Episode 1 Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:07

Welcome to the Black Swan Rising podcast, an L10 production. For transcriptions, show notes and extras, please visit us at theblackswanrisingpodcastcom, now broadcasting across the world from the heart of the American Bible Belt. Here is your host, Michael B.

Speaker 2: 0:27

Rush. Hello friends, welcome to the Black Swan Rising podcast. I'm your host, Michael B Rush. Today we're going to start out explaining the purpose and rationale for this podcast. Let's start with the name Black Swan Rising.

Speaker 2: 0:46

What in the heck is a black swan? Black swan is a name that describes events that radically change society. These kinds of events have three things in common. First, they're undetectable in advance to the masses due to normalcy bias. What do I mean by this? This is something that is so far out of the norm that nobody sees this coming. Second, these events change everything. The world is not the same before and after these kinds of black swan events. Lastly, once these events occur and the normalcy bias has been shattered, you can look at the evidence that was there and always had been there, and it becomes obvious that the black swan event, or something very similar to it, was always going to happen. I first became familiar with the term black swan when I read a book called surprisingly, the Black Swan, written by Nassim Taleb. Now, Nassim is a mathematical statistician and he's also an options trader, which is actually one of the reasons that his book was so interesting to me, because I could relate with his career path.

Speaker 2: 2:01

I started my career in finance, I was working in the Bay Area right out of college for Ernst Young. I then worked for some large companies such as Nucor Steel, I worked for private equity companies and now I'm a retail trader. Things because I myself was very and always have been very pattern-driven and very intensely analytical in my approach to life, and the idea that some of these black swan events could be observed by some in advance, but yet not by the majority of people, resonated with me. I remember living in California right before the 2008 housing bubble and crash and trying to convince my friends that something was about to happen, that this simply is not normal, that homes are not supposed to appreciate as quickly as they have been, nor should people that are making less than $100,000 a year qualify to own multiple homes. It just seemed obvious to me. It just it seemed obvious to me. And yet this was another example of a black sw them and you take the data and you let the data tell its own story without pushing upon it a predetermined narrative based upon your own normalcy bias. This is what you've always known. This has been your past experience. Therefore, that must relate somehow to what the future is going to be. It's this kind of mindset that inhibits us from being able to discern these black swan events in advance. But it doesn't have to be this way. We do not have to shackle ourselves down to the belief that the future is going to look like the past Indeed. Through the course of this podcast, I think that you, hopefully, will come to the conclusion that we may not understand our own past as well as we think that we do.

Speaker 2: 4:32

Now let me give you a couple of examples to drive this concept home of black swans. A great example would be 9-11. 11. If I would have told you on September 10th that terrorists were going to fly commercial airliners into the Twin Towers in New York City and that the explosions from those airplanes in the upper floors of the towers were going to cause both buildings and others around them to collapse into dust, into their own footprints, and then, as a result, millions of people would be killed in wars around the world, and that the American people, and really people around the world, would, from that point forward, be monitored continuously by their government, you would look at me as if I was absolutely crazy. That just doesn't happen. People do not fly airplanes into buildings and, as a result, the buildings, especially steel structures like this, collapse into dust. That just does not happen, and yet on 9-11, that did happen. So that's an example of something that apparently, for all intents and purposes, came out of the blue and was shocking and, as a result of that, everything changed. The world was a completely different place post 9-11. And then, once the dust had cleared, there became a plethora of evidence that suggested that something like this was always going to happen. For example, you had teachers at flight schools saying, yeah, we had these Middle Eastern guys come in and they weren't interested in landing planes, only in flying them, things like that. These are red flags that suggest, hey, something weird is going to happen. So that's one example.

