inflation remains near a record high and it shows no signs of slowing the consumer price index for September that is a 8.2% compared to what you were going to see. It has made landfall as a category 4. 155 miles per hour. Heightened tensions between the west and Russia. Russian nuclear capable warplanes with otto toward the city, which are expected to seize their lost power. According to the Russian government, If you don't have your wallet, there's no problem. Just scan your palm to pay. Place there in Revelation chapter 13. You're going to want to bookmark that chapter and turn over to Matthew chapter 24, if you would. So we're starting a new sermon series and a sermon series focusing on end times prophecy, which can be a confusing and complicated topic to go over, especially if you've never really looked into it before and never really studied it in the Bible. But let me just give you a series overview before we get into the topic this evening. What this is and what this isn't is let me just explain what this is. First of all, we're going to look at the timeline in the Bible on this Bible prophecy. The timeline that we're going to use is mostly captured in Matthew chapter 24. Matthew chapter 24 gives a really succinct timeline of end times prophecy up unto the rapture. So that's what we're going to look at. We're going to look at the timeline. The biggest mistake people make on Bible prophecy. Just things that you see on the internet, conspiracy theories that people have, mega church preachers. The biggest mistake that they make is they just see something somewhere and they just forget about the timeline of the Bible and they just say the end is upon us because of this. I mean Gog and Magog is my favorite one. There's a battle in Revelation chapter 20 called the Battle of Gog and Magog and that area, if you look at what most people agree is that area is upwards into Russia somewhere. So every time something happens with Russia, like something's happening with Russia today, you'll see preachers or people, experts online saying, oh, Gog and Magog and the end is near. Well, here's the thing, the battle of Gog and Magog happens after the millennial reign of Christ. So that's at least a thousand years away. It's at least a thousand and seven years away. So we have to look at the timeline that the Bible gives us. We're going to base all of our series study on the timeline of the Bible. I mean, why else did God give us this information in the Bible if we're not going to follow the timeline of the Bible? Another one is the blood moon. So every time there's a blood moon, someone writes a book about the rapture or something like that. It's like even before the rapture, folks, so many things need to happen before that. I can tell you for a fact that Jesus is not coming tomorrow because so many things have to happen before that occurs. So what we're going to do in this series, here's the methodology. Here's the methodology. What we're going to do is we're going to look at the timeline of the Bible according to each of these prophecies. And then what we're going to do is we're going to reverse engineer what we see happening today in our world around us and see how we could possibly get there from where we are today. What this series is not is predicting the second coming of Christ. Now, if I wanted to start a cult or sell books or whatever, I mean, that's what you do. You predict that Jesus is coming on June 22nd of 2023, and that's what people do. But that's not what this is about. This is to give us a better understanding of what God has already put in front of us in the Bible. Are you there in Matthew chapter 24? Look at Matthew chapter 24. Let me give you an example. First of all, let's look at the timeline just real quickly of Matthew chapter 24. So in Matthew chapter 24, this is kind of repeated in Mark chapter 13 and Luke chapter 21. But Matthew chapter 24 is kind of the best, most inclusive timeline of events leading up to the rapture. Look at verse number three of Matthew chapter 24. Let me just give you an example. We're just going to kind of do a quick overview of the timeline that I'm talking about, and then we'll get into the sermon. The Bible says, And as he sat upon the malt of olives, the disciples came unto him privately saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming and the end of the world? So they're asking Jesus, when are you coming back? And his response is basically Matthew 24, this great timeline of events. Look down at verse number 29. Verse number 29. Look at what he says here. He says immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heaven shall be shaken. So this, of course, is why we think that the rapture happens after the tribulation. Why do we think that? Because the Bible says it's after the tribulation. So there's going to be this great tribulation, these great events that happen. Look at verse number 31. It says, And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. This is the rapture. This is Jesus coming back and gathering the saints together. And then, of course, we see in verse number 42, we see this word. We see this word, watch, therefore. In verse number 43, we see this word used twice. But notice that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched. The very last word of Mark chapter 13, which kind of repeats a lot of Matthew chapter 24, is the word watch. So we see that there's all these events that are going to lead up to the second coming of Christ. The Antichrist is going to come on the scene, which Revelation chapter 13 details. The tribulation is going to happen from the Antichrist coming onto the scene. And then the Bible says there will be a great tribulation, such as has never been seen before. And then, of course, the rapture. So we're going to look at the events one at a time that lead up to the rapture in this sermon series. Now, if you've heard me preach on end times prophecy before, the title of the series is called Clues and Milestones. Now, I've detailed out what clues are, are things that when we see these things happening and happening more, we should pay more attention, we should watch. Those are clues. Those are things that we might not be able to exactly put our finger on and say, yeah, that's this event in the Bible. But they're definite clues that should tune our attention into these details and what's happening today.  Like the Antichrist, you know, identifying who the Antichrist is and that will be a sermon to itself. That's going to be a definite Milestone. There will be things that happen when a certain world leader comes on the scene where you know for sure, that's what the Bible is talking about. That's what we would call a Milestone. Alright, so tonight, we're going to look at a clue. We're going to look at a clue tonight and it's a clue that is in Revelation chapter 13. And let me just explain this idea of this one world government because many times you've heard people talking about Bible prophecy. I'm sure you've heard many YouTube videos and many different pastors talking about a one world government. But here's the thing. The term one world government never comes up in the Bible. The phrase one world government is not found in Antichrist prophecy in the King James Bible at all. Where it comes from is in Revelation chapter 13. This is where we get this idea of a one world government. Go back to Revelation chapter 13 and let me just give you an intro into the sermon. All that was intro to the intro. Okay, so now let's look at the intro to the sermon this evening. Look at Revelation chapter 13 and verse number 7. You're saying, what are you talking about pastor? What are you talking about? I've heard this idea of one world government. That's going to be a sign of the end times. But where it is, it's not, there's no literal phrase one world government in the Bible. Where it is coming from is Revelation chapter 13. And just a quick primer on the book of Revelation to give you an easier read. The book of Revelation is split into two parts. Okay, so when you read Revelation you should go home and you should read Revelation this week and then the next sermons will be easier for you to understand. But Revelation is cut into two parts. It's basically two parallel tellings of the same thing. Verse, or chapter 1 through 11 and then verse, or chapter 12 through chapter 22. And those fit side by side and Revelation will make so much more sense to you if you understand that. So again, chapters 1 through 11 and then the story kind of repeats itself chapters 12 through 22. So many times I'm going to reference Revelation chapter 13 tonight but it's also described in Revelation chapter 6. So the events of Revelation 13 also are taking place and we get more detail in Revelation chapter 6. This is very similar to the methodology of the gospels. So the gospels will have many parallel stories but what you will get in the gospels is you will get a different viewpoint of the same event. So it's very helpful that the Bible is put together that way that God has put His word together that way for us. So we're going to be referencing Revelation chapter 13 Revelation chapter 6 tonight but they're talking about the same events. Alright, one world government. Where does this idea come from? Where does this idea of a one world government come from? Why is everybody so worried when they see certain things happening today that we're heading towards a one world government? This is the end times and all this. Where is it coming from? It's coming from Revelation chapter 13 look down at verse number 7. So we see in Revelation chapter 13 it's a lot of how the antichrist there's actually two beasts and a dragon. It's not just the beast. There's two beasts in Revelation chapter 13. This isn't a sermon on the antichrist. We'll get there. But there's two beasts. One beast is the antichrist himself. The second beast is known as the false prophet who's the mouthpiece of the antichrist. And then of course the dragon is Satan who's controlling the whole thing. So there's three players there in Revelation chapter 13. Look at verse number 7 though. The Bible says that it was given to him to make war with the saints. By the way, the saints, that's you. The saints, these aren't the Catholic saints. The saints are the saved. The saints are the people that have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. They are the only ones that are not going to be fooled by this man coming on the scenes. Because hopefully the saints, the saved people, hopefully saved people have someone that's explaining these things from the Bible to them. But look at verse number 7. It's given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And power was given to him over all kindreds and tongues and nations. So this man at this point in verse number 7 had power over all the world. Now look at verse number 16. Look at verse number 16. So at verse number 7 of Revelation chapter 13, there is a one world power. He is in power over all nations at this point. Look at verse number 16. And he causeth all. This is the first beast, the