okay so I was started I started to um um I started to talk about something and then I got lost I got taken I I I jumped way off track so uh I have to take my eyes off the comments for a little while I got a comment the other day I got a com this was actually I got this comment like a month ago and and I wanted to talk about it and this just seems like the perfect time to to talk about it so here's the comment the comment says I need some guidance please is Trump the Antichrist as a man who falsely identifies himself as a savior can good Christians call out and criticize such a person or are we focused to turn um are we F or are we to focus on our own love of the Lord and our own service and reflection of him in our actions when I see Trump as the Antichrist am I acting as a judge which is not my place there's lots in there and let's let's break it down a little bit the first question is is Trump the Antichrist so so my feelings on the Antichrist is is that there are antichrists that there are people who are going to come along and they are going to teach a message that leads us away from God there are people who are going to come along and they're going to speak words and they are going to call us along away from God so to answer the question so is does Trump fit that bill um yeah yeah he he does um if you look at some of the things he says uh if you look at some of the things he says he talks about how he is the only one who can fix things he is the only one who can fix this he is the only one who can fix that uh he is calling people away from um he's calling people away with his with his rhetoric he's calling people away Christians in particular he's calling people away from from Christ um The Lure of the power though that he wields and and the way he offers it the way he promises it to others that too is is leading people that too is leading people people away with that said he's not the only one we've seen right he's not the only one we've seen in in in modernity and Lord knows over the course of history we've seen many uh who who've done just this very thing we've seen many who've used the church to to uh as as a vehicle to gain power for themselves uh who've seen Christians as as allies in in seizing power of whatever region they happen to be in with that being said Can good Christians criticize well part of the thing of that good let's take that out let's just say can should Christians criticize Christians can and should absolutely when we see when we see Echoes of the anti Christ we we should be willing to stand up and say hey there's a problem we should be willing to stand up and say that's that's not okay we should be willing to to to stand up I think we have a responsibility to say I think what this person is saying I think how this person is calling you is going to take you away from from God I think it's take I think his message is counter to the message of Jesus Christ and and you can do that without calling him a demon you can do that without calling him evil and you can do that without calling him names you can do that without condemning but we as Christians are called to be Discerning and to think we we're called to use the gray matter between our ears when it says don't judge it doesn't mean don't make a decision it means don't label somebody in such a way that it's a condemnation onto who they are and that they can never recover from that kind of thing there's another question here or should we focus on our own Christian we'll call it our own Christian responsibilities so these are not a this or that so number Christians should be willing to call it out and Christians should be perfect ly willing to live up to their Christian responsibilities to the world around them as a matter of fact this is essential it's absolutely essential that we continue this the the criticism of an antichrist figure cannot be it cannot be our our our all and all it's it's not a healthy place for God we talked about the darkness it'll lead us down a dark path and we'll lose sight of of the purpose we've been called for so that purpose is to share God's love that purpose is is to is to warn people if they're going in in the wrong direction that purpose is to to feed people to care for people to to to offer charity and generosity and sympathy and compassion it's to be gentle and merciful and kind yes all of that but all of it no one aspect of it all of it when I see him as the Antichrist as I'm as am I acting as judge no I think you're just it's just an observation when we say I hear something in his words that is disturbing to me and these are what they are that's not you're not sitting as a judge you're just making an observation if you say he's evil because he says these things he's a a rotten human being because he says these things that's condemnation but if you say I'm troubled by what he I'm troubled when he says this or that I'm troubled when he says these kinds of things I believe his message is one that is counter to the gospel I believe his message is more in tune with what the Antichrist might be doing where it's we we pulling us away that when we say that that's that's I'm sharing how I'm Discerning I'm I'm sharing what I'm seeing I'm sharing what I'm feeling I'm sharing what uh maybe I'm sharing what the holy spirit is saying but even then you're not doing it as a judge where you're saying and therefore he is condemned right it's necessary for us to discern it's necessary for us to discern Spirits that's a AN ignation line of thinking it is absolutely necessary for us to discern Spirits at work around us it's necessary for us to be able to say this is not a Godly spirit this is something else it's necessary for us to be able to say this is not this is this is not a a Jesus line of thinking this is something from somewhere else um it's it's important for us not only because not only for our particular Faith Journey but it's important for us to be willing to to share that with our neighbors and our