TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Are You Spiritually Strong to Withstand the Global Worship of Satan?

Episode Date: November 16, 2022

Prophecy teachers have written for decades about a coming one-world religion before the end of the world. Many speculated it would be Catholicism. Others suggested it would be Islam. More recently, some prophecy teachers think it could be atheism. What if all of them are wrong? Rick and Doc present a more ominous possibility about a worldwide religion. Don’t miss this powerful End Time lesson. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 11/16/22A hilarious gift idea for Christmas 2022! Order your Fauci Elf! https://tru.news/faucielfIt’s the Final Day! The day when Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick’s book, Final Day. https://www.rickwiles.com/final-dayYou can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com/donate or by calling 1-800-576-2116 or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969.

Well, this is the day which the Lord hath made, and we will rejoice and be glad in it. Hello, everybody. My name is Rick Wiles, and the reason that I'm on television is to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. Jesus Christ and the full manifestation of his kingdom. Now presently, you and I are dwelling in the kingdom of heaven while we're living on this old earth. Praise God, there's a new earth coming

and new Jerusalem is on its way. In the meantime, you and I must shine brightly, taste salty, and love everybody in this present age. Our question today is, which religion will dominate the world in the last days. One of the popular tenets of American evangelical eschatology is the notion that there will be a one world religion before the second coming of Jesus Christ. Multitudes of prophecy books have been written about it over the years. Countless sermons have been preached about it. Many prophecy seminars have been held in almost every American city over the past 50 years explaining the details of this ominous worldwide religion that will rule the world along with the Antichrist. Nevertheless, no scriptures in the Holy Bible say there will be a, quote, worldwide religion in the last days.

A worldwide religion is taught in many churches and ministries along with the concept of a worldwide government and a worldwide financial system. Well, there's some truth in these end-time religious beliefs, but I have a feeling that things will not play out in real time the way that you and I were told by Bible prophecy teachers. Every prophecy in the Bible will be fulfilled. Make no mistake about it. Every prophecy in the Bible will be fulfilled, but not the way you and I expect those prophecies to happen. That's why Jesus gave us, to all of us, a very important piece of advice when he answered the disciples' questions about the destruction of the Jewish temple, the sign of the end of the age of mankind and the sign of his return. Jesus started his remarks with these words, let no man deceive you.

It's easy to be deceived. It's easy to be fooled. It's easy to believe somebody who sincerely believes he or she is correct but has misunderstood or misinterpreted the Bible because he or she was indoctrinated to teach a certain doctrine and worldview of Bible prophecy. One way to prevent yourself from being deceived is to have an open mind and be willing to listen to viewpoints about the Holy Bible that are different than the views you have been taught. Well, that's what Dr. Raymond Burkhart and I will do today. And probably over the next two or three days, we will present a different perspective about a worldwide religion. And I invite you to watch and learn. Now, if you have comments, please send them to me at talk to Rick at rickwiles.com. And if you are hungry for a fresh new viewpoint on the second coming of Jesus Christ, I encourage you to read my book,

Final Day, the 10 characteristics of the second coming of Jesus Christ. This book will revolutionize the way you think about the second coming. It is full of scriptures and the Bible talks for itself. And everybody that I have talked to who has read this book has said to me, wow, understanding Bible prophecy is suddenly easy. It's not complicated. It's not confusing anymore. This book has made it easy to understand. And that is really the reason I wrote it, Doc. Yes. Because there's so much confusion and erroneous teaching in many evangelical churches in America about the Second Coming.

And they sincerely believe it, but I personally believe they're sincerely wrong. And what I did with this book, as the Lord directed me, the way my logical mind works, okay, so I went through the Bible and I found as many scriptures as I could find about the second coming, the day of the Lord, the end of the age, various phrases, terms. And then I just start with

a big pile and then I start sorting them. Just like if you were cleaning out your garage. I mean, if your garage is full, what you got to do is you got to make piles, categories. And so I took the scriptures and I started to put them in categories. And so, hey, this scripture goes with this one. This scripture is just like this one. And so I took all the scriptures. Let's say the talk about the fire on the last days. I created a big pile of fire scriptures, you know?

And then scriptures about the glory of the second coming. Well, I made another category, glory. And another one about the noise and another one about the brightness of the day. Right, right. And the finality of the day. That's right. So you got to the, finally, I've got ten big piles of scriptures.

And I wrote a chapter for each one. And that's how we got this book, Final Day, Ten Characteristics of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. So it is an easy book to read. It is over 400 pages, but it's not over your head. I wrote it. It's not over your head. It's not ghostwritten either. It's in Rick's voice. When you read it, it's like Rick's reading it to you. Yeah. I didn't pay anybody to write the book. I wrote the book myself with a lot of prayer. And this not only will,

it changed my understanding of the second coming because I had to spend so much time in Scripture. And the Holy Spirit was illuminating my mind as I wrote the book. I saw things that I had never understood before as I studied and worked on this book. And I believe the revelation will help you also. And whatever your viewpoint is on the second coming,

I just encourage you to have an open mind. Just, you know, can't hurt to read something that doesn't agree with your thoughts, right? Can't hurt. I mean, nothing's going to jump out of the book and grab you. It's just, it's a different view about the second coming of Jesus Christ. Do I believe Jesus Christ is coming back? Yes. Do I believe all the graves were open? Yes. Do I believe the church will be caught up in the air to meet the Lord? Yes. Do I believe that there's going to be a glorious kingdom that shall have no end? Yes. Do I believe that we will be given new bodies? Yes. It's just, I have a different

view about how this all happens. Right. And it's really not a radically new view. It's a radically old view because it's the view that the church has maintained for most of its existence. Yes. I have a view went this way, out of our studio. My office is that way, okay? I have a very large library of old books. Doc knows, he comes in my office every day. I don't read new books. I read old books. And when I say old, I prefer that they be a hundred years old. I have some books that are, you know, some very good books that are printed in the 1920s and 30s and 40s, but mostly in the 1800s. Some 1700s. And I've got two or three books that were printed in the 1600s.

