WEBVTT 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:39.600 Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast. 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:40.480 I am Corey J. 00:00:40.720 --> 00:00:44.640 Mahler, and I'm still woe. 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.160 On today's Stone Choir, we're going to begin part three of our 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:51.360 episode discussing the subject of the Jews and history. 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:53.440 Uh before we begin, I just want to do a little bit 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:54.720 of brief housekeeping. 00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:56.720 Uh first thank you to everyone who's listening. 00:00:56.720 --> 00:00:59.680 We uh had our biggest month ever in June. 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:03.120 Uh we don't like we've said on the listener feedback episode, we 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:06.720 don't have any creepy tracking, so we don't know exact numbers, but 00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:10.320 based on bandwidth we're guessing we probably have about three thousand listeners 00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:12.720 every week, which is incredible. 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:18.160 it's very humbling for us to have so many people excited to 00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:20.800 tune in every week and that's entirely word of mouth. 00:01:20.800 --> 00:01:22.080 That's you sharing with friends. 00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:24.000 So thank you to everyone who's been sharing. 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.120 It's it means a lot, and yeah, I'm we're thankful that you 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:28.560 are getting something out of it. 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:29.600 Uh if you want to help continue 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.880 spreading the word, please take a moment in your podcast player to 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:36.720 leave us a five star review. 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:39.840 Um five star doesn't mean you agree with everything we say. 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.000 Basically it's like a thumbs up or thumbs down. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.200 If you give something less than five stars, it drags the score 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:48.640 down and just the way people's minds work, anything less than like 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.280 four point eight, four point nine, people like, ah, maybe that's not 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:51.760 so good. 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:54.160 So if you like us at all, please leave a five star 00:01:54.160 --> 00:01:57.440 to uh offset the jerks who leave one star views because they're 00:01:57.440 --> 00:01:59.920 bitter hate listeners. 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:05.280 Uh on the subject of access to the podcast, eventually there may 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:08.000 come a day where we do get censored by some of the 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.240 podcast listings. 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:12.800 As we mentioned every week, we have show notes. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.880 There's a website if you weren't aware, stone choir.com. 00:02:16.880 --> 00:02:19.040 You can always find the episodes there. 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:21.920 If you happen to be listening on the web, you should also 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:24.880 know that you can find us in Podcast Player, which is a 00:02:24.880 --> 00:02:27.120 way better listening experience. 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:32.320 On the website, you can look if you just go to stonehyfenquire.com, 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:35.600 right beneath the graphic where we have our little brief intro, we 00:02:35.600 --> 00:02:40.080 have a URL for the RSS feed for the podcast. 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:42.800 The reason that's important is that even if we were to get 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:47.120 kicked off of every podcast platform in the universe, if you feed 00:02:47.600 --> 00:02:53.200 that RSS URL into your podcast player manually, you'll still automatically get 00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:54.000 the episodes. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:57.040 So I would recommend if you're using a player to get that 00:02:57.040 --> 00:02:59.280 RSS feed from the website. 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:03.040 Take a minute in manually add it and then maybe delete the 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:06.000 one from the regular podcast playback so you only get one a 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.640 week. 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This is just a good time 'cause we've been doing this 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:46.160 is episode thirty six. 00:03:46.160 --> 00:03:49.200 We've done these almost continuously every week, so we could use a 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:52.240 brief break, so for the next two weeks there will not be 00:03:52.880 --> 00:03:54.240 any new episodes. 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.960 I'd recommend going back and listening to some of the previous ones 00:03:57.040 --> 00:03:58.160 if you're Jonesing. 00:03:58.160 --> 00:04:00.400 Uh if you didn't happen to start at the beginning, it's worth 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.600 it. 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So add that to your podcast player if you haven't yet, 00:04:48.960 --> 00:04:51.200 because it's really valuable. 00:04:51.200 --> 00:04:56.000 So on to today's episode, we're going to begin just briefly by 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.440 rewinding back to one of the things we touched on earlier by 00:04:59.440 --> 00:05:02.400 talking a little bit about Jews and banking. 00:05:02.400 --> 00:05:08.000 Uh we had mentioned the n spiritual nature of usury in I 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.320 think it was about episode five on um we're talking about forgotten 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:15.200 doctrines and we spent a little bit of time in that discussing 00:05:15.200 --> 00:05:20.240 the fact that usury scripturally means any charging of interest, any lending 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:21.200 at interest. 00:05:21.200 --> 00:05:24.320 It's not excessive interest, it's any interest at all. 00:05:24.320 --> 00:05:27.600 If you hand somebody a hundred dollars and you spec one hundred 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.640 and five dollars back, you are a usurer. 00:05:30.640 --> 00:05:33.360 And historically you would have been executed for that because it was 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:34.480 a damnable sin. 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:35.520 Still a damnable sin. 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:37.520 It's no longer a crime. 00:05:37.520 --> 00:05:43.600 So historically, the Mosaic Jews, the faithful Jews of the Old Testament, 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.960 those who were faithful, never engaged in usury of any sort. 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:50.800 They never lent at interest, because God forbade it. 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:53.840 Which, as we mentioned in that episode, is something that was continued 00:05:53.840 --> 00:05:56.240 in Christendom up until the Middle Ages. 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:00.240 Uh w wasn't really wasn't almost Luther's Day that we began to 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.240 get to the modern conception that sure interest is okay, just not 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:04.800 too much. 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:08.240 Then you have then you're doing usury, and that's bad. 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.680 The history of Jews and banking is interesting because it kinda lays 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.760 the groundwork for everything else that we're going to talk about into 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:15.440 In today's episode. 00:06:15.440 --> 00:06:19.600 So I just want to briefly rewind back to the Babylonian exile 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:21.600 that we talked about last week. 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:25.920 When the Jews were in exile in Babylon in modern day Iraq, 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:30.800 in the 500 years or so leading up to Christ's birth, we 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:35.680 mentioned that they began adopting practices like uh witchcraft. 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:39.120 You know, that they the obviously the Jews had engaged in witchcraft 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.160 at least as far back as Egypt, but there was also a 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.080 lot of that going on in Babylon. 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:49.120 We know that many of the black magic practices, the evil practices, 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:52.640 were amplified in Babylon, even things maybe they weren't doing they started 00:06:52.640 --> 00:06:55.840 doing lending it interest is another thing that they picked up in 00:06:55.840 --> 00:07:02.080 Babylon. So beginning during that exile, they began to basically act as 00:07:02.080 --> 00:07:04.240 a banking body. 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:08.240 And the first place that this shows up is fascinatingly the temple. 00:07:08.320 --> 00:07:10.960 I didn't know this until I was looking at it, but money 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:14.000 changer, you know, when we think about Jesus cleansing the temple of 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:18.480 the money changers, we think about you know money for pigeons and 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:22.560 the the annual tax to the temple that was given and so 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:25.680 the money changers have to receive whatever money they had and then 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:28.240 give them a Hebrew shekel to be could in put it in 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:29.600 the coffers of the temple. 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.360 And so we think it was all just sort of a natural 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:37.680 above-board thing, but in reality, that was sort of the first visible 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:40.320 element of Jews in banking. 00:07:40.320 --> 00:07:45.280 And there's actually records in the Apocrypha, in fact, of of the 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:49.280 Jews engaging in banking prior to Jesus Day. 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:52.480 Uh in 2 Maccabees there's an account of 00:07:53.760 --> 00:07:56.960 a man named Simon the Benjaminite. 00:07:57.280 --> 00:08:00.480 He had been a temple guard, he had a falling out with 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:04.480 the high priests, and he went to the rulers, the the secular 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:09.280 rulers, and said, Hey, the Jewish temple in Jerusalem is full of 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:12.000 uncountable quantities of gold and silver. 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:15.840 You should go take that, because it's not on the books as 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:20.560 being allocated for sacrificial and ceremonial purposes. 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:25.120 And a man named Heliodorus went and was dip dispatched to the 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:27.440 temple and he went to the high priest and said, I'm here 00:08:27.440 --> 00:08:28.080 to inspect. 00:08:28.080 --> 00:08:30.080 I heard that there was a lot of money here. 00:08:30.080 --> 00:08:34.080 And the high priest basically started wailing and said, No, all the 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:36.720 money in there is there's only a little bit, and it's all 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:40.960 dedicated for orphans and widows and oh there's one rich guy and 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:44.320 so we have we have this amount of money that will be 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:48.480 maybe s uh unusual, but it's actually just because we're holding this 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:49.840 one rich guy's money. 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:51.920 else to worry about. 00:08:51.920 --> 00:08:55.200 And Heliodorus said, Well, I'm gonna go check. 00:08:55.200 --> 00:09:00.000 And basically the in 2 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees cap chapter 3, I 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:05.440 believe, describes how the high priest got everyone in the neighborhood, all 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.920 the everyone around the temple worked into a frenzy at the prospect 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:14.240 of this man, this Gentile, this pagan, entering the temple, which was 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:15.440 God's holy place. 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.560 This was prior to the destruction of the temple is prior to 00:09:18.560 --> 00:09:19.600 Jesus' day. 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.640 So it was the God was still present there. 00:09:22.640 --> 00:09:25.600 Now it's not clear from the text to what degree they were 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:29.600 freaking out at the Gentiles getting a hold of their statue of 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:34.800 gold versus just entering the temple, which was forbidden and was frankly 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.440 was blasphemous. 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.440 When he got near the temple, a supernatural event occurred and he 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:47.360 was basically beaten back by three figures that uh basically beat him 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:53.200 unconscious and he was dragged away, and he adopted the Jewish faith 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:54.560 as a result of that. 00:09:54.560 --> 00:09:58.080 So the account is that it was supernatural, I believe that. 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:02.080 Now whether the supernatural intervention to keep him from looking inside the 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:06.560 temple for this money was protecting the money, or protecting the temple, 00:10:06.560 --> 00:10:11.760 I think would determine whether the supernatural element was God or demons. 00:10:11.760 --> 00:10:13.760 I I will assume for the sake of charity that it was 00:10:13.760 --> 00:10:16.480 God, and he was keeping this man who was not a believer 00:10:16.560 --> 00:10:19.280 out of the temple, because that was the law. 00:10:19.280 --> 00:10:23.600 But it's interesting that just like all the modern congressmen who try 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:27.040 to get into the Fort Knox and inspect where the gold is, 00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:27.840 he never got in there. 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:29.040 He never got to look at it. 00:10:29.040 --> 00:10:32.160 So the story that the high priest told about it being all 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:37.760 donations for widows and orphans was all we all we know. 00:10:37.760 --> 00:10:42.160 It's interesting if you do the math in Exodus thirty there's a 00:10:42.160 --> 00:10:47.600 temple tax that is obligated to every adult Jewish male believe above 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:50.160 the age of twenty, once a year he has to give half 00:10:50.160 --> 00:10:53.920 a shekel to the temple, which is a nominal amount. 00:10:53.920 --> 00:10:58.880 Uh depending on how you do the math for inflation and the 00:10:58.880 --> 00:11:00.880 expected value at the time. 00:11:00.880 --> 00:11:06.640 It's probably between about maybe six and forty dollars today, roughly. 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:09.200 Either way, it's not a huge amount. 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:12.480 But if you have one to two million Jews a year showing 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:16.320 up and paying that into the temple, you're looking at somewhere between 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:21.040 maybe a dozen million and sixty to seventy million dollars worth of 00:11:21.040 --> 00:11:23.440 silver a year being put in the temple. 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:26.480 And this was the second temple, this was built you know five 00:11:26.640 --> 00:11:30.400 five five hundred BC it was finished, so they weren't paying a 00:11:30.400 --> 00:11:31.360 mortgage on this thing. 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:32.880 This was just all money coming in. 00:11:32.880 --> 00:11:37.200 Now they had expenses obviously, but it's not at all unbelievable that 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:40.320 there would have been vast quantities inside the temple, and that's a 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:41.520 big piggy bank. 00:11:41.520 --> 00:11:45.680 That's you know, anyone anyone who is ever confronted with access to 00:11:45.680 --> 00:11:49.760 cash, there's potentially the temptation to do something bad with it. 00:11:49.760 --> 00:11:52.720 So I just find it interesting that that accusation would have been 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:54.560 leveled. They never found out. 00:11:54.560 --> 00:11:57.680 But if you look at the math, it's entirely believable that there 00:11:57.680 --> 00:12:01.120 was perhaps more there than should have been. 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.680 So after the fall of the temple 00:12:05.280 --> 00:12:10.160 When the Jews were became the diaspora and they were basically scattered 00:12:10.160 --> 00:12:14.560 from Rome, many more of them moved into Babylon, what later later 00:12:14.560 --> 00:12:16.080 became Iraq. 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:16.400 And 00:12:17.680 --> 00:12:23.840 we know from antiquity that they continued to engage in banking practices, 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.360 and as they learned when they were in the Babylonian captivity, they 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:28.560 just became better at it. 00:12:28.560 --> 00:12:32.480 And banking meant both, you know, stash in cash, loaning cash, and 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:35.520 then lending cash and interest. 00:12:35.520 --> 00:12:41.840 When the caliphate came about, when when Islam arose, the caliphate, you 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.920 know, had a had a stronghold where the Jews were, they did 00:12:45.920 --> 00:12:49.200 not lose their rights to engage in that sort of banking. 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.400 And so there will be a link in the show notes to 00:12:52.400 --> 00:12:56.080 the Jewish virtual library, where I got some of the pointers to 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:57.200 some of this data. 