Live from the Galilee in Israel

Here we are, live in Israel tonight in the Galilee by the Sea of Tiberias. It's time for the line of fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President of Fire School of Ministry. Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH.

That's 866-34-TRUTH. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Live in Israel.

Alright, here we are, live in Israel. That's it. Shouts of joy from some of our tour group. These guys are troopers. We got into Israel late afternoon yesterday, and they've been busy going around seeing ancient ruins today.

We were up on Mount Carmel where Elijah called down fire from heaven. Remember when the fire came down today? Wasn't it amazing?

Okay, just spiritually. And yeah, looking out over... Armageddon, just spectacular. And then we drove over to the Galilee.

So we're right by the Sea of Tiberias in our hotel and at a place called the Galilee Experience here in Israel. They're gracious enough to let us use their offices for our radio studio here in Israel three straight nights.

So it's 9 o'clock Israel time. And we've got folks on the tour from as far away as South Africa. New Zealand? Brazil Venezuela, And in the state as far away as Alaska, California. And interestingly, the brother that came from New Zealand, rather than having a more direct route, somehow wanted to fly with us from New York.

So he flew from New Zealand all the way to San Francisco, San Francisco to New York, New York to Tel Aviv. Our friend in Venezuela had to go out of the country to get his passport in order to get here, visa, whatever was needed because of Venezuela and Israel not being a good relationship now and not having an Israeli embassy.

So folks really made the effort to be here. And so far, gang, just how's everything going so far?

Okay. All right, yeah, there you go. You got the consensus. Maybe we'll hear from some of the folks a little later. I've got a lot to talk to you about from Donald Trump and witches and Hollywood and Iran, and the New York Times claiming they're not biased, and Press TV claiming that Donald Trump is run by a Zionist lobby to a bunch of other things I want to talk to you about today.

86634Truth. Let me give you a question first. Let me put a question out to you. And then I want to talk to you about life here in Israel. And in that sense, the view here in Israel.

866-34Truth. Here's my question for you. Um I don't know if you've heard this. but a coalition of witches. joined together to curse President Trump.

And they actually did this.

Now look, on the one hand, who cares about what a bunch of witches do? And even if they're directly connected with the devil, if you know God and fear God and love God, who cares? On the other hand, I'm not painting Donald Trump into being a believer or being intimate with God or knowing God well. But either way, there is demonic power. These things are real.

There are curses and there is demonic activity. And is it something to be praying about, thinking about? But here's my bigger question. Does it say anything to you? that witches, together with radical liberals, Together with Well, a wide range of others in society who don't share our values, militant pro-abortion groups, militant pro-gay activist groups, and others, join together with witches.

I don't mean they're all joining with witches, but I'm saying they are radically siding against President Trump. Does that say something spiritually? Maybe you didn't vote for him. Maybe you still have problems. Maybe you have concerns.

Maybe you think he's causing trouble around the world and alienating folks around the world. In fact, I'll tell you something funny that happened last night with our tour group, relative to Donald Trump. But do you think there's something spiritual going on? Does it strike you as something spiritual going on? When Hollywood at the Oscars last night spends a ton of time bashing Donald Trump, I didn't see the Oscars, and even if I had the opportunity to see them, it's not something I was quite interested in watching.

But I think at least a dozen actors bashed him and then celebrated an Iranian Muslim winning an Oscar. Does that say anything to you about a spiritual battle, about spiritual realm, about something more than meets the eye going on? 866-348-7884. More live from Israel when we come back. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr.

Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Let me burn things.

Okay, what what in the world? Was that first? Let me tell you: this is Michael Brown coming away live from Israel. All right, still got our tour group here. They haven't faded yet.

They haven't hit the wall yet. But what in the world? Was that sound? What were people yelling at? I want to play one more clip.

Again, it's just. Jumping in the middle, it'll be hard to make things out, but just take a listen. We pray in Jesus' name. Oh, my. Yeah, you heard that.

We pray in Jesus' name. So check this out. This is a town hall meeting in Louisiana, which is a pretty conservative religious state in many ways, known for the party scene and Mardi Gras and all that, but otherwise a fairly religious, conservative state. This was a senator's town hall meeting. And during the Pledge of Allegiance, and then all through the opening prayer, protesters were yelling and screaming.

You watch the video, and because the camera is towards the back, you hear the audio from the back, so you can barely hear anything that's happening in the front whatsoever. This was in Metairie, Louisiana, if I'm pronouncing it correctly, during Senator Bill Cassidy's town hall meeting. He's a Republican. And when prayer ends in Jesus' name, they start screaming. You heard it.

In fact, JJ, let's just play clip number nine one more time. I want you to hear what happens. The guy is having to pray as people are yelling and screaming through his whole prayer. The moment he pauses, someone says, that's enough. Just listen to the reaction.

And pray in Jesus' name. Rise. All right, now look, I don't know anything about this senator whatsoever. All right, I don't know anything about the senator at all. Nothing.

And And on on top of that, I don't have any information about what the town hall meeting was about. What I know is that the protesters were upset with the Pledge of Allegiance, and the protesters were upset with a Pledge Allegiance. prayer. And how can you have prayer at a town hall meeting?

Now look, Congress opens in prayer at the key momentous times in our history. Our leaders have prayed together. Our nation was birthed with leaders praying together.

Okay? These are realities. And separation of church and state was never intended to keep religion out of the public place. It was intended to not form one state religion and to keep the state out of the church. That's what it was for in the Bill of Rights.

But I play those clips because it gets back to something. It does not mean that Republicans are godly and Democrats are ungodly. It doesn't mean that everything Republicans and/or Donald Trump are standing for that, everything they stand for is good and godly and right, and everything that opposes them, or everything that opposes them, is therefore wrong. What it does say is that something spiritual is going on, that there is a spiritual battle for the soul of the nation. And if there is going to be an attempt to establish a biblical value as a national value by voting and by the way that we would institute these things, if there's an attempt to push back against the radical left, if there's an attempt to push back against any of the radical forces that oppose the gospel, there is going to be a spiritual pushback.

And to me, that little town hall segment, unless there's more going on than meets the eye, and from the reports I read, that's not the case. That tells me something. That tells me that there is a battle over the name of Jesus, a battle over prayer, a battle over spirituality here in America.

Now here's the problem. The problem is that President Trump is standing for many things that are dear to believers, that are dear to evangelical believers and other Christian believers in America. He is saying that he wants to be a champion of religious liberty. He is turning back some of President Obama's radical agenda so far. He is standing for pro-life and other things like that.

He is standing strongly with Israel. The problem is with all of his flaws, shortcomings, and ways of provoking those that he differs with, that because that you have a real mix.

So you can't wholeheartedly just say I'm supporting him as a believer without having to have some caveats along the way, lest you be blamed for his wrong behavior, wrong attitudes, provoking tweets and other things like that. On the flip side, On the flip side, you have to realize that the You have to realize that the opposition Coming his way is not just natural. In my view, there's something also supernatural about it. I mean, why in the world would witches? be coming together against Donald Trump.

What has Donald Trump done to witches? What did Barack Obama do for witches? Oh, okay, there was nothing ever I never remember Barack Obama making a single comment, pro or con, regarding witches. Can you remember anything? I don't remember ever witches marching for him or marching against him, and yet with Trump in, they want to curse him.

Is it because they're so compassionate? Is it because they're so kind and loving of immigrants? I don't think that's it. I think there's a larger spiritual dimension. The same way, there are godly people in Hollywood.

There are good people in Hollywood, but there are many who have a radical leftist agenda. If you stand pro-life, you're going to be bashed in Hollywood. If you stand pro-marriage and family, you're going to be bashed in Hollywood. If you're a true Bible believer, you're going to be bashed in Hollywood. Look, Bruce Jenner says in Hollywood he has more opposition for being, quote, Republican or conservative than he has for being transgender.

That would be the atmosphere there. And yeah, there are some conservatives, but in the minority and the Oscars would be a time to bash conservative values.

So yes, Donald Trump sets him up in certain ways. He sets himself up in certain ways to be bashed, to be criticized. But... The fact of the matter is, the opposition coming, the level of it, the intensity of it, indicates to me that something more is going on. And we need to be attuned to it spiritually.

You can stand with President Trump. You can stand with the good things he's doing by recognizing where there are errors and issues. And as we were meeting with our tour group last night, So we have folks from a bunch of different nations, as I mentioned. We have folks from all over the United States. And it's filling one bus, basically.

That's where we cut it off, so 50-something people. And we were just doing a little introduction and telling them what to expect and different things like that. And I just said, hey, Since we had internationals here and people fighting jet lag and they're tired and all that. And I said, so well, what do you all think of Donald Trump? Suddenly the whole temperature in the room raised instantly, whether you're for or against, you couldn't have mentioned a more volatile subject.

And I said afterwards I was just joking to get their blood flowing, you know, to combat jet lags in the meeting. But around the world, this is the great controversy. And now here in Israel, I had a discussion with a cab driver. My mod in Hebrew is not so good, so I miss a lot because I just, I never use it. I majored in Hebrew in college, but never use my mod in Hebrew.

