Countdown 2 Eternity

Narrator: 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. Last week, we promised you a doozy and guess what? You're about to get a doozy. Isn't that right, Tommy?

Tom Hughes: You are going to get a doozy. I'm going to get James wound up a few times today. I'm just going to start right from the beginning. Check this out. Gary Bauer, who used to be in politics and is great on the Bible, said this about communism via Islam. Think of Mamdani and all these people getting elected.

He said, "We are in an emergency. This is the most dangerous moment for the American republic since the Civil War. For the first time in American history, a clearly Marxist movement with its own street thugs is enjoying success at the ballot box." I totally agree with that. Now, also, and you have to comment on this, all these people are saying, "Listen, Islam is a religion. We just need to get along." James, Islam to me, correct me if I'm wrong, is not a religion. Religion is used as this cloak, and people think in the West, "Oh, religion, everybody just wants to get along. Let's just do a big group hug and be tolerant." What is Islam?

James Kaddis: First of all, let me just simply say this. Islam in combination with cultural Marxism may be the most dangerous thing that this country has ever seen. And the real question that we have to ask is why. I think that on so many levels, it brings something remarkably evil. Let me just simply say this because it is super important.

Islam carries the premise of deception by virtue of its position. I need people to understand that. Let me give you some perspective. Mamdani, who is now the mayor of New York, stood under a tunnel in solidarity for Hamas while being sworn in, putting his hand on a religious document that says "Allah is the best of deceivers."

It means that Allah is the chief of deceivers. It's something that is absolutely crazy. The thing that everybody has to understand is that they converge, these two groups, these Marxists and the Muslims. They converge around several shared objectives, and we need to recognize it for what it is.

Both of them view the traditional Judeo-Christian foundation, that's Jews and Christians, as an obstacle. They see it as the foundation that created Western civilization, and they see it as a speed bump that needs to be destroyed. Both of them exploit the language of oppression.

They present Muslims exclusively as victims and Western society as the oppressor of the Islamic victims. That's what they're doing. Both seek to weaken national identity. They want to remove national identity, they want to weaken biblical morality, and they want to tear down the traditional family. When I say traditional family, I'm talking about the biblical worldview of a family, not the Islamic family.

They want to tear down confidence in American institutions. They both do this. Cultural Marxists protect Islamism from legitimate criticism by labeling criticism as bigotry and what's the word that we always hear? Islamophobia.

Islamists benefit from legal protections. They benefit from the academic influence that they show on people on these college campuses with "Queers for Palestine" and all that nonsense. They get sympathy from the media, who happens to be the Marxist extension of the Democratic Party, and they continue to benefit from political access that the radical left provides for them.

This is the part that everyone has to understand. The radical left actually benefits by adding a large and very politically mobilized constituency to the broader coalition that it's trying to build. And here's the part that is really scary. It's not an alliance that is based on shared values. That's the thing that is really weird.

Marxist progressivism, as we oftentimes call it, and Islamic fundamentalism, both radically disagree about all kinds of things. They radically disagree about sexuality and women. You want to be a queer and you want to run into Palestine? They're going to throw you off the top of a building.

They disagree about religious liberty. Look at Sharia law if you really want to understand it. They have different views on government and even personal freedom. It's so crazy. The alliance is based on the adversary that they're fighting. So the idea is this is the way the enemy actually unifies people.

The Muslims don't look at cultural Marxism and hold their values at any level, but their shared hatred for the enemy, which is Jews and Christians, and Western civilization and America, holds them together. By the way, I think this is critical. I think that one of the greatest dangers that exists centers around the fact that this union has created an evil, satanic child.

This alliance works because each side believes and is convinced that they can use the other. History has told us this. When you make tactical alliances like this, it eventually collapses, but by the time they collapse, they inflict enormous damage before they do. And that is what is coming.

