Diplomatic framework agreements often present significant strategic risks because they provide immediate benefits to adversaries while leaving critical security questions unresolved, creating opportunities for adversaries to regroup, rebuild capabilities, and maintain leverage. The Iran deal exemplifies this pattern by providing Iran with economic relief, political legitimacy, and regional influence while deferring nuclear disarmament, verification mechanisms, and proxy warfare commitments to future negotiations. This creates a dangerous situation where adversaries can use the pause to strengthen their position while the negotiating party appears to be making progress.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Iran Deal
Added:Good morning everybody.
I I have to tell you that it has been a morning, quite a morning, quite an afternoon.
I cannot believe what has materialized in the last 24 hours.
Let's just say 24 to 48 hours.
And today we are going to deal with it.
Now let me tell you what's happening today so that you can develop an expectation for what we're going to do because all of it is critical.
All of it is extremely important and we have to contextualize it appropriately because if we don't we're going to have a massive problem on our hands.
Today we are going to talk about thisou.
We are going to thoroughly examine it.
We are going to look at what it's saying. We're going to talk about what it's not saying. I am going to take you through thisou with it on point by point.
I am going to TAKE YOU THROUGH THE POSSIBILITIES strategically what may or may not happen.
I am going to tell you the good, the bad, and the worse.
I'm going to talk to you about the loopholes that exist that may open up the door to more kinetic conflict in a way that we've never seen before.
But I'm also GOING TO EXPLAIN WHY THAT'S NOT LIKELY.
There is a lot happening.
I started this conversation on Sunday with a lot of people giving the president of the United States the benefit of the doubt. And although I am extremely disturbed by the contents of theou and I'm going to explain why in just a minute.
I still choose to remain optimistic because there are things we simply just don't know.
We don't know what we don't know. And I think that that's an important aspect to highlight.
Now, with that said, we're going to begin the analysis of this and I am asking you to bring in as many people AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY imagine into this live show.
And I'm saying that because I'm only going to do this as thoroughly as I'm doing it once.
I'm going to be as uh straightforward as I can be and I'm going to do everything that I can to not push the panic button because pushing the panic button is not going to do us any good for a lot of different reasons.
Am I happy about the statement of the the multiple statements of the vice president of the United States?
Certainly I'm not. Am I happy about the many statements of the president?
Certainly I'm not.
But I do not live inside their minds.
Okay?
I do not fully understand the endgame.
The only part of the endgame that I can tell you I know with confidence is what the Bible says about what to expect. And with that, I will do everything that I can to give you that insight.
I will promise you that I will do my absolute best today to give you the most clarity that you could possibly gain within a context like the one that we are dealing with. Because listen, you need clarity right now. That's that's actually what all of us need. All of us need clarity. And I'm going to tell you why we need clarity. Because there are a lot of lazy people jumping on the bandwagon right now, not providing any analysis, not talking about how deeply consequential any of this is and not nuancing this. They're doing it because they want clicks. And I get that. It's part of the culture that we live in today.
I also want to address the statements that SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES have made regarding how bad this is by simply saying I agree, but I'm going to offer you a perspective that I think is going to challenge your way of thinking if you're thinking.
If you're not thinking, it's not going to challenge your way of thinking because you just won't care.
Now, with all of that said, this is super super important.
And by the way, I want to say this from the very beginning.
I'm not going to pay attention to a majority of the comments today because a majority of the comments are being fueled emotionally. And I get it.
Some people are going to call me a Trump hater today. Some people are going to call me a Trump lover.
Some people are going to say that I'm completely off my rocker. Some people are going to say, "Oh, he's sound." And you know, I get it. Everybody is emotional right now. AND I AM TOO. I certainly am.
Can I STILL SAY WITH GREAT confidence that I am absolutely grateful that the situation is as it is because God is on the throne. Absolutely. And that's the only perspective that we need to have right now. And I want to encourage everybody to allow the emotions to calm down a little bit.
Okay. Now, my moderators today are going to be taking down a lot of the emotional comments. Not because we don't believe in your ability to express them, but because for this particular show, instead of disabling comments altogether so that people can concentrate on what's being said, we're going to heavily moderate them just because we want people to focus.
That's it. It's not that we don't believe in freedom of speech. We want you to be able to fully express everything you feel.
and we want you to be able to even beat me up if you have to. Okay, no problem.
I'm a big boy.
Now, with that said, as we do analysis on this, let me start by saying this very clearly, without a doubt, theou is not good.
Okay, there are very serious problems in this document. It gives in my opinion it on a lot.
It gives them economic breathing room.
It gives them political legitimacy. That was the one that bothers me the most. It gives them political legitimacy that they have not earned nor do they deserve.
It appears and I do use the operative terminology here. It appears because I don't fully understand this. It appears to restrain American action while Iran's most dangerous nuclear question in my opinion based on the terminology remains unresolved.
It also creates enormous pressure on Israel and undoubtedly the region. And I have to say the region because I can tell you the GCC is very likely not happy about this either.
Now, there's a lot to be said about that in and of itself. And I if I HAVE THE TIME, I WILL EXPLAIN THIS. I will nuance what's going on with countries like Saudi Arabia, what's going on with countries like Kuwait, what's going on with countries like the UAE.
Those are all extremely critical points that we have to delve into.
Now, let me also say this, and please, please recognize it for what it is. I don't want people to panic.
Why do I say that? Because panic is not discernment.
Panic is not biblical.
Panic actually makes people emotional.
It makes them sloppy and it makes them easy to manipulate. I want to say that one more time.
Panic is not biblical.
Panic makes people emotional.
It makes them easy to manipulate. It makes them sloppy.
I want people to understand this.
It's extremely critical.
The other thing that I'm going to throw in, and I I want to just say this, I don't care what anybody thinks. I'm saying it because I want you to become the beneficiaries of what I'm about to say.
In about 20 minutes, maybe 30 minutes, I am going to bring up something.
And the reason why I'm not bringing up now is because I only want the serious listeners to hear this.
I am going to bring up something that I think each and every single one of you need to do. And it's critical.
It's critical.
And I'm even going to give you a shortcut to do it.
Ultimately, it's going to be up to you.
Ultimately, it's going to be a thing that you are going to have to decide with the help of the Holy Spirit to do.
But right now, as Christians, especially after what happened yesterday, I believe we're being signaled more than ever to take all of this extraordinarily seriously.
This is not a game by any stretch of the imagination.
We are not we are not playing this in a way that should necessitate from any arena lethargy.
It it should it should not cause us to be people who in essence don't really care.
It's one of the most dangerous things that happens in the Bible prophecy world. We literally become apathetic because of what we anticipate happening based on the promises of God and we don't prepare and it creates children without a livelihood, widows without help and a body of Christ that is completely ineffective.
And I hopefully am going to offer you a way to combat that.
Now with with what I just said, we I don't want people to panic.
So the right response is sober analysis.
You have to bring that to the picture.
If you don't have sober analysis, we've got a bigger problem. The Bible tells us to watch and be sober.
So, we need to look at what this document actually says, what it does not say, what Iran gains, what the United States may be trying to accomplish, and most importantly, in many respects, what Israel will likely see as dangerous and how this fits into the the the the the more broader prophetic picture.
Now, I also want to say something upfront, and this is important to me, and this is the caveat. This is the part of me that has observed a United States president be the most friendly president that we've ever seen be in American history towards Israel.
So, with that, I have to give him a slight benefit of the doubt here.
And I want to make myself clear.
I have always loved this man. I just do.
I have a huge heart for him. I also think he has a lot on his shoulders.
He does not have an easy job by any stretch of the imagination. So, let me say this upfront. This could be strategic.
There is still room for that thesis.
Although that thesis feels like it's dying.
I do not want to throw THAT POSSIBILITY OUT BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION because I do not know what is currently in the mind of the president of the United States.
And he does indeed have a brilliant mind.
And President Trump may be using this as a tactical pause and there's a very large likelihood that that's doing it.
It's one heck of a tactical pause, don't get me wrong.
He may be just simply trying to reopen the straight of Hermoose or stabilize the markets or stop some sort of immediate escalation. Or maybe it's a combination of them all.
He certainly appears to be giving it a short window to either comply or expose itself. I think there's A REAL POSSIBILITY THAT THAT'S HAPPENING. AS A MATTER OF FACT, based on the the the understanding that this is anou, IT'S HIGHLY PLAUSIBLE THAT THAT COULD BE THE CASE.
But even if it's strategic, let me just say this. Even if this is strategic, the text of thisou is still extremely disturbing.
Strategy does not erase risk. Okay. Now, we all understand that and and and and I'm not trying to be funny about this in in creating that stipulation.
Even if it's strategic, strategy does not erase risk. A tactical pause can still become, in my opinion, a strategic mistake if Iran uses the pause to regroup or to rebuild, to rearm, to delay, or even to hide nuclear material.
or if uh uh they could pressure the Gulf with this or they could attempt to restrain Israel. Those are all things that we know Iran may very well do and probably will do.
And if what the president is doing right now is strategic, he may be utilizing that that strategy at a at a painful cost.
Quite frankly, if he is doing it strategically, then I can make you all a promise, he's seeing something we don't see. He has intelligence we don't have.
I mean, even the playing around with the Pete Hexith I might fire and I that just look honestly it just looks like a show.
IT SEEMS SO UNREAL, so infathomable. It just feels like a show. And the president of the United States is a master showman.
He can put on a show like nobody's business, better than Reagan, better than anybody else prior to him.
So let's go over the big the big picture because this is important and I want to embed these things within you before I provide analysis because one of the dangers that comes is people will provide analysis even when it's not sloppy like it is most of the time they will not provide this caveat. I'm going to bring this caveat into play because I want you to see it.
This agreement here is not a final peace treaty, not by any stretch of the imagination. It's a framework and that's a detail that's critical. It matters.
What it does is it sets up 60 days of negotiations and within those 60 days it gets immediate benefits.
Yes. But it happens while the hardest issues are pushed into the future. Now, that's kind of an important thing to be able to understand.
I also want to be able to tell you that that is in essence the central danger here. The benefits are very front-loaded. And I understand that the administration is saying, "No, it has to happen. If that happens, okay, I can I can get that part relatively easily."
