Juman Al Qawasmi was married to a Hamas member in Gaza. What happened next is a story you have to hear to believe. CBN's Raj Nair finds out her incredible testimony.

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Ex-Muslim shares his powerful testimony of how Yeshua completely transformed his life. See how the love of Yeshua brings people together – even an ex-Muslim and a Jew united in faith.

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In this video, Nabeel Qureshi explains his journey out of Islam and to Jesus. Enjoy! This is extremely important.

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The aircraft carriers are already in motion. Missile defenses are quietly repositioned. Intelligence flights sweep the region night after night. Money is moving in Tehran. Commanders are relocating. Safe houses are activated. This is what the final days before a war look like -- except the war hasn’t come. Yet. For weeks, the United States has positioned itself as if a strike on Iran could happen at any moment. And then, just as suddenly, President Trump’s tone softened. The threats grew less specific. The red lines blurred. The world noticed. This isn’t hesitation. It’s something more calculated -- and more unsettling.

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The long-term simmering unrest in Iran reached full boil two weeks ago and Iran has been on fire ever since. Protesters took to the street marching against the Islamic regime and its failed economy, broken infrastructure, and violent suppression of critics. Immediately, police and military forces were dispatched to put down the demonstrations. Their heavy-handed tactics only blew oxygen on the flames, causing the protests to spread in scope and intensity. The police responded in kind and were very soon using live ammunition to suppress the activists. That’s when the bodies began to pile up. First, tens, then hundreds, then thousands.

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I have been a Messianic Believer for over 20 years. One of my passions is answering questions on how to celebrate Hanukkah as a Christian, because a lot of Christians want to incorporate this holiday into their family traditions. Hanukkah is great for kids and you what, it really teaches you a lot about your Messiah.... Jesus (or if you speak Hebrew .... Yeshua).

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In this video, Pastor David Rosales addresses a common and often sensitive question: Can a Catholic be saved?

Is the Catholic faith Christian, and how does the Bible define salvation?

Pastor David explains that salvation is not based on denomination, religious rituals, or good works, but on faith in Jesus Christ alone. Drawing from Scripture and his own background of being raised Catholic, he clarifies the difference between works produced by faith and works relied upon for salvation.

While acknowledging real doctrinal differences between Catholicism and Protestant Christianity, Pastor David makes it clear that no denomination saves, only a genuine, saving relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Hi folks, have you ever been troubled by something that keeps you awake at night? It makes you pace around the house or hike a hill, feeling the Holy Spirit nudging you.I must share this message: I've been so blessed by this bold sermon from Pastor Tyler Gaulden, "Addressing The Addiction Epidemic." He preaches it plain, the drug crisis isn't mainly about chemicals or society... It's a deep heart issue. From Proverbs 5:22, he shows how our iniquities ensnare us like iron cords.With gripping illustrations (a dark basement of shackled lives, a cup of pain we try to numb with dirty fillers), he covers the cause, the heartbreaking calamity (especially on innocent kids), the heavy chains, and the true conqueror: the everlasting fountain of living water poured out in Jesus Christ!Watch and be challenged/encouraged: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpbKKKGAskM This message resonates deeply with the ongoing struggle here in Scotland. My article, "The Most Used Recreational Drugs in Glasgow and the Western Part of Scotland," looks at the reality on our streets, and it's the same spiritual roots: pain leading to bondage that only Christ can break.Check it out here: bornagainchristians.org/2025/05/21/the-m...rn-part-of-scotland/ If you are in those chains, or praying for a loved one, or burdened for revival to break through, Jesus transforms lives! He did it for me, and He can for you.WhatsApp: 07503066490 | Email: peter@faithfulstepstofreedom.org | GROUP: bornagainchristians.faith/born-again-net...ful-steps-to-freedom Let's cry "Heaven, we have a problem" – and trust the Lord to pour out His Spirit!Peter

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Many Christians are deeply troubled by the ministry of Kenneth Copeland and the Word of Faith/prosperity gospel he promotes. His intense demeanour often appears unsettling, even demonic to some, while his frequent appeals for financial 'seeds'—even from the poor—in exchange for promised healing and blessing raise serious biblical concerns.