antichrist. Both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads. This is of course the mark of the beast that everybody talks about. But look at verse 17. And that no man might by ourselves say that he had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name. So notice verse 16 where it says he causeth all. So this is again showing this power over all kindreds, all nations, all tongues. Complete power, economic power, military power. At this point there is a global control structure at this point in Revelation chapter 13. But look, now what we're going to do is we're going to work the problem backwards. Because we know at Revelation chapter 13 in verse number 7, verse number 16, verse number 17 that at that point the antichrist has complete power at that point. What would it take for a person to have a global control system to have global power over all nations, all kindreds and all tongues from where we are today? That's the point of this series. Let's work the problem backwards. So what we're going to do this evening is we're going to look at the idea of globalism this evening. We're going to look at this idea of globalism. So what would need to occur for this to be possible? First of all, the antichrist would have to be there. He would have to be on the scene. We know that this man who's going to be in charge of all this would have to be on the scene. That's the first thing that we don't see today that we would have to see for this to be possible in Revelation chapter 13. Now look, that's a separate sermon in itself so we're going to put that one on the shelf for this evening. And that by the way will be a milestone. So if you're all stressed out about the one world government tonight you feel a little bit better because this milestone has to be completed before the one world government happens. As a matter of fact, a lot of very bad things will have happened by the time Revelation chapter 13 takes place. But the second thing is this. Not only does there have to be this antichrist on the scene which is a milestone, sermon in itself but there needs to be a worldwide alliance. There needs to be a worldwide alliance that this man, this antichrist is in charge of. Do we have that today? No, we do not. There also needs to be, if you look at verse 16 and verse 17 with Mark of the Beast it says that no man might buy or sell except that he have the mark. There also needs to be a worldwide financial system. There needs to be a worldwide system where that could be made possible where if you didn't have something that the government wanted you to have they could literally make it so you could not buy or you could not sell. You say, well, this is the point of this series because we're going to look at what it takes to get to these points. So the title of the sermon this evening is Clues and Milestones, Globalism. We don't see a worldwide government today but what we do see, what we do see is this push today for globalism. What do I mean by globalism? I mean global systems. I mean global alliances. I mean global cultures. I mean global government, global rule. Just this idea of globalism. We can definitely see things moving in this direction. There are forces pushing things in this direction. This is a clue. This is a definite clue. So first of all, what I want to show you this evening is this idea of globalism that we see happening today. What I want to show you first this evening, let's do a Bible study on is this what God wants? Does God want nations coming together? Does God want nations forming these massive? Does God want a one-world government? Is that what he wants of men on this earth? Turn to 2 Chronicles, chapter 18. We see alliances today, but guess what? We saw alliances in the Bible too. Let's just do a Bible study on the nation of Israel and let's see what God wants versus this idea of globalism versus what you would call nationalism. Because I guess that's the opposite of globalism. The opposite of globalism is this bad word that you hear today of nationalism, which is basically every nation doing what's best in their own interest and operating as a separate individual nation. Look at 2 Chronicles, chapter 18. Now 2 Chronicles, chapter 18 is the story of Jehoshaphat, who is the king of Judah, the lower kingdom of Judah. And then you have this wicked king Ahab, who is the king of the northern kingdom of Israel. Now the interesting thing about this story is that Jehoshaphat, he did right. He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. He has talked about in the Bible as one of the best kings as it pertains to following the Lord, loving the Lord. And he was just, he was a great king, except for this one blight on his record. During the reign of Jehoshaphat, and it had many generational consequences, what he did here, which I won't get into. I've studied that in the past. There's sermons out there on that. But he had this one blight on his record that while he reigned in the lower kingdom of Judah, and he was following the Lord, there was a wicked king named Ahab, who was the king of the northern kingdom of Israel. Remember the kingdom split after Solomon's son, Rehoboam. The kingdom split into the northern kingdom and the lower kingdom of Judah. Now Ahab was one of the most wicked kings that he just turned on the Lord. He was a wicked king. He was married to an even a horrible, horrible, murderous lady. And he was a very, very bad king. But look at verse number one of 2 Chronicles chapter 18. Just to lay the groundwork. So you have a very good king following the Lord, and you have this wicked king, Ahab. Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance and joined affinity with Ahab. That means he had joined an alliance with Ahab. He joined an alliance with Ahab.  And Ahab the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, will thou go with me to Ramoth Gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people are as thy people, and we will be with thee in the war. So a couple of things I want to point out here. A couple of things I want to point out here. First of all, you have Jehoshaphat, meaning he joined an alliance with Ahab. The first thing I want to point out is, what is the first thing that happens after this alliance is formed? This alliance is formed, and the first thing that happens is war. And that's really what you need to understand and really the pattern that I'm going to be driving home this evening is that these alliances, they start war. So this alliance with Ahab, right away Ahab comes to Jehoshaphat and he says, hey, I'm going to go, I mean he's fighting the Syrian army. And Jehoshaphat had no problem with the Syrian army. He didn't want to go to war with the Syrian army, but just because Ahab drew him into this, it's literally the definition of an entangling alliance right here. So he ends up going to war with this wicked king against, and I'm not saying that the Syrians were good guys, but here's another thing you need to realize. There may be many situations when nations go to war with nations where they're good guys. As Americans, we tend to have this idea that there needs to be white hats and black hats.  You have to understand, especially today, not to rabbit trail, but there just may not be a situation where there's good guys.  He almost gets killed. Ahab does get killed. Ahab gets killed. Jehoshaphat almost gets killed. Now look at 2 Chronicles chapter 19, just one verse over, and we hear what God has to say about what Jehoshaphat did. Look at verse number one of 2 Chronicles chapter 19. The Bible says in Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah returned to his house in peace in Jerusalem. He barely made it out of there. He almost died. God had to step in and literally, if you read about the battle, God had literally stopped the people that were attacking Jehoshaphat and saved him himself. Jehoshaphat barely makes it out with his life and he comes home, but look at what the Bible says in verse 2. It says, and Jehu, the son of Heneini, the seer went out to meet him. This is God's prophet. And said to the king Jehoshaphat, shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord? Talking about Ahab. Therefore, now notice this.  This is a sermon in itself right here. There's people that hate God. We met them today. There's people that hate God.  They exist today. But look what Jehu the prophet says to Jehoshaphat. He says, why are you helping these people?  Therefore, you know, you're looking at your life. No, look what he says. Therefore, it's wrath upon thee from before the Lord. God's wrath was upon Jehoshaphat for helping people that hated him. Okay, so look. It was never something that God wants. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 7. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 7. God never wanted his nation to entangle themselves with alliances, with any other nation ever. He wanted his nation always to be an independent nation. Look at Deuteronomy chapter 7 in verse number 1. I could read dozens and dozens of verses on this. But look at just Deuteronomy 7 verse number 1 talking about, before the nation of Israel went into the promised land. It says, when the Lord thy God, verse number 1, shall bring thee into the land whether thou goest to possess it and cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites and the Gurgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Parasites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them. So it begs the question, if they were supposed to wipe these people out, why did God even continue this verse? Why did God even continue giving them direction? Because why would he have to say, don't do these things I'm about to exist because they would be utterly gone. They would be off the face of the earth. Because God knew that they wouldn't listen to him. God knew that they wouldn't utterly destroy all of these nations. So he gives further warning. He gives further warning. Look what he says. He says, thou shalt make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them. He says, do not make deals with them. Do not make alliances with them. Do not make treaties with them. Do not make tax breaks whatever with them. But what did they do? What did they do? They went in and they started making covenants and deals with these nations. Look what he says in verse 3. Neither shall thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter shall thou not give unto his son nor his daughter shall thou take unto thy son. Why? Why? Is God, everyone would say, is God racist? First of all, there's one race. The human race. That's it. We're all one blood, the Bible says. This is why he says that they were supposed to do it. Look at verse 4. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that he may serve other gods. So the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and destroy these suddenly. Look, here's what I'm trying to get you to understand.  