Tom Hughes: So check this out. There's this Muslim guy that was on Jeremy Boring, and he said the West is being played, which is exactly true. He even said their god, meaning Satan, is the ruler of this world. He's pulling it straight out of the Bible. This is what Jesus Himself said.

So there's a video that resurfaced of Mamdani, or whatever his name is. He admits the playbook: manipulate white leftists, position yourselves as the validators, get them to trust you, and then take power. Minorities vote identity, whites vote ideology, and they know it. So use the white vote. It's not theory. It's recorded, and they are exploiting the progressive Americans to seize control.

The thing is, these white leftists are so stupid. I liken it to Romans chapter one when God says, "I will give them over to a reprobate, debased mind." Meaning not just immoral and corrupt, but a mind that is so gone when God gives them over to it. They will make decisions that are against the side that they hate so much even though it will kill themselves. They're like blind to it or oblivious to it. They ignore it, and that's what's happening on the left. So it makes sense. How else do you describe that someone of the LGBTQ community supports Hamas?

James Kaddis: It's evil. It's evil. And all of those guys can thank people like Brodersen and Rick Warren who started crying for George Floyd. "Oh my gosh, my white privilege!" What they became is demonically driven. They became people who actually drove a bus that was smashing the premise of Western civilization based on Judeo-Christian values. It's the reality.

Tom Hughes: With that, let me go here to the church for a minute since you brought it up. If the church pastors would stick to the Bible, we'd be in a different world. You unhitch yourself from the Old Testament, so therefore the Old Testament is irrelevant.

James Kaddis: Andy Stanley is one of the cuckoos who you just quoted. He's the leader, he's one of the leaders of this movement. I think it's going to come out that, anyway, I'm not going to even say where I was going to go with that.

Tom Hughes: What has happened is the church is corrupt. I'm not saying every church out there is corrupt, but overall. Churches won't even teach about the second coming of Christ. They won't speak into culture. They sure aren't going to teach the Old Testament prophets. They sure aren't going to teach the Book of Revelation, which you have a book out on.

They tell you to avoid all of those things. Why? Because you're confronted with righteousness and truth and you have to admit something is seriously wrong in our culture. What's good is being called evil, and what's evil is being called good. That's 100% correct. So that's where we've wound up. So with that, as I look at it, James, I think that the alarm needs to be sounded on what is actually happening in America. We are watching this planned take down of America.

Tom Hughes: This is also interesting. Why is it that Marxists, even if Karl Marx is a Jew, hate Jews? Because it's an attack against God. They may not know it, but that's ultimately what it is. Because Israel represents something about God to Satan that Satan can't stand.

James Kaddis: If the enemy gets rid of Israel, he gets rid of the promises of God for His people into the ages. That's been the driving force behind anti-Semitism. This is why if you care about Christianity and if you really are concerned about all of these matters that we continue to talk about, then the preservation of the promises of God to Israel are going to be abundantly important to you.

You can't separate those things. You just can't. And I think it's such a critical juncture that we're in right now. We're in a really bad place. In the Marxist culture, truth is the casualty because you've entered into a godless ideology. So when they're saying Islam is a religion, no, it's masquerading as a religion and people believe that it is, but it's really a godless ideology. So you go after the truth. Hence, Allah is the chief of deceivers. He is. It declares it in their own lying book. I just don't know how much more you can say about it. It's evil. It's dark. It's demonic.

Tom Hughes: Okay. Check this out. Are you ready? Nobody's talking about this, so we need to. UNICEF, the UN. UNICEF confirms children in Gaza are better fed than the rest of the Middle East. The Gaza famine was always a lie.

Naftali Bennett has a map. I'm not sure who the map was put out by. I can't imagine the UN putting it out, but it might have been. It shows the low rate of food problems in Gaza. 1.3% in just the Gaza area. Super, super low. Syria is 12.2%. Saudi Arabia is 3.9%. Sudan is 17.7%. It's ridiculous.