All I use is biblical Hebrew. But he had some animated, passionate things to say, and then the problems and the history and so on. And I remember in times past in Israel, during the time of President Obama, when I asked the... When I asked the folks in Israel their feelings, they did not feel that Barack Obama was a friend of theirs. They felt that he was a real enemy, whereas they felt much better about George Bush.

So it's interesting. It's interesting over here in Israel. It's interesting to see the spiritual dimensions of this. And speaking of Donald Trump and Israel, oh, let's see here. JJ, grab clip number seven.

This is Breitbart Senior Editor Joel Pollock. He is an Orthodox Jew, and he is on the ultra-liberal The View. And he's talking with Joy Bahar and others there about the question of the rise in anti-Semitism in America. You may not be aware, but the second cemetery in a week, so today, yesterday, and seven days before that, two different cemeteries were vandalized, 100 gravestones overturned. I mean, think of someone demented enough, stupid enough, to do something like that.

You talk about the ultimate insult to a people and to ancestors when you. Desecrate a cemetery. And these are some of the horrors that Jews experienced in different countries before all-out persecution broke loose.

So, this is two incidents basically in a one-week period.

So, why is anti-Semitism rising? And Joy Bahar wants to blame it on Donald Trump that somehow he's awakening this ultra-nationalist, anti-Jewish spirit.

So, clip seven: this is how Joel Pollock responds. I feel very proud that Donald Trump not only is one of the most pro-Israel presidents that we've ever had, but that his daughter, Ivanka, tonight will light the Sabbath candles just like my wife will and bring in the Sabbath. And to me, that's something extraordinary in American history. In American history. Right, and in point of fact, when they press and say, okay, well, just because you have Jewish friends doesn't mean you're not anti-Semitic.

He said, yeah, but when you have Jewish in-laws, it does mean something. Obviously, when your grandkids are Jewish, it means something. But there is a very strong feeling of many in Israel. And Prime Minister Netanyahu and many that are leaning right in Israel feel we're entering a whole new era with President Trump. They feel very positive about it.

When we're praying for our president, he is a wrecking ball. He is exposing the PC culture. He is exposing the radical nature of the media. He's exposing a lot of things. At the same time, as a wrecking ball, he can do a lot of harm as well, which is why we need to really be in prayer and recognize that there's a spiritual battle going on.

It is undeniable. We'll be right back. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34 TRUTH.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Thanks so much for joining us live from Israel. There you are. All right.

And I just want to pass the mic around briefly to some of the folks on our tour groups.

So I just need you to come over and grab this. And there's something that I want to convey to you about being in Israel, about a spiritual perspective, about how the world looks and feels. But first, I just want to hear from some of them.

So grab the mic there. You give us your name, where you're from. My name is Michael Harrigan. I'm from Germantown, Maryland. All right.

And by the way, first name only is fine. That'll work.

Okay. And Michael, this is your first time in Israel. First time. All right, so we've just been to a few places today on the first touring day. What most impacted you?

I would say the first place we stopped at, which was a local Messianic Jewish congregation and We got to worship and connect with some local believers and really hear God's vision. The vision that he gave to this leader, Avi. Yes, Avi Misrafi. Avi, to reach out to the inhabitants of Tel Aviv with the gospel. And that really impacted me to start the day.

Neat. And again, on the tour, we don't just look at the ancient stones, as we always say, but connect with the living stones, the believers in the land. All right, go ahead. Just grab the mic. Whoever's next.

Yeah. Get up, write your mouth there. Thank you.

So tell us your first name, where you're from. My name is Chris, and I'm from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. All right. First time in our land? All right.

So what most impacted you today? I think what most impacted me is that, you know, when I left from the United States, or my friends, it was like, be careful now. You know, watch out. And. Be on guard and all that.

And when I arrived here, I was out last night at Tel Aviv walking the streets late night, and I felt very safe. I felt Yeah, if there's an issue walking the streets in Tel Aviv, it would be a criminal, not a terrorist. No, really. I mean, that would be the issue like any other big city. Yeah.

So I guess just. the image that you have in the United States. Maybe is more slanted to the li the media Kind of presents this image of Israel as. Yeah, and you know Israel is under constant attack. Its security is unbelievably strong and sharp, because of which you don't have daily terrorist attacks.

But In point of fact, There's great safety here. It's far more dangerous to live in a city like Chicago to be in Israel.

So there would be terrorism day and night if not for Israel's security. The attack is real, but the security, thankfully, is very strong. All right. Somebody else, go ahead. What's your name?

Where are you from? I am Rich, and my wife Carrie and I are from Springfield, Virginia, just south of DC. All right, great. What most impacted you so far? I I was really impressed when we went to Caesarea today, right along the the Mediterranean Sea, and to see where Paul stood Stood on trial before Felix and Agrippa.

It was amazing being right in that very spot. Yeah, and the ancient ruins, I mean, it's amazing what's preserved, isn't it? Sure is. Yeah, all right. Tell you what, we'll take a break here from our tour group here for a second.

As we get on that last point there. There's something about being in Israel. about reality. When people hear, well, the Bible comes alive. Or, as our tour group leader said, our tour guide said.

to everyone yesterday leaving the airport that it's like going from reading the Bible in black and white to technicolor, that there's something of reality that happens over the course of the week. I think it could be tomorrow, the day after, the group will go out in the Sea of Galilee. And yes, it is the same sea. Not another sea there from the ancient world. It's the same sea in terms of the same place and same weather conditions, similar weather conditions and things like that.

And you realize, even though you know the Bible is true, you realize that these things literally happened here. That these things truly unfolded here. In Armageddon and looking out from what we understand will be the final great war on the earth, and you're looking down at an area where it's going to happen. It drills home. the reality.

It drills home the intensity. It drills home the power of the moment. And it's it's hard to just take things in a spiritual sense.

So we were on Mount Carmel today. We're on Mount Carmel, and that's of course where Elijah called down fire from heaven, and that's where you can look out at Harmegido, or the valley of Harmegido, of Armageddon, as it comes to be known. And you realize that it really happened there. That Elijah really called down fire from heaven. There is a statue there, and on one side, a statue of Elijah holding a sword.

And on one side, it's from 1 Kings 18: how the fire of the Lord fell and devoured the sacrifice and the wood and the stones. And on the other side, from a later book that you have in your Catholic Bibles called Ecclesiasticus or Bensira, saying that Elijah rose up and he was like fire, and his speaking was like a flaming torch. It's uh it's Extraordinary in terms of the reality of what happened.

So, all that to say, we can get so spiritual as believers. We can think in such spiritual terms. We can think in terms that are Nebulous, and it's just all heavenly and otherworld, and we forget that God Himself intervenes in history.

Now, hear me from it. I do understand why people have problems. Is it President Trump? I do understand why people have problems with some of the character of Donald Trump. I do understand why people have problems with some of the larger nationalisms surrounding.

President Trump. I understand that. At the same time, I see God working in America. All right, in the midst of the problems, in the midst of the challenges, in the midst of the mixture, I see him work. Violent reaction against it.

The violent reaction, like you heard on that clip, when there's prayer in Jesus' name at a town hall meeting. And I'm sure there are thousands of meetings with political implications all around the country that open in prayer. I remember the local Charlotte City Council in Charlotte, North Carolina, when I was attending there about some cultural, social, moral issues that were going on. And the city council was largely liberal at that point. I remember they opened up in prayer.

Nobody batted an eyelash over that. And Charlotte, North Carolina is more liberal than a conservative city in a largely conservative state. When you see that kind of reaction, when you see witches coming against Donald Trump, when you see the radical left of the Hollywood elite coming against Donald Trump, to me, it's just another reminder when things actually happen in this world. And remember, they happen through imperfect vessels. They happen through fallen vessels.

vessels. They happen through vessels that have their blemishes and issues, and hence it's sometimes hard to discern what God is doing. But it's often the reaction to those things that cue you in. When you come to Israel, you realize: okay. When you hear about anti-Semitism, Cemeteries attacked in the States.

When you hear about Iran could have a nuclear weapon, and you realize how close Iran actually is, or terrorism in Syria. And when our tour goes to the Golan Heights, and it's, I mean, right from there, you could shoot down on farmers in Israel. When you realize how close the battle is and how great the hatred is surrounding Israel, you realize, okay, this is not just talk. This is not just talk. This is not just rhetoric.

Hey, friends, I have some very important articles. I wrote one last night that's going viral and a video we posted before we left for Israel that's going viral, getting a lot of attention. Basically saying with all due respect that Caitlin Jenner is a man wearing a dress and you can't choose your own gender. Go to thelineoffire.org. Thelineoffire.org.

Click on the digital library. Check them out. It's the line of fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34TRUTH. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Well, it is great to be with you live from Tiberias. All right, we got our tour group here.

It's a little weaker than fading. No, they don't look like they're fading. They look like they're live and alert.

So after a full day of touring and then tomorrow start even earlier, they're here alive and well, joining us for the radio broadcast, one of the perks of the tour that we get to do live radio in the evening.

