July 9, 2025 • 29 mins
The digital revolution promised connection and convenience, but what if it's silently preparing humanity for the ultimate deception? In this powerful examination of technology and biblical prophecy, Rick delivers an urgent wake-up call about "The Algorithm of the Beast" – the subtle ways our devices, apps, and digital dependencies are discipling us away from God and toward a system with eerie parallels to Revelation's warnings.
"Most Christians spend more time on Instagram than prayer, more time watching reels than reading Psalms," Rick observes, addressing how our attention has become the most valuable offering we unconsciously give. This isn't merely about screen addiction – it's spiritual formation happening through notifications, feeds, and digital habits that shape our hearts toward compliance rather than conviction.
Delving deep into Revelation 13, the episode connects biblical prophecy with present-day realities: biometric identification systems, cashless economies, social compliance tracking, AI development, and genetic modification technologies. Each represents an infrastructure component potentially fulfilling ancient warnings about control mechanisms in the last days. What's particularly unsettling is how willingly we've embraced these systems, trading privacy and autonomy for convenience and belonging.
The most compelling aspect of this message isn't just its warning but its prescription for spiritual resilience. Rick offers practical disciplines to "fireproof" faith: digital fasting, scripture immersion, family worship, and courageous truth-speaking when pressure mounts to conform. "Half-faith won't survive full-blown persecution," he reminds listeners, urging believers to prepare their hearts now before testing intensifies.
Ready to break free from digital discipleship and reclaim your spiritual attention? This episode will challenge comfortable Christianity, awaken spiritual discernment, and equip you to recognize deception in its most sophisticated forms. Share this vital message with someone you care about – the time for spiritual watchfulness has never been more urgent.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The world is changing and time is running out.
This is Renewed Mindsets, wherewe confront biblical truth
head-on no sugarcoating, nocompromise.
We expose false doctrine,reveal fulfilled prophecy and
shine light on the demonicdeception of these last days,
(00:21):
but we also stand firm on thehope of Christ's return, the
call to holiness and the urgencyof true salvation.
It's time to renew your mind,for the time is now.
Let's go, boys.
Welcome back to RenewedMindsets, the podcast where we
(00:54):
break away from culturalconformity and anchor ourselves
in biblical truth.
I'm Rick, and I'm so gladyou're here Today.
We're tackling a subject thatmost pulpits are too quiet about
, but I ain't scared.
I'm not here to be safe.
I'm here to speak the truth,even if it offends you.
We're diving into somethingunsettling, something so subtle
(01:16):
it's deceiving even some of theelect.
Now hear me out.
We know the beast is coming.
What if his system is alreadyhere in the form of convenience,
code and compliance?
This isn't just a teaching.
This episode is a spiritualwarning.
(01:37):
You need to be alert, you needto be sober and you need to be
willing to confront the waysthat technology, media and even
our own habits are forming usinto something that's
unrecognizable to God.
This is the algorithm of thebeast, and it goes far deeper
than chips and barcodes.
(01:57):
This is about how tech isdiscipling the world for its
final deception.
So let's start off by facingthe truth.
We are all being discipled.
You might not sit in aclassroom, you might not meet
with a mentor, but every singleone of us is being shaped by
(02:20):
what we scroll, what we consumeand what we crave by what we
scroll, what we consume and whatwe crave.
Luke 6 40 says students are notgreater than their teacher, but
the student who is fullytrained will become like the
teacher.
So here is a hard questionwho's your teacher?
Now, if we're honest, most of us, our daily teacher is our phone
(02:43):
, our spiritual counselor isYouTube, our doctrine is coming
from Twitter, and our worshiphappens when we give all our
attention and time to a screen.
Most Christians spend more timeon Instagram than prayer, more
time watching reels than readingPsalms.
We don't mean to drift, butwe're being carried away by an
(03:06):
algorithm that doesn't careabout your soul.
It only cares about control.
Every swipe, every search,every ad is part of a learning
model, a behavior modificationsystem, and it's not just
targeting your mind, it'sshaping your heart.
This is the digital version ofdiscipleship and it's molding
(03:31):
people to become ready for thebeast.
Even parents are beingconditioned to babysit their
children with devices.
They let Disney Plus raise thenext generation.
And the content?
It's not neutral.
It's loaded with identity,confusion, occult imagery,
anti-christ values.
(03:53):
Now, you've been hearing thisverse from me for years now
Romans 12.2.
It says do not conform to thepattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing ofyour mind.
But when our minds areconstantly saturated by the
world's content, how can they berenewed?
If Satan can't stop you fromclaiming to be a Christian,
(04:16):
he'll settle for discipling youthrough distractions.
We've got to stop pretendingthat TikTok is harmless.
We've got to stop makingexcuses for spending more time
on Netflix than in the Word.
Your screen is shaping yoursoul.
