Dan Bidondi Show - From Buddha to Betrayal: Exposing Buddhism- Spiritual Warfare Friday 2026-05-09 05:20
Aired: 2026-05-09
Duration: 02:42:30


=== Guidance That Led Me Away (09:56) ===

[00:00:00]  The immediate church that I was going to was okay, but I had some gals in a Bible study that I was going to.
[00:00:08]  And there was one gal that, you know, really got to be good friends with.
[00:00:15]  And she started to take me to this other church that I eventually realized was kind of a, might have been kind of a cult, actually.
[00:00:29]  And they were coming to my house and telling me, oh, you shouldn't live here alone, you know.
[00:00:34]  Single women shouldn't live alone.
[00:00:36]  You know, you need to come and live in one of these houses with us.
[00:00:38]  And, you know, I was, gosh, maybe 24 years old at that time.
[00:00:45]  And that just really kind of scared me and made me feel like there were so many strict rules with this other group.
[00:00:56]  And I didn't really understand what was going on there.
[00:01:01]  And I just felt like I couldn't measure up.
[00:01:02]  It started to make me feel like.
[00:01:05]  You know what?
[00:01:05]  I gave this a good, hard try.
[00:01:07]  I really put my whole heart into it.
[00:01:10]  And maybe I just can't measure up.
[00:01:12]  Maybe this, I, maybe I, because I just felt like it was going against everything in me.
[00:01:20]  And I had no understanding of spiritual warfare.
[00:01:24]  Nobody was teaching me about spiritual warfare.
[00:01:29]  And I had no way to battle any kind of spiritual warfare that was coming my way.
[00:01:35]  I didn't really have a lot of real guidance.
[00:01:39]  And I knew that I really loved those quiet moments when I would sit and just sit and read my Bible.
[00:01:49]  And at the same time, I really didn't know how to read my Bible.
[00:01:53]  I didn't know, I didn't understand context.
[00:01:55]  I didn't know what I was reading.
[00:01:57]  I didn't know how to ask the Holy Spirit to be with me, lead me, and guide me.
[00:02:02]  I did feel the Holy Spirit around me, but I didn't.
[00:02:08]  Understand how to approach the Bible.
[00:02:11]  I really needed some guidance.
[00:02:15]  But sadly, I didn't continue.
[00:02:19]  I ended up walking away from the church, feeling like I said, just feeling like I couldn't measure up to the expectations and just being really confused.
[00:02:28]  We know who the author of Confusion is, right?
[00:02:31]  Yep.
[00:02:32]  So I knew that I really loved the Lord, but I. At the same time, I just felt really discouraged and confused.
[00:02:43]  And sadly, I ended up walking away.
[00:02:46]  And then I went into about four years of deciding that nature was because I always loved being in nature and I have Native American heritage in my family.
[00:03:04]  And so I started, yeah, so, you know, Cherokee, Blackfoot.
[00:03:11]  On my mom's side.
[00:03:14]  And so I kind of started getting into this whole, you know, nature is my sanctuary and I'm just going to follow the rhythms of the universe and the earth.
[00:03:24]  And, you know, and I didn't even know anything about New Age at this time.
[00:03:29]  It just was kind of like, I guess this is what the evil one was seducing me with and something that was familiar to me that I just thought was innocent.
[00:03:42]  Right.
[00:03:44]  And neutral, which is going to be kind of a theme here.
[00:03:49]  Things that you think are neutral.
[00:03:51]  But as we know, as followers of the Bible, there is no neutral.
[00:03:59]  So that's where I was at for about four years.
[00:04:01]  And this kind of slowly opened me up to learning, you know, other practices and just, you know, I'm just going to read and study what's out there, you know, just, you know, see what these other things are about.
[00:04:16]  And I had dated somebody who was a Tibetan Buddhist and I kind of got enamored with that.
[00:04:21]  And, It's like, oh man, you know, I wish I didn't feel so guilty to look at other practices and this and that, but it's like, that's not guilt.
[00:04:31]  That was the conviction of the Holy Spirit.
[00:04:34]  But again, when you don't have the right guidance, you don't really understand what it is that you're experiencing to be able to differentiate those things.
[00:04:43]  So, yeah, I just started opening up the scope of what I was learning about.
[00:04:47]  I was learning about shamanism and all these different things.
[00:04:51]  And then at one point, My family situation started to get really extreme and very challenging for all of us.
[00:05:08]  And I started going down the wrong road again and partying again.
[00:05:13]  And this now is the late 90s with all the raves and all the different things that were going on.
[00:05:21]  And so I started kind of getting into that scene a little bit and just going down the wrong road and a lot of.
[00:05:30]  Pain with what was going on with my family, and just my family was thousands of miles away.
[00:05:35]  And I just felt really alone.
[00:05:39]  And you know, all the wrong people were moving into my building where I lived and started hanging out with them.
[00:05:47]  And then there was this one gal around the year 2000.
[00:05:53]  There was this one gal who moved in into my apartment building, and she was very friendly.
[00:05:59]  And I thought, you know, she just seemed like she really.
[00:06:02]  Had her life together and everything, and had great people around her.
[00:06:08]  Well, one day, one of the other neighbors that I was hanging around with said, Oh, hey, you know, that gal down there, she's going to have this gathering of artists.
[00:06:18]  She called it an artist gathering.
[00:06:20]  I don't think she really knew what it was, but she said, and it was this woman that I thought was so friendly.
[00:06:28]  And I thought, you know, I just needed such a change in my life.
[00:06:32]  And she seemed really nice.
[00:06:33]  And I thought, I need to meet some new people in my life.
[00:06:38]  I need to make a change.
[00:06:39]  And I'm just going down a road I never thought I could see myself going down.
[00:06:46]  I just never, I couldn't believe that I found myself doing the things that I was doing and going down the road I was going down.
[00:06:53]  And so I went and I walked in.
[00:06:57]  It wasn't a gathering of artists, well, sort of, but it was a Buddhist meeting and there was chanting going on.
[00:07:06]  You know, I was at just the right place in my life, or wrong place, really.
[00:07:15]  All the stage was set for me to be just open enough.
[00:07:18]  I think that if I had known that it was a Buddhist meeting, I might not have gone, but I didn't know.
[00:07:26]  And that was kind of a sneaky way of the evil one, which the Lord showed me later on that this is one of the moments where he got in.
[00:07:35]  Well, basically, you were at a low point in your life and Satan kind of took advantage of you.
[00:07:41]  What you were going through to bring you to this false light and comfort.
[00:07:45]  And, you know, that's how you got into there.
[00:07:47]  Yeah, that's exactly it.
[00:07:49]  And I was, I felt very lonely, and I felt, you know, that I just needed something.
[00:07:58]  And sadly, I wasn't reaching back to the word or to our Father in heaven.
[00:08:07]  And it breaks my heart now, but sorry.
[00:08:11]  Oh, you're forgiven, though.
[00:08:12]  You're with the Lord now.
[00:08:15]  Yeah.
[00:08:16]  Yeah.
[00:08:18]  And so I went ahead and dove into this community of people.
[00:08:29]  And, you know, I just felt there was something very welcoming, you know, all the things that they were talking about, you know, the chanting seemed very soothing and relaxing, and it quelled my anxiety.
[00:08:44]  And because I grew up with a lot of anxiety, and then.
[00:08:51]  All the things they were talking about, it just sounded like, oh, this is, this just all sounds like practical, good advice and a way to take responsibility for your life and just practical guidance.
[00:09:07]  And it all seemed very, very peaceful.
[00:09:11]  It seemed very good.
[00:09:13]  It seemed like you're being encouraged to be able to have dialogue with people and all these really seemingly good things on the surface.
[00:09:24]  So I dove into it, and my first meeting was around June of 2000.
[00:09:33]  And then by the end of September 2000, I became an official member and started my practice.
[00:09:45]  And I will say that, you know, there's a huge community of these Buddhists around the world, and especially in Los Angeles.

=== Joining a Cult Organization (04:48) ===

[00:09:56]  And so.
[00:09:58]  I think that I felt that I found this, they became a replacement.
[00:10:04]  Well, not really a replacement, but they became, it filled that void that I was feeling.
[00:10:12]  A sense of family, a sense of community, a sense of belonging.
[00:10:16]  It was all built into this practice.
[00:10:19]  It was all built into it.
[00:10:21]  And all the things that, all the practical things that I thought that I believed in, it seemed to encompass these things.
[00:10:31]  So, all that being said, that's a little bit of my background before getting into Buddhism.
[00:10:41]  So, I'd like to now get into some of the basics and background of Buddhism.
[00:10:48]  And there are actually many different sects of Buddhism, S E C T S, sects of Buddhism.
[00:10:59]  And the form of Buddhism that I was part of was.
[00:11:04]  An organization called the SGI USA.
[00:11:08]  Some of you may have heard of it out there.
[00:11:12]  And probably if you have heard of it, you probably let out a big sigh when you heard me say that.
[00:11:20]  And I want to touch real quick, do you three, if you're taking a drink real quick, too?
[00:11:24]  So, yeah, so this is what happens when we expose all these things on this broadcast.
[00:11:29]  We've exposed all kinds of forms of Satanism, like the same thing which you said, there's many sex sections, you know, short for sections.
[00:11:36]  Of the occult.
[00:11:37]  You know what I mean?
[00:11:38]  Witchcraft is a bunch of them.
[00:11:39]  I mean, Satanism is a bunch of them.
[00:11:41]  Not all Satanists kill people.
[00:11:42]  You know what I mean?
[00:11:44]  So, you know, it's just different levels.
[00:11:45]  You know what I mean?
[00:11:46]  Different sex thing and paganism, too.
[00:11:49]  That's how they call it.
[00:11:51]  It's all confusing.
[00:11:52]  It really is.
[00:11:53]  And what they do is, again, I have to emphasize this when somebody's down on their life, when their sorrow, depression, whatever happened, right?
[00:12:00]  Satan will move in real quick and take advantage of that real quick.
[00:12:03]  Because growing up as a teenager myself, you want to find a place to belong that you feel welcomed at and things like that.
[00:12:10]  And this happens to a lot of kids, is also an outcast in school.
[00:12:13]  So they'll easily join these things because they'll make you feel welcome and they'll make you, you know, give you everything that you need.
[00:12:20]  You know, and the emotional and all that to supply that.
[00:12:23]  So you join these things, and then you're in the worst position than you were in the first place.
[00:12:27]  But at the time, you don't know that.
[00:12:28]  Oh, wow, these people welcome me.
[00:12:30]  I feel good.
[00:12:31]  Things like that.
[00:12:32]  And that's where Satan just latches on to you, you know what I mean?
[00:12:34]  Like a roaring lion, like the scripture says, seeking to whom they devour, you know what I mean?
[00:12:38]  So that's exactly what happens when people join these things.
[00:12:42]  And yeah, she didn't know any better, and I didn't know any better when I was younger, too, when I got into the witchcraft.
[00:12:47]  It's just like, you know what I mean?
[00:12:48]  We should know the word of God, you know what I mean?
[00:12:50]  Absolutely.
[00:12:51]  But instead of turning to the Lord, our Father, for the help and all that, we turned into these other traditions of men, religions, and cults, and everything else.
[00:13:01]  And we turned to these things and, like, oh, yeah, looking for that kind of stuff, that fulfillment.
[00:13:07]  And when the fulfillment's been in this dusty old book on most people's shelves called the Bible, it's been there the whole time.
[00:13:12]  You know what I mean?
[00:13:13]  It's been there.
[00:13:14]  All you have to do is ask the Lord.
[00:13:16]  You know what I mean?
[00:13:17]  But we don't know that.
[00:13:17]  We grow up because of the churches out there.
[00:13:21]  But the thing is, after all this deception, the greatest thing is God will find you.
[00:13:25]  And he will present himself to you one way somehow and give you that chance to be redeemed and everything else.
[00:13:31]  And the stuff I've done, I deserve hell.
[00:13:34]  I deserve the lake of fire and to be boiled into the lowest pit of it.
[00:13:37]  You know what I mean?
[00:13:38]  But through the redemption and grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, we're forgiven.
[00:13:42]  We're redeemed.
[00:13:43]  You know what I mean?
[00:13:44]  And, you know, especially getting to the occult and all that, it's like bad stuff.
[00:13:47]  It really is.
[00:13:47]  But, yeah, I 100% feel where you're coming from, Kelly.
[00:13:52]  You know what I mean?
[00:13:53]  And, yeah, being young and all that, you want a place to belong and all that stuff.
[00:13:57]  And you.
[00:13:58]  Um, you know, thank God, thank the Lord that He's pulled us out of Babylon, you know.
[00:14:03]  Amen.
[00:14:04]  Amen.
[00:14:04]  And, uh, you know, I can, I'm just so thankful that He never fully let me go.
[00:14:11]  And, uh, I believe that, uh, you know, there are still other times, even though that I had turned away, that I feel that He was there, but there are definitely other times, uh, leading up to when I came back to the Lord that, uh, Things got really, really bad again.
[00:14:34]  And I think that sometimes we feel like we make it out of these things just by the hair of our chinny chin chin, right?
[00:14:42]  Yep.

=== The SGI USA Structure (04:07) ===

[00:14:45]  So, yeah.
[00:14:48]  So, this form of Buddhism that I became part of, it was this big organization called the SGI USA.
[00:14:58]  And SGI stands for Soka Gakkai.
[00:15:05]  International and soka gakai in Japanese literally means value creation society.
[00:15:14]  So it's a lay organization, and so that means you don't have to become a monk or renowned society to become a member or to practice.
[00:15:28]  The soka gakai is international, it is part of a global community based network of more than 11 million people.
[00:15:38]  In 192 countries and territories that practice Nishirin Buddhism.
[00:15:44]  So that's a really big community.
[00:15:46]  So you see, you know, how it is.
[00:15:49]  This is actually, this picture here is the headquarters in Santa Monica.
[00:15:56]  That's the United States headquarters.
[00:15:59]  The international headquarters is in Japan.
[00:16:06]  But that building there was the one before that.
[00:16:11]  This one here was the.
[00:16:14]  The national headquarters of the United States.
[00:16:17]  So that's one of the places that I practiced.
[00:16:20]  There were different places around.
[00:16:22]  I think there might have been a picture right after that one that was also one of the buildings that I practiced in.
[00:16:28]  It's like a 20 second delay, I think, from what you see on the screen.
[00:16:35]  Oh, okay.
[00:16:36]  Yeah.
[00:16:41]  So, yeah.
[00:16:42]  So 11 million people.
[00:16:44]  In 192 countries and territories that practice Nishir and Buddhism.
[00:16:50]  So here was this huge community of people that I could just fill that big void with, right?
[00:16:56]  And they kept you really busy with a lot of meetings and threw you right into leadership right away and learning all these different things and supporting other people in their practice.
[00:17:06]  So the SGI also considers themselves a world peace organization.
[00:17:14]  The philosophy is to.
[00:17:16]  Focus on individual happiness through your own human revolution.
[00:17:19]  Human revolution is a phrase that's quoted quite often, and then you're to help other people become happy by teaching them how to practice this Buddhism as well, leading to a ripple effect of happiness.
[00:17:33]  And they call this, this is what's called kozen rufu.
[00:17:37]  So in Japanese, kozen rufu literally means to declare and spread wide.
[00:17:41]  So propagation is a really big part of this organization.
[00:17:46]  And you can probably already see where I'm going with this.
[00:17:50]  And interpreted by the SGI as world peace through individual happiness.
[00:17:55]  So the SGI is also connected to the United Nations.
[00:18:01]  The SGI connects to the United Nations primarily as an accredited non governmental organization in consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council since 1983.
[00:18:17]  So, through its Office for UN Affairs in New York and Geneva, SGI supports UN goals for peace, nuclear disarmament, and sustainability.
[00:18:28]  So, President Keita, who was the last president of the SGI, wrote a peace proposal to the United Nations every year from 1983 to 2022, offering proposals on global issues, namely nuclear disarmament.
[00:18:46]  So, let's go a little further back here.

