Countdown 2 Eternity

James Kaddis: Well, hello, my dear brothers and sisters! I want to welcome you to another very exciting episode of Countdown to Eternity because it's going to be exciting. Tom just came from overseas. He literally just got off a plane. He must be tired, which means we're going to have some fun. Ain't that right, Tommy?

Tom Hughes: I am very tired, but we are going to have some fun because we got a lot to talk about. And by the way, I do want to say hi to you, James Kaddis, from some fans in Singapore. Singapore! That's a long ways away from here, and I know that people from Singapore are going to be watching this right now.

So a little shout-out. We had a great time, an incredible time there. I will tell you this much: nicest people—for you guys living out there and for anybody else—nicest people I've ever met in my life. Overall, when you go to a country—you know, I've been to a lot of places—it was just overall a wonderful time.

James Kaddis: Well, bro, I hope and I pray that lots of people over there got ministered to. I'm sure they did, and God bless them. You know, it's kind of humbling to hear that they listen to us in Singapore. Pretty crazy.

Tom Hughes: Well, let me just get you wound up with a few things, but I want to go here first. I'm going to be very careful on what I say, and I can't say too much. This has nothing to do with YouTube. This has to do with I don't want to get people in trouble or myself in trouble.

So, just in conversations with some folks over there, what is coming and the world is not prepared for it, the prophecy world is not prepared for it—some people in Bible prophecy are, some people in the financial world are, but it's a very small amount—blockchain is coming. I could say there's so much more I want to say, but the warning is very evident.

I had some excellent conversations in private with people in Singapore. It's coming. It's coming much faster than people know. On a conservative side, you've got two years at most. And that might sound alarming to people, but it's at this point where people need to be very well aware of what's coming.

I want to say this before we go any further, James: blockchain in and of itself is not the Mark of the Beast. So if we wake up tomorrow and find ourselves in a digital world, it does not mean you missed the rapture. You've got to be able to separate and realize things are moving forward. The way that the economy has been done is about ready to change.

James, you know a lot about the economy. There's trouble in the economy. You've got to be smart right now, very smart, and understand what's coming, but you've got to be prepared. We could be here for a while going through some things, and people are going to be freaked out. We are about ready to be launched into a digital world.

James Kaddis: Now, I guess the issue here is that a lot of people don't know what blockchain is. A lot of people know what blockchain is. I just don't think people understand the significance of it. In the Bible prophecy world, I think people don't understand how much of an accelerator that can actually end up being, especially if you're talking about a totalitarian regime that wants to take full advantage of a mechanism that encourages independence and mistrust.

If you really think about it—without getting into all the details of how blockchain works and all that kind of thing—I mean, look, it's not just valuable because it's blockchain. It's valuable only when multiple parties have to share and verify records. That's where it becomes really valuable because when they do this, they don't want to be able to fully trust one another or one central operator controlling the whole system.

That's where it becomes extremely valuable. Now, if I'm an Antichrist—future Antichrist leader—I'm probably not going to be a big fan of blockchain, and I'm probably going to use blockchain to be the tool that accelerates the path to what I know is going to happen in Revelation 13. Could blockchain become the big thing? Yeah. It could become the biggest thing because of all the fraud and the craziness and all the other things that are happening.

So, I don't know. Where do we start, bro? Do we want to describe what a distributed database looks like and what it means in cryptography? Is that something that we should talk about, or do we take the application of it? Because there's a lot of things, bro—economic incentives, all kinds of things that tie to it.

Tom Hughes: I think the application is necessary because some of the technology behind it most people aren't going to get anyway. I mean, I'm still learning about it. I'm learning about it all the time. It's nonstop. But with this, what it does is it will change the dynamic of everything because everything is going digital.

I think everybody gets that. We are digital ID in the UK, digital money, everything is going to be—there's going to be digital transferring of funds and so forth. With this, the dynamic changes. I'll throw it to you another way. And again, I'll tell you some things off the record, James. I'm not going to tell you everything right now because I can't.

But simply, we talked about where the money is going, and China and Taiwan and that whole region are much more advanced in this area than the Western world is. And I asked the question to someone, "Where's the power base going to be?" It's going to be in the Gulf states. And they are far further along with this technology for financing and economics than the U.S. or Europe are.

