Devices of the Damned Technology in History

Sweet. Okay, so I am Terry Kammerzell and I'm here with Creation Fellowship Santee.

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I'm happy to introduce to you Nathan Jones of Lamb and Lion Ministries. Nathan has been with the ministry since 2007 and serves

Lamb and Lion as the internet evangelist, reaching out to the over 4 .5

billion people accessible over the internet with the good news of Jesus Christ.

After graduating from Philadelphia Bible University with a bachelor's in Bible, Nathan attended

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and later received his Master of Management and Leadership at Liberty University.

He is a lifelong student of the Bible and an ordained minister. Nathan is married to Heather Jones who also serves at the ministry in the media department.

They have three teenage children who love the Lord. Tonight we're happy to have him share with us about signs of the end times and again if you have any questions whether you're in Zoom or if you're following along with us on Facebook Live, be sure to put them into the comments section and then we'll do a live

Q &A at the end with those questions. So with that, Nathan, go ahead. Thank you so much,

Terri. I appreciate being with you all here tonight. It's really exciting. I'm located in the Dallas area and you all in California, so there's a little bit of a time zone difference here, but I'm excited to share the gospel with you.

I strongly believe in a young earth creationist. I'm working on my doctoral in apologetics and I just love the subject of creation science.

I'm with, like she said, Lamb & Lion Ministries. We're a Bible prophecy teaching ministry whose mission it is to proclaim the soon return of Jesus Christ and we do that in a number of different ways, but primarily through our television program

Christ in Prophecy, which is in its 19th season now. We're on all the major networks. Check us out especially on Daystar.

As the internet evangelist, my pulpit tends to be the internet online. I've been working in the internet both technically and marketing and communications, but primarily as an internet evangelist sharing the gospel online too and I've been doing that for about 20 years.

It's the biggest mission field I think the Lord has ever given in history and I'm excited that you all were part of that and we can connect where instead of me flying to California and sitting in a room with you all, we can connect with people all over the world.

That's the beauty and magic of the internet evangelism the Lord's given us today and I think it's a sign of the end times of points for the soon return of Jesus Christ, but he wants us to get that message out as quickly as possible to as many people as possible about the gospel and the soon return of Jesus Christ.

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We mentioned signs of the end times and we are going to definitely cover that, but in communicating back and forth, someone had seen my interview on Jan Martel's radio program about the book that we all contribute to.

She and me and Dr. David Reagan, who's our founder and director, and a number of other authors contributed this book,

Lawless, which came out this year. The general editor is Terry James, a friend of mine. He actually wrote the core to my book on Revelation called

The Mighty Angels of Revelation. It takes you through the book of Revelation and teaches you angelology because it's got the 72 angels that you can find in the book of Revelation and also teach you

Revelation. Terry has done a series of books. I got this collection here. He started out with this book called

Deceivers about false prophets in the end times. One of the biggest signs that Jesus gave in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 was a proliferation of false prophets.

It's the number one sign he gave. Then he followed up with called Discerners. It explored more signs of the end times.

I contributed a chapter to each of those. Then I contributed a chapter to this book, Lawless, that doesn't follow the denaming convention that I came with because his editor changed it to Lawless.

We lived in lawless times this year. I think we could all agree. I did a chapter in the book

Lawless. Your head of your group wrote me and said, well, I'm really concerned about while technology is affecting our children.

How is Satan using that? How does that lead up as a sign of the end time to point to the soon return of Jesus Christ?

When we talk about covering signs of the end times, I'm going to focus as requested this chapter in the book

Lawless. That's the sign I'm going to cover today. I have to admit that it was the last minute thing to ask me to do the chapter on Lawless.

Yes, it's on Kindle. You can find these on Kindle. My wife works at the ministry as well as the encoder and transcriber.

She also handles their eBooks. You can find our eBooks on Amazon as well. Since this was the last minute thing,

I don't have a formal presentation for the chapter Lawless. What I'd like to do is take you through the chapter.

Then we can discuss afterwards some of it. I'm going to first start with an opening story.

I want to see if you all can relate to this opening story. Do you have people in your lives? Maybe we can turn off the direct and do a little discussion as soon as I read this.

Then we're going to go into Satan's five -step plan from the Garden of Eden. We're definitely going to cover Genesis in your group.

Then we'll move on to how the different technologies are continuing to grow and merge to what we now all use today as the smartphone.

How is Satan using the smartphone to create a new global ethos, a new global culture?

How does that fit into the end time? That's an overview of what we'll be covering tonight. Without further ado,

I'm going to pull up my chapter here. I'm going to read the opening story. If we could, if it's okay with you guys, let's go back to the discussion briefly afterwards.

Tell me if this person sounds like a family member or somebody that you know, or if you can relate to it yourself.

This story, The Modern Day Man, it opens up my chapter in Lawless, which is titled Devices in These Ends of Days.

It goes, with a sudden explosion of musical notes, Katy Perry's roar erupted from the smartphone frantically vibrating face down upon the nightstand.

The musical cacophony drowned out the long room which escaped the young man lying on his unkept bed.

Yanking a pillow and pressing it firmly over his head, he groggily half listened to the muffled lyrics. I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter dancing through the fire, because I am a champion and you're going to hear me roar.

He let the inspirational message motivate him, at least until a sitting position. Bare feet hanging off the edge of the bed, the man scratched his jawline obscured by his scraggly beard.

With some effort, he leaned far over and snatched up his android. Not expecting facial recognition to identify him with this disheveled condition, he zigzagged his index finger across the firm surface, keying in the code to unlock the interface, and clicked the pause button on Spotify.

He was greeted by dozens of multi -colored app icons filled with numbers indicating notifications that were all vying for his attention.

Checking the like count on his Instagram post from the night before, he bemoaned the paltry response and that old pang to his self -esteem shot through his heart yet again.

His selfie pic winking into dinner reminded his stomach that he was hungry, and it groaned too. After inquiring with Google Home what time it was, the man realized almost 25 minutes had elapsed since Katy Perry had knocked on his proverbial door and awakened him.

Trudging to the bathroom for his morning ablutions, he switched on both Pandora and the faucet. Soaking in the bathtub took another half hour as thumbs deftly moved from Snapchat to WhatsApp to Twitter to TikTok, and for kicks, he pulled up BitLine to help him decide if he should towel off or spend some additional time seeing if Studio C has released anything new on YouTube.

With a loud sigh, he obeyed and dripped his way out of the tub and into a pair of PacSun skinny gray jeans.

He wished he had a dark stack pair, and so with a few more swishes of his index finger, Amazon would be delivering a new pair at the front door just another hour or two.

His bank account's app whined with the disappointing news that there'd be another overdrafting. No problem.

He'd just reapply for another Apple Pay account. A knowing smile and his cleverness spread across the hazy mirror image, peering back at him.

And so enamored by what he saw, he puckered his lips and snapped a picture to upload to his Tinder dating profile.

Well, that should get the model swiping right. Lunchtime had already started as he scoped to the table, eyes glued to his phone so he wouldn't have to see the disapproving gaze of his hobby.

He didn't want to start that when I was 23 conversation all over again. He tried online classes at the local community college, but gender studies just wasn't for him.

His ambition was to become a YouTube star. He just needed one of his video ranks to go viral, and then he would have it made.

Or he'd become the greatest of Reddit's social justice warriors, if only he could get excited about a college.

Fortunately, his father was busy scanning through the news headlines on his Surface tablet, shifting uncomfortably from side to side as each

AP news bite irked him. Mother, too, was engrossed with Words with Friends and Facebook, so her half of the sandwich just hovered a few inches away from her mouth.

Tablets, he scoffed internally, so uncool, they're only good for little kids like his sister to play

Pikazoo. And so she was. The family sat in silence, except for the sounds of chewing and the tapping of glass, each intent on their own devices.

The melodic voice of Google Home at last reminded the family of their afternoon activities, and they silently parted from each other like ghosts.

The young man groaned at the thought of having to endure yet another evening shift at the GameStop, a career path he knew couldn't last too much longer in this online gaming world.

Brightened at the thought of gaming, he sped back to his shutter room and switched on his PS4 to earn a better spot on the

Fortnite leaderboard. Upon earning a new skin for his avatar's rocket launcher, his phone lit up with an angry text from his boss.