and our companions on this journey to to also help them uh to maybe well I okay I hear something along those lines I I I better take a look at it I better think a little bit on it so again coming back to the coming back to the original comment is Trump the Antichrist is a man who falsely identifies himself as a savior In fairness you know I don't hear Trump using that language from a religious perspective terribly often I have heard him use it but it's it's not something that he says at every rally but he does he does claim to be the only person who can solve this problem or that and whether that's a political thing or a Christian thing whether he's being overtly Christian about it and you know that God has sent me to fix the only problem it it's still going to it still rubs people in the kind of way that says hey I'm I'm the only one um maybe it's just arrogance maybe it's just he's just being boastful you know uh what whatever that whatever that may be I I don't really I don't really know but there there's no humility in that um is he the Antichrist well I'm going to talk about that in a video a little bit later on this week but spoilers alert I I don't I don't I think he's I think he's part of it I think he's a kind I think he's he's one he's one of many he he's one of many can Christians call it and criticize such a person absolutely it's part of our responsibility also as Citizens right that I I have a I have a right and an obligation to to criticize leadership not condemn to criticize leadership to criticize the direction that that our political leaders are are are taking us those people who have power are taking us it's it's part of our obligation and responsibility to stand up and say it's not okay oppression is not okay harm is not okay violence is not okay if we have to we have to have the space to be able to do that and we have to take that take on that responsibility and not or and we should spend our time focusing on our Christian Journey on our prayer life and our our study of the Bible and our and our Christian reading uh and our time with brothers and sisters in in worship wherever that worship may appear it's essential this the these things go together and no I don't think by calling out Trump you're being a judge I think I think if we're offering an observation it's not a judgment offering an observation is simply an observation the Judgment comes if we say and you suck that's judgment anyhow with all that being said amen

Roo says Revelation 13 for Trump o okay we're going to talk about this too this was another talk that I wanted to do and there's another one I'm going to do about Revelation this week because I'm really we got lots to think about on that one so uh Revelation chap 13 Revelation 13: 1-4 says the dragon stood on the shore of the sea and I saw a beast coming out of the sea it had 10 horns and seven heads with 10 crowns on its horns and on each head a Blasphemous name the Beast I saw resembled a leopard but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion the dragon gave the Beast his power and his throne and great Authority one of the heads of the Beast seemed to have had a fatal wound but the fatal wound had been healed the whole world was filled with wonder and F the Beast people worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the Beast and they also worshiped the Beast and asked who is like the Beast who can wage war against it now the reason I'm talking about this isn't because I think Trump is the Beast and it's not because I think his his um his War his his wound from from the um from the shooting uh was a fatal head wound okay I'm not getting into that but if we look at it if we look at this verse especially if we look at this passage especially verse three one of the heads of the Beast seemed to have a fatal wound seemed to have a fatal wound it's key doesn't say did have a fatal wound seemed to have had a fatal wound there's an there it gives the the person who's looking at this particular head of the Beast it it seems like they've had a fatal wound it's just an impression right it's it's that's what it looks like well this week at the N Republican National Convention uh Trump made reference to the fact that he shouldn't be here uh JD Vance made reference to the fact that um we didn't know what happened and we thought we thought he was taken from us uh others said people around didn't know if he if he had been shot if he had been if he had been harmed so they're saying it it seemed like he had been injured he had fatally injured it seemed like he was he was gone it was their perception now the reason I say that is well if that's the case then you might argue wait a second does this not say then that could Trump be that Beast could Trump be the Beast of Revelation 13 now if I were to ask you that some of you might go geez yeah that sounds sounds R ofon others would say oh go on you're you're you're pushing it you're stretching it you're you're taking it all out of context you're not reading it properly you're here's the thing here's the thing about about that for me when I do a video about Trump I never talk about his policies because generally speaking he doesn't have any but I I don't get into his policies I don't think I've ever done a video about his adultery uh I don't think I've done a video about his uh about the the nation's secrets that they found in his in his toilet in his bathroom in Florida I talk about when Christians use God to prop him up that bothers me to no end I talk when when some Christian Pastor somewhere some Christian preacher somewhere says something along the lines of he's the next David he's a modern-day David and they so what they're doing there and it's not just David it's like whichever Old Testament hero they want to they want to attach to this guy that they want to use as a way of propping him up oh he's just like Xerxes he's just like dasas he's just like whoever right bothers me to no end that that we will use scripture