00:12:58.780But public-private partnerships, government with private corporations, opens up a much bigger world.
00:13:05.560And again, we didn't say this is what's happening, but you can imagine a world, for example, where an analytics company had cataloged everything that you posted online.
00:13:12.340So it's not just pulling, you know, the bad things you've maybe said, but it's pulling old Facebook photos.
00:13:16.580And it can put together an entire comprehensive package of who you are.
00:13:20.700Now, using big data, using the power of analytics and AI, you could create a list of people that are risks.
00:13:26.340They're risks for this type of information.
00:13:27.980There are risks to maybe be job hunters.
00:13:30.400And a private company, like Palantir in this instance, could partner with a LinkedIn.
00:13:34.820And without you even knowing it, without the government being involved, your speech is not being censured,
00:13:39.520you could find it very, very difficult to get a job because a data company out there somewhere crunched the numbers
00:13:44.980and they said, yeah, actually this guy has a 45% chance of staying less than a year at your work.
00:13:50.300This guy has a 25% chance of saying inflammatory things online.
00:13:53.580And you could, without even knowing it, without even understanding what's happening, I'm putting in these resumes, I'm qualified for these jobs, you could be shut out of a housing market.
00:14:02.060You could be shut out if you had some type of social credit scores you've seen in China.
00:14:05.780You could be shut out of the ability to get credit to buy a home.
00:14:08.900So private partnerships with the government, partnerships with other groups, they're a huge problem.
00:14:14.140And the most nefarious part about it, you wouldn't necessarily be able to see it.
00:14:18.780Again, you would say, man, I'm not getting jobs.
00:14:27.260And so we talked about that six months ago.
00:14:29.620And I feel like this is a theme that is going to keep coming up.
00:14:32.100But we're going to keep talking about the risk of the surveillance state.
00:14:34.640We've got some content coming out next year on it.
00:14:36.800But it's worth, at the end of the year, reminding you that one of the biggest, and I mean, as a publicly traded company, one of the fastest growing companies is this company, Palantir.
00:14:46.220Palantir was founded as an offshoot from the CIA's Venture Capital Fund.
00:14:49.940I believe In-Q-Tec is the name, and it was founded in the early 2000s.
00:14:53.520Named after Lord of the Rings, the stones, the seeing eye that would allow you to see
00:14:59.380what's going on in other parts of the world.
00:15:04.260So it's been in use now for, it would be coming up on two and a half decades.
00:15:07.940This is not a company that started yesterday.
00:15:09.780They've got some talent, and they're a little bit exciting.
00:15:11.900Huge company, two and a half decades worth of very secretive private contracts with the
00:15:17.060FBI and the CIA, and also contracts with the government that we know about, private corporations.
00:15:23.320It's huge, is the point. And a lot of us have concerns about Palantir, about its leadership,
00:15:28.640about the individuals involved, about what it's doing, precisely because of stories like this.
00:15:34.400So a new book came out. It's a biography of the CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp. Alex Karp is a
00:15:41.720Jewish revolutionary, very eccentric guy. It was kind of funny. This week, actually,
00:15:46.700he talked about how young men or white men have been disadvantaged in the hiring process,
00:15:50.920that they've been discriminated against. Which is true. Not sure we're fully back. Not sure he's
00:15:54.880our guy quite yet. But he's one of those guys, you know, when he misses, he misses. And when he's on
00:15:58.960it, he's on it. A while ago in a deleted tweet, he said, you know, my biggest fear is that Christian
00:16:03.600nationalists are going to rise to power and they're going to throw me out of a window. So
00:16:07.280So he sees white men being discriminated against, but very much so in other respects, he's not our guy.
00:16:14.140And in that biography, it's been revealed new information that wasn't previously known before.
00:16:19.740You alluded to it in the cold open last year, a little over a year ago, Israel's intelligence side, Mossad, carried out a pretty impressive attack.
00:16:27.520It's honestly one of the most impressive attacks we've seen in the modern world as far as targeted, surgical, precise attacks go.
00:16:34.400as just taking out what it is that you want to take out with minimal risk to troops.
00:35:22.600So this is U.S.-based LLC on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
00:35:27.620That's an official government organization.
00:35:29.980That's not just one guy started an LLC in Tel Aviv.
