Jan. 21, 2025

Charles Martel's Stand: The Battle That Shaped Christendom - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 3 - From Islam to Azusa) – Episode 32

Charles Martel's Stand: The Battle That Shaped Christendom - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 3 - From Islam to Azusa) – Episode 32

Send us a text Could the Battle of Tours have changed the course of Western civilization as we know it? Delve into the gripping tale of Charles Martel, the strategic mastermind who halted the tide of Muslim expansion into Europe in 732. This episode promises to unravel the tactics and missteps of both the Franks and the Muslim forces, offering insights into how one decisive battle laid the foundation for the rise of Christendom and reshaped the cultural and religious trajectory of Europe. Ou...

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Could the Battle of Tours have changed the course of Western civilization as we know it? Delve into the gripping tale of Charles Martel, the strategic mastermind who halted the tide of Muslim expansion into Europe in 732. This episode promises to unravel the tactics and missteps of both the Franks and the Muslim forces, offering insights into how one decisive battle laid the foundation for the rise of Christendom and reshaped the cultural and religious trajectory of Europe.

Our exploration extends beyond the battlefield as we journey through the rise of Charlemagne, Martel's grandson, who ascended to become the first Holy Roman Emperor. Learn about the era's warfare tactics, from sieges to strategic intercessions, and how Martel's foresight in establishing a permanent army became crucial in facing overwhelming odds. We also touch upon the broader implications of leadership, preparation, and the role of divine intervention in turning the tide of history.

In our final segment, we confront the enduring echoes of these historical events in today's world, tackling issues of demographic shifts and cultural transformations. As we examine the strategic errors made by the Muslim forces and the lessons they offer for contemporary military strategies, we also explore the significant impact of declining birth rates and immigration on Europe's future. Join us as we weave through past and present, pondering the geopolitical landscapes shaped by history's remarkable turns.

00:00 - Battle of Tours & Charles Martel

17:28 - Rise of Charlemagne & Muslim Conquests

22:17 - Decisive Action and Intercession

29:34 - Strategic Mistakes in Battle of Tours

43:27 - Strategic Tactics and Indirect Action

01:01:04 - Impact of Declining Birth Rates

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Well, praise the Lord, praise the Lord.

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Praise the Lord.

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We're going to continue on.

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This morning I want to draw your attention to what happened to it, to what we talked about the last time, and that is that around the latter part of the 700s in Europe, the Muslim Empire started here in Saudi Arabia, over around in here, and pushed to the east and took Syria and took Persia and almost pushed over into the borders of Arabia.

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Then they pushed west and took Egypt all the way over here to what is present-day Morocco, and then at that point they had a launching point to go into Spain, and also, from over here, they had a launching point to go into what is modern-day Turkey, up to this point right here, which is Constantinople or Istanbul.

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And so we talk about the effort, what amounted to about a 20-year span of time.

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Their plan was to move in this direction and in this direction simultaneously and hook up here, about over Italy someplace and totally conquer Europe.

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This is the underside of Europe.

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Here is France, northern Italy, switzerland, germany, austria is over here, the Balkan states.

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All of that stuff is what is now Europe.

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Well, it wasn't all that well organized back then.

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You know, we were only a few hundred years away from the Roman conquest of that part of the world.

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That happened in about 300 to 400 AD some of it earlier AD, some of it earlier and the Muslims were coming up from the West through Spain.

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This green indicates that they thoroughly conquered Spain and Portugal, with the exception of this little stretch of land up here which we talked about last time.

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Land up here which we talked about last time.

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This was a Christian kingdom up here that we talked about on last week Amen.

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They were going to move up this way and come in to Europe through France, and they were going to come up this way, and they were going to come up into Europe through Constantinople.

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We talked about in the last time how there were two major invasions against Constantinople in the late 600s and early 700s that were repulsed.

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Okay.

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Then they came up to Spain simultaneously, took Spain in two or three years until there was just this little sliver of land up here that belonged to the Christian king, and then they focused on coming across the Pyrenees Mountains and around them to attack France.

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So this was going on and this was going on.

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This got repulsed and they were still pursuing this, and this is what we're going to be talking about today.

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So I wanted you to see this map so you could see what was going on on a essentially a worldwide basis.

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And this was all happening, as I mentioned, within 80 years of the death of Muhammad.

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So it's one of the most significant land expansions and conquests in such a short period of time.

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That has you know because, as we mentioned before, they couldn't go any faster than a horse, a camel or a ship, and most of it would have had to have been on foot because they just didn't have that many horses to move.

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Men, today we're going to talk about an invasion force of nearly 50,000 people, a lot of that's,000 people.

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Okay, so that you know there's a lot of that's got to be on foot, so you're not going to move very fast.

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A heavily armed soldier carrying battle gear is not going to be walking four and five miles an hour.

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You know they're going to.

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It's probably going to be two miles an hour and it's going to be over all kinds of different terrain, praise God, so things weren't happening very fast.

