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JACK BARSKY | Spying on the US as a KGB Agent (Ep. 613)

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JACK BARSKY | Spying on the US as a KGB Agent (Ep. 613)
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In this episode, I sit down with Jack Barsky, a former KGB sleeper agent who shares his incredible journey from espionage to faith in Christ. We dive deep into his experiences growing up in East Germany, his recruitment by the KGB, and the transformative power of unconditional love that ultimately led him to defect and embrace Christianity.
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0:57 All right, guys, we've got a special guest on the podcast today.
0:59 His name is Jack Barsky, so Jack is a former sleeper agent for the KGB.
1:03 Yeah, seriously, he's also an author, a Christian speaker, and an IT specialist.
1:08 He actually spied on the United States from 1978 to 1988 at the behest of the Soviet Union.
1:14 After the Cold War, Barsky became a U.S. counterintelligence agent, or a counterintelligence
1:19 agent.
1:20 There you go.
1:21 And he's also the author of his autobiography, Deep Undercover.
1:23 So I really, really enjoyed this interview today.
1:24 We didn't cover a lot of different questions, but we went deep in a lot of different areas.
1:28 So we talked about what it was like growing up in old East Germany, what it was like growing
1:32 up in this kind of cultural milieu of atheism, but also communism and the tenets of communism
1:38 being forced down your throat, even at an early age like kindergarten.
1:41 But then we talked about how, starting in the late '60s, he was approached by what he
1:45 thought was a member of the Stasi, the German intelligence agency, but it ended up being
1:49 a KGB agent, and where that led to him being observed and then recruited to go into the
1:54 KGB, deciding to join the KGB and then being placed in the United States as a sleeper agent,
1:59 and kind of, you know, what does a sleeper agent do in the United States on a day-to-day
2:03 basis?
2:04 So we talk a lot about that, but then we talk about how at some point they thought his cover
2:07 had been blown and how that led to him leaving the KGB and how he kind of defected, got out
2:13 of the world of espionage and ended up serving the United States government.
2:16 But at the end, we spent quite a bit of time talking about how he became a Christian and
2:20 how growing up in Germany, like there weren't churches that people went to, there weren't
2:24 theological discussions or weren't even really Bibles around.
2:27 So how do you go from that to decades later after being a spy and doing all these crimes
2:31 and hurting people and doing all that to becoming a Christ follower?
2:34 So I really enjoyed his story.
2:35 And then at the end, we talk about how parents can help keep their children from being romanced
2:40 by some of the more overt tenants of communism.
2:44 So we talk about all that.
2:45 I really, really enjoyed my time with Jack.
2:47 So without further ado, let's get into it.
2:50 Jack Barsky, welcome to Undaunted Life of Man's podcast.
2:53 Yeah.
2:54 Delighted to be there based on what you told me what I can expect.
3:00 Yeah.
3:01 I think we're going to have a good time.
3:02 I think we're going to hit a lot of the high points about you, your life and some of the
3:06 things that you're doing to help warn some people in modernity about some of the ideas
3:11 that they're being romanced by.
3:12 But we need to set the foundation a little bit here beforehand, Jack, because I'm not
3:16 sure that I've ever talked to somebody who grew up in the old East Germany.
3:20 So let's start there.
3:21 Let's start with your childhood.
3:22 Let's start with what it was like growing up there.
3:24 Yeah.
3:25 Well, born in 1949, which was four years after the end of World War II in one of the poorest
3:33 sections of Germany, which was at the time when I was born, it was occupied by Soviet
3:38 troops.
3:39 So grew up in poverty, not the kind of poverty where you go hungry every day, but there wasn't
3:50 the whole lot going on.
3:52 Medical services, almost nonexistent, the village I grew up in had one doctor, and there wasn't
3:59 a lot of medication to deal with the cold and strep throat and stuff like that.
4:06 Nutrition was just not really sufficient.
4:09 I can't remember ever having gone hungry, but it wasn't really healthy.
4:16 But we ate a lot of potatoes.
4:19 I was lucky to have grown up in the country rather than in a city, because most big cities
4:26 in Germany were bombed out and people didn't even have a roof over the head.
4:33 My parents were both teachers.
4:34 So I lived through puberty in really nice buildings, apartments attached to school buildings.
4:48 So that was okay.
4:49 But again, poor Christmas, there may have been one present that I liked and everything else
4:56 was stuff that I needed, but we were not unhappy.
5:01 We were just, everybody else was poor too, so we made the best of it.
5:05 We played outside.
5:06 We made our own toys, cardboard boxes and sticks that we took from trees and so on.
5:14 So it was not an unhappy childhood, but an hindsight.
5:21 What I provided for my children here is a lot nicer, that's for sure.
5:27 Well, it's kind of one of those things that's like, you don't know what you don't know.
5:31 And I know a lot of people that have done missionary work, they go over to these other
5:34 countries and they see these people that don't have a lot of stuff that seem to be very,
5:38 very content and so much a common through point that I hear in a lot of these conversations.
5:42 And so, but today we're not talking about the indulgence of American capitalists.
5:47 Let's go back to talk a little bit, because you mentioned your parents.
5:50 As far as I understand it, your father was a Marxist and a supporter of Lenin.
5:55 And so that's fairly unique for you in terms of your upbringing.
5:59 Is that correct?
6:00 Allow me to correct this a little bit.
6:02 He was a party member, but he joined because it was necessary for his career.
6:12 He got to really, even he was also teaching classes that I was in in middle school.
6:20 And he told the party line, but at home, there was never any kind of ideological discussions,
6:27 any kind of brainwashing going on.
6:30 He even at one point considered putting up an antenna for us to be able to receive West
6:39 German television.
6:40 I remember that.
6:41 And then he said, "Now we can't do this because the antenna is so big that everybody would
6:45 know that what we are up to."
6:48 So he was just a utilitarian, so to speak.
6:53 And the brainwashing that I received did not happen at home.
6:58 It happened in school and in all kinds of organizations where children and young adults could participate.
7:05 And, of course, in the media, big time.
7:08 Okay.
7:09 Well, let's talk a little bit about that brainwashing because I'm always curious about, because
7:13 we all take lessons from our childhood.
7:15 Some is caught, some is taught.
7:17 And so let's talk about kind of that milieu that you were you were living in as it pertained
7:21 to some of these ideologies that you ended up following as you engaged.
