It's Midnight in America: Confront Fear and Embrace Courage as the Final Hour Approaches

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Radio. Well, good afternoon,
Great to have you with us. This

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is Bill Martinez said It's midnight in
America, confronting fear and embracing current.

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As the final hour approaches, many
are you thinking that? Are these are

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the last of the last days?
Billy Graham, even before he passed,

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was asked directly, you know,
doctor Graham, are the last days?

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And he said, I dare say
they are the last of the last days.

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Well, the world is not falling
apart. According to Phil Hudson Pillar

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our guest who will be with us
in just a moment, it is falling

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into place. After reading this soon
to be released book, you will know

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how to place your trust in God
to overcome your fears of what is going

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on in this crazy world. Right
now, you'll no longer look to the

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future with fear, but with a
promise that God has given you as His

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child. In his new book coming
out Midnight in America, Phil the senior

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pastor of Influenced Church in Anaheim Mills, California, and the president founder of

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American Faith, fearlessly uncovers the alarming
slumber within the church, drawing parallels to

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the biblical narrative. To Sampson,
has America lost its power? Just like

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Samson? It's a question that you
may ask Phil Hodson Pillar. Good to

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have you with us. How are
you hey, I'm great, Bill,

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Thank you so much for having me
on the show, and I look forward

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to an engaging conversation about what's happening
in America and even around the world as

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relates to Biblical prophecy. Well,
this has been a long time coming,

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Phill As you know that this is
an appointed time that you and I have

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been eagerly pursuing, and I'm looking
forward to what it is that you have

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to share what God has revealed to
you. Because after everything is all said

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and done, I'm convinced that our
viewers are going to be quite comforted.

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Well, yeah, And I think
the one thing that we have to remember

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if you call yourself a Christian,
if you've truly been born into the Kingdom

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of God, the Bible should be
comforting to you, not frightening to you.

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And so many people when they hear
about end time things, they say,

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oh, I don't want to know
about that, or I'm afraid.

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But remember God reveals things to his
children in order for them to navigate the

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future and put their faith in their
hope in Jesus Christ. Well, and

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that is the basic nature of prophecy. I mean, what other godfil tells

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you in advance what's going to happen. But we know from scripture, we

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actually know experientially as well. Is
Almighty God is the one who knows the

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beginning from the end, does he
not? Indeed? And I think the

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times we're living in they are unique. A lot of people say, well,

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aren't these times like other times?
They are in one sense of the

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word, but another sense they're not. And let me just touch on the

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not. Really. Things began to
change in nineteen forty eight, with Israel

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becoming a nation the prophetic clock began
to tick, and we began to see

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things fulfilled in prophecy that had been
said spoken of, you know, twenty

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five hundred years ago. For example, God calling his people out of the

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North, out of Russia. We
saw in nineteen seventy two, we saw

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this migration of Russia pushing Jews out. They came to the homeland. We

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saw the Law of Return established in
Israel in nineteen fifty that gave the right

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for everyone with Jewish blood to have
citizenship. And following that became Operations Solomon

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and Moses, where they did the
airlift out of Ethiopia because there are Ethiopian

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Jewish people there that were coming back
in. And so time and time again

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we're seeing things happen in our day
that makes it quite different. But the

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big alarming thing Bill that a lot
of people are noticing is what is going

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on with digital currency? What is
going on with the mark of the Beast?

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Are we in that era? Where
are we in this biblical timeline?

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And I know you and I've had
some lively discussions about that as well.

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Well. I've maintained, like you, Phil, as soon as Israel became

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a nation again, it was as
if the hour hand of God's prophetic clock

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was set. And what we've been
experiencing since time are minutes and seconds just

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passing by, and all these things
are lining up. I mean, when

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we were growing up, how many
conversations did we have about a one world

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government? And we read about it
in the Bible, but we didn't see

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anything that was quite evident today with
the World Economic Council, with you know,

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Klaus Schwab, what he's doing,
the power brokers around the world,

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pandemics, rumors of war, all
these things are starting to align. And

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where have we read that before?
Huh, well, you're right. In

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Matthew twenty four. You know one
of the things when the disciples asked Jesus,

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you know what is going to be
the sign of your return and the

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end of the age, And they
use a term their age, not the

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end of everything, but really the
period of time. And he said,

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well, you're going to hear of
wars and rumors of wars. And then

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he said something very interesting. He
said, national rise against nation, kingdom

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against kingdom. Now what makes that
part of it very interesting is the first

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time that happened in human history was
World War One fourteen and nineteen seventeen.

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Everything else was tribal before then,
it wasn't worldwide, it wasn't nation and

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kingdom. So we see in my
Bible, I just put a little note

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in ink and I say, all
right down, you know, nineteen fourteen,

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nineteen seventeen, we begin to see
things unfold now when we see the

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pestilence and these things happen. We've
always had pestilence, we know. For

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example, the Black plague came through
Europe in thirteen eighty three, devastated one

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third of all of Europe, wiped
them out completely. So we've had great,

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great tragedies in the past, but
we didn't have them engineered by man.

