your house, even though
37. 2:12they are very important things happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, they are not more
38. 2:16important.
39. 2:17They are not more important than what goes on in your house and in my house.
40. 2:23Let's be about our father's business starting right at home.
41. 2:26I am so excited about the year of our Lord 2026.
42. 2:29We have all kinds of things happening.
43. 2:32It's amazing we'll be doing a lot of traveling this year,
44. 2:34broadcasting on the road and things of that nature.
45. 2:37And actually we start next week.
46. 2:40Next week we will be in South Haven, Mississippi,
47. 2:43January 15th through the 17th.
48. 2:46That's next Thursday, Friday and Saturday
49. 2:49for the Tabernacle Church in South Haven's
50. 2:52fifth annual leadership summit.
51. 2:55I will be there, I'll be ministering there,
52. 2:57speaking there alongside a host of tremendous people, just an amazing church that God has
53. 3:04planted there and they've invited me to come and join them in the work that God is doing
54. 3:08there.
55. 3:09And so I'm looking forward to doing that.
56. 3:11Tab and Oracle Church is located at 7701 US Highway 51 in South Haven, Mississippi.
57. 3:17Ziploc 38671, go to tabsouthaven.org for more information about that. T-A-B-S-O-U-T-H-A-V-E-N.org.
58. 3:31And then soon after that, the very next month, February 20th through the 22nd, we will be in Simsboro,
59. 3:41Louisiana, Simsboro, Louisiana, they are having their family focus weekend, family focus weekend.
60. 3:50The host church's first Baptist Simsboro, you will need to go to fbc Simsboro.org, that is
61. 3:59FBC S I M S B O R O dot O R G to register. But the registration is solely so that the church family
62. 4:08that Simsboro could know who was all coming because they were preparing food and other
63. 4:11things but there is no charge for the family focus weekend. There is no charge at all.
64. 4:17You just need to register so that they can make sure they have enough food for everyone
65. 4:20who will come. That is Simsboro Baptist Church located at 133 Tiger Drive in Simsboro,
66. 4:26Louisiana 71275 is a zip code FBC Simsboro dot org is a website to register and get more
67. 4:34information you'll be hearing more about this as we go forward.
68. 4:37But I'm so excited to be a part of this because as I've been saying, what goes on in your
69. 4:41house is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
70. 4:44So I'm grateful for the opportunity to help serve families in North Louisiana, my home
71. 4:48state.
72. 4:50And North Louisiana will be there February 20th through the 22nd.
73. 4:55All right, to the Word of God we go.
74. 4:57To the Word of God we go.
75. 4:59Timothy chapter 4, 2 Timothy chapter 4, verses 1 through 4 is where we're going to
76. 5:06go. Many of you may recall this is the second canonical epistle of the Apostle Paul to Timothy.
77. 5:12Paul is writing this as he is facing the imminent execution under Nero which we know
78. 5:19from church history from historians like Eusebius and others was executed about the
79. 5:24same year and about the same year that Peter was ultimately executed. So this is a part
80. 5:29of Timothy's, I'm sorry, a part of Paul's parting message, some of the last things he'd
81. 5:35written before he was martyred.
82. 5:40And we have this profound text to consider.
83. 5:45This is what the Word of God says.
84. 5:46I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living
85. 5:53and the dead.
86. 5:55And by his appearing in his kingdom, preach the Word.
87. 6:00Be ready in season and out of season.
88. 6:03Repute, I'm sorry, rebuke,
89. 6:06exhort with great patience and instruction.
90. 6:11For the time will come when they will not
91. 6:13endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears
92. 6:17tickled, they will accumulate for themselves,
93. 6:20teachers in accordance to their own desires
94. 6:23or their own lust, the King James says,
95. 6:26and will turn away their ears from the truth
96. 6:29and it will turn aside to miss,
97. 6:33or some translation there says, say fables.
98. 6:37I want you to consider this text this evening
99. 6:41because you have two considerations
100. 6:43that the Apostle Paul is confronting.
101. 6:45One, the time is coming
102. 6:47where people are not gonna endure sound doctrine.
103. 6:50But I want you to see that the fact that people,
104. 6:53the time will come where people will no longer
105. 6:55endure sound doctrine, that that doesn't negate at all
106. 6:59from the twain consideration or the attendant consideration,
107. 7:05the not consideration, command I would say from God
108. 7:07by His Spirit to proclaim the truth to God's Word,
109. 7:10nevertheless.
110. 7:12Sometimes, and I understand this, I've experienced this myself.
111. 7:15When it comes to proclaiming the truth to God's Word,
112. 7:17sometimes we have the tendency, some people,
113. 7:20to conduct kind of a circumstantial survey.
114. 7:23Hmm, is the environment conducive to us doing so?
115. 7:26Hmm, what is going on?
