Transcript: Episode 0036

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The Blast

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Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler, and I'm still woe.

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On today's Stone Choir, we're going to begin part three of our episode discussing the subject

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of the Jews in history. Before we begin, I just want to do a little bit of brief housekeeping.

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things I need fixed so I can keep it going for years to come. This is just a good time because

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we've been doing this is episode 36. We've done these almost continuously every week. So we could

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use a brief break. So for the next two weeks, there will not be any new episodes. I'd recommend

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going back and listening to some of the previous ones if you're jonesing. If you didn't happen to

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start at the beginning, it's worth it. There's arc through a lot of what we say, or just go back to

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and listen to one of your favorite favorite episodes. They do have a lot of listening value.

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And one last thing, just to plug another podcast while you're not going to have access to us for a

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couple of weeks. Corey also narrates the Bible daily on confident.faith.faith is a top-level

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domain. So just confident.faith. You can look that up on your podcast player or on the web and

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find it. Every day, he does Bible readings from the lectionary, as well as readings from the Lutheran

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Confessions. So he's now standing narrator. He has a great voice for this stuff on like me. Well

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worth listening to every day. It's 15 minutes a day. It's just really nice little Bible study while

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you're doing something else. So add that to your podcast player if you haven't yet, because it's

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really valuable. So under today's episode, we're going to begin just briefly by rewinding back to

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one of the things we touched on earlier by talking a little bit about Jews and banking. We had

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mentioned the spiritual nature of usury in, I think it was about episode five on, we're talking

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about forgotten doctrines. And we spent a little bit of time in that discussing the fact that usury

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scripturally means any charging of interest, any lending at interest. It's not excessive interest,

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it's any interest at all. If you hand somebody $100 and you spec $105 back, you are a user. And

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historically, you would have been executed for that because it was a damnable sin. Still damnable

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sin. It's no longer a crime. So historically, the mosaic Jews, the faithful Jews of the Old

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Testament, those who were faithful, never engaged in usury of any sort. They never lent at interest

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because God forbade it. Which, as we mentioned in that episode, is something that was continued

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in Christendom up until the Middle Ages. It really wasn't almost Luther's day that we began to get to

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the modern conception that, sure, interest is okay, just not too much. Then you're doing usury,

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and that's bad. The history of Jews and banking is interesting because it lays the groundwork

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for everything else that we're going to talk about in today's episode. So I just wanted to

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briefly rewind back to the Babylonian exile that we talked about last week.

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When the Jews were in exile in Babylon in modern-day Iraq in the 500 years or so leading up to

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Christ's birth, we mentioned that they began adopting practices like witchcraft. Obviously,

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the Jews had engaged in witchcraft, at least as far back as Egypt. But there was also a lot of

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that going on in Babylon. We know that many of the black magic practices, the evil practices,

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were amplified in Babylon. Even things maybe they weren't doing, they started doing.

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Lending at interest is another thing that they picked up in Babylon. So beginning during that

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exile, they began to basically act as a banking body. The first place that this shows up is

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fascinatingly the temple. I didn't know this until I was looking at it, but money changer.

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When we think about Jesus cleansing the temple of the money changers, we think about money for

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pigeons and the annual tax to the temple that was given. So the money changers have to receive

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whatever money they had and then give them a Hebrew shekel to be put in the coffers of the

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temple. So we think it was all just a natural aboveboard thing. But in reality, that was the

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first visible element of Jews in banking. And there's actually records in the Apocrypha, in fact,

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of the Jews engaging in banking prior to Jesus' day. In 2 Maccabees, there's an account of

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a man named Simon the Benjaminite. He had been a temple guard. He had a falling out with a high

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priests, and he went to the secular rulers and said, hey, the Jewish temple in Jerusalem

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is full of uncountable quantities of gold and silver. You should go take that, because it's

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not on the books as being allocated for sacrificial and ceremonial purposes. And a man named Haleodorus

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went and was dispatched to the temple, and he went to the high priest and said, I'm here to inspect.

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I heard there was a lot of money here. And the high priest basically started wailing and said, no,

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all the money in there is, there's only a little bit, and it's all dedicated for orphans and widows.

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And oh, there's one rich guy. And so we have this amount of money that would be maybe unusual,

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but it's actually just because we're holding this one rich guy's money. Nothing else to worry about.

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And Haleodorus said, oh, I'm going to go check. And basically, in 2nd Maccabees chapter 3,

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I believe, describes how the high priest got everyone in the neighborhood, everyone around

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the temple, worked into a frenzy at the prospect of this man, this Gentile, this pagan entering the

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temple, which was God's holy place. This was prior to the destruction of the temple as prior to Jesus

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day. So God was still present there. Now, it's not clear from the text to what degree they were

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freaking out at the Gentiles getting ahold of their stache of gold versus just entering the

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temple, which was forbidden and was blasphemous. When he got near the temple, a supernatural event

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occurred, and he was basically beaten back by three figures that basically beat him unconscious,

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and he was dragged away. And he adopted the Jewish faith as a result of that. So

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the account is that it was supernatural, I believe that. Now, whether the supernatural

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intervention to keep him from looking inside the temple for this money was protecting the money

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or protecting the temple, I think would determine whether the supernatural element was

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God or demons. I will assume for the sake of charity that it was God, and he was keeping

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this man who was not a believer out of the temple, because that was the law.

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But it's interesting that just like all the modern congressmen who try to get into

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the Fort Knox and inspect where the gold is, he never got in there. He never got to look at it.

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So the story that the High Priest told about it being all donations for widows and orphans was

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all we know. It's interesting, if you do the math, in Exodus 30, there's a temple tax that is

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obligated to every adult Jewish male, believe it or above the age of 20. Once a year, he has to give

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half a shekel to the temple, which is a nominal amount. Depending on how you do the math for

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inflation and the expected value at the time, it's probably between about maybe six and forty

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dollars today, roughly. Either way, it's not a huge amount. But if you have one to two million

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Jews a year showing up and paying that into the temple, you're looking at somewhere between maybe

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a dozen million and sixty to seventy million dollars worth of silver a year being put in the

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temple. And this was the second temple. This was built 500 BC. It was finished. So they weren't

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paying a mortgage on this thing. This was just all money coming in. Now, they had expenses,

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obviously, but it's not at all unbelievable that there would have been vast quantities inside the

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temple. And that's a big piggy bank. Anyone who is ever confronted with access to cash,

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there's potentially the temptation to do something bad with it. So I just find it interesting that

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that accusation would have been leveled. They never found out. But if you look at the math,

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it's entirely believable that there was perhaps more there than should have been.

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So after the fall of the temple, when the Jews became the diaspora and they were basically

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scattered from Rome, many more of them moved into Babylon, later became Iraq. And we know from

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antiquity that they continued to engage in banking practices. And as they learned when

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they were in the Babylonian captivity, they just became better at it. And banking meant both

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stashing cash, loaning cash, and then lending cash and interest. When the Caliphate came about,

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when Islam arose, the Caliphate had a stronghold where the Jews were. They did not lose their

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rights to engage in that sort of banking. And so there will be a link in the show notes to the

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Jewish virtual library where I got some of the pointers to some of this data. But it's just

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interesting as you look at them, this is a Jewish website, they're bragging, which is part of why

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it makes it a reliable source is that they're just talking about how great it was that Jews have

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always been engaged in banking. And so they traced this line being in Babylon through

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modern day Baghdad and surrounds. And they discussed the fact that when the Muslims came

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along, they continued to, and in fact, enhance their reach into government. And there was

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simultaneously, of course, the diaspora into Europe. And so their records as far back as the

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fifth century AD, where we have the Merovingian kings and the early Roman church at that point,

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also already beginning to take loans from Jews. Because of course, throughout the history of

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Christendom up until the Middle Ages, usury was forbidden. It was a crime for a Christian to

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lend it interest. And starting as early as the 400, 400 and 500 AD, we find that Jews were permitted

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in Christian lands to engage in criminal behavior for Christians. And so the Jewish

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virtual library agrees with what today is considered a trope or a stereotype, or it's an

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anti-Semitic lie to say that Jews in banking are synonymous. The history of banking is basically

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the history of Jews in the West. That's not an insult. Now, if you believe that usury is a sin,

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that's a problem. But to say that Jews in banking is just synonymous, it's simply reality.

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And so roughly between the 12th and 15th centuries, Jews pretty much had a complete

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monopoly on lending in Christian lands. And most of that lending was not done to the common man.

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It was done principally to kings and to the church, which obviously has a corrosive influence.

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And many of the wars that are fought in early European history are financed by lending from

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Jewish bankers. And so that kind of dovetails with the rest of this episode today that

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wherever we have found historically Jewish presence in Christian lands, we find them

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engaging behaviors that are deemed sinful and not Christian. But we go along with it because

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there's some upside. But the upside is ultimately morally pernicious. There would have been fewer

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European wars if those kings couldn't have financed it. Now, the kings bear the culpability for

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borrowing the money for fighting a war if it was not a just war. But if they hadn't been able to

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borrow the money from Jews, some of those wars wouldn't have been fought or they wouldn't have

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been fought for as long or for the same reasons. And so that's one of the things we want to get

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across in today's episode, is that these effects are pernicious because ultimately,

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usury is sinful, lending at interest is sinful. Again, we make that case in one of the earlier

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episodes. But as a scriptural fact, this was recognized throughout Christendom until the

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Middle Ages. And so wherever you had usury, it was principally for misconduct. It was for the

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grandizement of a church that was increasingly not focused on spiritual matters, was more focused on

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grandiose pomp and on political power. And then on kings who were pursuing political power.