But they won't, I mean, Gaza's as low as you can get. And nobody, but the lies are astounding. You see all of the food that's been delivered to Gaza. And then we just go on with the genocide. If there's really a genocide against the people in Gaza, then why has the population of Gaza exploded? What is the population of Gaza now? Two million people. 150,000 in Gaza in 1948. Two million people now. If there was really a genocide in Gaza, then how is it that we didn't have this great depopulation during the war? Why is it that Israel brought tons and tons of food into the area of Gaza? And still does, by the way. There's a food explosion in Gaza. There's a baby boom in Gaza.

James Kaddis: This is the way the enemy works. And the largest terrorist organization in the world, the UN, continues to propagate the lies that they want everybody to hold fast to because their whole purpose is to target the State of Israel. That's what they've been doing. They have been far more kind to Iran than they would ever be to Israel.

Think about the wickedness of these people. The UN has created these resolutions against Israel at a rate that is unprecedented, more than any other nation that's a member nation. It's that evil. Israel was targeted by 17 resolutions, while the rest of the world combined received six. It's a real number.

Israel is also the only nation subjected to a permanent dedicated agenda item at the United Nations Human Rights Council. It's ridiculous. It's an institutional obsession with the Jewish state, and it always has been. Governments that imprison dissidents, that literally persecute Christians and oppress women, that literally sponsor terrorism at a state level and murder their own citizens routinely, participate in condemning Israel and the United Nations lets them.

This is where you begin to think about radical Islamic political power. The West supports them. Barack Obama made them rise in the UN. They may disagree on nearly everything else, but they will unite against Israel. They do it together. They unite against any level of biblical morality or Judeo-Christian foundation that's been created in the West. I think the fact that they have singled out Israel the way that they have, more than any other country combined, should be the only statement. It should be the mic dropper. What are we talking about here? They're terrorists. The UN, they're terrorists.

Tom Hughes: I got a question for you. Just think about this. You can let me know next week or the week after, whatever. So I'm going to Israel pretty soon. Real soon, right? What videos do you think I should do while there? I've thought about interviewing the Christians that I meet there and say, "Hey, are you guys being systematically genocided? Is there apartheid here?"

James Kaddis: You should. You should interview Christian Arabs. I think that would be hilarious. I'll do that.

Tom Hughes: Anybody else have ideas? Send them our way because that would be, yeah, put it in the comments you guys, who you think Tommy should be interviewing.

James Kaddis: I think the Christian Arabs should be the ones that you interview, and then find a few of these idiotic leftists in Israel. They're all over the place. Talk to them about what they think is going on. You'll get a really good idea of how blind to reality they actually are.

Tom Hughes: There's leftists over there like they are over here. Okay, that's going to be good. You know what else I should do? Go around and visit churches over there and video people having a church service. Tucker Carlson has gone full demon. It's funny how he used to complain how he was harassed by demons, so I think he's not complaining anymore because they've gotten into him. Tucker, if you're hearing me, you know who I am. Let's have a real conversation about this. Let's sit down and have a real conversation. Let's stipulate to actual facts. I think it's nuts.

Tom Hughes: Judea and Samaria. So IDF going into Judea and Samaria. You look at the land that Israel has, it is very tiny. We know that the Bible says the Jews are going to be moving back home. We've been watching them move back home. You can tell with Jews doing their Aliyah. That number is only going to increase.

The fact that Israel is going into the areas of Judea and Samaria, which are Israeli territories, is wild. In your Bibles, everybody, you go to Matthew chapter 19. I know this because this is just my recent Sunday morning message, so it's fresh in my mind. Matthew chapter 19, Jesus leaves the area of Galilee and goes to Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Judea on the other side of the Jordan. So that is the area on the east side of the Jordan River.

James Kaddis: The West Bank!

