1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,940 Today, mobs, messiahs, and manipulators. 2 00:00:04,379 --> 00:00:06,839 In this highly charged political season, 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:09,820 the people tend to degenerate into mobs, 4 00:00:10,539 --> 00:00:12,740 candidates pose as messiahs, 5 00:00:13,019 --> 00:00:16,039 and those in factions with powerful interests to protect 6 00:00:16,039 --> 00:00:19,960 do their best to manipulate both the mobs and the messiahs. 7 00:00:20,359 --> 00:00:22,699 Mobs, messiahs, and manipulators. 8 00:00:22,940 --> 00:00:26,079 This is the reality behind the American presidential race, 9 00:00:26,140 --> 00:00:27,820 and few people see it for what it is. 10 00:00:27,820 --> 00:00:33,020 The manipulators try to portray this election process as democracy in action. 11 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:35,780 The people exercising the franchise. 12 00:00:36,619 --> 00:00:39,539 America casting her sacred right, the ballot. 13 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,320 But in practice, we know it is something else again. 14 00:00:43,619 --> 00:00:44,299 What is that something? 15 00:00:44,399 --> 00:00:49,679 It goes to the heart of the age-old triad of mobs, messiahs, and manipulators. 16 00:00:50,119 --> 00:00:52,759 Have you seen the mobs lately, dear listener? 17 00:00:53,539 --> 00:00:55,439 The establishment so hates Donald Trump 18 00:00:55,439 --> 00:00:59,820 that it sends out organized hate groups to harass him and his supporters. 19 00:00:59,820 --> 00:01:04,540 For example, the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 20 00:01:05,540 --> 00:01:10,859 a group called ANSWER, which is an acronym for ACT NOW to Stop War and End Racism. 21 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,400 And then, of course, there's the old standbys, La Rasa and Black Lives Matter. 22 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,719 Remember, these groups use passive-aggressive methods 23 00:01:18,719 --> 00:01:23,239 in order to provoke otherwise peaceful supporters of candidates. 24 00:01:23,939 --> 00:01:26,319 And they do this at large, boisterous rallies. 25 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:27,140 Have you seen them? 26 00:01:27,239 --> 00:01:30,680 They join arms, for example, and go sweeping through the crowds, 27 00:01:30,859 --> 00:01:35,980 knocking people down, looking for someone to respond violently, intentionally doing so. 28 00:01:36,180 --> 00:01:39,099 And then, of course, they'll have film of conservatives' reaction, 29 00:01:39,219 --> 00:01:41,579 which will be looped on progressive propaganda media. 30 00:01:41,579 --> 00:01:45,700 These groups shout obscene and violent slogans. 31 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,879 They try to provoke reactive responses like the one we saw of that ponytailed white male 32 00:01:50,879 --> 00:01:53,920 punching out a Black Lives Matter protester at a Trump rally, right? 33 00:01:54,719 --> 00:02:00,599 Now, these so-called community groups develop provocative strategies like this 34 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:06,400 in order to make their targets, that is, a man or an organization they wish to isolate and demonize, 35 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:11,300 try to make them look violent and abusive while they appear to be innocent victims. 36 00:02:11,580 --> 00:02:15,919 Now, we have observed deliberate stirrings of racial divisiveness, 37 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,719 for example, in the Ferguson, Missouri riots back in August of 2014, 38 00:02:21,180 --> 00:02:24,520 following the shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson. 39 00:02:25,180 --> 00:02:31,180 Now, Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder accused the Ferguson Police Department of racial discrimination 40 00:02:31,180 --> 00:02:33,340 and, quoting from the report, 41 00:02:33,340 --> 00:02:36,879 a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct, unquote. 42 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:42,919 This only provided a license to riot in mobs by the locals in Ferguson. 43 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:47,919 Businesses were looted in Ferguson, vandalized, burned, gunshots were fired, 44 00:02:48,099 --> 00:02:51,020 bottles thrown, including Molotov cocktails at police. 45 00:02:51,860 --> 00:02:59,479 Now, Obama has met with Black Lives Matter leaders coordinating community organization for these kinds of protests. 46 00:02:59,479 --> 00:03:04,419 And we have seen a regular procession of riots and mobs and violence ever since. 47 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:09,000 For example, the shooting of two police officers in St. Louis in March of 2015, 48 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:14,680 the shootings and protests in Baltimore, Maryland, after the death of Freddie Gray in April of 2015, 49 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:19,659 and, of course, the multiple nights of protests and riots by mobs in St. Louis 50 00:03:19,659 --> 00:03:25,360 after the shooting death of Von Derritt Myers Jr. in October of 2014. 51 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:32,560 Now, there's no end in sight to our new national pastime, what I call mob ministry. 52 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:34,860 Yes, mob ministry. 53 00:03:35,219 --> 00:03:38,719 It's the new method of self-expression for the United States of America 54 00:03:38,719 --> 00:03:44,500 as our constitutional mode of self-expression, that is the individual ballot in a free republic, 55 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,759 is increasingly made empty and meaningless in a naked tyranny. 