13) Why Venezuela, Why Greenland, And Why Silver Matters Now

Silver doesn’t sprint like this without a deeper story. We trace the metal’s surge to a wider resource war that ties Venezuela’s oil and mining belt, Greenland’s rare earth troves, and the BRICS Plus bid to challenge the dollar with a commodity-backed unit. From the end of the gold standard to the petrodollar pact, and now to de-dollarized oil trades and sovereign gold buying, we map how demand for U.S. debt is shifting while commodities become the scoreboard for trust.

We walk through why silver sits at the center of this storm: AI data centers, solar, sensors, and missiles devour high-purity silver that often doesn’t return to circulation. Add China’s grip on refining, new export permits, and rising national stockpiles, and you get structural deficits that bleed into finance. Derivatives designed for low volatility meet a vertical chart, and suddenly a metals move threatens balance sheets. That’s where geopolitics, industry policy, and market plumbing collide—and it explains why control of upstream resources in Latin America and the Arctic just jumped to the top of the agenda.

Alongside the macro, we talk about discernment in noisy times. Narratives multiply when markets shake: disclosure rumors, technological awe, and spiritual claims can blur lines between signal and spectacle. We call for practical readiness—supply resilience, personal preparedness, and communities of trust—so decisions come from clarity, not panic. Whether you’re here for global finance, energy security, or the moral stakes of power and deception, this conversation offers a coherent map for a messy year.

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Transcript

New Year, New Global Tensions

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Welcome to the Black Swan Rising Podcast, an L10 production. For transcriptions, show notes, and extras, please visit us at the Black Swan Rising Podcast.com. Now, broadcasting across the world from the heart of the American Bible Belt, here is your host, Michael B. Rush.

