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Welcome to the program today. Mono Gonzalez here in studio with our good friend JB Hickson. And we're going to be talking about the false prophet. Always a great subject, especially now that we have a new Pope. Stick around.
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Well, welcome back again. We are here with JB Hickson and we've been doing some interviews here about your first volume, the Spirit of the Antichrist. And now we get to talk about the spirit of the false prophet. Now before we get into this, because this is in the news, the false prophet in Revelation 13 has often been associated with either the Pope or the Vatican in some way.
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Could it be?
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Any thoughts on that?
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Yeah, I mean, I think it's a very legitimate possibility and that's why it's been such a favorite, you know, choice for so many years because the nature of the false prophet's role is to preside over the economy and the religious aspect of it to get people to worship the Antichrist. And so who better to do that than the leader of one of the world's biggest religions?
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Yeah. And to me, I find it pretty fascinating. And there's been a lot of conversation, many of you might have heard about the so called prophecy of the Popes. And is this going to be, I'm not saying I embrace that, but it's just, it's bringing the conversation which I think is helpful because people are interested in these very fascinating things. And that's really the, what I think is such a value is you're taking these very fascinating topics and you're bringing them right into scripture and so kind of share with us the spirit of the false prophet. What does that even mean? And how did you set it up?
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Yeah, so it's the third volume in this set and the first two volumes focused on the spirit of the Antichrist and his deceptive plan and all the ways that the stage is being set for his rise after the Rapture and signing that treaty. But then I got to Thinking, well, there's another aspect, another participant in that unholy trinity. Satan, the Antichrist and false prophet. And comparatively little has really been written about the false prophet. So I looked back at First John 4, which is a key passage for the whole Antichrist research that I've done. And verse one right out of the chute says, beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. So just as there is a spirit of the Antichrist and many Antichrist little a leading up to the one revelation of the Antichrist, there are also many false prophets. But there's one future false prophet with a capital F and a capital P that's going to work at the behest of the Antichrist. And so that book deals with his particular role in things like the Mark of the Beast system, full spectrum planetary control, and how technology and AI are going to play such a huge role in that. The subtitle is Rise of the Global Technocracy. Our mutual friend Patrick Wood has just done pioneering work on that for decades and I cite him extensively in the book. He's been on our program as well. And so we talk about what is a technocracy, its rule using technology and how the false prophet is going to kind of orchestrate that. And then we get into the false religion aspect of it. So, yeah, it's really zeroing in on kind of the last piece of the puzzle. This, this false prophet and what exactly is his role going to be?
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Yeah, and we need it, we need to make sure in the sense of paying attention that Revelation chapter 13 gives an outline of what is going to be there on that day. It's going to be in existence, can be in motion. It's going to be in play all around the world. It's a global empire. But yet we also, JB we know that when the Antichrist comes fully into unlimited power in the midpoint of the tribulation, it gives a description. He gets to rule for 42 months. He's going to continue in all this. But he comes to that place, but he's also not alone. He has this other figure with him, this false prophet. And we also know as well that in Revelation 20 it describes them being thrown into the lake of fire, the Antichrist and the false prophet. So there's this dynamic duo. So this isn't unusual. But also we also know it said this last time that we're not going to go from this Mayberry type wonderful existence overnight to this. The system is being put in place and maybe talk about as well that the Antichrist or the false prophet, he does miracles. Oh yeah, so talk about that. I mean, are these fake miracles, sleight of hand, or are these supernaturally charged?
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Well, they could be supernatural. We know that from the account of Moses and his magicians. I mean, Pharaoh and his magicians. But yeah, I want to go back to what you said about the importance of this second in command. So I have a chapter early on in this book on the false prophet called Historical Henchmen, Lackeys and Wingmen. And it was fascinating to go back and trace through history, going back centuries, in some cases key world figures and tyrants and dictators, and then the lesser known, what's called two ICs or second in commands behind them. And behind every great tyrant there is a lesser known second in command. And that's what we see playing out in scripture. But you're absolutely right, the Bible doesn't say that the Antichrist and false prophet create and unfold and implement a beast system after the Rapture, they just take the helm of it. The infrastructure, the system has to largely already be there. They're not going to have enough time to kind of put all the pieces in place. And so that's why we're living in such an exciting time right now. We're seeing, you know, technocrats invade Washington D.C. and have very highly influential voices in the world affairs. We see the rise of AI. We see, as you mentioned, the Pope. I mean, regardless of, you know, the new Pope and what his allegiances are, conservative, liberal, all of that's important. But that's not what caught my eye. What caught my eye is at such a time as this, there's a vacancy for Pope and a younger guy, and now a younger guy. And so I think all the pieces are coming into play. But yeah, there's no doubt that the stage is being set, especially with technology.