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:00.320 But it's just interesting as you look at them, you know, th 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:03.440 this is this is a Jewish website, they're bragging. 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:05.920 Which is part of why it makes it a reliable source, is 00:13:05.920 --> 00:13:08.160 that they're just talking about how great it was the Jews have 00:13:08.160 --> 00:13:10.080 always been engaged in banking. 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.360 And so they trace this line, you know, being in Bab Babylon 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:17.120 through, you know, modern day Baghdad and surrounds. 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:21.040 And they discussed the fact that when the Muslims came along, they 00:13:21.040 --> 00:13:26.800 continued to and in fact enhanced their reach into government. 00:13:26.800 --> 00:13:31.920 And there was simultaneously, of course, the diaspora into Europe. 00:13:31.920 --> 00:13:36.240 And so their records as far back as the fifth century A.D. 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:40.880 where we have the Merovingian kings and the early Roman church at 00:13:40.880 --> 00:13:44.960 that point also already beginning to take loans from Jews. 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:47.920 Because of course, throughout the history of Christendom, up until the Middle 00:13:47.920 --> 00:13:50.400 Ages, usury was forbidden. 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:55.520 It was a crime for a Christian to lend it interest. 00:13:55.520 --> 00:13:59.440 And starting as early as the 400, four, four and five hundred 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:04.480 AD, we find that Jews were permitted in Christian lands to engage 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:07.360 in criminal behavior for Christians. 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.120 And so th you know, the Jewish Virtual Library agrees with what, 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:14.720 you know, today is considered a trope or a stereotype or, you 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:18.560 know, it's it's an anti Semitic lie to say that Jews and 00:14:18.560 --> 00:14:20.320 banking are synonymous. 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.280 The history of banking is basically the history of Jews in the 00:14:23.280 --> 00:14:25.120 West. That's not an insult. 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:29.920 Now, if you believe that usury is a sin, that's a problem, 00:14:29.920 --> 00:14:35.520 but to say the Jews in banking is just synonymous, it's simply 00:14:35.520 --> 00:14:37.360 reality. And so 00:14:38.400 --> 00:14:43.200 roughly between the the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, Jews pretty much had 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:47.920 a complete monopoly on lending in Christian lands. 00:14:47.920 --> 00:14:51.360 And most of that lending was not done to the common man, 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:55.600 it was done principally to kings and to the church, which obviously 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:57.760 has a corrosive influence. 00:14:57.760 --> 00:15:02.400 And many of the wars that are fought in early European history 00:15:02.400 --> 00:15:06.160 are financed by lending from Jewish bankers. 00:15:06.160 --> 00:15:08.800 And so that kind of dovetails with the rest of this episode 00:15:08.800 --> 00:15:14.240 today, that wherever we have found historically Jewish presence in Christian lands, 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:18.160 we find them engaging in behaviors that are deemed sinful and not 00:15:18.160 --> 00:15:21.360 Christian, but we go along with it because there's some upside. 00:15:21.920 --> 00:15:25.440 But the upside is ultimately morally pernicious. 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:29.520 There would have been fewer European wars if those kings couldn't have 00:15:29.520 --> 00:15:30.240 financed it. 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:33.440 Now, the kings bear the culpability for borrowing the money for fighting 00:15:33.760 --> 00:15:36.480 a war if it was not a just war, but if they 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.120 hadn't been able to borrow the money from Jews, some of those 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.680 wars wouldn't have been fought, or they wouldn't have been fought for 00:15:41.680 --> 00:15:44.240 as long, or for the same reasons. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:48.400 And so That's one of the things we want to get across 00:15:48.400 --> 00:15:54.080 in today's episode is that these these effects are pernicious because ultimately 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:57.280 usury is sinful, lending it interest is sinful. 00:15:57.280 --> 00:15:59.680 Again, we make that case in one of the earlier episodes, but 00:16:00.880 --> 00:16:05.360 as a scriptural fact, this was recognized throughout Christendom until the Middle 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:10.400 Ages. And so wherever you had usury, it was principally for misconduct. 00:16:10.400 --> 00:16:14.880 It was for the aggrandizement of a church that was increasingly not 00:16:14.880 --> 00:16:21.200 focused on spiritual matters, as was more focused on grandiose pomp and 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:25.920 on political power, and then on kings who were pursuing political power. 00:16:25.920 --> 00:16:29.920 And we mentioned last week with the Inquisition and the Conversos that 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:32.400 on this on this very website and we talked a little bit 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:37.200 about how the conversos were Jews who were forced to be baptized 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.840 and forced to convert to Christianity. 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:45.120 And the Inquisition was pursuing whether or not they had actually truly 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:50.400 converted. On the Jewish Virtual Library website, there's a couple paragraphs talking 00:16:50.400 --> 00:16:55.600 about how many of the Jews in Spain use their baptism as 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:59.200 an entree into higher echelons of power. 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:02.880 They're very open about the fact that they falsely converted to Christianity. 00:17:02.880 --> 00:17:06.560 They pretended to be Christians so that they could have enhanced banking 00:17:06.560 --> 00:17:11.200 contacts and therefore enhanced power, enhanced influence. 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:15.440 In fact, the Nina Penta and Santa Maria when they came to 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.720 the what b you know, we today know as the United States, 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:23.280 you know, we're recording this episode on July 4th on Independence Day. 00:17:23.280 --> 00:17:27.280 That was funded not by Queen Isabel of Spain, but it was 00:17:27.280 --> 00:17:30.000 funded by one of her Jewish financiers. 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.880 He was very powerful and he wanted to get it done. 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:36.800 And so it was actually Jews who s sent that mission to 00:17:36.800 --> 00:17:37.520 the New World. 00:17:37.520 --> 00:17:40.320 Now they thought they were going to India, they didn't find the 00:17:40.320 --> 00:17:47.760 Americas, but that's just an example of how the converso false baptism 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:54.480 getting into banking and enhanced access for banking, it's a part of 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:55.120 European history. 00:17:55.760 --> 00:17:57.520 It's just inescapable. 00:17:57.520 --> 00:18:00.640 And it's you know, as we said last week at some length, 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.520 it's okay for us as Christians to say this is what happened. 00:18:03.520 --> 00:18:05.280 These are just historical facts. 00:18:05.280 --> 00:18:07.440 It's not calling one anyone names. 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:11.120 I mean the fact that Jewish banking is effectively redundant, if you 00:18:11.120 --> 00:18:13.600 go look at that webpage, it's very long. 00:18:13.600 --> 00:18:16.720 It has tons and tons and tons of names and dates and 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:21.120 places, and all of it leads to the inexorable conclusion that wherever 00:18:21.120 --> 00:18:24.400 there's banking in Christendom, it's always been Jews. 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:28.640 And so if anything bad ever happens with banking, there's almost always 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:30.320 been a Jew involved. 00:18:30.320 --> 00:18:33.760 Period. And as we said last week, it doesn't mean hate them. 00:18:33.760 --> 00:18:36.720 It doesn't mean we're just gonna be angry and hateful. 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.280 It's just is literally what happened. 00:18:39.280 --> 00:18:43.040 And so one of the important reasons that we wanted to tackle 00:18:43.040 --> 00:18:46.400 this subject is that we can't talk about our own history as 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:51.360 Christians, as Europeans, without talking about the impact the Jews have had 00:18:51.360 --> 00:18:52.880 on that history. 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.160 This is going to be one of those episodes that maybe seems 00:18:56.320 --> 00:18:59.040 a little bit scattershot. 00:18:59.600 --> 00:19:04.320 And that's in part because this is going to be a rough 00:19:04.320 --> 00:19:07.920 overview. This is not going to be drilling down into the details 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:12.400 of everything, because this is going to span a fair chunk of 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:14.960 time. Not as much as the last episode. 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:17.840 The last episode was a little heavier on history. 00:19:17.840 --> 00:19:24.000 This time we're touching more on the ideology behind this history, what 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:28.160 drove the Jews to do the things they have done in history. 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:31.200 And banking ties into that very well. 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:35.120 As you were discussing the history of banking, I thought that really 00:19:35.120 --> 00:19:38.720 it ties in directly to sort of the overall theme 00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:39.920 of 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:46.400 this entire series of episodes, but in particular this episode and perhaps 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:51.760 also the next one in three weeks, and that is Tikun Olam, 00:19:51.760 --> 00:19:57.520 and tikun olam is a Hebrew phrase that is usually translated repairing 00:19:57.520 --> 00:20:01.760 the world, which is relatively accurate. 00:20:01.760 --> 00:20:04.160 Tikun is to repair, it's repairing. 00:20:05.040 --> 00:20:10.480 Olam, however, needs a little more explanation because the Hebrew language is 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:13.120 a very limited language, particularly ancient Hebrew. 00:20:13.120 --> 00:20:16.080 Modern Hebrew, as we've mentioned before, and we'll get into a little 00:20:16.080 --> 00:20:20.400 bit in this episode as well most likely, is a constructed language, 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:24.400 it is more expansive than ancient Hebrew, it can express more ideas 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:26.320 more clearly. 00:20:26.320 --> 00:20:29.120 But ancient Hebrew is very limited. 00:20:29.120 --> 00:20:29.360 It is 00:20:30.560 --> 00:20:31.760 a tiny language. 00:20:31.760 --> 00:20:33.520 It has a small vocabulary. 00:20:33.520 --> 00:20:37.680 You have to use words to mean a lot of different things 00:20:37.840 --> 00:20:40.080 because you don't have very many words. 00:20:40.080 --> 00:20:44.720 As opposed to say German or English which have massive vocabularies there 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:49.040 is always a word to express if not the precise idea you 00:20:49.040 --> 00:20:53.360 need, then a couple of words together to express that precise idea. 00:20:53.360 --> 00:20:57.920 Olam and Has a large lexical scope. 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.120 It can mean the world, it can mean eternity, it can mean 00:21:01.120 --> 00:21:03.520 everything, and so you need to keep that in mind when you 00:21:03.520 --> 00:21:05.120 hear Tikonolam. 00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:08.240 It means repairing everything. 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:11.440 Now if you look into Kabbalah and things like that, you'll see 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:12.800 that more clearly. 00:21:12.800 --> 00:21:15.680 I don't think we'll really touch on that in this episode, partly 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:18.560 because no one should spend any time looking into Kabbalah. 00:21:18.560 --> 00:21:24.160 You're just inviting demons into your life, so don't do that. 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:30.320 But the idea of Tikunolam is the Jewish idea that human beings 00:21:30.320 --> 00:21:33.760 bear a responsibility to improve the world. 00:21:33.760 --> 00:21:37.360 Now at first, to a Christian, that sounds great, because as Christians, 00:21:37.360 --> 00:21:40.720 we have a responsibility to improve the world. 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:44.080 In fact, that was one of the things that we were originally 00:21:44.080 --> 00:21:45.200 supposed to do in the garden. 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:46.320 We were gardeners. 00:21:46.320 --> 00:21:49.600 That was a big part of what humanity was originally meant to 00:21:49.600 --> 00:21:51.600 do. Represent God in creation. 00:21:51.600 --> 00:21:55.520 That's what it means to be an icon or an image of 00:21:55.520 --> 00:21:58.000 God, same word. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:03.440 But also by being a gardener you are taming, subduing creation, improving 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:05.840 things. God gave us work to do. 00:22:05.840 --> 00:22:08.080 He didn't do all the work for us. 00:22:08.080 --> 00:22:11.840 And so it sounds like something that is perhaps Christian, but it 00:22:11.840 --> 00:22:13.600 is very much not Christian. 00:22:14.080 --> 00:22:19.600 In the modern context, Tikun Olam has become social justice. 00:22:19.600 --> 00:22:22.560 Now it's been that for quite some time, actually. 00:22:22.560 --> 00:22:25.200 You see the roots of that back in the Enlightenment, which is 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:29.440 where we'll be really properly starting this history after I explain the 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:32.560 rest of this concept here. 00:22:32.560 --> 00:22:37.440 And so it's actually anti Christian in the conception the Jewish conception 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:39.040 of Tikunolam. 00:22:39.040 --> 00:22:44.640 And that is because the Jewish conception, partly Kabbalistic, but partly the 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:49.760 Haskelah, which is the Jewish Enlightenment, we'll be getting into that, their 00:22:50.080 --> 00:22:55.760 idea is that God is incapable of doing these things. 00:22:55.760 --> 00:22:58.240 Some of them will say that God refuses to do them and 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:04.080 so it falls to men in the Kabbalistic understanding they are working 00:23:04.080 --> 00:23:07.200 to perfect something that is imperfect in the essence of God, which 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:10.800 is almost blasphemous just to say, but of course the Jewish God 00:23:10.800 --> 00:23:13.600 is not God, so I'm not talking about imperfection in the Lord 00:23:13.600 --> 00:23:18.880 God, but in the Jewish God, who is in fact quite imperfect. 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:24.480 But that is what is underlying all of this throughout this entire 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:26.000 history of the Jewish people. 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:29.200 There is this drive to remake the world. 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:33.840 It is a revolutionary spirit, a desire to see things remade in 00:23:33.840 --> 00:23:36.880 an image that suits the Jews. 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.800 And banking ties into that, because banking is one way in which 00:23:40.800 --> 00:23:44.880 you can wield a great deal of power and conveniently you can 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:47.200 wield a great deal of power without ever having to pick up 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:52.560 a sword, which, historically, after the time of the Maccabees at least, 00:23:52.560 --> 00:23:56.640 the Jews have not been a people very inclined toward actually picking 00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:58.480 up weapons of war and going to war. 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:03.120 Now, murder and such very much been a part of Jewish history. 00:24:03.120 --> 00:24:05.600 We will see that in the various revolutions, we've seen that in 00:24:05.600 --> 00:24:06.960 previous revolutions. 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:11.200 But actually forming an organized military and doing something on a battlefield 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.200 was not becoming of the Jewish people of late. 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:18.800 However, if you are the one who controls the purse strings, you 00:24:18.800 --> 00:24:22.400 can influence the one who directs the sword. 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:27.040 Now, of course, power is power, and gold is not power, but 00:24:27.040 --> 00:24:30.560 you can buy power with gold, or you can influence the person 00:24:30.560 --> 00:24:34.000 who has power with gold, and that is how banking works. 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:38.160 And we will see that perhaps most starkly when we eventually get 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:41.280 to our episode on the World Wars. 00:24:41.280 --> 00:24:45.920 Because it is the banking power that plays probably the most significant 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:47.840 role in the World Wars. 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:53.040 But to return, as I said, to properly the start of the 00:24:53.040 --> 00:24:58.320 history in this episode, we move into the Enlightenment, because that is 00:24:58.320 --> 00:25:00.720 essentially where we left off with the last episode. 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:03.360 We left off in the Middle Ages, the end of the Middle 00:25:03.360 --> 00:25:07.840 Ages, the early modern period, leading into the Enlightenment. 00:25:07.840 --> 00:25:15.520 And so the European Enlightenment lasted from it depends on who 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:16.640 you ask. 00:25:16.800 --> 00:25:21.520 It lasted either from the mid-1600s to the early eighteen hundreds, and 00:25:21.520 --> 00:25:25.040 that would be the death of Kant in that conception is considered 00:25:25.040 --> 00:25:29.520 the end of the Enlightenment period, or and I think this is 00:25:29.520 --> 00:25:32.720 probably a better conception for political purposes. 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:36.880 For intellectual purposes the first definition is probably best, but for political 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:41.760 purposes it is generally considered historically to have begun with the death 00:25:41.760 --> 00:25:42.880 of Louis XV 00:25:43.840 --> 00:25:48.480 in seventeen fifteen and ended with the beginning of the French Revolution 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:50.960 in seventeen eighty nine. 