So here's the number to call 866-34TRUTH-866-348-7884. If you want to ask me about Israel, if you want to weigh in on the current political scene here in America, and before I go to the phones and a lot of other things I want to cover with you, before I go to the phones, I didn't watch the Oscars. I read about the incessant attacks on President Trump, kind of a Donald Trump roast. I don't know if I would have thought any of it was valid, if I would have thought all of it was over the top. Again, didn't watch and haven't listened to audio of the comments, both because we've been busy with touring and doing other ministry work while here, and also because I'm just not interested in hearing all of it.

But of course, it ends with the biggest gaffe in the history of the Oscars. And I wonder if Donald Trump was watching and said, There you go. Look at what happened. I wonder if any of you made that same connection. And by the way, don't quote me saying, Mike Brown said that God judged the Oscars for mocking Donald Trump.

I didn't say that. It's just a curiosity. It's very interesting to see what happened, which is that they announced Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway of Bonnie Incline fame or infamy. They announced, and the winning movie is, what was it, La La Land or something like that? Again, I don't know anything about the movie.

And the producer comes up to give his acceptance speech, and someone from the Oscars gets their attention and says, actually, it's a different movie. It was not that movie. It was a moonlight or something like that.

So the producer has really happened. He goes, no, I'm serious. And the producer has to graciously hand it over to the folks that actually won.

So, I mean, real egg on their face embarrassment, but you almost wonder, just a little poetic justice for the tax on Trump. I'm just wondering if he's thinking that. All right, 866-34Truth. We'll go to Robert in Hyattsville, Maryland. Welcome to the line of fire.

Doing well, thank you. Um you know I was gi the comment I was gonna make had to do with the spirit of the Antichrist, but I I but I before I did that, I wanted to give my condolences for your mom 'cause you I I yeah, I appreciate that. That's four months back, but sure, I appreciate that, sir. Yeah, I I didn't hear about it until recently, and uh see, my mom passed away in the second week of um December. November.

I'm still kind of confused about the third week.

Well, Gra Grace to you also. November twelfth or the third. She was a hundred years old. I won your mother in her upper nineties. Whoa, 94.

Good for her. 100 years old. Amazing. Yeah, you can't. That's just hard to imagine.

I figured, you know. It was just a big it shouldn't have been a shock, but it was. But Yeah, it it is. It's still you don't expect them to go. But anyway, well, grace to you and thanks for the condolences.

Yeah, so as to the original purpose of your call.

Well, the first thing that came to me when I got to tune in the show, I guess it was 10 after 2. and um with Eastern Standard Time here and uh Yeah. about the stuff about the um I heard I hadn't even heard about the witches marching or whatever and stuff like that Like that. I know. Yeah, which is coming together to curse Donald Trump.

That was last year. And I thought, well, the anti if I understand correctly, the anti spirit of the antichrist has been here a long time ago, and I guess Maybe there was a lot of progress made the last ten or twelve years or something like that. And I guess the Lord. allowing And the show is uh Is uh anger. Or his uh I don't know how how to express it at least, but it almost sounds like kind of what you're saying.

that um there may maybe there's uh you know uh he must be uh Doing some some right some things that uh the the the adversaries upset about. Yeah, I mean, yeah, thanks for the call, Robert. I appreciate it. You do have to wonder when you see that level of. Spiritual resistance, spiritual attack.

Something odd is going on. Beyond what meets the eye. Hey, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. Game tour.

Give us strict to always do what's right. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

Welcome back, friends, to the line of fire live from the Galilee. All right, here we go. Everybody pumped and we're having some good chats during the little breaks that we have. 866-348-7884 is the number to call. Press TV.

All right, so this is the Iranian-run TV network, and they have English station, English broadcast as well. A Trump administration dominated by a Zionist lobby. Ooh, the Jews control Donald Trump. A proposal by the administration of the U.S. President Donald Trump to designate Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps as a terrorist organization underscores that the White House is dominated by, hang on, I need you to kind of kind of like, ooh, no, hang on when I say it, all right?

All right, underscores that the White House is dominated by the Jewish Zionist lobby. Ooh. says a political analyst. Oh, hang on. It doesn't matter.

That's a leader of Iran. the spiritual leader of Iran, I tell you, Khameni. It doesn't matter that he wants to destroy Israel, that he wants to nuke Israel, that he calls Israel a cancer. It doesn't matter. that many of the billions of dollars that they got from America, Iran is using that money to fund terrorism in the Middle East and perhaps beyond that.

No, that doesn't matter. The fact that Donald Trump wants to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary or Revolution Guard Corps as a terrorist organization means there's only one possible conclusion. Obviously. that the White House is dominated by the Zionist lobby. Why else?

Yes, sarcasm. Why else would you think for a split second? That he would call a terrorist-sponsoring country terrorist, or that he would call a military arm of that country terrorist. The article says the proposal against the IRGC is reportedly stalled over warnings from U.S. defense and intelligence officials that the move could backfire.

Reuters reported Friday citing U.S. and European officials familiar with the matter. I guess. I guess the backfiring would be this. If you call them a terrorist group, they try to try to kill you.

That I imagine would be the backfiring. I remember seeing signs, and again, we're talking about radical Muslims. There are plenty of peace-loving Muslims that abhor the regime of Iran. There are plenty of peace-loving Muslims that abhor what ISIS does. And in fact, I saw a note, didn't have a chance to read the whole article, but Muslim activists have said they want to help find whoever is guilty of desecrating the cemetery, one I think in St.

Louis, one in Philadelphia. And one of them, they said, hey, we want to help. We want to get involved. There are many Muslims that would feel that way and that would be peace-loving and that want to be part of American culture or the cultures in which they live and are not trying to take over and impose Islam on everyone.

Now, you may say they're not real believers, they're not Orthodox enough, whatever. I'm just saying, I know they exist, and I acknowledge that, and I appreciate that. But there was a picture, I'm talking about a photograph, not a drawing, of this angry Muslim crowd, I believe in England. And they're holding up these signs saying, how dare you call us terrorists? We'll behead you.

Well, that reaction says something to me.

So I'm not sure if that's the kind of backlash they're talking about. The proposal was temporarily halted amid an internal debate, arguing that the measure could undermine the fight against ISIS, a terrorist group, and complicate the enforcement of Iran's nuclear deal. Yeah, it's going to be complicated to enforce it because it's a miserable deal.

Now, look at this quote according to Rodney Martin, former congressional staffer based in L.A. Los Angeles. The internal discussion of the Trump administration to declare the Revolutionary Guards in Iran as a terrorist organization further shows that the Trump administration is dominated by Jewish Zionist influences. Oh, says my tour group from Israel. Neocons that are in the mold of those that dominated the George W.

Bush administration and matters of foreign policy, and equally dominated the administration of Barack Obama to a certain extent. I think actually that the Jewish Zionist lobby actually goes back to the days of George Washington. I think that America then was dominated by the Zionist lobby, ultimately plotting to take over America because they knew that we would get so rich with Hollywood money, which is also dominated by Jews, and that would help them take over the whole world. I'm just messing with you. Just messing with you.

866-348. eight seven eight eight four. I tell you what. Let me switch subjects here for a minute. and come back to the larger spiritual conflict.

I've mentioned That when I was at a pro-life event, an operation rescue event in the DC area, late 80s, early 90s. I was struck. And then an event I was at in Cleveland, an Operation Rescue event in Cleveland in 1993. I remember being struck by the fact that you had the ma the most vocal protesters were Satanists. Lesbians, gays as well.

An atheist. I'm ever thinking what brings these three groups together. It's like a coalition of death. It was this anti-God, anti-life, anti- God-ordained family, anti-reproduction. I'm thinking, why would gays and lesbians be there?

They're not having kids naturally and then wanting to have the right to abort. Again, naturally speaking, the norm, that's not what's happening. Why would they be there? And you realize it was a spiritual coalition. It was like a coalition of death.

And my friends who were and students of ours who were actively involved ministering the gospel at... At abortion clinics, they say, Oh, yeah, to this day, you have like this coalition of death similar groups opposing them.

Well, We now have the larger battle that's heating up all over America in terms of. Sexuality In terms of marriage, family definitions, in terms of gender distinctions. And those of you who wondered why, beginning in 2004, I began speaking to these issues, LGBT activism, addressing things like and saying we need to reach out with compassion to the gay community and we need to resist the agenda. Why I began to speak about these things, why I spent years working on A Queer Thing Happened to America, 700 pages, 1,500 end notes that came out in 2011, and two other books since then, and many articles. Why?

Well, now you see this in the news day and night. And there's uproar day and night. And there is cultural madness that gender is whatever you perceive it to be, and biology doesn't matter. Gender is whatever you perceive it to be, and it could be fluid, it could be completely malleable, it can change from one minute to the next. You could throw all the different options in a blender and be gender blender is some I mean, seriously, you have kindergarten or first-grade kids learning terms like genderqueer, and you have this uproar when Attorney General's sessions.

