We'll be studying Revelations chapter 7 verses 13 through 14 in our 52nd lesson of this book, and I've entitled it, Who Cares If You Die? Let's read the selection of verses. And one of the elders addressed me saying, who are these clothed in white robes and from where have they come? And I said to him, sir, you know. And he said to me, these are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed the robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. This is the only time an elder speaks. And this is the only time the elders speak at any, time throughout the book of Revelation. They are singing. They're singing in unified praise the new song of salvation, the new covenant salvation. We first see them in Revelations 4-4. When in the Greek, they don't use the definite article the first time that a subject is introduced because they want to emphasize the importance of it. And then they use the definite article every other time that reference is used, showing that it's referring back to that first introduction. And these that we've talked about when we studied that portion of the scripture are Jews, and Gentiles, and pre-Jews, and post-church, everyone who's saved through time, unified together because there's only one faith. There's only one salvation. There's only one spirit, one God, one church. Ephesians 4, only one. And the elder asked John, and us, The reader. Who are these people? Where'd they come from? And John doesn't know. Imagine this. John's in his vision. He walked with Christ. He's been meditating on Christ. He's been praying with Christ. He's been studying the scriptures as they've been produced by others. John, in humility, elder, last of the last, is standing here, figuratively speaking, in his vision, having to say, I don't have a clue. That should give us comfort. When you come to Revelation, you're not gonna have all the answers. In fact, when you come to God, you're not gonna have all the answers. When you come to truth, you're not going to have all the answers. That is why we mature in Christ. You're not expected to have the answers. You are expected, though, to search for the answers. You're expected to come to Christ wanting to be taught. And that is a degree of humility that is always lacking in humanity, because We were all conceived in sin. Sin is pride. Not personified, but it's certainly a major element of it. I will do it my way. Pride. I will not submit. I will do it my way. John says, I do not know. You know, because he understands what a rhetorical question is. Oftentimes when I teach I will ask you a question. Where do I get this from go to the Gospels? I Mean The secular world will say was it is the Socratic method because Plato you said he predate Christ They just copied because that's all Bible writers know how to do is steal from others. They don't come up with nothing new. They just steal all the time and But if you read the Gospels, whenever Christ is asked a question, what does he do? He asks a question. He redirects. He destroys your logical fallacy. He destroys your false dilemma approach. Or he's trying to get you to redirect your viewpoint. You doesn't need to know what you do or do not know. Now, when I teach, that's why I ask the question, because unlike Christ, I can't read your mind, and I'd rather not. So before I teach, I want to know what you know. I don't want to teach you what you don't know. Well, I do want to teach you what you don't know, but I don't want to skip what you don't know. But I won't want to teach you what you do know because it's boring. It's like I'm talking down to you. I don't want to be doing that. So that's why recording the lessons is more difficult than standing up and teaching others or talking to people. Because you ask them questions, but people get intimidated these days. I don't want to know. I don't want you to know what I don't know. I'm afraid. We live in terror all the time. We've been taught for 100 years to live in fear and terror, and we want to hide our ignorance rather than say, you know, I don't know. Why don't you show me? Show me your perspective. So John, in humility, says, well, you know, teach me. And he does. And he tells them these are the ones, the great tribulation saints who died remaining faithful to Christ despite the threat of the first death. Now, the first death is when the soul leaves the body. That's separation. You never are annihilated. Once God brings your soul into existence, it stays in existence. Body, not so much. And in and out fear are reverent Satan. They, like Abraham, look to a new Jerusalem, a world to come. There. They would find. Completion. We're not going to find it in this life. It's not here. It's not supposed to be here. We should be looking for that world to come. They preserve their souls to death, following Christ's example is we should like Stephen did. First Peter 2, 20 through 25 tells us that Christ gave us the example through his death, his torturous death, so that for the joy that was set before him, which was your salvation, in eternity future, we should walk in that example. We will walk in that example. Will you do without? Will you go through your little minor sufferings like Christ went through his major ones? Having his ribs cracked and his back flayed open and his body so swollen with the beatings and the thorns that he couldn't see. Blood loss. He was almost dead and in shock when he nailed him to the Staros. Then he had to