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Guest (Male): This is Viewpoint with attorney and author Chuck Crismier. Viewpoint is a one-hour talk show confronting the issues of America's heart and home. And now, with today's edition of Viewpoint, here is Chuck Crismier.

Chuck Crismier: Messianic fervor is exploding worldwide. But the details remain shrouded in, you might say, mystery. Jews await the Mashiach. Muslims await the Mahdi. Christians await Messiah's second coming. Many await a Messianic age. But history seems to hide the mysteries. Yet mysteries demand to be solved.

The shroud that has veiled this Messianic mystery for mankind's entire sojourn on planet Earth has to be drawn back in an unveiling. A revelation of reality that has escaped our understanding and a sweeping away of persistently frustrating blindness. And that's why I wrote the book, Messiah: Unveiling the Mystery of the Ages.

If you don't have it, I urge you to get a copy of it. You really don't understand what's in the book until you get the book, because it contains so much that will help us to understand the nature of where we are today. This is our moment, friends. The leaders of the nations are trembling on the precipice of global conflagration, even as we claim that we have a ceasefire in the Iranian issue that almost immediately became a non-ceasefire.

What's going on? Is there any way to possibly understand what's going on? People are terrified. Nothing seems certain, except chaos catapulting our planet to the very precipice of a chasm that is so sheer as to shake the confidence of the most courageous. We need a ray of hopeful light in the encroaching darkness, but where is it? This is our moment of truth.

So, today on Viewpoint, we're going to take a look at this mystery of the Messiah. We're going to take a look at the days of Messiah. In fact, in front of me is an announcement. An announcement from Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu from Israel. The days of Mashiach, that is Messiah, consist literally of what has been happening in the State of Israel for 76 years, and what's happening in the State of Israel this very day.

Wow. This seems to be the kind of announcement that is coming increasingly from Israel. The days of Messiah, days of Mashiach. On the other hand, Jesus said that before his coming, his second coming, it would be like the days of Noah or the days of Lot. So how could it be all of those? The days of Mashiach, the Messiah, the days of Noah, the days of Lot? How about the days of Iran, the days of a new world order, the days of a new age order?

What is this all about? How are we to understand this mystery, the mystery of the ages? That's really what the Bible portrays to us as we move toward the book of Revelation. Some of the prophets, Old Testament prophets, and then the New Testament apostles gave us prophetic statements, insights into what to expect in these days. But right now, this is the age of spiritual consummation, redefining the world in a spiritual unity of Messianic globalization and a long-anticipated utopia.

It's hard to kind of get your mind and handle on it. You can discuss this like a New Age spirituality promising a fake utopia, a global consciousness, a stew of astrology, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, redefining God as individually desired or felt so as to achieve a sense of personal peace with the promise of global unity as the long-expected Messianic hope.

But where are we? Since the mystery of the ages remains unsolved for most of us, perhaps we should more deeply explore the thinking of those various viewpoints, because without exception, viewpoint determines destiny. And that's why I wrote the book, Messiah: Unveiling the Mystery of the Ages. If you don't have it, I urge you to get a copy of it, because it contains a vast amount of information, understanding concerning those that are competing—the competing Messianic visions for the end of the age—and then leads us to an understanding of the true Messiah.

Behold, he comes quickly. When does he come? On the third day. What is the third day? How do you understand this? Well, if you don't have the book, you're not going to have a very good understanding of those things, and I urge you to get a copy. And it is a $22 book, yours for $18 on our website, saveus.org. You can call us at 1-800-SAVE-USA, or write to us at Save America Ministries, PO Box 70879, Richmond, Virginia, 23255, writing a check and adding $6 for postage and handling.

So, I welcome you to Viewpoint. We're confronting the deepest issues of America's heart and home from God's eternal perspective. Let's just chat for just a quick moment about the mystery of Messiah. Most secular Jews don't embrace the concept of Messiah being an actual person. Rather, they embrace what they refer to as the Messianic Age, in which something called tikkun olam will be fulfilled in the final restoration or redemption of the world in peace and justice. Tikkun olam means, basically, redeeming the world by doing good works.

