The Antichrist and the Muslim Mahdi: Part 11

0:02 Welcome to These Final Days podcast, where we explore what scripture says about the last days before Jesus' return. We'll connect biblical prophecy to today's events, showing how they align in our time. For more on These Final Days, including Pastor Ryan's best-selling book series, visit thesefinaldays.org. Now, welcome to today's episode.

0:31 We are getting into Muslim eschatology. So we are on a part 11 conversation. And it sounds like we'll have maybe one more teaching after this about.

0:42 In this column.

0:43 In this column for Muslim eschatology. Then we're going to move over to the Judeo-Christian eschatology portion, as well as the prerequisites, the stages set for him. And you've laid it all out. And for those of you who are new, we're going to put some information and we'll let you look at the checkbox list that we're working from. Also, everything is in the book. So we're literally working through this book. So everything is in here. So if you guys want to do a deep dive, you can check that out.

1:16 And the book is available on Amazon, These Funnel Days by Ryan Speakman, part three. And you can see all the books back behind me, right? You know, part one, part two, part three. And then also, again, go to the website, thesefinaldays.org. And if you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, you can read the Kindle version for free. If you subscribe to Audible, you can listen to the audio version for free. But we just want to get this information out there and, you know, keep joining us on TikTok here and our other platforms and everything that's in all three books and a whole lot more than that, you know, we go over. in these public forums. So just trying to get the information out because yeah, like Sarah said,

1:56 we think we are in the last of the last days. I mean, the clock is ticking and, you know, a lot of ministries say that and a lot of pastors say that. And a lot of, a lot of, you know, other religious groups say that I think the Muslims believe that the Jews believe that atheists believe it, right. That there's, you know, something coming, but what Sarah and I work really, and our other team members work really hard to do is, Look at the specific details that the Bible lays out, not just, oh, you know, there's wars and there's, you know, earthquakes.

2:26 There's a whole lot more information than that in the word of God. And then if you really dig deep, the word will steer you in other directions. Like what we've been doing the last, did you say 11 weeks? That's a long time.

2:38 This is a part 11. Yeah.

2:40 Yeah, looking at Muslim eschatology, which, you know, to a lot of people, you know, watching right now, if you're not familiar with this ministry, probably that seems, you know, really odd or even, you know, heretical or whatever. If we're Christian, why are we looking at Muslim eschatology? And it turns out it's very, very clear in Scripture, we think that, you know, Daniel chapter 11 specifically, that the Antichrist, when he comes, will be ostensibly Muslim. Now, that's true that the Antichrist will And I say ostensibly because he's the Antichrist. He's not really interested in any religion or any group of people. He just wants to take over this world, right? He's, in essence, Satan incarnate. He doesn't

3:21 have a warm heart for any particular group of people or religion, but he needs a very large, very powerful vehicle to ride in on, meaning he needs a very large population, very powerful, very passionate feelings. about Jerusalem against the Jews, against the Christians. So Islam really is such a logical fit. But Daniel chapter 11 even gives us very direct clues. So the book of Daniel was written over a thousand years before Islam was even a thing, right before it even appeared. It's kind of a challenge.

3:54 How does this spiritual being that came to deliver this part of the prophecy to Daniel, and who was that, Sarah? So I don't do all the talking.

4:03 It was Jesus, right? Because of the description, right? So he did get a message from the angel Gabriel. But this particular encounter, same description as what we read in the book of Revelation, you know, like had, you know, gold waistband and was dressed in linen, had eyes like flame of fire, right? All of these details that were so precise, yeah, to what we read in Revelation about Jesus.

4:33 Right. So, yeah, so most of the prophecies in the book of Daniel, where Daniel, you know, gets a visitation, the person coming to deliver to him is identified literally by name. So it's the Archangel Gabriel, like Sarah said. But, you know, all the way through the end of Daniel chapter 9, the 70 weeks prophecy, you know, etc.

4:51 etc.

4:52 But then in Daniel chapter 10, like Sarah just said, there's this other spiritual person who shows up, takes him 21 days to get to earth to speak with Daniel. Major spiritual warfare going on. It talks about the prince of Persia who will be followed by the prince of Greece. These are principalities and powers of the air, the top ones.

5:13 So those are basically like the spirits of global hegemony. Today, by the way, that spirit is the spirit of Rome, which hovers over what country, Sarah? The United States of America. All this is explained in detail in part three of the book series. But anyways, yeah, so if we compare, and it never names this person, so we get Gabriel named by name previously. Daniel chapter 10, this person who shows up isn't even named. And Michael, the archangel, and his army of angels has to come to fight through to let this person, this spirit, this, yeah, let's just say person, make it to earth to talk to Daniel.

5:51 And like Sarah said, there are, I said, I think last time, 10 different descriptors. Maybe it's not quite 10. I have to go back and count them, you know, seven, eight, something like that. But it's precisely the same descriptors in precisely the same order that the apostle John much later gives to us in Revelation chapter one. And there, this person is clearly identified as Jesus. So yeah, so it's crazy.

6:15 So the last part of the prophecy given to Daniel, Daniel chapters 11 and 12, it's so important that Jesus himself has to leave his throne at the right hand of the Father in heaven to come down to earth to give it to Daniel. And then, you know, some of you might think, well, that's, you know, that's stupid.

6:31 Jesus isn't even born for another, you know, thousand years, not a thousand years, about another, you know, 500, 600 years after this prophecy. So if Jesus isn't even born yet for half a millennium, how could he show up? To which we would respond, well, that already happened in the book of Daniel. this isn't like the first time, right?

6:51 So what's the other time, Sarah?

6:54 So when Daniel and his buddies were in the fiery furnace, there was a fourth man in the fire and Nebuchadnezzar, he said, it looks like the son of God, right? Or son of God might've been a translation, but the son of God and it's capitalized, which means, you know, it's the son of God. Right. Right.

7:17 So, so, Yeah, so that's way earlier in Daniel. That's in Daniel chapter 3, very early in the story that we have of Daniel. And yeah, Jesus shows up there, a pre-incarnate Jesus. So anyways, fast forward to much later in Daniel's life. He's by the river and this person shows up. So in this last part of the prophecy that Jesus himself has to come to earth to give to Daniel, Jesus gives all these details about the Antichrist.

7:40 In fact, Daniel chapter 11 is really our most detail-rich detail. description or narrative of the Antichrist, who he is, where he comes from, and what he does, like his actual career path, right? And in the course of this, Jesus, one detail that Jesus conveys to Daniel is this guy, he won't honor any God, the true God, the one true God. He'll disregard the true Messiah, Jesus, every other God on earth, but in all their place, he will pay homage to, not actually worship, right? but pay homage to a god that his fathers didn't even know, his fathers being Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Boy, a lot of different directions here. Sorry, everyone. So in other words, it's a new god, a god that didn't exist in the

8:25 time that Daniel was writing. It's this mysterious god who hasn't even been named yet in human history. He's actually given a name. It's called the god of fortresses. So looking at the original Hebrew there, fortresses is mawatzim. And Sarah, do you remember the Arabic form of the Hebrew word mawatsim?

8:45 Al-mawats.

8:47 Al-mawats, yes, which is, how is that meaningful to you? How is that an amazing clue to us in the future?

8:54 It's one of the 99 names of Allah. So there's 99 names and number 24 is fortresses or strongholds.

9:04 Is fortresses, yeah. Exactly, strongholds is a great word there, right? Because of the connotation. And then you and the twin and myself last week, we talked about, and this had just occurred to me recently, like why that one name out of the 99 names of Allah, why would that be the one that Jesus uses as a clue to identify this God that wouldn't exist for another thousand years or be named, I should say? Why is it Al-Mawaz is the name that Jesus chose out of all the 99 names? He's going to give us a hint who this future God is. Why that name?

9:40 Well, it was the twin who mentioned last time.

9:44 You could say Aaron. I don't care. My twin. My twin brother Aaron.

9:49 When the end comes and the Mahdi, he comes on the scene, right? The time of Allah's compassion and grace or mercy and grace is over with. like it's time to like fulfill what the Mahdi is supposed to fulfill and that is take over Jerusalem and establish Islam as the one true religion I mean all of these details we have about what this end time figure will do Right.

10:18 So Sarah, send me a text later because you'll remember and I won't. Let's do a deep dive on the other 98 names of Allah. But here's the theory that we're going on. Here's the idea that we're playing with here is the reason that Jesus chose this name, the God of fortresses or strongholds, like Sarah said, it means warfare and power and strength. and, you know, being impenetrable, indomitable, right?

10:47 That stands in contrast to the other 98 names of Allah, which as far as we understand at this moment, we're going to dig deeper, right? But the other names of Allah have to do with like, you know, grace and mercy and compassion and peace and justice. So name number 24, Al-Mu'at, is the one name that Jesus wants to emphasize, which is look, this is the real character of this God coming in the future. We could say false God, but it's a real supernatural being, right? Do we understand fully what the nuts and bolts of it? No, of course not.

11:21 But Allah is a real thing. But yeah, so right there in Daniel chapter 11, Jesus himself conveys to us through the prophet Daniel, a thousand years before Allah even is named, before Islam even exists, this is going to be the religion of the Antichrist now. understanding this way back in 2012, when I published part one of my book series, These Funnel Days, I was in Jerusalem. I was in the Holy Land for a couple of weeks, I think on my first trip, at least a week and a half. And I'm up on the top of the Mount of Olives at this place called the Chapel of the Ascension, which marks the spot where Jesus ascended to heaven physically 2,000 years ago, right? 40 days after the And then the two angels showed up and they

12:05 told the disciples, stop staring up in the sky like turkeys in a rainstorm. I'm sorry, that sounds like an old man reference. And they said, he's going to come back the exact same way. So the crusaders, about a thousand years later, they built a little octagonal chapel, very, very small building that marks this spot where one day Jesus will return to earth, right? And I'm standing there.

12:28 And so there's a crusader chapel. which was Christian, right, you know, back in the 12th century, right, the 1100s. And it's surrounded by the remains of an old ancient mosque. And then next to it is a, you know, newer mosque that's in full use, right? The Muslims, you know, worship their daily, pray their daily. And it just occurred to me in that moment, you know, this connection between the Christian Antichrist, who we call the Antichrist, and the Muslim Mahdi, which is, Sarah, why don't you explain what the Mahdi is for anyone who's new?

13:00 He will come after a time of chaos and turmoil. He will establish peace and justice in the land. And we've been talking about numerous prophecies about him. Now I know a lot of the Hadiths and the things that we've been talking about, there are levels or different ideas as to the reliability or if it's a strong Hadith, widely accepted, or maybe it's just more in the Sunni section or more in the Shia, they, you know, accept these specific ideas. So they do have different like core ideas of the Mahdi, but one of the main ones, and I actually pulled this up.

13:43 It's such a good point too. There's a lot of, you could almost say like confusion in Muslim eschatology, which we would kind of expect if it is, you know, what we say it is.

