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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:…
In “Blood on Their Hands,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Bible prophecy, the authority of Scripture, faith. Drawing especially from Ezekiel 33, 1 Ezekiel 33, Revelation 6, Revelation 13, the teaching emphasizes that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience.
In “Summer of Chaos,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Bible prophecy, the authority of Scripture, faith. Drawing especially from Genesis 41, Matthew 24, John 3, Ezekiel 33, the teaching emphasizes that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience.
In “The Destruction of San Francisco & Revival,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about divine judgment, the condition of the church, revival. Drawing especially from Ezekiel 33, Jeremiah 1, John 10, John 16, the teaching emphasizes that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise.
In “Unbelieving Believers,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, the authority of Scripture, healing and faith. Drawing especially from Hebrews 11, 1 Timothy 4, Matthew 7, Ezekiel 33, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience.
Dean Odle revisits his watchman calling in light of intensifying global conflict, reading Ezekiel 33, Matthew 24, Ezekiel 38, and Revelation 8–9 as a connected warning. He argues that Israel’s regathering, a future Russian-led invasion, earlier trumpet judgments, and a coming nuclear sixth-trumpet war show prophecy accelerating like labor pains.
In The Firmament Revisited, Pastor Dean Odle offers an extended defense of his biblical-cosmology reading of the firmament as a real, strong structure created by God to divide waters above from waters below. Working through Genesis 1, Psalm 19, Job 37, Ezekiel 1, Exodus 24, Isaiah 40, and related passages, he argues that Scripture presents the firmament as part of God’s handiwork and glory rather than an empty expanse.
Pastor Dean Odle warns that Christians can gradually harden their hearts through hidden sin, unbelief, rationalization, and refusal to hear God’s voice. Beginning with Jeremiah 17 and Ezekiel 8, he emphasizes that God sees what is concealed within the heart. Hebrews 3 then supplies the central warning: people addressed as holy brethren must take heed lest sin’s deceitfulness harden them and lead them away from the living God.
In “The Mountain of God in the North, Paradise & Christmas (Part 1),” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, eternal life and hope. Drawing especially from Romans 1, Ezekiel 28, Psalm 48, Psalm 75, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
In “The Price of the Anointing & the Foolish Virgins,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the condition of the church, the anointing, holiness. Drawing especially from Ezekiel 28, Acts 10, Luke 4, John 3, the teaching emphasizes that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that spiritual anointing is given for service and must remain joined to character and obedience.
In “The Prophecy Against Elam,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Israel in prophecy, biblical love, Islamic origins and claims. Drawing especially from Ezekiel 38, Ezekiel 39, Isaiah 66:8, Jeremiah 29, the teaching emphasizes that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others.
In the opening message of “The World You Live In,” Pastor Dean Odle argues that understanding the present world requires recovering what he calls the pre-Adamic angelic world behind it. He presents a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, reading Isaiah 45:18 and Jeremiah 4:23-26 to mean that God originally formed the earth inhabited, but Satan's rebellion brought darkness, desolation, ruined cities, and divine judgment before Adam. Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 are then read as complementary accounts of Lucifer's fall, former rule, corrupted wisdom, and defiled sanctuaries.
In “Turkey & WW3,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, Bible prophecy. Drawing especially from Revelation 9, Revelation 13, Ezekiel 38, Revelation 19, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
In “Worship & Warfare,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about worship, Satanic opposition, biblical love. Drawing especially from John 14:6, Luke 4, Ezekiel 28, Ezekiel 28:11, the teaching emphasizes that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes.
In “Apologetics #2 - The Divine Inspiration of the Bible (Part 1),” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, Bible prophecy, faith. Drawing especially from 1 Peter 3:15, Luke 60, Ephesians 60, Philippians 61, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone.
In “Bloody Hands,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about freedom from fear, faith, prayer. Drawing especially from Proverbs 21:20, 1 Peter 3:15, Mark 16, Luke 24:44, the teaching emphasizes that the believer must answer fear with trust in God, sober judgment, and faithful action. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
In “Bruised Reeds,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, biblical love, the condition of the heart. Drawing especially from Matthew 12, Romans 3:10, Romans 3:23, Isaiah 42, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others.
