Ladies and gentlemen,
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the world is morally
and financially bankrupt.
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And one of those you know is
directly connected to the other.
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We have seen of late
the result of arrogance,
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together with thievery and
greed beyond our imaginings.
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We've seen greed from
Wall Street to Main Street,
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as so many
talking heads have put it.
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And we have in the last few days
seen, not only our own economy
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but those of the rest of
the free world, go into a deep
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black hole, a hole
from which many say
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we may never return.
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I want you, if you will
now please, to open your Bibles
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to James chapter 5.
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James, of course, was the
elder brother of our Lord Jesus.
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We believe that he was
the pastor of the first
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church in Jerusalem.
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And he speaks directly to
our subject matter tonight
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in the final chapter of his
book, the 5th chapter of James.
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And I'm going to begin to
read at verse 1 and read through
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to the end of verse 6.
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James chapter 5
verses 1 through 6.
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"Go to now, you rich
men, weep and howl for the
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miseries that
have come upon you.
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Your riches are corrupted and
your garments are moth eaten.
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Your gold and silver is cankered
and the rust of them shall
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be a witness against you.
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You shall eat your
own flesh as it were fire.
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Why? Because
you've reaped up treasures
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together for the... "
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What, the middle
ages? The dark ages?
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What does it say in your Bible?
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Which time?
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Come on now.
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"... for the last
days, the end time. "
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And so we see this
as certainly apropos.
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We see that, here,
James was a prophet
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and he's speaking
here prophetically.
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"You've heaped up
treasures in the last days.
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Look, the hire of your laborers
you have reaped down in your
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fields and you have
robbed from them by fraud.
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And the cries of those from whom
you have stolen have entered
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into the ears of
the Lord of sabaoth.
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You have lived wantonly
and wastefully in pleasure
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and you have
nourished your own hearts
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until the day of slaughter. "
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Now we're going to
go directly from here to
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Revelation chapter 13.
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Revelation, of course, is
the last book in the Bible
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for those who live
in the very last days.
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And we're going to see a
very distinct connection.
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Revelation chapter 13 and
I'm going to take up reading
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at verse 15 and read
through to the end of verse 17.
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Revelation 13 contains the
most awesome warning, I believe,
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to be found
anywhere in God's word.
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And it's the warning
regarding the beast and his mark
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in the end times.
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Follow while I read
Revelation 13:15 and following.
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"He had power to give
life to the image of the beast,
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that the image of the
beast should both speak
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and cause as many as
would not worship the image
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that they should be... "
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Now you tell me what
it says in your Bibles.
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"... they should be
killed. " Thank you.
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That they should be killed.
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"And he caused all,
small and great, rich and poor,
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free and bond, to receive a
mark either in their right hand
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or in their foreheads,
and no man could buy or sell
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unless he have the mark
or the name of the beast
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or the number of his name. "
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And then the final verse,
the 18th says, "Here is wisdom.
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Let him that understands
count the number of the beast,
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for it is the number of a
man and that number is 666."
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Thirty years ago, I began
to preach a message like this
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from the book of
Revelation that there was coming
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an economic crisis.
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I preached that there was
going to, one day, if we could
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trust our Bibles at
all, be in this country
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an economic dictatorship.
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And I preached
it by faith alone,
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because you couldn't see it
really out on the horizon of
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the business world or the
religious world or otherwise.
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I preached it by faith alone.
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And there were many
folks who were repulsed.
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I got letters, I got
emails, I got on one occasion
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a death threat.
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"You're not a loyal American.
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You're a scare monger.
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I mean, this is the land of the
free and the home of the brave.
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And an economic dictatorship?
Horrors? Never, Never. "
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Now we've seen a lot
change in the last 30 years.
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We have seen the greatest
change, I believe, of those
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30 years in the last 30 days.
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A worldwide
economic dictatorship.
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I've been to 62
countries of the world.
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It's been my happy privilege to
preach in many of them, not all.
