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Speaker: Alrighty. So, our second Joshua Generation Q and A. Lots of questions. We're submitted, guys, which is awesome.
Speaker: I have subdivided them into few categories. One are questions related to the book of Genesis, the first book in the Bible.
Speaker: The next category glory is on the nature of God.
Speaker: Then we've got some excellent questions on the nature of good and evil.
Speaker: And the next group, I could have called it miscellaneous instead I called it society more generally.
Speaker: And then we've got some questions on the afterlife. What happens when one dies? So let's have a look. so if you're taking notes, get your pen and paper ready.
Speaker: If you're not taking notes, that's all right. And this is being recorded and you can watch it on Zencastr, YouTube, air Apple, Spotify, and all the good places thereafter.
Speaker: All right, so the first question was, can science explain why we exist or only how we exist?
Speaker: It's a great question. And if you've got a Bible in front of you, open up Ecclesiastes.
Speaker: Chapter 12. Ecclesiastes, chapter 12. There are some poetry books in the Bible. Psalm, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, of Songs.
Speaker: Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon, who was the son of David took the throne after David died. Solomon started off as a great king.
Speaker: He was the wisest man on earth because it was a gift God gave him. He was the wealthiest man earth, another gift that God liberally bestowed upon him.
Speaker: But he let pride, money loving, and women get to his head. The three great pitfalls for many a great man.
Speaker: And he basically plunged his nation into demonic idolatry and worship and child sacrifice and just abject barbarism.
Speaker: Now, because god is so good, he forgave Solomon at the end of his life when he came back to him. And Ecclesiastes basically a book in which Solomon writes about all the things that he had.
Speaker: All the things that he did. How he denied himself no pleasure on earth. Take from that what you will. um But actually came to a realization.
Speaker: All of this had been meaningless.
Speaker: Specifically the Asteel 12.
Speaker: Remember your creator in the days of your youth. Before the days of trouble come and the years approach, when will you say, i find no pleasure in them.
Speaker: So there comes a point where you just stop caring.
Speaker: Before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain. When the keepers of the house tremble, the strong men stoop.
Speaker: When the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim. This is not the happiest chapter in the Bible.
Speaker: When the doors of the streets are closed, and the sound of grinding fades, When men rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint.
Speaker: When men are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets, when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags himself along and no desire is stirred.
Speaker: Then man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about the streets. So basically there comes a point in your life when all the happiness is just sucked out of it.
Speaker: That's the point he's arrived at. Remember him before the silver cord is severed or the golden bowl is broken. Before the pitcher is shattered at the spring or the wheel broken at the well and the dust returns to ground it to the ground it came from.
Speaker: And the spirit returns to God who gave us so basically before you're dead.
Speaker: Meaningless. Meaningless, says the teacher. Who is the teacher, I wonder? Everything is meaningless.
Speaker: Not only was the teacher wise, but also he imparted knowledge the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs.
Speaker: The teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true. The words of the wise are like goads.
Speaker: They're collected sayings like firmly embedded nails given by one shepherd. So the teacher is a good shepherd who's got nails.
Speaker: in his hands and his feet. The teacher is Jesus. And Jesus' opinion on everything in life is that it's meaningless.
Speaker: Hello. Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.
Speaker: If honey anyone tells you the Bible is book of lies, read that line to them. That's true. I've been a student. And now all has been heard. Here is the conclusion of the matter.
Speaker: Fear God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it's good or bad.
Speaker: Verse 13 there, I'm going to read that again. Fear God and keep his commandments, for that is the whole duty of man. The word fear means to morally revere him.
Speaker: Have a reverential, respectful awe of God. Know that he is awesome and respect and appreciate him because he is.
Speaker: And obeying God is the duty of man. The word duty in Hebrew means the whole of the man. The reason human beings are here is to know God, to experience God, and to obey God.
Speaker: And if you do not do that, everything in your life is meaningful. That is the opinion of the shepherds, of the teacher. That is the opinion of Jesus.
Speaker: So can science explain why we're here? No. Can your family? No. Can your passion? No. Can your hobby? No. There's one thing, one, according to Jesus, that actually makes your life worth living, that gives your life purpose, and that is knowing, revering, and obeying God.
Speaker: All right. Question number two.
Speaker: All right. How can something, basically everything and in context with reality, how can something have come from nothing? It's great question.
Speaker: The Bible gives us a few answers.
Speaker: One of them is found in the prophet Isaiah.
Speaker: He's in the Old Testament.
Speaker: Chapter 40, and it's verse 12.
Speaker: It says about Jesus, who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hands? Or with the breath of his hand marked off the heavens?
Speaker: Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket? Or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? And again, the answer is Jesus.
Speaker: This is saying all the waters of the world fit inside Jesus' hand. Now you might think in these pictures, oh wow, Jesus is massive. He's a giant. I'm an ant. He's so large. If I'm an ant, then I won't be able to see his head.
Speaker: No. It says he's marked off the heavens, the skies, the atmosphere, or the air, in the breadth of his hand. That means, literally, when Jesus made reality,
Speaker: He was human sized. And all of reality fits between his thumb and his index finger.
Speaker: So whatever height you are, imagine Jesus is in and around that height at the creation of all things. He just does this. Sticks out his thumb with his finger and all of reality fits between them.
Speaker: And then he throws it into the realm of time and space where we live. And all the water of reality just fits inside of his hand when he's human-sized.
Speaker: everything come from nothing? Jesus is life. Everything came from the person of Jesus.
Speaker: And there are two verses as well, which also say this. One is Genesis one one And one is Revelation 22-13.
Speaker: Genesis 1-1 says that in the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth. It's a very famous one. It's only a few words, pretty easy.
Speaker: In Revelation 22, 13, Jesus is speaking about himself. So we've got the first few of the Bible and the last few of the Bible. Jesus says, i am the Alpha and the Omega.
Speaker: I am the first and the last. I am the beginning and the end. Hmm. What name did he give himself there?
Speaker: i am the beginning. and the end. A lot of people kind of, maybe they don't, maybe it's just me.
Speaker: I used to read Genesis 1-1 and say, God, I'm a bit surprised that God's name isn't the first word in the Bible. But you know, in the beginning, god made the heaven and the earth. I just said, why not just start the sentence with God?
Speaker: But here's the thing. the Jesus says, i am the beginning and the end. That's his name. So Genesis one one in the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth.
Speaker: Jesus is the beginning. That's not a time, it's a name. In Jesus Christ, God made the heavens and the earth.
Speaker: That means all of reality was made from Jesus. He is life himself.
Speaker: And this is another common passage in the Gospel of John, chapter one, verses one to five, that talks about Jesus' involvement in Creation Week.
Speaker: In the beginning, again, it's a name for Jesus. In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word was God. Now the Word...
Speaker: This is God who speaks. Yeah? This is Jesus. So when you read Genesis 1, how reality got started, Jesus is the God who speaks. Jesus says, light be.
Speaker: Let there be light. Jesus is the one who's speaking reality into existence with the power of his lips and his tongue.
Speaker: The one in the beginning of God.
Speaker: All things came into being through him, through Jesus. And apart from Jesus, not even one thing came into being that come into being.