Speaker 2: 6:43

Well, let's talk about a black swan event from a religious perspective, because black swan events they happen in all facets of our lives. I think that perhaps the greatest black swan event of all time would be the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Nobody saw this coming. Okay, this was absolutely shocking to the Jewish community. Nobody could believe that God would permit himself to come to earth, to condescend, to take upon himself a mortal body and then subject that mortal body to the Romans and to other men to be beaten, to be stripped naked and then to be crucified in a busy pathway on Calvary in front of the entire world. The thought that something like this could happen simply never entered into the minds of the Jewish nation at that point in time, in fact, when Christ told the 12 apostles that they were going to Jerusalem and that he would be taken and killed by the Jews, it did not register. That simply was completely inconsistent with their idea of the Messiah. It was undetectable due to normalcy bias. However, once the crucifixion happened, it changed everything. The old law was fulfilled and there was a new law given. It was the meridian of time for that specific paradigm shifting event, for that specific paradigm shifting event, and once it occurred, we could then go back and look at the Old Testament and go holy cow. It was obvious that this was always going to happen. The law of Moses was indeed pointing to one great last and eternal sacrifice and that that sacrifice would be the Son of God. But prior to this happening, it was simply so far out of everyone's expectations as to be unbelievable.

Speaker 2: 9:18

These are black swan events, and the reason that I am creating a podcast called the Black Swan Rising is because I believe that it's going to be black swan events that are going to shape the events of the last days in profound ways. There are reasons that Jesus Christ told us that the events of the last days are going to sneak up upon us as a thief in the night. I do not believe that he's saying hey, my coming is going to surprise the world like a thief in the night. I believe that he's talking about the events of the great and terrible day will sneak up on the world as a thief in the night. So let's just pause right here and bifurcate, distinguish between the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the great and terrible day of the Lord, because they are two separate events. One precedes the other. The second coming of Jesus Christ is the grand finale, the great and terrible day of the Lord. Well, that talks about the horrific events that usher in the second coming, and most of what you know about the second coming, have read or talked about or been taught about, really have to do with the great and dreadful day of the Lord. So there's a distinction and the great and dreadful day of the Lord will be full of black swan events.

Speaker 2: 10:48

You may ask well, why are you? What are you basing that off of? Well, think of. There's lots of scriptures like this, but I'm thinking specifically of Luke 21, verse 26, which says Of Luke 21, verse 26, which says Men's hearts will fail them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Okay, men's hearts don't fail them for fear. When everything is business as usual. Men's hearts fail them for fear when something big and scary jumps around the corner and goes rah, okay, that is a black swan event. The powers of heaven shaking. That is a black swan event. What does it mean? That men's hearts will fail them after looking for those things which are coming on the earth. When things come to the earth, it means they're not here right now. It means whatever is going to happen is not going to be on our radar. It's going to surprise us. It's going to be a black swan event or a series of black swan events. That's one example.

Speaker 2: 12:06

Another example in the book of Isaiah, Isaiah mentions that the events leading up to the second coming, the great and dreadful day of the Lord, will cause kings to shut their mouths For that which they had not been told, shall they see? And that which they had not heard, shall they Think about that Isaiah is using kings as the pinnacle of ancient societies, or really every society. The leader of the society should know what's going on, should know what's going on. And if the leader of the society is gob-smacked by some incredible event that he had no idea was about to happen? We're talking about black swan events.

Speaker 2: 12:58

Another great example of this comes from the book of Joel. The first and second chapters of the book of Joel are all about the great and terrible day of the Lord, and if you just look at the opening verses in Joel, chapter one, Joel, it seems like he's saying listen, guys, what you're about to experience when these things happen will be black swan events. I mean, he uses language. This is specifically the language that he says in verses 2 and 3. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it and let your children tell their children and their children another generation. Then we jump down to verse 15. Alas for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. You see, joel is trying to paint this picture of guys, the things that you are going to experience during the great and dreadful day of the Lord will be shocking. It will be the only thing anyone is going to ever want to talk about again, because nothing like it will have ever happened before. So if you are thinking that the events that are going to lead up to the second coming of the Lord are going to be business as usual, you better think again.

