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Voiceover: 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, and I am with the great Tom Hughes. We've got a doozy ready for you today, don't we? It's kind of crazy out there, isn't it?

Tom Hughes: Yes, we're going to do some hitting today. Are you ready? Oh, yeah. I'm ready. Let's go. Come on. We've got some stuff.

James Kaddis: Tommy has declared me a punchbag today.

Tom Hughes: No, no, no. Not you. But everybody tells me everywhere I go, James, they love it when I say I'm going to get James wound up. So guess what we're doing today. So this guy, are you ready? By the way, we want to give a shout-out to Ellensburg. We were just there the other day in Washington. Calvary Chapel Ellensburg. Zamora was with me, your friend David Tal. You knew that he was with me.

James Kaddis: But I'm not supposed to tell everybody that Zamora is my friend. That's supposed to be a top-secret thing. No, I love David. He's good. He's a wonderful man. He's a good guy.

Tom Hughes: And you folks in Washington, God bless you. You live in a decrepit state.

James Kaddis: And by the way, as a decrepit state, it's still better than California.

Tom Hughes: It's beautiful. I'll tell you, it was absolutely—we're driving through areas and we were at Lake Stevens, Washington, the first weekend, and then Ellensburg this past weekend. But shout out to both of you guys. It was just great and so many people there lovely. But it was beautiful. Absolutely stunning, the mountains and the trees. It was absolutely stunningly beautiful.

Okay, enough of that. Are you ready? So Israel, will not live to see another 15 years, says Iran’s Supreme Leader. Who is the Supreme Leader of Iran anyway?

James Kaddis: Well, he is a cardboard, a piece of cardboard. That's what I thought. That's the guy that was gay, right? Yeah, he's a piece of cardboard currently right now. And I don't even think he's alive. I think Mojtaba Khamenei, I think he's dead. I think he's in hell with his dad.

Tom Hughes: There's a picture of him, the cardboard here. So yeah, it's probably not him, but they're claiming it's him. So this means who would be saying this? IRGC or who would be saying this?

James Kaddis: This is one of the top IRGC officials that have kind of puppeteered him around anyway. I think that's what we're talking about.

Tom Hughes: Okay, here's possibilities of Israel not existing in 15 years: zero. It's a zero possibility.

James Kaddis: Just imagine this. Imagine a massive, massive snowball growing bigger in hell.

Tom Hughes: No, it's not going to happen. So you have all of the messianic prophecies of Jesus himself saying, "I'll be back. I'm coming back." And he's coming back, guess what everybody? For everybody who hates Israel, he's coming back to Israel. He's coming back specifically to Jerusalem. Guess what? The 12 tribes of Jacob, guess who he's coming to?

In fact, you also have all of these different prophecies regarding the second coming of Christ. Joel chapter three, where God says, "They divided up my land. All those who seek to divide my land, I'm going to judge them." So he says of the future, "My land, my people, my heritage."

And these people are out there all over social media, listening to these people from Iran say Israel won't exist in 15 years. "Let's go after them. Let's take out the Jews. Let's eliminate them." God says, "These are my people, my heritage, my land." God says, "Imagine that going against God saying it's not going to exist, and it's not called Israel, it's called Palestine, by the way."

James Kaddis: Good luck.

Tom Hughes: This is about as absurd as absurd gets, but nevertheless, there are so many people that believe it. So what's the story if we have time, we should get into the AI thing that the Pope said. Very fascinating.

James Kaddis: The big manual that he has supposedly released or is going to release. Yep.

Tom Hughes: Let's see where he says, yeah, very interesting. Anyways, few other things. Putin, what's going on with Putin? So he's disappearing because or he's hiding or what's going on? They've shut down the airspace above Russia because of the threats to assassinate him. Have you been hearing these things?

James Kaddis: Yeah, it's the next step in drone warfare. That's basically what's happening. That's the whole explanation behind what's happening with Putin and what's actually going on with Ukraine. A new precedent was set a few days ago in that for the first time, Russia used a hypersonic missile and they shot it at Ukraine. Ukraine is helpless when it comes to that because there's nothing they can do about hypersonics. Nothing.

They don't have any defense from it. They don't even have hypersonics themselves. They're in terrible trouble, and Putin will just continue to escalate. He'll escalate until more people are dead and until Zelensky stops having these future dreams about him stripping in free Ukraine and actually realizes what's actually happening.

