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The world has seen many
powerful nations whose
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wealth, influence, and
reach would understandably
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cause any who dwelt within
them to believe they would
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last forever--yet the path
of history is strewn
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with their ruins.
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Today, two of the past
century's greatest powers,
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the United States and
Great Britain, are on the
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verge of joining the failed
states of the past--
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but the true reason why goes generally unacknowledged.
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Join us today on
Tomorrow's World
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as we explain How
Great Nations Die.
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♪
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Greetings to all of our
viewers around the world
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and welcome to
Tomorrow's World.
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We're glad you're here.
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Before we jump into
our topic today,
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It's titled The United States
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Be sure to note the
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While many would, perhaps,
rather not admit it, much
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of the modern world has
been crafted over the past
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century by the economic, military, and cultural
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success the United States, Britain, and British-descended
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nations of the world
have experienced.
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As U.S. foreign-policy expert
Walter Russell Mead said
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in his insightful 2007
book God and Gold:
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Britain, America, and the
Making of the Modern World,
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It is unpardonably vulgar
to say so, but in three
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hundred years of warfare,
the English-speaking
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powers keep winning.
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To put this another way,
either the British or the
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Americans or both have
been on the winning side
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of every major war
in which they have
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participated since the
late seventeenth century.
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That history of victory shapes
the world we live in....
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The Anglo-Saxon powers
did not just win wars.
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They changed the way the
world lives, thinks,
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and organizes itself as
much as any of the
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great civilizations
of the past....
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It's true.
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The United States, Great
Britain, and the other
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English-speaking nations
of the world have had an
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incredible impact on world
culture and way of life,
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completely out of
proportion to their size.
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The United States, in
particular, has been the
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sole remaining "superpower"
of the Cold War era--
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a financial juggernaut and
a military power the
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likes of which the world has rarely seen before, if ever.
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But things change.
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The higher the climb,
the farther the fall.
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Let's briefly take a look
at only one indicator of
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the current strength of
these Great Nations:
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their economic status.
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The wealth of the
United Kingdom was
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once considered the envy
of the entire world.
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And today, the United
States is still considered
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by many to be the chief
financial engine powering
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the world's economies.
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But just how trustworthy
is that engine?
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Looking under the hood to
examine more closely--
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or, under the bonnet, for
our friends in the UK--
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doesn't give cause for hope.
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It's hard to report on
American national debt
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because it is growing
so quickly that numbers
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quickly become outdated.
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But as of right now, as I
am recording this program,
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that debt is more than
30 trillion dollars--
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that's more than 97 thousand
dollars for every single
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living, breathing citizen
of the U.S.--from the
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newborn to the elderly.
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That means that the U.S.
public debt is currently
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about 120 percent of its
gross domestic product--
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the financial output
of the nation.
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And as noted by the non-partisan Peter G Peterson foundation,
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"[w]ithin 10 years, net
interest costs will exceed
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federal spending on crucial programs like Medicaid and
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[national] defense."
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Across the Atlantic, the
UK is hardly doing better.
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As reported by The
Guardian in June 2023,
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The UK's total government
debt pile in May reached
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more than 100% of annual
national income for the
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first time since 1961 as
state borrowing more than
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doubled, according
to official figures.
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In a blow to [Prime
Minister] Rishi Sunak's
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plans to cut taxes before
the general election,
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which is expected next
year, the Office for
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National Statistics
said net debt reached
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£2.6tn as of the end of
May, estimated at 100.1%
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of gross domestic product.
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And the citizens,
personally, are hardly
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doing any better than their
overspending governments.
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The Federal Reserve Bank
of New York's Center
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for Microeconomic Data
recently reported,
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Total household debt [in
the U.S.] rose by $148
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billion, or 0.9 percent,
to $17.05 trillion in the
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first quarter of 2023....
Mortgage balances climbed by
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$121 billion and stood at $12.04
trillion at the end of March.
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Auto loan and student loan
balances also increased to
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$1.56 trillion and $1.60
trillion, respectively,
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but credit card balances
were flat at $986 billion.
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Of course, economic
troubles are only
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one sign of a nation's
declining health and power.
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We could spend the rest of our
program today looking at others.
