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You're listening to Radio Luxus and I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 88. The title of tonight's episode is, is the financial system about to break?
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All right, so speaking about breaks, I guess it's been a little break since I've been done one of these for you. I think it's been probably what about a month or so, which is kind of hard to believe.
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But you know, time flies and stuff gets in the way and well, you know how that works. Anyway, I'm actually doing this way too late.
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It's one o 'clock in the morning right now and I really should be in bed. It's kind of weird. I got on a roll.
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I was actually editing another podcast that I had done last week, Fraternity Foundation Radio.
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I kind of got on a roll. I was like, you know, I think I'd like to do a Radio Luxus tonight. I mean, why not? So anyway, here
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I am. And thanks for listening here with me. It's always great to have you here. And well, let's see what we have going here.
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Well, we had a really nice weather day today. It was pretty amazing. You know, the last few days here in Cincinnati just been brutal.
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I mean, it's been in the mid 90s and very high humidity. And it's really the kind of stuff you get in the dog days of summer.
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You don't typically get that here in June around these parts. And we weren't the only ones.
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I saw something on the news where they were talking about some kind of big heat alert for really pretty much the, you know, the eastern third or so of the
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United States. So anyway, it wasn't just Cincinnati. It wasn't just Ohio.
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It was really up pretty, pretty much regionally. Many, many states were involved in this.
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And I can tell you it was nasty, but today was beautiful. I mean, it was in the 70s. It was sunny, not a cloud in the sky.
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I had a chance to go do a little bike riding. So that was, that's always my Saturday treat. It was enjoyable to get out and do that.
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And it was so nice. I rode about 26 miles today. I guess I rode a marathon, come to think of it.
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I think it's a lot harder when you jog it than when you have to do it on a bike, but you know, it was funny. I felt like I could done actually a lot more than what
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I was doing here because the weather was so nice. I wasn't, I wasn't wiped out. So anyway, that was a nice thing.
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And you know, I had mentioned doing a editing in a podcast. It was a Trinity Foundation radio interview that I did with Timothy Kaufman last
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Saturday. And we talked about Marion apparitions. And by the way, if you're not signed up for Trinity Foundation radio podcasts, if you haven't subscribed to our feed on iTunes or on Spotify, or go to the website, the
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Trinity Foundation website, what are you waiting for? It's only the best reform podcast that there is on the internet.
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Well, okay. Maybe I'm, I know I'm a little bit biased since I do it, but it is a good podcast. I really think it is a good podcast.
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You know, we have a lot of interesting guests on and we deal with some issues that I think are very important, but maybe often are not touched.
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And this was one that I did with Timothy Kaufman, who, he's a very interesting, very brilliant fellow.
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He was raised Roman Catholic. He was saved about the time he, in his early twenties, when he started work and right after he got out of college.
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And he brings a lot to the table in terms of knowledge of Roman Catholicism.
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I mean, I can critique Roman Catholicism, but I was never a Roman Catholic, so I don't know it quite the way that he does, but he knows that from the inside out.
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And he's able to talk about these things. And again, we talked some about the apparitions of Mary, a very interesting subject.
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And at some point, I don't know when it's going to happen, but we're going to do a program on Antichrist.
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And that should be, that's always, that's one of my favorite topics to talk about. I drive some people nuts with that.
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I'm obsessive about that, but it's, you know, that doctrine of Antichrist is a very necessary doctrine.
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And it's one that's almost been completely lost in the modern reformed church. And of course, when we talk about Antichrist, we're talking about the papal
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Antichrist, you know, the man of sin, the son of perdition, just like what the original
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Westminster confession had that language, but that was removed. I sometimes call it the neutered Westminster confession because that was removed in the early 1900s, about 120 years ago.
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And it has, I think, substantially damaged the Protestants' ability to not only to see the works of Antichrist, but to understand that when we were dealing with Roman Catholics, what we're dealing with are people who need to know the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Now, it's something I always really appreciated about the ministry of the late Richard Bennett. Richard Bennett, he's the one who founded
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Berean Beacon, and he had a real love for the Roman Catholic people. Richard Bennett was a
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Roman Catholic priest for, I think, like 28 years or something like this, and he was saved. He left the priesthood, and he was very evangelistic.
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And, you know, that's one of the things, you know, sometimes when you criticize the Roman Catholic Church, maybe some people think, well, we hate
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Roman Catholics or something. Well, no, that's not the case at all. I think one of the things that's important when you criticize
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Rome, one of the important reasons for doing that is to bring people out of that church, bring people out of that organization, or come out from among her, you know, be not partakers of her plagues.
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And, you know, we want to see Roman Catholics come out and know the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved by grace through faith in Christ alone.
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That's what we want to see. And in order to do that, you also have to sometimes, you know, to criticize.
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I mean, we're told in the scriptures, you know, we're to not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather to expose them.
