July 9, 2025
The Algorithm of the Beast: Technology in the End Times
Send us a text The digital revolution promised connection and convenience, but what if it's silently preparing humanity for the ultimate deception? In this powerful examination of technology and biblical prophecy, Rick delivers an urgent wake-up call about "The Algorithm of the Beast" – the subtle ways our devices, apps, and digital dependencies are discipling us away from God and toward a system with eerie parallels to Revelation's warnings. "Most Christians spend more time on Instagram tha...
The digital revolution promised connection and convenience, but what if it's silently preparing humanity for the ultimate deception? In this powerful examination of technology and biblical prophecy, Rick delivers an urgent wake-up call about "The Algorithm of the Beast" – the subtle ways our devices, apps, and digital dependencies are discipling us away from God and toward a system with eerie parallels to Revelation's warnings.
"Most Christians spend more time on Instagram than prayer, more time watching reels than reading Psalms," Rick observes, addressing how our attention has become the most valuable offering we unconsciously give. This isn't merely about screen addiction – it's spiritual formation happening through notifications, feeds, and digital habits that shape our hearts toward compliance rather than conviction.
Delving deep into Revelation 13, the episode connects biblical prophecy with present-day realities: biometric identification systems, cashless economies, social compliance tracking, AI development, and genetic modification technologies. Each represents an infrastructure component potentially fulfilling ancient warnings about control mechanisms in the last days. What's particularly unsettling is how willingly we've embraced these systems, trading privacy and autonomy for convenience and belonging.
The most compelling aspect of this message isn't just its warning but its prescription for spiritual resilience. Rick offers practical disciplines to "fireproof" faith: digital fasting, scripture immersion, family worship, and courageous truth-speaking when pressure mounts to conform. "Half-faith won't survive full-blown persecution," he reminds listeners, urging believers to prepare their hearts now before testing intensifies.
Ready to break free from digital discipleship and reclaim your spiritual attention? This episode will challenge comfortable Christianity, awaken spiritual discernment, and equip you to recognize deception in its most sophisticated forms. Share this vital message with someone you care about – the time for spiritual watchfulness has never been more urgent.
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Chapters
00:46 - Intro
02:06 - Discipled by the Screen
04:47 - Infrastructure of the Beast
07:36 - Luciferase, DNA and the Altering of God's Design
11:55 - The Image of the Beast...Digital or Physical?
14:53 - Worshipping the Breat with Your Attenetion
16:48 - Cashless Control and Global Dependence
18:19 - The Silence of the Church and the Watchmans Responsibility
19:32 - Fireproofing your Faith
26:38 - Final Charge
Transcript
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The world is changing and time is running out.
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This is Renewed Mindsets, where we confront biblical truth head-on no sugarcoating, no compromise.
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We expose false doctrine, reveal fulfilled prophecy and shine light on the demonic deception of these last days, but we also stand firm on the hope of Christ's return, the call to holiness and the urgency of true salvation.
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It's time to renew your mind, for the time is now.
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Let's go, boys.
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Welcome back to Renewed Mindsets, the podcast where we break away from cultural conformity and anchor ourselves in biblical truth.
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I'm Rick, and I'm so glad you're here Today.
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We're tackling a subject that most pulpits are too quiet about, but I ain't scared.
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I'm not here to be safe.
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I'm here to speak the truth, even if it offends you.
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We're diving into something unsettling, something so subtle it's deceiving even some of the elect.
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Now hear me out.
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We know the beast is coming.
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What if his system is already here in the form of convenience, code and compliance?
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This isn't just a teaching.
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This episode is a spiritual warning.
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You need to be alert, you need to be sober and you need to be willing to confront the ways that technology, media and even our own habits are forming us into something that's unrecognizable to God.
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This is the algorithm of the beast, and it goes far deeper than chips and barcodes.
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This is about how tech is discipling the world for its final deception.
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So let's start off by facing the truth.
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We are all being discipled.
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You might not sit in a classroom, you might not meet with a mentor, but every single one of us is being shaped by what we scroll, what we consume and what we crave by what we scroll, what we consume and what we crave.
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Luke 6 40 says students are not greater than their teacher, but the student who is fully trained will become like the teacher.
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So here is a hard question who's your teacher?
