1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,720 Hello everyone, and welcome to episode number 8 of the Bible Study Masterclass. 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,760 In this portion of our multi-part series involving a thorough consideration of the 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:14,480 18th chapter of the Book of the Revelation, we will be expanding upon our goal aimed at 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,880 further proving that Babylon the Great can be none other than the United States of America. 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,840 The question before us, as we embark upon this journey, is, why? 6 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:30,640 We saw briefly in episode number 7 why God would absolutely hate and despise even a nation so great 7 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:35,600 and so blessed as the United States of America, but, what might be the particulars undergirding 8 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,240 the causes as to why the nations might follow suit, so as to do the bidding of the God they 9 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:46,880 don't even know? In view of her apparent opulence, her prestige, her privilege and her projection of 10 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:52,720 power, in addition to her general haughtiness, do the nations have any justifiable cause for concern 11 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,520 for any possibility that she might secretly harbor the same or similar plans toward them, 12 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,320 as they without question do invariably harbor for her. 13 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,960 As we invoke the blessing of God upon this study, let's talk about it. 14 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,520 The Spectres of Doom 15 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,120 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 16 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:14,160 Whether viewed against the backdrop of our modern world, or, against the setting of a 17 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:21,600 landscape stretching across 5999 years or so of human history, hers is undeniably a glistening, 18 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:26,480 scintillating presence to say the least marked by astonishing achievements and contributions, 19 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:32,960 beyond question. A land of freedom and of limitless opportunity, primarily, if one's skin is 20 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:39,760 white, that is, thus by design, more so for some, than for others, where this queen of nations does 21 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:44,960 not stand as an emblem and a model for others, she has shone and still shines like a beacon to 22 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:51,200 multitudes. Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond extolled this virtue in a song entitled, 23 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:58,000 Coming to America. Her many, many astounding attributes and virtues aside, though, the United 24 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,440 States of America is no less whether seen through the eyes of informed, historically aware men, 25 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,920 or, through the eyes of omniscient God a transcontinental contradiction in terms. 26 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:14,080 Basking in plain sight for all eyes to see yet covered by a shadowy cloak of shady reasoning 27 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:19,680 cast by the pens of her white racist, revisionist historians, she abides no less quite unlike 28 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:24,880 anything the world has ever known or seen, partly by twisting and perverting the facts so as to show 29 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:31,040 the world only what she wants, in a light that pleases her. An opulent concept privy only to 30 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:37,440 the mind of God for over six thousand years, per Revelation chapter 18. Prideful, arrogant, 31 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:43,920 and corrupt, an unimaginable impression upon even the minds of her founding fathers, there has never 32 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:50,320 been anything like her, prior to our day. As such, drenched in a wealth unfathomable, she is a 33 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:57,440 coveted symbol of pride and, seemingly boundless, prosperity. Yet, though she rides luxuriant, high 34 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:02,960 on her well-fed hog, she parks that lush pork in a pen bounded and supported by the withered posts 35 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:09,200 of a scarcely visible financial train wreck. Daily, with near reckless abandon, in a restless 36 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:14,800 hunt for zest, she thrusts that fat, ravenous swine onto the limelights of the bustling streets 37 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:21,520 of a life she dominates, forever oblivious, to the fog of its imminent fade. Clinging to its back, 38 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:27,600 driven herself by lust unquenchable, haunted by a price tag she can't afford, hounded by borrowed 39 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:32,960 sums all know she can never outpace, she hurls that squealing pig through a valley of staggering 40 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:39,360 debts and over the precipice of mountains of insurmountable liabilities. So it is, then, that, 41 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:45,040 on that hog, she plummets, gripped by a rapacious thirst that will neither die nor succumb to 42 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:52,240 satisfaction. Hooked in a death spiral, she cannot reverse thrust. Blissfully, headlong and well 43 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:58,560 nourished, she plunges. Downward she goes, on a slippery slope in a blithe unparalleled, the 44 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:04,560 relentless clasp of her physical tail trapping a hapless world, hog-tied in chains of obligation. 