Episode 5 Transcript

Welcome to the Black Swan Rising Podcast, an L10 production. For transcriptions, show notes, and extras, please visit us at the Black Swan Rising Podcast.com. Now, broadcasting across the world from the heart of the American Bible Belt, here is your host, Michael B. Rush.

Hello, friends. This is Michael B. Rush, your host. Welcome back to the Black Swan Rising Podcast. Our last episode focused on the lady, her dealings with the Lord's Covenant people throughout time, how she played a major role in the destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel, and in the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah by Babylon, which resulted in their captivity as well. We also read some interesting accounts that are upheld by some of the German secret societies as being legitimate. I'm specifically speaking of the first Roderick report, which alleges that the lady appeared to some of the knights of the Teotonic Order and gave them an alternate history of Christianity and basically turned the narrative on its head and provided the fundamental doctrine for the rise of the Nazi Party. Whether this is true or not, I don't know. I only know that there was a box of documents that was delivered to Ralph Edel, who was a journalist living in London at the time, but of German descent. And Ralph claims that that box was filled with historical documents pertaining to the Nazi Party. And that's how those things came to light in the post-Nazi regime. I concluded that episode with an extract from the Ascension of Isaiah, which is an early Christian document from the first century A.D. that was ubiquitous in the early Christian church, that had a very peculiar prophecy regarding the rise of an antichrist in the last days, who would not who would come from a completely different firmament than our own, and that he would have power to cause the sun to rise in the middle of the night, which is very reminiscent of the miracle of the sun, which was recorded in conjunction with the Lady of Fatima. Now, one thing that I did not mention in the prior episode, because frankly, the prior episode was going a little bit longer than I had anticipated, was that I recently went to Portugal and visited that complex, the church at Fatima that was built at the request of the lady, and is the location where the miracle of the sun actually occurred. And I gotta say, the entire place is very impressive as far as just the complex itself. There's a massive church there, and when you go inside the church, right up behind the altar of the church, and the entire church is dedicated to the lady. And you have this painting of the lady being crowned by God the Father, and Jesus Christ is standing off to the side, and she's being crowned the queen of heaven. And then you have statues of her at the complex on the outside of the church facing the square. There's this massive statue of the lady in queenly robes, wearing a crown, and depicting her as the sovereign queen of the universe. And it was just shocking to see something like this, knowing what I know about the history of the lady and her claim to be this ancient deity from antiquity, venerated as the queen of heaven. And here you have her in modern times also being venerated as the queen of heaven. And you know, the for the rest of my trip in Portugal, I just couldn't shake that visit. It was very disconcerting to me. And on my last night in Portugal, I was sleeping in my bed. It's just this little small, skinny bed. I was the only one in the room. And I was just having a very restless night. And it was it was very late. I was the only one awake, and I'm just lying there in the darkness, and I just had this bad feeling, like there was something unholy in the house I was staying in. And it felt uh you know, there weren't any lights on or anything like that, but it just felt like there was a darkness in the room. And I was in a on the ninth floor of a you know, very tall building, apartment building, and in the the darkness, there's this massive slam against the outside wall. And it just you know, it it felt like it shook my room. And then it was you know totally quiet. It was coming from it came from outside the window. And I, you know, I'm I'm nine stories up. And I'm going, what in the heck was that? I'm just lying in my bed, kinda freaked out by it, and just trying to go to sleep, and you know, I nod off to sleep, and then bam, that the same thing happens right outside my window. And I mean, this this was a very loud bang. This isn't like a bird flying into the window, and I I have no explanation for it, given you know that I'm nine stories up and there are no balconies, it was just you know, a vertical out exterior wall. And you know, uh I'm just left with this totally creepy feeling like there's you know darkness, a palpable darkness in my room. And then I you know, I just go back to sleep, and then you know, I'm having this, I don't know, it's kind of like a fever dream, and I just I start feeling physically sick, and I start sh you know, shaking like you're you're trembling from fever chills, and I have this vivid, you know, lucid dream where the the lady appears to me. Now, I I can't see her in detail, but she looks exactly like the image of you if you go and look at the Our Lady of Guadalupe image, she looks like that, except for very exposed to the point that you can only see like the outline of that image, and it's a bluish-white light. Very similar to what Chris Bledsoe said that the lady was emanating a bluish-white light, except for I just see like this Guadalupe, you know, our lady of Guadalupe, you know, image over explos overexposed in bluish white light, so that you know, I recognize the that shape of that image, but I cannot see any detail. And she speaks to me, and she says, Yeah, hold on, I'm gonna grab my my journal and read specifically what she said. Okay, so this happened on March 28th. And as I said, it happened very late at night. Uh, I was again the only one awake. So she appears to me just as I said, and yeah, this is yeah, this is like a dream, okay, but it was very, very real. And this is what she said. Leave my message, the expletive, alone. I know that you know that I could have no power over the elective God unless God placed them within my power. And then she was gone. And then I became violently ill and had one of the most miserable nights of my life, and I did not start feeling better until I arrived in America. That is a very strange experience. Okay. So, what does it mean? What is this just some crazy fever dream? I don't I don't think so. I think that this was real, and I think that what she was referring to