116. 7:28And I understand we certainly want to be sensitive,
117. 7:30don't want to be obtuse when dealing with people, but there is a consistent necessity,
118. 7:37excuse me, to proclaim the truth of God's Word. And the time to do so is now you never have to debate.
119. 7:44Well, is this an appropriate time to proclaim? It's always appropriate to proclaim God's Word,
120. 7:49not to bludgeon anybody, not to proud beat anybody, but love, guys, requires truth. We can't love people,
121. 7:57it was willing to lie to them, it requires truth. So the fact that the time is coming,
122. 8:06well, people will no longer endure sound doctrine, should not negate at all from God's people's
123. 8:13willingness to lovingly, graciously, yet diligently and consistently proclaim the truth of God's Word.
124. 8:22This flows from the verses in chapters 3 where the Apostle Paul said, yeah, we
125. 8:32perilous times on the way. We love as themselves, love as a pleasure, haters of
126. 8:38good, evil, metastasizing wickedness. Nevertheless, you continue what you know
127. 8:45to be true and preach the word. I understand what people mean when they say
128. 8:51You preach the gospel in the necessary use words.
129. 8:54Well I just want to be clear about something.
130. 8:56I understand what they're trying to say.
131. 8:59They're trying to say let's make sure that we're living lives that are indicative of
132. 9:02being born again.
133. 9:04Absolutely, that's correct.
134. 9:05But make no mistake about it, gospel proclamation requires words.
135. 9:09It requires words.
136. 9:12God is the author of language and he's made us a linguistic people.
137. 9:16Mankind is a linguistic people.
138. 9:18proclaim the gospel with our words and proclaim the gospel and how we live,
139. 9:22proclaim the gospel and with our words and affirm the gospel that we proclaim
140. 9:27verbally with the way we live. Then I want you to notice this next part because
141. 9:34there are lots of warnings in the scripture concerning false teachers. There's
142. 9:38lots of conversations about false teachers. They exist in the scripture
143. 9:42over and over again. People are being confronted. You know, Alexander the
144. 9:46cobblest myth did me great harm, Paul said. But I want you to notice something about
145. 9:51the prevalence of false teachers. Paul writes in verse 3,
146. 9:56For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine,
147. 9:59but wanting, wanting to have their ears tickled,
148. 10:03look at what the word says, they will accumulate for themselves,
149. 10:10teachers in accordance to their own desires.
150. 10:14Guys, the prevalence of false teachers corresponds directly to the
151. 10:21the prevalence of itching ears, the prevalence of those who want to have their ears tickled,
152. 10:30the Lord told us by His Spirit through the Apostle Paul that the prevalence of false teachers,
153. 10:38not the existence, but the prevalence. False teachers have always existed. There never
154. 10:44been a time when the gospel has gone without being assailed. Jude in the first century wanted
155. 10:51to write about a common salvation, but false brethren
156. 10:54and a krypton underwears.
157. 10:55There have always been false teachers,
158. 10:56but the prevalence of them, the breadth of their platform,
159. 10:59you see, the fact that it's far easier to come across,
160. 11:02in many instances, some instances say it that way.
161. 11:04Not always, and I want to over-broad,
162. 11:06speak in an over-broad fashion, but the reality
163. 11:10that it's very easy to come across so much false teaching.
164. 11:12The prevalence of the false teaching corresponds directly
165. 11:17to the prevalence of itching ears.
166. 11:21That is not my opinion, folks.
167. 11:23This is what the word of God says.
168. 11:25For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine
169. 11:28but one and a half their ears tickled,
170. 11:30they will accumulate, will accumulate for themselves,
171. 11:37teachers in accordance to their own desires.
172. 11:39So when you sit around and say, man, I wonder why?
173. 11:41Why?
174. 11:42So you can't throw a rock without hitting false teaching.
175. 11:46It's because of the prevalence of people with itching ears.
176. 11:52I was talking to a brother today.
177. 11:54There's a reason why Jesus made the description
178. 11:56distinguishing the narrow road from the broad road.
179. 12:02You don't just wander into the broad road.
180. 12:06The Apostle James talked about
181. 12:08since conception being the product of being lured,
182. 12:11like a fisherman would understand it,
183. 12:13being lured by our own lusts.
184. 12:17Often say when people catch fish,
185. 12:18really you don't catch fish, catch themselves.
186. 12:22The beta so appealing, it resonates with something
187. 12:24inside of the fish that the fish put themselves on the hook.
188. 12:27Now they don't know what is hooked underneath the lure.
189. 12:33Just like the reality of sin, you don't realize it's a hook underneath the Lord, which is why
190. 12:42Luke 923 is so prevalent.
191. 12:44If any would come after me, he must deny himself mortifying the flesh, denying oneself, guys,
192. 12:50that's foundational Christ following.