Tom Hughes: Wasn't he some kind of a stripper before he became president or something?

James Kaddis: Yeah, that's my point. That's my whole point. And then of course, they're probably colluding with Ilhan Omar, who's busy fighting World War 11.

Tom Hughes: So Russia, so there's an anti-Putin underground movement. Do you know much about them? Who's leading it?

James Kaddis: I assume that whoever is the leader of this underground movement because I've had some readings about it, I've looked at the back and forth, all the different pontification that's going on, but these are Ukraine-related people. That's exactly what we're looking at here.

Tom Hughes: Before we move on to the Pope, Pope Bob from Chicago, let me ask you about this because not many people are hearing about it the rest of the country, but it's not far from your house. Not far from where you live. You know what I'm talking about? So what's going on with that? It's some kind of refinery, not an oil refinery. What is it? And there's been mass evacuation.

James Kaddis: It's an aerospace company. They have a couple of big tanks, one in particular that they're concerned about that is producing a specific chemical that is used in the manufacture of aerospace-grade plastic. For probably the last three days, everybody has been kicked out of their house, and we're evacuated because they said the only way that this ends, there's only two ways, is that there's a massive leak and it obviously the gas will have a dramatic effect on a lot of people, or it will explode, which of course will have even a more dramatic effect on a lot of people.

And so just recently, I want to say yesterday, they dramatically deflated the size of the radius and sent a lot of people back home and it looks like they're going to have it all under control. Who knows? I don't know. But right now, it's looking better than it was a day and a half ago.

Tom Hughes: So that's crazy. For people who don't live in that area, to give an idea, it's a pretty densely populated area.

James Kaddis: 50,000 people were told to leave their homes.

Tom Hughes: And that was just with what was happening if that thing actually did go to the point where they were worried about it, then you could potentially have a dead zone in much of Southern California for who knows how long.

James Kaddis: 100%. All these homes would be empty. The good news is with this type of gas is heat dissipates it very quickly and it all falls apart and doesn't really have the kind of effect that a lot of people think it could. It's not like sarin gas or anything like that, but it would be a massive environmental mess. I mean, obviously, it's a problem.

Tom Hughes: If you think about that, if you think, let's put it in terms of coming tribulation period when these catastrophes will happen and they will have a permanent effect, hence when Jesus comes back, the millennial kingdom starts, that's all going to be cleaned up. It'll have a permanent effect. So just take a populated area and suddenly and you have homes everywhere, you have businesses everywhere, and stuff like that will happen, massive gas, nuclear waste, whatever it is. All of a sudden, they're just empty. People are fleeing for their lives. You can imagine them trying to leave in their cars, leave any possible way they can, and then suddenly it just looks like something out of Mad Max or something like that, which is the direction things will be going during the tribulation period.

James Kaddis: I agree. And actually much worse than that, actually. I mean, if you think about it, I mean, look, they're worried about containing this. They're worried about a little tiny leak. Imagine what happens if some kind of an explosive comes down and just blows it all up. How many of those types of tanks are in any given neighborhood anywhere in the United States? No kidding. And that's not far from Disneyland either. Nuclear silos, Disneyland evacuated for a day.

Can you imagine that? You go spend a thousand bucks to go see the Magic Kingdom and then all of a sudden everything just you get told you can't go in? I mean, imagine that. That would get people all wound up. That's another story.

Tom Hughes: So Pope Leo, Pope Bob from Chicago, I like to call him, compares AI threat to Biblical Tower of Babel. Now, I want to say this, this Pope is a Marxist, right? So find out a lot about this guy. So apparently he was in a pool that was hand-picked by Francis. And so why? Because of his Marxist leanings.

So from what I understand, this was designed to have an American in there to win over the Americans for the papacy and Marxism. And it's not a coincidence that at the time that the Pope becomes the Pope, there is a rise in Catholicism amongst the youth. Marxist Catholicism, Marxist thinking, anti-Israel has been off the charts since Pope Bob from Chicago came in and he sure as heck isn't doing anything to try and slow it down, all the anti-Semitism stuff.

Check this out. So this is proof, James, that a broken clock is right twice a day, right? Because this Pope is wrong on everything. But he might have this one thing right. I didn't read everything that he said. I didn't even know somebody like this actually believed in a Tower of Babel, believed the Bible should actually be taken seriously in Genesis chapter 11.