13:53 Studying this and trying to like really prepare for today, you go down these, you know, rabbit holes and you're just like, oh my gosh, what is the truth here? You know, the things that are said about the Mahdi, one of the things, and this was what, when you reached out to Pondering the Dean, he wrote an article shortly after Ahmad al-Sharah came on the scene and he said, could this be the Mahdi? And he pointed out to several things, including the astronomical signs, the double eclipse within Ramadan, the comet, and his family origins, being born in Saudi Arabia, these details that he pointed out. He said the true recognition of the Mahdi is when he is chased by an army toward Mecca and And as he is chased

14:45 toward Mecca, the earth will swallow up the army chasing him. And that's when the Muslims will recognize that he is the Mahdi and give him an oath of allegiance near the Kaaba. So that's like their main, main sign.

15:00 Sure, sure. And is that considered high authenticity? I'm familiar with the prophecy. I don't remember if that's considered or really. That one is a strong one. Okay, so whatever that is actually describing, this would be an event that has not occurred yet. If this guy in Damascus, this gentleman in Damascus, the current Syrian president, Ahmad al-Sharra, if he's who we think he might be, I mean, my gosh, it's looking more and more like it every day, right?

15:26 We've been watching this story since December 8th, 2024. He's at a certain point in his career right now, so to speak. And there's a lot of prophecies about the Mocti, about the Antichrist that we're just not seeing to come to, you know, come to pass yet. You know, and Sarah, I've said this before, but it's kind of funny or interesting to me personally to think about this, that all the decades I've been at this, it never even occurred to me that there's a storyline here until this all started.

15:52 And then it's like, well, yeah, you're not going to see like every prophecy happen all at once. It's a progression and the progression could take years. And according to Muslim eschatology, it does take years. It says that the person who turns out to be the Mahdi, their great end times Messiah, who we'd say is the Antichrist, that he actually rules for many, many years before that final seven year period, which is like the height of his rule, which then that immediately should, you know, ring a bell with us Christians. Hey, that's the seven year great tribulation, the Daniel 927 peace treaty. But yeah, it is tricky.

16:24 I mean, again, you know, Muslim eschatology is not like Judeo-Christian eschatology, which a lot of people will laugh when we say this, they'll disagree, but Judeo-Christian eschatology, meaning the whole Bible, Genesis through Revelation, all the stuff about the end times, it's extremely cohesive. It's not contradictory. You have to be patient, be filled with the Holy Spirit, and to come to really understand what it's describing. But nothing contradicts each other. But in Muslim eschatology, very much the opposite is true. There's a lot of different stuff going on.

16:55 But remember what we talked about a lot, Sarah, here and in our Thursday class, etc., is that all that needs to happen is that at some point, the Muslim world needs to look at whoever the Mahdi turns out to be and say, well, yeah, it didn't occur to us before, probably because we have all these other bits of information that are contradictory, but he fulfills this prophecy.

17:17 He was born in Saudi Arabia. His name is Ahmad. His father's name was Hassan. His grandfather Ali is a great-grandfather of Muhammad. He goes after Syria. There's You know, two other competing factions, but he wins, you know, on and on and on. You know, the gold and silver thing, you know, he's revealed at the Kaaba. Oh, gosh, the double eclipse in Ramadan right before he is revealed at the Kaaba. I mean, just how? Like, how could this guy fulfill all this? And then in that moment, then the Muslim world will say, yeah, this is this is our guy. So it's going to fulfill its purpose, which is to get the whole Muslim world, so to speak.

17:55 You know, I use that term, you know, a little bit loosely. I don't think they're all going to follow him, but I think a great majority of Muslims are going to follow this guy. You know, there'll come a moment when they're all going to see what we're seeing and they'll be like, check, check, check, check. You know, this is the guy.

18:11 Did you have a good comment?

18:12 Is it a mean one? The same thing here. I want to address our audience, but you were real nice. And hey, we love you guys even. but you know me, I got to pick out the ones that are controversial here. So, so, uh, Mr. Super cool, who I think has been with us before. I'm sure of it, but, but he's insisting. And I think, I think he's done this before. We didn't really spend time on it, that, that the apostle Paul was the antichrist that Jesus warned about 2000 years ago. And the reason I want to hone in on this particular, um, yeah.

18:40 Isn't that funny?

18:41 Yeah.

18:42 And, and I, and it's interesting because just literally, uh, what was it? Um, Four days ago on Wednesday, I was at church and somebody who actually goes to our Thursday class, he came up to me and he's been out of our class for a few months because of health reasons and he's getting ready to come back. But he's like, oh yeah, I've been so busy the couple months I've been out of your guys' class and I've been studying on my own. And guess what? I completely reject the Apostle Paul now. Every book written by Paul is, and this is new to me. It's like this is a new thing that's going around. Where a bunch of Christians now have decided, and there's, of course, the false teachers out there teaching this garbage that, you know, Paul,

19:21 you know, was evil and he was, and like this Mr. Supercool saying he was the Antichrist that Jesus was referring to. So here's the thing. Sarah, do you want to try to feel this first? I mean, I have a good retort.

19:32 I mean... I don't know. I just the testimony of the Apostle Paul is one of like complete radical transformation. I mean, here he's on the road to Damascus. He's killing and persecuting Christians. Jesus shows up to him. He repents and he lives his life to further the gospel. And I mean, like what was the end of his days?

19:52 He was a martyr, right? He ended up getting killed.

19:55 Oh yeah, got beheaded in Rome.

19:57 So like you look at, a testimony like that. And it's like undeniable. Thank you God for changing my life. I was a mess, right? Like, you know what I mean?

20:06 Like seriously.

20:07 Yeah.

20:08 Yeah.

20:08 So yeah, we're so we all maybe start that way with that antichrist spirit. Paul certainly did, but he refuted, he had, he had an encounter with Jesus and Jesus changed his life and his heart.

20:19 So yeah. I remember Lisa Jankles. No one knows how to pronounce her last name. She says, love you both. Okay, there's some love. Thank you, Lisa. She goes to our church. So anyways, so that's fine. And it's funny because years ago when I first went on Facebook and started doing YouTube, I all of a sudden ran into this group of guys who probably were like writing to each other, hey, you got to get on this and beat this guy up with me, right? So they were really giving me a bad time and they were calling me a red letter Christian. because I'm one of those crazy idiots that actually reads and believes the words of Jesus. These guys call themselves Christians, right? But these guys were the opposite.

20:58 They were completely into Paul. Paul's the one who brought the revelation for Christians. Every word out of Jesus' mouth was just for the Jews, so we should just ignore everything that Jesus ever spoke. It's the opposite of this now, what Mr. Supercool is saying, that nope, Jesus was great, but Paul was the bad guy, right? So Sarah, who wrote the book? We have a good retort to this. Sarah, who wrote the book of Acts?

21:21 The book of Acts was Luke.

21:22 Yes.

21:23 Scholars, historians think that it was Luke. And I'm good with that, right? The physician Luke. So Luke is writing a history of the early Christian church in the book of Acts. And do you remember what he says about Paul? I mean, that's where we get the story of Paul all the way through the entire book, all the way to the very end. Go ahead.

21:40 Well, it was the Damascus Road encounter, right? And where he, the whole transformation.

21:45 And then later on, Luke writes that Paul was taken to Jerusalem and affirmed by the Jerusalem Council, the first initial governing council for the Christian church. He had some run-ins with the apostle Peter, but Luke kind of tells the story like Luke kind of takes Paul's side and Paul's correcting Peter and Peter kind of backs down, right?

22:06 So to the very end of the book of Acts, this early history of Paul, All that I see is an affirmation, confirmation of the Apostle Paul from Luke, right? More than this, later on, all we have to do, Mr. Supercool, and this is a great test for all the crazy ideas and theories out there. We hear a lot of them, including like, you know, we talk about the timing of the rapture. We talk about futurism versus preterism. Just go look at the early church fathers. So we look at Irenaeus is our favorite, right? You get this on Amazon also, Against Heresies by Irenaeus. Who was Irenaeus, Sarah?

22:42 He was the disciple of Polycarp, and Polycarp was the disciple of John the Baptist.

22:49 No, not John the Baptist.

22:50 I mean John, the Apostle John.

22:53 Did you get your nap today?

22:54 I did not.

22:54 I got my nap. No, I did not. I never miss a nap, yeah.

22:57 And I've got like six frames still.

23:00 Oh, I know this writer.

23:01 I have a scripture from John the Baptist too, so he's been on my mind today.

23:06 Okay, okay. Are you feeling better, by the way? Because I know you weren't.

23:09 Feeling good a couple days.

23:10 Yeah, I'm definitely feeling better.

23:11 A little.

23:12 All right. Just a little bit hanging on. You look great. Glad you're here. I know that our peeps, our TikTok peeps are happy you're here. Thank you. So anyway, so Irenaeus, along with all the other early church fathers, and I'm talking about the next 500 years up to Eusebius and St. Jerome, et cetera, all of them quote the Apostle Paul extensively.

23:33 Not one of them speaks against him. Am I saying I've read every single word of every early church father? I may have. I mean, I've been at this for years and years. I should go check that, right? There's a lot of them. Go to newadvent.org, which is a Catholic site, which is great. I mean, they're the best historians on the body of Christ, the Catholics. And you can actually read for free all of the writings of the early church fathers. They all affirm Paul. So whatever this new idea is, it's just dumb. Yeah. Okay, we can move on from that. I just got to comment.

24:07 Yeah, that was good.

24:08 Yeah. Oh, wait, here's another one. Le Soutien is the person's name. I'm sure I butchered that. Paul was never saved. He was sent by a demon. I don't even know what that means, guys.

24:20 Well, maybe when he was a Pharisee trying to kill Christians. Yeah, he was definitely demon possessed, I'm sure.

24:26 But that's our response to that. So yeah.

24:28 So part 11 conversation. So we're digging into Muslim eschatology and And we're tackling this important question. Is the Muslim Mahdi the biblical antichrist? And so we're convinced that they are one in the same. And so we're exploring the narratives recorded in scripture and in Islamic texts concerning these figures.

24:48 And the parallels are pretty, pretty convincing.

24:51 Pretty, pretty striking. It's amazing. You know, everybody just, just think logically too. So, so for the last, you know, 1400 years, ever since Islam, you know, became a thing, you know, it was an, AD 610 that Muhammad had his spiritual encounter, this being showed up in the cave of Hila. I always pronounce it wrong. Was it Hila or Hira?

25:15 Gosh, Ryan. I think it's Hira.

25:16 Where's my brain? Near Mecca and was kind of ordered to pen the Quran and then this being dictated to him. So that was a very, very long time ago. But from day one of Islam and since that day, that Muhammad first had this encounter in the cave of Hira outside of Mecca and began to receive what we know today as the Quran. The Muslims have been full on at war against the Jews and the Christians too. First the Jews, then the Christians. But, you know, they're just, they're absolutely obsessed with Jerusalem. They're the ones who build all the structures that currently stand on the Temple Mount where the Jewish temple once stood and will stand again one day soon. All the wars in the Middle East are about what? Israel against all of its Muslim neighbors.

