Bob Barney: There’s a bad Moon rising…America in the decline commentary on a sick nation that needs help (Transcript)

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I see a bad moon rising, I see trouble on the way, I see earthquakes and lightning, I see bad times today. Don’t go around tonight, but if I were to take your dad, there’s a bad moon on the rise. I hear hurricanes a-blowing. I hear earthquakes and lightning, and I hear the voice of raging ruin…

And sometimes I think I’m hearing the voice of raging ruin when I just have to watch the evening news or look on the internet for the news, because it doesn’t take too much of a rocket scientist to realize that we are in trouble in this country. And the only hope that we have, as I pointed out earlier this week in another show, the only hope that we have is to find God, number one, and the God of the Bible is the God we have to find, and we have to obey God and we have to listen to God. And if we don’t do so, then we are doomed as an empire, and we will be a very short-lived empire when you compare us to Babylon or Rome or even Great Britain’s empire, which lasts some three or four hundred years. Ours is not going to last a hundred years if we keep going on the way we have been going on in the past thirty years or more. We have become a debtor nation, not a creditor nation.

2:59 We have become a consuming nation and not a manufacturer nation. And this is all because we as a people have turned our backs on our own selves, number one, by crooked politicians and corrupt people, but mainly we’ve turned our back on God, and there is a reckoning that’s happening because of it. We don’t only see it in our economy. We don’t only see it in the jobs that are going away. We also see it, my friends, in the weather. We see it in catastrophes that are happening with the weather, with forest fires, with earthquakes, with volcanoes blowing up. It has nothing to do with global warming. That is just a con job by liberals who want to take more of your rights away. It has all to do with what God is doing to us and what we are also doing to ourselves.

There’s a verse in the Bible that I often refer to or read. You can find it in 2 Chronicles 7.14. In the King James Version, I’ll read it. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear them from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land. My friends, I want to tell you, you can believe me. You don’t have to believe me. You can think this is all a bunch of nonsense, but there is a living God, and that God is Jesus Christ and God the Father, that you can find in the words of the Bible that you probably have in your home that a lot of people never read.

5:30 It’s kind of chic not to read the Bible and know anything about it. People do not want to act dumb when it comes to the economy or politics or what’s happening in the movies, but people are proud to be dumb of what’s found in the Bible. But going on, there is another passage in the Bible that is very important to read. It’s Leviticus 26 or Deuteronomy 28. It is written for our day and for our nation especially because we are lost Israel. First one on Deuteronomy 28, it says, if you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all of his commandments that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you up high above all the  nations of the world and you will experience all the blessings if you obey the Lord your God.

The Lord our God, by the way, in the Old Testament as well it is in the New Testament, is none other than the God, the part of the Godhead who became a human being and dwelt amongst us as a man called Jesus Christ in Greek, which is the name we all know him by other than some people that have to think they have to pronounce the Hebrew version. But he is the Yahweh. He is the Lord of the Old Testament who created Adam and Eve in the image of him and the father. He’s the one that talked to Moses, talked to Noah. He’s David’s Lord. He is the Lord of the Old Testament. And he was saying that if you obey him and obey his commandments, all will go well with us. Your towns and your fields will be blessed; it goes on to say. Your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed. Your fruit baskets and bread baskets will be blessed. Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed.

7:27 Furthermore, the Lord will conquer your enemies that will attack you. The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything that you do and will fill your storehouses with grain; food stuff is what he’s saying here. The Lord, your God will bless you in the land that he is giving you. This land called America is the most blessed piece of property on the face of the earth given to us to prosper in and to become rich and plentiful. But we have to obey God. The Lord will give you prosperity in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you. The Lord will send you rain at the proper time from his rich treasuries of the rain in the heavens. If you listen to these commands, the Lord, your God, that I’m giving you today, and you carefully obey them, the Lord will make you the head and not the tail. What are we today? We’re the tail.

9:00 You must never turn away from the commandments I am giving you today. But if you disobey the Lord, it goes on to say in verse 16, your towns and your fields will be cursed. Your fruit baskets and bread boards will be cursed. Your children and your crops will be cursed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be cursed. Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be cursed. The Lord himself will send you curses, confusion, frustration in everything that you try to do. And at last, when you are completely destroyed from all the evil things you’re doing to abandon the Lord, your God, finally, the land will get the rest that it did not get when you were in charge of it. The Lord will strike you with wasting diseases, all these diseases, cancers and inflammation, which is going to talk about right here. The skies above you will be unyielding and there will be no rain in due time or too much rain in certain times. What it’s saying here is your weather would go from being really great for your crops to really bad for you and your crops. There was a time, about 100 years in this country, from about 1850 to 1950, there was a warming trend in North America, a special warming trend, which made America very productive in growing corn, wheat and certain crops in the Great Plains.

