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Sept. 4, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, Sep 4, 2024 – Western Europe collapsing, Ukraine crumbling while USA being CONQUERED...

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Wednesday, September 4th, 2024.
	Mike Adams here. Thank you for joining me today.
	Got a lot to cover.
	I interviewed Colonel Douglas McGregor several hours ago.
	I will not be playing that today.
	That'll be tomorrow. But it is hard, hard hitting.
	You don't want to miss that interview.
	And the reason I'm not playing that today is because I had an emergency interview.
	I called up Andy Sheckman with Miles Franklin, who's an expert in BRICS and global de-dollarization and gold and silver.
	And I said, Andy, can you come on?
	Can you just jump on?
	I recorded that from my home studio, so I didn't even have a video camera going, but he did.
	And we had a really important conversation about what's happening with the BRICS nations, about the Enbridge system and the new token that's going to be called the unit that will allow international settlement among BRICS nations.
	And this is, of course, in the wake of Turkey officially requesting to join BRICS.
	So we'll have that interview for you coming up and also a special report I recorded earlier called the stock market is a house of cards and it will collapse along with the dollar market.
	So that's coming up.
	There's a lot of breaking news in the last 24 hours.
	As you know, Western Europe is in a state of accelerating economic collapse.
	The state of Israel is in a state of accelerating economic collapse.
	Colonel Douglas McGregor confirmed that in our interview today.
	You'll hear that tomorrow. The Volkswagen company, at least that's how we say it in English.
	What is it? Volkswagen is shutting down its production plants in Germany, which is Truly a devastating sign of economic collapse of Germany's industry.
	Germany has suffered at least a 40% deindustrialization, and that's going to continue to accelerate to 50%, 60%, 70%, maybe, probably more.
	And this is something that my friend Michael Jan and I talked about a couple years ago in my studio.
	We said, look, if If they lose this Nord Stream pipeline, you're going to see Germany suffer an economic collapse like you've never seen before.
	And it is happening.
	France is suffering economic collapse.
	The UK is suffering a cultural collapse and also many economic troubles.
	But Volkswagen is moving some of its production facilities to Mexico.
	That's right. It's going to be Mexican-made Volkswagen vehicles for Americans, but who will be able to afford to buy them when the U.S. economy is collapsing at the same time?
	So I've got a dire prediction for you.
	Western Europe is done.
	What I mean by that is Western European civilization will fail.
	It is in the process of failing.
	You could say it's flailing in its final chapter.
	And my prediction is that most of Western Europe, and I'm not including Ireland or Scotland in this, but most of Western Europe will be overrun and conquered by Islam.
	You will see more burning of Christian churches, not just in France, but across European countries, even affecting Poland at some point as well.
	Spain will be impacted as well, of course, Great Britain, of course, France, and many of the Nordic nations as well, Switzerland and so on.
	Western Europe will cease to exist a few years down the road as we know it today.
	It will be an Islamic continent, and the countries will be renamed countries.
	It won't even be France and Great Britain or the United Kingdom.
	There won't be any kingdom. There won't be any Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier with propellers that don't work.
	It won't even exist.
	It'll all be overrun by Islam.
	And the reason...
	Well, it's actually very simple.
	Because Western civilization, which has poisoned itself with processed junk foods, mass medications, pesticides, herbicides, plasticizer chemicals in the food supply, it has lost its ability to survive.
	It has lost its willingness to act like men.
	Yes, I mean men, because men do things like defend borders.
	Men do things like defend their families, their culture, their country.
	There are virtually no men left in Western Europe, at least not in positions of power or authority.
	Mostly, it's these people like Starmer in the UK who are woke, effeminate, virtue-signaling, you know, morons.
	And they're not men. There are virtually no men left in Germany.
	Again, I'm talking about at the levels of authority and government influence.
	Sure, there are plenty of civilian men in Germany.
	There are plenty of civilian men in the UK. But the UK is trying to lock them all up, by the way.
	So if you're a man and if you say, hey, let's defend our borders, they say, well, you're going to jail.
	Same thing in France. Much the same thing in Spain.
	It's going to happen in Poland.
	It's going to happen in Romania. It's going to happen in Austria.
	This is going to continue to spread across Western Europe.
	So there are virtually no men left in positions of authority, and it has been feminized and intoxicated with junk food.
	Virtually the entire continent has been made apathetic and weak and incapable of surviving as a civilization.
	The same process is underway with the United States and other Western nations, but the U.S. has a much greater chance of defending itself against invasion for reasons I think we'll talk about here today.
	but Western Europe is done.
	And Islam, on the other hand, the Islamic migrants, they are lean, they are hungry, they are impassioned, They are absolutely dedicated and willing to give their lives for their cause, which is overthrowing Western Europe.
	So you're watching history in the making right now, and there will be virtually no Christians left in Western Europe when this runs its course, which will take more than a decade, by the way.
	I'm not saying this is tomorrow, but in the decades ahead, Western Europe will be mostly Islamic.
	That process is already underway.
	Now, in the United States, we already have the Venezuelan prison gangs taking over residential buildings in Aurora, Colorado.
	Some other gangbangers have taken over buildings in Chicago, reportedly.
	This is going to spread substantially.
	It's going to become commonplace that you will hear news about The mass takeover of buildings, and it won't be just residential buildings.
	It's going to be government buildings.
	It's going to be police stations.
	It's going to be corporate buildings.
	It's going to be courthouses.
	You're going to see the invading illegals take over entire communities in sanctuary cities and sanctuary states.
	they will not be able to succeed at this in places that honor the Second Amendment and honor the rule of law.
	In other words, red states or red counties.
	But they will succeed in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
	They will succeed in Denver, Colorado.
	Okay, Denver is going to be utterly overrun and overtaken by these prison gangs for the same reason that Western Europe is being overrun by Islam.
	What's the reason?
	Because there are no men in Denver.
	That is, to put an asterisk beside that, there are no men in positions of power or influence.
	There are no manly men who are willing to defend Denver or defend I don't know if it's some combination of vaccine damage plus libtard indoctrination or what it is, but there are no men left in the sanctuary cities.
	They are incapable of defending their cities against invaders and occupiers.
	As a result, The Venezuelan gangs and other gang members from Central and South American countries, notably, but also some from the Middle East, they are publishing maps now that show the target cities across the United States, the target cities to overrun.
	There is a full-blown invasion underway right this minute across America.
	And if you live in a sanctuary city, and I don't know what the full list is, but there are over 100 of them.
	Cities, and some of them would be considered smaller cities, but there are over 100 sanctuary status cities in America that are going to be overrun.
	The police will do nothing.
	The mayors will do nothing.
	The governors will do nothing.
	I'm talking about blue states here.
	Now, yes, in the red states, governors would do something.
	They would stop it. They would bring in the National Guard.
	They would deputize veterans or bring in police, whatever it takes to stop it.
	Not in the blue states.
	Not in the blue cities.
	You're going to see entire cities in the United States taken over by criminal migrants.
	The police will be chased out.
	Eventually, the governors will have to declare those cities to be no-go zones.
	Again, this is going to take several years, right?
	This is not immediately.
	You're only seeing the beginning of this process.
	And yes, this could be halted if Trump is elected because Trump promises to round up and deport millions of people.
	That could put a halt to this.
	But we know the Democrats are going to cheat, cheat, cheat.
	They won't allow Trump to win if they can help it in any way at all.
	From the point of view of Democrats, it doesn't matter what the voters vote for.
	It doesn't matter. Trump could get 90% of the votes.
	The Democrats don't care.
	They'll just print up 200 million more votes.
	They'll print more votes than there are people in America if they have to.
	They'll say 400 million people voted for Kamala, and you're like, there's only 330 million votes.
	We don't care.
	400 million people voted for Kamala.
	That's how she won. Whatever it takes, that's what they're going to do.
	So don't count on Trump being sworn in as president.
	If he is, he can stop this.
	Or at least the federal government working with red states can stop it.
	But there is a probably better than even chance that The Democrats rig this.
	They stay in power, and then they sit back and do nothing while America's cities are absolutely gutted and overrun.
	I mean, occupied and turned into essentially beachheads for the total overthrow of the United States of America.
	And anybody who tries to stop it, well, they will be arrested by police.
	If a bunch of, let's say, white Americans were taking over apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, oh boy, the whole SWAT team would be there.
	You'd have all the federal agents, the armed rapid response teams, There'd be, like, high-altitude, you know, skydivers with guns and, you know, machine guns and tanks being parachuted out of the sky to stop white Americans from taking over buildings.
	But when illegals do it, everybody backs off.
	Oh, let them do it.
	They're the newcomers. You're welcome.
	Yes, please take over this building and that building and that building and Oprah will be there.
	You're a winner and you're a winner.
	You want a building?
	You're a winner, too. And they'll just take over building by building, neighborhood by neighborhood until there are no Americans left in Denver or San Francisco or Chicago or even New York City for that matter or Portland, Oregon or Seattle, Washington.
	It's just going to be piece by piece taken over.
	You're watching the conquering of the geography of the continental United States and nobody in government We'll lift a finger to stop it.
	Not one damn person because they're all traitors.
	Not one of them will stop it.
	So expect to see a lot more of that happening and everybody who can get out of the blue states will flee those blue states and they will move to places like Texas.
	Or, you know, Missouri or Oklahoma or Florida or, you know, Kentucky or wherever, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, wherever they can get away from the insanity.
	So America is going to lose major cities.
	They will be conquered.
	Have no illusions.
	This is going to happen because it's a plan.
	This is the design.
	And as that happens...
	There will be domestic warfare in essence.
	Domestic warfare will happen here and there regionally.
	It won't be the same thing as a civil war because a civil war was a nation fighting itself.
	This is America fighting for its survival against invaders.
	It's not a civil war.
	It's a defensive war against an invading army of militants who are trying to take over America from within using mass immigration as the cover for the invasion of America.
	And I pray to God that Trump gets into the White House and issues arrest warrants for every American governor, mayor, city council member, member of Congress who is complicit in this mass invasion of this country because they are straight up.
	By definition, they are traitors.
	They are allowing the invasion.
	How many people in Homeland Security are involved in flying in invaders or busing them in or Mayorkas, who we have sued, by the way, Funding the invasion camps in Panama, like the San Vicente camp or Lajas Blancas camp.
	There are many other camps.
	And San Vicente is now called, I think, China camp because there's so many Chinese nationals there.
	The invasion of America has been funded by taxpayer dollars.
	And those involved in this operation, they are by definition treasonous actors.
	They are involved in acts of war against the United States of America.
	So that's kind of the America collapse scenario, which is going to involve also a currency collapse and a financial collapse.
	We'll talk about that more.
	But let's shift gears.
	Let's talk about Ukraine. Ukraine appears to be in the final stages of its governmental collapse because it seems that six cabinet members and some other top members in the Ukrainian government Have resigned or have been fired.
	It's not exactly clear what it was.
	Officially, it says they've been fired.
	But Zelensky, who is no longer an elected official, his term as president already expired a couple of months ago.
	He is not an official of Ukraine at all.
	He has no official position, but he is apparently involved in this massive purge of senior officials, military and political.
	Either that or these people are just handing in their resignations and they're fleeing the country.
	And Zelensky is probably saying, well, I fired you.
	And those people are probably saying, we're out of here.
	So they probably took their tens of millions of dollars of kickbacks and Bitcoin money and everything else because all this money for Ukraine was a giant fraud money laundering operation, obviously.
	So these guys are probably like, it's done.
	It's done. The clock is ticking.
	Ukraine doesn't have long left.
	Probably a surrender is going to happen before the end of this year.
	And these guys are like, we're taking our money and leaving and they're going to Fly off to Belize or somewhere like that and retire in a million-dollar mansion on the beach, living on U.S. taxpayer money while the country of Ukraine collapses.
	We are so close to that event happening.
	I asked Colonel Douglas McGregor, how long can Ukraine hold out right now?
	It doesn't have the ammunition that it needs.
	It doesn't have the men. It doesn't have the funding.
	It doesn't have the weapons. Germany can't supply anymore.
	They've already said no more tanks, no more weapons for Ukraine.
	Germany's in a state of economic collapse itself anyway.
	How much longer can Ukraine hold out?
	And Colonel Douglas McGregor told me, essentially, not much longer.
	And so we may be looking at the beginning stages of the The rapid accelerating political collapse of Ukraine to the point where there might be nobody left in office to even sign a surrender.
	I don't know how this is going to end up but I suspect it's going to end up with Russia going all the way to Kiev.
	And finding some official who can sign some kind of surrender agreement and that's going to be the end of it.
	I don't think Russia is going to go any more west than Kiev.
	Russia doesn't want to occupy western Ukraine.
	But Russia does want Odessa and the southern coastline of Ukraine, plus all the territory it already has.
	So we're probably looking at the very last stages of Ukraine right now.
	It may still take months for this whole thing to unwind, but I would be very surprised if Ukraine as we currently know it, if it exists after Christmas.
	I'd be very surprised.
	Now, On top of that, the United States is reportedly on the verge of allowing Ukraine to use long-range cruise missiles, and the U.S. is considering transferring these long-range cruise missiles.
	I don't know their exact names, but these are apparently going to be given to Ukraine in order to attack targets deep within Russia, deep within the mainland of Russia.
	Now, Russia's ambassador to the United States, Antonov, his name is Anatoly Antonov.
	He has warned what will happen if America allows Ukraine to use these long-range missiles to strike deep within Russia.
	And here's what he says.
	Now listen carefully because this will affect us.
	He says Washington's idea of pitting Europe against Russia through the Ukrainian crisis will not pass.
	Thou shall not pass.
	He says the U.S. will not be able to sit it out across the ocean if the current situation escalates into a global conflict.
	Now, this is being widely reported and kind of paraphrased to say that Antonov has stated that the consequences of those missile strikes will affect both sides of the Atlantic.
	Both sides of the Atlantic.
	But I do believe that is a paraphrase and not a direct quote from him.
	But the meaning is synonymous.
	The quote from him, again, is the U.S. will not be able to sit it out across the ocean if the current situation escalates into a global conflict.
	What he's saying is that Russia can reach the United States and Russia can reach the U.K. Now, that quote, by the way, is in the Philippine Times.
	PhilippineTimes.com, which appears to be citing RT as the source.
	So it would seem to be a reliable source.
	But let's look into what this actually could mean.
	Russia has more nuclear warheads than any other nation on the planet.
	Russia has, of course, delivery systems that can deliver those warheads to any location anywhere.
