Pop-Culture in the Bible
Featuring Cardinals Emil Johansson & Clark Isaac, revealing God's interest in popular culture from within the Bible Code.
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01:00pop culture is referenced in the Bible code and it seems like God's a fan of Lady Gaga Mel Gibson
01:15maybe not so much of Mickey Mouse yeah I don't know but it's there's a lot of stuff in the Torah
01:25codes and even things from popular culture and someone might ask you know why is there stuff
01:32from popular culture what what does that have to do with prophecy and religious stuff and and our
01:39Lord and everything but I think one of the things it does is provide evidence to people who might
01:47not necessarily be into all those kind of stuff the provides evidence of God to people who might
01:54not be into prophecy or the Bible because people you know popular culture is a very mainstream thing
02:02that appeals to a lot of people so yeah I think it provides an opportunity to for so many more
02:11people to believe in God if they look at this you know yeah and some of these things you wouldn't
02:19expect like for example there's a there's an old handheld video game called Pokemon yeah and
02:30apparently this is also found referenced in the Bible code yeah and Pokemon is it's a Japanese
02:38game a huge franchise started in mid 90s somewhere and people my age played it when they were a kid
02:47and they traded these monsters and raised them and battled them yeah Pokemon stands for pocket
02:53monsters yeah exactly so it's a probably one of the biggest franchises in the world in the world
03:00with trading card games and and plushies and all kinds of stuff so it kind of makes sense that it
03:09it's so well known that it would appear in the Torah codes so we got one here and I believe this
03:19was I believe this was the only in that was exclusively the Torah and the main search term
03:26is Pokemon of course and it extends to caretaker or servant Pokemon triple-a patriarchs so AAA
03:35AAA is a is a term in the video game industry that means like the high-budget games basically
03:46the top-of-the-line best game out there yeah yeah exactly like the Rolls Royce of video games kind
03:56of and you got a lot of secondary terms here that are related to to the game itself and what you do
04:07in the game first thing that stands out there is catch word or phrase and well that makes me think
04:15of you what's it you get a catch them all yeah and right and right there in the catch word is choice
04:21or selection yeah and that's another popular phrase it's I choose you yeah yeah oh my goodness
04:30I didn't even think of that yeah so I thought that was interesting it's all about choosing
04:37what which Pokemon's to make up your team with and how to battle with them and it says nations
04:43right there next to that and that that phrase in itself probably spanned across nations yeah
04:49and it's a you know popular all over the world all of all nations it's popular in and there's
04:56a even kind of nations within the game itself called regions which are different have different
05:03types of Pokemon and cities and stuff this was the word diarist mean I was thinking because it's a
05:12six-letter word so it's probably something significant and it crosses which is there
05:18skilled it's just not a word I'm I'm familiar with in the English language yeah it's like
05:24someone who keeps a diary or journal oh right okay yeah I can't the root word there and it
05:31crosses adept skilled and crosses right through Pokemon so what I thought is that it's probably a
05:38reference to the pokédex in the Pokemon universe which is kind of the journal you have which of all
05:47the Pokemon that you've seen or caught and it your your main task basically in the games to
05:55fill it up with all the Pokemon that's a that's the main like me who should say like maybe that
06:01quest yeah speak yeah okay and that's that's crazy that it's out right in there in the code
06:08yeah this isn't anything we put in here like this is stuff that we're finding just naturally
06:14occurring right very close proximity to the search term yeah I did find this code in 2013
06:23or 2014 it's an old code that word animating and this became a very popular animated series yeah
06:29yeah one of my favorites from my childhood actually enjoyed the animated series a lot
06:34more than the game when I was a child yeah yeah me too it all became so much more immersive when
06:41there's so much of it I mean other entertainment yeah you pretend like you're Ash Ketchum and
06:46yeah that's cool so I didn't realize that until many many years after that his name is Ketchum
06:55like Ketchum yeah like Ketchum yeah yeah um destined to be a Pokemon master yeah there's
07:06also superlative supreme and it's Elyon is it another word for another name of God and I put
07:17it in there because oh yeah because a superlative is what do you call it the most extreme form of
07:30the adjective like so what I thought in this case was best I want to be the very best oh no one
07:39ever won yeah the supreme can we just we just say we're just gonna play that song at the end of this
07:45episode yeah we don't get copyrighted for it but now I'm just feeling nostalgic it's a great song
07:52there's to cause someone to flee a word for that and that is one of the like four options you have
08:00when you encounter a Pokemon you can always flee and then interestingly enough it was M.Harr also
08:07in the in the code there which is our prophet Michael Harr and did ask him about it and he did
08:15say that he did play Pokemon when he first came out the original versions red blue and yellow
