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0:00Oh Jesus, save your master, creator, you're the author, O may God, you're the king of kings. Hey there my friends, it's Tom with Watchman River. I am so glad you're here and I hope you're doing well today is Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026. It is a lovely day here in the middle of Connecticut by the river and as far as a live studio audience today, Missy the cat who has been missing an action for quite a while. She was back today a few minutes ago, but she is left and she looked fine. So some people were worried about her. She's doing fine. There are a few birds across the street and the fence. So that qualifies as today's live studio audience and before we get into our message today, it's always important, I believe, to start off in the word of God.

1:03So I'm going to read one of my favorite Psalms and I know a lot of you love this one too. Let's go to Psalm 100, okay? Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands. Serve the Lord with gladness come before his presence was singing. Know that the Lord, He is God, it is He who made us and not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him and bless His name. For the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting and His truth endures to all generations. Oh, give me an amen. Thank you. I've heard it. So today I have so much to cover and you got to stay tuned for the Clown World segment because we're going to share a couple of videos there. And if you're listening to this as a podcast, as an audio only podcast, I will give you a

2:06blow by blow so you know what's going on. But there's just so much in this world that is just showing us the times we are in. We are waiting for Jesus now, not 10 years down the road. I happen to believe the preacher, Belatian rapture could happen at any time. We are in the season. We are late in the season and we are waiting for Jesus. I don't know the day or the hour. Nobody does. I'll tell you one thing though. It's getting close. It's getting close. But we have to start off here. Listen to this. Futurism shared this. Alarming study suggests that using AI is turning humans more robotic. Whoa. Now that AI models have officially passed the Turing test, there's no doubt that they're capable of imitating human traits at least in text form to a degree that would have flabbergasted even an expert just a couple of years back. After all, large language models are built by digesting copious amounts of human authored

3:07content, making them little more than algorithms that mirror our behavior back at us. Yeah, we've seen that. But the more we use AI tools like open AI's chat GPT or anthropics clawed, those tables are starting to turn. Chop-ots appear to be influencing human behavior, making us behave more like them, a terrifying thought as the tech plays an ever greater role in our lives. What are we reading? We are more like the role we're turning into the robots. I just, we're living in the twilight zone. Let's continue. As detailed in a new paper in the journal AI and society designed to build out a new framework and started discussion, an international team of researchers have suggested that the use of AI chat bots, specifically in customer service settings, could be making humans act more robotic even as bots become more like us.

4:11Okay. As generative systems and socially responsive service agents enter everyday consumption, human AI interaction increasingly resembles a quasi-social encounter rather than a utilitarian interface the report wrote. The researchers introduced a new concept, listen to this, a new concept called Robotoid Humanness, to put a name to the emergent drift in which consumers come to experience themselves as most fluent, correct or socially viable when they become compatible with machine legibility, machine pacing and machine logic. Incredible. Robotoid Humanness. Let's just call it Robotoiletry Humanopolis. All right, just for humor sake, okay. Robotoiletry Humanopolis, but that's the new term. But differently, this is a bidirectional influence where robots become more like people and people

5:14become more like robots. Oh Lord Jesus, please come get us soon. I am ready to step off of Clown World here and I know most of you are as we wait for him, but you know, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So thank you Robotoid for wanting to be like us and we want to be like you now, I guess, I don't, but somebody does. It's not me, but are you seeing what's going on in this world in the last days? How much longer can this go on? Is this sustainable? Do you think we're living in a sustainable world? I don't happen to think so. I think we're in the last days, you know, I don't think the rapture's in 50 years. I think we're looking now. And I think most of you know that we're looking now. Crazy. Let's go to some news that's going on in the world. So yesterday. Once again, US forces launched strikes Tuesday against Iran's revolutionary guards in response to attempted attacks on commercial shipping and American forces, the US military said.

6:16This was about noon time, art New York City time yesterday, these attacks started. I just called it Tuesday because they seem to be happening all the time, but they're back to attacking Iran and of course Iran is responding. Inside our paper said President Trump warned Iran yesterday on Tuesday not to retaliate against the latest US strikes saying that Iran faced much harder and higher attacks if it hits back. So much harder and higher attacks if it hits back, which it started to last night. Trump said Tuesday's US attacks near the straight of our moves were in response to Iran laying these mines and shooting missiles at an American base in Jordan. If the failed nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again and at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them. All that is waiting in the wings. And when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran end

7:19of quote. That's what President Trump said on his true social network. So we are once again experiencing this. And I really believe at some point this is going to blow up, you know, and it looks like it could happen at any time, but it's not we're not going in the direction of peace. I don't believe and I hate war, but I think we're going in the direction of major prophetic wars ramping up. So then Iran says it will respond to US attacks despite President Trump's threats and it said quote, the United States will regret its new attacks. There you go. Iran targeted Marine barracks in Jordan. They sent drones on Bahrain and Kuwait after Trump's new strikes. So they did respond last night. Jordan's military said it's defense is intercepted 10 of the 13 missiles while the remaining three exploded in areas that were far from population centers. And there were no casualties among forces stationed there.

