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The Rise of the Ten Kings | Gary & Mondo · 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: Welcome to the podcast today everyone, Mondo Gonzalez here with
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Speaker 2: Gary Steerman, and we're going to be talking about a
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Speaker 2: pretty fun topic as it relates to the Ten Kings
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Speaker 2: of Daniel, chapter seven in Revelation seventeen. Before we do
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Speaker 2: Should be a good time. Well, Gary, here we are.
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Speaker 2: I will say this that we are here talking about
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Speaker 2: these the ten Kings because of you.
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Speaker 3: Well, I started it some time ago because it occurred
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Speaker 3: to me that the Bible talks about groups of ten
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Speaker 3: rulers that involve power and also corruption, and it went
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Speaker 3: from there. I wrote an article and you wrote an
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Speaker 3: article in response to the one I wrote, and we're
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Speaker 3: still infatuated with that topic. Because it's a growing topic,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to toss it back to you with the
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Speaker 3: word oligarch. Yes, the ten Kings today, there's this word
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Speaker 3: that we hear about all the time on television.
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Speaker 4: People use the word oligarch. What does that mean?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting because your original article was in November
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty and you brought up the word oligarch there,
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Speaker 2: which we'll give some more definitions in a minute, but
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Speaker 2: in the general, most basic sense, it comes from two
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Speaker 2: Greek words and just means the rule of the few.
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Speaker 2: So you have a small group of people who are
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Speaker 2: in the ruling class, the lead class. Oftentimes you see this.
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Speaker 2: It used to be used quite often as relates to
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Speaker 2: maybe Russian oligarchs who were very wealthy and who were
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Speaker 2: part of the inner circle of Putin going back twenty
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Speaker 2: years and so in that environment, what kind of what
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Speaker 2: we've seen over there. We didn't really see that as
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Speaker 2: much here in America until probably the last ten years
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Speaker 2: or so. But your article brought up the idea of
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Speaker 2: an oligarch and what it could mean. And before we
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Speaker 2: go there. I think it might be important because when
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Speaker 2: we come to Daniel seven or Revelation seventeen, you have
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Speaker 2: these ten kings that are brought up, and there's a
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Speaker 2: couple different viewpoints on this. I mean, if you go
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Speaker 2: ten fifteen years ago, the traditional viewpoint by dispensational teachers
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Speaker 2: was always that they thought that this well, and many
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Speaker 2: of them still do that this indicates that the world
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Speaker 2: would be divided up into ten regions, and that basically
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Speaker 2: from the Club of Rome. The Club of Rome came
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Speaker 2: up with a ten region idea and their idea for globalism,
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Speaker 2: and so the dispensationalist grabbed onto that and said, yes,
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Speaker 2: this is good. Look at that. There is the whole
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Speaker 2: world is going to be divided up into ten regions,
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Speaker 2: and each region, for example, the North American Region or
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Speaker 2: the South American Union, maybe the African Union, it would
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Speaker 2: be led by a singular figure, a president or in
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Speaker 2: one sense for there they a king, so it'd be
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Speaker 2: a king over North America. And so for them, they
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Speaker 2: sought through that lens and unfortunate, well not say unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: that was what they had, but that viewpoint is still
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Speaker 2: its traditional viewpoint, still very strong, and many of the
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Speaker 2: older dispensational teachers. But when you came along you and
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Speaker 2: I would say this that still has in my mind
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Speaker 2: like a five percent chance of being right. But I
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Speaker 2: think the even some dispensational scholars. I was talking to
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Speaker 2: Tommy Ice this act so last week and he said, Model,
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Speaker 2: I don't think that's the case, even though he's a
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Speaker 2: classical dispensationals He says, because the coming Antichrist is going
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Speaker 2: to rule out of a revived Roman Empire, and the
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Speaker 2: arrived Roman Empire was basically Mediterranean based, not necessarily around
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Speaker 2: the world. But even though his rulership will extend the
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Speaker 2: whole world, that's not necessarily the case. So coming back
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Speaker 2: to your article, which was tremendous, you kind of opened
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Speaker 2: the gates on this is if you don't mind, Gary,
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Speaker 2: you wrote in the November twenty would you be willing
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Speaker 2: to read your definition. I mean, you talked about oligarchs.
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Speaker 3: Oligarch and I'll just quote myself here. Oligarchs are in
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Speaker 3: constant competition for rural domination and the old political ties
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Speaker 3: of the twentieth century being steadily altered to fit a
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Speaker 3: quote unquote new world order. So things are changing, you know,
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Speaker 3: in the past century, things have begun to shift and
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Speaker 3: the old world is passing away. But that doesn't mean
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Speaker 3: that that rule of a certain type won't come in,
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Speaker 3: and the Bible does predicting the latter days. Some powerful
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Speaker 3: rulers next sentence, new world order. That's an old term,
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Speaker 3: but now it's buttressed by high level digital technology. That
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Speaker 3: was only a dream a decade ago. A number of
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Speaker 3: dark figures have quietly risen to power back by super
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Speaker 3: technology incalculable wealth, and at the moment they operate in
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Speaker 3: the background, but their names, well, their names continually pop up.
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Speaker 3: Their technocrats, innovators of new technologies, in transportation, communications, shipping,
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Speaker 3: in daily transfer of coded information, in the trillions of
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Speaker 3: daily transactions. Information controls the world. Information is power. And
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Speaker 3: we've heard this little phrase, by the way, a lot lately.
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Speaker 3: Information is power, and we didn't have any idea what
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Speaker 3: that meant, but now we do. With AI looming in
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Speaker 3: the future. To continue here. Once it was common for
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Speaker 3: those who went before us to honor God as all powerful.
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Speaker 3: Our nation prayed for God's blessing. He brought us through earthquakes, famine, pestilence,
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Speaker 3: horrific wars. It was recognized that he saves us from
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Speaker 3: spiritual death. But now technology is seen as the world's savior,
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Speaker 3: without referring to any of them by name. Just think
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Speaker 3: of the billionaires of the digital world who are publicly
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Speaker 3: linked to a new world order of science, genetic transformation,
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Speaker 3: digitized global politics, and any of a variety of technologies.
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Speaker 3: They are now hailed as the ones who will save
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Speaker 3: the world through their new methodologies. Now we see this
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Speaker 3: flip on the TV. You see it in some form
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Speaker 3: or another. We see a looming power structure that's based
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Speaker 3: on mega millions of dollars, a world economy that's becoming
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Speaker 3: rapidly linked together via a satellite technology.
