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Kevin Swanson here with Generations, and the Druids are back.
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After a millennium of Christian influence in the West, 1300 years of pretty much wiping out the influence of the pagans and the druids in Ireland and France, the Druids are back.
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The fearsome druids were the snakes in Ireland who were inhabited by the serpent or the serpent.
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But Patrick drove them out by the power of the living Christ.
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Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ above me, Christ below me, Christ in me.
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In case anybody needs to remember, the Druids were obsessed with Halloween.
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With death and human sacrifice, human heads were impaled on the walls of the forts, human skulls were used as drinking bowls, warriors hung the shrunken skulls of their enemies from their belts.
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And the Irish were kept in constant fear by their Druid priests who demanded human sacrifices to their many gods.
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The Druids would perform the Wicker Man ceremony.
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The Roman Emperor Julius Caesar described this ritual in his own words.
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Caesar said that when the supply of criminals ran out, the Druids simply executed the innocent.
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The Burning Man Festival has returned as of 1986 in San Francisco.
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This festival has been the means by which the modern world has returned to explicit, intentional, and voluntary human sacrifice.
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Obviously, the Burning Man is a serious reenactment of the cult classic book and movie The Wicker Man, horror films produced in 1973 and 2006.
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The Burning Man 2.0 started in 1986 when founders Larry Harvey and Jerry James burned a human-shaped sculpture at Baker Beach in San Francisco.
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The first burning of a wooden symbolic man occurred in zone trip number four in 1990.
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That's in in uh Nevada.
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Now there are 60 to 70,000 people attending this event out in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
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We follow this thing now for about 12 years as part of the generations chronicling of the decline of Western civilization.
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If you have been a regular participant in this program over the years, you've heard this.
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But here's the angle I want to go at today.
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Why, why do the high-tech billionaires connect with this Burning Man deal?
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Why do Elon Musk, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg connect with this kind of thing?
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We're going to get Alex Newman on board with us in a moment to comment on this.
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He was there at Burning Man this year.
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As I've said in the past, the modern infatuation with witchcraft in the fantasy world demands a definition of witchcraft, and that is any attempt to seek a power that one self-consciously does not see derive from God, but from the material or created sphere.
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Now you need to understand that this is the point at which scientists turn into wizards.
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Modern science does not fear God, that's a given.
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But here's the key point.
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Modern science does not see God as a source of the energy and matter of this universe.
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To the extent that this commitment becomes self-conscious and self-consistent, modern scientists turn into wizards or what we could call witch doctors.
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This is also the point at which science turns irrational and science turns into scientism.
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This is the point at which computer modeling becomes astrology and climate change turns into a religion as well.
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In the past, kings and political figures would assume power and act as the power brokers.
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Witch doctors and pagan priests would channel demonic power.
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As far as these sought power apart from the true and living God, they would operate in the realm of the devil and under the power of the devil.
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But today, that power lies not as much with politicians and witch doctors as with the scientist, and the scientist who gains economic ascendance in the tech world.
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Think about this.
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Since 1930, humanity's ability to observe, calculate, manipulate, and control the physical world has increased enormously by factors of thousands, millions, even billions in certain fields.
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The most significant change is not simply that scientists know more, it's that they now possess instruments and technologies that allow them to do so so many things that were virtually unimaginable in 1930 or 1960.
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By 1960, scientists could split atoms, build J aircraft, launch satellites, and manufacture early computers, but they could not sequence a human genome, edit DNA precisely, observe individual atoms routinely, or train artificial intelligence systems on trillions of words and concepts.
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Supercomputers now are 29 million times faster than they were in 1993, and I'm sure a trillion times faster than they were in 1970.
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Scientists now believe they can DNA sequence in living organisms to create possibilities for treating genetic diseases and engineering crops.
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Artificial intelligence can predict structures of enormous numbers of proteins, accelerating biological research.
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Now, these modern technocrat, Frankensteinian billionaire people, they're seeking power, and they seek to use power and knowledge autonomously out from under God's laws.
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And they have the tools and the money to do it.
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Remember this IT made up 5% of the market capitalization in 1970.
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Today that's 48 percent of market cap.
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But now these guys who lead are not wise men.
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They are, in some respects, the most immature and unwise men guiding the ship of human society and socioeconomic systems since the beginning of man's existence.
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Now ask yourself this: do these guys submit to God?
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Are they wise?
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Have they achieved even the beginning of wisdom and knowledge, which is the fear of God?
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You know, science has abandoned God in the West.
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In this country alone, only 11 percent of research scientists attend church versus 33 percent of the rest of the population.
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These technocrats live in a science fiction universe.
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They are infatuated with extraterrestrial intelligence, transhumanism, immortality, cryonics, artificial superintelligence, space colonization, and psychedelic spirituality.
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So come on, let's admit it, guys.
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They want to overcome human limitations.
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They want to reverse the effects of the fall.
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They want to be God.
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They want a salvation, they want resurrection for man without Jesus.
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And they believe that they have the technology and power to pull it off without God.
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So why the crossover from a wizardly approach to technology to demonic spirituality?
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The answer is obvious.
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The humanist scientist and powerful technologist always seeks power apart from God, and the demons are always available to offer assistance.
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So Silicon Valley's interest in psychedelics, Eastern mysticism, transhumanism, and the search for a new form of spirituality is very much known by all of us.
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But why so dangerous?
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Well, unlike any other time in history, science can now virtually destroy the world, or at least 25 to 35 percent of it virtually overnight, and 95% of it by the slow death of a bad use of technologies.
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Both Burning Man and the parts of Silicon Valley culture share a belief that human creativity can transcend inherited limitations from the Christian world and construct radically new ways of living.
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In Silicon Valley, this takes the form of technological innovation, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and attempts to reshape human experience.
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At Burning Man, it takes the form of social experimentation, artistic expression, and temporary construction of alternative community.
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But more than anything, this is a do whatever you want to do, be a law unto yourself kind of event.
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70,000 people gathered to express the ultimate autonomy and rebellion against the true and living God.
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So can we just say it?
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This is a post-Christian rebellion and revolution against God, the true and living God, the Christian influence of the last 1,500 years.
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Alex Newman was there as a journalist for the New American at the Burning Man 2026 event, which happened about a month ago out in the Nevada deserts.
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Alex joins us now today on the Generations broadcast.
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Alex Newman from The New American, uh now joining me on Generations, a friend of the program, and by the way, coming to Denver for our Czech conference this uh June, next June.
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So we're looking forward to that.
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Alex, welcome back to the program.
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An honor to be here.
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Thanks for having me, everyone.
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And you were there.
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Man, I've been talking about the Burning Man for about 12 to 13 years on this program, and you were there.
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You went down there, and what you described was far more I I would say pagan and uh X-rated, uh just a just a dis disaster in terms of the immoral, you know, orgy kind of thing than I had ever uh pictured from what I was getting from the mainstream media.
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So what a shock to see your coverage on the new American magazine.
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Yeah, I've never seen anything like it.
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And I've been to a lot of weird places.
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I've been to a lot of places where you could just like feel the demonic presence, just you know, it's so bad.
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These UN conferences, these gatherings of elitists around the world, but never anything like uh Burning Man.
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It is probably the darkest place one could ever imagine.
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Uh and you know, even the people who research it, I spent months researching it before actually going there.
