Mark of the Beast, World War 3, and Trump – What You'll See in 2025
A View from the Bunker
Derek Gilbert
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
WE LIVE in interesting times. And 2025 promises no end of excitement.
What’s ahead for the coming year? The two biggest economic blocs on Earth, the G7 and BRICS, will launch pilot programs for Central Bank Digital Currencies, the closest thing we’ve seen to what the mark of the Beast will look like.
In the Middle East, Turkey has overthrown the Assad regime in Syria, but what that means for regional security is still unknown, as is Russia’s response to Ukraine’s use of long-range British and American missiles. Meanwhile, China is looking more ready than ever to try to reintegrate Taiwan into the mainland.
Politically, Donald Trump will become the second American president to serve two non-consecutive terms (the other was Grover Cleveland in 1885–89 and 1893–97). Will he be able to outmaneuver the deep state the second time around?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a view from the bunker. |
| 0:03.5 | Now, here's Derek Gilbert. |
| 0:08.0 | Happy New Year and welcome to another year of a view from the bunker. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Derek Gilbert. |
| 0:13.4 | If you're watching us on YouTube, thank you very much. |
| 0:15.9 | I often forget to do this at the beginning of these programs, but I'm an old radio guy. |
| 0:20.3 | This began as an audio-only podcast back in 2009. |
| 0:23.6 | We started podcasting back in 2005. |
| 0:26.0 | I keep forgetting with the video thing, we got to say, click subscribe, click the bell for |
| 0:31.2 | notifications and hit that like button, and then thank you. |
| 0:35.0 | We do appreciate that. |
| 0:35.9 | Also tell you after the break how to guarantee that we never get canceled. |
| 0:40.2 | That would be, of course, by downloading our free mobile app. |
| 0:43.6 | Anyway, 2025. |
| 0:45.0 | Going to be an interesting year for a number of reasons. |
| 0:47.5 | Number one, we've got Donald Trump returning to the White House. |
| 0:52.4 | We've got a number of things that I will discuss |
| 0:54.5 | over the course of this program that are lining up to make it historically very interesting. |
| 1:00.5 | From a personal perspective, Sharon and I celebrating 20 years of podcasting in March of this year. |
| 1:06.5 | We began PID Radio back in March of 2005, one of the first podcasts on the internet. |
| 1:12.6 | Somebody the other day, a couple of months ago actually called us the OGs of Christian podcasting. |
| 1:17.0 | And I had to look that up because I'm so old. |
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