Lisbon VLOG #5 Christo & The Crazy Lady HD 720p

Hey everyone, this is vlog number five. Funny Lipson, I'm sorry, Lisbon. Lisbo, yeah. I don't know what's up with him. Lisbon, Lisbon. And it's about two o'clock in the morning right now, so yeah. Yes, which means it is. About 7 p.m. back home. Which means, yes, it's 9.06 p.m. Oh, look at that, I'm real. Back at home, we are exactly five hours ahead of you here. Right. Once we get to Spain, we'll be six hours ahead of you. Right. So, as I already said, this is vlog number five, and I kinda wanted to share the day with you guys today. Quite an interesting day. So, you know, in every Latin American country, not every one, but most of the popular ones, they have the big statue of Jesus with his arms spread. I saw, the first time I saw that statue, I was in Acapulco, Mexico, and we drove. The statue isn't in Acapulco, but it is in a part of Mexico. And we hired a car, and they drove us there. And at that time, I was in awe, like, wow, because I didn't have the knowledge that I have now. So anyway, they have one here in Portugal. And I said, Lara, we gotta go see it. He was like, really? And I was like, yeah. But I wanted to go see it for a reason, and I'll share that with you in a second. So anyway, we go. And it was quite interesting. When you park the car, you step out of the car, and they have like a little area where people are either buying food or drinks or whatever. A little boutique shop. And then they have like these little square. Just areas that you stand in. Yeah, like little areas where you stand. And they're playing, well, you're hearing like a mass coming from the speaker in these like little areas. And you know, they're doing their hava, not hava maria, but they're. Yeah, they're doing all that spooky stuff. You know, all that spooky music. And I was just like, okay, this is okay, all right. So I was like, I ain't recording that. So I was like, Lara, let's go. So anyway, we go, and it's an amazing statue. Now, they don't all look the same. I mean, they're not all architected the same. If you go to different, like Brazil. Brazil and the one here are architected the same. Okay. But he's looking down. Yeah, so they're different in the sense that it's the same with his arms spread. But how the foundation is built is not necessarily same. The statue itself is a little bit similar. So anyway, you know, I was like, man. You know, there were a lot of people there. But you know, now that I have the knowledge that I had, and I know in Exodus 20, verse four, it says we shouldn't have any graven images. We should not bow to those idols and images of anything or anyone whether it's in heaven or here on earth. And I'm just like, or underneath the earth. And I'm just like, wow. You know, Jesus, you know, a lot. Okay, so let me backtrack. So with that being said, right, and you have these humongous statues of Jesus or Mary or whoever else that they have, you know, we're not supposed to be bowing down to those things. And it was a sight to see because, you know, in this statue, you know, you can go up to the middle of the statue, you can take the elevator up. And once you get there, you are at the foot of the statue. So just imagine when you come up out of the elevator and you walk up a couple of steps and then you walk outside, you're literally at the base of the foot of the statue of Jesus. So when you look up, it's like right there. And I'll, you know. That's the whole point of this. The whole point is for you to look up. Yeah, they want you to look up. They want you to look up. But the other crazy part about it is how the sun is positioned the entire time. And I know that has nothing to do, you know, we don't control the sun. Yeah, but they built it. But how it was built, it was built to position is how the sun just really shine. And I'll share some pictures with you guys on Facebook. But it is a sight to see. And I'm just like, wow. And then they have like little chapels in the place. And you have people in there, they're like really praying and they're lying down and they're using their rosary beads. And then when you walk into the gift shop, they're selling rosary beads and they're selling all these images. And I was just like, man, you know, when you come into some knowledge, it's a beautiful thing. I mean, you know, and that's why I'm sharing it because a lot of, there are some folks that I know that, that, you know, they prayed to Mary or they prayed to Jesus and they have all these statues in their homes. And Fatima, and we don't know. We don't know that we should not be doing it even though the Bible says it. Some people probably have never read it. So I'm sharing it with you right now. Exodus 20 verse four. Just that verse alone tells you we should not be doing stuff like that. But, you know, it was a very ah moment. I mean, you know, I wasn't, you know, praying or bowing down, but it just made me realize, you know, how people get so wrapped up in all of this. What was your take, honey? Well, look, when I got there, I mean, I don't really care for much of those places, but it's good for me to be there because, you know, I had a different change of mind when I got there. I didn't want to go, I didn't care for it. However, it was free plus $10. Free meaning that you can go there, watch the statue while you want, but if you want to go to the top, you got to pay 10 bucks. I mean, it was not, it was very inexpensive. But for me, it was just a matter of seeing that threefold or the two great eras that Sister White speaks about, the two great eras that she talks about in the Great Controversy, Sunday sacredness and spiritualism. Those are the two great eras, Sunday sacredness and spiritualism. Well, I want to piggyback off of what Larry said because