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Speaker 2: What if I told you the Illuminati was real?
Speaker 3: But the version people talk about today is usually a
mix of history, some fear, a lot of exaggeration, and
sometimes a little bit of propaganda. Now some people say
that it's a global shadow government.
Speaker 2: What do we need so many human.
Speaker 3: Others say it's just a meme. What's actually true? Today,
We're gonna look at two things. We're gonna look at
the re Illuminati, what it was, how it started, and
why it got shut down. And we're also going to
look at the modern claims speculations you were both in.
Speaker 2: Still involved the secret society.
Speaker 3: What's plausible and how Christians should respond without falling into
being naive or paranoid. Let's get into it a secret
society that once existed Illuminati. The Illuminati was real, but
it didn't exist forever. The Illuminati was a secret society
found in Bavaria, Germany. It begun on May one, seventeen
seventy six, and it only lasted about nine years until
seventeen eighty five. It didn't rule the world. It did
not last for centuries. It was organized, it was ideological
and dangerous enough that the government had to crush it.
Bavarian leadership outlawed this Illuminati under Duke Carl Theodore. It
arrested the members, and it also seized important documents that
actually exposed this group's ideas and methods. At its peak,
it was reported that the Illuminati had from two thousand
to three thousand members. They used the following tactics that
actually should sound similar and familiar to us. Members spied
on each other. They sought influence rather than publicity. They
also infiltrated Masonic lodges, using existing networks to.
Speaker 2: Spread their ideology.
Speaker 3: Their reach extended beyond Bavaria into parts of Friends, Poland, Austria, Switzerland,
and Italy. Now, who was the one that started this Illuminati.
It was a guy named Adam, and he was educated
law professor at this particular university, and he was shaped
by the Enlightenment thinking, a period where many thinkers elevated
reason as the final authority and often pushed religion out
of the public square.
Speaker 2: His aim, this.
Speaker 3: Guy's Adam's aim was actually not just self improvement or brotherhood.
It was political and it was spiritual. His core goals
that were tied to his ideology were to replace faith
with reason as a supreme authority, to weaken the influence
of the church, and to undermine monarchies in favor of
revolutionary republican systems. His goal was also to reshape society
from the shadows through education, influence, and strategy. Does that
sound familiar now? This is what made the Illuminati especially manipulative.
They did have hidden levels of initiation. Not everyone in
the group was told the same thing. Lower level initiates
were given Christian friendly language and mild rituals. The higher
ranking members were exposed to more radical teachings like atheism, rebellion,
secret knowledge, and occultic ideas. Top levels were often associated
with deeper things, things that had to do with occultic
rituals and claims for higher enlightenment and so forth and
so on. In other words, it was stage. You start
with the Christian language, then you move into some secret
knowledge away from Christianity, and then you go into just
deeper and deeper darkness and the occult.
Speaker 2: So you didn't join and get the full truth.
Speaker 3: You earned this access and by then you were invested
and pretty much they lured you in. So it was
a lot of control through secrecy, and it was a
lot of loyalty through gradual exposure. And so this guy
Adam didn't do it alone. He had a guy that
helped him to organize. The major figure of the Illuminati
was Bearing Adolph volk Nagi. I'm not sure I'm pronouncing
his last name correct, but he's the one that helped
to shape the Illuminati into actually a structure system with
secret degrees, very similar to freemasonry. And this gave them
a rank and hierarchy. This gave them a recruitment structure.
This gave them discipline and the feeling that you are
special because you know what others don't. And because some
members were wealthy nobles and officials, their approach wasn't open
revolution at first, and it was really more about influence.
It was about quiet power and strategic placement and so
but unfortunately these shadows did not stay hidden forever. So
by seventeen eighty four, Bavarian authorities discovered the NAIs anti
religion and anti monarchist agenda, and they outlawed these secret
societies by seventeen eighty five, there was actually a specific
action against these groups like the Illuminati, and so the
main guy, Adam, who founded this thing, he lost his
job and he fled, and then the raids started. By
seventeen eighty six, police raided the member's homes and they
found disturbing materials, including secret documents involving poisons, invisible inks,
and fake seals. They also found instructions involving abortions and
methods to increase sexual desire in women, framed as techniques
possibly to be used for control or manipulation. They had
plans connected to sabotage and revolutionary disruptions. So, whether every
claim surrounding these documents gets exaggerated or not, the bigger
point is this, the government believed that they were dangerous
enough to shut down completely, and they had documents in
hand to justify it. So if the original Illuminati died,
why does the name still dominate our modern culture everywhere.