56 00:03:48,759 --> 00:03:55,240 You're going to see more of mobs, not less, in days to come, unless this constitutional republic is restored. 57 00:03:55,719 --> 00:03:58,860 We have all observed how the two major political parties, 58 00:03:59,259 --> 00:04:02,500 at the behest of powerful banking and corporate interests, 59 00:04:02,879 --> 00:04:05,219 which virtually own these political parties, 60 00:04:05,620 --> 00:04:10,479 they have desperately tried to forestall the nominations of the people's choices in the parties, 61 00:04:10,580 --> 00:04:14,180 that is, Donald Trump for Republicans and Bernie Sanders for Democrats. 62 00:04:14,180 --> 00:04:19,519 Never has this arrogant manipulation been so clear for all to see. 63 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:26,699 Mob ministry is actually an ancient, primitive response to the frustration of the popular will. 64 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,379 Steal the land of the people, plunge them into despairing debt, 65 00:04:31,579 --> 00:04:36,759 and you get the bread mobs, the grain mobs in Rome under the Gracchi brothers 66 00:04:36,759 --> 00:04:39,339 during the period of the Republic in Rome. 67 00:04:39,339 --> 00:04:43,800 Repeat essentially the same set of circumstances in France under the monarchy, 68 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,420 presided over by a small, elite aristocracy, 69 00:04:47,740 --> 00:04:50,000 and you get the bloody French Revolution, 70 00:04:50,420 --> 00:04:56,120 with hysterical, hypnotized mobs, which later became known as the Reign of Terror. 71 00:04:56,759 --> 00:04:59,439 Yea, even in our own constitutional republic, 72 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,300 there have been periods of mob ministry, if you will, 73 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:06,360 when the popular will has been frustrated by the powers that be. 74 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,879 The whiskey rebellion in the period of the Articles of Confederation, 75 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,160 leading to the calling of the Constitutional Convention. 76 00:05:14,740 --> 00:05:18,620 Oh, there was the anti-draft riots in New York City during the Civil War, 77 00:05:18,779 --> 00:05:22,060 when a mandatory military draft was first instituted. 78 00:05:22,199 --> 00:05:28,259 And then, of course, there were the anti-war protests and riots by mobs in the 60s, 79 00:05:28,339 --> 00:05:30,740 and, of course, the race riots of the same period, 80 00:05:30,860 --> 00:05:33,839 especially after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 81 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:38,240 Circumstances are such in this presidential election year 82 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:44,800 that the whole country is seemingly gearing up for mobs and riots and protests this summer 83 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:49,459 at the party conventions, especially the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio, 84 00:05:49,620 --> 00:05:53,759 since Donald Trump has become such a lightning rod of hatred and frustration 85 00:05:53,759 --> 00:05:59,040 for not only the Republican establishment, but also far-left progressive groups. 86 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,420 For example, Cleveland's police department is literally gearing up, 87 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,800 buying riot gear for their officers, armored vehicles for the streets, 88 00:06:07,199 --> 00:06:11,660 special training in crowd control and rules of engagement for a number of weapons, 89 00:06:12,060 --> 00:06:13,600 including those of deadly force. 90 00:06:14,060 --> 00:06:17,139 Community organizers across the country are also busy 91 00:06:17,139 --> 00:06:21,420 training protesters in the fine art of passive-aggressive provocation. 92 00:06:21,980 --> 00:06:23,899 Make no mistake about this, listener. 93 00:06:23,899 --> 00:06:29,660 The disciples of Saul Alinsky, author of the Handbook for Progressives, 94 00:06:30,019 --> 00:06:31,800 that is, Rules for Radicals. 95 00:06:32,060 --> 00:06:36,660 They are alive and well, and they're practicing his methods, 96 00:06:36,819 --> 00:06:39,560 Alinsky's methods for achieving social change. 97 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,339 They are the social justice warriors, of course. 98 00:06:42,939 --> 00:06:45,160 These are the manipulators in the trenches, 99 00:06:45,620 --> 00:06:48,180 the first lieutenants in the army of the establishment. 100 00:06:48,860 --> 00:06:50,399 Obama was such an officer, 101 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:53,560 a community organizer in the mold of Saul Alinsky. 102 00:06:54,199 --> 00:06:58,680 And now, ironically, Obama commands a master seat of power 103 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,240 for progressivism as literally the commander-in-chief. 104 00:07:02,959 --> 00:07:07,240 And the respective political parties are too busy plotting 105 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,980 how they can minimize the popular rage against them on the one hand 106 00:07:10,980 --> 00:07:13,660 and still manipulate the nomination process, 107 00:07:14,180 --> 00:07:17,060 getting their candidate on the other hand. 108 00:07:17,060 --> 00:07:24,279 Oh, dear listener, we have ahead of us mobs, messiahs, and manipulators this summer. 109 00:07:24,540 --> 00:07:27,819 All of these forces will converge in Cleveland this summer. 110 00:07:28,180 --> 00:07:30,899 The potential for mob ministry is great. 