The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Today, I Honor God

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7

We are your lizard overlords. Stop listening to these preppers. Eat your crickets. Fight in the streets. Own nothing. And love it. Taking a break from PBN Daily News today, folks, to, frankly, to honor God. Now, if those two words, honor God, scare you or turn you off, please listen.

You need to listen to this more than you think. And this is coming from a guy who used to wince at those two words. I used to wince at them. I used to be like, oh my God, don't say those two things. I don't know what it means. You know? Um, I don't know how to describe the bridge between that, between sort of that distance from God and then the surrender. And maybe you're not supposed to understand it. I don't know. Maybe you're not supposed to be able to document it. Maybe it's impossible to break down into steps. But what I will tell you is if I had to build that bridge,

it would largely be built with love and gratitude and probably sacrifice too, probably the sacrifice of comfort. You know, those things to me are, those things in a collective tend to drive me closest to an understanding with God and, you know, feeling like I can understand his gifts and I can understand his way a little bit and I need to get out of the way. I always want you to understand that I don't sit in the pocket very comfortably when it comes to topics like this. Yeah, I can say things in passing, and I live a way that is, you know, somewhat, you know, doing my best to be something of a

Christian. There are things I refuse to surrender even in the face of God himself, and I'm working on that. Sometimes I'm working on it, sometimes I'm not, in all honesty. But there's no doubt that he deserves my honor and your honor. So today we do that, and today we do that in a way that is thoughtful and, well, you know, will give you a lot to think about.

The idea of Moloch has been in my head a long, long time. I didn't know what Moloch was. I read about Moloch in middle school or high school in a Dean Kuhn's book called The Face. And in The Face, there's a man in the phone and in the mirrors who keeps contacting a little boy, telling him to prepare because Moloch is coming. him to prepare because Moloch is coming. And that was the first I ever read that name, that word. Surprised to hear it come up again as sort of a god of worship by some of the rich and powerful in our world today. So this idea and, you know, the standouts in the worship of Moloch, the standout is, and the most horrible thing about it,

it's used in the Bible as a false idol, right? Baal as well, same concept. But he's used as a false idol. And as the story goes, he required child sacrifice. Now I'm at a gotquestions.org website pulling a lot of this biblical text because I'm at a gotquestions.org website pooling a lot of this biblical text because I'm no biblical scholar.

But I know how to make a point. And in 2 Kings 21.6, talk about King Manasseh offering his own son as a sacrifice to Moloch. He says he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord.

And in 2 Chronicles 28.1.4, King Azaz has a similar situation. Azaz was 20 years old when he began to reign And he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord He made offerings in the valley of the son of Hinnom And burned his sons as an offering According to the abominations of the nations

Whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel And he sacrificed And made offerings in high places and on the hills and under every green tree. We look at people like this and we laugh to some degree, right? It's disgusting at some level, of course. But we look at the old ways. We look at the Native Americans.

We look at the Romans. And this is not a, this is not, we don't laugh at them because we're so incredibly dedicated to God, but we laugh at them and their multitudes of gods because it's funny.

It's like, oh, I hope the sun comes out today. Let's pray to the sun God. Oh God, I planted seeds. We got to eat this year. Let's pray to the God of the harvest. Let's pray to the sun, God. Oh, God, I planted seeds. We got to eat this year. Let's pray to the God of the harvest. Let's pray to Ceres. Right?

I don't want to go down that path. Sorry. We think that we're greater than these people. We think that we've, you know. Either in our atheism. Or in our. Dedication to. One God. That we're better than them.

Right. That they were kind of dumb. In thinking that they could pray for the wind. And the rain. I was having a conversation with a guy. On Instagram. And he was talking to me. About. His website. You know, and he was saying website kind of tanked a little bit. TikTok kind of tanked a little bit. The income

ain't what it used to be. And this is kind of a common thing. And rolling around this idea of Malik in my head for like months now and how I would present it to you because it all ties in, I ran into this sort of concept also. And he – this conversation spurred something into my head, and it was the variety of gods that we pray to now. You know, the algorithm is one. you know, the algorithm is one. You may not know it, but being a freelance writer, working with people who have blogs, this is their God a lot of times.

They might not look at it that way. They might wear a cross and pray to God and so on and so forth, but the relationship is similar to that of the wind God. Oh, you know, the algorithm God has forsaken me. I must modify my daily habits, my daily rituals To assure that the algorithm God praises me and shines light upon me Right? That way I can sell Google ads Or whatever the hell it is that people do with their blogs

Their particular revenue generating strategy, right? So I must appease the algorithm god. A lot of people sitting in front of their computer right now, maybe even listening to this very podcast, looking at the market, making trades, right? This and that. Oh my God, make a trade and make money.

Right? We worship at that altar, too. Look, if you met somebody who spent eight hours on their knees in front of Jesus at a church, you know, at a sanctuary, or maybe in a little sanctuary they built in their own backyard, if you talked to somebody and they were like, yeah, you know, I pray about six hours a day, you would be like, oh my God, that guy, that guy's for real, right? But we do it.