Was that a poop emoji? He was late again. Dropping the controller, the absent employee reached to pick up his key fob, only to recollect that his older hybrid electric

Prius wasn't charged and so would not be moving from his spot on the driveway. Scrambling through his atlas, he pulled up Uber in order to pick up.

Soon, standing on his front lawn, waiting for his ride, the young man was forced to face down a few unbearable moments of uncomfortable nothingness, so he reached in his back pocket yet again for his phone.

That made him feel so much better. Fifteen minutes later, the Uber driver gave up trying to draw the young man's attention, and with a shrug, slowly drove off without him.

So I kind of intro the story to kind of give an identity to a new generation of people, and we're going to get into that, who that new generation is.

But does anybody relate to anybody like that? Does anybody know anybody who lives like that, who lives constantly for their cell phones, that their whole lives are based on apps?

Or do you know somebody like that? Or are you yourself somebody like that? Do we switch over to communication here, or should

I just read the chat? Trying to get away from your phone?

Well, yes. It's horrifying. Living. Quote, quote, living. Yes. I was at a restaurant.

Let's see, what was that? That was Cheesecake Factory. And my wife and I were there on a date. And across the aisle, 15 family members were at the table.

And they're all around the table. And every single one of them was on their cell phone. Not a single family member looked up or talked to each other through the whole time.

And that is kind of starting to define what our time period is like. And so it's a scary time period, because no generation like this has been like this before.

I mean, every generation has had its ups and downs and particular concentrations of things.

But this is the significance, and this is my thesis for this chapter, that no other generation in the past has been subjected to as many distractions as the millennials and Gen Zs of today.

Gen Zs, I'm talking about children or adults now, from 1999 to 2015, have been connected to the internet 24 -7, to the internet, both in their mobile devices.

They don't know what life is like at all without being connected to a mobile device. So this characteristics led

Jean Twenge. She was a professor at San Diego State University. And she labeled millennials, the millennials are those who were born from 1980 up to 1998, as millennials and Generation Zs, as Generation Me and iGen, respectively.

And after reviewing two studies about classroom attention spans, British columnist Victoria Barrett labeled the children of today the distracted generation.

Well, what does this mean, and how has this affected the children that they're so addicted to their cell phones? A great price has been paid psychologically for these endless distractions.

Well, Barrett cited a Pew Research Center finding where nearly 90 % of teachers surveyed said that digital technologies were creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans.

In a common case study, 71 % of teachers surveyed said they thought technology was hurting attention spans somewhat or a lot, and 60 % concluded that online distractions hindered their students' ability to write and communicate in person.

So almost half of the teachers concluded that the continual distractions that came from their smartphones were critical thinking and homework skills.

And though ever connected to their friends over social media, looking at in -person human relations has caused

Generation Z to find themselves increasingly homebound, they're jobless, dislocated, great loneliness, lethargic, physically weakened, depressed, a lot of them are taking prescription painkillers, and 35 % more likely to commit suicide than previous less technical generations.

In fact, after learning that 44 % of high school seniors in 2015 had never been out on a date,

Dr. Choi noted that some worry that it's not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental health crisis in decades, with the cause being that much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones.

So she concluded that the twin rise of the smartphone and social media has caused an earthquake of a magnitude we've not seen in a very long time, if ever.

And she said, there's compelling evidence that the devices we've placed in young people's hands are having profound effects on their lives and making them serious and happy.

Now, you might think that this isn't something that is happening in the West, or particularly

America. This negative shift in teen behaviors with troubled emotional states isn't a

Western problem. It's a global cultural phenomenon. The rise of the smartphone has radically changed every aspect of a teenager's life, from the nature of their social interactions to their mental health.

These changes have affected young people in every corner of the nation, in every type of household, and the trends appear among teens and poor and rich of every ethnic background, cities, suburbs, small towns, where there are cell towers, there are teens living their lives on their smartphone.

Like I told you all, I come from a background in technology. I started out in the

IT world, web development and design and digital marketing. I spent the last 20 years of my life reaching out to people over and over the gospel.

So I do love technology. Don't take me wrong. I'm not a technophobe. I do love technology. The communication technology the

Lord has provided us here today has reached far more people for Jesus Christ than any area before ITEC corporate founder

Richard Leghorn coined the term the information age back in 1960. So praise God. But as we read, technology is a double -edged sword.

The same social media that keeps us connected to long lost family and friends also connects us to clickbaiters and identity thieves and cyber thieves.

The same online classes that we take to help educators from anywhere in the world can also depersonalize the educational process and leave the student learning in a vacuum.

News and weather at the touch of the fingertips, which normally warns of impending storms, can also keep us in a constant state of agitation longer for the event to pass.

So the benefit of countering so many different points of view online can leave one's head spinning in moral relativism and despair.

So technology and the many devices that connect us do provide, I believe, a great benefit to the individual and society, but in the wrong hands that can produce great harm.

Now the Lord of all evil Satan, he knows this. He's had a plan going for thousands of years since the beginning of his corrupting influence on humanity, and it continues to this day.

The only difference between then and now is that he's added technology to his strategy for reaching his insidious goal.

So as we go forward in this discussion, let's talk about what, let's identify what

Satan's end goal is. Then we're going to discern his overarching strategy. And finally, I'm going to get into a number of technologies, which combined culminate into the ultimate device, which your enemy now employs to help achieve its various objectives.

All right. So let's begin with Satan's goal and strategy. Just what is

Satan's goal? Well, we go to the book of Isaiah for that. It provides a first person narrative, exactly what

Satan has long been attempting to achieve. He said, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

I also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest side of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.

I will be like the most high. And you can find that in Isaiah chapter 14, 13 through 14.

Ever since God's guardian, cherub, and heavenly worship leader began to envy the praise and worship of the almighty received,

Satan has sought to usurp God and sit on his throne. A failed coup d 'etat forced the prideful angel to change his plan.

And having been banished from heaven and cast down to the earth, if he cannot rule the universe, then

Satan will at least rule over the planet promised to God's children who were made in his image. Satan would corrupt humanity, bending those mere mortals to serve him rather than their heavenly father, and so build his own heinously evil global empire upon their subjugated backs.

Now, what strategy then does Satan employ in his attempt to reach his sinister goal of establishing his global empire and so garner the praise of mankind?

That's what Satan wants. Satan wants mankind to worship him in place of God. Well, he continues to follow the same five -step strategy he did back in the

Garden of Eden. Now, if any group knows about the book of Genesis in the Garden of Eden, I'm so happy you guys know this.

But it's interesting to examine the fall of David to see exactly how Satan's strategy works.

And it works like this. Step one, distract. The first step in Satan's nefarious strategy to steal the planet

Earth from mankind began by distracting God's children. Genesis 3 tells the story of how

Satan, in the form of a serpent, approached the very first woman Eve. Hanging down from his perch in a nearby tree, the serpent stopped the woman in her tracks with a simple question, asking, has

God indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman replied to the serpent, we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,

God has said you shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die. Well, God has created and then placed the very first people,

Adam and Eve, into a garden paradise. Remember, there's no weeds or thorns or thistles or stinging and biting creatures to be found there.

The first couple only had to keep the garden well trimmed and cultivated, name the animals, and keep God and each other company.

No one or need existed, for the bounty of the garden was lovingly given by God for them to just pluck out with ease.

Every immense fruit and grain was at their disposal. The crops grew and the trees fruited all year long.

Only one rule existed in this tropical paradise, and that was for Adam and Eve not to eat from that one lone tree.

I mean, that's it, right? Just one tree. The first couple even been warned by God what would happen should they eat of the fruit of that tree, death.

But Satan knows that, which is forbidden, often becomes the most tempting. Even with all the boundless delicacies at their disposal,

Satan knows how easy it is to distract mankind with the things which they can never possess. Without one simple question

Satan posed, all the bounties faded away from Eve's sight, and only that solitary forbidden tree remained stubbornly tugging at her mind.

So that was step one, distract. Step two, self -focus. So with Eve's distracted away from all she possessed, now only what she could not have,

Satan implemented the second step in his strategy to wrest the world away from humanity. He made the humans focus not on the loving

God and her countless blessings, but on themselves. In verse four, the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

Well, Satan's bald -faced lie placed a niggling doubt in Eve's mind, and she began to think that maybe

God was holding out on her, and that maybe he did not love her and Adam as selflessly as he had claimed, and that maybe even

God was jealous of humanity, and so keeping them down. Her outward focus on God and her husband became self -focused on what she now believed she didn't have but deserved.

