May 12, 2025 • 29 mins
It's one thing when part of scripture starts to happen IRL, but it's a whole new level when every word is happening...
The world is so caught up in figuring out who the antichrist is as a person. Are we doing something wrong? What are we missing???
Today, Jamie discusses the "mahdi", the new pope, earthquakes, and Jesus' body "found" in Egypt? What is going on?!
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Welcome to the Outer Reap Podcast, the OP.
I'm your host, Jamie DeShane,and today we're going to jump
right in because you've probablyseen the title with it being the
Antichrist Dilemma.
Why is it a dilemma?
What is going on in the worldtoday?
Do we actually see theAntichrist?
What's going on?
What does scripture say aboutit?
Well, we're going to talk aboutthat today.
If you haven't had a chance togo back the last couple episodes
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that we've had, we've actuallytalked about things such as
immortality.
We've talked about inRevelation, the first nine
books, maybe what John wasdoing, the Maybe what he wasn't
doing.
If you have had a chance, goback and listen to those because
we're still kind of talkingabout end times because we are
definitely in the end of the endtimes.
So what do I mean by that?
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I mean, we have stuff happeningin the news right now at an
increasingly alarming rate ofscripture being fulfilled left
and right.
If you've been on TikTok, ifyou've been on any type of
social media, if you've evenseen the news, which all are not
viable sources, but they'reviable in the fact that if
they're all saying the samething and things that are
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pointing to the Bible coming tofruition, we probably need to
perk up our ears and listen andlook to the sky.
So...
Without further ado, what isgoing on in the world today?
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over social media with peoplesaying that, oh my gosh, Donald
Trump is the Antichrist, or thisnew, quote, Mahdi that has now
come out that's all over socialmedia claiming to be the Mahdi
of the Islam community.
It's crazy, all these people,how they just have these ideas
of who is and who isn't theAntichrist.
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Now, we're on the topic of theMahdi.
If you've not been on socialmedia, maybe you're very, you
know, Naive to what's going onin the world.
There's a lot.
There's a lot.
We've got someone that'sclaiming to be the Messiah that
has come to say that, hey, Ihave come from Jesus Christ
himself.
He has sent me.
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Muhammad has sent me.
He is trying to basically comeand be the end all like be the
Messiah.
He is what scripture wouldconsider the Antichrist.
If you're looking at the Bible.
But it's crazy because a coupleof things about the Mahdi, if
it's true that this guy that hasarose in the last couple of
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weeks, if he truly is who hesays he is, the Mahdi is
actually going to slaughter allwho do not worship Allah, which
is a big deal.
He's going to want to converteveryone to Islam.
And if you don't convert toIslam...
He's going to have you killedwith his massive army.
He's going to try to establishan everlasting world-dominating
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kingdom of Islam.
Of course, he is the Islamicsavior, the long-awaited savior
that they're awaiting for forthe end times.
And you must follow him.
There's clips right now onsocial media where he has told
Christians straight up, hey,those of you in the east and the
west, Jesus sent me.
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I have come on behalf of him.
I'm now the true authority, soyou must obey and listen to me.
He calls Paul false and saysthat he had led all of us
astray, which if you...
Paul very well.
You know, he's pretty much makesup the bulk of our new
Testament.
Uh, but he said that Paul led usastray.
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And it's kind of funny.
He says that because Paul in theway he presents the gospel, um,
is an absolute powerhouse inwhat we need today.
And, uh, the fact that he'sactually trying to say that, Oh,
Jesus sent me, but Paul, Ooh,Paul is wrong.
You just need to look at some ofthe letters that Paul has
written because that dude is onfire for what he says.
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And we'll kind of cover a littlebit of what he says today.
But back to the Mahdi.
Again, he wants everybody tolisten and obey.
He's trying to join everybodybecause his end goal is to have
a peace agreement with the Jewsand the West for seven years.
years now this is all biblicalthis is everything that has come
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from the bible that even jesushimself had said uh even john
you know everybody peter paulthey've all mentioned at some
point some way some scenariothat you know what's going to
happen in the end time when wedo have a you know a false
prophet that when we have afalse messiah the antichrist
when we have satan rise thebeast system the beast this the
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beast that it is all 100biblical of what's coming Now,
what's crazy is that in theprocess, because we're talking
about what's going on in thenews right now, in the process
of all this, there has been anews article that's come out
that has promised the world thatthey have found the body of
Jesus Christ in Egypt.
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Isn't this crazy?
All these things that are comingabout right now that is trying
to discredit what our Biblesays, discredit what the Word of
God says, discredit what Jesussays, Paul says, and everybody
that followed, you know, the 12disciples that listened to
Jesus, the fact that they alljust, you know, they just wanted
to up and die for no reason.
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No, they legit died for areason.
They died because they knew thatJesus was the true Messiah.
And now you've got a guy comingin claiming that he is the true
Messiah.
Yeah.
It's so crazy.
He's even supposed to, Iremember I was seeing a clip the
other day, John MacArthur, whichI do and don't follow.
I just happened to come acrossone of the clips that he said,
and I did some research andfound that this is true.
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Supposedly, the Mahdi issupposed to find near the Sea of
Galilee hidden scriptures,hidden gospels, a hidden Torah,
and basically he's going to usethat for the world to say that
these are the true scripturesand to show Christians and Jews
that they are wrong and theyhave Followed a false gospel.
So what do you do as anantichrist when you come into
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the world?
Or you make it out that Jesusnever rose again.
So you say, oh, we found a bodyin Egypt.
Then you also say like, oh, allthese scriptures that y'all as a
world community, even Christiansnowadays don't know if like the
word is infallible.
If it's like, if it's an errant,like it hasn't been changed over
time.
Oh my gosh, all the versions,all the different, you know,
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NLT, NEV, NIV, you know, allthis stuff.
People want to say, oh, thescriptures have been watered
down.
We know for a fact they've notbeen watered down.
You can go listen to ApologeticWes Huff, and he can pretty much
show you all the historicalsignificance behind what we have
as Scripture.
But again, the enemy is going totry and do everything they can
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to discredit the word of God bybringing randomly their own
personal word from God and tryto treat it as if it is the
infallible word and have peoplefollow them.
Now, we know that it will happenin the end days.
Going back to Revelation, weknow there's going to be a
tribulation and you may not beaware of this, but we will go
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through tribulation and A lot ofpeople think like, oh, Jesus is
going to come and get us beforethe tribulation happens.
We're going to be raptured up.
I'm sorry.
That's not what your Bible says.
Your Bible says that we will gothrough tribulation.
