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A perilous rescue mission in Iran demonstrates the American refrain, we leave no man behind.

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0:00 - 15:00. 2 Samuel 9:1-13. David showed grace to Mephibosheth and kept his promise to Jonathan. 15:00 - 31:00. A perilous rescue mission in Iran demonstrates the American refrain, we leave no man behind. 31:00 - 48:00. Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record for human travel from Earth. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call: 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links U.S. Rescue Mission President Trump on Iran Jeremy Hansen

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
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1:02this very moment to many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your
1:07part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time job where you cultivate
1:11an outcome.
1:12And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
1:18primacy that God places on the family.
1:21I also pray that you enjoyed a wonderful day celebrating our Lord's resurrection, which is
1:27the defining moment in all of human history, not least to mention Christian history.
1:35The resurrection is the linchpin of all things concerning Christ as the Apostle Paul, so appropriately
1:43put it that if Christ is not raised and we are still dead and our trespasses and sins,
1:49but he continues on in 1 Corinthians 15 to say,
1:52but he is raised, he is risen.
1:55Glory be to his wonderful name.
1:57As I've said before, I will continue to say my prayer
2:01for the body of Christ is that our Lord's resurrection
2:05is not something that we limit to be celebrated
2:07on during Passover in April,
2:13but that it is what animates our living day by day,
2:18day that we live life in light of our King's resurrection and anticipation of his return.
2:27And one of the major features of that is recognizing that the first institution that our God created
2:34was the family with marriage at the center.
2:37It's not a coincidence that the only human institution illustrative of Christ in his church
2:44recorded in the scripture is the marital union.
2:48And the Marotu Union is the foundation for the family.
2:52It's also not a surprise that the primary institution responsible for the generational investment in
3:00building God's kingdom is the family with a husband and a father, a man joined to his
3:07wife with the command to be fruitful and to multiply.
3:14That fruitfulness and multiplication was not merely meant to be a biological reality, was
3:19also meant to be a spiritual reality that follows the creation order of everything reproducing
3:24after its own kind.
3:26The kind that mankind was commanded to reproduce was the kind of mankind that walked with our
3:34God in the cool of the day, that were joined in relationship and the type of intimacy that
3:47provoked any straying or any interruption and an intimacy that provoked the question,
3:52where are you, Adam? Where are you? So as you're making your transition to your full-time job,
3:59remember that what goes on in your house is far more important for you than what goes on in the
4:04White House. It's far more important for me. I cannot control how long Operation Epic Fury takes place,
4:10but I can control how much I will invest myself in executing my King's Commission starting right
4:16in my own family. You have the similar opportunity and privilege to make the prerogative for your
4:25life's mission and work to be executing our Kings Commission. With that to the word of God we go.
4:31Today we're going to go to 2 Samuel 9, 2 Samuel 9. There are only 13 verses in that chapter. So
4:37we will read that entire chapter while all kinds of things are happening. You have, as I alluded to,
4:46the operation that the Fury continuing on, you have the rescue mission of our down to airmen
4:54in Iran. I mean, honestly, it's the stuff that movies are made out of, you know, that demonstrated
5:03for the world something that I want to dig into a little bit concerning the American commitment
5:11to refuse to leave a man behind. That is something that is unique in our current world. It flows
5:21from a worldview that is not an atheistic Marxist worldview. It doesn't flow from a disposition
5:31of a ziging ping, you know, or of a Chavez de Maduro and any of these other guys. It's
5:40a uniquely American phenomenon.
5:42I want to dig into that a little bit,
5:45as we have the Artemis II mission,
5:47you know, breaking the Apollo's record,
5:51having the humans to travel the furthest from Earth.
5:57But it's important that we refuse to allow those things
6:00to supersede our needed reliance upon God
6:05in this holy word.
6:05With that, 2nd Samuel chapter 9,
6:08verses 1 through 13, just by way of context, David is at this point in the Scripture solidified
6:14in his rulership over all of Israel, and what you're going to see in this text is that he
6:22seeks out Jonathan's son, his friend Jonathan's son whom he loved as a brother to be unnecessarily
6:34kind to him and fulfillment of the commitment he made to Jonathan.