Scripture warns against those who exploit the gospel for personal gain (2 Peter 2:3; 1 Timothy 6:5). True revival, like the 1949–1952 Hebrides awakening on the Isle of Lewis, it saw people fall forward on their knees in repentance and holy awe before God.

In contrast, the widespread 'slain in the Spirit' practice of falling backward in many modern charismatic meetings lacks clear biblical support and can resemble something far less than the work of the Holy Spirit. We must test everything against God’s Word (Acts 17:11) and pray for discernment in these last days.


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You may have seen parts of Pastor Greg Laurie’s moving testimony in the movie Jesus Revolution, but never like this. On today’s episode of The Greg Laurie Show, Pastor Greg takes us on an unfiltered, inspiring journey through his tumultuous upbringing—a story marked by instability, loneliness, and the relentless pursuit of hope.

Born into a world of broken relationships, absent fathers, and a longing for family, Pastor Greg shares how his early years were shaped by a mother struggling with addiction and a parade of stepfathers. From military school mischief and lonely nights speaking to “Mr. Nobody” under a blanket to the comfort of his grandparents’ Southern kitchen, Pastor Greg discovered the hand of God—revealing to him how moments of pain ultimately became pathways to purpose. Throughout the episode, Pastor Greg invites each of us to reflect not just on his journey, but also on our own—reminding us that no matter how difficult our beginnings, God can use every chapter for something greater.

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We have been hearing a great deal these days about the rise of Socialism in our nation and around the world. Now, of course, everybody knows that the seeds of Socialism have always been present in our country; however, the sudden surge of Socialism today is nothing short of shocking—and it carries vast significance.

We have witnessed a real turnaround in America, with people increasingly moving in the direction of socialist candidates. Let’s not forget that socialist Bernie Sanders almost won the Democratic presidential primary in 2020. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is an avowed socialist who is steadily rising within the Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani is a self-professed “proud Democratic socialist” who just won the mayoral race in New York City.

In the United States House of Representatives, Cory Bush, Greg Casar, and Rashida Tlaib are vocal socialists. Recently, Tennessee state representative Aftyn Bane, a Democrat who ran on a socialist platform, nearly won a seat in the US House of Representatives. She lost by only nine points in a district that went for President Trump by 22 points!

This dangerous ideology is literally being elected by the hundreds all across our nation in various offices at the federal, state, and local levels. Socialism is clearly on the rise, and there are no signs that it is stopping. In fact, every sign indicates it will continue to mushroom.

The rise of Socialism has profound implications for the future of our nation and, given the fact that America is the global leader, it also has ramifications for the entire globe. It’s nothing short of meteoric. However, beyond those concerns, the popularity of Socialism also has strong prophetic overtones that I believe will pave the way for the rise of the world’s final great tyrant: the antichrist.

A recent survey by the Cato Institute and YouGov paints a very troubling picture. The report found that 62% of Americans aged 18 to 29 say they hold a favorable view of Socialism—that’s almost two-thirds! Meanwhile, 34% (one-third) say the same of Communism. Even more surprising and saddening is that 66% of Democrats—of all age demographics—have a positive view of Socialism.

A man named Friedrich Hayek, in his 1944 book “The Road to Serfdom,” warned: “The rise of fascism and Marxism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.”

In other words, Socialism is what ultimately comes out of or paves the way for fascism and Marxism. Hayek notes that both Mussolini and Hitler began as socialists.

Socialism leads to tyrants and dictators—and that is where the Bible says the world’s future is headed in the end times.

According to The World Socialist Party of the United States (WSPUS), the definition of Socialism is as follows: “The establishment of a system of society based on the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of society as a whole. We call this ‘common ownership,’ but other terms we regard as synonymous are communism and Socialism.”

Dr. David Jeremiah, in his book, “Where Do We Go From Here?” responds to this definition of Socialism: “Socialists believe the world’s means of production—including infrastructure, farms, factories, energy, natural resources, medicines, and more—should be under the control of ‘the people’… These socialist countries are owned by ‘the people.’ Of course, there’s no way to make decisions based on such a loose concept as ‘the people.’ Under Socialism, the government becomes the sole authority and the controller of the means of production. Unfortunately, governments are controlled by specific people, often the kinds of people who seek out power—and those people are entirely corruptible by greed, selfishness, lust, vindictiveness, violence, and the overwhelming desire for authority. As more power flows to the government, the handful at the top become dictatorial.”

