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Robert Jeffress - Can We Survive Another 250 Years? (Part 1)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Can We Survive Another 250 Years? (Part 1) | June 29, 2026

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with doctor
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Robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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America is celebrating 250 years of freedom this year.
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And while there's certainly much to be grateful for, there's also
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Much to consider.
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Will america survive another 250 years?
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And what does god's word say about the future of our
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Great nation?
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Today i'm going to take a hard look at where america has been
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And where we're headed.
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My message is titled "america at the crossroads: can we survive
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Another 250 years?"
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On today's special edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ o say, can you see? ♪
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♪ by the dawn's early light. ♪
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♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪
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♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars. ♪
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♪ through the perilous fight. ♪
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♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so ♪
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♪ gallantly streaming? ♪
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♪ and the rockets's red glare. ♪
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♪ the bombs bursting in air. ♪
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♪ gave proof through the night. ♪
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♪ that our flag was still there. ♪
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♪ o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave? ♪
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♪ o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. ♪♪
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♪♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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Announcer: as our nation marks 250 years, america stands
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At a crossroads.
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Will we return to the god who blessed us or continue down
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A path that leads to ruin?
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: on july the 3rd, 1776, the portly 40-year-old john
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Adams sat in his candlelit room in philadelphia and wrote these
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Words to his wife abigail in massachusetts.
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He wrote, "the second day of july 1776 will be the most
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Memorable epoch in the history of america.
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I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding
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Generations as the great anniversary festival.
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It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn
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Acts of devotion to god almighty.
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It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, shows, games,
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Sports, guns, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of
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This continent to the other, from this time
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Forward forevermore."
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Well, adams may have gotten the day wrong by a couple of days,
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But he certainly caught the spirit of celebration we
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Should enjoy.
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On july 4 this year, we are recognizing the 250th birthday
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Of our country.
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And yes, it's a time for celebration, but it's also
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A time for solemn acts of devotion to the god who has so
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Richly blessed america.
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As we come to this 250-year mark, it's also for us a time to
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Contemplate our future as a country.
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Do we have a future?
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Can america survive another 250 years?
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That's what we're going to talk about today.
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Briefly, let's look first of all at america's past.
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It has been one of undeniable blessing.
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You know, throughout the bible, we are told to remember,
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Remember, remember the past.
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We're to remember from where we came.
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We're to remember the god we serve.
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We are to remember what god has done for us.
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I've talked in other messages about america's indisputable
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Christian foundation.
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This nation was founded as a christian nation.
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Don't let woke theologians tell you differently.
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All you have to do is look at the past and see the firm
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Christian foundation of our country, and our leaders
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Recognized that, and they were not hesitant to call out on god
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For help.
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I think about abraham lincoln on september the 18th through
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20th, 1863.
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In the midst of the civil war, our country endured the worst
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Loss, next to gettysburg itself, in the battle of chickamaugua,
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September 18 through 20.
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During those 3 days, we lost nearly 35,000 soldiers who were
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Either killed or severely injured.
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And yet, just a few weeks after that devastating loss on october
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The 3rd, 1863, lincoln issued his first proclamation of
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Thanksgiving, encouraging the americans to look upward and
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Remember god's blessings.
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He talked about in that proclamation the gracious gifts
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Of the most high god, who, while dealing with us in anger for our
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Sins, has nevertheless remembered mercy.
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You can go back further than abraham lincoln to see our
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Leaders's devotion to god.
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In 1787, that was 11 years after we secured our independence from
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Great britain, 11 years later, a group of men met in philadelphia
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To forge out a document that would govern the new country
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That had been established, to establish a constitution.
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It was not a pleasant meeting.
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For days, the delegates were involved in divisiveness and
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Controversy, and our newly-born nation faced being torn apart
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That early in its existence.
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But in the midst of that debate on june 28, 1787, benjamin
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Franklin stood up and he addressed the president of that
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Constitutional convention, george washington.
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And this is what franklin said, "in the beginning of the contest
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With britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily
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Prayers in this room for divine protection.
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Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were
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Graciously answered.
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Have we now forgotten that powerful friend, or do we
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Imagine that we no longer need his assistance?"
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And then franklin got to the heart of the matter.
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He said, "i have lived, sir, a long time.
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And the longer i live, the more convincing proofs i see that god
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Governs the affairs of men.
