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Announcer: Welcome once again to Countdown to Eternity with Pastors James Kaddis and Tom Hughes, a weekly radio ministry from Calvary Chapel Signal Hill. Together, Tom and James examine current events and connect what's going on in our world to Bible prophecy. Let's lean in and listen.

James Kaddis: Well, hello, my dear brothers and sisters. I want to welcome you to another episode of Countdown to Eternity. I am with a man who has been working so hard that he is absolutely exhausted, and that means it's going to be a good show because when you get exhausted, Tommy, you get really good at making me mad. So this might be a fiery episode. Hey, we miss you, bro. I miss you. How you been?

Tom Hughes: I've been busy and tired. So here's the reality of it. We are being lied to from people all over social media. The truth is getting squashed under another lie where we hear this common phrase, "The first casualty in a war is truth." Well, here's the bottom line. In the propaganda war, the first casualty of the propaganda war is truth.

There's people that have been known in the past to be on the right, not the left. James, I don't care what anybody tells me. On the left, you can see the left Marxists coming from 50 miles away. They say men can get pregnant and all of these insane things. You can write them off as soon as you start listening to them. They check the box, "What gender are you?" "I'm not male, I'm not female." They check whatever. They say they can be dogs, they say they can be cats, and they think that's normal.

You can recognize that. Any average person can say, "Come on, man, there's something wrong." The bigger issue by far is the right. It is by far. I don't care what anybody says. I think the problem on the right is much more serious, much more damaging. I think the stuff that has happened from the right while I've been going speaking conferences over the last few weeks is absolutely devastating.

It's infiltrated the church because the church overall, if it's not a woke church, if it wasn't a woke church, the church was good at keeping the wokeness out, those churches. But what they have done, Satan came in through the other door. They are wide open to the lies that have come from the right. It comes down to the Bible and they say things like, "Well, we don't really believe the Old Testament. No, that was for the Jews. And the Jews of today were not the Jews of the Bible. In 70 AD, everything was changed."

And right on down that list, the whole Preterist viewpoint and then replacement theology and all of this stuff. So it begins there. Then you go over to the New Testament and, "Well, you can't actually believe the prophecies of the second coming of Christ because oh no, it's not going to happen the way that your poor little mind thinks it's going to happen. No, God's done with—no, none of that's going to happen."

In fact, you want to know something they will tell you? Anybody who believes these things and challenges their authority is a simple-minded person who doesn't know the truth and needs to be taught the truth. But this whole teaching has infiltrated the church to the point where Paul writes in Romans chapter 11 that he says, "I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery unless you become arrogant in your own mind." And that's what Paul is writing about, the very thing that we are hearing that's infiltrated the church from the right.

So churches closed the door—not all of them. We know there's woke churches out there. There's a lot of them. But the other side, Satan goes, "Cool, I got this open door." And in comes the teachings of people who aren't even theologians, but people think they are: the Tucker Carlsons, the Candace Owens, now Steve Bannon, what's her name, that blonde-haired lady, Megyn Kelly? Right on down this list. And yet they come across as if, "Well, I'm Christian, I believe in the Bible." Well, guess what? Over 80 percent of the people at the time of Hitler said, "Well, I'm a Christian. Of course I believe in the Bible." But they didn't believe the truth. I think of the words of Matthew chapter seven where Jesus says, "Well, we did this in your name—there'll come that time on judgment day. We did this in your name, and we did that in your name, and we did this in your name." And Jesus says, "I never knew you. Depart from me, you wicked person." And this is what's happening. And the numbers are astounding to the amount of people that are ill-equipped or just believe these things and pastors are bringing these things into their pulpits.

James Kaddis: It's absolutely amazing and there's a lot of liars that are out there. You mentioned several of them. Tucker Carlson is absolutely lying. He knows exactly what he's doing. And unlike most, I know that first-hand for a lot of different reasons. Candace Owens, let's not get it twisted, she's a Satan worshiper. She's not only a Satan worshiper, but she's somebody who, although when she gets mad at somebody, she calls them operating a pedophile ring and so on and so forth, unlike all of those people that she continues to accuse of doing those things, she actually has defended pedophiles while actually naming victims on her show.