26:01 So So it's just logical that the Antichrist, yes, someone asked, how is it spelled? Is it spelled? Yes, exactly. So Delilah, yes, you got it right. M-A-H-D-I. Mahdi, exactly. So you guys can look that up. But it's just logical. The Antichrist, when he comes to achieve what he's going to achieve, he can't do it without a gigantic army that is just zealously drunk over Jerusalem and the Holy Land. who is that? It's the Muslims. So it all just fits very, very.

26:34 We need to clarify the radical ones that are, you know, bent on jihad and they really take this, you know, to that level. Now, you know, and I love that we say here, you know, we know it's not all Muslims and that there are Muslims who want to leave a peaceful life and a good life. And they're horrified at the idea of, you know, those who are, the way they are, the things.

26:58 That are happening. Yeah, the ones that are committing acts of terror today, things like that. But, you know, even that said, and we say this a lot, but, you know, I have a lot of friends that are Muslim, you know, here in the States and in the Middle East. Very good friends, love them, you know, some of them like family.

27:13 But ultimately, anyone who is a Muslim, you know, a true Muslim, 100% is on board. We just have to say it like it is. This is factual. 100% is on board with the idea of Ummah which is one day Islam will dominate the entire world and Jews will convert to Islam or else and Christians will convert or else.

27:36 So our good Muslim friends, they don't want to think about it. They really don't. Just like most of our Christian friends don't want to think about the end times. Jews don't want to think about the end times. Most people just don't think about this stuff, what's actually prophesied in all of the scriptures, Muslim, Jewish, Christian stuff. even in Buddhism, Hinduism, there's, you know, every world religion, uh, actually prophesies about, uh, you know, uh, a great end times figure, a great end times Messiah, seven year period of great tribulation, um, an anti-Christ figure. And it just, it's crazy. But like, you know, all the world religions prophesy this stuff. Most people just don't want to think

28:14 about it. So, so, you know, our Muslim friends who have good hearts and they love Jews, they love Israel, they love Christians, um, They sit in sermons in the mosque and hear the imam speak, and the truth is the future of Islam is worldwide domination by Islam. So whether we think about it or not, that is Islam.

28:37 So how is that all going to play out for individual Muslims? Everybody is a unique individual. God loves all of us. God doesn't want that any of us should perish. Satan has the opposite goal. He wants to destroy us all. And it just comes down to each individual person's heart, you know, how are they going to turn?

28:54 And, you know, the more that we've been studying this and like uncovering these prophecies and looking at this, it's just like moved me to pray specifically for our Muslim brothers and sisters who are, you know, in this deceived religion that they would have an encounter with Jesus, that they would see him for who he really is, the son of God who died for their sins. And he is the one that, can forgive them of their sins and give them new life. And so just pray along that way because yeah, we are so close and you know, we're getting down to the wire of the beginning of the seven year great tribulation.

29:31 We just, we are.

29:32 Yeah.

29:32 Driller says, so is the Antichrist a Middle Easterner?

29:35 Yes.

29:36 A hundred percent. That's even in the Bible. He's the final days king of the North. which refers to the Seleucid empire, which is modern day Syria. So, and he's also called the Assyrian. All of it is in the book.

29:49 Read the book. It's so in depth guys.

29:51 It's so good.

29:52 You'll love it.

29:53 He's in Isaiah and thank you, Sarah, available on amazon.com. Thank you for the plug. Anyways, uh, the Antichrist is called the Assyrian in the book of Isaiah and also the book of Micah. A lot of other hints.

30:05 Yes.

30:05 He's a hundred percent, uh, Middle Eastern from Syria. Okay. Um, do you believe we're in the end times for Mark? I mean, yes, we, we have a candidate for the Antichrist.

30:15 Yeah.

30:15 We believe we're in the end times and a lot of other piece of the puzzle. Um, Why will the Mahdi obsess over Jews and Christians? Because the Mahdi, if he's who we call the Antichrist, I mean, we couldn't be more convinced, Sarah and me, right? I mean, he is. He's the same person. That's what the Antichrist does. He's coming to usurp the rightful throne of Christ in the Holy Temple, the rebuilt Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He doesn't care about people. Who's going to oppose him when he makes this move to take over the temple in Jerusalem when it's rebuilt? It's going to be the Jews primarily and then also Christians. So his aim is going to be to wipe out Jews and Christians.

30:58 That's also described in great detail in Revelation chapter 12, that as soon as he seizes the throne, he goes after Jews. He goes after Christians. It's described. He cuts off the heads of whoever he catches that refuse to worship him, so to speak. but also in Islam. That is one of the prophecies of the Mahdi, is that he actually abolishes Judaism and abolishes Christianity. And it's described in violent terms, even though a lot of Muslims will say, no, they'll just love him so much, you know, everybody will convert to Islam. It's not true. It's, you know, what Islam describes, the Quran and the Hadiths, is actual warfare.

31:36 A Jew hides behind a tree and the tree cries out, oh Muslim, there's a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him. What does that sound like? The Mahdi is backed by this character named Isa ibn Maryam. Won't get into that right now. It's actually Jesus, but it's not the Jesus we know. It's a fake Jesus. And he comes to break the cross and kill the pig. This is very violent terms to describe abolishing Christianity and abolishing Judaism.

32:04 So on both sides, Judeo-Christian eschatology, Revelation chapter 12, and also Muslim eschatology, The Mahdi 100% violently opposes Jews and Christians.

32:17 Once the Muslim world starts seeing that all of these prophecies are being fulfilled in this person, the person that we're seeing these prophecies being fulfilled in through his rise to power and what we're seeing, it will only confirm to them that Islam is the one true religion. And you think about it, that is something that we hold dear as Christians, that Jesus fulfilled anywhere from 200 to 300 prophecies with his first coming. He has many more to fulfill in his second coming. But that's something that gives validity to what we believe as Christians is these prophecies coming true. So we just see the enemy and how he takes God's word and he twists it and he inverts it. And so Let's jump in. So he

33:08 presented 18 specific Islamic writings, 18 prophecies that Ahmad al-Sharah, the current president of Syria. And so we have two more.

33:20 In the Muslim column. So everybody, please remember, we have 42 checkboxes on this guy so far, meaning 42 boxes that this guy checks that would identify him as the Antichrist slash Mahdi. We didn't wake up one day looking for this. Hey, we have to find somebody that matches all this. My whole life I've been watching for this person, not even remotely, you know, did one person stand out as even, you know, the remotest potential candidate until this guy showed up. But we have 42. And just statistically, if you have half a dozen, it's like statistically impossible that this is not the guy. You could argue that, you know, half a dozen isn't that much. But 42 checkboxes come on. It's crazy.

34:03 So 42 that you've made public, but you actually.

34:05 Have a few more that you haven't.

34:07 So coming soon, part four, right? Is that going to be released in part four?

34:12 For sure.

34:14 Yes.

34:14 Before then, I'll work up to a couple. Yeah, exactly. There's a couple other checkboxes that we'll do soon. And they still keep kind of popping up unexpectedly. Like Sarah found one. How long has it been? About a month and a half now. um, that I was, I completely missed. Um, Aaron, of course has found the big one, the six, six, six thing.

34:35 Right.

34:36 But, uh, but anyways, yeah. So, so we have, I think is a 22 check boxes just in the Muslim column alone. I have 20, I have 20, we have two more to go in the Muslim column. Then we're going to pivot to the Judeo Christian column. And then also look at the prerequisites column, which the prerequisites column, um, Basically, those aren't like, you know, the part and parcel, the property. Oh, my gosh, here comes the twin. Greg asks, how do you think Muslims will respond to the Antichrist who will make himself out to be God? I love that question.

35:06 So what Greg is getting at, I'm going to read that again. How do you think the Muslims will respond to the Antichrist who will make himself out to be God? So here's the idea I think that Greg is getting at, I'm sure. And we've heard this before. This is dumb, you guys. Greg's not saying that. He's nice. But people say this is stupid. The Muslims would never follow a guy who calls himself God. Well, neither would Jews. But the Jews are going to follow the Antichrist for three and a half years because he's the one who's rebuilding the Jewish temple. That's the one sign of the Mashiach.

35:38 So they're going to be like, this is the Mashiach. He's the Messiah, right? Until the halfway mark when he turns on him. But they're not going to follow a guy who shows himself. Well, you know what? Actually, as my mouth is moving, I'm thinking this is a bad example because– when he commits the abomination of desolation, you know, he starts like, you know, cutting off the heads of Jews and Christians anyways, right? So I guess it is just specific to Muslims. I'm thinking out loud here. But Greg, here's the response. And Aaron, I think, talked about this last show, is that the Bible says that the Antichrist actually never claims to be God. What Paul writes in 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 4, is that he seats himself

36:19 in the temple of God, showing himself to be God. So not even speaking it, and it doesn't even say showing other people that he's God, but showing himself to be God. So he never, it's such a great question. I love it. He never actually claims to be God. He just sits himself in the temple showing himself that he's God because he doesn't want to lose his followers.

36:39 So isn't that interesting?

36:41 That is interesting.

36:42 So nowhere in the Bible and nowhere in Muslim eschatology does this guy ever out loud claim to be God. You know, the audience today, you guys, your questions are just so good. We're trying to get to our checkbox, but Driller asks, would the rapture take place before the tribulation? 100% not. Go to thesefinaldays.org, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you'll see a free pamphlet there, The Truth About the Rapture. I'll put a link in the chat. Yeah, I need to do that too. And therein we describe in detail why we teach a post-tribulation rapture, which is what Jesus himself, Todd, and Paul, and John.

37:20 And we just don't have time to get into that today, but we will eventually. Everybody will. We're going to have to, Sarah, maybe do like a special show on the timing of the rapture. Yeah. We'll lose half our audience over it, but hey, we've got to tell the truth here, right?

37:33 Right.

37:33 Mike Whitson, I'm not going to confess that. That's not true. You guys are full of the Holy Spirit. You're patient. You listen, right? Mike Whitson, so you're saying he will tear down Al-Aqsa?

37:42 No. No.

37:44 This is so fascinating. Revelation chapter 11 actually describes that while the third temple is being built in Jerusalem, that the Jews are worshiping at the temple because they can actually resume the daily sacrifice the day the construction begins. And then it takes three and a half years to complete the temple, apparently, right? And then the Antichrist makes his move. But in the meantime, Revelation chapter 11 says that the Gentiles, the non-Jews, will be treading what's called the court of the Gentiles underfoot. That's the southern part of the Temple Mount, which is where the Al-Aqsa Mosque sits.

38:21 So what's going to happen is that the Dome of the Rock, which is not a mosque, I've been there many times, it's just a Muslim shrine, that that will be torn down, moved, like hell, right? But it's going to happen. It's not as holy of a spot, believe it or not, as the Mosque. But the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is several hundred yards to the south, that will remain standing. And the Muslims will be worshiping at the mosque and the Jews will be worshiping at the temple.

