1 00:00:04,910 --> 00:00:10,250 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church 2 00:00:10,250 --> 00:00:15,890 with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and 3 00:00:15,890 --> 00:00:24,649 faith. Today, now that so many brainwashed, naive Pollyannas are waking up. I know that's not you. 4 00:00:24,730 --> 00:00:30,710 You have already woken up a long time ago. But many others are now waking up to how our own 5 00:00:30,710 --> 00:00:37,310 government has conspired against the American people and our constitutional republic, especially 6 00:00:37,310 --> 00:00:44,750 since the inauguration of the Trump administration. Well, I want to compare and contrast this phenomenon 7 00:00:44,750 --> 00:00:54,030 of conspiracy here in America with the top four conspiracy theories in the Bible. Oh, yes. First, 8 00:00:54,030 --> 00:01:00,590 let's be precise about what we mean. Conspiracy. The Oxford English Dictionary defines conspiracy 9 00:01:00,590 --> 00:01:12,709 as a combination of persons for an evil or unlawful purpose, an agreement between two or more persons 10 00:01:12,709 --> 00:01:20,629 to do something criminal, illegal, or reprehensible, especially in relation to treason, sedition, or 11 00:01:20,629 --> 00:01:29,010 murder. A plot. That is the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of conspiracy. Those combination of 12 00:01:29,010 --> 00:01:36,170 persons who engage in a conspiracy do not bear you goodwill. Your government does not love you or intend 13 00:01:36,170 --> 00:01:43,189 to have your good or your welfare in mind when they act. In fact, by their actions and policies over the 14 00:01:43,189 --> 00:01:49,790 last few decades, it is evident to those of us who are not naive brainwashed Pollyannas that those who 15 00:01:49,790 --> 00:01:57,950 govern us are absolutely malevolent towards those whom they govern. To them, they do not exist to serve and 16 00:01:57,950 --> 00:02:04,150 enrich us. But in complete contrast, we exist to serve and enrich them. They are the predator, 17 00:02:04,150 --> 00:02:10,770 we the prey. They are the parasite, we the host. And that malevolence comes to expression in the 18 00:02:10,770 --> 00:02:21,270 conspiracies foisted upon us to subjugate us, exploit us, and ultimately destroy us. Soon after the JFK 19 00:02:21,270 --> 00:02:30,030 assassination, the CIA crafted a propaganda tool to diminish and deride anyone who questioned the 20 00:02:30,030 --> 00:02:36,590 government narrative concerning the assassination, that was a single shooter. That's the idea of the 21 00:02:36,590 --> 00:02:42,030 government narrative. There was a single shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, and he was responsible for the 22 00:02:42,030 --> 00:02:49,449 president's wounds on that day in Dallas in 1963. That propaganda tool was the pejorative label 23 00:02:49,449 --> 00:02:58,310 conspiracy theorist. And by it, any person who questioned the received narrative and posited a 24 00:02:58,310 --> 00:03:04,949 combination of persons, if you will, a conspiracy, was a suspicious, unstable person with an overactive 25 00:03:04,949 --> 00:03:10,270 imagination. He was definitely outside of the mainstream and could therefore be easily dismissed, 26 00:03:10,270 --> 00:03:17,770 and his theories scoffed at and made irrelevant. A conspiracy theorist, right? How successful that 27 00:03:17,770 --> 00:03:25,030 propaganda tactic has been over the decades. But things are changing. The people are waking up to not 28 00:03:25,030 --> 00:03:31,930 only the JFK of matter, but to a whole host of conspiracies employed by what has now come to be 29 00:03:31,930 --> 00:03:39,469 known as the deep state. Oh, how much they have in common with those conspiracies we find in the Bible 30 00:03:39,469 --> 00:03:45,090 over redemptive history. The first one from redemptive history I would like to bring forward is 31 00:03:45,090 --> 00:03:52,310 the fall. Yes, the fall of our first parents, Adam and Eve. Behold the original