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So for this amount of space to be conquered in such a short period of time is amazing.

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So today we're going to be as you see on your map, there's a little red star up at the top of the map and there's two little towns called Tours and Portier.

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That's the focus of what we're going to be talking about today.

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This battle that we're talking about is commonly known as the Battle of Tours.

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It is also known as the Battle of Portier and it is also called the Battle of the Highway of Martyrs.

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If you are looking at it from the Muslim point of view, it was fought on the 10th of October 732, and it was perhaps the most important battle in this effort of the Muslims to move out of Spain and into France and establish a major beachhead in Europe.

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That was their objective.

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Their objective was to push all of Christendom out of Europe and into the sea.

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However, it didn't work out that way.

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They ran into a French, what we would call French now.

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It was called the Frank Empire at that time and it was led by a man by the name of Charles Martel, and that name translates literally into Charles the Hammer, and that's what he was called, because what they called Al-Andalus, and it was really what we call now Spain and Portugal.

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This battle, what happened at this battle, cannot be underestimated.

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It is one of the most pivotal, one of the most important battles, just like the two battles that happened over in Constantinople of this period of time, and it set the stage for the Muslims to be repulsed out of Europe for several hundred years and allowed what we call Western civilization to be firmly rooted in Europe.

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And if that had not happened, we would not be here.

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Just as simple as that.

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There's no alternative history that you can write, where what happened to America happens.

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If Europe isn't allowed to have a few hundred years of cultural development.

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It's just as plain and simple as that.

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And it has to be a cultural development under Christendom and not under some other religion.

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It's as simple as that and we're going to go in.

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Much of what we're going to be talking about today is not my ideas, but it's ideas of people who have written since then of the importance of this battle, because I want you to see this.

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But before we do anything else, we have to establish one ground rule and that's in Exodus, the 15th chapter, verse 3 amen, praise God.

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A lot of people know and have studied over the years the names of God that he has revealed in the Old Testament.

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For example, he told Moses, he told Abraham that I am the God.

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That is more than enough.

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I am El Shaddai.

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He told Adam that I am the God.

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That is more than enough.

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I am El Shaddai.

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He told Adam that his name was Elohim.

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Adonai To others, to Moses, he said I am the Lord who heals you.

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Amen.

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I am the Lord, your banner.

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I am the Lord, your banner.

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I am the Lord, your righteousness.

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Those are names that God revealed to Israel concerning himself.

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This name, however, I never had anybody bring this out and teach it that this was a name of the Lord.

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But it is a name of the Lord.

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And in Exodus, the 15th chapter, verse three, it says this the Lord or Yahweh is a man of war and Yahweh is his name.

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Okay, so the Lord Yahweh is a man of war and his name is Yahweh, or you can say it this way Yahweh is a man of war.

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Well, we know that in Exodus, the 15th chapter, the incarnation of God in the form of Jesus had not yet been revealed.

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They were barely getting the law at this point.

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Amen.

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They had no idea that that's what God was going to do.

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But yet God, after having revealed his name as Yahweh to Moses, told Moses, that I am a man of war.

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Now we know that no one can say that Jesus is Yahweh except by the Holy Ghost, amen.

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So we know that Jesus is Yahweh.

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Jesus is this man of war that the Lord was revealing right here in this scripture.

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So one of the names I'm making a long story short here one of the names of God is he is a man of war.

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Now, why is that important?

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Well, we've studied all through the major miracles in the Old Testament and we've seen how God does great and mighty things in terms of miracles and signs and wonders.

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When the enemy comes in, he raises up a standard, and that standard has often been some of the most amazing miracles that have ever been done.

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And all we're trying to do is to build a case for now, when God is going to raise up a standard Amen, expect it to be something that is off the charts, because that's how he does things.

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In today's example, we're going to see something a little bit more not so wow, not so amazing, not so fabulous, like the parting of the Red Sea, for example, but we're going to see something that is right up God's alley, if you will, because he is a man of war, because God is a man of war.

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Now see, a lot of people will get off the bus when I start start talking about this.

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I've taught this in many countries, many places.

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Amen, this is how God does things.

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But a lot of people don't like to talk about God like this.

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But God talked about himself that way.

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So I start from the basis of Exodus 15.3.

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He's a man of war, he's a man of war.

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Exodus 15, 3,.

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He's a man of war, he's a man of war.

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There's one thing, if you've studied war, that applies to war, and that is that there are principles of war.

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I'm not going to go over all of that today.

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I'm going to touch on some as we come to them, but I can't go over that whole.

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It takes hours and hours and hours to teach this.

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But there are principles of war that are almost consistent on a worldwide basis.

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The reason that is is because those principles of war come from the man of war, if he is a man of war.

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And there are principles of war, and those principles of war are such that if you follow them, your chance of success is very high.

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If you don't follow them, your chance for success is very low.

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It's that hard and fast.

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Now there are exceptions to those things based on circumstances, but most times if the principles are adhered to, an army will do well.

