1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,440 Hello everyone, once again let me welcome you to another episode in our multi-part series 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,600 involving a thorough consideration of the 18th chapter of the book of the revelation. 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:16,480 In this 9th presentation of the Bible Prophecy Masterclass, written by Mr. Alvin Mitchell, 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:23,520 narrated by me, Erica, the primary question before us, is this thing called, American exceptionalism. 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,800 What we need to settle is the issue of divine spiritual worth, what's the standard? 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:35,600 Who determines or sets that standard? God, or the white, evangelical churches? We know something of 7 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:41,440 how they would, but, how does God assign value to a nation's, spiritual worth? Is it by a leader's 8 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:47,280 quotations of scripture? Or, is it based on the scope and the gravity of a country's achievements? 9 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:52,800 Or, bearing in mind that God selected and destroyed the grandeur of both the Egyptians 10 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:58,480 and the Babylonians, does one's relationship or cozying up to the apple of his eye, stay with 11 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:04,320 stand-alone, necessarily give a nation special standing in the mind of God? Each of these ancient 12 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:08,320 powerhouses was a choice instrument in the preservation and in the punishment of the 13 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:16,000 people of God, by his design. Bearing in mind Jesus' warning in Matthew chapter 7 verses 21 to 23 14 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,280 and his threatening castigation of the churches in the Revelation chapter 2 and 3, is this thing 15 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:27,040 called, exceptionalism, some sort of biblically sanctioned, spiritual metric by means of which 16 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:32,160 God elevates a nation and people, above their otherwise grievous existence, to some lofty 17 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:37,600 preferred status, simply because he has abundantly blessed them and because they, stand with Israel? 18 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:44,640 Is, exceptionalism, as a standard of measurement in fact an actual, Bible-based, concept, or just 19 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,600 another lie straight out of the pit, that has been latched onto and is now pandered by America's 20 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:55,120 wayward churches? Harkening back to the words of the late Ben Hayden, let's talk about it. 21 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:00,320 Babylon the Great Preface Bastions of deception 22 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,560 Masters of self-delusion American exceptionalism 23 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,840 A nation of, Christians, in rebellion to the cause of Christ? 24 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:14,320 American exceptionalism What's that? Is it a, thing, or, is it a, concept? 25 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:20,880 Is it just another one of those, catchphrases, if you will, adopted if not coined by America's 26 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,840 white conservative Christians, latched onto by politicians seeking election via the support of 27 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:31,280 that group, and passed off as some kind of a virtue to which God is honor-bound, as it were, 28 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:36,240 to be pleased or, which elevates the USA to some preferred status in the eyes of God? 29 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:44,160 Is it? What exactly is this, American exceptionalism, as we ponder this, concept? Let no Christian 30 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:48,800 ever in any wise forget the epistles written by the apostles to the New Testament churches, 31 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:53,600 especially the Romans, the Galatians, and the Corinthians and the one letter addressed to the 32 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:59,440 seven churches of Asia Minor. These were solemn warnings to recognized and beloved children of 33 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:04,000 God that they were headed in the wrong direction and or involved in spiritually unhealthy 34 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:09,920 relationships that was unacceptable and that will never be tolerated. Any Christian institution or 35 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:14,640 individual off the proverbial beaten path that refuses to correct his course according to the 36 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:19,520 will and mind of God, will be rejected and thrown into the flames of the lake of fire, 37 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:24,720 not because it never was accepted as saved in the first place, but, just as if he had never been 38 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:32,480 known as a child of God. Per Matthew chapter 7 verses 21 to 23. All roads and all denominations 39 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:38,880 of so-called Christian thought and ideology do not lead to God. The blessing of God upon a life or 40 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:45,120 the lives of a people does not automatically infer favor or right standing in the eyes of God. One 41 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:50,080 source assumes that the term, American, exceptionalism was actually coined by a French 42 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:56,080 visitor who came to the shores of America years ago. It was an exclamation he made in response to 43 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:02,080 some of the more obvious wonders he saw during his tour. Being white himself, associating and 44 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:07,360 mingling primarily if not exclusively with white people, it is not hard to imagine that in all 45 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:13,120 likelihood, he never saw much if anything, of the dark side of American life. It is even less 46 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,920 difficult to imagine that in view of what he did see of the hellish underbelly, he was in full 47 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:24,080 accord with. It is not clear if ever he visited the South, or, if he ever considered America in 48 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:28,640 light of her hellish double standard where her practice quite contradicted her constitution 49 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:33,280 and or laws that seemed on the surface to be just and fairly applied, at first glance. 50 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:38,800 Used by some, for sure this term implies a set of values and concerns that somehow make the nation 51 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:44,800 and its people, specifically the white people, uniquely virtuous, above all others. This, 52 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,520 according to columnist and Harvard professor of international relations Stephen M. Walt, 53 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:55,360 who also concludes an article he wrote with this remark. If Americans want to be truly exceptional, 54 00:04:55,360 --> 00:05:00,240 they might start by viewing the whole idea of, American exceptionalism, with a much more 55 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:06,800 skeptical eye, he titled his article, The Myth of American Exceptionalism, dated, the 11th of October 56 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:14,640 2011, published on the website, foreignpolicy.com. As alluded to earlier, the general assumption is 57 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:19,760 that this fabled exceptionalism is founded upon and grounded in God's divine sanction and his 58 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:26,160 supreme approval of the actions of the founding fathers. But, is it? Consider. When former 59 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:33,040 Californian Mike Pompeo appeared today, July 25, 2021, at Jack Hibbs Calvary Chapel Church 60 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:39,520 worship show in Chino Hills, C.A., he, of course, was careful to harp on this oft-heard theme or 61 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:45,520 talking point. What these and similar Bible-thumping white Americans always choose to ignore is that 62 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:51,920 the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans, etc., 63 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:57,680 were all, exceptional, in their respective times, each in his own way, in the eyes of God. 64 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:03,200 Israel was to be, exceptional, God's promise was that he would make certain of that contingent, 65 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:09,680 of course, upon their submission to his will, in willing obedience. Additionally, in light of that 66 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,880 impending, Israeli exceptionalism, that nation was to have been a magnet to which all peoples of the 67 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:19,680 world were to take notice and be drawn from their heathen practices to the worship of the true and 68 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:25,520 living God on equal terms with his people, especially when they chose to personally identify as such. 69 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:31,280 God drove this point home to Nebuchadnezzar, who he placed under the tutelage of Daniel, 70 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:36,960 in the