11:33 And we became the breadbasket to the world. We absolutely fed the world. But if you do not listen to the Lord, he goes on to say you will be defeated by your enemies. We ran a show last Sunday, how we were defeated in Vietnam. Contrary to what people want to believe today, we lost the Vietnam War. We lost the war in Afghanistan. We lost the war in Iraq. We’ve lost the war so far in Ukraine that we’re trying to prop up a government that’s not going to make it. We have lost everything we have tried to do for the last 75 years since World War II, the last war we won. And we have not even fought good enemies. We haven’t fought an enemy with an army or a Navy or an Air Force. And we could barely match the people that we were fighting, and we lost to those people.

12:38 There is no such thing as respect for marriage, what we just saw and what I just mentioned to you. This is a curse coming from God to this nation because we refuse to obey God’s words. I got some other things that goes on that we should also. Our moral collapse as a nation. We are morally in bankruptcy. And this moralness does not just go if you go to church or not, or do you respect your neighbor as yourself or not and follow the golden rule. The moral collapse also, you can follow that in your dealings with other people. How honest are you when you deal with other people? I gave an example a long time ago when I ran a farm stand back in Connecticut in the 1970s. Before we opened for a lot of business, we would put our little bit of produce we had on a stand with nobody there with a cash box where people could make change.

And at the end of the day, all the cash was there, plus what everybody bought. And when you figured it out, you found out people even overpaid for what they bought because they wanted to show you that they were being honest. That’s gone away from this country. We have people that’s constantly trying to game the system and get what’s not due to them. We run a paint company. I say this all the time.Tamcopaint.com. That’s my wife’s named after her and my business is my family’s business. And we sell automotive and industrial and fleet paint and marine paint to customers. There is not a week that goes by we do not get a charge back because somebody ordered $1,000 or $2,000 worth of paint with their girlfriend’s credit card. And then a month later, she calls the credit card company saying she never authorized that charge. And we can’t prove that it was sent to her because it was sent to somewhere else. This happens every single week of every single month of every single year for the past three or four years. This is the moral decay that this country is facing. Businesspeople have to write off tremendous number of fraudulent chargebacks on their businesses. If you’re somebody that does that, you’re part of the problem. And God will, this is the one thing you can be sure of, God will remember you. God will remember the evilness that you do against others. Our sins are piled high. There’s just no two ways about it. And as a country, we need to go back to God and we need to follow the principles that God gives us in the Ten Commandments. And if we did so, you know what? We would be blessed again.

15:48 I’m telling you that right now. And here’s some of the things I think we got to do to stop this nation from being in decline. We ran a series of videos and a program for me the other day and some videos that delved into is America in decline and why the tariffs are backfiring and why more people are losing their jobs and why GM is laying off so many people. It’s because we as a nation are in decline morally, spiritually, and we are in decline because of our leadership. Our leadership are looking for fast answers. They’re not looking to go to God. They’re not looking to do business by God’s principles, by the way. Our enemies out there, and I don’t mean our physical enemies. I’m not going to be one of those that says China wants to conquer us.

Hell, we’re one of their biggest customers. They just want to dominate us and make us buy from them. But here’s the problem. China, and we had this video on just a day or two ago, maybe it was yesterday. China, for example, they look at hundreds of years at a time. They have invested trillions of dollars in other nations’ economies. They’re building roads all over Africa, Asia, Europe, you name it. They’re helping any country that needs help. They’re putting out money.

17:37 The reason is the Chinese people have saved some $20 trillion in their savings account, which the government uses to give away in loans to other countries, including, by the way, the United States, where they own $2 trillion of our debt. The whole world, countries from all over the world own our debt because we want to keep spending money that we do not have. Can you believe we actually give China aid? We borrow the money from China at an interest, and then we give it back to them as free money because they’re a developing country. This is the nonsense that our crooked politicians are doing, and they’re not being held accountable. And I got news for you. The President of the United States right now is not practicing sound economic principles. Tariffs do not work. A month or so ago, when this tariff stuff started, we played Ronald Reagan’s whole videos—I think there were five or six of them—on tariffs and why tariffs always fail. They protect American businesses from good competition that they need to face. I’ll give you an example when it comes to the electric car. I’m against electric cars for the most part, and I don’t think electric cars should ever have that big of a foothold in America, except maybe in small cities or stuff like that. But here’s the problem. If we want to sell cars to other nations, we have to sell electric vehicles to those nations because places like Europe are going to mandate them.