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:56.080 But alongside this European Enlightenment, we've gone into that previously we'll perhaps 00:25:56.080 --> 00:25:58.880 go into it in more depth in a future episode, but alongside 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:02.640 the European Enlightenment, there was a Jewish Enlightenment, which was called the 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:07.680 Haskala. That was from the mid seventeen hundreds to the late eighteen 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:12.400 hundreds, so roughly the same time, very large overlap here. 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:18.320 And you have a group of individuals in various places, basically schools, 00:26:18.320 --> 00:26:24.720 or little revolutionary groups as they would become, but initially ideological groups, 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:30.000 discussing the ideas of enlightenment so called. 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:35.280 In part what you have here is is an ideological civil war 00:26:35.760 --> 00:26:41.520 between an older strain of thought amongst the Jewish people and what 00:26:41.520 --> 00:26:43.440 would eventually become Zionism. 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:47.520 And Zionism, of course, as you can probably guess one, the older 00:26:47.520 --> 00:26:51.120 strain of thought that had been more or less ascendant for some 00:26:51.120 --> 00:26:53.600 time was assimilationist. 00:26:53.600 --> 00:26:58.000 And the assimilationists argued that essentially the Jews should fit in with 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:03.280 their host societies at least to the extent of appearing to be 00:27:03.280 --> 00:27:04.480 members of those societies. 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:08.240 Now they maintained their Jewish customs and practices and such in secret 00:27:08.320 --> 00:27:13.360 many times, sometimes openly, but many times in secret. 00:27:13.360 --> 00:27:16.720 But in large part they blended into the society. 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:20.640 Part of it was simply mercenary, it was to avoid persecution, but 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:25.440 part of it was simply to live alongside the people alongside whom 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.200 they were living. 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:31.120 The Zionists, on the other hand, which is what you really see 00:27:31.120 --> 00:27:35.040 ascendant in these groups, the Masculine, part of the Haskalah 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:43.120 They don't want to live alongside their European gr hosts, as it 00:27:43.120 --> 00:27:45.600 were, in peace. 00:27:45.600 --> 00:27:49.520 They want Jewish nationalism, they want Jewish identity, they want to be 00:27:49.520 --> 00:27:54.160 distinctly other from the societies in which they are living. 00:27:54.160 --> 00:28:01.360 And eventually this pushes toward once again having a state called Israel. 00:28:01.360 --> 00:28:06.080 It is important here to note where some of these major schools 00:28:06.080 --> 00:28:09.040 were, because this will lead into 00:28:10.080 --> 00:28:13.200 I'm not going to bury the Lee, this will lead into revolutions 00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:15.120 shortly hereafter. 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:21.600 Four of the main schools were located in Berlin, Vienna, Austria, Galicia, 00:28:21.600 --> 00:28:25.520 which, for those who are unfamiliar with the history, Galicia would essentially 00:28:25.520 --> 00:28:32.480 be modern day part of Poland and part of Ukraine And Russia. 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:37.440 These are four of the nations, European well, three nations in one 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:42.320 area, where we are going to see some of the most violent 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:47.200 Marxist communist uprisings in the eighteen hundreds. 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:48.880 Three of them in the eighteen hundreds. 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:54.800 Russia has some abortive revolutions throughout the eighteen hundreds, and then really 00:28:54.880 --> 00:29:00.800 obviously it's the communist revolution that ultimately topples the traditional Russian society. 00:29:00.800 --> 00:29:05.360 It takes longer in Russia for various political and economic reasons, quite 00:29:05.360 --> 00:29:11.680 frankly. But these But these schools form the basis of those uprisings. 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:16.480 It is these schools that provide the ideology that eventually pushes for 00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:21.440 these Marxist uprisings, for these in some cases mass movements of peasants 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:22.000 to overthrow 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:25.600 their so called overlords. 00:29:25.600 --> 00:29:32.800 These are communist revolutions spurred on by Jewish intellectuals who are directly 00:29:33.280 --> 00:29:39.040 the direct ancestors ideologically of modern day Zionism. 00:29:39.120 --> 00:29:39.360 And 00:29:39.360 --> 00:29:43.520 what's interesting about calling them communist revolutions, and indeed they are, is 00:29:43.520 --> 00:29:49.840 that they are communists in every detail prior to Das Kapital having 00:29:49.840 --> 00:29:50.720 been written. 00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:53.840 These are because of course Marx was a Jew as well. 00:29:53.840 --> 00:29:55.760 He didn't invent that from cold cloth. 00:29:55.760 --> 00:30:00.480 Basically the Communist Manifesto and the other things that were downstream or 00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:03.840 that we see as being upstream from all the communist things that 00:30:03.840 --> 00:30:11.280 followed, were in fact essentially the distillation of Tikanolam for the Goyam. 00:30:11.280 --> 00:30:15.520 So these Jews had been working on this revolutionary project for you 00:30:15.520 --> 00:30:20.480 know a hundred plus years at this point, specifically within Europe, and 00:30:20.800 --> 00:30:26.720 as they delivered the blueprints to these Europeans The reason that the 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.960 same pattern emerges over and over is that it's it's ancient. 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:32.800 It's an ancient pattern, as Corey said. 00:30:32.800 --> 00:30:35.920 It's the TikTolam pattern for 00:30:37.040 --> 00:30:40.240 social justice, for workers' rights, like all these things today that we 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:42.800 hear and we think, Oh yeah, there's some good to that. 00:30:42.800 --> 00:30:46.320 I can I can baptize that and make it Christian. 00:30:46.320 --> 00:30:51.840 Communism is older than the first men who called themselves communists And 00:30:51.840 --> 00:30:53.760 it wasn't just about a commune. 00:30:53.760 --> 00:30:58.160 It was about all of these values being packaged up and delivered 00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:02.240 and spread as in through these schools, influencing people. 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:06.240 And I think one of the important things about banking having led 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:07.760 up to this point is that 00:31:09.040 --> 00:31:14.160 as Jews became the merchant class, as they were traders and bankers, 00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:21.280 basically the white collar sort of echelon of society, they accumulated 00:31:21.280 --> 00:31:25.120 a disproportionate amount of wealth because those are those are more capitalist 00:31:25.120 --> 00:31:29.920 endeavors that naturally tend to produce more excess capital. 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:33.280 And so, of course, by having access to their own banks, they 00:31:33.280 --> 00:31:37.920 were able to accumulate that wealth and then deploy it both as 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:43.040 a as a weapon strategically at certain points to, you know, instigate, 00:31:43.040 --> 00:31:46.480 you know, to fund a particular uprising. 00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:49.920 But also if you're wealthier, people are more likely to want to 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:51.440 be around you for the most part. 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:52.720 It opens doors. 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:55.440 When you have money, people are nicer to you. 00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:58.960 Not everyone, but the people that you probably want to rub elbows 00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:00.400 with tend to be. 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:06.800 And so as they accumulated social status through the accumulation of wealth, 00:32:06.800 --> 00:32:12.080 as Corey said, they sort of just became European even while maintaining 00:32:12.080 --> 00:32:17.200 their Jewish identities, it was a side-by-side, I'm a German Jew, or 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:20.720 I'm a Russian Jew, or I'm a Polish Jew, and they wanted 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:26.560 to be both simultaneously to pursue Jewish Jewish ends in their host 00:32:26.560 --> 00:32:30.800 countries. And the we'll we'll talk a little bit about the divergence 00:32:30.800 --> 00:32:37.200 of of Zionism and integration because they both serve the same ultimate 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:38.880 ends via different means. 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:41.280 And so I think it's one of the confusing things today when 00:32:41.280 --> 00:32:44.880 you look at at Jews, you'll see some who are rabidly pro 00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:48.800 Israel, and you also find Jews who are supporting the plight of 00:32:48.800 --> 00:32:53.040 Palestinians. Now they never support the Palestinian Christians, but they'll support the 00:32:53.040 --> 00:32:54.560 Palestinian Muslims. 00:32:54.560 --> 00:32:57.840 And so it seems like they're two different kinds of Jews that 00:32:57.840 --> 00:33:02.240 have these very diametrically opposed beliefs when in fact they have the 00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:03.600 same ultimate goal. 00:33:03.600 --> 00:33:07.520 They're just sort of working both sides of the equation for their 00:33:07.520 --> 00:33:11.280 goals. And that's something that occurs throughout history. 00:33:11.760 --> 00:33:15.680 I would hope that when you mentioned that wealth tends to increase 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:20.240 one's influence or social s circle, that a proverb would have come 00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:22.960 to mind for the listeners, and that of course is Proverbs nineteen 00:33:23.040 --> 00:33:26.720 four, wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:29.280 by his friend. 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:36.240 And you mentioned that sometimes people try to baptize something and make 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:37.600 it Christian. 00:33:37.600 --> 00:33:42.320 And in this case, you really see a lot of this with 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:46.480 Tikunalam generally, but there's one thing in specific to which I want 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:49.600 to draw attention, and the reason I want to draw attention to 00:33:49.600 --> 00:33:54.880 this is that I see some Christians, but in particular pastors, committing 00:33:54.880 --> 00:34:01.760 a grave, a gross error and borrowing a concept from Judaism, from 00:34:01.760 --> 00:34:06.800 the Talmud that has no place in Christianity. 00:34:06.800 --> 00:34:10.480 And see if you can pick up on the word when I 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:15.280 read through this is part of the Jewish liturgy, the Alainu part 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:16.880 of that. 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:20.320 Let the time not be distant, O God, when all shall turn 00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:24.880 to you in love, when all the brokenness of our world is 00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:30.880 repaired by the work of our hands and our hearts. 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:33.680 And so many of you will have picked up on the word 00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:37.920 there. There are actually two words, but one I have to translate 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:39.760 so that you'll see it. 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:43.680 There's a word there in English that you will hear come out 00:34:43.680 --> 00:34:44.480 of the mouth of many pastors 00:34:45.520 --> 00:34:49.440 and others these days, and it is directly a concept from the 00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:54.560 Talmud, it has no place in Christianity, and that is brokenness. 00:34:54.560 --> 00:34:58.640 People will speak of individuals being broken sin, or of the brokenness 00:34:58.640 --> 00:35:02.160 of our world or the brokenness of sin, this is not Christian, 00:35:02.160 --> 00:35:05.280 this is Talmudic, this is wicked, this is pagan. 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.760 It has no place in the mouth of a Christian, and you 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.960 should rebuke anyone who uses it. 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:14.720 Where that comes from before I get to the second instance here, 00:35:14.720 --> 00:35:21.040 the second term, the idea of brokenness comes in part from the 00:35:21.040 --> 00:35:26.480 Talmud directly, but part through Kabbalistic interpreters of the Talmud, particularly some 00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:31.040 in Russia, the names aren't relevant here because again, not something into 00:35:31.040 --> 00:35:33.040 which you should really look deeply. 00:35:33.040 --> 00:35:37.680 Again, this would be inviting demons into your life, but to just 00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:41.440 let you know what is going on here, there is a Kabbalistic 00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:44.080 understanding, as I stated earlier, that 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:50.560 God himself, in his essence, is broken in a way. 00:35:50.560 --> 00:35:55.200 It essentially comes from their corrupted version of a creation myth where 00:35:55.440 --> 00:36:00.960 God withdrew his light from a part of reality and that created 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:06.160 the world and then through sin and corruption there's brokenness that enters 00:36:06.160 --> 00:36:10.000 in, and through prayer and meditation you can restore some of the 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:11.200 broken essence of God. 00:36:11.200 --> 00:36:13.600 That's the rough overview of it. 00:36:13.600 --> 00:36:17.200 Yes, it's as blasphemous as evil and it's sa as it sounds, 00:36:17.200 --> 00:36:17.520 but 00:36:18.640 --> 00:36:23.120 that's the idea that is being imported into Christianity by those who 00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:25.760 are using the term brokenness. 00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:27.680 So stop using that term. 00:36:27.680 --> 00:36:29.680 It is blasphemous. 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:36.000 But the second instance here is what is rendered as the brokenness 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.800 being repaired by the work. 00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:40.800 Well, that's tikonolam. 00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:41.920 That's the words there. 00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:44.320 That's what's being prayed by the Jews. 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:48.320 And you'll note that it's of our hands and our hearts. 00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:52.560 It's this arrogant conception that we are the ones who will repair 00:36:52.560 --> 00:36:54.640 what is broken and wrong in the world. 00:36:54.640 --> 00:36:58.000 We are the ones who will remake the world in our image. 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:01.760 This should start to sound like a particular character in scripture who 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:04.800 says that he will ascend above the most high and make his 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:06.880 throne in the heavens. 00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:12.480 That's not God, but it is the god of the Jews. 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:17.440 For a Christian, the specific terms that should be used instead are 00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:23.040 evil instead of brokenness, sin and evil. 00:37:23.040 --> 00:37:28.320 And in terms of repairing the world, that's sanctification. 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:31.360 That comes from God alone. 00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:33.600 And this is where the breakdown occurs. 00:37:33.680 --> 00:37:37.520 And the reason that this is so crucial is that when you 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:42.240 look at, for example, press releases from some of our own churches, 00:37:42.240 --> 00:37:45.760 when they talk about things related to civil rights, they will use 00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:52.320 this exact framing and this exact terminology to talk about, you know, 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:56.240 th they may call racism a sin, an ancestral sin of this 00:37:56.240 --> 00:38:00.720 nation. You know, this the United States, the America was born with 00:38:00.720 --> 00:38:03.040 the original sin of racism. 00:38:03.040 --> 00:38:06.880 That's what some of our own false prophets say among us. 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:10.880 And the fix for that, well they'll s they'll throw Jesus in 00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:16.080 there. Ultimately it's about them repairing that brokenness by going out and 00:38:16.080 --> 00:38:19.040 and making people not be racist anymore. 00:38:19.040 --> 00:38:22.320 And when you when you carefully parse the way they say those 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:26.000 things, it's clear that they're not talking about sanctification. 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:29.920 They're not talking about God's work in our hearts and in our 00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:35.840 lives. They're talking about reshaping in the image of the world to 00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:41.200 just go down whatever the morality of CNN is, and one by 00:38:41.200 --> 00:38:46.880 one deleting those things from people's hearts and minds coercively, if necessary, 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:50.800 not through God's love and not through God's sanctification, but by But 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:51.120 by 00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:57.200 you know, whatever amount of persecution and hatred you can direct at 00:38:57.200 --> 00:39:02.480 these evils, that is how you create the unbroken world with your 00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:03.600 own hands. 00:39:03.600 --> 00:39:06.880 And so when these men believe these things, they will of course 00:39:07.040 --> 00:39:10.000 engage in any manner of evil because they don't think it's evil. 