Speaker: In Jesus was life, and the life was the light of mankind. When Jesus says, let there be light, he was not making the sun, was shining his own light.
Speaker: And the light shines in the darkness. And the darkness did not grasp the light, understand the light, or overpower the light.
Speaker: So did everything come from nothing? Nope, it all came from Jesus.
Speaker: All right, here's a juicy one for you.
Speaker: Can I believe in evolution? As well as Adam and Eve and original sin.
Speaker: There is a very surprising number of Christians who would say, yes, you can. and i would say, yes you can, but only if you call Jesus Christ a liar, which is not a good idea.
Speaker: Because in Mark chapter 10, verse 6,
Speaker: Jesus specifically affirms the creation of Adam and Eve in the beginning. How would he know? because he was the one who made them.
Speaker: Because all things were made through him.
Speaker: In Luke 3, 38, it actually gives the family tree of Mary, Jesus' mother, all the way back to Adam and Eve.
Speaker: In Matthew 19, four to six, Jesus is talking about marriage and he does not say it was Adam and Steve.
Speaker: He does not say it was Madam and Eve. He does not say it was a
Speaker: half monkey and that seventy five present a chimp. he connects it back to Adam and Eve. Because on day six, Jesus made land animals, man, woman, and marriage.
Speaker: In Ephesians 5, 30 to 32, the apostle Paul, he used to be a murderer. Jesus saved, murderer of Christians, actually. He would arrest them and they would be killed.
Speaker: Jesus saved him, radically transformed his life. He ended up writing one third of the New Testament. And her the other apostles didn't really want to spend time with them because they didn't trust him because, you know, he'd kind of been killing their friends.
Speaker: um So even though Jesus was in heaven, he was giving Paul revelation from heaven. And Paul used that revelation to connect the church, the body of Christ, to Adam and Eve.
Speaker: In 1 Corinthians 11, 8 to 12, that same Paul argues for family order because of the creation of Adam and Eve.
Speaker: He wrote two letters to his spiritual son, Timothy. And in 1 Timothy 2, 13 to 14, Paul attaches the origin of sin in the world, human sin, to Eve.
Speaker: And in Romans 5, 12 to 14, that same Paul tells us that physical death affects all humans because of Adam. One man lets sin into the world, and therefore all men are fated to die.
Speaker: So you can believe a lie and the truth, I suppose, but only if you're calling Jesus Christ himself a liar, because these things are very true to Jesus.
Speaker: So I don't ever encourage anyone to call God a liar. So I would say ditch the demonic doctrine. That tells you that humans are unimportant. That tells you humans are a mistake.
Speaker: That tells you that humans just, you know, gradually came along. and Because when you tell people that they are animals and they're not special and they're not important to God, they begin to live like they are animals.
Speaker: And if you want to know the impact that it has on society, Just look out your window or go on social media and see people tearing each other apart like lions in the jungle.
Speaker: All right, then there was another evolution question. Does Darwinian evolution provide a basis for morality?
Speaker: and I'm going to be perfectly honest with you I actually had to look this one up, but I didn't even know what Darwinian evolution was. um This is, trying to put it simple English, it is the scientific theory that all living things descended from common ancestors over millions of years through natural processes where genetic variation and natural selection happened randomly or magically or something.
Speaker: and where organisms with traits better suit to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce. um So you have got a bit of fact there mixed with lies. Obviously things can adapt to their environment, and if they do, they're going to live longer. That just makes sense.
Speaker: um But the idea that one kind of creature magically becomes another one, well, that's kind of supernatural religion and of itself.
Speaker: a But no, I would say no to that because you could look at people murdering people and say that's bad.
Speaker: You could look at people cheating on their partners and say that's naughty. and You could look at some people doing everything they can to protect children and saying that's nice.
Speaker: But the whole thing with Darwinism and social Darwinism is that it's all built on survival. It's not built on inherent goodness. It's not built on morality.
Speaker: It's not built on godly character. um And throughout history, um lying, stealing, killing, abandoning the weak,
Speaker: um genocide, holocausts, they've all been used to improve the survival of a group of people or the success rates of certain individuals.
Speaker: and the advantages of certain people, but that doesn't make them good. They're still incredibly evil and wicked. So, no, there is no one good but God alone, and it's not possible to take any human idea, or demonic idea, or human demonic idea, and actually make it moral. Yeah.
Speaker: It might advantage you. might advantage your cause. It might advantage the people that you like. But only the word of God actually sets people truly free.
Speaker: All right. They are the questions on Genesis. And the next section is on the nature of God. Are there any questions so far on that section? Are they all good now?
Speaker: Okay, no queries. Alrighty.
Speaker: Okay, the next question. This was an interesting one. Is God all-powerful?
Speaker: My answer to this might not be what you expect.
Speaker: A lot of people ask things like, is God all powerful? But that's not what they mean.
Speaker: What they mean is, can God do anything he wants? Can God do whatever he likes?
Speaker: So there are two answers. Is God all powerful? Yes.
Speaker: Can God do anything? No. And the Bible specifically tells us that he can't. So let's start with the actual question on the screen.
Speaker: Is God all powerful?
Speaker: The prophet Jeremiah, which comes after Isaiah, chapter 32, verse 17 says, ah Lord God, when you read them,
Speaker: Jeremiah's letters, um sorry, not letters, his book, he often used the word ah. It's still kind of his voice. He's like, ah, God, ah, Lord, ah, look at this, ah, the state of them.
Speaker: It's just how he speaks. Ah, Lord God. It is its you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm.
Speaker: Nothing is too hard for you. So if nothing's too hard for him, yes, he is all-powerful. Can he do whatever he wants?
Speaker: The answer is no. 2 Timothy 2.13 God cannot deny himself.
Speaker: People deny him. Demons who've met him deny him. But God cannot deny his own existence.
Speaker: Titus one two God cannot lie. Jesus said I'm the way, the truth and the life. If Jesus is the truth, deception is not in him.
Speaker: Hebrews thirteen eight Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. What does that mean? It means God, Jesus or his spirit, Father, cannot change.
Speaker: He is who he is. He is who he was. He is who he will always be.
Speaker: James 1, 13. third same God cannot be tempted with evil. And because he cannot be tempted with evil, he cannot tempt humans to do evil.
Speaker: He despises it. And therefore he will not put that in a person. God will test his kids to show the strength of your faith, to show the realness and authenticity of your confession. he will say, you'll put you maybe in testing situations so that you can humiliate devils, so he can bless you with more authority, more expansion, more territory.
Speaker: But he will not tempt you to sin.
Speaker: 1 John 1.5 God cannot sin. He cannot miss the mark morally. He cannot do evil.
Speaker: And 1 John 3.20 God cannot increase in knowledge or diminish in knowledge. He is amnesiant.
Speaker: He knows absolutely everything all at once, all the time. He cannot sin. learn more because he already knows what was, is, will be, can be, could be, should be, would be.
Speaker: And he can't lose information in his head because he has already seen, studied, examined, and understood every hypothetical past, present, or future.
Speaker: But I thought that was a good question.