be there for three hours. agonizing hours, struggling to breathe, just to prove he was worthy to go through the last three hours to purchase your salvation. And then he says, whosoever chooses daughter or daughter-in-law or mother or mother-in-law or father or father-in-law or son or son-in-law over me is not worthy. Because he chose us. And he went through that for us. When I say us, I mean all the saved. But as God, he didn't have to do any of that. And you can bet Satan ain't doing none of that. For you, or me, or even his buddies, the demons. In fact, that's what this lesson is about. Who are you dying for? Should this inspire us? Does Christ care? Have you asked yourself that? Elijah did. Oh yeah, he did. As have others throughout scripture, if you're honest, as you have also. What do the lost die for? What would you die for? Because remember, here is 927. It is appointed unto man once to die. And then the judgment. And we all will stand for accountability. The saved will stand at the Bema seat. The lost will stand at the white throne. Alone. You do not get through this life without accountability. You think you said the prayer and bought fire insurance, and now you can do what you do, because everything's forgiven. It's all under the blood. I can do anything I want to now, because Christ's got to forgive me. He said he would. I got it right here and right, and you got to do it. And then you get to the crying room, and he says, I don't think he understood that verse very correctly. Let me show you what it really means. You don't lose your salvation, but look at everything else you lost because you didn't grow. You didn't become humble. You didn't learn. You didn't want to learn. You just wanted to do. And that's because we get caught up in the other faith. Now, there are only two faiths in the world. Only. There is the faith of Christ. I remember when the Father borrowed or created matter out of nothing, ex nihilo, he turned it over to Christ and said, OK, you follow the plan. And Christ is the author of heaven and earth and all who dwell within it. Colossians 1, 15 through 20. Christ is 100% God. When he was begotten from the father, he was always with the father in the path. Now he came out from the father to be the interface between the father, who is spirit, And the material, us. He is the creator of all. So when Satan rebelled, he rebelled against the Father directly. He ain't an idiot. Stupid, but he's not an idiot. He rebelled against the Son. Because he didn't like the Son's plan of this creating people. They're going to be lower than him. And then eventually they're going to be kind of co-equal-ish with Christ and he's going to have to work for them. He says, I don't like that. I'm not doing that. You created us. We are top dogs in this creation. Why are you going to create them? And what do I got to work for them? Because Hebrews 1.14, that's what angels do. They are ministering spirits. sent to those who are to receive salvation. So he rebelled. So the only other faith there is, is the Antichrist faith. And who's the author that drives that point home time and time again? John, and first and second John. There is either the faith of Christ, or there is the faith that is against Christ. always throughout all history. Now there are many thousands of flavors of Antichrist faith, almost as much as there are the Baptist faith, and there's lots of them too. But Christendom, anything that's works-based, is all hermetic faith. It's all lost faith. And we use that term to encompass all the Antichrist faiths. I do. The world uses it a little more specifically to cover the paganism, Gnosticism, and certain philosophical Mythologies that the Greeks incorporated from the Egyptians through Pythagoras and then became modern philosophy and then has come down through today. And that's important because that's exactly the process that followed. And we're going to see that here in a minute because you live it today and you embrace it today and you think you're finding truth through it today and you've been conned. a lot. So it's this hermeticism, this anti-Christ faith we've seen throughout history. It played out in the fulfillment of Satan's promise to be his gods, Genesis 3-5. Now Adam didn't, he wasn't conned at that time. He was conned, but not with that promise to be his gods. He had a plan. God told, Christ told him he was gonna Subdue the world and Christ put him in the garden to practice and it was moving a little slow for him, I guess and it's just two of them and you can't subdue if there's only two and she's kind of co-equal. It's not working here. So I got to make it work because Christ has given me knowledge but he's giving it to me at his speed. I can do it faster. I can take the speed at my speed, and then I can set the goals. Then I can do this. Then I can develop the world and show him what a great job I'm doing. That sound like teenagers. Does that sound like Satan? Does that sound like doing it your way? I don't have to slave for others, as Satan was saying. I can do it for myself. And then all those people can work for me. This is to be as God's. To be as God's was a con. It's a confidence game. It's to get you to strive for a goal you want, but you're literally striving for a goal I want. And I'm not giving you the goal you want. That's the carrot. The stick is the reality of it. Gnosticism is the carrot. It guides you. It guides the hermetic process. The being