[Darris McNeely] If you’ve been confused about the Occupy Wall Street
Movement, so have I and so have a lot of other people. It reminds of
being snake bit–seeing all of these protests across the United States
and other world capitals against the world economic financial condition.
[Steve Myers] Well, it certainly reminds you of how do we fix our
problems? You know, people come up with all kinds of solutions and the
latest one is protesting and violence in many cases. So, is that what
solves our problems? Is that really where it’s at?
[Darris McNeely] Well, you know, Steve, they drove them out of Zuccotti
Park in New York earlier this week and today they’re threatening to
come back in by the tens of thousands and maybe getting a second life it
seems with this protest movement. And, again, are they…There’s even
confusion about the goals that they have and what they actually want to
do…some want to bring down the whole economic system, whole system
of capitalism.
[Steve Myers] It’s interesting, some of the goals, are they good? Some
of the things I’ve heard, yeah. Is man’s system working in some
ways? Yeah.
[Darris McNeely] There are problems.
[Steve Myers] But in other ways there are problems.
[Darris McNeely] And we know now this has come three years after the
near collapse of Wall Street and the entire American and world financial
system that has been tried to be put back on track, yet there has been
recessions that have kept it from really operating and coming back with
all engines operating. And we’re still in the middle of a mess and that
seems to be fueling this. This seems to be a symptom of larger problems.
[Steve Myers] Boy, is it ever. Absolutely.
[Darris McNeely] It reminds me of the story you told in a Beyond Today
program recently that we did of the canary in the coal mine that starts
to sing when the gases get a little bit too high. This is a symptom of
something bigger. That, um, just won’t go away.
[Steve Myers] And where do you look? Are we looking to Wall Street to
solve our problems or do you take down Wall Street so we can solve our
problems. Or is there a different place that we need to look?
[Darris McNeely] Well, the problem is in leadership. The problem is in
some workable solutions. It reminds me of a scripture in the book of
Amos, where the prophet Amos talks about conditions at the time of the
end. People are told there that they will flee from a lion, and run into
a bear. They will run into a house and put their hand against a wall
and get bit by a snake (
Amos 5:18-20). Everywhere they turn, they don’t find solutions, they find bigger problems.
[Steve Myers] That’s right
[Darris McNeely] And I think that’s where we are right now.
[Steve Myers] Are we solving our own problems? I think that scripture
points it out. As long as we keep looking to ourselves we’re going to be
snake bit. We’re going to run into a bear. We’re going to run into a
lion. So are we looking to God for the solution? Proverbs says that we
look to God. He knows how to direct our steps (
Proverbs 3:5-8).
[Darris McNeely] That’s
BT Daily. Join us next time.
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