to try to bolster him up and if you're willing to use scripture to bolster him up then it's fair game that somebody uses scripture to rip him down it's fair game and and it's not one that we've started it's one that that his supporters his his again Christian preachers Christian pastors who are are are leading their congregation towards him who are holding him up to their congregation saying he's the guy they're in order to get that done they're saying because the says so because the Bible oh it talks about David and he's just like David oh in the Bible it talks just like you know insert your Old Testament hero here it Bible talk he's just like them see these are how he's just like that but then it's perfectly fair game when we say but the Bible says it's going to seem like he may have had a fatal head wound and it's healed miraculously and that has to that's fair that's fair it's not smart it's not not it's not stupid it's not bad again the Bible scripture is not meant to be a tool for you to get your own way it's not meant to be a tool that helps you with your agenda it's not meant to be something that you use in order to prop up a political candidate to get a political candidate of your choosing elected it's not how the Bible's meant to be used it's not what it's meant to be used for to use it that way is to weaponize it in a way I'm using it I'm literally going to use it against people I'm going to use it as a way of manipulating people I'm going to use it as a way of of manipulating people who who really genuinely believe are are are they're just trying to follow Christ they're just trying to be good Christians and when a person of authority comes along and says but the Bible says that this person is ordained and anointed by God and divinely inspired or the latest now has been divinely protected when we do that we use scripture well we B bastardize it we it we bastardize it and and we ruin it we take away what is good and pure about it and we use it for our own selfish needs the Bible is meant for your edification it's meant to help you along your journey to God it's meant to help you connect on deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and more wonderful and magnificent and lifegiving levels to Jesus Christ it's meant to to help you in your Christian Journey help help you in your in your Christian walk it's meant to help it's meant to challenge you right so we're talking about these when we have bad thoughts the Bible is meant to challenge us to be a a catalyst for our growth it's it's meant to help us to figure out okay where am I missing the Mark here what else is there more to life is there something more than I can reach for the Bible's meant to help Inspire us and encourage us and Empower us and yeah challenge us sometimes it's meant to put us in our place remind us of who we are remind us of our responsibilities it is absolutely not there for to help make you feel Superior over others not there to help you feel like you're better than the people around you that you got it all going on and they don't know what they're talking about the Bible the Bible is there to inform you of and remind you of how how God is calling you how God is calling you forward to remind you and how you you're gifted but when when we use it when we use it to prop up some candidate when we use it to prop up some Earthly power whatever that Earthly power happens to be and I guess you you could even argue if the Bible is used to prop up the church or a church it's being used in ways that it was never meant to be it's being used it's being used in ways that are the antithesis to to its purpose it sulles it it sulles it it darkens it it turns it into something something else something ugly the Bible gives life the Bible does not take it the Bible offers people the Bible CH challenges people to think it doesn't manipulate manip it doesn't it isn't meant to be used to manipulate people to to thinking the way you want them to think Trump's the next David Trump's the Beast maybe amen

hey folks Quay so it wouldn't be a Sunday or a Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday if there wasn't some kind of world changing life altering mind twisting event transpire some new next milestone for us to say hey I remember when I can you believe that that happened yesterday if you haven't heard yesterday uh President Joe Biden announced that he wasn't going to seek reelection in the 2024 presidential election he was instead endorsing his vice president kamla Harris as the Democratic um as the Democratic nominee to run against another former president Donald Trump now I've gotten lots of emails about this and um uh some people asking me what I thought about the whole thing uh at the request of one of our friends I got on that hellc known as X yesterday and you know of course zooming around through through Facebook and and listening to friends and and and people and wow there's some there's some tension out there there's some folks that are they're concerned they and rightfully so Future's kind of scary we don't know what will transpire we want the best we want to feel safe and we want to feel comfortable but you know we don't know what would will transpire and and many of us had our hopes in Biden he's done so much he's gotten so much done he's enacted so many really important pieces of legislation and and the promise was that he would do even more and and so that's where that's where our hope lied that he would indeed run he would win again and and he'd make he'd make our our world better safer less less of a Minefield and when he bowed out well when he bowed out he took a lot of those hopes with him didn't he but despite the fact that the media is reporting all that he's done and and calling him one of the most uh important uh impactful uh presidents in our lifetime uh let one- term presidents there's something that we have to consider going forward and it and it's about honoring him and it's about his legacy