=== Dragon Girl's Enlightenment (14:54) ===

[00:18:52]  We'll talk about just an overview of the history of Buddhism.
[00:18:57]  So, spiritually, the SGI upholds the Buddhist tradition that originated with Shakyamuni Buddha based on the Mahayana scriptures and the Lotus Sutra in particulars.
[00:19:10]  So, Buddhism begins with the spiritual journey of Shakyamuni Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, who lived in India some 2,500 years ago.
[00:19:22]  The Lotus Sutra is the most influential of his teachings, it is said to be expressing that anyone can become enlightened, a state marked by boundless courage, compassion, hope, wisdom, and life force.
[00:19:38]  I will expound a little bit more on the Lotus Sutra here shortly.
[00:19:45]  So, there were other sutras that he had written.
[00:19:50]  Well, we'll find out that he didn't actually write them, but the Lotus Sutra was supposed to be the one that he expounded later in his life, that was supposed to be his highest teaching.
[00:20:03]  So, the Lotus Sutra's universal appeal allowed it to move across borders to China, Korea, and Japan.
[00:20:11]  Where Nishiran Dishonen, a 13th century Buddhist teacher, established the practice of reciting what he called the Lotus Sutra's title, entitled Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, to make the path to enlightenment accessible to all.
[00:20:30]  So he declared this to be the title and declared that if you simply chant this phrase, that you are chanting the title.
[00:20:41]  The entire title of the essence of the Lotus Sutra.
[00:20:46]  So he would declare that the moment that you chant this title, you have already become enlightened.
[00:20:52]  So it's supposed to be equivalent to reading the entire Lotus Sutra.
[00:20:57]  Is that the book there, the Lotus Sutra translated by Albert Wesson?
[00:21:02]  Yes.
[00:21:03]  Yes.
[00:21:04]  Yeah.
[00:21:04]  That's the one.
[00:21:06]  That's it there.
[00:21:09]  So he declared this, and today the Soka Gakkai International.
[00:21:14]  Continues to base its philosophy and practice on the teachings of the Lotus Sutra and Nishirin.
[00:21:21]  We didn't really focus a lot on Shakyamuni Buddha himself, but the Lotus Sutra definitely.
[00:21:29]  So, more on Shakyamuni.
[00:21:31]  Shakyamuni Buddha was born in northeastern India around 500 BC, the eldest son of a king.
[00:21:40]  As a young man, he became aware of the impermanence and sufferings of life, birth, Aging, sickness, and death.
[00:21:47]  He left the luxuries of the palace in pursuit of answers to life's perplexing questions and to seek a way to relieve people of their suffering.
[00:22:01]  Now, when he went to do this, he also had a family that he left behind for seven years.
[00:22:09]  Good times.
[00:22:10]  Okay.
[00:22:12]  Shakyamuni Buddha, he tried meditation, then he Tried ascentism, which is denying yourself of earthly desires, subjecting himself to and his body to painful austerities to free himself of his desires.
[00:22:30]  Mastering these practices left him unsatisfied, so he rejected them to seek a new, deeper path to the truth on his own.
[00:22:39]  He struggled for years to conquer his own delusions about the true nature of life in his 30s while sitting under a Bodhi tree.
[00:22:48]  Shakyamuni awakened to what he believed was the fundamental truth that enables all people to overcome their sufferings.
[00:22:56]  He then resolved to dedicate his life to sharing this truth with others.
[00:23:02]  So, once again, propagating is a big part of this.
[00:23:05]  Shakyamuni traveled far and wide to teach and encourage others to transform their lives and help others do the same.
[00:23:12]  His disciples included people from all walks of life, from kings, warriors, and merchants to members of the lowest.
[00:23:21]  Untouchable class.
[00:23:23]  So, Shakyamuni welcomed women into the Buddhist order, treating monks, nuns, and laymen and women as equals in the context of India's rigid caste system.
[00:23:34]  Shakyamuni's indifference to social standing was unique.
[00:23:38]  His sincere dedication sparked a people's movement centered on valuing and promoting the dignity of all life.
[00:23:46]  Okay, so the Lotus Sutra.
[00:23:49]  So, this is a little excerpt from the SGI's website.
[00:23:55]  And this is a little brief bit about the Lotus Sutra as taught by the SGI.
[00:24:03]  Was it the Dragon King's daughter?
[00:24:07]  Not quite yet.
[00:24:08]  We're getting there.
[00:24:09]  We're getting there.
[00:24:10]  That's the link.
[00:24:11]  Oh, okay.
[00:24:12]  The link you want.
[00:24:14]  Yeah, that'll be coming up here in a second.
[00:24:16]  Okay.
[00:24:17]  Yeah, just drag me a slide or whatever.
[00:24:20]  Okay.
[00:24:22]  So that'll be coming up here in a moment.
[00:24:24]  That's going to be an interesting.
[00:24:26]  An interesting piece that I know your very astute audience will be able to pick some things out from that really quickly.
[00:24:34]  So, the Lotus Sutra, as taught by the SGI, Shakyamuni taught for many years before revealing what was considered his ultimate teaching, the Lotus Sutra.
[00:24:46]  Immediately, which is not true, after Shakyamuni's death, a council of monks gathered to put his teachings into definitive order.
[00:24:55]  These teachings came to be known as sutras.
[00:24:58]  Which usually begin with the words, This is what I heard.
[00:25:01]  This opening line indicates the teachings as they received them from the Buddha and their commitment to sharing them with others.
[00:25:10]  Over time, common people took the initiative to spread Buddhism.
[00:25:15]  Buddhist teachings prior to the Lotus Sutra denied that certain people could ever attain Buddhahood, including women, people who commit evil acts, and those of incorrigible disbelief.
[00:25:27]  The Lotus Sutra is the only Buddhist teaching.
[00:25:29]  That asserts that the potential for Buddhahood exists within every person without exception.
[00:25:37]  Buddhism also teaches that life is an unending cycle of birth and death.
[00:25:42]  So, this is the teaching of reincarnation.
[00:25:46]  So, there's that belief as well.
[00:25:49]  Shakyamuni reveals that his 40 years of teachings were expounded for the sole purpose of preparing his followers the Lotus Sutra.
[00:25:59]  He instructs them to discard.
[00:26:01]  His previous teachings and embrace fully the Lotus Sutra.
[00:26:05]  Okay, so now we're going to get to some interesting facts here.
[00:26:10]  So that was as taught by the SGI.
[00:26:12]  So let's bring a.
[00:26:16]  How does Brother David say it?
[00:26:18]  Let's confuse the situation with some facts.
[00:26:23]  I love that.
[00:26:24]  So let's do that.
[00:26:27]  Shakyamuni never wrote down any of his teachings and he didn't organize his teachings into sutras himself.
[00:26:36]  So, his teachings were passed down orally to his followers.
[00:26:43]  So, the Lotus Sutra was not written by a single person but was composed by unknown Mahayana Buddhist disciples in India with different chapters added over centuries between roughly 100 BC and 200 AD, which is centuries after Shakyamuni's death.
[00:27:05]  So, while tradition holds it contains the teachings of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, historians agree it is a compilation of anonymous texts.
[00:27:17]  So, Shakyamuni never wrote down any of his teachings.
[00:27:22]  He didn't call them sutras, and they were written down centuries after he passed.
[00:27:30]  So, it is believed to be the work of anonymous Mahayana monks, and scholars estimate the sutra was written in stages.
[00:27:39]  The teachings were likely transmitted orally before being written down, with early versions in Prakrit and later in Sanskrit.
[00:27:50]  So, based on this, how could Shakyamuni claim that the Lotus Sutra was his ultimate teaching and instruct his followers to discard the other sutras and follow the Lotus Sutra if he didn't have them organized into sutras in his lifetime?
[00:28:06]  So, the SGI is teaching that, and you know, how can that be true if he never called his teachings sutras or referred to a Lotus Sutra?
[00:28:21]  This was something that was Created centuries after he passed.
[00:28:26]  And more was added to this sutra centuries later.
[00:28:30]  So this was something organized by followers later on based on oral tradition, which kind of reminds me of something else called the Oral Torah.
[00:28:43]  Reminds me a little bit of that.
[00:28:47]  So this part is where it's going to get even more interesting.
[00:28:52]  And this was.
[00:28:54]  Something that I will say without learning what I've learned from FOJC, David Carrico, you know, starting with the Midnight Ride was the first show that I had found, and all you affiliate ministries, I would not have been able to discern this without learning what I've learned from all of you.
[00:29:21]  So it is stated that the reason for following the Lotus Sutra is.
[00:29:25]  That it is supposed to be Shakyamuni's highest teaching because it includes all beings to have the ability to become enlightened, including women who were said to not have the ability to become enlightened in previous sutras.
[00:29:40]  So you could allegedly become enlightened according to this sutra, regardless of gender, age, or form.
[00:29:47]  Now, there's one excerpt of the Lotus Sutra in particular that is referenced to be proof of this claim.
[00:29:55]  So, this is where that slide of the Dragon King's daughter is going to come in.
[00:30:00]  to play.
[00:30:07]  So, this is an actual excerpt from the Lotus Sutra.
[00:30:11]  And this is supposed to be the excerpt that they base the claim that this Lotus Sutra claims to that all beings can become enlightened.
[00:30:24]  So, I'm just going to read it.
[00:30:27]  And right off the bat, it's called The Dragon King's Daughter.
[00:30:31]  So, we can glean something from that, right?
[00:30:34]  You're all smart people out there.
[00:30:39]  So, this excerpt states also, dragon girl or naga girl, the eight year old daughter of Sagara, one of the eight great dragon kings said to dwell in a palace at the bottom of the sea.
[00:31:00]  According to the Devadatta, 12th chapter of the Lotus Sutra, the dragon girl attained enlightenment when she heard Bodhisattva Manjushri preach the Lotus Sutra in the dragon king's palace.
[00:31:13]  When Manjushri asserts that she quickly attains Buddha wisdom, Bodhisattva wisdom accumulated challenges him.
[00:31:22]  So, these are two different Buddhas arguing with each other, saying that even Shakyamuni attained enlightenment only after fulfilling the Bodhisattva practice for many kalpas, and that she could not have become a Buddha so easily.
[00:31:38]  Just then, the dragon girl appears in front of the assembly and praises Shakyamuni Buddha.
[00:31:46]  Shariputra then speaks to her, saying that women are subject to the five obstacles and are incapable of attaining Buddhahood.
[00:31:54]  At that moment, she offers a jewel to the Buddha, transforms herself into a male, and instantaneously perfects the Bodhisattva practice.
[00:32:07]  He then appears in a land to the south called Spotless World and manifests the state of Buddhahood.
[00:32:17]  With the 32 features and 80 characteristics of a Buddha, he preaches the Lotus Sutra to all living beings there.
[00:32:25]  He being the operative word here.
[00:32:28]  The Dragon Girl's Enlightenment, so this is a little commentary on it.
[00:32:32]  The Dragon Girl's Enlightenment has important implications.
[00:32:36]  First, it refutes the idea of the time that women could never attain enlightenment.
[00:32:43]  Not so much, in my opinion.
[00:32:47]  That the power of the Lotus Sutra enables all people equally to attain Buddhahood in their present forms.
[00:32:54]  That is, through the Lotus Sutra, people need neither practice austerities for countless kalpas nor wait for rebirth in a different physical form.
[00:33:02]  Provisional teachings hold that women must be reborn as men and then practice for innumerable kalpas in order to become Buddhas.
[00:33:12]  The dragon girl's change into a man is not a condition for her Buddhahood.
[00:33:18]  Then, why did she have to do it?
[00:33:20]  She has already attained Buddhahood in her female animal form.
[00:33:24]  What?
[00:33:25]  Her transformation is an expedient means to demonstrate her Buddhahood in a way Shariputra and the others can understand.
[00:33:32]  So I guess now we're, these people are not smart enough to figure it out.
[00:33:38]  Like she had to turn into a man.
[00:33:41]  Okay, so see also Dragon Deity.
[00:33:44]  So I did look that up.

=== Serpents and Seduction (06:35) ===

[00:33:46]  Dragon Deity, also Dragon Little G God.
[00:33:51]  A deification of the dragon, one of the eight kinds of non human beings held to be guardians of Buddhism.
[00:33:59]  Oh, goody.
[00:34:00]  Dragon deities are said to have various powers, such as the ability to cause rain.
[00:34:08]  More water reference.
[00:34:09]  The Sanskrit naga means snake or serpent.
[00:34:13]  According to Indian mythology, naga demons with human faces and serpent like extremities inhabited the waters or lived under the earth.
[00:34:25]  Their ruler, Naga Raja, serpent king, Was feared as a huge poisonous being on the one hand and worshipped as the god who caused rain to fall on the other.
[00:34:39]  When Buddhist scriptures were translated into Chinese, Naga was rendered in Chinese as lung or dragon, hence the terms dragon gods, dragon kings, and the Naga girl or dragon girl.
[00:34:52]  And there's actually a couple of photos there that I, let's see, I think it's number 11 and 12.
[00:35:02]  11, 12.
[00:35:05]  The little girl Eden, the cartoon.
[00:35:10]  Yeah.
[00:35:11]  That little cartoon picture is actually straight from a periodical from the SGI's newspaper.
[00:35:20]  It was in there.
[00:35:21]  It's like a little cartoon of what's supposed to be the dragon girl.
[00:35:25]  And then there's another photo of an artistic picture of a woman with a serpent body in the water.
[00:35:33]  Yeah.
[00:35:35]  You know, it's kind of crazy, right?
[00:35:36]  You look into serpents, dragons.
[00:35:39]  What does the Bible say of those?
[00:35:41]  Yeah.
[00:35:43]  Yeah, yeah, exactly.
[00:35:45]  So you can imagine as I went back to this later on, you know, knowing what I know now, having a really good understanding of spiritual warfare and reading my Bible every day, watching all of your guys' shows, I have a very good understanding.
[00:36:05]  This is quite astonishing.
[00:36:07]  And, you know, And it all connects too, because I took martial arts, Shotokan, Jiu Jitsu, and all that.
[00:36:14]  The Shotokan, they, uh, into the Buddha, which I never wore the Buddha patch that I told my instructor, I don't care about belts if that's the case, you know what I mean?
[00:36:22]  Because one was like, oh, you have to wear those patches for the Federation.
[00:36:25]  It's like, I literally took my black belt off, said, you think I care about this over my faith?
[00:36:30]  I said, you can have this stupid thing.
[00:36:32]  You know what I mean?
[00:36:32]  It's like, I'm not going to wear no Buddha patches.
[00:36:34]  I'm not going to come into the dojo and bow to a Buddha statue.
[00:36:38]  If that's just, um, yeah, I'm not coming here to disrespect you guys.
[00:36:41]  But that's what I have to do.
[00:36:42]  I have no problem not coming here.
[00:36:44]  You know what I mean?
[00:36:44]  And me and this other black belt, she was a Christian too.
[00:36:47]  She goes, Yeah, I'm not doing it either.
[00:36:48]  But the head, they call him the headmaster.
[00:36:50]  Well, I call him instructor, not master.
[00:36:51]  But I told him the Bible has to say about that.
[00:36:55]  So he claims to be a Christian, but he loves this stuff in his dojo.
[00:36:58]  But whatever the case.
[00:37:00]  But we made our stance firm.
[00:37:01]  He's like, All right, we will accept you guys' belief, you know?
[00:37:04]  And so, but yeah, it's all connected, man.
[00:37:07]  And they're doing the chi serpent power, right?
[00:37:11]  All this stuff with the.
[00:37:12]  Serpents, dragons, yin yangs, and all that stuff, and all this Eastern stuff, and like everything you're saying here today, and I know there's a strong connection to Buddhism within the martial arts world, and now I'm starting to connect the dots now.
[00:37:25]  Why?
[00:37:26]  And it makes sense now, because there's a lot of things like the Black Dragon Dojo, or this Dragon Dojo, and bring up the dragon again, you know what I mean?
[00:37:33]  And serpents and dragons and all this.
[00:37:35]  This is Eastern mystery, you know, religious stuff, and which I call it garbage, and it's all satanic at the bottom core.
[00:37:43]  And people say, oh, how could Buddhism be satanic?
[00:37:46]  The monks are peaceful.
[00:37:47]  Yes, I'm not saying that.
[00:37:48]  They're good people.
[00:37:49]  You know what I mean?
[00:37:50]  But they're spiritually misled, you know what I mean?
[00:37:52]  Into a dark satanic art.
[00:37:54]  You know what I mean?
[00:37:54]  And what's the best disguise for Satan?
[00:37:56]  It's to become peaceful.
[00:37:58]  You know what I mean?
[00:37:59]  Especially destroy him.
[00:38:00]  He's subtle, right?
[00:38:03]  That's what the serpent is.
[00:38:04]  The serpent was subtle, right from the Garden of Eden.
[00:38:08]  And I understand that with martial arts, I was really into kickboxing for a while and did that.
[00:38:14]  And I've always, always interestingly, was drawn and attracted to a lot of things having to do with the East and Eastern philosophy.
[00:38:23]  It showed up in so many different areas of my life.
[00:38:25]  So it's interesting that I ended up.
[00:38:29]  Practicing Buddhism, there's probably something seduced, a seducing spirit there for me all along.
[00:38:36]  And, you know, it, like you said, it comes across like this peaceful practice, and, you know, all the ideals of it on the surface have that.
[00:38:52]  And you see, you know, you could look at it and think the intention is that, but there's all kinds of demonic spirits leading it.
[00:39:03]  And, you know, attaching with people when you practice these things.
[00:39:10]  So, when you come out of it, you have to renounce them.
[00:39:12]  You have to repent.
[00:39:13]  You have to break soul ties with these deities.
[00:39:16]  You have to come out of agreement with them.
[00:39:18]  You have to break, you know, covenants and contracts with all of these things.
[00:39:22]  And, you know, even just some of the things I learned even further going, you know, doing the research on all of this, I was like, oh, there's some more things that I need to repent of and come out of agreement with.
[00:39:35]  And so, um, That was another benefit of getting to do this as well.
[00:39:41]  It's helping me clean up some things for myself even further and more deeply.
[00:39:48]  So, I think number 13 and 14 connect with this well as far as the photos go.
[00:39:56]  You can probably throw those up there.
[00:39:59]  And then I'm just going to read one more definition here.
[00:40:02]  Sure.
[00:40:04]  Of dragon kings, kings of the dragon said to live at the bottom of the sea.
[00:40:11]  Eight dragon kings, each with many followers, are depicted in the Lotus Sutra, assembling at the ceremony on Eagle Peak to hear the sutra taught.

