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May 9, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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BBN, May 9, 2025 – CHRIST LIGHT SPECIAL – Living a principled life, freeing yourself...

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	Welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
	Well, welcome to Brighteon Broadcast News for Friday, May 9th, 2025.
	I'm Mike Adams, and thank you for joining me today.
	I've put together a very special episode for you today, and it's not for everyone, so I'll just tell you up front.
	I'm going to be talking about and introducing a new song today.
	Which is on the theme of today.
	So the song is called The Christ Light in Your Life.
	So if you, for whatever reason, if you don't want to hear the word Christ at all, this may not be the episode for you.
	But we're going to start out with an interview with Doc Pete Chambers.
	We begin talking about the border security situation.
	And the drug cartels and how we're going to defend against that.
	And then we segue into the cultural war happening in America and how America has lost its way by rejecting God, actually.
	So, yes, today is a very special Christ-centered episode.
	But it's not a typical episode.
	It's not something you might hear from a typical church because...
	I've got four special reports that were all recorded earlier, some today, some yesterday, or the day before.
	And as you may know, I have been really intensely studying the scripture and the differences between the words of Paul, who was not one of Jesus' disciples, and Jesus himself.
	Of course, the red letter Bible.
	I've got actually two of them here.
	Just the words of Jesus from the Gospels almost entirely.
	And there are some really interesting differences.
	And I've also got a video of a former pastor to share with you today about all of this.
	And I think I'll play the song for you first coming up in just a couple of minutes.
	But let me set the context for what this is and where I'm coming from.
	Because sometimes when I talk about Christ or Paul or the Bible or the contradictions in the Bible, it triggers some Christians.
	And that's okay.
	Because if it triggers them, it gets them to think and to ask questions.
	And I've come to the conclusion, well, let me say first, number one, that Christ is a guide in my life.
	I am loyal to the words of Christ and to actually even the greater picture of what Christ represents.
	And I am pro-life in the sense of supporting and protecting life.
	I am all about education and empowering and uplifting people and helping people heal and ending human suffering wherever we can.
	And I'm pro-peace.
	I am anti-war.
	I am pro-Mother Nature, which is an expression of God.
	I'm pro-natural health and preventing cancer and healing herbs and healthy smoothies and all of this.
	And all of these are expressions of God.
	All of it.
	Every single bit of it.
	And this point has become so clear to me recently.
	I don't even know why exactly, but there has been a lot of clarity that has...
	And at the same time that I have, I think, been given great clarity about just the purity of Christ's love and why we must live a Christ-centered life or a life of love and kindness in order to have a fulfilled life, what has helped to drive this home is a couple of things.
	Number one, watching the moral failures of the Western Christian churches in failing to speak out in favor of or defense of the children of Gaza, the Palestinian children who are children of God.
	And so that actually, that realization set me on really a journey for the last, you know, how long has it been?
	A year and a half.
	Which has coincided with my journey of learning more of the Scripture and the Bible and now the Red Letter Bible.
	I have come to learn that the institution, and some of you are going to laugh because you're like, yeah, we knew this the whole time.
	But the institution of how Christianity is taught and practiced in the West today is largely false doctrine.
	It's largely not what Christ taught.
	And it's actually very easy to tell that because any church that is supporting bombing children in Gaza is really an anti-Christ church.
	And that's very clear.
	Secondly, it's become clear to me that just as there are chaos agents that are dropped into every movement, like the Maha movement or the MAGA movement or the Health Freedom movement, to try to control the narrative and take people away from the truth, that has also happened inside Christianity for thousands of years.
	Some of it...
	Of course, going back to the Roman Catholic Church, which is interesting that we have a new pope now, and I don't believe that the pope can dictate your relationship with God at all.
	Not the last pope, not this pope, not any future pope, that your relationship with Christ and with God is a personal relationship, and you have direct access to the divine directly through your spirit, your soul, your consciousness, and your love.
	And you don't need, and this is about setting you free, and this is about helping you find freedom.
	You don't need a church to tell you how to worship Christ or God.
	Some of you listening may be of the Islam faith.
	You also, you don't need a church to tell you how to have a relationship with God.
	Now, churches can be helpful in many cases, I'm not anti-church.
	I'm pro-Christ and anti-corruption of the teachings of Christ.
	And what I see today is so much corruption in the churches, the churches having total moral bankruptcy.
	I'm talking about sort of the mainstream churches or the megachurches, pushing vaccines on people, pushing vaccines, accepting transgenderism on some of the more sort of left-wing churches that do exist, by the way.
	And then also, Advocating the mass bombing and mass genocide of children in Gaza.
	These are moral failures of a great many of the churches that people have placed their faith in, and those churches have turned out to be false teachers.
	False prophets, you could say, some of them, if their preachers claim to be prophets.
	They're not teaching the truth, and the truth about Jesus and the truth about God is very simple.
	It's really straightforward.
	And my job, I believe, is to always help you see through the cobwebs and the spells and the sorcery, to break the spells and help you get to a very clear view about what it takes to live a life of purpose, to live a life that is worth living, and to live a life in the spirit of love and joy.
	And I also was recently challenged.
	There was a person who threatened me and said that if I did not attack all Jews and if I did not attack Trump and if I did not call Trump the Antichrist and if I did not call all Jews Antichrist people or demons or whatever, that they would then attack me.
	And they were trying to threaten me into pushing hatred and magnifying hatred onto both Trump himself, Trump followers, and all Jewish people.
	And of course, as you well know, I absolutely refuse to participate in that kind of attempted coercion, and I will not be a vehicle of magnifying hate.
	Now, granted, I have reasonable, justified criticisms of Zionists who are bombing children, right?
	That's different.
	That's rooted in love for protecting innocent children of God.
	That is not at all rooted in any sort of hatred towards Israelites or Jews or any ethnicity or anything of the kind.
	In fact, here in America today, there's also an effort to try to whip up hatred towards followers of Islam.
	You can see that right now in what's going on in the Middle East, that all followers of Islam, they're terrorists, this kind of nonsense.
	And I also refuse to be a vehicle of hatred toward Islam.
	And I have been also contacted by some of the Christian thought police.
	So it's very interesting.
	I've got actual, like, demonically evil people trying to get me to push hatred against Jews.
	I've got thought police Christians who are false Christians trying to tell me, don't talk about anything where Paul contradicts Jesus.
	Don't talk about that.
	So I've got Christian thought police on my case right now telling me, calling me, texting me, telling me, don't talk about these things, which is exactly what the church has done for thousands of years to try to prevent people from knowing Christ directly.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Isn't that interesting?
	Because if you look at the New Testament, the words of Christ, it turns out, are only 17% And the largest part of the New Testament is actually the writings and letters and speeches of Paul, who is not Christ and was never selected by Christ, was never ordained by Christ, never even met Christ.
	The only time Paul ever even interacted with Christ was with the Spirit of Christ after Christ's resurrection.
	And Paul, by the way, was a mass murderer of Christians.
	He tortured and murdered hundreds of Christians.
	And I am being told, do not talk about that.
	Do not talk about that.
	And don't talk about comets.
	And don't talk about the book of Revelation in the way that you're talking about it.
	You have to come back to church doctrine.
	And these people trying to convince me to do that, they don't know me.
	And they also don't know Jesus, it turns out.
	Because Jesus wants us to find the truth.
	Jesus and God, they want us.
	To search for truth in good faith with love for life and with light and truth and understanding and compassion for fellow human beings.
	And they also want us to act with deeds, with works, to help others in need through our deeds as a demonstration of our faith.
	Not to sit in a room or even a church.
	Even with a group of people and just pronounce, oh, I accept Jesus as my Savior.
	But then you go home and you're not helping anybody.
	You're not actually doing anything other than just helping yourself and feeding yourself and collecting money and material wealth for yourself.
	That is not the doctrine of Christ.
	Not even close.
	You cannot actually live with Christ in your life by just saying it.
	You actually have to do it.
	And this has become so incredibly clear to me.
	And so all of these events that I've just described have actually magnified in a very personal way my recognition of the importance of adherence to the spirit of Christ and even understanding that the word Christ goes above and beyond Jesus of Nazareth.
	It goes beyond the embodiment of Christ.
	It's more than a person.
	It's even more than a resurrection.
	It is so much more that Christ, to me now, the meaning has even transcended the way that Christ is talked about in the Bible.
	To me, Christ is that life energy that it weaves its way through all consciousness, through all life, through all of nature.
	When you look in a flower and you see the beauty and the life in the flower, you are seeing Christ's light in that flower.
	When you see the beauty in another person, in their art, in their inspiration, in their creativity, that is the Christ energy flowing through them.
	When you see happiness, when you see joy, that is Christ energy flowing through us.
	When you look up at the night sky and you see the stars twinkling, Or the rise of the sun, bringing warmth and light, that is Christ energy in the cosmos.
	Christ energy is everywhere around us.
	It's in the healing herbs.
	It's in the water.
	It's in the vibration of water.
	It's in the homeopathic remedies.
	It's in the herbs.
	Christ energy is everywhere.
	And so, no institution can disconnect you from it.
	Unless you allow them to.
	You see?
	Just like we should not give our power over to a doctor, power over our health, and we should not give power to a government over our finances or our freedom or our speech, we should also not surrender power to an institution over our spiritual journey with Christ and our salvation.
	Do not delegate These authorities to others.
	Yes, a loving pastor can be very helpful in your life.
	And there are many pastors who have helped teach me and educated me as well.
	But do not surrender responsibility for your spiritual journey to a pastor.
	Just like do not surrender your health to a doctor, do not surrender your freedom to a government, etc.
	It's all the same common thread.
	And you'll notice that the institutions of society always want to subjugate you to their control.
	It's true with big government.
	It's true with big church.
	It's the same.
	It's true with the Vatican.
	It's true with big corporations.
	It's true with universities and the education system.
	It's true with, quote, the science.
	It's always a system of control and subjugation.
	Now, I understand there are some excellent churches that are the exception to what I'm referring to.
	I'm typically referring to sort of mainstream, watered-down, comic book megachurches, that kind of thing.
	You know, the fast-food drive-through version of Christianity, which is very common, actually.
	It has no depth to it, no spiritual reality to it.
	You know, it's just kind of rote, repetitive, It's like the formulaic version of Christianity, like just add water or paint by number Christianity.
	That is not what we are interested in at all.
	So institutions out there, for the most part, government, corporations, education, many non-profits, and many churches, they all exist to subjugate you to their control in order to gain their own power.
	And they are not actually there, like big medicine, big pharma, they're not actually there to help you fulfill your life's purpose.
	So a big part of my message today that I wanted to share right up front here is to say, I want you to be free.
	Free to allow Christ in your life, if that's something that you invite.
	I want you to be free.
	From censorship.
	I want you to be free from government control.
	I want you to be free from the control and the pharmaceutical rollercoaster of your doctors.
	You know, if they're conventional doctors.
	I want you to be free from all of these control mechanisms so that you can actually fulfill the life purpose that God intended you to fulfill.
	If you want to be the best representation, If you want to allow God's energy to flow through you, then you must free yourself from these constraints and you must let the Christ light in your life.
	And that's where I'm coming from on this.
	So, let me play the song for you here.
	The song that I've put together with a new music video that I think encompasses where I'm coming from on this and this.
	This helps encapsulate my intention.
	So even when I'm critical of certain sections of the Bible, let's say, if I'm critical of something, understand this is where I'm coming from, what you are about to see in this song and in this music video.
	Enjoy.
	You've lived through darkness.
	You've tasted pain.
	You've searched the mentors along the journey.
	A hint of guidance, a wise embrace.
	A true north compass to take you from this place.
	We never need fear.
	Have courage now.
	Be brave.
	We can never be lost.
	When we're already saved Please remind us Practice kindness See the Christ light in your life With pure divineness Free your mind Bless those left behind
	Yes, let the Christ light in your life To shine and find us The Christ light in your life He walks beside us
	He shows the way He lights the truth inside us and chases pain away He loves forgiveness He redeems sin If you demonstrate All
	right, there you go.
	The Christ light in your life.
	Hope you enjoy that message and that song.
	And that's kind of my opening statement today, is through actions, through deeds, through works, in alignment with our faith and in alignment with our values of love and kindness and forgiveness.
	But also, there's discernment, and I do talk about discernment today in one of my upcoming reports.
	You can't just be okay with every insane thing, like child trafficking and pedophiles, right?
	So there's discernment, but love is really, it's actually really easy to recognize, and it's really easy to practice if you make a choice to do so.
	To love Fellow human beings, to love all the children of God, to love all conscious beings, which includes all animals.
	And there's a kind of consciousness in plants as well.
	So love is universal in the sense that consciousness is universal, which means Christ energy is also universal.
	And it's the most powerful force in the universe.
	It's so clear.
	And no, I haven't been to some seminar.
	I haven't read any new book other than the words of Jesus.
	That's all I've been reading.
	Like, there's not some other thing that suddenly got me onto this.
	I mean, I walk in nature every day.
	I witness God's miracles every day.
	I became disturbed by some of what the churches have been doing.
	To seek truth, I went to the words of Jesus in the Gospels.
	And that is what brought me to this point.
	So that's, again, that's my opening statement for today.
	Because there will be some things that will trigger some Christians, and that's totally okay.
	Alright, now let me give you a table of contents of what's coming up for the show today.
	Because this has just been the intro.
	Kind of a long intro, I get it.
	Interview.
	With Doc Pete Chambers, coming up first.
	Then I've got four special reports for you.
	I'm not sure about the order yet, but let me explain what they are.
	Number one, that Christ is simply pure love, and those who teach violence or hatred or harm are far from him.
	So that contains some criticism of the Christian Zionist churches that are advocating genocide and the...
	Destruction of innocent children and women and doctors, etc.
	Then I've got a report called Conventional Christian Churches Have Committed Morality Suicide by Supporting Genocide in Gaza.
	And then I've got a report called Why a Principled Life is the Only Life Worth Living, where I reiterate many of my own principles.
	And then finally, I have a...
	A report called Simulation Theory and Creation Theory are almost identical.
	God is the architect of our artificial training ground.
	So you're going to find that to be really interesting.
	So those are the things that are straight ahead.
	Alright, so that's what we have.
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	Enjoy the rest of the show, and we'll start out with my new interview with Doc Pete Chambers.
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	All right, welcome folks to today's interview here at Brighteon.com.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and today we're joined by Doc Pete Chambers in the studio.
	Welcome, Doc.
	Good to be here again.
	It's such an honor to have you.
	It's always great to see you, brother.
	Absolutely.
	And let me give out your website first here.
	It's also The Remnant Ministry Texas, and the website is here, TheRemnantMinistryTX.org.
	That's us.
	That's how you get here.
	I want to talk about the border with you and Mexico drug cartels and also about your ministry as well.
	Can we start with your latest update on the situation on the border?
	Just spent some time down there.
	You may know Colonel Douglas McGregor.
	Yeah, what a great American.
	He got a hold of me through Sam.
	He's now working for him.
	He went down there and called and said, can you do a documentary on the border?
	I'm like, Perfect.
	So we brought his producer down, his guys, and we went mostly Eagle Pass to Del Rio, and we took him to every important point, every important person that was a key leader, we call it, including the children's shelter, women's shelter that we have been helping out.
	And he did a wonderful job of just talking about the border, but I was able to bring him the tactical level and marry up with his West Point, you know, high level.
	You know, more strategic level thinking.
	He got that out.
	It was a great time.
	But what's more important, he just posted on the 1st of May with Our Country, Our Choice.
	It's a great video.
	Their producers made me look good, even though I didn't feel like I was.
	I was kind of like Ricky Bobby, what do I do with my hands?
	But, you know, we got through it, and it's a great documentary.
	So, I just spoke with Michael Jan, who's here with you today.
	Yes.
	And Michael Jan said that the The invasion traffic, so to speak, through the Darien Gap has dropped to almost zero.
	What about the actual invasion traffic at the border, or at least the Texas border?
	So what we're seeing is numbers-wise.
	I'm going to talk numbers, I'm going to talk what's the optics and reality.
	Even though at this point in time, the optics and the reality are marrying up, which is kind of nice, right?
	Because we're seeing low numbers, and physically on the ground, we're seeing low numbers.
	When I say those numbers, that would be in a day in Texas.
	Up to maybe at the highest day, 100 people that have been counted coming across.
	But on a typical day, how much?
	Typical day, 20, 30. These numbers kind of go back and forth.
	And under Biden, sometimes those days were almost 10,000 a day.
	Astronomical, exactly.
	My average day three years ago, four years ago in the Rio Grande Valley was roughly around 12,000 a week.
	12,000 a week?
	A week.
	No day, you can divide that out.
	But then you'd have those days, like 18th of December, two years ago, at Eagle Pass, where we had 12,500 in 48 hours.
	Oh, wow.
	That was Venezuelan Trendy Aragua guys coming over to visit.
	Oh, my.
	Right?
	And that was a LinkedIn job fair, basically, in San Antonio Convention Center.
	Right after that, picking up those guys and putting them to work.
	We watched it.
	We followed it.
	Much different now.
	Much different.
	All right.
	So...
	The influx has been largely halted for now, and we see a lot of self-deportation taking place among many, many illegals.
	I mean, I even just know this from living in Texas, that there are illegals that are choosing to self-deport.
	Trump's offered, I think, a $1,000 incentive for people to leave on their own.
	But we're not seeing the big deportation numbers yet that I think many Americans might have expected, given the $10 million plus that came across.
	Under Biden, I think that's an estimate.
	What do you think needs to happen?
	You know, Holman and others are putting forth effort here.
	What needs to happen to get the deportation numbers larger?
	The ability to hit the numbers that they need, that they talked about during the ramp up to the election.
	Look, everybody in elections promises a lot more than they can do.
	It's just a fact of our society.
	I see the intent.
	I've talked to Mr. Homan.
	I believe him.
	He's a man of his word.
	Okay?
	I'm just going to throw that out there.
	But I will say this, that if I were him, and he plays his cards real tight, he's not bellyaching.
	You're not going to hear him bellyache.
	But you're going to hear him talk about his intent.
	You're always going to catch that through his demeanor and through what he's working on.
	His intent is to have the ability to, which I don't believe we have enough infrastructure to do, and when I say infrastructure, the bodies to move those out.
	Right?
	Because we're talking about who's the heavy hitters as far as handling that task.
	Well, it's going to be ICE.
	It's going to be Customs Border Patrol.
	It is going to be local law enforcement.
	And it's going to be U.S. Marshals.
	They're going to handle different strata of nefarious actors.
	Right.
	If they're coming out of a prison, it's going to be the Marshals.
	Right?
	If they're coming in groups, local law enforcement is going to grab them in a city.
	Whether, you know, that's the concern, is it a sanctuary city or not?
	All those factors play.
	Well, but my understanding is a lot of local law enforcement, at least county sheriffs, for example, they already have a lot of these individuals, or they did have them in the local jails.
	They just needed to turn them over to some federal agency that would deal with them, typically ICE.
	And maybe that's happening.
	But the courts have been a problem here, too, right?
	So the left-wing judge is trying to say, You can't deport these people, even though they're not Americans, and they were never naturalized, they nevertheless have America's constitutional protections.
	And that's a big debate in the court system right now.
	Are you hearing anything on how we deal with that?
	Right.
	So I have been watching that, and I've been following that, and that's a Department of Justice issue that should be handled pretty quickly.
	I've seen them speak about this, and then there again, when we were hoping that Kash Patel and then Bongino as a...
	As a guy, the kind of guy they threw in there, which was great.
	I believe that their intent is right, but I don't believe that they have their hands fully untied to do their job.
	That's clear.
	Okay, and then you have to ask at the strategic level.
	There's a saying that goes like this in the military, with regard to general officers.
	Good generals talk strategy.
	Okay, that's the thing I want to do.
	Here's my intent, strategy, but how we're going to do that.
	Great generals talk logistics.
	If you don't have the logistics matching up with the strategy, and this is where I see it, as a soldier that's seen this a thousand times, this is the problem set.
	It's not matching with the logistics ability to move transport.
	That's a heavy lift.
	So we give graces.
	We're 100 days in or past 100 days in.
	Logistics should catch up with that.
	Because right now, logistics is way, way behind on the ability to move those bodies, to move those people.
	It's way behind.
	Was that expected?
	Yes.
	They weighed, how much do we promise with how much can we really do?
	And they're on the backside of that curve right now.
	Right.
	Well, and I do want to give credit to the administration that they have tended to target the Tren de Aragua groups first, which are the most dangerous, I would say.
	And probably a few thousand of those individuals are already out of the country.
	And I would say, judicially speaking, even though I agree that all of God's children have a basic human right, like a right to water and shelter and clothing, but I don't think that non-Americans have American constitutional rights to due process, because they came in illegally outside of due process.
	It seems to me like we can boot them without due process, at least as long as we can identify.
	That they are not Americans.
	They would not have what a lawyer would call standing in the court case if they were to bring.
	Because the standing would require them to be a citizen and not have spoken the laws.
	I don't believe that they have exactly the same due process.
	All rights as a human being?
	Absolutely.
	And I've seen that firsthand.
	I've dealt with it, looking at the eyes of people coming across, knowing they're here illegally, knowing they're being used as pawns in what Michael Yon calls human osmotic pressure.
	Yes.
	Absolutely.
	But there are laws, and there is a system, and we're now beyond that.
	But, and this is what I say, there's always a caveat to these things, is we've seen that before.
	We've seen it wax and wane during administrations.
	We've got to prepare and get this thing right before the next administration comes along.
