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Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast, with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. Hey everybody, this is a big pickup from our last time together. I hope that you are excited to finish off at least a little bit of what we're talking about, the Antichrist.

Who is he? Do I know him? Should I tell you who he is? Well, why don't you just listen in? You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jackhibbs.com/podcast. Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five-star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes.

Then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs.

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Hey everybody, welcome back. Sorry for the last time we were together, there was this screeching halt. I had to be somewhere, you probably did too.

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And if we didn't lose all of you because I just kind of offended you guys by just coming to this, you know, like screeching halt, we were talking about the Antichrist and people speculating and talking as you caught in their first session, you know, Trump the Antichrist, all this stuff. In California here, a lot of people, I'm not kidding when I say this. In fact, people asked me this last night at a service.

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They said, isn't Gavin Newsom the Antichrist? And everybody started laughing. I mean, everybody started laughing and for good reason. The Antichrist is going to be incredibly brilliant political player.

He's going to have policy. He's going to have plans. Daniel tells us that the Antichrist will deceive the world by peace and prosperity for the first three and a half years.

So Gavin Newsom may have an imposing, impressive, sorry, impressive height. He's a tall guy. He's got awesome hair.

Gavin Newsom sounds like Batman, which I think is very cool. He's got a really, he should play Batman. But then he'd have to stop playing King.

I don't know how that would work out. But no, Gavin Newsom's not the Antichrist. The Antichrist is going to be dangerously persuasive, cunning.

Again, the Book of Daniel tells us that he's going to be a man of intrigue. He'll be able to solve. The word in Hebrew implies that he will be able to solve puzzles.

That is interesting because the New Testament Gospels and the Olivet Discourse, Jesus tells us that the world will be in a state of perplexity with no way out. That's when the Antichrist comes on the scene and answers the economic and political woes of the world. And people will love him.

If you were with us last time, you heard how much they love him. They love him so much they worshiped him. We're picking it up, you guys.

Revelation chapter 13. And again, remember, everybody, you're never able ever to understand the Book of Revelation unless you read the Book of Daniel first. Please get that in your skin.

If somebody wants to talk to you about the Book of Revelation and tell you how it's all going to come down and they don't know the Book of Daniel, don't even listen to them. They're wasting your time and they're wasting air. Verse 13, we pick it up.

He performs great signs so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on earth in the sight of men. This is the deception of the false prophet. Remember, there's beast number one, the Antichrist.

He's a man. Then there's beast number two who arises out of the earth. By the way, I should have mentioned this last time.

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The first beast, Mr. Antichrist, he rises out of the sea. The sea in the Hebrew mind is the sea of humanity. In the Hebrew mind, the sea refers to the Gentile nations.

Think of that. Think that through for a moment. Will the Jews be accepting a Muslim Antichrist? I don't think so.

Will the Jews be receiving a Jewish Messiah, a false Christ? It's possible, but it seems as though he'll be a very savvy Gentile. Maybe he's got Jewish blood in him. I don't know, but it's enough to know that he will not regard the God of his fathers.

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That is not a Muslim statement. That's not familiar among the Gentiles. That kind of trends more toward the Jewish mind of thinking, that the Antichrist will not regard the God of his fathers.

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So I personally believe that he is somewhat of a Gentile with some sort of Jewish access. I'll leave it at that. The second beast we're talking about, this is the false prophet.

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We do not know his lineage. We do not know his origin. Nobody cares in the Bible about it, but that is a false religious leader.

By the way, his time is very short-lived because the first beast is going to turn on the second beast. But let's just, let's go on this. He performs great signs so that even makes fire come down from heaven on earth in the sight of men.

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs, which he was granted to do in the sight of the first beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. So I hope I'm not losing you. Beast number one's the Antichrist.

He appeared to be mortally wounded in Revelation 13, but he wasn't mortally wounded. He appeared to be on CNN or TV or streaming or YouTube. He appeared to be dead, but he's not dead and the world will wonder, oh my goodness, and the world will worship him.

The second beast is the religious leader, and he's the guy that's really stoking the religious fervor during the tribulation period, calling upon people to give allegiance to the first beast, the Antichrist. So there's the Antichrist, and then there's the false prophet. Okay.

He was granted power to give breath to the image. Wow. Think about AI right now.

Think about the image is some sort of idol, something statue-like, something mechanical, something man-made. So think about this for a moment. This has been thrilling, isn't it? Isn't it awesome that we're reading a 2,000-year-old book, and it's telling us right now in verse 15 that there's going to be a robot built.