=== Ancient Spiritual Beings (12:47) ===

[00:40:22]  According to the Dragon King of the Sea Sutra, dragons are often eaten by giant birds called Garudas, which are their natural enemies.
[00:40:34]  So I, of course, had to look that up.
[00:40:37]  And a Garuda is actually a Hindu deity who is primarily depicted as.
[00:40:45]  The Mount Vahana of the Hindu god Vishnu.
[00:40:49]  This divine creature is mentioned in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain faiths.
[00:40:56]  So I gave you a photo of that guy too, and that's number 16, and he's pretty gruesome looking.
[00:41:06]  Oh, yeah.
[00:41:08]  Somebody say Chimera.
[00:41:12]  And the sea one too, we talked about, it reminds me of Leviathan.
[00:41:17]  Yeah, I mean, these are, you know, they're mixed.
[00:41:21]  You know, they've got the creature bodies and then kind of like, you know, like mixed creature and human features as well.
[00:41:35]  And you'll see that in all ancient cultures too.
[00:41:37]  Pick, you know, the pictorials that they got on the walls and all that.
[00:41:40]  Because during the Fallen Angels, what they were doing is they're mating with the woman, creating their offspring, and they were into breeding stuff.
[00:41:47]  And that's why when you watch the movies like 300, These so called mythological movies, you learn Greek mythology and all that, which is history, not mythology.
[00:41:54]  And all the ancient cultures talk about these hybrids.
[00:41:58]  They were half human, half fish, half things like that.
[00:42:00]  And these things are real.
[00:42:01]  You know what I mean?
[00:42:02]  So I would not doubt in my mind right now that was a real thing.
[00:42:05]  And again, the hybrid creatures.
[00:42:08]  That's why the Bible says all flesh was corrupt.
[00:42:11]  And they're doing that now today in science, right?
[00:42:13]  They're saying, oh, we could create hybrids.
[00:42:15]  They got movies about it, the movie Splice and all that.
[00:42:17]  And they're bragging, we could do that.
[00:42:19]  But this is nothing new under the sun.
[00:42:20]  They're grinning singular technology.
[00:42:22]  This has been going on before the flood.
[00:42:24]  You know what I mean?
[00:42:25]  And again, when you watch these movies, like in 300, you got tons of these.
[00:42:29]  You know, senators running around, half fish, half man, and all that, and stuff that looks crazy and all that.
[00:42:36]  But these were real.
[00:42:36]  You know what I mean?
[00:42:37]  These were very real.
[00:42:38]  The Bible talks about them.
[00:42:39]  And so these Eastern religions, like Buddhism, Hinduism, all these Eastern religions, they have the same stuff, but they call them different names.
[00:42:48]  And quickly to understand this, guys.
[00:42:50]  So picture Babylon.
[00:42:52]  Back then it was one voice, one tongue, all that stuff.
[00:42:54]  So when the Lord says, Be fruitful, multiply, right?
[00:42:57]  And they don't listen.
[00:42:58]  Nimrod and all, oh no, stay here.
[00:43:00]  We need to build the tower to heaven.
[00:43:02]  Take over heaven, and so we could never survive a flood if God floods the earth again.
[00:43:08]  Even though God told them, I'm not flooding, I promise you.
[00:43:10]  Made the rainbow for that.
[00:43:11]  But when the Lord seen this, and he went down, destroyed the tower, and confounded the languages, and he said, Go, go, get out of here.
[00:43:19]  You know, go spread out.
[00:43:20]  And he made these different languages, and all.
[00:43:22]  So, basically, long story short, this is just regurgitation of the old Babylonian religion and their custom.
[00:43:29]  So, many of these so called gods, and this is another one you probably get all the time.
[00:43:34]  From atheists, oh, how do you know your God's real?
[00:43:36]  There's four or five thousand gods or whatever, a thousand gods.
[00:43:39]  How do you know yours is the real one?
[00:43:41]  Well, easily, if you do the research, you take all these thousands of gods, they actually narrow down to a couple dozen people, just the same different names to the same people.
[00:43:52]  And when you really do the research, you get down, they were either Gilberines, they were either Nephilim, or some hybrid crap like that, or fallen angels.
[00:43:59]  Then when you narrow it down to them all, it goes to one, one God.
[00:44:03]  A heavenly father.
[00:44:05]  So that's how you narrow it all down.
[00:44:06]  But all this stuff is spawned off Babylon.
[00:44:09]  Hinduism, Buddhism, all these Eastern religions, Eastern mysteries are nothing but a spawn from the old Babylonian religion.
[00:44:15]  And of course, they're going to have different names for the same people.
[00:44:18]  And a little tweak, too.
[00:44:20]  And they all acknowledge the flood and everything else, too.
[00:44:22]  But they have, again, different names for the same people.
[00:44:25]  And that's why, to society, they think it's all these gods when there ain't all these gods, you know?
[00:44:30]  And so when you see this stuff here, these hybrids, this was real.
[00:44:33]  And this is not mythology.
[00:44:34]  I hate when they call it mythology.
[00:44:36]  Because, and what do you think they teach in school?
[00:44:38]  Oh, it's just mythology.
[00:44:39]  No, it's not mythology.
[00:44:41]  It's history because these things are coming back.
[00:44:43]  The Bible says the things that are coming up on the earth are going to make men's hearts fail.
[00:44:48]  The 200 million spiritual army that are coming out of the abyss, what do you think they're going to look like?
[00:44:53]  They look like locusts and everything, and they're coming out, and it's not China Rush like some people try to say.
[00:44:58]  These are real spiritual beings.
[00:44:59]  You know what I mean?
[00:45:00]  And that's why the ministries today and the academia love to water down all the Bible and also the religious texts of other religions.
[00:45:09]  They like to water it down because, yeah, there's a lot of truth in these other texts, but we're supposed to go by the Bible only.
[00:45:15]  But again, these texts, they're taking their version of these real things, you know what I mean?
[00:45:21]  So it's good to look at an educated point of view, but not for spiritual guidance.
[00:45:24]  Spiritual guidance, you go right to the Bible, the horse's mouth, you know what I mean?
[00:45:29]  But the thing is, if you get all these things in common, the common denominator of all these ancient Eastern religions, the Bible, ancient cultures, hundreds of them, they all agree about the flood, they all agree about the giants, they all agree about things like this, the hybrids and all that.
[00:45:43]  So, yeah, and most of these people didn't even know each other.
[00:45:46]  But today's science world and academia, oh no, they all got thousands of years of human history.
[00:45:50]  They all got it wrong.
[00:45:52]  We got it right because we have academics.
[00:45:54]  We have PhDs and scholars and all this stuff.
[00:45:57]  By the way, it's doctrines of men.
[00:46:01]  And they got it right.
[00:46:01]  Thousands of years of human history got it wrong.
[00:46:04]  I don't think so.
[00:46:04]  You know what I mean?
[00:46:05]  So, this is some real stuff, guys.
[00:46:07]  We do shows on this.
[00:46:08]  Me and brother Brian, we do tons of shows on this about the Nephilim and all that stuff.
[00:46:13]  So, if you're new to the broadcast, please like, share, and subscribe.
[00:46:16]  And thank you once again, Sister Joanne and brother Bill for moderating tonight.
[00:46:23]  So, yeah, this is some real stuff, guys.
[00:46:24]  And I encourage you guys.
[00:46:26]  I can't even talk tonight.
[00:46:27]  I encourage you guys to go look at the shows we did.
[00:46:30]  And we did all kinds of crime areas, chime areas, I'm sorry, Nephilim and all this stuff.
[00:46:35]  And so, didn't mean to cut you off.
[00:46:37]  I just wanted to highlight that because some people are like, oh, that's ridiculous.
[00:46:40]  It's not ridiculous.
[00:46:41]  This is real stuff, you know?
[00:46:44]  Yeah, no, I appreciate you chiming in.
[00:46:47]  I certainly love hearing your point of view because you guys have a lot of experience with this stuff.
[00:46:54]  And, and, um, I'm just grateful that I'm able to now go back to something that I was doing and to be able to pick these things out and see it for what it actually is.
[00:47:06]  And, you know, we are certainly taught that, you know, these things are just parables.
[00:47:10]  They're just an example, they're allegory.
[00:47:12]  It's just painting a picture to teach you something.
[00:47:15]  Well, I beg to differ because we do see these things in the Bible.
[00:47:20]  And I believe that, you know, giving us a A practice like Buddhism under the guise of doing something that's peaceful.
[00:47:32]  And, you know, again, we weren't even really encouraged to read the Lotus Sutra for ourselves.
[00:47:38]  We were just encouraged to do this chant.
[00:47:40]  And, oh, you don't have to read through the whole thing.
[00:47:43]  You can just do this chant and you're, you know, it's a faster track to your enlightenment.
[00:47:50]  And, you know, that's the whole point is that this is a lay organization and it's for the, you know, people who are busy in their lives.
[00:47:58]  And you can fit this into your life, even though they fill your whole life with all these meetings and everything.
[00:48:04]  But the thing is, it's helping to slip these, getting you demonized by slipping in the fact that you're connecting to this Lotus Sutra that teaches about demons.
[00:48:19]  It's teaching you about demons and it's getting you to agree with it and to agree with them and to create soul ties with them.
[00:48:26]  That's not okay.
[00:48:28]  And it's deceptive.
[00:48:29]  And I hope that.
[00:48:31]  People will hear me when I say that it's deceptive, and we're going to get into some more of that deception.
[00:48:37]  Um, you know, the fact that you know we were not encouraged to actually read all of this for ourselves and understand what it is and dive deeper into that says a lot to me, and you're absolutely right.
[00:48:52]  Um, all these different cultures have these similar deities that people will get told it's just allegory, it's just parable, it's just.
[00:49:03]  You know, just an example of something to teach you about the different things in the world and life.
[00:49:07]  And it's this really sneaky little way to get you to diminish it and get yourself demonized real quick.
[00:49:13]  So please don't.
[00:49:15]  Don't do it.
[00:49:19]  So to me, I'm saying, what is really being revealed here?
[00:49:23]  Are we including women in being enlightenment, which, you know, we don't need to be going after enlightenment, anyways?
[00:49:31]  Or are we including fallen angel, shape shifting, Nephilim chimera spirits?
[00:49:37]  I think that's what's actually going on because, you know, it seems that there's some deception at the highest order happening here under the guise of gender equality.
[00:49:49]  It had nothing to do with gender equality.
[00:49:51]  She was an animal.
[00:49:53]  She was half dragon.
[00:49:55]  So she wasn't even fully in human form.
[00:49:58]  And she had to turn into a man to become enlightened and so that these other, you know, Buddhas could understand, which is all craziness, anyways.
[00:50:10]  But it seems to me that this is really more about having acceptance and including, like I said, fallen angel.
[00:50:23]  Shape shifting Nephilim chimera spirits.
[00:50:25]  I don't think it has anything to do with gender equality at all.
[00:50:30]  And can we say marine kingdom spirits living at the bottom of the sea?
[00:50:35]  You know?
[00:50:37]  And yeah, like I said, I would not be able to pick these things out or understand them if I had not been following the FOJC ministry and all of your affiliate programs.
[00:50:53]  So shout out FOJC ministry.
[00:50:56]  And all affiliates.
[00:51:00]  Yes, I'm so grateful.
[00:51:03]  Yeah, Julianne Stone does a lot of programs on Marine Kingdoms and all that.
[00:51:07]  And yeah, people laugh at it.
[00:51:09]  Oh, the mermaids were actually sirens.
[00:51:11]  And yeah, there's nothing to laugh at because, like, these sailors, I mean, you get testimonies and videos of sailors, deep sea fishers, and all that have videos and stuff of these things coming up on the boat.
[00:51:23]  And yeah, they scream and they sing.
[00:51:25]  And it's like, just like the movie.
[00:51:27]  Like, oh, you think, uh, Disney gets the stuff from the imagination.
[00:51:29]  No, these are real.
[00:51:30]  You know what I mean?
[00:51:31]  Uh, and you look at all the ancient, uh, topography, whatever, history, they talk about these things too.
[00:51:37]  And a lot of them say they were, um, originally came from, they were the cursed, uh, woman who slept with the fallen angels that became these marine kingdom, uh, creatures.
[00:51:47]  Uh, so I'm, I'm still learning on that stuff myself, but, uh, and it makes sense too because God cursed the spirits, uh, to roam the earth forever.
[00:51:55]  The giants and the Nephilim and all that and the men are renowned.
[00:51:57]  They're known as demons now.
[00:51:58]  You know what I mean?
[00:51:59]  That's where the demons come from.
[00:52:00]  And so it does make a lot of sense.
[00:52:02]  And there's a lot of stuff in that ocean that we don't even know about all the time.
[00:52:06]  People find that they still don't even know what kind of species are in there.
[00:52:10]  They're always finding something new.
[00:52:11]  And you know, it's funny too, NASA could tell you, oh, the size of the planet, if there's oxygen on it from a billion light-waves away, right?
[00:52:19]  Supposedly.
[00:52:19]  But they can't even tell you what's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
[00:52:22]  Go figure, right?
[00:52:23]  Or the oceans, you know?
[00:52:24]  And they're always finding all kinds of stuff.
[00:52:26]  And people from all over the world, explorers from all over.
[00:52:29]  I mean, you could dig at the history books.
[00:52:31]  Explorers, you know, across the oceans a million times.
[00:52:34]  They've seen creatures and things like giant squids, all kinds of things that sounds like some amount of sci fi.
[00:52:41]  You know what I mean?
[00:52:43]  Yeah.
[00:52:43]  I think they've only discovered like what, like 5% of the ocean, I think, has been searched.
[00:52:51]  It's some kind of percentage like that that's very, very low.
[00:52:54]  I know that.
[00:52:57]  Yeah.
[00:52:58]  And yes, Miss Jillian Stone, she does a great job with all the Marine Kingdom stuff.
[00:53:03]  And shout out to Miss. Jillian Stone and Baby Jude.
[00:53:05]  Oh, yeah, the new baby.
[00:53:07]  We're all very excited.

=== Questioning the Catechism (03:15) ===

[00:53:10]  So, all right, moving on.
[00:53:13]  So, that was Shaka Muni and the Lotus Sutra, but I thought that was a really interesting bit because the Lotus Sutra is said to be, you know, his highest teaching and based on the fact that supposedly it says that all women can become enlightened because the previous one said that they couldn't.
[00:53:33]  But when you read this, it is the literal excerpt that they based that on.
[00:53:39]  It sounds like drugmas, too.
[00:53:41]  Yeah, it's not a good argument.
[00:53:44]  It's not a good reference for that, in my opinion.
[00:53:47]  So, there's obviously other things going on here.
[00:53:51]  So, now we'll move on to Nishiran Dishonen, who was a 13th century monk who wanted to create a lay organization for modern times so that people with busy modern day lives could also practice.
[00:54:06]  So, the five characters of, so like I said, he declared that this phrase, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, was the essence of Lotus Sutra.
[00:54:16]  Yes, that's Nishiran Dishonen there.
[00:54:19]  The five characters of Myoho Renge Kyo do not represent the sutra text, nor are they its meaning.
[00:54:26]  They are nothing other than the intent of the entire sutra, which just sounds like a lot of circular speak to me.
[00:54:33]  So, even though the beginners in Buddhist practice may not understand their significance, so see, you're not taught to, you don't need to understand everything here.
[00:54:46]  By practicing these five characters, they will naturally conform to the sutra's intent.
[00:54:52]  So, Yeah, you don't need to understand what it is, but if you just say this phrase, you're automatically conforming to the sutra's intent.
[00:55:01]  So you think you better go back and understand what it is that you're chanting about here.
[00:55:07]  You probably should.
[00:55:10]  So this is dangerous if you don't understand the intent, and it's a good way to get demonized without realizing it.
[00:55:18]  This is why reading and studying for yourself is so important.
[00:55:22]  Read your Bible.
[00:55:25]  Even though one neither reads nor studies the sutra, Nishirin writes, as long as one chants Namyo Horenge Kyo, they can attain enlightenment.
[00:55:35]  The simple Buddhist practice made the Lotus Sutra and Buddhahood accessible to all people.
[00:55:41]  So, you know, propagating doctrines of demons.
[00:55:45]  So, I feel this approach really discourages people from actually reading and understanding this Lotus Sutra for themselves to gain clarity on what exactly they're engaging with.
[00:55:57]  And, uh, There really wasn't much emphasis, like I said, for us in reading the actual Lotus Sutra.
[00:56:03]  But President Ikeda, who was the last president of the organization, we were more encouraged to read his commentary on it.
[00:56:14]  That was more widely studied in the organization, which kind of reminds me of the Catholic Church and relying on the catechism, their catechism, rather than reading the Bible for yourself.

=== Ikeda's Commentary Focus (02:29) ===

[00:56:25]  So that kind of reflects that there to me as well.
[00:56:30]  So now we progress to.
[00:56:32]  The 20th century.
[00:56:33]  The Soka Gakkai was founded in 1930, which 1937 is actually the correct date of when the first meetings were held.
[00:56:43]  And it was founded by reformist, educator, and author Sunusabara Makaguchi.
[00:56:48]  There should be a photo there of him.
[00:56:52]  And initially, it was formed as a study group for educators.
[00:56:59]  However, due to Makaguchi's faith in Nishiran Buddhism, this group quickly developed into a broader based.
[00:57:05]  Movement focused on the ideals and practice of Nishirin Buddhism.
[00:57:10]  Now, facing oppression from Japan's militarist government, Makaguchi and his closest disciple, Jose Toda, were arrested and imprisoned in 1943 as thought criminals.
[00:57:22]  Makaguchi actually died in prison in 1944.
[00:57:27]  So they would not conform to Shinto, which was a government enforced religion at the time in Japan.
[00:57:35]  And after his release, Toda continued to promote an active, socially engaged Buddhism as a means of self empowerment, a way to overcome obstacles in life and tap inner hope, confidence, courage, and wisdom.
[00:57:49]  He used the term human revolution to express the central idea of Nichiren Buddhism that all people are capable of attaining enlightenment in this lifetime.
[00:58:00]  With Toda as president, the Soka Gakkai began to flourish.
[00:58:04]  In Japan, again bringing the practice back into about 750,000 households from dwindling down to almost nothing while he and Makaguchi were in prison.
[00:58:15]  So Toda, who passed away in April of 1958, was succeeded as president in 1960 by Daisaku Ikeda, who further developed the movement in Japan as well as on a global scale.
[00:58:30]  Ikeda took the practice from Japan into 192 countries in his lifetime.
[00:58:37]  So, this is Daisaku Ikeda, who was the person who was the president of the organization when I was practicing, and which was, I practiced for 22 years.

=== Global Expansion of Faith (05:32) ===

[00:58:55]  President, okay, so now we're going to talk more about President Ikeda.
[00:59:01]  And he's quite a controversial character.
[00:59:04]  Is that the guy in the suit folding his hands?
[00:59:07]  Yes, that's him.
[00:59:10]  So he was the last president of the SGI because he declared that the foundation of the organization was complete with the first three presidents, so no need for others.
[00:59:22]  The practitioners are supposed to see themselves as the leaders of the SGI now and live out Kata's example.
[00:59:28]  To me, this is making him this eternal, sort of deified mentor.
[00:59:35]  Be a deity to be worshiped, but to be seen as a leader and example of how to practice.
[00:59:45]  Although members were always encouraged, you know, to think when they were chanting, what would President Ikeda do?
[00:59:52]  Why is that if he's not a deity to be worshiped?
[00:59:57]  And we were encouraged to stay connected to him through his writings and teachings, pushing this mentor disciple relationship was really a big thing in the SGI.
[01:00:08]  You know, you got to have that mentor disciple relationship.
[01:00:13]  And it was one of the things that I never really related to.
[01:00:19]  And I always thought there was something wrong with me, like I couldn't fully commit or something because I didn't get this whole mentor disciple thing with him.
[01:00:27]  But I think that it was something in me that, you know, I think that it was that I couldn't fully give myself over to that.
[01:00:41]  I think something was still there with, you know, Having had a relationship with God, I think that something in me couldn't just go there.
[01:00:52]  I just didn't never really got that.
[01:00:53]  And I'm glad that I didn't.
[01:00:55]  Yeah.
[01:00:55]  But it was a big push in the organization, and they constantly focused on the youth.
[01:01:00]  You got to get more youth in the organization and raise new leaders, and always focusing on the numbers.
[01:01:08]  So, President Ikeda also, in his lifetime as president, he met with many, many world leaders around the world.
[01:01:18]  And supposedly discussing world peace.
[01:01:22]  And he's also, he also wrote many books of dialogues with these world leaders.
[01:01:27]  There's a lot of books, and he.
[01:01:29]  Moral Lessons of the 20th Century.
[01:01:32]  Yeah, that's going to be coming up here.
[01:01:34]  Oh, my bad.
[01:01:36]  That's a specific one.
[01:01:37]  And I want to put on the balance power of mentor and disciple.
[01:01:41]  So, doesn't that sound familiar?
[01:01:43]  Like, we go to these mainstream churches, you know, in the Christian churches, they have mentorship and discipleship.
[01:01:51]  You know what I mean?
[01:01:52]  And it was crazy, too.
[01:01:52]  My friend Jonathan, when he lived in Atlanta, Georgia, he found this ministry out there, his church, and all that.
[01:02:00]  They told him before he gets baptized, he's going to be mentored and discipled.
[01:02:04]  And then they have to take a vote on you to see if you really believe or not to get baptized.
[01:02:08]  I'm like, what?
[01:02:09]  Did John the Baptist do that?
[01:02:11]  Hold on, we got to vet you out and everything.
[01:02:13]  And who are they to decide that?
[01:02:15]  You know what I mean?
[01:02:15]  And crazy stuff.
[01:02:16]  And it's like, if somebody comes up to be baptized, they're not playing games.
[01:02:20]  You know what I mean?
[01:02:21]  And then between them and the Lord, it's not up to you anyway.
[01:02:23]  If they want to be baptized, you shouldn't baptize them in the name of this Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
[01:02:27]  And these churches do the same thing.
[01:02:29]  If you notice the link between this thing, they do the same thing the churches do.
[01:02:33]  You know what I mean?
[01:02:35]  And vice versa, because.
[01:02:36]  Yeah, it's great to get, you know, learn the scripture and all that, but the thing is, you don't have to go through this crap.
[01:02:42]  You don't need to jump through a bunch of hoops.
[01:02:45]  And the Catholics got their virgins.
[01:02:47]  So, like all these religions have their requirements to be saved, their requirements to do this.
[01:02:52]  But all it takes is you with your mouth confessing that Jesus is Lord and the baptism, you shouldn't have to vet.
[01:03:00]  If somebody comes up to you right away, hey, I want to be baptized.
[01:03:02]  Come on over.
[01:03:03]  Boom.
[01:03:03]  I'm not even going to ask your name.
[01:03:05]  And the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, boom.
[01:03:07]  You're baptized, you know?
[01:03:08]  And they say, well, we want to make sure they're fully saved or not.
[01:03:11]  Who's going to do that though?
[01:03:12]  Who's going to say, I want to be baptized, but not believing?
[01:03:15]  And if they do, it's up to them.
[01:03:17]  And there's just so much crap that goes on in the churches and all that.
[01:03:20]  And yeah, this is every time I see these things now, it's like these slides and all that just reminds you of something in the mainstream churches.
[01:03:28]  It's like that's why we need to stick to the Bible.
[01:03:32]  Yes, there's so many reasons why we need to stick to the Bible.
[01:03:38]  And demons, little g gods, they want to be worshiped, right?
[01:03:42]  They want to be worshiped.
[01:03:44]  And there's also.
[01:03:45]  Always a trade off with demons.
[01:03:48]  You have to do something to please them.
[01:03:51]  And so, that kind of way of going about things, it's demonic.
[01:03:57]  It's demonically led.
[01:03:59]  And yes, these people like all these requirements of these religions.
[01:04:01]  Oh, yeah.
[01:04:01]  It's like, well, what about the guy on the cross?
[01:04:03]  Did Jesus say, go, hold on, hold on.
[01:04:05]  You're going to come down off the cross.
[01:04:07]  You're going to get baptized.
[01:04:08]  You're going to go through your CCCD classes and your catechism and all the rituals that these churches have.
[01:04:16]  Then you're going to speak in the power of tongues.
[01:04:18]  Then you got to do this and you got to do the penitence and all this.
[01:04:22]  Then you could be saved.
[01:04:23]  No, Jesus says, no.
[01:04:24]  From this day forward, you shall be with me in paradise.
[01:04:26]  Just like that.

