1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,500 Hello everyone, Michael here, welcoming you to episode number 12 in our multi-part series involving a thorough consideration of the 18th chapter of the book of the Revelation. 2 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:21,500 This is the Bible Prophecy Masterclass, and in this presentation we will continue our evaluation of America the Beautiful 3 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:32,000 as we take a look at another crucial element of her convoluted ethos, as exhibited by her abhorrent and therefore unbiblical double standard, 4 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:38,500 fleshed out in its implementation of hellish Jim Crow laws driven by hate-filled bigotry, 5 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:45,000 rooted in racist notions of white supremacy and always applied with a force that could be deadly, 6 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 which were particularly prevalent in the white American South. 7 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,500 Jim Crow and the unrighteous double standards. 8 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:56,500 In the Old Testament, during the administration of the Law of Moses, 9 00:00:56,500 --> 00:01:07,500 God made it abundantly clear that His people were to be governed in the main by one set of rules and regulations that was to be equally applicable to any foreigner living among them. 10 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:13,000 That principle set the tone as well for those of us living in this, the church age. 11 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:21,500 It should therefore have been the guiding light for and the principle that shaped the relationships and social interactions of any people, 12 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:28,500 particularly those who call themselves Christians, as well as the Israelites to whom they were originally given. 13 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:35,500 Licking its wounds and waving bloody shirts and such following the war to eradicate one evil, 14 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:50,000 the new nation simply rolled over and adopted another in the form of Jim Crow, a hellish practice spanning and filling the gap between the end of the Civil War and the end of the Civil Rights Movement and marches of the 1960s. 15 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,000 During the years of Jim Crow, the victorious North soon fell under a spirit of complacency, 16 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000 becoming more and more compliant with white Southern conservative demands. 17 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Its once sympathetic churches, having grown weary of the plight of the African and his struggle for equality, 18 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,000 the North social conscience died as it looked the other way, 19 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:27,000 while Southern whites, aided by their churches, freely vented their frustration over their loss of the newly freed Negroes, see again, sidebar below, Francis Swaggart, P. 38. 20 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:38,000 In so many words, even after the war, the general attitude of the South and its churches remained, God and his mission to save souls be damned. 21 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Toward this end, the South terrorized, harassed and disenfranchised the Africans in every way possible, 22 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:56,000 even to the point of much unjustifiable bloodshed, including hangings, for practically any reason, against an otherwise defenseless people. 23 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:03,000 This they would do, unabated for the next 100 years or so, following emancipation, 24 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:09,000 through implementation of a system of laws and regulations known as the Black Codes, 25 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:16,000 see the sidebars below, the Black Codes, and George Wallace, P. 99. 26 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Making matters worse, notwithstanding the findings and pronouncements of Lewis and Clark, 27 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,000 see the sidebar below, how wrong they were, P. 100. 28 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 It was not as if resources and such in the new nation were scarce, 29 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:37,000 or that the land could not support a free people other than the Caucasian races, 30 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:43,000 by no means as history has shown, and continues to show, to this very day. 31 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:51,000 At the same time as Africans were being brought in and subjected to only the most inhumane treatment as unpaid laborers of the land, 32 00:03:51,000 --> 00:04:00,000 men and women of white complexion were being recruited and brought over from all across Europe to people, settle, and to own the new land, 33 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:06,000 through helps that included land grants and land grant colleges that taught them how to farm the land. 34 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:16,000 In addition, a project proposed by the victorious North, led by a generous Sherman as part of a kind of post-war reparations initiative 35 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,000 that would have set aside a sizable track of land along the eastern seaboard, 36 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:27,000 so as to allow the newly freed Negroes to adjust and grow following life as slaves, 37 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 was soundly and roundly overthrown by angry bigoted southerners. 38 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,000 For a nation professing itself to be Christian, having the hellish past that it has, 39 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:45,000 this type of initiative, a definite biblical principle, much overlooked by white America's Christian community, 40 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:53,000 given its non-applicability to them, would have been not only highly profitable and beneficial to the Africans, 41 00:04:53,000 --> 00:05:01,000 but absolutely essential to a demonstration of the reorientation of the thinking of the nation along biblical lines, 42 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:11,000 and thus, most importantly, for the badly tarnished image and cause of the Christ they had for hundreds of years neglected to serve, biblically. 