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Britt Gillette: 6 Global Events That Could Rock The World At Any Moment · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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The website worldviewmatters.tv, WorldView Matters.tv, we're so blessed to have Britt Gillette
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back with us today and times Bible prophecy.
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He covers, I mean, I think any imaginable issue and many things that we need to be aware
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of.
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In fact, I just want to mention just some of the things he's talked about recently and
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you can subscribe to his sub-stack and I'll give you that link in a minute.
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We talked about the number one sign of the second coming, Netanyahu's warning to
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the world, seven reasons you should study Bible prophecy.
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And today we're going to talk about six global events that could rock the world at any
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moment.
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Britt Gillette, welcome back to the podcast.
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It's a question to be here.
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Thanks for having me.
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You're welcome.
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Good to see you, brother.
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I'm glad you're feeling a little better, maybe not quite up to 100 percent, but you sound
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good.
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So I want to mention your sub-stack because you've been transferring everything over
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there and doing a lot of work at Britt Gillette.substack.com, Britt Gillette.substack.com.
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So before we dive into this, there's a lot of events that you could possibly touch
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on, dozens and dozens, how do you decide every week when you put out content and say,
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okay, I'm sure you pray, Lord, what do I address now?
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How do you decide, what's that progress or that progression like?
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Well, it's really just a matter of assessing what's in the news, what am I reading, what
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am I watching, what information am I gathering, how does that filter through the context
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of what the Bible says?
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And as you said, prayerfully, considering that.
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And then I just run with where God leads me on that issue.
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Well, I know the last show we did, I don't remember what the topic was at this point.
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I think we talked about the banking crisis or the financial situation with FDIC and all
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that.
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And that was really popular.
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So people really like to hear these things and some practical steps that they can take.
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So you're kind of informing, but you're also warning as well and obviously always through
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the lens of the Bible.
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So Britt, let's talk about these global events.
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We only probably have time for six that could change or rock the world at any moment.
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And so what's coming next?
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You know, the first thing you talked, which is really surprising, Damascus, the destruction
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of Damascus.
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So you're going to have to explain that because maybe some newer members of our audience
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or younger believers might not understand how Damascus is prophetic.
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Sure.
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While Isaiah chapter 17 talks about the destruction of Damascus, Damascus is believed to be the
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longest continuously inhabited city on the planet over 5,000 years of recorded history.
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And we haven't seen the type of destruction that's outlined in Isaiah 17 happened before.
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Now there's this is a controversial topic.
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Some people who are very good Bible scholars believe that that was fulfilled previously
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through another war.
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I believe that it is not many other people believe that it is not that it's a future event.
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And so how this fits into the timeline of what we see going on in the world today.
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We see this confrontation between Iran and Israel taking place today.
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And even though that is somewhat faded from the headlines over the past few weeks, I believe
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there's a very real chance this could erupt again at any moment.
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And Iran has proxy armies located all throughout the Middle East and Yemen using Hezbollah and
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Lebanon, Syria, Iraq.
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And Damascus is a headquarters for terrorists and for members of the Iranian military as
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we saw recently with the attack there that killed several Iranian commanders.
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There's a very real potential that you could see this conflict escalate.
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Hezbollah is believed to have over 150,000 rockets that they could fire at Israel.
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There's an opportunity there for them to maybe overwhelm the air defenses of Israel.
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And if Israel felt there was an existential threat from that, I believe they would use
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all the firepower at their disposal to eliminate that.
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And we very well could see something along the lines of the destruction of Damascus.
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And we could see that prophecy of the Lord.
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I don't remember who it was.
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And I'm paraphrasing this what you just said about Damascus.
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I think it was a Mirsar Fati who quite a while ago, people were asking him, what does he keep an eye on?
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He says, well, the world might be watching Israel.
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I'm keeping my eye on Damascus.
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I think he said that.
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It's very interesting.
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But before you got into the points in your article, I appreciate the fact that you refer
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to Matthew 24.8 when Jesus said a lot of things are going to happen, wars, rumors of wars.
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He said, but all this is only for the first of the birth pains with more to come.
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And we're seeing a lot more to come.
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Brent, you could have talked about earthquakes, terrorist attacks, another global pandemic.
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You started with Damascus.
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And so we're always starting with Bible prophecy, which is awesome.
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Before we go on to number two, any other points you want to share about Damascus?
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I think that's fine.
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OK, well, this is very interesting.
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I'm not as familiar with Hormuz.
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Is that how you say it?
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The straight of Hormuz.
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Hormuz.
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So explain why you decided to pick this one for one of these events.
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Well, this fits perfectly in with what we're just talking about, this confrontation between Iran and Israel.