The d uh uh Leading Department of Justice, and Betty DeVos, Education Secretary, when they say, okay, President Obama's aggressive pro-transgender guidelines are being pushed back so that the states can decide what to do. And no one is saying treat kids who are struggling with their gender identity with cruelty. No one is saying throw them out in the cold. What's being said is don't impose their struggles on everybody else and don't let it come down from the federal government where that's what has to be, that everyone else is inconvenienced and everyone else's rights are taken and there's extreme intolerance to everyone else in the name of tolerance for a struggling transgender kid. And you have the the complete nonsense in Texas where a girl who identifies as a boy, 17 years old, has been on testosterone for a year or two and is in a in wrestling competitions, just one like a state or regional wrestling competition.

Well, the kid's on testosterone. I don't know how good a wrestler the girl was before, but as a surprise, after a year or two of hormones that would be banned in a public event, in a professional event, I should say, in an Olympics or something like that, they'd be banned because they'd be performance-enhancing drugs. Here's a girl wrestling with other girls. Is that fair to the other girls? No, of course not.

And you say, well, this girl wants to wrestle against boys.

Well, that creates other problems. I imagine she'd have a problem, a real problem against boys, and wouldn't get that far anyway. But this is the cultural madness we're dealing with while we care about the individual. All right, so, so. All that to say, right before We uh left for finished our week of broadcast matt and i and nathan our our video production team we did a video you can watch it by going to thelineoffire.org it's entitled no you cannot choose your gender and and for videos we put out i'm not talking about compared to say if uh beyonce puts out some new video or you know whatever uh it gets millions of hits but for one of our videos it's getting a lot more attention a lot quickly more quickly than we normally see And it's called No, You Cannot Choose Your Gender.

And when I got to Israel, tired, jet lagged like everybody else, but before I went to sleep, I said, I got to write an article. And it's entitled, I'm Sorry, But Caitlin Jenner is a man wearing a dress. The moment it got posted, this was, what, Sunday night? The moment it got posted on the stream and elsewhere, you can read it on thelineofire.org. The comments started flying in.

It started getting shared by the multiple thousands and thousands of times. And it appears. that I've simply said what others are feeling very, very deeply. and put it to words and said, this is part of the cultural madness we're dealing with. My heart goes out to Bruce Jenner.

I don't know what his struggles have been and what confusion has gone in his life. My heart goes out to him. I feel bad as I'm looking at this picture right now. I feel bad for him.

Someone said, well, if you really cared, you'd call him her or she. No, I'm not going to collaborate with the struggle that he's going on and give place to it. He's a biological chromosomal male. He remains such and he needs help. He may be happy where he's right now, but nonetheless, he needs help.

And I'm not going to collaborate with that problem. But all that being said, the people freaking out on the other side, the people flipping out on the other side, the extremity of the reaction on behalf of something this problematic, it tells you there's a spiritual battle at the root of all of it. God of Light, here are cries. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Be home. I'm not sure if I can do it. How they wore him away?

Love. I said what you're here, you me save my lever. Welcome. to the line of fire. This is Michael Brown coming already live from Sea of Tiberias, Galilee, and Israel.

And amazingly, so much of Yeshua's ministry, so much of the ministry of Jesus took place right around the area, the general area where we'll be over the next couple of days, staying in a hotel right in the midst of this. That's some of our tour group that you hear in the background. And we're covering a lot of ground, but with a common theme of the reality of the spiritual battle. Please hear me. It does not mean if you did not vote for Donald Trump that you're a child of the devil living in darkness.

And if you voted for him, you're a saint of light following God. There are many reasons to vote for him and many reasons not to vote for him. And there are many reasons to applaud things he's doing today and many reasons to cringe at things he's doing today. That remains the same. But there are larger spiritual issues that are being touched, and to me you can't miss that.

You can't miss that with the Israel issues. You can't miss that with the pro-life issues. You can't miss that with the sexuality issues. And you kind of see by the rabid attacks and responses where things are coming from. And then, of course, there's a hypernationalism that's of concern as well.

866-348-7884. I begin my article. I'm sorry, but Caitlin Jenner is a man wearing a dress. By saying this, I do not write these words lightly. There's not an ounce of mockery or, God forbid, hatred in my heart when I say that Caitlin Jenner is a man wearing a dress.

I'm simply speaking the plain and obvious truth as politically incorrect as that truth might be right now. To avoid all ambiguity, no, you do not get to choose your gender. No, gender is not determined by the level of your personal enlightenment. No, your gender does not change simply because you announce it has changed. And no, it is not good science to allow people to change their sexual identity on their birth certificates.

In fact, there's nothing scientific about that. And then through the article, I call for compassion, recognize the struggles people go through. But once again, I'm sure that God has a better way. And I speak the truth, and somehow it seems to have articulated what many others are feeling. And it's just one of those moments, Tucker Carlson taking down Zach Pekanas, a Democratic National Committee senior advisor, last week on Fox News, exposing the The baseless, empty comments about gender made by this Democrat leader.

It's just a good time to talk about these things and to shout out. In fact, the Emperor has no clothes.

Someone said, well, actually, the emperor has a dress.

So again, it's just a little bit different. But my goal is not to belittle. There are very real struggles people have.

Some of you listening say you have no idea. I understand I have no idea. I also know that a man struggling deeply with his gender identity who believes he's a woman is still a man. I know that. We're not talking about someone intersex or with a chromosomal abnormality.

We're talking about a biological chromosomal male who deeply believes he's a female. The struggles may be deep and almost drive that person to suicide. And it's true I can't relate to him. I don't pretend to. I simply say the person is still not the opposite of their biological sex, and there must be a better way to help them.

And when you see this rabid response, people flipping out over the idea that a boy, a 16-year-old boy, is not allowed to play on the girl's softball team and share her locker room and shower stall, and people flipping out over that, you know, something's wrong.

Something is up when that's going on. 86634Truth. Let's go to Alberta, Canada. Sheldon, welcome to the line of fire. Hello, Dr.

Brown. Thank you for taking my call. I'm sorry that I missed you up in Saskatoon. I would have loved to have seen you. Hey man, I came all the way up there, 14 hours, three flights, but sorry we missed each other.

Yeah. Um I wanted to uh to to uh talk a little bit about um the scriptural references that would be pertinent to your postings on Bruce Gender and your recent postings on transgenderism. I have been looking for a resource, a biblical resource, a scriptural resource that would help me try to understand. This issue biblically. I have heard a couple of sermons recently.

One by a transgender person themselves, and another by a very liberal preacher. that we're trying to explain a theology that would be supporting their decision. And they quote from uh from uh Acts chapter eight, the story of the Ethiopian eunuch. They try to explain, for example, the scripture in Matthew 19, where Jesus says that God created the male and female. that uh the conjunction and would actually allow for more than one gender.

and would allow for gender fluidity. I was wondering if you could perhaps explain those scriptures from your perspective. Sure. Uh let me say this. If someone struggling Uh with gender identity.

Looks to passages like Isaiah 56, where God includes the eunuchs among his people and has compassion on them, or looks to a Matthew 19. About people being separated to God and never marrying because they don't conform to normal patterns of sexuality. If they can find a place of identity there, and Ethiopian eunuch in Acts the 8th chapter. If they can find that place of identity and it encourages them of God's love, wonderful. Just don't turn the world upside down accordingly.

Don't then say, well, this gives me the right to dress as the opposite sex. Deuteronomy 22, which says it's an abomination to the Lord, which from my study seems to always point to things that that phrase, tovata danai, abomination of the Lord, or something detestable to God, in that exact phrase seems always to speak of something that is morally reprehensible. That's about a man wearing women's clothes or vessel, you know. Things that would pertain to a man, that would pertain to a woman, a man wearing those, and vice versa being something detestable. But starting in Genesis 1, where it says that he made them male and female, it's not talking about.

Without question, that and the Greek in Matthew 19, 100% is just talking about man and woman, period, male and female. In fact, that's basically saying those are the options.

So it would be like anything that's not that is some type of abnormality, some type of defect. Just like if someone is blind, we recognize they have a handicap and we help them in their handicap rather than make everybody else read from Braille because they're blind.

So the same way, in this case, someone that would be a eunuch, that would be a problem.

So why would they be a eunuch?

Some are born without sexual capacity. That would apply to them. Others have been castrated. The man who's castrated, in ancient Hebrew, called it Saris. And at some point, because these people became highly trusted within governments, they'd be castrated and they didn't have some of the male drive.

They could be trusted, for example, overseeing a harem like you have it in the book of Esther. We don't even know, like the Ethiopian eunuch, if he was actually a eunuch or that was just the title that he had because he had a high-level position. But let's say he was a eunuch. these cases, these are people who do not have sexual activity. A male who was castrated would still be recognized as a male.

No one would dispute that. He didn't dress as a female. He didn't identify as a female. He didn't say, well, if I'm attracted to women, now it's as a lesbian. No, he had this issue, this handicap, but he was embraced.

And even though he couldn't bear fruit in himself, Isaiah 56 says, if you join with Israel and keep the Sabbath, etc., that you will then be blessed and fruitful.

So we can say, yes, you can have all types of fruit bearing. You may not be able to fully perform in your sexuality, but you're welcome in our midst. But it has absolutely nothing to do with transgender activism. All right, friends, my bottom line today: God's foundation. Don't tamper with it ever.