45 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:10,160 She to them, they to her, all dragged in tandem with her now stuffed millions, toward a hellish 46 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:16,960 oblivion. Soon she'll crash, this everyone knows, this queen of royalty, in a quagmire of 47 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:23,360 hopelessness, as in a desert of dirty pots and empty plates. There she will languish and perish, 48 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:29,040 alone and friendless, resting forever, unable to fill the soon-to-be empty bellies of anyone 49 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:36,400 left of her starving millions. This, notwithstanding the lies of her fat cat, well compensated preachers, 50 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:41,360 who are paid to keep their mouths shut, filling the itching ears of her wayward churches only 51 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:47,520 with what they want to hear. Notwithstanding her inevitable impending fate, today the queen rests 52 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:53,920 in a light most enviable. She sits still, pretty and proud, at the top of the international food 53 00:04:53,920 --> 00:05:01,840 chain. There, with the same reckless abandon, this queen of nations feasts, she eats, she drinks, 54 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:08,720 she's merry, neither caring on the one hand, nor, knowing on the other, that tomorrow, she'll be dead. 55 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:15,520 She spends money and she lends money, money she siphons freely and repays with whatever she siphons 56 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:21,200 only to re-siphon from the pockets of her admirers, none of whom she has conquered, outright, in any 57 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:27,200 strict sense of the word, unlike the Romans, etc., or the British. Notwithstanding her treacherous 58 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,520 double-cross and slaughter of over one hundred million Native Americans in the theft of their 59 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:37,680 lands and resources, and, millions upon millions of Africans, she bought or stole to bring us slaves 60 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:44,640 to the land of the brave, and of the irony of ironies, free. Thus, above all her past pre-nationhood 61 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:50,640 atrocities and injustices, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, she manages well her very real, 62 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:58,720 existential dark side, in true Catch-22 fashion. Topsoil Crisis. Let us eat, and drink, and be 63 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:05,760 merry today. For, tomorrow, in sixty years, we die. The world won't be able to feed itself. 64 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:12,560 As alluded to above, notwithstanding her apparent prosperity and might, the United States faces 65 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:16,400 daunting threats and near-insurmountable challenges not the least of which is the 66 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:24,560 potential for starvation. Yes, starvation, in the land of plenty, God's country, and, let us stress, 67 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:31,280 she is not alone. What's good for the Gannet is good for the goose. As the Queen goes, so goes the 68 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:37,520 white man's world. This spectre is nothing new, and as much as, it catches no one by surprise. 69 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:46,480 Soil Depletion. Almost fifty years ago, as of today, December 21, 2022, during the late 70s, 70 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:52,640 a now-defunct, periodical entitled Omni Magazine, if one's memory is correct, published a cover 71 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:57,600 story that detailed a worrisome problem and threat facing the American agricultural industry. 72 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:04,560 The article was rooted in a discussion of topsoil. Specifically, the author covered the root causes 73 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:09,840 driving its loss, and the potential negative impact the loss of that topsoil could, would have in the 74 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:15,760 not too distant future, with respect to American stomachs and industry. Topsoil is that upper layer 75 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,560 of ground which serves as the storehouse for the food, moisture and nutrients that plants and crops 76 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:25,920 need in order to grow. The article went on to highlight the fact that while there was a productive 77 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:30,800 and highly profitable man-made offset to the immediate problem of topsoil loss, the cure 78 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:37,040 itself was only temporary at best, and, in the end, as much detrimental to the agriculture industry, 79 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:42,960 as is the problem itself. That is, in spite of high yields and bumper crops initially, 80 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,760 at the end of the day artificially injecting the soil to make up for the nutrients lost along with 81 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:53,520 soil loss, forcing it to do what it cannot do naturally, serves as well to deplete whatever 82 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:59,920 is left of that topsoil. Because of this otherwise, perhaps, well-intended practice of coercing the 83 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:05,760 soil to do what it cannot do naturally, at some point, that ground so treated will stop producing 84 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:12,400 altogether. In so many words, eventually the cost of this artificial insemination will without 85 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:18,240 doubt exceed the benefits. Thus, farmers and researchers still today look to the future and 86 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:24,240 talk in real terms about the looming prospect of food shortages, famines, and starvations in a land 87 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:30,640 that has only been known for its surpluses. From here, a bleak picture goes from austere to alarming. 88 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:37,120 Soil Loss. Loss of this most valuable of all natural resources is 10 times the rate at which 89 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:42,960 the soil tends to rejuvenate itself. That, according to the 7th of October 2010 issue of 90 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:50,560 NaturalNews.com. Around the world, the loss rate gets even more gloomy. Australia equals only 5x, 91 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:59,600 Europe equals 17x, China equals 57x, according to SeekingAlpha.com. In the article, Topsoil, 92 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:06,800 Dirt Isn't Cheap. 