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And we mentioned last week with the Inquisition and the Conversos that

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on this very website, we talked a little bit about how the Conversos were Jews

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who were forced to be baptized and forced to convert to Christianity. And the Inquisition was

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pursuing whether or not they had actually truly converted. On the Jewish Virtual Library website,

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there's a couple paragraphs talking about how many of the Jews in Spain use their baptism

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as an entree into higher echelons of power. They're very open about the fact that they falsely

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converted to Christianity. They pretended to be Christians so that they could have enhanced

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banking contacts and therefore enhanced power, enhanced influence. In fact, the Nina Pinta and

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Santa Maria, when they came to what we today know as the United States, were recording this episode

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on July 4th on Independence Day, that was funded not by Queen Isabella of Spain, but it was funded

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by one of her Jewish financiers. He was very powerful and he wanted to get it done. And so,

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it was actually Jews who sent that mission to the New World. Now, they thought they were going to

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India. They didn't think they were going to find the Americas, but that's just an example of how

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the Converso false baptism, getting into banking and enhanced access for banking,

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it's a part of European history. It's just inescapable. And as we said last week,

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it's something like, it's okay for us as Christians to say, this is what happened,

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these are just historical facts. It's not calling anyone names. The fact that Jewish

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banking is effectively redundant. If you go look at that webpage, it's very long. It has tons and

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tons and tons of names and dates and places. And all of it leads to the inexorable conclusion

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that wherever there's banking in Christendom, it's always been Jews. And so, if anything bad

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ever happens with banking, there's almost always been a Jew involved. Period. And as we said last

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week, it doesn't mean hate them. It doesn't mean, we're just going to be angry and hateful. It's just

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is literally what happened. And so, one of the important reasons that we want to tackle this

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subject is that we can't talk about our own history as Christians, as Europeans, without

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talking about the impact the Jews have had on that history. This is going to be one of those

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episodes that maybe seems a little bit scattershot. And that's in part because this is going to be

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a rough overview. This is not going to be drilling down into the details of everything,

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because this is going to span a fair chunk of time, not as much as the last episode. The last

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episode was a little heavier on history. This time, we're touching more on the ideology behind

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this history, what drove the Jews to do the things they have done in history. And banking ties into

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that very well. As you were discussing the history of banking, I thought that really it ties in

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directly to sort of the overall theme of this entire series of episodes. But in particular,

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this episode and perhaps also the next one in three weeks. And that is tikkun olam. And tikkun

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olam is a Hebrew phrase that is usually translated repairing the world, which is relatively accurate.

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Tikkun is to repair its repairing. Olam, however, needs a little more explanation because

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the Hebrew language is a very limited language, particularly ancient Hebrew, modern Hebrew,

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as we've mentioned before, and we'll get into a little bit in this episode as well, most likely,

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is a constructed language. It is more expansive than ancient Hebrew. It can express more ideas

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more clearly. But ancient Hebrew is very limited. It is a tiny language. It has a small vocabulary.

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You have to use words to mean a lot of different things because you don't have very many words,

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as opposed to say German or English, which have massive vocabularies. There is always a word

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to express, if not the precise idea you need, then a couple of words together to express that

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precise idea. Olam has a large lexical scope. It can mean the world. It can mean eternity. It

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can mean everything. And so you need to keep that in mind when you hear Tikkun olam. It means

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repairing everything. Now, if you look into Kabbalah and things like that, you'll see that more

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clearly. I don't think we'll really touch on that in this episode, partly because no one should spend

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any time looking into Kabbalah. You're just inviting demons into your life, so don't do that.

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But the idea of Tikkun olam is the Jewish idea that human beings bear a responsibility

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to improve the world. Now, at first, to a Christian, that sounds great, because as Christians,

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we have a responsibility to improve the world. In fact, that was one of the things that we were

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originally supposed to do in the garden. We were gardeners. That was a big part of what humanity

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was originally meant to do, represent God in creation. That's what it means to be an icon

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or an image of God. Same word. But also, by being a gardener, you are taming subduing creation,

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improving things. God gave us work to do. He didn't do all the work for us. And so it sounds

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like something that is perhaps Christian, but it is very much not Christian. In the modern context,

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Tikkun olam has become social justice. Now, it's been that for quite some time. Actually,

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you see the roots of that back in the Enlightenment, which is where we'll be really properly starting

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this history after I explain the rest of this concept here. And so it's actually anti-Christian

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in the conception, the Jewish conception of Tikkun olam. And that is because the Jewish conception,

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partly Kabbalistic, but partly the Haskelah, which is the Jewish Enlightenment, we'll be getting

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into that. Their idea is that God is incapable of doing these things. Some of them will say that

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God refuses to do them. And so it falls to men in the Kabbalistic understanding. They are working

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to perfect something that is imperfect in the essence of God, which is almost blasphemous just

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to say, but of course, the Jewish God is not God. So I'm not talking about imperfection in the Lord

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God, but in the Jewish God, who is in fact quite imperfect. But that is what is underlying all of

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this throughout this entire history of the Jewish people. There is this drive to remake the world.

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It is a revolutionary spirit, a desire to see things remade in an image that suits the Jews.

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And banking ties into that, because banking is one way in which you can wield a great deal of power.

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And conveniently, you can wield a great deal of power without ever having to pick up a sword,

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which historically, after the time of the Maccabees, at least, the Jews have not been a people very

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inclined toward actually picking up weapons of war and going to war. Now, murder and such,

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very much been a part of Jewish history. We will see that in the various revolutions. We've seen

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that in previous revolutions, but actually forming an organized military and doing something on a

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battlefield, not becoming of the Jewish people of late. However, if you are the one who controls

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the purse strings, you can influence the one who directs the sword. Now, of course, power is power,

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and gold is not power. But you can buy power with gold, or you can influence the person who has

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power with gold. And that is how banking works. And we will see that perhaps most starkly when

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we eventually get to our episode on the World Wars, because it is the banking power that plays

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probably the most significant role in the World Wars. But to return, as I said, to properly the

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start of the history in this episode, we move into the Enlightenment, because that is essentially

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where we left off with the last episode. We left off in the Middle Ages, the end of the Middle Ages,

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the early modern period leading into the Enlightenment. And so the European Enlightenment

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lasted from, it depends on who you ask, it lasted either from the mid 1600s to the early 1800s.

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And that would be the death of Kant in that conception is considered the end of the Enlightenment

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period, or, and I think this is probably a better conception for political purposes. For

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intellectual purposes, the first definition is probably best. But for political purposes,

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it is generally considered, historically, to have begun with the death of Louis XIV

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in 1715, and ended with the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.

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But alongside this European Enlightenment, we've gone into that.

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Previously, we'll perhaps go into it more depth in a future episode, but alongside the European

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Enlightenment, there was a Jewish Enlightenment, which called the Haskellah. That was from the

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mid 1700s to the late 1800s, so roughly the same time, very large overlap here.

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And you have a group of individuals in various places, basically schools, or little revolutionary

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groups as they would become, but initially ideological groups, discussing the ideas of

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Enlightenment, so called. In part, what you have here is an ideological civil war between

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an older strain of thought amongst the Jewish people, and what would eventually become Zionism.

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And Zionism, of course, as you can probably guess one, the older strain of thought that had been

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more or less ascendant for some time was assimilationist. And the assimilationists argued

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that essentially the Jews should fit in with their host societies, at least to the extent

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of appearing to be members of those societies. Now, they maintained their Jewish customs and

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practices and such in secret many times, sometimes openly, but many times in secret.

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But in large part, they blended into the society. Part of it was simply mercenary,

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it was to avoid persecution, but part of it was simply to live alongside the people alongside

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whom they were living. The Zionists, on the other hand, which is what you really see ascendant in

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these groups, the Masculine, part of the Haskellah, they don't want to live alongside their European

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hosts as it were in peace. They want Jewish nationalism, they want Jewish identity,

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they want to be distinctly other from the societies in which they are living.

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And eventually this pushes toward, once again, having a state called Israel.

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It is important here to note where some of these major schools were, because this will

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lead into, I'm not going to bury the lead, this will lead into revolutions shortly hereafter.

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Four of the main schools were located in Berlin, Vienna, Austria, Galicia, which for those who

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are unfamiliar with the history, Galicia would essentially be modern day part of Poland and part

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of Ukraine and Russia. These are four of the nations, European, well, three nations in one area,

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where we are going to see some of the most violent Marxist communist uprisings in the 1800s. Three

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of them in the 1800s, Russia has some abortive revolutions throughout the 1800s and then really

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obviously it's the communist revolution that ultimately topples the traditional Russian society.

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It takes longer in Russia for various political and economic reasons, quite frankly.

