Caption transcript for Return of the Nephilim: “City of Seven Hills and the Nephilim Prophet” (15/17)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪
• 00:11 ♪♪♪
• 00:16 Joshua Colson: Satan is never alone
• 00:18 in his rebellion,
• 00:20 even before time. His one-third angelic hosts chose
• 00:21 to follow their archangel leader to their doom
• 00:24 with only a promise to receive a throne,
• 00:26 worship, praise, adoration, which
• 00:28 sporadically has been fulfilled throughout millennia.
• 00:30 Daniel spoke of princes and kings of Persia and Greece.
• 00:33 Now, these spiritual principalities ruled
• 00:35 over their territorial dominions in the second
• 00:37 heaven but manifest into chaotic warfare
• 00:39 on earth as the global devouring kingdoms of Daniel’s
• 00:42 vision continually usurped each other
• 00:44 for authority.
• 00:46 The book of Revelation outlines many of these fallen
• 00:49 spirits who joined Satan in his final venture to try
• 00:51 and halt God’s prophetic promises
• 00:53 to the nation of Israel.
• 00:54 In some perverse belief of staving
• 00:56 off his own prophesied judgment, we see
• 00:59 one particularly wicked and insidious spirit
• 01:02 join Satan’s side during the tribulation:
• 01:04 the underrated false prophet who acts as the voice
• 01:07 or mouthpiece to the beast.
• 01:09 And with the assembling of this false
• 01:11 trinity of revengers, the beast, false prophet,
• 01:14 and the dragon, the wrath of hell
• 01:16 will be poured out on earth but only for a short season.
• 01:20 ♪♪♪
• 01:30 ♪♪♪
• 01:39 male: We must choose world peace.
• 01:40 The challenges we face today do not recognize borders.
• 01:43 It is time for a unified world order [unintelligible]
• 01:50 ♪♪♪
• 01:59 Joshua: This is incredible.
• 02:01 This view is amazing.
• 02:02 Caleb Colson: Yes, sir.
• 02:04 Joshua: You get this sign here that says Istanbul.
• 02:05 And, Dave, this is why we bring you back
• 02:07 in the show because when you present history
• 02:09 with your accent and that incredible beard,
• 02:11 I believe anything you say.
• 02:13 David Pavey: It’s believable, right?
• 02:14 Joshua: We’re back in Turkey.
• 02:15 David: Unlikely but believable.
• 02:17 Joshua: We are back in Turkey.
• 02:18 I–you know what? I believe it.
• 02:19 The unlikely is the best for me.
• 02:21 Thanks for coming back.
• 02:22 David: Well, it is a joy–honestly,
• 02:23 it is a joy to be with you guys
• 02:25 and especially in a place like this.
• 02:27 Stunning.
• 02:29 I am bowled over and blown away.
• 02:30 Caleb: And I’m excited to wrap
• 02:32 up “Return of the Nephilim.”
• 02:33 It had to end here in Istanbul, in Constantinople.
• 02:37 You know, during this whole series,
• 02:38 I’ve been careful to avoid the Nephilim
• 02:41 history with Aztecs, Incas, Mayas, Sumerians,
• 02:44 Egyptians ’cause I really wanna go
• 02:45 there one day and do, like, a season 2
• 02:47 of “Return of the Nephilim,”
• 02:49 but right now we got to hold to the very
• 02:51 important story.
• 02:53 We got to conclude where, I think, it should all end
• 02:56 because that’s what the Bible says.
• 02:58 So let’s go and follow
• 03:00 the steps of the return of the Nephilim here.
• 03:02 ♪♪♪
• 03:08 Caleb: Guys, Istanbul plays a key role
• 03:11 in the end times, as it always has
• 03:13 played a key role throughout history,
• 03:15 but most Americans have forgotten
• 03:17 because of the ingenious rebranding done
• 03:19 by Mr. Mustafa Atatürk.
• 03:22 He was the founder of the Republic of Turkey,
• 03:25 and in creating this nation,
• 03:27 he wanted them to forget about their Ottoman
• 03:30 Islamic roots.
• 03:31 He wanted to make it a secular, industrial nation.
• 03:35 And so if you look back at history, the Ottomans
• 03:38 were really from the Seljuk imperial line.
• 03:42 They came from Central, Eastern Asia.
• 03:44 They were Sunni Islamists following their Islamic jihad
• 03:48 to conquer most of the world,
• 03:50 which they did.
