New information coming out and it's kind of all over the place of Bill Gates has this new idea that apparently he's been in works for a while.

It's a tattoo embedded into your skin that is nanotechnology.

It will replace smartphones, he says, as soon as twenty thirty would you get this tattoo?

And more importantly, as we think through it with a biblical lens, is it demonic?

Discussing that right now?

So this is fascinating.

Is Bill gates new electronic tattoo demonic?

Oh?

Surprise surprise, Bill Gates is in the news again with something controversial.

This came from an email.

Yeah, in surprise surprise.

People want to talk more about end times and Mark at the Beast and things.

That could be literally what's two episodes ago?

Yeah, was Market the Beast.

So if anyone's coming in there just now jumping into this, this is gonna be a really good conversation, I hope at least.

Yeah, And you might want to just pause right now and go watch the Market the Beast episode we did two weeks ago and then come back to this one.

That's probably a pretty good prep I think we're gonna we're gonna get in a little bit of market the Beast today again, but we'll kind of build off what we talked about last time.

Yeah, I was gonna say that at least it would kind of start where that one finished.

As far as the conclusion from that one, Yeah, to have a conversation here about this.

Yeah, yeah, So we'll get to that.

And so this came from an email.

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What's this guy's name, Seth?

This is Seth.

Yeah, Seth brings up a fascinating topic.

What you got?

He said, Hey, Granger, A buddy of mine sent me this article about Bill Gates saying smartphones could be replaced by something called the electronic tattoos.

I'll be honest, it kind of blew my mind.

The idea is that instead of carrying an actual phone, you'd have this tattoo on your skin that can track your health, let you pay for things and even connect to the Internet.

On the other hand, it sounds like something straight out of a sci fi movie.

It does.

On the other hand, I couldn't help but wonder if it ties to what Revelation talks about with the market of the Beast.

I don't want to jump to conclusions, but it's hard not to think about those verses when you hear about tech that goes under your skin and controls so much of your daily life.

What do you think?

Thanks for always tackling these kind of questions with a level head and faith filled perspective.

Seth from South Carolina.

South Carolina.

Seth, this is not the first time I've heard this.

Actually, I got a text when is this date?

On August to twenty fifth, I got a text from my brother Tyler who sent this article to me and my other brother Parker.

It's an MSN article, yeah, and it's the headline is Bill Gates declares the end of the smartphone era and unveils its surprising replacement.

So there's, you know, this picture of Bill Gates and his tuxedo and his microphone, and this article kind of walks through what an electronic tattoo is with you and I had to kind of figure out a little bit more.

And it talks about the decline of the smartphones.

I think you had in your notes aunt that What did it say that fifteen years we're looking at the end of smartphones?

Yeah?

About that.

So I also saw another article that said as early as twenty thirty.

Wow, we would be five years.

Comply, yeah, four and some change years away from no more smartphones as being the thing.

I could see someone adopting this idea in four years or less.

Think about how quickly chat GPT picked up.

I don't see.

I mean, I don't see everyone, everyone, or even a majority going away from a smartphone in less than four years.

Because that's agree, that's a quick adoption of something of new tech.

And listen, I adopt new tech quickly.

I like trial and error.

I like figuring things out.

And you know, even with equipment that we use here in this room to do this podcast, I was a quick adopter.

Road who does the recording machine that we hear have here.

They came out with new stuff for the newest one, which is now a few years old.

But I thought, well, if it really can do that, and that machine, that's worth the money.

Because it was the old one plus a few other pieces of equipment.

So if the new one can do that all one, I want to try that out.

And it's it's proven to be really good.

I think most people probably do that.

It's fewer people will hang on to an iPhone seven, you know, for a very long time.

Yeah, And there is a there, there's kind of a it's there's it's charming to think of holding on to an iPhone ten, you know, or whatever, or a flip phone.

There's a lot of charm in that.

It's like, ah, that's nice.

But but the reality is with technology, you get pushed out of it, so you can't keep a normal life and have a normal job.

When you have old tech, because it gets the updates will disconnect you further and further from all the other tech that you have.

They'll push you into the newer stuff.

They'll push you by not supporting it anymore.

Even if it's just because the you can't charge it anymore because the charger doesn't work.

That's true.

You know, you don't have that adapter.

And the batteries a life as well.

The batteries have a life.

So even if you you kept up with the hardware of it and replaced batteries.

Eventually those cables just start to discip You can't even find those old micro USB cables anymore or whatever.

So this is gonna be an interesting discussion because what we're gonna do, what we're gonna look at, is Bill Gates is presenting this new opportunity, this new technology.

I have my opinions on Bill Gates.

I think you do too.

I think most people listening probably do as well.

I don't know if I trust him for anything.