fifth chapter of the Old Testament prophecy book that bears his name. Each of these nations 71 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:42,080 were pagan, having no intention of ever bowing the knee to any God other than the ones of their 72 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:48,480 imaginations. Still, each had a vital role to play in the plans of Almighty God which included 73 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,200 everything from the birth and growth of a nation, to its punishment, to its destruction and to the 74 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,680 preservation of his people, who were to be the carrier and the preserver of the seed line that 75 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:03,360 would eventually bring forth the Savior of the world. The Lord God specifically told Daniel to 76 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:08,880 ensure that Nebuchadnezzar fully understood that it was, is he the Almighty who gave those in all 77 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:14,080 nations, not just the ancient ones, the power and the influence levels to which they were able to 78 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:19,360 rise, and that, sometimes he chooses from among the lowest and rottenest of people to be rulers 79 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:25,520 indicative, no doubt of his low perception of them. This should more than adequately explain the rise 80 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:32,720 of the likes of Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Mao and even Donald Trump, etc. No people's embrace of 81 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:40,000 such leaders elevates them to, righteous, status, however. Whereas all, including Israel, rose and 82 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:46,560 prospered per the will of God, all were subsequently destroyed, per his plan and will. What then, does 83 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:53,600 this say about the United States of America, and, it's oft-touted, exceptionalism? Furthermore, the 84 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:58,800 description of Babylon the Great given in Revelation quite clearly depicts a globally recognized 85 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,360 entity that is at the very least exceptional, compared to her international neighbors and 86 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:08,240 trading partners. So, does this white America branded exceptionalism, or the 87 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:13,360 white America branded exceptionalism in any way exempt the US from the inevitable fate of the 88 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:20,160 aforementioned nations? Remember, those nations never made any overtures toward God. Even the 89 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:25,520 Jews and Israel were the people of God, the apple of his eye, only because he chose them they in 90 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:30,400 truth never sought nor did they as a people ever seek to be in any wise associated with him. 91 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:37,040 Contrary to those pagan nations of old and Israel in and out of Egypt, the United States by virtue 92 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:42,160 of its white Christians, led according to their wishes by their white founding fathers, most if 93 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:48,560 not all, deists and Unitarians who did not actually believe in the God of the Bible, on the other hand, 94 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:55,760 called and still today calls itself a, Christian, nation. In practice, however, it is and has always, 95 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:01,600 for the better part of the past 450 years or so, been an unabashed enemy of all that God is or 96 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:07,760 represents. When the major European powers were finally empowered by the mating of a Chinese toy 97 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:13,520 we now know as gunpowder and cast iron tubes that came to be known as muskets and cannons, superior 98 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:18,880 weapons to any available in that day, by any standard these white men, often in the name of 99 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:24,560 God, began to spread out around the world, facilitated by boats powered by a harnessing of the wind. 100 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:31,120 As they sailed, sometimes in search of gold, among other things, their eventual lust and thirst for 101 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:36,720 the, souls, of men, ultimately demanded of them that they thumb their noses at the commands of God, 102 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:42,960 particularly as it relates to the prized, much exploited African. Go therefore and teach all 103 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:48,320 nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to 104 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:54,560 observe everything that you have been taught. Matthew chapter 28 verses 18 to 20, was an 105 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:58,960 injunction that fell largely upon deaf ears wherever these white men thought that they had 106 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:04,800 found a good slave. God's desire that all men everywhere should hear and obey his call to 107 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:12,480 repentance. Acts chapter 17 verse 30, was met primarily, for centuries, with what amounted to 108 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:17,840 scorn, notwithstanding the consciences and subsequent activities of some white Christian 109 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:22,880 groups which compelled their respective state legislatures to abolish slavery, the slave trade 110 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:27,920 in general, followed by the Jim Crow era and all that that involved and the civil rights struggles 111 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:34,080 that arose on account of Jim Crow, etc., were each and every one clear-cut manifestations of the very 112 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:39,360 ethos, of a nation of white peoples who, their churches included, were and who remain to this 113 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:45,680 hour fundamentally anti-God and anti-Christ, at heart. Add to this the prejudicial mistreatment 114 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:51,680 and unwarranted hate-filled discrimination of every sort, on every hand for any and every reason, 115 00:10:51,680 --> 00:11:00,480 unjust hangings, sundown towns, etc., etc. The list goes on and on. More than just a fly in the face 116 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:06,160 of the God of all heaven and earth, we are talking over four centuries of overt, unflinching defiance 117 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:11,600 denial of which currently, by white Christians after the order of Mr. Pompeo and Pastor Hibbes 118 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:17,120 is itself inherently, equally anti-God and anti-Christ, and then, in addition to lying 119 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:21,680 about it and or whitewashing it out of their history books, led by none other than the likes 120 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:26,960 of Dr. John MacArthur, they have the gall to insist, in effect, that this sort of thing has 121 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:33,280 always happened, so, it's no big deal that we, Christian, people did it to blacks. As they have 122 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:38,320 brandished their white skin as a mark of superiority, and as they have boasted about what they perceive 123 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:44,240 to be evidence of God's favor upon them manifested by incalculable blessing, thanks to that whiteness 124 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:50,160 and superior trait, they are totally ignorant of, or, they are willfully ignorant of, the fact that 125 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:56,080 at no point would he ever allow the people, who he did choose, to succumb to such a line of reasoning. 126 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:02,800 Exodus chapter 32 verses 9, 10. Deuteronomy chapter 9 verse 6. This should have been a 127 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:08,800 principle, by which they governed their own lives. To claim that many other nations having committed 128 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:13,200 atrocities against other people groups is justification for the wrongs they have committed 129 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:19,120 is a patent falsehood that is biblically untenable, not one of those nations ever self-identified as 130 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:24,800 Christian. Furthermore, hearkening back to the two of the seven churches of Asia Minor, 131 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,280 God made it abundantly clear that no people of his, whether churches or nations, 132 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:35,040 will ever be accepted whose lives are divided by a compromise where submission to his will is 133 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,920 accompanied by a willing embrace of that which clearly undercuts or is manifestly antithetical 134 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:47,200 to that will. Worthy of note also is the story of Abraham and Isaac. Their experiences clearly infer 135 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:51,840 that it was common knowledge that men having attractive wives could easily lose their lives, 136 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:58,160 if they wandered carelessly into certain cultures. It was evidently a custom or practice not lost on 137 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:04,720 the, man after God's own heart. Nonetheless, God did not look the other way or say to his chosen, 138 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:11,280 you know what? I have seen this sort of thing many, many times before. People and other kings 139 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:18,640 have committed these types of wrongs for millennia. Therefore, it is okay that you did it. No big deal. 140 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:24,560 No. Instead, God assured King David that he most definitely deserved the death penalty for both the 141 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:30,720 murder of Uriah and for his adulterous affair with his wife. On the other hand, in keeping with his 142 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:36,960 principle which says, I will bestow mercy as I see fit upon whomever I choose, while his life would 143 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:43,440 be spared, he would not be let off the hook entirely. Because his heinous action had given the Almighty 144 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:48,800 a, black eye, in the eyes of the watching world, there was a price that must and would be satisfied 145 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:54,960 at his expense. Likewise, or similarly, the greed-driven actions of the fathers and their 146 00:13:54,960 --> 00:14:01,360 descendants since 1619 have given the Almighty a, black eye, before the eyes of the watching world. 