We will go through persecution.
Right now, even if this guy isor isn't real, I'm not even
giving any word of power to thisperson.
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Because this part doesn'tmatter, but he's got people,
apparently this false or fakewhatever Mahdi has people all
around the world, includingU.S., going around and trying to
push this idea that he's theMessiah.
And if he's really come alongthe fact and wants to kill
Christians that don't want toconvert to Islam, well, you
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might need to understand that wemight see in a couple of years,
maybe even this year in 2025, wemight start seeing absolute
persecution for Christians andfollowing their faith.
So first off, I want to tellyou, it's real.
All right.
We know it's going to happen.
Tribulation will happen.
What will not happen to us isthe wrath of God coming upon us.
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And that's when Jesus comes andraptures his people, not just
the church, but his people.
people, the people that havefollowed him, that have believed
in him.
Those are going to be the peoplethat go up in the rapture before
the wrath of God.
But I'm sorry to, to, you know,give you some, some pain here,
but we will go through some typeof tribulation.
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And when that happens, listen,you need to need to hold on
because I'm telling you it'sworth it in the end.
And again, we'll get to that,but we got all this stuff
happening in the news right now.
There's so much more that Icould cover of what's, you know,
the things they're finding overand overseas.
And, uh, you know, the, all of asudden now there's also going to
be an extradition going to seeif Noah's Ark is, uh, was a
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real, which again, justcontinues to credit the Bible
that everything that's writtenin the Bible is actual facts,
which is fantastic becauseagain, once again, science
proves the Bible is actuallyhistorically correct.
And if that means thathistorically correct, that means
that prophecy will continue tobe historically correct.
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So if you've done any type ofresearch when it comes to the
end times and revelation, youabsolutely know that there is
scripture in Matthew 24 wherethe disciples are like, Jesus,
we need you to tell us when isall this going to happen?
Basically, when is the end timesgoing to happen?
And he does.
I mean, if you've been in churchfor quite a while, you know this
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scripture well.
But I think it's fascinatingbecause there's a lot of things
happening in the world that thisis going to start lining up.
Which, by the way, as of today,which is, I believe it's the
10th of May, we had, I'm here inKnoxville, Tennessee, we had a
4.1 magnitude earthquake.
I have never in my lifewitnessed an earthquake.
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I have never seen an earthquakehappen.
I've never been in person whenit's happened.
I've never seen a home shutdown.
shake like I did this morning,but good Lord, there was an
earthquake.
So, why is that significant?
Well, let's look at some of thescripture right now, what's
going on.
So, let's look at 24 verse 4 inMatthew.
It starts out, Jesus answered,watch...
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Watch out what?
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You know, Pakistan and Israelifights.
And then we hear like everythingfrom Russia and China, like all
this stuff.
Rumors of war.
We're going to World War Three.
World War Three is going tohappen.
We keep hearing all this stuff.
And of course, what happened?
Jesus said that you're going tohear of wars and rumors of wars,
but not be alarmed.
Such things must happen.
But the end is still to come.
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Nation will rise against nationand kingdom against kingdom.
There will be famines andearthquakes in various places.
All these are the beginning ofbirth pains.
Now we've seen and we have heardoverseas and even in America in
some places where we've had alittle bit of famine, where
there's been recalls or youhaven't been able to go to the
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grocery store because thingshave been sold out or there's
been like tariffs and somethinghappening at the trade and we're
not getting food and All thiskind of stuff.
And then you hear of earthquakeshappening in a random places.
They normally don't happen asAKA today, like it happened in
Knoxville, Tennessee.
These read again, the beginningof birth pains.
You know, Jesus is always payingthe picture.
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that the end times would comealong like a woman having birth.
Birth pains are essentially,hey, this woman's about to have
child.
It's time to go to the hospitaland be ready.
And so Jesus is saying here,listen, this is the beginning of
birth pains.
This is the beginning ofeverything happening to let you
know that as the contractionsget closer and closer, as rumors
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of wars and wars happen, as morefalse messiahs and everything
else comes, you are gettingcloser and closer to the end.
Closer and closer.
So we know it's coming.
Are we ready?
Continues in verse 9.
Then you will be handed over tobe persecuted and to be put to
death.
And you will be hated by allnations because of me.
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Now, again, if this false Mahdiwants to go through, this
potential Antichrist wants to gothrough and wants to kill
Christians and all that, again,like I said earlier, you will be
persecuted.
You will be.
You know, we think thatpersecution is going to come
like something similar to, youknow, in America, we've had
school shootings and theColumbine was like the first big
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one that we had.
And the story from Columbine wasthe guy was going up and asking
students, like, do you believein God?
And if they said yes, they wouldkill him.
And of course, we know the storythat the one, the women, the
little girl that said that shegoes, yes, I believe in Jesus.
I believe in God.
And he shot her and killed her.
It's crazy because we assumethat, oh, that's how it's going
to be.
First, we're going to bepersecuted in front of many.
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I just want to tell you rightnow, it's not just going to be
some guy putting a gun to yourhead saying, do you believe in
God?
Do you not want to follow God?
Then they're going to pull thetrigger.
It's not going to be just likethat.
They're going to try tobasically put you against
people.
Like they're going to try tohave you in front of everybody
and peer pressure you intofollowing a false God and a
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false Messiah.
And I'm telling you, you need tostand firm in your faith because
again, when persecution comes,be joyful because that means
that you're standing up for thetrue Christ, the one that saved
you, the one that went to thecross, beheld death and the
grave, including a false Messiahand a false antichrist, uh, all
of that so that you could beeternally with him.
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So don't, Do not give up hope,you know, persecution when it
comes, when suffering comes, bejoyful, be glad.
I'm pretty sure there's somescripture on that.
So continue on in verse 10, itsays, at that time, many will
turn away from the faith andwill betray and hate each other.
And many false prophets willappear and deceive many people
because of the increase ofwickedness.
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The love of most will grow cold,but the one who stands firm to
the end will be saved.
Now you have a lot of Um, thepastors that want to fight the
once saved, always save.
And they always like when youuse this scripture right here.
And this is not what I'm talkingabout today.
The once saved, always save, youknow, if you stand firm only at
the end, that's when you'll besaved.
Now I'm saying that what Jesusis saying here is don't be
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deceived.
Like don't, don't, don't take,you know, a false mark against
God and claim some otherreligion.
You know, don't disrespect theHoly spirit that God's put
inside of you to say, Oh, wellI'm gonna follow this person.
Cause this actually might beJesus.
So this actually might be likeGod.