111 00:07:31,459 --> 00:07:35,019 This is because of the forces that create mobs out of the masses. 112 00:07:35,439 --> 00:07:38,100 There are four forces, historically, 113 00:07:38,399 --> 00:07:42,100 that create mobs out of the masses of the people. 114 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:46,920 So, number one, of the four forces that create mobs, 115 00:07:47,279 --> 00:07:50,420 there is number one, unmet legitimate grievances. 116 00:07:50,860 --> 00:07:52,560 Unmet legitimate grievances. 117 00:07:53,019 --> 00:07:56,560 This is what I referred to earlier as the frustration of the popular will. 118 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:03,100 Hunger, privation, tyranny, war, brutal oppression, and threat to private property. 119 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:05,220 These are all classical grievances, 120 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,680 which, when gone unredressed, turn masses into mobs. 121 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,980 And it's the reason for our First Amendment, too, 122 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:14,519 where the Founding Fathers wisely sought in the First Amendment 123 00:08:14,519 --> 00:08:19,680 that we have the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances, 124 00:08:19,899 --> 00:08:22,220 because when they go unmet, there are mobs. 125 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,980 Secondly, the second force creating mobs from the masses. 126 00:08:27,579 --> 00:08:30,459 Number two, unreconcilable polarization. 127 00:08:31,959 --> 00:08:33,460 Unreconcilable polarization. 128 00:08:33,460 --> 00:08:39,220 When the two sides are either incapable or unwilling to come to terms and compromise, 129 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:46,279 those disadvantaged and those without power turn to their only perceived recourse, 130 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:48,539 which is violence in mob action. 131 00:08:49,340 --> 00:08:51,840 The situation is usually one of extreme differences, 132 00:08:51,980 --> 00:08:56,019 the only solution for which is the force of arms and or violent protest, 133 00:08:56,580 --> 00:08:59,120 violence in mob action by the people. 134 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:04,399 Third force that creates mobs out of the masses 135 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:08,879 is the appearance of a messiah to transform a mob, 136 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,559 the masses into a mob, the appearance of a messiah. 137 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,399 The energy and power of the masses is generally unfocused 138 00:09:15,399 --> 00:09:19,059 and far too diffuse to be of any consequence. 139 00:09:19,340 --> 00:09:23,580 However, one man, a charismatic, gifted, and persuasive man, 140 00:09:23,580 --> 00:09:26,019 can take that energy and power of the masses 141 00:09:26,019 --> 00:09:30,039 and focus and direct it in a particular direction to make it effective. 142 00:09:31,039 --> 00:09:36,460 So, the fourth force, then, that helps to create mobs out of masses, 143 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,399 number four, is the presence of manipulators behind the scenes 144 00:09:40,399 --> 00:09:42,759 to direct the messiah and the mob. 145 00:09:43,019 --> 00:09:47,899 All too often, men with other agendas than that of the mob and the messiah particularly 146 00:09:47,899 --> 00:09:51,279 combine to manipulate those forces for their own ends. 147 00:09:51,580 --> 00:09:53,240 This was true in the trial of Jesus. 148 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:57,580 Look at the Sanhedrin or the Russian Revolution, the Maoist-Chinese Revolution, 149 00:09:57,759 --> 00:10:03,419 even the mobs of the Vietnam War protests of the 60s in the United States of America. 150 00:10:03,879 --> 00:10:05,820 We thought we were protesting the war, 151 00:10:06,220 --> 00:10:10,379 but it is now proudly acknowledged by radicals in groups like the SDS, 152 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,179 the Students for a Democratic Society, 153 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:16,639 that they were being coached and partially financed by foreign Marxists. 154 00:10:16,639 --> 00:10:25,340 Well, these four forces historians have discerned are present whenever the masses are transformed into mobs, 155 00:10:25,419 --> 00:10:28,879 and they are all extant in the United States of America today, 156 00:10:29,500 --> 00:10:35,179 presently converging to transform the American masses into mobs in very short order. 157 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:39,440 And you will see this transpire over the course of the summer during the party conventions. 158 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,539 There will be pro-Trump rallies and supporters in the streets in Cleveland. 159 00:10:43,539 --> 00:10:49,320 There will be anti-Trump mobs and protesters in the streets at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, 160 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,860 and they will all do battle with one another and the police. 161 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,419 This may be reprised at the Democratic Convention as well in Philadelphia. 162 00:10:57,980 --> 00:11:02,720 The question then becomes, where will you be in the mob, dear listener? 163 00:11:03,139 --> 00:11:04,820 Where will you be in the mob? 164 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:06,139 There is no such thing. 