MICHELE BACHMANN: When we agree with God's viewpoint,
that's where you have unity, that's where you have hope,
that's where you have happiness. The issue of
Israel is the Bible, the covenant, Abraham.
Three-fourths of the Bible is the Old Testament. God
is the first character. What's the second? Israel.
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GEORGE PEARSONS: I'm Pastor George Pearsons.
Welcome to this special edition of the Believer's
Voice of Victory broadcast, "Faith For Our Nation." It
is primary time. And midterm elections are coming up later
in the year. And we are here today on set with Bishop
Keith Butler, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, and David
Barton. And we're talking about how important it is, number one,
for us to vote, and then number two, the issues that we are
voting on. And today, we're going to talk about Israel. And
we'll talk about national security. But let me read these
two scriptures, and then we'll jump off from there. In Genesis
12:3, "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses
you, I will curse: and all the people of the earth will be
blessed through you," talking about Israel. And then in
Zechariah 2:8, "For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After his
glory had sent me his messenger to the nations who plundered
you: for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye."
So we see right away how important it is that we as a
nation support Israel and how, in administrations in the past,
there has not been support for Israel. We must vote for
politicians who stand for Israel. Is that the truth?
MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: Psalm 122:6. GEORGE: Okay. KEITH:
"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem." GEORGE: --peace of
Jerusalem. KEITH: "They shall prosper that love thee." GEORGE:
Ah. MICHELE: Amen. GEORGE: I like that. I like that. MICHELE:
And there is no other nation mentioned where we--every
individual that's ever lived has a relationship with Israel for
blessing or cursing. GEORGE: Yes. MICHELE: But so, too, when
we read Matthew 25, every nation also has a relationship with
Israel, because Matthew 25 says-- GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE:
--all nations will be called to the valley of Jehoshaphat. And
there, Jesus will be on His throne, and He separates the
nations-- GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: The people, but the nations, for
the sheep and the goat. And on what basis? How they treated
Zion. GEORGE: It's how they treated--yeah, that's right.
MICHELE: So our nation has been blessed because we have blessed
Israel; that as we, as a nation, turn against Israel, then we
receive repercussions inevitably. DAVID: And let
me--let me just establish real clear that America has been the
best friend Israel has had in her rebirth, since 1948.
MICHELE: Amen. GEORGE: Right. DAVID: This is the New York
Times newspaper from 1948 that says, "Israel has declared
independence." And this came from the Balfour Declaration
back in World War I all the way through the mandate. GEORGE:
Mm-hmm. DAVID: And so--but what's key is, only 11 minutes
after Israel made the announcement, Truman
jumped on and said-- MICHELE: A Democrat. DAVID: -- "We
recognize you." MICHELE: A Democrat. GEORGE: Yes.
DAVID: And so America is the first nation to recognize
Israel. This is kind of fun, too. Not Hebrew. Anybody
read Hebrew? What I can tell you is what's in--you
have to open the book backwards to actually read
it because it's--you know. KEITH: Right. DAVID: And as you
go through, what's significant about it, if I can even get it
to the right place, is on the--this is done in 1947, and
it's done in Munich, Germany. Now, it is the
Hebrew scriptures. This is done under President Eisenhower
before Israel becomes a nation. This is the scriptures, and they
did this in Munich. And it's for the IDF,
the Israeli Defense Force. So even before there was
an Israel and the Israel military is getting
established, Eisenhower is helping them and giving
them spiritual food and sustenance. So this is the--this
is a Bible that was done, again, with the United States for
Israel. But we go back to John Adams and John Quincy Adams,
who, back in the 1800s, were calling for Israel to be
reestablished as a nation. MICHELE: They were Zionists.
DAVID: They were Zionists back then. MICHELE: They were
Zionists. GEORGE: Yes. DAVID: This is--this is a book--this
is--this one is done by a number of Founding Fathers. But this is
about--if I can get the official name of the society here, "The
Restoration of the Jews, Contemplated and Urged," but
it's "Israel's Advocate." I mean, this is--this present
Congress, Elias Boudinot and all the Founding Fathers, they
understood Genesis 12:3. If you blessed Israel, God is going to
bless you. GEORGE: Yes. DAVID: And if you don't-- GEORGE: Yeah.
DAVID: --you're in trouble. And America has had a long record.