193. 12:54And this once again, bring to the fore, why the greatest and most enduring need for our nation
194. 12:59is repentance.
195. 13:01I've been praying and thinking and preparing for this year, man, and the most enduring need
196. 13:05and by God's grace, I hope with everything in me to be a part of what God is seeking to
197. 13:10do within our own nation to this end.
198. 13:16With all of the efforts to try to find political solutions, we're really looking for political
199. 13:21solutions to spiritual problems, looking for policy decisions to address spiritual deficiencies.
200. 13:32Just like my mom told me before, but when you're hungry, if you eat the candy, you'll feel
201. 13:36go for a while, but you're gonna be hungry 15 minutes later.
202. 13:38Because that candy might taste good initially, but it didn't have the nutrients to sustain.
203. 13:48The prevalence of false teaching and false teachers corresponds to the prevalence of itching
204. 13:54ears.
205. 13:55And it is those with the itching ears who accumulate, who contribute to false teachers
206. 14:02having expansive platforms.
207. 14:09His establishment of his kingdom occurs within the hearts and minds of people.
208. 14:15Until Christ returns in triumph, His kingdom establishes the hearts and minds of people.
209. 14:21The greatest and most enduring need in our nation is repentance.
210. 14:29My grandmother used to say, every tub has to stand on his own bottom.
211. 14:32Because the Word of God is true when it says that every need will bow.
212. 14:37Every tongue will confess the question is,
213. 14:39well, where will some of these knees bow?
214. 14:44Some will bow in lament in grief,
215. 14:47that they did not avail themselves to the grace
216. 14:49that was available to them when they had that opportunity.
217. 14:52But let it be our investment in commitment
218. 14:55to proclaim the truth of God's word and make disciples.
219. 15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
220. 15:04Genesis chapter one, beginning at verse one.
221. 15:07In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
222. 15:11The earth was formless and empty,
223. 15:13and darkness covered the deep waters,
224. 15:15and the spirit of God was hovering
225. 15:17over the surface of the waters.
226. 15:20Then God said, let there be light, and there was light.
227. 15:24God saw that the light was good.
228. 15:26Then He separated the light from the darkness.
229. 15:28God called the light day and the darkness night.
230. 15:32An evening path and morning came marking the first day.
231. 15:36God, I thank you Lord again for your word.
232. 15:38Thank you for the power and the grace found in your word.
233. 15:40And thank you for the anointing that rests upon your word.
234. 15:43Thank you Lord for the truth that your word is you.
235. 15:46And as we spend time in your word, we're spending time
236. 15:48with you as you speak words of counsel, wisdom, power,
237. 15:52blessing and grace into our hearts and our lives.
238. 15:55In Jesus' name we do pray, amen.
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260. 16:59Shining light into the darkness, this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
261. 17:11Welcome back.
262. 17:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
263. 17:17You know, I've been thinking about this and this is something that's going to be discussed
264. 17:21for quite some time.
265. 17:22I'm going to discuss it because I told you guys that there is, I personally have a tension
266. 17:29about this while I understand that the policy reality concerning Venezuela, there also is
267. 17:36this thing called the Constitution.
268. 17:39And so it is noteworthy that we have the longest standing constitutional Republican, the history
269. 17:49of the world.
270. 17:51And so there are things that need to be discussed.
271. 17:53So one of the things that I've been just considering
272. 17:58is that I hope that this, you know,
273. 18:02Operation Absolute Resolve will provoke a deeper study,
274. 18:07a deeper interest and a deeper study
275. 18:09into actually what has all transpired
276. 18:11because when you think about Hugo Chavez
277. 18:14being elected in Venezuela in 1998,
278. 18:16guys that is not that long ago.
279. 18:19The entire reality of Venezuela being a Marxist regime
280. 18:23only dates back to 26 years.
281. 18:28The 1998, that's when it began.
282. 18:31And so what transpired,
283. 18:33just a couple things to recall,
284. 18:34and I know I'm not more seasoned chronologically,
285. 18:38as some of you guys are,
286. 18:39but many of you will remember this,
287. 18:43that Venezuela was the fourth wealthiest country
288. 18:48in the world in the 1950s.
289. 18:52Venezuela was a hotspot
290. 18:54for international travel and vacation.
291. 18:57Venezuela was a destination globally
292. 19:05in that economic vitality continued on
293. 19:10into Hugo Chavez's election.
294. 19:15But some may not recall and I understand,
295. 19:18this is one of the things that I had to study
296. 19:20because I know that Americans are not necessarily expert
297. 19:23in Venezuelan history,
298. 19:25and I'm not expecting anybody to be that.
299. 19:29But recent events, these recent events should provoke that query.