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:13.200 They think that if by their own hands they're healing the world 00:39:13.200 --> 00:39:17.920 of its brokenness, of these original sins that aren't even in Scripture, 00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:20.160 then of course anything goes. 00:39:20.160 --> 00:39:23.520 If your if your ultimate goal is good to perfect the world, 00:39:23.520 --> 00:39:26.880 whatever you have to do to get there, you can rationalize. 00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:29.600 I mean it's literally the end justifies the means. 00:39:29.600 --> 00:39:30.640 No, it's buried. 00:39:30.640 --> 00:39:32.640 You're not going to see that when you read one of these 00:39:32.640 --> 00:39:35.760 press releases, unless you look at it with these eyes. 00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:39.280 Once you understand that these things are alien to the Christian faith, 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:42.320 then they just kind of scream from the page, both by the 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:45.440 words that they use and by the things that they omit, by 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:48.560 the fact that they won't talk about God sanctifying our hearts. 00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:52.160 Something that today in you know in the Missouri Synod is explicitly 00:39:52.160 --> 00:39:57.440 denied in our newest confessional documents, saying that someone who commits the 00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:02.080 sin of sodomy, someone who is a child rapist, someone who despises 00:40:02.080 --> 00:40:04.960 the body that they were given by God and believes that they're 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:07.920 the opposite sex, and that God made a mistake. 00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:11.200 Our new confessional documents say there's no sanctification for that. 00:40:11.200 --> 00:40:14.160 They say you can be forgiven, but you're always gonna want those 00:40:14.160 --> 00:40:17.120 evil things because God can't do it. 00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:20.800 And so we just have to be loving and supportive socially to 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:22.400 make people feel feel the embrace of 00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:27.680 God's love rather than reminding people that this is sin, this is 00:40:27.680 --> 00:40:30.880 wickedness, and that God heals. 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:33.840 God forgives and He heals through forgiveness. 00:40:33.840 --> 00:40:37.360 You know, healing is a good thing when it's coming from God, 00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:39.200 but we don't heal each other. 00:40:39.200 --> 00:40:42.480 It comes from God and there's a specific pathway by which it's 00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:43.440 delivered to us. 00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:45.200 And it's not through 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:47.760 through these views. 00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:51.200 So it's it's a really tricky thing because as we've said in 00:40:51.200 --> 00:40:56.400 many past episodes, this stuff, if you don't realize it's evil genealogy, 00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:58.480 it's gonna look and sound pretty Christian. 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:01.760 Maybe it's a slightly different way of putting it, but when you 00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:05.280 get down to it, who doesn't want brokenness to be healed? 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:07.120 Who doesn't want things to be better? 00:41:07.120 --> 00:41:09.840 And if I'm a Christian, of course, I want to be the 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:11.760 one making things better. 00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:12.080 And 00:41:13.200 --> 00:41:17.040 There's a way that a Christian can believe that faithfully that doesn't 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:22.240 sound like that, because the actual repair of evil comes from God's 00:41:22.240 --> 00:41:24.400 work and God's forgiveness. 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:27.200 And as we've said in a couple of recent episodes, there are 00:41:27.200 --> 00:41:30.320 things that are evil in this world that cannot be repaired. 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:33.280 They can be forgiven, but they can't be undone. 00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:38.080 And I think that's one of the overarching reasons why we have 00:41:38.080 --> 00:41:41.680 many men in our own pulpits talking in these ways because 00:41:42.720 --> 00:41:46.400 they they think that anything can be repaired and it's simply not 00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:49.360 true. If you sin against your own body and you damage it 00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.240 in in a horrific way, you're stuck with it. 00:41:52.240 --> 00:41:54.640 God's not going to regrow whatever you cut off. 00:41:54.640 --> 00:41:58.400 He's not going to undo whatever damage you do. 00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:00.080 That is the new you. 00:42:00.080 --> 00:42:03.200 It's not the you that's going to be resurrected because if you 00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:06.640 are forgiven and you die in Christ, you will be raised again 00:42:06.640 --> 00:42:10.720 with a restored body, the body that God wanted you to have, 00:42:10.720 --> 00:42:14.000 but you don't just get to undo all of the damage from 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.240 your own wicked acts. 00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:20.160 It's something it came up in the debt-free virgins with no tattoos 00:42:20.720 --> 00:42:25.200 fight a few years ago, where there were Christian men saying there 00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:29.040 are things that we can do when we're young that can damage 00:42:29.040 --> 00:42:30.880 our prospects forever. 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:34.800 And And it's desirable for us to encourage those things, and it's 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:38.480 desirable for us to discourage things that are sinful, things things that 00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:39.680 are harmful. 00:42:39.680 --> 00:42:43.120 Pastors want to focus pastors who are some are trying to be 00:42:43.120 --> 00:42:45.040 faithful and some are malicious. 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:48.160 will try to say no, we need to repair everything. 00:42:48.160 --> 00:42:51.520 If you have if someone has had sex with a hundred people, 00:42:51.520 --> 00:42:55.120 she can she's forgiven by Jesus, and so everything is back to 00:42:55.120 --> 00:42:58.560 normal. We talked about in the episode where we were discussing the 00:42:58.560 --> 00:43:03.680 clockwork universe in microchimerism, that's simply not the case. 00:43:03.680 --> 00:43:08.880 There's physical and emotional and mental damage to that sort of behavior 00:43:09.040 --> 00:43:12.160 that God forgives, but he doesn't undo. 00:43:12.160 --> 00:43:14.880 And for us to think that we can go further than what 00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:17.120 God does in this life is sinful. 00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:19.200 it's rebellion against God. 00:43:19.200 --> 00:43:22.480 Because while it begins with, oh, I want to do something Christian, 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:25.840 it ends with God didn't do enough, I'm gonna fix what he 00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:28.480 failed to fix, which is exactly Corey's 00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:29.280 point. 00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:32.240 And one of the foundations upon which this 00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:37.680 not really misconception, this wickedness, this evil is built, is a denial 00:43:37.680 --> 00:43:39.040 of original sin. 00:43:39.040 --> 00:43:42.560 And that is something that we see in the Christian context as 00:43:42.560 --> 00:43:47.680 well. Groups that deny the reality of original sin will eventually wind 00:43:47.680 --> 00:43:49.680 up apostate. 00:43:49.680 --> 00:43:52.880 Because if you deny the reality, if you deny the nature of 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:57.520 original sin, what you've actually done, even if you haven't explicitly done 00:43:57.520 --> 00:44:01.600 so yet, what you have implicitly done is deny the nature of 00:44:01.600 --> 00:44:03.520 the atonement. 00:44:03.600 --> 00:44:07.840 Because if original sin did not corrupt all of creation, if original 00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:13.760 sin is not this infinite separation of creation from creator, then Christ's 00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:18.080 atonement is something lesser than it actually was. 00:44:18.640 --> 00:44:24.320 The Jews here are explicitly denying what Scripture says, even their scriptures 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:27.840 so called, because supposedly they believe in the Torah, they don't, they 00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:32.800 believe in the Talmud, we've previously gone over what Torah forbids, Talmud 00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:34.160 permits, but 00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:41.520 what they are doing is denying the nature, the scope, the reality 00:44:41.520 --> 00:44:44.320 of original sin, and saying, No we 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:47.920 can cure these things through our own works. 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:50.240 We don't need God to do it for us. 00:44:50.240 --> 00:44:54.320 And there are Christian groups that do the very same thing. 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:58.800 And so, as Christians, you have to be careful to ensure that 00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:04.240 you always have this proper conception of original sin, of what original 00:45:04.240 --> 00:45:08.400 sin is, of what original sin did, of what was necessary to 00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:10.800 atone for original sin. 00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:14.880 This is one of those things that if you get it wrong, 00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:19.840 you may not wind up apostate, but your grandchildren almost certainly will. 00:45:20.560 --> 00:45:24.240 And in the case of the Jews, we see exactly that playing 00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:30.400 out. But I mentioned earlier these four schools, as it were, these 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:36.160 four groupings of the Haskelah, the Jewish Jewish Enlightenment, the masculine is 00:45:36.160 --> 00:45:39.520 the name for the actual individuals or the groups. 00:45:39.520 --> 00:45:40.800 That is plural. 00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:41.120 But 00:45:42.240 --> 00:45:45.600 I mentioned where these were, and the reason that's relevant is that 00:45:45.600 --> 00:45:52.080 these are where revolutions would take place in the eighteen hundreds. 00:45:52.080 --> 00:45:56.320 And we've mentioned before, I believe I've linked to it before in 00:45:56.960 --> 00:46:00.960 the show notes for previous episodes, in fact I know I have, 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.800 the Revolutions of eighteen forty eight. 00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:08.320 And it's interesting to note that there is an entire article on 00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:11.520 the Revolutions of eighteen forty eight. 00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:19.520 Because most of Europe was thrown into turmoil seemingly all at once. 00:46:19.520 --> 00:46:23.760 To just give a quick list of some of the revolutions, not 00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:25.200 even all of them. 00:46:25.200 --> 00:46:28.320 There were revolutions in the Italian states. 00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:32.080 There was a French Revolution of eighteen forty eight, obviously not the 00:46:32.080 --> 00:46:35.120 French Revolution, but there was a French Revolution. 00:46:35.120 --> 00:46:38.320 There were German Revolutions of eighteen forty eight. 00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:39.920 Denmark had an uprising in 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:43.200 eighteen forty eight, eighteen forty nine. 00:46:43.200 --> 00:46:47.520 Schleswig Holstein had an uprising, or actually just at the time would 00:46:47.520 --> 00:46:53.520 have been Schleswig, not Holstein yet, but there were uprisings in Austria, 00:46:53.520 --> 00:47:00.000 there were uprisings in Hungary, Galicia, as mentioned, Sweden had uprisings, Switzerland, 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:03.200 Poland, Romania, Belgium. 00:47:03.200 --> 00:47:06.320 This was Pan European 00:47:07.200 --> 00:47:13.520 and the hot spots focused exactly where you had these Jewish groups 00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:17.680 that would eventually become Zionism. 00:47:17.680 --> 00:47:21.280 And what you see as a follow-on from this, as a result 00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:24.960 of this, sometimes it takes a few decades in the aftermath of 00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:28.480 these revolutions, but sometimes it doesn't. 00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:31.200 You see the emancipation of the Jews. 00:47:31.200 --> 00:47:35.280 Jews are given full political, civil, etc. 00:47:35.520 --> 00:47:39.680 rights in these various European nations. 00:47:39.680 --> 00:47:46.160 The first, of course, is France, because the French Revolution grants full 00:47:46.160 --> 00:47:48.640 rights to the Jews, and that is in 1789. 00:47:48.640 --> 00:47:52.720 Now notably, there are many of those in the French Revolution who 00:47:52.720 --> 00:47:55.680 say that they have to cease to be Jews and simply be 00:47:55.680 --> 00:47:58.640 French in order to have these rights. 00:47:58.640 --> 00:48:02.240 But there is some disagreement amongst the leaders of the French R 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:04.880 Rebellion, the French Revolution. 00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:08.720 Unsurprising for anyone who's familiar with the history of the French Revolution, 00:48:08.720 --> 00:48:14.720 as The leaders of that revolution were anything but consistent one year 00:48:14.720 --> 00:48:18.160 to the next. 00:48:18.160 --> 00:48:20.800 And to follow on from that, you have 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:25.440 basically in the decades following you have all of these various European 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:29.600 nations emancipate the Jews, but the last to emancipate the Jews was 00:48:29.600 --> 00:48:35.280 Germany in eighteen seventy one and then Russia in nineteen seventeen. 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:36.480 Now of course nineteen seventeen 00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:42.320 should ring some bells as well, and that is another time in 00:48:42.640 --> 00:48:45.680 the early nineteen hundreds. 00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:48.320 Of course we have the First World War. 00:48:48.240 --> 00:48:53.440 as a direct follow-on from the First World War, which incidentally, the 00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:57.840 same hotspots again involved in the lead up to that war, but 00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:02.320 in the aftermath of that war, that is when we get sort 00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:08.560 of mass democracy and the emancipation of women and votes for women 00:49:08.640 --> 00:49:14.080 and all of these various liberal social agenda items that get pushed 00:49:14.080 --> 00:49:20.000 through that were being discussed previously by these Jewish groups. 00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:24.000 So you will see every time you have this sort of mass 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:28.960 uprising and these rivers of blood in Europe, conveniently what follows on 00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:35.440 from that is the ratchet moving forward in favor of social liberalism. 00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:38.880 One of the interesting things about the timing of everything that you 00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:41.600 just mentioned is that it dovetails with the 00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:46.960 end of kind of the banking story for Jews. 00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:49.840 It dovetails into what became modern banking. 00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:52.960 I'm gonna read just a part of a paragraph from the Jewish 00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:54.480 virtual library. 00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:57.840 Jewish banking in the nineteenth century begins with the rise of the 00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:02.240 House of Rothschild in Frankfurt, a city which became the new banking 00:50:02.240 --> 00:50:06.000 center of Europe as a result of the political upheaval caused by 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:08.560 the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. 00:50:08.560 --> 00:50:11.840 The founder of the House, which became the symbol of the nineteenth 00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:16.800 century type of merchant banking, Meyer Amschel Rothschild, started as a banker 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:18.960 to the elector of Hesa Castle. 00:50:18.960 --> 00:50:24.480 His sons rose in prominence as the major European bankers Amschelmeyer in 00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:29.200 Frankfurt, Solomon Meyer in Vienna, Carl Meyer in Naples, James Meyer in 00:50:29.200 --> 00:50:32.320 Paris, and Nathan Meyer in London. 00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:37.840 And so between eighteen fifteen and eighteen twenty eight, the total capital 00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:45.840 of the Rothschilds increased from 3.3 million to 118 million francs. 00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:49.920 It went up over 30 fold in just over a decade. 00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:52.080 And that's just ending in 1828. 00:50:52.080 --> 00:50:55.680 Obviously they didn't end there, but that was basically their seed money 00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:01.440 for what just twenty years later became became all these revolutions in 00:51:01.520 --> 00:51:05.840 1848. And as we've said, there are articles and you can find 00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:10.480 lists. And one of the tricks when you're going through accounts of 00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:15.760 this stuff, particularly if you're starting on modern modern internet sources is 00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:19.920 that they will obfuscate or flat out deny that there's any participation 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:20.720 of Jews. 00:51:20.720 --> 00:51:24.160 A lot of these on Wikipedia, a lot of these articles have 00:51:24.160 --> 00:51:27.760 actually had references to Jews removed in the last three years or 00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:34.480 so. However, if you dig into who were the principal leaders in 00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:39.120 any particular evolution, as Corey said, you're going to find it's at 00:51:39.120 --> 00:51:40.240 least half Jews. 00:51:40.240 --> 00:51:46.880 In most of the revolutions in both 1948 and then in 1917-18, 00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:52.080 some of them were up to 90% Jewish, which necessarily implies that 00:51:52.080 --> 00:51:56.240 if it were not for Jews, those things wouldn't have happened. 