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But I have discovered where I've
fellowship with God's people,
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a feeling that wherever
you are, if for instance
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you're in Germany, the
folks sort of feel like
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if you have a Bible
different from a German Bible,
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you have a phony.
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I discovered the same
thing to be true in Italy
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that many Christians there
felt like if you didn't have an
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Italian language Bible,
you had kind of a phony Bible.
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I have discovered that here
in the United States there are
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lots of folks who feel
like if you don't have an
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old King James, you
have kind of a phony one.
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Well I've got news for you.
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I love it and that's what I
have here, but God didn't speak
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the King James language either.
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The point that I'm attempting
to make just now is this.
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The Bible is not only
for Germans, is it now.
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The Bible is not
only for Italians,
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it's not only for Americans,
it is for all of God's people.
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Our Lord Jesus, just before
he ascended, gave the final
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marching order to the church
and said, "Go ye into... "
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Where now? Help me.
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Moses Lake, but
also Montpelier, right?
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Yeah.
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Moses Lake and Minneapolis.
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Go to Moses Lake and go into all
the world and preach the gospel
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and then shall the end come.
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This is a book with
a universal message.
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The warnings,
therefore then, of the end times
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are for all of God's people.
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An economic dictatorship
prophesied in God's word
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is not only for
Americans, but it for Germans
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and it is for Italians
and it is for the folks who
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live in the jungles.
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It is for everybody.
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Now, when 30 years ago I
began to suggest this idea,
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as I say, it took a
lot of faith on my part.
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Thirty years ago, there
were so many different moneys.
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I remember the first
time I went to Europe, I went
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on a 32 day junket.
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In those 32 days, I believe
we were in 25 different nations,
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different countries.
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We would run and take
pictures all day long and
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ride in the train all night
long and run the next day and
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shoot pictures and
get bits of information to
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illustrate our lectures.
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And every time we crossed
the border, the train on which
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we rode would stop and officials
would come through and they
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check your passports and they
would also then trade you money.
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Your Deutsch Mark
for the German Mark,
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or your Swiss
money for Italian money.
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And it seemed like every 20
minutes we were changing money.
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"A worldwide dictatorship,
an economic lockdown
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of all peoples, I
can't imagine that.
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We're so diverse, we're so
different, there are so many. "
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And now we're all so universally
and financially tied together
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that what one country does, as
we've seen in the last few days,
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the other major countries of
the world must immediately do.
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Either we all stand together
or we all fall separately.
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And one of the major
economists 3 days ago called it
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what I've been
calling it for 30 years,
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the domino effect.
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And it's been about
25 years since I began to
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use this illustration.
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It's gotten around
because I heard a news man
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use it the other day.
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I really believe
it originated here.
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If we sneeze on Wall Street,
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over in Germany
they catch a cold
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and in Japan
they have pneumonia.
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Any of you folks remember
reading a little article or two
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from Fortune magazine, the name
Steve Forbes ring any bells?
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He's run for
President of the United States
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and his daddy was
a multi-billionaire.
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Let me tell you
what he said 3 days ago.
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He said, "The
world, the economic world,
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financially is
in cardiac arrest. "
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Those are strong
words, ladies and gentlemen.
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The world is bankrupt.
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And it's not just my idea.
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I read today's
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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just this afternoon.
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And in that newspaper it
said that the city of Seattle
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faces a deficit like
it's never known before.
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Over 2 million dollars
just in the last few weeks.
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You have heard the movie
star Governor of California
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in the last few days and
weeks say, "We need to ask our
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Federal Government
for somewhere between
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7 and 10 billion
dollars to survive.
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I have just come here to share
with you folks this lecture
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from the city of Portland
and I know firsthand from the
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governorship there, I've
worked around the Salem area
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for a month, I know
that the state of Oregon
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is swimming in red ink.
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I know that New
York City is bankrupt.
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I know that the place that I
have for many, many years called
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my home town, Boise
Idaho is in serious, serious
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economic meltdown.
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I want to give you just a
little bit of an illustration.
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Our home, Peggy's and
mine, was north from Boise
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in a place called
Garden Valley, for 26 years.
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We'd be out on the road
8 or 9 months of the year,
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and then our summers
we would take there and
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our Christmas
holidays we would take there.
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And we would fly in and
out many, many times a year
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from the city of Boise.
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To go to Phoenix, to go to
Atlanta, wherever we were going,
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we'd fly in and out of Boise.
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And every time we got
aboard the jet and lifted off,
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or every time on the other
end we would make our final
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approach, that final circle
to land, I would look down at
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the exploding city of Boise.
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When I was a teenager,
there were 60,000 people
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in the city of Boise.
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And it was big
stuff, it was big time.
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Because where I grew up,
we had about 3,000 people
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during the
tourist season, you see.
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Big time.
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And then in the mid
70's, the city began to grow.
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And in the 80's,
it began to explode.
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And high-tech moved
in; Hewlett Packard,
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and micron technology and
all of the related industries.
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And the subdivisions were
here and there and everywhere.
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And it seemed like every single
week, they were plowing under
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the most fertile soil, I think,
in nearly all of the world
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and pouring concert
and building houses.
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And they weren't building
shacks and they weren't building
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anything like we lived in.
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They were building mansions.
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And I said to my Peggy
over and over and over again,
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"I don't know where
the money is coming from. "
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I mean these homes, and I
have well good reason to know
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because one of my best buddies
is in the cabinet business
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there and he told me that
nearly all of his work for
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years and years was in
homes from 350,000 dollars
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to a million dollars.
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Multi-million dollar
homes up around Sun Valley
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where I was born.
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And I have said to my
Peggy again and again,
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"I don't know where
the money is coming from. "
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I mean, these folks
are making a whole lot more
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money than I'm making.
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The city of Boise, 2 years ago,
outstripped the city of Spokane.
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For years and years,
for decades and decades,
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the big cities of the
Pacific Northwest were these.
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Seattle, number one.
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Portland Oregon, number two.
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Spokane
Washington, number three.
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But 2 years ago,
Boise Idaho blew by Spokane
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and they can't even
see the dust any longer.
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But the brakes have been put on.
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We now know how those
lower income folks and
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medium income folks
were getting into those
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300,000 or 500,000
or 750,000 dollar homes.
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They were being
cheated in by Freddy Mac and
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Fannie May and a bunch of
crooks that were behind them
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lining their own pockets
while the American people were
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being fleeced and they knew.
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They knew that
doomsday was coming.
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You can only put so
much air into a balloon,
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ladies and gentlemen, and
it's going to reach the maximum
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and it's going to blow up.
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And that's exactly
what we have seen happen.
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Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac
had to be bailed out by the
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Federal Government.
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And then it was Lehman
Brothers and then Wachovia
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and then Washington Mutual.
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You ever heard of
a company called AIG?
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Insurance and financial
backing and all of the rest.
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About 80% of the
401k's of the American people
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are filtered through
or owned by that company.
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And that includes mine.
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And it was not my
choice, I didn't have a choice
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about where my
retirement funds went.
00:14:09.80\00:14:12.24
I talked to a pastor buddy
of mine who's a bit younger
00:14:13.63\00:14:17.28
than I just yesterday.
00:14:17.32\00:14:20.25
I said, "What do you
think about this economic mess?"
00:14:21.27\00:14:23.62
He said, "If it weren't
for Jesus I'd commit suicide. "
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I said, "Is it
really that bad for you?"
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He said, "I'll
tell you how bad it is.
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In the last two
weeks, I have seen 33% of my
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retirement funds blown away. "
00:14:36.13\00:14:39.04
The American people, in the
last month have lost multiplied
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trillions, that is with
a "t" ladies and gentlemen,
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trillions and
trillions of dollars.
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We weren't warned, you and I.
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Nobody rang the bell that heard.
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How about you?
00:14:56.03\00:14:57.21
I don't remember any congressman
with any force saying, "Look,
00:14:57.24\00:14:59.83
we've got to put the
brakes on this business.
00:14:59.86\00:15:01.98
We're being too
free with our money. "
00:15:02.01\00:15:03.77
I don't remember
hearing anyone say that.
