Ep 33 | Mardi Gras | Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess

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Hello and welcome to Strange Encounters, the podcast.

I'm your host Rick Burgess.

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And you can find those details at Burgessministries.com.

So let's get started with the podcast.

If you're new, we're a podcast that talks about spiritual warfare.

The supernatural?

Yes.

But from a biblical worldview and trust us, the biblical worldview has all the supernatural you can take.

And we're going to talk about things that we need to maybe discern,

whether we should be associated with or not.

We've done a lot of those things about spiritual house cleaning, individual house cleaning

to make sure we're not exposing ourselves unnecessarily to wicked and evil things

and educating ourselves on those things.

Because there is a spiritual war that is going on all around us.

That's not a maybe, it's a fact.

But the question that we do have a choice in is the question of whether we're prepared for it or not.

Do I understand it?

Do I know about it?

And that's our intention here is to educate as much as we possibly can

so that when you go out into that spiritual battle, at least you're prepared for it.

And we believe this comes from angels and demons as we see in the Word of God.

So today, as we're recording this, we're rolling into the season where the followers of Jesus are starting to remember

when Jesus went to the cross to redeem all who are willing to repent, leave faith in themselves

and place their faith in Christ and ask for his redemption for the sins that we all have.

And then his resurrection on the third day, defeating eternal death, proving that he was all God and all man at the same time.

And that kind of gets us into some of the things we'll discuss today.

But I want to start with one of the celebrations for lack of a better term that we see involving this season.

And that is the Mardi Gras celebrations.

Now, Mardi Gras, is this something that you should be concerned about?

The answer is yes.

And we're going to study that a little bit in this episode.

We have other things to look at before we're done today too.

But I want to talk about Mardi Gras a little bit.

It's something I was always wondered about.

I'd always felt after I became the follower of Christ kind of a check in my spirit when I would see these festivals.

It just seemed decadent.

It seemed I have a lot of paganism involved in that.

So looking at the history of it, what is it anyway?

Well, a lot of historians link modern, the modern version of Mardi Gras with ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman spring fertility.

Now, look in those days with these pagan nations and these pagans, this involved ludeness, sexual immorality, nudity, drunkenness, revelry of every kind.

And it was associated with various gods, Little G, most typically the god Pan.

Pan was a Greek fertility god.

And therefore was always represented as crude, lustful as you can imagine.

So one resource that I looked at said this predecessor to our modern Mardi Gras,

during the festivals, men, dawned women's clothing and mask to abandon themselves to orgies, thus the masquerade tradition started there.

So we got a problem there right out of the gate with Scripture because in Deuteronomy 22-5, if you've never been there,

we see God saying that when men portray themselves as women, and when women portray themselves as men,

that this is an abomination to the Lord your god.

So that's not a mild statement.

We're told that, and this is God saying the genders should always be clearly defined.

Now you don't want to get over legalistic with this and say, oh well, a woman cannot wear slacks.

This is not what God's talking about or, you know, oh no, I'm married and I'm walking around the house in my husband's button down.

That's not what this is talking about.

What God is talking about is when we begin to blur the genders in our appearance.

I'd say it would be a very, very specific distinction of what God sees as an abomination.

And that are drag queens.

Now we're living in a society in the United States of America where for some reason in modern time,

surely you've noticed this, drag queens have become trendy.

I mean, we got drag queens reading stories to kids.

I mean, these were things that at one time we, everyone considered to be not appropriate for children.

Drag queens shows and all of this, but these are men who present themselves as women.

And this is something that God says, not Rick, not the Strange Encounters podcast, is an abomination to him.

And you see some of this and some of the Mardi Gras celebrations.

So we think there's a debate.

If you talk to people from New Orleans, they will say it started there.

But if you talk to people from Mobile, Alabama, they will say it started there.

So there's kind of a debate.

What we can say is that it started in the early 1700s and the early versions of this, especially in New Orleans,

they weren't much more than just a bunch of drunken brawls.

And they first organized Mardi Gras celebrations more like the mid 1800s.

And the first one was something called REX Rex Parade.

It was being held in New Orleans in 1872.

And according to the modern tradition of Mardi Gras, it's the period of personal gratification,

indulgence, preceding the season of Lent, L-E-N-C, in which many Christians fast now preparing for Easter.

