RLL 34 Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

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November 8, 2020

00:24: This is Radio Luke Seleucid, episode 34. I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me this evening.
00:29: The title of this evening's episode is Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. And I'm going to explain that title a little bit more here in a few minutes.
00:38: But first of all, just thanks for everybody for joining in. Thanks to everybody who's dropped by on the live video on Twitter.
00:48: I appreciate that, the live feed. And I'm trying to do that with Twitter, just kind of getting used to going live.
00:56: I really haven't done a whole lot of that. In fact, this is only the second time I've done it. So I'm kind of a newbie on this whole thing.
01:02: Trying a little different camera angle tonight. Hopefully that'll work. So our title tonight's episode,
01:10: Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. And why did I do that? Well, that's a saying that you may have heard of.
01:16: You may have somebody somewhere, someplace, maybe in an article you've read, use the phrase
01:22: Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. And a lot of people have heard that. And it's kind of one of those sayings that sticks with you, right?
01:32: It's wonderfully alliterative. It starts with three words beginning with R. And I like alliteration too.
01:41: But a lot of people, they've heard that, but what does that actually mean? What does it refer to? Well, it actually is something that goes back to 1884.
01:50: And it goes back to the presidential election of 1884.
01:56: And that was the election. The Republican candidate was
02:03: James G. Blaine. And he was running against a Democrat by the name of Grover Cleveland.
02:10: Well, Grover Cleveland actually went on to win that election. But shortly before the actual election took place, there was a speech that was given by a gentleman named
02:22: Samuel D. Burchard. It was actually Dr. Samuel D. Burchard. He was a Presbyterian minister. And he was also a civil war vet.
02:31: He had served in the Union Army. And during his speech, he used that term
02:37: Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. But what does it refer to? A lot of people don't know this, but Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion, by those terms, he was referring to the
02:51: Democrats. Samuel D. Burchard was a Republican, and he was referring to the
02:56: Democrats. And let me read the quote for you to kind of give you a little sense of context here.
03:02: This is Burchard's quote. We're Republicans and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with a party whose antecedents have been
03:10: Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. We are loyal to our flag. End quote.
03:15: Well, that was actually even a fairly controversial statement to make back in 1884.
03:22: And James Blaine went on to lose the election, and he partially blamed Burchard for what he said.
03:30: But what I can say is Burchard's comment, actually, he was spot on in 1884.
03:38: And if anything, what he said is even more true of the Democrats today. They're the party of Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.
03:45: And you can really see that this past week. Last week, I talked about the Catholicism of Joe Biden.
03:52: And then this last week, you really see the rebellion portion of it in the attempt by the
03:58: Democrats to steal the election. And make no mistake, that's exactly what's going on. I think that the evidence is overwhelming that this election is being stolen, or at least attempt.
04:09: There's an ongoing, concerted, and very well -planned attempt to steal the election.
04:17: Now, just tonight, there was what Fox News was reporting that Joe Biden is president.
04:25: That's what they were reporting here, that he's the 46th president of the United States, according to Fox News.
04:33: And it's interesting, because there was something I saw on Twitter earlier this week by an individual, and he said that everybody was waiting around for the, quote, conservative
04:50: Fox News to announce that Joe Biden was president. Well, I don't even know all of the ins and outs of how this is all operating, but I do know that there was a personal alert that came through on my phone tonight that said, you know, it was from Fox News, and, oh, you know,
05:05: Joe Biden is the 46th president of the United States. Well, you know, not so fast. You know, this, you know, right now, things don't look, you know, as I'm recording this, and this is
05:15: November 7th, 2020, as I'm recording this, things don't look all that great for Donald Trump. Certainly, the media is all against him.
05:23: The – and even the so -called conservative media, and by that, I'm talking about, you know,
05:29: Fox. Fox is supposed to putatively be, anyway, the station that supports Donald Trump, but I don't think that they really do outside of the exception of a few individuals.
05:40: But I titled tonight's episode Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion, because this – that whole saying, that saying that Bertrand used,
05:50: I mean, he was referring, as I said, referring to the Democrats, and we really see that being laid out here this past week.
05:58: You know, I had – it was kind of funny, you know, I say this,
06:04: I'm a Republican, so someone might watch this and say, well, Steve, you know what, you're just being a partisan hack.
06:10: You know, the Democrats, I mean, they're not all that bad, and, you know, for a long time, you know,
06:16: I would see the Democrats do things that looked pretty evil, and I'd say, well, you know, they are my fellow
06:25: Americans, so they can't really be that corrupt, can they? They can't really be that bad, can they? Oh, yeah, they can be.
06:33: You know, this is one of the things, historically, the, you know, Democrat politics have been tied very closely to the
06:39: Roman Catholic Church, and the Roman Catholic Church itself is very corrupt. I mean, think about all of the corruption that you've seen in Rome.
06:46: I mean, it's – the Roman Catholic Church may well be the most corrupt institute in the entire world, and there are story after story after story about the corruption of Rome, you know, the kind of scandals that they have.