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And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice,
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Is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
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We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings that except
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The lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it."
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Franklin then went on to ask that every morning from that
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Point forward, before they ever got into business, they would
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Ask for god's guidance, god's help, in creating that document.
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And today, we enjoy a constitution that guarantees our
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Freedom of access and assembly, our freedom of speech, but most
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Importantly, our freedom of religion.
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All of that came from a document that was born out of much prayer
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From our nation's leaders.
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Yes, we have been a nation blessed in god because of our
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Dependence upon god.
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But what about america's future?
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What does the future hold for our country?
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I wish i could give you an encouraging word, but the future
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Does not look encouraging, especially when you look at
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Scripture, at what the bible says and what it doesn't say
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About america's future.
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One of the questions i'm most often asked in bible prophecy is
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This, "where does america fit into the end times?
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What part do we play in the end times?"
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And the truth is, as you look at those last seven years of
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Earth's history, detailed in the book of revelation chapters 6
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Through 19, as you look at the old testament prophecy of
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Daniel, you see mentions certainly of israel, of iran,
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That was called persia, of egypt, allusions to russia, but
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There is no reference allusion anywhere to the united states of
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America, which can only mean that america will either have
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Ceased to exist by that final seven years of history, or its
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Influence will be so little, so inconsequential that it's not
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Ever mentioned.
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Instead, that last seven years of earth's history will be under
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The dictatorship of a dictator we know as antichrist, who will
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Preside over a ten-nation confederacy.
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Whether america is one of those ten nations, we don't know, but
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She will not be the dominant force.
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The diminishment of america's power that somebody is going to
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Witness, hopefully we're going to be raptured before then, but
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The diminishment of america that the world will witness should
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Not be a surprise to anybody.
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No kingdom, no earthly kingdom has lasted forever.
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Just look at the nation of babylon.
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They lasted about a century.
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You look at the persian empire, which is modern day iran.
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They lasted as the top power in the world for about
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Two centuries.
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You look at greece, they fared better.
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They had an influence, though it started to wane for about
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8 centuries, 800 years.
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Rome made it nine centuries, but they eventually came and
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They went.
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America has existed for 250 years, but it won't
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Exist forever.
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There is a time coming when there'll be no such thing as
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A legislative or judicial or executive branch of government.
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There'll be no such thing as the right to bear arms, the right to
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Assemble, the right to commerce, the right to practice
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Your faith.
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All of that will be gone according to god's word.
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Now here's the question.
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How will such a diminishment of american stature, how will
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It occur?
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How will it go from being the superpower of the world that it
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Is today to being an inconsequential nation, if it
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Even exists?
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I want to suggest to you that as i look through god's word, i see
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Three different components that could contribute to the demise
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Of america.
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First of all, the moral disintegration of our country,
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The moral disintegration of our country.
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In 2 timothy 3, verse 1, paul was writing to his protege
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Timothy, and he said, "but realize this, that in the last
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Days difficult times will come."
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What are the last days?
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We've seen before that refers to the time between christ's
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Ascension into heaven after his resurrection and until he
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Comes again.
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That period of time is the last days.
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We're living in the last days.
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We're in that in-between time, between the first and second
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Coming of christ.
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We've been in the last days for 2,000 years.
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But every day that passes gets us closer to the end of the last
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Days and the beginning of what we call the end times.
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Now, the end times is a very specific time period, seven
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Years, that begins after the rapture of the church.
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It begins when the world dictator known as antichrist
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Will sign a peace treaty with israel, but halfway through, he
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Will break the peace treaty.
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And then will come armageddon, the final world war that will
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Culminate in the return of jesus christ.
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Paul is talking about now.
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What should we expect now in these last days?
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And he says in verses 1 to 5, he gives us 19 characteristics of
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The last days.
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"men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful,
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Arrogant, disobedient to parents," and on and on it goes.
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Now, you might honestly say, "well, pastor, look at
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The culture.
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It's always been that way.
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There have always been dishonest people and people disobedient
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To parents.
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What's different now?"
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Just look at america today.
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I'm not talking about the last six months, but look at
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The trend.
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I know we're supposed to say we're in a big revival
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In america.
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There's no such big revival going on in america.
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There are pockets, perhaps, of revival, but the trend in faith
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Is downward in this country.