Ayn Rand warned back in 1944: “Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme: Collectivism.”

It sounds good to say that people will own everything, that there’ll be equality, but the people inevitably become one person—in Nazi Germany it was Hitler, in Italy it was Mussolini, and it still exists today in places like China and Russia. Interestingly, some of the key ideas being spewed out today, like cancel culture, “defund the police,” and the redistribution of wealth, all sprang from Socialist, Marxist, and Communist ideology.

We don’t have to look back to the past very far to see the scourge of Socialism.

We can currently see in Venezuela the catastrophic results of Socialism gone wild. Right now, Venezuela is a social and economic wasteland. 99% of its citizens live below the poverty line, and most people earn less than a dollar a day. This once-flourishing nation, rich in petroleum resources, was previously known for freedom and opportunity. Now it is an oppressed, depressed, empty, and hopeless place.

The downward spiral—really Venezuela’s collapse—began in 2006 when Hugo Chávez was reelected as president. Dr. David Jeremiah provided an interesting account of this timeline of events, detailing: “When oil prices crashed in the 1980s and then again in the 1990s, the Venezuelan economy experienced a dip. But that dip became a dive in 1998 when the Venezuelan people elected Chavez as their president. Once in power, Chavez relentlessly implemented the socialist playbook formulated by the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and other nations. His first task was to rewrite the Venezuelan Constitution, guaranteeing citizens the so-called free rights of government-provided health care, college education, and social justice. When the Supreme Court ruled against Chavez on several important issues, he responded by stacking the court with 12 new justices, all of which were loyal to him.”

It’s important to note that in the United States, many within the Democratic Party, especially while in power, propose the same, urging America to do away with the filibuster in the Senate and pack the Supreme Court—increasing the number of justices loyal to their agenda.

Dr. Jeremiah continues, “Socialism totally engulfed the country when Chavez was reelected in 2006. Fully in control of the courts and the legislature, he moved quickly to nationalize the media, removing voices of dissent. Then he authorized government agencies to seize privately owned wealth and prosperity from Venezuela’s citizens—all in the name of fairness and equality. Chavez took control of the nation’s oil industry, expelling foreign investors and influence. He nationalized power companies, farms, mines, banks, and grocery stores. His final step was to eliminate term limits for elected officials, setting himself up to rule for the rest of his life in the style of Russia’s Stalin or Cuba’s Castro… He died from cancer in 2013, but his handpicked successor, Nicolas Maduro, continued to implement Chavez’s agenda, even going further in some areas to force a Marxist system on the Venezuelan people.”

Despite the warnings all around us, which showcase the catastrophic failures of this ideology, it continues to spread largely unencumbered throughout the world—and I believe this is prophetically significant.

Could this explain America’s absence in Bible Prophecy? Like Venezuela, will the United States in the future be swamped by Socialism, with all of its ills? Further, will Socialism be the ideology setting the stage for the coming of the Antichrist?

The Cato Institute and YouGov highlighted that “Communism is responsible for 100 million deaths worldwide and is rooted in Socialism. The same philosophy that spawned both Mussolini’s fascism and Hitler’s National Socialism. To favor Socialism is to flirt with tyranny.”

Let me quote Dr. Jeremiah’s book, “Where do we go from here?” once more: “Will [Socialism] be the dominant political philosophy on earth when the tribulation begins? Yes, that seems likely. Socialism is tailor-made for the Antichrist’s appearance. It creates global conditions that bring great stress and trouble, difficult days that will be hard to bear. And it demands a one-world system of government, which scripture says will be established before the end of history.”

Socialism could create the conditions ripe for the “third horseman of the apocalypse,” detailed in Revelation 6. First runaway inflation, worldwide famine, a collapse of the global economy, then the antichrist will come in to seize control, ultimately installing the same Socialist style ideology.

Marxist, socialist, and communist ideologies that we see surging around the world, and in our own country, are part of the infrastructure that the antichrist is going to seize and solidify to take over.