She's a satanically inspired human being that chooses to propagate these lies because the god of this world, her father, Satan, has inspired her to actually hate Israel, to hate the Jews, and her hatred for the Jews has blinded her heart in literally every single way. And by the way, speaking of a person who continues to accuse spouses of not being women or not being men, where's her husband? Why doesn't he man up? Why doesn't he put her in her place and tell her to shut her lying mouth as she continues to make a victim out of a widow and out of orphans?

And I can just say this right now from the bottom of my heart, Candace Owens has always hated Charlie Kirk.

Tom Hughes: I would disagree. I'll tell you why. I watched a video right after Charlie Kirk was killed that Candace Owens put out. I can't find it anymore. It was probably about a minute long and what it was, Candace Owens put it together and it was shots of her and Charlie, and you can see it in laughing, different settings, driving in the back of a limo, doing this, that, and every single shot, her eyes were glazed over with, "I'm in love with Charlie." She's a woman scorned. She has hated Erika Kirk since the beginning because she thought she was going to get to marry Charlie. So it's not that she hated him. It's coming out, obviously the hatred and the violence. She has murder in her heart. You think of someone where Jesus talks about if you're angry with someone, you've committed murder. This is where she is. But I believe that she was so infatuated in a very twisted and evil way with Charlie.

James Kaddis: No, I think I'm being misunderstood. She's hated Charlie from the beginning of all of this, back—that's what I'm saying. From the very beginning she's hated him. She's never had a concern for him the day after he died or the day that he died. It's never been that. Charlie has been her opportunity to just simply go out and make an extra dollar.

But to that point, she's hated him for a very long time. And yes, you may be right concerning that very issue, but I'll take it a step further. She is jealous of a woman because that woman actually had something that she'll never have in whatever that is that she's married to. Because she will continue to say the things that she says in the name of pursuing the truth when in reality she continues to make victim out of victim out of victim out of victim out of victim.

She is a liar and the truth is absolutely not in her. She is attacking Erika's mom now. She's attacking Erika's children. She continues to attack what she is lying concerning Charlie's belief. Charlie was not a Catholic. I talked to Charlie every day about biblical issues. Charlie did not hate Israel. Charlie loved the Jewish people. He loved Israel.

He was gravely concerned for two big issues. He was gravely concerned for the fact that he believed Bibi and his team were not effectively winning the media war, especially with Gen Z-ers, and he desperately wanted to see that happen, number one. And number two, he was very concerned, very concerned with why tons of Gen Z-ers were flocking into the Catholic Church.

He was very concerned. He never disrespected the Catholic Church. He never had a hatred for the Catholic Church. As a matter of fact, he absolutely loved the architecture that was associated with the buildings of the Catholic Church to the point where he often times would just sit there in some of these buildings and take notes and so on and so forth. But he was not any of those things, and this liar continues to go out there and campaign for the enemy, for the lies. She is calling the President of the United States a traitor. She is defending what she believes is the integrity of Khamenei, who has killed far more people than Israel could ever dream of killing. And yet the lies continue to be propagated because the reality of it is, people are being brainwashed into thinking that they don't have to think. And that's exactly what we're seeing, Tommy.

Tom Hughes: So I think she's the most Jezebel-like person on the planet right now.

James Kaddis: Absolutely true. I actually believe she is an individual that Satan himself is giving his attention to, 100 percent.

Tom Hughes: Well, she's got a huge voice. I'll tell you why her husband doesn't try to shut her up. I don't know if you know much about him, but he's just like her. He's behind the scenes. He's a rich dude, rich businessman. He's just like her. Why would he want her shut up? He doesn't care about the Jews. Now her father-in-law, her husband's dad, he's different. But her husband, he's just like her. So why would he shut her up?

James Kaddis: One of his best friends is Andrew Tate. I mean, do we need to say anymore? That's actually why she could sit—she sat down interviewing Andrew Tate like he was a hero when he himself would brag about exploiting women and exploiting underage women. So you mean to tell me you're going to defend him, you're going to lift him up like he's a god of some sort, and you're going to defend known convicted pedophiles, and yet you claim to defend those who are victims?

