It is important to be well-read. Why? To gain wisdom, because everything is in our hands, especially the future of our nations.
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"No
one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You
cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your
life-- what you shall eat or drink-- or about your body-- what you will wear.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
"Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or
reap. They gather nothing into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are
not you more important than they? Can any of you, by worrying, add a single
moment to your life span?
"Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from
the way the wildflowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not
even Solomon in all his splendour was clothed like one of them. If God so
clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven
tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?
"So do not worry and say, what are we to eat? Or
what shall we drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek.
Your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
"But seek first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry
about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its
own evil."
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This
is Mejanomics
with a Friend of Medjugorje.
[A
FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
Were
going to start off on something a little bit different for this broadcast. We
just came back out of town this past week and we got a lot of feedback.
[JOAN]
Since
the release of Big Q, Little Q, a Friend of Medjugorje has been invited
several places around the country to speak about the book and about Medjugorje.
So, he fit in a couple of talks in Texas in El Campo and Bridge City. So, we
have a lot of feedback coming in from those talks, and Im just going to share
one of them before a Friend of Medjugorje gets into this Mejanomics program.
Friend of
Medjugorje, thank you so much for coming to Texas. We need you in Austin, San
Antonio, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Waco, Fort Worth, Victoria, and all our
cities. The evil is trying to take over Texas. Please come back soon. We must
keep Texas in Jesus and Mother Marys hands.
[A
FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
Why
does this individual say, Evil is trying
to take over Texas? Because every place thats a light, or Conservative,
or God, country, and family, satan wants that. We see
a lot of moves to do that to Alabama. But what happened in Texas, and this
person is probably saying, Evil is
trying to take it over, is because we chase the dollar.
The
former governor of Texas, Rick Perry whos popular, he decided to send a
message to California. He made a 30 second ad, and it states, quote, There are plenty of reasons as has been
named the best state for doing business for eight years running. And it
says to look at a website that it names. And it says, And see why our low taxes, sensible regulations, and fair legal
systems are just the thing to get your business moving in Texas. He went
also to New York, and they gave all kinds of low taxes, they gave reasons, they
gave tax breaks, and they brought these companies in. But the problem of our
culture today, especially in good areas where you go out to this, its like
putting a noose around your neck.
So,
the feedback Joan just read, quote, The
evil is trying to take over Texas. Where does it come from? What do you do
when you bring in other peoples money? Through
bringing these new companies from California, New York, places like that, they
have a certain mentality. Youre not just bringing money back in, youre
bringing in the people, what their philosophies are, what they believe in.
These people are used to high property taxes, degraded sinful tolerances that
Texans would never be for. And we already see that Houston has a mayor thats
an abominable. And theyve got several other cities that have abominable
mayors. Where does this come from? It comes from people like New York. And
theyre used to doing these things. But those are the consequences of just
seeking money. Its been to be flat-lined, a stable economy, that try to grow
something and bring in exactly what destroyed their states theyre leaving
from, that they bring it and do the same thing. We see it here in Alabama. Our
property taxes are low. So, every time there is an educational tax, these
people vote for it. They think its great because we have such low property
taxes.
So,
the evil that comes in is really a consequence of greed and sin. And people
would praise Rick Perry. They actually did this, but
this always regurgitates back with evil. And so, shes referencing that. Why
she didnt tie that to it, it birthed from this chasing of the love of money.
[JOAN]
Im
going to read another feedback. Its not from the Texas talks, but from a
recent broadcast of a Friend of Medjugorje. It says,
Dear
Medjugorje, you call yourself a Catholic website trying to spread Our Ladys
messages. I am in New Zealand. Just remember during these times, Our Lady has
come from everybody in the world, not just you Americans. You pride yourself to
be so special. I will tell you one thing. I dont pride myself as being
special. May God bless your efforts, but may you realize that billions of
people lie outside of America.
[A
FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
And
we welcome comments like this. Because it gives us opportunity for
clarification, to understand what is the United States of America? What is it
in context of the whole world? And of course this
feedback says that Our Lady has come for everybody in the world. We know that.
I know that. I never say that without that understanding. And she added, Not just you Americans. You pride yourself
to be so special. No, thats a mistake in understanding whats being said.
We pride ourselves that we are privileged to live in a country like no other
country in the history of the world. Whats our position? Humility. And she
went on and said, I will tell you one
thing. I dont pride myself as being special. Were not special. Were
responsible. To whom much is given, much is expected.
