00:00:56.900it's a pleasure to be here let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross in the name
00:01:00.600of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost amen now much to my surprise uh you are
00:01:07.540an expert on uh the time before the flood that's quite the expertise to have how did you get into
00:01:14.000that it just kind of developed over time i took a very strong interest in archaeology when i was
00:01:19.140quite young when i was in high school and as i was looking through a lot of archaeological stuff i
00:01:25.720I discovered that there was something that archaeologists referred to as U-parts or out-of-place artifacts.
00:01:30.980As I was looking at these out-of-place artifacts, there were a lot of things that didn't line up.
00:01:35.120And I started to question the whole theory of evolution.
00:01:37.620And I was thinking, well, if the theory of evolution doesn't line up with these out-of-place artifacts, then, you know, what gives?
00:01:44.160So I started looking at the geological record.
00:01:46.460I started looking at what causes the geological record, you know, how fossils are formed.
00:01:50.800And I was looking into the possibility, you know, the discovery of dinosaur foot tracks with human foot tracks.
00:01:56.780And I thought, hmm, that's interesting. It seems that humans and dinosaurs may have coexisted.
00:02:00.600And I just started really diving into the topic.
00:02:04.560And then I started studying Plato and the theories of Atlantis or actually the legends of Atlantis all through antiquity and and what is Atlantis.
00:02:13.240And then as I was reading scripture in relation to all of this, what I found is that our Lord references the flood of Noah in regards to the end times.
00:02:25.880And he said specifically, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Son of Man returns.
00:02:30.980And I thought, well, that's an interesting turn of phrase.
00:02:54.800So tell us about what our Lord meant or what you think our Lord meant when he said, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Son of Man comes.
00:03:04.100And what's your impression of where we are right now?
00:03:06.620So there are a couple of ways to look at this.
00:03:08.400first, what he says, Matthew 24, also shall the coming of the son of man be. For as in the days
00:03:15.640of Noah, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till the day in which
00:03:21.440Noah entered the ark. In Luke, he mentions this same exact allusion to Noah, but then he adds,
00:03:29.020likewise, as it came to pass in the days of Lot, they did eat and drink and they bought and sold
00:03:35.380and they planted and built. And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone
00:03:41.900from heaven and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man
00:03:47.360shall be revealed. So I start thinking, you know, well, here's this reference as it was in these
00:03:54.580days. What were those days like? And what we find there, there are several references primarily in
00:04:01.680the book of Enoch. And then you've got, which is an apocryphal book, just to be clear, it's not
00:04:06.420something that is thought to be as protected and inspired scripture. However, some of the church
00:04:12.860fathers said, you know, I really think there was something to this. And the book of Jude actually
00:04:17.380makes reference to the book of Enoch. There is some element to this that we can take to be at
00:04:25.460least an allusion to actual history. And the book of Enoch says that the reason that God sent the
00:04:30.900flood is because man had made marriage songs for other men and even for beasts. So there's this
00:04:38.920reference to homosexuality plus the reference to the days of Lot, which also seems to be an
00:04:46.140allusion to homosexuality. So it seems that same sex marriage may very well be a reference to
00:04:53.100the reason why God sent the flood. Here's an interesting little tidbit. Most people don't
00:04:59.240know this, but the very last Western ruler to participate in a same sex marriage was Nero.
00:05:07.840And Nero is often believed to be an archetype for the man of sin to be the Antichrist. Nero
00:05:15.860was the last Western ruler to participate in a same sex marriage all the way up until Barack Obama.
00:05:23.820He was the first Western ruler from the time of Nero to participate in the same sex marriage.
00:05:30.440Wait, he officiated at a same sex marriage, did he not?
00:05:34.020It seems that same sex marriage plays an integral role in the time of Noah.
