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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - A Cultural Prophecy - Socialism | March 14, 2026
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- Male announcer: find clarity and hope
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- In god's unwavering prophetic plan
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- With "understanding biblical prophecy."
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- This all new bible study from dr. jeremiah will guide you
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- Through 30 powerful prophetic passages.
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- As you read each prophecy, learn its context,
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- Answer reflection questions, and apply it to your life,
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- You will learn to understand god's word,
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- Trust in his promises, and face tomorrow
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- With unshakable confidence.
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- Request "understanding biblical prophecy"
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- Dr. david jeremiah: are we living in the end times?
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- There may have never been another time in history
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- When endtimes prophecy has been more aligned with the culture
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- And circumstances of the world than it is today.
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- I believe there are ten phenomena
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- We are witnessing today
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- That were recorded centuries ago in bible prophecy.
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- Seeing our circumstances in light of these prophecies
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- Should give us resolve, purpose, and hope.
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- And help us answer the questions:
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- What are we to do with the world around us?
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- What hope do we have in times like these?
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- And ultimately, where do we go from here?
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- Dr. jeremiah: are the public cries for shared wealth
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- And government control a sign of the end times?
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- Many of the troubles we're seeing today in our culture
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- Can be tied to the growing foothold of specific ideologies.
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- How does politics play into prophecy?
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- Announcer: join dr. david jeremiah
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- For this special prophecy edition of "turning point"
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- As he presents a sign of the end times:
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- "socialism: a cultural prophecy,"
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- Today on "turning point."
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- ♪ we'll see you break down every wall ♪
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- ♪ we'll watch the giants fall ♪
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- ♪ fear cannot survive ♪
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- ♪ when we praise you ♪
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- ♪ the god of breakthrough's on our side ♪
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- ♪ forever lift him high ♪
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- ♪ with all creation cry ♪
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- ♪ god, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ oh, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ oh ♪
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- ♪ this is what living looks like ♪
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- ♪ this is what freedom feels like ♪
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- ♪ this is what heaven sounds like ♪
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- ♪ we praise you, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ this is what living looks like ♪
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- ♪ this is what freedom feels like ♪
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- ♪ this is what heaven sounds like ♪
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- ♪ we praise you, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ this is what living looks like ♪
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- ♪ this is what freedom feels like ♪
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- ♪ this is what heaven sounds like ♪
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- ♪ we praise you, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ we'll see you break down every wall ♪
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- ♪ we'll watch the giants fall ♪
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- ♪ fear cannot survive ♪
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- ♪ when we praise you ♪
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- ♪ the god of breakthrough's on our side ♪
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- ♪ forever lift him high ♪
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- ♪ with all creation cry ♪
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- ♪ god, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ oh, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ oh, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ oh, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ oh, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ this is what living looks like ♪
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- ♪ this is what freedom feels like ♪
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- ♪ this is what heaven sounds like ♪
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- ♪ we praise you, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ this is what living looks like ♪
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- ♪ this is what freedom feels like ♪
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- ♪ this is what heaven sounds like ♪
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- ♪ we praise you, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ this is what living looks like ♪
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- ♪ this is what freedom feels like ♪
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- ♪ this is what heaven sounds like ♪
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- ♪ we praise you, we praise you ♪
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- ♪ this is what living looks like ♪
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- ♪ this is what freedom feels like ♪
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- ♪ this is what heaven sounds like ♪
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- ♪ we praise you, we praise you ♪♪
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Announcer: coming up on "turning point."
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- Dr. jeremiah: there is coming a utopia, better than anyone
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- Can ever imagine, better than we can imagine.
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- Isaiah 9:6-7 describes a time when the government
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- Will be upon the shoulder of jesus christ.
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- When jesus returns, things will be different, amen?
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- Announcer: the bible predicts the falling away of the church.
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- Is that what we are seeing today?
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- Are the illnesses, plagues, and pestilence of our day
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- Signs we are living in the end times?
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- Would you be surprised to know the decay of character
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- Is a precursor for christ's return?
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- Dr. david jeremiah answers these questions and more
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- In his book, "where do we go from here?
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- How tomorrow's prophecies foreshadow today's problems."
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- Written especially for this time, dr. jeremiah explores
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- How bible prophecy intersects with culture and events
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- We are witnessing right outside our door.
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- In every chapter, dr. jeremiah examines what bible prophecy
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- Reveals about the world today, what it means for believers,
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- And ultimately, where we go from here.
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- "where do we go from here?"
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- By dr. jeremiah is yours when you give a gift of any amount
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- In support of this program.
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- And if you give $75 or more, you'll receive the
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- "where do we go from here?" set,
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- Which also includes dr. jeremiah's entire
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- Teaching series on cd or dvd, a correlating study guide,
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- And his interview special on dvd.
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- Plus, included with any order of the book or set,
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- "warning signs of the end times,"
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- A fascinating overview of the cautionary evidence
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- That signals the coming of the last days.
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- Order "where do we go from here?"
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- Book or set today.
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- ♪ jesus in the streets ♪
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- ♪ jesus in the darkness ♪
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- ♪ over every enemy ♪
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- ♪ jesus for my family ♪
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- ♪ i speak the holy name, jesus ♪
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- ♪ shout jesus from the mountains ♪
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- ♪ jesus in the streets ♪
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- ♪ jesus in the darkness over every enemy ♪
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- ♪ jesus for my family ♪
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- ♪ i speak the holy name, jesus ♪
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- ♪ shout jesus from the mountains ♪
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- ♪ jesus in the streets ♪
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- ♪ jesus in the darkness ♪
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- ♪ over every enemy ♪
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- ♪ jesus for my family ♪
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- ♪ i speak the holy name, jesus ♪
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- ♪ your name is power ♪
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- ♪ your name is healing ♪
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- ♪ your name is life ♪
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- ♪ break every stronghold ♪
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- ♪ shine through the shadows ♪
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- ♪ burn like a fire ♪
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- ♪ your name is power ♪
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- ♪ your name is healing ♪
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- ♪ your name is life ♪
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- ♪ break every stronghold ♪
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- ♪ shine through the shadows ♪
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- ♪ burn like a fire ♪
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- ♪ i just want to speak the name of jesus ♪
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- ♪ over every heart and every mind ♪
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- ♪ i know there is peace within your presence ♪
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- ♪ i speak jesus ♪♪
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- ♪ i searched the world but it couldn't fill me ♪
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- ♪ and man's empty praise and treasures ♪
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- ♪ and fame are never enough ♪
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- ♪ you came along ♪
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- ♪ you put me back together ♪
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- ♪ every desire is now satisfied ♪
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- ♪ here in your love ♪
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- Michael sanchez: come on, church, sing it.
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- ♪ oh there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ better than you ♪
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- ♪ there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ better than you ♪
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- ♪ lord there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ nothing is better than you ♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ i'm not afraid ♪
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- ♪ to show you my weakness ♪
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- ♪ and my failures and flaws ♪
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- ♪ lord you've seen them all ♪
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- ♪ and you still call me friend ♪
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- Michael: thank you for that, lord.
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- ♪ 'cause the god of the mountain ♪
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- ♪ is the god of the valley ♪
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- ♪ there's not a place ♪
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- ♪ your mercy and grace won't find me again ♪
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- ♪ oh, there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ better than you ♪
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- ♪ there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ better than you ♪
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- ♪ lord there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ nothing is better than you ♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ you turn mourning to dancing ♪
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- ♪ you give beauty for ashes ♪
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- ♪ you turn shame into glory ♪
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- ♪ you're the only one who can ♪
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- ♪ you turn graves into gardens ♪
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- ♪ you turn bones into armies ♪
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- ♪ you turn seas into highways ♪
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- ♪ you're the only one who can ♪
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- ♪ oh there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ better than you ♪
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- ♪ there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ better than you ♪
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- ♪ lord there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ nothing is better than you ♪
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- ♪ oh there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ better than you ♪
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- ♪ there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ better than you ♪
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- ♪ lord there's nothing ♪
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- ♪ nothing is better than you ♪
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- Michael: one more.
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- ♪ you turn mourning to dancing ♪
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- ♪ you give beauty for ashes ♪
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- ♪ you turn shame into glory ♪
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- ♪ you're the only one who can ♪
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- ♪ you turn mourning to dancing ♪
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- ♪ you give beauty for ashes ♪
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- ♪ you turn shame into glory ♪
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- ♪ you're the only one who can ♪
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- ♪ you turn graves into gardens ♪
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- ♪ you turn bones into armies ♪
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- ♪ you turn seas into highways ♪
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- ♪ you're the only one who can ♪
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- ♪ you're the only one who can ♪
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- ♪ you're the only one who can ♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Announcer: in dr. david jeremiah's book,
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- "where do we go from here?"
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- Discover ten phenomena happening in our world today
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- That prove tomorrow's prophecies foreshadow the problems
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- We're experiencing in our culture,
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- And find biblical direction for the end times.
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- In this book, dr. jeremiah examines what bible prophecy
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- Reveals about ten issues of our time, what they mean
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- For believers, and ultimately, where we go from here.
- 00:15:05.077 --> 00:15:08.881
- "where do we go from here?"
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- By dr. jeremiah is yours when you give a gift of any amount
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- In support of this program.
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- And if you give $75 or more, you'll receive the
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- "where do we go from here?" set,
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- Which also includes dr. jeremiah's entire
- 00:15:20.225 --> 00:15:22.127
- Teaching series on cd or dvd, a correlating study guide,
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- And his interview special on dvd.