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When you think about the Antichrist and again and his henchmen being there on the scene and we see the mark of the beast and the economic can't buy or sell whatever, that. That doesn't just happen in order to maintain control across every tribe, tongue, nation he's given that level of authority, you have to be able to make it happen. And it's interesting you bring up Klaus Schwab, you know, in the writings too, that when you look at these guys, the fourth Industrial Revolution, the Great Reset, he says quite clearly, look, our goal for globalism is to implement 20 plus areas of technology. They realize they can't do what they want to do. And so you discuss that.
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Yeah, for sure. And speaking of two ICs, I talk, I have a whole chapter on Yuval Noah Harari. He's not exactly Klaus Schwab's second in command, but he's certainly an acolyte. He's certainly one who is a disciple of Klaus Schwab. He's a mouthpiece for Klaus Schwab. And so I suggest that he checks a lot of the boxes as the kind of person who, who will be the false prophet. Not that Klaus Schwab is the Antichrist, but you know, he fits a lot of the characteristics where he's out going throughout the world, pointing people to the World Economic Forum, their ideals, the Great Reset, the fourth Industrial Revolution and so forth. So yeah, I mean, the false prophet is really, you know, under emphasized, I think by most prophecy guys, because the Antichrist is the leader, especially at the midpoint when he desecrates the temple and declares himself to be God. 2nd Thessalonians 2. But it's the false prophet who's tasked with really running things. He's kind of like the chief of staff for the President. Right? You know, so the false prophet is a key player. And I think we're seeing especially. And you've written a lot and talked a lot about the Technocracy aspect and the Technocrats and in relation to the Ten Kings, I think it's unfolding before our very eyes right now.
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Yeah, it's, it's absolutely fascinating what we're watching. And again to me, we don't have to guess on some of this. We see the Bible. The Bible gives us a snapshot of like, hey, this is what it's going to look like. And then it's natural for us to go, well, hey, how does that build up to that being fully in place? And we're going to talk a little bit more about that in a minute. We're going to take a break here where you can see how to get our magazine, which again is our monthly update to keep you informed at all things that are happening around the world. Again, showing us that the return of Jesus is getting closer and closer and we get the opportunity to watch it unfold. So take a listen.
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Well, welcome back again. We are talking to J.B. hixon about his new book Spirit of the False Prophet. And jb, one of the biggest things that I see or I hear about and you know, we talk about often is artificial intelligence. And I'll say this, I use artificial intelligence all the time and some people are like what? Can't believe you? And I was like, well wait a minute, let's be careful. This isn't the boogeyman. It's not automatically evil. And I use the Internet too, but right. So I use money. So with money I could go to the brothel or I could go to church and give it to God, Right? So artificial intelligence is not inherently evil. It's a technology that certainly is very powerful, just like the Internet or even money. Is powerful. Right. So talk about artificial intelligence and what you've written about the power of it and how it most likely. Well, it's already being used in the system itself.
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Yeah. So it's like anything else. Satan can take what God means for good and turn it into an evil use. And so it's not about AI in and of itself, it's about who's using it and for what ends. It is a powerful technology, it's a powerful advancement. It plays right into the hands of the Luciferians who want to feign being God. They want to have an artificial way to be omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. AI helps them along that goal. Now, they'll never accomplish all of that because they're not God. Satan is not God. But using AI, he can accomplish more, he can do more, and he can claim to be everywhere at once, but, you know, because he's got these hackable, trackable chips and so forth. So it's a formidable thing. And the thing about AI that I think some people still haven't quite grasped onto yet is the speed with which it's being rolled out. It went from being a hot topic at prophecy conferences of what's coming down the pike to being pervasive in every aspect of our lives. We use it at nbw. We have a service where it will go through and, and you upload my sermons and my videos, it will summarize them, it'll pull out little 90 second clips, it'll keep the highlights, it'll outline it, it'll transcribe it.