• 03:51 David: Wow, so this city, whether it’s Constantinople
• 03:54 from years ago or Byzantium
• 03:56 or now as we know it, Istanbul, is actually the city
• 04:01 that brings two incredible continents,
• 04:05 the continent of Asia and the continent of
• 04:07 Europe together.
• 04:08 This is a significant landmass.
• 04:11 This is strategic.
• 04:13 It’s important, possibly the–next
• 04:15 to Israel, the most important landmass in the world.
• 04:18 And for 1,700 years–over 1,700 years,
• 04:22 which blows my mind, this was actually
• 04:25 the capital of the world, like the epicenter
• 04:28 of the ruling, global-dominating empire
• 04:33 of the day.
• 04:35 Joshua: So it’s important.
• 04:36 It’s 250 years for America.
• 04:37 I’m just saying 250 is a good number.
• 04:39 It’s nice.
• 04:40 It’s divisible, with liberty and justice for all.
• 04:43 Okay, you’re right.
• 04:45 Seventeen hundred is cool.
• 04:46 Joshua: Daniel 7:1-3, “In the first
• 04:49 year of Belshazzar king of Babylon,
• 04:51 Daniel had a dream and visions of his head
• 04:53 while on his bed.
• 04:54 Then he wrote down the dream, telling the main facts.
• 04:57 Daniel spoke, saying, ‘I saw in my vision
• 05:01 by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven
• 05:03 were stirring up the Great Sea.
• 05:05 And four great beasts came up to the sea,
• 05:08 each different from the other.'”
• 05:11 David: Tell you what, let’s start with
• 05:13 an important detail in Daniel’s vision.
• 05:16 That important detail: the Great Sea.
• 05:18 And here it is, the Great Sea,
• 05:21 the Mediterranean Sea.
• 05:23 Well, sort of, right?
• 05:24 You maybe got to go a little bit up that way.
• 05:27 Caleb: Yeah, and you eventually get it because this is
• 05:31 the Bosphorus Strait, and if you keep going
• 05:33 that way, it’s the Sea of Marmara,
• 05:35 which eventually connects to the Mediterranean Sea.
• 05:38 But on this side, it goes all the way
• 05:40 to the Black Sea, as you know,
• 05:43 which borders Ukraine and Georgia, you know,
• 05:46 Crimea, all those different countries.
• 05:48 But this whole territory is still important
• 05:51 because according to Daniel’s vision,
• 05:53 you know, of those four beasts,
• 05:55 not all of them border the Mediterranean Sea
• 05:58 but eventually their empire stretched as far
• 06:00 as reaching the borders of that sea,
• 06:03 and the Mediterranean Sea, the Great Sea
• 06:05 in biblical times was the hub of all commerce
• 06:09 and transportation in the known world.
• 06:11 Joshua: The peninsula of Turkey has had many names
• 06:13 throughout history, ones that you should
• 06:15 probably know.
• 06:16 Maybe you’ve heard of Asia Minor, Anatolia.
• 06:18 You know, the landmass that’s the central background
• 06:20 for all-time for the Gentile nations, you know,
• 06:23 before the Turks, it was originally the children
• 06:26 of Japheth that held it.
• 06:27 Now, these Bible names are probably gonna
• 06:29 sound familiar regardless of my inability
• 06:31 to pronounce them properly: Meshech, Tubal, Gomer,
• 06:35 Ashkenaz, Togarmah.
• 06:37 Eventually, these tribes migrated north and west.
• 06:41 Caleb: But you also find that those key prophetic
• 06:45 world-devouring kingdoms that Daniel sees
• 06:47 in his vision also held dominion
• 06:49 over the territory of Turkey, such as Babylon,
• 06:53 Medo-Persia, Greece, you know, what would
• 06:56 become the Byzantine Empire, Rome.
• 06:58 This is getting prophetic, which means
• 07:00 that this territory is important.
• 07:02 Joshua: So in Daniel’s dream of the four beasts,
• 07:04 we get these strange hybrid versions of a lion,
• 07:07 which is Babylon; a bear, which is Medo-Persia;
• 07:10 we have leopard, who’s Greece;
• 07:11 and a crazy dragon iron beast that we call Rome.
• 07:15 The hybrid places, they’re symbolic.
