Sermon #084 - Daniel Ch 12 - ETERNAL LIFE is only achieved through God...
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Okay, today we are beginning with Daniel chapter 12.
Daniel chapter 12.
This is really important.
It fits into everything that we've covered so far.
And the theme of our talk today is the afterlife.
And specifically, the afterlife found in Christ and with God versus eternal life on earth, which is transhumanism.
And that is what's desired by a lot of people on earth who do not believe in the spirit.
They do not believe in the afterlife.
They do not believe in God.
They believe in technology, and they are worshiping technology as false idols.
And they can't wait to merge with the machines.
And they think that they will be made into gods by joining with machines and having their consciousness uploaded into machines.
They think they will live forever.
Well, that is, of course, demonic.
And it contradicts what Christ teaches and also what the prophet Daniel taught before that.
So let's go to Daniel 12, verse 1.
At that time, now, he's talking about the time of wars, of great wars and great upheaval on the earth, sort of alluding to the end times, but we'll get to that.
Verse 1, at that time, Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people.
He's talking about the archangel Michael.
And there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that time.
In other words, an upheaval like never before in recorded history.
And at that time, your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.
Now, who are those found written in the book?
What book is he referring to?
He's referring to the book of life.
You are written into the book of life if you are a person who performs good deeds.
If you are a bad person, a wicked person, you are not written into the book of life.
And so you shall not be delivered.
That's, you know, hey, it's very clear.
So, okay.
At that time, your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake and This is referring to the rapture, which we've already determined is a post-tribulation rapture that happens after the seven trumpets and the seven bowls, you know, the asteroid impacts or comet impacts that destroy ultimately all of human civilization, every human being alive.
And so, again, verse 2, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
So this is reiterating this critical message that we've talked about many times, that all of those who died previously and who die in the end times events, because we all physically die, you know, sooner or later,
if not during the end times, You will awaken, your spirit, in other words, will awaken either to everlasting life, that is, eternal life in a different dimension beyond this 3D world, eternal life for your soul, or, quote, some to shame and everlasting contempt.
That's hell.
That is, everlasting separation from the Lord.
Verse 3, those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever, meaning you will shine like the stars forever and ever.
So if you can help bring people to righteousness, if you can help other people become good people, Now, this promise is repeated numerous times throughout the Old and New Testaments.
It's essentially an extension of God's covenant, but it speaks about the afterlife.
You know, Let's say in Exodus and Numbers and Deuteronomy, you know, the early books of the Old Testament, God's covenant was more earthly.
It was, if you are obedient to me, the Lord, I will give you milk and honey and figs and grapes and all the cattle and sheep and rams and the fountains of the living waters and you'll have all the minerals that you want, you know, good mining, all of this kind of thing.
That's the Old Testament covenant.
But the covenant is implied.
Actually, it's described many different ways.
Even in the New Testament, it's a covenant that goes beyond this physical world.
It's a spiritual covenant with God for the afterlife.
And it's clear that you are earning your place in the afterlife as your primary currency during this life on earth.
And this structure is repeated in the New Testament.
Here's an example in 2 Corinthians 5, first verse.
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For in this, speaking of the earthly tent, for in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven, In other words, the earth was created from heaven.
God created this simulation.
this is actually referring to this 3D simulation, which is our known cosmos.
If indeed having been clothed, we shall not be found naked for we who are in this tent grown, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
Now he who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has also given us the spirit as a guarantee.
Wow.
Wow.
That...
That mortality may be swallowed up by life.
So, this is further explained in verse 6 here, also in 2 Corinthians 5.
So, we are always confident knowing that while we are at home in the body, you know, while we are inhabiting this body, that's essentially what it says.
Our spirit, which is a gift from God, is inhabiting this body.
We are In other words, our consciousness has been sent on an adventure.
This is the adventure.
Welcome to your adventure.
Many of us have been on this adventure for some number of decades, right?
But we are absent from the Lord.
Our consciousness is not with the Lord in this adventure.