8:22Now Iran said differently. They said that there were casualties, American casualties, but I don't know the bottom line of that yet. Time will tell. Iranian officials said Wednesday that a US strike hit a wedding party in the country self claiming more than 50 people were killed or wounded as fighting in the Middle East ramps back up. A US military spokesman said central command was aware of the reports and that the US military never targets civilians. So I don't know what happened there. It definitely did happen. Some people are saying it's the United States. Some people are saying it was an errant missile from Iran and we won't know for a little while. Time always seems to iron everything out and we get to know after amount of time, but pray for the families there because the people in Iran are different than the regime in Iran. Iran's IRGC claims that struck a US base in Jordan with ballistic missiles killing a large number of US forces. That's what they're saying.

9:22Again, I don't see the verification of that as of yet. Okay. US forces intercepted Iranian attacks according to Al-Jazera and Iran says it targeted US military base in Bahrain. US officials says Iranian attacks on Jordan caused no major damage and Kuwait's air defenses activated following the Iranian missile and drone attack. So it was popping off last night once again and then it all went quiet for a while and we'll see where it goes today. You guys okay? Everybody okay? You might want to pause the video now and go get us a snack. I could use a snack. I know you could. I'm in the mood lately. You guys know I love like peanuts in the shell salted. That's what I like. I actually got a couple bags from Texas Roadhouse recently. I love those. I love those peanuts. But do you get what you want and then come back okay? All right. This is an oh the lawn mower guys are here.

10:23Wonderful. So you're going to hear a lot of lawn mowing going on. This is from insider paper. Iran's security chief says the US to face new war strategy after strikes. You will soon see that Iran's new strategy on the battlefield and diplomacy and then confronting the economic blockade will shatter your foundations. Sorry I just had to do that dramatic. That was dramatic. No I thought that sounded dramatic. Anyway, that's what the Supreme National Security Council secretary Rize posted that on X that little dramatic threat there and what are you going to do. It's going to shatter our foundations. I'm waiting for Jesus. You know he's my foundation. Then we got this. Listen to the suit two sides of this coin. Russia says what is happening in the Gulf region is horrific and they are trying to deescalate recent actions regarding Iran. But at the same time a major new report yesterday revealed that Russia has reportedly been quietly

11:29assisting Iran with one of Iran's most ambitious weapon programs. The development of advanced supersonic cruise missiles capable of threatening US aircraft carriers and other warships throughout the Middle East. So Russia is like we're mortified. We just can't believe what's going on around while they're also helping them with their arms. You know, anybody surprised? I'm not surprised. Are you surprised? I'm not. No, we got this from insider paper. A top Iranian official called on citizens to curb their petrol consumption on Tuesday. As the country faces difficulty importing enough fuel to meet the demand due to this US naval blockade. Quote, of course, part of the responsibility for this high consumption does not lie with our people. It lies with our industry end of quote, that's a parliamentary speaker. Gali Baf said in a televised address. So they're telling them to watch it with the fuel, you know, go low on the fuel.

12:30And the last quote was, but in any case, what is clear is that we need to save gasoline in our consumption. So it really does appear that this is squeezing them and working. Oh, I love lawnmowers. I love lawnmowers. All right, let me just stay on task here, Tom. Don't look at the lawnmowers. This is from insider paper. Ladies, president, Xi Jinping told his Egyptian counterpart on Wednesday that quote, external interference in the Middle East should be opposed Beijing state media reported, following talks in Cairo between the two leaders. Quote, we must uphold the principle that the people of the Middle East are the masters of their own affairs, oppose external interference. He's he's talking about the USA there. And support regional countries in strengthening dialogue on peace and security. He had to end it with those three words because they everything's ending with peace and security the last couple of years.

13:30But there you go. You know, then we got this from insider paper, US Treasury secretary, dissent or bessent, I believe it's bessent said the straight of our moves will be bypassed in two years and will become a worthless piece of water. He also said this. He said, I will say it on worldwide TV. We know where in the British Virgin Islands, your accounts are, he's talking to Iran. At these trust companies, we know the hundred million dollar houses you have around the world. We are going to close all that down. We are going after the regime's assets. They have stolen from the Iranian people. They can go instead to the victims of terror. After 47 years, it is over. Either you are with us or against us end of quote. So they're pretty serious about these economic sanctions. I don't think Iran cares. I think they care. But it's not going to they're not going to wave the surrender flag, especially when they