1st of October 2008, a purchase of American wheat by Iran in a quantity unattainable 93 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:12,400 anywhere else signals an emerging shortage of fertile soil. We're running out of good dirt. 94 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:19,680 The world over. As stated, topsoil can be replaced, but, hundreds of years are needed to regain only 95 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:28,880 1-2 inches. According to Inhabitat.com's article, soil erosion could cause food crisis. January 21st 96 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:36,640 2013, the world has roughly 60 years of good dirt remaining. Any more doubts then, about the practicality 97 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:43,200 of or the plausibility of events as detailed in John's Revelation, chapter 6. The soil and looming 98 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:48,560 food crisis is not just one confined to the land of the Queen and her European foreparents, it is 99 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:54,080 one faced by the entire world, whose dirt is being worn out and further depleted of its nutrients by 100 00:09:54,080 --> 00:10:01,520 modern farming methods. Per Inhabitat.com, John Crawford, a professor at the University of Sydney, 101 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:06,720 revealed in a Time Magazine interview that, with a growing global population and nutrient loss due 102 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:11,360 to poor farming methods, the world could see a severe food crisis as early as the middle of 103 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:20,240 this 21st century or, by 2050, roughly 33 years from this day of January 20th, 1017. Given a growth 104 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:26,560 rate of approximately 1.5 billion new births every 15 years, the global population should be around 105 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:34,640 10 billion souls, in 2050. By 2077, the soil would be nearly worn out worldwide, and assuming that 106 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:39,200 somehow the population could continue to grow humanity will have increased to approximately 107 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:46,640 12 to 13 billion mounds, which can hardly be fed. The Inhabitat.com article went on to point out that, 108 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:52,640 being deficient of nutrients, depleted topsoil will not hold moisture as well as will healthy soil, 109 00:10:52,640 --> 00:11:01,520 speaking of which, water loss and depletion. During the summer, or, late spring, of 2014-2013, 110 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:06,640 NPR Radio hosted a discussion that was rooted in an issue of critical concern nationwide. 111 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:11,360 During that talk, the focus shifted to Texas ranchers, farmers regarding another doomsday 112 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:16,720 specter in the form of devastating drought conditions plaguing primarily southwestern Texas. 113 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:21,520 That draft forced a humongous cattle drive that involved the moving of tens of thousands of heads 114 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:27,120 of cattle from Texas to North Dakota during calving season or, lose them due to a serious lack of 115 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:32,240 water. North Dakota was the only place in the country they could find that could accommodate 116 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:37,920 that many cattle. In that discussion, it was revealed that an underground reservoir, covering 117 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:44,160 175,000 square miles, spanning many of the grain-producing states west of the Mississippi, 118 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:50,800 stretching from South Texas to North Dakota, is at an all-time low. In bygone years that water went 119 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:56,720 largely untouched. In the highly industrialized economy of today, that same water is prevailed 120 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:03,120 upon to serve every need imaginable. Consequently, ranchers and researchers see little to no remedy 121 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:08,240 in seeking replenishment through cutting back and or conservation, given that bringing the water 122 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:14,000 table back up to an acceptable level would, like topsoil, take hundreds, if not thousands of years. 123 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:20,800 Again, these same ranchers, farmers and researchers engage in, real talk, to the extent that the 124 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:25,840 inevitable outcome of further drops in the water table can and will only lead the nation to a 125 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:31,440 food shortage, resulting in the eventual starvation of millions upon millions of American citizens. 126 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:38,480 Meanwhile, from California to Florida, sinking cities, bone-dry beds of once-flourishing lakes, 127 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:43,760 hypoxic waters of lakes with abundant marine life polluted by the stench of rotting bodies of fish 128 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:49,440 killed for want of oxygen due to significant drops in those water levels, leaving too many fish for 129 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:54,000 the amount of oxygen the lesser quantity of water can supply, underscores the evidence of 130 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:59,120 the freshwater crisis America faces. The Angst of the Nations 131 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:05,200 More often than not, wars are usually calculated and waged in response to need and or want, 132 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,000 whether that be for the souls of men, for territory, or for natural resources. 