7:25 It started with kindergarten.
7:28 And this was a very systematic attempt to inject communist ideology into our young brains.
7:39 And you may well understand that communism, the whole idea of communism, is something
7:45 that is so easy to fall for.
7:49 It's about, you know, freeing or getting rid of all evil in the world.
7:53 Can't we all get along, get rid of oppression, you know, just live in a paradise on earth.
8:00 And so that's how it started in kindergarten, okay?
8:07 Little children, like five, six years old, we had these little fairy tales.
8:14 We had comic books, and it was all about just, you know, nice things that the human race
8:23 is all.
8:24 There's nothing but good people.
8:25 And there's a small set of very rich oppressors that need to, we need to get rid of.
8:32 Very gentle, that included songs and you know, just it was just part of our life.
8:39 So we, going into elementary school, I was already a little communist.
8:45 And then at elementary school, there was this organization that was called the Young Pioneers.
8:51 And if you didn't join the young pioneers, your parents would be, would we talk to?
8:57 So young pioneers that now in addition to school, there were activities where we were,
9:04 you know, do things to collect, for instance, nuts, to collect, you know, German word comes
9:17 in as blocks of English sometimes, collect medals, you know, rusty old stuff that could
9:29 be reused and stuff like that.
9:32 And just to be helpful and be, you know, be useful.
9:36 And again, songs, at that point it wasn't television, but it was radio.
9:43 There was some radio programs for children.
9:45 And it was about a robot, obviously the robot didn't exist, who was running around in the
9:52 world doing good deeds.
9:55 And then it got a little more hardcore, particularly as we got into high school.
10:03 At that point in high school, we were taught, you know, Marxist ideology as a subject.
10:11 And when you just go forward in college, we even had a course, and I studied chemistry,
10:16 art science, but we had a course that was called scientific Marxism-Leninism.
10:27 And at that point I was ready to believe anything, and believe that there was a science to what
10:33 Marx had one of course discovered, which is the law of the evolution of mankind and
10:41 that would end in a worker's paradise, but we had to do our part to get there.
10:50 So, you know, I understand why Marxism and communism, most likely, will never lose its
11:04 attractiveness because it's such a romantic notion, and what it does, it defies the fact
11:15 of the human existence that we all have to see of evil in us.
11:20 And some of us, many of us have learned how to manage it, but when you look at history,
11:28 and I am an amateur student of history, when you look at history, the history of man is
11:36 nothing but man killing other men, women.
11:41 It's nothing but warfare throughout history, and if the world were to end, this would be
11:48 in a nuclear conflict, and that's something I'm concerned about right now, but we don't
11:55 know, there's no way to speculate, you know, even Jesus didn't know when the father will
12:06 make the world come to an end as the world as we know it, so I can't join the folks that
12:11 say, "Well, it's just around the corner," because they said this in biblical times and
12:15 we're still here, so we have a responsibility to do what we can do to live our life, the
12:25 way Jesus showed us how it should be lived.
12:32 I would certainly echo that, and Jack, I'm curious, as you're growing up, I really appreciate
12:36 you talking about what it was like in elementary school, and then as you get into high school
12:39 and college and kind of how it really got more and more serious.
12:43 Did you ever remember a time period or a particular class or teacher or group that maybe presented
12:49 a counter ideal, because obviously if you look at the true tenets of Christianity, they don't
12:54 jive with communism, Leninism, Marxism, socialism, it doesn't really jive at all.
12:59 There are people that will make the argument where they will basically take pieces of Christianity
13:03 without the context and apply it to something that fits their worldview, but do you remember
13:08 anybody kind of giving you an alternate way of thinking, or was it simply, "This is the
13:13 way that you're going to be brought up, and here's how you're going to be urinated"?
13:17 Let me tell you something, this may sound odd, but it's the truth.
13:22 The one example where a teacher was a bit of a contrarian was our music teacher.
13:32 He was retired from being a conductor of symphony orchestra, and one time we listened to Western
13:41 radio because that's when the Beatles were coming out, the Rolling Stones, and in this
13:46 great, great music that we all liked, but it was forbidden.
13:50 One time a friend of mine and I went to the music teacher and asked him what he thought
13:57 of the Beatles, and he said, "They're really good."
14:05 That was an extreme notion, other than that, anybody who voiced a contrarian opinion, and
14:14 that could have been students, particularly in college, was immediately isolated.
14:21 Typically, those were not the better students because we all have learned how to play our
14:28 part in the collective.
14:30 It was all about the collective, no matter where we were, and contrary opinion, no God.
14:42 I had no idea that there was a God.
14:46 It was so dumb to think that the universe, we studied physics chemistry, that the universe
14:53 came into being out of nothing and then organized itself into the complexity that we have today.
15:03 Which is contrary to the third law of thermodynamics, in that a closed system will tend towards
15:11 disorder, period, not horror.
15:16 There was just not enough rational thought, even though, and he isn't an afterthought,
15:22 even though because the East German rulers knew that for our economy to have a chance,
15:31 we needed to have scientists because we didn't have a lot of natural resources.
15:35 There wasn't a lot of manufacturing going on.
15:39 We were supposed to, through science, create a strong economy, and so therefore they couldn't
15:47 completely suppress rational thinking.
15:51 You can't be a scientist and just feel your way through science.
15:56 We have symptoms of that today, but ultimately, that vestige of rational thinking that was
16:04 never totally suppressed, resulted in the people rising up and surprising everybody and making
16:14 that wall come down because the thinking wasn't completely eliminated.
16:22 What we have today, and I don't want to be super pessimistic, but clearly we see that
16:31 there is particularly in our schools.
16:36 The government runs schools.
16:39 Thinking is not that important.
16:43 It's all about how do you feel and how can everybody be equal and how can everybody be
16:47 fundamentally their own God.
16:49 I tried that.
16:50 It didn't work out very well.
16:52 It doesn't tend to work out very well for anybody as it turns out.
16:56 I think in addition to that, what you're talking about, we'll get more into this later on.
17:00 When you have a feelings-based approach, you talked about hard science, studying chemistry.
17:05 It doesn't matter how you feel about a bond or about something like that, or it doesn't
17:09 matter how you feel about the periodic table, it doesn't change it, and yet we're living
17:13 in this cultural moment where math is racist because it comes up with definitive answers
17:18 to specific questions.
17:20 But again, we'll certainly get there.
17:22 I want to go ahead and fast forward your story to the late 1960s.
17:27 You were approached, as far as I know, and if any of these details are wrong, please correct
17:30 me.
17:31 But you were approached by what you thought was a German intelligence agency representative,
17:36 so that would be the Stasi, to see if you were interested in a job.
17:41 This person ended up being a member of the KGB, and it started this recruitment process
17:46 to work for the KGB, and I don't want to take any of your thunder.
17:50 How about you pick up the story from there?
17:52 He was a German, and I thought it was Stasi, but he turned out to be a volunteer working
17:59 with the KGB, and so the second meeting I had with him, he introduced me to somebody
18:07 who spoke with a Russian accent, and then he told me, he introduced him, we are introduced
18:13 Herman, we're working with our Soviet comrades, and then he disappeared.
18:17 So this is how I got attached to the KGB, and that was not, I was not being recruited
18:24 at the time.
18:26 I was being observed over a period of 18 months because they were looking for a set of character
18:33 traits that are required to be successful in that kind of job that I eventually did,
18:42 namely being a lone wolf illegal undercover agent.
18:46 That is sort of like, it can't get any more demanding than that, so they were searching
18:51 for people, and checking me as to whether I was a good candidate, the recruitment actually
19:00 then happened 18 months after I met Herman, and that was an interesting situation that
19:07 upon reflection, it was a hard sell, and was another test as to whether I would actually
19:18 be qualified, because the fellow who asked me whether I was ready to join when I said
19:27 me, I don't know, I hesitated a little bit, and then he said, well, I'll give you until
19:32 tomorrow noon to make that decision, okay, so, and then he said, we only work with people
19:39 who can make tough decisions quickly, so that was a tough decision.
19:46 So, Jack, what specifically, and I don't know if they told you, or if you just surmised
19:51 this, what made you a good candidate?
19:53 What made them want to observe you for so long and then take you through the recruitment
19:57 process and even put you to a decision?
20:01 So I didn't know that, and there was never disclosed to me, I found that out, there were
20:07 a couple of ex-heads of the directorate S, directorate S was illegals in the KGB, gave
20:15 interviews after the KGB was already gone, what they were looking for, and there's a list
20:21 of character traits, I'm going to give you some examples, and they were looking for really
20:27 smart people.
20:29 They were looking for people whose mind is fast, they were looking for people who had
20:36 no problem adapting to different circumstances, they were obviously looking for people who
20:44 embraced Marxism-Leninism for sure, and then, you know, my favorite character trait is
20:51 a well-controlled inclination for adventure, you know, just like all of, put this all together,
21:00 somebody who has no problem going to another country, changing language, adapting to a
21:08 new culture, and being all by him or herself, they did like to send couples, but if there
21:17 was no suitable female, you know, they sent me by myself.
21:23 And you know, they did a good job, I never once met a KGB psychologist, I never took
21:29 a personality test, they were just checking me out piece by piece by piece, I give you
21:34 this one example, when I said yes, I thought I was already in, I really wasn't, I quit
21:42 the university, I had a job as teacher, assistant professor, and when I quit the university,
21:51 I showed up in Berlin, and I was subjected to probably the toughest test there was, that
21:59 I wasn't prepared for, and I didn't know it was a test, so I meet my new handler, my
22:05 first, you know, it was my second sort of secret meeting where you go to a particular
22:12 address, outside somewhere in the city, and you meet somebody who you don't know what
22:18 they look like, and you exchange phrases and you have something in your hand, in my case
22:24 it was some kind of a newspaper to disclose who you are, so I met this guy, he took me
22:31 into his vehicle, and we exchanged a few niceties, and then he said, "I already have a task
22:37 for you, I got excited, yeah what is it, you got to find a place to live", now this
22:47 is in a country where all living spaces were controlled by the government, there was a
22:57 shortage of housing, there were young couples with small children that still lived with
23:04 their parents and shared bedrooms and stuff like that, there was an impossible task, so
23:10 if I fail that task, I'm out, okay, well I found something and I think what impressed
23:18 Leonette there was his name a lot that I never once winced, I just said yes, and then I found
23:27 myself in the suburbs a one room space that had a bed, a table, no chair, and a stove,
23:39 the wood burning stove and running cold water, that was it, and I never complained, and this
23:48 is when I sort of knew that I was in, this one day Leonette showed up and he handed me
23:56 a set of keys, he said, "That's for you, new apartment", because they could have given
24:00 me an apartment right then, I got when I started, it was a test, and I understand that was probably
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25:47 Well, it's really interesting, Jack, how you talked about, you know, you never met with
25:50 a psychologist.
25:51 I mean, we live in an era right now where it's like, Hey, if you want to know about yourself
25:54 or know if you're compatible with this person, take this, you know, quiz that takes 10 minutes
25:58 online and then it'll tell you everything about yourself and how you should act in the world
26:01 and what types of jobs you should have.
26:03 And yet their process was just very stoic and very calm, very patient just to kind of see
26:09 where you were going.
26:10 And so as you already mentioned, from, you know, the late 70s to the late 80s or so,
26:14 you worked as a sleeper agent in the United States.
26:17 And so some people might know what what that is, but I want to know from you, what does
26:22 a sleeper agent do?
26:24 What does your day in day out look like?
26:25 What was your mission specifically as a sleeper agent for that decade?
26:29 Okay, so so there's another interesting fact that I only found out after many years after
26:37 I quit the KGB that a the sleeper, the definition of a sleeper is somebody who operates in enemy
26:47 territory to just integrate with society to be at one point being woken up.
26:56 And that was, that was really what they never told me.
27:00 The word sleeper was never spoken, they sent me for and with a task, a couple of tasks,
27:07 but I found out again in one of those interviews that the most important value of my being
27:15 in the United States was my being in the United States.
27:18 And I, I put in the dots together the, you know, at the height of Cold War of the Cold
27:23 War, there were like spy wars going on between the CIA and the KGB.
27:30 So in fundamentally the vast majority of KGB agents in the US were diplomats either employed
27:37 by the UN or ambassadors or whatever, diplomatic stuff, staff.
27:43 And when they were found out to be doing something that has nothing to do with diplomacy, they
27:48 were kicked out and it became a game of retaliation.