Are you ready for some good news? In spite of all of this, as we celebrate Christmas this month, remembering the first coming of Jesus when He came to die on the cross to take away our sins, we also look to the second coming of Christ. Upon His return, the Bible tells us that “the government will be on His shoulders.”

Isaiah 9:6-7 reads, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”

When Jesus comes back to this earth, Socialism, Marxism, communism—and every other “ism” that has ever existed will be discarded, abandoned to the ashbin of history. The kingdoms of this world are passing, but the Kingdom of Christ is coming to pass. Our Lord Jesus Christ will reign forever and ever.

He is our hope… and may He come soon.

Mark Hitchcock is an author, an associate professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, the Senior Pastor of Faith Bible Church in Oklahoma, the hosts the weekly program “Marking The End Times,” and a Contributor to Harbinger’s Daily.

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No one should be shocked that Hamas is refusing to disarm. And yet, many in the West are surprised, obliviously believing that the terrorist group would honor Trump’s peace plan. These leaders have failed to see these terrorists for who they really are: a demonic death cult.

In a recent video, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal declared that the fight against Israel is far from over. Mashal reaffirmed the group’s refusal to disarm, urging Palestinians in Gaza to join Hamas in confronting Israel and driving the Jewish State off the international stage.

“The end of the war was declared two months ago, but the battle is not over,” the Hamas leader declared. “The worst form of the genocidal war has indeed stopped, but the starvation, the siege, the closed border crossings, the prevention of aid, the punishment of the people, and the daily killing continue. The plots are still underway. The battle is not over yet. The angels have not laid down their weapons yet, and Gaza is still awaiting our stance, our efforts, and our support.”

“The Palestinians will govern themselves and make their own decisions,” he continued. “There will be no guardians, no mandate, and no renewed occupation. Our people need protection, not guardians. Our people are awaiting independence, not being under a mandate. Protecting the enterprise of the resistance and its weapons—this is our people’s right to self-defense. The resistance and its weapons are the honor and glory of the Islamic nation.”

“What country in the world protects its independence, borders, and interests without force?” Mashal insisted. “(Allah says in the Quran) ‘and prepare for them whatever force you can.’ Peace is only made by the mighty, and only through force. You will not restore your rights through the Security Council, but through the recruitment office. Two thousand verbal bombs do not match a single metal bomb.”

“The Al-Aqsa flood [October 7th, 2023], with its might, has prepared the international arena,” he asserted. “Today, we can—or rather, we must—treat this [Israeli] entity as a pariah that bears responsibility for the genocidal war against our people in Gaza, in Palestine, and in the region in general. Human conscience is ready for this. This is our opportunity to build on this in order to expel this [Israeli] entity from our homeland, and from the international stage.”

This master of deception, Khaled Mashal, plays the victim card all too well. In his demented mind, the battle’s not over because to him, it’s all Israel’s fault. They are the ones responsible for all Gaza’s ills, and therefore, the Palestinians need protection, not guardians, as they “await independence.” The Hamas leader concluded by saying that the horrific massacre on October 7th prepared the way to expel Israel from their homeland and the international stage.

Friends, I hope that you can see that this is a spiritual battle and that there are demonic forces working overtime in the sons of disobedience. Satan would love nothing more than to destroy Israel and the Jewish people, somehow thwarting God’s Word and promises. That is the crux of this whole matter—and that is the crux of anti-semitism and the hatred for Israel worldwide. If only the world would read and believe the Bible, it would see this. However, because their Bibles are closed, they remain convinced that they can simply “make a deal.”

What the West is really doing is trying to make a deal with the devil.