00:35:33.640He decided to do a little bit of homegrown propaganda.
00:35:36.320Create a mobile museum to display at churches in America and Christian colleges.
00:35:42.640distribute pro-Israel information online and through targeted and Christian events like
00:35:49.660conferences or like TPUSA. We will target and geofence and digital online tools.
00:36:00.080That's not a typo. That's just their writing. It's that bad.
00:36:02.380Bad writing. We will have teams of people reaching out to churches and pastors and possibly
00:36:08.620even Christian social media influencers. So they're going to be propagandizing your pastor,
00:36:16.020your church, the social media, Christian social media influencer that you follow,
00:36:21.820setting up mobile museums to display at churches and Christian colleges, pro-Israel information
00:36:28.660online through targeted measures at Christian events and conferences. That's a big deal.
00:36:39.600And they have the funding for it because they're funded by a foreign government. So Israel's GDP,
00:36:44.020I just looked that up, it's like $600 billion. You can imagine a proportion of that in your tax
00:36:48.220revenue. That's essentially available to a foreign government to come in and say,
00:36:53.120we know who our biggest supporters are, we know we're losing some of them, and we're going to go
00:36:57.040in and get them. And what's even more nefarious is in this filing, you have to also state the
00:37:01.080location that you're going to be doing these acts on behalf of a foreign agency. There's a church
00:37:06.880list of a thousand churches here in the United States, ranked by state, ranked by the town they're
00:37:11.860in, ranked by the size. My iPad's not loading it up. But there's over a thousand churches here in
00:37:17.740the U.S. Oh, there it is. You can see the list. 5,000 people here, 3,000 people here, 20,000
00:37:22.700people attend this church. And these are the churches that they're doing something called
00:37:25.540geofencing. So geofencing is, imagine I was to go to a barbecue convention. Yeah, real quick. These
00:37:31.220thousand churches, if you don't think that it's a big deal, oh, only a thousand. If you read the
00:37:36.860numbers, and it's been leaked, the average number of the congregants of each of these churches,
00:37:42.640the average is well over a thousand, even if it was a thousand flat, right? A thousand times a
00:37:47.760page I'm looking at here is a million. Mostly two to four. This looks more like, yeah, so this is
00:37:53.460more like two to four million um and so you're you're talking about you know one percent of the
00:38:00.560american population at that point um being influenced uh by you know by a foreign government
00:38:09.080and like i said in the cold open because i don't want this point to be lost uh i am not happy by
00:38:16.360any stretch of the imagination uh just at a political level of the nation state of israel
00:38:21.660influencing Americans in my country for their good instead of our own nation's good.
00:38:29.140But I am even more concerned as a Christian man and as a pastor about the indoctrination of all
00:38:37.060these Christian influencers and Christian pastors and Christian politicians who will then go and
00:38:43.780and espouse false doctrine. It's not what the Bible teaches. Dispensationalism is false doctrine.
00:38:52.280It is not biblical doctrine. This idea that Christians today, in the year of our Lord,
00:38:58.0402025, on the other side of the planet, here in America, have a spiritual, moral, biblical
00:39:05.520obligation to make sure that those of Jewish ethnicity, whatever that means, have land rights
00:39:14.980on the other side of the planet? That's not what the Bible teaches.
00:39:21.260And it's pretty nefarious how they go about it. So you can imagine a mobile museum. So let's say
00:39:25.980that would be a Jerusalem or what actually a lot of times they'll do on different tours. So if
00:39:29.900someone with the Herzl Institute, for instance, is bringing Christians on a tour, but they
00:39:34.180themselves are not necessarily christians is they'll still take christians to the holy signs
00:39:38.720so you could say uh well the tomb of christ or calvary or the garden at least the locations
00:39:43.880that we think that they were they themselves will not be christians yoram hozoni is an orthodox jew
00:39:48.460right but they'll show christians the things they want to see i just got in a twitter beef with
00:39:55.440stephen wolf i i dipped my toes in just a little bit but um dabble in some twitter but essentially
00:40:02.760The summary of it was he was saying that, you know, Jews and Christians are inextricably bound to one another and have been for thousands of years because of the Old Testament and that the Old Testament is inherently Jewish and therefore Christians cannot get away from their Jewish roots, that the Christian faith is built on a Jewish foundation.