Now, I think that the dividing line in what we'll look for with
politicians is where they are on the two-state solution, because
that two-state solution-- KEITH: Yeah, that's right. Right,
right. GEORGE: Right. DAVID: --says, Israel, give up your
land to the Palestinians. No way. MICHELE: And divide
Jerusalem. DAVID: And divide Jerusalem. MICHELE: And they
demand that you divide Jerusalem. DAVID: And that's a
problem. MICHELE: Yeah. DAVID: And I'll just say it real blunt.
You're surrounded by about 23 other Arabic nations around
Israel. Israel is, I think, one-sixth of one percent of the
land of the region. All the other nations can give the
Palestinians as much land as they want. They don't want other
land. They want Israel's land. MICHELE: That's all it is.
DAVID: That's all it is. MICHELE: It's always been that.
DAVID: And so if you--if a politician says, "Well,
Palestinians need to have land from Israel," sorry, you have
just stood against Israel, and you're not--God's not going to
bless you. GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: Yeah.
KEITH: Do you know how many times in the
Bible--I've forgotten the exact number, but how
many times--because it's several. It's over a
hundred-and-something times that God says
that the land belongs to Israel-- DAVID: Mm-hmm.
KEITH: --forever. DAVID: Forever. GEORGE: Forever. KEITH:
And they use the term, "forever." DAVID: Mm-hmm. KEITH:
And it says it over a hundred times, okay. And, of course, the
borders that the Scripture gives you is larger than what is the
current state of Israel. DAVID: Mm-hmm. KEITH: But God says it
belongs to them, it belongs forever-- DAVID: And by the
way-- KEITH: --to the seed of David and so forth. DAVID: --it
was Israel--excuse--it was Great Britain when--under the British
mandate that made Israel give up that extra land. They formed
Lebanon out of it and Transjordan and other stuff. And
all that land used to be there until the British gave it away.
And at the time the British gave that away, they were the
largest-- MICHELE: They were the superpower. DAVID: --most
powerful nation in the world. Now, where are they today?
MICHELE: Mm-hmm. DAVID: You know, they-- MICHELE: They're a
byword among the nations. DAVID: Yeah. They caused Israel to give
away the land. MICHELE: Right. DAVID: And there is no Great
Britain like it is-- MICHELE: And let's remember, though, too,
the greatest Zionist is God. God is a Zionist. GEORGE: That's
true. KEITH: Praise God. MICHELE: And just like all of
the issues that we're talking about this week-- GEORGE: Yeah.
MICHELE: --when we--when we agree with God's viewpoint,
that's where you have unity, that's where you have hope,
that's where you have happiness. The issue of Israel is the
Bible, the covenant, Abraham. Three-fourths of the Bible is
the Old Testament. God is the first character. What's the
second? Israel. GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: Israel is the second
character in the Old Testament. And the question is, are we
going to believe--are we going to agree with God or not?
GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: And there's a lot of people in the
United States Congress who say, "I'm for Israel." They're
for Israel, and yet they voted for the Iran agreement. DAVID:
Yeah. MICHELE: And Iran has said, over and over and over,
their goal is to annihilate Israel. DAVID: Annihilate
Israel. MICHELE: So I think when David said, okay, how
are you going to test whether a politician is
pro-Israel or not-- KEITH: Yeah, that's one right there.
MICHELE: --because they're going to say it. KEITH: Yeah.
MICHELE: That's one way that you test it, because
this--remember, Israel is super tiny. Think of the state of New
Jersey. That's all the bigger it is. And yet-- DAVID: With the
population of Indiana. MICHELE: With a population of Indiana.
DAVID: That's right. You take the population of-- MICHELE: And
yet what they want to do is they want to cut Israel down so
she'll maybe be six miles wide. Now, Texas has ranches that are
bigger than. GEORGE: Oh, yeah. Yeah. MICHELE: So think about
that. The goal has always been, from Satan, to cut Israel back,
cut Israel back, hurt this nation. You cannot touch His
people. You cannot touch His land. You cannot touch
Jerusalem. Why? Because God gave a people and a
land to bless the nations. And so we need to keep
that blessing there. KEITH: Yeah. MICHELE: And that's
why we are blessed. KEITH: And God promised, of course,
to David, and you go back in the Scripture and you
see how Jerusalem is not supposed to be divided. MICHELE:
Amen. KEITH: Israel is not supposed to be divided, but
especially Jerusalem. In the Bible, God considered Jerusalem
as the capital city of the world. MICHELE: Yeah. It's His
throne. KEITH: And Israel is--He is-- MICHELE: It's His throne.