Places like Asia are mandating electric vehicles. China is going to be mandating electric vehicles. Do you know the largest car company in the world? You don’t even know their name, and I don’t remember it, but it’s a Chinese automotive company that produces more electric vehicles than 15 Tesla’s will produce in the next five years, and they do that every year. They sell those vehicles cheaply all over the world to the developing nations of the world. When there becomes a feud between Trump’s tariffs and China and Trump goes to these other nations of the world and says, you better back up America and not China, who do you think these third world nations are going to follow and back up? They’re going to back up the people that have invested trillions of dollars into their infrastructure to build those people’s economies up, and that’s China. That’s not America. It used to be America. We built the whole world after World War II with the Marshall Plan, but we’re not doing that now. We’re retreating everywhere.

19:25 We’re telling Germany—basically it’s Germany, but we’ll say Europe—to rearm themselves and protect themselves from Russia. There was a reason why the Americans wanted to keep military forces in Germany and Europe, because we didn’t want to see a rearmed Europe, because we saw that in the 1900s twice over. World War I and World War II, and it wasn’t pretty, but some 150, 160 million people in the world died because of a rearmed Europe. Europe is the site of all the wars, and it’s the site that the Bible says the end-time beast comes out of. The King of the North, the Antichrist, comes out of Europe. It comes out of the Holy Roman Empire, which is yet to be reestablished, and we are helping reestablish it, my friends. We are helping to make it happen by telling them they have to defend themselves. So what gets control of these European nations in the future? It’s going to be militaristic people. The armies and the navies and the air forces of these countries are going to all of a sudden gain all kinds of political control, a la Adolf Hitler or the Kaiser in World War I. These are the unintended consequences that are coming because we just simply do not have the brains to understand the world, our history, and what God is telling us to do. If this country would only do some sound practices, and I’m going to finish this show. No commercials for the plain truth in this show. I’m going to finish this show with the sound practices, other than listening to God, following the Ten Commandments, following God’s ways and his business principles that you can find in the Bible. Other than doing that, there are other things we can do to make us productive again, make us a manufacturing base again, and it’s going to cost investment, and it’s going to be no free lunches for people. Everybody’s going to have to pay their fair share. Everybody.

And today, when you hear everybody’s got to pay their fair share, it only means the 1% rich people. Well, they got to pay their fair share, too. But you know what? There are 55% of the American public that pay no federal income taxes whatsoever because they are exempted from taxes because they don’t make enough money. Well, I got news for you. Everybody should have to pay some taxes, or they should not be able to vote in federal elections. If you don’t have skin in the game, you shouldn’t vote. You know, originally, the Constitution said if you weren’t a landowner, you couldn’t vote for the President or Congress. Did you know that? You had to own property. Well, I say you don’t need to own property, maybe, but you should have to owe the government money, your hard-earned money, that you might be more apt to look hardly or concisely at where that money is going when you’re paying the bill.

21:36 Right now, when 50% of the American public doesn’t have to pay taxes, all they want to do is get that money back in their pockets through childcare credits and all kinds of nefarious ways to pocket money that they do not rightfully deserve. I understand there’s more poverty in America today than there has ever been in the last 50, 60 years. And taxing these people doesn’t seem fair. But you know what’s the cruelest tax? Inflation. And we are in runaway inflation right now. Donald Trump’s not helping the inflation. His tariffs are going to double inflation. We’re going to have inflation like a la Biden on steroids coming really soon, probably by summer. So inflation is really the worst tax. If we could get our house in order and we could reinvest into the future, into our children, let’s get some of these kids out of colleges and into trade schools and teach them trades. There are 140,000 openings for welders in America. There are 90,000 openings for plumbers in America. I just built an addition a couple of years ago to my house. We could not get an air conditioning person showing up, a plumber showing up, or an electrician showing up. We went through three electricians because they’d started the job and you know what, they didn’t want to have to keep working because they make so much money with jobs they can do, easy jobs.

They didn’t want to do new construction type jobs because there’s not enough of them. Anybody who’s building something today would know what I’m talking about. We have to get people, as the Apostle Paul said, if you do not work, you do not eat. We should not allow able-bodied people to be collecting Medicare. We should not allow able-bodied people to get food stamps. We should not allow able-bodied working people to collect anything. However, we should also not allow unemployment. We should find ways to make people work, as FDR did. I’m not a socialist, but there are times that you have to be original in order to compete in a global world that are full of communists and socialists. They have an advantage over capitalism because capitalism does not work necessarily, pure capitalism that is, in a world controlled by communist nations like China. So you have to do some of the things that they do as a government, as Teddy Roosevelt did when he was president in 1900 when he broke up the big trusts that were dominating the American public. But the most thing he did is he understood that America’s lower-class people had to find jobs.

