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From Republic to Empire
00:02:26
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| There is a viciousness. | |
| What do you think is going on? | |
| You got intellect that you thinking about this every day. | |
| You are amazing. | |
| I think we can learn a lot from history. | |
| And when we look at ancient history, look at the history of the Roman Republic, which was a republic long before it became an empire. | |
| But it only lasted a few centuries before the infighting became too much, and it finally fell to men like Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus and the other emperors who basically seized control themselves. | |
| And I think what we're seeing in America is the danger of us going in that same direction. | |
| We are getting to a point where the legislature won't do anything because they're too busy fighting over their little pieces of the budget. | |
| It was the very thing Benjamin Franklin said in those very early days. | |
| Okay, we'll be a republic, but you'll be lucky if you can keep it. | |
| We've given you a republic if you can keep it. | |
| And that's exactly what happened to Rome. | |
| They tried to become an empire. | |
| They had armies all over the known world at that time. | |
| We in the United States are doing the same thing. | |
| We've got soldiers now in Afghanistan for going on 20 years now. | |
| I mean, it took us, what, four to defeat Hitler and the Germans? | |
| It's now 17, 18 years in Afghanistan, and we still... | |
| But we're still in Germany. | |
| And we're still in Germany. | |
| Yeah, actually, we're still in Japan, too. | |
| So we are stretched like the Roman Empire was 2,000 years ago. | |
| And what happened to Rome? | |
| It went from becoming, it went from a republic to an empire where we had a dictator. | |
| They had a dictator. | |
| And sadly, I think we're in the last days of this republic where we are going to see a dictator emerge. | |
| Now, does that make America the end times Babylon? | |
| We have some friends, some very learned Bible scholars and prophecy teachers who think it is. | |
| I disagree, but I can see why they think so. | |
| I think that the political infighting we're seeing right now is just the symptoms of America entering what could be its last days. | |
| Well, what do you think about the fact that New York City, you know, I studied everything when I was in the prison, and I came up with, it looked like New York fit the whole description of mystery Babylon. | |
| There's some, again, some very well-respected prophecy teachers, yourself included, who reached that conclusion. | |
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God's Need-to-Know Basis
00:00:52
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| I tend to agree with Joel Richardson. | |
| What does he think? | |
| Who thinks that Mystery Babylon, in fact, his most recent book, is actually Mecca. | |
| And in fact, my next book deals with that. | |
| Now, I disagree with Joel on some points. | |
| We've been exchanging email the last week or so, telling each other why we're wrong. | |
| But we'll argue about it on the way up. | |
| How come Christian teachers disagree? | |
| God is not called the Lord of hosts, which means Lord of armies for no reason. | |
| He reveals information on a need-to-know basis. | |
| He is the greatest general in all of history, and there are some things that we don't need to know just yet. | |
| Like they used to say in World War II, loose lips sink ships. | |
| Too many of us are talking to the enemy. | |
| Right. | |
| We're going to have a great show tomorrow. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |