You’re being played.

Not by some shadowy cabal in a smoke-filled room, (though those exist too)—but by something way simpler and way more profitable: your own emotional reactivity. And the wildest part? You’re paying the people who are playing you.

Every single day, you wake up, check your phone, and within minutes you’re angry about something. A headline. A tweet. A video. Something someone said. Something someone did. Something that’s “breaking” or “urgent” or “unprecedented.” Your blood pressure spikes. Your cortisol floods. Your mind races. And you click.

That click just made someone money. And it wasn’t you.

There’s a formula behind 90% of what you consume online, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It works for CNN and Fox News. It works for your uncle’s conspiracy Facebook page. It works for that “prophetic voice” YouTuber with the all-caps thumbnails and red arrows pointing at random news headlines. It works for literally everyone with a blue checkmark yelling about something.

The formula is elegant in its simplicity: Make you angry, keep you clicking, sell your attention, profit.

The product isn’t information. It’s outrage. And business is absolutely booming.

Here’s how it works. Something happens in the world. Doesn’t really matter what. A politician says something dumb. A celebrity does something weird. A war starts somewhere. A cultural trend emerges. Could be anything. The event itself is almost irrelevant. What matters is what happens next.

They don’t just report it. They don’t just inform you about it. They frame it as THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED. Not just news. Not just interesting. BREAKING. URGENT. UNPRECEDENTED. DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE. CHRISTIANITY IS UNDER ATTACK. CIVILIZATION IS CRUMBLING. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

And then they trigger your emotions. Fear. Anger. Moral outrage. Righteous indignation. Anxiety. Disgust. They’re not picky about which one. They just need you to feel something strong enough to override your thinking. Because thinking people ask questions. Feeling people click buttons.

So you click. You comment. You share. You subscribe. You buy the book. You sign the petition. You join the movement. You tell yourself you’re “staying informed” or “standing for truth” or “being a watchman on the wall.” What you’re actually doing is generating engagement metrics that translate directly into revenue for the people who made you angry.

And here’s the genius part: they don’t even have to lie. They just have to emphasize the things that make you angry, ignore the things that would give you context, frame everything as an existential threat, and never, ever let you catch your breath. Because if you ever calmed down and started thinking clearly, you might realize you’re being farmed for engagement metrics. Can’t have that.

So tomorrow, there’s a new crisis. And the day after that, another one. And the cycle continues. Forever. Or at least until you opt out.

Let’s run the numbers on who actually wins in this arrangement, because it sure isn’t you.

You end up emotionally exhausted. Your mind is scattered across seventeen different controversies, none of which you can actually do anything about. You’re spiritually depleted because every ounce of righteous anger you had has been redirected toward whoever the algorithm decided you should be mad at today. Your body is physically stressed, cortisol doesn’t care if the threat is real or manufactured, it floods your system either way. Your relationships are damaged because you can’t stop arguing about politics at Thanksgiving dinner. Your wallet is lighter because you bought that book or course or conference ticket to “stay informed” and “be prepared.” And at the end of the day, you’ve built absolutely nothing.

Meanwhile, they’re collecting ad revenue. Their book sales are up. Conference tickets are sold out. Subscriber counts are growing. Platform influence is expanding. They have actual power, actual reach, actual resources. And all they had to do was make you angry.

Every hour you spend outraged is an hour you’re not building anything that threatens their position. Which is exactly the point.

Now here’s the part that’s going to make some of you mad, which is ironic given what we’re talking about. The outrage economy isn’t just operating “out there” in secular media. It’s inside the church. Same playbook. Same psychology. Same profit motive. Just wrapped in Christian language and prophecy jargon.

You know exactly who I’m talking about. They’re all over YouTube, with thumbnails that look like they were designed by someone having a panic attack. Red text. Random all-caps words. Arrows pointing at news headlines. Shocked faces. The visual grammar of urgency and fear.

Click the video and you get the same script every time: “Brothers and sisters, I didn’t want to make this video, BUT GOD WOKE ME UP AT 3AM with an URGENT WORD about [current news story]. This is UNPRECEDENTED. The rapture is IMMINENT. Everything is aligning. Let me show you how this connects to Daniel chapter 7, Revelation 13, and the blood moon tetrad I’ve been warning you about...”

