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- 0:02Speaker 1: The Week in Bible Prophecy, a Prophecy Watchers podcast.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Hi there, folks, and welcome to the A Minute to
- 0:10Speaker 2: Midnight show. This is Tony, and I'm coming to you
- 0:13Speaker 2: from New Zealand in a spring morning. And with me today,
- 0:18Speaker 2: I have Mondo Gonzalez. And Mondo, it is autumn where
- 0:22Speaker 2: you are, or fall. And yeah, we were just talking
- 0:26Speaker 2: a little bit off air what the weather's like here,
- 0:29Speaker 2: but I don't know what it's like where you are.
- 0:31Speaker 3: At the moment, you know, for us here in Oklahoma,
- 0:35Speaker 3: it's been rain, rain, rain, which actually is everybody's happy
- 0:39Speaker 3: about it because we had a super hot summer.
- 0:42Speaker 1: It was horrible.
- 0:43Speaker 3: And so we're down, you know, we're down in the,
- 0:47Speaker 3: what would you say, about in the 1920s Celsius anyway,
- 0:50Speaker 3: which is great for us.
- 0:51Speaker 1: We've been in the 40s all summer.
- 0:53Speaker 4: Well, yeah. Yeah, I guess for Americans going in the 40s,
- 0:58Speaker 4: wait a minute, that's winter temperatures. But yeah, Celsius. 40 Celsius. Yeah, exactly.
- 1:05Speaker 2: So yeah, we've had a march up to spring and
- 1:10Speaker 2: it was a bit of a mixture. So we had
- 1:12Speaker 2: a couple of quite hot days and now right at
- 1:14Speaker 2: the moment we're back to it being like winter again
- 1:16Speaker 2: for a couple of days where I am in New
- 1:18Speaker 2: Zealand anyway. So it's a bit of a up and
- 1:23Speaker 2: down with the weather. But in terms of what we
- 1:28Speaker 2: should discuss today. And I mentioned to you off air, look,
- 1:33Speaker 2: there's a lot of people that have been messaging me
- 1:36Speaker 2: or emailing me or leaving comments saying, can we talk
- 1:40Speaker 2: about the Noahide laws and the Noahide convention? And, um,
- 1:46Speaker 2: it is a bit of a hot topic at the moment.
- 1:49Speaker 2: And so I said to you, Mondo, can we maybe
- 1:52Speaker 2: look at that today? And it's kind of controversial today.
- 1:56Speaker 2: In some ways, just as a little bit of an overview,
- 2:00Speaker 2: some people won't even know what that is. Nearly 100
- 2:04Speaker 2: Noahide leaders from 20 countries across six continents will gather
- 2:08Speaker 2: in Jerusalem on November 2-6, 2026, with the blessings of
- 2:15Speaker 2: Israel's chief rabbis and a reception at the residence of
- 2:19Speaker 2: the president-elect. For the first time in history, Noahides, who
- 2:24Speaker 2: are non-Jews, who ordered their lives by the seven laws
- 2:27Speaker 2: of Noah, which that's an interesting thing in itself, will
- 2:32Speaker 2: convene in a single international conference. Nearly 100 Noahide leaders
- 2:36Speaker 2: from 20 countries across six continents will gather in Jerusalem
- 2:40Speaker 2: at the Seven Arches Hotel on the Mount of Olives
- 2:43Speaker 2: overlooking the Old City for the first international congress of
- 2:48Speaker 2: Noahides and Israel. The Congress is convened by Brit Alam,
- 2:53Speaker 2: the World Noahide Centre, under the presidency of Rabbi Uri Cherokee,
- 2:59Speaker 2: and it carries the blessing of Chief Rabbis of Israel
- 3:03Speaker 2: and the support of ministers in the Israeli government and
- 3:06Speaker 2: will include an official reception at Be'er HaNati, however you
- 3:12Speaker 2: pronounce it exactly, the residence of the President of Israel
- 3:16Speaker 2: in Jerusalem. And over five days, the participants will take
- 3:20Speaker 2: part in study lessons with leading rabbis, working groups on
- 3:24Speaker 2: community building, and the signing of a founding charter and
- 3:29Speaker 2: the establishment of the first international Viet Dinh Whanawhai affairs.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Delegations are expected from six continents. Now that came out
- 3:39Speaker 2: as an official sort of blurb around the end of July.
- 3:42Speaker 2: So now we're getting really close to this conference actually occurring.
- 3:48Speaker 2: And Quite rightly, I think some people have some concerns
- 3:53Speaker 2: over it and what it actually means, but there's also
- 3:56Speaker 2: a lot of speculation as well. So that's my way
- 4:00Speaker 2: of a preamble. I'll give it to you. I'm sure
- 4:03Speaker 2: I'll have plenty more to say at times, but I
- 4:06Speaker 2: will get your perspective.
- 4:07Speaker 4: On it, Monday.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Yeah, this is actually quite interesting because all of us
- 4:15Speaker 3: who are prophecy watchers We look and we see that
- 4:21Speaker 3: in the future, Israel's obviously very central in the final
- 4:26Speaker 3: 70th week of Daniel during the coming tribulation period. And
- 4:32Speaker 3: the interesting thing about it is you have, as we know,
- 4:34Speaker 3: a variety of characters. First, you have the Antichrist, whether
- 4:39Speaker 3: he is going to be a false messiah or a
- 4:43Speaker 3: fake messiah or a pseudo messiah for the Jewish people.
- 4:47Speaker 3: We know that he is involved with the reestablishment to
- 4:51Speaker 3: some way of temple sacrifices, etc.
- 4:54Speaker 1: So the Jews are central. I mean, we all agree that.
- 4:58Speaker 3: The interesting thing about it is this upcoming conference, which
- 5:01Speaker 3: they hope is a start of an annual conference that
- 5:06Speaker 3: will continue to happen. But the thing that I find
- 5:09Speaker 3: interesting is in Revelation 17, we see a harlot religion.
- 5:16Speaker 3: And we know that the heart of religion is some
- 5:20Speaker 3: sort of system of religion that brings the world together
- 5:23Speaker 3: in some form. We also know that that heart, heart
- 5:27Speaker 3: of religion is destroyed.
- 5:29Speaker 1: In the midpoint of the seven year period.
- 5:32Speaker 3: And we see that in revelation 17, you know, basically
- 5:34Speaker 3: 12 through 18, where the 10 Kings, along with the
- 5:39Speaker 3: 11th King, which is in this case of the antichrist
- 5:41Speaker 3: burn her with fire. So, because we know that at,
- 5:46Speaker 3: the second half of the tribulation period, the Great Tribulation,
- 5:48Speaker 3: that the Antichrist in the middle sits in the temple
- 5:51Speaker 3: of God, declaring himself to be God.
- 5:55Speaker 1: He is the religion.
- 5:57Speaker 3: And so he's not going to allow any competition with
- 6:00Speaker 3: this harlot religion. So what many people wonder is, well,
- 6:04Speaker 3: what does that harlot religion look like in the first
- 6:07Speaker 3: half of the tribulation period? And so enter in what
- 6:12Speaker 3: we have now here, the Noahide laws.
- 6:16Speaker 1: And so most people are like, well, what's this about?
- 6:18Speaker 3: Well, the true answer is that this is a system
- 6:25Speaker 3: of belief that is 100% originated and perpetuated by rabbinic Judaism.
- 6:34Speaker 1: And so whether you look in the.
- 6:37Speaker 3: Early writings or traditions, the Jewish traditions, primarily the Talmuds,
- 6:44Speaker 3: they describe... that you can be, well, let me say
- 6:49Speaker 3: it this way. The Jews are required to follow the
- 6:53Speaker 3: 613 Mosaic commandments, okay? But, you know, Deuteronomy 4, Deuteronomy 7,
- 6:59Speaker 3: there's a whole bunch of other passages that speak that
- 7:02Speaker 3: the 613 commandments of Moses were not given to the world.
- 7:06Speaker 1: They were given to the Jews.
- 7:08Speaker 3: And so then it brings up the question within Judaism is, well,
- 7:12Speaker 3: then what do we expect or what do we, What
- 7:15Speaker 3: would God want then for non-Jews? God doesn't want the
- 7:20Speaker 3: non-Jew necessarily to convert to Judaism. So rabbinic Judaism came
- 7:25Speaker 3: up with this idea or this thought that all they
- 7:29Speaker 3: need to do is follow the seven laws of Noah
- 7:32Speaker 3: because they're all Gentiles. After basically Genesis 9, we see
- 7:37Speaker 3: that God establishes covenant with Noah. And so when you
- 7:42Speaker 3: look at the Noahide laws as they are given by
- 7:45Speaker 3: rabbinic Judaism, there's basically seven of them.