Speaker: The next one about the nature of God. Is God all good? um Or as we like to say in the Jaws regeneration, absolutely good. And the answer is a resounding yes.
Speaker: I could have pulled out a lot of scriptures. I'll just go with a few, the one that fit on the screen. Psalm 348.
Speaker: Taste and see, that means examine, experience with evidence that the Lord is good. Blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
Speaker: Experience for yourself that he's good and hide in him from danger. Psalm 105, for the Lord is good and his love endures forever.
Speaker: His faithfulness continues through all generations. If you learn no other verse today, that is an amazing one to learn. His loving kindness is always extended towards you.
Speaker: His trustworthiness is forever. Psalm 107, 1.
Speaker: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever. Don't just know he is good. Acknowledge he is good. Thank him for it. Show appreciation. Psalm 119, 68.
Speaker: You are good, and what you do is good. Teach me your decrees. Look at that order. lot of us want God to do good things for us. Oh God, I want this. I need this. Help!
Speaker: God isn't who he is because of what he does. God does good things because he is good. His identity is goodness.
Speaker: Therefore, he does goodness. Psalm 145, 9. nine The Lord is good to all. He has compassion on all he has made.
Speaker: God hates evil. And he will deal with evil. But at the very same time, his desire is that none should perish.
Speaker: His desire is that all would be adopted into his family. He lovingly, um compassionately cares about every human he's made. And all he's made, that includes animals as well.
Speaker: Nahum 1.7 The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him.
Speaker: All right, here's another juicy one. Is transubstantiation real? For those of you who don't know what that word means, in Catholicism, and to a lesser extent, even in Presbyterian circles,
Speaker: and though it's not entirely the same between the two, there is an idea that when we have communion, which we will do later on, the bread supernaturally, literally, becomes the body of Jesus.
Speaker: And the cup literally, supernaturally, becomes the blood of Jesus. And I'm not saying that every Catholic believes this the same extent or Presbyterian, but in a historical framework.
Speaker: And when these things really began, um for Catholics, it was literally happening. For Presbyterians, it was literally happening, but in a supernatural, spiritual way.
Speaker: a Are you actually eating and drinking Jesus? um A lot of people around the world, I would say hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, would say that.
Speaker: a Personally, i would be very, very suspicious of anyone telling me to eat something because there was a spirit inside of it.
Speaker: and What you're probably doing, actually, is participating in something demonic and demons are getting in. But let's have a look at the Last Supper and get some clues.
Speaker: In Matthew 26, 26, it says, as they were eating, that's Jesus, the disciples and their friends, Jesus took some bread and blessed it.
Speaker: Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, take this and eat it, for this is my body. Now, yesterday, i looked up the word is in Greek in that sentence.
Speaker: And it's got different meanings. But one of the meanings is this bread denotes my body. it It means my body. It signifies my body.
Speaker: It is a picture. Okay? He said, this is a picture. And then tears it up. Well, what happened to Jesus Bodsey just after this dinner party?
Speaker: He got punched by Roman soldiers. He got beaten up. He was whiplashed dozens of times. In fact, a lot of people would not survive the whiplashing. A lot of people would die during the whiplashing alone.
Speaker: He was forced carry his own cross. He had a thorn bush pretty much slammed into his head, a crown of thorns. He had nails rammed into his hands and feet. He was crucified, you know naked, was stabbed with a spear.
Speaker: All this was going on.
Speaker: And he's here tearing the bread to shreds. He's saying, you see the series of bread? This is what's going to happen to my body in a few hours over the over the next day.
Speaker: The picture. It's denotes, it's signifying, it's representative.
Speaker: And in Matthew, couple of verses later, 26, 28, it's the same Greek word. For this is my blood of the covenant, And what does he do?
Speaker: You just imagine him pouring it out on the table, people saying, Jesus, the water. Being poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. This denotes my blood.
Speaker: This means my blood. This is a picture of my blood. This represents my blood. This signifies my blood. It was a prophetic picture, not a reality.
Speaker: So are you eating and drinking Jesus? No. If someone tells you they are, that you are, please do not eat that bread or drink of that cup because something spiritual is probably taking place that, uh, well, spirits will be entering into you and not the kind of spirits that you want.
Speaker: I'll leave that there for now. a Alright. and The next section is on good and evil. Are there any comments, queries or questions on the nature of God? We've got a couple in the chat box.
Speaker: Mandy, God is good all the time. He absolutely is. One, two, yep. My phone died and I don't know if you got the question that he sent in, but I'm always, I'll admit, I do when I'm praying. yeah You know, when we In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. yeah Why do Christians not and do the sign of the cross on themselves anymore?
Speaker: Yep. Super question, Mandy. Thank you. Yep. i guess I'm just going to try to crack it open here in the Bible. And just so I can put it in context for you.
Speaker: Like, I don't do it at every church like you did when you were Catholic. I stopped all that. Yeah. But... When I'm praying our Father and I'm blessing myself, I do unite myself in the name of the Father and the Son with oil.
Speaker: And I just don't understand why Christians, you know, don't do the on themselves. I don't understand. Yeah, no, no, that's awesome. So, Father God is absolutely amazing. he is an overall operation of the Trinity.
Speaker: The Holy Spirit is absolutely amazing. He's the one who dwells within us, who lives within us, um who has brought our dead spirit to life.
Speaker: Jesus is absolutely amazing. He's the one who became flesh for us, who suffered the full wrath of God, so we don't have to, and conquered the grave.
Speaker: And while all three are equally amazing and we can pray to all three and all three love us so totally, so dearly. Because of the sacrifice that Jesus made, that Father God never could and never will, that Holy Spirit never could and never will.
Speaker: But Jesus, God with skin on, took our place, lived amongst us for 33 and a half years and lived sinlessly. And you can imagine how hard that was. Imagine if you've ever, maybe you told someone, I'm going on a diet today and 10 minutes later, someone whips out a sticky toffee pudding and you say, maybe the diet should start tomorrow.
Speaker: Imagine that instant temptation and you've got Jesus through resisting that temptation. for the sticky toffee pudding of sin, of performing miracles for his own glory, of, you know, he all those times when the Roman soldiers were beating up his own people and he would have just wanted to, you know, put them in their place or give them a slap across the face.
Speaker: All those times people insulted him and mocked him and said, you're not really good, while they're holding like a Bible in their hands. And he just wants to retaliate and fight back.
Speaker: And yet he was obedient. On to the Father God. Obedient on to the death of the flesh. Carnal desire.
Speaker: Pride. Obedient on to crucifixion on a cross. and raised again in new life. 33 and a half years. Some of us can't go 33 and a half minutes without sinning.
Speaker: He went 33 and a half years. For that reason, we're told his name has been put above every other name.
Speaker: We don't not pray any of the Father or Holy Spirit to avoid being associated with that denomination or that persuasion or that cult or that country or that state.
Speaker: We do it because Father God himself has delighted in exalting the name of Jesus, even above his own name, even above Holy Spirit's name.
Speaker: You can't be a Christian if Holy Spirit not living inside you. Holy Spirit's the one who makes the dots connect. That the God loves humans so much, but he has even put the name of Jesus above his own.