165 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,299 Remember, O Christian, there is no such thing as a Christian mob. 166 00:11:09,299 --> 00:11:10,620 That's an oxymoron. 167 00:11:10,899 --> 00:11:14,159 Have nothing to do with mobs this summer or at any time. 168 00:11:14,779 --> 00:11:18,740 If you find yourself, O Christian, in a crowd that's turning into a mob, 169 00:11:18,919 --> 00:11:21,139 get out, flee, run. 170 00:11:21,620 --> 00:11:24,120 Not only is there no Christian mob qua mob, 171 00:11:24,379 --> 00:11:29,320 but the thinking that leads to mob behavior is sinful in and of itself. 172 00:11:29,879 --> 00:11:31,779 There is no de-individuation. 173 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,159 We'll be getting into that concept here shortly. 174 00:11:34,159 --> 00:11:36,860 But there is no de-individuation. 175 00:11:37,039 --> 00:11:41,940 That is, you do not become an un-individual before the living God as you do in a mob. 176 00:11:42,399 --> 00:11:47,659 You are responsible for your behavior, and God will hold you responsible for it. 177 00:11:47,860 --> 00:11:55,759 There is no anonymity before the omnipresent, omniscient God who made you as there is in mobs, 178 00:11:55,980 --> 00:11:57,159 anonymity in mobs. 179 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,340 So pray for the peace of our land in this presidential cycle. 180 00:12:01,340 --> 00:12:06,740 May we choose our leaders based upon the policy of magistrates and not the passion of mobs. 181 00:12:07,539 --> 00:12:10,779 There is a psychology to mob mentality. 182 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,480 Be careful, watchful for it. 183 00:12:14,059 --> 00:12:18,840 There is a psychology to the application of mob ministry in America. 184 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:24,679 Consistent characteristics manifest themselves wherever mobs congregate to burn, kill, and destroy. 185 00:12:25,179 --> 00:12:26,360 What is that psychology? 186 00:12:26,799 --> 00:12:28,159 Listen closely, dear listener. 187 00:12:28,159 --> 00:12:33,399 The primary phenomenon in mob behavior is called de-individuation. 188 00:12:33,820 --> 00:12:36,320 Psychologists call it de-individuation. 189 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:41,539 And this is a situation in which the individual loses his sense of self-awareness. 190 00:12:42,179 --> 00:12:46,340 He is less likely to follow normal restraints and inhibitions, 191 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:53,580 and more likely to lose his sense of individual identity in the identity of the group, the mob. 192 00:12:54,059 --> 00:12:54,980 He's part of a group. 193 00:12:54,980 --> 00:12:58,080 He is black and with others for whom black lives matter. 194 00:12:58,539 --> 00:13:01,820 He is part of a group that knows its history and will make America great again. 195 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,059 He is part of a group, a mob, La Rasa, the race, 196 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:10,059 who for the race will have everything for those outside the race, nothing, as is the motto of La Rasa. 197 00:13:10,419 --> 00:13:15,799 Or he may be part of an oppressed, misunderstood gender minority in solidarity 198 00:13:15,799 --> 00:13:19,679 with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered persons everywhere. 199 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:27,159 So, one person in a large group is moved by this emotional excitement leading to behaviors 200 00:13:27,159 --> 00:13:30,759 that he would not engage in if left alone. 201 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:37,580 In mobs, dear listener, being swept up in a large mob leads to a greater likelihood of violence 202 00:13:37,580 --> 00:13:41,100 due to two primary characteristics of mobs. 203 00:13:41,179 --> 00:13:43,340 There are two primary characteristics of mobs. 204 00:13:43,340 --> 00:13:50,059 Number one, the mob manifests a diffusion of responsibility, a diffusion of responsibility. 205 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,159 This is unchristian, dear listener. 206 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,960 Individuals in a mob believe they cannot be held responsible for violent behavior 207 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,899 when part of a mob, because the violent action is the groups and not their own. 208 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:04,840 It's that old, hey, everyone was doing it syndrome. 209 00:14:05,340 --> 00:14:07,759 And secondly, second characteristic of a mob, 210 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:11,220 the mob acts under the cover of physical anonymity. 211 00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:15,320 Number two, the mob acts under the cover of physical anonymity. 212 00:14:15,580 --> 00:14:19,179 When people feel their behavior cannot be traced back to them as individuals, 213 00:14:19,419 --> 00:14:23,620 they're far more likely to break social norms and engage in violence. 214 00:14:24,179 --> 00:14:28,580 This is especially true when a high emotional pitch has been achieved 215 00:14:28,580 --> 00:14:31,399 through the manipulation of a messiah-like figure. 216 00:14:31,940 --> 00:14:35,740 So, when the forces that turn masses into mobs converge 217 00:14:35,740 --> 00:14:38,580 with the phenomenon of de-individuation, 218 00:14:39,059 --> 00:14:42,720 and that includes the diffusion of responsibility and physical anonymity, 219 00:14:43,019 --> 00:14:46,500 well, then you will have the magic of violent mobs 220 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:48,419 that we saw in Ferguson, Missouri, 221 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,620 that we see now at Trump rallies, 222 00:14:50,799 --> 00:14:54,039 and which we will see in Cleveland this summer, guaranteed. 