when she said that I know that you know, that yeah, I could not deceive people unless God allowed me to. Now, when she said that, I immediately thought of a passage in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. In this chapter, Paul is talking about how the sign that the second coming of Christ is at hand will be the coming of the great deceiver, who comes with the power of Satan and is is able to perform miracles in the eyes of you know all people. And then specifically it's this verse 11 and 12. And I'm gonna read these because I think that this is what the lady was you know talking about. And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie, that they might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. I think that in the last days, God is going to permit this great deception to take place because he needs to sift the world. You know, Christ said that, listen, he would that we would be either hot or cold, but that you know, lukewarmness is abhorrent to the Lord, and he spits those out that are that are lukewarm. I think that this great deception is going to sift the people into two groups, those that are for Christ and those that are against him. And I, you know, according to Paul, the Lord is going to allow this great deception to take place so that this sifting occurs. And I believe that the lady was telling me, listen, I'm just, you know, part of this great sifting. Stop, you know, shining the light on what I'm doing, is essentially what she said. Because you know, the only things that I have ever done, and you know, I've I've written some books on this. I've written a whole series on the book of Enoch, and this particular message is discussed in volume one and two of the book of Enoch. But it's very, very curious that I would have had this experience, and it uh it was not a good experience in any stretch of the imagination. It was not uplifting, it was evil, and it left me feeling physically sick, violently so. It was one of the worst nights of my life. So I didn't uh share that experience in the last episode because you know the the episode had gone on so long, but you know, that is uh my own context with the lady, and you know, so uh I guess she and I are are not on good terms, but she has been after the House of Israel, she has been a tremendous tool in the quiver of the adversary, and I think that we are going to see her take a major role in the events of the last days. I mean, for crying out loud, Chris Bledsoe said you know, that uh she told him that around Easter of 2026, the world was going to enter into the stage of the divine feminine. Now, what that means, I don't know, but I am nervous about it. Which is why, you know, I I think it's important that we get the word out on these things and help people reconcile all this strange stuff that's happening. Because being able to do so is like receiving the vaccine for the disease before the virus begins spreading. So with that said, let's jump into the topic for today, which I I mentioned we're going to talk about the Antichrist, but there's some groundwork that needs to be laid before we, you know, get to the Antichrist. And that groundwork is found in Revelations chapter 17. And I think that you know this is ties hand in glove in with the prior episode on the lady. Revelations chapter 17 is about the whore of Babylon and what happens to the Whore of Babylon. Now, I think that that name, Horror of Babylon, is very interesting, particularly if you think back onto the last episode and some of the things that were mentioned about how the ancient world worshipped Asherah, the queen of heaven. They she was worshipped through fornication and you know ritualistic prostitution, sacred prostitution, which is you know an oxymoron. So I think that it's very interesting that John sees the horror of Babylon, because I think you could you could use that same term for the Queen of Heaven here. Now, let's just start reading chapter 17 in the book of Revelation, and it will give us some background that I think is going to be very important for us to kind of put these things into context and to understand where we are in the timeline of these things. So, verse 1. And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither, I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. Okay, let's pause here and just kind of unpack what we've read. So John sees the whore of Babylon, and she is described as being essentially the queen of the earth. She rules the nations. The nations, the kings of the earth are made wealthy by her. The inhabitants of the earth become drunken with the wine of her fornication, meaning that she is introducing all kinds of false doctrines and blasphemies that are corrupting the world. And that this woman is living deliciously, and she's full of abominations and filthiness. And John sees her and sees her scope, the scope of her kingdom, and he says that he wondered with great admiration, meaning he's totally blown away by what this whore of Babylon has accomplished. She's got global reach and influence, and it astounds John. Now, this woman isn't walking, okay, she's riding atop of this beast, this seven-headed dragon. And the dragon has ten horns. And the this woman and this dragon are mysterious. Specifically, it says in verse 5 that the name mystery was written on the forehead of this woman. So what are we to take away from that? This woman works in darkness. In the book of Revelation, when things are in the wilderness, it means that they're shrouded in mystery. And her dealings and interactions and power and influence over the world is done in darkness and cloaked in mystery. So if you are talking about the world today and you're trying to look for the equivalent of this woman, you wouldn't be looking for an organization that is operating in the light of day. You would look for an organization that has great power and influence over the entire world, but that is pulling the strings from behind the curtain. Her dealings are mysterious. Her influence is pervasive, but her identity is mysterious. Okay? So now let's let's jump back into this explanation because the angel is going to kick in and give us some commentary. I'm starting with verse 7. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath seven heads and ten horns. Okay, so the angel here is now going to start talking about this beast. But I think that actually we need some more context because the angel is talking about all of these things in chapter 17, but John already saw something very interesting pertaining to the same beast in chapter 13 of the book of Revelation. And we need that context in order to understand what the heck the angel is talking about in his commentary. So let's go to Revelation chapter 13, and we're going to get some very interesting information about this strange beast with seven heads and ten horns. Okay, Revelation chapter 13, verse 1. And I stood upon the sands of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his ten horns, ten crowns, and upon his heads the names of blasphemy. Okay, this is verse one. So again, here when you have something coming up out of the sea, it is symbolic of mystery. The depths of the sea are unknowable to men, particularly men in John's day. You just because of the pressures involved and the vast depth of the ocean, it's mysterious. So is this beast that rise ups that rises up out of the sea with its seven heads and ten horns. Now in verse two. And the beast, which I saw, was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth was the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority. Okay, let's pause here for a second. This should cause you to think about the same beasts that Daniel from the Old Testament saw in his visions. If you go to Daniel chapter 7, you're going to read something very similar to what we've just read in the book of Revelation. And where this similarity should not be lost on us. I'm going to read some passages from this for context. Go to Daniel chapter 7, and I'm starting in verse 2. Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea, and four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from the other. Okay. John the revelator saw this seven-headed beast come up out of the sea. Okay. Daniel has seen a beast come up out of the sea, meaning there is mystery associated with these things. Okay, now we're going to verse four. The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings. I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked. And it was lifted up from the earth, and it made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold, a second beast, like unto a bear. Okay, so you have a lion and a bear. Now I'm jumping down to verse six. After this I beheld and lo, another, like a leopard. Now, so you've got a lion, a bear, and a leopard. Now going to verse seven. And after this I saw in the night visions and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth, and it devoured and it broke in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it, and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. Okay, you should be able to see the similarity between Daniel's vision, where he saw a lion, a bear, a leopard, and then this monstrous, dreadful beast that had ten horns on it. Compare that to what John the Revelator saw in verses one and two of chapter 13. I'm going to read these again. And I stood upon the sands of the sea, and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his head the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, ding ding ding, and its feet were as the feet of a bear, ding ding, ding, ding, and the mouth was the mouth of a lion, ding ding, ding, ding. These are the three first beasts that Daniel saw. And then you have the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority. So you've got four creatures here: a leopard, a bear, a lion, and a dragon. Daniel didn't describe the fourth beast as a dragon. He just described it as being terrible and powerful and different from all of the other beasts that preceded it. Well, in Daniel's vision, he saw each of the creatures that he saw related to a specific kingdom that would rise to global power and influence from you know over the course of the history of the world, from his day until the end of the world. Now, the fourth kingdom that Daniel saw, I believe, corresponds with this creature that John the Revelator is saying, which apparently is an amalgamation of all of the four beasts that Daniel saw in his vision. What are we to understand from this? Where we are to understand that this fourth beast that rises with these ten horns in the last days will be the most powerful kingdom that has ever existed on the planet. It will have all the power of all of these first beasts, these master kingdoms that ruled the world in antiquity and more. So now let's continue in verse three. And this is where this starts to get really interesting. And I saw one of his heads. Now remember, this dragon has seven heads, one of its heads, as it were, wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon, which gave power unto the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is likened to the beast? Who is able to make war with him? And there were given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and power was given unto him to continue for forty and two months. Forty and two months is three and a half years. So we have this mouth speaking great blasphemies given to this beast. Now I believe that this mouth speaking great blasphemies is the Antichrist that will arise in the last days. And it serves this beast that is represented by a kingdom that received a deadly head wound that should have killed it, but that it rises to power once more and reigns over the earth for at least forty and two months, which is three and a half years. Okay. Let's continue in Revelation 13 for more context. And he, meaning this Antichrist, opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him, meaning it was given unto this Antichrist figure, to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations, and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world. Okay. So this is pretty intense. John is seeing that this Antichrist figure is going to come and serve this dragon-like creature with seven heads and ten horns in the last days. And the only head that we are given any information about at all is described as having been wounded with a deadly wound that should have killed it, but that it doesn't die. It rises to global power once more. Okay, with that background, that context, we're ready to jump into the angel's description of what all of this stuff means, which he gave to John. Here we go. This is Revelation chapter 17, and I'm going to start in verse 7. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and the beast that carrieth her, which hath seven heads and ten horns. Now I'm jumping to verse nine. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings, five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come, and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. Okay, so the angel explains to John that these seven heads of this beast represent seven mountains, or I think that you can substitute in here seven kingdoms, okay, that the woman had power over throughout the history of the world. Because he goes in and says in verse 10 that there are seven kings, meaning there were seven kings associated with these seven kingdoms, and five are fallen, and one is and the other is not yet. Come. So what we understand by this is by the time that John is writing this, five of these kingdoms that this woman had power in in antiquity have already collapsed. Now, the identity of these kingdoms really isn't super important to us at this point in time. All we need to highlight is that the lady, she claims to have been venerated by all of the ancient kingdoms of the world, and that those kingdoms that venerated her have fallen. Now, John says that five, or the angel is explaining to John, that five have fallen and one is, meaning in John's day, one of these kingdoms is just starting to get its legs under it in John's day. And then that the last kingdom will come in some future date. And this last kingdom is associated with this head that receives the deadly head wound. Okay. So let's talk about what is the head that was rising to power in John's day. Again, we're talking about something that has to be cloaked in mystery. This wasn't something that was known by everybody. Because remember, the woman has the name mystery written right on her forehead. And this seven-headed dragon rises up out of the depths of the sea, meaning its origins and the source of its power is mysterious. And there are things about this kingdom's power that the common man simply does not understand. And so what we're to understand by this kingdom that is rising to power in John's day is that it too was not what it seemed. So who are we talking about? Well, if you make a close study of the first four chapters in the book of Revelation, there is a theme of a nefarious group that the Lord comes right out and says, I hate these guys. He refers to them as being the Nicolaitans. Now, the word Nicolaitan, it's a compound Greek word from two words that mean people and enemy. So we're to take away that this group is the enemy of the people. Now, when you read the first four chapters, you're it's essentially commentary to the seven churches. And there is this nefarious force that is infiltrating the seven churches, and it's the Nikolaitans. And the Nicolaitans masquerade themselves as if they are being, as if they were covenant people, but they are not. And if you review early Christianity without any kind of bias, it becomes painfully clear that Christianity was usurped by the Nicolaitans. They succeeded in their attempt. Now, unless you are very familiar with history, this is probably all news to you. But if you do a deep dive into early Christianity, it becomes painfully clear that the Nicolaitans were wrestling away power from the original fathers of the church. And you see this intense power struggle in something that is known as the Arian controversy. So what is the Arian controversy? And I'm I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on this because my purpose in going through all of this is not to give you a lesson in early church history, but to focus on the events that are going to transpire in our day. But if you don't understand this, then you can't really grasp what is going to happen and in fact is happening already. Now, the name Arian Controversy stems from an early Christian father whose name was Arius. That's why it's the Arian Controversy. And essentially this all comes about around the time of the Council of Nicaea. Now, the Council of Nicaea happened around 325 A.D., where you had a couple hundred church leaders, bishops, and priests gather together, and they decided that God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost were literally the same being. And they created a formal doctrine around that. And then they went and published that to all of the other churches. And this was became the source of the Aryan controversy because Arius was very vocal in saying, What in the heck is this? This is this is not what the Bible teaches. I mean, how can you believe that God the Father and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are all the same person, for instance, when Jesus was getting baptized in the river Jordan, and his father speaks from heaven and the Holy Ghost descends as a dove, you know, signifying that they are not the same, they are separate. And then he goes on to say, well, you think about when Stephen was stoned, he said that he saw Jesus Christ standing on the right hand of God, meaning they were two separate people. Think about when Jesus Christ appeared after when he was first resurrected to Mary, and Mary goes to embrace him, and Jesus says, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my father. So Arius was using these things as you know examples that listen, this doctrine that you're saying, this Nicene Creed, this isn't based on the Bible. Now, the folks that were for the Nicene Creed, they said, Well, of course it is. Don't you remember in the Bible when you know Jesus said, you know, I am the Father, you know, I and the Father and the Holy Ghost are one, and that you need to become one with us. And you know, Arius said, Well, duh, we are all supposed to become one with God. It doesn't mean that we literally become him. Just like you know, Paul told us that you know, we, you know, a man and a woman are supposed to become one. Meaning, we are we're not that the husband literally becomes the wife. That's not what Paul was saying. And so you have this controversy, which you know, the the first council of Nicaea was you know flatly rejected, actually. And you have Arianism, which becomes the primary doctrine of the church. And this is the case, it's formally adopted as the gospel truth in 328 A.D. And it continues up until you get an emperor who is known as Julian the Apostate. Now, Julian the Apostate started out as Christian and then he turned back to paganism, thus his name, Julian the Apostate. He said, Listen, guys, we need to be nice to the Niceneans, and you you have to stop ostracizing them. And you know, because you know, during this this period of time, anyone who believed in the Nicene Creed that you know God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost were literally one rather than you know separate beings, were I mean that was that was false doctrine. And he he kind of said, Okay, guys, we we've got to we've got to let them you know back in, and they can they can teach this if they if they want to, and those people that that believe this, they can believe it. And this kind of created a divide in the church. And you you become, you know, you you get the eastern church and the western church. And you know, the uh the eastern church supports Arianism. And