Speaker 2: 14:30

Now I know that there are many in the Christian community that think, hey, well, didn't Jesus say that, as in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of man, and that in Noah's day, people were marrying, they were going to work, life was continuing as normal until the rain started. Yes, that is true, but, guys, the rain starting and not stopping for 40 days, and then the fountains of the earth breaking forth and the entire world being baptized in water, that's a black swan event that has never happened before. Okay, so I believe what Jesus was saying when he was talking about this wasn't that, hey, it's going to be business as usual until I surprise everybody by coming in the clouds. I don't think that's what he's saying. I think that he is saying the great and dreadful day of the Lord is going to shock you and sneak up on you like a thief in the night. Everything is going to seem fairly normal until it is not normal, and it never will be normal again once these great and dreadful events, which I am calling Black Swan events of the last day, begin to happen. This is why I'm calling this podcast Black Swan Rising, because we are about to experience some of the most incredible black swan events that the world has ever experienced.

Speaker 2: 16:10

Now, friends, let's backpedal a little bit here. I mentioned that one of the common characteristics of black swan events was that, after they had occurred and the normalcy bias has been shattered and you're looking at the evidence with new eyes, it becomes obvious that this was always going to occur. I mean, the fact that Jesus Christ was going to sacrifice himself for the sins of the world in retrospect was obvious. So what would happen if we could look at the scriptures with that kind of perspective today? Because the day is absolutely going to come when we, after these events occur, that we can take up the scriptures and go. Holy cow, it was here all along. We just didn't see it because we did not have eyes to see. Now, why don't we have eyes to see? Well, one of the biggest reasons I believe in my personal study of the scriptures is we are going to the wrong source for information. Let me expound what I mean by that. Okay, again, I'm going to take a scriptural perspective from this. Okay, most Bible scholars estimate that less than 2% of the Jews went on to become Christians.

Speaker 2: 17:36

However, on Palm Sunday, when Christ rode into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, the entire city was in an uproar. There was a massive throng of people and the people were shouting Hosanna, blessed to the son of David. And I mean, they were literally taking their jackets off and laying them before the donkey so that Christ could enter in the city, not touching the pavement, but walking on his clothes. They were ripping off palm fronds and laying them down. And there were some Pharisees and some Sadducees that confronted Jesus and said whoa, do you not hear what these guys are saying? They're calling you the son of David. Do you not hear what these guys are saying? They're calling you the son of David. You need to stop this and Jesus said listen, if they didn't shout this out then the rocks themselves would testify of me. So what is the takeaway from this? You had a large population that, when Christ came in, were moved upon by the Holy Ghost to shout out that this man was the Messiah.

Speaker 2: 19:08

And yet, at the end of that week, these same individuals looked up onto Calvary and they saw that same man nailed to a cross, and they were shocked. They were shocked beyond belief. This is not what the Messiah was supposed to do. The Messiah was supposed to liberate them from Roman occupation. At least, that's what they presumed to be the case. That's what they presumed Christ's mission was. Think about that. They were moved upon by the Holy Ghost to pronounce this man the Messiah. And now they see him up on the cross and they are confused. And then most of them, the majority of them do not go on to continue down the path that they had started. Now, why is that? Why didn't they continue? If they were moved upon by the Holy Ghost initially, why did they stop? Well, I believe that they chose to obtain information from a different source than the initial source, which was God. God moved upon their hearts and they acted upon that. But when they were confused and saw the Messiah up there on Golgotha, crucified, they didn't have a box for this. This was a black swan event that shook them to their core.

Speaker 2: 20:48

Now, what would happen, or what did happen, to all of the Jews that went in to their rabbis and said that? Went in to their rabbis and said make sense of this for me, Tell me what I should believe about this. Well, what would the rabbis have told them? It's obvious what the rabbis would have told them. However, if the same individuals would have instead turned to God and said help me, make sense of this. What does this mean? They certainly would have gotten a different answer, and this is very important. Who are we getting our information from? Who teaches us? Men or God?