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I didn't know the half.
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You know, I knew there was a lot of drug use, I knew there was a lot of uh sexual perversion going on, but I didn't realize that there are children walking around watching all of this.
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I didn't realize that there are naked children running around looking at this stuff.
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I didn't realize that the demonic was so out in the open.
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I mean, there are people channeling spirits so that the audience can interact with them.
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The the we interviewed the um the high priest of the church of psychedelics who was explaining how you take these psychedelic drugs and encounter these spiritual entities that are collecting souls.
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Uh, one of the big psychedelic researchers was there.
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We went to one of his talks and he was explaining how everybody should start taking hallucinogens and communicate with their dead relatives.
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And he said it worked really good for these people, and you know, now they realize death isn't that bad.
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So uh it was beyond anything I've ever experienced.
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The the level of debauchery, the level of wickedness.
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It just simply astounding, Kevin.
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Yeah.
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Um, so you you you understand that there have been a couple of voluntary human sacrifices.
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So I think we've been um chronicling that since the mid-2000s or 2010s, 2014-2017, a couple of guys jumped into the fire.
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And so it is it is a representation of the original Wicker Man.
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Uh, the the sacrifices that Julius Caesar would have referred to it in terms of what the Druids were doing in the first couple centuries.
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Yeah.
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Uh and that's pretty much acknowledged.
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Uh, one of the key co-founders revealed in an interview that the main co-founder, Larry Harvey, had actually watched that Wicker Man movie 1973, made in the UK, kind of a horrible horror film about the the Wicker Man that you just referred to.
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And that was what gave him the idea to create this uh effigy of a man that they went down to the beach to burn.
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So that really is the genesis of this.
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He had been studying symbology, he had been studying uh the occult, he had been studying the ancient pagan practices, uh, and that really was the genesis of this.
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And he got to the point before he passed away where he was fully revelling in the satanic.
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Uh, we're creating a documentary right now, so we're going through a lot of the old archival footage.
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We have a video of him sitting at what he calls the throne of Satan, and he's like talking about how people can come up and hang out with the evil one, they can sit at his right hand, and he says, and then you can have your soul physically sucked out of your body.
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I mean, that those are his exact words.
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That's crazy.
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So, I mean, the the you know, there was a time when this kind of stuff happened in the shadows, happened in secret.
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Now anybody with you know six hundred and fifty dollars a week to spare and uh a really strong stomach can go out and see this for themselves.
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And this is a shift in terms of Western civilization.
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That's why I'm interested, of course, because we're certainly seeing a reaction to uh Christian civilization and how uh over what 1,500 years uh Christian civilization was embedded in the Western world.
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And uh, you know, I wrote the book Epoch, The Rise and Fall of the West, and this is sort of the tip of the iceberg, uh a representation of what has happened in the Western world to return to the druid worship.
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You know, Patrick chased the the uh the serpents, the snakes out of Ireland, and there was hardly a druid left, uh I'd say about a hundred to a hundred and fifty years after uh Patrick's death.
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In other words, he was successful at at eliminating satanic uh sacrifices and all of the pagan exercises and the submission of entire nations and tribes uh to the rule of Satan.
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He was able to uh to overcome that by the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ, where we still celebrate St.
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Patrick's Day, so I think everybody understands this.
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Uh but now they're bringing the snakes back.
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And uh and uh this is pretty significant.
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I mean, it's a significant event.
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It's everybody knows what's happening, it's not under the covers, and uh it's uh it it it signifies something happening to the Western world.
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Can you describe that for for me?
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What's what's how do you look at it from your perspective?
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Well, you're absolutely right.
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The Burning Man, I think, is the tip of the spear of a movement to re-paganize the world.
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And if you listen to the founders, they're very overt about this.
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So you're absolutely right about St.
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Patrick.
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Actually, just got back from doing some speaking over in Ireland, and we got to see some of the sites where Patrick rolled up and uh set on fire the idols and showed up the pagan kings and made a mockery of their false deities, uh, Sloan Hill, just absolutely astounding story.
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And unfortunately, paganism is being revived in Ireland.
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We actually witnessed some of it with our own eyes.
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Some of these sites.
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And so what's happening with Burning Man is, I think, a deliberate effort to build what they see as a new culture.
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They're preparing for what they call the new age, this age of Aquarius, and they believe they are constructing the new culture, which is eventually going to supplant the old culture, the remnants of our Christian civilization.
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And they've and they've said this very explicitly.
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Uh, Larry Harvey, the key co-founder that I mentioned earlier, we've got him on video giving a talk at Burning Man where he says, we're building a new culture, we're building a new world, and right now it seems impossible that it would be able to take over from the old.
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He says, but when the right crisis hits, when there's enough pain, the impossible will become inevitable.
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And you know, that would be one thing if it was just some fringe lunatic hippie taking magic mushrooms in the desert.
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But what people don't understand about Burning Man, this is what really piqued my interest and caused me to want to go there.
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You have the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world attending this.
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Yes.
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And I mean that literally.
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Uh Elon Musk, the world's only trillionaire, regular attendee, boasts about his involvement.
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He shows up wearing costumes.
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He actually unveiled one of his key Tesla products there, Sam Altman, the guy who runs uh OpenAI, ChatGPT, regular burner, admits to taking psychedelics there, which he said had a profound influence on his work.
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He actually gave talks there on all of this.
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You have uh all of the senior leadership of Google.
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In fact, Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, admits that he got his job there because he was a burner.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brenn, both uh the co-founders of Google, huge, huge into Burning Man.
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In fact, the first ever Google Doodle was actually the Burning Man in 1998.
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That first little drawing they did, it was the Burning Man.
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That's right.
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You've got Ray Dalio, CEO of the world's biggest hedge fund.
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You've got celebrities, you've got the former uh Supreme Allied commander of NATO, General Wesley Clark.
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You've got members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, you've got mayors from across America showing up and openly saying, we're getting ideas on how to govern our cities here.
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You've got, I mean, the the list is just on and on.
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Mark Zuckerberg, the guy who runs Facebook, uh Will Smith, P.
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Diddy, Katy Perry, uh everyone you can think of from Silicon Valley.
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Elon Musk famously said that uh that uh Burning Man is Silicon Valley.
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And when you consider that Silicon Valley is basically taking over everything, I mean, through AI, through computer programs, they're taking over government, education, cultural media, everything, uh, you realize how significant this is.
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What's the connection here?
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It seems like a strange crossover from modern technology to a primitive barbarian paganism, you know, Elon Musk uh throwing sacrifices, you know, into the fire.
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I'm not sure he quite does that, but this seems odd that you have this modern technologist crossing over to this primitive barbarian pagan thing.
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How does that work in your mind?
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What's happening here?
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Well, I've had a hypothesis for a long time, and I've largely kept it to myself because I didn't have concrete evidence that I could share, but I've had a hypothesis that a lot of these incredible technological innovations that we're seeing, and I'm not anti-technology at all.
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I think technology can be used for the glory of God, but I think a lot of these technological innovations are the result of some of these people communicating with various entities.
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And for a long time that was just a hypothesis in the back of my mind.
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You know, I'm reading Genesis chapter six, I'm reading some of the apocryphal books, I'm thinking, you know, maybe there's something here.
