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realize the MEANING of this. Let's pause here, in this chain of
events, to make the meaning PLAIN.
Because our nations--America, Britain, Canada, Australia,
South Africa, etc.--have allowed GERMAN RATIONALISM to permeate our
educational institutions--because our peoples have turned their
backs on GOD'S LAWS and RIGHT WAYS OF LIFE--because we have
accepted and continued in the BABYLONIAN WAY of religious belief
and practise, even calling it "Christianity"--the Babylonian way of
economics, business, education, society--and have forsaken our GOD,
His TRUTH, and HIS WAYS. God has foretold, in His PROPHECIES, that
He is going to PUNISH our nations until we repent and TURN TO HIM--
that we may find PEACE, real happiness, joy, and abundant living!
One way God is beginning now to PUNISH us for our own
good is recorded in Leviticus 26. Most prophecies have a DUAL
application--and this is no exception. It applies to what God did
do, 2500 years ago to ancient Israel, but only as a TYPE of what He
will do to us NOW. But here is the prophecy RIGHT NOW being
fulfilled by these events: "If ye will not yet for all this hearken
unto Me, then I will punish you...And I will break the pride of
your power" (Lev. 26:18, 19).
We have been proud nations. The U.S. and British Common-
wealth have owned MOST of the world's wealth and developed
resources--more than all other nations combined; we dominated the
world; when attacked, we thrashed our enemies; we commanded the
world's respect.
Let me cite you an example. When U.S. President Woodrow
Wilson was running for re-election in 1916, he had been sending the
German Kaiser several notes asking the Kaiser to kindly stop
torpedoing and sinking American ships. But there was nothing back
of his notes to convince the Kaiser he meant it. The German subs
kept on sinking American ships until they finally forced U.S. entry
into the first world war in April, 1917.
During the election campaign in 1916, I stood less than
ten feet from former President Theodore Roosevelt while he
commented on Mr. Wilson's many notes. This, almost word for word,
is what he said:
"If I were still President, I would have sent the Kaiser
a note telling him to stop sinking American ships--just one note!
--and the Kaiser would have KNOWN THAT I MEANT IT! I was President
for seven and a half years. I did send the Kaiser a note once. At
that time a German battleship was steaming toward Manila Bay. I
sent the Kaiser a note. The German battleship did not stop. I
quickly sent another note--but I didn't send the second note to the
Kaiser. I sent it to Admiral Dewey, ordering the U.S. Navy to
drive that German battleship back to Germany. The Kaiser learned
that I MEANT IT!"
Until World War I, Americans and British had PRIDE in
their POWER! But God said He would break that pride. Now continue
the chain of these significant events: