Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence

As I mentioned last class, there are three major questions that will determine how this war is fought, what this war will end up looking like, and how the world will change. And as I discussed last class, I'm making three predictions about this war. The first is the United States will use ground troops, and this will mean that Donald Trump will institute a national draft. That's the first prediction. The second prediction is that Israel and the United States will not use tactical nuclear weapons in this war. Number three is that the Al -Azhar Mosque, the third holiest site in the Islamic world, will be destroyed during this war. Okay, so last class I explained my analysis and my reasoning for my first two predictions. Today I will explain my third prediction. So before we start, I just want to look at some videos, okay? So you understand some of the context, some of the players in this war.

All right, so this is Senator Blumenthal of Connecticut, and he is one of the 100 members of the U.S. Senate. He's also one of the members of the Gang of Eight. Now, when you are fighting a war, the White House has responsibility to report its objectives, its purpose, how the war is progressing to eight members of Congress in a confidential setting, okay? And this is Senator Blumenthal after he's been debriefed by the White House. Okay? And this is what he has to say about the progress. Okay? And this is what he has to say about the progress of the war so far.

I emerged from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years in the Senate. I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war. My questions have been unanswered. I will demand answers. I will demand answers because the American people deserve to know. And I guess I am most concerned about the threat to American lives of potentially deploying our sons and daughters on the ground in Iran. We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. And there is also... I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And there is also an opportunity here for us to see as disturbingly as anything else the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives.

All right. So three things to take away from his talk with reporters, okay? The first thing is, the administration, Donald Trump, White House, has not articulated a budget. How much will this war cost? How much will this war cost? that this is an open -ended war we don't know when this war will end and so we don't know what the commitment is and so we don't know how much this war will cost okay that's the first point he makes the second point he makes is we are on a path towards the deployment of ground troops in Iran okay and that basically means a national draft and the third thing that's crucial is he says that they know for a fact that Russia is already involved in this war aiding Iran okay so that's the three main takeaways from okay so this is the foreign minister of Iran I got you talking to NBC News all

right and everything news is gonna ask I got you hey there's talk United States already of ground troops being used against Iran okay now I want you to observe his response and then the response of the

journalist Trump has not ruled out boots on the ground Iran are you afraid of a US invasion in your country no we are waiting for them you were waiting for

the US military to invade the ground troops yes because we are confident that we can confront them and that would be a big disaster for them

okay you understand okay so you're saying that Iran is ready and willing to take on the US military if there were to be ground troops well we were ready for

this okay so again certain things to appreciate first of all the foreign minister I got you he is not at all concerned about ground troops in fact he basically said it's a trap for you guys you come in we've been preparing for about 20 years for this we will destroy you another thing that you will notice is the journalist is completely surprised by the answer he's shocked into silence he has to ask again wait are you saying you're ready for ground troops and so this shows you that within Washington DC okay within the Trump administration within the foreign policy elite within the media elite they haven't really thought this through they haven't really thought this through they haven't really thought this through they haven't really thought this through out they really haven't considered the possibility of losing this war Washington DC right now it's a bubble okay it's an insular bubble where everyone just believes

the same things and that's very problematic if you are to continue fighting this war okay all right let's continue this is Rabbi Sneerson and he is the leader or he used to be he's died but he used to be a leader of an organization called the Shabbat Lubavitch I'll be talking more about Shabbat Lubavitch as we go along okay but I introduce you to him now this year 1990 and he is talking to Benjamin Netanyahu who is who is a young upcoming politician in Israel okay and so let's look at the conversation

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Okay, so what's going on here? Okay, so as an up -and -coming politician, Netanyahu is going to the rabbi, and the rabbi's one of the most powerful people in the Jewish society, he basically says, will you give me your blessing? Will you support me in my political endeavors? The rabbi says, yes. They also talk about how things are progressing, okay? So, in other words, saying this is that there's almost like a plan in motion to achieve certain religious objectives, and things are going well. But the rabbi, Schneerson, says, ah, but they're not going fast enough, because we need the Messiah, the great leader of the Jewish people, to come, and we can set in motion things that will force the coming of the Messiah. So let's speed things up, Netanyahu. Okay? So, what this is, I'll explain later on, okay, but I want you to be aware of this, who these people are. Rabbi Schneerson is very important for our story, Netanyahu, of course, is the current prime minister of Israel.

Alright, let's continue. Alright.

I want to know what you're reading now.

What I'm reading? Yeah. It's called the Jews against Rome. What made you pick it up? Well, we lost that one. I think we have to win the next one.

We want to know what you're reading now. Okay. Okay.

