The Antichrist and the Muslim Mahdi: Part 9

0:00 That the Antichrist has a career track, that he doesn't just show up one day and fulfill every prophecy in the Bible about the Antichrist. It's a story. It's a narrative. So the Bible describes where he comes from, his origins, his ethnicity, how he rises to power, what he does once he rises to power, how he consolidates his power.

0:21 This all takes place over time. And then at some point, after he's positioned, then he'll sign this the seven-year peace treaty with Israel, then the real craziness starts right.

0:35 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.

1:03 We are jumping back into our series where we're discussing 20 specific prophecies concerning the Muslim Mahdi and how we believe that they have been fulfilled. So we have a candidate. His name is Ahmad al-Sharah. He's the current president of Syria. And Pastor Ryan has it all laid out in the book. So if you're interested in learning more, find it on Amazon at These Final Days. And so we've covered 16 prophecies so far. We're talking about four more, and you might be like, what? Islamic prophecy? And so the connection is that Pastor Ryan and I wholeheartedly believe that the Muslim Mahdi, the end-time Messiah for the Muslim world, is the exact same person we call the Antichrist. So it helps us to give clarity to the role and who

1:52 this person is, how he rises to power, and what the Islamic world is looking for. when they follow their end time leader. So do you have anything to add to that, Ryan?

2:03 Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, very good. So one thing I would add is that we're getting a lot of pushback on that concept that the Muslim end times Messiah, the Mahdi, is in fact the same person that the Bible calls the Antichrist. And I'm getting pushback mainly, of course, from Muslims. So first of all, I love that Muslims are watching this and joining us and discussing it with us. And we mean no shade at all on Muslims as individuals.

2:31 It's just a story. So one way that we might frame this so it's not as offensive, because we're not trying to offend. We're just trying to get the truth out there, right? If this is the end time story, this is what it is, right? But what I would say is that when the Antichrist comes, or maybe he's already here, like we're discussing, The Jews are prophesied to follow him as their Moshiach, their Messiah, for the first three and a half years of the seven-year Great Tribulation until he commits what's called the abomination of desolation. Then they come to their senses. So this is extremely offensive for me to say. And I have discussed this with my Jewish friends. I have full Orthodox Jewish friends, a

3:12 little bit in the U.S., mainly in Israel. And I love these people, and they're my friends. They're like family to me. And I taught them about this stuff. But that's offensive, right? And then Christians, Paul says in 2 Thessalonians 2, verses 1 through 4, that during the reign of the Antichrist, a whole bunch of Christians, millions is my impression, are going to defect from the Christian faith by following the Antichrist. So Christians will be deceived by this person. So I think the way that we might frame this in terms of Muslims, Sarah, is just saying the same thing. The Muslims, I have a lot of Muslim friends. Some of them are like family to me.

3:50 You know, we're in different religions, and I have, you know, my beliefs about Islam, you know, what the origins are and everything. But again, it's not against people. You know, God loves all of us equally. He doesn't want that any of us should perish. We're all in danger of it, you know, Jew, Christian, Muslim, and, you know, everybody else, right, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist. So, you know, we all have the same enemy, which is Satan.

4:12 He's trying to destroy us all. So I think part of this story in Islam about the Mahdi is, It's preparing the Muslims. This is part of it, Sarah. It's preparing the Muslims to embrace this certain individual when he shows up, thinking that he's a good guy. He's going to bring peace. He's going to bring prosperity.

4:30 Truth and justice.

4:32 Exactly.

4:33 Exactly.

4:34 So, you know, we're all in this together. We're all in this exact same boat. Christians, Jews, Muslims, everyone else is going to be, you know, we will all be major targets of deception. And some of all of these groups are going to follow this person that we really know as the Antichrist. So we could say for the Jews, he's not really the Mashiach. They're deceived. For the Christians, he's not really some great leader who God sent to help us all. They're going to be deceived. And for Muslims, same thing. Let's say it like that. They're expecting this great end times leader. This guy is not who they think he is. So they're deceived in the same way.

5:11 So hopefully that kind of levels the playing field a little bit. I hope we're not against anybody. And literally, I almost feel like Sarah, like you and I are like, you know, weather reporters or, you know, we could say news reporters. We're just watching things unfold. We're comparing these events, et cetera, to to scripture, you know, Christian, Jewish and Muslim.

5:34 And and it's shocking how much everything is lining up. And they're all pointing toward this specific person who's like alive.

5:41 Right, which is mind-blowing because we don't believe that Islam is a true religion in the sense that it's trustworthy, that we could build our life upon it, that it's true. However, these prophecies that were foretold about the Mahdi are seemingly coming true and are happening and being fulfilled. So it's hard to reconcile that.

6:06 So precisely and profoundly.

6:09 We struggle with it too. So if you guys struggle with it, we're on the same page.

6:14 And we're not your typical end times teachers. We're just going to tell you how it is and we're so smart and we know. We don't know. We don't understand this either. Like how is it that all these– if Sarah and I don't believe that the Quran and the Hadiths are– that Islam, like she said, is a good religion, is a legitimate religion. I'm sorry to say it that way.

6:36 But we do believe that it's supernaturally inspired. So it does have a supernatural source. And I think that begins to answer the question as to why even prophecies in Islam are coming true. But I know that, again, this is God's story. And God says that in the last days that this leader will arise. that he'll be the final king of the north, which is the king of Syria.

7:03 There's also a term in the Old Testament, king of Damascus, which very specifically, precisely, ultimately pertains to the Antichrist. And the Muslim world's going to have to follow this guy into Jerusalem, take over Israel, take over the third temple after it's built, right? God says these things are going to come to pass. It's his will. Now, the nuts and bolts of these things Think about it with Jesus.

7:30 Was it God's will? Did God really want Jesus to get nailed to the cross and the crown of thorns and the way he was tormented? I mean, not those specific details, but did God want his perfect sacrifice to be made so that he could rescue mankind from what we got ourselves into through Adam and Eve? So these are all touchy topics. I mean, we're lowly humans here.

7:52 We don't begin to profess that that we understand all this or that we comprehend God's own mind. You know, we're all just here, just like Paul says, you know, scrambling in the dark, right? We see through glass darkly.

8:08 But we're seeking truth. We're digging into God's word. And, you know, yes, we're looking at Islamic prophecies now, but it's kind of like we're ripping off the bandaid. We're getting the hard part over first so that we can move on to the things that we know are true and trustworthy and rooted in God's word and the things that he told us to look out for. So, Stick with us. We are moving in that direction. But we do have four more prophecies concerning the Muslim monarchy.

8:35 Oh, there's just four left.

8:36 Wow, we're getting close. Wow.

8:38 Okay, so we have been making progress. So real quick before we get into the couple ones we want to tackle today. So again, and Sarah kind of alluded to this earlier, the reason that we're looking at Muslim prophecy is You know, we get a lot of flack for this because, you know, we thought you guys were Christian.

8:56 And are you saying that, you know, Muslim is, you know, Islam is correct or whatever? Again, we're just saying we can't fully explain it. You know, we know that, you know, even in the Bible, you know, the word talks about God, you know, hardening Pharaoh's heart. And later on, the Antichrist Coalition, that God puts it in their hearts to fulfill his will.

9:16 I mean, you know, the actual guys who are, you know, working with the Antichrist. So we know that God does these things, and it says it very plainly. It was God's will for Pharaoh to do what he did. It will be God's will for the Antichrist and his coalition to do what they're going to do. So where do these prophecies come from? Are they coming from God? I mean, I hesitate so far to say it because it feels like blasphemy and heresy. I don't know, guys. God is so far above our ways, right? But this story has to take place now. If there was a Jewish kid who was living in Babylon in the 6th century BC, and there was, his name was Daniel. right? This is the book of Daniel, right? If a prophecy was given

10:04 to him, and this is Daniel chapters 11 and 12, and in this prophecy the Antichrist is being described, how would the supernatural being, we believe it was Jesus actually, a pre-incarnate Jesus, compare Daniel chapter 10 to Revelation chapter 1? I'll just say it, a pre-incarnate Jesus. How would this pre-incarnate Jesus, who also, by the way, everybody don't forget, he appeared earlier in the book of Daniel, Daniel chapter 3, when he showed up in the fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. So we're not completely out there with that idea. Anyways, how would Jesus convey to Daniel, hey, when the Antichrist shows up, by the way, you better know this, he will be ostensibly Muslim, when the word Muslim wouldn't even

10:44 exist for another 1100 years. Islam would not exist for another 1,100 years. There's no way that Daniel living in Babylon in the 6th century BC could possibly have conveyed the name Allah, the Muslim god, right? So how could Jesus possibly convey to Daniel so that he could put it to paper so that all of us could read it today and say, oh, that's a really interesting clue, right? Well, Allah has how many names, Sarah? Do you remember?

11:15 99. Well, isn't it like actually infinite, but they did 99.

11:21 Or something like that? Yes, right, but there's 99 that are on paper.

11:23 It's like poetic, yeah.

11:25 Sure, sure, exactly. So what's the 24th name for Allah?

11:31 It's God of Fortresses.

11:33 God of Fortresses. So that's what we see in Daniel chapter 11. He will pay homage to a God of Fortresses. So he's not even really Muslim. Everybody saw our Muslim friends who are watching this. We're saying this too, that this person who shows up showing himself to be the Mahdi, that he's not even really Muslim. Okay, so he's just trying to fool the Muslims like he's trying to fool the Jews and the Christians and everybody else on earth, right?

11:57 So yeah, it's precisely what we get. The Hebrew word in Daniel, that's the language that Daniel knew and wrote in, is mawatzim, the Arabic equivalent being al-mawatz. It's literally the same word in essence, right? And so 1,100 years before Allah existed, Islam existed, Muslims existed, this amazing clue, hey, he's going to honor. And I thought about this recently, Sarah, I think we talked about this last TikTok, that I kind of wondered, well, why that name instead of one of the other 99 names? And I need to spend more time on this, but I've done kind of a cursory glance at this. And if you look at all the other names of Allah, the other 98 names, They all have to do with like, you know, peace and

12:43 love and grace and mercy, things like that.