What Elon Musk had the quote of saying, like he's not watch he's not babysitting my kids, something like that.

So we're gonna be we're gonna be thinking about, you know, wisely thinking through and we'll use the Bible with this.

This is a radical new idea of technology.

But what happens, What happens if this goes so far down the line that everyone is I don't want to use the word forced to use it.

But because of the lack of other options, and because of connectivity with other things that we do, you just naturally adopt this inconvenience convenience, just like we have with cell phones, just like we have with getting away from cash and going to credit cards, and now credit cards are going to go away because more people are using their phones to make purchases, just like paper boarding passes were soon replaced by digital boarding passes, which are now being replaced by biometric scanning and to get on an airplane.

So there's gonna be a time and you can't get on an airplane with a paper boarding pass.

They're gonna say, sorry, it has to be either digital or it has to be biometric.

And so for the people that say I don't adopt that stuff, I say, you know, that's so charming, that's so respectable, that's so honorable.

You can't fly anymore.

Your travel days are over.

And so this is where it connects with the Market the Beast, because then people go, ah, you mean you can't buy or sell yeah without having it?

I say, yeah, maybe.

John as he's writing Revelation two thousand years ago, and he was writing these things about the Market the Beast, how no one without the mark can buy or sell, he had no that didn't make any sense to him.

And at what point in the in the late first century, early second century would it ever make sense that anyone would have to have something to buy or sell that was implanted on them or marked on them, or tattooed on them or implanted in their skin, Like I wouldn't want to make any sense at all.

And it wasn't that long ago that that even that mark was Oh what if it's a barcode?

Yeah, when people start tain barcode, Yeah.

What is a barcode?

You used to put a barcode on somebody's hand or or forehead.

Now it's like, what if it's the actually, actually tech of what we currently use implanted into your body.

Now we're at a place for the first time ever in human history where we go, oh yeah, like even a QR code, the technic, the tech of a QR code is so far advanced past the barcode.

It's it's unbelievable how much more detailed a QR code.

Have you ever looked at that stat I haven't, but I believe it's.

Just a little square QR code is so much use all the time that a barcode.

So what comes after the QR code?

I mean, we're we're headed fast down and this this podcast is not going to be about a huge warning and we need to you know, be wiped out by some kind of you know, nuclear tech destroyer.

You know, we might, we might.

I wouldn't, I wouldn't, so mind that, but.

There'd be a malfunction in somebody's uh electronic tattoo set.

Some that's a different angle for this.

Okay, So before we go any further, give me everything you know about this electronic tattoo.

Man.

I don't know a ton because it is it's still right now, it's still a concept.

There is a company.

It was developed initially.

By a company called Chaotic Moon, later acquired by Censure, which you may have heard of these tattoos.

No I haven't.

No, Yeah, okay, I've heard the excentric before.

These tattoos are used nanocapacitor smart ink.

Well, that basically means is ink that has metal or chips in it that will that will fuse together and be able to work inside the tattoo inside that ink.

That's plans, Kurt said a few weeks ago.

What could go wrong?

What could go wrong?

Not much?

Right?

It allowed tasks like sending Now this is just like surface level stuff.

It'll help with like sending messages.

So right now, instead of picking up your phone to do it, you may just speak it and it's connecting you speaking connects to.

There'll be some gesture.

You even have that with with Apple watches right now that if you're listening, so you're out jogging and you're listening to music, you can just double tap your fingers, your your index finger and your thumb and it'll skip to the next track.

So think about those kind of gestures that go, okay, I tap my fingers together.

Oh, now it wants a message, and then you just speak your message and it reads it back to you and sends it.

So that that could be a thing, and that's.

Kind of that's one of the the benefits of of having car play is that you can you don't have to type anything.

You can just tell it.

It'll read it to you and say is that correct, and then you send it if you'd like, right, you.

Could browse the web.

And I think for some of this you are going to need some some ancillary items such as earbuds or glasses.

Or things like that.

But it would be instead of connecting to a phone that you have in your pocket, it's just to that piece of artwork that you have on your forearm.

So you would I guess, we don't know this question answered, I don't know what it looks like.

It's just some kind of it looks like ink looks like and it is ink.

Maybe you could just use your design.

Maybe you could.

Yeah, but it would get these five that you get to pick from.

Yeah, you're terrible.

But it connects to so the way it would replace smartphones completely, it has to have some kind of reading.

You have to be able to see it or hear it.

And so you're saying earbuds or.

Glasses connecting to other things.

Yeah, So if you think about think about your smartphone with all the guts and no screen, everything that's inside of it without a screen, that would be what the tattoo would be.

Okay, yeah, so right now we have Bluetooth and Wi Fi.

Maybe it's that or something else, some new technology that is much more efficient, doesn't use a lot of battery.

Think about a battery on a phone.

