Are Christians being silenced in the political arena?

Lance: Well, welcome back to the Lance Wallnau Show today and I’ve got a question for you. What are you going to be leaving behind? It’s 2023. You’re going to put something behind you in 2022. We’re going to ask that question. We’re going to be discussing this with Mercedes Sparks, my co-host today on what are we leaving behind. She wasn’t ready for the question. I sprung it on her. But we’re also going to be talking about turmoil in the Trumpian toy box, because once again, Donald Trump is saying things that are hard to understand. Listen, he just started making comments about how the pro-life position was costing midterms and which is an absolute error. We’re going to come down on that, but listen, we got a perspective on this. I want to share with you and you’re going to want to hear what we got to say. We got some inside news on what’s going on there at Mar–a–Lago.

Right now, one of the things that bothers me most is how you can go online. Let’s say you want to look at a hotel, you want to look at a car, you want to look at an airplane ticket and you go back and look and oh went up. You go back. Oh, it went up. Do you know that we are we actually believe that there is algorithms that are raising the price to create urgency on you to have to buy something? And that the only way you can really get around that kind of price gouging is to have this express VPN. Which is a way in which you can change where you’re logging in from so that you can literally outfox this this what I think is really an unethical manipulation of price when you’re shopping. Mercedes and I asked Mercedes if she ran into it and you have seen this happen, haven’t you?

Mercedes: Oh yeah, I have especially on American Airlines. I I’ll tell you a story. We were taking off on an airplane one time and I was just about to buy a ticket. It was like $500 and so I shoot a text to Melody who we’ve had on the show before and I was like, Melody, this is my account. Please go purchase it for me. So, she goes to purchase it and it’s gone up to a $1,000 and I said, just forget it. I’m going to call when we land and we landed in Phoenix and I called and I said, ‘Yeah, I’d like to purchase ticket.’ It was $2,000 at a 2-hour flight. It went from $500 to $2,000 and it’s this I believe they have an algorithm that it’s like a supply and demand thing. So, if I’m looking and Larry’s looking at a ticket, it thinks, oh my gosh and if I go back and I look at its multiple times in my account.

So, what I do now is I use express VPN. I literally used it this weekend and I was price shopping for airplane flights and I figured out what I wanted and then I went to go purchase. But I also,say I think it’s actually cheaper on somebody’s sites like if let’s say I want to go to London then I’m going to change my VPN to London and then buy my ticket there and it’s cheaper. It’s wild.

Lance: Wow. Now there’s a tip I didn’t know. You can actually change your location to London. And it says, well Long Island, we’re going to make it cheaper here.

Mercedes: Isn’t that wild? I don’t understand why it does that. That’s one of my campaign promises. I’m going to stop that.

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And we’re welcoming ourselves and you back to this next segment. I don’t know if that’s a normal Segway, but that’s what I’m going to say so and in keeping with that we’re going to this is the last shot you’re going to get of our Christmas environment. I’m sorry to say that the poinsettias and the greens, I would like to keep them year-round. I’m one of those people that loves Christmas. I think one of the greatest places to work would be in a Christmas tree shop year-round. Because it’s just got that wonderful feel all year.

Mercedes: That’s right.

Lance: But I may be in the minority there but I want to say that because we’re going to be saying goodbye to things in 2022. What is it that you’re most happy about leaving behind Mercedes Sparks in 2022? I want the audience to think about that too. What are you most happy to leave behind and what are you most looking forward to in the next year?

Mercedes: To leave behind? That’s such an interesting question. Because I really liked I I’m pretty optimistic. I mean, I don’t know. Masks, I mean the unofficial kind of official end of COVID. It’s just slowly fading out. The war Ukraine is still with us, so I can’t say that. I really don’t know. What would you say? What are you most excited about leaving behind?