Venezuela And Greenland Moves

BRICS And The Dollar Challenge

From Gold Standard To Petrodollar

De‑Dollarization And Soaring Commodities

Venezuela’s Minerals And China’s Role

Greenland’s Rare Earths And Export Bans

Silver Demand, Defense, And AI

Derivatives Risk And System Stress

Resource War Framing

Disclosure Pressures And UFO Claims

Ancient Patterns And Last Days Parallels

Melchizedek, Enoch, And Covenant Power

Prophecy Of Zion And The Return

Trials Ahead And Spiritual Readiness

Antichrist Warnings And Deception

Prepare Hearts, Homes, And Minds

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Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Black Swan Rising Podcast. Hope that you enjoyed the holiday season and that your new year is off to a great start. A lot has happened in the world since our last broadcast. We are now controlling Venezuela, and Trump is seems like he's really pushing to control Greenland. Seems like these things are crazy and you know unrelated, but I'm not so sure that that is the case. If you recall back to a prior episode, I think it may be episode number four, where we were talking about the rise and fall of the Hor of Babylon. In there, I talked about the rise of the BRICS Plus conglomerate of nation states. There are ten nation states in Bricks Plus, and that they were working towards coming up with a unit that could challenge the US dollar. They have been trying to create a basket of commodities that give it something other than just fiat status. And they've been successfully amassing stockpiles of gold and silver and other precious metals. In fact, when I did that episode, which you know, frankly was not too long ago, silver was trading at$54 an ounce. Well, yesterday, silver was trading at$94 an ounce. That is a$40 per ounce increase in a matter of a couple of weeks. That is astounding and is symptomatic of something fundamentally breaking within the system. Well, you might want to go back and re-listen to that episode because there's a lot of information that I talked about that I'm not going to rehash here, but I think that we are the price of silver is a leading indicator of some pressure that is building like a super volcano underneath the surface of the global financial system. And I do not believe that this whole US soare into Venezuela has much to do about drugs. We've had you know drug issues coming out of South America for a long time. And frankly, if we're honest, you know, most of those drugs are going through Mexico and not Venezuela. And if this were really about drugs, we would go in and pound the Mexican cartels into oblivion. That is not what we did. We went in to Venezuela and in a very covert operation, took you basically decapitated the national leadership. We did that very quickly, and now Trump has pronounced that he is the de facto leader of Venezuela at the moment. And again, as I've mentioned, Trump is now aggressively going after Greenland. So what in the heck is going on? Well, I think we need to back up to a higher level here and talk again about the BRICS Nations and this plan that they have to dethrone the US dollar as the global trade currency. So, and I said that they were doing this by coming up with a basket of commodities. Well, if we want to understand the fundamentals for what's going on in the world today, I think we first need to understand the fundamentals of the United States uh financial system. And you go back to the 1970s, and the United States currency was still gold-backed. That changed by 1974, where Nixon decoupled the US dollar from gold, and we became a pure fiat currency. And then things got really crazy, hyperinflation kicked in, and Nixon realized, hey, we need to do something, and so we came up with something called the US petrodollar, wherein the United States government went to Saudi Arabia and said, Listen, we will provide protection to you if you will only sell oil in US dollars. And so Saudi Arabia, uh Saudi Arabia agreed with that, and pretty soon so had all the other OPEC nations. And bada bing, bada boom, you have overnight the vast majority, we're talking 90% of all petrotransactions were done in U.S. currencies. Also, the Saudi Arabia had agreed that they would reinvest any of their surplus cash from the oil industry into U.S. treasuries. So this was supporting the US dollar. Now enter the BRICS Plus nations where they want to challenge the US dollar supremacy. Well, one of the things that they have been working very hard to do is to decouple the petro industry from the US dollar. How are they doing that? Well, China, you know, for the last decade or so has been aggressively partnering with key countries around the world that are natural resource rich and going in and helping to develop those countries in exchange for access to their natural resources. And they have been the number one supporter of Venezuela. And Venezuela has the world's largest reserves of oil. And most of the Venezuela's, well, all of Venezuela's oil was being sold in non-US dollars. It was primarily being done in China's currency. And also, you now have probably 30% of you know oil transactions that are now no longer done in US dollars. So US dollars are beginning to lose the petrodollar status. And that has been felt in the demand for US debt across the world. For the first time in many decades, you now have foreign countries holding more gold than they do US debt. And that is a problem. Because US debt has not been shrinking, it has been growing. In fact, if you look back at 1970 when we were still on the gold standard, the amount of US debt or national debt that we had in 1970 was$372 billion. Then you go one decade later, and that had almost