Well, even in this too would be able to charge based off your body heat, so your your excess body heat instead of making you stinky.

Charges your phone.

I don't know that has a name.

Doesn't missed that part?

Uh it is, yeah, because that's just a.

I don't know.

It's a horrifying idea energy harvesting from your body thermoelectric generators converting your body heat into electricity.

Okay, like we laughed before we started the show, just thinking I'm exhausted today.

Why you haven't left the couch.

I know I've but my my nanocapacitor has been taking thermoelectric energy from my range.

So tired, you know.

What is fun?

So I've been wearing and people laugh at me right now as I've been wearing, what are you doing?

I have a smart watch.

I have the Apple Watch.

But yeah, you don't have an Apple Watch?

Do you know?

You have some Mine's Garmin.

The battery on this is absolutely atrocious.

Yeah, it lasts about eight to twelve hours somewhere that this is a whoop band.

Yeah, and it measures everything and more that the Apple Watch does.

But it lasts two weeks.

But you know, no screen, there's no screen on it.

So that's a lot of that.

And a side note.

My Garmin and I have like the highest level because I need it for international travel.

Okay, last almost a month?

Does it?

Really?

That's incredible.

That's good to know.

I use both of these because there's data that I need right now.

In my health journey from the whoop that I don't get from my watch.

I don't get continually from my watch.

It only measures my watch only measures your heart rate.

Everyone.

This is all the time checking.

It constantly measures my heart rate, and it will give me a reading, so I know where I were, what I've done throughout the day, and how my body has responded to stress and things like that.

After other podcasts, after a major health scare in my life, so I'm kind of detailing everything there's talking about.

Though, that the way this would work would have all that stuff built in because it's already in your body.

So that's not that one would be a benefit that of not having an ancillary product, not having a whoop band or something else to be able to measure that stuff.

It's built into the fabric and the ink that has now become part of your body.

So Tyler, my brother who's always really into thinking about his calories and his health, this would most likely be measuring your blood in real time where you could actually know what, well I'm hungry right now, what am I hungry for?

And it would tell you, well, you need about you know, seventeen grams of protein twenty grams of carbs and twelve grams of fat and you'll be feeling nice.

And make sure he adds a little sodium to that.

You know, I'm just assuming that this tech would be easy to detect in real time at some level what you're actually hungry for, or it could say you're actually not hungry, you're actually thirsty, you need to drink more water.

Not too far fetched.

And it's that is not a bad thing.

No, that's you know.

You think about this stuff, not the whole holistically.

It's not scary, or at least it's not scary to me.

It's like I said, I'm an early adopter to a lot of things, and I know a lot of people listening or watching right now are too.

I think the anticipation of what it could lead to is what is scary, you know.

I remember on on the radio show After Midnight, we talked about when when Elon was putting in the brain chips, the nano chips, that they're like, would you do this, and people that would call in and say yes or no, and and it would you know, I don't know that I would.

I don't know that i'd actually do something in my brain.

But taking a tattoo or having a tattoo that would give me all the benefits of and more of a smartphone at least in thought is interesting to me.

So so so far you're you are adopting this idea.

The idea I am actually going through with it.

It would be I would have to do a lot of research and I wouldn't be the guinea pig, I'll say that.

So a lot of these tech guys, like Bill Gates, and I think there's been there have been several that have come out and said, just wait, smartphones are going away.

They and they always know where we're headed anyway.

They knew the smartphone was coming and they know it's ending.

Bill Gates famous video of him talking to David Letterman about the Internet.

I think we've talked about that beforewards.

This is like nineteen ninety eight, okay.

And Letterman's like, for those who don't know, Letterman's the old late night host when the yeah, when late night was the thing.

And he's like, so what about this Internet thing?

When's it gonna give?

You know?

And Gates is like, Oh, it's actually really fascinating and it looks like it actually has legs and it's gonna take off, and Letterman's like, I heard the other day that you could check stats on ball games, and Gates was like, yeah, you could get any from any ballgame you want.

And Letterman's like, have you ever heard of a Wall Street Journal?

And everyone laughed, like, oh, that's hilarious, and Gates goes, yeah, but it goes more than just stats.

He goes, you know, we're gonna get to the point where every game you could actually listen to while it's happening on the internet.

Letterman gives them the smirk and goes, you ever heard of radio?

And it was just this conversation goes back and forth, and it was just an indication of the times that we just had no idea how silly it would be to be arguing for radio or the Wall Street Journal when you have the Internet.

And I think we're headed this same direction.

And guess who's back around Bill Gates again.

They've all been saying smartphones are going to wait, and there's a positive thing by thinking smartphones are going to go away.

We're all staring at screens.

You know, you go to an airport these days or a you know, a park, and everyone's looking down and we all recognize that this is short lived.