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For instance, the U.S. military continues facing humiliation
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after humiliation after the
scarring images of the
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nation's withdrawal
from Afghanistan and
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recruitment programs
that seem more devoted to
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recruiting social justice
warriors and drag queens
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than maintaining the top
fighting force in the world.
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As for the UK, The Times
reported in May 2023 that
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Germany was preparing to
spend more on national
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defense than Britain for
the first time in modern
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history--the same Germany
whose Gross Domestic Product
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is around 30 percent
larger than the UK's.
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Where the Anglo powers
once seemed to govern
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the course of the world, when the U.S. was seeking Saudi
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support for its actions intended to punish Russia for its
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invasion of Ukraine, news agencies around the world
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reported that the Saudi
leaders would not even
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take U.S. President Joe
Biden's phone call.
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History is clear: No
great nation--no great
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empire--lasts forever.
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Yet the real reason they
die tends to be ignored.
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We'll reveal that cause in the next segment of our program.
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what is to come of the U.S. and Great Britain in the years
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just ahead of us.
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The prophecies of the
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Welcome back.
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Admittedly, smaller nations can be brought down by singular
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natural disasters, invasions, and other factors.
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But for truly great,
globe-girdling nations,
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one source of downfall and
demise rises above them all:
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moral decay.
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In this area, we can learn
a lot from ancient Rome.
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The Republic of Rome and
the Empire that grew out of
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it ruled a large portion of the world for a millennium.
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Its might was unparalleled
in its day.
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But what is left
of it today?
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Ruins, ruins,
and more ruins.
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And while many point to
overexpansion, economic
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policy, military spending
and other causes of Rome's
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fall, the truth of the
matter is that before the
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borders of Rome could be
breached by the forces
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that would destroy it, it
was already rotting within
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due to decadence and
moral degradation.
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Many historians testify
to the problem,
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including Roman
historians, themselves.
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Writing only a handful of
years before the birth of
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Jesus Christ, the ancient
Roman historian Livy was
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well aware even then that
Rome had fallen from its
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greatest heights, and
expresses in Book I,
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chapter 1, of his History
of Rome, his hope that
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each reader will
consider gravely
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what he has recorded
of his own people:
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I would have every man apply
his mind seriously to
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consider these points...
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what their life and what
their manners were...
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as discipline gradually
declined, let him follow
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in his thoughts their
morals, at first as
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slightly giving way, anon
how they sunk more and more,
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then began to fall headlong,
until he reaches the
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present times, when we can neither endure our vices,
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nor their remedies.
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The renowned Roman historian
Tacitus pulled few punches
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in addressing the moral
state of his people.
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Writing around 115 AD, in his famous passage mentioning
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the crucifixion of Christ,
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Tacitus was no fan of Christianity, calling it
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a "deadly superstition,"
but his description of
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his nation's capital
city is noteworthy.
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Observing how Christianity
was only temporarily
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slowed down when Christ
was crucified, but then
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mysteriously sprang back
to life, more dynamic than
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before, he writes that it
"erupt[ed] again not only
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in Judaea, the home of
this evil, but even in
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Rome, to which all that
is dreadful or shameful
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in the world flows and
here is celebrated."
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Of course, one day Tacitus
will learn it wasn't just
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the faith of Christians
that sprung to life again
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suddenly, but their
Savior, as well.
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Finally, consider Seneca,
one of the most celebrated
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Roman philosophers and
writers in Roman history,
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born in 4 BC and living
as a contemporary of the
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first Christian disciples.
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His criticisms of Roman
morals and culture in his
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day were stinging, noting
that simple honesty and
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integrity were vanishing,
such that mere agreements
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between men were no longer
sufficient, requiring
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lawyers and legal papers
to be drawn up to require
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individuals to live up to
their ends of the deal.
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"O, what a shameful admission
of the dishonesty and
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wickedness of the human
race!" he writes,
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"More trust is placed
in our sealrings than
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in our consciences."
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As for the state of
marriage and family
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in Rome at the time,
Seneca writes,
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"Is there any woman that
blushes at divorce now
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that certain illustrious and
noble ladies reckon their
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years, not by the number
of consuls, but by the
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number of their husbands,
and leave home in
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order to marry, and marry
in order to be divorced?
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Is there any shame at
all for adultery now that
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matters have come to such a
pass that no woman has any
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use for a husband except
to inflame her paramour?"
