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There's a super dictator coming. The Bible's warned us about that. And he'll be accompanied with a delusion. If it were possible, it would deceive the very elect. They will believe the lie, the specific lie that will be perpetrated on the human race. Some people would express it the simulation of cognitive behavior. The whole area of artificial intelligence. Are these are these concepts set up to cause a delusion of our imprisonment, if you will, as a people?
It's like Pandora's box. There's a rip tide that's so powerful that no matter how well-intentioned you are, you can't swim against it, with transhumanist technology, artificial intelligence, and the rest of it. In attempting to predict the future, famous psychics such as Nostradamus, Edgar Casey, and Gene Dixon have shown themselves to be at least partially accurate, which has encouraged thousands to put their faith in them and pursue similar occultic methods of divination. Today, in record number, people are consulting psychics, fortune tellers, and spiritual mediums of all varieties to find out just what lies ahead. With all the psychic sources available, why do serious seekers still rely on the ancient prophecies of the Bible? Its unparalleled 100% accuracy rate may be one reason. Its claim to be the very word of God may be another. Yet, its writings are so old. Are there any valid reasons to believe they hold any relevance for today's turbulent times?
I take the Bible seriously because these 66 books written by 40 authors over thousands of years are an integrated message system that has its origin from outside our time domain. And it proves that by describing history before it happens. And there are many examples of that throughout history. But today we see it happening before our very eyes. The Bible describes the emergence of a super government, a global government emerging out of Europe. And it's happening as we speak. The Bible describes the Republic of Russia arming a group of allies preparing to invade Israel. And that's happening as we speak. The Bible describes the rebuilding of the ancient city of Babylon. And Saddam Hussein has spent the last 20 years rebuilding Babylon. The Bible describes right on schedule Israel being reestablished as a nation. The United States recognizes the authority of the new state of Israel and regaining control of Jerusalem. And both events happen on the very day that Ezekiel predicted. And the Bible also predicts that Israel will rebuild their temple. And as we speak, they've started. They have 200 priests in training and they have started rebuilding the temple. So every place you look where the Bible has spoken of world history as it comes to its climax, we see it happening before our very eyes.
Clearly the whole financial system globally is heading for a collapse for a lot of reasons because of the addiction to debt as a mechanic and abandonment of the concept of property as linked to human liberty. All of those ideas are eroding away, setting the stage for global tyranny. And that's tragically clearly on the horizon. And that's exactly what's happening by just observing and understanding the megapolis that's going on today. And it's also exactly what the Bible has portrayed. So that's one of the perhaps most convincing arguments that we're heading for that climax. But also technology, the whole movement towards transhumanism means we're approaching a place where the creator himself has drawn a line in the sand.
According to Genesis 11, we are surrounded by senseless killings, crime, terrorism, out-of-control diseases, ethnic hostilities, and the ever-present fear of a nuclear holocaust. In seeking solutions, some believe that global unity under a world government is the answer, while others pray for some type of spiritual awakening, which would unite all religions. Many cling to the hope that the 21st century brings a golden age of peace and prosperity where scientific advancements and technology and medicine might conceivably transform the world into a modern paradise. Sections of the Bible known as Daniel, Ezekiel, Joel, Matthew, Revelation, and others describe in great detail a totalitarian one-world government using political, economic, and religious pressure would attempt to control every person on earth.
Many Bible scholars believe that the Roman Empire will be revived. They call it the revival of the Holy Roman Empire. Personally, I'm not convinced that it's strictly limited to that, but that's really a mood question. The fact that we are working toward a one-world government that can be led by a one-world dictator is clear in Daniel and it's also reaffirmed by our Lord in that matchless passage in Matthew 24 and also in the book of Revelation. So that you see these major passages of Bible prophecy come together and reaffirm each other. A global dictator will rise to power through the promises of world peace. He is called many names in the Bible, but the most familiar is the Antichrist, which means in place of Christ.
The Bible predicts at the end time that there will be one special personality that will rise above everyone else. And that the kings that are in control of the world will give their power to this man. The Bible calls him a beast. It's interesting. The world looks at world government as a wonderful image, a stately thing, a great blessing to humanity. When God portrays his view, it's always as a beast. He looks on government as a rapacious beast that marches over the dreams and the lives of people. And history shows that God's right. Government is a beast. It's the most cruel thing we've ever had on the planet. But because of human nature, we need something. But my point is that there is a personality predicted to come and the Bible talks about this Antichrist, this man of sin, the son of perdition, the man of fierce countenance and so on. This man with incredible ability. While the Antichrist is a figure that the Bible has a great deal to say about. As a matter of fact, outside of Jesus Christ, there's about more prophetic biography given of this person than anyone else.
He goes by many titles. He is known as the willful king. He's the little horn of the image of Daniel 7, the little horn of Daniel 8. He is known as the prince that shall come in Daniel chapter 9. He is known as the son of perdition, the man of sin, a couple of titles that Paul uses. But the most important thing is not these descriptive titles that are given to him. It's the character sketch that is given of him. Chief and foremost among these character sketches is that he will be a dynamic, mesmerizing public speaker. It's interesting that all the passages in the Old and the New Testament also speak of him as having incredibly articulate skills. He's a convincer. He's able to persuade people like no one ever has before.
Apparently, this is the way he will literally sway the world. And it talks about him winning the hearts of the world. Not just taking power over them, but he wins their hearts. He convinces them that he is the one who can bring world peace and prosperity and security. He will have such control upon this world as to be an established astonishment. But by the time he moves to take control, he's not going to have to shoot his way into power. The people of the world, disillusioned with disorder and bankruptcy and all these individual and intractable problems and drive-by shootings and revolutions of the unmanageable state of world affairs, they will welcome our great world leader, the man with a plan. You see, man can't govern himself. We've got to have a superman. We've got to have a one-world government. And if all the governments of the world would just disarm and turn their military might over to the United Nations, then we could have a one-world government where only the United Nations or whatever its successor would be called would have the power to enforce government. They have this idea and it's really strange to me. They don't want God to rule over them. They want a man to rule over them. And they feel safe. If we could just elect a human being that would be the supreme dictator, then he would automatically be a benevolent dictator. I don't know how they can come to such a ridiculous conclusion on the basis of history. Name a benevolent dictator in history. Now, they're right about one thing. A dictatorship is the best form of government, most efficient. And what we need is a benevolent dictator. And we're going to have one one day. When Jesus comes to set up his kingdom, and he's going to rule for a thousand years, the world will know an unparalleled period of peace and prosperity. But that's another subject. So you put these things all together and you recognize that all we need is that man with a telegenic personality, that man that comes from Europe, that man that is the superman that has the ability to communicate and seduce people with fancy words and the man that has a one-world global plan for this planet.
