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Now, when it comes to the end times, there's a lot of popular ideas that are circulating

concerning whether Christians will go through tribulation or not.

And in the United States, who is the transporter of a lot of doctrine around the world, there's

a very famous popular idea that we as Christians will not go through tribulation, that the seven

years of Antichrist reign and rule on this earth, we will all be raptured before that.

And they use different verses that are taken out of context.

And I believe that it's actually preparing people for a deep disappointment.

And also it's not only historically not accurate, but it's not helpful to not prepare Christians for something Jesus promised,

which will be persecution and tribulation. But there's also another component that started

to rise and gain a lot of steam, especially with Russia conquering Ukraine, and me being

Ukrainian and my wife is Russian, you know, we were involved in the helping of the refugees and all of this stuff through our

ministry. We raised about a million dollars last year and helped with that. And I couldn't help but

notice a lot of circulating a lot of ideas from a lot of popular pastors whom I respect and love,

who started to connect Russia to the end times as well as the whole European thing,

that the Antichrist is going to come from that, how all of this is just really just building up to

the coming of the Antichrist. And I don't have peace about that because first of all, I don't see that in the scripture.

And I think a lot of that is again coming from the Left Behind series and the American popular kind of a view. And so today I'm really excited to bring a guest

who is going to clarify a lot of these things. And I personally have read his book. I've heard

about him actually in Romania. When I was in Romania, Paul who interviewed him a few years ago

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