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Hello everyone. Karen. With Prophecy Watchers here for a prophecy conference update, I want to let you know of a couple of upcoming trips and events that we are going to be hosting. The first one is going to be an Alaskan cruise, August 22nd through the 29th. It is going to be an amazing experience traveling to Alaska and having a Bible prophecy conference alongside it. So it is going to be an amazing experience. You will not want to miss that. We do have some tickets available, so if you're at all interested, now would be the time to book. We also have the Colorado Springs Rapture in the Rockies conference happening right around the corner June 4th through the 7th. We have just a few in person tickets available for that as well. But if you would like to join us virtually, we have the live stream and on demand option as well. You will have access to all of the presentations to watch them as many times as you'd like to for six months. So that is an amazing opportunity. You don't want to miss out on all of these wonderful presentations. And today I have a very popular speaker with me, JB Hixon. Jb, thank you so much for being here.
B
Hey Karen, thanks for taking time to talk with me. I appreciate it.
A
Absolutely. So let's jump into your first presentation, Fade to Black Rise of Global Tyranny. That sounds so dramatic. What is that going to be about?
B
Yeah, well dramatic's a good description of it because everybody knows Fade to Black is sort of a entertainment industry term. At the end of a movie the the screen slowly fades to black and then they roll the credits. And so we're going to be taking a look at the seven spirits of the Antichrist that I first sort of talked about several years ago in my three volume book series called Spirit of the Antichrist. But we're going to talk about all the new things that have happened just in the last three years that that show, the stage is being set for the coming a full spectrum planetary control grid. And it corresponds with a brand new book that is of the same title that we're going to be premiering at the conference. And so folks can, can get, can, can get that book there. But yeah, we're going to talk about technology, AI tyranny, all sorts of ways the stage is being set and, and it's happening so fast. As I wrote that book, which is now just, you know, in the hands of the editors, literally every day I was having to go back and add a paragraph here or there in certain chapters because it was just, I get emails or news items and it's just changing constantly. So, yeah, these are, these are incredible times that we're living in.
A
Yeah. I was sitting there thinking, I can't imagine that this book is going to stay up to date for very long because there's just so many changes. But you do the best that you can and the information that is going to be in that book and in this presentation is going to be so prevalent. It's just, it's the nature of the beast that everything is happening at warp speed right now.
B
Yeah. No pun intended on nature of the beast there. Yeah. You know, when I finished the three volume series where I sort of documented all the ways in which the stage is being set, I thought, okay, you know, that that's good. It was the culmination of 15 years of study back in 2022 and 2023, I, I wrote those books and I thought, okay, we got some time now. And I moved on to other books and other topics and so forth. But suddenly I realized, you know, even though it's only been three years, it's time for an update. There's just so much that has happened in the last three years that, you know, we are in fact fading to black. The world is getting darker and darker. Of course, as Adrian Rogers famously said, it's growing gloriously dark for believers because we know who wins in the end.
A
Absolutely. So the seven spirits of the Antichrist, I know you rattled them off, but can you give the audience just some of the tangible aspects of that that we are seeing right now today?
B
Yeah, well, the biggest one which occupies, you know, the whole entire first book in my previous series is called the Spirit of Pretense Deception. Everything sort of emanates from deception, all the other manifestations of the spirit of the Antichrist. So we talk a lot about new ways that we've been deceived in recent years, big lies that we've been told, and I expose a lot of that. And then one of my, one of the biggest chapters in the new book, Fade to Black is the spirit of phenomena. And of course I know Prophecy Watchers has been on the front lines of the UFO phenomena and exposing a lot of the stuff that's going on in the paranormal world. And so we really dig deep in that chapter on the spirit of phenomena and some of the unexplained things that are happening. You know, when things are heating up on Earth, Karen. And I don't think anybody can deny things are heating up on earth. That usually indicates they're heating up in the unseen realm. And so the spirit of phenomena is a big one. I get into the spirit of persecution, the pluralism, the setting the stage for the one world religion. One of the more troubling chapters is the Spirit of Perversion, where I talk about the, you know, hockey stick curve of incidents of misconduct and all sorts of problems, both in government, in public schools, in many different sectors, which, again, is just an indication that the spirit of the Antichrist is alive and well.