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The fact is, in the last 25 years--this is amazing--in the
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Last 25 years, there are 40 million less people going to
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Church today than 25 years ago.
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If there were any revival--40 million less.
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Did you know that's more people than were saved in the first
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Great awakening in our country, the second great awakening, and
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Every billy graham crusade that's ever been conducted?
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That's hardly what i call a revival.
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Just look at the beliefs of americans.
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Are they becoming more biblical or less?
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They're becoming less biblical.
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When you look at that and look at another factors, look at
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The culture.
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I mean, amy and i were just talking about this recently.
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Think about what you see on television right now compared to
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What you saw 60 years ago.
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I mean, compare what comes out of the tube now compared to "the
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Andy griffith show" or, you know, something.
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Can you imagine?
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Fifty, sixty years ago, nobody would have ever dreamed there
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Would have been the coarseness, the crudeness that is in our
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Culture today.
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No, we are unwinding.
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But here's the point.
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The point is, during the last days and certainly the end
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Times, that downward spiral will accelerate.
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It's going to get worse and worse and quickly.
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And one reason it's going to accelerate is because of an
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Accelerant that's going to speed up the demise of our society.
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What is that accelerant?
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It is going to be the rapture of the church.
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Look at 2 thessalonians 2, verses 7 and 9.
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Paul is talking about the coming of the
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Antichrist, but he says, "for
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The mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now
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Restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way."
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Who is the one who is restraining evil?
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Who is the restrainer of evil?
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Who is the one keeping things from being even worse today than
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They could be?
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He is the holy spirit of god.
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He is the holy spirit of god in the lives of
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Individual believers.
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Every believer is indwelt by the holy spirit of god.
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We are like a giant dam holding back the flood of evil that's
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About to come into this world.
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Imagine what it's gonna be like in the world when every
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Christian is removed.
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There will be no restraints whatsoever.
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In 2 timothy 3:1, paul says, "realize this, that in the last
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Days difficult times will come."
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That word difficult, chaleops, means unrestrained.
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Right now, as bad as things are, there's a limit to how bad
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They're going to get with christians still in the world.
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We are like a giant dam holding back a flood of evil, but paul
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Is saying, "when believers are taken out of the way, and that
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Is the holy spirit is gone, just watch?
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It will only take seven years for this world to
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Completely unravel."
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That's what he's talking about here.
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There is a moral disintegration that is occurring right now, but
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Will accelerate in the last days, and that will impact the
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Destruction of america.
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There's a second component that could add to the demise of our
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Country, and that is military confrontation,
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Military confrontation.
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Listen to me.
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The next event on god's timetable is the rapture of
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The church.
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Paul describes it in 1 thessalonians 4.
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He says, "for on that day the lord himself
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Will descend from heaven with a shout,
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With the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet
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Of god, and the dead in christ shall rise first.
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And then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up,
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Harpazoed, snatched away to meet the lord in the air, thus we
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Shall always be with the lord."
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What does that have to do with god's judgment that america
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Will face?
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I want you to consider the implications of the rapture.
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I'll confess to you, i really had not given it that much
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Thought until this past week.
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Think of the effects.
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Think of the economic impact of the rapture on our country.
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Just think what it would be like, for example, to have
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Christian ceos or executives suddenly removed from the
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Running of our great companies, or workers on the assembly line
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Who are taken away.
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There'll be a shortage of workers.
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Think about what will happen to the economic system in
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Our country.
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For example, think about all of those who have mortgages, are
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Paying every month on their mortgage, and then they're
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Suddenly gone and there's nobody to service those mortgages.
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The bankers, they'll be left behind.
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We'll have difficulty.
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It's a cheap shot, i know.
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But really, think about what will happen when there's nobody
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Left to service those debts.
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Think about the stock market.
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Can you imagine the impact on the stock market when one day
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People wake up, and there are millions of people?
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It's not going to help things, i'll guarantee you.
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Just look at covid and threats of war and what it does to
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The market.
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Think about the size, the chaos when you have planes falling out
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Of the sky because there's no pilot and the death that's going
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To cause.
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Think about cars on the freeway that will suddenly become
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Driverless, not because of tesla, but because of the
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Rapture of the church, and all of those crashes you'll have,
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And lawsuits and so forth.
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Think about grocery stores.