I
wrote about this in They Fired the First Shot because we are a country
that is identified as exceptional. So I want to quote
what was written. When Americas
exceptionalism is spoken of, this is not the same thing as nationalism.
And thats what this feedback is putting us in the context that were
nationalist. Thats not what this is about. We understand we are exceptional.
Why? I go on and say and write. Americas
exceptionalism is a recognition that no other nation in the world has been
blessed as we have been. Americas exceptionalism becomes complete when we
understand we must pass this blessing onto other nations of the world.
That includes New Zealand. That includes Lithuania, one of the smallest
countries in the world. Were not stomping countries; we are showing what God
has done with us and Our Lady has been consecrated over this nation from its
beginning. And She even gave a message about this nation because so goes
America goes the world.
So,
They Fired the First Shot continues, Being
blessed, we are to share this blessing that by our recognition of Gods favors,
other nations may hope for the same. Is this not why immigrants continuously
have come to America in fulfilment of their dreams for freedom? I asked
that question there. You ask yourself, What
other nation are people tearing down, giving up, doing whatever, even breaking
law to get in this country? Its the only nation in the world. They define
the exceptionalism, why theyre wanting to be here. The problem we have with
these now, coming in, they dont want to be Americans. So
theyre going to destroy the blessings we have.
But
it continues in They Fired the First Shot. Is this not what has kept political prisoners alive while being
tortured in prison with hope for their beloved fatherland while also claiming
America as their second fatherland? Yes, Americans exceptionalism is a
recognition that God has shed His grace on thee. And Ill stop where Im
quoting because the only other country to come close to it is Israel. But
theyre still not as blessed as we are, as abundantly. Yes, it was Gods people
and His nation, but America, since its inception, is something of the tool of
God. It continues in They Fired the First Shot. And we are to spread the blessings of life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness to all other lands as patriots of our nation. Our Lady wants
us to realize the grace from Her Son. No nation has been where we are right
now.
That
understood, Our Lady said July 2, 2014, I,
the motherthe mother of the entire worldcall you to set out on the way of
humility Yes, America and all its people have to
be humble. But if you say and you understand exceptionalism brings that to the
heart for the reason we are blessed is because we have been humble. And our
wars and in battle, we helped our enemy immediately when we defeated them. You
know what some people wanted to do in World War II because Germany had caused
two world wars? They wanted to fill all the airplanes up full of salt and salt
all of Germany so it would never rise again. We were against that. But thats
what many victors do. We are a humble country, but if we lose its humility, it
will not change exceptionalism because we cant change the recognition of our
history of how God has shed His grace on us. Thats a reality.
But
in this July 2, 2014, Our Lady continues about, call you to set out on the way of humilityIf you, my children, do
not become cognizant of this, then darkness/blindness rule in your soul. Only
humility can heal you The whole world needs that. Does the United States
need the same thing? You bet it does. But, were in a leadership position for
the whole wide world just as the Roman Empire was. But you know what happened
to the Roman Empire? It fell inside. It was an inside
job. It wasnt from attacks. When we are attacked, we join
together. You see Notre Dame? Theyve been godless for years, decades.
Yes, Medjugorje is changing it, but there is so much secularism in there, that
when Notre Dame burned up Monday, did you see what happened? Ill tell you what
happened. People knelt down and prayed. People came
together. It united the nation. I told you about the stories, walking up the
streets of Paris with the Rosary in my hand. Even the old women, they look at
me and they were startled with me walking down the street with a rosary in my
hand. You didnt do that. Nobody was praying. You certainly didnt do that in
public. It had become so secularized. The churches had nobody attending Mass.
Yes, Our Lady of Medjugorje has started that increasing, but this is a premonition
of the Secrets.
The
purpose of the Secrets is to draw people to Our Lady. On Tuesday night, people
came together in a large number praying and singing on the streets of Paris.
They would never have done that before this fire, but this is an omen.
Immediately when this came out, I said this. This is an omen from God. You can say that the three Secrets,
when theyre released, they are an omen from God. Its going to bring people to
their knees. So, this is good. And its from God. And its a bad. Its their
9/11. I prayed in this church many times. The Crown of Thorns is in the back of
the church when you walk in and its an amazing relic that we have. Somehow a
priest got that out, thank God. And thats one thing Our Lady wasnt going to
let be destroyed. But She did, with Gods direction, allow the fire of
something named after Her. And what are they doing? Theyre praying to Her by
the millions across the world, not just in France. Why? Because of the
principle there are no atheists in a foxhole.
