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Dec. 8, 2017 - Jim Bakker Show
07:00
God's Hand In History - Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
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Threat To American Heritage 00:03:37
We've got things right now our country needs to deal with.
We're dealing with a potential Third World War right now.
We're dealing with potential cyber war that could close everything down.
I'm sure you have something to say about the statues that are being torn down.
Oh, yeah, sure.
They want George Washington.
They took the sign from George Washington, the church he attended in Washington.
They took the sign out of the church because they didn't want to hurt anybody anymore by having a sign that says George Washington sat here, you know.
Right.
Because George Washington was a slave owner.
Correct.
Right.
They want to destroy our history and they want to destroy our culture and they want to reject the Judeo-Christian foundations of civilization.
You know, because they hate America and they want to replace it with something that they consider a more just society.
Well, why don't they just go move somewhere else then?
Why don't they just get away from America?
And the hypocrisy of it, the hypocrisy of it, one of the things that sickens me the most about it is that these same people who are intolerant, you know, of people who are proud of the Southern heritage, who want to have statues to Robert E. Lee, who are proud of the American heritage and understand that Thomas Jefferson deserves to be honored and respected.
And Columbus deserves to be honored and respected for all his faults.
But it represents, you know, that these same people sing the praises of diversity, of diversity.
But they don't want to respect the diversity of Americans on our side who love America, of Southern people, of people who are constitutionalists, of people who believe in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Surely a diverse society which is broad-minded enough to have high schools named for Chair Guevara and statues to Quetzalcoatl can tolerate a statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jefferson.
But no.
You know, this is what the left wants to have it both ways and have that kind of a diversity which rejects the foundations of Judeo-Christian civilization and its products, the kinds of people that have been produced,
the kinds of character that have grown from it, and replace it with what I see as a new slavery, where they want to flip the ethos of the American experiment,
where the individual is the person who has God-given rights, and everything flows from that to the totalitarian mindset that prevailed in Stalin's Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and Mao, where the state is all and the collective is all.
And the individual has to conform to the political correctness that's dictated to us from on high.
And there is no room for tolerance, from deviation, from the mindset, the totalitarian mindset that is dictated to us from on high, from the state, from the university system.
And where are the places in America that are least tolerant of diversity, that insist upon the most intellectual conformity?
You know, we can see it every day in our universities and in political parties that encourage things like Antifa, who want to use violence to shut down.
Miracles And Mirrors 00:03:24
They don't want to have a conversation.
They want to force their views upon us.
You know, I see this as a great threat to our liberty, the threat from within that may, in some respects, be just as great, if not greater, than the threat from outside.
I wonder, you know, because we were talking about, we were talking about God and God and history, you know, before we came in here.
And it's not a, I mean, I was originally trained as a historian.
And, you know, when you go through that historical training, You know, one of the things you learn about is the historians of the past, you know, up until and through the 19th century.
It was the common view among historians, you know, that God acted in history, through history, in man, and that you could see an evolution in man's history through God, that in effect, and arguably the proof of God was written in human history itself.
And the evolution from slave societies of ancient Rome through the Dark Ages up until the miracle is that is the United States of America.
And when you understand the details of our creation, it does indeed seem miraculous that we could be created and come to this point, which has all been replaced.
A part of our heritage, a point of view, that is now in our universities regarded as totally discredited and untrue and been replaced with the materialist model, which is in effect the Marxist-Leninist model.
That there is no God, God doesn't act through history, we're all biological machines, products of socioeconomic systems, okay?
It's not enough for God to be on the side of the United States.
We have to be on the side of God.
I mean, I think throughout history, there's a price to be paid for not being a good people, what they would call in the Bible in the Old Testament, a righteous people, which meant basically being a good people.
God has been good to the United States.
Really, we've had a series of miracles where we were able to come through World War II despite that tremendous threat to us.
And when you unpackage World War II and see, you know, thank God the snows came early outside of Moscow, right?
I mean, that the DAD invasion came off as well as that it did, the weather cleared.
You know, one can see the hand of God in history here.
Thank God we came through the Cold War.
You know, I've described it as a miracle.
I actually, as a person who was there in the front lines, you know, it really was miraculous.
I mean, the Soviets had built up such formidable nuclear and conventional forces that I think they would have won if we had gone to war.
But fortunately, with the help of God, you know, we prevailed.
And I think, and it gives me hope because at least up until the end of the Cold War, we were the kind of people that deserve to prevail.
One of the things that makes me most fearful about what we're becoming as a people, the divisions we're talking about, these absurd things that are happening is fewer and fewer of us seem to be a good and godly people.
North Korea's Warning 00:00:28
At some point, when is the Almighty going to say, well, America, you've had enough chances.
You've walked on a path away from me.
It's time for the North Koreans to punish you.
And the Old Testament, that happened to the Israelis, to the nation of Israel, more than once.
Yes, it did.
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