And we've already had a podcast on where the word Easter came from.

And is this a bad thing, now a good thing?

Its origin is not very good, but it, modern day, it's become so, for some people believe it's been redeemed to the point it really is not a bad thing to use that name.

But that was another episode you can find that in our archives.

So let's just use that term today so you know what we're talking about.

So Lent, it's interesting.

You'll have a hard time searching scripture finding anything about Lent.

It really isn't there.

Now, are we called to fast?

Yes.

Jesus tells us how to fast and how not to fast.

And fasting is a wonderful spiritual discipline that can many times really, really enhance your prayer life and your focus on your own personal holiness and God Himself.

But Lent is not really there.

This is when you decide to give up something for a certain amount of days prior to Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.

You know, giving up some kind of foods or a habit or something like that.

40 days preceding the good Friday and the resurrection Sunday.

And you see the Catholic church really doubling down on this, but other denominations of Christianity do that as well.

Some Christians also exclude other vices and indulgence and there are some that will even go through a time even in, I mean, well only in marriage goes outside of marriage.

That would be sexually immoral, but inside of marriage that couples will even give up intimacy between husband and wife.

So the term, Marty Graham, what is that mean?

It's a French phrase, obviously, for Fat Tuesday.

That's what that means, signifying using all the fat in the home and in the days, you know, of fasting during Lent.

It means it was to gorge oneself, interestingly, on meat, milk, egg products, anything that has fat in the house.

You would, you would then gorge yourself on Fat Tuesday and then you're going to give it up during a season of Lent.

Well, you've got a problem there because you'll find nowhere in scripture that the scripture would call us to a time of sin in order to prepare for holiness.

No, we're to repent of all sin all the time and we never would say, well, I'm about to stop participating in this sin.

So I'm going to commit the sin of gluttony to prepare for it upcoming fast.

That just, that doesn't make any sense in scripture nor would you find that being anything scripture would support.

So when you look at modern day Mardi Gras, it's a combination of ancient pagan rituals and the idea of indulgence and revelry before abstaining from personal gratification for a religious season, I'm putting quotes around that during Lent.

So there's some hypocrisy here that scripture would have a real problem with.

So really, you're looking at Mardi Gras and it's almost like shaking our fist in the face of God Almighty and saying, we're going to party and participate in sinful revelry and premeditated open rebellion against you, our creator.

But don't worry, we're going to be good for 40 days so that you'll forgive us for what we're about to do.

See, this is also a problem when you think about first Peter and look, it is a high standard and can only be accomplished through the supernatural power provided by the Holy Spirit.

But if you go to first Peter, there's some really, really convicting verses here and these verses call us to a holiness not for 40 days, not for a short period of time, but for every day all the time.

So here's what Peter says about us after we have been redeemed.

He's talking about before we were redeemed, we were ignorant.

We didn't know God's commandments, we didn't know anything about holiness, we didn't know.

So we were ignorant to just giving in to our sinful desires.

But he says, but he says, therefore, meaning after we've been redeemed, prepare your minds for action after you've been redeemed, being sober minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you.

At the revelation of Jesus Christ and here it comes.

As obedient children do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance.

When you didn't know any better, now you know better.

But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy and here's the tough part in all your conduct.

So there's never a time of revelry, there's never a time of premeditated sin.

There's never a time to gorge yourself, say like in gluttony, to get yourself drunk, to be sexually immoral, but don't worry for 40 days, I'm going back to this.

Now he never says that.

He says, we are to be holy, the redeemed and all of our conduct since it is written you shall be holy for I am holy.

God talking about himself.

Look, I'm with you, I understand that, which is why we need the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit.

I would love for this verse to say, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance.

But as he who called you as holy, you also be holy in some of your conduct.

Look, if we were honest, we would prefer that, but that's not what it says.

It says in all of your conduct.

So this concept that there's ever a period of time that we openly, deliberately sin in the face of a holy God knowing and planning to sin,

we're not talking about stumbles where we make mistakes that we didn't intend to make.

We're not talking about that.

We all do that.

And then because of the Holy Spirit, we repent.

But this is planning some sort of festival that includes sin prior to then say, all right, now I'm going to give that up for 40 days.

Because I got to get ready for when you redeemed me.