	Anywhere on the planet, including, of course, the West Coast of the United States, any target in the U.S., obviously including Hawaii and Alaska, which is much closer to Russia, but also Washington, D.C. and Miami, Florida and Houston, Texas and everywhere in between.
	Now. Out of desperation.
	I'm talking about America now.
	If America, the State Department, the Biden regime, if out of desperation, they want to halt this election because they feel like they can't cheat their way through it, and they see the Ukraine crumbling with all these people just leaving, just, I'm out of here, right?
	Is it possible that the U.S. would try to escalate this war by telling Ukraine, launch these cruise missiles deep into Russia, I mean,
	it's already a replacement plan for Americans.
	So what does Biden care if the replacement begins with nuking U.S. cities?
	He would want to get Russia to do the dirty work, to do the nuking.
	And then after, you know, the Americans are dead, they replace them with migrants.
	This is the plan anyway.
	I mean, you see how insidious it is, how evil these people are?
	But this is the way they operate.
	So don't think that Biden's going to defend America.
	Biden's on a beach sipping soda somewhere.
	He's not even engaged.
	They sat him down on like a Saturday Night Live fake Oval Office show.
	Like, the studio set again.
	It's like the Fisher-Price version of the Oval Office so that he could, I don't know, pretend to be president for another day or something.
	At this point, Joe Biden has no idea who he is or what he's doing, and they're just leading him around and sit there and act presidential, you know?
	It's insane. Who's running this place?
	It's not Joe, and it's certainly not Kamala.
	Unless you want to thank a union member, you know, as she keeps saying.
	So I think we're on the verge of a very, very dangerous escalation or provocation by the United States to try to get Russia to nuke the West.
	That's, yeah, that's a dangerous series of events.
	So we'll be covering that more tomorrow with Colonel Douglas McGregor.
	So for the rest of the broadcast today, here's what we're going to do.
	I'm going to play a special report for you about the stock market being a house of cards that's going to collapse along with the dollar.
	We're going to follow that with the fresh emergency interview with Andy Sheckman.
	And then, after that, we're going to have today's sermon.
	And I need to even check what is today's sermon.
	Oh, I think it's...
	Oh yeah, this is very appropriate.
	Sermon number 38, you know I'm doing a hundred sermons, and sermon number 38 is about how Jesus frees humanity from servitude and ancient rituals, i.e.
	the ancient Jewish rituals, and also how Jesus freed humanity from government bureaucracy.
	Or at least he demanded freedom.
	He demonstrated freedom from all these things.
	And this is in the book that most people call Colossians, but I pronounce it Colossians because that actually makes more sense.
	Anyway, Colossians, as I say, is the book of the Bible that we cover today, and it's very powerful, but it's also kind of on the longer side.
	But if you want to know that Jesus was red-pilling humanity nearly 2,000 years ago, Jesus was the ultimate pro-liberty, pro-humanitarian person.
	You know, Jesus, team humanity.
	Obviously. And those who oppose him are Satanists, even to this day, they're Satanists.
	So you may want to stay tuned for that sermon number 38.
	It's a very powerful sermon.
	So, okay, so that's the schedule.
	We're going to get to all of that.
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	So enjoy this special report, and then following that, the interview with Andy Schechman that you won't want to miss.
	Well, tech stocks are getting absolutely hammered right now.
	But the big story here is it's because, well, the economy is fake.
	The government under Biden-Harris has been faking the economic numbers for many, many years.
	Of course, you know the inflation numbers are faked to make them artificially low.
	The unemployment numbers are faked to also make those artificially low.
	But the stock market's faked, and it's faked by money printing, By central banking, hidden groups that buy up stocks in order to prop up the stock market.
	And also, there's a lot of money that flows to companies to buy back their own stocks.
	That helps prop it up as well.
	And the result is that most Americans, their so-called wealth, their retirement money that's in these retirement funds that invest in the stock market, it's all going to evaporate.
	It won't be there. Because the system is about to break.
	And how do we know that? Well, for example, Turkey just said they're going to be joining BRICS. So Turkey is a NATO country that engages in a tremendous amount of trade with the West.
	And even Turkey is like, well, we've had enough of the dollar.
	The dollar is a disaster.
	So Turkey is going to be working with BRICS. And the BRICS nations themselves are growing in number.
	I was just interviewing Colonel Douglas McGregor about this issue.
	He mentioned something like 84 countries right now want to join BRICS. And it might be over 100 countries by the time this is all said and done.
	And the dollar is only going to be used by a small number of Western countries trading with each other.
	With dollars that are collapsing in value.
	So we are headed toward a tragic historic outcome here that will result in the collapse of the dollar.
	And although we don't know the exact day, obviously, when that's going to happen, we know about some triggering events.
	One of those events is more countries taking on the BRICS currency and abandoning the dollar.
	We know that there's a big meeting among BRICS nations happening, I think it's October.
	So it's right around the corner here.
	And from that event, there will be big announcements.
	And by the end of the year, there will be deployment among certain nations, a small number of nations, of the BRICS settlement currency.
	And all throughout 2025, It's just going to be more and more countries joining BRICS, using BRICS, and moving away from dollars.
	2025 is going to be the year that will be characterized by plummeting global demand for the dollar.
	Who will want the dollar?
	Almost nobody, except Western nations that are themselves broke.
	Bankrupt, even morally bankrupt, not just financially bankrupt, but we're talking about, you know, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, and so on.
	Yeah, they'll still use the dollar, but the dollar will be collapsing because of hyperinflation money printing.
	Because, see, the US won't be able to export the inflation any longer because nobody else around the world will want to buy the dollar.
	They don't need it. Used to be the petrodollar, right?
	You had to buy the dollar in order to buy oil from Saudi Arabia.
	That's done. Bretton Woods, done.
	BRICS is rising.
	2025 is the year that accelerates all of this.
	And so right now, the stock market is wildly overvalued, especially in certain sectors like tech and AI and NVIDIA. The valuations were off the charts, completely insane, totally unjustified.
	But the typical American investor...
	Never even looks at earnings, never looks at assets.
	They just throw money at the stock market, and they think it's just going to go up forever because that's what their ignorant financial advisors tell them.
	So we are headed for a catastrophic collapse in the value of the dollar and dollar-denominated assets.
	And that's why you hear people saying that they think, and this is not my prediction, but I've heard many people, Peter Schiff and others, Saying, Jim Rickards, for example, saying that gold could be revalued at $20,000 an ounce, $25,000 an ounce.
	I've heard $50,000 an ounce from other people.
	Peter Schiff is a little more conservative, but even he has been predicting $5,000 an ounce gold for many years.
	Look, the bottom line is I don't know where gold and silver are going in terms of prices, but I do know that the day that gold hits $5,000 an ounce, that's a day that we're all in trouble in terms of a collapsing dollar and a collapsing U.S. economy.
	And along with that, by the way, when the dollar loses its value, when the dollar goes to near zero, which is coming, do you realize that the United States government, the federal government, will not be able to fund itself?
	Which, by the way, that might be a really positive thing, actually, for the federal government to shut down and not have any more money to weaponize against the people and the world.
	But have no illusions.
	It will be chaos galore.
	There will be mass chaos, which is why I don't want to see a sudden collapse of the dollar or a sudden collapse of the government.
	I think we need, you know, common sense gradual reform over time.
	And we need to slash federal spending by 80 or 90%, but that's got to be done over a period of time, like a year.
	You don't want to do that overnight.
	You want to spread it out over like a few months at least.
	And anyway, you realize what's going to happen when people's food stamps no longer work and people don't get their pension checks or the pension checks are worthless.
	And again, I don't wish this kind of chaos on anybody, but nationwide, the population is going to revolt.
	I mean, those who aren't obese, sedentary, on the couch, so overweight that they can't move anymore, which sadly is a lot of the, especially the federal retirees.
	But For people who can move, they're going to get out of their couches, onto the streets, you know, marching.
	There's going to be a lot of angry Americans at that time.
	And the country will be plunged into chaos.
	I mean, the collapse of the United States dollar, the currency and the government that that funds, that's not going to be a walk in the park.
	And this may be desired by certain people in power, maybe some globalists and so on, because they always have a way to profit from the chaos.
	So they may see this starting to happen and they might want to even accelerate it to plunge America into just a revolt scenario, massive chaos that leaves America even more vulnerable to domestic sabotage operations from illegal invaders.
	Or war from foreign enemies that may see America's weakness as a time to attack, or they may even see it as a time to attack America's allies.
	You know, you could see China moving on Taiwan, or you could see Russia getting more aggressive moving on Ukraine, or you could see Iran launching more missiles on Israel, for example.
	There's just three examples.
	But America's allies will be in trouble.
	America as a nation will be in trouble.
	And our leaders right now are accelerating us to that head-on collision with collapse by spending like drunken sailors.
	They just keep on printing money and spending money as if it has no consequences.
	But of course, you and I know it does have consequences.
	And the economy under Biden is fake.
	It's fake just like the fake news is fake.
	Just like the Biden presidency was faked.
	Just like the elections are faked and rigged.
	Just like the CNN interviews with Kamala, they're all scripted and staged and faked in their own way.
	And many other examples of everything that's faked.
	You know, even the news that you get about Israel or Ukraine or Russia.
	It's all faked. We're living under massive fakery, so of course the stock market is also fake and rigged.
	Of course there's going to be a massive collapse.
	I mean, what you've seen so far is just the beginning.
	What's coming will be absolutely catastrophic.
	And, you know, I watch people like Gregory Manorino, who I recommend watching.
	And I'm interviewing Andy Sheckman from Miles Franklin, and of course I have my resources and contacts, and they're all, right now, they're just screaming, like red alert signs, that there are so many indicators that things are horrible in the marketplace, that that's why everybody's dumping stocks right now, that is, people who are in the know.
	Now, of course, the Federal Reserve is going to probably do an emergency rate cut.
	That's been anticipated.
	And still the market plunges.
	But this will probably motivate the Federal Reserve to do a bigger rate cut.
	Now we're probably looking at 0.5% instead of just a quarter point there.
	You know, half a percentage point rate cut.
	Some people are calling for three quarters or even a 1% rate cut.
	Yeah, that would prop up the market.
	But it would just, of course, inflate the bubble, which will make the crash even worse when it finally happens.
	So, folks, what are the strategies for insulating yourself from this?
	Well, I believe gold and silver are the answer.
	I have, over the years, I have looked at everything.
	I've talked about all the different options.
	How do you insulate yourself from a currency collapse?
	If you can find a good piece of land, especially farmland, with access to water, well, that's always going to have value.
	The ability to grow food, to irrigate that food, to produce something that's useful to humanity, yes, that will have value.
	If you've got an opportunity to trade dollars for some really good farmland that doesn't have a lot of upkeep, doesn't have high taxes, you just hold onto the farmland, that's a wise move.
	But I can no longer recommend things like treasuries, because I don't think the treasury...
	It's going to do well. I mean, especially with all the interest rates that are rapidly changing here.
	And you don't know when they could go the other way either, by the way.
	The stock market, nope.
	I don't trust the stock market.
	It's a rigged game.
	I don't trust any of the stock.
	I'm not even in the stock market.
	What am I into? Gold and silver.
	It's that simple. And you know what?
	Gold and silver is out-earning the stock market, by far.
	If you really track gold and silver for the last, let's say, 25 years, it has outperformed stock market indices by far.
	And yet, you don't have all the headache and all the paperwork.
	And with gold and silver, you have self-custody.
	You can have it in your possession, if that's appropriate to you.
	So let me plug our partner in gold and silver, and that's the Treasure Island Coins and Precious Metals Company.
	And they offer physical gold and silver coins, and bars if you're into that, but I think coins are the easiest to deal with.
	They've got so-called junk silver, which is constitutional silver.
	Which is U.S. minted silver.
	Very useful in a collapse scenario.
	They've got many forms of gold and silver, different mints all over the world.
	Very competitive pricing.
	Check them out. MetalswithMike.com is where you can find them.
	Just go there. MetalswithMike.com.
	You can request a callback from them.
	They will help you fulfill what you need to help protect your assets.
	Now, I don't have a crystal ball, and I don't know if gold and silver are going to go up or down in the next week or month or year, but I know that over time, gold and silver hold value while the dollar is 100% guaranteed to lose value because the money printing hasn't stopped, and it's not going to stop.
	I just interviewed Colonel Douglas McGregor, and he was talking about how the U.S. policy is to print all this money and send it over to Ukraine and send it to Israel and send it to other regions in Taiwan.
	And yet, Where's the investment in protecting our own border?
	Where's the investment in America's roads and bridges or schools or infrastructure?
	It's practically non-existent.
	Our government is sending money overseas to be wasted in needless wars where men and women die and needlessly suffer.
	That money should be kept right here at home in the United States to invest in infrastructure.
	But it's because our leaders in Washington, they're crazed, insane warmongers, and they think they can print money without consequence, which is actually stealing money from you, and they think they can just push it out.
	And fund everything else around the world while America collapses into decline, where our airports are a freaking mess, our roads are a mess, our bridges are falling down, they're in disrepair, and you've got apartment buildings in Colorado being taken over by armed migrant gangs.
	The gangs are just rolling in with guns and saying, well, these apartment complexes, they ours now, they're just rolling in.
	It's like, and the police do nothing.
	The mayor does nothing.
	The governor does nothing. Because they're all Democrats, of course.
	You're being invaded.
	Your country is being invaded.
	Your people are being replaced.
	While the mad money printing machine is going to make sure that you die penniless if you stay in that dollar system.
	You will own nothing.
	And you won't be happy.
	You'll be miserable. Because you'll lose everything.
	As the currency collapses, and it is in a collapse right now.
	How much value has our currency lost since 1913?
	Over 99%.
	How much value has it lost since 1971?
	Being taken off the gold standard?
	I think the answer is something like 96%, or maybe it's 95%, something close to that.
	The dollar is almost worthless already.
	From the founding of the Federal Reserve, the dollar has lost 99% of its value, or really close to 99%.
	That means it's only got one penny left to lose, and they're going to take that from you.
	That's next. And they're going to leave the American people, the pensioners, The investors, the people who bought treasuries, the people who put money and savings in the bank, going to leave all those people penniless and destitute.
	Those people won't even be able to buy food.
	They won't be able to purchase gasoline or pay for electricity for heat or air conditioning.
	That's what's coming. And the thing is, the people at the top, they know this.
	The people that run the treasury, that run the Federal Reserve, that run the big banks, that run the government, they know this.
	That's why they all have their secret backup plans.
	Every one of them, they've got a stash of gold in a vault somewhere.
	They've got silver.