A
And this is really exciting in a sense, because we know that this means that the Rapture is near, but it's also a little daunting and a little concerning because things are starting to heat up and we're starting to feel just a little bit of that, that warmth under our feet and going, oh, my goodness, how much is it going to be shifting and changing before the Rapture actually happens? How much of this are we going to be seeing ourselves and be affected by? What words of wisdom would you have for the Christian that's maybe seeing this and going, this isn't exciting to me. I went out of and when are we going to be gone? What's your response to that?
B
Yeah, I'm so glad you brought that up, because that's really the point of my presentation that I'll be giving there at Rapture in the Rockies. Yes, the world is fading to black, but what can we do about it? And what comes next? And as you pointed out, you know, we don't know when the Rapture is going to happen. And so we could be experiencing a lot of this stage setting and the tyranny and the things that are happening well before the identification of the Antichrist, after the Rapture. And so I would say absolutely, now more than before, Karen, we've got to stay in the Word. And I know that sounds trite. You hear pastors say that all the time. It's a typical sound bite. But in this case, what I'm saying is that the deception is so great and it's getting harder and harder to differentiate between reality and fiction, especially with AI. We've got to stay rooted in the Word. We've got to have that as Our filter to discern 1 John 4:1, to discern, discern the false teachings and the false prophets out there. So stay in the Word. And then obviously, I know at the conference there's a large number of people there. You usually have 800, 1,000 people, plus who knows how many watching and streaming live online. And that means to me, just the law of large numbers, that there's often unbelievers that are tuning in. And so above all else, you need to make sure you're right with the Lord, that you know the Lord Jesus as your personal savior, that you've placed your faith in him. So, yeah, we get in. We have a whole chapter at the end of the book. And I'll be touching on this just briefly in the presentation on what comes next and, and what can we do about it.
A
I'm so glad you brought those two things up. I was just sitting as you were talking about being in the Word, that the Bible is alive and active and it is our source for truth. And the more that it is hard to discern truth in today's society. I love your point that we need to be grounded in what we know to be absolute truth. And God's Word will not return void. And so anything that we see soak into when we're reading the Scriptures, it will be applied to our lives. It will be effective for us and for those around us. So I'm so grateful that you have those, those two such important points that you bring up in the message.
B
Amen.
A
I'd like to switch over to the second presentation. One minute before the Rapture, God's prophetic clock is ticking. And I love this title because we talk about one minute after the rapture so often. But one minute before the Rapture, there's such an anticipation there, like we don'. Know that it's about to happen, but the Lord knows this is about to happen and that, you know, that that last soul is maybe being saved in that very moment. And I just, I love it. It makes my mind just start thinking of all these different possibilities that is often overlooked. So enough of my rambling. Tell us what you're going to be talking about in this message.
B
Yeah. One minute before the Rapture, God's prophetic time clock is ticking. The, the technical term for that is the imminency of the Rapture. And, but of course, we know how much Bob likes catchy titles. So I couldn't tell him I'm going to talk about the imminency of the rapture. Right. So you're right. A few years ago I did a message at Prophecy Watchers on One minute after the Rapture. And then I got to thinking, you know, we all talk about, and we certainly believe from Scripture that the Rapture could happen at any moment. That's what imminency means. But let's dive into it. Let's really talk about what that means for our everyday life. And also there are a lot of attacks on the Imminency of the Rapture coming these days from the pre wrath folks and from people that don't believe in a pre tribulation view of the Rapture. So that message that I'm going to be giving there is going to basically provide incontrovertible proof both biblically, historically, logically, and I break it all down, that indeed the Rapture could happen at any moment. And so in that sense, Karen, we need to wake up every day and live our lives as if in fact it's one minute before the Rapture or which is just a metaphor of course, but we could say one second before the Rapture, right. That trumpet could sound and we want to be found, faithful and hear those words, well done, good and faithful servant.