is God's. And it makes Jesus being the Demiurge, the deformed, demented God who acted independently of the Father, who did all this and created suffering and pain and made it terrible. Now mankind has to go back and fix it. by finding all the different pieces of the Father scattered throughout nature, and reassembling them together in himself, so that he becomes, she becomes as gods. And once they do, and they're unified together in one social society, one socialism, they realize the true absoluteness of God in them, and guess what? Now the Father recognizes his own godship in them, and he's made complete. And in a nutshell, welcome to socialism. Welcome to Nazism. But that is still a con game. We see the historical process played out in Daniel chapters two and seven. Literally you see it played out throughout the entire Old Testament. It's always a process. Satan is the father of the scientific hermetic method. Try these characteristics in this group of people, and we'll do some others in this group, and some others in this group, and we'll grow and let them develop, and then we'll bring them together and see who's stronger, who's better, who defeats who, and then we'll do that process again, and we'll do it again, and we'll do it again, and we'll do it over here, and we'll do it over, and when God interferes and scatters the continents, well, we'll let the people scatter, and then we'll do a true control. control over here, control over here, change here, change there, and we'll bring it together. And then eventually we're going to get the strongest of the strongest of the strong. It's a lot like evolution through history. You thought evolution was a modern scientific philosophical approach. It's very ancient. In fact, What you call science is nothing more than natural philosophy. The term science, actually coined by an American in the 1840s, is literally a modern term because natural philosophy failed. The whole point of natural philosophy, out of the Age of Reason, Enlightenment, Renaissance, Reformation period, was to discover truth through the study of the material, the empirical. If we study the empirical, it will lead us to non-empirical truth. Except man only has five senses that are empirical and can't really study the non-empirical and it failed. Beginning of the 19th century in the study of heat, it failed. So they said, okay, we're not gonna do that anymore. We're going to split the non-empirical people who can wander off and call themselves philosophers, while the empirical people, the technical people, we're going to work with what we can see and feel and touch and measure. And they gave them the word science and scientists. And we worship them today as arbiters of truth, when the scientific method, by definition, cannot give you truth. And these are not arbiters of truth. They're barely arbiters of fact. They have to put the fact into a context. And they put it, by and large, into an evolutionary context, which is Hermetic Antichrist context. Did they do wonderful things? Interesting things, but along with that lack of understanding and a high degree of ignorance came a lot of destructive things, came along a lot of side effects, negative consequences. Yes, we have atomic power. Yes, we have atomic radiation because we don't know what it is we're really doing and we got negative consequences of that. Not that atomic power is wrong, it's just we misuse it a lot. But science is nothing more than empirical hermeticism, the facts. Scientism, though, that, that is what you follow. That is what the world basically calls science, is scientism. See, science It was going to be empirical science has to be guided by the facts. You do the measurements. They either support your hypothesis or they don't. But that's not how it works. It's scientism. Evolution is scientism. It's goal-driven. It's belief-driven. Just like the Hermeticism is guided by the Gnosticism, Scientism guides the science to the proper goals, to the proper Hermetic goals, to be as gods. It's not about truth. It's never about truth. You want truth? Go to the Bible. You do your hermetic science, empirical science, you get your facts, you go to the Bible. They are not in opposition to each other. So Gnosticism guides the lie to find truth in nature to realize the inner God. That is what it does. It is the lie. It is the lie of 2 Thessalonians 2, verses 3-12. What is the hermetic dialectical trinity? See, dialectic is the process by which Hermeticism works. There's the thesis, the antithesis, the sensethis. What is the thesis? It's the idea. Well, in science, we would call that the hypothesis. Hypothesis is based on your assumptions, what you perceive to be true without ever having to actually prove it to be true. That's faith, just so you know. You begin with faith in empirical science. So you begin with the thesis, the hypothesis. You begin with the thesis that all men are created equal, like Locke did, and proved it, you accept it as fact. That's your thesis. You have your antithesis. Well, obviously not all people are created equal. Now, we can debate that, and they've been debating that throughout man's history. All people are not created equal. And we're still arguing about that. All people have inalienable rights. That's your thesis. Okay, what's a right? That's the antithesis. If they're inalienable, we can't change them. But we're changing them constantly. That's your antithesis. And so what you're