Here we are live in Israel tonight in the Galilee by the Sea of Tiberias. It's time for the line of fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President of Fire School of Ministry. Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH.

That's 866-34-TRUTH. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Well, here we are in Israel. It is 10 o'clock at night, but there's a remnant of our tour group that is here, and they are alive and well.

All right, some of the ladies just walking back to the hotel. It's a beautiful night, isn't it? Just gorgeous here. And we're having a great time, just the first full day of touring. I remember coming to Israel the first time in 86.

Nancy and I were going to come. We got married in 76, but I was still in college then and we couldn't take a long enough break to really make it worthwhile. But when we first came in 86 and did some touring, and then I did ministry. At the end of one day, we're just laying in bed and we're just saying, just think of what we just saw. They just went back into a different world, a different age.

And it's just so extraordinary. And as we were on Mount Carmel today, and there's a statue remembering the prophet Elijah, you're thinking, yeah, God can really get hold of somebody. A real person what does it say Jacob James the Fifth He was just a regular person. In other words, he had the same temptations and problems and issues and weaknesses that we do. And yet he was a man of prayer and he was connected with God.

And as a result of that, as a result of that, think of it. God uses him to shake a generation, and we remember him today, and we come up on that very same mountain and let the God who answers by fire be God. That's what we need.

Well, not necessarily physical fire falling, but where's the holy fire? Where's the fire of conviction? Where's the fire of passion? Where's the fire of transformation? Where's that consuming fire that brings about radical change?

That's what we need today. 866-3487-884. Hey, I want to pass the mic around to some of our tour group here. And if you want to call in, we've got a bunch of things to talk about. 866-3487-884.

During the break. Uh one of our uh tour group. I I guess on the the younger younger side, we've got folks from I don't know how the oh, the youngest I think is twelve. We've got a couple of twelve year olds. Yes?

Yeah. A couple of twelve year olds uh and or thereabouts. And our oldest is eighty four. Yeah, so this is on the younger side. Just give us your name, where you're from.

Hi, my name's Jacob, and I'm from North Pole, Alaska. North Pole, Alaska, seriously. For real. Santa Claus lives there. All right.

And what's the coldest that it gets there? The coldest that it's gotten is probably negative 62 degrees Fahrenheit. Negative 62 Fahrenheit.

Okay, that's cold. All right. And actually, your wife is known in the fashion beauty industry, and we've got 520,000 Facebook followers, but she has like 800,000. 800,000 YouTube subscribers. 800,000 YouTube subscribers.

Okay, YouTube, we're small. We only have like not even 30,000 here yet.

However, however, she's going to help me. I'm going to do a makeover, a fashion makeover, and we feel pretty confident that that's going to... No, I'm just joking. I just messed up. You'll lose 20 years.

Yeah, I'll lose 20 years.

Well, look, with my healthy eating, I'm getting younger every day. The hairs turn and all that.

Okay. But in all seriousness, we're talking about. Um In the first hour, attacks coming against Donald Trump. On the one hand, people are saying on the view, Joy Behar is saying that, look, through the Trump presidency, all this anti-Semitism is being stirred up, right? It's like this right-wing white supremacist stuff gets stirring up.

That's anti-Semitic. But then press TV and others are claiming that Trump is dominated by a Zionist lobby. I mean, you had an interesting observation. I just find it ironic as I sit here live listening to you that, yeah, on one headline, we're getting the opposite story as the other. It's like the media is either trying to tell us that he's anti-Semitic or that he's in the pocket with the Zionists.

And it just kind of goes to show there's, I guess, some double-mindedness there in the media that they're not quite getting the story straight or somebody's confused somewhere. Yeah, obviously, again, there is the fact that he is stirring things up. Absolutely, that a lot is coming to the surface. But it's completely bogus to say he's stirring up anti-Semitism with his right-wing anti-Jewish policies and then to say he's a great friend of Israel and that's why he's dominated by a Jewish Zionist lobby. Oh God.

of burning, cleansing flame. Shit. And the fire. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown.

Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34 TRUTH. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Shout. Shouts of joy and get your leaders out in the tents of the righteous.

And here we are in Israel as Paul Wilber says. Shouts of Joy. All right, so Howard Devin said his mom is on a trip to Israel.

Okay, what's her first name? Let me know that, Howard, and we'll make sure we track her down. 866-34Truth. Isn't that kind of wild? We're here by the Sea of Tiberias in Galilee.

And we are sitting here with some of our tour group. Hammer, somebody do a quick count. Tell me how many are still here. All right. And uh there we go, going around the room here.

True.

Alright, hang on. Just give us a rough idea. 12, and we had a few more, so 14, 15, maybe total.

So they're sitting here. Uh okay, Ortha. Great, wasn't Arthur's luggage delayed? Yeah. Yes.

Okay. Yeah, let Devin know. That we arrive here after all this, and her luggage didn't make it the first day, and she didn't bat an eyelash, she had a good attitude, she smiled. And so just tell Devin that she kept the faith. All right, good for her.

So, and interestingly, our largest single group is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Although we've got folks from a bunch of different nations and all over America, including. The North Pole.

Okay, hang on, hang on, just back to the North Pole. One second before I get going here. All right, tell us your first name again. Jacob. And how old are you?

I am 32. 32 years old.

Okay. Just be honest. All right. Okay. Have you ever seen an elf?

Ah, yes, I actually have. You see enough? I totally have, yeah.

Okay. In what f in what form? We have the Santa Claus house, which is like the tourist trap. It's really the one place that everybody comes that puts North Pole on the map. But it's funny because my wife, as a makeup artist, years ago when she was going through school, she actually worked as an elf at Christmastime for Santa.

Oh, okay.

So just to. I'm married to an elf.

Okay. But perhaps, just because we have a lot of people that believe weird things on the radio, you do mean a make-believe elf, correct? Um. Yeah, I guess you could say have you seen real reindeer, though? I have seen real reindeer.

Not flying. Not flying, not yet. Oh, okay.

Still looking. All right. Pass the mic over. What's your name? Where are you from?

Wayne from Lake Elizabeth, California. All right. What's most impacted you the first day of the tour here?

Well, when we landed, I've always heard people saying, when I get to Israel, I'm going to start crying. I wasn't expecting that. I was not an emotional person. But when we landed, the plane was taxiing. And all of a sudden, I felt very emotional, and I felt like crying.

I reached over to my wife, said, Linda, I feel like crying. And I was not expecting that. Yeah. Now, why do you think it was? I mean, on the one hand, there is something about Israel, there is something special, but was there anything going on in your mind, any association, any reality that hits you?

Just a totally spiritual thing. Yeah, I think it was just the fact that I knew I was in the place where Jesus walked and where, you know, our salvation really started. And I just being there, just I guess that was the thing. In terms of something in my mind, there was nothing in my mind other than that. Gotcha.

Yeah. Awesome.

Well, glad to have you and your wife from California. And we've got. Devin Cullen from Alabama on the phone. That's where we're talking about his mother. In fact, in fact, let's just go there.

I got a whole lot of things I want to talk to you about today on the broadcast, 866-34Truth. If you haven't read my latest article, I'm sorry, but Caitlin Jenner is a man wearing a dress. It's getting a lot of attention. You can read that at thelineoffire.org. You can also watch my latest video.

No, you cannot choose your gender. That's also getting a lot of attention. That's also on thelineofire.org. And if you say, well, why are you so full of hate? If you read the article, if you watch the video, you'll see it's anything but hate.

Love tells the truth. Love says there is a better way. 866-34Truth. And look, look. I've told people that I feel like an umbrella salesman in the desert, but I know a big storm is coming.

Actually, the storm is here and it's been here for a while now. Because people said, Why are you making all those umbrellas? You're in the desert. It never rains here. And I just keep smiling and making more umbrellas.

And we're building more warehouses filled with umbrellas. Why?

Because I know it's going to be raining very heavily and very hard for some time. When it comes to these cultural moral issues, I didn't look for these. I didn't want these. This is the last thing that I want to spend my time addressing. Many people hate me for it.

Many people think I hate them for it. People I love and care for will turn against me. I don't mean I'm a martyr. I don't mean that at all. I'm not suffering because of this.

But it's unpleasant. You hate to tackle issues that are going to hurt people when you talk about them. And it is so divisive. But we have to. This is everywhere in the news.

Parents are facing this, kids are facing this, and around the world, nation after nation after nation. Just got pictures from Korea where my book, Outlasting the Gay Revolution, was just translated into Korean for a major conference. There's going to be an international gathering, I think, from 200 nations. What's the total number of nations? It's maybe slightly over that.

Whatever it is, to talk about these issues and how Christians and conservatives can stand together in a godly way to care about people, but to resist LGBT activism.

So here we are, and it's raining hard, but we have the umbrellas. We have the resources. By God's grace, we have the wisdom. We understand the scriptures. We care about reaching the people.

And we know how to stand up in the culture, hence being your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. Hey, somebody filmed this of Devin calling in so we can play it for Ortha. All right? 866-348-7884. All right, we go to Devin in Auburn, Alabama.

