Friday Wrap-Up with Bob: January 9, 2026 (Transcript)

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Hi, Bob Barney again with The Plain Truth today, Friday wrap-up brought to you by ThePlainTruth.com and a lot of stuff’s happened this week to go over. We’ve had the ICE person or ICE official shooting the woman in Minnesota. We’ve had Trump with the Venezuela oil situation and what’s going on there and the Trump position about trying to annex Greenland and all of these things I want to talk about today in the wrap-up and what I think about it.

And here is something I think we’re seeing a fulfillment of prophecy and I always say The Plain Truth’s main message, remember this, is that God is behind the news and sometimes God is not behind every news you have and you read about every day. God is probably not involved when somebody gets shot by an ICE official but God is definitely involved when it comes to the Greenland thing and I’ll get into that with this Friday wrap-up and I want to explain what I mean by God being involved and what’s happening because when you read the Bible you know what the future headlines are going to be. And one of the major future headlines that someday is going to be all over your news if there’s still news at the time of the Great Tribulation whenever that begins and even before that begins, we know by reading the pages of the Bible who the players are in the world.

Who is Europe? Who is Germany? Who is Italy? Who is England? What’s Denmark’s role? And Denmark of course controls Greenland and Denmark is one of the tribes of Israel. It is the tribe of Dan, hence Danmark. And if you get a product from Denmark, I have some liquor.

I collect some liquor bottles from all over the world as one of my hobbies. I used to run a liquor store in former life back in the 1970s for a while. And when you get a product from Denmark it’s actually Danmark because it means literally the mark of Dan.

And you can go back to Genesis and you can see that the children of Dan whenever they moved to a new territory they named the place that they were living in after their father Dan. And so when you trace the migration of captured Israel, and remember Assyria captured Israel, moved them into Assyria which is modern-day Iraq, and eventually the Babylonians kicked out the Assyrians who are the modern-day Germans, and the Assyrians took the captive Israelis with them, the ten lost tribes as they’re known, and they went through the Caucasus mountains right below Russia. That’s where you get the name Caucasian from by the way.

And you can start tracing the migration of Israel by wherever Dan went because Dan would name the place after their father. For example, you know about the Dnieper River. That’s D-N is always standing for Dan because there’s no vowels in Hebrew.

And you have the Danube River, a river of Dan. You have London for example, a city of Dan. So Denmark is the homeland of the tribe of Dan.

And so when we’re seeing the situation with Greenland, which is controlled by Denmark, you’re seeing a fulfillment of prophecy that I don’t believe that most Americans, those that think that we’re doing the right thing by trying to annex Greenland, and by the way, if you really look at the treaty we already have with Denmark and Greenland, we can do anything we want to do in Greenland without annexing it. We can get all the minerals from them, we can put military bases there, which we’ve had throughout the entire Cold War. We don’t need to take over Greenland and try to be an imperial power like what, for example, Russia’s trying to be or China’s trying to be in the Pacific, which both are going to fail by the way when you understand who’s the players in the Bible.

And so what I think we are seeing today in this Trump administration is the reunification of Europe that will become the enemy of the United States of America, of Denmark, of England, of France. France is the tribe of Reuben, by the way, and the Netherlands, which is the, I believe, Neptali in the Bible, the tribe of Neptali. And Central Europe, under Germany, Italy, Australia, I mean Austria, I’m sorry, they are going to be the old Axis powers, are going to be the seat of what will become the final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire, controlled by an Antichrist who’s given his power by a false prophet, which I believe is the Pope in the Catholic Church, that’s what our forefathers even believed.

One of the reasons George Washington said, do not get involved in European wars or European affairs, because again, like I said, George Washington and our forefathers knew exactly who the Antichrist was going to come out of, and the end-time prophecies, because they read the same Bible you and I can read today. It’s been around for almost 2,000 years now, the New Testament and the Old Testament, longer than that. And when we go to what we’re learning a lot about this week, about people talking about Trump trying to do the Monroe Doctrine, well, this is not the Monroe Doctrine, because the Monroe Doctrine was really based on George Washington’s idea of the world, and so many other people of his day, was that we would consider North and SouthAmerica our sphere of influence, and we would stay out of the influences and the affairs of Europe and the rest of the world.