You're really taking what Jesus did on the cross and the price that he paid when God's wrath was poured out on him.

And you're saying, hey, I appreciate that and I'll get to that after I go out here and I do everything that caused you on the cross.

I mean, that's, that's an evil concept.

The Mardi Gras balls and parades usually are themed in honor of pagan gods.

I don't know if you've seen the symbol, this huge fat bull that is called Borgra.

This is another word in French.

It means the fatted bovine.

Now, if you remember, if you know your Bible, you know that Bale, the ancient Canaanite God,

was represented as what? A bull.

Bale was to name a symbol of fertility, strength, virality.

You may also recall that at least twice in Israel's history, they sinned by making golden calves as idols.

So the Borgra, when you see this being drawn through the streets during Mardi Gras,

during a sea of uplifted hands and throw, throw me something as the revelers cry out,

they want to really something that looks like the modern Bale to throw them trinkets,

these beads, or other tokens of his favor to them.

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This is a lot more, I know somebody say rig, rig, rig, rig.

This is fun.

We're just having fun.

But the symbolism is unmistakable.

Be careful how you have fun.

The real spirit of Mardi Gras seems to be a spirit of idolatry.

That's what it looks like.

And then you say, what's the harm we put on mask?

Let's talk about mask for a minute.

The tradition of masquerading during Mardi Gras allows people to believe that

they can get away with more, a lot more than they would have gotten away with,

if they didn't have their identity concealed.

It has to do with man's desire to sin without being found out.

They think they can get a little drunker, get a little wilder, a little more carnal,

because I got a mask on hiding who I really am.

But we can never hide our identity from God.

And this once again is a horrible practice.

And I would say that a lot of us who even claim to be Christians,

and I don't doubt that's not me to judge that,

I am tired of saying that I don't think this is something that we should so willingly participate in,

and be so cavalier about it as if it's no big deal.

Because again, as we've said on this podcast so many times,

when we're talking about demons and spiritual warfare,

things that can open you up to spiritual warfare and give invitations to demonic forces,

when you say it's no big deal, I'm telling you,

that's exactly what they're hoping we're going to say.

Don't not to take it serious.

So when we give this little wink to Mardi Gras,

do we doubt God's outrage over these practices?

I think about Solomon in his book of Ecclesiastes,

Solomon had the, he spent a portion of his life participating

when the biggest Mardi Gras celebrations a man could ever participate in,

trying every sin and reveling in every one of them to the highest degree.

And at the end of it all, he said these things are meaningless.

They do not satisfy.

It's like chasing a vapor and I realize that really the whole role of mankind

is to fear God and do what he says.

This stuff doesn't sound like that we fear God at all.

Is it possible for us to actually believe that a celebration like this can be all in fun

and that the God of the Bible is not angry?

Do we really think that God, a holy God who is holy, holy, holy,

is looking down on the reverie of Mardi Gras with all the pagan symbols,

all the masks, all the indulgence, all the, the idea of fat Tuesday

where we sin all we can and then we try to get right with God for 40 days

by trying to get these things out of our life.

Do we really believe that God of the Bible looks down on all this represented there

and sees, he looks down, sees ungodly parades,

Mardi Gras beads, other symbols of idolatry, self-indulgent, hypocrisy

and think, hey, you know what, I'm good with that.

This really honors me or do you think he's angry?

Well, if we participate in this with at least not being willing to look at it again,

I would say that we probably don't have much fear of God.

At least take a look at it.

If you're someone that is participating in this and you'll be hard pressed

to find many pulpits that are willing to condemn Mardi Gras

and you might lose some members over it, but that's not your job.

It's not your job in the pulpit to be a PR agent for God.

It's your job to tell the truth and at least warn the people that God has entrusted you with.

Keep in mind when you look at some of this and you're like,

well, Rick, you're just a little bit of a holy roller here, buddy.

I just, I think you're, everything I just said, I'd love to hear you justify that.

And then the other thing, because back in the day before I was a follower of Jesus

and had been redeemed, I remember being lost and being down in New Orleans

and being around all this, and I recall, sadly, I recall,

that even people wanting beads thrown their way

usually would do something lewd in order to get them.

And women were willing to reveal their naked breast and things like that

in return for beads to be thrown from floats with males on them

that were more than willing to say that's what it'll take to get some beads.

