0:00 Pastor Burns must have known that he might take some criticism for praying over a literal golden idol because he wrote on social media, quote, Let me be clear, this is not a golden calf. That statue stands 22 feet tall, covered in gold, and Pastor Mark Burns denied it was a golden calf before anyone in that crowd ever said the words. When the denial shows up before the accusation does, that tells you that the man already knows what it looks like. The reporting actually lays out what actually happened, as best as it can be told. We have some news right now. If you want to know what was happening at Mar-a-Lago today, there was a dedication by evangelical Christian leaders of a giant gold statue of Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. They were blessing and dedicating this new statue of the President of the United States. It appears to be in all gold. This is what the religious leaders at Mar-a-Lago, and South Florida were up to today. This video was obtained by Christopher Hale, who does fantastic work.
1:02 The statue at Doral is the one everyone's talking about. It stands 22 feet tall, it's bronze, under a gold leaf, and it's nicknamed Don Colossus. It was commissioned by the crypto investors behind the memecoin called Patriot, built by an Ohio sculptor named Alan Cottrell. And it has sat in his foundry in Zanesville for over a year, because they stiffed him on the bill. Eric Trump publicly disavowed the coin project back in January. The statue finally went up in May, dedicated by Pastor Mark Burns, with evangelical and Jewish religious leaders present. And Trump himself called in during the ceremony. I know it was done from love, and I want to thank Mark Burns, a pastor. He's a good pastor, he's a good man. I've known him a long time. He's been with me from the beginning. Now, I've said it before, when this was just a plan for his presidential library, that it's just plated gold.
1:56 Someone else... Someone else made it, but it's still an interesting thing that someone has put up for everyone to see. And he must have approved it, because his own voice is right there thanking the pastor by name for the statue of himself. He saw it. He approved it. He called in to celebrate it. I'm Alan Cottrell. I'm a sculptor of the figure, as you can see. I've done maybe 16 to 19 other presidents, but this is the first. This is the first living president I've ever done. Well, I think it's a pretty recognizable pose. It was the pose that Trump struck shortly after the intended assassin nicked his ear in Butler, PA, and he rose up from the ground and put that fist in the air.
2:50 The sculptor says it himself, 16 to 19 past presidents, and this is the first one he's ever made, of ascending U.S. president that's alive. But here's where it gets really good. This crypto group, the dollar sign patriot people, the people who paid $360,000 for a golden statue of a sitting president, used the image of the statue to sell crypto tokens. One problem, they didn't have the sculptor's permission. And Cottrell, the sculptor, the 73-year-old artist from Zanesville, Ohio, said, Nope, I think I'm going to hold on to this statue until you pay me. No one put up a 22-foot gold statue of George Washington while Washington was still alive to see it. The same coin that funded this statue has crashed over 90% since it was unveiled. I think cryptocurrency is going to play a part in something that's happening in the future here. The government version of it, at least, is going to be a big deal soon. What I'm watching here is a small preview of how that works.
3:53 A digital token. A golden image. And religious leaders standing over both, blessing that arrangement. And by the way, this is the outward display of a spiritualism. But I'm writing a book on the inward working of spiritualism, spiritual forces, the good forces as well. The power of Jesus' name. And if you have a supernatural experience that you overcame by calling out in the name of Jesus, please write me. Go to orionmedia.tv slash contact. I will write you back personally. And I would love to hear your story. And if you'd like, I'll change your name in it too. And then in December, the G20 Summit, it's scheduled to be at that same golf course. You're going to have world leaders, every major head of state, flying in to discuss the global economy. And the first thing they're going to see when they pull up to the venue, Don Colossus.
4:47 The G20 Summit in Miami is scheduled for December 14 and 15 of 2026. The mental picture that I'm getting, of world leaders walking past a golden image of a head of state to get into a summit is one I'm not going to pretend I don't notice. That picture already happened once in the plain of Dura. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the time, made an image of gold whose height was three score cubits and breadth was about six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura in the providence of Babylon. This is back in the Bible times. At what time you hear, the sound of the cornet, flute, the harp, the sackbut, the poulsary, the dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar, the king, has set up.
5:38 And whosoever falleth not down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Nebuchadnezzar had just been told through Daniel's interpretation that this dream that he had, that the kingdom was the head, of gold, his kingdom, and that it would pass away and would be replaced by a kingdom that would never end, the rock. He didn't like that part. He didn't like the entire image disappearing. And in fact, he didn't like the entire image being of different types of metal either. So he built an image all of gold, like the head of gold, no silver, no clay, no decline, no rock, and made a whole empire, his whole empire, bowed down to it. A king is told, his kingdom will not last. So he builds something gold to prove it will. The whole story sits right there in a pattern. And I don't think that I'm the only one that sees it. Because even the people with no stake in Bible prophecy are using the same word.
6:41 People talk about the golden calf. Well, is this the golden Trump? Well, of course, it's preposterous. It's blasphemy to even think that. I mean, if you knew me, of course, I don't know anybody who worships Donald Trump as a god. This statue symbolized patriotism of Americans. It represents the will to fight. But I do think, like, we know the story of the golden calf. If you have to say it's not a golden calf, you're probably going a little too close to idolatry. That's my only take here. Idolatry, absolutely. A daytime talk show is landing on the same conclusions I am. You don't deny an accusation nobody made unless a resemblance is already sitting right there in front of you. Reminds me of the golden calf in the book of Exodus. And you know what happened there. Moses comes down off the mountain, sees them worshiping the golden calf, and he grinds the statue into powder and makes the people drink it in water.