Speaker 2: 21:46

Let me give you another example, and, friends, I love the house of Israel. This is going to come through very strongly in this podcast. The house of Israel, they're the Lord's people. The Lord made a covenant that they would be his people and that he would be their God, and I believe that anyone who accepts the gospel and wants to become a devout Christian does so either through adoption into the house of Israel or because they already have the blood of Israel running through their veins. Now, friends, let me clarify something. Most people today, when they think of the house of Israel, they think of the Jews. The Jews are one of 12 tribes, the house of Israel. The reason why we call it a house is because there were multiple tribes involved, the 12 tribes of Israel. The Jews represent only one of those tribes. Where are the other 11 tribes? Well, that is something that is very important to discuss and to understand and, believe me, I'm going to spend a lot of time in this podcast talking about that.

Speaker 2: 23:05

But I want to go back in history to when Moses, through the power of God, was called upon to deliver the house of Israel. Sorry, I've been eating some popcorn that has been sprinkled with roasted pepper flakes and it's delicious, but it makes my throat catch sometimes. I want to talk about what happened to the house of Israel when they were led through the Red Sea on dry ground and got to the other side in the wilderness in Sinai. The Lord came to Moses and said Moses, I want you to sanctify the people, and in three days I am going to come and talk to them and they will have zero doubt that I am their God and that they are my people. So prepare yourselves and bring the people to the base of Mount Horeb, which is also Mount Sinai, and this is where this is going to happen. So Moses prepares the people, they sanctify themselves, they wash themselves, they wash their clothes, they get themselves into the right frame of mind to have a conversation with their God. Now, on the day as they're huddled around the base of Mount Horeb and there are a lot of Israelites According to the book of Numbers, there's over 600,000 men, so we're talking a body of people that was in the millions. Now, like I mentioned, the Jews were one of those 12 tribes that comprised this body, but there were lots of other tribes involved in this.

Speaker 2: 25:04

In this and when the Lord was about to make his appearance, the scriptures say and you can read about this in Exodus, chapter 19 and 20, this dark cloud came down and rested upon the top of Mount Horeb and the mountain itself began to shake and steam and smoke began to come out of the rocks and the seams, and then there were blasts of trumpets out of the clouds and the Israelites began looking at each other, going holy moly, what is going on? And they began to be terrified. And they said. They began to be terrified and they said Moses, nuts to this, you go up into the mountain and you talk to God for us. We're going to the other side of the valley where we're going to be safe, because, frankly, we're worried that if the Lord talks to us, we're not going to make it.

Speaker 2: 25:55

And in that day, israel outsourced their spiritual education to Moses. Moses said guys, don't do this. God wants to talk to you. He wants you to know that you are his people and that he is your God. He wants you to drink from the source directly. But Israel was not ready for that. They simply couldn't handle it. So they outsourced their spiritual education to Moses and Moses ascended the mountain on the people's behalf. I cannot help but draw a conclusion between that event and what happened in Jerusalem, when everyone was in an uproar. And yet, at the end of the week, very few went on to follow Jesus Christ because they chose not to obtain the information from the source. Instead, they put the teachings and the philosophies of men ahead of the Spirit of God, and that is an incredibly dangerous thing to do.

Speaker 2: 27:12

Now let's just take a little minute here and talk about what it means to go to the source. Okay, let's talk about some current events. I mean, right now, there are voices on both the right and the left that make people angry, and there's no end of opinions out there about how you should interpret the truth. And if you're listening to these voices and that is the source that you are using be it Instagram, snapchat, fill in the blank for your favorite news source that information is only as good and reliable as the source from which you are getting it. And, friends, there is a lot of disinformation out there, both on the right and on the left.

Speaker 2: 28:07

Now, when it comes to truth, Satan does not want you to access the truth. He wants to control the narrative. We see this anciently as well. We see this when you know Christ was killed control the narrative. We see this anciently as well. We see this when Christ was killed by the Jews. He rose from the dead. That's what Christianity is based upon.