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So the straight of Hormuz is the vital choke point to enter and exit the Persian Gulf by water.
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And so as we've seen in the red sea, the red sea has been effectively closed to Western shipping
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since mid-December.
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In spite of the US Navy and all of its allies, I believe there's 22 countries engaged in something
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called Operation Prosperity Guardian in order to open that up and to end these Oothe rebel attacks
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on Western shipping.
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They have not been successful in doing that conventional firepower of the US Navy and all
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navies is no longer a deterrent against this new age of weapons of drones as munitions that
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can just be launched in mass.
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And so if we can see that happen in the red sea with the Oothe rebels who were funded by Iran,
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who were trained by Iran, fly by Iran, if Iran decided to do the same thing in the Persian Gulf,
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I have no doubt they would be successful.
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At the very least, they would lead to a dramatic increase in insurance rates for ships traversing
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the Persian Gulf, 20% of all the oil consumed in the world travels through the Persian Gulf.
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So if, for instance, they decided, well, out of protest against Israel, any nation aligned
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with Israel can no longer come through here.
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I mean, that is right on Iran's border.
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They would be able to do that.
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Many nations would probably join them.
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It would be similar to the Arab oil embargo we saw 50 years ago following the young
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poor war, and we could see a spike in oil prices if it got completely shut down.
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Those could probably approach $200 of barrel for oil relative to now it's around $80 a barrel.
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And if we saw huge spike in oil prices to that effect, especially in a small time frame
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like a day or a week, it would lead to a global financial crash because there are so many
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different derivatives linked to that price.
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And really, oil, fossil fuels in general, energy is the lifeblood of the global economy.
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There's a direct correlation between energy used and economic output.
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And so if you cut off that energy lifeline, then economic output comes to a grinding halt.
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Wow.
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That brings up so many other possible questions we don't have time to get into.
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For example, drilling right here in North America, why are we relying on oil that comes
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from over there, right?
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I mean, we can talk about all these different things.
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Before we go on to number three, do you have any quick thoughts on that, Britt?
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Yeah, I mean, I think we should be exploring every avenue we can to be as resilient as
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possible.
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And what we're seeing now, too, is we're seeing the easy to get oil in the shale oil
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plays within the United States is becoming harder and harder to reach, becoming more
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expensive to drill new wells.
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So the last decade, decade and a half of that oil production domestically is going to
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be dwindling in the very near future.
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And so this is going to be a problem that crops up in the days ahead.
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So did you pronounce it Hormuz?
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Is that right?
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Yes.
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The straight of Hormuz.
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Now again, for those of us who are maybe geographically challenged, exactly where is
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this?
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And it must not be very big if Iran could actually shut it down.
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Where exactly is that geographically?
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We have the Arabian Peninsula.
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And you have, so you have Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman.
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And then you have on the other side of the Persian Gulf is Iran.
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So that would be the area we're talking about.
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There's a narrow area of navigable water to enter that Persian Gulf where you're getting
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oil from Kuwait, from Saudi Arabia, from Iran, from a number of places.
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And again, 20% of the world's oil supply, not exportable oil, 20% of all oil consumed
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in the world travels through that straight right there.
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Okay.
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Thank you, Jeff.
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You know, our guys are so on top of it, you know, Jeff, our video producer.
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He just brought that up as we were talking about it.
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So thank you, because I'm a visual guy.
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We should have had this plan before.
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And thank you that we've got it up there.
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Now we can see my goodness.
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No wonder they're able to shut it down.
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Okay.
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So I think, Britt, before we get into the next one, we better take a brief pause, because
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I think we need to spend a little bit more time on cyber attacks, on infrastructure, because
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this is huge.
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And this has been a threat for a while.
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I'm excited to hear what you're going to share about that.
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So we'll take a brief pause.
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That Gillette is our guest today and he covers so many important topics.
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And I like how he starts off this next one, number three on the list we're going through
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six global events that could rock the world at any moment.
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Number three, cyber attacks on infrastructure.
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And I like how he started off despite the warnings, busy people or distracted people,
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he remained oblivious to the prospect of cyber attacks on vital infrastructure.
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So Brit, go ahead and share why you're concerned about this.
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Well, really in the modern age, we've become very reliant on certain systems to provide
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us with our day to day needs.
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And so we aren't as resilient as our grandparents and great grandparents were.
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Good point.
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You know, local utilities for our water, for our energy.
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We rely on electronic systems for our banking.
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There are so many different things that we rely on.
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When you think about, what was it, three years ago, the colonial pipeline at a ransomware
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attack that shut down that pipeline, which here, I'm on the east coast.