She's done a couple of shows. Livingston, by the way, he does a great job with this, the Milkbar TV guy. There are several shows where she bleeps saying the name of these child exploiters, completely just bleeps them out, right, while at the same time names the victims on air. This is satanic. And this goes back to the kind—what the kind of evil looks like where people hate the Jews.

Tom Hughes: Oh, she's full of evil.

James Kaddis: It's crazy. And the hatred of Jews is something that is a dark plague that circles the world right now. It's a cancer that is spreading faster than anything that I've ever seen spread before. And it's destroying lives. And the worst part about it is, if you think about the Jews as a people, if you think about the contributions that they've made to this world, I mean, they are the single greatest people group associated with contributions that have made our lives better, not only in the ancient world, but in the modern day. We wouldn't even be recording what we're recording right now if we didn't—if it weren't for the Jews. We wouldn't have the instruments that we use to record. That's the thing that's unbelievable.

Tom Hughes: Yeah. So when we look at her and then we look at Tucker "Catarlson," or not, he is a liar. It's so stinking obvious. But it doesn't matter that these people lie and people can admit it's a lie, but they will prop them up and they will support them and they will follow them.

James, I had a video that was posted the other day by one of my Jewish friends, and we posted it actually. We had at one point, I think it was 6,000 comments, and 98 percent, I'm not exaggerating, 98 percent of them were all full of Jew-hate. But that's the world that we live in now.

So as you look at this just play out, you go, "Okay, why is it that this is happening, this unbelievable rise in anti-semitism?" At the same time that we are watching the other dynamics that are playing out like technology, Mark of the Beast, quite frankly, Mark of the Beast technology. They talk digital ID and digital tracking, all of these different dynamics that are coming about at the same time that the Bible talks about will take place at the time of the end. It's not a coincidence.

So we know that the world's going to turn against Israel and the Jew. We also know that the world is going to turn against those who actually believe the Bible is true, not just Christian in name, but actually Christian in the sense of believing the Bible is true. You saw the Barna poll that was out a couple of years ago that says something like only four percent of Gen Z believes the Bible is true.

And you look at where it is now, I don't even know what the number is now, but I would imagine it's even lower than that. So when Jesus talks about the road being narrow to life, there are few who are on it, broad is the path that leads to destruction, I think the people who believe in the Bible will be a lot wiser if they would start thinking about it in the terms that Jesus actually taught it. It is a very narrow path.

And when the rapture happens, yeah, people are going to be gone, but it's probably not as many that are going to be gone as we have thought. I mean, if you look at—we just talked about the Trump administration. Look, not everybody in there thinks like Mike Huckabee. And some of them will claim to be Christian, but when it comes down to what they actually believe, you start to hear about what they actually believe, you're going, "Wait a minute, do you even go to church? What kind of church do you go to to come out with this type of belief?"

So you realize, wait a minute, people who call themselves Christian, and then you look at the words of Jesus, "Lord, Lord, didn't we do this in your name and that in your name? Depart from me, I never knew you." And then you look where he says, "Narrow is the path that leads to life. Broad is the path that leads to destruction. Many are on it." Jesus himself is the one who says, "Hey, you guys can't tell the difference between wheat and tares. Those who claim to be Christian." He goes, "I can tell the difference."

And by the way, it's worth noting that the closer it comes to harvest time, the wheat bows. The tare stands strong. And prior to harvest, they can grow together and it's really—I've seen it—it's really hard to tell what's wheat and what's tare. At harvest time, the wheat is bowing. That is fascinating to me. And the tare still stands up straight and proud.

Well, guess what? You start to look at it, the closer we are getting to harvest time, we can start to see those who are bowing to the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ and not just claiming it like Candace Owens does and say, "Christ is King." That's an umbrella to trap people, to trap the Christian. And the Germans did it. Nazi Germany did the same thing through the churches at that time. They created the German Christians movement. It's the same concept where anybody that's really a believer will be under the German Christians movement. So Candace Owens and their followers have created this "Christ is King" movement. Well, if you really believe, you're going to be part of this.

James Kaddis: And then Megyn Kelly goes on and says, "Who on earth would worship the Jews?" Megyn Kelly, who on earth would worship the Jews? Do you call yourself a Christian, you devil? I'm sorry. Jesus is a Jew. Do you worship Jesus?