And these things do go on.

And us participating in them and being associated with them

is probably something that we need to reconsider, especially in a time of season

where we're headed into the most holy celebration of God's redemption

through the sacrifice of His Son and His resurrection.

So now let's move on to something that I can't believe is going on.

And this is a little something that I believe is worth looking at,

talking about the future in times.

I don't know if you're familiar with this.

It was first sent to me this week by our team that works on strange encounters.

And I was a little shocked by what I saw.

And this is something called biological intelligence and the simulation concepts.

Now, some recent examples of this, you may never heard of this, I had not.

Some recent examples include scientists mapping a fly's brain

to control a digital body.

And we have a short video that will play that kind of, now look,

this gets really, really deep scientifically.

And I'll try to keep it in simpler explanation.

But give a look and a listen to this video about this new experimentation

with biological intelligence.

This fly is being controlled by a digital simulation of its own brain.

Scientists literally copied a fruit fly's entire brain down to the last synapse

and used it to control a moving body.

Researchers first mapped every neuron and connection in a fruit fly's brain.

About 125,000 neurons and 50 million synaptic connections using a super precise electron microscope.

Then they built a working model of this brain map and tested whether

could actually predict how a fly behaves.

And to their surprise, it matched real biology over 90% of the time.

But that brain basically had nowhere to go, until now.

A company called Eon Systems connected this simulated brain to a virtual fly body.

So for the first time, a digitally copied brain could actually control movement.

Basically, the signals come in, the brain processes them and the body responds just like a real fly would.

And to be completely clear, this isn't AI just pretending to be a brain.

There's no training and there's no programming of specific movements.

It's a biological brain rebuilt from real data making a body move.

Their next target is a mouse brain, which is 70 million neurons, or about 560 times larger.

And eventually, they're going to move on to the human brain, which is 86 billion neurons.

About 1200 times bigger than the mouse's.

But the goal isn't just scientific curiosity.

See, if you can run a brain inside a computer, you could build an AI model directly on biology.

And eventually, maybe even copy the human mind entirely.

Now, I want you to think about what we're saying here.

I want you to think about what we're saying here.

Are humans now to a whole other level attempting to play God?

Now, I remember I'm old enough.

I remember when we started cloning animals.

And we all kind of got a little uncomfortable.

That's not what this is.

This is much different.

This is not, and it's not AI, you know, where you try to teach AI, you know, how a fly works or whatever.

Now, what they did is they went in and actually used a real brain from a real fly.

And they did it so well.

The fly started moving like a fly because the brain was telling it what to do.

So it's a combination of these two worlds where we're creating, hear me out now, some sort of digital consciousness, some kind of biological intelligence that are trying to reflect.

This is where it gets real dangerous.

They're trying to reflect a version of God creating things.

Is this the ultimate human beings trying to play God?

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Now, there's a lot to take on here.

And I don't know that we'll get to, there's another thing they're doing now.

But we'll get to that probably in the next episode that we might get to it today.

I'll see.

But when you think about this from a biblical worldview, think about in the scriptures,

we're told that God is the one that created life.

That he breathed life into everything.

Now, you start thinking, well, Rick, where's, tell me where this is in the spiritual warfare realm?

Well, I can tell you, if you go back to the Nephilim,

well, when you mention the Nephilim, watch out.

I know we all, we all go back to the Nephilim.

Well, one of the most plausible theories about the Nephilim

is when God became so angry, when demons, fallen angels,

were able to reproduce with human women in Genesis chapter 6.

This so angered God that he killed everybody except for Noah and his family.

So what was, what was the tent? What was Satan trying to do here?

I'll tell you exactly what he was trying to do.

What Satan was trying to do here is to mimic God.

God was going to create in Jesus a perfect God man.

He is the God man at 100% God while being 100% human,

born in a virgin birth, supernaturally.

And you should know the rest of that story.

So he could be the proper sacrifice for all of mankind.

Now, why would the adversary, Lucifer, Satan the devil,

and the fallen angels that attempted to overthrow God with him?

Why would this be something that Satan would want to do before God could do it?

Because what Jesus did with the redemption on the cross and the resurrection from the tomb

is that when Satan took away man's dominion over earth,

I mean, he did in the garden.