And then you look at this—I think most of your viewers remember when the UAE said, "Hey, we're not going to be trading in Petro dollars anymore. We're going digital," right? Saudi Arabia, as you know, has been planning this for years, so is the UAE, the Gulf states, and so has the Far East. They're much more advanced than most people realize.

James Kaddis: Yeah, and I should probably say this right off the bat with the Petro dollar statement. The Petro dollar is deeply misunderstood by a whole lot of people. It's a phrase that we tend to use to speak of the strength of U.S. currency within the context of energy consumption, but the Petro dollar is a lot more consequential with respect to the law that used to prohibit Saudi Arabia from buying U.S. treasuries or bonds.

When we started digging oil in Saudi Arabia and we started beginning to build in Saudi Arabia, what we refer to as the Petro dollar was the mechanism by which Saudi Arabia would end up buying treasuries and bonds, basically, in order to be able to take ownership in exchange for energy in a way that was not in violation of United States law.

So when we talk about Petro dollar, the way that we understand the fiat currency known as the U.S. dollar is greatly determined by how, at least in the Middle East, when it comes to energy, how energy is traded for with the purchase of treasuries and bonds. When Saudi Arabia did not renew the contract that involved the purchase of treasuries and bonds, it was more of a reflection of how the law has changed with respect to how things can be purchased, not necessarily a repudiation of the United States dollar.

The reason why it was viewed as a repudiation on the United States dollar is because of the person who was president at the time that the document was not renewed. I'm oversimplifying the discussion, but the bigger issue with respect to how blockchain comes into play here is far more deeply consequential than just the transfer of currency.

And this is very difficult for people to be able to understand if they can't even define it. So just for the purpose of being very brief and giving people a better understanding of how blockchain works, we have to understand that a blockchain is a sequence of batches of data that we refer to as blocks. Each block contains records or transactions.

It also creates a timestamp or what we would refer to as an ordering reference. Now, an ordering reference is cryptographic fingerprint of the previous block. So without me getting into all kinds of complexity, you can have block one and a hash, and then block two would include block one with a hash. And then block three would include block two with the hash.

What does that mean? First and foremost, other data is needed by the network in order to maintain the information that comes from a blockchain. Because every block points back to the one before it, the blocks form a chain, and a simplified structure like the one that I just described helps to explain why it's so valuable.

Changing an old block changes its fingerprint. You can't find an old block in a blockchain and change it without breaking the reference in every block after it. So that makes tampering detectable. It's literally impossible to break a block and not get caught doing it. So it doesn't mean historical data is mathematically impossible to change, but it does mean that changing it becomes increasingly difficult and expensive.

It becomes very obvious and, by the way, very politically unacceptable, especially considering what other foreign governments are doing, like China and what they're doing with the CCP. So depending on the blockchain that exists, you can't do it. The reason why it was invented is because of one simple fact: digital information is easy to replicate. It's super easy to copy.

So it creates a problem for digital money. A person could try to spend the same digital coin two times. Everybody refers to this as the double spending problem. A traditional financial system would solve this through having a central authority for identification. This is how CBDCs, or central digital banking currencies, work.

And those central authorities have typically been like a processing center, a bank, or a clearinghouse—you know, like if you go and buy something on Stripe. Bitcoin introduced a very practical way for a decentralized network to agree on who owns what without relying on a central ledger or any central keeper. That's why Bitcoin has become so popular and so expensive.

Bitcoin was not the first attempt at digital money or cryptographic currency. It was the first major system to combine all of these ideas into a decentralized network. That decentralized network was really important because it was designed to resist double spending. If you tried to spend two times, you would break its value.

This is where we get the term "the ledger." The ledger records everything: Alice paid Bob, or some asset moved from one address to another, or a contract was just modified. People will start signing contracts using blockchain mechanisms so that modifications of contracts won't be easy. This will be a big one: people will start voting using blockchain.

Can you imagine that? You're not going to be able to change a vote that way. Imagine if blockchain was used for that! I think that's been the big reason why the President of the United States has made such a big deal of it. Not every blockchain acts the same, which is why we're still in the Wild West phase.

