Member training from September 22nd 2025.
In this training, I drive home why it is so vital that we understand the principle of controlled opposition, not just on the big stage of politics and media, but in our personal discernment as well. Too often we assume that if someone says the right words—“I love liberty,” “I stand for the Constitution,” or even “Jesus is Lord”—then they must be on our side. But the Savior warned us of wolves in sheep’s clothing, and scripture shows us again and again that the truth is found by the few, hated by the world, and often ignored or silenced by the powers of the day. Controlled opposition works precisely because it looks and sounds so convincing, but when you examine the fruits, you’ll see the misdirection—leading people into “safe” paths that never threaten the adversary’s plans. Our task is not to chase every false teacher or celebrity politician, but to know the principles of truth so well that the counterfeit becomes obvious. If we cannot recognize the deceivers on the lower levels, how will we ever discern the master of deception, the Antichrist himself? This is why we must strengthen our knowledge, sharpen our judgment, and refuse to be lulled into following what the world applauds. Only then will we build the spiritual muscles needed to stand firm in the battle between good and evil.
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TRANSCRIPT
Well, have any father we come to you to ask first of all, thank you.
Thank you for these opportunities to better ourselves. So you better serve you
through our education that we’re receiving. We ask your blessing on the meeting on
our speaker tonight. Then we ask you to also bring your spirit among us to help
motivate us to act upon the knowledge we learn. It is so important we don’t skirt
our responsibility to God to not take the word to others so that they can join us
in this battle, fighting a battle between good and evil. So with that,
I say this prayer in your name, Jesus. Amen. Amen.
So Controlled opposition and the Antichrist, again, right? We’ve talked about
controlled opposition a lot. It’s an important thing to understand. But I think it’s,
I wanted to bring this new aspect to it because to help us to see the importance
of it, I think sometimes we dismiss the importance of understanding the principle of
controlled opposition because we either think that we’re not going to be fooled or
that it’s no big deal with these types of things, but I’m hoping to help us to
see the bigger picture on how important it is even on the lower,
more personal level to understand controlled opposition because that will help us with
an even bigger picture. So as I mentioned every week now,
the importance of adhering to the commandments of God and the warnings that he’s
given us that we perish because we have a lack of knowledge. And so I’m hoping
that we’ve all are thinking about the things that we can do this week to increase
our knowledge by saying did I do anything last week and if not we can do better
and and we’ll find something this week to increase our knowledge and the purpose of
the Tree of Liberty Society is of course to build understanding of and adherence to
the principles that have built free nations, expose the satanic conspiracy and then
build an effective resistance to that conspiracy.
So let’s talk about the principle first and we’re going to understand the principle
for yourself and then you’ll be able to identify specific examples for yourself. It’s
an important thing. I don’t want to tell you what to think. We’re going to teach
you how to think, not what to think. And so that’s really what we’re trying to lay
out here because there are so many different
that there’s a turnover and You know, we can’t just do a presentation on everybody
every time Because then if we did that then it’s like a crutch where you lose a
muscle, right? You become weaker because you’re like, oh, oh, no, I got to go tune
in to make sure I I know what the truth is about so -and -so But if you understand
these principles for yourself, I won’t need to go into all of the specifics I won’t
need to bring out individuals, you will be able to understand these yourself,
and then you’ll be able to share with others that are bringing up saying, “Hey, so
-and -so is this new great liberty person?” You’ll be like, “Hey, you know what?
Obviously, you love liberty, and so I want you to understand why that person’s not
what you think, so you’re not supporting something that is going against what you
believe in.” If we do it the right way, we’re not being holier than now, we’re not
being a know -it -all, but we’re being helpful to them because we know what they
want and what their ultimate goal is, and we can help them with that because of
the principles that we understand.
So again, the Savior of course taught that we are to beware of false prophets,
which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You
shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of
thistles, right? So we’re going to know them by their fruits. What do they produce?
And giving these examples of do they gather good things or do they gather things
that are dangerous or that hurt us, that damage us? And so he gets into this,
where we get that term, a wolf in sheep’s clothing, someone that is evil,
someone that is trying to do his harm, but they are pretending to be something
else. They are pretending to be our friend. They are pretending to be harmless.
They’re a sheep, right? Which is, you know, typically thought of as harmless compared
to a wolf. And so, but so this is the image, right? Of a wolf in sheep’s
clothing. Now, Now, if you had a politician or you had somebody in media that
looked like that, it would be pretty obvious. It wouldn’t be a big hurdle to be
able to say, “Oh, you know what? Maybe they’re not exactly who they say they are.”
And so, clearly, Satan isn’t going to be this obvious. And so, we need to look at
additional principles. So, it is important for us to understand that there are wolves
in sheep’s clothing, people that are evil trying to pretend to be good, and so that
they can fool us to do harm to us. But so we had that concept that we, so we
don’t fall into the trap of just giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. We don’t
fall into this idea of, hey, you know, everybody, whatever everybody says is face
value for what it is, right? Somebody says, I’m here for liberty. I love the
Constitution.” Well, they said so, so it must be true. No, we know about Wolves and
Sheep’s clothing, and so we know that things aren’t always at face value, and so
we’re going to look a little bit deeper. We’re going to discover some principles.
Okay, so what are the principles? I, of course, want to look to the scriptures.
That is our guide, that is our foundation, and then we can infer other things from
experience and from other principles. But the foundation should be the things that we
can learn from the scriptures to help us to make sure that we are judging
correctly. Judging isn’t bad, judging unrighteously is bad. So we need to use the
scriptures to know how to judge who is a wolf, who is a wolf in who keeps
clothing, and who is a true friend of liberty.
So the first principle we find in the scriptures is that the truth and those
promoting the truth are not broadly accepted, okay? So we go to Matthew chapter 7
and we read the words of the Lord. He says, “Inter ye in at the straight gate,
for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many
there be which go in there at because straight is the gate and narrow is the way
which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.
Okay, so the mass, the vast majority of individuals are going to go the easy way
that it’s this this wide gate that is broad and lots of people will go in there.
Many there be, that which go in that. But then, of course, the truth is a narrow
gate. It’s a straight way to that gate.
And only a very small amount of people are actually going to find it. Okay.
So that’s one of these things. Then we go to 1 Peter, chapter three, verse 20.
when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was
preparing wherein few, that is eight souls, were saved by water. So when we think
of a few, you know, sometimes we want to think in percentages of a global
population of eight billion people, and so even a million people will be,
you know, a small percentage, but here we see in first Peter that it’s not
percentage, it’s small number, it’s eight. Out of the entire global population of the
time, it was eight that found the narrow straight way.
And so that helps us really, I’m not saying that only eight people every time,
but it helps us put into perspective a principle of it’s not about percentages, it’s
about few in number, an actual number of few that understand that.
So that way we can say, okay, if it’s not a few, if it’s a lot of people,
then we can say that it’s a broad gate. It’s a wide gate.
It’s a broad road to that wide gate, and it might be a path that we want to
avoid, or a voice that we want to avoid, okay? Right? We look at this maybe in
more of a picture view. We have the truth being this just tiny sliver
of the great whole. So, I mean, this is kind of a percentage, but even we talk
about these false paradigms of left versus right, and it’s, you know, And it’s, even
amongst choices, there might be a, oh, there’s two other choices that are much more
people are accepting, but there’s still a lot of people accepting this choice. Well,
really, the truth is something that a very small amount of people will actually
accept.
And so, which tells us the reverse that with false opposition, it will be something
that is broadly accepted, broadly known, you know, broadly followed.
Okay? So also another principle we find in the scriptures is that the world and the
majority of the people hate the good. Whether they say they like the good or not,
the scriptures say they actually hate it. So we go to Matthew chapter 10.
Again, the Lord says, and ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.” So
those that are actually following God will be hated of all men for his sake.
Okay, so again, the broad amount of the people, the bulk of the people are going
because they hate God, they hate Christ, they are going to hate his true followers
and those that follow the truth and so we can extrapolate that to truth.
The truth is going to be hated of most people because God is truth and everything
that is linked to truth is linked to God. In Luke we read, “Blessed are ye when
men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall
reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the son of man’s sake. So they
will lie about you. They will call you evil.
And they will want to, you know, they will hate you as you will. And so I’m going
to take away you, but I’m going to go into the truth, right?
We know that the majority hate truth, majority hate correct principles.
And so that means in the in the converse that the majority of the people love
all in both of these circumstances are general. Of course, not everyone will speak
well of anybody, and not everybody will speak evil of everyone. So, but it’s going
to be, right, when you second about that, the majority, if the majority are speaking
well of you,
then you’re in trouble. If they’re speaking well of this idea, this concept, if
they’re speaking, if the majority are speaking well of, not even a majority.
If a big bulk of the people, I should say, like a good large group of the people
are speaking well of you. If they are speaking well of a principal, if they are
speaking well of a talking head, if they are speaking well of an elected official,
that we should be wary of that. Because of course, they’re father the devil,
they did the same thing to false prophets.
So we go to John chapter 15 and we read, “If the world hate you, you know that
it hated me before it hated you.” “If you were of the world,
the world would love his own, but because ye are not of the world, but I have
chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hate of you.” So here’s another
principle to identify false or controlled opposition. Does the world hate it?
As does the bulk of the world is there a good chunk of people that hate this
truth or hate this principle?
Because if it was if it was something that wasn’t true, of course,
they would grasp onto it if it was a bad principle or a bad individual Then the
the bulk there would be a large portion of the population that would love it. Okay,
so think of things, think of individuals, think of principles, think of parties that
a large group of people love. And you can say with pretty good confidence that that
means that those individuals are false or controlled opposition.
So the world and the majority hate the good. Again continuing James chapter 4, “Know
ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God. Whoso therefore will be
a friend with the world is the enemy of God.” So if the world and the worldly,
again like this person, like this party, like this politician, like this principle,
like this organization, like this talking head. They can be friendly with a wide
cross section of the society. Then they are enemies of God.
They are false opposition.
Yay. And then in 2 Timothy, “Yea, and all that live godly in Christ Jesus shall
suffer persecution.
As I mentioned in my presentation I did last,
not this in July of 2024 where I talked about attempted assassinations of political
figures. At that point was Donald Trump and I talked about how MLK and JFK and
Lincoln were conspirators, but they were also assassinated. So this isn’t a,
it’s not like everybody that has physical harm come to them is true opposition,
but we know that those that are true,
teaching true principles will receive persecution and persecution isn’t people
disagreeing with you, right? It’s it is it is people seeking to do you harm It is
government seeking to put you in prison It is people trying to actually silence you
as opposed to disagreeing with you. Okay,
so Next we have the principle in the scriptures of they openly hating good would be
too obvious and would help to promote it, right? Of course, if they see this
principle of, if I, it’s this reverse psychology of,
oh, you know, I know that people are suspicious if we attack them.
So they’re like, okay, conservatives will be suspicious
if liberals will Um, a conservative they’ll say oh my goodness, you know liberals
um, are Are attacking this person that must mean that person is good But but at
times, you know, they if they don’t because of that They are not going to always
do that. They are going to attack people That are actually on their side because
they know that if they’re attacking them, you’re going to think that that person
they’re attacking is good. And so they do the reverse psychology of attacking a
friend of theirs, so that you think that their friend is actually their enemy. And
I’ve given the example before of Brear Rabbit and talking to Brear Fox and Brear
Bear, saying, “Don’t throw me in that briar patch.” And it ends up being his home.
And so we, as Brear Fox and Brear Bear, think, oh, he doesn’t want to go in that
the bad guys are attacking that person. That must mean that person is good and we
get fooled. Okay. So that becomes too obvious. And so there’s another tactic that
they use and PT Barnum from Barnum and Bailey laid it out pretty well.
Right. I don’t care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name
right. And so the attacks, it’s okay to be attacked. The conspiracy will attack its
own because they know that it’s free advertising that will help promote their friends
because you will think that they are a good person because bad guys are attacking
them when they’re actually on the same exact team, okay? Now,
so what’s another tactic, right? Attacks are just as helpful to someone as praise
with the reverse psychology. A liberal, you know, a person pretending to be a
liberal, a tax, somebody pretending to be a conservative, and the conservatives will
say, okay, that person’s my friend. The person that’s being attacked by the liberal
is my friend. But then liberals will see that and they’ll say a liberal will attack
a will praise a liberal and they say all the liberals will say Okay, that person
must be my friend or like if we think a fake conservative is a real conservative
and they praise somebody We think that the cons the fake conservative praising
somebody is now a conservative and so we’ve got to understand these Psychological
tactics that are used to get us to believe something that is false.
And so in as a part of that, because they use this tactic of attacking people that
are their friends, they have to do something else to people that are their enemies
that won’t draw attention to them. So what do you do to somebody that won’t draw
attention to them? This clip is a humorous, but very telling example of how we
identify that. So now with Polanyi dropping out, Rick Perry dropping in and Michelle
Bachman and Ron Paul dominating the Ames straw poll, we got ourselves a race. We
have a top tier. It is Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman. We have a new
top tier and it’s Perry, Mitt Romney and Bachman. There’s now a top tier in this
race, at least for now, of Romney, Perry and Bachman. I think that’s fair to say.
Really fair to say. You’re not Getting, I don’t know, anyone say an ideologically
consistent 12 -term congressman who came within less than 200 votes of winning the
straw poll, isn’t anyone going to give that gentleman a little love? There’s a top
tier now of a Bachman and Perry and Romney and, you know, we haven’t mentioned and
we should. Thank you. We haven’t mentioned and we should, Rick Santorum,
who did really surprisingly well for the amount of money and resources he had.
Rick Santorum, he didn’t get half of what Ron Paul got. He lost to the guy who
lost so bad, he dropped out of the race.
Santorum? We’re looking at Mitt Romney who continues to be the front runner, but we
have Rick Perry as well and now Michelle Bachman. Let’s not count out John Huntsman
though. What? John Huntsman? Huntsman got 69 votes.
If if all of John Huntsman’s supporters met at the same Ames Iowa Quiznos,
the Fire Marshal would say, “Yeah that’s fine no
problem.” There’s still some tables open in the back. Huntsman, Huntsman was the only
Mormon running in the straw poll and he came in second amongst Mormons and by the
way this pretending Ron Paul doesn’t exist for some reason has been going on for
weeks. A new Gallup survey showing Rick Perry running second to Mitt Romney knocking
down Iowa favorite Michelle Bachman to fourth. “Behind who?
Fourth behind who? How did libertarian Ron Paul become the 13th floor in a hotel?
Why what’s wrong with he is tea party patient zero all that small government
grassroots business He planted that grass these other folks They’re just moral
majorities in a tricornered hat Ron Paul’s the real deal and Fox News should love
this guy. But watch the disconnect between the debate moderators at Fox’s Thursday
debate and the debate audience. Iran does not have an air force that can come here.
Just like we did in Iraq, built up the war propaganda. There was no al -Qaeda in
Iraq and they had nuclear weapons and we had the glen. I’m sure you supported that
war as well. It’s time we quit this. It’s trillions of dollars we’re spending on
these wars.
What’s with the smirk in the eye roll the guy gives it the crowd goes nuts and
you do one of these
There goes crazy uncle Ron babbling about the unsustainability of multiple wars
He’s the one guy in the field agree with him or don’t agree with him who doesn’t
go out of his way to regurgitate talking points or change what he believes to fit
the audience he’s in front of, and you’re treating him like if this were celebrity
apprentice, he’d be this guy.
At
the Ames, Iowa’s straw poll, Busey beat Huntsman 77 to 69, even when the media does
remember Ron Paul. It’s only to reassure themselves how there’s no need to remember
Ron Paul. Right now live right next to the bus behind us, Ron Paul is speaking.
And seven of the candidates are here today. We have live pictures of Ron Paul, but
you know what? We’re talking about Sarah Palin. We’re talking about Rick Perry. The
two people not in the race yet, Drew. And guess what, Paul? If you get video of
Sarah Palin or get a sound bite from her, bring that back to us. You can hold the
Ron Paul stuff.
(audience laughing)
So even CNN, right? CNN and Fox News, the mainstream talking heads are all trying
to get you to not know that he exists. Ignore him, do a glancing blow if you
mention him at all, but typically just ignore him as if he doesn’t exist. And so,
typically, that’s what the conspiracy will do in these aspects,
when we’re talking about government and politics and liberty, is they will just
absolutely ignore them. But then, in other cases, like has happened to me, where
they do that through the persecution, where they do try to throw you in prison,
where they do go after you physically, or even murder you. And But but the ignoring
they don’t want if you are not a part of them They will not talk about you over
and over and over again You will not know who they are if they wipe them out
basically you won’t even know that they existed Because then you would know that
they are somebody that you should look to you would know about them to see if you
should look into them And so they want you if if they if you are somebody or the
thing you’re looking at is something that they talk about a lot, then you can know
that the conspiracy accepts them as one of their own. That even if they look like
they’re somebody that’s talking against the conspiracy, they are actually controlled
opposition and giving you information that keeps you in line with the conspiracy’s
agenda. Yes, Mark. Yes, Ben, you’re absolutely right. Ron Paul,
a couple of things. One thing they were told to ignore him, but if you say
anything, a journalist said this, we gotta memo whatever it was. If you say anything
about him, be sure to say that he’s quirky. In other words, he’s not a serious
candidate. So you have to have a quirky article about him. So I saw the LA Times,
they had one of, talking about his tennis shoes, he had back issues, so he walked
around with tennis shoes. And they, which went on and on about that state of his
policies. And I think it’s important to cut sharp contrast how they treated Ron Paul
versus our president. Trump in 2016, Trump was getting a huge amount of attention.
Barlin Bailey, they said something like two and a half, $3 billion worth of media
that nobody like Ron Paul would have ever, didn’t receive. Yep,
good example. Thank you, Mark. So we look at so we ask ourselves is is this
principal? Is this organization? Is this individual? Is it friendly with the world
and the worldly? Do they accept them and are they accepted by them? Are they under
physical attack by the government or the conspiracy? Does a large portion of the
population support them. Okay. Ask yourself all of these questions. Those that claim
to be followers are rejected. So there’s this idea out there that if this,
this TV show, this movie, this individual is out there talking about Jesus,
then it must be good. It must be promoting the savior. It must be better than
nothing. But The Savior actually says something very clearly about these things in
Luke chapter 13 We read when once the master of the house is risen up and have
shut to the door And you begin to stand without and to knock at the door saying
Lord Lord open unto us And he shall answer and say unto you I know you not Whence
he are then they shall begin to say we have eaten and drunken in thy presence, and
thou hast taught in our streets. But ye shall say, I tell you, I know you not,
whence ye are, depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.” So these individuals,
right, that the Lord is rejecting and turning away from, they listened to him. They
brought him to speak amongst them. They talked about him. They, you know, they
socialized with him and not only that but they are going to knock they’re they’re
going to his door So they’re claiming to be somebody that’s seeking after them. That
isn’t just, you know Ignoring him or moving on but they are people that are
actually looking like and and They are acting like they are wanting to seek after
him, but he’s saying no these individuals He does not know them They are false
teachers. They are false leaders and they are not to be accepted just because they
say these things Okay, so that the sheep’s clothing, right? So just because they say
the right things just because they appear to do the right things just because they
claim to want to be in his presence Doesn’t mean they are who they say they are
and doesn’t mean he will know them Now, these are hard things, maybe, for us to
grasp, but I think we’ve laid out pretty clearly that these things are principles
that are taught in the scriptures. So we look, right, this is not so obvious of
the false opposition, and so they want to look like us, and they want to talk like
us. So we don’t look for the guy on the left. These are the people that are the
false opposition. They are clean cut, they are talking about social issues, they are
mentioning words like the constitution, they are mentioning words like limited
government and against taxes and things like that. But as you dig deeper into them,
they are popular, they are talked about, they are mentioned,
They have large followings. They are following all of the signs that we read in the
scriptures of false opposition, of claiming to be following prick principles.
But when it comes to very important junctures of solutions, that’s where they go and
they put you in the opposite direction, and away from
the actual solution and into what are acceptable solutions, solutions that the
conspiracy is not afraid of them mentioning. That’s why they’re allowed on major
networks with millions and millions of viewers.
So we learned about this principle. Taylor Caldwell in her book The Pillar of Iron
lays out this principle as well and she says a nation can survive its fools and
even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates
is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. The obviously
open wolf is less dangerous because he’s out there saying, “I’m a wolf.” But the
traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely. His sly whispers rustling through
all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself, for the traitor
appears not a traitor.
He looks like you, he talks like you, saying all the right things, appearing to do
the right things, but he is a traitor.
And of course, Vladimir Lenin pointed out this principle when he said, “The best way
to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves. And so the conspiracy will
identify people that they can place in positions of authority,
positions of power, positions of influence, that will say the things that their
opposition wants to hear, but they are controlled by them, these people that are
looking like they’re opposing the internationalists, the conspiracy are actually put
there by the conspiracy, allowed to be there by the conspiracy, promoted by the
conspiracy.
Okay, so does the show, does the movie, does the politician,
does the organization, does the individual, are they promoted, you know? Did you see
50, 60, 70 ,000 people showing up to watch and learn about that individual.
Do you see television stations airing a program? Do you see people of influence
promoting that individual, promoting that cause? Do you see statues being put up to
honor them by the world?
Just pick our favorite sacred cow and ask ourselves, does it fit in this criteria?
Is it aired for free on Amazon? Is it promoted by, you know, NFL? Is it,
does the, do politicians or, you know, or major institutions put up a statue to
that person and ask ourselves so that way we can start to identify and say, oh,
wow, my sacred count. That’s, it fits that criteria. I better look closer and look
more into it and find out if that person is actually who they’re being claimed to
be? Are they the character that they are portrayed as? As I’ve gone into my other
previous false opposition presentations showing people like Ronald Reagan wasn’t who
the character was portrayed as, right? It wasn’t who he was being promoted as in
the media. Len Beck, not who he was being promoted as in the media. Just over and
over again. Ray Bram Lincoln, not always promoted as in the media. And so, are
these individuals, are these shows, are these groups, people that the world and the
worldly are okay with promoting?
Right? Also, we need to look at avoiding superficial understandings. The Prophet
Joseph said, “Some will say, “Try the spirits by the Word.” Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that
confesseth not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. So some will
use that scripture, just me commentary right now, and say, “Oh, that person said
Jesus. That person said Jesus is Lord.
They are good, right? Everybody that confesses that Jesus has come in the flesh is
something that is of God, but it goes on. But we know that that’s not the case
because of the other examples we showed from the Savior. But Joseph elucidates more.
He says, “One of the Irvingites, once quoted this passage, whilst under the influence
of the Spirit, and then said, I confess that Jesus Christ is coming to flesh. So
anybody that’s superficially looking at 1st John chapter 4 is going to say, “Well,
that Irvingite must be telling the truth, must be a good person.”
And yet, these prophecies failed. Their Messiah did not come, and the great things
spoken of by them had fallen to the ground. What is the matter here? Did not the
Apostle speak the truth, certainly he did. But he spoke to people who were under
the penalty of death, the moment they embraced Christianity. Okay, so that’s the
different context. So in John, if you confess Christ, you are going to be killed.
Okay.
And no one without a knowledge of the fact would confess it and expose themselves
to death. And this was consequently given as a criterion to the church or churches
to which John wrote. So today, to just mention Christ,
to say you follow Christ, to say you’re a Christian, is not something that will put
you to death. In fact, it makes you look like you’re pious, it makes you look like
you’re one of the good guys. And so we have to ask ourselves what truth will bring
us such punishments as were given and meted out to the Christians when John spoke
those things or the Lord spoke those things in John. And we can follow that
principle of what was the consequence. And so we can see that somebody that just
says Lord, Lord, is not going to be somebody that’s accepted by the Lord. Okay,
so if we don’t recognize such figures now, we won’t recognize the most famous
villain of all, right? So these other things like your radio talk show host,
your TV talking heads, your politicians, you might think, well, it doesn’t matter.
You know, they’re not really doing anything. You know, it doesn’t matter if I, you
know, send them a check or if I vote for them or if I listed their radio program.
But really, these that this is the proving ground. This is the training wheels for
us to recognize the things that are going to be even harder to be able to decipher
the father and the author of lies. Because Satan does not look like this.
He’s more like this character on TV called Lucifer. He’s going to be attractive,
and he’s going to say attractive things. He’s going to say things that are appealed
to us. And he might even confess that Jesus is the Christ as we read in the
scriptures. Look at Matthew. Again, we read, “Many will say to me in that day,
‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out
devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto
them, ‘I never knew you, depart from me ye that have worked iniquity.'” So, these
iniquitous people are saying that they prophesied, that they cast out devils and that
they did miracles even, and that is something that the Antichrist, these are things
that the Antichrist will do. So if we don’t recognize average people, when they say
Lord, Lord, when they prophesy falsely, when they prophesy in his name, when they
cast out devils in his name, when they create miracles in his name, but they are
actually frauds, they are actually wolves and sheep’s clothing, how will we be able
to recognize the Antichrist when he arrives on the scene? In Galatians we read,
“There be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ, but though
we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you, than that which we
have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” So this goes back to what I talked
about in the very beginning of my people perish for lack of knowledge. If we don’t
know the gospel, how will we know when another gospel is preached?
So studying, deeply studying, understanding these things so that when a perversion of
them comes up, that looks like it’s a counterfeit, right? A dollar, a counterfeit
dollar bill is not, you know, is going, well, if it’s monopoly money, you will know
that counterfeit very easily. But a well done counterfeit will be hard to But if
you know the dollar bill and it doesn’t matter what the counterfeit is you will be
able to identify it and the same thing with teachings and Organizations and leaders
we will the more we know correct principles The harder it will be for the adversary
and his servants to deceive us And so when we when we are practicing and we were
strengthening than those muscles on these people that I’ve talked about earlier, when
we get to the master of lies, the master of deception, we will have those muscles
built up and we will not be fooled by him. And then in Mark, we read, “And there
was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, saying, ‘Let us alone. What
have we to do with thee? Thou, Jesus of Nazareth, art thou come to destroy us? I
know thee, who thou art, the Holy One of God. So these demons, these unclean
spirits, not only knew and said, yes, that’s Christ, right? They knew who Christ
was, but he said, they said out loud, “I know you. I know you are the Holy One
of God.” And so just because someone says those things does not mean that they are
not false opposition, does not mean that they are not out there to receive,
but because we see that demons will do that very same thing.
So we need to practice our understanding on wolves and sheep’s clothing in
government, entertainment, information gathering, learning, etc. We need to work and
practice in building those muscles. And that will help us be better prepared for the
ultimate test of recognizing the Antichrist and all servants of the adversary, because
if we can’t recognize his lower level servants, how will we recognize the master of
deception? That might seem very sobering and might seem a little bit overwhelming,
but it’s a fact. If we can’t discern on the lower level,
it is going to be impossible for us to CERN on the higher level. And so let’s
build those muscles now, let’s strengthen those things, practice and build our
understanding, not be sucked into these emotional
arguments that get us to be sucked in to these popular characters that are sent to
deceive us and sent to ensure that we are not focused on the correct solution,
but that we are driven to a path that will continue to strengthen and embolden the
conspiracy and will turn us away from building up the political kingdom of God.