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And I think most people who got
at least a little bit of sense

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said, you know, there's something
suspicious about that whole COVID thing. Why

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did they get a patent on the
vaccine in twenty sixteen and then it was

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released on us in twenty twenty.
How are they now as of today predicting

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that the next round is coming in
September? Well, how do they know

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it's coming? I mean? Is
going on here? And it looks like

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some things have been engineered in labs
and for whatever reason. Maybe it's global

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domination. Certainly, the Bible talks
about a one world government, as you've

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mentioned earlier. Well, phil as
you say, nation rising against nation,

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how does that happen if America is
still strong? See, I think this

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is key. You know, we
look to Israel because Israel is the apple

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of God's eye, his love for
Israel, his name rests in Jerusalem.

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And but there's some tie in that
I have to consider, and I just

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have to keep that in mind in
terms of America. Not that America is

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most important. I don't think we're
most important, but I think we're part

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of the indicator of how we're moving
down the prophetic line down to that final

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chapter of the Book of Revelations.
Am I overstating that? No, I

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think you've asked the million dollar question. You know, where is American biblical

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prophecy and the most asked question quite
honestly that I get on the subject to

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prophecy, And I say, directly, it's not mentioned at all. Now

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why Well, there could be a
number of reasons. Number one, not

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relevant to the end time scenario.
Number two, it ceased to be a

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world powers, it's faded out.
Number three it's been consumed and become a

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part of another nation. So those
are the three big possibilities. Why it's

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not mentioned now in my book,
I do talk about the three City States.

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Most people don't haven't thought about this, but there are three city states

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in the world. One of them
is Washington, DC, the other is

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the Vatican, and the other is
London Incorporated. And now a lot of

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people they say, well, I
know about Vatican. Okay, so that's

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unique to Italy, just as Washington
as unique to America. But London Incorporated

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is one square mile where really all
the wealth of England and beyond is stored

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and major decisions are made there regarding
what's going to happen in the days ahead.

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So all three of these have some
things in common. They have.

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First of all, they have this
unique set of rules they operate by Number

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one. They have an independent flag, which is really unique because the flag

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of Washington, DC is three stars. There are three city states. They

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all have an Egyptian oh blisk.
Vatican has one move from Egypt, London

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has one move from Egypt. America
built their own. It's called the Washington

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Monument. Those are to the Sun
God. All right, All three of

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those are dedicated to the Sun God
and under penalty of death. When the

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one to Vatican was moved, if
it was cracked, all the movers were

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going to be killed for it,
so it was considered a very sacred thing.

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Well, I go into great depth
in my book about these three city

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states. Washington, DC represents the
military might I believe of the coming anti

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Christ, the Vatican represents the religious
power of the coming anti Christ, and

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London represents the financial strength of the
coming anti Christ. So when you begin

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to see these things, it does
talk about in Revelation chapter seventeen and eighteen

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that Babylon, the great horror,
will be judged and will be divided.

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Their unity will be broken up,
they will be divided into three. Isn't

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interesting that mystery Babylon is divided into
three and we've got three city states,

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And so there's some unique things happening
in our day, and I believe we

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can draw some pretty definitive lines about
what's happening and where's American in the future

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exactly. We're talking about Phil Hodson
Pillar. He is the senior pastor of

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Influenced Church in Anaheim Hills, California, and the President founder of American Faith.

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Of American Faith dot com is where
you can go for more information,

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and of course we're discussing his book
that will be coming out next year.

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You can pre order it right now
because this is something that you're going to

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want to read and get your hands
on because in a sense, it's a

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bit of a roadmap of things yet
to come, and it will help you

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in dealing with things that you think
are quite confusing that are happening in our

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culture today. The book It's Midnight
in America, Confront fear and embrace courage

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As the final hour approaches, Phil, how can they get their hands on

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your book? You know the easiest
ways go to Amazon and pre order it

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and it'll be delivered. The release
date is April second, twenty twenty four,

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so we've got a pretty long pre
release date, which I was so

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glad the publisher of Charisma House was
allowed. We were allowed to do that

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because there's a number of big events
that I have coming up between now and

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then, and I wanted to get
that word out as far as I possibly

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could. Phil. Speaking of the
events, we're just gonna take a little

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side trip here. You've been involved
into a lot of things. I mean,

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I see you on video. You're
in Times Square in New York.

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You know, people are wondering what
is going on in the country. If

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you rely on the mainstream media,
these important spiritual things that you need to

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be aware of, you don't know
because unless you happen to be there.

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But the fact of the matter is, in a sense, there are you

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know, I call them bonfires of
revival that are being ignited across America.