I hope I haven't confused people more by getting into this, but we have to talk about it because it is the result of the discussions of Bitcoin and Ethereum. They all center around the same kind of thing; they all relate to cryptographic hashing. It's very, very complicated, especially when you start talking about public keys versus private keys and wallets. For the right person, it means unmitigated power.

Tom Hughes: So this is why people need to be alerted to what is coming. A system is coming. It looks like this is the technology that's going to be used, and it's a system that you will not be able to escape from.

James Kaddis: 1,000 percent, bro. I wish I said it that way. You just did in 30 seconds what I took 10 minutes to describe.

Tom Hughes: Well, we probably should do a program sometime with a little bit of going down the application a little bit more, but I have more questions to ask you about more topics. When we see what's coming with AI and then you throw in quantum computing into it, there is no escape. Apart from the Lord Jesus Christ—and people need to be aware—it's going to change.

James Kaddis: With AI and quantum computing, yes, absolutely.

Tom Hughes: In and of itself, it is not the Mark of the Beast. This is technology. But it's technology that gives the ability of Revelation Chapter 13 all the teeth that's necessary that causes no one to be able to buy or sell unless they worship the Beast or his image. And when you look at Daniel Chapter 7, this final beast system has these huge iron teeth. It gives the teeth that are necessary.

James Kaddis: That's right. And the summary on quantum computing is simple. Quantum computing doesn't mean you read email faster. If you took a quantum computer and you put it down within the context of regular everyday use, it's kind of worthless. Quantum computing is a big deal because of the way that it actually deals with cryptography.

Quantum computing can, by a million times faster than the greatest supercomputer out there, break algorithms. AI and quantum computing in and of themselves are not the Mark of the Beast, obviously, as you said. But goodness gracious, bro, what they are capable of in being able to hand power!

A traditional computer—the one that's on my wrist, the one that's in your phone—they can process information step by step. Quantum computers analyze enormous numbers of possibilities all at the same time. It doesn't just say "I do this, then I go to this." There's a limitation created by general computers that do this.

So it allows them to solve certain problems at speeds that could completely transform anything we know about encryption, surveillance, finance, or even artificial intelligence. As a matter of fact, some people will argue that you can't reach AGI or ASI in artificial intelligence if you don't master how quantum computers process the data.

The mechanics of that are absolutely scary. Because if you understand the core of what that means, bro, brace yourself. Quantum computing is in many ways simple to understand. A traditional computer works through all of the possibilities literally one step at a time, but a quantum computer processes it all at the same time. As a matter of fact, it runs faster when it processes all at the same time.

So any problem that would take normal computers years to solve could be handled in literal seconds, in microseconds, by a quantum computer. So once that power gets combined with AI and there's no longer the need for a human being to ramp the problem—forget AI! How about we just talk about surveillance or digital currency?

It's game over. Any kind of global data system—you put quantum computing in there, bro, forget enforcement activity—what about anticipatory action? If you think the social credit system in China right now is no joke, wait until quantum computing meets it. You'll have a thought and you'll go to jail.

Tom Hughes: It's coming. 100 percent. And if we put it into the perspective of God is omnipotent, all-powerful, omniscient, all-knowing, and you start looking at attributes of God—omnipresent—it's going to appear everywhere. This technology gives Antichrist the ability to appear omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent.

James Kaddis: 100,000 percent. Yes. And this is what Satan does—he has to mimic. So much so that I believe it's the technology that's going to allow this image of the Beast to actually be what's going to appear to be a living image. And also with the Beast, Antichrist, and False Prophet, they will perform lying signs and wonders. There'll be miracles, but they're going to be false.

What's coming with technology is going to allow them to appear that way. Why? Because the miracles of Jesus—the signs and wonders He did—they testify of who Jesus is. Satan knows that's what the Bible tells us. The fake miracles will testify the Antichrist is the Christ and Jesus was a fake. That's what he's going at.

Tom Hughes: So he must appear omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, having miracles and everything. And a lot of it is setting up the nation of Israel who has the Bible that tells about these messianic attributes—what you expect from the Messiah. He's going to appear to have all of these things.