Speaker 2: 28:28

And the Roman guards that were standing there at the sepulcher when the angel came and said, hey, what's up? They freaked out and they ran away and they told the Jews or at least they told the high priest what had happened. And the high priest said whoa, we're not going to let this get out. And so the high priest sought to control that narrative, and they did so by bribing the guards to take off. And then they fed the air quotes media the story that they wanted to be spun. That's dangerous. When Lazarus rose from the dead, they wanted to control that narrative. They wanted him gone.

Speaker 2: 29:17

When Christianity began to spread, they wanted to control the narrative, so they started canceling the popular Christian voices of the day, and zealots like Saul went out to take things a step further and were violently acting to suppress this message. Now Saul was shocked when Christ appeared to him and said Saul, why are you kicking against the pricks? You're on the wrong side of this issue. We need to make sure that we are not kicking against the pricks, that we are getting our information from reliable sources and friends. Here is a little life hack when it comes to trying to determine the reliability of a source. If the source that you're going to for information is foaming at the mouth and is filled with anger and rage, be careful.

Speaker 2: 30:22

On the flip side, just because somebody's speech is offending us, we also need to be careful that we are not rejecting truth just because we find it to be offensive. Now let me clarify that a little bit. There's a place in the New Testament where Christ is teaching a very large multitude and he says something that many people in the crowd find highly offensive. He tells them unless you drink my blood and eat my body, you have no place in my kingdom. And people looked at each other and said what he's talking about cannibalism. And they stood up and they walked off in righteous indignation. Now, in these people's minds, they were justified in leaving Christ and walking away. Christ and walking away.

Speaker 2: 31:25

This should give everyone reason to pause and perform a self-assessment. Are your sensibilities causing you to walk away from truth? See, it's very hard for us to make good decisions when we're filled with anger. We need to pause and calm down. How come some of the people that were there present got up and stormed off, and others, while they were certainly going what in the world is he talking about? But yet they didn't storm off? And why was that?

Speaker 2: 32:03

Well, I would submit to you that it is because those folks had felt something and they weren't willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater because they heard something that they didn't understand, like these other folks were the other folks. As soon as they became offended, they became incensed and stormed off, and that kind of behavior is foolishness. It's like going into a Holocaust museum and seeing the offensiveness of the material there. You're seeing dead bodies all over the place, you're seeing very disturbing things and you rise up and you say this place is anti-Semitic and you storm out. I mean it's ridiculous.

Speaker 2: 32:53

Okay, let's not let our emotions distance us from reality. It's a dangerous road to navigate. We need to steer ourselves through our reason and through the spirit and not with our emotions, because if we allow our emotions to steer us, we're probably not going to like where that causes us to end up. We've all written emails and texts in emotion and then afterwards gone. Oh my gosh, I cannot believe I hit the send button on that button on that.

Speaker 2: 33:45

Now, on the flip side again, just because a voice is angry doesn't mean that it's wrong. It just means that we need to be very careful when we're listening to that. Think of Christ. When he went into the temple and was driving out the money changers with a whip that he had braided himself, he was using very forceful language, and there are other examples when he was using language that certainly came up to the Pharisees and the scribes as being very offensive and mean, very offensive and mean. He called them whited sepulchers and told the people hey, listen, unless your righteousness exceeds that of these guys, you got no chance. That made those folks angry and they acted on that anger in highly detrimental ways to their own souls ways to their own souls. So we need to be the masters of our own ships and we need to be very judicious with the sources of information that we choose to allow to influence our lives, because these influences have dramatic consequences in our lives if we choose to listen to the wrong voices.

Speaker 2: 35:09

Now, friends, I understand that this concept can be a little scary because it puts the onus of our spiritual education upon our own shoulders, and there may be some that say you know, listen, this doesn't sound right, this doesn't sound like the way that God works. God calls men to instruct us in everything. Well, certainly there is a pattern of God calling prophets, prophets and apostles and inspired leaders to teach us, but in no instance do the scriptures ever say that we are to shut off our brains and to rely exclusively upon the words of others instead of being taught by the witness of the Holy Ghost, god. All the evidence that I have acquired through my studies indicates to me that God not only is fine with proving us in our faith, but that is in fact his modus operandi.

