The current events update. Israel at war. Today's date 21625. The number of hostages has decreased to 73. And so we're glad about that. The hostages came out and found out one of them had a daughter they didn't know they'd never met. Another found out their dad had been murdered. Another found out their brother is still in captivity. So joy and anguish as hostages were released. Three were released yesterday. That still leaves 73 to be released. And the reports from the hostages coming out of Gaza are bad, but they're not surprising. Honestly, the fact that they didn't abuse and kill all of them is kind of surprising to me, to be honest with you. But hours after the release yesterday, those new hostages talked about the torture and psychological torment that they suffered. Now, the next slide doesn't say anything because I've been waiting to hear Israel's response. And there was nothing to say. They went into a meeting. And I haven't heard, but the issue is that Hamas had said, we're not gonna release any more hostages, because Israel's not following the ceasefire, which they have, but we won't get into all the details of that. So they weren't gonna release any. Well, then Trump said, you either release those hostages or you're gonna pay for it. And then Trump said, not only that, you need to release them all. Well then Hamas was like, okay, we'll go back to the original plan, we'll give you three, here you go. I was like, Floyd the barber, here's your three. So Israel went ahead and went along with that original plan and they released like 300 and some terrorists for three Israelis. They then were gonna say, now that we've got those three, we've made that exchange, are we going to allow them to go back to the ceasefire agreement? Or are we gonna unleash our wrath? So we're waiting to hear that. And that's what we'll be praying about as we stand with Israel, amen? We'll see. In other news, skeptics claim that whales don't swallow people. You ever heard that? This happened recently in Chile. Here again, if you missed it, that's a dude being swallowed by a whale. So, one of the cases made against the story of Jonah in the Bible, of course, there's a lot of people who think Jesus didn't know what he's talking about, because Jesus said Jonah was swallowed by a whale. It was a big fish. No, it was a whale. You know I know that? Because Jesus said so. And the other reason, though, if you want to then, if you have to have something else to help your faith, that's just one, there's been all kinds of reports through the years of whales swallowing people. And there's, got it on video now. Let's go back, see it one more time, just for, well, let's do this. Jonah wasn't vomited back up for three days and three nights. So that's a pretty scary thing to think about and probably disgusting. Why did he do that? Again, just like we were talking about in our Isaiah study, in our study of the second path, the path of the second advent. the Jews took a certain path coming from Egypt to the promised land, Joshua, a type of Jesus, was leading them. And then we're finding, as we in our studies showing, that that's the path Jesus is gonna take when he comes into the atmosphere and lands the Mount of Olives. Same thing's true about Jonah. God didn't just, you know, willy-nilly three days and three nights. He did that on purpose. Because later, Jesus would say, just as Jonah, was in the well three days and three nights so the son of man will be crucified and after three days and three nights rise from the dead. See the picture? Well this guy got barfed up just moments later. So you'll be glad to know. There he is, swallowed and wait for it. These are my sound effects. The well didn't do that. So look at that, swallowed And then seconds later, and they interviewed the guy and he was just, you know, he just didn't know what to say. I think one thing he did say was, happy to be alive, I think was something he said in his language. In another story, the Maori, I can't do the tongue thing. In Auckland, New Zealand, they're the aborigines, the natives. They've had enough of Sodom. So this happened a couple of days ago. They were having a rainbow parade and this is what. That's called a haka dance. They're getting ready to do. Their shirts are about being real men, real men. See that? Man up, is what their shirts say. Another guy has one, real men, behind him. Now I'm gonna show you this, just so you see what... This is what's called a haka, what they're doing right now. Or a heike, haake, or a heike. Isn't that something? Now, just for your info, that is actually men from a church down there. These are Maori, or however you pronounce it correctly, who have become Christians. And then they took a group of men to do that Heka as a dance representing true masculinity, being a real man. Non-violent, they didn't hurt anybody, although it was pretty scary. Had to be scary. And you'd always see, you know, you'd always see, back when Saturday Night Live used to be funny, and it'd be, the girly man, what is wrong with you, you girly man? So, the haka or heka is not a Christian thing. but this was a Christian group attempting to stand for masculinity and rebuke of Sodom. And so this was in response, by the way, to a violent clash during a drag event for children at the library there. And it was violent because the Sodomites became violent and then there was a clash. And so it's called Destiny Church. This is how the pro-sodomite left-wing press reported it. Destiny Church's man-up storms the Te Atatu library during drag artist's science show. That's in front of children, perverting children is what they were doing. So good for them. And it's just so nice when your leaders say exactly what you'd like to hear them say. For the past four years, our leaders would go over and they'd say things and online everybody would be like, that's not what Americans believe. Don't blame that, that's just this administration, you know, that kind of thing. Well, JD Vance went over to Munich for a conference. And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners. I look to Brussels, where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content. Or to this very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the internet, a day of action. I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief. And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. The officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution. Now I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person, but no. This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime. In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat. Europe, including England, is just completely swallowed by the spirit of Antichrist right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'll come back to you on that because we want to point that out. But just before we close up, did you see Senator John Kennedy's Valentine's message? Martin, did you see this? It's a message that you'll appreciate. Folks, I believe that love is the answer, but you ought to own a handgun just in case. Be informed, pray and act accordingly. Amen?