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You know, the King James has reproved them. The new King James has exposed. I kind of like the idea of exposing them because, you know, there's so much that Rome does that it does under the cover of darkness.
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And we're going to talk a little bit about that later in this podcast as well. And anyway, I don't want to get too far down the road with that. But yeah, be looking for that episode of Trinity Foundation Radio.
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It's episode 16 with Timothy Kaufman as the guest. And what we do is
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Timothy and I, we talk about the title of it. It's called The Problem of Fatima.
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And Fatima, that's one of the most famous, most influential apparitions of Mary. So anyway,
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I think you'll find it very interesting to hear what Timothy has to say. And it's always a pleasure to speak with him.
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He's, as I said, he's a good brother, and he's someone who's very knowledgeable on these types of subjects.
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So anyway, moving on here. Yeah, the title of my episode here tonight is,
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Is the Financial System About to Break? Well, you know, that's a question. I know it sounds maybe a little bit disturbing.
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Maybe you think it's clickbaity or something like that. And okay, you know, well, I want to design a headline, hopefully, that will make people want to stop and click on it and listen.
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No, definitely. So I'll cop to that. I'll admit to that. But it's a very serious question.
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You know, I have followed, oh, you know, the financial system.
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I've been kind of a prepper in one way or the other, going back to 2008. And it's something
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I have a real, have long time had an interest in, especially, you know, the financial side of things. And there's a lot of good sources
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I've developed over the years, people to listen to, people I respect, who I think are very level headed.
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I mean, you can find people out there in sort of the alternate independent press, or in the prepper community that is some of them, you know, there's a little bit of chicken little in these guys, you know, it's the sky's always falling, and everything's gonna be horrible.
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And I think they do it to try to scare people and sell stuff to people, this kind of thing. There is some of that.
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But there are a lot of very talented, very knowledgeable, very honest analysts who, you know, they look at a situation and they give you their their best opinion.
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I don't mean necessarily that they're always right. But they they're not lying to you. You know, they they're, they're looking at things through a very realistic lens and saying,
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Okay, this is what we think is going to happen. And these people that I follow, what
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I have found is, I increasingly hear the the level of their warnings going up, you know, it, it's, you know, sometimes they're talking about, okay, you know, this stuff is coming, you need to start getting ready for it.
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A lot of these people are saying it's here now. I mean, this financial crisis, this big meltdown in the financial system we've been talking about for many years going back to 2008.
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So it's 14 years ago, they're saying it's here right now, or it's or, you know, we're right at the leading edge of that hurricane.
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In fact, one of the this isn't one of my favorite people. He's the CEO of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, not one of my favorite people.
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And I think JP Morgan is pretty kind of a shady organization for a lot of reasons. But he came out and he said,
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I think about a week back, that we're facing a financial hurricane, and that the JP Morgan, the bank,
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I mean, that they are preparing for that to come. And I don't know that he gave an exact time.
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But you got the definite sense that it's, it's not too far off. That was his thinking.
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And a lot of people, some of the people that I do follow, you know, what they're saying is, is he's going the reason, you know, why is he saying this kind of stuff?
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Because you don't normally hear things like that from a major bank CEO. But the reason they think that he said this, and I agree with them is, is he's getting on the record, you know, because what happens when things really do go sideways financially, people gonna say, well, how come you didn't warn us?
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Well, and he's gonna be able to say, well, I did warn you. And that is, I agree with that.
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I think that that's the correct assessment of it. You know, he's getting out in front of this thing and telling people, hey, there's some bad stuff coming.
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And I think, you know, as Christians, I mean, as you know, we should be prepping, you know, I've talked about that, that proverb many times, the proverb, you know, it says that, that the good man foresees trouble coming, and the prudent man,
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I should say, the prudent man foresees trouble coming and hides himself, but the fool passes on, and is punished.
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You know, you and I need to be able to look around us and see these problems that are out there.
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So, so what kind of, what kind of stuff's going on? You know, what, what are we seeing out there? Well, let's, let's do this.
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I'd like to do a little screen share here. And oops, that's not what
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I wanted to do. Let's try that again. Let's see, we're going to do the tab.
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I'm going to do a window. Let's try this. How did, okay, there we go. That's, that's what we want. All right. So this is a headline.
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This is actually from June 10th. So this is from about a week ago, and they came out with the
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May inflation statistics. Now the, the statistics that were released back on June the, the 10th, this was, this is what they call the consumer price index.
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So the consumer price index purports to measure how quickly prices are rising for end consumers, people like you and me, you know, people who go to the grocery store, who buy gas, who purchase goods and services from, from companies.
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And according to that, that figure in, in May, the consumer price index had risen 8 .6
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% year over year. So going back to May of 2021 through May of 2022, consumer prices rose 8 .6%.
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And it doesn't say so here in this article, this was from CNBC.