Speaker: And that's why in John 14, 14, Jesus said, if you ask anything in my name, I'll do it. Anything in accordance with his will, he'll do it.
Speaker: It's because of the sacrifice he made, because of the punishment for all humans he endured. And even as he hung there, he didn't say to the audience, I healed your daughter of leprosy. I brought your child back to life.
Speaker: I healed your broken life. He just said, Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. And because of what he endured, God the Father has put Jesus' name above every other name.
Speaker: And it's like a special the Lord. that God has given his son Jesus because of what Jesus did for him. Thank you, Brandon. It's not and long to talk to any of the three of them.
Speaker: It was God's defi' decision. It was a special reward for Jesus that Jesus' name would be above everything. Amen. Thank you. Great question. Amen.
Speaker: wow thanks chair the man great question man
Speaker: Alright guys, now let's get really hardcore. You asked some questions on the nature of good and evil. Oh Brendan, can I ask? Can you hear me?
Speaker: I can't get to you. Yeah, I'm just um I suppose I've have had a lot of sickness ah all my life, really most of my life from I got saved.
Speaker: and um i I say I'm confused with the faith teaching um I listened a lot to Andrew Womack yesterday and um ah according to him it's by faith I know there's grace but it's by faith he said you can speak to the mountain and have to go I suppose I don't believe that but because I have been doing it for a long time and nothing happened.
Speaker: um I mean, how much depends on my quoting unbeli and and God's part in it or my holiness, my obedience. Yeah,
Speaker: great question. Yeah. Yeah, so it can differ from person to person. The Bible gives easily a minimum of 15 different ways that healing can take place. At some point, we'll do it someday just on healing itself.
Speaker: But let's say there was a 12-year-old girl who died, the daughter of Jairus. and She had no faith for a resurrection because she was already dead.
Speaker: But Jesus supernaturally brought her back to life again. Now her parents had faith. What you see there is you see people around the bed mourning, crying. oh my God, she's dead. It's a tragedy. She was so young.
Speaker: and Jesus says, get out. kicks them out of the room while they're mourning and crying and being sympathetic and compassionate and they're bringing their casseroles and they're bringing their bouquets of flowers and says get out.
Speaker: The only people who leave in the room are her parents and not the twelve apostles, his three closest friends out the twelve apostles.
Speaker: And then he says, palli a puam little girl, get up. And next thing she comes back to life, she's resurrected. So in that situation, she had no faith for a resurrection, she was dead.
Speaker: But there were people around her, five people and Jesus who had faith. And there are times when, let's say you have Jesus healing the 10 lepers. And he says, be healed.
Speaker: And nothing happened. But as they walked away, as they literally walked out their healing, that's when the healing came. The healing did not come right there and then.
Speaker: It came with each step. Now, only one of them actually thanked him. Only one of them was like, oh my goodness. Like, wow, I gotta find Jesus again. But that happened as they walked out their healing.
Speaker: And I can think of someone literally who had on one hand a thumb and three and a half fingers. Half a finger was was gone. When she was a child, someone had slammed a gate on her finger and half her finger got cut off.
Speaker: She had no faith for a physical healing in the slightest. She had three and a half fingers and she was okay with that. And then one day her kids...
Speaker: actually said, no
Speaker: and she said, of okay, that's nice. Little children, praying to Jesus, okay. And at the dinner table, that finger grew back, and I know this woman intimately well, so I know that that it's a true story.
Speaker: and She had no faith for healing, but the ones praying for her did. Okay. And then there are times when the issue, the health issue, is related to a stronghold.
Speaker: And that's what it is for you, Kitty. And with a stronghold, the Bible says you have to tear down strongholds.
Speaker: Tearing down strongholds. And not going ask, you know, for what kept you like, I i don't want anecdotal evidence per se. But I did post a week and half ago to everyone for Radiant.
Speaker: Be there early, stay till the end. Every single step of this day will be geared towards freedom going step by step by step by step.
Speaker: That's what it takes. It takes... Sorry, it's the front door, i be there in a second. um It takes... Walking out or healing wanted your water to freedom, again, again, again, obedience is big part of us.
Speaker: Changing how you think is a big part of us. Coming out of agreement with lies of the enemy is a big part of us. and Being in the words daily, even when you don't want to be, is a big part of us.
Speaker: And each time, it's like a wrecking ball. until eventually the whole thing fumbles. But, um, I know that God has a strategy for your healing, but I won't share it here publicly, because this will go online afterwards, but we'll talk about it again. I'll be back in one minute, guys.
Speaker: Yeah, but if you're not up to, to, um, you're really, physically not up to going through these long events, um, uh,
Speaker: You know, like a I i ah i know I'm i'm proud i'm probably, i don't have the and they push, the stamina in me.
Speaker: I think there's a lot of unbelief because have got a lot of prayer and it hasn't happened. um a You know, and I couldn't drive there.
Speaker: You have to reach a point. where you are fed up of being fed up. Or we like to say in Ireland, not that I believe to speak sickness over ourselves, but it's the vernacular, you have to get sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Speaker: no And in my life, that's a point I had to reach again and again in multiple different there multiple times, multiple different ways, multiple issues, multiple strongholds.
Speaker: I had to reach a point where was just sick to the back teeth of being sick to the back teeth. And I'll be honest with the Dasha generation even, um when I know when we started, first few weeks, obviously the excitement there, the adrenaline, the stamina, the wow, God, there's something new.
Speaker: And then out of nowhere, i don't know already shared this publicly or just one or two of you in private, out of nowhere, I suddenly got this sudden dread every morning at about 10.45, because we didn't always do worship from 10 to 11.
Speaker: um But about 10.30, 10.45, I would get this sudden wave of dread. Oh my goodness, what if this is the day no one comes to the house and no one joins on the What if this is the day they've all decided to abandon What if they're on WhatsApp texting each other right now? Oh my goodness, this guy again. Can we just do something else? How about we do our own thing?
Speaker: Like seemingly nowhere. moved on for several months. Maybe until late spring, early summer last year. And eventually just actually had to cop myself on.
Speaker: and say, oh my goodness, these people are actually trusting me to share or the word of God with them. They're entrusting me with their time, with their spiritual journey.
Speaker: And I'm here thinking worst case scenario, I'm here like vilifying them in my head. and this It was a stronghold of rejection. It's because my whole life I had been rejected, I had been abandoned, I had been forsaken, and I had to make a decision Okay, am I actually going to... At the time, I was 31.
Speaker: I said, am I actually going to live and die like this? Playing, you like you know, you put one foot in, you put one foot out, put one foot in, you shake it all about, you do the hokey pokey.
Speaker: Am I actually going to hokey pokey-ing until the day I die? Never firmly putting two feet... in anything. No steadfastness whatsoever because in my mind no one else was.
Speaker: So what was the point? No one else would honor their word so what was the point? and No one else was actually there for me so what was the point? That was the point I actually had to reach.
Speaker: And I just had to say, girls, dare come against your word what you've spoken The evidence that I was seeing literally every single week of people's steadfastness and their trust and their commitment to their reliability.
Speaker: And here I am making them the villains in my story playing mental gymnastics. It was a stronghold. A stronghold of rejection. And I had to make, now I had been fighting it for many years and making progress, but I had to make a decision of that morning, and enough's enough.