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And I remember that time within a few days, all the gas stations ran out of gasoline and
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everybody's on social media saying, where can I fill up my tank?
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I can't get to work.
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And they were able to resolve that relatively quickly.
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I can't imagine if that had continued for several weeks, it would have completely crippled
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the economy.
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Wow.
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So that's just one example of how vulnerable we are in so many ways.
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And again, think about there, there was an attack in January in Texas on several municipalities
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where you had a cyber attack from Russia that got into those systems, it didn't shut
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off the systems, but they were probably in there figuring out what they could do.
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One of those systems, it led to water overflowing from a tank and flooding a certain area.
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So Iran, China, other countries have threatened to do this.
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So think about it.
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They were able to shut down your local municipal water supply or your power or banking what
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that would mean if that lasted more than a day or two, it could cause your problems and
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imagine that on a nationwide basis.
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So there's attacks that are taking place toward infrastructure now that's sort of something
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we haven't seen probably since World War II.
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We look at the Nord Street pipeline and how that was blown up.
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We hear about the Houthi rebels.
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There were some internet cables cut underneath the Red Sea and they claim credit for that.
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So there's attacks on infrastructure taking place and we're really putting ourselves in
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danger if we just ignore those and aren't making plans on what we would do in the event
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up.
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So two things I wanted to ask you, you say the world economic forum has warned and then
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in parentheses, which probably means they're preparing to launch a global cyber attack on
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the internet.
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So you mentioned that.
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I want you to talk about that.
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But the other question I have in the back of my mind, I know Satan's got his minions out
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there.
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I know people who would want to do evil and do something like this.
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They've been out there for a long time.
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Why haven't we seen more of this yet?
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Why do you think?
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Well, I think because, you know, like it's probably like nuclear war, there's a price
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to be paid for doing that and individuals may want to do those things, but nation states
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are probably holding them in check in order to prevent what may likely come back at them
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as a result of that.
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We don't know what's going on behind the scenes and maybe there's somebody has said, well,
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all of our systems go down.
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We're not going to look for who the culprit is.
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We're just going to attack everybody.
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I don't know, but we definitely need to be prepared for it.
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Because again, what if, as we've seen, there were a lot of people saying, what if four
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years ago and people that ignored them and said, oh, that's over the top or the grocery
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stores won't run out of food.
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Right.
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Well, run out of toilet paper.
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These systems, they work perfectly.
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That's when there were a lot of people that regretted that.
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Oh, man, the shipping and the transportation industry.
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One thing I wanted to ask you, the W E F, why would they say this and how would they
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know that there's some global cyber attack coming, right?
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I mean, where would they get this intelligence?
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And if they're not involved somehow, is that a good question?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Well, you have to, you have to wonder if they have a plan for implementing that.
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Just as there were, there were war games put in place for what if a coronavirus was
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unleashed on the world?
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We had that type of thing thing happened prior to 2020.
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And then, oh, it happened.
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And as we talked about in the previous video, the FDIC has said, well, these are
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what, what we would tell people that we're war gaming out this crisis.
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Well, you and I don't have faith in the banking system.
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And they said, we would do this preferably on a Friday.
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And if you saw, there was a bank that failed two weeks ago.
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And they notified us on a Friday after the close.
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It was a small bank, a relatively small bank.
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I think it was Republic first was the name of it.
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But that's their, they're telegraphing their plans in advance.
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Right.
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And one of the reasons they do that is so they can say, well, we told you it was
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coming, right?
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What, what are you complaining about?
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We told you it was coming.
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Yeah, it's very important to be listening to what they're saying.
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Exactly.
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Ben, we talked about in that video that they were saying, well, what can we
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share with the people or that they're not ready, the, the little, you know,
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minions, they're not ready to hear what we can share with them.
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But that brings us to the next one.
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Number four in the global events that could rock the world is that banking
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crisis.
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So we talked a little bit about this last time we had you on Britain.
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By the way, guys, you can go to worldviewmatters.tv and you can search for
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our previous podcast with Brit Gillette just going the upper right side and
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type in Brit Gillette in the search.
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But go ahead and share your thoughts on this on the global banking crisis.
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Well, it's really just a matter of time before this erupt.
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So we had last year and 2023, we had this banking crisis emerge.
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We had the failure of the second, third and fourth largest banks in US
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history.
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We had credit suites on the verge of failure and their government basically
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demanded that UBS buy them out and prevent that from happening.
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That would have caused possibly a global financial crisis.
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So they instituted this program called the bank term funding program at
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the time that allowed these troubled banks to borrow billions of dollars
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from the Federal Reserve.
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That is since come to an end as of March 11th.