27:53 So you kick one of ours out, we kick one of yours out and we don't even have to prove
27:58 that they, you know, good.
27:59 And then, and then three people were kicked out and three people there was retaliation
28:04 with three coming the other way.
28:08 On drop off the head of the KGB was concerned that diplomatic relations would be broken
28:15 up altogether.
28:17 And so now if you put another couple of dots together, the most effective agents in that
28:23 time period for the KGB were molds, Aldrich Ames who was in the CIA, and Robert Hansen
28:32 who was a mole in the FBI, and they provided phenomenally valuable intelligence to the
28:40 KGB.
28:41 And how, and how did they transmit that information?
28:46 They had contacts with diplomats, so if there are no more diplomats left, only the illegals
28:51 the molds were left.
28:53 Not the molds, I'm sorry, the sleepers were left.
29:00 Yes.
29:01 And so that, and the fact that I really was very well integrated in the US society was
29:11 recognized by the fact that they gave me the second highest, they rewarded me the second
29:16 highest order decoration of the Soviet Union, and my 10th year of existence here, that had
29:24 to be approved by the government, not by the KGB.
29:28 So anyway, they also gave me some tasks.
29:30 I thought my tasks, particularly I was prepared to, you know, provide intelligence with regard
29:38 to foreign policy.
29:41 So they told me, you know, in the, eventually it would be great if I could have contacts
29:48 with people that are in charge of foreign policy or at least influence foreign policy.
29:53 But I failed miserably in that because my standing in society wasn't such that I could
29:58 just befriend people like that.
30:01 Now over time, when I became a professional, I made really good money.
30:08 It wouldn't work, but that was a long game.
30:11 The other thing where I don't know whether I was successful or not was I was supposed
30:19 to operate as a spotter, spotters just look for people that could be targets for recruitment
30:29 and, you know, profile those people and somebody else might actually contact them and try to
30:40 recruit them.
30:41 I don't know.
30:42 I was never given any feedback.
30:43 I profile the number of students who most likely had a government career and added them.
30:52 No idea whether that would actually succeeded in anything.
30:58 And I also had a task to, and I was told every KGB individual in a sort of enemy country
31:09 had one military object assigned to them to occasionally visit to see if there's signs
31:17 that the U.S. is preparing for war, that again, all of that, they never really told me much
31:25 of anything, they told me as much as they thought I needed to know to do my job.
31:31 I was pretty blind.
31:33 And lastly, I had this one task where I knew I was successful.
31:40 They asked me to go find whether an individual who defected from the KGB in the early fifties
31:54 still lived in San Bernardino and taught at the University of California, and at this
32:01 point the name doesn't, I don't remember the name, but I found him and interestingly
32:08 enough, and I reported on that, interestingly enough, two or three months later, I watched
32:16 late night television and there was this fellow giving an interview, and I found out that he
32:23 was under a death sentence in the Soviet Union.
32:27 I am delighted to report that whatever they thought they want to do to him, they didn't
32:33 do it, so he died from a natural death.
32:36 So this is sort of the universe of espionage that I lived in.
32:43 One more thing I forgot is, at one point, from where last two years I had an assignment
32:51 to see if I could steal some technology because the KGB, the Soviet government, was finally
32:58 aware that with regard to particularly computer technology, they were falling far behind,
33:05 and they couldn't buy stuff on the open market because it was on, you know, with things
33:09 that technology said, "Well, Andy, do not export this."
33:14 So, you know, I stole some software, but I don't think that was usable.
33:18 I copied software, you know, didn't steal it because I was working as a computer program
33:24 for an insurance company, but that was it.
33:28 It's not what people think, you know, the exciting life of a super spy who drives fast
33:36 cars and has one pretty girlfriend after another and so forth.
33:44 My first job was bike messenger, and then I became a computer programmer, not very exciting.
33:51 But again, according to them, I did the job, and I'm glad that, you know, this hand never
33:59 touched a weapon.
34:01 I had self-defense training just not to fight with the FBI just to, in case I'm attacked
34:07 by robbers someplace in the park and got while engaged in an operation.
34:12 So, that's, there's nothing else I can add to this, the life of an undercover illegal,
34:20 and one more thing I want to add, I met a colleague of mine, also a German, and he and
34:30 his, he came to the US with his wife, the original Americans as a couple, and his, their
34:39 only task was to live as an American in the United States.
34:44 He got a job as an IT support person at Columbia University, he had no other job to do.
34:51 That's, I mean, that's very interesting.
34:53 I mean, you're weaving this, I mean, because, yeah, it doesn't have all the, you know,
34:57 the girlfriends and the car chases and the shootouts and all that, but the universe
35:01 that you're describing is still very, very interesting, and one of the most interesting
35:04 parts is about the patience that you have to have, and you constantly have to be careful
35:08 about blowing your cover, becoming compromised.
35:11 And as I understand it, in late 1988, you thought that your cover may have been compromised,
35:17 and I believe that kind of led to, to your exit from the world of espionage.
35:22 So, so take us through that process of thinking your, your cover may have been blown and how
35:26 that, you know, you eventually were no longer spying for the KGB here.
35:29 Yeah, let me, let me start out with a thought that I was aware of, and I know I'm pretty
35:37 sure that this was a valid thought for somebody like me, illegals had a shelf life, because
35:47 if we do the job really well, we become so used to that new person that we are and the
35:53 new environment that we're in, that we become vulnerable to defection, and, and so the,
36:03 the idea was, they were talking about 10 to 12 years, and then I'm coming back home.
36:09 So I was in my 10th year, and there was no indication at that time that they were going
36:16 to call me back, which was a surprise, but apparently I was too, too valuable.
36:23 But something spoke them, and they were like extremely careful courses with regard to protecting
36:32 us, not like modern day Russia, Putin doesn't give a damn whether his, his folks are being
36:42 discovered.
36:43 He just, he just enjoys that, if, if somebody like the butino person was discovered that,
36:51 that, that raises fear in Americans and, that, and I'm always being asked when I, that public
36:57 appearances, I'm always being asked how many, how many more are there?
37:01 Yeah, there's, so, so no, the, the KGB was very protective of us, and apparently they
37:08 had reason to believe that the FBI was on my tail, and so they activated the emergency
37:15 procedure by putting a sign at a predetermined spot that I passed by every morning on my
37:24 way to work.