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But these schools form the basis of those uprisings. It is these schools that provide

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the ideology that eventually pushes for these Marxist uprisings, for these, in some cases,

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mass movements of peasants to overthrow their so-called overlords. These are communist revolutions

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spurred on by Jewish intellectuals who are directly the direct ancestors, ideologically,

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of modern day Zionism. And what's interesting about calling them communist revolutions, and

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indeed they are, is that they are communists in every detail prior to Das Kapital having been

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written. These are because, of course, Marx was a Jew as well. He didn't invent that from

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cold cloth. Basically, the communist manifesto and the other things that were downstream or that

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we see as being upstream from all the communist things that followed were, in fact, essentially

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the distillation of Tikkun olam for the Goyim. So these Jews had been working on this revolutionary

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project for 100-plus years at this point, specifically within Europe. And as they delivered

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the blueprints to these Europeans, the reason that the same pattern emerges over and over is that

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it's an ancient pattern. As Corey said, it's the Tikkun olam pattern for social justice,

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for workers' rights. All these things today that we hear, and we think, oh yeah, there's some good

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to that. I can baptize that and make it Christian. Communism is older than the first men who called

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themselves communists. And it wasn't just about a commune. It was about all of these values being

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packaged up and delivered and spread through these schools, influencing people. And I think

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one of the important things about banking, having led up to this point, is that as Jews

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became the merchant class, as they were traders and bankers, basically the white-collar sort of

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echelon of society, they accumulated a disproportionate amount of wealth because those are more

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capitalist endeavors that naturally tend to produce more excess capital. And so, of course,

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by having access to their own banks, they were able to accumulate that wealth and then deploy it

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both as a weapon strategically at certain points to instigate, to fund a particular uprising.

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But also, if you're wealthier, people are more likely to want to be around you for the most part.

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It opens doors. When you have money, people are nicer to you, not everyone, but the people that

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you probably want to rub elbows with tend to be. And so, as they accumulated social status

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through the accumulation of wealth, as Corey said, they sort of just became European. Even

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while maintaining their Jewish identities, it was a side-by-side, I'm a German Jew, or I'm a

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Russian Jew, or I'm a Polish Jew. And they wanted to be both simultaneously to pursue Jewish ends

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in their host countries. And we'll talk a little bit about the divergence of Zionism and integration,

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because they both serve the same ultimate ends via different means. And so, I think it's one of the

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confusing things today. When you look at Jews, you'll see some who are rabidly pro-Israel,

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and you'll also find Jews who are supporting the plight of Palestinians. Now, they never support

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the Palestinian Christians, but they'll support the Palestinian Muslims. And so, it seems like

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they're two different kinds of Jews. They have these very diametrically opposed beliefs when,

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in fact, they have the same ultimate goal. They're just sort of working both sides of the equation

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for their goals. And that's something that occurs throughout history.

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I would hope that when you mentioned that wealth tends to increase one's influence or social circle,

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that a proverb would have come to mind for the listeners, and that, of course,

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as Proverbs 19.4, wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

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And you mentioned that sometimes people try to baptize something and make it Christian.

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And in this case, you really see a lot of this with Tikkun Alam generally, but there's one thing

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in specific to which I want to draw attention. And the reason I want to draw attention to this

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is that I see some Christians, but in particular pastors, committing a grave, a gross error,

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and borrowing a concept from Judaism, from the Talmud, that has no place in Christianity.

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And see if you can pick up on the word when I read through, this is part of the Jewish liturgy,

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the alainu part of that.

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Let the time not be distant, O God, when all shall turn to you in love, when all the brokenness of

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our world is repaired by the work of our hands and our hearts.

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And so many of you will have picked up on the word there. There are actually two words, but one,

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I have to translate so that you'll see it. There's a word there in English that you will hear come

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out of the mouth of many pastors and others these days. And it is directly a concept from the Talmud.

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It has no place in Christianity, and that is brokenness. People will speak of individuals

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being broken, or of the brokenness of our world or the brokenness of sin. This is not Christian.

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This is Talmudic. This is wicked. This is pagan. It has no place in the mouth of a Christian,

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and you should rebuke anyone who uses it. Where that comes from before I get to the

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second instance here, the second term. The idea of brokenness comes in part from the Talmud directly,

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but part through Kabbalistic interpreters of the Talmud, particularly some in Russia.

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The names aren't relevant here because, again, not something into which you should really look

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deeply. Again, this would be inviting demons into your life. But to just let you know what is going

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on here, there is a Kabbalistic understanding, as I stated earlier, that God himself, in his

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essence, is broken in a way. It essentially comes from their corrupted version of a creation myth,

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where God withdrew his light from a part of reality, and that created the world. And then,

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through sin and corruption, there's brokenness that enters in. And through prayer and meditation,

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you can restore some of the broken essence of God. That's the rough overview of it. Yes,

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it's as blasphemous as evil as it sounds. But that's the idea that is being imported into

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Christianity by those who are using the term brokenness. So stop using that term. It is blasphemous.

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But the second instance here is what is rendered as the brokenness being repaired by the work

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Well, that's tikkun olam. That's the words there. That's what's being prayed by the Jews.

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And you'll note that it's of our hands and our hearts. It's this arrogant conception that we

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are the ones who will repair what is broken and wrong in the world. We are the ones who will

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remake the world in our image. This should start to sound like a particular character in Scripture

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who says that he will ascend above the Most High and make his throne in the heavens.

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That's not God, but it is the God of the Jews.

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For a Christian, the specific terms that should be used instead are evil instead of brokenness,

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sin, and evil. And in terms of repairing the world, that's sanctification. That comes from

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God alone. And this is where the breakdown occurs. And the reason that this is so crucial is that

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when you look at, for example, press releases from some of our own churches, when they talk

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about things related to civil rights, they will use this exact framing and this exact terminology

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to talk about, you know, they may call racism a sin, an ancestral sin of this nation, you know,

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the United States, America was born with the original sin of racism. That's what some of our

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own false prophets say among us. And the fix for that, well, they'll throw Jesus in there.

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Ultimately, it's about them repairing that brokenness by going out and making people not be racist

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anymore. And when you carefully parse the way they say those things, it's clear that they're

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not talking about sanctification. They're not talking about God's work in our hearts and in

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our lives. They're talking about reshaping in the image of the world, to just go down whatever

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the morality of CNN is, and one by one deleting those things from people's hearts and minds

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coercively, if necessary, not through God's love and not through God's sanctification, but by,

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you know, whatever amount of persecution and hatred you can direct at these evils, that is how

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you create the unbroken world with your own hands. And so when these men believe these things,

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they will of course engage in any manner of evil because they don't think it's evil. They think

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that if by their own hands they're healing the world of its brokenness, of these original sins

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that aren't even in Scripture, then of course anything goes. If your ultimate goal is good to

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perfect the world, whatever you have to do to get there, you can rationalize. I mean, it's literally

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the end justifies the means. Now it's buried. You're not going to see that when you read one of

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these press releases unless you look at it with these eyes. Once you understand that these things

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are alien to the Christian faith, then they just kind of scream from the page, both by the words

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that they use and by the things that they omit, by the fact that they won't talk about God sanctifying

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our hearts. Something that today in the Missouri Synod is explicitly denied in our newest confessional

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documents, saying that someone who commits the sin of sodomy, someone who is a child rapist,

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someone who despises the body that they were given by God and believes that they're the opposite sex

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and that God made a mistake, our new confessional documents say there's no sanctification for that.

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They say you can be forgiven, but you're always going to want those evil things because God can't

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do it. And so we just have to be loving and supportive socially to make people feel the embrace

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of God's love rather than reminding people that this is sin, this is wickedness, and that God

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heals, God forgives, and He heals through forgiveness. Healing is a good thing when it's

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coming from God, but we don't heal each other. It comes from God and there's a specific pathway

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by which it's delivered to us, and it's not through these views. So it's a really tricky

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thing because as we've said in many past episodes, this stuff, if you don't realize it's evil genealogy,

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it's going to look and sound pretty Christian. Maybe it's a slightly different way of putting it,

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but when you get down to it, who doesn't want brokenness to be healed? Who doesn't want things to

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be better? And if I'm a Christian, of course, I want to be the one making things better. And

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there's a way that a Christian can believe that faithfully that doesn't sound like that

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because the actual repair of evil comes from God's work and God's forgiveness. And as we've

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said in a couple of recent episodes, there are things that are evil in this world that cannot

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be repaired. They can be forgiven, but they can't be undone. And I think that's one of the overarching

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reasons why we have many men in our own pulpits talking in these ways because

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they think that anything can be repaired and it's simply not true. If you sin against your own body

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and you damage it in a horrific way, you're stuck with it. God's not going to regrow whatever you

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cut off. He's not going to undo whatever damage you do. That is the new you. It's not the you

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that's going to be resurrected because if you are forgiven and you die in Christ, you will be raised

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again with a restored body, the body that God wanted you to have, but you don't just get to undo

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all of the damage from your own wicked acts. It's something that came up in the

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debt-free virgins with no tattoos fight a few years ago, where there were Christian men saying,

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there are things that we can do when we're young that can damage our prospects forever.

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And it's desirable for us to encourage those things. And it's desirable for us to discourage

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things that are sinful, things that are harmful. Pastors want to focus. Pastors are

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some are trying to be faithful and some are malicious. We'll try to say, no, we need to repair

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everything. If someone has had sex with 100 people, she's forgiven by Jesus, and so everything

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is back to normal. We talked about in the episode where we were discussing the clockwork universe

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in microchimerism. That's simply not the case. There's physical and emotional and mental damage

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to that sort of behavior that God forgives, but he doesn't undo. And for us to think that we can

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go further than what God does in this life is sinful. It's rebellion against God, because while

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it begins with, oh, I want to do something Christian, it ends with, God didn't do enough,

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I'm going to fix what he failed to fix, which is exactly Corey's point.