In “Casting Out Demons (Part 3),” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about demons and deliverance, Satanic opposition, faith. Drawing especially from Mark 16, John 14, Luke 10, Mark 1, the teaching emphasizes that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes.
In “Church History & Function #13 - Counterfeit Revival,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about revival, prayer, the condition of the church. Drawing especially from Timothy 3, Matthew 24, 1 Corinthians 11, 1 Corinthians 10, the teaching emphasizes that revival begins with repentance, renewed hunger for God, and practical obedience among His people. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him.
In “Dead Church,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about prayer, the condition of the church, revival. Drawing especially from Isaiah 64, Matthew 26, Luke 21, Ephesians 6, the teaching emphasizes that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise.
In part two of his deliverance series, Pastor Dean Odle argues that a Christian can be genuinely saved and still require deliverance from demonic oppression or indwelling influence in areas of life that have not been surrendered or cleansed. He distinguishes salvation from sanctification and deliverance, using Israel’s exodus, wilderness journey, tabernacle cleansing, and several Gospel accounts as patterns for the believer’s continuing spiritual warfare.
In “Endgame Part 2 - Broken Arrow,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, freedom from fear. Drawing especially from Psalm 10, Luke 12, Revelation 17, Psalm 2, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
Pastor Dean Odle’s “Faith” defines biblical faith as trust generated and governed by the written Word of God. Hebrews 11:6 and Romans 10:17 anchor the teaching: faith is indispensable, but it does not arise from imagination, institutions, cultural consensus, or impressive signs. From the Emmaus road in Luke 24, Odle argues that Jesus answered unbelief by opening Moses and the prophets, establishing Scripture as the foundation for recognizing Christ and discerning truth.
In “Faith to Endure to the End,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about freedom from fear, faith, Satanic opposition. Drawing especially from Isaiah 5, Matthew 24, Matthew 24:29, Luke 18, the teaching emphasizes that the believer must answer fear with trust in God, sober judgment, and faithful action. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
In “Fire & Grace Church Q&A,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, angelic messengers. Drawing especially from Revelation 9, Matthew 24, Matthew 4, 2 Timothy 3:16, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
In “God's Supernatural Preservation of His Holy Scriptures,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the authority of Scripture, faith, gratitude. Drawing especially from Psalm 92, Psalm 12, Psalm 22, Psalm 16, the teaching emphasizes that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
In “Guard Your Children,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about family discipleship, the condition of the church, faith. Drawing especially from Matthew 12, Proverbs 24, the teaching emphasizes that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise.
In “Is the Antichrist Being Revealed,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, Israel in prophecy, the Antichrist. Drawing especially from Matthew 24, Revelation 13, 2 Thessalonians 2, Revelation 17, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture.
In “Killing the Prophets,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Bible prophecy, the condition of the church, spiritual leadership. Drawing especially from Matthew 23, Ephesians 4, Galatians 6, Isaiah 30, the teaching emphasizes that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise.
Dean Odle asks how believers can recognize genuine servants of God amid false prophets and teachers. Using Matthew 7, the pastoral epistles, and other New Testament passages, he argues that a true minister must be evaluated by doctrine, character, manner of life, faithfulness to Christ, and the fruit produced over time—not by charisma, predictions, crowds, or spiritual vocabulary.
In “Oh They Perish,” Pastor Dean Odle reflects on Jesus weeping over Jerusalem and argues that Christians should share Christ’s grief for people who are spiritually lost. Moving through Luke 19, Ecclesiastes 8, and the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16, he stresses judgment, repentance, and the urgency of proclaiming the gospel. Odle criticizes churches that avoid hell, Christ’s exclusivity, biblical authority, and sound doctrine, while calling every believer—not only pastors—to evangelize boldly. Personal testimony, Daniel’s end-time witness, and Paul’s travail for the Galatians support his appeal for compassionate truth-telling, perseverance, and obedience to Jesus Christ.
In “Personal Revival,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the condition of the church, faith, prayer. Drawing especially from 1 Corinthians 10, Numbers 13, Exodus 3, Luke 16, the teaching emphasizes that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
In “Prophetic Word for 2016,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Bible prophecy, Islamic origins and claims, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from Acts 2, 1 Corinthians 13, 1 Corinthians 14, Luke 17, the teaching emphasizes that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that Islamic claims and biblical revelation present incompatible accounts of God and salvation.
In “Pure in Their Own Eyes,” Pastor Dean Odle warns against self-deception that preserves religious appearance while resisting God’s Word. Beginning with the parable of the sower in Mark 4, he argues that the condition of the heart determines whether the Word bears lasting fruit. Proverbs 30 supplies the title: a generation may consider itself pure while remaining unwashed from its filthiness. The sermon presses hearers to judge spiritual claims by Scripture and fruit, not popularity, emotional display, titles, or outward worship.
In “Shock & Awe,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the condition of the church, Israel in prophecy, Bible prophecy. Drawing especially from Luke 19, 1 Thessalonians 5, Revelation 9, Amos 3, the teaching emphasizes that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture.
In “Skyfall 2024 - Biblical Cosmology by Matt Long,” Matt Long develops a Scripture-centered message moving through a hebrew cosmology reading, competing worldviews, the face of the earth and universal visibility, firmament and waters above. The sermon follows the speaker’s argument chronologically, grounding its principal appeals in biblical passages and practical ministry examples.
Dean Odle directly answers the question “Can a Christian have demons?” in the affirmative, distinguishing salvation from the surrender of particular areas of a believer’s soul or body. He argues from warnings addressed to Christians, Israel’s Old Testament experience, and Gospel deliverance accounts that covenant people can fellowship with demons, retain unclean strongholds, and need those bondages removed.
In The Book of Enoch (Part 3), Pastor Dean Odle answers critics of Enoch and argues that its account of the Watchers and their giant offspring complements rather than contradicts the canonical Bible. Beginning with objections about the origin of sin, the title “Son of man,” bound angels, the Flood, and intercession, he urges Christians to examine claims in context instead of repeating inherited objections. He then connects Jesus’ answer to the Sadducees in Matthew 22 with Enoch 15, presenting Enoch as background for the teaching that heavenly angels are not appointed wives.
In “The Burden of San Francisco & the Approaching Tribulation,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about divine judgment, repentance, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from 2 Timothy 3, Genesis 18, Galatians 5, Ephesians 5, the teaching emphasizes that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that repentance involves turning from known sin and bringing conduct into agreement with God’s word.
In this biblical-creation teaching, Dean Odle argues that Genesis describes a solid firmament separating waters above from waters below and that many pastors reinterpret the text through modern cosmology. He contrasts the Bible’s creation account with statements by prominent scientists, using their acknowledgment of unresolved cosmological problems to challenge the authority often granted to scientific models over Scripture.
The sermon identifies the “idol of self” as a hidden allegiance that seeks recognition, position, comfort, and control even within Christian service. Pastor Dean Odle begins with Jeremiah’s warning that the heart is deceitful, then traces how envy, vainglory, ambition, resentment, and resistance to spiritual authority reveal self-seeking motives. Biblical examples—from Israel’s dissatisfaction to the envy behind Joseph’s betrayal and Christ’s condemnation—show that giftedness and religious activity do not automatically produce a humble heart.
In The New Alien Religion 2, Pastor Dean Odle argues that modern UFO disclosure, alleged nonhuman contact, and a growing “cosmic” spirituality are not religiously neutral. He presents them as an end-time deception designed to weaken confidence in Scripture, redefine Jesus as an alien emissary or ascended master, and prepare humanity for a counterfeit world religion. His strongest biblical foundation is the New Testament warning about seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, joined to the command to abide in the doctrine of Christ and test every spirit by its confession concerning Jesus.
In “The New Testament Church & the Sabbath Question,” Pastor Dean Odle introduces widespread confusion over church government, leadership gifts, and the functioning of a New Testament congregation. Second Timothy 4 frames the danger of people gathering teachers who satisfy their desires instead of enduring sound doctrine. The message develops its case chronologically from the biblical texts, examples, and applications heard in the sermon.
