Satan Is Under Our Feet!

Here's the truth of the matter. Satan is under our feet. For truth, here again is Dr. Michael Brown. He is utterly dark. He is the epitome of what it means to be diabolical.

To be diabolical is to be the devil. We must expose him for who he is. Welcome, friends, to the Line of Fire broadcast.

This is Michael Brown. Here's the number to call. 866-344-TRUTH. 866-348-7884. If you yourself were delivered from Satanism, if you yourself used to actively live on what we would call the dark side and Jesus really changed your life, by all means give us a call. Tell us what the transformation was like.

866-348-7884. A lot of other things I want to talk to you about today, but let's start here. So, last few days there's just been big hubbub about the announcement of these Satan sneakers. Just check out this tweet. So, Lil Moss X, openly gay, very, very popular rapper, especially with kids, working with Mischief, M-S-C-H-F, and Air Max 97 Satan shoes. They're releasing March 29, 666 pairs.

They're made each individually numbered containing one drop of human blood from a staff member. Mischief and 60 CCs of ink, they will retail for $1,018, and there's some really demonic pictures of Lil Moss X. Okay, on the one hand, another ridiculous publicity stunt, something in and of itself that is stupid, something in and of itself that doesn't deserve our attention, especially when there's so much satanic evil in the society. However, we don't want to downplay the fact that this rapper for whom we pray, we pray that he'll come to know the God that he rejects and mocks and resists, and we come to—we pray that he will come to understand the foolishness of exalting anything to do with Satan, that he's not just a figment of people's imaginations or some good being posing as bad. No, he is, as I said, darkness and darkness only. He masquerades as an angel of light, but he only brings destruction and pain and degradation. That's who he is. That's what he does.

Jesus says that he's been a murderer and a liar from the beginning. But here's the real reason for concern is because the popularity of Lil Moss X. Look at this article in NPR. Look at the headline. Lil Moss X says children are his core audience right now, and that's okay.

Children as in little children. Let's scroll down in this article, and for those who are watching, look at this. There he is on Sesame Street. Let's go down a little further than that article.

Lil Moss on Sesame Street posing next to one of their beloved puppets. Let's go down a little further in the article, and you can see a picture of Lil Moss X in front of elementary school children, okay? Now look, the reality is that this same company put out a Jesus sneaker with holy water like a year something ago, and this was attached to Nike sneakers.

Like I said, no, no, we've got nothing to do with this. We have no connection to these sneakers. Even Nike wanted to distance themselves from the Satan sneakers. It's Lil Moss and his influence.

That's the bigger issue to me. His lostness and the kids that he influences. Look at this tweet from him. Look at what he says. He says, I literally sing about lean. Wasn't even familiar with that term, lean, but a particular drug.

I literally sing about lean and adultery in Old Town Road, a super popular song of his. You decided to let your children listen. Blame yourself.

That's the issue. The sneakers, okay, stupid publicity stunt, whatever. Now everybody's talking about Lil Moss. Now we're finding out who he is, and so on, and getting more attention to his latest song, and okay, obviously you do things like that.

You make a limited number of copies of these, and it's here today, gone tomorrow. But it's the glorifying of Satan for his audience, and now that's the cool thing for the kids. That's my big issue. When you have horrific songs like W.O.P., and they become number one in the nation, and you think, okay, it's bad enough for adults to be into that, degrading songs like that, but the kids, they don't even know what they're singing in the moves they're making. They don't understand, but they're getting polluted with this. This is what concerns me more, the pollution of children, and then the presence of real evil in this world.

That's a far greater concern to me than the sneakers. It's the presence of real evil in this world, the the attack on children, selling little children to be trafficked sexually. I mean, horrors like that, the ongoing epidemic of abortion, the breakdown of the family, these are the satanic things that concern me more, and all the more do we want to pray for this man to come to know Jesus.

