Seven chilling prophecies Christians cannot ignore
The hosts work through a listicle of chilling prophecies: the final judgment (Rev 20:15, book of life, lake of fire), false teachers with itching ears (2 Timothy 4:3-4, applied to the Coates sermon), trouble in the world (John 16:33), Peter's denial and spiritual pride (Luke 22:34, extended through David at Keilah in 1 Samuel 23), persecution from the religious establishment (John 16:2), the sheep and the goats (Matthew 25:41-46, serving the least of these), and the Lord-Lord warning (Matthew 7:21-23, 'I never knew you'). The USAID digression becomes a point about deferring service to systems: NPR reports nonprofits stepping in after government funding cuts, which the hosts take as the point, not an irony, and connect to gleaning from the Old Testament.
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