And if we’re going to be involved with Ukraine and Gaza and Iran and Iraq and all around the world and Taiwan and North and South Korea, then we are not following the Monroe Doctrine. So you can’t pick and choose the Monroe Doctrine to what you want to follow. John Kennedy tried to do the same thing, by the way, and what we ended up with was a Russia-controlled Cuba, because of it.

And what we’re going to see here is the Trump administration laying the groundwork of Europe, deciding we are the true enemy, which the Bible has already claimed that Europe is going to be our real enemy. It’s not going to be Russia, it’s not going to be China, it’s probably going to beJapan, who’s going to dominate again in the Pacific, because the Chinese are not the warlikepeople that the Japanese warrior class is, and a unified Holy Roman Empire based out of Rome,and I believe Germany, and we’re going to see like a retro World War II scenario all over again. It’s why I think some of the people like Herbert Armstrong thought in 1940, for example, that theGreat Tribulation had begun, and if you go back to the older Armstrong material, he really believedthat Mussolini in 1933, in the plain truth, he really believed Mussolini was the Antichrist.

He did believe that at one time, and he would turn out to be wrong, and he understood he waswrong by the end of World War II, when he, above all other people, the first, I would say,understood there was going to be a revival of Europe again, a United States of Europe. I don’tthink he envisioned, or Garnerturd Armstrong, his son afterwards, I don’t think they ever envisioned that it would be the United States of America being the reason that Europe would unite under an Antichrist power, but I think that is what we’re seeing. You’re seeing Europe really being upset more with Donald Trump and America than they are even with Russia or China, and what you’re going to find happening, biblical prophecy coming true, I don’t know when it’s going to be, when it’s going to take place, but I do know that Europe is going to eventually see America as their enemy.

When I say Europe, I’m not talking about England, and I’m not talking about necessarily France, Denmark, or the Scandinavian countries. I’m talking about Germany, Italy, Greece, Austria, the central powers of the World War I and World War II, all deciding that the United States of America is not their friend, and they need to defend themselves. I listened to a commentary the other day on television, and people were saying that Donald Trump is not worried about Europe, because Europe’s never going to be anything by themselves.

They need America for protection. Well, that’s a real misjudgment and misunderstanding of biblical prophecy, because Europe is going to be the dominant power by the time the Antichrist comes to power. Like I said, and I’m not trying to predict that it’s going to happen in our lifetime, but I think it’s going to start happening right now unless something really changes in the Trump administration.

He is laying the seeds, the groundwork, of Europe disassociating themselves with us, and that is not going to be good for the world, but it is going to fulfill biblical prophecy. I’ll be right back. Bob Barney for The Plain Truth.

This is the Friday wrap-up, and we hope you go to theplaintruth.com every day, where you go to the Plain Truth message board, you can go to Your Health Today, or the main page of The Plain Truth, or these podcasts, where you can listen to me or other people and other points of view as well on these podcasts every day, three times a day, Monday through Friday, two shows on Saturday, a Sabbath show, and usually an entertainment show Saturday evening, which is the Sabbath day, and again, one show on Sunday, another point of view that really wraps up the week as well, like these Friday wrap-ups are my point of view. So that’s theplaintruth.com. Please go there every day. So what I wanted to explain, again, is the United States is becoming a bully in the world, and I think this is the first presidency that we can say that we are the bully, and this is not going to bode well with people who are naturally, according to the Bible, going to be our enemy, and we’re seeing a Europe starting to unite, especially Germany is talking against American power, against Donald Trump, and although they are weaker than we are now, and they are kind of kowtowing to Donald Trump and to America, and we gleefully think it’s great, but what we are going to see in the end result is Germany building a very powerful European-only army, and that army is going to gain in power and prestige, and nuclear weapons is going to be also part of their arsenal, and if anything can be learned in the last 50, 60 years is any country that gets the bomb becomes a country that the United States really stops messing around with.