38:49 And many, many Jews picture this today and they're pushing for this today. So that will be the state of affairs during the first half.

38:59 Somebody said, do you agree that we're in the tribulation right now?

39:02 I lost the chat.

39:03 No, 100% not. And yeah, so we're looking specifically for the Daniel 927 peace treaty, which will start the clock. And then we know if we calculate, you know, three and a half years in from that point, then we'll know that's the timing for the abomination of desolation to take place in the third temple. So that's really the markers, the timing that we have according to Daniel. Yeah.

39:28 God, the questions today, you guys are there. so good. We're never going to get to our topic. Mike Whitson responded to what I just said about Revelation chapter 11. He says, sounds far-fetched. And Mike, we 100% agree with you. Yeah, it does. And that's the point. No one could pull this off except for one person. This is biblical. One person who At some point, the Jews are going to believe it's their Messiah because he's rebuilding the temple. And it's got to be the same person that the Muslims believe is their Mahdi because he's doing the Mahdi stuff, right?

39:58 And in that case, everybody will go along with it. The Jews will be like, okay, we're getting our temple back. The Muslims will, you know, they're still worshiping at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. So, Mike, you're right. It is so far-fetched that it's going to take the most special person who's ever existed besides Jesus himself. That's the Antichrist, right? It fits.

40:20 I couldn't pull it off, but he will.

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41:16 Okay, so checkbox number 19. All right, so the Mahdi will serve as both caliph or successor, deputy, steward. Also, you reference it as king and imam, so priest.

41:37 So this is, again, you know, one of our many checkboxes on the Mahdi. So the Mahdi, the great Muslim in times Messiah, will serve as both caliph and imam. Like Sarah just said, a caliph is a king. So in modern day vernacular, you know, what do we call a ruler of a country? It's more likely to be a president or, you know, whatever, right? So, and imam, again, Sarah is.

42:02 It's like a spiritual leader. Yeah. who runs the daily prayers and leads the prayer, teaches in the mosque, things of that nature. Not like a priest that we think of a priest. There's no sacrificial system in Islam. They don't necessarily believe that they're the mediator between the people and God.

42:27 And it's true that they teach and they'll give a sermon, but But I would say that the main function of the imam is to, like you said, to lead the daily prayers. So the Muslims have, do you remember how many prayers in a day?

42:40 Five.

42:41 Five prayers per day. And so, yeah, the Muslim called a prayer. When you go to Israel, Sarah, you and Richard are going with me, right? Next trip. You'll hear it. So Israel, it's funny because, you know, the world tries to claim, well, they persecute Muslims. They keep them down. Well, in Israel, now this isn't allowed where I live. But in Israel, in like almost every town, the mosques have big loudspeakers, including Jerusalem. And this call to prayer goes out five times a day. So, you know, I'm sleeping, you know, warm and snug in my bed and, you know, wherever I'm staying in Jerusalem at the time. And all of a sudden, you know, before the sun comes up, you hear this like really eerie sounding, you know, it's

43:23 kind of trippy. But anyways, yeah, so five times a day. So So in Judaism, that's actually completely unheard of to be both king and priest. So we're using those words, even though Sarah made a very important distinction. An imam is a little bit different than a priest, but we're going to use that for English, right? Because we're going to cross-compare religions. So there's a story in the Old Testament where we actually do see this occur, that one person is identified as both a king and a priest.

43:57 But it's very unusual. And who was that person? Do you remember? Just to give some background on the concept.

44:02 So in scripture, when Abraham encountered Melchizedek, he was both priest of God and a king.

44:10 Yep.

44:10 Yep, exactly. So there's some evil guys who come down and they kidnap Lot and they kidnap Lot's family, you know, Abraham's nephew. And they take him up north toward Megiddo, right? And so Abraham goes up with his guys and they fight and they, you know, rescue Lot and his family and all their stuff. And he's coming back down and Abraham is greeted by the, you know, kings of Sodom and, you know, that region. But then the Bible says in Genesis chapter, is it 14? Yeah, 14. Genesis chapter 14, that this person named, called Melchizedek comes out. He's the king of Salem, which today we know as Jerusalem. Jerusalem.

44:50 That's actually Jerusalem.

44:51 Yes.

44:52 So, so Salem, it's today's Jerusalem. And he comes out and he's, the Bible says that he's not just a king, but he's also a priest of the most high God. Now this is weird. Like to this day, it's like scholars debate Jews too. Jews, Christians, we debate like, who is this guy? It says that he has like, like no, no father, no mother. I think it even says he has no beginning and end, something like that. We read more about him, like all the weird stuff in the book of Hebrews, actually later in the new Testament. But, um, Yeah, he has no mother and father. So this is almost sounding, again, like a pre-incarnate Christ. It doesn't make sense, though. What Jesus came down and he's actually a physical person. So

45:32 I don't think that's the right interpretation. It's just in some weird way, right? But this was very unusual. Again, he's identified as both king and priest, Melchizedek. All of Abraham's descendants doesn't make sense to him because In Judaism, you can't be both. You're either a king or a priest. Now, the book of Hebrews, add to Hebrews in the New Testament, which is probably written by Paul. So for Mr. Super Cool and everybody else who doesn't like Paul, you know, hang in there, right? Paul describes how Jesus actually fulfills or is the fulfillment of Melchizedek in the sense that Jesus is both priest and king. So really, in the book of Hebrews, it does at least make that parallel, that connection between Jesus and Melchizedek. Maybe not saying Melchizedek

46:17 was like literally, but then how does that translate to you and me? This is all just kind of fun background just to really get the concept. Do you remember?

46:27 Well, I'm thinking along the lines of, you know, now Jesus is the great high priest sitting at the right hand of the father interceding for us today. And so because of his atoning work on the cross, he is the Messiah. He's been glorified. And so now he is the mediator between God and us, right? Right.

46:47 And he's the king of kings and the Lord of lords.

46:50 Exactly.

46:50 And when he comes back at the second coming, he's literally going to rule and reign over the whole earth as our king. Not a democracy, okay, but like literally a kingdom with him as the king, right? I'm looking forward to it because I appreciate democracy. It's the best that humans have been able to come up with, but it ain't that great, right? Like how's that working out for you, right? So what's cool, though, is that the Bible, actually the book of Revelation, Revelation 5.10, says that, let me read it word for word here. It says, So we actually, as the followers of Christ, we actually rule and reign with Jesus on the earth, and we fulfill both those offices, kings and priests. So that's pretty cool.

47:38 But again, it's just not a thing in Judaism. That's why Melchizedek was so unusual. But in Islam, it's not as stringent, like this rule that a person who's a caliph can't be an imam. Again, king and priest, right? But it's highly unusual for one person to operate in both offices. But this is what we're looking for in the Mahdi. And listen, before I even research this or we research this.

48:07 We could safely assume that that's the case, that being both caliph and imam in Islam is not a thing. Because if it was a thing, then this would not be one of the identifiers of the Mahdi. I'm making a side point here, but I want to keep reminding our audience of this, that every tiny detail that the Bible gives about the Antichrist and every tiny detail that the Quran and the Hadiths give about the Mahdi is wrong.

48:34 something unusual that's going to help us identify this person when the time comes. So if you had like 90% of kings also functioned as a mom, this wouldn't even be mentioned, right? It's got to be a unique situation, and it is. So the word caliph has an ultimate meaning. Do you know what that is, Sarah? I'm always quizzing Sarah because I've got to have fun.

48:57 No.

48:58 I mean the ultimate meaning, caliph meaning like the Mahdi? Yeah. Is that like the caliphate where Islam is the one true religion, world domination?

49:08 I'm just throwing stuff out now. I know you're answering like it's a question like the caliph is a blah, blah, blah. No, no, you're nailing it, of course. You're so good at this, Sarah. Gosh, I tried to trick you. No, that's exactly what it means. So the ultimate meaning of caliph is the ruler, the king of the worldwide Islamic caliphate, the Ummah, when Islam dominates the world. Yeah, exactly. You nailed it. But in the meantime– the word caliph is used kind of informally to describe Muslim leaders of Muslim countries. So it's not unheard of. So here's the thing about our guy in Damascus.

49:49 So if he's who we think he is, and he might not be, but he's got to be, my gosh. But let's say he's not, right? Maybe he's not. But if he is, right now he's certainly operating as caliph in the context of the nation of Syria. If he's who we think he is, one day he will be Caliph in the full meaning of that, which is basically king of the entire world, right? For a very brief time.

50:14 I mean, the Antichrist, his days will be numbered when he makes that move. Any questions or comments so far? Because that's one half of this equation, Caliph.

50:27 So what is the actual specific Islamic text?

50:32 So there's a modern-day Muslim scholar from Nigeria, right, of all places, named Toyib Olawuyi. I know I butchered that. I apologize. I've been to Kenya, been to South Africa, haven't been to Nigeria. And he actually has a book. He's still around teaching. He has a book called Imam al-Makti, the Twelfth Caliph or Khalifa. So even the title of his book, it's like all about this point that he's both caliph and imam, the makti, when he comes, right?

51:01 And Toyib writes this, the imam, meaning the makti, refers to the one who leads mankind not just in salat, prayer, but in government. So he serves both roles. Again, it's not a thing in Islam. This imam, the makti, will be their supreme imam as the caliph. So this is a modern Muslim scholar just kind of making a commentary on how he's interpreting Islam. what he sees in the, in the, in the Muslim scriptures. So, but now our old friend who we quote quite a bit, he was, he was considered the most prominent Muslim scholar, scholar of the 20th century. He passed away, I think in 1953, but he was, you know, to this day, very highly respected.

51:46 We've quoted this guy a lot, Sarah, Saeed Sadruddin Sadr, and his book is called Al-Makti, the Makti. And, and he quotes more directly from like the Quran and the Hadith. And, Here he's quoting one of the Hadiths. Amongst the Muslims, there is no one who reckons the Imam to be separate from the Caliph. So this is a Hadith that is saying the same thing, that the Mahdi will be both Imam, priest, and Caliph, king. So again, our guy in Damascus, our candidate, we've got that down. I mean, he's functioning as Caliph, and that's the direction he's headed if he's the guy, right? But the imam part, that's where it gets really interesting, right? So he was a member of Al-Qaeda, one of the top guys. He was

52:34 one of the founders of ISIS. So, oh, here comes the twin. And, you know, he fought this, you know, brutal, bloody civil war for 14 years, finally took over in Damascus. He's been the president now for almost two years now, right? And so you wouldn't think of this guy in terms of, like, The imam at the mosque, you know, leading the prayers.

52:53 Super Danny, Eddie, what guy, what's your guy's name in Syria? So it's the current president. This is our candidate anyways.

53:00 I'll show you guys a picture too.

53:02 Yeah. Yeah, that's him on December 8th, 2025, leading the Fajr, the morning prayer in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. Good picture. So his name is Ahmad al-Sharah. He's the current president of Syria. We're just looking at him, right? We're going to bring this home, this point about him. has Ahmad al-Sharah ever operated in the capacity of imam, which again, the imam, he leads the congregation in prayer. One of the five daily prayers are all the five daily prayers.

