Nephilim Death Squad Biblical Conspiracy: "Faith By Reason: 2025 in Review" w/ Ed Mabrie

Podcast: Nephilim Death Squad Biblical Conspiracy
Host(s): TopLobsta & Raven (David Lee Corbeau)
Guest: Ed Mabry (Faith By Reason)
Date: December 31, 2025

Episode Overview

In this lively, deeply insightful year-end episode, TopLobsta and Raven are joined by frequent guest Ed Mabry from Faith By Reason to dissect 2025 through a biblical and conspiratorial lens. They explore the proliferation of deception—especially in the realms of religion, geopolitics, and disclosure—offering sharp critiques of trends among Christians, truth-seekers, and the wider world. Topics range from doctrinal purity, Christian Zionism, spiritual warfare, and Antichrist scenarios, to the subtle war over definitions, distraction, and the responsibility of spiritual leadership.

With characteristic humor, candor, and robust engagement with listener questions and current events, the hosts and Ed encourage discernment, humility, and above all else, a focus on knowing Christ intimately as the antidote to coming deceptions.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Why Knowing God Matters in a Time of Deception

• The Alien Disclosure/Antichrist Link:

  • The ongoing trend of "alien disclosure" is discussed as a mounting deception that threatens to usher in the Antichrist. Referencing Timothy Alberino, Raven warns:

    “If…what our good friend Timothy Alberino says, which is the Antichrist is going to come from this, you need to know God. If there’s some Antichrist coming, something that will take the position and present itself as an alternative to Christ or even as Christ but it’s not, really the only way you’re going to be able to defend yourself from that is by knowing Christ.” (07:59)

• Experiential Knowledge vs. Doctrinal Knowledge:
  Ed Mabry emphasizes the biblical narrative as God inviting personal relationship, rejecting both the cold legalism and the "magic teddy bear" Jesus:

  “The purpose of the Bible is not to learn. It’s not a history book, it’s not a biology book. It is a story of a person who wants you to know them… That’s the God of the Bible, not some angry, vengeful god as people try to claim him to be." (09:00)

2. Subtle (and Not So Subtle) Deceptions in the Truth and Christian Communities

• Gnosticism, Intellectual Pride, and Misplaced Trust:
  Raven cautions against leaning on one’s own understanding in conspiracy circles, warning it can funnel people into Gnostic or demiurgical thinking (11:49). Ed and Raven agree that relationship with God is what protects against being misled.

• Hijacking and Rebranding Jesus:
  Jesus is uniquely co-opted across spiritual movements and alternative religions. “You don’t say that about Muhammad, you don’t say that about Krishna. Only Jesus.” — Ed Mabry (14:21)

• False Apocalypse and The Wrath of the Lamb: Ed presents his contrarian reading of Revelation—suggesting the “six seals” mark a final satanic deception—emphasizing the need for doctrinal precision to prevent misattributing evil to Christ (15:36).

• Dangers of Internal Division within the Body of Christ: The hosts wrestle with the ethics of public correction, the risk of cutting off parts of the Body of Christ, and the difficulty of discerning between honest error and deliberate deception.

  “Are you being intentionally dishonest or are you fooled yourself? But where we’re aimed is not in the same direction. So that means that we’re talking about bad doctrine, and that’s bad for the people…” — TopLobsta (24:38)

3. Christian Zionism, Israel, and the Hegelian Dialectic

• Complex Attitudes Toward Modern Israel: An extended segment (41:01–70:00) dives into theological and geopolitical controversy regarding Israel, Jewish identity, prophecy, and Christian responsibility.

  • Ed Mabry clarifies:

    “Israel is God's problem, not ours. God will deal with Israel…Right now, we're in the Church age…We're under grace.” (41:01)

  • Christians can justly critique the nation and reject both uncritical Zionism and anti-Semitic conspiracy (52:57).

• Hegelian Dialectic and the Vatican's Role: Ed maps power dynamics, theorizing:

  "When I take a step back...I see a Hegelian dialectic...The Vatican’s funding both sides…and I think the synthesis…is they want Jerusalem. That’s ultimately what the Vatican has always wanted.” (63:07)

4. Dangers of Separating Jesus from His Context

• The Attack on Jesus’s "Jewishness":
  The discussion highlights how anti-Jewish sentiment can lead to a version of Jesus susceptible to being reinvented—as Pleiadian, ascended master, or anything else (77:12):

  “If you present Jesus as someone who is not a Jew…you can make him anything you want.” — Ed Mabry (79:11)

  “Hitler said Jesus is not Jewish…That’s such a great exemplification of exactly that. So you remove his Jewishness and what are you into? You’re into Gnosticism…" — Raven (85:44)