147 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:06,640 Many souls have been lost and will be lost among Africans as well as white men, 148 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:13,200 that could have been saved, on their accounts. Revelation chapter 18 says that there, therefore, 149 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,840 is a price that must and will be paid and, it will be paid, by Babylon the Great. 150 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:24,080 The name, Christian, precludes any such justification, in so far as the term itself 151 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:29,120 denotes and demands evangelism or a, fishing for, of souls from the ranks of all men, 152 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:34,480 regardless of nationality, skin color or social status, for the sake of contributing to and 153 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:38,720 building the body of Christ and the kingdom of God not for the enrichment of a white-skinned 154 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:43,120 people who insist upon promoting themselves to a social status higher than all others. 155 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:49,360 This whole black-white dynamic today rests firmly upon the racist foundations laid down in years 156 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:55,840 past by America's white founding fathers. While granted, things are overtly not nearly as bad as 157 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:01,600 they were prior to the 50s and 60s. Everything from segregated all-white communities and schools to 158 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:06,720 segregated white churches that don't do cross-cultural ministry, to every form of 159 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:12,240 discrimination imaginable to the indiscriminate, all too often unprovoked killing of unarmed black 160 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:17,120 people, was formulated and passed down to today's white generation by their fathers. 161 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:22,160 It is the product of a system that encourages and promotes spiritually unhealthy compromise in 162 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:28,320 practically all white churches. Thus, the effects of that past are still very much upon us, and 163 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:33,760 except for a few powerful secular voices, white society does significantly less than enough to 164 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:40,320 rectify the wrongs of those fathers. But for a few virtually silent voices somewhere in the background, 165 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:45,040 the white church as a whole does practically nothing to redeem itself before God, so it is 166 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:51,040 no wonder they do nothing to undo the evils of the fathers. While John MacArthur is right to say that 167 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:56,800 the gospel per se does not demand participation in social activism, he is lying when he says that the 168 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:02,000 church's sole role is to evangelize and win souls to the exclusion of any involvement in social 169 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:08,000 activism of any kind, which begs the question, if in his estimation, neither the churches nor the 170 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:14,400 government should, then who? He is a liar when he asserts that the Bible nowhere advocates for social 171 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:22,080 action on behalf of God's people. Consider Acts chapter 17 verses 5 to 6, Romans chapter 12 verses 172 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:30,640 2 to 8, 12, 1, Corinthians 12, 1 to 31. It does not matter how many nations have practiced social 173 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:35,920 atrocities similar to what the US has done, nor does it matter how prosperous God has made or 174 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:41,520 allowed a nation to become. No nation founded by and or allegedly guided by Christians should ever 175 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:46,480 have gone down the path such as has these United States in the name of God, there is certainly no 176 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,200 rationale as to why such rebellion should have continued for the better part of 400 years. 177 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:57,200 No church should have ever compromised in following any nation as have the churches of the USA. 178 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:04,080 It is a lie straight out of the pit to say or to imply that exceptionalism or wealth or prosperity 179 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:10,320 is an indication of a right relationship with God. The scriptures teach and Jesus, no less, 180 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:16,320 affirms that God causes his sun to shine and his rain to fall on the just nations as well as on 181 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:24,560 the unjust or godless nations. As already shown, greatness and power, prestige do not a godly nation 182 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:31,120 make or put another way God's involvement in the rise of a nation whether it be politically, 183 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:38,080 education, monetarily, militarily, you name it does not automatically imply right standing with God 184 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:44,240 or that God even has high expectation from that nation as it relates to gratitude and observance, 185 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:50,080 obedience or adherence to the will of God. It is not just a matter of the wrongs committed but the 186 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:56,240 bad examples you set for centuries not simply for a short while before you turned around that cast 187 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:02,080 God in a bad light as with the Pharisees and the Sadducees who built sepulchers in honor of the 188 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:07,840 prophets they killed so likewise you who defend America's founding fathers justify their anti-god 189 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:15,200 evils thus to say that God stretched forth his hand to bless this nation and he did on account 190 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:21,440 of the righteousness of your founding fathers is to affirm that they and you bit that hand spat upon 191 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:27,280 it and pissed in his face in disdain in view of what you knew was his will namely the saving of 192 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:34,160 those souls you chose to enslave while at the same time denying them the gospel applying the exact same 193 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:39,520 kind or line of reasoning you used to paint blm protesters as out of control thugs and sinners 194 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:46,640 against a holy and just god those were sins dr mccArthur sins against god committed intentionally 195 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:52,480 with near reckless abandon and total disregard for his word his will and being as you professed to be 196 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:59,120 christians for all of the past 450 years his mission to save souls those of africans included 197 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:05,520 therefore the sins of rebellion the sins of apathy the sins of oppression of the poor of the widows 198 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:11,360 you created of the foreigners you brought to this land in chains the sins of turning a blind eye 199 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:17,360 the sins of murder of over 100 million native americans in addition to the millions of africans 200 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:24,480 you may be assured sir somebody will have to bear the blame for these atrocities before almighty god 201 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:29,200 you're lamenting of the fact of white men's culpability in these matters aside the only 202 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:34,320 candidates for that indubitable distinction is white america and its muted churches muffled 203 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:41,200 into silence by the bomb of compromise my friend so first you ignore the facts surrounding the rise 204 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:46,480 of blm and their justifiable protests regardless of whether