Welcome back to
the Liberty Insider.
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Before the break,
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I was in a long build
up to full of discussion
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of a document
called Laudato si'.
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That came out
under this present pope,
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Pope Francis.
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And on one level, I must say
before I get further into it,
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I have to admire Rome
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and this particular pope
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for bringing out a
concern on this topic.
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As I was trying to
say before the break,
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it's not serving the
world well for people to deny
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that there is
something dangerous
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for everybody's safety
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in global
weather change patterns.
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There's something
extreme, the Arctic is melting,
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the ice is melting,
the ice pack is melting.
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Probably sea level rises.
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And there are many
cities in the world,
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a threat for millions of people
if the water rises just inches,
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forget, you know, tens of feet.
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But remember,
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if the sea level
rises say one foot,
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that could just
flood a few houses,
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but when the storm surges,
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when there are major storms
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that difference
can be accelerated
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or become the difference
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between just
lapping on the houses
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on the front street
or sweeping back and,
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and submerging most of the city.
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So we, you know,
we're in a difficult spot.
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And I do think
that it's a good thing
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that a major church
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is putting its
prestige on the line
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to raise the awareness
on environmental concern.
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I'm just certain in myself,
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unfortunately, that
given the claims of Rome,
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given its political involvement,
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giving its unceasing
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chasing of dominance,
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that it
probably will not be good
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for religious liberty.
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But let me explain the
logic of the document again.
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It starts by...
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As I previously said,
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talking about the earth
is like our little sister
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who's dying,
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but then,
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after taking care
of the pagan mysticism,
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the Vestal Virgin type approach,
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and I'm sure,
that's why it's there.
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We all sort of
think of mother earth,
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I can remember the ad
for margarine years ago.
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They had a woman
dressed up as mother earth
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and tastes the good
butter and she says,
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"Oh, this is my natural butter"
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and they said, "It's margarine."
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It's not good to
deceive mother earth
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she says, mother nature.
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So this is an elemental appeal,
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the Bible says
the elemental spirits,
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but then it
moves a little further
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and it starts
quoting the Bible texts.
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And very well I think,
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because it says
"In respecting creation
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it's necessary to
rediscover the rhythms
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inscribed in
nature by the Creator."
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What would those rhythms be?
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The Bible talks about
from new moon to new moon,
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from harvest to
harvest, the cycle of the years,
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the seasons,
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but it also consistently
speaks about the weekly cycle,
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and from Sabbath unto Sabbath.
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In fact, the promise is
in, even in the new earth,
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after everything
is set right by Christ
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and His eternal
kingdom is established,
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it says "They will
come up from Sabbath
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on unto Sabbath to
worship in My holy mountain,"
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says the Lord.
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You know, it's an
interesting figure
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and this document relates
it to our present emergency.
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It says, we need to
see this natural rhythm
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that the Creator has
put in creation to save it.
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And it says along those lines,
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rest on the seventh-day Sabbath
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is important, interesting.
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Seventh-day Adventists
might prick their ears up,
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because we've always
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from the beginning
of our organization,
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when we were organized
after the Millerite movement,
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we've known the importance,
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we were convince biblically
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of the
importance of rediscovering
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or going back to
keeping the seventh-day Sabbath.
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But Rome hasn't
ever acknowledged that.
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Sunday is the day
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and as I said
in another program,
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on the document Dies Domini,
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they said that
the early Christians
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didn't have any
direct instructions
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to change from
Saturday to Sunday,
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but they felt
they had the authority
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so they shifted it.
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And people feel
quite comfortable with it.
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And we know that there
was an element of Christianity
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under Rome,
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or under the Roman Empire,
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particularly wanting
to differentiate itself
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from Jewishness,
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wanted to make it western
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or more palatable to the pagans
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and to the non
Jews, Sunday is suited.
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Sunday was already a, you
know, a heathen day of the sun.
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There are lots of
reasons, it's easy to explain,
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harder to explain though
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why now Rome is
absolutely accepting these texts
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and not challenging.