07:00: I mean, they can be sex scandals, they can be money scandals, they can be political scandals, sometimes all three are involved.
07:09: You know, I mean, here's a story, and just to give you a sense of the kind of just outrageous evil that comes out of the
07:16: Roman Catholic Church. This is a headline from July 2017. It's actually July 5th, 2017.
07:23: And, excuse me, the headline, it reads this, Vatican cops bust drug -fueled gay orgy at home of Cardinal's aide.
07:32: Yeah, you heard that right. I'll read that again. Vatican cops bust drug -fueled gay orgy at home of Cardinal's aide.
07:38: And you go on and you read this story here, and I'll just read a few sentences. Quote, Vatican police raided a drug -fueled gay sex party in an apartment belonging to an aide of one of Pope Francis' key advisors, according to a new report.
07:51: The Holy Father, Sikh, is enraged since the home inhabited by Francesco Cardinal Coco Palmario's secretary belongs to the
08:04: Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The arm charged with tackling clerical sex abuse, the
08:10: Italian paper Il Fatto Quotidiano reported. Cops raided the apartment in late
08:15: June after neighbors voiced concern about multiple people acting strangely while streaming in and out of the residence, the newspaper reported
08:23: Wednesday. Once police were inside the apartment, they said they found multiple men engaged in rampant drug use and homosexual activity.
08:30: They then arrested the priest, an aide to one of Pope Francis' key advisors, after taking him to a clinic to detox from the drugs he'd ingested.
08:41: I couldn't even make something like this up. I'm a
08:47: Protestant, and I have stated many, many times, I've written many, many times that the
08:54: Roman Catholic Church is the Babylonian harlot of the Bible, and that the office of the papacy is the
09:01: Antichrist. But even I, it's funny, as bad as I think
09:06: Rome is, even I would not dream of accusing him of doing something like this.
09:14: I mean, I read this and my jaw just drops. It's absolutely just stunning. It's however evil
09:19: I think the Roman Catholic Church is, they somehow manage to even be worse than what
09:25: I think. There's been many, many, many times when I've come across that sort of thing.
09:31: And I mention that because the Democrats are kind of the same way.
09:37: And I've noticed this over the years, that however bad I think the Democrats are, they manage to actually be worse than what
09:43: I thought. And there've been a lot of times I've seen Democrats that seem pretty sleazy, and they've had terrible policies, and they've been engaged in apparently all kinds of very questionable sorts of activities.
09:59: And I think, you know, man, these guys are really evil. And then I catch myself, I'd say, oh, come on, Steve, you're just being a partisan hack.
10:05: You're a Republican, and you're not being fair to these people.
10:12: And then things would come out that would prove some of this wrongdoing, I think. Not only were they as bad as what
10:19: I thought they were, they were worse than what I thought they were. And it was kind of like that in 2016. During the last election, all those
10:25: WikiLeaks things came out. And it was very obvious that the Democrats were rigging the primary for Hillary Clinton.
10:33: And then it came out, you know, all these WikiLeaks documents came out that proved that they were rigging the primary for Hillary Clinton.
10:43: And you see these things come out, and you just go, yeah, you guys are even just worse than what I thought you were.
10:49: You know, not only are you as bad as what I thought you were, you're worse than what I thought you were. You know, and then it came out, you know, during the,
10:55: I think it was during the presidential debates, it came out that the acting
11:02: Democratic National Committee chairman, I guess it was Donna Brazile, she was feeding debate questions to Hillary Clinton in advance, and not only once but twice, and she lost her job at CNN.
11:13: I mean, it's just the most ridiculous garbage that there is.
11:20: And of course, you know, with the presidential election this last week, you're seeing exactly that same kind of thing.
11:26: You know, just the Romanism, the rebellion, the lawlessness that is just typical both of the
11:33: Roman Catholic Church as well as the political wing in the United States, which is the Democratic Party. And, you know, right now you have
11:43: Joe Biden out there, he's holding himself out as though he is the president -elect, which he is not.
11:51: You know, I think this thing is far from over, it's far from settled. As far as I'm concerned, the fraud that you see coming in the election is just, about the presidential election, just overwhelming.
12:05: I mean, look at the run -up to the election. Joe Biden couldn't draw a crowd to save his life.
12:11: I mean, he spent most of the campaign hiding in his basement, so to speak, and then when he did come out, he'd have these ridiculous rallies,
12:19: I mean, where hardly anybody was there. Donald Trump shows up, and there's thousands and tens of thousands of people who are coming out to see him, yet we're supposed to believe that Joe Biden was dominating in the polls, you know, he was up by 10%, and he was going to sweep to victory, and there's going to be a blue wave, and all of this other stuff, and I looked at it, it's like, no,
12:40: I don't think that that's going to happen. And then election night comes, and I think pretty clearly Donald Trump won that election.