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Speaker 2: It is so true. One of the things that I
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Speaker 2: remember when you wrote this, Bob had sent it over
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Speaker 2: to me and said, hey, we want to do a
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Speaker 2: program on this, you know, can you want to discuss it.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, yeah, this is great, And so a
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Speaker 2: couple months later I had written my own article on
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Speaker 2: was maybe it was April of twenty one or something
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Speaker 2: like that, where I kind of took it and ran
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Speaker 2: with it because one of the things that you mentioned
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Speaker 2: as well in your quote, there was this word technocrat
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Speaker 2: and at our conferences. Lately, we've been having Patrick Wood,
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Speaker 2: who people don't know Patrick Wood. They got to find
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Speaker 2: him online. He's been following technocracy for forty years and
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Speaker 2: I think he's finally come into his own in the
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Speaker 2: sense of even though he's been talking about it, it
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Speaker 2: hasn't been as cool or popular, so to speak, until now.
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Speaker 2: And when I talked to when I gave this presentation
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Speaker 2: at a different he said, Monol, that's right on. I'm
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Speaker 2: a hundredsent agree with it. We see Alex Newman as
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Speaker 2: well talking about the technocrats and stuff. But let's give
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Speaker 2: a definition here because most people think, oh, well, this
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Speaker 2: is something new. Well, it's certainly technology. But a technocrat
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Speaker 2: is a proponent of technocracy, which is defined as a
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Speaker 2: theory and movement prominent about nineteen thirty two advocating control
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Speaker 2: of industrial resources, a reform of financial institutions, and reorganization
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Speaker 2: of the social system based on the findings of technologists
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Speaker 2: and engineers. Ultimately, a technocut seeks to influence all areas
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Speaker 2: of society and need not be in a governmental position
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Speaker 2: to wield power or influence. In fact, we will see
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Speaker 2: that they often get more done outside the bounds of
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Speaker 2: government positions. Really, this is where this technocracy idea basically rule.
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Speaker 2: That's what technocracy means is to rule through technology, right,
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Speaker 2: and nineteen thirty two that was a long time ago,
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Speaker 2: you know, almost one hundred years ago. So think about
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Speaker 2: the technology back in nineteen thirty two. Steam engine, you know,
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Speaker 2: there were some electricity was kind of the really the
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Speaker 2: jumping on of the industrial age.
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Speaker 3: But the airplane, the airplane, and it got faster and
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Speaker 3: faster and higher and higher, and then came the bomb
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Speaker 3: and then bigger bombs and then bigger bombs. And people
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Speaker 3: thinking about technology used to think about wars, implements of war,
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Speaker 3: engines of war, whether they be airplanes, are super tanks
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Speaker 3: or whatever. But you know, if something else is elbowing
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Speaker 3: its way in now, and that's intelligence, artificial intelligence, and
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Speaker 3: there's race for that now, and that fits right in
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Speaker 3: with what the Bible says about technocrats absolutely.
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Speaker 2: So I mean, let's right there. That's a great segue
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Speaker 2: because we want to unpack this a little bit more.
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Speaker 2: But let's go back to the Bible because in Daniel seven,
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Speaker 2: I'll read a couple passages and then we can we
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Speaker 2: can talk about this. Daniel Chapter seven verses nineteen through twenty.
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Speaker 2: He says, then I desire to know the exact meaning
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Speaker 2: of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others,
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Speaker 2: exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws
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Speaker 2: of bronze, and which devoured, crushed, and trampled down the
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Speaker 2: remainder with its feet, And the meaning of the ten
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Speaker 2: horns that were on its head, and the other horn
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Speaker 2: which came up, and before which three of them then fell,
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Speaker 2: namely that horn which had eyes and a mouth, uttering
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Speaker 2: great boasts, and which was larger in appearance than its associates,
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Speaker 2: Verse twenty four of Daniel seven. As for the ten horns,
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Speaker 2: out of this kingdom, ten kings will arise, and another
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Speaker 2: will arise after them, and he will be different from
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Speaker 2: the previous ones, and he will subdue three kings. So
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Speaker 2: your initial thoughts here, Gary, because there's some other places
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Speaker 2: that I want to go here, But your initial thoughts
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Speaker 2: on Daniel seven. What is Daniel? What's Daniel revealing here?
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Speaker 3: Well, he's talking about something that if you if you
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Speaker 3: look at history, he's not talking about the thing that
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Speaker 3: we focus on. We go back and we we think
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Speaker 3: of kings as dynasties, you know, a Babylonian dynasty, Assyrian dynasty,
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Speaker 3: a Roman dynasty, a Greek dynasty.
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Speaker 4: And we think of kings in the past.
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Speaker 3: We look back and we think of like family rule
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Speaker 3: handed down from one king to the next king. But
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Speaker 3: the Bible is not talk what you just referred to.
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Speaker 3: Ten kings that will emerge do not seem to be
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Speaker 3: related to each other except by a certain calling to
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Speaker 3: achieve a certain end, which just happens to be global power,
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Speaker 3: as the Bible puts it. So those ten kings in
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Speaker 3: the future that you just read about are a new
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Speaker 3: order of kings. They are kings today we would call
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Speaker 3: them technocrats among other things. And they're not related physically,
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Speaker 3: they're not from a single family, but they are related
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Speaker 3: by power and money.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And I think there's a couple things that are
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Speaker 2: important to stick out here. First in my mind, and
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Speaker 2: just looking at the text, he's talking about the fourth Beast,
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Speaker 2: so that we know that the Beast is a system,
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Speaker 2: it's a global power, and it doesn't just appear overnight, right,
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Speaker 2: And so there's a development. We also know in Daniel
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Speaker 2: chapter two that it has a connection to the Roman Empire,
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Speaker 2: which was the original because this is the fourth Beast,
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Speaker 2: which was unusual about it, because it had it had
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Speaker 2: its it had its influence certainly in the first century
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Speaker 2: with Jesus. We know that it took over Greece. That's
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Speaker 2: Daniel chapter two. We see that as well as in
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Speaker 2: Daniel earlier part of seven as relates to the other figures,
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Speaker 2: and even into eight. But here so you have this system,
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Speaker 2: that is this, this powerful system that is rooted in
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Speaker 2: I would say, ultimately in the Mediterranean basin, which of
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Speaker 2: course says influence over Israel. But out of it, it
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Speaker 2: says that out of this system comes these these ten people.
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Speaker 2: And then the other thing that that stands up is
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Speaker 2: it talks about the ten horns, but it talks about
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Speaker 2: that that last horn, the horn which had eyes in
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Speaker 2: the mouth and great boats and was larger in appearance,
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Speaker 2: and its associates the word associates there looking that up,
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Speaker 2: it's kind of a fascinating word. So what it reminds
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Speaker 2: me of is that the the it kind of has similarity.