There would be people who are far worse sinners than him that God has saved, especially when people act in ignorance and unbelief. But here's the real irony of the whole thing. Let's take a look at the sneaker itself, and on the one hand it's got, say, this one's six out of 666, so this is sneaker number six out of a run of 666. That's in the back. But on the front side it says, Luke 10 18. Now why in the world would you put that scripture on your shoe? If you're glorifying Satan and you've got, you know, upside down cross and pentagram and these other images and and all this stuff, why in the world would you do that?

Well, what does it say here? Jesus sends out his 70 to preach, drive out demons, heal the sick. They come back. The 70 return with joy saying, Master, even the demons submit to us in your name. And Jesus said to him, Yeshua said to them, I was watching Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Or other translations say, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. So either he's saying, I was there when he was cast out of heaven and he rebelled in the first place, or when you were going out driving out demons, I was watching him fall like lightning from heaven. And then he says this, behold, I've given you authority to trample upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. That's verse 19.

Nothing will harm you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names have been written in heaven. Okay, maybe the point of putting that scripture is to say Satan's fallen to the earth, whatever, but it speaks of his fall. Satan's fallen. And in Jesus, Satan's under our feet.

The real lesson from these stupid sneakers, the real lesson is that Satan is under our feet in Jesus. We have authority over him. He's not our master. He's not our Lord.

His power is broken over our lives through the cross and the resurrection. And many of you watching and listening can say, yeah, that happened to me. I was bound. I was a slave. I was a slave to fear. I was a slave to drugs. I was a slave to sex.

I was a slave to greed or lust or anger or violence or whatever it was and Jesus liberated you. Satan has been defeated and we must now exercise our authority in Jesus and bring the message of liberation and freedom to the world. May this publicity ploy bring about a wave of prayer for the salvation of low-loss, an awareness to parents of the garbage that they're letting their kids take in and what is available for them and then a renewed desire for us to go out and set captives free.

You know, bigger concerns I would have would be this here. Let's look at this news. This is from a few years ago. The Blasphemy Challenge.

It goes back to 2007. This was a movement then where people were invited to post videos saying they blasphemed the Lord and this was to say we're gonna commit the unpardonable sin. There was a move afoot to do this and I have no question whatsoever, no question that there were people who recorded those videos that are now believers today. As I was watching them, little children were doing it, as I was watching this stuff I said there's no question whatsoever that these people who are blaspheming the name of the Lord and rejecting him, they don't know what they're saying. They're not committing the unpardonable sin. They're mouthing words but they don't understand the meaning of those words and there'll be people who record videos one day and are saved the next. But see, that points to a bigger trend which concerns me, which is the ongoing dropping out of the faith, especially of younger people. They're not finding answers in church or they're finding church too politicized or other things like that.

That's what would concern me more than these sneakers. Something like that. Or this.

How about this? The Satanic Temple. Dallas Observer reports the Satanic Temple says Texas abortion laws violate religious liberty so they're filing suit.

Let's just read down in this article for a moment to see their argument. The Satanic Temple filed a lawsuit against Texas alleging certain state mandated abortion regulations violate the religious liberty of its members. They say regulations such as those that require women seeking an abortion to undergo a sonogram and examine the results, read about abortion, sit on a mandatory waiting period, violate the temple's religious teachings. The Satanic Temple, which describes itself as a non-theistic branch of Satanism, wants its followers to be exempt from such regulations.

The temple has members across the country including in Texas. It's legal to get an abortion in Texas but the procedure is banned after 20 weeks unless a life-threatening medical condition is involved or the fetus has a severe abnormality. If a person is eligible, the state requires them to get a sonogram and receive paperwork about medical risks, adoption alternatives, and developmental stages of the fetus.

According to the ACLU, some of the information provided in this paperwork is false. The state then requires a woman to wait 24 hours after receiving the sonogram and paperwork before she can go through with the abortion. The day-long wait is not required for those who live a hundred miles or more away from the nearest abortion provider. But the temple's members, look at this, this is of greater concern to me than the sneakers. But the temple's members consider abortion a ritualistic process according to its co-founder and spokesperson, Lucian Graves. The ritual is meant to take the shame and guilt away from the person receiving the procedure affirming their choice. The state regulations disrupt this ritual, Greve said.

