Benjamin Baruch shares a 1996 vision of America’s divine judgment—100-megaton nuclear strikes, concentration camps, and apocalyptic fallout—linked to biblical prophecies framing the U.S. as end-time Babylon. He warns of a debt-driven economic collapse post-election, with gold as a flawed hedge despite its crisis potential, and dismisses UFOs as demonic illusions. Critics like Gwen tie judgment to America’s 1960s-era abandonment of biblical values, while Baruch insists his warnings stem from rare, audible divine messages, not self-promotion. The discussion blends prophecy, conspiracy, and financial doom, suggesting God’s justice—or deception—will reshape the world within a decade. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert in the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world's California zones covered for bringing all of them.
This is Coast Coast AM, best radio program of its kind on the air anywhere.
You doing it the weekend again, everybody, and I'm Mark Bell with the weekend version of Coast.
Now, there's some pretty cool stuff going on.
I don't know how many of you are free Streamlink subscribers, but if you're not, stay tuned.
I'll tell you all about it.
Normally, Streamlink costs money, but this weekend, you know, like HBO and Showtime, they give you a free weekend every now and then.
We're doing that.
So it's free.
But if you want to go up to Streamlink and start listening right now, you can do it free of charge.
It's all on the website.
That's one.
Two is, and I think this is particularly cool, the Streamlink people have decided to allow you all to burn MPEG-3s of the last 30 days of shows.
That's in addition to accessing the regular 90-day streaming archive.
And I think that is really excellent.
So this weekend, Friday, March 12th through Sunday, March 14th, you can listen on Streamlink free of charge.
Whole-free weekend, just like Itch We Own Showtime and all the rest of them do every now and then we're doing it.
And I think that's a grand idea.
And I think being able to burn Dampeg 3 is really cool.
Really, really cool.
That means you can make a CD or whatever you want to do.
So all of that available up on the website at CoastCoastAM.com right now.
Now let's see.
A couple of off-the-bat things.
I've got a really good, a really, really good photograph of our crazy cat Yeti.
He's the fourth one we acquired.
We have four cats in this household and have had for a long time.
Yeti is a special cat.
He came bounding in from out of nowhere in the desert.
We have a garden, and in our garden we grow catnip with everything else.
So if there wasn't enough of a neon sign flashing above this house now saying, all cats, yoho, here it is, free ride, whatever, is it brings him the catnip growing out there, probably.
Anyway, he came bounding into the catnip one afternoon, just doing flip-flops, so happy to see us, looking like a show cat.
I mean, this is, I've got to admit, this is a beautiful, beautiful cat.
And by the way, he knows it.
He sits in the mirror and looks at himself and thinks, whoa, tiger.
I'm sure you've seen that photograph, right?
But he does think a lot of himself, and he is beautiful.
And I caught him sitting on the scales, you know, where you weigh yourself in the kitchen.
And he just sat there waiting for me to take his photograph.
He wanted me to take his photograph.
And if you look at this, you'll see he's one beautiful cat.
He has a mane like a tiger.
He is just beautiful.
And he loves me.
He follows me like a little dog everywhere.
So that's Yeti on the webcam tonight.
Very proud of that cat.
Antenna update, it's all done, working incredibly beyond almost in a supernatural way, actually.
We're going to get a helicopter and bring a helicopter out here probably later this week and go and take readings around the antenna.
This is going to be really cool, really instructive.
I'm going to end up putting up a website about this antenna, probably theoldartbell.com, which I have retained.
Anyway, it's going to go up about the antenna.
Not for a while yet, so don't bother trying to hit anything is not there yet.
It goes nowhere right now.
Now, weird news of the world.
In a videotaped message, a man purporting to represent Al-Qaeda claims the terrorist network was behind the bombings.
It killed 200, wounded, 1,500 in Madrid.
They're calling the Spanish 9-11.
And now, they sent a tape.
There's been an arrest of three Moroccan and two Indian suspects.
And this, of course, is the strongest indication yet of an al-Qaeda link to the whole thing.
You know, we're going to have to kill these people pretty quickly, too.
I mean, there's just nothing else.
We're going to have to kill them.
The world's nations are going to have to kill them.
They cannot blow up buildings.
They cannot kill people en masse in Spain or anywhere else in the world.
They have to be killed.
And so I'm sure we're on that as hard as we can be right now.
But there's nothing else to it.
They want to kill us.
We must kill them first.
A man, boy, well, here's a story.
A man suspected of murdering nine of his family members apparently was involved in polygamy and in zest, fathering two of the victims with his own daughters, police said Saturday.
The bodies of six females and three males, ages one to twenty-four, were found tangled in the back room of Marcus Weson's home Friday.
It is Fresno's largest mass slaying.
It's a head shaker.
It's too awful.
Just too awful.
The hunt for Osama bin Laden is ratcheting up.
We've got thousands of troops on the move looking for him in this eastern Afghanistan lawless kind of area, and that's got to be one hell of a hunt.
John Kerry locked up the nomination, So he's going to be the man facing George Bush, and the campaign seems to be in full swing.
Everybody was waiting for the news on the DARPA challenge.
Well, the DARPA challenge was to make a vehicle that could navigate itself across the desert, you know, recognize obstacles, figure out ways to do for itself, and it didn't go very well.
We may not be seeing any robot drivers' licenses issued anytime soon.
All 15 self-navigating vehicles in a 150-mile race across the Mojave Desert were knocked out within just a few miles of the starting gate.
Kaboom.
So nobody gets the prize, and it's back to the drawing board for those who want the million.
In a moment, we'll leave this weird news and get to the really weird news.
Stay right there.
Those of you that have something you would like to get on the air, it would be well to be dialing now since we will do some open lines this hour.