So Eve began to see her and Adam as victims, dupes even, an unknown feeling welled up within her for the very first time in her short life.

Eve began to envy, and Satan recognized that emotion all too well. So now we move to Satan's plan step three, to break apart.

The story goes on in verse six that a distracted, self -focused Eve took a good look at that forbidden fruit and found that fruit was quite attractive, for it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one wind.

Purposely ignoring the subconscious voice pleading with her conscious mind to not to do this disobedient thing,

Eve made up her mind. She plucked a piece of the forbidden fruit and she ate it. Well, now Adam enters into the picture, and we don't know if he was there the whole time, or he'd just come upon Eve in the circuit of conversing.

Genesis doesn't say, but some claim that Eve's newfound understanding of the difference between good and evil, that loss of her childlike innocence, caused her to realize she'd somehow become different than her husband, maybe even emotionally superior.

Regardless, her willful disobedience had broken her apart from her mate. And with that realization,

Eve may have used the very first feminine charms to lure Adam to join her in her guilty state.

Unlikely, though, for verse 17 places the fallen mankind squarely on Adam's shoulders. We know simply that she also gave to her husband with her and he ate, and then the eyes of both of them were open.

Eve was deceived when she disobeyed, but when Adam disobeyed, he chose to do so with all the facts present.

So mere moments passed before Adam and Eve's relationship began to break apart, and that juice had barely dripped off their chins before they realized with some shock that they were naked, and so they ran off to sew fig leaves together and make for themselves coverings.

The complete openness in their intimate personal relationship was the first time cloaked from each other.

And instead of an equal partnership going forward, man the stronger vessel would dominate woman the weaker vessel, and all future marriages would suffer some level of gender warping.

God would later in verse 16 explain to Eve this new hierarchy as your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.

So mankind's relationship with their heavenly father had also been shattered for verse 8 reveals that for the very first time in their lives,

Adam and Eve feared the presence of God, and they said that they hid from it. When God at last found their hiding spot, he rhetorically asked the couple how they knew they were naked and why they disobeyed him, and immediately the guilty two flung incriminations like knives at each other.

Adam blamed Eve for their sin, and Eve blamed the serpent, and their newly fallen self -righteous state surely all three found a way to blame

God. So yet another breaking occurred when verse 21 reveals the Lord God made tunics of skin out of animals to clothe them.

Death had indeed at last entered paradise. That trusting relationship between mankind and the animal world had been shattered by their disobedience, and much fear and mistrust and blood would be spilled going forward.

Step four then, Satan's plan is to divide. So Satan's temptations had successfully achieved the breaking apart from God from man, and man from woman, and mankind from the animal kingdom.

Satan had with almost too much ease wrested the title deed of the earth away from humanity. Satan was now the god of this age, as 2

Corinthians 4 explains, the earth was his. But as soon as the enemy heard the first baby's birth cry, he realized he had a whole new problem to contend with, mankind's offspring.

The very same pride and lust and self -focused ambitions that fueled Satan and his demonic followers now also fueled mankind.

Satan hadn't just created one god to rule over his world, he ended up creating hundreds and thousands, billions and soon billions of little self -proclaimed gods, and every one of them at some level craved the attention and worship of man for God alone.

It was bad enough that the demonic overlord had demons clamoring for higher positions, but how could he possibly rule the entire world and still have all of God's creation worship him when challenged by billions of ambitious competitors?

Though the task seemed daunting, the challenge just unbeatable. So Satan's first solution in dealing with this quandary was to attempt to transform humanity into becoming more like his demonic kind.

Genesis 6 reveals that when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

And as demons possessed men and conjugated with them, the resulting offspring became giant.

And these mighty men who were of old, the men of renown, they were known as the Nephilim. These unholy creatures provide the mythos for the demigods of ancient lore.

And so abominable was this perversion in nature, so evil had the hearts of mankind been corrupted that God announced he would first cap their lifespans to 120 years.

And then at last he stepped in and wiped the earth clean of them with the flood. For being the so -called ruler of the earth,

Satan could not stop God's interference. And he was relegated to being a mere bystander at the global deluge.

Creation had been reset, humanity rebooted, starting with the righteous Noah and his family. The true solution of Satan's quandary came surprisingly from God himself.

Mankind must be kept divided. Revelation 11, excuse me, Genesis 11 reveals that in only a few generations after Noah, mankind had yet again set their hearts against God's authority and sought to establish their own rule.

All of Noah's descendants gathered as one in the land of Shinar, and they began to construct a tower that would stand as a monument to mankind's disobedient refusal of God's command to spread out into the world.

Verse four reveals humanity's wayward intention. And they said, come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens.

And let us make a name for ourselves lest we scatter abroad over the face of the whole earth. God recognized that what mankind could not do alone, they could certainly achieve if they all just work together.

As God surveyed the construction site, the trinity conversed with himself, including in verse six. And the people are one, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do.

Now, nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. God knew that dividing humanity would slow their progress, and so he came up with quite a clever solution, to confuse their languages.

So after hours of futilely attempting to communicate with each other by waving their hands about and heated arguments and fistfights breaking out, those who could make sense of each other began assembling by common language.

The divided people group soon migrated off to the ends of the earth, and they becoming the forerunners of the ethnic peoples and nations that we have today.

The combination of linguistic confusion and greedy hearts will bring about millennia of endless wars and ongoing division.

Mankind's dream of resting back the title of the earth grew frustrated and approaching impossible.

Well, yet another division arose when a man named Abraham came on the scene, and that would further keep the humanity divided.

So back in the garden before Adam and Eve had been exposed out of paradise and into a cursed land, God had presented the serpent with a tremendous prophecy.

He declared, I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed, he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel,

Genesis 3, 15. The very first prophecy in the Bible. Not only would mankind be divided by language barriers and soon ethnically along racial lines, but also between those who chose to follow

Satan's rebellious path and those who swore their lives to faithfully follow God. The unfaithful would be separated from the faithful,

God's enemies versus God's children, and Satan's followers pitted against God's disciples. Under the old covenant, it was the

Gentile world pitted against the Jewish nation. Under the new covenant, the entire world against the church.

Well, with this first messianic prophecy, God also proclaimed a champion for his faithful, the one who had come to be known as the

Messiah, the Christ, the revealed Son of God, the perfectly, perfectly holy incarnation of God, Jesus Christ.

He broke loose Satan's tenuous hold on the title deed to the earth with a selfless act. Jesus crucified, buried, resurrected from the grave, victorious, he became the worthy lamb slain.

His victory over death granted Jesus dominion over the earth, Revelation 5. And Christ's faithful children, long having surrendered their claim over the world when they also surrendered their lives to Jesus, will one day be granted inheritance rights to the planet upon Jesus Christ, return to yet again banish

Satan, this time to the body of the spirit and establish him in his millennial kingdom. So here we go.

That's how Genesis is connected to Revelation. It's the beginning and the end of the story.

So I gave you the hopeful end right there. Let's get to step five, Satan's plan, and that's to globalize.

Satan's strategy began by distracting humanity with perceived wants, then redirecting people to focus only on themselves, resulting in the breaking apart of vital relationships, and then dividing humanity so they cannot join and so attain the power and praise which he so lustfully deserves or desires.

The fifth and final phase of Satan's strategy to achieve both world dominion and mass worship ends with this, and that's globalization.

Satan has spent many long centuries anxiously waiting for means to at last be developed that would make possible the ability to regather the warring masses and then reprogram humanity under a whole new unifying culture and ethos, his ethos.

This newly shared culture in immortality would bring about a false sense of harmony that resulted in reunification of the discordant nations, but all under his own global governmental control.

Satan seeks to establish a new world order. The Bible, especially the book of Revelation, reveals that Satan in the not too far off distant future will be wildly successful in implementing his new world order, though not all by his own efforts.

God at first interferes in affairs of Satan and man yet again by removing his restraining influence, and he does so by rapturing the church up to heaven.

Then we Christians who are alive and remain shall be caught up, raptured together with them in the clouds to meet the

Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4, 17. The shocking removal of all

Christians from this planet will plunge the world into abject terror and the descent into spiritual darkness.

With no church to hold back this darkness, every evil inclination will be let loose from people's hearts.

Every foul deed will be done with maniacal glee. Anarchy and lawlessness will abound.

Chaos will ravage the divided old world order. The mystery of lawlessness already at work in this world will at last reveal himself.