they were right or wrong in how they 205 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:52,400 went about those protests then you ignore the sins of the fathers who were indeed sinners against god 206 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:59,520 in undeniable open rebellion against his will and purposes writing them off as what righteous saints 207 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:06,800 social activism and the gospel social activism is a principle clearly defined in the old testament 208 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:12,720 paul in a manner of speaking affirms as much when he asserts that the things written before in the ot 209 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:19,200 scriptures were pinned not only for our edification but also not as laws for examples or principles 210 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:25,360 by means of which our lives could or should be guided first corinthians chapter 11 verses 16 17 211 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:31,600 that is we should be able to look at these and see and learn what things are pleasing and acceptable 212 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:38,000 in the eyes of our lord and so order our lives accordingly whereas it was not required of the 213 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,880 people of god that they should proselytize the world they were to live life well above board 214 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:49,600 they were to live life well above board for all the world to see with arms wide open being welcoming 215 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:55,200 of all peoples of all backgrounds with an ear and an eye to accommodating the social needs of all 216 00:20:55,200 --> 00:21:00,560 as any given occasion demanded to whatever degree said demands did not lead to a violation of the 217 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:07,680 word and will of god while the government of the ot was rooted in theocracy i.e. it was to have been 218 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:13,360 anot or god-centered it is the height of folly and fallacy to say that the sole purpose of government 219 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:20,080 is blah blah blah to the exclusion of any meeting of social needs of citizens that is god as the 220 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:25,440 ultimate or central governing authority in israel had no concern for the social needs of his people 221 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:32,000 or the foreigners living among them although it was not a stated requirement of ot government god's 222 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,600 near constant voicing of concerns for the safety, the rights and the well-being of the poor, widows, 223 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:42,880 orphans, foreigners, etc., makes it abundantly apparent that he would not have frowned on the 224 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:48,880 government stepping in to lend a hand as needed. Furthermore, therefore, you may certainly be 225 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,760 assured that he will not frown on white American government stepping up to rectify the social and 226 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:58,880 other race-related messes that exist today in America, given that it was white Americans who 227 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:04,480 created these inequities in the first place, using the strong arm of government. In the New 228 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:10,480 Testament, the social element associated with the ministry of the gospel was in no way, by no means 229 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:16,960 lost on Jesus our Lord. His near constant working of miracles, feeding of thousands as he preached 230 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:21,680 and ministered, and his dispatch of the twelve and the seventy with instructions to do likewise 231 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:27,360 are clear manifestations of his unwavering desire to see social activism as a key ingredient in any 232 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:32,960 strategy for winning souls. There is no hint anywhere in the gospels or the epistles to the 233 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:37,600 effect that any of the apostles ever understood their mission as one limited to preaching, 234 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,280 so that they were to shut their eyes to the social needs of any of their hearers. 235 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:47,760 When John in prison inquired as to whether Jesus was the one for whom all Israel had been waiting, 236 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:52,800 Jesus was careful to call attention not just to his preaching, but to the more 237 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:57,920 social aspects of his work as well. Matthew chapter 11 verses 1 to 6. 238 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:03,680 Dr. Luke's acts of the apostles and certain of the epistles of the apostles all illustrate 239 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:08,400 that all of the twelve went into full-time ministry following the death and ascension of our Lord with 240 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:13,760 the idea of spreading a gospel message that had as one of its core concerns the social needs of 241 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:21,440 its hearers. In so many words, then, Dr. MacArthur is again a liar, in so far as, there is no such 242 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,920 thing as preaching of the gospel exclusive of a heart for the social concerns of those who are 243 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:30,640 as well as for those who might eventually become sheep in any given flock belonging to the Christ. 244 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:36,800 John MacArthur's rhetoric while calculated to exonerate the fathers, clearly implies that 245 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:42,880 social inequities are solely the product of the black community's sins. That is, the plight and 246 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:48,320 or those inequities of Africans in America in the past had nothing to do with white men, past or 247 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:55,680 present. This also is a lie, not that there is no sin in the black community. The historical record 248 00:23:55,680 --> 00:24:01,760 is the witness. To be sure then, the United States of America was to be and is indeed an institution 249 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:06,960 like no other before it. Its founding people and the principles upon which they based that 250 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:13,600 founding was rooted, ostensibly at least, in the word of God, the Bible. Thus, unlike the pagan 251 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:19,040 nations before them, this people pronounced, and they persist even today, to insist that they and 252 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:23,840 their founding fathers were and are a Christian people, according to the likes of Jack Hibbs. 253 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,920 According to Reverend Dr. John MacArthur and others, however, the founding fathers were in 254 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:35,600 reality, deists, not true Christians. In the online video titled The Church is Wrong About 255 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:41,840 Gay Marriage featuring commentary by Vody Botchum, John MacArthur, at about the 0650 256 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:48,320 mark, Dr. MacArthur asserts that, they didn't believe in the God of the Bible, but, Mr. MacArthur 257 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:53,280 went on to infer that the Bible and Christianity were mere tools that they knew would come in handy 258 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:58,400 in their efforts to gain the confidence of and control over the people. This assertion and 259 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:04,320 general thinking relative to the fathers, like Washington, the Adamses, Franklin, Madison and 260 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:09,440 Monroe, squares well with online articles that make reference to their religious persuasions. 261 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:15,440 In addition to being Unitarians, staunch Calvinists, etc., as fervent adherents to 262 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:21,360 deism, dot the idea that God does not get involved in the affairs of men, their faith was in human 263 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:27,120 reason as the only avenue open to mankind, with respect to solving social and political problems. 264 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:33,680 As such, therefore, they denied the Bible as the revealed word of God and rejected scripture as a 265 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:40,080 source of religious doctrine. That being so, they also rejected all teaching as to the divinity of 266 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:47,200 Jesus Christ, although they embraced the morality of his teachings. In so many words, Jesus to them 267 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:53,200 was neither God nor was he the Son of God. Thus, the founding fathers, according to the site 268 00:25:53,200 --> 00:26:01,200 www.masters.edu, did not intend to create a Christian nation. Biographer Barry Schwartz says 269 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:07,600 of Washington, dot who was an Episcopalian, that he was a devout deist, and that, many clergymen 270 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:14,640 who knew him suspected, as much, in so far as, his practice, dot was superficial, because he was not, 271 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:20,720 a Christian. The fathers therefore had a form of godliness, in which they openly denied that there 272 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:27,040 was any power, beyond their own reason and understanding. He, Dr. MacArthur, was echoing 273 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,600 the late Billy Graham, in that he asserts that America has never been a Christian nation. 