And then, oh, by the way, next hour, Benjamin Baruch.
Benjamin Baruch.
Now, this is an interesting guy.
He maybe I shouldn't go into it.
But it has to do with religion because God spoke to this man, but he's really a market player, you know, stock market player.
This is going to be an interesting interview.
I really do think it is.
That's coming up next hour.
Now, Monday, I'm hearing some rumors on the web that Monday there is going to be a NASA briefing given.
I guess some Dr. Brown, an associate professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, is going to give some sort of briefing regarding some kind of object that he's found out there.
All very mysterious, but that news will be breaking on Monday, and I'm sort of curious.
What do you think he's going to Planet X, maybe?
No, that'd be bigger than this, right?
So some sort of asteroid that might be on a collision course with us?
Maybe.
Some new planetary body that he's found?
Probably.
We'll see.
All right.
The whole thing about the climate continues to swirl.
Sorry for that.
Scientists gagged by number 10, meaning Downing Street.
After warning of global warming threat, Downing Street tried to muzzle the government's top scientific advisor.
Muzzle him.
After he warned that global warming was a more serious threat than international terrorism, Ivan Rogers, Mr. Blair's principal private secretary, told Sir David King, who would be none other than the Prime Minister's chief scientist, to limit his contact with the media after he made some outspoken comments about President George Bush's policy on climate change.
They told him to shut up.
In England, you can do that.
In January, Sir David wrote a scathing article in the American journal Science attacking Washington for failing to take climate change seriously.
In my view, he says climate change is the most severe problem we are facing today, more serious than even the threat of terrorism.
Here's another one.
Let's see.
This one, this news and city section of Watt, the Evening Standard Political Report.
The government's chief scientist today set out an apocalyptic vision of global warming, bringing back the conditions which drove the dinosaurs to extinction.
Professor Sir David King told a House of Lords committee that urgent action was needed, quote, within the next few years, end quote, to avert the threat of sudden and severe climate change.
So they're thinking we can avert sudden and severe climate change.
That's interesting.
He claimed that last summer's heat wave was man-made, man-made event, warned things are going to get worse.
He defied Downing Street by repeating his charge that global warming is a bigger threat than terrorism and that Washington is failing to tackle the problem.
This is really turning into a serious story, beginning to come at us from just about every direction out there.
Pretty interesting, huh?
There's a story.
You know, I don't know about these, and I don't know about Pravda.
Pravda, of course, is the most famous Russian newspaper publication in the world.
So the following story is coming to you from Pravda.
A little of the English is perhaps not quite right, but it's straight from Pravda.
The headline is, time has been one of the most complicated and less studied scientific issues since ancient times.
Now, I can't guarantee that what I'm about to read you really happened, but it's in Pravda.
Here it is.
Eight years ago, American and British scientists who conducted investigations in Antarctica made a sensational discovery.
U.S. physicist Marion McLean told the researchers, were told they noticed some spinning gray fog.
Listen to me now, spinning gray fog over the pole on January 27th, which they believed to be just ordinary sandstorm of some sort.
However, the gray fog did not change its form, did not move in the course of time.
The researchers decided to investigate the phenomena, and they launched a weather balloon with equipment capable of registering, you know, wind speed, temperature, air moisture content.
But the weather balloon soared upwards and immediately disappeared.
In a little while, In a little while, the researchers brought the weather balloon back to the ground with the help of a rope attached to it previously.
They were extremely surprised to see that the chronometer set in the weather balloon displayed the date January 27, 1965, the same day, only 30 years ago.
The experiment was repeated several times after the researchers found out the equipment was in good repair, so they went back and repeated this experiment, it says.
The phenomena, they called it, a time gate.
They claim they reported the whole thing to Washington.
Today, investigation of the unusual phenomena is underway.
It is supposed that what they're calling the whirl crater above the South Pole is a tunnel allowing penetration into other times.
This is pretty wild stuff.
I know what is more, programs on launching people to other times have been started.
The CIA and FBI are fighting in trying to gain control over the project that may change the course of history.
It is not clear when the U.S. federal authorities will approve the experiment.
Go look for this yourself.
If you want to confirm it, you can get to Pravda on the web.
And the name of the article is Time Can Be Turned Back, 3-1-2004, published 3-1-2004.
And I know a lot of you are going to want to go and look for this.
It is so intriguing.
The whole concept of time, the concept of time travel, the whole thing is a mind-blower for me.
I've always been totally fascinated by it.
And here is an article claiming there's this gray whirling mass straight at the South Pole that turns watches back and may even allow travel in time and straight at the South Pole.
So has there ever been research into two dimensions?
Yes.
Nightly on your television, sir.
That's about it.
I think there's not too much magical, and you can serve that one up any way you want about the second dimension.
Yeah, I could be wrong, but the only research I'm aware of is that applied to the one-eyed monster and, well, movie theaters and other aspects of life, photographs, that sort of thing.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
This is Ed down in Los Angeles, sitting on TFI, 6.40 a.m.
Well, I've seen attempts of that on video, but they always crashed real fast.
I've had dreams where I did real well, and I was able to flap my wings and fly.
That's about it, though.
With respect to your first question, sir, I know a fair amount about dowsing.
My wife is a dowser.
I've watched her find water again and again.
She can do it.
And here's a very brief little story for you.
We were going to buy a house in an area where I'm now thankful we didn't here in the Prump Valley.
It was up on way up on a hill.
You know, a place a ham radio operator would choose, right?
Up on a hill.
And it was pretty rocky.
And so before, when we were sort of thinking about buying property, Ramona took a couple of coat hangers, turned them into a dowsing setup, and went down into the very far, far corner of the property, an unlikely place, I thought, and said, here, here's water.