Most Orthodox Jews anticipate a human, yet not a divine Messiah. They say it's going to be one just like Moses. In other words, he will live and he will die. Thus, the Orthodox Jewish Messiah. Thus, the mind and heart of the Jewish people is deeply divided over what it is to be expected. Yet two-thirds of Israel's Jewish population currently believe we are in the Messianic Age.

Similarly, believe it or not, many Muslims believe we are also in this amorphous Messianic Age. Yet are looking for the Mahdi, or the 12th Imam, who must be ushered in through global conflagration. That, my friends, is why Iran finds it difficult to enter into a true agreement. The ceasefire agreement is just temporary. Will it hold? I don't think so.

Will Donald Trump ultimately destroy a civilization known as Iran or Persia? No. Will he attempt to bring about, if there is a breakdown in the ceasefire, will he attempt to follow through on what he said would be the end of the civilization there? I can't tell you. But I can tell you this: that if he does do that, it will still not destroy the civilization known as Persia or Iran. Why? Because God told us in Ezekiel 38 and 39 that Persia or Iran would be one of the nations that in the end of the age, the latter days of the end times, would actually coalesce together secretly to attack Israel to take a spoil.

You can read about it right there in Ezekiel 38. I urge you to do that. In the meantime, get a copy of the book Messiah: Unveiling the Mystery of the Ages, because it's going to open your eyes to an awful lot that perhaps you have not considered. We'll be right back after this, friends. Stay tuned.

Guest (Male): Once upon a time, children could pray and read their Bibles in school. Divorces were practically unknown, as was child abuse. In our once great America, virginity and chastity were popular virtues and homosexuality was an abomination. So what happened in just one generation? Hi, I'm Chuck Crismier and I urge you to join me daily on Viewpoint, where we discuss the most challenging issues touching our hearts and homes. Could America's moral slide relate to the fourth commandment? Listen to Viewpoint on this radio station or anytime at saveus.org.

Chuck Crismier: The Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Safed there in Israel, said during the celebration of Passover, we are bidden to contemplate on our redemption from Egypt and on our future redemption. May it reach completion in our time, he said, talking about the days of Messiah, or Mashiach, consisting of the ingathering of the exiles and the removal of foreign rule over Israel, which he says has been happening in the State of Israel for 76 years, and literally is happening in the State of Israel this very day.

He said the Bible tells us that the exodus from Egypt told there in the book of Exodus will almost be forgotten in the context of the massive exodus that will take place in the Jewish people from around the world to Eretz Israel in the days of Messiah. So he says, that's where we are. That's where we are. Is that true? Well, it goes back to 1947, 1948, the foundation of the State of Israel. It goes to the massive airlift that took place from Russia, where Russian Jews were escaping the pogroms that had been established there in Russia. Basically, ghettos and so on to corral the Jews just as Hitler attempted to do and did do there in Germany.

So a million Jews left Russia in an airlift. Therefore, a massive number proportion of Jewish people today in Israel, citizens of Israel, are actually Russian Jews. That's their background. Therefore, they had a rather ungodly expression because they had been kept through communism from the worship of God. That put a unique picture, a unique fingerprint, shall we say, on Jewish politics to this very day.

In addition to that, people have been gathered from around the world just in the last year. 20,000 Jews from around the world, about a third of the 20,000 again coming from Russia, believe it or not. Even though Russia claims to be very favorable toward Jews and peaceful toward Jews, but not so much. That's why a third of all of the Jews in the last year that have made aliyah, or returned to the State of Israel, to the Land of Israel, Eretz Israel, have come from Russia. Others have come from various countries around the world, in particular Western Europe, that has become increasingly unfriendly to the Jewish people.

Are these the days of Mashiach, of Messiah? I believe they are. Exactly how long those days are, we don't know. But I do believe we're in the latter days of the last days. It's a period of time that could be range somewhere between 50 and 300 years going back to the mid-1700s, in which a progressive revelation of and preparation for the coming of the Lord would be foremost in people's minds and hearts.

Interestingly, it was George Frideric Handel in the mid-1700s that gave us that amazing oratorio called Messiah. And in it, he tied together inspirationally, tied together the prophetic scriptures of the Word of God and gave the entire world the picture of the end coming of Christ and his birth, his resurrection, and his return. And that has been sung every year all over the world since the mid-1700s to announce and prepare for the coming of the Lord. All over the world.