You know, we live in a world that is filled with many concepts of religion. Probably the most common thing in the world. Do you know that there is coming a day when all of the religions of the world will coalesce into a one-world religion? And won't that be something? I'm sure you say, "What will that be like?" Happily, we have the answer in the word of God. In the book of Revelation 12 and verse 12, the Bible says that the devil, knowing his time is short, comes forth with great wrath. And there I think are many reasons why he may know his time is short. But he does two main things. He organizes a world government and he organizes a world religion. In chapter 13 of Revelation and in other passages, it tells us what that religion will be like.
It talks about in Revelation chapter 13 that the whole world, including every tribe, every tongue, every nation, will worship him. Not just follow him, but worship him. It speaks of him as being a miracle worker. A person who will appear to be a very good man. In fact, many characteristics of Messiah will be found in him. Jesus says, "I have come in my Father's name and you receive me not. Another will come in his own name and him you will receive." So it appears he will be accepted as a Messiah, a political Messiah by Israel. And as we understand his ability to integrate all world religions under one aegis, we can and naturally presume that he somehow is going to bring together the New Age, Islam, Catholicism, the apostate Christian church, and so forth. There's going to be an integration not only politically and economically but ecclesiastically or religiously. That religion will be ecumenical. The Bible says the whole world worships him, so that a very clever set of minds will come to pass in that day, and they will put together the most beguiling religious combination the world has ever seen. So that everybody from the pagans to the pseudo-Christians will say, "That's what I believe," and at the center of it will be the Antichrist himself. It doesn't tell us exactly what he will follow. Apparently, it's going to be a collage of Christian and all other forms, because remember, he'll have to convince Hindus as well as Muslims and so forth that he is a divine person who has been sent to show the way to the greater meaning of all these religions. In other words, he is apparently going to be so supernaturally indwelt and inspired that he will convince the world that he is God himself and that all religions had a misunderstanding of what their real value and what their real course was.
We have major characteristics that will bring to pass the coming of the Antichrist. Apostasy. Apo means away from, means to stand. The world and the world of religion and everything else will stand away from. It will betray a former loyalty. Stand away from where it used to stand. We translate that word apostasy. So when you see apostasy coming upon the world of religion, the Bible says that is one of the major characteristics that will produce the rise of Antichrist. He will be so convincing as God incarnate that he will be able to convince every religion that they had a misconception of who God really is. And so he will reset the clock for everybody. That's the only way I see that he could possibly convince so many different religions, many of which are in conflict with each other, that he is the one way and he is the one leader. The whole world worships the beast. Think of it. A religion that says we are all in this together as a one-world faith. How attractive that will be, and the world will buy into it.
The role of this coming world leader can only be understood if one recognizes that he is Satan's statement. He is energized by and the pawn of a final scheme by Satan himself. And it's Satan's attempt to counterfeit the real Messiah in an attempt to thwart God's purpose. So, while he appears attractive in worldly terms, he is actually the mechanic, if you will, of Satan's attempt to thwart God's purpose. And there will be no real peace on the earth until Jesus Christ sets up God's own kingdom on the earth. And the conflict between the two is settled irrevocably and finally when Jesus does appear. But the prelude to that will be Satan's hour in terms of deception upfront and then a time of trouble and turmoil following. But morally and spiritually, they're obviously antithetical. People, even scholars, even make a comparison speaking of the satanic trinity, where Satan puts himself in the role of the father. And this man is his Messiah. It's his pseudo-Christ, if you will. And he's accompanied by an accomplice, which the Bible calls the false prophet, a religious leader who causes the world to worship the first guy. And so this trio is, by analogy at least, compared to the real trinity that the Bible speaks of. Now, the false prophet has the ability to perform very powerful supernatural signs and wonders on an unbelievable level, so that he can literally call fire down from heaven. And this causes the people of the earth to worship the Antichrist as God because they see these miraculous events. But the Antichrist is a wolf in sheep's clothing. The false prophet is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Evil doesn't come up to people and go, "Hi, I'm evil and I'm going to destroy your life." Adolf Hitler seduced his nation. But they loved him. They voted him into office because evil has this amazing ability to represent itself as something good, as this powerful weapon.
As Revelation 13 describes, he will be personally indwelt by Satan. This is something that apparently has only happened one or two times in history before. So this is a man that will have incredible convincing power. He will be both a religious and a political leader. He will be able to settle disputes that no other has been able to settle. So he's a very unique person.
So, right now, there's a bit of a debate within the body of Christ concerning prophecy and the nature of the Antichrist and his empire and his religion. Is it going to come out of Europe, sort of this suave European Antichrist figure, or is the Antichrist going to be a Middle Eastern figure, most likely a Muslim? And I've been arguing for the biblical case for a Muslim Antichrist for well over a decade now. The foundation for this position is very simple. You begin with the fact that the primary context of the Bible is Jerusalem. It's Israel. It's the Middle East. This is the location where all of the primary battles unfold. This is where the whole Bible unfolds. And this is the location that Jesus returns to. So this is the context. When you look at the words of the prophets, they are repeatedly naming names, pointing to nations, referring to peoples, tribes that will be judged when Jesus returns because of their hatred of his people, Israel. And those names, those peoples, those tribes are all, every single one of them, Middle Eastern or North African Muslim majority nations today. So this is simply a biblically contextualized perspective on the last days. It takes into consideration the context of the Bible.
One of the controversies that rages about him, there are some subtle indications that he may be Jewish. He's accepted apparently by Israel as a Messiah. And if you talk to the Israelis, they're not looking for a supernatural person. They're looking for a political leader. How will you recognize him when he comes? He will bring us our temple. So that's interesting. On the other hand, there are many biblical suggestions that he's actually a Gentile, and scholars argue about that distinction. I'm intrigued with what Paul says in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2:4 where he is speaking of the man of sin, the son of perdition. It says that he will exalt himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped. That's a strange phrase for Paul to use. And I suspect that what Paul is including in his phrase is Allah. That somehow he's going to find acceptance by the Muslim world, the two billion-plus Muslims who are also expecting a deliverer, the last Imam. And it's my conjecture that he will fulfill in some sense those expectations as well. So, the Islamic Antichrist perspective, not only is it a biblically contextualized perspective on the last days, in other words, it's a story that primarily has its main focus on the Middle East as the scriptures do, as the Bible does, but it's also a biblical story in that it is the story of Genesis, of Abraham's children, their initial conflict, as the scriptures say, that Ishmael was persecuting Isaac. That's what Paul says. He says Ishmael was persecuting the younger brother, and in the last days, that same conflict will come to a head, come to a culmination. So it's a very easy story to understand.