	They've got cash.
	A lot of them have Bitcoin.
	They've got crypto. Why?
	Because they know the system is going to crater.
	And they have an escape route already underway.
	For them, it's common sense.
	This has happened throughout history.
	Every time one currency collapsed or a nation collapsed, an empire fell, there were always a few people at the top that got out.
	And they got out while the getting was good, as we say.
	They got out with the gold, you know?
	Or they got out with the assets or the paintings or the art or whatever had value.
	Or the titles and deeds to pieces of land.
	They got all that. If you're not looking at a backup plan of how you get out, then you're the sucker at the card table.
	You're going to get totally screwed.
	And gold and silver are a way out.
	Gold and silver are an exit plan from the dollar, at least a temporary plan, to preserve the value of the assets until the next new currency is introduced following the collapse.
	Yes, there will be a collapse.
	There will be a near total collapse of the U.S. dollar, the U.S. currency, and the U.S. empire.
	In the aftermath of that, there will be whatever the new government looks like.
	I don't know if it's going to be a national government or various regions or states or nation states or what.
	I don't know what it's going to look like. But there will be a new currency.
	Maybe several new currencies.
	And when that day comes...
	You'll be able to trade gold and silver for that new currency at an incredible rate that will at minimum preserve the value of what you had because gold and silver will be in very high demand.
	And there's a chance that you may actually get more than what you ever put into it in terms of actual value.
	You know, how much you'll be able to buy food or buy vehicles or buy houses or businesses or land or whatever.
	Through that conversion, you may actually do better than you anticipated.
	Now, I can't guarantee what the future is going to look like, so I don't know what the results will bring.
	But here's what I know for sure, is that if you've got all your eggs in the dollar basket, it's a dangerous place to be financially.
	If all your savings are denominated in dollars, then your fate is tied to the fate of the dollar and.
	And you know the fate of the dollar because they just keep printing it like crazy.
	So you know the dollar is going to hold no value.
	It's like looking at a suicide cult that's running your finances.
	If you don't want a suicide cult to run your finances, you got to get out of the dollar.
	And like I said, there's land and you can invest in diesel fuel or tractors or power tools or firearms or ammo, but gold and silver are by far the most convenient forms of all of this.
	And there are many different types of gold and silver, different denominations of coins and so on.
	Again, check it all out at metalswithmike.com.
	Just be wise, be smart.
	Understand that gold and silver are like an insurance plan.
	And really, you hope you don't have to invoke your insurance plan.
	This is like if you have insurance on your house, like fire insurance.
	You don't want to have a house fire and have to collect on your house insurance.
	But if there is a house fire, obviously you're going to be very happy that you had insurance and you get some kind of payout.
	Well, same thing is true with the economy and the dollar.
	You don't want to see the dollar collapse because there's going to be chaos across society.
	But if the dollar does collapse, you're going to be very happy to have an insurance policy that holds value, and that's gold and silver.
	I mean, that's a pretty good metaphor for the role that they play.
	So what I say is just look around you right now.
	Look what's happening that you can verify yourself, that you can see.
	Stock market, tech stocks are cratering.
	Money printing madness off the charts.
	Government spending, government debt off the charts.
	$35 trillion in national debt.
	No end in sight. Congress is trying to attach the SAVE Act to the spending bill, the continuing resolution for government funding.
	Which does not shrink the size of government at all.
	It actually makes government bigger every year.
	I mean, you can see what's going to happen to the dollar.
	Printing money, sending it, you know, 100 billion plus for Ukraine.
	Sending money all over the world to be wasted on bombs and wars.
	You can see where this is going to end up.
	Food inflation through the roof.
	Nothing is affordable any longer.
	So make up your mind.
	Like, what kind of future do you want to have in terms of assets?
	If you tie yourself to the dollar, you're going down with the ship.
	If, instead, you have a life raft of gold and silver, then, you know, you have a flotation device.
	You can survive this, and you can transfer your assets into the next economy and the next currency, whatever that looks like.
	So be wise in your decisions and your planning, and check out more of my interviews at brighttown.com.
	I'm interviewing Colonel Douglas McGregor as well as Andy Sheckman and many other experts coming up as well.
	You're going to learn a lot from all those interviews.
	Again, brighttown.com.
	I've also got a channel on Rumble, which is Health Ranger Report.
	So check it out and be safe, folks.
	Protect your assets. Time is drawing near.
	Thank you for listening. Mike Adams, take care.
	All right. Welcome, everyone.
	Mike Adams here with brighttown.com, coming to you from my home studio on an emergency interview with Andy Sheckman from Miles Franklin.
	That's why I have no video here, but he has video.
	And with the stock market, I don't know, plunge and big news about Turkey and bricks and so on, I invited Andy to come on for an emergency interview.
	So welcome, Andy. Mike, it's great to be here, bud.
	Thanks for the invite.
	I'm a big, big fan of what you're doing, and it's an honor to be here.
	Well, look, let me just say, I'm absolutely honored to have you on.
	You're doing incredible work.
	You're educating people all over.
	I mean, you do a lot of interviews.
	You're very busy. You've got one right after this, too.
	But you're also, I think you must spend hours a day staying up with all the latest news.
	And let me give you credit where it's due.
	You were the first person to talk about the rise of the BRICS system and how de-dollarization would accelerate.
	Now everybody's talking about it.
	But two years ago, it was only you, Andy.
	You nailed it. I appreciate that very much.
	Yeah, somehow I was able to stumble across all of the crumbs that have been laid at our feet.
	I don't think you need to be particularly astute to see them, but to put them together is a little bit different because in and of themselves, each and every one of these crumbs, I guess you could say, are significant for sure.
	But when you put them together and try and fashion a cookie back into the crumbs into a cookie, it starts to I think, become much more significant.
	And if I'm lucky in anything, it was the ability to take all of those crumbs and figure out a way to put them together in a coherent manner.
	And that is kind of scary, actually, because when I started talking about this stuff, no one was.
	As you mentioned, I was kind of out on a limb doing it.
	And the fact that it's happened at the speed at which it's accelerating, Mike, it's concerning as a father, mostly of three kids.
	You know, I wonder what kind of world my My kids are growing up in.
	So, yeah, it's a labor of love for sure.
	I do spend about two, three hours a day every day.
	And if I miss a day, I feel like I've lost a week.
	So it is a labor of love, but something that I try and keep up on.
	And thank you for the kind words.
	Well, you deserve credit, and you've helped educate a lot of people about this.
	Now, we've just seen news.
	Of course, I've been talking about Operation Sandman for a couple of years also, and just to brief our audience, that's a plan, at least a rumored plan from some of my sources, that Many countries, I've heard different numbers, let's just call it a hundred, around the world plan to dump dollars in a coordinated fashion.
	Now, we might be looking at kind of a spread out Operation Sandman situation.
	If not the sudden version, because Turkey just announced they want to join BRICS. So Turkey being a NATO country that does tremendous trade with the West.
	And Andy, before you respond, I just interviewed Colonel Douglas McGregor a few hours ago, and I asked him, will Turkey stay in NATO? And he said, I don't think so.
	Wow, right? So what's your reaction?
	Yeah, I mean, I think they're choosing sides.
	We're seeing a lot of that. Look, Turkey asked to join the European Union and they were turned down.
	And I think that gave them a greater incentive to be the first NATO member to request membership in the BRICS block.
	And, you know, it's no coincidence that they're a massive purchaser of gold as well with all of the The discussion about the new unit settlement token, gold will be a centerpiece for it, but when we talk about BRICS, yeah,
	It's a huge deal that we're beginning to see countries like Turkey, who are a Western ally and a NATO member, in my opinion, throw their hat in the ring and begin the choosing of sides.
	And a lot of countries are going to have to make that very difficult decision as the West continues to alienate themselves through weaponization of the Treasury and the dollar and the Western system.
	And I think a lot of countries will find safety in numbers with this growing block.
	Last we heard, Mike, 59 countries have formally applied on top of the ones that are already there, Turkey being one of those 59.
	I think we'll see in the big meeting in October that number will be much bigger and much more significantly.
	One of the interesting things is that they won't tell us who those 59 countries are.
	And so are there other countries that are G7 Western friendly, so to speak, that have thrown their hats into the ring?
	I guess we'll find out. But Turkey is the first one that has been validated.
	So it's a big deal. Yeah, absolutely.
	I think it's as big a deal as Saudi Arabia announcing that they would sell oil in currencies other than the dollar.
	A hundred percent. A hundred percent.
	Yeah, go ahead. No, it is.
	And because these are all Western allies, and when you start to make these types of decisions, I think what it also does is it incentivizes and It gives a little bit of courage, if you will, to the other countries that are wavering.
	You know, there's been talk about Mexico.
	There's been talk about even Japan.
	There's been talk about Australia, about New Zealand.
	Now, these are all just rumors.
	Jim Willey has mentioned several of them.
	I don't know them to be true, but certainly I think as one starts to join the, you know, throw their hat into the ring, you'll start to see others as well as this Western system begins to crumble underneath its own weight.
	Let's talk about the crumbling.
	And one way I think of what's actually happening, especially now with Turkey's announcement, is that the number of Western trading partners that will only use the dollar or primarily use the dollar amongst themselves, that number is shrinking.
	And I think what this means is it's almost like a global currency embargo against the West.
	Yeah. Yeah. 100%.
	I mean, look, the system, as Putin said recently in a meeting, I think in St.
	Petersburg, he said, look, the Bretton Woods system is dead.
	And now the United States is, you know, the dollar is backed by nothing but the faith and credit of the United States.
	And when you talk about, first of all, the credit, We're a country that is $35 trillion in debt nearly, which doesn't take into account the nearly $160 or $70 trillion in unfunded liabilities like Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, government and military pensions.
	We're creating $100,000 of debt every second, five, six, seven, and keep on going.
	That's a trillion dollars every hundred days.
	That's A feat that took 200 years to do the first time.
	And so when we talk about credit, we're broke.
	We're at 123 or 4% of debt to GDP. And I remember back in the day, if you're over 100%, you're a banana republic.
	But at least we have, you know, fair elections and a judicial system, which isn't too tiered.
	Wait a second. Wait a second.
	Let me think about that for a minute.
	I'll come back to that.
	But when you talk about the faith and credit of this country, we're broke, we're insolvent, and we have done much to anger the world.
	That's the faith. And when you talk about faith, you know, election integrity and judicial system and open borders and wokeness and nuclear family and the breakdown of society, the way that it has, is not lost on the rest of the world.
	So when you talk about a system that is based upon nothing but We're running short on both.
	And so I think, yes, there are many countries that are only taking dollars.
	The hegemony might be dead, but the supremacy isn't.
	But that number, which was upper 70% in terms of percentage of assets in U.S. dollars, has got to be down into the mid-50s now and falling.
	In fact, gold just surpassed the European Union currency for the first time ever as the number two most held asset in central bank balance sheets.
	So the Western system is on the way out.
	There's no question about it.
	And it's by our own doing.
	And I think long overdue by most of the world's opinion.
	I want to help people understand the mechanisms here, but by the way, I need to update your number.
	You mentioned unfunded liabilities, and that number now is $219 trillion, by the way.
	That's from the U.S. debt clock right now.
	Wow. Right.
	Wow. Because like you, I remember it being $160 trillion, $170 trillion.
	Now it's $219 trillion.
	I guess when you add $100,000 per second, that seems to add up quickly.
	Well, it's unpayable.
	It's utterly insane.
	And what's going to happen is if you think about all the people that have to collect...
	Pension payments or Medicare benefits or various retirement benefits of any kind that are denominated in dollars based on the full faith and credit of the U.S. federal government, that's all going to get nullified at some point.
	I mean, you and I don't know when, and we're not making an official prediction of when, but at some point, isn't it just...
	Worthless like every other failed currency.
	Yeah, and maybe even more relevant or important is the lack of demand in U.S. Treasuries for much of the same reason.
	We're distorting the value through inflation.
	We've proven we will weaponize it if we're not aligned ideologically.
	And when you realize that you have less people willing to take our dollars and less people willing to take U.S. Treasuries, the fact that the government has trillions of dollars worth of bonds which are maturing this year and next, you have to ask yourself, where does that come from?
	Who's going to finance our Our irresponsible, insatiable debt-spending binge, we continue to spend like we're drunken sailors, and yet the creditors who have allowed us to live well beyond our means for a very long time, I think, are looking in a different direction.
	Even when you talk about gold, over the last 25 years, it's averaged 9.9% compounding with no counterparty risk, which bubbles the performance of the 10-year treasury, which can be taken from you.
	When you realize it was revalued, a tier one asset, and when you realize it will be part of a new system called the unit, which we can talk about if you'd like, the drive for all of these countries to de-dollarize and to sell treasuries, to de-treasurize, if that were a word, and accumulate assets, as Zoltan Pozar says, he or she who has the commodities and accumulate assets, as Zoltan Pozar says, he or she who This is no longer about promises from a paper tiger.
	This is no longer promises from a broken, insolvent country who has chosen to weaponize the world reserve currency and the treasury market.
	Instead, it is about gold, which has immutable wealth with no counterparty liability.
	It is a very bad trend for the U.S. to find themselves in the midst of.
	And quite frankly, I think it is just beginning.
	I don't think we've seen anything yet.
	I completely agree with you.
	And when you say that gold has no counterparty risk, I really want to underscore that for the audience.
	So, folks, when you hold assets in a bank, you have to trust that the bank is going to be solvent and is going to give you your assets when you request them, which often does not happen.
	There can be bank bail-ins and bank holidays, right?
	So gold in your hands means there's no counterparty risk.
	You're not reliant on anybody else.
	Even a pension benefit check, that has counterparty risk with whoever's paying the pensions.
	Now, but you mentioned the unit, and I want to ask you to talk about the unit, and let me preface that by saying Yeah.
	financial oblivion.
	And the history of reserve currencies, the British pound sterling, the currencies from France and Portugal before that, whatever, all throughout the last six centuries have always been currencies that a government could print.
	The unit under bricks will be the first global settlement currency that cannot be counterfeited by any one nation.
	And it's backed partially by gold, or at least that's the rumor.
	So can you speak to the significance of that, why it's actually history unfolding?
	Yeah. Yeah, it's a very big deal.
	It's a huge deal.
	The unit is a, first of all, let's talk about Project Enbridge.
	I've been talking about Project Enbridge for about a year now.
	It is a cross-border payment system, Mike, that was developed between China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates.
	And it allows countries to trade central bank digital currencies amongst themselves.