- 00:15:26.231 --> 00:15:29.034
- Plus, included with any order of the book or set,
- 00:15:29.034 --> 00:15:31.904
- "warning signs of the end times,"
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- A fascinating overview of the cautionary evidence
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- That signals the coming of the last days.
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- "socialism: a cultural prophecy."
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- Dr. jeremiah: under the cover of darkness, a middle-aged man
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- Inched out of the window of his 7th-story apartment
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- And then silently rappelled 75 feet to the ground.
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- A pair of bolt cutters snipped off his ankle monitor,
- 00:16:21.954 --> 00:16:25.791
- And the man jumped into a waiting car.
- 00:16:25.791 --> 00:16:28.961
- No, this is not a movie.
- 00:16:28.961 --> 00:16:31.163
- After 15 years of imprisonment on bogus charges,
- 00:16:31.163 --> 00:16:35.267
- Ivan simonovis was escaping from venezuela.
- 00:16:35.267 --> 00:16:40.873
- In 2014, ivan had been moved to house arrest
- 00:16:40.873 --> 00:16:44.343
- To seek treatment for 19 chronic health conditions,
- 00:16:44.343 --> 00:16:47.613
- Most of which had been caused by his imprisonment.
- 00:16:47.613 --> 00:16:51.784
- Knowing this was his only chance,
- 00:16:51.784 --> 00:16:54.520
- He arranged his daring escape.
- 00:16:54.520 --> 00:16:57.056
- And after speeding off in a car, he spent 3 weeks
- 00:16:57.056 --> 00:16:59.925
- Evading security in a cat-and-mouse pursuit.
- 00:16:59.925 --> 00:17:04.029
- A 14-hour ride in a small fishing boat got him
- 00:17:04.029 --> 00:17:07.266
- To a caribbean island, and from there,
- 00:17:07.266 --> 00:17:09.868
- He flew to the united states.
- 00:17:09.868 --> 00:17:13.505
- Ivan could recall when venezuela was the wealthiest nation
- 00:17:13.505 --> 00:17:17.843
- In south america.
- 00:17:17.843 --> 00:17:20.079
- The per capita income of its citizens
- 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.014
- Was greater than those of china and japan,
- 00:17:22.014 --> 00:17:24.516
- Almost rivaling the income of u.s. citizens.
- 00:17:24.516 --> 00:17:28.821
- The people of ivan's generation enjoyed religious liberty
- 00:17:28.821 --> 00:17:32.491
- And political freedom and personal dignity
- 00:17:32.491 --> 00:17:35.260
- And economic opportunity.
- 00:17:35.260 --> 00:17:37.996
- But when the oil prices crashed in the 1980s
- 00:17:37.996 --> 00:17:41.600
- And then again in the '90s,
- 00:17:41.600 --> 00:17:43.335
- The venezuelan economy experienced a dip,
- 00:17:43.335 --> 00:17:45.838
- And then that dip became a dive in 1998,
- 00:17:45.838 --> 00:17:49.808
- And the venezuelan people elected hugo chavez
- 00:17:49.808 --> 00:17:53.011
- As their president.
- 00:17:53.011 --> 00:17:55.581
- Once in power, chavez relentlessly implemented
- 00:17:55.581 --> 00:17:58.250
- The socialist playbook formulated by the soviet union,
- 00:17:58.250 --> 00:18:01.887
- Cuba and china, and other nations.
- 00:18:01.887 --> 00:18:05.090
- His first task was to rewrite the venezuelan constitution,
- 00:18:05.090 --> 00:18:09.728
- Guaranteeing citizens the so-called free rights
- 00:18:09.728 --> 00:18:12.498
- Of government: provided healthcare,
- 00:18:12.498 --> 00:18:15.868
- Free college education, and social justice.
- 00:18:15.868 --> 00:18:19.872
- When the supreme court ruled against chavez
- 00:18:19.872 --> 00:18:22.374
- On several important issues,
- 00:18:22.374 --> 00:18:24.176
- He responded by stacking the court with 12 new justices,
- 00:18:24.176 --> 00:18:28.714
- All of which were loyal to him.
- 00:18:28.714 --> 00:18:32.151
- Socialism totally engulfed the country when chavez
- 00:18:32.151 --> 00:18:35.187
- Was re-elected in 2006.
- 00:18:35.187 --> 00:18:37.990
- Fully in control of the courts and the legislature,
- 00:18:37.990 --> 00:18:40.459
- He moved quickly to nationalize the media,
- 00:18:40.459 --> 00:18:43.762
- Removing every voice of dissent.
- 00:18:43.762 --> 00:18:46.732
- Then he authorized government agencies to seize privately
- 00:18:46.732 --> 00:18:49.968
- Owned wealth and property from venezuela's citizens,
- 00:18:49.968 --> 00:18:54.173
- All in the name of fairness and equity.
- 00:18:54.173 --> 00:18:58.043
- Chavez took control of the nation's oil industry.
- 00:18:58.043 --> 00:19:00.679
- He expelled all the foreign investors.
- 00:19:00.679 --> 00:19:03.482
- He nationalized power companies and farms and mines
- 00:19:03.482 --> 00:19:06.585
- And banks and grocery stores,
- 00:19:06.585 --> 00:19:08.787
- And his final step was to eliminate term limits
- 00:19:08.787 --> 00:19:12.491
- For elected officials, setting himself up to rule
- 00:19:12.491 --> 00:19:15.761
- For the rest of his life in the style of russia's stalin
- 00:19:15.761 --> 00:19:20.966
- And cuba's castro.
- 00:19:20.966 --> 00:19:23.402
- Does any of this sound familiar to you?
- 00:19:23.402 --> 00:19:27.906
- Not even chavez could evade the last enemy.
- 00:19:27.906 --> 00:19:31.076
- He died from cancer in 2013, but his hand-picked successor,
- 00:19:31.076 --> 00:19:35.814
- Nicolas maduro, continued to implement chavez's agenda,
- 00:19:35.814 --> 00:19:40.686
- Even going further in some areas to force a marxist system
- 00:19:40.686 --> 00:19:44.990
- On the venezuelan people.
- 00:19:44.990 --> 00:19:47.492
- Today, venezuela is descending into anarchy.
- 00:19:47.492 --> 00:19:52.064
- Record numbers of venezuela migrants are fleeing northward,
- 00:19:52.064 --> 00:19:56.101
- Trying to reach the border of the united states.
- 00:19:56.101 --> 00:20:00.005
- Right now, you may be wondering what all of this
- 00:20:00.005 --> 00:20:02.574
- Has to do with you.
- 00:20:02.574 --> 00:20:04.710
- I mean, if venezuela has proven that socialism is a bad idea,
- 00:20:04.710 --> 00:20:08.247
- Why should anybody care?
- 00:20:08.247 --> 00:20:10.882
- Well, you should care.
- 00:20:10.882 --> 00:20:12.718
- You should really care, because socialist visions and policies
- 00:20:12.718 --> 00:20:16.722
- Are invading the united states.
- 00:20:16.722 --> 00:20:19.691
- You'll hear it discussed under four different names.
- 00:20:19.691 --> 00:20:22.494
- Some people call it socialism, communism, marxism,
- 00:20:22.494 --> 00:20:27.432
- And cultural marxism.
- 00:20:27.432 --> 00:20:31.403
- Consider this.
- 00:20:31.403 --> 00:20:33.005
- Hugo chavez had plenty of cheerleaders
- 00:20:33.005 --> 00:20:35.240
- In the united states during his rise,
- 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:38.310
- Including hollywood stars like sean penn, michael moore,
- 00:20:38.310 --> 00:20:42.314
- Oliver stone, and danny glover.
- 00:20:42.314 --> 00:20:45.217
- Socialism seems to hold some sort of hypnotic power
- 00:20:45.217 --> 00:20:48.820
- Over many thinkers,
- 00:20:48.820 --> 00:20:50.756
- And it's spilling into the common culture.
- 00:20:50.756 --> 00:20:53.725
- A 2020 poll showed that 40% of americans
- 00:20:53.725 --> 00:20:57.262
- Had a favorable view of socialism.
- 00:20:57.262 --> 00:21:01.066
- This was up from 36% in 2019.
- 00:21:01.066 --> 00:21:04.303
- And even more frightening, 47% of the millennials
- 00:21:04.303 --> 00:21:08.173
- And 49% of generation z view socialism favorably.
- 00:21:08.173 --> 00:21:14.146
- Indeed, one 2019 poll found in "axios" that 61% of americans
- 00:21:14.146 --> 00:21:20.352
- Between the ages of 18 and 24 have a positive reaction
- 00:21:20.352 --> 00:21:24.556
- To socialism.
- 00:21:24.556 --> 00:21:27.292
- And then there's this.
- 00:21:27.292 --> 00:21:29.161
- In 2020, bernie sanders nearly won the democratic party's
- 00:21:29.161 --> 00:21:32.264
- Nomination for president of the united states, and this is the
- 00:21:32.264 --> 00:21:35.367
- Same senator from vermont who publicly declared,
- 00:21:35.367 --> 00:21:38.170
- "i am a socialist and everybody knows it."
- 00:21:38.170 --> 00:21:43.175
- When jesus was describing what it would be like on earth
- 00:21:43.175 --> 00:21:46.712
- Just before he returned, here's what he said:
- 00:21:46.712 --> 00:21:51.616
- "but as the days of noah were,
- 00:21:51.616 --> 00:21:54.152
- So also will be the coming of the son of man.