43 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:18,000 In later years, black middle classes that managed to thrive despite the obstacles of prevailing racism 44 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:33,000 would be viciously attacked and violently destroyed by jealous, hostile mobs of white rednecks in states like Oklahoma, Tulsa, and Florida, Rosemead, if one recalls correctly. 45 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:44,000 This having been done within full view of the Almighty, and the new nation having failed, or effectively refused to learn from the lessons of the Civil War, 46 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:51,000 set the stage and atone whereby God was once more able to demonstrate before the eyes of all the world 47 00:05:51,000 --> 00:06:01,000 the power endemic to His submissive faithful servants, no matter how small their number, no matter how great or how powerful the opposition, 48 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:07,000 as was the case with the nation of Israel's liberation from the oppression of godless Egypt, 49 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:15,000 so likewise the merciless might of the new nation proved itself no match for the Almighty's matchless determination. 50 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:22,000 His desire was to see that the African was free from a grossly hypocritical system of injustice, 51 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:28,000 which had seized the blessings of the American territories, allocating them only to themselves, 52 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:35,000 even when, unlike as was the case with the Exodus, that determination was administered in passivity, 53 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:43,000 orchestrated and led by a single preacher in the person of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 54 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Dr. King did his work in the face of unrelenting hostility, managed and executed by the restless and tireless, white American southern redneck, 55 00:06:53,000 --> 00:07:01,000 armed with bullets, the cold sting of powerful water cannon and the ferocious bite of his canine bitches. 56 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Thus the shame and the sham of the self-proclaimed godly, self-righteous white American continued unabated. 57 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:15,000 It was driven by worldly concerns, not by true spirituality. 58 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:26,000 That temporal lust was in turn fueled by a greed and an avaricious appetite for worldly chattels that demanded an unwarranted, unbridled hatred of others 59 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:32,000 to justify a heinous misuse and abuse of their bodies and souls. 60 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Bolstered on the strength and broad shoulders of patent, unbridled racism roughly 20 years after having returned home 61 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:50,000 from pouncing upon and trouncing the evil, unrighteous Hitler, along with the imperialist Hirohito, emperor of the Japanese, 62 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:56,000 that shame and that sham was exposed and lay bare for all the world to see, 63 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:06,000 as an era of some of the worst injustices ever perpetrated by man upon men was brought to an end, though not wiped off the slate in its entirety. 64 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:18,000 The expose of such blatant national hypocrisy was then, is now, equally a glaring embarrassment to have on the international resume of a nation so blessed, 65 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,000 and self-righteous in its own eyes. 66 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:32,000 It was an especially sickening sight before the eyes of the god of all heaven and earth, who the nation, these United States of America, claimed to serve. 67 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:42,000 In addition, this is an observation which the reviner, king, was able to exploit and use to great advantage in his quest to right, 68 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:48,000 and to end the centuries-old wrongs accorded his people by the self-righteous nation, 69 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:57,000 which based its ideals and ideology on a perverted view of the word of the living god, all men are equal. 70 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:05,000 And they taught in theory, except if they are not white, they taught in practice and do maintain even to this very day. 71 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:13,000 In point of fact, the recent election of a black man into the ranks of its top leadership at the Southern Baptist Convention 72 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:20,000 does little to convince informed outside observers of any sincere desire on the parts of white Southern Baptists, 73 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:31,000 for instance, to submit entirely to the will of God, i.e. specifically, to embrace all men, black men, as equals. 74 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:37,000 This convention was, is an overwhelmingly Caucasian evangelistic orchestration 75 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:43,000 originally formulated around the religious ambitions of Southern slave-holding white Celtic farmers, 76 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:51,000 hell-bent on preaching their brand of the gospel around the world, while at the same time maintaining a devilish grip on their slaves, 77 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:59,000 who were simultaneously, deliberately misled and systematically denied the truth of the gospel. 78 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:06,000 With their churches as segregated today and as bigoted as ever, it might be argued, and that rightly so, 79 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:18,000 that even God Himself cannot get in, behold, I am standing at the door knocking, Jesus said, and is saying to all of His end-times churches. 