KEITH: Scripture says it's His throne. And even in the
millennial reign of Christ, Jerusalem will be the capital.
It's never to be divided. And so if you ever notice, whenever
American policy, when it gets to Israel, is the bad things
happen. DAVID: Yeah, that's right. MICHELE: Amen. Now,
here's--here's something to think about. GEORGE: Yeah.
MICHELE: On these local elections, there's a big push
right now for states and localities to pass laws that
will hurt Israel-- DAVID: BDS. KEITH: BDS, yeah. MICHELE:
--economically. That's right. And that's Boycott Divestment
Sanction. Even local colleges and universities-- DAVID:
Campuses are doing it like crazy. MICHELE: --are trying to
pass that. DAVID: There were 1600 anti-Israel events last
year. MICHELE: And the whole goal is that--yes. DAVID: On
campuses. MICHELE: And the whole goal is they want to bring about
an economic annihilation, not just physical, personal, "We
want to hit you," but, "We want to hurt you in your pocketbook."
And that's what BDS does. Probably one of the most
important issues that any government can deal with
is how it's going to respond to Israel. Will we as a country
bless Israel, or will we as a country hurt, harm, or
curse Israel? It's a very big issue. And those who
don't like Israel very much are trying to put Israel out of
existence. When you hear from terrorists, they'll say that
they want to annihilate Israel. In order words, death to Israel.
They want to see the people and the country gone. One way that
they go about doing that is through economic means, to
choke off Israel economically. And they do that by urging
other people to boycott any product that is made in Israel.
That's the boycott part. "Divestment" means if you
have a company in Israel that's maybe listed on a
stock exchange, there's pressure for a university
or a company or individuals to divest themselves. In
other words, no longer hold the stock of an Israeli
company. So if you get rid of that stock, that means
that you're taking the money out of that company. You're gonna
hurt it. "Sanctions" means a government would put handcuffs
on Israel or an Israeli company, so that that company maybe
couldn't trade, couldn't get advantages that they could have
gotten at--in--in any other way. Those are three serious methods:
boycott, divestment, and sanctions. To strangle
economically Israel. And the haters of Israel want to do
exactly that. That's why it's very important that people who
are running for office state if they believe in boycott,
divestment, sanction of Israel, which is economic strangulation,
or if they believe in blessing Israel by making sure we
can maintain positive economic relations.
If you're voting in your city, in your county, in
your state, where a person stands on Israel is so
important, because if you're for Israel, you're not going
to vote for a measure that's going to squeeze Israel dry,
because the freest, most democratic state in the Middle
East is Israel. If you look at all the Arab nations, God--we're
not saying God hates Arabs. But what we're saying is that if you
want to talk about freedom, if you're a woman in the Middle
East, you want to be in Israel. There is no other place where
they are freer. So we could go on a number of different levels
looking at Israel, what they've done right, what they've done
wrong. But I will tell you, it has profound impact on these
local and state races. GEORGE: Yeah, yeah. DAVID: And let me
add to it, the fact that we're pro-Israel, pro-Zionist doesn't
mean we think Israel has done everything right. MICHELE:
Right. DAVID: God spanks His own kids. KEITH: He sure did with
them, yeah. DAVID: I mean, if you think this will happen to
them-- MICHELE: Amen, amen. DAVID: But it doesn't change the
fact--you know, "You come after my kid, I'm going to have to
take you on. That doesn't mean my kid's right all the time, but
I'm not going to let you take my kid down." MICHELE: But Israel
isn't a side issue-- DAVID: And that's-- MICHELE: Israel is a
central issue-- DAVID: That's essential. That's right.
MICHELE: --to God's own heart. DAVID: That's right. GEORGE:
Yes. MICHELE: This is not a small thing. That's what we need
to remember, that as individuals--we talked earlier
this week about our vote as a seed. Bishop-- KEITH: Yeah.
