Revelations: This Is How It Ends

[00:00:00] Hello, Rye. Welcome back to the Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, Kevin and Chuck.

[00:00:18] Today, well, I thought we'd take a different tact and tackle the apocalypse because really

[00:00:29] preparing for the end of the world, what's really more than the end of the world than

[00:00:34] the biblical apocalypse, right? That kind of sounds like fire, brimstone, all of it,

[00:00:42] right? All the stuff, man. All the stuff. Now, I don't know. I know I got a fair amount

[00:00:48] of atheists that listen to this show and all the different types, everybody needs their

[00:00:56] own and that's all cool, but remember just before you get all, oh, Chuck, you're so crazy.

[00:01:05] You do listen to me talk about aliens. I'm just saying.

[00:01:08] We talk about all sorts of stuff that's off the wall, so I think it's all right.

[00:01:12] We're in one more segment of, well, maybe on the outside of the curve, this might happen

[00:01:20] too. So it's one more level of preparedness and you may just be entertained. Who knows?

[00:01:27] I might be able to pull something off. I'll try and avoid just reading scripture straight

[00:01:34] through and we should be all right. So Kevin, what is the apocalypse? So I guess kind of,

[00:01:45] really we get it from Revelations, the last book of the Bible, right? Now I think people

[00:01:53] comprise the full details from there are three different books that it seems to come from. I

[00:02:00] mean maybe four. So you get a good bit in the prophecy books from Daniel, from Isaiah, from

[00:02:07] Matthew in the New Testament and then Revelations. Now Revelation-

[00:02:12] Right. Touches on it too.

[00:02:15] What was by John and John, they're not even sure which guy. I keep hearing different opinions on

[00:02:23] which guy, but they believe it's one of the disciples, right?

[00:02:27] Supposedly most people believe it's one of the disciples. There's a minority that think

[00:02:32] John of Patmos was a different guy altogether.

[00:02:34] Right. And that's it. And this was basically a vision that he had talking with Jesus,

[00:02:43] actually talking to him and Revelations. Jesus was talking to him and it was basically a letter

[00:02:51] to the different churches and kind of warning them of where they're at and what things might

[00:02:57] come and why that could be an issue. So that's where it all comes through. And then prophecy

[00:03:04] always throughout scripture had talked about a return of Christ and that kind of thing. And

[00:03:11] basically people going to be with God. And that was the big thing, the underlying theme that seemed

[00:03:23] to be recurring throughout. And so anyway, basically what do you think? What do you know about all this, Kevin?

[00:03:34] Well, I think it's been a thing for a while. It's been growing up that was a big thing in a lot of

[00:03:40] the Pentecostal and evangelical churches. It was a big thing talking about the end days.

[00:03:48] And there are always people coming to the church, they had special insights on this and that.

[00:03:58] And you can read Revelations and come up with a million different things out of it.

[00:04:03] All day.

[00:04:04] Or you can just read what it actually says and just assume that everything word for word is what it means.

[00:04:12] There could be things, a lot of metaphors in there, a lot of stuff that

[00:04:21] different colors that symbolize different things, different churches that actually

[00:04:26] symbolize different time periods going forward through history. And there's a lot of

[00:04:32] stuff there that people read into. And there's a lot of stuff there that's just, you could just

[00:04:37] take it for face value.

[00:04:38] Yeah. And there's stuff that you're just like, I have no idea what that means.

[00:04:44] And I think some of that is meant to be, I mean, kind of like with prophecy, with different things

[00:04:50] is a lot of, sometimes it's revealed to you when it matters. You know what I'm saying?

[00:04:58] It might not make sense to you or be obvious right now, but when it's relevant and time,

[00:05:05] it might be like, oh, this is where we're going with that.

[00:05:09] So I don't know. I seem to remember, like you said, it seemed like back in the day with the churches,

[00:05:15] you used to always have guest lecture things or things people would put on,

[00:05:21] things where they're sure of their whole prophecy thing and they're going to explain it all. And

[00:05:27] like you said, Ozzy was going to bring us all to hell. And I remember there was that movie

[00:05:34] Trick or Treat. I don't know if you ever saw it. It had like Gene Simmons, I think was in it for a

[00:05:39] minute. And anyway, it had Ozzy in it and Ozzy played a preacher. And Ozzy was always on there

[00:05:46] going, you're all going to go to hell. And he's holding the album covers like, oh, look, they're

[00:05:51] all bad. And it just, that's kind of what people come to mind when they talk about, oh, revelation

[00:06:01] in the Bible. That's the fear and everybody like recoils and it's like, ooh, I don't want to hear

[00:06:08] any of that. I don't need it and whatever. And that's fine. It eats your own, right?

[00:06:14] Well, we're just giving you another take and another thing to kind of prepare for and kind

[00:06:20] of understand. And I would say understanding, I don't even know what percentage of the population

[00:06:27] anymore and where they're coming from probably wouldn't hurt you. We're talking about probably,

[00:06:35] what would you say? Maybe a third of the population believes in Christianity or where

[00:06:40] are we at at this point? Right. I think in the United States, we're closer to 65, 70%.

[00:06:47] Worldwide, obviously it's a big difference. There's a big difference there, especially when

[00:06:51] you get over to Europe, there's a lot of atheists, a lot less Christianity in Europe, obviously a lot

[00:06:58] less in the Middle East and Asia. Yeah. I think it's definitely a sliding scale of how much people

[00:07:04] believe or accept it. How committed you are to the whole thing. I don't mean percentage of the

[00:07:11] population, but out of that percentage that acknowledge some kind of Christianity, how

[00:07:18] committed they are to that idea. Right? So anyway, let's kind of dig into the meat within the nut.

[00:07:25] Now, whenever you see, like I know as a kid, when we'd see these movies or stories about it,

[00:07:31] different things, it would be, they'd always talk about one, the rapture. Right? So what's that? Now,

[00:07:41] I guess throughout scripture, I know in Matthew and in Revelation, they talk about God calling

[00:07:49] his people home. At one point they do describe it as he comes in the clouds and there's the

[00:07:58] verse about two people will be working in the field and one will be disappearing and called up

[00:08:05] to God and the other one not. And there's a scripture that I was looking at that talked about

[00:08:15] those who follow and adhere to God's word are going to be spared a lot of these tribulations

[00:08:24] and are not appointed for judgment and that kind of thing. And you won't be called up.

[00:08:31] But so one of the things, the key things here that you take away from this book is

[00:08:39] that the Christians will be called up to heaven and they'll be raptured is the word that a lot

[00:08:46] of people use. I don't know how you, people take a different word, different thing on it.

[00:08:52] So they might be disappeared, but there's a lot of other judgments and things that go on. And a

[00:08:58] lot of things that happen, they talk about biblically. And I kind of wanted to lay it all

[00:09:03] out because I wanted to do another episode where we talk about how to prepare for these judgments,

[00:09:10] you know, specifically, but if you have no idea what I'm talking about,

[00:09:14] it kind of makes it fall short. You know, now, Kevin, do you have any kind of timeline? I do,

[00:09:21] if you don't, but yeah. Well, let's go. Most of this is from Matthew 24 where Jesus talks

[00:09:30] specifically about what's going to happen and kind of the timelines, right?

[00:09:37] Right now, let me stage it. So this is called like the Olivet speech kind of thing.

[00:09:42] So this is when at the Mount of Olives, Jesus is gathered with the disciples kind of at the

[00:09:48] end times, I believe, you know, the end of his life, right before he's crucified, right before Easter

[00:09:54] or Passover is what we really call it. Not for, we'll stay away from the other, but, and he's

[00:10:00] talking to them and he's like, Hey, this is what's going to happen. This is things to come. And so,

[00:10:05] all right, sorry, had to set that up. Right. So, all right. First thing he touches on is wars and

[00:10:13] rumors of war. So, you know, I mean, I guess you could look at it right now and say there's,

[00:10:20] you know, war going on in Israel. There's a war going on in Ukraine. But, you know, there've been

[00:10:27] time periods in our past where there've been a lot more war than what's going on right now. You know,

[00:10:32] there was 170 years ago, there's the whole damn world was going to war, you know?

[00:10:38] So, I mean, and a lot of people during the first world war were actually talking about this as a

[00:10:46] prophecy. Next thing he hits on is natural disasters, earthquakes and things like that.

[00:10:57] Yep. Increase in persecution of Christians.

[00:11:01] Yeah. A lot of people being kind of forced to defend their faith kind of thing. And, you know,

[00:11:09] now there is a lot of that going on against the Jewish people as a whole, but not necessarily

[00:11:16] Christianity so much as yet. Now really, society we do kind of people look down and shun Christians

[00:11:23] when, cause they, they definitely set themselves up for a bad taste in the eighties, I think.

[00:11:29] Yeah. Yeah. When, when what was the satanic panic when all the, you know, everyone was

[00:11:36] scared their kids were going to get abducted by devil worshippers and stuff, but, you know,

[00:11:41] whatever. You know, there's a lot of persecution going on with Christians in the Middle East

[00:11:47] and with Christians in China. But, you know, I don't, I don't know that that's specifically,

[00:11:55] specifically, you know, I think it's more of a widespread thing that they're talking about

[00:11:59] that Jesus was talking about. Yeah. The next one I've got here is false prophets.

[00:12:06] False prophets people claiming to be Jesus, people claiming that they've seen Jesus

[00:12:13] people, you know, claiming that they are getting divine, you know, words. Obviously

[00:12:20] you can find, you can go to any city and find a crazy person that believes he's Jesus or that,

[00:12:25] you know, he's talking to him and that he's got, you know, special words, but,

[00:12:29] you know, there's crazy people everywhere and crazy comes in all different kinds. So,

[00:12:34] you know, that's one of them. Next one is an increase in lawlessness.

[00:12:43] I mean, I guess you could say that when there's no you know, when you get arrested and, and

[00:12:48] they just let you write back out, that's what's going on in New York state. They just, you know

[00:12:53] they got, they got a guy, a couple of, couple of months back, they got a guy. He was,

[00:12:59] he was DUI. They pulled him over. Yeah. Impounded his car, let him out. He was trying to find drugs

[00:13:08] and so he stole somebody's car. They pulled him over, caught him, let him out. And then

[00:13:15] he, they arrested him a third time, actually physically trying to buy drugs. It's like,

[00:13:20] actually physically trying to buy drugs. It's like, you know, he wasn't going to quit man.

[00:13:25] He was going to be a bad night for the guy either way. So that's one of those days where you should

[00:13:30] have just stayed in bed instead. Right. You just kept going at it and they just kept arresting

[00:13:35] him. But I mean, whatever, different strokes. I feel like in most states that would have net,

[00:13:40] the second two incidents would, wouldn't have ever happened, but whatever. Now Daniel says,

[00:13:48] Daniel 12, four talks about an increase of knowledge during the end times. So that's,

[00:13:54] that's interesting because I feel like this is the age of information that we're in.

[00:13:59] This age. Yeah. Right. I agree with that. I think that is kind of a unique time thing. Like I agree

[00:14:05] with you, everything you've said and, and I don't have any, I'm not going to drop any big, oh, well

[00:14:10] this is happening now at the end of the episode. I think every description that, you know, we've

[00:14:18] gone through the increase, everything, you know, famines and whatever, people have felt like that

[00:14:26] for hundreds of years. I don't think it's a new, and you know, I could even say thousands of years,

[00:14:32] you know, the, the apostles that followed Jesus actually were sure that it was going to happen

[00:14:39] in their lifetime, in the next, you know, any minute, right. These things are going on. So I

[00:14:44] think anybody who's like, oh, well look now, I do think there are things that make it more possible

[00:14:54] and relevant right now with the technology and with the advancements we'll talk about, you know,

[00:14:59] the buying money and the mark and all that stuff in a minute. But I think it's a lot more possible

[00:15:07] now. Also kind of one world government and things like that kind of get, you know, tied into now.

[00:15:15] But a lot of these things, I feel like it's always been, I think there's been

[00:15:19] periods where there's more wars and rumors of wars than there is now. I think people saw it as

[00:15:27] more earthquakes and crime or more earthquakes and famine and disaster in the past. You know,

[00:15:34] we had some bad times. I mean, you talk about the dust bowl and different things like that.

[00:15:38] Now mind you, it was man-made, the dust bowl and all that, but just the same, it still happened.

[00:15:44] And people saw it that way, perceived it, you know, as bad things coming. And, you know, the

[00:15:50] plagues that hit Israel were, you know, pretty devastating to the people. I think we see it now,

[00:15:57] and it's more in your face just because we have a global news kind of thing. You know,

[00:16:03] everything is in your face, like, oh, there's a tornado, there's an earthquake.

[00:16:07] Right.

[00:16:08] Yeah, there is, but it's not really affecting you or anywhere near you or anything like that.

[00:16:15] And yet it's brought to your attention. And so I think it makes you feel like there's more of

[00:16:20] an urgency or there's more bad things going on, you know, just in this time.

[00:16:26] Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So next one on our list is an increase in immorality.

[00:16:36] Now, I think most people, when they talk about immorality, they think about, you know, weird

[00:16:41] sex stuff, right? That's not necessarily what immorality means, you know, it's anything that's

[00:16:48] immoral, you know, lying, cheating, stealing. Now, what I have noticed, though, is a solid

[00:16:56] decrease in random hookups. It seems like after COVID...

[00:17:04] People don't care about sex anymore. Yeah.

[00:17:06] Yeah, after COVID people stopped bumping uglies. People are not going out to the,

[00:17:10] you know, singles bars and hitting it as much as that. People are talking about it a lot,

[00:17:13] but nobody's actually... There aren't very many people doing it, which I mean, whatever. I mean,

[00:17:19] I was 21 once. I acted wild, but whatever. It doesn't seem like the 21 year olds are still out

[00:17:26] there being crazy. They're not as interested.

[00:17:28] No. No.