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Seneca noted that marital
fidelity had become
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extinct, and the lack
of shame in adultery and
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fornication only
meant that the rot
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of promiscuity spread
further and faster.
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His observations
match those of a near
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contemporary, the Roman poet Martial, who implied marriage
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in Rome had essentially
become legalized adultery.
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Such ancient accounts fit
well with the observation
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of famed English historian
Edward Gibbon, whose
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classic work, The History
of the Decline and Fall of
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the Roman Empire paints a
picture of a nation whose
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leaders became degenerate
in character, and whose
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military legions brought
back corrupting vices and
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immoral practices from
the lands they conquered.
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Before Rome became a ruin
on the outside, it had
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become a ruin within.
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And the death of that great
nation became assured.
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So, how do America and Britain
stand in comparison?
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We'll look at that
in a moment.
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But first, let me remind you
again of the free booklet
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Exactly how did these
peoples rise to become
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two of the greatest
in history?
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Was it due to
their ingenuity?
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Their politics?
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Their military power, or their
innovative economics?
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Or was it something quite
different entirely--
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a cause known to God but
unknown to historians?
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destruction in the years
just ahead of us.
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The prophecies of the
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Welcome back.
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We've just surveyed some
of the moral rot growing
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at the heart of Rome that
weakened the great empire
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from within long before it
fell to enemies without.
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A morally corrupt nation cannot suppose that it will last.
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And moral corruption causes
great nations to die.
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And my friends, this
is vital to understand
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because America and Britain,
and those nations which
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have descended from her,
are in a moral freefall.
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As explained in detail in
today's free resource,
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The United States and Great
Britain in Prophecy,
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they have turned their backs
on the God who blessed
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them and are actively--
even aggressively--
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turning their backs
on His laws.
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Let's examine just a
handful of biblical
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guidelines and compare
them to current American
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and British culture to
see how we measure up.
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God stresses in His word
the importance of family
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and the marriage bond
between husband and wife.
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In Exodus 20, the fifth
commandment reads,
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"Honor your father and mother,
that your days may be
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long upon the land which the
LORD your God is giving you."
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Elsewhere in Leviticus
19:32, we read
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"You shall rise before the
gray headed and honor the
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presence of an old man, and
fear your God: I am the LORD."
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The seventh of the Ten Commandments teaches the
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same principle expounded by the Apostle Paul in Hebrews 13:4,
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"Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled;
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but fornicators and
adulterers God will judge."
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And in passages such as Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus Christ reaffirms
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the definition of marriage as
designed in Genesis 2:
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A union between one man
and one woman for life.
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God cares passionately
about respectful
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relationships between
generations, and between
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children and parents, and
about the sacred union of
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man and woman in marriage.
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Yet in the U.S. and Britain, younger generations are
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casting aside the guidance
and wisdom of previous
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generations, and the
nations' supposedly
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enlightened academics,
leaders, and social
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engineers are destroying
any traditional or
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biblical notions of
sex, gender, or family
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structure and replacing
them with novel designations
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and configurations of
their own design.
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One effect of neglecting
God's design of and laws
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regarding the family is,
believe it or not, is economic.
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In a 2008 study, the Institute for American Values concluded,
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"[W]e estimate that family fragmentation costs U.S.
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taxpayers at least $112
billion each and every
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year, or more than $1
trillion each decade."
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And that was their
conservative estimate.
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To put this in perspective, by some estimates that amount
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is the same as the total cost
of the United States' war
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in Afghanistan.
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In the UK, the cost
of family breakdown is
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estimated at more than 50
billion pounds per year,
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or more than 60 billion
U.S. dollars.
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But, of course, the real cost
of broken families is not
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measured in dollars,
but in the damage
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it wreaks on the
people of a nation.
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At the end of 2021,
researcher and author
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Melanie Phillips wrote of
this in a commentary for
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The Times in the UK.
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What she insightfully
calls "the willed
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disintegration of the
traditional nuclear family"
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has been devastating:
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"It is the greatest
cause of social
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inequalities, through educational underachievement,
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crime and juvenile
psychological disorders.
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At its most extreme,
it leads to neglected,
19:28.333 --> 19:31.203
abused and dead children.
19:31.270 --> 19:33.839
Yet this has become
unsayable in the upper
19:33.906 --> 19:36.074
reaches of government
and cultural life.