So that's a very quick exchange, okay? So a journalist is asking Benjamin Netanyahu, what book are you reading now? And he says, Jews versus, sorry, Rome versus the Jews. It's a book by Barry Strauss, a historian, and it goes on about the three wars that the Jews fought against the Romans, and it was essentially a holocaust for the Jews. A lot of Jews either died or were enslaved. The Romans burned down the second temple. So there's this historical. Okay. But what he said is, what Benjamin Netanyahu said is that, I'm reading this book because we lost that war against Rome, but in the next war against Rome, we must not lose. The question then is, who's Rome? It's not Iran, guys. It's probably not Russia. It's probably America, right? The great empire. So this is strange because Israel is the ally of America in this war. But Netanyahu is saying that, no, our real enemy is Rome, and that's what we must prepare for.

Okay? So I want you guys to keep this in mind. All right. This is Peter Hexheff, who is a secretary of war for Donald Trump. Okay? And this is the year about 2018, where he is in Jerusalem. Okay? And he's talking to Christian Zionists and Zionists. Okay? Who these people are, I'll explain later on. Okay? But let's listen to his speech really quickly.

Peter and I, another, had a chance to go see the Western Wall of the Temple Mount, the Western Wall tunnels, so much of the Old City. And as you stand there, you can't help but behold the miracle before you. And it got me thinking about another miracle that I hope all of you don't see too far away. because 1917 was a miracle 1948 was a miracle 1967 was a miracle 2017 the Declaration of Jerusalem at the Capitol was a miracle and there's no reason why the miracle of the reestablishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not

possible okay so he is a Christian he's not a Jew but what he's saying is that he's come to Jerusalem and he's visited these Jewish holy sites and he can't be he can't help be amazed be awed by the beauty the spirituality of the Western Wall he also goes on to say that the there's been a series of miracles okay so 1917 was the Balfour Declaration when basically the rich Empire permitted the Jews to found the nation -state of Israel was when Israel was founded 1967 was when the the when Israel fought a war against its Arab neighbors and won okay and 2017 was when Donald Trump transferred the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem thus recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and what he's saying is that well if this is a series of steps to achieving a divine plan then what he's saying is that well if this is a series

of steps to achieving a divine plan then the next miracle should be the rebuilding of someone's temple the third temple and that means destroying the Isaac mosque okay so what's going on here okay again I'll explain to you later on but I want I want to be aware of who these people are and how they think all right let's go one more video and so if you want to build someone's temple if you want to build the third temple you need to get rid of the third holiest site in the second world and that's what we're going to talk about in the next video. how do you do that well there are some options okay so miscellany the mask

clear the place for the third veda miqdash that could also be a miracle if it was up to me time when they shot hundreds of missiles I would pretend that one missile came from Iran and shoot it down you know then all the arms will go against Iran it will be the end of the problems you make them fight with each other, this bunch of lunatics. Never too late, you deal with a bunch of cowards.

Okay, so this is a rabbi in Israel, and he's saying how last year during the 12 -day war in June, Iran was firing missiles at Israel. And what he's saying is, you know, that was an opportunity for us to pretend that Iranian missile hit the Dome of the Rock, the Al -Aqsa Mosque, thus destroying it. And then the Arabs will blame the Iranians, and the Arabs will go to war against the Persians. And then we can just sit back and laugh at these lunatics. Okay? So again, this may be confusing to you as to who these people are, why they are saying these things, all right? But now what I'm gonna do is explain to you what is really going on, okay? And I keep on saying this, but it is hard from a geopolitical perspective to explain this U .S.-Iran war. You have to look at the religious perspective, okay?

The religious angle, and that's what I want to focus on today. Okay, so again, this is the three holiest site in the Islamic world. This is Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Medina, and this is the Dome of the Rock, the Al -Aqsa Mosque. And this is where the Jews were supposed to ascend to heaven. And the Jews and the Christian Zionists believed that this must be destroyed so that they can build the Third Temple, or Solomon's Temple, okay? All right, so this is the big question in this war. And again, I keep on saying this, but I need to be right in my prediction, in my analysis, is to be right. To be correct. If they do not destroy the Al -Aqsa Mosque, and if they are able to achieve peace, then my predictive model, my analysis is completely wrong, and you just ignore me, okay, for the rest of my life. And I can go back to teaching, you know, great books or something.

All right, so let us examine why this is important, okay? So today, I want to introduce you to a new thing, okay? A new theory of game theory called the law of eschatological convergence. So this is a very hard thing to write down, okay? It sounds complicated, but it's not, okay? Eschatology, what it is, is a story of how the world ends. And it's very compelling for people, because remember, we discussed this last semester, but as human beings, we have three questions. Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? And eschatology provides a story that answers all three questions. Why God created us, what our mission on Earth is, and what God has planned for the end of the world, okay? And different traditions will have different eschatologies. And what's important to figure out is, in what aspect do these eschatologies converge, okay?