It's going to be shaped like a man. It's going to resemble the Antichrist because it's built in his honor, and it's going to be dedicated. Hey, kind of sounds like Daniel, right? Remember Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? Do you remember Nebuchadnezzar's statue? Wow.

What was everybody told to do? Bow down and worship the statue. If you don't, you're going to be killed. Sound familiar? Wow.

But listen to this. So the second beast, which is the false prophet, he was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not receive the image of the beast to be killed. Folks, this is awesome.

Somehow, a mechanical invention of technology will have the software or the cloud available to it with some sort of maybe andro type of technologies where when this image looks across humanity over the masses of people, it is able to detect who's got the mark of the beast and who doesn't. If you have the mark, clearly the signal comes back to the image and you're okay. You say, Jack, that's ridiculous.

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Really? Have you been to China? Have you been to Japan? Have you been to Korea? Have you seen some of these AI displays at the corner of intersections where there's also facial ID recognition of you walking across the sidewalk and the camera sees you? And in China, the camera gives you your social score. You are judged by a machine in China and it gives you your social score that you're a good law abiding communist. You do everything exactly the way that we tell you.

You haven't lost any points. You've got great, great numbers. You're an accepted citizen.

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If you though break the rules, the facial recognition in China will call you out. We'll call you out. And it's all done by AI.

And the Bible talks about this stuff. Amazing. And this machine, this AI machine thing appears to have a breath.

It says that the second beast, the false prophet appears to give it a breath so that it would both speak. It's going to talk. And it's going to act like it's alive.

Let me ask you this. Have you seen that image, that robot? She came to the podium. She spoke at the UN or somewhere.

Her name is Sophie or Sophia. Have you guys seen her? Go look up Sophia. I think it's Sophia.

Sophia the robot girl or whatever. She's actually, she's old now. She's probably, is it Sophia? She's all wrinkly now because she's like old.

2016. You got to check that out. Where was it? In Hong Kong.

She was revealed. Sophia. Can you imagine if Sophia with it? Wow.

Sophia is way smarter than you. Can you imagine? She's able to talk, interact, but man, she's got eyeballs that are different than yours. She's got the cloud scanning people, looking at facial recognition, picking people out, calling them out.

Remarkable. He causes both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave. So that's all people in the world to receive, watch this, a mark on their forehead.

I'm sorry, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead. And no one may buy or sell except one who has watch the mark or the name of the beast. That's the Antichrist or third option, the number of his name.

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So you're going to get, you get three choices. Look how fair they are. You have so many choices here.

It kind of reminds me of the hunger games. You know how good we are to you. We're so good.

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We're such great leaders. We're going to give you three choices. You pick, you have freedom.

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Your freedom is you can pick, you can pick the, the mark. You can pick the number of his name or you can pick, you can pick the image so that no one may buy or sell. I'm sorry.

He causes all, both small, rich, great, rich, poor, free and slave to receive a mark on their right hand, right hand. Why not the left hand? I'm just asking. Why is it the right hand? Well, what if you don't have a right hand? Well, you got a forehead.

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Look, you can live without a right hand, but you can't live without a forehead. Then he goes on and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark. So logo icon, right? Or the name of the beast or the name of the beast.

What's his name? We don't know. We don't know. What's he going to call himself? Wow.

Or third option, the number of his name. But you just want to go for it. You want to be hardcore antichrist follower.

I want 666 on my forehead. I want to be proud. Now, is it going to be visible? Will it be a chip? Will it be some sort of what's known as subcutaneous inlay within the forehead, like a membrane? Or will it actually be numbers? I don't know.

We don't know. Here's wisdom. Let him who understands calculate the number of the beast.

That's the antichrist. Beast number one for it is the number of a man. It's a number of a man.

So the number of man is, is six. It's a number of a man. His number is 666.

Three sixes. 666. So New Beginnings, for example, is 888.

The number of Christ is 7. 777. 666 is a man making himself out to be God. So where do you get that from? Well, the antichrist is going to announce himself to be God in Matthew chapter 24, starting at around verse 14 and 15 and second Thessalonians chapter two.

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Wow. So listen, we're going to need to wrap this up. We've got five minutes left, but I'm going to, I'm going to ask you to do a little word study and find this out.

Who is this first beast, the antichrist? He's going to speak pompous words. I love that word pompous. That sounds stuck up, doesn't it? Conceited words.