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It doesn't say so in here in this article, but I had another source that said the, the actual increase for the month of May was 0 .8%.
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And if you annualize that, so I mean, if, if inflation, if prices go up 0 .8
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% every month for the next 12 months, that works out to 10 .6%.
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So if you, you project that forward to May of 2023, you know, we would come, we would look at in May of 23, we'd look back and say, well, prices have gone up 10 .6
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% from May of 2022. So not only have we had huge inflation from 2021 to 2022, the, the numbers that we got in May of this year suggest that that, that the, that the rate, the prices are going up is accelerating.
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It's getting faster. Now notice that I'm saying rising prices. I'm not saying inflation.
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When you look at this headline, of course, they talk about inflation. And when they say inflation, they mean rising prices, but it's important to distinguish that rising prices are not inflation.
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Rising prices are the result of inflation. Inflation is the abnormal increase in the supply of money.
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And the federal reserve has printed money like crazy over the past two years.
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Now, in addition to the federal reserve printing massive amounts of money or currency more accurately, there's also been severe supply restrictions.
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These have been caused by various policies of the Biden regime in terms of creating, you know, the way they shut down domestic oil production or severely curtailed it.
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Let's say that the sanctions that they have leveled on Russia have created severe supply restrictions as well.
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So when you get massive money printing, and then you combine that with a supply restriction, it's not surprising that you, you end up with the prices taking off the way that they have.
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That's, that's exactly what we would expect. Now, here's something, this is, let's just go, go along here with the, the theme of rising prices.
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Now, last week, back on the 10th of, of June, they released the consumer price index.
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Well, a week later here on, on, on June 14th, this was on Tuesday. And so this is earlier this week, there was a release of what's called the producer price index.
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So the producer price index is a lot like the consumer price index. The difference is this, whereas the consumer price index measures or claims to measure how fast prices are going up for you and me, you know, consumers, people who go to stores and this kind of thing, the producer price index, as the name indicates, purports to measure how fast prices are going up for businesses.
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So, you know, suppose you own a factory and you have to buy, you know, raw goods from, from a supplier.
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Well, the producer price index is supposed to measure how fast prices are going up for the supplies that you need to be able to run your business.
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And they're going up even faster than the consumer price index. In, in May, you know, what was it?
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8 .6 % for the consumer price index in May of this year. Well, it was 10 .8
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% on the producer price index level. So, I mean, in, in the, of course, the thing is, is the producer price index goes up, that those additional costs get passed along to you and me.
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So that is quite a remarkable number. So, I mean, the inflation, again,
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I'm using inflation to mean rising prices here, because that's the way the, the central bankers and all the talking heads in the news media use it.
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So I'm going to use it in that sense for a moment here. The inflation, the rising prices are not transitory.
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You know, this is the thing they are always talking about. They're talking about, oh, you know, Jay Powell, he's the head of the
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Federal Reserve, the, the central bank of the United States. And Jay Powell's out there. He's saying, oh, well, it's transitory.
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And Janet Yellen, the treasury secretary, she's out there saying, oh, you know, inflation's transitory. It was, that was, that was the buzzword that everybody was using.
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Well, it ain't transitory. Not only is it not transitory, inflation, you know, rising prices are, prices are going up at a faster and faster rate.
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And a lot of people think that that's going to continue. And I agree with them. I think that that is. So there's a lot of really bad economic news on that front.
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And that's not the only thing that's going on. If you follow the financial markets, there's a lot of really ugly stuff going on right now.
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If you have crypto, say if you have Bitcoin or some of the other cryptocurrencies, they're getting crushed right now.
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The past, the past six months have been really bad on cryptos, but especially here in June, it's just been devastating.
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And even here over this weekend, the Bitcoin fell under $20 ,000. And that's, that is, is a substantial decline, even from the first of this month.
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It's probably lost. It may have lost at least a third, maybe more than a third of its value here in just the last,
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I'd say three weeks. It's been devastating. And it's not just Bitcoin. It's not just the crypto market that's stinking up too.
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Stocks are crashing. Bonds are selling off. There's a lot of really bad stuff going on.
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So as Christians, I mean, you and I need to look at this. And we're not all financial analysts.
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We don't all have to be financialists. But going back to that verse in scripture, it talks about the prudent man foresees trouble coming.
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You and I, even if we're not economists, even if we don't follow the financial markets on a daily basis, you know, we all buy gas, we all buy food, we all have to live, we all have to meet expenses, pay rent or pay mortgages, these kinds of things.
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Maybe hopefully you don't have an adjustable rate mortgage because interest rates are going up very quickly right now as well.
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But we ought to be able to stop and look around and say, hey, you know, we're seeing stuff that we've never seen before. I mean, I'm paying where I am over $5 a gallon for gas.
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And I think that's pretty normal. I think that's about the national average or so. So that's probably what you're paying as well here.