And I'm not going to I'm not going to sit here saying, "Okay, yeah, you know, I'm uh uh I'm going to debate that."
But no matter how you cut it, the language is the language and the benefits appear to be front-loaded.
The accountability is undoubtedly delayed. We see it here. Adon, without a mistake, without a doubt, they get relief now.
Adon gets recognition now. The IRGC is proudly displaying the handsigned document.
Adon gets access to shipping and oil channels now, not later. They get it now.
But the final nuclear disposition, the uh uh the sanction schedule as many people would call it or the enforcement mechanism, the verification structure that many people are asking about, that's all left for later.
Now, this is ambiguity that can work both ways. And I want people to understand this. This type of ambiguity can work somewhat advantageously for the president.
No doubt.
But it could also be detrimental.
It could be detrimental for the president. It could be detrimental for Israel. It could be detrimental for a lot of people. And that's the part that we have to understand within its provided context.
So verification structure as I said all of those things are left for later.
That's exactly the type of structure Iran has ex uh uh has exploited historically. That's a fact I need you to see.
Iran's pattern has always been delay, divide, deny, and then demand.
They delay the process. They absolutely seek to divide the West. They completely deny any wrongdoing and then they demand concessions. And this is the part that bothers me more than anything about the likes of Tucker Carlson and other people like that who seem to have extreme intelligence but are refusing to apply that intelligence to the circumstance because they choose to make money off the death of the future.
And that's an incredibly important aspect to to consider here more than ever. I think what we have to do and that we have to understand is that if we do not recognize those nuances, we're not going to able we're not going to be able to understand everything else.
By the way, I I'm going to make myself very very clear here and I was just reminded of this. This is a risk return principle that the president appears to be applying. Why? Because he's a businessman and he gets it.
But this is what Iran does. Now the US may believe in this context that it is buying time and Iran may believe it's being handed time and those are two completely different things. And I want you to think about that. Let me say that one more time.
The US may believe it's buying time and Iran may believe it's being handed time and those are two completely different things.
That is why the phrase of deniable culpability has been something I've been throwing out a lot, especially when you consider all the crazy statements that would appear to be made by the VP and by the president while AT THE SAME TIME THE PRESIDENT saying he would not interfere with Israel if they chose to execute kinetic action and if there was a response by Iran that he would back the position of Israel.
So, you can't just write IT OFF AND GO, "OH, the president hates Israel and we're all going to get judged by God."
You can't say that.
The president's actions have clearly demonstrated something completely different. And again, this is not Pastor James defending the president of the United States. This is Pastor James defending the truth.
Now, let's talk about Bible prophecy for a second because we have to understand this. I said, "By the way, I haven't even began to analyze the mu. I'm going to do that in just a second.
From a Bible prophecy perspective, we need to be careful.
There's no other way of putting this. We should not force every headline into a verse." And people are doing that right now. Believe me, people are doing that right now.
But with that said, WE OBVIOUSLY SHOULD NOT ignore the clear patterns and we are seeing some clear patterns.
Iran, which of course is ancient Persia, is named in Ezekiel 38 as part of the future coalition that comes against Israel that cannot be denied. What does Israel uh uh do here? Well, you have to read Ezekiel 38. Matter of fact, let me just read it so that everybody understands.
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, SET THY FACE AGAINST GOG. I don't really have to even read it. I It's It's It's easily memorized because of the context.
Set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Mach and Tubal, and prophecy against him. By the way, isn't it interesting that Turkey gets four names in these first six verses?
He says, "Prophesy against them and say, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I am against thee, oh Gog, the chief prince of Mach and Tubel, and I will turn thee back." That's what he says. I will turn thee BACK AND PUT HOOKS INTO THY JAWS, AND I will bring thee forth and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armor, even a great company with bucklers and shields. You guys know the text? All of them having swords. But then look what he does. He names some countries here. And this is super super important.
What are the countries that he names? He says Persia. He says Ethiopia. He says Libya.
All of them with shield and helmet.
Goomer. Another name here for Turkey.
And all of his bands. The house of Togarma. Another name for Turkey.
Of the north quarters.
And all of his bands. and many people with thee. Now, who are the many people?
There's a lot of speculation with respect to all of that. But the whole goal of this is not to interpret Ezekiel 38. The whole goal is to just briefly mention it to understand that it still is viable and significant here, although it's not happening tomorrow.
Persia is not symbolic guesswork, folks.
Persia is Iran. So when we see Iran gaining breathing room or uh regional influences I've mentioned or money or military recovery time or international legitimacy, WE SHOULD PAY attention because WE KNOW HOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE PLAYERS HERE. NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT theou is Ezekiel 38. Some people are saying theou is Ezekiel 38. It's not. It means thisou may contribute to the environment that makes Ezekiel 38 more viable, more easy to understand. The prophetic issue is not just war. It's peace. It's alignment. That's the real prophetic issue. It's the strengthening of Israeli coalitions.
It's also the strengthening of anti-Israeli coalitions. Believe it or not, it's the weakening of the mechanism of deterrence. It's the NORMALIZATION OF HOSTILE POWERS against Israel. It's the isolation of Israel as what we read about in the book of Zechariah.
It's the global pressure that increasingly treats Israel as the problem and Israel's enemies as negotiating partners.
Okay, I've just gone on and on and on. Let's talk about what you all are here for with all of that preface. And by the way, if those of you are here that fast forward to this section, please, can I just beg you, please, please, please, please, please go back and listen to the summary that I gave regarding the issue.
Please do that.
Please, please, please. It's critical. I need you to see it for what it is.
It's very, very important that you understand it. Okay, let's take a look.
The first point, immediate and permanent termination of military operations. That's actually what the point is called. Let me tell you what the first point says. The first point actually says the US, now here's the part that bothers me, and their allies in the current war declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts. Here's the operative terminology. Including Lebanon.
Now, this sounds phenomenal on the surface, doesn't it? Wow. It's peace.
Who doesn't want war to stop? None of us want war to stop. I mean, all of us want war to stop. I almost said none of us want war to stop. No, we all want war to stop. At least if you're in your right mind, you want war to stop, right?
Nobody should want unnecessary war. But the operative terminology here is unnecessary.
Nobody should want innocent people to die. Not a single person. Peace is better than war when the peace is real.
That's the operative thing. When the peace is real, the problem is the phrase including Lebanon. That's the problem here.
Lebanon translates into Hezbollah. That's what we have to recognize. Hezbollah is not independent in the way Western diplomats oftent times pretend they are.
As a matter of fact, one of the massive loopholes in Western diplomacy is their failure to understand the Middle Eastern mindset, including the mechanisms of diplomacy that we continue to talk about.
Look, I need people to see this. Hezbollah is not independent in the way that these Western diplomats would choose to pretend.
Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran.
It's the crown jewel of Iran. It's armed. It's funded. It's trained. and it's strategically aligned with the haron.
There's no other way around it.
You can't get around that. So, this clause effectively gives it a role in, as crazy as it sounds, quieting the northern front.
NOW, IT MIGHT SOUND LIKE deescalation to most people who don't understand this, but it's also quietly admitting this document, this point is quietly admitting that many people have said for years and it's something that we've always known. Iran can influence Hezbollah, does influence Hezbollah. Why? Because Hezbollah is part of Iran's regional war machine. Always has been, always will be.
Now the danger is that this may pressure Israel to stop operations against Hezbollah while Hezbollah remains armed and entrenched.
That is something we can't ignore.
Folks, let me say this again. It's putting pressure on Israel to stop kinetic action even though Hezbollah is armed to the hilt and wants to destroy Israel.
That's bad. If Hezbollah keeps its weapons, come on guys, let me just Can I just state the obvious? If Hezbollah keeps its weapons, its tunnels, all of its missile stockpiles, and most importantly, its command infrastructure, which is Iran, then what happens?
Then this is not peace. It's a literal pause.
And let me just say this, a pause undoubtedly can be useful if it allows deterrence to be restored. Certainly, I'm not going to deny that. But I also want to add that a pause is dangerous if it allows the enemy to reload. And what we're talking about is reloading here.
Okay, enough with point number one. I stated the obvious. Let's go to point number two of thisou.
Th this is this is the one that I think I understand the least. And and even when I'm trying to look at it through the lens of a president who's playing a back and forth game, which is very obvious that that's happening, I I still can't understand it. Again, you can't blame me for not being able to understand it because I don't have the intelligence that's sitting in front of the president of the United States. only only he would understand why this is happening. I can't understand it.
Point number two of thisou is labeled as mutual sovereignty and non-inference. That's in essence what that what that is about. If you were to put a label on it, that's exactly what it speaks of.
The second point literally says that the US and Iran agree to respect one another's sovereignty. Notice this. in territorial integrity.
Territorial integrity and refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs. Can you imagine what that looks like?
Again, on paper, it sounds diplomatic.
Of course, it sounds diplomatic. It is diplomatic technically, but Iran is not just a normal nation state minding its own business. That's the problem. Iran is a revolutionary regime.
That's what the IRGC is all about. Its very constitution, uh, its, uh, uh, uh, uh, fundamentalism, its ideology, its regional strategy is even built around taking influence and exporting it.
They run via proxies. And it's all motivated by Islam.
THE WHOLE 12TH IMM ISLAM, Shia Islam.
Look, Iran interferes substantially. I want everybody to understand this. It interferes substantially in Lebanon through Hezbollah.
I know that I'm stating the obvious, but the obvious needs to be stated to understand why this point can be so dangerous. It interferes on so many levels.
Look, look at what it does with Iraq.
With Iraq, how about Can we just talk about Iraq for even just a second? It interferes in Iraq through its militias.
It interferes in Yemen through its Houthis.
Think about what's happening in the southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. Look at what it's doing in Syria through its militias, its advisers. There's a bunch of them. I I was I was dumbfounded when the president said that will do a better job in dealing with with uh Iran than uh than Israel will.
Look at their weapons networks. It supported terror infrastructure across the whole region. By the way, the whole thing with well, let me back up. The whole thing with Syria is is just shocking to me.
Now, it may be that Syria might do a better job of dealing with Hamas.
correction, Hezbollah.
I don't know why he said Hamas, but the the but but but the idea of them dealing with Hezbollah better than Israel as he said, first of all, there's no way. But let me just simply say this.
