Welcome, everyone to the Prophecy Pros podcast.

I'm Jeff Kinley, along, of course, with Todd Hampson.

And we are so pumped today to have our very special guest, Pastor Tom Hughes, who's also a very close friend of ours.

You can pray for him in that aspect because you just never know where things are going to go

these days. But we're excited to have Tom on the program. Tom, of course, is a pastor out in California,

but he's also Director of Hope for Our Times. And if you've known anything about our ministry,

you already know

about who Tom is. You've read his books. You've watched this program. And you've kept up with

the way that he really keeps his finger on the pulse of what's going on in the world. So first of all,

Tom, welcome to the Prophecy Prosley Pros podcast. Hey, thanks for having me. I mean, this is great.

I mean, you guys, I'm so blessed to have met both of you guys several years ago.

And it's so cool.

For me, it's like, I'm just like super blessed to be here.

Well, we are as well.

I know our watchers, our listeners, our viewers will as well.

Well, today we're going to just go hop right into this topic here.

We're going to talk about the mark of the beast. And with the way things are really just accelerating right now, Todd,

in the world, this is really a hot topic right now, isn't it? It really is. And we've talked before

about some of the technology that's kind of fallen into place right before our eyes. And that's

kind of fascinating.

And that tends to be where a lot of Bible prophecy teachers go when they're talking about the

mark of the beast right now because there's so much happening so fast. But really, that's just

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