	Now, if we go back to the end of August last year, when the meeting in Johannesburg took place, A lot of people thought, because James Rickards said that they might come out with a common settlement currency.
	A lot of people were bummed out about that when they didn't.
	But what they said is, we will conduct business for the next year in our local currencies, and we will task the finance ministers to go back to the drawing board, present their findings in Russia here in October of 2024.
	And so we've seen a lot of that.
	We've seen Russia trading with India in ruble and rupee.
	We've seen China buying corn and soybeans from Brazil and paying in digital yuan, which is convertible into gold immediately on the Shanghai Gold Exchange, which is the only other tier one asset, gold.
	We've seen all of these countries trading with one another in their local currencies.
	So that's point number one.
	Cambridge will allow countries to continue to do that back and forth with one another, free from any Western intermediary bank interruption.
	In other words, outside the SWIFT system.
	Can't be sanctioned.
	And it's important to note a couple things about Enbridge.
	Number one, the dollar is not compatible with Enbridge.
	The United States is not part of Enbridge.
	And Saudi Arabia just became a full participant.
	Wow. In Enbridge. So you have the four countries who developed it, Saudi Arabia being the fifth full participant.
	You have, as a backing partner, the BIS and 20 or 30 observant countries that are watching how this all unfolds.
	Saudi Arabia being the big one.
	Okay, so that's laying the foundation for Enbridge.
	And one of the things that I mentioned over the last year quite frequently is that, to me, oil and gold have been re-monetized across the globe, as an example.
	Iran awarded China a huge deal to modernize their biggest airport for a few billion dollars.
	They're paying for it in oil.
	And the first trade that was done cross-border between UAE and China and digital yuan was for gold and the other for oil, both between these two countries using CBDCs over the platform, the Umbridge platform.
	To me, gold and oil are replacing or becoming more valuable than the currencies that are used to buy them.
	So that lays the foundation.
	Hold on, Andy. Let me... I'm sorry to interrupt.
	Let me ask you something along those lines.
	So when there are international settlements and there are imbalances, trade imbalances, because some countries export more than they import, are those balances, even when they're using the Enbridge system, when there are imbalances to be settled, are some of those settlements going to be happening in gold or oil or other?
	Yeah, so this will be the unit.
	And this is what I believe will be the unit.
	So we will trade. If I'm one country and you're another country, Mike, you and I keep trading back and forth between our currencies and maybe you have enough of mine and I have enough of yours or there's an imbalance and I really want to buy from you, but I don't want any more of your currency.
	That's where the unit comes in.
	And this is really a big deal because so many people say, well, they'll never be a common currency.
	They can't trust each other, India and China, and they won't trust each other.
	Well, My first point was, who the hell trusts us anymore?
	And by the same token, you know, that is somewhat of a valid point.
	And I think they are working to get to a point where they could issue a common currency.
	But this is a common settlement currency, which is different.
	So let me explain. There was a meeting in Novigrad that coincided with the G7 meeting in Italy.
	And of course, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia was invited.
	He said, I'm busy, guys.
	Thanks. I'm going to have to decline, but he sent his finance ministers to the meeting in Novograd where I don't know how many 150 plus countries were in attendance.
	And we find out that 59 countries have formally applied.
	That was one of the things we found out.
	But the biggest thing we found out was a meeting on the sidelines, two meetings between Sergei Glazyev.
	And by the way, Sergei is the reason for the last three, almost three plus years, I've been talking about the BRICS having ultimately a currency that will be backed by a basket of commodities and And a basket of currencies of the BRICS Plus nations.
	And, you know, leading up to that moment, the fact that gold was reclassified tier one, it just became obvious to me that gold was going to be a big part of that.
	So here we are a few months ago, this meeting, or a month ago, and this meeting happens, and Delma Rousseff comes out and says, I had a meeting.
	Delma Rousseff, the former president of Brazil and the head of the BRICS New Development Bank, she is the chief operating officer of the New Development Bank, And she came out and she said, look, I had two meetings on the sideline with Glazyev and Putin, and in principle, we have agreed to a new settlement currency called the unit.
	And the unit will be traded over Project Enbridge.
	And the unit will be a basket of 60% BRICS plus currencies, with no more than 30% of any one currency dominating the basket, and a basket solely of 40% gold kilo bars to be delivered upon request.
	Now, this is where it gets very interesting.
	Now, you know, you got, you have, this part I'm going to mention is kind of supposition because you have the BIS behind this as well.
	And if you remember in 2017, in the midst of a six-year drawdown in gold, Bitcoin's taken off, no one's doing anything.
	The Bundesbank made a big deal about bringing back their gold.
	And I've talked with you about this maybe in our very first conversation.
	And shortly after the German Bundesbank said, give us back our gold, you had Hungary, Turkey, Austria, Poland, the Czech National Bank, yet all of these Eastern European countries say, we want our gold back too.
	This was within just a few months of Germany requesting it.
	And then the next year in 2018, those banks, which had been net sellers of gold, went on a buying spree to the magnitude of combined.
	Their purchases in 2018 was more than they did cumulatively in the 60 years previously combined.
	The next year, 2019, that number's up 100%.
	And then somehow, by coincidence, the BIS said, oh, by the way, guys, gold is now Tier 1.
	You know the BIS said to these banks, listen, we're going to value as part of the Basel III deal.
	Gold's going to be revalued.
	Start buying it. Bring it home.
	Okay, so that's how they operate.
	Now let's look at what's happened here.
	The BIS is behind it.
	A simple Google search came up with Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Argentina, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, which was just a few weeks ago, along with Egypt and a handful of African countries, Hungary, Belgium, Egypt, Senegal, Romania, Nigeria, Poland, Ghana,
	India, Turkey, France, Serbia, Venezuela, Algeria, Cameroon, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, and others have all repatriated their gold We're good to go.
	Bought one and a half times the amount of gold they bought all of last year, which is a record year in the first four months of this year, sent it all home, plus 100 metric tons they've held at the Bank of England since 1991.
	And we've seen a dozen-plus banks all bring their gold back from central banks, I'm sorry?
	Let me add in also, I think they observed what the Western banks, the European banks, did to Russia's assets.
	That's why. So outright theft.
	Venezuela, where Bank of England didn't give them back their gold.
	Right, right. So that's the easy answer, right?
	That's the easy one, and that probably is partially right.
	You know, if you don't hold it, you don't own it, and We've taken $5 billion in Russian assets and used it to buy weapons to give to the Ukraine.
	That's a line you don't come back from, man.
	You're supposed to be impartial as a reserve currency.
	And the European Union taking the interest of the $280 billion in Russian assets and providing a loan to the Ukraine backed by that, this is a line you don't come back from.
	And especially when Janet can say to CNN, listen, we're okay with Leji and Putin being buddies in BRICS. Well, thank you very much, Madam Secretary.
	If Xi gives one penny to Putin for the war machine, we will sanction his banks, his companies in Beijing itself.
	Never mind the $260 billion that we've given with no congressional oversight and the F-16s and the Stinger missiles and all of this stuff, because we're the world reserve currency.
	That's the easy answer.
	Yes, but Andy, let me add the—I'm sorry to interrupt.
	No, that's good. You can't see me because I'm not shooting video.
	But it was also the reasoning of the West saying, we didn't steal Russia's $280 billion.
	We just made it illiquid.
	It is a liquidity freeze, which is, in this modern world, the same thing as theft.
	If you can't move it, you don't own it.
	It's theft, and that's exactly right.
	Especially coming from a country who invaded Iraq 20 years ago, and we're still there.
	We went there for weapons of mass destruction.
	Sorry we didn't find any.
	We toppled your country, installed a new regime, sanctioning 14-year banks right now, and they don't even have immediate access to the $90 billion in oil revenue they made last year that's held at the New York And so the world looks at us largely as being hypocritical, much of the Southern Hemisphere.
	Pirates. I think the West has become pirates.
	Of course. Just pillaging all the assets that they can steal.
	Well, yeah. Where did Hussein's gold go?
	Where did Gaddafi's gold go?
	Where did the $12 billion in gold that Ukraine sold?
	Where did all that go?
	And so, yes, I would agree with all of that.
	And I hate to say it because...
	Mike, I mean, I'm a patriot, man.
	I'm the most unlikely person to have achieved the level of success I did.
	Yeah, I work hard, but I've been doing this for 34 years.
	I'm a 34-year overnight success.
	And it took a long time, and I owe my life to this country for everything it gave me, for all of the opportunities.
	And it kills me to see what's happening.
	Yeah, me too. But along the pirate line, the U.S., I think the State Department just stole Maduro's jet.
	Yeah, they did. They did.
	Because it was obtained illegally.
	And how many times has the U.S. or European countries under pressure from the U.S. stolen, like, oil tankers from Russia or other countries?
	Like, oh, this is our ship now.
	Well, and that's the point.
	That type of...
	is growing very old on the rest of the world, who is becoming motivated, sophisticated, coordinated, and wealthy.
	Now, they never were back in the day.
	They were mostly third world.
	So what you're saying is a large portion, I believe, of the reason that they've all repatriated their gold.
	But digging deeper, as I often try and do, I read the white paper on the unit where I saw something incredibly interesting, and that was that the unit will be comprised, as I said, of 60% BRICS plus currencies.
	And as a side note to that, I did an interview with Vince Lancey, very smart, very smart dude, and he says it is his belief that China and Russia will do the best they can to back even loosely They're currencies with gold, so it comprises the majority, getting up to that 30% backing of the currencies comprised in the BRICS. Now, that's supposition, but nonetheless, 60% basket of currency, 40% gold in kilo bar, deliverable bond demand, but here's the interesting part.
	The gold and the currency will be taken out of circulation when they mint these new tokens that will be traded over Enbridge.
	And these tokens, the unit tokens, the gold and the currency is put into escrow accounts.
	Wow. All of these countries are bringing it home.
	The easy answer is weaponization and no longer trusting the West.
	But maybe the BIS said, hey guys, bring your stuff home.
	It's going to be part of the new system.
	And it will be gold-backed and the unit token will be minted and audited within your own border.
	You don't need to send it to Beijing.
	You don't need to send it to Moscow.
	And like the U.S. Federal Reserve, there is not one entity ruling the roost.
	So when you look at all the countries bringing their gold back, now it makes sense that, hey, they're going to be part of the unit settlement token.
	Absolutely. And that's your question about us having too much of each other's currency.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	I'll buy your stuff, Mike, and this time I'll pay it in the unit.
	And you can even stand for delivery if you want in the gold.
	So let's do a little bit of math here to understand this, because this is a key point, I think, for history, to understand why no one country can counterfeit these units.
	So you said 40% backed by gold, 60% backed by a basket of currencies.
	No one currency can comprise more than 30% of that 60%, which means that there's 18% maximum influence over the whole pool by any one country's currency.
	So, in other words, no one country can just counterfeit like crazy, and if they start hyperinflating their own currency, they'll create all kinds of other domestic problems anyway, and they might be disinvited from...
	Well, hang on. Let me stop you for one second.
	Remember, Enbridge says you're all going to maintain your own...
	Monetary autonomy. You're all going to take care of your own ecosystem and don't worry about the dollar and having to convert to dollars first to transact business.
	You will trade with one another in your local currencies, which means everyone is going to want to do their very best to maintain integrity of their local system.
	Now, so Enbridge is going to trade not only the unit, but also local currencies.
	So there'll be a lot of back and forth with local currencies and then the unit to settle things like energy or trade imbalances or any of those other things.
	So also then to explain to the audience, but I mean, the point I was trying to make there is that 30% and 60% is just 18%.
	So that really limits the ability of any one country to try to override the system with counterfeit currency, which is what the US has done.
	But then if I'm India, or let's say if I'm Russia, and I'm buying tractors from India, and I'm No, let's go the other way around.
	Let's say I'm Russia, I'm selling energy to India.
	And India's paying in rupees.
	But if I'm Russia, there's only so many rupees I want.
	Because I don't want to buy, maybe there's not other great stuff I want to buy from India, but I would love to take units that I could spend with China to get electronics or rare earth minerals.
	As part of Russia's weapons systems, right?
	Yes, or I can take those rupees, and I don't want any more of them, and if I'm going to make a new unit token, I can put those rupees in the basket of the BRICS plus currency.
	So there's a release valve, if you will, on the other side there.
	Right. So, but then also, to create new tokens, if I'm one of these countries, if I'm Russia, I also have to come up with 40% gold.
	And it's deliverable in kilobar form.
	Right. So that means there's no way to fake this system.
	No. So it's uncounterfeitable, if that's a term.
	That's right. And by their very nature of being cooperative, where not any one country holds the presidency, for more than a year it rotates, or...
	Even their corollary organizations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, there is no mandate.
	Every country is there because they want to be voluntarily finding strength and unity in numbers and doing things the right way.
	So they are all incentivized to keep their fiscal and monetary house in order.
	And to accumulate lots of gold.
	And that's the way it should be.
	It's kind of like doing stuff on eBay.
	You know, you screw someone on eBay and they say, don't ever trust this guy again.
	Or in my business, there's something called the certified exchange.
	If a dealer doesn't pay, that dealer will never ever see the light again from any one of the 3,000 dealers on the CCE exchange.
	And so it's about being honorable and doing things the right way, honoring your word and honoring the The integrity of your ecosystem that is now part of a bigger deal, but it's not a common currency.
	We're not beholden to a central bank or to the Chinese or the Russians.
	Everyone is doing this voluntarily, and it's ultimately gold, which is the only other tier one asset in the world, next to U.S. dollars and treasuries, and it's these countries that now must be managed appropriately in order to be really demanded within the unit ecosystems.
	And let me add this, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I've also read the Unit and Enbridge white papers, and as I understand it, this is a distributed but permissioned blockchain system.
	So it's not that anybody can set up a node and start rocking nodes and try to overthrow with compute power and try to hack the system.
	The nodes are distributed, like Bitcoin nodes, let's say, but they're only run by participants who have permission to run those nodes.
	Is that correct? That is correct.
	And think about now the biggest participant, Saudi Arabia, the world's largest producer of oil in the world, who turned down a meeting to the G7 and instead went to Novigrad, is now a full member of Enbridge.
	And so this is a big deal.
	And if you think about it, you know, If they were to ratify this, there's supposedly a meeting.
	Dilma Rousseff said, in principle, we've agreed to this, and we're going to have a meeting in September in China to ratify it.
	And if indeed it is ratified and rolled out in October, what is the need?
	Here's your Project Sandman.
	Here's the moment that I've talked about, even before I knew what Sandman was, where every country in the world, and largely because of you, and I always give you credit for that, but because...