223 00:14:55,039 --> 00:14:58,840 Do not underestimate the power of mob mentality 224 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:00,980 to affect you, too, dear listener. 225 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:02,340 You don't have to be out in the streets 226 00:15:02,340 --> 00:15:04,639 storming the barricades and ramparts of the police. 227 00:15:04,639 --> 00:15:07,179 You don't have to be looting and burning down a local business 228 00:15:07,179 --> 00:15:08,200 to be part of a mob. 229 00:15:08,539 --> 00:15:12,539 It is a prior mob mentality that leads to mob behavior. 230 00:15:13,059 --> 00:15:17,360 It is mob thinking that comes long before it's linked to mob action. 231 00:15:18,059 --> 00:15:22,039 Such prior identifications, as I have detailed for you, 232 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,679 set the conditions for participation in the mob 233 00:15:25,679 --> 00:15:29,100 when you are finally placed in it, dear listener. 234 00:15:29,100 --> 00:15:33,000 Other community street activists and organizers 235 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,899 understand this phenomenon very well, 236 00:15:36,059 --> 00:15:39,720 even if they can't articulate it, as I have for you at this time. 237 00:15:40,220 --> 00:15:42,779 This is why all across the major cities of America, 238 00:15:42,919 --> 00:15:44,679 men and women like Barack Obama 239 00:15:44,679 --> 00:15:48,460 are busy training groups of people in mob techniques 240 00:15:48,460 --> 00:15:50,460 that will be employed this summer, 241 00:15:50,559 --> 00:15:51,580 not only in Cleveland, 242 00:15:51,580 --> 00:15:54,659 but wherever opportunity for social change 243 00:15:54,659 --> 00:15:57,200 by social justice warriors presents itself, 244 00:15:57,399 --> 00:16:00,059 as happened in Ferguson, Missouri. 245 00:16:01,059 --> 00:16:03,860 No one knew in June of 2014, for example, 246 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,059 that Officer Wilson would shoot Darren Brown, 247 00:16:06,299 --> 00:16:09,360 but community organizers and race hustlers 248 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,779 wasted no time in portraying it as a racial incident. 249 00:16:13,019 --> 00:16:15,679 They converged upon the scene and propagandized 250 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:17,860 the party line into every microphone and camera 251 00:16:17,860 --> 00:16:18,600 put in their face. 252 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,580 The forces were already at work 253 00:16:20,580 --> 00:16:21,860 and the masses in Ferguson 254 00:16:21,860 --> 00:16:23,259 were transformed into mobs 255 00:16:23,259 --> 00:16:24,899 in the twinkling of an eye. 256 00:16:25,679 --> 00:16:28,460 In this regard, America must also be aware 257 00:16:28,460 --> 00:16:31,500 of the role that the Messiah plays 258 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:33,980 in mobs, messiahs, and manipulators. 259 00:16:34,179 --> 00:16:36,539 I use messiah here in its figurative term, 260 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,419 not literally referring to Jesus Christ, 261 00:16:38,539 --> 00:16:41,299 but those who are leaders and deliverers 262 00:16:41,299 --> 00:16:42,659 of the social masses. 263 00:16:43,340 --> 00:16:45,799 The Messiah figure is the charismatic person 264 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:48,440 who arises to lead and save the group. 265 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,919 One who will take them to the promised land. 266 00:16:51,279 --> 00:16:53,240 The one who will make their Black Lives Matter. 267 00:16:53,580 --> 00:16:55,580 The one who will make America great again. 268 00:16:55,860 --> 00:16:57,600 The one who will bring everything to the race. 269 00:16:57,879 --> 00:17:00,519 The one who will mainstream their gender identity. 270 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:02,740 And as I pointed out earlier, 271 00:17:03,159 --> 00:17:05,920 the kinetic energy of the masses is only potential 272 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,299 until it is ignited and directed 273 00:17:08,299 --> 00:17:09,720 towards a goal and a target. 274 00:17:10,259 --> 00:17:12,339 The leader, messiah, does this. 275 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,880 He is able to articulate their grievances, 276 00:17:15,279 --> 00:17:17,099 to set a clear goal and direction, 277 00:17:17,099 --> 00:17:19,740 and tell the group what they must do to get there. 278 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:22,759 And Donald Trump is exhibit A in this regard. 279 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,920 He has articulated the grievances of most Americans. 280 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:28,279 Things like there are no borders anymore. 281 00:17:28,559 --> 00:17:30,440 There are no jobs in America anymore. 282 00:17:30,740 --> 00:17:32,460 And America is the patsy of the world 283 00:17:32,460 --> 00:17:35,500 being pushed around by bullies far inferior to America. 284 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,900 Trump has also set a clear goal and direction. 285 00:17:39,259 --> 00:17:41,039 That is, make America great again. 286 00:17:41,279 --> 00:17:44,680 What an ingenious political and campaign phrase, 287 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:45,099 isn't it? 288 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,160 And Trump is also busy telling us how to get there. 