12:46 Like refuge, like similar names that we see described in the Bible in reference to God, you know, like the one true God, right? Right. Yeah.

12:59 But the one name, again, I need to do a deeper dive on this. So this is kind of just like a cursory idea that I have. the one name out of all of Allah's 99 names that conveys something very different. It conveys, you know, strength and power and strongholds and, and even, you know, warfare, uh, maybe even almost like violence in a way is name number 24 fortresses.

13:21 Wow.

13:22 So, so that, and then it even goes on in Daniel to say that he comes against the, the, the, the greatest, you know, fortresses and, you know, so, um, So yeah, so even that, there's something that Jesus was trying to convey to us through Daniel. So with that, we got two we want to tackle today, right? Yes.

13:43 Yes, we do.

13:43 And tell everybody if they want to see the previous ones, where to go to find the previous TikToks.

13:49 Yeah. So this whole conversation and our past conversations are all on YouTube at these final days. And so... And you can also go to thesefinaldays.org right underneath Pastor Ryan there. You can see the website and it'll link you to past episodes, teachings, and that'll point you over to YouTube. Also, we had somebody ask about the timing of the rapture and what we believed about that. I put a link there for the truth about the rapture. So check that out and you can read that. It's a pretty quick read, but it'll give you clarity and understanding. But Spoiler alert.

14:27 We do need to circle back at that. Yeah, go ahead. Spoiler alert.

14:30 Spoiler alert. Yeah. Post-tribulation rapture, 100%. Jesus says immediately after the tribulation, then you will see the sign of the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven. Then he will gather his elect from the four winds. And then Paul is simply hearkening back to what Jesus already taught. But Jesus really gives us detailed timing after the tribulation.

14:54 Paul gives us a timing reference when he says that that day will not happen until the great apostasy happens first, the great falling away, and then the son of perdition is revealed, or the Antichrist makes his way on the scene. So those two events have to happen before we gather together and are with the Lord. Go ahead.

15:16 And we're going to have to circle back to that at some point. I mean, Everybody, our audience, we so appreciate you. Love you guys. We'll tell you that the last six, seven, eight weeks that we've been doing this, that every single time we finish, TikTok says that we are performing better than 100%, not 99%, 100% of all the other TikTokers in our weight class for our size.

15:39 So we appreciate that. I guess our group is growing here. What we're talking about, I think, is compelling to everybody. we do need to come back to the topic of the rapture so that we can clarify to everybody why we, you know, why we teach and believe, you know, unquestioningly in a pre-tribulation, a post-tribulation rapture, post-tribulation. To us, it just could not be more clear in scripture. And this is why this is so pertinent, you guys. I mean, this is why we are, you know, hitting this, you know, and this is also why most end times teachers don't because most end times teachers believe in and teach a pre-tribulation rapture. So this isn't that important to them. You know, why do we Do we really even care who the

16:18 Antichrist is? It's interesting, but we won't be here for it. It's just not true. We all better be ready to face this when it happens because the body of Christ is going to be on earth when the Antichrist makes his big move, and we need to be aware of it. So Jerry asked, did you move the live to Monday?

16:36 And that's a great question. No, we did not. Just for today because we missed last Friday. But we will be back on this coming Friday, right?

16:45 Yes.

16:45 Yes. And we'll continue. So yeah, our normal time, yeah, still Friday, 3.30 p.m. Pacific time, California time.

16:53 Yes.

16:55 And the tomb is empty. I like this guy. I assume it's a guy. Yeah, I think I can see the picture. It's a gentleman. That false teaching, I think he's referring to the pre-tribulation rapture, is a huge part of the falling away.

17:07 Yes, we believe so.

17:09 Well, you know, and Sarah, let's say it more boldly, right? We can say it more boldly.

17:13 Yes, it absolutely is.

17:15 100% is. Paul absolutely says that. Paul says, don't believe that the second coming and rapture, specifically, he mentions, not without word, of course, are going to happen before the abomination of desolation. That happens halfway through the seven-year Great Tribulation. He says, right, that that day is not going to happen, meaning the rapture. unless the great apostasy happens first. And again, he relates it to the abomination of desolation. So right there, the pre-tribulation rapture theory is blown out of the water.

17:49 I mean, you know, right? Because the pre-tribulation rapture would have to happen three and a half years before the abomination of desolation, before the seven-year great tribulation. And Paul, right in 2 Thessalonians 2, 1 through 4 says, plainly says, guys, the rapture is not going to happen until at least the rise to power of the Antichrist. And in conjunction with this deception, he calls that a deception, believing that millions of Christians are going to defect from the faith.

18:17 They're going to forfeit their salvation. So it's a big deal. It's a very, very big deal.

18:22 So I want to point you to that thesefinaldays.org. And if you scroll to the bottom of that front page, you'll find that book. and it'll give you an explanation of the timing of the rapture, and it could not be more clear. In fact, Pastor Ryan has been teaching Is Jesus Coming Soon? And so in this series, he's actually talking about common beliefs and even the Catholic Church, and the belief was always a post-tribulation rapture with the early church fathers all throughout history. It was only the 1800s.

18:55 It was only the early 1800s when.

18:56 The pre-tribulation doctrine kind of came into being with john nelson darby and right yeah great teaching so go check that out too.

19:10 Yeah i'm so sorry we got to do this so the tomb is empty ask is there a kindle version of my book and yeah all three books these final days part one two and three part three i just published a couple months ago it's already a bestseller on amazon right but you know eschatology category but uh yes all three books are on amazon part one two and three available in paperback, like you see here, Kindle or Audible.

19:34 So if you're on Kindle Unlimited, you can read it for free on Kindle. If you subscribe to Audible, you can listen to it for free. Otherwise, you know, $ 14. 99 for the book. And, you know, we don't make our livings off this ministry. We've said that many, many times. We're just trying to get the word out. out right.

19:50 God is good. That's right. And really, the tomb is empty. You were our absolute best friend of the day, at least on my side. But you just got bumped up just a little bit, demoted there, because I've got American Lady saying, I purchased all three books. I'm completely blown away with the revelation. I was and still am in awe.

20:12 So the tomb is empty. You're like a close second still. But yeah.

20:16 Order all of his books and then you'll be his best friend.

20:19 Yes, yes. And then say something like, no, we appreciate you guys. You guys are amazing.

20:24 Okay, so Pastor Ryan, as he was wrapping up part three and he was getting ready to publish it, send it off December 8th, 2024 happened. Bashar al-Assad, he fled. Rebel forces strolled into Damascus. They declared a historic victory over Assad. And the victory speech was given by our guy who is now seated in Damascus. He was the leader of rebel forces known as HTS. And so Ahmad al-Sharah, he is now leading as the interim president. And it was the arrival on the scene that caught Pastor Ryan's attention.

21:06 Like that day. Like that day, that moment. You were watching the news coverage. Now, you went into great detail about the Antichrist in this book. It's all about his rise to power, scriptures covering his role called the Assyrian, all of these details. So you're writing this in the book. You had just finished writing it, and then this guy comes on the scene So, Pastor Ryan, tell me, what were the things going off in your mind that he was ticking boxes? Which prophecies were you thinking about, and how did it all click and connect for you in that moment?

21:45 That's a really fun question. I wasn't anticipating that, so thanks for asking.

21:49 No, it's cool.

21:49 That's a cool question. Yeah, so, you know, and I guess I'll go all the way back, right? Not quite to the womb, but almost. So, dumb thing to take. Literally 50 years ago, half a century ago, hard to believe looking at me, but I was nine years old. And me and my twin brother, you guys know him as the twin. He's on here with us off and on.

22:09 He couldn't make it today. But our parents took us to this, you know, literally a barn meeting out in the middle of a field, literally in a barn, right? We're sitting on bales of hay. We see this movie called A Thief in the Night. And this would have been, the year would have been, let me say 1976, maybe 77.

22:25 I think it was 76. I turned 10 in 77. And this movie, like anyone who's old enough to remember this, which is probably nobody on here except for me, it was just absolutely terrifying. And it was all about the Antichrist. And it was promoting the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine. So the idea was, hey, as long as you make sure you're saved and born again, you won't have to face this.

22:48 But hey, for everybody left behind that came later, this is what's going to happen. You get the mark of the beast or you get your head chopped off. And it's just like a nightmare, right? Well, that night riding home in the family station wagon, literally, like I said, 1970s, I heard from the Holy Spirit for the first time in my life, as far as I can remember, not an audible voice, but like almost. It was that like intense.

23:11 And I just heard, I was terrified, right? And I heard, this is your topic. This is your assignment. You're going to teach this. You're going to write about it. So start studying now. And every day of my life since that day, literally, I've been, you know, if not actually actively reading, studying, researching. I've been at least like, you know, thinking about it, right? Like that's a lot of where all of us do our best work, I think, is like in our own minds, like contemplating things. And of course, ideally with the influence of the Holy Spirit. But so, you know, long story short, I've been watching for this guy my whole life, right? The Antichrist. And I get a lot of pastors give me a bad time. Well,

23:47 I'm looking for the true Christ. You know, you're looking for the Antichrist. Okay, but this is my calling. I know the calling to which I'm called. I don't apologize for it. I'm not saying everybody's called to this. I know that Sarah and I are called to this. I was between my twin brother and other people, Pastor Jay involved in our ministry, right? So, you know, some of us, we're watchmen on the wall. We're supposed to be watching for this. Well, in 2012, I took my first trip to Israel. And I've been there four times now. And they're always, you know, research trips, like major boots on the ground trips, right? And I'm by myself, and I go up on the top of the Mount of Olives.