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Now, if we're honest, most of us, our daily teacher is our phone, our spiritual counselor is YouTube, our doctrine is coming from Twitter, and our worship happens when we give all our attention and time to a screen.
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Most Christians spend more time on Instagram than prayer, more time watching reels than reading Psalms.
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We don't mean to drift, but we're being carried away by an algorithm that doesn't care about your soul.
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It only cares about control.
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Every swipe, every search, every ad is part of a learning model, a behavior modification system, and it's not just targeting your mind, it's shaping your heart.
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This is the digital version of discipleship and it's molding people to become ready for the beast.
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Even parents are being conditioned to babysit their children with devices.
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They let Disney Plus raise the next generation.
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And the content?
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It's not neutral.
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It's loaded with identity, confusion, occult imagery, anti-christ values.
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Now, you've been hearing this verse from me for years now Romans 12.2.
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It says do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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But when our minds are constantly saturated by the world's content, how can they be renewed?
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If Satan can't stop you from claiming to be a Christian, he'll settle for discipling you through distractions.
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We've got to stop pretending that TikTok is harmless.
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We've got to stop making excuses for spending more time on Netflix than in the Word.
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Your screen is shaping your soul.
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You don't have to bow to a statue to be in idolatry.
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You just have to trade intimacy with God for constant stimulation from the world.
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And that is exactly what's happening.
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So let's move from the screen to the system.
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Revelation 13.
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Now, revelation 13 isn't some far-off prophecy.
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It's unfolding right now in front of our eyes.
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And verses 16 and 17 says Now, let's pause for just a second.
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For years and years, people thought this meant a literal tattoo or maybe a barcode, but now these days, we're seeing full-on implementation of global surveillance Biometric IDs, retina scanning, facial recognition, qr-based movement tracking, ai, gatekeeping, digital-only currency with programmable access.
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Let me paint the picture Cash is disappearing, stores are going card only, government-issued wallets are being tested, medical history is being tied to travel eligibility.
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And what was the test run?
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Covid, fear and control, two tools of the enemy.
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In 2020 through 2022, we watched the entire planet willingly give up privacy and liberty for a false sense of safety, and the church, in many cases, went right along with it.
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This wasn't about health people.
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It was not about health.
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It was about conditioning.
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Conditioning the masses to accept their freedom is conditional.
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Conditioning people to believe that they have to comply in order to participate in society.
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That is the spirit of the mark.
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The infrastructure doesn't need to be built anymore.
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It's already here.
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It's in your phone, it's in your car, it's in your health records, it's in your wallet.
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All it takes now is activation and once that mark system is live, people won't need to be forced.
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They'll beg for it Because they've already been trained to believe that compliance equals peace.
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But it won't be peace.
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It'll be slavery.
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And the word of God is clear those who take the mark will not be redeemed.
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So if you won't say no to the system now, don't think you're going to suddenly grow bold later.
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You prepare for that moment today.
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Now I'm fixing to get into some deep, deep water, but part of this teaching this is what most people won't touch, but I'm going there.
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Let's talk about luciferase.
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Have you heard of that?
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It's a bioluminescent enzyme, meaning that it glows, and it was named after Lucifer, the light bringer.
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Luciferase is used in medical research and it's been proposed in technologies that could mark the skin or light up under special readers to prove vaccination status.
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Yeah, they put Lucifer race in vaccines and then you stick your right arm under a light and it glows if you've been vaccinated.
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If it doesn't, they know you haven't been vaccinated.
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Now let me say this with clarity Not every vaccine is the mark of the beast, but the mandated nature of those injections, the potential for DNA-altering technology it's the foundation for what Revelation warns about.
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God created our DNA.
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It's our book of life.
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Psalm 139.14 says I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made, but Satan has always tried to corrupt creation.
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Back in Noah's days, fallen angels mingled with the seed of men.
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That was genetic corruption, a hybrid race that God never intended.
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Hence the name of the book of the Bible Genesis gene.
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Daniel 2.43 says in the last kingdom they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men.
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But this isn't just symbolism.
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It's a prophetic warning of another genetic defilement.
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Now look at today.
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You have MNRA vaccines, crispr, gene editing, dna storage, neural link interfaces.
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All of these are sold to us as medical progress.
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But what if they're Trojan horses?