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But you know, the mainstream media
is not going to promote that because the

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fact of the matter is the media, along with their co conspirators in the

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deep deep deep deep State, are
antipical to anything that has to do with

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God Almighty. Yeah, it's so
true. You know you mentioned Times Square

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that was on July third. I
was there with Sean Foyt and Jay Coopman

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and it was a Lettuce worship event
and so I was one of the speakers

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along with Jay in that event,
and you know, it was just kind

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of that pop up revival moment.
It was, you know, there was

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a permit there, so it wasn't
just you know, off the cuff.

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You didn't go Black Lives Matter or
Antifa, right, You actually didn't legally.

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Now, the great thing about Sean
is I believe probably the vast majority

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I'm gonna say ninety plus they're all
permitted. There are times where they can't

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get a permit or it's spontaneous and
they didn't plan it. But we probably

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gathered I don't know, three or
four thousand people there in Times Square.

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There are many people that came to
faith in Christ. We saw people healed.

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Pretty amazing to be in the center
of that media, you know,

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block square block and see Jesus lifted
up. Yeah. Yeah, And like

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you said, manifestations of God's presence. You can always tell where God is.

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Uh, you know, we know
just as he promised, where two

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are more gathered in his name.
He's in our midst. But he also

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says that he will validate your ministry
with signs and wonders. And this has

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been consistent with the ministry of Sean
Foyd hasn't. Oh, it has.

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And you know, if you think
about it, Sean just basically, you

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know, he grew up in the
Middle East. His dad was a missionary

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doctor, a medical missionary doctor,
and so for him, you know,

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doing something like running into the line
of battle was not something new to him.

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It was something very familiar to him. So when they when they issued

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the you can't sing the church's closed, he said, we're just going to

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take the church outdoors. And it
began in San Francisco on the Bridge with

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a lettuce worship moment, and it's
really been a movement. I believe this

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guided and empowered by the spirit of
God, uh for you know, really

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since it began in twenty twenty.
So it's exciting to be there and be

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a part of what he's doing.
And and we you know, we're good

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friends. He leads worship here to
influence on a on a fairly consistent basis,

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and so we do a lot of
stuff together and I consider him a

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good friend. That's great, you
know, Phil, it's always in you

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know, as men of faith,
women of faith, when you watch how

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the spirit operates and how it confuses
those who have no idea. Yeah right,

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yeah, it's so true. And
I really believe that. You know,

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the first chapter. Let me go
back to the book because I think

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it relates to that what you just
said. The first chapter is called a

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dress rehearsal, and i'd really take
an examine what happened with COVID beginning in

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twenty twenty, and how that was
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do, meaning deep state, one
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and every aspect of your life.
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history and our church made a decision
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of all, God is God and
not Caesar, and we were going to

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honor what our constitution said we could
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on that, but it was a
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We really raised up a stronger group
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tell you the interesting thing about that. In twenty nineteen, in October,

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I announced our church, this is
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all night underground church event in December. And what we're gonna do is we're

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gonna try to reenact as much as
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like if you were living in and
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the underground church in China. And
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time, no one was admitted.
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out, just as you would be
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hadn't put that together until about a
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prophetic for God to show me to
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because it would be in March that
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already had said, Oh, we
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that was an interesting thing that happened
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other thing is interesting, Bill,
and we've talked about this, is there's

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about thirty thousand churches in California.
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ten percent opened on one level or
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outdoor services or they had indoor and
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indoor services. We were one that
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so I came up with this term
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I was doing an interview in the
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have you seen between the church and
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this is during COVID. I did
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in China you have the underground church
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In America, we now have the
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and I was shocked by how many
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people would know UH major players,
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the church scene who not only did
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were very critical of those who did. In fact, that we were out

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of the will of God because we
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which turned out to be they were
wrong because the court even overturned it and

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had to pay all the legal bills
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you know this all goes back to
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I mean, God gives you a
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you know when Frankly and you and
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the first guests to come on my
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said, hey, look it,
I want you to be behind the microphone.

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I just graduated from Bible College.
I had been in radio in La

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Radio as a juvenile, playing music
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then all of a sudden, God
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go back to school complete your degree
in Bible College. And then the next

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step was get behind the microphone and
I want you to, you know,

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to address biblical issues, you know, from a biblical worldview. And I

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said, okay, well that being
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pastors who hold to a biblical worldview. Now keep in mind at that time

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and I always I just read the
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that clearly pointed out that less than
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just a little over fifty percent of
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to a biblical worldview. And so
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thinking at the time, naively,
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every corner of all the churches you
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to run into all kinds of pastors
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the grace of God, you were
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been together ever since. And because
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to his people, these warnings.
You know, we call him prophecy,

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and as we talked about earlier,
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know what's coming up. And it
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and when the truth is revealed,
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it enlarges our capacity for faith, you

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know, to continue on and to
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are coming down the line. Right. Oh hey man, And let me

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just pause and say a lot of
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a biblical world view? So if
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to take notes on, I'm going
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and you go ask your pastor what
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he gets an f you might want
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little Hell? Now, heaven's the
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I'm not sure. I don't know
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Jesus taught it as being a real
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death, bial and resurrection. Jesus
Christ, You're not saved because you're a