37:25 And steel beam supporting the, a train going into Manhattan, out of Queens, excuse me.
37:33 And I'm, and I'm going, and you know, roll of work, and I'm not a morning person, and
37:38 then I see the red dot, oh shoot, I used the other as word, and no, not prepared for that
37:47 at all.
37:48 So, and the reason I said, oh shoot, you know, there was a person in my life that the
37:53 KGB didn't know, and that was a 18 month old daughter.
37:59 And it so happened, and this is, this is the point where I usually tell people that in,
38:08 in my testimony that I give in churches, and it's entitled God had a plan for me when,
38:17 when I give examples where other people make, make decisions on my behalf without me knowing
38:22 it, and that radically changed my life.
38:25 So I, I was married in the US, not to get too much into detail, I was married, and there
38:33 was not a plan to have children.
38:36 So the wife supposedly was on the birth control pills, and one day she decided to, because
38:44 I told her that we wouldn't be married for forever, it was to make a legal to, to get
38:51 a green card.
38:52 And once you got your green card to be, we're going to divorce, and she wanted to hold on
38:56 to me, so she decided to have a baby.
38:59 I had no part of that decision, and that baby, so I could not possibly desert this woman,
39:11 and that small child, you know, I always thought of myself as a good person, and I probably
39:18 God made me to be caring and, and, and taking care of people, particularly the ones that,
39:25 that need taken care of, and, and so I didn't have enough money for, to put them into an
39:32 apartment separately.
39:34 So we, we moved in together, and I watched this child grow up, and something happened
39:40 to me that snuck up on me, I was not prepared for that at all.
39:44 It's like a massive attack of unconditional love, and, and you know, when I show up in
39:52 public, and I mentioned that, and I address the men particularly, there's a lot of men
39:56 who can relate to that, particularly when it comes to their girl, girl children.
40:02 And so, in that, and, and, and I had, and I knew the end was coming, and I was trying
40:09 to figure out how can I help for this child to have a good childhood to, to not grow up
40:16 in poverty.
40:17 Her mother had only four years of schooling, and, and, and if she, and the child are not
40:26 without support, they, my, my baby girl would have grown up in a slum, and I had no solution.
40:34 I couldn't possibly ask the KGB to help me out there, you know, that would have possibly
40:40 landed me in jail, because I hit something from them that was, which was a, considered
40:45 a very high risk, you know, going, going for an interview at the immigration to testify
40:55 that I'm an American, and this is my wife, and we're applying for a green card at work.
41:03 But anyway, so, so, yeah, I see the red dot and I'm going on to work.
41:10 I didn't do much work that day.
41:12 My mind was racing, but I played for time because I could, you know, I could, they didn't
41:21 know I could, could, could be in a hospital.
41:25 I, that there could have been all kinds of reasons why I did not do what I was supposed
41:32 to do, immediately go to a park in the Bronx where I had reserved documents and then make
41:43 a beeline to, to the Canadian border and say hello at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, and
41:51 they would have smuckled me out of the Western world.
41:55 And I didn't do that, I went to work and waited on, on, there was a Monday on a Thursday,
42:04 there was my regularly scheduled radio transmission, shortwave, and I listened to it, and there
42:09 was a little more information.
42:10 They said, we have reason to believe that the FBI is following you and will, you will
42:16 be arrested.
42:17 So, and activate the emergency protocol, oops, I still was able to play for time because
42:24 the radio could be broken.
42:28 And again, I could be disabled at one point, I wasn't an accident, a bike accident, and
42:35 I couldn't operate for about six weeks because my right arm wasn't a sling, so I couldn't
42:43 do much of anything.
42:45 So, so, and they knew that.
42:47 So eventually they, they decided to figure out, am I still alive, am I, am I still operational
42:55 in some way?
42:56 And so, one morning, December morning, it was still dark, I'm waiting for the subway,
43:05 and there weren't too many people there, and to my right, there's a, there's a short man
43:11 in a black trench coat, and he, he walks up to me and whispers into my ear, you gotta
43:18 come home or else you're dead.
43:20 Yeah, that's an interesting sentence to hear from a KGB agent.
43:27 So, you hear that, and what did you think?
43:31 I'm, I'm a stoic, and, and I, I, I am also, you know, I live by, I have always lived by,
43:40 you know, the motto, que sera que, que sera sera, you know, [inaudible] happens, you know, just
43:46 like whatever, and even though I didn't believe in God at that time, I, I believe that somehow
43:55 everything will always turn out the right way.
43:57 So, so I, I had to take this seriously, because if what I was, what I was considering, if
44:07 I break up with a KGB, they could have, could easily interpret this as defection, and I
44:14 did know that they did not treat defectors very well, to put it mildly.
44:20 But, but I also, at this point now, I had, I had to take, I was forced to make a decision,
44:26 because now, I know that they know, I know that they know that I know, so there, there
44:32 wasn't no, there was no more stalling.
44:35 So the following, I'm sorry, first day there wasn't another radio transmission and they,
44:45 they invited me for dead drop operations for me to go to a park someplace at a pre,
44:54 pre-determined time, go to a pre-determined spot to pick up a rusty old oil can to contain
45:01 the passport and money to travel, because they didn't know whether my travel documents,
45:07 the reserve documents, were, were still available.
45:11 And so I, I went, and at this point, the only reason, the, the one reason that I went is
45:19 to just collect the money, and I still hadn't made a decision what to do, whether I would
45:23 use the passport and go to Canada, and, and, and background, this was the fourth or the
45:32 fifth, dead drop operation that we were engaged in, in the United States, and they all worked
45:38 like clockwork.
45:39 So I had no reason to believe that this one wouldn't work, because it wasn't a spot that
45:44 I have, I had, I had found, and described, there's no way that you could mistake this,
45:54 this spot, it wasn't a park on Staten Island, where the, there was a small path into the
46:00 park, and the entrance was marked by a sign that had something on it, a road sign that
46:06 was nowhere else in, in, in that area.
46:09 So you go like a couple of hundred feet into this, into this park, and to your left there
46:15 is a, a tree with a hollowed out bottom, and that's where you put the container, okay?