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Uh, after going there and seeing these people openly talking about engaging with spiritual entities, getting ideas from spiritual entities about technology, uh, neopaganism is a huge thing within Burning Man.
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There's been uh academic papers written on the neopaganism of Silicon Valley elites.
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So what's happening is I think uh really a representation of what Alice Bailey described in her book Externalization of the Hierarchy.
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And so there's a biblical corollary to this that I'll get to in a moment.
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But in um externalization of the hierarchy, Alice Bailey, one of the leading occultists and new agers of the last century, she founded the Lucifer Publishing Company, major influence on the United Nations and a lot of the kind of ancient mystery schools around the world.
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Uh, she was channeling a spirit, well, multiple spirits, but she was channeling these demons, and they were apparently giving her these super secret revelations.
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And one of them, in externalization of the hierarchy, was that the world is governed by a spiritual hierarchy that throughout the age has been largely hidden from your average person.
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And this was known, she said, to the ancient mystery schools, to the secret societies, but not to your average joke.
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But she says, as we get closer to this new age, as we work on eliminating what she calls the great heresy of separateness, which uh, you know, be holy, for I am holy, thus saith the Lord, uh, you know, we gotta get rid of that, the whole biblical idea.
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Uh, then we're going to move into a period where these spiritual entities are going to become manifest.
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And she says this is going to happen through events and through groups of people that she refers to as ashrams, these very influential and wealthy people, like the kind of people who congregate at Burning Man.
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And she says that little by little, all of humanity is going to be inducted into this.
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So all the things that you used to have to like go through the secret societies and rise up through the ranks to get their little secret knowledge, all humanity is going to be inducted into this as we eliminate the last vestiges of Christianity.
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And I think uh they're actually on to something.
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I think she was channeling a demon.
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And so I think these ashrams that she was talking about are really in parallel, at least, with what we're seeing at Burning Man.
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And I'll give you an example.
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Uh Nicole Shanahan, very uh prominent Silicon Valley uh billionaire, she was actually the vice presidential candidate with Robert F.
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Kennedy Jr.
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before he joined uh Team Trump.
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And she became a Christian a few years ago.
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She had been in the inner circle of Burning Man for about 10 years.
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Uh she was actually staying at what they call first camp, which is where all the elites of Burning Man hang out, the leaders of the organization, the board members, the uh the founders, the diplomats, royalty, whatever.
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And uh after becoming a Christian, she decided to blow the whistle and she wrote a marvelous piece called Is Burning Man Demonic?
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And of course, she concluded that it is.
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She concluded that it may be one of the most powerful tools of Satan to deceive humanity and turn uh people away from God.
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But she also said something that was really interesting, that was one of the things that caused me to want to go there.
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She said, Nowhere has she ever seen a collection of spiritual, intellectual, financial, and political power like what she saw at the center of Burning Man.
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Yeah.
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So that tells you that what's happening here is in fact the elites basically, I think consciously in many cases, seeking to repaganize the world, seeking to overthrow the moral restraints, what they view as the oppressive moral restraints that Christian civilization brought, like the things that used to happen in ancient Rome and before that.
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And don't forget the uh the support that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, some of the you know, richest men in the world, has have lent to human sacrifice or child sacrifice in the form of abortion.
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I mean, they are the biggest.
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I mean, you want to identify the most powerful and the richest men in the world who have gotten behind the slaughtering of half the world's population since you know 1960, uh, it would be the Warren Buffett's and the Bill Gates of the world.
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So so certainly, you know, that that's but but now you know the child sacrifice of abortion was always under the covers.
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Now it seems that everything's coming out into the open.
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That seems to be the difference now.
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100%.
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Yeah, it's it's the externalization of the hierarchy.
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And you know, to your point about the Rockefellers, the Rockefellers have been intimately involved with this.
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Uh actually, one of the first board members of the Burning Man organization was the head of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Office in San Francisco.
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No way, really.
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Oh man.
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Absolutely.
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Wow.
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And uh, one of the regular burners is actually the director of the David Rockefeller Fund, the grandson of David Rockefeller, who, of course, is one of the biggest financial supporters of the population control movement, the abortion movement, the environmental movement, the globalist movement.
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And uh, he was actually listed as crew in a document that we got.
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His name is uh Christopher, um, Christopher Lindstrom Rockefeller.
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And so you have Rockefellers and these types of people involved at every level.
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And the same thing with the World Economic Forum.
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So you have all of these people who've been involved, for example, in the Good Club.
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That was uh Ted Turner, Phil Gates, uh Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, uh, a bunch of these uh uh billionaire elitists.
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Uh they created an organization specifically for the purpose of advancing population control.
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And I think once you see how these all meld together behind the scenes, it starts to make a lot more sense.
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Not just dealing here with political ideas that are different.
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We're dealing here with what the Apostle Paul describes in Ephesians chapter six, with the powers and principalities and the rulers of the darkness, spiritual wickedness in the heavenly places.
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Um and that's something that you see throughout the scriptures.
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You know, you read in Daniel chapter 10, you have this prince of Persia, this some sort of demonic ruling entity.
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Daniel prays, and God dispatches an angel, and somehow this prince of Persia, this demonic entity, is able to hold that angel back until Michael arrives and helps out here.
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Uh you see it again, uh, the the spiritual nature of this conflict.
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You see in uh 2 Kings, where Elisha and his servant are fleeing from the king of Syria who's trying to kill them, and Elisha prays that God would open the eyes of his servant.
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They look out the window and they see the heavenly host out there, the spiritual forces ready to do battle.
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So the spiritual realm is real.
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Uh, I think a lot of Christians don't even realize that, or they should, because the Bible teaches it clearly.
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Uh, and I think a lot of these elitists, they're, I think, very deceived.
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I think some of them think they're talking to aliens, some of them think they're talking to dead people, some of them think they're talking to ascended masters like Alice Bailey.
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But ultimately, they believe the very thing that the snake promised in the garden, that we're going to evolve into gods, that we're going to live forever through AI, through technology, through whatever.
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Uh, and they believe they're at the cutting edge of making this a reality and that we're very close.
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And and the big message that's being sent by the Burning Man uh uh deal is that uh you should be us gods determining good and evil and doing whatever you want to do.
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That seems to be the bottom line message that draws everybody together.
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You know, there's the libertarians, the anarchists, the socialists, and the communists, but the one thing that they can all agree on in the Burning Man Festival is that you can do whatever you want to do.
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And that seems to be the popular thing for that event.
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That that that's it.
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That's what draws everybody in, I think.
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It's what the devil said in the garden to Eve.
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It's everywhere.
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I mean, as we were going through Burning Man, I've got pictures from all over the, they call it the Black Rock City, uh, of the old line by Alistair Crowley.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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One of the top Satanist uh movement leaders of the last century actually called himself the wickedest man in the world, the B666 was openly channeling demonic entities that when he drew them looked suspiciously like the modern conception of aliens.
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Uh, of course, uh, the Jack Parsons from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, big-time Alistair Crowley disciple, was communicating with these entities to, by his own admission, to get ideas about rockets and rocket fuel.
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Uh so I think once Christians take off the secular materialist lens that has been imposed on us through government education, through fake media, through uh so-called entertainment, and start seeing the world through the lens of the Bible, what's happening actually all makes sense.