We are pioneers in essence.
We have pioneered this life.
Our spirit, for whatever reason, agreed to be sent here.
We inhabited a body, and now we are trying to solve the riddle of why we are here, right?
And we're absent from the Lord.
Verse 7, for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Very powerful verse.
We walk by faith, not by sight.
We walk With faith, knowing that we are extensions of the Lord and His gifts of life and consciousness, and that we will return to the Lord in the afterlife, in the heavenly realm, which is a dimension beyond this dimension.
Verse 8, we are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord, meaning that when this body expires, we When we leave this body, we will be pleased to be present with the Lord.
But remember that it is conditional.
It is conditional whether we go to heaven or hell.
In fact, verse 9 addresses that right here, same chapter.
Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well-pleasing to him, referring to the Lord.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
You got that?
That your life will be reviewed.
All the things you did in this simulation, in your body, which is your flesh in the simulation, will all be reviewed.
Now, the good news is the Lord does not require perfection, especially since it's kind of tricky that he sent you here without any memory of who you are, where you came from, and that whole thing.
It's like, here, let's send you to a simulation, and we'll make sure you're born with no memory of who you are.
Yeah, just figure it out, and if you don't, you go to hell, you know?
That's a tough challenge.
But that's one of the reasons why the Bible is so valuable, because it gives you the guide.
It's like getting the answers for the heaven entrance exam in advance.
It tells you in the Bible exactly what you need to do in order to achieve this.
So let me just back up and say this part again.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body.
According to what he has done, whether good or bad.
And then verse 11, knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord.
The terror of the Lord.
The Lord can be harsh in his judgment if you are a wicked person.
Comma, we persuade men, but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.
For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you an opportunity to boast on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
And it goes on into, you know, more philosophy here.
And I love what Paul writes here.
You know, it's just extraordinary, the history of Paul, how he persecuted Christians and then became such a powerful advocate for Christ.
I'm such a fan of his writings, but listen to the following two paragraphs.
They are highly relevant to what we're discussing here, the afterlife, the reality of the afterlife, and how we walk in faith, not in sight.
But verse 16, check this out.
Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh.
Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.
In other words, we don't think of Christ as a human being because He has transcended that.
Okay, verse 17.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ...
He is a new creation.
Old things have passed away.
Behold, all things have become new.
Thus, when a person accepts Christ, it washes away the old person that they were, and they become a new person whose sins are washed away by the sacrifice of Christ, simply by accepting Christ, who is, in essence, God's ambassador, God's son, Christ is the human personification of the Spirit of God.
Lots of different ways to think about it.
When you accept Christ and the promise that He brought to humanity, you become new.
So verse 18, Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
See, that's powerful.
Reconciliation, what does that mean?
It means that God washes away your sins.
Your sins are now reconciled through your acceptance of Christ because Christ died for your sins.
It's a spiritual transaction, you could say.
Reconciliation means something is canceled out.
Something is reconciled.
There's a scale and something is balanced out, maybe is the better way to say that.
Your sins, your evil deeds, whatever you carried out, are nullified and reconciled now through the acceptance of Christ.
Verse 19, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
In other words, God chose the Christ We track, let's say, the Christ's method of forgiveness, of forgiving people of their sins, reconciling their sins through the sacrifice of Christ.
And the Lord has committed to us this process of reconciliation.
Now then, verse 20, now then we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were pleading through us.
We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us.
See, he who knew no sin, Jesus Christ, to be sin for us, you know, to carry the burden of our sins, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
That we might become righteous.
Otherwise, we are not deserving of righteousness because, well, we've all sinned.
See?
You see the point?
We have all sinned.
And so, this is so powerful to understand this bargain, if you will, this reconciliation, this new covenant, I'll call it, the new covenant through Christ to forgive people of their sins.
And yet, your behavior still matters because it is only by your behavior that you are judged worthy of entering heaven.
So it's interesting that God, through Christ, has washed away your sins, but it does not give you a free pass to continue to commit sins or to be an evil or wicked person.
