'Borders one of the most powerful things'

Per Wikipedia: "BRICS, originally named BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China), is an acronym for the regional economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, which in 2010 had included the letter S for South Africa.^[2][3][4] The original acronym BRIC was coined in 2001 by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill, who created the term to describe fast-growing economies that would collectively dominate the global economy by 2050.

"The BRICS have a combined area of 39,746,220 km² (15,346,100 sq mi) and an estimated total population of about 3.21 billion,^[5] or about 26.7% of the world's land surface and 41.5% of the global population."

Genesis 11 begins: [1] And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. [2] And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

"By the way, they are going to encroach upon Shem's territory when they do this," explains Richard Jordan.

[3] And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

"They were supposed to be scattering; they're going to be like Cain.

[4] And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

"Repeatedly in Psalms it will talk about how the Lord is 'my high tower.' You see all the church buildings with steeples on the top of them. That's what this is.

"They don't only have a one-world political system they're going to have a one-world religious system that is a system of rebellion against the God of the Bible. This is how you know it: 'whose top may reach unto heaven.'

"In other words, here's a building and we're going to have some stuff going on up at the top there that's going to get us to heaven. On the top of that tower they were going to do some oblations to get them in contact with the 'host of heaven.'

"Think about all you know about pagans. Think about what you know about the false gods of the Bible. They worship the 'host of heaven.' Who are they? That's the stars and the nebula and all that kind of stuff, but more than that it's the angelic host; the fallen gods. They're trying to get in touch with these fallen gods.

" 'And let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'

"They're saying, 'We want to do this lest we do what God commissioned us to do.' They're going to do it out of man-made stuff. They don't take stone that God made; they make brick: 'We're going to do this on our own.' They don't like to retain God in their knowledge.

"The satanic counter to nationalism is internationalism. It's globalism. God said, 'You need to have a national entity that's not homogenized, but is separated into borders, language and culture.'

"If you study history and how nations form and operate, you'll find out that borders are actually one of the most powerful things to produce the culture of a people.

"If you take a country that is landlocked and has no borders on any ocean it will have an entirely different culture develop because of that than a country like America.

"The U.S. is one of the few countries in the world that has 1,000-plus miles of coastline on the two great oceans--the Atlantic and the Pacific. We are a geopolitical marvel as far as a nation's concerned.

"We have warm-water ports all year long on both of the great oceans and they are 1,500 to 1,800 miles long. That makes our country a different kind of a country than a country like Chile, for example, that has a long coastline but they don't go in very far because of the mountains. Or you take a European country that's landlocked . . .

"My point is that borders make a lot of difference about the culture that a people develop and language is the thing that causes people to isolate in those places."

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