Nevertheless, Pope Leo compares AI threat to Biblical Tower of Babel. The head of the Catholic Church is adding his moral persuasion to a growing backlash against the impact of artificial intelligence. So for him to actually compare to the Tower of Babel, I find it interesting. I look at AI and the Tower of Babel as very significant because what happened at the Tower of Babel is God says, "There's nothing that man won't be able to do once he sets his mind to it."

It's basically what happens Tower of Babel. So God judges Babel, the people are scattered according to languages. What's happening now is an attempt of reunification, breaking down of the language barriers, and with AI and quantum technology, what they're saying is, "We're going to be able to do anything." And so it's like we've been revisited or coming back to where this world began in its assault against God. The world is unifying to do that. It's an assault against God, and we have AI technology at the forefront of that.

James Kaddis: I would argue pretty aggressively that I was talking about this at this level long before the Pope became the Pope. It's important. It's something that we should be talking about because here's the reality of what we're facing right now. When we talk about Antichrist, Antichrist does not mean against Christ. When you look at it at its just core level, looking at original language, it means "instead of."

So when we talk about "instead of" Christ, then the whole idea behind AI being the modern-day encapsulation of all that is the spirit of Antichrist is so unbelievably important because you have to think about this. What they are attempting to do with AI right now is remove the existence of God by collectively replacing people's consciousness of God by helping them to assume they themselves are God.

AI is becoming the tool that's helping people to sort of create that fictional mindset that's driving them into that place of destruction. And here's the problem with AI, and I say this all the time. Get it out of your head that AI is going to take over jobs. AI will never take over a job. That's just never going to happen. But what is going to happen, and everybody needs to recognize this, is that people will lose jobs to individuals who know how to use AI.

The problem that we have here is that the utilization of AI gives people a very broken sense of awareness concerning what they think they know, and it causes them to move in a direction where their pride and their arrogance blinds them to be able to understand that there is something that is limiting to their capacity and that is the fact that there's only one God and they're not.

That's a hard thing to be able to describe to people because AI is in essence causing individuals to lean in on a specific set of tools that they don't know how to use. And those tools are beginning to use them instead of them using those tools. And that's where things get really, really dangerous. You have to be able to understand what makes that work and why you should use it and when you should absolutely not use it and what's actually happening.

The big problem with the Tower of Babel, which by the way, I think it's a profound observation. But the profoundness doesn't come out of the Pope's mouth. He heard it elsewhere. I can promise you that. He's not getting it from his Jesuit think tank. He's hearing it from people that have actually thought this through at a whole lot more deeper level than he'll ever be able to think it through.

The one thing that I would say that I am most concerned with when it comes to the Tower of Babel and the illustration of the Tower of Babel here is the parallel that exists with one language. That's the one that bothers me more than anything. It's not about quick calculation, it's not about fast analysis, it's not about any of that. Every little bit of that relates to speaking one language.

And because of the fact that AI has gone to where it's gone with these large language models and everything that we have now within AI, we have completely broken that barrier. There are very few languages in the world right now that AI cannot solve for. So we globally now communicate at the same level, even in technical terms, we're doing it, and that is giving us to the idea of even our very vain imaginations bringing things into fruition because there is nothing that they can think of that will not be stopped. That's the problem with AI. It is the bridge that it creates in communication, not necessarily the capability that it has because there are limitations with respect to that capability when you have the people running it or at the helm don't know what to do with it.

Tom Hughes: That's great. So just for clarification, AI has taken some jobs, but people are still working. And I think that's what you're saying. It's like because there's certain types of jobs, like certain things in a CPA's office or an attorney's office that could easily be you don't need this particular position because your AI program can take care of this particular math. However, what you're saying is still takes somebody that's going to have to run these things.

James Kaddis: If I have an assistant right now who has no familiarity with AI at all, let's just say I run a dental office and I have an assistant right now who has no idea how to run AI whatsoever. I'm not going to go look for an AI solution to replace her to be able to answer calls. I'm going to look for somebody that has a deeper understanding of how to utilize AI and hire them in order to put into place a series of automations that enhance what I can bring to my patients.