- 00:21:54.152 --> 00:21:57.923
- For as in the days before the flood,
- 00:21:57.923 --> 00:21:59.958
- They were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,
- 00:21:59.958 --> 00:22:02.627
- Until the day that noah entered the ark,
- 00:22:02.627 --> 00:22:04.796
- And did not know until the flood came
- 00:22:04.796 --> 00:22:06.832
- And took them all away, so also will the coming
- 00:22:06.832 --> 00:22:10.369
- Of the son of man be."
- 00:22:10.369 --> 00:22:13.939
- What were those days of noah like?
- 00:22:13.939 --> 00:22:16.274
- Genesis 6:5 describes them this way:
- 00:22:16.274 --> 00:22:19.010
- "then the lord saw that the wickedness of man
- 00:22:19.010 --> 00:22:21.580
- Was great in the earth, and that every intent
- 00:22:21.580 --> 00:22:25.150
- Of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
- 00:22:25.150 --> 00:22:30.389
- The people of noah's day ignored and ridiculed his warnings.
- 00:22:30.389 --> 00:22:35.260
- Noah built and preached for 120 years,
- 00:22:35.260 --> 00:22:38.063
- And not one single individual outside of his immediate family
- 00:22:38.063 --> 00:22:41.700
- Believed him.
- 00:22:41.700 --> 00:22:43.068
- The people were so indifferent that they didn't understand
- 00:22:43.068 --> 00:22:45.270
- What was happening until it was too late.
- 00:22:45.270 --> 00:22:49.741
- The heedlessness of the people of noah's day will be duplicated
- 00:22:49.741 --> 00:22:54.012
- In the last days of our world's history.
- 00:22:54.012 --> 00:22:56.882
- It will be a day much like ours, a day when ideologies
- 00:22:56.882 --> 00:23:00.552
- Like socialism can sneak in without much attention.
- 00:23:00.552 --> 00:23:05.657
- Will this be the political philosophy on the earth
- 00:23:05.657 --> 00:23:08.627
- When the tribulation begins?
- 00:23:08.627 --> 00:23:10.729
- I believe it will.
- 00:23:10.729 --> 00:23:12.831
- Socialism is tailor-made for the antichrist's appearance.
- 00:23:12.831 --> 00:23:17.068
- It creates global conditions that bring great stress
- 00:23:17.068 --> 00:23:19.838
- And trouble, difficult days that will be hard to bear.
- 00:23:19.838 --> 00:23:23.875
- And it demands a one-world system of government,
- 00:23:23.875 --> 00:23:27.245
- Which scripture says will be established
- 00:23:27.245 --> 00:23:29.347
- Before the end of history.
- 00:23:29.347 --> 00:23:31.683
- Revelation 13 describes the antichrist as a beast
- 00:23:31.683 --> 00:23:35.187
- Having vast power and authority.
- 00:23:35.187 --> 00:23:38.056
- "the whole world marveled and gave allegiance to the beast.
- 00:23:38.056 --> 00:23:42.761
- And he was given authority to rule over every tribe
- 00:23:42.761 --> 00:23:45.964
- And people and every language and nation.
- 00:23:45.964 --> 00:23:50.769
- And all the people who belong to the world."
- 00:23:50.769 --> 00:23:54.339
- There's coming a day when there will be a leader
- 00:23:54.339 --> 00:23:56.141
- Who will be in charge of the whole world.
- 00:23:56.141 --> 00:23:59.077
- So i've introduced all of this, and i've talked about socialism
- 00:23:59.077 --> 00:24:02.614
- A couple of times.
- 00:24:02.614 --> 00:24:04.316
- What is socialism?
- 00:24:04.316 --> 00:24:06.418
- Well, socialists believe that the world's means of production,
- 00:24:06.418 --> 00:24:10.288
- Like infrastructure, farms, factories, energy,
- 00:24:10.288 --> 00:24:13.558
- Natural resources, medicines, and more
- 00:24:13.558 --> 00:24:16.528
- Should be under the control of,
- 00:24:16.528 --> 00:24:18.463
- Quote, unquote, "the people."
- 00:24:18.463 --> 00:24:21.299
- In other words, society as a whole should own
- 00:24:21.299 --> 00:24:24.503
- All the raw materials and the systems that produce wealth.
- 00:24:24.503 --> 00:24:28.306
- In a free market system, these materials are controlled
- 00:24:28.306 --> 00:24:31.209
- By companies or individuals, but in socialist countries,
- 00:24:31.209 --> 00:24:35.680
- They are owned by "the people."
- 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:40.018
- Of course, there's no way to make decisions
- 00:24:40.018 --> 00:24:42.320
- Based on such a loose concept as "the people."
- 00:24:42.320 --> 00:24:46.258
- So under socialism, "the government"
- 00:24:46.258 --> 00:24:49.261
- Becomes the sole authority and controller
- 00:24:49.261 --> 00:24:52.664
- And the means of production.
- 00:24:52.664 --> 00:24:54.432
- Unfortunately, governments are controlled by specific people,
- 00:24:54.432 --> 00:24:58.770
- Often the kinds of people who seek out power.
- 00:24:58.770 --> 00:25:02.307
- And those people are entirely corruptible by greed
- 00:25:02.307 --> 00:25:05.110
- And selfishness, lust and vindictiveness, and violence,
- 00:25:05.110 --> 00:25:08.713
- And the overwhelming desire for power.
- 00:25:08.713 --> 00:25:11.917
- As more power flows to the government,
- 00:25:11.917 --> 00:25:14.352
- The handful at the top become dictatorial.
- 00:25:14.352 --> 00:25:18.823
- To understand socialism as it is in our culture today,
- 00:25:18.823 --> 00:25:22.327
- We must first understand the originator of socialism
- 00:25:22.327 --> 00:25:25.764
- As we know it.
- 00:25:25.764 --> 00:25:27.832
- He was a man by the name of karl marx.
- 00:25:27.832 --> 00:25:31.202
- When you understand who he was and what he believed,
- 00:25:31.202 --> 00:25:35.307
- You will be able to trace a lot that's going on in our world
- 00:25:35.307 --> 00:25:38.577
- Today right back to him.
- 00:25:38.577 --> 00:25:41.446
- If you study the life of karl marx,
- 00:25:41.446 --> 00:25:43.214
- You'll learn that he wasn't just a hater of god.
- 00:25:43.214 --> 00:25:46.351
- He was a cheerleader for the devil.
- 00:25:46.351 --> 00:25:49.120
- His family thought him possessed by a demon.
- 00:25:49.120 --> 00:25:52.991
- A biographer described him like this:
- 00:25:52.991 --> 00:25:55.927
- "he had the devil's view of the world
- 00:25:55.927 --> 00:25:58.763
- And the devil's malignity.
- 00:25:58.763 --> 00:26:00.799
- Sometimes he seemed to know that he was accomplishing
- 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:04.069
- The works of evil."
- 00:26:04.069 --> 00:26:06.705
- On one occasion, marx's own son sent him a letter
- 00:26:06.705 --> 00:26:10.642
- And addressed it to, "my dear devil."
- 00:26:10.642 --> 00:26:14.346
- Marx's partner, friedrich engels,
- 00:26:14.346 --> 00:26:16.748
- Declared that 10,000 devils had marx by the hair.
- 00:26:16.748 --> 00:26:22.320
- Marx was a tyrant, a racist, and a misogynistic radical
- 00:26:22.320 --> 00:26:26.591
- Who hated god and wanted to see the world burn.
- 00:26:26.591 --> 00:26:30.428
- In his 1837 poem, "the pale maiden,"
- 00:26:30.428 --> 00:26:34.132
- He composed these words.
- 00:26:34.132 --> 00:26:35.834
- This is his poem.
- 00:26:35.834 --> 00:26:37.636
- "thus, heaven i've forfeited.
- 00:26:37.636 --> 00:26:39.804
- I know it full well.
- 00:26:39.804 --> 00:26:41.906
- My soul, once true to god, has been chosen for hell."
- 00:26:41.906 --> 00:26:47.812
- He knew in his own life that he was an evil man.
- 00:26:47.812 --> 00:26:52.651
- In 1849, one year after publishing
- 00:26:52.651 --> 00:26:55.120
- "the communist manifesto," marx was evicted by his landlord
- 00:26:55.120 --> 00:26:59.057
- Who was fed up with his filthiness.
- 00:26:59.057 --> 00:27:01.826
- Karl drank too much, he smoked too much,
- 00:27:01.826 --> 00:27:03.895
- He never exercised,
- 00:27:03.895 --> 00:27:05.497
- And he suffered from warts and boils
- 00:27:05.497 --> 00:27:07.399
- Due to the lack of washing.
- 00:27:07.399 --> 00:27:09.668
- He stunk.
- 00:27:09.668 --> 00:27:11.569
- As for the family apartment, everything was broken down,
- 00:27:11.569 --> 00:27:14.572
- Busted, spilled, smashed, falling apart,
- 00:27:14.572 --> 00:27:17.208
- With toys and chairs and dishes and cups
- 00:27:17.208 --> 00:27:19.177
- And tables everywhere.
- 00:27:19.177 --> 00:27:21.846
- Karl marx fathered an illegitimate child by his maid,
- 00:27:21.846 --> 00:27:25.517
- Helene demuth.
