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Pete Garcia: Cycles, Empires, And Ever-Changing Warfare · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
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defending biblical Christianity.
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No topic, off limits.
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And now, here's your host, David Fierazzo.
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Hey, friends.
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Thanks for watching.
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And sharing the podcast.
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We're going to jump right into it today.
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There's a lot to cover with.
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With Pete Garcia, retired military combat veteran and aviator.
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He's a writer, speaker, researcher, teacher of Bible, prophecy, and apologetics.
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And his website is rev310.net.
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That's our EV310.net.
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Pete Garcia, welcome back to World View Matters.
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Good to see you, brother.
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And it's going to be back with you, David.
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Yeah, always.
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So where have you been recently?
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I know you've been on a couple of trips, including Australia.
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We have a couple of pastor friends over there.
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Tell us about your recent trips and where you've been speaking.
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The last, yes, the last two I spoke at was in Australia, New Zealand.
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It was part of Tom Hughes's prophecy conference tour down there, called until he comes,
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or until he returns.
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I think it was called until he comes.
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And it was myself, Billy, Ron, Brandon, whole house, Mondo, Gonzalez, Ken Michaels, and
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then Tom and then me.
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So that was an amazing time that the people there in Australia and New Zealand, they were
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so grateful for us to come down there because it's so expensive and it's such a arduous
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task to get ministries down there and even to get materials down their books and things
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like that shipping stuff down there is really expensive.
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So it was a really great time.
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I really enjoyed meeting the people there.
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And we did our best to try and encourage them to start networking and building communities
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in their locations because when you have like 800 people show up and you feel like you're
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the only person in your whole area that is interested in Bible prophecy, and then you
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talk to the person sitting next to you like, oh, you're the next town over.
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And so people like that were making those kind of connections or were hoping that should
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the Lord Terry will go back down and you know that will be double the size next time.
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That's awesome.
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Friend of ours, Pastor Dean Dwyer mentioned you guys in the conference and just I'm so glad
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you guys have that opportunity to go over there coming up.
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You're going to be in Oklahoma looks like you're going to be in Mississippi anywhere else that
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people can check your website about.
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Yeah, so I'll be in Fort Collins, Colorado on April 6th and 7th, it'll be myself and Lee
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Brainerd there with a church and we're being brought in by a guy named Steve Schmutzert.
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Then April 11th through the 13th will be in Guthrie, Oklahoma and that will be myself,
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Lee Brainerd, Mondo Gonzales, and Ellie Marzuli. And then May 4th is going to be in Mississippi
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and that's me and Jeff Kinley. Yep.
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Chris and Kathy got here and meeting with those fine folks there and then prophecy watchers
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will be at the end of June in Colorado Springs.
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All right, kicking off. Well actually we've already kicked off the year.
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That's going to just keep things just rolling for you. So glad to see you getting out there Pete.
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So today let's jump into you talk about these events a lot when you travel when you speak
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depending on what the conference is about. But we've been sharing emails back and forth.
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You've been sending me some of your presentations. There's so much. I mean, they can take six hours.
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Well, we have less than a half hour. So I'm going to let you kick off with whatever one you wanted
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to go to first because there's some fascinating quotes, information, and just go ahead Pete.
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Share what's on your heart. All right, so this will be kind of a combination of the two
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presentations that gave down in Australia, New Zealand. First of which was the ghost in the
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machine dealing with the veil that's being cast over the world and cast over the nations that's
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blinding people to the reality and to where we are in time and to truth in general. And then the
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second presentation was the tyranny of the present. And there I'm dealing a lot more with time
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as a construct and how we understand the times we live in. And so in that, I wanted to really kind
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of, with you, I wanted to discuss what the Bible calls the times of the Gentiles.
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And we can look back through history and we can see the rising and falling of empires
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going all the way back to like the Acadians, Sumerians, the Egyptian dynasties, the Caldeans,
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Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and so forth, you know, up into modern times.
