Friday Wrap-Up with Bob: June 26, 2026 (Transcript)

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Hi, Bob Burney for The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com, and it’s Friday Wrap-Up. We’re going to go over the big stories of the week, and if we have time, which I think we will today, we’re going to go over tomorrow’s Sabbath day shows. We don’t have a Sunday show up, but probably it’s going to be again Mark Halperin, like we did last Sunday.

Welcome to Friday Wrap-Up, and the thing I’m going to start this off with today was, I did yesterday, I did a show on death and the biblical idea of death. Before that played yesterday at noon, I did put up an immortal soul show from the Beyond Today television series that has the right, the right correct biblical teachings on the idea of the doctrine of the immortal soul, which is nowhere found in the Bible. In fact, the Bible is clear that only God, and that would be God the Father and Jesus Christ, the Word of God, are the only two beings in the Bible that is called immortal.

God only has immortality. That is right out of the Bible. Angels do not have immortality.

People mistakenly believe that angels cannot be killed. That’s not the case. As a matter of fact, the Bible hints to that this devil himself will be utterly destroyed after he’s released from his prisonduring the thousand-year millennium, and will eventually be terminated by God, destroyed justlike anybody else can be destroyed.

And we went into the thing with Jesus, you know, do not fear the person or those who can kill the body, but not the soul, but rather fear him, meaning God, that can kill both body and soul in a hellfire. And so that was a pretty good topic that we went on yesterday. It was, I think, a show about death, and it was a little different than our other shows.

I did play in the morning the immortal soul thing, just showing you it’s not found in the Bible by Beyond Today, but my talk was mainly about the idea that death is a tool that God gives toactually control not only the people, the fear of death, the regular people, everyone has a fear ofdeath, animals have a fear of death, but also to control good Christians, because, you know,knowledge begins with the fear of the Lord. What’s the fear of the Lord? Well, the fear of the Lordis really what the Lord can do to you if you do not obey and follow in his precepts. Is it not the case? Fear comes from the idea of death, and the Bible is clear that the last enemy of mankind, of all creation, for that matter, is death.

That’s the last thing that has to be conquered. Now, Christ did conquer death for himself, and he set a precedence that we are going to follow if we are Christians. And it’s not going to heaven, and it’s not going to hell and burn forever and ever in a hellfire and be tormented day and night.

After all, what kind of loving God expects you to forgive everyone? But God does not forgive anyone that he considers lawless or not obedient, or some poor slob in Africa that never even heard the gospel. And according to many religious dogmas, that person’s doomed for eternal suffering in hell, because he never even heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s nonsense.

And it’s a tool that the Christian religions, starting with the Catholic Church, but all the Protestants have picked it up as well, to control people through fear. It’s okay if God controls you through fear, but it’s really not okay to control others through fear when you’re not God. It’s almost the same as blasphemy, in my opinion.

So if you didn’t listen to that, I think you ought to go back and listen to the show that I gave, because, again, I’m going to say right now, I have been a believer. I came kicking and crawling andfighting all along at first, but I’ve been a believer in what we promote here on The Plain Truth for some almost 50 years now, 48, I believe. And it didn’t come easy, but I will tell you, even 48 years later, 71-year-old Bob Barney is afraid of dying, afraid of the unknown, even though by reading the Bible, we know the known.

We know it’s going to happen, but there’s a difference in reading it and then experiencing it. And this fear of death is a control over all of us. And so I’m not going to belabor the point on a Friday wrap-up, but I do think it was a topic that we haven’t really done for a long time on The Plain Truth.

And I never gave the idea that God uses the fear of death even for his chosen elect, because it is something that makes you have to stop and think, am I doing what God wants me to do? And will I be a part of that first resurrection where the Bible tells us plainly, if you’re a part of the first resurrection, you have no fear of the second death that will happen to those that are in the general resurrection. You read that in Revelation, the last few chapters of Revelation, you read where there is a general resurrection of all non-Christians, or people who thought they were Christians, but they weren’t. And they are judged by their works, they’re judged by how they live their life.

And if they are found in the book of life, they will be given another human chance, another carnal, mortal chance to go through the whole process without the inconvenience of a devil over them whispering in their ear, like what happens to us today. You know, the devil, we say this all the time, the devil has its own airwaves. Your brain is a radio station, picks up God’s word, but it also picks up the devil’s.