Tom Hughes: So the other side of the Jordan would make it Jewish territory. In your Bible, Matthew chapter 19, that's what the Bible says. So you look at this, and that's way more than the tiny bit of land. So you have Judea and Samaria on the west side of the Jordan River. Jesus actually also goes into the Jewish area on the east side of the Jordan River, and people are saying the Jews never had this.

James Kaddis: It's ridiculous, and everybody stipulates to it too. They all recognize the historical record set forth in the Bible, yet for some reason, magically, it disappears that Jews were even on the east side of the Jordan. As a matter of fact, a whole section of what we call the Golan Heights side of Syria was occupied, as they call it, occupied by Jews. They're natives to that area. Give me a break.

Tom Hughes: So what's going to happen with the area in Judea and Samaria where we think, okay, Jews are going to be moving there? No matter what the world says, "You're not going to do this, not going to do this." I think a lot of what has happened since October 7th, 2023, when the world keeps trying to tell Israel, "You can't defend yourself. We're not going to give you money," I think Israel's leadership has gotten to the point of saying, "You know what? Forget you. You guys are going to hate us. We're damned if we do, damned if we don't. And we're going to do this. This is our land. God gave us this land."

You can even read about it in the New Testament, folks. So therefore, Israel's going to, it's their land. Stop with the nonsense and the lies. And the British Mandate basically tried to stick it to the Jews. No matter who says, "Hey, the British Mandate created this fake thing for the Jews," no, in the British Mandate, they tried to stick it to the Jews. Two-state solution they tried already at the time of the British Mandate.

James Kaddis: They were doing it for a whole bunch of reasons that related to their own stupidity. They were trying to unload the problems that they had created for themselves. Let's sit down and talk about the Hashemite Kingdom for just a minute. If you really think about it, the original two-state solution was already offered. That's how Jordan was actually started.

Tom Hughes: That was the first one. The second one was 1947. You have to do this sometime going to Israel. I don't think you've been there yet. The bullet factory.

James Kaddis: No, the underground little bullet factory. No, I haven't been there. I really want to go there.

Tom Hughes: It's worth going to because you realize, okay, this is at that time when Britain says, "No, you Jews can't have any weapons. No, you can't have any ammo." So they developed their own. It was so cool. It's in this kibbutz. And what they did, they dug out this massive area underneath the ground. They built a laundromat on top of it. James, this thing had hydraulics. It's so cool. This is in the 1940s and you can still go there today.

And then the hydraulics move the washer and dryer out of the way. You move the massive washer out of the way and there are stairs that go down into the basement where they made the weapons, the bullets, and they tested the bullets down there and everything. And the only time they could test them, because it would make a loud bang, they had to turn on the washing machine upstairs because it was massive. It starts shaking, making all kinds of noise.

So they were telling us that what would happen is every now and then, one of the British soldiers would come along and one of the girls would talk him into, "Hey, let's go over here and have a beer." They'd get the soldiers all drunk so they couldn't pay any attention to what was going on. I know some of your viewers might get mad over that, but it's really interesting because Israel is now being put in this position. You wonder with the next administration going to say, "Hey, you're on your own. We're not going to even give you the necessary metals you need to make your own weapons." It's very fascinating.

James Kaddis: Get lost. Let's just watch God curse all these people that are coming against Israel and watch God give them victory and watch Israel win. That's why I fight for these things because I want God to bless my family. I want God to bless my country. I want God to bless my life. I want my life to count. That's why I support Israel.

Amen. Amen. I wish more people could see it for what it really is. I wish they could. Not to mention just the sheer benefits that we get as a country. I mean, come on, can this become any more obvious? You got me fired up for this show, bro.

Psalm 89, it's not even looked at in support of Israel. God goes right on through, folks, you should read it. It's a long psalm, but you should read it. God goes right on through why He stands with His people Israel. He talks about His name, He talks about the covenant. He talks about, "Hey, I'll discipline them, but I will not forsake them." And then He says something interesting. One of them is, "I will not lie to My servant David. I will bring them back and I will not lie." God is not a liar, and anybody that says that God is done with Israel is calling God a liar. God says, "I will not lie to My servant David."