We have a distinct kind of procedure for this and in no part of this do we include getting sonograms or any other medically unnecessary acts as are required in Texas. Therefore the imposition of those things we feel is a violation of our religious liberty. That is more grievous to me and of greater concern than the sneakers except for the fact the kids are being exposed to this. All this to say Satan's active. His power has been broken but he's active. It's up to us to go and expose him. We'll be right back. It's the Line of Fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. I've got a little bit more to share about this whole issue of Satanism and satanic influence in society but then I'm gonna pivot a dramatic pivot and respond to a tweet asking me about the vaccine and the mark of the beast. The vaccine being some type of part of an end-time world controlled domination by an Antichrist figure or government. So that leads me to a question to ask each of you eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four.

Here's my question. Did you get vaccinated for COVID? If so, why did you choose to do it? If not, why have you chosen not to do it? Love to hear from you. Eight six six three four truth.

Did you get vaccinated or not and why did you or why have you not gotten vaccinated? So I'll come to that at the moment and I'm not, listen, a complete pivot. I am not going from Satanism to a natural next subject. The vaccine, no that's not it.

It's stop, hard stop, next subject. Okay so here's what I want to point out. Sometimes we get all worked up over the latest publicity stunt. Oh, satanic sneakers. Look, the big issue, the big issue is not satanic sneakers, the big issue is all the evil in society. All the injustice, all the corruption, all the hurt, all the pain, all the destruction, the murder, the rape, the terrible things that take place all the time in our society.

Things that take place on a daily basis. Kids dying of drug overdoses, families being torn apart, one thing after another, hardship, difficulty, pain, human beings making choices, but Satan driving so much of his with his destruction. That's what should concern us more than just the latest publicity stunt is something satanic because you know the moment you talk about it everybody, this is it, this is big news.

And I thought I'll downplay this and then everywhere I turn people talking about it, Christian leaders talking about it, others defending it, political people, the Nike win, so it is out there. So again the biggest takeaway for me is remember Satan's under your feet in Jesus and let's pray for Lil Nas X. Let's pray for him to really come to know the one true God, likely the God he's never ever been exposed to. Probably never met him or encountered him. Maybe he didn't rejected him, but my guess would be he's never really encountered him and doesn't even know the love of God.

And maybe he's experienced rejection by the church for being gay, but I don't know that he's known the conviction of the Spirit and the love of God to draw him in. So let's let's pray for him and then let's be alert as to what our kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, whatever it is, what they're taking in, what they're being exposed to. Look, I remember in the 60s I didn't see the the movie but it was the big sensation everybody talking about it. Rosemary's Baby. You know there I'm looking at a graphic now and and it was an iconic movie and way out there and it ends up basically she gives birth to Satan's spawn.

Again I didn't I didn't see the movie but well that was like 1968. The point is this stuff has been around. Satanic stuff, sensationalistic stuff about the devil. This has been around and Satan has been at work all these centuries and sometimes it's in very overt ways and sometimes it's more covert ways. The more a society believes in the supernatural and the paranormal then the more overt Satan often is the more society is is is irreligious and more intellectually oriented and and rejecting the myths and fables and superstitions and things like that you know what they're thinking and their rationalism he may come in in a more subtle way but he's been at work. Ultimately though we are responsible. No one can say the devil made me do it because we have to open the door to him one way or another for him to get in and take possession.