So,
this is a wake-up call. Think about this, the rich history. Do you realize this
church is 850 years old? And also the beams that were
in there were up to 300 years old. So, that goes back to trees that were
growing in 700AD. This is a huge thing. This is history. Its a big thing for
God to allow that to take place. Thats gone. Thats ashes. All that wood
burnup. So, what does that say to us? Our friend from New Zealand, I dont pride myself on being special.
No, we arent as Americans. Were privileged, but this is a special nation and
I stand behind that. And we hear from people from all over the world who are
praying for America because they realize when they pray for America, they are
praying for themselves.
So,
why is all this important? Because Im going in the other direction now giving
you some cognition. I was put with people who were story tellers. One of our
neighbors, Phillip Sessions could tell the news in a story way, a fantastic
way. Our Lady wants us to have cognition. Why? She says, by fasting and prayer you obtain from the Heavenly Father the
cognition of what is natural and holy Divine And then She adds this, Filled with cognition, under the shelter
of my Son and myself, you will be my apostles who will know how to spread the
Word of God to all those who do not know of it We are commissioned as
apostles to gain cognition. How do you do that? Our Lady gave the message, God wants to test you through your daily
chores.
But
thats not the only way you gain cognition. I was reading a book last night,
and in there it says, quote, Great books
feed us. They focus our minds and inspire our hearts. And great spiritual books
help us to pray. Im well-read. Everybody in the community is well-read.
You can go to any of the houses here in the evening, and the mothers and the
fathers are reading to the kids or the kids are reading to themselves. Theres
no TV, theres no cell phone, theres no computer to be on. They read! They
love reading. The problem today is one of my main points to say all these
things, is people are not well-read. Our friend from New Zealand, if she was
reading, she would never say such a thing. She would understand immediately
exceptionalism and immediately she would understand also the importance of
America.
We
are in a crisis that people do not read. And Im not talking about your cell
phone, Im not talking about your computer. Im talking about you have to read, you have to read good books. When that was
quoted as spiritual books, its just not that. I write a lot of stories. I know
a lot of subjects because I have a library and I read a lot of things. And it
helps me do what Our Lady just said, filled
with cognition, under the shelter of my Son and myself, you will be my
apostles How? Through being filled with cognition. Reading, be well read,
dont just listen to the news. You listen to things on different subjects
whether its science, whatever it may be. You prayerfully read these things and
you understand things that you can say, because youre filled with cognition.
And She says, You will be my apostles
who will know how to spread the word of God to all those who do not know of
it
St.
Paul is in Athens. Hes talking to the Greek philosophers. Hes referring to
Socrates. Hes not just talking about Jesus Christ. Paul was well-read. He knew
many things. So, heres Paul the super-apostle. What does he say to them? In
Acts he says, You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious.
Now, hes not talking about Christianity, Judaism. Theyve got the gods,
theyve got Zeus, theyve got all these other things. Theyve got Athena.
Thats why they call Athenians, the goddess of the Athenians who really, though
its pagan, you could say is a prefigurement of Our
Lady. In other words, they had a concept of a woman as God. Our Lady is not
God, but it made them when they became Christian easier for them to understand.
Paul
continues, For as I walk around looking carefully at your shrines
Theyre already set up for Christianity. Theyre already a religious people,
even though its paganism and bad things were going in the ceremonies. He
continues, As I am looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar
inscribed to an unknown God. What, therefore, you unknowingly worship, I proclaim
to you. Hes referring to Jesus Christ. This
was the unknown God. Hes standing on the rock. Ive been right there, on the
hills where Socrates was buried.
So,
these philosophers had these things. Actually, what
they did to Socrates in persecuting him, and actually they killed him, they did
the same thing to Paul. So, Socrates around 2,600 years ago, they changed the
mentalities to Jesus Christ just like to put on a glove. It was a fit. All
those centuries, through paganism, was a religious service and thing that
changed, yes, but they were able to do that. So, thats what Our Lady is
talking about. Filled with
cognitionyou will be my apostles who will know how to spread the Word of God
to all those who do not know of it They didnt know anything. Paul came
down and bombarded them nuclearly and won over one
individual. And from there it spread through all of Greece. And weve got the
Greek Bible and weve got these seeds.
Were
in that same position. But Im not really telling you all these things for that
purpose. Its, I want to place something of wisdom that you need to be more
read, you need to listen to these things, download them, whatever you have to do. That I learned what Ive learned and be able to
tell the stories and write different things and bring up examples to convict
people so that the Word of God to all those who do not know it will understand
it. Our Lady continued on what Im quoting in that
same message of being filled with cognition, and you will know how to overcome obstacles that will stand in your
way Paul had an obstacle. He called on the Greek gods, the altars, and
then, Hey, youve got one God in your
belief that is an unknown God and I know Him. Ive meet Him. He spoke to me.