Unlike Israel, HTSm in Syria led by Gulani actually hates the Shiites.
So they may be able to deal with it on better from that context.
But the strategy is questionable. Like like does everybody understand? LIKE THE THE STRATEGY HERE is scary.
So the obvious question is this. This is the question that we have to ask.
Give me a moment. Since I'm writing solo, I got to blow my nose. I'm going to mute this while I do it.
And this question may be one that the president would not like if he heard me ask this question or the vice president, but I'm asking it in all sincerity. I'm not asking this as a rhetorical question. I'm not asking this to make a statement. I'm really asking this question.
Does this clause actually restrain it on or does it restrain the United States of America? Now, if you argue that it it restrains both, then in reality, the answer is it restrains the United States.
I I I like we we we have to just think about that.
Now, if the United States interprets this as a sort of uh a clause that limits support for Iranian dissident, which it could that could be the case, or limiting some kind of covert action or limiting pressure campaigns or limiting cooperation with Israel, then Iran gains way more, I mean way more than America does. Why? because now we just made it so much easier for Iran to take advantage of all that they have against Israel which will eventually backfire on us.
Now the other thing is Iran's regime they want survival because they don't have to win. They don't have to show victory in order to declare victory.
Like I want everybody to understand that all they have to do is survive.
That's all they have to do. They want survival.
It fears more than anything internal collapse.
It does on many levels fear its own people.
That brings us back to the conversation that we've been having.
A non-inference clause could become a literal shield for Iran because a non-inference clause would mean we can't say anything when they start killing their own people.
Guys, this is why vague language matters. Dictatorships use vague language as a weapon. Now, I also want to say this because although dictators may use vague language as a weapon, it could be that the president is utilizing vague language as a matter of strategy.
That's a very REAL POSSIBILITY and it's one that I want people understanding.
Now point three is the final deal within 60 days. Now this point is interesting.
The third point says that the US and Iran commit to negotiating and achieving this final deal within a maximum of 60 days extendable. That's the phrase, right? Extendable by mutual consent.
So it does create urgency, but it also creates leverage for Iran. How does it create leverage for Iran? Well, let me explain it to you. Iran is very good at dragging negotiations out. That's what they've always done. They've been known for it. The 60-day window can become a pressure mechanism against the United States. Iran could very, very easily say something like, "Well, you already gave us relief. You already opened the door.
You already agreed to negotiate. Now, IF YOU WALK AWAY, YOU ARE THE ONE causing war." I promise you that will be the campaign they will launch. And people like Tucker Carlson will help them launch that campaign.
I can I can I can promise you that.
I It's all of this is just I'm telling you it's mindboggling. Look guys, what I just mentioned right now with this point is precisely how diplomatic traps end up working. The first concession becomes the very foundation for the next demand.
It always works this way. The strategic upside here, because I have to to mention that I'd be derelictked in my duty if I didn't mention this. There is a strategic upside and that upside represents the fact that 60 days is short enough to test it on. It is.
If the administration is disciplined, it can easily say you have 60 days. No games, no hidden stock piles, no proxy attacks. They can say that no enrichment escalation, no new demands and they can do that within the framework of this agreement.
But the danger is that the extendable by mutual consent phrase is there. That phrase becomes the escape hatch. If IN can get extensions, then 60 days will become 120 or 180 days and beyond right out of the term of office that the president currently sits in.
That's the big concern. Ion's favorite weapon in diplomacy. Let me say this again because I want you guys to like drill this down. Write it down. Get it in your heads. Ion's favorite weapon in diplomacy is time.
As long as they have that, their diplomatic efforts will enable them to do the evil that they choose to do.
That is not anything that we should deny. That's not anything we should stop and think through and go, "Oh, well, you know, uh, LA, let's pretend we live in an imaginary world and not believe this.
It's real."
Now, let's talk about the first the I said the fourth.
Let's talk about the fourth point.
And the fourth point, again, man, there's so much to say about this one.
The fourth point is in essence that the US will end a naval blockade and remove forces that are near Iran. Yes, THAT'S IT. THAT'S HOW IT'S WORDED.
The fourth point says the US will begin removing its naval blockade and fully end it within 30 days. It also says that the US will remove forces from the proximity of Iran within 30 days after the final deal. So that gets conflated.
A lot of people say, "Well, within 30 days of the signing of the MLOU, so in 30 days, we're going to be out of Iran and oh, it's all over." No, that's not what it's talking about. It's 30 days after the final deal is signed. Now, there's some wisdom there because if it's 30 days after the final deal is signed and that's 30 days to make sure they're all behaving, but what's to say they're not going to just behave until they don't have to anymore?
I think this is one of the most dangerous sections of theou. And why do I think it's one of the most dangerous sections of the of theou?
Because the naval blockade was leverage.
It was leverage that the US forces absolutely needed.
The ability to pressure Iranian ports is huge.
The ability to pressure oil movement, the ability to pressure uh maritime access, meaning boats, military logistics, it was all leverage. When you remove leverage early, guess what? You better be getting something concrete IN RETURN. YOU BETTER BE. THAT'S A BIG DEAL. THAT LEVERAGE WAS THE KEY TO EVERYTHING.
And it it appears as though I'm saying it appears as though that key was just given up.
And I'm not trying to be smart about it.
I'm not trying to be funny about it. I'm just telling you I'm telling you what it looks like.
and what it looks like is kind of scary in many ways.
Look, let me just say this and I want everybody to pay attention to this, okay? The text does not say it on dismantles the IRGC. If it did, man, we'd be in great shape.
It does not say Iran disarms Hezbollah.
It doesn't say Iran gives up ballistic missiles. It doesn't say Iran gives full and immediate access to nuclear sites.
Not even that. It doesn't even say that.
It does not say that Iran transfers enriched uranium out of the country immediately. Doesn't say any of that.
It says the United States begins removing their leverage. That's the only thing it really says. In essence, I think it's a bad trade unless there's a hidden enforcement mechanism that we've not seen. And I that's what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping for the fact that there's an there's a hidden enforcement mechanism that we just don't know about.
With that said, let me tell you what the strategic possibility becomes. The strategic possibility is that in essence, Trump may believe the blockade already accomplished its purposes.
He may believe the straight reopening is more important than maintaining the blockade. Now, there's a lot of reasons why he can believe that. We just don't have the time to get into all of those reasons. But let me also say this. He may also believe that US forces can return quickly if it cheats. That's kind of a big deal. That's probably a big big part of his thinking, but that's a gamble.
Once forces are pulled back, reestablishing pressure takes time, a lot of time. And it takes more than ever political will. Political will that the president unfortunately doesn't have.
It's also going to take allied coordination. And we don't even have that because of the cowards in Europe.
So that's kind of a big deal. We can't ignore that.
How about five?
Five is an interesting one. It's it's that whole story of like letting the you know letting the wolves take care of the rabbits. You know what I mean? I mean it that's it kind of feels that way. Okay.
Point number five is interesting. It says this. It basic well let me just say this overall if you want to understand five it provides safe passage through the straight of Hormuz for 60 days. And that's a very shady definition what they call safe passage.
Okay. The fifth point says that Iran will make arrangements for safe commercial vessel passage with no charge. Operative terminology here is for 60 days. Does that mean after 60 days iton can now go back and start charging people effectively?
What does that mean?
It's an important question.
The phrase 60 days only should by anybody who reads it just jump off the page. It should be the first thing they read when they read this section.
Why only 60 days? Why is free passage temporary? Why is Iran positioned as the party arranging self-pass?
Why is Iran discussing future administration and maritime services with almond? Why almond of all COUNTRIES AND GULF STATES? COULD IT BE BECAUSE ALMOND becomes another leanway into THE NEXT CHOKE POINT? I DON'T KNOW. BUT IT'S CRAZY.
I got to get the emotion out of that statement, too. Because as crazy as I perceive it as being, maybe it's that type of crazy that was necessary in order for the president to put into effect what he feel like he needs to. That's the bigger issue here.
WE DON'T LOOK, GUYS, WE JUST don't know what we don't know.
It's a big deal. Let me just tell you what this appears to do. This appears to open the door to claiming a bigger role in managizing. I almost said mani moni managing and monetizing. I almost combined both words.
In managing and monetizing the straight of Hormuse is going to be the place they do that with.
Look, in case you guys haven't got this, okay, which most of you have. You wouldn't even be here if you didn't catch this, but it is important, especially with this point. That's not a minor issue what they're talking about. The straight of Hormus is one of the most important energy choke points in the world. the FANA can threaten it. If they can if they can tax it, if they can regulate it, if I I if they can slow it or even might it for that matter or politicize it, Iran gains enormous enormous economic and geopolitical advantage.
It's huge.
The kind of leverage that they can exploit is remarkable.
Iran might not need to close the straight again.
It may only need the credible ability TO DISRUPT IT. THAT'S IT.
It becomes a deterrent for them.
This clause and thisou this clause could transform Iran from the disruptor of maritime security into a recognized stakeholder in maritime administration. Meaning, let me just explain that to you. meaning they now become policy movers.
That's a major propaganda win for Dhran.
Dhan is probably going home with that one going, "Woohoo! Look at what we've got."
Now, we have to talk about strategy here because there is a strategic upside potentially of this. And the strategic upside is that commercial uh shipping is going to resume. All the fishermen, all the oil, all I mean, all of that, all of that's going to resume.
Oil markets will calm down. They already have calmed down. Today, they've calmed down. They've been lower than they ever have been. Today, they were lower than than it was when even the president came in to fix things.
Last I checked, it was trading at 70some dollars a barrel. That's an incredibly low price.
So, it could be something that resumes those types of markets. I think there's probably some of that the president's thinking about. But look, it matters to think about this through because the strategic downside is that Iran may be rewarded for creating the crisis uh in the first place. Like Iran did this, they created this crisis. Now, they're going to be rewarded for it.
You can't ignore that.
Now, here's the one in my opinion that's worth losing sleep over.
Point number six, and boy does it bother me.
At least $300 billion dollar for reconstruction and economic development of Iran. Boy, does that bother me.
The six point I I I just think I it's staggering to me. It's just staggering.
