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The Week in Bible Prophecy, a Prophecy Watchers podcast.
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. Today we're going to be talking with Carlos Skibar about his book Evolution. The Devil's in the details. And before we do, we just want to remind everybody of a couple things that we are going to be having a prophecy conference in Alaska. And I know many of you have written in and kind of described that as being on a bucket list item. So consider joining us. It's going to be August 22nd through the 29th, and we are going to be sailing out of Seattle and then Billy Crone will be there, La Marsouli, Matt Freeman, myself and Lee Brainard. And so we'll be talking about prophecy on the trip, as well as just sitting around and relaxing and enjoying God's creation. It's pretty phenomenal. So you can go to prophecywatchers.com and check it out if you want information on that. Also keep on your calendar, Really, I would call it. Our big conference of the year is going to be in Branson, Missouri, December 10th through the 13th. And that's going to be a great time. I think we're going to have 25 speakers there. So Branson is a great time. It's a great time of the year to be in Branson because of the way that the, because the hotel, they decorate it pretty good. And so we're going to have a great time there with speakers. You can again go to prophecywatchers.com, go to our events page and check it out. But the question we want to discuss today is the Bible says quite clear that we are entering the end of the age and that one of the first things that Jesus says is, let no man or anybody else deceive you. So deception is going to be high on the list. And we're talking to Carlos. So welcome, Carlos.
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Thank you. Thanks for having me.
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Yeah. And for those that might not know you, maybe give a little biography about who you are, what you've done, and how you've come to write this book on really the schemes and the machinations, I would say, of the way that the devil works here.
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Oh, thank you again. So, Carlos Skibar, Live in Southern California my whole life. I just retired from the fire service after 32 years. It was an amazing career. Awesome. I'm so blessed to have been, have gone through the education, the training, running calls, running fires is just. And it's a great group of people there. So it was awesome. I had a great time. But that's so I didn't really retire I guess I'm reassigned now. Right. So I have a family of four. There's four of us. My wife, my two children. We're very active. We do a lot of ocean sports. So we're always in the water, whether it's fishing, surfing, scuba diving, canoeing, all that fun stuff. So I spent a lot of time on education. I have a master's in Biblical studies. I have a PhD in psychology. And I went back to school recently to get my American History degree, Master's in history. Because I have, I guess, a newfound love for history. So it's very interesting to me. I'm still new at it, but it's amazing.
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Yeah, that's one of the things I appreciated is your desire to understand, no doubt how the world has worked historically, but also again, your education in psychology. Maybe unpack that what led you, you have Bible. What caused you to go get a PhD in psychology? I mean, that's a pretty serious endeavor.
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So fortunately, the degree in psychology was Christian based. So it was from a different perspective. And I wanted to kind of change because most of my early education was fire service. Fire service stuff. It was emergency medicine, it was fire control type of. It was command and control type classes. So I kind of wanted to change it completely just to get a different perspective. And it gave me a different perspective on just thinking differently. Right. Because I wasn't used to the same stuff. So that's what kind of encouraged me to continue my education but also get in different aspects. So. Which helped me write the book because I kind of brought all those together. So. And one thing I learned about psychology, which was very interesting was I believe back in the 1500s, psychology meant something different. Right. Psychology, psyche. The word is, means soul. So back then it was study of the soul, like Satan's tactics and his deception. He's changed it to study the mind, which is kind of interesting because I think it backfired on him because now there's a lot of focus on the mind and that's the battlefield. The battlefield right now is of the mind.