133 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:15,920 Thus, as worrisome and as vexing as is the future for Americans, in view of the present 134 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:21,440 soil and impending food crisis we face, any light at the end of the tunnel only grows dimmer, 135 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:25,920 when we pause to consider the spectre of doom-backlighting eyes that watch, observe and 136 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:32,000 ponder this plight, behind foreign borders. Faced with these same grim prospects themselves, 137 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,840 those alien eyes know that should the US agribusiness eventually fail, as it most assuredly will, 138 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:42,880 the burden of satisfying 300 million hungry bellies will inevitably fall on or could be 139 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:48,880 forced upon them. Major industries would suffer and fail. Millions would be left jobless, 140 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:53,440 the already overburdened, stretched and beaten down tax base would drop dramatically, 141 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,520 leaving the government at a greater loss as to how to meet its dead obligations. 142 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,840 Knowing what they would do if faced with a similar crisis, this realization forces upon them the need 143 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:10,160 for a joint defensive strategy. Given the circumstance, insofar as, they all question 144 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:15,120 her motives and ponder what might be going on in her mind, none is likely to argue against the 145 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:20,480 fact that a best defensive posture is a strong offensive subterfuge, or, a provision for a 146 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:26,560 collectivized, coordinated, pre-emptive, first-strike capability that is, hit a hungry US, 147 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:32,240 before its famished people can hit us. From here, therefore, the plot thickens, 148 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:38,480 and the danger heightens for all concerned. Rest assured, the nations will not and cannot afford 149 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:43,040 to sit idly by and risk a protracted engagement with the strongest military forces, and the 150 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:48,560 protracted engagement with the strongest military power known to men, which only the US is likely 151 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:54,800 to win, should the Queen opt to force-feed, itself at the world's expense. A Trump or, 152 00:14:54,800 --> 00:15:01,440 a Trump-like GOP-led administration, guided by a completely idiotic buffoon, whose first 100 days 153 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:06,880 in office gave informed sources all over the world cause to question his sanity, mental stability 154 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:11,840 and his fittedness for the office of president, cannot possibly mitigate so bleak a preview 155 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,720 supported and surrounded by a vociferous, arrogant and restless white, supremacist, 156 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:22,080 majority that exhibits much of the same disturbing traits, tendencies and expectations as did the 157 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:27,920 white German majority that saw the rise of Hitler. Additionally, and ominously perhaps, 158 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:33,280 six months into his first term, Trump ramped US saber-rattling rhetoric up a notch when he 159 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:38,160 issued this assurance, per a clip aired on Jay Sekulow's live radio broadcast, 160 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:44,240 the West will never, ever, be broken, signalling without question, that, whatever the future in 161 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:51,120 terms of economic, political and, or upheaval on the global stage, the US, her white, European allies, 162 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:56,880 has no intention of ever falling victim. And yet, with the military already strategically 163 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:03,840 positioned on foreign shores, spread across 150 countries, any reaction now, or, later, 164 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:10,160 on the part of potential enemy nations could conceivably be too little, too late. But, is it, 165 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:16,960 knowing that God says it not only can, but will be done? In answer to the previously raised questions, 166 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:22,240 for sure, the spectre of doom grows darker and more sinister when we realize that a world having 167 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:26,880 immeasurable difficulty feeding itself, where malnourishment and starvation in spite of 168 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:32,800 potential is a daily, insurmountable reality already, not only cannot, it will not willingly 169 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:37,120 submit to demands to shoulder the burden of a gluttonous United States of America which, 170 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:42,960 unable to feed itself or to pay for the food it needs already owes and or is mired in the 171 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:48,000 muck of a debt it cannot ever hope to repay, that debt itself being roughly one-tenth of the 172 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:54,000 burdensome, inescapable, estimated, obligation of an entire world deeply indebted, to itself 173 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:59,760 according to one source, that then, invariably raises the issue of the Queen's debt burden. 174 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:07,120 Debt Crisis To dismiss the United States of America as a transcontinental contradiction in terms, 175 00:17:07,120 --> 00:17:11,840 snared in the thick of a dangerous catch-22, might be something of an understatement. 