Right. And I'll tell you what, folks. Most of what is taught on Christian television and Christian radio today and in most of the churches in America is not in these books. They didn't hear it. They've never heard of it. So where did this stuff come from? People talk about, you know,

Charles Spurgeon, one of my great heroes, Charles Spurgeon, Reformed Baptist preacher. I'm going to tell you something. Charles Spurgeon, if he were alive today, couldn't get invited to speak in churches today in America. Not based, even just based on his sermons.

That's what I mean. Not even counting the numerous volumes he wrote. Right. He would not be invited to churches today. He wouldn't be invited on Christian TV shows, Christian radio shows, because what he preached was radically different than what is preached today. Yes. And yet the same people that would reject his sermons, uh, lift him up as a role model, but they don't even realize that what he taught is contrary to

what they believe today. So that's why I read old books. And Alexander McLaren, Spurgeon, G. Campbell Morgan, these are the kind of people that have influenced my thinking and my perspective. And the stuff that is taught today in American churches, it just didn't exist when these men were preaching. It didn't exist. They never heard of it. They just had never, well, I would say it was Spurgeon. Spurgeon knew of Darby. He personally knew of John Nelson Darby, and he denounced him from his pulpit. He denounced Darby because Darby was active in London at the time of Spurgeon. Charles Spurgeon was one of Darby's most vehement critics. So again,

have an open mind. Listen to different different viewpoints let's jump into this right now we're talking about which religion will be the dominant religion on the earth when christ comes back because the standard teaching in america is it's going to be a one world religion a one world government and a one world money system, right? And, Doc, what I was taught as a young Christian was that the Roman Catholic Church would be the worldwide religion. It was the harlot. It was what was going to take over the world, Roman Catholicism. That was a very dominant viewpoint for hundreds of years going back to the Reformation. And the Seventh-day Adventists to this day still maintain that view.

Absolutely. I don't believe it. I don't believe the Roman Catholic Church is the one world religion. There's probably people right now, their wigs just popped off. I mean, their eyelashes turned up. But just hear us out today, okay? Because we're not going to be talking about Roman Catholicism today and tomorrow. We're going to have a different viewpoint about where the world is going in a global religious mindset.

And it's not Roman Catholicism. And you'll be surprised where it's going. Another popular candidate in recent times, and I would say over the last 20-some years, especially since September 11, 2001, has been Islam. Right. How many books can you count that were written as, you know, Islam is the coming world religion? That's right.

I mean, I look on your bookshelf. You have those books. Yes, and I interviewed the authors years ago of a lot of those books. So, this teaching that Islam is going to be the religion that takes over the world. No, it's not. It's not Islam either. Well, that kind of knocks out some big ones, Rick. So, what is the religion that we're headed to? Let's talk about the one that we're in right now. And it's not the one that's going to dominate. It's the one, it's the religion that has to dominate for a season. Let's take a look at

Fox News. This is a story recently published. Number of Americans who believe in God drops to historic low. And this is a poll that was conducted back in June. The percentage of Americans who say they believe in God has dipped to the lowest number in the past nearly 80 years, according to a new Gallup poll published Friday. The values and belief poll conducted from May 2nd to 22nd showed 81% of people answered that they believe in God. That is down 6 percentage points from the 87% of respondents

who said they believed in God in the 2017 poll. This year is the lowest percentage in Gallup's trend since the public opinion polling company first asked the question in 1944. This year's poll found 17% of Americans said they do not believe in God. Okay, so Doc, let's look at this. Do they believe in Jesus Christ? Well, I'm talking about those who, not the ones who said that they have a religion, but the ones who said that they don't have a religion. Do they believe in Jesus Christ?

No. No. Do they believe in Allah? No. In Islam? No. No. Do they believe in the Pope?

No. So what do they believe? Nothing. They are godless. The trend in this country is godlessness. Yes. It is not an embrace

of another religion. They're not moving to Hindus. They're not moving to become Sikhs. Or Sikhs moving to become Sikhs. Or Sikhs. In the Sikh religion. They're moving towards godlessness. Right.

A world without God. Yes. In fact, aggressive toward God. Yes. Hostile. Next one. Gallup Poll. Fewer in the U.S. now see Bible as the literal word of God.

So a record low, 20% of Americans now say that the Bible is the literal word of God, down from 24% the last time the question was asked in 2017, and half of what it was at its high points in 1980 and 1984. Meanwhile, a new high of 29% say the Bible is a collection of fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by man. This marks the first time significantly more Americans have viewed the Bible as not divinely inspired than as the literal Word of God. The largest percentage, 49%, chose the middle alternative, roughly in line with where it has been in previous years.

So, Doc, in your years as a minister of the gospel, have you ever seen the moral condition of the American people at this low level? No, of course not. It's worse than I've ever experienced in my lifetime. So, you know, we talk about this, you and I talk about this privately. If Billy Graham were with us today and he was 30 years old, could Billy Graham get his ministry started in America in the year 2022? If he was 30 years old, brand new preacher, nobody had ever heard of him. And he announced, hey, I'm going to put up tents in cities and I'm going to preach a message of repentance, and I'm going to tell people they have to come to God. They have to come to the cross and repent of their sins and be born again.

And I'm going to go to churches and get all the churches in one city to come together for a big soul-winning crusade. Could a young Billy Graham do that in 2022? No, because we don't have the influence of the Bible on the culture anymore. When Billy Graham first started back in the 50s and 60s, the Bible still was permeating all of culture. Not everybody was a Christian, and no one was being forced to be a Christian. But the Bible was accepted as the Word of God. It was presented in public schools. It was, you know, politicians on both the left and the right embraced the Scriptures, the Bible as the Word of God.