conspiracy, after which 32 00:03:52,310 --> 00:04:00,090 all others are modeled. The devil conspired in the Garden of Eden to draw our first parents from God as 33 00:04:00,090 --> 00:04:07,210 covenant master to himself, the serpent as covenant master. And he did this by three master 34 00:04:07,210 --> 00:04:13,629 deceptions. First of all, he sowed a seed of doubt, a seed of doubt. He said to Eve, 35 00:04:14,030 --> 00:04:21,589 hath God said, you shall not eat of any tree in the garden. And then secondly, a bald-faced lie. He just 36 00:04:21,589 --> 00:04:29,410 came right out and said, you will not surely die, when indeed they did. And then C, or number three, 37 00:04:29,410 --> 00:04:38,949 he also sowed doubt with a half-truth. He deceived with a half-truth. He told Eve, for God knows that 38 00:04:38,949 --> 00:04:45,009 when you eat of it, that is the fruit, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good 39 00:04:45,009 --> 00:04:54,689 and evil. Oh, it would be a knowing. It would be a tragic, deadly knowing. Well, the devil is the master 40 00:04:54,689 --> 00:05:01,389 deceiver. John in Revelation reaffirms this. He says in chapter 12, verse 9, the great dragon was 41 00:05:01,389 --> 00:05:07,970 thrown down, that ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. 42 00:05:07,970 --> 00:05:15,069 He was thrown down to the earth and his angels were thrown down with him, unquote. Conspirators 43 00:05:15,069 --> 00:05:24,069 deceive. How those who wish to tyrannize over us have deceived us. For example, 9-11 was 44 00:05:24,069 --> 00:05:31,149 exclusively planned and executed by Osama bin Laden, they say, and the Taliban. Oh, the U.S. government 45 00:05:31,149 --> 00:05:38,730 had nothing to do with it. Or there were definitely weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, except there 46 00:05:38,730 --> 00:05:46,529 weren't. We were deceived into going in. Or the lockdown measures for COVID in 2020 will definitely 47 00:05:46,529 --> 00:05:56,649 keep us safe. Except they didn't. We were deceived for the whole COVID hoax. Or the COVID vaccine would 48 00:05:56,649 --> 00:06:03,930 definitely inoculate us from getting the virus. Except it didn't. We were deceived into getting 49 00:06:03,930 --> 00:06:12,649 jabbed, were we not? Or the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. Except it wasn't. 50 00:06:12,649 --> 00:06:19,670 We were deceived by the 51 intelligence community signatories to the letter that testified to that 51 00:06:19,670 --> 00:06:28,310 falsehood. Oh, this is only a brief sampling of demonic deception by our government. They are only 52 00:06:28,310 --> 00:06:34,810 following in the footsteps of their father, the devil. In fact, our Lord told the Jews, he said, 53 00:06:35,170 --> 00:06:41,509 you are of your father, the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from 54 00:06:41,509 --> 00:06:47,490 the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, 55 00:06:47,629 --> 00:06:55,790 he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Unquote. The serpent in the 56 00:06:55,790 --> 00:07:03,629 garden of Eden, the devil, Satan, our enemy of old, has provided us with the template for conspiring 57 00:07:03,629 --> 00:07:10,649 against our creator. And it must be admitted that all conspiracies of evil versus good are derivative 58 00:07:10,649 --> 00:07:18,290 of the original. But that doesn't mean that there are not other variations of that original model 59 00:07:18,290 --> 00:07:25,870 that have been employed. That brings us to number two, conspiracy number two, the Tower of Babel, 60 00:07:26,310 --> 00:07:34,170 the Tower of Babel. In this vignette from Redemptive History, we must not forget the collective nature of 61 00:07:34,170 --> 00:07:42,329 this conspiracy in contrast to the singular nature of that first devised by the serpent. Oh, the plan 62 00:07:42,329 --> 00:07:50,769 to construct a stairway to heaven, as Led Zeppelin sings, right? That plan to build a stairway to heaven 63 