MICHELE: --you mentioned that. Our vote on Israel, who we vote
for, will have profound impact on Israel. GEORGE: Oh. MICHELE:
We're going to have to answer for that, too, on where we're at
on Israel. KEITH: In our own harvest-- MICHELE: I'm a part of
a-- KEITH: --in our own harvest from that. The other thing about
it, there's some good news in this, though. And that is, some
states now have passed anti-BDS legislation. GEORGE: That's
right. MICHELE: Yeah. DAVID: That's right. KEITH: Why did it
happen? Because Christians voted for-- DAVID: That's
right. KEITH: --people who stood with Israel. And I belong to an
organization that's the largest Christian pro-Israel
organization in the world, and so we've been fighting-- DAVID:
Call them by name because everybody needs to be a member.
KEITH: CUFI, Christians United for Israel. MICHELE: CUFI,
that's right. DAVID: Everybody needs to be a member of CUFI.
MICHELE: That's right. KEITH: I'm on the board of-- DAVID:
There's 4 million Americans now of CUFI members-- KEITH:
Exactly, right. DAVID: --and everybody ought to be part of
it. KEITH: And what's happened is that we have targeted or been
involved in making sure that legislatures pass anti-BDS
legislation. I think Christians stood with us. DAVID: That's
right. MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: And if you're watching this today,
this is a--as you said, central issue. BDS is big. DAVID: That's
right. KEITH: Okay? It's very big. And if you find anyone
that's--that's opposite of standing with Israel,
particularly if they're for BDS, you don't want to vote--
MICHELE: Oh, it's absolutely huge-- KEITH: --or cast your
seed. MICHELE: I'm-- KEITH: You're supposed to bring
harvest to you personally. MICHELE: I'm a part of a
ministry now. We are trying to bring a biblical perspective to
the United Nations. The United Nations isn't known
for advancing from a biblical perspective. So we
are--(Laughter) DAVID: Or Israel. MICHELE: We're coming in
on audacious beliefs that we can bring the Bible into the United
Nations. But another part of what we're trying to do is to
bring a pro-Israel perspective because a lot of lies are told
at the United Nations. And a couple months ago, six
resolutions were passed--right after the 70th anniversary of
the United Nations legally creating a space for the Jewish
state to be reborn, they passed six anti-Israel resolutions.
Well, this, again, is where the United States came in. The
United States was only one of six nations that-- GEORGE: Yeah.
MICHELE: --voted with Israel. That happens because there's
pressure from the state, the local, every unit of government.
So when you have local legislators and mayors and
people who stand for Israel, it's really tough for a
president to be anti-Israel when you have a whole country that is
pro-Israel. GEORGE: Sure. MICHELE: And that's again,
pastor, a biblical value that should be preached from the
pulpits, why we need to take, as part of our seed and our vote,
not only our pro-life views, our pro-economic views, but our
pro-Israel views, which, again, God is the original
Zionist. GEORGE: Yeah. DAVID: You know, the--you
read the passage in Genesis 12:3. God said, "Abraham,
I'll make a covenant with you." KEITH: Mm-hmm.
DAVID: "You're going to have a nation, and whoever
blesses be blessed, whoever curses be cursed." Now, Numbers
23:19, God says, you have-- "God, I'm not a man. I don't
lie. If I told you something, I'm going to do it." We're
told in Psalm 106 that He keeps His covenant for a
thousand generations. KEITH: Mm-hmm. DAVID: Got news for you.
We're only 200 generations of that covenant. We've got a long
way to go. GEORGE: Long way to go. DAVID: So that covenant is
not out. And for those who believe in replacement theology,
you're dead wrong. God has not replaced Israel. MICHELE: But
that means-- "replacement" means that the--some people say the
Church has replaced Israel, and that's false. KEITH: That's
false, right. MICHELE: That is not true. DAVID: Because that
covenant lasts for a thousand generations. MICHELE: Amen.
Amen. DAVID: And so that is now--going back to what Bishop
said, an easy way to look in an election time--an easy way to
look at a state rep or a state senator, a local kind of race,
is, where do you stand on BDS? And that's-- GEORGE: Yeah.
DAVID: Again, that's Boycott Divestiture Sanction. GEORGE:
Yeah. DAVID: That's a way to punish Israel. And you mentioned
the United Nations. You think of all the egregious civil rights
violators in the world, whether it be North Korea--about 5
million now have starved to death there under their
leadership--whether it be Cuba, whether it be-- MICHELE: Sudan.