- 7:49Speaker 1: And they derive.
- 7:50Speaker 3: Primarily from Genesis 9, not fully, not as if you'd
- 7:53Speaker 3: read them there, but some of them you could. The
- 7:55Speaker 3: first one is that there's a prohibition against idolatry. We
- 7:59Speaker 3: can talk about that later, what that looks like. There's
- 8:02Speaker 3: a second is the prohibition against blasphemy, you know, towards
- 8:07Speaker 3: God and his name.
- 8:09Speaker 1: The third is against murder.
- 8:11Speaker 3: We see that in Genesis 9, 5, and 6 because there,
- 8:15Speaker 3: up until that time, God tells Noah, if anybody commits murder,
- 8:21Speaker 3: then he creates capital punishment. Right there in Genesis 9.
- 8:26Speaker 3: And he says, by man. So if you murder somebody,
- 8:29Speaker 3: it says, by man, that person, the murderer, needs to
- 8:33Speaker 3: be killed. And so that creates one of the other
- 8:37Speaker 3: principles there is that you have to have courts. which
- 8:41Speaker 3: would then be able to implement a capital punishment, you know,
- 8:46Speaker 3: murder for murder or the killing of somebody for murdering
- 8:50Speaker 3: somebody else. They also have understandably the fourth one would
- 8:55Speaker 3: be laws against sexual morality, bestiality, all the things you'd
- 9:00Speaker 3: see in the, which is similar to the book of
- 9:02Speaker 3: Exodus or I'm in book of Leviticus. That would include homosexuality,
- 9:06Speaker 3: all those things that are defined under, Judaism's view of
- 9:11Speaker 3: what sexual immorality is. The fifth one is theft, which
- 9:15Speaker 3: we know that's part of the original Ten Commandments. Remember,
- 9:18Speaker 3: for a Jewish person, the Ten Commandments are not for non-Jews.
- 9:22Speaker 3: The Ten Commandments are for Jews. But in this sense,
- 9:25Speaker 3: they'll say theft is bad. That's also one of them. Also,
- 9:29Speaker 3: you have a variety of comments about eating blood, or
- 9:34Speaker 3: specifically it talks about eating a limb of an animal.
- 9:40Speaker 3: from a living animal, which in that sense would be blood.
- 9:43Speaker 3: And then the seventh one, as I mentioned, is courts
- 9:46Speaker 3: of justice. So just as a backdrop, what they say
- 9:51Speaker 3: is that in order to participate in the world to
- 9:56Speaker 3: come for a Jew, and for the world to come
- 9:59Speaker 3: for Gentiles, you need to be, you can be one
- 10:02Speaker 3: of the righteous Gentiles. And so to be a righteous Gentile,
- 10:06Speaker 3: you don't convert to Judaism. You follow these seven Noahide laws.
- 10:10Speaker 3: And if you do, then you will have a participation
- 10:14Speaker 3: in the world to come. And so again, Later, a writer,
- 10:19Speaker 3: and the last thing I'll say here, and we can
- 10:21Speaker 3: unpack some of this, but Rambam Maimonides was basically a
- 10:25Speaker 3: 12th century Jewish person, Spaniard Jew. He lived in Israel
- 10:30Speaker 3: at the time, lived in Egypt, but he wrote something
- 10:32Speaker 3: called the Mishnah Torah, and he was a very, very
- 10:34Speaker 3: influential medieval Jew. And what he discussed, he discussed the
- 10:39Speaker 3: seven no-hide laws. But one of the things that he
- 10:41Speaker 3: said in his interactions with Christianity, which is very strong
- 10:45Speaker 3: in the Middle Ages, was that in order to be
- 10:49Speaker 3: considered righteous, again, you can't be an idolater. So the
- 10:52Speaker 3: question is, or a blasphemer, can a Christian qualify as
- 10:58Speaker 3: a non-idolater?
- 10:59Speaker 1: Because for them, they didn't understand.
- 11:01Speaker 3: They just thought we invented the person of Jesus in
- 11:03Speaker 3: the sense of we took this man, we elevated him
- 11:05Speaker 3: to godhood, and now we're worshiping the God of Israel
- 11:08Speaker 3: along with this other god named Jesus, and therefore, by definition,
- 11:12Speaker 3: we're idolaters.
- 11:13Speaker 1: And so it also, even in Islam, Maimonides was quite.
- 11:19Speaker 3: Clear as well as rabbinic Judaism that even though Islam
- 11:23Speaker 3: is monotheistic, very strict, you have to submit, in order
- 11:29Speaker 3: for you to be righteous, you have to submit to
- 11:31Speaker 3: the God of Israel, not Allah, and you have to
- 11:35Speaker 3: submit to the authority of the Torah, the first five books,
- 11:39Speaker 3: as well as the authority of the rabbinic Jews or
- 11:42Speaker 3: the sages, or in this sense, the Talmud.
- 11:45Speaker 1: So, Obviously, Islam doesn't submit.
- 11:48Speaker 3: They might be monotheistic in their own theology, but they
- 11:50Speaker 3: don't submit to the authority of the Talmud. Christianity is monotheistic,
- 11:57Speaker 3: but we don't submit to the authority of the Talmud.
- 12:00Speaker 3: So it's interesting that even within there, there's different viewpoints
- 12:03Speaker 3: within Judaism of whether a Christian is outside of being
- 12:10Speaker 3: a Noahide person or whether Jesus disqualifies them. Or whether
- 12:16Speaker 3: some Jews are a little bit more moderate and they'll
- 12:18Speaker 3: allow Christianity to be under it. But needless to say,
- 12:23Speaker 3: I think we ultimately fail because, according to Maimonides anyway,
- 12:28Speaker 3: because why? We don't accept the authority of the Talmud
- 12:32Speaker 3: as being equal to Scripture. So this is the basic
- 12:36Speaker 3: Noahide framework originated by Rabbinic Judaism, Talmudic Judaism, and for
- 12:43Speaker 3: the world. And so this is what they're trying to
- 12:45Speaker 3: come to be, is to say, let's start incorporating this
- 12:51Speaker 3: framework for the world.
- 12:55Speaker 1: With this conference next month.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. So just very quickly then, I'll just
- 13:00Speaker 2: recap what those seven no-hide laws are. Do not worship idols.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Do not blaspheme the name of God.
- 13:06Speaker 4: Do not murder.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Do not commit sexual immorality. And there's a bunch of
- 13:10Speaker 2: what that defines there. Do not steal. Do not eat
- 13:13Speaker 2: the flesh torn from a living animal. But the seventh one,
- 13:16Speaker 2: I don't think you mentioned, Mondo, is establish courts of
- 13:19Speaker 2: justice to enforce the previous six laws. And these laws
- 13:26Speaker 2: are promoted by some Jewish groups, particularly the Armluvoviches, of
- 13:32Speaker 2: which Jared Kushner is one. And basically, going back to 1991,
- 13:39Speaker 2: George H. Bush signed, you know, made a declaration, a
- 13:45Speaker 2: Noahide Declaration kind of thing, establishing it in the U.S.
- 13:51Speaker 2: and with a day, you know, a celebration day and
- 13:54Speaker 2: all of that kind of thing. So what a lot
- 13:56Speaker 2: of people are concerned about is, okay, so they are
- 14:00Speaker 2: going to establish a system of court, basically, to be
- 14:07Speaker 2: able to prosecute the laws, you know, people that break
- 14:12Speaker 2: the Noahide laws. Now, this is where the speculation comes in.
- 14:16Speaker 2: People are going, oh, this is it. This is the
- 14:18Speaker 2: religion of the Antichrist and so on.
- 14:19Speaker 4: But it's like, hold on a minute. At the moment,
- 14:21Speaker 4: this is a religious group.
- 14:24Speaker 2: The Noahides coming together and having a conference and saying
- 14:26Speaker 2: we are setting this up. They're not some, at this
- 14:29Speaker 2: point anyway, some international group with any teeth, like the
- 14:32Speaker 2: United Nations or something. They can't come along and say, right,
- 14:36Speaker 2: United States of America or New Zealand, you're going to
- 14:38Speaker 2: enforce these Noahide laws and those idolaters are going to
- 14:42Speaker 2: have capital punishment. Now, it could happen down the track,
- 14:46Speaker 2: but at this point, we don't know that. And so
- 14:49Speaker 2: where a lot of people are going is they're jumping
- 14:51Speaker 2: the gun and saying, ah, that's it.