00:07:50,769 --> 00:07:57,170 was a plan to erect a kind of siege ladder against the walls of heaven in order to storm and assault it 64 00:07:57,170 --> 00:08:05,589 on behalf of exiled mankind. The Tower, per se, has been variously interpreted over the centuries as any one of 65 00:08:05,589 --> 00:08:13,050 these kinds of devices and designs that allow us to overcome the defenses of God in the Garden of Eden, in 66 00:08:13,050 --> 00:08:20,410 particular, the angel guarding the entrance with a flaming sword. The Tower of Babel was a conspiracy by the 67 00:08:20,410 --> 00:08:28,730 whole body of mankind to assault the throne of God Almighty and supplant his righteous rule with that of a lost 68 00:08:28,730 --> 00:08:37,730 humanity. They say, come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make 69 00:08:37,730 --> 00:08:45,450 a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth. Oh, this was not just a simple 70 00:08:45,450 --> 00:08:52,090 primitive project to get at God in the skies, naively thinking that if they built it tall enough they'd 71 00:08:52,090 --> 00:09:00,610 get to heaven. No. The Tower of Babel was a united conspiracy to create an alternative paradise to that 72 00:09:00,610 --> 00:09:08,970 planned by God originally for mankind before the fall. As we know from Revelation, God's eventual design is 73 00:09:08,970 --> 00:09:17,370 for a garden city, which redeemed man will inhabit and cultivate and grow throughout eternity. What a 74 00:09:17,370 --> 00:09:25,070 glorious future. It is that city which John sees, as he says in Revelation 21, and I saw the holy city, 75 00:09:25,470 --> 00:09:32,649 New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 76 00:09:32,649 --> 00:09:42,210 The Tower of Babel is the serpent's alternative. Babel was the devil's labor to short-circuit God's 77 00:09:42,210 --> 00:09:49,970 plans and finally capture all of mankind as his covenant subjects in a ghetto briar patch rather 78 00:09:49,970 --> 00:09:58,090 than a garden city. And in Genesis 11, God recognizes it for what it is. He says, behold, they are one 79 00:09:58,090 --> 00:10:03,769 people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and 80 00:10:03,769 --> 00:10:10,769 nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them, unquote. While this hellish 81 00:10:10,769 --> 00:10:18,509 purpose is why God subsequently confused the one language of mankind and dispersed them over the face 82 00:10:18,509 --> 00:10:25,909 of the earth, and he began to build another people for himself in his choice of Abraham, from whom would 83 00:10:25,909 --> 00:10:33,590 come eventually Jesus Christ and his seed, a people of faith. That's the continuing story of redemption 84 00:10:33,590 --> 00:10:39,309 that we preach at New Geneva and other places, including here. But that does not mean that 85 00:10:39,309 --> 00:10:46,309 humanity is through with trying to build that Tower of Babel. Oh, in our own day, that is exemplified 86 00:10:46,309 --> 00:10:53,590 in the conspiracy to bring to the nations of the earth a new world order, as Klaus Schwab calls it. 87 00:10:53,590 --> 00:10:59,889 And until recently, it was dismissed as a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. But now it is discussed 88 00:10:59,889 --> 00:11:07,830 openly, a new world order as a viable alternative to the chaos and conflict that we see around the 89 00:11:07,830 --> 00:11:17,710 world. It's especially true since the artificially contrived COVID crisis. Yes, Klaus Schwab of the 90 00:11:17,710 --> 00:11:25,309 World Economic Forum calls it the Great Reset. That is, the economies and cultures of the world must be 91 00:11:25,309 --> 00:11:32,190 radically scaled back, including the human population. In this new world order, as Klaus says, 92 00:11:32,389 --> 00:11:37,929 you will own nothing and be happy. This is from a white paper from the World Economic Forum 93 00:11:37,929 --> 00:11:44,450 that detailed some of the features of this dystopian vision of the future due to be in place by 2030. 