tripled to just under$900 billion. Then one decade later, we go to$3.2 trillion in 1990. Then one decade later in 2000, we go to$1.7 trillion. One decade later in 2010, we're now at$11.5 trillion. Then you go one decade later to 2020, we've now ballooned to$23.2 trillion. And then you go to just last year, the end of 2025, and it's$36.2 trillion. Okay. Now this ballooning of US debt is happening at the same time that thanks to the BRICS Nations, you have a decoupling from the US dollar. Now that that doesn't mean that there's still not great demand for the US dollar, but for the first time in many decades, you now have a solid, stable alternate to the US dollar. And it would appear that that is only growing. Because simultaneously, you as this demand for the US dollar has been decreasing, you have seen commodity prices really start to ramp up. I'm talking gold. We've seen, I mean, gold was$1,000 an ounce not too long ago. Now it's, you know, it will soon be$5,000 an ounce. At the beginning of 2025, gold was$20 something dollars an ounce. Now, if you if you go on to any online dealer and you try to buy one ounce of gold or sorry, of silver, you're going to be paying$100 an ounce for that stuff. This is bonkers what has been happening. And really, it's not so much that silver is appreciating in value, in my opinion, as it is that the US dollar and fiat currencies across the world are depreciating at an ever-increasing rate. Indeed, this may be why every asset class known to man is incredibly bloated at the moment, because with our inflated currencies, it just takes more dollars to buy them. So now the BRICS unit is becoming increasingly appealing to the world because this is a unit now that is backed by something of substance. It's not just the paper that it's printed on. There's a basket of commodities behind it. And so now, lo and behold, the United States has gone in and taken over Venezuela overnight. Now I've mentioned that Venezuela holds the world's largest oil reserve, but what I haven't mentioned is that Venezuela is incredibly resource-rich, natural resource rich. Approximately 12% of the entire country of Venezuela is comprised of something called the Orinco Mining Arc. Now, this mining arc is incredibly rich with gold and all kinds of precious minerals and rare earth minerals as well. And over the last 10 years, China has been working with Venezuela to map out where all of these minerals are and to start going in and pulling these things out. And now, lo and behold, the United States controls all of those minerals. Now look at Greenland. Greenland is probably one of the most resource-rich countries on the planet that has really been untapped. It has one of the largest deposits of rare earth minerals on the planet. And it has gold and silver and all kinds of metals that are becoming increasingly hard to control. Particularly given the fact that on January 1st, China implemented export bans where they are in order to export silver and other critical minerals, you need to have a special permit from the Chinese government to allow you. And the last that I read on that, there have only been 40 companies that have been approved to even export silver. Now, this is incredibly important because China has refines more than 60% of all the world's silver. So they are now restricting the outflow of 60% of global silver production. That is a big deal. So you can see how the United States is now left scrambling. And you can bet your bottom dollar that what the Trump administration has done in Venezuela and is working to do in Greenland is going to continue throughout all Latin America as we strive to become resource independent. And in fact, uh the US government announced a well, I want to say$7 billion metal refinery in Tennessee, of which the Pentagon is contributing$2 billion. Now they're breaking ground on this in you know this year, 2026, and it's not expected to be completed until 2030. So we've got some major volatility that is going to happen with silver between now and then. Think of all how how much you're hearing about AI these days and all of these uh AI data centers that are being constructed throughout the United States. Well, those are massive consumers of silver. Frankly, the US military industrial complex is a massive consumer of silver as well. This is one of the primary reasons that silver is uh was added to the list of critical minerals in the United States just within the last several months, because this is critical to our ability to defend ourselves. I don't know if you if you know this, but every missile that we produce has that has advanced guidance systems requires a substantial amount of silver. And that silver is just blown up, it just disappears once uh once the missile is deployed. So much of the silver is being consumed and will never be available again. So we're we're operating in this supply deficit that most analysts are projecting is only going to increase, and you're also having all of these sovereign nations now hoarding silver, stockpiling silver. So it's it's just something that is unprecedented. So I expect that these unprecedented pressures are going to continue to mount. And you have all of these banks throughout the world, not just in the United States, that have so many derivative instruments that are losing vast amounts of money because silver is increasing in value. Because these derivative instruments, you know, they're they were shorting silver. So that depends upon the the financial viability of these derivative instruments depends on a low value for silver, and silver has been going through the roof. So yeah, we're we're going to see some black swan style events arising from this. So as I'm looking