What They're Not Telling You About the War with Iran
The Deep End With Lecrae
Lecrae
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Lecrae goes deep on the Iran conflict from a spiritual lens nobody else is using. Not political. Not partisan. Just honest wrestling from a believer trying to figure out what it means to follow Jesus in a world that's always at war.
He breaks down the four frameworks Christians use to think about war, pacifism, just war, Christian nationalism, and peacemaking, and applies each one to what's happening right now. He reacts to the military commanders calling this a holy war, the Crusades parallel nobody wants to talk about, the White House TikTok that made him emotional, and the fact that the fastest growing church in the world is in the country we're bombing.
This isn't a news episode. It's a soul check.
Topics covered: Christian ethics of war, just war theory, pacifism, Christian nationalism, Pete Hegseth, end times theology, Ezekiel 38-39, the Iranian underground church, Russell Moore, Wendell Berry, what war does to the people watching it, kingdom over nation.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so let me be honest with y'all. When I heard about the conflict in Iran, I didn't know what the heck was going on. |
| 0:07.3 | And I don't think most people do. They think he might be dead. There's a bunch of edios that Israel is released, clearly AI. |
| 0:15.8 | The Bible says that this attack will come on Israel from the north and the south, and that that will be the final war to end all wars that will usher in the end of time. |
| 0:23.3 | When these things line up, the end of the world will happen. And if it's not happening fast enough, then it's on me to make it happen. |
| 0:31.5 | At the surface, that's evil. |
| 0:33.1 | U.S. military commanders have reportedly been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical end times selling the complex as a holy war. |
| 0:42.3 | It's the epitome of the Crusades. How did that fare? |
| 0:45.3 | Scroll through social media right now and you're going to find Christians quoting scripture to support the war. |
| 0:50.3 | You're going to find Christians quoting scripture to oppose the war. |
| 0:52.3 | But here's where it gets a little tricky from me. |
| 0:55.0 | This is the deep end with La Cray. |
| 1:00.0 | All right, so let me be honest with y'all. |
| 1:04.0 | When I heard about the conflict in Iran, I didn't know what the heck was going on. |
| 1:09.0 | And I don't think most people do. |
| 1:13.3 | Like depending on who you listen to, you're probably getting completely different stories. |
| 1:17.0 | There's sides saying this war is very necessary. |
| 1:21.0 | It's about stopping a real threat. |
| 1:23.0 | And there's another side that's saying this is reckless and it did not have to happen and if you're just |
| 1:28.9 | a regular person trying to make sense of it all you're probably like wait what what is actually true |
| 1:33.6 | i think there's a lot that's being hidden from us now here's what we do know the whole thing escalated |
| 1:40.8 | at the end of february the u.S. and Israel launched major strikes inside Iran. |
| 1:46.1 | Iran responded with missiles and drones across the region. And now it's not just Iran and Israel and the |
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