176 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:20,000 As of May 17, 2017, the US national debt stood at more than $20 trillion. That's the total amount 177 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,560 of money that the US government owes to and is obligated to pay out both domestically to her 178 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:29,120 citizens and to international lenders, having campaigned on a promise that he would reduce 179 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:35,600 the deficit. It was announced earlier that year as of August 13, 2018 that POT US Trump had 180 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:41,360 reversed thrust, so that then he expected to raise the deficit by at least $1 trillion more. 181 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:47,440 The national debt is the total of all the past annual deficits, combined deficits being the 182 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:53,040 amount of money the government spent, beyond what it collected in revenue, taxes, etc., 183 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:59,040 in any given one year. To put that into some kind of perspective, every single one of America's 184 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:05,120 3.2 billion souls would have to pay more than $65,500 each to liquidate the debt. 185 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:10,480 That's a staggering sum of money bigger than the combined debts of practically all the nations of 186 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:16,640 the earth, some say, that grows by in excess of $4 trillion, on a frequency that is all too regular. 187 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:22,480 Some say this humongous obligation is the biggest threat to the future stability of the entire 188 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:28,160 country, and its national security, according to Joint Chief of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, 189 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:32,480 bigger than any threat posed by any enemy or adversary on any foreign shore. 190 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:38,640 In summary, America the Beautiful, in all of her opulence, is quite literally running on 191 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:44,160 borrowed, time and rented money, which means that her affluence is at best a costly illusion, 192 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,200 couched within a fragile bubble that is beyond ready to burst. 193 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:53,600 That is, at the expense of the nations of the world, this queen of nations dwells in a palace 194 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:58,720 she cannot afford, living a life of luxury, in the light of a splendor to which she has grown 195 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:05,520 accustomed and loves, albeit that is far beyond her means. These nations then, notwithstanding, 196 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:11,440 if not because of their own enormous debts, are effectively, de facto, vassals to the will of 197 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:16,160 and to the material craving of the insatiable appetites of a gluttonous green-eyed monster, 198 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:22,000 as it were, tied to her at the hip. It is a practical impossibility to break free, 199 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,400 without doing irreparable damage to themselves, this they know all too well. 200 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:32,720 China and Japan are by far the largest of these, vassals, holding approximately two-thirds of the 201 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:40,320 US' roughly $6.5 trillion foreign debt per NationalPriorities.org, January 15, 2015. 202 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:46,640 Indeed, a WordPress article posted by Charma News titled, Foreigners Dumping US Debt, 203 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:54,240 January 24, 2017, affirms that ours is a debt-fuelled standard of living, dependent on 204 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,320 foreigners lending us gigantic mountains of money at ultra-low interest rates. 205 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:05,760 As of September 30, 2016, the national debt stood at around $19.573 trillion, 206 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:15,440 combined total of all prior year's unpaid debts. GDP was $18.675 trillion, total of all annual 207 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:21,600 revenues for every year up to this point. The US government, therefore, has spent a cumulative 208 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:27,600 total of $898 billion more than the total worth of the economic output of the entire nation, 209 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:38,000 over the years. Almost 75% of that figure was incurred during FY 2016, revenue, $3.276 trillion, 210 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:48,960 spending, $3.876 trillion, deficit, $600 billion. For FY 2017, the 1st of October 2016 through 211 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:57,920 September 30, 2017, the government is projected to spend $4.073 trillion on revenues of only $3.632 212 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:06,160 trillion leaving a deficit of $441 billion. In so many words, federal officials already knew, 213 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:10,800 all too well, that there would be a severe cash shortfall in 2017. 214 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,320 On an interesting side note, Charmah News makes the following observations, 215 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:21,920 in the same aforementioned article, posted yesterday, January 23, 2017. 216 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:29,760 Government debt is an economic stimulus, thus, it is essential. Obama's White House tenure added 217 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:39,200 $9.3 trillion to the US national debt, ramifications. Oh cost to US workers with jobs as of 12 2016s, 218 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:48,960 $75,129, in order to pay off. Oh unjustifiable. One wonders how that could be, in light of the 219 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:55,280 following. Oh theft from future generations, of which there might be none, but for the added debt. 220 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:00,240 Remember, the government has to be in debt, in order for the economy to thrive. 221 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:08,400 Obama the only US president with GDP less than 3%. Obama borrowing considered, reckless, 222 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:14,960 but with no serious consequences, yet.. What Obama did could have been avoided only at the 223 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:20,560 expense of the worst economic depression in American history, thus, his, borrowing, was 224 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:26,320 absolutely critical to the economic survival and stability of the nation. There is simply no other 225 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:32,000 rational way to jump start the American economy being debt driven, as it is and, keep it alive. 