53:29 Now listen, his history, if you read like Nicholas Pelham's, you know, biography of him in the Economist, which came out just, you know, I think it was in March after he showed up in Damascus and then like other, like really top level, you know, writings, right. Has he ever functioned as the imam? So, So remember, if he's both a caliph and imam, the maqdi, it doesn't mean he's a full-time imam. He can't be because he's caliph, right?

53:55 He's running a country and ultimately the ummah, right? So he's not a full-time imam. But the maqdi is supposed to be both. He's both, which just means that he functions in that capacity, that he leads the prayer, right? That he teaches, listen. if you look at old videos of this guy, uh, back when he was, you know, operating under the pseudonym or Nome Digger, um, uh, Abu Muhammad Al Jalani, uh, and, and the, the full jihad garb and, you know, talking to his guys out in the field, he, he's actually given sermons. I mean, this guy, you know, from the start, and there's even stories about him in the, in the, in the like really legit biographies that have been done about him in recent years that, um,

54:36 when he was a kid, he was so, uh, so a fervently you know Muslim but that he would actually sometimes have an altercation with an and a mom as a kid as a teenager like you're teaching this wrong you're you're you're you're presenting this wrong you were in the wrong clothes or whatever right for real up to up to go back and look at the actual bit button again my favorite is Nicholas Pelham he wrote an article I'm in a way in the economy is are you know are you to make the point about how about absolutely mirrors Christ when he was 12 years old in the temple Didn't occur to me.

55:11 I know.

55:11 That's why I said it. I could tell. Didn't occur to me. Love it. I'm sorry.

55:17 Was he 12 years old too? I guess we'll.

55:19 Have to find out. He was 13, which is the age of accountability.

55:23 No, no.

55:24 Jesus was 12. Jesus was 12. Ahmad al-Sharad. It doesn't say. It just says like when he was a teenager. And the crazy thing about Jesus being 12 is that if you weren't 13, if you weren't 13, in Jesus's day in Judea, you, you didn't speak. So he wasn't even the age of accountability yet.

55:42 Almost.

55:43 Yeah. Cause then you've had your bar mitzvah. Yeah.

55:45 Right.

55:45 Very good. Correcting the priests and the Sadducees and the Pharisees.

55:49 Yeah.

55:50 Yeah. Yeah. Excellent connection earned. So, um, yeah. So just like Jesus did.

55:55 Wow.

55:55 That's good. He was doing that.

55:57 Wow.

55:57 Even though he was just a military guy. Well, at that time he wasn't even that he hadn't even joined Al Qaeda yet. He was still, he was still in Syria, just going to mosque and, he was just like, like passionately Muslim. And, and this person who was talking to Nicholas Pelham, who knew him at that time, his friend, he said, you know, we weren't, you know, we were just kind of going to mosque, you know, like, like, you know, like, like kids in our churches, right. That, you know, most are just kind of there, right. They're, they're cool about it. But, but he was very, very, very, very intensely Muslim. Did you say he was a, did you say he was a kid during this time or a teenager or something? That's what his friend says when

56:32 he's a teenager. Yeah. Yeah, just like Jesus. Yeah, good connection. Excellent connection, yeah. By the way, there's two things I wanted to correct really quick. So when I was in Pakistan, Afghanistan the first time, I ended up being mistaken for a Muslim by people who needed to think that I was a Muslim. And my friends and I just let it go. And then when I went back two years later, we just continued the same kind of charade. But it wasn't me pretending to be a Muslim. It was more like, you know, I didn't. I didn't correct people when they mistook me. Yeah, because if you corrected them, you'd be dead.

57:10 I mean, probably not, actually, but it just would have made things more complicated. The narrative that my friends were telling and my commander were telling would have been more complicated. Yeah, interesting. That's cool. So another thing I wanted to correct really quick is earlier, before I left to try to fix things again, you talked about how the Mahdi, when he seats himself in the temple... Everybody thinks this. I saw it on social media not two days ago. Somebody saying, you know, he's going to, he's, you know, everyone's going to believe he's God. And it's like, no, no one's going to think he's God. No one. There's a thing, if he's the Mahdi, if he's the Mahdi, the Mahdi is not considered God at all. God in, you know,

57:51 Allah in Islam has no equal. He doesn't even have a son or a Holy Spirit, let alone, you know, a human being on earth, even in this kind of like quasi-messianic role. And that's true in Judaism. He's not God. In Judaism, the Moshiach is not divine, not the son of God, just a regular human like King David, but especially appointed and anointed by God to carry out this function.

58:13 So only Christians have it. How about this? So we talk about the Red-Green Alliance, which is a real thing, right? Like people on the far left politically, culturally, people who claim no faith or are universalists or atheists. none of those people are going to respond to someone saying, I'm God.

58:33 Right.

58:33 They're just going to dismiss him out of hand, right? He's crazy or he's just another one. Yeah, atheist, exactly.

58:40 Right.

58:40 What they're not going to dismiss is someone who comes in and says, look, I'm the one who brought peace to the Middle East finally, which really is world peace, right? Of course. We all know that the Middle East being on fire puts the whole world at risk. 100%. It always does, right? So that's why they're going to follow him, not because they think he's God.

58:56 Right.

58:57 And Christians, too, are going to follow him. Right.

59:00 Right.

59:01 Well, even he will know he's not God, but because he's Satan incarnate, or he's somehow imbued with, you know, Satan's spirit or, you know, worldview. he will be entertaining himself with the idea of, you know, I'm absolutely playing the role of God, but only for myself. So that last point, Aaron, I get what you're saying. I would push back a little bit on that because Satan today does believe that he's God of this world and even Even the New Testament calls him the God of this world, right?

59:32 Paul called him that, the God of this world. So no, Satan does believe it. But I see what you're saying. Satan knows he's not ultimately God, but he just wants to be God of this world. So yeah, great points all the way around, though. So our guy, Ahmad al-Sharah, some stories printed in Middle Eastern press, and they haven't been confirmed, really, that in 2025, Ahmad al-Sharah led the prayer of at the big Eid al-Fitr, I'm pronouncing that wrong. Fitr, you're not. Which is, oh good, which is how they conclude the month of Ramadan, Muslims, right? And then also he led the big prayer at Eid al-Adha. Do you know what that is, Aaron? I'd look it up. Yeah, Eid al-Fitr is the last day of Ramadan, is where

1:00:17 they end the fast.

1:00:18 Right.

1:00:18 And Eid al-Adha commemorates when Abraham didn't kill Ishmael. Nailed it. Very good. See, that's why I wanted Aaron on here. I looked it up right before the show. User 2560, stand by for a second. I'm going to make sure that these guys let me address your question. But yeah, something occurred to me today, you guys, when I'm reviewing for a day. Oh my gosh, it's mind-blowing. And it lines up with one of the revelations that Aaron got last year about our guy, I'll give you a hint, and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. But you two talk so much to yourselves in the audience. This is such a cool thought that occurred to me that I immediately opened up part four, my notes for part four, which I have the outline. I haven't started to actually

1:01:04 write it yet. And I put that in there because it's going to make– this is– so.

1:01:09 Interesting.

1:01:09 I have chills already. Yeah, so now I know you're not going to hang up on me when I walk away. I'll be right back.

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1:01:40 But other than that, you can find this deep dive. Yeah, that's what Pastor Ryan does is, you know, we all have new revelations all the time. None of us get stuck in dogma about this stuff. We don't know. We're always exploring and getting new insights and revelations. And so, you know, he does go back and make corrections. So it's good to keep up on it. So someone named Fresh Coffee and Jesus just joined mine. I need to follow that person. My two favorite things, Fresh Coffee and Jesus. Anyway, user 2560, I'm not going to read all the numbers.

1:02:10 There's like 12 of them. Then why does he sit in the third temple? is he possessed by Satan at this point? You know, it is hard to say when the Antichrist actually, you know, steps into his role as the son of Satan. And if I'm not mistaken, Sarah, I think there was a lot in the New Testament to suggest that he really is like the son of Satan.

1:02:32 I don't know if that, I don't know if it's physiological or just spiritual.

1:02:35 Well, I mean, if you look at the prophecy in Genesis 3.15, where God gives the prophecy, your seed will be at enmity with her seed, right?

1:02:46 My seed, yes.

1:02:47 Yeah, so I mean, that kind of gives us an indication that there's a lineage, that there is a seed, you know, so.

1:02:55 It does, yeah. And I think Pastor Ron last time pointed out that that word seed in the original Hebrew, it didn't mean metaphorically, it meant literally, you know, semen. We can say that in a Christian broadcast. It did. So that suggests that you know, Satan somehow is going to be biologically, physically the father of this guy. Does he know it yet? We don't know. We're not told.

1:03:18 Right.

1:03:19 Is this possible? It is because if you look at the Old Testament, that's how the giants came into being was that the fallen angels were actually able to, you know, breed with human women. Procreate is the word I should use for humans. I'm sorry. I have a horse ranch. So we talk about breeding. So, yeah, fallen angels able to procreate with women. Guess what? Satan's a fallen angel.

1:03:42 What happened when I walked away? Like I walked away for two minutes. I come back and we got angels mating with humans. Like, wow, you guys. We're using all kinds of like adult language and writing like a, you know, sex ed class. Yeah. So, you know, so Ryan, one of my viewers asked, does he know that he's Satan when he sits in the third temple? I don't know.

1:04:06 What do you think? Pastor Ryan. Which actually relates, that's so great, which actually relates directly to the revelation I had, the thing that occurred to me right before we went on, the big teaser. I left you guys with a minute ago. It relates to this, okay? So before I get there, though, oh, Driller says, not aliens, they are fallen angels. We 100% agree.

1:04:27 Driller also asked a minute ago, or says, we will know once he sits on the throne of the temple claiming to be God. Remember, He never actually says it. Because if he did, he'd turn off everybody. Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists. Everybody would be like, this guy's a nut, right?

1:04:43 Just sitting in the temple or taking over the temple, just being in that position, right?

1:04:50 Yeah. Sarah, go look at, again, everybody, go look at 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 4, and look at the way it's worded. It says that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself to be God. Not saying... And not even showing the world that he's God, showing himself to be God. So he never actually claims to be anything.

1:05:12 And then he could be all things to all people, which is another, you know, good Christian connection, right? All things to all people. There will be one person in on his little secret, him believing that he's God in the way that Satan believes, in the way that Satan knows he's the God of this world, right? So the Antichrist won't be wrong when he shows himself to be God.

1:05:30 He's going to show himself. Right, you just can't say it. He can't say it, but, but the false prophet by his side in the Holy of Holies is going to be in on that.

1:05:39 Oh, of course.