No, Jesus is saying, you know,Stand firm to the end.
Still be there for me.
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Believe in me because I willcome through for you.
His word never returns to himvoid, by the way.
Continuing in verse 12, becauseof the increased wickedness, the
love of most will grow cold, butthe one who stands firm to the
end will be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdomwill be preached in the whole
world as a testimony to allnations.
And then the end will come.
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So when you see standing in theholy place, the abomination that
causes desolation spoken ofthrough the prophet Daniel, let
the reader understand.
Then let those who are in theJudea flee to the mountains.
Let no one on the housetop godown and take anything out of
the house.
Let no one in the field go backand get their cloak.
How dreadful will be to thosedays for pregnant women and
nursing mothers.
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Pray that your flight will notget taken place in the winter or
in the Sabbath.
For then there will be greatdistress unequaled from the
beginning of the world untilnow.
and never to be equaled again.
So it's going to be at the worstheight possible for things
happening in this world.
And again, I can continue toread on.
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I'll jump to verse 24.
It says, For many false messiahsand false prophets will appear
and perform great signs andwonders to deceive, if possible,
even the elect.
Even you or I potentially couldbe deceived.
See, I have told you ahead oftime.
See, Jesus is saying, listen,I'm not leaving you hanging
here.
Like, I'm not going to just say,oh, you know what?
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Just persevere.
You know, just get through it.
You know, you just keep hopingin me.
No, Jesus says, hey, I'm goingto give you the answers to the
test.
You know, automatically we win.
You know, don't give up.
You know, there's a reason thatyou're fighting for.
You're fighting for me.
And you're fighting for yoursalvation.
So if anyone tells you there heis out in the wilderness, do not
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go out.
Or here he is in here in theinner rooms.
Do not believe it.
Which is funny they say thatbecause we just heard the news
article coming out that Egyptsupposedly has Jesus' body
buried in one of the innerrooms.
But I digress.
Verse 27, For as lightning thatcomes from the east is visible
even in the west, so will be thecoming of the Son of Man.
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Wherever there is a carcasswhere the vultures will gather
immediately after the distressof those days, the sun will
darken and the moon will notgive us light.
The stars will fall from the skyand the heavenly bodies will be
shaken.
Then will appear the son of manin heaven.
And then all the people of theearth will mourn when they see
the son of man coming on theclouds of heaven with power and
great glory.
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And he will send his angels witha loud trumpet call and they
will gather his elect from thefour winds from one end of the
earth to the other.
Now, what's crazy is, again,this is the rapture.
If you noticed that as Jesus wastalking, he said, listen, you're
going to go through tribulation.
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You're going to go throughpersecution, even to the point
of death.
You will go through this, buttake heart.
Don't worry.
I'm telling you, Jesus issaying, don't worry.
And we're living in a worldright now where so many people
are so enthralled with trying tofigure out who's the Antichrist,
who's the Antichrist.
And let's just be real.
There are too many Christians inthis world right now that are so
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focused on trying to figure outwho the Antichrist is that
they're not even worried aboutwho the true God is, and they're
not trying to have arelationship with the one true
king.
We need to have a more realisticview of who God is, who Jesus
is.
Yes, they're love.
Yes, they're grace.
Yes, they're mercy.
Yes, they have all of this.
But let me tell you something.
God has no rival.
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Jesus has no rival.
The world would have you believethat Satan, the devil, is the
rival of God, is the rival ofJesus.
That is the furthest thing fromthe truth.
They have no rival.
And if Satan is supposed to bethe leader above the Antichrist,
by the way, if that means thatGod and Jesus are not even
rivals to them and we're aboveSatan as well, then what in the
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world would you think that theAntichrist would be above us?
Because he's not.
He's not.
He shouldn't even be worriedabout.
We need to start living asChristians.
Stop worrying about who theAntichrist is.
Stop trying to tell people like,oh, this could be the
Antichrist.
This could be Antichrist.
And instead, tell people, hey,this who is the Christ?
Jesus is the Christ.
Let me show you all the thingsthat he's done, not just in the
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gospel, but in my own personalgospel, the testimonies that's
come in my life, the things thatGod has done for me, through me,
and with me.
That is the gospel people needto hear because when people hear
that, when people hearvulnerabilities, when people
hear the miracles that God'sdone in your life, whether big
or small, which by the way, anymiracle in your life is the same
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size regardless of what it is.
God did something in your life.
That is something that youshould be praising on all.
Oh my gosh.
I get on such a tangent ofpeople that just forget the
things that God's done for them.
We need to be focusing and goingthe direction of telling people
more about Jesus and abouteverything going on with him in
their life and your life thantrying to look for an
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Antichrist.
So I know we talked about, weopened this podcast about, oh,
the Antichrist dilemma.
The dilemma is this.
We need to stop worrying aboutthe Antichrist.
We need to worry about JesusChrist.
We need to be on the ideal planeof discipleship.
following Jesus.
Jesus never said, oh, by theway, as you're doing this, as
you're treating people with loveand allowing the Holy Spirit to
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move in your life, oh, by theway, you should also go worry
about who the Antichrist is.
He didn't say any of that.
He just warned us of what willcome, but he never said to harp
on it.
So we as Christians need to stopharping on it.
How do we do that?
We need to focus on betterthings than the end times.
The one thing though, I wouldsay that we need to do a better
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job is, is getting people infront of the gospel.
If you are not feeling confidentenough to get someone under the
gospel, to share the gospel,invite them to your church.
I don't care if people have thisidea of like, oh, you know,
people, they just want me toinvite them to church and it's
going to be weird and it's goingto be awkward.
Listen, I don't care.
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Church is one of the easiestplaces for people to be under
the sound of the gospel.
If your flesh is And let's behonest, we have all dealt with
this.
If your flesh is too strong foryou to share the greatness of
God and what he's done in yourlife, then invite the person to
church.
It's the easiest thing you cando to get somebody under the
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sound of the gospel.
We need to stop treating Sundaymornings like, hey, I'm a
consumer.
I need, I need.
No, get other people.
And it gets to the point whereyou're actually a worker of God
and you're working out yourfaith by getting people under
the sound of the gospel.
They need to know that Jesuscame for them, died for them.
Yeah, there's so many coolthings that you can learn
theological wise as far as like,oh, why Jesus did this?
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Oh, why does Jesus did that?
That's so cool.
And we'll talk about that on thepodcast.
Absolutely.
But the main point is that Jesuscame.
Jesus died for you.
He took all sin, sickness anddisease on the cross when he was
buried and he was raised inthree days.