See, he knew Greek mythology and it was centuries old when he came along.
Youre
not called to just sit there and sit on your cell phones and your computers.
You have to read! Im telling you, if you want to be
following Our Lady, you have to be reading. Reading is
one of the most enjoyable things we have in a community. We fight to read. We
want to read. And we love to read. And we tell stories, we discuss it. Theres
nothing better than to sit down and talk about a book that you both have read
in the Community. Or, somebody is explaining something. You learn so many
things! Because, the book thats being written by another person, you enter into their life or whatever happened to them, or their
cognition, and you make their cognition your cognition. And you become broader
that you can touch everybody in it.
I
was raised that way. I know God put me next to people that the stories that
were happening in the news, the way they explained it, gave the slant on it,
gave us a broad view of everything. I can say now, I
was prepared for Medjugorje. Just like weve talked about the Muslim, Hassan
who said in 1979, People who were born
before the Virgin Mary would appear would be prepared for their whole life for
Her coming. And I feel it and I see it.
So,
I go back to this person in New Zealand, who Im sure has goodwill but is
ignorant. Because if she read, she would never write that. Our friend before
that, about coming to Waco, Ft. Worth, Victoria, all of cities, etc, that evil
is trying to take over Texas. That person is informed. They are understanding
these things. And I understand she was at the talk, and she heard things she
never heard before. And a lot of it was stories, like Paul standing there. You
are called to be an apostle. Hes a super-apostle. Our Lady is calling you for
this.
So,
were going to play something for you now to show you these are the kinds of
things you need to learn. Theres a lot of wisdom out there. In 1965 this was
recorded. I learned from this man many things, how to present talks, how to do
things, and every day at lunch, like many of you who may be my age. Im close
to 66, and I dont feel that, because I feel energized from Our Lady. And I
have a lot of work still yet to do. But this man, his name is Paul Harvey, youve
probably heard the name, was filled with wisdom. And I never missed him. And I
learned a lot from him, how he told his stories, how he presented news, how he
made his points. And this is just a singular example that you can find these
kinds of things and you should be listening to these things with your children,
or just get your husband and wife together, even if your kids are out of the
house. You need this wisdom because what Rick Perry did, and understanding
chasing the dollar, what youre about to hear shows when we go that way we get off base, the consequence is not good.
And
humility is truth. And keep in mind all this is being said, when this was
broadcasted, we had not landed on the moon at that point. We had three or four
more years until we landed on the moon. So, today we have these difficulties
that come up. But listen to this carefully. Tune into it. And after you hear
this and what Ive just told you, you will see that you have cognition and
understanding that you didnt have before you heard this that will do what Our
Lady said, to spread the Word of God to all those who do not know of it And
thats specifically to this New Zealand woman who doesnt understand what were
saying about America. Because this is all about America.
[PAUL
HARVEY CLIP]
Hello
Americans. Im Paul Harvey, and this is the testing time. We are being tested,
you know, you and I, individually and collectively. The test isnt going to be
all fun or all easy, but if you hear me out, I think youll agree you wouldnt
want it any other way. Such a little while ago, we sat around in councils of
men chewing our fingernails up past the elbow worrying about the hideous force
which man had loosed on the world when he unharnessed the atom. Now looking back we can see that the nuclear weapon was a disguised
blessing. Were outnumbered by our potential enemy, seven to one. War with
bayonets we couldnt win! The big bomb was the equalizer which cut the
limitless fords of Asia down to our size. This awesome weapon stood between us
and slavery. And now we can see that an all-wise, almighty, entrusted this
hideous instrument to our tiny fraction of the earths population first. Now
for our destruction, but for our deliverance.
Our problems
are not new ones. What are our problems? Death, war, and taxes. No, there is
nothing new about the first of these, nor about wars, hot or cold. Wars never
end. Cain clobbered Able with about a four-pound club, and men have been
fighting ever since. The only difference being that with each succeeding generation,
the foot pounds of destructive energy which one man can deliver increase
through the development of the crossbow and catapult, gunpowder and the
automatic weapons and the canon, the airplane, the bomb, the blockbuster. For
thousands of years the line on the chart measuring the foot pounds of
destructive energy which one man can wield goes up in a slow steady incline
until August 1945. And suddenly the line on the graph shoots for the
stratosphere, for then it had been thrust into the hands of men a weapon 400
million times more lethal than anything ever before. This has changed the
complexion of war. But wars never end. In the three and a half thousand years
of recorded history, fewer than 8% of those years have been warless ones. And
even in this 8% of the time between the wars between the wars, which we have
come to call cold wars went on.