We do it. You sit in front of spreadsheets, you sit in front of graphs trying to figure out what's the best stock to trade. I mean, what is that? That isn't worship? Those trades and those ups and downs in the market, the market is not your God to some degree.

Now we pray to the crypto God, right? We pray to the God of the climate. We worship the God of the climate, we worship the god of the earth, the terra, we worship the manna, the, what do they call her? The Gaia. Gaia.

We're just as silly, folks. We just pretend we're not. We're just as silly. We're just better liars to the people around us and to ourselves, fundamentally, right? That's all it is. But when you worship the algorithms and the markets and the cryptos and so on and so forth, then you are riddled with fear and anxiety. That's the benefit of worshiping those gods. I mean, there's money and there's fun and things like that can come from it, I guess, to some degree.

But fear and anxiety are also part of the picture. Now, look, you're going to worship. So I think anybody and everybody should be gifted with that knowledge early on. You should understand the fact that you are going to worship. I don't know what it is about humanity, but you're going to worship. That's going to happen. You will pick something, and it will become your God. And I think that's why religion is so important.

And I think that's why religion is so important. I think that's why Christianity, Catholicism, Judaism, these things are so important. Because you can at least tether that worship to a set of principles that will push yourself and humanity forward. And beat back the most detestable parts of yourself, like the desire to maybe burn your sons for an offering to some god. I thought about that a lot. You know, I told you, my only really great enemy is fear. My only funda—I haven't met a lot of evil people, so that could change in time. But I can tell you right now that fear, seeing scared people, is one of the things I hate the most.

They say that the words fear not appear in the Bible 300-some times. The word fear itself is spoken 500 times. This is from a website, Pray With Confidence. Timothy 1.7 says, For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of sound mind. The relationship that humans have with fear is interesting, man. And it's not the natural fear, like when you see something and you're alerted and it's scary.

But it's this lingering fear of things that might be, that could be, that should be, that should have been. You know what I mean? I sought the Lord and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. I sought the Lord and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. So that we may boldly say the Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. That's Hebrews 13.6. Think about that for a minute. So there's no denying that we're given the choice of what it is we decide to worship. Isaiah 41, 10,

We're given a choice to worship, folks. And that's interesting. You have a being that is all powerful and the most powerful. And you have to wonder to yourself, why? Why on earth would he say, yeah, go ahead. Go ahead, burn your babies at the altar of Baal, of Malak. But it seems to me that there's only one God that battles fear. Only one God whose implicit goal is to comfort you and to tell you fear not. And the way this whole idea about Malik sort of came to a crescendo in my head and the real fundamental reason that I wanted to have this conversation with you is for this finality, this grand finale. And the grand finale is as follows, folks.

You think that it's crazy that these old kings and rulers would sacrifice their children at the altar of Moloch. I ask you to look around at our society today. And consider those who worship money, those who worship the algorithms, the markets, the movements of today, the transgender movement of today, right? Many of the most liberal and psychotic movements of today. Look around at the children. A two-income household where both families work, both parents work 60 hours a week. What's the sacrifice? Who's being sacrificed?

When a mom or a dad is excited to get with their group of friends. And talk about how their 10 year old Johnny is going to be Janie. And put the pink, white and baby blue flag on the back of their car to celebrate, who's being sacrificed? Is it any more heinous? At least if you set a baby to cinders at an altar before it can recognize your love and what you've done to it. At least it gets the chance to die off from your terrible rule. But to disfigure a child, to manipulate their hormones,

to maybe even carve off parts of their body under their advice and your desire to worship the God of the here and now, the tyranny of the immediate, is a phrase I like lately. Now they have the rest of their life to deal with that. A torturous life to deal with that. So it became very clear to me, guys, that there are stark consequences. It's not just God being selfish, saying, hey, you will worship only me. Because if that were the case and it were such a big deal, then you wouldn't have agency in that.

But again, it's a warning. Moloch is a warning. Malak is a warning And what it looks like to me Is no matter how No matter what you make your god Drugs Sex Whatever it is

Gambling All that You look at who gets sacrificed In our society And it's probably always been this way You look at what really gets sacrificed in our society. And it's probably always been this way. You look at what really gets sacrificed. You go out and commit adultery. Your marriage falls apart.

You get to go your separate way, maybe with your mistress or your mister. The other half of that relationship goes and suffers and figures their life out. But who's sacrificed? The child, the children, they're sacrificed. That's the sacrifice, right? The story of Malik is, and the burning of children at the altar of Malik is profound. And it's a reminder that you've got a choice.

You've got a choice. And even if you think that you're suffering, or that you can endure the suffering foisted upon you by God should you make these mistakes, well, that's all good and well. these mistakes. That's all good and well. But it seems to me that it is the children. You look around at what's happening in our society today. Who are we sacrificing? It's dark, PBN family, but it's real. And I've had Moloch on my mind for this reason.

Whatever it is that you do to connect with God, to honor God, don't forget to do that today. Bring that to someone in your life. I don't know how to articulate all that he's done for me, and I'm just not there yet with my clarity and my confidence, but the best way I can put it is, when I was avoiding him, he was looking out for me, and I have to honor that.

All right. Talk to you soon, folks. Enjoy the Thursday programming. And, yeah, be strong and prep on.