The Antichrist and His Coming Kingdom: Names, Titles, and the Rise of a One-World System
Dan Goodwin and Dr. Charles Hiltibidal use John 5:43, Daniel 7, and 2 Thessalonians 2 to walk through the Antichrist's many biblical names and argue that today's technology, politics, and lawlessness are setting the stage for his rise.
John 5:43 And The Rejected Messiah
Dan Goodwin opens the broadcast alone, previewing an episode he titles The Antichrist and His Coming Kingdom. He reads John 5:43, where Jesus tells the Jewish people that though they reject him now, they will one day receive "another" who comes in his own name rather than the Father's. Goodwin argues this rejected offer explains why a false messiah can later step forward and be embraced. He describes a future moment, in the middle of the Tribulation, when this figure enters the temple and declares himself God, an act Goodwin says opens the Great Tribulation. He frames the episode as a study of who this coming ruler is and what titles the Bible gives him, promising that Dr. Charles Hiltibidal will join him in the studio once the show returns from its opening theme.
Debating The Beast As Man Or Machine
Back from the break, Goodwin and Hiltibidal take up a debate common in prophecy circles over whether the Antichrist could be a computer system or an artificial intelligence rather than a person. Hiltibidal recalls that observers once nicknamed a large computer system "the Beast," but insists the Bible describes a man, noting that the Antichrist and the false prophet are the first two beings cast into the lake of fire, which requires a soul. Both agree technology still matters enormously: AI and computers, they say, are the tools that let one ruler track and control a global population. They point to data centers being built worldwide as the likely infrastructure behind a future system requiring a mark before anyone can buy or sell, comparing it to how many people already pay with a chip in a card or a phone held up to a scanner.
Naming The Beast And The Little Horn
The hosts move through several biblical titles for the coming ruler. Goodwin explains that Revelation 13 describes two beasts, one political and one religious, and recalls that older commentators sometimes called the Pope the Antichrist because of his authority and persecution of believers; Hiltibidal disagrees, calling the papacy at most a forerunner of the false prophet who will build a one-world church. They discuss the little horn of Daniel 7, rising among ten horns that Hiltibidal ties to current talk among "political elites" of dividing the world into ten governing segments, a structure he expects to appear only after the Rapture. Both stress that the Holy Spirit, working through born-again believers, restrains this system now, and that the one-world church is already largely in place except for that restraint, waiting for believers to be "taken out of the way."
Babel, Nimrod, And The Assyrian
Hiltibidal turns to a title he calls the Assyrian, tracing what he believes is an ages-long demonic plan to unite the world against God. He walks from Genesis 9, where God's covenant is given to Noah and his descendants, to Genesis 11 and the tower of Babel, arguing that the builders' fear of being "scattered abroad" defied God's command to spread out and worship him at an altar as Noah had done. Citing Isaiah 23:13, he identifies the Chaldean empire, later Babylon, as the place "the Assyrians founded," and argues the same spirit behind Nimrod's Babel will animate the final Antichrist. He adds that every religion in the world can be traced back to one of two sources, Babel or Jerusalem, and says the devil has spent centuries refining a one-world system that only needs believers removed to finally take hold.
Reading 2 Thessalonians To The End
Closing the hour, Goodwin reads through 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verses he says cover the Antichrist from beginning to end. He highlights the man of sin and son of perdition being revealed after "the falling away," the end-time apostasy, and the warning that "that day," the second coming, will not arrive until this happens. Hiltibidal ties the passage's description of a self-exalting figure who sits "in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God" to Daniel 11 and to the label "willful king," and connects the chapter's "lying wonders" to modern holograms and light technology capable of making people believe almost anything. Goodwin reads the sobering conclusion that those who reject the truth will instead believe a lie and be damned, and the two agree the text leaves little room for doubt about what is coming.
A Final Call To Be Ready
In the program's closing moments, Hiltibidal turns the theological survey into a personal appeal, telling any listener who has rejected salvation that scripture, not his own opinion, warns their soul is at stake, and urging believers to work urgently on getting lost loved ones saved. Goodwin agrees and closes with the show's recurring warning that time is short, describing it as an hourglass nearly empty and telling the audience they need to act now rather than later. He thanks Hiltibidal for joining him in the studio and signs off with the program's familiar send-off, telling listeners to keep their eyes on the skies. The episode ends on the same urgent, evangelistic note that runs through the broadcast's discussion of the Antichrist's many names, closing out The Antichrist and His Coming Kingdom without resolving every question the hosts raise along the way.