Converge, meaning a union of these eschatologies. And why is that important? Because it allows you to predict how they will behave. Think of a story as the operating system of a society. And as such, it's a script that they will act out. And if you're able to figure out the different scripts, and see how, you know, how they will behave, and how they converge together, where the union of these different scripts are, then you can actually predict how the world will turn out. Okay? All right. So, having explained the law, I'm gonna go into some theory to help us understand why this works, okay? All right, so the first thing to understand is something called the universal law of game theory, okay? And the universal law of game theory states this. Whoever wins a game is able to do this, okay? Mass times energy times coordination, okay? So these are the three things you want to look at to understand how well a player would do in a game.

So mass is just the number of people involved on the team, okay? Energy is just how much energy is involved in the game. Attention, focus, motivation there is, okay? So think of it as attention, or motivation, or action, okay? Any of these words will do. But basically, how invested are you in winning the game? And how hard are you willing to work to win the game? And coordination is just the idea of synchronicity. And what I mean by that is how well do the teammates work together, okay? And something that you need to appreciate is that the most important thing in winning a game is actually coordination. In fact, I would say it's four times more important than just mass. So you can have a lot of people, but if they don't work well together, you're defeated by another team with few, few people, but they work well together, okay?

And then energy is twice as important as, you know, mass, all right? So let me give you an example. Let's just say that you're playing a game by yourself, okay? Maybe, for example, you enter a ping -pong competition or a chess competition. Well, mass and coordination don't really matter because you don't have any teammates. And so what matters is energy, how motivated you are to win this game. How much time do you put in practice? How much time do you put into studying and improving yourself? How focused are you in winning, okay? All right, so a team sport, well, mass is constant. And so what matters is energy and coordination, how well the team works well together, okay? Now, what's interesting is that there are different ways to improve or increase, augment the energy coordination. All right? So maybe a leader, okay, so maybe if someone is a really

inspiring leader, that would make people much more motivated and that would allow them to work well together because all they have to do is listen to a leader, okay? The problem with a leader, of course, is that eventually he will die, all right? Then you have a family, okay, blood, okay? They work well together because they all share a similar blood, but we cannot account for the differences within this family, got it? The conflict within this family. right so historically in a long term the force that allows teams to beat other teams is the idea of narrative okay narrative or a story okay why because it implants in the minds of all those who believe in a narrative a series of actions that they must take in order to win the game okay so think of it as a script and in a script you know what part you play do you have to act

it out and it allows for you all to work together to achieve the outcome that you desire okay does that make sense okay and in narrative the most powerful form of narrative is the idea of eschatology because eschatology is a phrase from one of the American books that's actual word for eschatology Eschatology is a complete script, a complete script in which everyone knows what he or she must do in order to achieve the desired outcome. And eschatology also is able to transcend both time and space, meaning that you can actually spend centuries acting out the script because everyone knows his role anyway, okay? And it can transcend borders as well. You can go beyond ethnic identity and family, okay? So the most powerful mechanism in history is eschatology. All right, so what is eschatology? All right, so most religions are similar. Most religions require you to be a good person, be humble, be kind, be generous.

But there are certain aspects of religions that are extreme, okay? And we call them eschatologies, okay? So the classic example is the Jewish religion, right? In a Jewish religion, what you believe is that you no longer live in Israel because a long time ago, the Israelites pissed off God by disobeying him. God told the Israelites, do not worship false idols. But the Israelites sinned. They disobeyed. So they were kicked out of Jerusalem, and they were forced to wander the earth in the diaspora for centuries. And so what they believe is that they each need to engage in an act of redemption, of humility, of submission, of piety to God if they are to redeem the whole Jewish people, okay? And when that happens, when they recognize their own limitations, when they recognize how inferior they are to God and submit to God, then God will send the Messiah to redeem them and lead them

back to Jerusalem, defeat the enemies of the Jews, bring all the Jews from the diaspora back to Jerusalem, unify the Jewish people, and then build the third temple so that God can come to earth and live with all the Jews and create heaven and earth, okay? That is the Jewish religion that most Jews believe. Okay, like there are a lot of differences, okay? But I'm just trying to simplify it for clarity, okay? But then you have these extremes, fanatics, who have a different eschatology, okay? And these people, we're gonna say are accelerationists. And their point is that this is fine, but it's way too slow. And it dissolves. It dissolves us of individual responsibility. If you have faith in God, then you should want to hurry things up and force the return of God as soon as possible. And you do that by recognizing that if you actually, before the Messiah comes, if you actually