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If they are forsaken, they will not do well.

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Now we also see in the Bible that when God chooses sides on an issue amen he can bring confusion to the enemy and wisdom to the side that he's backing.

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For example, david had unusual wisdom and a usual gift for warfare because God was with him.

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God gave him supernatural wisdom.

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But at the same time we see more than one or two instances where God brought utter confusion on the enemy and they ended up turning on each other and fighting each other.

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We see that.

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We see that all the time God would send out in some cases he would send out the praisers in Judah at the front of the battle and they'd never have to fight Amen, because confusion would break out on the other side and they'd end up killing themselves and Israel would just pick up the spoils and go home.

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There's a number of those kinds of instances.

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Praise God, because God's a man of war.

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And what we're going to see today is that the Muslims were invading but they kind of threw the principles of war book out the door, even though this guy was a good general.

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I mean, listen, under his leadership they had conquered Spain in a matter of a couple of years.

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Okay, listen to this statistic.

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I wish I had a bigger map.

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When they got to here, about here, and they were going to go up into France, up into here, from here, from Gibraltar, to where this battle that we're going to talk about at Tours takes place, about right up here, is a thousand miles.

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Okay, they had moved an army a thousand miles in just a few years.

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Are you hearing me?

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Not only moved them, but had conquered the territory behind them.

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Okay, if you take that same thousand miles and keep going in the same direction, if you go this way, you're going to end up in Poland.

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That's almost over to Russia.

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Are you hearing me?

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If you go this way, you're going to be up in the highlands of Scotland.

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And they did that in just a few years.

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What am I saying?

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I said, if they win this battle right here they win this battle right here In 10 years they can conquer all of Europe, all the way over to Russia and all the way up into Scotland, england and Ireland, norway, sweden, are you hearing what I'm saying.

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This battle place if I had a bigger map you can see it's almost in the middle of what they really wanted to conquer.

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So this guy's no slouch of a general and what he, the mistakes that he made and they were numerous shouldn't have been made by a general of his stature.

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He knew better.

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He wasn't just a bumbling idiot that had a bunch of soldiers under him.

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He was able to conquer all of this against hardened warriors.

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He was able to conquer this and move and have a very good likelihood of moving into here and doing more conquering and eventually move up over all of Europe.

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Meanwhile he's thinking his other counterparts are doing the same thing over here.

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Didn't work out that way, but that's what he's thinking.

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However, god had other plans.

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He de facto leader, warrior, king of this entire area up here France, germany, austria, what we know, those as today.

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They weren't known at that time, but basically this land mass that goes from France all the way over to the Ukraine, to Poland, and in that area he was the commander of all that.

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He spoke French, or what was French in that day, a mixture of French and Latin.

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He spoke both high and low German and he controlled all of those lands, which is all of modern-day Europe.

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Okay, I'm going to give you the end from the beginning.

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His grandson is a man that you'll know his name.

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You may not know anything about him, but you'll know his name.

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His grandson's name was Charles the Great, or in French that would be called Charlemagne.

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Charlemagne was the first Holy Roman Empire emperor, and he was the emperor of all of this land mass that Charles Martel had conquered and taken possession of.

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This was what the Muslims were after.

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They were after the kingdom that Charles Martel was the king over.

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Well, he never really got to be king, but he was king in fact, but not in name.

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King in fact, but not in name.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Now, this wasn't the first time that Charles and the Muslims had tangled.

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They had tangled in a place further south called Toulouse, about 10 years or about in 722.

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So the Muslims had been pushing up into this, basically with small raiding parties, smaller than what they had this time, but this time they were going up with 30 to 50,000 men.

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And it wasn't the first time that they had run into Charles, and Charles had been preparing for this confrontation since the Battle of Toulouse a decade earlier.

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Toulouse is right around here or you can see it on your map.

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It's the first city that is to the right of the Pyrenees Mountains, kind of right under the Cay in Kingdom.

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You'll see a city called, so it's further south.

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It would have been one of the first cities that the Muslims encountered.

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Now, at that time you have to understand that warfare consisted basically of conquering cities and looting them, killing off as many people as they could, stealing as much as they could, then heading a home and counting the money.

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I mean that was kind of, you know, warfare in that day.

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It wasn't, you know, like waves of planes and bombardment from seaborne, you know rocket ships and all that.

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I mean it wasn't like that.

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They just went in, sieged the city, broke down the walls, carried off the women, killed the men and stole the gold and ate all the food and drank all the wine.

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I mean, you know what you see in the movies is kind of real.

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I mean that's kind of what they did, you know, because there weren't you know, there wasn't a lot of stuff to get out in the fields except provision for the army.

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The people that lived out in the fields and worked out in the countryside they weren't going to mount any kind of resistance.

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The resistance was in the walled cities, and so they went after the cities.

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Charles, at this time and during this excursion, was probably between a rock and a hard place.