• 07:16 It’s just as though they were a blend with
• 07:19 the Nephilim bloodlines of the past,
• 07:20 which we clearly saw over our journeys in Greece.
• 07:25 Anywho, the waters represent the Gentiles
• 07:29 or the nations.
• 07:31 Joshua: Daniel 7:7-8, “After this I saw
• 07:34 in the night visions, and behold, a fourth seat,
• 07:37 dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong.
• 07:40 It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring,
• 07:43 breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue
• 07:45 with its feet.
• 07:46 It was different from all the beasts
• 07:48 that were before it, and it had ten horns.
• 07:49 I was considering the horns, and there was another horn,
• 07:52 a little one, coming up from among them,
• 07:54 before whom three of the first horns
• 07:56 were plucked out by the roots.
• 07:58 And there, in this horn, were eyes like
• 08:01 the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking
• 08:04 pompous words.”
• 08:07 Caleb: Place is crazy.
• 08:08 Hirchie Schaffner: Dude.
• 08:10 You guys, you leave me in Israel–
• 08:13 Joshua: If I recall, you left us.
• 08:15 Hirchie: No, no.
• 08:17 You left me in the dark in some giant village.
• 08:20 Dave, good to see you, man.
• 08:21 So you pop in from Ireland.
• 08:23 They bring you, and they leave me behind.
• 08:25 Yeah, this is great.
• 08:27 Caleb: Okay, we have a team now,
• 08:28 and we finally made it to Sultanahmet Square.
• 08:32 We’re actually standing on the hippodrome area.
• 08:34 This was part of the Eastern Roman Empire.
• 08:36 This was the capital.
• 08:38 I mean, the palace of Constantinople
• 08:40 was right over there.
• 08:41 This is history in the making,
• 08:43 and what better place to talk about
• 08:45 the fourth beast of Daniel, you know, this Roman Empire
• 08:50 that has been revived in the area of the Roman Empire.
• 08:53 This is gonna be cool.
• 08:54 Joshua: I guess it makes sense.
• 08:56 I mean, if we’re talking about, you know,
• 08:57 anti-Messiahs and Antichrist and bad dude,
• 09:00 you gotta talk about Constantine ’cause he
• 09:02 was on the list.
• 09:04 And behind us right there, the old Blue Mosque,
• 09:08 that’s where he had his palace.
• 09:09 So I guess we can go in there and see
• 09:11 if we could see ourself in his throne.
• 09:12 Wait, no, don’t do it.
• 09:14 Never put yourself on somebody’s throne.
• 09:15 It’s just a bad idea.
• 09:16 It’s where all the bad things start.
• 09:18 Caleb: Don’t worry, Josh.
• 09:19 We’ll get to the pagan mosque soon, but first,
• 09:21 I wanna take you to a very important
• 09:22 landmark not far from here.
• 09:25 Caleb: All right, gentlemen.
• 09:26 This is story time.
• 09:27 286 AD, very famous date, the Roman Empire split in half:
• 09:31 eastern and western portions.
• 09:33 Well, eventually Constantine would
• 09:35 inherit his western portion from his father,
• 09:38 but there was always conflict.
• 09:40 There’s tetrarchies where the empire was split
• 09:42 into four.
• 09:44 So there’s all these things going on.
• 09:45 And so by the time that Constantine
• 09:46 was emperor of the western half, there was a revolt
• 09:49 in the eastern half from Maxentius,
• 09:51 who was causing problems.
• 09:53 So he was gonna go to battle with him
• 09:55 in 312 AD, the very famous
• 09:57 Battle of Milvian Bridge.
• 09:59 Now, this is where everybody knows
• 10:00 the very famous story.
• 10:02 Yeah, that Constantine sees a vision, you know,
• 10:06 of a fiery cross in the sky.
• 10:08 In some versions, he hears a voice,
• 10:11 “In this sign conquer.”
• 10:13 Very Christian of him.
• 10:16 Hirchie: But in this dream, he did see this vision,
• 10:18 and it said that he shall put a cross
• 10:21 on all of their shields and–as a symbol,
• 10:24 and they did it and they did win the battle.
• 10:27 And so from there, he gives the Edict of Milan
• 10:30 and the treaty.
• 10:31 He takes over.
• 10:33 And so it’s a positive-negative.
• 10:34 I know you think it’s a negative-negative,
• 10:36 but I’m looking at it with half-glass-full
• 10:38 kind of thing because he did make
• 10:40 Christianity legal now.