Now, beyond that, of course, the scriptures say that in the last days, the Antichrist forces would behead those that are the witnesses of Jesus, those that stand firm. Well, of course, maybe the Catholic Church beheaded people in the past, or maybe there were people who were beheaded during the French Revolution, but today, in these last days, the Antichrist forces on earth that are beheading people, it's not the Catholic Church, it's Islam. And I don't see that as changing anytime soon. One of the major areas of insight and understanding that's needed among Christians is to really understand what Islam is all about. The media glibly talks about the Arab bloc and so forth. And it's interesting that most of the time when they speak of the Arab community, they're not talking about Arabs at all. They're talking about Iraq, Syria, or Egypt. None of which are Arab. All of them though are Islamic. That is Muslim. And the Muslim agenda is, of course, to convert the entire world by force if necessary to Islam. It divides the world into that which is Islam and that which it is at war with until the final judgment. So we need to separate the propaganda and understand the reality that Islam is hostile not only to Israel but to any non-Islamic movement, and Islam is on the warpath. The so-called rise of fundamentalism is something very vivid on our horizon. When you look at the theology of Islam, it is the embodiment of what the Bible refers to as the spirit of Antichrist. In 1 John 2:22, it defines the theology of the Antichrist. It says he denies the Son, he denies the Father. The Antichrist denies the Son, denies the Father. You look at the very creed, the very foundation, the essence of Islam. Allah, you know, there is no God other than Allah, and Muhammad is the final messenger of Allah. It denies Yahweh, the God of the Bible. It denies Jesus as the final expression of God's revelation to mankind in these last days, he has sent his Son. And so, Islam doctrinally meets the criteria of the system of the Antichrist. And then, you know, there's just the simple fact that we have reality on our side. You know, you look out in the nations right now, you look out at the Middle East, you look at the primary persecuting forces that are beheading Christians, that are wiping out Christian villages and so forth. It's Islam. It's not the New Age religions. It's not Catholicism. It's not some Luciferian New World Order, whatever other theories or opinions we might have. It's right in front of us. What unites Islam is their collective hatred for Israel, and it's an objective that has to be met at all costs to dispossess Israel of the land which Islam views as having been once its own. And so that's the real dilemma that we need to face. It has nothing to do with ethnology. They're not talking about ethnic issues. We're not talking about geographic issues. We're talking about religious issues. And the adverse religion is Islam. That's the real debate about the Temple Mount. That's the real debate about the so-called occupied territories. That's the real debate that faces every major world power today.
I don't actually believe that Islam is ever going to completely take over the world. But what we do have right now, as I said, is the merging of multiple trends. The West is increasingly giving itself to this hyper-irrational form of tolerance. We're aborting ourselves into virtual non-existence. We're not having kids. You know, there's a very simple statement: "The future belongs to those who show up for it." We're not having children. We're not replicating. Osama bin Laden was the 52nd son of his father. The Islamic world, they are replicating. They are spreading. And then you have the refugee crisis. You know, Europe used to think, well, that's over there in the Middle East until millions of refugees walked into their backyard. And so suddenly the Middle East is not very far anymore. And so I don't believe that Islam is going to take over every government of the world, but I think its impact, its influence is going to spread and be far more influential than many of us could have imagined. I think that the influence of Islam globally is dramatic, even over just the past 10 years. The manner in which Islam has forced its relevance onto all of us and become daily front-page attention-getting force on earth, that's only going to continue.
The Antichrist can't be everywhere at the same time. So he puts an image of himself in the temple, and it's enabled to speak like a man. I used to think that's impossible. But have you been to Disney World of late? A man stands up and says, "Hello," and he greets you. It's not a man. It's a contraption. It's a machine wearing a suit, having a voice that welcomes you warmly. Something like this, the Antichrist will do. Robotics, of course, is phenomenal because we're creating machines that not only can work in the sense of assembly plants and that sort of thing. We're starting to create machines that are sentient, that can deal with concepts. We're dealing with machines that can learn, that can acquire skills. This is a whole frontier, a very different field of robotics. A whole area of artificial intelligence, or as some people would express it, the simulation of cognitive behavior. But the fact that software can learn has staggering implications, especially in the large-scale sense. And of course, this is a very popular theme in fiction, but it's also a very real horizon that we're approaching, that these machines go far, far beyond the capabilities of the designer. The advances that they're making are astonishing, and a thousandfold at a time kind of thing. The capability of the computer will exceed the capacity of the human mind. And Ray Kurzweil has coined the term "singularity." It's a misuse of a mathematical term. But what he means by that is the point at which artificial intelligence will exceed human intelligence. When that crossover occurs, the part of the goal is to be able to transfer the data and the software and all that goes together to make up what we call consciousness. People translate transfer that into a machine. After one of the documentaries on Ray Kurzweil, they asked him at the end of the interview, "Do you believe there's a God?" And his answer was very interesting. He says, "Not yet." Kurzweil there is referring more to the idea that we can create a God, which is, if you define God as being something bigger than we are, then this collective consciousness of all society, including all of the technological advancements, could actually turn out to be something that's godlike because it would be bigger than any of us, and smarter, and faster, and as such, would be a God. As a result of the singularity, strong artificial intelligence is going to come online, and it is going to literally be billions of billions of times smarter than all the Einsteins that have ever lived combined. And this godlike synthetic intelligence is going to provide the answers to all of our woes, is what they believe. This concept is by somehow collecting these consciousnesses, you create God. That's sort of the flavor.
But in reality, when you think about that, all of that is based on physical and somewhat spiritual material that was created. And so that's more, not deos ex machina, deos homo. That's God being made from mankind. It's still something mankind produced. But mankind may not be able to control, as opposed to the idea that God was, you know, prosay. God was in and of himself, and he created all of this. So will he be God in the terms that we conceive of God? No. It's still going to be a technological thing that uses matter, material things to exercise its power. But our concept of God is someone who created everything ex nihilo, meaning out of nothing. And as a result of that, all of the technology that we have was in God's mind. And the next question is, which God is greater? And if the real God is greater than Kurzweil's God, do you think the real God's going to put up with that for any length of time?
There's a rip tide that's so powerful that no matter how well-intentioned you are, you can't swim against it. And that's my concern with transhumanist technology, artificial intelligence, and the rest of it. They're playing, it's like Pandora's box. They're playing with forces. They think that they can handle them, but it's subtle. They can't. In the book of Revelation, it talks about who can make war with the beast? Why? The beast knows everything about you that there is to know. The beast is more powerful than you. The beast has control over the world. And the beast has seemingly godlike powers. And we were warned that in the end times, remember, the Antichrist comes with all signs and wonders. So, it'll be big stuff.