00:15:03.80\00:15:05.94
Fifty years ago, there was
a saying that went like this,
00:15:06.64\00:15:09.36
"As General Motors
go, so goes the world. "
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General Motors is
just about to go under.
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What does that
say about the world?
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Not only is General Motors
broke, so also is Ford broke.
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Chrysler Daimler
Corporation is broke.
00:15:22.49\00:15:25.05
And there is much consideration
now that they will all three
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go together to try to survive.
00:15:28.37\00:15:30.65
And while these CEO's
of these great companies
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bankrupt the rest of the
world, they line their pockets
00:15:33.41\00:15:36.95
with multiplied millions
of dollars and walk away
00:15:36.98\00:15:39.95
and never even
say, "I'm sorry. "
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Golden parachutes,
they're talking about it now.
00:15:43.47\00:15:45.99
I remember thinking the other
day, it'd be a real good idea
00:15:46.72\00:15:49.03
if they took them sky diving and
they forgot their parachutes.
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It's hard, it's really difficult
not to have feelings of anger.
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And we're going to see
that anger displayed at the
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voting booths in
just a few days now.
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Crude oil.
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One of the big expenditures of
the people of the United States.
00:16:11.32\00:16:14.97
Crude oil, you've been
hearing a lot about that.
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But that's not the
only thing that's getting
00:16:16.93\00:16:18.69
deeply into our pockets.
00:16:18.72\00:16:19.97
There is a Middle Eastern
war that continues to rage
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and we continue to spend every
week, billions and billions
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of dollars; Iran and Iraq.
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And then we have the terrible
storms; Katrina and Eric.
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And we have the
tsunami's out in the far east,
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and there are earthquakes
and fires and floods.
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And the Bible says
these are birth pangs.
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You remember, we've
talked about this before.
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Both in Old and New Testaments
you find this allusion
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to the final days.
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And it says like a woman
in travail, a woman pained
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to deliver a child.
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That is the illustration.
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And the suggestion, of course,
is that the nearer the end time,
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the nearer are the contractions
and the more painful they
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become until the final end.
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And that's certainly
what we've been seeing
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of late, isn't it now?
00:17:01.24\00:17:02.43
You don't have to be a
prophet in order to see it.
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Revelation 13, a
worldwide government control.
00:17:05.99\00:17:10.18
We know now that Great
Britain started this pumping up
00:17:10.21\00:17:15.27
of the big companies when
the British pound began to fail.
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And they did it, what some
are now calling, in the dark.
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They infused into their
government and into their
00:17:23.63\00:17:26.14
banks, billions and
billions of British pounds.
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And the British pound, by
the way, is worth about two
00:17:29.98\00:17:32.25
of our American dollars.
00:17:32.28\00:17:33.61
About 2 to 1.
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And then France said,
"We're in the same situation
00:17:35.30\00:17:38.01
and we better jump on. "
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And then it was Japan and then
Germany, and then it was Italy.
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Now again, may I transition
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and begin by saying to you
that Lyle is a loyal American.
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I always have been.
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One thing that my visiting
the 60+ countries of the world
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has done for me is make
me love the United States.
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There's no place like
it that I have ever found.
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And I'm loyal to it
and I honor the flag and
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all that it represents.
00:18:08.34\00:18:09.89
But while I'm a loyal
American, I am a very concerned
00:18:10.48\00:18:14.34
American as well.
00:18:14.37\00:18:15.94
Since the Twin Towers and
the Pentagon were attacked,
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we, ladies and gentlemen,
we Americans have lost
00:18:22.64\00:18:26.42
more liberties than
in the prior 200+ years.
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Listen, this is
our Federal Government.
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"The FBI has described in
a recent report it's effort
00:18:36.31\00:18:40.83
to analyze the potential
for extremist criminal activity
00:18:40.86\00:18:44.59
in the United States
by individuals or domestic
00:18:44.62\00:18:48.69
extremist groups who
profess an apocalyptic view
00:18:48.72\00:18:52.37
of the millennium and
attach a special significance
00:18:52.40\00:18:55.79
to certain years or periods. "
00:18:55.82\00:18:58.02
Now listen
closely, will you please.