274 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,880 Certainly, we have this nation's legacy and attestation to the truthfulness of these 275 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:43,520 observances, voiced by two of white America's top preachers. The tragedy is, and the one thing you 276 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:48,240 won't hear the proponents of, American exceptionalism, expound upon is that American 277 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:54,160 white people, Christians included, not only failed miserably, they even refused to live up to those 278 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:59,680 principles and the ideals they professed to have espoused. With rare exception, they by their 279 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:05,040 actions went so far as to set themselves up as antagonists of the word and will of God, by 280 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,840 refusing to proselytize the Africans they stole and brought into this country by the millions, 281 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:16,400 bred, bought, sold and treated like animals so as to breed millions more. Even after the white North 282 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:22,640 abolished slavery, they still refused to submit fully to the will of God. The South even went 283 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,760 so far as to cut out as much as 50% of the Bible to ensure that the Christianity they served to 284 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:32,240 blacks who chose to convert could never lead those Africans to believe they could be considered 285 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:38,080 brothers, to whom white people would have to relate as equals. As if all that were not bad 286 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:43,520 enough, they still today whitewash, romanticize or otherwise do everything possible to minimize 287 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:48,560 this most hideous of transgressions by rewriting history to their satisfaction. The facts be 288 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:53,680 damned as they omit, whitewash, and leave out history deemed by them to be undesirable or 289 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:59,600 non-essential to the record they wish to portray, true or not. This is especially true in the white 290 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:05,280 American South and among those of the Southern Baptist persuasion, although not exclusively so. 291 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:11,120 Like the damned fools that they are and always have been, they remain hopelessly recalcitrant, 292 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:15,920 lacking in any real concern with respect to the multitudes among not just the blacks of African 293 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:21,120 descent but white people of Euro descent as well, whose souls have been and are being lost, 294 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:26,080 at this very hour, because of a stubborn refusal to submit to what they know to be the will of God. 295 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:32,240 In so many words, these lackluster Christians have costed the Lord more and souls lost than 296 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:37,600 they may ever know. The effects of the racist groundwork laid by their founding fathers, 297 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:43,200 in and out of the churches, are still with us, manifest throughout white society, as we speak. 298 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,920 In addition, not only do they do nothing to alleviate the racial inequities and the problems 299 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:53,360 created and handed down to them by their forefathers, they even despise the presence of people of black 300 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:59,680 skin in their congregations. Thus, ultimately, their standing and their relationship to God today is 301 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:05,120 about the same as that of the Pharisees and the Sadducees of Jesus' day. Just as they were the 302 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:10,640 prosperous, influential religious leaders of that time, respected and feared by the people, 303 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:15,760 but hated and rejected by the Lord they professed to serve, the same cannot but be true of them. 304 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:21,760 Having usurped as it were an authority and position before God that was never theirs to begin with, 305 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:27,360 whatever their deeds that they think are so good and noble, as relates to their interactions with 306 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:33,200 other people of a white complexion, primarily, Christ having seen and scrutinized their lives 307 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,760 and works from the very beginning, has also reserved for them the same welcome as the one 308 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:43,920 recorded in Matthew chapter 7. Depart from me, you who work iniquity, I have never known you. 309 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:50,480 While some are like Ephesus and Sardis, Christians in name only, with nothing to show beyond that, 310 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:56,640 others are like Thyatira and Pergamos. As such they have much that is indeed good and in keeping 311 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:01,680 with the word of God, but, in the end it is overshadowed by their cultural, often secular 312 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:08,000 concerns, completely eclipsed and awash in the unsightly blight of compromise. Still others are 313 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:14,000 like the Laodiceans, having advanced so far in their faith, they refuse to mature or go any farther. 314 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:20,000 All of these variations of the American white Christian are in danger of rejection and eternal 315 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:25,040 damnation in light of their steadfast determination to identify with the social norms of the several 316 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:32,320 worldly communities in which they live. Their, values, are not God's values. Hence, we may safely 317 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:37,680 conclude then that, American exceptionalism, as touted by the white American conservative, 318 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:44,080 Jack Hibbs, Mike Pompeo and others, Christian and non-Christian, means nothing in the eyes of God. 319 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:50,880 Many may stand ready, eager to jump on the bandwagon that says, the United States of America, 320 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:57,520 is not John the Revelator's, Babylon the Great. Few, even among well-educated, well-rounded 321 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:02,480 historians who profess to be Christians, can mate an understanding of their Bibles with their 322 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:07,520 knowledge of American history and give an intelligent, thoughtful argument as to why or why not. 323 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:13,440 And yet the issue of America's place in the End Times plan of God is one that must be settled, 324 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:18,160 and God's supreme expectation is that, it is a topic that must be critically examined, 325 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:23,280 thoroughly discussed and settled, thoughtfully and biblically not religiously by his churches, 326 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:29,520 as his mind is not subject to how one, feels, or to denominational, sectarian preferences or personal 327 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:35,440 worldviews. With many white Americans bending over backwards to buy into and to sell the world 328 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:40,640 their versions of an embellished past, including the whitewashed sins of the fathers, it is 329 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:46,320 difficult to get a clear, unobstructed, unskewed, non-fumigating view of the world. 330 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:52,240 Un-skewed, non-fumigated vision of the past of this great nation, from God's perspective, 331 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:57,120 not twisted or slanted to say what white Americans, Christians or not, want to hear, 332 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:03,280 making it that much more difficult to see why she might be, Babylon the Great, a blessed nation, 333 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:08,880 yet, a country hated vehemently by the very soul of the Almighty God by whom she was conceived. 334 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,440 We shall see why in the discussion to come. 335 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:16,560 Nonetheless, the truth has and does continue to come out, frequently borne by 336 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:21,440 a small number of white historians and a few in the white clergy each concerned and dedicated 337 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:26,880 to ensuring that the truth, warts and all, relative to America's past, be made known. 