- 00:27:25.517 --> 00:27:27.285
- He blamed the child on his partner, engels,
- 00:27:27.285 --> 00:27:30.288
- Who thought it was a great joke.
- 00:27:30.288 --> 00:27:32.824
- Since marx never had a job, he mooched off everyone,
- 00:27:32.824 --> 00:27:35.960
- His parents, engels, and anyone else he could find.
- 00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:40.598
- His wife jenny was so miserable in their marriage,
- 00:27:40.598 --> 00:27:42.867
- She wanted to die, a wish she pondered daily.
- 00:27:42.867 --> 00:27:47.105
- His daughters, jenny and laura, fulfilled their mother's wish.
- 00:27:47.105 --> 00:27:50.675
- Jenny poisoned herself when she was 43,
- 00:27:50.675 --> 00:27:53.478
- And in a death pact with her husband,
- 00:27:53.478 --> 00:27:55.647
- Laura also committed suicide.
- 00:27:55.647 --> 00:27:59.617
- Karl marx died in despair on march 14, 1883.
- 00:27:59.617 --> 00:28:04.422
- Just before his death, he wrote to his friend engels,
- 00:28:04.422 --> 00:28:08.526
- "how pointless and empty is life,"
- 00:28:08.526 --> 00:28:10.929
- He said, "and yet how desirable."
- 00:28:10.929 --> 00:28:13.598
- He was buried in the highgate cemetery,
- 00:28:13.598 --> 00:28:15.867
- Considered the center of satanism in london.
- 00:28:15.867 --> 00:28:20.605
- Now, i've given you that little report on this man
- 00:28:20.605 --> 00:28:23.007
- Because i can't help but wonder
- 00:28:23.007 --> 00:28:24.943
- How many people who are championing socialism
- 00:28:24.943 --> 00:28:28.146
- And marxism are aware of the poisonous roots
- 00:28:28.146 --> 00:28:31.483
- Of their belief.
- 00:28:31.483 --> 00:28:33.985
- Their founder was a hideous person,
- 00:28:33.985 --> 00:28:36.921
- And what he was, socialism became.
- 00:28:36.921 --> 00:28:41.426
- Today, karl marx is ruling the world from his grave.
- 00:28:41.426 --> 00:28:45.296
- And here are some of the characteristics of his ideology.
- 00:28:45.296 --> 00:28:48.299
- Number one, marxism is anti-god.
- 00:28:48.299 --> 00:28:52.370
- Karl marx hated christianity,
- 00:28:52.370 --> 00:28:56.541
- Which he saw as a source of oppression.
- 00:28:56.541 --> 00:28:59.043
- To him, religion was the opium of the people.
- 00:28:59.043 --> 00:29:02.881
- For communism to succeed, loyalty to the church
- 00:29:02.881 --> 00:29:06.284
- Had to be replaced by loyalty to the state.
- 00:29:06.284 --> 00:29:09.454
- On one occasion, he described the church
- 00:29:09.454 --> 00:29:11.489
- As "medieval mildew that had to be scraped away."
- 00:29:11.489 --> 00:29:16.995
- In spite of what many claim to believe or propose,
- 00:29:16.995 --> 00:29:20.331
- Marxism is incompatible with the free expression of religion.
- 00:29:20.331 --> 00:29:25.503
- I don't think you can be a christian socialist,
- 00:29:25.503 --> 00:29:28.907
- A christian marxist.
- 00:29:28.907 --> 00:29:30.842
- The things that are involved in these two understandings
- 00:29:30.842 --> 00:29:34.779
- Are totally opposite.
- 00:29:34.779 --> 00:29:37.182
- They contradict each other.
- 00:29:37.182 --> 00:29:39.584
- So marxism is, first of all, anti-god.
- 00:29:39.584 --> 00:29:42.220
- It's not atheistic.
- 00:29:42.220 --> 00:29:43.888
- They believe in god.
- 00:29:43.888 --> 00:29:45.490
- They just hate him, and they try to push him out.
- 00:29:45.490 --> 00:29:48.026
- One of their little sayings was, "we're gonna rid the world
- 00:29:48.026 --> 00:29:50.595
- Of capitalists and rid heaven of god."
- 00:29:50.595 --> 00:29:53.698
- That was their motives.
- 00:29:53.698 --> 00:29:55.900
- It is also characterized by totalitarianism.
- 00:29:55.900 --> 00:29:59.370
- Now, that's a long word, but it's a word you'll understand
- 00:29:59.370 --> 00:30:01.539
- In a moment.
- 00:30:01.539 --> 00:30:03.341
- This fact about marxism is one we should grasp.
- 00:30:03.341 --> 00:30:08.479
- It quickly becomes totalitarian.
- 00:30:08.479 --> 00:30:12.016
- The term "totalitarianism" was first used by supporters
- 00:30:12.016 --> 00:30:16.020
- Of dictator benito mussolini, who summed it up this way:
- 00:30:16.020 --> 00:30:21.092
- "everything within the state, nothing outside the state,
- 00:30:21.092 --> 00:30:25.697
- And nothing against the state."
- 00:30:25.697 --> 00:30:28.633
- According to hannah arendt, the foremost scholar
- 00:30:28.633 --> 00:30:30.969
- On totalitarianism, a totalitarian state
- 00:30:30.969 --> 00:30:34.105
- Is one that aspires to nothing less
- 00:30:34.105 --> 00:30:36.774
- Than defining and controlling reality.
- 00:30:36.774 --> 00:30:40.845
- Truth is whatever the rulers decide it to be.
- 00:30:40.845 --> 00:30:44.816
- As arendt has written, "wherever totalitarianism has ruled,
- 00:30:44.816 --> 00:30:49.053
- It has begun to destroy the essence of man."
- 00:30:49.053 --> 00:30:53.625
- It's anti-god, it's totalitarian, and it's divisive.
- 00:30:53.625 --> 00:30:58.029
- Marxism thrives on division.
- 00:30:58.029 --> 00:31:00.698
- In historic marxism, the division was promoted
- 00:31:00.698 --> 00:31:03.701
- Between classes of people, the oppressors
- 00:31:03.701 --> 00:31:07.238
- Against the oppressed, the bosses against the workers.
- 00:31:07.238 --> 00:31:11.609
- Men like hugo chavez went out of their way to ensure
- 00:31:11.609 --> 00:31:15.346
- That the poor people of his country hated the wealthy people
- 00:31:15.346 --> 00:31:19.284
- Of his country.
- 00:31:19.284 --> 00:31:21.319
- In today's cultural marxism in our country,
- 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:24.389
- The exploited divide is often racial.
- 00:31:24.389 --> 00:31:27.759
- I believe that's one of the reasons we've lost some
- 00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:30.194
- Of the progress we've made on race relationships.
- 00:31:30.194 --> 00:31:33.865
- Whatever it is or however far it might be removed
- 00:31:33.865 --> 00:31:36.901
- From actual racism,
- 00:31:36.901 --> 00:31:39.203
- Whenever a socialist or marxist can't figure out
- 00:31:39.203 --> 00:31:42.273
- How to respond to an issue, they always,
- 00:31:42.273 --> 00:31:45.410
- And i mean every time, call it racist.
- 00:31:45.410 --> 00:31:51.149
- And this is tragic for many reasons.
- 00:31:51.149 --> 00:31:54.319
- It's very hurtful to be branded a racist if one has done
- 00:31:54.319 --> 00:31:57.121
- Or said nothing that would lead a rational person
- 00:31:57.121 --> 00:32:00.325
- To make such an accusation.
- 00:32:00.325 --> 00:32:03.061
- And once racism has been pinned on a person,
- 00:32:03.061 --> 00:32:05.463
- It's almost impossible to get rid of it,
- 00:32:05.463 --> 00:32:07.632
- No matter what you do.
- 00:32:07.632 --> 00:32:09.801
- But there is another seldom discussed sadness
- 00:32:09.801 --> 00:32:12.637
- With playing the race card.
- 00:32:12.637 --> 00:32:15.106
- If everything is racist, nothing is racist.
- 00:32:15.106 --> 00:32:20.378
- All of us know there are still issues that need to be addressed
- 00:32:20.378 --> 00:32:24.782
- With race relationships in america,
- 00:32:24.782 --> 00:32:27.719
- But the true issues get lost
- 00:32:27.719 --> 00:32:29.620
- In the avalanche of unwarranted accusations,
- 00:32:29.620 --> 00:32:32.757
- And there's never any time to devote to the real issues
- 00:32:32.757 --> 00:32:35.760
- That still face us.
- 00:32:35.760 --> 00:32:37.662
- When everything is racist, then nothing is racist.
- 00:32:37.662 --> 00:32:43.534
- And marxism is using this divide in our country
- 00:32:43.534 --> 00:32:48.039
- To make headway into our culture.
- 00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:51.743
- Perhaps the most surprising thing about marxism to me
- 00:32:51.743 --> 00:32:54.679
- As i studied it is how deadly it has been.
- 00:32:54.679 --> 00:33:00.051
- Christianity leads to life.
- 00:33:00.051 --> 00:33:02.387
- Marxism leads to death.
- 00:33:02.387 --> 00:33:05.023
- In 1999, "the black book of communism"
- 00:33:05.023 --> 00:33:08.393
- Endeavored to attempt the impossible task
- 00:33:08.393 --> 00:33:11.729
- Of tabulating a marxist-leninist death toll for the 20th century.
- 00:33:11.729 --> 00:33:17.835
- It revealed the most colossal case of political carnage
- 00:33:17.835 --> 00:33:20.872
- In history.