	Oh, clearly, because also the presence of illegals alters the congressional seats, the distribution, which is based on the census, and the census is based on how many bodies or people are living everywhere, whether they're legal or not.
	So when you have 10-plus million illegals in California, California gets more House seats.
	And that's cheating.
	That's cheating.
	That is cheating.
	And that is a game that has been played, what was it, the Cloward-Piven Doctrine?
	I mean, these are all things, if people look it up, they are talked about.
	We're seeing it in action now.
	And that would fall into the category of, if you're talking about fifth generation warfare, unlimited warfare.
	Right.
	Because these are things that there's no limit to, is it going to be kinetic?
	Is it going to be through the courts?
	Is it going to be through human osmotic pressure?
	Is it going to be through...
	Pandemics, famine, you know, like Michael also talks about, pan for war, pandemics, famine, and war.
	War changes things on the, but this is fifth generation warfare.
	And the concern for guys like us that are on the ground, that are watching this stuff, that are dealing with it firsthand, in both sides, on both sides of the Rio Grande, for me, on the Mexico side and our side, we have to watch a little bit deeper as to what's going on to predict what's going to happen here.
	I have to look for, where's that, before it was a needle and a stack of needles, because there were so many people coming, but where is that needle now?
	Where's that dangerous pointy thing that I've got to stop from happening in the seams and gaps of chaos?
	Chaos has decreased, but we still are looking to control that controllable, because that's going to help us predict what's the next thing.
	Right.
	And it's a hard game, but it's something we can do.
	It's very difficult.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so let me ask your opinion on something that...
	Myself and others, and Michael Jan agrees with us on this point, where are the DOJ prosecutions for people like Mayorkas, who was really the largest human trafficker into America in the history of our republic, massive human trafficking, funded invasion camps in Panama, helped create the infrastructure of mass invasion.
	Acts of treason, like literal wartime treason, because this is a war-like invasion and occupation action.
	It seems to me like if we can't prosecute some of these people that were actively engaged in massive human trafficking, then how, you know, what are we doing?
	I mean, why can't we prosecute the obvious traitors?
	Correct.
	So my question would be, if I was sitting with Pan Bondi and Kash Patel right now, In a closed door, no media, no fanfare.
	Excuse me, what is your definition of treason?
	Right.
	Okay, define that for me so we don't change the goalpost.
	And if it is what I think it is and what I know it is, then I need to know what is the time frame with which those that have committed it will be brought to justice.
	I'm not looking for retribution.
	No, no.
	I'm looking for accountability and justice.
	And these are the things that they ran on when they were standing up to run or be appointed.
	And what they spoke about sitting across from our Congress members and saying, why should I pick you?
	That's the thing I'd want to know in closed doors, because I need to know, as a guy that does this now out of uniform, are you serious about your task?
	Right.
	Because at some point, we're going to quit taking you seriously.
	And they are really risking that.
	Pam Bondi, a lot of questions are being raised about the Epstein files, and she's becoming well-known for appearing on Fox News, but not for releasing files.
	Maybe it's in progress.
	What choice do I have but to have some patience?
	I'm with you.
	Yeah, I'm with you, and I truly believe, and I'm not one to cast stones and dispersions, but when I see a pattern.
	Right.
	When I see a pattern.
	And then I say, okay, well, we're going to give you some graces.
	And we did.
	That's right.
	And, okay, you like the media.
	I got it.
	There are people that love the media, love being in front of cameras.
	You know, I'm indifferent to it.
	It doesn't matter.
	Truth is truth, wherever I'm speaking.
	But if I see the pattern of we're playing the, you know, Star Wars, these are not the droids you're looking for game, then I'm going to have to say, all right, now, you know.
	Right.
	Texas thing, don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.
	There's a truth to that.
	I'm not at that point yet, but I want that conversation.
	I do want that conversation because I need to know that.
	How serious are you?
	That changes the dynamics of what we're doing on the ground as we start to entertain different levels of authority.
	If we get more authorities, we're going to continue to move forward.
	I've got to know somebody's going to prosecute them.
	Well, yeah, exactly.
	The credibility of the Trump administration on the side of law is at stake, clearly.
	100%.
	And the illegals that are self-deporting right now are largely doing so out of anticipation of possibly being prosecuted.
	If the prosecutions don't happen, then many of those people...
	Might decide to come back.
	Like, hey, nobody's being prosecuted.
	Or the people that were going to leave might decide, I'm not going to leave now because nobody's being prosecuted.
	So there's a credibility factor here.
	I mean, I've interviewed, you know, Kash Patel and I support Bongino there at the FBI.
	Yes, sir.
	And, you know, I'm glad that we defeated the lunatic lawless left in the election.
	But there's only a certain window of time Of patience that the American people have.
	And notably, the fake Biden presidency, because that was a stolen election.
	Within the first hundred days, they had arrested thousands of peaceful J6 protesters.
	Correct.
	So, the next question would be then, are you serious about your job?
	And if you're not, then what happens to those kind of people?
	And I've done this in numerous countries around the world when I'm dealing with leaders and key leader engagements.
	If you're not serious about your job, I'm going to bypass you.
	Because in this situation, with an invasion that we just went through, the human osmotic invasion, that portion of it, those things set the conditions for, that's a military term, set the conditions for chaos.
	That's what it is.
	Because I can't categorize what it is right now.
	Are there sleeper cells?
	Are there this?
	Are there that?
	But chaos will ensue.
	If something, if there's a catalyst that steps in, a crystal of some sort of chaos, and says, all right, no power in Houston for the next three days.
	And there are so many potential catalysts right now.
	Trade wars, war in the Middle East, sleeper cells, terror cells, nuclear terrorism, dirty bombs in the USA.
	Right?
	So many potential catalysts.
	Absolutely, yeah.
	All right, so...
	I love your analysis.
	Thank you.
	Let's pivot to the question of Mexico and two things.
	China's involvement in the fentanyl influence coming across our border, because I believe that's been one of the areas of conversation between Trump and...
	I don't know.
	It's not clear to me which Chinese officials are actually talking to who in the Trump administration.
	It seems like they're not really being very public about it.
	But somebody's talking to somebody about fentanyl.
	And then secondly, the narcos, the narco cartels, and the fact that Trump appears to be postured toward some kind of military strikes on the infrastructure of the cartels.
	And I'm sure that infrastructure have been very clearly identified.
	With the planes and the satellites?
	I mean, we know the targets.
	Will Trump hit them with missiles, you think?
	What's the plan?
	Right.
	Okay, so this is me not using any information that is of classified knowledge, because I don't operate in that world anymore.
	But I put that out because people say, you know, you'll see these little comments, oh, he's in the know.
	Look, I avoid that stuff.
	But I'm going to tell you what I know as a former...
	Guy that took care of operators and an operator myself, is that we, I know this, that the conditions are being set, just like I said on our side, for that particular item.
	What does that look like?
	Now, that's where the playbook is not open to me, and I'm glad, and I'm glad.
	But if I were doing it, and I'm reading between the lines right now, if I were doing it, I would have conditions set so that I could do combined joint operations with the Mexican special operations and ours.
	To do a strike, a limited strike, with very pinpoint surgical direct action teams on specific cartel targets, which require a positive ID that there are no ancillary or any unneeded casualties.
	That's a strike, a personnel strike.
	But also, to be prepared to.
	I'm sorry, but...
	Personnel strike.
	Personnel.
	People in uniform coming in on the objective.
	What about the infrastructure of the cartels?
	Like the drug, packaging, transport?
	Yeah, so that's one of them.
	That's just the kinetic part of that.
	I would have that on the shelf, ready to go.
	Prepare to do.
	Be prepared to.
	BPT.
	And then, I would also have the people in the INT world, the SIGINs and the humans, and all the people that go in and identify the key...
	Ingredients for the intelligence preparation to understand before we get on the ground or how they work, what are their techniques, tactics, and practices at the financial level?
	We've got to look at that.
	Are we going to go after that?
	They should.
	They have the capability to do it.
	You've already declared them a foreign, well, FTO, Foreign Terrorist Organization.
	If that's the case, then those things are probably underway right now.
	I bet you're right.
	Yes.
	And I'll tell you how I believe that.
	Because I'm watching it on the ground, and I'm seeing neighborhoods in cartel, pretty heavy cartel areas, former areas on that border, that don't have the same ability to have freedom of movement.
	They've lost their presence in the sense that there was a much higher presence in those towns.
	There's a lot of leveraging going on with threats and things like that.
	That's diminished.
	And that is, in my side, in my work, where I'm dealing with orphans and trafficked people, I'm watching them, and they're telling us what they're telling us, and neighborhoods are changing.
	I speak to mayors on the border, both sides, U.S., because you want to speak to the people that govern the people at the very lowest level.
	So when you talk to them, and then you see the atmospheric change, atmospherics, and the culture.
	I can't change the culture, but I can change the atmosphere.
	When I see that, I see that something is working with regard specifically to the cartels.
	They're not over.
	They're not done.
	I would say they've had to regroup.
	They don't have the same money that they got for transporting people across.
	That was huge.
	That was in the hundreds of millions a month in the Rio Grande alone.
	So that has changed.
	So what are they going to do now?
	They're going to go back to their fentanyl.
	They're going to go back to the transport.
	The ports of entry, with regard to Texas alone, I can't speak for the other states, are, I go back and forth now.
	I go south and I go north.
	And I see what's going on.
	So the inspections that are happening on the Mexican side of the house, much more stringent.
	Really?
	With uniformed, looks like federales, some military, that are screening, and it takes a lot longer time to come back across, unless you've got a pass.
	I'm glad you brought this up, because one of my main questions is the cooperation of the Mexican government, because as we know, especially at the highest level, the presidency and her whole cabinet and all those people, at least my belief has been that they've always been so heavily threatened and controlled by the cartels that they are not free to act in opposition to the cartels, except very certain.
	Limited situations.
	Is that changing?
	That is changing optically.
	And how effective that is, I can't tell you, but I can tell you that it has changed the amount of inspections that are taking place coming north.
	Okay?
	Okay.
	So that's just as I see it.
	And that, to me, being told to me by some of the missionaries that work down there, we're there every day, that they do go back and forth to get supplies on the U.S. side or whatever, that that has been, over the last years, Couple months.
	And to me, that's part of the tariff war.
	Because if the Mexican side wants to keep moving products and things back and forth without the heavy tariffs, they're going to do that.
	And I think that she, the president of Mexico, is standing up and saying, okay, I'm going to do that.
	But are there going to be prosecutions and those things as well on that side?
	I don't know.
	Okay, yeah, I just had to bring up her name.
	Scheinbaum.
	Scheinbaum.
	Yeah, because it's...
	It's hard to remember.
	It doesn't sound like a Mexican name for one thing.
	No, it sure doesn't.
	She had previously made statements saying that any attempt by the Trump administration to engage in military action without cooperation would be a violation of the sovereignty of Mexico.
	She has to.
	Yeah, she has to.
	But do you think, and again, I know you don't have access to any...
	Do you think that Trump is willing to risk that relationship with Mexico?
	I mean, he placed tariffs on Mexico, but is Trump willing to do drone strikes, for example, on cartel targets outside of the cooperation of Scheinbaum?
	Yeah, not having talked to him, and I know you know that, I don't talk to him, but I would say that he absolutely should have that on the playbook.
	But do you think he will?
	Do I think he will?
	That would be a tertiary level thing that he would have to do in the event that negotiations between former Senator, but now Director Rubio, for the State Department, Department of State, lead.
	If those things fall through, then we're looking at the Von Klauswitz thing that is war or kinetic strike is an extension of diplomacy.
	And I think that sometimes...
	It would just be a message that may need to be sent, but that would be, in my book, an exigent circumstance.
	That would be one of those that this is an extreme threat to the United States proper.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	And then what about the next level of that escalation, which would be U.S. Special Forces on the ground in Mexico, which to me sounds extremely dangerous, by the way, and to be...
	Okay.
	Yeah, and that's a great question, and that's the thing I talked about before, the actual boots on the ground type of stuff.
	And this is what that looks like.
	That looks at what's called AAA Authority.
	Advise, number one.
	Assist, number two.
	Accompany, number three.
	So if we did not a unilateral operation, but a joint operation between Mexican Special Forces and ours, which is a very dangerous course of action for our soldiers specifically.
	Yes.
	We don't want any Americans in body bags.
	I don't.
	No.
	Absolutely don't.
	But I can agree to...
	As a guy that's put a lot of Americans in body bags, I can agree to advising and assisting in the sense of helping to find them on Mexican soil.
	Okay.
	In operations centers, in training centers, I can agree to that without any hesitation because those are important things.
	Sure.
	Right?
	Because that advises and we can assist them.
	A company is different.
	That's the third level of the authorities.
	Uh-huh.
	And if we accompany, there's just a lot more risk that comes.
	But those things, if we do see that, if we do see U.S. troops down there in an advisory capacity, understand that very frequently those things lead to a company.
	Yes, yes.
	It's a natural thing.
	And the worst possible case for me, if I was a soldier or have been a guy that took care of guys like that, it's the worst possible case.
	But there are times, there's a season to everything.
	And I don't want to see it go there.
	No, absolutely.
	The cartels, at least my perception, is that it's very easy for, let's say, a typical American who's not that familiar with the situation to think that the cartels are not well-trained or well-armed or they don't have good logistics.
	The thing is, it's their home turf.
	They know everybody.
	They control the roads, the bridges.
	They know the towns.
	They know the mayors.
	They probably paid off the mayors of the towns.
	Some of them, yes.
	Yeah, some, right?
	And they paid off part of the Mexican military, too, right?
	Absolutely.
	So you're going into a hornet's nest that you don't control at all.
	Right.
	I just pray for the safety of anybody that would even think of attempting that.
	Correct.
	And that would be the...
	It would be the second option that we talk about.
	The strikes is another one, and that does limit the amount of American casualties, but it also limits the ability to obtain positive ID of the site.
	If I don't have somebody on the ground looking at it, everybody talks about smart bombs.
	Remember that 90% of those require somebody on the ground identifying the target, and then they've got to get out of there.
	The smart guy has to identify the target for the smart bomb.
	Because any president that has ever done that, and it has been done.
	That does that, just takes a chance, if you will, of PID, positive ID.
	If they take that chance, there have been and there always will be casualties that we don't need.
	Well, right, and one final point on this, and then I want to pivot back to the United States, but the way the cartels operate in Mexico, at least this is my understanding, there's not a clear division between civilian and cartel in many cases.
	Whereas, if you're in a theater of war and you're fighting a...
	The military forces of a nation.
	And the military men, they're in uniform, they're flying their flag.
	It's pretty clear what's a military target.
	It's an ammo depot, whatever.
	When it comes to the cartels, it's a guy who lives with his grandmother in an abuelo situation.
	And you can't just sort out civilians because they are civilians.
	I mean...
	You know, it's intertwined culturally.
	Extremely difficult to obtain PID, but I say that when I talked about the ENTS, you know, the SIG ENTS and the human, signal intelligence, human intelligence, open source intelligence, that's where we operate.
	When we look at those things, it requires that person on the ground that says that this guy here is dirty.
	Uh-huh.
	Specifically.
	Right.
	And that is because we develop relationships with people, for me in my instance, who I know in one particular neighborhood and across from Eagle Pass, I can just talk about it that way.
	I know some of the people and they'll say, don't go over down that road because that guy, straight up cartel.
	Uh-huh.
	In the U.S. side, let's go there.
	On the U.S. side, Kemato, Texas.
	Uh-huh.
	A little bitty town nobody's ever heard of, probably about 35 people there.
	But there's a women and children shelter there.
	We go and we minister to them, and we also bring supplies.
	We built a building for them.
	When you look at that, and they say, that house right there, that's cartel.
	It's just close to Bracketville.
	It's not too far from Bracketville, Texas, where our friend Sheriff Coe is.
	Great Texan.
	A great sheriff.
	But when you look at that...
	And you go, that guy right there.
	I mean, I know numerous houses in Laredo, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Rio Grande Valley, Roma.
	Cartel house.
	Cartel house.
	On the U.S. side.
	Because you live in the neighborhood.
	That's why.
	Got it.
	So we've got to have that intelligence, that understanding.
	And that's just open source.
	That's just people saying, don't go there.
	But you've got to learn that.
	And that's a key principle, that you can scale up.
	Yeah.
	If you have enough personnel, right?
	If you have enough intelligence assets.
	Let me bring it back to the United States on the demand side of this.
	So this gets to your ministry.
	This gets to the cultural war.
	None of these drugs would have a marketplace if it weren't for Americans buying them, right?
	So the demand side of this is often very...
	It's ignored, typically, or often ignored in this fight.
	Even Trump himself or others in our administration say, well, we've got to stop the...
	We've got to maybe bomb them, maybe cut them off.
	What about the American people?
	What is happening to our culture where people feel so empty inside that they feel that they need to fill those gaps in their soul with heroin or fentanyl or whatever else?
	Can you speak to that side of this?
	Yeah, that disease process, if you will.
	And I'm going to just say it now, firmly believe satanic process of taking people's hearts and minds and opening doors up for things that they don't need to be dealing with, right?
	That change their mindset, that cause a demoralization.
	If we're going to talk about Marxist-type things that are messing with this country.
	The Marxists claimed many times, and Stalin and others, have said, we'll take America down from within, based upon, and Yuri Bezmenov even talked about.
	We will then, through demoralization of that nation, take them down.
	Well, all of those things are vectors of attack.
	And so if we take prayer out of school, there's a second and third order effect.
	If we destroy the nuclear family, there's a second and third order effect.
	You start having all these things, all these institutions that were really based upon biblical principle.
	I don't care what denomination you come from.
	When you start taking down all those key pillars, family, children, patriotism in school, but also praying in school, also understanding we have a constitutional republic, you start separating those out.
	And then children growing up in bad neighborhoods who all are seeking one thing at that level.
	Me as a kid, I want to belong to something.
	Now I joined sports.
	Now I belong to a club, right?
	Some people at that time, at that age, it was gangs.
	Some people at that time, it was selling drugs.
	You know, me in high school and all that.
	And then I said, well, I'm going to join another club called the U.S. Army.
	And I did.
	Right?
	So I belong to something.
	Because that boy needs that.
	And girls need that, too.
	They need to belong to a sport.
	They need to belong to a bunch of friends.
	You know, a clique.
	Well, now you start adding in all those vectors of attack, which is exponentially higher with the advent of cell phones.
	And the ability to, not just the cell phone itself, but to get this information.
	So the attacks are constant.
	So drugs, because of the addictive nature of them, especially the fentanyl, especially the, I mean, heroin, cocaine was like that.
	Somebody to try it one time and be addicted.
	And fentanyl is like that.
	The only problem is the threshold of death is very close to the threshold of getting high.
	Period.
	Right.
	You know, and so now we're seeing that as an opium war being placed upon the United States.
	Remember, we didn't do that, but the French and British did it to China.
	The opium wars.
	Right.
	To create destability.
	That's right.
	And trade routes.
	Well, now it's the opium wars in reverse on us, and it's taken hold because it's been going since the 60s and 70s with the drugs.
	You know, the gateway drugs are gateway drugs, period.
	That's just what they are.
	But now they're just so much more dangerous and so much more addictive.
	So now when you see that we've got that pull, that's the commodity that it is, and say, well, now we've got the buyers, and it's through the roof.
	And so they are going to continue to make their money one way or another.
	It's getting across the border is the key.
	Well, now because we've essentially shut down the border as far as the numbers coming across, less mules, less chaos, less seams and gaps.
	They've got to come across the ports of entry, or by boat.
	Those are the gateways coming in across the bridges.
	Alright, that's really interesting.
	Let me ask a follow-up on that, but first, I forgot to point out that Trump did designate this large sliver of land from the western border of Texas all the way to the western edge of California on the Pacific to be a military-controlled zone.
	Do you know the proper name for it?
	Well, you know, we've seen that in Korea.
	We've seen that in Guantanamo Bay called demilitarized zones.
	It's not demilitarized in the sense that it's a no man's land.
	This is a military controlled.
	So what's that mean?
	That means that under the title system of the U.S. Code, Title 10, that if he did that, and he did, Operation Lone Star is a prime example of what that looks like.
	It was a Texas-run operation when I was on the border.
	Texas National Guard, air and land.
	And then it went to Title X when he came in and said, we're bringing in Title X. What does that mean?
	Active duty military.
	And because of the border already had by legislative decree, if you will, and I don't know the specifics on the legislation, but the way it is written is that there is a certain distance inside the border that the Border Patrol, because it's a federal entity, and now Title X, because they are a federal entity, have freedom of movement.
	To conduct operations in that specific swath.
	Is it three miles?
	I don't know.
	I've heard different numbers.
	I'd have to look it up to tell you.
	But that's a freedom of movement zone for our military to conduct operations.
	And listen, it's been like that for a long time.
	Doug McGregor and I were talking about this when General, well then at the time, Colonel Pershing, who became General Blackjack Pershing, World War I fame, when he was stationed down there near Bracketville at Fort Clark, I believe, They would go across and chase Pancho Villa 200 miles into Mexico from this specific zone that was demarcated then.
	We used to keep Title 10 forces on that border until maybe 60, probably 100 years ago.
	Really?
	Because we had the raiders coming across.
	So, to your knowledge, is Trump deploying more active duty military?
	Yes, absolutely.
	Right now?
	I've seen it.
	right now.