00:05:38.200But there's something else that that got me thinking, because as I was looking through just the timeline of human history and a lot of these out of place artifacts and the thought that, you know,
00:05:51.120we're told by Ecclesiasticus that there's nothing new under the sun. And if there's nothing new
00:05:58.840under the sun, then can we really look around and see these devices that we have, these
00:06:03.700magnificent machines that we have that do incredible things? It seems to me to be arrogant
00:06:08.880for us to say, this is the first time we've ever flown to the moon, or this is the first time we've
00:06:12.780ever flown in the sky or dive to the depths of the ocean. What's fascinating is that when you
00:06:18.600consider what the world was like prior to the flood, you have this idea that Noah lived for
00:06:26.660hundreds of years. Adam lived for almost a thousand years. Methuselah lived for almost
00:06:32.080a thousand years. So you have this timeline, this age where men were living for a very,
00:06:38.560very, very long time. Well, if men were living for a long time, you start wondering, well,
00:06:43.760is that a calendar thing? Or is this, you know, maybe there's some reason why scripture would
00:06:49.920record it this way, but really only our timeline was just recorded differently. And the same time
00:06:55.820span existed for both, except that there are certain atmospheric things that are very,
00:07:02.060very different. If man and dinosaurs coexisted, as is suggested by certain archaeological finds,
00:07:09.460then you have to take into consideration what environment would have allowed the dinosaurs to
00:07:17.300exist if you plop down one of the giant dinosaurs the one of the biggest ones like a diplodocus
00:07:22.300and said okay we're going to plunk it down right in the middle of los angeles the thing would fall
00:07:28.220to the ground and start to suffocate because the air isn't thin enough you have to have a heavier
00:07:33.440air, a denser atmosphere to support that massive frame. According to a lot of biological research
00:07:41.160in hyperbaric chambers, what they've found is that 2.2 atmospheres is ideal for all kinds of
00:07:48.960things. It accelerates healing. They actually put burn victims into a hyperbaric chamber to
00:07:54.880increase healing. They found that hyperbaric chambers can reduce or even reverse some of
00:08:02.260the effects of aging. They have found that in hyperbaric chambers, plants grow to enormous
00:08:08.800sizes and produce far more fruit than they see in normal output. Insects have a tendency to be
00:08:17.500able to fly better within a denser atmosphere. Fossils of giant winged cockroaches and giant
00:08:24.680winged dragonflies and that kind of thing, a dragonfly with almost like a two or three foot
00:08:29.720wingspan, couldn't possibly fly around in our atmosphere today. What changed? So it seems that
00:08:38.560there was some atmospheric difference that may have changed. Here's another sign is that a
00:08:45.060reduction in UV light actually reduces and slows down dramatically the aging process.
00:08:53.200So if you have these factors in place, now what is a dinosaur? A dinosaur is basically a giant
00:08:58.600lizard and lizards, reptiles in particular, will grow for as long as they live. They continue to
00:09:07.320grow. They don't stop growing. And if you look at these dinosaurs, they're massive and we don't
00:09:14.000have massive creatures like this anywhere. What if these giant reptiles were continuing to grow
00:09:21.540for the entire duration of their life and the size of their eggs is not comparable to the size
00:09:27.300of the and girth of these creatures. So it seems that something was prolonging their life.
00:09:32.780And if something was prolonging the life of the dinosaurs, then that would that same element
00:09:37.820would apply to humanity, which would then seem to in turn indicate that maybe man really did
00:09:44.280live for as long as these things would indicate. All right. Here's where I'm going with all of
00:09:49.960this. This is I had to give you all the background because now we can get to the element. If man was
00:09:55.120living for hundreds of years. And man did not have a confused tongue. In other words, we didn't
00:10:02.260have the plurality of of languages that came after the Tower of Babel. Then you have several
00:10:09.020factors that would now be taken into account. You have rapid population growth, because if man's
00:10:15.680living for hundreds of years, then one set of parents can then produce a very large family
00:10:22.820of immediate family, whose first children will have produced great, great, great grandchildren
00:10:30.080by the time your last children are born. So this population growth model would not just
00:10:37.240populate the earth very rapidly, but you're retaining information. So everybody is able to,
00:10:44.900instead of having to retrain and re-educate everybody every 20 years, you're just simply
00:10:49.900adding to the number of imaginations and intellects that they can then take and innovate and design
00:10:57.740new and better ways of doing things. And that rapid increase of shared knowledge will eventually
00:11:04.920lead to a rapid increase in technology. It's just a natural way of things. The way we know that
00:11:10.700that's the case is that in the 20th century, we have the greatest and steepest increase of
00:11:17.520technological knowledge in the entire history of humanity. We went from black powder guns
00:11:23.660to laser weapons within 100 years. We went from horse and buggy to putting a man on the moon
00:11:33.180in 60 years. We went from kites to jet planes in 40 years. That is a massive steep increase
00:11:44.780in technological development. So when I started asking the question, what was it like in the days
00:11:50.900of Noah? I started looking at our own time period. And one of the things that comes out is that as
00:11:57.340you look back towards antiquity and you have these references to Atlantis, they always talk about
00:12:03.800this vastly wealthy civilization that had incredible wonders that they were able to do.