=== Demonic Requirements (14:18) ===

[01:04:27]  Yeah.
[01:04:28]  Yeah.
[01:04:29]  I'll take Jesus' words over all the man's words any day.
[01:04:37]  Amen to that.
[01:04:39]  Yeah.
[01:04:40]  And praise the Lord for that.
[01:04:42]  And so, yeah.
[01:04:44]  So he met with many leaders around the world and he obtained over 400.
[01:04:52]  Over 400 honorary doctorates and professorships from universities around the world, which you're going to start hearing me use the word allegedly a lot because we're going into some things that are, I wasn't there, I can't prove them, but they are claims that are out there.
[01:05:09]  So there are claims that he paid for these honorary doctorates.
[01:05:15]  He was a very charismatic leader, and we know.
[01:05:22]  What kinds of groups charismatic leaders usually lead up?
[01:05:28]  Not saying, just saying.
[01:05:30]  And he wrote many, many books, allegedly with ghost writers, so many different books that he wrote.
[01:05:38]  So we were encouraged more to read his books and his commentaries on the Lotus Sutra and the deeper teachings than we were the actual teachings.
[01:05:50]  The Lotus Sutra, we mostly would have to read.
[01:05:57]  His commentaries on the Lotus Sutra.
[01:05:59]  That was more pushed than the actual Lotus Sutra.
[01:06:03]  So many and many properties were bought for the SGI, and a lot of them have his name on them.
[01:06:12]  So, you know, you just, these things just to me, just all kind of, oh, I'm not a deity to be worshipped, yet, you know, it's all about his books, this mentor disciple relationship, his name on everything.
[01:06:27]  Oh, there's not going to be any more presidents, so we're supposed to live by his example, you know, for, you know, into however long people practice.
[01:06:37]  But there's also, I've found since leaving the SGI, allegedly, many accounts of womanizing.
[01:06:48]  Also, back during war times, it is alleged that bar hostesses were encouraged to become war brides.
[01:07:00]  So that they can make it over to America and help push this, propagate this practice and push this agenda into America.
[01:07:09]  So that's one of the ways that they did it, apparently.
[01:07:13]  Another interesting fact that I learned recently is that President Keita was allegedly not seen in public since 2010, even though he passed away on November 15th, 2023, at the age of 95.
[01:07:29]  Apparently, he had not actually been seen in public since 2010.
[01:07:35]  So that's very interesting.
[01:07:41]  And here's a quote of his From the perspective of Buddhist humanism, it is human beings themselves rather than a higher power who possess the ultimate wisdom about their condition.
[01:07:54]  So that was very taught.
[01:07:55]  Like you tap into the wisdom of your own life, you have all the answers to your life, right?
[01:08:02]  You're basically.
[01:08:04]  Just like the Garden of Eden, you can be your own God.
[01:08:06]  You have all the answers.
[01:08:08]  You can decide what's right or wrong.
[01:08:09]  But if there's nothing, if you're deciding what's right or wrong, like what is the basis?
[01:08:16]  So this, and he says, this view regards the individual as the pivotal force of change within the interdependent network of phenomena that comprises life.
[01:08:27]  A fundamental change in the life of an individual, in other words, will affect the entire web of life.
[01:08:33]  So this is.
[01:08:35]  Based on President Ikeda's philosophy of Buddhist humanism.
[01:08:38]  So, pointing to oneself, right?
[01:08:40]  Essentially, as your own God, little g God, and away from our Father in heaven.
[01:08:47]  So, my feeling based on this is that Isaku Ikeda was teaching based on his own selfish approach to life and what supported his personal philosophy and lifestyle.
[01:09:01]  You know, if you're your own God and you decide what's right and wrong, then, you know.
[01:09:08]  You can live your life this way and be deceptive and manipulative.
[01:09:12]  And yeah, we'll just leave it at that.
[01:09:17]  So, Shakyamuni's teachings were just to summarize what we've just learned about the history here.
[01:09:25]  Shakyamuni's teachings were taught in a gradual manner to lead followers to the ultimate truth conveyed in the Lotus Sutra.
[01:09:33]  As his teachings spread over the centuries, the practice of Buddhism diminished.
[01:09:37]  It became rooted in formality and tradition, benefiting only priests and the well educated.
[01:09:44]  Nishirin revived Shakyamuni's spirit of helping all people.
[01:09:48]  He grasped and Expressed the heart of the Lotus Sutra in the phrase Nam Yoho Renge Kyo.
[01:09:54]  Based on Nishirin's teachings, the Soka Gakkai formulated a daily practice for modern day and SGI President Daisaku Ikeda spread that teaching across the world for all people to lead peaceful, happy lives or get demonized.
[01:10:12]  So the actual practice was based on faith, practice, and study, these three tenets.
[01:10:20]  So, faith was said to not be a blind faith.
[01:10:23]  You practice, try it out, see how it works in your life.
[01:10:26]  Faith in Buddhism is belief in our own vast potential and the limitless potential of all people to establish lives of unshakable happiness.
[01:10:39]  And yeah, there's a consistency to point back to the self in this practice, for sure.
[01:10:48]  So, it's like self illumination, basically, right?
[01:10:51]  Yeah, it was all about taking responsibility for your own life, you know, cause and effect, you know, tapping into the wisdom of your own life, you know, you have the answers within you, all that.
[01:11:06]  These were a lot of different things that were said.
[01:11:09]  So, practice, Buddhist practice includes two aspects practicing for oneself and practicing for others.
[01:11:16]  Practice for oneself consists of daily recitations from the Lotus Sutra.
[01:11:22]  And the chanting of Namyo Horenge Kyo.
[01:11:24]  So, practice for others consists of introducing Buddhism to others and encouraging others in their Buddhist practice.
[01:11:31]  This is referred to as Shaka Buku.
[01:11:33]  So, when you're introducing other people, it was called Shaka Buku.
[01:11:37]  And they'd have these big Shaka Buku campaigns, you know, and you'd have to, you know, how many people can you get to a meeting this month?
[01:11:44]  And rah, rah, rah, a lot of rah, rah, rah kind of thing.
[01:11:50]  Yeah.
[01:11:51]  All, you know, just how many numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers.
[01:11:54]  And they would keep statistics, you know, of, Of everyone, so shakabuku literally means to break and subdue one's misconceptions and introduce them to the correct teaching of the Lotus Sutra.
[01:12:10]  Hmm, when I wrote there and I wrote, which now sounds like cult language, right?
[01:12:17]  To break and subdue one's misconceptions and introduce them to the correct teaching of the Lotus Sutra.
[01:12:24]  So, we're going to break you down of your misconceptions of anything else.
[01:12:29]  And you're going to learn this.
[01:12:32]  So, by chanting and inspiring hope in others, it says this is an excerpt from their site.
[01:12:40]  We endeavor to manifest, there's a little key word there, to manifest the unlimited potential of our lives.
[01:12:49]  So, manifesting the unlimited potential of our lives.
[01:12:54]  So, you were told you can chant for whatever you want.
[01:12:56]  It doesn't matter what you chant for because just the act of chanting will lead to your enlightenment.
[01:13:02]  Make a determination, make a list of all these things that you want to have or get in your life.
[01:13:07]  And it didn't, it was limitless.
[01:13:09]  You could chant for anything.
[01:13:11]  And they tell you it's win or lose.
[01:13:13]  This Buddhism is win or lose, and you have to win.
[01:13:15]  You have to overcome.
[01:13:16]  You have to win.
[01:13:17]  It's all about winning in your life.
[01:13:21]  So, you're told that when you're chanting, you are tapping into the Buddha nature, that we all have this Buddha nature, and you're tapping into it, and that you're raising your life condition.
[01:13:30]  You're fusing your life with your highest self, which the Gohonzon, the scroll that you chant to, is supposed to represent.
[01:13:38]  It's supposed to represent a mirror reflection of your life.
[01:13:41]  And you're supposedly aligning your life with the rhythm of the universe.
[01:13:46]  I always thought that was so.
[01:13:50]  Interesting.
[01:13:50]  Like, what, what, just untangible, right?
[01:13:53]  Just like, what is that?
[01:13:55]  The idea is that when you raise your life condition to a higher level, you attract everything else on that vibration.
[01:14:01]  Here we go with the vibes.
[01:14:03]  When your life condition is low, you attract everything on that lower vibration.
[01:14:07]  So it's up to you and your practice of where you, what you want to, you're, you're, you create your life, you know, you're creating what your life is.
[01:14:16]  So sounds like the new age agendas popping in there with that.
[01:14:20]  Oh, yeah.
[01:14:21]  Oh, yeah.
[01:14:22]  There's definitely a lot of that language in there.
[01:14:25]  So it's based also on the law of cause and effect.
[01:14:28]  The idea is that when you make good causes, you get good effects.
[01:14:31]  So those effects might show up in your life immediately or sometime later, but immediately when you make a cause, there's an effect that's imprinted on your life, they teach you.
[01:14:42]  Or it could show up, you know, five minutes from now, five years from now, or even in your next lifetime since they, you know, believe in reincarnation.
[01:14:51]  And cause and effect, I would say, is the counterfeit of you reap what you sow.
[01:14:55]  Except in this Buddhism, it is believed that you can make good causes for your next incarnation as well.
[01:15:02]  So that's definitely a differentiation there.
[01:15:05]  So another tenet is to study.
[01:15:08]  Reading Nishirin Daishonin's writings helps to correctly understand the Lotus Sutra's teachings and apply them more effectively in our lives.
[01:15:22]  By deepening your knowledge of the teachings of Nishiran Buddhism, you can strengthen your confidence and conviction and learn what it means to practice.
[01:15:31]  As Nishiran states, practice and study arise from faith.
[01:15:34]  As we deepen your understanding of Nishiran Buddhism, you establish stronger faith.
[01:15:40]  And with stronger faith, you seek further understanding of Nishiran Buddhism.
[01:15:43]  Very circular language, no concrete foundation, just circular language that some of these things just seem like non statements to me now.
[01:15:54]  I think they did then.
[01:15:56]  I think they did.
[01:15:58]  Yeah, it keeps you in a state of confusion.
[01:16:01]  And I think that I was aware of that on some subconscious level then, but I was so far into it that I just brushed a lot of things off.
[01:16:11]  Some things did raise my antennas, but there was always some kind of even more unclear explanation that I just brushed it off a lot of times, which is unfortunate.
[01:16:30]  We would read the Gosho, which are writings, were the writings of Nishirin Daishonin, the 13th century monk.
[01:16:37]  These were letters to his followers.
[01:16:40]  We also had, and I think I've got a picture there of the Gosho.
[01:16:44]  What number is that?
[01:16:46]  Let's see.
[01:16:51]  It is number 32.
[01:16:56]  Oh, 32 and 33.
[01:16:58]  Oh, okay.
[01:16:59]  For you.
[01:17:00]  Yeah.
[01:17:01]  So the Gosho, that's the writings of Nishir and Dai Shonen, the letters to his followers.
[01:17:06]  And then there are periodicals, The Living Buddhism, which was a monthly magazine.
[01:17:12]  And then there was a weekly newspaper.
[01:17:16]  So, yeah, there was a monthly magazine and then a weekly newspaper that you'd have to pay for.
[01:17:21]  Oh, okay.
[01:17:21]  Let me go back to that.
[01:17:22]  They were subscriptions that you'd have to pay for.
[01:17:24]  This was required as a member.
[01:17:27]  And all those books, too, Into the Flower and then the Philosopher and all that.
[01:17:32]  Yeah.
[01:17:32]  And not to mention, the organization actually owns the printing company where those are printed.
[01:17:42]  Yeah.
[01:17:42]  So, you know, you're required to pay for these things, and they're filled with, you know, Daisaku Ikeda's guidance.
[01:17:50]  And so you see how one it all feeds into kind of the same thing.
[01:17:56]  Yeah.
[01:17:57]  So, again, the organization owns the printing company called Seikyo Shimbun, which is one of the leading newspaper publishers in Japan.
[01:18:06]  And many of our topics for discussion meetings were based on the articles in these periodicals.
[01:18:11]  Oh, there's a magazine right there.
[01:18:13]  Yeah, and those were his books.
[01:18:15]  Yeah, Daisaku Akeda's books, which he has written countless of them with ghost writers, were also very pushed as well.
[01:18:26]  So the phrase Namio Horenge Kyo, so it literally means the dedication to the mystic law of cause and effect.
[01:18:37]  So, you know, mystic, it's very ethereal, you know.
[01:18:43]  And.

=== Chanting as Hypnosis (03:36) ===

[01:18:46]  The lotus flower blooms and seeds at the same time.
[01:18:49]  So, the idea of cause and effect is also the lotus flower, also symbolizes the idea of the lotus flower, which symbolizes the idea of cause and effect because it blooms and seeds at the same time, supposed to be representing how the moment you make a cause and effect is imprinted in your life.
[01:19:10]  So, it means the dedication to the mystic law of cause and effect through sound or sutra or teaching.
[01:19:17]  And it's supposed to encapsulate the essence or intention of the Lotus Sutra.
[01:19:23]  So you repeat this phrase.
[01:19:26]  It's a vain repetition.
[01:19:28]  You're repeating this phrase over and over and over again, and you can do that as long as you want.
[01:19:34]  Like in contagions, like in witchcraft?
[01:19:37]  Yeah.
[01:19:38]  I mean, yeah, I mean, it's a vain repetition.
[01:19:41]  You're literally chanting this, and you're taught, you know, and I would say that it even lulls you into a.
[01:19:50]  You know, a state of kind of almost like a hypnosis in a way.
[01:19:57]  You're supposed to chant until you feel a breakthrough, which, you know, again, this is all very vague.
[01:20:06]  Now, speaking of chanting all that, is this connected with yoga as well?
[01:20:11]  It is not.
[01:20:12]  This is not connected with yoga, but I will say a year after I started this practice, I started yoga and I almost became a yoga instructor at one point.
[01:20:20]  I'm glad that I didn't, but I did.
[01:20:23]  Yoga also for a very long time.
[01:20:25]  So, I did.
[01:20:27]  So, this led into other things.
[01:20:29]  So, yoga was the next thing that came the next year.
[01:20:33]  I did get into it in 2001.
[01:20:35]  So, I will insert a scripture here Matthew 6 7.
[01:20:42]  When ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
[01:20:52]  So, that's what chanting is it's a vain repetition.
[01:20:57]  So, and you're supposed to place this phrase at the center of your life, which is idolatry, and that goes against the second commandment.
[01:21:09]  But you are told that you're not worshiping anything outside of yourself.
[01:21:12]  So they'd say, you know, you're not worshiping anything outside of yourself.
[01:21:17]  This is just about you taking responsibility for your life and making good causes and being a good person and this and that.
[01:21:25]  So, you know, you don't have to worry about it because I think I did ask about that when I first started practicing.
[01:21:30]  It's like, you know, we don't use the statues, we don't encourage that.
[01:21:33]  You're just, you know, you're just taking responsibility for your life.
[01:21:40]  And you know, told that you're not worshiping anything outside of yourself, yet you're supposed to place this phrase down the center of your life, so you know that that is what it is, and um, you know, and then you've got this whole mentor disciple relationship as well with this presenting this human man, President Ikeda.
[01:22:03]  Um, and then another thing that we would have to do is we would have to recite Gongyo twice a day, which takes about 15 minutes, and Gongyo is um, it's A recitation of portions of the expedient means and the lifespan chapters of the Lotus Sutra.