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"Our report defines an extremist
as one who believes in the
00:19:02.56\00:19:06.00
end of the world, the
second coming of Christ.
00:19:06.03\00:19:08.77
Our report sites specifically
Christian identity churches
00:19:10.65\00:19:15.09
and apocalyptic cults who
fall within this description.
00:19:15.12\00:19:18.96
It, moreover, implies
anyone who believes in the
00:19:19.66\00:19:22.16
end of the world and the literal
second coming of Jesus Christ,
00:19:22.19\00:19:25.97
though they may not subscribe
to the beliefs of specific cults
00:19:27.52\00:19:31.64
mentioned in our above report.
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Draw your own
conclusions," it goes on to say.
00:19:35.65\00:19:38.36
I can't mention a name
just now, ladies and gentlemen,
00:19:40.01\00:19:43.03
but I know very well and
very personally a young man,
00:19:45.32\00:19:48.82
one of the brightest minds
I know that I have ever met.
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Summa cum laude from college,
cum laude from university,
00:19:53.00\00:19:57.87
and then invited by
request to go to Colorado's
00:19:57.90\00:20:03.39
Air Force
Academy for a PhD degree.
00:20:03.42\00:20:07.22
And he accepted the invitation
and was in the top of his class.
00:20:08.60\00:20:12.33
And after his being there about
2 months, there was sent out to
00:20:13.23\00:20:17.06
every young man and woman
a questionnaire that asked,
00:20:17.09\00:20:22.84
"Would you, in a time of crisis,
be willing to take the life with
00:20:23.24\00:20:29.11
force of arms of your
fellow Americans if directed by
00:20:29.14\00:20:34.05
a senior office of
the United States or
00:20:34.08\00:20:36.85
of the United Nations?"
00:20:36.88\00:20:38.81
We were promised, ladies
and gentlemen, 200 years ago
00:20:43.48\00:20:46.23
that our armed forces
would never fire upon Americans.
00:20:46.26\00:20:52.23
City police and the
sheriff's department,
00:20:53.62\00:20:55.79
that was their jurisdiction.
00:20:55.82\00:20:58.51
But we saw that
change at a place called
00:20:58.54\00:21:01.51
Ruby Ridge in Idaho.
00:21:01.54\00:21:02.91
I happened to be working
over in Sandpoint at the time.
00:21:02.94\00:21:05.53
I saw it change in Waco,
Texas when I was about 212 miles
00:21:06.26\00:21:10.15
north in Oklahoma City.
00:21:10.18\00:21:11.73
We've seen it
drastically change.
00:21:12.29\00:21:14.68
During the time of our former
president Richard Milhous Nixon,
00:21:15.74\00:21:19.40
there came what were called
the Executive Orders to be
00:21:19.43\00:21:23.52
put into place at
time of national emergency
00:21:23.55\00:21:26.89
and/or economic crisis.
00:21:26.92\00:21:29.04
I'm going to read a
few of those briefly.
00:21:29.07\00:21:31.89
"A seizure of all communication
media in the United States. "
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Freedom of the press? No, No.
00:21:35.60\00:21:37.37
When Waco was burning,
the reporters were disallowed
00:21:38.86\00:21:43.22
to be within 2 miles of
what was happening there.
00:21:43.25\00:21:46.52
Who fired the first shot?
00:21:50.47\00:21:51.97
I don't know.
00:21:52.23\00:21:53.42
"A seizure of all electrical
power and fuels and minerals,
00:21:56.63\00:21:59.11
both public and private.
00:21:59.14\00:22:00.13
A seizure of all food
supplies and resources,
00:22:00.16\00:22:02.04
public and private.
00:22:02.07\00:22:03.04
A seizure of all
farms and farm equipment.
00:22:03.05\00:22:04.94
A seizure of all
means of transportation,
00:22:04.97\00:22:06.94
including personal
trucks and vehicles of any kind.