289 00:17:48,619 --> 00:17:50,339 For example, we need to build a wall 290 00:17:50,339 --> 00:17:51,700 that Mexico will pay for. 291 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:53,539 We need to bring American companies 292 00:17:53,539 --> 00:17:54,539 back into the country. 293 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:56,980 And we need to make American interest 294 00:17:56,980 --> 00:18:01,339 top priority in a tough, common-sense foreign policy. 295 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:04,599 None of this demands mob activity, however. 296 00:18:04,859 --> 00:18:06,779 And I'm not saying that Trump is provoking 297 00:18:06,779 --> 00:18:08,500 and advocating mob behavior. 298 00:18:08,559 --> 00:18:09,880 In fact, it's quite the opposite. 299 00:18:10,180 --> 00:18:12,339 He's tamping it down whenever it comes up. 300 00:18:12,339 --> 00:18:14,200 But the potential is there. 301 00:18:14,539 --> 00:18:17,619 And more unscrupulous men have taken advantage 302 00:18:17,619 --> 00:18:20,519 of this potential of the masses into a mob, 303 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:23,140 and they have unleashed it in mob action. 304 00:18:23,819 --> 00:18:27,140 Robespierre, for example, actualized the potential energy 305 00:18:27,140 --> 00:18:29,359 of the French masses into the mob action 306 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,839 of the reign of terror in the French Revolution in 1789 307 00:18:32,839 --> 00:18:35,720 that killed hundreds of thousands of French aristocrats 308 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:36,359 and commoners. 309 00:18:36,819 --> 00:18:37,180 V.I. 310 00:18:37,220 --> 00:18:40,400 Lenin actualized the potential energy of the Russian masses 311 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,700 into the mob action of the Red Terror 312 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:45,460 of the Russian Revolution in 1917. 313 00:18:45,460 --> 00:18:48,920 And Mao Zedong actualized the potential energy 314 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,000 of Chinese student masses into the mob action 315 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,640 of the so-called Cultural Revolution in the 1960s 316 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,160 that killed millions of Chinese. 317 00:18:58,039 --> 00:19:00,839 Messiahs mobilize masses into mobs. 318 00:19:01,019 --> 00:19:01,960 That's what they do. 319 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,380 In America, Daniel Shays mobilized the masses 320 00:19:05,380 --> 00:19:10,160 into the mob of the Whiskey Rebellion in 1786 and 1787. 321 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:14,279 In 1831, Nat Turner, an articulate, educated, 322 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,160 charismatic slave in Virginia, 323 00:19:16,579 --> 00:19:19,059 mobilized the masses of slaves in his region 324 00:19:19,059 --> 00:19:22,160 into the mob that swept through the Virginia countryside, 325 00:19:22,420 --> 00:19:25,799 killing 13 men, 18 women, and 24 children. 326 00:19:25,799 --> 00:19:30,099 And recently, dear listener, Dr. Martin Luther King 327 00:19:30,099 --> 00:19:34,019 serves as an example of another closely related phenomenon 328 00:19:34,019 --> 00:19:38,180 when we come to Messiahs, another closely related phenomenon, 329 00:19:38,519 --> 00:19:42,940 and that is martyrs mobilize the masses into mobs. 330 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,200 Martyrs mobilize the masses into mobs. 331 00:19:46,579 --> 00:19:49,480 Dr. King was by any measure an American Messiah figure, 332 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:50,059 was he not? 333 00:19:50,220 --> 00:19:53,079 He did not advocate mob action or violence, 334 00:19:53,079 --> 00:19:55,599 though, in any way, shape, or form. 335 00:19:56,039 --> 00:19:58,220 His tactics were peaceful demonstration 336 00:19:58,220 --> 00:20:00,799 and passive civil disobedience. 337 00:20:01,039 --> 00:20:03,480 And as a consequence of his charismatic personality, 338 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,180 inspiring rhetoric, and fearless leadership, 339 00:20:06,380 --> 00:20:09,660 Dr. King became a Messiah figure for his community, 340 00:20:09,859 --> 00:20:10,779 yea, the nation. 341 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,680 Now, while he could have actualized the potential of mob action 342 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,519 in the black community at almost any point 343 00:20:17,519 --> 00:20:18,759 in the civil rights movement, 344 00:20:19,099 --> 00:20:22,579 Dr. King strenuously dissuaded any move to do so. 345 00:20:22,579 --> 00:20:26,839 But his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 346 00:20:26,839 --> 00:20:29,140 changed all of that, didn't it? 347 00:20:29,740 --> 00:20:34,259 Every factor articulated for you was present at that moment in America. 348 00:20:34,539 --> 00:20:37,720 There were unmet legitimate grievances in the black community. 349 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,299 There was unreconcilable polarization between white and black. 350 00:20:41,660 --> 00:20:45,240 There was the appearance of a Messiah figure, that is Dr. King. 351 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,539 And there was also the presence of manipulators behind the scenes 352 00:20:48,539 --> 00:20:50,480 to direct the Messiah and the mob. 353 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,619 And it was arguable that the assassin, James Earl Ray, 354 00:20:54,740 --> 00:20:57,960 did not act alone, but in concert with other conspirators. 355 00:20:58,079 --> 00:20:59,960 That is still left unsolved, however. 