00:51:56.240 --> 00:51:58.800 That's just that's a historical fact. 00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:02.720 Because not only were they key players, in many cases Virtually all 00:52:02.720 --> 00:52:03.680 of the players. 00:52:03.680 --> 00:52:06.560 This was true in the in the Russian Revolution, so called. 00:52:06.560 --> 00:52:07.760 It was a communist revolt. 00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:11.120 It was a Jewish communist revolt. 00:52:11.120 --> 00:52:15.600 Not only were they the overwhelming majority of those participating, but for 00:52:15.600 --> 00:52:22.560 example, in the Jewish Revolution in Russia, Rothschild personally donated a million 00:52:22.720 --> 00:52:26.320 I don't remember which which currency it was, but a huge amount 00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:31.280 of money was infused into that communist uprising, right as it was 00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:32.320 sort of faltering. 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:36.000 They got a fresh and cute fusion of cash from a Rothschild. 00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:36.800 And there you go. 00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:38.160 The Tsars are dead. 00:52:38.160 --> 00:52:41.360 Russia's communist for nearly a century. 00:52:41.360 --> 00:52:44.480 So the banking tie, and all this is sort of the end 00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:48.000 of it being a part of the story, it's important because as 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:52.640 they spread their tentacles throughout Europe, this influence and this incredibly outside 00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:57.600 Side and so we're talking about quantities of money that are just 00:52:58.080 --> 00:53:01.600 inconceivably on what the average man would have access to. 00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:04.480 Yeah, when it's a group of people who are able to 00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:12.480 influence kings and leaders and schools and crowds, incidentally, doesn't that kind 00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:14.480 of sound like George Soros today? 00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:16.960 You know, if you think about what we're describing, you know, the 00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:21.520 Rothschilds and these other doing two hundred years ago, we see exactly 00:53:21.520 --> 00:53:24.560 the same thing today with you know different names. 00:53:24.560 --> 00:53:28.640 You know, Soros is uh that last name is uh Esperanto, it 00:53:28.640 --> 00:53:30.480 means Sor and Esperanto. 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:32.720 His original name was Gyorgi Schwartz. 00:53:32.720 --> 00:53:34.960 He was a he was a Jew, everyone knows the source is 00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:35.760 a Jew. 00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:38.320 But he changed his name to something that didn't sound that way. 00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:40.720 He's the front man for doing this stuff today. 00:53:40.720 --> 00:53:44.560 There's always been a front man, there's always been someone behind financing 00:53:44.560 --> 00:53:45.680 things. And 00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:49.440 as I said earlier, and we said in the previous episode, when 00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:52.560 you say these things, people want to clutch their pearls and say, 00:53:52.560 --> 00:53:54.720 Oh, this is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. 00:53:54.720 --> 00:53:57.440 Well, let's start with is it true or not? 00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:00.560 And not only is it true, but when you get them talking 00:54:00.560 --> 00:54:03.120 in a way that they're proud of it, they'll take credit for 00:54:03.120 --> 00:54:10.240 everything. It's not internet racists whining about disparities in 00:54:10.240 --> 00:54:11.520 bank accounts. 00:54:11.520 --> 00:54:13.840 It's literally just history. 00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:17.680 These events occurred, these were the men responsible, and they came from 00:54:17.680 --> 00:54:19.520 a place and they had an agenda. 00:54:19.520 --> 00:54:22.480 And it wasn't simply personal aggrandizement. 00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:22.800 The 00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:28.960 The manner in which these things played out, as Corey said, all 00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:33.120 the patterns, all the revolutions of eighteen forty-eight, when you read the 00:54:33.120 --> 00:54:37.520 articles, they'll say, Oh, it everyone just revolted simultaneously for all these 00:54:37.520 --> 00:54:38.400 different reasons. 00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:41.280 Well, that's why you have to go looking at who was actually 00:54:41.600 --> 00:54:42.880 instigating it. 00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:45.280 And when you look at the reasons, even though some of the 00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:49.120 articles will say these reasons are all unrelated, when you go down 00:54:49.120 --> 00:54:57.200 the checkbox list of communist values of tikan olam social justice checkboxes, 00:54:57.200 --> 00:54:59.040 the all the the list of things that they want to do 00:54:59.040 --> 00:55:01.920 to change and repair the world, it's all there. 00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:08.480 It's things like worker rights and it's things like disparate capital allocation. 00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:12.400 You know, things that seem kind of either they're either you hear 00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:14.560 them and you think I don't care that's you know t that 00:55:14.560 --> 00:55:18.640 sounds technical and dry, or you think it's a moral imperative. 00:55:18.640 --> 00:55:23.600 When they're doing it, it's because it was fundamentally toppling the kingdoms, 00:55:23.600 --> 00:55:28.480 the kingdoms of Christendom, because don't forget, these were aristocracies, and they 00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:29.920 were monarchies. 00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:33.040 And by the end of the sec of the first world war, 00:55:33.040 --> 00:55:35.520 all those monarchies had been toppled. 00:55:35.520 --> 00:55:39.200 There was really no political power left in virtually any of the 00:55:39.200 --> 00:55:43.280 European kingdoms, even if they maintained something that was superficial, it no 00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:44.560 longer had any teeth. 00:55:44.560 --> 00:55:48.640 That wasn't a case in eighteen forty eight when this project began, 00:55:48.640 --> 00:55:53.680 or if you go back further to 1789 in France, the toppling 00:55:53.840 --> 00:56:00.480 of the Christian rulers and the liberalization of the societies, in the 00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:04.400 loosening of morals, and the opening of floodgates for all sorts of 00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:08.320 things that stop being illegal because well we don't wanna you know 00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:09.680 that's that's going too far. 00:56:09.680 --> 00:56:13.280 We don't all need all these Christian rules informing the law. 00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:16.880 Today in twenty twenty three in the United States, this is a 00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:18.880 fight that we're having in our own churches. 00:56:18.880 --> 00:56:23.920 How far does a Christian ruler go with regard to what scripture 00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:25.920 says about obeying God? 00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:27.680 What should the laws look like? 00:56:27.680 --> 00:56:31.360 This is a conversation that began in the Enlightenment. 00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:36.080 And so all of these intermediary steps along the way, they achieved 00:56:36.080 --> 00:56:36.640 the goal. 00:56:36.640 --> 00:56:40.080 They achieved the goal of what we call liberalization. 00:56:40.080 --> 00:56:42.560 You know, that's I guess that's the technical term. 00:56:42.560 --> 00:56:46.720 It's fundamentally satanic terraforming of Christendom. 00:56:46.720 --> 00:56:48.320 That's really what's happened here. 00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:51.040 And when you look at the movers and shakers, you look at 00:56:51.040 --> 00:56:54.000 the players, you look at the men who were calling the shots 00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:57.600 and influencing people, they're almost all Jews. 00:56:57.600 --> 00:57:00.160 One of the things that I said near the end of last 00:57:00.160 --> 00:57:01.200 week's episode was 00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:08.160 that one of the areas in Europe with the highest percentage Jewish 00:57:08.160 --> 00:57:13.280 population was what has been sometimes known as Poland today. 00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:17.200 Most of this area is Poland, some of it is Ukraine. 00:57:17.200 --> 00:57:20.800 Just depends on the point in history, since Poland has existed and 00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:24.320 then not existed and then existed again. 00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:29.360 But the area known at the time as Galicia, I did mention 00:57:29.680 --> 00:57:34.320 that there was one of these Haskalah there, one of these groups 00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:37.040 of Jewish intellectuals. 00:57:37.040 --> 00:57:38.800 And in eighteen forty six there 00:57:39.680 --> 00:57:44.160 occurred what is known as the Galician Peasant Uprising. 00:57:44.160 --> 00:57:48.960 This was an uprising in which, to day, they are often called 00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:55.440 patriotic Polish intellectuals and nobles, but in reality they were Marxist revolutionaries, 00:57:55.440 --> 00:57:57.040 in the most part, in the main. 00:57:57.040 --> 00:57:59.840 Not all of them, some of them were deluded, certainly. 00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:02.320 That does happen as well. 00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:07.200 You see that pattern repeated over and over again actually with revolutionaries. 00:58:07.200 --> 00:58:11.520 You will have those who are malicious in their intent, those who 00:58:11.520 --> 00:58:14.240 know what they're doing, and then the fools who go along with 00:58:14.240 --> 00:58:20.480 them. In the Soviet era, the the term was useful fool or 00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:25.200 useful idiot, which is those in the West who argued in favor 00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:28.800 of what the Soviets were doing because they did not understand what 00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:32.320 the Soviets were doing They were useful idiots. 00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:35.920 I'll refrain from using the Russian term because I'm sure I'll butcher 00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:42.880 the pronunciation, but the Galician uprising basically slaughtered many of the nobles, 00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:49.120 some of whom had foolishly involved themselves in the rebellion. 00:58:49.120 --> 00:58:53.760 But this was just a standard Marxist uprising, and it was praised 00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:59.440 by Marxists at the time, including Karl Marx, who, I believe I 00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:02.560 don't know if he had just been expelled from Belgium or if 00:59:02.560 --> 00:59:04.720 that was to come later. 00:59:04.720 --> 00:59:08.800 But at any rate, he praised this as a Marxist uprising, called 00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:11.360 it deeply democratic, of course. 00:59:11.360 --> 00:59:15.360 You have to be sure to get your propaganda term right. 00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:19.280 And this is the pattern that plays out over and over. 00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:19.920 You see 00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:25.920 a supposed peasant uprising, sometimes involving some of the nobles, because do 00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:30.480 bear in mind, the French Revolution was supposedly this uprising of the 00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:34.960 underclass that was going to throw off the shackles of the oppressive 00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:39.520 nobility. Of the ancient regime, well, in reality, almost all of the 00:59:39.520 --> 00:59:43.760 leaders were relatively affluent educated students. 00:59:43.760 --> 00:59:46.320 They were not peasants. 00:59:46.320 --> 00:59:48.560 But this is what you see play out. 00:59:48.560 --> 00:59:54.560 You have Marxist revolutionaries who rile up some segment of the population 00:59:54.720 --> 00:59:58.480 and use that segment of the population to slaughter others, and it 00:59:58.480 --> 01:00:03.120 just creates chaos and a cycle of violence that destroys the nation 01:00:03.120 --> 01:00:04.560 from within. 01:00:04.560 --> 01:00:08.560 Some European nations were more successful in putting down these revolutions than 01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:11.600 others, some were not successful. 01:00:11.680 --> 01:00:12.000 The 01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:14.800 Germans actually managed to put down 01:00:15.680 --> 01:00:20.240 the revolutions of eighteen forty eight fairly convincingly. 01:00:20.240 --> 01:00:24.640 However, things did not go as well in Germany during the latter 01:00:24.640 --> 01:00:29.600 cycle of revolutions because Germany had I'll move on to Germany now 01:00:29.600 --> 01:00:32.640 to sort of set the stage for a future episode, just to 01:00:32.640 --> 01:00:35.600 give a little bit more history here. 01:00:35.600 --> 01:00:39.360 The German revolutions, not of eighteen forty eight, but the latter ones 01:00:39.600 --> 01:00:43.760 Ones in the nineteen hundreds really started in nineteen eighteen, started in 01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:48.320 the wake, of course, of World War I, and they lasted until 01:00:48.320 --> 01:00:50.480 nineteen thirty-three. 01:00:50.560 --> 01:00:53.360 There were various revolutions throughout Germany. 01:00:53.360 --> 01:00:58.400 You had the so called German Revolution, nineteen eighteen to nineteen nineteen. 01:00:58.400 --> 01:01:03.280 In Germany it's called the November Revolution, because there are other revolutions 01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:05.520 in other months, and so they're named after the month. 01:01:06.080 --> 01:01:10.560 But you had a people's state of Bavaria, which most people don't 01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:17.600 know. Bavaria had an actual communist government for 01:01:17.600 --> 01:01:19.440 over a year. 01:01:19.680 --> 01:01:26.000 Saxony, the birthplace of Lutheranism, essentially had a communist 01:01:26.960 --> 01:01:29.520 government for over a year. 01:01:29.520 --> 01:01:33.520 Bremen was a Soviet republic in nineteen nineteen. 01:01:33.520 --> 01:01:37.600 Bavaria at the end of the people state also had a Soviet 01:01:37.600 --> 01:01:42.160 republic. There was an uprising, a communist Marxist uprising in the Ruhr, 01:01:42.160 --> 01:01:43.440 in nineteen twenty. 01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:46.240 There was a March uprising in nineteen twenty-one. 01:01:46.240 --> 01:01:49.360 There was an uprising in Hamburg in nineteen twenty-three. 01:01:49.360 --> 01:01:54.240 There was the German October, which was an international communist plot to 01:01:54.240 --> 01:01:59.200 again attempt to overthrow at that time Weimar to institute an actual 01:01:59.200 --> 01:02:04.640 communist government in nineteen twenty three. 01:02:04.640 --> 01:02:09.360 This is the state of Central Europe in the early nineteen hundreds, 01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:14.480 and it's important to understand that for other history we'll be covering 01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:16.880 in later episodes. 01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:17.840 But you see 01:02:18.800 --> 01:02:26.000 extensive Jewish involvement in these revolutions, because basically, you have Marxist 01:02:26.080 --> 01:02:31.600 intellectuals and revolutionaries on one side, and the defenders of the old 01:02:31.600 --> 01:02:36.480 regime, the defenders of monarchy and order on the other side, and 01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:38.080 it is in fact crazy. 01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:41.600 on the side of the monarchy, on the side of the nobles, 01:02:41.600 --> 01:02:47.040 on the side of order, versus atheists and Jews, on the side 01:02:47.040 --> 01:02:49.040 of the Marxist revolutionaries. 01:02:49.040 --> 01:02:52.160 And this plays out in other European states as well, but for 01:02:52.640 --> 01:02:59.360 obvious reasons Germany is the most salient going forward. 01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:05.520 But this is all part of the Jewish understanding of Tikunolam. 01:03:05.520 --> 01:03:09.040 It is part of the Jewish understanding that it is incumbent on 01:03:09.040 --> 01:03:11.360 them to make the world a better place. 01:03:11.360 --> 01:03:13.920 It just so happens to be that the world would be a 01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:16.880 better place if the world were ruled by Jews. 01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:21.600 And so they are willing to use whatever means necessary to bring 01:03:21.600 --> 01:03:23.200 this about. 01:03:23.200 --> 01:03:27.120 They will tell you that Tikon Olam is just 01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:31.840 making the world better, improving things, helping people. 01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:33.360 But it's not. 01:03:33.360 --> 01:03:36.240 Because the goal is radical social change. 01:03:36.240 --> 01:03:39.840 The goal is to make the world look like the world portrayed 01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:40.960 in the Talmud. 01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:43.440 And if you've read any of the Talmud or you've listened to 01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:47.280 what we've said about the Talmud, read a summary, what have you, 01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:50.720 you know how utterly wicked the Talmud is and what kind of 01:03:50.720 --> 01:03:52.400 world that would create. 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:57.360 As was mentioned, this is Satan terraforming Christendom, and he has been 01:03:57.360 --> 01:04:03.040 extremely successful, because Christians have not known how to counter it, particularly 01:04:03.040 --> 01:04:06.480 in the modern era, because Christians are so afraid simply to say 01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:09.040 the word Jews. 01:04:09.040 --> 01:04:12.800 And if you can't say the word Jews, you can't go over 01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:16.320 the history, you can't go over what has actually happened, because they 01:04:16.320 --> 01:04:18.640 have played an outsized role. 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:23.520 Have they ever, with the exception of what is now Poland, because 01:04:23.520 --> 01:04:26.240 as I said, they were higher concentration there, but even there it 01:04:26.240 --> 01:04:30.160 was sub ten percent, they have never been more than single digit 01:04:30.160 --> 01:04:34.320 percentages of a given population, and yet they have been res represented 01:04:34.320 --> 01:04:38.880 as fifty plus percent of these revolutionary groups, in the case of 01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:44.480 the Russian revolutionaries, so called Russian, ninety plus percent. 