back on the events that are going on throughout the world, I don't see them as being unrelated events. I I see them as being an outward manifestation of this covert resource war that is happening between the United States and the BRICS Nations at the moment. And you know, we're not really going to start talking about this overtly until you see silver hitting prices that Main Street is now talking about. I mean, you're you're not going to the grocery store and hearing people talking about silver right now. When that does when when you are hearing people talk about silver in the grocery store line, you know, then you know that you know we're we're getting close to a climax of this, but you know, we're we're not there. We're in the beginning stages of you know incredible volatility in this in this area. So what a what a start to 2026. Then of course, you know, we have Chris Bledsoe's prediction of the lady coming up here in April of 2026. I mean, yeah, we're now just a couple of months off of that. Now, obviously, I hope that you know this is Chris Bledsoe has been deceived with this, and you know, we're not going to see anything highly unusual there, but we have other things going on that you know make me uh you know nervous in that regard as well. I mean, we if you have not seen a Documentary. You can watch it on Amazon Prime. I think you you can rent it on Amazon Prime anyway. It's called the Age of Disclosure. If you have not seen that, you really need to see that. There are just some incredible things that are transpiring, whistleblowers that are coming forward. It seems that there are major things in the works, and that the pressure is not just economic at this stage, but there's also some major uh pressure building in the disclosure disclosure area. And you know, friends, when I'm talking about disclosure, I'm talking about the UFO phenomenon that I have talked about throughout this podcast. You know, we've we have discussed briefly some of the congressional UFO hearings that have been going on and how there seems to be an exponential increase in the sightings of phenomenal aircraft over our nuclear facilities, not just in the United States, but everywhere across the world. And we're we're seeing these things across the skies everywhere. And whistleblowers are coming forward and talking about these things. And for the most part, we still, as a society, have our heads stuck firmly in the sand in this aspect. But the momentum is growing in this area as well. So it it seems that 2026 has the makings of a spectacular year for all of the wrong reasons. I I hope that I'm wrong and that this is a very boring year for us, but I don't think that that is going to be the case. Time will tell. But as I think about these things and I think about the scriptures, I can't help but wonder at some of the strange patterns that existed in antiquity and some of the prophetic scriptures that talk about what the last days are going to be like. What am I talking about? Well, we don't know a whole heck of a lot about the pre-diluvian world, but and when I say prediluvian world, I'm just talking about the world before the flood. But what we do know about the pre-diluvian world is awfully strange. What do we know? We know that there were giants on the earth in those days, and that's weird. We know that the entire earth had become utterly corrupted to the point that God decided that every man, woman, and child needed to be wiped out. Now, prior to this, the Lord gathered all of the righteous unto the city of Enoch, and then he took the city of Enoch unto himself, meaning he lifted it up, and the city of Enoch is somewhere in space, and that's weird. Okay, that's that is a weird, weird thing. Then let's talk about the land of Canaan, which is the covenant land of promise that was given to Abraham. Okay, we don't know a whole lot about the land of Canaan before the Israelites went there, but what we do know is that it was a land of giants. And we know that that land had become so corrupted that the Lord commanded the Israelites to destroy every man, woman, and child. Does that sound familiar to you? And not only that, but the Israelites were to destroy all of the artifacts of the Canaanites. Every cultural imprint apart from the Canaanites' gold and silver was to be destroyed. Now, that is really interesting because obviously there is a very strong correlation with the prediluvian world and the land of Canaan. Now, what is the common uh thread there? Well, the book of Enoch states that there were giants in on the earth in the prediluvian world because there were 200 watchers that came to the earth and they intermarried with the women of earth, and their offspring were gigantic. The Book of Jubilees teaches that in the days of Noah's grandchildren, that some of these watchers returned, and they returned to the land of Canaan, and they once again intermarried with the women of Earth, and thus the land of Canaan became a land of giants. So you have this off-world corruption that takes place both before the flood and after the flood. And then curiously, and I I am going to be speaking from an LDS perspective here, friends, because let's face it, that is the way that I see the world. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we have a very curious translation. Joseph Smith, one of the things that he did, one of the projects that he worked on from 1930 or sorry, 1830 to 1831, was a retranslation of the King James Bible. And from that translation, we get some very curious insight into what was going on in the land of Canaan during Abraham's day. And I think that this is very relevant to the present conversation, and you'll see why in a little bit. But I I want to read this supplement to Genesis chapter 14 that Joseph Smith brought. And I'm going to start reading this. You can read it in the Joseph Smith translation of Genesis chapter 14, verses 25 through 40, and this is what they say. And Melchizedek lifted up his voice and blessed Abraham or Abram. Now, why did Melchizedek come to Abraham and bless him? Well, if you recall, there was a League of Nations that wanted to wipe out the giants in the land of Canaan. And so they came up against the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and conquered them. Now Lot, Abraham's nephew, happened to be living in one of those cities, and they were carried off to the city of Dan, is what the Old Testament teaches us. And they were they were held prisoner there. And so Abraham, he had, you know, some 300 male servants. You know, I really think that they were more like his converts that decided that they would go with Abraham and recover Lot. And they did this in a miraculous way that the Bible doesn't talk about, but we have other extra biblical sources that you know talk about it was just you know a miracle on the scale of Gideon and his 300 soldiers who were able to overcome the Midianite army that was innumerable as the sands of the sea through miraculous means. And apparently uh Abraham did the same. And the rumor of Abraham's incredible victory over this League of Nations that had been able to overpower two of the giants of Canaan's strongholds, Abraham became the thing of legend. And so Melchizedek came to pay tribute to Abraham. And this is what Genesis 14 is talking about. So I'm I'm gonna pick up here now in the Joseph Smith translation in verse 26. Now Melchazedek was a man of faith who wrought righteousness, and when a child he feared God and stopped the mouth of lions and quenched the violence of fire. And thus, having been approved of God, he was ordained an high priest after the order of the covenant which God made with Enoch. Okay, so do you see this other connection between the prediluvian world and the land of Canaan? You know, Melchazedek obtained Enoch's covenant, the Enochian covenant. Now in verse twenty eight. And being it being after the order of the Son of God, which order came not by man, nor the will of man, neither by father nor mother, neither by beginning of days nor end of years, but of God. And it was delivered unto men by the calling of his own voice according to his own will, unto as many as believed on his name. For God, having sworn unto Enoch and unto his seed with an oath by himself, that every one being ordained after this order and calling should have power by faith to break mountains, to divide the seas, to dry up waters, to turn them out of their course, to put at defiance the armies of nations, to divide the earth, to break every band, to stand in the presence of God, to do all things according to his will, according to his command, subdue principalities and powers, and by this the will of the Son of God, which was from the before the foundations of the world. And men having this faith were coming up unto this order of God, were translated, and were taken up into heaven. Now remember, Enoch and his entire city were translated because they were after this order. And now in verse 32, and men having this faith, coming up unto this order of God, were translated and taken up into heaven. And now Melchizedek was a priest of this order. Therefore he obtained peace in Salem, and was called the Prince of Peace. And his people wrought righteousness and obtained heaven, and sought for the city of Enoch, which God had before taken, separating it from the earth, having reserved it unto the latter days or the end of the world, and hath said and sworn with an oath that the heavens and the earth should come together, and the sons of God should be tried as by fire. And this Melchizedek, having thus established righteousness, was called the king of heaven by his people. Okay, so what do we have in these passages? We learn that Melchizedek and his people essentially did the exact same thing as Enoch and his people did in the predeluvian world. They were living under the exact same circumstances. They were living in a society that had become completely corrupted by off-world influences, and that indeed the Jim pool had become corrupted. And that is why both in the pre-Deluvian world and in the land of Canaan, you had these giants. Now, the people of Melchizedek separated themselves and they chose the Lord and they chose this covenant above all of the enticing, alluring technologies and different things. We talked about the 900 iron chariots in the land of Canaan that required the kings of heaven to come down and fight the battles on Israel's behalf. Now, Melchizedek was the king of Salem. Now Salem means peace and it occupies the exact same location as Jerusalem does today. Jerusalem is simply the continued location where Salem of Antiquity, where Melchizedek and his people used to live. Now, curiously enough, their city was not lifted up. It was just the people themselves, and they joined the city of Enoch. Now the Lord has promised that in the last days he will restore the city of Enoch. I want to, again, this is a promise that is had it also, the knowledge that we have of this promise stems from, again, the Joseph Smith translation of the King James Bible, where as a part of that, Joseph Smith brought forward a book that is called the Book of Moses. And in the book of Moses, we read something really interesting. And I want to share this passage with you. Now, Enoch is he is talking with the Lord, and he he is seeing all of the wickedness that is taking place on the earth, you know, in the prediluvian world, and