People need to hear this.
And then people need to hearwhat he's done in your life as
part of that gospel, because itdoesn't just stop at the cross.
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It continues forever.
with you.
You are empowered by the HolySpirit to be more and do more.
It's time we do that.
It is time we do that.
I want to finish up with somescripture.
Like I said, good old Paul, hewrote to the Ephesians, the
Philippians, and that's kind ofwhat we're going to kind of look
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at today is quickly inPhilippians.
Picking up in verse 7, you'relike, Jamie, how do I focus?
What do I do?
Well, let's look at this.
He says in verse 7, but whateverwere gains to me, I now consider
lost for the sake of Christ.
Now, let's talk about thisbecause, again, if persecution
comes, we have to be ready.
Verse 8, what is more, Iconsider everything a loss
because of the surpassing worthof knowing Christ Jesus, my
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Lord, for whose sake I have lostall things.
I consider them garbage that Imay gain Christ and be found in
him.
Not having a righteousness of myown that comes from the law, but
that which is through the faithin Christ.
The righteousness that comesfrom God on the basis of faith.
I want to know Christ.
Yes, to know the power of hisresurrection and participation
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in his sufferings, becoming likehim in his death.
And so somehow attaining to theresurrection from the dead.
Now, not that I have alreadyobtained all this or have
already arrived at my goal, butI press on and take hold of that
which is in Christ Jesus tookhold of.
Brothers and sisters, I do notconsider myself yet to have
taken hold of it, but one thingI do, forgetting what is behind
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and straining towards what isahead.
What's ahead?
I press on toward the goal towin the prize for which God has
called me heavenward in ChristJesus.
We have to be so emphatically inlove with Jesus, following him,
following what his word says.
We have the likes of Paul, who,by the way, that my D has said,
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don't listen to He's led youastray.
Now, I'm pretty sure he'sleading us the correct way
towards Jesus.
He's one of the only apostlesthat never actually witnessed
Jesus in person.
He had his own miracle.
Jesus appeared to him and healedhim and had this whole thing
with his eye, which is a wholecool other story, just thinking
about Paul.
But he had a different type.
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He had a relationship, a faithlike you and I can have.
Not like someone that Peter andJohn and everybody else that was
actually physically with Jesus.
He was a type that we can be lednot astray, but to the God of
the ages through Christ Jesus.
I think the word of God is sopowerful.
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It has always been powerful.
It will never not be an errantword of God.
I mean, everything that is saidin here, it's just amazing.
If you've not been reading yourBible or I suggest you do that
instead of looking on socialmedia and trying to figure out
who the Antichrist is or tryingto look up your own things.
Jump in the Bible.
Listen, do you think that peoplejust learn things because of
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other people alone?
No, no.
God uses the Holy Spirit toteach you the word of God.
So if you open your Bible andyou say, hey, listen, Holy
Spirit, I need you to reveal thestuff in this word that I may
not understand today.
I guarantee you he will, becausethe more you ask of God, the
more you will get of God.
We have this idea that when wepray and all this kind of stuff,
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that we always pray for personalthings.
But I'm telling you, every timethat you pray for something of
Jesus, of God, of the HolySpirit to you, watch what
happens.
I dare you to do it and then tryto come back and tell me that
something didn't work.
Because if you do, I'll just belike, well, you probably didn't
do it the correct way then.
You literally need to sit thereand just say, hey, Holy Spirit,
lead me and guide me.
And then open the word.
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Start in a gospel or start in aletter that Paul wrote to
Ephesians, the Philippians,Corinth.
I mean, anybody, anybody.
And you can see very quickly howthe things that are written in
that word just as well speaklouder today than they did back
then.
So I'll close with this.
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We need to be thinking on thethings that are pure, that are
just, you know, the things that,you know, I don't know.
Verse 8 says of chapter 4 inPhilippians, Finally, brothers
and sisters, whatever is true,whatever is noble, whatever is
right, whatever is pure,whatever is lovely, whatever is
admirable, if anything isexcellent or praiseworthy, think
about such things.
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Whatever you have learned orreceived or heard from me or
seen in me, put it intopractice, and the God of peace
will be with you.
So what does that tell you rightthere?
If we focus on those things,then the God of peace, which by
the way, peace that surpassesall understanding, will be with
you even through persecution,even through the crappy stuff
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and just the wickedness of thisworld.
Listen, I know that you mighteven think to yourself, like,
man, you don't even know mypast.
Listen, I'm telling you,everybody has a past.
Everybody has sin nature.
We're always fighting a sinnature.
Through the Holy Spirit, we havea fighting sin nature.
Does it mean that you will stopsinning?
No, you're not perfect.
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Your thoughts can be sins.
Your actions can be sins.
There's so much things that canbe sinful.
And we'll actually talk aboutthat on the next episode, which
is going to be amazing talkingabout the timing of God versus
the timing of us.
But I digress again.
Listen, final thing today.
Stop worrying about theAntichrist.
Start worrying about the Christ.
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Start doing any relationshipwith him.
Start praying.
Start getting in your word.
You know, you don't have to doeverything all at once and like
just hammer it away.
Just have time with God.
on your drives, if you're goingto work, talk to God, talk to
Christ.
If you're at home and you'vegot, hey, 15 minutes where
you're doing absolutely nothingand you're kind of bored, man,
that's a great time to go pickup the Word of God.
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Or a book that actually pointsand gives you more references to
study and understand the Word ofGod.
Just do that.
Do that and I guarantee you, youwill see your faith grow.
You will see God grow.
One of the cool things I've beendoing lately, I think it's
fantastic.
It's like a discipline.
It's taking a scripture, whetherit's, for example, Psalms 1,
Proverbs 1, and literallywriting it down verse by verse
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in a notebook, literally justwriting it down.
It'll help you with memory, butit'll also help get the Word of
God in you because not only areyou reading it, you're having to
speak it out loud, and thenyou're writing it down, which is
all three ways.
This is one of some of theeasiest ways for you to get God
and the Word of God in in you.
Seek first the kingdom of Godand his righteousness and all
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these things will be added untoyou.
Well, this has been anotherepisode of the Outer Rape
Podcast.
If you haven't had a chance,subscribe on whatever podcast
platform you're currentlylistening to because we're going
to continue dropping episodes asoften as possible, especially
with what's going on becauseGod's moving.
It's 2025.
We're getting closer and closerto the end and we need to be
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rapture ready, not from theperspective of just It's like,
oh, we get to go home, but weneed to be rapture ready as far
as we need to go out and reachthe world for Jesus and tell
more people so that we can addthem to the fold of the family
so we can see them in eternity.