Out of the old world order, a new world order will arise, and out of the lawlessness, the man of lawlessness will come forth.

Satan will present his own chosen one who will ascend as a messiah by spouting false promises of peace and safety to calm the chaotic world.

The prophet Daniel in chapter 9 describes this supposed man of peace how he shall come will confirm a covenant with many for seven years.

Along with political peace, he will also offer up a new religion, a mystery Babylon religion, to unite the world religiously, as Revelation 17 prophesies.

The mask of peace will merely be a facade, for the peacemaker will quickly reveal himself a warrior, a beast, a global tyrant,

Revelation 13. And as the second seal judgment so tragically portrays, this antichrist will bring war to those who refuse to bow to his rule, resulting in the staggering death of a quarter of the world's population,

Revelation 6. In the middle of Daniel's seven years of prophesied tribulation, Satan, through his antichrist, will at last subject all the nations of the world except Israel.

The world ruler will then break his covenant with Israel by opposing and exalting himself above all that is called

God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is

God, as prophesied in 2 Thessalonians 2 .4. In doing so, the antichrist will establish his own high priest, the false prophet, and he shall bring an end to the sacrifice and offerings made to God in the newly built

Jewish temple, Daniel 11 and 12. In committing this blasphemy, Satan, through the antichrist, will kill the mystery

Babylon ecumenical world religion by setting up his very own religion in his place, and that is

Satan worship. The false prophet will construct a living image of the antichrist and require all the world to fall before it and worship it, and those who survive the wars and God's reigning judgments will then be required to take a loyalty mark which displays the antichrist's name or number on their right hand or on their forehead.

All must worship the antichrist or, by the false prophet's hands, be cut off from commerce and so starved, be immolated by flames or sentenced to beheading.

So, after thousands of years of human history, Satan, during the coming tribulation, will have at last achieved worldwide dominion and global worship.

His strategy is successful, his goal achieved, and anyone who resists and refuses to comply, such as the

Jewish people and the post -rapture converts to Christ, the Bible prophesies that they will face a massacre.

So that is Satan's five -step plan. We've identified Satan's end goal, the usurping of over the entire earth, the theft of mankind's worship that was meant for God alone, and we've learned that Satan's five -part strategy entails ending with a new world order controlled by a global government and forced religion.

Now we're going to step back and we're going to look at the means by which our enemy will implement this new world order. It means he's so long desired the building of another proverbial

Tower of Babel, this great unifier which has taken centuries to build and which our day has been at last achieved, which wields the awesome power on one hand to corrupt the society while on the other hand redefining and reuniting it, which deconstructs the mind of man yet transforms them into living by a brave new ethos.

Satan's means is technology. I contend that in order to subjugate the people on a worldwide basis, to take captive and then bound them to the spirit of the

Antichrist, who wants to enslave all of humanity under the coming regime of the First Feast of Revelation 13, it can only be achieved by the implementation of certain key technologies.

These key technologies can be combined quite specifically for one simple device. This pinnacle of technology will culminate into the ultimate mind -altering mechanism, which even right now being used to capture the minds and hearts of mankind, particularly our youth, to put at Satan's nefarious work in the high places he occupies in order to create the minions of the

Antichrist spirit. That ultimate, all -encompassing, mind -altering device, well, you guessed it.

I'm talking about the smartphone. So to gain an understanding as to why the smartphone has become

Satan's preeminent device towards achieving his long -desired new world order, we have to explore the underlying technologies which make the smartphone possible.

The smartphone as a technology doesn't stand alone, but rather it exists like a spider in the center of a web of many other technologies.

The smartphone isn't just one technology, but the combination of many, many technologies and they're all layered and integrated, much like the many cells, organs, and systems that make up the human body.

So we're going to now explore six vital categories of technologies that comprise the smartphone and therefore make

Satan's globalization strategy positive. Now bear in mind that the identifying and explanation of each of these strategies,

I could write a book about each one of them, so I can only give you a cursory description of each category while expounding on those that provide key technological components that specifically aid in the creation of Satan's new world order.

And again, before you label me a luddite or worse, a conspiracy theorist, please bear in mind

I own a smartphone, right? You do too, right? I bet it's in your pocket or at least an arm's length away.

As I stated earlier, technology can be used for good or for evil, it just depends on the one who wields it.

Smartphones are merely technology, but a device Satan so masterfully knows how to utilize in order to manipulate the masses towards his diabolical ends.

So the first two categories of underlying technologies we're going to discuss now is the electrical power and computers, which are essential to making the smartphone possible and could be classified as infrastructure.

These two technologies provide the basic underlying framework and features for the overall system. You will recognize that as foundational to all modern day devices, without which we'll be propelled by a steam locomotive back into the industrial age.

All right, so let's look at category one first, electrical power. Well, ever since Ben Franklin attempted to catch a lightning bolt with a kite and a key, mankind has known that an advancing society would require the harnessing of electricity.

I mean, after all, who can imagine today's technology without electricity? You can only empower so much with windmills and water wheels and coal fires.

Well, back in 1831, Michael Faraday created the very first electric dynamo, leading American inventor

Thomas Edison and British scientist Joseph Swan to develop the DC direct current system, which in September 1882 provided the power to illuminate the first New York electric street lights.

This soon led to serving American electrical wizard Nikolai Tesla to work with alternating current

AC and AC powered motors. George Westinghouse purchased and developed Tesla's patent

AC motor, propelled first American society and then the world into a future power across interconnected electrical grids by AC.

Staying plugged into an electrical socket isn't always convenient, right? All electricity needed to be stored, and it needed to be made mobile.

In 1800, Italian physicist Alessandro Volta first discovered that particular chemical reactions could produce electricity, and so he created the early electric battery, which he called the voltaic pile.

Today's inventors, such as Elon Musk, have continued to perfect the battery, even producing and manufacturing one as large as a $13 ,000 power wall, which can power an entire house for seven continuous days before needing to be recharged by AC or solar fires.

So whether your device is powered by disposable triple A, double A, D, or nine -volt batteries, or rechargeable lithium poly -ion battery, portable electricity allows for technology on the go.

Well, that's electricity. Now let's look at category number two, computers. Mankind, much like our technology, continually seeks upgrading, and so to aid our brain's computational capability, the first computer, the abacus, was created to help perform basic arithmetic operations.

The harnessing of electricity led to development of vastly more powerful computers that perform electronically and process a far greater number of calculations in far less time.

By the 1940s to the 1950s, the first general -purpose electronic computer called ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, utilized thousands of vacuum tubes, crystal diodes, relays, resistors, capacitors, plug boards, and switches.

It took up 167 square meters, it weighed 27 tons, and it consumed 150 kilowatts of power.

With the invention of the transistor replacing the vacuum tube, computers began to shrink in size. The invention of the integrated circuits, also known as the microchip, led to much more manageable mainframe than personal computers.

Created in 1970, the first single chip or CPU microprocessor was the Intel 4000 board.

The microcomputer was born. The last few decades have seen computers move at almost light speed away from blinking lights and punch cards to graphical user interfaces complete with monitors, keyboards, mics, and touchscreens by which to more easily operate them.

Incomprehensible binary machine code made up of ones and zeros has been augmented by coding languages, and these languages have allowed armies of programmers millions of lines of computer software, which is the

DNA of computers. Software is made possible with graphics -based operating systems such as Windows and Mac OS and OS X, involving computers to become much more user -friendly and therefore more desirable to the general public.

Ever increasing, near limitless terabytes of data can now be stored on servers in server forms, which is known as the cloud.

Computers have also become smaller and lighter, resulting in laptops, PDAs, cell phones, and tablets.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wolf, the co -founders of Apple, made smart devices all the rage, and now people wear the computers on their bodies in the form of smartphones and watches and other mp3 playing devices.

As computers become easier to use and cheaper to buy, billions of people have scrambled to purchase electronic devices, filling their houses and their lives with portable technology.

Statista reports that as of 2020, the average person owns 6 .58 computer devices, adding up to nearly 50 billion devices operating worldwide.

Computer processing speeds also continue accelerating, doubling every 18 months. Known as Moore's law, this is just one manifestation of the greater trend in how all technological change happens to be occurring at an exponential rate.

By 2023, computers are expected to possess the processing speed equivalent to the human brain, and by 2045, in a mere quarter of a century,

Moore's law predicts we will possess computers with a computational ability equivalent to the entire human race.