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And and this whole do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, that's really the animating spirit there.
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Uh you saw, I mean, things that were so blasphemous, you you can't even fully disclose it all because it's so shameful.
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But I'll give you an example.
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They had a camp there.
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The whole purpose of the camp was to play Christian worship music and traditional children's songs, including nursery rhymes, while they're doing perverted sexual activities on the scene and shouting out in the audience, Praise Jesus.
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Yeah.
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So that gives you a sense of the kind of stuff that's going on there.
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They think it's funny.
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And um, you know, it's very serious.
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Blasphemous, horrible, wicked kind of stuff.
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Do what you want to do.
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It's satanic, and you you know, the do what thou wilt is from the satanic Bible, if I'm not mistaken, is that correct?
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Uh that's uh Alistair Crowley came up with that phrase, but it's essentially a condensation of the satanic view of the world.
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Um and this is what they believe, and many of them at Burning Man will tell you this.
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Uh, they they accept elements of the biblical narrative as true, but they reverse the roles here.
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So Alice Bailey kind of uh crystallized this, and she got the idea from Helena Blavatsky, who of course got it from some of the people she was studying, who of course got it from the demons they were communicating with.
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But the idea is that Lucifer is the good guy.
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Satan is the good guy.
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Satan showed up to free us from this oppressive deity, Jehovah, Yahweh, who had us imprisoned in the garden and was depriving us of this uh wonderful tree of knowledge, the fruit of the good and evil.
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And um, and so they look at Lucifer as the light bringer, the liberator, and the one we know as God, Jehovah, Yahweh, Jesus Christ, as the oppressor who we need to fight against.
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And so uh Alice Bailey talked about as we increasingly bring all of humanity to this realization and move toward a one-world religion, uh, it's really just the Christians that are holding back this allegedly marvelous evolution into the new age, the age of Aquarius.
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Uh, and so that's what many of these people believe.
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They believe they're doing good.
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And again, I think your average Christian doesn't have a clue.
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Well, uh how we respond to it, I think, first is a Psalm II perspective, and that is that uh the kings of the earth set themselves against the Lord in his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us, but he that sits in the heavens shall laugh, and he shall break them with a rod of iron, he dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel, and they should kiss the Son, lest they perish from the way.
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And you know, Jesus is on the right hand of the Father, and this shaking the fist in the face of Jesus Christ far above all principals and powers today is fruitless.
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And so as Christians, what do we say?
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What are we doing?
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Well, I think as Christians, this should give us uh among other things, um, some cause for reflection in terms of how we use the technologies that are coming from the companies that are so deeply involved in.
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That's true.
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Uh it should give us a sense of urgency as well in terms of preaching the good news, in terms of making disciples.
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Uh it should give us a renewed sense of you know, we need to protect our children from this kind of wickedness.
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And we need to be serious about discipling them.
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We're not just going to hand them over to institutions that are animated by this kind of spirit.
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Um, and to be clear, there's a lot of that even at Burning Man.
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A few years ago, the chief technology officer of the World Economic Forum came to Burning Man and gave a speech on transforming education and burnifying academia.
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So they're trying to get into every element of society.
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Uh and as Christians, we know that uh Satan is a defeated foe.
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We know he's gonna end up in the lake of fire.
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Yeah, but in the meantime, Paul and Peter call on us to resist the devil, James calls on us to resist the devil, to uh stand firm against him and to put on the whole armor of God.
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And I think we really need to get back into the scriptures, recognize that what they say is true, and that Jesus needs to be the Lord of every area of our life, and that very much includes the entertainment choices that we make, the cultural choices that we make, the business decisions that we make, uh, to the largest extent possible across all areas of life, certainly the educational choices that we make for our children.
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And speak truth and to, you know, um have a right way of viewing entertainment, media, technology, and these things.
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Where do you think technology is going to take us?
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I know this is probably a 30-minute answer, but do the best you can to give us an answer here, Alex, for you know, where we gotta be watching out for this technology and what it's doing to us.
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These are extremely evil men, really, at the helm of technology today.
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And I would say extremely unwise men who do not fear God, which by the way is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.
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They obviously don't fear God.
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They will tell you they don't fear God, and yet they're at the head of all of these modern, powerful technological movements.
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How do we face this?
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Yeah, I think we need to really stop and consider what this means.
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I mean, the people who write the algorithms that govern what billions of people on this planet are watching right now are hanging out at Burning Man, engaging in these pagan, occult, uh, weird rituals.
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Wow.
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That should give us pause, right?
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Uh these companies are increasingly shaping every area of life, including government policy.
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Uh, if you look at what's happening with AI in the educational realm, you'll see that AI is now being used to shape what they call the effective domain of children.
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They're using it to change the worldview, the attitudes, the values, the beliefs, the presuppositions of children, and they're using it very effectively.
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Uh, so I think AI is a technology in one sense like any other.
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It could be used for good or it can be used for evil.
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But when you recognize that the people who are leading the companies that are producing the leading AI models, that they're involved in this kind of stuff, that they are absolutely hostile to the word of God and to God Himself, uh, we need to be very discerning in how we use it.
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I mean, can I feed a bunch of data on sales to an AI and ask it to come to some conclusions?
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Sure.
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You know, I'm probably not going to be uh deceived by the demonic realm if it's just crunching some data for me.
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Should I be asking AI or should my children be asking AI about the meaning of life or what happens after death or theological questions?
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Should pastors be using Chat GPT to write sermons?
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And I think the answer is clearly no.
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Right.
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Again, the people who are giving these technological systems the worldview, the ethical framework.
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And they talk about this openly.
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I mean, Sam Altman, the guy who leads uh uh OpenAI, ChatGPT, they asked him about the moral and ethical values that are instilled within the AI models that they're producing.
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He says, Oh, we have a committee of ethicists.
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Okay.
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And where do these ethicists come from in terms of theology, in terms of their spirituality, in terms of their worldview?
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And we know the answer to that, right?
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That's certainly not biblical.
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So we need to be very discerning in how we use these technologies, and we need to be especially discerning in how we allow our children to interact with them.
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And so much of the message is wrapped up in the mode.
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The message is wrapped up in the mode.
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There's such isolation in modern media and modern technology.
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So many problems with modern technology and how it's used.
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And uh and I would say social media is at the tip of the spear on this.
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And the church, especially, God's people especially need to be very, very careful in how they use these modern forms of technology.
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All right, my friends.
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Uh heads up from Alex Newman today.
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Be aware, be discerning, be rooted and grounded in God's truth.
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This is the message that we take away from this.
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And there is an enemy, and uh he is very active.
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We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but principles and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this age.
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So let's keep that in mind and be equipped.
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Put on the whole armor of God.
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And by the way, that's the theme for next week's uh men's conference here on the Eastern Plains of Colorado, Elizabeth, Colorado.
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We are wanting to equip the men of God to every good work by putting on the whole armor of God this next week.
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And uh, we are in spiritual battle.
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Be ready.
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Don't go run out there in your pajamas.
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Be prepared for war.
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Alex, thanks so much for joining us today on Generations.
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It's always good to catch up with you.
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Wow, it's great.
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Thank you very much for having me, Kevin.
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It's an honor and pleasure.
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And friends, please join us again next time as we continue to lay down a vision for the next generation.