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What's going to happen to our food supply when farmers,
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Multitudes of them, are removed?
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Nobody to plant the harvest.
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Nobody to reap the harvest.
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Nobody to process the food.
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Do you remember during covid the panic, absolute panic, when
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People thought they were running out of toilet paper?
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They were rioting in parking lots over that.
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Imagine the riot when there is no food for people to have to
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Feed their family with, the chaos there.
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But here's one thing i had never thought about before.
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Think about the effect the rapture will have on our
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Military protection.
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Think about the effect on the military.
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Now, only 2% of those in the military register as atheists
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Or agnostics.
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That doesn't mean the rest are christians, but nevertheless, we
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Have the highest concentration of christians in the military of
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Any nation in the world.
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The greater percent of our military are christians than in
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Any other army or military force in the world.
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Think of the impact of every christian man and woman being
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Removed from the military.
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Think what our nation will suffer as a result of that.
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We will be completely defenseless against an attack by
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A foreign army, whether it's a literal attack or it's a
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Magnetic pulse impact that will wipe out our electrical grids,
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That will wipe out our cell phones, that will wipe out our
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Power plants and our water processing stations.
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We will be defenseless against those kind of attacks.
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I believe that's going to play a major role in the demise
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Of america.
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But there's a third component of that demise of america that
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We're already starting to see right now, and that is
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Israeli isolation.
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There is no other way to say it than this: american support for
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Israel is plummeting.
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Did you know a survey in july of 2025 by pew research found that
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59% of americans right now have an unfavorable view of the
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Israeli government, which is up from 51% the year before?
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It is going down.
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Nearly 2/3 of americans disapprove of the
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Israeli leadership.
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Even more astonishingly, a gallup poll found that only 32%
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Of americans supported israel's attack against hamas that was
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Residing in gaza.
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Only 32% believe israel has a right to protect itself from
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Those barbarians who came into israel in 2023 and did things to
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Men and women and babies that are unmentionable.
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We can't talk about what they did, but it was so horrific it
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Defies imagination.
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And yet in spite of that, only a few percent of americans believe
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Israel has the right to defend herself.
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The bible predicts that in the last days, every nation in the
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World, including the united states, will turn her back
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On israel.
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It's easy to see how that's going to happen.
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Interestingly, turning our back on israel will result in the
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Decimation of every country, including the united states, but
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It will have no impact on israel.
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Did you know israel is the only nation in the world that has the
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Promise of endurance because israel was a nation created
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By god?
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Israel is the nation that is the apple of god's eye.
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And yet in spite of that, america will turn her back
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On israel.
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That is going to be a cause of judgment.
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Don't forget, regardless of what the polls say, regardless of
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What the politicians say, god made a covenant with israel.
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In genesis 12:3, he said to abraham, "i will bless those who
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Bless you and your descendants, i will curse those who curse you
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And your descendants."
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: now i know what you may be thinking, "this is the
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Most depressing patriotic message i've ever heard," but
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There's more i need to share.
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And next time i'm going to talk about the hope for america's
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Present and the practical steps you and i can take to prolong
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God's blessing on our country.
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Well, as america marks 250 years, i believe we're standing
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At a crossroads.
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Will we wander further away from god or return to the christian
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Principles that founded this nation?
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I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
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Announcer: as our nation celebrates 250 years, do we
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Still remember the faith that built america?
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God's word.
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Jeffress: america was founded on the principles of the
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Judeo-christian faith as revealed in the bible, and our
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Future depends on returning to that biblical foundation.
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Jeffress: god's word doesn't call us to be fatalistic, and it
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Doesn't leave us without answers.
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Yes, america's past is fixed and her future is already set, but
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Our present is a time of choice.
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And next time i'm going to share four practical steps every
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Believer can take right now to prolong god's blessing on this
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Great nation.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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Series "america and the bible."
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God has said to america, "i'm placing before you a blessing or
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A curse, you choose; a blessing if you follow after me, a curse
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If you disobey me."
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What can we do to make the right choice for america's present?
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I'm gonna suggest four action steps for every believer who
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Truly loves his god and loves his country.
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Announcer: set your dvr and join
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Message "america at the crossroads: can we survive
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Another 250 years?"
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Robert Jeffress - Can We Survive Another 250 Years? (Part 1)

June 29, 2026 | 27:29

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