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And one of the foundations upon which this not really misconception, this wickedness,

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this evil is built, is a denial of original sin. And that is something that we see in the

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Christian context as well. Groups that deny the reality of original sin will eventually wind up

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apostate. Because if you deny the reality, if you deny the nature of original sin, what you've

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actually done, even if you haven't explicitly done so yet, what you have implicitly done,

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is deny the nature of the atonement. Because if original sin did not corrupt all of creation,

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if original sin is not this infinite separation of creation from Creator,

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then Christ's atonement is something lesser than it actually was.

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The Jews here are explicitly denying what Scripture says, even their Scriptures so called,

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because supposedly they believe in the Torah, they don't, they believe in the Talmud,

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we've previously gone over what Torah forbids Talmud permits. But

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what they are doing is denying the nature, the scope, the reality of original sin and saying,

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no, we can cure these things through our own works. We don't need God to do it for us.

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And there are Christian groups that do the very same thing. And so as Christians, you have to be

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careful to ensure that you always have this proper conception of original sin, of what original sin

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is, of what original sin did, of what was necessary to atone for original sin.

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This is one of those things that if you get it wrong, you may not wind up apostate,

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but your grandchildren will certainly will. And in the case of the Jews, we see exactly

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that playing out. But I mentioned earlier these four schools as it were, these four groupings

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of the Haskelah, the Jewish Enlightenment, the Maskelem is the name for the actual individuals

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or the groups that is plural. But I mentioned where these were. And the reason that's relevant is

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that these are where revolutions would take place in the 1800s. And we've mentioned before,

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I believe I've linked to it before, in the show notes for previous episodes. In fact, I know I have

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the revolutions of 1848. And it's interesting to note that there is an entire article on

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the revolutions of 1848. Because most of Europe was thrown into turmoil seemingly all at once.

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To just give a quick list of some of the revolutions, not even all of them.

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There were revolutions in the Italian states. There was a French Revolution of 1848, obviously not

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the French Revolution, but there was a French Revolution. There were German revolutions of

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1848. Denmark had an uprising in 1848, 1849. Sleschwisch Holstein had an uprising, or actually

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just at the time would have been Sleswisch, not Holstein yet. But there were uprisings in Austria.

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There were uprisings in Hungary, Galicia as mentioned, Sweden had uprisings, Switzerland,

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Poland, Romania, Belgium. This was Pan-European. And the hotspots focused exactly where you had

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these Jewish groups that would eventually become Zionism. And what you see as a follow on from

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this, as a result of this, sometimes it takes a few decades in the aftermath of these revolutions,

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but sometimes it doesn't. You see the emancipation of the Jews. Jews are given full political,

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civil, etc. rights in these various European nations. The first, of course, is France,

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because the French Revolution grants full rights to the Jews, and that is in 1789. Now, notably,

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there are many of those in the French Revolution who say that they have to cease to be Jews,

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and simply be French in order to have these rights. But there is some disagreement amongst the

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leaders of the French rebellion, the French Revolution. Unsurprising for anyone who's

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familiar with the history of the French Revolution as the leaders of that revolution were anything,

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but consistent, one year to the next.

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And to follow on from that, you have basically in the decades following, you have all of these

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various European nations emancipate the Jews. But the last to emancipate the Jews was Germany

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in 1871, and then Russia in 1917. Now, of course, 1917 should ring some bells as well.

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And that is another time in the early 1900s. Of course, we have the First World War.

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As a direct follow on from the First World War, which incidentally, the same hot spots again

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involved in the lead up to that war. But in the aftermath of that war, that is when we get

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sort of mass democracy and the emancipation of women and votes for women and all of these

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various liberal social agenda items that get pushed through that were being discussed previously

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by these Jewish groups. So you will see every time you have this sort of mass uprising and these

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rivers of blood in Europe, conveniently what follows on from that is the ratchet moving forward

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in favor of socialism. One of the interesting things about the timing of everything that you

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just mentioned is that it dovetails with the end of kind of the banking story for Jews. It dovetails

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into what became modern banking. I'm going to read just a part of a paragraph from the Jewish

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virtual library. Jewish banking in the 19th century begins with the rise of the house of Rothschild in

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Frankfurt, a city which became the new banking center of Europe as a result of the political upheaval

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caused by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The founder of the house, which became the

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symbol of the 19th century type of merchant banking, Meyer Amschel Rothschild, started as a banker to

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the elector of Hesse Castle. His sons rose in prominence as the major European bankers,

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Amschel Meyer in Frankfurt, Solomon Meyer in Vienna, Karl Meyer in Naples, James Meyer in Paris,

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and Nathan Meyer in London. Between 1815 and 1828, the total capital of the Rothschilds increased

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from 3.3 million to 118 million francs. It went up over 30-fold in just over a decade, and that's

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just ending in 1828. Obviously, they didn't end there, but that was basically their seed money for

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what just 20 years later became all these revolutions in 1848. As we've said, there are

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articles and you can find lists in one of the tricks when you're going through accounts of

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this stuff, particularly if you're starting on modern internet sources, is that they will obfuscate

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or flat out deny that there's any participation of Jews. On Wikipedia, a lot of these articles

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have actually had references to Jews removed in the last three years or so. However, if you dig

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into who were the principal leaders in any particular revolution, as Corey said, you're

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going to find it's at least half Jews. In most of the revolutions in both 1948 and then in 1917-18,

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some of them were up to 90% Jewish, which necessarily implies that if it were not for Jews,

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those things wouldn't have happened. That's a historical fact because not only were they

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key players, in many cases, virtually all of the players. This was true in the Russian revolution,

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it was a communist revolt. It was a Jewish communist revolt. Not only were they the overwhelming

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majority of those participating, but for example, in the Jewish revolution in Russia,

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Rothschild personally donated a million, I remember which currency it was, but a huge amount of money

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was infused into that communist uprising right as it was faltering. They got a fresh and cute fusion

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of cash from a Rothschild. There you go, the Tsars are dead, Russia's communist for nearly a century.

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The banking tie, and all this is the end of it being a part of the story, it's important because

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as they spread their tentacles throughout Europe, this influence and this incredibly outside,

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and so we're talking about quantities of money that are just inconceivable beyond what the average

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man would have access to, yet when it's a group of people who are able to influence kings and leaders

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and schools and crowds, incidentally, doesn't that sound like George Soros today? If you think

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about what we're describing the Rothschilds and these other doing 200 years ago, we see exactly

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the same thing today with different names. Soros, that last name is Esperanto, I mean

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Sor in Esperanto. His original name was Georgie Schwartz. He's a Jew, everyone knows a Soros is

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a Jew, but he changed his name to something that didn't sound that way. He's the frontman for doing

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this stuff today. There's always been a frontman, there's always been someone behind financing things.

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As I said earlier, and we said in the previous episode, when you say these things,

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people want to clutch their pearls and say, oh, this is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

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Let's start with, is it true or not? Not only is it true, but when you get them talking in a way

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that they're proud of it, they'll take credit for everything. It's not internet racists whining

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about disparities in bank accounts. It's literally just history. These events occurred,

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these were the men responsible, and they came from a place and they had an agenda,

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and it wasn't simply personal aggrandizement. The manner in which these things played out,

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as Corey said, all the patterns, all the revolutions of 1848, when you read the articles,

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they'll say, oh, it, everyone just revolted simultaneously for all these different reasons.

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Well, that's why you have to go looking at who is actually instigating it. And when you look at

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the reasons, even though some of the articles will say, these reasons are all unrelated,

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when you go down the checkbox list of communist values, of tican olam, social justice

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checkboxes, all the list of things that they want to do to change and repair the world,

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it's all there. It's things like worker rights, and it's things like disparate capital allocation.

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Things that seem kind of, either you hear them and you think, I don't care, that sounds

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technical and dry, or you think it's a moral imperative. When they're doing it, it's because it

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was fundamentally toppling the kingdoms, the kingdoms of Christendom, because don't forget,

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these were aristocracies, and they were monarchies. And by the end of the first world war,

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all those monarchies had been toppled. There was really no political power left in virtually any

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of the European kingdoms, even if they maintained something that was superficial, it no longer

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had any teeth. That wasn't a case in 1848, when this project began, or if you go back further to

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1789 in France. The toppling of the Christian rulers, and the liberalization of the societies,

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and the loosening of morals, and the opening of floodgates for all sorts of things that

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stopped being illegal, because we don't want to, that's going too far. We don't need all

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these Christian rules informing the law. Today, in 2023 in the United States, this is a fight

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that we're having in our own churches. How far does a Christian ruler go with regard to what

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scripture says about obeying God? What should the laws look like? This is a conversation that began

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in the Enlightenment. And so all of these intermediary steps along the way,

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they achieve the goal. They achieve the goal of what we call liberalization. I guess that's a

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technical term. It's fundamentally satanic terraforming of Christendom. That's really what's

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happened here. And when you look at the movers and shakers, you look at the players, you look at the

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men who were calling the shots and influencing people, they're almost all Jews. One of the things

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that I said near the end of last week's episode was that one of the areas in Europe with the highest

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percentage Jewish population was what has been sometimes known as Poland today. Most of this

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area is Poland, some of it is Ukraine. Just depends on the point in history, since Poland has existed

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and then not existed and then existed again. But the area known at the time as Galicia,

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I did mention that there was one of these Haskelah, they're one of these groups of Jewish intellectuals.