doing with your thesis is you're setting up that which you do not want to follow. And you're attacking it with its antithesis, its opposite, so that you can develop through synthesis a new thesis, a new goal. This is the dialectic process of Hermeticism. Now, Kant is the one who put it in those three labels, the thesis, the antithesis, the synthesis. Hegel took Kant, who was speaking in an empirical philosophical sense, more of an abstract sense, Hegel turned it into a religion, borrowing from Rousseau. He was inspired by Rousseau's leftism. He was inspired by Rousseau's being the father of the French Revolution, the first rudimentary socialism, socialistic revolt. and he developed a religion out of it, of what he called absolute knowledge. This is how we, I'm not here to find knowledge, that's what philosophers do. I'm not here to love knowledge, I'm here to tell you what knowledge is. They use different terms, but we're going to use Kant's terms because that's what we use today. And so you have this idea, you have this thesis, You have this, what you would believe to be an absolute, a government that everyone's free. Then the intent is, because I don't like that, is to criticize it, to find its flaws, to poke at it. And so we see the critical theory is nothing more than a modern form of Hegel's dialectic trinity. And because I said he did it as a religion, the thesis is the father, the antithesis is the son, and the Holy Spirit aspect of it, They would say is the synthesis, but I altered that a bit. It really is the implementation of the antithesis so that you arrive at that synthesis to change and make a new thesis. But you must always go through this process, because the moment you create a thesis, you start attacking it again, because it's incrementalism. You're doing it bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit, bringing people along. And this, in an empirical form, is a scientific methodology. You have been conned into accepting the hermetic dialectic process Because you get to drive cars. You get to have a full belly. You get to have heat and cold whenever you want it. You get to have almost instant communications wherever, whenever you want it. You get to fly. You get to go on ships. You get all these wonderful things. But you don't get truth. Now, they're not all bad. Good things have come from them. But much evil has been generated from that process also. And what good we have has been made to serve the scientism, not the science. Because scientism is nothing more than goal-driven hermeticism. We say that all men are created equal, thesis. Then they're, well, people aren't equal. That's the antithesis. So we're gonna argue this out and we're gonna have our examples with our class consciousness and our identity politics and LBGTQ, A plus whatever, and all of the white and black and racism. And see, they're not equal. So we're gonna have, implementation, and we're going to have a census, and we're going to arrive at a new thesis. But once you do that, you're only advancing it a step at a time, because people are not going to jump from point A to point 20. They're going to go from B and C, and you bring them along gradually, incrementally. And they don't think they're changing. They think they're modernizing, but they're not. It's not modern at all. It's very ancient. and they're coming back to where you want them to be, where you had them before Noah's cataclysm, where you got them back to Babel or Babel. You're working them back there, back to that end point, to be as gods, except they're never going to be as gods. That's the con. That's not the truth. They're not looking for truth. You don't want them to find truth. When you find truth, you have to go to the scripture. That's salvation. You want them to find the lie, to live in the delusion, embrace the myths. So natural philosophy failed. And they knew it failed, so it split off. Philosophy never died. It never became so abstract as to be worthless. It guides. the scientism through the hermetic dialectic process. You probably never heard of before directly, but you embraced it and had it ingrained in you ever since second, third, fourth grade, we started learning about science. Dialectic evolutionary science. we try and try and try. Oh look, the fish became frog, and the frog became the lizard, and the lizard became dinosaur. Oh, they died, and suddenly horses and whatever appeared, and monkeys became people. And we keep trying, and we keep going, and we keep going incrementally. It's the one false faith. It always has been. It always will be. It will not go away until this physical creation ends. In fact, that is the end point of revelation. All mankind again rises up in its hermetic dialectic Gnostic faith to attack Christ directly. Yep, it is that foolish. Gnosticism guides the lie to find the truth in nature to realize the inner God. That's the lie. There is no inner God. There never was. There are no God shards scattered throughout nature. That's Platonism, Neo-Platonism. There's the absolute perfect form in the abstract, in the non-empirical, such as the table. We can only make an imperfect version of the table. versions. One to eat on, one to hold stuff, one to do this, one to do that, but we can't find the perfect form. You can find the perfect form of truth. No, you can't. There's your version of truth, but it's not the perfect form of truth. I have my version of truth. Now we have to