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He really was not thoroughly equipped to take on this 50,000-man force.

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These people were serious warriors and even though he had a serious army, he was not as well-equipped as they were.

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They had, they were.

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What the Muslims were known for was their ruthless and almost invincible cavalry, and they had maneuvers, they had forces.

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They, you know, and men on horses are very difficult to deal with if you don't have any horses, and that's really what the situation that Charles had.

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He was outnumbered, he was outgunned, he was outhorsed, but he had tough, battle-hardened infantry who believed in him.

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Now, at this time in Europe it was virtually unheard of for a king to keep a permanent army, and that is simply because the cost of it was too much.

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I mean, if you're going to keep a permanent army, there's just a couple of things you've got to do.

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You've got to have beds for them and you've got to have meals for them.

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Now you can keep them out in the out in the open, you know, all day long if you want to, but sooner or later you're going to have a Valley Forge kind of a moment, you know when the temperatures get real cold and people start to freeze and you know feet have to be cut off and boots wear out, and you know.

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But same thing happened to George Washington at Valley Forge, can happen to anybody if the army has to stay outside.

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So normally what men would do and this was true in our Revolutionary War they would recruit men in the spring and they would basically hire them for about six months.

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When Washington took his army into Valley Forge for the winter, those guys were there on their own dime because the money that they had been promised them was already gone.

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Congress wasn't going to give them any more money.

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So I said all that to say that at the time that Charles was getting ready to fight this war, most men around him would not have a permanent army.

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But foreseeing this and this is an important wisdom thing, foreseeing that the battle was coming everybody say this foreseeing that the battle was coming Charles did something most unusual, and this is a good principle for us to get in our things If we know that a battle's coming, you better expect that God is going to move on you to do unusual things, because there's no wisdom doing what yesterday, what worked yesterday, if everybody and their brother knows what you did yesterday Amen.

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So expect that God's going to do something different if you know the battle's coming.

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Charles knew the battle was coming, so you know what he did.

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He went to the Pope.

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Why go to the Pope To get a prayer said for you?

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No, you can go to a priest and have that happen.

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He went to the Pope to get a prayer said for you.

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No, you can go to a priest and have that happen.

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He went to the Pope because the Pope had money and he needed a loan.

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He needed a loan to keep this force in the field, anticipating that the Muslims were going to come up from the south and attack.

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Principle number one that we see is called the concentration of force for a decisive action In battles.

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There are times when you have to throw everything but the kitchen sink in the battle, and then throw the kitchen sink in the battle.

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And then throw the kitchen sink in the battle is so important that you have to throw everything.

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You don't hold any reserves, you don't hold anything back and you're not going to attack across the large front.

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You're going to attack at a small place and you're going to try to punch a hole in the enemy's attack.

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Whoever wins wins everything.

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That's what a decisive action means.

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You roll the dice, you throw everything in and we are in.

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Listen to me, listen to me, look at me and listen to me, me and listen to me.

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You may not understand this, but listen, we are in that moment, right now.

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The enemy has thrown everything into where we are right now.

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God has thrown everything he has into right now, which is a whole lot more.

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Except, we live in a place that is totally confused.

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They don't know what side they're on.

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That makes it a very dangerous place, because some people have thrown everything in for one side and other people have thrown everything in for the other side.

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The thing that will tip the balance is intercession.

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Praise God, because there's some things that God can do through intercession that nobody can do.

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So Charles went to the Pope, got a loan and was able to keep his army in the field so that he could mobilize this army to a decisive place at a decisive time and end this intrusion, invasion into France.

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Charles was gambling the whole of his kingdom.

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If he lost, he lost everything.

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He was going to die, his army was going to be slaughtered and the Muslims would have free reign to just come in, take his kingdom and that would be the end of it.

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The Muslims had no intention of leaving the field defeated, except they didn't know what Charles had available to him.

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And they didn't know that Charles was in, in essence, making a stand.

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That would be a what would be a decisive effort.

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Charles was going to take everything he had and put it in one spot.

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These guys, these guys were heavily armed as infantry men, but not as Calvary men, so they had to be mobilized in a way that would neutralize the cavalry.

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Again, we're talking the wisdom of God here and things that military men know how to do, but it takes wisdom and courage to do what they did, and he trained them for a decade, between the time of the Battle of Toulouse and the time when they came up to attack Tours.

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So what happened was that on the way to Tours, the Muslim commander saw a lot of easy targets, targets.

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There's a kingdom right here in the south of France called Aquitaine.

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It had its own king, had its own army, had its own thing going on, but they weren't real strong and so.

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But the Muslim commander got distracted chasing him and got distracted fighting him and got distracted conquering some cities that were under his command and looting them and taking prisoners.

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All of those things added up to lost time, lost opportunity more to take care of, more people to guard the loot, more people to guard the prisoners Are you hearing this?

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And he wasted a lot of time burning cities and fighting the king of Aquitaine, when he could have taken them on the way back out.