Nor is
there anything new about these! Quintus Fabius Maximus, the Roman general, was
the original cold war kid, I guess you could say. The Romans nicknamed him the
Cunctator meaning one who delays. He marched and counter-marched. He turned the
battlefield into a parade ground. But he wouldnt fight. Hannibals getting
ulcers, but he isnt getting shot. And they say one day old Fabius met the
Carthaginians on the field of battle and he said dramatically, Well, what will
it be? War or peace? And they said at that time they were so bushed chasing
him around, it didnt make much difference one way the other. So he said, Then let it be war! And with a dramatic flourish
he flung his toga to the ground and ran as fast as he could in the opposite
direction.
Now,
theres nothing new about wars, hot or cold. Cold wars are waged by the forces
of espionage and counter-espionage. And history demonstrates that who wins this
war between the wars generally determines who gets to drop on whom when
somebody blows the whistle on a shooting match. Now, however, with the major
world powers armed with weapons of annihilation, it is possible that for the
first time in history the cold war between the wars may be perpetuated. You
see, when you are I were boys, we used to resolve our
differences as boys, with our fists. And generally, you or I would come home
with a black-eye or a bloody nose, but the difference was resolved. We dont do
it that way anymore. Nowadays, though we try to pretend to our wives that we
have some nobler motive, the fact of the matter is the only reason we dont
fight with our fists anymore is that we are so increased in size and physical
prowess, weve become so strong in the arms and so soft in the tummy. That if
we were to wage combat, somebody might get badly hurt. Maybe somebody might get
killed. It just wouldnt be worth it. So now we resolve our differences by more
moderate means.
Americans,
its the judgement of most thinking men that the great nations states of the
world have now approached such a position of physical strength, physical
prowess, but none will dare attack the other. If the initiation of the armed
conflict is in itself a suicidal act, then a military standoff might
conceivably be perpetuated and doomsday postponed
indefinitely. This, however, presupposed that were going to keep us strong.
Thats us spelled u-s, strong in our arms and in our hearts.
Now then,
what makes a nation strong? Taxes? Theres nothing new about those either. The
first income tax was paid by Abraham. It was written on a rock by the hand of Divinity
and handed to Moses on the top of Mount Sinai. And you might want to remember this.
It was at the flat rate of 10%. It promised the wrath of God on anybody who
tampered with or violate that law. Christ was born in Bethlem because Joseph
was on his way to pay his taxes. Joseph was a relatively well to do land owner
of the house in the lineage of David. Yet, the taxes exacted by Caesar Augustus
were so exorbitant that he didnt have enough money left over to employ a
trusted messenger for the mission. So, though his wife was great with child, he
made the journey himself. And Christ was born in Bethlehem because Joseph was
on his way to pay his taxes. And Christ was born in a manger because there was
a housing shortage when he got there.
Our
problems are not new. At Runnymede, the Magna Carta was handed to King John on
the end of a sword denying to royalty the right of unlimited taxation. And if
you know it was for us the American people to become the first in recorded
history ever voluntarily to surrender our rights to private property. Yes we did. With an innocent sounded Constitutional
amendment, the 16th, which says the Congress shall have the power to
lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived. And we forgot to
put any limit on the extent to which we could tax ourselves. Conceivably, we
could be taxed out of all private property. We could be taxed not 70%, 80%, 90%
but 100%! We could awaken one morning and find that the government owns the
farm and the house and the car and has a mortgage on the church, legally!
Historically,
whenever any nation has taxed its people more than 25% of their national
income, initiative was destroyed and that nation was
headed towards economic eclipse. Presently the American people are being taxed
33% of their total income. History says well roll forward on momentum for a little
while but weve better get some more gas in the tank
pretty quick. You see, ours is not the first by George good government to arise
on the worlds stage. There have been several: Rome, Spain, and Greece, and
China. And each enjoyed about 150 years at its zenith. Thats just about our
time in the new world. And then each decayed away. Not one of them was ever
destroyed by anybody elses marching legions. Each rotted away, morally,
socially, culturally, economically, simultaneously.