24:24 to what's called the Chapel of the Ascension. And this is the spot that marks where Jesus ascended in Acts chapter one, physically, right? The disciples watched him go up and he disappeared in the clouds. And there were two angels there and they said, hey, listen, guys, the same way that you saw him go up, you'll see him come back down the exact same way. So we know that that's the precise spot to which Jesus will land when he comes back to earth at the second coming, right?

24:50 Right. I'm actually putting together some of your research trips footage of that. So that's going to be posted up one of the next ones posted.

25:00 Yeah. Thank you for working on that Sarah.

25:01 Yeah.

25:01 So Sarah was talking about our YouTube channel. So if you go to these final days.org and then you could click over to our YouTube channel or just go to youtube.com forward slash these final days. And you'll find videos of all my research trips, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, right. Some, some, you know, mission trips to like in Africa, but you know, it's amazing stuff. You know, we, we do hardcore research.

25:23 Like I don't know of anybody else doing right. But yeah, so Sarah's working on my 2023 trip, which I never got posted because I came back and my father passed away like a month later. I was distracted and there was some other stuff going on. So thank you, Sarah, for doing that. But yeah, that's my most recent trip.

25:40 And this revelation came to me in the first trip, 2012. So anyway, so Chapel of the Ascension is this little octagonal shape stone structure, kind of small, little dome on it. It's almost like the size of a walk-in closet, you know, inside it's pretty small or a big pantry. It's an old crusader structure from the 12th century AD, but there's nothing around it except this empty courtyard and then kind of like the ruins of walls. Well, this used to be a Christian church built by the crusaders to mark the spot of Jesus' ascension, which again is the spot of his second coming, right? But the church itself had been knocked down by the Muslims when they came back in and took over the Holy Land under Saladin in

26:24 the year 11... 1186, boy, thank you, Holy Spirit, 1186 AD, Saladin, the Muslim forces came back in, and they knocked down the church, but they left the chapel, though, because they believe in Jesus. That's a whole other topic the Muslims do, Isa, Ibn Maryam. And so they didn't want to desecrate this specific little chapel. And then right next door to the ruins of the Christian church is a big mosque now, right?

26:51 So there's a mosque up there that marks this. So I'm standing there, even then I'm like staunchly post-tribulation rapture, but I'm still kind of looking up at the sky. I remember it was a perfectly blue sky and thinking, you know, one of these days he's going to show up, right? Jesus in the sky. But in that moment, standing there for whatever reason, and I started to like think about stuff, contemplate.

27:10 And that's the first time I got the revelation. Wait a minute, the person we call the Antichrist is the same person that the Muslims call the Mahdi. And I don't know why it took me that long to get that revelation. Joel Richardson had written that in a book years earlier in 2005. Waleed Shoubat wrote his book or published his book the same year as Joel. I think Waleed was like the first in the modern era to realize this. But really that understanding that the Christian Antichrist is the same person as the Muslim Mahdi goes all the way back to the beginning of Islam. So this was cool when I researched this, like, wow, really? So throughout the centuries, there have been different teachers who have

27:50 picked up on this, Christian writers, right, who have picked up on this. So from there, I started to very casually, I admit it, it wasn't my main focus at the time and for many years after that, but I'd kind of casually look into, well, what is the story of the Mahdi, the Muslim in times Messiah, right? And I knew that there was a, the big thing here was there's a connection to the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, that he has a very, very significant connection to that mosque in particular, it's called the Great Mosque. That he would be the final king of the north, which means king of Damascus. So I've always been looking at Damascus like this. And, you know, for a while there, I was looking at Bashar al-Assad, the person who our guy, Ahmad al-Sharad, deposed

28:33 in December of 2024. And, you know, I always brag about this, and I'm bragging. I admit it. You know, I'm the wet blanket. Like, Obama's not the Antichrist. Mm-hmm. Trump is not the Antichrist. Gorbachev wasn't the Antichrist.

28:45 I mean, they might fit a couple of qualifications or, you know, prophecies, like a vile person, right? But there's a lot of other details that need to be fulfilled and then will be fulfilled later.

28:55 Yeah, or boastful words.

28:57 Yeah.

28:57 Pompous words, yeah.

28:58 Yeah, I mean, you know, does Trump come across? Yeah, whatever, right? Netanyahu's not the Antichrist. And more than that, Sarah, you're right. And, you know, John, when he coins the term Antichrist, he actually says that In that verse, I believe it's 1 John 2.18, if I remember correctly. I hope I got that right. And so the first time that John actually uses the word Antichrist, and by the way, he wrote 1 John, 2 John, 3 John after he wrote the book of Revelation, which is why we don't see the term Antichrist anywhere else in the Bible. Those are literally the last three books ever written in the Bible was the epistles of John. But he actually conveys that, that you know, my children, you know, that it's the last

29:39 hour because many Antichrists have come, small, like lowercase a Antichrist. But when the Antichrist comes, so he lets us know that there's a spirit of Antichrist. And there's many people throughout the ages who have a spirit of Antichrist, which is why they might look a little like, you know, Macron's the Antichrist, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, my gosh, you know, right?

30:03 Reagan was the Antichrist, you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So there's always someone you could look at and say, well, they've got, you know, kind of Antichrist qualities, so they rub me the wrong way. But I've always been the wet blanket, you know, no, Trump can't be the Antichrist because he's not the king of Damascus. Obama can't be the Antichrist because he's not Arab and, you know, Bill Gates, you know, right, et cetera, et cetera. you know, nobody was checking boxes. Well, on December 8th, 2024, I'm sitting on the couch in my living room, I'm scrolling through the phone, and I check all the news sources.

30:35 This happened to be CNN. I look at them all, Al Jazeera, all the Israeli press, Fox, you know, whatever. And, you know, mainly I like the BBC, New York Times, Reuters, etc., Associated Press. But I see this This headline, I forget the precise, I need to memorize the headline because it's kind of cool to the story.

30:56 I'm sure it's referenced in your book, right? I'm sure this is one of the references.

31:01 It's in the very beginning.

31:02 The million of references you have in here.

31:04 And the book is not all about our guy. It's about, because I didn't know about our guy when I wrote most of this book. Like Sarah said, I was writing about the Antichrist, coincidentally, right? Or not coincidentally, where he comes from, who he is, his origins, right? What he does. And then as I'm just... wrapping up the book, and I'm putting a bow on it, and I've got like the last section I'm writing, then this guy pops up.

31:28 So December 8, 2024, I'm looking, and there's a picture of this, and it says, you know, whatever it says, you know, HTS, Abu Muhammad al-Jalani, that was his nom de guerre at the time, right, his name for war, his alias at the time, march into Damascus. And I see this picture of this, you know, kind of handsome looking Arab man with a big beard, and he's standing kind of head and shoulders above the whole group. And I recognize the mosque immediately because I've studied it. It's like he's in the Umayyad Mosque. And I start to read the article, and I realize what had just happened.

32:02 This guy shows up out of nowhere. He peaceably walks into Damascus. That's part of the prophecy in Daniel 11. He's in what was originally one of the smallest factions in the whole Syrian opposition. There's like over 300 factions rise up with a small number of people, and there's actually even more to that than just that point. But I get maybe halfway through the article with that, and I get up from the couch, and I'm going, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh. And I walk over to the table where my teenage daughter is having a Bible study with her friends, and I show them on the phone the picture of this guy in the mosque. And I say, listen, sorry to interrupt. I just want to get this on the record. I'm saying

32:41 it now. Maybe I'm the first one to catch this. This guy might be the Antichrist. And I had been studying him, and Sarah jumped on the bandwagon, and my brother and a lot of other people. We've been looking at this guy for the last 22 months now. And what are we trying to do, Sarah? Are we trying to make this fit? We want this guy to be the Antichrist.

32:59 We're not trying to make it fit, but we are testing it against Scripture and saying, okay, does he meet this requirement? Specific qualification, yes, yes, yes. Okay, and then there's other things that he hasn't met yet, but that could come later, right? Or that's going to come later in his reign, in his role.

33:15 Right, right, which is an important point.

33:17 Yeah, so we're looking at it, and so far, so, you know, Daniel chapter 11, you go through and he's just checking box after box. I even found one that you did not include yet. In your book. I was like, well, he should qualify for this one too. And I found one and it was pretty amazing. So we'll touch on that.

33:33 We'll get into that. But little.

33:35 We haven't done that one yet, right?

33:37 No, we did touch on it a little bit here and there, but not in depth.

33:43 We need to do like a full coverage of, yeah. So even Sarah got a checkbox and then my twin brother got the ultimate checkbox. His name equals 666. And by the way, when we're done, when Sarah and I are done on these TikToks, unpacking all the Muslim prophecies that this guy fulfills for the Mahdi. Then we're going to pivot over to the Judeo-Christian prophecies that he fulfills, right?

34:06 And then also look at what prerequisites have to be in place before the Antichrist even shows up. Is all that stuff met? Because the Bible is very, very specific on certain things. And yeah, Sarah just made a really important point. And it's funny, this never occurred to me until we started to work on this 22 months ago, that the Antichrist has a career track that he doesn't just show up one day and fulfill every prophecy in the Bible about the Antichrist. It's a story, it's a narrative.

34:37 So the Bible describes where he comes from, his origins, his ethnicity, how he rises to power, what he does once he rises to power, how he consolidates his power. This all takes place over time. And then at some point after he's positioned, then he'll sign this seven-year peace treaty with Israel. Then the real craziness starts, right? But where we are in the timeline right now with the story of the Antichrist is we're not to the Daniel 927 peace treaty yet.

35:07 Right.

35:07 So what we're looking at is in Muslim eschatology and Judeo-Christian eschatology, how many Is this guy checking out of all the checkboxes that would be checked? That's like a tongue twister, right? How much wood can a woodchuck check if a woodchuck could check wood?

35:25 Right?

35:26 But that was good. We have to write that down. But, yeah, so, you know, and so is this gentleman, President Ahmed Alshara, is he checking, like, all of our favorite checkboxes? Is he checking, like, 99% of all the checkboxes that he should be checking at this point? What's the answer, Sarah?

35:47 He's checking everything that we were looking at so far. And then, of course, there's things that, you know, are going to happen later. So it's not, he can't, everything that we're looking at, even, I mean, like I said, I looked at one. I was like, well, this one should qualify now. And then I found one. I was like, okay, that totally qualifies.

36:04 It's a good one. Sarah nailed it.

36:06 Well, you really perfected it and took it because I was just like, well, that qualifies, you know, honor a God with gold and silver. Sure enough.

36:16 Yeah, but you actually nailed it, meaning you identified what the source of the gold and silver is, which is what, go ahead and say it.

36:25 The Kiswah cloth that covers the Kaaba.

36:28 In Mecca.

36:29 Yeah, in Mecca. So touch on that one later.

36:32 We will. And it's funny because I love that you found that too because when you found that, Sarah, I actually caught myself like such a profound one. And I realized in that moment that I had kind of like, I'd finished writing the book, published it. So I kind of let myself get out of the mode of watching.

36:53 So like you said, to begin the program, it's part of your job. Maybe your main job is to ping me and push me and challenge me. And you find that that challenged me to, hey, don't. Like, rest on your laurels at this point, right?

37:09 It's like, hey, we've got 42 checkboxes.

37:11 We're good.

37:12 Like, statistically impossible. This has got to.

37:14 Be the guy, right?

37:15 We're convinced, right? Right.

37:17 So we have enough. No, we've got to do our due diligence.

37:20 He's going to check all of these. If this is the guy and we believe that it is, like, It's pretty profound, the things that we're finding. Okay, let's get into our checkbox.

37:30 I know, I know. My gosh, yeah. Hey, you know what? Actually, I'm going to, I'm so sorry, but I'm going to step away for a second here.

37:39 I'll talk to our audience.

37:41 Yes, and I have a question on this side that you're going to answer.

37:43 Dr.

37:45 Jenny, I believe. Yeah, Dr. Jenny, who do you think it is? I have my own theory of who it is. So why don't you fill our wonderful group in, and I'll be right back.

37:56 Okay. All right. So we are saying that our strong, strong candidate is Ahmad al-Sharah. He is the current president of Syria. He came on the scene December 8th of 2024, and him and his rebel group, they took over Syria. All of it is in the book, you guys. And Pastor Ryan's entire conclusion talks about each one of these prophecies that we've been covering in our conversation. So this is a part nine conversation. You can check out all of the past conversations on YouTube at these final days.

38:31 And so you can, we go through each one checkbox by checkbox. So you can stick with us or if you want to go over sooner than that and look at all of them yourself, find the book. If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read it for free. If you have Audible, you can listen to it for free. But you can get it on Amazon. So you can buy the hard copy for $ 14. 99 or $ 4. 99 for the Kindle version. So do that. It's really interesting, you guys.

39:01 And somebody asked about sources, article sources for each of the checkboxes. We boldly proclaim, get the book. All of the resources are in here. Everything is referenced, article sources, information. You can find it all in the book. That's probably your best bet to get article sources and more information.

39:27 Big Kev, he will be their Makti. Yes. he will be. Lady, thank you for sharing this live. The Antichrist comes from the Middle East. So yes, he's called the Assyrian, and we believe that he has risen into power. And so one of the prophecies that it talks about in The Hadiths is that he will rule for seven years or as much as eight or nine years, which is an interesting detail because we're coming on the two-year mark of his rise to power, which is interesting. So are we going to see maybe a transition in his power? I don't know. I was thinking about that prophecy, like if that one actually does come true for the Muslim Mahdi.

40:17 Wouldn't we see a peace agreement with Israel soon? That's really what we're watching for. Yeah.

40:24 And you know what? So everybody, again, so these final days per three is where we really do a deep dive on this gentleman. He showed up as I was wrapping up this book, which delayed its publication by about a year, over a year, right? About a year and a half. So I actually did not get in this book, Sarah, into this topic that you just touched on. I will say this real quick. for the benefit of the audience, and so that you remember this too, that when you look at Muslim eschatology, that there are multiple prophecies, and a lot of them say that he'll rule for seven years, and then some, like Sarah just said, say he'll rule for seven, eight, or nine. This is a trip. I'll have to share this with you separately, Sarah, or remind

41:03 me later on. And then I'll write about it in part four. That the ultimate prophecy, like the most detailed, biggest one in Muslim eschatology, it goes into greater detail about this concept It says that the height of his reign will equal seven, eight, or nine years, okay? But that it could take as many as 40 years of him ruling before he gets to that point.

41:26 Well, it's not going to be that long.

41:28 It will not be that long.

41:29 It will not be that long.

41:29 Everybody, listen. This is a very interesting and very important point about Muslim eschatology that we could say that Judeo-Christian eschatology is absolutely precise, like as precise as you could because it's all God-inspired. Muslim eschatology is a mess. Ask our Muslim friends, they'll admit it. There's completely contradictory prophecies about the same stuff. Right.

41:55 And there's even like, I don't know how you would explain it, but like a doctrinal theory of like the later writings supersede the older writings if they contradict one another, right?

42:08 Something along those lines. So I would say, I think a more precise way of saying what you just said or what you're alluding to is that there's a concept in Islamic eschatology of canonized prophecies, meaning that all the scholars or most of the scholars agree, hey, these six specific books of, I think they're called the Sunnah, probably got that wrong. These six specific, I know I got to go back and, we consider canon, meaning these ones we don't question. These other ones, they're pretty good. They're a little bit questionable. We're not 100% sure. Now, I want to give my favorite example of this. Because anyone who's thoughtful, which I think is all of our audience, if you stop and think about what we just said,

42:52 then you might challenge us. Well, then how can you be sure that you're checking any boxes for the makti if there's competing prophecies, right? Well, here's a really... concrete example of how we do this, right? There is a prophecy in Islam. Now, this will be later in the Mahdi's career that the Mahdi will uncover the Ark of the Covenant, okay? That he'll rediscover it and that he'll find it at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee, of all things, right? I've been there. Cool place. I don't know what it would be doing down there. Okay, that's fine. There's another Muslim prophecy considered just as credible that he will find the Ark of the Now, listen, everybody, you know, obviously those two prophecies can't both be right.

43:38 You know, he can't find the Ark of the Covenant in the Sea of Galilee and in that cave in Turkey because it can't be in both places. Now, the truth is that the Ark of the Covenant actually is currently residing in a secret cave underneath the Dome of the Rock in the Temple Mount. That's a whole other topic.

43:53 I could prove that to the extent that it could be proven without actually like, you know, digging a tunnel there. The rabbis tried that in 1981. That didn't go very well, right? It's all sealed off now where they were trying to get to. So here's the thing, though. When the Mahdi shows up and the Muslims have to follow this guy, and he will do this. He will 100% do this.

44:14 If he, in fact, digs the Ark of the Covenant out of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, again, it's hidden underneath the Dome of the Rock right now, are the Muslims going to say, oh, well, he didn't find it in the Sea of Galilee, so he can't be the Mahdi? well, I always believed he'd find it in that cave in Antioch, so therefore he can't be the mocked. No, if he finds the Ark of the Covenant, I think everybody's going to kind of chill out on the actual location. Well, it said Sea of Galilee. Look, it doesn't matter. Look, he found the Ark of the Covenant.

44:41 Just the fact that there's two different statements saying two different locations, it's not going to matter if the Ark of the Covenant shows up and it's by his ability to bring it about, then yeah, they're going to be satisfied.

44:54 Exactly, because at the end of the day, What God needs for his story to come to reality is for the Muslim world to follow this guy that they call the Mahdi. There just has to be enough wiggle room where the whole Muslim world will be like, okay, look, the prophecies say that this double eclipse will take place in the month of Ramadan right before his emergence. We didn't really catch it. These guys caught it. We didn't catch it. That happened. Look, there was a comet, just like the prophecies say. Look, he's Arab. hey, he was born in Saudi Arabia. That was one of the prophecies, right?

45:27 He gets this moment of divine wisdom at the age of 40. Well, we weren't paying attention, but yeah, this guy actually did, right? So when the time comes.

45:35 He's bringing peace and justice and- Oh, all that.

45:38 I mean, it's so clear, right?

45:39 He's rebuilding Syria. He's doing so much.

45:42 Yeah, it's- So it is not time yet for the whole Muslim world to get behind this guy and call him the Mahdi. And that's Muslim prophecy. Even when he emerges from the Kaaba, that's one of our checkboxes that we'll get to next week, right? Today, today. We'll do at least the first one today, right? But even in those prophecies, it says that when he does that, that the Muslim world still won't know that he's the Mahdi.

46:07 So he's going to do a lot of stuff before the Muslim world actually recognizes this guy is the Mahdi. It's God's story. It's going to be his timing. So, you know. It's complicated, but we love it.

46:21 Yes. Lady K asks, are all of the checkboxes in the three books? So it's in book three. So it's this one, These Final Days, part three. You can get it on Amazon. And all of the checkboxes are in there with the exception of one.

46:36 Yours. Yeah, just the one. There's a couple more that are coming up that didn't make it into the book. And this is expected, right? So I knew when I published the book on July 1st this year that– we're right in the middle of the beginning of this guy's story. So, so part four, we'll, we'll have, you know, new stuff on him, but, but there's gosh, I think probably, yeah, probably 42 check boxes altogether described in, in this book. And, and again, you know, this guy showed up like when I thought I was pretty much done with this book or close to it. So, so I ended up putting all this stuff about, about this gentleman in Damascus, Al-Sharah in the conclusion of this book. Like he doesn't even, He's not even in a chapter because I was done

47:19 with the book in essence, right? But it's the world's largest conclusion. I think my conclusion is 110 pages long.

47:25 Yeah.

