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Sounding More Like A King, Pope Francis Lashes Out With Another Stinging Critique Of Global Capitalism

In a sweeping critique of global finance released by the Vatican on Thursday, the Holy See Pope Francis singled out derivatives including credit-default swaps for particular scorn. “A ticking time bomb,” the Vatican called them. The unusual rebuke of credit swap derivatives rarely reach the level of religious doctrine.

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Warren Buffett once called them “financial weapons of mass destruction.” Now Pope Francis, of all people, is taking aim at derivatives.

“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” Revelation 18:3 (KJV)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Pope Francis, who rarely misses a chance to miss the chance to preach the gospel of the grace of God, never misses the chance to pontificate on such biblical topics like global capitalism, credit default swaps and income redistribution. Not finding those topics in your King James Bible? Well, they’re not there, just like the office of a pope, a ruling class of priests, and a magic cookie that becomes the ‘body of Christ’ aren’t there either.  Ruling over Babylon is not enough for Francis, he desires to be the king that Revelation 17 says the Roman pope will be. 2018

In a sweeping critique of global finance released by the Vatican on Thursday, the Holy See singled out derivatives including credit-default swaps for particular scorn. “A ticking time bomb,” the Vatican called them. The unusual rebuke — derivatives rarely reach the level of religious doctrine — is in keeping with Francis’s skeptical view of unbridled global capitalism.

“The market of CDS, in the wake of the economic crisis of 2007, was imposing enough to represent almost the equivalent of the GDP of the entire world. The spread of such a kind of contract without proper limits has encouraged the growth of a finance of chance, and of gambling on the failure of others, which is unacceptable from the ethical point of view,” the Vatican said in the document.

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The critique echoes comments made by Buffett in 2003, when he criticized the “unchecked” expansion of the derivatives market. Francis has been a critic of Wall Street in the past. He has called for regulating speculative financial practices and reining in the “absolute power” of the financial system, which he said would bring more crises.

The Vatican said that in certain areas of the derivatives markets there’s an “ethical void which becomes more serious as these products are negotiated on the so-called markets with less regulation (over the counter) and are exposed more to the markets regulated by chance, if not by fraud, and thus take away vital life-lines and investments to the real economy.”

A similar assessment can be “applied for those uses of credit default swap (CDS: they are particular insurance contracts for the risk of bankruptcy) that permit gambling at the risk of the bankruptcy of a third party, even to those who haven’t taken any such risk of credit earlier, and really to repeat such operations on the same event, which is absolutely not consented to by the normal pact or insurance,” according to the document.

Income inequality is a priority concern for Francis, who has made humility a distinguishing feature of his papacy. He refused to live in the opulent Apostolic Palace, choosing a guest house for Church officials near St. Peter’s Basilica instead. He uses an old Ford Focus to get around the Vatican and Rome. source

 


 

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Former Anthropic Researcher Jacob Coxon Warns That 2027 Is The Year That AI Will Begin To Go Rogue And No One Cares

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They Know It Could Destroy Us And They’re Building It Anyway As Anthropic AI Researcher Jacob Coxon Sounds The Alarm Over The Coming Artificial Intelligence Revolution Of 2027

Something extraordinary is happening in the world of artificial intelligence, and the people who understand the danger better than almost anyone are beginning to sound the alarm. Jacob Coxon is not some conspiracy theorist making wild predictions about the future. He is a highly trained AI researcher who spent approximately three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, helping develop some of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems ever created. Then, in September 2026, he abruptly walked away from Anthropic, sacrificing a potentially enormous financial payday to warn humanity about what is coming. Why would he do that? Great question.

“And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” Genesis 11:6 (KJB)

Coxon believes that 2027 will mark the beginning of recursive self-improving artificial intelligence, where machines become capable of developing increasingly powerful versions of themselves at speeds human beings cannot match. And here’s the truly disturbing part: the scientists building these systems are warning of potentially catastrophic consequences, the companies funding them recognize the risks, and yet the race continues because nobody wants to finish second. The pursuit of money, power and technological supremacy has created an industry willing to gamble with humanity’s future rather than surrender its competitive advantage. And Jacob Coxon is hardly the only insider sounding the alarm. Anthropic alignment researcher Evan Hubinger publicly supported his concerns and said he personally estimated the probability of artificial intelligence causing human extinction within the next decade at greater than ten percent. 10%!!


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On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, THEY KNOW THE DANGER. THEY KNOW THE RISKS. THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO CONTROL IT. AND THEY’RE BUILDING IT ANYWAY. What makes this so astonishing is not simply the danger of what mankind is creating, but the willingness of those who recognize that danger to continue accelerating toward it. We are watching a civilization become so intoxicated with its own technological accomplishments that it has forgotten the difference between possessing the power to create something and possessing the wisdom to control it.