- 14:53Speaker 4: This is the religion of the Antichrist. This is it. Yeah.
- 14:56Speaker 4: But we don't actually know for sure that that is
- 14:58Speaker 4: the case.
- 15:01Speaker 3: Well, and what you see is the international Beit Din,
- 15:04Speaker 3: that this house, Beit Din is Hebrew for the house
- 15:07Speaker 3: of judgment.
- 15:08Speaker 1: And they've said that they are not creating the organizers
- 15:13Speaker 1: of this thing.
- 15:15Speaker 3: They've been very clear or overt in saying that they're
- 15:18Speaker 3: not creating the house of judgment in order to enforce
- 15:23Speaker 3: any of the Noahide laws, because for them it's voluntary.
- 15:28Speaker 3: And so they are in, in Judaism, like the Sanhedrin,
- 15:33Speaker 3: we know about the Sanhedrin from the time in the
- 15:35Speaker 3: gospels and the Sanhedrin has been attempted to be reformed
- 15:41Speaker 3: in modern times, you know, 2004 didn't really create a,
- 15:45Speaker 3: catch a lot of traction, but the, the goal of the,
- 15:50Speaker 3: this house of judgment is in order to provide guidance.
- 15:53Speaker 3: That's what they're saying is, and now it could switch
- 15:55Speaker 3: if they had teeth, but right now is no, we're
- 15:58Speaker 3: simply here to provide guidance. We have these communities around
- 16:02Speaker 3: the world, you know, almost 80 communities that are no
- 16:05Speaker 3: hide communities already. And so we simply just want to help.
- 16:09Speaker 3: And we want to, we want to see this information,
- 16:11Speaker 3: get out. So But as you mentioned, it is well
- 16:14Speaker 3: known that one of the punishments that, at least in
- 16:19Speaker 3: the Talmudic literature, for people that violated the Noahide laws
- 16:23Speaker 3: was the sword or capital punishment through beheading. And so,
- 16:28Speaker 3: of course, that brings up some connections with Revelation 20 about.
- 16:33Speaker 1: Those who had been beheaded.
- 16:36Speaker 3: But it doesn't say necessarily that those were beheaded necessarily
- 16:41Speaker 3: by the harlot. In Revelation 20, it talks about those
- 16:45Speaker 3: who were beheaded by the beast, and I would say
- 16:47Speaker 3: that that's probably the second half of the tribulation period
- 16:50Speaker 3: for refusing the mark of the beast. So that certainly
- 16:53Speaker 3: wouldn't correlate with the Noahide laws because, again, the worship,
- 16:59Speaker 3: the religion of the second half is the religion of
- 17:01Speaker 3: the beast himself and the Antichrist himself who wants to
- 17:03Speaker 3: be worshipped, of course, ultimately to the dragon. But we
- 17:07Speaker 3: do know, we do know that in Revelation 17, that
- 17:11Speaker 3: the harlot was drunk with the blood of the martyrs.
- 17:14Speaker 3: So somehow there is going to be an enforcement mechanism
- 17:17Speaker 3: in the first half of the tribulation by this religious system.
- 17:21Speaker 3: You either follow it or you are killed. But it's
- 17:26Speaker 3: interesting that the ones that are described being killed are
- 17:29Speaker 3: not just people, but Christians, or at least believers for sure,
- 17:34Speaker 3: being martyred for their faith in Jesus specifically. So I think,
- 17:39Speaker 3: as you said, we have to be careful not to
- 17:40Speaker 3: jump the gun just because there is one element of
- 17:43Speaker 3: similarity of beheading. As you mentioned, that could be just
- 17:48Speaker 3: as applicable to Islam. And there are those that believe
- 17:51Speaker 3: in an Islamic Antichrist. And that will be one of
- 17:54Speaker 3: the things that he's going to use during the tribulation period.
- 17:59Speaker 1: So the interesting thing is.
- 18:02Speaker 3: Just some of the discussion. And to me, The key
- 18:07Speaker 3: of the Noahide laws, and this is what I find interesting,
- 18:12Speaker 3: is the key element in the Noahide laws is the
- 18:15Speaker 3: centrality of Judaism.
- 18:18Speaker 1: So worldwide, worldwide.
- 18:23Speaker 3: Judaism is central, and the authority of the rabbis is central,
- 18:29Speaker 3: and of course the authority of the seven laws, which
- 18:33Speaker 3: have their basis in Genesis 9, as well as others.
- 18:38Speaker 3: I find that really provocative because to, will the Antichrist,
- 18:45Speaker 3: when he comes on the scene and he establishes the covenant,
- 18:48Speaker 3: because that's exactly what Daniel 9.27 says, I've written a
- 18:52Speaker 3: lot about this, it literally in the Hebrew says that
- 18:57Speaker 3: he shall cause the covenant to prevail for the Jews,
- 19:04Speaker 3: for the many, which is the Jews in the book
- 19:06Speaker 3: of Daniel, for one week, for seven years. And in
- 19:09Speaker 3: the middle of the week, he'll cause the sacrifices and
- 19:10Speaker 3: offerings to stop. So that covenant that he is causing
- 19:14Speaker 3: to prevail in the book of Daniel is the Mosaic covenant,
- 19:17Speaker 3: which involves sacrifices and offerings and all the 613. So
- 19:22Speaker 3: that's interesting that he is going to show up on
- 19:24Speaker 3: the scene providing a basis for the Torah, to be
- 19:29Speaker 3: reestablished for the Jews, because it's not that way.
- 19:32Speaker 1: Right now in the land of Israel.
- 19:33Speaker 3: And when you look at the religious Jews in Israel,
- 19:37Speaker 3: what they want more than anything else, this.
- 19:39Speaker 1: Is, let me say it this way.
- 19:43Speaker 3: If you ask a religious Jew and you look at
- 19:45Speaker 3: their writings, what is going to be the telltale sign
- 19:50Speaker 3: that the Messiah has arrived? And they'll say that when
- 19:56Speaker 3: the Messiah arrives, he's going to accomplish two things, minimum.
- 20:00Speaker 3: One is he's going to reestablish the sacrificial system or
- 20:05Speaker 3: the temple.
- 20:06Speaker 1: You're like, okay, that makes sense. We all believe that.
- 20:09Speaker 3: The second thing is he's going to cause the Torah
- 20:13Speaker 3: to be applied over all the land of Israel.
- 20:17Speaker 1: You think, really?
- 20:18Speaker 3: That's what they believe, which is exactly what Daniel 9.27 says. So,
- 20:21Speaker 3: and it's connected to the Torah and it's connected to
- 20:23Speaker 3: the temple. So, but in the midst of that, if
- 20:29Speaker 3: we're going to speculate or conjecture, could it be that he,
- 20:34Speaker 3: as he gives them his authority to establish the temple
- 20:38Speaker 3: and the Torah, Could it be then that he promotes
- 20:41Speaker 3: the Noahide laws around the world with Judaism as being centered?
- 20:47Speaker 1: That's possible.
- 20:49Speaker 3: That would be amazing if it actually happened around the world,
- 20:53Speaker 3: that the Jews would become the.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Center of the world religiously. To me, I find that
- 20:58Speaker 1: hard to believe.
- 20:59Speaker 4: Particularly in the climate at the moment.
- 21:02Speaker 1: Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, I find that.
- 21:09Speaker 3: But if God is going to accomplish it, well, then
- 21:11Speaker 3: God can do anything.
- 21:12Speaker 1: So I'm not worried about that. But I can't prove
- 21:14Speaker 1: that from Scripture.
- 21:15Speaker 3: I can prove the temple, and we can prove that
- 21:18Speaker 3: the Torah, that the Mosaic covenant is going to be
- 21:22Speaker 3: central for the Jews. We can show that. But we
- 21:28Speaker 3: can't show necessarily that no hide is part of that system.
- 21:31Speaker 2: So the clauses about the death sentence and so on,
- 21:37Speaker 2: which could apply to, well, they say it applies to idolatry,
- 21:44Speaker 2: you know, potentially, and also blasphemy and so on. And
- 21:47Speaker 2: so they come from the Talmud. I think Sanhedrin Clause 57a,
- 21:54Speaker 2: that's where most of this stuff comes from. You have
- 21:57Speaker 2: to delve way down into stuff to find it. You're
- 22:01Speaker 2: not going to find it on the Noahides website, you know, saying, hey,
- 22:05Speaker 2: we're going to behead people if they disappear. you know,
- 22:07Speaker 2: disagree with us or whatever. But that's where it comes from, basically.
