Welcome to The For The Gospel Podcast, where we're all about providing sound doctrine

for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hin, and on today's episode, I've invited for the gospel, key contributor

and pastor of Mission Bible Church in Costa Mesa, California, Anthony Wood to talk about

how to discern the times we're living in with wars, we got rumors of wars, we got theological

and societal conflict, and as most of you know and are seeing a ton of compromise within

the church.

My brother, thank you for being with us today.

Hey, as always, it is good to be with you, I sure love you.

Love you too, man.

And a lot of our listeners have been asking, and we want to provide clear biblical and balanced

answers about the times we're living in.

And before we jump into those questions and those answers, I want you to speak to the

two unhealthy extremes or the caricatures that I think we see a lot when we talk about

the end times and we talk about what's happening in culture.

You got unhealthy extreme number one, speak to this, everything is the mark of the beast,

and anyone trying to discern the times is like, you know, some John Haggie, Pat Roberts

and fanatic who's predicting the date of the end of the world and you all need to go order

your end of the world food supply from Jim Baker.

Speak to the caricature there first.

This would be that everything is mark of the beast, right?

Yes.

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