anyone who's for you know the Nicene Creed is part of the Western Church. And you know, that you know continues from about 363 to 379, and you know, then you have the Council of Constantinople, where the Rome basically comes out, and this is really driven by the the emperor. He says, Listen, we're going with the Nicene Creed. The Nicene Creed is the right answer. Anyone who disagrees with this is a heretic. And then you have corresponding with this, you have the Edict of Thessalonica, which was issued by the emperor, who at the time was Theodosius I. And he basically uses Roman law to say, listen, it is my way or it is the highway. We are going to persecute the Roman state, will persecute anybody who believes that God the Father was literally Jesus Christ's Father, and that the Holy Ghost is separate from them, that there are three separate individuals. Anyone who believes that is now a heretic and will be persecuted by the church. Now, one of the unintended consequences of this was you made essentially all of the Germanic-speaking people were Arians. I mean, they they believed that God the Father and Jesus Christ were separate beings, that Jesus Christ was literally the begotten Son of God the Father. And the Roman state had just labeled them all as being heretics, and they were being persecuted. The Roman state was going and shutting down their churches and excommunicating all of their leaders and essentially making anyone of Germanic descent a heretic. Now, again, the Germanic-speaking people were 100% of the belief that God the Father and Jesus Christ were separate beings. And so you start having the Germanic people who are being treated as enemies by the Roman Empire, they rise up and overthrow Rome. Rome falls at the hands of the Germans, the German-speaking tribes. And you know, so you have this chaos that happens. And essentially, in the collapse of Rome, you have the introduction of the Dark Ages. And for all intents and purposes, the Catholic Church really kind of went into oblivion at that point, and it wasn't really resurrected until you have Charlemagne, who was himself a German, who said, Listen, we're going to bring back the Holy Roman Empire, and we're going to use the Catholic Church as the instrument for the religious branch of this. And then you have the beginning of a new era of Christianity, probably several hundred years after the fall of Rome with Charlemagne. So, anyways, the the Nicolaitans they were involved in this whole process of trying to embed the Roman state into the organization of the church, and they succeeded, and the church would go on to become a major political power. And the Nicene Creed is the mainstay of traditional Christianity today. In fact, the only Christian church today that does not affiliate itself with the Nicene Creed is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, otherwise known more commonly as the Mormons. They believe that God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are separate beings. And this is why traditional Christians will point at them and say, they're not Christians. This is essentially a rehashing of the Aryan controversy from 2,000 years ago. So why am I talking about this? Because this was all coming to a head back in John's day. And I believe that this is what the angel was talking to John about when he says, Hey, one of these things now is, and it's it's rising to power. And then in the last days, there will be a separate kingdom. And this kingdom will be identified by having received a deadly head wound that should have killed it, but did not. Now let's go back to what the angel said about this beast. Let's look at verse 12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings, one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the lamb, and the lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and king of kings, and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful. And he said unto me, The waters which thou sawst, where the whore sitteth, are people and multitudes and nations and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawst upon the beast, thee shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God hath put it in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. Okay, let's unpack this a little bit. So just backing up again, this revelation starts with the whore of Babylon sitting upon a seven-headed dragon. And one of the only head that really plays a prominent role in the last days is this head that has ten horns on it and received a deadly head wound that should have killed it. In verse 13, we understand that that head rises to power in the last days, and the Antichrist comes to that kingdom, and that kingdom rules all the entire world and makes war against the saints and overcomes the saints. And meaning that the saints are under the thumb of this despot kingdom for a period of time. And then here in uh Revelation chapter 17, we just learned that these ten horns they hate the horror of Babylon. They actually end up destroying the whore of Babylon, and they do this thinking that they're fulfilling their own will, but secretly God has put this into their own hearts, and God hates the horror of Babylon and uses the wicked to destroy it. Okay, what does all of this mean? Well, I think that what you're talking about is a woman that represents an incredibly powerful organization that will exist in the last days, simultaneously with a kingdom that will have received a deadly head wound and will be associated with ten horns. And presumably, these ten horns they give their power unto this kingdom that received this deadly head wound, and because of that, the synergy of this relationship essentially breathes new life into this nation state that, for all intents and purposes, should have been obliterated by this deadly head wound that it received, and yet it now rises to power. So now we are left to kind of unwind this conundrum and figure out what the heck we're talking about. So given that this last head is the head that is around when all the you know fur starts to fly, this is a kingdom that if this is truly if the Lord is truly about to come back, we should be able to identify who this kingdom would be associated with. So if you look at all of the kingdoms on the world today, was there a kingdom that was in a position of global power that received a deadly head wound that caused it to basically collapse? And then because of the synergistic relationship with ten horns, this kingdom rises to incredible power again in the last days. And this conglomerate, this kingdom that was wounded, and these ten horns, they have to hate this other whore of Babylon. That and so