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So what we have instead
are unspeakable acts of
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cruelty and degradation--and
nauseating crocodile tears."
19:44.550 --> 19:47.219
Let's look another:
the 10th commandment,
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"You shall not covet." What
would be the state of our
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national and private debt
if so many of our citizens
19:54.459 --> 19:58.096
were not consumed with
desire for the newest
19:58.163 --> 20:00.832
cars, technology, entertainment--all
20:00.899 --> 20:04.102
beyond our means but within
our credit limits...
20:04.169 --> 20:07.272
Jesus Christ teaches
us in Luke 12:15,
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"Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life
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does not consist in
the abundance of the
20:14.246 --> 20:15.614
things he possesses."
20:15.681 --> 20:19.785
Yet our consumer-based national economies are virtually
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founded on the hope that people will ignore this advice,
20:23.655 --> 20:27.225
resulting in the Culture
of Permanent Debt that
20:27.292 --> 20:28.694
we now enjoy.
20:28.760 --> 20:32.898
Ultimately, our debt is
enslaving our nations.
20:32.965 --> 20:36.401
In fact, Bible prophecy
says that the U.S. and
20:36.468 --> 20:39.137
British-descended nations
will eventually be crushed
20:39.204 --> 20:42.574
by debt, as explained
in today's free offer.
20:42.641 --> 20:47.813
We read in Deuteronomy 28, verses 43 and 44...
20:47.879 --> 20:52.017
"The alien who is among you
shall rise higher and higher
20:52.084 --> 20:57.089
above you, and you shall
come down lower and lower.
20:57.155 --> 21:01.393
He shall lend to you, but
you shall not lend to him;
21:01.460 --> 21:05.297
he shall be the head, and
you shall be the tail."
21:05.364 --> 21:08.567
Yet the solution isn't
more creative economic
21:08.634 --> 21:11.103
policy or more
government handouts.
21:11.169 --> 21:14.773
The solution is
to stop sinning,
21:14.840 --> 21:19.778
turn to Jesus Christ,
and start obeying God.
21:19.845 --> 21:23.015
There are too many
examples like this for
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us to cover all of them
in one program, but in
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summary let me refer to
a statement by educator
21:27.986 --> 21:30.656
Vincent Ruggiero, he
made it in his book
21:30.722 --> 21:34.326
Warning: Nonsense is
Destroying America:
21:34.393 --> 21:37.262
"If we are ever to solve
this country's social
21:37.329 --> 21:40.699
problems, we must
acknowledge the moral
21:40.766 --> 21:44.803
bankruptcy of our time and
the culpability, not only of
21:44.870 --> 21:48.640
the parents and teachers, but most of all the media.
21:48.707 --> 21:51.910
We must take responsibility
for creating an environment
21:51.977 --> 21:55.614
that nurtures morality in children and adults....
21:55.681 --> 21:59.117
To pretend the Ten Commandments are somehow irrelevant to
21:59.184 --> 22:04.389
moral living is a violation
of common sense...."
22:04.456 --> 22:07.492
My friends, Bible prophecy
is plain that the failure of
22:07.559 --> 22:11.296
Britain and America to
act on such advice is
22:11.363 --> 22:12.564
catching up with them.
22:12.631 --> 22:14.800
In today's free offer, The
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22:18.437 --> 22:22.808
these nations in the pages
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22:22.874 --> 22:25.410
reasons no one will
acknowledge concerning
22:25.477 --> 22:28.213
how they rose to the
heights of power, and
22:28.280 --> 22:31.283
the tragedies that will
befall them in the years
22:31.349 --> 22:32.984
before Jesus Christ returns.
22:33.051 --> 22:35.887
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Welcome back.
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We've been discussing the
role that morality plays
23:54.032 --> 23:56.802
in the death of great
nations, and looking at
23:56.868 --> 23:59.538
some examples of the sad
state of morality in the
23:59.604 --> 24:01.973
United States and
Great Britain.
24:02.040 --> 24:05.644
What is really at the
heart of the problem?
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There's a verse in the Psalms
that haunts me on this matter.
24:10.482 --> 24:12.884
Psalm 11:3,
24:12.951 --> 24:16.888
"If the foundations are destroyed, what can the
24:16.955 --> 24:18.023
righteous do?"