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And Karl Rove, who was a political strategist for President George W. Bush once said that empires
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create reality. And that quote really resonated with me because when you think about
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those different empires and dynasties and kingdoms, when they are in power, when they're at the
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height of their control, they create the reality of that day. So they tell the people who they're
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going to worship, how they're going to worship, what they're going to do and live and how they're
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going to live and where they're going to live and who they're going to fight. And they create the
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laws and essentially create the history narrative that they want to pass down. And we've seen that
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play out over and over and over. And this is the rising and falling of empires has been fairly
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routine and regular throughout human history. And the point I was making with this particular
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piece was not that, you know, not disputing that empires create reality they do. It's that transition
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point between empires. So as an empire is on the decline and it's beginning to fall apart,
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and then you have another empire rising up, you have these two competing realities that are trying
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to control the narrative for the world. And I think that's where we are today. We're seeing the
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decline of the United States. We're also seeing the rise of this globalist entity and it's taking
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it's like a multi-headed hydrant. It's taking all different kinds of shapes, but it's coming at us
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from academia, from the private industry, corporate world, you know, the economic side, religion.
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You know, it's coming from many different facets, but it seems like that is what is going to be
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replacing what I always call Pax Americana would have been basically the the normal world order
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or the present world order since the end of World War II where America, the United States,
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led the world and basically every metric that you can think of that's coming to an end. And I
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think our enemies and our allies realize that's coming to an end. So they're accelerating this
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collapsing so they can move on to the next thing. And that next thing is why they call it the great
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reset. The reset is resetting the world order so that the United States is no longer in charge.
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So Pete, let's go back to the slide empire's create reality. It starts with the Tower of Babel.
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So you've got or Tower of Babel and that's from Genesis. And it goes really through world history
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wars and empires. And then it ends is that the last slide there is that out of the book of
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Revelation explain that to us. And then within each one of these does can you fit the cycle of
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cycles within each one of these historical markers? Through most of them. Yeah. So the last a couple
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slides are the last three pictures there. The third one to the end. That is a screenshot from
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Dark Norse which is a a website that tracks all cyber attacks in the world. And you can see that
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that any given hour of the day there are tens of thousands of cyber attacks going on everywhere.
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Oh my coming from the United States against the United States. Yeah. And they run the map in
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lifetime real time. So you can watch it as as an attack comes out of the Philippines and it goes
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into Japan or Japan goes into North Korea. It's going all over the place. And so it's it's
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pretty fascinating to watch this that while we go about our daily lives there is an active
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cyber war going on all around us. And just today I mean the cell phone carriers went down. There
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was a nationwide outage with AT&T and then a whole host of other carriers were experiencing all
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kind of problems as well as many websites and even Starlink was having issues. So it seemed
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it seemed to be rather odd because you have all these different platforms that are at different
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places in the world and even outside of the atmosphere being attacked. So we didn't know if it was
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cyber if it was some type of natural phenomenon with like a solar flare or something like that impacting
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anything electrical. We nobody's explained what it is just yet I'm sure we'll find out hopefully
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in a few days. But the other two pictures there are the advancement of robotics and how artificial
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intelligence is going to be put into these machines. And then the last one is the swarm technology
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that's quickly becoming I think it's going to become the model going into the future and how to offset
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advancing technologies. If somebody has an ICBM or really the world's fastest and best yet
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how do you fight against that or how do you fight against a country that has decked man at 200
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million man army when we we are struggling to even meet recruiting demands. So I think they're
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looking at these ways to offset those disadvantages we have right now. That's fascinating because
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technology we rely on technology so heavily. But yeah there have been in the last several years
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the military has had recruiting shortages. Now there are many reasons for that that we're
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not going to get into on this podcast the wokeness and the transgenders and all the stuff that
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the administration is doing but there's a concern in America. They for some reason the Democrats
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don't take their responsibility seriously when it comes to national defense. Your thoughts on
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that Pete before we move on? Yeah it's inevitable you can't when you look at the majority of the
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ethnic group that makes up the military any of the military armed forces that's predominantly
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white males particularly from the south and when you target them as enemy number one in every single
