Transcript of video published on 7/11/26 titled:
"Hollywood Director talks to Alex Jones about how movies cast spells, and Recent Passion Projects"

Hey everybody, Bob of The Open Scroll here. We're going to cover a number of things today and wrap it up with some scriptures. Beginning with, right here on X.com, Alex Jones put out something really interesting.

He's got an interview with a guy named Roger Avery. Through predictive programming and revelation of the method, they put forward these ideas of reality that cast a spell on you. And if that rings a bell, I spend a lot of time covering such as that.

And I have many, many videos in several series about different kinds of magic that's being woven. And he says in here, Hollywood uses neuro-linguistic programming. Movies are a kind of spell and you can do a good spell or a bad spell.

A vast majority of the population is asleep. Yeah, well, he ought to know a few things and it doesn't appear as I've watched this that he knows as much as maybe he ought to or he's just not revealing what he ought to. Anyway, it's a worthwhile eight minutes to go through and hear what he has to say.

Now, many years ago, some people following William Miller believed that Jesus was coming back. And a lot of people point to this history of failed predictions. And they conclude that, well, yeah, obviously no one will know when Jesus comes back.

So what's this history? Well, I have a personal history, but let's take a look at this. William Miller and the Millerites. And this focused on 1843, March and March 1844 in the springtime.

Yeah, and that's the right season to expect the most significant part of his return from a pivotal, critical perspective. So he later refined it to October 22nd, 1844 in the fall. And this is a trend of postponing or resetting a date into the near future.

And it's a longstanding trend. So here, way back then, up to 100,000 followers prepared intensely. Some quit jobs, sold possessions, or gathered on hillsides.

When nothing happened, it became known as the Great Disappointment. Many remained disillusioned, but others reinterpreted events or founded new denominations, including the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Advent Christian Church. This is one of the largest and most famous 19th century movements of its kind.

Now, more recently, the very popularly known The Late Great Planet Earth, written by Hal Lindsey, came out in 1970, and he implied that by 1988 that Jesus Christ would return. And speaking of 1988, we have another very popular movement, a book called 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988, written by Edgar Wiesenot. A former NASA engineer, no dummy, Wiesenot published this booklet, often bundled with unborrowed time, claiming 88 biblical, numerological reasons the rapture would occur during Rosh Hashanah, September 11-13, 1988, tying it, obviously, to the Hebrew or Jewish calendar, which I call the Lord's calendar when it's accounted appropriately.

It sold or was distributed in the millions of copies, estimates around 4.5 million, super popular, and received widespread media attention and ridicule. 1988 was a very pivotal year, but not for this exactly. So, these later books sold for far less, but kept the date-setting pattern alive in some circles, because he followed it up in 1989 with another prediction, and then later again with the 1993 prediction.

You see how that works, one and then another and another. Harold Camping, same. I had a friend back in the day who introduced me to this, and 1994 was a very significant year, and I was certainly looking for the Lord's return in 1991, because of the celestial sign, and I didn't know what that was going to bring.

I didn't insist dogmatically that this was the year of his return to gather us together to Him, but nonetheless, not knowing what was coming with the celestial sign, you don't want to be unprepared. So, a lot of people understand that. You really have to, when you feel the Lord is near and His coming is near, abandon frivolous pursuits and get with the program that will prepare you, as best you know, for the Lord's coming.

So, in mid-94, mid-September, again, during that feast season, based upon his unique biblical chronology and numerology, and I looked at the book, a friend gave me a copy, and I found nothing in there that was compelling. By 1994, I'd learned quite a bit already about the genuine signs, and the evidence of the chronology, and what Harold Camping pointed to, I found not at all compelling. And then he predicted the rapture in 1995, probably several in a row, I think it was 1995 that was the next most popular, and then he later predicted the rapture on May 11, 2011.

So, many years later, and of course that didn't happen as he predicted, and it says here, many followers made major life changes, as they should, when this is what they are compelled by, and the failures damaged his organization's credibility, of course. Yeah, I used to have a lot more people who regularly followed what I do, and over the years, they have definitely fallen away, and some of them have professed to me that they are convinced that, okay, no one can know the day. Herbert W. Armstrong, and the Worldwide Church of God, another popular movement, focused on 1975, and that came out in 1956, so it was many years after, and it didn't happen.

A lot of disappointment, the failures contributed to membership losses, and later doctrinal shifts after Armstrong's death. So, there's the Jehovah's Witnesses, various dates, notably expectations, again, as with Herbert W. Armstrong, around 1975. It's the Watchtower Society, as they're also known, and they have a huge focus from Charles Taze Russell's 1874, Invisible Return, and their big pivot on 1914, and they have their reasons for that, and they still point to that.