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If you're in the United States, we're paying more for gas than ever. I've got a car, a little 2010
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Pontiac. It's got a 14 gallon tank in it. Typically when I fill up, I put in,
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I'd say 10 to 12 gallons when I fill up. Last weekend
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I filled up and I paid $63 to put gas in my little car.
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It's a four -cylinder, I mean, it's a G6. I guess it would be considered a compact car, not a big car at all.
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And yeah, so I mean, that was a big shock at $63 to fill up my car.
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So I mean, we can see this stuff all, we can look around you, you go to the gas pump, you go to the grocery store, you go do just about anything.
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You can see these rising prices and not just rising prices, but probably prices that are going up faster than many of us have ever seen before.
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Maybe you remember the 1970s where we had massive rising, massively rising prices back then.
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We appear to be in a similar economic environment right now. So you and I need to be able to look around and say, hmm, you know, there are problems out there.
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Now there's another problem on top of all that, on top of all the rising prices, on top of all the crashing markets.
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Here's something else that is really important, I think, that you'd be aware of.
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And that is, there are some, appears to be there are some big changes coming to the US dollar in the not so distant future.
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And what I'd like to do here, I want to play a short video. And this video, excuse me, this video is, it's
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Jay Powell. And Jay Powell is the chairman of the Federal Reserve. So he's a big shot. So if you don't follow the financial press a lot, this is a guy that when he speaks, he carries a lot of weight.
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Now, I'm no fan of the Federal Reserve. I think the Federal Reserve should be eliminated. It's unconstitutional.
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It is unchristian. It is immoral. But all of those things being the case, it is a very powerful institution.
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And what he says is this video, it's about 40 seconds here or so. But he's describing a major change that's coming to the
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US dollar, probably within the next year. I don't believe he puts a timeframe on it. Maybe he does here.
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I have to, I listened to it earlier today. So I forget. But a lot of people think we're going to get this new, this change in the dollar is going to take place next year.
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And what's this change I'm talking about? It is a, the issuance, the creation of what's called the
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Fed, the Fed digital dollar, or just the digital dollar. That is an electronic currency that's issued by the
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Federal Reserve. So, you know, we talked a little bit about Bitcoin, maybe you've got some Bitcoin or Ethereum, or maybe some other coin.
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Well, this is kind of like one of those, but it's different in at least one very important respect.
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And that is, it's not issued by, on the private market, like these cryptocurrencies that are out there, like Bitcoin.
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This is a electronic money issued by America's central bank.
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And all the big central banks around the world are working on these things. Sometimes they call them generically central bank digital currencies,
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CBDCs. If you, you know, you read an article, you might see somebody talk about a CBDC. Well, a
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CBDC is a central bank digital currency. It's just kind of a generic catch -all term for any digital currency issued by any central bank, whether it's the
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Federal Reserve here, whether it's the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the
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People's Bank of China, you know, there's all these different countries, different areas have their own central banks that issue currencies.
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Well, all these central banks are now getting to the point where they want to issue a electronic money.
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And I think there are some real things, real concerns about this. I don't think this is going to be a development that's probably going to be favorable to you and to me.
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But it's something we need to be aware of. So I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to play this video, and maybe we'll talk a little bit about it here.
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So let's see what J -PAL has to say to us. Looking forward, rapid changes are taking place in the global monetary system that may affect the international role of the dollar in the future.
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Most major economies already have, or are in the process of developing, instant 24 -7 payments.
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Our own FedNow service will be coming online in 2023. And in light of the tremendous growth in crypto assets and stablecoins, we are examining whether a
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U .S. central bank digital currency would improve upon what is an already safe and efficient domestic payment system.
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As our white paper on this topic notes, a U .S. CBDC could also potentially help maintain the dollar's international standing.
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Okay, so there you go. This is coming right from the horse's mouth. So it's not conspiracy theory.
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And this is a real thing. Now, what's interesting is that J -PAL, and this goes back in early
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March, this is a little bit over three months ago. And here's a headline that says, just in, Fed Chairman, so the same guy here,
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J -PAL, Fed Chairman says there's room for multiple reserve currencies. Well, now that's a big shock.
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Room for multiple reserve currencies. Okay, so here's something else that's important to understand.
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That the dollar, the U .S. dollar, the American dollar is the reserve currency of the world.
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What that basically means is that many countries throughout the world use
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U .S. dollars to buy and to sell things. So the role of the
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U .S. dollar isn't just domestically here in the United States, it's used all over the world to make payments, to purchase things, to receive payments.
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It's kept on the balance sheets of other countries' central banks, essentially as savings.
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The central banks, they call them reserves, but when a central bank talks about its reserves, what it means is it's its cash.
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It's its savings. And many central banks hold dollars,
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U .S. dollars, on their balance sheet. So the dollar is extremely important, and it gives the
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United States a tremendous amount of power in the world. We think of power as maybe something that's strictly military.