Speaker 2: 36:25

Think about how different the conversion of the Jewish state would have been if God, the Father, announced the coming of his son, Jesus Christ, through Caiaphas, the high priest of Israel. That would have been essentially a no-brainer. Caiaphas could have said listen, I'm the high priest in Israel. God has told me that this is his son. Everybody come, get on board. This is what we're doing, no-transcript.

Speaker 2: 37:10

But that is not what God the Father did. What did he do? He called John the Baptist out of the wilderness to teach Israel, to prepare the way. Now, john the Baptist. If you compare and contrast John the Baptist to Caiaphas, Caiaphas was well-educated, he was well-groomed, he looked fancy, he had all kinds of fancy priestly robes. He was wealthy. He was the pinnacle of Jewish society. Contrast that with John the Baptist.

Speaker 2: 37:47

John the Baptist was a nobody. He came to Jerusalem from the desert. He ate bugs and honey. He had a big honking beard and probably wild hair. His clothing was coarse. He is not the kind of guy that you would typically stop and listen to, but this is how God the Father, announced the coming of his Son.

Speaker 2: 38:22

Why would he do that? I think that he does it because it requires something of us. It requires that we listen, that we discern for ourselves, and that is vital. It's a skill that we are losing today. It used to be that our children would go to school to learn how to think. We don't do that anymore. Our children go to school and they're indoctrinated in the manner in which they should think. We don't do that anymore. Our children go to school and they're indoctrinated in the manner in which they should think. They're told what is right and what is wrong, and many of the things that they are told are simply false.

Speaker 2: 39:08

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything is as it seems, and if we are to truly navigate the events of the last days, we are going to have to gird up our loins and dive in and engage in this process. In and engage in this process. We can't just sit idly by and expect that someone is now well with you. We need to align our lives with the teachings of Jesus Christ, and we need to understand what the teachings of Jesus Christ are, first and foremost, through the confirmation of the Holy Ghost to our hearts. There are many, many voices today. I mean, you're listening to me. I'm one of those voices.

Speaker 2: 40:23

I do not want you to believe a dang thing that I say simply because I say it. You need to learn how to recognize the Holy Ghost in your own life, because I believe that there will be black swan events that will be so perplexing in their scope and magnitude as to change everything. In fact, you know there are many scriptures that speak of how even the very elect, according to the covenant, can be deceived by some of the events that are going to transpire in the last days. And, friends, if the only thing that you have going is that you have drawn near to the Lord with your lips, but that your heart is far from him, you are on shaky ground. Okay, think about it. Many of the Jews professed Jesus with their lips on Palm Sunday, but they forsook him on Good Friday. So that is really the purpose of this podcast, friends.

Speaker 2: 41:33

I want to take some events, some prophecies. I want to take current events and I don't want to tell you what they mean. I want to, as the Lord told Isaiah, come, let us reason together, let's take these things. Come, let us reason together. Let's take these things, pick them up and examine them in our hands and strive to reconcile them with the scriptures. And I believe that if we do this, and if we strive to break out of the normalcy bias that blinds us in many instances to what truth actually is, if we can put away the teachings and the philosophies of men and empty out our glasses and say God, I want you to fill this glass for me. I know that I have had it filled many times by other people, but I'm emptying it and I'm bringing it to you to fill for me. I do not want to fill that glass for you.