He now is completely over the entire earth.

But what Jesus has done to the redeemed is given back to all humans who have been redeemed

what Satan took away.

So, and then eventually Satan will be eradicated completely.

So, Satan attempted with some of the fallen angels and human women

to create his own God man, his own supernatural humans.

He did not pull it off, and you also see in Scripture where Jesus went

and stood in front of the demons that attempted this,

that God punished and banished into their own special holding place,

that Jesus stood before them while he was in the tomb saying,

you didn't do it, I have done it, I am the God man, I have redeemed the world,

and had victory over Satan's attempt.

So, keep in mind that we have an anti-Christ that is coming in the future.

It is this Satan, can Satan find himself in this technology working with these people,

unbeknownst to them, I'm sure, to take modern technology and the whole AI world

and begin to use it for the things he's still going to do in the future.

Now, I did have someone ask me, do I believe when they,

you saw what the guy said in the video,

eventually they wanted to get to the human brain and create a combination of a human consciousness

with modern technology, biological intelligence, playing God no doubt.

And would this be how anti-Christ would be created?

I would say no to that because I think it's pretty obvious in Scripture

that anti-Christ will be a human being.

I believe it's more likely that the so-called supernatural that, you know,

because Scripture tells us that anti-Christ will declare that he too can resurrect himself

and there will be a mortal head wound to anti-Christ,

which will it appear that he will survive, then the false prophet will say,

he's risen himself from the dead as well, he should be worshipped.

That this is most likely going to be faked and we're ready for that now.

I mean, the AI technology without the biological part,

just the technology we have now, we're already there.

You think you couldn't take AI technology and fake a mortal head wound and a resurrection,

you could do that easily.

So that's already here.

And do I think that that will likely be how with special effects,

how that will be done? I certainly do.

So I believe that the faking of a death and a resurrection with anti-Christ,

the technology is already there.

We don't need this for that.

But I agree that this could easily be Satan trying again to see if he can create his own human

hybrids of some way.

Guys, look, if we can get a fly to be made by technology,

but then begin to move like a real fly because we have now duplicated 90%.

Did you hear that number? 90% of a real flies brain.

So it knows how to move just by combining the technology.

Then yeah, yeah, I think that that is not too far-fetched.

So I do think this is going to be an attempt for mankind.

I believe under demonic direction to start trying to play God and create animals and create human beings,

which is extremely dangerous territory.

So I do think that we do have time to get to the other thing and that is involving human brain cells.

It has already started.

So what we have here is research is being done and researchers have taught a computer

made with human brain cells to play the video game of all the games they could have done called Doom.

Here's a little bit on that as well, and then we'll talk about what's happening here.

Scientists already built a computer using brain cells, but they left one big question on onset.

Can it run Doom?

In 2021, Cortical Labs introduced Dish Brain, where 800,000 neurons learned to play pong.

Fast forward to 2024, and they released the CL1, a fully deployable biocomputer for allegedly consume less power

and learn faster than modern AI algorithms.

But not content with locking the human mind in a metaphorical hell.

Researchers wanted to understand how it performed in a digital hellscape as the Doom Slayer.

To achieve this, different electrodes representing parts of the game world, such as the position of walls or enemies,

were translated into specific electrical signals, sent into particular regions of the neural network.

That stimulation became the neuron's sensory input.

The neurons then responded by firing their own electrical signals that were recorded by the chip

and translated into the software into game actions, like turning, moving forward or firing a weapon.

The important part is the feedback system.

When the neurons perform useful activity like aiming and firing correctly, they receive a stimulation that is predictable and structured.

But when they behave poorly, the system returns a noisy chaotic signal.

Because neurons try naturally to minimize unpredictable input, the cells gradually learn firing patterns that keep the signals stable.

In just seven days, the neurons learn to play the game pretty effectively, or in scientific terms, they got good.

The CL1 might not yet be able to dominate the competitive scene, but if we can teach neurons to master a 3D game,

where one step closer to using biological computers to control high precision robotic arms, or manage complex tasks,

that are difficult for traditional logic-based chips.

Is that bothering anybody at all right there?

Okay, so we, did you hear that?

So God made the human brain to kind of fix itself and figure out how things should be done smoothly.