12:48: But, true to form, all kinds of weird irregularities started happening, and I could go on and on about it, and it's not my intention to do so here, but just a couple of very obvious ones, where Donald Trump was leading very nicely in both
13:04: Michigan and Wisconsin, two key battleground states, and then in the wee hours of Wednesday morning,
13:11: I think it was around four or five o 'clock in the morning, all of a sudden, all these votes came in. I think in Michigan, it was like 138 ,000 votes just appeared out of nowhere, and an amazing thing, there were just enough votes to give
13:24: Joe Biden the lead. And the same thing happened in Wisconsin right about the same time.
13:29: And I'm not even getting into all the stuff that was going on in Pennsylvania, and there's a lot of problems going on in Georgia right now as well, and these are all key battleground states.
13:41: And the whole thing is very obviously corrupt, and I think it's very obvious in its attempt by Joe Biden and by the
13:50: Democrats to steal the election. And this isn't the first time they've done that. I mean, you know, like I say, they were very clearly, they were rigging the
13:59: Democratic primary in 2016. They were trying their best to cheat as well as they could in the presidential debates.
14:08: And there's every reason to think that, you know, that they're attempting to rig this election.
14:13: I have no doubt about that. And, you know, that's an opinion. Now, there's some people that may differ from that, and you know, that's okay.
14:20: But I think that there's substantial evidence to suggest that there's serious foul play afoot.
14:27: And, you know, that's actually fairly typical of Democratic politics. I want to read something to you here.
14:34: This is actually from Dr. John Robbins' book. It's called Ecclesiastical Megalomania. It's chapter three, yeah, chapter three out of the book on page 47.
14:45: And here he's talking about Roman Catholic political corruption in the United States.
14:51: He writes this. He says, much of the interference by federal, state, and local governments in the affairs of citizens, both
14:57: Joe Klein and the papacy have told us, is due to Roman Catholic influence in American politics.
15:03: Corrupt municipal political machines were constructed and operated by Roman Catholics following the church -state support for a policy of effective interference.
15:12: Tammany Hall, the Daily Machine, the Curling Machine, and so on. Klein could have mentioned many more.
15:19: Following Vatican directives, Roman Catholic politicians, legislatures, and intellectuals brought us the progressive movement, the labor union movement, the graduated income tax, the
15:28: New Deal, and the growth of government in the United States. The growth of government was not only in the
15:34: United States, of course. Perhaps the United States, because it is the nation in which biblical Christianity had the most impact, is also the country where the least growth of government has occurred.
15:43: In other nations in which Roman Catholic influence was greater, governments became even more socialist than they did in the
15:49: United States. In Italy, for example, an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country, the Communist Party was once the largest
15:55: Communist Party in the world outside the Soviet Union in China. So, you know, he talks a little bit,
16:04: John Robbins does, about corrupt Roman Catholic politics. And he was talking about the
16:09: Curling Machine that was in Boston, or Tammany Hall, which was New York, or the Daily Machine in Chicago.
16:16: I was reading something earlier this week about the 1960 election. Of course, that's when John F.
16:22: Kennedy was elected. And there have long been rumors about massive election fraud in Chicago.
16:32: And of course, that's where the Daily Machine was from. The Daily, you know, the Roman Catholic political machine was in Chicago.
16:40: And it was interesting to read through some of these reports. I had never seen this before, but apparently there was a,
16:46: I believe he was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. And he was investigating the voting irregularities.
16:54: And he found, for example, there was one abandoned house where I believe there was 59 votes were cast for John F.
17:03: Kennedy. There were dead people voting, etc. And his editors pulled him off the report.
17:10: Interestingly enough, he wanted to continue doing this, but his editors pulled him off.
17:16: And there were actually, I want to say about half a dozen or people that went to jail over election fraud in the 1960 election.
17:26: And apparently there were several hundred people that were indicted until a judge threw this out, or there were at least several hundred people who were under investigation.
17:33: I don't remember all the details. But this was a big operation. And this was a, you know, it was a democratic operation in Chicago that was all part, probably, of the corrupt
17:48: Roman Catholic Daily Machine. I mean, that's just Roman Catholic democratic politics. You know, the Democrats are the party of rum,
17:54: Romanism, and rebellion. And they have been for a very, very long time. And you really are seeing that come out right now in the current election cycle.
18:04: As I said, even just the results in Michigan and in Wisconsin are enough to tell you right there that the rig is in.
18:14: I have no doubt about that. Now, I don't know what's going to happen here at this point. You know, I don't know, is the rig going to be big enough this time?
18:23: You know, I talked to a friend of mine, and we actually, I had a friend invite me over to his house for the last presidential debate.
18:32: And he wanted to kind of pick my brain and get what I thought, you know, who did
18:37: I think was going to win the election? And I told him at the time, I told him, I think that Donald Trump was going to win, unless the
18:43: Democrats steal it. Because it's very obvious that the Democrats have been working on a steal for a long time.
18:49: And there's a lot of information that's been published out over the past few months on this. And it's quite convincing.
18:56: And, you know, I think in 2016, I don't think there's any question about it, but they tried to rig that election too.
19:02: But I think Donald Trump took them by surprise. You know, it's kind of interesting. There are some people, there's a certain strain of thought that says, well,
19:11: Donald Trump, he's just nothing but a deep state globalist. You know, he's just like everybody else. I don't think that that's true.