Well, that property went undeveloped for several years.
And it's funny, once it was finally developed, this is pretty interesting.
They put a house on it, they drilled one well, and it was dry.
Then they pulled the rig up and moved the rig to a second point where Ramona had indicated they should, and there was the water.
Well, I think, You know, and you're hesitant to say this kind of thing, but I think that that's exactly where this leads.
All roads, when you're talking about the phenomena I seem to be repeatedly able to demonstrate here, sometimes, shockingly so to myself and others.
Yeah, all roads lead to Tesla and the kind of work Tesla was doing and the claims, maybe the claims Tesla made weren't so crazy.
Maybe there is a transformer effect that allows the gathering of energy from the difference in potential between the atmosphere and the Earth, whatever it is.
Or it may be something else entirely.
I mean, we're kind of jumping to conclusions here a little bit, aren't we?
But again, all roads, when you're talking about this, really do seem to lead toward the incredible Mr. Tesla.
So there's going to be a whole lot more experimentation that is about to go on, and we're going to know more about all of this soon.
But it is really cool stuff.
I mean, there's no question about it.
Coming out of apparently nowhere, there's about 300 volts of electricity on that antenna.
Not a great deal of current, but enough to be doing a lot of little chores if I wanted to convert it and put it to work.
And of course, if you understood the principle that put the power there in the first place, you might be able to actually put something up to actually go after the power, as I'm sure Mr. Tesla was contemplating, or even transmitting the power.
I mean, you just never know.
But oh, lordy, it sure is fun to experiment.
From the high desert in the middle of the night, which is just where we belong, this is Coast to Coast AM.
unidentified
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Oh, by the way, on my cat, somebody writes to me, Sandy from Las Vegas writes, hey, Art, I'm quite sure Yeti is a Maine Coon Cat.
And yes, that's what Ramona says, too.
She's got a cat book.
And she looked it up.
And Maine Coon Cat is what he appears to be.
He's got a tiger.
You know, he's got a mane, and he looks a lot like a tiger.
And they're related, really.
He is one cool cat.
And I'm telling you that he came bounding into our yard out of nowhere like he was released from the sky, not a speck of dirt or hair out of place, looking like a show cat when we got him.
Skinny, yes, but a show cat.
Perfect, you know, hair just perfect and all that.
And he came bounding in and started doing twirls in the air.
He was so happy to see us.
He started doing twirls in the air out by the catnip.
Now, that may have been an effect for, I don't know.
Anyway, he was happy, and he's been here ever since.
Very happy to be here.
Quite an amazing cat.
So, webcam photo.
Hi there.
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hey, Art.
Daniel Sheehan, the attorney that I guess with Karen Silkwood, Iran-Contra, and founder of the Christic Institute, spoke at the UFO Congress in Laughlin on February 14th, and he referred to a PBS Nova show on, I think it was February 11th, talking about the changing position of the poles of the planet, the Earth's magnetic field.
In fact, right now, I think the North Pole may be somewhere in maybe in the Yukon or B.C. or, you know, it's really drifted.
I mean, it's amazing what's going on.
unidentified
Well, you mentioned also about that could be part of the thing about the apocalypse scenarios where possibly two-thirds of humanity could be lost because of this new energy that will be coming down that people won't be ready for.
Well, it could produce very rapid climate changes or geologic changes.
The Earth could rumble.
Who the heck knows what would happen if the poles reverse?
But it's quite a scenario.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I guess it's just, again, comes to a critical mass of some people getting their energy level up, and maybe we can keep, you said maybe 15 million at least, but at some point it's going to be good because it's galactic cosmic energy coming into eight different points of the Earth, bathing the Earth, instead of just the North and South Pole.
As you know, you know, we've done a lot of experiments with this collective consciousness thing, and there is a big power there, a really big power.
And it may be that if we the world, if we, the world, get notice of a coming apocalypse and we have time to consider it in any way before it happens to us,
I think that the power perhaps of collective consciousness, if applied uniformly or nearly uniformly, could have some perhaps effect on the outcome.
And that may be the only power in the entire world capable of affecting that outcome.
And that's a weird little belief that I've come to.
So that shows you how I do believe in that power.
and others, if you wish, you know, feel free to call it the power of prayer, whatever.
But I actually think that it could have an effect if it were orchestrated properly and worldwide on the outcome of some potential cataclysm.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air, hi.
unidentified
Hi, Ar.
I'm doing a report for science class on whether or not to store nuclear waste near Yucca Mountain.
And I was in communication with a crop circle researcher named Paul Vigay.
And I sort of started drawing these parallels, and I put it out to Paul and asked him if there was any evidence of water tables underneath some of the crop circles.
And he said yes.
And I said, okay, well, in that case, is there any evidence anywhere that that could be reduced to a frequency equation and that possibly you could come up with some sort of musical equivalent?
And he said, I don't know.
Let me look into it.
And the last I heard, in fact, that's what they were doing.
They were pulling musical frequencies out of these cloud circle formations that were located over water.
I mean, there are some who can dows and some who cannot, right?
unidentified
Yeah, I mean, I don't think I can.
I mean, I've never tried it, but I just, you know, I don't believe I can.
And that goes to the power of thought and what you were talking about earlier with the power of controlled exercise, you know, common thought being able to shift things.
He's using a number of models, one of which is just combined prayer efforts.
There are others that he's doing something called the Mary Magdalene experiment that uses an ancient herb, the oil of an ancient herb called Spikenard that was a part of the anointing that's become so popular between Jesus and Mary prior to Christ's death.
And he's using that oil to facilitate an experiment that uses group prayer, and he's having remarkable success.