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What if the end goal is not healing your body, but altering your identity, changing your DNA, messing with your book of life?
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If the mark of the beast is tied to worship and allegiance, then a permanent alteration to your God-given blueprint could be part of it.
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It's not about health, it's about ownership.
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1 Corinthians, 6, 19 and 20 says you do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price.
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But if you let a global power inject something into you that modifies what God made, what you're saying is I choose man-made's code over God's image.
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That's dangerous ground, people.
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We're not talking conspiracy, we're talking prophetic convergence.
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All of the puzzle pieces are on the table.
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The only thing missing is a global crisis big enough to mandate submission and when that crisis comes and it's coming, it's going to be a global crisis People will run to receive the mark, not realizing that they've just rewritten their own story, away from God.
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I know this is a lot.
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Stick with me.
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Let's talk about the image of the beast.
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Revelation 13.15 says he was then permitted to give life to this statue so it could speak.
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Then the statue of the beast commanded that anyone refusing to worship it must die.
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This isn't just about idolatry in the ancient sense.
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In the end times, the image of the beast won't be a golden statue or a physical idol in the middle of a pagan temple.
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It could very well be something digital, something animated, something animated, something powered by artificial intelligence.
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We already see prototypes of this AI bots that speak like humans, virtual influencers with millions of followers, deep fakes that can deceive even the most discerning eye.
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Talking devices that sit in our homes, answer our questions, track our habits.
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What if the image is a synthetic consciousness, a machine that appears to have life, one that the whole world watches?
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One that the whole world watches, one that the whole world listens to and obeys, one that enforces allegiance with terrifying precision?
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This isn't sci-fi.
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This is prophecy.
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Converging with technology.
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People already worship their devices.
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They consult Google before God.
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They trust Siri over scripture.
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They bow down, not physically, but with time and attention and devotion.
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That's worship.
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And as AI grows more advanced, more human-like, more intelligent, more advanced, more human-like, more intelligent people will seek it out for moral guidance, spiritual advice, answers to the unknown.
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What happens when a global AI entity is programmed to demand allegiance to a one-world leader and deny truth?
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This image of the beast may not be a statue in the marketplace.
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It may be a talking entity on your screen, animated, revered, feared, and it may have the authority to shut off access, flag your ID, freeze your finances, expose your location.
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This is why spiritual discernment is not an option anymore.
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It's not optional.
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The voice of the shepherd must be louder than the voice of the system.
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John 10.27 says my sheep listen to my voice.
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I know them and they follow me.
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You'll either follow the voice of the king or the voice of the counterfeit.
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Now, worship isn't just about what songs you sing.
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It's about what grabs your attention, what consumes your thoughts, what takes priority in your day.
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Revelation 13.8 says and all the people who belong to this world worship the beast.
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They are the ones whose names were not written in the book of life.
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Now let's pause right here for a second Worship.
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In the end, times is going to look different than it did in the Old Testament.
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It won't just be kneeling in front of a false god, it'll be giving your mind, loyalty, your behavior and your heart to the spirit of the Antichrist.
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We've already been trained.
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Yeah, push notifications shape your habits.
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Clickbait headlines hijack your focus.
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Targeted content fills your feed with what you want to hear, not what you need to do.
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We're being discipled by distraction.
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The beast doesn't need to convince you to hate God, he just needs to make you too busy to care.
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And if Satan can't tempt you to bow physically, he'll take your attention as an offering.
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People don't realize that the line between attention and allegiance is razor thin.
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What you watch, what you give your energy to, where you spend your time, all of it adds up to a pattern, and that pattern either glorifies God or it prepares you to worship the enemy.
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If you can't go a day without checking your feed, but you can go a week without reading your Bible, you're being conditioned for compromise.
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Worship is not a genre, it's a lifestyle.
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So who are you worshiping?
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So let's zoom in on another layer of the beast system economic control.
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Revelation makes it crystal clear Without the mark, you cannot buy or sell.
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This truth is not symbolic.
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It's economic reality.
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Step back and look at today Digital-only banks, cryptocurrency tracking, the central bank, digital currencies, sbdcs, social credit systems, programmable money that can expire or be restricted.
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This isn't future technology, this is now.
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Governments can already freeze your bank account, block purchases, cancel transactions based on compliance.
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In some countries, this is already happening.