You say, well, this is the nation of Israel. They were following God and God was looking after his own people. True. Agree. You can't really say that our nation or really any nation on the planet right now is really, you know, following the Lord is really God's nation. You can't really say that about any nation today. But still, God's philosophy, let's study God, the philosophy of God on independence of nations. But here's another example. Turn to Colossians chapter 1. The same philosophy that God has towards nations applies to churches. Did you know that? Churches as well are supposed to be independent. Why? For the same reason. For the same reason. Look at Colossians chapter 1. Colossians chapter 1 and verse number 17. The same is found in Ephesians 5 and some other places in the Bible. We'll just look at Colossians chapter 1.  He wants his nation to be independent. He wants his churches to be independent. Look at verse number 17. The Bible says, and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. Speaking of Jesus, we study this as Jesus as the word of God, the Creator, the world was spoken into existence. But look at verse 18. And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the first born from the dead, and in all things, he might have preeminence. So the way it works with a biblical church is this. We're an independent, fundamental King James Baptist church. This is, I mean, the word independent means we are part of no denomination. We are not part of any denomination. It's funny when you read news articles or things describing the independent fundamental Baptist movement, they'll say like the IFB is a denomination. It is not. The IFB, the independent fundamental Baptist church has never been and never will be a denomination. It is not a denomination. They are independent churches. They are independent churches. Look, you say, what's the big deal if there's denominations? Here's the big deal, folks. If God wanted denominations, first of all in Colossians chapter 1, Ezekiel 5, other places in the Bible, here's the hierarchy. The church, Jesus Christ. That's it. I mean, as far as the church goes, there's no middleman there. There's no denomination, president. There's no organization over, you know, 10 churches or anything like that. Denominations are completely unbiblical. You say, well, what's the big deal it's just getting people on the same doctrine. Well, if it works so well, why is every single denomination corrupt? Every single... I can't think of a single denomination that has the correct gospel. I mean, are you kidding me? You say, why is that? Well, here's why. Denominations make it easy for Satan to corrupt the church. Why? Because instead of corrupting 50 churches, he just has to corrupt one president, one CEO, one council or whatever you want to call it, and he can destroy 50 churches. With the independence of churches, look, I'm not saying that an independent church won't go bad. I'm not saying that there's not a bad pastor that will pop up somewhere that will start preaching false doctrine or a false gospel or whatever. But look, at least in that case, it's just that church that has gone bad. This is why it's designed this way. Because every other pastor of every other bible-based independent church is focused on Christ.  I'm still focused on Christ here. I'm still focused on Christ, which is the Word of God. Here, I can't be corrupted by some other pastor flying off the rails and going into false doctrine or whatever. Right? This is why it's designed this way. You say, well, you have a lot of friends who are pastors. Yeah, but we're just friends. We're just friends. Pastor Jimenez has an independent church. It's funny, when I became a Baptist, when I became a Baptist after the first year or two at the Baptist church in North Dakota, I started getting asked to preach some sermons. And here's the funny thing about Baptist, independent Baptist churches. Pastor, when Pastor Jimenez comes here or when I go there, not one time has he ever asked me, what are you going to preach about? Not one time have I ever asked him before he comes here or Pastor Mahio when he comes here, what are you going to preach about? Not one time. Because I just know that his boss is Jesus and that's good enough for me. Otherwise, I wouldn't be friends with them. I wouldn't be friends with them if I didn't know that they knew that their boss was the same Word of God, the same Jesus as I believe it. So, there's no denomination. It's just friends who have the same authority, which is Jesus Christ. But I never have to ask what's being preached. I never have to be told what to preach because our boss is the same person. So, whenever they preach something, whenever Pastor Mahio stands up here and preaches something, I agree with it. Whenever Pastor Jimenez preaches something, I agree with it. Whenever I preach something there, it's the same boss, that's why. I mean, that would be an amazing accident. The problem is, the reason that it works that way is because we all have the same head with which is Jesus. But churches are to be independent. Denominations, no good. It's just like alliances with nations. It goes bad quickly. We're to 2 Corinthians chapter 6. So, we see nations are to be independent. Churches are to be independent. Guess what? You! God wants you separated from the world as well. Look at 2 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse number 17. 2 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse number 17. The Bible says, wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, sayeth the Lord. And touch not the unclean thing, and I'll receive you. Up in verse 14, it says, be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion hath light with darkness. This is what Jehoshaphat did. He took his light and made communion with darkness. How did that work out well for him? It was a disaster. It almost cost him his life and it severely damaged the next several generations of his family which is another story in itself. Back to alliances though. I just wanted to show you that the philosophy of God is independence. It's independence of nations, independence of churches. That way, look, it's not that somebody is not going to go wrong. It's not that a nation is going to not turn against the Lord. It's not that, but the point is if some nation turns against the Lord that's on them to deal with the Lord and they don't need to be dragging all these other nations into that and this is the problem. But we see from the Bible and we also see from just history in general that alliances just like with Ahab's alliances they promise peace but they always bring war. And this is what you need to watch for. Look, they bring war, they prolong war and they create greater wars. They create greater wars. I mean, we do not have to look past 100 years to see this happening. Look, alliances make small conflicts huge. They make what could be a small skirmish between two and as a matter of fact it almost always works this way. Where it would normally have been a small skirmish between two small countries turns into worldwide war. Look at World War I. World War I literally started over these two tiny little Serbia and Bulgaria. It was like most people most Americans couldn't they wouldn't have a chance on even finding those two countries on a map. Serbia and Bulgaria have a conflict and you think what's the big deal? Well, the problem is that you have these alliances of big nations sitting outside of these little countries. And look, I'm not going to get into that. We don't need to get into the politics of World War I here. But you can't argue that this is what happened. Basically, you had Serbia that was France Britain and Russia basically and then you had Bulgaria that was friends with the Ottoman Empire Germany, Austria, I think Italy was in there somewhere and these big countries they start fighting wars through these little countries. I mean, you're like this sounds familiar because it's the same thing every time. It's the same pattern every time. So they basically end up, they end up using the small countries as cannon fodder to fight each other and then the whole thing blows up and we have World War I, right? I mean, the same thing happened. Out of World War I, we had the League of Nations formed and this was going to solve everything. This was the end of all wars. It was the League of Nations. Well, the League of Nations headed inside at the Treaty of Versailles which, you know, another entangling alliance and basically alienated just as many people as it brought together for peace to go to. There you go. Now today, what do we have today? Alliances, again, we have today, we have NATO today. This is the big one today.  NATO is causing and prolonging war. You can't argue that. Everyone's going to hear this and be like, oh, you love Russia.  There may not be any good guys, folks. These alliances bring war, which is why God was against it. And then, you know, the alliances will claim, but why do they claim alliances for peace? For peace. Again, using small, using smaller nations to do their bidding. Can we see the pattern? Can we see the pattern? Turn to Daniel, Chapter 9. So, that begs the question. We see this pattern with alliances. Alliances formed. We see the preface of peace. We need to have this alliance for peace. They cause war. They prolong war. They make war bigger. They make war worse. So, you say, how, let's get back to the antichrist here. You say, how is the antichrist going to accomplish what he accomplishes in Revelation, Chapter 13? The Bible says in Revelation 13.7 that he's over all kindreds, all nations, and all tongues. How is he going to achieve that? Look at Daniel, Chapter 9, in verse number 27. Daniel, Chapter 9, in verse number 27 is talking about Daniel's 70th week. Now, Daniel's 70th week, this is kind of a complicated topic, but it's basically the seven-year rule of the antichrist. That's the 70th week of Daniel. But look at Daniel, Chapter 9 in verse number 27. Now that you know the pattern of alliances in the Bible that we looked at from what happened in recent history, look at how the antichrist is going to get himself to Revelation, Chapter 13, in verse number 7. The Bible says, and he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. Well, let's read the rest of the verse. But that's the main point I want to make right there. And in the midst of the week, this is the middle of the week, three and a half years in, he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations given until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolation. This is the abomination of desolation where he he abominate, he has an, he declares himself to be God in the temple of God. This is three and a half years into his seven-year reign. But what, and then we'll cover that on the sermon on the antichrist. What I really want to focus on is the first phrase in this verse. He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. You know what he does? He makes a peace deal with all these nations. Many, not all, many. And it's important to note, it says many, not all. So he confirms he makes, what does he do? He makes an alliance with many nations. He makes an alliance. Now look, that will be a milestone when that happens. But for the beginning of the covenant, he's going to go, I can guarantee you he's going to promise peace. He's going to promise prosperity. He's going to promise all of these good things just like every other alliance promises. Now go to Revelation chapter 6. What is he actually going to do after he confirms this covenant with many? It's also, you must remember that he makes the covenant with many. Not everybody though. So what happens? What needs to happen? What about the people that didn't get on board? This is Revelation chapter 6. This is Revelation chapter 6. Discusses what happens to the people and how he goes from many? Revelation chapter 6. If you're taking notes, write this down. Revelation chapter 6 is how Daniel chapter 9 27 turns many to all. That's how he gets everybody else on board. You say, what does he do? He convinces them. Well, no. Look at what he does. Look at Revelation chapter 6 and verse number 1. So basically, if you're going to draw a timeline you're going to go Daniel chapter 9 and verse number 27 many. That's a deal with many an alliance with many. Then you look at Revelation chapter 6 equals Revelation chapter 13 all. That's how he gets there. He gets there how? Let's read it. Let's read it together. Look at Revelation chapter 6 and verse number 1.  