Now, this is where it starts to get interesting, is because there's what's pushing all these, besides their normal pressures of advancement, is an arms race. It's a different world. We're building bullets that will seek out their target. That's exactly what's predicted in the book of Jeremiah, where the intelligence is in the arrow, not the shooter. And they can't miss, it says. And so that describes the direction of technology and weaponry. That's predicted in the Bible, by the way. Of course, most of these things we're talking about, in one way or another, haven't been anticipated in the Bible. The major development countries, China, Russia, the US, and others, are working hard to develop what might be called the super soldier. The soldier whose capabilities of motion, of fighting, of perception, of communication with partners are enhanced by these technologies. So what's happening behind the scenes with the highest military secrecy that can be organized is an arms race to be the first to field artificial intelligence, to create a superhuman being. We're not talking science fiction here. We're talking about the aspirations of the most knowledgeable practitioners of these technologies. We're heading into a very strange world.
The idea that transhumanism will be the religion of the Antichrist, I think is a valid concern. And I'll explain why. When we look back at Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, that was the world's first DNA dictatorship. And it was built largely on the occult, but it was also built largely on the idea of the genetic manufacturing of a god race of supermen. The German philosopher Nietzsche expressed this, and Hitler actually got his science and technology from the Rockefeller laboratories on the East Coast of the US in the 1920s, where they were doing the science of eugenics, or breeding supermen. The Antichrist is called a wicked king who worships a god that his fathers knew not. He's in contact with this individual whom the Nazis called the Übermensch, the superman. There's this idea that if man can just get in contact with this right, correct entity, he can pull himself up to the next level. And this is written in the book of Revelation, the idea of transhumanism. The New Agers, the god-haters, essentially, are looking for a way to attain immortality. Singularity, and it's going to happen. And this is why he has to come back. This is why Jesus has to come back, because this goes against the system. This goes against creation. Man trying to be God, man trying to attain immortality. Well, certainly the Bible has a lot to say about immortality. It begins in the garden where the nachash, the serpent, appears and promises Eve, and then of course through her, Adam, that they can become like the gods if they will eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And it accomplished exactly the opposite. By eating of that tree and by rebelling against God, they actually lost immortality, and the plague came upon mankind of death. So that whole idea of breeding a superman goes back to the fall of mankind with Lucifer, where Satan tempted Adam and Eve, "You shall be as gods." So this enticement to be a god-man or a god-woman is embedded all over transhumanist science. We are reading very troubling stories with genetic tampering, with genetic manipulation. There is the quest. No, nothing has changed since the garden. "You will be like gods." That's been the quest of mankind ever since the fall in the garden to try to get back to some state of immortality. The idea of avatars, brain transplants, to somehow move the consciousness of a human being into another device, an avatar, essentially. We have entered into what many in the transhumanist community today are calling the hybrid age. And not just transhumanists, but people at work in advanced fields of science, biotechnology, neurotechnology, neuropharmacology, synthetic biology. The J. Craig Venter Institute has created the first forms of novel synthetic life, forms of life that have never existed before. And when they use the term "hybrid age," what they're saying is that in the same way that we went through the agrarian age, the same way that we went through the industrial age, the same way that we just have are now in the information age, they're saying that in the hybrid age, what we have been doing with genetically modified crops, what we are and have been doing with genetically modified animals, we also are going to do to humans. When you read the writers of the transhumanist movement, they're all talking about being god-men. They're all talking about things like immortality. They're all talking about like we're gods. And behind the whole thing is they believe they're through man's technology and the science of transhumanism and genetic modification, they're going to breed themselves or genetically alter themselves into eternal life where they will be gods. Now, the problem with that, that's in direct conflict with what God says in his word. And there's going to be a big, big interruption in the transhumanist agenda because while they're running around, or at least the elite are running around acting as gods, the real God, Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, is going to return from heaven with the armies of heaven on Judgment Day in Jerusalem, fight the great final battle of Armageddon. That nexus between man and machine, the singularity, the point of singularity. People used to put that off 50 years. Now that date has come much, much closer. I really believe that we are on the verge, through various scientific agencies, philanthropic agencies, controlling entities, most of them behind the scenes. We're on the verge of entering into the era when man and superman will merge at last, producing that Antichrist figure. How soon will it happen? How far away is this? Nobody knows, but it seems very close to me.
This false Messiah is portrayed in Revelation as a rider on a white horse, the first of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. His control of the world becomes so complete that no one will be able to buy or sell anything without his mark of 666 in their right hand or on their forehead. Anyone taking his mark is doomed to spend eternity in hell. All who refuse to take his mark, called the mark of the beast, will be hunted down and killed.
Yeah. My bigger concern is with the steady encouragement of technology that feeds on the credulity of people, that can make them accept and believe things that are not true, that can make them so amenable to being probed, to being known about, to being followed and tracked. We get used to these things. By the time the mark of the beast comes around, I wonder if we're even going to know when that point happened. Are we going to wake up some morning and say, "Wait a minute. I just got marked and I didn't even know it. I mean, I had to sign up for something, or I had to have an exam, or I bought something, or suddenly I'm marked. I didn't think it was the mark of the beast. The mark of the beast is supposed to be a tattoo or a chip in my hand or something." And suddenly I realize there's a whole technology that's happened to me, and I didn't even know it. It's a mindset. That's the part I'm concerned about, is the mindset, because I can see Christians lockstepping at every point with the surrounding culture and the technology. There's no difference between the mentality of non-Christians and Christians. We all buy into the same stuff. We all use the same stuff, and we tend to think the way that stuff makes us think. That's where the danger is.
This whole idea of the mark of the beast is widely misunderstood. First of all, the people who know nothing else about the Bible have all heard about the 666 and so forth. What they overlook is the issue is not our number, it's his number. There's a leader, and people in that day will demonstrate their allegiance to that leader by taking on a name, an image, or whatever, and his mark, if you will. And apparently, he will be so powerful that unless you express that allegiance, you'll have difficulty buying or selling or having a job. So there's a form of economic control that is obviously very effective. That can be from a number of different things.
In Revelation 13, there's the description of the mark of the beast, 666. No man can buy or sell without the mark of the beast. All right. So that's either a microchip technology, nanochip, biochip, or maybe a DNA modification to carry the mark of the beast. This leads to the next step, which is linking up every individual who accepts the mark of the beast with what would be called the world brain or the hive mind. But the idea is computer implants, where it's brain-to-computer interfaces connected via satellite to the hive mind, where everyone is plugged into this technological transhumanist technology, where their consciousness is plugged into one system. And you make it go global through virtual worlds. This is like the party of the future. And like you said, it's more than a party. This is a transcendence experience that is driven by technology, but there's a lie built into the system. It's not all equal. There is an elite, or a Luciferian elite, and ultimately Lucifer, behind the so-called collective state of consciousness of mankind, amplified by the hive brain.
What is the mark of the beast? Essentially, it's some kind of an identification that apparently changes one's nature. Certainly, it is a very plausible theory that the mark of the beast could be a biochip that has the capacity to restructure DNA. And that is not sci-fi science. That's emerging science right now. One of my personal friends is a molecular biologist. And whenever I have these complicated questions, since I'm not a scientist, I will pass them in front of her and say, "Do you think this would really work?" Which I've done in the past. And she has assured me that the science is developing right now that would allow for smart tattoos, for chimeric vaccines, and also for implantable biochips that would have the capacity to literally rewrite your genetic makeup. Go through your system like a virus, if a person wants to think of it that way, so that it starts making alterations to your DNA, to your genetic makeup.