Go check out Daniel chapter seven verses 21 to 25 because he's going to use pompous words to destroy and kill the believers during the tribulation period, not the church. And also look at Daniel chapter seven, verse eight, where he speaks pompous words. The antichrist is going to arise out of a, listen, this is, I'm going to have to, I have to do this with my hands, but this is what the Bible says.

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The Bible says in the last days, based on Daniel's image of the statue, that the Roman empire, that is the North, that is the West and East legs of Daniel's great image of Nebuchadnezzar at the head, the Medo-Persian empire, right? Remember that? The Grecian empire that follows, and then the Roman empire that was the Eastern and Western divisions of the Roman empire. One part of the Western Roman empire was based in Rome and the Eastern part of the Roman empire was based in Constantinople. The Bible says that out of those two legs, there'll be five toes on the feet, each foot, five toes.

Daniel tells you that the five toes on each foot, 10 toes total, are partly of iron and partly of clay. Daniel chapter two, beginning at verse 40, partly iron, partly clay. And he says, because iron does not mix with clay, they will be partly strong and partly weak, but they will not adhere.

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And the Bible says that during the reign of those 10 kings, those 10 toes, there'll be a stone, a rock, a mountain from heaven, not cut with human hands, coming from the heavens and will strike the image of Daniel's kingdoms that he shows, Nebuchadnezzar, and it will strike, the stone will strike the image in its feet and the whole thing will come tumbling down. And it says during the reign of those 10 toes, that's when the rock comes from heaven and strikes the governments of the world represented in the 10 toes. And that mountain grows up into a great, great kingdom for a thousand years.

It's the reign of Christ in the second coming. What's amazing is that the Bible says out of the 10 horns, 10 toes, 10 kings, 10 rulers, there's going to be 10 rulers in the future that run the globe. We don't know how many nations there'll be, it's irrelevant.

There's going to be 10 rulers that are somehow the board. I'm making this part up now. They're like the board of the world.

They sit on the board of all power. They are the representatives of the nations of the world. They are 10.

And they're going to call the shots. And then the Bible tells us that the Antichrist, he's not even in the group. He doesn't even appear.

He's like a nobody. And it says out of the 10, he's going to arise and he's the 11th. It calls him the 11th.

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And he will subdue by intrigue. And it says that he will take three. So out of the 10, there's going to be three predominant leaders that are the most vocal, most influential out of the 10.

The 11th horn rises up, takes out all the others, goes after the three and subdues them and rises to power. He's the Antichrist. That's the guy, Revelation 13.

He arises out of obscurity. It appears to be from the ancient Roman empire, either West flank or East flank. We don't know, but he will arise out of those toes.

The 10 that came from the legs, the 10 toes is what's going to be forming, if not already in the world of the deep state somewhere in the universe here. Who knows? But could it be possible that the Antichrist is alive somewhere today? It's possible. Will I know who he is? Nope.

I'm fully convinced the Bible teaches me I won't know who he is. I mean, if I do know who he is, I'm going to know that in heaven. I'm not going to know it on earth.

But folks, if you like this, if you think this stuff is beneficial to you, um, we'd love to hear from you. Comment, let us know. And, um, and it's okay for people, look, it seems everything I do, whenever I open my mouth, uh, think people, people are divided.

You're insane. Oh man, that's so clear. Now I get it.

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It just happens everywhere I go. I was on, um, poor guy. I love this guy, but I don't know if I ruined his podcast or not.

What was the, what was the name of the podcast? Ruslan Katie. Great guy. Love the guy.

I love him. He'll probably never have me back because he had me on and the topic was about Israel and all that stuff. And that poor guy on his, on his podcast, people are dropping him and people are hating on him because he had me on his podcast.

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So if you don't know who that is, I tell you what, let's do this. If you don't know who, uh, Ruslan K D K D like kilo Delta, if you don't know who he is, please go and subscribe and encounter the lunatics that, uh, dropped him because he had me on and we talked truth. And a lot of people on this podcast didn't like that.

And so reward him for standing up, would you? And so, Hey, until next time, God bless you guys. We're out of time. Stand true.

Keep looking up for Jesus. In the meantime, do everything that you possibly can for good and be busy about our father's business. And when Christ returns, either by you dropping dead or, um, the rapture, make sure you get caught being busy about our father's business, which is presenting the gospel and standing for righteousness.

Yes. The believer in the church can chew gum and walk at the same time. It's amazing.

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