300. 19:35One of the things that should be perused and delved into is what was life like in Venezuela prior
301. 19:41to Hugo Chavez's election, sure, dating back to the 1950s, but going all the way up to his election in 1998,
302. 19:46and what you'll find, what you will find when you study this, and I'm grateful that you guys trust me,
303. 19:52trust my verify. Check this out for yourselves to see what they're not what I'm telling you is true.
304. 19:56What you'll find are things that happened there that are very similar to what's happening in our own country.
305. 20:04Now, you know, one of the amazing things that some of the amazing events that are transpired is that as you had oil wealth permeating throughout the Venezuelan nation,
306. 20:19You had people who intentionally infiltrated.
307. 20:22And again, don't just take my word for it.
308. 20:24Go back and read the Communist Manifesto.
309. 20:28Read these things and there was an intentional plan
310. 20:30to infiltrate various communities
311. 20:34and countries ultimately to turn them into Marxist regimes.
312. 20:39Not surprisingly, one of the amazing strategies,
313. 20:42not amazing, one of the most repeated strategies
314. 20:45was to infiltrate the country,
315. 20:50establish a societally normalized stop if you heard this before class warfare that the
316. 21:00entire thrust of Marxian revolutionary thought was a call for the proletariat to arise and
317. 21:07overthrow the bourgeoisie right guys this was a rinsing repeat happened in Cuba you know
318. 21:14happen in Nicaragua, happened in Venezuela to where you started to have elements using
319. 21:23the Sola Linsky strategy, the Sola Linsky strategy to divide the populace and agitate through the
320. 21:32Balkanized segments of the society, the exact same thing, things that happen like in our
321. 21:37country, the 99% versus 1%. All of these things, even though the reality is the 1%, the top
322. 21:45up 10% of wage earners in America pretty much pay almost 75% of all federal income taxes.
323. 21:51Guys, that's just a fact.
324. 21:53That's just a fact.
325. 21:54It's not to diminish other things, policy considerations.
326. 21:56When you say things like, the rich need to pay their fair share.
327. 22:00Do you really understand which percentage of American the American population currently
328. 22:03doesn't pay any income taxes?
329. 22:05That's not to say the system is perfect, but that's simply to say that a lot of arguments
330. 22:09are made emotionally, but they are bereft of any factual grounding and rooting.
331. 22:16Getting back to Venezuela.
332. 22:17You'll see you had, you know, a precipitous efforts in generations to vulcanize their society,
333. 22:24to foment resentment between artificially divided portions of people prior to an infiltration
334. 22:32of Marxist agitation by and large, the Venezuelan people saw themselves as one people, the Venezuelan
335. 22:38people.
336. 22:42But as that resentment and it was one thing to talk about, there was some certainly, some
337. 22:50who were fairing better than others, some who were struggling in Venezuela, as it is in all
338. 22:55kinds of countries. But it wasn't enough to identify and recognize that there was struggling
339. 23:00in different segments of the society. They began to be this notion that if you're struggling,
340. 23:06it's the fault of the rich. Have you heard that before? Every bite of food, the rich
341. 23:13eats, they're doing so at your expense if you are not rich. Does that sound familiar, guys?
342. 23:19Go look it up for yourselves. This led to Hugo Chavez becoming the point person for a
343. 23:28coup effort. Before he was elected, he was arrested, but he was only able to get to the point of a
344. 23:38coup effort because this continued striving and contention and the cultivated resentment,
345. 23:47artificially engineered resentment. Venezuelan against Venezuelan led to the foundation,
346. 23:54led to the place I should say, to where Chavez, Hugo Chavez, was able to cultivate a dedicated
347. 24:02following.
348. 24:03Chavez is imprisoned, being viewed as a rebel rouser, his supporters viewed him as, you know,
349. 24:14a freedom fighter.
350. 24:17And very similar to the way it is embarrassing to me, how many people in the United States
351. 24:22of America walk around with Chaga Vrara t-shirts on when the man literally was a mass murderer
352. 24:27wasn't even Cuban.
353. 24:28Do flew over from Argentina, but you have the exact same sentiment happening there.
354. 24:38And the reason why I'm saying there needs to be a deeper study on this attention, it
355. 24:44needs to be paid to this because I know many of you in this audience saw this, but I'm
356. 24:48a player right now for you because right here on our own shores, think about this 26 years,
357. 24:56Venezuela went from being the fourth wealthiest country in the world to a country to where
358. 24:59its own citizens broke into the zoos to eat zoo animals to try to fend off starvation.
359. 25:13This all happened with in recent history.
360. 25:17This is not 100 years ago, guys.
361. 25:20Chavez was elected in 98.
362. 25:22Maduro was a bus driver.
363. 25:24Became Chavez's number two.
364. 25:26When Chavez passes away in 2013, Maduro comes to power.
365. 25:30Well, here in our own nation, we have some of the same things happening.
366. 25:37In the same city where you have Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange, you just had a
367. 25:43mayor who was inaugurated and doing his inaugural speech.