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Speaker 2: So I wonder, I don't know, I'm not saying this dogmatically.
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Speaker 2: I wonder whether the coming Antichrist will be a technocrat himself,
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Speaker 2: because he has these associates, and he arises up, but
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Speaker 2: his appearance is larger than those surrounding him. And then
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Speaker 2: of course he's going to subdue three again out of
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Speaker 2: this kingdom, out of this system. This the system they
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Speaker 2: will arise, and another after them. So we know that
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Speaker 2: was the title of your article. Was it kind of
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Speaker 2: your your thesis in many ways was people are looking
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Speaker 2: at the Antichrist, which we believe the Antichrist will be
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Speaker 2: revealed after the rapture. But you said, well, hey, before
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Speaker 2: him comes the ten Kings, which is what this says,
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Speaker 2: because he will arise after they arise. But let me
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Speaker 2: read Revelations seventeen twelve, because they come up again. It
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Speaker 2: says the ten Horns, which you saw are the ten
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Speaker 2: kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they
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Speaker 2: receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.
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Speaker 2: They have one purpose, and they give their power and
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Speaker 2: authority to the beasts. So let me say this, and
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Speaker 2: this is what this is what is important because most
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Speaker 2: people are going to go as you said earlier, Gary,
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Speaker 2: when people think of a king, they think of a dynasty,
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Speaker 2: like Prince Charles, you know, Queen Elizabeth then to Prince
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Speaker 2: Charles and then to his son William. But that is
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Speaker 2: one one definition of the Greek word. The Greek word
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Speaker 2: is basilis. And if people want to look this up,
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Speaker 2: people ask me all the time. It is the b
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Speaker 2: dag b dag, which is a the It's the best
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Speaker 2: Greek lexel con that New Testament scholars use in understanding
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Speaker 2: the Greek of what we call the coin a period
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Speaker 2: of the time of the Bible. But in their in
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Speaker 2: their lexicon, what they've recognized, they have no theological acts
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Speaker 2: to grind. The first entry is a king, like a
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Speaker 2: normal king, king Charles. But when I was began to
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Speaker 2: look at this, I was like, hey, let me, let
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Speaker 2: me see could these be technocrats or are they kings
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Speaker 2: over a region, you know, the North American read So
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Speaker 2: when I looked at this, I was like, hey, wait
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Speaker 2: a minute. The second, the second nuance here of their
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Speaker 2: own lexicon, they recognize that the Greek words, it says
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Speaker 2: this one who possesses unusual or transcendent power. So what
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Speaker 2: the focus of that description then is not on the
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Speaker 2: king of a kingdom, a geographical kingdom, but anyone who
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Speaker 2: possesses unusual or transcendent power. Now what I find fascinating, Gary,
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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna get your thoughts on this is in
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Speaker 2: Revelation seventeen twelve. It says these ten kings don't have
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Speaker 2: a kingdom. It says very clearly they have not received
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Speaker 2: a kingdom. So these these individual figures, I call them influencers,
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Speaker 2: which is what the Greek word says, unusual transcendent power,
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Speaker 2: which would be very interesting. So they don't have a kingdom.
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Speaker 2: They don't. They're not the king over in the North
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Speaker 2: American Union or South American Union. But verse thirteen says
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Speaker 2: in this at the end they have one purpose. They
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Speaker 2: give their power or their authority, and both of those
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Speaker 2: words authority can mean capabilities or certainly power is also influenced.
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Speaker 2: So that's why I call them the ten influencers. They
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Speaker 2: give their influence and their power.
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Speaker 4: Let me make it just cover.
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Speaker 3: You said influencer, and I want to react to that
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Speaker 3: quickly and then give it back to you. Because an
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Speaker 3: influencer today is someone who is able to handle mass
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Speaker 3: amounts of information. We call it information processing. That's the
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Speaker 3: term that has come up. We think of computers, and
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Speaker 3: now we're thinking of supercomputers. So vast in nature that
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Speaker 3: they're going to have to be powered by a nuclear reactor.
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Speaker 3: We're talking and we're talking about artificial intelligence, and so
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Speaker 3: what you were talking about in terms of information could
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Speaker 3: be I think explained by what's happening right now. There
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Speaker 3: are a lot of influencers in the world today who
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Speaker 3: are computer and influencers.
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Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely. When we when we look back at the
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Speaker 2: you know, the last ten years, we especially with America
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Speaker 2: as being a superpower, we've tended to see America's influence
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Speaker 2: around the world, primarily through the government, through military or
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Speaker 2: even through well through economic policies, tariffs and other things
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Speaker 2: where we can get our own way because we're powerful.
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Speaker 2: It's like if you don't want to. And now we're
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Speaker 2: in the new Trump administration and he is he is
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Speaker 2: threatening the inequalities which he sees around the world in
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Speaker 2: that one of the things of the new World order
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Speaker 2: is free trade. And we saw free trade going back
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Speaker 2: in the last twenty years, where now in ancient times
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Speaker 2: or not even ancient, in previous times, it was normal
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Speaker 2: for a government to look out for its people and
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Speaker 2: its own economy by having tariffs as an example, Well,
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Speaker 2: you go to a where there's an inequality and trade.
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Speaker 2: Let's say with China as an example, we got rid
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Speaker 2: of that's why they call it free trade. It's like, okay,
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Speaker 2: we won't put any tariffs on you. Well, now that
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Speaker 2: you're hurting your own industry. So what they're doing now
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Speaker 2: this is kind of a rabbit trail, which I don't
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Speaker 2: want to get into. But the point being is that
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Speaker 2: we've seen that powerful influence and what Trump is trying
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Speaker 2: to do right now is to say, look, we're going
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Speaker 2: to influence this country by saying, hey, if you don't,
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Speaker 2: we're just going to put tariffs on it. So but
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Speaker 2: what's happening now, even though the government is still there.
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Speaker 2: For example, if we go back to you know, the
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Speaker 2: pandemic of twenty twenty, one of the most powerful individuals
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Speaker 2: on the planet that was giving advice to the World
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Speaker 2: Health Organization, that was giving advice to the American government CDC,
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Speaker 2: even the FDA to some degree, and all around the
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Speaker 2: world into Africa, was a singular figure by the name
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Speaker 2: of Bill Gates, one of the wealthiest people in the world.
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Speaker 2: What government position did he have? What's his medical degrees?
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Speaker 2: Do they have a medical dreat no medical dret He's
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Speaker 2: a computer scientist, right, like you know what you just described.