14:31got, you know, China and Russia doing all these back end things that, you know, they're just not going to surrender. I think most of us know that. Then we got this overnight. The Hezbollah terrorist organization launched two explosive drones toward IDF soldiers in the area of the Ali El Tahir Ridge, that's in southern Lebanon. IDF soldiers open fire and down one of the drones. There were no injuries reported in response to this attack. The IDF struck Hezbollah terror infrastructure in the area of Nabatia in southern Lebanon. So you know what that means? It's Wednesday. It's just, you know, it just happens every day. Then we got this. I got this from from Rapture ready. Chinese student charged with lying to border agents over alleged airport photo assignments from Beijing. A Chinese national studying at a Canadian university has been charged with lying to American officials to conceal that he took photographs at a Chicago airport cargo facility at the

15:37direction of a suspected Chinese official, according to a federal complaint filed in Detroit on August 26th. Try to. What else you've heard about? Have you heard about this? This is just Google's plan to release 32 million lab raised mosquitoes. What are the risks? I found this on raptureready.com. Google owned debug has proposed releasing 32 million while Bakiya infected male mosquitoes in California and Florida to suppress populations of an invasive mosquito that spreads the dengy fever and the yellow fever and the Zika virus. Public concern centers on unintended environmental consequences, the difficulty of reversing large scale biological releases and the role of private corporations and ecosystem management.

16:38Yeah, I think there would be public concerns. You know, they they build these little mosquitoes and they alter these little mosquitoes. And then they release them. You know, we're supposed to say great. You know, meanwhile, we're going to find out that, you know, well, I can't say that in the YouTube video, but we're going to find out they're carrying something. I'll just say, you know, who knows? I don't worry about this stuff because I belong to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and most of you do too. And I know that Jesus isn't rattled at all by anything going on in this crazy world. And I trust him. And I know that we are in the last days. And I'm just not troubled by this stuff. Earthquakes, the last 24 hours went up a little bit. There were 64 over 4.0 and 29 over 5.0. So they went up a little bit. There you go. Okay. It's time for the question of the day. We started this a couple of days ago, the question of the day. And it's really going well.

17:38I'm really enjoying all the stuff I'm seeing in the comments from it. So let's do it. Question of the day. What's your favorite rapture verse in the Bible? That's my question of the day. We all have our favorites. I love rapture verses. I think you know that. And I think there's many more than people even realize, you know, but what's your favorite one? Now I'm going to tell you my favorite one. But honestly, if you ask me tomorrow, it might switch. But I'm going to say John 14 verse three. Okay. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there. You may be also the words of Jesus. That's mine for today. You know, so what's your favorite rapture verse? Let me know. Okay. All right. All right. You guys. It's time for cloud world. Get ready. Get ready for this. A driverless car hits a police van after the internet goes down during a

18:43Pakistan demo. So let's roll the video here. He's driving the self driver. The passage was just sitting there. You can see the wheel spinning and look with her heading toward the only car in the area. A police car and what boomie? Hit the police car. Incred. Let's watch it one more time. Okay. Look, the only car in the area and the look at he's aiming for it. The self driving car is aiming for it. I love the way the guy reaches down to pull the handbrake when he realizes. Look, he's like, whoa, got to pull the handbrake. And that might have lessened the impact a little bit. But there you go. That is total and complete cloud world. That's why and I love the way the story says after the internet goes down. See, we're relying on the internet to run all these things. And when the internet glitches, the police car gets hit. You know, let's cloud world. It's just cloud world. All right, I got another one. I got another one. This Russian robot tries to attack a customer after he pushed it.

19:46So check out this video. If you got the robot, you got the guy shaking hands with the robot. The robot gets angry because the guy pushes him a little bit. Watch what the robot does. Does he just calmly? No, no, he gets in position and he is ready to whoop. Another guy comes out. They're fighting with the robot. The robot's trying to get that guy. Watch what the robot's foot does on the top of the desk there. Wait till you see this. He's like stumbling and like watch. Whoa. Oh, come on. That's good. That's good. No, I like that. One more time. Okay. One more time. There we go. There we go. Cloud world. We are living in C L O triple W O N. Cologne world with all these robots and self driving cars and the flying cars are coming. They're coming very soon. And so is Jesus. Thank God. So we're waiting. Let's read a few comments of the day.

20:47Okay. So yesterday's question of the day was beside Jesus, who are you most excited to see in heaven? And I'm going to tell you that there were many that I could never read on these videos because I will cry. You know, there were many. So I tried to pick ones that hopefully won't make me cry. Okay. But, you know, I said I was excited to see my mom and dad, you know, and there was a lot of people saying that, but some of them were just, you know, but Sarah said, I'm excited to be reunited with my daughter. I just wonder, will she be the same age when she passed or will she be what she would have been before going home to the Lord? Either way, it will be a wonderful reunion. Amen, sister. Amen. Oh, can you imagine we're in heaven. I don't know if I can talk about it. Can you imagine we're in heaven and we see those reunions of people that lost babies and we literally see those reunions?