So that's your mom that's here. on the trip? Yes, how it is. Awesome.

Yeah. Well, her luggage, like I said, did make it the first day and big purple piece of luggage, she said. I stood there uh waiting for it to come in. Said, No, that's not it, that's not it and she was relaxed at peace. People get agitated over that, so looks like you got a saintly mom there.

Yeah. Yeah, and it's great to talk to you. I I listen to your show all the time.

Well, thank you, sir.

So, my question is: your question. Yeah, we were, you know, you were talking about transgender issues, and I have a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old. Who is in junior high? And I wanted to ask if you have any advice on how to. share with them these issues.

is um in a gallic way. And because they're of course going to be uh get This peer pressure, and even that tin. uh at that in fifth grade and and uh seventh grade. um they're gonna start to tap the issue these issues.

So do you have any advice for it? Yeah, absolutely, sir. First, I'm so glad that you're wanting to be proactive on this and you're recognizing that they're going to get other messages from the schools, other messages from the media and social media. And if you just kind of let them go their own way, there is a tide that'll pull them in their own direction. I was doing an interview with someone two weeks ago.

Conservative person having to do with a radio show and they were doing like a pre-interview with me to discuss a book I had written. And I happened to mention that I knew pastors, and I've met pastors in preaching in different churches. godly men, godly leaders who tell me that they're grown children. Or their late teen children don't agree with them on LGBT issues. And they have no scriptural argument.

The kids have no scriptural argument to bring, but it's basically a peer thing. Because they feel they're gay friends, feel put out by the church. And on the one hand, I like the fact that the kids are really reaching out. and wanting to care for their LGBT friends. On the other hand, it's terrible that they've departed from what Scripture says in the process.

When we got through talking, the person that was doing the interview said, all my grown kids have turned from our position.

Now if you're a gay activist, you say, hooray, it's happening. No, where the gospel is going forward and people are turning to the scriptures, it's not. Happening. People are finding God's way as a better way. And plenty of people are coming out of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgenderism, by the grace and power of God.

But, Devin, these are massive issues that we must, must face.

So, number one, you want to keep your relationship with them really strong so that when daddy says something, daddy's words carry more weight than the school teacher. Daddy's words carry more weight even than the peers. And they really understand this. And you want to tell them, By the way, as you get older, you're going to find some people who are really confused. You want to be really nice to them, but they're really confused.

There are some boys, and they want to marry a boy when they get older. And you want their reaction to be as wrong as it could be so they feel the depth of how wrong it is and how much that's not how God made us. And obviously, a 10-year-old doesn't understand the facts of life and things like that, but just. You know how wrong that oh, that's right. Yeah, so you got to pray, we got to pray for them because they're confused.

And there's some boys who think they're really girls and girls who think they're really really daddy. Yeah. And sometimes you see a man wearing a dress and they're just confused. Pray for them and be nice to them. And if other people are mean to them, you be nice to them and bring them over to the house so we can get to know them.

And then you can model just being loving with them and then explain to your kids, especially as the older they get, how men are made uniquely for women and women for men, as they understand the facts of life, that they understand that the only way that the two of them are there are because mommy and daddy came together and that's how God made it. And if they will have a heart of love, And recognize this is absolutely wrong. And then the older they get, why it's destructive. why it's contrary to God's plan, why it's ultimately not in the best interest. Talk to the kids about how important mommy is and how important daddy is.

And just think: if you have two daddies or two mommies, you don't have a mommy, you don't have a daddy, how would that be? Try to drill those things in, especially your 12-year-old getting older to understand these better. And let us be a resource for you, sir. Thank you.

It's fire we want, for fire we please. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34 TRUTH. Here again is Dr.

Michael Brown. The ball I wanna talk about it. Here we are in Galilee. Receive Tiberius. Where think of it?

This is the language spoken all around us. And think of it that we're broadcasting live from Israel. Michael Brown here, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. With some of our tour group that stand up late, it's now 10:20 in the evening, and they were nice enough to come along with me and join me here for the radio broadcast. But think here we are talking, and you're talking wherever you are in the States or call from Canada in the last hour.

And we're having a real-time conversation thanks to technology and our great engineering team locking things up for us.

So glad to be with you. 866-348-7884. The number to call. Let's go to New York City. Liz, welcome to the line of fire.

Hi, Dr. Brown. Thank you so much. Yes, can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Yeah, go ahead, please.

Okay. Um I want to thank you. The last time I called was a totally different issue and you spoke So To my heart, encouraged me so much in the Lord. That's another story for another day, but I wanted to thank you. My.

uh thoughts on my mind. I woke up this morning over the weekend Um I'm in the art in the dance world in New York and uh I am on the faculty of a School, the ballet school. our charge are young children through teenagers young children and teaching them excellence and integrity in the art and uh Beauty, and I see a lot of virtue of what the Lord could do through the arts.

However, the venue, a new venue that we performed in had co-ed Baffin.

So this was a public theater. Really? In downtown New York. Um this is clearly the choice of a Progressive arts. Progressive art.

Decided to take Men and women labeled off of the bathroom and put Anyone.

So the label said anyone. And when the staff is. Did you did you happen to get a picture of it or no? No, I could get one for you, though. I would go back and get it for you.

Yeah. Do it by all means. And just shoot a note to the website. Yeah, go ahead. And so when that restroom was.

They said, Well, there's two. You can use either one, and they didn't distinguish one formerly was the men's bathroom because it had urinals in it, and the other was formerly the women's, it didn't have urinals. Uh But what happened over the course of the performances where young people were performing their families were attending. with young siblings. Um I I had my um I just watched.

I kinda tried to see that if no one was in the restroom when I went in there. They had the doors open during performance time.

So you didn't even see a label that said anyone, it was just go in. But what happened? Uh there was a teenage girl who came out. I saw I saw a man. Go in the bathroom.

He had a baby and a baby bjorn, like a baby carrier. He wasn't a threat. He was going to use the restroom. Combat. teenage girl came out.

After that, having encountered him And she said, Oh my gosh, I'm traumatized. This was not a big scary man. He had a baby with him, but she was traumatized, and she said so, and I could see her body shaking, just the alarm of encountering. And then my own husband, who is Six, three. 220 pounds and has a beard and he is scary looking.

I warned him, I said, use the stall because I don't want you using a urinal and possibly exposing yourself because. is co-ed, there's like no control. And he came out of the stall. And there's the eight-year-old girl whose face He was terrified because Seeing him come out of the bathroom. He was grieved to anger, and That anger.

If he was put in that position, To What it did to people. And in addition to that, the same theater had.

Some sort of a art installation. I n I never had the courage to look at it. closely enough because I was so offended by just the first view. statements And my My sense was they were quotes. from people, public figures.

And quotes. But every quote had to do with Rape. Or sex or It it's something vile, the tone of every quote was so vile. And this was DNA. Eight.

theater setting that unfortunately Probably. Unknowingly. the you know family um event was scheduled at this theater. And um you're seeing parents' alarm when the young ten year old points at the words and, you know, he's like, Mom, look at what that says and I see the alarm on this mother's face.

So that's the issue that is that's room for one issue and the you know, choice of quote unquote arc. Provocative. Yeah. something else. But another story that came up on the heels of discussing the bathrooms.

A mother whose daughter is in a public um, middle school in the city.

So and she's in the arts also. She said They just built a new theater. Or My daughter's middle school. And there's One Jeff Lynn. for the theater.

It's brand new build and there's one dressing room. Not separate boys and girls like they have for sports. They made one. And someone made the comment: Well, you people in the theater, you as if People in the theater have no modesty or have no sense of privacy. Like a quorum.

And this is being imposed on middle schoolers. Um and we both knew having been in the arts there's not a shred of truth in the professional world. We have separate changing rooms. Please, there's absolute privacy and respect. For the two sexes, it doesn't matter your sexual orientation, it we have friends.

Here, there, and everywhere that are homosexual. It has nothing to do with. loving them, being their friend, working alongside them. sharing different uh you know Trials of life together, and it just the it like you say, the insanity. And I thank you for all the times you've helped to give me.

Um Sense of confidence that I understand the issue, and it also I put the word out there. it's kind of like when Ebola was across the world and he thought as long as it doesn't come over here, Well, as soon as you are face to face with it, Please don't be quiet. I intend to. um ha carry out a meeting to express my My disapproval or my urging to never use that venue again for this school and. Um that people would pray, continue to pray.

And thanks for the art. Absolutely. Yeah, and I've just got to jump in because we have a break here. Liz. This is sick.

This is madness. This is imposing madness on kids and adults. And yet, how ironic that the progressive liberals also have these Sayings celebrating rape and all types of immorality. It's sick. Every parent that runs into this, speak up.

Speak out. Pray. Do the right thing. You two work. Don't Yeah.

This madness must and will stop. It's the line of fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34 TRUTH.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Oh no. You hear those Hebrew words being sung. We are coming your way live from Israel, Galilee.