19:18: You know, I don't think that Donald Trump is a deep state globalist.
19:24: You know, he doesn't run with the same crowd that the presidential, that the, you know, that the men who've been elected president up until now,
19:32: Democrat and Republican alike, are part of. I mean, if Donald Trump were, say, a deep state globalist at heart, then why do they hate him so much?
19:45: You know, why does the press hate him so much? Why does the entire political establishment hate him so much?
19:51: Why does the academic establishment hate him so much? Why do so many of these even top people in the military who are committed to all these foreign wars hate
20:01: Donald Trump so much if he's just another deep state globalist? I don't think that he is. I think he is, he's a bit of an outsider.
20:09: Just to give you an idea about what I mean, there's this really creepy, weird secret society out in California.
20:17: It's actually based near San Francisco. It's called Bohemian Grove. And about 20 years back or so,
20:25: Alex Jones did some, he sneaked in there and he did some video footage of some of the stuff that they do.
20:34: And it's really occult and very, very weird. And what
20:39: I found out in this one article that I read is that Donald Trump, or I should say this, there's only been one president, one
20:47: Republican president since 1924 who did not attend or did not attend
20:54: Bohemian Grove. And that one guy is Donald Trump. Donald Trump is not part of Skull and Bones at Yale, you know, like the
21:03: Bushes were, for example. So he's not part of that in crowd. And of course, he's not a
21:10: Roman Catholic either. He's a Republican and he's at least nominally a
21:16: Protestant. He grew up, I guess he's nominally a Presbyterian. Now, I don't think that Donald Trump's a
21:21: Christian, but I think that he's at least culturally Protestant in many ways.
21:29: He's not a Roman Catholic. He's not a globalist. And I think one of the reasons that he's not a globalist is because of his at least political
21:39: Protestantism, if not his actual faith in Jesus Christ. So anyway, you've got this very corrupt
21:47: Roman Catholic democratic establishment that's at this point trying very hard to push this
21:55: Roman Catholic Joe Biden into the White House. Will they succeed? I honestly don't know at this point.
22:01: It appears right now that Joe Biden has the upper hand and things quite frankly don't look all that great for Donald Trump.
22:08: Now that said, what I would tell you is that I think that if anybody can overcome the rig, you know, if anybody can defeat the rig, it would be
22:18: Donald Trump. You know, there's a guy that I've followed for a number of years whose work
22:25: I've followed. His name's Gerald Celente. He calls himself a trends forecaster. And I've seen him,
22:31: I saw him in an interview fairly recently. One of the things he said about Donald Trump is he said, you know, he says, you got to understand, he's from New York.
22:38: He says, you know, the New Yorkers are kind of different. He says, you know, these other guys, you know, you hit them once and they go down.
22:45: And, you know, Donald Trump, he's a fighter. You know, that's how Gerald Celente put it. And I can see in my own experience and just watching
22:54: Donald Trump that I think there's a lot of truth in that. I'll go back to the 2016 presidential election, for example.
23:04: And if you follow the, if you remember back, I think back four years, you might remember kind of late in the game, it was,
23:10: I don't know, late September, early October, the infamous Billy Bush tapes were released.
23:17: Now I'm not going to, this is a Christian podcast and I'm not going to go in and discuss some of the things that were on the
23:23: Billy Bush tape, but let's just say that the Billy Bush tape had showed Donald Trump saying some things that really weren't the things that you would want to hear somebody say.
23:32: Just leave it at that. If you want to go find out for yourself, you can probably just go look it up on the internet, but I'm not going to give what he said, but they were some fairly crude things.
23:42: When these were released, everybody thought that Trump was done. It was very interesting.
23:48: The mainstream media, it almost became like the buzzers were circling and they'd come out and reporters would speak in hushed tones.
23:56: It was almost like they were at a funeral, sort of like a political funeral almost. And they were trying to sell this idea that, well,
24:02: Donald Trump's just finished. It's done. It's all over. He's going to resign any moment now and somebody else will take over for him and Hillary Clinton's going to win and it'll be great and wonderful.
24:13: Praise to the Lord, world without end, amen. That was sort of the conventional wisdom there.
24:20: And this went on for several days. And I remember that Donald Trump put out a quote, put out a tweet,
24:26: I should say. And in the tweet he wrote, he said, Republicans don't know how to fight.
24:34: Or no, he said, Republicans don't know how to win. I will teach them. Or something pretty close to that.
24:41: It was a very brief tweet, very to the point. And you know, the funny thing is, as the days went on and they got into the weekend, all of a sudden there was no resignation.
24:53: And I think people were amazed by that. And Trump kept right on going. And I actually went to a
24:58: Trump rally. He was here in Cincinnati in the second week of October. So it was about maybe a week or two after this.
25:04: And I went down there and there were all kinds of people down there with just tons of enthusiasm for Donald Trump. And I mean,
25:13: I remember going down to that rally and I thought to myself, well, it looks like he's going to survive. And he did, obviously.