Now here's something that I know is troubling for a lot of people, but there does not seem to be a lot of difference whether it's people concentrating for reason A other than religious or people concentrating for reason B, which is religious.
The intent and the power, they all seem the same, whether it's from a religious point of view or a non-religious point of view.
And I wouldn't begin to know what that means or says.
And it doesn't necessarily say anything negative at all.
It doesn't necessarily say that at all.
It just may be a power, a comment on the power of the human brain.
The ultimate power that we all don't even know we really have just yet.
It seems like taking the host of a paranormal kind of program of this sort and including them in a paranormal television show appears to have some weight in the minds of the producers and the writers and the directors of those shows.
They use somebody like this a lot.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air, hi.
unidentified
Yes.
This is Olin in Culver City.
Yes, Olin.
You said that you were going to be measuring electrical fields on your antenna from a helicopter.
Sure, there could be a relationship in the energy that we're talking about here, whether it's the energy of a storm or that's being fed to a storm or it's the energy that's always there.
And believe me, I think there is energy always there.
That's something we're going to, by the way, talk about really tomorrow night.
I mean, zero point, the hunt for zero point, we'll talk about tomorrow night.
And I think that's, you know, it's all the same thing.
Back in 95, 96, I remember you were talking about, and you were talking about homosexuality, and you were kind of talking about it, not in a judgmental way, certainly.
You always seem to be open to everything, but sort of distanced, I just don't understand that.
Look, like a lot of people, as a heterosexual, I can't even contemplate, I can't even consider it in my mind.
But you know what?
That doesn't stop me from, you were referring now to a couple of weeks ago when I said, you know what, I don't see who gay marriage is going to hurt, meaning me.
I'm not threatened in my heterosexual marriage if homosexuals are allowed to get married.
I mean, I just did sort of a logic talk with myself about it, and I thought, well, why not, I suppose?
If they want to get married, then, hey.
unidentified
Well, that was what I was calling to ask you about, actually, is where you came to, because I heard you a couple of weeks ago, and I was wondering what went into that decision.
It is indeed, and the weekend, so the weekend version of Coast.
How y'all doing?
My guest is a fellow named Benjamin Baruch.
This is going to be one interesting story.
Benjamin Baruch is a chartered financial analyst and a certified public accountant.
His professional background includes money management for pension plans, high net worth individuals, you know, high-end.
Also the author of the underground bestseller, The Day of the Lord is at Hand.
He wrote that in 1996 as a warning to America that a time of crisis was coming upon our nation, including a stock market collapse, currency collapse, terrorism, and ultimately war.
Now, this is a man who talked to God.
This is a man who began doing what he was doing so he could play the stock market.
That's my understanding, and we may get corrected on that.
Benjamin is 47 years old.
He sounds younger.
In a moment, you'll hear his voice.
This is really bound to be a strange interview, I think.
It's an interesting line to even think about if you examine people like yourself that they're at the very top of what they do or running very successful corporations or whatever.
I was a seasoned professional as a financial advisor, but actually the responsibilities of directing assets, institutional assets, I was relatively new at.
Well, we were pumped up to the point where we had experienced a bear market in 1973 and a crash in 1929.
But at the same time, I recognized what was happening with the international economy and the financial position of the United States relative to our trading partners, that we were actually headed into a bubble and that the stock market was going to go far higher than it had ever gone before, and that there was no way to accurately measure when the bubble would burst.
So I had a dilemma.
I was running money for a company and for some endowment plans.
And if I made the decision to sell stocks and get out of the market, and I was early by more than one or two quarters, I would in effect be fired.
Well, to be more precise, in late 96, I knew we were ultimately going to face a major bear market because that's how Wall Street works.
And I did begin to pray, seeking to hear from God on when to sell the stocks.
But what I began to pray, and I actually did this every morning about 5 a.m. when I would get to work, I began to pray, Lord, show me the end of this matter.
If I can be so bold, why would you imagine that God would respond to a prayer drifting up his way about whether or not to sell a stock?
Now, I'm not saying that such prayer might not be okay, but on the other hand, there might be others that you'd think might surge ahead of it, like somebody's dying wife or something.
And the top lawyers were working on it, and they couldn't solve it.
And I spent two weeks trying to find a solution, and there was none.
And I finally decided, well, the only person I know that can figure this one out is God, so I'll ask him.
Now, you can't imagine you heard from God when you're asking for the solution to a technical problem that no One can solve.
Like you could imagine that God said to go to lunch or not.
You really have to hear or you have nothing.
So I began to pray, and this was on the beginning of a weekend, a Friday night.
I didn't hear anything all weekend.
And I prayed probably four or five hours over this weekend.
By Sunday night, I still had not heard any answer.
Nothing but silence.
I was, at this point, unable to sleep.
I was so bothered by this problem.
And I was actually getting pretty upset.
I mean, I was to the point of being in tears.
And I'm crying out.
Finally, I hear, have you considered you live in a community property state?
I say, no, Lord, what does that mean?
Then I hear, you're a smart kid.
You can figure it out.
Go work on it again.
I run down to my office, I pull out the internal revenue code, and I look at my problem, and I start thinking in the context of a community property state.
Well, if you live in a community property state and you've got a corporation and you have shareholders who are married, the wives own half of the stock under community property law.
If those same shareholders are all partners in a partnership, the wives own 50% of the community interest in the partnership, but they are not partners.
They just have a community interest in the partnership.
As a result, the stock owned by the wives, which they own directly, is not counted in doing attribution to the partners.
The result is you can shrink the number of shareholders that are subject to the related party rules under Code Section 267.
It allows you to take a large tax deduction that would otherwise be unavailable.
A couple of sort of, I don't know, technical questions about the way you hear God.