[00:17:29] A lot of the studies and surveys report that, you know, kids just are not interested in having sex,

[00:17:36] at least with other people or, you know, they might be happy to look at porn or something on

[00:17:42] their phone, but nobody wants to go meet other people in this modern, you know...

[00:17:47] Yeah, it's gross and sticky.

[00:17:49] Yeah. People smell that. You know, who knows what's going on out there?

[00:17:55] All right. The next one I got here is the spread of gospel to the entire world. That's Matthew 24, 14.

[00:18:03] Okay.

[00:18:04] So now I know that people have been talking about that for a long time, and that's one of the...

[00:18:08] Actually, weirdly, that's one of the main reasons a lot of churches support missionary trips is

[00:18:16] because they think that, you know, Jesus won't come back until the entire world knows and has

[00:18:22] a chance to say yes or no. Right? An increase in deception and false signs and wonders.

[00:18:33] Now, I think there is an increase in deception. I feel like more and more all the time. But again,

[00:18:39] it's more relevant now that we see the worldwide news. However, I don't know if we're seeing

[00:18:44] signs and miracles. I feel like there's less in that increase in corruption. We do have that.

[00:18:51] Yeah, it does seem to be pretty rampant, at least in the United States, you know?

[00:18:55] I think that a lot of us as Americans, our lens is viewed through like what's happening in our

[00:19:02] country right now.

[00:19:04] All day.

[00:19:05] But there's a whole planet of stuff going on.

[00:19:07] There's other people?

[00:19:08] Yeah, yeah. Actually, you know, check out... Go to Italy and see how their government works because

[00:19:14] they got some corruption issues over there themselves, you know? There's a lot of places in the world.

[00:19:18] I heard you've had some corruption issues.

[00:19:20] Mm-hmm.

[00:19:21] Yeah, so, you know, I mean, yeah, there's absolutely an increase in corruption in the

[00:19:27] United States or at least perceived. Maybe it's just we know about it now and

[00:19:31] before everybody was getting away with that stuff.

[00:19:34] Yeah.

[00:19:37] And the final one I have here, it's not the only... These aren't the only signs, you know?

[00:19:42] This is the top 10.

[00:19:43] I have three clicks, but all right.

[00:19:45] Increase in frequency of corruption.

[00:19:48] But all right.

[00:19:50] Increase in frequency of these signs. So all these things are, you know, we've talked about

[00:19:56] these. All these things are happening now. But they're saying an increase in the amount of,

[00:20:02] you know, this stuff. So maybe it's not just the crazy person that claims to be Jesus.

[00:20:09] Maybe there's some actual people with three-piece suits doing it, you know, coming up.

[00:20:16] Yeah.

[00:20:16] So we'll have to watch out for this sort of stuff. And, you know, things like this can flip

[00:20:23] on a dime, you know?

[00:20:25] Yeah, I think that's right. So yeah, that's the thing. I mean, I kind of, you know, I think we're

[00:20:31] going to circle back a little bit to more of the kind of what. But the when, you know, you're

[00:20:38] touching on this increase of signs, things like that. One of the ones I always heard when I was

[00:20:43] a kid going to church was, well, you know, the nation that sees Israel become a nation will be

[00:20:52] the one that, you know, that sees the return of Christ. There's a quote, Matthew 2434 says,

[00:21:05] it's Jesus talking and he says, I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass

[00:21:11] away until all these things have happened. And one of the things he had described was,

[00:21:18] and this is referencing Deuteronomy 428, the Jewish people would enter the land of Joshua

[00:21:26] and then would turn away and be scattered among the Gentiles. But they would regather in the

[00:21:33] later days or latter days for the return of Christ. Now, people always said, oh, well,

[00:21:40] you know, Israel, there's kind of that homecoming of the Jewish people in 1948. Well,

[00:21:48] I got to say 1948, you don't think it's that long ago. You know, it's like one of those things with

[00:21:54] the memes on the internet. You're like, oh, you know, back in the eighties and you're like, ooh,

[00:21:59] like 45 years ago. Like what? You know, that's a long time ago. It turns out if you're going to say

[00:22:08] a generation, then time is coming to an end or past. I would kind of say past. And people,

[00:22:16] I kind of looked up like what the take was on that. Cause the church had always said like,

[00:22:21] you know, and again, we don't know, we're not all knowing. We don't know how to,

[00:22:25] you know, interpret things through God's eyes kind of thing or however, you know, you would see it,

[00:22:32] but like, we don't know, have all the answers. Right. But I would say that's not really a sign

[00:22:41] I would be pointing to if I was trying to convince somebody, whereas that was always the thing, you

[00:22:47] know, when I was a kid was, oh, it's going to happen. It's eminent because you know, 1948,