Well, that’s going to be removed during the time of the millennium. And that radio wave will be shut off, that channel you have in your brain to pick up the devil’s messages will be turned off. So those people who come through the great judgment, seat thrown judgment, as it’s called, those people are going to have an easier time than we have today, because they’re not going to have the influences over them that we do.

Christ made it quite plain when he walked on this earth as a man, that it’s very hard. The road isvery narrow. The path is very small and narrow that leads to life.

And it’s very wide and broad that leads to destruction. And it’s very hard in this world, because the Bible says that the God of this world, of this age, it doesn’t mean the world as created. It means the age of mankind is actually the age of the devil, Lucifer, who is the God of this world.

I didn’t make that up. You can find that, you can put that in any search engine, who is the God of this world, according to the Bible. And you’re going to get the passage from Paul saying that Satan is the God of this world.

And God has given Satan all of the authority over anyone who’s not a Christian in this world. And that is why tragedies happen, because mankind has turned his back on God, and God has kind of turned his back on man, except for those he’s calling now. The good news is those who didn’tmake it the first time around have a chance, if they have not lived an absolute evil life, where their name is not even found in the book of life, and they will be destroyed right then at that great judgment seat.

But those who make it through there, their name is found in the book of life, they will, believe it or not, they will have another chance without the influence of the devil causing harm. Well that was the story that we had there. The next thing I’m going to take a quick time out for the plain truth, but we’re going to get back to the Iran and United States talks for peace.

And remember this is not a treaty yet. This is just a memo of understanding of what they’re going to talk about in the next 60 days, if they can even settle on this. And that should give you a clue where I think we’re going with this so-called peace deal.

I’ll be right back. Hi, Bob Barney for The Plain Truth Today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com. This is the place to go to to find out what’s happening in the world, what it means for you and your family, and what you can know and maybe do something about in the future to protect yourself, or at least know what you can do to have another life coming after you die, and you may be part of that great resurrection that we’ve talked about in the beginning of this show. That’s The Plain Truth Today, the podcast, it’s on three times a day, Monday through Friday, 7-11 a.m. and p.m., and noontime.

And most of the noontime shows are done by me most of the time, but we put a lot of other points of view on. Some of those are points of view, by the way, I do not agree with, but we do put different points of view on. We think that is very important.

Well, we’re back to the Friday wrap-up, and we’re going to talk now and play a little bit of thing about these talks. It’s been going on now for two, three weeks. There’s been a ceasefire, but there really hasn’t been a ceasefire.

Iran looks for every excuse to renege on what they seem to promise to people. I don’t know who’s telling the truth. To be honest, that’s pretty disheartening when you think about it, that you don’t even know if your government is telling the truth.

But if you really understand our government for the last 50 years, you have to realize the deep state of our government hasn’t told the American people the plain truth now for a long, long time. And we’re just experiencing more and more of this, and this war has really disrupted the economy and the whole world’s economy, and we’re going to get into that in a minute as well. But what I wanted to talk to you now is this update on the U.S.-Iran peace talks.

And again, about 12 hours ago now, Tehran closed to Shehzad Ahmad again, and they’re blaming Israel because what they’re trying to do is put a wedge between the United States and Israel, the last hope for any democracy or republic form of government, a democratic form of government in the Middle East. It’s not going to come from the Muslims, I got news for you. It’s going to come only out of the United States’ influence with the cooperation of our brother, Judah, which we call today Israel, which is really not the real name.

But I’m going to play this now and just listen to this latest report that came in last night. Who’s the dominant player at the world’s most critical oil choke point? Battle for Hormuz over. With Tehran signaling, it still holds the strongest leverage.

IRGC lays down Hormuz laws, warning global shipping to follow rules set by Iran’s security forces. Mojtaba using Hormuz trump card to strengthen Tehran’s hand ahead of a final peace agreement. IRGC Navy warned ships to use only Iran-approved maritime routes while transiting the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.

The force said any transit outside officially designated shipping corridors is prohibited, according to Press TV. In a June 25th statement, the IRGC described the use of unauthorized routes as both unacceptable and potentially dangerous. The Navy said all vessels must coordinate with Iranian authorities before entering or transiting the waterway.

The warning came days after Chief Negotiator Bagher Galabad pledged what he called a new reality in Hormuz. Iran’s parliament speaker said the crucial shipping lane would never return to its pre-war operating conditions. The issue of Hormuz restrictions remains one of the most sensitive unresolved matters, following the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding.