01:04:44.480 --> 01:04:46.000 That's salient. 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:49.520 If you have a group that is a single digit percentage of 01:04:49.520 --> 01:04:54.240 a population, and yet somehow it is always more than half of 01:04:54.240 --> 01:04:59.600 violent revolutionary groups that rise up in that population and cause chaos, 01:04:59.600 --> 01:05:03.840 that is something of which both the kingdom of the right hand 01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:06.160 and the kingdom of the left hand should take notice. 01:05:06.160 --> 01:05:08.400 It is incumbent on the kingdom of the left hand to crush 01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:11.520 those revolutionaries, but it is incumbent on the kingdom of the right 01:05:11.680 --> 01:05:14.880 hand, which is to say the church, to recognize this evil and 01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:16.240 to address it. 01:05:16.240 --> 01:05:20.960 Otherwise, the terraforming will continue because it is continuing. 01:05:20.960 --> 01:05:23.040 That's what we see today. 01:05:23.040 --> 01:05:26.320 All of the things we see pushed for today, the social justice, 01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:32.080 the affirmative action, the BLM, whatever group it happens to be, these 01:05:32.240 --> 01:05:35.360 are all part of the same tapestry. 01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:39.920 Cut from the same cloth of the Talmud Organized by the same 01:05:40.160 --> 01:05:43.280 malignant, malign intelligence. 01:05:43.280 --> 01:05:47.120 And as Christians we have to address it, because things can always 01:05:47.120 --> 01:05:48.560 get worse. 01:05:48.560 --> 01:05:51.840 And if we're not trending Godward, then we are in fact trending 01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:53.440 hellward. 01:05:53.520 --> 01:05:56.960 In the show notes for today's episode we will have a link 01:05:56.960 --> 01:06:00.560 to a book by a Roman Catholic author named E. 01:06:00.560 --> 01:06:01.520 Michael Jones. 01:06:01.520 --> 01:06:03.360 A lot of you've probably heard that name before. 01:06:03.520 --> 01:06:07.120 He wrote a trilogy of books on the overarching subject we're talking 01:06:07.120 --> 01:06:08.160 here today. 01:06:08.160 --> 01:06:11.280 The specific one that applies most directly to this arc of our 01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:14.160 episodes is the Jewish revolutionary spirit. 01:06:14.160 --> 01:06:16.880 So we'll link to you can find it at archive.org. 01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:18.320 you can actually download the PDF. 01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:19.600 It's about twelve hundred pages. 01:06:19.600 --> 01:06:22.560 It's a very lengthy, detailed book. 01:06:22.560 --> 01:06:25.440 Obviously, this is the most superficial possible 01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:29.200 tackling of the subject for a podcast. 01:06:29.200 --> 01:06:32.000 If you want to deep dive, get a PhD. 01:06:32.080 --> 01:06:34.640 What I found interesting when I when I dug this up, I've 01:06:34.560 --> 01:06:37.600 never read the whole thing, but I've read bits and pieces, and 01:06:37.600 --> 01:06:40.960 most of what is in it I have learned elsewhere. 01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:43.200 But I was just laughing when I I pulled up the PDF 01:06:43.200 --> 01:06:45.120 today and looked at the chapters. 01:06:45.120 --> 01:06:47.600 Here are the names of the first five chapters from E. 01:06:47.600 --> 01:06:50.880 Michael Jones' book, The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. 01:06:50.880 --> 01:06:55.600 Chapter one, The Synagogue of Satan, Chapter two, Julian the Apostate and 01:06:55.600 --> 01:07:01.360 the Doomed Temple Chapter three Rome discovers the Talmud Chapter four false 01:07:01.520 --> 01:07:06.800 Conversion and the Inquisition Chapter five The Revolution arrives in Europe Chapter 01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:09.120 six The Converso problem. 01:07:09.120 --> 01:07:12.720 And then in later chapters he talks about Martin Luther King Jr., 01:07:12.720 --> 01:07:14.800 he talks about the civil rights movement. 01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:17.360 If this sounds a little bit like it was basically the last, 01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:21.120 you know, twenty odd episodes of Stone Choir, it's not because we're 01:07:21.120 --> 01:07:24.560 using his book to crib for source material. 01:07:24.560 --> 01:07:27.760 It's because if you look at the problems in our world, in 01:07:27.760 --> 01:07:32.800 the Christian world and Christian nations, you will find the Jewish revolutionary 01:07:32.800 --> 01:07:38.800 spirit. Now, Michael Jones is he's Roman Catholic, he's a Romanist, he's 01:07:38.720 --> 01:07:39.360 a papist. 01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:42.160 That's what Luther calls you guys, and we have some listeners. 01:07:42.160 --> 01:07:42.960 Thank you for listening. 01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:43.840 We love you guys. 01:07:43.840 --> 01:07:48.560 You're obviously Christian, because otherwise you wouldn't put up with us. 01:07:49.200 --> 01:07:53.920 It's I I'm highlighting specifically that he is a Romanist because one 01:07:53.920 --> 01:07:56.080 of the things that you'll find in this book if you happen 01:07:56.080 --> 01:08:00.160 to check it out is that there's a fair amount about Freemasonry, 01:08:00.160 --> 01:08:04.080 which again ties directly into, you know, t today on Independence Day 01:08:04.160 --> 01:08:05.920 as we're recording. 01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:11.040 Obviously Freemasonry was a big part of the American Revolution. 01:08:11.040 --> 01:08:14.880 And so we're told retroactively that that made Freemasonry 01:08:16.240 --> 01:08:20.800 the birth story of this nation, which is nonsense. 01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:23.840 This nation is 150 years older than the revolution. 01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:26.720 The nation began when Europeans started landing here. 01:08:26.720 --> 01:08:30.160 And the men who started landing here weren't Freemasons. 01:08:30.160 --> 01:08:33.680 They weren't involved in any of that stuff because the Enlightenment hadn't 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:34.720 happened yet. 01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:38.160 And Quakers were not members of secret societies. 01:08:38.160 --> 01:08:40.800 So I m I specifically mentioned the Freemason thing because if you 01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:43.920 if you delve into this or related subjects, I just want you 01:08:43.920 --> 01:08:49.840 to be aware that when Roman Catholics talk about these subjects, they 01:08:49.840 --> 01:08:53.760 will place an outsized emphasis on Freemasonry. 01:08:53.760 --> 01:08:57.440 Now, as Lutherans, we despise secret societies. 01:08:57.440 --> 01:09:01.040 In fact, from the very first days of the LCMS, no one 01:09:01.040 --> 01:09:04.240 who was a member of a secret society was permitted to be 01:09:04.240 --> 01:09:09.280 a member of the church because it it's too contradictory gods. 01:09:09.280 --> 01:09:12.320 Freemasons and the other secret societies confess 01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:15.280 uh a creator god. 01:09:15.280 --> 01:09:17.920 They say that whether you're a Jew or a Muhammadan or a 01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:21.520 Christian, you're all worshiping the same God by different names. 01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:24.880 And And it's interesting if you listen to any accounts of someone 01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:28.560 who's gone through a Masonic temple, they will have rooms that are 01:09:28.560 --> 01:09:34.080 dedicated to different periods of time with different architecture and different decorations. 01:09:34.080 --> 01:09:37.680 And they will have a they'll have a room for Babylonian period. 01:09:37.680 --> 01:09:40.800 They'll have a a room with Egyptian stuff. 01:09:40.800 --> 01:09:46.400 Which if you remember us talking about the genealogy of Jewish black 01:09:46.400 --> 01:09:50.320 magic, that's where the that's where black magic traces through. 01:09:50.320 --> 01:09:55.600 Through Babylon, through Greece, through Egypt, back to the very earliest days 01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:58.000 of demons walking the earth. 01:09:58.000 --> 01:10:02.640 And so the fact that Freemasons use exactly the same genealogy for 01:10:02.640 --> 01:10:07.200 their backstory, I think once you recognize that that pattern is something 01:10:07.200 --> 01:10:10.960 that will just pop up in places where black magic is being 01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:15.360 practiced, it's very conspicuous because whatever else they say about the god 01:10:15.360 --> 01:10:20.320 that they claim they're worshiping, when they are using the same terms 01:10:20.320 --> 01:10:27.520 and the same loci in human history as Kabbalah, as Muslim 01:10:27.520 --> 01:10:32.960 mysticism, as Egyptian demonology, that becomes consequential. 01:10:32.960 --> 01:10:36.400 You can't ignore that it's not random and it's not LARPing. 01:10:36.400 --> 01:10:38.720 It's not that they just like the you know the look of 01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:40.320 obelisks or whatever. 01:10:40.320 --> 01:10:42.480 There's something serious about it. 01:10:42.480 --> 01:10:43.120 And so 01:10:44.560 --> 01:10:47.920 yes, Freemasons evil. 01:10:47.920 --> 01:10:48.640 Even to this day. 01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:49.920 they always have been. 01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:52.720 There's never been a time when they were not up to no 01:10:52.720 --> 01:10:56.160 good. The important distinction between our position and someone like E. 01:10:56.160 --> 01:11:03.440 Michael Jones is that things like Freemasonry are they're kinda like communism. 01:11:03.440 --> 01:11:09.040 It's a repackaged form of Jewish mysticism for the Goyem. 01:11:09.040 --> 01:11:11.600 I don't know if there were ever Jews in the Freemasons. 01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:15.440 It probably they were forbidden at some point, because they didn't need 01:11:15.440 --> 01:11:16.400 to be there. 01:11:16.400 --> 01:11:18.400 But it was the same sort of stuff. 01:11:18.400 --> 01:11:21.360 When you trace it back far enough, it has the same values. 01:11:21.680 --> 01:11:24.800 Freemasons are are famous for good works. 01:11:25.520 --> 01:11:29.040 Corey's describing, Tikan Olam, What is that? 01:11:29.040 --> 01:11:33.280 But how Freemasons and Shriners and all these others talk publicly about 01:11:33.280 --> 01:11:34.480 what they want to do. 01:11:34.480 --> 01:11:36.240 It's about community improvement. 01:11:36.240 --> 01:11:37.680 It's about making things better. 01:11:37.680 --> 01:11:40.000 And as a naive listener, like, well, that's great. 01:11:40.000 --> 01:11:41.520 Who doesn't want more of that? 01:11:41.520 --> 01:11:45.200 When you delve into what they're actually doing behind the scenes, it's 01:11:45.200 --> 01:11:47.920 clear that they're all working from the same playbook. 01:11:47.920 --> 01:11:54.160 So Roman Catholics will place an outsized emphasis on Freemasons. 01:11:54.160 --> 01:11:57.200 As Lutherans, we have a problem with that because Jesuits do the 01:11:57.200 --> 01:11:58.080 same stuff. 01:11:58.080 --> 01:12:01.920 They'll always scream about Freemasons and they'll ignore Jesuits, who by the 01:12:01.920 --> 01:12:04.480 way, show up in the same parts of history doing the same 01:12:04.480 --> 01:12:05.920 evil stuff as the rest. 01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:07.440 They're pretty much indistinguishable. 01:12:07.920 --> 01:12:12.880 And as Protestants, Jesuits are important because that was literally stood up 01:12:12.880 --> 01:12:15.360 to stamp out the Rev the Reformation. 01:12:15.360 --> 01:12:19.760 Rome, you know, the Jesuits were basically an inquisition against the Reformation 01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:25.440 to root out what they termed heretics, that's us, and kill them. 01:12:26.320 --> 01:12:29.440 Jesuit history involves assassination. 01:12:29.440 --> 01:12:32.560 So if you he if you're listening to a Roman Catholic author 01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:36.080 and he starts going off about Freemasons I would encourage you to 01:12:36.080 --> 01:12:41.360 focus on the fact that Freemasons are a derivation of Talmudic Judaism 01:12:41.680 --> 01:12:44.800 and not hit let him get you focused on the political stuff 01:12:44.880 --> 01:12:48.640 because it's all rooted in the same spiritual undertones, which is why 01:12:48.640 --> 01:12:50.080 it shows up in E. 01:12:50.080 --> 01:12:53.840 Michaels Jones' book about the Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. 01:12:53.840 --> 01:12:56.320 Now I haven't read the exact chapter, maybe he makes the case 01:12:56.320 --> 01:12:59.920 as well, but when I hear a lot of Roman Catholics talking 01:12:59.920 --> 01:13:04.320 about these subjects online, if you get 'em talking about Freemasons are 01:13:04.400 --> 01:13:07.120 just off to the races and they want to call America Freemason 01:13:07.120 --> 01:13:11.840 and all this stuff, the founders, many of them were my ancestors 01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:14.960 who were here 150 years prior were not. 01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:17.440 America was not a Freemason country. 01:13:17.440 --> 01:13:19.680 It was a Christian nation. 01:13:19.680 --> 01:13:25.520 And it was the very enlightenment devilry that was being ginned up 01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:31.600 both by atheists and agnostics and Jews in Europe and then imported 01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:34.720 at the time of the revolution in this country that did the 01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:36.160 damage to our founding. 01:13:36.160 --> 01:13:38.080 Whether or not we should have been our own country is a 01:13:38.080 --> 01:13:41.440 separate matter, but the manner in which it was done was not 01:13:41.440 --> 01:13:46.240 godly. And you know, it's history at this point. 01:13:46.240 --> 01:13:50.240 Just don't get distracted when somebody starts freaking out about Freemasons. 01:13:50.240 --> 01:13:53.360 I would encourage you if you want to look into this subject 01:13:53.360 --> 01:13:56.320 in more detail, it's well worth taking a look at Eddie Michael 01:13:56.400 --> 01:13:57.200 Jones' book. 01:13:57.200 --> 01:14:00.640 Even if you just delve into a particular chapter that deals with 01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:03.760 a specific topic you're interested in, it will give you a lot 01:14:03.760 --> 01:14:08.000 of details that will certainly be omitted in places like Wikipedia. 01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:10.400 You know, as I was reading through the article on the eighteen 01:14:10.400 --> 01:14:14.880 forty eight revolutions, Cory was talking a minute ago about patriots, and 01:14:14.880 --> 01:14:19.200 it was hilarious to see them describing yes, the patriots killed their 01:14:19.200 --> 01:14:21.120 nobles, killed their king. 01:14:21.120 --> 01:14:23.040 Like that's not patriotic. 01:14:23.040 --> 01:14:25.120 In what universe is that patriotic? 01:14:25.120 --> 01:14:30.560 Well, in a Jewish universe where overthrowing godly hierarchy is a high 01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:33.440 good, yeah, that's certainly patriotic. 01:14:33.440 --> 01:14:36.240 But the men who were doing that in those places and times, 01:14:36.240 --> 01:14:37.200 they weren't patriots. 01:14:37.200 --> 01:14:40.480 They were they were evil, wicked men who were su serving evil 01:14:40.480 --> 01:14:45.840 ends. And so when all these patterns play out, once you're able 01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:50.400 to name the source and see how it's playing out both within 01:14:50.400 --> 01:14:55.120 the context and more broadly throughout time, it becomes a lot easier 01:14:55.120 --> 01:14:58.480 for us as Christians to discuss these things openly and publicly and 01:14:58.480 --> 01:15:00.720 say, well look, this is what happened. 01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:02.160 These people take credit for it. 01:15:02.160 --> 01:15:02.960 They did it. 01:15:02.960 --> 01:15:04.720 I have a problem with it morally. 01:15:04.720 --> 01:15:07.040 I'm looking at where they came from and the things that they're 01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:10.560 doing and I have a problem with that That's a perfectly reasonable 01:15:10.560 --> 01:15:12.160 place for a discussion. 01:15:12.160 --> 01:15:12.480 And 01:15:13.440 --> 01:15:15.760 Cory and I are podcasters, we want discussion. 01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:17.440 We're not calling for violence. 01:15:17.440 --> 01:15:18.880 We don't want violence. 01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:21.920 Part of the reason for discussing this stuff is to try to 01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:26.240 prevent violence, because the further and further the world gets into this 01:15:26.240 --> 01:15:30.800 sort of wickedness, the greater the incentive there is for the backlash 01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:35.120 against what is pure evil to just be pure violence. 01:15:35.120 --> 01:15:39.840 And if if violence is necessary, that should be done in a 01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:41.920 godly fashion by a godly state. 01:15:41.920 --> 01:15:45.200 That's not for individuals to ever pursue. 01:15:45.200 --> 01:15:48.480 If there are no Christians involved in the conversation, all you're gonna 01:15:48.480 --> 01:15:52.240 have a peop is people who are going to misidentify who the 01:15:52.240 --> 01:15:55.520 culprits are, and they're going to go further than any Christian should 01:15:55.520 --> 01:15:56.640 want them to go. 01:15:56.640 --> 01:16:00.880 And so that's part of the reason we're tackling these tough subjects 01:16:01.120 --> 01:16:06.240 because the absence of actual Christian voices discussing these things that are 01:16:06.240 --> 01:16:09.440 emerging in real time, you know, we're we're talking about things in 01:16:09.440 --> 01:16:12.560 the early eighteen hundreds that are identical to things happening in 01:16:13.520 --> 01:16:16.800 2023 and 2024 and beyond. 01:16:16.800 --> 01:16:20.560 This decade is going to play out like Germany a hundred years 01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:21.680 ago. It already is. 01:16:21.680 --> 01:16:23.280 The par it's not just parallel. 01:16:23.680 --> 01:16:27.840 it's practically like someone used a clone tool and just copied from 01:16:27.840 --> 01:16:29.600 one century to the next. 01:16:29.600 --> 01:16:33.120 That's bad news, because the end result of that is going to 01:16:33.120 --> 01:16:35.840 be violence that no one should want to see. 01:16:35.840 --> 01:16:37.200 We don't want to see it. 01:16:37.200 --> 01:16:38.640 Wars are always destructive. 01:16:38.880 --> 01:16:41.520 Even a just war is destructive and evil. 01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:44.800 The question is whether it's less evil than the alternative. 01:16:44.800 --> 01:16:49.520 If no Christians discuss these things, all we're left with are evil 01:16:49.520 --> 01:16:53.120 alternatives, and any Christian should seek to prevent that if they're it's 01:16:53.120 --> 01:16:54.640 if at all possible. 01:16:54.720 --> 01:16:54.880 If 01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:58.960 you want a good example of what happens when really no one 01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:03.840 involved is Christian, look at any number of wars that have been 01:17:03.840 --> 01:17:08.000 waged in the Far East in history, and some of the atrocities 01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:09.600 that have been committed. 