You don't have to bow to astatue to be in idolatry.
(04:37):
You just have to trade intimacywith God for constant
stimulation from the world.
And that is exactly what'shappening.
So let's move from the screento the system.
Revelation 13.
Now, revelation 13 isn't somefar-off prophecy.
It's unfolding right now infront of our eyes.
(04:59):
And verses 16 and 17 says Now,let's pause for just a second.
(05:19):
For years and years, peoplethought this meant a literal
tattoo or maybe a barcode, butnow these days, we're seeing
full-on implementation of globalsurveillance Biometric IDs,
retina scanning, facialrecognition, qr-based movement
(05:41):
tracking, ai, gatekeeping,digital-only currency with
programmable access.
Let me paint the picture Cashis disappearing, stores are
going card only,government-issued wallets are
being tested, medical history isbeing tied to travel
(06:02):
eligibility.
And what was the test run?
Covid, fear and control, twotools of the enemy.
In 2020 through 2022, wewatched the entire planet
willingly give up privacy andliberty for a false sense of
(06:22):
safety, and the church, in manycases, went right along with it.
This wasn't about health people.
It was not about health.
It was about conditioning.
Conditioning the masses toaccept their freedom is
conditional.
Conditioning people to believethat they have to comply in
(06:44):
order to participate in society.
That is the spirit of the mark.
The infrastructure doesn't needto be built anymore.
It's already here.
It's in your phone, it's inyour car, it's in your health
records, it's in your wallet.
All it takes now is activationand once that mark system is
(07:05):
live, people won't need to beforced.
They'll beg for it Becausethey've already been trained to
believe that compliance equalspeace.
But it won't be peace.
It'll be slavery.
And the word of God is clearthose who take the mark will not
be redeemed.
So if you won't say no to thesystem now, don't think you're
(07:30):
going to suddenly grow boldlater.
You prepare for that momenttoday.
Now I'm fixing to get into somedeep, deep water, but part of
this teaching this is what mostpeople won't touch, but I'm
going there.
Let's talk about luciferase.
(07:50):
Have you heard of that?
It's a bioluminescent enzyme,meaning that it glows, and it
was named after Lucifer, thelight bringer.
Luciferase is used in medicalresearch and it's been proposed
in technologies that could markthe skin or light up under
(08:12):
special readers to provevaccination status.
Yeah, they put Lucifer race invaccines and then you stick your
right arm under a light and itglows if you've been vaccinated.
If it doesn't, they know youhaven't been vaccinated.
(08:33):
Now let me say this withclarity Not every vaccine is the
mark of the beast, but themandated nature of those
injections, the potential forDNA-altering technology it's the
foundation for what Revelationwarns about.
God created our DNA.
(08:55):
It's our book of life.
Psalm 139.14 says I praise youbecause I am fearfully and
wonderfully made, but Satan hasalways tried to corrupt creation
.
Back in Noah's days, fallenangels mingled with the seed of
men.
That was genetic corruption, ahybrid race that God never
(09:20):
intended.
Hence the name of the book ofthe Bible Genesis gene.
Daniel 2.43 says in the lastkingdom they shall mingle
themselves with the seed of men.
But this isn't just symbolism.
It's a prophetic warning ofanother genetic defilement.
(09:42):
Now look at today.
You have MNRA vaccines, crispr,gene editing, dna storage,
neural link interfaces.
All of these are sold to us asmedical progress.
But what if they're Trojanhorses?
What if the end goal is nothealing your body, but altering
(10:12):
your identity, changing your DNA, messing with your book of life
?
If the mark of the beast is tiedto worship and allegiance, then
a permanent alteration to yourGod-given blueprint could be
part of it.
It's not about health, it'sabout ownership.
1 Corinthians, 6, 19 and 20says you do not belong to
yourself, for God bought youwith a high price.
But if you let a global powerinject something into you that
(10:35):
modifies what God made, whatyou're saying is I choose
man-made's code over God's image.
That's dangerous ground, people.
We're not talking conspiracy,we're talking prophetic
convergence.
All of the puzzle pieces are onthe table.
The only thing missing is aglobal crisis big enough to
(11:00):
mandate submission and when thatcrisis comes and it's coming,
it's going to be a global crisisPeople will run to receive the
mark, not realizing that they'vejust rewritten their own story,
away from God.
I know this is a lot.
Stick with me.
Let's talk about the image ofthe beast.
(11:21):
Revelation 13.15 says he wasthen permitted to give life to
this statue so it could speak.
Then the statue of the beastcommanded that anyone refusing
to worship it must die.
This isn't just about idolatryin the ancient sense.
(11:41):
In the end times, the image ofthe beast won't be a golden
statue or a physical idol in themiddle of a pagan temple.
It could very well be somethingdigital, something animated,
something animated, somethingpowered by artificial
intelligence.
We already see prototypes ofthis AI bots that speak like
humans, virtual influencers withmillions of followers, deep
(12:07):
fakes that can deceive even themost discerning eye.
Talking devices that sit in ourhomes, answer our questions,
track our habits.
What if the image is asynthetic consciousness, a
machine that appears to havelife, one that the whole world
(12:28):
watches?
One that the whole worldwatches, one that the whole
world listens to and obeys, onethat enforces allegiance with
terrifying precision?
This isn't sci-fi.
This is prophecy.
Converging with technology.
People already worship theirdevices.
(12:48):
They consult Google before God.
They trust Siri over scripture.
They bow down, not physically,but with time and attention and
devotion.
That's worship.
And as AI grows more advanced,more human-like, more
intelligent, more advanced, morehuman-like, more intelligent
(13:10):
people will seek it out formoral guidance, spiritual advice
, answers to the unknown.
What happens when a global AIentity is programmed to demand
allegiance to a one-world leaderand deny truth?
This image of the beast may notbe a statue in the marketplace.
It may be a talking entity onyour screen, animated, revered,
(13:36):
feared, and it may have theauthority to shut off access,
flag your ID, freeze yourfinances, expose your location.
This is why spiritualdiscernment is not an option
anymore.
It's not optional.
The voice of the shepherd mustbe louder than the voice of the
(13:56):
system.
John 10.27 says my sheep listento my voice.
I know them and they follow me.
You'll either follow the voiceof the king or the voice of the
counterfeit.
Now, worship isn't just aboutwhat songs you sing.
It's about what grabs yourattention, what consumes your
(14:19):
thoughts, what takes priority inyour day.
Revelation 13.8 says and allthe people who belong to this
world worship the beast.
They are the ones whose nameswere not written in the book of
life.
Now let's pause right here fora second Worship.
In the end, times is going tolook different than it did in
(14:40):
the Old Testament.
It won't just be kneeling infront of a false god, it'll be
giving your mind, loyalty, yourbehavior and your heart to the
spirit of the Antichrist.
We've already been trained.
Yeah, push notifications shapeyour habits.
(15:00):
Clickbait headlines hijack yourfocus.
Targeted content fills yourfeed with what you want to hear,
not what you need to do.
We're being discipled bydistraction.
The beast doesn't need toconvince you to hate God, he
just needs to make you too busyto care.
(15:21):
And if Satan can't tempt you tobow physically, he'll take your
attention as an offering.
People don't realize that theline between attention and
allegiance is razor thin.
What you watch, what you giveyour energy to, where you spend
your time, all of it adds up toa pattern, and that pattern
(15:45):
either glorifies God or itprepares you to worship the
enemy.
If you can't go a day withoutchecking your feed, but you can
go a week without reading yourBible, you're being conditioned
for compromise.
Worship is not a genre, it's alifestyle.
So who are you worshiping?
(16:07):
So let's zoom in on anotherlayer of the beast system
economic control.
Revelation makes it crystalclear Without the mark, you
cannot buy or sell.
This truth is not symbolic.
It's economic reality.
(16:31):
Step back and look at todayDigital-only banks,
cryptocurrency tracking, thecentral bank, digital currencies
, sbdcs, social credit systems,programmable money that can
expire or be restricted.
This isn't future technology,this is now.
(16:52):
Governments can already freezeyour bank account, block
purchases, cancel transactionsbased on compliance.
In some countries, this isalready happening.
We've moved from paper money toplastic cards, to QR codes and
now to invisible digital tokensthat live in a cloud that can be
(17:16):
turned off with a keystroke.
You think cancel culture wasbad.
Wait till your wallet getscanceled because of your faith.
When all money becomes digital,it becomes controllable, it's
programmable, it's programmable,it's conditional, and all it
takes is one more global crisisto flip the switch.
(17:38):
All right, I want to speakdirectly to leaders and pastors
and every believer who feels theurgency.
Where is the church?
Why are we silent?
Why are pulpits still talkingabout blessing and promotion
when the world is on fire?
Ezekiel 33, 6 says but if thewatchman sees the enemy coming
(18:02):
and does not sound the alarm towarn the people, he's
responsible for their captivity.
Warn the people he'sresponsible for their captivity.
Now, you may not be a pastor,but you are a watchman over your
home, your family, your circleof influence.
If you see this beast systemrising and say nothing, you're
(18:24):
part of the problem.
Now, too many churches aresilent because they fear being
labeled, they fear losing their501c3 status, they fear
upsetting the woke crowd.
Let me tell you something Jesusnever asked us to be liked.
He told us to take up our cross.
The remnant must rise.
(18:45):
The alarm has got to sound.
It must sound.
So what do we do?
I'll tell you we stop playingchurch, we stop blending in, we
stop chasing comfort and westart preparing for fire.
(19:06):
Get serious, get holy and getbold.
Now's not the time for lukewarmreligion or casual Christianity.
If you're on the spiritualfence, let me warn you the fire
doesn't care.
Half faith won't survive afull-blown persecution.
(19:27):
You need to get off the fence.
The middle ground is a mirage.
You're either in or out.
You're either all in withChrist or being slowly pulled
into compromise.
So how do we fireproof ourfaith?
Let's go deeper into each step.
Let's go deeper into each step.
(19:50):
The enemy doesn't need todestroy you if he can distract
you.
We're a people drowning in noisePodcasts, reels, videos,
breaking news, tiktoks, endlessscrolling and yet the voice of
God grows faint.
The soul that once heard hiswhisper is now too busy
(20:15):
refreshing their feed.
We need to set screen timelimits.
We need to start small.
Choose an hour a day, completedisconnection from all media.
Fill it with prayer, worship,stillness.
Watch how quickly God fills thesilence with his presence.
We're addicted to our screens.
(20:36):
This isn't just about wastingtime.
This is warfare.
Screens have become altars fora generation, being discipled by
Netflix more than the Word ofGod.
We turn to our phones forcomfort before we turn to prayer
.
We need to be fasting One day aweek.
(20:56):
Go screen free after work orschool.
Talk to your family, read outloud Fasting One day a week.
Go screen free after work orschool.
Talk to your family, read outloud Journal.
Let your body and brain rewire.
You don't need another hit oftechnology, dopamine.
You need a baptism of fire.
(21:19):
If the devil can't tempt youwith sin, he's going to keep you
scrolling so long that youforget you were even at war.
Social media is a breedingground for insecurity, envy,
anger, false doctrine.
It's the modern Tower of Babel.
Everybody's shouting theirtruth and nobody listening to
his.
Put it down.
(21:42):
Or, at the very least, just seta 30-day challenge.
Delete one platform.
I deleted Instagram a fewmonths ago and I don't miss it.
Tell your friends why you didit, though.
Use the time you would havespent there reading Scripture
aloud.
It'll change your mind.
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It'll change your home.
It'll change your habits,because, let's be honest, most
believers spend more timelooking for the charger for
their phone than charging theirspirit in God's Word.
It has to change people.
The Word isn't just helpful,it's essential.
(22:26):
It's oxygen, it's armor.
When lies come flying and truthis censored, only the Word
hidden in your heart is going tokeep you standing.
You need to read the Bible everyday.
Just start off with 15 minutesa day, read it out loud, then
pray through what you just readand ask the Holy Spirit to apply
(22:49):
it.
Make it the first and the lastthing you do each day.
Now, what about our children?
They're being discipled,whether you like it or not.
The world has a curriculum, andso does the enemy, and it
starts early.
If you aren't teaching yourkids to love and follow jesus,
(23:11):
somebody else is teaching themnot to.
We need to have families, havea weekly family altar time, pick
a night during the week orevery night.
No phones, no TVs, justscripture, worship, prayer.
Let your children hear you pray, let them see what repentance
(23:31):
looks like, let them feel thepresence of God in your home.
We need to speak up when theworld demands silence.
The pressure to stay silent ismounting.
Jesus never told us to blend in, though.
He said if the world hates you,remember it hated me first.
(23:52):
That's John 15, 18.
This is not the time to whisperthe gospel.
This is the time to declare it,even if it costs you.
Start small, speak truth inprivate conversations, post a
scripture on social media, don'targue, testify and if they mock
(24:14):
you, rejoice, because Jesussaid that makes you blessed.
Matthew 5.11.
The world's growing darker andthe fire is not coming.
It's already here.
Censorship, compromise, hatredfor truth.
Soft persecution has alreadybegun.
The hard persecution isknocking at the door begun.
(24:39):
The hard persecution isknocking at the door.
When the fire of persecutioncomes and it will the only thing
that's going to stand is a lifebuilt for Jesus.
Jesus said in Matthew 7, 24 and25, anyone who listens to my
teaching and follows it is wiselike a person who builds a house
on solid rock.
Though the rain comes intorrents and the floodwaters
(25:01):
rise and the winds beat againstthat house, it won't collapse
because it's built on bedrock.
That's not just poetic, it'sprophetic.
So I ask you, is your lifebuilt on the rock?
Not on church attendance, noton religious parents, not on
(25:21):
good vibes and Instagram verses,but on Christ, the cornerstone,
because only those fireproofedby obedience to his word will
endure the storm.
Now is the time to build.
Now is the time to fast.
(25:42):
Now is the time to build.
Now is the time to fast.
Now is the time to get filledwith the spirit.
Now is the time to weep for thelost.
Now is the time to prepare yourhouse, your heart and your
family, because the shaking willget stronger and only the
unshakable will remain.
If you have stayed with methrough this whole message,
you're not asleep, and thatmatters.
(26:04):
You are part of the remnant.
God has placed you here forsuch a time as this.
But being awake is not enough.
You must be active, warn others, live righteously, stop
compromising, stop playingchurch.
The algorithm of the beast ishere.
(26:28):
It's not fiction, it's not justtheory, it's real and it is
discipling the world at scale.
But you, you belong to adifferent kingdom.
You have a different spirit, adifferent destiny, a different
king, and he's coming soon.
(26:51):
So stand firm, stand ready andlet your mind be renewed by the
word of God.
Ready and let your mind berenewed by the word of God.
Until next time, stay alert,stay pure and stay unashamed,
because the time is short andyour voice is needed.
Until next time, maranatha,maranatha.
(27:38):
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Stay watchful, stay holy, stayrenewed Until next week.
(28:04):
I'm Rick.
Be an encourager, not adiscourager.
I love you.
I love you, see ya.
The intro and outro music forthe Renewed Mindsets podcast is
(28:27):
Are you Ready?
By Floodgate From the album Areyou Ready?
Copyright 2002, offbeatMinistries Incorporated 2002.
Offbeat Ministries IncorporatedFloodgate can be found on Apple
Music and iTunes.
Music used with permission.
The world is changing and time is running out.
This is Renewed Mindsets, wherewe confront biblical truth
head-on no sugarcoating, nocompromise.
We expose false doctrine,reveal fulfilled prophecy and
shine light on the demonicdeception of these last days,
(00:21):
but we also stand firm on thehope of Christ's return, the
call to holiness and the urgencyof true salvation.
It's time to renew your mind,for the time is now.
Let's go, boys.
Welcome back to RenewedMindsets, the podcast where we
(00:54):
break away from culturalconformity and anchor ourselves
in biblical truth.
I'm Rick, and I'm so gladyou're here Today.
We're tackling a subject thatmost pulpits are too quiet about
, but I ain't scared.
I'm not here to be safe.
I'm here to speak the truth,even if it offends you.
We're diving into somethingunsettling, something so subtle
(01:16):
it's deceiving even some of theelect.
Now hear me out.
We know the beast is coming.
What if his system is alreadyhere in the form of convenience,
code and compliance?
This isn't just a teaching.
This episode is a spiritualwarning.
(01:37):
You need to be alert, you needto be sober and you need to be
willing to confront the waysthat technology, media and even
our own habits are forming usinto something that's
unrecognizable to God.
This is the algorithm of thebeast, and it goes far deeper
than chips and barcodes.
(01:57):
This is about how tech isdiscipling the world for its
final deception.
So let's start off by facingthe truth.
We are all being discipled.
You might not sit in aclassroom, you might not meet
with a mentor, but every singleone of us is being shaped by
(02:20):
what we scroll, what we consumeand what we crave by what we
scroll, what we consume and whatwe crave.
Luke 6 40 says students are notgreater than their teacher, but
the student who is fullytrained will become like the
teacher.
So here is a hard questionwho's your teacher?
Now, if we're honest, most of us, our daily teacher is our phone
(02:43):
, our spiritual counselor isYouTube, our doctrine is coming
from Twitter, and our worshiphappens when we give all our
attention and time to a screen.
Most Christians spend more timeon Instagram than prayer, more
time watching reels than readingPsalms.
We don't mean to drift, butwe're being carried away by an
(03:06):
algorithm that doesn't careabout your soul.
It only cares about control.
Every swipe, every search,every ad is part of a learning
model, a behavior modificationsystem, and it's not just
targeting your mind, it'sshaping your heart.
This is the digital version ofdiscipleship and it's molding
(03:31):
people to become ready for thebeast.
Even parents are beingconditioned to babysit their
children with devices.
They let Disney Plus raise thenext generation.
And the content?
It's not neutral.
It's loaded with identity,confusion, occult imagery,
anti-christ values.
(03:53):
Now, you've been hearing thisverse from me for years now
Romans 12.2.
It says do not conform to thepattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing ofyour mind.
But when our minds areconstantly saturated by the
world's content, how can they berenewed?
If Satan can't stop you fromclaiming to be a Christian,
(04:16):
he'll settle for discipling youthrough distractions.
We've got to stop pretendingthat TikTok is harmless.
We've got to stop makingexcuses for spending more time
on Netflix than in the Word.
Your screen is shaping yoursoul.
You don't have to bow to astatue to be in idolatry.
(04:37):
You just have to trade intimacywith God for constant
stimulation from the world.
And that is exactly what'shappening.
So let's move from the screento the system.
Revelation 13.
Now, revelation 13 isn't somefar-off prophecy.
It's unfolding right now infront of our eyes.
(04:59):
And verses 16 and 17 says Now,let's pause for just a second.
(05:19):
For years and years, peoplethought this meant a literal
tattoo or maybe a barcode, butnow these days, we're seeing
full-on implementation of globalsurveillance Biometric IDs,
retina scanning, facialrecognition, qr-based movement
(05:41):
tracking, ai, gatekeeping,digital-only currency with
programmable access.
Let me paint the picture Cashis disappearing, stores are
going card only,government-issued wallets are
being tested, medical history isbeing tied to travel
(06:02):
eligibility.
And what was the test run?
Covid, fear and control, twotools of the enemy.
In 2020 through 2022, wewatched the entire planet
willingly give up privacy andliberty for a false sense of
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safety, and the church, in manycases, went right along with it.
This wasn't about health people.
It was not about health.
It was about conditioning.
Conditioning the masses toaccept their freedom is
conditional.
Conditioning people to believethat they have to comply in
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order to participate in society.
That is the spirit of the mark.
The infrastructure doesn't needto be built anymore.
It's already here.
It's in your phone, it's inyour car, it's in your health
records, it's in your wallet.
All it takes now is activationand once that mark system is
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live, people won't need to beforced.
They'll beg for it Becausethey've already been trained to
believe that compliance equalspeace.
But it won't be peace.
It'll be slavery.
And the word of God is clearthose who take the mark will not
be redeemed.
So if you won't say no to thesystem now, don't think you're
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going to suddenly grow boldlater.
You prepare for that momenttoday.
Now I'm fixing to get into somedeep, deep water, but part of
this teaching this is what mostpeople won't touch, but I'm
going there.
Let's talk about luciferase.
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Have you heard of that?
It's a bioluminescent enzyme,meaning that it glows, and it
was named after Lucifer, thelight bringer.
Luciferase is used in medicalresearch and it's been proposed
in technologies that could markthe skin or light up under
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special readers to provevaccination status.
Yeah, they put Lucifer race invaccines and then you stick your
right arm under a light and itglows if you've been vaccinated.
If it doesn't, they know youhaven't been vaccinated.
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Now let me say this withclarity Not every vaccine is the
mark of the beast, but themandated nature of those
injections, the potential forDNA-altering technology it's the
foundation for what Revelationwarns about.
God created our DNA.
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It's our book of life.
Psalm 139.14 says I praise youbecause I am fearfully and
wonderfully made, but Satan hasalways tried to corrupt creation
.
Back in Noah's days, fallenangels mingled with the seed of
men.
That was genetic corruption, ahybrid race that God never
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intended.
Hence the name of the book ofthe Bible Genesis gene.
Daniel 2.43 says in the lastkingdom they shall mingle
themselves with the seed of men.
But this isn't just symbolism.
It's a prophetic warning ofanother genetic defilement.
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Now look at today.
You have MNRA vaccines, crispr,gene editing, dna storage,
neural link interfaces.
All of these are sold to us asmedical progress.
But what if they're Trojanhorses?
What if the end goal is nothealing your body, but altering
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your identity, changing your DNA, messing with your book of life
?
If the mark of the beast is tiedto worship and allegiance, then
a permanent alteration to yourGod-given blueprint could be
part of it.
It's not about health, it'sabout ownership.
1 Corinthians, 6, 19 and 20says you do not belong to
yourself, for God bought youwith a high price.
But if you let a global powerinject something into you that
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modifies what God made, whatyou're saying is I choose
man-made's code over God's image.
That's dangerous ground, people.
We're not talking conspiracy,we're talking prophetic
convergence.
All of the puzzle pieces are onthe table.
The only thing missing is aglobal crisis big enough to
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mandate submission and when thatcrisis comes and it's coming,
it's going to be a global crisisPeople will run to receive the
mark, not realizing that they'vejust rewritten their own story,
away from God.
I know this is a lot.
Stick with me.
Let's talk about the image ofthe beast.
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Revelation 13.15 says he wasthen permitted to give life to
this statue so it could speak.
Then the statue of the beastcommanded that anyone refusing
to worship it must die.
This isn't just about idolatryin the ancient sense.
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In the end times, the image ofthe beast won't be a golden
statue or a physical idol in themiddle of a pagan temple.
It could very well be somethingdigital, something animated,
something animated, somethingpowered by artificial
intelligence.
We already see prototypes ofthis AI bots that speak like
humans, virtual influencers withmillions of followers, deep
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fakes that can deceive even themost discerning eye.
Talking devices that sit in ourhomes, answer our questions,
track our habits.
What if the image is asynthetic consciousness, a
machine that appears to havelife, one that the whole world
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watches?
One that the whole worldwatches, one that the whole
world listens to and obeys, onethat enforces allegiance with
terrifying precision?
This isn't sci-fi.
This is prophecy.
Converging with technology.
People already worship theirdevices.
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They consult Google before God.
They trust Siri over scripture.
They bow down, not physically,but with time and attention and
devotion.
That's worship.
And as AI grows more advanced,more human-like, more
intelligent, more advanced, morehuman-like, more intelligent
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people will seek it out formoral guidance, spiritual advice
, answers to the unknown.
What happens when a global AIentity is programmed to demand
allegiance to a one-world leaderand deny truth?
This image of the beast may notbe a statue in the marketplace.
It may be a talking entity onyour screen, animated, revered,
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feared, and it may have theauthority to shut off access,
flag your ID, freeze yourfinances, expose your location.
This is why spiritualdiscernment is not an option
anymore.
It's not optional.
The voice of the shepherd mustbe louder than the voice of the
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system.
John 10.27 says my sheep listento my voice.
I know them and they follow me.
You'll either follow the voiceof the king or the voice of the
counterfeit.
Now, worship isn't just aboutwhat songs you sing.
It's about what grabs yourattention, what consumes your
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thoughts, what takes priority inyour day.
Revelation 13.8 says and allthe people who belong to this
world worship the beast.
They are the ones whose nameswere not written in the book of
life.
Now let's pause right here fora second Worship.
In the end, times is going tolook different than it did in
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the Old Testament.
It won't just be kneeling infront of a false god, it'll be
giving your mind, loyalty, yourbehavior and your heart to the
spirit of the Antichrist.
We've already been trained.
Yeah, push notifications shapeyour habits.
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Clickbait headlines hijack yourfocus.
Targeted content fills yourfeed with what you want to hear,
not what you need to do.
We're being discipled bydistraction.
The beast doesn't need toconvince you to hate God, he
just needs to make you too busyto care.
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And if Satan can't tempt you tobow physically, he'll take your
attention as an offering.
People don't realize that theline between attention and
allegiance is razor thin.
What you watch, what you giveyour energy to, where you spend
your time, all of it adds up toa pattern, and that pattern
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either glorifies God or itprepares you to worship the
enemy.
If you can't go a day withoutchecking your feed, but you can
go a week without reading yourBible, you're being conditioned
for compromise.
Worship is not a genre, it's alifestyle.
So who are you worshiping?
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So let's zoom in on anotherlayer of the beast system
economic control.
Revelation makes it crystalclear Without the mark, you
cannot buy or sell.
This truth is not symbolic.
It's economic reality.
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Step back and look at todayDigital-only banks,
cryptocurrency tracking, thecentral bank, digital currencies
, sbdcs, social credit systems,programmable money that can
expire or be restricted.
This isn't future technology,this is now.
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Governments can already freezeyour bank account, block
purchases, cancel transactionsbased on compliance.
In some countries, this isalready happening.
We've moved from paper money toplastic cards, to QR codes and
now to invisible digital tokensthat live in a cloud that can be
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turned off with a keystroke.
You think cancel culture wasbad.
Wait till your wallet getscanceled because of your faith.
When all money becomes digital,it becomes controllable, it's
programmable, it's programmable,it's conditional, and all it
takes is one more global crisisto flip the switch.
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All right, I want to speakdirectly to leaders and pastors
and every believer who feels theurgency.
Where is the church?
Why are we silent?
Why are pulpits still talkingabout blessing and promotion
when the world is on fire?
Ezekiel 33, 6 says but if thewatchman sees the enemy coming
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and does not sound the alarm towarn the people, he's
responsible for their captivity.
Warn the people he'sresponsible for their captivity.
Now, you may not be a pastor,but you are a watchman over your
home, your family, your circleof influence.
If you see this beast systemrising and say nothing, you're
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part of the problem.
Now, too many churches aresilent because they fear being
labeled, they fear losing their501c3 status, they fear
upsetting the woke crowd.
Let me tell you something Jesusnever asked us to be liked.
He told us to take up our cross.
The remnant must rise.
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The alarm has got to sound.
It must sound.
So what do we do?
I'll tell you we stop playingchurch, we stop blending in, we
stop chasing comfort and westart preparing for fire.
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Get serious, get holy and getbold.
Now's not the time for lukewarmreligion or casual Christianity.
If you're on the spiritualfence, let me warn you the fire
doesn't care.
Half faith won't survive afull-blown persecution.
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You need to get off the fence.
The middle ground is a mirage.
You're either in or out.
You're either all in withChrist or being slowly pulled
into compromise.
So how do we fireproof ourfaith?
Let's go deeper into each step.
Let's go deeper into each step.
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The enemy doesn't need todestroy you if he can distract
you.
We're a people drowning in noisePodcasts, reels, videos,
breaking news, tiktoks, endlessscrolling and yet the voice of
God grows faint.
The soul that once heard hiswhisper is now too busy
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refreshing their feed.
We need to set screen timelimits.
We need to start small.
Choose an hour a day, completedisconnection from all media.
Fill it with prayer, worship,stillness.
Watch how quickly God fills thesilence with his presence.