The human brain doesn't like chaos.

Chaos, of course, is where demonic forces live.

And it'll figure out that, hey, this is the way that works.

This thing figured out pretty quick that in doom, if it made kill shots,

that that was what you were supposed to do, so it owned its own adapted to figuring out how to make kill shots,

because that was good.

That gave a good response to the part of it that was made from a human brain.

Now, surely we all see this.

Can you imagine where this can take robotics?

Can anybody imagine we're already developing human-like robots?

However, they're a little bit limited on how they can continue to learn and progress just through straight AI.

But now, if you can develop this, and you can mimic the human brain,

and that now brings biological computers a step closer to real-world uses.

And, of course, this would be in robotics going to another level,

because the robot, like you saw this doing, could now begin to learn and become more intelligent

by using the exact same path as human beings have been made to use with our human brains.

They're saying that these cells are very, very similar to a real-life brain.

And now, what they're wanting is blood donations from willing volunteers and donors,

so this biology team that's doing this can start doing what they're calling biology magic,

which could turn some of the blood cells into stem cells,

and you could take out embryos, you can take skin cells, and convert to brain cells,

and then you could place them in petri dishes, and record all the electrical activity from the cells,

and start figuring out how to have robots that would literally improve over time,

and would learn in a very similar way as human beings created by the one and only living God.

So, you get robots to have a version of a human brain with those kinds of capabilities. Where does it go?

Where does it all end? And does this feel very similar, if you know anything about Scripture,

to what happened with the Nephilim? Does it feel very similar to the tower of Babel?

When human beings started to get the idea that they could be more like God,

and that they themselves could become God, they themselves could begin to replicate what their creator could do without Him.

Now, we've seen this throughout Scripture, and it leads to issues.

Now, this is a new concept, and that's all it is, this is nothing but a theory, and I acknowledge it, I'm speculating.

But I will tell you for the longest, and we've even talked about it in other episodes,

I have started to think about scenarios where we would all be under a one-world government.

And the whole time I've been thinking about that, and I'm not even like the way it's feeling talking about what I'm about to say,

I have been thinking that it would likely be through this deception of alien beings from another planet,

which we believe here, and others do too, that this is nothing but demons.

But Satan could use these alien encounters, and we're under attack from another planet to unite the world,

in a one-world government, we talked about that.

But I'm going to tell you what I never considered until I start seeing these stories that we're sharing right now,

and the research that is going on.

Now, remember, this research will be applauded, and I understand,

because they're going to start saying there's all kinds of wonderful things it could do for human beings,

and length of life, and solving problems, and all that, that's what we always say.

But I never thought until I started preparing for this episode that maybe it's total speculation, hypothesis, it's all it is.

Could it be possible that the adversary could be working out another plan

of a one-world government that is all united through this technology to not fight aliens from another planet,

but to reject God himself, and say that he's not needed anymore,

that we have overthrown him for lack of a better word,

which is exactly what Lucifer attempted to do when he was cast out of heaven

with the third of the angels that attempted to do that with him.

So, I don't know, but when we start playing God,

AI was enough to concern you, and it can be used for good things,

but this is going to a whole other place. We're not just satisfied with technology and those advancements

in the fake world in which it has created, which is extremely dangerous,

because I don't think we're really getting blurred on what's real and what's not.

But you go over here and add biology to it, and replicating animal brains,

and then replicating a human brain and taking biology, which comes from God,

and try to marry that to technology, which is allowed, you know, human beings were created by God,

so it's still coming from that place, but try to combine those two to say that we can create life,

you don't have to breathe life into something we can,

and take these creations that we come up with to a level that we, as a human race,

begin to put together this super army that doesn't fight against each other,

but we actually all join together to fight against God,

with a one-world government, and one world united in Godliness,

as opposed to what will become Godlessness.

We're intended to unite, and we're always intended, to be under the authority of God,

but you could take that same thing as Satan always tries to do, and corrupt anything that God intended,

and Satan deceived the world, not to unite under Godliness, but Godlessness,

and reject him as not needed anymore.

It's a horrifying thought, but we know that these, something like this is coming,

and how it's all going to happen, I don't know, but when we started looking at these things this week,

it was a thought that crept in, and biology meets technology.

Now that would be a true strange encounter.