94 00:11:44,450 --> 00:11:50,029 And that is, for example, you will live in 15 minute cities, out of range of which your credit 95 00:11:50,029 --> 00:11:55,970 card will not work, nor your ID be valid, nor cell phone be operational. You will eat bug protein 96 00:11:55,970 --> 00:12:02,549 instead of beef, chicken and pork. You will live in a 250 square foot coffin apartment with no chance 97 00:12:02,549 --> 00:12:11,269 to own your own home ever. You will be surveilled and monitored 24 seven, 365 days a year, 98 00:12:11,269 --> 00:12:19,049 and everything will be done to discourage marriage, family and religion. Oh, we see this conspiracy 99 00:12:19,049 --> 00:12:26,289 being implemented around the world. And it is real and tightening around our throats like a bow 100 00:12:26,289 --> 00:12:32,029 constrictor squeezing a victim. President Trump is aware of many of the elements of this conspiracy 101 00:12:32,029 --> 00:12:39,269 and is working to eradicate them from the American system. Let us pray he is successful and we must join 102 00:12:39,269 --> 00:12:46,210 him in his labors. And we as citizens do our own part to defeat this modern version of the Tower of 103 00:12:46,210 --> 00:12:52,809 Babel conspiracy. Well, the third biblical conspiracy I would like to bring forward to you and compare it 104 00:12:52,809 --> 00:13:00,610 to what's going on today is Haman versus the Jews. The character Haman from the Bible, from the book of 105 00:13:00,610 --> 00:13:08,710 Esther versus the Jews. Here is a biblical conspiracy not often reflected upon, but it has pertinent 106 00:13:08,710 --> 00:13:16,250 application to modern days. In the period of the Babylonian exile, the Jews found themselves as a 107 00:13:16,250 --> 00:13:23,690 community apart from their homeland, serving the kings of Babylon and later Persia. In fact, the prophet 108 00:13:23,690 --> 00:13:30,789 Jeremiah advised the exiles to settle in, build homes, make families, and as he says in Jeremiah 29, 109 00:13:31,190 --> 00:13:37,230 seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile and pray to the Lord on its behalf, 110 00:13:37,490 --> 00:13:45,590 for in its welfare you will find your welfare." And so it came to pass that the Jews made good 111 00:13:45,590 --> 00:13:52,110 the welfare of Babylon under King Ahasuerus to the point where he took to his queen Esther from among 112 00:13:52,110 --> 00:13:59,029 the Jews. But there was a fly in the ointment. Esther's uncle Mordecai refused to pay homage to 113 00:13:59,029 --> 00:14:06,870 King Ahasuerus' favorite in the court, who was an arrogant, ambitious sycophant named Haman. The king, 114 00:14:07,090 --> 00:14:13,710 as the text says, promoted Haman and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were 115 00:14:13,710 --> 00:14:20,750 with him. But this was not good enough for the Persian bureaucrat. There was one impudent commoner 116 00:14:20,750 --> 00:14:28,090 who would not cravenly bow down when his chariot passed by, and that was Esther's uncle Mordecai. Every 117 00:14:28,090 --> 00:14:34,750 day, Haman had to see this resilient Jew standing there as he passed by while everyone else hugged the 118 00:14:34,750 --> 00:14:41,850 pavement and praised his name. And it stuck in Haman's craw like a fishbone swallowed in a southern 119 00:14:41,850 --> 00:14:50,590 barbecue. So in his bitterness and hubris, Haman concocted a conspiracy whereby he could destroy not 120 00:14:50,590 --> 00:14:57,649 only this upstart Mordecai, but the entire people from which he issued, that is the Jews. Like Wormtongue 121 00:14:57,649 --> 00:15:05,429 in Lord of the Rings, Haman whispered ugly things about the Jews into Ahasuerus' ear such that he received 122 00:15:05,429 --> 00:15:12,110 permission and resources to utterly exterminate the entire race of Jews living in his kingdom. 