So I'm not going to hire somebody that can search something on ChatGPT. I'm going to hire somebody that only does what 5% of the population does right now that's using AI, who can actually take advantage of agentic AI or something like that. It's a lot more complicated than that. There's lots of tools in AI that do all kinds of things for us on a regular basis. If you own a cell phone, you use AI. If you drive a car—your car could be a 1960s car that has no technology in it. You're still using AI because the roads you're on utilize AI.

This has nothing to do with that. AI's been around for a long time. It's everything to do with how are you using the information now? How are you harnessing the tool that you have now in order to be able to combat what is being done? And right now, there's a lot of people that are doing it wrong. A lot of people that are like—there are pastors, I know a guy, Calvary Chapel pastor, who uses AI to teach his messages.

Tom Hughes: I bet it is happening a lot and it's going to get worse. And the problem is you can see them. A mile away you can hear an AI message. You know what they sound like. I can tell you where to go to find that guy. He doesn't spend five minutes studying. I know exactly what you're talking about and who. So anyways, he's not the only one, but he's there. So I would venture to say there's people in your area that you could probably point out that I'm sure there are.

So the one language, and I totally agree because this is so interesting, why did God split them up by language? Because they could no longer be one. And this is the enemy knows, "I've got to get these people as one. And the people who don't go along with my plan, I'm going to eliminate them." Hence you bring in the mark of the beast. The mark of the beast has everything to do with worship and eliminating those who aren't Satan's.

Okay, now with this, so this is also fascinating when we think of what happens in 2 Thessalonians chapter two. God says, "I'll send them strong delusion so that they will believe the lie because they would not receive the love of the truth." So when we look at what you had mentioned it, you start looking at AI, what are they talking about? That you will be like God.

So what happened in the Garden of Eden? "Oh, Eve, did God really say that? No, no, no, Eve, you won't surely die. God knows that you will be like God." And the promise that the devil gave, the serpent gave way back in the beginning is the promise that's coming about in the end, and it is AI that's going to cause people to think, "I will be like God." However that works out, this process in a world where we have this unification, a languages come under one umbrella, even if you speak a different language, still able to communicate with the masses as one. And that is exactly what's rapidly coming and this is the problem.

James Kaddis: And what goes with that is with that communication, then the multiplication of knowledge that's out there and the accessibility of that knowledge is far more dangerous than anything that we ever saw in Genesis. And what's interesting is God in his grace and his mercy confused the languages, which basically slowed down the rapid acceleration to destruction that humanity was beginning to express both functionally and relationally for that matter.

And now we've found ourselves in a place where there's no turning back and there is no way on God's green earth that we're not getting judged for this. There's just no way. Because the independence that people are seeking from the truth is what's becoming scarier. And unless you're on top of it, and unless you don't recognize it, unless you don't see it, unless you don't understand what it's for, it's going to be very, very bad.

Tom Hughes: It is indeed. We only have a few more minutes today, James, so I want to throw this out to you because we've got to talk about Israel, and next week when I come back, we'll talk about more stuff. But we've got to talk about Israel. So a lot happened over this past weekend and everything I understand, basically, Israel is being abandoned or whatever. What's your thought?

James Kaddis: Do not agree with that at all. As a matter of fact, for those of you that might be interested, I did a video on this on Monday, and I should probably very quickly talk about this because what I think is actually happening is I think that the President of the United States is doing what he has always demonstrated that he could do. And that is he is bringing in the level-headed players to convince them that the enemy that we're dealing with right now doesn't want to be level-headed.

In 2016, he did this with all of the Arab nations with respect to the Palestinian Authority and was successful. He offered East Jerusalem and they said no. So if the Palestinian Authority says no, what ends up happening? The rest of the Arab world says, "This will always be a barrier to our economic strength. We need to move forward."

So look at the Truth Social post that the President puts out. He puts this out a few days ago and what caught my eye isn't what happened in before or after, it's the names that he lists here. He says this, "I'm in the Oval Office at the White House where we just had a very good call with President Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia. Then there's Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates. Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani—the Prime Minister, by the way, he's talking about Qatar now. These are leaders from Qatar. He says Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani and Minister Ali Al Kuwari of Qatar. These are three names he listed by the way, these are Qatari leaders. I'm going to get into why that's significant in a minute. Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah of Pakistan. Then there is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain concerning the Islamic Republic of Iran and all things related to a memorandum of understanding pertaining to peace."