Look what he does. Revelation chapter 6. He says, when I saw the lamb open one of the seals, so there's seven seals. We hear this in Revelation chapter 5, but here we are. We're opening the seals. I saw the lamb open one of the seals and I heard as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse and he that sat on a bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer. So the first seal is a massive war. This is a massive war. This is how this antichrist that confirmed this covenant with many is going to get to all. Look at verse number 3. When he opened the second seal, I heard the second beast saying, come and see. And there went out another horse that was read and power was given to him that sat on there to take peace from the earth. Now we hear that it's not just any war. It's not just any war. It's a worldwide war because it took peace from where? It didn't take peace from Asia. It didn't take peace from the Middle East. It didn't take peace from Judah. It took peace from the earth. So here we see we have a worldwide war. Look at what it says. It says that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword. So you're like, whoa, so much for peace. So much for a covenant. But guess what? We got to get from many to all. We got to get to all in order to get to Revelation chapter 13. Remember, at the end of Revelation chapter 13 everyone except the saints is on board. This is how we get there. In Revelation chapter 6, this worldwide war. So how do we get to the end of Revelation chapter 13 from where we are today? Basically, nationalism has to die. Nationalism has to go away. Now, well, the nationalism of today. Just think in your mind of the most nationalism minded countries you can think of. Nationalism of today. Now, here's what we speculate. Well, the nationalism that exists in the world today be destroyed through this war in Revelation chapter 6 or will it take a world war to get to the point of the covenant with many? That I can't tell you. But I can tell you that as of today what I'm comfortable preaching is that the alliance as with all others will begin with a promise of peace because that's how every alliance begins. That's how every alliance sounds good. It will begin with a promise of peace, but it will bring war. That's what you need to understand. This is what you as a Bible-believing Christian can see that nobody else will see. You see how the saints are going to know when this guy is like, oh yeah, we're all coming together and all this and like many are on board, but most are, you know, most or some are not. We will know what's coming. We will know that there is a world-wide war that is coming. I also know that I mean just looking at the world today and I don't know if the end times are going to be in our lifetime or not. I hope not. I mean I hope we have more time to get more people saved. But I also know if I look at the world today and if this is happening in our lifetime I know that if you just think of the major nationalist world powers today, Russia and China, I know that they're not just going to put up their sovereignty anytime soon you know, without some major coercion. I mean, we all know that but here's another part. Turn back to, or I'll just read it for you. But here's another part of globalism that I want to bring up. So we see the alliances. See the alliances on the promises what they lead to. We see that in order for these alliances, for people that they would have to give up their nationalism to be part of this and it's probably going to take a major world war, which Revelation chapter 6 makes perfect sense to accomplish that. But in Revelation chapter 13 there's more to this idea of globalism. In Revelation 13 I'll just read it for you again. Talking about the mark of the beast the Bible says he caused it all, again all both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, save that he had that mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of names. You know what that is? He has all the world under control, and then he creates this rule that you must do this and you must worship this image, you must worship me as God, or you can't buy or sell. You know what this is? We see this today. This is economic sanctions. That's what he's doing. That's what he's doing. He is literally, look, economic sanctions are used today. They are used on a worldwide system today. This is a real thing. Here's another thing. Economic sanctions are lies just as well as alliances are lies, in the sense that economic sanctions are sold to the public as you know, a deterrent. As a deterrent to war, as a deterrent to destruction, when they've never deterred one person ever, as far as I know. Instead, instead, they're not a deterrent. You know what they are? Just like what the Bible says, they are punishment. They are punishment for not complying. What you are seeing in Revelation chapter 13 and verse number 16 and verse number 17 is economic punishment for not complying. That's exactly what economic sanctions are. Many of you are not old enough to remember this, but in the mid 90's in the mid 90's, we had economic sanctions against this country called Iraq. Before the war in 2003, we sanctioned this country for probably more than 10 years, I think. We had economic sanctions like crushing economic sanctions. Look, it deterred nothing because it turns out there was nothing to deter. But it deterred nothing. All it did was punish them. And look, what it does is it punishes the poor. It punishes the weak. It punishes like a 60 minutes interview. There was a 60 minutes interview where the Secretary of State interviewed in like 1996 or 1997. And it was like Leslie Stoller, some liberal reporter, was asking this Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who is you know, this is a very wicked person. Very wicked person. She asked her straight up she said, we've heard that over 500,000 Iraqi children have died from these economic sanctions. Do you think that that price is worth it? We have heard that a half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And you know, is the price worth it? I think this is a very hard choice. But the price we think the price is worth it. 500,000 children dead. It deterred nothing. It was punishment. It was punishment exactly how the antichrist is going to punish the saints. Through what? Through economic sanctions.  Why would they do that? We're knowing the history of what these economic sanctions are, what they have done like nobody would want to get on board with this. It's going to take a war is what I'm going to try to try to get you to understand. It's going to take a war for the people, the nations who just have national self interest. That's what Revelation chapter 6 is all about. It is crushing the national self-interest of the people that wouldn't get on board to make many into all. All right? Look, I mean you say, what about the U.S.? Are we globalist? Well, yes we are. You know, we're globalist. The United States is globalist as long as we're ahead of the alliance. That's kind of where the United States is going. If you in the United States, this is also why, this is also why nationalist, just the term nationalist is a bad word. If you hear anybody saying that a certain politician is nationalist, this is why they attack Trump so much. Not to defend or deny Trump, because he was a nationalist. He was like, we need to get back to our own self-interest.  Just, this is why. Because there is a definite principalities and powers at work today to get rid of nationalism and push towards this globalism that will make Revelation 13 and Revelation Chapter 6 a possibility. So, this is the clues that we need to be looking at. I mean, just think about Russia and China. They're not going to give into this. Not without a fight. They see the pattern. You know, they may be they may not be godly, but they're not dumb. They see what's happening. Alliance is equal war and a global economic system equals the ability to punish. Those are the two points about this clue. It's going to take.  Here's another interesting thing. This is a little depressing. But go to Revelation Chapter 6. Let's go to Revelation Chapter 6 together and look at one more thing. So look, it's going to take to get the many to all. It's going to take a major war. But Revelation Chapter 6 kind of tells us how major the war is going to be as well. Look at Revelation Chapter 6 and look at verse number 7. The Bible says, and when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the beast say, come and see. And I looked and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over a fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with hunger and with death and with the beast of the earth. Now, this is super interesting here. The Bible is saying here that the third seal was famine, basically. The third seal up one verse earlier was famine. And then in verse number 6 or verse number 7 and verse number 8, we have just death. It doesn't say war, it says death from sword, from famine, and from beast of the earth. Now here's the super interesting. Here's the super interesting. The only thing, the only type of war or type of conflict that could be that has been estimated. Look, we're talking a fourth of the earth. That's two billion people. If you look at the population of the earth is 7.9 billion people. Roughly a fourth of that it's about two billion people. So if you look at two billion people, we're talking about they've done estimates on just all out nuclear war and it's right around that two billion people that they think would die. And guess what? Here's what's really interesting. Not that this is interesting. This is horrible to think about this. But what's really interesting is that it's not the nuclear war that would all these