338 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:32,960 Let the best-known, most popular of well-educated, white evangelical, fundamentalist 339 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:37,200 pastors, preachers tell it, and the world at large would be hard-pressed to guess, 340 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:42,240 that the story of the most blessed and most prosperous nation ever to grace the sands of 341 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:47,120 time is also the story of the most hated nation upon which heaven has ever laid holy eyes. 342 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,200 By the grace of God, this treatise the thesis and general premise for which rest in the fact that 343 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:58,160 all evangelical and fundamentalist preachers, teachers and pastors who say that America the 344 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:03,600 beautiful has no mention anywhere in the Bible, are not just wrong, but all too often flagrant 345 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:09,520 liars promises to succeed, where all others have failed. The United States of America is the 346 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:15,520 Bible's Babylon the Great, per John's Revelation chapter 18, and the Caucasian-American to whom 347 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:21,280 she has been entrusted, represent the most hated people, in God's eyes, to ever walk the face of 348 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:26,240 the earth. She is not to be confused with the woman wearing the label on her head that reads, 349 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:33,520 Babylon the Great, in Rev. 17. The two are not the same. She is regarded with a relish and a loathing 350 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:38,800 akin to the hatred had for the Pharisees and the Sadducees, who by the time of Christ had usurped 351 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,280 an authority which by law was rightly the jurisdiction of the sons of Aaron, the priests 352 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:48,400 and the Levites. The Pharisees taught the law, but, made no effort to live by or to guide the 353 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:53,840 people accordingly, as rather they led the people on the basis of oral traditions, passed down by 354 00:33:53,840 --> 00:34:00,080 their founding fathers. So likewise, conservative white America teaches what is expedient with 355 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:05,200 respect to the word of God, but, live according to the dictates of the secular white communities 356 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:11,520 in which they reside. In this study, author Alvin Mitchell peels away the wools of self-deception 357 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:16,560 and self-delusion with which the evangelicals and fundamentalists, Pentecostals and others 358 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:22,080 persistently and continuously deceive themselves and the world, exposing their lies and hypocrisy 359 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:28,080 for all to see. The blessing of God does not mean a thing as far as a right relationship to God is 360 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:34,320 concerned, he contends forcefully. One can be blessed of God mightily and yet be completely out 361 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:40,640 of touch with him, hopelessly lost. Divine gauge to spiritual worth quoting the Bible? 362 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:45,360 Whereas the American white pastors lead their white congregations in making much today of the 363 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:50,720 spiritual righteousness and Bible quoting of their white founding fathers, the scriptures make it 364 00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:56,080 plain that, even a demon believes in God, and, to the degree that his demonic existence is 365 00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:02,160 antithetical to the will of God, to the same degree, he the demon does that trembling, hobbling to and 366 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:08,560 fro, guided by terror-filled eyes, as it were, set in a head full of, spirit, teeth that rattle in 367 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:14,880 fear, on top of rickety legs given to a high-frequency wobble with knees that knock, at the mere mention of 368 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:20,720 that name. They know scripture, as does their leader, the devil, and they quote it profusely. 369 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:25,520 Jesus Christ was adamant about the reality and the coming of Bible thumping and Bible quoting 370 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:31,280 false prophets, wolves in sheep's clothing, who greedily use and abuse the Bible, the word of the 371 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,480 living God, to further their own ends and agendas, while Paul says that they frequently disguise 372 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:41,920 themselves as angels, messengers, of light. They and their congregations are those that, 373 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:47,600 drawn near to God, coming into his presence, with their mouths wide open, whether in praise or in 374 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:53,040 prayer, honoring him with lip service all the while, having hearts that are far removed from doing his 375 00:35:53,040 --> 00:36:01,200 will. Matthew chapter 15 verses 8 to 9. In addition, Jesus angrily berated the Pharisees, scribes and 376 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:08,480 lawyers, unapologetically venting his hatred for them, yes. The lowly Jesus, meek and mild, hated 377 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:14,320 them, and, he did not hesitate to show it. Their practices and their lifestyles, which included 378 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:19,360 teaching the people what was right, according to the word of God, while at the same time exempting 379 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:25,040 themselves and the common people, when it was to their benefit, and overshadowing the will of God, 380 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:29,840 with teachings heavily weighted in favor of the oral traditions and beliefs passed down by their 381 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:38,480 forefathers, i.e., the traditions of the elders. Matthew chapter 15 verses 1 to 9. 23, 1 to 35. 382 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:43,040 . The divinely sanctioned gauge by which you measure the worth and value of one's profession 383 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:48,480 of faith in God and his Son, according to Jesus Christ, is his application of the scriptures to 384 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:55,200 his own life, daily, and consequently, his actions, including, but not limited to, relationships to 385 00:36:55,200 --> 00:37:01,120 other men of other nationalities, relative to the express, therefore manifest, will of God, 386 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:05,600 per the Old and New Testaments. Jesus went on to assure us that, 387 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:10,480 his true servants are quite clearly distinguishable from the counterfeit by their lives, their actions 388 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:15,760 and habits not merely by their Bible quoting skills, no matter how profound or correct. 389 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,640 Matthew's account of the Gospel shows us the devil during the wilderness temptation, 390 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:26,240 inaugural to the Church Age spiritually assaulting his Maker and Creator by quoting Scripture, 391 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:32,480 with measurable accuracy, whatever his want for proper application. That is, the devil, 392 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:38,800 in effect, declared war on the chief administrator of the works of God, directly attacking the Master, 393 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:44,720 with an open Bible in his hand. Put another way, the divinely sanctioned gauge by which you measure 394 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:50,080 the worth and value of one's profession of faith in God and his Son, according to Jesus Christ, 395 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:56,160 is his application of the scriptures to his own life, daily, and consequently, his actions, 396 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:00,800 including, but not limited to, relationships to other men of other nationalities, 397 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:06,400 relative to the express, therefore manifest, will of God, per the Old and New Testaments. 398 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:13,360 In so many words, the maxim, action speaks louder than words, was as much true than as it is today. 399 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:19,920 Mere quotation of the Bible, or insertion of choice biblical truisms into select documents, 400 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:25,600 that ultimately have no reach, no impact, beyond the printed page is merely the surest sign of 401 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:32,160 pure hypocrisy. Moreover, three of our most recent presidents, notably our current President Obama 402 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:37,920 and former President, the late Ronald Reagan, have referred to and quoted the Holy Scriptures. 