And if you are, you will not enter heaven.
Now, if we go back to Daniel chapter 12, remember where we ended.
This is verse 3.
Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness, and it's implied to say, will shine like the stars forever and ever.
Okay?
So again, if you help bring others closer to God, then you are rewarded.
This counts as your spiritual currency.
So now we shall continue here in Daniel 7, verse 4.
I'm just going to finish out this chapter because this really speaks to some of the themes that Paul was writing about in 2 Corinthians.
Here we go.
Verse 4, but you, Daniel, shut up the words, meaning just close them up, seal them up, And seal the book until the time of the end.
The time of the end.
What is the time of the end?
Well, as I've taught here in the sermons, this is the end times.
It is the end.
It's the end of the simulation, which is described in Revelation.
Okay?
So, seal the book until the time of the end.
Many shall run to and fro.
Like, people will be busy...
A lot of people running around, a lot of things happening, and knowledge shall increase.
In other words, human civilization shall gain knowledge over time.
Knowledge of what?
Knowledge of the coming of the end times, by the way.
I believe.
I think that's what this refers to.
Verse 5, Then I, Daniel, looked, and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that riverbank.
And one said to the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river, How long shall the fulfillment of these wonders be?
How long until the end times?
Essentially is what he's asking.
Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven and swore by him who lives forever, swore by God, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time, and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.
Well, what is he saying there?
He's saying when the power of the holy people Who are the holy people?
It's the people of the church.
When the power of the church has been completely shattered, when will the power of the church be completely shattered?
It will be during the rise of the Antichrist and the complete desolation of the church and the complete persecution of all those who are holy.
Okay?
Okay.
So it will be the final persecution and destruction of the church and of the saints and of the holy people.
Because Daniel says, well, let me read part of that again.
And when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.
All what things?
All these things.
Really, he's saying all things.
All things shall be finished.
Remember, Daniel was a prophet who saw so much.
He saw the beast.
He saw the creatures coming out of the sea.
He saw many of the same things that John of Patmos saw in Revelation.
Daniel saw the end times described by Jesus in Matthew 24.
And some of it's kind of mentioned here, too, actually.
Let's continue.
Verse 8, This is Daniel speaking.
And he said, This is the Lord.
Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Okay?
The words, in other words, the final answers, the final knowledge of what is happening will be sealed until the end times.
And I find this interesting because as we're talking about comets, Impacting Earth and ending human civilization as described in Revelation.
Do you realize that knowledge of what this was, you know, it's described as sometimes angels in the sky breathing fire and brimstone out of their mouths with long tails or angelic hair and the stars fell out of the sky.
The knowledge of what that is has not been available to humanity until the last century, the most recent century.
It's only in this most recent century that the knowledge of what the end times could be as described in the Bible and preserved for thousands of years.
It's only now that the knowledge is beginning to be unsealed.
Unsealed.
And remember, in Revelation, the seven seals are broken or opened by who?
By the sacrificed lamb.
It is Christ, the sacrificial Christ, in other words, the crucified Christ, opens the seals.
Once the seals are opened, then the four horsemen are unleashed and the trumpets and the bulls, which are comets, are unleashed.
So it's only after we gain the knowledge of what this is that those events happen.
And it's only now in human history that we have this knowledge.
So Daniel continues in verse 10.
He says, many shall be purified.
He's talking about the end times here, okay?
Many shall be purified, made white and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
Understand what?
It's talking about understanding what's happening to them in the end times.
So as the comets are arriving and impacting Earth, the wicked shall not understand.
Who are the wicked?
The wicked are those who rejected Christ and the Lord and who thought they could achieve everlasting life through transhumanism.
They rejected God and the Creator and they worshiped false idols and they worshiped technology.
And many of these people, there's a very large group of these people in society today, they think they can achieve immortality through technology.
By uploading their souls to machines, which is absurd, of course.
It's just going to be an avatar that looks like you and talks like you, but it's not you because there's no soul in there.