One of the challenges that Jews have had with not accepting Jesus as Messiah when He came the first time is because He didn't conquer Rome. They're looking for a Messiah that's conquered. Guess what? Antichrist comes on the system with all of the attributes, including fake miracles appearing to be real based on quantum and AI technology and able to conquer the enemies of Israel.

You talk about the world being set up for Antichrist, who is going to be the false Christ. But that's where all of it is going at a time where with the technology of blockchain, where nobody can buy or sell unless they receive the Mark—everything! It's a system that you won't be able to escape from.

James Kaddis: And what makes it so unique about the Antichrist world, the Revelation 13 world, is not the fact that it's digital or the fact that it's a tracking system. What makes it remarkable is there's no way to subvert it at a global level.

Tom Hughes: There absolutely is no way. And it's coming. So people just listen—we could get raptured tomorrow, but if this technology comes, do not be afraid. It doesn't mean you missed the rapture. It's not yet the Mark of the Beast. Before we have the official Mark of the Beast, you have to have ten kings and you also have to have an official Beast. So there's certain things that aren't in play yet. But this technology that we're talking about—friends, don't just be thinking. The Bible told us these things were coming.

Okay. Ready for the next one? Check this out. ZeroHedge reports: "U.S. officials say Iran's Ahmadinejad—remember him? Mahmoud—he was the President of Iran about 15, 20 years ago. Anyway, U.S. officials say Iran's Ahmadinejad was a Mossad asset. Met with Intel chief in Hungary." Wow. ZeroHedge tends to report on true things.

James Kaddis: And why is that a big deal? I mean, honestly, a lot of people look at this and go, "Oh well, it's just another thing, you know, he was a leader that kind of turned on Iran." No, it isn't! Where do we start with this, by the way?

Tom Hughes: Well, I was gone, as you know. Just got back. I'm looking at all the news. Lindsey Graham died while I was gone. Yeah, that was a—there's a lot to say about that one, bro. Well, that was going to be my next thing I was going to throw out there. I don't know—I know we don't have a lot of time left, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on both of these.

And I'm also going to throw this out because I've thought a lot about this, James, and I know we don't like to talk about these two people much, but Tucker Carlson and Ken Ham—both evil people. I personally lean towards some kind of controlled asset with both of them. Things don't make sense.

I think you may be right. I mean, especially after being at the trial in Provo, Utah. I sat in that courtroom every day and—so there's—yeah. That's a whole other issue that we'll talk about.

So, back to Ahmadinejad, then Lindsey Graham. Let's talk to Mahmoud. I don't know when Mahmoud came into office. I do remember that he left office in 2013 because when he did, this is where we got introduced to—really made way to the next butcher. We call him the Butcher of Tehran, Raisi, who, by the way, died at the hands of an agent by the name of Eli Copter. Helicopter! Oh, how I remember that one!

James Kaddis: But he was notorious—Mahmoud—he was notorious for basically threatening Israel all the time. He denied that the Holocaust even existed. He was a big supporter of Iran's nuclear program, and he actually presented himself as being one of the most staunch haters of Israel. He also was promoting the whole 12th Imam. He might as well have said that he spoke to the 12th Imam. I mean, the guy was—there's some funny jokes, by the way, that go with that.

But why is it a big deal? First of all, it demonstrates the extraordinary depth of Israel's intelligence service. If they could inside Iran do that—if Mossad can establish a relationship with a former Iranian president—there is nothing, nothing that they can't do. I mean, if they move around him internationally, they're communicating with him several years.

The stories that we hear about how they controlled that asset was remarkable. Some people are even beginning to say that their relationship with Ahmadinejad was the reason why they were able to kill what's-his-name inside Iran when the new president came in, when Raisi came in.

Second, I think that it reveals how the power structure of the IRGC, how broken it's become. Mahmoud eventually turned against all of the elements of the clerical establishment, which was the establishment that he was the closest to. He was repeatedly blocked from returning to the presidency. Maybe because they saw this, I don't know, but I can tell you that Mossad apparently believed that his bitterness towards the regime—and he was very bitter towards the IRGC—I think they saw that as an opportunity, and they exploited it.