80 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:24,000 See the sidebar, ambassadors for Christ's servants of the devil. 81 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:31,000 P.100 God cannot stomach, nor does He condone, this type of compromise and hypocrisy, 82 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:36,000 particularly in a people professing themselves to be His. 83 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Understandably, one may well be wondering, still, is all of this alone enough to qualify America as the Babylon in question, 84 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,000 as presented in Chapter 18 of the Lord's Revelation? 85 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:57,000 The answer is a resounding most emphatic yes, if only to the degree that it points to, 86 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:04,000 and or underscores the presence of the festering pus of a broader, more heinous sore. 87 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:14,000 A nation of professing Christians, having this kind of legacy, has some profoundly serious underlying theological and spiritual issues. 88 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Reread the preface to this treatise. 89 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,000 John's profile for her is certainly very much more detailed. 90 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Nonetheless, one can and must insist that being the hellish institution that it has been since its inception some 400 years ago, 91 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:39,000 whatever its many good points, and or benevolent exterior, built upon a foundation of biblical principles though it was indeed, 92 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:46,000 it can no less easily qualify as a spiritual pariah nation, reclusive, outcast, 93 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:57,000 a pious piranha monstrosity of the sort that God loves to loathe, piranha, flesh-eating fish, with a voracious appetite that will tear into anything. 94 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:04,000 There is not one element of John's description that does not fit the foot of the United States of America. 95 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Today, to a T, remember, God repeatedly reminded the nation of Israel that their selection as the people of God 96 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:19,000 had nothing to do with any supposed righteousness he saw in either them or the nation's leadership. 97 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 They were, in fact, a despicable people. 98 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Jesus said as much of his churches, 99 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Multitudes will be rejected and banished to the eternal flames of the lake of fire, 100 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:37,000 in spite of justifiable claims to a lot of good and noble things they will have done in his name. 101 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:46,000 All things considered then, in spite of the fact that Christianity has never enjoyed greater freedom at any time in history 102 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:56,000 under any other banner, in any other place on earth, the U.S. in God's eyes is, in fact, somewhat, perhaps very much, 103 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:03,000 akin to the Roman Catholic religious harlot out of whose matrix all the Protestant denominations were birthed. 104 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:12,000 America has a reputation for being a Christian nation, although as a country spiritually, it is not in the least a pleasant sight. 105 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:17,000 On high, like the church at Sardis, her churches are stone cold. 106 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Like the Laodiceans, she, on account of her lukewarm churches, has the relish, the stench, filth, the desirability of puke. 107 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:34,000 He surveys continuously the hearts and minds of all the men and women, churched and unchurched, 108 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Christians and non-Christians, of every nationality, of this, unquestionably, the greatest of all nations. 109 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Hence then, when the following, relative to America now in its modernity, is factored into the equation, 110 00:13:51,000 --> 00:14:02,000 real possibility begins to emerge upon which to base and build a case for America being John's Babylon the Great, per Revelation 18. 111 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:12,000 As was stated already, relative to the people who inundate the nation, their thoughts, actions, habits, attitudes, etc., etc., 112 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:19,000 regardless of skin color, God cannot possibly be pleased with what he sees in this country. 113 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,000 On both the church and secular sides of the ledger, there may be many good reasons for this, 114 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:33,000 but for sure chief among them on the godless, thankless, secular front would have to be, 115 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:42,000 1. An increasing publicly displayed anti-God sentiment, and a mounting animosity for all things not religious, mind you, 116 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,000 but for all things Christian, often led by governments and courts at all levels, 117 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:55,000 the basis of which owe their very being to, and are rooted in the unseen hand of God acting in its favor. 118 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:03,000 2. Government court-backed school systems which openly and actively seek constantly, willfully, and intentionally 119 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:11,000 to shield the nation's young from any exposure, on public property, to knowledge of the true and living God. 120 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:23,000 3. Mounting widely accepted rise in open, publicly displayed sexual immorality, including adultery, fornication, and homosexuality, 121 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:33,000 as well as widespread acceptance of same-sex marriages, both as a way of and as a form of recreation and entertainment. 