It’s the reason, by the way, that all these countries, all these Arab nations, and Pakistan, and India, and China, and all these third world nations want to get an atomic bomb, because they realize once they get that kind of power and a way to deliver to America and to their enemies in general, they are treated differently by our government. Look at North Korea, for example. You don’t see Donald Trump trying to push around North Korea because he realizes that guy’s a madman, and he had no problem sending nukes down into South Korea, Japan, China, or anywhere else they got to do it, or try to do an EMP strike on America.

Our electric grid in America is very vulnerable, not only to sunspots, but to EMP strikes, something that we really did in Venezuela, by the way. If you really read between the lines, we set off a bomb that totally darkened Caracas when we did the raid to capture Maduro. We shut off their electricity grid by an explosive bomb, and they’re not getting into it, but if you know the EMP situation and what a bomb can do, you can put out a power grid, and that’s what we did inCaracas, and that is what’s going to happen with our enemies against us.

So be aware with this Greenland situation, and just what’s going on between America and Europe in general with the trade war we have going on with Europe, and the bullying that we’re trying to do with Germany and Italy and the rest of Europe, it’s going to backfire. The Bible says it’s going to backfire, and I believe always the Bible is always going to prove itself to be right. Too many times historians and scientists like to find fault with the Bible, but when you really understand theBible, there is no fault to be found.

It is always predicting your future, the future headlines, the plain truth headlines of the future, so to speak, and it’s always going to be the future headline, and it’s always going to be accurate, and it’s always going to come to fruition, because God is never going to be wrong in his prophecies. Yes, we can delay prophecies against us if we go to God in prayer and fasting and ask for our national forgiveness, and God will give us more time, but ultimately the prophecies about the end time, about the Antichrist, about the King of the North and the King of the South, which is the King of the North is Europe, and the King of the South is a United States of Islam to the South, and they are the two powers that are battling back and forth. By that time, the United States of America will be under the thumb of this Antichrist Europe, and also at war with the United States of Islam.

We’re seeing that now. If you don’t see that, it’s because you don’t understand the biblical prophecy, and unfortunately we have too many voices that are just not talking about what God says is the future, and because these experts you watch on TV do not understand God and God’s prophecies, they make predictions and they make statements that just simply are false, and this program, and I’ve said this time and again, this program is trying to tell our listeners to pay attention to the words in the Bible, because they are going to be tomorrow’s headlines. It’s not going to be the headlines you think.

Whenever we think and we listen to these news channels and these pundits say what tomorrow’snews is going to be, somehow God always changes it whenever God wants to, and that’s going tocontinue happening in your lifetime. That’s not going to change. If we’re at the very end of timesor not, it doesn’t make a difference.

You’re always going to see, as we have in the past thousand years, when God’s hand gets involved, news events change and headlines change. Headlines can change overnight. With the sinking of the Lusitania, for example, one event in before World War I, or actually during World War I, brought America into the war.

Right up until the sinking of the Lusitania, I don’t think most Americans thought we’d ever be in that European World War I. We had no intentions of being in it, but it happened, and that’s how God can change the news and the headlines every single day in the blink of an eye, and that’s what’s going to happen, and I’m just trying to make people aware. I can’t give any words outside of the Bible. God does not come to me like he did, for example, Jeremiah or Isaiah, so I can’t say,thus says the Lord, because he came to me last night.

They could because God was speaking to them, but now he’s speaking to us only right now through the words of the Bible, and we have to take those words as the gospel, because that’s what they are. They’re God’s words, God’s predictions, which are going to come true. Just simply, that’s the plain truth.

Now, the second subject I wanted to get into is this shooting that happened in Minnesota, the woman that was trying to escape, and that’s what she was doing. She’s a troublemaker, and I’m going to make some statements here. It’s going to offend both sides, and I’ll tell you that right now.

If you’re on the side of the ICE agents, or if you’re on the side of the liberal morons who are trying to stop the ICE agents, the woman brought upon her own death. I’m not saying she deserved to die. I’m not saying she was trying to run over that ICE agent, because the video that I saw, it appeared to me she was an idiot, a moron, most liberals are today especially, and when they walked up to her car, she realized she was going to be arrested, and so she was trying to flee, and so she tried to escape from the guy that came up to her door, and when she did, within a second of her speeding away, she was shot three times, or three shots were fired, and she was killed instantly, and I think that was not good for ICE.