The agreement signed by Washington and Tehran seeks to halt the cycle of escalation,confrontation and retaliation. Under the MOU, Iran agreed to facilitate commercial shippingthrough the corridor during a 60-day implementation period. However, Tehran has repeatedly stressed that safe passage remains conditional on coordination with Iranian authorities.

The latest IRGC warning reinforces Iran’s intention to strictly enforce those requirements and navigation conditions. Iran has installed its heaviest ever offshore oil platform in the Persian Gulf, a move that underscores both its technical capacity and its determination to work aroundsanctions pressure. The new P4 platform, weighing about 6,200 tons, was deployed at theReshadat oil field roughly 90 kilometers south of Laban Island in the Gulf.

Officials say the structure was fully designed and built inside Iran, highlighting domestic engineering and manufacturing despite years of U.S.-led sanctions restricting foreign technology. The P4 is expected to boost Reshadat’s crude output by about 35,000 barrels per day, adding a significant new stream to Iran’s offshore production. In addition, the platform can inject around 80,000 barrels per day of water into the reservoir, a key technique used to maintain pressure and sustain current production levels over time.

Iranian engineers used a complex float-over installation method to position the massive topside on its base, reflecting growing expertise in advanced offshore construction techniques. Well, you got to admit, that doesn’t sound like they are the loser in this war, does it? It sounds like they’re calling the shots, they close the strait whenever they want to, and we are basically helpless to do anything. So if we’re having this kind of trouble, if we are having this kind of trouble with just a memo of understanding, and this is not even the peace talks about getting rid of nukes and all the stuff that we’re saying out of our government that they have agreed to, well, I don’t think really that anybody seriously can think that Iran is actually going to get rid of their nuclear weapons program, they’re going to get rid of their missile program, or anything else.

They have now a complete grip on the Strait of Hormuz, there are now actions underway by the other Gulf states now to find different routes to get their oil out of their home, you know, their countries, and forgetting about the Strait of Hormuz, but that’s going to take a long time before that happens. Eventually Iran’s going to be held hold in a bag, but I think when Iran gets defeated, it will not be by the United States of America, it will be by a coalition of Arab states that is going to be controlled by what Daniel, the prophet Daniel, in the book of Daniel, in the Bible, that’s where you go to find this, there is going to be what is called a king of the north, which is the Antichrist, and it’s based out of Rome, the Holy Roman Empire, it could be a German leader like Allah, World War Two, all over again, but there is another king that arises according to Daniel, and this really happened when we consider the Crusades, but at the end time when there’s a king of the north, the Antichrist, his biggest enemy is going to be a king of the south, which is a United States ofIslamic nations that go from North Africa all the way over to Afghanistan, and I don’t think Iran’s going to escape this.

 I do believe this king of the south is going to be very violent, he’s not only going to first oppose the west, which will eventually happen according to the Bible, but at first he’s going to get his kingdom in order, and he is going to subdue all of the nations, and that includes Iraq and Iran, probably the UAE, and even Saudi Arabia, and the man may come from Saudi Arabia by the way, will be conquered by this king of the south, so ultimately Iran is going to be defeated, this regime, not by the United States, but by the king of the south at first, but then as you read on in the book of Daniel, you’re going to find out that the king of the north, the Antichrist, that you, everybody understands who the Antichrist is coming out of Europe, that personages, the Antichrist is going to attack the king of the south, and to totally annihilate the king of the south, and in Revelation, I believe it’s nine, but I don’t have that right in front of me, but in Revelation you can find this for yourself, there’s going to be a massive, what appears to be a nuclear strike from the king of the north to the king of the south…. 

and everyone between the Tigris and Euphrates river, and it’s, they say, a fifth of the world’s population, 20 or 25 percent of the world’s population is going to die in a single day, and that is obviously a nuclear strike that the king of the north, Europe, does against the king of the south, and ultimately the king of the south is going to be destroyed, setting up the end time tribulation period of three and a half years, when it looks like the Antichrist is unstoppable, he’s going to do whatever he wants to do, he’s going to be the savior, the messiah for the Jewish nation that we call Israel, the nation of Judah, and they’re going to look at him as their messiah, that’s what Jesus even said, I come in my own name, and you don’t accept me, but another is going to come in his name, and he you will accept.