123 00:15:12,710 --> 00:15:19,470 And the book of Esther records this. It says in chapter 3, letters were sent by couriers to all 124 00:15:19,470 --> 00:15:26,870 the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, 125 00:15:27,110 --> 00:15:33,549 women and children, in one day, the 13th day of the 12th month, which is the month of Adar, 126 00:15:33,549 --> 00:15:41,470 and to plunder their goods, unquote. Oh, conspiracies against entire peoples are not new, 127 00:15:41,610 --> 00:15:48,070 dear listener. No one reminds me more of the wicked Persian bureaucrat Haman than the wicked 128 00:15:48,070 --> 00:15:55,889 American bureaucrat Anthony Fauci. In many ways, he became the front man for the entire COVID hoax 129 00:15:55,889 --> 00:16:04,029 and its aftermath. Yes, Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 130 00:16:04,029 --> 00:16:11,429 from 84 to 2022, and then advisor to the president. He oversaw the gain-of-function research 131 00:16:11,429 --> 00:16:20,090 on the COVID-19 virus. When Congress banned viral gain-of-function research, Fauci conspired to outsource 132 00:16:20,090 --> 00:16:26,769 that research to labs in Wuhan, China, complete with millions of dollars in research funds. 133 00:16:27,590 --> 00:16:35,149 Fauci knowingly lied to Congress when questioned about that research. Fauci is financially vested 134 00:16:35,149 --> 00:16:41,990 in the patents on the COVID virus. He has made a fortune on the pandemic. He is financially vested 135 00:16:41,990 --> 00:16:50,370 in the mRNA vaccine, which was conveniently trotted out as the only and exclusive treatment for COVID. 136 00:16:51,049 --> 00:16:56,269 He deliberately suppressed and lied about the efficacy of alternative treatments, 137 00:16:56,649 --> 00:17:04,369 including and especially ivermectin or supplements. Fauci incessantly hawked measures that were 138 00:17:04,369 --> 00:17:11,490 ineffective health-wise, that is, masks and social distancing, lockdowns, school and church closings, 139 00:17:11,490 --> 00:17:17,690 small business shutdowns. But they were effective in destroying the American economy, these measures, 140 00:17:18,049 --> 00:17:26,150 accustoming the American public to tyranny. Fauci lied about the deleterious effects of the mRNA vaccine. 141 00:17:26,809 --> 00:17:33,049 He suppressed the clear evidence that it neither inoculated anyone nor moderated the effects of 142 00:17:33,049 --> 00:17:40,970 COVID. And he also deliberately went about destroying the funding and careers of those doctors and researchers 143 00:17:40,970 --> 00:17:48,930 who contradicted him and his agency. The so-called COVID pandemic was part of a larger worldwide 144 00:17:48,930 --> 00:17:55,910 conspiracy to acclimate the American people to tyranny and get rid of a large part of the population 145 00:17:55,910 --> 00:18:05,390 under a new world order or the Great Reset. Haman, the Persian bureaucrat, must be looking up from the pit 146 00:18:05,390 --> 00:18:12,730 of hell and marveling at the evil success of his American bureaucratic counterpart, Anthony Fauci. 147 00:18:13,349 --> 00:18:20,690 Conspiracies are a fact of life in this world, are they not, dear listener? Well, our last conspiracy 148 00:18:20,690 --> 00:18:29,150 from the Bible of the four great conspiracies is that of Judas Iscariot. Yes, here is the very 149 00:18:29,150 --> 00:18:37,349 pinnacle and paradigm of conspiracy and betrayal. Dante, in his masterpiece Inferno, where hell is 150 00:18:37,349 --> 00:18:44,390 portrayed as nine concentric rings, each more terrifying and tortuous than the previous, well, 151 00:18:44,910 --> 00:18:51,529 Judas Iscariot is located in the very last ring at the bottom, along with Brutus, who conspired and 152 00:18:51,529 --> 00:18:57,849 betrayed Julius Caesar, subject to being in the very presence of Satan himself. And the conspiracy 153 00:18:57,849 --> 00:19:05,109 against Adam and Eve looms large also in the firmament of conspiracies, but nothing compares to 154 00:19:05,109 --> 00:19:12,670 Judas' conspiracy with the Jews against our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The evangelists document 155 00:19:12,670 --> 