Perhaps that's the period that began the latter days of the end times. But we're living in the end times that began on the day of Pentecost. The apostle Peter told us that in Acts chapter two. So the latter days are a shorter period at the end of those 2,000 years that began on the day of Pentecost around 30 AD. So if we add 2,000 years to 30 AD, that would bring us to 2030 AD, wouldn't it? 2030 AD, which is just four years from now.

Is our Lord coming in this period of time? I cannot tell you that. I wouldn't purport to tell you that, but I would purport to tell you that we're in the season. Jesus rebuked the religious leaders of his day for not understanding the times. He said, you guys call yourselves the leaders of Israel and you can't even understand the times in which you live? You can't even understand a Messiah is even in your presence today? And you call yourselves the leaders of Israel? You gotta be kidding me, putting it in modern terms.

He said you understand that a red sky in the morning is the sailor's warning, a red sky at night is the sailor's delight. How is it you cannot discern the times? And so I think Jesus would say the same thing to us today. How is it you cannot discern the times? So I think reading the book Messiah: Unveiling the Mystery of the Ages would help every listener to discern the times. To help us to understand that there are many competing Messianic movements right now in the world and yes, in the United States of America, that are seeking to, shall we say, in the minds and hearts of people, replace or preempt the focus on the true Messiah coming, and therefore be deceived.

I know you wouldn't want that to happen to you, but even some of these deceptions are taking place in the professing Christian church. Believe it or not, it is true. That having been said, professing Christians perhaps surprisingly are uniquely divided even in their expectations of a Messiah. Many popular pastors preach your best life now, rather than a Messianic redemption to come. Their focus is seemingly on people-pleasing in the moment rather than on the preparation for a soon-coming Messiah who will judge the world with righteousness.

Many others believe theologically in a coming Messiah, but seem to be unconvinced that we're living in the age foretold throughout the scriptures to expect him. Therefore, their lives do not reflect such an anticipation anytime soon. And a growing number are increasingly convinced that the Messiah will soon be unveiled in great power and glory, resolving for time and eternity the mystery of the ages. So where are we?

Since the mystery of the ages remains unresolved for most people, perhaps we should delve even more deeply. And that's why I wrote the book Messiah: Unveiling the Mystery of the Ages, which is yours for $18. A $22 book, yours for $18 on the website, saveus.org. Days of Messiah, as Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, a chief rabbi there in Israel, has just announced this very day.

Now moving from that, I'd like to talk just a little bit more about the matter of Iran before we move into the days of Noah and the days of Lot, which we're going to look at in the second half of the program today. Let's look at the days of Persia or the days of Iran. We know that Iran became the Republic of Iran in 1979, 47 years ago. What happened there? It was the complete shift from a general dictatorship under the Shah, with a mostly secular type of government that was fundamentally Islamic. The people were fundamentally Islamic. To being radically Islamic under the dictatorship of Khomeini and the mullahs.

So Iran then was interestingly declared by Louis Farrakhan to the president of—the then-president of Iran, Mr. Rafsanjani—was declared to be the vanguard of the Islamic revolution. In other words, the spear, the front of the spear of the Islamic revolution for the whole world. Iran believes their Muslim dictatorship believes that that is exactly who they are and who Allah intended them to be. If they believe that, which they do, then they also believe that their Messiah, Mahdi, the 12th Imam, that they say is just been awaiting for this precipitous moment, this propitious moment in human history to reappear and come in and bring sharia law to govern the entire world.

That's their eschatological belief. And it's not just a generalized belief like so many Christians have. It is a deeply rooted, convincing belief that it's going to happen and they have a participatory part in making it happen. That being the case, they believe that in order for that to happen, they must create chaos, unprecedented chaos in the world. How do you do that? Well, you bring the world under the thumb of nuclear power. That's the reason why Iran has been dedicated to developing a nuclear bomb, which they were right on the edge of doing.

Therefore, both America, declared by Iran as the Great Satan, and Israel, declared by Iran as the Little Satan, felt it was in their absolute security interest—national security interest—to make it impossible for Iran to fulfill their dedicated eschatological belief system. Now, you won't hear it put that way in the national news media, but that's exactly what the problem is. Therefore, is it possible that Iran would yield ultimately to a peace agreement of some sort, whether you want to call it a ceasefire, whether you want to call it a peace agreement?