6:38I will give you some cross references as we go through it.
6:43Second Samuel chapter nine verse one.
6:44This is what God's word says.
6:46Then David said, is there anyone?
6:48Is there yet anyone left of the house of Saul
6:51that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
6:56Now there was a servant of the house of Saul
6:58whose name was Ziba.
7:00And they called him to David.
7:01And the king said to him, are you Ziba?
7:03And he said, I am your servant.
7:06The king said, is there not yet anyone of the house of Saul
7:09whom I may show the kindness of God. And Ziba said to the king, there is still a son of Jonathan
7:16who is crippled in both feet. So the king said to him, where is he? And Ziba said to the king,
7:22behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Amiel and Lodebar. Then King David sent and brought
7:29him from the house of Machir, the son of Amiel from Lodebar and my fibosheth, the son of Jonathan,
7:35the son of Saul came to David and fell on his face and prostrated himself. And David said,
7:43Mephibosheth, and he said, here is your servant. David said to him, do not fear,
7:49for I will surely show kindness to you for the sake of your father, Jonathan,
7:54and will restore to you all the land of your grandfather, Saul, and you shall eat at my table
8:00regularly." Again, he prostrated himself and said,
8:04What is your servant that you should regard a dead dog like me?"
8:07Then the king called Saul's servant Zebra and said to him,
8:14all that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's grandson.
8:19You and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him and you shall bring in the produce
8:25so that your master's grandson may have food. Nevertheless, my fibosheth,
8:30your Master's grandson shall eat at my table regularly." Now Ziba had 15 sons and 20 servants.
8:37Then Ziba said to the king, according to all that my Lord the King commands his servant,
8:42so all that the King commands his servant, so your servant will do. So Mephibosheth,
8:49ate at David's table as one of the King's sons. Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mika,
8:58Or Micah. And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth. So Mephibosheth
9:05lived in Jerusalem for he ate at the king's table regularly. Now he was lame in both feet.
9:11A couple things I want to point out. You know, first of all, I have to say it is utterly disgusting
9:21and despicable when people try to pervert the scripture to subordinate, be subordinate to their
9:29political agendas. Evil people have tried to twist the friendship and the brotherhood
9:35that David and John had then shared into something abominable. And it's gross and it's
9:42sick. It's just as perverted, if not even worse than the perverting of one's bodies to
9:48do what the scripture says should not be done dishonoring one's bodies, even worse that
9:55they would seek to twist God's holy word to fit their agendas. David and John had then
10:02shared a friendship and a brotherhood.
10:05And one of the things that has been a casualty of this, this
10:10feminized society that we live in is that we've been stripped of the type of fraternal
10:16relationships that men enjoy, that men share, that men need in order for iron to sharpen
10:21iron.
10:22So we have masculine affinity, respected love for one another that has nothing to do with
10:27any type of homosexual erotica.
10:30That's disgusting.
10:32What I'm saying is disgusting is to rob our society of the authentic, necessary display
10:39of fraternal masculinity.
10:41The scripture says a brother is born for adversity.
10:47The scripture talks about the necessity of men sharpening one another.
11:02It's ridiculous to have these assertions.
11:06David clearly was a heterosexual man.
11:10Jonathan clearly from the scripture.
11:12was the heterosexual man.
11:14All right, let me move on from that.
11:18So what's happened here, one of the things you want to cross-reference is 2 Samuel chapter
11:244, verse 4 in particular, because what happened in that passage is word got back to Saul's
11:33household that both Saul and Jonathan had passed.
11:37They were killed in battle.
11:39Jonathan's son, Mephibosheth, was five years old at the time when one of Jonathan's servants
11:48heard about Jonathan being struck down.
11:53She picked up Mephibosheth in haste and sought to run and escape.
12:01Five-year-old Mephibosheth fell and became handicapped in both feet, no longer able
12:07basically to walk from five years old and to continue for the remainder of his life.
12:12All right, another cross reference.