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Kevin Swanson here with Generations, and the Druids are back.
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After a millennium of Christian influence in the West, 1300 years of pretty much wiping out the influence of the pagans and the druids in Ireland and France, the Druids are back.
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The fearsome druids were the snakes in Ireland who were inhabited by the serpent or the serpent.
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But Patrick drove them out by the power of the living Christ.
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Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ above me, Christ below me, Christ in me.
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In case anybody needs to remember, the Druids were obsessed with Halloween.
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With death and human sacrifice, human heads were impaled on the walls of the forts, human skulls were used as drinking bowls, warriors hung the shrunken skulls of their enemies from their belts.
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And the Irish were kept in constant fear by their Druid priests who demanded human sacrifices to their many gods.
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The Druids would perform the Wicker Man ceremony.
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The Roman Emperor Julius Caesar described this ritual in his own words.
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Caesar said that when the supply of criminals ran out, the Druids simply executed the innocent.
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The Burning Man Festival has returned as of 1986 in San Francisco.
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This festival has been the means by which the modern world has returned to explicit, intentional, and voluntary human sacrifice.
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Obviously, the Burning Man is a serious reenactment of the cult classic book and movie The Wicker Man, horror films produced in 1973 and 2006.
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The Burning Man 2.0 started in 1986 when founders Larry Harvey and Jerry James burned a human-shaped sculpture at Baker Beach in San Francisco.
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The first burning of a wooden symbolic man occurred in zone trip number four in 1990.
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That's in in uh Nevada.
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Now there are 60 to 70,000 people attending this event out in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
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We follow this thing now for about 12 years as part of the generations chronicling of the decline of Western civilization.
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If you have been a regular participant in this program over the years, you've heard this.
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But here's the angle I want to go at today.
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Why, why do the high-tech billionaires connect with this Burning Man deal?
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Why do Elon Musk, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg connect with this kind of thing?
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We're going to get Alex Newman on board with us in a moment to comment on this.
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He was there at Burning Man this year.
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As I've said in the past, the modern infatuation with witchcraft in the fantasy world demands a definition of witchcraft, and that is any attempt to seek a power that one self-consciously does not see derive from God, but from the material or created sphere.
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Now you need to understand that this is the point at which scientists turn into wizards.
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Modern science does not fear God, that's a given.
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But here's the key point.
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Modern science does not see God as a source of the energy and matter of this universe.
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To the extent that this commitment becomes self-conscious and self-consistent, modern scientists turn into wizards or what we could call witch doctors.
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This is also the point at which science turns irrational and science turns into scientism.
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This is the point at which computer modeling becomes astrology and climate change turns into a religion as well.
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In the past, kings and political figures would assume power and act as the power brokers.
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Witch doctors and pagan priests would channel demonic power.
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As far as these sought power apart from the true and living God, they would operate in the realm of the devil and under the power of the devil.
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But today, that power lies not as much with politicians and witch doctors as with the scientist, and the scientist who gains economic ascendance in the tech world.
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Think about this.
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Since 1930, humanity's ability to observe, calculate, manipulate, and control the physical world has increased enormously by factors of thousands, millions, even billions in certain fields.
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The most significant change is not simply that scientists know more, it's that they now possess instruments and technologies that allow them to do so so many things that were virtually unimaginable in 1930 or 1960.
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By 1960, scientists could split atoms, build J aircraft, launch satellites, and manufacture early computers, but they could not sequence a human genome, edit DNA precisely, observe individual atoms routinely, or train artificial intelligence systems on trillions of words and concepts.
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Supercomputers now are 29 million times faster than they were in 1993, and I'm sure a trillion times faster than they were in 1970.
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Scientists now believe they can DNA sequence in living organisms to create possibilities for treating genetic diseases and engineering crops.
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Artificial intelligence can predict structures of enormous numbers of proteins, accelerating biological research.
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Now, these modern technocrat, Frankensteinian billionaire people, they're seeking power, and they seek to use power and knowledge autonomously out from under God's laws.
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And they have the tools and the money to do it.
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Remember this IT made up 5% of the market capitalization in 1970.
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Today that's 48 percent of market cap.
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But now these guys who lead are not wise men.
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They are, in some respects, the most immature and unwise men guiding the ship of human society and socioeconomic systems since the beginning of man's existence.
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Now ask yourself this: do these guys submit to God?
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Are they wise?
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Have they achieved even the beginning of wisdom and knowledge, which is the fear of God?
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You know, science has abandoned God in the West.
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In this country alone, only 11 percent of research scientists attend church versus 33 percent of the rest of the population.
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These technocrats live in a science fiction universe.
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They are infatuated with extraterrestrial intelligence, transhumanism, immortality, cryonics, artificial superintelligence, space colonization, and psychedelic spirituality.
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So come on, let's admit it, guys.
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They want to overcome human limitations.
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They want to reverse the effects of the fall.
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They want to be God.
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They want a salvation, they want resurrection for man without Jesus.
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And they believe that they have the technology and power to pull it off without God.
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So why the crossover from a wizardly approach to technology to demonic spirituality?
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The answer is obvious.
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The humanist scientist and powerful technologist always seeks power apart from God, and the demons are always available to offer assistance.
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So Silicon Valley's interest in psychedelics, Eastern mysticism, transhumanism, and the search for a new form of spirituality is very much known by all of us.
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But why so dangerous?
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Well, unlike any other time in history, science can now virtually destroy the world, or at least 25 to 35 percent of it virtually overnight, and 95% of it by the slow death of a bad use of technologies.
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Both Burning Man and the parts of Silicon Valley culture share a belief that human creativity can transcend inherited limitations from the Christian world and construct radically new ways of living.
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In Silicon Valley, this takes the form of technological innovation, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and attempts to reshape human experience.
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At Burning Man, it takes the form of social experimentation, artistic expression, and temporary construction of alternative community.
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But more than anything, this is a do whatever you want to do, be a law unto yourself kind of event.
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70,000 people gathered to express the ultimate autonomy and rebellion against the true and living God.
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So can we just say it?
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This is a post-Christian rebellion and revolution against God, the true and living God, the Christian influence of the last 1,500 years.
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Alex Newman was there as a journalist for the New American at the Burning Man 2026 event, which happened about a month ago out in the Nevada deserts.
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Alex joins us now today on the Generations broadcast.
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Alex Newman from The New American, uh now joining me on Generations, a friend of the program, and by the way, coming to Denver for our Czech conference this uh June, next June.
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So we're looking forward to that.
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Alex, welcome back to the program.
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An honor to be here.
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Thanks for having me, everyone.
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And you were there.
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Man, I've been talking about the Burning Man for about 12 to 13 years on this program, and you were there.
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You went down there, and what you described was far more I I would say pagan and uh X-rated, uh just a just a dis disaster in terms of the immoral, you know, orgy kind of thing than I had ever uh pictured from what I was getting from the mainstream media.
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So what a shock to see your coverage on the new American magazine.
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Yeah, I've never seen anything like it.
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And I've been to a lot of weird places.
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I've been to a lot of places where you could just like feel the demonic presence, just you know, it's so bad.
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These UN conferences, these gatherings of elitists around the world, but never anything like uh Burning Man.
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It is probably the darkest place one could ever imagine.
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Uh and you know, even the people who research it, I spent months researching it before actually going there.