You see, a ceasefire is not a peace agreement. It's just a cessation of hostilities for a period of time in the hope that something can be achieved. But already within one day after supposedly entering into a ceasefire agreement, it's already been broken. And instead of opening the Straits of Hormuz, they have actually closed the straits now in demand of further concessions, including Hezbollah in Lebanon in the agreement. That means they would have to include Israel—in other words, constrain Israel—from protecting itself from Hezbollah in the north.

These increasing positions are ultimately impossible for Iran or the fundamentalist Islamists to agree to. Why? Because it would completely undermine their entire eschatological belief system. And they are absolutely committed to it, come death do they part. They are absolutely committed to it, come death do they part. In other words, they're willing to die for that. Unlike most Christians, who have become so easy in the Western world, have no clue what it means to take up their cross daily and follow Christ.

So if we can begin to understand the absolute dedication of whether it's the IRGC or the progressive Khomeinis, so to speak, that will take over there in Iran, they are dedicated to the last breath. For them to enter into ultimately the kind of agreement that the world—Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and so on—would desire to have in order to truly bring peace, it's not likely to happen. It would require the abandonment of their entire belief system. It would require a complete loss of face of the alleged truth of Islam in the face of Islamic people all over the world. You see the difficulty.

Now, that having been said, we're going to shift dramatically to take a look at the days of Noah, the days of Lot, and the days of Mashiach.

Guest (Male): There is so much more about Chuck Crismier and Save America Ministries on our website, saveus.org. For example, under the marriage section, God has marriage on His mind. Chuck has some great resources to strengthen your marriage. First off, a fact sheet on the state of the marital union, a fact sheet on the state of ministry marriage and morals, saveus.org. Marriage, divorce, and remarriage—what does the Bible really teach about this? Find all of this at saveus.org. Also, A Letter to Pastors, The Hosea Project, saveus.org, and many more resources to strengthen your marriage. It's all on Chuck's website, saveus.org. Again, you can listen to Chuck's Viewpoint broadcasts live and archived at Save America Ministries' website at saveus.org.

Chuck Crismier: Will the Messiah be marketed? How would you market the Messiah? Well, can you really market the Messiah? And if you marketed the Messiah, how would you unmarket the Messiah? If the Messiah was Jesus Christ, how would you unmarket him? It's an interesting question. Probably never thought of it before. Certainly I never thought of it until this very moment in that sense. How would you unmarket the Messiah and the truth of your conviction that, in fact, he's coming to judge the quick and the dead? That he's coming to judge the Earth in righteousness.

Well, you would have to somehow mitigate the absolute truth of what you say you believe concerning Messiah. Concerning not only the coming of Messiah, but also who he is, what he requires, and what those who expect his coming to look like when he comes. Right? So, in other words, you would want, for instance, if we were to say—if I were the devil—what would I want to do to undo the conviction of people that Messiah is coming and what that would require?

Well, I would want to affect their belief that indeed he was going to come and he would expect to come only for a people who were pure and holy and righteous in his eyes. Only for a people who were without spot or blemish or any such thing. So I would want to make it easy now. I would want to say yes, but. I would want to say, well, you can live however you want to live as long as you're claiming to be a Christian, especially publicly. As long as you lay out a front to people how godly and how Christian you are and you go to church and you say all the right things, then you can count yourself ready for the Messiah.

So in light of that, a series of revelations has come through in the last couple of weeks. And I want to speak to you concerning those because they help us to understand the drama that is taking place as we supposedly anticipate the coming of the Messiah. The first has to do with the matter of as it was in the days of Noah. In the days of Noah, back in Genesis chapter six, God said he looked at the Earth, the peoples that he had created, and this was about a thousand years, say, after the creation and people were multiplying on the face of the Earth. They were living long lives, 800 to 1,000 years old, and people were just multiplying like rabbits and they were all over the Earth. And they had become exceedingly wicked.

Violence was upon the Earth, gross darkness upon the people, and God said, "You know what? I regret that I even made man." Now for God to say that means it had to be pretty bad. It had to be something that was very grievous to him. And so he determined he was going to have to destroy humankind on the Earth to purge it from the unrighteousness that had taken place. So he raised up a fellow by the name of Noah, told him to build an ark. He said, "I found Noah. Noah found grace," that is favor, unmerited favor in his eyes, and God's willingness to use his power, his enabling power through Noah to save a remnant of humankind from the ultimate destruction that was going to take place.