	Doesn't that put Trump in contention with the governor of California to put U.S. Military troops on the southern border of California when we know that the Democrats of California, they depend on illegal trafficking, human trafficking, drug trafficking, that pay kickbacks to the slush funds and the politicians and the judges in California.
	Yes, I would say in that regard, yes.
	Not in contention with the governor of Texas.
	No, not Texas.
	I mean, California.
	And Arizona, who has a fake governor, too, by the way.
	And Arizona.
	Nobody ever talks about New Mexico, and that's a key critical thing to talk about.
	Because New Mexico has a large border with Mexico.
	Yes.
	And nobody talks about it, because that particular...
	Very leftward-leaning government of New Mexico, and much of that land on the border is run by tribal land.
	So that's kind of a no-man's land for many, I won't say for federal forces, it's not.
	It's still on the border, and they do have the freedom of movement.
	But the atmospherics of it is difficult operating territory for us to conduct law enforcement operations.
	But this military designation should give The Trump administration and the DOD, a tremendous amount of leeway to operate despite the Democrat governors that don't want to shut down the border, correct?
	It's in their face.
	It truly is.
	Yeah, it is.
	And I don't know the numbers in the California sector, San Ysidro, but I don't know if you saw just recently three Border Patrol agents, and I love my Border Patrol guys, but got rolled up for trafficking.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, you and I both know, over the years, there are a lot of Border Patrol agents that were on the payroll of the coyotes or the cartels.
	Human nature.
	When you're demoralized, you tend to do these things a little more frequently.
	Okay, let me ask you about the next stage of where I believe this is going.
	So, we're going to talk about advanced AI robotics.
	But small, nimble robots.
	So I want you to imagine like a raccoon robot with a payload of fentanyl or something.
	So if you're smart and you're part of the Mexican cartels, you're thinking, hey, okay, I can't get maybe people as cross very easily anymore.
	Thermal cameras and they're looking for man-sized Things coming across the border.
	But I could get a little robot raccoon across the border.
	And I could get thousands of those across the border.
	And also underwater ocean drones, right?
	We've seen that now.
	I've heard of that.
	Yeah.
	Over on the California side.
	But I'm thinking, not just in the sky drones, because those are easier to spot with radar.
	They can be taken out.
	But I'm thinking about land crawling or a robot dog with a payload.
	That's coming.
	I mean, that's going to be tried.
	How will the U.S. defend itself against more advanced mobile robotics technology?
	Well, you know, I would imagine that somebody's on that playbook looking at that.
	Probably not a priority.
	It's still a few years out.
	Because I know how slow the military process works as far as planning.
	Most of the time it's reactionary.
	I hate to say that.
	But most of the time it is.
	Not the units that I worked in.
	We try to be very left of bang before the IED went off, right?
	We try to learn from that.
	But I would say that that is something that's probably not on the playbooks as far as identifying it, because to know the cues to look for those things, you've got to know what those things can do.
	And that's still kind of, I'm going to put that in the DARPA-ish world for me, you know, just because DARPA is, you know, the agency that would be building something like that.
	And they probably do have that.
	Well, can I point out something?
	Sure.
	Let me, I'm sorry to interrupt, but these robots, see, China's been providing a lot of the fentanyl.
	China's also the leader in robotics technology.
	And these robots don't have to ever come back.
	Like, they're one-way robots, because the value of the payload is many times higher than the value of the bot.
	Right?
	So, and you can even train robots, if another robot fails halfway, There can be a GPS signal on it.
	Another robot can come along, grab that payload from the down bot, and continue the mission, get to the destination, drop it off in a desert in Arizona somewhere, and then that robot can be programmed to just run off and die.
	It never has to come back.
	These are going to be very difficult to track.
	Yeah, the tracking of that, I'm just going through the scenarios in my head.
	Look, put me on that mission, though, because the rules of engagement are pretty simple.
	That's true.
	Destroy the robot.
	Destroy the bot.
	I don't want to shoot people in America, but I will destroy a bot all day, drive over it.
	Right.
	But they're going to have infrared or thermal or night vision cameras.
	They're going to run at night, number one.
	So they're not going to move in the day.
	Yeah.
	They're not going to leave a big thermal signature.
	Interesting concept.
	I've thought about drones coming overhead.
	We talk about, when we do defense down on the border, 360 plus one, meaning the sky.
	360 on the ground, but I've got to do the plus one.
	So we are cognizant of, we've seen drones.
	We've seen them come across.
	We've seen drones out over the river.
	So we know that.
	But I hadn't thought of that.
	That's a good scenario to talk about.
	And I'm sure that somebody's watching.
	That knows what person at DARPA is or Army's future, you know, future Army's guys that they look at the future planning.
	They're sitting here probably listening going, yeah, we already have that.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know what?
	I'm going to ask my producer to roll some of the footage from the Unitree robot company where they've put controllable wheels on the bottoms of each of four legs.
	And then the wheels, when they're locked up, they function as hoofs.
	And then when there's torque applied to the wheels, because they're electric motors also, then they can roll rapidly up and down hills.
	It can traverse extremely difficult terrain, like rocky hillsides.
	And they don't need sidewalks, man.
	They can handle the terrain that we are talking about.
	That was the 20 years ago was the thing that we all said, there's no way they're going to use robots because they can't get up and down these stairs.
	Hilltops.
	Now these can.
	They lock up the wheels to climb up, and then they unlock the wheels to roll down, and they're just cruising.
	Now, battery life is an issue, etc.
	But anyway, I don't mean to dwell on this, but I wanted to say that as long as there's demand on the U.S. side, that there's money in making deliveries, obviously.
	And the cartels are going to be, I think, very creative.
	Oh, yeah.
	In figuring out how to do this.
	Oh, they get real creative.
	We've seen it in every aspect of warfare.
	They're very creative things.
	I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they used a Monty Python catapult to send them across.
	Yeah, right.
	Here comes the rabbits.
	Right.
	You know, little rabbits popping in.
	Run, run, run away!
	Or how about robot drones that actually look and act like birds?
	Like, you know, buzzards or something.
	We see buzzards all the time in this area.
	You know, six foot wingspan.
	But it's a robot buzzard flying around.
	But it's got a payload of fentanyl.
	You know, that's really hard to interdict.
	And not that expensive to make once they nail down the technology.
	And it would even flap its wings like a buzzard.
	You know what I mean?
	It's like biomimicry robotic smugglers.
	Fascinating.
	I mean, this is really cool stuff.
	I mean, you know, I'm sure that when we leave here, Michael Yon and I will be talking about that because it's...
	He's definitely into that technology.
	Well, you know, the world is changing rapidly, that's for sure.
	But I wanted to wrap it up with you by bringing it back to what you said about when a nation turns away from God, then there are second order and third order effects.
	And we are living in that time now.
	How do we turn...
	Back to bring Jesus into our lives and God into our lives as a nation.
	There are, you know, this is, principalities, rules of darkness, these things that are talked about in Revelation and in Romans as well, that we're fighting against.
	Principalities and rulers of darkness.
	Now, that's spiritual warfare stuff.
	And some people write it off and go, I'm not worried about all that.
	Well, you should be.
	Because we are a triune being.
	We have a force field, if you will, of energy that flies around us.
	Some people call it aura.
	Some of those people that are into crystals and all that say, well, you got a really cool aura.
	I got it.
	That's my spirit, right?
	That's what you're feeling.
	And then you have a soul, and this soul has the ability to have ties with people and friends and family and those things.
	And there are bad ties, you know, that you can have with your soul, your heart and your mind connected.
	And then you got this, you know, in the military you call it a meat sack of a body, right?
	And it may live for a long time if you take care of it.
	It may not.
	But when it's gone, you're still going on in your spirit.
	So in your spiritual life, as we're being attacked in the triune manner, the triune attack upon this nation, demonic forces and things like that, And in our souls, in our hearts, you know, demoralization.
	And in our bodies with chemicals and with, you know, things sprayed out of the skies.
	You're heavily into all that.
	When we look at those attacks, we say, well, what does that require as a response?
	Well, it requires a triune response.
	If I neglect the spiritual aspect of it, if it were up to me in the White House or in the Pentagon, I would have the Secretary of Spiritual Warfare.
	Right?
	I'd have that guy sitting there.
	Good point.
	Right?
	And saying, you know, I'm attuned to this stuff, because if you're not, you're missing a large part of that battle.
	Good point.
	So, and then when we, and you know, it's not a crazy thing.
	This is a thing.
	You could still be a centurion, a warrior, and listen to God.
	There's nothing wrong with that, because there is a time and a season for everything.
	In Nehemiah, in the book of Nehemiah, and he talks about it, they went to war, not to war, they went to build a wall.
	And he says in the book of Nehemiah, they went with a shovel in one hand and a sword in the other.
	There's a time and place for everything.
	Just going through the recent, you know, watching the Lord of the Rings again, and seeing that there was a very biblical or very spiritual connotations that J.R.R.
	Tolkien was writing about, it really mimics or echoes, let's say, the life of Christ.
	You know, it really does, and it's pretty deep.
	I've read the books, the whole book, all together.
	Yeah, when you take the whole series, the Hobbit series, and then the Lord of the Rings, you take those, and you're really deep, and I read them first.
	I never watched the movies until later on.
	Those are long-ass books, by the way.
	Long books.
	I loved them, though.
	I was just enthralled with that stuff.
	So much detail in there.
	But, you know, when you look at that, there's a disease, and it's called sin.
	And they carried it in the form of a ring.
	And then everybody's person that got around that ring until it was thrown in the pits of fire and pits of hell.
	And so when you take that on, you take that sin on it, it makes you sick.
	And our country has had a moral bankruptcy to many of its institutions, many of our leaders, moral bankruptcy, not even just damage, bankruptcy.
	And so the DOD primary suspect to that while I was in, watching it change from 1983 to the present.
	You know, at least in 2022 when I got out.
	And just wondering what happened to those leaders.
	Where's the honor and the prestige and the esprit de corps that are typically concomitant with morals, right?
	The moral bankruptcy has taken control of many of those institutions.
	So for us, and those of us on the ground in that fight, we don't hold ourselves any higher than anybody else.
	But we look at the fruits of the spirit in this person or in this institution and say, there's something broken here.
	And it says in the book that many will take the easier route and few will take the harder route.
	And those few are the remnants.
	Those believers that, regardless of denomination, those believers that understand those key principles of the triune being and put, you know, the first two rules.
	Number one, you'll love your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind.
	And number two, you'll love others as you love yourself or as you want to be loved yourself.
	If you do those first two, Pretty much everything falls into place.
	You're probably not going to murder people.
	You're probably not going to covet somebody else's wife.
	You're probably not going to steal.
	Because if you love people, you're not going to do that.
	Right.
	So if you just do those basic rules, you're good to go.
	You're good to hook.
	And you might be lucky enough, if you're a believer, to hear, well done, good and faithful servant.
	Right at the end.
	Right.
	But if you hear at your last judgment, depart from me, I never knew you.
	And you could be the biggest top, you know, mega church preacher in the world.
	And you may possibly hear that.
	Because what's happening in your heart?
	I think there's no question that many of the mainstream, especially the mainstream churches, megachurches, have also suffered moral bankruptcy in this country.
	That's why I love what you do.
	I love your ministry.
	And just lately, I've been hyper-focused on the red-letter version of the Gospels, just the words of Jesus Himself.
	Because I...
	It's so clear that Jesus said you demonstrate your faith through your works, by helping others, through your deeds.
	And I've had debates with other Christian people that say, no, it's all you have to do is confess your belief in Jesus, and that's enough.
	And my answer is that's not enough.
	That's a starting point.
	But clearly, we must help the needy.
	We must...
	Feed the hungry.
	We must clothe the poor.
	Or different renditions of that.
	Like I'm building an AI knowledge system to help people live with free knowledge.
	You're helping people in person, in towns and neighborhoods close to the border and through your ministry.
	You've got so many projects that we haven't even talked about.
	But I love the fact that you're very deed-centric.
	You're doing things that help people on the ground.
	Right, we have to, because faith without, it's written, faith without works is dead.
	It's not a requirement to get into the kingdom.
	It's not a requirement.
	But you will know them by their fruits.
	So if you know them by their fruits, we don't judge.
	But I tell you what, when I'm looking for people that do things, they generally come with fruits.
	Faith, love, and charity, and goodness, and kindness, and self-control.
	If I see somebody that doesn't demonstrate a lot of fruits, I'm not judging them.
	I'm just not working with them.
	Well, right.
	I mean, anybody can sit in a room and say, I believe in Christ.
	Okay, great.
	But to get out into the world and actually do things that demonstrate your faith, to be other-centered, to help others at your own expense, that's something far different.
	That's far more powerful, more profound.
	You shall know them by their love.
	That's the number one.
	Right.
	That's the number one.
	And this is what I see in you and your ministry.
	So let me give out your website again.
	It is...
	What is it?
	TheRemnantMinistryTX.org There we go.
	TheRemnantMinistryTX.org And thank you for all that you do.
	Thank you for being here and for just being open to all my questions and commentary.
	And please keep us posted because...
	Yes?
	Yeah, well, I have one thing to say.
	And this is about this, man, because I'm going to just lift up a little bit because I believe that you are the same.
	You're just a different, you know, you're a lot lighter than I am and you don't wear a cowboy hat.
	But in this fight, there are the hands and the feet and the head and the legs and the body.
	That's called the ecclesia, the body, right?
	That is the church.
	That is the real church.
	And every single mission that we've been on, every single one of them.
	There's been one way that you have touched it without even knowing sometimes because of things that you sent us in North Carolina or pieces of equipment that we've used on an operation here in Texas or all the way out to Idaho now and down to Florida.
	So we have seen that that's how this all works.
	We all got a part, and it all comes together in that ecclesia, which then, that's the works part of the faith and works thing.
	So you may not know it, and it's okay.
	Because we're going to find out about it in the book of life later on, after we're sitting up there going, well done, good and faithful servant, go hang out in the pool room now.
	You know, whatever we've got to do, wherever we are.
	Worshiping and glorifying God.
	It's so interesting how God works through us, because, and I'm not going to describe specifically some of the items that I've offered you today, but...
	Those things were sitting in my office building for like eight months.
	And I kept thinking, these are for something.
	And I don't know what they're for.
	And I always ask, God, show me how do I put all these things to the best use?
	Because I've been blessed with so much abundance and tools and donations that come to me that I have so many donations that I...
	I have to focus on how do I distribute those donations, right?
	Which is a lot of what my church does, but it just clicked of one of your projects and this stuff that I had to get to you, and the flow is automatic.
	It's like, I don't even...
	You notice, I didn't ask you what you're going to do with it.
	I don't need to know, because I know that you know, and I know that you are going to put it to its best use, and that's how this works.
	That's exactly it.
	And it's just amazing because there is a tapestry of God.
	God has no time.
	He's before, he's now, he's after.
	And he's going to be for ages.
	Yeah.
	Unto ages.
	But his tapestry works so cool because it's just like, throw us together.
	I don't know you, you don't know me.
	I'm an army guy.
	If I had never been a whistleblower, nobody would know me, which would have been awesome.
	But it's not.
	Because we've got a mission.
	And in this mission that we're in right now, God put that tapestry together and...
	You'll touch lives down on both sides of the border, all the way down, you know, 1,250 miles of Texas border without ever even knowing it.
	Wow.
	Well, please ask them to make sure I can still get avocados.
	It's all said and done.
	Yeah, that's funny.
	I'm joking.
	I said, I'm happy to pay a cartel.
	Fee for the avocados.
	I don't want to give up my avocados.
	Just change them and just say, instead of fentanyl, how about avocados, bro?
	I'm happy to pay more for avocados if you get rid of the fentanyl.
	But anyway, it's a blessing to know you, Doc.
	And thank you for being here today.
	Absolutely.
	Keep us posted.
	And keep putting pressure on our governor to do the right thing.
	We've got a great man in Paxton.
	A.G. Paxton running for Senate now.
	Well, I'd love to see that happen.
	I want to see him as a Senator, too.
	I fully support that.
	In fact, I support him for DOJ, but he didn't get that call.
	But he can work in the Senate, but we can help Texas heal, and we can help humanity heal.
	Yeah, we've got to get the morally bankrupt out, which is a specific case with Paxton, 100%.
	He needs to get that gentleman out.
	He's exhibited too much counter...
	Constitutional Republic activity.
	You're talking about the man that Paxton's running against.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, Paxton's running against.
	Get that man out.
	Get that man out.
	Yeah.
	Cornyn, I'm just going to say it.
	Sure.
	Because I don't believe he's ever even looked at the Constitution.
	No.
	No.
	He votes like a globalist.
	Yes, he does.
	Every time.
	Yeah.
	He votes against the people of Texas.
	We're talking about Cornyn.
	It's a shame.
	Cornyn, absolutely.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	He would be somebody I would support 100%.
	Me too.
	Yeah.
	Me too.
	All right.
	Well, thank you so much, sir.
	It's an honor to know you.
	It's an honor to have you here.
	We appreciate you very much.
	Appreciate you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	All right, folks.
	There you go.
	Doc Pete Chambers, just an extraordinary man and also someone who has influenced my life in so many positive ways, including the fact that my dog, who's sitting right there right now, I wouldn't even have my dog if it wasn't for meeting your dog.
	Right.
	At the Alex Jones Studios.
	That one day when you had Joe there.
	Yeah, that's great.
	I always love coming back over and bringing him out.
	Yeah, it was a good day.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	We'll take a break.
	We'll go throw some toys for both our dogs.
	Have some fun.
	Yeah, we might as well.
	All right.
	Thank you for watching today, everybody.
	Mike Adams here with Brighteon.com.
	God bless you all.
	Take care.
	The more I read the words of Jesus alone, the red letter version of, well, the Gospels mostly.
	It's very clear to me.
	It's abundantly clear.
	And actually, this has always been clear to me throughout my life, although I didn't know why, but that Christ is all about love.
	And I believe that a lot of churches like to really overcomplicate things because, well, it's kind of for the same reason that scientists like to really overcomplicate science.
	And they speak their own secret language so that only they can claim to be the experts on this very convoluted, very complex topic.
	And if you want to learn anything about science, you have to go to the scientists.
	Only they are the high priests of scientific knowledge.
	Well, you see the same thing in the history of the church.
	The high priests of religious knowledge or spiritual knowledge.
	And it's this convoluted, complex system of all these rules and all these interpretations and all these languages.
	All these, you know, covenants, and they make it convoluted for the same reason, so that you have to go to them to find answers to life.
	They want to be the high priest of, you know, spirituality, religion, etc.
	And overall, one of the functions of the church, I know that's a generic term, but this includes the Roman Catholic Church for sure, has been...
	To try to convince people that you can't be saved without them.
	That you can't have a relationship with God or with Christ without the church in the middle of that relationship.
	And frankly, that is completely false.
	What Christ teaches is that God is within us.
	God is with us.
	That we are all children of God.
	We all reflect God's Spirit.
	And that's why, as Jesus taught, that if you harm others or if you fail to help others, if you fail to feed and clothe the poor, then you are failing to feed and clothe God or Christ, as he was saying in that particular verse, because we are all connected.
	We are all connected because we are all children of God.
	And the way you treat other people...
	is literally the way you are treating God.
	So contrast the message of Jesus with what most churches teach today, both Catholic and Christian churches in particular.
	The churches teach that God is not within you, God is outside you, and that you have to work through the church in order to be recognized by God, but you can't do it yourself.
	With a relationship with God that you can't just have a personal relationship even with Christ.
	You have to have our interpretation.
	Whereas Christ taught that you are already part of God or God is within you and all you have to do is to allow God to work through you.
	And the main thesis of what Jesus taught is so simple.
	It's not complicated.
	It is love.
	It's love for others.
	Christ energy is love energy.
	Antichrist energy is hate energy.
	So when you see people who are completely infused with hatred, just raving, filled with hatred and mad all the time, that is an Antichrist demonstration.
	Whereas people who are filled with love, that is obviously a pro-Christ.
	Now, of course we have to have discernment, which a lot of people like to condemn you for having discernment by saying, oh, you're judging people.
	Well, of course we have to judge the difference between good and evil.
	If we can't tell the difference between good and evil, then we're lost.
	Our souls are lost.
	And fortunately, telling the difference between good and evil is very easy.
	We are actually born with it.
	It's part of who we are.
	If you see someone starving children, bombing children, mutilating children, sexually abusing children, etc., trafficking children, right?
	Very easy to say, yeah, that's evil.
	Something is wrong with that.
	That is not an unjustified judgment.
	That is correct judgment.
	So, yes, we must judge the difference between good and evil.
	The Bible verse is talking about do not judge others lest you be judged.
	That's referring to two things.
	Number one, get your own house in order first.
	Look inward for the work that you need to do yourself before going out and condemning others, right?
	So, you know, don't be a troll just condemning everybody else.
	Oh, you're bad and you're bad and you're bad when you have your own stuff in your own life that you probably need to work on.
	Because we all do.
	We all have something that we can be better about.
	You know, we can grow and we can learn in our own lives.
	But secondly, that verse also implies in the greater context.
	Not unfairly.
	Now, it's critical to fairly...
	Discern the difference between good and evil, like I said, which means it's critical to fairly judge what is happening.
	You have to have a compass.
	So judgment about what is happening is a compass that hopefully your compass is aligned with the teachings of Christ, which is rooted in universal love.
	So that compass is a...
	Basically, it's a judgment, it's a gauge that tells you what's going on so that if you're interacting with a person and that person starts to say some really evil, horrible things or that person starts to treat you unfairly or to treat others unfairly, then you are expected to be able to recognize that and perhaps to try to de-escalate the situation or perhaps pray for that person.
