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Is All Technology Evil? | Nathan Jones · The Week in Bible Prophecy

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  Speaker 1: The Week in Bible Prophecy, a Prophecy Watchers podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here I am with Nathan Jones. Thank you Nathan
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  Speaker 2: for being here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Mom. One of the things that I think
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting is one of the ways in which we
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  Speaker 2: see at the end of the age there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a use. What we imagine or what I don't say,
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  Speaker 2: we assume, but we deduce that the Antichrist is going
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  Speaker 2: to take advantage of all technology available to him. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get into necessarily transhumanism all that,
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  Speaker 2: because that's a different topic. But let's talk about biotechnology
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. Elon Musk again seems to be a
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  Speaker 2: guy at the center of a variety of things. But
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  Speaker 2: he's talking about neuralink. You know, this this brain interface
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  Speaker 2: with probes. And people look at this, and I think
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  Speaker 2: sometimes Christians will be it's evil and they give this overreaction.
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  Speaker 2: And I think as Christians we need to be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more discerning than that, because, as you and
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  Speaker 2: I talked, theology is not evil, it's good communications. God
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  Speaker 2: uses the internet for to preach the Gospel and saying
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  Speaker 2: uses it for all the other filth.
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  Speaker 1: It's about fixing our problems and making stuff that's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing. Technology based on the knowledge that the Lord
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  Speaker 1: gave us. Now, when we lack wisdom, that's when our
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  Speaker 1: technology goes wrong. Unfortunately, brother, our technology, our knowledge has
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  Speaker 1: gone faster than our wisdom has kept up with it,
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to destroy us in the end, as
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  Speaker 1: we read in the Book of Revelation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially because you know, I went to school at
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  Speaker 2: Trinity International University. But one of the programs they had
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  Speaker 2: there was a bioethics So they had lots of bioethics
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  Speaker 2: seminars and stuff that were happening there, and if you
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  Speaker 2: want to get a degree, that's the place to go.
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  Speaker 2: But it's interesting how today when you think about bioethics
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  Speaker 2: or technology ethics, when the world which is humanism, right,
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  Speaker 2: the globalism and the WF and that's et cetera. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: when they come at it, they're not coming at it
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  Speaker 2: from a scriptural, biblical authoritative, holy spirit inspired authority of
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  Speaker 2: moral right. So they look to use some of the
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  Speaker 2: stuff for their own ends. But coming back to the neuralink,
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  Speaker 2: the neuralink is this interface that will allow you to
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  Speaker 2: connect with your brain and Elon Musk has said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: would they applied for FDA approval to do human trials
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to be doing that this year, and
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  Speaker 2: he said, oh, as soon as it comes, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to put one in my own brain. Because it allows
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  Speaker 2: they've had the preliminary things. It allows people to see
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  Speaker 2: who couldn't see, or paraplegics to move their arms they couldn't,
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  Speaker 2: so there's some benefits to that.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't say oh absolutely. You know, his people think that
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  Speaker 1: he's got sinister motives. It could be that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff he wants to do is for the betterment
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  Speaker 1: of mankind, and I think that's what he's trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: But usually people who try to do things for the
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  Speaker 1: better in mankind, someone evil will then you surve take
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  Speaker 1: that and turn it against them. Now. I think Arthur C. Clark,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, if you ever read three thousand and one,
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  Speaker 1: the last of his two thousand and one series, and
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  Speaker 1: he had it that we'd all be wearing brain caps
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  Speaker 1: that are connected to I think when he wrote this
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  Speaker 1: was a pre internet, but we'd all be connected to
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  Speaker 1: the Internet, and then we'd be able to share ideas
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  Speaker 1: and thoughts and opinions and it's and what we're calling
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  Speaker 1: it is the Internet of bodies. Now we have the Internet,
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  Speaker 1: which is a third generation Internet, but the next generation
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  Speaker 1: will be Internet of things, where all our little devices
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  Speaker 1: are refrigerator, this monitor will tell it, hey, you're out
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  Speaker 1: of yogurt, and we'll write your cell phone and your
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  Speaker 1: cell phone app will then go order the yogurt and
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  Speaker 1: then Amazon will deliver it. That's a wonderful thing at times.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're refrigerators reporting to the government what you're
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  Speaker 1: reading and saying, that's a different thing altogether, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But this Internet of bodies is a newer idea, this
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  Speaker 1: idea that we will all be linked together through neural
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  Speaker 1: interfaces or whatnot. And the neural interfaces are good, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's about to have a heart attack. Quick, let
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  Speaker 1: the doctor or let the hospital or notify an ambulance.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good thing. But when it's telling people, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is the sixty five, it's time to get
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  Speaker 1: them off the healthcare system. Turn off as pace maker.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's that's real fears that we have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, these are these are exactly because you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's there's what I want something in my body that
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  Speaker 2: is going to manage and model monitor all my vital statistics.