	If every country in the world's had to own dollars for 50 years, stockpile them, giving us this synthetic demand, this exorbitant privilege of being the World Reserve, if every country's had to hold them for 50 years, and all of a sudden they don't, and you have a new settlement currency, and you have, instead of buying treasuries, which you can buy gold, which has doubled its performance for 25 years but lacks that counterparty risk, Of central bank confiscation based upon ideology.
	And so in every sense of the word, it makes sense to de-dollarize.
	And I'm very fond of the term logarithmic decay.
	And this is again, Project Sandman.
	Little by little by little by little by little by little they have all been de-dollarizing.
	Little by little by little by little they've all been accumulating commodities.
	And little by little by little, they've all been selling treasuries.
	Until, bang! That one moment, maybe it's in October, where the Operation Sandman, they call it the night of the switch.
	That's when it happens, because they've all...
	We've done enough to not cut off their nose to spite their face by doing things methodically, slowly, using the Western suppression of the commodity markets against us by standing for massive delivery.
	We can talk about that too. The monster deliveries we've seen off of COMEX and the LBMA recently, they're draining our system, using our overvalued dollars and selling treasuries and replacing it with commodities.
	To me, the concept of Sandman, it's so logical.
	And in particular, when you realize our lead economic advisor, Jared Bernstein, advocates for losing the World Reserve status.
	And, you know, everyone always said the Fed can inflate.
	They can default. I say option three, find a villain.
	And that villain is Xi Jinping and Putin and OPEC. They did it to us.
	And now the rest of this country, who you know as well as I do, is naive enough to believe something like that, that we were innocent in all of this.
	They would then gladly accept Lael Brainard, the number two economic advisor, her CBDC, which she developed when she was at the Boston Fed with MIT and just ran point recently for FedNow.
	She is a modern monetary theorist, as is Jared Bernstein, and they advocate for losing the reserve status.
	So is it too stupid to be stupid, or could we actually be purposely trying to make this happen by our foolishness here and our foolishness there?
	The FBI just arrested and the DOJ just charged a former staffer of New York Governor, Kathy Hochul, accusing this woman who appears to be a Chinese national, accusing her of being essentially, I don't know if spy is the right word, but violating the foreign influence of FARA, as it's called, on behalf of China.
	In other words, working for China in the United States as part of the government.
	Now, there's no question that China has influenced a lot of various offices.
	I can think of a former California senator that was practically a Chinese spy herself.
	But China has been very clever in this to avoid being accused of weaponizing the selling off of U.S. debt.
	And you just alluded to it.
	China has been allowing treasuries to expire rather than dumping them, which could be considered a We're good to go.
	But that's how they do things.
	If I admire one thing about this whole ecosystem that they've put together is just how methodical and plotted they are.
	You know, people in this country, maybe largely because of the rise of crypto, you know, Richard Russell was a mentor of mine.
	He said, you make 7% a year, you're a rock star.
	Now everyone needs instant gratification right now and it's got to be 50 or 100%.
	And if it's not immediate, well, it's just dismiss it as being a nothing burger.
	And that's why a lot of people have dismissed this slow roll of bricks, which is almost 18 years old right now, by the way, and accelerating, of course.
	But you're right. And I admire the fact of how they think big.
	They think in terms of decades.
	We think in terms of minutes.
	And they have been slowly, slowly, not...
	When you realize, like, in terms of gold, the LBMA admits to trading...
	they admit to trading roughly 20 million ounces of gold, just under 20 million ounces of gold per day.
	But- - What? - 100 million, but they say that those numbers, and they admit to the numbers being 10 times understated because they only post the end settlement numbers.
	That means they're trading 200 million ounces of gold.
	Wait a minute, let me just make sure I think... Hang on. I am right here.
	I'm not giving you the exact right numbers.
	It's 100...
	I know in silver they trade...
	They trade 290 million ounces a day.
	They admit to it, but they say that's 10 times it.
	So they're trading 2.9 billion ounces of silver per day every day.
	That's three and a half times annual global mine supply.
	Yeah, that seems insane, but it's all paper trades, right?
	This is why they're draining the exchanges.
	And in gold, the LBMA estimates 17 million ounces per day.
	This translates to total daily volume of 170 million ounces because it's 10 times understated, of which 90% or 153 million of the 170 million is spot trading of physical gold as promissory immediate ownership contracts.
	So you have them trading 3 billion ounces of silver per day in London and 170 million ounces of gold per day, of which 90% of it is paper promises.
	Well, this is exactly how they are beating us.
	And check this out. In gold, so far in the second quarter, 10.6 million ounces, or 329.2 tons, has been drawn down from London and off of COMEX. Just last week, in the first day of the August delivery, 28% of the registered category, those are the bars that are backing what is available, backing the contracts, was delivered.
	That worked out to 4,142 contracts.
	So if you take 4,142 442 contracts times 100, which is the weight of a gold contract, 414,200 ounces, call it times 2,500 bucks.
	You're at 1,035,500,000.
	That was in the first day.
	A billion dollars worth of gold was taken off of COMEX. And in the past...
	Well, that's probably the biggest I've seen and I can remember.
	I would say at least the last two or three years, it's the biggest one-day delivery that I can ever remember seeing.
	But this all points to a physical squeeze that is historic that eventually – There's not enough gold to fulfill all the paper.
	No, and it's these countries that are doing it.
	It's the sovereign wealth funds, and largely through the OTC market in London, the over-the-counter, which is opaque.
	And it's one-to-one.
	It's not off of an exchange.
	And so it's much less regulated and much less transparent.
	So you get sovereign wealth funds who will come in on behalf of the Chinese government and say, yeah, I'll stand for delivery for $500 million in gold.
	Thanks. And in silver...
	The silver deliveries are...
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	And following the same...
	In silver deliveries, we have seen for the...
	August delivery, or maybe it's the September delivery, I'm not sure, but Comex had 3,830 silver contracts yesterday or the day before, so that would be September, I think, stood for delivery.
	That's 19,150,000 ounces that stood for delivery.
	I mean, who's got that kind of bread?
	I don't know. And why are they taking it off the exchanges?
	Who's got the transport trucks for that?
	Silver's heavy, you know?
	I mean... You know what it's like to move cases of silver around because you're in the business.
	I mean, you've got to have a forklift and pallets.
	It's crazy. If you take 19,150 times 500, that's nine...
	1,575,000 ounces.
	And so divide that by 16, you're at 59,000, take that back, 598,437 pounds.
	So you're talking a lot of weight.
	That is a boatload of silver.
	You've got to have dump trucks to load that.
	Just as a side note, I did an interview with a guy named Sean Kun Kun, who's a fantastic dude, and he's the CEO of Dolly Varden Silver.
	And he said, Andy, it's crazy.
	He said, China is flying all around Latin America.
	They're going directly to the miners, and they're buying up all of the Doré and silver concentrate, unrefined, shipping it home to China and refining it.
	It doesn't come off of an exchange that way.
	It's transparent. It doesn't have effect on the price.
	And they're paying double what the West will pay for it.
	How many people know they're the second largest producer of silver in the world?
	So these countries are saying, screw the dollar, and they're using commodities in favor of treasuries and dollars and traditional ways of doing things as the Western media lulls everyone into a slumber.
	This is the little by little by little, the logarithmic decay that leads up to the Operation Sandman, where they have adequately de-dollarized, de-treasurized, and bought all the commodities at the Western stupid price that they could.
	In fact, China's been having on the Shanghai Exchange silver price at four bucks an ounce higher than the West for the last several months to incentivize the traders who can buy in the West and deliver in Shanghai.
	They're trying all they can to siphon Using jujitsu, our leverage against them by taking everything off the table that they can from soft commodities to hard until that moment where no one will sell them at those prices anymore.
	They see the value of being pre-positioned with gold and silver, clearly, because they're offering a premium in order to acquire it.
	Now, what all of this says to me, Andy, is that when the musical chairs stop for the Western financial system, Any nation, and frankly any individual, that's not holding gold and silver is going to be royally reamed.
	Yeah. Is what it looks like.
	And I think the thing to understand is if you look at the motivation behind all of these countries, they're not investing, and neither should you all.
	This is not about investing.
	Gold and silver go back to biblical times.
	They've been wealth that has outlived everything the world's ever thrown at them.
	And when you look at price, you're easily misdirected.
	And they know this. It's called painting the tape.
	They can paint the tape all they want.
	They can suppress the price, manipulate the price.
	Manipulate rhetoric, make everyone think that gold and silver are archaic relics of the past.
	And it allows all of these banks to reposition and to do so because they view it as wealth.
	They view it not as an investment.
	They're not trying to get wealthy.
	It is wealth.
	And that's when you see the most sophisticated and well-informed traders.
	Think the way the BIS operates.
	I'm telling you, the BIS told all of these countries, bring your gold home.
	Before anyone ever announced the unit that it would be 40% gold held within the own borders, just like they did in 2017, said buy gold and bring it home before it was announced the only other tier one asset.
	This is how the BIS operates.
	They tell the big boys and girls before they let the rest of us know what's happening, allowing them to quietly, methodically reposition, not rocking the boat, not letting any purchase get too big, not letting You know, any price swing to get too big.
	And then you see even Representative Mooney from West Virginia petition, you know, the Fed through the Freedom of Information Act, I think, and I don't know if he's gotten it yet.
	Who have we been delivering all of their gold?
	Who's been requesting all of their gold?
	And they don't want to tell us.
	Because it just goes to show the West losing their grip little by little.
	And it's a big deal, Mike.
	To me, it's a huge deal.
	And again, these are all the crumbs.
	Now, do I know that this is all going to happen?
	No, I don't. But you put the crumbs together and it looks pretty darn convincing that this is indeed at least on the table for a potential how it all plays out momentarily.
	There are a couple things that we do know with certainty.
	Number one, we know that dollars will lose value because the government will keep – well, the Treasury – I'm sorry, the Fed at the order of the Treasury will continue to print dollars.
	So we know the value will fall over time.
	That's absolutely guaranteed.
	They're not taking – Dollars off the table.
	They're printing dollars like crazy.
	So that's guaranteed. Secondly, we know, like you said, gold and silver throughout history, they have held value.
	And, you know, I'm teaching Bible scripture right now in terms of nutrition and superfoods, and there's gold mentioned all over the Bible, which means gold had value even then.
	It's in the Old Testament.
	I think over 400 times it was mentioned.
	Yeah! Even God was like, to the ancient Israelites, like, if you are wicked and selfish and greedy, I'll take away all your treasures, including your gold and your cinnamon.
	And I'm like, well, cinnamon's very affordable now, but gold has held value over all these years because of the scarcity.
	So gold will survive the rise and fall of civilizations, the collapse of empires.
	And the U S empire is now in, I would consider it to be an accelerating end stage collapse stage scenario.
	If you know anything about history, that's just, it saddens me, Andy.
	It's awful, It breaks my heart. I got three young kids, man, and it kills me.
	It truly does. And I see it every day and ask myself, how can this stuff be happening?
	But... What you just said, I want to kind of wrap it all up with a very interesting thing, what you just said, and I'll put an exclamation point on it.
	There's a man named Adam Glopinski, and Adam Glopinski is the head of the Polish National Bank.
	And they've been buying gold on pace with China, and they were, I think, the largest purchaser last year and on pace to be close to it this year.
	Poland, I want to read you something Adam Glopinski said, and I want your people to think about this.
	What you just said, think about it in that context.
	And he said that holding gold is a matter of financial security and stability.
	Now get this, Mike. Gold will retain its value even when someone cuts off the power to the global financial system, destroying traditional assets based on electric accounting records.
	Of course, we do not assume that this will happen, but as the saying goes, forewarned is always ensured, and the central bank is required to be prepared for even the most unfavorable circumstances.
	That is why we see a special place for gold in our foreign exchange management process.
	Cuts off the power of the global financial system destroying traditional assets based on electronic accounting records.
	Well, I mean, how many times have we heard recently about that type of situation happening?
	And when the Nikkei collapsed, is it ironic that all of the platforms across the U.S., like Robinhood and Fidelity and Vanguard and Schwab, they were all inoperable.
	Sorry, we're down. There's a problem, a bug or whatever.
	It becomes very interesting when you hear a head of a central bank say that.
	Now, is it a crumb?
	Is he clearing his conscience?
	Is he sending out a message to people to pay attention?
	So we told you that this could happen.
	I'm not saying it is, but I think it's very almost eerie to hear him say that.
	I watched a movie. I don't watch many movies because I'm so darn busy, but I watched one a few months ago with my wife on a rainy day here in Florida.
	And at the end of it, I'm like, geez, that was a scary movie.
	And my wife said, do you know that the Obamas produced it?
	I'm like, what? This is a movie about the grid and the internet going down.
	And it's frightening.
	I don't know what it's called. End of the world.
	I forgot the name of that.
	And so you keep hearing about this.
	I'm not saying that's going to happen.
	I'm not throwing that in there to frighten anyone.
	But he did just say this.
	And the fact that he says it to me is a little bit eerie, if you will.
	Yeah, well, absolutely.
	And I know we've got to wrap this up, and I thank you for your time.
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	I would anyway, Mike.
	I appreciate you jumping in last minute here because of what's happening.
	Well, that's my pleasure, man.
	And that tells me I'm doing something right to be noticed by a guy of your prestige.
	Well, you're my go-to guy on all of this.
	So let's stay in touch.
	I know you have another interview to jump to.
	And keep me posted on any big things that you see happening.
	We'll get you back on whenever it's necessary.
	I will leave you with one last big item that I saw, and I bet you saw this, too.
	Yesterday, I saw a video where Kamala Harris just promised Al Sharpton that she'll use tax dollars for reparations when she becomes president.
	I mean, you just can't make it up anymore.
	That, along with giving free loans, interest-free loans to undocumented immigrants, and they never have to pay back unless they sell their house, only in the great state of California.
	You just can't make it up.
	So, you know, as the Chinese curse says, Mike, may you live in interesting times.
	These are indeed interesting. And with the big BRICS meeting in October and the election in November, please, if you ever want to pick up where we left off, color me interested and know that I'll be here and we'll look forward to see what kind of curveballs the world's thrown at us.
	But until then, I hope you and everyone else stays well.
	And again, thank you very much for having me.
	All right. Thank you, Andy.
	And stand by while I wrap this up.
	But thank all of you for watching.
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	This is from my home studio, but Andy does.
	And Andy looks good enough for both of us.
	So thank you, Andy, for broadcasting video.
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	Welcome to today's sermon.
	I'm Mike Adams of abundance.church.