Let's look at the following two things. First, is there
is the Bavarian Illuminati. It was historical documented and dismantled.
There's a modern Illuminati talk it's a label that people
use for shadow power, elite networks. Manipulation and spiritual darkness.
There's a key distinction. There is really no confirmed evidence
that one single organization called the Illuminati is controlling the
entire world today. Now, before you log off and start
attacking me in the comments, please listen to the following.
But it's also naive to pretend that powerful people don't network,
do not influence culture and protect their interests. So there
are two major modern theories, and that is the Illuminati
as a global elite running everything in the world. That's
a very popular idea that a hidden group of elites politicians, bankers,
corporate leaders, and celebrities control all the world events. They
manipulate politics towards the new world order. They control media
narratives to shape everyone's perception. They engineer crisis, wars and
economic instability to consolidate power. Now, is there any proof
that one single Illuminati headquarters runs everything?
Speaker 2: There is not.
Speaker 3: Is it true that powerful people and institutions influence culture, policy,
and everything absolutely through money, through media, through lobbying, and
through networks. Are there all under the umbrella of the
one the prints of the air. Absolutely, So, as Christians,
we shouldn't be gullible, but we also should not be
addicted to speculation. Now the second side of it, there
are secret societies, there are closed door networks, and there
are the occult. So though the original Illuminati as an
organization is gone, the secretive exclusive groups still exists. They
exist everywhere. They exist in Hollywood, they exist in the
fashion industry, they exist in politics, and they exist in media.
And so there are groups, for example like build a
Berg group the private meetings of high level leaders and
influencers and official described as informal discussions. But secrecy does
fuel a lot of suspicion. Freemasonry fraternal organization with historical
ties to very influential leaders. Most members are not plotting
maybe world domination, but there is secrecy that raises a
lot of questions for many. And I have a whole
video on Freemasonry, and there's some crazy stuff that's happening there.
Bohemian Groove, which is elite governing with rumors of a
lot of rituals and private policy talks. Skull and Bones
in Yale, a secretive college society with noble members in
politics and intelligence. I remember hearing from the makeup industry
a person who was talking about in Hollywood how they
have secret meetings as well as people who are actors
in Hollywood, and they do rituals, demonic, straight up rituals. Now,
do these people claim to control all of the world
and they have the most powerful people in their groups. No,
sometimes they over exaggerate the power they have, but Satan
does work through these shadow witchcraft occultic groups. Now none
of these are confirmed to be the Illuminati, but they
do show us something that elite circles exist. Decisions can
be shaped behind closed doors that influence the course of
the world and spiritually, as Christians, we should be alert
to any system that normalizes a cult and darkness, mocks holiness,
and treats people like tools. Now, this is the part
that I really wanted to get to, and that is
the Illuminati ideas they live on through revolutionary progressive ideologies today.
And this is what I want to talk about, and
that is this, while the organization died, their philosophy and
the Bible says in the last days there will be
a doctrine of demons and these ideas they do resemble.
This guy who founded the Illuminati, Adam his goals. For example,
idea number one that is surviving today and penetrating the society,
and it's as dangerous as what the Illuminati was doing,
and that is to eliminate religion. Now, this guy Adam,
he wanted the reason to replace and many communist systems
historically suppressed Christianity and promote atheism. And those are the
philosophies that are still thriving today in the world. Number
two is reject traditional authority. And so this guy who
founded Illuminati, he opposed monarchy and any religious authority. So
modern movements often attack institutions like the family, the church,
national identity, and biblical morality, and they want to throw
all of this stuff away. And we see the rise
of that in our culture. Now, well, I say that
this is the Illuminati. No, but is this the philosophy
and the doctrine of demons that the Illuminati was really
based on.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: The third thing is the philosophies that are still existing
today is the promoting of the moral decay, a hyper
sexualized culture, a confusion about your jen and hostility toward
biblical truth and biblical holiness can function lack a spiritual sabotage,
whether it's organized or not, whether it's under the umbrella
of the Illuminati, or is simply put in as a
cultural relevance, tolerance, empathy, and all of that stuff. The
fourth thing is centralized power and control. This ideology is
being spread throughout the world today and so many people
fall for it. It's a push toward globalism, mass surveillance,
centralized authority, and these systems really have the same drive
control people through systems, narratives, and through fear. That are
countries like China, North Korea, Cuba, places where suppression of
religion and centralized state control are not a theory, it's
a reality. Even what we see with the rise of
globalization of bringing everybody together. Now, at first some of
you may seem like, oh, that's a great idea.