In “The Seals & Trumpets of Revelation,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about divine judgment, faith, Israel in prophecy. Drawing especially from Jeremiah 31, Jeremiah 32, Proverbs 16, Revelation 5, the teaching emphasizes that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
Dean Odle presents a historicist interpretation of Revelation’s seven trumpets, arguing that the seals, trumpets, and bowls overlap and converge at Christ’s return instead of unfolding as one simple future sequence. He identifies the first five trumpets with World War I, World War II, Chernobyl, the Gulf War’s burning oil wells, and the 2008–2009 financial crisis.
In “The Shape of the Earth,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about faith, biblical creation, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from Proverbs 8, Isaiah 40, Isaiah 22, Genesis 1, the teaching emphasizes that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the creation account is defended as foundational to biblical authority and the meaning of the created order.
In “The Sixth-Trumpet War,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Israel in prophecy, Bible prophecy, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from Matthew 24, Romans 1, Revelation 20, Revelation 9, the teaching emphasizes that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone.
In Part 2 of The World You Live In, Pastor Dean Odle continues his argument that Christians should test inherited descriptions of creation against Scripture rather than accept institutional consensus as final authority. Beginning with worship and prayer, he develops a reconstruction or gap reading of Genesis 1:1-2, connects the earth becoming "without form, and void" with prophetic language in Jeremiah and Isaiah, and treats Satan's fall as part of the background to the ruined condition he sees before the six days of ordering.
Dean Odle warns that false teachers can transform their outward appearance while bringing another Jesus, another spirit, and another gospel into a church. His central test case is denial of eternal conscious punishment: he compares Jesus’ parallel language for eternal life and eternal punishment, cites Matthew 25, Luke 16, Jude, and Peter, and argues that discomfort with judgment cannot authorize changing Scripture.
Ezekiel foresees Gog’s forces defeated, their weapons removed, and the land methodically cleansed through an extended burial process.
Ezekiel describes Gog leading a vast northern coalition against a regathered people dwelling in the land of Israel.
Isaiah promised that the Lord would recover His people “the second time” and gather Israel and Judah from the nations. Watchman 33 connects that promise with the return of Jewish communities, the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, and the continuing ingathering of immigrants from the diaspora.
Ezekiel announces the overthrow of Judah’s corrupt crown until the one comes whose right it is to receive the kingdom.
Revelation measures a temple, altar, and worshippers while leaving an outer court to the Gentiles for forty-two months. Watchman 33 sees today’s preparations for renewed Temple worship as signs that this still-future setting is becoming possible.
A Watchman 33 release centered on stepping away from deception and returning to truth.
An examination of hidden-return and past-millennium claims through the public signs Jesus and the apostles gave: cosmic upheaval, resurrection, gathering, judgment, and the visible reign of Christ. Context—not fascination—must govern prophecy.
Pastor Dean Odle uses an old family plow to illustrate Jesus’s warning in Luke 9:62 about following Him without looking back. Beginning with Romans 8 and John 10, he argues that discipleship requires continually hearing Christ’s voice, resisting the flesh, and surrendering self-will. He examines the excuses in Luke 14, shares personal accounts of ministry decisions, correction, and restoration, and turns to 1 John 2 and Proverbs 3 to urge trust in God’s direction. The sermon closes with warnings drawn from Lot’s wife and the parable of the talents, calling listeners to examine their faith, abide in Christ, and move forward in obedient, fruitful service.
A cinematic release inviting listeners to examine the biblical warnings concerning deception and discernment.
In The Second Coming of Jesus Christ, Pastor Dean Odle warns against teachings that claim Christ already returned, the millennial reign has already occurred, and believers now live in Satan's 'little season.' He begins with the apostolic command to abide in the doctrine of Christ and to reject deceivers, then reads Matthew 24 as a chronological description of a future, unmistakable, worldwide return. Odle emphasizes that the sun and moon will be darkened, the stars will fall, heaven will be rolled back, the mountains and islands will be removed, every tribe will see Christ, and the elect will be gathered after the tribulation.
God promises to plant a tender cedar sprig on Israel’s high mountain until it becomes a noble tree sheltering every kind of bird.