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And in 1846, there occurred what is known as the Galician peasant uprising. This was an uprising

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in which today they are often called patriotic Polish intellectuals and nobles. But in reality,

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they were Marxist revolutionaries in the most part in the main. Not all of them, some of them

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were diluted, certainly. That does happen as well. You see that pattern repeated over and over again

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actually with revolutionaries. You will have those who are malicious in their intent, those who know

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what they're doing, and then the fools who go along with them. In the Soviet era, the term was useful

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fool or useful idiot, which is those in the West who argued in favor of what the Soviets were doing

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because they did not understand what the Soviets were doing. They were useful idiots. I'll refrain

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from using the Russian term because I'm sure I'll butcher the pronunciation. But the Galician uprising

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basically slaughtered many of the nobles, some of whom had foolishly involved themselves in the rebellion.

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But this was just a standard Marxist uprising, and it was praised by Marxists at the time,

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including Karl Marx, who I believe, I don't know if he had just been expelled from Belgium,

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or if that was to come later. But at any rate, he praised this as a Marxist uprising,

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called it deeply democratic, of course. You have to be sure to get your propaganda term right.

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And this is the pattern that plays out over and over. You see a supposed peasant uprising,

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sometimes involving some of the nobles, because do bear in mind the French Revolution was supposedly

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this uprising of the underclass that was going to throw off the shackles of the oppressive

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nobility of the ancient regime. Well, in reality, almost all of the leaders were

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relatively affluent, educated students. They were not peasants. But this is what you see play out.

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You have Marxist revolutionaries who rile up some segment of the population and use that segment of

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the population to slaughter others, and it just creates chaos and a cycle of violence that destroys

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the nation from within. Some European nations were more successful in putting down these

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revolutions than others. Some were not successful. The the Germans actually managed to put down

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the revolutions of 1848 fairly convincingly. However, things did not go as well in Germany

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during the latter cycle of revolutions, because Germany had I'll move on to Germany now to sort

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of set the stage for a future episode, just to give a little bit more history here.

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The German revolutions, not of 1848, but the latter ones in the 1900s really started in 1918,

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started in the wake, of course, of World War One, and they lasted until 1933.

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There were various revolutions throughout Germany. You had the so-called German Revolution,

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1918 to 1919. In Germany, it's called the November Revolution, because there are other

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revolutions and other months, and so they're named after the month.

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But you had a people's state of Bavaria, which most people don't know. Bavaria had

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an actual communist government for over a year. Saxony, the birthplace of Lutheranism,

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essentially had a communist government for over a year. Bremen was a Soviet Republic in 1919.

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Bavaria, at the end of the people's state, also had a Soviet Republic. There was an uprising,

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a communist Marxist uprising in the Rur in 1920. There was a march uprising in 1921. There was

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an uprising in Hamburg in 1923. There was the German October, which was an international

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communist plot to again attempt to overthrow, at that time Weimar to institute an actual communist

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government in 1923. This is the state of Central Europe in the early 1900s, and it's important to

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understand that for other history we'll be covering in later episodes. But you see

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extensive Jewish involvement in these revolutions, because basically you have Marxist intellectuals

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and revolutionaries on one side, and the defenders of the old regime, the defenders of monarchy

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and order on the other side. And it is in fact Christians on the side of the monarchy,

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on the side of the nobles, on the side of order, versus atheists and Jews, on the side of the

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Marxist revolutionaries. And this plays out in other European states as well, but for obvious

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reasons, Germany is the most salient going forward. But this is all part of the Jewish

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understanding of tikkun olam. It is part of the Jewish understanding that it is incumbent on them

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to make the world a better place. It just so happens to be that the world would be a better

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place if the world were ruled by Jews. And so they are willing to use whatever means necessary

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to bring this about. They will tell you that tikkun olam is just making the world better,

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improving things, helping people. But it's not. Because the goal is radical social change. The

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goal is to make the world look like the world portrayed in the Talmud. And if you've read

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any of the Talmud or you've listened to what we've said about the Talmud, read a summary,

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what have you, you know how utterly wicked the Talmud is and what kind of world that would create.

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As was mentioned, this is Satan terraforming Christendom. And he has been extremely successful.

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Because Christians have not known how to counter it, particularly in the modern era,

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because Christians are so afraid simply to say the word Jews. And if you can't say the word Jews,

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you can't go over the history. You can't go over what has actually happened,

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because they have played an outsized role. At no point have they ever, with the exception of

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what is now Poland, because as I said they were higher concentration there, but even there it

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was sub 10%. They have never been more than single digit percentages of a given population.

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And yet they have been represented as 50 plus percent of these revolutionary groups.

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In the case of the Russian revolutionaries, so called Russian, 90 plus percent.

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That's salient. If you have a group that is a single digit percentage of a population,

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and yet somehow it is always more than half of violent revolutionary groups

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that rise up in that population and cause chaos. That is something of which both

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the Kingdom of the right hand and the Kingdom of the left hand should take notice.

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It is incumbent on the Kingdom of the left hand to crush those revolutionaries.

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But it is incumbent on the Kingdom of the right hand, which is to say the church,

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to recognize this evil and to address it. Otherwise, the terraforming will continue.

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Because it is continuing. That's what we see today. All of the things we see pushed for today,

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the social justice, the affirmative action, the BLM, whatever group it happens to be,

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these are all part of the same tapestry, cut from the same cloth of the Talmud,

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organized by the same malignant malign intelligence. And as Christians we have to address it,

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because things can always get worse. And if we're not trending God-word,

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then we are in fact trending hell-word. In the show notes for today's episode,

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we will have a link to a book by a Roman Catholic author named E. Michael Jones. A lot of you have

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probably heard that name before. He wrote a trilogy of books on the overarching subject we're talking

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here today. The specific one that applies most directly to this arc of our episodes

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is the Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. You can find it at archive.org. You can actually

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download the PDF. It's about 1200 pages. It's a very lengthy, detailed book.

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Obviously, this is the most superficial possible tackling of the subject for a podcast. If you

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want a deep dive, get a PhD. What I found interesting when I dug this up, I've never read the whole

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thing, but I've read bits and pieces. And most of what is in it, I have learned elsewhere.

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I was just laughing when I pulled up the PDF today and looked at the chapters.

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Here are the names of the first five chapters from E. Michael Jones' book,

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The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. Chapter 1, The Synagogue of Satan. Chapter 2,

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Julian the Apostate and the Doomed Temple. Chapter 3, Rome discovers the Talmud. Chapter 4,

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False Conversion and the Inquisition. Chapter 5, The Revolution Arrives in Europe.

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Chapter 6, The Converso Problem. And then in later chapters, he talks about Martin Luther King

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Jr. He talks about the civil rights movement. If this sounds a little bit like it was basically

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the last 20-odd episodes of Stone Choir, it's not because we're using his book to crib for source

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material. It's because if you look at the problems in our world, in the Christian world and Christian

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nations, you will find the Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. Now, E. Michael Jones is Roman Catholic.

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He's a Romanist. He's a Papist. That's what Luther calls you guys. And we have some listeners.

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Thank you for listening. We love you guys. You're obviously Christian because otherwise,

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you wouldn't put up with us. I'm highlighting specifically that he is a Romanist because

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one of the things that you'll find in this book, if you happen to check it out,

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is that there's a fair amount about Freemasonry, which again ties directly into today on Independence

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Day as we're recording. Obviously, Freemasonry was a big part of the American Revolution. And so

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we're told retroactively that that made Freemasonry the birth story of this nation, which is nonsense.

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This nation is 150 years older than the Revolution. The nation began when Europeans started landing

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here. And the men who started landing here weren't Freemasons. They weren't involved in any of that

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stuff because the Enlightenment hadn't happened yet. And Quakers were not members of secret

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societies. So I specifically mentioned the Freemason thing because if you delve into this

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or related subjects, I just want you to be aware that when Roman Catholics talk about

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these subjects, they will place an outsized emphasis on Freemasonry. Now, as Lutherans,

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we despise secret societies. In fact, from the very first days of the LCMS, no one who was a member

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of a secret society was permitted to be a member of the church because it's two contradictory gods.

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Freemasons and the other secret societies confess a creator God. They say that whether you're a Jew

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or a Mohammedan or a Christian, you're all worshiping the same God by different names.

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And it's interesting if you listened to any accounts of someone who's gone through a Masonic

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temple, they will have rooms that are dedicated to different periods of time with different

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architecture and different decorations. And they will have a room for Babylonian period.

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They'll have a room with Egyptian stuff, which if you remember us talking about the genealogy of

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Jewish black magic, that's where black magic traces through Babylon, through Greece, through

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Egypt, back to the very earliest days of demons walking the earth. And so the fact that Freemasons

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use exactly the same genealogy for their backstory, I think once you recognize that that pattern is

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something that will just pop up in places where black magic is being practiced is very conspicuous

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because whatever else they say about the God that they claim they're worshiping,

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when they are using the same terms and the same loci in human history as Kabbalah,

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as Muslim mysticism, as Egyptian demonology, that becomes consequential. You can't ignore that

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it's not random and it's not larping. It's not that they just like the look of obelisks or whatever.