Now, computer scientists are looking even past those goals for pursuing artificial intelligence and quantum computing and robotics at a frantic pace.

They foresee a time in the not -too -distant future when computer advancement will reach what they call the singularity, that moment when a civilization changes so much that its rules and technologies are incomprehensible to previous generations, a point of no return in history.

Science fiction writer Werner Bindi, who popularized the idea of the singularity in his 1993 essay,

Technological Singularity, wrote, we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence.

In other words, mankind has been attempting to create artificial life. The rise of computer hardware and software companies such as Xerox, IBM, Toshiba, Apple, HP, Fujitsu, and Microsoft, they've grown into international behemoths.

These Fortune 500 megacompanies wield enormous power over the world's economic, cultural, and political realms.

Tech companies control the future of the human race. And as we've seen in 2020 and 2021, we've seen what kind of power they wield.

Let's look now at the third category, and that's communication technology. The author of the

Book of Ecclesiastes once wisely noted that a three -fold cord is not quickly broken. So then what's better than one computer working alone?

The answer is three, or 300, or three million, or even better, three billion devices all working together.

Hence, we come to this third vital category of technology, which comprises smartphone communications technology.

This category consolidates a virtually mind -numbing array of various technologies, encompassing everything from print and audio and video, radios, transmitters, television, cell towers, satellites, cables, cameras,

Wi -Fi, fiber optics, and the complicated infrastructure that connects all of these technologies into one massive network provide just the tip of the communication technology's iceberg.

The true genius came when all of these technologies began to be linked together some 60 years ago, initially as a weapon by the

United States to combat the Cold War. We call it the internet today, but this wonder of modern -day life was birthed as a mean for scientists and researchers to communicate and share their computer data across vast distances in their efforts to combat the communist world.

As soon as the Soviet Union launched the world's first man -made satellite named Sputnik into orbit on October 4, 1957, a spooked

U .S. federal government quickly formed NASA and ARPAN. These agencies would wage the

Cold War by developing space -age technology to lead the world. Much like many today are concerned that an

EMP blast will destroy a nation's electrical grid, military experts in the 1950s worried that a few missiles could take down the whole network of lines which made efficient long -distance communication possible.

And so in 1962, a group of ARPA scientists led by J .C .R. Licklider proposed a solution of building a galactic network of computers that could talk to one another and enable government leaders to communicate even at the

Soviet's distance. On October 29, 1969, two house -sized computers, one at the research lab at UCLA and a second at Stanford University, shared their first node -to -node message with thread logging.

Well, the internet was born. Well, not quite. It was the ARPANET. The ARPANET was born at the time. By the end of 1969, the two computers linked came forward throughout the 70s.

More and more military and research computers all around the world were identifying each other by internet protocol or IP and sharing their data.

Then in 1991, Swiss computer program by the name of Tim Berners -Lee, not

Al Gore, opened up the burgeoning connectivity to the general public over what he called the World Wide Web.

Now, anyone with a personal computer can access the web over all sorts of explorers like Mosaic and Netscape and Internet Explorer.

And with such massive amounts of data being shared, millions of new computers are being connected to the internet every day.

Search engines bros like Google, Alta Vista, Aspiz, Yahoo, and later Bing mapped and indexed all of that data.

A world of information was literally at anyone's fingertips via their desktop and mobile devices.

As of 2020, 4 .54 billion of the 7 .77 billion people in the world are connected by the internet, and 4 .18

billion of them utilize a mobile device. In the United States, 100 % of 18 to 29 -year -olds, 97 % of 30 to 49 -year -olds, 88 % of 50 to 64 -year -olds, and 73 % of 65 years and older are web surfers.

The average internet user spends 6 .5 hours online every day, generating 88 ,555 gigabytes of internet traffic every second.

The average smartphone user will spend an average of three hours and five minutes each day on their devices, dedicating 90 % of their time to downloading any of the five -plus -million applications or apps from the leading app stores such as Google Play, Apple's iTunes, and Amazon.

Truly, the internet over smartphones has developed into today's Tower of Babel. Language barriers have been becoming a thing of the past, as translation apps such as Google Translate have been developed to turn one's smartphone into a

Star Trek -like universal translator. The networks are getting faster and more robust, as fifth -generation, or 5G, technology is being implemented at record speed to keep up with the exabyte of data being shared.

And the internet continues to expand to its third phase, seeking to encompass every device, from your coffee maker to your pacemaker to your car, in what's called the internet of things.

Alphabet, the parent company which owns Google, has risen to become a monopoly, channeling 92 % of web searches and 44 % of all emails generated.

It now decides who sees what information. Cries of internet censorship, especially against Christian and conservative viewpoints, are on the rise.

As television fiction writer J. Michael Straczynski quoted to one of his characters, he who controls information controls the world.

Well, let's look at category four then, e -commerce. Well, like most inventions, internet didn't really take off until businesses began to realize there was money to be made, and the end users, how they could more easily purchase stuff.

The buying and selling of products and services had to move beyond the brick and mortar and into the electronic realm of online shopping.

So this leads us down to the fourth vital category of technologies which comprise the smart e -commerce.

E -commerce had its humble beginnings back in the 1970s with electronic data interchanges and teleshopping.

In 1979, Michael Aldrich in the United Kingdom connected a modified television via telephone line to a real -time multi -user transaction processing computer and sold his invention as a business -to -business solution.

Once the internet opened up to the public in 1991, companies such as Bookstax Unlimited, which is now

Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Etsy, and eBay quickly became popular as the go -to online shopping experience.

To further consumer confidence, as online shoppers worried about losing their financial data to the growing threat of hackers,

Secure Socket Layer, SSL, was released in 1994 to secure web browsers and protect users' financial data.

The new trend in online shopping swung the boom away from buildings to e -commerce websites.

Many long -lived shopping chains, as you recognize Sears and JCPenney, to an online model quickly found themselves facing bankruptcy.

A seismic shift in commerce transformed the world in just a few short years. With the rise of e -commerce came the rise of online banking, and soon cash gave way to electric funds and new currencies such as the

Bitcoin. Global e -commerce companies like PayPal, which began its services in 1998, and Authorize .net

and others provided transaction service across all economies and currencies to billions of people worldwide.

As entirely cashless societies are being considered, with Sweden leading the way with plans of going all digital in March of 2023, concerns are growing about how much power banks now have over people's finances.

For every transaction, banks and transaction services get a cut, and they have so grown tremendously wealthy and influential.

Increasingly, stories are merging of banks and transactional entities such as PayPal, cutting people off from their finances over ideological disagreements.

And once a society goes cashless, a person can easily be separated from assets by the order of a government or bank with the mere push of a button.

Online shopping has increasingly gone mobile. In 2010, Payments Platform Squared allowed small businesses to accept debit and credit cards over mobile devices.

So by 2017, Square's gross payment volume was $17 .9 billion.

Since then, more than a third of U .S. e -commerce sales have been made over the smartphone. The top 100 online marketing sold $203 trillion in goods in 2019.

An expected 47 percent of all shopping will be done over mobile device in 2020. And just like the computer and internet tech giants, online shopping giants such as Amazon, which sold over $275 billion in goods in 2019, have risen to almost monopoly status, with no entity able to stop them from censoring merchants like Parler, for instance, who depend on Amazon as practically their only marketplace.

Next category, category five, let's look at entertainment. So this now leads us to our fifth vital category of technologies which keeps people addicted to their smartphones, and that's the entertainment application.

Online entertainment takes the form primarily of streaming video, which includes tape long and short form video, gaming, and social media.

Now today's society tends to be visually driven. As a matter of fact, 65 percent of people learn visually, meaning these visual learners absorb and recall information best by seeing.

So while auditory learners need to hear information, and kinesthetic learners need to engage in activity in order to grasp the concept, visual learners or spatial learners obviously learn and remember best through visual aids such as maps and images and so forth.

Today's world of advanced technology and high -speed communication, many technologies drive visual learners to on -demand and streaming video.

As technologist John Dyer points out, technology has become kind of a super cultural phenomenon that finds its way into every aspect of our diverse lives.

Today's advanced communication technology has provided a boom in what is known as long -form video produced by the film industry.

A media culture expert Steve Turner notes, film supplies more widespread cultural references than any other art form, and movies provide a shared reference form.

Film and movies provide an unparalleled opportunity to connect to an increasingly visually driven story in your culture and then reshape it to the storyteller's point of view.