	Perhaps you may have to forgive that person.
	Perhaps you may have to distance yourself from that person because they're working out their demons and their journey of healing, etc.
	And maybe they're just not ready for an interaction right now.
	All those things are possibilities.
	But you have to have the compass, which is a kind of judgment or discernment, in order to know how to deal with people who have their own stuff going on.
	Now, let me give you an example of what happens when you have a lack of judgment in society.
	That's when you see society claim, quote, love wins in the context of transgender perverts sexually abusing children.
	So the phrase love wins is a perversion of the universal love of Christ.
	It's a perversion by an anti-Christ movement in order to justify They're sexual perversions by abusing children.
	But if you tell them that's wrong, they want to say to you, oh, judge not.
	You cannot judge us.
	That's not Christian.
	Right?
	You've probably seen some of this.
	Well, of course we have to have discernment about pedophiles and about those who are sexually abusing children.
	Of course that's wrong.
	Of course those people must be stopped.
	Because they are preying on the powerless.
	They are preying on the innocent.
	They are preying on young children of God, like actual children of God, who cannot fend for themselves.
	And so those children need the rest of us, the adults, the parents, the community leaders, to step in and defend them, defend the innocent children against the predators.
	And in order to do that, we have to have judgment.
	We have to have an internal compass.
	So someone who looks at everything and says, it's all good because God willed all of it.
	Well, that person will end up accepting pedophilia, accepting murder, accepting liars and cowards into their lives.
	And those are precisely the things that, well, God's angels.
	Taught against, and well, God himself taught against in the Old Testament, but also Jesus spoke against in various ways, and those are all things that we have to reject in our lives, and obviously we have to have discernment in order to do that.
	But again, it's not that complicated.
	For the most part, you know evil when you see it, or you know evil acts when you observe those acts.
	I'm not saying that just by looking at a person's face.
	I'm saying by observing their acts, you know whether they are good or evil.
	And this speaks to the importance of understanding deeds.
	How Christ taught that it is your deeds that demonstrate your faith in God.
	Whereas in contrast to that, Paul and the Pauline factions of Christianity, which is most mainstream Christianity, by the way, Taught that, no, no, your deeds don't matter.
	Your deeds are nothing but filthy rags.
	Your deeds don't matter.
	All that matters is that you confess with your mouth that Jesus is your Savior, and then you are saved.
	It doesn't matter what you do.
	And that's obviously wrong.
	Jesus disagrees with that.
	God disagrees with that.
	Your deeds matter.
	And your deeds demonstrate your faith.
	And your deeds demonstrate your person.
	So your deeds actually demonstrate to God and the universe what kind of person you are.
	If you are a good person who cares about others, your deeds will reflect that you are trying to help others with maybe varying degrees of success.
	I mean, that describes my entire professional life as trying to help people and sometimes being frustrated that people don't listen.
	That seems to be just a fact of where we are here right now.
	I try to help people by saying, don't take the death jabs.
	Don't undergo chemotherapy because it's poison.
	All these kinds of things.
	And to parents, don't jab your newborns with 57 vaccines.
	But people don't always listen, of course.
	So we do the best we can with the resources that we have.
	But we're always coming from a place of trying to help others.
	Trying to help end suffering and to uplift people and to spread knowledge and to spread truth.
	And that counts for a lot.
	And it's also very important.
	Again, I'm not making this complicated.
	These are all really obvious, simple things.
	But the way you treat others is also demonstrated by your humility versus your arrogance.
	And this is something that I've noticed over all the years, being around people who are poor and people who are wealthy, people who are successful and people who are not, etc.
	But when I see people treat the help like dirt, like if they treat waiters and waitresses like dirt, or if they have an in-house chef or a cleaner or whatever, If they treat them like dirt, that's a bad person.
	And especially, it's about the way they treat animals.
	When people treat animals like dirt, or they abuse animals and they don't have kindness towards animals, that is a very strong indicator that that is a person who lacks moral integrity.
	The way you treat animals basically reflects the light within you or the darkness, depending on...
	What you do.
	You'll notice that many of the demonic Satan worshippers, what do they do?
	They sacrifice cats and things like that.
	You know, they capture animals and they torture and kill them because that's a reflection of who they are or maybe a satanic infiltration or infestation of their body.
	But the way you treat animals says a lot about who you are.
	Jesus spoke about this and he was...
	He despised the sacrifice of animals in the name of God, you know, especially in the temple, etc.
	Jeremiah spoke about this.
	Many of the Old Testament prophets or writers spoke about this needless sacrifice.
	Even God himself spoke about this in the Old Testament, saying that, you know, I'm tired of all the animals you're killing and the...
	The floors are running with blood, but none of you have changed.
	You're not better people because you're killing the bulls and killing the lambs.
	You're not any better.
	So stop it.
	I don't want to see any more animals killed in my name.
	And this is why I also challenge Christians who are sport hunters to think about what you are doing.
	To kill an animal for sport is...
	Completely out of alignment with the teachings of Christ.
	It really is.
	And, of course, I'm pro-Second Amendment.
	I support self-defense.
	I'm, myself, an accomplished, long-range rifle shooter, but I've never shot an animal.
	I've never hunted an animal with my rifles.
	I shoot steel plates.
	I shoot, you know, sometimes paper targets siding in, but long-range, it's steel plates.
	And that's what I hunt, is steel plates.
	I mean, I would not think that killing an animal is a form of accomplishment, because Christ condemns that.
	Christ condemns that.
	And so some of you listening might be hunters, and it's part of your culture, and you hunt animals for sport, and you've always done that.
	It's something you did maybe with your father, typically, or your grandfather.
	Something you do with your culture.
	And then you go to church, and then you praise Jesus and you pray to God.
	Well, those two practices, hunting and killing animals for sport, and then going to church and praising God, those are opposites.
	Those are clearly opposites.
	And Jesus does not want you to kill animals for sport.
	Clearly.
	Animals have consciousness.
	Animals are also...
	I'm not saying they're the same as humans, but they are also creations of God.
	And animals have consciousness.
	Every animal, the highest to the lowest, has its own perspective.
	Cows have their own memories, their own points of view, their own families, their own mothers, their own emotions, their own fears.
	And this is even an argument of vegetarians and vegans.
	And it's an argument that eating animals is cruelty to animals because of the way they are killed or raised.
	And this is why it's critical to be mindful of where your food comes from and how the animals are treated, etc.
	And yes, I do eat meat from time to time, not a lot.
	I certainly don't make it the primary part of my diet.
	But yeah, I eat meat from time to time.
	Purchase beef products from local farmers who have free-range cows.
	And then I give honor and thanks to the lives of those cows.
	It's more like a Native American approach of honoring the animal that is helping to give you life.
	But, you know, most Christians today, they're just mindless, just eating, you know, hamburgers and...
	Chicken sandwiches, not a thought at all about the animal from which that flesh came.
	And that mindless attitude about where your meat comes from is itself, I think, a disconnect from the Christ energy, which is an energy of love.
	But if you are mindful, and if you are honoring the animal, and I understand that hunting for survival in a situation of starvation, I can understand that and I can justify that.
	I could even do that myself.
	If I were starving, would I shoot a rabbit to have a few meals?
	Yes, I would.
	But I would do so mindfully.
	Or would I shoot a wild hog in order to not starve or to feed my family literally in a situation of starvation?
	Yes, I would.
	But again, I would do so mindfully.
	The perspective that we bring to it that actually really matters.
	So let us be mindful in all that we do.
	Let us remember that the Christ energy is an energy of universal love.
	And we must express love if we wish to be closer to God.
	Express love for each other.
	And it's okay to have discernment, obviously.
	We should not love those who are harming others.
	Perhaps in certain circumstances we may forgive them, but universal love should be the basis, the pillar of our interactions with animals and with people and the world.
	And then from time to time, yeah, we have to exercise self-defense or we have to exercise discernment.
	We have to stop pedophiles from hurting children, and that is necessary from time to time as well, and hence the sword, etc.
	But be mindful of all of this, and thank you for listening.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	And my church is the Church of Natural Abundance.
	You can find me at abundance.church.
	Thank you for listening.
	God bless.
	Take care.
	We are at a cultural crisis in the West when it comes to the response to the engineered, organized mass starvation of children in Gaza.
	And this crisis affects the Christian church.
	The Christian church, which claims to...
	Promote the teachings of Jesus Christ.
	And of course, Jesus taught love and kindness and feeding the starving, not starving the children.
	So when our Christian churches, when they practice a form, or I would say a perversion of Christianity, to the point where they support the mass genocide of Human children,
	women and children and hospital patients and doctors and so on, as the vast majority of Christian churches now support in America because of this bizarre loyalty to Zionism, when we recognize that, when we see that, we have to question what has broken this institution that we call the church.
	Or maybe stated differently, This is a catastrophic failure of the doctrine that has been taught to today's practicing Christians.
	Now, to be clear, I want to be clear, this is not a failure of the core teachings of Jesus Christ himself.
	And I'm going to talk about that shortly here.
	And I'm looking at, I've got two red letter Bibles in front of me right now.
	One of them is called Just the Words of Jesus.
	And I have read All the way through just these words, the words of Jesus.
	And I have decided, as someone exploring this topic and working to explore the nature of the cosmos, the nature of God, the nature of salvation, etc., I have decided that I love the words of Jesus, and I love the concept of Christ, and I am entirely loyal to the teachings of Jesus.
	Jesus was clearly sent by God to try to uplift humankind with these core teachings.
	So don't misunderstand anything I'm saying here.
	When I criticize the Christian church institution of our day, I'm not criticizing the words of Christ.
	What I'm saying is that our churches today have abandoned the teachings of Christ, for the most part.
	Now, I know there are exceptions.
	But the mainstream Christian churches in the West today have absolutely abandoned the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and the concept of the greater Christ, which is a representation of the love and light of God.
	That has been utterly abandoned by the majority of our Western churches.
	And so we must ask, where has this gone wrong?
	How is it that we have pastors who are proudly promoting online videos where they say, kill as many of those Palestinians as possible.
	Kill them all.
	In the name of Jesus, they say sometimes, to kill them all.
	That God has blessed us to kill them all.
	How have we arrived at this point?
	And we cannot understate the profound failure.
	It is such a failure that the Christian church has, in fact, committed moral suicide.
	It has destroyed any last shred of moral credibility that it ever had.
	And in doing so, it has betrayed the teachings of Jesus Christ himself.
	And of course, it has also betrayed the teachings But how is this even possible?
	That we've arrived at this point where someone like myself who says we should save the children, we should not starve the children, we should work to feed the children, where I am called a heretic or an anti-Semite or whatever other label you want to think of for
	simply I'm calling for actions that are aligned with Jesus Christ while the so-called leaders of the Christian churches
	Are calling for actions that violate the teachings of Jesus Christ.
	And yet somehow they call themselves Christians.
	And when people like me, outside the mainstream of Christianity, when we challenge the mainstream Christians, they will say, well, you don't understand.
	You didn't go to the Christian Bible school.
	You can't possibly know what it all means.
	When I say things like, well, I do understand that it's wrong to starve children to death.
	That's not complicated, and I don't need a degree in theology to understand this very simple point.
	I've read the words of Jesus, and he's quite clear on this, actually.
	This is not debated.
	So it makes you wonder, what is it about the teachings of Christianity that have led this modern perversion of Christianity?
	So astray.
	What is it?
	And as I've tried to find answers to this question, one of the things I've done, of course, is read the Red Letter Bible, only the words of Jesus.
	And if you count the words of Jesus, and it's, you know, it's mostly in the four Gospels, right?
	Maybe a little bit outside of that.
	But if you count the words of Jesus, it's about 31,000 words.
	And then if you count the words of the entire New Testament, and it varies a little bit depending on which version, but roughly it's 180,000 words.
	So what does that mean?
	It means that Jesus accounts for only 17%, that is, his words that he spoke, or at least as they were recorded that he spoke.
	Jesus' words only account for 17% of the New Testament.
	And you might wonder, well, Gosh, I thought that, I mean, if you're not that familiar with the Bible, you might think, you thought the whole New Testament was all Jesus.
	And it isn't.
	It's not even one-fifth Jesus.
	So, who else is speaking and writing in the rest of the New Testament?
	Well, we know that in the book of Revelation, it's John, John of Patmos, and Revelation is supposed to have been given to him by...
	God's angels.
	And I've covered Revelation a lot, and I do find it quite fascinating.
	But what about the rest?
	What about after the four Gospels and before Revelation?
	All the other stuff in between.
	Well, the primary author of all that is Paul.
	And Paul, it turns out, if you're honest, if you actually read the words of Paul with an honest mind, with Integrity of thought.
	You find out that Paul contradicts Jesus on so many points.
	You also find that Paul appears to be quite arrogant, and he's very condescending toward Jesus' disciples.
	And Paul himself, he sort of aggrandizes himself to place himself almost on par with Jesus in certain...
	You know, certain letters and certain speeches and certain demands.
	And he places himself as almost a saint.
	But yet Jesus never anointed him as such, nor did God, nor did, you know, any other official body.
	Actually, he was rejected by most of the churches of the day, which is why he wrote such harsh letters to those churches, you know, telling them how horrible they were.
	But the philosophy of Paul is what I have found a lot of inconsistencies with.
	And this has caused many Christians, those who listen to me who are Christians, who have been classically trained in the Bible, and who have been taught that everything that Paul says is the Word of God, which obviously it isn't, but some of them really freak out when you start to question what Paul said.
	If you honestly look at Paul's words, Paul believed in salvation or the saving of humankind through human sacrifice, for example.
	And that is God sacrificing his own son on the cross, allowing his son to be tortured and murdered on the cross.
	as the sort of the final sacrifice to save humankind.
	And Paul talks about this as if it was a great thing, so that God is someone that required human sacrifice.
	John, Jesus himself actually never made such demands.
	He never commanded the killing of human beings as an appeasement to God.
	In fact, that very idea of human sacrifice, it's very...
	Paganistic.
	You would find that in ancient civilizations like the Inca or the Maya or other ancient cultures around the world.
	A lot of human sacrifice to their gods, you know.
	But that's not something that Jesus taught.
	He didn't run around saying, you know, you need to kill all these people for me and for my father.
	No, in fact, when he was angry overturning the tables in the temple in Jerusalem.
	He was also freeing the animals.
	And what were the animals there for?
	The animals were there to be murdered as sacrifices to God by the Jewish priests of the day and of the time.
	And you could buy your way into heaven, or at least that's kind of the way that it was sold at the time.
	You could buy away your sins by purchasing the sacrifice of animals.
	And if you sin a little bit, You might only have to sacrifice a lamb.
	If you'd send a lot, you might have to sacrifice a bull, you know?
	And Jesus wanted no part of any of this.
	He wasn't just turning over the tables of the money changers.
	He was completely opposed to this idea of drawing blood and killing people and animals in the name of God, you see.
	Now, why does this matter?
	Because in our present world, This discernment, this difference between the teachings of Jesus Christ versus Paul is ever-present.
	So Paul advocated God's allowing of violence against his own son as a way to appease God for the sins of man.
	And so violence against your own son.
	That's not what Jesus advocated, but if you extrapolate that to modern-day Israel and Gaza, see the Christian Zionists are also advocating mass killings as some kind of sacrifice to appease their God in order to bring back, they think, Christ in the second coming and to bring back a thousand years of...
	Christ's rule over the earth.
	And many of these Christian Zionists think that they have to sacrifice red bulls.
	They have to kill the Palestinians.
	They have to kill all the enemies of Israel.
	And you have to wonder, where did this come from?
	Well, guess what?
	Sure, it was in the Old Testament.
	It was all over the Old Testament.
	But it was also then reconfirmed by Paul, but never by Jesus Christ himself.
	Never by Christ.
	So just as Jesus saw that the routine practice of animal sacrifice had been completely corrupted by the religious leaders mostly the Jewish leaders of the time and that it was a way for people to think that they could buy their way out of their sins but that no matter how many animals they killed they still did not engage in forgiveness love,
	peace selflessness They did not achieve any spiritual transformation.
	You can kill all the lambs and all the goats and all the bulls, you know, in the world.
	I mean, the temple, the floors of the temple sometimes would run with the blood of sacrificed animals.
	And yet, these people that were buying and that were killing these animals were still filthy souls in the eyes of God.
	So Jesus knew that Sacrifice and blood and killing is not a path to salvation.
	He knew that.
	Even though he knew that he was going to be killed, of course.
	He foresaw it several times.
	But he knew that that is not the path to salvation.
	And thus, when an institution such as the Christian Church teaches that the human sacrifice of the Son of God is the path to salvation, and that in order for you To make it to heaven, you have to confess that you believe in that sacrifice and that Jesus rose on the third day and that you believe in Christ, but you don't match it with deeds.
	You don't match it with works.
	Then, frankly, Jesus would say, and he did say, I'm paraphrasing, that he does not know you and that that is not a pathway to heaven at all.
	The pathway to heaven is to demonstrate your faith in God through your deeds and your works.
	It's not that the deeds themselves earn you entry into heaven.
	It's that the deeds demonstrate your faith.
	And specifically, and this is another great contradiction between Paul and Jesus, is that Jesus taught that your deeds and your works matter.
	And this is why James, of course, Chapter 2, verse 26, faith without works is dead.
	And James is understood to be one brother of Jesus, a brother of Jesus.
	So faith without works is dead.
	But Paul taught that faith alone, that is the confession of Jesus as your Savior and the belief in the resurrection, that that alone is your salvation, regardless of your deeds, regardless of your works.
	Jesus didn't believe that at all.
	That's not what he taught.
	He taught that the deeds matter.
	So when you understand this, you realize that the institution of Christianity, as it is taught in the West today, is a perversion of the original intent of Jesus Christ.
	That Christianity today, if you listen to the typical pastors that are the Christian Zionists that are pro-Israel, they are not rooted in peace.
	They're not rooted in forgiveness, in charity, in kindness, love, light, any of these properties that actually defines both Jesus himself or Christ and Christ, the greater Christ, even beyond the person, but also God himself.
	Like, all of these things.
	God offers universal salvation because God Expresses universal love.
	And as I said in a previous podcast here, all human beings are God's children.
	Without exception, every single child on earth is a child of God.
	And when you starve any child of any race, of any ethnicity, you are murdering a child of God.
	And how do you suppose God thinks about that?
	What kind of judgment might be coming to those who claim to be of Jesus?
	In their words, they claim to accept Christ as their Savior, but then they advocate verbally and publicly, and they call for the murder of God's children.
	Right?
	Think about this, because it is a gross perversion of what Jesus taught.
	What that tells you is that much of the modern Christian church today, as it is practiced and as it is taught, is in fact the antithesis of Christ, meaning technically it is anti-Christ.
	But they love Paul.
	They love Paul.
	And you know what else Paul does for a lot of modern Christians?
	Paul allows Christians to be spiritually lazy.
	Because if you follow Paul's work, which is, again, a larger percentage of the New Testament compared to Jesus himself, right?
	All the letters, all the speeches, everything that Paul did, extremely well documented and was pushed by the Roman Catholic Church and everything else all throughout history.
	They loved Paul.
	That was the doctrine that they wanted to push.
	Because Paul says that getting into heaven...
	Doesn't require you to be a good person.
	Again, I'm paraphrasing, but essentially, he says getting into heaven only requires that you confess your faith, that you confess Jesus as your Savior from your own mouth, from your own lips, and that essentially, this is implied in many of his letters, that you are loyal to the church, you tithe to the church, you sing the hymns, you do the prayers, you read the book, etc.
	Where's the root of what Jesus wanted us to do?
	Now, granted, Paul at times would talk about how churches needed to take care of the widows, for example, and that is very Christ-like.
	But there are other times where Paul's teachings are completely contradictory to what Christ taught and where Paul doesn't act with much humility.
	He acts with...
	Some kind of a twisted self-aggrandizement, which is very odd for a man who was a serial killer of Christians.
	And if you didn't know that about Paul's history, you should.
	You know, Paul was a serial killer of Christians.
	He tortured and murdered hundreds of Christians before his own conversion.
	And that's a pretty big deal.
	I'm not sure how you get forgiveness for murdering hundreds of Christians.
	And then to say that you are the representation of Christianity?
	Think about it.
	I mean, it's really bizarre.
	And very few modern Christians even understand that history about Paul or Saul.
	And so, if you think about it, the whole spirit of Paul, it actually began with the mass slaughter of God's children.
	The mass slaughter of Christians.
	And if you think about it today in the conventional Christian church or mainstream Christian churches that largely teaches the words of Paul, not Jesus, and certainly not John of Patmos, but largely teaches the words of Paul, these are the same churches that are teaching or advocating for the mass murder of God's children in Gaza.
	So there is this pervasive theme of mass murder.
	Slaughter, human sacrifice, and the destruction of the children of God that pervades more than 2,000 years, obviously.
	And here it is rearing its head again today.
	And I have an issue with that because I can read and because I believe what Christ said.
	I believe the words of Christ.
	And I believe that Jesus was a tremendous teacher and continues to be a tremendous teacher.
	But I also know that God offered salvation to all human beings as his renewed covenant with humanity in Deuteronomy.
	And I was reminded of that by my Bible mentor just the other day who helped me understand some of this.
	Put it all together.
	What Jesus and God together are saying.
	God is saying that all of you are automatically saved because you're all children of God.
	But the rewards that you receive after this life depends on your deeds.