And one of
the most cruel paradoxes of history is this: because
each was a good government, it bore bountiful fruit. And when it bore bountiful
fruit, the people got fat. And when they got fat they
got lazy. And when they got lazy they began to want to
absolve themselves of personal responsibility and turn over to government to do
for them things which, traditionally, they had been doing for themselves. At
first, there appears to be nothing wrong in asking government to perform some
extra service for you, but if you ask government for extra services,
government, in order to perform its increasing function, has
to get bigger, right? And as government gets bigger, in order to support
its increasing size, it has to what? Tax the
individual more. So, the individual gets littler. And to collect the increased
taxes requires more tax collectors, so the government gets bigger. In order to
pay the additional tax collectors it has to tax the
individual more so the government gets bigger and the individual gets littler.
And the government gets bigger and the individual gets littler until the
government is all-powerful and the individual is hardly anything at all. The
government is all-powerful, the people are cattle.
Some
believe that the need is for a vigorous strong man to arrive on the scene to regulate
and regiment the affairs of men. Yet, history tells us there have been several
such. Once upon a time, there was a nation great and powerful and good. She was
suffering from the aftermath of war, from a depression. And then came upon the
scene a leader, an idealist, self-confident, intolerant of criticism. The wise
lady intimidated his early activates to combating the financial depression.
Nobody could argue with that. But in a while, he began to regulate business and
establish new rules to govern commerce and finance. Some of them in diametrical
disagreement with the God-made laws of supply and demand. But anybody who
disagreed with those new rules was promptly fired.
Many new
leaders saw that under the old system of free enterprise, landlords prospered.
So, he levied new taxes to take away their profits and destroy what he called
the monopoly of capital. To please laborers he
controlled prices. To win the favor of the farmers, he gave them loans and
subsidies. The national debt mounted, alarmingly. Whenever anybody tried to
tell him that governments even as people can go broke, when they stand beyond
their incomes, he said they just didnt understand deficit finance.
What do you
say? Did he build on rock or on sand? I say on sand. For you see this was the
story of Emperor Su Dongpo
who led China to its doom more than 1,000 years ago. And I am satisfied with all my heart that if Uncle Sam ever does get
whipped, here too it will been an inside job. It was
internal decay, it was not external attack that
destroyed the Roman empire. Starting about 146BC, internal conditions in Rome
were characterized by a welder of class wars and conflicts, street brawls,
corrupt governors, lack of personal integrity and moral responsibility.
About 290 years after Christ,
the Roman emperor named Diocletian took over. He really grabbed the bull by the
horns. He took over in a period of turmoil and severe depression. The first
thing Diocletian did was call in the gold and close the banks and raise the
taxes. Diocletian put millions of people on the public payroll, but when this
failed to do the job, the country was still in trouble. He asked more personal
powers for himself. For a brief while, incidentally, they were standby powers,
but then he used them. All at once he froze wages, he froze prices, he froze
jobs, he stopped profits, he dictated to the farmer what he should plant, when
and how he should sell it and for how much, and he rationed food.
And what happened? The labor
market closed down, incentive was gone, farm life
became bureaucratic red tape. Exorbitant taxes cost the farmer his land, he
kept for himself only a small plot on which he might grow turnips for his
family. He lost the rest of it to the state. And without food and with
incentive gone, the city life stagnated and declined. And Rome passed into what
history has recorded as the Dark Ages lasting 1,000 years.
Just by turning to the left,
the world has gone in circles. A nation would evolve from a monarchy into an oligarchy,
from oligarchy to dictatorship, from dictatorship to bureaucracy, from
bureaucracy to pure-democracy where finally the people would cry from the chaos
and confusion to the streets, Oh, please God! Give us a king! And God would
give them a king. And theyd have a monarchy again and start the whole silly
cycle anew.
Now, either we will profit by
the errors of their ways or it follows as the night the day. Our children are
going to have to relive the Dark Ages all over again. We can perpetuate the
military standoff. We can delay doomsday indefinitely. We can continue on the highroad thats made our United States the
powerhouse of the world. But again, it isnt going to be all fun. But then
nothing worthwhile ever is. If we intend to stay strong enough to enforce
peace, let us determine first the source of our strength. How come, after
thousands of years of experiments, our new nation has come so far so fast? All
this in less than 200 years! What is the secret to our success? Well, I think
it had to do with a basic Americans creed. Perhaps it never passed the
pioneers lips in this form, but if it had I think he would have said something
like this, I believe in my God, in my country, and in myself. I know that
sounds like a trite too-simple thing to say, and yet its a rare man today who
will dare to stand up and say, I believe in my God, and my country, and in
myself. And in that order.