Speaker: And I said, God, if you'll never send me one, I will treat him or her like they are gold. But this nonsense of never actually letting people in, never accepting that they want to be in, never really accepting that God has actually sent them and they've heard his word and they're committed.
Speaker: and Enough's enough. I have to get over it. But that was a lifelong stronghold for me. And it had the enemy had thrown me many cement blocks of rejection, abandonment, and I had added the wet cement to say I am rejected, i am abandoned, i am hated, i am the spare, and I'm just saying Prince Harry or anything, I am...
Speaker: can't stand the man. I'm not even British. i I am forsaken. i There's a stamp on my forehead saying crap on here.
Speaker: i just had it come out of it. And I would say for yourself, there has to be, this is what I'm getting there right now forgiveness for when people have let you down.
Speaker: Forgiveness when people have perhaps made promises and not fulfill them, not met those obligations that they said they would oblige or fulfill. a And I believe also there's a stronghold of fear there.
Speaker: And you have to go on a journey with Jesus. And I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. I can explain it to you. I can't do it for you. I believe God wants you to learn.
Speaker: and it will be a learning curve. And you might get it wrong before you get it right. And you might get it right 10 times and then get it wrong in 11th time. That's okay. But I believe what God is telling you is he wants you to go on the journey to learn to trust him again. And each time you do, it's like supernatural earthquakes will be shooting out of you.
Speaker: It's like a wrecking ball will come swinging. It's like there'll be a jackhammer in your hand. But a stronghold, the Bible does not say you pray them away.
Speaker: The Bible says you tear them down. It takes stamina. It takes working up a sweat. It takes getting up early, going to bed late.
Speaker: It means... Leaving the house for a walk on a sunny day for two hours, even when you'd rather just sit at home in your pajamas. It means cracking open a Bible and reading it or having it playing on an audio, even when you just want a clear head and nothing else going in.
Speaker: It means making decisions when you're driving at. It requires change. it Absolutely. And often more than one. and it' me And it's consistent day after day. because we all get into a rut and into a mindset. Yeah.
Speaker: And I think, I'm not talking about you personally, Kitty, I'm saying about... We've opened that. Yeah, and about myself. It's from you open your eyes in the morning to what you say to yourself.
Speaker: Yeah. And you say, thank you, God, that I've opened. you know, that you get can put your two feet underneath you and get out of bed and you start it off on a positive and of co gratitude and let that grow throughout the day.
Speaker: But we all can get, you know, with, oh, I have a sore head or, oh God, look at it's bloody raining and, then you know, yeah yeah you know, all this stuff. Oh, no, it's not Monday. It's, oh Jesus, have to meet that one later. You know, all this stuff that we go on.
Speaker: And I just think we have to become so conscious of our thoughts. Majorly. Majorly. And of our actions. And that you open your eyes, gratitude.
Speaker: And start your day and say, right, you know, if I normally get up and I sit for half an hour half having a cup of coffee, no, I'm not doing that for you. I'm going to do a Bible reading this morning. I'm going to say a prayer now of gratitude or whatever it is.
Speaker: I just think it requires change. They're all, and not criticising anyone, I'm talking about myself here, where we get into the comfort zone. Yes. It's not working.
Speaker: We keep repeating the pattern. Nothing can changes and we sit there wondering what. Yeah. i think is And if you're you're right, because even when it's destructive to us, it's familiar. Familiar, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Comfortable. Think of like this sheet of paper here. Comfortable, uncomfortable. for this but It's a good way of punting it, yeah. The oxymoron, the paradox. Imagine this is the prison, and the pen is the individual.
Speaker: And again, Kitsy, this is not just for you. this is something we all have to work on, different areas of our lives. And everyone you will ever meet has to work on this.
Speaker: You might not like being inside the prison. But, after so many years, you will know how many meters squared that prison is.
Speaker: After so many years, you will come to realize if you like the window open or closed. If you like the curtains drawn or on the far right and far left, you'll be able to see how much dust is on the floor and, you know, sweep it up just to your your liking.
Speaker: Or, you know, what you sweep under the carpet or sling under the bed or bung in the wardrobe.
Speaker: And although it's so small and it's not particularly attractive, and although you're suffocating and you're drowning and there's a big world out there and everyone's having so much more fun, apparently, it's familiar.
Speaker: You know how many chairs are in that room. You know how many beds are in that room. You know how long it takes to tidy up the room just to your liking for your own accommodation.
Speaker: And you know, okay, I've got this in that drawer, got that in that drawer, I've got this in that drawer, I've got that in that drawer. And even though life is passing you by and opportunities are passing you bying and all the people you prayed God would send into your life have come from long gone because they got fed up with being in prison with you, it's the familiarity.
Speaker: And this is the glue, this is the wet cement. This is the, well, this is all I'll i'll ever be. Well, maybe some people are just supposed to be lonely.
Speaker: Well, maybe some people are just supposed to have smaller lives. And I'm not speaking with you. I'm speaking with the things I spoke over my own life. And well, maybe some people, I call myself the almost man. i didn't call myself the almost man. I call myself the almost guy.
Speaker: Almost got the girl, didn't. Almost got that job, didn't. Almost made a million euro, I think I made a tenner. Almost got that result in a test and I'm getting this one.
Speaker: Almost made that friend. He walked away. Almost made those friends. They couldn't stand me. Almost had that relationship. And then this one spoke to that one event.
Speaker: Then they said this about me. Almost had this. Then that text was sent. Prayed for this. God sent it. I blew it 24 hours later.
Speaker: But you know what? I still know how many meters squared it is. and eventually living in here, because it feels in your vain imagination safer than the wide open space that's not asked for you.
Speaker: That's the stronghold, but it's a prison. It's a fortress for the demonic, because they're having a field day, but it's a prison for the human because you end up making your life smaller.
Speaker: And I believe there are different kinds of healing. Healing looks different for different people, different kinds, but for you, I believe your physical healing is attached to a stronghold.
Speaker: I believe some of those strongholds will be rejection. I believe fear. And the word I'm getting for you maybe four or five or six times this morning is unforgiveness.
Speaker: Because God has chosen to forgive all of us. Him forgiving us is what makes us as kids. Because forgiveness, it's a financial term.
Speaker: To forgive someone means that they were in a financial debt. wow And you've just, Jesus just written off the debts and said the dbt debt and debt and said the penalty, it's been paid. You're clear. You're good. You're fine.
Speaker: You're mine now. going to look after you. To have unforgiveness in your heart, whether towards family, towards people who were in your life and I weren't,
Speaker: Toward the people you wanted in your life, but they chose not to be. Toward the people who you felt set you up to fail or offer you false hope. You pray va pray about it and make a list, have a pen and paper.
Speaker: Because when you pray, God might give you more names than you expect. I believe when forgiveness is a big strongholder, but as you, person by person by person by person, even go through forgiving them,
Speaker: And that means whatever you expected from them, you say, God, all my expectation is in you. All my hope is in you. If that person blesses me at some point, great, but I'm not going to camp out waiting on it and just cross out their name ah the forgiveness comes.