see his legacy cannot or at least in my in my opinion it should not uh be dependent upon upon those bills and upon how he made us feel and upon how uh he promised this and he promised that and delivered on so much of it that that it's wonderful that he did that work that's all awesome but his legacy it can't be held to that and as a matter of fact if it is then then we have every right in the world to be afraid see if we believe that he was the only person that could have done the job that he was the only person that was going to keep us safe that he was the one that we were counting on if we had completely just put all of our eggs into his particular basket then we would have been making the same mistake that Donald Trump is asking his supporters to make and that is believe that he is the only one with the answers he's the only one who can save us he's the only one who knows what to do he's the only one prepared to do what needs to be done that he is somehow the one full stop and we we can't we can't put that on on Biden Biden's never asked anyone to believe that about him because I think at the end of the day Biden's actually a really good leader now I'm going to say this no I am not saying Biden's the Messiah and I'm going to say what I'm going to say and I'm not saying he's a jesus-like figure for us I'm going to say that we see we see something in Biden's decision here and I think ultimately we see it in his work something that we should appreciate and take on for ourselves it's something that we see in Jesus's work See Jesus came into the world spent three years doing his ministry doing his thing healing teaching raising the dead you know the stuff that Messias do and then and then he was killed he was arrested he was convicted he was executed and in that moment his disciples they scattered they were leaderless they had no idea what to do when they finally did come back together they got back together in this room and they locked the doors terrified that the authorities were going to come for them next they got together they locked the room they cowered there without any understanding about what was about to transpire without any understanding about what they roles in this new world was going to be they thought he was the leader they thought he was the one that was going to do all the work needed to be done to release Humanity to free Humanity to to reestablish direct relationship with God they thought he was the one that was going to do this work but see they they didn't realize that he'd been telling them the whole time you will do greater things than me you'll do you'll do more than I ever did you must go out into the world you must go out into the world casting out demons healing people teaching people giving people hope that's up to you when Jesus was resurrected he has that same conversation with them again he's like no no no guys the holy spirit is going to come onto you you my followers my disciples the holy spirit is going to Reign upon you because it is you who are going to carry hope out into the world you'll do it in my name you'll do it through my teaching you'll do it through in my power but you'll do it so what I say to you those of you out here who who may be maybe concerned right Biden's not there Biden's left what are we going to do without Biden you are the Legacy Biden came onto the stage he he won the presidency he he provided a sense of of safety and hope but when that safety and hope was given to you it was meant for you to cultivate within yourself so that you no longer needed him to give it to you it was meant so that you could cultivate it in yourself so that you could be the one to share it with others you know in his his letter where he describes what he's about to do where he describes that he's not running for reelection he says something that that really struck me and I'm just paraphrasing it here it's just coming to mind now but he says we did this I did this with you the American people he says he doesn't say I did this and I did that I accomplish great things cuz I'm a great person he doesn't say that he says we we did it the American people did it it was it was ultimately it was you it was your choice it was your strength it was your passion it was your reason he gives you credit because he gives you credit because you're the future you're the leader that your neighbors need you're the leader you're the Healer you're the teacher you're the provider that your community needs not some figurehead not some figurehead you that power has been pushed back on you that Authority has been pushed back on you that responsibility has been pushed back on you so if you're out there and you're feeling like oh no where's the hope the hope is supposed to be within you the hope is within you you are the one who will make your country great again you are the one who will bring hope and love and light and life into your neighbors it's always been with you it's always been your responsibility it will always be your responsibility regardless of what may come his legacy however you want to characterize it his legacy will be found in the work of those who come after him his legacy will be found in the work of Those whom he inspired and Those whom he gave hope his legacy his legacy will be found in those who choose to take on this responsibility this Authority this privilege may the Lord bless you may the Lord keep you may the Lord's face be made to shine upon you and be gracious to you may the Lord's countenance be lifted up to you may you always know the Peace of being in the Lord's presence today I pray that you will indeed accept this privilege this Authority this responsibility that you will be that person that Jesus asks you to be that person that brings light and life and hope into the world around them and we also pray for President Biden and for all world leaders that they would have the strength the imagination the wisdom to be the leaders the world truly needs them to be amen nalus