Speaker 2: 42:48

What I want to do with this podcast is discuss things that I see happening around us today, that I see in the scriptures, things that I believe are candidates for being black swan events, and then I want you to make a decision for yourself as to what you believe. I don't want to tell you what to believe, but there are things that you need to start thinking about that maybe right now are not on your radar, because, again, one of the commonalities of Black Swan events is that in the aftermath of the Black Swan event, it becomes obvious that these things were going to happen Prior to them happening. We just didn't have the eyes to see it. With that in mind, knowing that black swan events in retrospect are obvious, if we can have the eyes to see, then we could start looking at some of the evidence before us already and go, oh my goodness, what if this is leading up to a Black Swan event? What do I mean by that? Well, just look at what's been going on in Congress for the last couple of years. This is not normal. I mean, we have been having congressional hearings where very credentialed people are coming forward and testifying under oath to Congress that they are seeing things of a spectacular and inexplicable nature in our skies, craft that are pulling thousands of G-forces moving at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. Hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, going from space into the ocean at speed, moving within the ocean faster than a commercial airliner and doing incredible maneuvers Things like this happening in Congress. I realize that many of us, if we've never thought about these things, the easiest thing for us to do is to stick our head in the sand and pretend we didn't hear it. But these are precisely the types of breadcrumbs that, after the fact, we're going to be looking at and going duh, why couldn't I see that in advance?

Speaker 2: 45:14

So I think that this will be a very interesting podcast. I think that it will be worth your time. I think that it's going to be a fun podcast to listen to because, again, the point of this podcast is not to convince you of anything, is not to convince you of anything. It's just to present you with some ideas that you need to then take to the Lord yourself and contemplate and ask yourself how does this reconcile with my belief system and what needs to change? Is it your belief system that needs to be updated or is there something questionable about the data that is being presented? The answer could be A, b or some combination of the two, but it's a process in which we need to engage, and I hope that this podcast will not be the end of the road for you, but the beginning of a journey wherein you can dive into some of the gospel X-Files, as it were, and see if there isn't actually a place for those things in your belief system, prepare us better for what's coming and perhaps some of these black swan events of the last days that are going to absolutely shape the great and terrible day of the Lord in ways that will be unimaginable. Perhaps we won't be quite so shaken as those who have never paused to consider some of these things and seek to reconcile them with their belief systems. All right, friends, let's close this episode out by summarizing what we've learned today.

Speaker 2: 47:21

I've spoken about black swan events, which is just a business term to describe events that are typically undetectable due to normalcy bias by the general population. Yet once they happen, they change everything. And once everything is changed and everyone is, the shock and awe of the black swan event fades away and everyone starts looking at the evidence that was always there. It becomes obvious that this was always going to happen in the first place. So the premise of this podcast is, if this is what defines black swan events, what would happen if we could just adjust our vision now so that we have eyes to see? And one of the important things to be able to have eyes to see is to be very cautious about the sources of information that we choose to let influence us, and the primary informational source that should trump everything else is the guiding influence of the Holy Ghost Friends, I hope that you will use the Holy Ghost to discern truth from error, right from wrong, up from down, black from white. The world seems to be topsy-turvy these days and we're going to need to have this kind of discernment in the coming days. Well, that about wraps up this episode. I hope that you will join me again on Black Swan Rising when we start deep diving into some of these black swan events that I foresee coming down the path.

Speaker 2: 48:52

Some of the things that we're going to talk about in future episodes will be things like the Antichrist, the restoration of the house of Israel. As I mentioned, most people just think about the Jews as being the house of Israel, but there are many scriptures that talk about the entire house of Israel being restored, as if it had never been dispersed in the first place, and, believe me, there are some incredible things with that. We're going to talk about the New Jerusalem. We're going to talk about things like the rapture. We're going to talk about the temple in Jerusalem. We're going to talk about the two prophets in Jerusalem. We're going to talk about the Battle of Armageddon. We're going to talk about how UFOs may fit into this kind of thing.

Speaker 1: 49:41

I mean we're going to talk about it all. I think it'll be a lot of fun. Hope to see you next time. Until then, may God bless you. You have just finished an episode of the Black Swan Rising podcast, an L10 production hosted by Michael B Rush. For show notes, transcriptions and extras, please visit wwwtheblackswanRisingPodcastcom. If you enjoyed this episode, click the share button icon and send it to your friends and family. This will help to ensure the continued publication of future content. Michael thanks you in advance for sharing and looks forward to seeing you next time. Until then, keep seeking, for they that seek shall find. Thank you, Thank you.