356 00:21:00,619 --> 00:21:03,779 But King's assassination turned him into a martyr 357 00:21:03,779 --> 00:21:04,980 for the civil rights movement, 358 00:21:05,140 --> 00:21:07,619 and it also sparked what has become known 359 00:21:07,619 --> 00:21:09,940 as the race riots of the 1960s. 360 00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:13,680 The summer of 1968 became known as the long, hot summer, 361 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,619 owing to the waves of riots in the black community 362 00:21:16,619 --> 00:21:20,119 that brought death, fire, and chaos to American cities 363 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,660 like Watts, Detroit, and the nation's capital. 364 00:21:23,220 --> 00:21:25,420 The case of Dr. King is exhibit A, 365 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,380 that martyrs mobilized the masses into mobs. 366 00:21:28,859 --> 00:21:31,240 Martyrs mobilized the masses into mobs, 367 00:21:31,299 --> 00:21:33,799 even though that was the last thing Dr. King would have wanted. 368 00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:39,319 Yet another corollary of the Messiah in principle in mobs, 369 00:21:39,319 --> 00:21:41,700 that is, messiahs and manipulators, 370 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,660 is that anti-messiahs mobilize the masses into mobs as well. 371 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,980 Anti-messiahs mobilize the masses into mobs. 372 00:21:50,319 --> 00:21:52,799 The very same person who is perceived to be a messiah 373 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:55,740 by one mass of people capable of being turned into a mob 374 00:21:55,740 --> 00:21:59,220 can be perceived to be an anti-messiah 375 00:21:59,220 --> 00:22:00,779 by that group's opponents, 376 00:22:00,779 --> 00:22:03,200 who perceive that messiah to be a threat 377 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:04,279 to them and their interests. 378 00:22:04,279 --> 00:22:08,339 This is exactly the case materializing before our eyes 379 00:22:08,339 --> 00:22:10,200 in reaction to Donald Trump 380 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,400 by groups like Black Lives Matter 381 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,619 and the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights. 382 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,920 As we speak, community organizers from groups such as these 383 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,039 are preparing and training their masses 384 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:25,339 to morph into mobs this summer in Cleveland 385 00:22:25,339 --> 00:22:27,539 at the Republican National Convention. 386 00:22:28,259 --> 00:22:29,420 And if we are not careful, 387 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,160 there will be pitch battle in the streets 388 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,660 between the supporters of Trump and these radical groups. 389 00:22:36,079 --> 00:22:39,700 The masses are preparing to mobilize into mobs. 390 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,140 What are we to do then, dear Christian? 391 00:22:42,779 --> 00:22:45,299 How should we respond to the hype, hysteria, 392 00:22:45,380 --> 00:22:47,240 and potential chaos inherent 393 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,960 in a summer of mobs, messiahs, and manipulators? 394 00:22:50,579 --> 00:22:53,240 One of my favorite examples of one who knew precisely 395 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,900 how to handle mobs, messiahs, and manipulators 396 00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:58,539 is the Apostle Paul from the book of Acts 397 00:22:58,539 --> 00:22:59,380 in the New Testament. 398 00:22:59,380 --> 00:23:02,880 Paul faced many mobs as he preached the gospel 399 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,440 across the Mediterranean basin. 400 00:23:04,980 --> 00:23:06,819 For example, in the city of Lystra, 401 00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:09,059 in the peninsula of Asia Minor, 402 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,519 Paul and Barnabas healed a crippled man in Lystra. 403 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,720 When the pagan crowd saw what he had done, 404 00:23:14,779 --> 00:23:15,819 they repeatedly shouted, 405 00:23:16,019 --> 00:23:18,240 the gods have come down to us in human form. 406 00:23:18,660 --> 00:23:20,160 So enthralled did they become, 407 00:23:20,279 --> 00:23:24,160 thinking of Paul and Barnabas in messianic terms, 408 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:26,740 that they were preparing to offer sacrifices 409 00:23:26,740 --> 00:23:29,019 of bulls and victory garlands to them. 410 00:23:29,460 --> 00:23:32,059 But instead, Paul preached the gospel to them, 411 00:23:32,420 --> 00:23:34,180 revealing the true God to them. 412 00:23:34,599 --> 00:23:37,980 Even then, Luke tells us in Acts, 413 00:23:38,079 --> 00:23:38,880 even with these words, 414 00:23:38,940 --> 00:23:40,380 they had difficulty keeping the crowds 415 00:23:40,380 --> 00:23:41,599 from sacrificing to them. 416 00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:45,000 Here, indeed, is the Messiah component of the mob 417 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,660 being swept away in great emotion 418 00:23:46,660 --> 00:23:49,039 over perceived deliverers and saviors. 419 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:52,680 But the fickleness of the mob is also manifest here in Lystra. 