12:17First Samuel chapter 20, because of Jonathan and David's friendship, brotherhood, and love
12:26for one another, though Jonathan was the crown prince of Israel, Jonathan loved God more than
12:31he even loved himself or his own prospect of becoming the second king of Israel.
12:36So though he was the oldest son of Saul, the crown prince of Israel, Jonathan believed God's
12:41word through Samuel that David was supposed to be the next king of Israel.
12:46Jonathan believed in David's kingship.
12:50Jonathan simply asked David that when you become king, will you break the trend that usually
12:59happens with carnal monarchical transitions?
13:04One of the bloodiest times in any nation's history is when one monarchical successor arrives
13:11that are ascends to the throne.
13:13usually they would seek to consolidate power and eliminate any potential threats to their
13:18throne, which David, being not a biological relative of Saul, would have naturally sought
13:25to eliminate Saul's household in an effort to solidify his throne.
13:30But David recognized that he would only be king because of Yahweh's divine providence,
13:34and so he needed not to use physical violence to secure his throne in that same fashion.
13:39So he promised to show kindness to Jonathan's offspring and refused to eliminate the entirety
13:47of Saul's household.
13:49So when we get to 2 Samuel 9, we're seeing David fulfill that promise.
13:55A couple of things I want you to note from the text in 2 Samuel 9.
14:00David initiated the pursuit and the search for a descendant of Saul's household.
14:07initiated the search that brought him face to face with Jonathan's offspring, with Jonathan
14:12son Mafibisheth. The scriptures intentional in noting Mafibisheth's paralysis. There's
14:23nothing that Mafibisheth could have done to benefit David, but David showed kindness to
14:29him nonetheless, which reveals a lesson for us. One of the demonstrations and the evidences
14:35of our character is how we treat people, what kindness is we show to people that can do nothing
14:44for us. When people are kind to people expecting a quid pro quo, that's off the manipulation.
14:52But characters revealed in kindnesses offered when there's no expectation of any return.
15:09which we've heard, which we've seen with our eyes,
15:12which we have looked upon in our hands of a handled concerning the word of life.
15:17The life was manifested, and we've seen and bear witness and declared to you
15:22that eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us,
15:27that which we have seen and heard we declare to you,
15:30that you also may have fellowship with us.
15:33Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
15:37And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.
15:42This is the message which we have heard from him
15:45and declared to you that God is light and in him
15:48is no darkness at all.
15:51If we say that we have no fellowship with him,
15:53we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
16:04Shiting light into the darkness,
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16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton the third here. I just want to remind you,
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18:16I want to begin with just the discussion of this amazing search and
18:27rescue mission that took place and it culminated really on
18:32resurrects and Sunday morning, early in the morning before dawn,
18:36where we had two US airmen that were downed. One was immediately
18:44rescued. The pilot was immediately rescued, but there was a weapon
18:47specialist who remained in Iran for quite some time before they
18:54were they were rescued. They were they were a part of a two two member crew on an F 15
19:04E strike Eagle fighter jet F 15 E strike Eagle fighter jet that the Iranians were able to
19:12down you know President Trump talked about it. Oh, they got lucky. That's what President
19:17of that. We fly thousands of flights over Iran. Describe that how you want. I think if
19:25you're in a war zone, you should treat it as such. That's just my perspective on it in
19:30terms of that. But it was amazing what was reported as to what transpired. And I want
19:38to talk a little bit about the uniqueness of the American military resolve to refuse
19:46leave a man behind a contrary to ice cream and administration's notwithstanding ice cream
19:53and administration's notwithstanding. I don't seem to believe that they adhere to that same
19:57type of ethos. But here's a brief report on it. Then I'm going to kind of dig into some
20:04of the details that are not included in this report. Listen to and watch clip number four,
20:10clip four, go video this morning reports to show the smoldering wreckage of two USC 130
20:16transport planes that were involved in the rescue mission on a remote base in Iran.
20:21Sources tell us American forces blew them up in order to avoid them falling into enemy
20:25hands, standard U.S. military practice.
20:29U.S. officials and White House sources describe a complex operation involving dozens of U.S.
