Calvary Hanford Podcast

The God of the Bible is compared with the gods of this world, showing that Jehovah is powerful, compassionate and trustworthy. (Gene Pensiero Jr)

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The final book of the Bible, the Revelation, predicts what the world will look like in the End Times – especially during the seven year Great Tribulation. The world will be under the rule of one government, one economic system, and one leader. A global, one-world order, is being openly pursued by many of the world’s most powerful men. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David recognized that the Lord was working to perfect him in the present and that He would complete the work in the future. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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China has developed what is called, “Social Credit.” It is a system that, quite literally, controls the participation of citizens in everyday purchases and activities. Each citizen is given a social credit score, with rewards for those who have a high rating and punishments for those with low scores. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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A group of the night shift workers are acknowledged for making sure there was always worship in the House of the Lord. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Call it Globalization, or the One-World Government, or the New World Order – COVID19 has accelerated its progress, and made globalization desirable and possible. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David recalls the holy oil running down on Aaron’s beard when he was anointed as High Priest. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The Bible predicts a future in which the world is united in a cashless system of commerce. Thus you would expect the nations of the world to be moving towards cashless economies. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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From creation to the end of all things we can give thanks to God for His unfailing love. (Gene Pensiero Jr.)

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Solomon commemorates his father’s passion to return the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Indirectly, the global response to COVID-19 does potentially have a prophetic impact. We’ve been pointing out for decades that, in the last days and then in the Great Tribulation, the world will be united in commerce. There will be some sort of digital and biometric technology by which everyone can be identified, and can conduct all their business. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David is calm and quiet, more like a weaned child than an anxious and worried nursing infant. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Does COVID-19 have anything to do with Bible prophecy? Not directly; and by that I mean, it isn’t a pestilence from the Book of the Revelation. The things you read about in chapters 6-19, the Great Tribulation, are after the rapture of the church. Indirectly, the global response to the pandemic does potentially have a prophetic impact. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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From what he calls the depths, the psalmist cries out to the LORD trusting in His forgiveness. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Amazon isn’t the Beast. Technology, by itself, isn’t the Mark of the Beast. But Amazon Go certainly uses your “hand” to “buy or sell.” That sounds similar to what the apostle John saw over 2000 years ago. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David makes and emergency call to God for help but his primary concern is not for his own safety, but that he would remain spiritual and in harmony with the Lord. (Gene Pensiero Jr)

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The psalmist asks Israel to remember when they were beaten so badly by their oppressors that it was as if furrows were being plowed into their backs. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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There is an intriguing passage in the Revelation about an idol, a guy we call the false prophet, and the Beast – another name of the antichrist. Apparently an image of the Beast is going to come to “life.” Could AI be part of this prophecy? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The psalmist encourages everyone, starting with men, to fear the LORD and to walk in His ways. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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COVID19 is not one of the end times pestilences. Those occur during the seven year Great Tribulation. We are not in the Great Tribulation, nor will the church ever be in it. God has promised to keep us from that day. What COVID19 is doing is catapulting us forward to a “new normal,” global society that will depend upon biometric technologies to identify, and in many ways control citizens. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The psalmist describes our efforts without the Lord’s leading and enabling as “eat[ing] the bread of sorrows.” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The Bible predicts that one day the citizens of the world would be identified by, and conduct all their business by, something in or on their forehead or their hand. The prophecy seemed ridiculous for centuries. Not anymore. There are any number of biometric technologies fully developed that could be implemented globally pretty much overnight. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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In this study, we learn about God’s amazing grace which solves the problem of sin and gives a universal opportunity for people everywhere to be saved. (Pastor Jacob Kelso)