It says the United States with regional partners undertakes to develop this mutually agreed to plan with at least $300 billion for reconstruction and economic development of Iran. HERE'S MY QUESTION. HOW DO YOU know that it's going to go to concrete instead of another missile if Iran receives massive reconstruction funding without any regime change, without any dismantling of the IRGC?
Because that's where the critical point is going to be without ending proxy warfare, without, you know, any kind of ironclad nuclear disarmament. Then this BECOMES A RESCUE PACKAGE FOR THE REGIME.
IT ALLOWS THE REGIME to continue on, guys.
Money is a funny thing here. It plays a really interesting role. Look, even if somebody says, "Well, the money is for reconstruction." Money that pays for roads, uh, uh, things that they would name, right? Ports or or energy systems, uh, banking access, infrastructure fees, like all of that.
I think what they're calling those things won't do a a bit for any of those things. I think it's going to free up other Iranian resources.
So, so think about it like this. This is the way I think about it and and I want I want everybody to like think this through.
Let's say we deploy the perfect enforcement mechanism. And let's say we make absolute certain that every bit of these 300 billion foreign dollars that get given to Iran are spent correctly.
All it did was free them up.
All it does is frees up other Iranian sources for missiles or militias or drones or internal rep all that stuff.
I mean, look, think of it like this.
Think of it as though uh you have a million dollars in the bank account and your house burns to the ground. God forbid.
And you're told by the insurance company, "Sorry, we're not going to pay out the claim. You're going to have to be on your own to fix the claim." Okay, you will likely be able to fix it with the million dollars that you have in the bank, but that's a million dollars that goes to something it was never allocated to go for.
So, if the INSURANCE COMPANY CALLS YOU BACK AND SAYS, "OH, WE'RE SO SORRY. WE CHANGED OUR MIND. This is a LEGITIMATE CLAIM. HERE YOU GO. We're going to give you a million dollars. Matter of fact, you know what? We're not going to give you a million dollars. WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU $2 million so that you can upgrade the house and get everything that you ever wanted." Okay, great. You might even allow yourself to become somebody who appears to be noble because you can actively demonstrate that you used every bit of that $2 million to rebuild a new palace.
That doesn't do anything about hampering their ability to do the THINGS THAT THEY WANT. WHY? BECAUSE the million dollars that I had in the bank has now been freed up because other MONEY FROM THE OUTSIDE IS coming in.
So now what was freed up can be used for whatever I want it to be used for them getting $300 billion folks tells it on save all your money and don't spend a bit of it because foreign money is coming in and then that way you can go back to spending money for jihad spending your money for giving weapons to OTHER PEOPLE THAT'S THE problem look the question is not whether Iran needs needs reconstruction. The question is who controls the money for the reconstruction? That's the bigger question.
If the regime controls the money, the regime is strengthened by this.
This is why taxpayer money. Everybody understand this.
I'm Do I even want to get into the whole Boston Tea Party thing?
No. I think I'm going to wait.
cuz cuz I'm going to I it's going to make me chase down a rabbit trail that's going to cost you guys time.
But but but just understand this, okay?
This is why taxpayer money, this is why money that's coming in from the GCC or any other international money or unfrozen funds all need to be watched.
THIS IS WHY THEY HAVE TO BE WATCHED carefully because you don't just watch how they spend that money. You watch how they spend the money that they had that freed up.
Iton doesn't need cash, you guys, in a suitcase to benefit. Can I just say that again? All they need is economic oxygen.
That's all they need.
That already happened.
This one I just I don't even This one bothers me.
I mean they all bother me. Many of them bother me. This one bothers me immensely.
The seventh point is this termination of all sanctions. Again I want to stop at the midway point to just basically tell you guys there's an aspect about this we cannot panic over.
Something is happening that is methodical.
Something is happening that actually means something and we got to pay attention to it.
Okay.
The seventh point in essence tells us that the United States undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against Iran. It is what it implies.
That's including, by the way, that's including UN Security Council resolutions.
That's including the International Atomic Energy Agency, their board of government resolutions, uh, their board of governors resolutions.
It includes all, listen to this, all unilateral, every single one of them, all unilateral US sanctions, both what we would call primary or secondary, according to an agreed schedule in the final deal. So, it doesn't happen until THE FINAL DEAL TAKES PLACE. BUT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT LIFTING them all. By the way, when I talk about primary and secondary sanctions, I'm talking about primary from the sense that you're dealing with the government controlled assets.
Secondarily or the secondary sanctions come with individuals that continue to feed government and other things like that. Look, terminating all sanctions in my opinion would be one of the most historic rewards ever granted to Iran in human history.
The key issue here and this is where we have to look at this sobermindedly. The key issue is in sequencing.
If sanctions are lifted only after uh uh uh uh uh I'm looking for the words here, verified dismantlement or some kind of a stockpile disposition, you know, with respect to nuclear um uh with respect to nuclear weapons or if it's based on verified access or or some type of uh verified cessation, which from my lips to God's ear, it's verified cessation of uh proxy activity.
proxy warfare.
Well, that's one thing. That's great.
It's a great concession.
But if sanctions relief begins early and verification is weak, then guess what? On wins, and I think they're planning on winning.
Look, the phrase agreed upon schedule is in my opinion going to be where all of the conflict happens. That's where the real battlefield is. That schedule will determine whether this is a pressure deal or a surrender deal and they both are different and they both matter.
Now, I can tell you what Iran is going to push for and I should probably be very distinct about that. Iran is going to push for some kind of fast sanction relief. And on top of that, while they receive fast sanction relief, they're going to seek out slow compliance.
The United States has to demand the opposite, which I believe they would, especially with this president. The United States has to demand fast compliance and slow relief.
Now, if that is reversed for whatever reason, then we have an absolutely unmitigated disaster on our hands.
But if the president holds to that picture, man, we're in great shape. That may change the region in and of itself. That point may change everything. All just all over point eight.
Lord, give me wisdom in talking about this point. Please Lord, help me not to be emotional on this one.
Help me to be reasonable. I'm asking you, Lord.
Point eight.
centers around and reaffirming that it shall not procure procure procure that's the word procure or develop nuclear weapons now if you really think about it I think this is the pun intended when I say this by the way the nuclear core of theou Iton says it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. Now that sounds reassuring UNTIL YOU REMEMBER SOMETHING IMPORTANT. Lord help me.
IRAN HAS ALWAYS CLAIMED ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM IS PEACEFUL.
YOU CAN'T THROW THAT FACT AWAY.
Iran doesn't need to announce we're building a nuclear bomb for this to be dangerous. Guys, you understand that the REAL ISSUE IS NOT ANON'S PUBLIC STATEMENT. The real issue is THEIR CAPABILITY, THEIR STOCKPILE, THEIR ENRICHMENT LEVEL. Those are THE THINGS THAT MATTER. THEIR WEAPONIZATION RESEARCH, their delivery system. Don't get me started on the delivery system.
That whole thing is a disaster.
THEIR HIDDEN SITES, THEIR INSPECTIONS, ALL OF THEIR ENFORCEMENT. THAT'S the issue, guys. THEOU SAYS THE ENRICHED STOCKPILE WILL BE ADDRESSED THROUGH a mutually agreeing mechanism with the minimum methodology being downblending.
Down blending you guys.
DOWN BLENDING ON A SITE UNDER IAEA SUPERVISION. That means no supervision.
Okay, calm down, James. You're getting you're just getting stupid. All right, I'm becoming what I warned everybody at the beginning not to become. I'm getting emotional, but it's because I really feel for this.
What's the most concerning, disconcerting part of all of this?
What's the part that bothers me the most? The phrase downblending.
Down blending on site, it matters. That phrase is important. Look, the strongest option would be removal.
You've got to remove it from it on.
Get the material out of the country.
Don't leave the enriched uranium under Iranian control.
Don't let IT DECIDE ACCESS. THAT'S THE ISSUE.
Don't let it slow walk any type of verification.
Look, if you down blend on site, please get this, okay? If you down blend on site, it may reduce enrichment levels undoubtedly, but it leaves the process dependent upon monitoring. It leaves it dependent upon access. And here's a word that we you can't associate with it on honesty.
There's not going to be any.
I guess you could throw out enforcement.
It's subject to ALL KINDS OF ENFORCEMENT. LOOK, THEOU says enrichment and Iran's nuclear needs will be discussed in the final deal, guys.
It means enrichment is not clearly ended in theou. It's actually deferred. We're going to defer it from the for the real plan.
I think it's a major problem. I think it's a huge problem. Why? BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO ASK the central question. And the central question is should well I mean it's simple. Let me JUST SIMPLIFY IT. I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO GET I'M NOT I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE IT TECHNICAL. Let me just simplify the question. Will Iran be allowed to enrich uranium?
It really is the core of the question after this point.
If the answer is yes, if they eventually come to the yes conclusion, the deal is weak. It might as well be another JCPOA.
If the answer is no, well, the deal needs to say that very, very clearly.
This is the one that I don't understand the all of the other points that I've read. I can understand it from one point from like one perspective or another. I can understand the strategy behind the president doing what he's doing. I can understand his mindset in in all of the points.
I cannot understand his mindset in 0.9.
I wish I could talk to him because I'm going to I've said it before, I'm going to say it again. He is a brilliant man and I can promise you he does not want Israel to be hurt.
So, I would love to dig into his point on this point or dig into his mind on this point because this point is what we would call the status quo section of theou.
The way that it's worded exactly is I believe it's they shall maintain the status quo during negotiations.
WHAT'S THE STATUS QUO?
The ninth point makes it clear, not what it is, but the ninth point simply says that Iran will maintain the the current, that's the phrase, the current status quo of its nuclear program while the US will impose no new nuclear sanctions and deploy no additional forces in the region. Well, what in the world does it look like if Iran violates it?
What if there's an anticipatory breach on the on the on the horizon?
What if the United States know that Iran is preparing to breach the terms of the MOU or the agreement for that matter?
Now, what happens?
Look, I think this is another dangerous provision.
If if Iran's current nuclear status is already dangerous, then freezing the status quo freezes the danger that's in place. And we've been claiming it's dangerous for a long time. That's my point.
The United States gives up new sanctions and new deployments during the negotiation period.
My question, this is what I want to ask the president of the United States. I would love to ask him because he's a brilliant man. What does Iran give up?