It was not good for the Trump administration. It was not good for all of us who want to see a rational ICE deporting the illegal criminals first, and not raiding cities where they’re not welcome. There is a reason why we are a republic form of government, and we’re not a true democracy.

Unfortunately, most people think today we are a democracy, and do not understand what a democracy is. I say this over and over again. A democracy is four people, three men and a woman, and the three men vote to rape and kill the woman.

That’s a democracy. A republic form of government is that same situation with four, but that woman has inalienable rights from God that cannot be taken away by a democratic vote. That is what the Bill of Rights is all about.

The Bill of Rights protects us from the tyranny of our own government against minority rights. The Bill of Rights is not for the American people as a whole. The Bill of Rights are for individual Americans, you and me, when we disagree with our government or with others, that we are protected of free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of search and seizure, freedom of testifying against ourselves.

All the things that totalitarian, demonic-type governments do to their people to control them, and that is what was going on, in my opinion, what’s going on right now with ICE. The states have rights to defend their own states, and the idea that we are picking on democratic states, it’s politics left and right, and both sides are equally as wrong as the other, and no one is thinking about what’s best for America and for the American public. All they’re thinking about is the nextelection, and they want to just throw red meat to their base, be it the MAGA base on the right, or the communist, stupid, idiotic, moronic base on the left.

Both have the same result, however, the destruction of the American form of government, of laws of a republic form of government, and that’s what’s happening right now, and we’re seeing the abolishment of America as we know it, unless we stop it, and I don’t see it stopping really soon. I see it getting worse, and I see more of these deaths happening, and I don’t know what the results are going to be, but they’re not good, and if you think what happened in Minnesota is good, if you’re on the side of Donald Trump, you’re wrong, because there is going to be a cognitive dissonance-type reaction when the American public as a whole will reject this kind of totalitarian-type movement into states where they’re not welcome in the first place. Now, is the mayor of Minneapolis or Governor Walz correct when they’re trying to incite riots, and that’s what the mayor was trying to do, was to incite riots against ICE agents.

That is illegal, and I wouldn’t have a problem if they were prosecuted, but prosecuted legally through a judicial system that our constitution requires, not from an executive branch who wants to act like a dictator, and that’s what’s happening here. I’m sorry I offend people, but I tell it the way I see it, and I’m never going to change. I’m not going to sell out because I agree with the policies of the person that I voted for three times, because I agree with what he’s trying to do.

I agree with trying to make America great again, but I don’t think we’re following that way right now. I think we are dividing America in a way that we will fall as a nation unless we can find a uniter. Great presidents are uniters, they’re not dividers.

If we are going to be divided against ourselves, then we are going to fall, and that is what prophecy, the Bible says, is going to happen to America. Because if you realize that we are the Israel of prophecy, the Jewish nation of Israel is misnamed. If you know your Bible, you know Judah is the name of the Jews’ nation, not Israel, and Israel was the name of the lost ten tribes, wherever Joseph is, is the name of Israel, and Joseph are two tribes, Manasseh, which is England and its offshoots, and Ephraim, which is the younger brother, which is us, the United States of America.

That’s what the Bible says, and the Bible shows that we are going into captivity before the great tribulation occurs. We are not going to be the dominant power of the world like so many people smugly think we are going to be. It’s not going to happen.

Maybe in the short run it’s going to happen, it’s going to look like it’s happening, but there will be a reaction that is not very good, and that’s my take on what happened in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it’s going to get worse unless some cooler heads prevail in both the state capitals as well as Washington, D.C., amongst the executive and amongst a do-nothing Congress that is absolutely not standing up for the right of the Congress to make war and to make policy and to spend money. It is not up to the executive to decide we’re going to bail out Venezuelan oil and give our tax dollars to oil companies to go get that oil. It’s just not the way we are supposed to run.