And then, without missing a beat: “If this word blessed you, don’t forget to LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, hit that notification bell, and check out my new book ‘2025: The Year Everything Changes’ available now for $29.99 plus my online course about end-times preparedness for the low price of $197...”

Same formula. Christian aesthetics. And it works like a charm.

Here’s what kills me about these guys. They’ve been wrong. For decades. Consistently, repeatedly, spectacularly wrong. And they’re still in business. Still growing their platforms. Still making money. How?

Because they never actually predict anything specific enough to be proven wrong. It’s always “signs point to” and “could this be” and “I’m not setting dates BUT” and “all the pieces are in place for” and “this generation will not pass until.” They create the illusion of prophetic insight while maintaining just enough ambiguity to never be definitively wrong.

And when the date they strongly implied comes and goes with nothing happening? “Well, prophetic timing is tricky” or “God gave us more time through prayer” or “This was a warning to prepare us.” Then they roll out next year’s conference with the same material, a new current event to plug into the formula, and a fresh batch of people who weren’t around for last year’s failed predictions.

If your pastor said “Jesus is coming back next year” for thirty consecutive years, you’d call him a false prophet. But if he just strongly implies it while selling books about it? That’s a ministry. That’s a revenue stream. That’s a career.

My personal favorite variant is what I call the Headline Prophet. These are the guys who have perfected the art of turning any current event into prophetic content.

Something happens in the world. Literally anything. Earthquake in Turkey. War in the Middle East. Political election somewhere. Economic crisis. Weird weather pattern. Celebrity says something stupid. Within twenty-four hours, there’s a video: “PROPHETIC ANALYSIS: Why [that thing] is a sign of the end times!”

The pattern is so predictable you could set your watch by it. Current event happens. Film urgent video. Force it into a Revelation/Daniel/Ezekiel framework regardless of whether it actually fits. Claim this is THE sign. Monetize the panic. Move to the next headline when nothing happens.

They’re not prophets. They’re spiritual ambulance chasers. And you’re the accident they’re rushing toward with a business card and a book deal.

Look, I get it. Israel is in the Bible. A lot. Significant prophetic role. I’m not disputing that. But somewhere along the way, we went from “Israel has prophetic significance” to “every single Israeli political decision is a direct fulfillment of end-times prophecy and if you question this interpretive framework you basically hate God.”

Every headline from the Middle East is apparently the most prophetically significant thing since Jesus ascended. Israeli election? Prophetic. Settlement expansion? Prophetic. Peace deal? Prophetic. Peace deal falling apart? Also prophetic. Everything is a sign. Everything is significant. Everything demands your attention and your interpretation and your emotional investment.

Meanwhile, in the real world, real spiritual warfare is happening. 7,000 Christians were martyred in Nigeria this year alone. Seven thousand. Let that number sink in. Believers who chose death over denying Christ. Churches growing despite persecution. Faithfulness under fire that would make the early church fathers weep with recognition.

And the prophecy grifters? Silence. Complete silence.

But one political development in Israel? ‘URGENT PROPHETIC UPDATE! THIS IS IT! THE PIECES ARE ALIGNING! SUBSCRIBE AND BUY MY BOOK!’

A pastor in Nigeria, his name was precious to God even if it never trended on your timeline—was kidnapped. His congregation, faithful believers scraping together everything they had, paid his ransom. They did everything right. They paid the price for his release. And his captors killed him anyway.

Tell me again where the covenant fruit is. Tell me again where the real spiritual warfare is happening. Tell me again why Africa gets crickets while the Middle East gets 24/7 prophetic analysis.

This pastor paid the ultimate price for the Gospel. But he’s not ‘prophetically significant’ enough to make your feed. Seven thousand martyrs aren’t as important as one Israeli peace negotiation apparently.

The misdirection is working perfectly.

The Ethiopian church preserved the complete 81-book canon for thousands of years… Crickets. Africa has the fastest-growing Christian population on the planet? Nobody cares. The actual Ark of the Covenant is sitting in Axum? “That’s a conspiracy theory bro.”

Interesting pattern, isn’t it? Who benefits from American Christians being obsessed with modern Israel while ignoring covenant preservation in Ethiopia? Who profits when prophetic attention is laser-focused on the Middle East while Africa—where actual fruit is being demonstrated gets dismissed?