go and create the nations of Israel, bring all the Jews back, build the third temple, defeat all the enemies, then the Messiah will come, not, you know, bring all the Jews back, but bring all the Jews back naturally, okay? And so, of course, most Jews hear this and they think that this is blasphemy, it's heresy, because you are defying the will of God. You think you can manipulate God into action. That is wrong. That is the opposite of redemption. That is the worst possible sin you can make, okay? And so this eschatology is considered a fringe, an extreme, something to be ignored. The problem, though, is that if you think about it, what eschatology really is doing is creating a vector to force the religion to move in a certain direction, okay? And also, if you think about it, if this is the case where eschatology is a vector that forces the mainstream to move

in a certain direction, then whichever eschatology is the most extreme, the most violent, will be the one that wins out, okay? Okay, does that make sense? In other words, what we're gonna do today is look at the most extreme versions of different eschatologies, because quite honestly, even though these extreme versions are shared by only a few people, they're the ones who are working the hardest to achieve their eschatology, and therefore, they're forcing the religion they are in to move a certain way, okay? All right, so you hear this, and you think this is all confusing, but what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna share with you a passage from a biography of Rabbi Agustin Nielsen. Remember, we had a look at Rabbi Agustin Nielsen talking to Netanyahu and saying, hurry up, let's hurry up the return of Messiah, okay? He is in charge of Shabbat Lubavitch, which again, is an extreme eschatology, but again,

because they are so extreme, they're willing to work as hard as possible to achieve their vision, and therefore, they are forcing the Jewish mainstream in a certain direction, okay? All right, so this is a biography of Rabbi Nielsen, and the Shabbat Lubavitch movement was founded in modern day Belarus, and over time, it went over to America, because it suffered a lot of persecution by the Russians. And today, they are a global movement, and they are powerful in Russia, in America, and in Israel. Okay? So we will discuss the Shabbat Lubavitch as we move along, but I want to, with this passage, show you how coordination among the Shabbat Lubavitch movement is important. So let's start with the Shabbat Lubavitch movement. It's a very long eschatology work, okay, all right? So the year is 1939, and the Nazis, Nazi Germanys, again, who are anti -Semitic, they hate Jews, they want all Jews out of Europe, they are overriding Europe.

And by 1939, they have conquered Poland, Warsaw, okay? Now Poland, Warsaw is where the head rabbi, the rabbi of the Shabbat Lubavitch movement is. and his name is um joseph yesat okay and he's the father -in -law of rabbi snerson and he's an old man and he's in warsaw the nazis are overrunning the city so his followers in america are uh want to save his life okay so the question is like but how do you do that because america and germany are not best friends the war is breaking out in um europe and um joseph yeah is a very old man and there are no plane well there are planes but there are no commercial air flights that you can take okay so it's gonna be a very long arduous journey across many borders plus um he will need a visa not just for himself but for his whole family okay now

what i'll show you is how powerful these people are and again this is an eschatology where they all share similar vision and therefore they're willing to make the necessary sacrifices in order to help each other achieve this vision okay all right so this is from the biography an ocean away in america you'll see yes followers were mounting a rescue effort with the help of sam kramer and an author orthodox attorney the son of liberal immigrants the chevalier that activist israel jacobson hired max rhodes a political connected lawyer to secure american visas for joseph hewitt and his family okay so in other words even though there may may not be that many followers they have a wide uh political circle and a lot of reason why is that um they pool their resources together and when they pull their resources together they're able to invest in real estate together they're able to invest in business together

and they're able to generate a lot of money and they're able to generate a lot of money and they're able to generate a lot of money which they can then which they can then use influence politics in america okay they can buy politicians they can um do a lot of things okay so the first part is easy getting visas for uh the rabbi and his family now the problem is how do you actually get to him okay because there are no telephones there's no internet there are no airplanes how do you find him in when there's a war going on in poland when they're not Kyiv is everywhere okay all right let's continue Joseph uh hewit's followers also reach out to attorney general benjamin colman okay and supreme court justice louis branday okay this guy this man is very important he is what i call a subantine frankis what i'll show you later on is

that uh chef f regain frankis and al -shaba lam waist movement are very much a lie okay so even though they're part of the same movement they are sympathetic towards each other and he's the most powerful jew in america at this time okay in the 1930s -40s whom Yitzchak had met during his fundraising trip of 1929. The Lubavitcher's efforts in America were successful. So they won over the Americans. They won over the entire American political apparatus and they are dedicated to helping the rabbi escape Europe and come to America. Now the second part is, how do you deal with the Nazis? Okay, the Lubavitcher's efforts in America were successful. On October 2nd, Cohen wrote to Robert Pell, a senior official in the State Department, asking for help. The next day, Pell caught a Helmuth Wadhat, a German and a member of the Nazi party, a Nazi, who specialized in national industry and economics to see