46:21 So I walk in there, and, and it was dark, there was nobody in the park, it was dark
46:27 and walk in there, and there was no oil can, I didn't, did a double take, and I walk around
46:37 the tree, see, maybe he missed a spot, there was nothing there, and I went a little further
46:43 out, and I spent about fifteen minutes, and I gave up, and this is, as I'm walking out
46:49 of this park, and, you know, it sounds so dramatic, but, and I, I don't have to make
46:54 it up, because it truly happened, and as I'm walking out of this park, my subconscious
47:04 read me the three, the two words, I'm staying.
47:09 Now, now that I'm a Christian, I know it was the Holy Spirit communicating with my subconscious.
47:16 Holy Spirit made that, made that totally irrational decision, totally irrational, and
47:21 I tell you why it's totally irrational.
47:23 First of all, everything that was good for me was back there behind the Iron Curtain.
47:29 The wall was still up, communism was still a force to be reckoned with.
47:34 They, I had quite a few dollars that they saved from me in, in Moscow, they promised
47:40 me a house, I had a family, I had a wife and a son in Germany, and, you know, having
47:50 received that, that decoration, the order of the Red Banner, I would have gone home as
47:54 a conquering hero.
47:57 And so, and if I stay in any normal rational thinker would have rationalized the, not staying
48:07 because there's a good chance that they were right and if the FBI catches me, I'm no good
48:12 for anybody, so I might as well leave.
48:16 And so, and I made that decision anyway, and it, and it worked out.
48:21 So that's when I, it's a, I'm convinced that I was meant to stay and it wasn't my own decision.
48:28 Well, I mean, I appreciate that.
48:30 There's a couple of different places I can go, but I want to circle back to, you know,
48:35 your interactions with the FBI because you've mentioned several times that you're, you believe
48:39 in God, you're, you're a follower of Christ, you become a Christian, which is so interesting
48:42 because I live in Oklahoma.
48:44 So we're the belt buckle, the Bible belt, like everybody goes to church, you can't trip
48:48 and fall without running into four or five different churches, right?
48:51 That's basically the, the world that I live in.
48:53 And so we're marinated in it, right?
48:55 Which is kind of a catch 22 because people may feel like they're a Christian just because
48:59 grandma went to church or because we listen to country music and they mentioned God every
49:03 now and then like it's that kind of a weird deal.
49:05 So we have our own problems, but you grow up with basically no Christian theology.
49:11 You grow up with really no one pushing you towards this creator God or this triune nature
49:16 of the God, it's, it's all about, you know, communism and Marxism and, you know, whatever
49:21 Vladimir Lenin says goes and those types of things.
49:24 So explain to me how you be, how you became a Christian, how you came to put your faith
49:29 in Christ.
49:30 Yeah.
49:31 Let me, let me give you a little more background.
49:32 So we celebrated Christmas, but it was a pagan ritual.
49:41 Christ was not in the mix, not, not ever mentioned. Same thing we celebrated Easter.
49:48 It was all about the Easter Bunny and, you know, the colored eggs and stuff like that.
49:53 Right.
49:54 I once found a Bible in one of my grandparents' homes and curious as I was, I opened it up
50:01 and I started reading it.
50:04 And somebody who has no clue has no guidance, shouldn't read the Bible from the beginning.
50:14 Because I closed it when it came to the genealogy, you know, who would be at home and say, Oh,
50:20 my God, that's so boring.
50:22 There was, there was not even a course in high school or college.
50:26 We've all been there.
50:28 Yeah.
50:29 There wasn't even, not even a course in high school or college, it's, you know, the religion
50:33 of the world where we would be taught how our religions are stupid because they were afraid
50:41 that it actually might have an opposite effect.
50:45 So I came to the United States knowing that Christians are pretty stupid, helpless, and
50:55 they used their religion as a, as a crutch to get through life period.
51:00 Yeah.
51:01 And, and, and I believed in this now, and as I started working in corporate America and
51:08 I started working with people that openly declared themselves a Christian, I pretty much
51:16 realized that they weren't, they weren't stupid.
51:19 So that, that stupid label didn't fit.
51:24 And when I started hiring people, when I got into management, the people that actually
51:29 came in and, and declaring their faith were actually the best people to work with.
51:35 Right.
51:36 Okay.
51:37 My prejudice is wrong.
51:38 Yeah.
51:39 But so they're not stupid and they're good people.
51:42 But at that point, I just stopped, you know, I, I, and I became an agnostic because I don't
51:47 want it.
51:48 I don't want to deal with this.
51:49 And that's the cowards way out, right, the, the way to Christianity was then engineered
51:57 by God and for which again, I wasn't prepared.
52:03 That's a, it's a somewhat lengthy story that could take 20 minutes to, to explain.
52:09 But I hired myself a, and I needed it.
52:14 I was a high level executive.
52:17 I was chief information officer at a large energy company.
52:20 And my, my administrative assistant had quit on me.
52:25 So I needed another one.
52:27 And so HR gave me a bunch of resumes and I did some initial, some phone screens.
52:33 And this one lady who did really well on the phone, she, she spoke with a British accent
52:39 and that, that's very appealing.
52:40 And she, she, she grew up in Jamaica and that's how she learned how to speak English, not
52:47 Patua.
52:48 And very intelligent.
52:49 And she told me that, you know, she, she came to the United States as a bilingual secretary
52:55 at the United Nations as a woman, well, this is an interesting candidate.
52:59 And then she said, oh, by the way, I'm going to college in the evenings.
53:06 I'm going to, I'm getting a degree in Bible.
53:10 So if that's a problem with you, we might not even want to have an in-person interview.
53:17 And I'm thinking, oh, God, I hope she's not a holy roller.
53:20 That's exactly what I thought.
53:22 But she was so, so attractive, so, so intelligent and so elegant in the way she was talking.
53:32 I brought her in and H.O.N. took the interview first in a small room and I opened the door
53:38 and they told me she's all yours now.
53:41 I walk in there and it never happened before and it ain't going to happen again.
53:49 I was like, whoa, love it first sight.
53:54 Now, I, in hindsight, I realized that it wasn't necessarily, she's a beautiful woman.
54:01 She wasn't very beautiful, she still is, but, you know, I've looked at so many beautiful
54:06 women in my life and that never happened to me before.
54:09 It was the glow on her face that made me fall in love.
54:14 And I've seen this and I witnessed this in other people, including men.
54:19 My first pastor had the same glow on his face.
54:22 It's like the Holy Spirit manifest, manifesting himself in these individuals.