122 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:45,000 4. Abortion, extermination, or the outright murder of the innocent unborn, for practically any reason, even after a late-term, live birth. 123 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:58,000 5. While being perhaps the primary beneficiary of all the knowledge and benefits gleaned and gained over the past 106 years of educational and technological advances, 124 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:09,000 failure and a wanton refusal to acknowledge the evidence of the unseen hand of a supreme, intelligent designer behind and upholding the entirety of the created order, 125 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:16,000 all that makes up our world and universe, hereby denying him the glory and recognition he demands and deserves. 126 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:25,000 In so doing, the intellectual, secular, non-Christian, American effectively makes himself greater than his maker, 127 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:35,000 doing more in the end to degenerate him and his holy name before the eyes of the watching world than the most backward of utterly pagan nations. 128 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:43,000 6. Shameless ingratitude to the Almighty. In light of all he has done to make this nation the standout that it is, 129 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:54,000 taking or giving credit to themselves for a work neither they nor any other people could ever have affected on their own, left to their own devices. 130 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:03,000 7. The entire world looks to her for guidance in the areas of religion and economics, as well as politics. 131 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,000 These are the kinds of things that God cannot stand in any people. 132 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Nevertheless, that which makes America a harlot and therefore more so the object of his ire after the order of Babylon the Great, however, is, ironically, yes, 133 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:34,000 the Church, due to its infidelity to the Son and therefore, by extension, their abject failure, refusal in what should have been their role as missionaries to the world in the cause of building the Body of Christ. 134 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:46,000 It belongs to him. With Bibles aplenty, many wide open in the midst of much quoting, especially in times of trouble or during dark days of uncertainty over the future, 135 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:55,000 it has yet been led, since colonialism, more by secular, worldly concerns than by adherence to the things of God. 136 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:06,000 It is to be presented to him as a portion, all things considered, of all those who make up his bride, some day, and yet he cannot get its attention. 137 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Thus, he cannot get the Churches of the U.S. to submit to his will, without the use of absolute force, akin to the Civil War. 138 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:22,000 See the sidebar below, the reckless, foolish, new nation, P97. 139 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Sidebar Number 1 Armageddon and Brazil Rising 140 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Heady, greed-driven industrialists, led chiefly by ravenous profiteers and gluttonous false-profits at the top of the investment banking sector, 141 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:46,000 aided and pampered by poor governmental judgment and or oversight that was non-existent, have landed us in some rough, uncharted waters, 142 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:52,000 at a most dangerous time in the history of mankind and of these United States. 143 00:18:52,000 --> 00:19:02,000 If, as may not have been the case, so much during the Enron-MCI-WorldCom era, the 80s thrift debacles and bailouts, 144 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:10,000 or the engineered fuel crisis of the 70s, if this leaves us near the throw of some reminder of the Great Depression, 145 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,000 what might this signal as well in terms of our proximity to Armageddon? 146 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Consider the many and varied assortment of elements of our times that bear simultaneously strange, remarkable, and alarming similarities to those of the Biblical prophets, 147 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,000 most notably, perhaps, the Book of the Revelation. 148 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:41,000 As of August 22, 2008, many, if not most, observers and analysts are ready to concede that the Great Melting Pot may well be on its last leg. 149 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Much speculation swirls as to where the next great center of power and finance might emerge. 150 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Britain has even been bantered about as a possible contender. 151 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:58,000 Others see China on the pedestal, unlikely as that may be, or maybe not. 152 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Again, as of August 22, 2008, NPR radio sang eloquently in tones and overtures extolling exciting prospects regarding a Brazil rising, 153 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:23,000 while at the same time citing, with melancholy, Brazil's counter-melody of many counterbalancing woes, not the least of which is rampant, rabid corruption in government. 154 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Amid many other impressive pluses, CBS's 60 Minutes, led by host Steve Croft, 155 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:41,000 revealed in its 12-12-2010 broadcast that Brazil has surpassed the U.S. as the leading supplier feeding China's ravenous appetite for growth. 156 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Other analysts, task observers, point out that Brazil has every ambition to become a global superpower in a very short period of time. 157 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 God, however, begs to differ. 