DAVID: --what happens in Sudan. You--there have been more
resolutions condemning Israel than all of the other-- MICHELE:
Than all the other offenders combined. DAVID: --all the other
nations combined. MICHELE: And that's every year. DAVID: It's
an anti-God-- MICHELE: That's year on year. DAVID: --thinking
that exists at the UN. And anything that God's got His hand
on, they're going to be against. And that's why they're against
marriage and life and everything else. KEITH: Right. DAVID:
But--and so on the state level, BDS is key. On the national
level, that two-state solution, if you're voting for a
congressman or senator, where they are, "Oh, no, Israel's got
to give up the land to Palestine." GEORGE: No. DAVID:
Joel's--God says in Joel, "If you give up the land, I will not
bless those who cause Israel to give up the land." MICHELE: And
let's remember, the two-state solution has been out there
since 1947. It has been offered on a platinum platter to the
Arabs year after year, and they have rejected it. Even when 97
percent of their demands have been met, they reject it. Why?
They want a one-state solution. DAVID: That's right. MICHELE:
The one-state solution means they want it all. They were
offered land, they've rejected land. Why? Because they
hate--they have an irrational-- DAVID: They want Israel's land.
MICHELE: --hatred-- DAVID: That's right. MICHELE: --of
Israel and the Jewish people. And so let's remember, even if,
let's say, the Arabs got what they wanted, and they got a
hundred percent of that land, they still wouldn't be happy
because they won't be happy as long as there are Jews who
walk-- GEORGE: That's right. DAVID: That's right. MICHELE:
--on the face of the earth. GEORGE: That's right. That's
right. MICHELE: It's an irrational hatred that is
anti-God. DAVID: Yeah. KEITH: For the purposes of this
broadcast--so really, this does come down to this: You want to
go to--because all--anyone running for public office has to
have some public forums. DAVID: Mm-hmm. KEITH: And they have
public forums whereby you get to ask some questions. This is the
question--you want to go. Take the time. You want to go and ask
them the question about BDS at the local level. You want to ask
them about--if you're talking about a Senate congressman
within the federal level, you want to ask them about the
two-state solution. There you are right there. MICHELE: And do
they believe that Jerusalem should be divided? That is--
KEITH: And-- DAVID: A divided Jerusalem. MICHELE: --another
one. KEITH: And-- MICHELE: There should be an eternal,
undivided-- KEITH: Yeah. MICHELE: --capital of Israel,
and that's Jerusalem. No shared capital, only--because God
doesn't share His throne with anyone. KEITH: And so now
those in the public, you're beginning to understand the
hallmarks from the Bible that you should look to see, who do I
vote for? And why do I vote for them? GEORGE: And also,
this--the last point about even national security and how that
has changed over the last couple of years. And again, in dealing
with the national security, what do you ask a candidate? What do
you--how do you-- MICHELE: Well, I think you want to make sure
that a candidate is very strong. "Do you support our military?"
GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: "Will you support funding our military?"
Because our military has been gutted in recent years. And
also, I think the other part is, do you support securing our
borders? KEITH: Mm-hmm. MICHELE: That--we have so many problems
today with America's national security because our borders
aren't secure. And we need to make sure that our borders
are secure because people are literally being killed and
harmed because our borders aren't secure. DAVID: And here's
the deal: You do not invite people into your house that
would kill you. You do not invite your enemies into your
house. It just doesn't happen. And what's happened is America,
as a Judeo-Christian biblical-based nation--I had an
organization where, over the last two years, we have helped
about 53,000 Christians in the Middle East. We've
moved 9,300 of them out of the Middle East. ISIS was after
them. We actually have extraction teams that go in and
take sex slaves away from ISIS. We've had two of our members
killed in doing that. It's not an easy thing. But we're
rescuing Christians. And we can send them to Brazil. I send them
to Brazil. I send them to Australia, send them to
Slovakia, I send them to Canada. Can't send them to the United
States because the United States would not take Christians.
That--last year, they took 53 Christian immigrants in, but
they're taking hundreds of thousands who don't like America
and who would like to see America destroyed. That's part
of border security, is, don't bring people in who want to blow
you up. GEORGE: Yeah. DAVID: I've been in London twice when
it was hit by terrorists. And they ran polls in London, and 23
percent of those living in England said they'd be happy to
blow England up. And so, yeah, immigration stuff, you've got to
get common sense on this thing. You've got to stop inviting
people in who want to kill you. KEITH: Yeah. DAVID: I mean, keep
them on the outside at least. And so I will say, under Trump,
for the first time in eight years, we now have more
Christians coming in than we have non-Christians coming in.