368. 25:48He says something I will never forget.
369. 25:51Listen to him watch.
370. 25:52Clip number one, it's Zoram Mamdani in his inauguration speech in New York City.
371. 25:57Clip one, go.
372. 25:58Many of these people have been portrayed by the established order, but in our administration,
373. 26:04their needs will be met.
374. 26:06hopes and dreams and interests will be reflected transparently in government.
375. 26:11They will shape our future.
376. 26:14And if for too long these communities have existed as distinct from one another, we will
377. 26:19draw this city closer together.
378. 26:22We will replace the fragidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
379. 26:28Now guys, if that kind of terminology sounds, you really even may listen to you.
380. 26:36Go back and read some of the speeches from Hugo Chavez.
381. 26:40Go back and read some of the speeches, Fidel Castro.
382. 26:44I mean, you see the fragidity of individualism.
383. 26:52This is one of the things, man, that I talk to my children about this all the time.
384. 26:57You have to separate propaganda from what is true.
385. 27:00The idea that capitalism is intentionally and inherently exploitative, guys, it's just
386. 27:09not true.
387. 27:11Free market capitalism is by no means perfect,
388. 27:14but when you consider the reality of man's depravity,
389. 27:17it does the best job of mutually incentivizing engagement.
390. 27:23When you talk about the rigidity of individualism,
391. 27:26the fragility, I'm sorry, the fragidity of individualism,
392. 27:29who is called it, they use words like fragidity
393. 27:31because people think people don't have dictionaries.
394. 27:33The fragidity of individual,
395. 27:36of individual, who is code to be an individual.
396. 27:39Like, dude, if I'm an individual,
397. 27:42It doesn't hurt you.
398. 27:44Like if I'm a lead manufacturer and Bobby is a, is a temperament, guess what I have
399. 27:51to work together in order to produce pencils?
400. 27:56My advancement is not at Bobby's expense.
401. 27:58My advancement actually is a benefit to him and his advancement is a benefit to me because
402. 28:03if I have lead, I want to sell pencils.
403. 28:04Guess what I need would.
404. 28:05And if he has would and he want to be in a pencil tray, guess what he needs, lead?
405. 28:11It's not, guys, it's not rocket surgery.
406. 28:14It shouldn't be surprising that the one economics system that has led to lifting the largest quantity
407. 28:21of people in human history out of poverty has been free markets.
408. 28:28Now we have a valid argument.
409. 28:29We have things like crony capitalism that comes in, you know, friends doing, doing favor for
410. 28:33their friends, you know, an unjust scale, the scripture says, an unjust balance is an abomination
411. 28:39to God.
412. 28:41Those are, are proper and legitimate critiques.
413. 28:44So what ends up happening with those who are engineers of chaos, they go beyond a legitimate
414. 28:50critique and go the next step and say, well, no, instead of just correcting, getting the
415. 28:55cronies out of the capitalism, making sure the scales are balanced.
416. 28:58No, we need a jettison the scales in total, and instead of having the scales, we need to
417. 29:03have the warmth of collectivism.
418. 29:08And the thing that's always so astounding to me is that when people finally get to enjoy
419. 29:13the warmth of that collectivism they're talking about, guess what ends up happening?
420. 29:17You want to talk about divide between the 99 and 1 percent? I was showing my children
421. 29:24videos that you have people in Cuba who've never seen a strawberry, never seen one.
422. 29:32People that make it through our shores, show us that walk into a Costco and see the prevalence
423. 29:37of food availability in a weep, in a weep, contrast to Adventist Waylands who might get a bag
424. 29:47a bag of per meal from the government at Christmas time.
425. 29:51The one time a year they see protein, some of them.
426. 29:56We have to get out of this notion where we kind of seduced by what's happening in the popular
427. 30:00narrative, in the popular culture because if we don't recognize it, the very thing we're
428. 30:04looking at, man, that's so terrible that those people are starving.
429. 30:07Hey, have you said they broke into the zoos to eat zoo animals?
430. 30:11And they write on our own nation, you got our friendly neighborhood Islamianist.
431. 30:17We're going to abandon the fragidity of individualism for the warmth of collectivism,
432. 30:25and how has that worked?
433. 30:26How has that worked?
434. 30:29Where has that worked?
435. 30:30When has that worked?
436. 30:35The study into the recent history of Venezuela has to be done and has to be discussed publicly
437. 30:40because you will see some of the same efforts happening right in our own country.
438. 30:46And if we're not careful, think about that time period from 1998 to 2020, six is where we
439. 30:53end now, January, say 2025.
440. 30:55You take a nation from the fourth wealthiest country in the world to where people are starving,
441. 31:01a third of their population, fled, fled for survival, much of the fleeing transpired within
442. 31:11the last eight years or so.
443. 31:20I'm gravely concerned with the dumbing down of our society.
