America Needs a Spiritual Awakening Not More Pills and Tech Promises

Today’s show is hosted by political cartoonist Gary Varvel, filling in for Todd. Gary tackles the growing darkness in America—not just in politics and culture, but in the spiritual battle raging around us.

He points to shocking acts of violence, from public assassinations to senseless stabbings, and challenges the easy “mental illness” narrative. Instead, Gary argues that Scripture makes clear there is a deeper influence at work: demonic deception. From mass shooters who admit hearing voices, to the role of drugs and SSRIs in some of America’s most infamous crimes, he urges listeners not to dismiss the spiritual dimension of evil.

Gary also connects Bible prophecy to today’s world. He warns about the dangers of AI and technology, showing how Revelation’s descriptions of global control over buying and selling sound eerily like central bank digital currency and artificial intelligence systems already being built.

But he doesn’t leave listeners in despair. Gary reminds us of America’s founding on biblical truth, the need for revival, and the ultimate hope found only in Jesus Christ. He ends with a powerful call: freedom, morality, and even America’s survival depend on turning back to God before it’s too late.

This episode blends current headlines, Bible teaching, and prophetic insight—challenging, sobering, and full of truth.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:31):
Todd Huff.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
You are listening to the Todd Huff radio show. This
is America's home for conservative not bitter talk. But you
knew that, but you probably don't recognize my voice. This
is not Todd. Todd's away with doing some family time.
I'm Gary Varvel, political cartoonist for Creators Syndicate. My work

(01:00):
appears in newspapers around the country. You can see my
work also at Gary Varvel dot com. That's at Varvel
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write a substack newsletter, Substack. You can find me there
at Gary Varvel dot substack dot com, and I write

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about current events from a biblical perspective. I also draw
my editorial cartoons there. I encourage you to go sign
up for free and let's get into it. What's going
on in America today. I see a problem spiritually, and
I've written about this many times. Let me give you

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a Bible verse here to start us off with John
ten ten. The thief does not come to accept, to
steal and to kill and to destroy. But Jesus says,
I've come that they might have life, and they might
have it more abundantly. That is the separation that I

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see happening in America today. You've got Christians, but alongside
of us we are surrounded by people who hate Jesus,
they hate God, and they don't like it. Once people
speak up. We all know. Just recently, Charlie Kirk was

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tragically assassinated on camera, on all these cameras, everybody saw that.
We also remember the Charlotte, North Carolina train stabbing in
which Di Carlo Brown Junior thirty four stabbed to death
the twenty three year old Irena Zarutska from Ukraine. She

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was living here and she just was mining her own business,
looking at her phone, and he's stands up behind her
and stabs her to death. The media calls him mentally ill.
His family says that he was schizophrenic and he had
all kinds of mental issues that caused him to do this.

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Brown himself says that he heard voices telling him to
do it. Where is that coming from? And this is
nothing new. In twenty eighteen, Nicholas Cruz was arrested for
allegedly killing seventeen students, and he pleaded guilty to this.

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He killed seventeen students and injured dozens at Marjorie Stoneman
Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida at the time. Cruz
was twenty three. When he was arrested. He told the
authorities that demons told him to do this, told him
how to do it. So are we just to play

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that off every time as being mentally ill? The Bible
makes it very clear in the New Testament that there
were several people that Jesus healed from demonic possession. So
I'd have to say, because I'm a Bible believer, I
believe that Jesus Christ is my Lord and the Savior,

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that he lived a perfect life, that he left heaven
born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, died on
the cross three days later, rose to life again, proving
that he is the god Man and offers eternal life
to anyone who puts their trust in him. So that's
the gospel. In I believe what the Bible says about

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there are times when demons get access to people's minds,
and that's where the battle is. It's in the mind.
So how does this happen? Now, we're not told in
the Bible how these people in the New Testament, how
they were possessed. But we've learned some things down through time.

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And one of the things that I'd noticed that in
the case of this Minneapolis shooter some weeks ago, who
killed two children sitting and praying in a church on
the first day of school and also injured several but
he was known as Minnesota transshooter Robert Westman. I hate

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to even say his name, but he was transgender. And
this is one of the things he said. He said
gender and weed meaning marijuana, blanked up my head. I
wish I'd never tried experimenting with either. And then he
says this, don't let your kids smoke weed or change

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their gender until they're like seventeen. So he admits that
he was a marijuana user in his youth can be assumed.
I think that he never stopped, which contributed to his
losing his job. Guess where he was working at a
cannabis dispensary. Yeah, and he was fired because of tardiness

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and absenteeism. So I believe based on this that it
was the weed that opened his mind up that made
him susceptible to demons. He even said in his journal
and his manifesto that he had a demon in him.

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He admitted it. So the issue I look at Revelation
chapter nine, and it's also repeated somewhat in the same
word as repeated in Galatians. Also in Revelation chapter eighteen
and Revelation chapter nine, verse twenty one. Specifically, it says this,
and they did not repent of their murders, or their sorceries,

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or their sexual immorality, or their thefts. Now, the context
of that chapter is the judgment of God has been
brought down on the earth. All these terrible things are happening.
Locusts and men will seek to die in for five months.
They won't be able to die. God won't let them die,
wanting them to repent, but they don't repent. This is

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the saddest thing in that chapter is when you read
that they would not repent of their murders or their sorceries.
This word sorcery in the Greek is the word pharmachia.
It's the word we get pharmacy from. It's the word
we get pharmacists from. We're talking about drugs and sorceries,

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you know, and we typically think, you know, something like
witch doctor or something. But in ancient times, what they
would do is they would use drugs as part of
their pagan worship. And if you don't believe me, go
look it up. This is absolutely the truth. And so
if you look at that sorcery drug use, drug use

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is an avenue to open up the mind so that
demonic power can oppress people, even possess people. So I'm
looking at this and that doesn't mean that every person
whoever takes drugs is going to be doing demon possessed. Now,

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there's a process here. I believe that it has to
open up. For instance, I'll give you an example. The
Exorcist movie was actually based on a true story, and
in that true story it was this boy. In the movie,
it was a girl. But in the movie, in real life,
it was a boy who was messing around with a
wigi board and that Ouiji board, even though it's just

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made a plastic and cardboard became the avenue became gateway
that led to demonic possession. And this is a well
documented case. I know that may sound crazy, but in
Deuteronomy eighteen ten it says this, let no one be
found among you who sacrifices their son and daughter in

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the fire. Okay, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens,
engages in witchcraft or cast spells, or is a medium
or a spiritist, or who consults the dead. Anyone who
does these things is detestable to the Lord. Now that

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should be sobering for anybody who's going to a palm
reader or reading your horoscope. I would advise you to
stay away from that, because God says this is detestable
to him. You are making an idol out of those things,
and you're messing around with the spirit world. That is

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very dangerous. I believe that we are protected from that.
God has put a barrier around us and has limited
their access to us. But if we open ourselves up
at some point, I believe that God gives us over
and in those cases, and I think we see them
every once in a while, stabbing an innocent girl on

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a train, for no reason a voice told them to
do it, or shooting up a school, Why did you
do it? Demons told me how to do it. I
think it's very real. I know that the media doesn't
understand it, but I believe that these people, like the

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Minneapolis shooter, I believe that they had succumbed to the
doctrines of demons. The Bible warns about Ephesians five eighteen
says don't get drunk with wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead,
be filled with the spirit. Those are two completely opposite things,

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but both of them have to have to do with
the being controlled by a power outside of us. In
the case of wine or strong drink or alcohol of
any kind, it says it leads to debauchery. Why because
it lowers people's inhibitions. They're not thinking straight at some point,

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because the alcohol is controlling them in the same way
drugs do the same thing. It affects the mind, and
that's why people are drawn to it. But it's dangerous
because they're opening themselves up to a world that if
they could see it, they wouldn't want anything to do
with it. But the contrast here is that it says

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in Romans five eighteen instead be filled with the spirit.
Why the spirit of God controlling us leads us to
righteousness leads us to love. Robert F. Kennedy Junior has
publicly suggested that antidepressants, specifically S s R i's and

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transition related medications might have contributed to Westman's actions. He
cited at black Box warnings about suicidal and homicidal ideation
and said the NIH would be conducting related studies. Now
he got mocked for this in the media. They think
he's crazy. I think he may be onto something. I've

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done some research and I think that well. For instance,
at w AT WORLDNETDAILYWND dot com, there's a guy named
David I don't know how to say his last name
cup Lean k U P E L I A N.

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How would you say that name, David Cupulin, I don't know,
But anyway, he wrote an interesting column psychomeds and mass
murder No wonder. RFK Junior promises to research the connection.
The vast majority of Americans most infamous and gruesome mass
murderers have been on these controversial prescription drugs. Not right

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there should get your attention. But if you read that,
if you go to WorldNetDaily WND dot com. If you
go there and look up this column, this is some
fascinating stuff. He's done some really good research here. I'll
just give you an example. For instance, he says that Paxel,
known as adverse drug reactions according to Drugs FDA Approved

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label include and this is what These are some of
the side effects mania, insomnia, anxiety, agitation, confusion, amnesia, depression,
paranoid reaction, psychosis, hostility, delirium, hallucinations, abnormal thinking, depersonalization, and
the lack of among others. Well, I don't think they'll

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sound like something that I'd want to be taking. That
sounds like a bad deal right there. So, for instance,
Andrea Yates one of the most horrifying and heartbreaking crimes
in modern history. This is what he writes, drowned all
five of her children, aged is seven years down to
six months in a baptop. Andrea Yates. You remember the case,

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Andrea Yates. This is what she insisted in her voices.
Commanded her to kill her children. She'd become increasingly psychotic
over the course of several years, and at her two
thousand and six murder trial, I guess that was the
retrial after a two thousand and two guilty verdict was

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overturned on appeal. Yates longtime friend Debbie Holmes testified. She
asked me if I thought Satan could read her mind
and if I believed in demon possession, and George Ringholds,
after evaluating Yates for two days, recounted and experience that
she had after the birth of her first child, and
this is what he said. What she described was feeling

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a presence Satan telling her take a knife and established son. Noah.
Now what is that, folks? Why is it that? Now
people might say, well, she's just trying to get an
insanity defense. This is just an insanity defense. I'm saying,
there's similarities between a lot of these people who do

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these terrible things, and it could be demon possession, it
could be real. I'm just throwing it out there. I'm
not saying that we have to take all drugs off
the market. That's not what I'm saying. But I'm saying
that I think OURFK. Junior is right in at least
doing a study of this. Columbine mass murderer, Eric Harris

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was taking luvox like axel and zoloft and trendsetter Prozac,
a modern and widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors. SSRIs Harris and fellow student Dylan Kleebold
went on a Hellish school shooting rampage in nineteen ninety nine,

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during which they killed twelve students and a teacher and
wounded twenty four others before turning their guns on themselves.
Louvox manufacturer Solva Pharmaceuticals concedes that during the short term
controlled clinical trials, four percent of the children and used
taking Louvox, that's one in twenty five developed mania, a

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dangerous and violence prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement
and delusion. That would be the clinical aspect of it.
I'm saying that that maybe they opened themselves up to
a power that controlled them to want to murder. Remember,

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the thief comes to steal, murder, and destroy. What this
country needs is a turn back to Jesus Christ. The
founding fathers founded this nation on religious principles, on Judeo

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Christian principles, mainly on the Holy Scriptures. Most of the
more than any other book quoted in the founding documents,
was the Book of Deuteronomy. Our laws are based on
the Bible. Fifty five of the fifty six signers of

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the Declaration of Independence were what we would call today
evangelical Christians. These are the things that may made America
great in the beginning. Now, we had our problems. Obviously,
the start of this nation was unlike anything else. Our

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second President, John Adams said this, our constitution was made holy,
for it was made for religious and moral people. It's
wholly inadequate for the government of any other. Now why
would he say that. He was saying that our citizens
need to be religious and moral in order for our constitution,
our set of laws, in order for it to work.

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Why because we have to have a people who are
moral and know what's right and wrong to control themselves.
Because you cannot hire a police force large enough to
control everybody if everybody does what's right in their own eyes.

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And if there's no right or wrong, well then and
there's no God, then there's no one to actually say
that murder is right or wrong. It's all subjective. But
the fact is there is a God. He gave us
his word, and that word was used to found this

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nation and found our laws and that's what we need
to get back to in America. We need a revival,
We need to turn back now. We've had times in
the past nine to eleven, for instance, nine to eleven
that happened, and it shocked the nation, and it unified
the nation. We were being attacked from an outside for us,

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and all of a sudden, people in America who have
divided politically, all of a sudden they came together because
we were all going to stand up against a common enemy.
And our churches were filled. People went to church. But
what happened. Eventually life got back to normal, and then

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people got back to normal and went back to their
old ways, and none of it was real. We were scared,
and we got down on our knees and prayed, and
then when we saw things get back to normal, we
rose up and forgot about God. And that's a very

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dangerous place to be. Deuteronomy chapter eight gives us this
warning if we God told the nation of Israel, if
they go into this promised land and they forget the
Lord your God, that he would bring the curses down
on them that he was bringing down on the people

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that were their enemies. And he says that I will
destroy you as I've destroyed them. America is in it
at a turning point. We're at the crossroads, and we
have been for years. And why people like Charlie Kirk,
people like myself are trying to do, people like Todd

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Huff trying to call people back to the God of
the Bible, call people back to hope, because ultimately God
is our only hope. I also would say this God
is our biggest threat, just as you look in the

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Old Testament and how He judged nations at that time.
And that is always a concern, is that at some point,
if we go too far and our sin rises to heaven,
God will say that is enough. So pray for our country.

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I have nine grandchildren, and I'm concerned about what we're
leaving them. I remind you what Judges two to ten says,
After that generation died, another generation grew up who did
not ignore of the Lord or remember the mighty things
he had done for Israel. And when we forget God,
bad things happen. In nineteen sixty four, Ronald Reagan gave

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a speech title The Time for Choosing, and in it
he said, this freedom is never more than one generation
away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children
in the bloodstream. It must be fought for and protected
and handed on to them to do the same, or

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one day we will spend our sunset years telling our
children and our children's children what it was like to
live in the United States where men were free. Ronald
Reagan was right, and I'm praying that God will work
a miracle and give us another spiritual great awakening, because

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that is our only hope. You're listening to the Todd
Huff Radio program. We'll be back in just a minute.

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Welcome back to the Todd Huff Radio Show. I'm Gary Varvil.
Political Cartoon is syndicated through Creators Syndicate. I'm filling in
for Todd today. Hey, there's something I want to talk about,
something that fascinates me. And I don't know if it
does you or not, but the AI, the artificial intelligence
is just and I'm sure that many of you out

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there have probably used to chat shept Grock for but
it's fascinating for a lot of different reasons. I think
it's interesting that Elon Musk in twenty fourteen was talking
about this. He said, I think we should be very
careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess what
our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that with artificial intelligence,

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we are summoning the demon. Seems to be a theme
on this show today. I'm sorry I'm bringing this to you,
but I'm trying to wake us up a little bit.
So is he speaking in hyperbole? I don't think so.
You know, President Trump signed an executive order stating that
America is going to be the dominant leader in artificial intelligence,
and then he introduced one hundred billion to a five

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hundred billion dollar project called Stargate. And when I heard
about Stargate, my mind immediately went to Revelation chapter thirteen.
And I'll explain why in just a minute. But technology
is neither good nor evil. It depends on how it's used.
And since the Bible says we're all center, sooner or
later technology will be used for evil, you can guarantee it.

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But let's start with a particular verse in the Old Testament.
The Bible says in Genesis chapter eleven, and I thought,
you know, looking at this, this is where my mind goes.
It says after the flood, when people started repopulating the earth,
they decided to make a name for themselves and build
a tower to the heavens. And then God came down

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to the earth to see the project. Genesis eleven six
states this. Look, this is what God says. The people
are united and they all speak the same language. After this,
now here's the quote. Nothing they set out to do
will be impossible for them. Notice that God said nothing

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will be impossible for them. So this is what God
did in Genesis chapter eleven. He confused their languages so
they couldn't communicate, and the language barrier delayed the increase
of knowledge for millennia. But look at our generation. Look
at we've witnessed the impossible. You know, the things that

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Genesis eleven six talked about. Or imagine nothing is possible
for them. Nothing is literally impossible for or this generation.
The exponential growth of knowledge has been astronomical. I mean,
for thousands of years people traveled by horse and buggy,
But from nineteen hundred to nineteen sixty nine we went

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from horse and buggy to launching men into space. How
do you explain that exponential growth? That's how you explain it.
System theorists, author, designer, inventor, and futurists Buckminster Fuller what
a name Buckminster. Buckminster Fuller created the knowledge doubling curve,

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and he wrote that until nineteen hundred, human knowledge was
doubling every century. Okay, so every century knowledge doubled, But
by the end of World War II, knowledge was doubling
every twenty five years. Some years later IBM added to
Fuller's theory and they predicted it by twenty twenty, knowledge

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would double every twelve hours because of the Internet. Now
listen to this, Daniel twelve four says, but you, Daniel,
keep this prophecy a secret. Seal it up the book
until the time of the end when many will rush
here and there and knowledge will increase. Now that's amazing.

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So he has Daniel write a book. He writes this information,
and Daniel says, can you explain this to me? And
the Lord says, seal it up because it's for it's
for a future generation. And what's the definition of that generation?
He says, many will rush here and there and knowledge
will increase. I think that's us. Listen, my friend, based

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on this verse, we're living at the time of the
end when God said many will rush here and there,
transportation and knowledge will increase. Technology, Both of those things
are exponentially expanded in this twentieth century. In the twenty
first century, it expanded in the twentieth century, and the
out of the twenty first century, it's really exploded. The founder

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of Lion and Lamb Ministries or Lamb and Lion Ministries,
I'm sorry. Doctor David Reagan preached a fascinating sermon a
few years ago called the exponential prophecy Curve, and he
explained the speed of which the growth in population advances
in medicine, military weapons, systems, communications, computers, and the Internet.

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All of these things are fulfilling Bible prophecy, which brings
us to Ai and Musk's legitimate fear. Because here's what
I wanted to tell you in Revelation chapter thirteen, verses
fourteen and fifteen. This is what it says. And with
all of the miracles that he, being the false prophet,

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was allowed to perform on behalf of the First Beast,
the Antichrist, he deceived all the people who belonged to
this world. He ordered that the people make a great
statue of the first Beast, who was fatally wounded and
then came back to live. He was then permitted to

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give life to the statue so that it could speak.
And then the statue of the beast commanded everyone refusing,
anyone refusing to worship it must die. So let's look
at that verse again. A statue has the ability to speak,
and it commanded everyone refusing to worship that they must die.

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We already have robots. We already have robots with the
ability to speak. But now look at what else it
will do. In verses sixteen to through eighteen of Revelation thirteen,
it says he required everyone small and great, rich and poor,
free and slave to be given a mark on the
right hand or on the forehead, and no and could

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buy or sell without that mark. They couldn't buy or
sell anything without that mark. And which was neither the name,
which was either the name of the beast or the
number representing his name. Now, wisdom here is needed that
let the one with understanding solve the meaning of the
number of the beast, for it is the number of

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a man, his number of sixty sixty six. Now people
have gone through time trying to guess who it is,
and what's the number mean, and all of that kind
of stuff. I think that we're not going to know
until he's on the scene, then people will know. And
that's what this verse is saying. When you see all
these things start to happen, then you're going to know

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who it is. But imagine AI systems interconnected around the world,
tracking every living person, controlling their purchases. This was impossible
throughout history until our generation. I asked chat GPT not
long ago, how how long would it be before AI

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would be able to track everyone on the Earth? Now
we're talking eight billion people, and that's all I want
to know. How long would it take before AI would
have the ability computer systems around the world would have
the ability to track everyone wherever they go, buying and
selling and all of that. And it said to me
not very long. That's sobering because it sounds like AI

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technology is just another sign that we're very close to
the return of Jesus Christ. Jesus said that he's going
to come back, and and he gave us some indications
of what life is going to be like. And the
Book of Revelation, especially in chapter thirteen, is a big sign.

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So Bible prophecy about the beast statue sounds a lot
like AI technology, and it's going to eventually going to
be used for evil by the Antichrist, which means that
AI is another sign that we're very close to the
return of Jesus Christ. And then the question is are

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you ready to meet him? And the way to be
ready to meet him is to accept him as your
lord and savior, the King of kings, because when he
comes back, he's going to take his church to be
with himself, and the people who are left behind it's
going to be very difficult for them. Life on this

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earth will not be what we know it to be
right today, the tribulation period is not something that anybody
wants to live through, and many won't. There will be
massive loss of life during the wars and the judgments,

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so nobody wants to be here for that. But I'm
not trying to scare anybody. I'm just saying, look the
life that we live today, with all of the technology,
it sounds so much like what the Bible said was coming.
The controlling people's buying and selling. That sounds like central

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bank digital currency CDBC, CBDC. I think no other generation
has had that. To look at, how in the world
was one guy going to control everybody's buying and selling
and as the population got so large, I mean eight
billion people in the earth. Now we see that it's

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very possible. And as Ai said, it's not very far away.
So if my suggestion to you, if you don't if
you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal savior, I'd
pray and ask him to reveal himself to you in
some way. Get into a good church. You don't want

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to be left behind.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
This is the top Huff radio show you've heard.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
It said, Well, when I am weak, then I am strong.
That's Second Corinthians twelve ten. And that means that God's
power has made perfect in weakness. So when I'm weak,
that's when I'm strong in the Lord. But thirty years ago,

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I want to share something with you. Thirty years ago,
I remember Moody Church pastor Warren Weersby. He visited our
church here in Brownsburg, Indiana, and he delivered a sermon
and he said, where you're strong, that's where you're weak.
That's just the opposite. So where do you Where you

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are strong, that's where we you're weak. And the Bible
is full of examples, and he gave a few, but
I'm going to give you some examples right here. You see,
when we are strong in an area and we think
we've got this, we don't need the Lord. I've got
this all taken care of. The devil knows that we
are confident in that one thing, and he puts a

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target on our back and we become vulnerable. So here's
just a few examples. What was Abraham's great strength? Do
you remember that? It was his faith? He was a
great man of faith? Right where did where did Abraham fail?

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He doubted God when there was a drought in the land,
and he had doubts that God was going to take
care of him. So he takes his wife and he
goes down to Egypt. And when he gets there, you know,
he didn't want them to kill him and take his
wife because she was so beautiful, and so he told
her to lie. And then they spent some time I'm there,
and they got in all kinds of trouble, and then

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they left and they took people with them, like Hagar,
And that's a whole nother story. But Abraham's strength was
his great faith. He's a great man of faith. But
where did he fail in his faith? He doubted God?
What about Moses? Moses's great strength? What was his strength,
great leadership, led a million Jews out of Egypt. Where

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did he fail? Well, he wasn't such a good leader.
When the Jews all started complaining about being out in
the wilderness and the desert, and they were angry. And
then he got angry at them and God, and they
were all crying about they were thirsty, and they wanted
water and so so God told him to speak to

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the rock and he would bring water from the rock.
But in Moses' anger, he struck the rock. It was
just the opposite of what God told him to do.
He didn't show very good leadership then, and as a result,
he couldn't go into the Promised Land because he'd sinned.
What about Aaron, his brother? What was Aaron's strength? Oh,

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he was great obedience, his great obedience. He assisted Moses
in facing Pharaoh. He became the father of the levitical priesthood.
But where did Aaron? Where did he fail? Well, he
wasn't so obedient. When Moses goes up on the mountain
and he's gone for quite some time, and the people

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started complaining and said, hey, we want you to build
a golden altar to us. We want you to build
a golden calf, and that's what they demanded, and he
just gave right into them. He wasn't very obedient to
God there. What about Samson, what was his strength? Well,
everybody knows this. His strength was his strength, God given

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physical strength to defeat the Philistines, the enemies of Israel.
He was literally the strongest man who ever lived. But
where did he fail? He wanted to marry a Philistine woman,
so he marries Delilah and then he entrusts her with
his secret and she betrays him, resulting in his weakness.

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So his strength was his physical strength, and his weakness
became his physical weakness, and he was captured. So what
about King David? What was King David's strength? Well, he
was a man of great integrity who was a man
after God's own heart. But where did he fail? He

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sinned with Bathsheba and then he lied to cover it up.
What about Peter? What was Peter's great strength? Well, he
was a man of great courage. In Matthew chapter twenty six,
verse thirty five, it says that but Peter declared, even
if I have to die with you, I will never

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disc That's what he tells Jesus and of course, Jesus says,
you'll disown me three times this night. And where did
he fail? Sure enough, fear he was afraid of a
little girl who asked him, aren't you one of Jesus' disciples?
He denied, He denied knowing him, and even cursed. Yes. Look,

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wherever you think you're strong, that's where you're going to
be weak, because that's where the devil will target you.
That's where the demons will We'll see if they can
trip you up. We as human beings, need the Lord,
and we need him for the little things as well
as the big things. And sure he's given us certain gifts,

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and we get pretty good in those gifts. I got
pretty good at drawing cartoons. I've always been cognizant that
that could all be taken away tomorrow. I could lose
my eyesight, i could lose my ability to move my
hands in my arms. If that happens, then that you
have no reason to go to Gary Varville dot com

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or Garyvarvill dot substack dot com and see my work,
because I wouldn't be doing anything. Everything comes to an end,
sooner or later. We all are destined to die. We
all have a death sentence. We just don't know when.
Most of us don't know when. And the most important
thing in life is where you'll spend eternity. So I

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want to end the show with the words of Jesus Christ,
who said, I am the Resurrection in the life. He
who believes in me, though he may die, yet shall
he live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall
never die. Do you believe this? That is the question.
The answer is I believe it. I want to thank

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Todd Huff for allowing me to sit in today. I'm
Gary Varvill. You can see my work at Garyvarville dot com.
Until the next time,