And by the way, if this was about replacing the regime, it's not about merely destroying it. It's about creating something completely friendly to the cause of Israel, which would be the foundation for the fulfillment of what we see in Ezekiel 38, which is remarkable.

This is probably the biggest reason why it really means something: the psychological impact inside Iran over this could be just devastating. Can you imagine what that does? The IRGC's already splintered. There's already things like paranoia and all that stuff happening. And right now more than ever, we're seeing it. We're watching these purges taking place.

The internal instability that's happening right now is unbelievable. Whether or not the story's completely true or not, we're already watching it happen. This is not Hollywood material anymore. This is something that we actually know. And it's a big deal because Ahmadinejad was one of the biggest, most consequential public faces concerning the hate of Israel. So if Mossad was able to turn him—or let's just even say they were able to seriously negotiate something with him—could you imagine the capability that Israel has to penetrate at this level? It's just striking.

Tom Hughes: This whole story is a reminder that truth is stranger than fiction. Hollywood would do well to look at some true things and make movies on them instead of fiction. That would be one of the most interesting movies ever made. The producers would probably get killed making it, but you know, hey.

When The Godfather was made—remember the first one? You heard the story behind that one, right? No, I've never even watched The Godfather, believe it or not. I watched it on a plane a few years ago because you're on those long planes. It was actually really good and kind of scary. But the background was so real and so true to life that there were genuine threats made where finally the mob boss had to get involved and say, "Okay, we give you the green light." Seriously, it was that real.

Anyway, enough of that. My mom wouldn't let me watch it, so I had to wait until I was 60 to watch it. Anyway, there's just wild stuff that's happening. Lindsey Graham dies while I'm gone. He's dead at age 71. Two days after his 71st birthday, by the way. I mean, people die, though. They do. All right, so I don't want to get too far out there. I don't know all the stories. I know what people start sending me. So what do you know or what are your thoughts behind that?

James Kaddis: No, because it's important. It's close to the time and we should probably cover it. What do you know about Lindsey Graham? Do you know the cause of death and all that? I don't even know that. I think it was while we were in route—aortic dissection is how he died.

Tom Hughes: Go ahead, bro. Go ahead.

James Kaddis: No, so I really don't know much other than all of the conspiracy theories that are out there. I just don't gravitate towards conspiracy theory as the first bit of news I can trust. You're going to get a million different ones, but there may be some truth to some of them.

The factually based stipulation centers around the fact that Lindsey Graham died suddenly after suffering what was called an aortic dissection. The official preliminary finding points to some kind of severe cardiovascular disease, but that isn't what necessarily got him. He had just returned from Ukraine. He was pushing all these major sanctions against Russia. The timing—obviously the timing of it all has generated great speculation.

But aortic dissection is weird, man. Like that is such a weird thing to be able to describe. I'm going to grab something as kind of a prop here. Okay, this is my roll of paper towels that is under my desk. Let me tell you how an aortic dissection works. Let's just pretend this is your artery, the inside of your artery where blood flows, and then this is sort of like the aortic wall that surrounds it.

What'll end up happening with an aortic dissection is this little cardboard piece that you see here, it's going to change shape eventually. Eventually, it will change the shape so badly that it will block blood from flowing into this hole, and it will flow into these little parts right here and begin to tear up. It'll begin to dissect. Once that begins to happen, you really won't know it's happening, especially if you have high blood pressure.

There will come a point in time where all of this gets so badly damaged that no more blood goes through this hole anymore and the blood starts flowing outside. Now, you are going to feel the effects of what might feel like some sort of cardiac event, and by the time you feel that, it's too late. By the time you feel that, you're dead.

The heart pumps roughly 6.2 liters of blood per minute. So if you're beginning to feel that way and if you immediately respond by getting in an ambulance and going to the hospital, you won't make it. And that's what happened to Lindsey Graham. Now, if he had an aortic dissection while he was in the middle of an operation by a cardiothoracic surgeon working on him, he might live.

And then to make things worse, you've got that eerie AI Lego movie that Iran released. Iran does these like AI Lego things, and they did this AI Lego movie of Lindsey Graham in his house at night playing around with a doll. I think the implication was he's messing around with little girls, but he's playing with a doll and then he falls on the carpet and the ambulance comes to get him.