- 22:13Speaker 2: And what I think on is, so, okay, so they
- 22:18Speaker 2: could behead people for, A, following Jesus, because if you're
- 22:22Speaker 2: potentially following Jesus, you're an idolater because you're saying Jesus
- 22:27Speaker 2: is God, right? You know, so this is what people
- 22:30Speaker 2: are saying. Okay, that's idolatry. That is a capital offense.
- 22:33Speaker 2: That means punishment by death. Another thing they could go
- 22:37Speaker 2: on is the Sabbath because they're saying, no, only Jews
- 22:40Speaker 2: can keep the Sabbath. So if you're a Gentile and
- 22:43Speaker 2: you're trying to keep the Sabbath, some people are saying, right,
- 22:45Speaker 2: that's another one, you know, beheaded for that. But again,
- 22:50Speaker 2: it's greatly speculating and people that are throwing all their
- 22:53Speaker 2: eggs in this basket are like, I think, jumping the
- 22:56Speaker 2: gun too fast because Islam also beheads people. I mean,
- 23:01Speaker 2: the French Revolution, which was basically run by the Illuminati,
- 23:04Speaker 2: what did they do? They used the guillotine and beheaded people.
- 23:07Speaker 2: They weren't Jews and they weren't Islam. So there's a
- 23:10Speaker 2: bunch of other possibilities. So I think we have to
- 23:12Speaker 2: be really careful that we don't go, ah, this lines up,
- 23:15Speaker 2: this looks like it. You know, it's like people that
- 23:18Speaker 2: were saying a few years ago, oh my gosh, Obama's
- 23:20Speaker 2: the Antichrist, God told me. You know, or Donald Trump's
- 23:23Speaker 2: the Antichrist, God's told me, or whatever, and then time
- 23:25Speaker 2: moves on and it's like, wait a minute, or Henry
- 23:28Speaker 2: Kissinger was the Antichrist.
- 23:29Speaker 4: Well, he's dead.
- 23:30Speaker 2: So, you know, we have to be really careful that
- 23:33Speaker 2: people don't put their hat on a doctrine and say,
- 23:37Speaker 2: that's it.
- 23:38Speaker 3: Right.
- 23:38Speaker 2: And then we're convinced this is it and we won't
- 23:42Speaker 2: listen to anything else. So to me, it's like one
- 23:44Speaker 2: of these things you put on the scales and you go, yep,
- 23:47Speaker 2: this looks like it could balance out that way, but
- 23:50Speaker 2: you put something on this side of the scale and
- 23:51Speaker 2: it goes there. So that's how I'm seeing it.
- 23:56Speaker 1: No, I think you're seeing it right. We have to
- 23:57Speaker 1: be very careful.
- 23:59Speaker 3: And there's certain things that we that we have a
- 24:02Speaker 3: framework of understanding the prophetic timeline.
- 24:06Speaker 1: We generally understand that.
- 24:09Speaker 3: Again, there's a seven-year period, or 70th week of Daniel
- 24:14Speaker 3: is very important. The Jews are important in there.
- 24:16Speaker 1: There's a.
- 24:19Speaker 3: Starting point based on Daniel 9.27. There's a midpoint with
- 24:23Speaker 3: the abomination of desolation, and Jesus divides it in two halves.
- 24:26Speaker 3: So you have some of these frameworks, which I think
- 24:29Speaker 3: are quite solid. But when it comes to pinpointing, again,
- 24:34Speaker 3: I've talked a lot, I think even with you and
- 24:36Speaker 3: I've talked a lot about the 10 Kings.
- 24:38Speaker 1: Who are they? Well, I have theories.
- 24:41Speaker 3: I talk about them potentially being technocrats. I'm not dogmatic
- 24:44Speaker 3: on it. I'm not going to hang all my hat
- 24:46Speaker 3: on that one basket or eggs in that basket. And
- 24:49Speaker 3: so in the same way here, you have the World
- 24:53Speaker 3: Council of Religion, you know, That was really big in
- 24:57Speaker 3: the 90s.
- 24:58Speaker 1: And like, this is it. This is the global religion.
- 25:01Speaker 3: This is the harlot religion of Revelation 17, which, again,
- 25:05Speaker 3: we just have to be humble and keep things pretty
- 25:10Speaker 3: much loose in all of our discussions. Because as we know,
- 25:15Speaker 3: Daniel 12 tells us that as the time of the end,
- 25:19Speaker 3: we are here, we're at the time of the end,
- 25:21Speaker 3: but knowledge is going to increase as we get closer
- 25:24Speaker 3: and closer.
- 25:26Speaker 1: And so it's wise to say, hmm, I'm watching.
- 25:29Speaker 3: Again, we have exegetical things that we base our theology on.
- 25:33Speaker 3: We don't do newspaper exegesis. So we have this framework
- 25:37Speaker 3: of theological truth. But when we look out, we say,
- 25:41Speaker 3: we are looking at the newspaper, so to speak, and
- 25:43Speaker 3: we go, I wonder if that fits. I wonder if
- 25:45Speaker 3: that fits our basis. But we don't start there and
- 25:49Speaker 3: then read it back into the text. And again, that
- 25:51Speaker 3: would be a little bit hard to do to look
- 25:53Speaker 3: at the Noahide movement, which is getting some traction starting
- 25:58Speaker 3: next month, and then to try to go to Scripture
- 26:01Speaker 3: and force that on there and say, oh, there it is.
- 26:04Speaker 1: That would be unwise.
- 26:06Speaker 2: So, yeah, I agree. So let's just quickly, though, look at,
- 26:10Speaker 2: so what are the goals of the Noahide conference, the
- 26:14Speaker 2: first one? So basically, the first international congress of Noahides
- 26:20Speaker 2: in the eternal capital of Jerusalem is, bringing together the
- 26:25Speaker 2: delegates from six continents. They want to formally establish the
- 26:29Speaker 2: World Noahide Movement, complete with a founding charter, a rabbinic court,
- 26:35Speaker 2: regional councils, and a financial infrastructure designed to sustain a
- 26:39Speaker 2: global religious civilization. So what people are there for saying, well,
- 26:44Speaker 2: this is just the start. This is where it starts.
- 26:47Speaker 2: Watch this space from here on out.
- 26:51Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%.
- 26:51Speaker 3: I mean, those are the things that they hope to
- 26:55Speaker 3: accomplish in this several-day conference, making Jerusalem the center, which again,
- 27:01Speaker 3: I find that interesting because we do know that, of course,
- 27:05Speaker 3: the Antichrist is going to, it seems to be that
- 27:08Speaker 3: he is going to use or eventually make Jerusalem at
- 27:12Speaker 3: least one of his.
- 27:14Speaker 1: Headquarters enough to where, and I say this often, that.
- 27:20Speaker 3: Interestingly, you know, you have the third temple movement, which,
- 27:23Speaker 3: you know, I've written a lot about the red heifer movement,
- 27:26Speaker 3: et cetera, which is still, still in motion. But the
- 27:31Speaker 3: fact of the matter is, I say this in is
- 27:36Speaker 3: if you're the antichrist and your goal is to blaspheme
- 27:40Speaker 3: the God of heaven, which we know Daniel seven, Daniel eight,
- 27:43Speaker 3: Daniel 11, there's a lot.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Of descriptions of this character. He's a big mouth. I mean,
- 27:48Speaker 1: he's just, he's a blasphemer left and right.
- 27:50Speaker 3: And so, If you're going to blaspheme God, you know, yeah,
- 27:54Speaker 3: you can blaspheme him from New York City or from London,
- 27:57Speaker 3: you know, if you wanted. But if you really want
- 27:59Speaker 3: to get at the heart and insult the God of heaven, well,
- 28:03Speaker 3: you're going to blaspheme him from Israel. And if you're
- 28:05Speaker 3: going to do it there, you're going to choose Jerusalem.
- 28:08Speaker 3: And if you're in Jerusalem, you're going to choose the
- 28:10Speaker 3: Temple Mount. And if you're there, you're going to choose
- 28:13Speaker 3: the temple itself. So it's interesting that to me, the
- 28:17Speaker 3: Antichrist is, wants the temple built probably more than anybody else,
- 28:22Speaker 3: because if he's going to accomplish his, his blasphemy and
- 28:25Speaker 3: declare himself to be God in the very temple of God,
- 28:29Speaker 3: then he is going to help accomplish that goal.
- 28:33Speaker 1: And I think he is going to betray the Jews.