444. 31:27Over the Christmas break, I spent some time with my family members.
445. 31:31When you decide to get to a home and include education, their family members ask questions,
446. 31:37they ask one of my children and one of the things I've been studying.
447. 31:40My children, one of the things they took was an economics class.
448. 31:43I taught the economics class.
449. 31:44I didn't take economics.
450. 31:46I'm like, yeah, I know.
451. 31:49When was the last time Americans and economics taught to our children?
452. 31:55And it's not a deep conspiracy.
453. 31:59It's a lot easier to steal from people through inflation who don't even know what inflation
454. 32:03is.
455. 32:04It's a lot easier to confiscate individual citizens' wealth through a Federal Reserve
456. 32:11system who don't know that the United States of America didn't always have it.
457. 32:15income tax on American citizens, federal, I mean, revenue generation.
458. 32:20Who didn't, don't know. It's much easier. Let me say it this way. This analogy, I think
459. 32:28will work very well. It's much easier to subjugate the people who do not have the ability to
460. 32:33defend themselves. Want to try another one off his eyes? Then I just tell you Hugo
461. 32:40Chavez led a coup effort in Venezuela. You're one of the one of the first things he did
462. 32:45after he was elected. Anybody want to take a guess? One of the first things, gun control.
463. 32:51Now think about this, a man who led a coup effort, was incarcerated for the coup effort.
464. 32:57Once he gets into power, what does he do? He removes from the citizens any potential real
465. 33:04potential for them to launch a coup against him. Hey, that's something. Hey, that's something.
466. 33:11Guys, we need to study these things.
467. 33:15We need to study these things.
468. 33:19So I'm hoping with everything in me, man,
469. 33:21that this will cause a deep aquari
470. 33:24and move a people to actually open up a book
471. 33:28and I think they can watch three TikTok videos
472. 33:31and do a couple of dances and feel like,
473. 33:33yes, I know all that there is to know about history.
474. 33:35Then you do the wrong TikTok dash,
475. 33:37you have Jeff in the back, which you come up.
476. 33:41Two legit, two legit, two quid.
477. 33:43Hey, hey.
478. 33:44I'm kidding.
479. 33:48Jeff doesn't do the tiktokies.
480. 33:51Not at all, he says.
481. 33:52Not at all.
482. 33:53More when you come back from this break.
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507. 36:13Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
508. 36:18You know, speaking of the things that are challenging right in our own backyard and the prevalence
509. 36:26of itching ears and things of that nature, it is, you know, this is just sad that this
510. 36:36just happens and you know, this just happened Sunday and Monday night, last night.
511. 36:46You had Department of Homeland Security officials in the Minnesota area.
512. 36:52This Lakeville, Minnesota is just south, let me make sure I got my right location, is right
513. 36:58outside of Minneapolis, just south of Minneapolis.
514. 37:01And you had some Department of Homeland Security agents, they worked with ICE who were in the
515. 37:07area and they had made reservations at a Hampton Inn.
516. 37:13Hampton Inn in Lakeville, Minnesota only to have their reservations canceled.
517. 37:20And the specific reason behind the cancellation was that the person who sent the cancellation
518. 37:29said, quote, that they refused to provide service to anyone enforcing immigration law.
519. 37:34In quote.
520. 37:35He got that.
521. 37:37So these people had a reservation upon learning that the
522. 37:42reservers were working with
523. 37:45Immigration and Customs Enforcement, they just canceled the reservation.
524. 37:50The Hampton Inn is owned by the Hilton Company, but
525. 37:55upon being contacted, Hilton said, well, this particular Hampton Inn, and many of the
526. 38:00Hampton Inn's are owned by franchisees and operated by franchisees and are
527. 38:05from the Hilton Corporation. The owner of this particular Hampton in franchise
528. 38:09is a company called EverPeak Hospitality. But the email notification of the
529. 38:16cancellation came from a Hilton.com domain service. I have a clip for you on this
530. 38:23story. Listen to and watch clip number two, clip two, go.
531. 38:27A Minnesota hotel is changing course after getting put on blast for canceling the
532. 38:32reservations of federal agents.
533. 38:35The Department of Homeland Security
534. 38:36posted on acts yesterday morning about
535. 38:39the Hampton Inn in Lakeville.
536. 38:41The tweet included what appears to be
537. 38:42an email saying in part,
538. 38:44we have found information about immigration work
539. 38:46connected with your name and we will be
540. 38:48canceling your upcoming reservation.
541. 38:51The Hampton Inn is part of the Hilton Hotel chain.
542. 38:54Last night, a Hilton spokesperson told us
543. 38:56the Lakeville location is independently owned
544. 38:58and operated.
545. 38:59In a statement,
546. 39:00Hilton spokesperson said in part, the independent hotel owner had assured us that they had fixed
547. 39:06this problem and published a message confirming this.