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kind of metric and you're constantly diminishing them as a people and as a race it's no wonder why
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parents are dissuading their kids from going not going into the military. I don't want my kids
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going into the military and I serve 22 years is not the same army that it was. So until that
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changes I'm telling my 18 year old like hey there's better ways if you need to get college we'll
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figure out a way if you need to go to this place there's a better way. So yeah I'm sure I'm not
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alone in that in terms of parents talking common sense to their kids. So another slide you had was
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called the cycle of cycles. Is that going to be a next logical step to go because we just talked
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about the empire's creating reality? Yeah so so basically Alexander Tyler who was a Scottish
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philosopher years and you're back in the 1800s he had this cycle that's very well known it talks about
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how the cycle that a nation or kingdom will go through and it starts off in bondage and then it
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goes into spiritual faith and out of that break courage and then liberty and then abundance and
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then apathy dependence and then back into bondage and this has been seen over and over throughout
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any empire kingdom that's that's you know been around for longer than say 200 years we generally
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see this you can see these patterns repeating and Mark Twain once said that you know history doesn't
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repeat itself but it rhymes and so we see this over and over and the reason we see it over and
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over is because humans don't change we're still sinful following people who are selfish and
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self-centered and and you know at our core we're not good people let if left to our own devices so
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this is why these empires and stuff keep repeating the same thing the other layers on that I put
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on there come some of that comes from like William Strauss and how who came up with this idea of
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the fourth turning point and it talks about every 80 years there's there's generally a repeat of
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the cycle so the each 80 years is broken into 20 year segments and you have the the nomad generation
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the hero generation the artist generation and the profit generation yeah and and so we see that
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and you can look through the you can you can it's a very simple thing to pull up I mean you can
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have just put up how and HOWE and then put up fourth generation or a fourth turning point and
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it'll it'll show you the breakdown of these but the the thing that is interesting is that they
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also incorporate these turning points and we see these turning points very clearly in the United
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States but you can also see it through other nations like the English the French you could look
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at the Roman Empire and then you can apply this to many different kingdoms and empires of the past
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but the turning point kind of coincides sort of with the industrial revolutions that we've gone
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through the first second and third and now we're in the fourth industrial revolution where
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everything's becoming automated everything is becoming connected to the internet
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we have this I this phrase called the internet of things the military has a thing called the
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internet of military things so everything that can be connected to the internet will be connected to
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the internet and I think going forward that's going to play into this new strategy that they're
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looking at in terms of how they want to control everything into the future and then has to deal
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with mosaic warfare and we can talk about that in a little bit but the quote I wanted to really
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highlight was by Sir John Glob and I'm just going to read the first sentence and not the whole thing
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because it's pretty lengthy but his book The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival he writes
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the people of the great nations of the past seem normally to have imagined that their
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preeminence would last forever and so when you think about today people that we get in the
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the way things are today are the way they're always going to be and it's common in every generation
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everybody thinks that but it never turns out that way I mean the the only constant that we've ever
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had through human history is that everything changes it's always changing and so and it's
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only changing now more exponentially because of the pace at which technology is changing and how
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that's revolutionizing how we live in the world today yeah when we talk about these cycles it's
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always been somewhat disappointing disturbing sobering for me looking at world history and looking
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at where America is at you know we've had the awakening and now we're kind of in the unraveling
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and between complacency and apathy we're heading toward dependence and then back into bondage
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it's sad to say a great republic under god I should say former republic under god but we've
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we're talking about all kinds of things warfare prophecy you've got a phenomenal slide
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called jigsaw versus the mosaic is that where you wanted to go next yeah yeah so I was asked a
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question in in Australia one of the questions that we couldn't get to in the q&a we didn't answer
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there but we answered it later in New Zealand but as I was looking and researching for the answer to
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this question it led me down this whole different path of just very interesting things and one of the
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things that that really stood out to me was the question was you know is DARPA like really 50 years
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of head of where we are with technology or is that just kind of like a siop or is that some kind