they're they're competing for power. Well, I think that it would be fairly safe to say that the horror of Babylon would be synonymous with this global globalistic elitist agenda that is operating behind the scenes and seeking to control the entire world. And if you look at that globalistic cabal, is there a country that is on the outside of that cabal that would you know reconcile with this description of having received a deadly head wound that you know caused it to cut to collapse? Well, I think that the obvious candidate for this would be Russia. Russia was the driving force between the Soviet Union, which rose to an incredible position of power. It was the Soviet Union and the United States of America. And then to the shock of the world, the Soviet Union collapsed into bankruptcy. And I believe that that could be described as the deadly head wound that should have killed it. You know, for all intents and purposes, from the perspective of the horror of Babylon, Russia is no longer relevant. But then Russia forms an alliance with ten kings, and they lend their strength, and together they form a new coalition. Is there anything like that today? And I believe that the answer is a resounding yes. If you look at what Russia, the coalition that Russia has put together, it's called BRICS Plus. Who are these ten nations that comprise BRICS Plus? Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia. Now, according to the Book of Revelation, these ten nation states would have to hate the whore of Babylon. So is this is this true? I mean, are the powers in the West behind this global cabal, are they adversarial with these ten nation states? Well, if you look at Russia and you know frankly, you know, most of these, and you look at what has been happening, these nation states, the reason the primary motive for them coming together was to be able to put themselves in a position that they could encounter the power of the US dollar, which this whore of Babylon is wielding against them like a weapon. For example, you look at Russia. And so all of these nations have had lots of assets in US dollars. In fact, many of these nations have acquired US debt as a way of stabilizing their own currencies. But recently, the West seized three hundred billion dollars in assets from Russia and is threatening to give those assets to Ukraine to enable Ukraine to continue fighting Russia. So, and you you you look at China, you know, China's being bludgeoned with the trade war, Brazil and India have been bludgeoned, South Africa, all of these, Iran, all of these nation states have had the West, they all have reasons to hate the power structure in the West. Now, it's it's important to understand that when we're talking about the West, we're not necessarily talking about Americans. We're talking about the whore of Babylon. And this becomes clear when you listen to some of the things that Putin has said. In October of 2022, at the annual foreign policy conference, Vladimir Putin said the following Russia's battle is with strange Western elites, not with the West itself. In the United States, there is a very strong part of the population who maintain traditional values for which Russians feel kinship. But there is another West, aggressive, acting as the weapon of the neoliberal elite. So I believe that Putin here is not referring to America here, as he clearly says, He's referring to these Western elites. I believe that these Western elites are the whore of Babylon. Now, he says something else earlier uh this year in March of 2025 in the Economic Times, he was quoted as saying that he and Trump want to establish cooperation, but that Western elites were seeking to undermine their dialogue. And he emphasized that the same group had provoked the Ukrainian crisis and many other wars around the globe. So clearly Putin is talking about what we might, from a scriptural perspective, coin as the Whore of Babylon. And he's saying, listen, we are fighting against this whore of Babylon. So these other ten nation states, they all have similar stories that Russia has. They all have their reasons for wanting to create a financial system that will weaken the dollar and elevate their own means of exchange so that they are not under the boot of the Horror Babylon. The question is, is there anything that this group of let's just call them ten horns, could do to go against the Horror Babylon? Well, let's just look at some news articles over time that lead up to the formation of BRICS and as a result, what BRICS may be planning to do. This first excerpt comes from Bloomberg. It's a Bloomberg article on November 28th, 2018. Here's a little extract. According to Putin, the volatility of dollar transactions is prompting numerous global economies to explore alternative payment settlement systems. Okay, that's from 2018. Here's a little excerpt from a Reuters article. Putin says United States uses the dollar as a weapon. That's October 27th, 2022. Then a Russian article in a publication called Rusi on January 11th, 2024, it says this G7 countries have seized over$350 billion in assets belonging to Russia's central bank. Obviously, they're mad about that. Later that same year, in October, there was published in a publication called Numistic News on October 18th, 2024, the following. But let's look at another Reuters article that was published in the same month that all of this news came out, October of 2024. Russia is in talks with BRICS Nations to create a precious metals exchange to rival that of the West. Okay, interesting. It seems like they're pretty serious about this. Then another article in June of This year, June 20th. This is coming from Interfax. The St. Petersburg Exchange signed a cooperation agreement with the state mint Gonzac on Thursday as it prepares to start trading precious metals. All right. Then this is from Trump's Truth Social account on July 6th, 2025. Trump said any country aligning themselves with the anti-American policies of BRICS will be charged an additional 10% tariff. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Okay, so you start to see that there are some rising tensions between the BRICS and the West. Now, why would the creation of a bullion bank be a threat to the West? And why would this have anything to do with these ten nations being able to destroy the Whore of Babylon? Well, let's look at it. Bullion banks simply do not function like normal banks do. In a normal bank, the bank can only lend nine dollars for every one dollar that it has in its actual vaults. However, in the West, the bullion banks operate totally differently, radically differently. The Western bullion banks have essentially lent out approximately somewhere between 300 and 400 paper ounces of silver for every one ounce of physical silver that they have in their vaults. This is a huge amount of leverage. When you look at the amount of silver bullion that is actually available to fulfill these paper contracts in Comex as of the time of this uh recording, it was less than 34 million ounces. However, there's over 10.7 billion ounces of obligations. That's even worse in London. London, essentially, right now, I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but it essentially has no free silver. Now it has lots of silver in its vaults, but that silver is owned by other people. And they're just acting, you know, as you know, it's it's like you know, having something in a safety deposit bank or box in a bank. The you know, the LBMA is holding silver that belongs to other people, they can't give it away, they essentially have no silver to lend, and it's it's creating massive disruption in the silver market right now. And the reason that Ed Steer said that this is a financial weapon of mass destruction is because if the BRICS nations can create bullion banks that are literally backed by all of the precious metal that they say that they have, and the western banks cannot, the Western bullion banks will implode. Because if you uh and if you start having these sovereign nations like China, India, Brazil, and Russia starting to hoard physical silver, then it sucks up you know all of the the silver that's available. And and friends, the silver market is remarkably small in the United States. I mean, not just the United States, the entire world. You will only have roughly about a billion ounces of silver that is available for trading uh you know at any given time above ground at today's prices, you could acquire all of that silver for$50 billion.$50 billion is nothing. Okay, if if you're Russia and you just had over$350 billion seized, and you can stick it to the Horror Babylon by going with$50 billion and buying all of the available silver that there is, and then letting the West choke on all of these paper contracts that are valued in the trillions of dollars that immediately you cannot fulfill, you create a weapon of mass destruction. Is this what the book of Revelation is talking about? I have no idea. All I know is that this is literally happening right now. This is you take this right from the headlines today. In fact, recently India, which is the eye in bricks, purchased a thousand tons of silver, paper silver contracts from London, who simply does not have that available to deliver and they want delivery. What is that gonna do? It's seems I I I don't I mean, you you're hearing about you know people loading up planes and shipping silver to London to try to alleviate the situation, but India they are paying almost ten dollars over spot for silver. So if you have silver are and you're looking to sell it, are you going to sell it to London or are you gonna sell it to India for ten dollars more? Okay, the silver is flowing to BRICS Nations, and the only pretty much the only entity in the West that has silver is JP Morgan Chase, which has the largest private holding of silver in the world. It's JP Morgan and BlackRock have combined to create this silver horde. It's very interesting stuff. I I don't know if you know how relevant this is going to be. I only know that this is happening in real time. And we could literally be seeing in days in the days, weeks, or months ahead the collapse of the Western bullion banking system, which would result if this is that there is very just remember, friends, going back to the 2008 financial crisis, when you had all these derivative instruments that were created off of mortgage-backed securities, and what a fiasco that was. When I mean, these are literal houses and mortgages that are being bundled and sold as financial instruments, and it was a complete disaster trying to unwind that. Think about paper, silver. I mean, we're we're talking again about 10.7 billion ounces of silver that does not exist in Comex alone. And you know, in London, it's it's much worse than that. So you could be talking about trillions of dollars in losses that the BRICS nations can force overnight and likely is going to be happening at any moment. It's it's frankly miraculous that it hasn't happened yet. And you know, recently we had the biggest single-day drop in silver in recent memory, and you know, nobody really knows why, because uh the silver liquidity is so crunched at the moment. I mean, especially outside of the United States. Right at the beginning of the year, we the the West, powers that be in the West, drained London of all of its physical silver. Maybe they knew something was going to happen. Now London is hosed, okay, and the chickens are coming home to roost. And you know, yeah, somebody is flying some silver back in jumbo jets over there to try to alleviate this situation. But what you what are you seeing what with that big massive drop in silver? I mean, silver hit all-time highs, the most expensive that it has ever been uh from a nominal perspective. It you know hit like$54. It's never been$54 before. And then it dropped, you know, practically overnight. And prices on something that is hard to get your hands on, you know, think of toilet paper during COVID or hand sanitizer, you know, things like that. The prices of those things were going through the roof because the shore the the store shelves were empty. The opposite is happening with silver. You can't, you know, India literally can't get any more silver. India has put their markets, their silver market on hold. Literally, you cannot invest in any silver EFT. You cannot, you know, they've the mint, the royal mint in India has literally run out of silver. That's never happened in history. So you have uh a lack of silver in certain parts of the world, and London has no silver to be able to lend. And the people in the West, why the heck would you want to send your silver to London when you could get$10 more an ounce in India for it? So something is broken and it doesn't make any sense. But these bullion banks, they're able to short the market, which basically means that they can sell a bunch of their paper silver and drive the price down in the short term. And that seems to be what's happened, but the unintended consequence of this is that you say to the entire world, hey, we're selling our silver on sale. I know that you can't get this anywhere, but you can buy our silver now for 20% less than you used to be able to buy it. And that's that's essentially what they're they're saying. And so you know that the BRICS Nations are going in and buying those