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He could have gone on to tours, surprised Charles conquered the city, took all the loot, came back and then kicked the king of the Aquitaine Aquitanians on the way back because they were a nobody.

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They were going to beat them every time they fought them.

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Okay, we're going to come back to that point.

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That is an important point.

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But he decided to go after all that stuff on his way up to Tours.

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There's a saying in military having to do with the principles, that if you want to be clever, cleverness has never been associated with long delays.

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So the general of the Muslims was not smart in doing what he did, because winter was approaching.

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Another important issue he was going to add to the army was on foot right with, with some horses, but at every time he stops and takes a city, he's got more stuff.

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Now, if you're, if, if your job is to loot city, see this, I, I can figure this out.

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If I want to hit this city and I want to steal all their stuff, okay, am I going to do that on the way to an important battle or on the way back?

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Well, I think I'll do it on the way back, because then I won't have to carry the stuff all the way over there and all the way back.

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I'll just wait, wave at them.

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As you go by, they'll get into a false sense of security and you can hit them hard on the way back, steal all their gold, and you don't have to carry it so far.

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But they didn't do that, and so they delayed, they delayed, they delayed, they delayed, and every day they delayed made Charles' position stronger.

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So by the time that the Muslim commander decided that he was on, his next target was at Tours, which is a rich city.

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He was going to go there, he was going to attack, he was going to take everything he could get, except that, if you'll look on your maps, there was a city on the way to Tours called Portiers, and Charles was waiting for him there, and so what happened was that, when they came into close proximity, they started to torment each other with raids for almost seven days until they finally prepared their battle lines and began to fight fiercely.

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Now remember the Muslims had a strong cavalry.

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They had a strong horse-mounted military arm.

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That means they can move faster.

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That means they can do flanking maneuvers and things a lot faster than men on foot can.

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These guys are armed bows, arrows, scimitars.

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They are a force to be reckoned with.

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If Charles doesn't do something to defend, he's going to be hacked to pieces.

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And so what Charles did was genius.

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He picked a high ground position.

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He picked a place that was high ground and forested, and then he put his infantry in a formation called a phallic formation, which is like a large square.

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Only this large square was behind and embedded in the forest.

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So in order to attack Charles' position, the Muslims were going to have to do several things that you don't want to do.

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They have to attack going uphill, they have to attack a wooded position and they have to attack an infantry, well-armed infantry that is in a position where they can be defended on all sides.

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There's no way you can flank them.

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There's no way you can go around them.

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Every position that you go at them, you're going to see the same thing.

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You're going to see tens of thousands of infantry packed in a large square, embedded in trees, and your cavalry can't get to them.

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So here's what happened.

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Charles was well aware, because of his intelligence, of what the Muslims could do and he knew what they couldn't do.

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And he was also aware of this one thing that they knew almost nothing about him.

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The Muslims had overestimated themselves and they had underestimated the enemy.

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One of the principles of war I'll mention this again is know yourself and know your enemy better.

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If you remember, jesus taught this principle in one of his parables.

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He said if a man with an army and he has 10,000, assesses the situation and he goes to his enemy who has 20,000 and sues for peace, what was Jesus telling us?

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The man had to know himself.

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He had to take, take account of what he could do.

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He said I can't take 20,000.

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I'm going to go and sue for peace.

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So he knew himself and he knew his enemy.

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And then he made his decision accordingly.

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The Muslims overestimated their own power and underestimated Charles' ability, and Charles knew that was going to happen.

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So God gave Charles an exceptional intelligence, wisdom, and he brought blindness on the enemy.

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They should have known better.

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They had plenty of time.

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If they hadn't been fooling around trying to take cities that they didn't need to take, they could have sent recon efforts over there and figured out what Charles was up to, and they never would have walked into this trap.

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But they walked right into it, into this trap, but they walked right into it.

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Not only that, but notice when this happened.

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This happened in October.

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October in northern France can be a bit chilly, and the Muslims were dressed for summer because they'd been fooling around, wasting time, and the Frankish army was dressed for winter so they could withstand the cold.

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The Muslims could not.

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So the Muslims didn't want to really attack Charles in this position.

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They wanted to draw him out into the open, but Charles wouldn't budge.

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So the battle finally began on the seventh day.

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The Muslim commander didn't want to wait any longer because it was getting colder, and so he trusted in the tactical superiority of his cavalry.

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This is something that commanders, when they have cavalry, they always will do this, they always trust their cavalry, and then, some days, this happened at Gettysburg.

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The cavalry just didn't show up, and Lee was stuck thinking he was going to get support on one side, and it never came.

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Well, it came late, however.

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They couldn't get the French to move out of their position.

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They kept hitting at them, they wouldn't move.

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They kept hitting at them and they'd resist.

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They kept hitting at them and resist.

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They didn't break.

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They were well-trained, they were accomplished, and they thought they did what was thought to be impossible.

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I want you to hear this they did what was thought to be impossible at that time, and infantry withstood a heavy cavalry charge.