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of mind trick mind fake they're trying to get to to pull over on the people and so as I begin
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researching DARPA and how DARPA is made up it revealed a lot of interesting things about how
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their mindset is on things so they began in the 1950s after the Russians launched sputnik into
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space and they beat the us into space and the early stages of the space race there and so DARPA
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was supposed to be created separate and different from the rest of the department of defense and that
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it would always be the leading edge on on anything and it would not have the same restrictions and
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requirements that other projects require going into like developing a new tank or developing a
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new plane etc etc and a great example of this in in is the air force going to DARPA saying hey we
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want a faster jet and so the DARPA they create the plans the blue parents and they make this faster
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jet and then the air force comes back a little bit later hey we want it to go faster and then so
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they keep going back and forth on this faster and faster and faster and then DARPA say well why don't
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we just look at it as a different way instead of it making it you know in this never-ending quest for
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the fastest thing ever why don't we just make it invisible and so that that led them down another
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way of how to create a plane that can fly through the skies that can't be tracked by any kind of radar
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anything and basically it flies invisible and that's where the stealth bomber came out of that concept
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and then obviously that cloaking technology was passed on to the f 35 another advanced aircraft so
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that technology now has been with us for many you know for many decades but that idea is how DARPA
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thinks about things they don't like to take the traditional path on something they want to think
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outside of the box and so one of the ways that they are revolutionizing warfare is moving away from
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the traditional models of of creating a standalone tank a standalone ship a standalone plane a
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standalone weapon what they're really focused on now is creating a system of system system of systems
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right so in traditional warfare you think about a jigsaw puzzle each one of those pieces is
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specifically cut to fit in that one place in the puzzle and that's how traditional militaries and
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defense industries have looked at projects as these standalone things rather if you look at the
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picture below that there is a mosaic of the Spartan soldier and if you look at each of those
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individual pieces there's just little squares and the only difference in the squares is the color
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and so you can apply different colors to make a different picture but those can be plug and play
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and so the intent then is to focus more on creating an array of sensors that litter the battlefield
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and then those sensors are constantly feeding information back to a decision maker
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and that decision maker can be a human sitting in an op center somewhere or it can be a system
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an artificial intelligence system that makes a decision for whether to execute the attack or not
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and then the last piece of that is increasing the the lethality in that attack
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and so that is where they are moving today with technology and so when you think about why
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everything is being connected to the internet everything is becoming a smart device your washer
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machine your car your watch your cell phones I mean everything is being connected to the internet
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anything that can be connected to the internet will be connected to the internet and what that
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does is that's going to create a worldwide sensor array across the world and everywhere you go
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there's going to be sensors and then those sensors are then tied in with things that can execute
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make a decision and execute an attack whether it's a a long-range drone that just flies and
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hovers over the earth and is solar panels so it's you know it's always being recharged as it flies
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over the earth and then it can make decisions or it can feed that decision back to a drone on the
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ground that was in a kind of a the status a a dormant status you know hibernating if you will
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then it's activated right then and there and then it can execute an attack and but that idea
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mosaic warfare at least the strategy of it is not new and as I was telling you before
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the the idea mosaic strategy goes back to the the beginning of the church in a sense so when
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Jesus was in the upper room and he's telling his disciples the night before he's arrested and
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taken the trial to be crucified he tells him I'm going to go away but if I go away I'm going to
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come back and take you to be where I am and then he goes on to explain to them that when he goes away
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the father was going to send a helper and this helper the comforter is going to be the holy spirit
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and we know later on through Paul's writings and the other epistles that when a person places
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their faith in Jesus Christ they are immediately indwelt and sealed by the holy spirit
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amen so in a sense we become the sensor here on the earth and we carry out the mandate of being
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salt and light in the world and we've had Christians all over the world for the last two thousand
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years and I think this is where we're seeing things today kind of trying to mirror that and trying
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mimic that because Satan can't create anything originally of his own thinking he's mimicking what
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God's already done and so he is using technology to achieve that end and then ultimately we know
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that technology is going to manifest in what we call the mark of the beast and then that will be