=== Devotion to the Gohonzon (08:49) ===

[01:22:22]  And these chapters are chosen because they represent the essence of the Sutra's theoretical and essential teachings, focusing on universal enlightenment and the eternal nature of the Buddha.
[01:22:35]  So you see, the eternal nature of the Buddha and the Lotus Sutra was supposedly written by the original Buddha.
[01:22:43]  So There is a Buddha deity in there.
[01:22:47]  Just because you don't have statues, it is worked into the practice.
[01:22:53]  You've got the mentors, you've got the president, you've got Shakyamuni Buddha, you've got Nishiran Daishonan.
[01:22:59]  Not only do you have a deity, you've got all these different things.
[01:23:03]  Then you've got the phrase, and then you've got these excerpts from the Lotus Sutra, and then the scroll that I'm going to talk about next that you literally focus on and chant to and put that down the center of your house, in the center of your house.
[01:23:17]  What number is that?
[01:23:20]  So, this one.
[01:23:22]  I think it's the Titan Worlds.
[01:23:24]  Is that where we're going?
[01:23:28]  Actually, it's going to be.
[01:23:29]  Oh, number 30 is going to be coming next.
[01:23:33]  Oh, okay.
[01:23:34]  Number 30 will be.
[01:23:35]  Oh, I think those got turned around, didn't they?
[01:23:39]  I turned those around.
[01:23:41]  So, 30 and 31 will be coming up next.
[01:23:47]  So.
[01:23:48]  There we go.
[01:23:50]  There's a scroll right there.
[01:23:54]  So then, along with Gongyo, these excerpts that you do twice a day, and you're told in order to keep a momentum, because you'll lose your determination, in order to keep a momentum, you got to do this in the morning and the evening.
[01:24:09]  And then there's silent prayers that go along with Gongyo, where you're doing prayers for the appreciation of this Gohonzon, appreciation for Nishir and Aishonen and Niko Shonen, his successor, appreciation for the three founding presidents.
[01:24:29]  You're doing prayers for worldwide Kozen Rufu, which is that, you know, world peace through individual happiness.
[01:24:34]  You're doing prayers for the deceased and then peace throughout the world and happiness of all living beings.
[01:24:43]  And I didn't want to go into the details of Gongyo because I didn't want to, not the details, but like the actual, what you're saying.
[01:24:52]  I'm trying to minimize saying too many of these things with my actual voice, but.
[01:25:01]  Okay, so the Gohonzen is a scroll, and you get this when you become a member.
[01:25:10]  You actually have to pay for it, and you have to prove that you're committed to the practice before you can get the scroll, before you can have your little ceremony to get your scroll and become an official member.
[01:25:24]  Well, it sounds like Catholicism.
[01:25:26]  Yeah, and you get your certificate.
[01:25:28]  Yeah, you get your certificate and everything.
[01:25:33]  This scroll is supposed to be a mirror reflection of your own life.
[01:25:39]  And they call it, it's not a deity, it's an object of devotion, even though it's got all kinds of deities on it.
[01:25:46]  You're supposed to put this in the center of your home.
[01:25:48]  So, once again, if you're putting that, all these things in the center of your home, then God's not in the center of your home or your life.
[01:26:00]  So, the Gohonzon is a hanging scroll, often called a mandala, that serves as the primary object of devotion in Nishiran Buddhism.
[01:26:07]  It is a graphical representation of the ceremony in the air from the Lotus Sutra, featuring Chinese and Sanskrit characters representing Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and various life states, the ten worlds at its center.
[01:26:21]  It features the inscription Namya Horenge Kyo down the center of it.
[01:26:26]  And the ceremony in the air is a pivotal symbolic and dramatic scene in the Lotus Sutra where Shakyamuni Buddha lifts the entire assembly into the sky and opens a massive hovering treasure tower.
[01:26:40]  To reveal the equality of all life, universal enlightenment, and the truth of the teachings.
[01:26:48]  So now we've got a massive hovering treasure tower.
[01:26:53]  So the key components of the Gohonzon the central inscription is Namyo Horenge Kyo, which, like I said, is written down the center, representing the ultimate law and the treasure tower.
[01:27:06]  There's a signature, Nishan's name, and sealer written directly below the central title.
[01:27:13]  It includes the names of Shakyamuni Buddha, many treasure towers Buddha, and the four bodhisattvas of the earth.
[01:27:19]  There are protective deities on it.
[01:27:21]  There are Sanskrit characters.
[01:27:25]  It's supposed to be a mirror of the mind.
[01:27:27]  It acts as a mirror that reflects an individual's inherent Buddha nature, bringing forth inner wisdom and courage.
[01:27:36]  So, practitioners are, you know, you're supposed to focus on a certain character right in the middle where it says Namyo Horenge Kyo.
[01:27:47]  And then chant to it, you're supposed to focus on that and chant so that you can fuse your life with this Gohonzon.
[01:27:54]  It's supposed to be a replication of your inner self.
[01:27:58]  So basically, you're just fusing your life with demons.
[01:28:03]  Um, yeah, it says it helps focus the mind and overcome negativity, functioning as a treasure map for life.
[01:28:12]  But yeah, no, um, and so the Gohonzon is enshrined in a personal altar called Abutsadon.
[01:28:20]  That was the The thing you saw there with the doors.
[01:28:25]  The boots it on is literally means house of Buddha.
[01:28:29]  And when I looked that up further, it says it's primarily used for ancestor worship, daily prayers, and honoring the deceased.
[01:28:37]  So I had never heard that before.
[01:28:40]  I thought that was interesting because part of our prayers were praying for the deceased.
[01:28:44]  So, you know, this is all not good.
[01:28:47]  That's necromancy.
[01:28:50]  So everything that you had on the altar was.
[01:28:52]  Supposed to represent your senses.
[01:28:54]  You know, you had your incense, you had candles, you had a little water glass that you would fill every morning and dump out in the evening.
[01:29:05]  And, you know, you'd have greens.
[01:29:09]  All these different things represented your different senses that you're supposed to be awakening your senses also while you're chanting.
[01:29:15]  So there's a lot of different things going on here.
[01:29:18]  But we weren't encouraged at the Buddhist statues.
[01:29:24]  And that was because the focus was more on the Gohonzon, the mandala, that scroll.
[01:29:34]  And the primary reasons for that were that the SGI teaches that the Gohonzon embodies all the enlightenment teachings and blessings of the Buddha, making statues unnecessary.
[01:29:45]  The use of statues is considered a potential distraction as it might lead practitioners to worship a personified external god.
[01:29:55]  Although the Lotus Sutra is full of little g gods.
[01:30:01]  So rather than recognizing the Buddha nature within yourself, Nishirin taught that the ultimate reality is the law represented by Namyu Haringi Kyo, not a specific physical and impermanent image.
[01:30:19]  SGI views statues of Shakyamuni as provisional or artistic representations, whereas the Gohonzon is, they consider a direct written image.
[01:30:28]  And literal representation of the ceremony in the era as described in the Lotus Sutra.
[01:30:36]  Okay, so essentially the SGI considers the Kohansen to be the true object of devotion because it represents the abstract and universal law of life, whereas a statue is seen as a limited physical representation of a person.
[01:30:52]  But we were encouraged to have a photo of President Ikeda on our altar, and I was gifted a photo from what.
[01:31:02]  From the national leader at the time, yet they said he's not a deity to be worshipped, saying things like, What would sensei do?

=== A Pyramid Scheme (02:51) ===

[01:31:11]  And like I said, I personally never related to this line of thinking.
[01:31:14]  And I thought I was missing something because of this, but no, it's because I've always belonged to our Father in heaven.
[01:31:23]  So that's when you dress him as sensei?
[01:31:26]  What's that?
[01:31:27]  You address them as sensei?
[01:31:31]  What we were encouraged to call him.
[01:31:33]  Oh, that's strange because, again, going back to the martial arts, that's what we're supposed to call our instructors, a sensei or master.
[01:31:40]  Yeah.
[01:31:41]  Yeah, it's very common in the Eastern philosophies.
[01:31:46]  And so, meetings gather in local neighborhood homes or community centers to hold small group discussion meetings where members practice together, study, and discuss Buddhism together.
[01:32:02]  Share faith experiences and encourage one another to overcome life's challenges.
[01:32:08]  I thought this was weird.
[01:32:09]  First Sokagaki President Sunisabura Makaguchi designated these gatherings as discussion meetings to prove experimentally the life of major good.
[01:32:22]  What is that even?
[01:32:26]  I just, wow.
[01:32:27]  I mean, I just see the circular speak now.
[01:32:29]  I just see how it's essentially a lot of nothing is being said.
[01:32:34]  And I had never heard this before doing the research.
[01:32:38]  So to me, this is just another non statement.
[01:32:41]  It means nothing.
[01:32:43]  And there's definitely a spirit of confusion here.
[01:32:47]  Just say things that sound positive and good, but really mean nothing.
[01:32:50]  It's ultimately just emptiness.
[01:32:54]  And it's called a value creation society, but there is no value.
[01:32:58]  There's no substance.
[01:33:00]  Just seems like now, seems like a pyramid scheme where only those at the top benefit from everyone else's efforts.
[01:33:08]  So they work their members to the point of exhaustion to desperately keep the thing going so they can continue to benefit financially and have status with the elites.
[01:33:20]  There was a lot, a lot of meetings, and I was encouraged to be.
[01:33:23]  Become a leader right from the get go.
[01:33:26]  I built groups and districts, and there's different levels of your meetings, and all the leaders are all volunteers.
[01:33:37]  You've got to have a planning meeting, you've got to have a district meeting, you've got to have your monthly Kozan Rufa meeting.
[01:33:47]  There's men's division meetings, women's division meetings, youth meetings.
[01:33:54]  And people would tell me, don't become a professional Buddha.
[01:33:56]  Like people within the organization would say that to each other, don't become a professional Buddha.

=== The Ten Worlds and Karma (11:44) ===

[01:34:02]  Yeah.
[01:34:03]  So, other interesting points of the practice they accept all walks of life.
[01:34:11]  This idea of human revolution was all about an inner transformation.
[01:34:16]  They believe that your environment is a reflection of you and what is going on inside of you.
[01:34:22]  So, it's all about changing what's happening on the inside so that your environment will reflect.
[01:34:27]  Something different.
[01:34:28]  It's up to you.
[01:34:29]  You know, you create your own reality.
[01:34:31]  You have to take responsibility for your own life, essentially.
[01:34:35]  And there's supposed to be joy in this because if it's up to you, then you can do something about it.
[01:34:41]  You're not a victim of your environment or other people.
[01:34:47]  You're taught to turn poison into medicine.
[01:34:52]  Another new thing that I came upon was something called quantum entanglement.
[01:34:58]  And this is an idea I came across at the SGI.
[01:35:02]  Where particles remain, so quantum entanglement is where particles remain connected regardless of distance, and it's often metaphorically linked to karma as a scientific parallel for spiritual interconnectedness, demonstrating how actions, intentions, and entangled consciousness can ripple across space time to shape reality and fate.
[01:35:27]  This connection implies that our choices act as cause and effect mechanisms, karma, that like entangled systems instantly affect the broader universe.
[01:35:38]  So, basically, a karmic connection.
[01:35:40]  And this made me think of unhealthy soul ties and spiritual bondage in general.
[01:35:47]  So, karma, right?
[01:35:48]  I did a show, a quick video on it, karma versus Jesus Christ, because they say, oh, what goes around comes around.
[01:35:54]  I hear a lot of, I can't stand when I hear Christians say, oh, that's karma for you or whatever.
[01:35:59]  And, like, do you know what karma is?
[01:36:00]  So, the full explanation of karma, right, is that there's something basically people think what goes around comes around, but they don't understand it under this karma doctrine that you're, when you die, okay, you come back as a, if you did a lot of bad stuff in your life, when you die, you get reincarnated as something a little lower life form.
[01:36:19]  And you got to pay for the sins that you did.
[01:36:21]  But the thing is, when you come to this newer life form, right, you have no recollection of what you did.
[01:36:25]  So, it's nonstop all the time.
[01:36:27]  Lifetime after lifetime paying for sins and things you've never done.
[01:36:31]  And you basically say, so you need to evolve.
[01:36:34]  But if you keep sinning and all that, you've got to devolve to lower life forms.
[01:36:37]  Then you've got to build yourself back up into godhood, things like that.
[01:36:40]  And a full thing of karma is basically you've got to live dozens of lifetimes to bring yourself elevated to the spiritual enlightenment.
[01:36:48]  And I was like, is that something a Christian should be saying?
[01:36:51]  Yeah, the Bible says, what you reap, you sow.
[01:36:53]  But however, if you repent, those things are gone.
[01:36:56]  You know what I mean?
[01:36:57]  So, what would you rather have?
[01:36:59]  Which we know reincarnation is not real.
[01:37:01]  You know what I mean?
[01:37:02]  So, what would you rather have?
[01:37:03]  Dozens of lifetimes you think you're going to have to redeem yourself.
[01:37:06]  Or, and the thing is, yeah, how are you going to, even if reincarnation was real, how are you going to know what you did in a prior lifetime that was bad that you need to redeem yourself from?
[01:37:15]  You know what I mean?
[01:37:16]  And it's nonstop, it's a cycle over and over and over and over again.
[01:37:19]  But all you need is the blood of Jesus Christ, and there's no over and over again.
[01:37:23]  The only time you come back to life is with Jesus eternally.
[01:37:26]  I mean, the second life.
[01:37:27]  Yeah, exactly.
[01:37:31]  And from this perspective of Buddhism and karma, it's an endless austerity of just, again, with the circular, never ending process.
[01:37:41]  And yeah, it definitely, when you compare it to the grace of our Lord and Savior, it definitely.
[01:37:51]  Doesn't compare at all, and they do believe in karma.
[01:37:56]  There is the belief in karma that if you want to know what your life is going to look like, look at the causes that you're making right now.
[01:38:04]  So, you want to make good causes to make sure that you have good effects and that you'll have a good next life.
[01:38:10]  And you're supposed to pray for the deceased for their lives because they can't chant while they're dead.
[01:38:25]  They believe that you can change your karma into your mission.
[01:38:28]  They believe in reincarnation.
[01:38:30]  And this is a quote if separated by death, what you do is what is important.
[01:38:35]  You can affect others' life after death.
[01:38:38]  So, yeah, no.
[01:38:44]  There's a lot of different things I mentioned, you know, the leadership and being encouraged to take leadership and start building groups right away.
[01:38:54]  You're getting, when you get guidance, you're getting guidance from leaders who are essentially just other practitioners.
[01:38:59]  They haven't gone through any special training.
[01:39:03]  I mean, there are leadership trainings and stuff like that, but it's, they're essentially, you know, everybody's just, they're all volunteer practitioners.
[01:39:14]  Soka Gakkai has a university, a liberal arts university called Soka University.
[01:39:19]  I think there is a photo for that one.
[01:39:25]  Yeah, it's, Whoops, it's number 35.
[01:39:29]  Yep.
[01:39:31]  Oh, right after the 10 worlds.
[01:39:34]  Yeah.
[01:39:34]  I want to touch on that real quick if you don't mind.
[01:39:36]  But yeah, there's pictures here of the.
[01:39:40]  Would you say it's University or something?
[01:39:42]  Yeah, Ahsoka University.
[01:39:44]  Yeah.
[01:39:49]  And I'll fade in back to this one real quick.
[01:39:51]  The 10 worlds.
[01:39:52]  I don't know for whatever reasons, that doesn't sit with me real.
[01:39:56]  You know, these.
[01:39:57]  Your hell.
[01:39:59]  Animality?
[01:40:00]  What's the animality?
[01:40:02]  Yeah, so that is, let's see.
[01:40:07]  Oh, actually, that is coming up next here in my.
[01:40:10]  Oh, I'm sorry.
[01:40:11]  That's okay.
[01:40:15]  Let's see.
[01:40:16]  Yeah, so they've got this liberal arts school.
[01:40:20]  So that's very interesting as well.
[01:40:23]  It's very, the influence, I would say, is very extensive.
[01:40:28]  They believe in this idea of fundamental darkness.
[01:40:31]  So fundamental darkness.
[01:40:34]  Is supposed to be the innate deep seated ignorance of one's own inherent Buddha nature.
[01:40:40]  So if you don't believe in your Buddha nature, you've got this fundamental darkness.
[01:40:46]  And they tell you that it's this root cause of suffering and delusion and manifesting as negativity, fear, and destructive desires.
[01:40:53]  And it's symbolized as something called the devil of the sixth heaven that obstructs your Buddhist practice.
[01:41:00]  And so this darkness is supposed to be conquered by practicing Nam Yahoo Renge Kyo to illuminate it when you encounter obstacles.
[01:41:10]  So you see, it all actually just the things that are supposed to help you just bring you into more.
[01:41:17]  Delusion and demonization.
[01:41:22]  So, devilish functions in the Devil King of the Sixth Heaven in Nishiran Buddhism is the supreme devilish function that embodies fundamental darkness, actively working to impede Buddhist practice and destroy happiness.
[01:41:39]  Dwelling in the highest heaven of the world of desire, this internal force represents arrogance, manipulation, and the urge to sap the life force of others.
[01:41:50]  It's also an internal function that attacks you where you're the most vulnerable.
[01:41:56]  And there's something called the three obstacles and four devils.
[01:41:59]  The three obstacles and four devils, which they call Sancho Shima in Nishiran Buddhism, are negative forces, both internal and external, such as fear, anger, doubt, and attachment, driven by this internal darkness that arise to disrupt a practitioner's faith and practice, specifically when they strive for enlightenment.
[01:42:22]  They act as a test of faith, which Nishirin viewed as natural, stating the wise will rejoice while the foolish will retreat.
[01:42:33]  So, since you're interested in the 10 worlds, I'm just going to skip down to that because this all kind of repeats itself here.
[01:42:46]  Yeah.
[01:42:46]  So, we were like just the basics because, like, I mean, I know I'm sure it's like for each one of these.
[01:42:53]  Probably like tons of learning for it, but you can just go in so deep with all of this.
[01:42:57]  So, um, so we were taught that everything that happens to us was a result of some function in our lives that we have to chant to destroy, to transform, or change to get better results in our lives.
[01:43:11]  So, the perspective is that everything happens outside of us is a mere reflection of what's inside of us.
[01:43:18]  So, so they believe that heaven and hell are part of 10 worlds or life conditions that we go in and out of.
[01:43:26]  And there's this idea of the mutual possession of the ten worlds, which is you can see depicted by the little slide here that within these different ten worlds, there's the possibility for the other worlds within those worlds.
[01:43:42]  So the ten worlds, so they don't believe in a heaven and hell.
[01:43:49]  They believe in these ten worlds that are different life states that you go, that they're just life states that you go in and out of.
[01:43:57]  At any given moment.
[01:43:59]  So the 10 worlds in Ishiran Buddhism are 10 distinct internal life states or conditions that a person experiences and shifts between, ranging from hell to enlightenment or Buddhahood.
[01:44:12]  These states are not fixed, they're objective places, but rather subjective conditions that coexist within every human being, as explained in the principle of mutual possession of the 10 worlds.
[01:44:28]  So you've got hell, which is extreme suffering, despair.
[01:44:32]  And anger, hungry souls, which is insatiable craving, desire, and frustration, animality, which is instinctive behavior, ignorance, and a lack of moral judgment, asuras,
[01:44:47]  which is arrogance, ego, and conflict, looking down on others, human beings, a state of calm, rationality, and balance, heavenly beings, or rapture, temporary joy and satisfaction from fulfilling desires.
[01:45:05]  The state of learning, which is seeking self improvement through external knowledge and realization, gaining insight into life through personal experience.
[01:45:16]  Bodhisattvas is compassion and the desire to help others.
[01:45:20]  Buddha is supreme enlightenment and absolute happiness and compassion.
[01:45:29]  So that is an explanation of the 10 worlds.
[01:45:32]  And Nichiren teaches that recognizing these states within.
[01:45:36]  One's self enchanting, one can transform lower life conditions into higher ones, aiming for consistent Buddhahood.