25:19: He went on to win the 2016 election. But everybody had given him up for dead. And right now when you look at the news media, they all pretty much seem to be writing
25:29: Donald Trump's political obituary. You know, that he's done, that Joe Biden's going to be president, and that's pretty much it.
25:35: Well, not so fast. You know, this thing is not over. And I think one of the things that, you know, if you are a
25:46: Republican or if you're somebody who's, say, voted for Donald Trump, don't let the mainstream lying press demoralize you, intimidate you, or make you think that this thing is over.
25:59: It's not over. And I think that you're going to see some things come out on this election where the fraud,
26:07: I think, is going to be very obvious. I think it already is obvious, but I think they're going to make the case that there was massive fraud in key battleground states.
26:19: And I wouldn't be surprised if they can't prove that. I think that they will be able to it.
26:26: Let's put it that way. Now, you know, ultimately, who carries the day? I really don't know.
26:34: I want to see Donald Trump win, not because I think Donald Trump's perfect, not because I think that Donald Trump being elected is going to solve all of our problems, because I think as a nation,
26:46: I think the United States is headed for some very difficult times. And that's regardless of who happens to sit in the
26:52: White House. But I would rather have someone in the White House who at least has some appreciation for the Constitution, has some appreciation for basic liberty, for capitalism, economic freedom, for these sorts of things, rather than a deep state
27:12: Roman Catholic globalist such as Joe Biden. I mean,
27:17: Joe Biden really is the Pope's candidate. Now, the Pope hasn't come out and said that.
27:23: I mean, they can't quite come out and say that. But of course, to begin with, I mean, of course, Biden is Roman Catholic.
27:29: And then beyond that, I mean, if you look at Joe Biden's policies, whether it's policies on the economy, whether it's policies on, say, environmentalism, whether it's socialized medicine, what have you, they all line up very closely with what the
27:48: Vatican has taught. And of course, we go back to 2016, and we know that Donald Trump and Pope Francis are enemies.
27:57: You could think back to 2016, and Pope Francis came over, and I think he did some tour in Mexico.
28:03: And I believe he actually went to Juarez, if I recall correctly, and gave some big mass there.
28:10: And then on the flight from back to the VAC, and he made his well -known comments about, you know, that Christians don't build walls, you know, and someone who builds a wall, you know, that man isn't a
28:22: Christian. I'm paraphrasing a bit, but that was in effect what Pope Francis said. And I remember that Donald Trump shot back at him.
28:30: And I was just amazed when Donald Trump actually shot back at the Pope. I mean, it's like, you don't do that.
28:35: I mean, I've never in my life ever seen an American politician take on the Pope before.
28:41: I mean, that's like tugging on Superman's cape. But Donald Trump did. I thought it was great. I loved it.
28:48: And that's actually when I started to get a little bit interested in Donald Trump. Now, again,
28:55: I'm not here to defend everything Donald Trump's ever said, everything Donald Trump's ever done, all of Donald Trump's policies.
29:03: There's many things he's said and done. There are many of his policies that I disagree with. But I think that he's certainly someone who is closer to what
29:15: I believe as a Christian, what I believe as someone who loves the Constitution, who loves personal liberty, who loves economic freedom.
29:24: He's certainly a lot closer to those things in which Joe Biden is, who is maybe himself not a complete radical, but he's backed by some very radical people.
29:33: And if he does become president, I think we're going to see some very, very serious, probably economic problems.
29:44: And I think we're going to see some real challenges to not just political liberty, but to religious liberty as well.
29:49: And this is one of the big concerns I have as a Christian, is what may be coming if Joe Biden becomes president.
29:55: Because of course, he's a big backer of critical race theory.
30:01: He's a big backer of the homosexual lobby. And I think you're going to see those people become very, very aggressive here in the next few years if Joe Biden is elected.
30:12: So I guess one of the things that I wanted to talk a little bit about tonight is how do we as Christians, how do we respond to the difficult situation that our nation is in right now?
30:26: Well, one thing we don't do is we don't throw violent temper tantrums. One of the things that, it's been amazing, you can see just how evil the left really is.
30:42: By the riots that have taken place over the last six months, whether it's Black Lives Matter, whether it's
30:48: Antifa, these have been incredibly destructive. And basically their approach is you either agree with us or we're going to beat you up and burn down your city.
30:59: Either you give us free stuff or we're going to beat you up and burn down your city. We're going to crack you on the head with a skateboard, or we're going to knock you out, or we're going to throw a
31:10: Molotov cocktail in your store and break out your windows. I've watched a lot of the riot coverage from Portland and from some other cities on Twitter.
31:23: It's been amazing. Twitter's actually been a great place to follow some of this stuff. Some of the video is pretty raw.
31:31: Some of the video, it's raw stuff, it's violent, and you can really see how satanic and how evil these
31:40: Antifa, these Black Lives Matter rioters really are. This is dark stuff.
31:47: These are the kinds of people who really support particularly the radical progressive wing of the
31:57: Democratic Party. Some people call Antifa the shock troops of the establishment, and they're in particular the shock troops of the left.