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We've moved from paper money to plastic cards, to QR codes and now to invisible digital tokens that live in a cloud that can be turned off with a keystroke.
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You think cancel culture was bad.
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Wait till your wallet gets canceled because of your faith.
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When all money becomes digital, it becomes controllable, it's programmable, it's programmable, it's conditional, and all it takes is one more global crisis to flip the switch.
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All right, I want to speak directly to leaders and pastors and every believer who feels the urgency.
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Where is the church?
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Why are we silent?
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Why are pulpits still talking about blessing and promotion when the world is on fire?
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Ezekiel 33, 6 says but if the watchman sees the enemy coming and does not sound the alarm to warn the people, he's responsible for their captivity.
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Warn the people he's responsible for their captivity.
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Now, you may not be a pastor, but you are a watchman over your home, your family, your circle of influence.
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If you see this beast system rising and say nothing, you're part of the problem.
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Now, too many churches are silent because they fear being labeled, they fear losing their 501c3 status, they fear upsetting the woke crowd.
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Let me tell you something Jesus never asked us to be liked.
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He told us to take up our cross.
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The remnant must rise.
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The alarm has got to sound.
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It must sound.
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So what do we do?
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I'll tell you we stop playing church, we stop blending in, we stop chasing comfort and we start preparing for fire.
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Get serious, get holy and get bold.
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Now's not the time for lukewarm religion or casual Christianity.
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If you're on the spiritual fence, let me warn you the fire doesn't care.
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Half faith won't survive a full-blown persecution.
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You need to get off the fence.
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The middle ground is a mirage.
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You're either in or out.
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You're either all in with Christ or being slowly pulled into compromise.
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So how do we fireproof our faith?
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Let's go deeper into each step.
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Let's go deeper into each step.
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The enemy doesn't need to destroy you if he can distract you.
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We're a people drowning in noise Podcasts, reels, videos, breaking news, tiktoks, endless scrolling and yet the voice of God grows faint.
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The soul that once heard his whisper is now too busy refreshing their feed.
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We need to set screen time limits.
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We need to start small.
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Choose an hour a day, complete disconnection from all media.
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Fill it with prayer, worship, stillness.
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Watch how quickly God fills the silence with his presence.
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We're addicted to our screens.
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This isn't just about wasting time.
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This is warfare.
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Screens have become altars for a generation, being discipled by Netflix more than the Word of God.
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We turn to our phones for comfort before we turn to prayer.
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We need to be fasting One day a week.
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Go screen free after work or school.
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Talk to your family, read out loud Fasting One day a week.
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Go screen free after work or school.
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Talk to your family, read out loud Journal.
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Let your body and brain rewire.
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You don't need another hit of technology, dopamine.
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You need a baptism of fire.
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If the devil can't tempt you with sin, he's going to keep you scrolling so long that you forget you were even at war.
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Social media is a breeding ground for insecurity, envy, anger, false doctrine.
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It's the modern Tower of Babel.
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Everybody's shouting their truth and nobody listening to his.
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Put it down.
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Or, at the very least, just set a 30-day challenge.
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Delete one platform.
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I deleted Instagram a few months ago and I don't miss it.
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Tell your friends why you did it, though.
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Use the time you would have spent there reading Scripture aloud.
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It'll change your mind.
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It'll change your home.
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It'll change your habits, because, let's be honest, most believers spend more time looking for the charger for their phone than charging their spirit in God's Word.
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It has to change people.
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The Word isn't just helpful, it's essential.
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It's oxygen, it's armor.
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When lies come flying and truth is censored, only the Word hidden in your heart is going to keep you standing.
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You need to read the Bible every day.
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Just start off with 15 minutes a day, read it out loud, then pray through what you just read and ask the Holy Spirit to apply it.
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Make it the first and the last thing you do each day.
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Now, what about our children?
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They're being discipled, whether you like it or not.
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The world has a curriculum, and so does the enemy, and it starts early.
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If you aren't teaching your kids to love and follow jesus, somebody else is teaching them not to.
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We need to have families, have a weekly family altar time, pick a night during the week or every night.
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No phones, no TVs, just scripture, worship, prayer.
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Let your children hear you pray, let them see what repentance looks like, let them feel the presence of God in your home.
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We need to speak up when the world demands silence.
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