21:51I just. All right. All right. Matthew said he's most looking forward to seeing my brother Aaron. He was killed in action in Afghanistan on November 5th, 2009. And there hasn't been a day since that I have not missed him. These are the ones that weren't supposed to make me struggle. All right. Mrs. Manners, who am I most excited to see? Well, since we have eternity, and I believe that time will be different. So I want to see Daniel. There are no words. I have a burning desire to see Daniel and hear what he experienced. Knowing that we will see our loved ones who went before us is more than I can even imagine. Amen, sister. Amen. And yeah, Daniel, talking to Daniel and, you know, Paul, we have an amazing

22:56future. If you know Jesus, Rick, no fear here. I know without a doubt that Jesus is coming for us at the perfect moment. And I couldn't care less about AI. Awesome, brother. Thank you, Rick. Beautiful. Let's do one more gospel festival. Brother Tom, I am with you. What world are we living in? But we are not worried because we have a wedding to attend Maranatha. Amen. Thank you for that. Amen. We do. We do. Jesus is coming soon. And he is going to receive us to himself that where he is there, we may be also. But do you know Jesus? Do you have a relationship with him? Do you believe in the gospel? Because that's how you're saved by believing in the gospel. That means good news. Well, what's the good news? Well, here it is. We're all sinners. We all fall short of the glory of God. We're not perfect, right? Everyone agreed to that. Of course, we're far from perfect.

23:57And Jesus came here from heaven two thousand years ago to save us, to rescue us, to take our sins. And when we sin, all of our sins were placed on Jesus when he was on the cross. And in exchange, he gives us his righteousness, but he paid for every one of our sins, past, present and future on that cross. You know, so many people beat themselves up over past sins. You know, I did this thing. I just don't know if I'll ever be forgiven. You're saying that Jesus going to a bloody cross wasn't enough that your sin is so special. You need some kind of extra payment. It's not right, guys. Don't do that. I did that for years. Don't do that. Jesus paid for all of our sins. He took every sin that has ever been committed on him. And in exchange, once you believe in the atoning blood and in the finished work of Jesus, we get his righteousness. And the most high God doesn't even remember our sins.

24:57Satan will always remind you because Satan doesn't want you to get to the point where you say, all of my sins are gone because Jesus paid for them with his blood. Satan doesn't want you to get to that point because you'll have a great walk with Jesus. But I guarantee you, if you let Satan continue to remind you over and over and over again about your past sins, you're not going to have a good walk with Jesus. It's not a salvation issue. Your sins are paid for by the blood of the Lamb, Jesus. But it's hard to walk with Jesus when you're falling for Satan's. Let me remind you what you did. You tell him, you know what? I know what Jesus did. And it is done. Jesus said it is finished when he was on the cross. He paid for all of our sins with his blood. It is finished. So how do you get saved? How do you know you're saved? You get along with Jesus and you have to understand you're a sinner who needs payment for your sin. And if you say to Jesus, Jesus, I believe that you shed that blood to wash me. Why does snow to get rid of my sin problem?

25:59I believe in your atoning blood and I have faith in your finished work. I know you were nailed to the cross and you shed that precious blood and you died and you were buried and you rose again the third day. And I need to save your Jesus and I now realize you're the one and only savior of the world because he is. That is why everyone is so against him in this world. And you say, Jesus, I believe in you now, your atoning blood, your finished work, the gospel, the good news. And at that moment of belief, you are saved. You're sealed into the day of redemption. He won't let you out of the palm of his hand. Please, please, please understand the simplicity of the gospel. It's so important. If this sounds like true to you, if you're like, you know what? This sounds like truth. One to Jesus now and talk to him. Because today could be your day. Today could be the day that you look back on for the rest of eternity and say, that day is the day when I finally said, Oh, Jesus, take these sins. I know you washed them away with your blood. I don't want to think about them.

27:00Change me. I believe in your gospel, your good news and get saved today. Today is the day of salvation. Okay? You don't want to put this off because if you're thinking, well, I don't know if I believe this or not. You walk away from this and you never believe in Jesus, a toning blood and finished work. You're going to face him on judgment day and that is a nightmare. He's going to say away from me and never knew you. You're going to end up eternally separated from God and you're not going to say, this is not fair. You're going to say you're a fair and just God because you've heard this gospel message. You heard about the rescue plan that Jesus did. Okay? You heard it now. You are without excuse. Your sins were paid for by the blood of the Lamb of God. By the blood of Jesus they were paid for. All right. In my prayer time this morning, I said a prayer for every single person who would watch this video. So you have been prayed for today. And if we're not raptured today and you know, I think today is a perfectly good day, but it's not up to me.

28:01But if not today, God willing, I will see you guys tomorrow. I love you guys.