he's mourning for that wick, you know, the wickedness, and he's asking the Lord if the earth is ever going to rest. And the Lord tells him that yes, it will rest, and promises him that in the day of the earth's rest, that his city would return to the earth, which means that not only the people of Enoch, but also the people of Melchizedek will be restored to the earth in those days. Now, this is what it says. I'm reading in Moses chapter 7, verse 62. And righteousness will I send down out of heaven, and truth will I send forth out of the earth, to bear testimony of mine only begotten, his resurrection from the dead, yea, and also the resurrection of all men, and righteousness and truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth, unto a place which I shall prepare, an holy city, that my people may gird up their loins, and be looking forth for the time of my coming, for there shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion, a new Jerusalem. And the Lord said unto Enoch, Then shalt thou and all thy city meet them there, and we will receive them in our bosoms, and they shall see us, and we will fall upon their necks, and they shall fall upon our necks, and we will kiss each other, and there shall be mine abode, and it shall be Zion, which shall come forth out of all the creations which I have made, and for the space of a thousand years the earth shall rest. Okay, so in this passage, the Lord tells Enoch that his city is going to return in this day when the earth will be flooded once more, this time not with water, but with truth. And that those people who have eyes to see and discern the truth will embrace the truth, even when just like the pre-Diluvian world rejected the gospel, and only Noah and his family were preserved because all of Enoch and his people were translated and lifted up into the heavens. Only the righteous, those that choose the Lord and his son Jesus Christ, will be preserved in those days. And when that happens, the city of Enoch will return to the earth and these people will be reunited with us, and it will be an incredible experience for both of us. Now, I think that it is very interesting to see the connection of the predeluvian world and the watchers and the corruption and the lands of Canaan and the Watchers and the corruption there, the giants, and the prophecies of the last days that say that in the last days, as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be once more. I think that we may be surprised at how similar the coming days are going to mirror the pre-Diluvian world. Now, most of us are sticking our heads in the sand when it comes to these things, and we come up with some false assumptions for what this stuff has to mean, because it couldn't possibly mean what the book of Enoch says that it means. Recall that the Book of Enoch says that the watchers would return to the earth after 70 generations, and that they would be present on the earth when the Lord came again, and that the watchers would be terrified by the Lord's coming. So I think that we are in for some very interesting days ahead. I think that we're starting to see this pressure building in many aspects. I think that these things are related. And as this pressure increases, we're going to start being faced with new kinds of trials that we haven't seen for a very long time. And these trials are not just going to be social trials or economic trials, they are going to largely be spiritual trials. And if the pre-diluvian world is the template for this, they did not handle those trials very well. In fact, you know, the majority of people were overcome and they lost their faith and they believed in the false doctrines that were being taught. And the same is true for the lands of Canaan. Now, in both of those instances, the Lord preserved the righteous through miraculous means. So we should expect no less in our day. If we are going to start seeing the resurgence of this kind of apostasy that the world hasn't seen since the lands of Canaan or before the flood, we should expect also that the Lord is going to pour out truth and righteousness upon the earth in ways that prior generations have not seen either. And that's exactly what the Lord promised to Enoch in Moses chapter seven, these verses that I just read. Now So interestingly enough, the Lord concluded that prophecy to Enoch by stating that once his city has come back and this new Jerusalem is established, which what the Lord calls Zion, that all of the righteous from all the creations that he has made will return and you know mingle with the people of earth, and the earth will rest for a thousand years. So, friends, we are talking about some crazy things. And if any of this stuff has any type or shadow of truth, you would expect to start to see some of this stuff bubbling up to the surface in our headlines. And indeed, I believe that we are. This is why I would encourage everyone, if you have not watched that documentary called The Age of Disclosure, rent it on Amazon Prime or wherever you rent your documentaries. And you know, maybe even consider having some watch parties where you invite your friends over and you watch that and you discuss it and its implications for the gospel and the coming day. Because friends, I think the hour is very late. And I think that I'm not I'm not saying that you know the Lord is coming in 2026 by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I absolutely do not believe that he will be coming this year or next year or the year after that. But I do believe that we are getting closer and that we need to prepare ourselves. And we need to remember that before the second coming happens, we have the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And