00:19:19,329 this very clearly. In Matthew chapter 12, when Jesus healed a man on the Sabbath, the Jews were 156 00:19:19,329 --> 00:19:28,329 enraged. But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him. Or from Matthew 26, 157 00:19:29,009 --> 00:19:33,529 then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, 158 00:19:33,690 --> 00:19:41,470 whose name was Caiaphas, and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 159 00:19:41,470 --> 00:19:48,450 Unquote. Oh, how many Christians freely admit that evil men can formulate a conspiracy against the 160 00:19:48,450 --> 00:19:55,990 Savior, but poo-poo, the corresponding fact that evil men can design a conspiracy against other men and 161 00:19:55,990 --> 00:20:03,589 institutions. In fact, an argument can be made that the conspiracy to crucify Jesus is a model for 162 00:20:03,589 --> 00:20:10,609 subsequent conspiracies against great men in the future. But it also has direct correspondences with 163 00:20:10,609 --> 00:20:17,109 Satan's original conspiracy against God and our first covenant head, that is, Adam. For example, 164 00:20:17,589 --> 00:20:24,890 every conspiracy in redemptive history seeks either to grasp after a kingdom or seeks to preserve the 165 00:20:24,890 --> 00:20:32,930 one it already has, right? As Isaiah tells us about Satan and his fall, how you are fallen from heaven, 166 00:20:32,930 --> 00:20:39,490 O day star, son of dawn. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like 167 00:20:39,490 --> 00:20:47,329 the most high, Satan would brag. Or when Jesus' powerful ministry won the approval of the people, 168 00:20:47,450 --> 00:20:54,269 the Jews said, excuse me, if we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him and the Romans 169 00:20:54,269 --> 00:21:01,829 will come and take away both our place and our nation. Oh, the Jews. Conspiracies are about power, 170 00:21:01,829 --> 00:21:10,150 are they not? The plot to kill Jesus being no different. Or look and see that both the devil's 171 00:21:10,150 --> 00:21:17,650 conspiracy against Adam in the Garden of Eden and the devil's conspiracy against our Lord in the Garden 172 00:21:17,650 --> 00:21:27,210 of Gethsemane involve the temptation and fall of mankind's covenant mediator, that mediator on behalf 173 00:21:27,210 --> 00:21:34,490 of the entire race of men. As the Apostle Paul articulates so effectively in Romans 5, for example, 174 00:21:35,089 --> 00:21:41,869 Adam's fall plunged all of our race into sin and death since he was our first covenant representative, 175 00:21:42,250 --> 00:21:50,390 while Jesus' successful stand put upright before God a whole race of men since he was our new covenant 176 00:21:50,390 --> 00:21:58,490 mediator and representative. Oh, the Bible only and exclusively holds out covenant as God's economy 177 00:21:58,490 --> 00:22:05,890 in dealing with men. No dispensations, no other testaments, no. There is an old covenant with 178 00:22:05,890 --> 00:22:12,630 Adam as our mediator, and there's a new covenant with Christ as our mediator. There is, in biblical 179 00:22:12,630 --> 00:22:20,029 understanding, a unity of the race such that what happens to our covenant mediator happens to us. 180 00:22:20,650 --> 00:22:26,470 Adam sinned and died in the Garden of Eden. Consequently, we, his children, sin and die 181 00:22:26,470 --> 00:22:33,529 as we propagate after him. And conversely, Jesus proved righteous and was raised to life at the cross. 182 00:22:34,109 --> 00:22:40,730 Consequently, we, his children, live unto righteousness, and we will also be raised to new life. 183 00:22:40,730 --> 00:22:48,809 Oh. And also note, too, every conspiracy has what the CIA calls in their internal documents a patsy. 