1:05:39 Because he, he's otherwise, why would the dragon, the Antichrist and the false prophet be thrown alive into the lake of fire? The false prophet is some kind of a supernatural being of some kind. And I don't mean that he's like, no, no, I don't mean, no, listen, I don't mean necessarily that he like, like, you know, comes, I shouldn't even say that. So I don't mean that he comes down from heaven in physical form and he, I don't mean in that sense. I mean supernatural in the sense that the makti is supernatural. He's supernaturally infused with the Spirit. He's in on it, like you just said, Aaron.

1:06:10 Why will people worship the Antichrist right before they take his mark? Now, listen, it's such a good point, such a good question. So the actual word in Revelation chapter 13 for worship, where we get that concept, you know, the false prophet causes everyone, you know, young and old, you know, to worship the Antichrist. The word worship there actually means in the Greek, it can mean worship, like in a supernatural sense. But what it really means is to bow down to, to submit to, to follow. It doesn't have to have a supernatural connotation.

1:06:47 No.

1:06:47 Because, yeah, how would the Muslims ever worship this guy? Well, how would anybody, right? Atheists aren't going to worship somebody all of a sudden. Buddhists aren't going to worship this guy, right? But the whole world worships him. not in the sense that we think it means. I don't think it's the right word, but in a way it is the right word because from God's standpoint, to God it is worship.

1:07:08 To God, you could be the most atheistic person. I don't believe in the supernatural, but this guy is showing up and he's solving all the world's problems and he wants me to accept this microchip in my hand or my forehead and I'm going to rely on him to solve all my problems and to feed me and take care of my family. that's worship. I mean, as far as God is concerned, it's, it's simple garden variety, idolatry. Yeah.

1:07:31 So if I, if I'm, you don't have to think you're worshiping, you're worshiping, you know, you don't have to think you're worshiping. Am I worshiping social media? Please don't leave. Am I worshiping money? Am I worshiping prestige status?

1:07:42 Right. Right.

1:07:43 I have no religious beliefs about status and proceed prestige, but I can still worship it. And that's absolutely how God, that's it. Anything that you're putting on and listen, we've taught and we've talked about Ryan. We've talked about how, um, So we've debated whether or not people will know what they're doing when they take the mark. Like, right, you lose your salvation if you're a Christian, right? You forfeit it.

1:08:05 You're damned for eternity, right, if you take the mark. So I've always argued, and I think Ryan and I, you know, our jury is still out together and we're still arguing this point. I have not changed my mind about it. I think that every person who takes the mark will in some fashion know that by so doing they are absolutely rebelling against the God of of Israel.

1:08:24 Sure.

1:08:24 Deep in their spirits. Yeah, sure. Not deep in their spirits. Ryan, think about, I thought about this recently. I don't know why this ever occurred to us. What is the timing of the mark? The mark? Does it occur before? Does it occur before or after he seats himself in the temple?

1:08:38 After.

1:08:39 You know, when you take the mark, you know that you're taking the mark of a man who is just full on blaspheme spit in the face of the God of Israel by seating himself in the Holy of Holies. Not one human on earth, will not understand what they're doing. They are spitting in the face of the God of Israel when they take that mark because he's already seated himself in the Holy of Holies.

1:08:58 So it will be at the direction. of the false prophet right that the mark of the beast system is initiated and we believe the false prophet and the muslim is isa right so unfortunately yeah which would be the false perfectly yeah yeah.

1:09:15 Interesting i say i say unfortunately because i have Muslim friends that are as close as brothers, as close as Ryan is to me. I love them that much. They love me that much. And I know that if they took a position about my faith, my Christianity, that was as inflammatory as what I just agreed with, and that's that our false prophet is the second coming of Esau, it would really hurt my heart. But I already know that they have those feelings. And I know that they have those beliefs. They believe that Jesus wasn't crucified, that he didn't, you know, He didn't die on the cross for our sins. He's not co-equal with God. He's not the son of God. So those are things that do hurt my heart. So I'm hoping if any Muslims are watching,

1:09:56 you guys understand, hey, I love you. I love Muslims, right, with all my heart. But I have to hold firm to my religious beliefs, just like you have to hold firm to yours. And my belief is that the second coming of Esau is our false prophet.

1:10:11 Yeah.

1:10:11 And I've come up with a more diplomatic way, I think, of describing all this. Just like the Jews will think that the Antichrist is their Moshiach, their Messiah, but he's not really, right? He's a counterfeit. It's a charade, like you used that word earlier, right? He's pretending to be their Moshiach in order to trick them into their own destruction, right?

1:10:37 Why don't we phrase it the same way, I think, for Muslims? This person who shows up that you guys are expecting in the Mahdi, this great in times... you know, Messiah figure that will, you know, he's not this person who actually ends up being the Mahdi is a counterfeit. He's not the Mahdi that the Muslim world is expecting.

1:10:55 It's a charade to try to lead them for, you know, to destruction. That's such a great distinction. And that is so much more diplomatic.

1:11:02 Yeah.

1:11:02 So yeah, so what we're saying to our Muslim brothers and sisters, we love you. And we're saying that, yeah, what Ryan just said, right, So you will be misled into believing that this guy is your Messiah. And let me soften the blow even more for our Jewish and Muslim friends. Paul says very clearly that Christians are going to do it too. Christians are going to fall for this guy. In 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 3, Paul describes a great apostasy, which can only mean Christians defecting from the faith, right? Forfeiting their salvation. And not even on purpose, because Paul puts us in the context of a great deception that Christians will do it because they're deceived. They don't think this is the Antichrist. This can't be the

1:11:44 mark of the beast because we're going to get raptured out of here before all this happens, which is a lie. That's the deception, right? And so listen, everybody, Muslims are going to follow this guy. Jews are going to follow this guy. So are Christians. What are we doing here? We're talking to all of us, Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists.

1:12:02 We're talking together as the human race. We all have a common enemy, and that's Satan. who is coming to deceive and trick us all. Listen, it's a fringe idea, but there's this fringe doctrine, if you will, in Islam that during the reign of the Mahdi, that a bunch of Muslims will defect from Islam and follow after a false form of Christianity, which to me, if you understand this whole mirror image, like Sarah titles our series, right?

1:12:32 Or Bizarro World, you know, black is white, white is black. That, in fact, what this is describing in Muslim eschatology, among some Muslims believe this, that a bunch of Muslims will realize this guy's a fake. He's not the Mahdi. He's not a good guy. He's evil. And they end up turning to the true Christ, which we understand is Isa, but the real one, right? Or the Jews call him Yeshua, right? Right.

1:12:58 The Muslims will think this is the second coming of Jesus. They are expecting the second coming of Jesus. They want Jesus to come back. It's just the first time someone shows up on the scene, they're going to be misled and think this is the second coming of Jesus, and it's not. And it's not, exactly. Jesus will come, but about three and a half years after that.

1:13:18 Ryan, did you mention your revelation? Did you ever share it with us?

1:13:25 Yeah, what, it wasn't impressive enough that you remember?

1:13:28 I totally missed it.

1:13:30 I'm so sorry. No, of course I didn't, because it's so cool.

1:13:33 Okay, okay.

1:13:34 Hey, Sarah, it's like the Great Tribulation. If you have to ask if we're in the Great Tribulation, we're not in the Great Tribulation.

1:13:39 Yeah, okay.

1:13:40 Okay, so you guys ready for this? This actually is kind of cool. All right, so I really did a deep dive with Claude, who is my new owl. I fire Gemini. I hate Gemini. Sorry, Google.

1:13:51 Okay, you're going to need to fire Claude and get Grok. I'm just saying, telling.

1:13:56 You right now. You like Grok? Okay.

1:13:57 I like Grok.

1:13:57 Well, I'm also a software engineer by trade, and my boss says Claude is the best for writing software, and It's crazy. We're talking about AI, everybody, Revelation chapter 13, but we're not there yet, right? Anyways, so it turns out that the rumors that Al-Sharah had led the Eid al-Fitr prayer and the Eid al-Adha prayers in 2025, that those were just rumors. And Claude actually found the name of the imam who led the Al-Adha prayer And it wasn't al-Sharah. And Claude couldn't find the name of the imam who led the al-Fitr prayer. But Claude is saying, yeah, not likely, right? So, okay, so why are we saying that he's already shown himself to also function to some degree in the role of imam? He's got to lead

1:14:51 at least one prayer, right? There's one that we know for sure. Well, it's just one?

1:14:56 What?

1:14:56 Like, why are you guys making, why is this a checkbox? I mean, give me a break, right? Listen to which one it is though. And this is not in my book in part three, because like this, this aspect of it, wow. The prayer, the one prayer that we know that he led, how many prayers do you need to lead? How many, how many, um, Sadat's, you know, that's the five daily prayers.

1:15:17 Do you need to lead to be able to say, I have functioned in the office of a mom?

1:15:23 One. One.

1:15:24 So if he's done one, One in your lifetime. There's one that we can confirm at this point, and maybe there'll be a bunch more later, okay? But so far for our guy in Damascus, Syrian President Ahmad al-Jarrah, he's led one. And I'm going to just say which one it was, and then you guys tell me if you're seeing what occurred to me today, if you catch it okay.

1:15:44 It was the Fajr prayer, which is the morning prayer. He did this at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on December 8th, 2025, which was the one-year anniversary of when he showed up in Damascus. They call it Liberation Day now, right? Right. And it was the one prayer that Sarah showed that picture. I didn't even find a picture. That's it. We have a photograph of him. See how his eyes are closed?

1:16:11 We have a photograph of Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaf one year to the day after he and his group showed up in Damascus, right? Liberation Day. And he's leading the Fajr, the morning prayer. Is that what it was called, Aaron? Am I pronouncing it right? The Fajr? I think that's right. Fajr. Yeah, right.

1:16:27 I've got to throw your R a little bit. Yes, and it's almost like one syllable. It's not two syllables. I'm messing it up. Sorry, everybody. Somebody asked earlier, does he know that he's the Antichrist? For sure not. I mean, I wouldn't, I'm sorry, I can't say for sure not. I'm going to say he's not thinking in those terms.

1:16:43 Because this was just, what, was it three weeks after his emergence? from the Kaaba, right? He's officially, you know, the Makti without any fanfare with everybody kind of asleep and not really knowing that. And then this is also the ceremony where he unveiled the piece of the Kiswah, which was the cloth that was gifted to him by, um, Ben Solomon. And so he, I even watched his speech trying to find pictures. Oh, good. Right.

1:17:17 Mohammed bin Salman, yes. You said it right. I'm sorry. The Saudi crown prince.

1:17:21 Yep. So he gifted him the piece of Kiswah. He, you know, put it on display in a glass case in the Umayyad Mosque and, you know, as like a symbol of like brotherhood and connection to, you know, Saudi Arabia.

1:17:36 To Mecca. To Mecca. No, literally the Kaaba in Mecca, like the holy of holies of Islam in essence, right?

1:17:42 Mm-hmm.

1:17:42 So, yeah, for sure. And that, by the way, everybody, was Sarah's checkbox that she found, because in Daniel chapter 11, it says that the Antichrist will honor this god of fortresses, Allah, with gold and silver, which is not a thing. Like, you don't bring gold and silver into a mosque. It's literally, like, forbidden, right?