But that changed radically in the 60s. So no, a Billy Graham today could not have that same impact that he did back when he first started. Could Billy Graham have a channel on YouTube? He might be able to start one, but not a popular one. And it wouldn't last long. Because the moment he started calling out sin, he would be deplatformed. Right. Because of being offensive. That's right.

He would be deplatformed on Twitter, on Facebook, on all the social media platforms. So a young Billy Graham, if he were starting out today in America, it would be an extremely difficult task to get his ministry off the ground. It would be difficult to even find churches interested in soul winning. They just don't do it anymore. They don't have soul winning crusades. There's a few people out there, a few evangelists out there still leading people to Christ, but you don't hear of churches coming together for citywide soul winning campaign just doesn't happen anymore no the culture has changed and even the

churches are being are becoming cold to the idea of winning souls so we'll show you another one this is from the Gallup poll. This is Americans' view of the Bible. And so this is the trend over the past generally 40 years here. And you can see how the increase has slowly taken place over time by the people who just believe the Bible is nothing but fables and history. And it's a great book, but it's all make-believe. And so these trends that you're looking at here, these are trends that should be a wake-up call to many people. Look at the trend for the Word of God. Even as early as right before 1980, 40% of Americans believed the Bible was the Word of God.

We're at half that. Only a fifth of the U.S. population, according to the Gallup poll here, believes that the Bible is the Word of God. There is no way to deny it. We are in a post-Christian America. It's a pagan country. Yes. It is a pagan country. America is no longer a Christian nation. To operate in America with a ministry, you have to now approach it as you've been sent by God to a pagan country. Right. To lead the pagans to Christ. It would be like Patrick going to Ireland to lead the pagans to Christ, because that's where America is at right now. It has rejected God

and it has embraced paganism. So it is a different country but it's still not where it's going to end up. There's a progression of where the country is going. We have another still from the Gallup Poll, the importance of religion and views of the Bible as the actual Word of God. And that, of course, also has changed over the past, especially the past 20 years. Look at the drop. The other chart showed 40 years. This shows 20 years that religion, the decline of the importance of religion in people's lives is dropping rapidly, especially over the past four or five years. An incredible decline that we're seeing here.

Rick, the fact of the matter is people not only don't believe the Bible is the Word of God, some are even going so far as saying, we don't need the Bible in our culture anymore, not even as a moral influence anymore. Those are old laws. Those are old ideas. We need new morality, a new construct of ethic. That's exactly where we're at. They're talking about a new Constitution for the United States,

that the Constitution is outdated. It's written for people centuries ago. And likewise, their Bible. Their Bible was for centuries ago. And so there is a movement in this country right now to create a new culture. Even a new religion. A new religion, a new society. Now, this next story was reported by fox news that this uh

this is a shocking story that the biden administration is doing this uh with our tax money members of the u.s house of representatives are demanding answers from the u.s state department for funding atheism internationally. Yes. Your tax money is being used to prop up atheist organizations and to teach atheism in other countries. So from this article, this is from The Federalist, Representative Jim Banks of Indiana and other members of Congress are demanding answers about a State Department plan to fund projects supporting atheism abroad. atheist, humanist, non-practicing, and non-affiliated individuals of all religious communities by strengthening networks among these communities and providing organizational

training and resources. So 15 representatives wrote a letter to the White House and the State Department yesterday expressing grave concern that the State Department is using appropriated funds to support atheism and radical progressive orthodoxy around the world. It is one thing for the department to be tolerant and respectful of a wide range of belief systems and to encourage governments to respect the religious freedom interests of their citizens," the representative's letter said. It is quite another for the United States government to work actively to empower atheists, humanists, and non-practicing and

non-affiliated in public decision making. The letter continued, any such program for any religiously identifiable group in the United States would be unconstitutional. I read today, Doc, that a group of Islamic clerics in the Middle East are also demanding that the State Department explain why the U.S. government is spending money in Arab countries to promote atheism in the Arab countries. We're not promoting Christianity in the Arab countries. The U.S. government is promoting atheism in those countries. Let me tell you, folks,

the Arab people are wonderful people and the Muslim people are wonderful. I got indoctrinated years ago after 9-11. We were all told, you got to hate the Muslims. The Muslims are out to kill you. They're going to kill Americans. That's not true.

I've gotten to know the Muslims, and they are kind, wonderful people. And they actually respect Jesus Christ, and they like Christians. They respect you for being a Christian. What they don't understand is, why would the U.S. government tell people there is no God? Yes. Why? Because they know Christians believe in God. So they don't have a problem with Christians.

But they're stunned that the U.S. government would spend government money, tax money, telling people in their countries there is no God. What is America doing? Well, we're moving into this age of atheism where the official religion of the world is there is no God. But that's not the end. There's something else coming. Atheism is necessary right now to disconnect the people from God. Yes. But they're going to take them another step. So atheism is just a temporary belief system that will have a strong impact on the world for a season. But then the world will go to its next level. And Doc and I are going to be talking about that tomorrow and most likely the next day. I think it's going to take about two more days for us to cover all this material.

So I encourage you to come back to this TV channel, same time, and watch the next two days. And we'll give you a very different viewpoint about the end times. Look up. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is coming soon for his church. We love you very much. We'll see you tomorrow. Well, this is the day which the Lord hath made. And we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Hello, everybody. I'm Rick Wiles, and I'm on television to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. That's because I believe that Jesus Christ is coming back, and He's coming back for His one, holy, universal, and apostolic church. And I want to help prepare you for the second advent of Jesus Christ and to live in the full manifestation of the kingdom of God when Christ returns. Now, right now, presently in this age, you and I are living in the kingdom of heaven while we're on this old earth. But glory to God, there's a new earth coming and a new Jerusalem on its way. But in the meantime, while we're here, you and I must shine brightly, taste salty, and love everybody. Doc Burkhardt and I are going to be discussing our question, will atheism pave the