Tom Hughes: She's talking about just a Jewish person. Well, of course we don't worship just a Jewish person or worship the nation of Israel, but she does it under this narrative, this accusatory place like they're all doing, right? It's an accusation that is made with the thought of, "Well, if you actually support Israel, you're worshiping Israel." No, we are not.

It's none of that, but that's the narrative that's out there. And by the way, I got to throw this out before I allow you to talk anymore. Are you ready? Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and the rest, this is what they are constantly saying: "We aren't accusing anybody. I'm just asking questions." Well, your question is an accusation that plants it in the thoughts of everybody that's listening. "Uh-oh, hey, they really did this. I'm just asking questions." Guess what? The devil did that in the Garden of Eden. "Oh, Eve, did God really say that, Eve? Oh no, Eve, I'm just asking questions." This is a tactic of the devil. So when your father is the father of lies, when your father is the devil, guess what you're going to do? You're just going to frame it the same way he did in the Garden of Eden. "I'm just asking questions, Eve. Did God really say that? I think you're misinterpreting this whole thing." That's what's going on.

James Kaddis: Look, bro, the level of deception that exists amongst those individuals who choose to do what they're doing, it goes beyond them seeking to find relevance. It goes far beyond them wanting to make the extra dollar. This is spiritual. This is satanically inspired nonsense.

The whole "I'm just asking a question" thing is complete deception, okay? It is rhetoric. It is complete and total rhetoric. And the problem is, the implication that they carry with respect to the rhetoric that they bring to the table is one that's actually more powerful than if they were to just make a declarative statement. Because when they do it disguised as "I'm just asking a question," they are mimicking what Satan did in the garden. "Did God say? Did really God say that?" That's exactly what's happening here.

And I think it just needs to be recognized for what it is. We need to sit down and we need to really truly work through the issues and have a real conversation about what's happening because what's happening is deeply demonic. It's dark, it's evil, and it's obvious.

And I have had to refrain from speaking about this extensively over the last few months because I have to care for and be concerned with Charlie's widow and my words matter, especially because of the relationship that I've had in ministering to them. But now that I'm a little bit more free to talk about it, I feel the importance to speak the truth about what's really happening and the picture of what's really happening.

And you know, here's a really bad part about this, Tom. This is the part that's really, really terrible, okay? I'm more on the inside of this than most people will ever be. I know what the players are doing. I've seen them. I've talked to them. I know what's actually happening and people would be sick if they knew the level of deception being played out in all of this. It would make people just sick to their stomach. Absolutely sick to their stomach to see what these Satan worshipers are doing.

So at the expense of just going completely berserk, which I don't want to do, I'm telling you, bro, this is evil. This is the power of darkness that's in complete and full effect right now. Completely full effect. It's really, really wrong.

Tom Hughes: All right, so let me let's put it into another frame of reference because I personally believe that it was Mike Huckabee who even asked why Tucker Carlson has even said why he changed his mind, his positions from the things he used to be. I think personally I think he always was this way. Like Candace Owens, you go pre-2016, she was a full-on leftist Marxist. And then she switched over, partners with Ben Shapiro for a while, and then her real feelings started coming back because that's who she relates to. I think that's all it was with Tucker Carlson in that sense.

But there is money involved. I'm convinced there's money involved. All right, so if we look at this, so let's go back to the time when Jesus was tempted in the wilderness. When he gets baptized, the devil comes along and tempts him, tests him for 40 days. He's in the wilderness, right? I think the way it's presented in a lot of churches is it's just the devil. He's just tempting him and it's just kind of like a whatever relationship.

I'm absolutely convinced. So Satan/Lucifer knew Jesus since he was first—since Lucifer was first created. Jesus is God the Son. He has created all things. Lucifer meets with Jesus because now Jesus has become a man. He's fully God, fully man. He's not half man, half God. He's not a man who became God or any of these other lying false doctrines. Fully God, fully man. He grows in wisdom and stature.

So he's tempted by the devil. The devil would have come along, James, I'm absolutely convinced, and said things that would have appealed to a man. "Oh, Jesus, come on. We've been friends for a million years. Oh, Jesus, it would have been this very—I don't think there's any human being that can quite imagine the charisma and the charm that the devil would have been attempting to tempt Jesus with. In a way, we go way back. Remember when I was in heaven and remember how I just worshiped you and remember—oh come on. And you know I can give you all of these kingdoms."