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Yeah. When we think about the mind again, a lot of what you've written here just reminds me of what I studied in the screwtape letters with C.S. lewis. It's interesting there too that as I wrote, the study guide for that book took me many years. And I would talk to people, I would teach it at church and I would say, hey, you know, we're going to do a study on the Screwtape letters. And many people like, oh no, no, I don't do Any demonology stuff. And I'm like, no, it's not a book on demonology. You know, C.S. lewis. It's really a book on human temptation. And it has so much psychology in there because he's analyzing the way that humans behave, and he's also analyzing the way that we interact with each other. And so. But he puts it in a framework of a spiritual framework, and it's fictional. So, I mean, it's a fictional book. So I try to type. It's not scary. It's talking about how you reacted to so and so in this particular. It talks about unselfishness. What does that mean? What does that look like? But what I did is kind of like what you did is I said, well, man, all these angles that the enemy takes, they're in the Bible. And so we can bring all the theology. I remember again, I quoted over a thousand scriptures in there just to say, look, the way the enemy works, the temptation is real. How do we deal with it? But what I find is that. And maybe I can ask you this is, do you find too, that the typical Christian doesn't really want to learn more about this or doesn't. Isn't drawn to it or it doesn't think it's real? I mean, what. They seem like sitting ducks. Why do that?
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Well, you know, it's always fear of the unknown, right? And that's exactly where Satan wants you. So from what I've seen in my. My circles is there's. There's a little bit of a laziness and there's a little bit of apathy, right? There's. There's, you know, I don't know and I don't care. And which. Which is very bad. And which is one of the other reasons why I wrote this is because I wanted to really, really come from the angle of, you know, not just from the. From the eye of like. Like from the. I don't want to say I. From. Not from an eye. From the Bible, because I want to say more of a different angle, right? So a different angle from history, from. From. From social. Right. From psychology. So, you know, I kind of want to bring it from a different perspective rather than just because a lot of people, if you say the Bible, they're like, yeah, right. Yeah, they kind of. I do it every Sunday and, you know, type of thing. And so the book is more of a. Of a battle cry, a battle call to get back in the word, especially for men. You know, we're leaders and we need to step up. And there's a reason why our society is where it is is because men aren't stepping up. And so for me, I had a burden in my heart to. I need to wake people up with this. And so far, I've been getting some really good interaction from people. And actually, it's a blessing to me to hear that. How it's changing them and the way they're looking at what's going on.
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I think that's one of the fascinating things about it is. And I think. Let's jump in a little bit because you talked about setting the stage of a book that you had read recently, Left of the Bang, and I find that fascinating in that, you know, we all watch these shows, you know, these thrillers, whatever it might be, Jason Bourne movies, and all these. These highly trained individuals, maybe it's mission impossible, etc. But these highly trained individuals, they're. They're maybe in a, In a, In a. In a hotel or they're in a public place and they're, they're analyzing everything. They're walking in. They're like, okay, that guy's. That guy's got. That. That guy's over here. There's three exits here. How can I get out? And so. But that tells you, though, that that person is highly trained and equipped to be on guard against any threats.
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So if, if, if you haven't read Left of Bang, it's a great book for worldly events, right? So it kind of prepares you for the. Hopefully. Hopefully prepares you, if you're paying attention, to prevent an attack or at least prevent yourself from being part of that attack. Or maybe you can do something about the attack, right? Rather than saying, what was that? Say something, see something, say something. This is more of a say something, do something. Right? So basically, that book talks about identifying and recognizing warning signs before an attack, right? Now, how can we do that? Our spiritual world. Well, talking about the worldly. You know, the worldly and the spiritual have a lot. A lot of things in common, and there's things that we can learn. So there's six domains of observable behaviors, right? One is called kinesis, and that's your body language. So when you're at a restaurant, like, kind of like what you mentioned earlier, you know, how is everybody kind of acting the same? Or are they kind of. Is everything within normal limits? Right? Are people making physical movements? Are they nervous fidgeting? There's something going on. So it's important, especially with your family. You know, you want to protect your family. You want to make sure and it's easy for us as, as first responders because that's how we're trained. We're always trained for that. Even as firemen, we get attacked also. So there's things that we look for. It's a, it's a hyper vigilance that we're, we're trained with. So I've had a wonderful opportunity to go through many classes on that with real life training and you know, scenario type training. So I'm sharing that with you. So the second is called biometrics. Biometrics is physiological response. And what that is is it's looking at conditions, looking at the person's skin, looking at their skin color, their heavy breathing, what's going on with the person itself. Is there something that's biometrically occurring with them? Those are things to look out for. There's also something called proxemics and that's body positioning. A