420 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:54,500 The Bible says, 421 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,579 then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium 422 00:23:57,579 --> 00:23:59,420 and won the mob over. 423 00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:02,380 They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, 424 00:24:02,539 --> 00:24:03,460 thinking he was dead. 425 00:24:03,980 --> 00:24:05,779 How quickly the worm turns. 426 00:24:06,180 --> 00:24:07,940 Behold the behavior of the mob. 427 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,559 As Churchill said of the Germans, 428 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:10,980 one moment they're at your feet, 429 00:24:11,059 --> 00:24:12,559 the next moment they are at your throat. 430 00:24:13,019 --> 00:24:15,200 The mob in Lystra is the ministry, 431 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:16,779 in the ministry of Paul, 432 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,160 displayed all of the characteristics 433 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,480 given you in mobs, dear listener. 434 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,660 In the Bible, listener, 435 00:24:24,259 --> 00:24:26,039 mobs are never a good thing. 436 00:24:26,519 --> 00:24:28,980 The mob wants to rape the male angels 437 00:24:28,980 --> 00:24:30,680 in Lot's household in Sodom. 438 00:24:31,019 --> 00:24:33,779 The pagan mobs are transported in messianic passion 439 00:24:33,779 --> 00:24:35,440 for Zeus and Hermes and Lystra, 440 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,019 and then later for the pagan goddess Artemis 441 00:24:38,019 --> 00:24:40,279 of the Ephesians when Paul was in Ephesus. 442 00:24:40,579 --> 00:24:43,859 The mobs seek to kill Paul in Lystra and Ephesus, 443 00:24:43,859 --> 00:24:45,900 and then finally at the temple in Jerusalem. 444 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,980 Oftentimes, Paul barely escapes with his life. 445 00:24:49,740 --> 00:24:51,500 Of course, the epitome of mob behavior 446 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:53,920 is in the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ, 447 00:24:54,519 --> 00:24:57,140 provoked and instigated by the Jewish Sanhedrin. 448 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:58,619 These are the manipulators. 449 00:24:59,319 --> 00:25:01,819 The mob experiences the de-individuation 450 00:25:01,819 --> 00:25:02,779 of which we spoke, 451 00:25:02,940 --> 00:25:05,640 as each individual finds himself anonymous, 452 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,559 not responsible for behavior as an individual. 453 00:25:11,180 --> 00:25:12,680 And of course, they cry repeatedly, 454 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,000 crucify him, crucify him. 455 00:25:15,519 --> 00:25:18,980 Friend, there is no such thing as a Christian mob. 456 00:25:19,220 --> 00:25:21,359 Have nothing to do with them this summer 457 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:22,839 or at any time. 458 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,180 If you find yourself in a crowd 459 00:25:25,180 --> 00:25:26,819 that's turning into a mob, 460 00:25:27,380 --> 00:25:30,059 get out, flee, run, go the other way. 461 00:25:30,500 --> 00:25:32,660 Not only is there no Christian mob, 462 00:25:32,740 --> 00:25:35,539 qua mob, but the thinking that leads to mob behavior 463 00:25:35,539 --> 00:25:37,140 is sinful in and of itself. 464 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,680 There is no de-individuation before the living God. 465 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,380 You are responsible for your behavior, 466 00:25:43,799 --> 00:25:46,200 and God will hold you responsible for it. 467 00:25:46,460 --> 00:25:48,240 And there is no anonymity 468 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,259 before the omnipotent, omniscient, 469 00:25:51,539 --> 00:25:53,619 omnipresent God who made you. 470 00:25:54,099 --> 00:25:55,339 So, dear listener, 471 00:25:55,559 --> 00:25:57,000 pray for the peace of our land 472 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,539 in this presidential cycle. 473 00:25:59,180 --> 00:26:00,559 May we choose our leaders 474 00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:02,640 based upon the policy of magistrates 475 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,000 and not the passion of mobs. 476 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,079 This is Pastor David Bass 477 00:26:07,079 --> 00:26:09,759 at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. 478 00:26:10,220 --> 00:26:12,960 We meet for holy worship at 10 a.m. Sunday 479 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,619 at 101 4th Street 480 00:26:14,619 --> 00:26:16,420 on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. 481 00:26:16,859 --> 00:26:19,460 Call us at 523-0196 482 00:26:19,460 --> 00:26:21,039 for feedback and more information. 483 00:26:21,460 --> 00:26:23,759 523-0196. 484 00:26:23,759 --> 00:26:38,039 Don'tcla истор факuralist in rural half. 485 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:39,059 Thank you. 486 00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:39,220 Thank you. 487 00:26:39,460 --> 00:26:40,099 Thank you. 488 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:40,400 Thank you. 489 00:26:40,460 --> 00:26:40,559 Thanks. 490 00:26:40,619 --> 00:26:41,160 You. 491 00:26:41,339 --> 00:26:42,799 You. 492 00:26:42,859 --> 00:26:43,500 You. 493 00:26:43,579 --> 00:26:45,559 You. 494 00:26:45,559 --> 00:26:45,759 You. 495 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:46,400 You.