there was a little room when you walk in the door and I'll share these pictures too and they have little signs in it. I saw the common good listed on over and over and over again and I'm like, people are not getting the fact that, you know, the papacy wants us in this common good and I mean, pushing for this common good and I mean, it's everywhere and they're baptizing people for the sake of the common good. I mean, you know, I was just like. That word, baptize, for the sake of the common good, they're not just sprinkling people with water for the common good. Oh, no. It's the mind, they're baptizing the minds for the common good. And the artist who depicted a lot of these signages. These pictures. These pictures, whatever, I don't even, signages is a word. But literally was depicting them, it was like spirits, it wasn't even like angels. It was just like spirits in how it was depicted. But you know, when we go away to different countries, we go see different stuff and I mean, we do it more so for education but I do it just to kind of help me, remind me of why we shouldn't be doing certain things. Like why we shouldn't be bowing down. If there's a statue of Jesus, none of us should be praying to Jesus, bow down in front of Jesus. A statue. Nobody. It's a cement statue. Right, you know, but I mean, the whole point of the matter is just kind of a reminder that I mean, culturally, you know, a lot of these countries are mostly Catholics and they believe that they're doing the right thing because they haven't heard any different. And if they have, they really haven't taken the time out to do their own studies. So I'm not trying to bash anybody at all. I'm just trying to say, you know, with knowledge comes wisdom. Wisdom and knowledge. Attain wisdom and with wisdom have understanding. So we need to have that. Yeah, like I said, it was educational. It was something that we learned today that, you know, God is so good. He's given us his word to be able to see a lot of these things. I mean, like I say, this is steeped in spiritualism. There's no getting away when you go to those places. The things you see, it's like, wow, I can really... People don't realize it for those who don't know, right? Because the Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians chapter two that this is a spiritual discernment. You have to have spiritual discernment. You just can't, you know, the foolish or the unwise won't know. They won't know. And the thing about it is for us to let them know, right? It's for us to share this with them, to share this gospel. But that was our first part of the day, right? We went out to, what's it called? The statue of Cristo? It's called Cristo Rio, Cristo Rio, R-E-I, so... Well, yeah, because we're in Portugal, so it's not, it was Cristo Rio in Spanish, right? And like, if you go to... Cristo Rio. Cristo Rio, if you go to South America, like my wife was telling you, Mexico and Acapulco, right? And what's the other one in Brazil, right? I believe there's one in Argentina. Yes, there's one in Argentina. So if you go there, it's Cristo Rio, R-I-O. Here in Portugal, because the Spanish and Portuguese are almost as close, they're similar, they're very... And Italian, they have a mix of all of that here. If you come here, it's Cristo Rio, right? With a E, I believe, R-E-I. So you have that, Cristo Rio, right? So you have that here. But I'm telling you, this is really the same thing. And, you know, when I put this on Facebook, you'll see what we're talking about. The other part is that we did go to a place called... Sintra. Sintra, right? Sintra, Portugal. And it was very, very pretty. I mean, gorgeous place, lots of castles, lots of castles there. We ended up taking a tour, a tour bus out there, and took a tour of the castle. I just thought it was a lot of people. You know, you gotta understand, it was a tourist area. It was very boring. Very boring. I was so bored. You know, they gave us these little headplugs, right? And I just took the headplugs off and just started walking around. So they gave us the headplugs because our tour guide, she speaks four languages, which I thought was cool. So she did the tour in all four languages. She started off with English. So we got to hear, you know... I still couldn't understand it. We got to hear everything first. Then she did it in Portuguese. Then she did it in Spanish. And then she did it in Dutch, which I thought was awesome. I understood three of the Dutch words that she said. So I was like, I'm on fire here. Danke. Yeah. So it was a little boring though. I understand that. It was boring. However, when people say, when you going to Portugal, go there. However, I think had we got on the hop-on hop-off bus, we would have had a little bit more fun. How you gonna get more fun on a hop-on than a hop-off? It'll take you 30 seconds. Here's the reason why. The hop-on hop-off bus, they let you hop off and you spend as much time as you want in that one spot and another bus will come. They come every 30 minutes to an hour. So you can stay at whatever spot you want for however long you want until the bus, I think the last bus. Yeah, but that was just one bus to that one place. No, that's what I'm saying. So hop-on hop-off, it takes you to different, many sites. You hop off, you take your pictures, you do whatever, you eat lunch, whatever you want and you hop back on when you're ready. That's my suggestion. But we only had two days here, two and a half days here. So if I ever had to come back to Portugal, I would go another place like Porto. I'll drive, I'd rather drive. I'm a driver, I like to have that control. I just felt that the trip was, I mean it was good for what it was worth. You can see any country in 48 hours. It was good for what it was