And then he talks about how he talked to Bibi Netanyahu and they're going to come up with a peace solution. Okay, here's the thing. No, they're not. No, they're not. President Trump is bringing these leaders together in a very historic way to show them that Iran is unreasonable.

Can we just do this for just a second? Go over the significance of who some of these leaders are. Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, he's the Crown Prince, he's literally the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia. Why is that such a big deal? Saudi Arabia is arguably Mohammed bin Salman is the most powerful ruler in all of the Sunni Arab world. It's the anchor, literally, of all of it. We cannot miss that. Not to mention the fact that they're the custodians of Mecca and Medina.

Then Mohammed bin Zayed, who of course is the leader of or the President of the UAE. You can't ignore that. They're one of the most strategic and economically sophisticated countries in the world, and he's got to be one of the most sophisticated leaders of the Arab world, not of the world but of the Arab world. It's become a massive financial set.

How about Qatar? Let's get into all the craziness of Qatar. Look at how significant they are. Or how about Pakistan? The fact that that man was there, that guy is the military leader of Pakistan. I wish people understood that. The guy is extremely important because they're the only Muslim-majority country that actually has nukes.

Or Erdoğan, do we have to get into Erdoğan? Second biggest military in NATO. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, that has everything to do with the northern portion of the Arabian continent, it has everything to do with what's going on in the Red Sea and everything that's going all of that. Jordan, come on. Bahrain.

What the President is doing here is the President, and I think this is critical because historically this isn't happening. We've never seen this happen. This is coalition sequencing. That's exactly what's happening here. The President is putting together—let me just impose this question and then I'll answer it. What if this negotiation is not designed to succeed? Because that's what I think is happening.

Tom Hughes: Well, that's why you said that regarding with the Palestinian Authority. You go back, and the whole thing was set up for that purpose because they knew it wasn't going to succeed. Give them East Jerusalem, they're going to reject it.

James Kaddis: This is what the President does. Here's his pattern, bro. He applies pressure, he offers some kind of an off-ramp, every single time he does it, he allows the opposing side to reject reasonable terms. He does it all the time. He builds consensus around their rejection and then he escalates with legitimacy afterwards because of their rejection.

And this is why Iran is different. The Gulf monarchies, all of the Gulf monarchies, they want things like economic stability. They want oil flow, they want investment, they want infrastructure growth, they want calm in the region. What does Iran want? They want ideological expansion. That's the kind of expansion they want. They want proxy warfare, they want anti-Israel, anti-America revolutionary survival. That's the kind of nonsense they want.

Tom Hughes: Their expansion is explosion. Do you see this war escalating in the near future?

James Kaddis: Yes. Let me tell you why. Because the real purpose of this coalition is not about convincing Iran. Everybody thinks it's about convincing Iran. It's not. It's about convincing the world that Iran cannot be convinced. That's what this coalition is all about. And have we ever seen the President sell out before? No. This is what I say to you: you are my smart tall Egyptian friend.

There's a lot to say about this. I did make a video that I recorded on Monday and for all of you people that don't like me screaming as you call it screaming, I did it in my quiet voice because I had to do it from my house. My babies are sleeping so I kind of have to be—and I literally, I do the whole 30-minute video talking like this, not like this, but talking like this. Not like this. What a mess. But that's what I think is happening. I don't think we're being stabbed in the back.

Tom Hughes: Great explanation. Listen, I know you know that I've got to go, but I'm joining you next week too. I can't wait. It's going to be fun.

James Kaddis: I'm going to purposely look in the next seven days, story specifically designed to get you going. To stump me? To just make me lose my mind? I like both of those. I like stories that are designed to stump me because being stumped can be fun. Okay, well we'll go both. We'll do both. That's what I'm going to be looking for. I'm going to be looking for it everybody.

And then I'm going to make a promise that I'm going to try to lose my mind in my house voice. "Hey everybody, I don't like this. Let me tell you why I don't like this. I don't like this because blah blah blah," instead of "Aah!" I can't wait.

All right, I've got to go. On behalf of the great Tom Hughes, we certainly hope that you have enjoyed watching this or listening to this as much as we've enjoyed making it. We love you guys. God bless you. We cannot wait to see what happens. That's the whole purpose of living the life for Christ. It's awesome. Thank you for joining us for another episode of Countdown to Eternity. We love you guys. God bless you.

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