[00:22:53] that generation I hear it explained away. Cause I kind of looked it up and they explain it away

[00:23:00] as saying, well, you know, they mean when they say a return to Christ, they also mean like

[00:23:08] spiritually because the people who have returned back to, to Jerusalem and to Israel are not

[00:23:16] necessarily Christian people. They're Jewish at, at, you know, but they're not people who are like

[00:23:23] Christians or, or following Christ. And, and I think they kind of describe it as they talk about

[00:23:29] like a, a turning a, you know, people following Christ and that kind of thing. And I don't think

[00:23:37] that's there. But I don't know. Like I said, I don't have all the answers. I just know that was

[00:23:42] one of the ones always thrown at us. But like you said, you know, you touched on all the other ones

[00:23:48] with the increased corruption increase, you know, God lying and stealing and sinning and, and wars

[00:23:56] and stuff. But I feel like that's always been going on. One of the things that makes it different

[00:24:02] for me is they also mentioned a lot of one world government kind of thing. They talk about,

[00:24:11] there's a verse about the 10 Kings that are rulers at different districts, but under one

[00:24:17] world government. I know when I was a kid, they used to preach about that as like the UN.

[00:24:23] They were so sure that was the UN is, was it? Yeah. No, mind you, the UN is such a corrupt,

[00:24:29] shady little organization that it kind of fits to be the antichrist.

[00:24:36] They really just don't have a whole lot of power and they don't really accomplish anything.

[00:24:40] You know, America seems to be the teeth of the UN. And yeah, I mean, I definitely wouldn't think of

[00:24:45] it as a one world government right now, but I think people were implying that it was like a

[00:24:51] footstone, you know, a moving into that. But I do think however, it is more likely

[00:25:00] that we're a lot closer to the possibility of a one world government. At Bible, the scriptures

[00:25:07] also talk about the one world currency. Now I think that could be just around the corner.

[00:25:16] They talk about kind of a cashless society. Bitcoin.

[00:25:21] And, you know, just, and I guess the way they interpret it as cashless is they talk about,

[00:25:28] you know, there's only, there's a form of payment that, you know, you can't kind of get around and

[00:25:33] only people who are willing to accept or be a part of that form of payment. You know, they talk about

[00:25:38] the mark of the beast, you know, that's where you get that whole 666 and the number of man and,

[00:25:44] you know, all these different things you've heard. That's what they're talking about. And I

[00:25:50] think, like you said, maybe something like Bitcoin or whatever. I think the big reason that governments

[00:25:57] push for that is obviously they, you know, they want to be able to control everything you buy.

[00:26:03] And my experience is because they want to tax the crap out of you, you know?

[00:26:07] Right.

[00:26:09] Is the real. Yeah.

[00:26:11] It's not really a nobody can get away. It's nobody can get away from paying taxes.

[00:26:17] Right. If you go and have a garage sale and everybody comes and gives you cash for everything

[00:26:23] they buy, you're supposed to pay taxes on that money.

[00:26:25] Oh yeah. You send that in, right?

[00:26:27] But you don't have to because it's cash and they can't catch you.

[00:26:30] And if everybody had to come and pay, go to your yard sale with Bitcoin and stuff like that,

[00:26:35] you know, that's different game, right? They can, they can track that.

[00:26:38] If you're using your credit card, they know.

[00:26:41] Yeah.

[00:26:41] You know, if you're getting payments from a credit card, they know.

[00:26:44] They know. And they know in their heart. They know you're shaking with your lemonade

[00:26:49] and on the corner.

[00:26:50] Your little lemonade's charging 50 cents for a cup of lemonade.

[00:26:53] Any of you rolled out there trying to learn how capitalism works?

[00:26:57] No, you got to put an end to that. You got to permit some.

[00:27:01] Yep. Move along. Do you remember Shea? Shea with the lemonade stand? I don't know.

[00:27:08] There was a kid, obviously me and Kevin are from the same town. And there was this kid with a

[00:27:15] lemonade stand and he'd be out there hustling every day. Like it was constant. And like for years

[00:27:23] where you'd go by, he'd be out there and ready to go. And I've seen cops and everybody out there,

[00:27:31] you know, got to go see him because he's polite and respectful and awesome.

[00:27:35] And that's awesome. I love capitalism and people out there trying to do a thing, but

[00:27:40] you know, there's a lot of states out there like crazy California and

[00:27:44] crazy New York if you're in the wrong town that, you know, they'll shut that down.

[00:27:49] They don't want anything going on without. So again, I just touch on that because that's one

[00:27:56] more sign of the world kind of being ready for that kind of thing.