548. 39:09A recent video clearly raises concerns that they are not meeting our standards and values.
549. 39:14As such, we are taking immediate action to remove this hotel from our systems.
550. 39:21So you have that, you know, the Hilton saying, uh, while these are on and operating individually,
551. 39:29We are going to distance ourselves from these people.
552. 39:33And I'm highlighting this because it's just greatly troublesome when you see things like
553. 39:44this that happened.
554. 39:45Clearly the person who canceled this reservation saw themselves as doing something that they
555. 39:50perceived as good.
556. 39:56Many of the people who would say things like this would say they would oppose discrimination
557. 40:03But the reality is that they would at best maybe oppose some forms of discrimination,
558. 40:11but not all forms of discrimination.
559. 40:13And what I really think is happening is that the Hilton,
560. 40:17they watch what happened with like Target and Bud Light and other corporations.
561. 40:21He was like, whoa, we're going to try to get out ahead of this because we don't want to have,
562. 40:26we don't want to have any problems.
563. 40:28We don't want to have any problems with the public following this.
564. 40:33But it just shows how, you know, I often say that sin makes you stupid, man.
565. 40:45Remember the judge in Wisconsin, the district court judge, Hannah Dugan, who thought, I guess,
566. 40:52she could use her position on the bench as a means to interfere with a lawful immigration
567. 40:57investigation and detention of an illegal alien, the way she aided the illegal alien to escape
568. 41:04arrest. Well, she was initially removed from the bench by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She
569. 41:12thought she would prevail, but folks, she has been convicted. And the judge now has the
570. 41:21unflattering lifetime description of being known as a felon. She has been removed from
571. 41:30the bench and it, you know, while I do believe justice was served in the case, it's just sad
572. 41:39to me because in a moment here you have this woman who's thrown away her life and a career
573. 41:44awful what you know awful what listening to to to propaganda and it's just it's just crazy
574. 41:54to me man it's just crazy to me so now you have this um Hampton in that now has the Hilton saying
575. 42:03nah chief y'all ain't with us y'all ain't with us the war y'all are not with us anymore
576. 42:09is this one of those things, man, I'm seeing things that are happening internationally and
577. 42:17I'm just greatly concerned for what's happening in our own country.
578. 42:21Toggling back to the Operation Absolute Resolve again, one of the things that's happened recently,
579. 42:30and I don't think this can be debated, is that there has been a re-establishment globally,
580. 42:40or should say internationally of respect for the United States of America.
581. 42:46Following the Vietnam War right about there, there were really the product of strife in
582. 42:52our own country that the underpinnings of it really was a strain of anti-Americanism
583. 43:00to where there were people who were almost embarrassed by America's prominent position
584. 43:06in the world and they felt like that, you know, we need to be taken down a peg or two,
585. 43:11you know, internally.
586. 43:12They felt like that internally.
587. 43:14And so it kind of led to this meandering kind of foreign policy disposition that I think
588. 43:21set in initially after Vietnam, then it's kind of persistent and I really feel like that's
589. 43:29over with now, you know, really feel like it's over with now when you think about the
590. 43:35the Casa Amselmani situation.
591. 43:42You had the B2 bunker busters that visited Iran,
592. 43:53and then you have these things that are happening.
593. 43:54And a lot of the details have not been brought to the fore,
594. 43:58but when more is discussed publicly
595. 44:01about the precision of this most recent mission.
596. 44:06Man, it is the American capacity militarily.
597. 44:17It is quite robust.
598. 44:21And I do agree that the National Posture should be pieced through strength,
599. 44:26but like I said yesterday, you can't have a piece through strength posture if there is no strength.
600. 44:33I'm not saying it'd be a bullying, go flex on people and do all this other kind of stuff,
601. 44:37But I'm saying in order for there to be peace through strength,
602. 44:39there has to be strength.
603. 44:43And if there is no strength, there is no respect.
604. 44:45And if there's no respect, there won't be much peace.
605. 44:48Think about all of the things that followed the Vietnam debacle.
606. 44:52For example, Russia's invasion of Afghanistan.
607. 44:54That happened following Vietnam.
608. 44:58I have a list of things here that just happened.
609. 45:01And I'm just like, man, look at this.
610. 45:02This happened immediately following that.
611. 45:04Let me pull my list down.
612. 45:06Here we go.
613. 45:08Here we go. Let me see.
614. 45:10Yeah. So following Vietnam, you had the Cambodian genocide.
615. 45:19People don't talk about Cambodia.
616. 45:21You had the Cambodia genocide.
617. 45:22You had the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
618. 45:26You had, and then, and this is what, this is why we have to have people understand history.
619. 45:30Do you realize that Iran was not always an Islamic Republic?
620. 45:33Most people don't even realize this.