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The psalmist reflects upon Israel’s tears of sorrow while in captivity and the subsequent joy of their release and return. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Futurists like ourselves have long predicted that in the days leading up to the Great Tribulation, commerce would go cashless. It’s happening. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The psalmist describes God supernaturally surrounding His people the way the mountains are naturally around Jerusalem. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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If COVID-19 has a sinister, Satanic, spiritual purpose, it is that it is pushing the world population towards a global, digital biometric system. It is the kind of system futurists have been predicting since the apostle John wrote the Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The psalmist invites us to remember that the LORD is on our side. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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COVID19 is not a one of the pestilences we read about in the Bible. Those occur during the Great Tribulation. If it has a sinister, Satanic, spiritual purpose, it is that it is pushing the world population towards a global, digital biometric system. It is the kind of system futurists have been predicting since the apostle John wrote the Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The psalmist compares believers to a servant carefully beholding his or her master’s hand for subtle signals. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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COVID19 is pushing the world population towards a global, digital biometric system. It is the kind of system futurists have been predicting since the apostle John wrote the Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The Psalmist has a message for all people everywhere about a life lived in Christ’s redemption as opposed to pursing the building of wealth. (Gene Pensiero Jr)

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The pilgrim arrives at Jerusalem and ascends the hill to the house of the LORD with a song about gladness and gratitude. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Bible futurists have long understood that, in the Last Days and going into the Great Tribulation, there would be a global, cashless economic system by which everyone will conduct all their business. What do we see developing today? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The writer of Psalm 121 is promised God’s protection now and forevermore. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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It’s not being a conspiracy theorist to see one scenario that calls for everyone in the world to be vaccinated, and to be able to prove their COVID-19 status digitally. Without proof of the vaccination, you could be barred from entering stores and other buildings. That is to say, you won’t be able to buy or sell anything. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The psalmist finds himself imperiled by liars and their lies. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Until recently, it was hard to believe that the global population would willingly give up their privacy in favor of an identification system like the one predicted in the Revelation. COVID-19 could be accelerating global acceptance of some sort of contactless digital ID. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David gives a song for rebels, revealing the treason of their hearts and societies, but then proclaiming that the One true King is coming and they still have a chance to be saved from His wrath. (Gene Pensiero Jr)

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The congregation of Israel participates in worship by singing antiphonally at their celebration of Passover. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Bible futurists have long understood that, in the Last Days and going into the Great Tribulation, there would be a global system, or systems, of personal identification by which everyone will conduct all their business. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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We are informed that when the Lord returns in His Second Coming, He will crush kings on the day of His wrath. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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A rush to protect people from the global pandemic has led to an almost overnight abandonment of cash in our society. A trend you’d expect from reading about the end times in Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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We are introduced to supernatural beings called “gods,” who oppose God by exercising an evil influence upon human beings and our societies. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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How will the masses of humanity get on-board with invasive technology that all but eliminates privacy in the Tribulation? COVID might show the way. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The psalmist describes being thrown into a pit by fools who refuse to receive the Word of God. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Today we would say that the mechanism underlying the Mark of the Beast is some form of biometrics. We are now able to utilize hand or head in a variety of ways to ID ourselves, or to conduct business. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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A song to celebrate the history of the Ark of the Covenant upon its arrival in Jerusalem. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Recent polls are showing a shift in the worldview of American Christians, which is exactly what you’d expect from a literal reading of Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David cried, wishing he had wings like a dove so that he could fly away from trouble (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The COVID crisis has led to many decisions that are all too reminiscent of the ominous prophecies in Revelation of an all-controlling, one world government (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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A Song of Ascents, sung by pilgrims on their way to the Temple in Jerusalem, remind us of God’s tender care for us and how He keeps us in every circumstance. (Gene Pensiero Jr)

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For decades futurists have talked about a way of transacting business, or of being identified, by the “mark” on the hand or forehead described in the Revelation. For a long time, it seemed impossible and ridiculous. But now, today, we know it as biometrics, and its implementation is happening. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Written for a royal wedding, this psalm three times emphasizes being glad. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David recalls a time in exile when he felt like a deer desperate with thirst. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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King David’s frenemies and a close friend wish he would die from his sickness. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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King David describes his life as if he was a playlist of songs through which people could see the Lord (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The psalmist portrays his lifelong suffering as a palpable darkness. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David dedicates a song to his fellow servant, Jeduthun, which proclaims the limitless power and unfailing mercy of God, who is a refuge for His people. (Gene Pensiero Jr)

