Welcome back to Liberty Insider.
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Before the break
with guest Alan Reinach,
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we were talking, well,
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initially we started off talking
about the Citizens United case
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that has really
empowered corporations
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essentially as individuals
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and changed the
whole electoral process
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or not the electoral
but the process building up
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to an election,
fund rising and so on.
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And I want to come
back to Citizens United,
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Lincoln, because there was
one particular conservative
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who donated $60 million
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to try to get Mitt
Romney elected president
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and obviously it didn't work.
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And so people are
tended to be lulled into
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a sense of false securities
though Citizens United
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is not going to
be a game changer.
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Where it's a game changer is
at the congressional elections,
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at local elections, congressmen
are being cowed into submission
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by the threat of $3 million
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as what it takes to
unseat a congressmen.
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And there are
plenty of millionaires
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and plenty of corporations
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that would not blink
at spending pretty well.
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But we've already
seen the game changer,
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it's a corrupting influence.
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The type of--you
know, is a swift-boating
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I mean it's just become a term
in language is swift-boating.
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I don't think that sort of thing
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would happen
without this phenomena.
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There is one conservative
industrialist family
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that's well known that
has started to implement
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the strategy of
reshaping the Republican Party
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according to the tea party.
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And we've seen the dire
impact that that has had
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in bringing
Congress to its knees.
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Congress is almost
completely dysfunctional because
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it is no longer a
place of compromise,
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if it's a place of ideological
purity nothings gonna get done.
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Let me-- I mean, I don't know
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what's your
likely response to this
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but this is not
a direct parallel
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between modern packs not
packs but the packs of Americana
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and the system of
empire, pseudo empire
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that America
represents and the Roman Empire
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but you're
talking about Congress.
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There was a corruption of
the power of the senate in Rome.
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What--do you
remember your history, what--
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wouldn't that dysfunction
lead directly to autocracy.
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Well, we have
had the accumulation
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of executive power
the imperial presidency,
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we've been writing about
it at least since the 1960's.
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But, you know, for
all the conservatives
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that like to
criticize Obama's use of power,
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he inherited it as it were.
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If you have it,
you're gonna use it.
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You know, using drones.
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You know, using drones
as a primary instrument
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of the war and
terror as a substitute
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for sending boots on the ground.
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Yeah, killing American
citizens with the use of drones
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without due process of law
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which is taking place
under this administration.
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But unless I'm forgetting
some of our Roman history,
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there was a shift
within the senate,
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there was always the aristocracy
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if you like-- but I
think it became consciously
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the wealthy families represented
there--the oligarchs of Rome
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and that removed
them from the people
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because this was always
been to represent the people.
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And once that happened
they became dysfunctional
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because it was like
mortgages of the capitalized
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to pick another
illustration from Italy.
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And--no I don't believe these--
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I'm not suggesting parallels
are direct because what really--
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well, we were saying
working through Roman
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and now today, it's human nature
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how it works out
as self interest.
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The reality is we
have an increasing divide
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between the one
percent and the 99
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and the fact is the mega
rich and the corporations
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are increasingly
dominating our political polices
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and our debates and shaping
the politics for the nation.
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And those policies
are not necessarily
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in your best interest or
mine and those of the listeners.
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You know, I
believe the TARP program
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for example was necessary.
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Did we need to pump liquidity
into the banking system
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to keep it from collapsing? Yes.
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But did we need
to do more than that.
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Did we need to pump
liquidity into Main Street
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and do something to
help Main Street recover?
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There is a reason
why five years later
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we're nowhere close to
the level of employment
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that we had before the collapse
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and the economy
is limping along,
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it's because of
policies that have been
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contouring to Wall Street.
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Back to our text
how now--you know,
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you're wealthy because
you held it back by fraud.
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I mean, political
developments countries
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can do them right or
wrong but what the root here
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I think is the changed
attitude towards fellowmen
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and a Christian
religious sensibility
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is a moderating force
and an equalizing force
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and that's being
withdrawn literally.
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You and I believe this
and the Bible, indicates that
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at the very end
of earth's history
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God will no
longer strive with men.
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His parable no longer strive--
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So we're now more, and more
under the natural inclinations
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of people and there is more
people that haven't accepted God
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or a higher power and so
these things follow through
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to their logical
end which is despotism,
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it's unconcern for the--
for the common person, the poor.
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People often ask
Me, Lincoln, 'cause
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I do a whole series on
the coming economic collapse
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from a Biblical perspective.
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And they ask me if you know,
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what's gonna bring this about?