I’ll let you sit with those questions.

They’re not trying to inform you. They’re not trying to activate you. They’re trying to exhaust you.

Because exhausted people don’t ask hard questions. Exhausted people don’t build competing systems. Exhausted people don’t have energy for deep Scripture study or strategic planning or organizing effective resistance. Exhausted people just want the chaos to stop, which means they’ll accept whatever “solution” gets offered when things finally break.

You can’t fight Babylon if you’re too tired from fighting each other about whatever controversy they manufactured this week. You can’t build Kingdom infrastructure if all your mental and emotional resources are spent on rage-clicking through manufactured crises. You can’t study the 81-book canon if you’re busy watching prophecy update videos about the latest Middle East development.

And that’s exactly the point. The exhaustion is the objective. The distraction is the weapon. The division is the strategy.

Here’s the really diabolical part. They profit from BOTH sides of every controversy. Think about it. Pick any current culture war issue, literally any of them. Left-wing media is screaming that it’s OUTRAGEOUS and if you disagree you’re a FASCIST. Right-wing media is screaming that it’s OUTRAGEOUS and if you disagree you’re a COMMUNIST. Both sides are making bank from your engagement.

And meanwhile, while you’re arguing in the comments about which side is more evil, surveillance expands with bipartisan support. Financial control tightens with bipartisan support. Institutional power consolidates with bipartisan support. Your freedoms erode with bipartisan support. But you didn’t notice because you were busy fighting about the thing they told you to fight about.

They keep you fighting each other so you never look up and realize who’s actually running the show. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the entire system.

Same dynamic plays out in Christian circles, just with different terminology. The distraction is Calvinism versus Arminianism, worship style wars, prophecy timeline debates, charismatic versus cessationist, contemporary versus traditional. Pick your controversy. Every camp thinks they’re the faithful remnant standing for truth.

Meanwhile, while you’re fighting about whether drums are biblical, Rome’s canon edit goes unquestioned. Ethiopian preservation gets ignored. The 81-book Bible stays buried. Babylon’s calendar corruption continues unchallenged. Nobody’s building Kingdom infrastructure because everyone’s too busy defending their denominational position.

Every denomination thinks they have the truth. Almost none of them have questioned whether the foundation they’re all standing on the 66-book canon—was edited by the very Babylonian system they claim to oppose.

But sure, keep fighting about whether you should raise hands during worship. That’s definitely the most important issue facing the church right now.

This isn’t new, by the way. Israel did this constantly. The pattern shows up over and over throughout Scripture. Enemy creates a crisis. Israel panics. Israel forgets God’s promises and covenant faithfulness. Israel runs to Egypt or Assyria or Babylon for help. The “help” becomes captivity. Every single time.

The modern version looks identical. Media or grifters create a crisis. Christians panic. Christians forget Scripture and God’s sovereignty. Christians run to politics or prophecy teachers or movements for security. The “solution” becomes distraction from actual Kingdom work.

When Israel was focused on covenant obedience, they were unstoppable. When Israel was reactive and fearful, constantly looking over their shoulder at the next threat, they got conquered. The pattern couldn’t be clearer. Learn it.

Alright, enough diagnosis. Here’s the cure, and it’s simpler than you think.

Every time you feel that surge of outrage from something you read or watched, pause. Just pause. And ask yourself a few questions. Who profits if I’m angry about this? Is this making me more Kingdom-effective or just more stressed? Am I being informed or manipulated? Would I even care about this if someone hadn’t told me I should?

Nine times out of ten, Babylon’s playing you.

Then do what I call the Outrage Fast. Thirty days. Try it. Cut out the news apps, all of them. Political commentary from left and right. Prophecy grifter channels. Social media doomscrolling. Anything designed to make you mad. Replace it with Scripture, ideally the actual 81-book version they don’t want you reading. Prayer. Building something. Real-life community. Literally anything productive.

What you’ll discover is wild. The world kept spinning. You didn’t miss anything important. And you have mental energy for the first time in years. Your blood pressure drops. Your relationships improve. Your spiritual life deepens. And you realize how much of what you thought was “staying informed” was actually just poisoning your soul.