Lance: I am the most excited about leaving behind. Going through last year, it started off like particularly with Flashpoint and we’re working with the TV shows and stuff. There was such a in our community, the Christian community, evangelical and charismatic community. There was such an interest in the prophetic sense of what was going on. I really feel it that a lot of that has dissipated in a sense it was appropriate in the timing of it, but that now I’m happy to leave behind that feeling of compulsion to have to divine or discern the unfolding mystery of coming events. Because I feel as though God has been speaking to me and we are, I’m a Christian media guy.He’s been speaking to me and saying something which is kind of different and it’s what Jesus said, “What you hear whispered in the air proclaim upon the housetops. what you hear in the dark proclaim in the light”. And what that means is When you’re in a place where it’s dark, that’s when God gives you the illumination and when you’re in a place where you’re not distracted with a lot of other noise, you can then hear the whisper and what I really felt is that too many people have been addicted to and captured by news media cycles because there’s so much that could pull you in. It’s like having, it’s like being a diabetic in a candy factory.

Lance: A certain amount of information is helpful to navigate and understand the times but our people tend to OD on conspiracy theories and particularly there could be an unhealthy, you know what the occult is? It’s a trying to access what God hasn’t revealed by other means and so many people are trying are actually almost occultically trying to peel back the layer of what’s coming in the future. Not because of a Godly desire to know, but because of an insatiable curiosity or an anxiety.

Mercedes: Yeah.

Lance: So, walking by faith. I’m just saying this for a very, I’m talking to my audience out there because in the War Room with Bannon which is where I got started on RAV. We begin to realize that they would be like 10% on the spiritual great awakening thing and 90% on the tactics. Now it’s funny. Bannon’s like at a point where he sees a greater realm of the spiritual and I think a reverse is happening with my movement, my people. God is saying less and less about titillatingyou with sneak previews. You can eat the popcorn and know what’s going to happen next and he’s saying that’s none of your business what’s happening next, but here’s what you’re called to do. I’m seeing the percentages reversing where we’re being put into God leading us to practical things that we’re called to do to occupy the territory we’ve got to realistically occupy and influence culture rather than kind of vicariously do it through prophecy.

Mercedes: Yeah, I think to a lot of people went into the election right in 2020. It’s going to happen. Trump’s going to win and then we were like holding the line and then that didn’t happen on January 6th and then it was still like 6 more months and say more months. I think there’s a lot of people who have put the popcorn down essentially and have woken up and now we just went through the red trickle. And that is one thing I will say I’m thankfully behind this unchecked Democrat policy at a federal level. We left that that behind in 2020.

Lance: And let’s get this straight people. What Nancy Pelosi did with an iron hand was take this gavel with just 5 to 7 seats. Same thing we’ve got. And she brought that hammer down. And we couldn’t wait to get rid of it. Guess what? We don’t have 20 or 30 seats. We have the same margin they had. And if we can demonstrate the right kind of focus and clarity we can begin to push back on the agenda.

Mercedes: Yeah.

Lance: And its as though God said I’m not giving you an artificial victory. I’m giving you a realistic victory that gives you the margin of making a difference if you’re focused, disciplined, and pay the price to get it.

Mercedes: I agree and that’s what I was going to say. I think people are waking up the fact that they have to do the work. That there is no and I think you said this earlier, but Trump and Rush and I feel like you are a voice of a movement. But you have to have the movement that puts those people in place, but those people aren’t the movement. They’re going to make mistakes. I mean like there’s some news articles we have here where it’s like Trump did. What? And you question some of the decisions that are being made, but there’s these are people. They’re not infallible. But it’s the entire movement that comprises saving America. At the end of the day,that’s what’s going to happen. But we have to do the work. Like we talked about in a different broadcast earlier this week on the podcast.

The idea of, there’s like this theory kind of within Pentecostal world of we’re just going to get money. People are just going to give us money and it’s like no, God.

Lance: It’s called the transfer of wealth theory, which is absurd when you look at it the economy now.

Mercedes: Yes, but God gives you the power to make to create wealth. It doesn’t just magically show up in your mailbox. A lot of times there’s a lot of hard diligent work that you have to do.You get some sort of idea and you create it or you partner with somebody. So, my point is we have the same battle ahead of us going into 2024 and beyond. Like to your point they have the same margin and we can turn the ship around, but it’s going to involve all of us.