• 10:42 So the persecution that they were facing
• 10:44 is now a little more limited
• 10:46 from the Roman side, but we know there’s
• 10:48 a twisting that comes in all that, but there is
• 10:51 that positive.
• 10:52 Joshua: I don’t know if you know the–that phrase
• 10:54 in the story, “But wait, there’s more?”
• 10:55 That should have been on Constantine’s tomb
• 10:58 because in 324 he reunites, taking the east and the west,
• 11:02 joining them together like this and calling
• 11:04 it Constantinople.
• 11:06 Coincidentally, on May 11th, 330 AD, he moves
• 11:09 the capital from Rome, Italy to here.
• 11:13 And how are you gonna move
• 11:14 a capital of an empire without commemorating it?
• 11:18 I give you Constantine’s column, the commemoration
• 11:21 of such an event.
• 11:23 And apparently, he chose wisely ’cause it’s
• 11:24 still here.
• 11:25 David: So the original column, though, it was placed
• 11:28 outside of the city walls, but wait till you
• 11:30 hear this, okay?
• 11:31 This sort of makes me smile a bit
• 11:33 because not only was a column enough for him,
• 11:34 he decided that he would have made a statue of himself,
• 11:40 Apollo-esque, if you like, fully butt naked,
• 11:45 in only the clothes he was born in
• 11:48 right on top overlooking the city, right?
• 11:51 Now, the big reveal party, it was a–this is crazy.
• 11:55 It was a mixture of both pagan and Christian ceremonies.
• 12:00 Joshua: The things this man did, that statue,
• 12:03 the one sans clothing, it was in honor of Invictus
• 12:06 or Apollo, like you said, the sun god.
• 12:08 I guess he fancied himself also a god
• 12:09 when he took his clothes off and put himself on a statue,
• 12:13 but that was also supposed to be in connection with
• 12:16 that vision we said he saw where, you know,
• 12:19 the cross is on fire in the center of the sun.
• 12:21 If you haven’t been convinced
• 12:23 yet that the enemy have gone all in, pushed
• 12:25 all the chips in on Constantine
• 12:28 being the beast, I would like to refer
• 12:31 to what I said earlier: But wait, there’s more.
• 12:34 Caleb: Well, in 395 AD, the Roman Empire split again,
• 12:38 eastern and western half.
• 12:40 By 476, the western half, it is no more.
• 12:43 So eastern half carries over, with Constantinople
• 12:46 being the capital for like 1,100 years until 1453.
• 12:51 Here comes the Ottomans.
• 12:52 They captured–Sultan Mehmed II, he’s now the ruler.
• 12:56 He keeps his capital in Constantinople
• 12:58 for hundreds of years more.
• 13:00 Very important.
• 13:02 Joshua: Daniel 7:24-25, “The ten horns are ten kings
• 13:06 who shall arise from this kingdom.
• 13:08 And another shall rise after them;
• 13:10 He shall be different from the first ones.
• 13:11 He shall speak pompous words against the Most High.”
• 13:15 Joshua: We’re back at Sultanahmet Square.
• 13:18 This place has got some history.
• 13:19 Now, if you look in front of us here,
• 13:21 that Serpent’s Column, that used to be
• 13:23 in the middle of the hippodrome.
• 13:24 For everybody who was paying attention
• 13:26 to last week’s episode, we had that in the background
• 13:29 in Delphi, but the one in Delphi was just a replica.
• 13:32 This bad boy right here, that’s the real deal.
• 13:34 Holy field, that’s the one that Constantine
• 13:35 actually brought here himself
• 13:37 and placed it there.
• 13:39 It’s kind of a big deal.
• 13:40 Hirchie: And you know what it was made out of?
• 13:41 Caleb: Serpent columns?
• 13:44 Hirchie: That’s what it is now.
• 13:45 What it was made out of is Greek
• 13:47 and Persian shields that he had melted down
• 13:51 and intertwined in here.
• 13:53 It actually became the sacrifice at the top,
• 13:55 which is broken off now.
• 13:57 There was a cauldron at the top
• 13:59 as a sacrifice there, and it was from this battle
• 14:02 in 479, I believe it was, the Battle of Katia;
• 14:07 and that’s where they were defeated.