23:58 His cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, during the Great Depression, actually put everybody to work building the road systems, the Blue Ridge Parkway and places like that. They got built by people who were unemployed, and they got jobs with the government. Yes, we’d have to borrow money to do that, but we could do that with the American people by asking the American people again to do savings bonds and things like that. Call out patriotism. It’s pretty hard for a president to tell people to buy American savings bonds, for example, and to invest in America when your own family company is investing in Estonia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Vietnam, everywhere but America. Just follow where their money is going. It’s not going into America. None of our leaders, I don’t care which leader you want to talk to, none of the leaders we have today that I know of you can email me if you have a few that you can say has got American interest at heart, but right now everybody’s got their pocketbooks at heart. The people leading us are crooks, and they’re doing things to get money for their own pockets, and they are selling us out, not realizing what happens to leaders that sell out their country. Just read the Bible. Just read the Bible about the Israeli kings and the Judean kings and what happened to them when Babylon took them over or Assyria took them over or their enemies conquered them. The first people they killed was the entire royal family, the leadership of both the armies and the royal palace.

That’s the first thing your enemies are going to do. If America ever was defeated in war, the first people who would be killed are the politicians who got us into that war in the first place. They would be lined up and executed in broad daylight in public TV. That’s what would happen. These people are as arrogant and dumb as if you don’t follow God’s ways and you’re a leader of the people, you’re proving that you’re dumb. And these people are dumb. We should not respect people. You should not look up to our leaders who are so stupid that they do not follow the principles of God because they do not personally believe in God. And if they do, they think it’s a God that’s going to allow them to do whatever they want to do, like the divine right of kings during the Middle Ages with the King Henry’s and the King Phillips and people like that and Louis the 16th.Let them eat cake, Marie Antoinette. These people have a reckoning coming with God to what’s called the Day of Judgment. And that Day of Judgment is not going to be very good for a lot of people. But it could be good for you. You don’t have to live this way. You can go to God in prayer.

26:32 You can fast and you can ask for God to save this country. It doesn’t take that many people. You know, God was willing to save Sodom and Gomorrah if he could find 10 righteous people. So let’s say there was 2,000 people in those two cities. He only needed 10. So we got what, 330, 350 million Americans. Maybe he needs 100,000. There should be 100,000 people willing to follow God and fast and pray and pray for God. And maybe it’s happening. I’m not aware of it that much. But I would imagine if it is happening, our press isn’t going to report it. That’s for sure. They’re just not going to report anything that’s good about God in our liberal press that we have today, which is part of the problem, by the way. I would say the press is probably more of a problem than our politicians because the press is also bought and sold for by big business, big corporations, big corporatism, big pharma, you name it. And that is our problem. And if we do not get back to God and ask God to save this nation, we are done for. We are doomed. We are doomed like the Titanic was doomed after it struck the iceberg. And all we’re doing now is moving chairs around the deck while the boat sinks. And nobody’s really taking any care about the boat is sinking. What are you going to do when the Social Security checks end, when Medicare ends because there’s no money, when our creditors pull all of their money out of this country? What are you going to do when you really don’t have a job and you can’t get one because this country is now under control of another country who we owe so much money to? That’s what you should ask yourself.

Maybe we should go through some tough times now, sacrifice a little bit now, pray to God, and maybe our future could change for a while. But remember the end. Remember what the Bible says about Israel and America is Israel. In the end, we reject God, we reject God’s laws, and we are taken back into captivity, and we don’t find freedom again in this country until Jesus Christ returns. I hope that doesn’t happen in our lifetime. We can forestall things. God listens to righteous people praying and asking that big question. If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, I will heal their land and I will forgive their sins. Never forget that. Yes, there’s a bad moon arising, but after the bad moon, there can be good times, but the good times are only found by following God. Well, that’s the show for today. This is Bob Barney with The Plain Truth Today brought to you by theplaintruth.com. I do appreciate everybody.

29:00 I know this is a little in-your-face kind of show. I’m not trying to make people upset or have sleepless nights. I want people to honestly just go to God in prayer. Prayer by you is more important than anything Donald Trump or any other leader can do, because if you have an access to God, and there are people out there that just may, more than me, if you have an access to God, there is nothing more powerful in the entire universe than the two beings that we know as God the Father and Jesus Christ. Until tomorrow, this is Bob Barney from The Plain Truth.