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  Speaker 1: We're walking around with fits.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, you know you Hey, that would be great,
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  Speaker 2: and tell they have the opportunity to use it for
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  Speaker 2: some nefarious purposes. And so when you think about neuralink
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  Speaker 2: as an example, it does have a lot of potentially
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  Speaker 2: positive benefits to humanity for people who again, who have disabilities.
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  Speaker 2: But on the other hand, is when you take that
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  Speaker 2: thing that's connected to your brain and then it's communicating
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  Speaker 2: with something else, which a person might have the ability,
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  Speaker 2: as you just mentioned, to turn this or release his
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  Speaker 2: hormone blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then tell us about Haradi the World Economic Forums,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph HARARII thank you. I never get his now, I
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  Speaker 1: know the nome apart in the middle, but I never
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  Speaker 1: get the Harari Right. But he's been talking about recoding
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  Speaker 1: people to be obedient. Do you think that that is
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  Speaker 1: a potential technology that they will I mean, he's almost
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  Speaker 1: a Joseph Mengel a type character if he was given
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  Speaker 1: enough power.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know it's interesting too that the I always
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  Speaker 2: ask I won't necessarily ask you, but I've asked several people.
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  Speaker 2: Is have you actually listened to at least one hour
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  Speaker 2: of Juvall Harari in a row or has it only
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  Speaker 2: been sound bites.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point.
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  Speaker 2: And like, for example, I've been listening to uh why
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the treadmill. It's good to be productive. I'm
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  Speaker 2: listening to a to an one hour ted talk that
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  Speaker 2: he did a podcast, and it's it's he's an he's
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  Speaker 2: an extremely brilliant historian. I'm probably gonna hate mail right
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  Speaker 2: here because I'm but the fact of the matter is
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  Speaker 2: when you listen to him, he in this particular one,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't embracing this or promoting this.
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  Speaker 1: He was talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: He was simply informing, don't you know. But I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying he's a saying because he's an atheist. He he's
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  Speaker 2: a he admits it. That's fine. You know. Again, he's
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  Speaker 2: not out for I wouldn't trust him in that sense.
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  Speaker 2: But what he does is he warns. He's warning about
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  Speaker 2: the potential abuses of this, and in a way that
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  Speaker 2: is like, hey, everybody, this is what's coming. Being on
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  Speaker 2: a lookout and not necessarily promoting it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, look at his boss, and his boss more
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  Speaker 1: than is a Nazi. I mean agreed. Yeah, Klaus Schwabi,
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  Speaker 1: he actually speaks with swastikas behind him. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: guy's an old Nazi. And you look at any society
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  Speaker 1: where morality is removed, humanism is replaced, and human life
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  Speaker 1: is devalued, and what do you end up? You end
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  Speaker 1: up these Nazi dystopian nightmare future. What do we read
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  Speaker 1: about the tribulation type, The Christians are raptured off this earth,
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  Speaker 1: the world forms us kind of one world kumbaya interfaith religion,
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  Speaker 1: which the Antichrist then destroys and sets up direct Antichrist
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  Speaker 1: aka Satan worship. And so that's where humanists will eventually
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  Speaker 1: leads to Satan worship. And when you're a saint worship,
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  Speaker 1: you've got you don't gently ask people to hey, would
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  Speaker 1: you like to join my religion? You join or you die.
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  Speaker 1: We see that in China, we see that in North
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  Speaker 1: Korea and all these totalitarian regimes. The tribulation is a
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  Speaker 1: total terarian regime. So all these wonderful technologies, like we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about brain links and Internet of beings and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that, under a godly system is a wonderful thing.
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  Speaker 1: Under a totalitarian regime, it's a dystopian nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: And we know that one of the things that he
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  Speaker 2: talks about is is he's a historian, and he talks
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  Speaker 2: about the nature of communism and even socialism and even
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  Speaker 2: what he calls liberalism, the idea of freedom in the
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  Speaker 2: twentieth century. But one of the things that he discusses
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  Speaker 2: in the sense of this control and be on the
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  Speaker 2: lookout for it, because it all depends on who is
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  Speaker 2: controlling the tech.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, who's the puppet master. We know the god of
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  Speaker 1: this world is Satan. We know during the tribulation the
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  Speaker 1: restraining influence will be removed off this earth and Christians
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  Speaker 1: will be slaughtered in mass those who get saved after
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  Speaker 1: the rapture obviously, and so we know that the technology
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  Speaker 1: is controlling the narrative in the background is Satan. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's I think part of the nightmare thing is
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  Speaker 1: where do you go? They say, if America falls, where
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  Speaker 1: do the Christians go? You can't go to New Zealand,
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  Speaker 1: you can't go to Canada. You know, they're pretty much
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  Speaker 1: bowed to humanism too. Yeah, so you've got to pray
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  Speaker 1: for these Christians that these people will be left behind
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  Speaker 1: and get saved or the tribulation, no wonder. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: says they will be hunted down, and there'll be martyrs
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  Speaker 1: uncounted from every tribe, tongue, nation, and people, because where
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  Speaker 1: do you go, you're constantly being watched