Criticize each other's version of truth to try to find a version of truth that we can agree. Then we go to the next and you see that dialectic process. You call it postmodernism because you were conned. You keep chasing the labels. Keep nibbling on the bits. But you don't attack the elephant itself. You don't see the entire dialectic, hermetic, gnostic elephant. You see the little bit you're chewing on. And you chew on that bit. And while you're chewing on that bit, they're changing. They're down the road. They have negated you. And you say, see, I proved you false. So what? We're 10 miles down the road now. Nobody cares about that. You got conned. Everybody is being conned in this. And so what Hegel was doing, and from Hegel came Marx, who put it in economic material terms, because he thought Hegel was a little too religious. But when you read Marx, you find that Marx is also religious. It's not a materialistic economic socialism. But the problem with philosophers are, while they think they're discovering the real truth, they're being conned. They also are being conned. You need them. Satan needs them. He needs these deep thinkers. Now, I don't want to denigrate them because they should be thinking. Isaiah 118, God said, come, let us reason together. You bring your facts to the scripture. We come and we reason, we come and we think, and we ask God. And like John, we sit there and wait till we can be taught, like Habakkuk. I will sit here and wait while God teaches me, corrects me. Then I will know. Then I will write it down so that others may know. back to three and four but it's chasing the lie is the con that's what satan wants you to do chase the lie and the lie always ends with him and he keeps it going and he keeps it going and he keeps it going see the hermetic dialectic is really socialism as we would call it today you had it in the ancient world You may have called it empires. You may have called it the monarchy system. Centralized control always is socialism. Rudimentary, but it's always centralized control. And it brings together the elements of military or state and religion. And economics, because you've got to have those elements. Now, Marx talked about economics, but he didn't understand about the other elements. So his own viewpoint really didn't go very well. So it had to be reinterpreted by Gramsci in the Frankfurt School and bring it back into more of a Hegelian framework that we have today. Only, it's a con. Because under socialism, you're seeing the state. It's always about the state. Whether it's the national state or the international state, it's always about the state. Today, Christians are rebelling against the one world government, it's coming, the new world order, run, chew on that. But it's not about the state. You know how a magician works? Watch the hand. Watch what I'm doing. Don't watch the other hand. Don't watch what I'm not doing. Watch what I'm actually doing behind your back. Behind my back. Because that's where the magic is at. That's where the illusion is at. Watch the hand. Watch the state. Watch that person. Watch that false thought. Watch the obvious. Chew on that. And you miss the delusion that's occurring all around you. It's always shifting the goal. It's constantly changing. This is works. It's works-based. It's always about the works. Always. It's never about the goal. You can never reach the goal. That's what Christ was telling them. You never reach the goal. The Sabbath, what was the goal? To meditate on God. But it was a workspace. They never got to the meditating on God. They worried about keeping the rules. And the rules kept changing. Had to be reinterpreted. Does that sound like government today? We need more laws, we need more rules, we need more bureaucracy. So I can have a job, I can have security, but you will get less security. And it turns everyone into a felon. Because you're breaking laws and rules every day, because you don't even know about them, there are so many. This is how socialism works. Socialism is about control. If you're following along in the slides, and I hope you are, you'll see on this one slide there are eight forms of control. It's all about control to keep you focused on what I want you to watch on. on what they want you to watch on, what Satan wants you to focus on. So you do not focus on truth. And there's only one truth. You are a sinner. You need Christ. You need to be born from above. So socialism's goal is to, the thesis, economics. That's what Marx concentrated on, because this is material. We can understand economics. Some of us, that might be the money in your wallet, or the card in your wallet today, or what you got, what you own, what you have control of, what you want. But it's controlled. Economics is a function of the state. In fact, through economics, it's financial control of the state. And the state is the one that makes the rules. But state doesn't produce anything. So economics can't go anywhere if you're not producing anything. So you need corporations. You can say business or corporations. You need those people, that group, those whatever, that can take stuff inside the rules and make stuff. Cause you need to make stuff. Cause there is another goal. There is another agenda that's at work here. You need stuff. We needed advancements in energy production. We needed advancements in chemistry. We needed advancements and understanding of energies and electromagnetic forces. We