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used to track everything and control everything on the planet as well as become presumably some type
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of living sensor everywhere you go we know that when if you go to if you go to a house a friend's
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house and he has Alexa that Alexa's without you knowing it is going to be interacting with any
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technology you're carrying on with you whether it's a smartphone whether it's your car outside
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and it can create a digital picture without even seeing you because it can look at everything that's
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tied to the internet and it does the math on it increases kind of a digital blueprint of you
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being at this person's house so it's going to be to that level there's not going to be anywhere
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to hide one Satan gets this thing going so Pete in the last four or five minutes here keeping with
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the military theme you've got to quote by former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and you've
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got what's called an uncertainty matrix I know you could take a whole half hour or whatever and
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just explain that but can you walk us through some of the bullet points yeah so Donald Rumsfeld the
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former secretary of defense was asked this early on in the the early stages of the Iraq war
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talking about the weapons of mass destruction and so forth and he was trying to explain this to
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the reporters there and he said there are known loans and there are things there are things we know
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we know we we also know there are known unknowns and that is to say we know there are some things we
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do not know but there are also unknown unknowns and they're the ones that we don't know we don't
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know and I'd sounds very redundant and they're saying all that but it really the unknown unknowns
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with what we call a black swan those are those things we don't even know to be scared of you know
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like a sudden eruption of a volcano or something, you know, earthquake or something that happens
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completely unexpected. But the known knowns and implying this to prophecy, I kind of broke these
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down in another slide. I just said, we know that Jesus told us specifically that he would come
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back and come back for his church. And that's repeated in several different places in scripture. But
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that is something we can bank on. We know we can take God at His word. We can take Jesus at His word
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that He is going to come back for us. So that would be an example of a known known. We know that
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He's coming with clouds. We know that he's coming to take the church first and then he'll come
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back with the church at the second coming and then he'll conquer the world and rule and reign for
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the next thousand years. We know that there was known unknowns. So a known unknown would be
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related to we know he's going to come back. We just don't know when and he gave several parables
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where he implied that there would be a significant amount of time that would pass between the two.
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The parable of the talons, parable of the wicked vine dressers and that the gospel will go to the
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ends of the earth and the parable of the faithful and the evil servant. So there is time implied
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in there. We just don't know how much time. And then the last one, the unknown known is that we'll
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know we won't know specifically, but the Bible states we should recognize the season. So even though
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we're not going to know the day or the hour, there are several places in scripture that implies
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that we should know the season. We should see it coming based on signs that the Bible gives us
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to be looking for. So yes, signs of the times and discerning. Boy, we need better discernment,
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don't we, as a church? Also, you got into some failed apocalyptic predictions. We don't have
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time to get into that. I thought that list was fascinating. Man, you go all the way back to a thousand
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AD and you talk about just some of the people that made predictions and oh, so that's a whole
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another topic, but Pete just leave our viewers with some encouragement knowing that things are
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changing rapidly. It's hard to keep up with everything, but our faith obviously is in a God who
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knows the future and we can trust him, right? Yeah, yeah. I think we know storms coming. We get
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prepared. We stay focused on what God's called us to do and influence those within our circle
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of influence. So we stay busy about the Lord's work. We keep our hope focused on Jesus Christ
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and His promise to come back for us. So we keep looking up. We keep watching because those aren't
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those aren't just simply nice to do. Those are commands that Christ gave us himself to be watching
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and waiting for him and to be expecting him. And I think that's really what we should be doing here
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in these last days. Amen, brother. And one of the promises that you named your ministry after
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Rev. 310 in the second part of that verse that he will keep us from the hour of temptation which
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shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth. So we've got some great promises
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throughout scripture. Revelation is packed, but Pete's website again, friends is rev310.net. That's
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rev310.net. Always goes by so fast with you, Pete. But thanks for all the research, all the work
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you do and good success on your upcoming events and may God enlarge your territory, brother.
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Thank you. Appreciate it. It's going to be back with you. Thanks. All right. We'll do it again soon,
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Lord willing. All right, guys. Another big one coming up tomorrow. But God bless you. And as always,
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keep speaking the truth about things that matter.