studies and all these models that they've done. Yes, the nuclear war would kill hundreds of millions of people. I'm talking all out nuclear war between major nuclear powers. It would kill, you know, hundreds of millions of people but would kill the vast majority of people. And this is even secular studies have done this is the famine and starvation that comes after. They have estimated that even a small nuclear conflict would cause massive worldwide starvation. These are secular studies that say this. So it's not that it's not the bombs but the point is this is a very real thing that, you know, the technology exists today. I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just saying the technology exists today for this to come to pass. So look, the clues we should be paying attention to these clues. We should be paying attention to these things. Alliances? Bad. You know, worldwide economic system? Bad. Why? Because it will be God wants nations to be nations churches to be churches individuals to not be yoked up saints not to be yoked up with unbelievers. Look, it will be the same tool that is used by the antichrist. Alright? Promising peace, promising this covenant so we're not to make covenants. Look, this is why Baptist, by the way, this is why Baptist have never wanted anything to do with any government. You know, just a side note. Baptists have historically not wanted anything to do with any government. As a matter of fact, at the foundation of our country in the late 1700s, this is a great story to research and look up, but it was actually the Baptists that got involved. Because, you know, the plan, the plan by Patrick Henry actually was kind of the pusher, or the champion behind this plan. The plan was to have the country have five denominations have five Christian denominations that were kind of sponsored by the government. This was the plan. And the Baptists, and they even came to the Baptists, you know, James Madison was kind of, he was kind of tasked with going to the Baptists to get them on board with this plan. So you would pay your taxes, and you could write down which denomination you wanted your taxes to go for, and the Baptists were like, we're out, man. And James Madison, and some of the other founders were like, hey man, you guys have been persecuted for literally hundreds and hundreds of years. You finally have a seat at the table. They're like, see you later, have a nice day. Baptists were persecuted in early America before the Revolutionary War. Baptists in Virginia were thrown in prison, thrown in jail for preaching. They were persecuted here. As a matter of fact it was them convincing James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, who in no definition of the term, was against these thrown in prison. They thought that there should be religious freedom. So the Baptists actually influenced James Madison who influenced George Washington and others to create what we know as the First Amendment today where there is no state-sponsored denomination instead, in 1785 Madison argued that pure Christianity would flourish without state support as it had during the time of Christ. And he got that from the Baptists. So look, you can thank the Baptists for your First Amendment today. A lot of people don't know that story. But the Baptists have always been independent. Christians have always been independent. Nations are supposed to be independent. Churches are supposed to be independent. Look, the First Amendment is possibly one of the last good things about this country. The fact that we can still walk up and down the streets some streets as we found out today and still preach the gospel look I guess I'll just cling to that one for now. But that's a beautiful thing about this country. So back to the sermon back to the sermon. The methodology is this. We see the end product in the Bible. We see the Antichrist. We see the one world government. We see the one world economic system. And then we see where we are today. We should notice these patterns emerging. We should notice these things. We should notice these alliances emerging. We should notice this pattern of economic punishment emerging because these are the patterns that will be used by the Antichrist. So just recognize what does the Bible say? Watch. Watch. And look, we're prudent. You know, plan accordingly. You know, plan accordingly. I mean I'm not digging a bunker in my backyard, okay. I'm going to keep coming to church no matter what's going on. I've already made that decision. I'm going to keep going soul winning no matter what's going on. But look, you know, plan accordingly. You don't have like a day and a half of food in your house. I mean be prepared. I mean famine was one of the problems here. Okay. People were dying from famine. You should be prepared. You should know how to do some things. You should have some food on hand. This isn't a doomsday prepper sermon. But the point is those are good things to do to take care of and protect for your family because, you know, we have this knowledge that other people don't have. So the one world government, yes, it's coming. A lot of things have to happen to get to that point. But we know what those things are. So let's watch for these globalism clues. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.


She has her mother's laugh. The powers, perversions, and potential of heredity, by Carl Zimmer, read for you by Joe Ackman. To Grace, for spending this juncture between the past and the future with me. The whole subject of inheritance is wonderful, Charles Darwin. Prologue. The worst scares of my life have usually come in unfamiliar places. I still panic a bit when I remember traveling into a Sumatran jungle only to discover my brother Ben had dengue fever. I lose a bit of breath any time I think about a night in Bujumbura where a friend and I got mugged. My fingers still curl when I recall a fossil-mad paleontologist leading me to the slick, mossy edge of a Newfoundland cliff in search of pre-Cambrian life. But the greatest scare of all, the one that made the world suddenly unfamiliar, swept over me while I was sitting with my wife, Grace, in the comfort of an obstetrician's office. Grace was pregnant with our first child, and our obstetrician had insisted we meet with a genetics counselor. We didn't see the point. We felt untroubled and being carried along into the future, wherever we might end up. We knew Grace had a second heartbeat insider, a healthy one, and that seemed enough to know. We didn't even want to find out if the baby was a girl or a boy. We would just debate names in two columns, Liam or Henry, Charlotte or Catherine. Still, our doctor insisted, and so one afternoon we went to an office in Lower Manhattan where we sat down with a middle-aged woman, perhaps a decade older than us. She was cheerful and clear, talking about our child's health beyond what the thromb of a heartbeat could tell us. We were politely cool, wanting to end this appointment as soon as possible. We had already talked about the risks we faced starting a family in our thirties, the climbing odds that our children might have Down's syndrome. We agreed that we'd deal with whatever challenges our child faced. I felt proud of my commitment. But now, when I look back at my younger self, I'm not so impressed. I didn't know anything at the time about what it's actually like raising a child with Down's syndrome. A few years later, I would get to know some parents who were doing just that. Through them, I would get a glimpse of that life, of round after round of heart surgeries, of the struggle to teach children how to behave with outsiders, of the worries about a child's future after one's own death. But as we sat that day with our genetics counselor, I was still blithe, still confident. The counselor could tell we didn't want to be there, but she managed to keep the conversation alive. Down's syndrome was not the only thing expectant parents should think about, she said. It was possible that the two of us carried genetic variations that we could pass down to our child, causing other disorders. All complete. Ready to continue?


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We don't really have control over the world. That's the big trick. You know, we think we have to control children. We have to control people managers and companies believe that they have to control the people below them governments Kings Queens believe they have to control their subjects parents believe they have to control their children managers have to control their workers generals Captains, you know in military have to control those that are underneath them. Otherwise people would say it's not going to work It's going to all go chaotic if there's not control, but God didn't even create control. God didn't create all these bodies God didn't create control. It's a mesmerism It's a tangled web that the ego has made up to keep the mind guilty to keep the mind from awakening and knowing it's true guiltless innocent reality the whole Cosmos was set up with a false sense of control and How glorious it is to start to realize as Jesus says in the In the rules for decision section.  I made if you get into any effective spiritual awakening Mindset or movement like the 12-step program with alcoholics anonymous They have the beginning steps of the 12 steps is to start to realize you were powerless over our lives We were powerless over the alcohol We have to start to begin to first say that you're powerless before you can accept the higher power That will unwind you from that craziness The addiction really wasn't the drugs or it wasn't the alcohol. It was the stinking thinking It was the thoughts of the ego It was the thoughts and the belief of the ego that was the addiction Jesus Sermon on the Mount judge not let's you be judged the judgment was the addiction and And and whenever we got caught up into judging which our mind wasn't even created to do we weren't created to be a judge Judgment involves duality and multiplicity. Oneness isn't a judge of anything Love doesn't judge love simply is Byron Katie love. What is love has no judgments but the judgment was the addiction and then Once we accepted that once we've bought the bait of thinking we had to be a good judge Then we are off into a world of illusions and then we seem to have all these even physical addictions Jesus the ego will project it out. You're addicted to cocaine. You're addicted to Eating you're addicted to breathing Most people don't even talk about those We should have breathing anonymous All be oh Be a We'll call it be a breathing obsession What's your problem? I'm obsessed with breathing It just goes on and on That's our BO not body odor is breathing breathing obsession That's when you start to get to the thing. No, it's the thoughts underneath. That's part of a body Identification that's denying my spiritual reality. That's that's how it works. You could take anything You can start to see this is where the disorder comes in and so what is the answer the answer comes down to? guidance If the Holy Spirit's in our mind and the Holy Spirit says yeah, I can use whatever the ego made ego made judgment I'll use it I'll guide you I'll guide you out of the maze of complexity. I'll guide you out of the maze of distortions I'll guide you one step at a time one Seeming decision at a time like that prayer Since he was talking about I am here only to be truly helpful It's like all you're doing with that prayer is saying here. I am Lord. I am at your service Will you start to experience joy and happiness if you follow that prayer? Of course You can't help but experience joy and happiness because that prayer isn't isn't focusing on what you made or how complicated or how tangled your Earthly life seems to be the probe the prayer is focused on the escape from that craziness the escape from that distortion and There's joy in the escape Just even opening yourself towards the direction of the escape