	Depends on whether you're a good person.
	And by good person it means the way you behave.
	Not just showing up at church once a week and saying I believe Jesus is our Savior and then The other six days, you run around and sin, and you're arrogant, and you're infested with the pursuit of material wealth, and you're banging hookers and whatever else modern-day pastors do.
	I mean, some of them.
	Not all, obviously.
	But that's the far bigger question of what it takes to earn God's favor, is your deeds.
	Remember, faith without works is dead.
	Now, granted, I believe that faith is also very important.
	So, remember, God has that renewed covenant with all of humankind in Deuteronomy 29, and as I also mentioned the other day in 1 Timothy 4, verse 10 says, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers, but not exclusive to believers.
	So, in other words, Every human being is saved by God.
	Every human being has already been given granted salvation, including, including, as in 1 Timothy, including non-believers.
	It doesn't mean that their, you know, their just rewards will be the same, you know, eternal rewards, how their book of life is read, etc.
	Those of faith have greater rewards.
	But those who don't have faith, guess what?
	They will become believers the moment the afterlife begins.
	Because they're like, whoa, the afterlife is real.
	I'm standing here before God.
	I didn't even think God existed.
	And now the afterlife is real.
	All of a sudden, they become souls of faith.
	They all become believers sooner or later, by the way.
	It's just a question of whether they're believers during this life, which is a kind of...
	Simulation, like a spiritual training ground created by God.
	Okay?
	So, ultimately, what Jesus taught, and I believe what God repeated again and again, is that we are judged according to who we are as vessels of allowing God to work through us,
	and that God And especially the Christ energy is energy of love and light and forgiveness and peace, not of war and killing and sacrifice and blood and starvation.
	But the Christian church today, at least the mainstream church, large parts of it, are all about war and killing and blood and kill them all and kill the bulls and sacrifice this and sacrifice that.
	We've got to have blood on the grounds of the temple and rebuild the temple and then there's...
	Going to be more blood and Jesus comes back and kills everybody else.
	There's so much focus on blood and violence and death and that is not what Jesus taught.
	Not at all.
	Jesus was offended by the idea that killing would earn your way to heaven.
	He was offended by it.
	So in my search for additional information on learning about this and studying the history of of Paul and the history of, well, the Bible and its translations and all the books that have been hidden from us.
	You know, the book of Enoch, the book of Giants, the 22 missing chapters that have been taken out of the Christian, the Western Christian Bibles.
	Yeah, it's missing 22, well, it's missing 22 books.
	Not just chapters, but entire books.
	The Bible's been redacted.
	It's kind of like, right now, lots and lots of people keep wondering, when are we going to see the Epstein files?
	Well, when are we going to see the rest of the Bible?
	What about the parts that were taken out?
	How about that?
	Well, that's been redacted, just like the Epstein files.
	You're never going to see the Epstein files, and the church is never going to show you the parts of the Bible that the church controllers don't want you to read.
	It's always been about control.
	It's about limiting knowledge, not expanding knowledge.
	And it's about telling you a version of Christianity, which is really Paulianity, or Paul, what would you call it?
	Paulosophy or something?
	It's not what Jesus taught.
	It's this other guy who's not Jesus and not God and not a saint and not a disciple, not an official apostle of anything.
	It's this self-appointed guy who Jesus did not appoint and who never met Jesus, by the way.
	Never spoke one word to Jesus ever in his whole life, but who talks like he represents Jesus, sort of the self-appointed Jesus ambassador, you know?
	So in my quest to try to find answers to all of this, because again, I'm loyal to the words of Jesus and the teachings of Jesus, which is, again, love and peace and light, universal respect for life, universal dignity.
	I mean, think about the things that I've talked about over all the years.
	When I've talked about, for example, in all my years of learning how to be a long-range rifle shooter, what have I always said?
	I don't kill animals for sport.
	I don't hunt.
	And why?
	Why have I always stated that?
	Because it's a reflection of who I am.
	I don't kill animals for fun or for sport.
	Jesus doesn't want us to kill animals.
	For our sins or for sport or fun either.
	And this position of mine has been something since childhood.
	Something that I was taught.
	And I only really began to study the Bible seriously a year ago or whatever it was.
	I didn't know that that was Jesus' position on it.
	It's just that my whole life, I have had compassion for animals.
	I've had compassion for all living things.
	I have compassion for all children.
	And it just turns out that that's also what Jesus taught.
	So I'm very humbled and glad to find out that my value system that I learned and practiced long before I ever read the words of Christ, my value system is actually fully aligned with what Jesus taught.
	But it's not aligned with the Old Testament animal sacrifices and a lot of the stuff that Paul is talking about, human sacrifice, and his whole history of mass murder, serial killer of Christians.
	I don't align with that.
	I align with Jesus.
	And I believe in universal dignity of life.
	What have I said to you many, many times?
	That part of my mission here on this earth is to protect life.
	I protect the lives of...
	People and children and unborn children, I protect the lives of animals and the dignity and the rights of animals.
	That's why I have adopted and taken care of so many animals, by the way.
	You know, adopting the donkeys years ago after the fires, for example, and named one of them Hosanna, right out of the Bible.
	This is why I also seek to protect the life of plants and ecosystems, aquatic life, ocean life.
	The systems that create life.
	And this is why I don't use herbicides and pesticides on my ranch.
	Instead, I let life grow back.
	I create habitat for animals.
	And I am so thrilled about that.
	It's why it breaks my heart when my dog, the bunny gobbler, digs up a little bunny rabbit and swallows it whole.
	I'm freaked out about that.
	I'm horrified.
	Then on the positive side, I'm so glad, like the other night, I was out walking at night, and because we've allowed so much natural life to grow on the ranch, we have dewberries everywhere, berries all over the place.
	We have rabbits, so many rabbits.
	On this just short walk the other night, long after dark, I must have seen at least 10 rabbits.
	Just...
	Just darting around, eating around in the grass.
	And you know those are healthy rabbits because there's no pesticides or herbicides.
	And you know what?
	I am someone who believes in life, not death.
	And if that puts me at odds with today's Christian church, then that is a failure of the Christian church, not of my soul or my beliefs, because my beliefs are far more closely aligned with the teachings of Jesus than...
	Are the actions of today's mainstream Christian churches, which are promoting death and destruction and mass murder.
	And I'm not comparing myself to Jesus, don't get me wrong.
	What I'm saying is, at least I have followed his most basic lessons.
	Don't kill things!
	Don't kill things!
	And I also admit where I just can't be Christ-like.
	I'm not that great at forgiving pedophiles, for example.
	I can't find it in my heart to forgive pedophiles.
	Now, God can.
	Jesus can, I suppose.
	I mean, forgiveness is supposed to be one of the most important functions.
	I haven't lived my whole life yet.
	Maybe.
	Maybe I can learn forgiveness.
	But I don't know.
	I don't even...
	See, I'm just admitting it publicly.
	I can't find it in my heart to forgive child molesters and pedophiles and child mutilators.
	At least not at this point.
	How?
	How could I forgive them?
	I would say maybe that's up to God, okay?
	Whatever they earn from God's eternal consequences or whatever, that's between them and God.
	I'm not saying that I would go out and try to kill pedophiles or anything like that.
	I just can't forgive them.
	Not in my heart.
	So no, I'm not Christ-like in my forgiveness capacity because I can't forgive pedophiles.
	Can you?
	Can you forgive pedophiles?
	I don't know.
	How do you do that?
	So I'm not perfect, but I absolutely know that starving children is wrong.
	Starving children is evil.
	And starving children, which is what, again, what the Christian Zionist churches are supporting, is an anti-Christ approach.
	There's no question about it.
	And, you know, don't anybody get me like, oh, judge not lest ye be judged.
	Come on.
	That means don't unfairly judge people.
	God and Jesus both want us to have discernment, which means we have to be able to tell the difference between good and evil.
	Otherwise, nothing in the Bible makes any sense at all.
	Of course Jesus wants us to call out evil and to be good.
	And, of course, He gives many examples of what that means, but ultimately it comes down to, as my Bible mentor told me, transitioning from being self-centered to other-centered, focusing on how you help others rather than just making yourself more wealthy or more comfortable or whatever the case may be.
	Sometimes we have to sacrifice ourselves for the benefit of others.
	And in order to do that, in order to know what is good, And in order to oppose evil, we have to be able to tell the difference between good and evil.
	And doing so is actually not that difficult.
	I mean, we're kind of born in our gut of knowing the difference between good and evil.
	Like, killing children's evil.
	Clothing the poor is good.
	Feeding the hungry is good.
	Ending suffering is good.
	This is not complicated.
	But somehow these Christian churches talk themselves out of the philosophy of Jesus, and they end up bombing children in Gaza and thinking it's perfectly okay.
	That's what's crazy.
	So, like I said, the institution of the Christian churches, the way that they are operated today, by and large, again, there are exceptions to this.
	But by and large, it is a total suicide of morality.
	It's an absolute cataclysmic collapse of the integrity of the church.
	If the church can't stand up for starving children, then what does the church stand for?
	Especially when the church claims to be following and teaching the words of Christ.
	See?
	And the reason this matters is because, of course, all the followers of Islam Are observing the Christian churches and the followers of Islam are saying, wow, I guess our Islamic teachers were correct that Christianity has become a perversion of what Christ taught.
	And they're not wrong.
	They're not wrong.
	And, you know, the Buddhists are looking at the Christians and saying, what the hell?
	What's going wrong with the Christians?
	How come they can't stand for life?
	How come they can't defend starving children?
	And the Hindus and the Sikhs and even many Jews are looking at the Christians.
	It's like, what's wrong with you Christians?
	And the Christian community should help clean up its own spiritual filth.
	The churches that recognize the dignity of human life should be pressuring the other churches to say, why aren't you denouncing the bombing of women and children in Gaza?
	Why aren't you denouncing that?
	If you can't denounce that, What business do you have claiming to represent the Word of God or the teachings of Jesus?
	If you can't even cover the basics, they don't want to do that.
	They want to get lost in all this complicated doctrine.
	Oh no, you need to look at these chapters and these verses and these things and don't forget to tithe.
	Read these Psalms and this stuff over here and this letter.
	But don't pay attention to the fact that children are being bombed every day.
	Don't talk about that.
	So that's cowardice.
	That's one of the sins mentioned in Revelation.
	Cowardice.
	Alongside murder.
	Alongside being thieves and idolaters and so on.
	Being a coward.
	Today's mainstream Christian churches that are supporting Israel, they're all cowards.
	Which is a sin.
	In the eyes of God.
	Think about these things.
	And, of course, I'm thinking about them constantly.
	I'm learning.
	And also triggering a few, like, really narrow-minded, hardcore Christians who their only answer to everything is don't challenge everything I already believe because I was taught that and that's the end of it.
	Okay, right?
	If you can't ask questions about your philosophy or your religion, then it's not a very strong system, is it?
	If you can't ask questions of it, If it doesn't have consistency, if you claim to worship the Son of God who taught peace and love, but you're also saying, let's bomb and kill these children, and if you can't see that contradiction, your mind is seriously clouded with darkness or something, or sorcery of some kind.
	If you can't see that contradiction, because it's the most obvious contradiction of all.
	It's like, in the name of Jesus, bomb the children.
	You know, I mean, it's really that crazy.
	But we hear that from a lot of Christian pastors.
	A year and a half after the bombing began, we still hear it from Christian pastors.
	You know, so-called Christian pastors.
	Christ wouldn't even recognize them.
	Christ would cry.
	Like, you teach in my name?
	And you advocate the bombing of children?
	You know?
	What's wrong with you?
	So, in any case, as part of my quest for understanding, and also, out of loyalty to the teachings of Jesus, which I've said now three times here, I am absolutely loyal to the teachings of Jesus.
	And I do accept Jesus as my Savior, by the way.
	And I accept God as our Creator.
	You know, just to be clear, in case you're wondering, I am loyal to the words of Jesus.
	I am afraid that what the Church has become in our modern world, Has contradicted what Jesus was teaching and the very philosophy of Jesus.
	So you could call me an actual Christian who follows at least far more, maybe not perfectly, but far more closely than these Zionist churches.
	I actually strive, and I think I've demonstrated over and over again, that I strive to live in alignment with what Jesus teaches.
	Again, not perfect, not claiming to be perfect.
	But I'm not killing kids.
	I'm not starving children, okay?
	That's for sure.
	I mean, we're donating food.
	We donated over half a million dollars of food in the last, what was it, six months or whatever it was, because I believe in feeding people who are in need.
	And that's a donation that I talk about publicly.
	There's a lot of donations I don't talk about because it's not about always getting public credit for deeds or whatever.
	There's a lot of stuff I do privately that I'm never going to talk about.
	And you'll never hear about it, and that's fine.
	Not everything has to be mentioned.
	But it's just who I am.
	So in any case, as part of my quest to learn more about this subject, I encountered a former Christian pastor, or I should say I encountered the online information of this man, who was educated at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa.
	Which is really interesting to me because as a child, I used to watch Oral Roberts on television.
	As a very young child, back in the 1970s, I liked watching Oral Roberts on TV.
	I did.
	I know, it sounds crazy, right?
	But I did.
	And so this man that I'm about to mention here, I think at the age of 22 or 23, he became a pastor.
	He was kind of this genius whiz kid in...
	Christianity, his father was a pastor, and so he grew up as sort of always the best informed kid in Bible class or Sunday school, and then eventually at Oral Roberts University, and he got a dual degree, and I think theology and music, I think he said, and then he went on to become a pastor, and he began teaching the Word of Christ and all of Paul's, you know.
	Writings and letters and everything.
	And before long, he also came to realize that there are contradictions here.
	There are problems in what Paul is teaching.
	And it's not consistent with what Jesus Christ taught.
	And a lot of it's not consistent with the Spirit of Christ, which is love and light and forgiveness and humanitarian deeds and helping others, actually doing the help, not just...
	Saying magic words to get into heaven, but actually performing deeds and works that help other people.
	And so this man, this former pastor, he left the church.
	And he has, of course, triggered a lot of Christians, as apparently I'm beginning to do as well.
	But for a lot of the same reasons.
	So this man, his name is Aaron Abke, and he's got a pretty...
	Popular YouTube channel.
	His last name is spelled A-B-K-E.
	Aaron Abke.
	And he has put out a video.
	This was a few months ago.
	The greatest contradiction in the Bible.
	Paul versus Jesus.
	And I didn't see this when it came out because I guess that was January or roughly around that time.
	And I wish I had seen this earlier because I've been having the same questions.
	So, my path of questioning the words of Paul, because they contradict Jesus, and my path of doubling down on my loyalty to Jesus' teachings has led me to the video of Aaron Abke.
	And I want to play part of this video for you here.
	Now, I always give credit to people for their content, so let me tell you about his website.
	And he's also, he's an advocate and a teacher of the book, or the, it's more than a book, it's a whole philosophy called A Course in Miracles.
	Many of you are probably familiar with that.
	But anyway, his website is livingthecourse.com, livingthecourse.com.
	And he has something that he calls 4D University Live, and...
	This man I found by watching his videos, he is, like, if the game show Jeopardy were about the Bible, he would win every episode of Jeopardy about the Bible.
	He knows everything about the Bible because he learned it from a child and he taught it and he has studied the words of Paul just maybe thousands of hours.
	Well, clearly thousands of hours.
	So he knows everything that Paul ever wrote, ever said.
	He knows everything that happened to Paul, the timelines, and the timelines of Jesus and everything that Jesus ever said and wrote.
	And he also knows a lot of the original Hebrew words as well.
	He's just a really brilliant young man.
	Now, I don't know what he thinks about things outside the realm of the church and the Bible.
	I don't know what he thinks about vaccines.
	I don't know what he thinks about health freedom.
	I don't know what he thinks about LGBT themes or anything like that.
	And that's not the point.
	That's irrelevant.
	What his area of focus is, is understanding the Bible and Paul and Jesus.
	And I want to play a little bit of his video here.
	I might even, I'm going to play maybe over 20 minutes, actually, but that's about half.
	To watch the whole video, you need to go to his YouTube channel or his website.
	But I'm going to play about half, you know, with full credit.
	I just gave out his web address, etc.
	And if you have had a skeptical reaction to anything that I've said here, I invite you to continue to listen because Aaron explains it far better than I could.
	Far better.
	Because he's studied it, you know, a thousand times more than I've studied it.
	I mean, I just finally read the Bible for the first time last year.
	So, you know, most of my life, I've had no knowledge of the Bible.
	I watched Oral Roberts as a kid, you know?
	Kind of funny.
	So I'm going to play this for you, I don't know, 20 or 25 minutes or whatever, roughly about half, and see what you think.
	And you can find the rest of that video.
	He is on YouTube, Aaron Abke, A-B-K-E again.
	And I gave out the website, etc.
	And let me know if you want me to reach out to Aaron and see if we can get him on for an interview.
	I'm sure it would be fascinating.
	We could call the interview Triggering Christians Part 1, 2, and 3 or something.
	Just see how much reaction we can get.
	How dare you question Paul?
	Which tells you, by the way, when you collide with people who can't discuss their religion or can't defend it, actually, that's when you know you've hit a very serious mode.
	of mind control.
	When you've kind of hit a brick wall and somebody can't even explain why they believe something, but they just believe it.
	I just believe that's just the way it is and you can't question it, period.
	That is very cult-like across all the cults.
	And fortunately, a lot of Christians are not that way.
	They are well-educated and they can discuss scripture.
	And so I'm not saying that all Christians are cult-like.
	I'm saying that A lot of Christians are really shallow in their understanding of what they think that they believe in.
	They don't even really know the Bible.
	They don't, I mean, how many times have I said, I've tried to talk to Christians about the book of Revelation and they have no familiarity with it at all.
	So bizarre to me.
	Like, that's what I read first.
	That was the best part.
	Even before the Gospels, I read the Revelation.
	But a lot of Christians have no familiarity with the Bible, but they just go to church and they've just been told these things by their pastor.
	So they've had this weird kind of not-so-faithful translation of what they think the Bible says, and it doesn't say that.
	It's just people are shocked, actually.
	I've found people are shocked when I point out certain things in the Bible that they never knew were there.
	They can't believe it.
	You know, like how many times the Bible talks about flaming comets dropping out of the sky and, you know, the earthquakes and the flattening of the mountains and everything in Revelation and all of this.
	I hear time and time again from people that they had no idea that any of that was ever in the Bible or even in the book of Revelation.
	So I believe if we want to learn what Christ taught, We need to read first the words of Christ and practice the words and the philosophy of Jesus and then understand Christ in a greater sense.
	Christ, to me, the word Christ means more than Jesus, the embodiment of Christ.
	But Christ is the energy of love and life and light that pervades, frankly, all of reality.
	You know, Christ is in the sun in the sky.
	Christ is in the sprouts of the new plants.
	Christ is in the water, the vibration of the water energy.
	That's Christ energy in the water.
	Christ is in consciousness.
	Christ is in the skin cells that heal after an injury.
	Christ is in music.
	Christ is in sacred geometry.
	Christ is in all these things.
	And that's why Christ pervades us and moves through us.
	And if we allow Christ to work through us, then we become better reflections of beings of light and love and truth and forgiveness and ending human suffering, etc.
	And I've never read A Course in Miracles, by the way.
	I think I'm going to.
	People keep telling me I should.
	I've never read A Course in Miracles.
	I've come to these realizations through other means, and some of it's self-discovery, and some of it's observing nature, and some of it's just Walking a path and being willing to step outside the bounds of a mind control, a mental prison system, you know?
	You'd be amazed what you can accomplish if you just allow yourself to think freely.
	But that's probably true across all areas.
	Anyway, alright, so I'm going to play a few minutes of this for you.
	Again, it's called The Greatest Contradiction in the Bible, Paul vs.
	Jesus by Aaron Abke.
	Enjoy.
	And so as soon as I allowed myself to accept the obvious but uncomfortable fact, I knew what the implications were.
	That the religion I grew up in was far, far closer to being a religion of Paul.
	Rather than a religion about Jesus.
	These verses bothered me deeply as a young 20-year-old Christian pastor.
	I'm surprised that my Christian friends and pastors and ministers defend these verses as being the inerrant, inspired word of God.
	Nobody wants anything to do with the Jesus you preach because he's bigoted, he's anti-gay, anti-women, pro-slavery, all about punishment and wrath, and you gotta confess him as Lord like he has some huge narcissistic ego.
	Confess me as Lord.
	Say it out loud.
	Nobody likes this Jesus.
	So today I want to talk about what Jesus' actual definition of salvation really was.
	Because when you tell people this, it actually tends to baffle them a bit.
	And they say, no way.
	Show me.
	Prove it.
	And we can and we will.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I want to talk to you guys today.
	About a concept of salvation that ACIM teaches that is also in perfect congruence with the teaching of Jesus.
	And so what I want to talk to you about today is that salvation is given, not received.
	Salvation is given, not received.
	Now this is a paradoxical statement, isn't it?
	Because in religion, we're told that it's the opposite.
	You can't give salvation.
	You're just a sinful worm.
	You're totally depraved, born with a sin nature.
	No one's righteous, not even one, says Paul.
	Salvation is not something you give.
	It's something you receive when you confess Jesus as Lord and Savior.
	So let's flip that around and see if that might be a more true concept according to Jesus' actual teachings.
	I want to compare and contrast what Jesus taught about salvation, Jesus' words only, with A Course in Miracles.
	And we'll see if there's a congruence there.
	Now, a little bit of context for those of you who don't know my background on this topic.