way for a worldwide religion from hell? Yesterday, Doc and I began a three-part discussion of a worldwide religion in the last days. I mentioned yesterday that I was taught as a young Christian that Roman Catholicism would be that worldwide religion. Then after September 11, 2001, many Bible prophecy teachers taught that Islam would be the worldwide religion. Well, I don't believe either viewpoint. The world is not racing to embrace Roman Catholicism nor Islam. Presently, the world is moving to embrace atheism. A growing number of people in Western nations are identifying as non-believers. They don't believe in any God. In essence, they are accepting and adopting humanism. While it appears that atheism is becoming popular today,

especially among young people, I don't think atheism will be the religion that dominates the world in the last days. So for the next half hour, Doc and I will share with you our thoughts about the religion that will rule the world before Jesus Christ returns. And tomorrow, our topic, we're going to be on the same theme, but tomorrow we will be talking about what I call the new Nimrods. And you don't want to

miss tomorrow's episode. If you miss any of these episodes, you can watch them at rickwiles.com. Also, much of what I teach is derived from my book, Final Day, the 10 characteristics of the second coming of Jesus Christ. And I promise you this book will completely revolutionize the way you think about the second coming. It's a fresh, new perspective on the second coming of Christ. It is full of scriptures, and I wrote the book in an easy-to-read format. It's not going to be difficult for you to get through this book. It will be an easy read. Now, it is over 400 pages, but it will,

most people have told me they read through it so quickly. They didn't want to put it down because they were learning so many new things about the second coming of Jesus Christ. And the most common comments I've had from people is, Rick, this book has made it easy for me to understand the second coming. It's not complicated to me anymore. You've made it easy. And that's what I wanted to do because you shouldn't have to have a $99 prophecy wall chart with a lot of complicated things spread across you know your entire wall that this has to happen and this happens and then you know this trap door opens and the ball rolls down and makes something spin I mean that's these prophecy, they look like the old

Rube Goldberg contraptions. If you're my age or older, you know who Rube Goldberg was. If you're young, you're like, I have no idea what he's talking about. But these prophecy charts are just overly complicated. Folks, here's my prophecy chart. We had the first advent of Jesus Christ. We have the church age. We have the second advent of Jesus Christ, and then we have Jesus. That's it. It's that simple. We are in the church age. We're waiting on the second advent of Jesus Christ. When he comes back, nothing else except Jesus in all his glory and his majesty. It's not complicated. You and I are to live a good, clean, righteous

life in this world while we're in this physical body. We are to live for Christ now. He's coming back. And when he comes back, his kingdom will be fully manifested. It's not going to be spread out over a thousand years. When Christ comes back, a whole kingdom comes with Him. And all His glory and majesty. So read the book and like I said it's a fresh perspective on the second coming of Jesus Christ. So we're talking today about a worldwide religion. So a lot of people for hundreds of years they taught that Roman Catholicism would be the worldwide religion.

And then Islam became the dominant theme after the September 11 attacks. My view, Doc, and I think you share it, is that we are presently in the age of atheism, but atheism is only a transition to a final religion that will dominate the world. And so what we want to do today, we want to look at some scriptures that help us understand where the world is going. We're going to start with 2 Timothy 3, verses 1 through 5. Right.

And, wow, have you ever needed a Bible verse to describe the condition of America right now? And tens of millions of American citizens, this scripture describes them. And it says in 2 Timothy 3, verses 1-5, This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural

affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than the lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. From such turn away." Doc, that's a description of the American people today. It really is, Rick. I mean, it describes the character, character describes the attitude of people. And it's a wide range of characteristics here. The ones that seem apparent, you know, the boasters, those that are covetous, the proud, the blasphemers. But then it talks about disobedience to parents, being unthankful, you know, truce breakers, false accusers. Really, that is the state nature of our nation today.

Truce breakers, people don't keep their word. Right. Their word doesn't mean anything. That's why we have to have so many lawyers in the country. The reason for the proliferation of lawyers is because the American people don't keep their word. Yes. There was a day in America that you did a handshake. Yes.

And your word was your bond. That was the guarantee you're going to perform the terms of the agreement. Today, people have contracts, and the moment they sign the contract, they're already thinking in their head how they're going to break the contract. Right. And that's why you have to have lawyers to then go after the people to make them keep their written agreement. But it describes the mindset of the population of this country today and many Western nations that used to be Christian. Right. One phrase in there,

despisers of those that are good. Boy, doesn't that describe a large segment of the American population today? Just watch CNN, watch MSNBC. Just listen to any of the far left news media or any of the entertainment programs. They despise Christians. They hate Christians. They hate the Bible. They hate God. They hate Christians. They hate the Bible. They hate God. They hate morality. You know, we saw it with the protest against the Supreme Court. I can't even say on television the profane things that were written on protest signs because the TV stations that carry us would get in trouble by the government

if I repeated on television what was written on the signs. But the signs were obscene comments about God. People were marching around in the nation's capital with signs that blaspheme God. They're blasphemers. Just what Paul said that they would be. Having loving pleasure

more than being lovers of God. Once again, that describes a large segment of our population as well where we're so focused on the pleasure. All these other things lovers of God. Once again, that describes a large segment of our population as well, where we're so focused on the pleasure. All these other things that are listed here in 2 Timothy lead to that, lead to that lover of pleasure more than lovers of God. Talk about false accusers. Have you ever seen a day when people will make just wild accusations against others online, in the media, destroy people's reputations, their names, just so that they can accomplish their political goals. Yes. That what they do is they just smear people. They call them names. They accuse them of doing things. Look what they

did to President Donald Trump for four years. They planted evidence. They manufactured a fake report. They laid a trap for him. And it was all false accusations against the sitting president of the United States. I never thought I would see something like that in America, but it actually fits what the Bible says will be happening in the last days. So we have a description here. This is Paul writing to Timothy saying, you're going to see some of this, but really Paul's writing to us today that this is what you're seeing. Look around you. Look at the characteristics of the culture that you're living in now. Does this describe us today? And if it does, does that mean that we're living in the last days? I believe that it does.