158 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:58,000 The collapse of Babylon the Great promises to create a void that none can ever fill. 159 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:11,000 This regurgitates the question, if not a current power, a potentially emerging power, or an old ancient power reborn, who then is this Babylon the Great? 160 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Without question, the world is well on the way to Armageddon, but why can't we accurately identify her? Or can't we? 161 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Sidebar, Berto, a nation with teeth like swords, what generation of any nation has done more to distance itself from the values, good or bad, of its parents, than have the young of our day? 162 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:47,000 What generation of men has done, or does more, to trumpet their righteousness as a nation and that of their founding fathers, before God, as the basis for God's blessing upon them, 163 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:52,000 than have the Americans specifically, the white Anglo-Americans? 164 00:21:52,000 --> 00:22:03,000 What generation is more prone to remind itself, and to profit more from the notion that war is good for the economy, than do the Americans? 165 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Babylon is a warmonger like no other. 166 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:21,000 War is good for the economy, she beams with assurance, hereby signaling her intent to stay actively involved in battle, somewhere, one way or the other, on one front or another, at whatever the cost. 167 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Sidebar, Ner-3, the reckless, foolish new nation. As Christians, students of the word survey the horizons. 168 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:40,000 When they weigh the events and actions of our times, it becomes increasingly clear that having shot this new nation by its own hand, with its own bullet, 169 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:52,000 having shaken it to its bigoted, egotistical, egocentric core by a hand armed with only a Bible, having thereby exposed its weakness to the eyes of all humanity, 170 00:22:52,000 --> 00:23:06,000 God may very well be on the verge of, once more, in these latest of times, shaking the reckless, foolish new nation with its lackadaisical, lackluster, spiritually bankrupt Christians. 171 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000 This time, his approach will not be in passivity and peace. 172 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:23,000 It is not entirely unlikely, nor is it inconceivable, but that his weapon of choice, intermediate to the ultimate, which brings about our final annihilation as a nation, 173 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:38,000 will without doubt be two groups of people, either of which, without question, he would joyfully write off as hopelessly inferior, namely, the 12 million or so illegal immigrants, supposedly, 174 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:51,000 predominantly Mexican, who having cleverly, perhaps, seized the moment, at the nation's point of greed and never-ending thirst for something for nothing, i.e., cheap labor, 175 00:23:51,000 --> 00:24:01,000 have sought with measurable success to force a change in American politics, government, and constitutions so as to accommodate their being and demands. 176 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:16,000 The second group stationed and positioned dangerously amongst us within that 12 million, working in concert but independently, is the perpetually angry, hostile, implacable, radical Middle Eastern Muslim, 177 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:28,000 who seeks to dominate the world, by force and by terror, as opposed to, by reason and goodwill, having awakened enough from his centuries-old technological slumber, 178 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:39,000 only enough to see the advantage of a weakness in America's unquenchable need, and whose unflinching desire is to see the U.S. and Israel obliterated. 179 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:46,000 He has at his disposal, on two fronts, the basis upon which to, eventually, affect that end. 180 00:24:46,000 --> 00:25:00,000 1. Nuclear Generating Stations. All they need is enough centrifuges to spin their waste so as to make bomb-grade plutonium themselves, or to get someone else, like Russia, to sell it to them. 181 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Word is, according to a website news article on Yahoo! recently, European powers like the British, the French, and Germany are considering doing the honors. 182 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:26,000 And 2. Oil with which to finance their ambitions. Iran, a chief player in the deadly, pernicious game of international terrorism, is Dover 2 in exports globally, behind Dover B1 Saudi Arabia. 183 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:40,000 Sidebar, Noura 4. The Might of America. In reality, it was neither the greatness, nor the toughness of the American, during World War II that got them through that time of global conflict. 184 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:51,000 If the Japanese could ill afford to follow through on their ambition to bring the U.S. to its knees, and under their Emperor's control, Hitler had everything necessary. 185 00:25:51,000 --> 00:26:01,000 The world's first and only jet-powered airplane, twice as fast as any propeller-driven fighter, none could touch it or compete with it. 186 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:14,000 The V-1, and prospective V-9 missile, their take and upgrade to American Robert Goddard's invention and proposal, officially poo-pooed and flatly rejected by the U.S. military. 187 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:27,000 A long-range bomber, having a hang time of 36 hours, flown for 32 hours to within 12 miles of NYC, then back to Germany, undetected by the U.S. military. 188 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Thus, he had as well, the element of surprise. 