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There's something serious about it. And so, yes, Freemasons, evil. Even to this day, they always

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have been, there's never been a time when they were not up to no good. The important distinction

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between our position and someone like E. Michael Jones is that things like Freemasonry are,

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they're kind of like communism. It's a repackaged form of Jewish mysticism for the Goliath.

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I don't know if they were ever Jews and Freemasons. It probably they were forbidden at some point

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because they didn't need to be there, but it was the same sort of stuff. When you trace a backfire

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enough, it has the same values. Freemasons are famous for good works, as Corey is describing,

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tikkun olam. What is that, but how Freemasons and Shriners and all these others talk publicly

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about what they want to do? It's about community improvement. It's about making things better.

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And as a naive listener, like, well, that's great. Who doesn't want more of that?

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When you delve into what they're actually doing behind the scenes, it's clear that

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they're all working from the same playbook. So Roman Catholics will place an outsized emphasis on

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Freemasons. As Lutherans, we have a problem with that because Jesuits do the same stuff.

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They'll always scream about Freemasons and they'll ignore Jesuits, who, by the way, show up in the

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same parts of history doing the same evil stuff as the rest. They're pretty much indistinguishable.

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And as Protestants, Jesuits are important because that was literally stood up to

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stamp out the Reformation. The Jesuits were basically an inquisition against the Reformation

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to root out what they termed heretics, that's us, and kill them. The Jesuit history involves

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assassination. So if you're listening to a Roman Catholic author and he starts going off about

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Freemasons, I would encourage you to focus on the fact that Freemasons are a derivation of

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Talmudic Judaism and not let him get you focused on the political stuff because it's all rooted

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in the same spiritual undertones, which is why it shows up in E. Michael's Jones book about the Jewish

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revolutionary spirit. I haven't read the exact chapter. Maybe he makes the case as well,

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but when I hear a lot of Roman Catholics talking about these subjects online,

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if you get them talking about Freemasons, they're just off the races and they want to

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call America Freemason and all this stuff. The Founders, many of them were my ancestors who

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were a year and 50 years prior were not. America was not a Freemason country. It was a Christian

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nation and it was the very Enlightenment devilry that was being ginned up both by

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atheists and agnostics and Jews in Europe and then imported at the time of the revolution in

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this country that did the damage to our founding. Whether or not we should have been our own country

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is a separate matter, but the manner in which it was done was not godly and it's history at this

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point. Just don't get distracted when somebody starts freaking out about Freemasons. I would

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encourage you if you want to look into this subject in more detail. It's well worth taking a look at

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E. Michael Jones' book. Even if you just delve into a particular chapter that deals with a specific

01:14:01.240 --> 01:14:06.200
topic you're interested in, it will give you a lot of details that will certainly be omitted

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in places like Wikipedia. As I was reading through the article on the 1848 revolutions,

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Corey was talking a minute ago about patriots and it was hilarious to see them describing,

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yes, the patriots killed their nobles, killed their king. That's not patriotic,

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and what universe is that patriotic? Well, in a Jewish universe, we're overthrowing

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godly hierarchy is a high good. Yeah, that's certainly patriotic, but the men who were doing

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that in those places and times, they weren't patriots. They were evil wicked men who were

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serving evil ends. So, when all these patterns play out, once you're able to name the source

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and see how it's playing out both within the context and more broadly throughout time,

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it becomes a lot easier for us as Christians to discuss these things openly and publicly and say,

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well, look, this is what happened. These people take credit for it. They did it. I have a problem

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with it morally. I'm looking at where they came from and the things that they're doing and I have a

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problem with that. That's a perfectly reasonable place for a discussion. And Corey and I are

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podcasters. We want discussion. We're not calling for violence. We don't want violence.

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Part of the reason for discussing this stuff is to try to prevent violence because the further

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and further the world gets into this sort of wickedness, the greater the incentive there is

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for the backlash against what is pure evil to just be pure violence. And if violence is necessary,

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that should be done in a godly fashion by a godly state as not for individuals to ever pursue.

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If there are no Christians involved in the conversation, all you're going to have is people

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who are going to misidentify who the culprits are, and they're going to go further than any

01:15:54.680 --> 01:16:00.120
Christian should want them to go. And so that's part of the reason we're tackling these tough

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subjects because the absence of actual Christian voices discussing these things that are emerging

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in real time, we're talking about things in the early 1800s that are identical to things happening

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in 2023, in 2024 and beyond. This decade is going to play out like Germany 100 years ago.

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It already is. It's not just parallel. It's practically like someone used a clone tool

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and just copied from one century to the next. That's bad news because the end result of that

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is going to be violence that no one should want to see. We don't want to see it. Wars are always

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destructive. Even a just war is destructive and evil. The question is whether it's less evil than

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the alternative. If no Christians discuss these things, all we're left with are evil alternatives,

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and any Christian should seek to prevent that if it's all possible.

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If you want a good example of what happens when really no one involved is Christian,

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look at any number of wars that have been waged in the Far East in history and some of the atrocities

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that have been committed. That's what happens when men are entirely unbounded morally,

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when there are no restrictions. And that is what happens when Christians remove themselves from

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the conversation. There are no Christians on the left. There are no Christians on the Marxist side

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of this. And so the only Christians are on the right. And if Christians want to have an influence

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on the outcome of these events, because as was mentioned, we are living through

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right now probably about the 1920s in Central Europe. We're living through the same thing all

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over again in the same decade incidentally. Welcome back to the 20s. Not so roaring this time,

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but the 20s nonetheless. If Christians want to have an influence, not only in the outcome,

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but how we get there, and it is important to have an influence in the means if you want

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an influence on the ends, then we have to be part of the discussion. And the only way

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Christians can be part of the discussion on the right is if we're honest, if we're blunt,

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if we speak the truth, if we're not afraid of touching on these subjects that are supposedly

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off limits. In this case, for this series of episodes, if we're not afraid to say the word

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Jews, because if we're afraid to say these things, then those on the right who have

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been looking at these matters, granted through a secular so-called lens, not through a Christian

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lens, but had been looking at them and had arrived at the very clear truth, because some of these

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truths do not require a Christian lens to see them. You can find the Jewish involvement in Marxism,

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whether or not you're a Christian. You can find the destructiveness of multiculturalism,

01:19:06.760 --> 01:19:12.680
whether or not you're a Christian. But if Christians, as has been the case for the last

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several decades, resolutely refuse to engage in these discussions and particularly refuse to

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speak the truth on them, then both sides are going to completely ignore at the absolute best

01:19:26.440 --> 01:19:31.400
Christians. And usually what happens in that case is that Christians wind up dead,

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because neither side has an incentive to keep Christians alive, if Christians are simply lying.

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The left, of course, because they are anti-Christ, they hate Christ, they want to

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destroy the church, and the best way to destroy the church on earth is to destroy Christians.

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It's not burning buildings, that is destructive, of course, but you can rebuild the buildings.

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If you kill the Christians, if you burn the scriptures, if you destroy

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all of those who have that knowledge, you can very effectively destroy the church on earth.

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God has promised that he will not permit the forces of evil to completely triumph,

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but that does not mean that they cannot triumph in an area for a period of time.

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Look at the map, the religious map of Europe, before and after World War II.

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Christendom died in that war.

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It was wounded almost mortally in World War I, certainly,

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but if you look at the percentage of those who were atheist, 20 years on, from World War II,

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the East is atheist. With some exceptions of those who claimed to be Roman Catholic,

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but if you start asking them questions about what they believe,

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you'll find out very quickly most of them are atheist as well.

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So there are very real consequences here in time.

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When it comes to these conflicts, and that's for the left, now for the right side.

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The right, if Christians are simply going to lie, which has been the case for some decades,

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then they have no need of Christianity or Christ, from their perspective.

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They're wrong, of course, ultimately, eternally wrong, but politically they're not,

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because politically speaking, if Christians are unwilling to address these issues,

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unwilling to speak the truth, unwilling to take scripture seriously, incidentally,

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because scripture does speak of speaking the truth before the powerful,

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and that doesn't just mean the gospel, because God is true, so all truth belongs to God.

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The gospel is the most salient part of that, but none of it's irrelevant.

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But if we're not willing to do that, well, it shows a number of things.

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One, it shows we don't really believe. It shows that our faith isn't real.

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Because if Christians don't value the truth, if Christians aren't willing to speak the truth,

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then maybe we don't really believe in the truth, and so why should those on the political right

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care what Christians say? But there is also the matter of Christians are naturally on the political

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right, because that is simply the side of God in these matters, because the political right is

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the side that believes in family and hierarchy and all of these various things that are of God,

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that are good from God, and opposes all the evil things from the left, the transgenderism,

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the homosexuality, multiculturalism, etc., adnazium.

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But in order to be part of the right, in order to be an influential part of what is transpiring,

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whether or not we are part of it, we have to properly be Christians, which means,

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again, speaking the truth. It means not being afraid to address these problems.

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It means recognizing the reality of the situation in which we find ourselves,

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because ultimately, the political right in the West should be Christian, top to bottom.

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That is how things should be, and that is how things would be if Christians

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were willing to speak the truth instead of being Zionists, as has been the case in the U.S.