But these people who believe in transhumanism and the singularity, they don't believe in souls.
They think that the human mind is nothing but a computer.
They don't believe in God.
They don't believe in souls or the spirit or consciousness or even free will.
So they think they can replicate the brain in silicon and then just copy and paste the brain into a microchip, and then they think that that's them, that they've been saved by the techno gods, right?
So those are the wicked.
Well, when the end of life comes for the wicked, they will not understand because they thought heaven and hell did not exist.
They will not understand as their lives, their physical bodies are destroyed, and their consciousness, though, is not destroyed.
Rather, their consciousness faces judgment.
They will not understand.
They will be surprised, befuddled.
Like, what?
I thought death was the end.
Oh, no.
Life was just a simulation.
Welcome to the real world, Neo.
You know, that kind of thing.
Welcome to the real world.
You are now about to be judged for your beliefs and your deeds.
And there's going to be a lot of wicked people who say, oh, dear God, no.
Please don't judge me off my deeds and my life because they spent their entire life cursing God and worshiping false idols.
And now they're suddenly realizing, Like, something went wrong.
That's why it says they will not understand.
But the wise shall understand.
The wise shall understand.
When you die and your soul passes away from your physical body, you're not going to be surprised.
You know what happens next.
You know your soul is lifted up from this realm.
It's transcendent, goes to a different dimension.
Your life is reviewed.
This is why so many people who have experiences of the afterlife, they see the whole movie of their life playing out.
Like the whole thing, but in a very short period of time.
But somehow it's the full richness of their entire life all playing out before them.
That's the review.
Your life is being reviewed.
Your book of life is being opened, unsealed.
It's being reviewed by your Creator.
And his son, Jesus, or Christ.
We're not going to...
Let's say Jesus is more of the physical form, and then Christ is more of the spiritual transcendent form.
So Christ reviews your life, and you're not going to be surprised.
You know, you're...
You're going to be thinking, yep, I knew this part was coming.
I've been a good person.
I've done my best.
I accepted Christ.
I prayed.
I read Scripture.
I tried to save other lives.
I tried to respect life.
I'm a good person.
And then you're going to be judge-worthy, and you're going to go to heaven, and you're going to enter heaven, and you're going to join with God's consciousness for eternal life in the timeless realm.
It's eternal because there is no time, by the way.
There is no time.
No flow of time.
But for those who are wicked, they will be surprised as they are sent to eternal hell.
Yeah.
There's going to be a lot of people there that are familiar.
Like, oh, you're going to get to meet Anthony Fauci and Hitler and whatever.
They're all going to be there.
And none of them are going to be happy.
All right, verse 11.
We're close to the end of Daniel chapter 12.
Verse 11.
And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away and the abomination of desolation is set up, that seems to refer to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, there shall be 1,290 days.
Blessed is he who waits and comes to the 1,335 days.
Verse 13, but you go your way till the end, for you shall rest, and you will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.
So your inheritance, of course, this is your spiritual currency.
It's whatever you have earned in God's eyes.
It's not your Bitcoin.
It's not your bank account.
It's not your pension fund.
It's not your Roth IRA. It's your spiritual inheritance.
At the end of the days, it says, at the end of the days.
Again, let me just read verse 13.
Again, I want you to think about this.
But you go your way till the end.
That is, continue to live your life until the end of days arrives.
For you shall rest...
What does that mean?
This is what is being said to Daniel.
For you shall, your physical body will die, and you will rest within the earth, comma, and will arise to your inheritance.
So in other words, the rapture at the end of the destruction of humankind, that is, at the end of the tribulation, you will arise to your inheritance, that is, whatever you deserve, you will get, Good or bad, heaven or hell, you will arise, you'll be lifted up to your inheritance at the end of the days.
And the end of the days is the end times.
It is the end of the simulation.
So, everywhere we look, well, at least almost everywhere that I've covered in these sermons, and we've been all over the Bible, haven't we?
I mean, we're at sermon number, what, 83 or something like that now.