00:12:09.780And you read the myths and the mythology of the Middle Eastern religions, you know, the old Arab stories of the tales of Arabian knights, and they had these incredible machines and these ability to do things.
00:12:22.040And then you read some of the other texts, like the Mahabharata, that references weapons of huge and mass destruction.
00:12:29.280Maybe we've been here before. We just have a cultural amnesia that has now made it difficult for us to see what it was in the days of Noah and how close and how dangerous things have become for us today.
00:12:43.780What did it look like in the days of Noah that actually made God so angry that he was willing to destroy? It was the homosexual marriage, you think?
00:12:53.340The same-sex marriage and the bestiality was the tipping point.
00:12:57.480What scripture tells us, I mean, you read Genesis and it says,
00:13:01.020God, seeing that the wickedness of man was great on the earth
00:13:04.000and that all the thought of their heart was bent on evil at all times,
00:13:07.980it repented him that he had made man on earth.
00:13:11.100And that's when he made the decision that he was going to destroy the earth with the flood.
00:13:14.760What would cause man to be bent on evil at all times?
00:13:19.100Well, today we have mass communication devices that are able to spread pornography, anger.
00:13:27.600We've got apps that now tell people how to chase down certain agents and to attack them and to just agitate and to cause problems.
00:13:38.380And so you can do this on a mass scale and you can agitate people.
00:13:42.580you can get them angry, you can get them upset, looking down the trail of, well, what is it that
00:13:48.480pushes people's buttons? And it's very easy to do now. We have buttons that can push people's
00:13:53.880buttons. I think that the massive communication network that exists in the world is exacerbating
00:14:01.740the problem. But ultimately, I do think that the rampant homosexuality is at the heart of the
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00:14:48.560One of the fascinating portions of scripture that seems to hint at some kind of technology
00:14:54.880beyond what we could think of as something's weird about it is the Tower of Babel. They say
00:15:01.440something about it reaching up to heaven. What is that? And does that play any part in what you're
00:15:07.260talking about, about this advance in technology a long time ago? You bet. No, we have to remember
00:15:11.000the Tower of Babel came after the flood. So it was basically the first generation of humanity
00:15:17.080after the flood. Now, Noah and his children, they were able to see what the civilization was like
00:15:25.060prior to the flood. And they survived. So their stories would pass down to their children and
00:15:30.300grandchildren. Now, imagine trying to explain to your children, you lived through the 20th century
00:15:37.960and tomorrow we bomb ourselves back to the Stone Age and you're trying to tell them what a football
00:15:43.160game is. You're trying to tell them what television is. You're trying to tell them what airplanes are.
00:15:49.100And at first, okay, it might make sense, especially if I can draw a picture, but it's like that game
00:15:55.120of telegraph, where you tell somebody something, and then they tell somebody something, and
00:16:00.500eventually what started off as a clear picture becomes far less clear down the line. Well,
00:16:05.940I think that's where myths come from. With the Tower of Babel, there are a lot of different
00:16:10.460myths that seem to have arisen out of it, but going straight to scripture, what it says,
00:16:17.060God said, behold, it is one people, and they have one tongue. This is but the beginning of
00:16:23.260their undertakings and what is to prevent them carrying out all they design. So here again,
00:16:30.140we have this allusion to a large number of people sharing the same language and advancing
00:16:36.500in setting to mind doing things based on their own intellect. So God confuses their tongue to
00:16:44.520stop them. I think they were trying to rebuild the civilization prior to the flood. They were
00:16:49.780trying to recreate what they had been told the civilization was. And what the tower was
00:16:55.660is anybody's guess. I mean, maybe it was a tower. Maybe it was a rocket. I don't know.