lot of times if somebody has a weapon on their side, right, they're gonna, they're gonna kind of favor one side and kind of, you know, hide that side type of thing, right? So you want to, want to look for those kind of things. And they're also overtly interested. So they're kind of like looking at their target a lot. Looking at the target, looking around and looking at their target. So those are things you want to look for. There's something called geographics. That's your environmental relationship. So that's interacting with a specific environment. So sometimes people try to interact fakely, you know, like, you know, just something's off, it's just not making sense or they're over overly reacting or acting. So there's something called iconology or I'm sorry, iconography. Those are symbols or affiliations. A lot of times, you know, people wear rainbow stuff or propel shooting, you know, so you know, you kind of got to kind of look back and what's their motivation and why are they here? So, and then there's atmospherics. Atmospherics is environmental mood and that's your collective mood. It's a shift in mood. So if you, you know, there's that feeling that something's not right in the room, well then you need to find out. That might be the holy spirit telling you something, right? So those are some, those are some things that you can always kind of have in the back of your head. And again, it's hard. You're not always going to be, you know, especially out with a family, you're not going to be like that. But just kind of give it, give it an initial, another sweep of the room before you sit down. And so what I did is I kind of, I kind of transferred that into the spiritual. Right. What's our spiritual left to bang framework? So a spiritual kinesis would be relational posture. Right. What physical and emotional response do we take toward God? And in second Timothy 4, 3, 4, it says, for the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching. Is that happening today?
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Yeah, here we are.
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Yeah, it happens all the time. And will turn away from listening to the truth. Do not turn your back away from the truth. You know, Pilate did, right? Pilate had the truth standing right in front of him and he didn't recognize it. So how much more is it for us? Right?
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Yeah, he had the opportunity for sure and there he was. You know, Jesus says to him, you know, you know, or he, you know, the truth. And he says, well, you know, what is truth? Kind of in that old, you know, mocking, skeptical, philosophical reminder. But there you have it personified in front of him.
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And you're not going to know truth unless you know what truth and what's. What's the biggest barrier of. Barrier of truth is a presumption that you have it.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Right. So staying in the word is huge.
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And it's important, staying humble. I find that the case when it comes to, when it comes to temptation. Pride is such a huge thing. And pride is multifaceted. That's crafty, you want to say about pride. Super, super crafty. The way the enemy uses it.
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Exactly. And that's what Satan kicked out of heaven. Right. Then there's spiritual biometrics. That's internal and psychological symptoms. Those uncontrollable internal shifts affecting the mood in 2nd Timothy 1:7. For God gave us not a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self control. Self control versus giving away to demonic entry. So, you know, you got to choose your side every day. Are you going to have self control or are you going to give yourself up to what's unnatural?
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I think that's important too because, you know, self control is one of the fruit of the spirit, you know, in Galatians chapter five. And so you have the whole idea that, you know, if we walk in the spirit, we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh, you know, Galatians 5:16. But I find it interesting that, that one of the things that we don't walk in the spirit is having that self control and discipline even and denying ourselves. I think that's why, you know, again, even going back to Screwtape Letters. There's a whole section on fasting. And I remember talking to a brother and I was talking about fasting. He goes, man, I've never denied myself anything in my entire life. He's like 40, like you never fasted? And he goes, no, if I wanted some, I'd got it. And I think it's interesting that getting in the habit of denying the flesh, gets into the habit of controlling the flesh, which emotions, etc. All those things. And we begin to master them by the spirit rather than the other way around.
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The whole bottom line is leadership. Right. Can you lead yourself?
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Can you lead yourself?
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Yeah, you need to learn how to lead yourself with discipline before you lead others. And as men of God, we should be doing that in our homes and with those around us. So kind of a little side note, I don't know if you heard the recent, you know, there's a lot of you here, a lot of young men are coming back to church. You've heard that and it sounds good. But there's something else behind that too, which is very interesting is I heard this the other day. Those that are coming back to church are going back to churches that have authority type figures. Right. And what the message being across, getting across is that these young men do not want to go to churches with pastors that have skinny jeans and the, and the smoke and all this stuff. They're going to Catholic churches and they're going to churches that have the authority figure because they're looking for leadership.
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Looking for leadership.
