Jim Bakker Show - Why Hasn't God Judged America...Yet?
Aired: 2015-06-18
Duration: 05:18


=== Why God Hasn't Judged America Yet (03:23) ===

[00:00:00]  In just a minute we're going to talk about why hasn't God already judged America and what's going on.
[00:00:06]  That is a really good question.
[00:00:12]  As we try to put it in perspective, let's take a look at what God sees when the American flag goes by.
[00:00:20]  He sees a culture that has outlawed his word out of the schools.
[00:00:27]  It's a culture that has forbidden his mention in any public place.
[00:00:33]  It's a culture that has tried to deconstruct every institute that he's put in it.
[00:00:38]  The murder of baby, over 60 million babies murdered in the womb of the mothers.
[00:00:44]  I can't visualize the Lord saluting the flag as it goes by, point one.
[00:00:51]  But the other thing is for many, many years, at least more than four decades, we would do a talk with an audience, but we always finished with what we called a question-answer period.
[00:01:03]  After we gave him our presentation, the most fun part of the evening was the open question-answers.
[00:01:09]  And we could always predict that in the Q  ⁇ A, as we call it, there's a question that would always come up.
[00:01:16]  Somebody would say, why hasn't God judged America?
[00:01:20]  And we always make allusions to Billy Graham's clever soundbites that if God doesn't judge America, he'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.
[00:01:28]  A great soundbite.
[00:01:30]  Thomas Jefferson said the same thing back in 1781.
[00:01:33]  I tremble for my country when I recall that God is just and that his justice will not sleep forever.
[00:01:40]  So I used to answer those questions very glibly, calling on Genesis 12, verse 2 and 3.
[00:01:48]  I'll bless them that bless thee.
[00:01:49]  In other words, I felt very sincerely, and I could prove from the scripture, that what was protecting us from an overdue judgment was our commitment to Israel's right to exist.
[00:02:03]  And clumsy though it is, and even though we betrayed it many times, our official position was to back Israel.
[00:02:10]  Now I find myself involved for the first time in history where America has withdrawn its support from God's people, from Israel.
[00:02:24]  And so the very thing that I used to use as a defense, as a shield from an overdue judgment, is now gone.
[00:02:34]  You need to understand it's not our job to predict the future.
[00:02:37]  That's called divination.
[00:02:38]  It's prohibited in the Torah.
[00:02:40]  But it is our responsibility to prepare for the coming storms.
[00:02:44]  And the tragedy that I worry about is that the least prepared population on the planet Earth for what's coming, the one that least prepared, is the American citizen.
[00:02:55]  They have absolutely no grasp of what's coming.
[00:02:59]  In Europe, they have a feeling for it because they've lived through these kinds of things.
[00:03:06]  The experience of Germany in 1920 tonight, that's vivid in our family because my grandparents had a restaurant and they sold the restaurant to retire.

=== Why the Dollar Matters (02:09) ===

[00:03:16]  By the time the formalities were finished, when it started, they could retire and what the restaurant was worth.
[00:03:24]  When it finally was able to get closed, what they received was enough to buy one loaf of bread.
[00:03:32]  A loaf of bread in 1920 in Germany cost about one mark.
[00:03:36]  In 1923, a loaf of bread cost 760 million marks.
[00:03:41]  Oh, my goodness.
[00:03:42]  Now, the point is, in all kinds of cultures, they've had the experience of...
[00:03:49]  See, famines are caused by mismanaging credit.
[00:03:53]  It isn't lack of food.
[00:03:55]  It's the inability to buy them, buy things.
[00:03:57]  And Germany is one of the best examples.
[00:04:01]  Well, if you look at the expansion, the debauchment of the currency in Germany, and you look at what we've been doing to the dollar, they're about equal.
[00:04:12]  We have defeated the real value of the dollar, and it's getting worse every month that goes by.
[00:04:19]  And so somewhere along the way, now, the reason we can pay our debts is because we can print more money.
[00:04:25]  only as long as we are the world reserve currency.
[00:04:31]  But there are at least nine treaties already signed where Russia, Brazil, all the majors are finding ways to get out from under the U.S. dollar.
[00:04:40]  And when the U.S. dollar is no longer recognized as the World Reserve, our ability to pay our bets with just printing money will evaporate.
[00:04:49]  Most people don't realize we get away with what we do because we enjoy this unique position of dealing in what's called the World Reserve Currency.
[00:04:58]  But that's evaporating.
[00:05:00]  How long?
[00:05:01]  No one knows that answer.
[00:05:04]  It can't be too far away for a lot of reasons.
[00:05:05]  The Federal Reserve is running out of bullets.
[00:05:10]  They want to keep the interest rate down because the interest is on that debt.
[00:05:15]  But they're running out of games to play to keep that down.