- 28:35Speaker 3: He is going to deceive the Jews, but there's no
- 28:39Speaker 3: doubt again, in the framework that what's happening here is
- 28:43Speaker 3: creating a very Jew centric idea because the, There's no
- 28:48Speaker 3: doubt when we think about the millennial period, this thousand-year
- 28:52Speaker 3: period where Jesus is going to rule, he's ruling from Jerusalem.
- 28:55Speaker 3: I mean, Psalm 2, I will set my king on
- 28:58Speaker 3: my holy hill of Jerusalem, of Zion. And all the law,
- 29:02Speaker 3: the Torah, not so much the Mosaic law, but the
- 29:05Speaker 3: law of the Messiah will go forth from Jerusalem. So
- 29:08Speaker 3: it's interesting that, of course, the Antichrist tries to mimic
- 29:11Speaker 3: whatever Jesus Christ does. And so he's going to help
- 29:15Speaker 3: accomplish some of those things. So the fact that the
- 29:20Speaker 3: Jews are looking to create something where Jerusalem is the
- 29:24Speaker 3: center spiritually of the world, it's actually not surprising from
- 29:29Speaker 3: a biblical perspective, even in the Old Testament. He is
- 29:33Speaker 3: the God of Israel, and of course he's the God
- 29:35Speaker 3: of the whole world, Paul tells us, but he is
- 29:36Speaker 3: the God of Israel there.
- 29:38Speaker 1: And so to bring on.
- 29:40Speaker 3: this ideas we also don't know how long how far
- 29:43Speaker 3: away is is the is the lord's return we don't
- 29:45Speaker 3: know can you imagine 10 years of meetings if they
- 29:50Speaker 3: had these meetings over and over for 10 years not
- 29:53Speaker 3: saying that's the case but i'm just trying to think
- 29:54Speaker 3: outside and go that would create a What we do
- 29:59Speaker 3: know is that this time period in 2 Thessalonians 2
- 30:05Speaker 3: is described as a massive time of deception. It's the
- 30:09Speaker 3: great delusion, spiritually speaking. So, and I think that no doubt,
- 30:16Speaker 3: you know, the Jews and the Jews themselves and the
- 30:20Speaker 3: whole world, they need Jesus. Without Jesus, there's salvation for nobody.
- 30:26Speaker 3: We know that in John 14, 6 and Acts 4, 12. So,
- 30:30Speaker 3: The opposite is going to happen during this period of
- 30:33Speaker 3: seven years, at least from the Jewish perspective, and the
- 30:35Speaker 3: Antichrist certainly is not going to promote Jesus.
- 30:39Speaker 2: So, I mean, personally, I feel like it makes sense
- 30:45Speaker 2: to me that the ultimate religion of the Antichrist is
- 30:48Speaker 2: actually Luciferianism.
- 30:49Speaker 4: It's not Judaism.
- 30:50Speaker 2: It's not Islamic either, because what did Lucifer do? He
- 30:56Speaker 2: basically wanted worship. And that's why he was cast from heaven,
- 30:59Speaker 2: you know, I'm like greater than God type of thing.
- 31:02Speaker 2: Then he had in the temptations of Jesus, he said,
- 31:05Speaker 2: if you will fall down and worship me, all this
- 31:08Speaker 2: will be yours. So that's what his obvious thing was.
- 31:11Speaker 2: He wanted to be worshipped. And then when we look
- 31:13Speaker 2: in Revelation, we see that the dragon gives his power
- 31:18Speaker 2: to the beast and that all will worship the dragon ultimately.
- 31:21Speaker 2: So who's the dragon? It's Satan or Lucifer. And so
- 31:26Speaker 2: I think when the Antichrist finally does get into his
- 31:30Speaker 2: position where he causes death and destruction, it will be Luciferianism.
- 31:36Speaker 2: It will be ultimately the worship of Lucifer, not the
- 31:39Speaker 2: worship of Judaism or Islam or something else that's going
- 31:44Speaker 2: to be the end goal religion. I've personally thought that
- 31:48Speaker 2: for a very long time because looking at the character
- 31:51Speaker 2: of Satan or Lucifer, who's behind this whole thing, What
- 31:55Speaker 2: does he want?
- 31:56Speaker 4: He wants worship.
- 31:57Speaker 2: He doesn't want to give his name to somebody else
- 31:59Speaker 2: to be worshipped. He's not going to call himself, you know,
- 32:02Speaker 2: worship Allah or worship Krishna.
- 32:05Speaker 4: Or someone else. It's going to be... And what is
- 32:09Speaker 4: the technocratic religion ultimately? It's Luciferianism.
- 32:12Speaker 2: The bigwigs, the guys with all the money, they're not...
- 32:15Speaker 2: They might put on a garb of some other religion,
- 32:18Speaker 2: but ultimately... It's Luciferianism, and that's what the Freemasons are.
- 32:23Speaker 2: It's what the original Luminati was. And so to me,
- 32:27Speaker 2: it's like, yes, these things can be stepping stones, but
- 32:32Speaker 2: I don't think ultimately that is what.
- 32:36Speaker 4: It's not.
- 32:36Speaker 2: Going to be you're going to be beheaded because you
- 32:39Speaker 2: worship God on a certain day, or you're going to
- 32:41Speaker 2: be beheaded because you.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Follow or don't follow some other law. You have to
- 32:48Speaker 2: do it the Judaistic way or the way of Allah.
- 32:51Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to be it. That's my
- 32:54Speaker 2: personal opinion, and people are welcome to disagree with it. But,
- 32:57Speaker 2: you know, for the last quite a number of years,
- 32:59Speaker 2: that's what I've thought.
- 33:01Speaker 3: Well, it's hard to disagree with you because of what
- 33:05Speaker 3: you just said is so scriptural that, again, we know
- 33:10Speaker 3: in Daniel 11 that the Antichrist is not going to
- 33:14Speaker 3: worship the God of his father's. That phraseology, I've written
- 33:20Speaker 3: about this in an article, and I got it from
- 33:26Speaker 3: another Hebrew scholar because that phraseology appears 45 times in
- 33:31Speaker 3: the Old Testament, and it always refers to Jews. So
- 33:35Speaker 3: the fact that the Antichrist doesn't worship the God of
- 33:40Speaker 3: his father's It's not just worship the God. It's always
- 33:45Speaker 3: used of a Jewish leader. Always.
- 33:48Speaker 1: Every one.
- 33:49Speaker 3: So I find that fascinating that there, he worships the
- 33:54Speaker 3: God of fortresses or the God of war. So you
- 33:57Speaker 3: have this very much, which basically is himself. And this
- 34:03Speaker 3: is why you have that. 2 Thessalonians 2 declares himself
- 34:06Speaker 3: to be God.
- 34:07Speaker 1: And then, of course, Revelation 13, all the way through there.
- 34:10Speaker 3: Every time the mark of the beast, the phrase mark
- 34:12Speaker 3: of the beast, or the mark appears in Revelation, every
- 34:15Speaker 3: single time, it's connected with worship. Worship of the beast.
- 34:20Speaker 3: And the beast, we know in Revelation, holistically, that the
- 34:24Speaker 3: beast refers to two things.
- 34:27Speaker 1: There's the beast, certainly from the sea, which is referring
- 34:30Speaker 1: to the system.
- 34:33Speaker 3: But it's also in Revelation 20, 19 and 20, it's
- 34:36Speaker 3: referring to the person, the Antichrist. So the Antichrist is
- 34:39Speaker 3: so associated with his system and his empire that you
- 34:44Speaker 3: can see that phraseology refers to both of them. And
- 34:48Speaker 3: worship is always of the beast, which ultimately says that
- 34:53Speaker 3: they worship the dragon.
- 34:54Speaker 1: Revelation 12, Revelation 13, you see all this through there.
- 34:57Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 34:58Speaker 3: What you said is so thoroughly biblical that who's the dragon? Well,
- 35:01Speaker 3: we know who the dragon is. That's why we say
- 35:03Speaker 3: it's Luciferian because at least for the second half, it's
- 35:06Speaker 3: 100% tied to worship.
- 35:10Speaker 1: You don't take the mark of the beast accidentally.
- 35:13Speaker 3: It is always tied to, there's an economic component, as
- 35:16Speaker 3: we know, in Revelation 13, 16 through 18, but it's
- 35:19Speaker 3: tied to the worship of this figure and ultimately the dragon.
- 35:23Speaker 4: That's exactly right. That's what I believe.