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And that's a huge reason why we have the problems we have today. Because we don't have.
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Looking for strong, looking for strength and conviction, clarity.
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Yes.
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Rather than, again, let's adapt. Like you said, some of the, some of the pastors who are adapting themselves to the culture so much that they don't see that as, as they see as being compromised, I imagine compromised. So that's amazing too where you have the. Maybe young men who, they don't necessarily. They might even know why they're looking for this, but yet it's drawn to them. Something that's standing against the grain, against the flow.
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It's definitely, it's eye opening. Spiritual proxemics is the next one. That's isolation and boundaries. How do you position yourself socially and relationally within your faith and your community? Are you that leader? Right. Proverbs 18:1 where whoever isolates himself, seeks his own desire. He breaks out against all sound judgment. It's important for the Christian not to be isolated either. Right. Because that's when evil lurks in really easy when you're by yourself. Right. You know, you don't have that accountability sometimes, too. So.
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Yeah, because pride, I mean, accountability is the opposite of pride. Pride, you don't want it. Like you said Proverbs 18. You rage against sound wisdom. I got it, I got it, I got it. I don't. Or I don't need anybody.
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Exactly.
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And that's. Man, talk about Satan just reeling that person in.
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There's that. I don't know if you heard of the term called battle buddy. You've heard of battle buddies before. You know, you need to find those strong men or if you're a woman, women around you to, you know, help. Help for accountability and strength. Definitely need that.
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And they'd be willing to say, hey, look, hey, bro, you're deceiving yourself here.
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Yeah. And truth tellers, right?
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Yeah. I love you. You know, I love you. But I think you're convincing yourself of this and that you can handle on your own. And of course, the response, you know, somebody saying that to you is, well, I don't see it. Well, that's the key of humility, is saying, well, what are they seeing that I'm not? Because we all have blind spots. You know, we all have those things, and that's important.
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Yep, yep. And those truth tellers will definitely help you out with that. Right. Spiritual geographics. How do you react with physical and digital environments? Acts 19:19 says, and the number of these who practice magic arts, brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all, you know, gravitate towards worship and study in scripture instead of, you know, get off those devices. I know it's, you know, social media and, you know, isn't it funny how when you're looking down, it looks like you're praying? Right. So who's your God?
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You got it. You got to choose your God, especially for time. You think. Think about how much time, you know, we spend on something that. That'll be an indicator of many things.
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And spiritual iconography. Right. Those are deceptive ideologies. What are you positioning yourself with? What kind of symbols do you have? What kind of stuff do you have on your shirts? What are you wearing? You know, those are. Those are. Those are things. You need to be careful because that is a lot of. That's witchcraft, too. And the last one is spiritual atmospherics. What is the spiritual climate in your life? First Samuel 16:14 says, now the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him. So when atmosphere Shifts from peace to disorder and confusion. The environment is compromised, and you need to be aware of that. So again, one of my biggest pushes in this book is preparation, right? Always, always be ready, stay ready. So you don't have to get ready. Is the. Is a term that I use in this book.
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Yeah. I mean, you see this often too, where in normal warfare, you know, you're training, you know, or even sports, you know, you're like, okay, we're going to go for the championship game. But by the time you get to the championship game, if you've earned it, you've practiced every scenario. I mean, I played a lot of sports growing up, and, you know, even as a coach, I coach soccer, and I'm like, okay, we're going to be in this scenario. It's going to happen. But I want you girls. You know, I coached my daughter's soccer teams and many of them never played soccer before. I'm like, listen, I'm going to set it up. This is what you're going to see. But then when it happens, you're going to be like, oh, I know exactly what I need to do. It's just second nature. But I think in the same way, from the spiritual perspective, because we're not reading the scripture and we're not seeing the battles going on there, then when they happen, we don't recognize, oh, Jesus had the same temptation.
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Exactly.
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And this is how we responded.