20:35commandos and several dozen warplanes and helicopters in the search and eventual rescue
20:42of the missing F-15 crew member.
20:45helicopters and aircraft kept Iranian forces from getting anywhere near where the crewmen
20:50was hiding.
20:52Armed Iranians had been scouring the mountainous terrain to find him first with the promise of
20:57a huge cash reward.
20:59But a Trump administration official tells CBS News the CIA was deeply involved, not only
21:05in the hunt, but in an ploy to spread false information inside Iran that U.S. forces had
21:10already found him and were transporting him by ground out of the country.
21:16The race to find the two men F-15 crew began on Friday.
21:21The pilot was rescued within hours of the fighter jet being brought down.
21:24He sustained some injuries.
21:26We have learned the second crewmen is seriously wounded, according to President Trump.
21:31Yes.
21:34So that gives you an overview of what all transpired, as I mentioned, an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter
21:41jet was downed by the Iranians. Both the pilot and the weapon specialists were able to eject
21:49from the downplane as according to reports it was flying over the Isfahan province in Iran.
21:58But while the pilot was able to be rescued relatively soon, the weapon specialist was
22:02not. So he had to hide in the mountain, this region between
22:09crafts of rocks while awaiting rescues. Now, what many of you
22:17might expect, US air crews are trained and survival evasion
22:21resistance and escape techniques. I don't know how do you
22:24pronounce that acronym, but it's as sear, sear techniques if
22:29down behind enemy lines. But we don't have, we only have few airmen who are fluent in
22:39Farsi, or speaking in Persian language, and they have to face the challenge of remaining undetected
22:47prior to rescue. According to reports, the rank of the weapons specialist who were surviving in the
22:56rocks of the Mount Iranian mountains held the rank of colonel, but he also had severe injuries
23:04that included an ankle sprain, an ankle sprain. The airman was able to establish contact with
23:12U.S. military. He was able to authenticate himself, which was a necessary step to make
23:16sure that we don't send our commandos into a trap. All right. So he was able to authenticate
23:22himself to make sure that everybody understood that yes, I am the weapon specialist who was
23:28in the F-15E that was downed.
23:33As you heard in the report, and this is amazing to see how these things work together, the
23:38CIA ran a deception campaign earlier in Israel in an effort to try to, in Iran, in an effort
23:45to try to confuse Tehran by planting misinformation, frankly, that the U.S. forces at all, they
23:53already found him and we're trying to get him out of out of country on ground on the ground.
24:01But in addition to that, our military took steps, more steps to jam electronic devices,
24:09bombing key roads around the location where our servicemen was located to prevent anybody
24:16from getting close to him.
24:19And then we eventually sent aircraft to extract the airmen who apparently is a colonel.
24:26I refer to him as the Colonel, obviously keeping his name out of the media for now for good
24:32reasons, of course.
24:34They sent aircraft to extract the Colonel and rescue forces through a much smaller, turbo
24:39prop, turbo prop aircraft, which is capable of landing on small airfields.
24:43It was relatively light.
24:47One thing to note, state side that President Trump and the Pentagon and the White House were
24:52all silent while this all was transpiring.
24:56So much so that he had a reporter that went to Walter Reed to see if President Trump was
25:00at the hospital.
25:01He was like, you know, we're getting any chatter or anything, which is interesting.
25:06But once the mission was complete, President Trump emerged and began talking again.
25:12And then we'll talk about the tweet that President Trump sent out early in the morning.
25:15But what some people don't realize is the tweet was sent out on a chart.
25:19The true social post was made on Resurrection Sunday morning soon after.
25:24No, don't get me wrong.
25:25I'm not justifying some of the verbiage that was used.
25:27But President Trump sent that post out after it was solidified that we had rescued our airmen.
25:34So people need to understand that this is what was happening, that you have complete silence.
25:39Clearly, President Trump was pincively awaiting the successful rescue mission for our down
25:47the airman down down the colonel. That said, when our commandos went to get him and they
25:59flew in in the smaller aircraft, they initially encountered intense resistance. But one of the
26:08things that happened, unfortunately, is that the aircraft that they came in on to extract
26:15ended up having mechanical failures, mechanical issues initially.