5. Rise of Structure-Seeking: The Attraction to Catholicism and Orthodoxy

• Response to Moral Relativism:
  Ed traces the wave of young men flocking to highly structured churches to the bankruptcy of 60 years of relativism fueled by the “God is dead” era and the feelings-based “Jesus Movement”:

  “So what do these young men want now? They want structure. But they've gone too far to the other side.” (106:19)

• Warnings on Extremes:

  “We can’t be too much freedom, too much limitation. We have to have that balance.” — Ed (109:53)

6. Spiritual Warfare: Responsibility, Distraction, and Strongholds

• You're in a War
  Ed prepares to launch an intensive spiritual warfare course, warning that becoming a Christian "puts you on the battlefield," making spiritual attack inevitable.

  “When you become a Christian, you have just stepped on the battlefield...You are not a victim, you have victory. But if you don’t fight, you’re going to lose.” (163:38)

• Distraction as Spiritual Warfare:
  One of Satan’s subtlest tactics is simply drawing focus away from the Great Commission through endless political or conspiratorial engagement.

  “He just wants to skew things a little bit, just get you pointed one other way so that you're not doing the will of God.” (159:35)

• Generational Curses and Responsibility:

  “If you make a covenant knowingly or unknowingly, you've just given an entity legal rights over you…you can break it.” — Ed (172:21)

7. Personal Responsibility & Humility in Leadership

• Handling Influence & Spiritual Teaching:
  Ed and the hosts discuss the weight and danger of influence in spiritual platforms and the perils of both pride and public sparring online, advocating returning all glory to God and repentance when wrong (155:04–158:10).

• Freedom and Growing Up Spiritually:

  “The freedom we have in Christ can be scary. It’s a responsibility as you grow…when you are a young Christian, you should probably abstain from [things like Halloween]. As you grow…you can bring things back in…” — Ed (132:01)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On resisting deception by knowing Christ:

  “If you know who [God] really is, then you know who he’s not going to be.” — Ed Mabry (08:48)

• On problematic tendencies in “truth-seeker” circles:

  “This venue, that pursuit of truth, is exactly what will be hijacked…and if you continue down this…I’m watching people, you know, significantly higher intellects than myself rely only on their own understanding and then come to Gnosticism, to demiurge…” — Raven (11:49)

• On the dangers of spiritual pride inside the Church:

  "If they are being completely dogmatic and not saying ‘I could be wrong,’…I think that’s intentionally being deceptive.” — Ed Mabry (26:33)

• On Christian-Zionist politics:

  “Should we…say bad things? We can criticize what’s going on with that [Israel], of course we can. Because God did.” — Ed Mabry (51:01)

• On the single greatest safeguard against End Times deception:

  "The best way to deceive anyone…is to present it as something that it’s not. If you present Jesus as someone who is not [what] he is…you can make him anything you want.” — Ed Mabry (79:11)

• On excessive focus on the wrong battles:

  “We’re called to make disciples of men. The right answer is if you pray to God, ‘Thy will be done.’ That is the only right answer.” — Ed Mabry (72:48)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• Knowing God in the Age of Deception: 07:42–11:49
• Misleading Doctrines & The Truth Movement: 11:49–16:56
• False Apocalypse Theory: 15:36–17:06
• Christian Zionism and Israel Debate: 41:01–71:00
• Hegelian Dialectic & The Vatican’s Endgame: 63:07–69:02
• Jesus’s Jewishness & Deception: 77:12–85:44
• Rise of Structure-Seeking Catholics/Orthodox: 99:44–110:44
• Spiritual Warfare & Responsibility: 163:38–168:09
• On Distraction as Warfare: 159:35–161:21
• Generational Curses & Breaking Strongholds: 172:21–174:07

Final Thoughts & Epilogue

The 2025 year-in-review on Nephilim Death Squad serves as both a warning and a rallying call for discernment, humility, and deep relationship with God. The episode exposes the myriad ways deception seeps in—through geopolitics, religious institutions, shady doctrine, and even distraction itself. With humor but sobering clarity, the hosts and Ed Mabry urge listeners to avoid both spiritual pride and paralyzing fear, to seek balance, to study deeply, to grow in responsibility, and above all else, to know the Shepherd’s voice for themselves.

Further Learning

Ed Mabry and Faith By Reason:

• FaithByReason.net — Bible study resources, spiritual warfare pre-registration, and more.
• Patreon.com/FaithByReason — Early access, exclusive studies, Q&As, books, "Jehovah Story" Bible study.

Spiritual Warfare Intensive:

• Planned for 2026—year-long program, practical tools for defensive/offensive spiritual warfare, breaking strongholds and generational curses.

“If you know who he really is, you know who he’s not going to be.” — Ed Mabry (08:48)