Then while he's on the ambulance ride, the nurse basically kills him. It's basically the IRGC saying, "We did this." It's them capitalizing on a propagandist opportunity, right? But as non-sexy as it sounds, for lack of a better term, he died of natural causes.

Tom Hughes: Which that's what happens. People die every day. And you being a pastor, me being one, you see it all the time. But we live in a world where everything becomes a conspiracy theory. Doesn't matter what it is. It's just a regular matter of life and death, and it's going to turn into something far greater.

James Kaddis: Yeah, it's—this is definitely one of those—in summary of this wild episode, by the way, it's all about: brace yourself. Antichrist technology is here.

Tom Hughes: It's here, it's coming, but quite frankly, nobody knows if they're promised tomorrow too, like Lindsey Graham. So make sure that you know Christ now. Then also be prepared for what He told us is still coming. Some of these things that are in the news right now can be a little bit scary, but if you know the Bible, Jesus warned us it will look like this, not so we would be afraid.

Check this out. Luke 21, Jesus says men's hearts will fail them from fear of what's coming upon the planet. In other words, they'll have heart attacks. They're going to be so afraid. But you, for His people, when you see these things begin to take place, look up, lift up your head because your redemption draws near. Men will be afraid of what they see, but if you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you take His prophetic word seriously, you're going to go, "Wait a minute, He told us, so I don't have to be afraid. I just need to be equipped and prepared."

James Kaddis: Amen to that, bro. I couldn't agree with you more. Well, I didn't plan on this being this heavy! I think that's a good last word. More than ever, we have to look up and we have to trust in the Lord, knowing what is happening, knowing where we're at, knowing what is taking place, bro. Christ could come at any moment and the big question is, are you ready? And I hope you are.

Tom Hughes: Amen. Are you ready? Amen. By the way, you're going to be at the "Are You Ready" conference. It's called the "Are You Ready" conference. It's coming up end of August.

James Kaddis: Oh, I got something going on. Sorry, bro. I have to be at a conference in Santa Barbara. I can't do that.

Tom Hughes: Santa Barbara—it's you, David Tal, Brent Holtzhouse, myself, and KGB, KGB's most wanted. And you know who else is going to show up? Kathy Ireland. Remember Kathy Ireland?

James Kaddis: Sure! Of course I remember Kathy Ireland. What are you talking about?

Tom Hughes: So Kathy Ireland's going to be there. KGB's most wanted. We're doing a panel going on. She did the Rose Parade one year. She's got great insight, Bible prophecy, she knows what's going on with the Bible. It's August 29th and people can go to Hope for our Times.

She became a believer very young. She has an incredible testimony. You know, she became a supermodel and I think she is one of the richest self-made women in the entire world.

James Kaddis: Bro, does she want to donate to our church building?

Tom Hughes: Well, you can ask her when you see her August 29th. She's a solid believer, she's able to connect Bible prophecy. Her testimony's off the charts. Because there's very few people in the world that will have lived in a position like she has.

James Kaddis: How do you find these people?

Tom Hughes: God's good to me. God's given me the ability to connect this person to that person. So let people hear from her. So that's what's going on there. It's going to be a phenomenal conference in Santa Barbara. She will be there along with others and we're going to be doing the KGB's most wanted with someone that you've met.

James Kaddis: Yeah, and I'm telling you on the whole KGB most wanted, the people that are coming: these are amazing people. They are real people who suffered for Christ. You guys are going to be so blessed hearing from them.

Tom Hughes: And also the warnings that are coming about what's happening right here in America right now are going to come through loud and clear during that panel time that they're going to be on.

James Kaddis: I have a lot of respect for that family.

Tom Hughes: And they're going to sound the alarm. "This is what happened, and this is what's happening right here, and here's what you need to do."

James Kaddis: Amen. And then when is the next thing happening at my church?

Tom Hughes: You let me know.

James Kaddis: No, you're going to let me know! Is this still being recorded? Well, let's say goodbye to everybody. We'll say goodbye to everybody and then we'll let everybody know next week what's going on. God bless you. Hope you enjoyed the episode. Christ is coming soon. Don't ever forget that. Bye-bye.