00:17:01.160But at the end of the day, it's that desire and that attempt to rebuild what was. And if you look
00:17:09.100at the various myths of Atlantis, they talk about the civilization of Atlantis. It was this
00:17:13.740massive technological wonder and it sank into the ocean. But there are all these references
00:17:19.700to how Atlantis will one day come back. The symbol of Atlantis, by the way, is an eye within a
00:17:26.620pyramid or an eye within a triangle. It's also a circle with a dot. So that's also very largely
00:17:33.660used as a reference to Atlantis. You have Manly P. Hall, who was a Freemason, who he was an
00:17:40.760American Freemason. He wrote this book referencing the secret destiny of America. And in it, he
00:17:47.080referenced America as the new Atlantis. And he did so in regard to Francis Bacon, who also believed
00:17:55.020that the Americas would become the new Atlantis. So you have these occult connections who now
00:18:01.140start looking at America and this rapid growth in technology as being the basis for rebuilding the
00:18:07.920lost civilization of Atlantis. My theory, if you will, on the world is that it's not so much the
00:18:16.360world that leads the church but the church that leads the world that the world is actually
00:18:19.880downstream from the church and that the infidelity in the church is what is actually
00:18:26.160leading if you will the world to hell i don't know if that squares with you and what do you see
00:18:33.320in terms of that dynamic playing out today that's spot on um because the fact of the matter is
00:18:40.460why was noah the only one left in the world that had any kind of righteousness within him
00:18:45.240He was one man with three sons and three daughters-in-law and a wife, so eight people.
00:18:52.960It seems that through Adam or through Noah that all righteousness in the world ended with him.
00:19:02.220If that's the case, that speaks to a mass apostasy.
00:19:05.960In fact, there are also references in Scripture that at that time, they started adopting myths.
00:19:11.480They started believing myths. And our Lord prophesied that that'll happen again, that man will start preferring a myth to the truth.
00:19:21.080And what are we doing now? We're looking at UFOs. We're looking at aliens. We're looking at cryptids, you know, these cryptic animals that may or may not exist, goblins and elves.
00:19:32.860And why? Why? We're inventing a new mythology to try and scientize something that is impossible to prove.
00:19:45.280And they do so because they are replacing true religion with a made up story.
00:19:52.360And I think that that was that that's a reflection or we can at least look at our current situation as a reflection of what originally happened prior to the flood.
00:20:01.300that man was making things up, said, oh, you know, maybe there's no God. I mean, what was it that the
00:20:06.840serpent said to Eve in the garden? Why would he be able to ask Eve, did God really say? It's because
00:20:12.380God didn't speak to Eve. God spoke to Adam. Adam was the one who told Eve that, you know, don't eat
00:20:20.600the fruit and don't do this and don't do that. Eve was simply reporting what Adam said. So the serpent
00:20:25.640was attacking the authority of Adam by saying, did God really say, did God really say this?
00:20:32.960Is Adam really telling you the truth? So it's an attack on his authority. And I think that
00:20:38.240prior to the flood, there was an attack on the authority of the patriarchs. The patriarchs were
00:20:44.040no longer looked to as the authority for mankind. Man started living for himself, building war
00:20:51.400machines, going to war, having carnal lusts just filling and flooding his mind and going about
00:20:58.020and busying himself with whatever he could build to create a universal utopia, heaven on earth.
00:21:04.740And man had forgotten by the time Noah's flood comes that we're not supposed to be permanent
00:21:11.180residences here. We are sojourners, so to speak, on the path to salvation. And the whole problem
00:21:19.800with the world civilization prior to the flood and this idea that man would come together
00:21:25.880and build the Tower of Babel, you know, God said, behold, it is one people and they have
00:24:24.220and Augustine turned to the man speaking and said, you're right. I am a terrible sinner and I've done
00:24:32.480horrible things. And he said, and so has everyone in this room and so have you. And he said,
00:24:40.180our authority does not rest in what we do, but in what we, how we act as representatives
00:24:50.000of the one who sent us. Augustine was stating very clearly in that statement that the authority
00:24:56.740of the church comes through the office, not the man. Because of that, I will never be scandalized
00:25:02.160by the men. I will only follow what their authority is as given to them by Christ
00:25:09.140and the teaching that comes through them in accord with Christ and his teachings. And that's it.
