Encouraged, Not Afraid: Understanding End Times Deception Through the Word of God
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I am very careful about who I bring on Tipping Point, and Pastor Brad Reaves is someone I trust completely. His new book, End Times Deceptions: Using Biblical Truth to Understand the Last Days, could not come at a more critical moment. Brad and I dig into something Jesus Himself warned about more than almost anything else in His description of the End Times: deception. We talk about how AI is not creating deception but giving it a bullhorn, how quantum AI is about six months to a year away from commercial rollout, and why the alien deception tied to the UFO disclosure movement could actually be the explanation the world uses when the Rapture happens and millions of Christians disappear. We also talk about how to build real discernment, why you need a paper Bible in your home right now, and why Paul told us to encourage one another with these things rather than live in fear.
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Haman’s Lies: Exposing the Ancient Roots of Antisemitism and Why the Spirit of Esther Must Arise
The lies come first. The violence always follows.
Since October 7, 2023—the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust—the world has witnessed something alarming: the victims have been turned into villains. Mobs chant for Israel’s elimination. University professors justify terrorism. Social media floods with accusations that previous generations would have instantly recognized as antisemitic propaganda—yet today they’re repackaged as “justice.” And many people of good will don’t know what to think.
This isn’t random. It’s a pattern as old as the the book of Esther.
This book will help you:
Recognize Haman’s ancient propaganda template—Different, Disloyal, Dangerous, Disposable—and see how it’s being repeated today
Answer the twenty-five most common lies being told about Israel with historical truth and biblical clarity
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Rise up like Esther to stand with God’s covenant people—for such a time as this
Don’t be deceived. Don’t be silent. Read this book and rise up.
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Key Facts
Pastor Brad Reaves is the senior pastor of Crossway Christian Fellowship in Hagerstown, Maryland, and the founder of Coming Soon Ministries, which can be found at comingsoonministries.org.
Pastor Reaves’s new book is titled End Times Deceptions: Using Biblical Truth to Understand the Last Days, available on Amazon, and follows his previous book, The Beast System Unleashed.
Pastor Reaves identifies deception as the primary characteristic Jesus emphasized when describing the End Times, noting that Jesus focused on it more than on earthquakes, wars, or other physical signs.
Reaves argues that AI does not create deception but amplifies it, giving false teaching and false prophets a platform to reach far larger audiences than ever before.
Pastor Reaves and Jimmy Evans both identify quantum AI as commercially launching within approximately six months to a year and describe it as exponentially more powerful than current AI in a way that makes existing cybersecurity measures function like baby gates rather than locked doors.
Pastor Reaves warns that paper Bibles are essential because electronic versions of Scripture are already being altered, with some platforms omitting the Book of Revelation entirely.
Reaves identifies the UFO and alien disclosure movement, including Steven Spielberg’s film Disclosure Day, as a potential setup for the great deception of 2 Thessalonians 2, where the world could explain the rapture as alien abduction rather than the return of Christ.
Pastor Reaves gives five steps for building biblical discernment: receiving Christ as Lord and Savior, receiving and yielding to the Holy Spirit, attending a Bible-teaching church, reading the Word personally and daily, and viewing current events through the lens of Scripture rather than media.
Pastor Reaves describes the beast system not as a government but as humanity organized without God, comparing it to a second Tower of Babel, and says the Antichrist will not build this system from scratch but will inherit and perfect what is already being constructed today.
Jimmy Evans notes that one in every 25 verses in the New Testament references the return of Jesus, a figure he credits to author Max Lucado, and uses this to argue that the Rapture and Second Coming are central to the gospel rather than peripheral topics.