• 14:10 So this, which will make him happy,
• 14:12 is talking about the prophecies
• 14:13 that Daniel had where the third beast–
• 14:16 Caleb: Greek defeats Persians.
• 14:17 Yeah, so awesome.
• 14:19 David: It’s a lot of beasts.
• 14:20 Well, last week you guys–I wasn’t there,
• 14:22 but you guys would have talked about Apollo and the–
• 14:26 like you mentioned.
• 14:27 And this Constantine, he was a little bit
• 14:32 full of himself, let me say.
• 14:34 He maybe had a few pride issues,
• 14:36 and those pride issues actually led him
• 14:39 to put up this–whatever it is, this object here
• 14:46 because he wanted to show people
• 14:48 that he was the ruler–not only
• 14:50 the ruler of the earth, he wanted to show people
• 14:52 that he was the god of the earth.
• 14:55 And as of Satan as Apollo was, wanted to be–
• 14:59 by the spirit of Apollo, he puts this thing up,
• 15:02 and all of this after his important
• 15:06 declaration at the Council of Nicaea.
• 15:09 That’s 325 AD.
• 15:10 Caleb: That’s pretty messed up.
• 15:11 That’s pretty messed up.
• 15:13 David: What was going on in his head?
• 15:14 Caleb: And this was his seat, his throne.
• 15:16 This was the capital of his kingdom.
• 15:19 So basically the seat of a beast,
• 15:21 and he–being the head of a church,
• 15:24 you know, his title Pontifex Maximus,
• 15:27 which basically was a title given
• 15:30 to the Roman emperors as being this Babylonian
• 15:33 priest, which we’ll learn about next week,
• 15:35 the high priest of Babylon.
• 15:37 But then he became Summus Pontifex,
• 15:40 which was the vicar of Christ.
• 15:42 He essentially started the Catholic Church,
• 15:44 if you will.
• 15:46 And being that, he merged, you know, Christianity
• 15:48 and ancient Babylonianism to create this first,
• 15:51 like, esoteric mystery Babylon precursor cult
• 15:55 that will eventually be mystery Babylon the Great.
• 15:59 Joshua: Revelation 17:3, “So he carried me away
• 16:02 in the Spirit into the wilderness.
• 16:03 And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast
• 16:06 which was full of names of blasphemy,
• 16:09 having seven heads and ten horns.”
• 16:11 Verse 7, “But the angel said to me, ‘Why do you marvel?
• 16:14 I will tell you the mystery of the woman
• 16:16 and the beast that carries her, which
• 16:18 has seven heads and ten horns.
• 16:20 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend
• 16:24 out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition.'”
• 16:27 Joshua: Infamous woman that we’ve been talking
• 16:28 about, the whore–the great whore, we’ll get
• 16:31 into her next week.
• 16:32 We’ll talk about her identity later.
• 16:34 But the beast that she rides on, that fourth beast
• 16:36 from Daniel 7’s vision, it’s the same one
• 16:38 in Revelation 13.
• 16:40 That chimera, the final Antichrist beast,
• 16:42 it’s him.
• 16:44 Caleb: I don’t doubt it.
• 16:45 Hirchie: So we’re standing in what–they call
• 16:48 it the Blue Mosque, but it was the Sultan
• 16:51 Ahmed Mosque, and it was originally built
• 16:53 in 1609 to, like, 1617.
• 16:56 So, like, a few years before Dave was born,
• 16:58 like 2 or 3, I think.
• 17:00 Caleb: Now, to wrap up Constantine’s story,
• 17:02 guys, I really believe that Satan thought he
• 17:05 would be the beast.
• 17:06 He went all in on him being the Antichrist,
• 17:08 and Consta–so Constantine ruled right here.
• 17:10 This was his palace, and one of the first things
• 17:14 that we see with him is he enacted some very
• 17:17 Antichrist-style laws to persecute
• 17:19 the Jewish people in 315 AD.
• 17:22 It was anti-Jew laws, guys.
• 17:23 It was to prohibit Jews from spreading their religion.
• 17:29 You know, it was to keep them from
• 17:30 observing Sabbath in the ways
• 17:32 that they’re supposed to.
• 17:33 It literally changed the Sabbath to Sunday.
• 17:36 It created instead of Passover, Pesach, the feast of
• 17:41 Ishtar, Easter.
• 17:43 I mean, he really thought that this guy was the one,
• 17:46 but just like every Antichrist in history,
• 17:49 Constantine wasn’t it.