7:34 And it was a symbol of their spiritual adultery. And then, God sends a plague upon the people. And I'm not saying the plagues are coming because the statue of the gold is in the golf course. I don't know dates. I don't know any of that. But I don't even think the devil himself knows exactly how this is going to happen. Because he isn't all knowing either. What I do know is that the pattern in scripture is consistent. A golden image goes up. Worship is demanded. A futile to bow down becomes the test. Now, some of the commentary online is pushing this whole thing way too far. And I want to correct it. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is because Donald Trump is the biblical antichrist. We are watching in real time the seals being opened. Like what's said in Revelation chapter 13, verse 1.
8:23 Verse 5. The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemes and to exercise its authority for 42 months. Repent. Give your life to Christ. Time's up. I don't believe that. And the Bible doesn't support it. Daniel tells us plainly what the beast in prophecy actually is. This great beast, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. A beast in this prophetic language represents a kingdom. The beast of Revelation 13 is a power that rises out of a specific historical timeline. Donald Trump is not the antichrist. And I don't want to think that turning him into the antichrist does anyone's discernment any good. What concerns me is the system building the pedestal under him. Now, the end begins as breaking news. Evangelical and Jewish religious leaders gathered today in South Florida to pray over a golden statue.
9:22 A statue of President Donald Trump. It's called Don Colossus. Nice. This is idolatry that needs to be both called out and condemned. Total preparation for the coming antichrist. Flee this wickedness. This is, by the way, I thought this was AI when I saw it. This is not. This is real. This is 100% real. I think that line, preparation for the coming antichrist, is closer to right than the host meant it to be. Even if I correct the same way I just did. It's the kind of civic and religious fusion that makes future worship laws possible anywhere. It's an occult idol. In Seven Mountains NAR theology, the government mountain must be conquered. Trump is their Cyrus figure. The pagan king God uses to restore the kingdom. Erecting a giant golden image of the political messiah on his own property. It's a ritual declaration. This mountain now belongs to us.
10:15 Now, I'm not going to weigh in on the Seven Mountains theology point by point tonight. But I will say this. Calling a sitting president a Cyrus figure. A pagan king God is using to restore a kingdom. And then erecting a golden image of him. Is the same impulse that Nebuchadnezzar had. A king gets told about God's kingdom. And instead of humbling himself, he approves or builds himself something gold to stand for it. I've said for a while that the pendulum is swinging back and forth at a more religious rate than ever before. And I think that's by design. Not accident. And I'm not political. Trump has done real good things in this country. And he's also been a very, very strange character to watch. Some things I wouldn't necessarily approve of. So I'm just simply reading what's happening through the Bible.
11:07 And what the Bible shows me is the exact mechanism this country was built to prevent. Now I want to show you something from the scripture before I bring you any commentary. Revelation describes a future in which worship itself becomes compelled. Enforced by economic pressure. And he causes all small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to receive a mark on their right hand or in their forehead. That they may not buy or sell. Save ye that had the mark. Or the name of the beast. Or the number of his name. Scripture lays out the enforcement mechanism plainly. A demand for worship backed by the ability to buy and sell. It doesn't name a day. But it does tell us the shape of what's coming in compulsion dressed up as unity.
11:53 Some interesting Bible commentary from Ellen White in the letters and manuscripts of volume 12 written in 1897. This movement demanding that all observe as sacred, as idol Sabbath, resembles the act of Nebuchadnezzar in making a golden image and setting up for all to worship. This idol of gold was to be a most imposing spectacle and was to take the place of God. And worshipped as God. Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation proposals echo language from 1888. Time and a half pay as an incentive to treat Sunday as a default day of rest. I expect national leaders to ask for a Sunday proclamation framed as unity and gratitude. The legal scaffolding always follows the cultural scaffolding. A golden image on a golf course. Blessed by pastors. Walked past by heads of state.
12:46 Is cultural scaffolding. The law itself hasn't arrived yet. All this stuff is precursor stuff building to the final events in Revelation talks about. Revelation shows the same union of political and religious powers enforced by worship. And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. A second power works alongside the first. And that union of political and religious authority is exactly what I see forming when I watch religious leaders and political leaders stand together in these moments. Here's another quote that I think is fascinating from the book Last Day Events. Even in free America, rules and legislators, in order to secure public favor, will yield to popular demand for the law enforcing Sunday observance. Church and state dignitaries will unite to bribe political leaders.
13:46 They will persuade and compel all classes to honor that day. Did you notice the order in that sentence? Rulers don't impose it out of nowhere. The people demand it. And the rulers yield to secure favor. In a democratic republic, it's going to be the people who push for the change. Not the government handing it down from above. A golden statue people line up to take selfies with. Pledging allegiance in front of it. It is exactly the kind of public appetite that eventually gets legislated. Our book ministry is growing and this is exactly the kind of topic that it's built for. We have two booklets talking about actually Revelation 16. One is for the in-reach in my church, aliens, angels, and ancestors. Another is for outreach, non-human intelligence. Two very good books. I would reach out to store.orionmedia.tv to grab some and share with me.
14:43 One more thing I want to contrast before we go. Daniel actually gives us because it's the part that nobody actually quotes when they talk about the golden ages. And in the days of the kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom in which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to another people. But it shall break into pieces and consume all these kingdoms. And it shall stand forever. Every golden age men have ever built has been plated, not solid. And it has always needed a statue to convince people it would last. The kingdom God sets up doesn't need an image. It doesn't need anyone to bow to a likeness of its king. It just stands. I don't need you to take my word for any of this. Go to the law. Go to the testimony. They speak not according to this word.
15:35 It's because there's no light in them. Test it for yourself. Open your Bible today. Read Daniel 3. Read Revelation 13. And see if the shape fits what you just watched your screen say tonight. Stay in the word. And whatever test comes next in Miami or elsewhere, pray through it in Jesus' name. My name is Bradley. And this has been Pure Strangeness and Absolute Normalcy. We'll see you next time.