Jim Bakker Show - Is America Mirroring The Roman Empire  - Derek Gilbert on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2019-03-19
Duration: 03:04


=== From Republic to Empire (02:26) ===

[00:00:00]  There is a viciousness.
[00:00:02]  What do you think is going on?
[00:00:03]  You got intellect that you thinking about this every day.
[00:00:06]  You are amazing.
[00:00:08]  I think we can learn a lot from history.
[00:00:09]  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.
[00:00:16]  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.
[00:00:29]  And I think what we're seeing in America is the danger of us going in that same direction.
[00:00:35]  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.
[00:00:42]  It was the very thing Benjamin Franklin said in those very early days.
[00:00:46]  Okay, we'll be a republic, but you'll be lucky if you can keep it.
[00:00:50]  We've given you a republic if you can keep it.
[00:00:52]  And that's exactly what happened to Rome.
[00:00:54]  They tried to become an empire.
[00:00:56]  They had armies all over the known world at that time.
[00:00:59]  We in the United States are doing the same thing.
[00:01:02]  We've got soldiers now in Afghanistan for going on 20 years now.
[00:01:06]  I mean, it took us, what, four to defeat Hitler and the Germans?
[00:01:09]  It's now 17, 18 years in Afghanistan, and we still...
[00:01:12]  But we're still in Germany.
[00:01:13]  And we're still in Germany.
[00:01:14]  Yeah, actually, we're still in Japan, too.
[00:01:16]  So we are stretched like the Roman Empire was 2,000 years ago.
[00:01:20]  And what happened to Rome?
[00:01:21]  It went from becoming, it went from a republic to an empire where we had a dictator.
[00:01:26]  They had a dictator.
[00:01:28]  And sadly, I think we're in the last days of this republic where we are going to see a dictator emerge.
[00:01:35]  Now, does that make America the end times Babylon?
[00:01:38]  We have some friends, some very learned Bible scholars and prophecy teachers who think it is.
[00:01:43]  I disagree, but I can see why they think so.
[00:01:46]  I think that the political infighting we're seeing right now is just the symptoms of America entering what could be its last days.
[00:01:54]  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.
[00:02:08]  There's some, again, some very well-respected prophecy teachers, yourself included, who reached that conclusion.

=== God's Need-to-Know Basis (00:52) ===

[00:02:14]  I tend to agree with Joel Richardson.
[00:02:17]  What does he think?
[00:02:18]  Who thinks that Mystery Babylon, in fact, his most recent book, is actually Mecca.
[00:02:24]  And in fact, my next book deals with that.
[00:02:27]  Now, I disagree with Joel on some points.
[00:02:28]  We've been exchanging email the last week or so, telling each other why we're wrong.
[00:02:32]  But we'll argue about it on the way up.
[00:02:36]  How come Christian teachers disagree?
[00:02:41]  God is not called the Lord of hosts, which means Lord of armies for no reason.
[00:02:47]  He reveals information on a need-to-know basis.
[00:02:49]  He is the greatest general in all of history, and there are some things that we don't need to know just yet.
[00:02:56]  Like they used to say in World War II, loose lips sink ships.
[00:02:59]  Too many of us are talking to the enemy.
[00:03:01]  Right.
[00:03:02]  We're going to have a great show tomorrow.
[00:03:04]  Oh, yeah.