They don't know this, but what you guys have is incredibly special, you know? You're building something unique, fun, exciting, and there's a lot of potential revenue in your future over these next 12 months. I mean, there's a lot. What do you think's been the secret to your success? Cause you guys have been in the business how long again? So I've been in since 2009 as an insurance agent, but as an agency owner since 2014. Okay, so the last six, seven years on that side of it, what do you think's been the secret sauce to the growth you've had and the success you've had that others can learn from? All right, I got some incredible special guests today. Anthony and Rakita Starks from Dallas, Texas. The power couple with tons of energy just like that. Are you guys, is the personality, are you guys always like this or are you just putting on a show for me today? No, this is hideous. I love how much, you guys have fun, right?  Like more people need to be having fun like you guys do. Where does that come from? Just a natural, who we are? Even our children are getting the trickle down effect that they're loud, they're adventurous and enthusiastic, all that kind of stuff. So that's just who we've been. And now that we run a company, we can just extend that in our company. That's it, that's it. How have you seen that help your company? Just the owners having enthusiasm and passion and actual care and it really shows that you enjoy the life and health insurance that you're selling. How's that transferred into some of your team members and employees? I would say it's really transferred in the form of them having fun at work. They look forward to coming to work. It's not a dreadful situation. Sometimes people can have jobs that they hate or they're just doing it for a paycheck, but we really feel the passion with our people. That's huge, that's huge. Who's the better salesperson? Okay, so tell me what Rakita's better at then, everything else? See, I'm the head, she's the heart. Oh, I like that. I'm sales, she's the service because me, I can get straight to business sometimes. She's like back up a little bit, butter it up. Yeah. So I get the business, she keeps the business. Every company needs a Rakita, that's a lot like Lauren, because we would scare everybody away. Right. You know? It's all kind of crazy.  But it's needy. That's right. And you're actually in the middle of writing a book about this, by the way, which I thought, I don't know if it's okay to publish, but I loved, I guess I'm also putting pressure on you now to write it too, or make it a public, because I was impressed by that. Because you guys are a dynamic couple, you have fun, you're great at working together in a business setting. Not every couple is excited or is good at that and running a business together. You guys are doing a really good job of that, by the way. At least it seems like to me, you guys are doing a really, really, really good job of that. It's been a process. It is, man. It is, man. I think it just started with understanding who he was, like instead of trying to change who he was, or get him to adapt to my, like he said, I'm the heart. So don't always try to see it emotionally, but see it as, okay, how does this make sense in the business? Okay, he has to be at the business this much, because the business is like a baby, it takes nurturing. So I had to come to us a point of understanding why he's doing it, and how he's doing it, and really adjusting myself. I think we always get so caught up in adjusting the other person that we don't adjust ourselves. So good, so true. And for those that don't know Anthony Rakita, they're operating an agency out of Dallas, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, doing very well on the life and health side of the business. What business were you guys in before insurance? So myself, I was in sales, I was a pawn broker. So I was a store manager at a pawn shop. So I was doing that. I've had many different jobs. Lifeguard, done that. Lifeguard, yeah. Like Baywatch with you, Anthony running down the beach. Lifeguard, I had my own long service. I had my own mobile detail service, and I all started from selling snacks in school, from a youngster selling snacks. So the first time I first started selling candy, it was to one of my neighbors across the street, the old Penny candy, I would go get it, 25 cents to work, and sell it to them three, four quarter. Yeah, three pieces of candy for 25 cents. It's an entrepreneur your whole life. Yeah. Yeah. How about your new beginning? But I was a property manager in the apartments, and then when we started the business, I was a stay-at-home mom. So I stayed at home for the first four years of our children's lives, and then they went to school, and then that's when I came in full-time in insurance. So I haven't been licensed as long as him. Yeah. You both seem to really enjoy it though. Yeah. Why insurance? Well, just from my story, coming into the business, as I've shared before, for anybody who doesn't know my story, when my granddad died in 2009, he didn't have life insurance. So when you understand the detriment that that causes financial in the family to come up with all of this money, well, now he's passed away. We come up with the money to bury him. My dad ends up passing six to nine months later. So now you have two family members who've passed away in a 12 month calendar period, no life insurance. So that's what brings us into the business, with me into the business in 2009. Did either of you ever think you'd be selling life insurance and health insurance today? No. I wasn't just going to be a police officer. I thought I was going to be a detective. I was going to be a teacher. Wow. Well, now you're protecting clients and prospects, right? And teaching prospects and clients and agents and the team. You know what financial freedom really is, right? Because their agency's financial freedom insurance out of Dallas. I love the name, by the way. Thank you. That's what everybody's trying to do. Everybody's trying to generate financial freedom. How easy was it to choose the name? They just click? It was something that was definitely needed. It was something floating around all the time. You see a lot of these beyond balls, financial freedom, and all that kind of stuff. So I stuck with what I was after and then what we wanted for other people. So we're always a type of couple and people individually as well. We don't only want things for ourselves. We understand as God blesses us, it's to be a blessing to somebody else. That's right. I love that. Rakita, are you, I'm guessing, like Lauren's goal is to like enrich our team members' lives and she has a massive heart for everybody that works with us. Are you probably more of the same way? Yes, very much so. I like to see people be better than they were yesterday. So it's like, I'm always gonna find, I'm thinking of ways that improves the individual versus the team so much, you know? Like, yes, the team matters, but we have to also look at the details of each person. So yes, I love pouring into people. That's awesome. And in the agency, what's each of your roles, you think? So I'm more operation sales, training, and... And I'm more of... Customer support, customer experience, and agent development. Yeah, nice. Awesome. And you're selling life and health. You're earning a good amount of income. You have several agents locally, some VA's helping you. What do you think's been the secret to your success? Because you guys have been in the business how long again? So I've been in since 2009 as an insurance agent, but as an agency owner since 2014. Okay, so the last six, seven years on that side of it, what do you think's been the secret sauce to the growth you've had and the success you've had that others can learn from? I would say I'm being committed. Okay, what's the other one saying? Great one, I was thinking like... Yeah. I was gonna say dedication. Dedication, commitment. Just being committed to the craft. That was time we first started out and you get the overhead of being an owner. I mean, you have to make a lot of sacrifice. So we've sold personal possessions, cars, things out of our home to make sure that it ends met. And at the same time to invest into our company as well, because we bootstrapped. We didn't get loans and all that to start. So we bootstrapped it. And where'd you start at the kitchen table? Oh, I started it. Okay, so she's gonna tell us. So I started at the kitchen table and she's nursing our oldest son, little Anthony. And man, the whole house had to be quiet. I want to call babies crying in the back. And it was just crazy. So she kicks me out of the kitchen, sends me upstairs. And I started in the upstairs room and it was just... We have four bedroom house and you want to choose the center room for the kitchen. Yeah, it's the kitchen. Yeah. So I had to send him upstairs. Yeah, so one day she just came out real calm, real sweet as she can be. I'm in the middle of working. She's just slowly packing my stuff in the box. And I'm, what are you doing? And next thing I'll see is going upstairs and all of my stuff with her. She's like, this is your new workspace. Walk him into your office. Yes. That's awesome. Was there a moment where you guys thought about quitting? I would say for me, no. Because I knew that I had to own something. So I knew it was gonna be a company. I just didn't know what company. So when we got into the business, I would just start, let me go back to 2009 because I can kind of better explain it. In 2009, I started 10, 11. I go back to the corporate world when, as been our commission, can be tough. I go to the corporate world for about two years but then making really good money, great benefits and all that. I knew that that wasn't for me. I needed to be in the owner role so that not just for to be in charge and all that, but because I needed to be able to create other opportunities for people. So as we get back in it, we're hitting it hard. We're sacrificing. We're doing all we can do to make it work. That was just where my mind was. It was the why I was in it. Not only just to create opportunities but just thinking about my dad and granddad that, hey, I