Bricks or Stones?

rabbi lapin how are you sir good to see you good to see you the rabbi was when was this - three months ago and you handed me a CD that you made the tower of power correct and you live in Seattle and you came out and you're on the set and you said Glen I don't even know why I'm giving this to you I just felt like I had to give this to you I started listening to it and I told you this I couldn't believe it because I was doing research on ancient Babylon oh my goodness and all of these things and and I look at this and it is the answer of many of the things that I was looking for the Tower of Babel let's start up here this on this chalkboard here I've written the things that I remember from the story Great King says let's build a tower why is that a problem who's the king why the tower well I mean the the important thing is exactly what you said a few moments ago and that is that we're living now in a in a time where it's literally the first generation in history where people consider themselves educated and yet are biblically illiterate right I mean they are pundit boy who historically illiterate in every possible way but I imagine people who are the heirs of Western civilization not knowing the foundation of Western civilization the people are on television all over the place probably don't even know how many books in the five books of Moses so we're talking about a remarkable fact which people have dismissed the Bible as some obsolete collection of legends about a long-forgotten nation even if it let's just do this let's say I don't know Michael Moore is watching and so let's just say Michael's out there and he's you know got Cheetos all over himself and he's like let's just look at the legend itself I don't believe it's a legend but what is it teaching a great king says let's build a tower what's wrong with that well a few things are wrong with it first of all he didn't actually say according to chapter 11 in Genesis and these nine verses really reveal this dark dark secret that lies at the at the at the the deepest recesses of the human soul which is our susceptibility to become slaves it's there it it's ready it can pounce at any moment and transform us into serfs and and sure enough these nine verses in Chapter 11 of Genesis as you say the King Nimrod doesn't say let's build a tower he starts off with this extraordinary pronouncement hey everybody let's build bricks and then he says let's build a city in a town now ordinarily people would say hey let's build a city in the tower shining city on the hill said John Winthrop and and people would say how you gonna do it well we'll make bricks no here the key thing was let's make bricks and what's more he's not identified necessarily or early as a king he's first of all identified as a hunter back in chapter 10 verses 8 through 10 here's the key thing about that Glenn and everybody was hunting right today it's just a good guys hunt but back then everybody hunted that's how you ate why on earth with this one man Nimrod be identified as a hunter because he hunted not animals he hunted people not to kill him he hunted people to seduce them into becoming his subjects and to allow him to become their master okay so he said Nimrod a great hunter of man he says let's build bricks and then let's build a city why did he say let's build bricks first what are the bricks represent okay bricks are are really important things here later on in the five books of Moses ancient Jewish wisdom highlights the fact that an altar an altar to God must not be built of bricks right it has to be built with stone why because this tension between bricks and stones is absolutely crucial bricks and stones are a biblical metaphor for the way people should be stones and the way we are easily pulled to becoming living Rick's I live in Connecticut stone walls are so beautiful because they're yes because everything is different and it takes a real artist to be able to put them all together that's so you're saying that the stones are representative people right - there are difference between bricks and stones number one every brick is the same as every other brick that's the whole point they're totally interchangeable if you want to turn people into bricks you are able to turn them into interchangeable cogs that can just be plugged around society the second thing about bricks is they're made by man stones are each Natale unique so when we have as a tradition in Western civilization that man is created in the image of God what it really means is that just as God is unique so is every single human being unique just like a stone don't allow other people to turn you into bricks retain the personality of devoted for which you were created it's the difference between yes I can and yes we can yes exactly right okay so so Nimrod is a guy and and he says we want to I'm gonna build I'm gonna build bricks was it was it a real religious society because this is right after the great flood everybody's what wiped off and everybody's scattered their own way they all have their own language right many different language and they're all and they're all worshiping God yes and Nimrod comes and he is there something about you know he had a he had a new idea right tell me about the new idea the new idea is and it's presented as the the Babel blueprint this is not a long forgotten story this is actually something which is as relevant today as it will be tomorrow as it was when Robespierre was conducting the French Revolution the principle is always the same the two competing ways of organizing human society one is the Abraham vision of individual independence in the individual