When the early American
pioneer first turned his eyes towards the West, there were only Indian trails
or traces as they were called to follow through the wilderness. Do you know
today you can roller-skate from Miami to Seattle, from San Diego to Plymouth
Rock? In this little bity instant, as historical time is measured, our 7% of
the Earths population has come to possess more than half of all the worlds
good things. How come? Well sir, when that early pioneer turned his eyes toward
the West, he didnt demand that somebody else look after him. He didnt demand
the free education. He didnt demand the guaranteed rocking chair at evening
time. He didnt demand that somebody else take care of him if he got ill or got
old. There was an old-fashioned philosophy in those days that a man was
supposed to provide for his own and for his own future. He didnt demand a
maximum amount of money for a minimum amount of work. Nor did he expect pay for
no work at all. Come to think of it, he didnt demand anything. That hard
handed pioneer just looked out at the rolling plains stretching away to the tall
green mountains, then lifted his eyes to the blue skies and said, Thank you
God. Now I can take it from here.
Now that spirit isnt dead in
our country, its dormant. Its been discredited in some circles, driven
underground, but it isnt dead. It was just a few seasons ago politicians
baiting their hooks with free barbeque and trading a Ponzi promise for votes
began telling us, We dont want opportunity anymore; we want security. We
dont want opportunity, they said. We want security. And they said it so
often, we came to believe them. We wanted security. And they gave us chains and
we were secure. Suddenly, with our Constitutional guarantees depleted, with our
national character eroding away, with our tax laws penalizing those who dare to
prosper, with workers concentrating on how little they can get by with instead
of how much they can produce, suddenly we looked over head one day to discover
the first tin moon in space was a Russian accomplishment. That free man
dragging their feet had been out-distanced by slave workers dragging their
chains, and we were so afraid. But as with the nuclear bomb, perhaps this was a
disguised blessing too. Maybe a dramatic accomplishment by this Cold War
adversary was necessary to get us off our dead centers and back to work again.
If we can revive in ourselves,
then in our youth something of that basic Americans creed, the horizon has
never ever been so limitless. For man stands now on the threshold of his
highest adventure of all, his first faltering footsteps into space. Twenty
years from today, half of the products you will be using in your everyday
living arent even in the dictionary yet. Weve got it made if we just keep on
keeping on. Weve got it made. And if we dont, we will follow those other
great nation-states of history into the graveyard of ignominious oblivion. History
promises only this for certain. We will get exactly what we deserve.
You see, storms are part of
the normal climate of life. Ive not promised you a horizon of no work and all
ease, all honey and no bees, because storms are a part of the normal climate of
life. Sometimes the storm takes the shape of an economic catastrophe or a
military holocaust or a prolonged drought or a terrifying flood. But storms are
a part of the normal year in year out climate of life. We sometimes think our
generation has been especially discriminated against. But in every generation,
young folks have wondered whether they should pursue an education or take the
easiest possible way, whether they should enter the professions or not. Young
folks have wondered if they should marry or no. Young marrieds have wondered
whether they ought to bring babies into an era of regulation and regimentation.
In every hour of history there have been these questions, the same as we have today
because there have always been storms to test men.
Americans, a paradise is being
prepared somewhere, a perfect place. Dont you see, weve got to prove here we deserve
to be there. And if there were perpetual sunshine there would be no victory. So,
storms are a part of the necessary climate of life. This is the shakedown crews! Heres where we separate the men from the boys. If you
and I conceivably could roll out a plush carpet on which our youngsters could walk
off into a problem-free future, dont you see, it would not be to their best interest
for us to do so. They deserve a crack at this test too. Storms are a part of the
normal climate of life. There is an election in life going on all the time. The
Lord votes for you, the devil votes against you, and you cast the deciding vote.
Americans, for some reason, are being especially tested because we have been so
richly blessed with the bountiest good things which invite
sloth. Storms are a part of the normal climate of life.
But what happens to a rooster in
a storm? He goes over in a corner of a henhouse and gets soaking wet and shivers
and shakes and develops what is it, coccidiosis or pip, or one of those things rooters
gets, and dies! But what happens to an eagle in a storm? He sees the dark clouds,
he sees them coming, but did you notice, the eagle, when he sees the dark clouds
out there on the horizon, takes off and lets the tremendous storm winds and the
vanguard of the turbulence actually help buoy him aloft and help him? I mean the
winds, the storm winds themselves are lifting the eagle until finally he is soaring
above the storm in the sunshine. Thats the answer, Americans. Storms are a part
of the normal climate of life. Weve got to learn to ride them. If, however, you
do not share my personal conviction concerning this testing time, if the gravy train
running three sections in a factory whistles summoning three shifts, creating too
much den for a still small voice to be heard, let us none the less, with the conscience
of reasonable men preserve and protect and defend this last great green and precious
place on Earth against all its enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. Its
only because so many people you never knew have broken their hearts to get it and
to keep it for you.