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good person. Good person, don't
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ten commandments. Don't give your pass
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Creation? Did God create the world
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Bible is the word of God is
an absolute truth. It's not one of

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many truths. It is the and
only truth. All right. Jesus is

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God. Okay, He's not a
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is the God man God took on
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data points on a biblical worldview that
I think all are. All of us

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need to put our arms around and
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or I don't. Maybe I embrace
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much. So I want to study
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better informed on a biblical worldview.
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because the fact of the matter is
it's one or the other. You're going

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to have a biblical worldview or you're
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nothing in between, right, Phil, That's right. And you know,

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I think there are a lot of
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call themselves Christians, but in reality
they've so denied everything that's that God has

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revealed that they've almost denied God himself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sadly,

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ladies and gentlemen. You know,
they're exciting times if you have faith and

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you hold to the word of God, because you see God continuing to validate

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himself time and again, like he
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morning and I see, you know, a beautiful blue sky, or I

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see you know, shrubbery or animals, little animals running through the grass and

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that, and it is amazing.
I mean, what other God comes up

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with this kind of creativity? And
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we ignore God, we miss out
on the blessing and so many other things

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because it's not just about us,
it's about it's about our kids, it's

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about our grandkids, It's about the
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them. God blesses us so that
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we hoard it. And this is
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here in America today, Phil,
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come back to what I call those
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with God and the relationship with one
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most important commandments. Forget about the
Ten commandments in a sense, set it

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aside, but just think about God
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fulfill those two, you know you've
got it covered, right, Yeah,

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And you know you you touched on
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and that is that if you're if
you're let's say, if you're forty plus,

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you're probably going to be fine.
You've probably got enough stability in your

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life, You've got enough whatever going
on in your life, you're gonna be

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fine. But what about your children
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all this started coming down in twenty
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to call for a statewide lockdown,
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and I that's when we started American
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got to get some news out there, and it's really telling the story.

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launch a news media outlet. We
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many people as we could informed,
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stories a day, and we've got
a team that works on this and we

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had twenty two million people on our
newsletter last year. So you know,

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it's really grown. But I think
it's grown because it's truth revealed in what's

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going and we give you a sort
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it. You know, no,
tell me how many people that we actually

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helped who had COVID who were trying
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medical procedures that quite frankly didn't work. And now they admit it works.

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is a good thing, you could
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money that pharma could make out of
that original two years has probably been captured

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right exactly well, and that yeah, unfortunately, you know, in a

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course, we've got media platforms that
bolte, they cringe anytime you say the

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C word or the eye word.
Feel they deed platform you. They talk

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about disinformation, and I think it's
quite ironic. I find them to be

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the biggest, the biggest purveyors of
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look at the policies of the WHO
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of these governments and state governments that
held the line and thought they knew better

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and wanted to ignore the cumulative intelligence
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and forty million people that were out
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is not what you're saying is not
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didn't want to take that into consideration. And I believe as a result,

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too many people unnecessarily died because of
their disinformation, not those of us that

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we're pursuing the truth no matter where
it leads, and I'm I'm running a

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risk right now, I'm telling you, because I have been deep platformed several

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times because we dared to do this, so I say this with a warning

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to our audience that there's only so
much that we can talk about regarding you

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know, COVID, and we're on
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And but you know, as long
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fill I have to you know,
just like you did. You had to

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make a decision with your church and
who are you going to follow? Are

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you going to follow God? Are
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we're kind of living in a day. If the if the government organization or

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worldwide organization has three letters in it, you want to run. Yeah,

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we got dj FBI, we got
who I mean, go you go,

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FDA, go down the list.
Yeah, they're all compromised. Yeah,

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I thought I have up until COVID,

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I lived with a certain comforting naiveness
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they're all after our best interest and
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they're humans, they make mistakes.
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no, they're not. They're they're
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it's midnight in America. One of
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is you'll find this interesting. I
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prepping or preparation, and so what
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said about trusting in God, but
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prep for the end of the world? Should we make any preparation? So

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I deal with that in kind of
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you back to trust in God,
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They didn't have enough oil. And
I think we need to be prepared,

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but we don't need to be crazy
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with sanity. There are certain things
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One of the things we learned when
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you've you've long term resident of California. You know it's about an earthquake.

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You've got to have a communication.
How are you going to communicate with your

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family when they're separated? What's your
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kind of the California standard. So
are those are things you do for an

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emergency? Well, if you had
a worldwide emergency, what would you do?

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yourself what's right for you, but
you need some guidance to say, well,

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I think I could do that without
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Not important that I do, Bill, It's only important that I know where

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the God that has fifty years of
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Exactly? Well, unless God ask
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everybody in the neighborhood is going to
think you're weird. But okay, all

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right, so you think you're weird, But being the man of God that

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I hope to be, I'd much
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know, case in point to what
you're just saying, Phil is you know

410
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our daughter lives in Maui. Her
family lived in the center of Lahina.