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for far too long with many churches. That's not in Scripture. That's not scriptural. That's

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anti-scriptural. Where in Scripture does it command us to support a pagan nation, a nation that hates

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God, a nation that hates Christ, a nation that has banned proselytization? You can be arrested

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for attempting to spread the gospel in Israel. That's not Christian. That's not a nation we should

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support. And if we support that as Christians, what are we declaring to the world? What we're

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declaring is that we don't really believe in God. We don't really believe in Christ,

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because we're willing to support this evil, wicked, pagan nation.

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Our confession before the world truly matters, and it truly matters today, because of what is

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coming in the next few decades. We don't want a repeat of what happened in Europe,

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although that is where we are heading today. We want Christianity to come out of this conflict in

01:24:23.000 --> 01:24:30.280
better shape, not as in Europe where Christianity Christendom effectively died in the 1940s and the

01:24:30.280 --> 01:24:41.080
1950s. We have a very real opportunity, as Christians, in this century to see a revival

01:24:41.080 --> 01:24:46.840
of the Church, because God doesn't abandon His people. It has always been true. Scripture is

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very clear. If we desist in our evil ways and turn to God, He will turn to us. He will remember us.

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He will restore us. And so we very much have that opportunity as a nation. And yes,

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we mean as a nation. We're recording as has been mentioned a number of times on the 4th of July.

01:25:07.160 --> 01:25:10.920
Bear in mind, as we have said many times before, country and nation are not synonymous.

01:25:13.160 --> 01:25:23.240
Germany is not the 1945 Constitution. That's a country. Germany is a nation of the Germans. France

01:25:23.320 --> 01:25:32.440
is a nation of the French. Ireland is a nation of the Irish. America is properly a nation of the

01:25:32.440 --> 01:25:39.640
Americans. And we are a distinct Western European, descended people. That is what Americans are.

01:25:41.160 --> 01:25:47.160
The U.S. is a country that is a different thing. And so as Christians,

01:25:47.880 --> 01:25:55.560
it is important for us to act in accord with what God made us to be. I'm going back to what

01:25:55.560 --> 01:26:03.800
I said earlier about mankind in the garden. What is man? What is our purpose? We are an idol,

01:26:04.360 --> 01:26:10.680
properly understood in the proper sense of the term, an icon, an image. These are all synonymous.

01:26:10.680 --> 01:26:18.920
We are God's image in creation. We represent God in His creation. We act in His stead,

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not in the sense of tikkun olam, because tikkun olam is remaking creation in the image of man,

01:26:25.560 --> 01:26:32.520
or really in the image of those men who adhere to that concept, the image of their God,

01:26:33.560 --> 01:26:38.920
who is very much not our God. Yes, we live in a fallen world.

01:26:39.880 --> 01:26:44.280
No, we cannot perfect a fallen world, but we can certainly make it better than it is today.

01:26:45.320 --> 01:26:48.600
And as Christians, it is incumbent on us to try.

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Part of that is being faithful with regard to the right-hand kingdom that's attending church,

01:26:54.520 --> 01:27:00.840
that's holding to right doctrine, that's teaching your children, etc. But we must also be faithful

01:27:00.840 --> 01:27:06.680
in the left-hand kingdom. And that is the kingdom of the world. That is the state, that is politics.

01:27:07.160 --> 01:27:13.800
And part of that is speaking truthfully about history, even when that history makes people

01:27:13.800 --> 01:27:19.400
uncomfortable, even when that history requires you to say words that make other people uncomfortable,

01:27:20.040 --> 01:27:24.760
even when there may be consequences for speaking that truth. Now, of course, I am not saying,

01:27:24.760 --> 01:27:29.800
go into your workplace and scream, it's the Jews, don't do that. However,

01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:40.760
you are to employ wisdom in all matters. But as a Christian, you are not permitted

01:27:40.760 --> 01:27:48.120
to lie about these things. You are permitted not to address them or to avoid the topic if

01:27:48.120 --> 01:27:55.560
wisdom dictates you should do so. But lying about them is anti-Christian, lying about them is sin.

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I would say the folks who are listening, even if you don't want to read Michael Jones' book,

01:28:00.920 --> 01:28:06.360
The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, I would suggest that you at least visit the archive.org link

01:28:06.360 --> 01:28:12.680
that we'll have in the show notes and just look at the chapter names. They're 25, 30-odd chapters.

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Each of them is a different aspect of the Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, of Tikkun olam, of this

01:28:21.800 --> 01:28:32.360
group of people with biblical ancestry going back. They have been corrupted by leaving God,

01:28:32.360 --> 01:28:38.280
by abandoning the God who led them out of Egypt. God instantly, they abandoned within 40 days

01:28:38.280 --> 01:28:45.640
of leaving Egypt. No, they came and went. But when you look at the list of things that

01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:51.800
E. Michael Jones lays out, and he makes a case in each of those chapters, what relevance it has to

01:28:51.800 --> 01:28:58.440
the Jewish people, it becomes unmistakable that for us as Christians, for us as citizens

01:28:58.440 --> 01:29:07.560
of whatever country we live in today, these are matters of survival. They're matters of polity,

01:29:08.200 --> 01:29:14.200
they're matters of spiritual significance, and they're matters that can only be addressed by

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talking about Jews. The manner in which we do it must be Christian. As Corey said, there's no

01:29:20.520 --> 01:29:24.440
moment in a Christian life where we can say, well, I'm not going to be Christian for the next five

01:29:24.440 --> 01:29:29.720
minutes because I'd really rather do this other thing and then say mean, hateful, terrible things,

01:29:29.720 --> 01:29:34.440
or commit violence, or any whatever thing you would like to do because you're mad about what

01:29:34.440 --> 01:29:39.720
somebody else did. That is the moment where you most need to be Christian, because it's a moment

01:29:39.720 --> 01:29:45.000
where it's the hardest to be Christian, because your sinful nature wants to go in one direction,

01:29:45.000 --> 01:29:51.560
and God says the other direction. I think the trick that we as Christians have to understand in

01:29:51.560 --> 01:29:58.920
the 21st century is that our sinful nature doesn't only look to commit violence or say mean things

01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:06.040
or whatever active measure you might think, yeah, that's really bad. Our sinful nature also is a

01:30:06.040 --> 01:30:13.960
coward. Our sinful nature is to be fearful and to duck our heads and to stay out of the line of fire

01:30:13.960 --> 01:30:19.400
and to avoid saying something that's going to cause grief for us, because it's easier if people

01:30:19.400 --> 01:30:26.600
leave you alone, and if saying something that's true that gets you punished is something that's

01:30:26.600 --> 01:30:32.760
scary to you, at some point you're going to have to choose, do I tell the truth or do I deny God,

01:30:32.760 --> 01:30:38.920
because they're two sides of the same coin. If you start lying, you're losing your faith,

01:30:39.640 --> 01:30:42.840
and if there's something that the world is telling you you must lie about,

01:30:43.720 --> 01:30:49.400
it threatens your faith. It's actually a matter of salvation, not that believing any of this stuff

01:30:49.400 --> 01:30:55.000
that we say is itself salvific or not, it's not. The gospel is contained in Scripture. We're not

01:30:55.000 --> 01:31:03.160
trying to elevate any of this to being wholly writ. However, if it's true and you lie about it,

01:31:03.800 --> 01:31:07.880
you're sinning against God by lying, and it doesn't matter what you're lying about,

01:31:07.880 --> 01:31:14.120
and lies of omission or lies too. Failure to tell the truth when the truth is demanded is a sin.

01:31:14.760 --> 01:31:21.240
It's an easy sin, and it's an easy sin for someone who will say, I'm not going to shout hateful things,

01:31:21.240 --> 01:31:25.160
I'm not going to hit someone, I'm not going to advocate something that's overtly evil.

01:31:25.960 --> 01:31:31.160
It's a very quiet sin. It's completely silent. That's the bopside, that's the whole point

01:31:31.160 --> 01:31:35.800
of the sin of silence. When you fail to tell the truth when the truth is demanded,

01:31:36.680 --> 01:31:41.800
it's easy. You get away with it. No one knows you didn't say the thing that you knew you should

01:31:41.800 --> 01:31:48.600
have said. You know, God knows, and the world is made worse by your failure to be faithful

01:31:48.600 --> 01:31:53.320
to telling the truth. Now, as Corey said, that doesn't mean you go around shouting about these

01:31:53.320 --> 01:31:58.440
things if you believe the things that we've said. It's a really hard thing for a lot of people to

01:31:58.440 --> 01:32:03.640
go through as they come to realize all this has been going on, because again, it's been going on

01:32:03.640 --> 01:32:10.680
for thousands of years. The Jews have been up to no good for thousands of years. That's troubling,

01:32:10.680 --> 01:32:17.640
that reshapes our own understanding of our history and of Scripture. Now, when I say that,

01:32:17.640 --> 01:32:22.680
I don't mean that people 200 years ago would have believed something different.