While you’re at it, apply the fruit test to the prophetic voices you’re listening to. Matthew 7:20 says you’ll know them by their fruits. Stop evaluating prophecy teachers by how dramatic they sound or how many followers they have or how “anointed” their delivery is.

Start evaluating by whether they’re consistently accurate. If someone’s been predicting “imminent rapture” for thirty years and it hasn’t happened, they’re not a prophet, they’re a salesman with a prophecy aesthetic. Ask whether they monetize urgency and fear. Do they make money when you’re anxious? That should tell you something.

Look at whether their lives demonstrate the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, or just hype, drama, urgency, and merchandise. Ask whether they’re building up the body of Christ or just building up their platform and their income stream.

If their prophecies are always wrong but their book sales are always strong, you know what they actually are.

Every click is a vote. Every view is a dollar. Every share is free marketing. When you engage with outrage content, you’re funding the system that’s destroying your peace, fragmenting your focus, and stealing your time.

Starve it. Just stop participating. Unsubscribe. Unfollow. Delete the apps. Stop giving your attention to people whose business model requires keeping you perpetually angry, anxious, and distracted.

Here’s the real move, the one that actually changes things. For every hour you would have spent doomscrolling Twitter/Substack, watching prophecy update videos, arguing in comment sections, or consuming outrage news, invest that hour in something that actually builds.

Study the 81-book canon. Build covenant community. Learn a skill. Train your kids. Create something. Develop infrastructure. Do literally anything that builds Kingdom territory instead of enriching the people who profit from your emotional reactivity.

In five years, look at where you’ll be. The outrage consumers will be in the same position with different headlines and nothing built. The Kingdom builders will have skills developed, community established, infrastructure created, and a legacy started.

One group keeps Babylon’s economy running. The other builds something that survives Babylon’s collapse.

Choose.

The one question that cuts through all the noise and exposes every manipulation. Ask it about any content you’re consuming, any voice you’re following, any controversy you’re tempted to engage with:

“Who benefits if I’m constantly outraged, distracted, and exhausted?”

Not you. Not your family. Not your church. Not the Kingdom. Only the people selling the outrage. And if you keep buying, they’ll keep selling. Forever. They have no incentive to stop. Their entire business model depends on you staying angry.

You can keep clicking on manufactured controversies. You can keep funding prophecy grifters who’ve been wrong for decades but right on time with their book releases. You can keep fighting culture wars that somehow benefit the culture no matter who wins. You can stay “informed” about every crisis while building absolutely nothing. You can be perpetually outraged and perpetually impotent.

Or you can unsubscribe from the outrage dealers. Stop funding the grifters. Refuse the distraction battles. Build Kingdom infrastructure while everyone else is distracted. Be spiritually dangerous instead of emotionally exhausted.

One option makes them rich. One option makes you effective. The outrage economy needs your participation to survive. Stop participating.

Here’s what they’re terrified you’ll figure out. The moment you stop being outraged and start being obedient to what God actually said in His Word—all of it, not just the edited version, you become dangerous. Not to your neighbor. Not to the people they told you to be mad at. Dangerous to the system itself.

Because an obedient believer who’s studied Scripture deeply, built covenant community, developed spiritual disciplines, created parallel infrastructure, and refuses to be distracted by manufactured controversies? That person can’t be controlled. Can’t be predicted. Can’t be monetized. Can’t be farmed for engagement metrics.

And they can’t have that.

So they need you angry. They need you distracted. They need you exhausted. They need you fighting with each other instead of questioning the foundations of the system. They need you consuming instead of building. They need you reactive instead of strategic.

Don’t give them what they need.

Your attention is the most valuable thing you own. More valuable than your money, because your attention is what you use to decide where your money goes, what you believe, how you vote, what you build, and who you become.

And you’re giving it away cheap. Practically free. To people whose entire business model is keeping you perpetually outraged, distracted, divided, and depleted.

Stop.

Stop feeding the machine. Stop funding the grifters. Stop participating in manufactured controversies. Stop letting them harvest your emotional reactivity for profit.

Start building. Start studying Scripture they don’t want you reading. Start creating community they can’t infiltrate. Start developing skills they can’t commodify. Start constructing infrastructure they don’t control.

They profit from your reactivity. The Kingdom needs your focus.

The outrage economy is booming. But only because you keep shopping there.

SFR // Operation ATTENTION WARFARE

You’re being played.