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In military terms, that was almost never seen.

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Now, since this time, this has become a standard tactic against mounted cavalry, because they figured out that horses will not charge men in a fixed formation, and so Napoleon used this to large advantage.

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He would assemble his troops in blocks and the horses would just ride around them, but they wouldn't attack them, and so it didn't do any good.

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If, all of a sudden, all your horses are running around the enemy and now you're surrounded, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

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But they found that out, and they found it out partially through this thing that Charles did.

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They couldn't get them to budge.

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They were highly disciplined, highly motivated.

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They had been fighting all over Europe.

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They had been victorious.

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And one writer said the northern peoples, the Franks, remained as immobile as a wall, holding together like a glacier in the cold regions, and in the blink of an eye they turned on the Muslim invaders and virtually annihilated them.

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The king was struck down, the leader of the Muslims was struck down.

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They found him dead on the battlefield and suddenly, as they pursued the Muslims going downhill which is another thing, you never want to defend a position from an attacking army that's coming downhill.

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But they did.

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It was getting dark, it was getting nighttime and they made it to the encampment of the Muslims.

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But as it was getting dark and they couldn't see very well, they saw all the tents of the Muslims.

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They decided to pull back, said we'll finish this off tomorrow.

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When they went back the next day at dawn, they saw the tents, they saw the canopies just the way they had appeared the day before.

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They sent guys in to reconnoiter to see what was going on, and all of the Muslims had left, that were left.

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The remaining Muslims had all retreated off the battlefield, the battlefield.

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The fact that what happened essentially in this battle was the Muslims wasted so much time they didn't move at once to attack Charles and catch him off guard.

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They gave him enough time to establish an almost unapproachable position.

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They lost the element of surprise.

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Charles selected the place and Charles selected the time.

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You never want that to happen.

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The essence of Gettysburg is that the North got to the high ground first and the Confederates were fighting uphill for the next three days.

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General Hood from Texas asked Longstreet and Lee several times to allow him not to attack Little Round Top from the front uphill, but to go around and hit them from the back and the side where the slopes were less daunting.

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They refused, and the rest is history.

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You do not want to fight, he wrote Longstreet.

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Later he said that they could have defended Little Round Top with rocks.

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All they had to do was push rocks down the hill and we never would have been able to get up there, no matter how much artillery.

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Listen, listen, they almost did that.

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They ran out of ammunition, do you not?

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Have you not heard about this stuff?

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The, um, the, the, the colonel that was in charge of the northern forces on Little Round Top ran out of ammunition and they charged with bayonets downhill.

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They literally threw rocks at them.

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Oh my God, hallelujah.

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Okay, let's look at a couple more things and then we'll wrap this up.

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Okay, let's look at a couple more things and then we'll wrap this up.

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The commander of the Muslims assumed that the French would not come to the aid of the Aquitains, or they didn't care.

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He failed to assess the French straight before the battle.

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Know yourself, know your enemy better.

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He didn't scout the movements of the French and he decided to fight uphill.

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All of these things.

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You never advance uphill against the enemy, nor oppose him when he comes downhill.

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But they did both of those things.

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The invaders were burdened down with riches that they stole and this played an important part of the battle because it slowed them down from getting to a decisive point.

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It wore them out, it made them more tired.

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They had casualties because they had been fighting, so they weren't at full strength.

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When you have casualties, you either have to set up a field hospital and leave them behind at some place, or you have to drag them along, if they're capable of doing that.

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Here comes another point of military tactic.

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There's a military tactic in the principles of war called indirect action.

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If you don't know what that is, join the club.

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Most people don't.

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I didn't.

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When I first came across it, I went what in the world is that?

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What that means is weaker opponents, such as the Aquitains could have been bypassed.

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I said this earlier.

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You could have whipped them when you came back and you could have whipped them with maybe a part of your army.

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You didn't have to send the whole army after them.

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They weren't that strong, they weren't that good.

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You know, you could have just skipped them, gone around them and hit Charles with fresh troops, fresh legs, speedier, faster, but he didn't do that Case in point of indirect action is what the US Navy did in World War II as they went from Guadalcanal to Okinawa.

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They didn't attack every island in the Pacific from Guadalcanal to Okinawa.

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They didn't do that.

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There were some islands that just were not worth it.

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There wasn't anything those guys could do once their supply lines were cut off.

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Okay, so they made a strategic decision to bypass some and hit others.

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Bypass some and hit others.

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Bypass some and hit others.

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The ones that they bypassed.

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What would they do?

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They'd just surround the sea lanes around those islands.

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They couldn't be resupplied, they couldn't get off the island, they couldn't attack.

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They were essentially in prison on their own conquered island and the US military just figured we'll deal with them later.

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They are absolutely no threat to us right now.

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We'll just bypass them, surround them, let them go, we'll clean them up later.

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And then they went on ahead to mill it.