accountability God centric mmm-hmm versus the idea of centralized control it can be really I mean even our founders both Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson were misled by Robespierre they thought the French Revolution was good it's a very subtle difference if you don't know what you're looking for right very important right friends exactly right Thomas Paine win ended up in prison you know right so Abraham gives the vision of individual independence which always has to include economic independence that's absolutely crucial and sure enough Abraham first man in the Bible described as a wealthy man a good thing Nauticus okay good thing all right so when we come back the bricks and the mortar and when America when you find out what the mortar means in Hebrew right yes yeah what the border what that translation mortar is not mortar bricks are not bricks in this story when you see it and you'll begin to see the parallels of what is happening today remember this is a story to remind us what not to do and then God gets mad and punishes them no no he doesn't I think I've turned into the church lady today I want to talk to you a little bit about the Tower of Babel why when you hear the whole story of the Tower of Babel you will see the pattern that is being repeated today and it will end at the same way unless we wake up rabbi Daniel lapin is here a friend of mine president of the American Alliance for Jews and Christians an extraordinarily brave man and a man who is part of the black robe regimen it is good to have you here wonderful to be with you claim that ok I want to I want to talk to you I want to pick it up at we have the Tower of Babel yes a hunter the King Nimrod says let's build bricks and they will build a tower but the bricks the bricks represent people he's taking people and making them all uniform in exactly the same right but in that part he says bricks will use bricks and mortar right what is the mortar bricks and mortar what why is the mortar part India well this Bible blueprint is a depiction for all time of how the world really works ok and one of the way it really works is that in every epoch there is always going to be somebody who tries to seize power and what these 11 verses in these nine verses in Chapter 11 tell us is here are the things you have to watch out for here are the things that a potential tyrant is going to do in order to seduce you well right number one he's going to have a tower and our tower means reaching for the skies appealing to everything that is great in human nature now look any leader whether you're taking care of your family whether you're running a business whether you're a military leader you know military recruiters don't say hey come join us the food is horrible you're likely to get killed and you're gonna be in a horribly hot sir they don't do that they step forward and play a role to defend your country be all you could be it's you appeal to the highest in human nature that's what tyrants learn cheers well here's what he did though he erased religion he said God's not important career I would make any star in heaven right we're making a war on heaven really yes and we're build building a tower to reach heaven and we don't need God's we don't need stones we don't need anything that God created because you are great people are great all of this is gonna be built with bricks and we're gonna make you all interchangeable and that's why tyrants will do exactly that and the mortar that holds those bricks together yes now in Hebrew the word mortar is very related same word really is the word materialism and you can actually even hear the the similarity transfer into the English language mortar MTR are the key consonants material matter same word essentially and it's very important because the the lesson from ancient Jewish wisdom here is that you can bond people and unify people with a sense of common spiritual purpose but if you're going to eliminate the spiritual if you're going to take God entirely out of the picture then you can unify people through materialism get people in debt use your credit cards folks buy stuff acquire stuff and then you can rent storage facilities to keep all the stuff you bought that you don't need but that way we're all being this together and we can all talk about the great commercials we saw during the football game and we're all in this great materialistic splurge because it'll unite people think I'm America I wanted it I want you to think about this what he's saying here is the king made everybody into bricks so they're all exactly the same everyone's equal everyone's equal and then the mortar that holds it together is the stuff the material not the not their common appearances of spiritualists or even history think about this what holds us together as a nation two years ago did you know a lot of our own history how many Americans right now can't tell you the signers can't tell you anything about the American Revolution can't tell you about Frederick Douglass can't tell you anything about our history but we all know Nike we all know the mercedes-benz logo we all know everything about materialism if you take think about what we're headed for if you take our materialism our stuff our wealth our TVs our phones if you take that away what holds our bricks together exactly right and what any tyrant knows is that you cannot enslave a people that believe in the boss you can't and so therefore any tyranny will always begin to develop a hostility to traditional biblical faith a hostility to the God of Abram Isaac and Jacob also hostility to biblical commitment of any kind at all you will always find that