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We also have the banks sitting on $600 billion and unrealized losses on
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their bond portfolios as a result of interest rates having gone up.
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And we have a commercial real estate crisis that threatens to take down the
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system in the same way that we saw the residential housing crisis during the
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great financial crisis.
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Do everything that it did.
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We had the CEO, Starward Capital was on CNBC saying he expects one to two bank
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failures per week, moving forward as a result of this crisis.
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And Bert Domen of Domen Capital was recently interviewed and said that he thinks
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that we're going to enter a period very soon that is akin to the great depression.
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So we're on the verge of seeing the Federal Reserve, the
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politicians, they're stuck between a rock and a hard place because they raise
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rates. They will crush the banks.
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They will crush the system.
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We'll go into a deep depression, but if they lower the rates to save the banks,
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then we get runaway inflation because the only way they can save those
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banks is to just print currency.
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So we're really in a no win situation at this point.
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And that's the next number five.
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Your point is the currency crisis that could be, in fact, it's already in the
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works. Just share your thoughts briefly on that so we can get to number six,
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the good, the great point that you end with.
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So right now, eras of two weeks ago, the Japanese yen,
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have 34 year love versus the dollar.
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So they're really in a, like, a condom of epic proportions.
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It's believed that there was intervention by their central bank in order
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to prevent that from running away, having this runaway inflation.
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But they're in a position where Japan is already in a recession.
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If they hike rates in order to save their currency, well, then they risk not
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only plunging the economy into depression, but they also risk blowing up their
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whole government debt load because while we in the United States, we look and
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say the national debt is out of control in Japan.
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It's 264% of GDP, which is more than double what we have in the United States.
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And if you raise interest rates on that debt, then you just had this debt spiral
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where they have to print currency to pay the debt.
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And then you have hyperinflation anyway.
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So at some point, this is going to blow up.
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And we're talking about the third, fourth largest economy in the world,
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depending on who you consult, it's a big deal.
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So guys, Britt can only kind of condense what's in this article,
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what's in this particular topic that he expounds on at britgelette.substac.com.
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And there's a lot more recent ones he's done as well.
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But number six, and we can end on a high note because this is our hope, the
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return of Christ, the rapture of the church.
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That's your point number six.
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Thank you.
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Because we've got to end with something that we can look up because our
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redemption is drawing near.
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Go ahead, Britt.
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Right.
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Well, the point is in spite of all of these things, we should have hope because
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Jesus is already victorious.
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Amen.
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We know that Jesus said birth pains would characterize these times that we live in,
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meaning these types of global events would happen with greater frequency and
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intensity as we approach the time of his coming.
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So we would expect to see these very things.
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So they should give us hope, not fear certainly.
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We're not to fear.
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We should have concern certainly.
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But the rapture of the church is an imminent event.
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It always has been, but as we see these, the stage being set for the events
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of the tribulation, which we can clearly see, my opinion, that tells us that
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the rapture of the church is even closer because of the way that takes place
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before the seven year tribulation.
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So if that were to happen, say tomorrow, all of these things that we talked
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about would probably happen very shortly thereafter, because the world is
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built on this house of cards where any number of dominoes could fall at any
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moment, cause a chain reaction caused contagion throughout financial
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system through wars that were on the brink of.
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And if you had the disappearance of a significant number of people,
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that would probably cause all of those things to take place in short order.
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So the world, world's a mess, but God is in control.
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And if you know Jesus, then you can have boob and what appears to the world
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like hopeless times, the world's a mess.
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But we have the best message the gospel to share with a hopeless or a dying
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world. And it just reminds us, everything is so
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shakeable and changeable and, you know, temporary, but God is the
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unshakeable Lord of Lords, King of Kings, Lord of Lords. He's the
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creator. And you write in there, if you're already a Christian,
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don't fear these things that we're talking about, be informed,
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try to prepare as best you can, but don't fear the things of this world,
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especially the coming events of the tribulation.
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And remember Jesus' reminder in Revelation 310 that you quote in your
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article, the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world.
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Brit, I really appreciate all you do and just always ending like this too,
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gives people hope that, okay, things will happen that are out of our control
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so much as already out of our control. But we can trust in a God who is in
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complete control, right? Amen. Yes, we can trust in Jesus.
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He's got everything taken care of. Yeah, praise God.
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Always good to have you. And it always goes by way too fast.
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Again, friends, BritJalette.substac.com and ETBP, that end times Bible
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prophecy over on YouTube with BritJalette. Lord willing, we'll do this again
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in the near future, brother. Thank you. Thank you.
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All right, guys, thanks for sharing the podcast. God bless you. And as always,
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keep speaking the truth about things that matter.