Calvary Hanford Podcast

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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Paul begins his letter to the Corinthians by taking them back to their experience of the grace of God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Amazing advances in surveillance and biometrics are paving the way for what we see in the Bible: an all-controlling, one-world government led by the AntiChrist (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The apostle Paul introduces to us the carnal Christian who he describes as a believer still yielding to his or her flesh (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The DNA of man is being increasingly tampered with, which is just what you’d expect from a literal reading of Bible prophecy (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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In a world where everyone is looking for answers, Hosea sends a message from God who diagnoses the real problems and supplies the real solutions to life’s biggest concerns (Assistant Pastor Geno)

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Nehemiah appoints two choirs to sing advancing toward one another in a processional on top of the wall surrounding Jerusalem (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The world is trending more and more toward a cashless global economy, just as the Bible predicted thousands of years ago (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Nehemiah casts the lot to determine who among the Israelites must repopulate Jerusalem (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The current trends in artificial intelligence sound eerily similar to what the Bible predicted concerning the Antichrist and his “living” image (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The Bible predicted that Israel, and Jerusalem in particular, would be incredibly troublesome politically in the End Times. It was to be expected and it is obviously unfolding just as God predicted. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The Israelites make a series of promises to not neglect the house of God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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The Jews hear their history and it leads them to repent and rededicate themselves to the LORD (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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When talking about the End Times, we frequently use the phrase, “One-World Government.” It comes from a literal reading of passages in the Revelation. A component of the One-World Government will be a global system of currency. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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Nehemiah tells the Israelites listening to the reading of God’s Law to quit crying (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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China’s social credit score is starting to have a major effect over every day life for her citizens. It’s not unlike the system the Antichrist will set up according to Bible prophecy (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

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