Jim Bakker Show - Recent Events - Steve Strang on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2017-11-02
Duration: 05:10


=== North Korea's Shadow (05:04) ===

[00:00:00]  What should the President do about North Korea, do you think?
[00:00:02]  Just for students.
[00:00:04]  He needs to be strong.
[00:00:07]  America has been weak going back to the Jimmy Carter era.
[00:00:11]  Now, North Korea, we fought a war.
[00:00:13]  Do you remember that?
[00:00:14]  A Korean war?
[00:00:15]  And the war has never really been settled.
[00:00:18]  I mean, they had that demilitarized zone.
[00:00:21]  And look at the difference between communism, which has beat its people on the ground.
[00:00:27]  You know, there are stories that they've killed millions of their own people.
[00:00:31]  There's famine all the time.
[00:00:33]  And look how prosperous South Korea is.
[00:00:36]  I mean, aren't most of our smartphones made in South Korea?
[00:00:40]  And how many South Korean car companies are over here now?
[00:00:44]  I mean, I've been to South Korea three times, and it's a very prosperous country.
[00:00:50]  But what happened with North Korea is that we have taken this attitude of we'll talk, but we won't do anything.
[00:00:58]  And you know what?
[00:00:59]  There's this whole thing about good cop and bad cop.
[00:01:02]  You know, sometimes you've got to keep your enemy a little bit off guard.
[00:01:06]  They don't know exactly what you're going to do.
[00:01:08]  And I think that that's what Trump is doing.
[00:01:11]  There's no way that North Korea could beat us in a war.
[00:01:14]  There's no way.
[00:01:15]  About all they could do is explode a bomb and kill a bunch of our people, kind of like 9-11, that type of thing.
[00:01:21]  And of course, we don't want that to happen at all.
[00:01:24]  The scary thing is if it pulled the world into a nuclear war, that would be much, much bigger than just North Korea.
[00:01:32]  But I believe that North Korea will back down.
[00:01:36]  I really do.
[00:01:38]  And I think that we'll be surprised in what Trump is able to accomplish.
[00:01:42]  You know, we're also concerned about South Korea, and we as Christians have an additional concern because South Korea is half or more than half Christian.
[00:01:52]  Some of the greatest churches in the world are there.
[00:01:54]  So as our brothers and sisters, and they are so close.
[00:01:58]  I mean, Seoul, which is a huge, huge city is like 10 minutes by air from North Korea.
[00:02:05]  Absolutely.
[00:02:06]  And it's mostly the South Koreans who would bear the brunt of a horrible war.
[00:02:15]  But you know what?
[00:02:16]  Look at this.
[00:02:16]  China has now backed down.
[00:02:19]  China wasn't doing anything until Trump got tough with them.
[00:02:23]  And look, didn't he have the president of China having dinner down there at Mar-a-Lago?
[00:02:28]  Yes, he did.
[00:02:29]  And he just happened to mention at the end of dinner that he just dropped the biggest bomb in history on Syria.
[00:02:36]  I think they were eating dessert, right?
[00:02:38]  That's right.
[00:02:40]  And, you know, that was a brilliant move.
[00:02:43]  First of all, it was probably needed militarily in Syria.
[00:02:47]  But also, it makes the Chinese wonder, are they going to do that to us as well?
[00:02:54]  Do either one of you study the health care plan?
[00:02:58]  You know, really what they wanted was they wanted the people who proposed this is they wanted single-payer health insurance like they have in Canada and England, which is a mess.
[00:03:09]  If you know anybody over there, I mean, first of all, you can't even get an appointment for long, long periods of time.
[00:03:15]  You can't get operations for a long period of time.
[00:03:17]  We would have that here.
[00:03:18]  We have the best medical help.
[00:03:21]  You know, the problem is that our costs are just absolutely out of control for hospitals, for doctors, for medication.
[00:03:29]  And Obamacare doesn't really cover all that.
[00:03:34]  And, you know, there are a lot of people who aren't covered who need insurance.
[00:03:37]  You know, would to God they would all have insurance.
[00:03:40]  You know, hopefully they would be able to afford the insurance and get it.
[00:03:44]  We want that.
[00:03:45]  But let's let the free market do that and not just look to the government to give us one more government handout that is going to, you know, I mean, how many trillion dollars are we already in debt?
[00:03:58]  And at some point, we've got to get a handle on that, or it's just going to get worse and worse.
[00:04:02]  Will the debt just explode on us at some point?
[00:04:05]  Some believe we're even going to have a crash someday because this market keeps going higher and higher.
[00:04:11]  And we have so much debt.
[00:04:12]  It is scary.
[00:04:13]  You're right.
[00:04:15]  However, you know, there are forces at work that we don't really understand.
[00:04:18]  And America is very resilient.
[00:04:21]  And there are a lot of people who have a lot to lose if the whole thing implodes.
[00:04:25]  And so because of that, they're motivated to work something out.
[00:04:29]  Why are there so many rich, super-rich billionaires that are really anti-American, or at least anti-what Mr. Trump's trying to do?
[00:04:38]  Well, you know, it's birds of a feather flock together.
[00:04:42]  And there have been a few well-known elites on the left, and they have started influencing others and influencing others and influencing others.

=== Something Optimistic (00:21) ===

[00:04:55]  Plus, listen, there's been a lurch to the left in our country, really ever since World War II.
[00:05:02]  But we've got to change something.
[00:05:04]  We've got to get something going.
[00:05:06]  And I am optimistic.
[00:05:09]  I'm optimistic.