How does it interface with the human nervous system? Does the nervous system in fact give it energy? Cuz the nervous system is an electrical charge. So is that how this thing operates within the human body? We think so, but we're not even sure what it does. How does it change the host's DNA, or does it change the host DNA? We firmly believe that it changes the host's DNA. I firmly believe that these implants are, in fact, the prototypes of the mark of the beast. One actually becomes part of the Antichrist system by taking that mark to the point that it even changes, perhaps, and many have suggested this lately, it may even change your genetics. That in a sense, you're born again in the negative. When you receive the Antichrist, you are born again to damnation. And if this is like the antithesis of Christianity, in which you are born to eternal life, if you take the mark of the beast, you have assumed upon yourself an anti-life. And about those people, it is written that they suffer miserably. Some of them passionately desire to die, and the Bible says they seek death and can't find it. What could that be? Perhaps, and I'm only speculating here, but I've thought many times that taking that mark might give you a kind of, dare I even use the word, zombie-like immortality, where you earnestly desire to die, but you cannot, once you've made the choice to follow the Antichrist. It's a horrible thought.
Now, imagine at some point in the future, let's say there is a pandemic, either it's concocted by the government intentionally to create a scenario in which the mark of the beast could be implemented, or it's simply a bird flu type virus that becomes viral and it is very powerful. And the government or governments of the world step forward and say, "We have a cure." Because this flu is a blend of human and bird, human and beast, the cure for it, the vaccine is a chime that will cure you of the disease, but be advised, it will also change your genetic makeup so that you would no longer be a human as that you know has been understood before that period of time. Well, that's a kind of scenario in which a mark of the beast could be introduced. It might even add some sense of meaning around the word "beast." Why is it called the mark of the beast? Because perhaps it alters your genetic makeup so that now you're no longer entirely human. You're part animal. And therefore, maybe you might not be redeemable anymore, because you are not a human as God made them. You're neither man nor beast at that point. You're Nephilim. Do the same thing that he rejected in ancient days and said there is no redemption for them.
The only time in the biblical prophetic narrative where you see this kind of judgment, where you take the mark and there's no way out, is dealing with the Nephilim. It's everyone else, there's always grace and mercy extended, always, always, always. But with the Nephilim, no grace, no mercy, because we're not human. Wouldn't it be just like the son of perdition, the seed of a serpent, Satan himself, to try to contaminate, just like he did in the days of Noah, but differently, like similar to give someone a little implant which will alter their DNA so they're no longer human? And that's what I firmly believe will happen. You take the mark, you're in the lake of fire.
Jesus compared the way things would be during these prophesied times with the period of the biblical prophet Noah. In Noah's day, the earth's population had become so immoral that the Bible says the thoughts of men were continually evil. Noah tried to warn those around him of the impending judgment of a global flood, but sadly, no one believed. Could the decaying moral climate today be just one more indication that the judgments of the tribulation are right around the corner? In speaking also about the days of Noah, the Bible says that every imagination in man's hearts was only evil continually. People took that beautiful thing called their imagination and they dedicated it to thoughts of evil, to the place where they were incapable of thinking good things, but only evil things. I think we have no idea how corrupt the world was before the days of Noah, when every imagination of every heart was evil continually. That must have been a very dangerous, corrupt, treacherous, lecherous, degenerate world at that time. Also, they were given over to violence. The hearts of men were filled with violence. In fact, the scripture speaks about the devil and says his heart is filled with violence, which he transposed into the desires of people in the days of Noah as well. Jesus made a strange remark speaking of the second coming that it would be just as the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be. To understand what he's talking about, you have to understand what the days of Noah were really all about. The events that led to what we know as the flood of Noah. That can be looked at denotatively or connotatively. Denotatively, it was a business-as-usual kind of remark. That's the way most people, that's the way it's taught in most seminaries. But if you really study the language, it also may be used connotatively. The days of Noah were days of the corruption of the human genome.
In my Bible, I've written down, I think, 11 characteristics of the days of Noah. The one that I think is worth really pointedly emphasizing is that in the days of Noah, the Bible says there were giants in the earth. The word is Nephilim, which means inhuman creatures. So that there had been a genetic change take place. And why did that take place? That took place, in my judgment, because the sons of God came down and cohabited with the daughters of men, producing offspring that were giants but not human. Had that become universal, there would have been no humans left in the world, but only this, shall we say, off-brand of a kind of life that resembled humanity. And if that prevailed, then it would be impossible for the Lord to send a human savior who was part and parcel with mankind.
I'm on the trail of Nephilim. I'm a biblical literalist, and when I look at the Genesis 3 biblical prophetic narrative, which states the seed of a serpent will be in enmity at war with the seed of the woman, I believe that that's literal. I believe the seed of the woman becomes Messiah, but the seed of a serpent manifests just a few chapters later, specifically in Genesis 6, where we see this very enigmatic, strange, troubling text where the sons of God see the daughters of men and they desire them. They marry them. And what happens is is that the Nephilim, this product of this unholy union, the sons of God are, in my opinion and many others, Chuck Missler believes this too, the sons of God are in fact the fallen angelic host. And they do the unthinkable. They have intercourse. They have sex with the women of earth, producing this hybrid entity which was never supposed to be here, known as the Nephilim. One of the aspects or byproducts of this may have been giantism. What many of us believe is that in the years of the great grandfather of Noah, these very powerful angels called Watchers came down to the earth. And I often refer to them as the first super geneticists that came to the earth because when you see what they did.
This is reaffirmed by many, many contemporary books that were also written at the same time that are not in the Bible, but they support what is suggested in the book of Genesis, um, that these guys were these angels were tinkering with genetics. They were the first transhumanists. They made the promise to mankind that they could improve their species. And in some ways, they did create a superior physical specimen, giants. In fact, the Bible refers to them as the mighty men of old, the men of renown. Well, that's a transhumanist aspiration. We want to be stronger. We want to be more powerful.
Out of them came the Hagarim, the men of renown. They were of unusual strength and power. And the, and, and their, uh, results are incorporated in almost every mythology of every group on the planet, including the human, the American Indians have stories of that. If you read the Will Rogers biography, you find anecdotal background to support all that. But these are the events that led to the myths about the Greek demigods and so forth, things that were neither man nor gods. They were halfway between. Those legends and myths have their roots in some actual events that occurred that led up to the flood of Noah.