need, these advances to advance the proliferation of information, our information, socialist information, democratic information, which is just another socialistic term so you know. We needed that and we needed transportation so we can bring people together, send them Transmit these goods out. Bring them in. Make more food, because we need more workers. We need more training. We need more education. So we have better workers. Elohim up to the technos. Then we get too many. We need wars. We need to find out who's better. So we need to pare them down. We need to try out our inventions. And I'm speaking more from Satan's viewpoint. than I am for man's. Because we need to proliferate this control in such a way that the people will buy into it. Can't just be forced. I was tried. It doesn't work well. You need them to want to. You got to bring them in. You have to con them. You have to get them to buy into the myths. And they do so today. And so you're working with the corporations. So the economics is the thesis. The state is the antithesis. Don't they pit one against the other? But it's the economics that control the state. And the state thinks it controls the corporations, but the corporations actually feed back into the economics. because just as you need energy in the material realm to do work, which is the very definition of energy, since we can't define what energy is, we can only define what it does, we define it as the ability to do work that we want it to do. We ignore the side effects that we can't control because we ignore it. To move this process along, you need finances. Now, economics is not finances. It's a control of finances. The state needs finances, but it doesn't function well. Corporations need finances. They can't make stuff. And the government doesn't produce anything, it only uses. So you need corporations that produce stuff, so you get more finances coming in. But off to the side down here, you have financiers. Now, whatever label you want to put on, you have the financiers. You have the Bank of International Settlements. You have the Central Bank. You have the World Bank. You have the International Monetary Fund. You have the World Economic Forum. These are all outward organizations of various layers. At the core, you still have the financiers, the ones who are financing this, the ones who are establishing control through the BIS over the central banks, which control the states, which controls the corporations. But now the corporations are moving outside the realm of strictly state control through the United Nations, through the Codex Alimentarius, and these other agreements They too are becoming outside the realm of the national state. They are coming under the international state. And they too are under the control of this group. And this group isn't of themselves being fooled, because behind them, unbeknownst to them, is Satan. See, Satan doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about us. He doesn't care about people, except as they fulfill his need to avoid judgment. I can guarantee you that is the one sole goal on his brain at every moment is to avoid the judgment. Control the masses via the delusion by hiding the truth. what we're talking about in Second Thessalonians. This is fascism. The very thing that you're taught to hate since World War II, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, is the very thing that makes the entire con work. That's how a con works. They get you to hate and reject that, which they're actually doing. January 6th insurrection wasn't an insurrection. It was a demonstration. But they were telling you that they are planning your insurrection. They call it the Great Reset. It's a con. You react to the con. And when you're chewing on that a while, they're down the road. doing what they already told you they were going to do. Socialism, the failures reveal the errors, so you cycle through again and again and again and again and again. You're constantly changing, but you're never arriving at the truth. Fascism always benefits the elites. You are expected to do more with less. You're expected to give up liberty to, at some point down the future, gain liberty. Except you never gain the liberty because you gave it up. Or you never had it to begin with. You've always been a slave. You're either a slave to sin, Romans 6, or you're a slave to Christ. You're never free because There is never a point where you are under influence that is independent of either sin or God. Because God created you. You cannot be independent of God. You would have to be God's. And there's only room for one infinite God, because by definition, infinite. If you lived in a multiverse, another kind. We had multiple universes with multiple philosophies and multiple gods and all of this. You would still have to then have one that had an infinite God. And if he's infinite, then he's over all the metaverses. And you still are back to one. They don't tell you that. They leave that part out to keep you fooled. That's the con. You hide the truth. You give them the lie. You give them to believe the delusion. You let them chase. You let them work. And those that don't work, you don't eat. Those are the useless eaters. You weed them out. And so they hold out this promise of utopia. You think of it as a paradise, which is a Persian loan word meaning garden. Utopia is a Greek word. It means no place. Because that's where they're taking you. No place. They're