• 17:50 He failed.
• 17:52 He ended up dying and not fulfilling
• 17:53 Satan’s grand desires.
• 17:54 So–
• 17:56 Joshua: Loser.
• 17:57 Joshua: Revelation 17:9-11, “This calls
• 18:02 for a mind with wisdom.
• 18:04 The seven heads [of the beast]
• 18:05 are seven hills on which the woman sits.
• 18:08 They are also seven kings.
• 18:09 Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come;
• 18:14 but when he does come, he must remain for only a
• 18:17 little while.
• 18:18 The beast who once was, and now is not, is
• 18:20 an eighth king.
• 18:21 He belongs to the seven and is going
• 18:23 to his destruction.”
• 18:25 David: So the beast himself has seven heads.
• 18:27 It’s a city, a city on seven hills.
• 18:30 And, of course, most people think,
• 18:32 “Well, seven hills, that’s Rome.”
• 18:33 Because Rome is literally on seven hills,
• 18:36 but Istanbul is also on seven hills.
• 18:40 Now, the thing is Rome was the epicenter
• 18:43 of the empire 350 years.
• 18:46 However, Istanbul, 1,700 years, Caleb.
• 18:51 Caleb: You got it, man. You got it.
• 18:52 And those seven heads also represent
• 18:55 kingdoms–kings, kingdoms.
• 18:56 Throughout history, those were the kingdoms
• 18:58 that subjugated Israel, that held Israel
• 19:01 in their dominion.
• 19:02 It started with Egypt, then Assyria, then Babylon,
• 19:05 Medo-Persia, Greece.
• 19:07 And in John’s day, the sixth head was Rome,
• 19:11 and then the seventh head would be revived
• 19:13 Roman Empire, and then it mentions there
• 19:15 would be an eighth king to come that is not yet.
• 19:18 That would be the kingdom of the beast.
• 19:21 That would be his final government.
• 19:24 David: Wow.
• 19:26 Caleb: Revelation 17:12-14, “The ten horns
• 19:29 which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom
• 19:33 as yet, but they receive authority
• 19:35 for one hour as kings with the beast.
• 19:38 These are of one mind, and they will give
• 19:40 their power and authority to the beast.”
• 19:44 Hirchie: Yeah, these future bad
• 19:46 guys haven’t shown up yet, and there’s a lot of debate
• 19:49 whether they’re actual individuals
• 19:51 or if they’re countries or kingdoms.
• 19:54 And it could go either way,
• 19:55 but I think it does lean into being kingdoms
• 19:58 that are gonna show up on the scene.
• 20:00 They’re gonna build this whole platform
• 20:03 for one guy to come in, the beast, to rule
• 20:07 and reign over all those different kingdoms,
• 20:09 are gonna fall for it.
• 20:11 Joshua: It sounds like it’s time to talk
• 20:13 about the great whore and her relationship
• 20:15 with the false prophet.
• 20:17 I’ve never had to talk about whores so much
• 20:18 in my entire life with a series.
• 20:20 Hirchie: It’s a horror of the whores.
• 20:22 Joshua: I like that.
• 20:23 I like horror better than whore.
• 20:25 Too many conjugation weirdnesses.
• 20:28 Joshua: Revelation 13:11-13, “I saw another beast coming
• 20:32 up out of the earth.
• 20:33 He had two horns like a lamb,
• 20:35 and he spoke like a dragon.
• 20:37 He exercises all the authority
• 20:39 of the first beast in his presence.
• 20:41 He makes the earth and those who dwell in it
• 20:43 to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound
• 20:46 was healed.
• 20:47 He performs great signs, even making fire come
• 20:50 down out of the sky to the earth
• 20:52 in the sight of people.”
• 20:54 Caleb: This is amazing, but back to the story, Josh.
• 20:57 We have a false prophet.
• 20:58 He appears like a lamb.
• 21:00 Jesus came as a Lamb.
• 21:02 He looks innocent but speaks terrible
• 21:04 dragon words.
• 21:05 He’s like the Aaron to the beast Moses.
• 21:08 Jesus used the authority of the Father,
• 21:10 but he has been given authority
• 21:12 by the beast to do signs and wonders,
• 21:15 even calls down fire from heaven
• 21:17 and demands the world worship the beast
• 21:19 after his resurrection.