00:40:29.600It's really confused, would be the most charitable way I could put it, the least charitable, but perhaps more accurate.
00:40:39.040I don't know. God knows his heart. I don't know.
00:40:40.940But it's deceitful, intentionally confusing language and rhetoric that takes that word Jewish and in one instance means it ethnically,
00:40:50.820in another instance means it politically as a nation state, and then the next instance is using it religiously.
00:40:57.640No, Christianity is not Jewish. I don't think in any stretch of the word Jewish, but certainly not
00:41:07.380if we're speaking of it being Jewish religiously. The Old Testament is a Christian text. All the
00:41:15.340writers of the Old Testament, whether it be Isaiah or Moses or Daniel, these are Christians.
00:55:20.180Because you could tell it from the front pages of the New York Times and it would not be the truth.
00:55:26.020But if you tell it from the holy word of the holy God, you will be telling the truth.
00:55:30.400the scripture may very visibly say that this is the land that god gave to the jewish people
00:55:41.760and he said he will bless those who bless israel but he will curse those who curse israel
00:55:49.920yeah so we're not asking you to go back and propagandize your congregants your churches your
00:55:56.160fellow American citizens, your children, your neighbors, your friends. I'm not telling you to
00:56:01.240go back and propagandize them. We're just telling you to go back and tell them the truth. Okay. And
00:56:05.840what is the truth? Uh, well the, you know, the political history of Israel. No, he tells you
00:56:12.460the truth. It's a theological in his mind truth. And that theological truth is that the Bible
00:56:19.880somehow explicitly teaches that there is an eternal land right, an eternal land right all
00:56:27.380the way up until the coming of Christ. And even then for a thousand years for his literal earthly
00:56:32.840reign, there is an indefinite land right, fiat, divine given to one ethnic people in this
00:56:43.240particular place and that that's the Bible, that the Bible teaches that. And furthermore,
00:56:50.540that America as a nation under God will be cursed if we curse Israel. And what is Israel in this
00:57:01.580case? Well, Israel is the people of God, the new covenant people, right? No, no, he means
00:57:07.000ethnically jewish people right if you if america as a nation politically financially
00:57:12.660blesses ashkenazi jews then they'll be blessed and he's and again who is his audience it's pastors
00:57:21.980a thousand pastors representative of two to three million congregants evangelical congregants in the
00:57:29.200united states of america and he is commissioning these people to go back and to teach christians
00:57:34.860that God has put under their watch to teach them that they need to lobby their government,
00:57:41.920their fellow American citizens, through cultural power, political power, and informal and informal
00:57:48.660influence to be pro-Israel. Pro-Israel with our tax dollars, pro-Israel if it means defending them
00:57:57.040and sending our sons to die in war and joining them in the battles that many of them, they
00:58:03.860if they don't instigate them, a lot of them I do think they instigate, but even if they don't
00:58:09.500instigate them, they retaliate in cruel ways. You did something that really was terrible on October
00:58:17.0407th, two years ago. Okay. Now you're all going to die. All of you are just going to commit genocide
00:58:24.700as a normal retaliation. That's not normal. And the reality is Israel is aware. They recognize
00:58:32.320that the vast majority of the world at this point has soured on the nation of Israel. The vast
00:58:39.840majority of the world has a bad taste in their mouth. They're saying, wait a second, no, this
00:58:46.080isn't right. This isn't humane. This isn't moral. And so what does Israel do when they realize that
00:58:55.860they're falling out of favor on the world stage, who are the biggest suckers that they can employ0.82
00:59:02.420in their ranks to try to turn the tide in arguably the most powerful nation in the world to be able
00:59:08.460to continue to commission them as an ally? Pastors. Christian pastors. Think about, like,
00:59:16.020you need to feel that, honestly, as an evangelical. And I am an evangelical. I feel this too.
00:59:22.840But we need to sit with that for a moment and just be honest that we just have to be honest about the truth that the nation state of Israel knows good and well that if they're looking for the biggest suckers in the world to sell, you know, oceanfront property in Kansas to, there's one group of people that rises to the top of their list, evangelical Christians.