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Well, militarily we speak of power, but power is also financial power.
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This gives the United States a tremendous amount of financial power. And the fact that the U .S. dollar is used all over the world means that it's more valuable than it otherwise would be.
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And when I say the dollar is more valuable than it otherwise would be, say if it weren't the world's reserve currency, what that means as Americans is that you and I can buy more stuff with our dollars because it's the world's reserve currency.
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Okay? So when we talk about the value of the dollar being lifted up by being the world's reserve currency, you and I experience that by being able to buy things cheaper than we otherwise would.
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Now, the danger, one of the things that we have to keep an eye on, as prudent men, as Christians, as people who believe in, you know, trusting in the
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Lord and looking about us and applying the lessons that we learn from the scriptures, one of the things we have to think about is what happens if the dollar is no longer the reserve currency?
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Or what happens if, let's say, you know, as Jay Powell seemed to suggest here, that there could be more than one reserve currency.
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Okay, so maybe it's the U .S. dollar and maybe something else, perhaps? Is that what he's trying to say here?
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I don't know. Possibly that's what he means. Well, if that's the case, you know, that's going to tend to mean the value of the dollar is going to come down.
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And if the value of the dollar comes down, you and I as Americans, we're going to experience that as the cost of everything going up.
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Because if the value of the dollar goes down, that means it buys less stuff. And again, this is something that could be coming fairly soon for us.
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Now, I don't know. I'm not trying to make a prediction here. What I am trying to do, though, is to warn you and say, hey, you need to be aware of this.
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So, you know, when we talk about some of these things that are going on, some of the instability that we're seeing in the financial system, some of the rising prices, the threat to the dollar's status as the world's sole reserve currency, when we see these things, we could experience some big shocks as Americans.
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You know, and so what do we do about that? Well, I think one of the things, one of the big things we can do is we need to make ourselves robust and resilient financially.
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One of the best ways to do that is to pay down debt. You want to get yourself in a stronger position financially as you can.
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It's kind of like you think about, you know, if you're in a situation where you're caught with floodwaters, you know, and the floodwaters are rushing, well, what you want to do, you want to get the high ground, right?
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Well, when we're talking about floodwaters, quote, you know, financial floodwaters, what we want to do is we want to make sure that we get to high ground and, you know, stay out of the flood, you know, keep, stay away from those rising floodwaters.
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So how do we do that? Well, paying off debt is certainly one of the important things to do. So we need to limit our debt and it's good to have some savings, some cushion.
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You know, you may want to think a little bit about, you know, possibly taking on and getting rid of a little bit of risk financially.
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I mean, maybe you've got some risky investments. Well, you maybe want to think about perhaps going a little bit more conservative possibly.
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You know, that's something, if you have a financial advisor, you may want to talk to your financial advisor about that and get his opinion on it.
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Something else, and I'm a big advocate of this, and that is you need, I think it's very important that everybody have some of their wealth held outside of the financial system.
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Now, that sounds really mysterious, but it's actually one of the easiest things there is to do.
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So how do you get wealth outside of the financial system? Well, the easiest way for most of us, and this is what
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I strongly believe in this, and that is buying some gold and silver. Now, I'm not going to go into a big discussion about how you do that, but I think it's super important for everybody to have some wealth held outside of the banking, outside of the financial system, because if the system takes a hit, that gold, that silver that you have outside of the system, if the entire financial system were to implode tomorrow, that gold and silver you have would still have value.
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It'd probably have more value than it does now. Now, the dollars you have, they may be worth nothing or may be worth a fraction of what they currently are.
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So these are some things that we can do. We can eliminate debt. We can build up some savings.
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We can get some of our wealth outside of the financial system by buying gold and silver. So those are some practical suggestions that I would have right now, at least in terms of dealing with your money.
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All right, so what I wanted to do, I had a couple of other items that I wanted to talk about here, and if you bear with me just a moment, there was an announcement here this week by Joe Biden, and let's take a look here.
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Joe Biden, he was making a push for DACA.
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DACA, that's an immigration program that was started via executive order by Barack Obama, and here's what
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Joe Biden said. He said, 10 years ago today, I stood by President Obama as we carried out one of our proudest accomplishments.
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On this 10th DACA anniversary, we celebrate the transformational impact it's had on hundreds of thousands of young people.
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It's time for Congress to make this permanent now. So basically what this is, DACA, that stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
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So supposedly, the idea is that if somebody came to the United States, say as a minor, and has lived here for, excuse me, has lived here for a long time, that maybe they're not citizens of the
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United States, but it gives them a chance basically to stay in the United States permanently, rather than having to go back to their country of origin.