	For the last 12 months, most of you have probably noticed, God has had me on quite a journey of returning to my Christian roots.
	And just sort of stoking this intense passion that God has placed in my heart to restore the forgotten gospel of Jesus to the world.
	And I do mean that.
	It is a gospel that has been entirely forgotten by the world.
	And I would even go so far as to say, it's probably never really been preached before on this planet, other than when Jesus himself was living and walking among us and teaching his gospel.
	Yes, there's been people who taught Jesus' true teachings for sure, but Jesus had a very, very specific formula for salvation, a very specific approach to salvation that has not, I don't believe, been emphasized the way it deserves outside of A Course in Miracles.
	And so I have this passion to restore the gospel of Jesus to the world because growing up as a third-generation pastor's son in evangelical Christianity, I was the most devout Christian kid you've ever met.
	I was the golden boy, they called me.
	I won every competition in Sunday school on Bible verses and scripture.
	As a pastor's son, I could hardly imagine allowing another kid to beat me at knowing the Bible.
	I'm the pastor's son.
	So I'd studied the Bible relentlessly.
	Even as a child, I strove to remember and memorize as many verses as I could.
	This was the way I kind of proved my faith, right?
	And so I was such a devout Christian that I really believed that you couldn't be a true Christian unless you were all in for Jesus.
	And I always felt like I encountered very few other Christians who burned for Jesus the way that I did.
	To me, I thought everyone else was kind of a milquetoast Christian by comparison.
	This is how devout I was.
	And so I went to Christian school my entire life, private Christian school.
	Went to church two days a week, sometimes three or four days a week.
	Went to the premier evangelical college, Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
	Graduated with my double bachelor's in music and theology.
	and began my first full-time pastoring role at 23 years old at a church in San Jose.
	And it was really when I...
	I began studying the Bible at university that the fabric of my fragile little belief system finally began to crumble.
	Now, I had had some questions in my mind about certain passages I'd read of like, this doesn't really make sense to me.
	I'm just going to assume that there's a good explanation for this and I'll move on.
	Because my faith was strong.
	I'm sure God has the answer for this.
	I don't have it, but God has it.
	But I couldn't do that anymore once I was in college because studying, Hermeneutics, biblical exegesis, systematic theology, Koine Greek, biblical Hebrew.
	I started to dive really deep into the text, and I started to hear the sort of confirmation biases in my professors' voices.
	And I saw how easily they would just sort of hand-wave away these very clear errors and contradictions I was seeing in the Bible that nobody could give me a good answer for.
	But most of all, it was really once I started to cross-compare the teachings of Paul with those of Jesus that I really woke up to the truth that I'm going to be teaching you today.
	That Jesus taught a gospel of loving God with all your heart and loving your neighbor as yourself.
	And that this was the only way he ever equated to salvation.
	He never made an exclusive statement about salvation being contingent upon confessing him as Lord, believing in his resurrection, believing he was buried, resurrected on the third day, ascended to heaven at the right hand of God.
	Jesus never told us we had to say these things or believe He said, believe in me, not ontological facts about me.
	Don't believe facts about me.
	Believe in what I'm teaching you.
	Follow my commandments.
	Follow the way I'm showing you to God.
	And so his first followers called themselves followers of the way.
	And in fact, the Essenes, Nazarenes, Ebionites that Jesus emerged from had long used the passage from the Old Testament that says, We are the voice of the one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, the way of the Lord.
	Make straight his paths.
	And that's what Jesus did, is he made straight the pathway to God.
	By demonstrating it for us.
	Jesus showed us the perfect way to God.
	And once we see his perfect way, we cannot help but love it and embrace it with all of our heart.
	And this is what I began to see as I cross-compared the teachings of Paul with the teachings of Jesus.
	And so whenever I would hear my pastors or friends or co-workers cite one of Paul's bigoted verses such as, 1 Corinthians 14, where Paul says, Women are inherently corrupt, according to Paul, because Eve ate the apple first, Paul says, and then Adam.
	The woman was deceived by the serpent, not the man.
	But the man was deceived by the woman who was deceived by the serpent, but okay.
	So, these verses bothered me deeply as a young 20-year-old Christian pastor.
	That, you know, women are to be silent, to cover their heads, and to be pregnant as much as possible.
	Because only through childbirth can they be redeemed, Paul says.
	And I'm like, this is some bigotry I've never even seen before.
	And, like, I didn't hold this against Paul.
	He was born in the first century in a very patriarchal world.
	Of course he thought these things.
	I'm not surprised by that.
	I'm surprised that my Christian friends and pastors and ministers defend these verses as being the inerrant, inspired word of God.
	That is what deeply disturbed me.
	Because I saw countless people throughout my life leaving the church, many of whom I grew up with in Sunday school at my church.
	And it was always without one single exception because of a teaching of Paul that people left Jesus.
	Never once did I have a friend or know of someone or hear of someone saying, I just can't jive with these teachings of Jesus in the red letters where he says, love your neighbor, love God, and repent from sin.
	I hate these teachings.
	I'm not a Christian anymore.
	No one seems to have a problem with what Jesus said.
	People have big problems with what Paul said, especially what Paul said about Jesus.
	And so as I tried to reconcile these incredibly bigoted verses, and there's many more I could name, you know, supporting slavery and anti-homosexuality and all this stuff.
	I was like, God, there's got to be a way to reconcile these contradictions or these bigotries.
	If this is the inerrant word of God, there's got to be a way to harmonize this.
	And man, did I try to do it, you guys.
	I tried as hard as I freaking could.
	And you know what happened?
	It only made the problem worse.
	It only made the contradictions more apparent and stark and irreconcilable.
	So, like, I started to feel this kind of resentment towards Paul.
	Like, hey dude, I know you meant well and everything, but I'm trying to defend my faith to non-Christians, and you're making it really hard for me, bro.
	Like, nobody wants anything to do with the Jesus you preach because he's bigoted, he's anti-gay, anti-women, pro-slavery, all about punishment and wrath, and you've got to confess him as Lord like he has some huge narcissistic ego.
	Confess me as Lord.
	Say it out loud.
	Nobody likes this Jesus outside of dogmatic Christianity.
	And so I actually came as a devout Christian pastor to secretly wish Paul never wrote any of his epistles.
	Imagine being in that position where I'm up on stage on Sunday singing songs, many of which are using Paul's teachings and scriptures, and I just despise these texts.
	They stand in total contradiction to the Jesus I know and love.
	And so as soon as I allowed myself to accept the obvious but uncomfortable fact, I knew what the implications were.
	That the religion I grew up in was...
	Far, far closer to being a religion of Paul rather than a religion about Jesus.
	I tried to remember if I'd ever heard a sermon where a pastor said that the only way to eternal life is to love the needy, to love your neighbor as yourself, to forgive other people who harm you.
	That's how you enter eternal life.
	I'd never heard a single pastor ever preach a sermon on that.
	In fact, they would probably rebuke that as blasphemy and say, no, no, no, no one is saved by good works, only by believing in Jesus as their Lord and Savior and resurrected on the third day.
	And that's what they believe, that Jesus taught.
	And yet Jesus says in Matthew 19, 16, Mark 10, 17, Luke 18, 18, the exact opposite.
	Not everyone who calls me Lord, Lord, who just confesses me with their mouth will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father.
	So Jesus taught a heavily works-based gospel.
	And this is so obvious that there's even many famous Christian ministers today who acknowledge this.
	And an entire doctrine in Christianity was invented to obfuscate this obvious contradiction called dispensationalism.
	Some of you have probably heard of this if you grew up Christian.
	Dispensationalism says Jesus came to be God's last animal sacrifice.
	You know, God wanted all these animal sacrifices, even though half the prophets vehemently condemned them.
	God wanted sacrifice.
	He needs blood and violence and death and murder to forgive people.
	Yes, yes, that is God.
	And so he was like, you know what?
	I'm tired of killing all these animals.
	Let me just kill my son and he'll be the last animal sacrifice.
	I'll butcher him on a cross that will satisfy my bloodlust and wrath.
	And I'll finally be able to forgive my own children.
	That's the gospel according to Paul, according to Pauline theology.
	And I found it to be increasingly reprehensible, especially when stacked up against the teachings of Jesus.
	And so the problem I kept confronting in all my studies is that there are absolutely no verses in any of the four canonical gospels where Jesus ever equates salvation to confessing him as Lord or believing in his resurrection.
	Or even Paul's central idea that we are saved by faith alone, apart from works, Romans 3.28.
	Not only did Jesus not teach this concept to anybody, but Jesus made it clear in many passages, such as Matthew 7.21, that he is especially displeased with people who confess him as Lord, but do not obey his greatest commandment to love others.
	Jesus called people who confessed him as Lord but didn't follow his greatest commandment, practitioners of wickedness.
	And he said to them, I tell you the truth, I never knew you.
	What do you mean, Lord?
	I've confessed to you.
	I've done miracles in your name.
	Yeah, that's great.
	But when I was hungry, you didn't feed me.
	When I was thirsty, you didn't give me a drink, etc.
	And this began to sober me greatly because I realized I wasn't really living the gospel of Jesus.
	I was judging people in my heart.
	I was judging my neighbor instead of loving my neighbor.
	And so this bothered me, so I would bring it to my Christian friends and pastors to see what they would say.
	And you know what their response was every single time?
	Same exact response?
	Well, brother, Jesus isn't speaking about believers in this passage.
	He's clearly talking to non-believers.
	Because if you believe in Jesus, he's in your heart, he's your friend, you know him.
	Jesus can't say to you he never knew you.
	If you've confessed him as Lord and Savior, he enters your heart.
	He knows you.
	So he's obviously talking about non-Christians.
	Read the passage.
	Jesus is explicitly speaking to his very closest followers and disciples, those who call him Lord, Lord, and say, we've done signs and wonders in your name.
	We've cast out demons.
	We've healed the sick.
	Last time I checked, I don't think atheists go around healing the sick.
	And confessing Jesus as Lord, Lord, he's talking to his very most intimate disciples and warning them, do not think you get a free pass into the kingdom of heaven just because you call me Lord.
	I don't care what you call me.
	I don't care what you say.
	I don't care if you say you do miracles in my name.
	Follow my commandments.
	Do what I say, which is love God with all your heart.
	Love your neighbor as yourself.
	And so today I want to talk about What Jesus' actual definition of salvation really was.
	Because when you tell people this, it actually tends to baffle them a bit and they say, no way.
	Show me.
	Prove it.
	And we can and we will.
	So what does it mean to be saved according to Jesus?
	I'm actually going to cross-compare passages from A Course in Miracles with these teachings to show you that this is why I have devoted my life to teaching A Course in Miracles.
	And why I continue to remain so passionate about teaching this life-changing text to the world.
	Because again, this message of salvation given in ACIM is perfectly identical to the message of salvation that Jesus taught.
	But before we do that, I want to show you a quick clip that I saw yesterday.
	Because I think this will set the tone for the conversation perfectly.
	And this is one of my favorite critical scholars named Dr. Bart Ehrman.
	Like myself, Bart grew up as an evangelical Christian, went to Bible college, studied theology and all of this, and had an awakening out of fundamentalist Christianity.
	Today he defines himself as an agnostic, but he's asked, you know, which gospel he prefers between Jesus and Paul.
	And this is a very highly acclaimed critical scholar.
	Responding to this question, which teaching do you prefer, Jesus or Paul's?
	And notice he won't say, well, what do you mean?
	They're the same gospel.
	But I want you to listen carefully to his answer.
	If you had to between Jesus and Paul, which one would you be going with?
	Given the difference between a doctrine of atonement, that somebody, a human, you need a human sacrifice for the sins of others, or God, you cannot be reconciled with God.
	Unless somebody is tortured to death.
	I find that distasteful.
	And I don't like the doctrine of atonement at all.
	The idea that God is a loving Father who will forgive you if you ask for forgiveness.
	You generally are sorry for what you did.
	You promised to change your ways and God forgives you.
	That's a much more palatable understanding, I think, of the divinity.
	And I think that it's a much better way to understand religion.
	It's a religion of love and care for others and forgiveness.
	It's not a religion of blood vengeance.
	And so I think for me, I...
	You and me both, Bart.
	So this is a critical scholar who has devoted his life to studying the Bible, the New Testament.
	And he himself says exactly what we are saying here.
	That there are two very different Gospels and you have to choose which one you will follow and believe in.
	And so this is an interesting thing to me that there are entire branches of scholarship dedicated exclusively to studying Paul's unique ideas about Jesus and how they were in sharp contrast with what Jesus taught and how a Jewish Reformation movement, which is what Jesus began in the first century.
	He was trying to reform Judaism back to the law of Moses, not to start a new religion.
	How a Jewish Reformation movement became an exclusively Gentile religion that scrubbed out every remnant of Jewishness from it and basically turned it into a Greek pagan religion about ritual sacrifice.
	There's entire branches of scholarship devoted to studying this.
	And there's an entire branch of scholarship devoted to studying, you know, the great schism between Paul, the battle of the apostles, between Paul and the twelve, that they repudiated Paul as a false teacher and a false prophet and apostle because he taught something different than Jesus.
	And yet I'm still attacked by Christians on social media every day for claiming that Paul taught a different gospel than Jesus.
	And Christians will still deny that there's any difference at all between Jesus and Paul's teachings.
	And they'll tell me that Paul taught exactly what Jesus taught.
	There's no difference.
	And this is the type of sort of gaslighting you usually see from fundamentalist religions.
	And so I've asked myself, how?
	How can so many billions of people, ostensibly two billion people, if that figure is correct, two billion Christians, how can they read this Bible, this New Testament, and come to the conclusion that Paul and Jesus taught the same thing?
	And after my countless interactions and conversations with Christians on this topic, the answer has become very clear.
	That they simply have been programmed not to see it.
	By the institution of religion.
	They're sort of trained not to see what's right in front of them.
	They're taught that any other gospel is a heresy, blasphemy will send you right to hell, so you can't afford to just read Jesus' words alone.
	You've got to interpret Jesus through Paul, or you might end up in the hot place, if you know what I mean.
	And so I can show Christians blatant, irreconcilable contradictions between Paul and Jesus, and they just say, no, that's not a contradiction.
	For example, What is it?
	Romans, I believe.
	Paul says, For Christ is the end of the law to everyone who believes, having abolished the law in his flesh.
	And Jesus says, Matthew 5, 17, I did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.
	For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the law until all is accomplished.
	Ooh, that's a pretty heavy indictment against what Paul said, isn't it?
	Last time I checked, heaven and earth seem to be doing great.
	They're still here.
	So the law can't have passed away.
	And of course the law can't pass away because the law is eternal.
	The law is based upon God's nature, which can never pass away.
	Divine law governs the entire universe.
	What do you mean, Paul, that it passed away and Jesus abolished it?
	This is why Jesus said until the universe itself passes away, not even the slightest part of the law will pass away.
	It's impossible.
	And then, of course, Paul says, Romans 10, 9, if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, you will be saved.
	But Jesus in Matthew 7, 21, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven.
	And these are just two of countless contradictions we can pull out.
	And so I'm just told, no, no, no, you just don't understand the context or, you know, whatever kind of gaslighting.
	You're just not, you're cherry picking or whatever.
	Now, when I follow up by asking Christians, okay, I'm open to being wrong here, but you're making a very extreme claim.
	You're claiming Jesus didn't teach all this stuff about following the commandments, loving God, and loving your neighbor.
	No, that stuff sends you to hell.
	You can't get saved by doing that.
	That's works.
	It's filthy rags.
	You can't be saved by good works or following the law.
	It's impossible.
	You have to confess Jesus only as your Lord and Savior, and that's all you can do to be saved.
	Well, that's a very extraordinary claim.
	Because we don't have Jesus ever saying such a thing.
	So you need to show me in the mouth of Jesus, not Paul, where Jesus said that.
	And of course, they can't show a verse where Jesus said that because there isn't one.
	So the closest they get is usually something like John 3.16.
	And what's interesting about John 3.16 is that the word for...
	Whoever believes in him is the word pisteu.
	Pisteu is the believe in.
	And in all 34 instances of the word pisteu, believe, in the Gospel of John, they're all in the active tense.
	So the more accurate way would be who is believing in him.
	Whoever is believing in him, like consistently, daily, over and over again.
	But even the word believe is not...
	Not the right translation there.
	The more accurate translation of pisteo is to obey, to trust in, or to commit oneself to.
	And there's many instances where Jesus is quoted as using, let's say, pisteo to say, commit yourselves to God, not believe yourselves to God.
	So when you translate that word pisteo to trust or obey, it makes perfect sense in every context where it's used.
	If you translate the word pisteo as believe in, Everywhere it appears.
	A lot of verses make no sense at all.
	They're very bizarre.
	So the more accurate reading of John 3.16 should have been translated.
	Whosoever is trusting in him, whosoever is obeying him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
	And isn't that what Jesus said?
	Well, we just got our new microscope up and running.
	Digital microscope.
	Magnification up to 2500 with digital z-axis control with outstanding precision.
	Autofocus, multiple lighting angles.
	It can produce images very similar to electron microscopy, but from the optical spectrum.
	It's got automatic 3D depth analysis and basically a topographical analysis of the object.
	We're going to be rolling that out next week and starting to look at some interesting things.
	Lots of samples we'll be looking at from foods and metals and interesting things from nature and some things not from nature.
	Some things that are very unnatural.
	Falling out of the sky things.
	But I just want to thank you for your support because without you we could not invest in things like this.
	Very high-end digital microscopes.
	They cost over $100,000.
	And it's not a simple thing.
	It's a pretty steep barrier of entry to have hardware like that.
	And I think we're very blessed to be able to have a level of financial support from you that allows us to make these investments.
	And then we turn around and share the results with you, share our investigations.
	And it's all being done in good faith on our part, which is to just...
	Help educate everybody, find out what's happening in our world.
	And, you know, what are we being hit with?
	What's being dropped on us?
	What's in our food?
	These kinds of questions.
	This affects all of us, and I'm thrilled to be able to share this information with you.
	And it just so happens that we're very close to also releasing or launching the public Enoch AI engine.
	A few days, I would imagine.
	I'm testing the final stages.
	We're making final tweaks on the user interface.
	And this is the culmination of a year and a half of effort and almost $2 million into that project.
	And I've had many people ask me along the way here, as I've said, look, this is always going to be free to the public.
	We're going to give away access to this incredible research knowledge base.
	This AI engine, we're going to keep upgrading it, keep investing in it.
	But I've had people ask me, why are you giving it away, Mike?
	I mean, really, high-level conversations with successful business people who say things like, well, you know, you could, if you didn't give it away, if you charge for it, you know, you could have a billion-dollar valuation or whatever.
	And I say, look, knowledge wants to be free.
	And I think one of the greatest ways that I can help support the people that supported me is to give back this knowledge base, this investment, and to share it freely.
	And so what you're going to find is that the Enoch AI engine is non-commercial.
	There are no commercial ads.
	There's no fees.
	You don't have to give us your name to use it.
	You don't have to log in with a phone number or you don't even have to create a password.
	Nothing.
	The only downside to it is that there is a queue, right?
	So especially based on the number of people using it, there is a queue.
	So initially in our first public rendition of it, when you enter the query, then it goes into a queue and then we email you the result when it's generated.
	It could be 30 seconds, or if a ton of people are using it, it could be 30 minutes.
	I mean, we don't even really know yet how much use it's going to get, but this is our initial launch.
	There is a wait time.
	And just based on how much usage it's getting, okay?
	And that's because we don't have unlimited budgets to scale up the data center, although our intention is to continue to add resources to the data center.
	To make the engine faster, more responsive, etc.
	But please understand that all of that takes money and we're not charging for it.
	So the only way for us to do that is to ask you to continue to support us by shopping at healthrangerstore.com.
	Even in this difficult economy, we still have such an outpouring of support from our users and our customers, and I thank you for that.
	And as we have more resources, we will be able to scale up all the things that we're giving back to the public free of charge.
	And another one of those, not just the AI engine, but it's also brighteon.com, the video platform.
	Do you know that the video platform itself does not earn any profits?
	It does not.
	Now, there are some display ads on the pages to help support the Brighteon store.
	But the platform doesn't have pre-roll ads, not currently, maybe in the future.
	If we have a revenue share with the content creators, then we might roll out short pre-roll ads, but nothing insane like what YouTube does.
	But did you know that running a video platform is not a money-making endeavor?
	A video platform will lose money.
	Even Rumble.
	I would imagine, I mean, I don't know Rumble's finances, and I'm glad they exist, but I would imagine that Rumble is not raking in loads of profits.
	They're probably still burning investment money, is my guess.
	I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but that's probably the situation.
	Now, if Rumble can figure out how to actually turn a profit or even break even, that's a big deal.
	I mean, YouTube earns a profit.
	But that's because Google way overcharges for display ads.
	And that's also because YouTube is selling off the information, the surveillance spying information of building a profile on all their users.
	And I just refuse to do that.
	I will not do that.
	We are not there to gather information from people and try to sell the information.
	So for us, BrightTown.com is a it's a negative, you know, a net net.
	It's a negative profit.
	It's a money loser.
	But it's worth running it.
	Why?
	Because it helps so many people express freedom of speech.
	And we believe in freedom of speech.
	We believe in liberty.
	We believe in providing an alternative platform for voices that are censored elsewhere.
	And as it turns out, that's even true for voices that I don't agree with.
	You know, there are plenty of people on Brighteon who have content, who post videos that I would absolutely disagree with.
	Do I censor them?
	No.