Not by some shadowy cabal in a smoke-filled room, (though those exist too)—but by something way simpler and way more profitable: your own emotional reactivity. And the wildest part? You’re paying the people who are playing you.

Every single day, you wake up, check your phone, and within minutes you’re angry about something. A headline. A tweet. A video. Something someone said. Something someone did. Something that’s “breaking” or “urgent” or “unprecedented.” Your blood pressure spikes. Your cortisol floods. Your mind races. And you click.

That click just made someone money. And it wasn’t you.

There’s a formula behind 90% of what you consume online, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It works for CNN and Fox News. It works for your uncle’s conspiracy Facebook page. It works for that “prophetic voice” YouTuber with the all-caps thumbnails and red arrows pointing at random news headlines. It works for literally everyone with a blue checkmark yelling about something.

The formula is elegant in its simplicity: Make you angry, keep you clicking, sell your attention, profit.

The product isn’t information. It’s outrage. And business is absolutely booming.

Here’s how it works. Something happens in the world. Doesn’t really matter what. A politician says something dumb. A celebrity does something weird. A war starts somewhere. A cultural trend emerges. Could be anything. The event itself is almost irrelevant. What matters is what happens next.

They don’t just report it. They don’t just inform you about it. They frame it as THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED. Not just news. Not just interesting. BREAKING. URGENT. UNPRECEDENTED. DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE. CHRISTIANITY IS UNDER ATTACK. CIVILIZATION IS CRUMBLING. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

And then they trigger your emotions. Fear. Anger. Moral outrage. Righteous indignation. Anxiety. Disgust. They’re not picky about which one. They just need you to feel something strong enough to override your thinking. Because thinking people ask questions. Feeling people click buttons.

So you click. You comment. You share. You subscribe. You buy the book. You sign the petition. You join the movement. You tell yourself you’re “staying informed” or “standing for truth” or “being a watchman on the wall.” What you’re actually doing is generating engagement metrics that translate directly into revenue for the people who made you angry.

And here’s the genius part: they don’t even have to lie. They just have to emphasize the things that make you angry, ignore the things that would give you context, frame everything as an existential threat, and never, ever let you catch your breath. Because if you ever calmed down and started thinking clearly, you might realize you’re being farmed for engagement metrics. Can’t have that.

So tomorrow, there’s a new crisis. And the day after that, another one. And the cycle continues. Forever. Or at least until you opt out.

Let’s run the numbers on who actually wins in this arrangement, because it sure isn’t you.

You end up emotionally exhausted. Your mind is scattered across seventeen different controversies, none of which you can actually do anything about. You’re spiritually depleted because every ounce of righteous anger you had has been redirected toward whoever the algorithm decided you should be mad at today. Your body is physically stressed, cortisol doesn’t care if the threat is real or manufactured, it floods your system either way. Your relationships are damaged because you can’t stop arguing about politics at Thanksgiving dinner. Your wallet is lighter because you bought that book or course or conference ticket to “stay informed” and “be prepared.” And at the end of the day, you’ve built absolutely nothing.

Meanwhile, they’re collecting ad revenue. Their book sales are up. Conference tickets are sold out. Subscriber counts are growing. Platform influence is expanding. They have actual power, actual reach, actual resources. And all they had to do was make you angry.

Every hour you spend outraged is an hour you’re not building anything that threatens their position. Which is exactly the point.

Now here’s the part that’s going to make some of you mad, which is ironic given what we’re talking about. The outrage economy isn’t just operating “out there” in secular media. It’s inside the church. Same playbook. Same psychology. Same profit motive. Just wrapped in Christian language and prophecy jargon.

You know exactly who I’m talking about. They’re all over YouTube, with thumbnails that look like they were designed by someone having a panic attack. Red text. Random all-caps words. Arrows pointing at news headlines. Shocked faces. The visual grammar of urgency and fear.

Click the video and you get the same script every time: “Brothers and sisters, I didn’t want to make this video, BUT GOD WOKE ME UP AT 3AM with an URGENT WORD about [current news story]. This is UNPRECEDENTED. The rapture is IMMINENT. Everything is aligning. Let me show you how this connects to Daniel chapter 7, Revelation 13, and the blood moon tetrad I’ve been warning you about...”