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Yeah. And that's why another, you know, I come from a different angle also. I come from. There's tons of. I mean, it's funny because there's so many examples in history that we can relate to that, even recent history, that their patterns, right? So it's interesting, I brought this up earlier. You know, in the Greek mind, right? When you study prophecy, right? It's prophecy, then it's fulfillment, right? In the Hebrew mind, it's pattern. Prophecy is pattern, right? If you look to the Bible, it's just pattern. It's the same stuff happening and happening and happening, right? That's the same that happens today even in history, right? You see the same evil regimes that are coming through, the types of antichrists, right, that are coming through, coming through. And then, you know, it's not their time, but it's the same thing. So if, if you, if you can, you can predict patterns, right? And if you study, if you educate yourself, you're gonna, you're gonna see those patterns just like we're seeing today.
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Well, I find that absolutely fascinating because even in our modern culture, we see a lot of the anti Semitism that's happening around the world. And yet it's pretty common now for people to say this is exactly what Europe looked like, you know, in the 1940s. And you see the same pattern coming in, but yet going back to 1940, what are we, 60, 80 years out? 80 years out. And so the people who are alive today, they don't know history. So the cycle can come back and Satan can use the exact same playbook because people don't know history and therefore they're unaware that, hey, this is exactly what has happened. But yet I was talking with a woman who, she was raised in Russia and she's older and she, especially during COVID she was like, she's an American citizen now. But again, she wasn't raised here. And she was so frustrated because she said, why don't people see what's happening here? This is exactly what was happening to us and the control and the censorship and all these things. And she was just shocked that we didn't understand history.
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Well, even, even, even in parts of the United States of what I've noticed is, you know, taking classes in different places is, you know, if you go to the east coast or, you know, mainly like Washington, Virginia, those, those areas there is. They know history because they, as kids, they played on the battlefield.
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Yeah.
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So that's, that's one section of America that probably knows a little more history, obviously, than we do, because they're in
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it at least of American history.
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Yeah, American history. Right. So. But there, there are some, there's some, I have a couple examples here of what they call the Queen of Heaven. Right. So if you don't know who the Queen of Heaven is, you know, it's rooted in ancient mythology of ancient Sumer. Right. But you can see the, the types of queens of heaven that have come through history. Right. So I'll name a couple of those if that's okay with you. So the Queen of Heaven in Canaanite culture, she was Baal's counterpart. Right. So history has several women with notorious traits like this. And I'll bring a couple of these up. So Elizabeth Bathory. In 1600, she was known as a blood countess, known for killing hundreds of young girls. In the late 16th and 17th centuries. She was accused of bathing in blood of virgins to retain her youth and beauty. There's Catherine de Medici, the Queen of France, known for her ruthless political maneuvers involved in St. Bartholomew's massacre. There was Isol Coach Koch, and she was known as the Witch of Buchenwald. She was A wife of a Nazi concentration commandant. And this is pretty disgusting, but she would use the skin of Jews to make lampshades. So you see these types of evils, right? Amelia Dyer, she's dubbed as the Ogress of Reading. She was a Victorian era baby farmer and she would take hundreds of infants for money and she discarded of them later. Belle Gunness, early 1900s American serial killer. She would learn lure wealthy men to her home and kill them and take from their insurance. And then the big one I want to kind of talk a little bit about was infamous Margaret Sanger, right? So she's the prominent birth control activist and her history is deep seated evil. So. And a lot of people don't know this, but she's the founder of Planned Parenthood. It was once called the American Birth Control League is what the original name was called before they turned it. So this is kind of example of the revival of goddess worship, right? And we had it here recently in the early 1900s. And she. So what she did is, you know, her sex was her path through socialism. And she wrote many publications expressing her views as such as women rebel and no gods, no masters. And they echoed exact same lies that Satan did in the garden. Her publications, they grew more explicit and pornographic. So what happened is in 1837 there was a law called the Comstock Laws and that was a postal law that you could not mail any kind of explicit information across mail while she was. They got her for that and they charged her with violating the Compstock Law. So she fled to Europe and there's where she got really radicalized. She fled to England and she met the Malthusians, they call them the Neo Malthusians. And they were radical about their population control practices. So that's where she's starting to get all of her influence, right? So she was influenced by a gentleman named Havelock Ellis. He's a socialist, a sexologist and a eugenicist. And he targeted the poor and unfit, right? And then so with that, Ellis mentored, he was mentored by Francis Galton, who coined the term eugenics, derived, so the Greek word means good creation, right? According to them. So an aim to manipulate human reproduction and create superior races. Sound familiar?