[00:28:01] Yeah. Yeah. No, I think it's, you know, I think it's really, you know, and we joke around about

[00:28:08] lemonade stands and stuff, but really anything black market, you know, buying drugs. You don't

[00:28:13] buy drugs with a credit card. You don't, you know, you don't buy stolen goods with a credit

[00:28:18] card. They do seem to have ways to work out high-end escorts with.

[00:28:22] Jerry Springer. Do you remember he was, he used to be the governor?

[00:28:27] Mayor of Chicago.

[00:28:29] Chicago. Mayor, right. You're right. Yeah. And he got in trouble because he paid,

[00:28:35] he paid a hooker with a check. Oh, and that's how they caught him. You know,

[00:28:40] then he started his show and became even more, more famous. So there you go.

[00:28:45] There you, you know, there's always, and that was before like we had Elliot Spitzer in New York and

[00:28:52] it's just an ugly world. And that's the thing like corruption is kind of endless and,

[00:28:59] and whatever. So, all right. So we basically the mark, they talk about a time when no one will be

[00:29:08] able to buy unless they kind of, you know, take this mark and go into it. And it just seems like

[00:29:14] the world is kind of at a point where that's possible. They also talk about, you know,

[00:29:20] we really couldn't have had a global government, I would say before the last maybe 30 years,

[00:29:30] you could maybe go back as far as 50 years. Really. I feel like the technology now,

[00:29:36] it could very seamless be even the technology in the last 15 years, you know, you could kind

[00:29:41] of seamlessly they talk about tracking people and, and hunting stuff down and, and that kind

[00:29:48] of thing. And, and, but you know, people have the mark. It's kind of like your cell phone that

[00:29:53] in your pocket, you have a GPS, anybody can find anybody now, right now, you can leave your cell

[00:29:58] phone and walk away from it. But if it was a permanent thing, then you might not be able to

[00:30:06] walk away from it. You know, you put a chip in your hand, it gets harder to get away. Now we

[00:30:12] still have cell phones and license plate readers on the cars and every other thing. I mean,

[00:30:17] and facial recognition, China would probably make an argument that it's pretty hard to just

[00:30:22] disappear. Even if you drop your phone and everything with their facial recognition,

[00:30:28] I don't think we're there in America and we're sure as heck not there worldwide,

[00:30:34] but things are moving pretty rapidly. That's right. And facial recognition is getting more

[00:30:39] and more, you know, more and more prevalent, you know, not just governments, it's corporations.

[00:30:46] And you know, any corporation that, that does anything like that, the government can get any

[00:30:52] information they want. You know, if the government wants to know what you've been looking at,

[00:30:56] you know, in your Google browser, they can find out. If the government wants to know,

[00:31:00] you know, where you've been, they can go through the cameras. They can say, oh, you went into

[00:31:05] Walmart. Let's, let's you know, look through the cameras and see what you bought, see what you were

[00:31:11] looking at and didn't buy, you know, that sort of stuff. So it's, you know, it's more and more

[00:31:17] prevalent everywhere you go. And you know, the mark of the beast, they talk about it, you know,

[00:31:23] your, your forehead or your hand, or, you know, that sort of stuff. And like you said, you can get

[00:31:28] rid of your cell phone, but what about once you have Neuralink, you know, once you have it in your

[00:31:33] head, you know, I can't wait for the day where I can start dreaming, dreaming in commercials.

[00:31:39] You know, it's coming, man. Let me interrupt that thought with this message from our sponsor.

[00:31:46] I feel like in the future though, you would kind of have like a, a seamless,

[00:31:54] a seamless placement of products and things, you know, they, they used to try it in,

[00:31:59] in maybe it was the seventies, could have been the fifties. I don't know where, you know, it's

[00:32:03] like, Ooh, and I'm having this nice glass of icy, you know, frosty glass of Coca-Cola. Yeah. You

[00:32:11] know, or, Hey, I like, you know, and, but you can do it. Like it used to be the subtle thing. They

[00:32:17] always said with us smoking, you know, they'd smoke in the movies and people would, Oh, that's

[00:32:23] cool, man. That guy looks so cool with that cigarette. Tobacco companies would pay to,

[00:32:31] Hey, just have a character smoking. And I think that stuff, I mean, I don't even know how much

[00:32:37] is true or whatever. I believe that was true, but you know, they, I don't have any evidence

[00:32:44] or proof of this. I'm sure you could probably Google it or whatever, but I do know there was

[00:32:48] a lot of smoking going on in movies, but there was also a lot of smoking going on in real life.

[00:32:53] So that's true. You know, if, Oh yeah, I had that guy smoking. Well, yeah, it turns out if you go

[00:32:59] into most restaurants in the seventies, there's a guy smoking, smoking, you know, it's not like,

[00:33:04] it's not like some mystery dark thing. It just, that's how it was, how the world was. But I think

[00:33:11] that's how advertising is probably going to shift where you don't realize you're being sold.