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The Ugly End Times Fruit Of Rick Warren And ‘The Purpose Driven Church’ Are In Full Bloom At Megacorporations Like Eleven22 And Lakepoint Church

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The Ugly End Times Fruit Of Rick Warren’s ‘The Purpose Driven Church’ Is In Full Bloom As Megachurch Expansion Turns Congregations Into Corporate Empires

If you weren’t aware that we are firmly in the Laodicean church age, take a good look at what now passes for success in American Christianity. Over the past twenty years, we have watched the corporatizing of the local church accelerate. The pastor becomes a celebrity, the congregation becomes an audience, the church becomes a campus, and the ministry becomes a brand capable of expansion into one market after another. Somewhere along the way, feeding the flock gets swallowed up by growing the organization. The machinery demands more buildings, more locations, more employees, and more money to keep it all moving. Eleven22 and Lakepoint Church need another half billion to keep the lights on. How is that possible? It’s possible because the Bible is right and here we are.

“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:14-16 (KJB)

A major landmark on that road was Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Church, published in 1995, which offered pastors a reproducible, five-part strategy for ‘church growth’. Warren presented it as a way to build healthy churches, but it wasn’t. The movement he helped popularize taught American Christianity to place far too much confidence in systems, strategies, and measurable, marketable growth. Once numerical success becomes the credential, the biggest operation gets treated as the greatest work of God. That is a spiritually disastrous exchange. At that point, you are not planting a church, you are opening up a francise and starting a business. Rick Warren in his book led the charge to get rid of hymnals, put everything up on a flatscreen, and change the name of each franchise from ‘church’ to ‘campus’. Today, the Church at Eleven22 and Lakepointe Church are the standardbearers of the business model, um, I mean, movement he started. Jesus will absolutely spue this out of His mouth in that day.

So let’s look at two organizations whose operations who are rocking The Purpose Driven Church model to such a high degree, The Church of Eleven22, led by Joby Martin, and Lakepointe Church, led by Josh Howerton. Eleven22’s own 2025 report lists $91.1 million in annual support and revenue, $176.3 million in assets, $56.6 million in long-term debt, and $24.8 million in staffing expenses. Its capital spending for expansion totaled $16.2 million. Alongside its church operations are thrift stores, a retreat center, and a construction-management ministry. What?? Blueprint1122 advertises $200 million in projects under management. This is not only church ‘business’, it’s big business.

Lakepointe is asking its people to participate in a $225 million giving initiative called Into The Breach covering December 2026 through December 2028. That includes ordinary giving, with $135 million designated for ongoing general ministries, $62 million for expansion and strategic projects, and $28 million for missions. The campaign connects financial commitments with a two-year discipleship journey. If you watched the video posted above and don’t feel nauseous, you might want to do a quick spiritual checkup to make sure you’re still “in the faith”.

Another thing that you see when you look, is the incredible insincerity of the “pastors” who are running the “big show”. Not only are these campuses started according to a replicatable business model that’s available for purchase, another thing you can buy are the sermons you will preach in the pulpit. Evidentially, the “jokes” are thrown in as a package deal. Christian, this is not the church that Jesus started, this is the church that Paul warns against. This is big business, plain and simple. The photo at the top of this article is not real, it was made with AI. And that’s fitting because the churches we’re talking about aren’t real churches, either. Welcome to Laodicea.

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Newly-Elected Senator Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Ominously Calls Michigan The New Islamic ‘Capital Of Arab America’

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Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Calls Michigan ‘The Capital Of Arab America’ As His Senate Victory Raises Questions About Political Islam, Progressive Power And Religious Freedom

“Michigan is the capital of Arab America.” That was Abdul El-Sayed’s declaration just days after winning election to the United States Senate. With Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez having campaigned for him, his victory represents a consequential development in progressive politics. In America, Democratic Socialism is on the rise, Liberalism is on the rise, and apparently so is Islam. Americans have every right to examine what this coalition intends to do with its growing influence. An election victory begins the accountability, it does not end the debate.

“And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” Genesis 16:12 (KJB)

We are seeing this weird pairing of Democratic Socialism with Islam on the rise, at the same time that a large portion of America seems to be turning against the Jews and national Israel. The American experiment that was started 250 years ago is one of the most unique governments in human history, but it has an Achilles heel that’s often overlooked. Under our system of government, anyone who meets the requirements can run for office and potentially win. Most of the people who get in are largely loyal to the documents written the Founding Fathers. What would happen if the LGBTQ were to suddenly hold a majority in our government, what type of laws might be passed there? What would happen if Muslims were to gain a majority of political power, what would that look like for Christians? We have written many articles over the years about something called ‘biological Jihad’, the non-violent way for Islam to get a foothold. When Abdul El-Sayed remarked that “Michigan is the capital of Arab America.”, that’s something that should make any American with a memory stand up and take notice of.


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  • Today is day 1,719 of the Russia-Ukraine War
  • Today is day 2,429 of 15 Days To Flatten The Curve
  • Today is day 254 of World War Trump in Iran
  • Today is day 28,669 of The Regathering Of Israel

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, America is a nation that is currently undergoing a severe, and some would say, radical change in 2026. Watching Islam and Democratic Socialism gaining power is sickening, but if prophecy is any guide, it’s also inevitable. Today we give you everything you need to know about Progressive America, and what 2027 might look like. And tick, tock, goes the end times clock.

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  • “You are truly an end time ministry and I appreciate how our Precious Lord is using you to educate his very own flock. There is a lot of confusion , but your ministry is putting scripture in the right prospective. Thank-you so so much Geoffrey S Grider for standing firm and putting in a lot of hours of your time. God Bless You , also your Ministry and your family. IN JESUS MIGHT NAME.” T. Muto
  • “Jesus. I am now 64 years old and never in all the years I’ve been a Christian was I able to grow in the Lord as much as I have in the last past year. All because of our blessed brother’s work Geoffrey Grider who as the bravery of standing fast forward without fear of claiming the truth of God by the power of his love in Jesus Christ. May God bless you abundantly to the end my dear brother… ROMANS: 8: 36,37,38” Mireille Anderson
  • “I met you at the car dealership earlier this year. We spoke briefly, then you handed me a card and told me to check out the website. You left. A few minutes later, you returned to tell me not to forget to look up the website. I told you…” I already did. I already subscribed.” In that short time we spoke, I experienced from you…a total stranger…peace, joy, kindness, gentleness, compassion, and love. I am convinced that God sent you to share the Good News that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. For that, and for the work you are doing for the Kingdom of God, I say…Thank you and God Bless You.” Sonia Merced
  • “I really enjoy the emails and Bible studies! I haven’t found a church and enjoy your services very much! Be blessed brother!” Marcia Mann
  • “You and your organization are on the front lines in the Battle For Truth…. current events, end times, and trying to awaken a sleeping Laodicean Church. Thank you brother for fighting for us and all your teaching and insight God bless…” Daniel Cartrette
  • I just want to thank you for the teachings you give every Sunday night on radio.  You are such a blessing to me. I absolutely love your way of teaching the scriptures.  I don’t have a church where I can have fellowship and teaching, so you have been my teacher for many months now. Thanks God you are there for all of us who have no church to go to.  I pray that the Lord will bless you abundantly in your ministry, and your loved ones too.  You are such a blessing to me, and many others, in these last days before the rapture.  Thank you so much Geoffrey, from the bottom of my heart. May the Lord keep you, until He comes back for us. You are in my prayers.” Donald Godin
  • “Thank you for the work  you are doing brother.  Your page and your testimony were a blessing to me this morning as I came across it for the first time.  Thank you for the reality of your testimony and what God has done for you in introducing you to Jesus our Lord.  God has brought me, in salvation, to Himself as well, through His love and mercy and grace in salvation.  How can we praise Him enough?  How can we not share this good news!?  I pray this day for God’s blessing on your ministry that He may save many souls through the work He has called you to.  Isaiah 40:31 (KJV)” Mark and Melissa
  • “Love the Sunday night bible study. I want to support someone who has the passion for the lost like Geoffrey does and rightly divides the word of God. God bless you.” Teresa Carey
  • “I give because not many news outlets are brave enough or Godly enough to tell these stories from a Christian’s point of view. I see stories here that will not be seen anywhere else.” William Grayshaw
  • “It’s hard to find solid biblical teaching in America these days. It’s a blessing to be able to take part in a ministry financially without being concerned about false teaching. All glory to God! God bless!” Maximilian Swan
  • “I donate because you are reporting the truth about the increasing wickedness of our time, as God’s word foretold. In so doing we are reminded to “Keep looking up” as we wait in joyful hope for the Lord’s coming, Maranatha! ” Anthony Sloane
  • “Geoffrey has the best End Times News out there. I have been receiving his emails for years now and always enjoy his Sunday night messages although I don’t always think exactly as he thinks. We are all in this “boat of life” together and as I come to the end of my life’s journey here, I am more aware of Jesus’s call for us to be one as He and the Father are One.” Deborah Cleaveland

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But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORT…TO THE FIGHT!!!

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJB)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB

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