1:18:02 I'm not sure if it's considered haram, like the worst kind of sin, but mosques are supposed to be unadorned. They're supposed to be very simple and humble, so So the one way that he could honor Allah with gold and silver is with this, with the kiswah that he received from Muhammad bin Salman. I believe it was on probably February. It could have been February 3rd, the day that al-Shara'a entered the Kaaba, spent a half hour there, then emerged. That's one of our checkboxes, donating the kiswah, like millions of dollars worth of gold and silver to the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. That's a checkbox. That was Sarah's checkbox. So see how they're all connected, but check this out, you guys ready? Going to run chills up

1:18:43 your spines if I say it right. Anoint me, Holy Spirit, to get this point across. If Al-Sharah has only so far led one prayer in a mosque, one of the Saddats, right, why would it be the Fajr, the morning prayer, at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus? Come on. What might that mean? I'm so glad you don't know because, ready?

1:19:08 No.

1:19:09 Because what is the ultimate affirmation, confirmation that he's the Mahdi? It's actually not what you said earlier, Sarah. You're close. Like you said, he flees Mecca and the earth falls at the right. The ultimate confirmation that he's the Mahdi? Oh, that's a good one. That he's the Umayyad? I don't know. Right.

1:19:31 When Isa ibn Maryam descends upon the white minaret at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus... And stands behind the Makti as he's leading the Fajr, the morning prayer. And the Makti starts to step back to let Isa lead the prayer. And Isa says, nope, nope, this is for you to do. And that's the ultimate, like, this is your guy, everybody. Right?

1:19:53 Okay, so Isa didn't show up, did he? Like, he wasn't there. I don't think that happened yet.

1:19:58 Yeah, so what's this? Sarah, you're my favorite person in the whole world.

1:20:01 We're going to have to go watch the footage really closely now. What?

1:20:04 What's the significance of him leading the morning prayer after that first year? Yeah, okay, excellent. And this was your revelation, Aaron. After he emerged from the Kaaba, or was allowed to enter the Kaaba on February 3rd, 2025, two months, less than two months after he rose, like showed up in Damascus, invited by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who, this guy was the worst kind of arch enemy of the Saudi royal family for years when he was working with Al-Qaeda and ISIS, who's Whose main purpose to exist, last show, whose main purpose to exist is to destroy, to wipe out the Saudi royal family. Like why would the crown prince even risk this guy? You know, okay, but they're both enemies of Iran. That's, you know, blah, blah, blah.

1:20:47 That's fine. I understand the meeting in Riyadh. Okay, the political, let's work together. But to give him this incredible, like the highest spiritual honor in Islam, invite him and his wife, Latifa, to enter the Kaaba fully adorned in the white robe and all that. half hour in there, prayer, meditation, what's going on. And then they emerge.

1:21:05 Right.

1:21:05 And what was your theory that you came up with? Cause I'm saying to my class back then, the Thursday night class, I don't understand why like, like Muhammad bin Salman would like do this with this guy. Why would he even, I understand the checkbox.

1:21:17 Yeah.

1:21:17 We need this checkbox, right? The Makti emerges from the Kaaba and it has to be before the next Ramadan. The next Ramadan was three weeks later. That was interesting timing. What was your theory, Aaron? Well, but, uh, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and also Erdogan in Turkey, I think that they both know that this guy is the Mahdi.

1:21:37 They suspect that he's the Mahdi. They suspect very strongly that he's the Mahdi. Okay, suspect. Their scholars are doing the same work that we're doing. Maybe they're seeing what we're seeing. And they're doing it way better because they have far more expertise on the topic of who is the Mahdi than you and I do. Aaron came up with a theory. We think that, yes, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is thinks that. And probably Erdogan of Turkey thinks that. Now, here's my point, you guys. Does Ahmad al-Sharah himself at this point suspect that he's the Mahdi?

1:22:09 Because if he does, maybe that's why one year to the day after he showed up in Damascus, he made it a point to go and officiate to lead the Fajr, the morning prayer, at the mosque. Because whoever leads the morning prayer at the mosque and then Jesus shows up at that mosque, the white minaret, that he'll stay. Maybe I just, it's speculative. Wait, wait. So does Alshara suspect that he's the Makti?

1:22:34 Yeah.

1:22:35 So, so Esau, it's going to be the, the, um, the Al-Fijr prayer. Fijr, Fijr, St. Fajr, Al-Fijr.

1:22:42 Yeah.

1:22:42 Fijr. Yeah. And that's the one before sunrise, not after. Right. Uh, so there's one, there's one before sunrise.

1:22:49 Okay.

1:22:50 By the way, it's interesting. Um, Muhammad said it's at the break of the white light. He called it the white light. So when you can just barely see some white light on the horizon, it's actually way before sunrise. So I used to get up with these guys in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and it was just, like they say, zero dark 30. Like an hour before actual sunrise. Oh, yeah.

1:23:17 It's terrible. I was telling Sarah before you came on earlier in the show today. Every time I stay in Jerusalem, you know, you're sound asleep. It's pitch black outside. I remember one morning it was raining. And all of a sudden this loud blare of the speakers, like airy, you know, the morning prayer. President Barack Obama wrote in his book, Memories of My Father, whatever it was. But he wrote, Obama wrote this, the sweetest sound I've ever heard is the Muslim call to prayer. No offense to our former president, but it's just spooky. It's like eerie. I'm sorry. So to me, I have a different perspective. And Israel likes the Muslims too, you know. Go ahead. I have a completely different perspective. To me, it actually sounds very beautiful, very,

1:24:00 you know, sonorous. You're weird, Aaron. It's amazing. I mean, to me, it's amazing, right? Says the guy with the creepy beard.

1:24:07 In the Middle East.

1:24:09 You have to remember the heart and the spirit and the soul of these people, right? Most Muslims are you know, very, very decent, loving people, extremely hospitable. I know. They'll give their life to protect you if you're not a Muslim.

1:24:24 No, no.

1:24:25 So, you know, when they sing the call to prayer, it's called the, oh, what's it called? I'll think of it later. Oh, that's going to drive me crazy. Anyway, so when they do the call to prayer, I mean, there's real love behind it. There's real devotion behind it. You can hear that. You can feel it. That's fine.

1:24:44 And the minarets that these loudspeakers, it's like this eerie green light on them. I mean, to me, it's– Sure, sure. And I'm sorry, guys. I'm not trying to offend anyone. Just like everything else, these things also happen in spiritually dark places from spiritually dark people. I'm just making the point that a lot of the Muslims I've known, I mean, they really do want to have a devotion to God.

1:25:08 I feel like they have been. I know that. They were born into being misled by the true nature of God.

1:25:12 Yeah.

1:25:15 My twins always like throwing a wet blanket on my phone. But for me, it's more, I really feel like I want to keep my heart for, you know, the Muslim people around the world. 100% agree. Have an absolute ministry toward them and for them. I mean, I'd love to just usher bazillions of them into the flock, into the sheepfold. And, you know, you got to start in the correct place to do that. So seeing the truth of their heart, you know, how beautiful their heart is and how much devotion they do have toward the Lord, how much love they do have for God, even though they've been misled about his, his true nature and God loves them. No, you're right.

1:25:51 I put in the chat, um, it's these final days.org slash our guy. And so you can see all of the check boxes that Ahmad Alshara is taking. All of it is in the book, these final days. So find it on Amazon.

1:26:05 Yeah. Very important. Go, go get the book, everybody, please. It's it. It's fascinating stuff. And like I say, I am going to make this point in part four. And it's just speculation, but it's also speculation. Does Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, does he really suspect that our guy is the Mahdi? Does Turkish President Recep Erdogan, does he suspect it? How can we say for sure? They haven't voiced that. I'm saying maybe our guy himself suspects it, which is why he led the morning prayer on the one-year anniversary at the mosque. I don't know. It just occurred to me before the show. I think it's fascinating. No, Sarah, Isa Ibn Maryam did not show up. Remember, he doesn't show up until halfway through the seven-year Great Tribulation. So

1:26:47 we're not going to see him until the temple is built or right around that time. So then the false prophet.

1:26:54 Doesn't show up until that time also.

1:26:57 That's the point I'm making is that the false prophet who we believe is Isa Ibn Maryam, it's a fake Jesus that shows up for the Muslims. That's the same person, and the false prophet doesn't show up until halfway through the seven-year Great Tribulation. And if you look at the timing of Isa ibn Maryam showing up at the White Minaret at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, it lines up.

1:27:20 It lines up. He shows up later in the career of the Mahdi. So that's the false prophet. I have a great question. And he does what the false prophet is prophesied to do, which is abolish Judaism and abolished Christianity violently.

1:27:35 So right before he goes to usurp the temple, then Jesus backs him. Jesus is saying, no, you lead the charge. No, you're the leader.

1:27:45 Yeah, it's in the moment. It's right before the abomination of desolation. It's probably right before because he's also the one, the false prophet is the one who actually kills the two witnesses who we believe are literally the prophets Elijah and Moses returned in the flesh. We could back that up. Which means their second coming of Jesus, Esau, is going to be the one killing.

1:28:07 Hippolytus says it's Enoch. Just saying.

1:28:11 Yeah. Oh, interesting. I love how she's always flashing her Hippolytus. And you didn't say Hippolytus on my end.

1:28:20 I know.

1:28:20 And you didn't say Hippolytus.

1:28:22 I know.

1:28:22 Hey, listen, I have great questions on the same line. So user 2560 again, do the Muslims believe that the Mahdi will spread their religion throughout the world 100%? That's going to be a sign of the Mahdi and the second coming of Christ Esau is that they will, they will, um, uh, Aaron, explain? I'll be right back. Okay, you got this. So the second coming of Esau and the Mahdi, who we think are our Antichrist and the false prophet in reverse, they will...

1:28:52 Muslim eschatology says that they will smash the cross and kill the swine. So that's code speak for kill... Christians and Jews who don't convert to Islam. This is the ultimate manifestation of what they believe is God's will on earth, is that when they come, the Mahdi and the second coming of Esau, they're going to set everything right, not in the way that our second coming of Christ is going to set everything right. They're going to come and kill anyone who doesn't convert to Islam, starting with the Christians and the Jews. Right now, that's not really their mindset.

1:29:23 Their mindset right now is if you're not Muslim, you're a Christian, you're a Jew, you're absolutely welcome to live in our country build churches, build synagogues, unless they're extremist, right? But most Muslims, you know, ever since the Middle Ages, hey, if you want to have, you know, if you're a Christian, you want to build a church, yes, but you have to pay a special tax called the jizya tax, and you don't have all the rights, you don't have all the civil rights, the same as a Muslim. Your rights are very restricted, you're not allowed to proselytize, you can't try to convert anyone to Christianity or Judaism, but they allow you to exist, right? The day is coming where that's going to change. And under the leadership of the

1:30:05 Mahdi in the second coming of Esau, they're no longer going to allow Jews and Christians to exist. And we might be asking, how is this supposed to happen if it's going to be Muslims primarily who are acting as the army of the Antichrist? We're already seeing it, aren't we? All over Europe and even in parts of the United States, we're seeing how this can happen. And we're also seeing how people who are the enemies of God, hate God, hate, you know... hate the values that Christians have, hate the idea of Christianity. They're actually offended by it. We can see how they're becoming the apologists for the extremist Muslims who are running roughshod over European and American cities now.