411
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By the grace of God. You
know, I think I've shared this with

412
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our viewers. Her home in her
area was the was one of the few

413
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left standing Sadly, her neighbor's homes
burnt to the ground and I don't understand,

414
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but her home left standing. She
was there as the smoke was billowing

415
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down. Fortunately, my two grandkids
and my son in law were up in

416
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:51.039
the Peli about fifteen miles away north
of where all the fires were going on.

417
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The fire was happening, and Phil
that short and you might be familiar

418
00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:59.160
with that short span of road on
Front Street, uh, you know,

419
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from the cannery mills, shopping mall
to the highway, because that was the

420
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.960
only outlet. All the other arteries
were closed off. It is the only

421
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.440
outlet that they could get out of
there. Oh, by the way,

422
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:15.200
and there was no law enforcement help
direct traffic. People were just moving.

423
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It took her two hours, Bill
two hours to travel two miles to get

424
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to the highway. She barely barely. I'm so thankful to God barely got

425
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:29.240
out because there are so many that
are victims. But to your point,

426
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:33.200
you see, we think people are
looking out for our best interests. And

427
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:38.599
what's being exposed ever since you know, COVID, ever since all these government

428
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:45.440
inefficiencies, it's all being revealed,
not only corruption, but agendas that are

429
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:51.880
not consistent with that that would be
you know, for the well being of

430
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:55.079
all concerned. I'll leave it at
that. Yeah, And I you know,

431
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:59.359
I look at Maui and I'm like
many people. I've vacationed there and

432
00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:01.519
loved that are of Lahinah. But
I looked at the pictures and I know

433
00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:05.960
that the winds were high, but
that doesn't even look like a fire.

434
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:10.960
It looks like a nuclear blast hit
that place. It'sactly believable. And they

435
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:15.440
and the lack of water, lack
of you know, a releasing water,

436
00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:22.039
lack of support. I think there's
going to be number one, hopefully some

437
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:24.920
great investigations into what we're wrong there. Unduly, there're going to be a

438
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:30.240
lot of lawsuits filed. You know, this is a tragedy. And I

439
00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:34.559
think that, you know, we
as people, we always live in that

440
00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:38.359
illusion that will never hit us.
So I always want to say I believe

441
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:40.200
that too. I think it ain't
gonna hit me, but I'd want to

442
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:44.200
be prepared if it does. So
that's what That's what I say. You

443
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.200
know, and a lot of us
go back to nine to eleven, and

444
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:50.079
you know my story. My wife
and I were flying at Lagority on nine

445
00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:52.200
to eleven and we passed the Twin
Towers when the first plane went in,

446
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:54.960
Well you know that, I mean, it flipped my world. I can

447
00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:59.759
still see that plane. I can
still see being down in Detroit trying to

448
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:02.920
back to our daughter who was in
school there at a you know, at

449
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.240
a neighboring Manhattan school. And so
you know, what do you do?

450
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.319
How do you prepare? I mean
there was not a phone that we could

451
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:15.559
use, So that pushes you into
do I do I keep? Do I

452
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:20.599
get a satellite phone as a backup? You know? Uh, just little

453
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:23.680
things that you think about, and
sometimes economic drives how many decisions you can

454
00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:27.440
make? Some of say well I
really can't afford that. What do?

455
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:30.880
What you can? You know exactly? Never stop trusting in God. That's

456
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.839
the key, you know, Let
your faith be in the Lord. Well,

457
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:38.880
uh is our good friend? Jonathan
Kahn says God is faithful and that

458
00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:44.759
his Shalom is always pursuing us Phil
He wants us to be at peace.

459
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:47.319
And I love that the way Jonathan
had shared that with me, because it

460
00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:52.400
gave me a lot of comfort that
no matter how crazy things may get go

461
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:57.480
and get and my hair being on
fire and getting caught up and to the

462
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:00.519
you know, current chaos of it
all is that it's comforting to know that

463
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:06.119
our father in heaven says, shalong, Shalong, come to me, just

464
00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:12.239
chill, because just like you said, if we're making decisions based on panic,

465
00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:15.440
we're going to get panic results.
You know, God God steadies us,

466
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:22.079
but we must hang on and look
to him and focus on him.

467
00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:24.800
You know. For some reason,
this has been coming up several times in

468
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:30.559
conversations with different guests and talking about
focus. I think I may have shared

469
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:32.400
with you. In fact, I
think you may have been in my office

470
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:36.760
in Los Angeles one time and I
had a sign up on my wall.