I remember during the days of the Brownsville revival in Pensacola Florida from 95 to 2,000 and I served as a leader there from 96 to 2,000 and raised up the ministry school where the fruit continues to to remain and grow around the world. Well I I had heard about a woman a witch who had been wonderfully born again but she was she was raised in a family of witches and it was multi-generational she was either third or fourth generation witch in her family and she lived among other witches and this woman was really genuinely demonized I mean the real thing and she she came to Brownsville she got wonderfully born-again wonderfully transformed set free it's like a different person I wasn't there when she initially testified but some people unwisely told her hey it's fine if you go back to your old environment because you're a new person well she went back to her old environment and around all these witches and with family members who were witches she fell under satanic power again so I come into a room one day before the services are gonna start one night and my colleague of Angela Steve Hill is down on one knee and he's praying over a woman who is literally laying on the floor and he is speaking to a demon in this one I saw this with my eyes and this woman had the deepest huskiest voice I've ever heard I mean a may a deep male voice that was far huskier and male sounding than I thought what kind of woman is huh Wow never heard a woman with a voice like that and Steve is saying you will leave in Jesus name hey this stuff happened in the Bible where does it say it stopped show me in the Bible where it says that disciples will drive out demons then but then it stops where where is it has the devil stopped have demons stopped so why do we stop driving them out in Jesus name I'm not talking about the Exorcist movie it's got to be like that I'm talking about just doing what the Bible says so my friend Steve is is standing over kneeling by her and speaks to this demonic spirit you're leaving in Jesus name and argues back in funny says go in Jesus name she kind of shudders the next thing gone and then she sits up Oh Steve I'm so embarrassed about what happened well that was the real lady the other was the spirit speaking through I saw with my eyes you may think it's crazy but hey do you believe the Bible it's in the Bible and these things have happened over the centuries around the world to this day Satan is a destroyer we have authority over him in Jesus name but we don't play games with the devil it's not wise and we don't go around mocking him and picking a fight in the same way we don't go around minimizing the real damage that he does so that's what I wanted to say about the satanic sneakers and I wanted to remind you of the authority we have in Jesus but but don't don't play games don't experiment let's see how far out I can get in the water before I drown though that's not wisdom to do that eight six six three four truth okay let's go over to this tweet that I got so full pivot full pivot a woman I think woman from the picture I wonder if dr. Michael L Brown would reconsider his position about the vaccine being the pretext for the mark of the beast now the Christians won't be able to participate in free commerce without it sounds like what the Bible described to me okay so when kovat 19 hit little over a year ago we started getting news about it the first article that I wrote March early March of 2020 was to say this looks very serious and deadly but it is not a plague from the book of Revelation it is not one of the final plagues that the Bible speaks about it looks serious and deadly but it is not one of the final plagues written about in the Bible that was the point that I made and I subsequently wrote a book wrote in eight days started March 18th came out finished March 26 then came out just a few weeks later when the world stops still very relevant one year later words of faith hope and wisdom in the midst of crisis and I reiterated that same position in the book well now the next question comes up what about the vaccine because the Bible in the book of Revelation describes the day well there'll be this Antichrist ruler and and and everyone will have to worship him and they'll have to have proof of worshiping him get this quote mark of the beast and if they won't get it they won't be able to buy or sell so here's someone saying hey look if you have this and you have to have a kovat vaccine passport you have to have proof that you got vaccinated maybe you won't be able to travel into certain countries maybe you won't be able to go to work maybe you won't be able to go to school maybe you won't be able to do business is isn't that what the mark of the beast describes so here's my position which remains exactly as it was before my position remains completely unchanged that it shows you how something like this could happen on a world level it is a parallel type of situation and that you may be required to do something in order to live normal lives but it is not the mark of the beast because the beast is not here it's not the mark of the beast because the Antichrist is not here it's not the mark of the beast because there is not the one world government that would be required it's not the mark of the beast because we're not being required to worship something other than God. Certain sectors of society believe that the vaccine is essential and that you have to protect others who are not vaccinated and therefore require the vaccine to virus. Now if it's forced then we have another issue. If it gets to being forced we have an issue. It's a parallel type of question.