Speaker 2: It's unity.
Speaker 3: It's not unity, it is washing away each nation's separate identity.
And then it's really paving the way for the coming
of the Antichrist. And we saw this duty in COVID
where it was really a rehearsal for globalization of the world,
where they were able to shut down the whole world,
where they were able to penalize the whole world, where
they were able to almost push this thing where now
your passport is really your COVID JAB. So in the West,
we see the similar goals can appear, but a lot
of times they're dressed in a very different language. It's
seen as progress unity and the cost of spiritual compromise
is often ignored. And so how should we as Christians
respond without being paranoid, angry, or obsessed. Well, the first
thing that we need to re and that is real
battle is more spiritual. The Bible does not deny the
reality of darkness. It actually exposes and it tells us
straight up Ephusian six twelve that if you only see
human enemies, you'll fight the wrong war in the wrong way.
The second thing we must remember is we shouldn't be
shocked by deception secret societies.
Speaker 2: They thrive on being hidden.
Speaker 3: Scripture tells us that Satan loves the disguise, he transforms
himself into an image of light second Corinthians eleven fourteen.
So deception will often feel intelligent, it often feels enlightened,
but in reality it leads to darkness. The third thing
we need to remember is to recognize the danger of
replacing God with human wisdom. See the Illuminati always emphasize
the reason over faith, the reason over supernatural, and Scripture
actually calls that a path into spiritual separation and darkness.
The fool said in his heart there is no God
Psalm fourteen one. Romans one describes a downward spiral of
people who reject God while claiming wisdom. Romans one twenty
two says, although they claimed to be wise, they became full.
So never embrace form and deny its power, wisdom of
this world, and deny the reality of the supernatural. Number
four is we have to discern the Antichrist spirit in
these godless movements. Not every movement is the Illuminati, but
the spirit of Antichrist is real. Anything that systematically opposes Christ,
exalts self and reason as God, and wars against Godliness
and biblical standards is the spirit of Antichrist in operation.
First John two eighteen says, now many Antichrists have come.
I believe there is going to be the Antichrist that
will come at the end. There have many Antichrists that
resembled him that have come. But the spirit of Antichrist
and many of those demons who are operating under that
assignment are in the works today, and they're specially seen
in secret societies.
Speaker 2: The fifth thing is.
Speaker 3: You gotta stay watchful, alert without being weird. Now, Jesus
didn't call Christians to panic. He also didn't call us
to subscribe to every conspiracy theory. And I understand some
of you may push back and you're like lad Well.
A lot of these conspiracy theories are becoming true. Evidence
is coming up.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: But Matthew twenty four four says, take heed that no
one deceives you first. The Salonias five to twenty one
says test all things and hold on to what is good.
So Christians should be informed but not obsessed. We gotta
be bold but not paranoid. And we gotta stay focused
on our purpose, not staying focused on conspiracy theory.
Speaker 2: So here's the bottom line.
Speaker 3: The historical Illuminati was real, It was ideological, but it
was dismantal. The deeper issue is not the name, but
its philosophy and pattern of secrecy, manipulation, rebellion against God,
systems that try to reshape society while cutting out the Creator.
As believers, we don't jump into fear and panic. We
don't chase conspiracies. We chase Christ and his purpose. We
don't obsess with what the darkness is doing. We walk
in the light, because at the end of histories, it
will not be the secret societies that will win and
control the world. It will be the King of kings
and the Lord of lords.
Speaker 2: So here's a question for you.
Speaker 3: Do you think the Illuminati today is the actual organization
or do you think is just the label used for
hidden societies and powers that exist in our world today.
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