189 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:44,000 Perhaps, however, the biggest feather in his cap, particularly after driving the British out of Finland, giving him free access to the heavy water he so craved, was Einstein, the Jew. 190 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:53,000 It was his mind, more than that of any other physicist, which served as the key that unlocked the door to thermonuclear energy. 191 00:26:53,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Albeit, God be thanked, on American shores as opposed to those of his German homeland. 192 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:10,000 Not realizing his value and future, Hitler put a $5,000 price tag on his head, payable to anyone bringing him in debt. 193 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:22,000 With all these perks and benefits fully developed and at his disposal, nothing could have stopped him from taking the world he envisioned would one day bow to his master race. 194 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:37,000 But for their combined bungling and Hitler's inability to predict the future, or to foresee his own destiny, as well as his inability to accurately gauge the usefulness of new ideas and machines at his disposal, 195 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:47,000 America, together with the world at large, would be a totally different place, at this hour, subject once again to the will of foreign powers. 196 00:27:47,000 --> 00:28:00,000 To the might of the US notwithstanding, she virtually aided the enemy through her own propensity for bungling and gross miscalculations and mishandling of intelligence, or information, 197 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:07,000 on a scale as great as that of her mortal enemies, whom, obviously, she completely misjudged. 198 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Sidebar, Yver 5 199 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:21,000 Francis Swaggart, a recent broadcast aired and heard near Wichita, Calles on August 30, 2013, 10.45 a.m. over the Sun Life Broadcasting Network, 200 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:33,000 run by the Jimmy Swaggart family, illustrates the determination of white Southerners to play down and or justify the evils perpetrated by whites against blacks and others. 201 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Blacks are slaves to hatred, all the participants in the program agreed, led by Francis Swaggart, wife of Jimmy Swaggart, that program was Francis and Friends. 202 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:58,000 She ended the program that Friday with the promise that she would be back on Monday, September 2, 2013, to give the nation and the world a lesson on slavery in America, 203 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:07,000 and in turn, by inference, addressing and straightening out the misnotion of an America founded by white men who suppressed blacks. 204 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:20,000 One of the younger Swaggart's interrupted to interject his authoritative observance of hatred in the eyes and faces of all blacks he saw in attendance at President Obama's inauguration. 205 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000 Wonder why that hatred was there. 206 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:41,000 In subsequent broadcasts, Mrs. Swaggart and her cast went on to stress her determination and intent to justify, based upon revisionist history or American history rewritten to fit a white Southern worldview. 207 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Never to rectify the injustices, she knows that she and the whole of the white South have accorded to Africans and American Indians. 208 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Blacks just need to get over it, she lamented with reference to African America's prevailing determination to seek justice, 209 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:06,000 inferring openly and without equivocation that neither she nor the white Southerner, Christian or otherwise, will ever allow that to be. 210 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:14,000 There were and are no inequities in the educational systems of America based on race, she stated. 211 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:25,000 Having grown up poor, her white skin afforded her no special privileges that were not open to blacks, Hispanics, Indians or Eskimos. 212 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000 She lied and assured the public around the world. 213 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:36,000 This logic parallels that of the likes of Dr. John MacArthur, voice of the Grace to You broadcast. 214 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:48,000 Contrary to and contradicting Mrs. Swaggart's claim that African Americans have always profited from the same educational opportunities and experiences to which she has been privy, 215 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:59,000 white Southern Christian radio commentator, the late Ben Hayden, based in Chattanooga, TN, commented in his most recent broadcast, Sunday, 216 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:14,000 11-10-2013, about first-hand observations of patent discrimination and inequity promoted by bigoted whites who saw to it that white schools were equipped with new, up-to-date textbooks, 217 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:26,000 while black, Latino and other minority schools were served only outdated textbooks, hereby ensuring that all minority students were as a whole and as a class. 218 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:38,000 The white schools were not only educated, but also educated, and were also educated, educationally behind, or inferior, to their white counterparts. 219 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Mr. Hayden appears to be one of the few, if not the only white Southern Christian willing and daring enough to step out and speak publicly against the wrongs he knows to have been 220 00:31:50,000 --> 00:32:00,000 and other minorities as well. Sidebar number six, the Black Codes. The Black Codes or laws were the backbone of the Jim Crow system. 