471
00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:38.440
It says, obstacles are what you
see when you take your eyes off the

472
00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:43.679
goal. And that's the old anonymous
saying. I changed it to say obstacles

473
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:46.159
or what you see when you take
your eyes off his goal. So you

474
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:49.480
know, it's what is your focus. You know, like when you're riding

475
00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:52.920
a motorcycle, one of the things
you first learned is that the bike will

476
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.119
go where your eyes, where your
eyes are aiming, and here we are,

477
00:34:57.159 --> 00:35:00.719
we're reminded, you know, during
these raining times and these stressful times,

478
00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:07.000
keep your focus on Jesus, and
he will. He will bring you

479
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:10.760
through all the fires. He's going
to bring you through the storms, He's

480
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:15.239
going to bring you through the floods. Because and it's not like this is

481
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:21.119
theoretical, because the evidence is empirical, because he's done at time and again

482
00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:23.440
has he not? Yes? Indeed, And you know, I was thinking

483
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:28.599
about what Jonathan Kahn said to you, and it reminded me. One of

484
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:35.280
my professors at Oxford was at one
time a part of the Royal Air Force

485
00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:39.239
Biological Warfare Department, and he would
tell me things that I still shut her

486
00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:43.440
when I think about some of the
things that they did. He also had

487
00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:46.719
double PhD professor and it was an
Anglican priest, and I said, I

488
00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.840
said to him, I said,
John, how do you sleep at night

489
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:52.840
knowing all you know about biological warfare? He said, It's simple, my

490
00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:59.639
boy. I believe in a sovereign
God. Yeah, how about that?

491
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:04.320
To believe in the sovereign God.
So if you believe in a sovereign God

492
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:09.719
that's all powerful, then fear can't
hit you. It's when God becomes smaller

493
00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:15.320
than your problems, fear captures you
and overtakes you. Well, Phil didn't

494
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:22.800
God promise that he would not leave
his creation up to their own devices lest

495
00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:27.559
they would annihilate themselves? Right?
Yeah? And in fact, the ultimate

496
00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:31.400
example of that is the Battle of
Armageddon, where it says that Jesus when

497
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:36.800
he returns, if he did not, that all flesh would basically wipe each

498
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:42.360
other out. So we see that
in Revelation chapter nineteen. And God's given

499
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.639
us great, great truths, great
warnings, great things that we can lead.

500
00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:47.280
Here's another chapter in the book I'm
going to talk to you about because

501
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:52.840
you've touched on this a couple of
ways, And I talk about the power

502
00:36:52.880 --> 00:37:00.840
of logic, wisdom and understanding.
And you have to step back long enough

503
00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:06.480
to take an example, to take
a situation and ask yourself the right questions.

504
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:12.440
Do I have the right understanding?
Am I operating with logic and wisdom?

505
00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.039
Now? My dad was a military
guy, and he used to say

506
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:17.760
this, fast as slow and slow
as fast. If you get in a

507
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:22.119
hurry, it's going to slow you
down. So I think what we have

508
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:24.559
to do is we have to slow
down, look at our situation every day,

509
00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:29.360
take five minutes every day and say
what is it I need to learn

510
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:34.360
and see from today. What plans
do I need to make about today?

511
00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:37.960
That's regarding my job, my school, my marriage, my life. I

512
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:40.360
mean, the list can go on
and on and on, but five minutes

513
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:45.519
a day, it will literally change
your entire perspective on life without a doubt.

514
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:49.639
You know. I interviewed a CNN
anchor. I don't know if I

515
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:53.880
shared the story with you or not, but brilliant gown. Her family went

516
00:37:53.880 --> 00:38:00.360
through a tragic circumstance. Her father
and brother, well, her father died

517
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:05.840
in an accident when he had taken
the older brother back to their home country.

518
00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:09.039
I believe it was Nigeria, and
to you know, kind of connect

519
00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:14.679
with the culture and family and that
sort of thing unfortunately tragically killed. And

520
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:20.199
the mother here, she is a
single mom, finds herself raising four kids,

521
00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:22.800
and her philosophy could be summed up. This weather was very powerful.

522
00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:27.599
She told the kids, She said, look at you get. Each of

523
00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.280
you get twenty four hours a day. Eight hours you're going to sleep.

524
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:35.039
Okay, that's given. The other
eight you're going to school. That's done.

525
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:40.920
The remaining eight is what's going to
determine your future. What you deposit

526
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:50.000
in those final eight hours will dictate
what and who you become. And interestingly

527
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:54.400
enough, each one of these children
of hers that she raised as a single

528
00:38:54.480 --> 00:39:01.880
mom, one of them went on
to become an Oscar nominated actor. The

529
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:07.440
woman that I had interviewed was an
international CNN news anchor. The two others

530
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:14.440
very successful in business. It's just
an incredible story. But I like how

531
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:19.199
her mother. I thought that that
was incredible wisdom because today and with today's

532
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:23.599
kids, so you know, so
distracted by video games. Another thinking Wow,

533
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:28.800
I mean you have eight hours.
What you deposit in those eight hours

534
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:32.119
is going to dictate your future,
and you're gonna waste those eight hours on

535
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.639
video games. I think it gives
you a different perspective and understanding, doesn't

536
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:40.079
it. Yeah, it does.
And I think that's about self management.

537
00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:46.639
We talk about self mastery. How
do you master your life? Because undoubtedly

538
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:51.320
I have days where I waste a
lot of time. You know what did

539
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:53.320
I get for it? I got
nothing? You know, right, other

540
00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:57.639
days where I'm highly productive. Other
days it's a mixed bag of both.