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Speaker 2: So here we have this is what when we wrote
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Speaker 2: these articles, we were living in the midst of this
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Speaker 2: where at the time one of the most powerful people
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Speaker 2: in the world was a non government person. He didn't
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Speaker 2: have a position, but yet he could go to Africa
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Speaker 2: and he could make requirements even to the World Health Organization,
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Speaker 2: which would then be extended to the rest of the world.
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Speaker 3: Well, let me throw this at you, a king, and
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Speaker 3: you use when you wrote an article on this subject,
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Speaker 3: you spent a while talking about the word technocrat, and
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Speaker 3: you and I both pulled that word up. And I
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Speaker 3: think it's a very important word for the world today,
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Speaker 3: because a technocrat can become dominant and he can control
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Speaker 3: everything of a single order around the whole world. And
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Speaker 3: in essence, the technical technocrat becomes a king. And I
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Speaker 3: think that that is a good starting place to describe
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Speaker 3: what the Bible is talking about when it refers to kings.
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Speaker 3: We might call them technocrats today, or we might find
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Speaker 3: another word. But it implies power. It implies someone who
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Speaker 3: controls a vast span of information that causes the movers
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Speaker 3: and shakers of the world to sit up and take
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Speaker 3: notice and when the technocrat says, do this, they do that.
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Speaker 2: So that's okay, it really yeah, oh absolutely, I mean
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Speaker 2: it is the very definition of what we're seeing in Again,
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Speaker 2: the Greek people can look it up for themselves. They
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Speaker 2: don't have to take my word for it. But the
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Speaker 2: b d Ag look it up again. It's a lexicon
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Speaker 2: that we used in seminary. It's what we use in
22:15
Speaker 2: the Greek in our you know, taking Greek class. I
22:18
Speaker 2: think this brings us back to another point, which let's
22:23
Speaker 2: talk about Revelation thirteen for a moment. This is a
22:25
Speaker 2: good segue because in Revelation thirteen we have the beast
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Speaker 2: out of the sea and the beast out of the earth,
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Speaker 2: which scholars will recognize Bible teachers that this is the
22:35
Speaker 2: Antichrist and the false Prophet. Well, in Revelation thirteen, we
22:39
Speaker 2: clearly have a worldwide system of dominance like a political system.
22:44
Speaker 2: We also have a religious system because they're worshiping the dragon,
22:48
Speaker 2: and the false prophet is getting people to worship the beast,
22:52
Speaker 2: which the beast in the book Revelation often refers to
22:55
Speaker 2: the system or the empire as well as the individual.
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Speaker 2: See that in several passes Revelation nineteen as an example,
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Speaker 2: the beast and false prophet, we're thrown into the lake
23:04
Speaker 2: of fire. So that's not talking about a system, it's
23:07
Speaker 2: talking about an individual of both of those. So, but
23:11
Speaker 2: the other thing Gary in Revelation thirteen sixteen through eighteen,
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Speaker 2: there as it relates, he causes all both small and gray,
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Speaker 2: rich and poorer, free and bond to take a mark
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Speaker 2: so that they can't buy or sell. We've just introduced
23:22
Speaker 2: an economic situation. So in Revelation of thirteen political, technological,
23:28
Speaker 2: or economic, and religious. So in order for the Antichrist
23:35
Speaker 2: to rule with such strong things, how would technology help
23:41
Speaker 2: him in the political realm, in the economic realm, or
23:44
Speaker 2: the technological realm, and in the religious realm? I mean
23:48
Speaker 2: it seems like no, this would be right up his alley.
23:52
Speaker 3: Well, so a technocrat really comes to life here, because
23:55
Speaker 3: in Revelation, this one man who finally stands up and
24:00
Speaker 3: takes charge is linked to a phrase, this really interesting phrase,
24:06
Speaker 3: the number of his name. And here we have in
24:11
Speaker 3: the Bible, in the Book of Revelation, a number and
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Speaker 3: a name linked together. Well, that's computer science. And so
24:19
Speaker 3: whoever this guy is, he's going to be deep into
24:23
Speaker 3: computer science of some kind because he's got the number
24:26
Speaker 3: of everybody who lives on planet Earth, and something about
24:30
Speaker 3: that number maybe gets inserted into your palm or tattooed,
24:36
Speaker 3: who knows what. But it all sounds like information processing
24:40
Speaker 3: to me, which is what we've been talking about. Therefore,
24:43
Speaker 3: information processing and kingdom sort of come together in our era.
24:50
Speaker 2: It's as if the Lord has allowed I would say
24:53
Speaker 2: twenty twenty through twenty twenty four as a test case,
24:59
Speaker 2: because if we look at that era of the not
25:03
Speaker 2: just the United States, but the rest of the world
25:05
Speaker 2: under the pandemic, as just one example, you have lots
25:09
Speaker 2: of conversations about again, uh, medical procedures and other things.
25:13
Speaker 2: I'm trying not to use the word. Everybody knows what
25:15
Speaker 2: it is, all this new technology, the m RNA technology
25:19
Speaker 2: and other things. But what did you have there? You
25:22
Speaker 2: had censorship, any sort of of dissenting voice was silenced.
25:27
Speaker 2: You had people being canceled again. You had other information
25:31
Speaker 2: being extended into other parts of the world again, like
25:34
Speaker 2: again through Bill Gates as an example, he's promoting this
25:38
Speaker 2: new this new quote quote technology around the world. But
25:43
Speaker 2: what you see is one of the reasons why the
25:48
Speaker 2: world the world, whether again it was through Twitter, because
25:51
Speaker 2: Twitter is now of course bought by Elon Musk, Facebook YouTube,
25:56
Speaker 2: which is Google, Google Platform, and all of those censored
26:01
Speaker 2: information that was not part of the enticing narrative. So
26:09
Speaker 2: the government for the government did not could not control
26:13
Speaker 2: and we see this now going on in Europe. The
26:15
Speaker 2: United States government, the president, whatever administration could not directly
26:19
Speaker 2: control the flow of information. So in order to have
26:22
Speaker 2: a dictatorship, which we know the Antichrist will, whether it's
26:25
Speaker 2: in the political realm again, religious or economic realm or religious,
26:29
Speaker 2: in order in order to guide the narrative of information
26:33
Speaker 2: in whatever field you have, you've got to control the conversation.
26:37
Speaker 2: That's why our first amendment free speech. They knew that
26:40
Speaker 2: back in the seventeen hundreds. But what did you see
26:44
Speaker 2: Facebook censored? Twitter censored, we saw Google censoring. Well, that
26:52
Speaker 2: just happens to be. Those are all led by super rich,
26:57
Speaker 2: wealthy technocrats. All that was done by these non governmental figures. Now,
27:04
Speaker 2: granted we're hearing now from Zuckerberg. I think he's lying,
27:08
Speaker 2: but now he's playing the victim. Oh, the Biden administration
27:12
Speaker 2: forced me to censor people. I would have never done it.