	That's our new website.
	It might even be up by the time you hear this.
	And there at that church website, you're going to be able to find the sermons, the songs, and over time additional resources.
	Teaching about nutrition will have some reference charts and tables about herbs and foods, superfoods, nutrients in the Bible, and how they were used in the Bible, and much more.
	Now, today we're going to be covering a very important, although short, book in the New Testament.
	Now, I know that most people pronounce it Colossians, but...
	Like S-H-U-N-S, like shuns at the end.
	I believe that pronunciation is incorrect.
	That if we are to be true to the, well, mostly Roman-influenced pronunciation of these words, it would be Colossians, not Colossians.
	Now, however you prefer to pronounce it, it's the same thing.
	I'll pronounce it Colossians, and it refers to, of course, a letter written mostly by Paul, but also believed to include input from Timothy.
	And Paul wrote it from prison, reportedly.
	And it was written to a church in a town in modern-day Turkey called Colossae.
	I've heard that pronounced different ways, Colossaea, but I'll go ahead and pronounce that, Colossaea.
	For convenience sake.
	Now, what's important to understand about this letter and what was going on at the time, and this is believed to have taken place around the year maybe 55 to 60 A.D. Let's just call it 60 A.D. This letter serves as a microcosm for a much larger religious philosophical battle taking place between the Old Testament and the New Testament.
	So the Old Testament, of course, all pre-Christ, dominated by the Jewish faith, and remember it was the Jewish religious leaders that demanded Christ be put to death, and they demanded that Rome kill Christ, because Christ was competing with their monopoly power over religion and over the people.
	And the Jewish leaders wanted to make sure they had total control.
	They did not like this new guy, Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, walking up and teaching people things like, hey, you don't need to engage in silly rituals like circumcision.
	Why are you cutting off the skin of the penises of your children?
	What? What are you doing?
	So Christ was also teaching people that the old rituals were not important.
	And in fact, those old rituals did not even work for their intended purpose.
	It was supposed to be, remember, God's covenant with the descendants of Abraham.
	And by the way, the descendants of Abraham includes a much larger group than just modern-day Jews.
	The descendants of Abraham include modern-day Palestinians and people all over the Middle East and Jordanians and so on.
	But that's too complex for this particular discussion.
	But It's not just talking about Jews.
	Lots of people. In fact, the whole religion of Islam is considered an Abrahamic religion, by the way.
	And in Islam, Abraham is considered a prophet, as is Christ.
	It's interesting that, I mean, it's kind of a side note here, but in Islam, Islam recognizes Christ as a prophet.
	Judaism doesn't recognize Christ at all.
	And it was the Jewish leaders that demanded Christ be killed.
	So remember that when you're reading these books in the New Testament, remember that Christ and his disciples, in this case Paul mostly, was trying to say, you don't have to remain stuck in the old world, the pre-Christ world, where you were required to go through these silly, silly rituals, like circumcision and only eating kosher foods.
	Christ says...
	You don't need that anymore.
	Just give blessings for all the foods provided by God.
	And I should say, through his disciples slash apostle, Paul the apostle, these are the teachings that are now post-Christ teachings or New Testament teachings.
	Because Christ said that he died in order to fulfill the Old Covenant with God, the Old Testament covenant.
	Therefore, you have been freed from those bonds.
	You no longer have to perform the old Jewish rituals in order to be close to God.
	Now, also, as you're going to hear in this book, Colossians, as I call it, you're going to hear Paul talking about slavery and the man of the household and how the wife no longer had to be absolutely obedient to the man because the real obedience is to God.
	And so this is one of the first times in which an apostle of Jesus speaks about what's wrong with slavery, what's wrong with the man of the household saying he owns his wife or that he owns his children.
	So this is really revolutionary, considering that this was just, you know, almost 2,000 years ago.
	These ideas were not widespread ideas at the time.
	And this is how revolutionary Jesus was.
	is.
	Jesus is a revolutionary and he freed humanity, not just in terms of the spirit, but also freeing humanity from the treacherous, imprisoned philosophies of the Old Testament, the old world and the corrupt imprisoned philosophies of the Old Testament, the old world and the corrupt Jewish priests that demanded everybody follow all their little silly rituals and do what we say, but not what we do and all
	Jesus said, you don't have to go along with the nonsense.
	And of course, Jesus also repeatedly spoke out against the corruption of the church and the corruption of government as well.
	So So this is part of what made him a revolutionary and also part of what ultimately got him, you know, murdered as the Jewish leaders looked on and applauded.
	And then they took his clothes on top of that.
	So we're going to go through Colossians here.
	Chapter one. Now, it's not a very long book.
	But it's deep. So, chapter 1, verse 1, the usual greetings, says, I always summarize this by saying, Hey, y'all. Okay, and then we go into verse 3.
	It says, We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always with you since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and so on and so forth.
	This is also another verse that just says, We come to you in the name of Christ.
	Now then, Paul reminds the people of Colossae of the preeminence of Christ.
	And he's saying, starting in verse 9, he's saying, you know, don't forget to walk with the Lord.
	And then in verse 13, he reminds them of what Christ did.
	Citing this directly, he has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.
	So he's reminding the people of Colossae here, well, the churchgoers of Colossae, he's reminding them, hey, don't forget that Christ died for your sins, but more than that, Christ died to fulfill this covenant with God.
	So going on to verse 15, He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
	For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible.
	Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him.
	Just, again, reminding the people that God is the creator, the architect, the engineer of all that is.
	Verse 17, And he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
	And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may have the preeminence.
	In essence, Paul is reminding them of the authority of God.
	And then he reminds them of Christ fulfilling this covenant with God.
	Verse 19, For it pleased the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell, and by him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
	In other words, he has already, they even use the word reconcile, he has reconciled The debt that man owed to God or the obligation that man owed God.
	Because of his blood on the cross, he has fulfilled the contract or the covenant with God.
	And thus, your obedience is essentially what Paul is writing to the citizens of Colossae.
	Your obedience and your recognition of authority should be to God.
	And he even reminds them that even though they were wicked in the past, they are now saved.
	Because he is risen.
	So verse 21, he says, In other words, Wow, he washed away your sins.
	Even if you were murderous, even if you were wicked, even if you were dishonest or immoral, he has washed away your sins so that you may appear before God.
	Or as it would have been said in the Old Testament, so that you may enter his tabernacle.
	Because now you are clean, but of course Christ didn't exist in the Old Testament.
	And this is what's revolutionary about Christ's.
	It's like now you are clean.
	You are spiritually clean if you accept Christ into your life because he has purified your soul through his sacrifice.
	You have received his salvation before God, you see.
	Okay, verse 23.
	Okay. Just saying, as long as you walk with Christ, then you have the salvation of Christ.
	You are blameless.
	You are now sinless, even if you previously sinned.
	Verse 24, I now rejoice in my sufferings for you.
	Because Paul's writing this from prison, so he is suffering in prison, and he reframes his suffering as kind of a celebration of sharing in the persecution of Christ.
	So he doesn't see his suffering as some horrible, horrible thing.
	He actually sees it as a sharing in the experience of Christ.
	This is kind of a toll that he must pay to be closer to Christ.
	So that's where this is coming from.
	Verse 24, again, I now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, which is the church.
	Okay, now, this gets interesting.
	The church is the body of Christ.
	So, in other words, when we worship Christ, we become the church.
	Okay? When Paul is talking about the church here, obviously he's not speaking of a physical building.
	He's not speaking of an organization that has filed taxes with the IRS or with Rome in that day.
	He is not speaking of a physical thing or a contract thing or something written on paper or I have business cards, you know, or a website.
	He's talking about the body of people who are believers, people who walk in faith with Christ.
	That's the church. That's the church.
	So the church is ephemeral.
	In other words, it is not physical.
	It's beyond physical. It has transcended the physical just as Christ himself has done with his resurrection.
	Okay? So, continuing again, let me back up.
	I now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, which is the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God, which was given...
	To me, for you, to fulfill the Word of God.
	Now, remember that Christ transferred God's Spirit, or some amount of it, He sort of delegated the Spirit of God to His disciples, and He gave to them The power of accelerating healing.
	And that is power of great love.
	It's healing. It's love.
	It's not like the Old Testament, which is rooted in death and destruction and killing and, you know, God unleashing a giant fireball and killing 250 Israelites or opening up the earth and they all got swallowed up into the giant earthquake or sinking pit.
	That's the Old Testament God.
	That's the God that Jews still study because, again, they don't believe in Christ.
	They don't teach Christ.
	But Christ has taught something new.
	It's rooted in healing.
	It's rooted in love.
	It's even spontaneous healing or miraculous healing.
	So, Paul continues,"...the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations but has now been revealed to his saints." That's the word of God, he says, to fulfill the word of God, the mystery which has been hidden.
	So in other words, God's promise goes beyond what has been previously recognized.
	There's something new that is going to be revealed through his saints or the apostles of Christ.
	Verse 27, to them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, So in other words, this gift of Christ in your life and the salvation of Christ who died for the sins of all humankind This also applies to the non-Jews.
	This applies to the Gentiles.
	And this is what Paul and Timothy and others did.
	They went out and they taught and they expanded.
	They ran missions to recruit Gentiles and people of other religions to the Christian church.
	And they set up churches in many different cities and towns and then had to come back and remind them from time to time, like in Corinth, Hey, you know, stop visiting the Roman god prostitutes.
	Get back to the business of being a church.
	Things like that, right? So that's what this is about.
	In other words, the teachings of Christ in the New Testament are much more inclusive of all humanity.
	They're not just limited to one ethnic group.
	They're not just limited to Jews in particular.
	Right? And in fact, Christ and his disciples specifically said, you don't have to follow the ancient Jewish rituals, nor are you any longer bound by these ancient requirements, this ancient covenant with God, the Abrahamic original covenant.
	You are free from that.
	Jesus set humanity free and said essentially that all people can join in his body, which is the church.
	The body of Christ is the church, the people who worship Christ, and the people who congregate for that purpose.
	That is the church.
	So if somebody asks you, do you have a church?
	Well, if you have three people gathering together...
	To preach the Word of God and Christ?
	You have a church. You have a church.
	And, of course, that is cited elsewhere in the New Testament as well.
	Verse 28, him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
	To this end, I also labor striving according to his workings, which work in me mightily.
	In other words, working to help mankind and women as well, walk in the footsteps of Christ so that they may obtain greater and greater closeness or greater degrees of perfection or as close as walk in the footsteps of Christ so that they may obtain greater and greater closeness or greater I'm not.
	And then in chapter 2, verse 8, he warns about people being deceived by teachers of philosophy who do not teach Christ and the salvation and Christ dying on the cross and giving his blood for the sins of man to wash away the sins and complete the covenant with God.
	So, verse 8, he says, beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
	See, invoking Christ is critical for, obviously, for being washed of sin and completing the covenant with God.
	Verse 9, for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, Now, this is a little bit wordy, but to simplify it, it's very simple.
	If you're not worshiping Christ, then you don't qualify for the salvation of Christ and kind of the spiritual deal that has been made where Christ died for your sins, gave his blood for your sins, washed away your sins,
	and completed the covenant with God. So for people who are out there worshiping something else or just worshiping The academic study of philosophy, or if they're just teaching morality without Christ in the teaching, what Paul is saying is that that's deception.
	That's empty. It's not enough.
	You have to walk in the footsteps of Christ as well.
	Now, in verse 11 here of chapter 2, this is a really great section.
	I love this because this specifically explains that the old world...
	Jewish contract is now null and void Here's how Paul and Timothy describe this.
	This is really powerful. Verse 11, Now,
	he's saying you can be essentially spiritually circumcised, that you don't have to be physically circumcised to be considered circumcision with Christ, okay?
	Verse 13,"...and you being dead in your trespasses, and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses." Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us, and he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
	This is powerful because he's saying that what Christ did was he took all the old contracts of the Old Testament, of the Jewish tradition.
	He took all those old contracts, all these silly things, you know, kosher foods and circumcision and all the husbands owning wives and all the...
	The man of the house owning slaves and all this stuff.
	He took all that stuff and just nailed it to the cross and then wiped it clean and nullified it.
	And it even says here that these things, they were, quote, contrary to us.
	And then in verse 15, he says, having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
	So he's referring to the way that Christ treated Pilate, the court judge of Rome, as well as the Jewish leaders, the elders, the scribes, the religious leaders, the Pharisees, all of them.
	He's saying that Christ made a spectacle of them.
	He made them out to be fools because he showed them where they thought they had power to kill him, to silence him, to destroy him.
	But what did he do instead?
	He transcended the flesh.
	And not only did he then transcend the human flesh, he was resurrected in the spirit and.
	He escaped, in essence, the physical body, which made him even more powerful to speak to more people and to delegate power to his disciples and to spread the word of Christ and his teachings even more.
	So that is his triumph.
	Now, this term, in the New Testament, when they talk about principalities and powers, it always reminds me of Ephesians, I believe, chapter 6.
	Let me find the verse. Okay, yeah, here it is.
	Ephesians 6, verse 12.
	So, what is that referring to?
	The corrupt church leaders and the corrupt government leaders who answer to Satan and You see how simple that is?
	So Christ, by allowing himself to be crucified and then rising from that through resurrection, he disarmed the principalities and powers that are, quote, the spiritual hosts of wickedness, the darkness of the age.
	Or the rulers of the darkness of the age.
	And it says, again, in Ephesians 6, verse 12, For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood.
	Jesus did not fight them in flesh and blood.
	He did not pick up a sword and battle them.
	He fought them in the spiritual realm, and he disarmed them.
	He didn't even really fight them.
	He transcended them.
	He triumphed over them in the spiritual world through transcendence.
	And in doing so, he nullified the spiritual binds that the Jewish religious leaders held over their own people saying, you must do this.
	You must do that.
	You have to do these silly ritualistic things.
	Otherwise, you're not a good Jew.
	And Christ said to them, that's nonsense.
	That's null and void.
	You are now free from that.
	You don't have to behave like some mindless servant of some Rome-approved church official.
	You now only need to answer to God.
	God is the ultimate authority.
	So Christ fought a spiritual battle and freed humanity and saved all of humanity.
	And that's what Paul is reminding these people.
	Verse 16, So let no one judge you in food or drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths.
	See? He's saying it right there.
	Don't worry about kosher foods.
	You don't have to be part of these ritualistic holidays.
	Verse 17, Which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
	Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
	Basically saying, don't let the rulers of the powers of darkness cheat you from this great prize, which is your salvation, that Christ gave to you for free.
	Verse 20, he continues, therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations?
	Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle, which all concern things which perish with the using according to the commandments and doctrines of men.
	See, again, this is what he's saying.
	These rules are nonsense.
	You have been freed from these rules.
	He's talking about the Old Testament, Old World Jewish rules.
	He says, these things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion.
	False humility, see they have an appearance of wisdom, but they're not really wise.
	False humility and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
	What he is saying here is that even the people who went through all these rituals and obeyed the rituals, they still ended up...
	Banging the hookers at the Roman temples, okay?
	I mean, sorry to put it so bluntly, but following the ritual did not impart morality to these people.
	That's what he is saying.
	True morality must involve spiritual morality, and the path to that is through Christ and Christ alone.
	This is what he is teaching.
	He even explains this in chapter 3, verse 1.
	And if then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
	Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
	It's very clear.
	Have spiritual goals, not goals of just collecting wealth and fame and popularity and power.
	Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
	For you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
	When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
	And what this is saying is...
	Metaphorically, but also spiritually very genuine is that when you accept Christ into your life, your old self dies and your new self is born, born again in the spirit of Christ.
	And when you are born again in the spirit of Christ, your focus should not be on these earthly things.
	Your focus must be on the spiritual reality, which is the transcendent dimension above this simulation.
	This is what he's saying.
	You're born again with Christ.
	You're freed from the ancient rituals and all the silly little things.
	You don't have to do all those silly things.
	Instead, you can focus on something far more important, which is your eternal soul.
	Will you sit with God?
	Will you appear with him in glory?
	This is the question that is being posed here, or at least it's an implied question.
	Verse 5, therefore put to death your members which are on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
	So he's saying, put to rest, put to rest, you know, these crazy desires or these habits or these addictions and all these horrible evil things.
	Verse 6, because of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience in which you yourselves once walked when you lived with them.
	Hmm. A warning for those who have not turned to Christ and who are still steeped in evil desire, covetousness, uncleanness, fornication.
	What is it in the modern world?
	Swipe left, swipe right on the mobile phones, hookups, meetups, I don't know, fornicating in public, swiping everywhere, swiping and wiping, whatever they do.
	Yeah, that's not going to work out too well in the spiritual world.
	Because the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.
	The wrath of God is coming.
	And he even reminds the people of Colossae here, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
	You used to be those people too.
	As did Paul, by the way.
	You know, the author of this letter knows what evil is because he used to live it.
	He used to be there.
	He used to be one of those people.
	Some of the best teachers of the word of Christ and God are those who were once steeped in evil.
	And as it is true that all men and women, all people have sinned.
	But the real question is, when you are born again and walk with Christ, do you take that seriously?
	Or do you go back and sin Monday through Friday, but then repent on like Saturday and Sunday?
	You know, this is the question of our time.
	Once you accept Christ in your life, it's spiritually crucial, if not mandatory, to walk with Christ every day of your life, to walk with In honor of the sacrifice that he made for you.
	And this is what's stated in verse 8, essentially.
	But now you yourselves are to put off all these anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
	Of that one, I'm a little bit guilty from time to time.
	But not in these sermons, by the way.
	So I have to clean up my language a little bit here and there as well.
	But verse 9, and that's part of my transition from this world, this world of filth and disgust and so many vile entities and vile people and so on.
	As I move into the world of the church and the world of Christ, I also have to clean up my own language.
	Maybe you do too, but I know that's one thing that I have to do.
	Verse 9,"...do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds." And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge according to the image of him who created him.
	See, this is a description of the metaphor of your old person, your old self, is no longer who you are.
	You are now reborn. You are resurrected in your new self.
	And then verse 11, What is he saying here?
	Very powerful. Saying that Christ embraces and welcomes all of humanity because all human beings are children of God.
	Even the slaves, he says.
	Even the slaves, even the barbarians.
	Even people who are not of faith.
	And especially the Gentiles.
	People who are not circumcised.
	This is the word of Christ through Paul.
	Very powerful. Now, Paul continues in verse 12 here, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved.
	Now, by the elect, of course, what he means is the church, the church that is the body of Christ.
	So when you join with Christ, you are part of the church, you are part of his body, and you are the elect of God, just by definition.
	So that's what that means. It doesn't mean that God chose specific people or elected specific people or is limited to some small group of people.
	So sometimes people misread the elect as meaning the chosen ones.
	That's not what it means.
	It means that you elect to join with Christ and God.
	So any human being can make this election.
	Anyway, verse 12. So he's saying that Now we're in the New Testament.
	We're in the world of Christ.
	Compared to the old world of the Old Testament that's been followed by the Jewish traditions, which is rooted in dominance and, frankly, exploitation of wives and children and slaves and all kinds of other horrible things, and war and death and killing and genocide and all of that, Today, because of Christ, it's different.
	Now, our religion, our spirituality is rooted in kindness.
	It's rooted in forgiveness.
	It's rooted in these new things of humility and mercy.
	Verse 14,"...but above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection." And what I believe he means by this is that love is the vibration of cosmic consciousness or love is the vibration of creation.
	So this gets really metaphysical, in my view, right here.
	But above all these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
	Now, see, when he says bond, now, understand I have a training in science.
	I'm a food scientist.
	And I studied the table of elements and the ionic bonds between atomic elements that then form molecules.
	And in the world of physics, there's subatomic physics, which is studying all the things that are smaller than atoms.
	And then there's chemistry, which is studying molecules made up of atoms, right?
	And ionic bonds or covalent bonds, as they're called in chemistry, that's one form of bond which creates the physical matter at the molecular level.
	But inside the atomic structure, the atomic nuclei in particular, there are things that used to be called the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.
	And there are two other key forces, which is gravity and electromagnetism, and these four fundamental forces of the cosmos.
	These four forces were chosen by God to have exactly the right constants.
	Without these very specifically tuned constants, the universe would not function.
	For example, the whole universe would have collapsed by now.
	If the weak nuclear force were much stronger, or if gravity were much stronger, or if gravity were much weaker, then the whole universe would have exploded and there would be no planets near suns and there would be no warm, lush worlds.
	Or if chemistry didn't work the same way, you know, water wouldn't expand when it freezes and water wouldn't float.
	And so all the oceans would be filled with ice from the bottom up instead of floating ice on top.
	Yeah, seriously, life would not exist as we know it.
	So in this verse 14, and I understand that perhaps I'm the only one that interprets it in this way, but above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection, I see that as being a truly multilayered metaphysical statement that the vibration of love is the bond of creation.
	It is the bond...
	You know, look, if you go into the atomic structure...
	What do you find? You find nothing.
	And you notice that the countries around the world, in the name of science, have built massive super colliders, one in particular known as CERN. And when they run that super collider, and I forgot how long it is, it's like hundreds of kilometers long in a giant circle, and it's underneath a couple of different countries.
	You know what they're looking for when they smash protons into each other?
	You know what they're looking for? The God particle.
	That's what they call it.
	They call it the God particle.
	They're trying to find a particle that binds matter together.
	Or in particular, when they say the God particle, they're trying to find a particle that gives mass to matter.
	Yeah, right.
	That gives mass to matter.
	Right. In other words, the materialism component of the entire cosmic reality of this simulation, it's only possible because of the God particle, which they haven't yet found, and the God particle causes things to bond together in perfection, which is what's quoted in this line.
	This is why I say, look, the Bible speaks to different people at different times, different centuries even.
	As technology advances or humanity changes and moves forward, backward, whatever, the Bible is a perfect book because it was handed down by God himself speaking through people or granting words or visions or different forms of communication to be recorded so that it could be referenced across all time, that as human knowledge expanded, then more and more verses of the Bible would make sense in the present time.
	In other words, the Bible's not just a document of history.
	It's a fractal, temporal document that spans all time and speaks to people across different epochs.
	And so now we know about subatomic physics, and we can understand that the bond of perfection is the God particle, which is rooted in love.
	I know. I know.
	It's... It's a tough concept, but frankly, if you look inside atoms, atomic structure, there's nothing there.
	There are no electrons.
	No such thing. You can't, like, grab an electron out of its orbital shell.
	Hence the Heisenberg principle.
	An electron is just a probabilistic orbital...
	It's a multidimensional...
	Probability of existence of something, it's not even real.
	There are no electrons.
	There are no particles.
	There are only vibrations, string theory, multidimensional theory.
	Look, God created this dimension, this simulation as I call it.
	And he infused it with love, which is the living waters of our consciousness at a cosmic level.
	And he created the laws of physics.
	He created the laws of chemistry and the table of elements.
	And what he's teaching with Christ and throughout much of the New Testament is that if you, humanity, if you hold the vibration of love, then your universe will work.
	You'll have a future.
	Right? But if you contradict the vibration of love and if you live in hatred and vengeance and wickedness and destruction, you will destroy your world.
	You will destroy your cosmos.
	You will destroy your entire reality.
	Game over. And we talked about that in a previous sermon.
	So the second coming of Christ, the return of Christ, I believe it doesn't mean that Christ is coming back to this world anymore.
	I think it means that the simulation ends, and then we rejoin with Christ, with God.
	And then at that time, then there is judgment.
	What did we do in this simulation?
	Did we live in alignment with Christ, or were we wicked and jealous and conniving and all that other stuff?
	I think the simulation ends.
	I don't know when it ends, and maybe we can prolong that by rooting our actions in love rather than hatred.
	If humanity continues on its current course, you won't have to worry about economics or food crop shortages.
	You won't have to worry about supply chains and spare parts and microplastics because the whole cosmic simulation will be terminated.
	Think about that.
	Anyway, he continues, verse 15,"...and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body." See, also double meanings here, right?
	To which you were also called in one body, meaning in one way you were called as the body of Christ or as the elect of God.
	You were called as the church.
	But also, what else does it mean?
	To which you were called in one body, right?
	Your spirit, your soul was put by God into one body.
	You were called by God to inhabit this one body that you have and you should be thankful for it, he says.
	Be thankful. Because you have the gift of life.
	You have the gift of this one body.
	What are you going to do with it? Now, this body is the animated material elements.
	Your body is made of mostly carbon.
	We talked about that. Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
	These are the animating elements of your physical body, but they are not you.
	You are not your body.
	You transcend your body already with your consciousness and your soul.
	But the body plays a trick on us because the senses dominate our perception, our understanding of who we are.
	And that's why when you ask people, where is your mind?
	Most people will point to their head.
	They think their mind is in their skull.
	The mind is not material.
	Your brain is in your skull.
	Your mind is not even here.
	Your mind already transcends your body just as Christ transcended His body in the resurrection.
	And then, yes, He came back and He took human form of His choosing, not the human form that He used to have.
	That's why He was mistaken for being the gardener.
	Who are you? The gardener.
	No, that's Christ.
	Actually, that's Christ returning.
	But as someone who transcended the physical realm, he can take on any form he wishes.
	The truth is, you already have a transcendent part of you, which is connected to God and cosmic consciousness.
	And that part is forever tied to God.
	And your body is just a temporary projection that your soul inhabits in this world.
	But when your soul and your consciousness leaves your body, it collapses into a pile of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
	It just returns, you know, dust to dust.
	It goes back to the matter, which is no longer living.
	Now, in verse 16,"...let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom." Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord, which I did with the recent rap song, I'm happy to say. You think God likes my rap song?
	I think God loves the rap song because it's fun.
	It's fun. It's animating the Word of God, at least the Old Testament song of Solomon.
	I I think God loves joy, and when people have fun with Scripture, not in a mockery kind of way, but in a fun way.
	Like, it doesn't have to be insufferable and boring and monotonous.
	I mean, think about it.
	That's kind of the lesson of Christ himself.
	He's like, you don't have to go through all these ancient rituals.
	That's nonsense. Welcome to the new world.
	You are free. Be joyful.
	You know? Enjoy your life.
	And I like to live that way.
	But notice, in this verse 16, it says, Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching, and admonishing one another.
	Now, he's saying it's okay to correct each other, too, by the way.
	It's very important that this teaching, you know, forgiveness and understanding and compassion, this doesn't mean that you're supposed to put up with nonsense.
	Like if somebody's breaking into your house every day and looting your pantry and stealing your food, you don't have to be, you know, Christ-like.
	We love you, brother.
	Take more loot every day.
	No, no, no. It's okay to stop them.
	They're thieves. A lot of people misunderstand this.
	It's kind of like the Pope recently said that, oh, you have to welcome all these illegal migrants who are breaking into your country illegally and looting your cities and stabbing your citizens in the UK or in Germany or wherever or France sometimes.
	And the Pope's like, you have to welcome them all in no matter what.
	No, we don't, actually.
	Christ also had boundaries.
	A lot of boundaries. And thievery is wrong and looting is wrong and breaking the law to enter the country is wrong.
	Yes, we can love immigrants who are legal, who go through the vetting process, who follow the rule to secure a border and its nation for its people.
	And then when those immigrants come in and want to contribute to the nation, yes, we can embrace them, we can love them, we can support them, we can welcome them into our church, and so on.
	But the teachings of Christ are never about putting up with endless treachery and transgressions against you.
	That's not what any of that means.
	And that's why the word wisdom in that passage is so important.
	You have to have wisdom.
	You know, have discernment here.
	You have to protect your community, your children, your congregation, against foreign invaders, obviously.
	Verse 17, And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
	In other words, don't sit back and think that it's all me.
	You know, all this stuff is me and mine.
	Which is like Smeagol from Lord of the Rings.
	It's mine! You know, it's like, oh no!
	If you go down that path of just possession and greed and giving yourself credit for everything, obviously you're going to lose sight of the fact that you're only here because of God.
	Your whole life is a gift from God.
	Your consciousness, your spirit, your soul inhabiting your body is a gift from God.
	Everything that you have obtained, so to speak, everything that you've eaten, all the food, all the orchards, the nuts and fruits, all the herbs, all the natural medicine, everything that's on God's green earth here, yeah, it's a gift from God.
	All the natural resources, the time that you have to carry out your life, all gifts from God.
	So always remember that.
	So now, in the next section, verse 18, Paul's talking about a new era of freedom for wives and children and slaves.
	So this is subtle, because remember, in that time, the household was dominated by the man, the husband, and he was the ruler.
	And the wives had to be obedient to him, and according to the old teachings, he owned the Paul came along and said in this letter, also with Timothy, of course, said, wait a second, let's rethink this.
	So here's how it reads in English.
	I'm really curious to know how this might have been written in its original form.
	But verse 18 says, Wives, submit to your own husbands as is fitting in the Lord.
	Now you see, that's not saying wives obey your husbands at all costs, no matter what.