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Yeah.
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So eugenics goes back a little further to Plato, 449 BC. And he called or he wrote something called the 12 tablets. And he says, and in those 12, in one of the tablets he says, an obviously deformed child must be put to death. So if you forward to the Roaring twenties, right, that was the industrial age, that's where men are going to war. There's a lot of more independence. Women are starting to work in the field. Right. They're building now. So they, you know, the single women are starting to become more popularized. The family unit was, was separating because of, because industrial age people were becoming wealthy. So, you know, that created the, you know, the flappers and, you know, those, those type of speakeasies. You started seeing a lot more sinful type behavior in the big cities. Right. Wealth and innovation ushered societal transformations such as the Harlem Renaissance. So Galton was a half cousin of Charles Darwin. Right. Who was an ardent biologist or biological racist. And all that ideology fueled Adolf Hitler. Right. So if we keep going to Granville Stanley hall, the attraction eugenics goes all the way down back to Indiana becoming the first state to pass forced sterilization. And in 27, the Supreme Court case Buck versus Bell, Justice Oliver Holmes states, and this is in public, and this is, he states, three generations of imbeciles is enough. So you can see, you know, so he upheld sterilizations. And then black leaders created. They're recruited by Planned Parenthood to serve as project directors under Sanger's. It was called the Negro Project to encourage genocide in the communities which still exists today.
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Yeah. Wow.
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And I recently heard somebody going, I believe it was Tennessee. And they said it was in a, you know, they just happened to make a wrong turn. They went through a very, very poor neighborhood and they had a Planned Parenthood in that community. And it was the nicest building there. So that evil still exists today. Right. So her revolution influence is responsible for more than 6 million abortions.
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Wow.
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So, you know, fast forward that to the, you know, the Moloch of today. Right. Yep. We have, now we have the. I believe it's called the morning after pill.
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Yeah.
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It's called mifoprex or the RU486 and Cytotec, the chemical, the chemically that will chemically burn an unborn child in the womb. There's a renewed interest in gene editing. Have you heard of CRISPR, CRISPR 9?
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Yeah. CRISPR CAS 9.
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Yeah. And that's, that's gene editing. Right. So you can see, if you study history, you start to see, wait, this is, you know, it just, it just, it comes in different forms. Right. Just repackaged Ramolik to Sanger to now technology. Right. So, you know, and I don't know if you heard of the Internet of Bodies, the Rand Corporation project, where they're taking reptilian DNA and adding it to humans for better night vision. So there's these. All these weird, weird things happening. And again, if you're not recognizing these evils, because they're not. They're contrary to the Bible. Right. If you're not recognizing it, you're going to sign that. You're going to fill out that little bubble on your voting ballot and say yes to what some of these are aimed at.
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Yeah, 100%. Well, I mean, this is exactly why I think this is a good conversation to have, because we're entering into this age where these things are subtle, they're repackaged, and many times we don't know history, so they won't jump out at us, but because they're repackaged in a very nice way, all these other things, it just, it takes advantage of, I think, of the young people. I actually feel bad. My daughters are all in their mid-20s, and I think anybody that's under 20, they've never grown up without Internet, you know, without access to all these things and social media. And now it's like. Or the phone that's in their hands, as you mentioned, that the influence parents, I don't know how they can do it, because unless they are very proactive and serious about screen time. I know I have two grandsons and my daughter's really strict, which is good, but yet that's not the case. I would say the most to people. You put them in front of the television. You put them in front of the screen, have them watch a movie. It's easier. There's no doubt it's easier to do it. And then you give them a phone, and then where are they going to learn? And I saw this even in youth ministry, where parents would come and they'd be upset and like, well, my kids, you know, my kid's doing this and why aren't you doing something about it? And I go, I just want to help you understand something. I get your child for 45 minutes once a week, and what are you doing? What information or what influence are they getting the rest of the six days? There's no way my one hour of influence on them with the scripture is going to undo the rest of what you're allowing them to get from the world.