541
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:02.119
And I don't think we can any
of can achieve this perfection of mastering all

542
00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:06.960
your time. But if you're conscious
of it, first thing in the morning,

543
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:08.920
and say what can I do to
day, to better me, to

544
00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:14.480
better society, to glorify God.
I mean, I think you asked the

545
00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:17.920
right questions and you're on the right
journey exactly without we're talking with Phil Hodson

546
00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:23.440
Pillar, Senior Pastor of Influence Church, Anaheim Hills, Founder President of American

547
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:30.639
Faith. Phil the wisdom of this
book. I just cannot wait to get

548
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:35.639
my hands on it. Tease us
with another chapter of he would it's midnight

549
00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:38.719
in America? Well, I think
right now one of the things that should

550
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:45.599
be concerning to everyone is the idea
of the disappearance of cash going all digital.

551
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:51.280
But even more than that, the
way that you're going to be able

552
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:57.280
to conduct transactions, So whether that
transaction is right now, Washington, DC

553
00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:00.800
is experimenting with a Whole Foods where
you have to check in to enter the

554
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:04.280
store. You have to be scanned
to check in, to go into the

555
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:07.599
store. You can't even if you
don't buy anything. Wow, Then you

556
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:14.119
scan your item, then you scan
your your credit card basically, and then

557
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.960
to leave you have to scan to
leave. So, in other words,

558
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:22.360
it just said if you won't do
that, you can't buy or sell in

559
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:25.480
Whole Foods. In washing and DC, which is a prototype for other whole

560
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:30.519
foods around the country. Okay,
that sounds an awful lot like to me.

561
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:37.840
Revelation thirteen. The mark of the
beast going to be exactly okay,

562
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:40.800
because if you cut off people's food
and their ability to buy or to sell,

563
00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.159
you've you've essentially killed them because there's
nothing they can do. If I

564
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:49.320
can't eat, I can't buy,
and I can't sell, what do I

565
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:54.159
do? Right? Like China,
it reduces itself to a social credit score.

566
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:59.679
So even if you get in,
you have a certain limit of what

567
00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:04.440
you can buy, and that credit
card is not going to allow you to

568
00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:09.360
buy beyond what it is predetermined that
you're able to buy right right, And

569
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:14.760
the new US currency, digital currency, will be programmable. Now what does

570
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:16.960
that mean. That means that,
let's say you have a thousand dollars in

571
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:21.480
the bank, they can program that
if they want to to say, you

572
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:27.239
can't buy gasoline for your car,
right, okay, using your digital currency.

573
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:30.079
Why would they want to do that
because they want to push you to

574
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:32.280
an electric car. Electric car,
Yeah, you can buy all the electricity,

575
00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:37.320
but you can't buy you can't buy
a gasoline. Yeah, but see

576
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:39.679
nobody's asking the right The next question, why do they want me an electric

577
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:45.639
car? Because everybody knows there's not
enough power grids in America to charge all

578
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:47.440
these cards. Well, number one, if I'm an electric car, I

579
00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:51.679
can turn off your electricity, and
I can stop you from going anywhere.

580
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:55.119
I can track you if you have
if you have if you have an electric

581
00:42:55.119 --> 00:43:00.400
car, they can literally track you
everywhere you're going, and they can turn

582
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:05.039
your car off anytime they want to. So they have taken over complete control

583
00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:08.800
of your mobility. So a lot
of people are not putting all these pieces

584
00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:13.800
together. It's kind of like when
Facebook came out. It took ten years

585
00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:16.360
for it to get to one hundred
million people, Okay, and everybody said

586
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:20.239
it's gonna be great, We're gonna
connect with people, but no one envisioned,

587
00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:22.159
or at least they did. They
didn't say anything about it how it

588
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:29.920
would just expedite and accelerate human trafficking
exactly, how it would lead to suicides

589
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:34.760
because of comparison. Okay, now
we have AI and it's at one hundred

590
00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:37.880
million chat GPT, it's one hundred
million now and it got there in eight

591
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:45.400
months versus nine years for Facebook.
Yes, exactly. Now, I just

592
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:50.599
listened to the best experts on this
subject on AI and they said, about

593
00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:53.679
half of the top fifty people in
the world on AI, and I talk

594
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:59.400
about this in my book. They
don't even know how it works because it's

595
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:05.760
not just material and material out is
actually thinking and using logic. So they

596
00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.599
said, everything that's been done in
AI is all done in English. Any

597
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:14.400
information we put into its English,
any questions come out English somehow one of

598
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:17.760
the one of the and they call
them like different units. Okay, different

599
00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:23.039
language units, right, not languages
like we think of like German and French

600
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:27.679
and all of that, but the
way that they process information. One of

601
00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:32.199
them taught itself Persian and began to
ask questions and answer questions and give information