need to be educating other people so they don't go through what I went through and also to make sure that they leave inheritance to their generations. Was there moments along the way where you were like, this dude's freaking nuts? Yeah, for sure. Not so much now. Cause he's rubbed off on me. But yes, I did think that he was kind of crazy but and there were moments that I wanted to give up because, you know, being married to entrepreneur, ambitious man, it takes a lot. It takes a strong woman to be married to an ambitious man. So there were moments that I wanted to give up but then I knew I'd be giving up on him, our family and myself. Yeah. And now team members too, right? Yeah. Yeah. You guys seem to do seem incredibly dedicated and committed. Like there's nothing that's going to get in your way. Being a business owner is not easy, right? It's not always everything it's cracked up to be that everybody talks about. Right. You know, what are some of the key business lessons that you've learned along the way that have really made a big difference and a big shift over these last six or seven years? For me, I would say documenting. Okay. Documenting systems and processes. Not taking the money right now because I know as you're in a survival mode of a business and an empathy stage, it can be tough. But when you really say, you know what? Not that sale, let me work on the business right now so that I can develop system of process to streamline the company and then it'll be a lot easier to live. So you leverage the business through system of processes versus trying to do it all on your own. So good. Everybody always wants to take as much money out of the business as humanly possible early on. It's like, it doesn't work. You're draining the life of the company. Right. I respect that you guys. It really sounds like we're in it for the long game. You weren't in it for a short-term financial game, but you knew that if you sacrificed a little bit for a few years, that would be some serious, sick, long-term financial game. Right. Right. Yes. Yeah, which is huge. How's today been? You've been in the office for about a half a day. Yes, it's been great. I'm ready to give back. Yeah. I'm ready to give back. I'm ready to help from it. I love it. What's been some, what do you think about morning meeting this morning, by the way? Oh, that was awesome. I liked how short and sweet to the point it was, and given the agent's opportunity also to ask questions to grow. So I really like that part. It doesn't have to be a long, drawn-out meeting to get going. Yeah. I think I like more of the, honestly, the energy that getting up, having to exercise and get moving, body rest, stage of rest, but body emotion, stage of motion. So I saw that motion. Did they use some energy over there? Yeah, they did. Yeah, and we love energy. The only way we do events is so we loudest people in the room. Yeah. I believe it. That was you when I heard it. Yeah. Probably it was, dude. Probably. Yeah. What's been some big takeaways? You've spent some time with us. We've spent a lot of one-on-one time together. What's been some big takeaways that you're going to take back immediately tomorrow and start to implement and grow? I would say focus in on the numbers. Because there was some time you asked us some questions. We had to go fidget for them or we didn't know them right off or we had to go for my gut. But understanding the stories that the number is telling you and when you broke those numbers down and we could see it, it brought a lot of clarity. Even though we might have known some of the things, kind of talked about them. But once we saw it on the board and then you just have a way to make the person think bigger, you talking about helicopters and jets and all this kind of stuff. And now we're going to get us a jet. Yeah. Right. Now we got to get us a jet, so boom. No, not. Yeah, not. Right? So you're doing that so when you just made it plain, just hey, if you can do this or you're able to do this, is this possible? And all of those were yes, so there's no reason not to do it. And it was your answers, right? I was just asking questions and kind of trying to steer some conversation and really dive into the numbers deeper. Because what you guys have, they don't know this, but what you guys have is incredibly special. You're building something unique, fun, exciting. And there's a lot of potential revenue in your future over these next 12 months. I mean, there's a lot. So thank you for being here, spending time together, being committed to the industry, sitting front row at 8%, 2021 coming up, like 66 days. Yeah. If you had to describe, each of you had to describe today so far in one word. And you can only pick one word to describe the day you've had. What word would that be? Who wants to jump out and go first? One word. For me, I would just have to say clarity. Good. Yeah, you mentioned a lot. That's a great word, too. That's a great word, a lot of people need some clarity. Man, is this tough? They always say it's hard to see the picture inside the frame, so that's why I hire resources that are outside the frame too all the time. Because I'm like, OK, well, what do they see? I don't know what I see, but what do they see? I would say we have a starting point. We've been in the middle, but it's a starting point to the next level. So I see where we need to hire. I guess they still go back to clarity, but we see where we need to go. Yes. Yes. Yeah. It's kind of like walking in a dark room and you bump your knee on a furniture. You don't know where you're going and you turn on the lights. So I think, well, I think I know the lights. You turn on the lights today with just hiring, compensation, all of it. So the lights went off. Huge, man. Thank you. Thank you. OK, you guys are amazing. Thank you for being here. I've been loving getting to know you, and I'm looking forward to a long-term relationship. I've continued to know you, get to know you, and watch you scale and grow this thing. Yes. They're going to have a monster one day. All right? Yeah. I love it. OK, thank you guys so much. Thank you. Thank you.  Hey, if you enjoyed this, I got another one you're going to love. It's right there. Click on it. See you in there. Who likes money? OK, come on now. Come on now. Come on now. All right, all right. OK, two more, two more.


I'm gonna share with you the first three steps you should take when first investing into a power meter. And look, I can appreciate that there will be people out there that are thinking about buying a power meter. Maybe you're just about to buy one, or maybe you've had one for a few months or if you were like me a few years and you're still not quite sure what to do with it. Either way, the idea of this video in the four part series is that you walk away with actionable steps. You can incorporate into your own cycling to get stronger and faster on the bike, leveraging in my opinion, the best cycling training tool there is for getting stronger on the bike. So let's break this video into three parts. Part number one, let's discuss install and setup. Part number two, working out your training zones with the cycling weight rack. And number three, the simple base fitness test you can do without going into a lab. So there's a lot of different power meters out there. You've got crank base, you've got hub base, you've got those that come on an indoor trainer. And of course, you've got pedal base. So for this section, I wanted to talk about assioma because in my experience as hands down, this is the easiest power meter to install. And as somebody who doesn't like to get my hands overly dirty, these assioma pedals work so well. You literally install them just like any other pedal system. It connects intuitively via Ant Plus or Bluetooth. The rechargeable battery facility is very simple to use while the sill design avoids dust and water seeping into the electronic system that might result over time in power meter discrepancies. Additionally, the app is very easy to use for setup such as specifying your crank length. I think what a lot of people don't realize is the other power meter options such as crank base systems. They've been more prevalent than pedals for a number of years because housing and electronic system inside a pedal which gets knocked and bumped around a lot hasn't been a viable option. However, with assioma, they've developed a solution called a bi-component resin block which houses the electronic system effectively within the spindle, separating itself from the area that typically gets the most abuse. Add to this a two year warranty on the assioma power pedals. I think that is a testament to the reliability of their product. Now, once you have your power meter installed and it is calibrated, I would recommend what you display to yourself while you're riding to have an average three second output.  So I always recommend to people in my coaching group go average three second. The next thing you need to do is validate the numbers. Now there are tools online which you can help you do this which I'll link to below but some basic options would be to ride next to a friend who's also on power and is a similar build to you. Have you got a similar reading or are you out 50 to 100 watts? Possibly an even better option would be to get on an indoor trainer or I should say smart trainer and assess the reading from both your bike power meter perhaps on your head unit and then use a trainer app to obtain the power from the trainer.  