- 00:33:20.872 --> 00:33:22.707
- Latin america, 150,000 deaths.
- 00:33:22.707 --> 00:33:25.743
- Eastern europe, 1 million deaths.
- 00:33:25.743 --> 00:33:28.513
- Vietnam, 1 million deaths.
- 00:33:28.513 --> 00:33:31.349
- Africa, 1.7 million deaths.
- 00:33:31.349 --> 00:33:34.585
- Cambodia, 2 million deaths.
- 00:33:34.585 --> 00:33:37.121
- North korea, 2 million deaths.
- 00:33:37.121 --> 00:33:39.557
- Ussr, 20 million deaths.
- 00:33:39.557 --> 00:33:42.293
- China, 65 million deaths.
- 00:33:42.293 --> 00:33:46.197
- The death count that resulted from marxism between 1917
- 00:33:46.197 --> 00:33:50.134
- And 1979 would equate to a rate of multiple thousands
- 00:33:50.134 --> 00:33:54.605
- Of dead people over the course of 100 years.
- 00:33:54.605 --> 00:33:59.610
- Even adolf hitler got nowhere close to that.
- 00:33:59.610 --> 00:34:02.447
- In fact, neither did the two deadliest wars in history.
- 00:34:02.447 --> 00:34:06.384
- Think of this.
- 00:34:06.384 --> 00:34:07.952
- World war i and world war ii would have to be combined
- 00:34:07.952 --> 00:34:11.289
- And doubled to get near to communism's butcher bill.
- 00:34:11.289 --> 00:34:16.127
- More people have died as the result of communism
- 00:34:16.127 --> 00:34:19.997
- Than the first world war and the second world war times two.
- 00:34:19.997 --> 00:34:25.136
- Communism leads to death.
- 00:34:25.136 --> 00:34:27.105
- Wherever you see it, across the globe,
- 00:34:27.105 --> 00:34:29.540
- You will see the deadliness of it.
- 00:34:29.540 --> 00:34:32.777
- That's all from the heart of the evil karl marx.
- 00:34:32.777 --> 00:34:37.982
- So that's what it is, and obviously
- 00:34:37.982 --> 00:34:40.084
- There's much more to socialism than what i've said.
- 00:34:40.084 --> 00:34:44.188
- Those are some of the main characteristics.
- 00:34:44.188 --> 00:34:45.857
- And you say, "well, pastor jeremiah,
- 00:34:45.857 --> 00:34:47.625
- That's a good study.
- 00:34:47.625 --> 00:34:49.060
- So what does that have to do with us?
- 00:34:49.060 --> 00:34:50.661
- What does that mean?"
- 00:34:50.661 --> 00:34:52.196
- Well, i am afraid this new political trajectory
- 00:34:52.196 --> 00:34:55.800
- In our nation is more than just a trend.
- 00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:58.836
- It is a seismic shift toward the socialist agenda.
- 00:34:58.836 --> 00:35:02.373
- If you look closely, you can draw the connections.
- 00:35:02.373 --> 00:35:04.742
- First of all, the destruction of our monuments.
- 00:35:04.742 --> 00:35:08.479
- It's become common in recent years to see news headlines or
- 00:35:08.479 --> 00:35:12.817
- Live video of protest groups surrounding, defacing,
- 00:35:12.817 --> 00:35:16.787
- Even eventually removing statutes
- 00:35:16.787 --> 00:35:19.924
- And other historical monuments they consider to be offensive.
- 00:35:19.924 --> 00:35:23.594
- We were surprised when they took down
- 00:35:23.594 --> 00:35:25.496
- Some of the early monuments.
- 00:35:25.496 --> 00:35:28.466
- There might have been some reason for that,
- 00:35:28.466 --> 00:35:30.268
- But then they didn't stop there.
- 00:35:30.268 --> 00:35:32.036
- They took down washington and jefferson, abraham lincoln,
- 00:35:32.036 --> 00:35:34.438
- Everybody they could find that had anything to do with history.
- 00:35:34.438 --> 00:35:37.208
- When we witness these events, we're not simply seeing a bunch
- 00:35:37.208 --> 00:35:40.311
- Of rowdy young people tearing down statues for fun.
- 00:35:40.311 --> 00:35:43.714
- No, instead, this is a part of a concerted effort
- 00:35:43.714 --> 00:35:46.150
- To erase the past.
- 00:35:46.150 --> 00:35:49.053
- The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory,
- 00:35:49.053 --> 00:35:53.224
- Destroy its books, its culture, its history,
- 00:35:53.224 --> 00:35:55.793
- Then have someone write new books,
- 00:35:55.793 --> 00:35:57.395
- Manufacture a new culture, invent a new history,
- 00:35:57.395 --> 00:35:59.797
- And before long, the nation will forget
- 00:35:59.797 --> 00:36:02.266
- What it is and what it was.
- 00:36:02.266 --> 00:36:05.836
- On the contrary, it is interesting to discover
- 00:36:05.836 --> 00:36:09.240
- That the word "remember" is found 164 times
- 00:36:09.240 --> 00:36:12.443
- In the old testament.
- 00:36:12.443 --> 00:36:14.845
- Socialism wants you to forget.
- 00:36:14.845 --> 00:36:17.381
- Christianity wants you to remember.
- 00:36:17.381 --> 00:36:19.717
- Remember the former things of old.
- 00:36:19.717 --> 00:36:21.786
- God said through the prophet isaiah,
- 00:36:21.786 --> 00:36:23.588
- "i am god, and there is none like me."
- 00:36:23.588 --> 00:36:26.824
- Yes, remember all that god has done for us.
- 00:36:26.824 --> 00:36:29.594
- On the basis of past mercies, we can build a future of grace.
- 00:36:29.594 --> 00:36:35.099
- The destruction of monuments is related to the socialist agenda.
- 00:36:35.099 --> 00:36:39.770
- Cancel culture.
- 00:36:39.770 --> 00:36:42.106
- Remember what i told you about socialism?
- 00:36:42.106 --> 00:36:44.375
- It's totalitarian.
- 00:36:44.375 --> 00:36:46.077
- Don't think it's just statutes and histories
- 00:36:46.077 --> 00:36:47.712
- That are being torn down.
- 00:36:47.712 --> 00:36:49.647
- It's also anyone who doesn't kneel at the altar
- 00:36:49.647 --> 00:36:51.882
- Of prevailing political passions.
- 00:36:51.882 --> 00:36:54.852
- You are canceled if you don't agree.
- 00:36:54.852 --> 00:36:57.555
- I want to point out that this, too, is a child of socialism.
- 00:36:57.555 --> 00:37:01.292
- In cultural marxism, there is no room for dissenting opinions.
- 00:37:01.292 --> 00:37:07.198
- Are we seeing that?
- 00:37:07.198 --> 00:37:09.033
- Absolutely.
- 00:37:09.033 --> 00:37:11.102
- Number three, the dismantling of the nuclear family.
- 00:37:11.102 --> 00:37:15.306
- Marxism reaches its icy fingers into your very home.
- 00:37:15.306 --> 00:37:19.377
- Marxists want to raise your children.
- 00:37:19.377 --> 00:37:21.746
- They want to do it, not you.
- 00:37:21.746 --> 00:37:24.582
- That's what's going on in our schools today.
- 00:37:24.582 --> 00:37:27.251
- They want to put all of this insidious craziness
- 00:37:27.251 --> 00:37:29.654
- Into the curriculum starting now earlier and earlier in school.
- 00:37:29.654 --> 00:37:34.558
- As long as the family remains strong,
- 00:37:34.558 --> 00:37:36.727
- Socialism can't flourish.
- 00:37:36.727 --> 00:37:38.763
- So there's an ongoing attempt to subjugate the home
- 00:37:38.763 --> 00:37:41.465
- To the government.
- 00:37:41.465 --> 00:37:43.134
- That explains much of what is happening in our schools
- 00:37:43.134 --> 00:37:45.202
- At this very moment.
- 00:37:45.202 --> 00:37:47.338
- You need to be aware of that, and i'll tell you what,
- 00:37:47.338 --> 00:37:49.473
- I think this may be the achilles heel
- 00:37:49.473 --> 00:37:51.275
- Of what's happening right now
- 00:37:51.275 --> 00:37:52.843
- Because parents all over this country are waking up.
- 00:37:52.843 --> 00:37:56.013
- When they watched on zoom what their kids were being taught
- 00:37:56.013 --> 00:37:59.650
- During the pandemic, they said, "wait a minute,
- 00:37:59.650 --> 00:38:03.287
- This is not what we want for our children."
- 00:38:03.287 --> 00:38:12.196
- The destruction of monuments, the cancel culture,
- 00:38:12.196 --> 00:38:14.932
- The dismantling of the nuclear family.
- 00:38:14.932 --> 00:38:17.068
- And how about this: the redistribution of wealth.
- 00:38:17.068 --> 00:38:20.471
- That's the central thing that most people know
- 00:38:20.471 --> 00:38:22.506
- About socialism.
- 00:38:22.506 --> 00:38:24.342
- This ideology teaches that all human assets should be claimed
- 00:38:24.342 --> 00:38:27.778
- By the government and redistributed to the masses
- 00:38:27.778 --> 00:38:31.349
- In a more equitable formula.
- 00:38:31.349 --> 00:38:35.052
- This would supposedly rid the world of poverty,
- 00:38:35.052 --> 00:38:38.823
- But somehow it has never worked out that way.