26:19So that is what contributed to, and it was, they flew in on MC-130s, MC-130s, and there were
26:29four additional helicopters inside.
26:32And so when you had the mechanical failure on our aircraft that initially landed, that
26:38let our soldiers destroy it, which is protocol until they had to await additional rescue
26:43subsequent to that.
26:44Now, I'm explaining all of this, where you have the down airman having to survive to rely
26:49on this training to stay hidden, yet remaining contact with our military personnel.
26:56You have to have our commandos able to get in and get out.
27:00I mean, it's, it's, you can imagine the tension all across the board.
27:05But what I want to highlight for you is that that type of rescue mission is something
27:09you will never hear from places like Russia.
27:13never hear from places like China or Cuba or Venezuela or any of the other places because
27:18they do not value life the way that the United States of America values life.
27:23And as much as people in our country, some of the people who hate God in our country want
27:29to try to sever our nation from our biblical mooring, you simply cannot do it because you
27:36don't have enough machete's.
27:39You see, our military operates with an ethos of leaving no man behind because the underpinning
27:44ideology in our country that we value human life. Now I know that every single
27:49United States citizen values human life as I'm saying it but it is the overarching
27:53ethos of our nation which has permeated our military. The culture in our military
27:58is that if you tell our service members that they will willingly voluntarily leave a
28:01man behind you're gonna have a fight on your hands. You can have a fight on your
28:06hands because as much as you want to escape it ideologies are anchored in
28:11worldviews. worldviews are anchored in theological commitments. politics is nothing more than the
28:17externalization of one's theological leanings. And I am exceedingly grateful. I continue to put
28:27myself in a position. So my father, I have a friend of mine whose son literally just went off
28:34to boot camp, 18 year old son, just went off to boot camp in the United States Army. And I put
28:40put myself in a position of whatever that was my son,
28:45how I will be praying around the clock,
28:47inviting the believers around me to pray around the clock.
28:50And it's a moment that I believe it's worth taking a pause
28:54and reflect on the reality of that type of commitment
28:57is not merely about military prowess,
29:01it's not merely about barking dogs and our dogs
29:05bark louder and bite harder than yours,
29:07that there is a sanctity of human life
29:10that undergirds that ideology. We have the theological example of our Messiah for the
29:16sake of the one that he left in 99, not to abandon the 99 forever, but to make sure the
29:21fold remains complete. That's a uniquely American phenomenon that is developed based on a uniquely
29:30biblical principle. This is the reason why I'm pointing this out is for the same reason
29:38that I read through the entirety of Benjamin Franklin's speech the other day on the program
29:44that people want to try to shove, shove into the side and cover over and hide and conceal
29:50these types of commitments, but you can't because it continued to pop out.
29:59So I'm grateful, grateful that such a phenomenon I was able to take place.
30:05And once again, and I'm hopeful that this will be a reminder to our nation as to how
30:12life should be valued in our nation.
30:16I'm hopeful that will happen.
30:19Now as I mentioned that, that our colonel was retrieved near dawn, resurrection Sunday morning.
30:33And I'm continually asking for prayers for our nation, for our president, for our service
30:38members because we need it, man.
30:42We need it.
30:43We know what the scripture says.
30:45And I'm grateful that we have the most potent military force in the world.
30:51Full stop.
30:53But we know the scripture says that a war horse is a false hope for salvation.
31:00We need to live according to what we know to be true. Now, while I was exceedingly grateful
31:08for the rescue mission, I got to tell you, man, I was greatly troubled by the early morning
31:15true social post by President Trump. And again, and I understand that he's posting this under the
31:23immediate perception of having one of, you know, our U.S. airman down and behind enemy
31:31lines, you know, who serves him.
31:33He's the commander in chief of our armed forces.
31:35And he's, I can imagine him, you know, pacing in the White House as the rescue mission is
31:41being executed.