Lance: Now and this is the part that disturbs me now for a little bit of disturbance in the force. I’m reading about Trump and of course it could be taken a little bit out of context, but he’s complaining about the midterm losses and making the statement that he believes that it was the pro-life or the radical pro-life stance of candidates that is responsible for the losses that his overall track record was great except for those pro-lifers that were too extreme. And what I want to say is there’s a guy named Terry Schilling I heard on War Room, and my wife met him and he’s in Dallas every now and then she wanted to get him here in the studio. We almost did it, but we just were busy. I listened to him one day and he gave the most powerful analysis after the midterms. He said that, like 83% of the candidates that were pro-life got elected that where you have strong pro-life voices, it wasn’t a problem. What was a problem was McCarthy and the Washington Consultants would withhold money from candidates unless they subscribe to the consultants that were given to them by McCarthy and the Washington stupid think tanks.

Those guys decided that the best way to deal with the abortion issue was to avoid it entirely. So,they got pummeled by the Democrats on their pro-life position but weren’t allowed to challenge the narrative and push back and say the logic question. Which is what month do you prescribe is appropriate for the for termination of the fetus. The 9th month, the 8th month. Because what you find is 70% of the Democrats don’t agree with the 9th month termination idea. They just don’t like the radical suppression of a woman’s right in the first place. So, what I’m saying is that the Carl Rove type consultants tied the hands of the conservatives so that they couldn’t talk effectively and instead they were told emphasize the economy emphasize the border emphasize energy and infrastructure.

So, they lost to a great extent not because of what Trump said which is their pro-life position, which is so radical, but because they weren’t they weren’t able to articulate their position the way that they wanted to or I’m sure there could be a candidate here or there that might apply to. But by and large Terry Schilling’s data is totally right. Pro-life isn’t a liability if you frame it properly. It’s like saying, well, you can’t get a Republican elected in the South unless you’re pro slavery. Well, then it’s a moral issue, isn’t it? But the border states were able to be penetrated and compromised so that the South couldn’t prevail. Because the argument was framed properly.

So, what I want to say is Donald Trump has got to be careful that he doesn’t alienate the base that actually stands behind him. He’s got like Napoleon’s old guard, the French. Napoleon could send them into battle. He sent them in the battle of Waterloo. They were the decisive force in almost every crisis he was in. But you don’t cut the legs out from your Napoleon’s old guard by denigrating the sanctity of marriage as he’s theoretically and literally doing when he’s celebrating Log cabin Republicans down there in a Mar-a-Lago with a special party and saying, we’re fighting day and night to advance LGBTQ rights. That’s a stupid proclamation to make in the face of an evangelical community that is wavering at times and its support to you and then add fuel to the fire by criticizing their pro-life position. That’s what I say. Now Mercedes on the other hand can give the counterpoint.

Mercedes: No, I mean I agree with what you’re saying. I just feel like there’s enough Christians that vote that he wouldn’t have to do those things. You don’t have to win moderates. You don’t have to win the middle if enough Christians showed up and voted. But to your point, there’s half of I would say the Christian right doesn’t even like Trump. Of the friends that we know don’t even want to vote for Trump. So, he’s already got such an isolated base in order if he wants a path to victory in 2024, he’s got to do that stuff. I mean in my mind it’s just really practical,because there’s not enough people on our side that are Christian that will show up and vote for him. They want him to tell those for months.

Lance: So, for those of you that resonate with what I said, Mercedes is making a valid point. If the Christian community would stand behind him, if we would all show up and support him, we would be a deliverable constituency or put enough of the fear of God on him so he would want to alienate us. Kind of like you see the both the Democrats and Republicans dancing around any race issue and that’s 13% of the country is African American. But they’ll dance and toe the line on that. They don’t want to incur the wrath of that 13% because it will also deploy another 50% of the population behind it. If the Christians aren’t willing to become organized in a more deliberate and intentional way. And then you’ve got guys I won’t mention them at this seasonYou’ve got authors out there beating up on Christians who are actually getting involved with politics and government as though they’re deviated from some sanctified higher calling.