A
Now I know you'll be breaking this down in the actual presentation, but just some broad strokes. What are some tangible things that we can be doing? Because I know that that sounds so important, but on a day by day, moment by moment basis, what does that look like? To actually be living and doing the day to day mund things and still looking up? Because it can be, it can be hard to balance that. Like oh, I don't need to have any money in the bank. I don't need to plan for my retirement because the Lord's going to be here. And then, you know, if you do get to that age and the Lord still has not returned, then it's like, okay, now what? So how do you, how do you find that balance?
B
Yeah, I fight those feelings just like everybody else. There have been plenty of times in the last say 20 years or so and I've really done the deep dive into the Luciferian conspiracy where Wendy and I, if my wife and I have wanted to just move to a mountaintop, sell all our possessions, live in a cave and sing Kumbaya, you know. But that's precisely the wrong thing to do. Right? Luke 19 is very clear. Jesus said, I'm going to go away and I'll come back and inaugurate the kingdom, but. And while I'm gone, you need to be busy. You need to be doing what I want you to do. Well, what's that? That's sharing the gospel. There's an urgency to the hour. The imminency of the Rapture creates urgency. Right? I mean there's already an urgency to the gospel because we're not promised tomorrow. We never know, we could get hit by a bus in the next. Right. But the eschatology and the proper understanding of it, where we are in fact living at every moment one minute before the Rapture, that too provides urgency because you don't want to be left behind if you don't know the Lord Jesus as your Savior. It's going to be incredibly difficult to accept Christ by faith and reject the mark of the beast. I mean, deception is going to reach an all time high. So absolutely, we've got to continue to do business, we've got to continue to do what the Lord has us here to do. We've got to continue to stay in the word, to fellowship with other believers, to spend time in prayer. We can't assume, even though things are heating up and the signs are everywhere, we can't assume that the Rapture is going to happen in our lifetime. So if we live out our days and go the way of all flesh, when we stand before the beam of judgment, someday will we be able to say, hey, you know, we did all we could to further the cause of Christ and to make people aware. So, you know, it is sort of that tension between one eye on the task at hand and one eye on the clouds. But I think a proper perspective is to just continue to occupy till he comes.
A
Absolutely. I know that you have such an amazing eagle eyed view on kind of what is going on in the world and today just, you know, you, you have your, your thumb on that pulse and you're seeing things from such a perspective that so many Christians just were blissfully clueless in a lot of ways. But I would just like to know if there's anything that's just been on your heart, especially lately, whether it's in regards to world events or just something that you're seeing developing right now that you would just like to share with audience.
B
Yeah, I'm still working on the presentation because obviously I can't highlight everything in the, the new book in one 45 minute presentation. But three things that I think I'm leaning towards that really stand out to me. And I know everybody talks about this and you're going to see a lot of messages about this, I'm sure at the conference in June, but AI, I mean, AI is just an incredible piece of the puzzle. The only way the Antichrist is going to be able to oversee a full spectrum planetary control grid as described in Revelation 13, is through the use of this type of technology. So I'm going to be pointing out some ways in which that is impacting us right now every day, frankly every hour of every day, whether we realize it or not, and how that plays right into the hand of the beast system and then the other one, which I'm sure will also get a lot of airtime at Rapture in the Rockies and that is UFOs and the whole UAP, UFO paranormal stuff. I'm going to be talking about how they are conditioning the world for so called disclosure. I'm going to walk through that even just in the last year, the key events in the public domain that seem to be setting the stage leading up to frankly this summer right after the conference. So it remains to be seen what all is actually going to happen. But the narrative itself to me is what's critical. It shows that they're up to something and that's a sign of the times. And then I think the last one is just the geopolitical events, the drumbeats of war. I say in the book that our government has never met a plowshare it couldn't pound into a sword to kind of flip Isaiah's famous prophecy there, 180 degrees. So we know that there is going to be something in the future that brings America down and causes us to sign on to the one world system, the one World Order, the one World government. And I've said for years that my best guess is that's going to be some type of engagement in a world war. And so I see the Gog Magog nations aligning, I see a lot of other tensions and saber rattling out there and we'll get into some of that at the conference.