And then, without missing a beat: “If this word blessed you, don’t forget to LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, hit that notification bell, and check out my new book ‘2025: The Year Everything Changes’ available now for $29.99 plus my online course about end-times preparedness for the low price of $197...”

Same formula. Christian aesthetics. And it works like a charm.

Here’s what kills me about these guys. They’ve been wrong. For decades. Consistently, repeatedly, spectacularly wrong. And they’re still in business. Still growing their platforms. Still making money. How?

Because they never actually predict anything specific enough to be proven wrong. It’s always “signs point to” and “could this be” and “I’m not setting dates BUT” and “all the pieces are in place for” and “this generation will not pass until.” They create the illusion of prophetic insight while maintaining just enough ambiguity to never be definitively wrong.

And when the date they strongly implied comes and goes with nothing happening? “Well, prophetic timing is tricky” or “God gave us more time through prayer” or “This was a warning to prepare us.” Then they roll out next year’s conference with the same material, a new current event to plug into the formula, and a fresh batch of people who weren’t around for last year’s failed predictions.

If your pastor said “Jesus is coming back next year” for thirty consecutive years, you’d call him a false prophet. But if he just strongly implies it while selling books about it? That’s a ministry. That’s a revenue stream. That’s a career.

My personal favorite variant is what I call the Headline Prophet. These are the guys who have perfected the art of turning any current event into prophetic content.

Something happens in the world. Literally anything. Earthquake in Turkey. War in the Middle East. Political election somewhere. Economic crisis. Weird weather pattern. Celebrity says something stupid. Within twenty-four hours, there’s a video: “PROPHETIC ANALYSIS: Why [that thing] is a sign of the end times!”

The pattern is so predictable you could set your watch by it. Current event happens. Film urgent video. Force it into a Revelation/Daniel/Ezekiel framework regardless of whether it actually fits. Claim this is THE sign. Monetize the panic. Move to the next headline when nothing happens.

They’re not prophets. They’re spiritual ambulance chasers. And you’re the accident they’re rushing toward with a business card and a book deal.

Look, I get it. Israel is in the Bible. A lot. Significant prophetic role. I’m not disputing that. But somewhere along the way, we went from “Israel has prophetic significance” to “every single Israeli political decision is a direct fulfillment of end-times prophecy and if you question this interpretive framework you basically hate God.”

Every headline from the Middle East is apparently the most prophetically significant thing since Jesus ascended. Israeli election? Prophetic. Settlement expansion? Prophetic. Peace deal? Prophetic. Peace deal falling apart? Also prophetic. Everything is a sign. Everything is significant. Everything demands your attention and your interpretation and your emotional investment.

Meanwhile, in the real world, real spiritual warfare is happening. 7,000 Christians were martyred in Nigeria this year alone. Seven thousand. Let that number sink in. Believers who chose death over denying Christ. Churches growing despite persecution. Faithfulness under fire that would make the early church fathers weep with recognition.

And the prophecy grifters? Silence. Complete silence.

But one political development in Israel? ‘URGENT PROPHETIC UPDATE! THIS IS IT! THE PIECES ARE ALIGNING! SUBSCRIBE AND BUY MY BOOK!’

A pastor in Nigeria, his name was precious to God even if it never trended on your timeline—was kidnapped. His congregation, faithful believers scraping together everything they had, paid his ransom. They did everything right. They paid the price for his release. And his captors killed him anyway.

Tell me again where the covenant fruit is. Tell me again where the real spiritual warfare is happening. Tell me again why Africa gets crickets while the Middle East gets 24/7 prophetic analysis.

This pastor paid the ultimate price for the Gospel. But he’s not ‘prophetically significant’ enough to make your feed. Seven thousand martyrs aren’t as important as one Israeli peace negotiation apparently.

The misdirection is working perfectly.

The Ethiopian church preserved the complete 81-book canon for thousands of years… Crickets. Africa has the fastest-growing Christian population on the planet? Nobody cares. The actual Ark of the Covenant is sitting in Axum? “That’s a conspiracy theory bro.”

Interesting pattern, isn’t it? Who benefits from American Christians being obsessed with modern Israel while ignoring covenant preservation in Ethiopia? Who profits when prophetic attention is laser-focused on the Middle East while Africa—where actual fruit is being demonstrated gets dismissed?