You can also look into the, the legends of, of so many other ancient cultures. However, um, the Samarians, and the Greeks, the Egyptians, and things like that, that seem to be, um, an echo of something that once happened, like a mute testimony that was left over, uh, and kept in records and referred back to something that at one time happened. And this was their way of creating both legends, but also a historical record of an event that might have once taken place and that would be preserved in mythology.
It also seems to be the subject of some conspiratorial views. The Smithsonian, others seem to have gone to some lengths to hide those evidences rather than to promote those evidences, which is, that's a strange way to search for truth is to hide things. You'd think there'd be an, you know, a composite effort to try to reveal things. We might learn from them. But it turns out if you start studying giants, you'll discover not only is there a lot of evidence of it, you also discover that evidence is, there's efforts to deliberately hide it for some reason.
Most people that read the Bible may not realize the issue that's in front of them there is the attempts to corrupt the race of man to avoid a redeemer. And God's response to that was to wipe out all but eight people. Took Noah and his three sons and their four wives, had them prepare a barge and escape the deluge that drowned the rest of the world. Strange story, very true, and very, uh, ratified by a lot of evidence.
The flood of Noah was a DNA targeted digital genetic judgment, and that God was wiping out the pollution and contamination of the DNA of the animal kingdom, as well as human beings, from fallen angels. And people would challenge that assertion, but it's like, God is love, God is fair. So if God is judging man for his wickedness, as it says initially in the passage, the purpose of the flood judgment was the wickedness of man. I agree with that. But that's only part of the reason for the judgment. The main reason for the judgment is that the DNA, which is contaminated, had to be wiped out by God.
This seems to reflect what had happened in the days of Noah, where through intermarriage, the day finally came where it says of Noah that he only was found perfect in his days. And the Hebrew word there, Tamim, seems to refer having something to do with his DNA, with his genetic makeup. In other words, he might have been him and his children by offspring might have been the last humans on earth that had not been corrupted as a result of intermarriage leading back to what the Watchers and the Nephilim had done many, many years earlier. And God had to expunge that, um, corruption of genetic makeup, both animal and man, from the face of the earth. I think that that story is, uh, in some people's mind, a myth. In my mind, it's, it's a scriptural and historical fact. But certainly, you could see in that story, something that is reminiscent of what we are now doing in science. Again, the promise that we are going to improve humanity.
And by the way, Genesis 6 isn't the only issue. The shocking discovery is that that was it wasn't limited to Genesis 6. Verse four, it says, "And also after that." And we discover that when, when the descendants of Abraham returned from Egypt, that Satan had four centuries to lay down a minefield in Canaan. And we discover that when Moses sends the, uh, spies to reconnoiter the land, 10 of them came back and said, "There's Nephilim in the land." It's when Joshua and Caleb go into the promised land, we see a list of Nephilim tribes. The Raphaim, the Nephilim, the Zamzummim, the Emim, the Anakim, all in my opinion, denote different genetic characteristics. For instance, the Anakim means long necks. That's what it means. So, does that denote a particular genetic characteristic for this particular Nephilim tribe that all of these entities had long necks? They might not have been giants, they but they might have just had very elongated skulls and very long necks. We don't know. That's why we're on the trail to try to get to the bottom of things. Uh, to try to get real DNA evidence.
The issue of giants, by the way, also leads to a misunderstanding because the word in the, in the biblical text in the Greek is Gigantes. Yes, they happen to be giants, and indeed they were, as we re, there's corroborating verses. But what the word really means is earthborn. Gigas is a term for the earth. And, uh, like mother Gia, of mother nature. The, the, there's a, it's, it's like if I, it's like a pun. Yes, they were giants. But what the word really means, they were earthborn. Or the Hebrew Nephilim is the fallen ones. They both refer to the same creature. A fallen one, earthborn. See, it's a, it's the hybrid. The Nephilim were the hybrids. And the word Gigantes, yes, there were giants. And unfortunately, the English translations of many Bibles just use the word giants per se, that doesn't carry the full meaning of what that word in the original really meant.
So, the same u strategy that Satan used in Genesis 6, he was used in a more localized sense in Canaan. And you won't understand much of the new, the Old Testament history unless you understand what they were up against with those four tribes where Moses is instructed to wipe out every man, woman, and child of certain genetic background. The, the offspring, the sons of Anak, Goliath and his four brothers. That's very, very controversial text if you read it today because that's what sounds like genocide. That's exactly what he was instructed to do.
They are the soulless ones. And this is why it's what seems to be genocide. Uh, to most of us who are looking at this, actually, it's not genocide. Not genocide at all. It's, it's the, it's a hybrid entity between fallen angels and the women of earth, which was never supposed to exist. It's an abomination in the, in the most high God's sight, which is why the mandate comes down to wipe them all out.
So, um, Jesus warns us to be like the days of Noah when he returns. And I think we are in those days. Absolutely. The book of Revelation, uh, brings the supernatural down to street level. And if you read it very carefully, you'll, you'll find things there that are absolutely unbelievable. Uh, in terms of catastrophe, it's unimaginable. In, in terms of phenomenology, the bottomless pit being opened up and creatures coming out of a column of smoke and flame and flying over the whole earth. It really sounds like a sci-fi movie. And you say, "Can this be true?" Well, I believe it is true. I mean, I've been investigating, um, the supernatural, um, things that most people don't look into. The Great Pyramids of Egypt, you know, who built them and why. Places like the Nazca lines, which I've been to several times, flown over, looked at them, seen them, walked around in them, or near them, anyway. Places like Sacsayhuamán, Ollantaytambo, uh, the Great Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon in Mexico, Teotihuacán, which is just, if you've never been there, I mean, that place is mind-blowing, mind-boggling. And it's a different, different structure than what we see in Peru, but it's, it's just, where did this thing come from? Why the pyramid? Why is there a pyramid in Mexico? Who gets up on a Monday morning and constructs a building, you know, starts a building project like this? I mean, it must have taken a lot of man-hours. And I mean, and, and where does, where does the design come from? I mean, there's this whole idea of very precise mathematics. By the way, the pyramid in Teotihuacán is the largest pyramid on the planet. The base, it's not as high as the Great Pyramid in Giza, but the base is. So, why this pyramidal shape that we see all over the world?
The Darwinian paradigm suggests that at the end, end of the last ice age, uh, the, the Bering land bridge was there, the Bering land bridge, the Bering Strait, and people from Asia crossed over into the Americas. While that is true, not everybody came over that way. And we believe that there was a diaspora 3,500 years ago of Nephilim tribes from the Levant, from Israel proper, and they fled because Joshua and Caleb were going in and they were wiping them out. And rightfully so, because these were hybrid entities which are not human, in our, in my opinion. Now, these hybrids, these Nephilim, if you will, many people suspect, we don't know, but we suspect are somehow involved with the UFOs. So the whole issue of the days of Noah tend to lead to, uh, studies of what we encounter as UFOs, unidentified flying objects, which for most people is a real mystery.
