Cause Before Symptom

Last night, we opened a document called the Didache, or simply “The Teaching.” Its full title calls it “The Teaching of the Lord through the Twelve Apostles to the Gentiles,” and that title immediately creates a problem. It sounds as though the Twelve Apostles themselves wrote it, but we found that the historical evidence does not establish that. We do not know who compiled the Didache, we do not possess an ...

Tonight, I want to investigate a document I have heard mentioned over and over again whenever people start talking about the earliest Christians. It is called the Didache. Depending on who is talking about it, you may hear that it is one of the earliest Christian writings outside the New Testament, that it preserves the original teachings of the apostles, that it almost made it into the Bible, or even that it was somehow removed or...

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Tonight, I want to investigate a government document from 1983 called Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process. If you have heard about this document online, you have probably heard some version of this claim: the CIA proved we are living in a simulation. That is not what the document proves. In fact, it was an Army intelligence assessment of the Gateway program, and its author was trying to understand some extraordinary claims i...

Last night, we did something different on Cause Before Symptom. After months of investigating governments, religion, prophecy, money, war, ancient manuscripts, powerful organizations and the people who appear to have their hands on the levers of power, I turned the microscope around. Instead of asking what is wrong with everybody else, I began asking what all of this searching for truth has been doing to me.

It started with a ques...

Welcome to Cause Before Symptom. Every night, I sit here and ask questions. Sometimes they are questions about Scripture. Sometimes they are about history, governments, religion, prophecy, money, war, ancient manuscripts, institutions, technology, or the people who seem to have their hands on the levers of power. And if you have been with me for any length of time, you know there is one rule behind almost everything I do here: I do...

Tonight, I want to start with a meeting that looked like almost nothing happened. Donald Trump sat down with Chinese President Xi Jinping, two leaders representing the most powerful economic competitors on Earth, at a moment when we have been told repeatedly that America and China are moving toward confrontation. Yet when the meeting finally happened, it seemed strangely calm. There was no dramatic confrontation in front of the cam...

Last night, we started with a simple question: why does everything happening in the Middle East seem connected? Every day we hear another name—Iran, Israel, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, Gaza, Saudi Arabia, Jordan—but unless somebody shows us how the pieces fit together, it just sounds like one war after another. That is what we began doing: putting the pieces onto one board. 

The first big piece was Iran. Iran does no...

If you have been watching the Middle East lately and feel like you are supposed to understand what is happening, but you don't, there is a reason. One day it is Iran, then Gaza, Hezbollah, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the Houthis, Jordan, the Abraham Accords, Al-Aqsa, the Temple Mount, or a Third Temple. We recognize the pieces, but almost nobody ever puts the entire board in front of us.

That is what I want to do tonight. Before we talk ...

For years, whenever the name Jeffrey Epstein and the word intelligence appeared in the same conversation, most of the speculation traveled in familiar directions. Israel. Mossad. The CIA. Powerful American businessmen. British royalty. Maybe Russia. People have spent years trying to determine whether Epstein belonged to somebody, whether his sexual crimes were part of something larger, and whether the powerful people surrounding hi...

Nine episodes ago, this investigation started with two guys on a podcast making a claim I couldn't get out of my head. They were talking about Chabad as though it wasn't simply an influential religious movement with powerful friends, but something much larger. The implication was that if you really wanted to understand who runs the world, you needed to understand Chabad. I remember thinking, how could I have spent all these years r...

For seven parts, we have been following people, organizations, governments, legislation, international institutions and eventually education. But there is something I have intentionally avoided doing until now. I didn't want to begin this investigation with the most alarming interpretations of Noahide law and then work backward looking for evidence to support them. I wanted to establish first whether there was actually a trail wort...

There is a reason I wanted education to have its own episode. Adults can attend a conference, listen to a religious leader, read a declaration, hear somebody talk about global ethics and decide they want nothing to do with it. Adults can challenge an idea, investigate its source, change churches, leave an organization or simply walk out of the room.

Children don't have that same freedom.

For most of their childhood, somebody else...

Part 5 left me with a problem I didn't expect. I went looking for the Seven Noahide Laws being introduced into governments as a complete religious legal code, but that isn't what the documentary trail showed me. I found legislation. I found parliamentarians. I found model proposals. I found meetings inside parliamentary institutions. But when these ideas entered the international political arena, the vocabulary started changing. In...

At the end of Part 4, I told you there was one word I couldn't ignore anymore.

Legislation.

That word changes this investigation because until now, almost everything we have uncovered could still be understood primarily as religious advocacy. Menachem Mendel Schneerson believed the Seven Noahide Laws represented universal commandments for humanity. American presidents publicly recognized them. Congress acknowledged them in Public...

By the time I finished following this trail through Washington, I had already found considerably more than I expected when this investigation began. Menachem Mendel Schneerson's relationship with American political leaders was real. Presidents repeatedly recognized him and the movement surrounding him. Ronald Reagan explicitly referred to the Seven Noahide Laws. George H. W. Bush used even stronger language. Congress eventually pla...

At the end of Part 2, we reached an important line in this investigation. Menachem Mendel Schneerson believed the Seven Noahide Laws represented universal obligations for humanity, and he believed Jews had a responsibility to encourage non-Jews to recognize them. That was a religious teaching. It came from Jewish tradition, was promoted by a Hasidic rabbi, and was connected in Schneerson's worldview to humanity's preparation for re...

If I had jumped directly from Part 1 into presidents, Congress, wealthy donors and international institutions, I think I would have made a serious mistake. I would have been looking at relationships without understanding the belief system behind them. A photograph can tell me that two people met, and a government record can tell me that somebody gained access, but neither one tells me why a religious movement would want that access...