32:08: They are really violent and evil people. Well, as Christians, we don't do that.
32:14: That's not how we behave. That's not how we do things. We don't say, if you don't agree with us, we're going to beat you up or we're going to threaten to kill you.
32:22: One of the things that you see right now is you see some of these leftists are talking about making lists for reprisals.
32:31: There was a thing where, who was it? Robert Reich. Yeah, Robert Reich.
32:37: I think it was just last week, he was proposing, what did he call them? Reconciliation Commission, something along these lines.
32:48: Of course, what that means is re -educating all the Christians or all the conservatives out there who don't like radical progressive politics.
32:59: You need to be re -educated, comrade. This was the kind of thing that they did in South Africa.
33:05: I think it was Truth and Reconciliation, I believe is what it was called. He wanted a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and he's not the only one.
33:12: Robert Reich is a very prominent individual. I believe he's an economics professor. He served in the Clinton administration.
33:19: There have been a number of reports of fairly high -profile people talking about making lists out essentially for revenge and reprisals.
33:30: This is really dangerous stuff. These people are evil. They're all Democrats. This is one of the things that's interesting.
33:37: You don't see Republicans saying this type of thing. You just don't see it. I'm not trying to say that every
33:44: Republican is a great person, but you don't see the kinds of threats and violence from Republicans that you do from Democrats.
33:53: The Democrats are the party of rum, Romanism, and rebellion. That is how they roll. I know that's maybe a terrible sounding thing to say, but that is how they roll.
34:02: It's what they are. It's in their DNA. I'm not even saying that every person who's ever voted for a
34:08: Democrat or everybody who's registered as a Democrat is like that, but the leadership very much is like that.
34:16: There's no question about that. We're in for some very difficult times here, I think, as a nation, as I said, and that's regardless of whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden is president.
34:28: We have major economic problems. Our financial system is collapsing.
34:34: It's going to collapse whether it's Donald Trump as a president or whether it's Joe Biden as a president. It's probably going to collapse sometime here in the next few years, probably during the next president's administration.
34:46: I don't want to try to predict too much in terms of timing, but I think there's a very good chance that it could happen.
34:53: If it doesn't, it's going to happen sometime, I think, in the not terribly distant future. I think the people that run the financial system know that as well.
35:03: I think they know they're living on borrowed time. I would much rather have somebody like Donald Trump who at least has some respect for the
35:12: Constitution running things rather than a deep state globalist like Joe Biden who does not.
35:22: One of the big differences between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is on their view of nationalism versus globalism.
35:31: You've probably heard of the term New World Order. I remember the first time I heard that I think was back about 30 years ago, maybe back in the late 80s, early 90s.
35:40: There's a speech that George H .W. Bush gave. This was the elder Bush, Bush the
35:46: Elder. He gave this speech and he talked about the New World Order. Everybody was like, what is he talking about?
35:53: What is this weird, creepy sounding New World Order thing? Well, the New World Order is basically world government.
35:59: It's globalism. It's world government. When you talk about world government or globalism or the New World Order, you're really talking about the same thing.
36:06: The New World Order is a Roman Catholic thing. The Roman Catholics are globalists.
36:13: Joe Biden is a globalist. The Democrats are globalists. The Democratic Party is the party of Rome, Romanism, and rebellion.
36:23: The parties, the platform of the Democratic Party ties very closely in to all of the stuff that the
36:31: Vatican wants. The Vatican wants world government and so do the
36:40: Democrats. Just to give you an example of how much
36:52: Rome wants world government, I'm going to give you a quote here. This is actually from an encyclical, the 2015 encyclical called
37:01: Laudato Si. It's by the current Pope, Pope Francis. I'm just going to read you a brief few sentences here.
37:07: As Benedict XVI has affirmed in continuity with the social teaching of the Church, to manage the global economy, to revive economies hit by the crisis, to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that will result, to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace, to guarantee the protection of the environment, and to regulate migration.
37:30: For all this, there is an urgent need, or there is urgent need, of a true world political authority.
37:37: As my predecessor, Blessed John XXIII indicated some years ago. So to do all of this stuff, he says, again,
37:45: I'll just read that again, there is urgent need of a true world political authority. So that's
37:54: Pope Francis quoting Pope Benedict XVI, who himself was quoting John XXIII.
38:01: The Roman Catholic Church has always been about world government, and they want to do on a global scale what they did on a regional scale back during the
38:10: Middle Ages. They want to run everything. That's what they want to do. Now are they going to get there?
38:17: Well, you know, I don't know. Some of that depends on how you read the book of Revelation, but there's no question that that's what they want to do.
38:29: So I mean, it's kind of interesting too, because when you listen to alternate media, and by alternate media,
38:36: I'm talking about independent journalists, you know, the YouTubers, podcasters, bloggers, that kind of thing.
38:41: People do the same kind of stuff that I like to do. And when you listen to these people, you hear them talk about the
38:47: Rothschilds, and the Rockefellers, and the, oh, the, you know, the Council on Foreign Relations, and in the
38:54: UN, and et cetera, et cetera. And you know, and all of these are things that are true.