To meet the rabid appetite of all things video, streaming video companies such as Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime and so forth have risen in prominence.

Streaming devices connecting to one's smart television such as Apple TV and Kindle Firestick and Roku and through mobile apps make cable box executives fearfully contemplate their industries impending demise.

For only a few dollars a month subscriptions a service open up vaults of libraries of movies and films even that ever elusive

Disney vault. While long -form videos such as films and movies certainly are making an impact on the modern culture, high production level and excessive costs and limits of bandwidth on mobile devices have placed such media out of the range of most aspiring filmmakers and film monitors.

The solution to this dilemma has been the advent of what's called short -form video, meaning video that runs a few minutes in length and allows for image or production quality.

Pastor Craig Loscalzo notes that this media is perfect for engaging with the mosaic style of thinking used by the post -modernists meaning they draw conclusions from seeing the part rather than seeing the whole because they're a sound bit driven culture that neither endurance nor lengthy attention spans.

Well where can you best find short unprofessionally yet widely accepted short -form video? The answer is

YouTube. It's the most popular online video platform in the world. As one marketing expert cleverly noted

YouTube is the future of entertainment and it's been for a few years now. Well since YouTube launched on April 23, 2005 by three former

PayPal employees, YouTube's ease of use and easy accessibility has led to its exponential growth so much so that the search engine leader

Google bought YouTube for 1 .65 billion dollars. Some two billion users, almost a third of the world's population access

YouTube every month. Some 79 % of internet users claim they have a YouTube account to access videos available in 80 different languages and because 90 % of U .S.

internet users between ages of 18 and 44 years access YouTube, Generation Zs have also been dubbed the

YouTube generation and for this rising generation the standard schedule half to full hour television watching has become a relic of the past.

The YouTube generation uses their smartphones to hop from one short -form video to the next to the next to consume a mere portion of the 720 ,000 hours of video uploaded daily to YouTube's platform.

On the average 40 .77 exabytes of mobile traffic every month, 29 .15

petabytes of that monthly traffic comes from video. Countless hours every day are devoted to YouTube video consumption and increasingly

Christian and conservative content such as what conservative spokesman Dennis Prager produces and the lawsuit defending are increasingly coming under censorship as Google decides what people should or shouldn't watch.

The 100 billion global gaming industry has also taken the mobile world by storm. Having steadily transitioned away from console devices such as the

Xbox and PlayStation to the smartphone gaming apps such as Pokemon Go, Minecraft, Snapchat games and Hearthstone engage primarily males in their massive multiplier online role -playing games across top gaming countries such as Germany, Japan, U .S.,

Singapore and South Korea. According to one 2019 Forbes poll gamers are playing on their smartphones an average of seven hours a week but that has been increasing 20 to 25 percent every year.

The global gaming community transcends national borders living within virtual worlds sharing common experiences and speaking in a common vernacular.

Along with video watching gaming social media has added an average of two hours and 24 minutes per day spent with one smartphone multi -networking across an average of eight social networks and messaging apps.

Active social media users primarily female have passed the 3 .8 billion mark on popular platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, WeChat, Instagram, LinkedIn and a plethora of others.

83 percent of 12 to 15 year olds own their own smartphone, 69 percent interacting over social media and 71 percent taking their phones and friends into their beds and looking at them every night.

Social media has become the primary means of communication amongst the youth even preferring alarmingly over in -person conversation.

So now we're up to category six we're almost done security. The sixth and last vital category of technologies inherited in smartphones involve security measures.

These are the technologies that on the surface are meant to keep the individual safe but are really about keeping society safe.

There are those security software packages and firewalls which protect phones from the ever -increasing threat of cyber warfare and identity thieves.

There are also those hyper advanced technologies that continually track where a smartphone and hence a smartphone user is at all times via GPS tied to satellite -based radio navigation and tower screening tied to cell tower location.

Though GPS has conveniently replaced the paper map our phones know exactly where we are standing at any moment.

Location tracking constantly sends data back to big tech companies such as Facebook and Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google and then on to unknown third parties in order to target you with mobile ads and you've permitted them to track you through data sharing policies buried deep within pages and pages of privacy policies in terms of agreement.

Apple even tracks personal calls, emails and texts in order to prevent fraud and to rate the owner with a what they call a trust score.

Personal privacy left the building as soon as online privacy did. Well these security technologies also include the

Orwellian realized world of constant monitoring via cameras, microphones and smart assistants such as Siri, Amazon Echo and Google Home which are ever listening.

For example ever since 2014 when Amazon unveiled the Echo speaker featuring Alexa it's voice activated virtual assistant software, armies of low -paid

Amazon employees have been listening in and transcribing people's conversations awfully gleaning very personal security information.

This isn't one isolated instance by one company. It is reported across all tech companies under the banner of improving their services and when totalitarian governments get involved in security monitoring you get what's called

China's social credit score. The closest system we have today to the antichrist mark of the beast is

China's social credit score which has already been instituted in their more popular cities. China's communist government has infiltrated millions of cameras everywhere in order to spy on their citizens.

Computer algorithms then rate the citizens allegiance to the government granted benefits to those who are more loyal and restrictions to those with computer genes as not being patriotic in it.

Many other countries are interested in adopting China's system and it will inevitably be implemented worldwide.

As home security systems and home devices become more smart and interconnected to the internet of things with the master controller being one smart the threat grows of a shady outside entity being able to gain control and monitoring of one's own home over their very own security system.

For instance Amazon's ring doorbell camera system was discovered being monitored by company engineers over unencrypted live video feed.

Amazon wants to tie their ring doorbell into facial recognition and allow police forces to use these home cameras as part of their surveillance network.

The very home security devices which keep the robbers out can also keep the homeowners in a monitored prison of their own making.

All right let's tie it all together and conclude here. I've been presenting the argument that Satan's final step towards realizing his goal of world domination and global adulation rests on globalizing the world under his new ethos and culture.

Theology professor William Edgar defines culture as something like a key to the beliefs and customs of a particular society with a view to changing them.

With the advent of today's vast technology the pinnacle being the smartphone Satan has found the perfect device in which to mold his new unifying ethos and culture.

What that characterizes what then characterized today's brave new culture? Well media experts

Steve Turner would characterize it as pop culture and notice just how vastly it suffuses just about every part of the lives of everyone everywhere.

He warns that the driving spiritual forces behind much of pop culture are intent on altering the perceptions of the outgoing culture often negatively towards the

God of the Bible and Christianity. When we suspect the culture has an agenda he says we are naturally more guarded.

When we think it's only there to tickle us we roll over and start praying. We are vulnerable to spiritual corruption we're not alert.

There has always been a transition of our society away from historical modernist logic -based thinking to a post -modernist relativist feelings -based post -christian era.

Evangelist expert Rick Richardson describes the characteristics of this brave new post -modern culture as including a common belief that people are their own

God, that they engage in identity politics, they're rampantly distrustful of authority, they hold a general belief that love rules, they have an overt fear of the patriarchy, they readily discard whatever came before, and they tend to view

Christians as self -serving. This is St. Misdemeanor's carefully indoctrinating the masses worldwide by their ever -present and ever -watching smart things thus creating a new global culture.

Pro -humanist, anti -christian, having the form of godliness but denying its power, the end of days culture

Paul warned Timothy in 2nd Timothy 3 as it last comes. These deniers of the one true

God, Paul promises folly will be made manifest to them. The bible says but you

Christians know the holy scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

That ends the presentation portion of it. If you'd like to move on to the questions I'd be happy to answer any questions.

That was awesome. Terry do you want to do the questions? I don't know.

I don't know what happened to Terry. So we had a couple questions. June, what were you asking?

Green pass? June, one of our regulars. Yes. Oh there we go.

I uh sorry you guys I got caught a little off guard there but I'm here and um I just want to say wow wow um that was that was a lot of information and a lot to unpack so um

I think a couple people do have some questions. June did you want to share um did you want to ask a question about?

Sure about talking about the green pass. Are you familiar with um are you familiar with the green pass that started in Israel?