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Well, this is just another... I can have some sympathy for people that are in that situation, but this is another attempt by the
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Democrats to flood the United States with migrants, and essentially flood the
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United States with Democrats. That's what this is. And this covers, I don't remember, it's been a while since I've looked at this, but I mean, this would be another huge flood on top of the flood of illegal aliens that the
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Biden regime is already bringing in. No, I do not approve of the idea of DACA.
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And in fact, Trump tried to get rid of it, and the court said, well, he can't do that, which was absolutely ridiculous, because if it was put on under Barack Obama by an executive order, it should be able to be removed by an executive order.
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But here's something I want to draw your attention to. So we see here that Biden is out, and this was from June 15th, so this was
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Wednesday. Now, I want you to notice this. This is a screenshot from the
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US Conference of Catholic Bishops website, the USCCB website. And notice the date on this,
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June 15th, so the same day that Biden was out there pushing DACA, the
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US Conference of Catholic Bishops pushes DACA. Look at this headline, US Bishops Migration Chairman Expresses Solidarity with Dreamers on DACA's 10th
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Anniversary, Calls for Long -Awaited Inflection Point. Okay, so the people who are eligible for DACA, sometimes they're called dreamers, that's what that's referring to.
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And you can see here the bishops write, they say, today marks 10 years since the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals DACA program was created through executive order.
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And they go on here, and I don't want to get into the weeds of DACA right now.
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What I want you to notice though, this is the kind of the big picture thing I want you to take away from this. Notice that the
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Biden regime and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, I call those people a treasonous brood of vipers.
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Notice that they are doing the exact same thing on exactly the same day.
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They're both pushing for DACA. When you see all of this immigration chaos that's going on this disaster that we have on our southern border, that's not an accident.
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That's not a mistake. It's not an oopsie. That's the plan. And the plan that's being carried out is the immigration plan of the papal antichrist.
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The United States of America is under assault by Pope Francis, who is the current antichrist.
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He's trying to flood this nation with Roman Catholics or any kind of migrants, immigrants, refugees they can get, although I think they'd prefer
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Roman Catholics, but it really doesn't matter so much to them. But what they want to do is they want to overwhelm the
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United States, destabilize the United States, and destroy our sovereignty. And the reason for that, the ultimate reason for that, is to bring the
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United States under a global government regime headed up by the
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Pope. This is the plan, and it's important to understand that. I talk about the papal antichrist.
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Well, one of the things the papal antichrist loves more than anything else is world government. Pope after pope after pope, as well as many high -ranking church officials or church organizations, have put out statements over a long period of time all saying the same thing, and it boils down to this.
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We love world government. Well, by flooding the United States, as well as the nations of Western Europe with migrants, that is the plan, is to destabilize these countries and put them in a situation where they really no longer exist.
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They're not identifiable as sovereign nations, and they can more easily be folded into a global government.
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That's what's going on here. The United States of America is under full -bore assault from antichrist.
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And I think back about what—there's Charles Spurgeon. There's a great quote from Charles Spurgeon.
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He talks about it's the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against antichrist. And who that is, he says, well, there should be no doubt.
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If it be not popery in the Church of Rome, there is nothing else which answers to it. I don't know if that's an exact quote, but it's pretty close.
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Charles Spurgeon, he was a Reformed Baptist from England in the 19th century, and he understood who antichrist was.
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And I think it's very interesting he talks about it's the bounden to pray against antichrist. And this is one of the real frustrations that I have in our time, is that so few people understand who antichrist is.
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He's that guy over there in Rome with the funny pointy hat. Of course, I'm talking about Pope Francis.
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And it's all of the popes. It's the office of the papacy that is antichrist.
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It's the head of that false church. And of course, the Roman Catholic Church is the system of antichrist.
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If the head's antichrist, the body is the system of antichrist. It follows logically.
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And yet, very few people understand what they're dealing with. When they talk about all this mass migration and immigration and illegal aliens and all these other things, the
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Church is almost never mentioned. And there's a reason for that. There's a book that I was reading last week.
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It was an interesting book. It's called American Democracy and the Vatican. And it was actually, the fellow who wrote it was probably,
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I don't know for sure, but my guess is he was probably a liberal. I don't believe he was a, you know, he wasn't an evangelical or, you know, reform, probably a reform
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Presbyterian like I am or something like this. Although I don't know, who knows, maybe he is a
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Presbyterian or something like that, but he just is confused about some things. But he had some very interesting things to say about Rome.
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And let me just read this quote for you here. He says this, quote, as the old saying goes, secrecy is power.
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Secrecy is the Roman Catholic Church's single greatest source of political power. And great care is taken to protect this source of power.
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For population growth control, this secrecy is of major importance. Censorship of the
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American press by the hierarchy is extensive. Almost never does an
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American see a negative comment about the Church. And here's the thing that's so stunning.
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I mean, not only is that true, is his statement here true about the legacy media, the mainstream media, it's also true of the independent media.