38:59: I mean, these are all bad actors, and certainly very major problems.
39:06: You know, they talk about the World Economic Forum, Davos, and they talk about the Great Reset, and this fellow named
39:13: Klaus Schwab. And again, you know, these are all people who definitely promote globalism, no question about it, and they're bad actors.
39:21: But the one guy who's the biggest, most dangerous globalist of them all, they hardly ever mention, and that's the
39:29: Pope. You know, the Pope is the office of Antichrist. That's what
39:34: Protestants always understood up until the past hundred years, when they decided they wanted to drop that doctrine like a hot potato.
39:41: I guess, I don't know, maybe became socially embarrassing for them. I'm not sure. Maybe they just didn't, you know, stop believing in the doctrines of the
39:49: Reformation. I think that had a lot to do with it. But, you know, globalism is geopolitical
39:58: Romanism. They're tied at the hip. On the other hand, the, you know, nationalism, or what we would call
40:07: Westphalian world order, the Westphalian world order, that is geopolitical Protestantism.
40:13: Now, you may never have heard of the Westphalian world order. Now, the new world order is the NWO. Well, the
40:18: Westphalian world order, we can abbreviate that as the WWO. And not the WWE, you know, that's what the
40:25: WWF, that's the World Wrestling Federation. Now, this is the
40:30: WWO, the Westphalian world order. And the
40:35: Westphalian world order is geopolitical Protestantism. The Westphalian world order is so named because of the
40:44: Treaty of Westphalia, which settled the 30 Years War. The 30 Years War ended in 1648.
40:51: Incidentally, it did begin in 1618 and went to 1648. Hey, that's why they call it the 30 Years War.
40:57: Amazing, isn't it? Funny how that works out. But the 30 Years War was settled by the
41:03: Treaty of Westphalia. And the Treaty of Westphalia, the 30 Years War was fought between, on the one hand, the
41:09: Roman Catholics, and on the other hand, the Protestants.
41:15: It was the first pan -European war. You know, we think of World War I and World War II as pan -European wars because they involved most of, not necessarily all, but certainly a great portion of the nations of Europe.
41:28: But those weren't the first pan -European wars. You have to actually go back to the 30 Years War for that.
41:34: And it was the Protestants. The Protestant Reformation was only about 100 years old at that time.
41:40: And the nations to which the Reformation had come, which had enjoyed the blessings of the
41:45: Reformation, they said, we don't want to be ruled by Rome anymore because, of course, Rome, during the Middle Ages, did pretty much rule all of Europe.
41:53: They ran the show. And there was this fight. There was this 30 Years War. And the good guys, the
42:00: Protestants, won that fight. They defeated the Roman Catholic forces, and they were no longer ruled by Rome, these nations were.
42:07: They were independent nations. Sometimes when we talk about the current
42:12: Westphalian world order, sometimes it's called Westphalian sovereignty. I don't know if I necessarily like the term sovereignty so much because, of course, you know,
42:20: God alone is sovereign. But that's at least the term that's most commonly used. Sometimes they call it
42:26: Westphalian sovereignty. And Westphalian sovereignty, I'm going to tell you about what that is in just a moment here. And you're just going to probably say to me, well, see, that's just common sense.
42:34: Everybody knows that, right? Well, no, actually, everybody doesn't know that. It seems like common sense to you and me because you and I have lived our entire lives in a geopolitical arrangement that's
42:49: Protestant, that's Christian. And what is the Westphalian world order? Well, it's basically this, that the highest level of government is national government.
42:59: So, you know, there's no world government. There's no big empires. You know, we think of like the big empires of, like the
43:05: Roman Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Assyrian Empire. Well, no, I mean, you know, the Romans ruled over many, many nations.
43:13: They conquered many nations and they subjugated them to Roman rule. Of course, you know, we know in the
43:18: New Testament, for example, you know, Judea, you know, went from being an independent nation to being a province of the
43:25: Roman Empire. And there were many other nations that were subjugated in the same way. But that's not
43:30: Westphalian sovereignty. Westphalian sovereignty is that national governments are the highest level of government and one nation isn't supposed to rule over other nations.
43:43: So not only is national government the highest level of government, but also, you know, one country doesn't have any business interfering in the internal affairs of another nation.
43:53: You know, it's sort of mind your own business, M -Y -O -B. In the New Testament, I think it's, I can't remember if it's 1st or 2nd
44:00: Thessalonians, but you know, the Apostle Paul tells people to mind their own business, you know, take care of yourself and don't worry about what other people are doing.
44:08: You know, mind your own business, M -Y -O -B. That's actually a Christian principle on an individual level. That's also a Christian principle on a geopolitical level as well.
44:18: And Donald Trump, I mean, Donald Trump is not a Christian. I mean, back in 2016,
44:24: I think it was, or 2015, you know, there was that interview he had and he was asked if he'd ever asked God for forgiveness. And he point blank said, no,
44:30: I've never asked God for forgiveness. Well, if he's never asked God for forgiveness, then he can't be a Christian.