I’ll let you sit with those questions.

They’re not trying to inform you. They’re not trying to activate you. They’re trying to exhaust you.

Because exhausted people don’t ask hard questions. Exhausted people don’t build competing systems. Exhausted people don’t have energy for deep Scripture study or strategic planning or organizing effective resistance. Exhausted people just want the chaos to stop, which means they’ll accept whatever “solution” gets offered when things finally break.

You can’t fight Babylon if you’re too tired from fighting each other about whatever controversy they manufactured this week. You can’t build Kingdom infrastructure if all your mental and emotional resources are spent on rage-clicking through manufactured crises. You can’t study the 81-book canon if you’re busy watching prophecy update videos about the latest Middle East development.

And that’s exactly the point. The exhaustion is the objective. The distraction is the weapon. The division is the strategy.

Here’s the really diabolical part. They profit from BOTH sides of every controversy. Think about it. Pick any current culture war issue, literally any of them. Left-wing media is screaming that it’s OUTRAGEOUS and if you disagree you’re a FASCIST. Right-wing media is screaming that it’s OUTRAGEOUS and if you disagree you’re a COMMUNIST. Both sides are making bank from your engagement.

And meanwhile, while you’re arguing in the comments about which side is more evil, surveillance expands with bipartisan support. Financial control tightens with bipartisan support. Institutional power consolidates with bipartisan support. Your freedoms erode with bipartisan support. But you didn’t notice because you were busy fighting about the thing they told you to fight about.

They keep you fighting each other so you never look up and realize who’s actually running the show. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the entire system.

Same dynamic plays out in Christian circles, just with different terminology. The distraction is Calvinism versus Arminianism, worship style wars, prophecy timeline debates, charismatic versus cessationist, contemporary versus traditional. Pick your controversy. Every camp thinks they’re the faithful remnant standing for truth.

Meanwhile, while you’re fighting about whether drums are biblical, Rome’s canon edit goes unquestioned. Ethiopian preservation gets ignored. The 81-book Bible stays buried. Babylon’s calendar corruption continues unchallenged. Nobody’s building Kingdom infrastructure because everyone’s too busy defending their denominational position.

Every denomination thinks they have the truth. Almost none of them have questioned whether the foundation they’re all standing on the 66-book canon—was edited by the very Babylonian system they claim to oppose.

But sure, keep fighting about whether you should raise hands during worship. That’s definitely the most important issue facing the church right now.

This isn’t new, by the way. Israel did this constantly. The pattern shows up over and over throughout Scripture. Enemy creates a crisis. Israel panics. Israel forgets God’s promises and covenant faithfulness. Israel runs to Egypt or Assyria or Babylon for help. The “help” becomes captivity. Every single time.

The modern version looks identical. Media or grifters create a crisis. Christians panic. Christians forget Scripture and God’s sovereignty. Christians run to politics or prophecy teachers or movements for security. The “solution” becomes distraction from actual Kingdom work.

When Israel was focused on covenant obedience, they were unstoppable. When Israel was reactive and fearful, constantly looking over their shoulder at the next threat, they got conquered. The pattern couldn’t be clearer. Learn it.

Alright, enough diagnosis. Here’s the cure, and it’s simpler than you think.

Every time you feel that surge of outrage from something you read or watched, pause. Just pause. And ask yourself a few questions. Who profits if I’m angry about this? Is this making me more Kingdom-effective or just more stressed? Am I being informed or manipulated? Would I even care about this if someone hadn’t told me I should?

Nine times out of ten, Babylon’s playing you.

Then do what I call the Outrage Fast. Thirty days. Try it. Cut out the news apps, all of them. Political commentary from left and right. Prophecy grifter channels. Social media doomscrolling. Anything designed to make you mad. Replace it with Scripture, ideally the actual 81-book version they don’t want you reading. Prayer. Building something. Real-life community. Literally anything productive.

What you’ll discover is wild. The world kept spinning. You didn’t miss anything important. And you have mental energy for the first time in years. Your blood pressure drops. Your relationships improve. Your spiritual life deepens. And you realize how much of what you thought was “staying informed” was actually just poisoning your soul.