We've been all over the Bible.
Everything from Genesis to Revelation and hippity-hoppity in between, wherever we can land on different chapters and verses and different books and different prophets, Old Testament and New.
And we keep finding the exact same message, the exact same message.
And it shouldn't be surprising, but let's just review it again.
It is that This world, this is a simulation created by the Lord.
Your consciousness was sent here to experience this simulation.
You are therefore separated from heaven during your time in this simulation.
You are being judged for your actions here.
When your life ends, you will rest forever.
Probably without knowing about the passage of time until the day the simulation ends.
And that is the end of days.
That's the end of the earth.
When that day comes, all souls shall be judged.
Worthy souls shall be lifted into heaven and shall join with Christ and the Lord for eternity in the heavenly realm.
All those who are wicked will be punished to eternal separation from the Lord, which is hell.
And probably not a very nice place to be.
And on top of this, by the way, on top of this, the Bible tells you exactly the right answers.
Here's what you do if you want to enter heaven, and here are the things you do if you want to be rejected by God.
Over and over and over again.
So, in the Bible...
God and the prophets lay out the rules of the simulation.
These rules are very easy for people to understand.
Really, I think, I mean, maybe some people don't think the Bible is that easy to understand, but I think we are nailing it in less than 100 sermons.
The overall structure of the simulation is abundantly clear.
Actually, in only 80 sermons, right?
Starting without this knowledge.
I didn't know all the things I know now from sermon number one.
You can go back and listen to sermon number one, and we weren't talking about this.
We were talking about figs.
Nothing wrong with figs.
It's just now we understand the rules of the simulation.
Now we know exactly what it takes to get right with God.
And yet, we live in a world that is heavily dominated by satanic forces, and we live in a world filled with people who reject God and reject the idea of eternal life with God.
I saw a post on Twitter, well, now called X, from a person, I forgot his name, doesn't matter, who said something like, Isn't eternal life on earth the ultimate goal for everybody?
Why would anybody want to die, he said.
Death is final.
When you die, everything just ends.
That's the end of life.
Why wouldn't you want to live forever?
And this is the attitude of a lot of these life extension people who want to merge with machines and transhumanism people, but they're being misled by demonic forces into thinking there is no God and thus thinking their only salvation is to merge with machines, cyborgs.
So these people are super excited about Mark of the Beast technology, by the way.
They're really excited about embedding RFID chips under their skin.
They're excited about augmented reality goggles so they can wear them and they can project all this artificial garbage onto the world around them because their world sucks so much they need to augment it, you know?
It's like, wow.
You really need Christ in your life, but whatever, you know, and that's just a flippant comment from me to those people.
But a lot of people believe this stuff, and they think they can use biochemistry and biotechnology to alter their genetic code, which is a satanic effort, of course, in order to give themselves physical immortality.
And they think that they will become like God's.
And that is a demonic deception.
It is a normal, natural thing to perish physically from this simulation.
In fact, it's the only way to leave it.
You don't want to stay stuck in this simulation forever.
Not forever and ever.
I mean, it's supposed to be a limited amount of time.
After all, this is an adventure that your soul agreed to come on, that You and your soul and God agreed to this, and God sent you here, and for whatever reason, you agreed also to be born into a body where you had no memory and no knowledge, and to try to figure it out, which you started doing even before you were born.
Your brain started working, trying to figure it out, and you spent the first few years just trying to figure out how to walk and talk and eat and poop in the toilet and all those kinds of things.
And after you master those things, then, you know, you spent your life trying to figure out more things and so on and so forth.
Why would you want to stick around here forever?
You would never, you know, earn your inheritance.
You would never be recognized for the goodness of your deeds.
You won't be recognized as a good person on earth.
I mean, think about it.
All the Congressional Medals of Honor or whatever, the Presidential Medals of Freedom, who do those go to?
Mostly evil people, mostly Satanists.
Think about it.
Who was Obama handing out medals to?
A whole bunch of evil people.