31:42And then when we finally got our man back, I can understand this, but it also struck me
31:54that the particular word choices on Resurrection Sunday morning and then, and I do believe it
31:59a bit of effort of trolling when referring to Allah.
32:02I understand that.
32:05But I think you can communicate it similarly
32:08without using those words.
32:09And I know, I know President Trump is not known for being,
32:12you know, the most eloquent spokesman.
32:18But I have to be honest with you all, that it did bother me,
32:20that that type of verbiage and really disconnect
32:25from the moment was prevalent.
32:28It's not something that I'm going to mull over.
32:32You know, I'm not going to you're not going to catch me tomorrow talking about this, you
32:37know, but it's something that I was like, man, it rubbed me the wrong way.
32:45And I'm yes, it's because I'm a Christian.
32:47I believe Resurrection Sunday is a sacred and a solemn time that I would prefer for our
32:53Commander in Chief not to pop that off at seven in the morning on Resurrection Sunday.
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34:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third year earlier this afternoon.
34:19President Trump was stopped by a press gaggle and he had among the things he posted on true
34:28social and he previously stated that his deadline is tomorrow, 8 p.m. tomorrow.
34:36And he said the power plants, electrical grid, and it seemed to expand it.
34:41See all of Iran that y'all have until tomorrow at 8 p.m. or else.
34:49Well during his brief stop, and this is going to be a brief clip, President Trump indicated
34:54to our media that Iran came to him with a proposal, but he said it wasn't good enough.
35:04Listen to and watch clip number five, clip five, go.
35:07What do you think of the needs as a proposal?
35:11They made a proposal and it's a significant proposal, it's a significant step.
35:16It's not good enough, but it's a very significant step.
35:20They have made the negotiating now and that made it very significant step.
35:26We'll see what happens.
35:27So that's what he's saying.
35:30They're negotiating now.
35:31And then the questions I had, you know, according to reports, he was negotiating with, I think,
35:37Magdi.
35:38I think it's his name, the supposed moderate.
35:41You got to put the air quotes on that.
35:44I mean, what to, and a Shiite, 12er is a moderate.
35:51You know, it's moderate.
35:52Well, I won't decapitate you, but I'll stab you in your heart, you know, and what's that?
35:57I don't, whatever.
35:58I don't know what that is.
35:59But that's what they're describing him to be.
36:02The question I have is because earlier today, there were reports saying Iran rejected any
36:06type of negotiation.
36:07But later in the day, they're negotiating apparently.
36:11And I said this to Bob, and I was like, who are you negotiating with?
36:13Is it Moggdee?
36:15And if he's, if he's the parliamentarian, like, like he's in parliament, does he truly
36:21We have control over the IRGC.
36:23You know, now you have these statements that have been made, you know, President Trump
36:28has used terminology obliterated.
36:30We've done this.
36:31We've done that.
36:33But the Iranians still seem to be popping off our crackers somehow, you know, there are
36:38lots of conversations of what has happened.
36:40And don't be scared of what I'm saying.
36:41I believe that the work, the bombing campaigns have been massively effective.
36:47But I think the potential also exists that many underestimated what all Iran had, because
36:53their reports now have said that the US has been able to destroy a third of the Iranian
36:57ballistic stockpile.
37:00While they believe an unspecified amount is buried in rubble and in tunnels that they may
37:05not have immediate access to.
37:09But what percentage of the Iranian ballistic capabilities have been truly destroyed?
37:17And I don't think you can have a comprehensive battle damage assessment, just flying over
37:24in the air.
37:27That's just saying that seems logical to me.
37:33But if you're negotiating, and this is my perspective, I don't know how you negotiate with radical
37:4012-er Shiites.
37:42I don't know how you negotiate with them.
37:44Lying is something that they don't have a problem doing.
37:46And then you also have this fascination and fixation upon death, which is the only security
37:55they have.
37:56So how do you negotiate in that regard?
37:58And the security, I'm thought they're perceived security, isn't that legitimate real security?
38:04So how do you do that?
38:10My perspective on this whole thing, I mean, now that we are there, and I am not in favor
38:17of boots on the ground.