54:29 It's rare, but she had it and I had a colleague next to me, so we did the interview, a very
54:36 professional.
54:37 She passed by flying callers and in hindsight, she told, she will tell anybody who's willing
54:45 to listen that at the time she had three job offers.
54:50 And she also claims that God talks to her in words occasionally and she was supposed
54:57 to take the job offer that came with a sign on bonus and a regular performance bonus,
55:03 which at that level is highly unusual.
55:07 And I, she, the demands that she had for a salary were too high, so I said, well, maybe
55:14 we close the gap with a sign on.
55:18 And this company actually paid bonuses as a policy to a clerical personnel.
55:24 So she took the job and then once she started, she was, she was told that there was a, there
55:31 was another job for her job for God, but God didn't tell her who that was all about and
55:39 what it was.
55:40 Well, so she then systematically started to evangelize me and this was the situation
55:45 where she could do this easily because we were in an open space.
55:50 Nobody had an office.
55:51 And when she was sitting right across from me and she witnessed how I treat the folks
56:01 in my organization and in between, you know, doing work, we exchanged personal information
56:09 that was in the middle of a horrendous divorce.
56:12 She was in the middle of a horrendous divorce.
56:14 So we got to know each other really well.
56:18 So in one day we were required to take new employees to lunch and I did something proactive.
56:31 I said to her, by the way, I understand that you're a hardcore Christian and I have no
56:38 problem with that.
56:39 It was just don't you think that you ever get me to join your faith.
56:44 And this woman was bold enough to turn around and says, you're already a Christian.
56:50 You just don't know it.
56:52 Prophetic indeed, because nowadays I'm thinking about this and I'm sitting in church this
57:00 past Sunday and I'm thinking how the heck was I was I was there a time in my life when
57:06 I wasn't a Christian.
57:08 So and then she very, very methodically began to began to evangelize me.
57:14 And one one thing that where I set her up was because she went to a horrendous divorce
57:22 and she was always cheerful and just like she was like by everybody and I asked her,
57:29 how do you handle all of this?
57:31 Because I was in a state of depression and she says, well, it must be Jesus.
57:37 Anyway, and so she was extremely methodical, she knew that for somebody like me who was
57:47 at the time, primarily an intellectual thinker, I had to embrace Christian philosophy, particularly
57:56 what's the word sometimes I'm missing words, Christian apologetics, okay, yeah.
58:12 So she introduced me to a radio program that was run every week by one Dr. Ravi Zacharayas
58:23 called Let My People Think.
58:25 And the first time I turned it on, he spoke about something that was really, really important
58:33 to me.
58:34 He spoke about the moral law and how actually, you know, because I thought of myself as
58:40 a person with high morals yet, you know, I committed crimes literally and I hurt people.
58:47 So I struggled with that and Zacharayas mentioned that there is a universal moral law, no matter
58:57 what religion, there's no religion that cannot accept the Ten Commandments.
59:03 So and then he spoke probably the most important sentence for me to eventually become a Christian.
59:10 And he said, where there is a moral law, it has to be a law giver, and at that point,
59:17 I accepted the existence of God, and I reexamined my belief that, you know, the big bang was
59:29 creating something out of nothing.
59:30 So I became a deist and then Shawna, that's her name, Shawna also pointed out C.S. Lewis
59:42 and I started reading C.S. Lewis and the C.S. Lewis logic is so forcing.
59:47 You can't argue.
59:48 You can't argue.
59:49 You just cannot argue.
59:51 And so one day I just asked her because she always came back on Monday, how wonderful service
59:55 were on blah, blah, blah.
59:57 So she, I asked her, so why don't you, you know, why don't I come with you one day?
1:00:06 And so we decided to go to a Saturday service.
1:00:12 She was habitually late and I was afraid to go in there.
1:00:15 I had never been in a church other than Catholic where there was service ongoing.
1:00:19 I didn't know what to expect.
1:00:20 I literally was afraid that they might recognize that I'm new and that they would drag me into
1:00:29 a room and talk to me about, you know, sharing my sins with them and giving, and asking for
1:00:40 forgiveness or else I go to hell.
1:00:42 So she came, we walked into service, it was music ongoing, nobody paid attention to us.
1:00:50 It was nice.
1:00:51 And then the pastor came, he's the guy with a glow on his face.
1:00:56 What is sermon?
1:00:58 And clearly that happens to a lot of questions when you go to service and there's a good
1:01:04 pastor preaching.
1:01:06 You know that he's preaching exactly to you personally.
1:01:10 And he was preaching to me and because his team was the love of God, and boy did I need
1:01:16 that because as I indicated, I was rather depressed in those days.
1:01:22 The only prolonged period of depression I ever went through in my life because that
1:01:30 divorce proceeding was horrendous.
1:01:33 And so at the end of this service, I did something that was totally uncharacteristic for me.
1:01:41 And I went up to the pastor and I was somewhat passive aggressive.
1:01:46 What I really meant to say that that was one heck of a message, but I said, you have
1:01:51 a great delivery and he recognized, he knew I'm six, six three at the time I was six
1:01:56 three and he never met me before.
1:01:59 And he sensed an opportunity, he called his assistant pastor and asked me, can we pray
1:02:08 over you?
1:02:09 He had hands on me and I wasn't uncomfortable.
1:02:15 So from that point on, I just went to church with Shauna and her son because it was part
1:02:26 of my healing.
1:02:28 I wasn't a Christian yet, but the second time I showed up, the pastor gave me this booklet
1:02:37 called The Search for Christ, I forgot the author, but that's a journalist who went on
1:02:43 a mission to debunk the case for Christ by Lee Strobel.
1:02:47 Yeah, the case for Christ, yes, and he found nothing but evidence that Christ actually
1:02:53 did exist.
1:02:54 So I read that and as a trained scientist, as a wall, I still didn't become a Christian.
1:03:01 That just happened spontaneously while I was playing golf with a friend of mine.
1:03:10 And he was looking for his ball and I'm standing there waiting for later resume and looking
1:03:17 up in the sky.
1:03:18 There were these puffy clouds, blue sky in all of the same way.
1:03:24 The words I'm staying came to me.
1:03:28 The words I know Jesus, I know you're there, I know you're really and you're my God.
1:03:33 And then next service, they didn't have an altar call, but some force made me get up after
1:03:45 service and then walk up to the altar and the pastor asked me, "What can I do for you?"