When you heard his voice audibly, give me a sense of, I mean, here you are, I presume, in a room somewhere, in your house maybe, because you were frantically praying.
Did the voice come from all directions, or was there directionality to the voice?
And I had my map, and the transfer city was right next to the main highway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and I thought, this will be easy to find.
I'll just wait for the bus to go under the main freeway, and that'll be my transfer.
And we drive under the freeway, and I get off the bus, and I'm thinking, I'll just wait here for the next bus to come, and suddenly I hear behind me, Benjamin, you're in the wrong place.
Get back on the bus.
Now, Art, I didn't know who was talking to me.
I thought to myself, who would know my name here in a foreign country?
I turn around to see who's talking, and there's nobody standing there.
Maybe there would be somebody that this voice reminds you of, some public figure or, you know, voices are very distinctive things, and maybe it reminded you of something.
Well, you know, I mean, we're talking about attacks with nuclear weapons and, you know, Judgment Day and all kinds of incredible stuff that you have seen, aren't we?
Benjamin Baruch, a lot of fast blasts just like this from Portis Lake, Arizona, already telling the truth.
I've heard him too.
No mistaking his voice.
By the way, I'm not a Christian.
So I don't have to read about him in a book.
This is a stock market man, top 1%, picking for funds and stuff like that, who prays to God, gets answers about the stock market and that sort of thing, but then goes on to get all kinds of information, is shown all kinds of information about the future of our country.
It is interesting.
You stay right there.
It's about to unfold in front of your ears.
The End Once again, Benjamin, Baruch Benjamin, welcome back.
All right.
I don't know.
You sound like a pretty square guy to me, pretty straight up, and yet you talk to God, or God talks to you, more likely.
But when you say, in fact, there was a fellow who wrote a book called Conversations with God.
But you're sure not alone.
There are a lot of people who say they talk to God.
Maybe you've got to wonder if it's the same voice in a different language when it's Allah they're speaking to or praying to, or whether it's only God of the Christian Bible that answers like this out loud.
Well, I was shown through insight and through some words that were shared with me that America, the church, the nation, and the world were going to come under judgment.
And that the judgment, the end time judgment of the nations of the earth was going to begin in the United States.
That we were number one.
We were the top nation, and God's judgment actually begins with us.
No, I don't think it's going to be the harshest immediately.
I think if you look at the way God deals with people and the way he deals with nations, he gets successively more stern or more forceful because he's looking to create a response.
He's not trying to bring judgment for the sake of judgment alone.
He's trying to wake up a nation.
He's trying to awaken a people who've maybe their hearts have grown hard and their Ears have grown dull.
Well, if yes, but I guess what I'm saying is if Armageddon is inevitable, as the Bible describes, then what use, any sort of warning, since it's predestined?
Well, there's no doubt that the battle of Armageddon is coming at some point in time.
But God also deals on an individual level with each person on this planet.
And whether we come under judgment or pass from judgment to life is a function of the decisions that we make uniquely.
So for God to issue his warning, and if we then take notice and begin to move in the right directions based on our wisdom and the light that we have, I think that will change the ultimate outcome in our individual war.
Whether we individually are judged in that or whether we are among the few that are counted worthy to escape is a function of how we behave and how we respond.
What's going to happen is America is described in Bible prophecy as an eagle, an eagle who has built her nest in the stars, much like we built our space station in the stars.
The eagle's wings are plucked.
America is judged before the final tribulation period described in the prophetic writings.
Well, I didn't see that part, no, but obviously if it were that we were hit with large nuclear weapons, yeah, I would assume there'd be massive casualties, unfortunately.
My sense would be that it's in the next years that are ahead of us.
It's not 100 years off.
I would venture the guess that it's within the next 10 years.
But that would be my guess.
And actually, if you look at the biblical record, God gave Jeremiah insight into a judgment that would come in his lifetime, but it didn't come for 30 years.
And at one point, he laments, have you deceived me?
Nothing has happened.
I gave this warning, and life went on.
And so this, you know, that may be the case here as well.
Yeah, I think they probably do it because their own nature is corrupted to the point that they are the embodiment of evil.
But yes, there is a demonic host that's trying to interfere with humanity as much as there's an angelic host that's trying to shepherd us and put it in the middle of the house.
We've got a break coming up, and so there's something I want you to think about for me, all right?
And that has to do with the question I asked you about God and perhaps Allah or Buddha or some of the other great recognized religions of the world and whether the devotees of those religions, when they pray, get answers from, well, the equivalent in a different language or something like that.
Or is it just our God that speaks?
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Tonight, Benjamin Baruch talks to God, and God talks to Benjamin Baruch.
God has shown him what's ahead for the United States.
A man who seems in every other way like a straight arrow, managed money, as a matter of fact, and talks to God first about money, then about us.
So All right, for the sake of time, in a moment, I'm going to ask Benjamin a series of fairly quick questions.
But I do want to jump right back to where I said I was going to go, Benjamin, and it is an important question, I think.
And that is, if a Buddhist prays to hear from Buddha on something or to Allah or to whoever, there are so many that are worshipped by millions, by millions, and as well as, you know, not just Christians.
So, Benjamin, do you think that these people get answers or do only Christians get answers?
Well, clearly, there are a lot of voices, and there are a lot of sources for information out there.
I would say when a Buddhist or somebody from some other faith prays to their God, they may very well hear an answer or have some type of interaction or response from their God, but their God is not a God.
If you read the Bible and the way it will all end, it is as though we can do nothing to prevent it.
What about on a personal level?
When this is visited on America and the concentration camps are here and the atomic bombs are falling, the hydrogen bombs, excuse me, and death and destruction is wrought, what can a single person do?
Well, based on my understanding, the judgment that's going to begin here in America will ultimately encompass the whole earth.