He tells us when this is going to happen. Yes. This know also that in the last days, this is going to happen. This is what people are going to look like. Well, here we are, most of us as Christians, and we're in a state of shock every single day. If you pay attention to the news or the culture, you're in a state of shock. You can't believe that people have become this evil, this wicked, this brazen to denounce God, to denounce things that are good, morality. And yet, Paul told us over 2,000 years ago, in the last days, this is what people are going to

look like. This is how they're going to think. This is how they're going to talk. So we ought to be excited. Even though it's frightening, it's depressing, it's disturbing to be living in a time when people have become this wicked. Yet, it's still the Lord's day. The Lord is coming. Yes. It simply means we have to get through this period in order to see Christ. I'm not a believer in a secret pre-tribulation rapture i do not believe that christ comes back to earth twice because that's what that doctrine teaches he comes back once and a secret pre-tribulation rapture takes away the christians

then things get really bad and then he comes back and he wipes out the bad people i don't believe that jesus said endure to the end he who endures to the end shall be saved you and i are going to see some horrific things we're going to see things that we never thought could be possible in the united states of america we're going to see wickedness at a level that is going to be so shocking. The things that they're doing right now, parading children around in drag queen shows with men barely dressed as women. You can't even say they're dressed as women. They're barely dressed, wearing wigs and high heels and makeup and practically naked and

holding the hands of little three and four-year-old children and walking them around in these obscene shows. You think this is bad? Just wait for another five years. You have no idea the wickedness that's going to be done in this country. And it all starts with that denial of God. Yes. Or at least saying that you deny God. There's a significant portion that deny God. There's some that know that God exists but still deny Him anyway.

That's right. But it's the denial of the values and the principles upon which our particular culture here in America was founded upon. That was the Word of God. The Word of God is rejected. Therefore, God is rejected. And the values of God get rejected. But there's a values vacuum there, Rick. And so they have to come up with their own values.

And those values are diametrically opposed to God. Yes, and it's becoming the foundation of a new world order. Yes. A new culture. Apostle Paul also, in the first chapter of Romans, also described what the people would be like in the last days. Yes. He says in Romans chapter 1, a familiar passage, I'm sure, for a lot of people. But now if you look at it through the lens of the last days. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts to dishonor their

own bodies between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections for even

their women did change the first portion of that passage there, Rick, it explains why all this happens. You change the truth of God into a lie. You said God doesn't exist or that God's a liar. His values, His principles, His laws, His commandments, they don't matter to us anymore. They worship the creation, not the creator. We see this now in the radical environmentalist movement where they literally have become worshipers of Gaia, Mother Earth. Yes.

They become idol worshipers of the planet itself, but they will not honor God, the creator. Paul went on to describe what people would be like in this age. So he's naming the symptoms of a culture and society. He talked about women leaving their natural affection. He goes on in verse 27, and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman,

burned in their lust toward one another. Men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error, which was meat. This describes America's obsession with homosexuality in 2022. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient. And once again, it's that denial of God within the culture. So when you go deeply into sexual sin,

he turns you over to a reprobate mind. What is a reprobate mind? A mind that rejects God and all things good. And can it be reclaimed, the mind? Well, now that's the real question there, isn't it? Can God redeem that situation if someone turns from that? Well, certainly God can redeem. But what do you do when a whole society is in... Has become reprobates? Right. And God says

in the last days, he's going to judge the nations. So when he looks at America today, will he see a reprobate nation? Doc, my view is once God has declared you to be a reprobate, there's no hope left for you. Now he's turned his back on you because you're not coming back. Yes, because the Holy Spirit, if the Holy Spirit does not woo you, invite you to the cross to be born again, if the Holy Spirit does not convict you of your sins, you cannot be saved. Right.

And so I think when you become a reprobate, when God makes a decision, I'm turning you over to a reprobate mind. I believe he washes his hands of you and says, I'm not going to ever again try to save your soul. You're done. That's a scary place. It is. And a lot of these people that are parading around in these pride parades and doing despicable acts in front of the public,

they have been turned over to a reprobate mind and there's no hope for them whatsoever to come to salvation in Christ. If you are in that type of lifestyle, you need to repent. Repent and come to Christ now before God turns you over to a reprobate mind. Don't cross the line.

Don't cross the line that you can't be saved. Because you're dangerously close if you're messing around with that kind of sin right now. Well, some of the other symptoms of a society that has turned its back on God and rejected God, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, once again, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful,

who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. So there are even those among them that say they reject God, know that there's a God and there's a day of judgment. And yet they continue in their sin. They continue in their reprobate mind lifestyle. And they have pleasure in rebelling against God.

And causing others to do the same. Yes. So our question has been, is there a religion? Will atheism pave the way for a worldwide religion from hell? Because as we started this discussion yesterday, we talked about that the Protestant churches for hundreds of years

was convinced that the Roman Catholic Church was the harlot religion at the end times. Then in the past 20 some years a lot of Protestant churches started teaching that Islam is the harlot religion. I am not a believer in either one of those options. For the past, I guess the past 10 years, we've seen a rapid movement towards atheism. But I am convinced that atheism is not the end destination. Atheism is just a transition to where we're going. Now, tomorrow, we're going to be talking about the new Nimrods.

You don't want to miss tomorrow's episode. But what is, what will be the end time religion? This is my view. That's all it is. All right. It's my opinion. So I'm not dogmatic about it. It is my view. That's all it is. It's my opinion. So I'm not dogmatic about it. It's my opinion. And I might be right and I might be wrong.

I'm just putting it out here for you to consider. As we used to say in the country, to chew on it for a while. Just think about it. I think it's Luciferianism. I think where we're going is devil worship, Satan worship. I think the worldwide religion is going to be an open embrace of Lucifer. Now, I'm not talking about the Church of Satan. You know, pentagrams and pentagrams and all that no no no it's gonna be upscale upscale Satanism doc it's not

going to be that low-class Satanism they're gonna have upper-class Satanism it's gonna be something people want to be part of Lucifer they're gonna make Lucifer cool. Just watch. You'll say, I didn't think I would ever live to see the day that there would be statues of Lucifer in city buildings and in public facilities. Now they have them. Yes. Today. That's what I'm saying.