While you’re at it, apply the fruit test to the prophetic voices you’re listening to. Matthew 7:20 says you’ll know them by their fruits. Stop evaluating prophecy teachers by how dramatic they sound or how many followers they have or how “anointed” their delivery is.

Start evaluating by whether they’re consistently accurate. If someone’s been predicting “imminent rapture” for thirty years and it hasn’t happened, they’re not a prophet, they’re a salesman with a prophecy aesthetic. Ask whether they monetize urgency and fear. Do they make money when you’re anxious? That should tell you something.

Look at whether their lives demonstrate the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, or just hype, drama, urgency, and merchandise. Ask whether they’re building up the body of Christ or just building up their platform and their income stream.

If their prophecies are always wrong but their book sales are always strong, you know what they actually are.

Every click is a vote. Every view is a dollar. Every share is free marketing. When you engage with outrage content, you’re funding the system that’s destroying your peace, fragmenting your focus, and stealing your time.

Starve it. Just stop participating. Unsubscribe. Unfollow. Delete the apps. Stop giving your attention to people whose business model requires keeping you perpetually angry, anxious, and distracted.

Here’s the real move, the one that actually changes things. For every hour you would have spent doomscrolling Twitter/Substack, watching prophecy update videos, arguing in comment sections, or consuming outrage news, invest that hour in something that actually builds.

Study the 81-book canon. Build covenant community. Learn a skill. Train your kids. Create something. Develop infrastructure. Do literally anything that builds Kingdom territory instead of enriching the people who profit from your emotional reactivity.

In five years, look at where you’ll be. The outrage consumers will be in the same position with different headlines and nothing built. The Kingdom builders will have skills developed, community established, infrastructure created, and a legacy started.

One group keeps Babylon’s economy running. The other builds something that survives Babylon’s collapse.

Choose.

The one question that cuts through all the noise and exposes every manipulation. Ask it about any content you’re consuming, any voice you’re following, any controversy you’re tempted to engage with:

“Who benefits if I’m constantly outraged, distracted, and exhausted?”

Not you. Not your family. Not your church. Not the Kingdom. Only the people selling the outrage. And if you keep buying, they’ll keep selling. Forever. They have no incentive to stop. Their entire business model depends on you staying angry.

You can keep clicking on manufactured controversies. You can keep funding prophecy grifters who’ve been wrong for decades but right on time with their book releases. You can keep fighting culture wars that somehow benefit the culture no matter who wins. You can stay “informed” about every crisis while building absolutely nothing. You can be perpetually outraged and perpetually impotent.

Or you can unsubscribe from the outrage dealers. Stop funding the grifters. Refuse the distraction battles. Build Kingdom infrastructure while everyone else is distracted. Be spiritually dangerous instead of emotionally exhausted.

One option makes them rich. One option makes you effective. The outrage economy needs your participation to survive. Stop participating.

Here’s what they’re terrified you’ll figure out. The moment you stop being outraged and start being obedient to what God actually said in His Word—all of it, not just the edited version, you become dangerous. Not to your neighbor. Not to the people they told you to be mad at. Dangerous to the system itself.

Because an obedient believer who’s studied Scripture deeply, built covenant community, developed spiritual disciplines, created parallel infrastructure, and refuses to be distracted by manufactured controversies? That person can’t be controlled. Can’t be predicted. Can’t be monetized. Can’t be farmed for engagement metrics.

And they can’t have that.

So they need you angry. They need you distracted. They need you exhausted. They need you fighting with each other instead of questioning the foundations of the system. They need you consuming instead of building. They need you reactive instead of strategic.

Don’t give them what they need.

Your attention is the most valuable thing you own. More valuable than your money, because your attention is what you use to decide where your money goes, what you believe, how you vote, what you build, and who you become.

And you’re giving it away cheap. Practically free. To people whose entire business model is keeping you perpetually outraged, distracted, divided, and depleted.

Stop.

Stop feeding the machine. Stop funding the grifters. Stop participating in manufactured controversies. Stop letting them harvest your emotional reactivity for profit.

Start building. Start studying Scripture they don’t want you reading. Start creating community they can’t infiltrate. Start developing skills they can’t commodify. Start constructing infrastructure they don’t control.

They profit from your reactivity. The Kingdom needs your focus.

The outrage economy is booming. But only because you keep shopping there.

SFR // Operation ATTENTION WARFARE