So the first and foremost thing to do to save your butt, as you say, is to get right with God, which I would suggest people get their Bibles out and begin to.
But at the same time, they knew that it was under control.
Yet all over the United States, the cities and the state governments and the federal government were building underground command and control bunkers for a problem that didn't exist in terms of Y2K.
But they need those bunkers for something else.
I would suggest to you and to our listeners that the underground bunkers that were built for Y2K, that was a bit of a cover story.
And the reason why we have underground command and control bunkers in all of our cities is they know something they're not telling us about.
Well, and if you go back over the history of the last 40 years, the communist alliance, the Russians, the Red Chinese, they have been the allies of these Arab states that have been sponsoring terrorism.
And actually, one can understand a case for how we are painted to be the bad guys, the colonialists, the big bullies on the block, and all the rest of that.
And so you can sort of try and see it from their point of view, but even if you struggle to try to be fair like that, we still have to go kill these radicals before they kill us, and they have every intent to try and kill us.
I mean, they're proving that again.
They're just going to kill people until they are killed.
And so moving on from there, I want to understand a little bit of how you were in the market, you were managing the money for these funds, and then apparently At some point, your ability to successfully do this waned or stopped?
Was it when you began talking with God or somewhere after the first conversations?
And you told them they should just go ahead and sell because it's...
Right, right, right.
But the bottom line was, look, it really doesn't make a heck of a lot of difference one way or the other because Judgment Day is about upon us, so who cares?
And about a little over a week went by, and it was time for me to make my annual presentation to the various operating divisions for this company on the results of the retirement programs.
And so I was speaking to one of the regional offices, and I do a one-hour program on the benefit plans.
And Art, as I was wrapping up this meeting, I hear from the back of the room, I wish to speak to this people.
And I think to myself, why did God say this people?
Well, yeah, if he's orchestrating all this, he definitely has a sense of humor.
No question.
And as well as some other senses.
In fact, actually, to be honest with you, if you imagine that what goes on down here really is orchestrated by God, then it just makes you wonder about God altogether.
An obvious question to Benjamin would be, why you, Benjamin?
Why would God pick you?
But the obvious answer already entwined within the interview is that God speaks not just with Benjamin, but apparently anybody who asks sufficiently well.
Benjamin, you're back.
Well, okay, fine.
Give me an overview, then, if you would, fairly quickly, of the state of the economy.
If you're advising on stock market buys now, where you might advise to buy or sell, and what you think is going on with our economy.
Jobs are not part of this apparent resuscitation of the economy so far, a very troubling aspect to it.
Well, it's difficult to give a quick overview that would be sufficient to cover a comprehensive understanding.
But in a nutshell, we are experiencing a reflation of the debt bubble, and the bubble has moved from the stock market to the housing market.
There are no real jobs being created in America.
I read a statistic recently that 60% or more of the new jobs that were created in the last two years have been filled by illegal immigrants at basic minimum wages.
There's virtually no high-income job creation.
And one of the reasons is we are exporting our manufacturing base, and now we're exporting a large number of white-collar jobs to be absolutely true.
There's indications that national demand is slowing.
Inside California itself, there's a supply constraint that's pushed prices to unreasonable levels.
The frightening statistic is that the percent of new homebuyers using adjustable rate mortgages is now above 70%.
And with record low fixed rates, people are moving to adjustables to afford the price shock.
Historically, arms or adjustable rate mortgages were used when interest rates began to go up in order to allow people to continue to buy the homes.
But in today's marketplace, people have gone to the adjustables out of sticker shock.
They're a shock absorber for the price itself, which won't leave us any slack, if you will, in the event or when interest rates finally do begin to rise again.
I think there's no question we're in a housing bubble.
In the area where I live, basic tract housing is $800,000.
With 2% property taxes, it's a $16,000 a year tax to own a home.
I would think once we get past the election, we're going to see the slide back down into the recession.
And you can call it whatever you want.
We've witnessed over $1 trillion of stimulus being thrown at the U.S. economy.
And as Warren Buffett said recently, give me a trillion dollars and I'll show you a good time.
And what he meant by that was, we spent a trillion.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Just to give you a sense of where the money went, in the last 12 months, consumer spending contributed To around $260 billion of gross domestic product growth or GDP growth.
We have a $500 billion trade deficit that I'll discuss in further detail.
And with the consumers borrowing approximately $1.2 trillion on all of their assets in the last 12 months, all we witnessed in terms of economic growth was $260 billion in additions to GDP.
$500 billion leaked out of the country through the trade deficit.
And the difference, about $400 billion, apparently was used for debt service to make the payments on all the money we borrowed last year.
You cannot create perpetual wealth by geometric debt additions.
And that is exactly what's happening to the United States.
Point number one, the so-called recovery that we are experiencing is a statistical hoax.
It's an illusion.
It really belongs in a Las Vegas magic show rather than on Wall Street.
And how is the illusion created?
I want to explain to our viewers the sleight of hand that the magicians are using inside these government agencies publishing this garbage economic data.
In the mid-1990s, we began to change the way we calculated our economic data for what was called quality adjustments.
They use a fancy term.
It's called hedonic deflation.
It means essentially quality adjustments.
And here's an example of this sleight of hand impact on the economic data that's released in this country.
Take computer production as an example.
From 2002, the first quarter, until third quarter of 2003, the official data for computer production in this country showed an increase of $128 billion, or roughly 49, 50% increase.
This number went into our GDP and our national productivity and our national income data.
The vast majority of that $128 billion, the true increase in real dollars was only $16 billion.
The imaginary increase was $112 billion, and that's because, ART, the computers were faster.