01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:16.080 That's what happens when men are entirely unbounded morally, when there are 01:17:16.080 --> 01:17:18.240 no restrictions. 01:17:18.240 --> 01:17:22.880 And that is what happens when Christians remove themselves from the conversation. 01:17:22.880 --> 01:17:25.440 There are no Christians on the left. 01:17:25.440 --> 01:17:28.480 There are no Christians on the Marxist side of this. 01:17:28.480 --> 01:17:32.000 And so the only Christians are on the right. 01:17:32.720 --> 01:17:37.280 And if Christians want to have an influence on the outcome of 01:17:37.280 --> 01:17:42.640 these events, because as was mentioned, we are living through right now, 01:17:42.640 --> 01:17:46.320 probably about the 1920s in Central Europe, we're living through 01:17:47.680 --> 01:17:54.640 the same thing all over again in the same decade, incidentally. 01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:58.000 Welcome back to the twenties, not so roaring this time, but the 01:17:58.000 --> 01:18:00.160 twenties nonetheless. 01:18:01.120 --> 01:18:05.360 If Christians want to have an influence, not only in the outcome 01:18:05.440 --> 01:18:08.080 but how we get there, and it is important to have an 01:18:08.080 --> 01:18:12.560 influence in the means if you want an influence on the ends, 01:18:12.560 --> 01:18:14.800 then we have to be part of the discussion. 01:18:15.920 --> 01:18:19.280 And the only way Christians can be part of the discussion on 01:18:19.280 --> 01:18:21.600 the right is if we're honest. 01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:25.360 If we're blunt, if we speak the truth, if we're not afraid 01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:29.440 of touching on these subjects that are supposedly off limits. 01:18:29.440 --> 01:18:32.880 In this case, for this series of episodes, if we're not afraid 01:18:32.880 --> 01:18:34.960 to say the word Jews. 01:18:34.960 --> 01:18:38.960 Because if we're afraid to say these things, then those on the 01:18:38.960 --> 01:18:44.320 right who have been looking at these matters, granted, through a secular 01:18:44.320 --> 01:18:47.920 so called lens, not through a Christian lens, but have been looking 01:18:47.920 --> 01:18:49.680 at them, and had arrived at 01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:52.080 the very clear truth. 01:18:52.080 --> 01:18:55.440 Because some of these truths do not require a Christian lens to 01:18:55.440 --> 01:18:56.240 see them. 01:18:56.240 --> 01:19:01.520 You can find the Jewish involvement in Marxism, whether or not you're 01:19:01.440 --> 01:19:02.560 a Christian. 01:19:02.560 --> 01:19:07.840 You can find the destructiveness of multiculturalism, whether or not you're a 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:12.560 Christian. But if Christians, as has been the case for the last 01:19:12.560 --> 01:19:19.040 several decades, resolutely refuse to engage in these discussions, and particularly refuse 01:19:19.040 --> 01:19:23.600 to speak the truth on them, then both sides are going to 01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:28.080 completely ignore at the absolute best Christians. 01:19:28.080 --> 01:19:31.440 And usually what happens in that case is that Christians wind up 01:19:31.440 --> 01:19:37.520 dead. Because neither side has an incentive to keep Christians alive, if 01:19:37.680 --> 01:19:39.520 Christians are simply lying. 01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:42.880 The left, of course, because they are anti Christ. 01:19:42.880 --> 01:19:43.920 They hate Christ. 01:19:43.920 --> 01:19:46.960 They want to destroy the church, and the best way to destroy 01:19:46.960 --> 01:19:49.920 the church on earth is to destroy Christians. 01:19:49.920 --> 01:19:53.520 It's not burning buildings, that is destructive, of course, but you can 01:19:53.520 --> 01:19:54.240 rebuild the buildings. 01:19:54.960 --> 01:19:58.640 If you kill the Christians, if you burn the scriptures, if you 01:19:58.640 --> 01:20:03.280 destroy all of those who have that knowledge, you can very effectively 01:20:03.280 --> 01:20:04.800 destroy the church on earth. 01:20:04.800 --> 01:20:07.600 God has promised that He will not permit the forces of evil 01:20:07.600 --> 01:20:11.680 to completely triumph, but that does not mean that they cannot triumph 01:20:11.680 --> 01:20:14.560 in an area for a period of time. 01:20:14.560 --> 01:20:18.800 Look at the map, the religious map of Europe before and after 01:20:18.800 --> 01:20:21.440 World War two. 01:20:21.440 --> 01:20:24.400 Christendom died in that war. 01:20:24.400 --> 01:20:28.080 It was wounded almost mortally in World War I, certainly, but if 01:20:28.080 --> 01:20:31.600 you look at the percentage of those who were atheist, twenty years 01:20:31.600 --> 01:20:34.160 on, from World War two. 01:20:34.160 --> 01:20:38.640 The East is atheist, with some exceptions of those who claim to 01:20:38.640 --> 01:20:41.840 be Roman Catholic, but if you start asking them questions about what 01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:45.120 they believe, you'll find out very quickly most of them are atheist 01:20:45.120 --> 01:20:48.720 as well so there are very real consequences here in time 01:20:49.600 --> 01:20:53.360 when it comes to these conflicts, and that's for the left. 01:20:53.360 --> 01:20:55.200 Now for the right side. 01:20:55.200 --> 01:20:58.880 The right, if Christians are simply going to lie, which has been 01:20:58.880 --> 01:21:02.960 the case for some decades, then they have no need of Christianity 01:21:02.960 --> 01:21:04.000 or Christ. 01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:05.360 From their perspective. 01:21:05.360 --> 01:21:09.920 They're wrong, of course, ultimately, eternally wrong. 01:21:09.920 --> 01:21:11.840 But politically they're not. 01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:18.320 Because politically speaking, if Christians are unwilling to address these issues, unwilling 01:21:18.320 --> 01:21:23.520 to speak the truth, unwilling to take Scripture seriously incidentally, because Scripture 01:21:23.520 --> 01:21:27.200 does speak of speaking the truth before the powerful. 01:21:27.200 --> 01:21:31.440 And that doesn't just mean the gospel, because God is true, so 01:21:31.440 --> 01:21:33.440 all truth belongs to God. 01:21:33.440 --> 01:21:36.480 The gospel is the most salient part of that, but none of 01:21:36.480 --> 01:21:37.760 it's irrelevant. 01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:41.200 But if we're not willing to do that, well it shows a 01:21:41.200 --> 01:21:42.400 number of things. 01:21:42.400 --> 01:21:44.880 One, it shows we don't really believe. 01:21:44.880 --> 01:21:47.920 It shows that our faith isn't real. 01:21:47.920 --> 01:21:50.800 Because if Christians don't value the truth, if Christians aren't willing to 01:21:50.800 --> 01:21:54.320 speak the truth, then maybe we don't really believe in the truth, 01:21:54.320 --> 01:21:57.440 and so why should those on the political right care what Christians 01:21:57.440 --> 01:22:03.840 say? But there is also the matter of Christians are naturally on 01:22:03.840 --> 01:22:05.520 the political right. 01:22:05.520 --> 01:22:09.120 Because that is simply the side of God in these matters, because 01:22:09.120 --> 01:22:13.200 the political right is the side that believes in family and hierarchy 01:22:13.360 --> 01:22:15.680 and all of these various things. 01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:20.160 that are of God, that are good from God, and opposes all 01:22:20.160 --> 01:22:26.640 the evil things from the left, the transgenderism, the homosexuality, multiculturalism, etc. 01:22:26.720 --> 01:22:34.080 etcnasium. But in order to be part of the right, 01:22:34.080 --> 01:22:38.800 in order to be an influential part of what is transpiring, whether 01:22:38.800 --> 01:22:42.880 or not we are part of it, we have to properly be 01:22:43.360 --> 01:22:48.560 Christians, which means again, speaking the truth. 01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:53.600 It means not being afraid to address these problems. 01:22:53.600 --> 01:22:57.600 It means recognizing the reality of the situation in which we find 01:22:57.600 --> 01:23:05.120 ourselves. Because ultimately, the political right in the West should be Christian, 01:23:05.120 --> 01:23:06.800 top to bottom. 01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:09.840 That is how things should be, and that is how things would 01:23:09.840 --> 01:23:14.800 be, if Christians were willing to speak the truth, instead of being 01:23:14.800 --> 01:23:18.560 Zionists, as has been the case in the US for far too 01:23:18.560 --> 01:23:20.160 long with many churches. 01:23:20.160 --> 01:23:21.680 That's not in Scripture. 01:23:21.680 --> 01:23:24.320 That's not scriptural, that's anti scriptural. 01:23:24.320 --> 01:23:28.480 Where in scripture does it command us to support a pagan nation, 01:23:28.480 --> 01:23:31.920 a nation that hates God, a nation that hates Christ, a nation 01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:34.640 that has banned proselyzation? 01:23:34.640 --> 01:23:39.200 You can be arrested for attempting to spread the gospel in Israel. 01:23:39.200 --> 01:23:40.640 That's not Christian. 01:23:40.640 --> 01:23:43.200 That's not a nation we should support. 01:23:43.200 --> 01:23:46.640 And if we support that as Christians, what are we declaring to 01:23:46.640 --> 01:23:47.920 the world? 01:23:47.920 --> 01:23:50.960 What we're declaring is that we don't really believe in God, we 01:23:50.960 --> 01:23:54.560 don't really believe in Christ, because we're willing to support this evil, 01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:58.240 wicked pagan nation. 01:23:58.240 --> 01:24:01.840 Our confession before the world truly matters. 01:24:02.160 --> 01:24:06.480 And it truly matters today because of what is coming in the 01:24:06.480 --> 01:24:10.080 next few decades. 01:24:10.080 --> 01:24:15.360 We don't want a repeat of what happened in Europe, although that 01:24:15.360 --> 01:24:18.880 is where we are heading today. 01:24:18.880 --> 01:24:24.640 We want Christianity to come out of this conflict in better shape, 01:24:24.640 --> 01:24:29.280 not as in Europe where Christianity Christendom effectively died in the nineteen 01:24:29.680 --> 01:24:34.480 forties and the nineteen fifties. 01:24:34.480 --> 01:24:39.760 We have a very real opportunity, as Christians, in this century, to 01:24:39.760 --> 01:24:42.400 see a revival of the church. 01:24:42.400 --> 01:24:44.960 Because God doesn't abandon his people. 01:24:44.960 --> 01:24:46.240 It has always been true. 01:24:46.240 --> 01:24:51.360 Scripture is very clear if we desist in our evil ways and 01:24:51.360 --> 01:24:54.800 turn to God, he will turn to us, he will remember us, 01:24:54.800 --> 01:24:56.480 he will restore us. 01:24:56.480 --> 01:24:59.760 And so we very much have that opportunity as a nation. 01:24:59.760 --> 01:25:01.360 And yes, we mean as a nation. 01:25:01.360 --> 01:25:04.320 We're recording, as has been mentioned a number of times, on the 01:25:04.320 --> 01:25:06.880 fourth of July. 01:25:06.880 --> 01:25:09.840 Bear in mind, as we have said many times before, country and 01:25:09.840 --> 01:25:13.040 nation are not synonymous. 01:25:13.040 --> 01:25:17.600 Germany is not the nineteen forty five Constitution. 01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:19.280 That's a country. 01:25:19.280 --> 01:25:22.400 Germany is a nation of the Germans. 01:25:22.400 --> 01:25:26.320 France is a nation of the French. 01:25:26.320 --> 01:25:29.280 Ireland is a nation of the Irish. 01:25:29.280 --> 01:25:33.440 America is properly a nation of the Americans, and we are a 01:25:33.920 --> 01:25:38.160 distinct Western European descended people. 01:25:38.160 --> 01:25:41.040 That is what Americans are. 01:25:41.040 --> 01:25:45.920 The US is a country that is a different thing. 01:25:45.920 --> 01:25:52.000 And so as Christians, it is important for us to act in 01:25:52.000 --> 01:25:54.560 accord with what God made us to be. 01:25:54.560 --> 01:25:57.840 I'm going back to what I said earlier about mankind in the 01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:00.160 garden. What is man? 01:26:00.160 --> 01:26:02.000 What is our purpose? 01:26:02.000 --> 01:26:07.280 We are an idol properly understood, in the proper sense of the 01:26:07.280 --> 01:26:09.680 term, an icon, an image. 01:26:09.680 --> 01:26:10.800 These are all synonymous. 01:26:10.800 --> 01:26:13.760 We are God's image in creation. 01:26:13.760 --> 01:26:17.360 We represent God in his creation. 01:26:17.360 --> 01:26:19.280 We act in his stead. 01:26:19.280 --> 01:26:23.520 Not in the sense of tikun olam, because tikkun olam is remaking 01:26:23.520 --> 01:26:27.600 creation in the image of man, or really in the image of 01:26:27.600 --> 01:26:33.440 those men who adhere to that concept, the image of their God, 01:26:33.440 --> 01:26:36.720 who is very much not our God. 01:26:37.120 --> 01:26:40.000 Yes, we live in a fallen world. 01:26:40.000 --> 01:26:43.120 No, we cannot perfect a fallen world, but we can certainly make 01:26:43.120 --> 01:26:45.280 it better than it is today. 01:26:45.280 --> 01:26:50.160 And as Christians, it is incumbent on us to try. 01:26:50.160 --> 01:26:53.280 Part of that is being faithful with regard to the right hand 01:26:53.360 --> 01:26:56.720 kingdom, that's attending church, that's holding to right doctrine, that's teaching your 01:26:56.720 --> 01:26:58.560 children, etc. 01:26:59.520 --> 01:27:02.960 But we must also be faithful in the left hand kingdom. 01:27:02.960 --> 01:27:05.200 And that is the kingdom of the world. 01:27:05.200 --> 01:27:08.160 That is the state, that is politics. 01:27:08.160 --> 01:27:12.960 And part of that is speaking truthfully about history. 01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:16.160 Even when that history makes people uncomfortable. 01:27:16.160 --> 01:27:19.760 Even when that history requires you to say words that make other 01:27:19.760 --> 01:27:24.080 people uncomfortable, even when there may be consequences for speaking that truth. 01:27:24.080 --> 01:27:27.040 Now of course I am not saying go into your workplace and 01:27:27.040 --> 01:27:30.320 scream it's the Jews, don't do that. 01:27:30.320 --> 01:27:37.600 However, you are to employ wisdom in all matters, 01:27:37.600 --> 01:27:42.000 but as a Christian, you are not permitted to lie about these 01:27:42.000 --> 01:27:47.360 things. You are permitted not to address them or to avoid the 01:27:47.360 --> 01:27:51.040 topic if wisdom dictates you should do so. 01:27:51.040 --> 01:27:54.320 But lying about them is anti-Christian. 01:27:54.320 --> 01:27:56.400 Lying about them is sin. 01:27:56.400 --> 01:27:56.560 I 01:27:56.560 --> 01:27:59.360 would say the folks who are listening, even if you don't want 01:27:59.360 --> 01:27:59.920 to read E. 01:27:59.920 --> 01:28:04.000 Michael Jones' book, The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, I would suggest that you 01:28:04.000 --> 01:28:07.280 at least visit the archive.org link that we'll have in the show 01:28:07.280 --> 01:28:10.160 notes and just check look at the chapter names. 01:28:10.160 --> 01:28:13.360 They're twenty five, thirty odd chapters. 01:28:13.360 --> 01:28:18.560 Each of them is a different aspect of the Jewish revolutionary spirit 01:28:18.640 --> 01:28:26.480 of Tikanolam, of this group of people with biblical ancestry 01:28:26.800 --> 01:28:29.440 going back, it's been corrupted. 01:28:29.440 --> 01:28:33.920 They have been corrupted by leaving God by abandoning the God who 01:28:33.920 --> 01:28:35.280 led them out of Egypt. 01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:39.920 God instantly they abandoned within forty days of leaving Egypt. 01:28:39.920 --> 01:28:42.160 No, they came and went. 01:28:42.160 --> 01:28:46.160 But when you look at the list of things that he Michael 01:28:46.160 --> 01:28:48.720 Jones lays out and he makes a case in each of those 01:28:48.720 --> 01:28:54.080 chapters, what r relevance it has to the Jewish people, it becomes 01:28:54.080 --> 01:28:58.960 unmistakable that for us as Christians, for us as citizens of whatever 01:28:58.960 --> 01:29:03.760 country we live in today, these are matters of 01:29:04.720 --> 01:29:08.080 survival. They're matters of polity. 01:29:08.080 --> 01:29:10.800 They're matters of spiritual significance. 01:29:10.800 --> 01:29:15.120 And And they're matters that can only be addressed by talking about 01:29:15.120 --> 01:29:18.400 Jews. The manner in which we do it must be Christian. 01:29:18.400 --> 01:29:21.840 As Corey said, there's there's no moment in a Christian life where 01:29:21.840 --> 01:29:24.000 we can say, well, I'm not going to be Christian for the 01:29:24.000 --> 01:29:27.280 next five minutes 'cause I'd really rather do this other thing and 01:29:27.280 --> 01:29:31.920 then say mean, hateful, terrible things, or commit violence or any whatever 01:29:31.920 --> 01:29:34.480 whatever thing you would like to do because you're mad about what 01:29:34.480 --> 01:29:35.680 somebody else did. 01:29:35.680 --> 01:29:39.120 That is the moment where you most need to be Christian because 01:29:39.120 --> 01:29:42.320 it's a moment where it's the hardest to be Christian because your 01:29:42.320 --> 01:29:46.080 sinful nature wants to go in one direction and God says the 01:29:46.080 --> 01:29:48.480 other direction. 01:29:48.480 --> 01:29:51.520 I think the trick that we as Christians have to understand in 01:29:51.520 --> 01:29:56.320 the twenty-first century is that our sinful nature doesn't only look to 01:29:56.320 --> 01:30:01.600 commit violence or say mean things or whatever active measure you might 01:30:01.600 --> 01:30:03.520 think, yeah, that's really bad. 01:30:03.520 --> 01:30:07.200 Our sinful nature also is a coward. 01:30:07.200 --> 01:30:11.280 Our sinful nature is to be fearful and to duck our heads 01:30:11.440 --> 01:30:14.480 and to stay out of the line of fire and to avoid 01:30:14.480 --> 01:30:17.520 saying something that's going to cause grief for us. 01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:20.720 Because it's easier if people leave you alone. 01:30:20.720 --> 01:30:26.240 And if saying something that's true that gets you punished is something 01:30:26.240 --> 01:30:29.760 that's scary to you, at some point you're gonna have to choose 01:30:29.920 --> 01:30:32.720 do I tell the truth or do I deny God? 01:30:32.720 --> 01:30:35.440 Because they're two sides of the same coin. 01:30:35.440 --> 01:30:39.440 If you start lying, you're losing your faith. 01:30:39.440 --> 01:30:42.160 And if there's something that the world is telling you you must 01:30:42.160 --> 01:30:45.120 lie about, it threatens your faith. 01:30:45.120 --> 01:30:47.760 It's actually a matter of salvation. 01:30:47.760 --> 01:30:50.400 Not that believing any of this stuff that we say is itself 01:30:50.560 --> 01:30:52.400 salvific or not, it's not. 01:30:52.400 --> 01:30:54.400 The gospel is contained in scripture. 01:30:54.640 --> 01:30:56.960 We're not trying to elevate any of this to 01:30:57.920 --> 01:31:00.080 being holy writ. 01:31:00.080 --> 01:31:04.800 However, if it's true and you lie about it, you're sinning against 01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:05.680 God by lying. 01:31:05.680 --> 01:31:07.760 And it doesn't matter what you're lying about. 01:31:07.760 --> 01:31:10.240 And lies of omission are lies too. 01:31:10.240 --> 01:31:13.920 Failure to tell the truth when the truth is demanded is a 01:31:13.920 --> 01:31:16.240 sin. It's an easy sin. 01:31:16.240 --> 01:31:19.120 And it's an it's an easy sin for someone who will say, 01:31:19.120 --> 01:31:22.640 I'm not gonna shout hateful things, I'm not gonna hit someone, I'm 01:31:22.560 --> 01:31:25.840 not gonna advocate something that's overtly evil. 01:31:25.840 --> 01:31:27.520 It's a very quiet sin. 01:31:27.760 --> 01:31:29.120 it's completely silent. 01:31:29.120 --> 01:31:32.880 That's the upside, that's the whole point of the sin of silence. 01:31:32.880 --> 01:31:36.480 When you fail to tell the truth when the truth is demanded, 01:31:36.480 --> 01:31:37.440 it's easy. 01:31:37.440 --> 01:31:38.880 You get away with it. 01:31:38.880 --> 01:31:41.600 No one knows you didn't say the thing that you knew you 01:31:41.600 --> 01:31:42.640 should have said. 01:31:42.640 --> 01:31:46.640 You know, God knows, and the world is made worse by your 01:31:46.640 --> 01:31:50.160 failure to be faithful to telling the truth. 