John Rich

Well, what it did was, is they figured out that if they would preach

in a way that didn't make people uncomfortable.

It actually was twofold.

Make them not feel uncomfortable about it.

They would come back to church the following week.

And the church would get bigger.

Yeah.

And the other side of it, which actually I think had a positive effect, was they would say, the rapture could happen before this church service is over.

So you better give your life to Jesus right now because this time tomorrow,

It could happen.

Well, that created a sense of immediacy for people like, well, I don't want to get left behind.

I don't want to get left behind.

And they would go down and they would get saved.

They'd give their life to Jesus.

That's great.

Right, so that was a positive result of it.

But you're talking about hundreds of years now.

We're in 2025.

We've got AI about to show up.

You know, you wonder how my dad, who's been preaching since he was 19 years old, said we never could understand how, in the book of Revelation, how they could monitor every human being on the earth because that's what they would have to do to implement the mark of the beast.