This is where we're going. There's going to be an open embrace of Luciferianism, the worship of Lucifer. That's where we're headed. And there's a day that world leaders, government officials, there will be religious leaders, entertainers, musicians, comedians on television, all kinds of people will be openly embracing their love of Lucifer. And this will become a Luciferian world. Now, tomorrow we're going to be talking about the new Nimrods. So why the new Nimrods? I think the spirit of Nimrod is back

in the world right now. Nimrod came to power after the flood. He heard, in my view, he heard his, I guess Noah was what, his great-grandfather? I believe so, yes. Okay. He heard Noah talk about the flood, talk about the, more importantly, the world before the flood. Before the flood. What was the world that existed before the flood? None of us really know. There are no historical records.

We don't know how advanced that world was before the flood. I think Nimrod was jealous. I think he was envious. I think he was angry that that God, that invisible, mysterious God destroyed that civilization. And Nimrod wanted to reclaim it. Rebuild it. Yes. Rebuild it. He built a ziggurat in the city of Babel so that he would reach up to the heavens. And what was the purpose of reaching to heaven? To overthrow God. To pull

God down from heaven. Yes. To overthrow. Yes. He was going to go up there and launch a coup against God to make sure that there would never be another flood, that this civilization would never be wiped out again. I believe that was the motive in Nimrod. And so at the heart of it is his desire to destroy faith, destroy any kind of spiritual movement toward God at all. And the only way to do that is to kill God. Yes. Pull God right out of heaven. That's right. Now to us today, that sounds completely ridiculous. You can't build a tower that high or anything like that, but it wasn't, you know, it's the principle of it, that there was this desire. We have to kill God. Yes. And they're doing it now through technology. Yes. The technocrats are going to become gods.

We're going to talk about this tomorrow and you don't want to miss tomorrow's episode. The technology companies and not just the tech companies but science companies, pharmaceuticals. Do you know about synthetic biology? There are things that we're going to talk about tomorrow where they are re-engineering creation. They want to reimagine Genesis, reimagine creation,

a man-made creation. I believe if Satan has his way, there won't be anything left on this planet that was made by God. It'll be completely remade by men serving Lucifer. That's what he wants. He wants a Luciferian world where he will be worshiped as the God of this world. That's where I think this world is going. But you and I, as servants of the Most High, we have a responsibility and we have a privilege. We have a duty to lift high the name of Jesus Christ. We need to be the witnesses on this earth in these last days that Jesus Christ is Lord and that he's coming back to establish his kingdom. I'll be back tomorrow. This is the day which the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Hello, everybody. I'm Rick Wiles. This weekday television program is devoted to making ready a people prepared

for the Lord. King Jesus will return to earth to gather his elect, and you must be ready. Arriving with King Jesus will be his glorious kingdom that shall have no end. Now, until the day of the Lord arrives, you and I must live in this old sinful world and that's why we must shine brightly, taste salty, and love everybody. My question today is, are you spiritually strong enough to withstand the global worship of Lucifer, the devil? This is the third Bible study lesson in our three-part discussion about which religion will dominate the world before Jesus Christ returns. In the first episode, I said Protestants, in my opinion, wrongly taught that the Roman Catholic Church would be the one world religion in the last days. And back in the 1990s, the late Dave Hunt's book, A Woman Rides the Beast, was popular among many Protestants who were seeking to identify the harlot in Revelation 17.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks on America, Some Christian Zionists taught that Islam will be the world's dominant religion in the last days. In 2012, Joe Richardson published Middle East Beast, and he made his case that the Antichrist will be a Muslim and that Islam will take over the world. Well, I'm going to present another viewpoint regarding the identity of the religion that will dominate the world prior to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Two days ago, Dr. Burkhardt and I talked about the rise of atheism in America and other Western nations. A growing number of Americans no longer identify with any religion.

On the surface, warnings made by Christian leaders in the 1980s about the threat of atheistic secular humanism appear to have been validated. In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision to rescind the infamous Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. Kate Cohen wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post that encouraged America's atheists to organize and oppose Christianity in the USA. Washington Post writer Kate Cohen is a Jewish atheist. Now, isn't that an oxymoron?

How can a Jew not believe in the God of Abraham? Of all the people on earth, it should be Jews exalting and glorifying the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And yet, many of the most influential atheists in America are Jews. That doesn't make sense to me. In yesterday's Bible lesson, I said that it is my opinion that atheism will not be the dominant religion in the last days. Atheism is a religion, but it will not take over the world. Its purpose is to disconnect humanity from its creator. Inside every human being is an innate awareness that there is a supreme God. Apostle Paul said in Romans chapter 1 verse 19 and 20, because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it

unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse. In the long run, atheism will never succeed because deep inside their souls, every man and woman instinctively knows there is a God who made them, even though they are not willing to admit it. People know that murder is sinful. They know that stealing and lying are wrong. They know that adultery is immoral. Yet they do these things while knowing such actions are wrong. Who made them wrong? In their hearts they know it is God who declares such things to be wrong. The world's love affair with atheism will be short-lived. It is a brief transition to the worldwide religion that I believe will dominate the world prior to the second coming of Jesus Christ.

It will not be one of the current religions in the world. Certainly not Christianity, whether it be Catholic or Protestant or Orthodox. Not even apostate Christianity will rule the world. It will not be Islam, nor will it be Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, nor New Ageism. Most practitioners of religion are nice people who want a better world for everybody. They are not evil people, even though they have big differences in their religious beliefs and practices. Catholics are not evil people. Protestants are not evil. Orthodox Christians are not evil. Muslims are not evil people. Hindus are not evil people. New Agers are not evil and Jews are not evil people. However, the religion that's coming will be wickedly evil. It is my opinion that the worldwide religion that will dominate societies in all countries will be Luciferianism.