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So it says along
those lines, Sabbath day.
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Then it says it's
not a mere anthem for,
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you know, it's not a
matter of just man only.
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It says it's rest for creation,
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for the animals, for everything.
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And a number of
times it comes back
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and reiterates the
commands in the Bible
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to keep the seventh-day Sabbath.
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And only about
two-thirds of the way
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through this very long
document about 120, 130 pages,
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does it say that "In
keeping the Eucharistic Sunday,
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we're essentially keeping
the seventh-day Sabbath."
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Well, it seems to me
rhythm is very important
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and you jog rhythm slightly
and it's not in rhythm anymore,
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you know, an earth
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that's spinning a
little if you tap it,
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or if you change
the cycle slightly,
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it'll wobble.
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So it's illogical
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but consistent with
the Sunday observance.
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So as a Seventh-day Adventist,
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as someone concerned
about religious liberty,
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as somebody very concerned
about the environment, again,
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as a Seventh-day Adventist
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we should have
been front and center
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in speaking about
the environment though
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that I am quite certain
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that this document is
going to push the world
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into religious absolutism.
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I do expect and hope
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that the Sabbath
will be discussed
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again globally, I'm sure of it.
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The pope, as you would expect
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is not letting this matter ride.
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There was a plan
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and I don't know when
this program will come out
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but the next meeting in Rome,
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as many world leaders will come,
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as I remember is set for May.
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There will be others
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and I expect that some of these,
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one of these meetings,
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the US will be front and center
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and pushing in
connection with Rome,
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but at the moment
the US is a holdout.
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But there is a
groundswell of support for this.
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And not just from religionists,
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remember Greta Thornburg,
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this young teen
activist from Scandinavia,
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created a lot of
interest all around the world,
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and I noticed, even
in Islamic countries.
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They were seeing it
as their religious duty
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to support the
ecological movement.
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There is a groundswell and
as she stood before the UN,
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she says "How dare
you take away our future
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and deny the reality of this."
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I think this is an
unstoppable movement
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of self preservation
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that Rome correctly has seen
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to have a
theological implication
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and is going to throw its
political pressure behind,
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it's as much influence
as it can gain and yet,
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as a Seventh-day
Adventist Protestant Christian,
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I know that
there's this fatal flaw,
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actually two fatal
flaws that work here.
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First of all, in recognizing
the seventh-day Sabbath,
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then it twists it to Sunday.
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If the rhythm
inscribed in nature
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was so important by God
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that He specified a day, it's...
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can hardly be inconsequential
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that man moves
it to another day.
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And then the other fatal flaw,
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which has always been an allure
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for megalithic religious power
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is to use its moral influence
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in a politically abusive way
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to compel and it's
very significant to me
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that at the very end of time,
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and Revelation
speaks about people
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not being able to buy or sell
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unless they get a
certain mark of compliance
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with the requirements
of a major world power.
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This might be
it, this might be it.
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And I do believe
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that the language
of these documents,
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starting with Ad Tuendam Fidem,
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and particularly
Memory and Reconciliation,
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and Caritas in veritate,
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they're increasing the logic
for compulsion to a good thing
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for our survival.
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And that will be a hard call
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for independently minded people,
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knowing that God created us
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with this moral
independence to resist.
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It's very likely,
as the Bible says,
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that essentially the whole world
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will be given
over to a deception
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and to an obvious
necessity of survival,
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but a deception nevertheless.
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And as I read my
Bible, as I read prophecy,
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after I look at
the different players,
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including an
old power, weakened,
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several hundred years ago,
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but strengthening again
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in political and
religious influence,
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I think the
convergence of necessity
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is going to create a situation
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where it will be very
hard for the global powers
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to resist the temptation
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to compel people
against their will,
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to worship in a
certain way, as they say,
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"For the
survival of our species,"
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but it probably will be wrong
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and incredibly against
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the principle of
freedom of conscience.
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I'll be back
shortly. Stay with us.
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