I mean, the only thing that I can see that Iran gives up is they agree not to make things worse. Like, in my opinion, that's just not enough. But that's my opinion. I DON'T I'M NOT LOOKING at the intelligence the president is looking at. Look, if somebody's already standing too close to the nuclear threshold, why in the world would you give them a solution that says just stay where you are?
We bombed them because of their disposition.
We blew up their nuclear sites because of how close they were. Now we're saying just go hang out. Let it be status quo.
Maybe we feel confident in saying that because of all the nuclear infrastructure we've destroyed. Maybe.
But let's not underestimate our enemy here.
Stay where you are is not the solution.
Look, the strategic upside, and there is one, believe it or not. I had to think about this through, but I still want to dig in the president's head over this one.
The strategic upside is that this prevents immediate escalation, which can be extremely strategic, especially considering the time that we're sitting in right now.
But there's also a strategic downside, and that is it may preserve Iran's nuclear leverage, you guys, while restraining American leverage.
I mean, think about how significant that statement is.
Look, this is me trying to put on my level head.
Oh Lord, help me.
A status quo freeze only works if the status quo is acceptable.
By admission of the current president of the United States, Anan's status quo is not acceptable. That's why we went to war.
Okay, point number 10. This is where it gets a little bit more complicated and I am going to do you the uh the solid of oversimplifying this because it needs to be oversimplified. It's not going to take away from its uh um accuracy. It's not going to take away from what it intended to do. But I just want to just explain the 10th point says that the US Treasury will issue waiverss for Iranian crude oil for all of their petroleum uh products for every derivative that comes from all of those things. That's plastics, all of that stuff, and every service associated with all of this, including, by the way, you ready for this? banking, including insurance and transportation.
Guys, there's no way of cutting it. As much as I want to give the president the benefit of the doubt, and I still do, and as much as I would love to understand everything that's going on, make no mistake, this is immediate economic relief that's being handed to Israel. Now, you might be able uh being handed to um Iran, not Israel. I wish to Israel.
Now, you might be able to argue that um before I open up the can of worms because I'm going to do this, I'm going to open up a can of worms.
Um let me start. Let me just simply say that none of this has any symbolic attributes tied to this. This is all very this is all very serious.
Iran does not only need oil in the ground.
You guys, it needs the ability to sell the oil.
Just because they have it doesn't mean they're in any great shape.
Now, they have to have the ability to sell it. They have to be able to have the ability to insure their shipments, and they have to have the ability to move money.
If they can't move money, they can't access international financial systems.
If they can't do that, they're held. And that's how they've been disabled THUS SO FAR. NOW, THE UNITED STATES is saying, "We're giving it to you. We're giving you the ability to work with your central bank. We're giving you the ability to work with uh international relations, and we're going to write you a waiver that's going to allow you to sway your We're going to write you a waiver that's going to allow you to sell your oil." That's what it's basically saying, guys. The danger is that Iran's regime gets cash flow before it has permanently surrendered its nuclear leverage. That's the danger here.
Now, there is a strategic argument to this and and that argument is that oil flow is going to lower global prices.
It's going to uh calm markets, which it kind of does in many ways, and it's going to reduce pressure on the consumers.
And that of course is that that makes it a a a politically viable argument if I give it on all of these concessions.
Look at all the benefits that I will gain.
But the question remains the same.
That's the issue. Are we lowering gas prices today by empowering it on tomorrow? Are we saving money at the expense of the death of the future?
And I'm asking these questions sincerely. I'm not trying to make a statement.
I want to understand what our dear president is doing.
Here's the other one. Again, very similar to point 10 in some respects, and other respects miles apart.
10, by the way, 10 disturbs me because 10 allows the United States to reertify all that it does in order to start bringing in their money.
You're giving them back their means of production.
Okay. Point 11 says that frozen or restricted those are two very different words. Okay. frozen or restricted Iranian funds and all assets all assets will be made available for use upon implementation of the MOU. That's some ambiguous terminology there.
But it goes on to say that it will happen with funds usable for payment to any ultimate beneficiary designated by it on central bank. WELL, WHO CONTROLS IT ON CENTRAL BANK?
It's another MAJOR RED FLAG. THE PHRASE ANY ultimate beneficiary designed by uh uh uh the the the the the central bank of Iran is very broad.
Iran's final uh uh FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS NOT CLEAN. It never has been clean.
The regime has a long history of using the state institutions like banks or different front companies to build these informal networks to support proxies and even evade restrictions. They use the legitimacy of their business standing in order to give themselves to illegitimate forces to defend them. It's bad.
If funds become usable without strict oversight, it on gains a huge advantage.
Again, defenders might say, "Well, these are Iran's funds." But that misses the whole point. It's not about giving American money to Iran. Praise God, we're not doing any of that. It's about allowing them to have the tools that they developed in order to destroy our ally.
Look, if money strengthens a terror supporting regime, let me say it one more time. If money strengthens a terrorupporting regime, the consequences are real. No matter what account the money came from, doesn't matter where it came from.
Look, this is why oversight, any kind of transparency, escrow mechanisms, um any of these channels that are humanitarian based, all of this strict user and or uh uh yeah, enduser type of monitoring, it all matters.
Theou language, you guys, is written in a way that it goes too, it's too loose.
It's too loose in this. The vagueness works favorably towards it on and not the United States.
Now, this is interesting. This one, this one is where I get a little bit of glimmer of hope in one respects and in other respects, I'm like, "Oh, man. What just happened here?"
The 12th point says, "An executive mechanism will be established to monitor successful implementation and future uh uh compliance." What what does that look like? That sounds useful, but it's incredibly vague. By the way, the vagueness, as I said before, could be a matter of advantage at this that the president positions for himself.
It could be a portion of him pushing the Overton window. I don't know. I would love to get in his head to figure it out because I do believe we could be watching some kind of brilliant manipulation at hand. I don't know. I I will say this again. I don't know what I don't know. That's the problem. I don't know what I don't know.
It's vague.
If I were to ask some questions, it would be this. Who sits on this mechanism? Is it the United States? Is it Iran? Is it Aman or is it the UN? Is it the IAEA? I mean, who is it? Is it the Gulf States? Certainly, they're not going to take that on. Is it Russia?
Is it China?
Is it Europe? You know, who is it?
Here's the other question. Even if we can determine who it is, what authority does it even have?
Can it even inspect? Can it can it punish if they find something that's wrong?
Is it allowed to trigger these sanctions?
Can it refer these violations to the Security Council, which I hate, by the way, the UN Security Council? We're going to run it through them. Now, it's ridiculous.
Can it authorize military consequences?
Here's the bigger question, and this one's really, really important. I would love to know this from the president, not as a put down. It's because I want to learn from him. Can Israel participate?
Can Israel act independently? I hope TO GOD THE ANSWER TO ALL OF THOSE questions with respect to Israel is yes.
When you monitor without enforcement, IT'S NOTHING BUT A CLOWN SHOW. It's theater.
The world has seen many monitoring mechanisms that observe violations but actually don't do anything. THEY DON'T STOP THEM. THE WORLD IS FILLED with people like this, systems like this. The real question is not whether there's a mechanism. The real question is whether violations have literally automized uh uh automatic consequences.
If cheats, the consequences is another meeting.
If that's the mindset, then wins. If the mindset is the second the infraction occurred, they get it pulled. Well, then we win.
The 13th point says that after implementation begins on the ceasefire, again after implementation begins on the ceasefire, blockade removal, safe passage, all these oil waiverss, uh, uh, these frozen funds, the parties will start negotiations on the final deal. the very moment it gets put into effect.
Now, this in my opinion is the sequencing problem and I've been talking about the sequencing problem for a long time.
Okay, the sequencing problem is this.
Iton gets the early concessions then negotiations begin on the west. How are we negotiating from strength? How are they negotiating from weakness?
It's backwards. The most dangerous issues should be settled before the biggest benefits begin to flow. Iran should not receive major economic relief before the nuclear questions or the sanction schedules or the verification mechanisms, all the proxy commitments, um the missile limitations, all that stuff. Unless those ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS ARE LOCKED IN, locked down, IT DOES NO GOOD.
This is the problem with the framework, guys.
This is this is the problem with deals like this, these framework type deals.
They create momentum toward concessions before the final obligations are clear.
AND THAT WOULD NORMALLY WORK with legally or with with with with reasonably minded people.
It would work well. But these are not reasonably minded people. They will kill them. They will literally kill themselves to get to you.
Guys, if this is strategic, then the Trump administration must be planning to use those 60 days ruthlessly. And when I say ruthlessly, I mean ruthlessly. They have to. He has to use these days ruthlessly.
No, no, no endless processes, no vague promises, none of that kind of stuff. No hidden side deals, no slow verification, no it on delay, not period, not once, nothing. None of their games should BE ALLOWED. IF THAT HAPPENS, something else is going to is going to break.
But if it doesn't happen, well, that just reflects of the fact that SOMETHING ELSE WAS ALREADY BROKEN.
I've said this before.
And I'll say it again. This is why these framework deals are broken. If the administration is not prepared to walk away and snap pressure right back immediately and on will exploit this.
They will. They absolutely will. They will completely exploit it. Now, here's the one that just irks me. Here's the one that just gets under my skin and just makes me go, "Ah."
The 14th point says that the final deal will be endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution. I think this is really important.
Why? A UN back deal will internalize the enragment. Certainly it will.
It may sound good, guys, but it can also make a future American and Israel act is Israeli action more complicated. If this gets adapted, then it's going to make it impossible for us to unilaterally act when we need to because of the precedent that it sets to gain permission from an organization like the Security Council.
We need to be able to just go for it if something needs to be done. Same thing as Israel.
If that final deal, by the way, just pay attention to me. If that final deal gets blessed by the UN Security COUNCIL, THEN ANY FUTURE STRIKES, any sanction snapback, uh uh uh UH ANY ISRAELI OPERATION WOULD BE PORTRAYED AS VIOLATING THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER. It would literally bring the UN in a little bit closer to run us down.
THAT'S EXACTLY THE TYPE OF DIPLOMATIC terrain Israel's enemies love. They they love this stuff.
The UN has long recorded moments of hostility towards Israel.
They're one of the largest terrorist organizations in the world.