So we're at least getting people who are sympathetic to our
values and not wanting to overthrow them. But that's a
huge deal, is who comes across our border. First closing the
borders so that we can know who's coming across, and then
letting people in, come across who really want to do something.
MICHELE: And then having the guts to deport and remove people
out of our country who are causing us trouble. We've
actually let people in who are terrorists. GEORGE: Yeah.
MICHELE: We've let them into our country. So this, again, goes
back to the issue of praying for those who are in authority. We
need to make sure that the people who are in charge of our
national security, who are in charge of securing America's
national sovereignty-- GEORGE: Yes, yes. MICHELE: --actually
have our best interests in mind. That hasn't always been the
case. And even today, we need to be in prayer that God removes
people from positions of power-- GEORGE: Yep. MICHELE: --who
aren't securing America's national security and our
borders. KEITH: And those are your prayer points. GEORGE: Yep.
MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: So for those who intercede, okay, we're
not only praying for those in authority to do the right thing,
you're also praying that those who are not doing the right
thing be removed. MICHELE: That they be removed. DAVID: That's
right. KEITH: That's the I Timothy 2. DAVID: That's good.
KEITH: Okay, amen. MICHELE: Amen. GEORGE: In the remaining
few moment--do you have another point? KEITH: That's all right.
Go ahead. GEORGE: --remaining few moments, I want you to pray
today, would you? MICHELE: Father, we thank You-- GEORGE:
Thank You, Jesus. MICHELE: --oh, God, that as a nation-- GEORGE:
Glory to God. MICHELE: --we have stood with Your people, Israel--
GEORGE: Yes. Yes, Lord. MICHELE: --because You gave a people
through Abraham. You gave them a specific land for the purpose of
blessing the nations. And Messiah will come through that
line. And so, Father, we thank You now for this upcoming
election. I pray that every believer watching today, and
nonbeliever, that they will come to know You, that they will take
this charge seriously. GEORGE: Thank You, Jesus. MICHELE: And
that they will vote to bless and honor Israel with their vote in
this election. We give this to You now-- GEORGE: Oh, thank You,
Jesus. MICHELE: --God. We thank You for this opportunity--
GEORGE: Thank You, God. MICHELE: --to broadcast, to speak Your
Word. GEORGE: Yes. MICHELE: In Jesus' name. GEORGE: Yes.
MICHELE: Amen. GEORGE: Thank You, Lord. Father, we thank You
for the awakening in this nation. We are waking up. We are
waking up to life. We are waking up to unity. We are waking up to
how important Israel is--is to the relationship of our nation.
Oh, God, we thank You, and we honor You for the people that
are being called into office. That's what we're looking for.
MICHELE: Thank You. GEORGE: We're looking for people who are
called by God to be in these positions. And, Lord, we see a
day when the entire Senate is on their knees crying out to You.
MICHELE: Yes. GEORGE: We see a day when the House is crying out
to You. Father, we're seeing a day where the White House is
praying. So, Lord, we set the bar higher-- MICHELE: Yes, Lord.
GEORGE: --where our nation is concerned. MICHELE: Yes, Lord.
We agree. GEORGE: And we do our part. We pray. Believe
Your Word, and we vote. MICHELE: Yes. GEORGE: In
Jesus' name-- KEITH: In Jesus' name. MICHELE:
In Jesus' name. GEORGE: Amen-- KEITH: Amen.
GEORGE: --and amen. KEITH: Praise God. GEORGE: Praise
God. I'll be right back with you.
DAVID: So socialism puts everybody equal, treats
everybody the same regardless of your skill, regardless of
how hard you work; you reward the incompetent,
you penalize the overproductive. But the free market system that
came out of the Bible says, "You know what? If
you produce a lot, you should get a lot. If you're lazy, you
shouldn't get anything." And that gives you an incentive to
be a good producer. So that's what socialism is. That's how
America got away from socialism. By the way, they had the same
experience in Jamestown 13 years earlier in 1607 when they
started the socialism, and they got so lazy that they entered
into a starving period where two-thirds of the people starved
to death because they were too lazy to work. So that's
socialism. It didn't work in Virginia, it didn't work in
Massachusetts. We got away from it. That's where the free
market system came to America. That's
why socialism's bad. Never works.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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