This is a time I'm of human history.

We're all looking at a screen.

It's going to change.

What's it going to change too?

Is it going to be even worse than the screen itself?

That's what I want to continue to explore on this podcast.

So what else do we have?

What's what about the technology benefits?

Concerns are concerns, answers on privacy.

You know, of course who owns that data?

Is that you?

And even chat GPT has come out to saying they do have things that scan your chats with chat GPT, because if it finds something concerning, it's going to send it to human.

The human's gonna look at it and see if there is a real concern, and if they need to call the cops, they.

Will like trying to build a bomb.

Think you know, this is not a private This is not a private conversation with you and chat GPT ever, it's not a this conversation, although we are recording to be put out to the public, isn't private right now either.

We both have smartphones in our pockets.

They're listening all the time.

Minds technling you not?

Oh is it not?

No?

I've been taking it out.

Of the room, okay, and my watch off, so it's just all my equipment, got it my phone.

No, I've only been doing that because it's annoying to me when I'm trying to do a podcast in my watch buzzing.

I get that.

That's the only thing.

Ethics is a big thing.

What happens when technology is just you're fusing, You're you're in essence.

We've talked about this becoming cyborg.

You're part computer and you are part human.

Really, they're fusing together more.

Than ever before.

If this happens, absolutely.

Accessibility, when will this?

Uh?

Will this widen the digital divide?

And you know security?

You know, listen, phones get hacked all the time.

What if your implanted phone gets hacked.

That's an even bigger deal because now it's a part of you.

Now I know in real time your heart rate, how much, how many hours you slept last night, your blood sugar level.

Right now, I know all kinds of crazy data.

I think you'll be able to tell even what physical activity you're doing based on biometrics.

Yeah, you know, I could.

It can even the band that I wear can tell whether the stress I have is induced by external activity or if it's something emotional or something like, hey, you're I know you've been sitting still this whole time.

It doesn't say this to me, but in essence, you've been sitting still this whole time, but your heart rate has gone up and your stress level has gone up, but you're not doing something stressful.

You know you need to relax.

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But there are certain things if I've cut them out of my life, I don't miss them anymore.

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So I've been researching these glasses as well.

Like the glasses, technology is getting bigger and bigger, and eventually more and more people will be wearing smart glasses.

They will be listening to music on them.

They will be taking videos, which is strange to me, taking pictures like metas Yeah, like metaglasses.

You know, there are glasses now with that shoot a little a tiny camera onto the lens so that you could read things.

People could give speeches, you could you know, Yeah, you could connect your phone to the glasses on an app and have an entire speech.

You know, go out there and do a ted talk or a sermon, I guess you could say.

And you're reading reading at the back of the lens of your glasses.

That's that's strange.

But as in a world that's trying to get away from cell phone distraction, are we fixing that problem by putting on glasses Like you might be looking at me, but I happen to know you're reading off the back of the lens.

That's something we're gonna.

You can't see.

I can't see it, uh, Which, by the way, I've seen some videos you can on certain angles, Like if I learned look at you, it's just a certain way I could see a little shimmer of green.

Okay, I know you're reading.

Interesting.

They'll get rid of that soon.

That'll go away.

They'll figure out how to how to get rid of that.

So we're in a little bit of a disadvantage right now because as we record this podcast, Apple has yet to make their.

Big but when you're watching it, they will.

And yeah, wasn't there talk of them doing something with chat GBT that's a non phone.

Yeah.

Apple's been all over They've there's been so many rumors about Apple has something that's going to replace the phone, and then that there was another thing you and I talked about that Apple is announcing soon that they will be adding a critical device to your your the pairs with your phone and your tablet and your whatever.

Which they could have now already talked about.

Yeah, yeah, yeah on the.

Release Yeah, oh man, so so before okay, so I think that's kind of enough.

On the device itself, we we know that it's going to be implanted into your skin, it's going to take biometric readings off you, it's going to power off of your body, or we read that it could power from the from RAF or Wi Fi, or it could have tiny batteries, like like thin tiny batteries that just last a very very long time.

I could also I mean our phones lay on a charger.

Our minds, yeah, put on the mag safe.

But what if sitting in the chair that I'm sitting in now that my arm just rests on the armsts and there's a charger underneath it.

Yep, that could charge that way.

So it's going to have a brain in it like a you know, a CPU, and it that then will speak to secondary devices like earbuds or glasses so that you could read or you could listen.

So if you want directions, there's no more phone, right, so you get in your car and it's speaking directions to you or showing you the directions on the back of your glasses.

Our brains are like David Letterman in nineteen ninety eight.

Right now, we can't quite imagine what this is going to look like.

But it's coming.

I think part of this podcast is to say it's coming.

So how do we think through it.