00:25:16.000Yeah, it's a stunning thing because we have, particularly today, the confusion coming, as it were, from the top. And that's been, I think, that's unique in our day in that even under former pontificates with, you know, problematic times, even under the Arian heresy, there was confusion.
00:25:37.240but in the end the pope comes through uh we've just had 12 years of a francis pontificate where
00:25:44.500the pope didn't come through um and the spreading of errors that just can't be but in official
00:25:52.100church teaching documents the catechism amoris laetitia fiducius supplicans and they go on and
00:25:58.480on and traditionus custodis let's just add throw in one more that's where it gets all for me
00:26:04.200ultimately confusing. What do we do? Well, what we do is we turn to the authentic teachings and
00:26:09.460the traditions of the church. And we say that those things which, I mean, it's easy for us to
00:26:17.240fall because of the scandals of men. It's easy. When Peter turned to our Lord and said, this will
00:26:25.260never be, right after our Lord called him Peter, then our Lord also called him Satan. He said,
00:26:32.540first, you are the rock. And then he said, you are also Satan. He caused an immense scandal right
00:26:37.920there in the very beginning of his pontificate when he decided that the Gentiles were going to
00:26:43.180have to get circumcised. And St. Paul had to rebuke him to his face. And then they convened
00:26:50.620a council. And at the council, they debated and discussed the serious scandal that was being
00:26:55.520caused by Peter. And then Peter said, you know what? You're right. And this is wrong. And I
00:27:01.240should never have done this. So Peter gave a false teaching. He gave a false decree when he said that
00:27:07.640the Gentiles should also be circumcised. And it caused it forced Peter or Paul to effectively call
00:27:16.480a council to say, look, we need to discuss this, all of us. And then your decision is the one that
00:27:22.960rests. So I think that the confusion that's being caused and Peter has caused all kinds of problems
00:27:28.980within the church through those documents that you mentioned, all kinds of problems.
00:27:33.800What has to happen, and ultimately I think will happen when the time is right, in accordance
00:27:41.020with our Lord and the Holy Spirit, is that there will be a council that will clarify
00:27:45.340all of this and will cut through the weeds and say, you know what, here is the truth.
00:27:52.080And then these elements that came into these documents that crept into them that are not
00:27:56.120binding on anyone, those we will jettison and we will cut them. But it's going to take that
00:28:03.180counsel for us to get there. I was just speaking the other day with Professor Ed Mazza, and he
00:28:08.660writes his latest book about the saints versus the anti-popes. There have been 30 or so anti-popes
00:28:14.280in history. And he questions this possibility of Francis Leo being anti-popes at the same time.
00:28:22.020And any thoughts there or how do you feel that's all going to roll out?
00:28:26.900Obviously, there are problems as far as Pope Leo is concerned.
00:28:32.120He's he's not really done anything in terms of decrees or statements or documents that that I know of that are problematic.
00:28:40.440But his appointments are atrocious. That that much is plain to see.
00:28:45.460So and look, I have questions about Pope Francis.
00:28:50.380There were a lot of questions regarding Pope Benedict's resignation.
00:28:53.820There were a lot of questions about Pope Francis's election during the conclave and then after the conclave and certain things.
00:29:00.100You know, there are all sorts of questions and I'm open to questions.
00:29:08.500But when it comes to Leo, as far as I can tell, he hasn't really done much other than make appointments and administrative stuff, which is all fallible.
00:29:19.880In that regard, I don't I don't have enough information to make any kind of judgment one way or the other.
00:29:25.660And one clear scriptural reference we have with St. Paul.
00:29:29.560Even if I or an angel from heaven were to come and give you a different gospel, let him be anathema.