It’s tough out there for those of us that are strong followers of Jesus and also trying to engage a secular voice and trying to figure out how to make that work. It’s tough when you got Kari Lake and Donald Trump playing to the log cabin Republicans in Mar–a–Lago and Kari Lake was there also doing the same thing. It doesn’t help the cause and I’ll tell you what else it doesn’t. For those that are the pure, I’m talking about the purest, the people that are the praying, fasting, sacrificing real raw Christians that are undergirding America. This really takes the wind out of the sails because you realize that you’re having to come to the conclusion that you’re really not praying for a righteous victory. You’re simply praying into a strategy for your own survival.

Mercedes: Government isn’t church. Government isn’t church and so when we’re talking about electing people that are going to represent the best interest. At the end of the day, it’s security of the nation responsible fiscal spending limited government. Like I can get behind a candidate that’s going to do all three of those things. Convincing somebody that perhaps the homosexual lifestyle is not what God intended for you. You’re not really a man, you’re really a woman. That’s the role of the church through persuasion and the battle of ideas. I don’t think that that’s necessarily supposed to be done through the office of presidency. I mean, that might be controversial but I just want to say this too. I mean, for all the people who are like, I’d rather wrote for Ron DeSantis. Well, Florida’s got an abortion law that if you’re less than 15 weeks and 6 days, you can go and have an abortion in Florida. It’s not like they’ve outlawed abortion there or anything like that. So, I don’t understand sometimes why it seems like there’s all this outrage from Christians where it’s like, you’re not electing a pastor. We’re electing a president. We’re electing a congress person.

Lance: And permit me to say while we’re on the subject here that based on the “MetroWeekly.com” article, I have in front of me. “While Trump’s record on LGBTQ rights has been a mixed bag while he’s generally been favorable toward gay and lesbian rights at least nominally. His administration has been criticized for its hostility to transgender Americans in particular pushing policies that restrict transgender military service access to gender-affirming health care, access to shelters, and other facilities matching gender identity”. Meaning, he’s not looking to recruit into the military people that want to go in and have the government pay for their transgender surgery.

Mercedes: Or a woman who thinks that she’s a man and is in a combat situation and cannot physically carry out the men that she’s serving with because her body cannot support the weight of a man. I mean, there’s practical reasons why it’s set up the way that it’s set up. So, I don’t know. I get a little frustrated and I do think there’s a big difference between compelled speech regarding gender and somebody that wants to sleep with somebody of the same sex. I mean like there’s this whole continuum of crazy that happens on the left and it’s like you must say the pronouns. I’m like all that I don’t like, and there’s a lot of people in LGBT community who don’t like that at all. And who think that there is a segment of their community that is grooming children.

So, it’s like I’m not going to why would we exclude. People who share our fiscal worldview who want to protect children, but yet they are attracted the same sex. That’s when it comes to politics that’s different. I mean I have plenty of people I’d happily talk to say God loves you. I mean what are we really saying? Jesus hung out with sinners. Jesus hung out with prostitutes. You’re saying you can’t even be around those people who can’t have those genuine conversations. Say God has a special plan for your life. He’s made you a specific way. I mean they’re doing non-Christiansdo. Until the Lord, you got to that stuff away, right? Once you know the Lord, it’s like lying or sleeping with people outside of marriage and sleeping before marriage, all that stuff in my mind. Like, falls in a bucket for the Lord. Anyways, I don’t necessarily understand all the outrage but.

Lance: Well, okay but I get your point, but I want to say something before the show’s over. There’s another burning topic that we have and well, like I said, I was really feeling like going out of 2022. I’m happy that I don’t feel, nor do do I feel it a divine pressure on having to discern what’s coming in the future. What I feel like is the Lord is saying focus on what I’m telling you to do and be responsible with what I tell you to do. I feel like there’s a shift coming and the shift is going to come down to individual responsibility, and then out of those new alignments are going to come together. People are going to come together in a different way. But the update, I have an update on, the question of, what broke out with Monday night with the Buffalo Bills player DeMar Hamlin collapsing on the field after a tackle. They haven’t had a fatality in NFL on the field in 50 years and this was hardly a hit that you see this brutal. People flying up in the air and landing.

So, this created a tremendous stir up because it’s feeding into the anxiety that the booster shots and the vaccine is playing role in sudden death syndrome, which is happening at an increasing level with young producers, young actors, young athletes. And because the cause of death is being shrouded in some form of mystery and you know that there’s no vigilant real research being done on the myocardial consequences of post vaccine heart inflammation.