telling you to your face where they're taking you. And you are embracing it and going there. And you're going no place. Because that's where the Khan always takes you. No place. They say, you need to give up energy. You need to give up your fossil fuels, which petroleum products are not made from fossils. And there's been no research to ever prove that. And it is a renewable resource, I believe. But they, you consume more and more and more while demanding you do less and less and less. That's the con. They are preparing themselves to use technology to be post-human, to put their consciousness into bodies that never die. So they never die. They never have to face the judgment. It is a con even on them because this entire creation will pass away. It will not exist. And then what? Then the judgment. Satan has conned everybody. Everybody is as much a victim as the next person. And so we come down to this. They do it. They're able to do this because they steal from the Bible. Don't kill. Well, where'd they get that from? Bible. The words, the 10 words, the 10 commandments, six through 10, don't kill, don't steal, except when I do it. You get them to say, why is it wrong to kill? Because it hurts others. But why is it wrong? Because we agree, that's democracy. That's rule of the majority. But how about if this majority over here says it's all right? Well, they're wrong. How are they wrong? They cannot defend it, except out of the Bible. And then they get mad and rush and kill you. Like the Pharisees did with Stephen in Acts chapter seven, when he recounted their own history, showing their errors. And they couldn't refute it, so they killed him. When somebody can't refute your logic out of the scripture, they attack you directly. that shows the weakness of the kind. They cannot stand truth, and so they must eliminate it. When they couldn't argue with Christ, they killed him, which was the plan, so that he who knew no sin could be sin for you and me and take our place. Their source is revealed by their works, the works of the flesh. What do they always produce? Lies, hate, anger, immorality, degradation, violence, more lies, disobedient to parents. Their deception lie projects their methods onto faithful believers. They try to make it appear that you are doing this by standing on the scripture. You are the liar. You are the delusional one. You are the trickster. You are trying to keep people from their destiny by making them slaves to a demiurge, demented Jesus who disobeyed the Father to begin with. And mankind is working with the Father, trying to bring us back together, so that the Father will realize his true Godhood through us. That is the whole point of evolution, to grow and evolve into balls of light floating around the universe, steeped in infinite knowledge and wisdom, whatever, and stuff, it's a con. They use the DARVO, deny, attack, and reverse the roles of victim and offender. They make themselves the victims, though they are in fact the offensive ones. Satan was always on the attack. But if you go and you look at Adam, his words in Genesis 3, 9 through 14, Whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you attacking me for? You gave me the woman. It was your fault. If you hadn't given me that woman, I wouldn't have fallen. But she fell, and she tricked me, and I fell. See, I'm the victim here. Or Cain, in Cain in Genesis 4, 10 through 14. Well, why is it my fault? You picked Abel. Now everyone wants to kill me. I'm the victim. I was just defending myself. I was the offensive one, but now you've made me the victim. And then he developed the first government, the first urban society. He set mankind on the path. Elijah, 1 Kings 19, 9 through 13. Lord, I'm the only one here. I'm the only faithful one. I didn't want to kill me. I'm the victim. No, there's 7,000 I haven't revealed to you because you don't need to know them. You're not the only one. You're not the victim. And why are you whining anyway? It's not about the miracles. It wasn't about slaying the 450 prophets of Baal. It was about listening. to the still small voice of truth and doing it. It's always about the truth. The Jews in Ezekiel 9. God doesn't care. God's not watching. God's not helping us. We have to become like these other nations around us because we got to do it on our own. And you see in Ezekiel where they adopted and embraced the hermetic, pre-gnostic philosophy, religion, mythology into the temple. Actually worshiping it inside the temple precincts. Claiming themselves to be victims. And of course, Stephen was the victim. They made him the oppressor. He's oppressing us with his knowledge. We're the victims here. He was the truth sayer. That is the point. When you walk in this world and you're saved, you are to be the truth-sayer. Whether you live it or speak it, or should be doing both, the very fact that you believe and exist shows the con, shows the lie. And they hate you for it, for the very fact that you breathe. I don't want that position. Well, welcome to salvation. That's not what I signed up for. Nope, you didn't sign up for nothing. You were elected to this. Christ chose you with the Father from eternity past before creation, and you are made for this. Thus, in the strength of Christ, yes, you can. Yes, you can. You stand in the truth. Because if you do not stand in the truth, then you must stand in against the truth. Because there is no third position. It's the law of excluded