if he would be willing to save one of the leading Jewish scholars in the world, okay? This is a guy, American, writing to a Nazi and saying, hey man, I know you're a Nazi, but we need your help to save a Jew. And the guy says, yes. Okay, Wadhat was strategically chosen. He had studied at Columbia University in the early 1930s and had forged a relationship with Pell after the IBM Conference on Jewish Refugees in 1938. Seeing an opportunity to curry goodwill to the United States, Wadhat secretly contacted Admiral William Canaris, the head of German military intelligence. Wow, the head of German military intelligence and saying, hey man, let's help this guy. Canaris, a skeptical Nazi who disapproved of SS atrocities and thought the invasion of Poland a mistake, enlisted Major Ernst Bloch, a distinguished veteran of World War I and one of the most trusted officers. Bloch was a Michelin, okay? A Michelin just

means a German who had some Jewish ancestry, but because he was so valorous in World War I, he was considered a German, okay? He had been declared of German blood by Hitler in 1939. Along with three other soldiers, two of whom were also Michelin, Bloch was instructed to find Josef Yitzhak and bring him to safety. Wow. The Nazis, okay, dispatched their own soldiers to find this guy and bring him to America. And this is, again, during war. But how do you find this guy? Bloch and his colleagues had to maneuver through the ruins of Warsaw without any suspicions of the SS to find a rabbi who did not know of their mission and did not want to be killed. And he found, okay? So this rabbi is hiding from everyone. So how do you find this guy? And he's deadly afraid of all German soldiers because he sees them as just Nazis. This is another problem.

Well, Jews in the city were naturally unwilling to divulge the location of a Hasidic leader to a Nazi officer. Eventually, information came from the Americans. Brandeis was informed of Josef Yevitz's address by the Shabbat lawyer, Arthur Rubinowitz, and relayed it via Coen and Pell to the US charged with affairs in Germany. This requires the coordination of dozens and dozens of people who are supposed to be on the opposite side of a war. And they're working together to achieve a goal. At the end of November, Bloch found Josef Yevitz's apartment and after some confusion, convinced the residents he was there to help. Once he had obtained few coupons, train tickets, and military clearances for SS checkpoints, Bloch loaded Josef Yevitz and his family onto a truck and headed for the train station, where the family received first class tickets and boarded a train filled with Nazi officials and soldiers. Okay, and that's how they got him out.

In other words, they are able to work above the bureaucracy of different nation states in order to achieve their eschatological goal, okay? All right, does it make sense? All right, so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go into the idea of eschatological, conventional, and modern. So first of all, we're gonna look at the convergence. Because once we know the different eschatologies, and we know how they converge together, we can actually make certain predictions about how this war will progress. Okay, so the first major eschatology I wanna look at, it's called Zoroastrianism. And this is the first eschatology. And it's an eschatology of the Persian Empire, okay? In the world, there's truth and a lie, okay? The light and the darkness. And it is our responsibility as humans to live for the light, to die for the truth against the lie. And at the end of days, there'll be a final battle and a day of judgment, okay?

So light versus dark, and then you have a day of judgment. Okay, where the god Ahura Masta will come down and he will create a paradise for everyone, okay? So what matters is to live a noble life and await the day of judgment where eventually heaven on earth will manifest, okay? And this is important because if you think about how the Iranians are fighting this war, the Iranians refuse to take initiative and destroy too much, okay? They refuse to be the best and the villains in this war because for them, in their eschatology, it's important to die for the light, to fight for the truth, okay? Now, the general rationalism has a major impact on Jewish eschatology, okay? And Jewish eschatology, again, I'm only talking about the most extreme version of this eschatology, okay? And in this eschatology, the idea is that, the Jews disobeyed God, okay? Disobedience. And

in order to repair the world, to save themselves, to create heaven on earth, they need to engage in redemption, okay? Redemption. And redemption is really about spiritual alchemy, improving yourself as a person, being good to yourself, being good to others, loving your neighbor as though you would love yourself. Okay, that's a mainstream idea. But in the most extreme version, redemption just means acting out God's plan to compel the return of the Messiah, okay? And this plan is basically, create Israel, return Jewish diaspora, build a third temple, and this will also be called the War of Gog and Magog. And then, when the Jews are most threatened, the Messiah will come to save them from their enemies. and then, when the Jews are most threatened, the Messiah will come to save them from their enemies. And this will create something called the Mosaic Ending Age, okay? When God rules over the earth through his Messiah, who comes from the house of David.