27:14
Speaker 2: I'm all for free speech. I think he's just lying
27:16
Speaker 2: through his teeth.
27:17
Speaker 3: I think it's time that we've pulled out your sheet
27:20
Speaker 3: of paper. Mondo prepared a list, and I think this
27:25
Speaker 3: list has a lot of meaning when you view it,
27:29
Speaker 3: because it's talking about power. In my opinion, it's talking
27:33
Speaker 3: about technology, it's talking about influence, it's talking about intellect
27:39
Speaker 3: and invention, but it's really talking about power. People who
27:45
Speaker 3: have real, not to be doubted power. I'm not read
27:49
Speaker 3: this list, and also the numbers that go with it,
27:52
Speaker 3: which I think are staggering.
27:54
Speaker 2: Well, this is a list from Forbes. This was the
27:58
Speaker 2: Forbes Middle East. People can look it up, and I
28:00
Speaker 2: just was looking at the top ten richest people in
28:03
Speaker 2: the world as of January first. It's hard to get
28:05
Speaker 2: an updated number, but as I prefaced this list, we'll
28:12
Speaker 2: go back to the definition. The second entry for the
28:16
Speaker 2: Greek lexicon for basilis one who possesses unusual or transcendent power. Okay,
28:23
Speaker 2: now on this list are the ten richest people as
28:26
Speaker 2: of January first. Not too long ago, Elon Musk he
28:30
Speaker 2: jumped up to four hundred and twenty one billion. Jeff Bezos, Yeah,
28:35
Speaker 2: this is just two years ago he was only had
28:37
Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty.
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Speaker 3: You can hardly believe this number, but four hundred and
28:43
Speaker 3: twenty one actuallyer.
28:44
Speaker 4: Point two billion.
28:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't want to bottom of two hundred million.
28:47
Speaker 4: Do we?
28:48
Speaker 1: Who cares about the point too? Little things that would
28:51
Speaker 1: change my life? It would, but you this list, let's
28:57
Speaker 1: go on with it. So it tells us a lot.
28:59
Speaker 2: It tells us a Elon musk More twenty one billion,
29:02
Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos from Amazon two hundred and thirty three billion.
29:04
Speaker 2: Larry Ellison two hundred nine billion. He's he is from
29:09
Speaker 2: I believe he's from Oracle, another software company. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook,
29:13
Speaker 2: Meta two hundred and two billion. Bernard Arnold. He's from France.
29:17
Speaker 2: He does he does all sorts of like home goods
29:21
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So he's the only European on
29:24
Speaker 2: the here non American one hundred and sixty eight billion.
29:26
Speaker 2: Larry Page one hundred and fifty six billion. Sergey Brinn
29:30
Speaker 2: he's from Both of these guys are from Google one
29:32
Speaker 2: hundred and forty nine billion. Warren Buffett he's into stocks
29:35
Speaker 2: and other investments. One hundred and forty one billion. Steve Balmer,
29:40
Speaker 2: he was used to partner with He's from Microsoft, another
29:44
Speaker 2: software company, one hundred and twenty four billion. Jensen who Wang,
29:47
Speaker 2: another tech industry guy, one hundred and seventeen billion. Bill
29:51
Speaker 2: Gates actually dropped off the top ten, but he's still
29:55
Speaker 2: up there, you know, one hundred billion. He's certainly in
29:56
Speaker 2: the top twenty. So the question that we have is
29:59
Speaker 2: to do you these ten people with their like you
30:03
Speaker 2: mentioned in the original arcle incalculable wealth from my brain?
30:08
Speaker 2: Do they are they? Just using the definition, do they
30:11
Speaker 2: possess unusual or transcendent power or influence? Absolutely, they do,
30:18
Speaker 2: they do.
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Speaker 4: I was standing in my yard.
30:23
Speaker 3: In the middle of summer, about a year and a
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Speaker 3: half ago, I think it was, and it was a beautiful, clear,
30:30
Speaker 3: dark evening, and I looked up and I saw a
30:34
Speaker 3: string of little lights and they were going across the sky.
30:40
Speaker 3: It's a clear, dark sky, And I remembered having read
30:47
Speaker 3: about some of a project that Elon Musk was doing. Now,
30:52
Speaker 3: when you can stand out in your front yard and
30:54
Speaker 3: see a string of about twenty satellites put up there
30:59
Speaker 3: by the world's richest man, four hundred and twenty one
31:02
Speaker 3: point two billion dollars, I mean, which is unthinkable but
31:08
Speaker 3: the dollars are just what enabled him to do what
31:12
Speaker 3: he does. He sends up rockets, he sends up satellites,
31:15
Speaker 3: he builds satellite network. He is the king of information.
31:20
Speaker 3: And all of this is described in the Bible as
31:24
Speaker 3: being a latter day series of developments. Powerful kings, ten kings,
31:31
Speaker 3: people who are more than influencers, they are controllers of
31:35
Speaker 3: the population.
31:36
Speaker 2: So let's think about this. What do we know. We
31:40
Speaker 2: know that, for example, Klaus Schwab the World Economic form,
31:45
Speaker 2: he's his book The Great Reset or the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
31:49
Speaker 2: He definitely is a globalist, no doubt, one hundred percent.
31:52
Speaker 2: His globalist agenda very clearly. If you look at his
31:55
Speaker 2: appendix of his book The Fourth Industrial Revolution, he describes
32:01
Speaker 2: over twenty He says this, we will accomplish our global agenda,
32:08
Speaker 2: but we will only accomplish it through technologies. And he
32:12
Speaker 2: goes on to list over twenty various technologies of how
32:15
Speaker 2: they seek to use all of them in order to
32:17
Speaker 2: implement their new world order that they desire. So they
32:20
Speaker 2: recognize that the new world order is only going to
32:23
Speaker 2: happen through technology, is not going to happen through this
32:25
Speaker 2: old system. Well, they also realize that they can't necessarily
32:30
Speaker 2: do it through governmental connections because why well, as we've listed,
32:36
Speaker 2: the United States government didn't create Facebook, it didn't create SpaceX,
32:40
Speaker 2: it didn't create starlink, right, you know, it didn't create
32:45
Speaker 2: these softwares.
32:46
Speaker 4: And by the way, it was Starlink that I was.
