This is 5 and 10 on Skywatch TV for October 24th.
I'm Derek Gilbert, topic number five today, the aftermath in California.
The wine country wildfires have destroyed 8,400 homes and other structures, this according
to authorities on Monday.
To get an idea of the challenges that firefighters have been facing and trying to bring these
fires under control, we take you some video that was supplied to us by Skywatch TV viewer
JT.
This is a watchman's front line report for Skywatch TV, my name's JT.
We're currently standing about one mile from the front line of the fire in Sonoma County,
California.
Just to give folks an idea of the type of terrain that firefighters are trying to work in, this
rugged terrain as you can see is nearly impassable and even difficult to navigate with a bulldozer.
Part of the difficulty in fighting this fire is trying to find a place to defend from and
establish a fire line which the winds and embers cannot cross easily.
This has made it particularly difficult because this terrain is so rugged and there's so much
fuel available.
Here is another angle of the terrain that the fire is currently traversing, which again
shows how rugged it is with the fire just about one mile away from this point now.
You can also see the air quality has gotten very poor.
This has been a watchman's front line report for Skywatch TV.
We thank JT for his report from the field and you understand now why this has taken
so long for firefighters to bring these fires under control.
They're still working to bring a couple under control completely and rescuers are still
searching for victims.
His death toll is 42, which makes this series of fires the deadliest in California history.
Topic number four, B-52s are not on call, not 24-7 anyway, contrary to reports over
the last couple of days, the Air Force is not putting its fleet of nuclear armed B-52
heavy bombers on 24-7 alert.
A spokesman for General John Highton, head of strategic command, said via email, there
are no discussions or plans for U.S. strategic command to place bombers on alert.
Now the story emerged because apparently a reporter confused information about upgrades
at the base where the B-52s are stationed, the Alert Center at Barksdale Air Force Base
in Louisiana is undergoing upgrades, a multi-million dollar project that's been ongoing since August
of 2016.
Again, no plans to put the bombers on alert around the clock.
Topic number three, the Iraqi Kurds lose the Syrian Kurds win.
U.S. backed Syrian Kurdish forces reported Sunday that they'd captured Syria's biggest
oil field of al-Omar.
This is in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, where fighting has been ongoing for several
years.
Actually, a Syrian army unit inside the city had been surrounded by the Islamic State,
freed by Russian and Syrian forces, but the Kurdish militia got to the oil field before
the Russian-backed Syrian forces, which stopped about four miles short of the airfield.
This is located on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
While in the hands of the Islamic State, the field was pumping about 10,000 barrels of
oil a day, it can produce up to 40,000 barrels a day.
If it's totally repaired and brought up to full capacity, it could pump as much as 120,000
barrels per day.
Now it turns out that the Russian military command issued a stand-down order to Syrian
and Hezbollah forces that were advancing on the oil field as part of a deal reached between
Russian and American commanders in the area.
Under that deal, the Syrian YPG militia was given this oil field as compensation for its
help in leading Syrian rebel forces to victory over the Islamic State's capital of Raqqa,
and also to compensate the Kurds for the loss of Kirkuk in northern Iraq and its nearby
oil fields.
Those oil fields around Kirkuk cost the Kurdish regional government about 600,000 barrels
of oil per day and the income from selling it.
So while the al-Omar oil field produces about a quarter of that at most, it could at least
keep the KRG from completely collapsing.
Also in Syria, it was announced on Saturday that Iran has deployed elements of its special
operations 65th Brigade to shore up the army of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
This unit, by the way, is considered Iran's version of America's green berets.
Needless to say, this news not received well in either Tel Aviv or in Washington, D.C.
Back to California, where Governor Brown created them male and female and none of the above.
While the world is burning, in fact, while California is burning, the government there
is losing its collective mind.
Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signing into law a bill that adds a third gender option
to the state's official driver's license.