47:26 But that's how I fit him in. So yeah. So if you want the book, go to Amazon.com. Look for These Funnel Days Part 3.

47:33 You can't not take it. Yeah. So we boldly proclaim.

47:36 You'll see all three books on there.

47:37 You can see like in the book all of the articles and the references are in there. So you can actually go and– Put that source information in and check it out for yourself. Everything that he is quoting and putting in the book, you can find links for. So, yes, you can find all of the article sources.

47:57 Explore These Final Days books 1, 2, and 3 at thesefinaldays.org or on Amazon. And keep an eye out for additions to the series in the days ahead. Don't settle for speculation. Discover what scripture truly reveals about the end times.

48:16 All right, so are we ready to touch on another checkbox? So this is number 17. All right, concomitant with the emergence of the Mahdi, the Arab world will be freed from the clutches of Iran.

48:30 Okay, so do you know what the word concomitant means exactly? Why use that word?

48:35 At the same time, right?

48:36 Happening... It's happening at the same time. But the reason I use that word instead of the word concurrent, for example, is because concomitant means– I had to look it up, of course. I'm not a thesaurus. But concomitant means happens at the same time. I can't even pronounce it. Concomitant.

48:52 Concomitant.

49:03 That the Arab world will be freed from the clutches of Iran. Now, everybody watching, you guys know what's been going on in the Middle East. Already, you get it, right? This is low-hanging fruit. If you watch the news at all, you know that we've been at war with Iran, etc. But here's the exact prophecy, and this is from Saeed Sadr Din Sadr, his book Al-Makti. He's considered like the premier scholar on Muslim eschatology of the last hundred years.

49:30 Here's the prophecy from one of the much earlier hadiths, like from over a thousand years ago. It's simple. It just says this. The Arabs would exit from the rule of Iranian kings. So one thing I want to point out there is the word exit I think is interesting because it's not just that the Arabs would be freed from the rule of Iranian kings, which could mean that like let's say in modern vernacular that the U.S. comes in or Israel comes in and takes out the leaders, the regime in Iran, which we try to do, right?

50:02 And so the Arabs are miraculously freed. says that they would exit from, which to me that word exit means that they do it themselves, that by their own hand, by their own force, they exit from, they free themselves from the rule of Iranian kings, leaders, right? So the background on this, I don't know how many of us really know this history. This goes a little ways back.

50:27 The Islamic Revolution in Iran, right? and I do talk about this in great detail in part two of the book series, you know, if you want to get part two, these final days, part two. So, um, so immediately when, when the Islamist regime rose to power in Tehran in 1979, it's called the Islamic revolution. Uh, they started to establish, uh, what, what is called the axis of resistance. Okay. And the whole purpose of this axis of resistance was to, um, counter the, the power and presence of the United States in, um, in the Middle East, and ideally, hopefully, to complete, which they call the Great Satan, or the Great Satan, and ideally to completely eliminate the Little Satan, which is Israel, right? So,

51:11 ever since 1979, that's been their goal. We're going on, you know, 50 years, right, of this going on, right? So, the way that they have done this, Iran has, from day one, been working first and foremost to establish a what's called a hegemony in the Middle East, meaning they've tried to become the dominant power in the Middle East, and they've got some competition there. Israel's very powerful, but they're not trying to create a regional hegemony. People would argue with me on that. But the Saudis, Saudi Arabia is a very large, very powerful, very wealthy country, and they have tremendous influence with the other countries in the Middle East. Iran is also Shia Muslim. Saudi Arabia is Sunni Muslim. That's a different story. I mean, not a

52:01 different story, but another different rabbit trail. But those are the two main factions of Islam. So just even theologically, they're very much at odds with each other, Iran and Saudi Arabia, right? But so what Iran has done over the last almost 50 years is they've worked to establish a presence throughout the whole Middle East, right? So So they established Hezbollah in Lebanon. Okay. Very, very powerful paramilitary organization.

52:29 And I've actually been in their territory. I was in Lebanon in 2021. And I talked my buddy there into driving down into southern Lebanon, full on Hezbollah territory. And it was scary and so much fun. Oh, my gosh. But, you know, guys have guns everywhere. And, you know, you're at the mercy of Hezbollah. But, you know, mission from God.

52:50 So covered and protected. But But I've seen it, you know, with my own eyes. And Hezbollah actually was considered, and past tense is important here, the most powerful non-state actor in the world, the most powerful non-state military in the whole world, meaning Hezbollah is not a country. It's just a little, you know, group within Lebanon. But out of all the groups around the world that aren't an actual nation, Hezbollah by far had the most powerful military. Very, very threatening, right?

53:21 So 50,000 fighters, 200,000 rockets and missiles. And what's Lebanon's whole purpose for, I mean, I'm sorry, Hezbollah's whole purpose for existing is to wipe out Israel, right? Destroy Israel. We see this all the time, right? So over the years, it didn't start off this way. But Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and I've also been there, and I know Hamas.

53:43 I've been searched by Hamas and interrogated by Hamas. Because I visited Gaza for three days back in 2014. My gosh, it's been 100 years. A long time ago. And that sounds dramatic. I always tell people, you know, they search me. They were so bored. These guys wanted to go home. It just seemed like bureaucrats to me. They let us in.

54:07 They kind of watched out for us while we were in Gaza because Islamic Jihad probably wanted to kidnap us and, you know, whatever, kill us, whatever. But anyways... They became a proxy of Iran because Iran was like, hey, guys, we know you're Sunni and we're Shia, but we want to help you destroy Israel. So we're going to train you.

54:25 We're going to fund you. We're going to arm you. And I saw when I was in Starod, I've been there a couple or a few times, there was a museum of rockets that had been fired by Hamas into southern Israel at the police station in Starod. And I remember seeing some of the rockets were from Iran, like they almost like autograph it, like, hey, greetings from Iran, and then here's a rocket into Israel, right? And then also the Houthis in Yemen, and the Houthis are also a non-state actor, but they ended up controlling the capital of Yemen, Sana'a, I'm pronouncing that wrong, and about 80% of the population, right? So very, very powerful organization. The linchpin of the entire Axis of Resistance, though, was not

55:14 a little paramilitary organization in some other country. It was an entire country unto itself. This was so invaluable to the nation of Iran in terms of the Axis of Resistance. And what nation was that, Sarah?

55:28 Syria. It had to be Syria because it was … Where they were transporting everything and, right, they were able to communicate.

55:36 I mean, like Syria.

55:37 Yeah.

55:38 Oh, gosh, Syria was just such a, just a gem for, you know, the regime in Tehran. I mean, you know, they had a whole country. Bashar al-Assad just gave the whole thing over to him, civil war.

55:51 So Bashar al-Assad was deeply tied and connected with Iran, right? So what was their relationship like?

55:59 Yeah, 100%. Well, he's an Alawite. Assad, he's still alive. Him and his family are in exile now up in Moscow. But yeah, it's this weird little sub-culture within Islam. But they aligned with Iran and the majority of Syria by far is Sunni Muslim Arab, right? And so automatically there's a real problem there, right? Real confrontation. And sure enough, again, 14 years of civil war, Assad killed hundreds of thousands of his own people, a million and a half Syrians ended up in exile. I've been to the refugee camps in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, seen it with my own eyes, just acre, mile after mile of these white UN tents, these people just living in abject poverty, very, very dangerous. I kept trying to get my friend to

56:53 stop and let me get out and look at it. He's like, nope, nope, we don't stop here at the refugee camps, right? But anyway, so Syria was the main base of operations for Iran in the Levant. The Levant is the area of the Middle East that includes Israel, right? So this is what's most important. We've got to control it, right?

57:13 So major training grounds for Iranian soldiers, major manufacturing facilities for Iranian weapons, and most importantly, maybe not most importantly, but very importantly, Syria provided a land corridor– oh, also the militias in Iraq. I don't want to leave that out, right? The Iran-backed militias in Iraq. But Syria provided a land bridge between Iran and Lebanon so that there was a steady trickle of guns and weapons and personnel between Iran and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. So Syria was just as invaluable as could be to the axis of resistance.

57:57 Right?

57:57 I mean, it was the linchpin. I mean, the cornerstone. Iran had to have Syria, right? So here's the thing. 2023 happens, right? October 7th, 2022. Yeah, there we go. That's good.

58:10 So you can see like a map.

58:11 Al-Sham, greater Syria.

58:13 Al-Sham, and you can see how Syria connects to Lebanon. Yeah.

58:21 Yeah. OMS or AMS just said... I love this. Everybody, listen now, if he is the Antichrist, you have been very vocal against him. I will be praying for you. Thank you, everybody. Oh, and then Dr. Jenny, wow, good answer. That is sweet, but we are in the time when we have to be vocal.

58:39 Amen.

58:40 Listen, everybody, we're on God's side, right? You know, like the angel said to, gosh, it was Joshua. Come on, Ryan. You know, whose side are you on, their side or our side? I'm on God's side. And I say that very cautiously because that's not me to presume that I have everything right or that God is 100% pleased with everything I'm doing and saying. It's my goal. That's my heart, 100%. Sarah, too, of course, right? But if we're doing God's will and we stay continuously, continually filled with the Holy Spirit and we purpose to stay in His calling and His will, then there's no safer place to be. So I do appreciate the sentiment, but really, supernatural protection, and I've experienced it many times overseas, even here in Lake Hapsu City.

59:26 Not going to go into detail, but But go to FBI.gov. I guess I am going to go into detail. Go to FBI.gov and research the mosque in Kingman, which is our next town over. We live in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and the city council won't allow the Muslims to build a mosque here. I'm doing it, Sarah. It's too late.

59:45 It's out there. They won't allow the Muslims to build a mosque here. But the mosque, the next town over in Kingman, is affiliated with Hezbollah, right? So I even had a moment I was like rushing home in my truck to get to my wife and daughter because something made me think that the Hezbollah cell in Kingman was anyways God's supernatural protection.