32:48
Speaker 2: Watching, Yes it was. And what's fascinating is so the
32:51
Speaker 2: government didn't create these things. And so in order, this
32:54
Speaker 2: is what we're saying, in order they Klaus Schwab recognize,
33:00
Speaker 2: in order for their agenda, their narrative, to be accomplished,
33:05
Speaker 2: it requires a technology, which means they need this stuff,
33:09
Speaker 2: They need these guys behind them. What the Bible tells
33:12
Speaker 2: us quote I mean, this is the quote. These ten
33:16
Speaker 2: Kings have one purpose, and they give their power and
33:20
Speaker 2: authority to the Beast in order to rule with him
33:25
Speaker 2: for one hour. So nuts, I don't think that's sixty
33:28
Speaker 2: minutes for a short period of time. What we know
33:31
Speaker 2: is that the Antichrist, when he comes to full dictatorial
33:35
Speaker 2: power in the middle of the tribulation period and he
33:38
Speaker 2: institutes the mark of the Beast, he is unable to
33:42
Speaker 2: accomplish this without the help of ten the ten Kings.
33:47
Speaker 2: The ten Kings give them all of their abilities. The
33:51
Speaker 2: ten Kings give this one man their abilities in order
33:53
Speaker 2: to rule. So imagine the day, hey, mister Antichrist, he
33:58
Speaker 2: comes to them and says, hey, I need I need
34:00
Speaker 2: your starlink, I need your surveillance, I need your technology,
34:03
Speaker 2: I need your code, your software, I need your artificial
34:05
Speaker 2: intelligence in order to accomplish what I'm doing here. And
34:09
Speaker 2: they go, well, let's make a deal. So we'll give
34:11
Speaker 2: you all of our abilities, our power, our influence, our wealth,
34:15
Speaker 2: let us rule with you. That's the deal that Revelation
34:17
Speaker 2: seventeen thirteen says. So when you have a leader of
34:22
Speaker 2: North American Union, who's who? Again, it doesn't really work
34:25
Speaker 2: as well because so what you're the leader of the
34:29
Speaker 2: African Union, Well, how does that help you? There's no
34:32
Speaker 2: technology there to do it. But let's go back for
34:34
Speaker 2: a minute, Gary, because this is important. What for example,
34:38
Speaker 2: just one Elon Musk is the quintessential technocrat. Not only
34:43
Speaker 2: is he involved, he bought Twitter, which is now X.
34:46
Speaker 2: He has said publicly that he's going to make it
34:48
Speaker 2: a buying exchange, which he has familiar with because he
34:52
Speaker 2: used to be part of PayPal. So imagine Twitter or
34:57
Speaker 2: X as the largest exchange system in the world, world
35:00
Speaker 2: which we already see this happening in China and other places.
35:03
Speaker 2: He also has Starlink, he has space X, but the
35:06
Speaker 2: Starlink he has currently seven thousand satellites up. He has
35:10
Speaker 2: approval for twelve thousand. Trust me, Gary, I see him
35:12
Speaker 2: in my astrophotography pictures. Okay, he's not my friend. Okay,
35:16
Speaker 2: he's already making his revenues gonna hit eleven billion dollars
35:20
Speaker 2: this year just from the Starlink's he's in pre approval
35:24
Speaker 2: for thirty five thousand. That's what he really wants is
35:26
Speaker 2: thirty five thousand of these satellites worldwide, so that every
35:30
Speaker 2: square inch of the Earth is covered with a solid coverage.
35:37
Speaker 2: The other thing that he's doing is not only does
35:39
Speaker 2: he have inner Internet, but he's taking this and he's
35:42
Speaker 2: creating cell phone service where you don't have these big,
35:45
Speaker 2: bulky satellite phones. They're gonna be just like we have
35:48
Speaker 2: in our hands, and through those we know you can track,
35:52
Speaker 2: you can communicate. The entire Earth is going to be
35:56
Speaker 2: covered with this surveillance ability. Now wouldn't Antichrist love that?
36:02
Speaker 4: Oh?
36:02
Speaker 3: Yes, he would love that. And you know, I was
36:04
Speaker 3: looking at my Bible here, and just kind of as
36:09
Speaker 3: you're talking, I was thumbing through Revelation sixteen and seventeen
36:13
Speaker 3: and looking over to eighteen. And what Revelation talks about
36:17
Speaker 3: is the whole world being under a tightening control, finally
36:24
Speaker 3: totally controlled by the beast, and it's all predicated upon
36:33
Speaker 3: the ability to handle mass numbers. That is to say,
36:38
Speaker 3: to control the entire world, you've got to control a
36:41
Speaker 3: lot of systems and to put it under one man's control,
36:45
Speaker 3: which the Antichrist, you know, is one man and.
36:48
Speaker 2: His ten generals, basically with his ten generals exactly.
36:53
Speaker 3: And so what we're talking about today as we sit
36:56
Speaker 3: here and record this, we're talking about the pre cursors
37:01
Speaker 3: of that system that we've all read about for years.
37:07
Speaker 2: It's interesting that, you know, again, you and I have
37:09
Speaker 2: been talking about this for four years now, and in
37:13
Speaker 2: the last inauguration I took I do not think trumps
37:17
Speaker 2: the Antichrist, So please don't send me emails about this.
37:20
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's our savior either. Okay, we do
37:23
Speaker 2: not name the We don't name the Antichrist because he's
37:25
Speaker 2: going to be revealed after the rapture. According to Second
37:27
Speaker 2: Stone chapter two. Okay, it's the first event of the
37:30
Speaker 2: Day of the Lord is the apostasy and the revealing
37:33
Speaker 2: of the Antichrist. Okay, But what we saw though was
37:38
Speaker 2: interestingly Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, who is the other one, oh,
37:46
Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos, And there was a couple others that were
37:50
Speaker 2: sitting there at the inauguration. And of course now we
37:55
Speaker 2: know that that Elon Musk truly influenced this election by
38:01
Speaker 2: opening up again x for freedom of exchange. He himself
38:06
Speaker 2: did a lot of interviews about certain policy things, and
38:09
Speaker 2: so we're before in the last election again Trump's Trump's
38:12
Speaker 2: Twitter got shut down, so there were censorships there, but
38:17
Speaker 2: never so what we see here is Elon Musk, no doubt,
38:20
Speaker 2: influenced the free exchange of information to the most part. Again,
38:24
Speaker 2: he's not a savior by any means either, Okay, nor
38:27
Speaker 2: do I think he's a Christian. But his influence was there.
38:31
Speaker 2: And so now these other guys again like Zuckerberg, he's
38:35
Speaker 2: playing the victim. Now, they were there because they realized, hmmm,
38:39
Speaker 2: we can influence and we can actually they if they
38:43
Speaker 2: make friends with Trump, Trump won't necessarily come against them.
38:46
Speaker 2: So they're all self serving. Let's just be on These
38:48
Speaker 2: guys are self serving, and naturally, as a business owner,
38:50
Speaker 2: you would be you have.