Okay, all right. So again, this is a simple version. There are lots of different versions. This is the most simple version for our purposes, okay? Now, what's interesting is that this Jewish eschatology would go on to influence the Protestants, okay? And this creates a movement called Christian Zionism. Christian Zionism, so the technical word for Christian Zionism is called Premillennial Dispensationalism. And this sounds very complicated, but it's not. All it means is that God has a plan for how to create heaven and earth, and we have a duty to fulfill his plan by following his instructions, okay? All right, so what Christian Zionism is doing is that it takes Christian Zionism is doing is that it takes this Jewish eschatology and makes certain changes to it, okay? So for example, the first change that it makes is, okay, this plan is fine, but rather than say that the Jewish Messiah

is the representative of God, what they say is that no, he's actually the representative of Satan, okay? So the Messiah in the Jewish tradition becomes the Antichrist in the Christian Zionist tradition. And why is this important? It's important because for the Christians, the Messiah must be Jesus, okay? So the Messiah, so the Antichrist, what he does, is that he rules over the world. He's very charismatic, and he rules the world in Jerusalem. And he starts the War of Gog and Magog in order to conquer the world and destroy the Jews. At this point, Jesus will return. to save God's chosen people, the Jews. And when Jesus returns, there'll be something called the rapture where all Christians will immediately ascend to heaven. Okay? So the rapture. Okay? So again, Christian Zionism is working off Jewish eschatology, but it's making some important changes. Okay? So another way of saying this is in the beginning, the Zionists and Christian Zionists will work together to reach a certain point of history.

Okay? What we call the Great Ritual Project. But then they will diverge and fight against each other. Okay? So they're allies now, but eventually they'll turn against each other. All right. So now I want to talk about the Freemasons because the Freemasons, we'll talk more about the Freemasons later. Okay? The Freemasons are also working within the Christian Zionist context, but they are much more focused on actually how to implement this. Okay? So what they want to do is they want to take the Antichrist and turn it into a system. And this system we discussed last semester, it's called Pax Judaica. What is Pax Judaica? Pax Judaica is that Israel controls the world through AI. Okay? An AI surveillance state. Okay? Or there is, exact words is holy empire.

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And Pax Judaica, the Israel state, will have things such as the Mark of the Beast. And what is the Mark of the Beast? It is digital ID. Okay? And this digital ID will also lead to digital currency. And they can actually put a microchip or a QR bar in your forehead. And this will be considered the Mark of the Beast. Okay? And it's all part of the Christian Zionist eschatology. Another really important thing about the Free Basins is the idea of a one world government. Because, remember, the Antichrist is the leader of a one world government. And it will be based in Jerusalem. Okay? And so the headquarters will be Solomon's Temple or the Third Temple. So these are the... And then you have the Islamic eschatology. Okay? And the Islamic eschatology is a response to all these other eschatologies. Where they say that when this system is created, it will be called Dajjal. Dajjal.

The Antichrist. Okay? And when this happens, then Jesus will return to defeat the Antichrist. Okay? That's the mainstream Islamic eschatology. Then you have the Shia. Okay? The Shia, remember, are the Iranians. Where they believe that it's not... It will be the 12th Iman Madid. Who will lead the followers, okay? The Umrah. Okay? Umrah just means community of followers, of believers. Believers. Into victory against the Antichrist. The Dajjal. Okay? So you can see how these eschatologies are basically lining up together. Right? The Shia are the Iranians. The Islamic is the entire Arab world. Alright? Now, there are other two more eschatologies I want to look at. And again, I know this is a lot. I know this is too much information. And we'll go over these eschatologies specifically as we move along, okay? But I just want to introduce the different eschatologies. Another eschatology that's very important is the Catholic eschatology. And the Catholic eschatology we can call City of God.

Okay? Which is the church. Which is Jerusalem. And St. Augustine talks about this. About how the Catholic church, it is the millennial church. It is the millennial age. Because we represent God. And we bring peace and prosperity to the world. Now, what's important about the church is that it became the dominant power in the world because Rome fell. Okay? So, Roman Empire collapses. But this is all part of God's divine plan because Roman Empire, Rome, was the city of power, of money, of wealth. And what matters is Jerusalem, the city of God, of spirituality, of divinity, okay? Now, the City of God came to an end because of the rise of the Protestants and the Anglo -American Empire. So, for the Catholic church to achieve its eschatology and establish again the City of God, what they need to do is also see the Anglo -American Empire destroyed just like the Roman Empire.