1:00:08 I know.

1:00:08 Did I ever tell you about that? Not that detailed. Sarah's never going to meet me for coffee again. She's never going to get you. No, we're good. Yeah. Yeah. So, but yeah, just that there's a little sidetrack for us, but everybody just stay filled with the Holy Spirit, stay in God's will, purpose to be in His calling for your life.

1:00:27 Yes.

1:00:28 And there's no safer place to be. Yes. But yeah, pray for us.

1:00:32 Yeah, definitely pray. And yes, okay, so we're talking about, you know, at the same time as the emergence of the Mahdi, the Arab world will be freed from the clutches of Iran. So, this is an Islamic prophecy.

1:00:45 Yes.

1:00:46 And we're beginning to unpack how it was fulfilled during the same time that Ahmad al-Sharah rose to power in Damascus on December 8th, 2024. And so you've given us some context. So you told us about Hamas and the Houthis and Hezbollah and this axis of resistance. So go ahead, Pastor Ryan.

1:01:11 So check this out, everybody. That's going to trip you out. This is wild when you start to see how dots connect here. the beginning of the end of the axis of resistance was October 7th, 2023. Does that date ring a bell for anybody?

1:01:23 Right.

1:01:23 So that was that the date of the horrendous attack by Hamas in Southern Israel. And they killed, you know, over 1200 Israeli Jews and took 280 approximately captive into Gaza. It, that began the Gaza war, the current one that has just been a disaster from all sides, you know, for everybody. And, and now we've got the board of peace and, you know, put together by Trump and Kushner's involved. It just, everything's related, right?

1:01:50 But that was actually the beginning of the end. So when that day happened, it was such a disaster. That war has not gone well, the Gaza war, by any measure. It's just, again, been a disaster for everybody. But what's happened over the course of it, listen, the day after Hamas did their horrendous deed, the very next day, Hezbollah in Lebanon started to attack Israel. So what did Israel do?

1:02:16 Now they're invading Gaza. They immediately started to fight back with, you know, toward Hezbollah, including like, you remember Operation Grim Beeper? Yeah, Operation Grim Beeper.

1:02:28 Yeah. I think there's going to be a documentary coming out about that pretty soon.

1:02:32 Oh, there's got to be. That was such an amazing. It was a female IDF soldier officer who had come up with that plan. And Israel had found a way over the course of like the previous year or whatever. to hide a little piece of plastic explosive into all these beepers, and I think walkie-talkies too, that were being supplied from Belgium, if I remember correct, somewhere up in Europe, funneled through all the illegal channels down to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. And all Israel had to do, they're sitting there waiting for months, months for a reason to do it, press a button and all these things explode and they killed I think only 35 Hezbollah operatives were killed, but 3,000 were injured. And it was such an embarrassment, so demoralizing, right?

1:03:23 And then one week later, maybe it was 10 days later, about a week later, Israel did an airstrike that actually killed the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Sorry, trying to remember his name. Hassan Nasrallah. which was just devastating for Hezbollah. And you know what's happening to Hezbollah today because of this?

1:03:43 We know that Hamas is just in ruins, right? So that's part of the Iranian axis of resistance. Hamas, they're out. They're out of the picture, right? They're still there, but I mean, their days are numbered. They're kind of cleaning up the mess right now, right? But Hezbollah, meantime, they were actually deeply embedded in the actual legitimate government in Lebanon.

1:04:06 Even when I was there, They held at least a third of the seats in the Lebanese parliament. These guys are out. And Lebanon, the actual government of Lebanon, which is controlled by Christians now, that's amazing, they're in the process of disarming Hezbollah. And it's like a three-stage process. And it's happening. So Hezbollah is completely losing its grip.

1:04:28 It's getting disarmed. The Houthis in Yemen, in the meantime, they still hold the capital, but they're on the verge, as we speak, of losing it. Saudi Arabia is coming in and helping the legitimate Yemeni government fight against these guys. The Houthis are on their way out or they're getting greatly diminished. Even the militias in Iraq, they have been greatly diminished over the last three years. And then Iran itself, six months after October 7th, they made their move. They're using all their proxies, right? No, now we're going to do it directly. They fired, what was it, 300 ICBMs and drones toward Israel all at once. And you ready for this? Israel, the US, and even others like Jordan fired some of this guy. Saudi Arabia fired some of

1:05:16 this guy. 99% of all this hardware that Iran fired at Israel all at once was shot down out of the sky. Nobody in Israel got killed directly by this attack. I think one elderly woman died of a heart attack. But this was the biggest embarrassment to Iran, you know, ever. That was their best shot and they lost it. But the ultimate disaster for the Iranian, I mean, this was the death of it. The Iranian axis of resistance was December 8th, 2024, when Ahmad al-Shara and HTS sauntered into Damascus. Again, not a shot fired. That's prophetic from our prophecy, Daniel chapter 11. and seize the throne in Damascus. While that was happening, while he's standing in the Umayyad Mosque making a speech that we talked about earlier, I saw it

1:06:09 on CNN, Bashar al-Assad, this evil Alawite leader, dictator, tyrant, who had waged 14 years of civil war against his own people, he's up in Latakia, which is a city up on the coast. He calls Tehran, Iran, Come on, guys. You're my main backer. You've always been there for me. And Iran's like, dude, do you watch the news? Do you know how Israel's pummeling us, the US? Trump's in several strikes. We took out Iran's nuclear capabilities, at least for now, right? And Iran's like, we can't help you.

1:06:47 We're sorry. You're on your own. He calls Moscow, which was another major backer, Russia, right? And Putin is like, you know, listen, thanks for calling me. Tehran turned you down. Guess what? I got my own problems. You ever hear of the Ukraine war, right? The war with Ukraine. So the timing was just inexplicable. It was uncanny. Totally God's plan, right?

1:07:11 And that was it. Assad, what was his one move? I mean, this happened instantly, like overnight, right? Not even overnight, just in the course of hours. Moscow says, hey, we'll do this for you. We're going to send a chopper down there. We'll pick you up, your family. We'll fly you to Moscow. They've been up there ever since. They're in exile. They're never coming back to Syria. If they do, they'll be executed, right? So in a flash, by this one guy, I'm going to say this one guy, give him full credit. I know it was the whole Syrian opposition over many years. Ahmad al-Sharah took out in an instant the linchpin, the cornerstone of Iran's axis of resistance.

1:07:51 And just like that, this prophecy was fulfilled that the Arabs will exit from the rule of Iranian kings. And it wasn't just Syria because we've already explained it. In Yemen, the Houthis are greatly diminished, you know, more so every day. Hamas is gone. Hezbollah is getting disarmed. The Iraqi militias, they were like a nation within a nation for a long time. They are greatly diminished in Iraq. So the whole Arab world who was under the absolute tyranny of Iran for decades, just overnight were freed.

1:08:32 So let me ask you this.

1:08:33 It's our guy.

1:08:33 It's crazy. And that's from regionally, like in Syria, right, and surrounding areas. But what about Iran specifically? I mean, do you think that this full fulfillment of this would be that Iran– the Iranian leadership would crumble and a new leadership comes in?

1:08:57 Not at all? No, it's a great question because you know, if that was the case, then we could all be watching for that. Like, hey, you know, maybe it's not Judeo-Christian prophecy, but this is crazy about Islamic prophecy, this stuff's coming true. So if Islamic prophecy even alluded to that, we'd want to hone in on it, you know, just to pay attention, right? But it doesn't say that. It just says that the Arabs would exit from the rule of Iranian kings, not saying that the Iranian kings go away, that they fall out of power, just that whatever power control they had over the Arab world that concomitant with the arrival of the Mahdi, that the Arab world would exit from that rule. And it's exactly what we've seen. So, So,

1:09:44 you know, very, very profound. It's a great question, Sarah, but no, I'm not seeing that.

1:09:49 Because we talk about regime change in Iran, and that's something we've kind of been looking for with, you know, U.S. military strikes, you know, and everything happening there. That's kind of, I don't know, felt like that was maybe the hope that the Iranian people would step up and, you know.

1:10:06 I have a really cool thought on that, and we are going to have to wrap this up. There's no way we're getting our next chapter. I think everybody's enjoying this. We'll come back this coming Friday, this Friday, 3.30 p.m., back to our normal day and time. 3.30 p.m. Pacific time. That's California time. And then we'll do the next checkbox, which is just an off-the-charts amazing one, right? It connects to a lot of other checkboxes.

1:10:27 I'm going to put in the chat as well the timing of the rapture. And so you can read the PDF and you can read it.

1:10:34 All for yourself. I'll do that too. Yeah, everybody, I'll do the same thing. Sarah and I are posting the link. To a free pamphlet that we offer on our website, copy link address. So here's the link. And then you could see, you could read. It's like nine pages. I got to redo this though, Sarah. We could do so much better now than I did back when I put this together.

1:10:57 Yes, me too, especially with the graphics. I have a new graphic and I, yeah, we'll talk about that.

1:11:03 Don't let me forget. We got to talk about that. It's important.

1:11:06 Yes, it is.