Guys, we love you.
God bless.
And we'll see you next time onthe Addery Podcast.
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Welcome to the Outer Reap Podcast, the OP.
I'm your host, Jamie DeShane,and today we're going to jump
right in because you've probablyseen the title with it being the
Antichrist Dilemma.
Why is it a dilemma?
What is going on in the worldtoday?
Do we actually see theAntichrist?
What's going on?
What does scripture say aboutit?
Well, we're going to talk aboutthat today.
If you haven't had a chance togo back the last couple episodes
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that we've had, we've actuallytalked about things such as
immortality.
We've talked about inRevelation, the first nine
books, maybe what John wasdoing, the Maybe what he wasn't
doing.
If you have had a chance, goback and listen to those because
we're still kind of talkingabout end times because we are
definitely in the end of the endtimes.
So what do I mean by that?
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I mean, we have stuff happeningin the news right now at an
increasingly alarming rate ofscripture being fulfilled left
and right.
If you've been on TikTok, ifyou've been on any type of
social media, if you've evenseen the news, which all are not
viable sources, but they'reviable in the fact that if
they're all saying the samething and things that are
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pointing to the Bible coming tofruition, we probably need to
perk up our ears and listen andlook to the sky.
So...
Without further ado, what isgoing on in the world today?
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over social media with peoplesaying that, oh my gosh, Donald
Trump is the Antichrist, or thisnew, quote, Mahdi that has now
come out that's all over socialmedia claiming to be the Mahdi
of the Islam community.
It's crazy, all these people,how they just have these ideas
of who is and who isn't theAntichrist.
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Now, we're on the topic of theMahdi.
If you've not been on socialmedia, maybe you're very, you
know, Naive to what's going onin the world.
There's a lot.
There's a lot.
We've got someone that'sclaiming to be the Messiah that
has come to say that, hey, Ihave come from Jesus Christ
himself.
He has sent me.
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Muhammad has sent me.
He is trying to basically comeand be the end all like be the
Messiah.
He is what scripture wouldconsider the Antichrist.
If you're looking at the Bible.
But it's crazy because a coupleof things about the Mahdi, if
it's true that this guy that hasarose in the last couple of
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weeks, if he truly is who hesays he is, the Mahdi is
actually going to slaughter allwho do not worship Allah, which
is a big deal.
He's going to want to converteveryone to Islam.
And if you don't convert toIslam...
He's going to have you killedwith his massive army.
He's going to try to establishan everlasting world-dominating
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kingdom of Islam.
Of course, he is the Islamicsavior, the long-awaited savior
that they're awaiting for forthe end times.
And you must follow him.
There's clips right now onsocial media where he has told
Christians straight up, hey,those of you in the east and the
west, Jesus sent me.
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I have come on behalf of him.
I'm now the true authority, soyou must obey and listen to me.
He calls Paul false and saysthat he had led all of us
astray, which if you...
Paul very well.
You know, he's pretty much makesup the bulk of our new
Testament.
Uh, but he said that Paul led usastray.
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And it's kind of funny.
He says that because Paul in theway he presents the gospel, um,
is an absolute powerhouse inwhat we need today.
And, uh, the fact that he'sactually trying to say that, Oh,
Jesus sent me, but Paul, Ooh,Paul is wrong.
You just need to look at some ofthe letters that Paul has
written because that dude is onfire for what he says.
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And we'll kind of cover a littlebit of what he says today.
But back to the Mahdi.
Again, he wants everybody tolisten and obey.
He's trying to join everybodybecause his end goal is to have
a peace agreement with the Jewsand the West for seven years.
years now this is all biblicalthis is everything that has come
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from the bible that even jesushimself had said uh even john
you know everybody peter paulthey've all mentioned at some
point some way some scenariothat you know what's going to
happen in the end time when wedo have a you know a false
prophet that when we have afalse messiah the antichrist
when we have satan rise thebeast system the beast this the
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beast that it is all 100biblical of what's coming Now,
what's crazy is that in theprocess, because we're talking
about what's going on in thenews right now, in the process
of all this, there has been anews article that's come out
that has promised the world thatthey have found the body of
Jesus Christ in Egypt.
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Isn't this crazy?
All these things that are comingabout right now that is trying
to discredit what our Biblesays, discredit what the Word of
God says, discredit what Jesussays, Paul says, and everybody
that followed, you know, the 12disciples that listened to
Jesus, the fact that they alljust, you know, they just wanted
to up and die for no reason.
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No, they legit died for areason.
They died because they knew thatJesus was the true Messiah.
And now you've got a guy comingin claiming that he is the true
Messiah.
Yeah.
It's so crazy.
He's even supposed to, Iremember I was seeing a clip the
other day, John MacArthur, whichI do and don't follow.
I just happened to come acrossone of the clips that he said,
and I did some research andfound that this is true.
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Supposedly, the Mahdi issupposed to find near the Sea of
Galilee hidden scriptures,hidden gospels, a hidden Torah,
and basically he's going to usethat for the world to say that
these are the true scripturesand to show Christians and Jews
that they are wrong and theyhave Followed a false gospel.
So what do you do as anantichrist when you come into
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the world?
Or you make it out that Jesusnever rose again.
So you say, oh, we found a bodyin Egypt.
Then you also say like, oh, allthese scriptures that y'all as a
world community, even Christiansnowadays don't know if like the
word is infallible.
If it's like, if it's an errant,like it hasn't been changed over
time.
Oh my gosh, all the versions,all the different, you know,
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NLT, NEV, NIV, you know, allthis stuff.
People want to say, oh, thescriptures have been watered
down.
We know for a fact they've notbeen watered down.
You can go listen to ApologeticWes Huff, and he can pretty much
show you all the historicalsignificance behind what we have
as Scripture.
But again, the enemy is going totry and do everything they can
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to discredit the word of God bybringing randomly their own
personal word from God and tryto treat it as if it is the
infallible word and have peoplefollow them.
Now, we know that it will happenin the end days.
Going back to Revelation, weknow there's going to be a
tribulation and you may not beaware of this, but we will go
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through tribulation and A lot ofpeople think like, oh, Jesus is
going to come and get us beforethe tribulation happens.
We're going to be raptured up.
I'm sorry.
That's not what your Bible says.
Your Bible says that we will gothrough tribulation.
We will go through persecution.
Right now, even if this guy isor isn't real, I'm not even
giving any word of power to thisperson.