Therefore, even though we only sold $12 billion more in computers, because the computers are faster, we're going to count it as $128 billion.
Well, that so-called gimmickry is going into all of our economic data.
I think most people believe that, that our government feeds us a bunch of absolute trash when it comes to statistics like unemployment doesn't include those who have just been unemployed since they gave up and were no jobs.
This was officially announced when they were supposed to release this data every month, and they came out and said, Well, we're working on revising the calculation.
We just don't understand the answer we're getting right now.
Well, traditionally, when a nation's trade deficit reached 5% of their economy, the size of their economy, it imploded.
We are at that level right now in the United States.
However, we are in the unique position of having been the leading economic power and the dollar being the reserve currency for the world.
So we can probably press our luck a little bit further.
But the $500 billion deficit that we're financing every year, every day, it is absorbing 85% of the world's savings.
Now, Art, think about it.
The United States is borrowing 85% of all the money saved on the planet so that we can continue to drive our SUVs and buy their oil and their electronics and their fancy cars, and so we can float it all on more and more credit cards every year.
There's no question that if our trading partners don't continue to buy more U.S. debt to recycle our trade deficit, if they don't continue to reinvest that money back into U.S. debt, either stocks or bonds, that will force U.S. interest rates to go higher.
And the consequence of that is, of course, disruptive on your life.
When the United States begins to have to pay a real rate of interest to borrow all the money that we need to borrow to roll over our debt, then we'll see the day of reckoning.
You know, it's interesting, Art.
Right before the September 11th events of 2001, there was a warning published in all of the Russian newspapers by Dr. Tatanya Koryaga, who was a member of the macroeconomic research group of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development.
There's a lot of people saying that, that if there were something of that magnitude again, we did go into a gigantic tailspin because of it.
And they're still out there, and obviously they're still active.
And so one more big hit, and that could be it.
There are a number of things, I guess, then, that could bring about this crashing end, appropriate term, crashing end, or the beginning of the end, right?
And the reason for that, Art, is that people began to use debt to try to replace the lost income, the lost incomes that were occurring, to maintain their living standards.
All right, when we come back, we're going to the phones and we're going to see what people think about all this.
You're a complex individual, to be sure, Benjamin.
Stay right there.
Very complex.
On the one hand, he really knows his way around the economy, ours, and the international economy, and has a pretty firm grasp on everything.
On the other, he speaks to God, and God speaks back to Benjamin.
When we come back, we're going to go to the phones and see what you think about all of this.
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Well, we have a real enigma on our hands here with Benjamin Baruch.
Very, very interesting individual.
He obviously knows what he's talking about in the financial world.
There's no question about that.
He actually sounds just like my broker when he gets going, up to a certain point anyway.
And then on the other hand, we have the Benjamin Baruch who talks to God.
And God talks back to Benjamin about things from the stock market to the end of America, certainly as we know it, as he has seen it.
In a moment, we're going to go to the phones, and this could be very interesting indeed.
All right, well, this is going to be interesting.
A.Z. S.R. 22 from Tucson, Arizona, that must be gibberish, huh?
It says, this would be humorous if he didn't believe this stuff so much.
And that's what's scary about him and all religious fanatics like him.
The Bible is just a book of tales of history from the writer's view.
And we all know that history is in the eye of the holder.
So, you know, probably going to be some of that.
You know, you obviously completely believe everything you've told us tonight, right?
There's not even a centilla of doubt in your mind that it was God who spoke to you and gave that information to you and gave all of the information in whatever way it came to you to you.
But his questions, Benjamin, to be fair, is, if you've got a direct line to God and a line on the market and what it's going to do, then you should be real rich.
This theory that the reason we all charge together in unity to Afghanistan to bomb poor old Afghanistan yet again was to get the evil Osama bin Laden, who's a very close family friend of the Bushes.
I wouldn't describe it like that, but clearly it was not from me to tell this group the four judgments were coming and then to grab one of the young men by the shoulder and say, and it's just like your army.
I mean, that wasn't originating in my mind.
Moments later, when confronted with this, I didn't even remember saying it, but in fact, I did.
So clearly it was being directed by, in my opinion, the Spirit of God.
So, you know, perhaps, I think maybe we're describing the same thing, but I'm not certain.
And if you want to read about its future, read Jeremiah 50 and 51.
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Okay, so then when the market money-wise falls here, do you perceive how soon it might be that we'd have the one-world government, one-world monetary system, and so on and so forth?
And I would say that the collapse of the United States, which will be the total collapse, will be the finale of World War III.
We will see the one world government rise up out of those ashes almost immediately.
The nations of the earth will tremble when they see the great America fall in one hour, and they'll quickly turn to any solution that's offered to them.
I have two comments and then a question to Ben Yamin.
The comments, Benjamin's last name, Baruch, is blessed in Hebrew.
And modern Babylon is actually Iraq.
And my question to Ben Yamin is, Ben Yamin, when you pray to Hashem and ask him for answers to your questions, I was interested to know, do you speak out loudly and audibly, or do you sort of speak silently and inwardly to yourself?
It has been said by many that there's really not much in prophecy or any place really in the Bible where the United States even seems to be a factor in anything, to be honest with you.
First time caller line, you're on the air with Benjamin Brooke.
Hello.
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I guess I'm looking at things from my perspective, but if you could make an advisement to somebody, say the average American who's in this situation, we have a small mortgage, not a large one.
But all of our retirement is tied up in the market.
So if something happens to the market and it takes a dive, there goes all of our savings and everything we have, because basically we don't have much of a savings.
Like you said, most Americans don't.
We don't.
Most of our retirement, our savings is tied up in this market, which is something that our 401ks there, and everybody has told us, put everything there.