1:11:06 Because we want people to understand why we teach post-tribulation rapture and And again, if we're right about that, everybody, if the rapture doesn't happen until immediately after the end of the seven-year Great Tribulation, which is the way that Jesus himself words it in Matthew 24, verse 29, then that means that all of us in this group who don't pass away by some means between now and then, we're going to be on earth for the Antichrist. This is why it's so important that we're talking about this, we're watching for him. The Bible literally talks about this guy, the Antichrist, from Genesis chapter 3, when Adam and Eve were still in the Garden of Eden, God prophesies about the Antichrist, the Christ and the Antichrist, all the way

1:11:48 to the other end of the Bible, the book of Revelation, right? So, you know, in Jesus' parting sermon before he was crucified, the last sermon he ever taught was the Olivet Discourse, and it's about the Antichrist. That's the pivotal moment, right? The abomination of desolation. So if God doesn't really care if we know about the Antichrist because it doesn't pertain to us, then why is his Bible so full of this information? I mean, Jesus himself shows up in the book of Daniel. Daniel, he gets all these prophecies, and the one delivering the prophecies is named. It says the Archangel Gabriel. It actually says the man Gabriel. It's the Archangel Gabriel. And then all of a sudden, Daniel chapter 10,

1:12:27 it pivots to this whole new being that, again, compare Daniel 10 to Revelation 1. It's very clear. It's a pre-incarnate Christ. Jesus himself shows up to deliver the final prophecy to Daniel, Daniel chapters 11 and 12, and it's all about the Antichrist. So somebody explain to me why it's important enough that God prophesies about the Antichrist in the Garden of Eden before he even kicks out Adam and Eve, his final written word to mankind, the book of Revelation, all about the Antichrist, that he's the pivotal character, right?

1:13:01 Jesus' last sermon before he goes to the cross, it's about the Antichrist. Jesus shows up in Daniel almost 600 years before he's even born to tell Daniel about the Antichrist. If we're not supposed to watch for this guy, somebody explain all that to me. Why is all this paper wasted? So I didn't forget before I left.

1:13:24 I was going to say the thing with Islam is that they deny the deity of Jesus. They think he's just a good prophet. They deny.

1:13:32 Yeah. They think he's the greatest prophet besides Muhammad.

1:13:36 But they deny the crucifixion and the resurrection, of course.

1:13:39 And the divinity of Jesus.

1:13:41 And the divinity, yeah. And the sonship.

1:13:43 100%.

1:13:44 Allah would not have a son. They deny all of that. So this is the spirit of Antichrist. This whole religion is based on the spirit of Antichrist. Stacey says, can you explain how the Syrian president's name... Comes to 666. It's in the book. Get the book.

1:13:59 It's in the book.

1:14:00 And our last live, actually, we talked about it. We had Aaron on. He was the one that discovered this. So go back and check out our last live. It's part eight. It's called The Negative Image. You can find it on These Final Days on YouTube. And you can also go to thesefinaldays.org and you can see it posted there as well.

1:14:20 I didn't forget what I wanted to say about your last question before I took a little break there, Sarah. And then we do have to wrap this up. Does this have anything to do with regime change in Tehran? So we know factually that Israel, their biggest goal, heart's desire in this whole thing, we're going to get the US involved and Trump is going to come in and he's going to take out the regime in Iran and And, you know, all the people of Iran are going to rise up and help overthrow the regime because it's tyrannical and it, you know, murders its own people, right? And we know that that, you know, hasn't happened. President Trump 100% thought that would happen. That was his intent. It's not happening. I mean, not at the moment. Now there

1:15:05 is a hint, though, in Scripture, maybe, Sarah, that that is going to happen at some point. And I think I said otherwise before I took the break, but then it occurred to me, okay, And it's in the book of Isaiah and the book of Ezekiel, so I've got to remember this for next time, that there's two main ways that Iran is referred to in the Old Testament.

1:15:26 That's Persia, of course, or Medo-Persia, and also Elam is another name for Iran in the Old Testament. And in Isaiah and Ezekiel, when both prophets are going through the story of the end times and they're talking about all the nations that are judged by God for coming against Israel during the seven-year Great Tribulation, that Iran is listed among them, that might be a clue that they align with the Mahdi. Not necessarily, though. I'm going to say it's not a slam dunk, but it does say that Iran is going to be one of the nations that comes against, you know, Jerusalem, right? Now, the reason it's tricky, this idea that the– let me say it like this.

1:16:06 Let me say it more clearly, concisely, that the current regime in Tehran would never, ever align with al-Sharah. They believe that he's an end-times faker. They say it. Just like we're saying he's an end-times faker in Islam. They say that he's the Ad-Dajjal, which is their version of the Antichrist. So they're saying, yeah, right, he is a bad guy. I mean, he is an end-times faker in Islam.

1:16:31 So they're seeing eschatology here, but they're saying he's not their Messiah, the Mahdi, but he's their Antichrist, which they call the Ad-Dajjal. So they hate him. He's the one who, again... You could almost say he single-handedly destroyed the Iranian axis of resistance. Obviously, there was a whole lot more that led up to that, but he was like the straw that broke the camel's back. I mean, big time, right?

1:16:55 So they don't like him, although inexplicably, this is crazy, he's been talking to Iran. And not even recently, over the last year, Iranian officials have been going to Damascus and meeting with al-Sharah and his guys, trying to make nice talks. They're trying to make friends with him because, you know, so who knows?

1:17:15 Who knows?

1:17:16 It's also complicated. It's why we love it, right?

1:17:19 Yeah, it is very complicated. You guys, thank you so much for your comments. There was a couple of them. So maybe you can answer this one quickly because I said we would. Okay. So I thought that the Antichrist would come from Europe. Other people think that as well. Yeah.

1:17:34 Yeah.

1:17:35 So I'm not going to bag on people who think that because I thought that so much myself for so many years. Because that is the standard mode of thought in Christian eschatology. So much so that in this book, my most recent book, just published on July 1st, These Final Days Part 3, available on Amazon, right? That this actually begins with a detailed retraction of something I wrote very, very profusely in, am I doing it right? Yeah, here we go. In These Final Days Part 1 and These Final Days Part 2. Both books, I actually go along with that. And this comes from the Daniel 70 weeks prophecy, Daniel chapter 9, verse 26 and 27, where we get the seven-year great tribulation, right? It says, and the people

1:18:24 of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary, right? And then the end will come with a flood, right? And everybody agrees that that prince who is to come, that he's the one who who, you know, it's the same prince in the very next verse, right? Then the prince establishes or confirms a covenant with many for one week, that's seven years, but in the middle of the week, the abomination of desolation right? So, and again, I thought this myself for years and years until I really looked at the verse and what it's saying and then cross-compared to Daniel chapter 11. So here's the idea.

1:19:01 The people of the prince who is to come, so it's this future person, Well, destroy the city and the sanctuary. Well, who destroyed? You know, I've been talking to Al about this, right? Who destroyed the city and the sanctuary, Jerusalem and the Holy Temple, the last one that was ever standing 2,000 years ago? Who was that? Who were the people who destroyed the temple?

1:19:24 The Romans.

1:19:25 Clearly. Piece of cake, right? So that means that this prince that Gabriel is describing to Daniel in Daniel 9, verse 26-27 must be a prince of the Roman Empire, right? There's no doubt about it. The prince is 100% a prince of the Roman Empire. A couple of things here, though. The Roman Empire, what is that today, right? The Roman Empire never went away. The Western Roman Empire very peaceably, really, ceased to exist in the early 4th century, okay? But it was replaced by the Byzantine Empire, which is known as the Eastern Roman Empire, right? Constantine. And then over time, that morphed into literally what we know as the Catholic Church, the Holy Roman Empire, which was responsible for crowning all

1:20:16 the kings of Europe for a thousand years, right? The Roman Empire never went away. And then the later years of the Holy Roman Empire, Austria-Hungarian Empire, the Habsburgs, and then even Napoleon held the position of you know, the Roman Empire, you know, hegemony for a few brief years, right? And then finally, the British Empire for 200 years. The British Empire was just a latter days permutation of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire never ceased to exist. Who is the Roman Empire today, unquestionably?

1:20:52 The United States.

1:20:54 Who is it?

1:20:55 The United States. And I do talk about this in great detail in the book. Before Ahmad al-Shar even showed up in Damascus, I go into great detail about why Why we say that. So the guy who brokers the seven-year peace treaty has to be a prince of the last day's permutation of the Roman Empire, which is the United States. And Sarah, what is a prince?

1:21:17 So it could be like a son-in-law of a president.

1:21:21 Well, no, don't say that, though. First say it. Yeah, you're getting to the punchline now.

1:21:25 Yes, a king.

1:21:26 A prince is a son of a king.

1:21:28 Son of a king.

1:21:28 Or in modern vernacular, now you can say it.

1:21:31 Yeah. A son or a son-in-law of a president, perhaps.

1:21:36 Yes, because what is the emperor of the Roman Empire today? We don't call him an emperor, although a lot of people would accuse him of trying to be one. He's called a president. And so the son of a president or even son-in-law, because if you marry the daughter of a king, then you become a prince. If a woman marries the son of a king, she becomes a princess, right?

1:21:56 So this is why in 2017... I started to hone in big time on Jared Kushner, who is not only the son-in-law of President Trump, but is a full Orthodox Jew, has been friends with Benjamin Netanyahu since he was a teenager, a kid. I mean, we all know the story of Kushner. He's profoundly interesting. A lot of people, because of all this, they say that he is the Antichrist. But here's the thing.

1:22:22 Daniel 9, verse 27, it says that the prince will confirm a covenant with many, make a treaty, that includes multiple nations and Israel, right, between multiple nations and Israel, for one week for seven years. And it actually talks about how, you know, the Antichrist signs on to this, and that's the seven-year period that's later in Daniel 11.

1:22:42 But it says, but in the middle of the week, we'll bring an end to the daily sacrifice. Well, the daily sacrifice can only take place in the actual Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. There has been no daily sacrifice, not one, for the last 2,000 years because there's been no temple there. So we know that Israel is, is party to this treaty and that the central component of this treaty is, is, is the rebuilding of the Jewish temple.

1:23:07 Right.

1:23:08 But, but then it says, and on the wing of abominations shall be one who, who, uh, who, who causes desolation. Okay. Actually, I want to, I want to make sure I read that right.

1:23:19 Yeah.

1:23:19 Who makes desolate one.

1:23:21 Yeah.

1:23:22 I'm sorry.

1:23:22 I'm so sorry. You said it right.

1:23:24 Yes.