00:22:06.97\00:22:09.10
A control of all highways,
seaports, and waterways.
00:22:09.13\00:22:11.49
A seizure of all
American people to work under
00:22:11.52\00:22:14.06
federal supervision, including
the splitting up of families
00:22:14.09\00:22:16.81
as the government sees need.
00:22:16.84\00:22:18.45
A seizure of all health and
education welfare facilities
00:22:18.48\00:22:20.86
for both public and private.
00:22:20.89\00:22:22.39
Moreover, we empower
the Postmaster General
00:22:22.42\00:22:25.58
to register all men, women, and
children of the United States.
00:22:25.61\00:22:29.23
A seizure of all airports, all
housing and finance authorities,
00:22:29.26\00:22:32.97
and all railroads. "
00:22:33.00\00:22:34.36
And on and on and on and on.
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The land of the free
and the home of the brave.
00:22:37.65\00:22:41.47
In the last two
weeks, ladies and gentlemen,
00:22:54.41\00:22:56.98
I have, for the first time in
my years, heard fear in voices
00:22:58.16\00:23:06.52
and seen fear in
the eyes of legislators,
00:23:07.36\00:23:12.10
of bankers, federal
reserve agents, politicians,
00:23:13.50\00:23:18.60
and economists.
00:23:18.63\00:23:19.97
Fear.
00:23:20.29\00:23:21.51
And so the wise men of
the world get together.
00:23:25.60\00:23:27.91
They met over in Paris a
few days ago, the leaders
00:23:27.94\00:23:30.91
of the euro dollar.
00:23:30.94\00:23:33.41
They met again in the United
States only just recently.
00:23:34.23\00:23:36.90
The solution?
00:23:36.93\00:23:38.17
Print more money.
00:23:38.63\00:23:40.07
Make more money available.
00:23:40.10\00:23:41.23
Give the American
people more money.
00:23:41.26\00:23:42.70
"We're going to
give them another $500.
00:23:42.73\00:23:45.18
We gave them $600 a while
back and $600 before that,
00:23:45.21\00:23:48.53
and now we give every
American another $500 or $600.
00:23:48.56\00:23:51.53
And you American
folks, when you get this check
00:23:51.56\00:23:54.34
you go down and spend it.
00:23:54.37\00:23:55.43
You go down and you put a down
payment on a washing machine,
00:23:55.46\00:23:58.63
you put a down payment on a car.
00:23:58.66\00:24:00.13
We're going to give you
money and you go down and you
00:24:00.16\00:24:01.91
spend the money. "
00:24:01.94\00:24:02.91
What kind of a system
solves its debt problem
00:24:02.92\00:24:06.58
by encouraging its
people to go farther and farther
00:24:06.61\00:24:09.44
and farther into debt?
00:24:09.47\00:24:10.75
Help me understand this.
00:24:10.78\00:24:12.30
Something doesn't fit here.
00:24:12.33\00:24:13.88
We're the only country in
the world that I'm aware of
00:24:15.32\00:24:17.77
that rewards its
people for going into debt.
00:24:17.80\00:24:22.69
You cannot get at the bank on
your savings account but about
00:24:22.72\00:24:26.62
a percent and a half, if
you're real lucky these days,
00:24:26.65\00:24:30.14
in your savings account.
00:24:30.17\00:24:31.48
But on the other hand, if
you will use your credit card
00:24:31.51\00:24:34.52
you can deduct that
at the end of the year.
00:24:34.55\00:24:36.67
You can deduct all
of the interest on all
00:24:36.70\00:24:40.23
of those credit cards.
00:24:40.26\00:24:41.25
Oh, we're being so good to you.
00:24:41.28\00:24:43.50
We're going to reward you if you
go deeper and deeper into debt.
00:24:43.53\00:24:47.59
Some of you folks are
old enough to remember
00:24:50.19\00:24:52.14
the first real depression here
from the '20's and early '30's
00:24:53.44\00:24:57.31
when folks sat on street corners
and sold apples or sold pencils.