44:36: Because, of course, being a Christian is all about repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ. You know, we have to ask
44:42: God for forgiveness because all of us are sinners. And if we say we have no sin, we're a liar. So Donald Trump, at least back in 2015, you know, he was not a
44:51: Christian. Now, I don't know, maybe he's become a Christian. I haven't heard that he's changed his stance on that.
44:57: Maybe he has, I don't know. Perhaps, Lord willing, if not, maybe he will at some point. But I don't believe that he has.
45:05: And certainly, you know, as recently as four years ago or so, he was not a Christian. But even though he's not a
45:13: Christian in the believing sense, that we would use that term, I think a lot of his political ideas are shaped by Scripture.
45:22: And one of the things that he's repeatedly talked about is the importance of maintaining national independence, the independence of the
45:30: United States. And, of course, this is something that very much flies in the face of what
45:36: Rome wants and teaches. So there's a big difference between what
45:42: Donald Trump wants and the politics and the economics of the Roman church state.
45:48: And there are a lot of people, and this is one of the great frustrations that I have, is to hear people say, well, you know, it really doesn't matter whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump is president.
45:57: It's all the same thing. No, it's not. It's not the same thing. As I said, regardless of who's president, there are going to be trouble.
46:06: There's going to be problems, but they are not the same thing. And I've heard far too many people make this comment.
46:12: And I think they're making a serious mistake when they say that. I would much rather have
46:18: Donald Trump, who at least has some appreciation of biblical constitutional principles of government compared to Joe Biden, who's just an out -and -out globalist, who has no respect for free speech, has no respect for the
46:34: Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms, and many other things. I mean, the man is a tyrant.
46:42: And, as I said, Donald Trump has his problems, but his problems are much, much less than that of Joe Biden.
46:50: And I know for myself, I intend to pray for the I pray that justice be done in the case of this election.
46:59: And as Christians, I think we need to be doing that. I think Donald Trump has been something of a shield to Christians over the last few years.
47:06: You know, I was listening to a podcast. I was listening to Chris Pinto. If you've never listened to Chris Pinto, by the way, he's got a podcast.
47:13: It's called Noise of Thunder Radio. I get it. I know he's on Apple Podcasts.
47:20: And I think you can probably find it probably on his website as well. His website,
47:25: I think it's Adullam Films. And I think you would enjoy that. And if you like some of the work that I do, his view and my view on the
47:35: Bible and politics are very similar. And I think he's a good commentator. But he was talking today about Donald Trump as a shield to Christians.
47:45: And he really has been. And one of the points that he brought up was how the lawsuits against Christians by members of the homosexual community have dropped off quite a bit.
47:58: You might remember back during the Barack Obama administration, there were a lot of Christians who were getting sued.
48:05: And these are Christian service providers, you know, Christian bakers, Christian wedding photographers,
48:11: Christian florists, Christians who owned reception halls and things like this.
48:17: Because, you know, these gay couples would come, same -sex couples would come and say, well, bake me a cake or make a floral arrangement or something like this.
48:24: And the Christians would refuse to do so because they'd say, well, you know, we don't believe in same -sex marriage.
48:30: And then they'd bring some civil rights lawsuit against them. And there were many such lawsuits.
48:36: I think the most famous one was this fellow, I believe his last name is Phillips, from out in Denver.
48:42: He was a baker. And he was actually raked over the coals by the
48:49: Colorado Civil Rights Commission. And he had all kinds of legal troubles. And he actually won in court.
48:57: But some of the homosexuals have still tried to go after him, even subsequent to that. But there have been a lot fewer stories of that nature in the last few years.
49:05: And I hadn't really thought about that until Chris Pinto mentioned it on his podcast today. And I really do think a lot of that has to do with the presidency of Donald Trump.
49:14: I think he really has been a shield to Christians over the past several years. And that's something
49:19: I very much appreciated about him. As I said, I think that, I'm not saying
49:24: Donald Trump's perfect, but I think he is much better for the freedom of Christians, for the freedom of religion, for the freedom of Christians to be able to speak and to live their lives peaceably.
49:38: I mean, I think if Joe Biden does somehow become president, I think we're going to be in for some difficult times.
49:45: I think there could really be some persecution begin under his administration.
49:51: I don't want to go too far into that, but I do think that that's something to keep in mind. So I would encourage everyone to pray for the nation, to pray for the peace of the city, so to speak, to borrow
50:03: Jeremiah's turn of phrase, and to pray that the evil of this election theft be exposed and the people that have done this to be punished.
50:17: That's about all that I have for today. And I just wanted to say thanks very much for listening. I do appreciate that. Appreciate the folks who've tuned in on Twitter for the live stream.
50:28: Still trying to get used to doing that, but I hope that you enjoy that. I'm going to be posting this podcast soon, both on my blog,
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51:01: And I hope to be able to join you again next week for another podcast. And until that time,
51:07: I pray that the Spirit of Truth would guide you in all truth as you read and study God's Word.
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