	Because freedom of speech means, obviously, we support the rights of those to speak, even if we don't agree with their conclusions.
	And what the governments want to do, especially the European governments, the UK, what they want to do is force you or force...
	Us, as a platform, to silence voices that the British government claims are promoting misinformation.
	And then apparently the British government is supposed to give all the platforms this list of what they consider to be misinformation.
	And you know what my answer is to the British government?
	And my editor will probably bleep this out, but 1776, motherfucker!
	That's my answer.
	Yeah, I'm not censoring this American platform to appease a bunch of wig-wearing British pedophile vampires or whatever they've become.
	Forget it.
	I'm talking about the leadership of the UK.
	No, we don't bow down to you.
	We don't kiss the ring of your king and queen and your pedo child-raping princes and whatever else.
	We don't do that.
	We're Americans.
	We're Texans.
	We stand up for freedom of speech.
	Even this new law that they've got, I forgot what they call it, like Online Protection Act or something, where they require platforms, blah, blah, blah.
	Yeah, you know what?
	Go pound sand.
	If the UK wants to block Brighteon, I can't stop them.
	They'll block it.
	But I'm not going to comply with your British nonsense.
	So block it if you want, but...
	Everybody in the UK, they'll just use a VPN, they'll pick an IP address somewhere else, and then they'll still get back on the website.
	So, you know, good luck with that.
	But, you know, also the UK is probably going to have a political revolution before long anyway.
	We'll see what happens.
	What I'm trying to say here is I support universal principles of freedom, of liberty, of knowledge, and I want to make everything that we produce As easily available to the world as possible.
	That's why almost everything that we offer is free.
	Sometimes it's free with the option to purchase an enhanced version of it like with BrightU.com.
	Every program there is free of charge.
	If you want, you can also purchase the full digital download and then you get all the bonus items for whatever program is being promoted at the time.
	And that's great.
	That's your choice.
	But it's not required.
	You can watch the entire docuseries free of charge.
	And we have a really great docuseries right now, by the way.
	It's ramping up.
	You can sign up for it now at BrightU.com.
	It's called Breaking the Chains.
	How to Decentralize Your Life.
	And we're talking about decentralizing everything in your life.
	And that starts streaming May 17th, by the way.
	Again, completely free of charge with an amazing assortment of bonus items.
	Myself and my co-host Todd Pitner put together that course.
	We interviewed all these top experts.
	We created bonus videos, how-to videos, food forest tours, created additional bonus research and PDFs and all kinds of things.
	So that is an amazing collection of very practical how-to information that can help you get prepared and stay prepared and break the chains of centralized control.
	Get off grid and get out of the control grid.
	So take advantage of that at brightu.com.
	But that's just one example of how I want to make everything as free as possible for as many people as possible.
	And hence the AI engine, which you can also sign up for at brighteon.ai.
	Or you can use our social media sites that are also free, of course, brighteon.social or brighteon.io, which is the blockchain driven.
	Decentralized social media site.
	And encompassing all of this, you know that I operate my life from a principled place.
	I have principles.
	And I live by those principles.
	It's part of my self-definition.
	You know, some people say that they self-identify as a woman or whatever.
	Well, I self-identify as a person of principle.
	Because that's what I demonstrate.
	That's how I act every day.
	Now, it doesn't mean that every person always agrees with what I say or my conclusions or my analysis or what have you.
	And that's fine.
	That's fine.
	But you know that no matter what I do, no matter what I put out, no matter what I publish, it comes from a principled place.
	And what are my principles?
	They are pro-liberty, pro-life, and pro-love.
	I'm going to add this in.
	Because I've been doing a lot of deep dive into the words of Jesus alone, just the words of Jesus.
	And as you may know, I have some analysis that is critical of some of the non-Jesus parts of the New Testament because they contradict Jesus.
	So here's a principle.
	My principle is, I trust in Jesus.
	And whether you're religious or not, This is irrelevant.
	I'm not going to turn this into a Bible lecture.
	But I'm just saying, I trust in Jesus.
	And as I act in life, in all of these things that I'm just talking about here, giving away technology or access to technology, giving away knowledge, investing in knowledge, and then not charging for it, making it available to people.
	This is in alignment with the teachings of Jesus, who said, you know, feed the hungry, clothe the poor.
	Take in those who lack shelter.
	Have compassion for people.
	And so how do we do that in a digital age and reach a lot of people?
	It's empower people with knowledge.
	Clothe them with knowledge and access to knowledge and research and uplifting information about cancer cures and emergency medicine and how to decentralize your life, etc.
	It very much is a Christ-principled I wish I could send food to everybody, you know, over the internet.
	I can't do that.
	So when my company wants to do that, we use trucks with pallets of food, as we have made a lot of donations in the last six months, etc., all across America, North Carolina included.
	But it's just a reflection of what we do.
	I ask you, even if you find that I say something someday that you don't agree with, please understand that with me it's always coming from a principled place out of a sense of good faith.
	And have patience with me.
	If you think I've got something wrong, maybe you're right.
	You might be right.
	And you've got to give me time and space then to figure out.
	That I did that wrong or I had the wrong conclusion because you know I'm always a curious person.
	I'm always learning.
	Maybe I will come around and learn the correct answer and then I will talk about that at some point.
	And all of you have been incredibly patient with me because we're walking through life together.
	This is a journey with a lot of shared experiences.
	We all went through COVID together.
	We've all gone through the rigged...
	Joe Biden fake presidency together.
	We've all lived through, you know, the rainbow transgender thought police segment of history.
	And now we're going through kind of a Zionist thought police chapter of history, which is just as crazy, actually.
	We're going through all this together.
	And so we have all these shared experiences.
	But the reason that...
	This works, and the reason that we are uplifting each other is because we love each other and we have patience with each other, and we all come from a place of good faith.
	We're trying to help each other.
	We are not perfect.
	We are not Christ, although we may strive to become more Christ-like in our actions, but we are all coming from a place of good faith to help our fellow human beings.
	And to defend life.
	So, truth, love, life, empowerment, these are the fundamental pillars or principles that drive my life.
	Because I have real empathy and real compassion for all living creatures.
	I mean, not just people, but I mean beyond people, animals and plants.
	I have incredible compassion for all of these animals.
	I mean, just as an example, I don't use mouse traps that kill them.
	I use live catch mouse traps.
	And when I catch mice and rats, I always catch them live and I relocate them.
	I release them on some distant part of the ranch is what I do.
	So they go out into nature where they came from, you know, before they invaded my office or whatever.
	So I catch them live.
	But that's how much I even care about.
	I don't want to cause mice to suffer.
	And I certainly don't want to cause humans to suffer.
	I want to help end suffering.
	And this is a universal Christ-like concept.
	And if more people embodied this, I think our world would be a much better place.
	And I've actually had people in the last couple of months say to me things like, you know, Mike, you sound like, you talk like a Buddhist.
	Are you a Buddhist?
	Well, actually, I'm a universal Christian in the greatest sense of Christ.
	That is, I don't exclude Buddhists.
	And, you know, at the risk of maybe triggering some Christians, which, you know, that's on them.
	I don't exclude Buddhists or Sikhs or Muslims or Jews or what other religions?
	Hindus.
	Can't forget one-third of the world population or whatever.
	No, it's not one-third, but it's a lot.
	Shouldn't forget the Hindus.
	I don't exclude all those other religions at all.
	I have a universal Christ-like love for all human beings, and you've seen this reflected in my work.
	I have a universal love for Palestinians.
	I have a universal love for people of India, people of South America, people of Japan, Russian people, Taiwan people, Chinese people, you know, you name it.
	I have a universal love for human beings.
	And you've heard that reflected in my work.
	And it doesn't mean that I support every government of all those nations.
	That's not what I'm saying.
	But I have a universal love for human beings.
	Which explains so much about what I do, why I'm anti-war, why I'm pro-truth, why I support freedom of speech, why I support natural cancer cures, and nutrition that helps end suffering and helps end chronic degenerative disease.
	I have a universal love for all the children of God.
	And I am blessed to have that.
	I don't apologize for that.
	And I know that there are a lot of...
	A lot of pressures in today's society to tell you, well, no, you should hate these people.
	I don't hate them.
	You know, in the media today, it's like, oh, you should hate all the people in Gaza.
	I don't hate the people in Gaza.
	Or when the racial tensions are being spiked, what do they say?
	Oh, you should hate black people, or you should hate white people.
	You should hate yourself because you're white.
	Yeah, I don't do that.
	I don't hate black people.
	I don't hate white people.
	I don't hate myself for being, actually, Afro-Irish, Native American.
	I don't hate any part of that.
	I don't hate the Afro part, because my ancestors did come from Africa.
	I don't hate the Irish part.
	I also don't drown the Irish part in alcohol either.
	And I don't hate the Native American part.
	I mean, they can't get me to hate myself, which is part of the PSYOP.
	So when you act in accordance with the Christ-like energy of our world, which is love and light and truth, Then you don't hate yourself.
	You actually express love for self and for others.
	And the more you love others, the more you actually love yourself and the more you love God, or at least the more you demonstrate your love for God.
	And that's 90% of what this is.
	Can you love others?
	Can you...
	Can you see the God in others?
	Can you see the Christ in others?
	Can you act in a way that supports others, that helps those in need?
	And I, in the last year, as I have studied the Bible and as I have started and launched my church, the Church of Natural Abundance, I've found new ways to do that.
	And sometimes, well, a lot of it has been making donations Material goods.
	Sometimes financial donations, but a lot of it's material goods.
	And sometimes it's calling out some of the failures of the traditional Christian churches, by the way.
	You know, I'm not afraid to call out when there's a moral bankruptcy that I'm witnessing somewhere.
	I'm not afraid to call it out.
	And that's part of our job, too.
	We should remind each other to walk that path of demonstrating our faith in God by showing our compassion for others.
	And if you're not doing that in your life, find a way to do that.
	Volunteer in a soup kitchen.
	There's a thousand ways that you could help others.
	It's volunteering or it's spending time.
	If that's something you have a lot of, I don't have a ton of extra time, so I don't volunteer at a soup kitchen.
	I'm more like the guy that rolls in a truck of pallets of soup ingredients.
	It's like, here, now the soup kitchen can function for six months, but I'm not the guy that's going to be in the soup kitchen because I'm running the logistics of the distribution donation, you know what I mean?
	But we all have different roles to play.
	And that's wonderful.
	That's what it takes.
	Redundancy.
	That's filling in where we are needed.
	So to the extent that you help me do that, I thank you.
	Thank you for supporting us, HealthRangerStore.com.
	Thank you for supporting us by purchasing our programs at BrightU.com.
	And you're going to love all the different ways we give back to you through the free AI engine that's about to launch at the free...
	BrightU courses and the free content on naturalnews.com and many other interesting surprises like the microscope stuff that's about to come out now that we have the new upgrade in place and working.
	A lot of really cool things are coming your way, including on the AI side that I haven't even mentioned that you're going to find amazing.
	Amazing tools that are all free.
	There's one more thing I wanted to add.
	I forgot to mention this.
	So recently had a situation where someone that I had interviewed in the past was really threatening me that if I did not attack Jews, and if I did not attack Trump more aggressively, that that person would attempt to smear me.
	And it was a very threatening, very coercive type of, very evil.
	Type of thing, the saying that, you know, if, again, they wanted me to attack Jews and attack Trump, and if I didn't attack Jews and attack Trump, they promised to unleash, you know, all kinds of vile lies and horrible things about me.
	And so, you know, what was my answer to that?
	Well, my answer was, I choose not to participate in that spiral of darkness and hatred.
	So no, I do not do that.
	I do not hate Jews.
	I'm not a fan of, of course, the bombing of Gaza, and whoever is supporting that or making that happen, because I support life and I support innocence.
	But I do not hate an ethnic group of people, and I'm not going to be...
	You know, leveraged or threatened into a position of spewing hatred out of fear of what an evil person might falsely say about me.
	And that's my universal answer.
	If anybody out there thinks that they can try to, like, strong-arm me into spewing all kinds of hatred, you know, you're wrong.
	You say whatever you want, that's on you.
	Not me.
	But I am not going to be transformed into an engine of hatred or racism or anti-Semitism or whatever.
	I mean, I have legitimate criticisms of Israel, as you well know, but I do not hold in my heart hatred toward any group or any people or any religion, and I won't participate in that, period.
	I have a universal love for humanity, and that's the way it's always going to be with me.
	End of story.
	So thank you for your support.
	I'm Mike Adams, the health ranger of brighttown.com and naturalnews.com.
	God bless you all.
	Take care.
	So here we are as curious travelers through this world.
	And, you know, we were born without a memory of who we were.
	But one of the things that I think you and I all have in common is that we want to ask the big questions.
	Like, what is life?
	Why are we here?
	What's the purpose of this life?
	What exists after this life?
	And this is how we get into inquiries into many different areas.
	This is one of the reasons why I decided to read the Bible.
	It's also one of the reasons why I'm interviewing people who have had near-death experiences.
	It's why I'm going to be interviewing people talking about reincarnation, which not all Christians are thrilled about the idea of reincarnation, but that's okay.
	This isn't about one particular belief system.
	This is about the exploration of how does our reality work and trying to understand what are the rules?
	What are the rules?
	So when I put out sermons or I talk about Jesus, I talk about salvation, I talk about God and the Creator, this is all part of that exploration.
	And you know what the wonderful thing is about this?
	If we are really honest about ourselves, we have to laugh because, and we have to have a lot of humility because we don't, I mean, we're just really cosmic children here trying to figure this out.
	Like, we really don't have all the knowledge of how everything works.
	And what I want to share with you today is a simplification that I've come to just in my own thinking and studying.
	Listening to a lot of people, reading a lot of things, and this really came to light over the last couple of days.
	A couple of days ago, I spent some time on the phone with my Bible mentor, who taught me a lot, and then I put out a podcast yesterday about that.
	And one of the really interesting things that he taught me was that salvation...
	is universal.
	That salvation is already granted.
	It's a free gift from God.
	And that you actually don't earn salvation.
	You do earn other things like eternal rewards, etc.
	And that got me to thinking about merging this concept with simulation theory.
	Now, so what I'm going to discuss here briefly is the merging of Religious teachings, the concepts of God and Christ, and simulation theory.
	So let's review simulation theory here for a second.
	Simulation theory is this idea that we are living in an artificial reality, that someone created it, and that there are rules within the simulation, physics, chemistry, etc., and that one day we're going to leave this simulation, that we have been injected into it as consciousness, In, let's say, an avatar form.
	A human body is our avatar in the simulation.
	And that the purpose of this simulation is to find out what will happen or find out what people will do.
	Or our own personal purpose may be to discover our purpose or to serve a mission of the Creator, perhaps.
	That's certainly a very common belief.
	But when you actually look at even traditional Christian Side by side with simulation theory, they're almost exactly the same.
	You know, simulation theory says a great creator created our artificial world.
	Well, Christian teachings say God created our world, and he created it out of nothing.
	So it's obviously some kind of, you know, simulation.
	And in simulation theory, when the simulation ends, you leave it.
	And you return back to whatever exists outside the simulation.
	In Christianity, when your life ends, your soul, which is immortal, rises up and rejoins the higher plane of existence, which is hopefully heaven, rejoining with God or God consciousness.
	That's also very much the same as simulation theory.
	And then there's another concept.
	Which is that our souls are injected into this realm by the creator for some purpose.
	So in simulation theory, like I said, your consciousness or your soul inhabits this 3D physical body.
	You could perhaps call it a 3D avatar.
	And you're here for a human lifespan.
	You're here for some purpose that we can all debate.
	And then you leave.
	But the you that exists that is immortal is not your body.
	And also in Christianity, this is what's taught, that you are not your body, that your soul is immortal.
	Your soul is immortal, and your soul is from a different realm that transcends this realm, and your soul returns to that realm.
	So when you look at these comparisons, you realize that creationism and simulation theory Are really describing the same thing.
	Interesting, right?
	And there's more to this.
	We're also told that God is omniscient.
	He knows everything.
	Well, of course he knows everything because also, as in simulation theory, the engineer of the system can look at the code of the system or look at the parameters if we're going to use a computer metaphor.
	And I'm not saying God is a computer.
	It's something far bigger than that.
	In a computer metaphor, whoever created the system can look at the code, can monitor it, can view underneath the hood and see what's happening.
	So of course the creator of the universe knows everything that's happening in the universe.
	And of course the creator of our universe also set into motion the laws of the universe, that is physics, the table of elements, chemistry, subatomic physics, perhaps the multiverse.
	Quantum realities, you can take it as far as you want.
	But the laws of how physical matter interacts, which encompasses chemistry and physics and astronomy, etc., well, those laws were all fine-tuned by the Creator for a specific purpose in order to create a universe in which people like us can exist so that our souls can be sort of downloaded into these Bodies, i.e.
	the moment of conception and then you grow into an infant and then you're born and then you grow and you expand, etc.
	But your soul is downloaded into this reality from somewhere else and then for whatever reason your memory is wiped in the process so you don't know exactly where you came from.
	Hence the riddle of life.
	It's like...
	Hey, for some reason, your soul agreed to come here and then have everything wiped so that you would have to figure it all out again.
	Pretty wild, right?
	Now, what is your soul exactly?
	Now, this is where I may lose some of you, but let me just roll this out.
	At least this is what I've come to, and feel free to agree or disagree.
	It's all okay.
	But I believe that when we say we are all children of God, That that applies at the soul level.
	It means that we are all a tiny little sliver of God consciousness.
	And so we are actually all part of God.
	And that's what is meant by God lives within us.
	Or we are all children of God.
	So our consciousness does not actually exist as separate from God.
	Our consciousness is an individuation.
	of God's great consciousness as the creator of the entire universe.
	But he takes a tiny fraction of a fraction of a fraction of that consciousness and he puts it into your body at the moment of conception and then, you know, again, you're born and you grow up and you have all these egoist ideas of what you are, who you are, how you self-identify as a doctor, a nurse, an educator, or whatever the case may be.
	And then when you die, your soul doesn't just, quote, go to heaven.
	Your soul actually returns to the fountain of life, which is the stream of God consciousness.
	So actually, when you die, yes, you are immortal.
	And yes, in the book of Revelation, it talks about how some people are thrown into the lake of fire.
	But as my Bible mentor was explaining to me, the lake of fire...
	Actually, it's part of the God consciousness.
	It's the presence of God in heaven, and there is a purification of your soul after you have completed your life's mission or your life's journey, let's say.
	There's a purification because none of us are perfect.
	We've all made mistakes.
	There's going to be some level of judgment and some level of purification and redemption that happens.
	After the end of this physical life.
	But anyway, we all rejoin back with God's consciousness.
	And that's what it means to live with God forever and ever in the heavenly realm.
	And that realm is described in the later chapters of Revelation.
	And it's a realm that, at least in my view, it's clear to me that's not Earth.
	It's a realm that has no sun and no moon.
	It doesn't even look like Earth.
	The light comes from the beings who are there.
	The light emanates from people because you're in a place where there are beings of light.
	Like Christ.
	Christ is...
	In my view, Christ was the physical manifestation of a much larger slice of God consciousness to send that or to download that God consciousness into human form to try to guide and teach humanity.
	And that's why Christ...
	Christ showed himself as a being of light because Christ is like a bigger piece of God.
	Now, you're a piece of God, too.
	I'm a piece of God, or our souls are.
	We are all pieces of God, or maybe we could say we are all children of God.
	But Christ was a much bigger, or the embodiment of the Christ energy in Jesus of Nazareth was a much stronger Much larger piece of God consciousness to where he could perform miracles.
	You see what I mean?
	So that's why we're all children of God, and that's why when my Bible mentor told me that we are all already saved, salvation happens to everyone.
	And he was very specific about this.
	Salvation has already been granted to every human being.
	Including Christians, Jews, followers of Islam, Hindus, Sikhs, even atheists, even people who don't believe in their creator are still children of that creator, even though they may not realize it.
	And thus, by default, everybody has been granted salvation because we're living in a simulation, and when the simulation ends, we all go back to our creator.
	So that's what is meant by universal salvation.
	And for that thing, now, that's separate from, let's say, judgment.
	There will be, at least as I understand it, for those who are wicked, there is judgment or a cleansing or a purification process.
	Maybe you call it punishment.
	Some people call it hell.
	Some people call it torment, etc.
	So yeah, if you're a bad person, then there are consequences in the spiritual realm.
	That's clear to me.
	But if you're a good person, according to this universal God idea, this universal love, this simulation theory combined with an understanding of our Creator, no matter what your beliefs in this world, you are still a child of God.
	God is a universal, he gives the universal gift of life to all living creatures and all people.
	So there are no exceptions to this, because if you're in this simulation with a soul, that soul came from God.
	Again, it's a little tiny piece of our Creator.
	By definition, you're a child of God.
	Even if you don't believe in God, even if you reject Christ, even if you reject God, Even if you have been deceived into thinking that Satan is your master or AI is your master or a celebrity is your master, even if you are deceived, you were still brought to this realm by God as a gift from God, which means you are a child of God, even if you don't realize it.
	And as was also explained to me, the phrase born again, which is a very common phrase in more evangelical Christianity.
	Born again actually should be translated from the original Hebrew as begotten from above.
	So born again means that God gave you this gift of life, which is entirely consistent with what I'm describing here, simulation theory.
	God gave you the consciousness, the individuation, a little tiny sliver of God himself, to inhabit your body in order to experience this world.
	And realize, too, it's not just you experiencing this world, it's God experiencing the world through you and through everybody.