paper contracts, and now all they have to do is demand delivery, and the game is over. So again, I don't know if this is what the book of Revelation is talking about. I'm just trying to take current events and reconcile them with what I'm reading in the scriptures. And to me, there is a remarkable symmetry with these current events and what I'm reading here. Now, so the book of Revelation says that this dragon with the head wound and the ten horns, they take out the whore of Babylon and they do it in a single hour, which means this happens very, very quickly. And then it's over. So, what does the book of Revelation say is the result of this? Well, if you flip over into the next chapter, Revelation chapter 18, you read about all of the kings and merchants of the earth weeping and wailing because the whore of Babylon has collapsed and how that has impacted them. And you read specifically in verses 10, uh starting it in 10. Well, I'm going to start in verse 9. And the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her shall bewail her and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning, standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city. For in one hour is thy judgment come, and the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise anymore. So the merchandise that they were selling was linked to the whore of Babylon. So this is they're selling the whore of Babylon's merchandise. Now it's very curious what the two first two and the last two things. There's a big long list of items that are identified as being sold by them. But in my opinion, it's the first two and the last two that are the most telling. So this is what the first two are: the merchandise of gold and silver. Meaning these guys can no longer sell the Horror of Babylon's gold and silver anymore. Now, if what I am saying is true, then the gold and silver that belongs to the Whore of Babylon is this paper gold and silver. It's not real. But these guys, these merchants, they used to be able to sell it as if it were real. They'd get the same price for real gold and silver. But all of a sudden, in one hour, it's worthless. They can no longer sell it. And then the last two items on the list, you read in verse 13, and these things are were merchandise of the Whore of Babylon. It says, slaves and souls of men. That's that is pretty curious, especially in light of some of the current events around Jeffrey Epstein and what he was involved in. And it's it's obvious that he was up to his eyeballs with the deep state, and he was certainly you know trading in people. And that's that's very disturbing. But apparently, after this is over, these things fall. Now, I just want to re-emphasize something here. It seems to me that the fall of the whore of Babylon is economic primarily. I mean, let's let's read a couple more verses in Revelation 18. I'm looking at verse 15. The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for fear and torment, weeping and wailing, and saying, Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls. For in one hour so great riches is come to naught. So, friends, as I read those things, to me it sounds like the destruction of the Whore of Babylon in this prophecy is primarily economic in nature. The merchants are upset because their pocketbooks are emptied, their bank accounts are gone. They're not talking about you know loss of life. That's not what's making them sad and sorry. Everything in this prophecy seems to point to economic conditions having been the thing that is impacted by the destruction of the Horror of Babylon. Think about that in light of what I've been talking about in this episode so far. That's curious to me. Because if Bricks does what I am theorizing is in the works based off of current headlines, then the impact of this would be economical. You would see the 2008 financial crisis on steroids, and it would likely kick off a global contagion that I'm talking a financial contagion. We just don't realize how intertwined everything is. So again, we're the whole purpose of this podcast is it is just to discuss black swan events. What does the evidence say? What is it telling us right now? Because in retrospect, the evidence from a black swan is obvious. It's just incredibly hard to see in advance because of normalcy bias. You you you simply can't imagine that something like this could happen until it does happen, and then it becomes obvious that it was always going to happen in the first place. So according to the book of my reading of the book of Revelation, it's this fall of the Horror of Babylon that results in the elevation of this alternate conglomerate, which, if this interpretation is correct, and I'm not saying that it is, I'm just saying that there is an incredible correlation with what this ancient prophecy seems to be saying and current events. If this is true, then in very short order, we are about to see the rise to power of this country that had been wounded and then was joined by ten others and now rises to a position of power and preeminence in the world, having destroyed the whore of Babylon and usurped her position. So this is this, in my opinion, has to occur prior to the events, the other events that are discussed in Revelation chapter 13. And to me, the next once these things happen, then you can have the rise of the Antichrist. Now, with all of these headlines purporting to something in our very near future, that aligns very scarily with the lady's prophecy to Chris Bledsoe that around Easter of 2026, the world would be entering into a entirely new stage. And might that new stage be the result of the collapse of the Horror of Babylon, the rise of you know bricks, and now the introdu introduction of the Antichrist. So, with this kind of background, and again, friends, I hope that this is all wrong, that this is not going to happen, and that all is well, and and that the good times continue for many years to come. But at some point, black swan events are going to happen, and when they happen, they will change everything. And we the day will come on the other side of these events that we will look at the information that's before us right now and say, duh, there it was. It was in front of us all along. Well, friends, that brings us to the end of this episode and it sets us up for the next episode, which will focus entirely on the rise of this Antichrist. So until then, friends, engage in your own spiritual education. Seek the Lord while there is still time. Seek to be taught by him, seek to increase the Holy Ghost in your life. And if you seek him, you will find him. Until next time, God bless.

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