So he said, "Build an ark. Build an ark." It took Noah 100 years to build that ark with the help of his sons and who knows how many hundreds or even thousands of other people that were ungodly, that were hired to do the work. But in 100 years it was done. It's been said that faith is a long obedience in the same direction. So Noah demonstrated a long obedience in the same direction. He was not a perfect man, but his heart was perfect before God, you see. Like David was not a perfect man, but his heart was perfect before God, and he repented and he walked in righteousness. Because of that, he got favor in the eyes of the Lord in his generation. He walked perfectly in his generation.

Question: how are you walking? You know, I ask myself this question constantly when I'm writing a book. Like finishing the writing and editing of my latest book, The Power to Overcome, which was just completed in its final edit before it goes to, well, it's the next to final edit before it actually goes to print. And you wonder when it will come out. It will probably come out in the late summer. That's what I'm expecting. So you're going to want to get it, by the way, because it's going to encourage you and strengthen you and help you to understand what we're up against in these times, the days of Messiah, Mashiach.

So, Noah did what was required of him. And because of that, Noah was listed in the great Hall of Faith in Hebrews chapter 11. He persisted. He was faithful to the calling that God gave him to live righteously in his generation. That's what God calls you and me to do. To live righteously in our generation. And to live righteously means to agree with God's word, will, and ways in every respect. Not to disagree with it. Not to disagree with it with regard to any issue, whether it has to do with some of the so-called social issues like marriage or divorce or remarriage or homosexuality or lesbianism or bestiality or pederasty or any of these kinds of things.

You begin to disagree with what God has said and you automatically have put yourself contrary to the word, will, and ways of God, just as Satan did and portrayed with Adam and Eve in the garden. Asking the infamous question, "Hath God said?" That's our problem. Hath God said? How we answer that question will determine our preparation for the coming of Messiah.

Now, the next question had to do, or the issue had to do with Jesus' statement there in the book of Luke. Also, as it was in the days of Lot. As it was in the days of Noah and as it was in the days of Lot, so Jesus said it will be just before the coming of the Son of Man, that is his second coming. So what was it like in the days of Lot? Well, we know that Abraham had left Ur of the Chaldees and Haran with his nephew Lot and they had journeyed to the promised land and they had massive numbers of flocks and so on, and they were so wealthy in that regard that the land couldn't handle both of them and they were ending up in battles between their shepherds.

So Abraham said to his nephew, "You decide where you would like to go. You can either go to the east or you can stay here, wherever you choose to go then I'll go the other place." So Lot lifted up his eyes toward the land of Sodom, toward the east, because he said, "It's like the land of Egypt and it seems like it's really nice." So the Bible says he pitched his tent toward Sodom. In other words, he had an intentionality to lead his family and all of his works toward a place that was renowned for its ungodliness. Like pitching your tent toward Las Vegas.

You get the point. In other words, you're going to run straight into the heart of unrighteousness to cause your family to live there. And then what? So he did that. And after a period of time, he could see what was going on there. He didn't like it, but his family became inured to it. His daughters became inured to it and they actually were engaged to men who were of the Sodomite, so to speak. And ultimately his own wife became inured to it, Lot's wife.

So what happened? Well, God looked at Sodom and he saw the same thing happening there that happened in the days of Noah. It was wickedness, pure wickedness. They were contradicting in their lives all the creation ordinances of God in Genesis one and two. They weren't honoring marriage; they were perverting marriage. They were perverting the sexual relationship into—that's where we get the word Sodomite from, from the word Sodom, which had to do with homosexuality and lesbianism, the perversion, perhaps even transgenderism, transvestitism. All of those contrary ways and viewpoints that undid the very righteousness of God's creation.

God said, "I'm not going to let that happen. I'm just not going to let that continue." So he decreed the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. And he sent in, as he did with Noah, he sent in a salvation message through a couple of angels. And when the angels went in there to pull out Lot and his family and to determine whether indeed it was as God had perceived, they found that it was. In fact, the men of Sodom came and tried to sodomize the angels. It's an amazing story. You ought to read about it.