In other words, the open embrace, adoration, and worship of Lucifer the devil. I want to bring Dr. Raymond Burkhardt into this discussion at this time. Hey, Doc. Hi, Rick. Well, this has been an interesting series here so far, and I'm glad we're doing part three today. We've covered a lot of ground in three days, and this one's going to be very interesting. Doc, the scriptures give us a key sign of the end of the age. It's found in Luke 17. Right, Rick. So let's read the scripture together. This is from the modern English version. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

So this is the key sign. So Rick, what is that key sign? Well, we have to know what was happening on earth in the days of Noah. Okay. It wasn't just, he didn't, Jesus didn't mean just there was a flood. Right. He's talking about what happened before the flood. Yeah, so the flood is what ended what was happening in the world. Just like there will be a flood of fire in the

second coming of Jesus Christ, the flood of fire will end what's going on in the earth at this present time. Right. So we have to know what was happening on earth at the time of Noah. What brought man to a place of such evil and wickedness that God actually regretted making mankind? Well, he tells us, and we can get this right from Genesis chapter 6. When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair and took his wives, any they chose. The Lord said, My spirit will not always strive with man, Now it goes on to continue in that passage, starting in verse 4,

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, there were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was continually only evil. And then that passage finishes up here, starting at verse 6. It says, the Lord was sorry.

Oh, excuse me me the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was continually only evil the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him in his heart so let's go back the first it mentions the sons of God. The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair and took as wives any they chose. Now, this is a controversial passage in the Bible. Right.

My view is that this is in reference to the fallen angels and that they had sexual relations with human women. I know there are others that don't accept that view. But then it goes on to talk about the Nephilim. Right, in that same passage. In the same passage. And the Nephilim were giants. So who were the Nephilim?

What were they? I mean, obviously there's some type of creature that was on the earth that god didn't make and that seems to have been identified with the sons of god in the earlier in that having relationships with human women and they produced a hybrid race called Nephilim. Those creatures became the giants that were on the earth. So if you read the book of Enoch, you learn about what the Nephilim taught men and women. Basically, it was a technology transfer, taught them weapons, taught them various skills that changed human society. So it was fallen angels through the Nephilim were actually creating the evil

that became dominant on the planet. You know, we could speculate, Doc, and it's only speculation, you know we could speculate doc did and it's only speculation you know were the nephilim uh were they creating additional species all right and where the reason i'm going in this direction is we see ancient art uh statues, paintings, sculptures. And we see these hybrid creatures. Right. Like a mixture of three or four different animals or human part animal.

And most people just think, oh, it's just mythology. They just made this stuff up. The other option is, no, they created an image of what they saw, that these were actual creatures that were on the earth. Again, it's just speculation. Go ahead. But as it says in that same passage there, there was something that was obviously going on that God was severely displeased about. And it had to do with this intermarriage that was going on with the children of men. They found the children of men, the women, were fair. God was displeased with that. That's one of the things that was happening in the days of Noah.

Sexual perversion was going on in the days of Noah, no matter how you look at it. That's right. The wickedness of the human race was so great that, as we've said, God just regretted that he ever made adam and eve and that's just to me one of the saddest statements in the bible and that's genesis six verses five and six it says the lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was continually only evil.

The Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and it grieved in his heart. And that passage there, Rick, the thoughts of his heart was continually only evil. That's the only thing that mankind thought about at the time. What evil thing can we do today that's in rebellion, direct rebellion against God? And that's what we're seeing today. Yes. In the USA, in other Western nations that used to be Christian nations. There's a level of wickedness that we have never witnessed in my lifetime. And an embrace of wickedness, a glorification of wickedness.

There have been sinners since Adam. There's always been sinners. And there have of wickedness. Look, there have been sinners since Adam. There's always been sinners. And there have been wicked people. There's a difference between sinners and the wicked. And wicked is outright defiant rebellion against God. It is a conscious decision to rebel against God, to fight against God, to destroy everything that is good. And so sinners and the wicked have been here since the beginning of mankind. But we have never seen this level of wickedness in America ever in the history of this nation. You can't point to

any point, any time in the history of America that wickedness at this level was rampant across the country. And how is it manifested most openly? Within sexual perversion. Yes. In pride parades where men and women are walking down streets naked in front of little children. That's how perverted we are. The acceptance, and within years, it'll be morally acceptable for adults to have sexual relations with children. And all bets will be off. We're on the borderline with that even right now. Is that the kind of moral condition that was happening in Noah's day as well? I think so, Doc.

I think America has passed Sodom and Gomorrah. I think America would make Sodom and Gomorrah blush. Just think about that. That our wickedness today far exceeds Sodom and Gomorrah blush. Just think about that, that our wickedness today far exceeds Sodom and Gomorrah. I've said this before. The late Dimitri Dudeman, who was a Romanian pastor, he came to America. He said the Lord told him to travel to America and tell the American people that there would be judgment in the land. I never got the opportunity to meet him.

I do know his grandson, but I never got to meet Demetri Dudeman. But, Doc, when I started in this ministry in 1998 and I was introduced to the ministry of Demetri Dudeman by people who said, Rick, you need to listen to what this man is saying. In my spirit, I knew he was correct. I knew that God had sent him. He was delivering a message. And yet every time when he would say America is Sodom and Gomorrah, this was back in 1998, 99, 2000, I would just wince.

I would go, no, no. Not America. Not America. We're not that wicked. We're not that wicked. But he would preach it. America is Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall burn.

And my spirit was saying, no, we're headed in that direction. We're going to change. We're going to change it. We're going to turn it around and we're not going to burn. We're not that wicked. Right. But here we are now in 2022. We are more wicked than Sodom and Gomorrah. Yes, that's what's frightening. So let's go back to the days of Noah. Who who ruled the world before the flood? Well, that's a great question, Rick. Now, we don't that's not a question that gets asked very often. Does the scripture give us a clue who ruled the world in those days? I think so, you know, because, first of all, we're told that people became wicked. Right.