It is Jesus himself who was tested in such a way that he is the one that was faithful, that although the devil could have given him the kingdoms of the world or whatever he promised, Jesus each time he used his word, "Depart from me," and so forth. So he deals with it correctly.

Here's the problem. No other human being that lives has that ability on their own to be able to flee the temptation or resist the devil the way Jesus did. So the devil comes along, you have somebody that's a big podcaster or a person that is not genuinely born of the spirit, they are 100 percent susceptible to, "Wow, there's my spokesperson. I can give them the kingdoms of this world. I'm going to have them meet with my friends in Qatar and they're going to turn on the charm." And right on down this list. So when I look at this, these people are promised the kingdoms and the things of this world. And when they have a certain ability with natural talent, they're like putty in his hand.

James Kaddis: Dude, that is gold right there. That is such a golden assessment. And in many ways, bro, it's the exact opposite of what the enemy was not successful in doing with the Lord. "Here's the kingdom of the world. I'll give them to you if you'll just bow down to me." I mean, bro, that's heavy. You take a clip of that right there and you give it to anybody who even remotely has some intuition of spiritual things and it will wake them up.

Tom Hughes: And that's the truth. And if you—for us, we study the Bible, we get it. But the devil when he tempted Jesus is not—in most pulpits is never presented that way. Kind of like a children's Bible story presentation and just briefly gone over. That's the reality of it.

And so when we look at this, you look at all of the promises, hence you have a Candace Owens who says, "We're going to bleep out the name of the pedophile. We'll just bring the name of the victim." You bring out all of the lies against those who are righteous that you can and the devil, "I will open up the floodgates. You'll be more popular." Why? Because the majority of people are on the broad path to destruction. They will eat up the lies. It itches their ears. They want to hear those things. They do not want to hear the truth.

And so they're going to eat it up and you gain all these followers. This world is in the perfect position to be not only conditioned, but to lift up people like that and willingly—here's the thing, James, they are willingly susceptible to it. Peter writes in Second Peter chapter three that the scoffers will come in the last days walking according to what? Their own lusts.

And whether it be the lust of sex or money or fame or fortune, it doesn't matter what it is. They are walking according—and what are they? They are willfully ignorant. Willfully ignorant. In other words, they choose to be ignoramuses. They choose to not admit the truth, to not allow the truth in. They know it. These people know they are liars and the people who follow them are willing to be deceived.

And then we think we can take it even a step further. Second Thessalonians chapter two where God says, "I will send strong delusion upon them because they would not receive the love of the truth." And we're not there in Second Thessalonians two yet. That day's coming when Antichrist is on the scene, but we are definitely getting a preview of coming attractions. There's no other way that we can put this into the right category without saying, "Wait a minute, these people are in some form of delusion. It is a spiritual delusion, but it's also a spiritual delusion that is necessary to give rise to that kingdom of the Antichrist that's coming."

James Kaddis: That's so heavy. That's the kind of thing that just alarms your heart because you see it so obvious like it's falling into place. And I'm going to just say this because we're running out of time. I think that the message here has to be to call out to everybody in the body of Christ that's watching this, listening to this, that's hearing the words that you're sharing. You've got to take this, what you're hearing, to heart. You've got to treat it as spiritual because it is. I mean, this is heavy. I agree. I agree. It's discouraging in many ways. It's encouraging in the fact that we know that the Lord has it and victory is going to be His and we know that. But man, the days are getting dark.

Tom Hughes: They're getting dark, but in the words of who was it, Adrian Rogers, "Gloriously dark."

James Kaddis: Amen to that. I've never heard that before, but yes, amen to that. Gloriously dark. All right, I'm out of time. Good seeing you. We do hope that you have enjoyed this, watching this as much as we've enjoyed making it. Look, you guys, this stuff is important. It's why we're having these conversations. The battle is spiritual. Get out there and fight the good fight because we know that Christ could come at any moment. Look to Him. Jesus is coming soon. We love you guys. Thank you for joining us for another episode of Countdown to Eternity. We'll see you next time.

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