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Because this part doesn'tmatter, but he's got people,
apparently this false or fakewhatever Mahdi has people all
around the world, includingU.S., going around and trying to
push this idea that he's theMessiah.
And if he's really come alongthe fact and wants to kill
Christians that don't want toconvert to Islam, well, you
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might need to understand that wemight see in a couple of years,
maybe even this year in 2025, wemight start seeing absolute
persecution for Christians andfollowing their faith.
So first off, I want to tellyou, it's real.
All right.
We know it's going to happen.
Tribulation will happen.
What will not happen to us isthe wrath of God coming upon us.
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And that's when Jesus comes andraptures his people, not just
the church, but his people.
people, the people that havefollowed him, that have believed
in him.
Those are going to be the peoplethat go up in the rapture before
the wrath of God.
But I'm sorry to, to, you know,give you some, some pain here,
but we will go through some typeof tribulation.
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And when that happens, listen,you need to need to hold on
because I'm telling you it'sworth it in the end.
And again, we'll get to that,but we got all this stuff
happening in the news right now.
There's so much more that Icould cover of what's, you know,
the things they're finding overand overseas.
And, uh, you know, the, all of asudden now there's also going to
be an extradition going to seeif Noah's Ark is, uh, was a
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real, which again, justcontinues to credit the Bible
that everything that's writtenin the Bible is actual facts,
which is fantastic becauseagain, once again, science
proves the Bible is actuallyhistorically correct.
And if that means thathistorically correct, that means
that prophecy will continue tobe historically correct.
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So if you've done any type ofresearch when it comes to the
end times and revelation, youabsolutely know that there is
scripture in Matthew 24 wherethe disciples are like, Jesus,
we need you to tell us when isall this going to happen?
Basically, when is the end timesgoing to happen?
And he does.
I mean, if you've been in churchfor quite a while, you know this
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scripture well.
But I think it's fascinatingbecause there's a lot of things
happening in the world that thisis going to start lining up.
Which, by the way, as of today,which is, I believe it's the
10th of May, we had, I'm here inKnoxville, Tennessee, we had a
4.1 magnitude earthquake.
I have never in my lifewitnessed an earthquake.
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I have never seen an earthquakehappen.
I've never been in person whenit's happened.
I've never seen a home shutdown.
shake like I did this morning,but good Lord, there was an
earthquake.
So, why is that significant?
Well, let's look at some of thescripture right now, what's
going on.
So, let's look at 24 verse 4 inMatthew.
It starts out, Jesus answered,watch...
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Watch out what?
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You know, Pakistan and Israelifights.
And then we hear like everythingfrom Russia and China, like all
this stuff.
Rumors of war.
We're going to World War Three.
World War Three is going tohappen.
We keep hearing all this stuff.
And of course, what happened?
Jesus said that you're going tohear of wars and rumors of wars,
but not be alarmed.
Such things must happen.
But the end is still to come.
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Nation will rise against nationand kingdom against kingdom.
There will be famines andearthquakes in various places.
All these are the beginning ofbirth pains.
Now we've seen and we have heardoverseas and even in America in
some places where we've had alittle bit of famine, where
there's been recalls or youhaven't been able to go to the
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grocery store because thingshave been sold out or there's
been like tariffs and somethinghappening at the trade and we're
not getting food and All thiskind of stuff.
And then you hear of earthquakeshappening in a random places.
They normally don't happen asAKA today, like it happened in
Knoxville, Tennessee.
These read again, the beginningof birth pains.
You know, Jesus is always payingthe picture.
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that the end times would comealong like a woman having birth.
Birth pains are essentially,hey, this woman's about to have
child.
It's time to go to the hospitaland be ready.
And so Jesus is saying here,listen, this is the beginning of
birth pains.
This is the beginning ofeverything happening to let you
know that as the contractionsget closer and closer, as rumors
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of wars and wars happen, as morefalse messiahs and everything
else comes, you are gettingcloser and closer to the end.
Closer and closer.
So we know it's coming.
Are we ready?
Continues in verse 9.
Then you will be handed over tobe persecuted and to be put to
death.
And you will be hated by allnations because of me.
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Now, again, if this false Mahdiwants to go through, this
potential Antichrist wants to gothrough and wants to kill
Christians and all that, again,like I said earlier, you will be
persecuted.
You will be.
You know, we think thatpersecution is going to come
like something similar to, youknow, in America, we've had
school shootings and theColumbine was like the first big
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one that we had.
And the story from Columbine wasthe guy was going up and asking
students, like, do you believein God?
And if they said yes, they wouldkill him.
And of course, we know the storythat the one, the women, the
little girl that said that shegoes, yes, I believe in Jesus.
I believe in God.
And he shot her and killed her.
It's crazy because we assumethat, oh, that's how it's going
to be.
First, we're going to bepersecuted in front of many.
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I just want to tell you rightnow, it's not just going to be
some guy putting a gun to yourhead saying, do you believe in
God?
Do you not want to follow God?
Then they're going to pull thetrigger.
It's not going to be just likethat.
They're going to try tobasically put you against
people.
Like they're going to try tohave you in front of everybody
and peer pressure you intofollowing a false God and a
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false Messiah.
And I'm telling you, you need tostand firm in your faith because
again, when persecution comes,be joyful because that means
that you're standing up for thetrue Christ, the one that saved
you, the one that went to thecross, beheld death and the
grave, including a false Messiahand a false antichrist, uh, all
of that so that you could beeternally with him.
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So don't, Do not give up hope,you know, persecution when it
comes, when suffering comes, bejoyful, be glad.
I'm pretty sure there's somescripture on that.
So continue on in verse 10, itsays, at that time, many will
turn away from the faith andwill betray and hate each other.
And many false prophets willappear and deceive many people
because of the increase ofwickedness.
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The love of most will grow cold,but the one who stands firm to
the end will be saved.
Now you have a lot of Um, thepastors that want to fight the
once saved, always save.
And they always like when youuse this scripture right here.
And this is not what I'm talkingabout today.
The once saved, always save, youknow, if you stand firm only at
the end, that's when you'll besaved.
Now I'm saying that what Jesusis saying here is don't be
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deceived.
Like don't, don't, don't take,you know, a false mark against
God and claim some otherreligion.
You know, don't disrespect theHoly spirit that God's put
inside of you to say, Oh, wellI'm gonna follow this person.
Cause this actually might beJesus.
So this actually might be likeGod.
No, Jesus is saying, you know,Stand firm to the end.
Still be there for me.
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Believe in me because I willcome through for you.
His word never returns to himvoid, by the way.