1:23:24 I want to make sure I say it right. So, so, um, And on the wing of abomination shall be one who makes desolate. Thank you. So we get the term abomination of desolation more or less alluded to there. Wing of abomination is one who makes desolate. But then it's the next part of the prophecy, Daniel chapter 11, where we get the actual full term abomination of desolation. But here's what it says. It talks about the Antichrist, the final king of the north, that he'll come in and invade Israel and he'll sweep away The people of Israel, the Jews, and also the prince of the covenant.

1:24:00 Yep.

1:24:01 So think about it. The Antichrist can't be the prince of the covenant, what covenant? The seven-year treaty, if he sweeps him away, which probably means like kills him or somehow gets him out of the way, right?

1:24:11 Yeah.

1:24:12 But even the way that Daniel 9.27 is worded, you have to pause for two seconds and think about it. But it says, then he, the prince, shall confirm a covenant with many... And then on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate. It's two different people.

1:24:29 Yes.

1:24:30 Very, very clear. So to answer that question, yeah. So we can see why most Christian teachers, including myself for many years, believe that the Antichrist is from the revived Roman Empire. And then a lot of people relate that to Europe itself or to the Vatican or something, right? But it's two different people, everybody. The prince is definitely a prince of the last days, you know, Roman Empire, which is the United States of America. But the Antichrist is a completely different person altogether who ends up killing the prince or at least pushes him out of the way somehow, right? Gets him out of the picture. Two completely different people. Interesting. And that's how we get into like, well,

1:25:12 who is the king of the north? He's not from Europe. He's not from the United States. he's not even a prince because it specifically says in Daniel chapter 11, he doesn't have a title of royalty. I just thought of that. That's more evidence. It's not the same person, right? And it says he's the final king of the north. He follows in the footsteps of Antiochus Epiphanes, who was the second to last ruler of the now defunct Seleucid Empire, right?

1:25:37 The modern day permutation of the Seleucid Empire is Syria. The Antichrist is called the king of Damascus. And then it just It just opens up such a treasure trove of understanding of who the Antichrist is, where he comes from, his ethnicity, his religion, who backs him. And then that's what led Sarah and me and the other people we work with into this whole incredible just maze of like Muslim eschatology. And, you know, we wouldn't even look at it.

1:26:05 We wouldn't even look at Muslim eschatology except that we started to notice because we were reading like what are the Muslims saying about Ahmad al-Sharaf? well, they're saying he's the Mahdi and they're saying this and this. So we started to kind of look at these checkboxes on the Muslim side. It's crazy.

1:26:21 Yeah. I'm even looking at some of the comments on posts that are from Syria and I have to go to Grok and let it translate and interesting things. There was one that said, isn't Ahmad al-Sharah akin to a Mahdi? Like, They see him as a savior. A lot of people are glorifying him. Of course, he has enemies too. Not everybody loves him. But there was also another one that really tied into what the Antichrist will do in taking over Jerusalem. But his name for war to the Golan Heights, but his whole desire is this whole area of the Levant.

1:27:04 So that includes Jerusalem, all of Israel. And somebody even put that in the comment that his rise to power means that he will conquer all this land. So they're anticipating that.

1:27:19 For his rule.

1:27:22 That's what they're looking at, that he will do.

1:27:24 That's what the Muslims say the Mahdi will do. Muslim eschatology says that the Mahdi ultimately will move the capital of Islam from Mecca to the temple in Jerusalem. Muslim eschatology actually says that the Mahdi... rebuilds King Solomon's Mosque, which is the holy temple. That was the first temple, right?

1:27:42 It's crazy. It just lines up. So why don't you talk about the digital ID and the link with COVID data centers and the banks shutting? And for sure, this is one of our topics. And I do teach about this. I haven't even written about this yet because I haven't even gotten that far in my book series, right? But we 100% believe that the mark of the beast is some kind of a digital implanted ID system connected to biometrics.

1:28:07 That's why it's on the hand or the forehead, right? You can't buy or sell without it. That's Revelation chapter 13. And you know, it's funny, you mentioned COVID and Sean, other people reading this might think, hey, that's Sean Emmerich guy. He's a nut. Look, he's mentioned COVID. Listen, everybody. I think Sean is profoundly onto something with that. Okay. Because when COVID happened to me, I'm watching how all the events unfolded and COVID killed a million and a half people, which is a lot of people. But you know that the last thing to happen in the book of Revelation before the mark of the beast is introduced is the sixth trumpet, which I write about this in part two of my book series. I call it the Marriott Pandemic.

1:28:51 Aaron just discovered a day before yesterday, he calls me up, hey, did you know that the Greek word there for the sixth trumpet actually says myriad? So, you know, boom. But it describes three pathogens that are turned loose toward the last half of the seventh year of Great Tribulation, again, right before the abomination of desolation. And again, COVID killed a million and a half people. These three pathogens will kill two and a half billion people So if everybody in the world shuts down for two years, and we're all wearing masks, and we're getting COVID passports, and right before COVID started to let up a little bit, Bill Gates started to talk about, hey, we could do a tattoo on people's hands to prove that they've gotten the

1:29:40 COVID vaccine, and you can't go in a restaurant and a grocery store without it, so you can't buy or sell. It was so much a type and shadow of the mark of the beast. But I believe that's how it's going to happen. The mark of the beast is going to be tied to a vaccine.

1:29:55 So you said the timing is going to happen right before the abomination of desolation.

1:30:00 Yeah, so it's in Revelation chapter.

1:30:02 Towards the end of the first half.

1:30:04 Towards the end of the first half.

1:30:06 First half, okay.

1:30:07 That is what I said. So I hope I said it right. Yeah, if I didn't, thanks for having me clarify. But yeah, so it's Revelation chapter 9. It talks about, The fifth and sixth seals, and again, the sixth seal, to me, it's pretty clearly describing a major global pandemic that's not one pathogen like COVID, but three different pathogens that, again, results in two and a half billion people dying. And then all of a sudden, the Antichrist shows up, does his thing, and then we have this implanted ID that you can't buy or sell with. What is that? What's the justification? We've seen it. It was the COVID pandemic, and I really hope that TikTok's not going to kill us for mentioning COVID.

1:30:47 It's just going to open up a can of worms. But the false prophet is tied into the mark of the beast system. It doesn't necessarily mean the Antichrist is. I mean, he's going to go along with it, obviously, but it'll just happen.

1:30:59 Well, the false prophet is, yeah, he's representing the Antichrist, carrying out his bidding. You know, the Antichrist is like the ultimate.

1:31:06 Which is, yeah, ultimately Satan.

1:31:07 In essence, the personification of Satan. Yeah.

1:31:09 Yeah, right.

1:31:10 And then the false prophet shows up just to back his play. But the false prophet, yes, is technically the one that introduces the mark of the beast system, sets up an image of the beast that can speak, which I never even had a theory what the heck that could be until AI showed up. And now it's like, maybe, maybe, right?

1:31:29 Yeah. All right. So should we wrap this up? Because I know you've been saying that for a minute.

1:31:34 I know.

1:31:35 I know.

1:31:35 I should have.

1:31:35 I was supposed to end at five. Yeah. So Sarah, pray. And then what's our checkbox next time? This Friday. This Friday.

1:31:43 This Friday. Yeah. 3.30 p.m. Pacific. We'll be here live on TikTok. And we'll talk about the Makti will emerge from the Kaaba. So that'll be our next checkbox. We have three more total to go for Islamic Prophecy. And then we'll talk about moving to Judeo-Christian eschatology and the final king of the north. So you guys, thank you so much for sending hearts and gifts. We really appreciate it.

1:32:07 The twin just joined on, and he's here.

1:32:09 So welcome.

1:32:11 Hey, twin. Don't say his name.

1:32:13 Also, thank you guys for your great comments. I'm going to go through these, and I'm going to save some of them, and we'll touch on them next time. Sometimes we'll start with questions, so we'll try to do that. So great conversation today. Great job, Pastor Ryan.

1:32:27 It's great. You too, Sarah.

1:32:29 Wow.

1:32:29 Yeah.

1:32:30 Yeah.

1:32:30 It's been fun as always.

1:32:31 Yeah. We love our audience. Yeah. I don't know what we call TikTok, our peeps.

1:32:36 Yeah.

1:32:37 You guys are the best. So thanks for being with us.

1:32:39 Yeah. Coming back. We appreciate it. So continue to send hearts and gifts as we wrap this up. And again, if you joined late, you can find it all on YouTube at These Final Days. And so you can see past conversations and this conversation. and then future conversations too. So, all right, let's pray. So Father, we thank you so much for your word, your truth. Thank you for your Holy Spirit that leads us into all truth. And God, we just pray for infilling to overflow, God, that we would be prepared for the times that are coming. Lord, thank you for eyes to see. Lord, thank you for illuminating so much to us for Pastor Ryan and all of those in the ministry who are watchmen. And Lord, as we talk about these things and call these things

1:33:27 out and just show what we're seeing. Lord, thank you that you lead us into all truth and that if there's any error or anything in our understanding, Lord, that you would work it out, that you would bring us to a place of truth, Lord. I thank you for just how you work and how you do that in our lives. God, you're so good. We thank you for Al and for those listening, for skeptics, for the people who are struggling with these things, Lord, I thank you that you have a good plan for their life and that you will lead them to a place of truth, God.

1:34:01 We just pray for all of that. And we just love you, God. We love your word. And keep us all safe and your protection upon us, God, in Jesus' name. Amen.

1:34:12 Amen. Amen. Yeah, thanks again, audience or TikTok peeps. And yeah, between now and Friday, just remember, stay filled with the Holy Spirit.

1:34:20 Yes. The signs are all around us. Prophecy is unfolding and we are living in these final days. This podcast is your guide to discovering what scripture says about the return of Jesus and how today's events confirm God's divine prophetic plan. Want to learn more? Check out thesefinaldays.org. There you'll find Pastor Ryan Speakman's book series, The Revelation Timeline, and how you can get involved.