whether it's Cuba or the Soviet Union or anywhere else secularism becomes the religion of the day in fact I gave it a name secular fundamentalism I think is the religion of the day okay so I want to take a break because I guess where we go now is God gets mad and punishes them but actually this is a happy ending it's a wonderful end there yeah and because it's one filled with hope for us I think right because it's not God doesn't get mad and he doesn't punish them and then we're gonna then we're gonna end where we began with the actual picture of the Tower of Babel below your mind coming up this is the EU parliamentary building I don't know if you've ever seen it pretty striking it's pretty dramatic the way it looks it's obviously an unfinished building it is the symbol of one United Europe one language one Europe this is what George Soros calls it the European Union was built by a process of piecemeal social engineering as advocated by Karl Popper era indeed it's probably the most successful feat of social engineering in history the whole world is being pushed into a into a global model of government and George Soros we've told you we showed you those the strings the strings that he's pulling are amazing is it a coincidence the EU and really I mean that's and that's where we're going and he's a big fan really global government that's everybody's answer it seems today our founders would say smaller government everyone who has power now is saying bigger this may seem like a new story to you but a new world order is not the very first time that this was tried let me bring in rabbi Daniel lapin he's the president of the American Alliance for Jews and Christians rabbi the very first time socialism or communism or Nilda was tried was the Tower of Babel our Bible yeah ok so if let's just pick the story up if you miss the story if you missed the first half of the show DVR the show man what are you thinking the the idea was this hunter of men started to erase God he became king he said let's make people all like bricks all the same not like stone the mortar that will hold those bricks together is materialism yes ok and will will have this this this utopia will build a tower that will reach the heavens yes you will appeal you will be able to fulfill your highest aspirations and that fact we are all bricks and and and and I urge people to to read the story and to listen to us not as if we're describing some long-forgotten historic event but we're describing what's really happening today and will happen in our grandchildren's generation somewhere in the world again it'll happen over and over again ok so now tell me the happy ending because I've always read the story and God gets angry and he comes down and he scatters the people okay fine well to just put it into into context the the surest indicator that this is going on is when your leaders try to turn you from stones into bricks and there lots of different ways that's done depending on the epoch in history right now for instance you might find that people want to get you out of one of the most beautiful expressions of freedom in Independence the automobile you can buy it in whatever color you want whatever make you want you can go wherever you like when you like no we want you all in public transport and it's always for the tower it's always for the higher purpose we're going to save the environment we're gonna have fewer cars surely you want to save the environment right right and then housing where the housing is in Cabrini Green and Chicago or in Moscow government housing always looks the same everybody in ticky-tacky little boxes because we want everybody to be like bricks and there'll also be a war on states rights because we're taking away individuals right we're even gonna take away states rights it's all going to go to the tower in the middle and we see that happening as well so the blueprint of Babel is absolutely reliable and God comes along and as you correctly said earlier doesn't punish the people the name of God used in the Hebrew text is not the judgment god it's the mercy God and he's saying I'm on the side of people I'm not in the south on the side of tyrannical government I'm on the side of the Abraham model which happens to be the model subscribed to passionately and fervently by the founders of the other states what he says cuz we're gonna have to take a break here but what he basically says is I'm gonna make you back into stones that's exactly not into bricks and that's why infuses their language because they're no longer working as one yeah he's not crazy about one world idea right and he's not punishing them because the people thought they were doing the right thing it's almost like social justice people are getting involved in social justice which is a perversion in most cases or many cases of that that Jesus idea or that grand idea of help one another it's push it like Jim Wallace has push it into the government into the tower they think they're doing good and that's why God didn't punish them he less them by making them stones again right right okay now here come here comes the Big Finish boys wait until you see I'm going to start back again and where we began the show in something that will boggle your mind back in a minute back with rabbi Daniel lapin now we have been talking about the Tower of Babel and Hunter and it was a Nimrod was a great king but he was actually a hunter and the difference between bricks and stones these are individuals this is everybody is exactly the same the mortar that held the bricks together was materialism and they were building a tower a Tower of Babel all right I'm going to start where