God willing, tonight, tomorrow night, and Wednesday night, so whatever time you're listening, Eastern Standard 2 to 4 in Israel time, 9 to 11 in the evening, we'll be coming away from the Galilee. And then the last two nights, all going well, coming away from Jerusalem. In certain ways, the center of the world. Yeah, in many ways. This is Michael Brown.

Thanks for joining us. Number to call 866-34TRUTH, 866-348-7884. I've got some important spiritual observations, some reality observations. Just got an amazing call, an interesting call from a New York mom and wife. And I want to catch you up on that in a moment for those just tuning in.

But first, let's go to Salt Lake City, Utah. Grace, welcome to the line of fire. Hi, Dr. Brown. Can you hear me okay?

Can you hear me okay? Okay. I know you had trouble with the previous caller. I am a porch beaver. I came with you on your first tour to Israel.

And I just want to say that my heart is just full. You're talking about Galilee. I can picture it now. Because I have been there, I was the most touched with Galilee for some reason, very emotional for me there. I used to be a Mormon and came out of Mormonism and not ever having read the Bible, to be able to go over there.

and see the sites. I didn't fully understand, but now that I've been in the Bible more. Um it really has come alive.

So I just wanted to thank you for the man that you are, the example that you are, the fountain of information that you are. And I learned so much by listening to you daily. I am a monthly supporter and I'm just so grateful to be part of your ministry. part of your ministry.

Well Grace, I really appreciate the kind words. And I'm so glad we've been a blessing in your life and even more glad that you have come out of a false religion.

Well, you're listening in Salt Lake City. You may be a sincere Mormon, but it's not God's truth. It's not what God revealed. Go back to Scripture. Stay away from the Book of Mormon.

Go back to Scripture and you'll find life and truth there, eternal life in Jesus, as Grace did as well. And Grace, I'm so glad you were. Blessed, lifelong blessed on the trip to Israel. When you mentioned being a porch breather, though, I've got to explain that story. Our monthly supporters are called torch bearers.

And in Hebrew, the word for torch is Lapid, and those bearing the torch would be no se, no selapid, those carrying the torch, bearing the torch, with a whole ministry with the words fire in it. We uh we refer to our monthly supporters as torch bearers. They help us carry the torch. They help light the fire, ignite the fire, spread the fire.

So while we were in Israel, many of the people on our first tour were torch bearers, monthly supporters themselves. And we said, okay, listen, we're going to have one dinner just with torch bearers. We had to have two tables of people, but just I want to make sure I spent special time with our monthly supporters. And our tour guide, who's an American, but of course totally fluent in Israel, lived here for decades, totally fluent in Hebrew, she called the hotel and told them, have a table set that says on it, torch bearers, and it'd be for this many people.

Well, she went through it, she explained it in Hebrew, but somehow he didn't get it right. And instead, he wrote porch beavers. Porch beavers.

So we said that this is a special level that you get to being a porch beaver, a torch bearer who accompanies us to Israel. We'll be right back. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr.

Michael Brown. Then you will call yourself Your Lord, and the Lord will answer. You will cry, and He will say, Here I am. But That's if. If you remove oppression from amongst you.

That is, if you start saying, yes, black lives matter. That is, yes, if you say, yes, all Muslim lives matter. Muslim lives matter. That is Imam Abdullah Jaber. He is praying the opening prayer at the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 25th.

He's quoting from Isaiah 58: then you'll call your Lord. He'll say, Here I am. If you start saying, Yes, black lives matter. If you say yes, all Muslim lives matter. How about all lives matter?

How about that? Do you think God would respond negatively to that? And, sir, with the extreme persecution of Christians worldwide, often at the hands of radical Muslims, perhaps to add in all Christian lives matter, this is Michael Brown coming away live from the Galilee. All right. We'll have a remnant of our tour group that is with me the entire broadcast tonight.

Let's just listen to a little bit more of this prayer from the Iman. JJ, let's listen to clip number 11. You talk about inserting a political agenda in the midst of a Democratic, well, Democratic National Committee meeting. No surprise, there's a political agenda there. But to insert it in the form of an Imam praying, check this out.

Clip 11. Because we know of a man, a brown-skinned man, who was considered a threat by the authorities. We know of a man, a brown-skinned Palestinian man, who was. considered a threat, and he was nothing but a refugee. Right?

And that is Jesus. Right? And that is Jesus. Come on. Come on.

Jesus the Palestinian refugee.

Well, he To say brown skin as opposed to black skin, brown skin as opposed to white skin, yeah, or or somewhere. Between white skin and brown skin, maybe closer to Brownskin. There's no issue with that historically. But it wasn't a Palestinian, there's no such place as Palestine. Then Palestine wasn't given until over 100 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus, and that's after Jerusalem was destroyed 135 in the Bar Kokhba War.

And that's when the Emperor Hadrian wanted to further mock the Jews who had been driven out of Jerusalem and couldn't live there, and he erected an idol temple where the temple of the Lord had been, the second temple had been, and to further mock the place and give it an ugly name because of the Jewish hatred historically of the Philistines and the Philistine hatred of Israel, he named it after the Philistines, like Philistine land, Palestine. Yeah, i ex exactly. There's no such place as Palestine. Jesus was a first century Jew and that was his homeland. Yeah.

Gosh. Just extraordinary. But that's part of the nonsense that is out there and that we are dealing with. Yeah, it is. It's extreme liberation theology.

garbage. Have you heard about the preschool teacher? fired after anti-Semitic tweets including kill some Jews. Arlington, Texas. Yeah.

Arlington, Texas. Preschool teacher there was fired after a series of anti-Semitic posts on social media, including a tweet that said, kill some Jews. She among those identified by the watchdog group Canary Mission was one tweet in which she said, Gassed a Jew, I'm sweating, Heil. And another she asked, How many Jews died in the Holocaust? Not enough, ha ha ha.

A third tweet, kiss the Palestine ground for me and kill some Jews. This is a Muslim woman. teaching in preschool. in Arlington, Texas. That's sick.

I'm glad she was fired, but that's sick that sentiments like that exist. And isn't it wild that there's a national movement to say, well, we should have great sympathy for her? As opposed to saying that's not what we want in our country, that kind of attitude. And if some Jewish pres preschool teacher was saying, kill some Muslims, and not enough Muslims are dying, I'd say the same thing about that. It's sick and it needs to stop.

So we got a call in the half hour preceding this from a woman named Liz in New York City. She's in the arts and involved with music and arts. And she was part of a performance that was taking place there in a in a a theater for the performing arts, and they've renovated the bathrooms so that the bathrooms, one used to be the men's room, one the women's room, which is evident going in there, they renovated them so that the bathrooms just say anyone. And she was watching. A teenage girl came walking out of the bathroom.

A man came walking and carrying a baby.

So he's going to change the baby. Apparently, he was just caring for the baby, went into the bathroom. Didn't look like a threat, right? And She comes walking out, the teenage girl comes walking out in a state of shock. looking traumatized 'cause a man just went walking into her bathroom.

They didn't these are just people that are there for that night. They didn't ask to go into a co-ed bathroom. You say, well, she needs to be educated. No, they need to change, they need to go back to the signs. She was right to be shocked.

And then Liz's husband, who's 6'3, 220 pounds, and she said he does look frightening, he's a big guy. He's going to use the bathroom so she said Even if you go in the men's bathroom, use the stall.

So that no girl comes in while you're Urinating there. This is what you have to deal with.

Well, he goes in the stall, but as he's coming out, an eight-year-old girl comes walking in and is absolutely shocked. She should be shocked. This is madness. This is cultural madness. And friends, it's a reminder as to why we speak up for the things we speak of.

You say, what's that got to do with radical Islam and radical anti-Semitism? Listen. I'm going to say something and let the haters hate. These have common demonic. Origins I said, what?

Yeah. There is a devil who wants to destroy our culture, he wants to destroy gays and straits. He wants to destroy Muslims and Jews. He hates all of us because we're created in the image of God. And he provokes all kinds of things that are wrong and ugly and finds human beings with sympathies.

And he'll cloak it in the right way, the evil Jews killing the Palestinians, and hence Palestinians want to see the Jews die. Or the poor hurting transgender kid, and don't be mean to him, cloak things in ways that can seem caring. But forgetting fundamental. Fundamental order, the same God who created the world and gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people is the same God who ordered us male and female. And and is it a coincidence, friends?

that churches that go liberal. And they go away from the authority of Scripture, and they no longer believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus in. fundamental, fundamental ways, meaning that they don't think his death was atonement for the whole world, or they don't believe he literally died rose from the dead, or they don't believe that the Bible is an infallible God for faith and life or the inerrant word. Isn't it wild that you'll see consistently They adopt an anti-Israel position, often to the point of calling for boycott divestment sanctions, BDS. You will see that they adopt a radical pro-abortion policy, and you'll see that they adapt a deeply pro-LGBT activist, anti-Christian marriage policy.

Interest why the coalition, why that threefold coalition, that ungodly trinity? There's something demonic, friends. There's something spiritual going on. That's why, despite Donald Trump's flaws and weaknesses and shortcomings, and despite some of the provocatory nature of his leadership, and I mean unnecessarily provocative, he is doing good on other fronts. He is standing for right things in other ways.