Now I personally find that trainer there reads about five to 10 watts lower than my crank and pedal based systems. So I wouldn't be too concerned if there's a small discrepancy but if it's 20, 30, 50 watts out then you've got a technical issue that I would suggest you should investigate. Number two is working out your training zones. So I have a free e-book which goes into zones in quite a lot of detail which I'll link to below and in that e-book I use an analogy for cycling training zones and that is a weight rack at a gym. You see if I went to the gym and lifted weights blindly and assessed what my heart rate did after a set while I'll have a reasonable feel for what I'm lifting I'll just know how my body via my heart rate has responded to that particular effort. So it's kind of like cycling on the road with a heart rate strap and not knowing how much force is going through the pedal stroke. So the power meter shines the light on the cycling weight rack. We now have visibility of the weights we're lifting or the power output of each stroke and we can leverage our heart rate to see how the body responds to a particular power output. So the question is how do you determine your cycling weight rack? Well at the Road Cycling Academy where I'm a road cycling coach we use a seven zone model. So you have a seven zone cycling weight rack and we use the FTP test. Notably a FTP test called the Half Monty on Wahoo system to determine our FTP. We then take our FTP and add that into a calculator which I'm going to give you all below and out pops your cycling weight rack. Now I can appreciate the Half Monty and other FTP tests are not gonna give you a super accurate understanding of your upper end zones. It's going to be rough. So if you wanna get super dialed in you can go into a lab and get tested there but you wanna think from a continuity perspective can you keep going back to a lab and getting tested? There's also something called the 4DP test on Wahoo system which gives you a more accurate understanding of your upper end zones but once again that's a very daunting test. So I feel like the Half Monty gives you a pretty good understanding of your upper end zones and the beauty of the Half Monty as well. Is it also gives you your maximal aerobic power or VO2 max which is your zone five number to bolster the accuracy of your upper end zones? Now if you don't have an indoor trainer to do the Half Monty I would recommend the 20 minute test outdoors and if you wanna know how to run at the 20 minute test I'll provide another link below. Part number three is a simple base fitness test you can do. So now you have your cycling weight rack. Let's first of all assess your aerobic engine. There's no point in training the house down or putting up the levels to a house until the foundations are solid and robust. So how do we do this? Go 70% of your FTP which is your top end zone two. So for example if your FTP was 250 watts your zone two number for this test would be 175 watts. You'd then find a consistent environment where you can ride for 60 minutes without any free pedaling or stopping. So an outdoor velodrome, criterium track or even better. An indoor trainer just ensure that you're not heat compromised, you haven't had loads of caffeine, you're not stressed or tired. Anything that's going to affect your heart rate for this test. Now if you can invest into a power meter I'm assuming you can invest into a heart rate strap. So wear a heart rate strap and off you go. Ride for an hour and try and limit the amount of movement on the bike external to reaching for water and let's see what the heart does. Now you should be able to analyze your data afterwards maybe using Strava, maybe your bike computer app or I use a training software called Today's Plan. Now what we're looking for here as we look at an example here from a road cycling academy member in Today's Plan is heart rate drift. Does your heart rate slowly elevate over time as you maintain a consistent aerobic power output? Or another less common thing you could look for is an erratic heart rate. Is your heart rate just erratically jumping up and down within the hour for no particular reason? But if we focus in on heart rate drift here. If you're drifting by circa 10 beats let's call it eight beats or more for the hour. It's my belief from working with hundreds of amateur recreational road cyclists now through the Road Cycling Academy that you've got a bit of work to do on your aerobic engine and just to validate that that is the case feel free to do that test two or three times it's actually a good workout to ensure that that drift line that you're seeing or the erratic heart rate is something that's prevalent. Additionally, if you're drifting by circa five beats or less that's a good sign that you've got reasonable aerobic fitness but consider extending the test if you're on an indoor trainer by another 30 minutes so make it 90 minutes all up or if you're on the road extend it to two hours. Now this is a generalization but I'm conscious people want takeaways and there will be anomalies here of course because everyone is different but as a general rule if you're under the 10 beat mark pedaling at 70% of your FTP for 90 minutes on the trainer or two hours outside you've got a pretty efficient aerobic engine and you should be good to start more intensive training. Although that will depend on your target event and goals and I think that's a rabbit hole for another day. So I'm conscious many people will do this test and drift and they will want to know how do I train my base fitness effectively using a power meter? That's a great question and we'll be covering that in part number two of this four part video series. I'll catch you in the next video.


Tlo what's poppin as you can see I'm coming on here with a lot of disappointment man, but Don't forget to leave a like comment subscribe turning the post notification bells. Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK. We are live. You probably won't see it live, but We got patreon we post Monday through Friday We got merch the link to all this is down in the description scar city has You know, oh that ain't it Scar City has you know came with the news deca haji arrested in the Philippines for child Appreciate you for child s ex offenses in the UK and The tiktok influencer and bare knuckle boxer has previously two former partners authorities claim And has The authorities claim and has set Did how do we not nobody knew about this stuff? Oh wait, that's too much to read They'll just say it right come on This is a breaking news story UK tiktok influencer and bare knuckle fighter deca haji has been arrested in the Philippines to be extradited back to the UK for allegations that he has a sexual relationship with a child here in the UK The governments of the Philippines have said that two men have been arrested an american and also a british person And they've named him as derrick gordon haji 40 years old They were arrested in separate incidents And declam was arrested in kaboo province on the 27th of the 11th of 2023 He will be deported and they said that he has already been convicted of sexual assaults in the UK That date back to 2005 and two counts of rape against former partners. Okay, so we nobody knew about this Nobody like Like how was it? All right, let me just listen this time They alleged that he's involved if a child here in this video. You're about to see he gets really upset During the video that was recorded as he went into custody in the Philippines They said in a statement that deca is being held in captivity and will be extradited as soon as possible back to the UK I really want to hear what viewers have to say on this story. Thank you. Peace Hi you guys, I'm just here in the detention centre in Philippines This is going to be my last video for a while Marty and the rest of the crew And I've got me detained for three months in the in the detention centre in the Philippines So you won't see me make any more videos or any more content for a while First of all, I just want to thank you to Joe Smith Brown for contacting me and giving me a bkb fight contract Mate, I'm going to get out as soon as possible. I'm going to do I can't wait to make my debut I think those type of contracts are still going to be available to you with these type of charges brought up against you You can't even go back to where you're from with these charges brought up against you I'm telling you listen These are the even I'm guilty or innocent These are the type of charges that ruin a person How do you even get these type of charges attached to your name? Like that's what like you got to be guilty How how who did this like all right come on. I'm gonna say thank you to all Everybody that supported me Everyone that follows me everyone that's got behind me everyone. I just Bro, you too big to be in there crying I have zero sympathy for you.  There's none There's none the charges that are brought up against you warrant. No sympathy So continue You're gonna be top dog in there though.  And um, mom doesn't love you buddy, I say All the all the kids Maybe it's not the right time to be to be saying that type of stuff All the all the kids I love you too, but listen most of all I want to say thank you to my love of my life too Because that if it wasn't for that woman Holding me here today And she was my life and I love her and you know what everyone no one's gonna stop this She was gonna stand by me She's gonna wait for me And the final end of the chapter to the story is they'll should be with me back In the UK She's gonna take a long time to get back guys, but I'm sorry But I want to say to everybody that support make me a thank you. I love you And uh You trolls, man You finally do it. 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Hi, I am Vinayak Higre. I am a hacker who has been writing system software for more than a decade. I have programmed a bunch of languages and written production systems on them. Examples include a distributed system that turns over 100 across 100 plus data centers across the world. I was an architect for big data system which is now running across multiple data centers across the world. That was built for the mobile ad network in Mobi which handles hundreds of terabytes of data. Well, that's about me. Now on to speaking. I am going to speak about hands-on workshop that I am doing. So I am going to talk and code in R. So a little bit about R. R is a free software programming language and software environment for statistical computing graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians and computer scientists and data miners for developing statistical software and for data analysis. R is a multi-paradigm language where you can do procedural programming like C or object oriented programming like Java. It also has some functional features where you can do automatic looping and iteration over data structures very similar to functional languages. It's getting to become popular. Pulse and surveys of data miners show that R's popularity has increased substantially in the last few years. R has been used to create really, really good graphics by the New York Times, the Washington Post and other leading newspaper. Not just that. It's also used in a variety of disciplines such as meteorology, particle physics, epidemiology, biostatistics and pretty much everything in between. It is also used in financial analysis and other social sciences that rely on data to make their case. So now a little bit about the workshop. So we are going to use RStudio to explore different public data sets and build a web app in R. We'll start with data structures in R and how the basic iteration and looping works. R can read from a variety of data sources such as Excel files, databases, the Hadoop file system, HDFS, CSC files, XML files and also from HTML tables on the web. So we'll start reading data from these sources, transforming and analyzing them using the different packages that are there. The packages that we are going to explore, some examples of them are Playa, Lattice, Reshape2, etc. We'll also see how to quickly find anomalies and outliers in data using the ggplot package which is an excellent package for doing plotting and graphing of data. We'll also be building a small web app using the Shiny package and at the end of the workshop we'll also see how to integrate R with other languages such as C++ and other systems such as Hadoop. So that's what we are going to do in the workshop. At the end of the workshop you'll have a good feel for R and will be able to start exploring data and navigate the R ecosystem by yourself. Thank you and see you at the workshop.