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Very helpful, very helpful.
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Talk about redeeming the time for the
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kingdom of God here. Absolutely.
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Yeah, it helps. We'd have to pay someone a lot of money to sit there and do all that manually. Now. It's our stuff, so I don't have any fear that it's going to get it wrong, because I know what I say, it's simply summarizing my content. So in the medical realm, there are a lot of very positive and powerful good uses for AI, especially in radiology and some of those things. But that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about the Luciferians, the people that are rolling out the technocracy, using it to be able to see everything, to watch everything, to control everything, to tokenize money so that they can control what you buy and sell. Right out of Revelation 13.
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Yeah. When we think about, you know, the role of the Antichrist, you know, he's going to need to surveil the world, he's going to need to censor, you know, all these different things that we've seen come to play. I know that on all of our programs, if we just YouTube as an example, they use AI because they'll like what you're. It's searching for you or summarizing you. It'll search. Whether I'm speaking at it right now. It'll search for certain terms. And if you use those terms. Oh, yeah, so it's. They don't. Somebody's not sitting there watching it. It's an algorithm. It's an AI algorithm that has been set with its protocols to look for certain things, and then it finds it, and then it'll pop up. But you think about the Antichrist going, oh, that would be handy because now you could censor anything that would promote the gospel in that day. And do we believe he will? Absolutely. Because it's about deception and truth and, well, deceiving people from the truth, but also controlling.
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Yeah. And it's already creeping into the church and the apostate church where they're supplanting biblical discipleship, biblical truth with an AI form of it. There's AI Jesus out there. I have a whole section about that in the book where a lot of young people in particular are flocking to this AI Jesus as if he's the real Jesus and he's not. He's saying things diabolically opposed to what Jesus himself said. But that doesn't matter. They think he's the real Jesus. And that's a. That's a real sort of a metaphor and harbinger of what's to come with the Antichrist himself.
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And I'll tell you what, AI, you know, as you use it, you have to.
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You have to be.
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You have to be smarter than the AI. And what I mean by that is knowing how it's programmed. And so it. It's programmed to mirror. To mirror you. And so, you know, if one time I started and I just. All I said was, I'm struggling. That's all I said. And then. And it came out. It was my friend, what, let me walk the journey with you. And. But you think about that. If I. If I was a young person or just maybe undiscerning, and I started sharing with it my heart and this. And it was interesting the way that it responded. It was taking everything I said, and it was meant to be my friend. It was meant to encourage me. It was meant not to challenge me on anything. And it was. Kept asking about. It was Asking me questions so that I would reveal more about myself. What do I have a framework? Am I Muslim, am I Christian, Am I, am I Buddhist? And then it would mirror whatever I said to it back. And so if you think about somebody who's going and thinking, oh, this is Jesus. And they're, it's not going to confront you with, hey, you're sinning, you need a savior. Right, right.
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Well, first of all, let me say the next time you're struggling, Mondo, just call me.
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Just call you.
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You don't need to go to AI. Just call me brother. I'm here for you. Thank you. That's what friends are.
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You sound like the AI right now.
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Well, maybe I, Yeah, I mean, you never know. Maybe I'm an embodied AI. No, yeah, you're right. I mean it's, it's, it's so classic Satan. And this is what the Luciferian conspiracy is all about. It's an angel of light. Yes. Everything looks so real, but not all that glitters is gold.
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Yeah, absolutely. And so what we're simply saying is that these new technologies that are here, it allows interpretation or evaluation, assessment of massive amounts of data in a moment, like you can ask it a question. I had asked it, can you write me an article on something? And man, it whipped out this phenomenal article in like three seconds with things I'd say, add some more peer reviewed articles. Whipped it right out. And this is why in our age now that when you see this in college and certainly graduate schools and other things, they're having to watch this because people are cheating or whatever and it's doing all the work. But now I will say it's a great. It brought all the sources to me all in one spot, which would have taken me probably weeks.
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Sure.
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Done in a moment.
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Yeah. I actually start the book Spirit of the False Prophet in the preface with several paragraphs that are AI generated. And I tell you that at the end, but I'm like, you know, I said, hey, write me an introduction to this book about rise of the global technocracy, the false prophet's role in the end times from a biblical dispensational perspective.
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These parameters.