• 21:20 Joshua: It’s funny ’cause the second
• 21:22 beast comes out of the earth,
• 21:23 and we are under the earth in the famous Basilica Cistern.
• 21:27 This is the largest of several hundred cisterns
• 21:29 beneath Istanbul, specifically under
• 21:31 the ancient Stoa basilica on the first of the seven
• 21:34 hills of Constantinople.
• 21:36 You know, it’s believed that Constantine
• 21:37 originally built this cistern because it supplies water
• 21:39 to the great palace, but then Emperor
• 21:41 Justinian enlarged it in the 6th century
• 21:44 and it’s now credited with its existence.
• 21:47 Caleb: Well, now remember that first beast
• 21:49 in Revelation 13:1.
• 21:51 “Then I stood on the sand of the sea.
• 21:53 I saw a beast coming up out of the sea,
• 21:55 having ten horns and seven heads.”
• 21:58 It’s similar to the four beasts
• 21:59 Daniel saw come out of the sea.
• 22:01 This is important because in Revelation 17:15,
• 22:04 the angel explains what waters or sea represents.
• 22:08 “He said to me, ‘The waters which you saw,
• 22:10 where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes,
• 22:13 nations, and languages.'”
• 22:15 This is the goy nations.
• 22:17 Joshua: You know, this earth, or adamah, always
• 22:19 represents Hebrews, the grains of sand, Adam,
• 22:22 that God formed.
• 22:25 Joshua: Revelation 13:14, “He deceives my own people
• 22:29 who dwell on the earth because of the signs he
• 22:31 was granted to do in front of the beast,
• 22:33 saying to those who dwell on the earth that they
• 22:35 should make an image to the beast who
• 22:36 had the sword wound and lived.”
• 22:39 Caleb: All right, Josh.
• 22:40 Revelation chapter 13 is very interesting.
• 22:41 It provides a hint of a false prophet’s lineage.
• 22:44 You know, most manuscripts these days
• 22:46 have different translations.
• 22:48 They say, “And he deceives those who dwell
• 22:51 on the earth.”
• 22:52 But then we see in ancient manuscript
• 22:54 sources, the majority text adds Emous,
• 22:58 “of my” people, you know, of those who dwell on the earth.
• 23:02 So–“And it leads astray those of mine dwelling
• 23:05 on the earth, my own people.”
• 23:08 We see the same clause again in Acts 28:19
• 23:12 when Paul says, “My own people” in Greek.
• 23:15 So it’s possible that John is
• 23:17 referencing the Jewish people when he’s talking
• 23:20 about this false prophet, that a Jewish false prophet
• 23:23 is going to deceive the Jewish people
• 23:25 who are dwelling on the earth.
• 23:26 That’s terrifying.
• 23:28 Caleb: Matthew 24:24, “For false christs
• 23:31 and false prophets will rise and show great signs
• 23:34 and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.”
• 23:41 Caleb: Josh, it’s important to realize that the Jews
• 23:43 are gonna believe that the false prophet
• 23:45 is their Messiah.
• 23:46 He’s gonna come, allow the rebuilding of a
• 23:48 third temple.
• 23:49 He makes his peace treaty with the beast who’s
• 23:51 a Gentile Messiah to the world.
• 23:53 Daniel 9:27 declares that there’s gonna
• 23:55 be a 7-year treaty and in the middle of
• 23:58 that, 3 1/2-year point, then the beast commits
• 24:02 the abomination of desolation.
• 24:04 All bets are off.
• 24:05 He desecrates the temple.
• 24:06 It’s shocking to the Jewish people
• 24:09 that the false prophet then betrays
• 24:11 the Jewish people and demands
• 24:12 that they worship the beast, his image, receive his mark
• 24:16 or they are beheaded.
• 24:18 Joshua: Well, it’s important to remember, though,
• 24:19 that the Jews don’t believe the Messiah
• 24:21 is gonna be God, right?
• 24:22 Just like Cyrus the Moshiach didn’t end
• 24:24 up being God, okay?
• 24:26 So when this happens, the Jews are gonna flee
• 24:28 to Bozrah, all right?
• 24:30 Joshua: “And 144,000 tribes will be sealed
• 24:33 when they come to faith in Yeshua
• 24:34 by the testimony of the two witnesses.”