What if in good conscience you can't get vaccinated or you don't want to get vaccinated but you're required to in order to live a normal life or do normal commerce, what are you? That's a much more major question to address but that doesn't make it the mark of the beast. For there to be a mark of the beast there needs to be a beast. There needs to be an Antichrist. There needs to be that final world ruler that we are required to worship. So again it shows us how something like this could happen and there are parallels but no this is not the mark of the beast. Anyway if you got vaccinated tell me why you did it why you didn't hesitate to do it or decided ultimately to do it and if you feel you don't want to you shouldn't it's not right either health reasons or spiritual reasons give me a call tell me why eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four a lot more to come it's the line of fire with your host dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling eight six six three four truth here again is dr. Michael Brown you know I was working on an article last night about the role of the church in every generation and and we tend to paint things in overly extreme terms this is the worst the world has ever been and we've got to save American turn the tide the reality is the world's been messed up since the fall of man just think of it the firstborn son Cain kills the secondborn son Abel how's that for the start of human progeny on the earth it's been a mess ever since and in the midst of it good wonderful beautiful things have happened and in every generation there's a battle it's like a tug-of-war and it's gonna get pulled this way or this way but until Jesus returns the world is gonna be messed up and the kingdom of God is going to advance it's not going to be totally evil and it's not going to be perfectly righteous there's going to be a lot of good and beautiful development of character and godliness and people's lives changed in many redemptive stories on the one hand and on the other hand on the other hand it's gonna be evil and destruction darkness so it's not a matter of either or that America's just got off the deep end or America needs to go back to its great roots no America's been mixed from day one a lot of good and and bad along with it it's been a mix so in every generation we have a role in every generation we're the salt and the light in every generation we're called to make a difference in every generation we have to push back against evil and promote good otherwise things will get even worse if we weren't here there'd be total collapse so we got to do our part whatever generation you put us in will be preaching repentance calling people to turn to God offering new hope in life working against evil promoting good wherever you put us when we exaggerate things then we become somewhat irrelevant kind of like Chicken Little saying the sky's falling or else we get a false complacency the reality is this is always going to be a battle the reality is there's gonna be trouble difficulty and much grace in the midst of it in the same way when it comes to the question of the COVID vaccine we can exaggerate things in apocalyptic terms that if you don't do this you're a murderer your hate you are a murderer shame on you if you don't get vaccinated you're a murderer or on the other hand this is the mark of the beast and I will not give my allegiance to a one-world government and submit myself to Satan both positions are exaggerated but it's something we do need to talk about as more and more Americans are vaccinated and and the theory would be with this and then with herd immunity and then with less people carrying that the virus that less will be exposed and then you kind of officially get over the the the massive hurdle and go back to normal life that's the mentality this is a good and right thing is it healthy long term so we asked the question again eight six six three four two I'm going to the phones in one moment but I want to pull up a headline from the Jerusalem Post about Israel and it says in Israel this year is Passover Seder is also a farewell party for COVID-19 in Israel this year's path excuse me horror it's the the the liberal Israeli newspaper this year's Passover Seder is also a farewell party for COVID-19 saying a year ago year ago that Israel was told complete shutdown you can't have family members together they did Passover Seders with zoom and virtual Seders now they're saying hey economy is reopening coronavirus infections is rare the rate in Israel keeps dropping the vaccine drive has been a success then it says you know one major thing Israel is missing before he can recover they just want to get written a ton yah so it's a political footnotes that okay so I just wanted to draw attention to that to say you know a year ago I watched some shows where Christian prophets were asked when is the virus gonna and they said you're gonna see a major decline at Passover mid-april gonna see a major decline and then it's gonna dissipate after that of course that didn't happen quite the contrary but one year later in Israel it is happening which reminds us prophets see and know in part that's why we don't go to them with those kind of questions as spiritual prognosticators it's not their job but that they tell us how God wants us to live in order to please all right so over to you were you vaccinated or have you not been vaccinated and why so let's um let's go the phones we'll start with Julie in Georgia