- 00:38:38.823 --> 00:38:42.093
- It doesn't take a scholar to see that wherever this principle has
- 00:38:42.093 --> 00:38:45.496
- Been implemented, the poor people have gotten poorer,
- 00:38:45.496 --> 00:38:49.233
- And the few elitists who have been assigned to redistribute
- 00:38:49.233 --> 00:38:51.936
- The wealth have themselves become filthy rich.
- 00:38:51.936 --> 00:38:55.840
- Listen carefully.
- 00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:57.408
- In all the history of socialism from the beginning of time,
- 00:38:57.408 --> 00:39:00.044
- There is not one, not one single successful socialist story.
- 00:39:00.044 --> 00:39:06.083
- They are all failures.
- 00:39:06.083 --> 00:39:07.885
- They all lead to death and destruction and poverty.
- 00:39:07.885 --> 00:39:10.354
- And don't give me the scandinavian countries
- 00:39:10.354 --> 00:39:12.523
- As an illustration because they're not socialists.
- 00:39:12.523 --> 00:39:15.126
- Those are welfare societies.
- 00:39:15.126 --> 00:39:17.428
- Socialism fails.
- 00:39:17.428 --> 00:39:19.230
- Socialism is death.
- 00:39:19.230 --> 00:39:20.998
- Socialism will lead this country to destruction,
- 00:39:20.998 --> 00:39:23.401
- And everything it was built on,
- 00:39:23.401 --> 00:39:25.169
- Everything we believe will be destroyed
- 00:39:25.169 --> 00:39:26.937
- If we don't stop this in its tracks.
- 00:39:26.937 --> 00:39:33.477
- Here's one that really makes sense,
- 00:39:33.477 --> 00:39:35.246
- The defunding of the police.
- 00:39:35.246 --> 00:39:38.082
- Socialists are especially keen on keeping the reins
- 00:39:38.082 --> 00:39:40.818
- Of law enforcement in their tight fists.
- 00:39:40.818 --> 00:39:43.521
- In america, their first step is to villainize the police,
- 00:39:43.521 --> 00:39:46.824
- Then defund them.
- 00:39:46.824 --> 00:39:48.426
- And that's why some cities have slashed their police budgets.
- 00:39:48.426 --> 00:39:50.961
- And surprise, each of these cities
- 00:39:50.961 --> 00:39:53.631
- Has seen a dramatic uptick in violent crimes
- 00:39:53.631 --> 00:39:56.367
- In all the months that followed.
- 00:39:56.367 --> 00:40:00.304
- Who could have thought?
- 00:40:00.304 --> 00:40:03.874
- Police officers are retiring early, and the recruiting
- 00:40:03.874 --> 00:40:07.244
- Of new police officers is at all time low.
- 00:40:07.244 --> 00:40:10.481
- Progressive politicians go to and from work
- 00:40:10.481 --> 00:40:13.851
- To discuss all of this in their limousines
- 00:40:13.851 --> 00:40:16.821
- Accompanied by their expensive security personnel.
- 00:40:16.821 --> 00:40:21.625
- Whatever you do, don't miss the socialist motivation
- 00:40:21.625 --> 00:40:24.562
- For vilifying local authorities.
- 00:40:24.562 --> 00:40:27.131
- No matter how loudly they deny it,
- 00:40:27.131 --> 00:40:29.233
- They are simply trying to let the local government fail
- 00:40:29.233 --> 00:40:33.070
- So that they can federalize our cities and states
- 00:40:33.070 --> 00:40:35.539
- And move control for all that happens to washington.
- 00:40:35.539 --> 00:40:38.943
- Everything you watch today is about nationalizing elections,
- 00:40:38.943 --> 00:40:43.948
- Nationalizing schools, nationalizing everything.
- 00:40:43.948 --> 00:40:47.585
- Nationalize it, then you can control it
- 00:40:47.585 --> 00:40:49.487
- With just a few people.
- 00:40:49.487 --> 00:40:51.455
- So that's where we are, that's where we've been,
- 00:40:51.455 --> 00:40:56.594
- And here we come to this question.
- 00:40:56.594 --> 00:40:59.230
- Where do we go from here?
- 00:40:59.230 --> 00:41:01.165
- You say, "dr. jeremiah, i'm just one little one.
- 00:41:01.165 --> 00:41:04.001
- What am i supposed to do about all this?
- 00:41:04.001 --> 00:41:06.103
- How can i have any response?
- 00:41:06.103 --> 00:41:08.639
- I mean, this is coming, and i see it, and i feel it,
- 00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:10.975
- And it touches my children and my grandchildren.
- 00:41:10.975 --> 00:41:13.611
- So what should i do?"
- 00:41:13.611 --> 00:41:15.279
- Well, let me give you some thoughts that i hope
- 00:41:15.279 --> 00:41:17.781
- You will carefully consider.
- 00:41:17.781 --> 00:41:20.451
- First of all, we need to review what the bible says.
- 00:41:20.451 --> 00:41:24.421
- You say, "well, isn't it possible for me to be socialist?
- 00:41:24.421 --> 00:41:27.558
- Can i have a socialist concept and still be a christian?"
- 00:41:27.558 --> 00:41:30.861
- So i'm gonna give you a really quick little survey
- 00:41:30.861 --> 00:41:33.497
- Of what the bible says.
- 00:41:33.497 --> 00:41:34.832
- This is from an article that i read by al mohler:
- 00:41:34.832 --> 00:41:37.868
- "scripture affirms the dignity of work, ephesians 4:28.
- 00:41:37.868 --> 00:41:43.073
- It affirms the fact that those who refuse to work
- 00:41:43.073 --> 00:41:45.609
- Should not eat, 2 thessalonians 3:10.
- 00:41:45.609 --> 00:41:49.246
- The bible affirms private property, exodus 22.
- 00:41:49.246 --> 00:41:53.317
- It condemns theft, exodus 20:15, and covetousness, exodus 20:17.
- 00:41:53.317 --> 00:42:00.691
- It promotes saving, proverbs 13:22,
- 00:42:00.691 --> 00:42:04.695
- And thrift, proverbs 21:20,
- 00:42:04.695 --> 00:42:07.631
- Land ownership, acts chapter 4,
- 00:42:07.631 --> 00:42:10.401
- Investment, matthew chapter 25."
- 00:42:10.401 --> 00:42:13.337
- All of these are honored in scripture,
- 00:42:13.337 --> 00:42:15.806
- And the bible teaches that the laborer is worthy of his wages.
- 00:42:15.806 --> 00:42:20.511
- Socialism contradicts every single one
- 00:42:20.511 --> 00:42:23.614
- Of those biblical principles.
- 00:42:23.614 --> 00:42:26.250
- You can't be a biblicist and believe what the socialists
- 00:42:26.250 --> 00:42:29.587
- Want you to believe.
- 00:42:29.587 --> 00:42:31.422
- So review what the bible says.
- 00:42:31.422 --> 00:42:33.757
- You can do your own study on that.
- 00:42:33.757 --> 00:42:35.392
- Just get a good concordance and go to work.
- 00:42:35.392 --> 00:42:38.696
- Number two, refuse to live by lies.
- 00:42:38.696 --> 00:42:43.100
- If you refuse to live by lies, you might have to go out of the
- 00:42:43.100 --> 00:42:45.469
- World, because it seems like everywhere you look,
- 00:42:45.469 --> 00:42:49.440
- It's all lies.
- 00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:51.008
- I mean, i've told you this.
- 00:42:51.008 --> 00:42:52.610
- I watch on television.
- 00:42:52.610 --> 00:42:54.144
- It's just amazing to me that intelligent people see this,
- 00:42:54.144 --> 00:42:56.914
- And it doesn't just strip every gear in their body.
- 00:42:56.914 --> 00:43:00.117
- Someone is accused of doing something
- 00:43:00.117 --> 00:43:02.319
- That they shouldn't do in opposition to our country.
- 00:43:02.319 --> 00:43:07.358
- They have all the proof.
- 00:43:07.358 --> 00:43:08.892
- You can see the proof.
- 00:43:08.892 --> 00:43:10.427
- It's recorded.
- 00:43:10.427 --> 00:43:11.929
- They ask the person, and that person says,
- 00:43:11.929 --> 00:43:14.398
- "no, i did not do that."
- 00:43:14.398 --> 00:43:16.934
- And instead of believing what they can see with their own eyes
- 00:43:16.934 --> 00:43:19.737
- By way of proof, they believe the person,
- 00:43:19.737 --> 00:43:21.772
- And life goes on as usual.
- 00:43:21.772 --> 00:43:24.341
- I mean, who ever heard of anything like that?
- 00:43:24.341 --> 00:43:27.444
- The bible says there's coming a day when good
- 00:43:27.444 --> 00:43:29.113
- Will be called evil and evil will be called good,
- 00:43:29.113 --> 00:43:31.215
- And i guess we're living in that time.
- 00:43:31.215 --> 00:43:33.751
- But here's what i want you to know.
- 00:43:33.751 --> 00:43:35.285
- You do not have to live by lies.
- 00:43:35.285 --> 00:43:38.155
- Proverbs 29:12 says: "if a ruler pays attention to lies,
- 00:43:38.155 --> 00:43:42.026
- All of his servants become wicked."