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That's part of the reason we talked about Zionism. We'll probably do an episode in the

01:32:26.920 --> 01:32:34.200
future entirely about Zionism, particularly around the Schofield Bible and how it was inserted into

01:32:34.200 --> 01:32:38.920
particularly the American psyche and the American political system, because

01:32:40.600 --> 01:32:46.040
cordoning off this whole subject area makes it possible for people who are up to no good to

01:32:46.120 --> 01:32:52.040
maneuver freely. No one's going to interfere, and if anyone tries to, you say, there are greatest

01:32:52.040 --> 01:32:58.440
ally. I support Israel. They're the chosen people. If that's true, if that's scriptural, then yes,

01:32:58.440 --> 01:33:03.640
we're bound to it. The problem is none of it's true, and yet people believe it in good conscience, and so

01:33:05.240 --> 01:33:12.200
within our own nation, within our own people group, we have opposite sides in defense of an

01:33:12.200 --> 01:33:19.560
alien group. Again, alien isn't inherently bad. It means different. It means outside. If they're

01:33:19.560 --> 01:33:25.720
alien and they should be supported, if that were true, I'd be first in line, because it's what God

01:33:25.720 --> 01:33:32.040
commanded, but it's not true, and it's actually incredibly spiritually and physically destructive

01:33:32.040 --> 01:33:38.120
for us to engage in it, and for us to even remain silent about it. A lot of people, when they discover

01:33:38.120 --> 01:33:44.600
this stuff, go from either complete indifference or complete Zionism. If they manage to get over

01:33:44.600 --> 01:33:50.600
the hump of saying, actually, this is true and I'm unhappy about it, it's really easy to fall off

01:33:50.600 --> 01:33:56.760
the other side of the horse and say, now I'm going to be rabidly against the Jews and all things at

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all times for all purposes. That's not the point. The point is tell the truth, and if the truth is

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that they're up to no good and we need to stop that by a Christian means, then by God, that's what

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we should do, but it should always be by God. It should always be what he wants, not what we want,

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not because we're fired up about something new. If you learn anything from what we're saying in

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this series or any of the other things, zeal is good, but it has to be mediated by faithfulness.

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It's more important to maintain your footing as a Christian than to run off in a new direction.

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Even if the new direction is the correct direction, nothing we're saying here is false.

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All this is vital to the modern Christian life, but we would much prefer that if you believe this,

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you pivot slowly, you reorient yourself, do research, do study on your own, look at these

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sources, go read whatever you want to read. Just be aware that when they took over the banks 200

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years ago, they took over a lot of other things too. Media is entirely controlled by Jews. It's

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called an anti-Semitic trope. It's called a stereotype, and yet at the same time,

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on their very own websites, you'll see them writing articles about how it's true. It's this

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cloaking device that's been put around an entire people. We're on one hand, it's false if it puts

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them in a bad light, but it's true if it puts them in a good light. That's not how the truth works.

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Either it's true or false, and if it makes them look good, okay, whatever, they look good, fine,

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I don't care. If it makes them look bad, then we have to deal with that. And so when you're digging

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into sources, it's part of why the show notes are always so rich with these links when we can find

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them, because most of what you're going to read is going to contradict what we're saying, and you're

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saying, well, those guys are liars. Well, that's one possibility. The other possibility is that a

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necessary part of keeping you from seeing the truth is making sure that you're hemmed in by enough

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superficial sources that you never get to the truth. And then it's easy to go along with the

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entire crowd that's saying one thing, and you have a few people saying another thing, and some of

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them say it in really terrible ways. Some of them are hateful. Some of them are stupid. Some of the

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people who agree with us about some of these things are extremely embarrassing, and it makes me sad

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that I can't convince them to be better about A, being Christians, and B, being persuasive. But

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it's possible to tell the truth and to be a Christian at the same time, in fact, it's required.

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And so as we work through all this stuff, just remember that if you're hearing something for

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the first time, or maybe you've heard it before and you've always disregarded it,

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maybe we made a better case than you've heard, and so you want to learn more.

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Be cautious. Don't just go adopting new crap. That's how we got into the situation in the first

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place. People started throwing new stuff into our culture saying, oh, now we're going to believe

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this instead. And what do we do? We threw out Scripture. We threw out thousands of years of

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Christianity, and suddenly, user is fine. Suddenly, feminism is valuable. Suddenly, the destruction

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of order and hierarchy is freedom. Let freedom ring. How did we get there? We got there by not

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checking our inputs and not comparing it with Scripture. That's all we're ever going to tell

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anyone to do. That's the only thing we're ever going to be vigorous about, because if you do that

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vigorously and faithfully, you're going to come along on the rest of the stuff that we're talking

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about. I was wrong about most of the stuff most of my life. I mean, I didn't look. I was never a

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lib, but I was certainly indifferent. I was a libertarian. I was like, oh, yeah, whatever. They're

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not hurting anybody. It's not my business. Don't be mean. Don't stereotype. It was only when I

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started looking at the facts as they played out immediately, because this isn't history. This is

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today. The revolutions, stuff in the 1800s and stuff in the 1900s, it's happening on our streets

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today. It's threatening our families and our communities, and only by understanding that

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there's an overarching pattern that goes back, frankly, to the Garden of Eden, goes back to the

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serpent. Once you can see that pattern weaving throughout history, then you can make sense of

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the things today that otherwise don't make any sense. That's why we said before, don't call people

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libtards. Don't say they're insane. What they're doing is evil, which is why, as Corey said, the

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right is the place of godly people. The right is fundamentally about order, full stop. When the

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communist revolutions were occurring in Europe in the 1900s, simultaneously, there was anarchy

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taking off in this country. We didn't have overt communists, but we had Italian anarchists

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sending pipe bombs everywhere. Hundreds of people died, thousands were injured, horrifically.

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It was a terror wave 100 years ago, and almost nobody knows about it. Anarchy and Talmudic

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Judaism go hand in hand. It's a repackaging for another ethnicity, for another situation,

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but the goal is the same. They were targeting bankers. They were targeting judges. They were

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targeting anyone who said, actually, all these people that just got off the boat are actually

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a social corruption. We should send them back. That might sound familiar to you today. That's

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nothing new. That's something that America has dealt with for a long time. 100 years ago, when

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they were trying to deal with it, there were judges and politicians and reporters who were

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getting killed by anarchists for saying it. It's not always directly branded in the way,

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but the behavior and the pattern is always going to look the same. Just look at the pattern. Pattern

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recognition, it's a part of IQ. It's also just part of being honest with yourself. You don't have to

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be that smart to figure this stuff out. You just have to believe your lying eyes. When you find

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something that's a demonstrable historical fact, and it makes you reconsider things you believe

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before, okay, you were wrong. That's fine. It's part of being a grown-up to have been wrong about

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something and then to fix it. That's one of the most grown-up things you can ever do to admit,

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I was tricked. I was fooled. I see now. I said a bunch of dumb stuff. I did a bunch of dumb stuff.

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Repent, straighten out, tell the truth, serve God.

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And so we'll close out this episode with a little bit of history and then two short passages of

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Scripture. First, I want to read a list of names, partly because it will be relevant for future

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episodes and partly because they are actually names worth reading. I'll resist reading the German

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versions. I'll read the English versions of the names. John, Duke of Saxony, Elector. George,

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Margrave of Brandenburg. Ernest, Duke of Lunarburg. Philip, Landgrave of Hesse. John, Frederick,

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Duke of Saxony. Francis, Duke of Lunarburg. Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt. Senate and Magistracy

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of Nuremberg. Senate of Leutlingen. These are the names, seven nobles in two cities,

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that were signed at the end of the Augsburg Confession as presented to Emperor Charles V.

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The reason these names are relevant, the reason they're worth reading,

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is that when they presented this before the Imperial Diet in 1530 in Augsburg,

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they were very much putting their lives on the line. Not just their lives, but their names,

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their lands, their honor. And the reason they knew this was that earlier John Huss had been

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executed and that was despite the fact that the Pope had promised him safe passage, safe conduct,

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and fair treatment. He was burnt at the stake for trusting in the Pope's word.

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So these men knew full well what the consequences of what they were doing could be. They knew that

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they could be stripped of their titles potentially, potentially burned at the stake as heretics for

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signing on to this confession of God's truth. And yet they did so. Because that is what Christians,

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particularly Christian rulers, are supposed to do. They were fulfilling their duty as faithful

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Christians and as faithful Christian princes. But at the beginning of the Augsburg Confession,

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there is a short passage of Scripture, and it is a relevant passage of Scripture,

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and it is most interesting because it comes directly after mentioning that it is submitted to

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His Imperial Majesty Charles V and directly before the preface which is addressed to

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His Imperial Majesty Charles V. And that is Psalm 119, verse 46.

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I will also speak of your testimonies before kings and shall not be put to shame.

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And that is the Christian position that God will carry us through. God will keep us safe,

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and it may very well be not to our mind what safety is, because God also ordained the end of John

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Hus. He went to the stake proclaiming God's truth, and he received a martyr's crown.

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That may be the end for some of us. It was not the end for these men, although many of them did

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suffer for the truth later on. The end is up to God. It is our duty to do what God has commanded

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us to do in the interim. And so I want to double down, as it were, on that passage of Scripture

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with the words of Christ from Matthew 10. Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of

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wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Beware of men, for they will deliver you

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over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings

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for my sake, to bear witness before them and the nations. When they deliver you over, do not be anxious

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how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that

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hour, for it is not you who speak but the spirit of your father speaking through you.

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Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children

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arise against parents and have them put to death, and you will be hated by all for my name's sake.

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But the one who endures to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in one town,

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flee to the next, for truly I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel

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before the Son of Man comes. A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

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It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master.

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If they have called the master of the house beelisable, how much more will they malign those

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of his household?

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you