403 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:44,000 When the dusts of time settle and their stories are told, however, not one of them can or could 404 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:49,520 ever be considered in truth, God fearing or a dedicated follower of the Christ however religious 405 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:55,520 each may well have been, to any and whatever reason, the Bible is the most important source 406 00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:03,840 of information for the world to know. In addition, George Bush quoted scripture and called upon the 407 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:10,720 name of God, during the 9-11 attacks on the Twin Towers, God bless America, he chanted earnestly, 408 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:16,960 righteously, with what appeared to have been genuine innocence. The fact is, however, Mr. 409 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:22,560 Bush was and is, said to be, an avowed member of the Yale-based secret society known as Skull and 410 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:29,920 Bones. Skull and Bones is a powerful, far-reaching, satanic, mystical organization of predominantly 411 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:36,160 white, upper-crust American men, who knowingly worship the devil. Certain, if not most, secret 412 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:41,520 societies are said to require that their members hold memberships in local religious organizations, 413 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:47,360 including the American churches, where they, being intellectually acute, often dominate and or hold 414 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,600 leadership positions or other positions of influence that enable them to guide and or 415 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:57,600 contribute to the misguiding of those same churches. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Wilberforce? 416 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:03,760 Or Billy Graham? Even the retired but well-known evangelist Billy Graham having publicly confessed 417 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,720 to turning his back on key tenets of the faith he once taught throughout his ministry, all around 418 00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:13,520 the world has come out in opposition to the idea of the United States of America as a Christian 419 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:19,360 country, knowing that there are others just like him, of his caliber and stature, makes one wonder, 420 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:25,360 does it not, who else? Who are they? How can you, or why should you, trust them with the 421 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:30,880 eternal destiny of your soul? And yes, there are other white preachers and Bible teachers 422 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:37,440 who voice the same observation, as does the late Mr. Graham. Thus, to assert that the Caucasian 423 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:42,640 founding fathers of America were godly and or god-fearing men simply because they carried 424 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:47,200 Bibles, from which they quoted and used Scripture in many of their key activities, 425 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:52,320 dealings and documents, when in daily living they intentionally and consistently made life a 426 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:58,640 burdensome toil, an unbearable misery for Africans and others, or contributed thereto by standing back 427 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:04,240 and doing little if anything, or nothing at all, for the better part of around 450 years, 428 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:07,440 is the height of hypocrisy and the highest form of self-delusion. 429 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:14,880 It is a lie, straight out of the pit. See the sidebar below, William Wilberforce, page 78. 430 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:19,680 Unlike as might be true of the life of a William Wilberforce, of England said to have devoted a 431 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:24,400 significant portion of his life in the battle to rid Great Britain of the shame of slavery and its 432 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:29,920 injustices to Africans the lives of America's founding fathers, the vast majority of her white 433 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:35,040 preachers, pastors and their congregations could never cut mustard in light of the divine gauge. 434 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,880 Wilberforce's conversion and profession of faith in Jesus Christ was marked and matched by a 435 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:47,280 profound and enduring impact upon his thinking and, by consequence, upon his life i.e. his sense of a 436 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:52,480 life's calling in the service of Almighty God, in the wake of whatever his prevailing shortcomings 437 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:59,360 and failings. Moreover, by distinct contrast, the white pulpits and pews of America are, and have 438 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:04,800 always been, glutted by the presences of religious men and women who quote scripture, while managing 439 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:10,080 lives that do not amount to a hill of beans, where real faith in God is concerned, and the 440 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:15,040 world is concerned. They come before me, as my people, but with hearts that are far off from the 441 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,680 will of God. Jesus quoted one of the prophets as preaching accusatorily. 442 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:26,400 All too many are for the most part like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, thus, Jekyll and Hyde saints. 443 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:31,840 They are warm-hearted and loving, by day, when it's convenient, in their favor and in their best 444 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:36,960 interests, a very present help to their public image the way they want to be seen and received, 445 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:42,320 regardless of the facts, costing them little or nothing, in light of some anticipated ROI. 446 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:48,640 On the other hand, they are like General Joab and his murderous brother, near kinsmen and cousins 447 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:54,160 to King David, just as easily cold-hearted and calculating, by night, cloaked in the darkness 448 00:42:54,160 --> 00:43:00,480 of unquenchable greed, and thus, as cold-blooded as serpents and reptiles, when so dynamic a shift 449 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:06,160 in the gears of thought suits their needs or serves them well. The American white man, most 450 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:12,080 notably, the southern Celts, and his churches wasted no effort ensuring the presences of two-legged, 451 00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:17,440 man-shaped, livestock, that could and would be easily, perpetually exploited and oppressed even 452 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:22,560 to the point of completely denying several whole generations of Africans access to the gospel, 453 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:28,880 and or, the privilege of peace with their Maker. Furthermore, the Bible clearly teaches by its 454 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:34,160 prophets in and throughout the Old Testament, as well as in the New Testament, that no nation, 455 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,800 truly subject to the control, the leadership, the guidance and the direction of the Spirit of the 456 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:45,440 Living God, can ever practice the kind of gross, sustained, woeful injustices, driving and thriving 457 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:52,560 brutality toward, and, mistreatment of other human beings, prolonged, inhumane oppression, repression, 458 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:57,520 suppression of another people, as have the Caucasians of the United States of America, 459 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:02,400 notwithstanding the God-mandated genocide of seven early nations, by the Israelites. 460 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,880 God's manifest concern for all such was a recurring theme throughout the prophets. 461 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:14,480 Further, in stark if not, startling, contrast, the American white man, most notably, the southern 462 00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:20,640 Celts, and his churches wasted no effort ensuring the presences of two-legged, man-shaped, livestock, 463 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:25,120 that could and would be easily, perpetually exploited and oppressed even to the point of 464 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:30,080 completely denying several whole generations of Africans access to the comfort of the gospel of 465 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:36,480 Jesus Christ, and or the privilege of peace with their Maker. Thanks to America's Caucasian peoples 466 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:41,360 guided by the instincts of an animalistic, hide persona, the soothing invitation, 467 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:48,800 come to me all who labor, being heavily burdened, and, I will, rest, you, was off limits and therefore, 468 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:55,280 expressly forbidden to any and all minds wrapped in skins of ebony. Much worse than Caucasian hands 469 00:44:55,280 --> 00:45:00,080 stained by the blood, the sweat and the tears of a colored people who might have heard only to reject 470 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:05,840 the gospel message, the souls of white America as a whole is itself now forever tainted by eternal 471 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:11,120 cries from the souls and throats of lost African slaves, presently ringing temporarily throughout 472 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:16,960 the fires of hell. A black people denied that privilege of rest in Christ, by a clergy 473 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:23,200 comprised of white submissives, totally subservient to, and controlled by white, secular interests, 474 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:29,600 solely for sake of service to a national greed, and a ceaseless lust for things temporal, as opposed 475 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:36,560 to things eternal, i.e., the saving of lost souls