24:18.089 --> 24:21.026
While our politicians
discuss what color to
24:21.092 --> 24:23.995
paint the nation's walls,
they seem to ignore the
24:24.062 --> 24:27.599
fact that the foundation,
itself, is destroyed--and,
24:27.666 --> 24:31.503
unless repaired, the house
is doomed to collapse.
24:31.570 --> 24:33.972
Concerning the Constitution
of the United States,
24:34.039 --> 24:36.408
established shortly after
the birth of the nation,
24:36.474 --> 24:39.244
Founding Father
John Adams once said,
24:39.311 --> 24:43.815
"Our Constitution was
made only for a moral and
24:43.882 --> 24:45.483
religious people.
24:45.550 --> 24:49.554
It is wholly inadequate to the
government of any other."
24:49.621 --> 24:52.757
Indeed, the freedoms
inherent in any great
24:52.824 --> 24:57.796
nation rely on the moral
self-restraint of its citizens.
24:57.863 --> 25:00.732
The leaders of the U.S. and Britain should be seeking to
25:00.799 --> 25:04.035
turn their peoples to the God who created and blessed
25:04.102 --> 25:07.606
their nations--as discussed
in today's free booklet.
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Instead, they encourage and
enable the people's sin.
25:12.410 --> 25:17.449
Of them, God declares
in Isaiah 9:16,
25:17.515 --> 25:21.386
"For the leaders of this
people cause them to err,
25:21.453 --> 25:25.123
and those who are led by
them are destroyed."
25:25.190 --> 25:28.793
But you, personally,
don't have to wait for
25:28.860 --> 25:31.529
a senator, congressman,
prime minister, or
25:31.596 --> 25:35.133
president to tell you to
turn to the laws of God.
25:35.200 --> 25:37.469
You don't have to wait
to begin experiencing the
25:37.535 --> 25:41.206
blessings that come from
living life the way it was
25:41.273 --> 25:43.775
designed to be lived.
25:43.842 --> 25:46.378
If you're practicing
sexual sin, indulging in
25:46.444 --> 25:49.948
lust in your body or
mind, you can repent.
25:50.015 --> 25:52.884
You can ask God to forgive
you, and to help you begin
25:52.951 --> 25:54.686
obeying His law.
25:54.753 --> 25:57.422
If you're letting yourself be carried away with covetousness
25:57.489 --> 26:01.426
and greed, in a real sense worshiping things and
26:01.493 --> 26:04.262
centering your life on your
next purchase on Amazon,
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you can repent and
turn away from that.
26:07.132 --> 26:11.336
You can begin obeying the 10th, 1st, and 2nd commandments.
26:11.403 --> 26:14.706
If you want a family that
is strong and stable--
26:14.773 --> 26:18.576
a source of joy and comfort-- God has given us laws that
26:18.643 --> 26:21.713
we can act on to help
craft the sort of
26:21.780 --> 26:24.582
family we have always
wanted to have.
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And you can choose to
follow those laws and
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build that family.
26:29.988 --> 26:32.557
The only way to prevent
great nations from dying
26:32.624 --> 26:36.428
is for the people of great
nations to seek their God
26:36.494 --> 26:40.498
and Jesus Christ and
turn from sin.
26:40.565 --> 26:42.300
It isn't too late.
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In 2 Chronicles 7:14, God
says to King Solomon
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words that are just
as true today:
26:49.607 --> 26:52.744
"[I]f My people who are
called by My name will
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humble themselves, and
pray and seek My face,
26:57.248 --> 27:01.086
and turn from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from
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heaven, and will forgive their
sin and heal their land."
27:05.724 --> 27:09.260
If we want to make a
difference, turning in a
27:09.327 --> 27:12.030
heartfelt manner to the
God of heaven and seeking
27:12.097 --> 27:15.166
His way with passion,
zeal, and humility,
27:15.233 --> 27:19.170
that will accomplish more
than 1,000 phone calls
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to your senator or
congressman ever will.
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I hope you will get
today's free resource
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Britain in prophecy.
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And, I hope you'll come
back again next week.
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When you do, you'll find
Gerald Weston, Richard Ames,
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Rod McNair, and I right here waiting to share with you
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the teachings of Jesus
Christ, the meaning of
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the end-time prophecies of
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