Let's let's talk just for a second about Bill Gates.

Okay, all kinds of things like that that this news is surrounding him.

I don't trust this guy at all?

Right, do you trust like inherently I don't trust this conspiracy stuff that I'm messing with him?

Particularly?

Yes, I don't.

Sorry, the answer is no, I don't trust it.

But it's kind of that whole the whole genre, I don't know if that's the right word, but the whole class of billionaires that you have contributed greatly to our way of life.

Now, I mean in some great ways, some great ways.

But then I think that there's sometimes that when you have so much money that and and get into just a different world that you don't think like normal people do anymore.

And I think that they're out of touch, way out of touchy, way out of touch with any normal living human being.

Yeah.

It's an example of that is like all the all the social media creators that don't have social media and tell their kids don't have it, don't get social media, and they're literally the ones that created it.

And you see the same thing with guys like Bill Gates.

It'll create monsters and they know they don't use it.

Y is he going to do one of these ones?

I want to know.

I almost want to say.

I think that's what I texted Tyler and Parker when they Tyler texted this article.

I said, you first, Billy, Yeah, stick at your arm, you get it first.

He won't.

I don't think he will.

I'd be very interested.

I could be wrong.

I'd be interested.

So immediately we think of like the Epstein connection with this guy.

You know, so many, so many controversial with them.

You remember that Ted talk in twenty ten, You remember this is it.

When he's talking about the vaccines and such.

He was talking about what sounded to me like population control.

Yes, I do, oh, I know exactly.

Yeah, that was a Ted talk.

Okay, it was a Ted talk.

It was called innovating to zero or he outlined ways to reduce CO two admissions.

He's all about climate change and saving the world, saving the world.

He's all about vaccines, which is scary stuff.

Best way to save the world to get rid of the people in it, right.

So that's what it started to sound like.

Look, he said, he this is his quote, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower population growth by perhaps ten or fifteen percent.

Close quote.

Think, just absorb that for once again, If we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower population growth by perhaps ten or fifteen percent.

That makes that's so counterproductive.

You know how else we could lower population growth is to not do anything for them, like what, yeah, so don't get anybody in healthcare, so the.

People that have The way he defended that was he was saying, look, that's you guys are taking us out of context.

I'm not talking about population control.

I'm not talking about poisoning people, which is you know immediately what we hear.

But he the way he defended he said, when child survival improves, right, when when children live longer, because there was so much child death, you know, and set in third world countries.

He's saying, when families choose, then if if children live longer, if their life's life's improved, their health improves, then families will choose to choose to have fewer children, which then is a form of population control.

Is his argument that in these sort of third world countries, that they're having kids that only live a few years.

That's his argument.

They're having more children, that's right, that's right, okay.

And so that they they they're getting poor and more poor because they're having more children and a higher percentage is dying.

So he's saying, like, if we could just keep the initial babies healthy, they would stop having more babies, and he's like, that's a great thing, and the critics are like, oh yeah, the guy's brilliant.

I still struggle with why this is good though, Like why we should get better vaccines to save more children?

Great, stop there, but continue saying because then that will make our population less by ten or fifteen percent, and then that's good.

That seems counterproductive to me.

Am I missing something on that because I get that, so if it allows that person to live longer, it's going to actually grow it unless you're doing something.

Yeah.

He explained that as health improofs, this is his worth.

As health improoves families choose to have fewer children.

But that's the thing, because this is also connec to this.

Uh what do you call the health services when you talk about women's.

Health CDC and like that's the Center for Disease Control.

But uh, but when when he's talking about this that he's talking about, he's talking about abortion.

Ah yeah, yeah, when it comes to reproductive health.

Reproductive health, that's what I'm trying to say.

Yeah, they disguise that.

Yeah, yeah, he's talking about he's talking about if we could just if we could have better vaccines and better reproductive health quote quote in Africa for instances, which where he works a lot, then there would be less starving children because there would be less children.

Yeah, I guess that's one way to stop, you know, starving children.

To help to help fix the pandemic of starving children, you just have less of them.

That's one.

That's one way, Bill, Okay.

So that's so this is the same guy now saying and I want you to implant this tattoo that knows everything about your biometrics, and that's gonna that's gonna help the world.

So while I hear your argument on adopting early tech for convenience sake and connecting all and the first argument of we're heading we head down a road away from the rotary phone, where if you don't start adopting new things, you can't function in society anymore.

Can I pause you for saying yah?

Yeah, Because while you were doing that, I looked up and I got three articles on this that are current.

One came out, two came out today, the third one came out three days ago.

US population decline declines looms by Sorry, US population decline looms by twenty twenty five.

Economic impacts and solutions.

Yeah, there's a decline.

Yes, Greece suspends five percent of schools as birth rate drops.