- 35:26Speaker 2: We know that that Satan enters into the Antichrist, the beast,
- 35:31Speaker 2: the little horn, whatever you want to call them. And
- 35:35Speaker 2: so ultimately, when they're standing there wanting to be worshipped,
- 35:39Speaker 2: it's who are you going to be worshipping? You're going
- 35:41Speaker 2: to be worshipping the one that's possessing them, which is Satan, Lucifer.
- 35:47Speaker 2: And as I mentioned earlier, what did he want Jesus
- 35:50Speaker 2: to do? If you'll fall down and worship me. And
- 35:53Speaker 2: so to me, that's where People can get caught up
- 35:57Speaker 2: in all sorts of, oh, it's going to be this
- 35:59Speaker 2: or that or the other thing. It's going to be
- 36:00Speaker 2: the Noahide laws. No, no, no, no, no, it's not.
- 36:02Speaker 4: It's going to be the Sunday law. No, no, no, no,
- 36:06Speaker 4: it's not. It's going to be Islam. Exactly.
- 36:09Speaker 2: Everyone has their pet theory on it. And so that
- 36:14Speaker 2: then puts blinkers on them. They can't see anything outside
- 36:17Speaker 2: their own pet theory. And I'm looking at it and going,
- 36:21Speaker 2: we don't see the whole picture yet. we see what
- 36:25Speaker 2: scripture tells us and we have to be really careful
- 36:28Speaker 2: that we don't become deceived because we have a preconceived
- 36:31Speaker 2: idea as to how it's going to play out.
- 36:35Speaker 1: Yeah, a hundred percent again.
- 36:36Speaker 3: And there's a distinction between the religion of the first
- 36:40Speaker 3: half and the religion of the second half, because we
- 36:43Speaker 3: do know as well that revelation nine, it describes people
- 36:49Speaker 3: as worshiping demons. I mean, there's, there's, there's no doubt that,
- 36:52Speaker 3: and that's going to, be directed ultimately towards the dragon,
- 36:57Speaker 3: the Luciferian kingdom and all of what that entails.
- 37:01Speaker 1: So humility is required in all of this, no doubt.
- 37:07Speaker 3: We watch it, but I think you think about the, again,
- 37:11Speaker 3: the Seventh-day Adventist view that Sunday worship, there's going to
- 37:14Speaker 3: be a law passed that everybody has to worship on Sunday.
- 37:16Speaker 3: And that's going to be, it just doesn't make any sense.
- 37:23Speaker 3: Remember this too, that the Jews, to their credit, the
- 37:31Speaker 3: Jews have always, going back really to the first century,
- 37:37Speaker 3: and then of course all into rabbinic Judaism, the Jews
- 37:40Speaker 3: have 100% rejected a divine Messiah.
- 37:46Speaker 1: For them, God is one. There is no divine man.
- 37:52Speaker 3: But again, they failed to nuance the understanding of what
- 37:54Speaker 3: the Bible says, especially the Hebrew Bible. So when they
- 37:59Speaker 3: accept this guy as a political deliverer, as a religious person,
- 38:03Speaker 3: as one who gives them Torah and gives them the temple,
- 38:06Speaker 3: that's what they're waiting for.
- 38:07Speaker 1: So this happens. They're going to be excited. Boom, here
- 38:10Speaker 1: it is.
- 38:11Speaker 3: And they're going to be working together for the first
- 38:13Speaker 3: three and a half years as he consolidates the rest
- 38:15Speaker 3: of his empire. But then as we know, again, in
- 38:18Speaker 3: the middle, he's killed.
- 38:21Speaker 1: He's resurrected. The 10 kings come together.
- 38:24Speaker 3: They hand over their authority, Revelation 17, 12, and 13
- 38:26Speaker 3: to him. They give over their power, their authority, their capabilities.
- 38:31Speaker 3: And then they burn the religion with fire, the harlot,
- 38:34Speaker 3: because it says that God purposed it and put it
- 38:37Speaker 3: in their heart to fulfill his will. But then when
- 38:41Speaker 3: he declares himself to be God in 2 Thessalonians 2,
- 38:45Speaker 3: the Jews, again, consistently are going to go, This isn't
- 38:51Speaker 3: our guy.
- 38:52Speaker 1: We don't believe in divine messiahs, okay? So they're going
- 38:55Speaker 1: to reject him. Well, naturally, that's not going to go well.
- 38:59Speaker 3: And then we know that then, according to the dragon
- 39:02Speaker 3: in Revelation 12, the dragon turns his attention to destroy
- 39:06Speaker 3: the Jews, the woman, the woman Israel of Revelation 12.
- 39:11Speaker 1: And so the Jews then flee.
- 39:13Speaker 3: This is where, when the abomination of desolation happens in
- 39:17Speaker 3: Matthew 24, 15, Jesus says, when you see it, he's
- 39:20Speaker 3: talking specifically to the Jewish people, you know, get out
- 39:23Speaker 3: of town immediately. Don't even go with your coat pray
- 39:27Speaker 3: that it's not on the sabbath okay woe unto those
- 39:30Speaker 3: who are nursing he says get out of town because
- 39:34Speaker 3: this is where the devil there's a lot of things
- 39:36Speaker 3: happening at the midpoint the devil's cast out of heaven
- 39:39Speaker 3: the angels michael fights with satan and his angels satan
- 39:42Speaker 3: is cast down to the earth he has great wrath
- 39:45Speaker 3: it says and he goes to seek to destroy the
- 39:49Speaker 3: those that hold the testimony of jesus so jesus says
- 39:53Speaker 3: get out they flee for their lives the jewish people
- 39:58Speaker 3: they haven't come to jesus yet that doesn't happen really
- 40:00Speaker 3: until the.
- 40:01Speaker 1: End but.
- 40:04Speaker 3: The religion then switches to this self-worship of this man
- 40:09Speaker 3: who declared himself to be god and then the worship
- 40:11Speaker 3: is of him and ultimately of the dragon so the
- 40:15Speaker 3: jews are no longer part of this Because, again, of
- 40:18Speaker 3: their theology of no divine messiahs, they'll recognize that later,
- 40:22Speaker 3: that the idea of the Father, Son, and the Holy
- 40:25Speaker 3: Spirit will be revealed to them later. But yes, we
- 40:31Speaker 3: know the reality of understanding the fullness of the theology
- 40:35Speaker 3: of the entire Bible, as we know in John 1.1.
- 40:38Speaker 1: In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God,
- 40:40Speaker 1: the Word was God.
- 40:41Speaker 3: So we understand Jesus was not just a man elevated
- 40:44Speaker 3: to godhood, It was the second person of the Godhead
- 40:48Speaker 3: coming down and taking on humanity. So he's always been God.
- 40:51Speaker 3: He wasn't elevated to be God. He's always been God
- 40:53Speaker 3: and came down in human flesh. So that's going to
- 40:56Speaker 3: be an interesting development. To me, I find it, Tony,
- 40:59Speaker 3: that it's all so consistent. When you see all these
- 41:03Speaker 3: puzzle pieces put together, it's very, very consistent all the
- 41:06Speaker 3: way through.
- 41:07Speaker 2: So going back to what you were saying in Matthew 24,
- 41:10Speaker 2: so there'll be people that go, no, that what Jesus
- 41:13Speaker 2: was talking about what happened in 70 A.D., the flee
- 41:16Speaker 2: to the mountains and all that. But what I think
- 41:18Speaker 2: a lot of people don't understand too is the Jewish
- 41:20Speaker 2: mindset where things repeat in cycles. So this is, it's
- 41:24Speaker 2: like it's happened, but it'll happen again. So as it
- 41:28Speaker 2: happened in 70 AD where the believers knew what Jesus said,
- 41:33Speaker 2: so they fled largely before Titus and the Romans came
- 41:39Speaker 2: in and destroyed Jerusalem. But the thing, the same pattern
- 41:42Speaker 2: will repeat again. And that's what people need to realize.
- 41:46Speaker 3: Yep, and there's no doubt that, you know, those that
- 41:49Speaker 3: hold to a preterist view or partial preterist view, I mean,
- 41:53Speaker 3: they've tried really hard to identify some sort of very
- 41:58Speaker 3: specific abomination of desolation that occurred, which has been unsuccessful.
- 42:05Speaker 3: And then there's no doubt that Jesus talked about the
- 42:07Speaker 3: destruction of the temple, no doubt, Luke 21. But, and again,
- 42:12Speaker 3: like you said, there's prophetic, God works this way. Why
- 42:17Speaker 3: is it then that the temple was the original temple
- 42:21Speaker 3: of Solomon was destroyed on the 9th of Av? And
- 42:24Speaker 3: the second one was destroyed on what calendar day?