Giving the UN a central role in a final Iran deal would make every serious observer nervous. Anybody looking at this would be completely nervous by this.
The strategic upside maybe is that a biding resolution may make Iran's obligations more globally enforcable.
And that's a real possibility here.
But the danger is that it may also bind the hands of the good actors more than the bad actor. That's what always happens in situations like this. Iton, guys, listen to me when I say this. on cheats quietly.
That's what they do. Israel will respond visibly. And what happens? The world now condemns Israel because Israel has to do it that way.
Guys, this pattern is not theory. It's not theoretical. We've watched this pattern for years.
What will Iran gain? Ask yourself that question. What do they gain immediately?
And look at it objectively. They gain legitimacy. They gain a ceasefire.
They gain pressure on Israel to stop or limit operations in southern Lebanon.
They gain reopening of any form of maritime flow. They get that. It's It's now a gain.
They gain a pathway to oil sales. You guys, they gain access to financial services.
They gain rec a a a reconstruction pathway worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
It gains time.
It on gains the ability to say we are negotiating in good faith.
It on gains THE DIPLOMATIC COVER. THAT'S THE ONE THAT BOTHERS ME THE MOST.
THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT THEM that's diplomatic.
It's it's it's it's wild.
So then you have to ask yourself this question. What is it that the United States would be trying to gain? Because I don't think the PRESIDENT ALLOWS THINGS LIKE THIS to happen unless something's GOING ON IN THEIR MIND WHERE THEY might be able to develop some kind of an advantage.
This is the the art of the deal, you know, as we've said many times before.
So what does the United States gain?
Well, they may be trying to stop a a a larger war and they gained the distinction that they did that.
They may be trying to reopen the straight of Hormuse permanently without any of the interferences at all from any of the countries. That's a real possibility.
The United States may be trying to stabilize oil markets and that is another thing that the president is doing. He's going out of his way to do that.
I guarantee you the United States is trying to avoid long regional war. I promise you that's what's happening here.
The United States may be trying to force it on into a VERY SMALL COMPLIANCE BOX, which might open up a lot of doors for them. I don't know, guys. The United States may be trying to separate Iran from its proxies by making responsible for what happens in Lebanon, in the Gulf. That's a real possibility, but we haven't seen evidence that they're unified on the front and that they want to play ball.
The United States may be trying to, and I think this is one of the more viable options, the United States may be trying to create some kind of a record.
I think that may be happening.
I think they want to create a record of all the obligations that Iran has, all of their little cheats and all the things that they're doing so that future uh action will be a lot stronger with respect to justification. People will want to give it in.
I think the best case scenario is some kind of strategic interpretation of this whole thing. I think the worst case interpretation is that Iran has successfully converted military escalation into a diplomatic rescue. And how you do that, believe me, how in the world did they do it? Poof.
Let's talk about this.
And this is where the rubber meets the road because a lot of people are asking questions about Israel.
Man, I've been going for a long time.
Thank you guys for putting up with my big mouth.
What will Israel see? Okay, hands down, I can tell you what a what Israel is already thinking about this.
Israel will see this as dangerous because Iran remains the central threat.
True, Israel will be concerned that Hezbollah has NOT BEEN DISMANTLED. WE'RE ALL concerned that way, too.
Israel will be concerned that Iran nuclear in infrastructure is not clearly destroyed. That's going to disturb Israel because they're the closest proximity to Iran.
Israel is going to be concerned. Think about this.
That enrichment material is going to remain in Iran.
I think Israel's concerned that sanctions relief is going to strengthen tan. I think Israel is going to be concerned about the UN back final deal.
I think that it's going to turn into action against Israel. That's what I think is going to end up happening. I think Israel will be concerned that the world is once again rewarding Iran for creating chaos.
From Israel's standpoint, the issue is survival. For Washington, this may be policy.
For Europe, this may be diplomacy. For Israel, this is existential.
Now, what's the main strategic danger of all of this? Let's talk about it because it's important.
The main strategic danger in all of this is not that Iran signs a paper and breaks it immediately.
The main strategic danger is that Iran complies just enough to get release, delays just enough to preserve leverage, and in essence, for lack of a better term, hides just enough to keep their very options open.
And then what if they use the pause?
And this is kind of rhetorical. What if they use the pause to rebuild its regional position? What if they do that?
And they can and they probably will.
Woe to me of little faith, guys. When when it comes to that, okay, let me make myself clear, guys, okay? Please, please listen to me when I say this. Ion does not have to win in one move. They don't. Ion only has to do three things. Three things. This is all they have to do. And when I say it on, let me just say the IRGC. The IRGC has to do three things.
They have to survive.
They have to recover.
And they have to continue. Let me say that one more time. They have to survive. They have to recover. They have to continue. those three items.
I think that's why thisouou is bad.
I think it gives it on a path to survive the consequences of its own aggression.
I think it gives it on a path to recover after that survival mechanism and I think it gives them the ability to be able to continue.
Now, there is a bit of a prophetic concern here that I should bring up.
And just because the Bible predicted it doesn't mean that we want it to happen.
C can I just say that the prophetic concern that I have and I have to be careful with this because there's a crowd of people who interpret this a different way. Okay. And that brings me to the opportunity that I want to give you guys as well as the exhortation that you all need.
The prophetic concern that I have is that this kind of deal may contribute to a future Middle East in which Israel becomes more isolated and Iran becomes more emboldened.
And and I clearly know that the international powers that be will continue to increase their pressure on Israel to accept arrangements that do not actually secure Israel. I think that will be the truth.
Look at Zechariah 12. Look at verse 2 and 3. Listen to the words.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all people roundabout.
And when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And notice what it says. And in that day will I make Jerusalem.
In that day will I make Jerusalem. Let's say that one more time. IN THAT DAY WILL I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people. All that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces. Though all people of the earth, notice this, be gathered together against it. The passage reminds us literally you guys that Jerusalem and Israel become a global burden.
The world does not move toward loving Israel more. It moves toward pressuring Israel more, hating Israel more.
You can't forget that theou is not necessarily the fulfillment of that passage. Please don't think it is.
But it fits the broader pattern of global pressure. It fits the broader pattern of diplomat diplomatic compromise. Man, sleep deprivation will do a lot to your ability to say a word.
It fits the broader pattern of what I perceive to be the rising willingness of nations to treat Israel and all of their enemies in a very unique way.
It will treat Israel's enemies as legitimate partners while treating Israel's self-defense as the obstacle, the problem.
Okay, let me say this.
We all need to be careful.
All of us, especially my friends, my colleagues teaching Bible prophecy.
Can I tell you what we should be careful to do?
All of my colleagues, please.
This is a time where you could lose your credibility very quickly.
Please be careful.
Let me tell you things we should not do.
Number one, this is a big one. And I get it. The emotions drive us to doing this sometimes.
We should not say more than we know.
That goes to everybody here. We should not say more than we know.
I can take what I know which are the 14 points of this MLOU which I have dedicated a stupid amount of time to understand and I can give you interpretation and analysis based on what I do know but I have to be careful to not make conclusions or statements for that matter based on intelligence that I don't have.
In other words, data that's in front of me.
Please, please, Bible prophecy people, please Bible prophecy people, let me say it again. Please, BIBLE PROPHECY PEOPLE, DO NOT CLAIM this is EZEKIEL 38. THERE'S NO way it can be.
Whatever you do, don't claim this is the covenant with the Antichrist.
Whatever you do, do not say that thisou directly fills Daniel 9:27. I'm hearing people say that kind of stuff. The Daniel 9:27 one bothers me so bad. WHY?
WHAT DOES DANIEL 9:27 SAY? HE SHALL CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH MANY FOR one week. THAT'S A THAT'S a a a seven-year period. In the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease and the overspreading of abominations. He shall make IT DESOLATE. MAKE WHAT DESOLATE? THE TEMPLE, even until the consummation. AND THAT DETERMINED SHALL BE POURED upon the desolate. The abomination of desolation that is spoken of by Daniel the prophet, the one that Jesus refers to in Matthew chapter 24, requires the existence OF A TEMPLE. IT'S NOT THERE. SO, how can you say this is THE FULFILLMENT OF DANIEL 9:27? I SAW A KNUCKLEHEAD saying that the other day.
Theou is not that covenant. The antichrist is not named here. We don't even know who the antichrist is. The temple is not functioning here. The seven-year period has not been established here.
But can I tell you what it does show us?
It shows us how fast major diplomatic frameworks around us can actually appear. It shows us how quickly global leaders can move into crisis.
It shows us very quickly, very aptly how war and energy and nuclear fears, these maritime choke points that we're talking about in Hormuz or even Middle East diplomacy can converge literally overnight, how it can just change and become the overwhelming thing. That is worth paying attention to. And if you're if you're students of Bible prophecy, you have to understand that. Let me give you the bottom line and then once I do that I'm going to I'm going to give you one of the greatest exhortations that I can possibly imagine giving you over this. The bottom line I think theou is bad because it gives it immediate relief while leaving major dangers that are unresolved.
Let me tell you why it's bad. Let me give you all the reasons and and and I and I made a list of these things. It's bad because it creates a path for sanctions termination. That's not good.
especially understanding how bad of an actor Iran is. It's bad because it allows Iran to remain a central actor in the straight of Hormuse. It's bad because it potentially restricts US and Israeli options. It's bad because it gives Iran economic oxygen. It's bad because the NUCLEAR LANGUAGE IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH.
It's certainly bad because the enforcement mechanism is completely vague. So vague that it might not even exist.
It's bad because the UN, which is the largest terrorist organization in the world, IS POSITIONED TO ENDORSE THE FINAL DEAL, which means they BECOME POSITIONED TO REGULATE ANY ACTION ASSOCIATED WITH THE FINAL DEAL, INCLUDING ISRAEL.
You wouldn't guess it by my tone. You wouldn't guess it by my presentation.
But the bottom line is we shouldn't panic. We should not panic.
We have to spend some time to watch the 60-day window. We have to. We should watch whether iton actually allows inspections.
Those are SOME KEY THINGS TO WATCH. WE SHOULD WATCH WHETHER ENRICHED uranium is removed or down blended or hidden or disputed. Like we GOT TO SEE ALL THAT.
WE got to figure it out. I don't know.
We should watch whether or not Hezbollah stands down or just reloads. I think they're going to be reloading, but we don't know.