1:30:45 How can this happen? It's already begun. It's already happening. So yes, they believe that Islam will be spread over the entire planet in that fashion. And you used the term Ummah, right? Which is worldwide domination. Well, the Ummah, it just means the Muslim community. So the Ummah was 100 people back in Muhammad's day. Oh, I get it.

1:31:05 But the ultimate meaning of it is worldwide. Is that the whole world? Isn't that like caliphate too? Yes, the ultimate meaning of caliphate is a global caliphate led by the Mahdi.

1:31:19 SBR Thriving says, is there a finite number of checkboxes? That's a really good question. So I actually started a breakdown of Daniel chapter 11, and I highlighted all the verses that he is checking so far in 11. Now, there's a number of them that he hasn't checked because we're not yet in that portion of the narrative of the rule of the Antichrist. And so we're watching for these to be fulfilled as, you know, his time and power as he continues to move forward in his role.

1:31:52 So we're watching him, but so far he's, he's hit a number of check boxes for the King of the North. And then we have 20 specific prophecies concerning the Muslim Mahdi.

1:32:04 Yeah. And I've said this before, and I said earlier in the, in the show today that, um, Never occurred to me until this gentleman showed up in Damascus and we started tracking him. This is so dumb. I mean, for decades, I've been studying, you know, in times and watching for this person we call the Antichrist. And it never occurred to me that he's got a career track, the Antichrist. Like not all the prophecies are fulfilled at once when the Antichrist shows up. Not all the prophecies about the Mahdi happen at once. He shows up. He's from a certain place. He's got a certain name. He's got a certain ethnicity. And he rises to power in a certain context. And I'm doing like all the columns here, Judeo-Christian, Muslim.

1:32:43 And as time goes on, he does this and he achieves this. And then finally, one day, he's going to sign a seven-year peace treaty with the nation of Israel that we believe very strongly. It's pretty clear in scripture. The deal will be the Muslim world will rebuild the Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. in exchange for the Israelis finally agreeing to Palestinian statehood. That's the deal.

1:33:07 We think that that's the prize. That's the big, that's the big turning point. And that's the beginning of what we call the 74th tribulation.

1:33:14 Right.

1:33:14 Yep. The world will turn to follow him, whether they're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, atheist, uh, Buddhist, anything else, they'll turn to follow him when he cuts that deal. Hey, uh, Jews, you can rebuild the temple. The whole Muslim world is behind you. The whole Muslim world supports you because he'll convince them to, um, in exchange for Palestinian statehood, finally, like real statehood where there's no Israeli presence at all. And he'll make that deal.

1:33:39 That's what we believe. He's going to make that deal. And that's why the world will follow him because he'll have achieved what no one could achieve. And that's healing the mortal wound, a deadly wound of one of the seven heads, which we believe is, you know, the Palestinian, future Palestinian states. But Ryan, how could he ever convince the Muslim world to let the Jews rebuild their temple?

1:34:00 Yeah.

1:34:00 And you know, the answer, you're just, I do. Go ahead, Sarah. I thought I'd give it to you. Sarah's got a big smile.

1:34:05 No, go ahead.

1:34:06 She's going to hit herself in the face with her.

1:34:08 My brain is starting to shut down.

1:34:09 You know what's funny? I kept doing that, so I tuck mine behind my head so I don't hit myself in the face. No, no, no. Sarah, I know you've had a cold. I know you've had a cold, Sarah, but how will the Mahdi convince the entire Muslim world to let the Jews rebuild the temple with the Muslims' blessing?

1:34:28 Thank you, Aaron, for rephrasing that for me so I can think it through. Yeah, because it'll be Solomon's Mosque that they're rebuilding. And you have this idea, too. I mean, I know that there are, you know, Jewish rabbis and Christians and Muslims actually in talks right now over the Temple Mount and wanting to make it open for a house of prayer for all people, all religions, for everybody. Yeah.

1:34:54 So this is like not happening. It's happening.

1:34:57 It's happening right now. Like literally, yeah. So the gambit right now, I'm probably using the wrong word, is now we're going to legally allow full Jewish prayer and worship on the Temple Mount, maybe even build a little tiny synagogue over by the Eastern Gate or something right out of the way. It's just another step. I mean, is there going to come a day everybody– Gambit is the right word.

1:35:22 Oh, good.

1:35:22 Okay. That just popped in my head. So seriously, everybody, is there ever going to come a day when the Jews who spent 2,000 years in exile, went through the Holocaust, finally got back to the Holy Land, reclaimed their state on May 14, 1948. They regained the entire city of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount on June 7, 1967. And they've been worshiping at the base of a retaining wall. They call it the Western Wall. Which is really interesting. Ever since then, for the last 50 years. Interesting. Go ahead.

1:35:53 There was a video that.

1:35:55 59 years, I'm sorry. Go ahead.

1:35:57 Yehudah Glick was sharing, and he was saying that when the Jews, they pray to the west like that.

1:36:05 They're praying toward the east.

1:36:08 To the east, yeah, yeah. So the western wall, towards the east. That when you pray towards the east like that, it's your face is against God. He straight up said that. It's like a prophecy in Ezekiel or something. And I heard that.

1:36:22 I was like, oh, my gosh. Yeah, Rabbi Yehuda Glick. Yeah, he's probably the most famous Temple Mount activist ever. He served in the Knesset, which is the Israeli version of Congress. He ran for president just a couple of years ago. And I actually met with him and interviewed him for over an hour on camera on my most recent trip there in 2023. And by the way, Sarah, how's that going?

1:36:45 I never got my videos uploaded to YouTube because some things happened that year. Um, so Sarah has been diligently. I know. I still appreciate that Sarah.

1:36:54 Closing thoughts you want to share. So yeah, it takes one prayer to be Imam, right?

1:37:01 Yeah. And, and actually I, it occurred to me a moment ago that, um, that, that, that that's, you know, maybe understating, uh, him functioning as a mom, because I'm going to say it again. I said it earlier that the whole time, 14 years that he's, He's prosecuting the civil war in Syria, which his group eventually won, obviously.

1:37:20 That's why he's in Damascus now. He was doing this in the field with the soldiers. He was leading the prayers. So he was functioning as both caliph and imam very actively throughout that whole time. Since he showed up in Damascus, seized the throne in Damascus, we can only confirm one time that he did this on a grand scale, and that was leading the fidger, Aaron said. That's the morning prayer.

1:37:45 Close enough. At the Umayyad Mosque. I still think it's Fajr. I'll go back and look. You know, it could be Fajr. I consider it Fajr. At the Umayyad Mosque. And again, it just occurred to me before the show, wait a minute, that's the moment when Isa Ibn Maryam is supposed to descend upon that mosque, the white minaret, that prayer, and who's ever leading that prayer, he stands behind him and says, this is the Mahdi. I mean, if the crown prince of, now we're just rehashing, If the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, if the president of Turkey, if they're suspecting he's the Mahdi, maybe he's suspecting it himself. I don't know. Who knows?

1:38:24 We can't read anybody's minds. We can't tell the future. We're just here reporting what we see, everybody.

1:38:29 So.

1:38:30 Hope you're enjoying it.

1:38:31 Yep. The checkbox list, uh, the link is in the chat. So go find that if you guys are interested. Also remember to get the book. Um, I know a number of you have gotten the book already, so you can find it at these final days. Um, you can go to these final days.org, find it on Amazon.

1:38:47 Yeah, Amazon.com, These Final Days Part 3. We go into great detail about all these checkboxes, a bunch of other stuff. Just published it on July 1st. It's doing very, very well. These Final Days Part 3 by Ryan Speakman. That's me. It is Fodger.

1:39:02 It is.

1:39:03 Of course it is. It is Fodger.

1:39:05 Oh, no.

1:39:05 Oh, it's what I said, not what you said. It's what you said.

1:39:08 Oh, okay.

1:39:08 I'm actually shocked then, yeah, because every time we fight and argue, you always win. But yay, one for me. Ever since I got a– Ever since I got a concussion from roller skating. Oh, you're going to blame the concussion. So Sarah's got a cold. You have a concussion. I used to tell people it was from roller skating. No, it was from roller skating. I remember that was a scary moment. But anyways.

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1:40:59 Right.

1:40:59 These days.org right there. And how often do you, how often do you go live? So the Thursday class, I conduct that every two weeks. It's a lot of work to put together. So are these TikToks, but these are more fun. So Sarah and I do the TikTok, and then the twin joins us every now and then. And then every now and then we have Pastor Jay or Stevie come on. But yeah, what is the current schedule?

1:41:27 I mean, we do these weekly, but we're kind of.

1:41:29 So we're looking at sticking with Sunday, but moving forward, I know next Sunday you're unavailable. So we're going to skip a week. So we won't be here next week, but the following week we'll be back here live on TikTok. All right.

1:41:44 Okay.

1:41:44 So I wanted to wrap up with this since we're talking about, you know, high priest. So in Hebrews 4, 14 through 16, it says, seeing then that we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the son of God, Let us hold fast the confession, our confession, for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weakness, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. So let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace and help in time of need. Excellent. Yeah.

1:42:23 All right. Beautiful. Good verse to end on.

1:42:25 Yeah, let's pray.

1:42:26 Love it.

1:42:27 Father, we just thank you so much that you have made a way for us by sending your son Jesus into the world to pay for our sins, to be the atonement that we needed to be in right relationship with you, God. And we thank you so much for your great love and how you demonstrated that love by being willing to lay down your life. And God, we just thank you that for anyone listening right now, anyone who is unsure about their salvation or where they will spend eternity. I pray that they would open their heart to you, that they would allow you to come in, that you would fill them with your Holy spirit and that you would seal them for the day of redemption. God, I pray that you would just minister to their heart

1:43:12 right now, Lord. And we thank you for sealing us. We thank you for filling us with your spirit to overflow and keeping us, keeping us from all of the things that we know we will have to persevere and endure. But we thank you, Jesus. You tell us that in this life, we will have trouble. We'll have tribulation. But take heart because you have overcome the world. And thank you that we can do that. We can take heart.

1:43:38 We can trust you and depend on you. So we bless you, God. We thank you so much. And we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.

1:43:47 Amen.

1:43:47 All right. Excellent.

1:43:48 Awesome.

1:43:49 Okay, great show, you guys. That was a long one. I love it. Everybody, thank you for joining us. Love you guys. We'll see you in two weeks here, or you could catch the class, well, also in about two weeks, right, Thursday class. In the meantime, what do we always say? Stay filled with the Holy Spirit. Yeah, amen.

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