All they thought about was wickedness. Right. Well, who would that make them be like? Well, to be like Lucifer. Right. So the only person that thinks wicked all day long is Lucifer. So if the human race had reached a point that all they thought about was doing more acts of wickedness, then they had conformed to their leader, which was Lucifer.

It shows that Lucifer had worldwide influence upon the entire planet. And that's why Jesus, when he dressed down the Jewish rulers, not the Jewish people, just the religious elite. You know, he got along fine. Jesus got along fine with the Jewish people. It was the religious leaders that he clashed with. And what did he call them? He called them the children of their father, the devil. So, yeah, John 8, 44 says, you are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

And so Jesus is making the case here, hey, the devil, Lucifer, Satan was there from the very beginning, and that's all he does is think evil. He's a murderer. He's a liar. He's a thief. God, Apostle Paul called him the God of this world. In 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 4. It says, The God of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe,

lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. And so, Rick, are you suggesting that Lucifer was the ruler of the world before the flood? Yeah, I believe that there was a one world government, a one world system. I believe Lucifer was in total control of the planet. This was his world.

And Adam surrendered the world to Lucifer. God gave Adam dominion over this world over this planet but adam by sinning yielded that that divine appointment that dominion and turned it over to satan he just gave him the deed right and said here i can't do it here. You take it. And Satan became the god of this world. And within, you know, hundreds of years, Doc, after the fall of Adam and Eve, the world had become thoroughly wicked to the point that, you know,

God couldn't stand looking at human race anymore. And we're approaching that place right now where our wickedness exceeds. I think right now, I think the world exceeds the wickedness of Noah's time. We're doing things today that were unthinkable back then, assuming that they did not have the technology that we have now. Right. We don't know how advanced the civilization was. That's right. It's quite possible that they were as advanced as we are. We don't know.

And it's just been completely wiped away. I mean, they continually find cities under the ocean, even to this day. And how did those cities get under the sea? Well, they'll say an earthquake and something like that. But then again, you know, think of the possibility of a worldwide flood that eliminates an entire civilization or several civilizations

that might have existed in that time. So after the flood, so Noah and his family survived. And their assignment is to repopulate the world. Resettle the world. God gave to Noah think about it. He gave to Noah the same assignment he gave to Adam. Take dominion populate the world He gave to Adam. Take dominion.

Populate the world. Start over. Just get this going again. So it didn't take long for wickedness to take hold again. Men didn't learn much from the flood. It's hard for us to comprehend that the whole world was wiped out. And yet within a few generations, sin was rampant on the earth again. Just it's hard to believe that mankind is really that depraved, but we are.

So along comes Nimrod. And Nimrod was a descendant of Noah. So we're going to look at some of the facts about Nimrod. Noah lived 350 years after the flood. A lot of Christians don't know that. 350 years after the flood, Noah was still here on the earth. Doc, there were people born after the flood who knew Noah

and heard Noah talk about the world before the flood. Right. It's just hard to believe. Yeah. about the world before the flood right it's a sorry believe yeah you you would want to get invited to a party where Noah was attending and can you imagine the dinner table talk and Noah living another 350 years he was the exception to the new rule that God had Institute after flood that the length of man's life was only going to be 120 years so no saw three you know three or four generations live and die until his death yes and so yeah i think that rule

came in with uh with moses at 120 but you could you already see the lifespan of humans decreasing after the flood until we get to Moses. Then it's set at 120. Noah was 950 years old when he died. This is hard to imagine. It's 350 years after the flood. Four generations after Noah, Peleg was born. 101 years after the flood. The Bible says that the earth was divided in the time of Peleg. And Peleg means divided.

That's what it means. And some people believe it means the separation of the continents. It's very possible it does. My view is it's the separation of clans and tribes because that's where the reference is to uh the age of 239 years. That's 340 years after the flood. Abram was born 292 years after the flood. So a lot of people don't realize Noah was alive

when Abram was alive. Yes. 58 years before Noah died. Abram was 58 years old when Noah died. 48 years before Peleg died. What does that say? It is possible that Abram knew Noah. And not only that, it's possible that Noah actually discipled Abram at some point.

Because it says that Abram knew the commandments. He kept the commandments. That's right. And so where would he learn the commandments other than the one who carried the commandments from before the flood? And that was Noah himself. But most Christians believe that the commandments were given to Moses. That's right. But the Bible says there were commandments that were in place before Moses went up on the mountain.

That's right. Abraham kept the commandments. And so it's possible. It is possible that Abraham personally knew Noah and heard firsthand knowledge of the Garden of Eden. That's just incredible, isn't it? It is. And then pass that on to Noah as well. Yeah. So, and then it's conceivable that Nimrod personally heard Noah talk about the civilization prior to the flood. So where are we going with this? The concept is that Lucifer will rule the world through the one that is commonly called Antichrist. That's not the biblical name for this ruler that is coming, but it's the common name that people know, Antichrist.

Antichrist is actually a spirit. Anybody who denies that Jesus Christ is God and human flesh is Antichrist. So any religion that denies that Jesus Christ came to earth as human flesh and is the son of God, that is an anti-Christ religion. Anybody that denies Jesus Christ is anti-Christ. But there's one coming that we call anti-Christ. I believe that world leaders, celebrities, influencers, the culture is going to openly embrace Lucifer. And that in the coming

years, we're going to be shocked to see images of Lucifer in the world, statues of Lucifer, idols in many cities. This world is going to openly embrace Lucifer. The one world religion that is coming is Luciferianism, the open worship adoration of Lucifer the devil. My friend, get ready. Get as close to Jesus Christ as you can get. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. Get the Word of God in you. We will stand strong even as the world turns to Satan. I'll see you tomorrow.