welcome to the line of fire hi dr. Brown hey how are you today I'm just fine yes so tell me about your own vaccine choices well and our family has decided to be vaccines I've been raised in a Pentecostal church my dad was in ministry he's retired now a pastor for 45 years and my mother has major health issues major compromised immune system and she's missed church for almost a year because of the corona virus and you know church has been such a huge part of our lives I mean that's our lives we go to church you know when the doors are open she was already kind of isolated even before coronavirus but she always made an effort to go to church and the main reason that I became back to me vaccinated my husband my father and my mom our main reason was to get her back in church mm-hmm and and and it's you know we we've missed that we've missed that community we've missed that our that fellowship that's our other family is our church family and so yeah let me ask you that no that's that's good let me ask you this Julie um did you simply choose not to go or she chose not to go for fear of the potential of of getting infected in other words it was that it was a family choice and then you said once you're vaccinated then it's safe to go was that the mentality yes sir and I wouldn't say that it was just a huge major fear you know we try not to live in fear yeah we would watch our church services online and participate in any way that we can you know with the church we still you know we paid our tithes into the church over a lot online and we wish we still participated in church as much as we could but I would want to I want to say our key driving forces with the number one get back in church oh and we had several outbreaks of COVID in our church and several families and it also kind of went to other people in the church too so that was kind of a we were worried you know we we love our pressure we love I love my precious mom you know and we we wanted to protect her and we know that the Lord is in control and and I don't want to say that we lived under a cloud of fear because we didn't you know you just felt it was with it was wisdom just like if someone has if your kid has the flu you don't bring them to church service or something you keep him back and and how old how old is she my mother just turned 70 years old seven actually a couple of a few days ago she turned 70 yes sir and would you say that others in the church the majority have followed suit the same way I haven't you know there hasn't been a whole lot of talk in our church that I've heard of people getting the vaccine I know that my pastor specifically is in favor of the vaccine I've we've heard him make comments that he doesn't find anything wrong with in fact he I think he said he had friends at Pfizer that he knew personally and that he you know that there I haven't heard a negative attitude and honest about the vaccine I honestly haven't seen a lot of people that have I don't know if they're just not talking about it you know if they've got it or not but I will tell you this I will tell you this I've been a little hesitant on social media to say that I've gotten gotten the vaccine okay why I've seen if you have a few of the kind of wacky Christians have put up stuff about you know that this is the mark of the beast and if you take this then you know honestly I've been a little hesitant yes I mean that right that's that's unfortunate it's one thing Julie if people said hey we're not sure about long-term effects of the vaccine or we've read this or you know we have concerns has been adequately tested or we don't like something being forced on us you know that's a fair discussion but to get ridiculed by Christians is mark of the beast that's we need to grow up we need to grow up and do better hey Julie thanks for for calling and sharing this and may may God's grace and health be with your whole family there eight six six three four truth let's go to Kendrick in Palm Beach Florida welcome to the line of fire well great nice to talk with you well go ahead man nice to talk and thanks for the kind words yes so what's your view about about being vaccinated yeah go ahead I'm 13 years old I converted to Christianity like seven months ago I was like raised in a like a Protestant household but I was like I was not like really Christian but then then I like became kind of agnostic after that but then I started studying the case for for the existence of God Kalam argument and the fine-tuning argument evidence for the resurrection like the empty tomb and I saw the atheist objections but they never really made sense especially especially what especially on the objections to the fine-tuning argument mm-hmm so when I studied the evidence closely I came to Christian wow so now it's starting to get really hard to like keep up with keep up with all the things I have to do to do even though see what I mean right yeah well that here's here's the key thing and how old did you say you are 13 13 yeah that is awesome that you're thinking about these things but a lot of people don't even know the arguments you're talking about and go ahead yeah yeah or just just have fun or do whatever yeah so the key thing Kendra for you now is to really get to know the Lord on a personal level you know to really get close to him through his word and prayer and and build that foundation really solidly and then on that foundation you can add in you know then then learn more the arguments in the back and the fourth because