=== Agenda 2030 Connections (15:48) ===

[01:45:47]  Well, it's crazy.
[01:45:48]  It's like the 10 worlds, right?
[01:45:51]  You got the 10 tenements of, I forgot, all these occults and religions, they have 10, 10, 10.
[01:45:57]  And, you know, it's crazy.
[01:45:59]  And then we got the 10 commandments, you know what I mean?
[01:46:02]  So all these things are just ripoffs of the 10 or twisted version of the 10 commandments.
[01:46:06]  Like in the Catholic Church, they get the 10, It was the 10 sacraments they call it.
[01:46:12]  Yeah.
[01:46:13]  It's crazy.
[01:46:14]  It just kind of repeats itself, right?
[01:46:19]  So there's really no moral compass here except to make good causes and to get good effects.
[01:46:27]  And so, whom's deciding what is good or bad?
[01:46:32]  What's a good or bad, right or wrong cause?
[01:46:34]  And they don't even really believe in bad.
[01:46:38]  They just tell you, like, oh, you can turn anything into a benefit.
[01:46:43]  Anything that happens, you can turn into a benefit.
[01:46:47]  But it's through your own practice and your own efforts.
[01:46:51]  And to me, this just sets you up for eternal damnation and not enlightenment, which enlightenment shouldn't be the goal to begin with.
[01:47:02]  That's just more of trying to be your own God.
[01:47:06]  So, a little bit of controversy here.
[01:47:15]  This is another interesting thing that I came upon.
[01:47:22]  The SGI is actually connected to a political party.
[01:47:27]  And the Soka Gakkai has a deep foundational connection to the Clean Government Party, the Kamito Party in Japan, which was founded in 1964.
[01:47:40]  While Kamito, I think I have a slide on that one too.
[01:47:46]  And that would be.
[01:47:49]  Number 36.
[01:47:53]  Yeah, and if you want to also, too, if you want to go right into the agenda 2030, you know what I mean?
[01:48:02]  The political stuff in the Club of Rome.
[01:48:06]  Yeah.
[01:48:06]  Yeah.
[01:48:07]  This is where this gets really like kind of ties into some current events.
[01:48:15]  So there's this political party and.
[01:48:22]  One of the things that kind of always started in with this 2030 campaign around, oh gosh, when did they first start talking about this?
[01:48:35]  Was that the 2030?
[01:48:36]  Yeah.
[01:48:38]  There was this 2030 campaign that they started talking about.
[01:48:41]  We're all chanting for success towards 2030 with Sensei, you know, 2030 with Sensei.
[01:48:47]  They'd have all these crazy campaigns.
[01:48:51]  It's kind of funny too because that made me cut you off because the Agenda 21, it was always called Agenda 21, then they just rebranded it as Agenda 2030, which is still the 21st century, you know?
[01:49:04]  So it's kind of funny because, like, you earlier showed the connection how they're an NGO for the United Nations.
[01:49:10]  And so the United Nations, like, they have this one denominator for all the religions to push one world government, you know what I mean?
[01:49:18]  One world religion headed by the Pope.
[01:49:20]  So you can see now how Buddhism has taken that political step to becoming part of that one world religion.
[01:49:28]  Yeah.
[01:49:28]  And this was one of the things I was extremely.
[01:49:32]  This was something I knew about the 2030 campaign, and I always thought that was weird.
[01:49:38]  But it really started to stand out in the last number of years here, where on the world stage we're seeing this 2030 agenda.
[01:49:50]  So, when I started to see that, I thought back to this 2030 campaign that I always thought was so odd.
[01:49:56]  Why that date?
[01:49:57]  That's so weird.
[01:49:59]  So, here we have the 2030 goals were set forth by the SGI USA leaders on October 2nd, 2020, as part of a decade long push toward the Soka Gakkai's 100th anniversary, which is actually not 2030.
[01:50:16]  It's 2037, but President Ikeda changed the beginning date of the Soka Gakkai and told people it was 1930.
[01:50:25]  To fit this agenda here so that it would add up.
[01:50:32]  The focus is on increasing membership to 350,000, nurturing 75,000 future division members under 18, and increasing publication subscriptions.
[01:50:44]  These goals are framed as a fresh departure or joint determination to align with the organization's 2030 centennial, which is false in itself.
[01:50:55]  And as the true beginning is in 1937, and so I just mentioned that he wanted to work for his Seven Bells agenda, where he sets goals for every seven years.
[01:51:05]  So, incidentally, the UN, whom SGI has close ties to, also has a 2030 campaign.
[01:51:15]  They adopted their campaign September 25th through 27th, 2015, at the UN headquarters in New York.
[01:51:22]  Their campaign is entitled Transforming Our World.
[01:51:26]  The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which contains 17 sustainable development goals.
[01:51:35]  This is a global partnership to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity.
[01:51:41]  So, Ikeda has a connection to the Club of Rome.
[01:51:46]  Ikeda was an honorary member of the Club of Rome.
[01:51:48]  Remember his honorary accolades that he bought himself into?
[01:51:53]  So, what is the Club of Rome?
[01:51:58]  At David Rockefeller's estate in Bellagio, Italy, the Club of Rome describes itself as a group of world citizens sharing a common concern for the future of humanity.
[01:52:09]  It consists of current and former heads of state, UN bureaucrats, high level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe.
[01:52:22]  So it also has connections to the United Nations, among other elites and elitist organizations.
[01:52:31]  There's quite a list of people who are members of this group.
[01:52:37]  I think I left, there's going to be a link there that you guys can go and dive into this a little further if you like.
[01:52:47]  President Ikeda co authored a book with the co founder of the Club of Rome.
[01:52:50]  There's a picture of him with Aurelio Pecci, Dr. Aurelio Pecci, and it's called Before It's Too Late.
[01:52:59]  Ikeda and Mr. Pecci present their views alternately as individual statements and dialogues on the Complex web of natural and human made problems threatening the habitability of the planet Earth.
[01:53:12]  In the August 1980 edition of Fusion magazine, Howard Odom, a marine biologist at the University of Florida who was a member of the Club of Rome, was quoted saying, It's necessary that the U.S. cut its population by two thirds within the next 50 years.
[01:53:29]  He did not mention how this should be accomplished.
[01:53:33]  So, within the next 50 years, so if the given start date was 1980, what's the end date?
[01:53:38]  2030.
[01:53:40]  And if the US cuts its population by two thirds, what's left?
[01:53:43]  One third.
[01:53:45]  Throughout the world, the Club of Rome has said that genocide should be used to eliminate people who they refer to as useless eaters.
[01:53:57]  Not only is the practice of Buddhism itself ungodly, the SGI and President Incaida use the principles of Buddhism that are portrayed as good for further evil.
[01:54:09]  The hypocrisy is stunning.
[01:54:12]  What happened to the sanctity of life?
[01:54:15]  How does that fit in with the belief that depopulation is good for the planet?
[01:54:20]  So, Osip Fleckheim, one of the fathers of modern future studies, already in the 1950s described his field as a synthesis of ideology and utopia, not in line with the traditional concept of science, which seems that it would fit perfectly to describe President Cata's grand vision for the SGI.
[01:54:42]  So, what is SGI's vision?
[01:54:44]  For its utopia.
[01:54:46]  When one third of the population is converted, that number will do nicely as a target population for the whole world.
[01:54:52]  The rest can just be erased, apparently.
[01:54:56]  Those under mind control do not ask critical thinking questions, unfortunately.
[01:55:02]  Rather, there is a blind faith in denial, even where there is evidence that proves otherwise.
[01:55:09]  So, there's a U.S. Association of the Club of Rome in 1976, the U.S. Association of the Club of Rome.
[01:55:15]  Was created, its purpose is to shut down the U.S. economy gradually.
[01:55:21]  Henry Kissinger was then a high ranked member in the service of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, a member of the Club of Rome and the Council of Foreign Relations.
[01:55:34]  There's a picture there of Ikeda and Kissinger, who met with Ikeda in 1975, well after the Club of Rome had been created.
[01:55:46]  And by 1975, everybody involved was fully informed about what was going on.
[01:55:52]  The Club of Rome was created in 1966 by the Morgenthau Group, allegedly.
[01:55:57]  Its original purpose was to create a new world order by the year 2000.
[01:56:01]  Guess that they didn't hit that mark.
[01:56:05]  The Club of Rome has a hidden agenda to divide the entire world into 10 regions or kingdoms.
[01:56:15]  Here we go with the 10 kingdoms.
[01:56:18]  Japan is one of the envisioned 10 kingdoms on that list.
[01:56:21]  And I know I've heard Brother David talk a lot about.
[01:56:24]  Yeah, they got 10 zones on the United Nations.
[01:56:28]  And I did a lot of shows on this Agenda 21, Trend of 2030.
[01:56:32]  Okay.
[01:56:33]  And so they want to create a whole one world government ruled by 10 people, 10 zones.
[01:56:36]  Now, it's kind of funny, too, because look in the United States, right?
[01:56:39]  We have 10 FEMA regions.
[01:56:42]  And in each FEMA region, we have a thing called the Council of Governors.
[01:56:46]  Now, there are 10 of these people five Republicans, five Democrats.
[01:56:50]  And some of these are active governors, former governors.
[01:56:52]  But the thing is, nobody elects these people.
[01:56:54]  They were appointed by President Obama.
[01:56:55]  He created this.
[01:56:57]  And they created 10, in each of these zones, they have fusion centers that take data and tell on everybody.
[01:57:04]  Now, this is a small scale to the world, in the world here.
[01:57:09]  The United Nations devised in the Club of Rome 10 kingdoms, basically.
[01:57:14]  The Bible talks about this, right?
[01:57:16]  And they could appoint 10 people to rule each region the North American Union, the South American Union, the European Union, the Asian Union, which the North American Union was that close from being implemented from George Bush.
[01:57:29]  They were all talking about it.
[01:57:30]  I mean, and they wanted to implement the United States, Canada, and Mexico into one country using a currency called the Amero at the time.
[01:57:37]  And because of the resistance, it fell through.
[01:57:39]  You know what I mean?
[01:57:40]  They have the Asian Union and the European Union.
[01:57:42]  Nobody even talks about the African Union, but they're that close for them to implement the North American Union.
[01:57:46]  So basically, they need these 10 unions, and within the unions, there's going to be no more national sovereignty, no more freedoms, no more borders, open borders on all these regions, and one leader.
[01:57:59]  And nobody elects this person, one leader.
[01:58:01]  It's appointed by the United Nations for each zone.
[01:58:04]  So now the Bible tells us about this, right?
[01:58:06]  These kings, right?
[01:58:07]  They give their power to one person, the beast.
[01:58:10]  So you're seeing biblical prophecy unfold right now.
[01:58:13]  And the reason why you hear the 2030 is because that's that goal.
[01:58:16]  First, she said it was right.
[01:58:18]  It was 2000, it got moved up to 2014.
[01:58:20]  For a while, they were calling it just Agenda 21.
[01:58:23]  So now their set goal is Agenda 2030.
[01:58:26]  We want this established.
[01:58:27]  And that's why they're racing, guys.
[01:58:29]  They're head on racing because here's the thing, too.
[01:58:31]  They want 202030.
[01:58:33]  To be their date for the New World Order.
[01:58:35]  To bring in these kings and kingdoms and all that.
[01:58:37]  But what they failed to understand is a thing called the God Factor involved.
[01:58:41]  Yeah, it was 2010, I remember this.
[01:58:44]  Um, the world was ready to sign this pact.
[01:58:46]  It was good.
[01:58:47]  The, uh, peace agreement, uh, with Obama was ready to go, they were going to use climate change or global warming at the time.
[01:58:54]  There's proof of global warming.
[01:58:56]  We need to sign this world treaty.
[01:58:57]  They were ready to sign the world treaty.
[01:58:59]  And what happened?
[01:59:00]  God threw the monkey, literally threw the monkey wrench in the works of this.
[01:59:03]  So it was wrecked snowfall all over Europe.
[01:59:07]  DC got bombed with one of the biggest blizzards in history.
[01:59:10]  So now the globalists, they all met in Geneva, ready to sign us.
[01:59:14]  And Obama says, I'm going to sign it regardless.
[01:59:16]  It doesn't matter what Congress says, I'm going to sign it, which is illegal.
[01:59:19]  So they're ready to push their one world government, one world order in 2010.
[01:59:23]  So by the law, throwing the monkey wrench in the works, and it was all based off of this climate change, global warming, we're going to do something now.
[01:59:33]  And so again, Washington, DC got hit hard with the biggest snow blizzard they ever had.
[01:59:40]  I think almost all of Europe for the first time in history covered in snow.
[01:59:44]  So all these people of these nations, like, whoa, Hannah, what's going on?
[01:59:48]  You know, why we got a sign that we just got hit with snow because they were telling people it's never going to snow again, the polar caps are going to melt, and all that was disproven.
[01:59:55]  You know, there's 40% more in the polar caps than ever recorded.
[01:59:59]  So, all the stuff coming out, and that was God at the nick of time putting a stop to the because, again, one pentstroke away, we were ready to go to a new world order at the time.
[02:00:08]  The pushing in the thing is Obama, Clinton, and Judge Bush, all three of them worked together and cohesive, and they all brag about being friends and everything.
[02:00:17]  And so, parties don't matter.
[02:00:18]  They were ready to push the new world order.
[02:00:21]  Plain and simple.
[02:00:22]  And so that was ready to go, but it failed because, number one, the mass resistance against it.
[02:00:27]  And two, you know, people like us notifying people to, you know, create a resistance.
[02:00:32]  But number one of all, God put a stop to it.
[02:00:34]  So now they kicked a can down the road and they created something called Agenda 2030.
[02:00:39]  So they want to move this whole initiative now.
[02:00:42]  Now, no more global warming now.
[02:00:43]  Now it's climate change.
[02:00:44]  You know what I mean?
[02:00:45]  So they want to move this whole initiative until 2030.
[02:00:48]  So in their minds, in 2030, they've got to bring in this one world government.
[02:00:51]  And if you notice over the years, right, they've been.
[02:00:54]  Uh, hitting the financial institution.
[02:00:55]  So if you see, there was hundreds of banks, thousands of banks, merging, kept merging, merging together, and now there's handfuls of banks.
[02:01:03]  You know what I mean?
[02:01:03]  There's no more, uh, you know, they're eliminating credit unions and everything else, and it's gonna be a one world government, one world bank, there's under the World Bank, the IMF, International Monetary Fund, uh, the World Health Organization, I can't even talk tonight, sorry guys.
[02:01:17]  The World Health Organization, the WHO, uh, to unite all the health stuff under their control.
[02:01:23]  Now look what Obama did.
[02:01:24]  Uh, uh, Biden just did that.
[02:01:26]  He signed us under, Um, all our health system under the control of the World Health Organization.
[02:01:32]  But credit to President Trump, he put a stop to that.
[02:01:34]  Uh, credit to him for that.