Okay? So, that is the Catholic eschatology. The last eschatology I want to discuss is the Orthodox eschatology. And what's the Orthodox eschatology? The Russians. Okay? This is called the Third Rome Prophecy. Okay? The Third Rome Prophecy is basically that Moscow will become the Third Rome. The First Rome was Rome. Second Rome was Constantinople. The Third Rome will be Moscow. And also, what's really important to appreciate is that there will be no Fourth Rome. So, when Moscow becomes the Third Rome, history ends. Okay? And peace and prosperity will come to the world. Okay? So, what does this mean? It means that Russia will unite the Orthodox world. Okay? So, right now, the Orthodox world is split into Eastern Orthodoxy and Greek Orthodoxy. Okay? And something that is very important that this prophecy says is that the Russians will defeat Turkey in a war and then have the Greeks return to Constantinople, which is modern

-day Istanbul. Okay? That's what the prophecy says. And so, you look at all these different eschatologies. Okay? And again, guys, this is the majority of the world. Right? If you actually look at the convergence points, you come to some startling conclusions. Okay? So, let's look at the convergence. Where do they converge? Okay? Well, first of all, okay, where they converge is that the Greater Israel Project will be achieved. Okay? Pax Judaica will be achieved. It's the one world government. Okay? One world government. That is one major convergence. If that's true, then another convergence is the Al -Aqsaq Mosque will give way to the Third Temple. All these eschatologies either say this or are indifferent to saying this. Okay? They're not opposed to this. All right? So, that's why I predict the Third, the Al -Aqsaq Mosque will be destroyed because they need to build a Third Temple. Another thing in which they converge is the rise of anti -Semitism.

Why? Because that will force the diaspora, the Jewish diaspora, to return to Israel. This is very important for this eschatology. Okay? All right? Another important convergence point is the War of Gog and Magog. We don't actually know what this is, but this war is supposed to be the final war before the return of God, before the end of history, before the end of the world. Okay? What this war is, we don't know yet. But another thing in this is that this war in Iran will lead to the War of Gog and Magog at some point. Okay? What this war is, we'll discuss at a later time. Another thing that's very important is U.S. and China are not part of this eschatology. Okay? This is where everyone agrees. For whatever reason, the United States is not going to partake in future events. Neither will China. Which means that something will happen to these two countries that will make them not significant anymore.

Okay? And the best prediction for the United States then is civil war. Right? Okay? Civil war. Okay? And this is where all these eschatologies converge. So in other words, this war in Iran is happening so that these different eschatological traditions can achieve heaven and earth from their perspective. All right? So what this means, so given this convergence, we can actually predict certain events that will happen over the next two to four years. Okay? Because they all want these things to happen together. All right? So let's look at some quick predictions.

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First prediction, of course, is that the U.S. will use ground troops. Because using ground troops will create a national draft. And what does a national draft do? It creates a civil war. All right? A lot of young people are going to refuse to fight in this war. And this is going to create protests. Then America will have no choice but to deploy the National Guard. And this will create the recipe for a lot of civil conflict in America. Okay? Another thing that will happen is because you use ground troops, you will lose the war and then CENTCOM, which is the American military in the Middle East, will then transfer over to Israel. Okay? What's happening in this war is that the economies of the GCC are being destroyed. And that's part of the plan. Okay? Because for Israel to achieve the greater Israel project, it needs to absorb the GCC and parts of Turkey and parts of Egypt.

So another way of saying this is that the GCC is basically finished. The intention is to collapse their economies and make them irrelevant. All right? The third thing we can expect is that Turkey will enter this war, and Saudi Arabia actually, will enter the war. Because you want to use this war to weaken opposition to these eschatologies as much as possible. Okay? So, Takiyah and Saudi Arabia will enter this war and they will suffer tremendously because of their participation. All right. Again, the Al -Azhar Mosque will be destroyed. Okay? And then, you have the rise of Persia. The rise of Persia. Why is this important? Because you need the Islamic world to unite against Israel for the end of days. All right? So, you don't mind if actually Iran wins this war because by winning this war, Iran will activate its Persian identity. And this is important for eschatology because in

the war of Gog and Magog, people are interpreting Gog and Magog, which will march against Israel, they're interpreting Gog and Magog to be Persia and Russia.

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Okay? Together, they will march against Pax Judaica. Number six is, that in Israel, you will achieve the Pax Judaica and the Greater Israel Project. Okay? So, the Greater Israel Project and Pax Judaica are not the same thing, guys. Greater Israel is basically the territory that the Israelis believed that God had promised their ancestor Abraham. Pax Judaica is a one -world government. Okay? Based on AI surveillance and the Mark of the Beast. So, what will happen is that Israel will use this war to expand its territory and then what will happen is that capital, technology, will then start to flow to Israel in order to create the Pax Judaica. So, think of companies like Nvidia, Oracle, Microsoft, Google. Well, they'll probably transfer themselves to Israel because that is where the power will rest. Okay? So, Pax Judaica. Then, you will have Russia winning a war in Ukraine. Okay? And then, return Greeks to Constantinople. Basically, I