that is what’s going to happen here, so anyway, to move on to the next story that’s just as important, is this idea, and I did a show on this, I think it was Monday, or maybe last week, about Trump turning on our brother Jewish nation, if you understand the bible, you know the United States of America is part of lost Israel, we are the Ephraim of the bible, every time Ephraim prophecy is mentioned, it means us, and every time Manasseh’s prophecy is mentioned, it means Great Britain, and every time Judah’s prophecy, the nation of Judah, you look in your bible, and you can clearly see the nation of Judah, are the people, the Jewish people, who today call their homeland Israel, but in biblically, it’s Judah, and there is a passage in Isaiah, saying that the United States is going to war against England, and England against America, and both our nations will actually be against, set its sights against the nation of Judah, which we call Israel today, and this was going on quite rapidly in this last few weeks, between Trump and Netanyahu, I’m going to play this for you in a second, tensions are boiling over between former allies, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, and the reason is simple, they started a war on Iran together, and now just one of them is negotiating with Tehran, how it’ll end, Israel considers Trump’s signing of a memorandum of understanding with Iran, a capitulation to the Mullah regime.

 Netanyahu wants to keep fighting, in fact, in Lebanon, Israeli forces are still clashing with Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, that’s a non-starter for Tehran, and an issue that threatens to derail the talks currently being held in Switzerland, is this just a bump in the road, or an existential challenge to a one solid alliance, and to the point, we ask, Trump versus Netanyahu, is the U.S. betraying Israel for a deal with Iran, and in this person’s opinion, mine, I believe that’s what’s going on, Trump wants to deal so bad with Iran, he’s willing to give up every point to help Iran gain whatever they want, and we lost a war, and people don’t want to admit that, but we lost this war, and to his credit, maybe he realized we weren’t going to win this war, that our military is not what we make it out to be, we like to sit there and wave the flag, thinking our military can do anything, but it can’t, we are not necessarily, I mean, we could bomb Iran off the face of the earth with nuclear bombs, but I don’t believe that is an answer that any president is going to do.

That’s because that would unleash other people sending bombs all over the place as well, Russia has the A-bomb, China has the A-bomb, who knows who else has A-bombs that are our enemy, but I know when this is all over and done with, Iran is going to be getting atomic weapons, and so then will Saudi Arabia, so will Kuwait, so will United Arab Emirates, and we’re going to see the proliferation of nuclear bombs everywhere, and this war is the leading cause of why that’s going to happen, now that the war is kind of winding down militarily, we’re trying just to get out of there any way we can, and I think the American people are actually behind what Trump’s doing right now.

 we saw the instant plummeting of oil, one of the things that we saw that was predicted by Donald Trump, to be honest, he said, you know, it would drop as fast as it went up, and it’s actually dropping quicker than it went up, it’s already at a pre-war level, as of this morning, it was like, I think, $69 a barrel, and if gasoline really reflected thereal price of $69 a barrel, gas really should be about $2.25 to $2.39 a gallon in most places, and Donald Trump is right, when he says gas companies are kind of gouging the American public, what’s new? Big business has gouged the American public for years, and big government,including Donald Trump’s big government, helps that along, but that is the story, and we see for the first time since January, gold is below $4,000. 

Now, if you listen to this show, you know, I still believe gold is where you want to be, it’s the safest investment next to silver, it’s better than silver, that you can put your money right now, but the reason that people don’t want to hold anything, stocks is going to go real fast, it’s going to be a bloodbath on Wall Street eventually, because people just don’t know what’s going to happen anymore, you have to admit, you don’t have a clue what’s going to happen tomorrow, nobody does, except God, and we do know what’s going to happen in the future by reading the Bible, we know the United States is going to be eventually defeated and put into captivity, we know that there’s going to be a king in the north, we know there’s going to be a temple in Jerusalem rebuilt.

The Jewish people are actually going to consider this Antichrist figure coming out of Europe, their savior, their messiah, that’s what’s going to happen, but that might be a little longer down the road, but that’s why it’s important to understand, to watch Europe, to watch the Middle East, to watch what’s going on in the world, and realize what the plain truth tries to show you, there is a biblical movie being played out down below here that you can follow in the pages of the Bible of what’s going on, America is at a crossroads right now, and America is in decline, I’ve said this for a while.

 it’s not popular to say, and people don’t want to hear it, but that is the case, so what we’re going to end this show is again a little different than usually, we’re going to talk about this weekend’s programs, yes, but before we do that, I’m going to talk about just in general, God has a set of laws we’re supposed to follow, they’re called the ten commandments, and although every religious figure in America wants to see the ten commandments posted in all the schools, in all government buildings, but they don’t want them posted in their churches, because they don’t want to follow the ten commandments, because most Christians believe Jesus did away with the law, and so if you believe he did away with the law, we’re a lawless society, and we don’t have the ten commandments, and if we did really believe in the ten commandments, as sometimes they say they do, then what? 