Shame on the West for pressuring Israel to make peace with people who wish them dead. It is delusional to believe that a Palestinian State would lead to peace in the Middle East. That is utter nonsense. The Palestinians have already had a state of their own in Gaza, and how has that worked out? Not very well.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reminded the West of this at a New York Times Dealbook Summit, stating, “There was a Palestinian state. It’s called Gaza. That’s exactly what it was. It was a de facto state. And we didn’t get peace. What we got was the most horrific massacre of the Jews since the Holocaust. And if you ask Israelis now—and it just covers an enormous spectrum from left to right—we had a vote in the Knesset. We have 120 Knesset members. 10 abstain. 99 to 11 opposed being forced on a Palestinian state. I mean, that tells you something. And so people say, ‘Look, there has to be a solution with the Palestinians,’ but it’s not one in which they don’t recognize the Jewish state. They commit themselves over and over again to do this massacre again. They indoctrinate their children with textbooks that are calling for people—for children—to become suicide bombers, and they pay-for-slay. The more Jews you kill, the more you’re paid. This whole thing is not where it’s going to go. We’ll have to find a path for peace—and I think it begins in Gaza by removing Hamas and offering it a different future.”

The Palestinians had a chance to make Gaza something good, to make Gaza, as former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman put it, “the Singapore of the Middle East.” Instead, they took the billions of dollars they received in international support, and they invested it with one sole purpose: to destroy Israel. Now that they have miserably lost the war, they want to play the victim card and point the finger at Israel instead of blaming themselves for their disgusting hatred and incompetence.

Somehow, the West is still buying into this propaganda. The only thing that makes sense of this lunacy is that it is demonic in origin.

The God of Israel has given us His Word, which not only tells us the source of this hatred, but also that it will intensify until the whole world turns against Israel (Zechariah 12-14). Though that may sound depressing, I want to remind you that there is a day coming when Israel and the Jewish people will no longer be a doormat for the Gentiles to walk over. Instead, the Gentile nations will come in reverence one day to worship the King of the Jews in Jerusalem when Jesus returns at His second coming.

Psalm 48:1-2 reads, “Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.”

A day is coming when the whole world will joy over Jerusalem, the city of the great king: the King of the Jews.

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Paleontologists speak of Neanderthal Man, Australopithecus, and many other pre-human forms that were supposedly forbearers to we modern-day Homo sapiens. All of this allegedly happened many millions of years ago.

Of course, removed from literal Biblical interpretation, we know that this whole field of study remains highly imaginative and speculative. There is now already a long legacy of the Bible having trumped scientific skepticism on many issues, whether historical, scientific, or otherwise.

All of the Bible has proven to be true, except what remains unfulfilled … or remains to be scientifically discovered or proven. As all that has already been fulfilled or discovered has proven to be 100% accurate, it takes only a small leap of faith to acknowledge that the rest of the Bible that science still argues with will also prove to be correct. That truism applies to science, thus also to the theory of evolution.

With respect to physical evolution, the Bible doesn’t mention any different species of humans, sub-humans, or any developmental, biological stages of mankind. As it happens, there simply isn’t any proof for the theory of evolution. It remains a religion. Nor is there any difference between ancient humanity and that of today. Man’s basic characteristics, both physical and temperamental, have not changed one iota.

With respect to humans, the Bible only makes one major racial distinction—that between Jew and Gentile. Even more importantly, the Bible makes one other distinction between humans—between the pagan and the righteous. It’s here that we see the real evidence for evolution, although a spiritual version—paganism.

That’s the launch point for our study. Virtually all anthropologists agree that today, the earth’s sphere is populated by the so-called modern man and woman. In contrast, Bible prophecy speaks of the Modern Pagan Man of the Endtimes. Today, he is the fittest creature found inhabiting and dominating the earth’s new economic sphere.

Finding Ancient Pagan Man

To discover the Modern Pagan Man, let’s first examine the character and behaviors of the ancient pagan. The Bible offers a detailed description. However, to get a balanced and accurate picture, we need to do a brief word study.

There is no specific word in the Bible for pagan. In fact, you will not even be able to find the word “pagan” in some Bible translations (for example, the KJV, ISV, ASV, and others). Why? Because it is a word meaning understood today that originated only later in New Testament times.

Today, we commonly take the word “pagan” to mean a heathen person who worships other gods or idols and is outside the Christian or Jewish faith. In Biblical times, a heathen was also a Gentile (though there were believers in God who were not Hebrew). Before Christ died for the sins of all and extended salvation to the Gentile, the Gentile and heathen were essentially one and the same. At the beginning of the New Testament era, most Jews still considered their newfound salvation through the Messiah as a progressive fulfillment of the existing Jewish faith (the religious world had not yet definably split into Jews and so-called Christians).