middle. The hermetic, gnostic, dialectic process promises salvation if you take another bite of knowing. All you have to do is keep working. You will eventually reach that bit, that extra knowledge you need to be gods. No, you won't. You never get there. It's the care. And the stick, that's the socialism to beat you into it. The person dies. You live the lie. What is the lie? You die to your thesis. Why is it that we see rich white people, men and women, standing up decrying white privilege today? White rich privilege today. How can they do that? I mean, come on. Patently on the surface, it is so obvious, because what it is, they have died to their thesis. They have now become their antithesis. They said, we realize the error of our ways. We give up our white richness-ish. And we embrace, we're now reborn as the oppressed class. Conceptually. We understand your oppression. We are in with your oppression. So we can stand up here. Yes, we're still rich. Yes, we're still white. But we can stand up here now as part of the identifying with the oppressed class. While we replace the oppressed class. Because is that not one of the things of feminine? We're repressed. And so men have died to maleness, their oppressive aspects, patriarchy, and they're being reborn as trans. Inwardly-ish, outwardly, kinda. And now they have joined the oppressed female class in sports and whatever, and they're reborn. But what have they done? It's the con. Now they mutilated themselves so they can't reproduce anymore. But the women are being replaced by men. Resubjugated. It is the con. It is always about the con. And the con judges you by how you advance the con, the process. Failures just show you need more work. It doesn't matter how many died. It doesn't matter that Stalin killed off 20 million people and Mayo X number of million. It just shows you need more time. You got to keep doing the process. And these all died without the promise. But not like the Jews in the Old Testament who died without the new covenant. They will come, the faithful will come into the new covenant. They're not left behind. You are not left behind. As Paul said, when you die now, you go to be with Christ. You are not behind. Satan uses sinners to avert his end. But each stands alone before Christ at the great white throne. But Christ set the example for us by dying first. He didn't say you guys go die and eventually, Eventually, we'll have a judgment and I'll decide. I'll decide if your death was sincere enough. There's a lot of face like that, but that's not ours. Christ died first. He died to save us. God died for his people. They demands the law sacrifice themselves for unreachable goal, utopia, no place, because you never go any place. In this world, you will go someplace. They won't be that paradise. Christ, creator Christ, humbled himself, taking on flesh to die for man, not angels. Hebrews chapter one. Christ preceded us in death to conquer death for us. This is the purpose of creation. First Corinthians 15, 12 through 58. Let's read the whole chapter. This is the point of this current creation. Thus the Lamb identifies with believers at the throne. Jesus, 100% man, died for you. And we are clothed in his righteousness. And that is what we see. These who come out of the great tribulation, who did not love their lives greater than Christ, but love Christ in the truth greater than their lives. And they are given his righteousness, not because they died, but because they believed and stayed consistent with their belief. They did not compromise. Now, I imagine they were happy. You flick paint on people, they're gonna hurt, they're gonna cry, they're gonna be afraid. But they're not going to recant. Because truth is always truth. If your faith is your truth, where else can you go? Like Peter said, where else can we go? Only you have the words of life. We can't go any place else. Yes, 500 disciples just walked out the door. I can't follow them because I can't go back to that place. I've been there. There's no life there. Now I'm going to stumble and fall here. But I got no places to go. I have to be here. Because it's life. And this applies to all who fall asleep in Christ. We fall asleep. Because the moment the soul leaves the body, body hits the ground. It's called falling asleep. And it's going to be with Christ. He's demonstrated his love. throughout the scripture, toward all who are saved, Jews and Gentiles. And this is why the elder speaks, because they're unified together. Christ is with them. Jesus, 100% man, is with them. They do not go alone, ever. And so as we come in our studies of revelation, we must always have this future viewpoint that it's here, not just to talk about what was, what knowledge we've gained, but to strengthen us and show us and prepare us for tomorrow. Because whether we're called upon to be martyrs, and the modern sense of the term, or not. We're always called upon to be faithful. And if it's truth, how can you not be faithful? If you claim this is the truth, how can you then leave it? Because to leave it means to walk into untruth. Because there is no third position. There is no third choice. These people, in the face of death, said, we cannot go anyplace else because only Jesus, Christ, has the words of life. Can you say the same thing when you stand before family, friends? When you are being persecuted for doing right, will you be able to make that statement. In Christ you can. Thank you.