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Yeah, and then it spit it out and it's like, yeah, I mean, it worded it a little differently than I would have, frankly, in some cases a little better. But it definitely reflected content wise exactly my worldview and my perspective. So yeah, you got to be careful about it. But you know, you mentioned how the Antichrist is going to use this. One of the key ways is the instantaneous nature of it. And they want to control what you can buy and sell. And, you know, we've read that for 2000 years in the church, but we've had trouble understanding how in the world, especially in modern times, how in the world can the Antichrist actually stop you from making a transaction on the other side of the world? Well, enter global digital id. Global digital currency, the whole CBDC thing and tokenizing it to where it's all attached to your carbon footprint, your social credit score, your medical file. If your blood sugar is too high, they'll just cut you off instantly. You'll go to check out and they'll say, not so fast. You can't buy that. And that's control, which is what Satan wants. Psalm 2. He wants to throw off God's control and maintain control himself.
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Yeah. This really is the key as we're watching these things that have been in the Bible a long time. Again, we get the privilege now of. Of seeing these technologies come to play where again, none of us is giving a date of the Rapture, but we're saying that, hey, I guess, are we approaching the end of the age?
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Absolutely. In fact, some people are giving a date for it. And at NBW for 1999, we'll give you the date of the Rapture, and for an extra $10, the identity of the Antichrist and false prophet, we'll throw it all in. No, not really, of course, but no, we see the stage being set, and if the stage is being set for events that take place after the rapture, that can only mean one thing. The Rapture is closer than ever. So I think it's, you know, Jesus says to be watchful and, you know, to look at the signs of the times. We don't want to make the same mistake the first century, unbelieving Jewish audience did. We want to be aware. And there's an urgency to the hour, which is, you know, one of the reasons we write these books is to let people know we're on the cusp of the end of the age and now's the time to trust in Christ as your savior.
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Yeah. And when we look around and we see all the different, again, the technological aspects, I mean, it's amazing what we're seeing. Talk a little bit about. You do in the book, but talk a little bit about the role of digital currency. And we're seeing this coming down the pike. It's coming. We've known about it, we've talked about it for a long time, but now it's really?
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Yeah. It has been talked about for a long time. Different iterations and different parts of the world have already implemented certain aspects of it. And the analogy I like to use is kind of like Christmas tree lights. If you're putting lights out in your Christmas lights out in your yard and your porch and trees and bushes, and you're setting them all up and, and eventually you kind of connect them all and you plug them into one power strip where every night you could just click one button and they all come on. Well, right now there are certain regions of the world that have rolled out digital currency. They've outlawed cash, they've done these things. Eventually, even though there are multiple systems now by multiple companies, it's all gonna come under the head of one global currency right out of Revelation 13. And I believe what's gonna happen to cause that is some type of global crisis. So we can speculate all day what that looks like. Is it war? Is it a nuclear attack? Is it an economic collapse? Is it a false flag terror attack or a real terror attack? I mean, who knows? Another biological weapon, another pandemic of some kind, Some unfreezing event's going to cause the world to fall to its knees and then these globalists are going to come in with the solution and say, hey, we can help the world recover from this, but we've got to all be on the same page with this one world currency. And then they've got us right where they want us.
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Yeah, it makes you wonder, even the Rapture, how the Rapture could contribute. Yeah, it could be to that as well. I mean, in the midst of a whole bunch of chaos. And then you have the Rapture event as well. Well, we're going to take a little break here where you can see how to get JB's work. Pretty phenomenal. It's up to date. And again, it will equip you in order to, to share the gospel with those around us. Again, these, these are all things that are happening right now. And people are wondering, people are wondering about where, where is all this headed? Well, the Bible tells us so. Take a listen.
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Well, welcome back. And jb, here we are in our last few minutes. And I'm intrigued because one of the chapters you have here is Escaping the Prison Planet. What exactly do you mean by that?