Speaker: I believe they'll just be wrecking balls to the concrete blocks. that the enemy has been building up inside of you.
Speaker: a But it's hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second, it's day by day. it might be year by year, but it's never too soon once you have that freedom, because Jesus wants you to be free and free and indeed.
Speaker: And we dishonor the cross. the sacrifice he made if we choose to live in, and so in slavery, if we choose to live in bondage, because it's not what he has for us.
Speaker: and But, um... I just feel like like I can't do it, or, um, I don't want to live, it's too hard, um, uh, it just gets worse.
Speaker: Um... I've been there too, Kitsie, but whose report is that? Is that God's report over you or that the enemy's report over you?
Speaker: Take yourself out of for a second. Imagine these words are flying through the spirit realm. Whose words are they? Whose opinion is that? That's the enemy's report.
Speaker: Because as i shared at Radiant a week ago, I said that in Thessalonians, Holy Spirit in us is holding back the one world government of the Antichrist.
Speaker: So on your worst, weakest day, on the day when you get it the most wrong, Christians being on the earth is literally holding back the literal apocalypse.
Speaker: That is how much the devil hates us. So it behooves the enemy for there to be fewer Christians on the earth.
Speaker: God's will, because Jesus is life, is for you to step into the fullness of the life he has for you and the fullness of that freedom. And you have to make a decision with an act of your will to choose life.
Speaker: and I've been there. Absolutely, 100%. Don't say, no, Jesus, come take me now in the rapture or take the last breath out of my lungs.
Speaker: I want it out. I try to help them along. He just chose to keep me around. um But... But it's a making decision. You choose you have to live.
Speaker: You have to. You choose to live. I'm not listening to live on that anymore. You know, and and every day you wake up, God has a plan for you. 100%. You need to have a plan for yourself.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, even guys, you know, from ah my perspective over the last nine months, whatever. and Yeah, like that book I shared a few weeks ago. I'm going to take a chapter out of it and I'll put it on a word or a PDF or something and I post it, right?
Speaker: Because the lady and goes through like family, finances, relationships, et cetera, et cetera. And she puts down a massive list of negative thoughts that is in your head, right?
Speaker: And the list is so big that you you will find everything that's going on in your head, right? And then at the end you say, these do not longer apply for me, okay? And you go through them all, think it's a list maybe seven, eight topics or something like that.
Speaker: And then you change it to positive ones. And she said, you keep reading it and reading it every day until it changes in your mind. And because, as you said, Brendan, that filthy creature is in our ear every day.
Speaker: And he's in your ear too, Kitty, because he knows that God is trying to help you break through. And he hates us. He hates all human beings, but he hates Christians the most.
Speaker: Because he fears us the most. And you have to keep going. And again, we all have been there. I haven't yet met any Christian that has not gone through a lot in their life, including myself.
Speaker: And he will try and get to you through fear. Because that has that that's ah that's the only way they operate on. They operate on fear because they've nothing else to operate on.
Speaker: And all humans, you know, we have the fear in us. But it just depends on, you know, what level it's running at inside you. And you just break it down, you break it down, and you break it down. You keep going, and you keep going. And as Brendan says, whatever you have to do, if you need to pray more, you know, if you need to read the Word more, because the Word is extremely powerful, you know.
Speaker: And if you pray it to God every day and start off with Our Father, as I do, it's even powerful. You know, I find it so powerful. And you keep going, and you keep going. And it's a little, you know, chip away at it.
Speaker: in a more positive way each day and eventually you'll break through you know um because yeah like it you know like he god wants us to heal and even for me you know i'm not fully healed yet but each day i'm just breaking through and i'm breaking through and i'm breaking through you know and yeah as that filthy creature is and i'm not saying it to be fearful You know, you reach a point where, you know, he'll just run from you. will just flee, you know, and that's where you want to reach because, um yeah, he's in our ear all the time, especially Christians because he he does not like Christians. But keep going and keep going. And I will do all that list. and I post it and just, you know, work on it every day and I put instructions on how to do and it will help. So, yeah.
Speaker: Thanks. Thanks.
Speaker: Yeah, that's good, Steve. Yeah, the vow says to resist the devil and he will flee. It doesn't say i resist him once. It says resist.
Speaker: That requires stamina. That requires commitment. That requires dedication. But there comes a point when he just realizes, or she, devils can be male or female.
Speaker: um There comes a point where they realize, okay, this is a useless endeavor. This person is not buckling. Because what they're looking for is agreement. Because your agreement, your being complicit, that is the glue.
Speaker: That is the cement. and Don't give them the cement. Don't give them the glue. And eventually, they have to back off.
Speaker: Amen. Would it be helpful to have someone pray with me? Or do I have to do it alone? No, um there is someone that I know has been, we've reached out to, to help you, but she's just finishing a college for us at the moment.
Speaker: But I believe she's going to walk it out with you, but I won't say who it is on on this platform. um But what I will say is,
Speaker: at Stronghold, the individual has to choose to come out of agreement with us. I've done many deliverances with people before, and for some of them, the healing was just phenomenal and fantastic.
Speaker: And then there were ones who had absolutely no intention of changing their thoughts. They had absolutely no intention of getting plugged into a church fellowship.
Speaker: They had no intention of picking up a Bible and reading it. They had no intention of playing worship music in their house in the 24 hours that have been a lot to them. And they are in the same place they were when we met or they are worse off.
Speaker: And that is because there were strongholds there, which I explained to them, and they chose to leave those strongholds standing. And if the person...
Speaker: is living in rebellion, maybe not physically, even mentally and emotionally, if God's person, God's man or God's woman choose to live in rebellion, they will not know freedom, if that's simple. um Because rebellion is as the spirit of witchcraft, that's what the Bible says.
Speaker: And if someone is speaking witchcraft over themselves, speaking lies over themselves, that speaking the devil's report over themselves rather than God's,
Speaker: that person can ever truly be free because they've chosen to live in bondage. It would be like being in a prison cell, being given the key to the lock and choosing to swallow the key or throw it in the corner of the room rather than actually access their freedom.
Speaker: So yeah, we can organize one-on-ones, but... For a stronghold, that's not something you just pray away. Praying can help, but it's something that has to be torn down.
Speaker: And a stronghold, literally, in the Greek, and the God was very specific for the languages he chose the Bible to be written in he chose for the revelation of strongholds to written in Greek, it means a prison or a fortress.
Speaker: It's a prison for the person, it's a fortress for the enemy. and it comes down to the individual to choose no longer to live in
Speaker: it. So so you you just keep speaking the word, the promises, prayers? It's a massive part of it, but don't do it religiously on robotically.
Speaker: You're doing it to appropriate faith. You're doing it in faith. And if you don't have faith at start, you do it until faith comes.
Speaker: For didn't like myself. So I wrote out every Bible verse on my identity in Christ. And I looked at myself in a mirror.
Speaker: And I eyeballed myself. And I read every single one and out loud until I believed them. And when I started, I did not believe them. When I was about halfway through the list, I said, oh my goodness, this going to take me three hours. i have other things to do.
Speaker: But you know what? I did it anyway. And I kept doing it, and I kept doing it, until I knew that I knew that I knew that the Word of God was true in my life.