Yes yes if you watch uh say Amir Safadi he's been reporting on that and uh it's interesting that the most draconian lockdowns and restrictions are in Israel of all places and so there we've been had to cancel our we our ministry does tours of Israel we had to cancel last year's of course and we have another one in June and we're concerned about it not happening because Israel remains locked down until they get everyone vaccinated and those who refuse and particularly they're pointing to the orthodox um they have to get an app as a little green approval and you can get certain permissions you can get certain benefits by having that and if you don't you get restrictions well that sounds very familiar right it sounds like this mark of the beast system we just talked about or China's social credit score in other words if you don't get on board with being vaccinated and prove it then you're going to be restricted and not have access to all the things uh we're seeing that in Israel there are some countries in Europe and the

EU overall has talked about implementing it and uh they've been floating around here in the United States so I wouldn't doubt this is a test run seeing how far people will go to before they're willing to agree to something and then have their permissions restricted or not so uh

I'm sure it's all done in in good order Israel is very dependent on tourism so they want to make sure that they're a healthy place to go first but I personally feel like they've crossed the line by basically tagging people with this green mark whether you can go or not if anybody should be worried about being tagged with the mark it's the

Israelis especially after the Holocaust. Thank you. Right I mean of all of all places the

Jews want you to get a mark. Incredible. Do they have history books there?

Yes matter of fact the Jews are very strong to never again they'll go up to the top of Masada that's where their troops are sworn in and that's their the modern

Israel free force and they're very they don't want the

Holocaust ever again the Bible prophesies and especially like Zechariah and all that two -thirds of the

Jewish people will be killed by the Antichrist during the tribulation but the third that remains will come to know Jesus as the

Savior and that's a that's a wonderful thing it's terrible about the two -thirds of course many people accept Christ after the rapture and the tribulation they too will be persecuted for their faith but that's what the

Lord's doing he sometimes he has to make things really difficult for people to finally stop being stuck in their own world and turn to Jesus and repent and turn to him and as things get tougher and tougher here on this world we're seeing more and more people reach out to Jesus and repenting and calling on him to be

Savior well during that tribulation time period as Daniel prophesied it'll get really really bad but the

Bible says multitudes from every tribe tongue nation and people will come to know Jesus as their Savior during that time so there's a silver lining to that as well so I you know listening to all of all of the talks that you were doing in these vital categories and stuff it's it's kind of scary

I think all of us are properly like anxious and nervous about you know just the overreach like you said like you mentioned the fact that Amazon has become such a monopoly and that they can censor and they have all of this this power and stuff so some of the people in our chat have been mentioning that they themselves actually only have dumb phones not smartphones so I think some of the people that that are here are already on board with you maybe a step ahead that they've been researching this and stuff but there's a lot of us who our livelihoods do depend on the smart technology and and what do you say to us like what's the a good call to action like are we supposed to I don't know like I mean is there a way to avoid any of this and to keep living like what you just said

I mean in some countries even somebody on Facebook in our comments has put parts of Europe are already implementing chips and hands like is there a way to avoid these things and to still be able to live that's a great question as I stated in the beginning of my presentation bear in mind that technology is the double -edged sword it makes life really convenient

I mean the fact that we're all talking here now is technology it's a wonderful thing and right now it can be used for amazing things that you know people are talking about chips and they're worried about chips but the bible doesn't say anything about chips so we shouldn't we should be sung where the bible's silent so you know chips could be a good thing for some people especially tracking

I have an autistic son and if I ever lost him it'd be nice to be able to find him better so not that we've thought of chipping him but you know there's a concern and there's a lot of wonderful things about technology you just have to I like the internet

I was compared to the rest of the world there's good places and around there's bad places around the world be careful where you travel but we know that eventually biblically in this tribulation time period coming as the world unites into a one world order type system that technology will start being used against people we're already seeing it in China and you can't move anywhere in China in the in the more populated coastal areas without being monitored constantly with computer algorithms judging every ounce of your behavior to see whether how loyal you are not and then restricting or giving you access to certain rights and that system is is frightening because we're kind of seeing it today for instance when the the protesters

I guess stormed the capitol building it wasn't long before amateur college students were putting together programs that map the faces of the people connected them to their social accounts and then reported them to the

FBI they've made over 300 arrests and so with that kind of technology it can work against you tremendously anonymity is gone and even if you have a dumb phone so to speak as you're driving around down the street there's cameras on telephone poles watching you when you're going to stores you're monitoring the cameras on the streets you know they know where you are dumb phones are constantly pinging off cell towers so you can be tracked everywhere you go

I mean that's the effect of having technology is that we've lost our freedoms and as we've seen this year and I think this has been a big test by these big tech companies to see how far we've seen internet censorship we've seen them throw whole apps off you thought you were safe you move to a internet source no they just de -platform you and then

Amazon doesn't even provide the services anymore like hosting your server so we've seen that these tech companies have more power than the president of the

United States and I think they've proven that they're pretty much unstoppable by by local governments they are now international behemoths and that's clearly a frightening issue because these people aren't aren't regulated by any particular government we actually follow

Dr. Judy Mikovits and her books about COVID and because she's an immunologist and a virologist

Amazon stopped selling them they said no and they took it off market and that was her like you know livelihood selling these books on Amazon and Amazon just straight up censored you know no more you can't sell them anymore uh one of our sister ministries uh

PayPal said we don't agree with you ideologically and they cut off his PayPal account another ministry was hosting a massive

Bible conference on Vimeo he was like well we don't like your content and they they kicked them off we had thousands of people attending this conference uh we're seeing groups like the

American Family Association and focus on the family I mean things you'd consider traditional uh because the

Southern Poverty Law Center which is an uber liberal group is labeled in conservative group hate speech or hate groups we're seeing banks be the platform when a bank cuts you off you're cut off and where do you read that we read that in Revelation 13 you don't swear loyalty to this one world leader in the future now this is after the wrapping of course we don't worry about this but he'll cut off your finances technology today to make all these prophecies related to the end times come true yeah you got this worried look on your face

Terry I totally understand where you're coming from it's a little scary but bear in mind we're at that point where still technology is working for us it's not restricting it we're getting a little bit of persecution but I believe it's stage setting it's stage setting for when it will really be turned against the world to consolidate the power of this global government that's coming but we're in a good point

I've been having trouble hearing your talk because there's kind of an echo chamber to it and I'm wondering experiencing that yeah where have it

I've been noticing it cut out a little bit here and there it's your network

Nathan it's been showing a yellow and red probably maybe because you're streaming video just from a text point of view

I'm sorry if it's okay

I think Rob has a question Rob do you have a question no I was just noting that it's been hard to hear him to all evening because of this kind of echo chamber effect well you can watch it on YouTube and Facebook yeah

I've been able to hear okay I think that it's doable but I'm just processing Nathan the things that you're giving it's a lot it's a lot to absorb so I'm kind of thinking through some of the things that you've been saying and one of the things that I was it it came to my mind you know

I don't know if you're familiar with the comedian Ken Davis the Christian speaker and comedian and he has a presentation that he does and he and he talks about living your life with nothing to prove nothing to hide and nothing to lose and and I think when

I heard that some years ago it really encouraged me in my own life because of the accountability of it that we are you know

I mean God is always watching us and we know that so in addition to God now we have you know technology is watching so it as Christians if we're living a life like that where we have nothing to lose and nothing to prove and nothing to hide then how worried should we be about protecting ourselves well

I mean it's always good stewardship to protect yourself but we got to remember what the Bible says that that the

Lord has given us a not a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of self -discipline we know that all this was foreseen by God before he created everything and it's not a surprise to God his plans are moving forward exactly as he wanted we're not surprising

God in any way all this is leading up to prophecies that were given 2 ,500 years ago and so we're culminating it one of the one of my favorite prophecies is called proleptic prophecies they're prophecies about the future but are written past tense as if they've already happened and that's because God stands outside of time and for him the

Bible is a closed book it's finished it's done he's down at the end the eternal state and then we're just on the timeline just farther back and he interjects during time period more

Bible teachings more Bible verses and stuff that tell the future so for God it's all done victory he's one thousand foot view of how

God sees us and sees his victory being complete hopefully that gives us encouragement and hope knowing that even though things are tough right now he's going to win and no matter what his victory is assured and that's one of the great blessings of studying both

Genesis and Revelation understand the beginning of the end because it gets back to that that condition that God had with Adam and Eve where he walked and talked and had perfect fellowship with him human history is about getting us back to that condition but with a people group who want to live with him forever it's like a winnowing of a harvest and that's what we're getting to is we're trying to get to that point and so we're knowing that God's future is victorious that should give us great hope and great courage during these difficult times definitely so so then yeah we could say um

