All right, well, welcome. Thank you for coming out tonight. I was not expecting this big of a turnout, but I'm really glad to see you all. There's a lot of paces, and actually, I don't think I've met you. So I'm John. What's your name?

Jonah. Jonah. Oh, that's a great, great Jewish name there. Great Old Testament name.

I don't think we're going to talk about Jonah, but maybe we could slide it in somehow.

Thanks for coming. So, yeah, my pleasure. Let me start at the beginning, my personal journey,

and why I decided to offer this and do this

tonight.

I have never been interested in eschatology.

All right.

It's like my least favorite theology, a segment of theology.

I don't like discussions about it because there's so many opinions.

I've always had trouble understanding

why I should care about details. I get the big picture that Jesus is coming back. But there's

been a rising threat that I've noticed in our circles, which are more reformed evangelical,

probably in the last two years. And it's really

escalated since Charlie Kirk's assassination. I was used to some of the more, I would say,

maybe crazy or overly enthusiastic, sometimes heretical prosperity preachers who would talk about Israel, sometimes

in ways that just were not biblically justifiable. But that was never in my circle, really.

What's happening now, though, is there are threats to other theologies, Christology,

our understanding of hermeneutics, understanding of the second coming, our understanding

of biblical ethics that are now coming into the Reformed Evangelical camp, and they're motivated by

what I'm just calling an internet-driven anti-Jewish theology. I think it's in development, and I think

there's many versions of it, and we're not going to know exactly where it goes to

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