Once upon a time there was an old
hermit in the hills of Tennessee, always used to be able to answer any questions
that the youngsters of the community would bring to his hillside cabin. He was a
wise old man but in every community there is one scallywag,
one borderline delinquent, one of those always getting himself into trouble, always
leading others astray. And there was one such in this community. And one day he
gathered his cohorts about and he said, Fellows, I have an idea of how were going
to fox that old man up on the mountain. He thinks hes so smart. Im going to catch
me a bird and Im going to hold it in my cupped hands. And Im going up to his cabin
and Ill say, What have I here, old man? And hell guess right; he always does.
Hell say its a bird. But then Im going to say, Is it alive, or is it dead?
If he says its dead, Ill let it fly away and prove him wrong. If he says its
alive, before I show it to him Ill crush it to death.
Well, the youngster caught a small
bird and went up to the hillside cabin, rapped on the door. The old man came to
the door. The lad said, What have I here, old man? The old hermit said, Well,
it appears to me its a bird youve caught there boy. And the lad, glancing at
his friends out of the corners of his flashing eyes said, Yes, but is it alive
or is it dead? And the wise old man on the mountain said, It is as you will, my
son. That is the sum of it, Americans. We have here captured the elusive eagle
of individual liberty. Now you will love it and feed it and watch it fly or neglect
it and start it and it will die. It is as you will. The future is in your hands.
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
What you just heard
is wisdom, somebody whos well-read, who knows how to tell and convey that wisdom
that you can digest it, change your mentalities and ideals. Such is the mentality
in this woman from New Zealand. The Roman Empire fell internally. The family attacked
becomes stronger. The strife internally destroys it. Its the same for a nation.
Sunday, France was not united. Monday, France was united. Reflect on that on your
future. Paul Harvey talked about 3,500 years, only 8% of that time was in peace.
And in that time between the wars were cold wars. That says something. He made the
point the atomic bomb has given us longer periods between wars than weve ever had
in history. So, listen to this. We understand Our Ladys messages better because
we have cognition. We are well-read. Weve broadened our mentalities. We hear wisdom.
I want you to prove this to yourself. You listen to this five
times over the next three of four or five days of what Paul Harvey said,
and youll hear things and youll understand things you didnt before because its
the message of Our Lady. If you listen to it through the template of Her messages,
you will understand Her messages. And Im not just challenging you to do that, you
must do this, and youll be shocked at what you hear and what you will learn.
I was surrounded by
men who taught me many things. Reading polished with what these men gave me, life
experiences crowned it, prayer and fasting has spread it from what used to be a
cow pasture, a cow pasture now that is sacred holy ground. No less than where Moses
treaded on Mount Horeb. So, all this gives you the cognition and wisdom to see the
message Our Lady is giving five days before the thousand-year millennium ends. And
She says this, This is the time of graceThrough
your yes for peace and your decision for God, a new possibility for peace is opened
Before the next sentence of Our Lady I read, keep in mind 8% out of 3,500 years,
there were no wars. a new possibility for
peace is opened. Only, Our Lady says. Only
in this way, this century What century? Five days later. The year 2,000. She
says, this century will be for you a time
of peace and well-being. Were seeing something thats never happened in history.
A hundred years of peace. And that doesnt necessarily mean peace in war. It means
being reconciled with God and being blessed. Did it happen? No. Was Our Lady talking
about its going to happen that day, January 1, 2000? No. But something shook up,
something started changing, October 13, 2017. Our Lady is leading us to that. And
Shes leading the entire world to be reconciled with its Creator in a peace in a
way that weve never seen before. But She said in this message, only if you say
yes, only in this way will this happen. And just like in the bird story, it said,
Boy, it is your will.
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[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
Everything is in our
hands. This is a time of graceThrough
your yes for peace and your decision for God, a new possibility for peace is opened.
Only in this way, this century will be, will be, for you a time of peace and well-beingput little newborn Jesus in the
first place in your life and He will lead you on the way of salvation Im
telling you, you have to read. If you dont read, you will
not have the cognition. You cant get it through the media. You cant get it through
the education system. You have to choose to broaden your
mentality which has been narrowed by the educational system and the voices that
we are not to believe any longer.
We wish you Our Lady.
We love you. Goodbye.
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