=== Politics and the Beast Mark (07:56) ===

[02:01:36]  You know what I mean?
[02:01:36]  We're gonna credit him for that.
[02:01:37]  Uh, he put a stop to that.
[02:01:38]  So right now it's just a temporary hold.
[02:01:40]  But if somebody like Gavin Newsom gets in, guys, it's over.
[02:01:43]  You better, you think, uh, Trump's bad, you think this one's bad.
[02:01:47]  Gavin Newsom gets in, which is their next puppet.
[02:01:49]  He's gotta be the one to initially push us into the head right into the New World Order.
[02:01:54]  And, uh, they were supposed to do that, uh, uh, Hillary Clinton.
[02:01:57]  And, uh, but again, it's God's, God puts leaders in power.
[02:02:00]  God controls the ship until it's his time.
[02:02:03]  So, when it's his time to say, All right, now we're going to let Satan run the world.
[02:02:08]  You know what I mean?
[02:02:09]  And then all this is going to come to par literally overnight.
[02:02:12]  They got the digital ID ready, the digital currency ready, the CBDC and all that, and it's all connected to the Mark of the Beast.
[02:02:18]  So, when this whole system starts, guys, it's going to be a one economy.
[02:02:24]  And that little microchip that's going to go in your right hand or in your right hand or in your forehead.
[02:02:30]  You won't be able to live in that establishment at all, not even buy a taco without that microchip.
[02:02:36]  And even before you get that, and people say, oh, it's a vaccine.
[02:02:38]  No, it's not the vaccine.
[02:02:40]  It's not simple going up to CVS and getting opinions in your arm.
[02:02:43]  You know what I mean?
[02:02:44]  It goes in the right hand or in their forehead, not the arm.
[02:02:47]  And the thing is, it's not a simple procedure.
[02:02:49]  This is, you literally, that's why they got these centers all over the world and right in the United States, all these FEMA regions.
[02:02:55]  They got full installations.
[02:02:57]  They call them FEMA camps.
[02:02:58]  Literally, they are.
[02:02:59]  You know what I mean?
[02:03:00]  Reading centers.
[02:03:01]  So basically, when this gets pushed, everybody's going to be assigned to go to your local.
[02:03:06]  They're not going to call it a FEMA camp or anything like that.
[02:03:08]  They're going to call it a readiness center or emergency center.
[02:03:11]  You've got to go there and you've got to get fitted.
[02:03:13]  Basically, you've got to go there and get all the vaccines they want you to have because you have to qualify for these things, right?
[02:03:19]  Then, before you even get this microchip, guess what?
[02:03:21]  You have to take an allegiance to the beast.
[02:03:23]  And that's why these zones all the place, they've got the guillotines ready.
[02:03:27]  It's all set.
[02:03:28]  The porns are all in place, literally.
[02:03:30]  And they've got the vehicles there, everything there here in the United States of America.
[02:03:33]  Ready at a moment's notice.
[02:03:36]  To push this initiative.
[02:03:37]  And it's the Antichrist.
[02:03:38]  And I have to emphasize this all the time because you got people all the time oh, this is a mark of the beast.
[02:03:43]  So, there's no mark of the beast until the Antichrist is in power.
[02:03:47]  When and only when he's in power, it's his mark.
[02:03:50]  He initiates you, he mandates it.
[02:03:52]  It's not a vaccine.
[02:03:54]  It's not something like that.
[02:03:55]  It's a complicated thing.
[02:03:57]  You literally have to literally sell your soul, literally.
[02:04:00]  You take an allegiance on the spiritual ritual.
[02:04:04]  Then and only then, and then when you get all your proper vaccines they want you to get, all your biometrics done and all that, then you're privileged, quote unquote, to get the mark.
[02:04:14]  And then you could function in that society.
[02:04:16]  But if you act up, oh, no, no, we're going to shut your chip off.
[02:04:19]  You can't start your car.
[02:04:20]  You can't log into work.
[02:04:21]  You can't buy nothing.
[02:04:22]  You can't even get into your apartment.
[02:04:23]  China's living proof of that with the social credit score.
[02:04:26]  So this stuff's right here.
[02:04:28]  It's here now, ready to go.
[02:04:30]  But like again, the Bible says, 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, it will not start until the restrainer, Michael the Archangel, leaves.
[02:04:36]  When he's lifted, then Satan's got free reign.
[02:04:40]  And that's the start of the tribulation, guys.
[02:04:42]  And we're right on the corner for that.
[02:04:43]  So everything she's saying, guys.
[02:04:45]  And this way, help us shorten this up a little bit.
[02:04:47]  They are setting up a one world kingdom.
[02:04:49]  And what has this got to do with Buddhism?
[02:04:51]  It's not just Buddhism, it's Hinduism, Catholicism, and the Catholic Church is leading the charge.
[02:04:56]  The Catholic Church is leading the charge.
[02:04:58]  Hindu, Buddhist, Muslims, and all their leaders pay patience to the Pope.
[02:05:02]  It's all a whoa.
[02:05:04]  The ecumenical system of all the Christian religions and the one world Muni religion, and the ecumenical, I mean, I forgot what it's called for that.
[02:05:11]  But anyway, the one world religion that's adopted by the United Nations.
[02:05:16]  It's led by the Pope.
[02:05:17]  The Pope is who?
[02:05:17]  He's going to be the false prophet of the scriptures.
[02:05:20]  And they're going to set up this one kingdom that's political.
[02:05:22]  And the thing is, here's another thing, too.
[02:05:24]  This is why they tell you don't talk about religion, don't talk about politics.
[02:05:28]  Why?
[02:05:29]  Because you need to know politics to know the Bible.
[02:05:32]  You need to know the Bible to know politics for what it really is.
[02:05:35]  Religion and politics go hand in hand.
[02:05:37]  You can't escape it.
[02:05:38]  If you don't know politics, you don't know nothing about Bible policy.
[02:05:41]  Because it's politics that brings in the Antichrist, he's a political leader, and it's religion that brings in the false prophet.
[02:05:47]  So if you know, that's why in the beginning of this country, Kids knew both politics and religion.
[02:05:53]  People, everybody did.
[02:05:54]  That's why this country is strong.
[02:05:56]  Nobody could get away with stuff.
[02:05:57]  Now, today, they separated the two, corrupted both of them, and they're fusing it back together.
[02:06:03]  And the Antichrist system is going to be a political and a religious movement.
[02:06:08]  And it's going to be a one world religion, one world government.
[02:06:10]  Everything's under this control.
[02:06:11]  And dare you say Jesus is on the way to heaven?
[02:06:14]  Well, you'll be charged for hate crime.
[02:06:16]  And it's disgusting what they're doing.
[02:06:19]  And I could do a whole broadcast on this, like I did many times.
[02:06:22]  You have to help her up because the time's getting a little late here.
[02:06:25]  Uh, that's what they're doing.
[02:06:26]  And they're using Buddhism.
[02:06:27]  They're using Hinduism, Catholicism, which leads to charge, like I said, all the 40,000 different denominations of Christianity that be emerged on the ecumenical system is one.
[02:06:37]  Then they're going to take all these other religions, like the Hindus, Muslims, and all that, all into one.
[02:06:41]  Even, uh, the atheists like to vote.
[02:06:43]  It's crazy.
[02:06:43]  Yeah, it's, uh, so they're leading the world to one world government and, uh, religion and economy and everything else.
[02:06:49]  So, uh, it's buckle up.
[02:06:50]  That's off to say.
[02:06:51]  But, you know, like the Bible says, uh, you know, Jesus says, don't be despaired.
[02:06:56]  But be a good cheer because the ending is all this bad stuff going on, guys.
[02:07:00]  You should be not, I mean, of course, not happy.
[02:07:02]  There's bad stuff going on, but be like, wow, we're lucky to live in this time.
[02:07:07]  What a heck of a time, an awesome time, I should say, to be alive.
[02:07:10]  Because we're on the forefront of things that for people for thousands of years have been waiting for this.
[02:07:16]  Because before Jesus comes, guys, the bad stuff has to come.
[02:07:20]  Regardless, we heard in your dispensational churches, there's going to be no secret rapture.
[02:07:23]  You know what I mean?
[02:07:25]  We are going to be here in the tribulation.
[02:07:27]  And you're going to have more likely, you're going to have to face the point.
[02:07:30]  You take this mark of the beast or you let them kill you.
[02:07:33]  You know what I mean?
[02:07:34]  And that's your choice.
[02:07:34]  And the thing is, you take that mark, you're done.
[02:07:36]  There's no forgiveness for that.
[02:07:38]  And two unforgivable sins in the Bible taking the mark of the beast and blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
[02:07:42]  You know what I mean?
[02:07:43]  And doing just that is blaspheming the Holy Spirit as well because you're denying the Savior, you're denying the Father.
[02:07:49]  Yeah, I mean, we take this mark.
[02:07:50]  So they are literally gearing up as we speak right now, guys.
[02:07:53]  And 2030 is their date.
[02:07:56]  Now, don't be alarmed by it because they know darn well.
[02:07:59]  If they had it that way, they would have had their system a long time ago.
[02:08:02]  They know, and they won't tell you that, they know it's God's timing.
[02:08:07]  And they want to push all the time, they try to defy that by pushing, oh, we're going to go 2030 now.
[02:08:13]  Well, you could point 2030 and what?
[02:08:14]  Heck, you know what?
[02:08:15]  Make it 2027.
[02:08:17]  Because it's only when and only when God says it's okay.
[02:08:20]  And they hate that.
[02:08:21]  They know that.
[02:08:22]  So don't be alarmed by 2013.
[02:08:24]  And if it does, welcome it.
[02:08:26]  Because you know what?
[02:08:27]  Bring it on.
[02:08:28]  You have to have that mentality.
[02:08:29]  Not be afraid because God doesn't like cowards.
[02:08:32]  You know what I mean?
[02:08:33]  And he's not the author of confusion either.
[02:08:35]  So we need to understand the scriptures to understand us.
[02:08:38]  And don't be afraid of it.
[02:08:40]  Welcome it because this is amazing.
[02:08:42]  Because when this bad stuff happens, the light at the end of the tunnel comes.
[02:08:45]  That's Jesus Christ.
[02:08:46]  We're going to see the Antichrist rise to power, he's going to be revealed.
[02:08:50]  And more than likely, most of us are going to face, say, do we die or take the mark of the beast?
[02:08:54]  And I'm not taking it.
[02:08:56]  I'll die fresh.
[02:08:57]  No problem.
[02:08:58]  But at the end of the tunnel comes Jesus Christ through the clouds and puts an end to all this crap real quick.
[02:09:04]  And he says, even those days, he will shorten for the sake of the elect.
[02:09:07]  The 42 month tribulation, not seven years, and it's 42 months.
[02:09:11]  And I know people confuse it with the seven year peace deal, but the seven year peace deal doesn't last seven years.
[02:09:16]  You've got to understand it.
[02:09:17]  It gets broken.
[02:09:18]  It's a seven year covenant that's made with Israel and all these nations, the UN and all that, but it gets broken quick.
[02:09:24]  The tribulation says, the Bible says several times, 42 months is three and a half years.
[02:09:29]  But even then, Jesus says he's going to cut those days short.

=== Democracy Leading to Dictatorship (05:26) ===

[02:09:32]  So, welcome this, guys, and this is what we need to do.
[02:09:36]  And just be ready for it and say, I can't bring it on, and we're waiting for our Savior to come.
[02:09:40]  Our general, our master, our commander, our real president, whatever you want to call him, King of Kings, Lord of Lords.
[02:09:46]  He's going to come through the clouds and kick some rear end.
[02:09:48]  And you're like, no, tomorrow.
[02:09:50]  Sorry, Callie, I just want to blast that out there because this is stuff we talk about all the time.
[02:09:57]  And especially when I was doing my news show and all that.
[02:10:01]  No, that's good.
[02:10:02]  You have some, some, a lot of really good points to put out there, and they're all really in points, good points to make sure that people are hearing because, you know, it is the bottom line.
[02:10:14]  It's, you know, they create the problem and then they create the solution, right?
[02:10:19]  And imagine my astonishment when I'm just, you know, brushing up, doing a little bit of research, and I came across this and I thought, man, I always thought something was weird about that 2030 campaign.
[02:10:32]  And now to, To look at all this and see how it's all connected and with the United Nations and with this Club of Rome, you know, and it's pretty amazing all the people that are involved with this.
[02:10:49]  And, you know, President Equate, or there was a quote from the World Tribune saying that someday 20 to 30 percent of the people in the United States will become members of this Buddhism.
[02:11:00]  And this trajectory.
[02:11:03]  Eerily aligns with the Club of Rome's agenda to depopulate by two thirds.
[02:11:09]  So, and President Ikeda was quoted as saying, I'll take the world.
[02:11:14]  Japan is too small.
[02:11:16]  The world is waiting for me.
[02:11:18]  Firmly protect the future of Japan for me.
[02:11:22]  And also, when democracy is put into practice by the unthinking masses, liberty will be misinterpreted as license.
[02:11:33]  Rights will be claimed while duties remain unfulfilled.
[02:11:36]  And the loss of order will allow evil to become rampant.
[02:11:40]  And so Japan is on that list as one of the 10 kingdoms.
[02:11:47]  Yep.
[02:11:49]  And so, you know, there are just more quotes here by President Ikeda.
[02:11:55]  And so basically he's a globalist, you know what they call it?
[02:11:58]  Yeah.
[02:11:59]  So just in a nutshell.
[02:12:01]  So, you know, clearly, Kosen Rufu, world peace depends on seizing political power first.
[02:12:08]  Then they can impose whatever they want on everybody else.
[02:12:11]  And notice how SGI intends to destroy all culture and replace it with the SGI's own Ikeda centered culture.
[02:12:19]  And President Ikeda's personal holdings were not disclosed, but the SGI's assets were once estimated to be around $100 billion.
[02:12:28]  Wow.
[02:12:29]  Okay.
[02:12:31]  This organization.
[02:12:32]  So.
[02:12:34]  That's just one.
[02:12:36]  That's just.
[02:12:37]  NGOs, I should say, of the tentacles of the United Nations and all that.
[02:12:42]  And I want to point out, too, guys, like when you hear the word democracy, You gotta understand something, all right?
[02:12:48]  Everybody, I should, I'm a threat to democracy.
[02:12:51]  Everybody should be a threat to democracy.
[02:12:52]  And people say, What do you mean?
[02:12:54]  So you gotta understand, democracy is evil, pure evil.
[02:12:57]  It's enslavement.
[02:12:58]  There's no freedom for individuals at all.
[02:13:00]  So, you know, in the founders, if you know history here in America, civics, right, you would learn that the founder fathers hated democracy.
[02:13:09]  They frowned upon democracy.
[02:13:11]  So, and you hear this all the time.
[02:13:12]  Even President Trump says it, and we shouldn't.
[02:13:15]  Oh, this democracy, that democracy, he had in the schools, the TV constantly.
[02:13:18]  When you tell a lie long enough, people believe it.
[02:13:21]  We are not a democracy.
[02:13:22]  And we never were.
[02:13:24]  And you go to the founding documents, you got the Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, you will not find that word at all.
[02:13:32]  But what you will find is this government is a constitutional republic.
[02:13:38]  Big difference.
[02:13:39]  A republic and a democracy is two big different things.
[02:13:42]  Democracy all the time leads to dictatorship.
[02:13:44]  China started as a democracy.
[02:13:46]  You know what I mean?
[02:13:46]  Dictatorship.
[02:13:47]  Republicans don't.
[02:13:48]  Republicans.
[02:13:49]  A republic, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, shut up, Dan.
[02:13:54]  Try to get this out here.
[02:13:56]  I'm sorry, guys, it's been a long day.
[02:13:59]  So, a republic, right, a form of government republic, right, supports all individual rights.
[02:14:05]  Has its basis laws, yeah, but it supports individual rights and sovereignty in the Constitution.
[02:14:11]  See, a democracy would never welcome our Constitution, it would never welcome our Bill of Rights.
[02:14:16]  The Bill of Rights were created as above the reach of government.
[02:14:20]  The 10 amendments is the Bill of Rights.
[02:14:21]  And you've got more amendments, obviously.
[02:14:23]  But the 10 amendments, the right to bear arms, the freedom of speech and religion, government can't touch that with a 10 foot pole.
[02:14:28]  For 200 years, they've been trying to take away our Second Amendment.
[02:14:31]  You know, not 200, the last 100 years when the communists came here.
[02:14:34]  And they can't do it.
[02:14:35]  They know they can't because it's unconstitutional.
[02:14:37]  The government can't touch that.
[02:14:38]  And now, which that's based off the 10 commandments.
[02:14:42]  These are God's laws that the world's been trying to change.
[02:14:45]  Look what they did, the UN and all that, right?
[02:14:47]  They went to Mount.
[02:14:50]  I can't think today.
[02:14:51]  Sorry, guys.
[02:14:53]  They went to.
[02:14:54]  Mount Sinai, literally, to try to rewrite the Ten Commandments.
[02:14:58]  Literally, it's discussed.

=== Betraying Commandments (02:33) ===

[02:14:59]  And me and Brian did a show on that.
[02:15:01]  But yeah, they want to change everything of God.
[02:15:03]  That's what they're trying to do.
[02:15:04]  You know what I mean?
[02:15:05]  And they're using religion, peace, and all that.
[02:15:08]  And the Bible says when they begin to speak of peace and prosperity, parallel times will arise.
[02:15:12]  And look exactly what they're doing.
[02:15:14]  All these peace accords and everything else.
[02:15:16]  Is there anything you want to close with, too?
[02:15:20]  And I got your social medias, too.
[02:15:24]  Yeah.
[02:15:24]  Um, I was going to close with a little bit about how I, you know, came out of the practice.
[02:15:35]  Oh, yeah, definitely.
[02:15:36]  Do we have time for that?
[02:15:37]  Oh, yeah, go for it.
[02:15:38]  That's important.
[02:15:39]  Okay.
[02:15:41]  Yeah.
[02:15:42]  So essentially, I thought I was doing something neutral.
[02:15:48]  And I think that, you know, the fact that we couldn't, I couldn't find anything out there about, you know, coming out of Buddhism or the fact that you don't see a lot of people calling out Buddhism, I think that there is this misconception that it is neutral.
[02:16:06]  And I think that's what I came to think is that it was.
[02:16:10]  That I was doing something that was neutral because, you know, oh, I'm not worshiping any deity.
[02:16:15]  But as we've gone through today, we can see that there's a lot of deification in this.
[02:16:21]  So I thought that I was doing something neutral.
[02:16:24]  But according to Matthew 12, 30 and Luke 11, 23, he that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
[02:16:35]  So this verse highlights that one cannot be neutral toward Jesus.
[02:16:39]  One must either be fully committed or opposed.
[02:16:43]  And it is seen as a call to clear, dedicated loyalty to our Christ Jesus.
[02:16:51]  So, as I said, I was told that it was okay because we're not worshiping anything outside of ourselves, and that we were also told to tell Christians that, oh, it's like tapping into the God within you, but not realizing that you tell that to a Christian and the Christian's going to go, oh, so you're making yourself your own God.
[02:17:13]  So, a lot of deception there.
[02:17:18]  And yeah, as I said, I had this large community to rely on.
[02:17:24]  This also led to other, you know, new age and esoteric practices and manifestation rituals and all that.

=== Red Flags of Mentorship (10:16) ===

[02:17:33]  But it was the things that happened to cause me to leave.
[02:17:37]  The red flags were this mentor disciple relationship that I just never could really wrap my mind around, you know, in that it replaces a relationship with God.
[02:17:49]  And it, like I said, it, it, Betrays the first and second commandments.
[02:17:53]  This 2030 campaign was a red flag to me.
[02:17:58]  All the campaigns and the statistics and keeping track of people and Shaka Buku campaigns.
[02:18:05]  And, you know, throughout my time with it, there were murmurings of the SGI being a cult.
[02:18:11]  And I just, it was so faint and distant and nothing that I could find to prove it or, you know, because there's no content out there, which is another reason why we wanted to do this.
[02:18:24]  And I wanted to do this.
[02:18:27]  And I just brush it off, you know, that, oh, people don't like what they don't understand, right?
[02:18:33]  So then you have in around 2019, they started doing these digital IDs.
[02:18:38]  And I didn't like that.
[02:18:40]  That really bothered me because I grew up in the church and I knew enough about when I was six years old going through the grocery line.
[02:18:50]  My dad told me, you know, one day they're going to have this mark that they're going to put on you and you're going to have to scan that.
[02:18:58]  And so.
[02:19:01]  Having a family who works for the government where I live here, we've got a whole other story, but we have a very historical nuclear power plant here.
[02:19:13]  So I knew, I heard a lot of these things about all this government stuff since I was a little kid.
[02:19:19]  So as I've seen these things come about, my antennas go up.
[02:19:23]  So they started doing these digital IDs, they had that vaccine, the JAB requirements.
[02:19:31]  And during the lockdowns, and all the centers were further regulated, requiring members to upload proof of their JAB and booster to their online member resource account for entry.
[02:19:48]  So I wasn't all about that.
[02:19:49]  I was like, so I started getting enamored with all of that, started getting tired of all the pressure towards leadership, exhausted from the meetings, and just started to feel more and more contrived.
[02:20:02]  And it was crazy.
[02:20:03]  It wasn't creating value in my life anymore.
[02:20:05]  This value creation society was not creating value in my life.
[02:20:10]  And with the pressure of the jabs, this really highlighted a conflict of values for me.
[02:20:15]  And so all this set the stage, so to speak, and I was officially unenamored.
[02:20:23]  And this was all happening within my industry as well.
[02:20:28]  And I just, yeah, I just was like, you know, I.
[02:20:34]  I ended up walking away from a career of 25 years in the entertainment industry because of this.
[02:20:42]  Walking away from, you know, just I wouldn't go back into the Buddhist centers.
[02:20:47]  And so then, in the middle of all of this, I had some family tragedy that happened, and I ended up moving back home.
[02:20:54]  I continued to do activities via Zoom because everything was on Zoom, then, anyways, I started attending church with my dad after moving back home in 2021.
[02:21:05]  But interestingly, I still continued in the Buddhist practice for about 16 months.
[02:21:11]  So I was doing both at the same time to let you know how confused I was.
[02:21:16]  But during worship, the Holy Spirit started to work on me during worship, and I hadn't felt that in so long.
[02:21:25]  And in that moment, I realized that the presence of the Holy Spirit was what was missing from my life.
[02:21:35]  Hmm.
[02:21:37]  And it was just like water in a desert, you know.
[02:21:42]  I, you know, started to feel the Holy Spirit again.
[02:21:45]  It was like, I remember that feeling, you know.
[02:21:49]  I was in that Buddhist practice for 22 years.
[02:21:52]  22 years.
[02:21:54]  Whoa.
[02:21:55]  So it took about a year of going to church and still practicing Buddhism to walk away from Buddhism and fully commit to my refound walk with God.
[02:22:05]  Like I said, sadly, I was doing both for almost a year and a half and still going to meetings.
[02:22:09]  I was doing yoga.
[02:22:12]  Doing all this divination, you know, crystals and things and all that craziness.
[02:22:21]  But God put it on my heart through a conversation with another woman in the church I was going to at that time.
[02:22:31]  She had felt led to share with me quickly about her experience with me one day and mentioned doing a deliverance prayer.
[02:22:38]  And I said, you know, that really spoke to me right away.
[02:22:43]  And immediately said, I want that.
[02:22:44]  I need that.
[02:22:45]  I felt like the Holy Spirit was just saying it.
[02:22:47]  I just didn't even know why.
[02:22:49]  I was just like, I need to do that.
[02:22:51]  I feel I need to do that.
[02:22:53]  So I felt so strongly and deeply about it.
[02:22:56]  So we set a date two weeks away on January 1st, 2023, for me to do this deliverance prayer.
[02:23:04]  She said to be praying for a list of things to renounce with this private prayer time with her and one other woman from the prayer ministry, which they were both part of.
[02:23:12]  And she said they would be praying for anything to be revealed to them as well.
[02:23:18]  So I set about doing this.
[02:23:19]  I was really excited about it.
[02:23:20]  And not many days into praying for God to reveal to me what I needed to be delivered of, I got slain in the Holy Spirit.
[02:23:28]  On that day, crazy as it seems now, I was still engaging with the Buddhist practice.
[02:23:34]  However, that day I sat in front of the altar I had and I couldn't chant, I couldn't do it.
[02:23:45]  No, I don't blame you.
[02:23:46]  I wouldn't either.
[02:23:47]  And that was the Holy Spirit reaching through you, you know, fucking you out of Babylon.
[02:23:52]  Yeah, then the Lord told me to get on my knees to pray to Him.
[02:23:56]  Before I knew it, I was on the floor in the fetal position being slain in the Holy Spirit.
[02:24:02]  I remember the sun was shining bright through the window, even though it was the middle of winter.
[02:24:07]  I could feel the heat on my face and my body while I laid there sobbing in the fetal position.
[02:24:14]  The Lord just spoke to me so gently and lovingly as He guided me through all the moments where the enemy got in and took a foothold.
[02:24:23]  It was very eye opening.
[02:24:25]  Then he told me that he was going to take all of this and what he was going to do with it and that he was going to use it for good for his kingdom.
[02:24:33]  Then he gave me clear instructions on what he wanted me to do.
[02:24:36]  He also gave me a scripture that day Psalms 27.
[02:24:42]  I don't know if I can read that real quick.
[02:24:44]  I'll go for it.
[02:24:46]  Do you want to pull it up for you?
[02:24:49]  Sure, yeah.
[02:24:51]  Psalms 27, any particular verse?
[02:24:54]  Just a.
[02:24:57]  It was pretty much the whole.
[02:24:59]  Let's see.
[02:25:05]  I really love this scripture.
[02:25:08]  Do you want to read it for you?
[02:25:11]  Yeah, sure.
[02:25:11]  Go ahead.
[02:25:12]  Okay, Psalms 27 and King James Version.
[02:25:17]  The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom I shall fear.
[02:25:22]  The Lord is my strength of my life, and whom shall I be afraid.
[02:25:26]  So basically, if the Lord's my salvation and my strength, He's asking, who am I going to be afraid of?
[02:25:31]  I'm not going to be afraid of anybody because the Lord's my strength, the Lord's my salvation.
[02:25:36]  So, yeah, I'm not afraid of nothing.
[02:25:37]  You know what I mean?
[02:25:39]  And when the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh and they stumbled and fell.
[02:25:46]  Though, hang on a second, though any host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear.
[02:25:53]  Though war should rise against me, in this I will be confident.
[02:25:58]  One thing I have desired of the Lord that I will seek after.
[02:26:01]  That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life and behold the beauty of the Lord, to inquire in his temple.
[02:26:09]  And for in the time of trouble he should hide me in the pavilion, in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me.
[02:26:16]  He shall set me up on a rock.
[02:26:19]  And now shall mine head be lifted up above my enemies, round about me.
[02:26:25]  So the enemies surrounding me, my head will be lifted up above them.
[02:26:27]  Therefore I will offer his tabernacle sacrifices of joy.
[02:26:31]  I will sing yea, and I will sing praises to the Lord.
[02:26:35]  And hear, O Lord.
[02:26:36]  When I cry my voice, with mercy upon me and answer me.
[02:26:42]  When does said, Seek my face and my heart in thee, thy face, the Lord, I will seek.
[02:26:48]  Hide not my face from me, but put my servant away in anger.
[02:26:52]  And though it has been helped, been helped me, leave me not, neither forsake me, O my God and my salvation.
[02:26:59]  And when my father and my mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up.
[02:27:04]  And teach me the way, O Lord, and lead me in the pain path.
[02:27:10]  I'm sorry, leave me in the plain path because of my enemies.
[02:27:14]  Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies, but false witnesses are risen against me, and such is a breath of cruelty.
[02:27:23]  And I fainted unless I believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
[02:27:29]  Wait on the Lord and be of good courage, and he shall strengthen you in your heart.
[02:27:38]  Wait, O Lord, on the Lord.
[02:27:40]  So basically, they're saying to be courage, to have full courage.
[02:27:43]  Don't worry about the enemy, what they could do to you.
[02:27:45]  You know what I mean?
[02:27:46]  Like the Bible says, if the Lord's with you, who could be against you?
[02:27:48]  You know what I mean?