Mercedes: Yeah.

Lance: And you’ve got Doctor McCollum and Malone and others who we’ve trusted up until now to be courageous enough to say, hey, this should be really looked at. There’re serious questions coming out now, because a lot of people just want to frame this as well it’s violent football and that’s a classic nonstarter. Because this doesn’t look like this was a hip that is violent football.

Mercedes: It was a heart attack.

Lance: It was a heart attack.

Mercedes: Yeah, I mean when you see football, I mean sure maybe concussion broken bones,but I mean literally he tackled the guy. It wasn’t even he was tackled. He tackled the guy. You see him stand up and then like in all of these videos, right? Like if I don’t know if you’ve seen that documentary Died Suddenly yet, this what happens. They just fall back and fall over. Now I’m not saying it’s linked. But you’re right when you have so many headlines every single day at least one or two young person died suddenly of heart attack. It raises questions.

Lance: And what’s interesting to me is that I would be curious about this. That the questions are being suppressed. It’s almost as though what are the oddities about this whole subject is the Liberals on the left rather than saying like Naomi Wolf comes at it and goes where’s the data? Why is this not being looked at? Where’s the facts? Why is this being suppressed?

Mercedes: Yeah.

Lance: They’re basically shoulder shrugging and go, oh, you’re like a vaccine denier. You’re like a, they want to almost excuse the discussion by creating a generalized theory of that you’re a Neanderthal idiot and that’s why you’re doing this.

Mercedes: I know it’s really scary. I mean I don’t know if you saw that documentary that it’s Died Suddenly. I saw it on Rumble. I watched it twice actually. I watched it and I had Larry watch it. But I mean the things that these embalmers are finding inside of people in their main veins. I mean just it almost looks like a long string of calamari and that it’s clogging their veins up. It’s just it’s wild to look at. Also, they have data about I don’t know, about an hour into it, 45 minutes into it. They have data on miscarriages. The number of miscarriages and still births have gone up.

Lance: Percentage of increased miscarriage. In the military, they’re tracking it particularly.

Mercedes: Yeah. Yeah, and in servicemen and women also. I mean, it was a couple months ago, there was American Airlines pilot who had a heart attack. There’s too much of it happening to for it to not be a I don’t know causation, correlation doesn’t equal causation but it does make you go, hm.

Lance: So, we’re living in a day where you have Jordan Peterson having to go before a psychiatric board, because they don’t like his social media. The Jordan Peterson of all people.

Mercedes: It’s compelled speech. You talk about that. The difference between free speech and compelled speech.

Lance: Well and where I’m going with this is it’s getting and you could feel it in the atmosphere and it’s very communist and its very China. It’s getting to the point where we’re learning how avoid subject matter we’re not allowed to talk about. Because the differences in our perspective are not tolerated any longer. So, you’re seeing America’s signature strength is the Statue of Liberty. It’s the Liberty Bell. I asked the Lord, ‘What is the greatest gift that America is to the world?’ And the Lord told me and it’s very obvious. It’s in your symbolism. It’s your liberty. And what do you think is the number one thing the enemy of America wants to take from. It is our liberty. It’s the destruction of your personal freedom. That is why there is a necessity for us to look seriously and soberly at how to preserve the rights that we have that are there. Including the right to assemble, the right to freedom of speech, the right to bear arms. Which probably as the Second Amendment is the secret to preserving the first, which gives you freedom of worship and freedom to meet and freedom to speak. Because these freedoms come at a price.

When the government is experiencing or moving in the area Doctor Malone is saying no which is mass psychosis which is kind of like a form of propagandizing and affecting and impacting the population at large. Well, what does the Bible say that in Isaiah says that, “In the last days that darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness to people”. It refers to a fog a mental fog that begins to shape the way people think. “But upon you my light shall shine”. Those of you that are listening our voice. Those of you that are listening to these kinds of broadcast you’re staying in tune with the truth. Just because the world isn’t listening to you doesn’t mean you’re not right. Continue pressing in because you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free and we’ll be back again next week.

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