621. 45:35I want to say most people, many people don't even realize this.
622. 45:38But the rise of the Islamic Republic in Iran followed,
623. 45:41Followed the debacle in Vietnam.
624. 45:45Why am I mentioning this?
625. 45:47Because the disposition of peace through strength,
626. 45:49when America has strength,
627. 45:51it is better for the world for America to be strong.
628. 45:54That's what I'm saying.
629. 45:57It is better for the world when America is strong.
630. 46:02Well, you have lots of people that will ring their eyes
631. 46:08and white papers and hurrying in their policy treatises.
632. 46:13To be frank, the world doesn't cower when America is the most prominent superpower.
633. 46:18You know why? Because they know deep down, America is a good nation.
634. 46:24America is a type of nation where you have things like a World War II that have followed
635. 46:28up with a Marshall Plan. I'm not debating the pros and cons of the Marshall Plan, but where does that
636. 46:33happen? You know? We use American taxpayer money to rebuild the entire European continent.
637. 46:39Who does that? Well, the nations do it. You know?
638. 46:45You know, you talk about the reality of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for
639. 46:49years up until recently, United States of America was the only one, the only one providing material
640. 47:01evidence of his willingness to come to the aid of allies, not in our own nation and other
641. 47:06nations.
642. 47:09It is a fact, as I'm on this microphone today, the United States of America's citizens are
643. 47:14the most generous people in the whole world.
644. 47:19We think about charitable giving.
645. 47:21And when you have things like tsunamis and other nations,
646. 47:23do United States of America citizens more than any other nation
647. 47:26in the world respond?
648. 47:28Because it's a reflection of the people
649. 47:31that we have in our country.
650. 47:35And for far too long, there have been nefarious elements.
651. 47:39And when I say nefarious, think about what
652. 47:41I described earlier about Venezuela's transition away
653. 47:45from its zenith and its devolution into embracing
654. 47:52Chavismo, nefarious elements, infiltrating various segments of our society, trying to
655. 48:02rinse and repeat some of the societal bulkanization, the institutionalized artificial institutionalized
656. 48:10resentment, and a willing investment in degrading our own capabilities.
657. 48:21It is healthy for the world, for the United States of America to be strong.
658. 48:26It's healthy for the world.
659. 48:31This takes me full circle back to the very first segment that I said that we were talking
660. 48:38from second activity chapter four about the prevalence of false teachers, not their existence.
661. 48:42False teachers exist, but the prevalence of false teachers corresponded directly to the
662. 48:47prevalence of itching ears, accumulating for themselves false teachers.
663. 48:52So when there are people that are nefarious elements in our nation and they're able to
664. 48:56to gain access and gain ground and gain influence,
665. 49:00it's because they are responding to a cultivated segment
666. 49:04of itching ears, we wanna hear some of that.
667. 49:07We wanna hear some of that.
668. 49:08One of the greatest antidotes that exist
669. 49:11in the scripture tells us this.
670. 49:13Certainly says, pray without ceasing,
671. 49:15but guess what else it says, be thankful at all times.
672. 49:20Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude is an internal antibiotic,
673. 49:25Internal antibiotic, if you will, an internal antihistamine against an artificially engineered
674. 49:34onset of resentment.
675. 49:40There are people in different stations in life.
676. 49:44There are people that struggle in our country, but the reality is poverty in America does
677. 49:48not look like poverty all around the world.
678. 49:51That's just the truth.
679. 49:53Our nation is one of the few nations where people who are poor gain weight, guys.
680. 49:59gratitude and I want you to understand something.
681. 50:02Gratitude doesn't have to be mutually exclusive with Godly ambition.
682. 50:07I'm not saying gratitude should nullify your desire to strive and to better yourself and
683. 50:12serve well for your families and things of that nature.
684. 50:14Let's be honest about where we are.
685. 50:21We may not have what those people have.
686. 50:23But look how God has blessed us.
687. 50:25Look how God has blessed you.
688. 50:29Gratitude.
689. 50:31overflowing in Thanksgiving is an internal inoculate against a seditious
690. 50:39seduction of resentment. Jesus told us comparing ourselves amongst ourselves is
691. 50:45not wise. You have your race to run, I have my race to run. And the Lord even
692. 50:52describes his body in Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12 as being comprised of
693. 50:56many different members. I may be a big toe in the body of Christ. I may not be an
694. 51:03eyeball or may not be a ear, but guess what? I'm in the body."
695. 51:09In that cultivation of gratitude, it's an inoculum against this
696. 51:16audaciousness, this audacious notion, and the seductive notion of resentment.
697. 51:25So as we recognize, and one of the most enduring need that we have in our nation
698. 51:28is repentance. Evidence to that repentance, one of the things that will be evident
699. 51:32of that repentance is that gratitude will set it.
700. 51:39The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect
701. 51:43those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.