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And of course the
Bible doesn't tell us
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and I don't have a crystal ball
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but I'll take a lesson
from the example of Greece.
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You know, Greece is continuing
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to be a drag on
the European Union.
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And I ask my
brother who is--you know,
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I'm the first in
three generations
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to leave Wall Street.
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My whole family
has been in Wall Street
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for three generations.
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And he is a trader,
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I said, how is it
that a 23rd rate economy
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can have such a dire
impact on global markets.
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Well, it's
because of centralization,
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it's because of globalization.
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The reason that
we have the potential
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for the kind of
global economic collapse
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that Revelation portrays is
because of this consolidation,
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this globalization
that is tying everything up
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into a nice neat bundle that
can burn with one flash point.
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You must have been
reading Ellen White.
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One of the pioneers--
Binding in bundles to be burned.
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Seventh-day
Adventist Church pioneer
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and a visionary Ellen White,
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she made that
comment about the end of time
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that-- she use
confederacies. Yes.
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Confederacy of business,
confederacies of ideology,
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They're uniting and
we've seen-- I mean,
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the takeovers in business,
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the European Union
collecting countries
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when the Soviet Union collapsed.
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It seems to be the
spirit of the times. Right.
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And, yes, we see it
in the prophetic sense
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but it's clearly happening
before everyone's eyes.
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It is. And-- And I'm
surprised that it's happening
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because apart from anything
else I thought I studied this
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that the lesson of World War I,
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was that these bundles
lead directly to World War I.
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Right. It's a bad phenomenon.
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It's sort of whole or nothing,
we all gonna down together.
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Right.
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So if there is one thing though
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rather than take a
passive attitude or you know,
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fatalistic attitude
there is nothing I can do.
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For starters the
role of the church
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is to be
prophetic, not priestly.
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The priesthood is
part of the establishment,
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part of the status quo and helps
to maintain the social order.
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The prophets are
apart from the social order
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and they are to call the
society to a higher level.
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Now if we as a church are
going to call for repentance,
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call for revival, call for a
higher standard of moral living
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then our footprint, our carbon
footprint has to be reduced.
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Our-- you know, consuming
the products of slave labor,
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we have to think twice about
what products we are buying
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and who is making them.
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You know, we have to
start-- And which investments--
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We have to start
applying morality
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to the decisions
of our everyday life
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and then we have the
courage to talk about
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how morality influences
all of our decisions in life
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and it's not just
about, you know, the issues
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for example of
sexuality that are the things
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that church is
probably speaking about.
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We need to be
morally consistence
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what you are saying. Right.
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And also when you say prophetic
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that's not to condemn the world
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but to call the world to
answer to a higher authority
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and put them on
their best behavior. Well--
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And the-- there's a
law that expects them
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to behave differently.
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That is-- every generation
the prophets and the preachers
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have decried the
moral decline of the age.
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Unfortunately Jesus says,
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which of the
prophets haven't you killed.
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So it's not always
in a self, you know,
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you do not think
in your own time.
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But it still needs
to be done correctly.
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I don't think of--
let me say prophetic
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it can't be good to just
sort of lash out at the world
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but call it to a
higher, higher calling.
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But you know, it is a myth
that too many Christians have
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that somehow the free
market is Biblical or Christian.
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The free market
is built on greed.
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There is that
famous Michael Douglas
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line in the movie where he
says, in the sequel he says,
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I used say the greed is
good now it appears to be legal.
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Well, Christians should not
be endorsing a system of greed,
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we should be
speaking a prophetic voice
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to a higher moral agenda
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when it comes to the economy
and concern for our fellowman.
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Confederations have
an interesting history.
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In pre-history there's the
story of Nimrod, the hunter
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and his leadership
in what became Babylon.
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As the association of
Nimrod with the Tower of Babel
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and man's efforts to
challenge God himself
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by building a great edifice
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that was over
when God dispersed men.
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But when I look at the
other side of the Biblical story
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in Revelation
it tells there that
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when all of men's worst
endeavors are put to an end
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when the earth is cleansed
and ready for a new beginning
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God's eternal
Holy City comes down
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and descends to the earth itself
with several miles on a side.
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Its message bigger
than the Tower of Babel.
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And they're God's
people look down on the wicked
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who confederate
again for the last time
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against God and His principle.
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We need to realize that
man in his own inclination
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really doesn't
work for a godly end.
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We need to
realize that God's people
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have the
ability, the opportunity
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to unite themselves with
Him for ultimate freedom,
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for ultimate security
and an ultimate solution
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to the
confederations of evil men.
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This is Lincoln
Steed for Liberty Insider.
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