We're addicted to our screens.
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This isn't just about wastingtime.
This is warfare.
Screens have become altars fora generation, being discipled by
Netflix more than the Word ofGod.
We turn to our phones forcomfort before we turn to prayer
.
We need to be fasting One day aweek.
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Go screen free after work orschool.
Talk to your family, read outloud Fasting One day a week.
Go screen free after work orschool.
Talk to your family, read outloud Journal.
Let your body and brain rewire.
You don't need another hit oftechnology, dopamine.
You need a baptism of fire.
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If the devil can't tempt youwith sin, he's going to keep you
scrolling so long that youforget you were even at war.
Social media is a breedingground for insecurity, envy,
anger, false doctrine.
It's the modern Tower of Babel.
Everybody's shouting theirtruth and nobody listening to
his.
Put it down.
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Or, at the very least, just seta 30-day challenge.
Delete one platform.
I deleted Instagram a fewmonths ago and I don't miss it.
Tell your friends why you didit, though.
Use the time you would havespent there reading Scripture
aloud.
It'll change your mind.
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It'll change your home.
It'll change your habits,because, let's be honest, most
believers spend more timelooking for the charger for
their phone than charging theirspirit in God's Word.
It has to change people.
The Word isn't just helpful,it's essential.
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It's oxygen, it's armor.
When lies come flying and truthis censored, only the Word
hidden in your heart is going tokeep you standing.
You need to read the Bible everyday.
Just start off with 15 minutesa day, read it out loud, then
pray through what you just readand ask the Holy Spirit to apply
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it.
Make it the first and the lastthing you do each day.
Now, what about our children?
They're being discipled,whether you like it or not.
The world has a curriculum, andso does the enemy, and it
starts early.
If you aren't teaching yourkids to love and follow jesus,
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somebody else is teaching themnot to.
We need to have families, havea weekly family altar time, pick
a night during the week orevery night.
No phones, no TVs, justscripture, worship, prayer.
Let your children hear you pray, let them see what repentance
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looks like, let them feel thepresence of God in your home.
We need to speak up when theworld demands silence.
The pressure to stay silent ismounting.
Jesus never told us to blend in, though.
He said if the world hates you,remember it hated me first.
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That's John 15, 18.
This is not the time to whisperthe gospel.
This is the time to declare it,even if it costs you.
Start small, speak truth inprivate conversations, post a
scripture on social media, don'targue, testify and if they mock
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you, rejoice, because Jesussaid that makes you blessed.
Matthew 5.11.
The world's growing darker andthe fire is not coming.
It's already here.
Censorship, compromise, hatredfor truth.
Soft persecution has alreadybegun.
The hard persecution isknocking at the door begun.
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The hard persecution isknocking at the door.
When the fire of persecutioncomes and it will the only thing
that's going to stand is a lifebuilt for Jesus.
Jesus said in Matthew 7, 24 and25, anyone who listens to my
teaching and follows it is wiselike a person who builds a house
on solid rock.
Though the rain comes intorrents and the floodwaters
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rise and the winds beat againstthat house, it won't collapse
because it's built on bedrock.
That's not just poetic, it'sprophetic.
So I ask you, is your lifebuilt on the rock?
Not on church attendance, noton religious parents, not on
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good vibes and Instagram verses,but on Christ, the cornerstone,
because only those fireproofedby obedience to his word will
endure the storm.
Now is the time to build.
Now is the time to fast.
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Now is the time to build.
Now is the time to fast.
Now is the time to get filledwith the spirit.
Now is the time to weep for thelost.
Now is the time to prepare yourhouse, your heart and your
family, because the shaking willget stronger and only the
unshakable will remain.
If you have stayed with methrough this whole message,
you're not asleep, and thatmatters.
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You are part of the remnant.
God has placed you here forsuch a time as this.
But being awake is not enough.
You must be active, warn others, live righteously, stop
compromising, stop playingchurch.
The algorithm of the beast ishere.
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It's not fiction, it's not justtheory, it's real and it is
discipling the world at scale.
But you, you belong to adifferent kingdom.
You have a different spirit, adifferent destiny, a different
king, and he's coming soon.
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So stand firm, stand ready andlet your mind be renewed by the
word of God.
Ready and let your mind berenewed by the word of God.
Until next time, stay alert,stay pure and stay unashamed,
because the time is short andyour voice is needed.
Until next time, maranatha,maranatha.
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If today's episode challengedyou, don't keep it to yourself.
Tell someone, please, text thema link, share the truth while
there's still time.
Visit renewedmindsetscom tostay connected and to listen to
past episodes and check out ourmerch at renewedmindsetsstore.
Jesus is coming soon.
Stay watchful, stay holy, stayrenewed Until next week.
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I'm Rick.
Be an encourager, not adiscourager.
I love you.
I love you, see ya.
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Are you Ready?
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