In the 60s and 70s, publications strongly implied that 1975 would mark 6,000 years of human history, which is a significant, historical, prophetic time marker, but you have to understand context in order to make sense of it. The organization later attributed over-expectation to members, rather than explicit prophecy, and moved away from specific new dates. Well, yeah, that's one way to handle it.

So, there's Ronald Wineland, Church of God, preparing for the Kingdom of God, multiple shifting dates, there's the trend including September 29, 2011, then May 20, 2012, and May 2013. So, what is the deal? Well, I've talked about this a fair amount recently, and here I point to my recent book, and obviously the title, Will No One Know?, and subtitle challenging the traditional reading of Matthew 24, 36, because it matters. Yeah, you should be familiar with that.

If you have not gotten a copy of the book, I highly recommend it, because a lot of people, even people who have been following the open scroll for a while, tend to dismiss this, and take another tact, that basically is the adoption of the No One Will Know lifestyle, and that isn't going to progress you into a place where the Lord is actually drawing you near enough to bring you into a personal revelation about His coming, because if you read this book, you'll find out that some will know, and you really want to be among them. If you don't know what the difference is, it's vast. It's a huge difference.

So, do you know when Jesus is coming? If anybody knows, and some are going to know in the season when He comes, if you don't know, you should really be drawing near the Lord, because we know that from what Daniel said, the wise will understand, and he was testifying by the Spirit of God as a prophet. And many other instances I've shown from the scriptures show that when the thief comes, it will take some by surprise like a thief in the night, but it will not surprise others. And those who will be surprised, well, it'll be to their shame, because they had an opportunity to know.

And the reason why they didn't wasn't just because they were stupid, it was because they failed to develop the character where they were close enough to the Lord to be privy to this critically important information. If that doesn't make sense to you, it's explained in the 24th chapter of Matthew, and I go through that in the book. So, what have I been up to lately? I have not been making many videos.

I haven't made one in a while. And it's not because I've been on vacation or being lax, it's because I've been busy with a variety of things, and one of them is a passionate pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, where I spend time with the Lord in deep study in the Bible, and that is reflected in studies like the following. Romans chapter 11, and I'm going to go there and take a look at that for a moment.

But what you'll recognize is something that most people really have not applied themselves to, and I don't mean in doing the same thing that I do, but they haven't applied themselves to learning from this work. And what I'm doing in here is exposing the natural structure of the scriptures according to the author's design, and he's made something really special for us. Now, Romans 11, I've iterated on it for a while.

I think my last update might have been in 2020, but I needed to take another look at it, and I'm very confident this is a compelling version, and I believe it's going to be my final version here. So, this has to do with chiasm and parallelism, and I'm not going to bore you with all the details, but in many of the videos that I've done on structures, I show you how to make sense of this, and you can explore it because it's interactive, and that's one of the great benefits of our day, of being able to have this kind of technology. And what it really puts on display is a deeper mystery.

The Word of God is written in such a way that it prompts you to ask certain questions through this means of this structure. And following through the invitation and actually engaging and finding what questions the Holy Spirit prompts, you can find answers to things that are very profound, and it's not difficult. You merely have to be willing to engage with it, prayerfully meditate on it, and continue until the Lord Himself is satisfied.

And I mean that like in the sense of prayer. How long should you pray? When should you pray? Well, be quick to engage in prayer, and don't be quick to disengage until you're satisfied with the Lord's satisfaction. Let it be up to Him.

And you'll see, oh, this is huge. And yeah, it is. There's a lot there.

But take one bite at a time, and I recommend starting out here on the end where you're hovering over the lines themselves, and then move in to hover over the bars that precede them. And then as you move outward, you'll find that the scope is such that it won't fit on your device's screen. Oh, no. 

Yeah, well, what do you do then? Well, here's a trick. You can right-click on a bar, and it shrinks it down, and you can do that as many times as you need in order to bring those things that are paired those companion elements on screen at the same time so you can see what you're looking at and compare them even just on one single device. So, how do you know what to do? Well, down here, I've updated the explanation on my interactive pages, and there's an explanation of what's going on and directions on how to engage here.

And there's more explanation. These two pages. And so, Romans 11 was one of the things that I worked on, and again, I'm very satisfied with it.

I'm just thrilled. It's just phenomenal what the Lord has done there. And you'll find some really exceptional puzzles that are in there.

And, you know, I could go through a lot of details, and I could share all my insights with you. But for most of you, it's lost, because you see this and you go, it's over my head. Moving on.