Senate Bill 179, known as the Gender Recognition Act, will allow applicants for driver's licenses
in California to have three options, male, female, or non-binary.
Bill goes into effect January 1, 2019.
It asserts that the traditional gender designations of male and female fail to adequately represent
the diversity of human experience.
There are a lot of aspects of the human experience that we do not adequately represent because,
frankly, they're nuts.
Your driver's license does not override your biology.
Like number one, I'm being flippant, but the point is more serious than that.
And that is people who are identifying as non-binary need counseling and assistance
because they are dealing with issues beyond biology.
They're trying to deny their biology, which is leading to emotional and psychological
stresses that need counseling, not government support, not reinforcement, not enabling.
And I say that because according to the statistics released by transgender activists, 41% of
them will attempt suicide at some point in their lives.
This is not behavior that should be encouraged.
Like number one, America losing its religion, these are three stories put together that
paint a picture.
First, we Americans simply are not reading the Bible.
93% of Americans admit to owning a Bible, but less than half of American Christians,
people who I self-identify as Christian, have said they've read it cover to cover.
And most Americans have never opened the cover of their Bibles at all.
This is according to a new survey released by the Center for Bible Engagement.
So what are we engaging with instead, the media, entertainment, reading books, some
books anyway, but mainly social media, television, video games, anything on the Internet that
will distract us from life's worries, troubles, instead of turning to the source that can
actually provide eternal solutions.
We use business as an excuse to fill our times, working more hours in the week when in fact
we're just trying to fill a void left by the hole where the Holy Spirit should be.
I speak to this from some personal experience.
The iGen population, those are people 21 and under, people who've been raised in an era
where they've never known life without electronic devices.
That's 24% of us, by the way.
We spend less time with real people and more time facing video screens than at any point
in American history.
So it's not a surprise that membership in our churches is dropping to an all-time low.
We've lost, membership official denominations dropped 20 percentage points since the end
of World War II.
This is according to Gallup.
The Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church USA, they've lost half their members since
1967, more than a thousand Catholic parishes have closed since 1995.
The number of Jews who call themselves culturally Jewish, but not religiously Jewish, is rising
sharply, especially among millennials.
A few faith traditions actually doing better, Muslims, Orthodox Jews, evangelical Christianity
is kind of holding steady, but more than 20% of Americans say they are religiously unaffiliated,
which is the highest number ever.
So the picture that emerges, interest in religion in America dropping sharply, especially among
millennials, the majority of Americans now believe it is not necessary to believe in
God to have good morals.
This according to the Pew Research Center, which released this information last week Wednesday.
The question of course is, if you don't believe in God, on what do you base good morality?
If everyone is doing what's right in their own eyes, whose eyes gets to set what is actually
moral, if there is no objective external standard, i.e., God.
The percentage of people between the ages of 18 and 29 who never doubt the existence
of God has dropped from 81% in 2007 to 67% in 2012, and more than half of young adults
in America now believe that astrology, astrology is a science.
This could explain why the psychic services industry, astrology, aura reading, tarot card
reading, consulting mediums, palm reading has grown by 2% points from 2011 to 2016.
Basically all the stuff that God forbids in the books of Deuteronomy and Leviticus.
This is the state of American faith today, faith in God declining, faith in extraterrestrial
visitation and palm reading increasing.
Come quickly Lord Jesus.
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Next Monday evening, I'll be speaking at Morningside Church in Blue Eye, Missouri, I'll be giving
the presentation Last Clash of the Titans, Mystery Babylon and the Return of the Old
Gods.
If you're in the Branson area, you can stop by, that's at 7 p.m. central time, it's
open to the public, it'll also be streamed live to the internet at ptlnetwork.com, that's
ptlnetwork.com and then on Tuesday, Sharon and I will be guests on the Jim Baker show
and that taping, that recording session, open to the public as well between noon and about
4 p.m.
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Thanks for watching as we keep watch.
I'm Derek Gilbert and this is Skywatch TV.
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