And so God, in his mercy, timely mercy, caused the angels to take Lot, to lead Lot and his daughters and his wife out of Sodom. And the daughters begged their spouses or the men to whom they were engaged to come with them and the men mocked, because they were of the spirit of Sodom. So the family leaves and on the way out, God says, "Don't look back." But Lot's wife looked back and became a pillar of salt. Remember Lot's wife. And now we move forward.

Guest (Male): Have you ever considered what the early church was like? Many people are developing a heart longing for a greater fulfillment in our practices as Christians. A recent study showed 53,000 people a week are leaving the back door of America's churches in frustration. What is going on? Why has there not been even a 1% gain among followers of Christ in the last 25 years? Could it be that God is seeking to restore first-century Christianity for the 21st century? Jesus said, "I'll build my church." Is Christ by His Spirit stirring to prepare the church for the 21st century? The early church prayed together and broke bread from house to house. They were family, and it was said by all who observed, "Behold, how they love one another." Incredible. But the same can be found right now. Go to saveus.org and click "Cell Church." We can revive first-century Christianity for the 21st century. It's about people, not programs. It's about a body, not a building. That's saveus.org. Click "Cell Church."

Chuck Crismier: Again, I welcome you back to Viewpoint. We're talking about the days of Messiah, the days of Mashiach, the preparation for the coming of the Lord. And as it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Lot, so it will be before the second coming of Christ. Well, that leads us to a very heartbreaking story. Now, I don't normally focus on individuals and an individual family as we're about to do, but this is so public and this is so dramatic that we're going to do it here today on Viewpoint.

In the year that the Lord spoke to my heart as an attorney there in California, 1992, to leave the practice of law and to plead his cause in the land as a voice to the church, declaring vision for the nation, America's greatest crisis hour here on the near edge of the second coming, Kristi Noem and Byron Noem got married. They were high school sweethearts. They have three kids, more than three decades. In 2019, in a blog post, she wrote that Byron loves the Lord and understands the responsibility that God gives to men to lead their families. In another blog, she called him, not perfect, but perfect for me. It was the foundation beneath the politics, the thing that made the rest of it feel earned.

Well, then in March of 2026, in the space of four weeks, nearly all of it came apart. She said, "I'm proud of the God-rearing family we've raised together." Well, that was Noem in 2021, responding publicly to the first reports of an alleged affair with advisor Corey Lewandowski. She called the claims total garbage and a disgusting lie. Five years later, on March 4th, 2026, a lawmaker asked the same question under oath and Noem was now Secretary of Homeland Security, seated before the House Judiciary Committee after a bruising Senate hearing the day before. So she was asked directly whether she had ever had sexual relations with Lewandowski. "I'm shocked we're going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee," Noem replied, but she did not deny it.

It was the same language, the same deflection five years apart. In 2021, she followed it with a declaration of love for Byron and pride in their God-fearing family. In 2026, she followed it with nothing. By the next day, Trump had announced her removal from the Department of Homeland Security. Within weeks, Lewandowski was photographed beside her at a diplomatic meeting in Guyana and then removed from all government roles.

On March 31st, Noem's final day as Department of Homeland Security Secretary, the Daily Mail in the UK published an investigation into Byron Noem. The report alleged that for at least 14 months, he had been communicating with women in an online fetish community under the pseudonym Jason Jackson, sending photos of himself in women's clothing with fake breasts. He reportedly paid the women at least $25,000 through PayPal and Cash App. One of the women told the Daily Mail she once accidentally pocket-dialed him and heard a voicemail. "Noem Insurance," he said, "Leave a message." She said she Googled the business and found his wife.

When the Daily Mail reached Byron by phone, he did not deny the photos or the conversations. He denied only that his behavior could have put his wife at risk of blackmail. A former CIA officer told the Daily Mail that if a media organization could find the information, a hostile intelligence service almost certainly already had. Former officials and security experts told multiple outlets that such undisclosed behavior could raise serious questions about the security clearance Noem held while running the nation's largest law enforcement agency.

Well, that was Byron. According to one of the women who spoke to the Daily Mail, she said she had asked him about the Lewandowski rumors. His reported response was the closest thing to a confirmation either Noem has offered about the alleged affair. Kristi's response to the Daily Mail report came through a spokesperson. "Mrs. Noem is devastated. The family was blindsided by this," she said, and they asked for privacy and prayers at the time. But she did not deny the report. She did not speak publicly. The woman who once told a magazine her family was an open book asked through a representative to be left alone.