Continuing in verse 12, becauseof the increased wickedness, the
love of most will grow cold, butthe one who stands firm to the
end will be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdomwill be preached in the whole
world as a testimony to allnations.
And then the end will come.
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So when you see standing in theholy place, the abomination that
causes desolation spoken ofthrough the prophet Daniel, let
the reader understand.
Then let those who are in theJudea flee to the mountains.
Let no one on the housetop godown and take anything out of
the house.
Let no one in the field go backand get their cloak.
How dreadful will be to thosedays for pregnant women and
nursing mothers.
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Pray that your flight will notget taken place in the winter or
in the Sabbath.
For then there will be greatdistress unequaled from the
beginning of the world untilnow.
and never to be equaled again.
So it's going to be at the worstheight possible for things
happening in this world.
And again, I can continue toread on.
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I'll jump to verse 24.
It says, For many false messiahsand false prophets will appear
and perform great signs andwonders to deceive, if possible,
even the elect.
Even you or I potentially couldbe deceived.
See, I have told you ahead oftime.
See, Jesus is saying, listen,I'm not leaving you hanging
here.
Like, I'm not going to just say,oh, you know what?
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Just persevere.
You know, just get through it.
You know, you just keep hopingin me.
No, Jesus says, hey, I'm goingto give you the answers to the
test.
You know, automatically we win.
You know, don't give up.
You know, there's a reason thatyou're fighting for.
You're fighting for me.
And you're fighting for yoursalvation.
So if anyone tells you there heis out in the wilderness, do not
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go out.
Or here he is in here in theinner rooms.
Do not believe it.
Which is funny they say thatbecause we just heard the news
article coming out that Egyptsupposedly has Jesus' body
buried in one of the innerrooms.
But I digress.
Verse 27, For as lightning thatcomes from the east is visible
even in the west, so will be thecoming of the Son of Man.
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Wherever there is a carcasswhere the vultures will gather
immediately after the distressof those days, the sun will
darken and the moon will notgive us light.
The stars will fall from the skyand the heavenly bodies will be
shaken.
Then will appear the son of manin heaven.
And then all the people of theearth will mourn when they see
the son of man coming on theclouds of heaven with power and
great glory.
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And he will send his angels witha loud trumpet call and they
will gather his elect from thefour winds from one end of the
earth to the other.
Now, what's crazy is, again,this is the rapture.
If you noticed that as Jesus wastalking, he said, listen, you're
going to go through tribulation.
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You're going to go throughpersecution, even to the point
of death.
You will go through this, buttake heart.
Don't worry.
I'm telling you, Jesus issaying, don't worry.
And we're living in a worldright now where so many people
are so enthralled with trying tofigure out who's the Antichrist,
who's the Antichrist.
And let's just be real.
There are too many Christians inthis world right now that are so
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focused on trying to figure outwho the Antichrist is that
they're not even worried aboutwho the true God is, and they're
not trying to have arelationship with the one true
king.
We need to have a more realisticview of who God is, who Jesus
is.
Yes, they're love.
Yes, they're grace.
Yes, they're mercy.
Yes, they have all of this.
But let me tell you something.
God has no rival.
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Jesus has no rival.
The world would have you believethat Satan, the devil, is the
rival of God, is the rival ofJesus.
That is the furthest thing fromthe truth.
They have no rival.
And if Satan is supposed to bethe leader above the Antichrist,
by the way, if that means thatGod and Jesus are not even
rivals to them and we're aboveSatan as well, then what in the
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world would you think that theAntichrist would be above us?
Because he's not.
He's not.
He shouldn't even be worriedabout.
We need to start living asChristians.
Stop worrying about who theAntichrist is.
Stop trying to tell people like,oh, this could be the
Antichrist.
This could be Antichrist.
And instead, tell people, hey,this who is the Christ?
Jesus is the Christ.
Let me show you all the thingsthat he's done, not just in the
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gospel, but in my own personalgospel, the testimonies that's
come in my life, the things thatGod has done for me, through me,
and with me.
That is the gospel people needto hear because when people hear
that, when people hearvulnerabilities, when people
hear the miracles that God'sdone in your life, whether big
or small, which by the way, anymiracle in your life is the same
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size regardless of what it is.
God did something in your life.
That is something that youshould be praising on all.
Oh my gosh.
I get on such a tangent ofpeople that just forget the
things that God's done for them.
We need to be focusing and goingthe direction of telling people
more about Jesus and abouteverything going on with him in
their life and your life thantrying to look for an
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Antichrist.
So I know we talked about, weopened this podcast about, oh,
the Antichrist dilemma.
The dilemma is this.
We need to stop worrying aboutthe Antichrist.
We need to worry about JesusChrist.
We need to be on the ideal planeof discipleship.
following Jesus.
Jesus never said, oh, by theway, as you're doing this, as
you're treating people with loveand allowing the Holy Spirit to
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move in your life, oh, by theway, you should also go worry
about who the Antichrist is.
He didn't say any of that.
He just warned us of what willcome, but he never said to harp
on it.
So we as Christians need to stopharping on it.
How do we do that?
We need to focus on betterthings than the end times.
The one thing though, I wouldsay that we need to do a better
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job is, is getting people infront of the gospel.
If you are not feeling confidentenough to get someone under the
gospel, to share the gospel,invite them to your church.
I don't care if people have thisidea of like, oh, you know,
people, they just want me toinvite them to church and it's
going to be weird and it's goingto be awkward.
Listen, I don't care.
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Church is one of the easiestplaces for people to be under
the sound of the gospel.
If your flesh is And let's behonest, we have all dealt with
this.
If your flesh is too strong foryou to share the greatness of
God and what he's done in yourlife, then invite the person to
church.
It's the easiest thing you cando to get somebody under the
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sound of the gospel.
We need to stop treating Sundaymornings like, hey, I'm a
consumer.
I need, I need.
No, get other people.
And it gets to the point whereyou're actually a worker of God
and you're working out yourfaith by getting people under
the sound of the gospel.
They need to know that Jesuscame for them, died for them.
Yeah, there's so many coolthings that you can learn
theological wise as far as like,oh, why Jesus did this?
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Oh, why does Jesus did that?
That's so cool.
And we'll talk about that on thepodcast.
Absolutely.
But the main point is that Jesuscame.
Jesus died for you.
He took all sin, sickness anddisease on the cross when he was
buried and he was raised inthree days.
People need to hear this.
And then people need to hearwhat he's done in your life as
part of that gospel, because itdoesn't just stop at the cross.
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It continues forever.
with you.