Now, let's, this is an area that's hard to talk about because it's so full of nonsense. The passages in Ezekiel chapter 1 and 10 and so forth, the Ezekiel wheels don't make any sense unless you have some background in hyperspaces. You're talking about transdimensional travel, not intergalactic travel, transdimensional travel. And that's one of that's the, that's exactly the dilemma you're confronted with if you start trying to research UFOs. You have to get rid of the 99% of junk, hoaxes, and misinformation. You can strip all that away. When you do, you discover there's a core group of events, quite a few of them, thousands actually, that are a strange paradox because they're real. They show up on multiple radars simultaneously. They leave tangible evidence on the ground, radiation, burnt ground, what have you. On the one hand, they're real. On the other hand, they violate physical laws. They make right-angle turns at incredible speeds. They go faster than the speed of sound without sonic booms. They seem to be able to materialize and disappear spontaneously at will. Now, some people think, well, these are visitors from another galaxy. Most serious scientists that have studied this point out that that's not what they are for a number of reasons. And the two guys that are the most respected researchers in this area, Jacques Vallée of France and, and J. Allen Hynek, the American, both of them prolific in their writings, studied it for most of their economic lifetimes. Both of them came to the conclusion that they're not intergalactic, they're interdimensional, that they're demonic, they're hostile, they have a hostile agenda. And that leads to a whole another technical discussion to get into. But the point is, the paradox of the UFOs is one of the main paradoxes confronting us today. Many people have heard so much nonsense they just dismiss it as hallucinations or something. Those are people that haven't done their homework because there are events that are that are competently, um, validated by people who are competent to do that.
So the, now the mysteries that surround this are made even more mysterious because you'll discover that this area enjoys the highest military classifications of our system. It's, I, I was very much involved in the classified community for three decades, and it startled me to discover that the UFO area enjoys a military classification even higher than our most sensitive armament warheads do not enjoy the protection that that area gets. It's sealed off. And, uh, two presidents, four congressmen tried to crack the security surrounding this area and they were not unable to.
There are a number of occultic societies that have been wedded into, uh, various black budget governmental operations. Uh, some of them operate on the basis that, uh, they have been in contact with aliens who are coming here to help man to progress to the next level. They are coming here to help us evolve to the next higher, uh, version of ourselves. You're, when you get into this area, you suddenly discover it enjoys that kind of u protection from surveillance on the one hand, and yet keeps reoccurring. There, uh, continuous events that are often not carried in the media because it comes across so bizarre that the media avoids it, and other stories are spiked or deliberately covered by the government to prevent them being published. So what's going on? That's a hole in.
And then in the middle of all of this, we discover that the most exclusive club in the world, the Vatican, the Roman Catholic Church, has resources in the astronomical capital, which now is Mount Graham in southeastern Arizona, where all the major obser, the most advanced observatories presently are established. And they have theirs there, and their team of Jesuit experts, and they're preparing openly to receive an alien visitor. Now, that's a strange idea in the first place. It's even stranger that they're doing it openly. This isn't some rumor in the hallways of the Vatican. No, this is an active commitment of resources by the Vatican, uh, organization there headquartered in Italy, but the primary facility is at Mount Graham in Arizona. We met with the astronomers up there on the top of Mount Graham, and we were able to confirm, um, some fairly astonishing doctrine, actually, that's developing right now at the highest academic echelons, uh, in the Vatican, which very much does involve their belief that we are closer now than not. That's what some of their astronomers are saying. We're closer now than not to official disclosure of alien intelligence. It's as if they think they know something, uh, that the rest of us don't know, and they have been very busy crafting doctrine that very specifically would accommodate a dynamic ET reality.
So if we go back to ancient Babylon, ancient Babylon was the location of the Tower of Babel. And at the Tower of Babel, it was the place where the first global government, global religion, and global economic system began. But people need to understand that the Tower of Babel was an interdimensional portal. It was a stargate that allowed for the entrance of extra-demonic entities to come from another dimension into the earth. All right. These entities, by the way, happen to be fallen angels. The Tower of Babel is essentially the same thing as the CERN collider. The scientific director, who is an atheist of, uh, the CERN collider, said that one of the primary purposes of the CERN collider is to allow into the physical earth the entrance of extradimensional entities.
So what I'm arriving at is that there are powerful entities, powerful forces that are supernatural, that are that are beyond our sensory, uh, input, but they exist simultaneous all around us. Clearly, the idea of, uh, interdimensional travel is embodied, uh, and, and I, I would not withhold the techn, and angelic technology from fallen angels. But you don't realize it because you're so dazzled with the magic they're giving you is, you, you are becoming the slave of a super-being who is so powerful and so seductive. He's the ultimate con man. And in fact, the Antichrist is his earthly expression. What he trades in, his master craft is deception at the highest level. And that's my concern that people don't realize they're being enticed into slavery. Uh, these are strange things. These are issues that many people would, uh, uh, you know, try to sweep under the carpet or put away because they don't know how to deal with it. But they're real, and they're challenging the best minds we have to try to understand what's going on here. And if we understand the remarks that Jesus made correctly, this is somehow in parallel with or, uh, similar to the events that led to the flood of Noah.
And it's very interesting that the words of Jesus Christ said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man." He was specifically referring to the inter-species breeding between fallen angels, uh, extradimensional creatures with human women to create a race of giants. And then the flood wiped out that. But Christ said that in the last days, there's going to be a resurgence. So here we are in our lifetime, and we have the transhumanist movement and the military-industrial complex producing super soldiers, and the words of Christ are being fulfilled. Exactly the same thing that happened in the day of, as of Noah, which was a merger of human DNA with extraterrestrial DNA, is happening in our lifetime. So we're in really very dark and troubling areas. And of course, some of this is being fueled by the fallen church, by Satan, who is giving some of this information to try to connect the dots to make this happen. So, yeah, I think that we're in a period of time which, unless the Lord comes back, unless Jesus, the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, returns soon, there may be nothing human to return to in the not too distant future.
That's exactly the kind of thing that we see portrayed by Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2. Jesus himself said that they, that there's going, people are going to believe a lie that is that if it were possible, it would deceive the very elect. So this, this, this global delusion that is being designed or that's coming is, is part of the eschatological biblical scenario. And so it shouldn't surprise us. And so the idea that there may be some kind of alien dimension to the rise of the superpower that emerges, that we generally call him the Antichrist. That's a tragic name, cuz that word is used only by John in a different context altogether. There are 33 different titles of in the Old Testament, 13 in the New. And that's not one of them, by the way. That's the word we use. But the point is, this political leader and his sidekick that is promoting him are, are the most effective people that have ever been, uh, uh, assuming power on the planet Earth. That's yet to come.