We’re supposed to be following the Constitution of the United States, and if you think we’re following the Constitution today, if you think that Barack Obama followed the Constitution, or the two George Bushes followed the Constitution, or Joe Biden followed the Constitution, or right now that Donald Trump is following the Constitution, you’re woefully wrong, and it’s that simple. And that’s all I have to say for the Friday Wrap-Up. We’re already up to 25 minutes, and I do want to get into, after this brief timeout, the weekend shows that we’re going to have for the Sabbath day tomorrow, and as well as Sunday.

So I’ll be right back after these words. You’re listening to The Plain Truth today on the plaintruth.com website. Go there every day.

Thank you. Well, one thing I want to get into before we go over the Saturday shows, Sabbath day shows, is I was waiting as late as possible to press time, then we have to put this show away. The Supreme Court was going to announce whether the tariffs are legit or not, so I think that won’t happen today, as of at least, what, four o’clock here.

So if it doesn’t happen today, then I guess it’s going to be sometime next week, and that probably will be the big news of the week, but you never know. Like I always said, God always can change things in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, anyway. Anyway, tomorrow is the Sabbath day.

We say that all the time. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy, and 7 11 a.m. on the Sabbath day, Saturday is the Sabbath. We always do some type of a religious show, or program, or documentary, or something, and tomorrow is a YouTube video about the traitor who saved the Bible, and it’s really the story of Josephus, and for those people who are not really up on their Bible, the scholarly people, there was a historian, a Jewish historian, about the time of Christ, who actually was very Romanized.

He was a Roman citizen, as well as a Jewish writer, and a lot of people think a lot of the things he wrote, he was a traitor to the Jewish cause, he was a Roman sympathizer, but anyway, he had a lot to do with the Bible, and he also had a lot to do with the proof that Jesus Christ existed, because he was not a Christian, but he wrote about him, and he wrote about his followers. It’s a very interesting story, we’re going to have 7 11 a.m. tomorrow morning, you can watch it anytime afterwards, it goes up then, but it’s always recorded on the Plain Truth Today podcast, so you can always listen to it later, and then 7 11 p.m. we are going to have a CBS mystery theater radio show from, believe it or not, 1975. It’s hard to believe this, but there was a lot of radio shows still going on into the 70s, not just the 40s, the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and 60s, but they had radio shows still going on in the 70s on the AM band at night, and tomorrow night’s sleepy mystery, or I’m sorry, CBS mystery is going to be called Sleepy Village, and I’m not going to get into that.

I haven’t yet heard it. I heard parts of it, it was quite interesting, and I read what comments people had about it, and it sounded like it would be a very good story, and I probably won’t listen to it until Saturday night myself at 7 11 p.m., and on Sunday, we already know what I’m going to put up Sunday. It’s going to be a two-way with Mark Halperin, and he’s really going to go over the ICE shooting in Minnesota, the latest information he had as of Friday.

We put this up today for Sunday because I think it’s going to be, when I watched the show today on YouTube, it was quite fascinating points of view, and today they also released the police cam of the incident, which showed her maybe brushing against him, but she was obviously trying to get away and didn’t really pay attention to what was going on, but anyway, that’s going to be Sunday morning at 7 11. Remember, we only have one show on Sunday. It’s usually some type of weekly wrap-up on YouTube, and that’s what it will be, Mark Halperin’s two-way from Friday.

Now, this is Bob Barney for The Plain Truth today, wishing everyone a blessed and happy Sabbath tomorrow and a very safe weekend. We don’t want to see anybody get hurt or killed over the weekend. Be safe, remember your God, remember, start reading the Bible, because the Bible is tomorrow’s headlines.

If you want to know what’s going to happen tomorrow, start reading the Bible today, and you will be educated, if you are open-minded, of what tomorrow’s headlines will be on The Plain Truth and everywhere else. So, until Monday, when I come back with another program, this is Bob Barney for The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com, the one place to go to to find out what’s happening in the news, and if God has anything to do with it, and what it means to you, your family, and your friends, and your future. That’s theplaintruth.com. Please visit that website every day.

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Bye-bye.