Well, I'm not doing this for my own entertainment or for my own satisfaction. This is not just for me. I'm doing this because the Lord compels me to do it.

And although I immensely enjoy the time I spend doing this, I take the effort to publish it because it makes a difference. There are some that need this for encouragement, inspiration, insight. And does it help you come to know when Jesus is coming back? Well, yeah, there are some studies I've done that actually do.

So, dig in. Don't be intimidated by it. Now, one of the other things that I've been working on wasn't really most recently updated, although it's based upon some work that I had previously published.

I have a study called The Woven Rings of Revelation. And I'm going to go to the intro here. And I was inspired by a work that was presented by Dr. Warren Gage, and I was introduced to that through Doug Van Dorn.

And the rings of revelation show it to be a chiasm, and the rings are like, here you can picture this kind of structuring of the text, like concentric rings, like what appears when a pebble is tossed into a pond. When I refer to the woven rings, I'm describing the chiastic structure with a refined view to how every word of the text is accounted for, where nothing is ignored. This more comprehensive approach yields an enhanced version that showcases the author's skillful handiwork and elegant design, and more vividly illustrates his nuanced nesting and layering patterns in the weave of the fabric of Holy Scripture.

So, what we see in the intro is what I've begun in, uh, have a fair amount of work that's continuing. And when I hover over this, it shows you what's currently in development. And that's a lot.

And then I have a ring 7 through 10, and then they pivot around the inner 6. And so, the span here is of the 12th and 13th chapters. And this is a fair amount of text, and it pivots between 12.9 and 12.10. And this is a absolutely mind-boggling presentation, because in there what you'll see is that it's not hard to perceive these six rings. You go through and you can see unit by unit, and there's 12 of them.

They're all self-contained to a certain degree, and many of them are actually completed on the other half. It's a chiasm. And in the pairings, one's on one side, like the first one, matches the last one on the other.

And then in the middle, they pivot. The two that match are contiguous. So, when we look at that as a chiasm, or six rings, it has a very obvious unit construction.

And when you step out from that to rings 7 through 10, which may be subject to some change as I get further through what you would consider rings 8 and so on, they're less obvious. Much less obvious. But yet, you can see, yep, they're legitimate.

There is a relationship between them, although often subtle. Sometimes the words are matching and expressions are matching, and sometimes not really so much, but the subjects and themes are matching. And when you move from one local unit to another, if you accept that all of the book is written in this chiastic way, then you can accept these matchups, and some are more evident than others.

And down here, I click on the inner six, and you can click on the other ones as well. And here's the big pivot between 12.9 and 12.10. And when you explore this, you'll see that a lot of these are kind of individual units, but the way that they piece together, it becomes really obvious that, yeah, this is the author's way of organizing the text. And so, things are separated for a reason, they're connected for a reason, they're in agreement for a reason, they're in opposition or showing contrast for a reason, and the kind of curious, mysterious things that seem to have little in the way of clues in this book, which are many, we have insight through these pairings.

Why has he paired this with that? How curious. Sometimes it's more evident on a more constrained level, and sometimes you have to expand it in order to get a sense of why they're paired. And, yeah, there's a lot more that I could learn from this.

The Lord hasn't given me as much insight about the book of Revelation as I would like, but I'm very curious, and so it makes this a passionate pursuit to explore this Ezekiasm, which I had not done before. I'm getting a much better education about it, and I'm hopeful and expectant that there are more breakthroughs about connections between things that I do know from Revelation and things that I do not know yet. So, let's move on.

Hebrews, Chapter 10. I'm going to read this, and my interest here is about persisting and continuing in this season, which some have been so discouraged through the ongoing and increasing challenges of this season. And, we need to draw into the Lord Himself for sustenance so we can persist.

Verse 32 of Hebrews 10. 

"But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings, partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated. For you showed sympathy to the prisoners, and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and a lasting one. Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that, when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. For yet, in a very little while, he who is coming will come, and will not delay. But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

Is what we've gained in jeopardy? Yes, yes. Not everything, but what we build, if it's wood, hay, and stubble, is going to get burned up. So, let me encourage you to take this personally, because who will be here when he comes? Will no one know? Now, in the book of Romans, chapter 2, there's a really strong foundation being laid down here. There are some hard things that have been written. I'm going to read from Romans 2, 6 through 11.

"Who will render to each person according to his deeds, to those who, by perseverance in doing good, seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life. But, to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation, there will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek. But glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good to the Jew first and also to the Greek, for there is no partiality with God."

God bless you. Bye-bye.