00:59:52.840If you're an evangelical Christian, you need to know Israel's laughing at you.1.00
00:59:58.880They target you because you're the stupidest person in our country.1.00
01:00:05.060You are the easiest target, the biggest sucker, the most gullible, the most naive.1.00
01:00:12.280And it's really sad as an evangelical Christian.1.00
01:00:16.400It's really sad to know that I'm a part of who I believe to be, for the most part, precious people who genuinely, I believe the vast majority of them genuinely love the Lord Jesus and yet are exceptionally stupid.0.99
01:17:29.160And yeah, so there will be diversity in heaven.
01:17:32.640And the irony is that in eternity, diversity in heaven, what it pre-assumes is that distinctions are maintained on earth.
01:17:43.460If no distinctions are maintained on earth, if we get rid of every border and every nation and just fully embrace globalism and everybody just mixes together and we all speak one social credit score and one language and everyone intermarries,
01:18:01.000and you know then um in just a few short generations you actually no longer have
01:18:07.560distinctions on earth and and in heaven you know there'd just be one language that's represented
01:18:12.880and and one you know type of person physically that we would be able to visually discern
01:18:18.280represented um so yeah i i think that the way that the bible speaks of the heavenly eternal state
01:18:24.940pre-assumes distinctions here on earth. And we're not Gnostics. Gnosticism was
01:18:31.520a Christian heresy. We believe that the spiritual is of infinite value, but the physical still
01:18:37.920matters. The spiritual being of greater importance doesn't mean that the physical, material world
01:18:43.840that God made and said is good, that it suddenly, because of Christian faith, has no value at all.
01:18:49.900That's not what the Bible teaches. So languages and culture and distinct peoples and societies
01:18:58.060and nations, this is all biblical language. And these are things that I believe are meant to be
01:19:05.120preserved. Yep. Well said. Longtime super chatter and supporter, Reformed Farmer, wrote in,
01:19:11.960good afternoon. Any reading materials on this? Keep up the good work. And that was during the
01:19:16.500segment when i saw the super chat we were talking about who's really israel what do you think any
01:19:21.940good reading materials yeah there's uh really good reading material uh coming on um about what
01:19:29.54016 days or 19 days 19 days um be looking on alerts heads up ears to the ground um but yeah uh very
01:19:40.280early january within the first couple days of january there will be some really great reading
01:19:45.140material that you will uh you'll hear all about great stuff uh brown anglo sax sent in the super
01:19:51.640chat and asked ever tried ice cream on your eggnog game changer i believe it that actually
01:19:57.200sounds good you're telling me the one element the one food that is per capita tough word sweeter
01:20:03.380than eggnog and you add it to it and you don't get type 2 diabetes am i meant to understand this
01:20:10.080correctly he never says you want to get type 2 diabetes he just said that it would be good i'll
01:20:14.400give it a try i believe that all right next is uh julian stevenson he gave us a super chat and
01:20:21.040said uh just a quick praise yesterday morning my wife and i welcomed our first born son into the
01:20:28.100world praise god and he said uh psalm 8 1 through 2 i don't have it memorized lord our lord and all
01:20:35.360the earth how excellent is that what it is yep you above yeah the heavens have set i'm reciting
01:20:40.020Psalm 8 is what is man, that you are mindful of him.
01:21:30.380So wife and I love the podcast, trying to influence our church and family with theology
01:21:36.440applied to all areas of life. Amen. Frustrating because my mother is an ordained pastor.
01:21:45.380Not great. And I'm on church boards with her. How do you respect your mother and father while
01:21:55.400also trying to be biblical? Yeah, we've gotten this question a lot. I think, you know, we've
01:22:01.480given a lot of different advice. So I'll try not to be too long, but one, you know, just practically
01:22:08.260over the holidays, if you're visiting them for Christmas and those kinds of things, where it
01:22:13.000sounds like you might be local because it sounds like you have some more intimate involvement
01:22:16.800with your mother. But I would just say that if you're spending time in person, one of the best
01:22:25.940things you can do is just enjoy each other's company and and not get into a bunch of fights
01:22:32.760especially at christmas um so you know it's probably not the best time to you know this year
01:22:39.140um as a new christmas tradition i would like to read you know first simothy chapter two
01:22:44.320and chapter three you know allowed before all the family mother this uh especially pertains to you
01:22:50.540i wouldn't do that so like one way that uh you can honor her and the rest of your your family
01:22:56.620extended family is by simply enjoying them find uh find the good right uh there's enough common
01:23:05.080grace you know uh that even for an unbeliever there are things that we can appreciate um if
01:23:12.960someone is unregenerate then we know that scripture is true romans 8 says that the mind of the sinful
01:23:19.640man is hostile. So not just neutral or indifferent, but actually hostile towards the law of God.