38:18said that and I'm not changing on that. But I can tell you one of the biggest disasters
38:23that would transpire is we leave there and, you know, six months, a year later, Iran is
38:32back doing what they've been doing. You know, that would be a gigantic, gigantic failure.
38:39So my thoughts are, man, do what you got to do. Do what you got to do, get it done. You
38:46know, take, you know, take the breaks off if there any breaks on, you know, President
38:51Trump is saying they're going to include the bridges, you know, power plants, electric
38:57grids and all that kind of stuff. I'm not saying be reckless. Don't be reckless. But I'm saying
39:00I don't, I don't. This is me. I don't understand if, if these people are adhering to this,
39:06this 12 or sheite ideology, which clearly they have been, the regime has been to date,
39:14I am uncertain as to how they could have a parliament member that they would abide who would be
39:24a quote unquote moderate. Now, is it impossible? Is it possible? Sure. I think it's possible.
39:31Is it likely though? That's the question I'm asking. Is it likely since you're there and
39:39praise me to God, we have not suffered more casualties and we've suffered today to court
39:46the Synchom Central Command that there have been 13 United States American military members
39:52who've lost their lives during this Operation Epic Fury.
39:58I pray that we don't lose another life, but we have got to obliterate this capacity for
40:06this terrorism to continue since we're there now, since we're there now.
40:10You know, the president said we'll be there two to three weeks.
40:14That's what he said last week, two to three more weeks.
40:18He also made these comments, which I thought were interesting.
40:27He said, quote, we are obliterating that country and I hate to do it, but we're obliterating
40:33and they just don't want to say uncle.
40:35They don't want to cry as the expression goes uncle, but they will.
40:38And if they don't, they'll have no bridges.
40:40They'll have no power plants.
40:41They'll have no anything.
40:42I won't go further because there are other things that are worse than those two.
40:46Then he continues, quote, if I have my choice, what would I like to do?
40:52take the oil because it's there for the taking.
40:54There's not a thing they can do about it.
40:56Unfortunately, the American people would like
40:58to see us come home.
41:00If it were up to me, I'd take the oil.
41:02I'd keep the oil.
41:03I'd make plenty of money and I'd also take care
41:06of the people I ran much better than they're being taken care of.
41:08It's been horrible, end quote.
41:11I'm sayin' so.
41:13So you're saying if you can do what you wanna do,
41:15last time I checked he's commander in chief, is he not?
41:20He is.
41:22What he seems to be indicating that what we required to do what he's saying he would want
41:28to do may be beyond our ability to immediately leave Iran or as quickly as as possible.
41:36It seems to me based on his comments and again, I don't want to read too far into it.
41:39But when he says unfortunately the American people would like to see us come home, that
41:43makes me think that he's looking at polling numbers and other things to help come to his
41:51conclusion.
41:52be wrong about that, but that's what it seems like to me.
41:56I think the American people would prefer that we get the job done that you've articulated
42:01to the American people and then come home and whatever needs to be done to get that job
42:08done, get it done, get it done.
42:13Because I think it's a far worse concern and this is one of the things I said at the very
42:16beginning, it's far worse if we leave and if somebody else that ascends to the leadership
42:23and I ran and it just like if not worse than coming. We go through all of this and this is just reality
42:30because Operation Midnight Hammer, the commentary was, we've obliterated their nuclear program.
42:34Well, Operation Epic Fury is pursued because a report saying that they're still trying to
42:41pursue nuclear weaponry. So obliterated means something. You can't keep saying obliterated if
42:49it's not obliterated. So we'll see. As he said, there's negotiations underway and I think President
43:01And the Trump inclination is that he wants to do a deal.
43:03I think more than anything he wants to do a deal.
43:06That's his, his thing.
43:07He's a deal maker.
43:08He wants to do a deal.
43:09But I, I am concerned that he wants to do a deal with a group of people that deals are
43:14not what they do.
43:16The only deals they do is heads, I win, tails, you lose.
43:19That's the deals that they do, you know, send me pallets of cash.
43:24So we're going to keep on enriching unfreeze money through sanctions.
