In Repercussions of Power and Control, Trey Knowles draws a parallel between indigenous nations and the biblical story of Adam and Eve. He argues that just as the devil deceived Adam and Eve into turning away from their dependence on God, the same deception has been used for centuries to lead indigenous peoples away from their original state of spiritual and cultural alignment with God. Knowles emphasizes that the devil's tools for gaining power and control—such as slavery, colonization, and cultural manipulation—have replaced authentic ways of life with counterfeit systems rooted in deception. The work exposes the ongoing consequences of these tactics in today's world, revealing how societies continue to suffer under the lingering effects of these spiritual and political strategies.
00:00What you see in today's world, all the chaos, all the crazy behavior, is the repercussions comes from the repercussion of the enemy, the repercussion of power and control, the repercussions of slavery.
00:17When you're enslaving people, kidnapping people, forcing them to be slaves, when you're colonizing countries, taking people's identity away from them, forcing them to a way of life that's not their own, drafting a society, making us pay for things that God already gave us.
00:44So today we're living in the repercussions of the enemy, the repercussion of the enemy.
00:55So all the chaos, all the behavior, every country that has been colonized, look at them now.
01:05Every country that has been colonized, look at them now.
01:10What would happen if none of this ever happened?
01:16If slavery never existed, if people, countries was not colonized, people would be in their original state, their original state.
01:26They would be indigenous to their own country, their own land.
01:31And everybody in their land had their own religion, their being the original state.
01:40I want you guys to think about this.
01:43What happened before all, before colonization?
01:49What happened?
01:50What happened when there was, before there was forced slavery?
01:56Forced slavery.
01:59Now I'm not talking about the slavery where the word slavery is really employee.
02:03I'm talking about forcing you to be a slave, taking your rights away.
02:11What if none of this ever happened?
02:13You would be indigenous to your land, speaking your own language, had your own religion.
02:20But when you have colonizers, and then Jesus was correct, the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy, and lie, and cheat.
02:34So Jesus comes from a bloodline, the devil comes from a bloodline, and you guys need to know who these people are.
02:48And wake up and realize what they did.
02:52So right now, we're living in a drafted society.
02:56Got us in love with money.
02:59Paying for things, materialistic things, knowing that these things rust, they rot, and they get old.
03:09And we know that we come in this world with nothing, we leave out this world with nothing.
03:15But we're stressing to get things in this world, material things, which are nothing, have no value.
03:24But when we're in our original state, we depended on God.
03:28Every indigenous person had their own religion and depended on God.
03:34Whatever your religion is, whatever you call God, that's what you call God.
03:37Probably the same God.
03:39Wherever you called God, you called God.
03:42You had your own religion.
03:43So who took you out of your natural state and got you depending, depending, depending on their way of life?
04:00Because you was depending on God.
04:02Wherever you lived at, you was depending on God and the resources of God.
04:07You was depending on God.
04:08Where you was not, you know, stressed out, working 24 hours a day, 40 hours a week.
04:21Your old people were happy.
04:25You had family.
04:27So who took you out of your original state?
04:31Who took you out of your original state when you just depend on God?
04:34Everybody was their own Adam and Eve.
04:38Who took you away from depending on God?
04:41But now you're not resting.
04:43You just want to figure out how I'm going to make pay these bills.
04:46Is that life?
04:48You think God puts you on the planet to live like that?
04:51That is not life.
04:55Power and control.
04:58Power and control.
05:00Remember, the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
05:03And he's a liar.
05:05He's a cheater.
05:10He's a liar and a cheater.
05:15So look at the bloodline.
05:17There's a bloodline here.
05:18And so whoever, whatever, whatever authority that you're living by, either you're going to be living by the authority of God or you're living by the authority of the evil one.
05:35Is it imaginary?
05:37No, it's not imaginary.
05:38You actually see it.
05:39You're living in it.
05:42Who is influencing you to live like this?
05:44Think about it.
05:48I'm not going to give you all the answers.
05:50I want you to think about it because you know who these people are.
05:54You know who these people are.
05:56And don't go by color.
05:58It's not a black or white thing.
06:00It is a certain bloodline.
06:04It's a certain bloodline.
06:07And they've been doing this.
06:08This is the beginning of time.
06:12How do we know they've been doing this at the beginning of time?
06:15Because every indigenous person has went through it.
06:20Look at the indigenous people who are left on earth, who are left, who have not got colonized, who are left on earth.
06:28Look at how they live.
06:30Look how they depend on God.
06:32So what you see today, you see the consequences of slavery, the consequence of colonization.
06:45You see the consequences of somebody dictating to you and saying, you've got to live by my way or my standards.
06:51And if you don't live by my standards, I'm going to make it difficult for you.