So with that,
let’s, we’ve got a few minutes to do, oh why is this,
There we go. For, I’ll go look in the chat real quick, Marjorie Taylor -Green. Oh
well, a lot of completely fit Charlie Kirk. So some comments in there, I just read
those. So I hope this was helpful to you. We’ve got just a few minutes. Does
anybody have any concise, quick comments? They’d like their questions, especially
questions, focus on questions, until we get to open forum, they’d like to bring up
right now. – Yeah, Ben, I have a question or a statement real quick. – Yeah.
– You mentioned something. I know, I think you and I have talked about this before,
but when I was, I had heard the, about the counterfeit. – Yeah. – And I think I
had mentioned this before, but what is interesting about those that study that are
that are into detect counterfeit bills, for example,
those people do not study all of the fakes, they spend their life becoming
intimately familiar with the real thing. And therefore they can detect what is fake
because they understand all of the truth, all of the intricacies of of the thing
that is real. I think there is a lesson in there about us finding out and becoming
intimately familiar with the gospel and truths of liberty and things like that.
So it becomes much more easy to detect when things don’t line up with that which
we know. Yep, percent. I appreciate that. Absolutely.
That’s why we have to make knowledge and gaining knowledge a priority. Mark,
you had your hand up real quick.
Yeah, I think it’s really important what you’re saying. This is a great talk. We’ve
got to share this because it’s so timely. But we’re talking about the principles.
So it includes not only political principles, but God’s law, it includes the law,
the Constitution, and it doesn’t help. So we have to start there. If you don’t
understand that, you don’t understand what liberty is or charity, we can’t move on
to the next step. But the next step is vetting these politicians. I hear all the
time people talk about the politicians, media pundits,
people like Kirk, they talk about them, they don’t know what they have done. They
don’t know they’re…
Anybody else have anything they would like to any questions on this topic
specifically? Yeah, I got see your hand. I see your hand up. That’s that’s me Read
we’ve had people we’ve had people in our organization Who are clean cut?
Say just the right things and and stuff But we’ve had people in our organization
who by the spirit of the Lord knew that they were deceivers and they’re in there
to destroy our party. Now, even some of the leaders could not figure that out,
but the Spirit reveals it. And then all of a sudden that deceiver started to talk
more or less against religion and everything. In other words, what I’m getting at is
you’ve got to be aware of these signs in, Yeah,
clean cut, but they will come out when, when they start to go against either the
scriptures or our savior or something like that. Thank you, Reed. And a quick
response to what he just said, it’s absolutely true. And there are wolves and she
clothing, you say a lot of right things, but almost all of them she clothing, if
you understand the principles well, then you, then you can see it in their words as
well, not just in their actions. – And like what Dan was saying, where if you’re
understanding, not just the negative, but the positive, you understand the actual
correct truths, the better you understand that, the easier the counterfeit will be
able to be detected. – One of their tactics is faith criticism and faith praise.
So they pretend that they’re oppositional, when they’re really not. Okay, it’s 10 o
‘clock. Let’s go ahead and wrap it up We’ll have a closing prayer and then we’ll do
open forum where we can talk more about this or anything else you guys would like
to bring up I’d like to ask
Sam Bigley if you’d be willing to give the closing prayer for us.
Yes, I will
Our father in heaven you are so grateful to have been able to be present nice to
have heard these things and hope that Thy Spirit would direct and guide us to apply
them into our lives. We may be aware of the evil that surrounds us.
We may not be directed in false paths and courses that would lead us away.
We ask that you would bless and be with Ben and his family and each one who is
laboring to build up this organization and even is seeking to build up Thy kingdom.
Please guide and direct each and every one. We ask in the name of Thy Son, Jesus
Christ, amen.