• 24:38 Caleb: Genesis 49:17, “Dan shall be a nachash
• 24:41 [serpent] beside the derech, a viper along the orach
• 24:45 [the path] that biteth the ikkvei sus
• 24:48 [the horse’s heel].”
• 24:51 Caleb: Genesis 3:15, “And I will put enmity
• 24:54 between you and the woman, and between your seed
• 24:56 and her Seed; He shall bruise your head,
• 24:59 and you shall bruise His heel.”
• 25:01 Caleb: See, that’s Second Coming, Josh.
• 25:03 I see that as a fulfillment with,
• 25:06 you know, the serpent biting at the horse’s heel.
• 25:08 Well, Yeshua is on a horse.
• 25:09 He’s riding in to do battle and here’s the serpent,
• 25:14 the dragon nipping at his heel again,
• 25:16 and that mirrors a prophecy about
• 25:18 the tribe of Dan being that serpent along the path
• 25:22 that bites at the horse’s heel.
• 25:23 That’s why some people think it is possible
• 25:26 that the false prophet may be from the tribe of Dan.
• 25:29 Joshua: It’s really clear that the tribe of Dan
• 25:31 is rejected as part of the 144,000
• 25:36 because of all the nonsense that that family did.
• 25:39 And even though we know that the false prophet
• 25:42 is Jewish, it is clear that he’s not getting
• 25:45 saved ’cause he is part Nephilim.
• 25:48 Caleb: No, that’s what happens.
• 25:49 Joshua: That’s what happens.
• 25:51 Joshua: 2 Peter 2:1, “But there was
• 25:54 also false prophets among the people,
• 25:56 even as there will be false teachers among you,
• 25:58 who will secretly bring in destructive heresies,
• 26:01 even denying the Lord who bought them,
• 26:03 and bring unto themselves swift destruction.”
• 26:06 Hirchie: Hi, guys.
• 26:08 David: Terminology in the Bible is really,
• 26:09 really important, and the term false prophet
• 26:12 that we’ve been using to describe this wicked,
• 26:16 villainous guy comes–actually comes
• 26:19 from Revelation chapter 19 and verse 20.
• 26:21 This is what it says.
• 26:22 “And the beast was captured, and with him the false
• 26:25 prophet who did mighty miracles
• 26:27 on behalf of the–“
• 26:28 Caleb: So that’s where we get false
• 26:30 prophet, which is interesting ’cause
• 26:31 everybody today in Christian churches refers
• 26:34 to the beast in Revelation as the Antichrist,
• 26:37 but nowhere in the book of Revelation
• 26:39 is he called the Antichrist.
• 26:42 So one would think, “Why is that done
• 26:45 if John the Apostle was the one
• 26:47 who wrote the book of Revelation,
• 26:48 but John also wrote the book of 1 and 2 John
• 26:51 where he coins the term Antichrist
• 26:53 and even refers to the Antichrist?”
• 26:55 It’s just maybe he’s trying to tell us something.
• 26:57 Hirchie: And then he goes on in 1 John 2:22 and he says
• 27:00 if anyone denies the Father and Yeshua, he’s
• 27:04 an Antichrist; but also in that same
• 27:07 chapter just four verses earlier, he says
• 27:11 that there is someone called the Antichrist.
• 27:15 Joshua: I agree.
• 27:16 So for the sake of semantics,
• 27:18 we’re saying that Antichrist is
• 27:21 this placeholder that we’ve been using
• 27:22 to refer to the beast, but the–John is
• 27:25 actually saying that this Antichrist
• 27:27 is going to be a great deceiver that deceives
• 27:29 the Jewish people.
• 27:31 Henceforth, he would have to be Jewish for them
• 27:32 to believe the dude, which really makes him
• 27:35 the false prophet.
• 27:39 Hirchie: Excellent.
• 27:40 Caleb: You just destroyed everyone’s
• 27:41 worldview right there, and I love it.
• 27:44 But the story isn’t over yet, guys.
• 27:46 Next week we’re gonna delve more into
• 27:48 the return of the Nephilim and the rise
• 27:50 of this one-world pagan religion
• 27:53 to worship the Nephilim.
• 27:54 So I can’t wait.
• 27:55 We gotta stay here in Istanbul for
• 27:57 a whole week until our viewers
• 27:59 join us next week.
• 28:01 Hirchie: As long as we eat the lunch we
• 28:02 had today, I can stay in Istanbul for a little while.
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