know we're saying this is, it is possible that the Greeks go to war against Turkey and then Russia supports the Greeks and return the Greeks to Istanbul. Okay? But then you're like, wait a minute. Turkey is a NATO member. Well, we can also expect destruction of Europe. Okay? The end of NATO, basically. So, this war in Ukraine, it's not just about Russia protecting its borders. This war in Ukraine is also meant to achieve Orthodox eschatology, to destroy Europe, to destroy NATO, so that Russia can achieve the Third Rome prophecy. That means the destruction of Europe. So, I will discuss the Russian -Ukrainian war later on as we go along. Okay? But what I'm trying to show you is that just by, okay, analyzing the most extreme eschatologies of different religious traditions, you can then, from this analysis, pick out points in which they agree. Okay? And at these points, you can figure out then, how

they will affect current geopolitics to make certain predictions about how the war will progress, about how the world will transform itself in the next two to four years. Okay? So, this is called the Law of Eschatological Convergence. It gives us tremendous insight into why things are turned out the way they are. Okay? Because again, I keep on saying this, but purely from a geopolitical perspective, purely from a real politic perspective, this war in Iran makes no sense. But, if you look at it from an eschatological perspective, then it makes perfect sense. Okay? Any questions? Yes.

But, I think, like, if we look into the war between America and Iran, I think Trump is trying to destroy Iran as the same way that he destroys Venezuela, but it fails, which let Iran to fight back. So, I think this could also explain in a political way, but not religious.

Okay. Alright. That's a great point in that, listen, there's an explanation which is that Trump is just stupid. He's arrogant. They had too much success in Venezuela. They go into Iran and they think it's the same thing, and now they're losing. Okay? And because they're losing, they are just panicking. Okay? Okay. That's true. And if this explanation is true, then what will happen, what we can expect to happen is that Trump declares victory and goes home. Okay? That's what we can expect. And if the US does go home, then you're right. Okay? So, we can expect, but sorry, the question then is what happens next few months? Alright. What you need to understand is this. War is not simple. Once you start a war, you can't end the war. Alright? So, let me explain really quickly why. Okay? So, you have Iran, and the main thing, the main advantage that Iran has over the United States is the GCC cannot defend itself.

Okay? Because it's just a desert. And Iran, it's a mountain fortress, so it can shoot rockets, it can shoot drones, at the GCC, and the GCC can't defend itself. Okay? Before, they thought these US bases could defend against Iran, but now you recognize these US bases can't defend themselves either. Okay? Alright? So, the other thing that Iran did was close off the Strait of Hormuz. Okay? They closed off the Strait of Hormuz. And this is important because the GCC then exports oil to Asia and gets back food. Okay? So, the GCC basically requires the Strait of Hormuz in order just to survive. Okay? Now, let's just say the US, Donald Trump's like, you know what? Screw this. This is a stupid war. The Middle East is stupid. We're gonna go home. Okay? What happens now? What happens is that Iran says to GCC, hey man, you attacked us.

You destroyed our infrastructure. You destroyed our economy. You have to pay, pay, pay a rent pay a compensation. Okay? Right? Also, hey man, now we control the Strait of Hormuz so if you want to use the Strait of Hormuz you have to pay us a toll. You have to pay us a tax. Right? So, all this money of the GCC before it's going to the United States to fuel the US economy. Now, where does it go? It goes to Iran. Right? That's a lot of money, man. We're talking about trillions and trillions of dollars. And what will Iran use with this money? It's money, this money to repair its economy. So in five to ten years this is going to be an economic miracle. Where now Iran is able to industrialize really fast. And as a result what's going to happen? What's going to happen is that if the United States leaves the Middle East Iran becomes the superpower and controls the entire Middle East.

Right? Now, what, now Israel has nuclear weapons. And so what's going to happen is that Israel and Iran will sign a peace treaty. Okay? But the United States won't be involved. The United States goes home it doesn't get any money from the GCC or what's going to happen to the U.S. economy. It's going to collapse. Why? Because the entire U.S. economy is based on the stock market, on finance, on AI, on investment from the GCC. Right? So the question then is can the Americans go home? The answer is no they can't because if they go home their economy's going to collapse. Their people are going to have a revolution anyway. So you're better off sending people to Iran than have the people in America cause a revolution. Right? Okay? So you're right in that it's possible that Donald Trump made a mistake but it doesn't matter if it was intentional or accidental you have the same outcome.

And strangely enough the strange this outcome that you have matches that aligns with these different eschatologies of the world. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Alright. Any more questions? Alright. Okay. So we'll continue this next week guys.

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