worth. However, it's just the fact that we couldn't understand the lady in English as well as we couldn't understand the other four languages, three of the languages she spoke and it was just a lot of people that was there so they kind of rushed us through this whole thing because we got to rush. And then. The lady was mean to us. And then I met a very rude lady. I mean, I never. It's a strike number six for him. We've only been here for two days and he's got like six strikes already. I mean, we about to fight this, I mean come on. Lady just, lady literally. I come through, we had a tour in this castle. Now this castle is humongous. And anytime you tour through a castle you got to stay within the lines, right? So we get to the kitchen area and I'm like, oh snap, this look like a kitchen. Are we in the kitchen? Maybe because it was a rhetorical question, I guess. She didn't want to say yes. But it looked like a kitchen. She could have said no, this is like the pot and pan storage room, right? Because you're in a castle. You could have the kitchen in a whole different place and a pot and pan storage room in this place. So I come in and I said, are we in the kitchen? And she says, don't talk to me. Go to your person. I don't know you, you don't belong to me. Excuse me? That was what she said to me. And I'm like, okay, that was rude. Everybody kind of looked up and was like. And then she's laughing, like she was laughing at me. She's pointing to the people that she's with because we're in a tour group, so she's with her group in front of my group, the group that I'm in. And she's laughing with the people in her group about me. Like, this guy here, look at this guy here, this guy. Okay. So then when we went outside and the tour was over of the castle. I see her, I saw her by herself. So I was like. She's by herself. Ty, she's like, should we beat her up? And I'm like, nah, let's do it. I didn't say that. I was just like, she's by herself. Maybe this is the opportunity, you know. So I go over there. I go over there and I said, hello. Hi, can you help me? You know, and then she goes, I don't have time for you. I'm doing work. Get out of my face, go, go, go, leave me alone. She was really rude. I'm like, you know, you are very rude. He said that and she says, yes. She said, yes, I know, or something like that. She was like, I know, or thank you. She said something like that. No, she said, I know. And I'm like, wait a minute. Like, this is supposed to be Sintra. It's a very nice quaint town and it's supposed to be very nice. Nice people, nice people. You know, I didn't have a problem. Our tour guide was very nice. I thought she was very nice. Louise was very nice. Shout out to you, Louise. You were very nice. And then when I told Louise about this lady, Louise says, oh, yes, yes, I know that young, I know that lady for centuries. We've been friends for centuries. She is crazy. She was crazy when she was young and she's a whole lot crazier now that she's older. What about decades, centuries? Well, she said centuries. She's joking. She probably meant decades. No, no, she meant right, right, right. Nobody's old that, you know, centuries. Unless they live in that castle, you know what I'm saying? But other than that. So, I mean, we just had a really long, I mean, it was nice. And then we went back to Sintra. We had dinner over there. The food was good. I thought the food was good. Man, we went to this vegan spot called The Healthy Life. Local health. Local health or something like that. And we got the red curry tofu. Red Thai, Thai. Sorry, red Thai curry tofu with whole wheat rice and fresh broccoli, you name it. Onion, cilantro. I mean, fresh. I mean, like so fresh. You were like tasting every bit. That thing was so good. So shout out to. Local healthy food. Local, your local health. Very good stuff. Food was great. I recommend you go there. And then there was another restaurant we went to last night that was very delicious as well. Yeah, we just had, you know, we drove around again. We went back to Sintra again. We did. We went back to Sintra. And this is where we went to a very pretty outdoor. Oh, that's where the wealthy Americans. Actually, they have a population of 35,000. Most of them are Americans or highly ranked wealthy Portuguese. And it's beautiful over there. Now, if you want to move to Portugal into the mountains, we were today in Cabo and Sintra. You know, a home out there will cost you about three to four hundred thousand euros, which is quite about almost the same as what we do in America. But the difference is, I mean, the quality of life here in Portugal is a whole lot better than in America. Just saying. The only really big crimes they do with here is pickpocketing. Now, that could be big for many, but that's really the only biggest thing that they deal with here. They don't really have a lot of crime here. People are still walking the streets. I mean, we rolled up in here about a little after 1 a.m. and people were still out. And you're wondering why we're up because we're still in American time. Yes, we are. Yeah, I mean, we're slowly getting on this time because we'll be in this time zone, well, actually six hours when we go back to Spain. We'll be in that time zone for like another. So, yeah, just wanted to share that, right? Wanted to share that day with you guys. Look forward for vlog number six tomorrow morning or something like that. I don't know, when you guys wake up, you'll see another one. We'll be leaving out to the airport to head to Madrid. Back to Madrid we go. So, peace and holorations to you guys. Love you. God bless you guys. And chicken grease. God bless you guys. Vegan chicken grease. Continue to keep my common ministries in prayer. Thank you very much, guys. Love y'all. Peace.