Nathan what I often hear I'm I'm an IT person for 25 years and I tell people you know you should be careful here you should be and they're like well

I'm not doing anything wrong so what if my phone listens to me and um what would be a response because I don't know what to say so what if their phone is listening to them but I don't want it listening to me but so I have

Siri shut off but my my smart tv listens to me but what would you say to somebody who says well

I've got nothing to hide why should I care if you know some flunky at Amazon is listening to me well it's kind of similar to handing a loaded gun to a two -year -old and saying well there's not much of a chance they're going to shoot themselves

I mean that's what all this technology we live in a an amazing time period because the amount of knowledge at our fingertips is astounding but our wisdom as humans haven't matched it and so we've got all these fantastic devices but no common sense about what we're doing we're creating a second tower of Abel almost like a

Frankenstein monster without any idea of what the repercussions will be for well the Bible tells us what the repercussions will be will be the total enslavement of humanity for a period of time during the tribulations until Jesus Christ returns so I guess it's up to the individual how how much they feel with it but all it needs is your identity stolen or you know an app to cut you out or to be canceled which is real big with the cancel culture today before you realize that this technology is a double -edged sword it works for you but it also can work against you we got to be so so we have somebody asking about a vpn what so what can you tell us what is a vpn and does a vpn help yeah it kind of hides it or masks you with a fake address so that your ip address on your computer or smartphone or device or whatnot isn't tracked all the time uh it's it's recommended i personally haven't haven't gotten one yet but a lot of people say they like it for kind of covering your tracks as they go again it's not going to fix your problem if your banking system decides to cut you off or paypal amazon says yeah oh you're a conservative uh well we don't sell the conservatives anymore if it gets to that point it looks like that's the trajectory unless we can stop it and so doing things like vpn and secure lock and other things is probably a good idea especially if persecution starts increasing and i believe it will so um i have a question if you could um for parents so i my son is in his early 20s and so we were i was parenting in the generation of smartphones into the hands of teenagers and and i was not i mean like what you just said that we have all this knowledge at our fingertips but not with the wisdom to match it and so i was i was i'll admit that i didn't really know what we were talking about tonight but last night i happened to be having this exact same conversation with a couple of family members and and one of my relatives she has little boys and she's asking me for advice and i'm like don't do what i did i mean i mean i i know one of the things that we were talking about how this generation of millennials is um they're kind of dangerous because they have a lot of information but like you said again it goes back to that wisdom and i was commenting on the fact that it seems like they're very much peer educated because they had this instant contact my son i know that this was true with my son this instant contact all the time with his peers and so they would teach each other things that nobody really knew what they were talking about instead of getting all of their wisdom and their education from their parents and so i i know that there's things that i definitely could have done better and but it was a hard thing to navigate since there wasn't a lot of precedent so now that we do have some time behind us like what would you say now to parents of how to monitor their kids interaction with their devices okay well first i've impressed you have a 20 year old i thought you were in your 20s so i have a i have a 20 year old as well as well as a 19 year old um back when i started in web development design the big question is well what kind of monitoring software and protection software can we put on the web browser you could buy something like that but now as soon as we handed the kid a mobile device and we're handling them handing to them younger and younger it's basically the babies are coming out and the doctors are slapping their butts and handing them a cell phone i mean it's it seems like they're getting younger and younger uh those filters aren't there i mean you can have some some parental locks and some protection but really what you're asking is you're asking a child to make discerning decisions that they're not ready or capable to make and uh we're seeing especially now the millennials are parents because you know the earliest one born in 19 i have a brother who's seven years younger and he's a millennial just at the cusp and uh so they are on the cell phones as much as their children are and so when mom and dad are on it just as much as the kids it doesn't set quite the example so turning parent will will teach their children for one limit their time that's something that we didn't give our kids smartphones until they came to their freshman year in high school then we thought they were old enough to kind of take care of it two we would never allow it on dinner table or anything where there's social interaction with real people so that they wouldn't be distracted by they couldn't have it at church for instance uh and as they got older and more mature and able to take it and i kind of see it not too different than uh owning a car you know you don't give a car to the 10 year old and say go drive you know you wait till they're older and they're trained and they have discernment and know how to use it and i think that type of technology is something you have to learn and train and navigate your children through the dark and the good areas of the internet just like it's the dark and good areas of the world so it's a matter i think of parenting your child not just letting them be raised by a smart device because you're right uh if you all have netflix there's this fantastic documentary called social dilemma if you haven't seen it yet it's really great it's done it's put together by people who founded a lot of the social media and now they're out of it and they're looking at what they created years later and are just aghast that what a monster they've created how they they say social media is destroying us because what it's doing is it's it's it's removing all our our judeo -christian values or conservative and it's giving us exactly what i said in my chapter there is it's giving a global uh shared experience through the video and the games and stuff a global cultural ethos that post -modern ethos and it's making people miserable i mean look at the cancel culture they're all running around you know cancel each other miserable and unhappy and they just destroy they don't build anything they don't contribute anything it's a destructive type of personality and that's what uh i think one of the speakers on social dilemma he found it on twitter i think or something like that and he said uh so we're making an irritable edgy angry generation of people that are constantly lonely lonely and self -centered and so um james who's the um general uh editor for the book approached me and said could you discuss about technology in the end times it was really eye -opening to see how much cell phone technology smartphone technology is being used to kind of reprogram the world into this kind of new culture and it's a it's a sad depressing culture to see because they're they're all so miserable and it's not a good i would be happy to see social media just i think it would be a big cure for our culture if social media disappeared but then at the same time like you said about the double -edged sword and i know like i'm part of a ministry online where social media is like our life but we've been able to connect worldwide like with homeschooling and other things too and be able to really build that kind of a network that we wouldn't have otherwise so it is that double -edged sword but it is i would reach i've been doing this for 20 years reaching people all over the world for Christ especially in countries islamic countries where they'll tell you if i if anyone knew i was talking to you i'd be killed and so that's the beauty of the power of it but again as christians we have that judeo -christian foundation in which to stand on and use it wisely but unfortunately we're seeing a new godless generation rise up in the world uh one thing about how about access to all this information is that when you're raised up in a church environment or whatever cultural religion you come from you stay in that boy global access to all this information has created a humanist culture a belief in nothing there's so many ideas and they can't all be true therefore i'm just going to focus on myself as we see humanism rise and humanism is a major component of that ministry babylon religion we read about in that tribulation time period will come so we can see that rising as well yeah and that goes back to your list of five of the satan's steps right breaking us and i agree with self -focus absolutely i love uh what dev put there about jan markell things aren't falling apart they're falling into place and that is so true uh uh jan markell's a friend of our ministry and we've done a lot of work with her and that's a quote that we like to use a lot on christian prophecy because it's true it looks like the world is falling apart doesn't it but it's actually falling just into the way that god god said it would happen and uh we just need to hold on and trust in him like habakkuk when habakkuk didn't understand what the lord said and the lord says just trust me the just shall live by faith and that's how we live today we we live by faith and trust god even when it seems like things are coming out of control amen i i um i had heard of john markell quite a while ago but i never really listened to her last year i drove twice to wisconsin from san diego and um there's no stations you know there's no radio so i was using my smartphone to tune into jan and um i heard you on there and it was not terribly long ago and um a couple other like tom hughes a couple other prophecy speakers and um yeah her show is just amazing yeah put a little plug in there yeah i think and i told her i said jan you might not believe it but i think the lord is using you to preach you're the new conscience in our country and you know she's a tiny little woman who is very humble and she's like now i'm just i'm just doing my job but so you know as we see the older especially prophecy and creation teachers pass away and not as many as a new generation rising up it's interesting how the lord rises certain voices to warn us in these times and that's a one of the beauty of bible prophecy people think it's it's about foretelling it's about prophesying about future events but actually most of bible prophecy is forth telling it's warning in society about god's judgment uh if we don't repent and return to him and so a lot of the old testament is forth telling and that's how what i believe in our ministry believes we don't believe there's we believe the book of revelation says that was the end of new prophecy you've been today if you have the gift of prophecy and so the excitement and the anxiousness to share the gospel with as many people as you can as quickly as you can you foretell you warn people about the need to repent and return to jesus christ and so uh that's what our ministry does is that we we believe that there's a foretelling and so we partner with jan a lot because her ministry does a lot of the same yeah i'm so glad to find her does anybody we're a little over 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