08:21yeah that's really impressive so of course you know Pokemon you would think oh well you know
08:33yeah okay one game is there in the Bible code but it's not the only game that we've seen in the
08:43Bible code yeah exactly there's this other really popular game out there yeah called World of
08:54Warcraft yeah World of Warcraft which started off with just Warcraft orcs and humans which was a
09:00strategy game you saw from the top down and you like directed these different types of units to
09:11attack each other and destroy buildings and stuff like that and eventually became a massive
09:19multiplayer online role-playing game as it's called an MMORPG and it was probably the first
09:29one that saw huge mainstream success I would say yeah the very the very first like that had like
09:37over 10 million players peak at one point yeah this is before massive online player bases were
09:44even commonplace yeah there were other online games like that before like Ultima Online and
09:51Star Wars Galaxies you know what's that one called EverQuest yeah the one that Patrick plays
09:59I don't know never mind but yeah so great reviews yeah those gamer magazines very well received when
10:12it came out and it was revolutionary in a lot of ways that it handled itself and worked so
10:21if you look at the code there is actually a new one code for Warcraft and there's a six letter
10:29word there for or it's actually a seven letter word I think artillery gunnery which is very much
10:39what it's all about you know catapults and stuff and you shoot your enemies and use spells against
10:48them and stuff and beginning inception was the beginning of a franchise Warcraft itself there
10:58get interface and rescue retrieve salvage save it's I think it could be a reference to the nature
11:10of most of the quests in World of Warcraft uh-huh well I'm seeing here these words that are bunched
11:16up together crowds yeah complemented an interface that many people are they praised this the the way
11:30that the game was put together the interface itself the appearance of the UI the user interface
11:35exactly yeah and the simplicity and and easy to use and yeah and it really was the start of a
11:46trend it's it saved a franchise basically it's a it saves an entire company yeah Blizzard itself
11:55was going under they weren't expecting to do well in the next quarter but yeah you see here that it
12:04does say to rescue retrieve salvage or save yeah suddenly they have like what a billion dollars
12:13in revenue every month from the membership fees you know from 10 million players no like a hundred
12:21million maybe that would be 10 million players paying 10 bucks a month to play so World of
12:31Warcraft of course we're talking about games but this this goes in other places too in popular
12:39culture yeah earlier you were telling me about about a movie series also a book series called
12:49Harry Potter being in the code yeah and this is a code that Richard discovered oh and it looks
12:57like Petri just chimed in he's telling us that RuneScape was the game oh yeah RuneScape yeah
13:02thanks Petri he managed to tell us on both platforms YouTube and Twitch just to make
13:08sure we got the message perfect thank you brother thank you Petri yeah so this is Harry Potter and
13:17yeah that became very popular a lot of people you know the very conservative Christians were saying
13:28that it was like demonic and it was demon worshiping and stuff like that which may be a
13:34reference to the word there this this worshipful but it's also honorable upstanding there's a lot
13:45of interesting moral messages from the author JK Rowling towards the audience yeah the heroes were
13:53heroes you know they weren't anti heroes like what you see today pop culture it seems very
13:59children friendly to me and kind of wholesome in a way Harry Potter was so poorly treated by
14:08his family to begin with and then he rose to become this great magician then really an up an
14:16upstanding member of his society somebody who was worthy of praise yeah I didn't watch all the movies
14:22to be it to be completely honest he was a good guy he wasn't a bad guy yeah of course yeah
14:29there's a word spell there for you know there were wizards doing spells and stuff and yeah
14:38interesting stuff and there was also yeah as I mentioned the author for Harry Potter was JK Rowling
14:44and there was a couple of codes on her as well that Richard found this is one of them I found
14:51the most interesting there's some words that I'm not sure how they might be related you get like
15:03gauze organdy with some sort of type of cloth I think fabric and breeding but one thing that I
15:11found interesting was the word queer there and polemical meaning like controversy because she
15:21did make a controversy once but she claimed that I think it was the character Dumbledore was gay
15:27but it doesn't come across like that that is no there's no mention of it in the books that he was
15:34gay and I think her reaction was like well there's no mention of anyone being straight either so what
15:41does it really matter doesn't have any impact on on the story whether he's gay or not but she has
15:47came out and said that after she published the book that she was gay you know and I think that's
15:52kind of a good lesson to people that it doesn't really matter what your sexuality is it's not
15:58that important that he has to be mentioned in the book you know if it doesn't have anything to do
16:01with the story see what I mean because now yeah I mean I hadn't nowaday people are so fixated with
16:11it you know the pride parades and everything it's like the whole world revolves around it does it
16:16really change anything about the character itself what they're