We should watch whether sanctions relief becomes irreversible.
I hope not.
We should watch whether Israel accepts this or acts in the penalty. I can tell you this right now. THEY'RE GOING TO NOT ACCEPT THIS. They can't accept it.
I haven't even gotten on the Gulf States, you know, cuz I was talking about we should watch whether the Gulf States cooperate or whether they resist or they quietly panic. I think right now they're quietly panicking.
It's yet to see what they're going to do, but they are scared to death right now. Here's the big one. We should be watching. We should be watching whether or not President Trump teach chooses to treat this as some kind of a tactical pause or if this is a legacy peace deal that a lot of people think he's trying to make.
No matter how you cut it, the right posture for us is not to be fearful. The right posture is to stand with discernment. And fear will destroy our discernment.
The Bible told us this, guys. What are we surprised with? The Bible told us that the world would move toward pressure on Israel.
It told us that there would be an empowerment of hostile coalitions. That there would literally be diplomatic frameworks that promise peace while at the same time failing to deal with the heart of evil. The Bible told us to expect this. So what do we do? So we watch. So we pray. We think clearly. We don't panic.
The one thing we don't do for sure is we don't pretend this is harmless.
The other thing that we do is we pray for our president. He needs it.
No matter what anybody wants to say, he needs our prayers.
We pray for BB.
He needs our prayers.
We pray for the state of Israel. We pray for the United States of America. These are big things.
Here's the other thing we need to do.
And I want everybody to understand this.
Every bit of this, every bit of this becomes speculation until we see the result that comes out of it.
every bit of it.
Now, let me tell you what the tendency is going to be. The tendency is going to be by everybody to say it on one. This is all the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. So, let's go run in our holes and wait for Christ to come back. I'm telling you, that is going to be the mindset of a lot of people.
A lot of people are going to think that way. And I'm here to tell you, we have to think the opposite.
God has asked us to prepare at every level.
I I'm I'm going to say this.
I'm sick and tired of Christians beating one another up because they're preparing like God told them to prepare.
Do do you know how many people have come against me because I've encouraged them to become financially literate and to use some of the best tools available to them to create wealth for their families.
Everybody thinks that the whole thing is about prosperity doctrine. When I mention things like that, the whole thing is preparing you to have freedom to tell people. We live IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES. WHAT WOULD YOU rather do? Can I ask you this question?
What would you rather do? Would you rather tell anybody you want, anytime you want, anywhere you want about the fact that Christ could come at any moment, or would you rather SAY, "SORRY, I CAN'T do that today or for the next year because I'm bound to my boss."
What would you rather do?
Would you rather give 40, 50, 60, 70 hours a week, doing things that don't matter just for the sake of trading your time for money, or would you rather buy your time back and build wealth so that you HAVE THE FREEDOM TO do whatever you want when God tells you to do it?
I'm telling you guys, I want you to be prepared.
I can tell you this with confidence.
If I get asked right now to go away for a week to work on some top secret squirrel project that is kingdom related for the glory of God, it wouldn't touch me or my family.
If I got asked to go away for a three-month project, it wouldn't touch me or my family.
You could tell me to go anywhere in the world and I would have the freedom to do it.
And there are some people who will continue to tell me that we're not capable of preparing financially. Keep telling yourself that.
Keep saying that until your master comes back and tells you, "What have you done with the talent that I've given you?"
You know what the parable of the talents is all about? By the way, I want everybody to understand this. The parable of the talents has nothing to do with money. Do do you guys understand that?
We use it as a great lesson for how we manage money. And it is a phenomenal tool to share biblical principles. The parable of the talents has everything to do with this. Think this through for a second. You want some good biblical interpretation? You're about to get it right now. Think about this.
Jesus just spent a good amount of time answering a question that his disciples voiced to him. And the question was simple, requiring a complex answer, but it was a simple question.
He says, "When when is all this stuff going to happen? And what are the signs sign it's going to happen?"
You know what Jesus does? Jesus gives them the answers.
He talks about timing. He says, "No one's going to know the day or the hour." He talks about eminency.
He talks about signs. The very first sign that he gives is the abomination that causes desolate.
He begins to give them insight about the last days.
That's worth more than my weight in gold.
He says, "This is the stuff that you need to know about the end of the age."
And then in the next chapter, he goes to them and then he says this. He says, "I want you to pay attention to this story, guys."
And he tells them the parable of the talents.
He says, "Look, there was a man who needed to go away for a little while." And I'm paraphrasing all of this. And he gives somebody a small amount to manage while he's gone. Gives another person a larger amount to manage when he's gone. And it gives another person the most amount to manage when he's gone.
would seem as though the man who went away for a while understood the capabilities of the people that he was entrusting the money to. And it would make sense why he would give the smallest amount of money to the person who misappropriated it.
But the way the story goes is that the man goes away for a while and he comes back after his trip and he says, "What have you done with what I've given you?
And the answer is really interesting.
The answer is for the first guy. Let's go over the second and the third guy.
Let's just talk about the second and third guy. The second guy or the third guy, we'll start with the third guy. The third guy says, "Lord, I took your money and he says, I traded it." That's what he says.
And I doubled the amount.
It's some big money. I doubled the amount.
God says, "Well done, good and faithful servant."
And talks about entering into the kingdom.
That's what he says.
The second person says, "Yeah, you didn't give me much, but you know what?
I also doubled it. It wasn't I didn't start with as much as this guy did, but I doubled it." And God says, "Well done, good and faithful servant. Wonderful.
And the next guy, well, he has the least amount. He doesn't have much.
And that next guy says, basically, I'm going to paraphrase this. Well, I know you were a tough guy and I know for a fact that you don't do the work yourself on the farm. in essence that you receive the benefits of places that you've never put your hands to.
And I also know that YOU'RE A REALLY TOUGH GUY. SO, I TOOK YOUR MONEY AND I BURIED it because I didn't want to deal WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE OMINOUS issues that are at hand.
And the master says in essence you you are a evil man because you took what you could have simply given to the bankers and you could have made me a little interest.
You didn't even double it. You didn't have to double it. YOU COULD HAVE JUST MADE ME INTEREST if you WERE THAT SCARED. YOU knew who I was.
You know that I reap where I have not sown.
You know that I have a mentality where I have my money work for me.
You know that I have this mentality.
You didn't learn from the example. You buried the money which means you wasted my money. You stole from me and then you give it back to me when it's worth less.
Now the point that he was providing here was to his disciples, I have given you the most valuable insight that's ever been given to all of humanity regarding the end times, regarding the last days.
You better not take that information and bury it. You better take that information and you better multiply.
Okay, what does that mean?
Well, if you bury it, what you're saying is this, and don't get offended, people. I know I'm going to make some people mad. What you're saying is Jesus is coming soon, so I'm not doing anything. Who cares? Let it all burn.
You're going to you're going to be told by the Lord that you are an unprofitable person.
You are going to be looked at by the Lord as ONE WHO NEGLECTED THE OPPORTUNITY and the responsibility.
You are going to be the one that is going to be condemned BY GOD BECAUSE YOU DID NOT TAKE the information you had with the last days and multiply it.
I get a lot of people that get really really mad at me because I have some things that I charge for like my book for example or other things like that. They go, "Oh, you're so terrible. You you're about to make money." Whatever. Here's the thing. Most people don't know. Most people don't know the hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars that have been spent out of my own pocket.
out of my own pocket to be able to do what I do.
There's somebody who might be looking at this and wanting to assign a motive to what I'm saying.
I'm going to explain this to you.
Whatever you do, use whatever tools that are available to you to find the freedom to multiply. You know, the hundreds of thousands of dollars that I've spent on making sure you guys get all of this stuff has been money well spent. You want to know why? Because it has multiplied my time by the millions. Not by the thousands, by the millions. Think about it this way. My grandfather, who was a preacher in Egypt, he was one of the most faithful men that I've ever met in my life.
He preached in Egypt 65 years. for the whole 65 years. Both my grandfathers did.
The one who preached in Egypt for 65 years, every day of his life, he prayed that somebody from his bloodline would become a pastor. But let me take it a step further. He preached so much it wasn't even funny. The man preached at least four hours.
Four hours at the bare minimum a week. Sometimes that would be eight hours. Sometimes it' be 10 hours. Sometimes it would be four if you took the totality of that man's life.
And we just I'm going to just do the math cuz this is this is really really important.
If I take 65 years and I multiply those years by every week that's in those years and then I assign a bare minimum of four hours per week. I'm using the bare minimum number.
What is the number of hours that I would have spent if I lived 65 years in ministry and 52 weeks out of the year I shared the gospel for at least or taught the Bible for at least four hours? How many hours over my lifetime would I have spent?
That number, by the way, is a staggering number.
It's a hugely staggering number. You know what that number would be? You ready for this?
That number would be 13,520 hours. You can do the math.
13,520 hours.
If I go to YouTube right now and I were to and I'm gonna pull the number live and I were to pull the amount of hours that people have watched my sermons, that number would make you sick.
Okay?
Just in the last 28 days.
Just in the last 28 days, in the last 28 days, people have watched my sermons for a total watch time of 172,000 hours.
172,000 hours. Now, if I were living my grandfather's life, here's the question that I would have to ask you. How many years would I have to live in order to preach that many hours?
That's an important question to ask. You know what that number would be? Are you ready? And this number is staggering.
This this this is this is staggering.
I would have to in order to do this live 827 years.
827 years to do the same amount of preaching that my grandfather did in his whole lifetimes. In his whole lifetime. That means I would have to live 12.7 lifetimes in ORDER TO DO 12.7 LIFETIMES THAT my grandfather lived which was an extraordinary life.
12.7 lifetimes to do what God has enabled me to do in one month.
Why?
Because we buy our time back.
As Christians, we're told by God to buy our time back.
Christianity, I I I want everybody to understand this. If you don't think this is a biblical principle, if you if you doubt me here, Christianity teaches us, the Bible teaches us to buy our time back in order for us to multiply our hours for the kingdom of God. It's a biblical principle. And I can show you in the Bible where it says that.
And and I'm bringing this up, guys, because I'm seeing a convergence here.
I'm scared that the body of Christ is going to take this and is going to use this as A TOOL TO JUST PANIC.