- 00:43:42.026 --> 00:43:45.462
- After his expulsion from russia for writing his famous work,
- 00:43:45.462 --> 00:43:49.366
- "the gulag archipelago," aleksandr solzhenitsyn published
- 00:43:49.366 --> 00:43:53.470
- A message to the russian people, and here was his message:
- 00:43:53.470 --> 00:43:56.540
- "live not by lies."
- 00:43:56.540 --> 00:43:59.109
- In this essay, he offered a list of what citizens must not do
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- If they were to be faithful to the truth.
- 00:44:03.547 --> 00:44:06.116
- Here's what he said: "they must not say, write,
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- Affirm, or distribute anything that distorts the truth.
- 00:44:09.520 --> 00:44:14.191
- Number two, they must not go to a demonstration
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- Or participate in a collective action unless you truly believe
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- In the cause and it is true.
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- Number three, you must not take part in a meeting
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- In which the discussion is forced
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- And no one can speak the truth.
- 00:44:29.306 --> 00:44:32.609
- You must not vote for a candidate or proposal
- 00:44:32.609 --> 00:44:35.045
- You consider to be dubious or unworthy.
- 00:44:35.045 --> 00:44:38.649
- And you must not support journalism
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- That distorts or hides the underlying facts."
- 00:44:41.018 --> 00:44:44.521
- And that last point will subtract
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- Almost all of the news programs that are on television today.
- 00:44:47.224 --> 00:44:51.295
- I mean, they don't tell the truth.
- 00:44:51.295 --> 00:44:57.067
- Christians have been called to refuse falsehood,
- 00:44:57.067 --> 00:45:01.505
- Even to accept or listen to what is false is wrong.
- 00:45:01.505 --> 00:45:05.342
- That's why if you let your mind be filled with all the garbage
- 00:45:05.342 --> 00:45:08.078
- Of some of these networks that just force these lies
- 00:45:08.078 --> 00:45:13.083
- Out of their network room into the atmosphere,
- 00:45:13.083 --> 00:45:17.387
- You're hurting yourself.
- 00:45:17.387 --> 00:45:19.790
- Solzhenitsyn said don't do it.
- 00:45:19.790 --> 00:45:21.792
- Don't listen to it.
- 00:45:21.792 --> 00:45:23.627
- Don't allow yourself to be listening to lies
- 00:45:23.627 --> 00:45:25.863
- And then live by lies.
- 00:45:25.863 --> 00:45:27.898
- So much of what we hear in our culture today has no connection
- 00:45:27.898 --> 00:45:30.501
- To common sense.
- 00:45:30.501 --> 00:45:32.069
- Let us refuse to live by lies.
- 00:45:32.069 --> 00:45:35.139
- Just because somebody in power says it's true
- 00:45:35.139 --> 00:45:37.207
- Doesn't mean it's true.
- 00:45:37.207 --> 00:45:40.210
- So review what the bible says.
- 00:45:40.210 --> 00:45:41.712
- That's a good thing.
- 00:45:41.712 --> 00:45:43.380
- Refuse to live by lies.
- 00:45:43.380 --> 00:45:45.315
- Here's another one: resolve to be a follower of christ
- 00:45:45.315 --> 00:45:48.519
- And not just an admirer of christ.
- 00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:51.288
- What is happening, men and women, in this time:
- 00:45:51.288 --> 00:45:53.190
- We're sorting out the church.
- 00:45:53.190 --> 00:45:55.325
- We're sorting out christians.
- 00:45:55.325 --> 00:45:57.161
- We've got some christians who are admirers of christ,
- 00:45:57.161 --> 00:46:00.931
- And we have some who are followers of christ.
- 00:46:00.931 --> 00:46:03.834
- Soren kierkegaard wrote something about that.
- 00:46:03.834 --> 00:46:06.737
- He said, "the admirer of christ never makes any sacrifice.
- 00:46:06.737 --> 00:46:11.408
- He always plays it safe, though in words and phrases and songs
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- He is inexhaustible about how he praises christ.
- 00:46:15.312 --> 00:46:18.682
- He renounces nothing.
- 00:46:18.682 --> 00:46:20.517
- He will not reconstruct his life,
- 00:46:20.517 --> 00:46:22.553
- And he will not let his life express
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- What he supposedly admires.
- 00:46:24.188 --> 00:46:27.558
- Not so for the follower, oh, no.
- 00:46:27.558 --> 00:46:29.827
- The follower aspires with all of his strength
- 00:46:29.827 --> 00:46:33.030
- To be what he admires."
- 00:46:33.030 --> 00:46:35.799
- And that's what we need to be today as christians.
- 00:46:35.799 --> 00:46:40.704
- You know, i know a lot of people who are cultural christians.
- 00:46:40.704 --> 00:46:44.041
- They go out and live for the devil during the week
- 00:46:44.041 --> 00:46:46.109
- And show up in church on sunday.
- 00:46:46.109 --> 00:46:48.145
- Sort of gives them a feeling of respectability.
- 00:46:48.145 --> 00:46:50.714
- They're not followers of christ.
- 00:46:50.714 --> 00:46:52.449
- They might be admirers of christ.
- 00:46:52.449 --> 00:46:54.151
- They want christ on their portfolio,
- 00:46:54.151 --> 00:46:57.454
- But they don't necessarily want him dictating their life.
- 00:46:57.454 --> 00:47:01.959
- More and more than ever before, we need to really be seriously
- 00:47:01.959 --> 00:47:05.629
- Asking ourself, "what does jesus christ want me to do
- 00:47:05.629 --> 00:47:10.434
- In this situation?"
- 00:47:10.434 --> 00:47:12.803
- Rethink small groups.
- 00:47:12.803 --> 00:47:15.239
- As many of us learned during the covid crisis,
- 00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:17.407
- Small groups are vital in rough times.
- 00:47:17.407 --> 00:47:20.277
- This is what happened in the early days of the church
- 00:47:20.277 --> 00:47:22.880
- Where they "continued daily with one accord in the temple,
- 00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:25.949
- And in breaking bread from house to house."
- 00:47:25.949 --> 00:47:29.186
- One person has written this: "what the experience
- 00:47:29.186 --> 00:47:31.955
- Of the church under communism
- 00:47:31.955 --> 00:47:33.857
- And a discerning read of the signs of the times today
- 00:47:33.857 --> 00:47:36.727
- Tell us is this: that all christians of every church
- 00:47:36.727 --> 00:47:40.697
- Should start forming these small groups
- 00:47:40.697 --> 00:47:43.267
- Not simply to deepen its members' spiritual lives,
- 00:47:43.267 --> 00:47:46.603
- But to train them in active resistance.
- 00:47:46.603 --> 00:47:49.907
- Small groups are not retreats from the rest of the world.
- 00:47:49.907 --> 00:47:53.877
- They are gatherings that help us care for one another,
- 00:47:53.877 --> 00:47:56.780
- Study the instructions of scripture,
- 00:47:56.780 --> 00:47:58.982
- Cope with the world, and advance the gospel.
- 00:47:58.982 --> 00:48:01.985
- They are biblical in nature, and they will prepare us to resist
- 00:48:01.985 --> 00:48:05.122
- The socialist thought army that is coming after us today."
- 00:48:05.122 --> 00:48:09.660
- We need to be in small groups so that we can get strength
- 00:48:09.660 --> 00:48:12.296
- From one another, and when this stuff starts happening to us, we
- 00:48:12.296 --> 00:48:15.732
- Aren't standing all by ourselves trying to face it as one couple.
- 00:48:15.732 --> 00:48:20.170
- I believe more than ever before that as we walk
- 00:48:20.170 --> 00:48:23.073
- Into these next days with all of this craziness
- 00:48:23.073 --> 00:48:25.742
- That's going on around us, if we are not in a small group,
- 00:48:25.742 --> 00:48:28.578
- We are setting ourselves up to be picked off.
- 00:48:28.578 --> 00:48:31.748
- You know, the enemy likes to isolate people
- 00:48:31.748 --> 00:48:33.550
- And pick them off one by one.
- 00:48:33.550 --> 00:48:35.152
- You get in a small group and you have some people
- 00:48:35.152 --> 00:48:37.087
- That can pray for you and help you,
- 00:48:37.087 --> 00:48:38.789
- And we need to join hands with others
- 00:48:38.789 --> 00:48:40.857
- Who can help us stay strong during the things
- 00:48:40.857 --> 00:48:43.794
- That are happening.
- 00:48:43.794 --> 00:48:45.829
- Number five: resist any way that you can.
- 00:48:45.829 --> 00:48:49.433
- We ought to obey god rather than men.
- 00:48:49.433 --> 00:48:53.103
- So let me tell you a little story that will help you
- 00:48:53.103 --> 00:48:55.372
- To understand how we can stand in the way of some of this stuff
- 00:48:55.372 --> 00:48:58.342
- That is happening.
- 00:48:58.342 --> 00:49:00.410
- Elizabeth turner worked hard on her valedictorian speech
- 00:49:00.410 --> 00:49:03.981
- For hillsdale high school in hillsdale, michigan.
- 00:49:03.981 --> 00:49:07.551
- She intentionally highlighted her faith in jesus.
- 00:49:07.551 --> 00:49:11.621
- In the draft of her speech, she said,
- 00:49:11.621 --> 00:49:13.991
- And this is from her speech, "for me, my future hope
- 00:49:13.991 --> 00:49:17.494
- Is found in my relationship with christ.
- 00:49:17.494 --> 00:49:20.263
- By trusting him and choosing to live a life dedicated
- 00:49:20.263 --> 00:49:22.699
- To bringing his kingdom glory, i can be confident
- 00:49:22.699 --> 00:49:25.869
- That i am living a life with purpose and meaning.