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I mean, if you follow independent media out there, ask yourself, when was the last time anybody pointed out the overwhelming effect that the
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Roman Catholic Church has, the influence the Roman Catholic Church has in creating this whole immigration disaster?
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They provide both the philosophical foundation for it, as well as they aid it, you know, either through aid in kind, or through money, or, you know, by lobbying politicians, what have you.
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Their fingerprints are all over this. But almost nobody ever points them out. Now, as far as I'm concerned,
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I mean, as I mentioned, I think earlier, the U .S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is a treasonous brood of vipers.
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I've followed them for years, and I have, and I go in, and I make it a point to clip all of their press releases that are related to immigration.
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And I have over a hundred of them now that I've picked up probably over the last five years.
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And I can tell you, having gone through all of these statements on immigration and migration and refugee resettlement from the
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USCCB, not one of them is biblical. Not one of them is constitutional. Not one of them is in any way beneficial to the
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American people. But it is very beneficial to the church in both their short -term as well as their long -term goals.
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And of course, as a Roman Catholic, Biden is quite eager to carry out his, his master's, do his master's bidding.
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And of course, you know, that's, that's the Pope over there in Rome. And that's exactly what he's doing. Anyway, so enough about immigration.
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Oh, you know, there was a, there actually was one thing. Let me see real quick if I can find this here, because I know there was a, there's an interesting story that I came across about how the
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Baptist churches in New Mexico are cooperating with the
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Roman Catholic Church. Now, that doesn't surprise me. I mean, this is one of the problems, of course, among evangelicals, is that, you know, they've lost the doctrine of Antichrist, and it makes them very susceptible to being drawn into Antichrist's orbit.
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So let's take a look here. Can we find this? Oh goodness. Yeah, here we go.
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Okay, so this is some CBN news, and the headline is, we want to make sure they see the love of God. Faith -based shelters prepare for border surge.
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And this is from El Paso, Texas, and it talks about, as the Biden administration prepares to end Title 42, faith -based shelters along the
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U .S.-Mexico border are getting ready. Now, this is from June 8th, so I guess, what, a couple weeks back here.
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And it says, early on a Tuesday morning, a volunteer at a Baptist shelter cooked sausage and French toast for 60 parents and their children, dropped off by border patrol the night before after immigration processing.
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So our border patrol, instead of actually patrolling our border and preventing an influx of illegal aliens, they're making food drops for these people, which is only going to encourage more of them.
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And that's what's going on there. And it says, this is just one of the stops in their journey from wherever they're coming from, says
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Pastor Kelly Knott, who oversees ministries supported by 84 churches in the El Paso Baptist Association, as well as Southern Baptist across the state.
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So it's not just local churches there in El Paso, but it's the Southern Baptist churches in Texas.
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And this Pastor Knott continues, we want to make sure that when they stop here with us, especially on this border town in El Paso, Texas and the
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United States, they see the love of God. And let's see here, skipping down here,
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Ruben Garcia oversees the Baptist shelter and a dozen or so other faith -based sites across the metro area.
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He founded Annunciation House, the primary hub over four decades ago.
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In the last several years, he's created a network of shelters in response to demand. Well, the Annunciation House is a, this
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Ruben Garcia, he founded the, he oversees, the Baptist shelter, but yet he founded the
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Annunciation House. And if you go to the Annunciation House headlines or a website here, let's see what it says.
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See, Annunciation House is a volunteer organization that offers hospitality to migrants, immigrants, and refugees in El Paso, Texas, rooted in Catholic social teaching.
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Rooted in Catholic social teaching. Well, Catholic social teaching is utterly destructive of liberty, both economic and political.
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Roman Catholic social teaching is antithetical to the Bible. It is antithetical to our Constitution.
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It is incompatible with the American Republic. It is utterly destructive. It brings about poverty.
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It teaches people to steal through government, through the welfare state.
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It's a complete disaster. And yet this fellow, this
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Ruben Garcia, he says that this is a great thing. And my assumption here, based upon the name and the fact that they are pushing
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Roman Catholic social teaching, is that this is a Catholic organization. I mean, the
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Annunciation, I mean, that's a very Catholic sort of a term that you see. And again, they say that they are explicitly pushing
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Roman Catholic social teaching. So this appears to be a case where you have a
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Roman Catholic organization that's overseeing Baptists. Now, I have to tell you something, quite frankly,
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I think any Baptist church that would allow itself to be used that way is being unfaithful to the
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Lord Jesus Christ, and they need to be rebuked. So anyway, you know, here we see cooperation in terms of the
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Biden regime, along with the U .S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and then you see the
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Baptists cooperating with the Roman Catholic Church as well. So we have major problems as Protestants, and it's high time that we learned to see things biblically.
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In this case, understand who Antichrist is, and as Charles Spurgeon said, to pray against him, and then even go beyond that to speak out against him.