226 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:38,800 Trump cannot do better than what Obama has done. He has to borrow and spend or, face a serious 227 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:46,720 recession, i.e., some call it, national suicide. Americans don't, understand this, or, get the 228 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:52,880 fact that we are living way, way above our means. In light of the foregoing, it seems totally 229 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:58,240 disingenuous for this charmer news writer and others to accuse Obama of recklessness and, theft, 230 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:03,440 from future generations, when in fact he did the only thing that could be done to keep the economy 231 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:08,960 afloat and from lapsing into what could have been a catastrophic recession. Although GDP never grew 232 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:14,880 3%, how can he justifiably be called the, least successful of all presidents, knowing what would 233 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:20,320 have occurred, had he not pumped into the economy the money he, borrowed. The groundwork for the 234 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:25,600 need for his action was in truth laid in the actions of all past administrations and congresses. 235 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:31,760 No sitting congress or any past president has ever had a remedy for any of the wrong turns they took 236 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:37,600 that have led the nation to this hour, riding a mountain of debt. No matter how you cut the cake, 237 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:43,120 this economic beast is the brainchild of greedy, American white men, not Barack Obama, 238 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:49,360 not Barack Obama. No one knows how the US will ever pay off the debt it owes. This they do know 239 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:56,000 however, adding to this already ominous fiscal outlook. As of today, October 29, 2003, according 240 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:01,600 to a report online in Microsoft Start, written by Lou Carloso, a national debt which stood at 241 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:09,360 $5.6 trillion in the year 2000, has now mushroomed to $33 trillion and if repaid, interest-free, 242 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:16,800 at a rate of $1 million per hour, it would take 3,750 years to pay off. With its passion for 243 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:21,520 exorbitant military spending, realizing the pressures and headaches it will face when the 244 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:27,440 farm crisis reaches full bloom, one has to wonder whether it even intends to repay its creditors. 245 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:34,320 Reason would suggest, no. Without question, all foreign creditors are equally, if not more so, 246 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:40,720 concerned. They are well aware that the US is in serious economic hot water, with no remedy in 247 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:46,880 sight. At present, Uncle Sam makes payment and remains current on its obligations by issuing 248 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:53,360 IOS, in the form of bonds and treasury bills. Payments can only be made on the interest owed, 249 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:59,440 never the principal. Soon in spite of having granted itself congressionally approved authority to 250 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:05,040 steal, hard currency from the nation's Social Security retirement funds, a practice begun and 251 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:11,040 perpetuated by past white administrations, not the Obama White House. In addition to printing more 252 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:16,560 paper bills on demand, it won't be able to make even these interest payments, and, its already 253 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:23,600 worthless IOUs will then be totally worthless. IOUs are, in fact, being used to pay down IOS. 254 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:30,720 Theft of SSI funds and printing more money is never enough. Any default on the Queen's part will 255 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:36,480 unavoidably throw all foreign lenders into an economic tailspin. Their only recourse is 256 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,960 mitigation of the repercussion of her impending financial collapse through orchestration of a 257 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,920 kind of controlled demolition, fiscally or physically, designed to leave them on stable 258 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:50,480 footing, notwithstanding the significant, irretrievable losses they will suffer when 259 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:56,480 she defaults and falls i.e., destroy her, fiscally and or physically, before she can strike us, 260 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:04,560 or before she self-destructs. Per Charma News, January 24, 2017, on WordPress.com, 261 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:09,520 foreigners had then already begun to dump US debt certificates in record quantities, which, 262 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:15,520 if sustained, could lead to, a major financial implosion. Absolutely guaranteed within the next 263 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:21,280 four years. One can only wonder if the three 2020s crash was what they had in mind or, 264 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:27,200 could this current year 2021 be the one? Meanwhile, in the world's hunt for a way to 265 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:32,960 de-Americanize, itself, rumor has it that the Russians, and or the Chinese, just might hold 266 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:38,160 the key to the ultimate solution. And, that brings us to the end of this episode of the 267 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:44,320 Bible Prophecy Masterclass. Please tune in again next time for the continuation of this timely 268 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:49,200 discussion as to why the nations might be cajoled by the hand of God to take on the dangerous task 269 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:54,960 of tackling the world's only remaining superpower. Creating a global catastrophe that will inevitably 270 00:26:54,960 --> 00:27:00,080 be to their own detriment as well. I am Erika, and I bid you farewell. 271 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:15,360 Praying additionally that God showers you with blessings richly until we meet again.