You are empowered by the HolySpirit to be more and do more.
It's time we do that.
It is time we do that.
I want to finish up with somescripture.
Like I said, good old Paul, hewrote to the Ephesians, the
Philippians, and that's kind ofwhat we're going to kind of look
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at today is quickly inPhilippians.
Picking up in verse 7, you'relike, Jamie, how do I focus?
What do I do?
Well, let's look at this.
He says in verse 7, but whateverwere gains to me, I now consider
lost for the sake of Christ.
Now, let's talk about thisbecause, again, if persecution
comes, we have to be ready.
Verse 8, what is more, Iconsider everything a loss
because of the surpassing worthof knowing Christ Jesus, my
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Lord, for whose sake I have lostall things.
I consider them garbage that Imay gain Christ and be found in
him.
Not having a righteousness of myown that comes from the law, but
that which is through the faithin Christ.
The righteousness that comesfrom God on the basis of faith.
I want to know Christ.
Yes, to know the power of hisresurrection and participation
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in his sufferings, becoming likehim in his death.
And so somehow attaining to theresurrection from the dead.
Now, not that I have alreadyobtained all this or have
already arrived at my goal, butI press on and take hold of that
which is in Christ Jesus tookhold of.
Brothers and sisters, I do notconsider myself yet to have
taken hold of it, but one thingI do, forgetting what is behind
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and straining towards what isahead.
What's ahead?
I press on toward the goal towin the prize for which God has
called me heavenward in ChristJesus.
We have to be so emphatically inlove with Jesus, following him,
following what his word says.
We have the likes of Paul, who,by the way, that my D has said,
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don't listen to He's led youastray.
Now, I'm pretty sure he'sleading us the correct way
towards Jesus.
He's one of the only apostlesthat never actually witnessed
Jesus in person.
He had his own miracle.
Jesus appeared to him and healedhim and had this whole thing
with his eye, which is a wholecool other story, just thinking
about Paul.
But he had a different type.
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He had a relationship, a faithlike you and I can have.
Not like someone that Peter andJohn and everybody else that was
actually physically with Jesus.
He was a type that we can be lednot astray, but to the God of
the ages through Christ Jesus.
I think the word of God is sopowerful.
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It has always been powerful.
It will never not be an errantword of God.
I mean, everything that is saidin here, it's just amazing.
If you've not been reading yourBible or I suggest you do that
instead of looking on socialmedia and trying to figure out
who the Antichrist is or tryingto look up your own things.
Jump in the Bible.
Listen, do you think that peoplejust learn things because of
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other people alone?
No, no.
God uses the Holy Spirit toteach you the word of God.
So if you open your Bible andyou say, hey, listen, Holy
Spirit, I need you to reveal thestuff in this word that I may
not understand today.
I guarantee you he will, becausethe more you ask of God, the
more you will get of God.
We have this idea that when wepray and all this kind of stuff,
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that we always pray for personalthings.
But I'm telling you, every timethat you pray for something of
Jesus, of God, of the HolySpirit to you, watch what
happens.
I dare you to do it and then tryto come back and tell me that
something didn't work.
Because if you do, I'll just belike, well, you probably didn't
do it the correct way then.
You literally need to sit thereand just say, hey, Holy Spirit,
lead me and guide me.
And then open the word.
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Start in a gospel or start in aletter that Paul wrote to
Ephesians, the Philippians,Corinth.
I mean, anybody, anybody.
And you can see very quickly howthe things that are written in
that word just as well speaklouder today than they did back
then.
So I'll close with this.
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We need to be thinking on thethings that are pure, that are
just, you know, the things that,you know, I don't know.
Verse 8 says of chapter 4 inPhilippians, Finally, brothers
and sisters, whatever is true,whatever is noble, whatever is
right, whatever is pure,whatever is lovely, whatever is
admirable, if anything isexcellent or praiseworthy, think
about such things.
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Whatever you have learned orreceived or heard from me or
seen in me, put it intopractice, and the God of peace
will be with you.
So what does that tell you rightthere?
If we focus on those things,then the God of peace, which by
the way, peace that surpassesall understanding, will be with
you even through persecution,even through the crappy stuff
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and just the wickedness of thisworld.
Listen, I know that you mighteven think to yourself, like,
man, you don't even know mypast.
Listen, I'm telling you,everybody has a past.
Everybody has sin nature.
We're always fighting a sinnature.
Through the Holy Spirit, we havea fighting sin nature.
Does it mean that you will stopsinning?
No, you're not perfect.
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Your thoughts can be sins.
Your actions can be sins.
There's so much things that canbe sinful.
And we'll actually talk aboutthat on the next episode, which
is going to be amazing talkingabout the timing of God versus
the timing of us.
But I digress again.
Listen, final thing today.
Stop worrying about theAntichrist.
Start worrying about the Christ.
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Start doing any relationshipwith him.
Start praying.
Start getting in your word.
You know, you don't have to doeverything all at once and like
just hammer it away.
Just have time with God.
on your drives, if you're goingto work, talk to God, talk to
Christ.
If you're at home and you'vegot, hey, 15 minutes where
you're doing absolutely nothingand you're kind of bored, man,
that's a great time to go pickup the Word of God.
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Or a book that actually pointsand gives you more references to
study and understand the Word ofGod.
Just do that.
Do that and I guarantee you, youwill see your faith grow.
You will see God grow.
One of the cool things I've beendoing lately, I think it's
fantastic.
It's like a discipline.
It's taking a scripture, whetherit's, for example, Psalms 1,
Proverbs 1, and literallywriting it down verse by verse
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in a notebook, literally justwriting it down.
It'll help you with memory, butit'll also help get the Word of
God in you because not only areyou reading it, you're having to
speak it out loud, and thenyou're writing it down, which is
all three ways.
This is one of some of theeasiest ways for you to get God
and the Word of God in in you.
Seek first the kingdom of Godand his righteousness and all
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these things will be added untoyou.
Well, this has been anotherepisode of the Outer Rape
Podcast.
If you haven't had a chance,subscribe on whatever podcast
platform you're currentlylistening to because we're going
to continue dropping episodes asoften as possible, especially
with what's going on becauseGod's moving.
It's 2025.
We're getting closer and closerto the end and we need to be
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rapture ready, not from theperspective of just It's like,
oh, we get to go home, but weneed to be rapture ready as far
as we need to go out and reachthe world for Jesus and tell
more people so that we can addthem to the fold of the family
so we can see them in eternity.
Guys, we love you.
God bless.
And we'll see you next time onthe Addery Podcast.
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