Tomorrow’s the Sabbath day, it’s never been changed, it’s not the Sabbath day for the Jews, the Sabbath day was instituted for Adam and Eve, they’re not Jews, they’re the parents of every human being on earth today, the Sabbath day is a cornerstone of the ten commandments, and yet we don’t follow the Sabbath, do we? Well, the plain truth does, that’s why tomorrow, for example, we’re going to have a 7 11 a.m., we only have two shows on Saturdays, the Sabbath day, the a.m. show, the religious part of the show, is going to be a YouTube video, which is called the shocking connection between the Phoenicians and the ancient English, and you’re going to find out that the nation of Israel, which were 13 tribes, Judah is only one of those tribes, they went all over the world, the known world at the time, and many people that we don’t know who they are in history, but we really do if we understand the Bible, were people from Israel, mainly from the tribe of Dan, and Ephraim, and Manasseh, that traveled all the way through Europe, all the way to Great Britain, there was a huge tin mining trade by the time of the Roman Empire, and many people believe, I’m one of them, that Joseph of Arimathea was Jesus’ uncle, Mary’s uncle, and he had a wealthy tin mining operation in Great Britain, and many people believe that the infant boy Jesus visited Great Britain.

I know a lot of people hearing that today, so that’s nonsense, but wanna know what? There’s a lot of historians, there’s a lot of people who’ve done the research over the many, many years, this is not us, this is plain truth fact, that the nation of Great Britain, the nation of England, are descendants of lost Israel, and that’s an important thing to know, not for your salvation, but to know what’s happening, and what’s gonna happen to the world, and what Jesus promises is gonna happen, so that’s tomorrow morning’s show, then the PM show, we’re gonna have another short story, this one’s an audio book, and it’s called The Sensible Thing, it’s by, it’s a short story, like I said, it’s by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a very famous 1920s, 1930s writer, Great Gatsby, people would know is from him, a contemporary, and a friend of Ernest Hemingway, they were young writers together in Paris back in the 1920s, early 1920s, and each one of these people found great fame, and so this is probably considered one of the greatest short stories that F. Scott Fitzgerald ever wrote, so we’re gonna have the audio on tomorrow night, 7-11 PM, like I said, we don’t have a Sunday show planned for yet, but that’s the shows for tomorrow. I want to finish up before I close out and say goodbye for the weekend, by saying that I do wish that people would investigate the Sabbath day, I wish they would really open up their Bible, and maybe use the Plain Truth articles, maybe other articles, good AI searches, and realize that man never had a right, the Catholic Church is who changed the Sabbath day to Sunday. They had no right to do so, and even Catholic writers will tell you that.

In fact, every Protestant theologian of the day, especially in the 1700s and 1800s, who themselvesfollowed a Sunday day of worship, admitted that there was nowhere in Scripture could you provethat you were supposed to meet on Sunday, because they say that the fourth commandment is for the Sabbath day, and it’s never been changed. You can do your own research, and you’ll find what I just said is true, and once you find that’s true, then you got to start asking yourself, are you a member of the right Church of God, or, and we’re not a church by the way, we’re not, you know, you don’t join us, you can find your own thing, you can do it on your own family, like we have for some 45 years, my wife and I. You can do it on your own, you don’t have to be a member of a group. As a fact, most groups are probably more pagan and non-Christian than they want to pretend to be, but the Sabbath day, you should be following, and you can do so in your own home.

You can do your own research and start reading the Bible. The Bible is as timely now as it’s ever been. Well, I hope everyone has a blessed Sabbath day tomorrow, that you discover it, you follow it, and you obey it, and you rest on it, and I also hope that everyone has a safe weekend as we’re getting ready for the July 4th, coming real soon now, the 250th anniversary of America, and I don’t think we have another 250 years left, to be honest.

This is Bob Barney for The Plain Truth, today’s Friday wrap-up, saying thank you for listening, and until Monday, when I’ll be back, bye-bye.