- 42:26Speaker 1: The 9th of Av. And so there is.
- 42:29Speaker 3: A pattern there, but we know that the ultimate pattern
- 42:32Speaker 3: was not fulfilled all of it in 70 AD because
- 42:34Speaker 3: Jesus obviously didn't come back and set up his kingdom,
- 42:37Speaker 3: et cetera. But you said it right. There's a pattern
- 42:40Speaker 3: there that it's going to happen again. I wouldn't not
- 42:43Speaker 3: be surprised then Again, that when we come to the
- 42:46Speaker 3: abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel, that's a pattern.
- 42:50Speaker 1: That happened.
- 42:51Speaker 3: We read about that in Daniel 9, Daniel 11, Daniel 12.
- 42:56Speaker 3: The phraseology, Jesus says, if you want to know what's
- 42:58Speaker 3: going to happen in the future, look to the past.
- 43:00Speaker 3: That started under Antiochus Epiphanes. It's going to happen again.
- 43:05Speaker 3: So the pattern does repeat, and that's going to be
- 43:08Speaker 3: the key marker in the time of the seventh week
- 43:11Speaker 3: of Daniel, the time of Jacob's trouble. But he will
- 43:15Speaker 3: be saved out of it. So Israel has a very
- 43:18Speaker 3: difficult future ahead because they're going to put their faith
- 43:21Speaker 3: and trust in this false Messiah who's going to give
- 43:24Speaker 3: them the temple and is going to give them the Torah.
- 43:28Speaker 3: And they'll realize in the midpoint that when this guy
- 43:32Speaker 3: seeks worship, we chose poorly.
- 43:36Speaker 2: Yes. So sitting there now listening as Christians to all
- 43:43Speaker 2: of this, What would be the big takeaway? What do
- 43:46Speaker 2: we do with this information and how should it affect
- 43:50Speaker 2: us going forward? Because we don't want to be one
- 43:53Speaker 2: of those that's deceived by whatever the deception is. And
- 43:58Speaker 2: we could have talked about AI and all of that,
- 44:01Speaker 2: which is playing big time into, I think, the image
- 44:04Speaker 2: of the beast and the worshipping of the image and
- 44:07Speaker 2: all of that. And we've got robots and all kinds
- 44:10Speaker 2: of other things that could come into this picture. that
- 44:13Speaker 2: we haven't even looked at. But so, so we're facing
- 44:16Speaker 2: this quickly, rapidly advancing beast system is probably the best
- 44:26Speaker 2: way of looking at it. So as Christians sitting here
- 44:28Speaker 2: right now, what should we do?
- 44:31Speaker 3: Well, there's two things that I always say. And what
- 44:35Speaker 3: the first one is, it's not even what I say,
- 44:37Speaker 3: it's what Jesus said, you know, Jesus, in Luke chapter six,
- 44:41Speaker 3: Jesus says, why do you call me Lord, Lord, but
- 44:43Speaker 3: don't obey me? Okay. So that's a reminder that when
- 44:48Speaker 3: Jesus gives a commandment, he's not given a suggestion. And
- 44:51Speaker 3: so the commandment in Mark 13, 37, at the end
- 44:54Speaker 3: of describing all these events.
- 44:56Speaker 1: He says, what I say to you, I say to everybody, watch.
- 45:00Speaker 3: So the first commandment that we are to do is
- 45:04Speaker 3: we recognize that as we watch, there is a convergence
- 45:08Speaker 3: of prophetic signs. And that means, again, here we're talking
- 45:12Speaker 3: specifically about some of these, the Noahide religion or the
- 45:16Speaker 3: third temple or the red heifer. And then we could
- 45:19Speaker 3: bring in the AI and how that's going to participate
- 45:22Speaker 3: in the technocratic nature of the beast system, technology, and
- 45:26Speaker 3: the mark of the beast, and the buying and selling.
- 45:30Speaker 3: There's all these different lines, and they're all converging right
- 45:33Speaker 3: now to recognize that this wasn't happening 50 years ago.
- 45:38Speaker 1: Okay?
- 45:38Speaker 3: This wasn't happening. what Jesus said is pay attention. Israel
- 45:44Speaker 3: didn't exist a hundred years ago, but the fact that
- 45:46Speaker 3: God brought him back to the land 78 years ago,
- 45:49Speaker 3: he's like, pay attention.
- 45:50Speaker 1: Okay. They're very central at the time of the end.
- 45:53Speaker 1: So I needed to bring them back.
- 45:54Speaker 3: So they could fulfill their, their parts of prophetic understanding
- 46:00Speaker 3: and history.
- 46:00Speaker 1: So the first thing is to watch. Okay. Not, not fear.
- 46:05Speaker 3: Jesus did not tell us all these things to produce
- 46:07Speaker 3: fear or anxiety or John 16, 33, Jesus says, I've
- 46:11Speaker 3: given you my peace, my peace is in you.
- 46:13Speaker 1: In this world, you're gonna have tribulation, small t, okay?
- 46:17Speaker 1: Be of good cheer, I've overcome the world.
- 46:18Speaker 3: So he tells us these things so that he said, look,
- 46:21Speaker 3: I told you these things in advance so that you
- 46:23Speaker 3: would know to watch that the second coming of the
- 46:28Speaker 3: Lord is.
- 46:31Speaker 1: Arriving.
- 46:31Speaker 3: It's not, again, this isn't a hundred years ago where
- 46:34Speaker 3: there was no Israel and you're like.
- 46:35Speaker 1: Yeah, what signs do you have?
- 46:37Speaker 3: Okay, the second thing he says is, is in Luke
- 46:41Speaker 3: chapter 19, verse 13, commandment. And it's in the parable
- 46:45Speaker 3: of the master who went away for a long time.
- 46:50Speaker 3: And went away for a period of time. And then
- 46:53Speaker 3: he says, you know, he called his servants and he says,
- 46:56Speaker 3: I'm giving you these responsibilities.
- 46:58Speaker 1: I'm going to go away for a while.
- 47:01Speaker 3: But he says, occupy until I come. So that's what
- 47:05Speaker 3: we're to do with the information is we're to occupy
- 47:08Speaker 3: and we're to watch. And occupy, what does occupy mean?
- 47:11Speaker 3: It means to be busy with your relationship with the Lord.
- 47:14Speaker 3: It means to be busy evangelizing. It means to be
- 47:17Speaker 3: busy starting ministries. It means to be busy raising your
- 47:19Speaker 3: family in godliness or your friendships, seeking first the kingdom
- 47:23Speaker 3: of God and his righteousness, Matthew 6, 33.
- 47:26Speaker 1: That's what it means.
- 47:26Speaker 3: It means to be taking the Lord and the relationship
- 47:29Speaker 3: with him 100% serious. You know, I mean, you think
- 47:33Speaker 3: about you or myself, we can be, well, the Lord's coming.
- 47:36Speaker 3: I guess, you know, we should shut down our ministries,
- 47:39Speaker 3: you know, because you know, he's going to come back soon.
- 47:42Speaker 1: And so we, I just, I'm going to go enjoy myself.
- 47:45Speaker 3: No, we're going to be here with these microphones until
- 47:48Speaker 3: he actually comes warning people, be, be ready for the
- 47:53Speaker 3: Lord's return and be watching.
- 47:55Speaker 1: Those are the two commandments.
- 47:57Speaker 2: And yeah, with things like the Noahide laws or the
- 48:01Speaker 2: Noahide covenant, if, Well, they do. They flatly reject Jesus
- 48:06Speaker 2: as God. So we therefore can't support that. So people
- 48:11Speaker 2: shouldn't be going supportive of Noahide laws. It doesn't mean
- 48:14Speaker 2: we have to be hateful towards those people or whatever,
- 48:17Speaker 2: but we have to go, no, we don't actually agree
- 48:19Speaker 2: with this.
- 48:21Speaker 4: It's the same if it's Islam. You can't agree with it.
- 48:24Speaker 3: No.
- 48:24Speaker 4: Or Hinduism or anything else.
- 48:27Speaker 1: Or.
- 48:27Speaker 2: You know, people need, there is no salvation except in
- 48:31Speaker 2: Jesus as in Acts 4.12, like you said. So we
- 48:33Speaker 2: can love people and go, hey, you know, but we
- 48:38Speaker 2: have to stand firm on what our belief is and
- 48:40Speaker 2: realize that there is no salvation anywhere else, whether you're Jew,
- 48:44Speaker 2: whether you're Gentile. And so that has got to be it.