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I didn't know the half.
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You know, I knew there was a lot of drug use, I knew there was a lot of uh sexual perversion going on, but I didn't realize that there are children walking around watching all of this.
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I didn't realize that there are naked children running around looking at this stuff.
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I didn't realize that the demonic was so out in the open.
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I mean, there are people channeling spirits so that the audience can interact with them.
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The the we interviewed the um the high priest of the church of psychedelics who was explaining how you take these psychedelic drugs and encounter these spiritual entities that are collecting souls.
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Uh, one of the big psychedelic researchers was there.
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We went to one of his talks and he was explaining how everybody should start taking hallucinogens and communicate with their dead relatives.
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And he said it worked really good for these people, and you know, now they realize death isn't that bad.
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So uh it was beyond anything I've ever experienced.
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The the level of debauchery, the level of wickedness.
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It just simply astounding, Kevin.
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Yeah.
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Um, so you you you understand that there have been a couple of voluntary human sacrifices.
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So I think we've been um chronicling that since the mid-2000s or 2010s, 2014-2017, a couple of guys jumped into the fire.
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And so it is it is a representation of the original Wicker Man.
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Uh, the the sacrifices that Julius Caesar would have referred to it in terms of what the Druids were doing in the first couple centuries.
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Yeah.
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Uh and that's pretty much acknowledged.
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Uh, one of the key co-founders revealed in an interview that the main co-founder, Larry Harvey, had actually watched that Wicker Man movie 1973, made in the UK, kind of a horrible horror film about the the Wicker Man that you just referred to.
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And that was what gave him the idea to create this uh effigy of a man that they went down to the beach to burn.
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So that really is the genesis of this.
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He had been studying symbology, he had been studying uh the occult, he had been studying the ancient pagan practices, uh, and that really was the genesis of this.
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And he got to the point before he passed away where he was fully revelling in the satanic.
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Uh, we're creating a documentary right now, so we're going through a lot of the old archival footage.
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We have a video of him sitting at what he calls the throne of Satan, and he's like talking about how people can come up and hang out with the evil one, they can sit at his right hand, and he says, and then you can have your soul physically sucked out of your body.
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I mean, that those are his exact words.
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That's crazy.
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So, I mean, the the you know, there was a time when this kind of stuff happened in the shadows, happened in secret.
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Now anybody with you know six hundred and fifty dollars a week to spare and uh a really strong stomach can go out and see this for themselves.
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And this is a shift in terms of Western civilization.
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That's why I'm interested, of course, because we're certainly seeing a reaction to uh Christian civilization and how uh over what 1,500 years uh Christian civilization was embedded in the Western world.
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And uh, you know, I wrote the book Epoch, The Rise and Fall of the West, and this is sort of the tip of the iceberg, uh a representation of what has happened in the Western world to return to the druid worship.
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You know, Patrick chased the the uh the serpents, the snakes out of Ireland, and there was hardly a druid left, uh I'd say about a hundred to a hundred and fifty years after uh Patrick's death.
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In other words, he was successful at at eliminating satanic uh sacrifices and all of the pagan exercises and the submission of entire nations and tribes uh to the rule of Satan.
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He was able to uh to overcome that by the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ, where we still celebrate St.
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Patrick's Day, so I think everybody understands this.
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Uh but now they're bringing the snakes back.
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And uh and uh this is pretty significant.
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I mean, it's a significant event.
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It's everybody knows what's happening, it's not under the covers, and uh it's uh it it it signifies something happening to the Western world.
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Can you describe that for for me?
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What's what's how do you look at it from your perspective?
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Well, you're absolutely right.
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The Burning Man, I think, is the tip of the spear of a movement to re-paganize the world.
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And if you listen to the founders, they're very overt about this.
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So you're absolutely right about St.
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Patrick.
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Actually, just got back from doing some speaking over in Ireland, and we got to see some of the sites where Patrick rolled up and uh set on fire the idols and showed up the pagan kings and made a mockery of their false deities, uh, Sloan Hill, just absolutely astounding story.
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And unfortunately, paganism is being revived in Ireland.
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We actually witnessed some of it with our own eyes.
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Some of these sites.
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And so what's happening with Burning Man is, I think, a deliberate effort to build what they see as a new culture.
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They're preparing for what they call the new age, this age of Aquarius, and they believe they are constructing the new culture, which is eventually going to supplant the old culture, the remnants of our Christian civilization.
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And they've and they've said this very explicitly.
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Uh, Larry Harvey, the key co-founder that I mentioned earlier, we've got him on video giving a talk at Burning Man where he says, we're building a new culture, we're building a new world, and right now it seems impossible that it would be able to take over from the old.
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He says, but when the right crisis hits, when there's enough pain, the impossible will become inevitable.
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And you know, that would be one thing if it was just some fringe lunatic hippie taking magic mushrooms in the desert.
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But what people don't understand about Burning Man, this is what really piqued my interest and caused me to want to go there.
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You have the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world attending this.
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Yes.
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And I mean that literally.
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Uh Elon Musk, the world's only trillionaire, regular attendee, boasts about his involvement.
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He shows up wearing costumes.
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He actually unveiled one of his key Tesla products there, Sam Altman, the guy who runs uh OpenAI, ChatGPT, regular burner, admits to taking psychedelics there, which he said had a profound influence on his work.
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He actually gave talks there on all of this.
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You have uh all of the senior leadership of Google.
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In fact, Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, admits that he got his job there because he was a burner.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brenn, both uh the co-founders of Google, huge, huge into Burning Man.
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In fact, the first ever Google Doodle was actually the Burning Man in 1998.
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That first little drawing they did, it was the Burning Man.
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That's right.
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You've got Ray Dalio, CEO of the world's biggest hedge fund.
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You've got celebrities, you've got the former uh Supreme Allied commander of NATO, General Wesley Clark.
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You've got members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, you've got mayors from across America showing up and openly saying, we're getting ideas on how to govern our cities here.
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You've got, I mean, the the list is just on and on.
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Mark Zuckerberg, the guy who runs Facebook, uh Will Smith, P.
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Diddy, Katy Perry, uh everyone you can think of from Silicon Valley.
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Elon Musk famously said that uh that uh Burning Man is Silicon Valley.
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And when you consider that Silicon Valley is basically taking over everything, I mean, through AI, through computer programs, they're taking over government, education, cultural media, everything, uh, you realize how significant this is.
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What's the connection here?
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It seems like a strange crossover from modern technology to a primitive barbarian paganism, you know, Elon Musk uh throwing sacrifices, you know, into the fire.
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I'm not sure he quite does that, but this seems odd that you have this modern technologist crossing over to this primitive barbarian pagan thing.
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How does that work in your mind?
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What's happening here?
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Well, I've had a hypothesis for a long time, and I've largely kept it to myself because I didn't have concrete evidence that I could share, but I've had a hypothesis that a lot of these incredible technological innovations that we're seeing, and I'm not anti-technology at all.
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I think technology can be used for the glory of God, but I think a lot of these technological innovations are the result of some of these people communicating with various entities.
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And for a long time that was just a hypothesis in the back of my mind.
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You know, I'm reading Genesis chapter six, I'm reading some of the apocryphal books, I'm thinking, you know, maybe there's something here.