[00:33:17] Right. And I, I think, I mean, hell that's what we're seeing with the memes and social media.

[00:33:22] And I think AI has the technology to really sell you on things, you know, without you being as aware

[00:33:30] or to put, you know, effort into it where, you know, that's everyone's like, Oh,

[00:33:35] tick tock and stuff like that. And it's all in your feed. I swear Facebook even seems way more

[00:33:42] targeted as far as like trying to shape my opinion than tick tock does, right. Which maybe tick tocks

[00:33:50] just better at it. You know, they do it and I don't realize it as much, but who knows? You know,

[00:33:56] I don't know. I just, cause I feel like it's less relevant than the stuff that I see on Facebook or

[00:34:02] whatever. If I, you know, Facebook reels or something pops up, it's a bunch of like Korean

[00:34:07] people or something. And I'm like, I don't even know what's going on. Like these, these weird,

[00:34:12] like maybe it's, it's South American, but I feel like it's like, it's Korean characters with like

[00:34:21] soap opera stuff. Oh, you worked for this company and, and secretly you're a millionaire

[00:34:28] and the woman never knew. And you know, whatever. And their family hated them. And

[00:34:33] I see these dramas like unfold and I'm like, why is this even anything I would care about or relevant

[00:34:40] and I'm like, do better AI, do better. Figure this out. It's crazy. Yeah. Now, real quick,

[00:34:48] before we move on, you talked about Korean soap operas. I was looking through some,

[00:34:55] some pictures and we're talking about Jesus coming back, right? Jesus coming back on the clouds and

[00:35:00] coming to call up his children. And we've all seen pictures of white Jesus and we've all seen

[00:35:05] pictures of, of black Jesus. We've seen pictures of Jewish Jesus, but if you ever see the pictures

[00:35:11] of Korean Jesus, Oh geez. He's he's like, they have him stacked dude. He is like Arnold Schwarzenegger

[00:35:18] and pumping iron. He is massive. And I don't know what the thing is with, with Korean Jesus,

[00:35:24] but he's like, he's been just a bulking on protein and, and creatine and loading up, man.

[00:35:31] So just watch out, you know, watch out for Korean Jesus. Cause he, you know, he will.

[00:35:38] So you might want to be in the States where we have kind of a softer, easier Jesus.

[00:35:43] A gentle, a gentle white Jesus or black Jesus, right?

[00:35:46] You might get something a little more than your, you know, bargaining for. So yeah. All right. I

[00:35:52] see that. I see that as, as something to look out for. I don't know. I just, I think to just,

[00:36:01] Oh, well that's religion. And I hate religion. We better shun away from that. I think that's

[00:36:07] where people get and being aware of what's going on in the world. I mean, one of the things I feel

[00:36:16] like that's always kind of played out to me is it seems like even though the religious Christian

[00:36:23] people are like, well, it's a little farfetched. I don't know if I accept all that, you know,

[00:36:28] that fantasy stuff. I know a lot of pastors won't even really preach on Revelation 1. Cause as you

[00:36:34] touched on in the beginning, it's very open to interpretation, right? Like I can have my opinion

[00:36:44] of how it all might play out, but I definitely don't think that it's, you know, that this is

[00:36:50] absolute. There's no way that I'm, you know, that anybody else is right. It's gotta be the way I see

[00:36:56] it. And I think that makes it a hard thing to address. But what's weird is I feel like

[00:37:06] the powers that be, you know, we always talk about that there's elite somewhere, the Illuminati, the,

[00:37:12] you know, whatever secret cabal, the skull and bones and all the different people who are

[00:37:18] controlling the world from behind the Masons, right? We had the big fight on.

[00:37:22] Yeah. It's actually the Masons.

[00:37:27] Who is doing it in the Masons or guys out there who are Masons and are like, it's not us.

[00:37:33] We didn't do it and whatever. And you know, whatever, everything is, you know, your own

[00:37:37] opinion. I'm not out to judge. I think there's actually a scripture that says,

[00:37:41] I choose to wait for one who makes a right judgment because it turns out I'm not all

[00:37:46] knowing and it's not my job to control your life or tell you what to think. I'm just putting

[00:37:51] information out there. It turns out you decide your own destiny, right? That's how it goes. But

[00:37:59] what I was getting at is all these powers that be the guys behind the scenes,

[00:38:05] a lot of them seem to believe that this might play out. And that's what's weird and kind of

[00:38:11] spooky is they're working under the premise that this might be. And a lot of people seem to think

[00:38:19] that the reason we've been hearing about aliens and the government, you know, I know they've kind

[00:38:26] of stepped back a little on this, but that they were talking about aliens are real maybe. And

[00:38:32] there's all these UFO sightings that we can't explain. And there are people from other planets

[00:38:38] and whatever, a lot of people in the hardcore kind of conspiracy end of things believe that

[00:38:45] they're kind of looking to set up a cover story for the rapture, right? When Jesus calls home his

[00:38:51] people and all these people disappear, a lot of people, not a lot of people, a lot of the

[00:38:58] people who go into the conspiracy theories seem to think that maybe the government is setting up

[00:39:05] that UFO thing to be able to explain away a mass disappearance. Yeah. Now I know that there's a

[00:39:12] lot of rumors about nerds in the Pentagon. The end times right there, rumors. So I'm saying.