that's always going to be there and that's like you said it's a lot to keep up with there's always going to be another video and another book and another argument but like now I want to be a philosopher and be a Christian apologist and be like William and Craig yes Lewis and you know all those guys I always always want to see how they how they um how they respond to a yes oh yeah yeah and and there was a great those are great models to follow but you know the other thing go ahead I'm also a evolutionist so I know there's gonna be some people who are gonna meet look here's here's the thing though you all those positions you develop as you keep growing for sure you want to be more advanced in your understanding five years from now ten years twenty years thirty years right so keep building on those things but biggest biggest thing of all biggest thing of all is to develop a really solid personal relationship with the Lord heart to heart so heart and soul and mind and spirit loving God all right stare at here it's the line of fire with your host activist author international speaker and theologian dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling eight six six three four true here again is dr. Michael Brown you know when kendrick called us about the vaccine but we found out about his amazing journey at 13 let's let's pray for God to really keep him ground him and we're sending him a free copy of my book resurrection investigating a rabbi from Brooklyn a preacher from Galilee and an event that changed the world but he didn't feel he needed to be vaccinated at 13 by the way many would argue that COVID rates were dropping that herd immunity was being achieved that just natural process had taken place and that that's why the numbers were dropping and now people point well the vaccine did it other say no the numbers were dropping anyway we're we're just discussing these things what's interesting though what's interesting is that the the the percentage when you look at those who have a problem with the vaccine who question whether they should get it or not the the highest number in terms of percentage wise of groups saying we're not sure about getting it or we don't think we should get it or white evangelicals so why is that why the skepticism conspiracy theories or just looking at things with more suspicion even though Donald Trump was pro vaccine right the second group right behind that is black Americans not specifically evangelicals but black Americans why is that why the skepticism is just it's interesting demographically to see how this plays out all right let's hear from some more of you let's go to Loretta in Raleigh North Carolina which are taking the vaccine personally hey yeah you're on the air I don't like that ah no we don't like that either okay go ahead so my I did not get the vaccine and let me explain why because I know people are still getting vaccinated and just me I felt you know what there is no long are you there I'm I'm here we haven't gone anywhere go ahead um so there's no long-term research so that was a big concern of mine the main thing though it's my immune system is very compromised and I received infusions every month and the infusions also depress or suppress my immune system more so initially it was like no I'm not gonna get this thing and so interestingly last night my husband asked me after church whether what have you heard or have you heard anything about the vaccine and the mark of the beast I said oh I said yeah I said I figured that that would come up eventually because it passed through my mind you know a while back but I said you know what honey I said it's not the mark of the beast because it says clearly in the Bible where the mark will be placed on the forehead and on the hand and so correct me if I'm wrong about that you know yeah so so here's here's the thing Loretta if we're gonna take revelation 13 literally that there's a literal mark of the beast of the Antichrist or the Antichrist system then take it literally as forehead and arm right but again when we press it there is no beast now there is no Antichrist there is no one world government and we are not being told to worship this Antichrist otherwise we can't do commerce are there parallels yeah they're parallels but let's not overblown so you have think it through on other levels whether it's necessary whether it's important whether it's healthy with think it through on those levels forget the mark of the beast issue you can even think it through on the level of do I want the government telling me what to do and not do do I do I want the government having that kind of reach in my life and that level of control that's another fair argument and that parallels the mark of the beast but let's not confuse the one with the other hey Loretta thank you for the call let's go over to David and San Antonio Texas welcome to the line of fire hello dr. Brown very good to speak with you this to your show all the time well thank you all right so to preface this I'd like to say that coming from my point of view I followed this virus from when it was happening in China and seeing all the YouTube videos happening of then boarding up buildings and people falling out in the streets and all those things happening back in January of last year and it moving swiftly through Italy and all those other countries so when it started to take root here back in March my wife is actually an ICU nurse and she come home one day well let me back up a little bit I felt led