whether Africans, American Indians, Mexicans, 476 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:43,040 etc. This hellish Christian charade or Jekyll and Hyde travesty performed by white America is not 477 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:48,320 something that a God who died for all men, who now commands that all men everywhere should repent and 478 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:54,320 believe the gospel, would or will take lightly. Like the scribes and Pharisees of old, they took 479 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:59,440 up the mantle adorning a role to which they refused to live up to, as they placed their own interests 480 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:04,480 and greed ahead of the will of God which was and is to save the souls of all men, regardless of 481 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:12,160 skin tones. Forgivable, though such an unspeakable and unjustifiable evil may well be, it is, in fact, 482 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:16,960 no less an overt affront to the authority and to the sovereignty of Almighty God and insufferable 483 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:22,800 challenge to that authority and sovereignty made worse today by the fact that, overall, the attitudes 484 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:28,720 of white America presently, Christians included, particularly in the white South, has not changed 485 00:46:28,720 --> 00:46:36,880 much since Emancipation, 1864, or, more recently, the end of Jim Crow, the presence, tolerance and 486 00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:41,840 or acceptance of those who might be termed token blacks and other, tokens, from other races in 487 00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:50,560 their midsts, notwithstanding. It is a glaring sin, damning to its core, glossed over and whitewashed, 488 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:56,240 played down or ignored, altogether, from which the nation and its arrogant, self-serving white 489 00:46:56,240 --> 00:47:01,360 Christians have yet to fall down in humble confession and repentance before a just and holy God who 490 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:09,120 demands no less. Instead, indeed, they all, like fools, led by damned fools, in true jekyll and 491 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:15,120 hide stride, stand before the eyes of the entire world, ignoring the inhumane injustices hatched 492 00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:21,120 and perpetrated for which they alone are responsible, seeking, by whatever means, however subtly, 493 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:26,160 to reverse all of the gains that have been made and accorded to blacks to correct those injustices, 494 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:32,880 since Martin Luther King, Jr. They, secular white society and their hopelessly racially segregated 495 00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:38,240 white churches, led by a new generation of young whites seeking to hide the shame of their past, 496 00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:44,560 in part, by denial of its present reality, hold on to their antiquated, bigoted, false notions of 497 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:50,880 superiority, while effectively demanding that they be given a clean, social bill of health, publicly, 498 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:56,880 by those whom they have oppressed, and still repress even today. In addition, therefore, 499 00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:02,880 you might say, those same early bigots have left a legacy of lies, in the lips of lying descendants, 500 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:08,400 in the churches, of all places, who persistently and consistently spread falsehoods about what they 501 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:12,400 know to have been the true condition of the hearts of those hypocritical forefathers, 502 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:17,600 across four centuries. Underscoring and highlighting this fact is the boldness and the 503 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:22,640 work of the handful of white American abolitionists, and others in the years leading up to and during 504 00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:27,440 the civil rights years, whatever their own theological excess baggage and spiritual 505 00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:33,840 shortcomings, there most assuredly must have been some spurred and or goaded into action by black 506 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:39,120 abolitionists, it was they who created the platform for the inevitable military intervention and 507 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:43,680 overthrow of those systematic and nationally systemic evils that so blight the history of 508 00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:49,040 an otherwise incomparable, great nation, unlike Britain's parliament, following the long, 509 00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:54,320 arduous years of debate, led by Wilberforce, they the white Christian southern states, 510 00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:59,280 in particular would never have submitted willingly to the wisdom of reason, or to the guidance of 511 00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:03,360 the word of God in spite of their lying hypocritical professions of faith in God, 512 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:09,280 to this day, they won't submit, nor will they let go of the traditions, passed down to them 513 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:16,080 by their founding fathers. John teaches us here in Revelation chapter 18 that this wondrously blessed, 514 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:21,920 highly religious Jekyll persona purposefully and permanently marred by a greedy, low-down avaricious 515 00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:27,040 high persona represents an incurable blight that cannot no matter how bleached and white washed be 516 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:33,440 washed out, to whom much is given, much is required, our Lord Jesus the Christ warned, 517 00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:39,360 where the blessing of blessings runs highest, there the bar and the level of expectation is set 518 00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:45,440 higher, unlike our Lord's call to the wayward church at Ephesus, there is no call for this end 519 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:52,160 times people or its backwards, spiritually bankrupt churches to repent, no expression of any expectation 520 00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:58,080 as that she would or should return to some prior period of fidelity. Furthermore, unlike as was 521 00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:03,440 the case of either the Ephesians or King Solomon who has been eternally rejected, having chosen the 522 00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:08,640 vaginas and gods of his pagan women over the true and living God there has been and there is no such 523 00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:14,800 prior period of fidelity for the United States of America. As Billy Graham and others have correctly 524 00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:22,080 observed, she is not now, nor has she ever been truly Christian. To that, John MacArthur concurs, 525 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:27,760 stating dogmatically that the founding fathers were not Christians, strictly speaking, in so far as 526 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:33,840 they were really, Deists, who used God as a tool, a mechanism by means of which they could control 527 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:38,880 and or solicit the support of a perhaps highly religious people who were otherwise spiritually 528 00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:45,280 obtuse. She is therefore secular, and it is the secular that dominates her thinking, both in and 529 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:51,760 out of the churches. Thus, following the examples set by Wilberforce and the American abolitionists, 530 00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:57,600 true Christians, of all races, in America are urged to come out from among them. They should 531 00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:02,960 be diligent to distinguish themselves from the religiosity of incurably tarnished, deeply flawed 532 00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:08,640 and hopelessly corrupted Christianity that so fills and plagues the land of Babylon the Great, or 533 00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:14,240 risk suffering the same fate as the rest of the nation. Further, they should demonstrate this 534 00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:20,000 change of heart by actions, not by lying lip service of empty words and fruitless Bible quoting, 535 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:25,040 that is, marked by changed lives that include leading the charge to make reparations for all 536 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:30,640 past wrongs and acts of deprivation against all non-whites, and, by desegregated churches, 537 00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:37,040 among other things. And so, ladies and gentlemen, there you have it. We have reached the end of 538 00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:42,720 another compelling and telling segment of the Bible Prophecy Masterclass. Let me invite you 539 00:51:42,720 --> 00:51:46,880 to make plans to be with us next time when we will continue our examination of 540 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:53,280 America the Beautiful and American exceptionalism in light of Biblical teaching. Be sure to spread 541 00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:59,680 the word and encourage others to join in. Give us a like as you depart and we will see you next time. 542 00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:06,880 Until then, God bless you.