Yes, the Guardian really transitional moment.

What should we do about declining fertility rates?

Yeah, population growth isn't the issue.

No, population decline is the problem right now.

Yeah, I didn't see it in this, but I heard it the other day.

Was that in one it was one country.

You know, forgive me for not knowing right off the top of my head, but it was like Italy or if something's not done by this date, and it's like, you know, ten years or fifteen years, this country will no longer exist.

No, that's absolutely right, and there are I think Japan is leading that charge right now.

Wow, Like Japan is the first country to now their birth rate has dropped below their death rate, so the death rates higher than the birth rate, and that is like the US is like right the same, We're about the same right now.

Babies are born and people die about exactly the same.

This is this is a crazy statistic because there's there's a lot of people that say that study these kind of things, that say that's irrecoverable.

You can't fix that.

You can't well, once you once you hit neutrality, the death rate and the birth rate.

Oh, you can't fix it.

You're only going to go down there.

There's no way you could recover because that the babies are too young.

It takes generations and it's too late.

And it's not just a physical thing.

It's a it's a mental thing people don't want.

That's that's what Japan is really struggling with.

Yeah, it's not a physical thing.

It's it's not like we just need to get these women to start having more babies.

It's they don't want to.

Yeah, they don't want to have baby.

They don't want to get married, they want to have a career.

The men don't want to get married.

They enjoy the bachelor life.

They don't want to get married.

They don't want a family, they don't want to be free.

Yeah, they do if they get exactly.

So it's a mental hurdle that that it's almost impossible to get over.

Bill Gates's argument with all of what you're saying, Greece, America, what are the other countries you named?

I just said, and the other one was just a it just talked about declining fertility to right, So we're.

Talking about Greece we're talking about US, We're talking about Japan, France, Japan, We're talking about England, Germany.

These are all the problem countries.

But those are all the countries that have good.

Health care, good in quotes.

So what Bill Gates is arguing is he's saying, look, the countries with good health care, they don't make as many babies because they don't have to because the babies they have are fine.

He's saying the problem is Africa and India, where they don't have good health care, so they have a lot of babies, but there's a there's a certain amount of racism by saying that a class racism.

Sure, Yeah, by saying, we've got to stop this India, India, Africa rise, so we need to get them better healthcare like Germany has, like Greece has, like the US has.

Because those people have good health care and they don't want to make babies, that's what we want.

He's not saying it exactly like I'm saying, but that's what he's implying.

Yeah, yeah, I can see that.

This is fascinating stuff.

And so once again here's the same guy now wrapped around this new tech.

Yeah, and I'm sorry, I backed up on that.

But that is they gave some tie to the person who's behind this.

Here, here's a guy too.

That's he's an older man.

I mean, he's what late fifties, early sixties, maybe I might guess maybe a little older than that.

And my point to saying that is he's got a few more decades on this earth.

Yep, that's it.

So he won't live to see the all this stuff played out.

He won't.

So these are all just ideas.

But if he has a certain worldview, and the worldview is class control, population control, elimination of a lower class.

You know, if that's his worldview, then he's starting irreversible effects.

He's sixty nine, by the way, whoa.

So he doesn't I mean sixty nine.

We might hear that he has a heart attack in five years.

Okay, how do we think through this with the Bible?

Let me say, first and foremost, getting a tech like this, getting an electronic tattoo does not withhold you from heaven, from salvation.

You're saved by grace through faith.

This is not your own doing.

Is the gift of God, not a result of work.

So that no man may boast there is nothing you could do to lose that.

So a person that is saved by grace through faith can't get a thing or a tattoo or a something that that eliminates them.

It is as we talked about in the episode of Market the Beast, it's about worship, it's about idolatry.

So it would be it would be connected not just getting a tattoo.

It would be connected with worshiping whatever is not God.

The first commandment, you shall have no other gods beside Me and number, and the second commandment you shall have no carved images.

You know, So you these statues, which is yeah, statue.

Yeah.

So something you said before we started recording was that it's not so much the idea of a tattoo.

That's that's the problem that the mark of the beast if thought if thought of, as we talked about a little bit with like relation ate and last couple of weeks ago, is the market the Beast is made possible with a tech like this.

Tech like this doesn't have to be the mark of the Beast, right or the market of the Beast could be a result of a tech like this.

So if you were ever in a situation where you couldn't buy or sell.

It would be a choice that the human makes, not to get the tattoo, but to worship the image.

If you don't worship this, we don't activate your currency through your tattoo.

See that's a big difference.

Or think of it as a as an app on your phone right now, Yeah, you worship this abomination and you download this new app, yes on your skin tattoo.

Yeah, And what John was seeing was people buying and selling with this mark on their phone head or on their on their hand.

And that's what this is speculation at this point.