1:03:50 And I said, "I want to give my life to Christ."
1:03:54 And that was all I remember.
1:03:57 The rest of it was explained to me by Sean because I was in his zone because the pastor
1:04:03 actually took the microphone and explained to the congregation who were already leaving.
1:04:11 He knew a little bit about my background that I once was a communist.
1:04:16 And there was blessings all around and applause, I don't remember that.
1:04:23 And about a month later I was baptized in water.
1:04:31 And the interesting thing is, and one other thing, that following Easter I gave my first
1:04:38 testimony, admitting that I once was a KGB agent, which was somewhat foolish because I
1:04:46 was still living, I was cooperating with the FBI at the time.
1:04:51 I was on the protection of the FBI, but I was still operating under the illegally obtained
1:04:56 documents.
1:04:57 So, and here I give my testimony, first I get baptized and I give my testimony in church
1:05:03 in a church where in the area where I lived and where I worked and nobody but nobody sort
1:05:15 of took note.
1:05:17 I could have been fired for my job, literally because it wasn't an energy company that
1:05:23 part owned a nuclear plant, high security, they would have fired me no problem and nothing
1:05:30 happened.
1:05:31 So, I'm still thinking that God protected me from this foolishness and allowed me to
1:05:37 give my testimony.
1:05:39 Jack, that's so incredible.
1:05:40 I'm so glad that you spent all that time and given us all that detail, it's always great
1:05:44 to hear even a shorter version of somebody's testimony of how, because it's so clear on
1:05:49 the back end, it's so clear to see that the Holy Spirit was just calling you home and
1:05:53 bringing you closer to Father this entire time now.
1:05:56 Unfortunately, we're just about run out of time, but I'm gonna sneak in one more question
1:06:00 for you because I think this is so incredibly important.
1:06:03 So, Jack, you've got a lot of listeners listening to you right now that have kids.
1:06:06 I have a four-year-old and a two-year-old, so they're a little bit younger, but most
1:06:09 of our audience are fathers with children.
1:06:12 And they can see, especially if they let them go to the government schools, the Roman
1:06:16 schools, that their young people are being romanced, as we talk about from the beginning
1:06:21 of this interview, they're being romanced by the ideas of communism and socialism and
1:06:26 Marxism.
1:06:27 They're saying things like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:06:28 I know about the tens of millions of people that died in the 20th century, but, but, but,
1:06:32 we just haven't done communism correctly yet, and don't worry if we do it this way, it'll
1:06:36 be fine."
1:06:37 No, it's not socialism.
1:06:38 It's democratic socialism or something like that.
1:06:40 So, we only have a few minutes left here, but in a nutshell, could you give us your perspective
1:06:44 on why it's so romantic to young people, but also what we as fathers can do to ensure that
1:06:50 our young people are not taken up by this worldview that essentially has no foundation?
1:06:55 I want to quote Jordan Peterson, who actually interviewed me on his podcast, I want to
1:07:01 quote him.
1:07:02 He says, "The most important person in a child's life is the father."
1:07:07 We have that responsibility, and I have a 13-year-old who has never set foot for even
1:07:17 a second in a government school, starting with pre-Kindergarten.
1:07:23 Now, if you can't afford it, put on a Christian school or a homeschool, and if that's not
1:07:32 a possibility, just monitor what they're being taught and just fight against it to the extent
1:07:39 you can.
1:07:41 Again, as I said at the beginning of the interview, the whole idea of the team, the
1:07:49 collective, and everybody should be equal in all this nonsense because we're not.
1:07:57 We should have any consciences, but this whole idea must be fought at the very beginning,
1:08:08 so it doesn't get lodged in your reptilian brain, which is very difficult to get rid
1:08:16 of.
1:08:17 I went back after so many years to visit Germany, and some of my friends and colleagues that
1:08:25 I left are still pink, and you were 100% right, they're rationalizing.
1:08:32 Communism is a good idea, but we just had the wrong leadership, and now the whole idea
1:08:38 is to redo it, and the bottom line is, and this is not an argument you make with children,
1:08:45 but the bottom line is, every revolution that started as an honest communist revolution
1:08:50 wound up in a motoristic dictatorship.
1:08:55 Clearly you need to be aware that there's an evil seed in man, and I'm going to do my
1:09:01 part here.
1:09:02 I'm working on a business model that sort of imitates Sean Peterson.
1:09:12 I'm trying to, we just started to collect the community, and then eventually wind up
1:09:18 in the podcast just like you, and have events in person to share what I learned.
1:09:24 This is my personal experience, it's not theory, it's the life that I lived, it led
1:09:29 me to God, and that's a voice I would hope that can be heard, and we need more voices
1:09:36 like that.
1:09:37 I absolutely agree with that, anything that we can do here at Undaunted Life to help you
1:09:41 in that mission, we would love to do that, but Jack, we've gone everywhere in this conversation,
1:09:45 I'm very thankful for your time, but that's all for me, is there anything else you want
1:09:48 to get off your chest?
1:09:50 Well, this is my, my, my motto in life is, it sounds trite, but it is actually absolutely
1:10:00 true, and it's three words love, Congress all, it's the love of Christ, it's unconditional
1:10:06 love.
1:10:07 It is, it is not the love that I give you, and I want something back, and that's the
1:10:12 only way to live.
1:10:14 I absolutely love that that's a great reminder for all of us, Jack Barsky.
1:10:18 Thank you for coming on Undaunted Life on Man's podcast.
1:10:21 Thank you.
1:10:22 Thank you very much.
1:10:23 I appreciate it.
1:10:24 All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed my interview with Jack Barsky, but before we let you go,
1:10:27 we are going to do a quick resilience boost at Undaunted Life.
1:10:29 Our mission is equipping men to push back darkness with content that forges spiritual,
1:10:33 mental, and physical resilience.
1:10:34 So I've got two links for you today, I've got a link to Jack's website.
1:10:37 If you're a church out there, he is actually actively booking engagements where he goes
1:10:40 and shares his testimony.
1:10:42 You can get ahold of him through his website, and also I've got an Amazon link to his autobiography
1:10:45 deep undercover.
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1:11:20 I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
1:11:22 Remember, keep pushing back darkness, keep forging spiritual, mental, and physical resilience.
1:11:29 Keep seeking the lion of Judah.
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