	It's saying that obedience to your husband is qualified.
	It is dependent on the will of the Lord.
	So now then, who is in charge?
	It's not your husband, it's the Lord.
	See? So, in other words, saying, wives, submit to your own husbands only as is fitting in the Lord.
	In other words, sure, obey your husband, but only if the Lord would approve of you doing that.
	You see what I'm saying? The husband is no longer your ruler or owner.
	And then, in verse 19, it says, husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
	And you can imagine what this probably means in those days.
	A lot of spousal abuse.
	Probably some beatings were taking place here and there.
	Very angry, vengeance-filled Old Testament husbands that were not happy with what their wives were saying or doing.
	Look, we have to use our imaginations a little bit here, but It wasn't an equal rights era, right?
	So there's probably a lot of abuse going on.
	And so Paul says, hey, husbands, stop beating your wives, basically, is what he's saying.
	And then verse 20, once again, there's a qualifier.
	He's saying that children, yes, obey your parents.
	As the Lord would approve.
	In other words, clever way to say that.
	And then, fathers, he says, do not provoke your children lest they become discouraged.
	See what he's saying to the dads?
	Old Testament dads?
	Stop beating your wives and stop beating your children, basically, is what he's saying.
	And then, verse 22, let me interrupt myself here.
	You realize how wicked humanity has always been?
	I mean, if you think about Old Testament and New Testament, the Old Testament was God trying to force this group of human beings to behave as humans and not animals, basically.
	Laying down all these rules and making them do these rituals and hoping that maybe somebody would be more God-like.
	You know, more polite, more humble, more human.
	And it failed. It failed.
	Look, the Old Testament is largely a story of failure of God trying to teach humans how to act like human beings.
	That's pretty much the summary of the Old Testament.
	And so then what does God do?
	He says, well, I'm going to try something different.
	I'm going to send my son, Jesus.
	I'm going to put a portion of my spirit into human form.
	I'm going to send Jesus to earth and have Jesus clear out all the sins of humanity and try to teach them love instead of burning up all the people with fireballs and destroying them because you're an angry God.
	So in other words, the Old Testament was God trying anger and wrath, and the New Testament is God teaching love and acceptance through Christ.
	I mean, that's a summary of it.
	And so this is why the New Testament teachings...
	Are trying to help people recognize that this is the new revolution.
	This is the Christ era.
	We are now rooted in love and forgiveness and acceptance, and all our sins have been cleared, and it's time to stop being wicked.
	It's time to stop beating your wives and children, as is in the verse here, verses 18 through 21.
	And let's talk about the slaves, which are called bond servants.
	In verse 22, here's what Paul writes.
	masters according to the flesh, not with eye service as men pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.
	And whatever you do, do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men.
	Oh, knowing that from the Lord, you will receive the reward of the inheritance for you serve the Lord of Christ, the Lord Christ.
	But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.
	Look, what is he saying?
	If you're a slave, you're not serving your master, ultimately.
	You are serving the Lord. Now, yes, he says, obey your master, as this was what existed in the day.
	This was the society.
	There were, quote, owners of slaves.
	But Paul says that as a, quote, slave, your real master is the Lord and you shall receive your reward in heaven, your inheritance for all the service that you have paid in this world by obeying your, quote, your human master in the flesh.
	You see that? You see how subtle that is?
	Paul was an amazing writer, an amazing mind, and he knew how to tweak society just enough.
	I mean, no wonder they threw him in jail, right?
	Because he was out there preaching the truth and preaching freedom and love.
	In a time when most people were still stuck in hatred and dominance over others and owning people, And vengeance and destruction and death.
	But that's the Old Testament.
	You see? New Testament, which sadly many Christian churches in America still don't even teach.
	I don't know why. They're still stuck in the Old Testament.
	It's like they don't even recognize that Christ has risen.
	It's crazy.
	They're not even teaching the Word of Christ.
	I don't know what they're teaching.
	But Christ tells us that our real obedience is that God...
	Not, you know, your slave master or your husband master or any other human.
	And then he follows that up, by the way, in chapter 4, which is a continuation.
	He says, Masters, give your bondservants or your slaves what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.
	See? Hardcore.
	He's saying to the slave owners, you better treat your slaves with some sense of dignity or you will answer to God.
	Yeah. Powerful.
	And then he goes on, and he's kind of wrapping this up at this point.
	Continue earnestly in prayer, he says, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving.
	Meanwhile, praying also for us that God would open to us a door for the Word to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains.
	He's referring to his imprisonment.
	That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.
	He's like, pray for us so that we may go share the word of God through Christ.
	Verse 5, walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
	He's saying outside the elect.
	In other words, walk in wisdom and speak with wisdom toward those who have not yet accepted Christ into their lives.
	Verse 6, let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt.
	Now, what does he mean by seasoned with salt?
	What is grace seasoned with salt?
	Well, this is a self-reinforcing mode of speech because what's interesting is that Paul is demonstrating what it means to speak with grace seasoned with salt when he writes, speak with grace seasoned with salt.
	In other words, he's demonstrating it.
	What it means is that Yes, be polite, be graceful.
	And then sometimes you got to tweak people.
	You got to nudge them.
	You got to point something out.
	You got a red pill here and there.
	That's what he's saying. Seasoned with salt.
	Salt, you know, burns the eyes.
	Burns a wound, right?
	It kind of stings a little bit.
	Seasoned with salt means sometimes it stings.
	So yeah, overall, proceed in the world with grace and politeness.
	Like, when you meet people for the first time, you know, don't be a horrible person to them.
	I'm trying to watch my profanity here, so I'm not going to say what came to mind.
	But don't be a bad person.
	Now, if they treat you horribly, well then, that's different.
	You know, then you can respond in whatever way is appropriate to set your boundaries or call them out or admonish them.
	Yes. But, by default, treat people with a sense of kindness.
	Yes, there may be times where you have to call out their lies or their mistakes.
	You have to call out their lack of wisdom or their lack of discernment, which, of course, I do on a somewhat frequent basis, I point out.
	Things that are wrong in the world in my regular podcasts and horrible mistakes that are being made and oversight.
	And there's a lot of wickedness out there because this earthly realm right now, sadly, is dominated by Lucifer.
	So a lot of horrible things to point out, right?
	But Paul says that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
	So this comes down to wisdom and experience.
	Let experience wisdom and faith be your guide.
	And that's Colossians, as I pronounce it, or Colossians, as other people say.
	Think about the overall message here.
	Paul writing from prison, speaking about the freedom that Christ gave humanity, and hoping that he himself can be freed from prison in order to further...
	Teach the word of Christ so that more people may come to him and therefore find their freedom.
	Freedom from the old ways of the Old Testament.
	Freedom from the Jewish traditions that are ritualistic and petty, frankly.
	And even the fact that he's mentioning the slaves in this book, he's also implying that humanity, the human race, has been a slave race before the time of Christ.
	Christ freed the slaves.
	Not Abraham Lincoln, at least not in biblical times.
	Christ freed the slaves because all of humanity was enslaved under an ancient covenant with God that was in essence impossible for humanity to fulfill.
	No one could achieve the fulfillment of the covenant.
	And that's why God got mad at them and often killed them by the hundreds, if not more.
	So Christ freed the slaves, and he did so by dying on the cross, giving his blood and his earthly life for all of humanity to wash away your sins.
	In order to honor that, we must walk with Christ, and we must know that our old body is cast aside, and now we are the new body with Christ, and that in this new body of Christ, we walk with him with humility and kindness, with we walk with him with humility and kindness, with forgiveness, but also occasionally seasoned with salt, as Paul said, where necessary to admonish people or to hold boundaries or to speak the truth that is necessary.
	It doesn't mean that we have to be weak or cowardly or allow ourselves to be stomped on all the time.
	We must hold the line where necessary but have a default stance of love because that is the bond between people and communities.
	Love is the bond at the atomic level, at the molecular level.
	It's the bond of the cosmic reality created from the mind of God as intention becoming energy And then energy with the vibration of love becoming material matter and the animation of matter becoming molecules,
	becoming your body filled with your God-given spirit of consciousness so that you would have the gift of life to be here and learn who you are and fulfill God's plan for you, whatever that may be. Isn't it amazing?
	You were literally chosen by God to be here.
	We all were. Even those who are not Jews, those who are not Christians, those who are not even people of faith.
	Nevertheless, they were chosen by God to be here in this moment.
	They were given the gift of life by God, and many of them don't even know it.
	Walking around with miracles in their bones, not even knowing.
	How miraculous it is that they are animated and alive.
	Some people will go through their whole lives not realizing this, and they will die in spiritual poverty, no matter what their material rich is, because they never knew who they were or where they came from.
	But those who right now in this moment are rich in God's grace, rich in the understanding of where they came from, Well, they are wealthy through all time, even if they live in poverty in this material world.
	Know thyself.
	Know thyself.
	You are not a physical being.
	You are God's spiritual gift of life and consciousness, temporarily animating life.
	A physical body, which itself is always exchanging atomic structure with the world around you.
	I mean, did you know that there are hydrogen atoms in your body right now that were once in the body of Christ?
	Did you know that?
	It is a statistical certainty.
	Once you do the math, then you understand how many hydrogen atoms can fit Remember, physically we're made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
	It is a certainty that right now in your body is at least one atom of hydrogen that was in the body of Christ.
	You are literally the body of Christ, even if you didn't realize it.
	So, I know this gets deep.
	I know this goes on so many levels.
	And this is why I love Scripture, especially the writings of Paul.
	As you know, I've become quite a fan of Paul's words and his brilliance, his wisdom, his poetry.
	And every time I read Paul, it just takes me into these deeper, deeper realms of That I've shared with you here today.
	But that's...
	See, this is why I have such trouble reading Scripture.
	Because I can't just, like, read a page and then turn the page and go to the next page.
	Like, those words just ran through my head and now they're gone.
	Uh-uh. I read a page and I'm like, whoa!
	And I have to just...
	I have to sit with that for a while.
	Sometimes I have to take a walk.
	Actually, I took a walk in the middle of this sermon here, by the way.
	I hit pause and I walked with my goats and my dogs for about 45 minutes and then I came back.
	Sometimes I have to do that.
	Sometimes something hits me so hard in Scripture that I have to just stop for the day.
	I have to sleep on it, literally.
	My mind has to come to grips with it.
	I don't feel like I'm reading Scripture.
	I feel like I'm integrating it.
	It's becoming more and more of who I am and I'm starting to find myself Just inadvertently citing Scripture from time to time and didn't even think about it.
	It's like, whoa, suddenly, you know, that makes sense.
	I'm seeing that. That's written here.
	You know, this was what Paul said.
	This was what Timothy said.
	This was what Moses said.
	You know, it's like, wow. Wow.
	Well, anyway, that's my experience of it.
	And I'm happy to share it with you, and I appreciate your support.
	Now, on a practical note, of course, we have 100 sermons coming out.
	We're on number 35 or 36 or something like that.
	So quite a few more.
	And we're posting them all at the new website, abundance.church.
	And there, at least once it's up and running...
	If you go there now, you can subscribe to the email list, and you'll be alerted via email when we have significant new things to post.
	But our long-term vision of what to post on that site is, of course, all these 100 sermons, plus the songs I'm doing.
	I've got the next song, which is all recorded and done.
	It's called God is with Us, although I did change one verse.
	I improved a verse yesterday, so I re-recorded one verse much better.
	Now we're working on the music video for that one.
	That'll get posted on the site.
	And then also, we're going to have reference charts.
	Because I have quite a library of books about foods and herbs and superfoods in the Bible and essential oils and all kinds of things.
	And we're going to end up posting a lot of reference material to help you We'll dive into nutrition in the Bible, foods in the Bible.
	And even beyond that, you know, we'll be covering...
	Look, God's molecules include all the molecules on earth, not just the ones mentioned in the Bible.
	That's really critical to understand.
	There are plants that were growing in other regions that were not known to the Middle East.
	In fact, it's pretty amazing that spikenard is mentioned, given that that originally is from the Himalayan mountain region.
	Modern day China. And it eventually wound its way to India, where it was cultivated and then transported via the spice trade routes to the Middle East.
	But we might not have ever known about Spike Nard if somebody hadn't brought it to India.
	We don't even know who that was.
	Maybe his name was Spike.
	No, I'm kidding.
	It was Nard. But the Chronicles of Nardia.
	Yeah, I think that was his journey, the Chronicles of Nardia.
	But how many other plants are there in the world that are God's creations?
	They are molecules of Mother Nature and God, and yet they were never mentioned in the Bible because the people in that region did not know about them.
	Think about it. You know, modern-day China, Central and South America, the Mesoamerican cultures, the ancient cultures in India and Southeast Asia— I mean, indigenous cultures, aborigines in different places all around the world, the aboriginal natives, right?
	So God's molecules is a superset of the herbs mentioned in the Bible.
	The Bible is just a starting point for it.
	But the fundamental philosophy that God created these molecules for the benefit of humankind, these are the blessings to mankind.
	These are the treasures in this earthly realm.
	And that's why they're mentioned so often in the Bible, the pomegranates and the grapevines and the figs and the living waters and everything else, because these are treasures from God given to you.
	So what does our modern medical system do today and our food system?
	They reject all the foods of God.
	They reject the medicines of God.
	And the FDA even outlaws them.
	And mankind's law system outlaws people telling the truth about God's molecules and what they can do.
	The church of natural medicine has been criminalized by the government in almost every country in the world.
	You can't tell the truth about what God's molecules do.
	That's the attack on the church.
	That's the attack on God that is consistent with what you see, governments attacking spirituality and attacking Christianity, just like they did 2,000 years ago.
	So it's the same story again and again and again, but at some point, the ultimate defeat of Lucifer does occur.
	We don't know when that is, but there is a moment where that takes place, and we'll cover more of that in an upcoming sermon.
	Thank you for listening. I know today's sermon was a bit on the long side, but I wanted to get through the entire book of Colossians.
	Again, that's the way I prefer to pronounce it.
	And thank you for your blessings and thank you for your support.
	I've had a lot of positive feedback about these sermons.
	Many people enjoy me sort of bringing Scripture to life in a new way, and I greatly appreciate that feedback.
	I'm really enjoying this.
	I'm having a great time learning and teaching and sharing and connecting the dots, and there's much more yet to come.
	In fact, what about 65 more sermons?
	And one per day, you know?
	And then maybe at that time, when I finish 100, I might take a day off.
	I don't know. Maybe. We'll see.
	Until then, it's one per day until we get to 100.
	So thank you for listening. God bless you all.

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