Speaker: And I'll be honest with you, what really did it for me was I just said, God, I can't spend every day of the week doing this for ten months. I don't have the time, just have to believe it. I just have to stop calling God a liar.
Speaker: It's always not making decisions. and It's making decisions. That's right. That's right. How long did you have to do it? For me, there were a different strongholds, but they were interconnected. There was like a city of strongholds, but the buildings had like a channels and bridges between them.
Speaker: i I probably started the process when I was 15. and And I'll be honest, some of them only came down last year.
Speaker: They went on for 16 years. I'm not saying it's going to take 16 years for all of you. I think um the teaching that I give on on Sundays and the likes is is strong enough to help speed it along.
Speaker: a No one ever spoke to me about strongholds. Strongholds were referred to in a couple of worship songs, but you were never told what they were. They were never explained to you There was an assumption that you knew what it was.
Speaker: or an avoidance to go near the topic. But the reason that I mention these so regularly and again and again they go into them is to give you all the tools to tear them down.
Speaker: um So I don't believe it'll take... I don't believe it should de take any of you 16 years to make the level of progress that I did. and I share it freely and liberally because I learned it the long way, the hard way, the lonely way, and the butchered road, taking lefts and rights and mad turns and corners and backwards, backwards directions way.
Speaker: But I want you all to get the fast track a as a result and to step into the full notes of God has for you.
Speaker: a But it took, for me, 16 years of stamina. 16 years of doing it alone. For the most part. 16 years of figuring it out. Figuring out what worked. Figuring out what did not work.
Speaker: a But it shouldn't... If I'd had the right people in my life, it shouldn't have taken that long. If I'd made better decisions at times, it shouldn't have taken that long. Like, kind of, with a...
Speaker: bit a handicapped path for myself. But that's not something want for any of you.
Speaker: Amen. Yeah, it's just, I think it's to do with faith in in my life. I just feel um my prayers are not being answered. Nothing's working.
Speaker: and I have heard scripture over the years and I've like like ah listening to the God channel for three hours non-stop and um get trying to get faith and
Speaker: but like I'm still of confused like um you know the faith teachers they say faith comes by hearing the word and have to hear yourself speak and you have to say the word constantly and Start with one thing, Kitty.
Speaker: And the word that I'm getting most for you this morning, this afternoon, is unforgiveness. So start there.
Speaker: Don't try to do 10 things at once or you're driving something in it. But make a list- I thought I had forgiven people, you know? You can forgive people, but the soul, you have to like, you have to be an archeologist. You have to be willing to excavate.
Speaker: And I believe you say, Lord, who have I not forgiven? Who have I partially forgiven? And it might be that, it might be partially. um He'll start giving you names.
Speaker: Or maybe someone will just pop into your head while you're making a cup of tea and you're like, oh, you tense up and your arteries tighten and you clench your fists. And you're oh, okay, God, there's more work to be done.
Speaker: The word I'm getting for you this morning really is unforgiveness. What do I do? Just bless them?
Speaker: You can pray blessings over them, but... Have a conversation with God. Be honest, say, God, they did this and you know what? That sucked.
Speaker: I did this for them, they said that to me. God, that cut deeply. Be honest with him. Forgiveness isn't, God, I forgive Mary, I forgive Joseph, I forgive Henry, i forgive Alex.
Speaker: He's God. He already knows everything. Be honest with him. Tell him exactly what they did. tell them Tell God how it hurt you. Tell God how it affected you. And say, Lord, how the helmet infected you.
Speaker: And say, God, I actually make a decision now. to release them from any expectation, to release them from any desire that they be hurt, to release them from any desire for punishment, to release them from any desire that they burn in hell, to release them from any desire that they would know what it feels like.
Speaker: Whatever it is. um It'll differ from from person to person. But I feel that God's really saying to you this morning, unforgiveness is a big thing he wants you to work on.
Speaker: And it might be Christians who said something that made you feel small or disappointed you or it made something sound easy when it's turned out to be difficult.
Speaker: But, you know, you go on that journey with Jesus. But we'll move on, though. But if want to talk about it during the week, we'll see what else God has to say. yeah But for now, I believe unforgiveness is the big thing because I'm passing feed.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, thanks very much, Ren. You're welcome. All right, guys, this was actually the first question that was sent to me four or five weeks ago, which kind of kick-started what today was going to be.
Speaker: And the question was for the spiritual cause. behind earthquakes, freak storms and natural disasters, tsunamis, massive storms, hurricanes, tornadoes.
Speaker: When these things happen, what's actually going on in the spirit realm? Well, things can happen naturally, but also there can indeed be supernatural causes behind them.
Speaker: For instance, one of the demons who's mentioned most often in the Old Testament is Baal.
Speaker: Baal is basically what Satan was called a mainly in the Old Testament, and then there are lots of other demons who call themselves Baal, they're not inventive, they just copy each other.
Speaker: And he was worshipped as the Lord of the Earth, as the writer, of the clouds as the god of storms, the god of grain.
Speaker: So when something would happen in an agricultural sense, when bad things would happen, let's say, in the sky, and when bad things would happen on the earth, this was one of the demons who was behind it, because demons come to steal, kill, and destroy. That is what they do.
Speaker: John 14, 30 is the Last Supper. Jesus tells his disciples, he starts off a dinner party and then becomes less of a party when Jesus gets all prophetic.
Speaker: But he says that his time is short and he says the prince of this world is coming. And he's talking about the devil. He's saying the devil has an assignment against me and you're about to see it happen with your own eyes.
Speaker: The prince of this world, world means a few different things in Greek. Again, in English translations of the Bible, they kind of go the most general word choice.
Speaker: If the Bible were written with the most accurate Hebrew and Greek translation, the Bible would be 4,000 or 5,000 pages long. But the world in Greek means Satan is the god of the earth.
Speaker: And when you look at all the evil that takes place, I think we can all see that. It means he's the God or the ruler of the cosmos. Some people say the universe.
Speaker: It means he's the ruler, the prince of darkness, of the ungodly multitude. Those who have chosen to disobey God and to hate God are under the thumb of the devil.
Speaker: And it also means he's the god of worldly affairs. Look at how people try to get advantage over each other. Position over each other. Power over each other. Persuasion. The wealth of the world.
Speaker: It's no coincidence that these people are basically, you know, the pedophile class in the Western world. Or terrorists in the Middle East. Yada, yada, yada. We could go on.
Speaker: Satan, because people choose to be ungodly, because people choose to be wicked, he is over them. They've chosen to live in bondage to him by choosing to do his will, and therefore he is the god of the world, and therefore he has a great sway and influence in what happens. That includes natural disasters and wars.
Speaker: In Ephesians 2.2,
Speaker: Satan is also called the prince of the air. The air, the atmosphere, the sky. And, you know, when people say, oh my goodness, I saw an alien, I saw a Where did they see it?
Speaker: The air, the sky. and There are demonic kingdoms in the air as well. Think of the temptation of Jesus. The devil takes him up on a mountain and says, if you worship me, I'll give you all these kingdoms.
Speaker: He's offering him demonic kingdoms because Satan owns the kingdoms and empires of the world, the natural and the spiritual.