As of this time, neither Noem has spoken publicly since that item, as far as I know. Then, this report, bombshell report: Kristi Noem's husband leads secret double life as cross-dresser who wears huge ridiculous boobs. Now, the reason I'm bringing this up is not to engage in what we would call yellow journalism or trying to rip apart people. You might say, well, why would you do this? Why would you bring this out since this has got to be a very painful thing? Why would you go into the private life? Because it's not private, friends. It's not private at all. It's very public.

And it was all about the presentation of being ready for the Messiah. Strong Christian family, presented to the public. Strong Christian family. My husband is a strong Christian leader. She presented herself as a strong Christian leader. Now says she's blindsided by this. No, she's not blindsided by it. I'm looking right now at pictures that were available of her husband in his fetish with blown-up boobs and a picture of one of the women that he has, shall we say, developed a kind of relationship with who also has breasts that are twice as big as the ones that Byron is showing. And he wanted to marry her.

Now, what's going on here? What we're dealing with here, friends, is a situation that has gone public, but was public before God long before it ever went public. That all was not well, to put it mildly, in the Noem household and that pictures were presented that were not true. They were not true representations of the life and times of Kristi Noem and Byron Noem. How is it that Kristi Noem spent so much time with Lewandowski? What is it about their relationship that she continues to, shall we say, mockingly deny but not deny? What is it about that that has now defiled her Christian life and image before the country and the world? And before God? And before other Christians on the near edge of the second coming?

If we really believed, if we really believed as the fundamentalist Muslims do in the coming of the Mahdi and that they are willing to do anything, even die, to bring that about—what is it that we're willing to live for as professing Christians? I gotta tell you, I personally was rather drawn to Kristi Noem, thinking that she was indeed a wonderful Christian presence, a breath of fresh air coming into the Trump administration there in the Department of Homeland Security. She had been the governor of South Dakota. And all of the information from her was, "We have this strong Christian household." She built a national profile in part through support for policies restricting LGBTQ rights and particularly those affecting traditional families. Yet she didn't have a traditional family. Something was greatly wrong.

She attended a strong Evangelical Christian church—I'm not going to name the denomination, that wouldn't be helpful. I know of that denomination and generally speaking, they are a strong Christian denomination. Strong. Usually not compromising in any way. So how could this happen? Well, one way it can happen, friends, is when you allow yourself to travel with another person who is not your husband, you are now ingratiating yourself and running into the arms of temptation.

And here's Mr. Lewandowski, also a married man. So a married man and a married woman conducting themselves in the environment of national security in ways that destroy the security of the family and the security of the expectations of moral and spiritual righteousness. Does that bother you? You say, well, they're not the only ones. It's true, they're not the only ones. Maybe you've done the same thing. Wouldn't surprise me, because it's all over the church. When just last year, the last 18 months, 14 major ministries and their leaders, pastors, and para-church leaders in the Greater Dallas, Texas region alone lost their ministries and fell from grace, so to speak, because of this kind of behavior. 14 of them. And that's just the big ones.

It's all over the country, my friends. Do we really believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ? Do we really believe that he's coming only for a people without spot, wrinkle, or any such thing? It doesn't appear that way. It appears that we've gotten the impression from our pastors and para-church leaders that we can do jolly well what we please as long as we once made a profession of faith. Really? Then whatever happened to the expectation of a bride without spot, wrinkle, or any such thing?

Friends, we've presented a very false understanding of what it means to be ready for the coming of the Messiah. And it's happening in the name of Christ. It's being promoted—unwittingly promoted—by our perverted theological systems that are justifying unrighteousness so long as we one time made a profession of faith. It's unbelievable. Maybe the best thing that could happen in this situation is to come clean before God and the nation. Before the church. For this pair and every other group and family and husband and wife who have allowed themselves to be carried away in this kind of thing, to come clean and confess our sins to one another that we might be healed.

What say you? You might want to get a copy of the book Messiah: Unveiling the Mystery of the Ages. $18 we'll put that $22 book in your hands. It's on our website, saveus.org.

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