38:51
Speaker 3: That inner thrust had then there are hundreds of them
38:57
Speaker 3: and their idea is to consolidate as much money and
39:01
Speaker 3: power as possible. And there are a whole string of
39:04
Speaker 3: them down through history, but they all point to a
39:08
Speaker 3: global system that the Bible is very very blatant in
39:13
Speaker 3: its description of. And that's what we're seeing right now.
39:17
Speaker 3: And I think the reason we're talking about this subject
39:21
Speaker 3: is because it adds clarity to our view of prophecy,
39:26
Speaker 3: pre mill pre trip. All of this fits together because
39:30
Speaker 3: the Bible is very very clear, from the Old Testament
39:33
Speaker 3: profits all the way to the New Testament. It's very
39:36
Speaker 3: clear that there will be a group of very powerful
39:41
Speaker 3: influencers in the latter days. And I believe we're in
39:45
Speaker 3: the latter days, and out of that group will come
39:49
Speaker 3: a system and finally a man. And that's all we're
39:54
Speaker 3: talking about here. And why are we interested in this?
39:58
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why I am, because if you think
40:01
Speaker 3: things are getting really close, you're going to look up
40:04
Speaker 3: and say, Lord, help you to understand this. I just
40:08
Speaker 3: I'm trying, but I just can't quite put it all together.
40:12
Speaker 3: And the Lord says, We'll just keep reading your Bible.
40:17
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that's what we're doing, is we're praying through it.
40:20
Speaker 2: We're looking I think about people can go back in
40:25
Speaker 2: the first part of twenty twenty again when right before,
40:28
Speaker 2: as the pandemic was beginning to spread. For example, you
40:33
Speaker 2: look at Elon Musk I think if you go back,
40:36
Speaker 2: his net worth was about thirty billion, and just in
40:40
Speaker 2: five short years he's up ten times, ten x, eleven x,
40:45
Speaker 2: twelve x what he's done here twenty billion. So what
40:50
Speaker 2: will happen in five years? Will he be worth a trillion?
40:53
Speaker 2: And these other guys, all of these guys, if you
40:55
Speaker 2: look in a couple of years of after that, all
40:58
Speaker 2: of these guys added like even trillion dollars, certainly Bezos
41:02
Speaker 2: and others. And so what we're saying is even what
41:05
Speaker 2: we see now the unusual influence and power that these
41:09
Speaker 2: figures have over governments in the future. And I believe
41:14
Speaker 2: they're building with all of their technology. Let me bring
41:17
Speaker 2: a couple of those up, because again in the article,
41:20
Speaker 2: people can find it on our website, perhaps squatches dot
41:22
Speaker 2: com if they just go to our oracles. They can
41:24
Speaker 2: scroll down and see all of the articles that you
41:26
Speaker 2: wrote that I wrote on this, and we get into
41:27
Speaker 2: a little bit more detail. But you think about what's
41:30
Speaker 2: the future. No doubt, starlink is going to be a
41:32
Speaker 2: future for surveillance with all of the ability to have
41:35
Speaker 2: worldwide Internet and phone systems and everything else. If you
41:39
Speaker 2: look at quantum computing, who's in charge that? Well, Besos
41:42
Speaker 2: doing that, Zuckerberg's doing that, Google's doing that. What about
41:45
Speaker 2: artificial intelligence? The same figures, all of those guys Elon Musk,
41:49
Speaker 2: They've all been involved in all of these technologies which
41:51
Speaker 2: are only going to increase. Steve Balmer of Microsoft, So
41:56
Speaker 2: as we go on, their influence is going to to
42:00
Speaker 2: be double triple around the world. And so there's going
42:03
Speaker 2: to come a day when the system that they're building,
42:08
Speaker 2: the system they're building, the technological b system, and when
42:13
Speaker 2: we think about even some of the other crypto and
42:17
Speaker 2: other things, these guys are all involved in that. So
42:19
Speaker 2: there's going to come a day when the figure, this
42:21
Speaker 2: Antichrist figure is going to come to these guys. I
42:24
Speaker 2: think and say, let's make a deal.
42:26
Speaker 3: You're pretty clear, I mean, you've got you've got the
42:29
Speaker 3: ten richest on your list, and the Bible says ten
42:35
Speaker 3: uses the number ten. We don't know that the number
42:37
Speaker 3: that the fat group is complete. There could be a
42:40
Speaker 3: shifting of we don't know yet, we don't know yet.
42:43
Speaker 3: These are just some potentials right here, potentials, And I
42:46
Speaker 3: think it's very important to stress that because what we're
42:49
Speaker 3: talking about is not individuals per se.
42:52
Speaker 4: We're talking about a growing concept.
42:55
Speaker 3: System, a concept, yes, and we need to be I
42:59
Speaker 3: think away of what's going on in order to be
43:04
Speaker 3: as wise as possible when we read scripture.
43:10
Speaker 2: We're looking at these these potentials here as a concept.
43:13
Speaker 2: Because let me give an example, Gary, last year in July,
43:19
Speaker 2: you know, we had been talking about this for several years.
43:21
Speaker 2: While I was in Singapore and I was at a
43:23
Speaker 2: prophecy conference there and I was I had talked about
43:28
Speaker 2: the ten Kings, and right before I arrived there it
43:34
Speaker 2: was in July, I had talked about I had given
43:37
Speaker 2: the presentation a few weeks earlier, and one of the
43:40
Speaker 2: things I have in my presentation I asked a question,
43:42
Speaker 2: I said, I said, hypothetically, I get the greatest superpower
43:47
Speaker 2: in the history of the world, is the United States
43:49
Speaker 2: of America. No doubt. I don't think anybody would deny that. Sure,
43:52
Speaker 2: I said, but right now, So this was like in
43:56
Speaker 2: May of twenty four I said, imagine there was an
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Speaker 2: explosion on the International Space Station and they needed to
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Speaker 2: get a rescue. I said, the greatest superpower in the
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Speaker 2: history of the world could not solve the problem because
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Speaker 2: NASA does not have any At the time, they did
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Speaker 2: not have any rockets. So what would they do. They're
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Speaker 2: not going to say, Houston, we have a problem. They're
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Speaker 2: gonna say, Elon, we have a problem. And so think
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Speaker 2: about this. The greatest super brown in the history of
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Speaker 2: the world would call a private individual and say, hey, Elon,
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Speaker 2: we need your help. And he might say, well, you know,
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Speaker 2: I've been waiting for approval for my other twenty thousand
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Speaker 2: satellites from the FCC. You guys haven't givenage to me. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I can make a deal. But so anyway, so I
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Speaker 2: put that out as a scenario. Will you know what happened? Gary?