But could it lead to it?

Yes, absolutely, it could lead to it.

And so kind of like we said a couple weeks ago, you can't accidentally get the market of the beat, right, and that's not what this podcast is about, but it has those implications.

You can't accidentally get it, but you could get it and then make a conscious decision to worship something that's not the lure, right, And so you would have to do that, it would And getting a tattoo doesn't eliminate you from heaven.

Worshiping another god does, right, right, So you would you could get it and then go, I must up, I'm not going to activate that I'm not gonna do this anymore.

I'll use that phone then, you know, tattooed on my skin.

But I'm sure not going.

To bow to the idle.

Yeah.

And I'm i won't be able to buy yourself.

Yeah, and I'm going to live with I'm gonna die of starvation.

Your software has been disconconnected.

Yeah you know, yeah, that's right.

Yeah, your subscription has ended.

The subscription has ended.

You can no longer buy oursel using your whatever they're calling this.

Yeah.

I think a lot of it too is the warning.

I think in all of this is not to be consumed, like we talk about in the other episodes too, not being consumed with the who the who the Antichrist is, but more so who Jesus is and what he did for you.

I think in this this whole thing too, is not to be so wrapped up your life, to be wrapped up so much in this tech and things that are man made.

And the Bible does.

Warn about that, you know, of of of putting your life.

In fact, in Isaiah, I'll turn there real quick.

But and in Isaiah talks about you know, don't go look to don't go look to Egypt and the horses and the chariots to to save if you look to God.

You're talking about Isaiah thirty one.

Isaiah thirty one, I can't talk and.

The time I I can't multitask either.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's first for Jeremiah.

Yeah, the top of Isaiah thirty one.

Yeah, read that of thirty I'm almost there thirty one, Right at the very beginning.

What sorrow awaits those who look to Egypt for help, trusting their horses, chariots and chariot tears, and depending on the strength of human armies instead of looking to the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, I think of anything.

The warning here is not to let your life be consumed by and I'm pointing finger it myself, is don't let yourself be consumed by staying up with technology.

Yeah, and forget about the Lord and think that that's the answer to all of your issues and all your.

Problems and all you know it's going to be.

It's going to save me.

Yes, where are you drawing your strength from?

What are you making the plans?

Are you trusting the Lord because he directs the steps?

Romans twelve to two may be the most classic verse we've gone to in this podcast for years.

Romans twelve two.

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice wholly unacceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Verse two.

Here we go, Why, Paul, Why should I?

Why should I present my body as a living sacrifice, wholy and acceptable God, which is my spiritual worship?

Why do not be conformed to this world?

He says, would be transformed by the renewal of your mind.

That by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

So there is a in our faith.

We don't rely on emotions or experiences, our feelings.

We use our minds and we discern, and we test, and our discernment is trained, Paul says, by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

And he also says to Timothy that that training comes from scripture, from understanding who God is through scripture, because he said all scriptures breed out by God and profitable for teaching, for proof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the Man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

So train yourself to distinguish good from evil and right here in Romans twelve two, test to discern what is the will of God?

How by not conforming with the world, but being transformed by the renewal of your mind.

That is, unlike any other religion.

Don't conform to the world, be transformed by renewing your mind.

How by testing it according to the scripture, distinguishing good from evil?

Who is God?

And who has God said that?

Who has God told us that he is as He's revealed himself in his word?

And test everything else against that.

It's like one test when someone says, like I'm trying to decide to watch this TV show or not.

I'm trying to decide to listen to this music or not.

It's so easy if you ask one question, does by doing this, does it get me closer to God or further from God?

And if the answer is if the answer is neutral, then it's further.

Yeah.

So it's like if you're trying, like I don't know if I should watch this movie, well is it?

It doesn't have to be a Christian movie to be to watch The Lord of the Rings, for example, and go I see a great enemy, and I see a great good, and I see the struggle of good triumphing over evil, and that that makes me think of the Lord and our in spiritual warfare and his and our our struggle.

You know, like, okay, then good, then Lord of the Rings would actually help you get closer to God.

That's a small example of like a secular movie.

And so you could do that with everything.

So you could say, would this tattoo, electronic tattoo get me closer to God or further from Him?

Well?

I don't know the answer to that right.

Now, And if you just simply took how but even before we hit record on this is what would I use this for?

Well?

How could this benefit helping spread the gospel?

That's your answer from the beginning.

I guarantee you my answer to a smartphone is yes, it gets me closer to God.

I guarantee you that for many reasons.

Now, if I got rid of my smartphone, would I get me further from God?

No?

And that's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying.

But by having it as a tool, I could right now text to brother and say how you doing your mother?

Your mother passed away two months ago?

How are you doing to day?

Brother?

I could take let's go to lunch.