00:24:57.34\00:25:01.79
But we've moved a long
ways from that position.
00:25:01.82\00:25:05.24
And we have taught a
generation now that if they
00:25:05.27\00:25:09.37
see something they want, they
don't go to work and save and
00:25:09.40\00:25:12.52
put aside for it.
00:25:12.55\00:25:13.52
They take a club or a knife or
a gun and they get it right now.
00:25:13.53\00:25:16.53
We have taught
instant gratification,
00:25:16.56\00:25:19.00
not only to the babies,
but to the seniors as well.
00:25:19.03\00:25:22.34
And then I'm going to further
suggest that you folks join me
00:25:27.49\00:25:31.62
in taking every dime, I
don't want you to go into debt
00:25:31.65\00:25:34.96
to do it, now understand me,
but it's time we put our money
00:25:34.99\00:25:39.34
into God's work.
00:25:39.37\00:25:41.07
Folks called me yesterday
and said, "We wanted you to go
00:25:50.94\00:25:56.00
this January to
a certain church.
00:25:56.03\00:25:58.33
And we have to tell
you that we can't have you
00:25:59.51\00:26:02.31
because we don't
have the money. "
00:26:06.01\00:26:07.75
It's time to spread the gospel.
00:26:12.80\00:26:14.94
And Jesus said
there'd be earthquakes.
00:26:18.80\00:26:20.77
And we're seeing them, they're
increasing in their violence
00:26:21.73\00:26:25.20
and in their number.
00:26:25.23\00:26:26.73
But He didn't tell
us how many there'd be.
00:26:26.76\00:26:28.72
He said there'd be
floods, but He didn't tell us
00:26:29.55\00:26:31.93
how many there'd be.
00:26:31.96\00:26:32.93
He said there'd be
signs in the heavens and all,
00:26:33.28\00:26:35.78
but He didn't tell us
how many there would be.
00:26:35.81\00:26:38.01
He did, however, give us
one absolute certain sign.
00:26:38.04\00:26:41.86
He said, "This gospel of
the kingdom must go to the
00:26:41.89\00:26:43.99
whole world and
then I'll be back. "
00:26:44.02\00:26:46.51
It's time we send the gospel
out by every possible means.
00:26:46.54\00:26:50.29
Every possible means.
00:26:51.07\00:26:52.83
And like Abraham, it
says he looked for a country
00:26:53.59\00:26:57.11
that was better because
its builder and its maker
00:26:58.10\00:27:00.90
was our God.
00:27:00.93\00:27:03.78
Let's pray.
00:27:03.81\00:27:04.79
These are serious times, Lord.
00:27:05.67\00:27:07.54
And while we could fear,
while some could possibly
00:27:10.26\00:27:15.01
go away with an attitude that
causes them not to be able to
00:27:15.04\00:27:18.70
sleep, we have Your
promise, we have Your sure word
00:27:18.73\00:27:23.34
that instead of being afraid
of studying Your prophecies
00:27:23.37\00:27:26.37
we are thrilled because
we know how the story ends,
00:27:26.40\00:27:29.34
we've read the last page.
00:27:29.37\00:27:30.92
And Revelation brings peace.
00:27:31.72\00:27:33.87
Jesus is coming.
00:27:33.90\00:27:35.60
He's going to create a
world where there is plenty.
00:27:36.17\00:27:39.86
A world without
crime and violence,
00:27:40.99\00:27:42.56
a world without greed,
00:27:42.59\00:27:44.25
a world without abusers.
00:27:44.86\00:27:46.80
Hasten the day, dear Lord.
00:27:47.36\00:27:48.59
We need You so desperately.
00:27:48.62\00:27:50.58
Answer our prayers,
not according to our worth,
00:27:51.90\00:27:55.03
but according to our need.
00:27:56.21\00:27:57.99
For we speak from
the abundance of our need
00:27:59.15\00:28:01.76
to the abundance of Your grace.
00:28:02.88\00:28:04.78
And we do it always
in Jesus' name, amen.
00:28:05.84\00:28:10.48