Anyway, the IDF is now doing operations in Judea and Samaria to clear out the terrorists. Shechem and Hebron are two major terrorist footholds in Judea and Samaria. Those are two major points of beginning that prove the history of the Jews in the land with Abraham in Hebron and Shechem with Jacob and Jacob's well and going through the blessings and cursings that were there at Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. It's not a coincidence that Satan has his terrorists there.

James Kaddis: That's so true. And I have to talk about Psalm 89 for just a second because I tell this to people all the time. If you're a Christian and you say that Israel's replaced the church, you're going to hell. I'm not saying that you're going to hell for believing that. I'm saying if it's true, then your salvation isn't real because God lied to David.

That's what Psalm 89 basically says. It literally emphasizes the covenant that God made, the Davidic covenant. That's what we call it. The Davidic covenant that we read about in Samuel and in Kings. He said that it was permanent, that it was literally irrevocable. Even when Israel is disciplined and everything appears to be defeated, the Lord says it. Psalm 89, He says it. God will not break His promise. And it's pointing to Christ. If you really think about it, it points to Christ. That is why I say if you're a Christian and you don't believe that God kept His promise to Israel, then we're going to hell because you can't trust Him for His promise.

Tom Hughes: Can I read this and then we'll wrap up? Psalm 89 verses 29 through 37. God says, "His seed also I will make to endure forever and his throne as the days of heaven. If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments, if they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes." So this is about the Messiah and then it's about the Jews not doing what they're supposed to. God says, "I'll punish them and I'll give them stripes. Nevertheless, My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail. My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness, I will not lie to David. His seed shall endure forever, his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established forever like the moon, even like the faithful witness in the sky."

James Kaddis: Amen! You're getting me all riled up!

Tom Hughes: Okay, this is also really good to know. Most of you know Romans chapter 11. Many of you will say, "Well, that's not really, you can't take it literally because God promised Israel, He's not done with Israel." God also says in Romans chapter 11, even R.C. Sproul said Romans 11 is a problem for his thinking because it confronts it.

James Kaddis: God says, "All Israel will be saved," and then He says, "The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. They can't be revoked." This is so cool in the context of God saying, "I am not done with Israel. I cannot revoke, I will not revoke My promise to them."

He closes with this. He says, "For who has known the mind of the Lord?" in the context of God's promise to Israel. "Who has known the mind of the Lord? Who has become His counselor? Who has first given Him and it shall be repaid to him? For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be the glory forever. Amen."

That's in the context of God saying, "I am not done with My people Israel." And people say, "Oh, yes you are." And God says, "This is for My glory. And this is forever. Amen." It's powerful. It's powerful and praise God. We know where we're going because God kept His promise to Israel. He's never going to turn back His children. And we're going to be on the right side of history. We already are on the right side of history. To God be the glory. Amen.

Tom Hughes: All right, James. Great seeing you.

James Kaddis: You got me fired up. Good to see you last Thursday too. It was a great time. What a super, super great time. But Santa Barbara!

Tom Hughes: Santa Barbara is coming up in next week. Next week! So I totally forgot about that. Friends, Santa Barbara is going to be off the charts. James Kaddis, David Towe, Bren Holt house, Kathy Ireland. Some of you are going to remember her from way back. Unbelievable. Her story is off the charts and one of the most successful business women in the entire world. And then we're doing the KGB most wanted. I told you about that, right? That's going to be a really good interview. That's only going to be at Santa Barbara with all the other conferences we have.

James Kaddis: That's going to be good. It is going to be over the top. All right. Well, we hope you guys have enjoyed listening to this or watching it as much as we've enjoyed making it. We love you guys very, very much and we're grateful to have the honor and the privilege to serve you. We love you. Keep fighting the good fight.

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