	So God is experiencing this reality through 8 billion points of view right now.
	And that's on planet Earth alone.
	Think about all the other planets where there's all these other living souls.
	And yes, God created a giant universe with multiple galaxies.
	We're not the only living creatures, right?
	We're not the only living souls in this entire galaxy.
	God has, in effect, he has multiplied his own experience through all the individuals like you and I and everybody else who are all children of God and we are experiencing the world in maybe trillions of different ways all simultaneously and we all go back.
	To the Creator.
	Every one of us.
	Because again, born again means begotten from above.
	And what are the rules to go back to God?
	And again, this is a great simplification.
	Consider this philosophy if it makes sense to you.
	It's such a great simplification.
	Because one of the things that's been frustrating to me about Learning and teaching Christianity and then learning from others and then some people wanting to correct me on these other things, which is fine.
	But everybody makes it so complicated.
	Like, okay, you've got to do this and then you've got to do that and you've got to show up at church at certain times and certain holidays and there's this rule book and there's this guides.
	And it turns out that, at least this is my view, all you have to do to return to God Is to, frankly, to leave this world.
	I mean, you're going to return to God.
	No matter what.
	Because we're living in assimilation.
	So yeah, you're going to return to God just by definition.
	The fact that you're here means you're going to return to God.
	Now, will God be happy with you?
	Or angry with you?
	Or how will God judge you?
	Or what will be the consequences of your actions here on this earth?
	Well, that's a separate matter.
	But you're all returning to God.
	I mean, all of us are.
	One way or another, because we're going to leave this realm, we're not going to live here forever, you're going to go back to God.
	So, a lot of people say that salvation or being saved means that we're going to go back and join with God in heaven.
	Well, by that definition, in the idea of simulation theory, everybody's already saved, no matter what.
	And that's consistent with what I'm taught also, which is that salvation is already a given.
	You don't earn it.
	It's a free gift from God.
	Everybody has, quote, salvation.
	But what happens after you return to God?
	Well, then there's discernment.
	Then there's judgment.
	Clearly, in Revelation, it spells out what happens to the wicked.
	Or the cowards, the liars, the murderers, the adulterers, etc.
	And all these examples.
	And the idolaters also are thrown into the lake of fire, which seems to be the fiery crucible of the process of purification and redemption, which perhaps might be, maybe it's a thousand years, maybe it's a hellish torment type of process.
	But everybody returns to God, one way or another.
	And then God decides what to do with you.
	So interestingly, this whole concept of simulation theory is also consistent with the rapture in the sense that everybody rises up, maybe not at the same time, unless something destroys Earth, like a giant flaming comet, but everybody eventually rises up, their souls do, and then their souls are judged.
	Instead of saying a post-tribulation rapture, you could call it a post-simulation rapture.
	So when you leave the simulation, yeah, there's a rapture.
	You are lifted up to join God in the heavens.
	It doesn't mean the sky.
	It means in the realm above this realm because this is just a simulation.
	It's not even considered real.
	And this is also consistent with Those who have reported NDEs, or near-death experiences, what do they say?
	Almost every one of them says that the afterlife seemed far more real than this life.
	And many of them say they did not want to come back into their body, so they understood that their soul was most definitely something separate or different from their physical simulation world body.
	The human avatar body.
	And they knew when they were sent back that it was their soul being pushed back into their body to re-inhabit or to re-embody this vessel in this 3D realm.
	But almost every one of them said that it was more real in the post-death world, or you could say the post-life world, whatever.
	But the heavenly realm.
	It was far more real.
	Far more real.
	And that's also consistent with this idea that we're living in a simulation that our Creator, who is God, you know, Creator and God, one and the same, created the simulation and then put us in it and sometimes when we leave the simulation, he's like, nope, you're leaving too early, we're putting you back in.
	And that's a near-death experience that gets, you know, the person comes back, I'm not mocking them.
	I'm very glad that they share those experiences.
	I think it takes a lot of courage to share those experiences.
	And I'm hoping to interview those who have gone through near-death experiences.
	Because this tells us a lot about what is after this realm.
	But all of this fits In line with both simulation theory and creationism.
	And that's why it doesn't matter to me.
	There's a lot of people out there who argue about, let's say, flat Earth versus the spherical Earth or whatever.
	And I'm not an advocate of the flat Earth theory, but actually, in my mind, it doesn't even matter because none of it's real.
	It's all a simulation.
	It's almost like you could call it the flat cosmos theory.
	The whole cosmos is, in essence, just a simulation.
	But the bottom line in all of this is that I think that organized religion overcomplicates what this is.
	I think organized religion...
	Has its own agenda, which is to get people to go to church and donate money, in some cases, right?
	And some of these, you know, mega church pastors, just flaunting wealth as if it's a measure of success, you know?
	Jesus spoke against this stuff, these wealthy, you know, Israeli high priests and everything.
	Paul spoke against it, right?
	Over and over.
	These megachurches, they don't represent God at all.
	But churches are a form of, well, I'm saying like the megachurches, the churches that lack integrity.
	They're a form of control to try to interject themselves in between you and God and to say that, well, only we can translate God.
	Only we can tell you what the Bible means.
	Only we can offer you salvation.
	Salvation comes through us, they say.
	And I'm sorry about my language here, but that's bullshit.
	And it's religious bullshit.
	Salvation is already guaranteed.
	You're already saved.
	By definition, you do not have to even attend church once in your life to be saved.
	And what God expects of us, at least this is my belief, is he expects us to be Good people.
	And we can talk all day about what that means, but it's actually not that complicated either.
	He expects you to be a good person, which typically means putting others over yourself, like helping those around you and having priorities that help achieve the greater good of society.
	Helping others, and especially helping those in need, and not just doing everything for yourself as some kind of a greedy, narcissist, wealthy pastor.
	Driving Cadillacs on stage in your church and stupid things like that.
	We know good and evil when we see it.
	It's actually not that complicated.
	But a lot of organized religion wants to make it really, really complicated, and they want to make it a secret knowledge base that you have to decode, and only they can decode it.
	And that actually is very similar to...
	Science.
	The realm of science.
	And what do scientists say?
	Well, you can't talk about science unless you're a scientist.
	And what is a scientist?
	Well, it's one of us, and we're the high priests of science, and only we can understand science.
	And only we can tell you what science means, and that's why you have to take the vaccine, and you have to wear the mask, and all this other nonsense.
	But, again...
	Organized religion does the same thing.
	Oh, we're the priests.
	We're the only ones who know what the Bible says.
	We're the only ones who can interpret the Bible.
	You can't read the Bible yourself.
	Oh, no.
	Dare you not?
	Just like a scientist.
	Oh, you can't read a scientific study yourself.
	That's forbidden.
	You have to let us tell you what it says.
	That's priests or pastors.
	Only we can tell you what God meant.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	I don't buy that at all.
	And you shouldn't either.
	Because it's a method of mind control.
	It's the same system of mind control, whether it's organized religion or scientism or faith in big government or transhumanism, faith in robot bodies.
	You're going to transfer your soul into a robot or something.
	It's all the same thing.
	Systems of control.
	The truth is, you're already a child of God.
	Which means you're already saved.
	Like, you're already saved.
	Even if you never attend church in your whole life, if you never read a single page of the Bible, you can still be a good person.
	And you can still be worthy in the eyes of our Creator of having eternal rewards for being a good person.
	Even if you were born in a time before Christ was ever born.
	Or Jesus, or even if you were born in a country that never had any contact with Jesus, or even if you were born into a culture, like let's say an Amazonian tribe that never had any knowledge of Christianity or Hinduism or Islam, you can still be a good Amazonian tribesperson.
	And you can still be worthy of God's grace.
	By being a good person, and you are still a child of God, even if you never knew any religion.
	Even if you never could read, because there are lots of good people throughout the history of the world that were illiterate.
	And until the invention of the Gutenberg Press, you know, most people were illiterate.
	That's why scribes had jobs to just rewrite everything over and over again.
	Hey, what's my career going to be?
	You're going to spend 20 years rewriting the same thing over and over again.
	Oh, wow.
	That sounds fun.
	Would you love to be a scribe in the year 300 A.D.?
	No.
	Not fun.
	Somebody please invent the press.
	So, this simplifies everything, but of course it angers some people.
	Actually, it...
	It angers anybody who's really narrow-minded, thinking that their view is the only view, and there's no such thing as a universal God.
	There's no such thing as universal life.
	There's no such thing as universal salvation.
	And that's fine.
	I mean, everybody can have all the different beliefs, but that's why we have like 500 different forms of Christianity, because none of them can agree with each other.
	And what I'm hoping to share with you here is just sort of a universal, like a universal God.
	With universal love that loves all human beings, including the bad ones, it turns out, which I even said yesterday, I don't have it in me to forgive really evil people.
	I'm sorry, I don't have that Christ-like energy to forgive pedophiles and child molesters.
	But God has a much, obviously, a higher point of view.
	This is all a simulation.
	And after the simulation, you're going to be, yes, judged, which is also consistent with whether you, quote, get into heaven, you know, the pearly gates and all that.
	Yeah, you're going to be judged.
	But you can be a good person or a bad person in any religion, in any culture, in any ethnicity, in any time period, in any language, in any continent.
	Or even any village that never knew anything about any religion.
	So religion is not a necessary prerequisite to be judged kindly by God.
	Organized religion, yeah, it has its uses.
	It can be a great way to teach values to children, for example, like Christian schools and things like that.
	And if people followed more religious texts, Then life would be better because people would have better values and better love for each other and they would serve humanity better.
	So I'm very much in favor of teaching the values of Christianity.
	And it turns out those are really similar values to what's taught in the core texts of even Islam or Buddhism, which is even more of a universal love for humanity or other religions.
	They all have very common themes that they share.
	So yes, religious texts especially have a place, but we don't have to overcomplicate it in my view.
	You don't have to spend a lifetime trying to figure out, well, how do I get into heaven?
	Actually, the answer is so simple.
	Be a good person.
	And you're done.
	Be a good person.
	And if you don't know what that means, well, that's easy to figure out.
	There are lots of ways to learn what does it mean to be a good person.
	That's actually not difficult.
	God knows the light within you because the light within you is godly.
	So of course he knows.
	So in other words, when you allow God to work through you and you express the godliness that you automatically are, then you are a good person.
	When you reject godliness within you, or you reject the light, which is the Christ light of love and forgiveness and helping those in need, all of these qualities that are taught throughout the Bible, when you have that light within you, then you are close to God.
	If you reject that light, then you are disconnected from God.
	And that makes you an antichrist individual, or even you could call that person a satanic or a hellish type of person to completely reject God working through them, or to reject the recognition that other people also have lives that are worthy of dignity because other people are children of God.
	And this is a really important concept.
	This is where, in my mind, a lot of Christians fail, especially the Christian Zionists that support the mass bombing of children in Gaza.
	Well, they're supporting the bombing of children who are children of God.
	Okay?
	So, of course, God keeps track of that.
	So, if you support starving children of God or bombing children of God, and all children are children of God, then do you think that Ernest, You favor with God.
	Not a chance.
	Not a chance because God experiences all of it.
	God experiences the starvation, the suffering through all those children because they are, They are connected to God, our Creator.
	God experiences the fear, the suffering, but also across our world, the love, the joy, the creativity, the happiness, etc.
	God experiences it all, but He knows what it means to be bombed to death.
	God knows what it means to starve to death.
	God knows what it means to be treated like dirt when you're a human being because He experiences that through everyone.
	Every experience that every human being has ever had is encoded into God's overall experience of what life is on this realm, or in this realm.
	And if you really want to make God happy, then help God experience this world in a more loving and joyful and enlightened way, in the truest sense of God's enlightenment.
	And I mean that in the sense of love and Christ-light, not in the perversion of light, of demonic entities or Luciferian entities, etc.
	Obviously, that's a perversion.
	But if you want to make God happy, bring God joy through all the people that you touch in your life, wherever you can.
	Help uplift others, help inform others, help bring joy or knowledge or freedom or happiness or creativity to others, and you make God smile.
	But if you hurt others, systematically especially, if you harm others, if you cause, if you inflict suffering through vaccines or bombing children or stealing from people or hurting physically, murdering, whatever, then you make God smile.
	Cry, in essence.
	You make God's experience of humanity suffer those very same things.
	And then that's all recorded in your book of life, and God judges you.
	And so when you leave this simulation, you go before God.
	God says, oh, you made me experience all this suffering and all these horrible things.
	So guess what?
	Lake of fire for you!
	And then your soul gets put through the spiritual recycling machine.
	Which apparently is a type of torment.
	At least I'm offering you this simplified, universal explanation.
	Because I found this to be incredibly consistent, but also much easier to grasp.
	And I've also found that we don't have to overcomplicate these things.
	That God's love, you don't have to read an encyclopedia to know what God wants of us.
	It's really not that difficult.
	As I've said before in many of my sermons, getting into heaven is pretty easy.
	But also, earning a passage to hell is also easy if you choose those things.
	It's not difficult if you choose to be an evil person.
	I mean, an evil person can carry out lots and lots of evil acts.
	If that were their twisted goal, they could achieve that.
	But if you want to be a good person, and you want to make God smile, and you want to add beauty and love and joy to the world, that's also pretty easy.
	And you don't actually have to memorize any scripture at all.
	You don't have to sing any hymns.
	You don't even have to tithe to any church.
	And that's the part that really angers the churches about what I teach, which is really spiritual enlightenment.
	It's a much greater...
	And simpler view of universal love from God where I say you don't need to tithe to a church in order to go to heaven.
	That's what angers a lot of churches because they need that money for their Cadillacs.
	They want to be there in between you and God.
	They want to be God's gatekeepers.
	And if you give them that power, then, you know, that's foolish because they don't have that power.
	They are imposters.
	They're imposters.
	They are not representatives of God any more than you.
	We're all representatives of God.
	You understand that?
	We're all representatives of God.
	And that's why even the whole idea of being an ordained minister, well, anybody, I mean, everybody is in essence ordained by God at the moment of creation, the moment of conception.
	You are ordained by God as a representative of God.
	What you choose to do with that is up to you because we've been granted free will.
	But there is nobody who is living on this earth who is not a child of God.
	There is nobody who does not have some connection to God.
	People may reject that connection or they may abuse it or they may, out of anger, reject it and say that they hate God because something bad happened in their life and God didn't intervene and help them or whatever or God didn't answer their prayers.
	But that doesn't change the fact that they're still, their life is ordained by God, by definition.
	So the bottom line here is, take from this what makes sense to you, and understand that I don't ever force these ideas on anyone.
	I just offer these as useful things to consider, because...
	I've spent quite a bit of time asking a lot of these same questions and thinking about the nature of reality and trying to understand the rules and so on.
	And I've finally come to the conclusion that it's impossible to understand God through organized religion.
	Because organized religion will always make it far too complicated to ever master because they need that control mechanism.
	If you truly want to understand God, yes, it's useful to read the texts of organized religion, but the institutions of organized religion will always try to intercede between you and God, and that's artificial.
	That's not genuine.
	As I said before, I see God's work in nature, and I don't have to have a priest or a pastor there or a rabbi or anybody.
	To tell me, hey, look at this flower.
	That's God's miracle.
	No, I can see the flower myself.
	I can see a sprouting plant.
	That's a miracle of God.
	I can see life.
	I can see beauty.
	I can see creativity.
	I can look at the sun.
	Well, not too long, but I can see the sun's light, and I can feel the warmth of the sun, and I understand this is light.
	This is life.
	I see God everywhere around me in the universe, and I didn't need some church to tell me What that means.
	I don't even think they could interpret it anyway.
	So that's my take on all of this.
	Don't overcomplicate it.
	You want to be close to God, just be a better person.
	It's not that complicated.
	And so it really all makes sense.
	And for me, maybe you share this, but this actually has been a huge burden lifted off of me, trying to figure it all out, trying to decode all of it.
	And everywhere I turn, everybody makes it so complicated, and they make it so contradictory as well.
	And it doesn't have to be that way at all.
	We're living in a simulation.
	A simulation created by our Creator.
	Our souls are a piece of God, individuated for the human experience.
	And our souls are immortal in that they survive this simulation.
	And when...
	Our time in this simulation ends.
	Our souls return back to where they came from, which is the consciousness of God.
	Therefore, there is no way that you do not already have the gift of salvation.
	The only remaining question is, what are you going to do with it?
	What are you going to do in this realm?
	Are you going to do some serious good stuff?
	Serious work?
	Or are you going to spend your life as a narcissist?
	Checking off checkboxes.
	Like, how many fun vacations can I take?
	You know, whatever.
	Nothing wrong with taking a break every once in a while, but life has to have more purpose than just entertainment or narcissism.
	At least that's my view.
	So if this makes sense to you, take the parts that make sense, reject the parts that don't, work it into your own understanding or not.
	That's totally up to you.
	Hey, my own understanding may also evolve over time.
	As I learn more, you learn more, or maybe there's going to be some giant cosmic consciousness upgrade that's going to happen that some of my guests have talked about.
	Like, we're moving to a different position relative to the Milky Way, and then, boom, like the control grid's going to be lifted or whatever, and then all of a sudden we're all going to be upgraded to a higher level of consciousness.
	Okay.
	That sounds fun.
	Let's do it.
	Maybe we could stop bombing each other then, you know, from all these crazy, insane wars.
	I would love to have an instant consciousness upgrade for all of humanity.
	I'm game for that.
	How do we make that happen?
	You know, until then, we're going to have to just continue in this realm and do the best we can with it, understanding that this is a simulation, but it's a simulation where your actions still matter.
	Your morality matters.
	Your ethics matter.
	The way you treat others also really matters.
	So treat other people with dignity.
	Respect life.
	Don't bomb children.
	Don't starve children to death.
	What are some other things?
	Don't murder people.
	You know, Ten Commandments and some other bonus items.
	Be a good person.
	It's not that hard.
	Alright, thank you for listening.
	Mike Adams here.
	And if you want to hear some of my sermons, you can hear them at abundance.church.
	But some of those are already obsolete because of what I just shared with you here today.
	My own understanding is also evolving, as I think is a natural process for all of us.
	Like you, I'm an adventurer.
	We are all journeying through this simulation together, trying to figure it out.
	And I don't claim to have all the answers, and I don't claim that everything...
	That is my current understanding is exactly the same that I'm going to end up with in a year or two years, or maybe I'll learn from some of you and you'll have way better ideas than what I have here.
	But I am certain of one thing, that much of organized religion is a control grid that actually, in many ways, will lead you no closer to your creator at all.
	And so if you really want...
	To walk with the Christ energy in your life, that's something that's going to have to happen as a personal decision and behavior and allowing God to work through you.
	And you can't fake it with hymns and tithing and just showing up at church every Easter.
	You can't fake it.
	It's got to be something that you live and that you allow God to work through you.
	And that's, you know, a lot of modern day Christianity is, I call it a comic book version.
	It's like a fast food drive-thru version of Christianity.
	It's the Happy Meal Christianity.
	It's not that deep.
	I mean, it doesn't have much depth to it.
	I'm interested in the real nature of God and what God expects of us and how we achieve that successfully.
	And you know why?
	It's very simple.
	I want to achieve the purpose of being here in this life.
	And if you believe in reincarnation, I don't want to be sent back here again.
	As long as you missed these other things, these other lessons, we're going to send you back.
	And this time you're coming back as an armadillo.
	Armadillo?
	I don't even have opposable thumbs.
	How am I going to learn these lessons without opposable thumbs?
	I don't want to be sent back as an armadillo.
	So, I mean, let's get it right.
	And I know some of you don't believe in reincarnation.
	That's fine.
	That was kind of a joke anyway.
	But we're here.
	We have intelligence.
	We have a sense of open-mindedness.
	We have a lot of knowledge.
	We have a lot of gifts right now in our life.
	Let's use it to do the best that we can right now so that when we're done with this life, God looks at us and says, hey, two thumbs up.
	You did great.
	You overcame the obstacles.
	You sort of figured out what's going on.
	You treated people with dignity.
	You protected life.
	You were a good person overall.
	Like, you know, 97% good.
	3%, you screwed up.
	Screwed up on the 3%.
	We're going to make you do some dishes in heaven or something to make up for the 3%.
	97%, you were good.
	You might have to clean the toilets a couple of days.
	97%, you're all good.
	That's a passing score.
	You know what I mean?
	That's an A+.
	Right?
	So that's what we should strive for.
	Be a good person.
	Do the best that we can.
	Help others.
	And let God work through us.
	Which is allowing.
	Okay?
	That's my take on it.
	So, thank you for listening.
	And I will say, God bless you all.
	All of us who are in the simulation, we're all in the same boat.
	We're in the same simulation.
	And we're all part of the same God, it turns out.
	Isn't that funny?
	That's what they mean, by the way, you know, in Buddhism or other religions when they say, you know, when you hurt others, you're just hurting yourself.
	It's because we're all the same God.
	I mean, the same expression of God.
	Just different individuated pieces of God.
	So yeah, if you bomb children, you're also bombing yourself.
	You harm others, you harm yourself.
	But if you love others, you love yourself.
	If you help others, you help yourself.
	If you have compassion toward others, you also have compassion toward yourself.
	Expressing compassion towards others is actually self-healing.
	And Buddhists really understand this point very well.
	And perhaps practitioners of many other religions understand it as well.
	But that's why we have the golden rule.
	Do unto others.
	As you would have them do unto you, because we are all connected to the same God consciousness, ultimately.
	At least that's the way I see it.
	But thank you for listening.

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