Well, there's no question that we're coming into the end of the age. In my mind, that's a whole another, that's a whole, I can't give you a few sound bites on that. I'm not setting dates, but clearly there's a, there's a convergence of megapolitics, convergence of technologies. We're heading to a climax that if God is God, and if we could take the Bible seriously, we're coming to a climax as such. And, uh, I don't, I don't see it lasting many decades.
You know, when you go back to the book of Genesis, you have the story of the fall when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God. And it was at that time that death entered the human race. And we need to understand that we, as humans, were not created by God. Our, our original condition in the ideal state, we're not intended to die. We're not intended to age and for this body to, uh, decay and become wrinkly and just all of the indignities that come with the human experience. We were actually created, as it was in the garden, to be immortal, to live forever. And according to the scriptures, the time is coming when we will, those of us who are, are righteous before God, those of us who have been forgiven of their sins, who have come into a right relationship with God, we will be given what are called resurrection bodies. These are bodies of immortality. Earth, if you will, will be restored to its edenic state. And so it was according to God's will that because of the, the, the sin and the rebellion of man that death entered the world, the human condition. But now we have man that is in a very Babylon-like fashion. We are trying to rise up and defeat death. We are trying to through our own technologies reverse the aging process to, to, uh, or download the brain whereby we can live on forever in a machine or this sort of thing so that we can attain immortality apart from the will and the plan of God as stated in the scriptures. So the question is, will we be able to attain this, or will we be able to somehow perpetuate or at least dramatically extend human life? I really don't know. I don't know the answer to that, but I know that we are, I would argue, at least I strongly suspect that we are opening a Pandora's box when we go down this road. It's, it's astonishing to look at those technologies from, from the point of view as the erosion of our personal liberties. We're moving, we're, we're empowering people in power to have more power over our lives, every detail, financially and medically and every other way. And at the same time, we're also seeing instability in our governing institutions. And, uh, that we've been advocating democracy. You know, the founders of America understood the dangers of that and worked hard to avoid a, they wanted a republic, not a democracy. But those distinctions have been lost in our current horizons.
Understanding biblical prophecy, the founding fathers of America built into the Constitution safeguards to prevent the United States from losing its sovereignty to a one-world government. Proponents of the New World Order recognize America's stand against global unification and have in recent years been systematically dismantling those safeguards. Now, a dangerous trend has begun whereby any citizen who speaks up about America's biblical roots or dares to mention how their Constitution is being undermined is labeled an extremist, a right-wing fundamentalist, or Christian fanatic by government officials and members of the mainstream media. And so we're setting the stage here for the right kind of global upheaval that's going to put in power, uh, uh, uh, dictatorships that will pale all, all the ones of history will pale in comparison. There's a super dictator coming. The Bible's warned us about that, and he'll be accompanied with a delusion that is going to be perpetrated on the human race. And, uh, that's why there's so much interest by, uh, people in terms of this whole issue of the UFOs and alien visitors and all those things that, uh, are going to be part of that scenario of delusion, of error, of, of our, uh, uh, uh, imprisonment, if you will, as a people. And that's exactly what God worked, warned us of, and Paul talks about in Second Thessalonians, that they will, that they will be a delusion, that they will believe the lie. It's a specific lie that will be perpetrated on the human race.
As the movement to merge all religions into one presses forward, so does the intensity to persecute Bible-believing Christians. Christians who give honor to the one and only Creator God and who love His Son Jesus Christ are considered misfits by globalists. The plan to quote re-educate or eliminate these people is already in full swing. During the 1990s alone, the persecution of Christians in countries such as Sudan, Cuba, China, Iran, Indonesia, and Nigeria resulted in millions being enslaved and massacred.
That religion at the end of the age, while it sounds so ironic, will be very, very cruel. The Antichrist gets out a mandate that everyone who does not worship the beast will be put to death. Throughout the communist system in the last 80 years, souls and eaten said they put to death 60 million of their own people. That is very little compared to what the Antichrist will do to those who do not worship him. My recommendation, don't join the religion at the end of the age. Don't even become a part of that awful stream that is moving today that is pressing people in that direction. Believe the gospel. Become a citizen of the kingdom of Christ. And then you'll have the hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began.
Christians who believe the Bible to be the authoritative word of God and look forward to the return of Jesus Christ are watching with excitement as many ancient prophecies continue to unfold before their eyes. However, for those who disrespect the biblical point of view, the nearness of the seven-year tribulation period produces panic and fear. A decision must be made to either ignore the innumerable signs and accept the consequences or respond to the Bible's warnings before it's too late. Since the first century, many have taught that those who believe in Jesus as their savior would be taken out of the world by him prior to the tribulation. This snatching away is called the rapture. Others believe that Christians will remain on earth during this period.
I keep getting asked, you know, where's America in prophecy? Because clearly the Bible describes a four-power conflict to typically call Armageddon. Tribes of the north, from the south, and from the west, the 10-nation confederacy, that's obviously a European centroid of some kind, and kings of the east. And we said, "Well, gee, where's America in all of this?" And I think the answer is painfully clear. I think at the time that battle takes place, America is not a major player. Uh, we may in some small way be part of the European Confederacy. It could be, but, uh, the real, the real dilemma to us as Americans is America is not that clearly visible as an end-time power. I do think America is in the Bible. I think it's in Isaiah chapter 5, where God describes six curses or woes. Now, the focus of the passage is Israel, but as you look at the things that God is cursing in Isaiah 5, it's exactly what's happening in America. An excessive commitment to materialism, a, a withdrawal from concepts of right and wrong, putting good for evil, evil for good. If you go through and do a study of Isaiah 5 and you see the six curses that God pronounces on a nation, they fit us to a tee. So I think America is in deep, deep trouble, not just economically. I think that's a symptom, not the cause. We've lost our morality. God has said in 2 Chronicles 7:14, and we need to remember that verse. He says, "If my people, not the entire population, if my people shall seek my face and humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land." So if the Christians, I mean the real Christians in America will wake up and take this seriously and humble themselves, seek His face, confess their sin, turn from their wicked ways, then God will do three things. He will hear from heaven, He will forgive our sin, and He will heal our land. So we need to cling to that. And, uh, I think that's really, I think it's time for Christians to get serious.
Let me tell you the good news. The church has never been hurt from the outside, only from the inside. And I think it's going to be a time of clarity. I think the time of the nominal Christian, the denominational Christian, I'm a Christian because I go to church on Sunday. Those days are over. I think the facade's going to be stripped away. I think the real Christians are going to have to be, have going to have to stand up and be counted and under conditions in which they're not the socially acceptable group. You know, for several decades it was fashionable to be a Christian. Not anymore. We're in the post-Christian era. If you're a serious Christian, your neighbors look at you a little. He takes the Bible seriously. I think that's good. I think it's time to stand up for Christ. I think it's time to take the Bible seriously. I think it's time to learn the word of God ourselves, and declare it. I think God will honor that.