So that being the case, I would suggest that you move to a more defensive position and you should allocate some of your money in your 401k to more conservative fund options, either short-term bonds, perhaps some precious metal mining gold stocks would be appropriate.
I would not have 100% of my retirement funds allocated to equities at this time.
And without looking at the details of your family's income and net savings and your financial position, I can't make a blanket statement that would be relevant.
Benjamin, for people in her general financial condition, which is a lot of people, you know, with 401ks maybe, not a heck of a lot more toward retirement with what you know.
After we've had a 20-year bull market, and there's been three of them in the last 100 years, the next 10 years have produced negative real returns.
So here you are today.
The market has recovered substantially from the lows of a year ago, but the prospects going forward are for very mediocre single-digit returns, and that's the bullish case.
So you're taking tremendous risk of the bear market resuming, and in my opinion, the bear is not done, and we're going to create new lows before it's over.
And for assuming that risk, all you're getting is an expected single-digit return.
It's just not a prudent risk and return trade that I would make today.
I would sell the majority of my equities.
Now, there's always exceptions.
I like the energy stocks.
I like the gold stocks, but I would not be 100% allocated to stocks.
But gold, for some reason, has, though it hovers right at about the $400 mark and has taken a few upward spikes, it doesn't seem to be rising in alarm as you would expect it to if the market really were in the sort of condition that you are describing.
The majority of the professionals that are invested in the market and the Wall Street people that are speaking on the bubble vision that everybody watches are very bullish.
The minority opinion is that the bear market's for real and it's not over.
Gold is a store of value.
People flock to gold in times of uncertainty, and gold, of course, is the ultimate hedge against the debasement of a currency.
Very impressed with his knowledge, his intelligence, and been looking at some of the things on his website that's back up.
And one quick question.
You do believe then that the U.S. is mentioned in the Bible and prophecy, as I do.
And you also, do you believe that the saving name Yahshua the Messiah and Yahweh, that that's the name that we need to call on for salvation in these end times?
Well, Yeshua, which is the name salvation in Hebrew, with the name of Jesus being the Hebrew name, definitely I believe that Yeshua or Jesus Christ is the Messiah of Israel and the King of the universe.
He alone is the name whereby we may be saved.
And I do want to make one comment about the website.
Apparently the website, the dayofthalordisathand.com, is not up.
What's up is a mirrored site that people can get to by connecting or clicking on the link on the Coast to Coast AM.
I had a couple of questions for your guest, and maybe you can answer the first one also.
Why does it seem like everyone who has these visions or notes from God say that the U.S. is the first country, the first area that's going to be destroyed?
I wonder what the consequences of doing what he has done have been.
I think maybe we'll ask him that.
I mean, he's very, very, very outspoken, obviously.
And there really are a lot of people who just hate messengers.
The End Okay, remember, we're all adults here, and we are listening to one man and his opinion.
And a lot of people don't like messengers.
And just a quick side note, I got this from last week.
Dear Art, you were speaking to a woman caller last week with respect to the movie The Passion.
You asked her what she thought would happen if Jesus, the Master, so to speak, came again.
She was so sure it would all be great because she said, we're a Christian nation now, or something like that.
Your reply was that you disagreed and that you think the same kind of thing would happen that it did back then.
I was chilled by that.
So few understand that perspective.
Do we not know that the very people waiting for him slash aren't expecting the master then are the ones who rejected him, the very people waiting here now will reject him again?
That's very interesting stuff.
Benjamin, welcome back in the caller.
Would you please continue, caller?
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Well, my first question was, why are we the one, why is the U.S. the area that gets destroyed first?
First and foremost, judgment begins in the house of God, and the United States is one of two nations that were divinely created.
Every other empire that rose on this planet was the mission of a man who would be king or ruler.
But in the case of the United States, it was a movement by God.
This country was based on the Bible.
We are a Christian nation, or at least we were at one time.
And the other nation, of course, that God created was Israel.
And the judgment of God upon the earth begins first with his two unique nations that he created for divine purposes.
And ironically, the fact that we will be judged first is actually an act of mercy by God.
these judgments are designed to turn us back to God, that we would avoid the ultimate destruction that will face the nations that follow the Antichrist.
And now, having turned into a harlot and an apostate, we will be cleansed, if you will, by fire.
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Okay, I'll ask my other two questions real quickly to save time.
The first one is, if we're the Babylon of the apocalypse in the Bible, it was my interpretation, and I'm not a biblical scholar in any sense of the imagination, I thought the one world government started prior to the destruction of the new Babylon.
But my final question is if, and it was also, again, it's just my interpretation, but it wasn't long after the destruction of the New Babylon that pretty much everything comes to an end in Revelation.
Why were you earlier saying that people should go to Europe because it doesn't seem like that would give them all that much more time?
Or, you know, as the old saying goes, if the hydrogen bombs are going to fall, then better to go out there and face up to them and say, hi, baby, I'm ready, and just go out with a flash.
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I am in Colorado.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
And I have a few things.
Okay, number one, now the, excuse me, I apologize, a little bit nervous.
But did Christ not say that a house divided against itself could not stand?
And I'm putting that in reference to him healing, because that's basically what his reply was to the Jews when they said that he was healing people by demons.
So therefore, wouldn't it be that if one was healed by Judaism mentally, spiritually, physically, or one was healed by Muslim or any of these, that that would actually be part of him?
And if this nation would truly repent, according to 2 Chronicles, if my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my faith, this country has never done it.
There are so many of us, Benjamin, so many of us that have such a terrible struggle with the mental concept of a God that would have knowledge of what the creatures that he created would do and let it all unfold like some cruel orchestrated joke.
But look, from the listener's point of view, you do come across clearly as a prophet, a man who has received a message that he's supposed to take forth.