[00:39:20] There's a lot of rumors about the nerds, the older nerds in the Pentagon talking about how

[00:39:26] they don't want to have any relationship with aliens. They want to keep it, you know, keep it

[00:39:31] out of, you know, pop culture because they're actually demons, you know, and they fully believe

[00:39:38] that and interacting with them is, you know, is against the, you know, God's will. So I don't know

[00:39:45] if those are people you want in charge, but they are the people in charge. So regardless, that's

[00:39:50] how it goes. Right. But I guess that's the thing is, well, some of the people making decisions for

[00:39:56] you actually believe the things in the Bible might be playing out and are preparing for that.

[00:40:03] Right. And I just think we would maybe be remiss, not even sure the right word here, if we didn't

[00:40:12] consider and weren't aware of what's going on around us, because whatever happens, you need

[00:40:19] to be aware of what people are thinking and what motivates their agenda. That's part of the whole

[00:40:25] prepping thing. So there are a lot of things that kind of come up with this that you could really

[00:40:34] need to prepare for. And I'm just saying, I think, I feel like we need to do an episode and lay some

[00:40:40] of these out. Now we're talking about comets hitting the earth. We're talking about it raining

[00:40:48] hailstones and blood. That's probably not a good thing. First, a third of the world,

[00:40:59] the water turning bitter from a comet attack. These are things. The oceans turning to blood

[00:41:07] and then later all the rivers and springs turning to blood. Yeah. I would store some water in

[00:41:15] the storage. Maybe the answer for you. When they talk about, I don't know, there's tons of stuff

[00:41:25] and we're going to dig into it. We're going to lay it out. We're going to come up with how to prepare.

[00:41:31] And I'm just saying, these are things you might want to look at. So that's probably enough for

[00:41:36] this week. I feel like we laid out what Revelations is all about, the kind of biblical thing.

[00:41:44] There is a lot going on. There's prophets, there's end time witnessing, there's all kinds

[00:41:51] of stuff that I didn't really touch on. I feel like there's a lot of preachers out there that

[00:41:55] if you want to dig into it, but I think you see how it fits into our world. And I think you see

[00:42:01] how it could play out and shapes up. All right. And before we wrap up though,

[00:42:07] I just wanted to mention, if you've got Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior,

[00:42:14] and you're saying, I don't even have to worry about this because I'm going to get raptured up.

[00:42:18] Good news. Good news. That's not the facts though. It doesn't actually say that that

[00:42:24] happens before the tribulation. So even if you are a Christian, you might be stuck through a

[00:42:29] lot of this. Before, it could be mid, it could be any time. No man knoweth the hour, Kevin.

[00:42:37] That's right.

[00:42:38] So anyway, you guys have thoughts, concerns, things you want to hear about. You want to tell

[00:42:44] me to never mention the Bible again because you're so delicate that you were offended and you couldn't

[00:42:49] even stand to hear it. Let us know. Maybe this doesn't have the place on this show.

[00:42:55] If that's your concern, let us know. Then again, I would say it is our show.

[00:42:59] Yes. So we can do whatever we want, right?

[00:43:02] Grown men, we make our own decisions, right?

[00:43:04] You're not the boss of me.

[00:43:05] That's it. So anyway, that's what we got. Questions, concerns, email us at preppingbadass

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[00:43:28] Prepper Camp in September. You can go to preppercamp.com if you want to meet the man in

[00:43:34] person. Kevin, maybe, probably not is what it looks like, but I'm trying to motivate the guy

[00:43:41] to come out. Maybe if there were enough requests, Kevin might be able to change his lifestyle. I

[00:43:47] don't know. He's an important man. That's the thing. You can't really get that guy out of New

[00:43:51] York. He loves it so much. He's kind of New York through and through. He wears a big Apple shirt

[00:43:57] all the time when he goes out of town as every New Yorker does.

[00:44:02] As every New Yorker does. They play Frank Sinatra's New York, New York

[00:44:06] nonstop in their car. It's just that on repeat.

[00:44:09] Wakes up in the morning, right? So anyway, with that, I would say stay safe and we'll talk to

[00:44:16] you guys next week.