221 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:09,000 They created a double standard by which white bigots sought to limit and set severe restrictions on the upward mobility of the African, 222 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:24,000 depriving him of any hope or prospect of excelling, socially, educationally, politically and economically. Thus, the new nation under God, contrary to the express teaching of the Scriptures, 223 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:35,000 such that the people of God, with only the rarest of exceptions, were to have one law for both themselves and for any Gentiles who chose to live among them, 224 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:45,000 sought to operate under two sets of laws, one for whites and one for blacks, each hatched and set in motion by whites only. 225 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:57,000 Hence, for one century following emancipation, when all men should have been free, the new nation was one of, in God's eyes, the unsightly double standard. 226 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:12,000 In addition, one might well argue that, during those years, before and beyond, white America has tried in vain to endear itself to the service of two masters, one God, the other, Mammon. 227 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:19,000 Clearly Mammon has been their God of choice. Sidebar seven, George Wallace. 228 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:30,000 This man was an arrogant white Southerner, a fervent racist, a committed bigot and segregationist who was also governor of Alabama in 1963. 229 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:39,000 As such, he made the following statement, as he blocked the door of Foster Auditorium on the campus of the University of Alabama, 230 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:46,000 in defiance of the federal government's efforts to desegregate southern white schools. 231 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:54,000 In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny. 232 00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:00,000 And I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. 233 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:10,000 An oxymoron if ever there was one, given that his own words and actions were cold-hearted, calculated acts of tyranny. 234 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,000 Sidebar, how wrong they were. 235 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:20,000 Interestingly, Lewis and Clark are said to have valued the land as worthless, from sea to shining sea. 236 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:25,000 Modern physicists and scientists as recently as 125 years ago, 237 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:35,000 jointly thumbed their erudite noses at the mere thought of there being substance in the world of the unseen, as of Oros 6, 2013. 238 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,000 Much less a God who created everything there is, out of nothing. 239 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:47,000 None saw the basis of all that is substantive and quantifiable as being in the realm where one cannot see, 240 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:53,000 even when their own eyes and empirical evidences were proving otherwise remember. 241 00:34:53,000 --> 00:35:01,000 Successful, prominent men in business and industry jointly concluded in the early days of the 1900s 242 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:06,000 that there was nothing new to be discovered, or that could be invented. 243 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000 There were no new plateaus upon which to climb. 244 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:14,000 The world around us has nothing more to offer, they concluded basically. 245 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:19,000 How much more wrong could an arrogant people so educated have been? 246 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Sidebar number 8. 247 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,000 Ambassadors for Christ, servants to the devil. 248 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:31,000 Is it not a striking coincidence that, with the Supreme Holy One of the Jews as its professed God, 249 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:37,000 and His Word as their guide, peaceful resolution within this first of its kind nation, 250 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:44,000 for the eradication of the ignominy of its humiliation of the African through the twin horrors of slavery 251 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:51,000 and later, Jim Crow legislation, could not be reached as much through reason, as by war with itself, 252 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,000 or with the ballot as easily as with the bullet. 253 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:02,000 Still, it could be argued, the problem here for white America may not so much be what was done, 254 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:10,000 as that what was done was perpetrated in the name of God, contrary to what they knew was the will of God 255 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:18,000 by those whose destiny from the time they left England was to be His representatives or ambassadors. 256 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:23,000 In the New World, a New World that saw them diabolically abandon the will of God, 257 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:28,000 in the face of Almighty God, in favor of serving themselves, 258 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:36,000 putting their interests ahead of His, in order to placate their own greed and thirst for wealth and worldly possessions. 259 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:47,000 Hereby, as in the case of Catholicism, the God of the Bible was and still is subtly, perhaps, yet grossly misrepresented among them. 260 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,000 And there you have it, my friends. 261 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:55,000 We have reached the conclusion of yet another telling and revealing study in the Bible Prophecy Masterclass. 262 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:01,000 Please give us a like and make plans to join us again next time for episode number 13, 263 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:13,000 as we journey through the book, Judgment Day, Volume 1, Prelude to Armageddon, Part 1, The United States of America in Bible Prophecy. 264 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:29,000 Until we meet again on the next podcast, may God richly bless you.