- 48:48Speaker 2: Our focus has to be on, I guess, telling people
- 48:51Speaker 2: you need Jesus as your Lord and Savior, no matter what.
- 48:55Speaker 2: nationality or what country you're in. Ultimately, what did Jesus
- 49:00Speaker 2: tell us to do is to spread the gospel. That
- 49:03Speaker 2: was the Great Commission. It wasn't to support some group
- 49:08Speaker 2: or something or to have a social gospel. It was
- 49:12Speaker 2: ultimately to tell people they need Jesus. Without salvation in Jesus,
- 49:17Speaker 2: they're lost.
- 49:19Speaker 1: Yep, 100%. It's interesting to me that.
- 49:23Speaker 3: When you look at all these religions of the world,
- 49:26Speaker 3: whatever they are, the various religions, pick one, throw them
- 49:29Speaker 3: all in a pot. The one thing that is a
- 49:33Speaker 3: defining factor is the person of Jesus because they And
- 49:38Speaker 3: this was the defining factor in his ministry because he
- 49:40Speaker 3: said in Matthew 10, 34, look, I didn't come to
- 49:44Speaker 3: bring peace, but division. And division between a father and
- 49:50Speaker 3: his son and a mother and the daughter and a
- 49:52Speaker 3: husband and his wife, the division is around the person
- 49:55Speaker 3: of Jesus. And this is what we see. You know,
- 49:58Speaker 3: we see this in Islam. If somebody comes to faith
- 50:01Speaker 3: in Jesus, now all of a sudden, boom, they're considered dead.
- 50:05Speaker 3: If you're a Jew or an Orthodox Jew and you
- 50:08Speaker 3: become a follower of Jesus, they consider you dead. And
- 50:11Speaker 3: it creates this conflict around the person and the claims
- 50:16Speaker 3: of Jesus himself. Again, you know, we look at our
- 50:19Speaker 3: world and we talk about political correctness. We talk about tolerance. Look,
- 50:25Speaker 3: I'm not a prophet. I didn't start a religion. I
- 50:29Speaker 3: didn't make any. I'm just a witness and a messenger.
- 50:33Speaker 3: To reflect, Jesus says, I am the way, the truth,
- 50:37Speaker 3: and the life. Nobody comes to the Father except through me.
- 50:39Speaker 1: I didn't say this. Jesus said it.
- 50:41Speaker 3: And so this is John 14, 6. He made it
- 50:45Speaker 3: very clear that whether you're Jew, you know, we see
- 50:50Speaker 3: these Jewish religious Jews that are praying at the wall,
- 50:54Speaker 3: and they're bobbing, and they got their books, and, you know, they...
- 51:00Speaker 3: You got Islam, praying five times a day. These people
- 51:03Speaker 3: are sincere. You cannot get to the Father except through Jesus.
- 51:09Speaker 3: If you do not honor the Son, John 5, 23,
- 51:12Speaker 3: if you do not honor the Son, you do not
- 51:13Speaker 3: honor the Father. So there is no workaround. So all
- 51:17Speaker 3: these religions out there, because of Jesus' words, they're all false.
- 51:23Speaker 3: So they're just false. That's not mean. It's just a
- 51:27Speaker 3: fact of Jesus' comments. And so as the son of God,
- 51:33Speaker 3: as the Messiah, he says, I came from the father
- 51:38Speaker 3: and I'm telling you, this is the way it is.
- 51:40Speaker 3: And so those are facts. And so this is the
- 51:43Speaker 3: defining factor. So Noahide, again, what do you see? They
- 51:49Speaker 3: don't allow you to follow Jesus. Judaism doesn't allow you
- 51:52Speaker 3: to follow Jesus. Islam doesn't allow you to follow Jesus
- 51:56Speaker 3: as the crucified son of God. So At the end
- 52:00Speaker 3: of the day, this is what we know, and this
- 52:02Speaker 3: is what's coming to a head, and this is where
- 52:04Speaker 3: you have all, whether it's the harlot religion of the
- 52:08Speaker 3: first half, or it's the antichrist beast religion of the
- 52:11Speaker 3: second half. Both of them exclude Jesus. And 1 John
- 52:15Speaker 3: 2 tells us that the one who denies that Jesus
- 52:19Speaker 3: is the Messiah.
- 52:22Speaker 1: Is the antichrist, is the spirit of the antichrist. That's
- 52:26Speaker 1: pretty strong.
- 52:27Speaker 4: So, basically.
- 52:29Speaker 2: Religions will say Jesus was a prophet or Jesus was
- 52:34Speaker 2: a good man, Jesus was a good teacher, but they
- 52:39Speaker 2: will not say Jesus was who he said he was,
- 52:44Speaker 2: which he said in, you find it in John, where
- 52:48Speaker 2: he said, I am, and you will see me coming
- 52:52Speaker 2: in the clouds of heaven. And before Abraham was, I am.
- 52:59Speaker 2: And they knew exactly what he was saying. He was
- 53:02Speaker 2: claiming to be God. So that's why they tried to
- 53:04Speaker 2: stone him.
- 53:06Speaker 1: Crystal clear.
- 53:07Speaker 4: That's it.
- 53:07Speaker 2: Basically, it's not a popular view. We're not here to
- 53:11Speaker 2: preach a social gospel where Jesus was some prophet along
- 53:14Speaker 2: with Muhammad and Krishna and a bunch of others. We're
- 53:18Speaker 2: saying Jesus was unique. He claimed to be God. He said,
- 53:21Speaker 2: I am. And the Jews knew exactly what he was
- 53:25Speaker 2: claiming when they said that. That's why they hated him.
- 53:28Speaker 2: And so as Christians, we can't expect to get favors
- 53:31Speaker 2: from people that don't hold that view because they don't
- 53:35Speaker 2: like it. And we could face persecution from Jews. We
- 53:39Speaker 2: could face it from Islamic. We could face it in
- 53:42Speaker 2: India from the.
- 53:45Speaker 4: Hindus or whoever it is.
- 53:48Speaker 2: We just have to stand firm and know what our
- 53:51Speaker 2: belief is and stick to it. And if you don't
- 53:54Speaker 2: know Jesus, then you need to basically. So that's my
- 53:58Speaker 2: final thought. If you've got any last words, Mondo, share
- 54:02Speaker 2: them and also tell people where they find you online.
- 54:06Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the fact of the matter is Jesus
- 54:08Speaker 3: came to die for us. He didn't tell us to
- 54:11Speaker 3: go out and to force people, to kill people that
- 54:14Speaker 3: didn't believe in him. He told us to go out
- 54:16Speaker 3: and preach the gospel and to love our enemies. I mean,
- 54:19Speaker 3: think about that, to love and to bless them. So
- 54:22Speaker 3: we're here to share the word. If somebody doesn't want it,
- 54:25Speaker 3: then hey, that's between them and the Lord. I'm not
- 54:28Speaker 3: here to force it or to condescend anybody. We're simply
- 54:32Speaker 3: to be faithful messengers of what Jesus himself said. That's
- 54:34Speaker 3: why I say, look, don't take it up with me.
- 54:37Speaker 3: I'm just here sharing you what he said. So there
- 54:41Speaker 3: is all the religions of the world in some form
- 54:44Speaker 3: or another preach a works system that hopefully at the end,
- 54:49Speaker 3: your good works outweigh your bad works. Every single one.
- 54:52Speaker 3: Christianity is unique. among all the religions of the world,
- 54:55Speaker 3: is that we're all sinners. There's none good, no, not one.
- 54:58Speaker 3: And that we're saved not by works, but by grace
- 55:01Speaker 3: through faith in Jesus alone.
- 55:02Speaker 1: So that's the gospel message.
- 55:04Speaker 3: And that really is why we're here. We want people
- 55:07Speaker 3: to be rescued and to be saved by him. We
- 55:11Speaker 3: know that judgment is coming. And so we're here to
- 55:14Speaker 3: warn people because Jesus told us to. And he loves them.
- 55:18Speaker 3: He died for them. And so we want them to
- 55:21Speaker 3: follow him and to have forgiveness of sin, which only
- 55:23Speaker 3: he can provide. And so that, again, Tony, I always
- 55:27Speaker 3: appreciate coming on because that's why we're here. You know,
- 55:30Speaker 3: people want to find us, prophecywatchers.com. Of course, we're on
- 55:34Speaker 3: a whole, all the social networks can find us, but
- 55:37Speaker 3: that's our main place.
- 55:38Speaker 1: And we're busy.
- 55:39Speaker 3: We're busy like you are trying to get the word
- 55:41Speaker 3: out and looking and watching and occupying until he comes.