It took a little while before it was broadly recognized that there were Christian Gentiles who were neither heathen nor Jewish. Therefore, at the start of the Church Age, only one Greek word was still used to describe both Gentile and heathen: “ethnos.”

This Greek word “ethnos” appears 167 times in the New Testament. The point of this is that in our study of the “evolutionary” pagan, we will look only to those verses of the New Testament where the word “ethnos” is clearly in the context of the newer sense of the word—a heathen.

A study of the Bible reveals many common characteristics of the “pagan.” We will only review five of these. All of them are directly linked to the evolution of our materialistic Modern Pagan Man.

1. Self-Interest

“If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?” (Matthew 5:46-47). In these verses, Jesus makes the point that the “pagan” person operates purely out of self-interest. Their actions are motivated by their own wants and pleasures: the personal pursuit of happiness and comfort. They only love those that love them, and revile those that likewise repudiate them.

Today, some 2,000 years later, this pagan characteristic of self-interest has greatly evolved and is now held up as the very force that is leading the world to betterment, continued progress and prosperity.

In fact, supposedly advanced economic theories hold this impulse of “self-interest” in high esteem, representing a rapid transition having taken place in basically less than a few hundred years. It is a foundational tenant of market-based capitalism, the term used for today’s type of commerce (which, by the way, actually has little to do with capitalism in its original sense).

The main result is that the entire world has become deeply commercialized. Increasingly today, the prime reason for existence is commerce itself.

What does the Bible say about the “self-interests” of the Modern Pagan Man? It provides a clear message for societies that choose to define their existence in purely pagan terms … in other words, societies that have given themselves over to the rule of economics and Mammon.

The examples of Tyre and Babylon are fitting ones. Neo-Babylon (in the era of Nebuchadnezzar) was all about business. According to studies, Babylonia was essentially a commercial civilization. Virtually all of the documents that have survived from this culture are business documents. Another prime example is the history of Tyre, the extreme commercialization of which the Bible itself provides clear documentation of.

The city of Jericho may be another and even earlier example. Probably the most ancient habitation in the world and one of the most prosperous, it was the city selected by God to be the first to be conquered by the Hebrews as they entered Canaan. In fact, this city was the only one that was miraculously destroyed and the only Canaan conquest that was completely annihilated—women, children, livestock and all. God wanted it completely expunged. Why?

Could it have reeked of generations of idolatrous commercialism? God didn’t want any of Jericho’s culture to rub off on Israel. Joshua even prophesied that whoever would attempt to resurrect this city of Jericho would suffer the loss of his first and second born (Joshua 6:26). Exactly as prophesied, this occurred six hundred years later during the reign of Omri, when Hiel of Bethel did so (1 Kings 16:34).

2. Worry About Material Things

Pagans are totally consumed with material things, according to Scripture. “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them” (Matthew 6:31-32; cf. Luke 12:29-30). By this definition, then, it would be pagan to only preoccupy oneself with the pursuit of possessions and lifestyle.

Scripture refers here to only two items—food and clothing. In the society of that day, both things defined lifestyle as well as the necessities of life. This verse is therefore not just referring to mere subsistence. Clothing and food both have a necessary function. To attribute any other value to them is idolatrous and pagan.

Of course, in the modern age, lifestyle is defined by many more things than just food and clothes. To be sure, there are premium brands in clothing, top designer names, the latest accoutrements. The same is still true for some foods. The finest wines are sought; the food brands that are the most effectively advertised are the ones that people may strive to buy.

Mostly today, lifestyles are defined by other baubles such as expensive Swiss watches, luxury cars, the latest gadgets, spacious, palatial homes, and much else. To have them all is the epitome of the successful life, the trappings of elite existence. That’s the implicit goal and value of a society of pagans. “Running after these things” is today part of a highly sophisticated culture of branding, consumer surveys, advertising, and psychological research.

In this sense, there has been much change over the centuries and millennia. Here again, we see the evolution of the Modern Pagan Man. Viewing the massively endemic commercialization of America and other nations, it is hard to imagine how much more materialism could yet lie ahead.

In the next part, we review the remaining three characteristics of the Endtime Pagan Man.

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