- 00:49:25.869 --> 00:49:28.505
- My identity is found by what god says and who i want to become
- 00:49:28.505 --> 00:49:32.609
- Is laid out in scripture."
- 00:49:32.609 --> 00:49:35.112
- Well, that didn't go over too well with the school officials.
- 00:49:35.112 --> 00:49:39.616
- Her principal told her, "you are representing the school
- 00:49:39.616 --> 00:49:43.020
- In this speech, not using the podium as your public forum.
- 00:49:43.020 --> 00:49:46.790
- We need you to be mindful about the inclusion
- 00:49:46.790 --> 00:49:49.092
- Of religious aspects.
- 00:49:49.092 --> 00:49:51.128
- These are your strong beliefs, but they are not appropriate
- 00:49:51.128 --> 00:49:53.296
- For a speech in a school public setting.
- 00:49:53.296 --> 00:49:55.732
- I know this will frustrate you,
- 00:49:55.732 --> 00:49:57.467
- But we have to be mindful of it."
- 00:49:57.467 --> 00:50:00.570
- Well, that didn't just frustrate elizabeth.
- 00:50:00.570 --> 00:50:02.205
- It frustrated my dear friend, robert morgan.
- 00:50:02.205 --> 00:50:05.942
- When robert morgan heard this and read about it,
- 00:50:05.942 --> 00:50:09.112
- He did something i would have never thought of doing.
- 00:50:09.112 --> 00:50:12.249
- He picked up the phone and called the school,
- 00:50:12.249 --> 00:50:16.053
- And he spoke with someone in the principal's office.
- 00:50:16.053 --> 00:50:19.423
- Rob was gentle and soft-spoken, but he questioned
- 00:50:19.423 --> 00:50:21.892
- The school's decision.
- 00:50:21.892 --> 00:50:24.261
- "this is an infringement on the civil rights
- 00:50:24.261 --> 00:50:26.329
- Of this student," he said.
- 00:50:26.329 --> 00:50:28.065
- "it's an erosion of our freedom of speech and worship."
- 00:50:28.065 --> 00:50:31.701
- He was directed to the office of the superintendent of schools
- 00:50:31.701 --> 00:50:35.705
- Where he left a message on the answering machine
- 00:50:35.705 --> 00:50:38.375
- And posted a link to the story on his social media sites.
- 00:50:38.375 --> 00:50:43.513
- To his surprise, rob said, "superintendent shawn vondra
- 00:50:43.513 --> 00:50:47.017
- Called me back.
- 00:50:47.017 --> 00:50:48.685
- He answered and wanted me to know that hillsdale high school
- 00:50:48.685 --> 00:50:52.789
- Will certainly allow elizabeth and all their valedictorians to
- 00:50:52.789 --> 00:50:56.793
- Express their genuine faith without any censorship."
- 00:50:56.793 --> 00:51:01.231
- Can you imagine that?
- 00:51:01.231 --> 00:51:07.237
- Sometimes when something like that happens,
- 00:51:07.237 --> 00:51:09.473
- You will have something go off in your heart
- 00:51:09.473 --> 00:51:11.475
- And it will say, "i ought to--"
- 00:51:11.475 --> 00:51:13.677
- When it says you ought to, do it.
- 00:51:13.677 --> 00:51:16.746
- That's what happened to robert.
- 00:51:16.746 --> 00:51:18.281
- He saw this, he heard it.
- 00:51:18.281 --> 00:51:20.150
- "i ought to call--" he called the school.
- 00:51:20.150 --> 00:51:23.620
- Whoever thought of such a thing?
- 00:51:23.620 --> 00:51:25.722
- Well, it's amazing what can happen if we don't just sit on
- 00:51:25.722 --> 00:51:29.326
- Our hands when people are trying to steal from us the things
- 00:51:29.326 --> 00:51:32.896
- That mean so much to us as believers.
- 00:51:32.896 --> 00:51:36.133
- So there are times when you can resist, and god will show you
- 00:51:36.133 --> 00:51:38.535
- When that is, and when your heart says,
- 00:51:38.535 --> 00:51:40.137
- "i ought to," you do it.
- 00:51:40.137 --> 00:51:42.606
- And please come and tell me the story.
- 00:51:42.606 --> 00:51:44.174
- It'll be in another sermon, i promise you.
- 00:51:44.174 --> 00:51:48.512
- And finally, i want you to remember venezuela.
- 00:51:48.512 --> 00:51:52.749
- That's where we started.
- 00:51:52.749 --> 00:51:55.318
- Today, venezuela is a social and economic wasteland.
- 00:51:55.318 --> 00:52:00.757
- Ninety-six percent of citizens live below the poverty line.
- 00:52:00.757 --> 00:52:06.730
- Most people earn less than a u.s. dollar per day.
- 00:52:06.730 --> 00:52:10.867
- Poor economic management brought about inflation rates
- 00:52:10.867 --> 00:52:13.870
- Of more than 10 million percent,
- 00:52:13.870 --> 00:52:16.473
- Which is why a roll of toilet paper
- 00:52:16.473 --> 00:52:18.875
- Cost 2.6 million bolivars, the venezuelan currency.
- 00:52:18.875 --> 00:52:26.082
- And the lack of investment in commodities means the nation
- 00:52:26.082 --> 00:52:28.752
- Is barren of essential medicines and medical services.
- 00:52:28.752 --> 00:52:32.956
- As a result, an estimated 5.5 million refugees
- 00:52:32.956 --> 00:52:37.827
- Have fled venezuela, a number that represents
- 00:52:37.827 --> 00:52:40.997
- More than a sixth of the nation's total population.
- 00:52:40.997 --> 00:52:45.902
- In short, a country once defined by freedom and opportunity
- 00:52:45.902 --> 00:52:49.906
- Is now oppressed, barren, and hopeless.
- 00:52:49.906 --> 00:52:52.876
- And marxism caused it.
- 00:52:52.876 --> 00:52:55.345
- Marxism is among the worst ideas ever conceived.
- 00:52:55.345 --> 00:52:59.049
- Just ask its oppressed multitudes
- 00:52:59.049 --> 00:53:01.351
- And its countless casualties.
- 00:53:01.351 --> 00:53:03.353
- We should be aware of its history, herald its dangers,
- 00:53:03.353 --> 00:53:06.423
- And oppose its spread.
- 00:53:06.423 --> 00:53:09.559
- When you see these crazy people on television,
- 00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:11.828
- And i could name a few of them,
- 00:53:11.828 --> 00:53:13.697
- Talking about how this is gonna be the new face of our nation,
- 00:53:13.697 --> 00:53:18.101
- I hope you shudder as i do, and you hit the ground
- 00:53:18.101 --> 00:53:21.304
- And pray, "never, god, let this happen to us."
- 00:53:21.304 --> 00:53:25.942
- Well, the best news of all is this.
- 00:53:25.942 --> 00:53:28.178
- There is coming a utopia, better than anyone can ever imagine,
- 00:53:28.178 --> 00:53:32.582
- Better than we can imagine.
- 00:53:32.582 --> 00:53:35.452
- Isaiah 9:6-7 describes a time when the government
- 00:53:35.452 --> 00:53:39.256
- Will be upon the shoulder of jesus christ.
- 00:53:39.256 --> 00:53:42.659
- When jesus returns, things will be different, amen?
- 00:53:42.659 --> 00:53:52.068
- Our lord, when he returns, will right all of these wrongs.
- 00:53:52.068 --> 00:53:58.708
- "he will judge between the nations,
- 00:53:58.708 --> 00:54:00.944
- He will rebuke many people;
- 00:54:00.944 --> 00:54:03.046
- And they will beat their swords into plowshares,
- 00:54:03.046 --> 00:54:05.282
- And their spears into pruning hooks;
- 00:54:05.282 --> 00:54:07.384
- And nations shall not lift up sword against nation,
- 00:54:07.384 --> 00:54:10.487
- Neither shall they learn war anymore."
- 00:54:10.487 --> 00:54:14.257
- No, friends, socialism, marxism, and all the other ugly-isms
- 00:54:14.257 --> 00:54:18.028
- Of history will be utterly destroyed when jesus comes back
- 00:54:18.028 --> 00:54:23.166
- And sets up his kingdom on this earth.
- 00:54:23.166 --> 00:54:26.469
- And the bible says this kingdom will be forever and ever.
- 00:54:26.469 --> 00:54:29.973
- And it also tells us that we can be citizens of this kingdom
- 00:54:29.973 --> 00:54:34.544
- If we will put our trust in jesus christ.
- 00:54:34.544 --> 00:54:37.447
- If we will allow jesus christ to become our savior,
- 00:54:37.447 --> 00:54:41.217
- He will not only just be the king of the earth,
- 00:54:41.217 --> 00:54:42.952
- He'll be the king of our life.
- 00:54:42.952 --> 00:54:45.355
- And i hope you have done that.
- 00:54:45.355 --> 00:54:46.923
- I hope there's been a time in your life where you've given
- 00:54:46.923 --> 00:54:49.526
- Yourself to jesus christ and asked christ
- 00:54:49.526 --> 00:54:52.295
- To come and live within you.
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- Dr. jeremiah: all the world will see globalization then in
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- Instead under the lord jesus christ,
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- Who will reign in that place.
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- An international prophecy," here on "turning point."
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