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We have that obligation to do that, because Antichrist is destroying the United States of America.
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That is what he is doing. He's doing it intentionally. It's not an accident. It's on purpose. And one of the ways he's doing that is by flooding the country with illegal aliens.
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All right, so one last order of business I wanted to mention here today. Let's take a look here.
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There was a very interesting video that I saw earlier today.
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It was by this fellow, his name's Gonzalo Lira, and he's actually Chilean, I understand, but right now he's living in Ukraine, I guess, for some time, and he's been issuing war reports.
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What he talked about in this video, and I'm going to put a link to this, because I think this is worth taking some time to watch.
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It's about a 10 -minute, well, that's about a 13 -minute video. Very interesting, but what he talks about is the
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Biden regime's desire to escalate the conflict that's going on in Ukraine.
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And the way they're doing this is apparently, if you listen to this video, what he's saying here is they're working with Estonia to cut off Russia from Kaliningrad.
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So what does all that mean? Well, if you look at Russia, I'm going to put my hand up here.
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Estonia is a country that borders on Russia in the, I guess that would be what, the northwest of the country, on the northwest side of it.
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Estonia is a very small country, but it borders on Russia. And there's this odd little thing, there's a city that apparently was captured by, this goes back to the
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Soviet Union back in World War II, called Kaliningrad, which was taken by the
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Soviet Union at the time, and it's been recognized as Russian territory ever since then. And back about the time the
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Soviet Union fell, when they changed over to the Russian Federation, apparently there was some type of a treaty that allows
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Russia access to Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad is actually, it's separate, it's not contiguous with the rest of Russia.
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So in order for Russia, a Russian to get to Kaliningrad, you have to go by railway through Estonia.
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Think of it a little bit like Alaska. Alaska is part of the United States, but it's not contiguous with the rest of the 48 states, the lower 48.
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In order to get to Alaska, you have to go through Canada, at least if you want to drive anyway. And it's the same way with Kaliningrad with Russia.
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In order for a Russian to get to Kaliningrad, he has to go by railway. And there was this treaty between Russia and Estonia, where Estonia agreed to never interfere with Russia's ability to get to Kaliningrad by rail.
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Well, apparently, you know, what Gonzalo Lear is saying here is that there was going to be a change, that they were going to stop this.
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And sure enough, I saw a headline just tonight. Now, I just saw this video this morning, and just tonight,
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I saw a report where that is happening. And this is, of course, designed to provoke
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Russia. This is what the assumption is, based on what Gonzalo Lear says, is that the
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United States is putting pressure on Estonia to close Russia off. And of course, that's going to lead to a conflict in the court.
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What Gonzalo Lear says is it will lead to a direct conflict with US troops fighting Russia, in his opinion.
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Now, I don't know if that's going to happen. But if something like that does, that would be a very, very serious escalation of this war.
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Now, there's a guy that I follow, who does, he's an alternate media guy. And one of the things that he often says, he says, when all else fails, they take you to war.
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So the suggestion here is that, you know, maybe what the Biden regime is doing is since things are going so badly here at home, you know, all the massively rising prices, with the economy tanking, with the stock market tanking, with, you know, millions of illegal aliens flooding into the country, and seemingly every other problem under the sun, that you kind of distract attention by starting a war with Russia.
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Now, I think there's probably more to it than that. I think this is something that they've wanted to do for a long time for other reasons.
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I'm just going to leave it at that for right now. We're getting close to an hour, so I kind of want to wrap up. But I'm going to put this link in the show notes.
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And if you want to watch this, I really recommend you at least take a look at this because everything that we've been told about the
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Ukrainian, the Russia -Ukrainian war by the mainstream press is a lie. Yeah, big surprise there, right?
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That's what they do. They lie. You know, unfortunately, you and I know we live at a time when just about everything that we hear and see in our lives from mainstream institutions is a lie.
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And we have to be able to recognize that. You know, I've talked about this many times. You and I as Christians, we have to have discernment.
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We have to use discernment. We have to use biblical discernment when evaluating the things that are going on about us.
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And we need to pray for that. You know, James, he talked about, if any man lacks wisdom, let him pray and pray to God, you know, gives to all men generously and without reproach.
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You know, we need to pray for wisdom. We need to pray for discernment, for biblical discernment.
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As one of the goals that I have for this podcast is to help you do that, you know, to help you find, you know, I try to find some things that I think are sound and to pass those along.
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And I think this video is well worth taking a few minutes to watch. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and leave it there.
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I wish all of you a blessed Lord's Day tomorrow. And I'm recording this. This is actually very early in the morning on Sunday, Sunday, June 19th.
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It's way too early in the morning. I should be in bed, as I said, but but here I am recording a podcast. Anyway, I wish you all have a blessed
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Lord's Day tomorrow. And we'll talk again, hopefully soon, maybe in about a week or so.