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Uh, after going there and seeing these people openly talking about engaging with spiritual entities, getting ideas from spiritual entities about technology, uh, neopaganism is a huge thing within Burning Man.
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There's been uh academic papers written on the neopaganism of Silicon Valley elites.
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So what's happening is I think uh really a representation of what Alice Bailey described in her book Externalization of the Hierarchy.
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And so there's a biblical corollary to this that I'll get to in a moment.
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But in um externalization of the hierarchy, Alice Bailey, one of the leading occultists and new agers of the last century, she founded the Lucifer Publishing Company, major influence on the United Nations and a lot of the kind of ancient mystery schools around the world.
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Uh, she was channeling a spirit, well, multiple spirits, but she was channeling these demons, and they were apparently giving her these super secret revelations.
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And one of them, in externalization of the hierarchy, was that the world is governed by a spiritual hierarchy that throughout the age has been largely hidden from your average person.
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And this was known, she said, to the ancient mystery schools, to the secret societies, but not to your average joke.
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But she says, as we get closer to this new age, as we work on eliminating what she calls the great heresy of separateness, which uh, you know, be holy, for I am holy, thus saith the Lord, uh, you know, we gotta get rid of that, the whole biblical idea.
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Uh, then we're going to move into a period where these spiritual entities are going to become manifest.
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And she says this is going to happen through events and through groups of people that she refers to as ashrams, these very influential and wealthy people, like the kind of people who congregate at Burning Man.
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And she says that little by little, all of humanity is going to be inducted into this.
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So all the things that you used to have to like go through the secret societies and rise up through the ranks to get their little secret knowledge, all humanity is going to be inducted into this as we eliminate the last vestiges of Christianity.
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And I think uh they're actually on to something.
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I think she was channeling a demon.
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And so I think these ashrams that she was talking about are really in parallel, at least, with what we're seeing at Burning Man.
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And I'll give you an example.
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Uh Nicole Shanahan, very uh prominent Silicon Valley uh billionaire, she was actually the vice presidential candidate with Robert F.
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Kennedy Jr.
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before he joined uh Team Trump.
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And she became a Christian a few years ago.
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She had been in the inner circle of Burning Man for about 10 years.
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Uh she was actually staying at what they call first camp, which is where all the elites of Burning Man hang out, the leaders of the organization, the board members, the uh the founders, the diplomats, royalty, whatever.
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And uh after becoming a Christian, she decided to blow the whistle and she wrote a marvelous piece called Is Burning Man Demonic?
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And of course, she concluded that it is.
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She concluded that it may be one of the most powerful tools of Satan to deceive humanity and turn uh people away from God.
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But she also said something that was really interesting, that was one of the things that caused me to want to go there.
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She said, Nowhere has she ever seen a collection of spiritual, intellectual, financial, and political power like what she saw at the center of Burning Man.
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Yeah.
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So that tells you that what's happening here is in fact the elites basically, I think consciously in many cases, seeking to repaganize the world, seeking to overthrow the moral restraints, what they view as the oppressive moral restraints that Christian civilization brought, like the things that used to happen in ancient Rome and before that.
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And don't forget the uh the support that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, some of the you know, richest men in the world, has have lent to human sacrifice or child sacrifice in the form of abortion.
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I mean, they are the biggest.
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I mean, you want to identify the most powerful and the richest men in the world who have gotten behind the slaughtering of half the world's population since you know 1960, uh, it would be the Warren Buffett's and the Bill Gates of the world.
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So so certainly, you know, that that's but but now you know the child sacrifice of abortion was always under the covers.
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Now it seems that everything's coming out into the open.
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That seems to be the difference now.
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100%.
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Yeah, it's it's the externalization of the hierarchy.
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And you know, to your point about the Rockefellers, the Rockefellers have been intimately involved with this.
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Uh actually, one of the first board members of the Burning Man organization was the head of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Office in San Francisco.
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No way, really.
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Oh man.
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Absolutely.
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Wow.
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And uh, one of the regular burners is actually the director of the David Rockefeller Fund, the grandson of David Rockefeller, who, of course, is one of the biggest financial supporters of the population control movement, the abortion movement, the environmental movement, the globalist movement.
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And uh, he was actually listed as crew in a document that we got.
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His name is uh Christopher, um, Christopher Lindstrom Rockefeller.
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And so you have Rockefellers and these types of people involved at every level.
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And the same thing with the World Economic Forum.
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So you have all of these people who've been involved, for example, in the Good Club.
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That was uh Ted Turner, Phil Gates, uh Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, uh, a bunch of these uh uh billionaire elitists.
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Uh they created an organization specifically for the purpose of advancing population control.
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And I think once you see how these all meld together behind the scenes, it starts to make a lot more sense.
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Not just dealing here with political ideas that are different.
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We're dealing here with what the Apostle Paul describes in Ephesians chapter six, with the powers and principalities and the rulers of the darkness, spiritual wickedness in the heavenly places.
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Um and that's something that you see throughout the scriptures.
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You know, you read in Daniel chapter 10, you have this prince of Persia, this some sort of demonic ruling entity.
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Daniel prays, and God dispatches an angel, and somehow this prince of Persia, this demonic entity, is able to hold that angel back until Michael arrives and helps out here.
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Uh you see it again, uh, the the spiritual nature of this conflict.
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You see in uh 2 Kings, where Elisha and his servant are fleeing from the king of Syria who's trying to kill them, and Elisha prays that God would open the eyes of his servant.
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They look out the window and they see the heavenly host out there, the spiritual forces ready to do battle.
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So the spiritual realm is real.
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Uh, I think a lot of Christians don't even realize that, or they should, because the Bible teaches it clearly.
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Uh, and I think a lot of these elitists, they're, I think, very deceived.
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I think some of them think they're talking to aliens, some of them think they're talking to dead people, some of them think they're talking to ascended masters like Alice Bailey.
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But ultimately, they believe the very thing that the snake promised in the garden, that we're going to evolve into gods, that we're going to live forever through AI, through technology, through whatever.
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Uh, and they believe they're at the cutting edge of making this a reality and that we're very close.
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And and the big message that's being sent by the Burning Man uh uh deal is that uh you should be us gods determining good and evil and doing whatever you want to do.
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That seems to be the bottom line message that draws everybody together.
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You know, there's the libertarians, the anarchists, the socialists, and the communists, but the one thing that they can all agree on in the Burning Man Festival is that you can do whatever you want to do.
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And that seems to be the popular thing for that event.
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That that that's it.
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That's what draws everybody in, I think.
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It's what the devil said in the garden to Eve.
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It's everywhere.
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I mean, as we were going through Burning Man, I've got pictures from all over the, they call it the Black Rock City, uh, of the old line by Alistair Crowley.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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One of the top Satanist uh movement leaders of the last century actually called himself the wickedest man in the world, the B666 was openly channeling demonic entities that when he drew them looked suspiciously like the modern conception of aliens.
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Uh, of course, uh, the Jack Parsons from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, big-time Alistair Crowley disciple, was communicating with these entities to, by his own admission, to get ideas about rockets and rocket fuel.
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Uh so I think once Christians take off the secular materialist lens that has been imposed on us through government education, through fake media, through uh so-called entertainment, and start seeing the world through the lens of the Bible, what's happening actually all makes sense.