=== Gratitude for Truth (14:40) ===

[02:27:49]  It's a summary of that.
[02:27:50]  I mean, you know, have courage, have faith.
[02:27:53]  And yeah, no matter what army comes against you, what weapon forms against you, with the Lord, you will prosper.
[02:27:58]  You know what I mean?
[02:27:59]  So that's a really good Psalm.
[02:28:01]  I like that.
[02:28:02]  Psalms 27.
[02:28:03]  I love that.
[02:28:04]  That just speaks to me so much.
[02:28:05]  And it was exactly what I needed to hear in that moment.
[02:28:08]  And what I realized is through this is that.
[02:28:14]  My first time around in the church, I realized that I didn't have enough of the word in me.
[02:28:20]  You know, I think I mentioned that earlier, and I didn't have an understanding of spiritual warfare to ground my passion for the word and for my relationship with Jesus Christ.
[02:28:31]  I had no idea how to read my Bible.
[02:28:34]  As I said, the context or what I was reading, I only knew a few popular stories that were watered down at best that I had learned as a child.
[02:28:43]  And as an adult, I would just.
[02:28:45]  Randomly open the Bible and see where it led me, no context or real understanding, kind of like divination away.
[02:28:52]  I knew that, and I knew that I liked the Psalms.
[02:28:55]  So it was really interesting that it was one of the Psalms that he gave me.
[02:29:00]  And I found it encouraging and uplifting.
[02:29:03]  But again, I had no idea who wrote any of the Bible, the context.
[02:29:08]  So I ended up getting very involved in the church and I started going through church hurt again, once again, gossip, betrayal, poor leadership.
[02:29:18]  During this time, The midnight ride was being suggested on my YouTube algorithm, which led to watching the DOC and FOJC.
[02:29:29]  I became a regular part of my routine.
[02:29:31]  I got my dad watching it with me and ended up leaving that church.
[02:29:36]  As we were learning more about the truth of the rapture, the pagan holidays, and dispensationalism, we tried out and left two more churches.
[02:29:44]  Things ultimately escalated when we were essentially kicked out of a Bible study with some longtime friends of ours when we first started learning about the feasts.
[02:29:54]  In the fall of 2024, and wanted to celebrate it with them at one of our Bible studies because it fell on the same evening.
[02:30:01]  After that, we decided we were done with all of that.
[02:30:04]  We declared FOJC as our home church, started keeping the Sabbath on Saturdays, doing our own Bible study and communion at home.
[02:30:12]  I also began to do my own daily Bible study to read the Bible front to back for the first time ever, which has been such a blessing to me.
[02:30:20]  In the course of this, we became estranged from other family members.
[02:30:24]  Because of our stance on the holidays.
[02:30:26]  So, our circle of community got smaller and smaller, causing us to really long to become more part of the SVOJC community and hoping for an opportunity to do so.
[02:30:37]  I had heard about some of the feast events that were happening and hoping another one would come up that we could attend.
[02:30:45]  When Spirit City Con came up, we were determined to go, but things just didn't fall into place for that.
[02:30:50]  And I came to the conclusion that the Lord had something else in store.
[02:30:54]  He really put it on my heart to attend one of the feast events and get baptized.
[02:30:59]  So, the moment this year's Passover event was announced, I literally picked up my phone without hesitation to sign up.
[02:31:07]  It was so lightning fast.
[02:31:08]  I would be surprised if I wasn't actually the first on the list.
[02:31:13]  So, we ended up attending the event.
[02:31:15]  I got baptized.
[02:31:17]  I met all of you.
[02:31:19]  It was a huge blessing.
[02:31:20]  And you and I, Dan, ended up chatting.
[02:31:23]  I mentioned my history a bit about coming out of Buddhism, and you asked me to come on the show, and here we are.
[02:31:30]  So, I think it's no coincidence as while I was coming out of Buddhism, I had been looking for content to support my journey and hear other people's experiences.
[02:31:40]  Like I said, I found hardly anything except for one Reddit group, which I will be posted in the show notes.
[02:31:48]  And it's a really good one, but not specific to people leaving Buddhism for Christianity.
[02:31:54]  So that's where I'm hoping to fill the gap with this show here.
[02:31:58]  So I started to wonder and ask the Lord if this was a gap He wanted me to fill.
[02:32:03]  I didn't press on it too much, just something that came up for me to hear, for me here and there.
[02:32:09]  Then when you asked me to come on the show, Dan, saying you had always wanted to interview someone coming out of Buddhism, but couldn't.
[02:32:15]  Find anyone, I knew the Lord was answering my prayer.
[02:32:19]  And I believe this is the case about, like I said before, no one talking about this because I believe many people, like me, like I did, that they're doing something that was neutral.
[02:32:34]  And I think a lot of people see it as not so much as a threat, but imagine the shock when this so called peaceful practice that I was doing is involved in.
[02:32:50]  Can we say a death cult?
[02:32:52]  Like, I mean, if they're supporting genocide, a group, they're literally part of a group that's pushing genocide and population control.
[02:33:05]  How peaceful is that really?
[02:33:07]  How peaceful are dragon deities?
[02:33:13]  You know, transgender, transhuman, animal deities.
[02:33:19]  How peaceful is it really?
[02:33:20]  So I just want to say, Just, you know, be vigilant.
[02:33:28]  Be vigilant.
[02:33:29]  Stick with the FOJC community and their shows and dive into these biblical mysteries and learn what's going on in the world around you.
[02:33:38]  And I know all of you in this audience do.
[02:33:40]  And that's why I love this community so much.
[02:33:43]  And I'm just so honored to and grateful for you, Dan, to have me on the show today.
[02:33:50]  And I hope, I pray that we were able to shed some kind of light.
[02:33:56]  On all of this, and I hope that this spoke to somebody and helped somebody.
[02:33:59]  And just thank you for listening.
[02:34:02]  It was a long show, but there's a lot to say.
[02:34:05]  So, yeah, thank you for having me and thank you for listening.
[02:34:10]  Absolutely, and thank you so much.
[02:34:11]  And, guys, her links are in the chat I mean, in the description YouTube and her Instagram.
[02:34:22]  Yeah, my bad.
[02:34:23]  Oh, yeah.
[02:34:24]  Sorry, Dan, I know you're tired.
[02:34:25]  It's been a long week for me, too, and I'm sure everyone else too.
[02:34:28]  It's Friday night.
[02:34:30]  But we have Sabbath tomorrow.
[02:34:31]  Yeah.
[02:34:32]  Well, I'm glad you came on.
[02:34:34]  It was a great broadcast.
[02:34:35]  And yeah, I learned a lot too.
[02:34:37]  And I started seeing connections with the Catholic Church and the UN and all this stuff.
[02:34:42]  So yeah.
[02:34:43]  I know.
[02:34:43]  It's weird how it all connects and you start to see those parallels and those, you know, just some of those.
[02:34:51]  Yeah, some of the.
[02:34:52]  I know.
[02:34:53]  Hinduism is like similar to Buddhism.
[02:34:56]  Yeah.
[02:34:56]  Well, I mean, Buddhism started in India.
[02:34:59]  So.
[02:35:00]  It makes sense, right?
[02:35:01]  Yeah.
[02:35:01]  To Siddhartha Shakyamuni Buddha, he was in India and he's what they call the original Buddha, and all sects of Buddhism come from that, from his teachings.
[02:35:14]  There's just many different sects of Buddhism that came from all his different teachings.
[02:35:20]  So, I mean, that was in India.
[02:35:24]  So, yeah, it makes sense that they're very similar, very similar deities and like that.
[02:35:32]  You really do start to see the parallels.
[02:35:34]  And like you said before, You know, when in Babylon, when the Lord separated all the people and their languages, that's why we have in all these different cultures, we have the same deities called something else, but because the languages were confounded, right?
[02:35:53]  Yeah.
[02:35:54]  So it makes perfect sense.
[02:35:56]  And you know, you read your Bible and you can connect all the dots, and that's it's made it so simple for me.
[02:36:03]  And I just love sitting and reading my Bible every morning, it's my favorite part of the day.
[02:36:09]  I would keep you around for phone calls, but I use the MagicJack phone service to pay once a year.
[02:36:16]  And I've been trying to pay it, and for some reason, it's not taking my new number because I have my old card, my old credit card.
[02:36:23]  So it's not letting me enter a new credit card.
[02:36:25]  So I apologize about that, guys.
[02:36:28]  And I would have to call them instead of doing a website.
[02:36:30]  That's why I was making weird faces on the show because I was just trying to deal with the star.
[02:36:35]  The phone thing was aggravating me.
[02:36:37]  So yeah, I appreciate you and everything.
[02:36:40]  So thank you so much.
[02:36:41]  Sorry you couldn't do phone calls, I'm sure.
[02:36:43]  People don't want to talk to you.
[02:36:45]  That's okay.
[02:36:46]  You know, it's getting late, anyways.
[02:36:47]  I'm sure people are ready to go to sleep.
[02:36:51]  I, you know, hopefully we answered a lot of questions and maybe we'll do another one at some point and concise the notes down a little bit.
[02:36:58]  And I'm going to be doing some more research, especially on that Club of Rome bit in the 2030 agenda because it's so timely.
[02:37:05]  Yeah.
[02:37:06]  So if I find anything more on that and do a deeper, it'd be interesting to do a show like maybe focused on that.
[02:37:12]  All right.
[02:37:13]  Yeah.
[02:37:13]  Let me know.
[02:37:13]  We'll definitely have you on.
[02:37:16]  Yeah.
[02:37:16]  So, well, thank you so much.
[02:37:19]  Thank you, everybody.
[02:37:21]  I didn't get to read all the chat, but hopefully I'll get to read some of that afterwards.
[02:37:28]  And yeah, I'm just so grateful to be on the show.
[02:37:34]  And after all this time watching, and just the fact that I could hopefully contribute something here that will be helpful really fills my heart.
[02:37:47]  Nice.
[02:37:48]  So, I hope that it did help somebody out there, at least give you some information that you didn't know.
[02:37:53]  Or if there's somebody that you know that's into it or thinking about getting into Buddhism, maybe you'll know how to talk with them and hopefully talk them out of it.
[02:38:05]  Yeah, amen.
[02:38:06]  That because there's so much deception out there.
[02:38:09]  And that's why we do these shows here because there are so many facets to Satan's New World Order that we have to cover them all somehow.
[02:38:18]  Yes, that's exactly right.
[02:38:20]  That's so true.
[02:38:22]  You know, but praise the Lord for shows like this and the whole FOJC community and family.
[02:38:30]  And I'm just so grateful for you all.
[02:38:33]  And I hope to get to know a lot of you better and see you at some of the other events.
[02:38:41]  And such a blessing.
[02:38:43]  And you want to lead us out in a prayer?
[02:38:49]  Sure, I would love to.
[02:38:50]  Yeah, it'd be awesome.
[02:38:51]  So close your prayer, guys.
[02:38:53]  Yeah.
[02:38:54]  All right.
[02:38:56]  Heavenly Father, just thank you so much for this opportunity and just the beautiful way that you bring us all together, Lord, and the things that you reveal to us that need to be shared and the truths that need to be shared.
[02:39:11]  And right here on Truth Radio Show, Lord, and thank you for the way that you're using the show and Brother Dan and all the lovely people who are part of this community, Lord.
[02:39:22]  I just pray that you bless them mightily.
[02:39:24]  I pray that.
[02:39:25]  You reveal to each one of us our purpose and our calling and our anointing and our pointing.
[02:39:30]  And I pray blessings on our callings, Lord, and the anointing and appointing that you have for all of us, Lord.
[02:39:38]  I pray that you protect us all.
[02:39:41]  I plead the blood of Jesus over every single person who's listening or will listen and watch later.
[02:39:48]  Lord, I pray that you take this information and just spread it out far and wide for your purposes, for your kingdom, Lord.
[02:39:56]  Just thank you for this opportunity to share something that I might be able to contribute.
[02:40:03]  It's humbling and it's an honor, Lord.
[02:40:05]  And we thank you and we just praise you.
[02:40:07]  We lift you up on high and we lift all things up to you, Lord.
[02:40:12]  And we thank you and we praise you in Jesus' mighty and precious name.
[02:40:17]  Amen.
[02:40:18]  Amen.
[02:40:19]  Thank you so much, Justin.
[02:40:20]  God bless you.
[02:40:21]  Thank you.
[02:40:22]  God bless you too.
[02:40:23]  God bless everyone out there.
[02:40:24]  Take care.
[02:40:26]  Thank you.
[02:40:26]  You too.
[02:40:27]  Good night.
[02:40:27]  Good night.
[02:40:28]  All right, guys, so that'll do it for tonight.
[02:40:31]  So, if you need to get a hold of me, guys, my email is truthradioshowoutlook.com.
[02:40:40]  And if you want to send any gifts, letters, or anything like that in the mail, my email address is Dan Bedondi, 65 Manchester Street, Unit 10, Westwork, Renowned, 02893.
[02:40:51]  And I apologize about the phone, then, guys.
[02:40:52]  I was literally trying to get the service restored.
[02:40:56]  Thank you, guys, whoever donated the money to.
[02:40:59]  Because it was more than I expected.
[02:41:01]  So I have money on my other card, but I couldn't use that card because I don't have the number of my wallets in the car.
[02:41:06]  So, yeah, all kinds of obstacles.
[02:41:09]  I guess it's not meant to take phone calls tonight.
[02:41:11]  So, yeah.
[02:41:13]  But thank you guys.
[02:41:14]  And if you guys want to make a donation to this ministry, the link's right in the chat room there.
[02:41:19]  And it's also in the description.
[02:41:20]  We also got a Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, and a Zello, whatever it is, all kinds of things.
[02:41:25]  So, thank you guys so much for everything.
[02:41:27]  And we'll see you next week, Biblical Warfare on Thursday.
[02:41:32]  7 p.m. Eastern.
[02:41:33]  It's episode 70.
[02:41:34]  You believe that?
[02:41:34]  70 episodes.
[02:41:35]  That's crazy.
[02:41:37]  That's a minimum of 70 hours of talking about the Bible.
[02:41:39]  It's crazy.
[02:41:40]  And when I first launched that show, because I wanted something different instead of the news show, I wanted to do biblical stuff and the news.
[02:41:47]  So, biblical related news.
[02:41:48]  So, that's what that show is about.
[02:41:50]  It's great.
[02:41:50]  If you haven't seen it already, we do a small little Bible study.
[02:41:54]  We bring up so called Bible contradictions and debunk them, slam them shut.
[02:41:59]  Then, we show false prophets in their ministries.
[02:42:02]  And then, what we do is, I bring up news in the world that's going on.
[02:42:05]  That's biblical related.
[02:42:06]  So it's a nice program.
[02:42:07]  It lasts about an hour, hour and twenty minutes, the most.
[02:42:11]  And then Spread Warfare Fridays, long shows, and we do all kinds of stuff here.
[02:42:17]  So, and yeah, just check it out.
[02:42:18]  TruthRadioShow.com is the website and get all the information.
[02:42:23]  And thank you guys for the prayers and all that good stuff.
[02:42:26]  So we'll see you next week.
[02:42:27]  God bless.
[02:42:28]  Shalom.
[02:42:28]  And you are the resistance.