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David believes that the Lord will be a shield and buckler against those who hate him. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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We are told that this is a Psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David asks the Lord to deliver him speedily from his troubles. In this Psalm we learn that God is our “fort-rest.” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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In the yet future Great Tribulation, there comes a point at which the governments of the world, and the antichrist in particular, are able to control all buying and selling by consumers. It involves what is called a “mark” on the hand or forehead. Imagine how ridiculous that sounded through the many centuries following John’s vision of it in the Revelation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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A Messianic psalm that looks forward to the gates of Jerusalem being lifted up at the return of King Jesus to His Holy Hill. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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In the yet future Great Tribulation, there comes a point at which the governments of the world, and the antichrist in particular, are able to control all buying and selling by consumers. Students of Bible prophecy have long argued that there will be a global, cashless economy. It once seemed farfetched; it doesn’t anymore. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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What does the Bible say about people pursuing happiness with their lives? Is there a Godly way? (Assistant Pastor Geno)

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You need not fear even when you find you are in the valley of the shadow of death. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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We’re not suggesting these emerging technologies are the “mark.” But since there will be a “mark” in the future Great Tribulation, these trends in biometrics are to be expected. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Jesus’ cry from the Cross, “My God, My God, Why have You forsaken Me?” directed the mocking crowd to consider its words as prophesy being fulfilled. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The yet future seven year Great Tribulation will feature totalitarian control over citizens using some form of “mark” on them that sounds a great deal like biometrics. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David praises God for the hope he has that no saint will be left in Sheol after death. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Israel is the key to prophecy. By the end of the Tribulation, “all Israel will be saved.” Today, Messianic hopes are very high in Israel. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Mankind will once again wear the crown and be given dominion over God’s Creation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Live facial recognition cameras are going live in London. It sounds eerily like the kind of system that the Antichrist will use to rule during the Great Tribulation. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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David asks God to ‘give ear’ to his morning prayer. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Amazon is exploring the possibility of allowing users to connect credit card information to their hand, paying for items with a simple wave (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Paul describes the household of Stephanas as having “addicted themselves” to serving the saints. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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What do Smart Cities have to do with Bible prophecy? In the future Great Tribulation, the leader we most commonly call the antichrist will exercise totalitarian control over those who swear their allegiance to him. That kind of oversight will require something like Smart City surveillance. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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While describing how the dead are raised, Paul reveals the mystery that the saints who are alive at the coming of Jesus will be changed in the twinkling of an eye. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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One well-known prediction in the Revelation is that of people needing what is called a ‘mark’ on their hand or forehead. Without it, people cannot buy or sell anything, or conduct any business. Over the centuries, scoffers seemed to have the upper hand, so to speak. Today, however, it sounds exactly like biometrics. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Paul gives a strong defense for our future resurrection from the dead, comparing the physical death of our body to being asleep (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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When we talk about Israel, it’s good to be reminded that the rebirth of Israel as a nation is a miraculous fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Something unusual and astonishing recently happened in Jerusalem. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The apostle Paul describes how God’s grace launched him into a life of laboring for the Gospel (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Governments in the Great Tribulation will control every aspect of people’s lives. There will be no privacy. Thus you would expect them to even now be trending in that direction. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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There are good reasons to believe that Charles Dickens had a particular Bible story in mind when he wrote A Christmas Carol. But not one that most people would in any way think of as representative, or even appropriate, for Christmas. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The apostle Paul insists that a believer not only can but must gain control of their exercise of spiritual gifts in public if they are to benefit others. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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In the world today, governments are more and more pushing their people into a cashless economy, which is exactly what you’d expect from a literal reading of Bible prophecy. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Because the Corinthians were speaking in uninterpreted tongues, visitors to their services went away thinking they were crazy. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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If you read Bible prophecy as it’s written, You would expect a growing trend towards invasive methods of identifying and tracking people. And that is exactly what we see happening in the world today. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Paul tells the believers in Corinth that they “have not love” in their exercise of the Holy Spirit’s gifts. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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From reading Bible prophecy literally, we expect a growing trend towards invasive methods of identifying and tracking people. And that is exactly what we see. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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God gave the church the gift of the Holy Spirit, Who then gives each member a gift or gifts in order to manifest Himself to benefit everyone. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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From reading Bible prophecy literally, we would expect governments to be trending towards more invasive, authoritarian control. Turns out, they are. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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For behaving like gluttons at the potluck prior to the Lord’s Supper, some of the believers in Corinth were being severely disciplined by God. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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In the Revelation of Jesus Christ, there is a strange prediction about an image that seems to come to life. A few years ago, this seemed outrageous. Today, it sounds like Artificial Intelligence. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Since in Corinth it was considered shameful for a woman to pray or prophesy without a head covering, Paul said, “For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn.” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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AI continues to develop, trending in the way you’d expect given the Biblical prophecies about the explosion of knowledge and the coming one-world government (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Paul tells the believers in Corinth that the ends of the ages has come and he urges them to follow him as he follows Jesus (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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In the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the apostle John predicted that during the Great Tribulation there would be a true global, cashless economy. Citizens will participate in it by buying and selling by means of some ‘mark’ on their hand or forehead. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Paul speaks to the Corinthians about knowing when to waive your rights in the church and the world as you navigate life with the Gospel as your focus (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The phrase ‘Smart City’ is something you’re going to hear more-and-more. Listen for it. Is this the Mark of the Beast? No, the Mark isn’t technology, it is swearing allegiance to him, worshiping him. But reading the Bible as we should, as futurists, these advances and invasions of privacy are exactly what was predicted. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Believers who continued to attend meals in the pagan temples were encouraging others to join them, thereby becoming stumbling-blocks to their brothers and sisters. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Because we are in an era of rapid technological advancement, we report quite a lot about biometric identification for humans. It’s because the dreaded Mark of the Beast, in the Book of the Revelation, sounds a great deal like biometrics. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Paul suggested that the believers remain in whatever marital situation they were called, but what did that mean to those who were engaged? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Reading Bible prophecy literally, you’d expect there to be turmoil in and around Damascus in the last days. In the news today, ‘turmoil’ is exactly what you find. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Believers in Corinth were to remain married to their nonbelieving spouses and thereby have a sanctifying influence in their homes (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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For centuries, futurists were ridiculed for believing that the Mark of the Beast could be literal. No one could conceive of such a technology. Today, everyone understands that there are multiple technologies involving biometrics that could fulfill the two-thousand year old prophecy. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Some of the believers in Corinth were professing abstinence from sex even though they were married (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Using biotechnology, mankind continues to tamper with the genetic makeup of living creatures both large and small (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Instead of justifying sex with prostitutes, Paul tells the believers in Corinth to “flee sexual immorality” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Archaeology has uncovered Goliath’s home town of Gath and evidence of the kingdom of Edom. How might this news line up with Bible prophecy? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Paul was upset because believers were suing their brothers in Jesus Christ (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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As futurists reading Bible prophecy, the dreaded mark of the beast sounds like a system that will involve biometrics. Thus from reading the Bible, we expect advances in biometrics that might be the precursors of this mark. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Paul expresses astonishment at the arrogance of the believers in Corinth for tolerating the sexual immorality of a brother (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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As you would expect from reading Bible prophecy, trends are more and more moving toward a cashless economy, where business can be transacted with just your hand (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The apostle Paul challenges the believers in Corinth to be like himself (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Tech companies are starting to develop social credit monitoring systems not unlike the one used by the Chinese government (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Paul tells the Corinthians about the Reward Seat of Jesus where the quality of our works will be tested by fire (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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In 2nd Timothy, the Apostle Paul predicted that the end times would be characterized by a falling away from the faith. Do we see such a trend today? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The apostle Paul tells us that the wisdom of God is only knowable to those who have the Spirit of God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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In Revelation we’re told that the False Prophet will “give breath” to an image of the Beast that is meant to be worshiped. How does this line up with current trends in the world? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Hezekiah is healed and granted an additional fifteen years to live, leading to the birth of wicked Manasseh, who is carried off captive to Assyria (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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In the Great Tribulation, the Antichrist will wield total control over the lives of his subjects. Trends in modern technology make that sort of surveillance and control possible. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The apostle Paul explains that the Cross of Jesus is foolishness to those who trust in human wisdom (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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A futuristic reading of Bible prophecy would expect that, in the last days, human DNA would be tinkered with, as it was in the days of Noah (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The apostle Paul pleads with the believers in Corinth to maintain unity and to quit dividing into factions over himself, Apollos, Peter, and Jesus. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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How might advancements in artificial intelligence fit in with the prophecies concerning the end times empire ruled by the AntiChrist? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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