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Places that had air, that had airfields, that had ways that they could be a menace, they neutralized those places until finally they got to a place where they could build a B-29 airbase.

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That was the main point.

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They had to get close enough to Japan so that they could build a B-29 airbase so that they could start an air campaign against Japan.

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Are you following me?

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That was the objective Then.

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The next objective, once they annihilated virtually every city in Japan, the next stage was to go to the main islands just to the south of Japan, which was Okinawa and a couple of others, preparing for the invasion of Japan, which never had to happen because of the way they napalmed Tokyo into non-existence and the way they dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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But that was a perfect example of indirect action.

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They picked and chose where they wanted to hit and what they were going to do with the ones that they left behind.

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It was a strategic action.

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It was genius.

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If they had stopped and hit every island on the way, they'd have lost a whole lot more men, a whole lot more equipment.

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Conquering Japan would have taken a whole lot longer, and that's essentially what Japan thought they would do.

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But they just said we don't have to do that.

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The principle of indirect action says we don't have to do that.

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So we're going to follow that principle and be successful rather than wear ourselves out hitting things that are absolutely inconsequential.

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So I'm teaching this to some folks in Mexico.

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I said I'm going to give you an example.

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And we were like two days away from Halloween.

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I said in two days it's going to be Halloween.

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How many of you are going to send your kids out to beg for candy?

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Oh, no, no, no, no.

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We're not going to do that.

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I said well, what do you think we ought to do?

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Oh, we ought to bind the devil.

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You know, just do all this.

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You know, get those devils out.

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I said do you know how much the devil cares that you do that?

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Do you not know that Halloween is a smokescreen?

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The devil is trying to get Christians to be so devil minded about Halloween that they don't look at the really big targets.

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Glory to God, it's almost Halloween.

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You want me to tell you how this works, these things you know.

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Do you want your kids participating?

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Absolutely not.

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Do you want to make that the big spiritual warfare issue of 2024 in your church?

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No, because it's a smokescreen.

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It's not the important issue.

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What we need to be focused on and I said, I said what we need, and in that day I said you know what we really need to be focused on.

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We need to be binding devils in the Department of Economics at the University of Mexico.

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Because they're not.

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They're not just not deceiving your people, they're deceiving your government.

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They have turned your country into a pauper state.

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They've turned your country into a beggar, a borrower.

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You are hopelessly in debt and they teach you that debt is good.

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These people are devils off the scale.

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The Bible says that we are to attack the strongholds, not the smoke screens, not the little deceptions over here, but we're to attack the strongholds and take every thought captive that has not bowed itself to Jesus, amen.

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Well, I started to list them off.

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I had history departments, economic departments, government departments.

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I just started.

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I said let's just get into prayer right now and do some serious damage.

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We prayed for about an hour, just binding the paint off the wall.

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What was that?

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That was indirect action.

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We were going around the obvious targets and going and hitting targets of major strategic value that bringing them down would be a decisive victory.

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Glory to God, historians said about this.

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One said this battle must ever remain as one of the great events of history in the world Because upon its issue depended whether Christian civilization should continue or Islam prevail throughout all of Europe, 400 million square miles of territory.

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Speaking of this mighty victory, the arm of Charles Martel saved and delivered the Christian nations of the West from the deadly grasp of Islam.

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Another historian said of this battle there is no more important battle in the history of the world.

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Had Charles Martel failed, there would have been no Charlemagne, his grandson, no Holy Roman Empire, which existed till the time of Napoleon as the major ruling force in Europe.

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There wouldn't be any papal states.

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There wouldn't be any political or cultural entity known as Europe.

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There wouldn't be any papal states.

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There wouldn't be any political or cultural entity known as Europe.

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There would be no America.

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All this depended on Charles' containment of Islam from expanding into Europe while Islam was unified and able to mount such a conquest.

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Another historian ranked the victory of Charles Martel among those signal deliverances which have affected for centuries the happiness of mankind.

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Another said that the victory that was gained was decisive and final.

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That's what a decisive action does Whoever wins wins everything.

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Whoever wins wins everything.

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Whoever loses loses everything.

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The Muslims lost eventually because of that, lost all of this.

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It took a few hundred years, but they eventually lost all of this because they lost up here.

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That battle was so decisive.

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Muslim conquest was rolled back.

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Europe was rescued from that terror.

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The French fought in one solid mass, without breaking rank or without attempting to maneuver.

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Their victory was won by purely defensive tactics, which is a hard thing to do.

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But there was no pursuit, because Charles had determined not to allow his men to stir from the line or chase the foe until it was over.

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Until it was over, the Battle of Tours has often been represented as an event of the first magnitude for world's history.

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Because of this listen to this statement the penetration of Islam into Europe was finally brought to a standstill.

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For decades they had been trying to come up this way, from the east and into Europe this way.

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That was repulsed because of Greek fire and because of the courageous action of Christian men who had been impressed into gallery slave duty.