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And and this whole do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, that's really the animating spirit there.
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Uh you saw, I mean, things that were so blasphemous, you you can't even fully disclose it all because it's so shameful.
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But I'll give you an example.
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They had a camp there.
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The whole purpose of the camp was to play Christian worship music and traditional children's songs, including nursery rhymes, while they're doing perverted sexual activities on the scene and shouting out in the audience, Praise Jesus.
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Yeah.
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So that gives you a sense of the kind of stuff that's going on there.
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They think it's funny.
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And um, you know, it's very serious.
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Blasphemous, horrible, wicked kind of stuff.
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Do what you want to do.
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It's satanic, and you you know, the do what thou wilt is from the satanic Bible, if I'm not mistaken, is that correct?
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Uh that's uh Alistair Crowley came up with that phrase, but it's essentially a condensation of the satanic view of the world.
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Um and this is what they believe, and many of them at Burning Man will tell you this.
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Uh, they they accept elements of the biblical narrative as true, but they reverse the roles here.
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So Alice Bailey kind of uh crystallized this, and she got the idea from Helena Blavatsky, who of course got it from some of the people she was studying, who of course got it from the demons they were communicating with.
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But the idea is that Lucifer is the good guy.
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Satan is the good guy.
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Satan showed up to free us from this oppressive deity, Jehovah, Yahweh, who had us imprisoned in the garden and was depriving us of this uh wonderful tree of knowledge, the fruit of the good and evil.
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And um, and so they look at Lucifer as the light bringer, the liberator, and the one we know as God, Jehovah, Yahweh, Jesus Christ, as the oppressor who we need to fight against.
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And so uh Alice Bailey talked about as we increasingly bring all of humanity to this realization and move toward a one-world religion, uh, it's really just the Christians that are holding back this allegedly marvelous evolution into the new age, the age of Aquarius.
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Uh, and so that's what many of these people believe.
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They believe they're doing good.
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And again, I think your average Christian doesn't have a clue.
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Well, uh how we respond to it, I think, first is a Psalm II perspective, and that is that uh the kings of the earth set themselves against the Lord in his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us, but he that sits in the heavens shall laugh, and he shall break them with a rod of iron, he dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel, and they should kiss the Son, lest they perish from the way.
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And you know, Jesus is on the right hand of the Father, and this shaking the fist in the face of Jesus Christ far above all principals and powers today is fruitless.
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And so as Christians, what do we say?
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What are we doing?
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Well, I think as Christians, this should give us uh among other things, um, some cause for reflection in terms of how we use the technologies that are coming from the companies that are so deeply involved in.
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That's true.
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Uh it should give us a sense of urgency as well in terms of preaching the good news, in terms of making disciples.
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Uh it should give us a renewed sense of you know, we need to protect our children from this kind of wickedness.
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And we need to be serious about discipling them.
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We're not just going to hand them over to institutions that are animated by this kind of spirit.
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Um, and to be clear, there's a lot of that even at Burning Man.
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A few years ago, the chief technology officer of the World Economic Forum came to Burning Man and gave a speech on transforming education and burnifying academia.
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So they're trying to get into every element of society.
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Uh and as Christians, we know that uh Satan is a defeated foe.
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We know he's gonna end up in the lake of fire.
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Yeah, but in the meantime, Paul and Peter call on us to resist the devil, James calls on us to resist the devil, to uh stand firm against him and to put on the whole armor of God.
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And I think we really need to get back into the scriptures, recognize that what they say is true, and that Jesus needs to be the Lord of every area of our life, and that very much includes the entertainment choices that we make, the cultural choices that we make, the business decisions that we make, uh, to the largest extent possible across all areas of life, certainly the educational choices that we make for our children.
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And speak truth and to, you know, um have a right way of viewing entertainment, media, technology, and these things.
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Where do you think technology is going to take us?
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I know this is probably a 30-minute answer, but do the best you can to give us an answer here, Alex, for you know, where we gotta be watching out for this technology and what it's doing to us.
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These are extremely evil men, really, at the helm of technology today.
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And I would say extremely unwise men who do not fear God, which by the way is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.
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They obviously don't fear God.
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They will tell you they don't fear God, and yet they're at the head of all of these modern, powerful technological movements.
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How do we face this?
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Yeah, I think we need to really stop and consider what this means.
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I mean, the people who write the algorithms that govern what billions of people on this planet are watching right now are hanging out at Burning Man, engaging in these pagan, occult, uh, weird rituals.
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Wow.
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That should give us pause, right?
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Uh these companies are increasingly shaping every area of life, including government policy.
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Uh, if you look at what's happening with AI in the educational realm, you'll see that AI is now being used to shape what they call the effective domain of children.
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They're using it to change the worldview, the attitudes, the values, the beliefs, the presuppositions of children, and they're using it very effectively.
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Uh, so I think AI is a technology in one sense like any other.
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It could be used for good or it can be used for evil.
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But when you recognize that the people who are leading the companies that are producing the leading AI models, that they're involved in this kind of stuff, that they are absolutely hostile to the word of God and to God Himself, uh, we need to be very discerning in how we use it.
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I mean, can I feed a bunch of data on sales to an AI and ask it to come to some conclusions?
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Sure.
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You know, I'm probably not going to be uh deceived by the demonic realm if it's just crunching some data for me.
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Should I be asking AI or should my children be asking AI about the meaning of life or what happens after death or theological questions?
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Should pastors be using Chat GPT to write sermons?
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And I think the answer is clearly no.
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Right.
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Again, the people who are giving these technological systems the worldview, the ethical framework.
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And they talk about this openly.
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I mean, Sam Altman, the guy who leads uh uh OpenAI, ChatGPT, they asked him about the moral and ethical values that are instilled within the AI models that they're producing.
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He says, Oh, we have a committee of ethicists.
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Okay.
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And where do these ethicists come from in terms of theology, in terms of their spirituality, in terms of their worldview?
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And we know the answer to that, right?
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That's certainly not biblical.
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So we need to be very discerning in how we use these technologies, and we need to be especially discerning in how we allow our children to interact with them.
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And so much of the message is wrapped up in the mode.
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The message is wrapped up in the mode.
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There's such isolation in modern media and modern technology.
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So many problems with modern technology and how it's used.
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And uh and I would say social media is at the tip of the spear on this.
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And the church, especially, God's people especially need to be very, very careful in how they use these modern forms of technology.
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All right, my friends.
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Uh heads up from Alex Newman today.
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Be aware, be discerning, be rooted and grounded in God's truth.
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This is the message that we take away from this.
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And there is an enemy, and uh he is very active.
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We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but principles and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this age.
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So let's keep that in mind and be equipped.
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Put on the whole armor of God.
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And by the way, that's the theme for next week's uh men's conference here on the Eastern Plains of Colorado, Elizabeth, Colorado.
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We are wanting to equip the men of God to every good work by putting on the whole armor of God this next week.
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And uh, we are in spiritual battle.
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Be ready.
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Don't go run out there in your pajamas.
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Be prepared for war.
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Alex, thanks so much for joining us today on Generations.
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It's always good to catch up with you.
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Wow, it's great.
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Thank you very much for having me, Kevin.
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It's an honor and pleasure.
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And friends, please join us again next time as we continue to lay down a vision for the next generation.
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