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A
Yeah, yeah. Unfortunately. Unfortunately. Fortunately for you, that's awesome. Because the fact that they're going to remember that. Right. Because if you're the only one giving it to them, that's. That's great. They have something. But unfortunately for the parent, that should be their job.
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B
Yeah. And that's what I told them, too, is you know, look, I'm, I'm not here to raise your kids. I'm here to supplement what you should already be doing as a parent.
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A
Exactly.
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B
It's great. You know, I remember as a, you know, again, as a pastor where, you know, parents have it tough and so it's good for, for, for them to bring their, their child generally to the youth group where that pastor is going to re. Emphasize scriptural principles that hopefully the parent's already giving. So now they're going to hear it from somebody else. Yeah, they're going to go, oh, okay. I guess my parent isn't just a, you know, goofball that this guy's saying the same thing and you know, whatever. But if the parent, what I felt was the parent was simply just not doing it and say, well, they get it on Sunday.
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A
Yeah, yeah, no, you're right. And, and there's that kind of like you mentioned something about we call it the UNCLE syndrome. Right. It's if, you know, parents hammering them with that scripture or whatever it is, that information and then all of a sudden, you know, they're not listening. All of a sudden UNCLE tells them the same thing and they're like, they respond to the uncle. I've been telling them that for that. But so, you know, it's important for us to, to be the light. Even though, you know, it's hard that unfortunately parents aren't getting it. Some parents. But at least we're there for them and hopefully we can be that light in their lives.
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B
Yeah, come alongside. Well, as we kind of wrap up, you know, again, we kind of went around your book in many ways, but your book is filled, kind of give us a two minute summary here of the purpose of the book, kind of some of the details and what you want people to walk away with.
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A
So again, like I mentioned before, there was a burden in my heart where people were not, they're not engaging in a war. Right. And I was blessed enough to have some preparation, some classes I took that kind of is equivalent with the world. However, I just turned it into the spiritual. Right. And researching a lot of information and kind of exposing a lot of this evil and where it's coming from, you know, it's kind of cliche or whatever. Everyone kind of says, hey, you know, yeah, it's evil, it's the devil. But no, no, he's a little more deeper into the details and how. I'm not just going to tell people he's in the details. Well, how he's in the details. Well, it's all it's all laid out here, and there's. There's 21 chapters of, of different, of different, different topics and subjects. And it's written as a battlefield manual. And I am, I'm almost begging for men to step up and, and take charge of their, of their, their families, their spiritual life and to keep their. They're, you know, be the pastors in their home. You know, a lot of men don't understand. They are the pastors of their home.
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B
Yeah, they should be.
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A
And a lot of men are not doing their job. And so this is kind of one of those. You know, I was, I was in the. I taught the fire academy for many years, and this is kind of like my little, My little boot camp thing. My, you know, I'm trying to get people back in the academy so we can, we can. Yeah, we can shape them up and kind of, you know, give them some, Give them a bunch of laps.
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B
Absolutely. I mean, to me, I see this would be such a great small group study guide or for people to come and say, hey, let's take one chapter a week or whatever on this, because as leaders, the families, adults, whatever, and then are we taking these truths here? Are we aware about spiritual temptation, what it looks like in our culture? And again, evolution, how evil has evolved and has become far more tricky and deceptive. Satan, he repackages, but I think we're so busy that we don't prioritize spiritual preparation for the, for the warfare that we're in.
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A
We seem to be behind. Right. And Satan's one step, one step ahead. He's always one step ahead. And are we, Are we also evolving our tactics to seek out that deception and turn from it?
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B
Yeah. Amen. Amen. Carlos, appreciate your time. If you can go to check it out, you can see his book@procywatchers.com Evolution, the Devils in the Details, as well as going to his website, kingslastmove.com and so I appreciate you listening this week. And again, what's our goal? Our goal is to prepare you for what's coming and to be aware of what's happening all around us. And we think, oh, things are going well right now, it's all good. But no, the things have just morphed and now they're going behind the scenes in different ways. So thanks for listening and we will catch you next time.