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Christian men who had been impressed into gallery slave duty turned the battle around over here.

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They were defeated.

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They were defeated from this side and their push into Europe would not happen for another 800 years.

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That was long enough.

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Like we said the other day, it was long enough for the Muslims to get there too late.

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You heard me read off some of the things that had happened.

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By the time they finally conquered Constantinople, luther had been born or Luther would be born a few years.

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From that point, the great thinkers and scientists and artists of the Renaissance were either a few decades away or had already been born and were doing what they did.

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Western civilization had already been created.

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By the time they got in, it was too late.

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It was too late.

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Praise God.

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He gave one wisdom, like he gave to Daniel, like he gave to Joseph, like he gave to Moses.

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To another, he gave a giant brain freeze and some stupid things that never should have happened, like he did to Pharaoh, like he did to Nebuchadnezzar, like he did to this guy, this Muslim leader.

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On the one hand, he gives wisdom.

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On the other hand, he brings confusion.

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On the one hand he gives supernatural favor.

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On the other, he lifts up his hand against when the enemy comes in like a flood.

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He only needed one man.

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His name was Charles Martel.

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Did Charles Martel know he was being used this way?

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No, I don't think so.

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I don't think so.

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I don't think he had any sense of the future of history in front of him.

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But I'm telling you what Europe defines its beginning with that man.

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And everything in our culture, everything in our culture living here in the United States, living here in Texas, everything in our culture flows out of the Western heritage of Europe.

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We are not Asians, we are not South Americans, we are not Africans.

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Okay, I mean, there's a goodly population of the country, that is that way.

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But the people that founded this country were Western Europeans.

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The concept of freedom and individual responsibility is a Western concept.

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The whole philosophical basis of how this country was formed flows all the way back into Rome and goes right through Italy, france, england.

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That's who we are.

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Take it or leave it, whether you like it or not.

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Some people don't like it.

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Some people think that you know it would have been better another way, but that other way didn't happen.

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What happened was that the Greek tradition of self-rule at the city-state level moved all the way through the formation of a republic in Rome, all the way through the formation of a parliament in England and all the way over across the United States into we, the people.

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And if it hadn't been for this battle in 732 AD, that would not have happened.

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That simply would not have happened.

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And that's why this battle.

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Some historians disagree with it, but I think the evidence is clear that if the Muslims get in and push right past Charles Martel, he is not the founder of modern day Europe, he's just some guy that got defeated.

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We probably wouldn't even know his name, but his grandson would be the first emperor of Europe.

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Praise God, first emperor of Europe.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God raises up a standard.

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The Muslims have a different tactic.

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Now they don't, they don't fight, they procreate.

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And then they put a.

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Before they infiltrate and procreate, they send a lie, and that lie is a decreased birth rate.

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A decreased birth rate In order for this whole thing to work.

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If you don't think these things are connected.

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You just you know you're in fairyland someplace In order for them to come in and take over by demographic means, which means that they produce more children than you do.

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So, over a period of time, whatever that period of time is, we're going to have more than 50% of the population, and then we will take control.

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Okay, the only way that works is to convince the existing population to decrease their reproductive level, and that takes a hundred years maybe of planning to get those lies into the school systems.

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Get those lies into into the church systems.

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To get those lies into the school systems.

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Get those lies into into the church systems.

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To get those lies into, you know, to get those lies into global warming conversation.

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We need to decrease the population.

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We need to.

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You know.

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We just need to replace ourselves.

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So each family only needs to have 2.1 children at 2.1, and they're having 10.

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You can just do the math.

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But they had to get that lie in and have it to be where it's.

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We're already at a place where that's irreversible.

01:00:27.974 --> 01:00:40.391
We are a dwindling people on the earth, because it's already been, you know, been convinced that two kids in a family is just terrible.

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Well, ask the Chinese.

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The Chinese is going to have their population cut in half by 2050.

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Because they have such a disproportionate balance of elderly people to younger people, they cannot win back what they're about to lose.

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They've already lost because of the one child rule.

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Once you get to a certain point and you're incapable of building it back, you get to a certain point and it's it.

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You're incapable of building it back.

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You're just going to and it'll hit some point of equilibrium at about 650,000 people or a million people, but then you're just.

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You know, you're down to United States level.

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You're no longer at at the Indian level.

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So the Indian Indians didn't buy that lie, and now they're the most populated country on the earth.

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Now, does that all buy you a cup of coffee?

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I'm not too sure, but you know, at the end of the day, if you want to throw bodies into a war, it makes a difference.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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So they had the devil had to sell the West the lie that having large families was a good thing, and once he did that, then he could move his military arm, islam, into Europe by ways of refugees.

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And then they start to procreate and replace, replace.

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So now you have situations like in Germany and France, where, if nothing is done, they'll be predominantly Muslim in a few years, something that they never could do militarily.

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They're doing because they got the West to surrender by ways of refusing to replace themselves.

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Glory to God, praise the Lord, amen, let's stand.