Or Biden, a bunch of evil people.
Satanists.
You're not going to be recognized as a good person on Earth.
The more moral you are on Earth, the more you are punished.
By the wicked who are in power.
The only way to be recognized as a good person is to be recognized by God.
And yeah, okay, maybe there will be some other people here on earth that will recognize your good deeds or your goodness, and that's fine, but that's not what counts.
What counts is God's judgment, and that is in the afterlife.
So As Paul is writing, you know, in essence, I'm paraphrasing, of course, but don't worry about the deeds of those in the flesh.
Because once you accept Christ into your life, you're no longer of the flesh.
You are of the Spirit.
And your focus should be earning currency with the Spirit and recognizing that eternal life is something that only the Lord grants you, not some machine, not some computer, not the Google Satanist, not the Apple Satanist whose symbol is the bite out of the apple in the Garden of Eden.
And, you know, Google, the Google Chrome browser is the symbol 666.
All these technology companies are rooted in deep, deep demonic evil and Satanism.
They cannot deliver you to heaven.
They cannot turn you into a god.
They can only turn you into a slave and deliver you to hell.
So put your faith in the Lord, not in technology.
Technology can be used in this 3D world like we're using it right now.
I'm using technology to spread the Word of God.
But we don't worship the technology.
We use it as a tool.
We worship our Creator.
We worship Christ.
We bring people to Christ and the Lord.
We do not worship machines, and we most certainly do not worship men who create machines.
So anybody out there that is worshiping, let's say, Elon Musk, you're worshiping the wrong person.
A lot of people think Elon Musk is their god, their deity, their savior, or some people think Trump is their savior.
If you think any man is a savior, you're misled.
There is no man who is your savior.
Only Christ and the Lord can be your savior.
And of course, I should add that for those, many people follow Islam, and so their teachings are that their prophet Muhammad is their savior.
And I've said before about religion, and I'll take a little bit of heat on this from Christians, but I've said about religion that I accept all good people of faith, regardless of their specific method of practice or which way they learned how to be good people.
I want to live in a world filled with good people, people who are moral.
If those good people happen to be Buddhists or Sikhs or Christians or Jews or Catholics or Muslims, I am totally fine with that.
I have nothing against people because they have some other religion.
And by the way, I think I will do a sermon one of these days here real soon about how Christianity has more in common with Islam than with Judaism.
Islam, for example, recognizes Christ as a prophet.
Judaism does not recognize the existence of Christ at all.
And there are many other examples like that.
Islam teaches about end times events which have many things in common with the book of Revelation and the visions that were given to John.
Many similarities.
We'll cover that in another sermon.
Because we need to understand, we need to branch out our understanding of what is faith, what is religion, and also understand that many people all across the world received messages from God, warning messages about the end of days.
And different people in different Cultures in different regions of the world recorded those messages in different ways, including the Mesoamericans, by the way, and Native Americans.
If you look at the ancient lore of Native Americans, you're going to find end-of-days stories that were verbally passed down That are very similar and also many, many stories in every world religion, every culture that existed, stories of the Great Flood, the Great Deluge.
Why is that a common story among every civilization?
Because the entire world was flooded.
That was actually a comet impact that hit the ice shelf and melted trillions of cubic meters of ice and raised ocean levels hundreds of meters almost instantly.
It was a flood affecting the entire world all at once.
That's why every culture has a story about the flood.
It wasn't just Noah, folks.
Noah was just one guy of many who dealt with the flood and had forewarning of the flood, okay?
So let's expand our understanding of what this is.
Yes, God spoke to Noah, and God spoke to others also as well, okay?
We'll talk about that later in another sermon.
I'm going to call this a wrap for this sermon, the main theme here being that the afterlife is real, and you cannot achieve immortality by merging with machines.
You can only achieve immortality by being a good person and accepting the Our Creator, the Lord, as He who created the entire simulation, and He who will judge you for your behavior in this simulation.
All right, that's my take.
I'm Mike Adams.
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