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Speaker 2: So here I am, I arrive in as I'm arriving
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Speaker 2: in Singapore, and I speak like two or three days later,
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Speaker 2: this exact thing happened. There was a problem on the
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Speaker 2: Space station. United States couldn't do it because of the
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Speaker 2: sanctions with Russia. Russia couldn't help either as a government,
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Speaker 2: So they ended up reaching out to Elon Musk and
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Speaker 2: Elon says, yeah, I'll send a Dragon X capsule up
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Speaker 2: to rescue them. So the exact scenario of what of
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Speaker 2: what this concept showed that the.
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Speaker 4: Help that was going up there Dragon.
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Speaker 2: I just coincidence. Maybe maybe not. So what we're saying
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Speaker 2: is that this conceptual idea, let's add five years to
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Speaker 2: I don't know, we don't know when the Lord's going
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Speaker 2: to come back, but what we do know is that
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Speaker 2: the Bible says there's going to be these ten figures
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Speaker 2: who have unusual and transcendent power. Power is wealth, technology,
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Speaker 2: all the things that come along with it. Who give it?
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Speaker 2: Who give that over to a singular antichrist figure who is,
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Speaker 2: according to what this is, one of their associates, and
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Speaker 2: they get a deal to rule him for a short
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Speaker 2: period of time, and they give them all of their influence.
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Speaker 2: That to me is how he's going to be able
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Speaker 2: to accomplish his beast system, because he'll be able to
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Speaker 2: have all the censorship, he'll be able to have all
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Speaker 2: the surveillance, he'll have all the artificial intelligence and the
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Speaker 2: quantum computing, he'll have all the economics to do everything
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Speaker 2: he's going to do.
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Speaker 3: And use that term going out there, quantum computing. There's
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Speaker 3: a little scary ring to that once you look at
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Speaker 3: what it is, how it's proceeding, how much power it's
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Speaker 3: going to require, and the global intent of quantum computing
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Speaker 3: is biblical as far as I'm concerned. You go to
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Speaker 3: the Book of Revelation and you're talking about super control
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Speaker 3: of the whole world and to data.
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Speaker 2: When you look at artificial intelligence, absolutely in order to
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Speaker 2: crunch the numbers of data. That's often the problems we have.
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Speaker 2: We're getting more data because more cameras are being installed
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Speaker 2: and everything else in data. Data, data, that's the fuel
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Speaker 2: of artificial intelligence. But the key thing is being able
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Speaker 2: to crunch that data in real time, and so far
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Speaker 2: they can do it a little bit, even the most
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Speaker 2: biggest super computers. But they've had some early just recently,
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Speaker 2: some early successes with quantum computing. They're definitely not there yet,
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Speaker 2: but some of the things that they've done in a
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Speaker 2: very narrow window what would take a normal supercomputer, you know,
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Speaker 2: millions of years. They did in five minutes. So all again,
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Speaker 2: let's add a few years not only to all of
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Speaker 2: these guys and more, but wealth, increased discoveries, advancements of
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Speaker 2: all the technology. When we think about artificial intelligence versus
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Speaker 2: artificial general intelligence, with Sera's the difference, people could look
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Speaker 2: it up. They're not quite there yet, but they will
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Speaker 2: be able to get and hand over to him everything
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Speaker 2: that he would need.
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Speaker 3: As we reach the end of our time. I'm listening
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Speaker 3: to you and I'm thinking I'm going to ask you
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Speaker 3: a question, Mondo. People are listening to this conversation is saying,
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Speaker 3: this is huge. What can I do? I'm one person?
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Speaker 3: What can we do as Christians?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this, Gary, When I read this,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't bring fear into my heart. It brings excitement
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Speaker 2: into my heart. In that what we see scripture saying
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Speaker 2: we're now beginning to see again, and we put this
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Speaker 2: out as a very likely possibility. We're not dogmatic. You know,
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Speaker 2: we could be wrong, but nevertheless it fits in a
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Speaker 2: lot of ways. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: what we want is we want people first and foremost
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Speaker 2: to put their faith and trust in Jesus. I mean again,
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Speaker 2: I wasn't raised a Christian, So when I became a
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Speaker 2: Christian at eighteen, I begin to see prophecy, and to
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Speaker 2: see prophecy fulfilled is like, Okay, Lord, I know the
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Speaker 2: Bible is true. I know the Gospel's true. Salvation's found
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Speaker 2: only through Jesus Christ alone, and I need to make
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Speaker 2: sure my heart's right and that. Secondly, my goal is
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Speaker 2: to watch Mark thirteen thirty seven, and also to occupy
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Speaker 2: to be busy. I mean, we're busy doing the ministry
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Speaker 2: of the Lord, whether that's here, whether it's at the
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Speaker 2: local church, whether it's helping people or in Pakistan, you
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Speaker 2: know whatever. But until the Lord comes, what God would
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Speaker 2: have each of us do is to stay focused on
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Speaker 2: His kingdom. Seek first the Kingdom and his righteousness, and
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Speaker 2: God will take care of the rest. That's why we're here.
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Speaker 2: We're here ultimately for the Gospel to point people to salvation.
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Speaker 2: This stuff is fun. It helps to confirm in my
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Speaker 2: heart that scripture's true and all the rest of the
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Speaker 2: scripture's true. And then the more I learned about the Bible,
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Speaker 2: the more that God wants me to grow in holiness
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Speaker 2: and righteousness.
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Speaker 4: And we have the blessed hope.
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Speaker 2: Yes we did.
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Speaker 3: You know we're called prophecy watchers because indeed we are watching.
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Speaker 3: And what are we watching for? Well, one of the
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Speaker 3: things I'm watching for is the idea. It's very dear
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Speaker 3: to my heart that one day the heavens will open
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Speaker 3: and someone will say to me, come up here, and
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Speaker 3: I will go up. And that's what it's all about,
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Speaker 3: the blessed Hope being ready.
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Speaker 2: So the trumpet will sound and we will be ready
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Speaker 2: to roll. In the meantime, what do we do stay
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Speaker 2: focused on the kingdom and so well, thank you Gary,
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Speaker 2: this has been a great conversation. I hope you've enjoyed
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Speaker 2: and that we are just we're going to continue watching
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Speaker 2: the development of all of these technologies, these people, these
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Speaker 2: potential potential group that could be part of the ten Kings,
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Speaker 2: and even here, I don't think it's just limited to America.
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Speaker 2: There's other wealthy people that will be involved in giving
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Speaker 2: their capabilities over to the Antichrist on that day. So
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Speaker 2: thanks for listening, everyone, and we will catch you next time.