He wants to be a real friend of Israel. He wants to be a real pro-life person. And even though he wants to be a friend of the LGBT community, he is taking certain stands that are going in a direction I think is right and healthy. Is it any surprise that witchers are trying to curse him? No!

Not at all. 866-34TRUTH. Let's just take one more call. We're having a slight problem with the delay with our calls, so I'm not taking any after this. But we go to Chesterfield County, Maryland, an anonymous caller.

Thanks so much for holding, and welcome to the line of fire. Uh It's good to talk to you. I'd love it for you to bring me back a pebble or a rock or something from From the Holy Land, but look, I called you to thank you first and foremost. I went through a real bad time. It had nothing to do with any of these topics here, but it was an unbelievable depression.

I had lost a job. And uh I was contemplating something that uh and and you you sent me a book, uh you know, the the Grace Controversy gave it to me. And uh I read it and it helped me out a lot. But what you're talking about right here is is i i explicitly put in Acts chapter seven. And it talks about, you know, uh you know, when Stephen was being prosecuted, persecuted by them, and and he told them, you know, they it th in you know, it You know, he was talking about Jesus and he said, and they cried out with a loud voice and they stopped their ears and they ran upon him in one accord.

They cast him out of the city and stoned him. And they laid the clothes at the young man's feet. That was Saul. And they stoned Stephen to death. But I was thinking about that very passage when you were talking about how they when you heard that horrific screaming and that when he said Jesus, he just they just went crazy.

And and and I thought about that. And uh and it and it uh it it just tore the heart that that you know this is uh very much put Bible says happened in in those days and those times. And uh, and I just want to thank you for your time you sent me that book. I was sure. Yeah, Edison, I yeah, I remember the call, not in detail, but I'm so glad.

I'm so glad that God ministered graced your heart and helped you and he's with you. Not against you. If you want to serve him, he's with you, not against you. And when we come back, I want all of our listeners to hear. what this caller is referring to.

So JJ, we're going to lead in with clip number nine, the next segment. I want you to hear this reaction. It's a town hall in Louisiana. Republican political leader there, town hall, their protesters are screaming. And they signed change the world.

It's the line of fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34TRUTH. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

Can pray in Jesus' name. Yes, so here. When a prayer is prayed in Jesus' name at a town hall meeting, the people start screaming out, no, you can't, I mean, to paraphrase, no, no prayer, no, no prayer, no Jesus' name. Wow. Oh my.

There is a spiritual battle we are in. It is not just Republican versus Democratic, conservative versus liberal. It's deeper than that, and it transcends those boundaries. And it's a battle we must be on the alert to. This is Michael Brown coming away live from Israel in the Sea of Galilee.

And saying, Sea of Tiberius, maybe a little jet lag. Great to be with you. I'm not taking calls now. We're just having a slight delay with our broadcast from Israel and getting to call.

So I'm just going to take a break from that. But before I get to one last important point that I want to talk to you about, it's sobering. Let's just talk to one more on our tour group here. Give us your name and where you're from. My name is Greg.

I'm from North Carolina. All right. And Greg's daughter, Greg and his wife's daughter, is in our School of Ministry now, Fire School of Ministry, and actually had the joy of praying for her when she was in her mother's womb. Yeah, that was amazing. And she's in New Orleans now doing a ministry trip with, I don't know, another one of your.

Groups. Yeah, so what's what's she gave you a report from? Yeah, she said they're praising God in the streets and they're praying for people. A guy got out of a wheelchair and they have that all on video. And so while we're here being blessed, she's there being blessed.

Cool. Amazing. Excellent. Yeah, so this first time you and your wife come in Israel? Yeah, and I was really blessed on Mount Carmel today, looking out over the Valley of Armageddon and hearing you teach about the fire of God.

And you said something that really touched me in that we still need that fire of God. It's not a fire of judgment, it's a fire of the power of the Holy Spirit. It's not something we can manufacture, it's not something we should try and gin up or emotionalize. But when we have that reality, things will happen. People will be saved.

Miracles will happen and the truth of God will be revealed. Yeah, it's absolutely true. And, you know, when you're in Israel, there is a certain reality. There's the reality of what God did in the past. And you're walking in places where Jesus walked, and miracles happened.

And out in the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus walked on the water, and Yeshua. manifest his glory in certain ways. I mean, this is, it has an impact. Talk to everyone that comes over it. It has an extraordinary impact.

And then there's the other view from Israel.

So you hear about Iran having a nuclear bomb or Hezbollah in Lebanon or attacks coming from Syria or ISIS in Syria or ISIS and the Egyptian border or Hamas in Gaza. And it's an existential threat. It's not just a story. This is about the existence of the people. You have at any moment tens of thousands of rockets and missiles pointed towards Israel.

Israel knows this. And there's this existential tension. And yet in the midst of it, the Israelis full of life and full of vigor and full of hope. But there is the pressure that they live under. And it just drills home the reality of all of these things that we're talking about.

Not just stories, not just about anti-Semitism. No, we're talking about life and death. Talking about the existence of a people. And as talking to my taxi driver today, as I met up with the group partway through the day, getting some work done in the morning, then met up with them on Mount Carmel, I was talking about the Palestinians and their plight, and he was just saying, look. Lots and lots of money comes in.

But much of it goes into the hands of the Palestinian leaders, corrupt leaders, and much of it goes to sponsor terrorism, especially with Hamas. And you know, you have men like like uh Yasser Arafat, who are unbelievably wealthy at the end of their lives, you say, how did they become so wealthy?

Well, a lot of it is money coming in to help the Palestinians that ends up in the pockets of corrupt leaders. All right? I mean, it's widely known. I've even had Palestinians who have issues with Israel also have issues with their own leaders for these very reasons.

So being pro-Israel does not mean anti-Palestinian. In fact, the more Israel can have an influence on the Palestinians, it is for their good. It is for their betterment to advance their standard of living and their well-being and their safety. if if there was no attack to try to uh no attempt to try to attack and wipe out and kill the people of israel but we Let me get back to one other reality here. You say, Well, look, i in my kids' school, In my kids' school, We're not having a problem with a boy wanting to use the girls' restroom, so I don't have to worry about that.

In my kids' school, we're not having a problem with the boy wanting to play on the girls' high school sports team. We're not having a problem with that.

So I'm not going to get upset over this.

Well, first that's a bit of a small-minded mentality. Are you going to wait till the problem hits? Are you going to wait till your kid comes home with questions? Are you going to wait to find out that there's been stuff taught subtly in the school for five years that you didn't even know that your kid was being exposed to? And what about the fact that this issue is an issue all over the country?

We have folks on the tour from California. It's just the norm in California schools in so many ways. And it's it's the law in California schools. That a boy can plan a girl's sports. It's the law, and it's happened.

And use the girls' locker room and shower. Yeah, and this is outrageous. But I want you to consider this. This is nothing that you can sit out. in in Ohio.

Looking at a report on PJ Media. From February 23rd, Tyler O'Neill, Ohio LGBT group announces plans to target churches for homosexual weddings. And what they're saying is if they find out a church has a facility, That's used. for uh for weddings even if the church has a specific policy That says we marriage is only the union of a man and a woman. They are going to sue those churches and the ACLU with its massive resources going to get behind them.

And an Equality Ohio spokeswoman said, sure, I would say that if that space, meaning the public hall, is open and generally available to the public for free, yes, that should be available to everyone. It doesn't matter what the church's policy is, they're going to go after them. In my book out Last in the Gay Revolution, which has just come out in Korean and been released there in the midst of a major conference. Um I give examples of a gay couple targeting the Methodist church. And they said, yeah, we know what the Methodist policy is, but nothing changes unless you agitate.

In other words, it doesn't matter what your church policy is. Activists are coming your way. Yes, we want to reach them with the gospel. Yes, we want to see them come to know the Lord. Yes, we want them to come to repentance and wholeness in Jesus.

Yes, yes, yes. At the same time, we must stand against the agenda. Otherwise, you're going to have the call from your school one day, or you're going to have your kid have his own views or her own views challenged, or you're going to deal with it with one of your own kids struggling, or someone in your church struggling.

Now is the time to get equipped. We've been talking about these things for over 12 years now. Oh, talk about lots of other issues, but talking about them as well. And when I wrote that Caitlin Jenner is a man wearing a dress, it wasn't to be demeaning or mocking, but to say, come on already, enough with this stuff. And as I've written about it and put up videos, they're both on thelineofire.org.

My article, I'm sorry, but Caitlin Jenner is not, excuse me, I'm sorry, but Caitlin Jenner is a man wearing a dress. And my video, No, You Cannot Choose Your Gender. You can watch them both on thelineofire.org. I'm addressing these issues because they are out there everywhere in society around us. The war is being waged.

And it's not a war against people. We care about people.

However, However, There is a war for people's souls. There is a war for our culture. And we must stand and be vigilant. And that's what we've been seeking to do these years. It's your voice of law, sanity and spiritual clarity.

Stand together with us at thelineoffire.org. My bottom line, truth will ultimately triumph. Change the world.