A
It's so interesting all three of those things that you mentioned, I can just, just from the little that I follow the news, all three of those things have just ramped up so to such a crazy level in the last year just. And that just boggles my mind that you know, UFO disclosure was just mums the word for so many decades and now all of a sudden, oh yeah, they exist. That's, that's been a thing all along. And just making such a light hearted statement about the fact that yeah, that UFOs are a thing and it's just that was not the case like even just a year ago. And then with AI, I cannot believe how prevalent AI is in social media alone and just how quickly it has just overtaken and how easy it is to be fooled by it already with just how little time that we've had with AI so far. And then with the world events of course and the wars and the rumors of wars. I mean look at the Middle east and you know, it is a ticking time bomb. So
B
your colleagues there at Prophecy Watchers, Joe Hawkins, I just did an Interview with him recently, and he mentioned just as an example of how AI is. Is so untrustworthy and deceptive, he said he did a search on Google for JB Hickson. And the little summary of AI that came up, it said JB Hickson is the leader of Get a Life Ministries, you know, which, obviously, that's Billy Crone, not me. Or maybe it was the other way around. Billy Crone was the leader of NBW Ministries. But, you know, there's so much deception out there. You know, this is why, you know, using AI, even in simple things like Internet searches, you've got to be very careful.
A
Absolutely. And it's really crazy, but when you Google Gary Stearman, AI tells us that Gary Stearman died in 2021, which is absolutely ridiculous. But if you don't take that extra step, people are thinking that Gary died. So let's just rumors that rumor.
B
Rumors of Gary Stearman's death are greatly exaggerated by AI.
A
I wish I could say I was surprised that they gave misinformation. I was like, yeah, that's. That's a I for you. And yet how many people are Googling something and that's the first thing that pops up? Oh, and then they're spreading that misinformation because they're not taking that extra two steps to actually go to the website and confirm.
B
No, no. It. We're all very lazy, for sure. But I told Joe, I said, hey, I. I'm. I. That's. That helps me. Right? I mean, anytime you can be associated with Billy Crone, I'll take it. Right?
A
Absolutely. Well, thank you so much for sharing just that wisdom and that information with us. I know that these are going to be such important presentations, and I cannot wait to see them myself in Colorado.
B
Amen. Me too. Looking forward to it.
A
Thank you, everyone, for your time. I hope that these presentations and these little insights into the presentations were helpful for you, and we would love for you to be able to join us and be able to watch both of these in their entirety. You can go to prophecywatchers.com and scroll down to the live streaming banner and you can join us live June 4th through the 7th. Thank you again for your time, and we'll see you here, there, or in the air.
Episode: The World Is “Fading to Black” | J.B. Hixson | Rapture in the Rockies Preview
Date: May 18, 2026
Host: Karen (Prophecy Watchers)
Guest: J.B. Hixson
This episode features Karen of Prophecy Watchers interviewing author and prophecy speaker J.B. Hixson about his upcoming presentations at the "Rapture in the Rockies" conference. The conversation centers on Hixson’s forthcoming book, Fade to Black: Rise of Global Tyranny, and the themes of end-times deception, spiritual warfare, technological advancements (such as AI), the surge in UFO phenomena, and biblical preparedness for the imminent rapture. Hixson explores how rapidly escalating global events align with Bible prophecy and offers practical encouragement for Christians feeling anxious about these developments.
This episode provides a comprehensive preview of J.B. Hixson’s forthcoming teachings at Rapture in the Rockies and outlines how recent global events—from runaway technology to global conflict and the UFO surge—fit ancient biblical prophecies. Listeners are encouraged to remain prayerful, biblically literate, and engaged in Gospel outreach, even as the world “fades to black.” The discussion is rich with practical advice, memorable moments, and insights into living faithfully amid rapidly intensifying signs of the end times.