602
00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:37.239
in Persian. Nobody knows why Persian. Nobody knows why it happened. Nobody

603
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:43.599
programmed Persian into it. So if
you think about AI is probably the most

604
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:46.159
frightening thing. And yet if you
don't, if you don't tap into it,

605
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:50.320
you're going to be left behind.
Yeah, exactly. Well, it's

606
00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:53.679
interesting because here we are at a
time when you know, you got the

607
00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:59.079
ruling elites that want to control riots
about power and control. And here they

608
00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:07.239
are unleashing AI, potentially surrendering their
own desire for power and control, and

609
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:10.800
then send in the machines. Right
yeah, And I really, if you

610
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:16.719
think about AI, if the end
result of it is never good because right

611
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:22.760
now they're focused on what's bad with
it, elimination of jobs, that's only

612
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:27.760
one tenth of what's bad about it. But it also has some good qualities.

613
00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:31.760
For example, it can solve problems, it can answer things that it

614
00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:37.400
can program things that would take hours. It's probably going to lead to medical

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breakthroughs. It's got a positive side
to it, but that doesn't mean it's

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all positive. And because there's no
there's no one really to monitor it,

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and even if there was a government
agency to monitor it, it's always going

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to be you know, the lobbyists
are always going to outdo any ethical thing

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that could happen there. Right like
we like we can trust government. I

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don't understand why you have your doubts
film. I mean, you know one

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of those guys, Bill, I'm
just one of those guys. Oh,

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I mean, you're exactly right.
I mean this is what we we've gone

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full circle because again we talked about
Maui. We we talked about even when

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you look at the history of Hawaii
and you see even in this country,

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how the power brokers have come in, you know, social media, Vanguard,

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State, Street, black Rock.
They have such a big stick to

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swing that are elected officials. Uh, they're just they're titular. H They're

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really meaningless. You know. The
government is being controlled by the deep deep

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deep state. Uh. You know, I I've talked about four branches of

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government. I was talking with retired
Colonel John Mills the other day, who's

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written a great book. Uh,
you know, the nation will follow and

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he says, Bill, he goes, there's actually six branches of government because

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the deep state is stratified into three
additional layers between you know, the administrative

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state. Uh you've got that Corporate
America, the money part of the deep

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state. Uh, you know,
and it's it's it's own, you know,

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kind of in a sense holy trinity, which I found, you know,

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to be quite provocative and interesting because
he says, the administrative state,

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you had the uh, the enjoining
of the of law enforcement and intelligence,

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and uh, then you've got the
myriad of nonprofits, these NGOs all part

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of that deep deep state that we're
dealing with today. Well, and the

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problem that all of us have is
we know this, but what can we

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do? And that's always the biggest
challenge. We feel powerless. Even if

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we get informed, we feel powerless. And I know of nothing better than

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that you can do outside of pray. You know, invest in your community,

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but but focus on local election because
if your local city or county is

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conservative, much of what comes out
of DC will not affect you exactly if

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it's not. If you if you
just don't get involved, don't be surprised.

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I've got a good friend that's a
pastor in Boise, Idaho, and

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I said, well, a lot
of people are moving there. How do

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you think He said, well,
it's just so liberal. The mayor is

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extremely liberal, the you know,
the city councils all extremely liberal. He

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said, it's like California now.
So you can run and people try to

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run and they go, I'm gonna
I'm gonna leave, flee California because high

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tax is bad government. Will guess
what. We've got a friend. We've

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got a guy in our church who
owns a home here in California, owns

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one in Texas, and he because
his kids live there, and he said,

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he said, they don't have any
state income tax, but my real

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estate property tax is exactly the same
in Texas as it is here in California,

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the same size house. Interesting.
Interesting, Phil, We got a

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minute left. I'm gonna let you
summarize It's Midnight in America and again remind

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people how they can get your hands
on your book and pre order it.

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Yeah. It go to Amazon and
just type in it's Midnight in America.

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You'll see my book pop up there. Phil Hotson Peller. Pre order a

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copy, maybe order one or two
for your friends and be the first to

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get it. We'll also be doing
a lot of publicity between now and then.

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We're going to give you some podcasts, some excerpts. Who knows,

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maybe even Bill Let me back on
one day and we're going to tell you

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about Midnight in America. Yeah.
A man, Phil Hodson Pillar. He

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is my good friend, the senior
pastor of Influenced Church in Anaheim Hills,

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California, the President founder of American
Faith, and author of many many books,

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but his newest that we can't wait
to read, It's Midnight in America.

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Confront fear and embrace courage as the
final our approaches. It will give

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you hope and enlarge your faith.
Phil thank you so much for being with

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us today. I appreciate you.
Thank you so much, Bill God.

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For more information than to be a
part of this mighty Martine's movement to return

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to God and to save our country. Go to Bill Martine's show dot com.

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May God bless you and keep you, Make His face shine upon you.

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May He be gracious unto you and
give you peace. Go out and

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be blessed and bless others. Thank
you for being with us. Take care,