Billionaires Seeking Escape to Mars

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For years, I think National Geographic had a program called Doomsday Preppers, and they always made fun of kind of these, you know, folks out there in the country that were walking around with their tinfoil hats and their guns and talking about the end of the world, but it’s not those people now, friends, it’s thinking people that realize that we’re on the cusp of what could be catastrophic. And they’re wondering, how can we save ourselves? Well, friends, this meeting is going to tell you how you can be saved.

And it’s not going to be a doomsday bunker. It is going to be a shelter, and the Lord is our shelter. He is the way that we are going to survive. He is a mighty rock in a weary land.

Amen? A thousand may fall at your side, 10000 at your right hand, but it will not come nigh unto you.

That’s Psalm 91. Because you’ve made the most high your habitation, no plague will come nigh your dwelling. God can protect you through all of this. Now, not only are they looking for bunkers and going down in the ground, but these billionaires are also looking at going up in the sky.

Boeing, you know, a contractor, their space program is having problems right now, so they’re turning to private companies. And you got people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, where they’re space companies. And you ask them, why are you building space companies? If you ask Elon Musk, he says, the future of our world is looking pretty bleak.

He said, my goal is to die on Mars. And they’re saying we’re looking for colonization that is out of this world or on a space station because they’re afraid of what the future of the world might be. And you’ve got SpaceX and Blue or Origin and all the different companies, and frankly, I’d love to take a trip up there. That would be rather interesting.

Batchelor, Doug, “Signs of Christ’s Return, Part 2” (AudioVerse teaching 43401).

The point

The speaker observes that fears of global catastrophe are no longer limited to 'Doomsday Preppers,' but now even billionaires like Elon Musk are investing in space colonization, with Musk stating his goal is to die on Mars due to a bleak outlook for Earth. This illustrates humanity's desperate attempts to find security and escape apart from God, who is presented as the true shelter.

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