Discussion on Religion and End Times Prophecy

Jesus just said that the final boss is gonna be some form of religion

that thinks when they kill Christians, they're offering service to God.

The one world religion I mentioned in the scriptures I think will be Islam.

This ideology is like a python sitting in the corner.

Now is the hour to vote right, pray right, stand right, contend right, all

the things.

The Islamic, in their end times prophecy, they have the Mahdi.

Hold on, Josh. Oh my gosh, Josh. We will keep giving

away seats in office until the day comes where that

ideology has enough political power to introduce Sharia law in

America.

Some of you are listening to what he just said and you're rolling your eyes and

you're acting like, "That guy, he's overreacting." I just gently

wanna say I love you. You are wrong.

Can I use the word infiltrate?

We're talking about a ideology that has conquered the East,

most of North Africa, all of Europe, and now it's encroaching on our shores.

To talk like this, they will say we are closed-minded and we are hateful

and we are

bigoted at the expense of not contending.

Bro, whenever you say stuff like that, I'm sure you get the same thing I get.

"That ventures into the political realm," or, "That ventures into the societal

realm. Stay out of that stuff." And man, what I always say is the same thing, if

godly people won't contend, godless people will.

They will. Right.

Your choice. They think we're idiots.

I had the leaders of, like, one of the more significant theological

entities

in America literally text me making fun of me for saying stuff

like that on a podcast one time.

They thought the same about Jesus

and about the apostles and even about Jude.

And unfortunately for many of the people that lived in the first century, those

warnings fell on deaf ears. Christianity is not a Western faith.

It was not born in the United States.

To this day, if you go to the seven churches

that Jesus speaks to in

Revelation 2 and 3-

Yep

... that was the center of Christianity.

Yes.

And now what you're gonna hear when you visit every single site

is you're gonna

hear a Muslim prayer call.

Yes, in Turkey.

Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.

That same place that was once a stronghold for Christianity,

98% Muslim.

What happened there?

No contending.

Exactly. Believers abandoned their first love,

embraced

false doctrine. It was alive on the outside,

but dead on the inside.

They were lukewarm, and then the warnings of the apostles fell

on

deaf ears. And you know what happened to generations

that came behind them?

They paid the price. And so I would say to my brothers

and sisters, you can throw

arrows at Josh Hawerton, you could throw arrows at Phillip Anthony

Mitchell all

you want. Yeah, you can do that. You can.

I just invite them to travel to the East, and don't think for one second

what happened in the East can't happen in the West.

So, like, there's a theological thing here.

Yeah.

So you go Old Testament, God gives the covenant to Abraham.

Abraham has two sons. He has, obviously, you have Ishmael, you have

Isaac. Well, now you got a problem because you have one

covenant, but you got two

boys. The Bible tells us ahead of time 5,000

years ago that's gonna result in

conflict. Guess who the lineage is of those two boys?

Come on, Josh.

You have Isaac and the entire Jewish race.

And Ishmael.

They all descend from Isaac.

Yep.

Well, Muslim, Muslims trace their lineage back to

Ishmael.

Ishmael, the Arabs. Yep.

So you, to this day,

5,000 years later-

Yep

... you have one covenant and the descendants of two brothers in

perpetual

conflict. Fast-forward to Jesus.

In a verse that people typically do not apply it with their eyes on, Jesus

makes a prophecy. He says that, "They will come when those who will kill

you will

think they are offering service to God."

You know, there's a scene in the end of the Book of

Revelation where there's

innumerable amount of believers who arrive before the throne of God.

You're going where I was going.

And the scripture says about them, "These are they who were beheaded

for the witness of Christ." Now pause.

What religious belief takes delight in

decapitating the heads of people?

Only one.

And we are either men who are, are hating on people, or we

are men who are

well-informed trying to get other believers to be well-informed.

Do you know everything the Quran describes about the Mahdi-

I'm getting ready to read it

... is everything the scripture describes

about the Antichrist.

Obviously in Islam, different streams have different

eschatological views, but all

of these-

Yes

... are prominent beliefs. Check this.

They believe the Mahdi in Islamic end times prophecy will

emerge as a charismatic messianic world leader during go- global crisis.

He will take control of the world and destroy all who resist him.

He will invade many nations. He will rule and reign for seven years.

He will broker a seven-year peace treaty with the Jews.

Israel, yep.

He will conquer Israel and massacre the Jews.

Mm.

He will establish an Islamic one world government headquartered in Jerusalem.

He will establish Islam as the only religion.

He will come on a white horse. Hello.

Mm.

Sound familiar?

Mm. Mm. Mm.

With supernatural power doing signs and wonders.

Mm.

And he will be assisted by a powerful prophet.

Now listen, if that sounds familiar, that's because it is a precise description

of the biblical Antichrist.

Of the Antichrist. Identical.

Identical. When you talk about it, you get laughed at and eye-rolled.

For now.

For now.

God needs you to contend, and God needs you to be fruitful

wherever He has planted you, in every circumstance.

And in doing that, we will bring God glory.

We are watching this unfold right now in real time, man.

I think now is the hour to be serious about the spread of the gospel,

about winning souls, making disciples, teaching people the scriptures.

We don't know how much time we have left. I think we're very close to the end.

So I just wanna encourage you, bro, for the heat that you take

and for the heat

that I'm gonna take for my stance, I would rather stand for Christ and

warn men in love than remain complicit in silence.

Um,

if we suffer for Christ and for righteousness,

for not being afraid

to warn men of what's coming, then that's a price

that I'm willing to pay.