184 00:22:49,150 --> 00:22:56,069 A patsy is the person who is pre-set up by the real conspirators behind the scenes. In other words, 185 00:22:56,109 --> 00:23:04,490 he's framed to look like the lone and exclusive actor in an assassination or crime or violent act. 186 00:23:04,490 --> 00:23:11,789 The patsy takes the fall, the whole blame, even though many others were in reality part of the planned 187 00:23:11,789 --> 00:23:19,190 conspiracy. Oh, circumstances are so manipulated that to the casual observer, the patsy looks like the 188 00:23:19,190 --> 00:23:26,950 only one who did the whole thing. Lee Harvey Haswald is the classic example. Oh, yes. Well, so it is then 189 00:23:26,950 --> 00:23:33,809 that Judas Iscariot has become the patsy in the conspiracy to crucify Jesus of Nazareth, for example. 190 00:23:33,809 --> 00:23:41,250 Matthew 26 tells us, what will you give me, he says, that is, Judas says to the Jews, if I deliver him 191 00:23:41,250 --> 00:23:47,950 over to you, and they paid him 30 pieces of silver. And from that moment, he sought an opportunity to 192 00:23:47,950 --> 00:23:55,630 betray him, unquote. Oh, the Jews had well before decided to kill Jesus at some point, and Judas is 193 00:23:55,630 --> 00:24:04,390 only easing the way to the time and opportunity to do that. Oh. And so we see patsies also in our own 194 00:24:04,390 --> 00:24:12,890 day when it comes to conspiracies. On July 13, 2024, Thomas Crooks climbed on the roof of a utility 195 00:24:12,890 --> 00:24:19,390 building at the fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, and took several shots at President Trump at one of 196 00:24:19,390 --> 00:24:26,250 his campaign rallies, right? And then Crooks was shot in turn, too. But he wasn't alone. He was a classic 197 00:24:26,250 --> 00:24:32,869 patsy, was he not? More and more evidence is coming out that others from the Biden administration, 198 00:24:33,730 --> 00:24:39,210 Alexander Mayorkas, for example, from Homeland Security or the Secret Service and Chris Wray at 199 00:24:39,210 --> 00:24:45,549 the FBI, they were all intimately involved in the plot to kill Donald Trump. There was even at least 200 00:24:45,549 --> 00:24:52,170 one other shooter involved in the attempt, but Thomas Crooks is the focus, the patsy, who gets the blame 201 00:24:52,170 --> 00:25:00,170 for originating, orchestrating, and executing the whole enchilada. Behold, dear listener, conspiracies 202 00:25:00,170 --> 00:25:06,690 are not new to redemptive history, are they? Do not be a naive, brainwashed Pollyanna, and I know you're 203 00:25:06,690 --> 00:25:15,329 not. The enemy of your soul is conspiring to destroy you, is conspiring to destroy me, to destroy 204 00:25:15,329 --> 00:25:24,150 all of us who love him, just as that conspirator exemplar, that is, Satan, the devil, the old 205 00:25:24,150 --> 00:25:30,890 serpent, just as he conspired to destroy our first parents, Adam and Eve, and just as he tried to do 206 00:25:30,890 --> 00:25:40,150 to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All evil conspiracies are still hatched by evil cabals of men. 207 00:25:40,150 --> 00:25:47,009 They're not done trying, dear listener, just because Donald Trump was successfully elected 208 00:25:47,009 --> 00:25:53,049 and inaugurated as president of the United States does not mean conspiracies will stop. Only in the 209 00:25:53,049 --> 00:26:00,130 Lord Jesus Christ will you find security against the enemy of your soul. Flee to the Lord Jesus Christ, 210 00:26:00,289 --> 00:26:07,049 embrace him as your savior and protector, and there will be no conspiracy fashion that will destroy you, 211 00:26:07,049 --> 00:26:14,230 dear listener. You will be safe and secure in the Lord Jesus Christ for eternity. It's in his name 212 00:26:14,230 --> 00:26:20,569 that we pray. It's in his name that we take strength. This has been Pastor David Bass at New 213 00:26:20,569 --> 00:26:28,910 Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the 214 00:26:28,910 --> 00:26:36,130 corner of 4th and Boulevard. I encourage you to join us for our worship services, and then also you will 215 00:26:36,130 --> 00:26:45,069 give us a call, perhaps, to give us some feedback and encouragement at area code 208-523-0196. 216 00:26:45,130 --> 00:26:49,730 208-523-0196.