01:23:25.580So in the case of unbelievers who are unregenerate, we know that there's enmity between them and the
01:23:30.860God that we love, the God who saved us. And before we were saved, there was once enmity in our case
01:23:36.280also. But God saved us and gave us a new heart, caused us to become new creatures in Christ Jesus.
01:23:42.700And the God that we once hated is the God that we now love. So even in the case of an unbeliever,
01:23:47.900although it's true, we want to affirm all of Scripture, they're in a state of hostility towards
01:23:52.740God. And therefore, some of that hostility will rear its head in regards to God's people being
01:23:58.820you as a believer. And yet they're still made in the image of God. And even as an unbeliever,
01:24:06.760there is enough common grace where there are things that you can find in common with one
01:24:13.720another. There are things that you can affirm. Maybe they're really kind in their interactions
01:24:19.700with others, or just thanking them for Christmas presents, that they express generosity. Man,
01:24:26.420this really means a lot. Thanks, mom. Those kinds of things, playing a card game together.
01:24:33.520So finding ways to honor them practically by spending time with them and not making it a
01:24:40.440huge theological argument, especially around the holidays. I think that's one way to honor mom and
01:24:47.240dad. And then beyond that, you know, there probably are some occasions throughout the year
01:24:54.040where you need to, you know, you need to broach the topic out of love, not despite loving your
01:25:02.980parents, but precisely because you do love them and you want what's best for them and God's word
01:25:07.760is best, eventually at some point you have to find context to have that conversation. But
01:25:13.920having the conversation humbly, having the conversation respectfully, those kinds of
01:25:21.020things, not raising your voice, not getting angry as best you can. I think those are ways to honor
01:25:28.400your parents. I've said it before, but one of the best apologetics and defenses of your side,
01:25:33.420it's going to be the information you have. But there's only so many times you can say a verse,
01:25:37.040you can quote other commentaries on it. One of the biggest apologetics for your strength and the
01:25:42.500position of your argument maybe shouldn't be this way. It'd be nice to win on the merits of the
01:25:46.640arguments alone, but your character and your virtue will come to bear. So it's like, okay,
01:25:51.900we have big disagreements on this, but my goodness, if he's not an honorable man, he works hard. He
01:25:56.360loves his wife. He cares for his family. He's great with the kids. Like, I want to hate him.
01:26:00.940I want to think he's bigot. I want to think he's narrow-minded. I want to think he's misogynist.0.99
01:26:04.920women can't be pastors what do you mean but i look at him and he is the most loving kind helpful
01:26:10.340serving men i've ever seen and there's nothing in his character that i could pick out and say
01:26:14.780well you just believe that because you just hate women you just do you just say that because you're
01:26:19.700just uh whatever your character for better or worse it's going to factor into and so if you've
01:26:25.240got five years and they're like be honest still don't get it but you're one heck of an honorable
01:26:30.180dude and uh i think you might be right that would be uh one way it could go yeah no that's a great
01:26:34.920point love your wife and kids uh love your wife and kids in tangible ways do a good job um that's
01:26:41.460something that i've experienced with um you know with sometimes you know people maybe it's extended
01:26:47.780family or maybe it's just a friend um or a congregant or something like that it's like man
01:26:53.720you know like uh you're just you're you're intense in your rhetoric you know and you know i've heard
01:27:00.200your views because i've tuned into your podcast or i saw you going viral on some clip or something
01:27:05.080like that or i saw an article by you know the houston chronicle and and they'll you know they'll
01:27:12.280sadly you know be frustrated with you or despise you you know to some extent because of it um
01:27:18.760There have been many occasions where, you know, even my, you know, people who disagree with me entirely in terms of my views, they'll say, yeah, but you know what?
01:27:31.520He's a really good dad, you know, or he's a really good husband, or I see him with his kids.