whereas I do not believe that the Lord will be coming within the next three years, I most certainly think that we could see the ushering in of the great and terrible day of the Lord within that time frame. And it is during this time frame that we see the rise of the latter-day Antichrist that has been spoken of throughout the Old and New Testaments. So, friends, uh I think we just need to wake up. I think we need to do everything that we can to wake up our friends, our family, our neighbors, and try to be as clear-eyed as possible. Again, you know, I'm not expecting that you believe everything that I've talked about or that I will talk about on this podcast. I'm simply hoping that this podcast will give you some boxes that you can place strange happenings that I believe are going to start occurring with greater and greater frequency so that you can retain your faith in the face of such incredible challenges rather than abandon your faith and you know accept the words of this coming antichrist, who is, according to the prophecies, going to be able to work incredible works and miracles in the eyes of all people. And for all intents and purposes, this guy, and he's he's probably not coming alone. He's going to seem godlike. And I worry about Chris Bledsoe's prediction of the world entering into the new stage of the divine feminine as early as April of this year, because I can totally see that as the precursor to kicking off something like this. And it certainly seems to be happening in conjunction with some other earth-shattering events. And if you believe that Satan is the grand architect of the chaos and opposition to God's plan and that Satan is no hack, that he knows what he's doing, I wouldn't expect that the these chaotic events that we're seeing are unrelated. I would think that we probably have a master design going on here, and it's leading us to a climax that is getting closer with each passing day. So I think that we need to buckle up. I think that we need to get our priorities straight. We need to be worrying less about the things of the world and more about you know our standing with the Lord, our covenants with the Lord, our personal levels of righteousness. We need to repent, where we have need to repent, we need to work on getting the word out, we need to prepare ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally, and most importantly, spiritually for the things that are coming down the pipeline. Now, friends, I know that I've talked about a great many things on this podcast to date, and I would like to give my listeners a chance to uh text me with their questions. Now, if you look at you know the this episode, you can see on it uh there should be a little link that you can text or contact me via text. So if you have any questions that you would like me to address in the in upcoming episodes, I would love to do that for you. Ultimately, I want to talk about the things uh that you are interested in learning about. I don't want to just ramble away on these and talk about the things that are interesting to me, because you know, frankly, I I've been studying this stuff for so long uh that you know uh I don't really need to do a a podcast on these things. This podcast is not for me. It's it's for you. So if there's something that I could do, a subject that I could talk about, if there's if I get enough questions, I may do an entire uh episode just answering questions. But you can't feel free to respond. Just click the little uh text or contact me and submit uh your questions that way. Otherwise, you can actually email me your questions if you would like. My email address is michael at the losttentribes.com. That's Michael at thelost10s.com. You can you can contact me that way with your your questions. You know, that maybe that texting is gonna be the uh the easiest way because then other people there's a there's a record for other people to see that way also. So friends, I hope that this episode has been helpful for you. I hope that if you haven't yet, you're gonna go out and watch that age of disclosure documentary and that you watch it with your friends and family. And I think you'll find that it will be a great platform for you to have some really interesting discussions because I mean you've you've got some really high-caliber government officials that are coming forward on that documentary and talking about the things that they know, and frankly, it's blow your socks off kind of stuff, and it clearly is an indication that something is going on behind the background. And friends, the gospel of Jesus Christ is absolutely true. So if this stuff that is going on in the background is also true and also really happening, then there has to be a way of reconciling these things. And if we do not spend the time to you know reconcile these things in our minds, we are putting ourselves at great risk because if you have to reconcile these things in real time, the likelihood of you being able to think rationally, it's going to go out the window, I think. It's very hard to think rationally when you are filled with emotion. And one thing that we know about the coming days is that men's hearts will fail them for fear for those things which they see coming upon the earth. It's it's there will be nothing normal about the coming days, and it should not surprise us that things are becoming less and less normal with each passing day. So let's get prepared, let's base ourselves in the Lord Jesus Christ, for he is the only rock upon which we can build that will withstand this coming day. And until next time, friends, keep seeking, for they that seek shall find. God bless.

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