I could do that and a lot faster than a letter or a courier.

And there's no difference in in just the parameters of it.

Difference in that and a hammer.

You decide how you want to use it, because the hammer can destroy the wall behind you, or it can put up the boards that build that wall.

It's the person using it.

And what you know, if you get this tattoo because it helps you do what you can say?

What if this helps you translate going on a mission trip helps you translate much quicker and connect with someone much easier and be able to share the Gospel in their language that they can understand.

That's the answer right there.

Yeah, well, you know what you're saying with that argument is just a couple of pages back for me, and I would say it would be the famous Romans eight twenty eight.

We know that for those who love God, all things work together for good.

All things, all things yep, work together for good.

And that can include a electronic tattoo for those who are called according to His purpose, for those for whom he fore knew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son and order that we might be the first born among many brothers, and those whom he predestined he also called, and those we called he also justified, and those who we justified, and he also glorified.

I look at I think about First Thesalonians.

Towards the end of the chapter, he says he's talking about a stain from every form of form of evil, and he says, test everything, hold fast, what is good?

Test everything?

So like that could be a theme of this whole podcast.

Should I get it?

I don't test it.

I don't know.

But but how do I test it?

By testing it against who God says he is?

Who does he say he is?

Well, you have to know who he is according to the way the scriptures revealed him.

How do you know that?

Because all scriptures bread that by God and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, for training and righteousness.

Well, how do I train myself by not conforming to the world, but being transformed by the renewal of my mind, so that by testing I can distinguish what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Right?

So these scripture a test to itself as we walk through it.

How to handle even electronic tattoo or anything place anything in there?

What do I do with this test everything and hold fast what is good?

How do I know what is good by distinguishing good from evil?

How do I do that by training?

How do I do that by reading the scripture?

What does that do?

Because it gives light to who God is?

And once I see him for who he's revealed himself to be, I could trust him and I could know what is good and acceptable imperfect by not conforming to this world.

You see, this's like this scriptural loop we can go through and just answers every question back to back to back, including electronic tattoos.

Yeah, it's something I don't know what you were saying.

That also struck me from some thing I read this week too, and it was the parable of the shrewd manager, just in that it's in Luke sixteen, but a particular verse, and here it says, here's the lesson use your worldly resources to benefit others.

If what you have, use it to benefit those that God is calling.

You to minister too.

Yeah, to benefit others.

I would say, on top of all these things, there's there was be one strict warning for this, and it's not be careful.

It's not the mark of the beast.

I think we've covered that you can't accidentally get It's right, you'll be actively worshiping.

But the but what we should warn against is is like we would warn against with anything else, do not idolize this very important.

Don't idolize tech.

Don't let it become an idol, don't let it become an addiction.

Paul says that that anything is lawful, lawful for me, and everything is.

But yeah, we we have to understand that yet not everything is profitable, not everything is good.

It might be lawful, Like would it be lawful to get this electronic Yeah, sure, but that's that's not always profitable for me.

So so how does Paul remedy that?

Well, he says, I will not be addicted to anything, yep.

So if it becomes an addiction, it's becoming an idol.

Let's say that definitely applies to tech, and.

That applies to tech.

So if this thing becomes something that we would idolize, then we're breaking the first commandment and we're putting another god before him, and then at that point we're in serious trouble, far more serious trouble than getting a mark of the beast yep, Because now we've put another God before him, and we will be judged for that.

And how to how to how to stop that?

How to remedy that?

You need a new heart?

How do you get a new heart?

Trusting, believing in the resurrection of Jesus, that he died, went to the cross, lived a perfect life that we couldn't, and upon his resurrection said look to me.

Turn from yourself, turn from your idols, turn from your technology that you've trusted and looked to me, and trust in me, and you'll be saved and forgiven, which is something that is the greatest need of all humanity to be forgiven of our sins, our sins that have separated us from a holy God.

Yeah, so amen, I think would you get it?

Do you get this thing?

Like I said, probably, The answer is probably.

I would be in probably the first twenty percent, twenty five percent.

It'd be some testing before me.

But I'll tell you right now that on the phone sitting down there, I've had the new iOS twenty six first beta all the way through where we are well, I'm now we're past it.

It's out for everybody now.

It is the operating the newest operating system.

But when it was in beta fe Yeah.

I love playing with that stuff and figuring it out.

So let's add to the original question.

Is Bill Gates's new electronic tattooed demonic?

Ooh?

Is it demonic?

I mean anything could be?

The I mean can be depending on what's used for again, the hammer.

What's the hammer being used for?

Is the hammered demonic?

Yeah?

Yeah, in the hands of the right person, that's right, swinging it at the right thing.

Yes, sure, demonic?

So yes, it could be.

Is it in it of itself?

Now I don't think.

Yeah, I agree?

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