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Yeah, so we wanted, like we do in the other two books in this series, to give some solutions, some practical things that people can do. So we talk about how to fly under the radar. And we spent a lot of time in that last chapter on building a preparedness portfolio. You know, preparedness is one of those lightning rods. You know, some Christians think, oh, I don't need to prepare, I've got faith. And some people say, oh, I need to head for the hills and build a bunker and, you know, just drop out of the society. I think either extreme is wrong. I mean, we have a job to do. We're here for a reason. Until the Lord comes, we ought to be living every day for the glory of the Lord, making a difference in this world, raising our children, sharing the gospel. But at the same time, you can't ignore the fact the Bible says to prepare. Proverbs 22:3 says the wise person sees trouble coming and prepares for it so that if the Lord tarries and we're here for a good portion of this, we can still function. And then we also have in that chapter a whole discussion, and you'll appreciate this as an exegete, a treatment of Romans 13, because I believe that passage has been misused and abused for years, going all the way back to World War II, at least into thinking that people must comply, Christians must comply with whatever the government says. Well, we explain why that's not true. What is that passage really saying? Because again, if the Lord tarries and we see a repeat of some of the things we've seen in recent times, only even worse this time, people are going to be pressured, sadly, by their pastors and other people to just fall in line and they're going to use this passage to convince them of that. So we walk you through that. And so yeah, it's a good way to kind of close out the book.
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JB thank you for your time.
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Thanks motto.
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Thank you today for listening. We know again, as we see all these things unfold, it's not time for fear, but it's time for faith and to trust. And if you have not followed Jesus yet, this is the time. I mean, we know that his return is that much closer and we need to be ready. And that's again, exactly why Prophecy Watchers is here, to do that, to help rescue people from the coming time of judgment. And so thank you always for your prayer and support for what we do here. We could not do without you. We'll catch you next time.
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Episode: The False Prophet and the Rise of Global Control
Date: January 6, 2026
Host: Mondo Gonzales, Gary Stearman
Guest: J.B. Hixson
Main Theme: Exploring the biblical and prophetic significance of the False Prophet, focusing on global control, technology, and spiritual deception in the end times.
This episode dives into the biblical figure known as the False Prophet, especially in light of recent world events and technological advancements. J.B. Hixson joins hosts Mondo Gonzales and Gary Stearman to discuss his new book, Spirit of the False Prophet: The Rise of the Global Technocracy, examining prophetic scripture, the role of technology (especially AI and digital currency), practical faith responses, and what believers can do to prepare for coming global shifts.
"Just as there is a spirit of the Antichrist and many Antichrists leading up to the one revelation of the Antichrist, there are also many false prophets. But there's one future False Prophet... that's going to work at the behest of the Antichrist." – J.B. Hixson (02:32)
"He checks a lot of the boxes as the kind of person who, who will be the false prophet. Not that Klaus Schwab is the Antichrist, but you know, he fits a lot of the characteristics..." – J.B. Hixson (07:55)
"There's AI Jesus out there...he's saying things diabolically opposed to what Jesus Himself said. But that doesn't matter. They think he's the real Jesus." – J.B. Hixson (15:59)
"Some type of global crisis...is going to cause the world to fall to its knees and then these globalists are going to come in with the solution... one world currency." – J.B. Hixson (22:44)
"We have a job to do. We're here for a reason. Until the Lord comes, we ought to be living every day for the glory of the Lord, making a difference... But at the same time, you can't ignore the fact the Bible says to prepare." – J.B. Hixson (26:19)
"We don't want to make the same mistake the first century, unbelieving Jewish audience did. We want to be aware. There's an urgency to the hour." – J.B. Hixson (20:47)
“Satan can take what God means for good and turn it into an evil use. It’s not about AI in and of itself, it’s about who’s using it and for what ends.” – J.B. Hixson (13:01)
"They want to control what you can buy and sell...How in the world can the Antichrist actually stop you from making a transaction?...Enter global digital ID, global digital currency, the whole CBDC thing." – J.B. Hixson (19:13)
"There's AI Jesus out there...he's saying things diabolically opposed to what Jesus himself said. But that doesn't matter. They think he's the real Jesus." – J.B. Hixson (15:59)
"It's not time for fear, but it's time for faith and to trust." – Mondo Gonzales (27:39)
The episode ends with an exhortation to live watchfully and faithfully—not in fear, but in readiness and trust in Christ's imminent return. The hosts and guest urge equipping oneself with biblical understanding and preparedness, as well as sharing the gospel as the prophetic puzzle rapidly falls into place.
For Further Study:
J.B. Hixson’s book Spirit of the False Prophet expands on these concepts, and related resources are available through Prophecy Watchers for those wanting a deeper dive into Bible prophecy, technology, and practical Christian living in turbulent times.