I'm I'm I'm very very nervous about this.
In a month, you guys, I have done 12 and a half lifetimes in the last month.
Can I do something really crazy?
Let me just do this just just for fun.
Let's ju let's just do the last four years on YouTube. No, let's not even do that. Let's do the last three years on YouTube. I'm going to pull that number.
Forget that. Let's not even do that.
Let's just do year-to- date. Can Can we just do that?
Year to date, we're halfway through the year.
Year to date.
Yes, that's right. Year to date, the watch time that I have, which by the way is below average, but year to date, the watch time that I have is listed at 1.03 03 million hours.
1.03 million hours using the same framework.
How many lifetimes would that be? How many years of preaching would that be according to that to my grandfather to what he would have to do based on the 4 hours of faithful preaching at 4 hours per week, 52 weeks a year at a total of 28 faithful hours of preaching. That doesn't include studying or any of that other stuff. Okay. The years of preaching required to reach 1.03 million hours, this is disgusting. Are you ready? It's staggering. Would be 4,952 years.
Yeah.
4,952 years.
How many lifetimes of my grandfather would that take? Are you ready?
This is This is sick.
It would take 76 full lifetimes of my grandfather.
That man was irreplaceable.
76 full lifetimes just for my grandfather to catch up to what I've done, what God has done in the last six months.
It's shocking if you question it being biblically.
Christianity, the Bible, the word of God teaches us that time is a stewardship issue from God.
The Bible tells us to redeem the time, which means we're not to treat our uh as our hours as worthless.
We're supposed to treat them as valuable. We're supposed to rescue them from waste.
We're supposed to use them wisely for the purposes of God.
And that principle allows us, very important principle, it allows us to make decisions that free us from lesser things so that we can pay attention to the greater things.
If you don't believe me, look at what Ephesians chapter 5 says concerning the end times.
So then that we walk circumspectly.
Notice this. Not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time. Why? Because the days are evil.
Not because the days are evil, you just ignore the world and say, "Oh, we're waiting till the Lord comes back."
Colossians chapter 4:5, "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without." Notice this. redeeming the time.
The Bible tells us to be careful.
We can never create more hours in the day, but we can redeem the hours that we have. We can buy back wasted time. We can remove distractions. We can literally delegate lesser burdens. We can structure our lives so more of our strength, our focus, our attention can be used for the kingdom of God. If you don't think that that requires money and a healthy relationship in that arena, you're cooked.
Th this is the reason why the Bible talks about being wise.
And if you're a shut in or you have situations like that, I would just simply tell you this.
Don't let anything become an excuse for what God can do in your situation. He can use you.
you you cannot allow anything else to get in the way of that.
Now, there's a lot of people a lot of people that might not understand this, but I want you guys to understand this. I want you to see this.
This is so this is so critical. Look, one of the reason why the Bible talks so much about wisdom is because wisdom is not just knowing what is right. Wisdom is knowing how to use what God has placed in your hand for his purposes.
And if you're a shutin, for example, or you have limited uh uh uh uh you know, physical ability, I do. I have limited physical ability. or you're in a situation where you feel like your whole world has become smaller. Do not let THAT BECOME AN EXCUSE FOR WHAT GOD can still do through your life. God can use you.
He can use your prayers. He can use your words. He can use your encouragement. He can use your testimony.
Believe it or not, he can use your phone. He can use your computer, your conversation, your faithfulness.
You know what he can use? HE CAN USE YOUR WILLINGNESS to be available.
Oh, let me make myself clear. Your limitations, you know, your limitations may change the way you serve, but they don't cancel by any stretch of the imagin. They do not cancel by any stretch of the imagination your calling.
The Bible to tells us sleep deprivation. The Bible tells us to walk in wisdom because wisdom helps us recognize the opportunity that God has made readily available to us.
If you're a shut in or your circumstances have limited what you can physically do or you feel like you have nothing to be able to do it with, do not let that become an excuse FOR UNBELIEF.
DON'T LET THAT TELL YOU TO STOP BELIEVING IN WHAT GOD WANTS TO DO IN YOUR LIFE. GOD CAN still use you and your reach MAY LOOK DIFFERENT, BUT YOUR USEFULNESS TO THE Lord is not over.
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil.
What does God tell the Apostle Paul when the Apostle Paul was upset over his circumstances with his physicality? He said unto him, "My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made what?
Perfect in weakness.
This is the whole reason why I have been trying to make people more and more aware of things like financial literacy because the tools made available to you in this world today can give you freedom that you never thought you could have.
I want you to have that.
I want each and every single one of you to experience the benefit of that.
That's why I absolutely adore men like my friend David Mitchell.
He's a pastor who like my grandfather has been serving every day faithfully.
Ever since God called him to the ministry 40 plus years ago, he has been serving faithfully almost 50 years.
Got to do this. Hold on.
He's been serving faithfully and has been able to do it independently because of the wisdom that God has given him to minister to all the generations of his families that they would never have to deal with the problem of being bound to limited income.
Take what God has given you and use it to the maximum advantage. Now, I've told you this. I think there are shortcuts available. I do. I really believe this.
There are there are some people that are going to look at this and they're going to say, "Well, it's another gimmick and blah blah." Okay, fine. You can do that.
That's that's fine.
If you have 40 years to give, which I don't think anybody does, but if you have 40 years to give to take and to learn everything that men like David have already learned for you, great. Go ahead. You can pay with your time. But you will be the person that says, "I buried the talent."
But if you're willing to take the limited resources that you have and multiply them, can I just tell you how things work when things become exponential? When they become exponential, they grow quickly.
The question I would ask you is this.
Are you willing?
Are you willing to buy somebody else's time?
Are you willing to listen to what has to be said?
That's why I think my friends do such a great job because they've pe they've provided people financial freedom.
I by God's grace have been granted that beautiful gift.
I was granted that gift not because I made money off the backs of people in ministry. I was granted that gift because be because of people in ministry like David Mitchell amongst many other many others who have taught me and given me a series of skill sets that have allowed me to be able to be that person.
I think God wants you to start. I think that God wants you to take one step closer.
And I'm not asking you to do what I'm recommending to people because there's a million ways to get through this. But whatever you do, take advantage of the wisdom that God wants to give you to give you the ability to do what he's asked you to do.
Stop fiddling around.
Develop godly ambition.
develop spiritfilled stewardship.
Do what God has asked you to do.
I think one of the fastest ways to do that, and in my opinion, you could go to a restaurant, you could spend $97. You could go to a restaurant, you could spend $200 for the cost of going to a restaurant and and and paying for a very very fancy meal. Not even really fancy nowadays.
I've watched people spend $100 going to Wendy's.
You can go and you can get a biblical education on how to use the tools around us in the market to not just make a living for your family, but to add to your family's wealth.
You have the opportunity It's an easy address. By the way, I want to say that if you do this, I think it's uh uh it's tradeway.com/unlock.
Once again, tradeway.com/unlock.
I think our moderators have put it up.
Dean, thank you. I'm going to pin it because I think it's important.
I want you to take advantage of the opportunity. You know, when you think about it, thisou thing, it's it's it's happening. Like there's nothing we could do, but it's a sign of something that we already know to be true.
Things are converging.
How many of you would rather take the 40 hours that you spend every week at your job and spend it talking to people about Jesus in any way you want?
I'm I'm here to tell you there's a way to do that. That That's what I'm here.
I'm here to say that.
And again, you can accuse me of anything you want.
You can choose to do with it whatever you want. I'm not here to try to convince you to do something you don't want to do. If you don't want to do it, that's in between you and the Lord. I I honestly I will continue being blessed by God doing what I'm doing with or without you deciding you want to do it.
As a matter of fact, quite frankly, it's a lot cheaper for me and in some cases even more efficient to just shut my my mouth and not say anything. But I have a responsibility before God to tell people and to help people fix their problems.
I'm not here to sell anything to anybody.
If that's what you def if you think my job here is to convince you that you need something here, it's ridiculous.
Then then I might as well never sell because it's wrong. But if you realize that I'm here to persuade you to understand you have a great opportunity and that God wants to open up the door for you to take advantage of it using godly wisdom, great. It's there. But just like the Lord, I'm not I'm not going to force you to do anything. Nor can I force you to do anything.
There are some people here that would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn something and would never apply it because they just don't have it in them. Okay, that fine. That's that's a character issue that you and the Lord are going to have to solve. I'm not here to sell any of it. It'd be like going to somebody and saying, "Hey, I've got pure gold that I want to give you as a gift."
And then you're like, "Well, I'm not so sure that I should take it." Well, you know what? I'm not going to try to convince you to take it. I'll keep it.
Fine. Whatever. You don't want to take IT AS A GIFT. YOU don't have to take it as a gift. I'm not going to convince you to take something that precious, that valuable.
I think that's a very very important thing to to be able to understand.
You got to look to the Lord. And there are ways that God can take you out of every single situation.
Do not allow the lies of the enemy to keep you from taking advantage of the position that God wants to put you in.
It's that simple.
With that said, I've gone a long time.
I've gone two hours. So, let's pray and ask the Lord to go before us. We got a lot ahead of us. As things change, I'll let you know. I I'll make you guys aware of it. But, please take steps to become more independent to accomplish God's purposes.
To me, it's still mindboggling to think about this. Like I almost feel dirty doing this because it just feels like I'm minimizing the contribution that my grandfather made.
But the last half a year of ministry on YouTube alone has done more preaching than 76 full-time ministry lifetimes.
76 of my grandfather's lifetimes.
Think about how crazy that is.
Think about that. Think about how wild that is.
That's a principle that is worth telling. That's a story that's worth exploring.
Father, we thank you, Lord, for this time. And we thank you for everything that you've done for us, Lord.
Everything that you continue to do. I pray for these your people, Lord, who've been challenged.
These your people, Lord, who are being confronted with something that's forcing them to really think about where they are in this moment. And I pray that you would open up their hearts and their minds to do the right thing. We're living in a crazy world and more than ever, Lord, we need to run towards what you've called us to. So Lord, we love you. We thank you. We pray that you would go before us. Help us to multiply our hours faithfully.
And we ask these things now in Jesus name we pray. Amen. I love you guys. God bless you. Whatever you do, keep fighting the good fight.
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