01:31:50.160 --> 01:31:53.120 Now, as Corey said, that doesn't mean you go around shouting about 01:31:53.120 --> 01:31:53.600 these things. 01:31:53.840 --> 01:31:57.120 if you believe the things that we've said, that it's a really 01:31:57.120 --> 01:31:59.120 hard thing for a lot of people to go through as they 01:31:59.120 --> 01:32:02.400 Is they come to realize all this has been going on. 01:32:02.400 --> 01:32:04.960 Because again, it's been going on for thousands of years. 01:32:04.960 --> 01:32:08.240 The Jews have been up to no good for thousands of years. 01:32:09.200 --> 01:32:10.640 that's troubling. 01:32:10.640 --> 01:32:15.840 That's that reshapes our own understanding of our history and of scripture. 01:32:15.840 --> 01:32:19.680 Now, when I say that, I don't mean that people 200 years 01:32:19.680 --> 01:32:23.760 ago would have believed something different. 01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:26.000 That's part of the reason we talked about Zionism. 01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:29.760 We'll probably do an episode in the future entirely about Zionism, particularly 01:32:29.760 --> 01:32:35.040 around the Schofield Bible and how it was inserted into particularly the 01:32:35.040 --> 01:32:38.160 American psyche and the American political system. 01:32:38.640 --> 01:32:39.280 Because 01:32:40.480 --> 01:32:44.960 cordoning off this whole subject area makes it possible for people who 01:32:44.960 --> 01:32:47.440 are up to no good to maneuver freely. 01:32:47.440 --> 01:32:48.800 No one's gonna interfere. 01:32:48.800 --> 01:32:52.320 And if anyone tries to, you say they're our greatest ally. 01:32:52.320 --> 01:32:55.920 I support Israel, they're the chosen people. 01:32:55.920 --> 01:32:59.520 If that's true, if that's scriptural, then yes, we're bound to it. 01:32:59.520 --> 01:33:02.480 The problem is none of it's true, and yet people believe it 01:33:02.480 --> 01:33:04.080 in good conscience, and so 01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:10.400 within our own nation, within our own people group, we have opposite 01:33:10.400 --> 01:33:13.680 sides in defense of an alien group. 01:33:13.680 --> 01:33:16.480 And again, alien isn't inherently bad. 01:33:16.480 --> 01:33:17.360 It means different. 01:33:17.360 --> 01:33:18.720 It means outside. 01:33:18.720 --> 01:33:23.120 If they're alien and they should be supported, if that were true, 01:33:23.120 --> 01:33:24.720 I'd be first in line. 01:33:24.720 --> 01:33:26.560 Because it's what God commanded. 01:33:26.560 --> 01:33:27.520 But it's not true. 01:33:27.520 --> 01:33:33.120 And it's actually incredibly spiritually and physically destructive for us to engage 01:33:33.120 --> 01:33:36.240 in it and for us to even remain silent about it. 01:33:36.240 --> 01:33:40.320 And a lot of people when they discover this stuff go from 01:33:40.480 --> 01:33:44.480 either complete indifference or complete Zionism, if they manage to get over 01:33:44.480 --> 01:33:47.680 the hump of saying, actually this is true and I'm I'm unhappy 01:33:47.680 --> 01:33:51.200 about it, it's really easy to fall off the other side of 01:33:51.200 --> 01:33:55.600 the horse and say, now I'm going to be rapidly against against 01:33:55.600 --> 01:33:58.400 the Jews in all things at all times for all purposes. 01:33:58.400 --> 01:33:59.200 That's not the point. 01:33:59.200 --> 01:34:00.560 The point is tell the truth. 01:34:00.560 --> 01:34:02.480 And if the truth is that they're up to no good and 01:34:02.480 --> 01:34:08.000 we need to stop that by a Christian means, then by God 01:34:08.080 --> 01:34:09.360 that's what we should do. 01:34:09.360 --> 01:34:11.520 But it should always be by God. 01:34:11.520 --> 01:34:14.640 It should always be what He wants, not what we want, not 01:34:14.640 --> 01:34:16.960 because we're fired up about something new. 01:34:16.960 --> 01:34:20.480 So if you learn anything from what we're saying in this series 01:34:20.640 --> 01:34:21.920 or any of the other things, 01:34:23.280 --> 01:34:27.440 Zeal is good, but it has to be mediated by faithfulness. 01:34:27.440 --> 01:34:29.600 It's more important to 01:34:31.120 --> 01:34:34.560 maintain your footing as a Christian than to run off in a 01:34:34.560 --> 01:34:35.440 new direction. 01:34:35.440 --> 01:34:38.880 Even if the new direction is the correct direction, nothing we're saying 01:34:38.880 --> 01:34:39.680 here is false. 01:34:39.680 --> 01:34:43.200 All this is vital to the modern Christian life. 01:34:43.200 --> 01:34:46.240 But we would much prefer that if you believe this, you pivot 01:34:46.240 --> 01:34:51.120 slowly, you reorient yourself, do research, do study on your own, look 01:34:51.120 --> 01:34:53.920 at these sources, go read whatever you want to read. 01:34:53.920 --> 01:34:55.440 Just be aware that 01:34:56.560 --> 01:34:59.440 when they took over the banks two hundred years ago, they took 01:34:59.440 --> 01:35:01.360 over a lot of other things too. 01:35:01.360 --> 01:35:04.720 Media is entirely controlled by Jews. 01:35:04.720 --> 01:35:07.600 That's it's called an anti Semitic trope. 01:35:07.600 --> 01:35:09.200 It's called a stereotype. 01:35:09.200 --> 01:35:13.520 And yet at the same time, on their very own websites, you'll 01:35:13.520 --> 01:35:16.720 see them writing articles about how it's true. 01:35:17.200 --> 01:35:21.280 it's this cloaking device that's been put around an entire people where 01:35:21.440 --> 01:35:24.880 on one hand it's false if it's puts them in a bad 01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:27.440 light, but it's true if it puts them in a good light. 01:35:27.440 --> 01:35:29.200 That's not That's not how the truth works. 01:35:29.200 --> 01:35:30.400 Either it's true or false. 01:35:30.400 --> 01:35:32.720 And if it makes them look good, okay, whatever. 01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:33.680 They look good, fine. 01:35:33.680 --> 01:35:34.480 I don't care. 01:35:34.480 --> 01:35:36.800 If it makes them look bad, then we have to deal with 01:35:36.800 --> 01:35:41.200 that. And so when you're digging into sources, it's pi it's part 01:35:41.200 --> 01:35:43.840 of why the show notes are always so rich with these links 01:35:43.840 --> 01:35:47.920 when we can find them, because most of what you're gonna read 01:35:47.920 --> 01:35:49.920 is going to contradict what we're saying. 01:35:49.920 --> 01:35:51.840 And you're saying well those guys are liars. 01:35:51.840 --> 01:35:54.320 Well, that's one possibility. 01:35:54.320 --> 01:35:58.320 The other possibility is that a part necessary part of keeping you 01:35:58.320 --> 01:36:02.480 from seeing the truth is making sure that you're hemmed in by 01:36:02.640 --> 01:36:06.400 enough superficial sources that you never get to the truth. 01:36:06.400 --> 01:36:09.680 And then it's easy to go along with the entire crowd that's 01:36:09.680 --> 01:36:13.440 saying one thing and you have a few people saying another thing 01:36:13.520 --> 01:36:15.840 and some of them say it in really terrible ways. 01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:17.040 Some of them are hateful. 01:36:17.040 --> 01:36:18.080 Some of them are stupid. 01:36:18.720 --> 01:36:20.960 Some of the people who agree with us about some of these 01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:23.040 things are extremely embarrassing. 01:36:23.040 --> 01:36:26.240 And it makes me sad that I can't convince them to be 01:36:26.240 --> 01:36:31.200 better about A being Christians and B being persuasive. 01:36:31.200 --> 01:36:31.840 But But 01:36:32.800 --> 01:36:35.520 it's possible to tell the truth and to be a Christian at 01:36:35.520 --> 01:36:36.080 the same time. 01:36:36.080 --> 01:36:37.440 In fact, it's required. 01:36:37.440 --> 01:36:41.040 And so as we work through all this stuff, just remember that. 01:36:41.040 --> 01:36:43.600 If you're hearing something for the first time, or maybe you've heard 01:36:43.600 --> 01:36:46.880 it before and you always disregarded it, Maybe we made a better 01:36:46.880 --> 01:36:49.840 case than you've heard and so you want to learn more. 01:36:49.840 --> 01:36:50.880 Be cautious. 01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:52.720 Don't just go adopting new crap. 01:36:52.720 --> 01:36:55.680 That's how we got into the situation situation in the first place. 01:36:55.680 --> 01:36:59.680 People started throwing new stuff into our culture, saying, oh, now we're 01:36:59.600 --> 01:37:00.640 gonna believe this instead. 01:37:00.880 --> 01:37:01.600 And what do we do? 01:37:01.600 --> 01:37:02.880 We threw out scripture. 01:37:02.880 --> 01:37:06.000 We threw out thousands of years of Christianity. 01:37:06.000 --> 01:37:08.320 And suddenly usury's fine. 01:37:08.320 --> 01:37:10.560 Suddenly feminism is valuable. 01:37:10.560 --> 01:37:14.720 Suddenly the destruction of order and hierarchy is freedom. 01:37:14.720 --> 01:37:16.320 Let freedom ring. 01:37:16.320 --> 01:37:17.760 How did we get there? 01:37:17.760 --> 01:37:21.040 We got there by not checking our inputs and not comparing it 01:37:21.040 --> 01:37:21.840 with scripture. 01:37:21.840 --> 01:37:24.080 That's all we're ever gonna tell anyone to do. 01:37:24.400 --> 01:37:26.800 that's the only thing we're ever gonna be vigorous about. 01:37:26.800 --> 01:37:31.040 Because if you do that vigorously and faithfully, you're gonna come along 01:37:31.040 --> 01:37:34.000 on the rest of the stuff that we're talking about. 01:37:34.000 --> 01:37:36.560 I was wrong about most of the stuff most of my life. 01:37:37.040 --> 01:37:39.440 I mean I I didn't look. 01:37:39.440 --> 01:37:42.480 I I was never a lib, but I was certainly indifferent. 01:37:42.480 --> 01:37:43.680 I was a libertarian. 01:37:43.680 --> 01:37:45.200 I was like, oh yeah, whatever. 01:37:45.200 --> 01:37:46.560 Like I'm they're not hurting anybody. 01:37:46.560 --> 01:37:47.600 It's not my business. 01:37:47.600 --> 01:37:48.320 Don't be mean. 01:37:48.320 --> 01:37:50.080 Don't stereotype. 01:37:50.080 --> 01:37:52.400 It was only when I started looking at the facts as they 01:37:52.400 --> 01:37:56.800 played out immediately, because this isn't history, this is today. 01:37:56.800 --> 01:38:00.080 The revolutions, you know, the stuff in the eighteen hundreds, the stuff 01:38:00.080 --> 01:38:03.280 in the nineteen hundreds, it's happening on our streets today. 01:38:03.280 --> 01:38:06.080 It's threatening our families and our communities. 01:38:06.080 --> 01:38:10.880 And only by understanding that there's an overarching pattern that goes back 01:38:11.280 --> 01:38:14.640 frankly to the Garden of Eden, goes back to the serpent. 01:38:14.640 --> 01:38:19.040 Once you can see that pattern weaving throughout history, then you can 01:38:19.040 --> 01:38:22.400 make sense of the things today that otherwise don't make any sense. 01:38:22.400 --> 01:38:26.720 That's why we said before, don't call people LibTards, don't say they're 01:38:26.720 --> 01:38:29.840 insane. What they're doing is evil. 01:38:29.840 --> 01:38:33.040 Which is why, as Corey said, the right is the place of 01:38:33.040 --> 01:38:34.000 godly people. 01:38:34.000 --> 01:38:36.560 The right is fundamentally about order. 01:38:36.560 --> 01:38:38.160 Full stop. 01:38:38.160 --> 01:38:43.120 When the communist revolutions were occurring in Europe in the nineteen hundreds. 01:38:43.120 --> 01:38:47.680 Simultaneously, there was anarchy taking off in this country. 01:38:47.680 --> 01:38:52.400 We didn't have overt communists, but we had Italian anarchists sending pipe 01:38:52.400 --> 01:38:53.440 bombs everywhere. 01:38:53.440 --> 01:38:54.480 Hundreds of people died. 01:38:54.880 --> 01:38:57.040 Thousands were injured horrifically. 01:38:57.040 --> 01:39:00.320 It was a terror wave a hundred years ago and almost nobody 01:39:00.320 --> 01:39:01.360 knows about it. 01:39:01.360 --> 01:39:05.760 And anarchy and Talmudic Judaism go hand in hand. 01:39:05.760 --> 01:39:10.720 It's a repackaging for another ethnicity, for another situation, but the goal 01:39:10.720 --> 01:39:11.520 is the same. 01:39:11.520 --> 01:39:15.120 They were targeting bankers, they were targeting judges, they were they were 01:39:15.120 --> 01:39:18.240 targeting anyone who said, actually all these people that just got off 01:39:18.240 --> 01:39:23.280 the boat are actually a social corruption, we should send them back. 01:39:23.280 --> 01:39:25.600 That might sound familiar to you today. 01:39:25.600 --> 01:39:26.720 That's nothing new. 01:39:26.720 --> 01:39:30.560 That's something that America has dealt with for a long time. 01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:32.800 And a hundred years ago, when they were trying to deal with 01:39:32.800 --> 01:39:36.640 it, there were judges and politicians and reporters who were getting killed 01:39:36.640 --> 01:39:38.400 by anarchists for saying it. 01:39:38.400 --> 01:39:42.560 So it's not always directly branded in the way, but the behavior 01:39:42.560 --> 01:39:45.200 and the pattern is always going to look the same. 01:39:45.440 --> 01:39:47.520 And so just look at the pattern. 01:39:47.520 --> 01:39:50.240 Pattern recognition, it's a part of IQ. 01:39:50.240 --> 01:39:52.720 It's also just part of being honest with yourself. 01:39:52.720 --> 01:39:54.800 You don't have to be that smart to figure this stuff out. 01:39:54.800 --> 01:39:57.360 You just have to believe your lying eyes. 01:39:57.360 --> 01:40:02.160 And when you find something that's a demonstrable historical fact and it 01:40:02.160 --> 01:40:04.800 makes you reconsider things you believed before. 01:40:04.800 --> 01:40:06.640 Okay, you were wrong. 01:40:06.640 --> 01:40:07.440 That's fine. 01:40:07.440 --> 01:40:09.760 It's part of being a grown up to have been wrong about 01:40:09.760 --> 01:40:11.520 something and then to fix it. 01:40:11.520 --> 01:40:14.800 It's one of the most grown-up things you can ever do to 01:40:14.800 --> 01:40:16.800 admit I was tricked. 01:40:16.800 --> 01:40:17.920 I was fooled. 01:40:17.920 --> 01:40:19.200 I see now. 01:40:19.200 --> 01:40:20.720 I said a bunch of dumb stuff. 01:40:20.720 --> 01:40:22.640 I did a bunch of dumb stuff. 01:40:22.640 --> 01:40:25.360 Repent. Straighten out. 01:40:25.360 --> 01:40:26.080 Tell the truth. 01:40:27.120 --> 01:40:28.240 Serve God. 01:40:28.560 --> 01:40:28.720 And 01:40:28.720 --> 01:40:32.880 so we'll close out this episode with a little bit of history 01:40:33.040 --> 01:40:36.800 and then two short passages of scripture. 01:40:36.800 --> 01:40:41.680 First I want to read a list of names partly because it 01:40:41.680 --> 01:40:44.800 will be relevant for future episodes, and partly because they are actually 01:40:44.800 --> 01:40:45.840 names worth reading. 01:40:45.840 --> 01:40:49.680 I'll resist reading the German versions, I'll read the English versions of 01:40:49.680 --> 01:40:51.040 the names. 01:40:51.040 --> 01:40:58.080 John Duke of Saxony Elector George Margrave of Brandenburg Ernest Duke 01:40:58.080 --> 01:41:04.960 of Lunaburg Philip Landgrave of Hesse, John Frederick, Duke of Saxony, Francis, 01:41:04.960 --> 01:41:11.920 Duke of Luneberg, Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt, Senate and Magistracy of Nuremberg, 01:41:11.920 --> 01:41:13.680 Senate of Reutlingen 01:41:16.560 --> 01:41:21.760 These are the names, seven nobles in two cities, that were signed 01:41:21.760 --> 01:41:26.560 at the end of the Augsburg Confession, as presented to Emperor Charles 01:41:26.560 --> 01:41:30.640 V. The reason these names are relevant, the reason 01:41:31.520 --> 01:41:37.040 they're worth reading is that when they presented this before the imperial 01:41:37.040 --> 01:41:42.880 diet in fifteen thirty in Augsburg, they were very much putting their 01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:44.240 lives on the line 01:41:45.200 --> 01:41:49.920 not just their lives, but their names, their lands, their honor. 01:41:49.920 --> 01:41:54.720 And the reason they knew this was that earlier John Huss had 01:41:54.720 --> 01:41:58.720 been executed, and that was despite the fact that the Pope had 01:41:58.720 --> 01:42:04.160 promised him safe passage, safe conduct, and fair treatment. 01:42:04.160 --> 01:42:08.160 He was burnt at the stake for trusting in the Pope's word. 01:42:09.120 --> 01:42:12.800 So these men knew full well what the consequences of what they 01:42:12.800 --> 01:42:14.480 were doing could be. 01:42:14.480 --> 01:42:18.640 They knew that they could be stripped of their titles potentially, potentially 01:42:18.640 --> 01:42:21.600 burnt at the stake as heretics for signing on to this confession 01:42:22.000 --> 01:42:23.600 of God's truth. 01:42:23.600 --> 01:42:25.840 And yet they did so. 01:42:25.840 --> 01:42:31.360 Because that is what Christians, particularly Christian rulers, are supposed to do. 01:42:31.360 --> 01:42:38.000 They were fulfilling their duty, as faithful Christians, and as faithful Christian 01:42:38.000 --> 01:42:44.640 princes. But at the beginning of the Augsburg Confession there is a 01:42:44.640 --> 01:42:49.600 short passage of Scripture, and it is a relevant passage of Scripture, 01:42:49.600 --> 01:42:54.720 and it is most interesting because it comes directly after mentioning that 01:42:54.720 --> 01:42:59.360 it is submitted to his Imperial Majesty Charles V and directly before 01:42:59.360 --> 01:43:04.880 the preface which is addressed to his Imperial Majesty Charles V, and 01:43:04.880 --> 01:43:07.600 that is Psalm one nineteen 01:43:08.560 --> 01:43:11.040 forty six. 01:43:11.040 --> 01:43:15.440 I will also speak of your testimonies before kings, and shall not 01:43:15.440 --> 01:43:18.240 be put to shame. 01:43:18.240 --> 01:43:21.360 And that is the Christian position that 01:43:22.480 --> 01:43:28.080 God will carry us through God will keep us safe, and it 01:43:28.080 --> 01:43:33.040 may very well be not to our mind what safety is, because 01:43:33.360 --> 01:43:34.320 God also 01:43:35.280 --> 01:43:38.400 ordained the end of John Hus. 01:43:38.400 --> 01:43:42.800 He went to the stake proclaiming God's truth, and he received a 01:43:42.800 --> 01:43:44.800 martyr's crown. 01:43:44.800 --> 01:43:47.760 That may be the end for some of us. 01:43:47.760 --> 01:43:51.280 It was not the end, for these men, although many of them 01:43:51.280 --> 01:43:56.640 did suffer for the truth later on, the end is up to 01:43:56.640 --> 01:44:00.240 God. It is our duty to do what God has commanded us 01:44:00.240 --> 01:44:03.680 to do in the interim. 01:44:03.680 --> 01:44:08.080 And so I want to double down, as it were, on that 01:44:08.080 --> 01:44:14.400 passage of Scripture with the words of Christ, from Matthew ten. 01:44:14.560 --> 01:44:17.520 Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of 01:44:17.520 --> 01:44:22.000 wolves So be wise as serpents, and innocent as doves. 01:44:22.000 --> 01:44:25.840 Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts, and 01:44:25.840 --> 01:44:29.600 flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors 01:44:29.600 --> 01:44:33.360 and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the 01:44:33.360 --> 01:44:37.440 nations. When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you 01:44:37.440 --> 01:44:40.640 are to speak or what you are to say, for what you 01:44:40.640 --> 01:44:43.120 are to say will be given to you in that hour. 01:44:43.120 --> 01:44:45.600 For it is not you who speak, but the spirit of your 01:44:46.160 --> 01:44:48.080 Father speaking through you. 01:44:48.080 --> 01:44:52.240 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, 01:44:52.240 --> 01:44:55.840 and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, 01:44:55.840 --> 01:44:59.040 and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. 01:44:59.040 --> 01:45:02.000 But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 01:45:02.160 --> 01:45:05.680 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for 01:45:05.680 --> 01:45:08.640 truly I say to you, you will not have gone through all 01:45:08.640 --> 01:45:10.480 the towns of Israel before the Son of Man. 01:45:11.120 --> 01:45:15.840 comes A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above 01:45:15.840 --> 01:45:16.880 his master. 01:45:16.880 --> 01:45:20.000 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and 01:45:20.000 --> 01:45:21.920 the servant like his master. 01:45:22.000 --> 01:45:25.360 If they have called the master of the house Beelzebuble, how much 01:45:25.360 --> 01:45:28.800 more will they malign those of his household?