of the Lord to anoint some oil and go around the outside of my home and pray over the walls of my home I didn't know why at the time it was it was nighttime and I thought the Lord speak to me and say go do this and you know oftentimes when we feel the Lord speak to us we start to question and like Lord why it sounds crazy you know but as I do that when I pray over the home over our home and the Holy Spirit is speaking to me and moving on me my wife is in ICU she's ICU nurse she comes home the very next day and she's getting ready for her next night's rounds and as she does that she receives a call from our hospital here stating that she needs we all need to quarantine because she come into contact with a doctor that has the virus and she'd been in contact with that doctor for the past two days over the past two days in direct contact face-to-face this is before you know all the mass mandates and social distancing and she had come in contact with that doctor and she was scared to death she was she was crying we were she was running around our house trying to put up an area that she can quarantine herself in and I just sat down with her and I explained what the Lord had me do the night before and I told her I said listen honey I said we've already all been exposed if this you know is going to hit us we've just got to put our trust and hope in Jesus Christ in this and I will say since that has happened we've traveled around the country was on to different places we've worn masks where it's mandated we've shown wisdom in that and of course we like my work I have to wear a mask wherever I go and I'm okay with that you know because I believe that we should we should have faith and love towards others that may not have as much faith as we do but every since then we we haven't gotten the virus thank God and we haven't been affected and I'm thankful for that but my wife did decide to get the vaccine to try to help people that might be on the fence with it and worried about what it might be or how it might affect them and so far she's been fine she's been over two months with the vaccine so I think we have to use discernment as Christians and really dig into the word and and show ourselves approved when we look yeah word and we rightly divide it and and with it all and for sure fear is never a fruit of the spirit in terms of oh no what's gonna happen oh no things gonna get terrible it's one thing when God warns us then we wake up but we want to have a right attitude faith then we want to use common sense wisdom and then with something like this people say hey I I've read things with concerns I'm and that's where you have to think it through on your own that's why I've urged everyone to do pastors leaders and setting policies for churches just do your best to hear from the Lord and use practical wisdom and move forward from there hey David I appreciate the call let's go to a Sonya in Gainesville Florida welcome to the line of fire hey hi so I may be coming at it from a little bit different angle than the majority of people now full disclosure it's been 30 years since I got my degree but my background is in microbiology and I have a master's degree related to that mm-hmm and so from the beginning with all of this way back I'm like something's wrong and I was following the numbers with coded literally going to the CDC site just doing simple divisive math and it wasn't making sense to me what they were saying and so then but you're asking about the vaccine so the vaccine I was like okay let's find out about this because I have a mother who's in the age group yada yada you know it's all that yep so I've done a lot of I've gone into scientific journals I'm not gonna say I've read every scientific article or anything but I've also listened to a variety of doctors one of whom was on your show and the bottom line is is this this is not a vaccine like has ever been given before and because of the nature of it it is and I say these words carefully but it is and I don't want to scare anyone out there but it is a form of gene therapy this is using messenger RNA we've we've never had a vaccine like this and this kind of therapy is supposedly not legal but but the bottom line with it is is and with some of it time you know will tell also we know with just naturally occurring I won't say pandemic but naturally occurring you know flu season or whatever there's a natural curve that happens with with any virus and so yes this seems to have gone on a long time but if you look at the numbers you know healthy people had a 99 point I think it's 8% chance of recovery right and also there are medicines that are much less expensive that can be used as long as they are used early on and you know I guess I won't say the names because it seems to get people really worked up but there's a lot of evidence even if you look to countries like Nigeria who has not had the problems that we have had and you know their medical system is not like ours and so they're just I personally feel there's an agenda with this vaccine thing and but and then the other thing I would tell you what I know there's an another thing and it's probably important but we're out of time you're like no what was the other thing well we're out of time today but friends make informed decisions that's bottom line don't make this into the mark of the beast make informed decisions with wisdom for your health and those around you and may God help us move past this horrific situation into a brighter future together