I began tonight bring up the EU Parliament building love this huh beautiful building isn't it look at that now let me go back to the Tower of Babel put the Tower of Babel back up here's the Tower of Babel here you see it's unfinished and is unfinished a little doorway over here and pretty pretty amazing put them side by side please coincidence well there's no word in Hebrew for coincidence cleanse I I have to reject the consonant theory this is amazing if you look at the unfinished doorway here the doorway here the the little doorways up here at the doorway here you have these what would you call these article buttress Electress --is say they altar which are all right here it's unfinished say a Glary I mean it's unbelievable and how that it steps down all the unfinished work in both in both pictures right and to the in the same direction both from right to left strange so now you're not saying rabbi you're not saying that they intentionally are building the Tower of Babel I think they are I really do i I do believe and was told that design of the headquarters of the European Parliament in Strasbourg France was the designers were asked to remain it resemble the the tower because we call the we tried to verify and what they say is they're just they're just reflecting like the Colosseum yeah that's what we want to build in Europe right a place where Christians got to live it really doesn't make it any better but it is it is it is remarkable especially since what was the name of that report virginia what was the name of that report one tongue one language or many languages one people yeah something was something like that yeah their actual slogan is many languages one family which goes again to the Nimrod story of the language of Italy and anybody who is following the the Babel blueprint wants to eliminate distinctions between individuals and between countries and bring it all together under one tower government okay so now look here's the thing America I don't know if that's what they were I don't know I think that is Wow I don't know if that's what they were doing I don't really care I just know the lesson that you should learn here is it worse we're stones we're not all made exactly alike and materialism is the mortar that holds us together so now what are we gonna do about it oh that's right I told you that I was starting on solutions and answers yes next this program is going to stop just warning people about what's coming and we are going to be a part of the solution tonight we take another step in that direction I just told you the story of the Tower of Babel and how Nimrod tried to make everybody into a brick and everybody's not a brick were stones made him into a brick and then materialism was the mortar that kept everybody together we've got to we've got to stop worrying about the stuff that we have and not be another brick in the wall play a role in a stone foundation last night I told you to go home and talk to your spouse and your families about downsizing your life I told you that there's a study out that shows the average person has about $25,000 of unused stuff in their house I find that amazing well I made a decision to downsize my life by decluttering my house and selling the stuff that my wife and I we don't use we went around our house this weekend and we tagged all the stuff and we're gonna start selling it now a website called you pillar com it's coming up next week I'm gonna have it posted next week I'm donating all the proceeds of my stuff to a very special cause this Christmas and you'll find more about that in just a few days find all the details about what I'm doing at Glenn Beck calm now I'm to be totally upfront with you I'm using new pillar because they happen to be a sponsor of my radio show and I know the guy who started you pillar I think the guy is a genius you can use whatever you want you can sell it on eBay or Craigslist or whatever these guys don't charge anything for it now you could have just a yard sale that is if the government is still allowing that in your area and don't forget starting next year in the health care bill for some unknown reason if you sell anything worth more than six hundred dollars you need to send out a 1099 so this would be your last chance before the end of the year to do all all the selling without any of the paperwork get the clutter out of your life and then I ask you to please use that money wisely invest it invest it in food storage have the extra on hand because we need to be a shelter for others over the next few days I'm going to show you what's happening to her food prices and energy prices and our clothing prices I told you earlier the price of cotton is ninety five percent increase this year ninety five percent you know that means for the price of clothing Bloomberg had a story today the Gap Walmart clothing cost rise on terrifying cotton prices the director at a China market research group warns American consumers better get used to rising prices on the shelves of Walmart and other retailers the world is about to change so we must please don't incur any new debt focus on being a shelter for others do these things and realize that you are a stone and not a brick and that God is our master not man if we do these things together together as strong individuals we will change the world

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Keywords: bricks, stones, Glenn, Beck, Rabbi, Daniel, Lapin, Tower, of, Babel, Soros, one, world, order, mortar, materialism, Nimrod, hunter, men

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Length: 24min 28sec (1468 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 15 2011