43:28We're going to keep on enriching.
43:33I'm concerned that he's dealing with people that doing a deal is not within their makeup.
43:43All right.
43:46In addition to that earlier today, um, reports from Artemis two, it is amazing.
43:52And I know it's been going on longer than I've been on the air, but what is NASA's fascination
43:56with naming things after the Greeks, you know, Artemis to Apollo this, you know, anyway.
44:04Gemini.
44:05Jim and I, I ain't talking about you because it's, what is going on with that?
44:16Well today it was reported that the Artemis II mission broke Apollo 13's distance record
44:21for human travel from the earth, eclipsed the wreck about over 4,000 miles.
44:27According to the reports that the Artemis II mission is traveling a similar trajectory,
44:35kind of like a figure eight in space as they crossed to view for the first time in human
44:43history portions on the dark side of the moon.
44:48There are reports right now that Artemis who has lost contact temporarily, but there's some
44:54I have some recording from earlier today as they eclipse this record.
45:04This is going to be a longer clip.
45:05Listen to, there's a little bit of video, but it's from the broadcast that NASA was providing
45:12earlier.
45:13Listen to it watch clip number six, clip six, go.
45:16We will continue our journey even further into space before Mother Earth needs in pulling
45:21us back that we hold here.
45:25But we most importantly choose this moment, challenge in the next, or this record is not
45:33long with potential names for those items or those morning looking up the window and where
46:00able to see them now both with our naked eye and through the long lens.
46:04And so we feel this is a good time to send this down in a special shout out to Kelsey
46:09for helping us with this.
46:12The first one we'd like to suggest is a named crater in honor of our great spacecraft integrity.
46:20And so if you were to look at Oriental on the far side and then draw a line straight up to
46:26home on the far side relatively in the middle is an unnamed crater and we would
46:32like to suggest it be called integrity in the future and the second one and
46:37especially meaningful for this crew is a number of years ago we started this
46:42journey in our close-knit astronaut family and we lost a loved one her name
46:48was Carol and we would like to Carol the voice that you heard was Jeremy
47:02Hanson, he is the one, the sole Canadian that's a part of the mission.
47:11You know, I understand that they want to give, you know, express appreciation.
47:15Jeremy Hanson, I'm talking about, but, you know, the earth is not our mother.
47:18It's not my mother.
47:20Okay.
47:21But I, you know, that's, you know, that's how, yeah.
47:27But Victor Glover, Reed Weisman, Christina, Koch, and Jeremy Hanson are the four astronauts,
47:36comprised of Artemis II mission.
47:39Victor Glover said, many, many, many profound things.
47:42But the one thing that I want to mention, and I'm not sure everybody realizes this, that
47:48this Artemis II mission is meant to be a contribution to another mission that will transpire two
47:55years later where they're seeking to put boots on to land on the moon near the moon
48:04south pole, which has never been done before. So this is a lunar mission that's employed
48:11in pursuit of a subsequent lunar mission, and then they're ultimately hoping and planning
48:16to build another space station, potentially on the moon. So this is being described in this fashion
48:27It's interesting how all of this is happening.
48:31According to the reports, the space flight will continue for another four days and then they're
48:36expected to land in the Pacific Ocean.
48:41That is an interesting, interesting deal.
48:46So we'll see how this all unfolds.
48:49I have some quotes and things from Victor Glover that I plan to get to, but y'all hear
48:53that disrespectful music.
48:54So Lord willing, we may get to that tomorrow
48:57and
48:59share-a-thon starts tomorrow.
49:02So starting tomorrow, we will have the spring
49:062026 share-a-thon edition of the Hamilton Corner.
49:09Tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday evening.
49:12And by God's grace, we will be here for you.
49:14I pray you all have a wonderful evening
49:19that the redeemed of the Lord say so.
49:21Never forget that the Lord has ordained you
49:24me for this moment. Let's not miss our moment. Let's be about our father's
49:29business. Leave it all on the field. And once we're done here, we have eternity.
49:34The tangible presence of our Lord before us.
49:37The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect
49:43those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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