Speaker: And in Mark 4.35 to Mark 5.20, there's a story when Jesus and his disciples are on a boat in the Sea of Galilee.
Speaker: And next thing, a storm appears out nowhere. i mean, these are other fishermen. They can read the weather. They know when it's safe to be out in a boat when it isn't safe. So was safe enough for them to set sail.
Speaker: And next thing, out of nowhere, this massive storm appears and actually is submerging the boat. The boat is close to going underwater, to being swamped.
Speaker: The 13 of them, Jesus and the 12 apostles, are literally about to drown. The threat is real. And Jesus is fast asleep because he's like, I'm not gonna die at the cross. for ob livia We'll be fine.
Speaker: The apostles have a conniption. Jesus, don't you care? So he gets up, he says, peace, be still. And the flood water stop when the water water stops. The rain stops, the wind stops, the storm stops.
Speaker: They get to the other side of the lake and two men, who are naked and living together, fill in the dots, they're living graveyard, they run up to Jesus and there's a demon inside them, well, a lot of demons, and the demons say, are a legion, for we are many.
Speaker: A legion is literally a word that in Jesus' day meant 6,000 soldiers. So you've got 6,000 demonic soldiers in each man, potentially 12,000 demons, and the storm came out of nowhere?
Speaker: Yeah? The demonic storm were probably the 12,000 demons in those men. And they tried to kill Jesus when that didn't work. They came up to him when he got off the boat.
Speaker: So when bad things happen in the natural realm, yes, there is normally a supernatural meaning behind it.
Speaker: Another question is asked, which really great one. And this is what's up with child sickness and premature death? Why are so many children suffering when they're innocent? um my goodness, I had my work connect for me with some of these questions.
Speaker: I'm going to read Psalm chapter eight to you. It's got nine verses and then I'm going spotlight just a couple of them.
Speaker: Actually, you read it, please. That makes me great. Cheers.
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Speaker: Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. You have sent your glory above the heavens from the lips of children and en infants.
Speaker: You have ordained praise because of your enemies to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, I work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place.
Speaker: What is man that you are, mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
Speaker: You have made him ruler over works of your hands. You put everything under his feet. All flocks and herds and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the path of the sea.
Speaker: O Lord, our Lord, my majestic is your name in all the earth. Amen. Well done. So humans are made a little bit lower than supernatural beings.
Speaker: And yet the Lord has supernaturally put a crown of glory on humans' heads and entrusted humans with absolutely everything in the physical realm.
Speaker: And when you compare human beings to God, why would he choose us? Why would he do such a thing? How could he love us so much? David wrote this psalm and he just can't figure it out. His mind is blown.
Speaker: But look at verse two here about the children. From the mouth of infants and sucklings, you have established strength or ordained praise, same thing, on account of your adversaries to still the enemy and the avenger.
Speaker: To establish strength and praise. I looked this up in Hebrew yesterday. It means the Lord reclines against children.
Speaker: Even babies, as though with a pillow. So it's like, you know, when you're in bed at night, you know, close up to your pillow. That is how cozy the Lord is with children.
Speaker: It means he consults children. God actually has conversations with kids. Think of babies, for instance, you know, like when they're kind of looking all around the room and sometimes they fixate in a corner of the room and you're like, what are they looking at?
Speaker: I'm going to assume they're seeing something of the spiritual. It means he appoints children, even when they're babies. He speaks over them. You're here for a reason. You're here for a mission.
Speaker: And he lays a foundation, even in kids. Why? to still the enemy and the Avenger, the enemy who comes to steal, kill and destroy.
Speaker: That means God has a mission for kids to silence demons, to put down demons, to make demons fail, to make the enemy cease and desist, to exterminate and destroy demons, and to put an end to demons.
Speaker: And you wonder why abortion rates are so high. You wonder why so many kids are being trafficked. You wonder why primary schools are flooded with pornography.
Speaker: I remember when I was in primary school, we may not have had all that stuff, but I remember, forgot what year or class I was in but massive big posters were hung up on the walls of the Sellafield Power Station.
Speaker: And I was, I did not grow up afraid of things beyond in the world per se, but I remember they hung these up in the classrooms and in the corridors.
Speaker: And it just showed that this power station, i don't even know where Southfield is, was going explode and it was going to make Ireland a nuclear holocaust and all the children would be dead and that all these pictures of what the world would look like when we were charged to bone and dust, that freaked me out. That absolutely terrified and traumatized me.
Speaker: That... may it be the first memory I have the child of feeling genuinely disturbed. And this was up like in ah in a primary school.
Speaker: I was under the age of 12.
Speaker: Why does the enemy hate children so much? Because even a baby, the Lord snuggles up nice and close to them and speaks over them that they have a mission to destroy the operations of evil.
Speaker: That is why children suffer so much. Because the devil sees what is in those children, fears it, and tries to stop it, and sometimes do it with sickness or disease.
Speaker: Sometimes he will do it through their parents. Sometimes he'll do it through society. But he has a vendetta to eliminate those kids, because those kids have a destiny to exterminate him.
Speaker: Alright, then there are some society questions.
Speaker: um That's an interesting one. Does religion merely fill gaps of scientific knowledge? So basically, if we don't know something, do we just try to say, oh, God, religion, ah the Bible, just to explain things we haven't figured out yet?
Speaker: I'll be honest. I've had this one for a little while. And then I said, no. Because God speaks to people in lots of different ways. One of those ways is dreams.
Speaker: Here are some scientific discoveries we only have. Because God spoke to the human in a dream. And these are well documented. Yeah.
Speaker: The chemical structures of neurotransmission came to Otto Lowey, might be butchering the pronunciation his name, in a dream. If I didn't have ever seen a sewing machine before, that came to Elias ho in a God-given dream.
Speaker: um There was a former slave, and Her name was not CJ, but she kind of changed her name after she got married. She was called Madam CJ Walker.
Speaker: And she was having problems making her hair grow. Her hair was falling out and nothing she put her hair worked. So she prayed. God gave her a dream and she created a hair grower.
Speaker: There was an artist, Jasper Johns, who could never... He won he was one of the... What they call themselves? like Expressionism, think that was the movement.
Speaker: He could never really figure out how to make the paint work the way he wanted it to. And God gave him a dream, and next thing he got it to where to work and to stick onto the canvas.
Speaker: Benzene rings were revealed to August Kekuli in a dream. I don't really thank God for the next one because of science we had to learn this, and my goodness, it was head wrecking.
Speaker: But the periodic table of the elements was revealed to a Russian Dmitry Mendeleev in a dream.
Speaker: Niels Bohr learned what the atomic structure was in a dream. And if any of you have ever used smart cards in your life, you can thank Roland Moreno, who also figured out how to do it in a dream.
Speaker: So do we just use religion as an excuse to explain things we haven't figured out? No. Most scientific knowledge, especially in the age of enlightenment, when Christians are really trying to figure out how the world works, they wanted to do it for the glory of God. They figured that an orderly God would create an orderly reality.
Speaker: And the revelation came and comes from him.
Speaker: Then another society question, did Christianity abolish slavery and advance women's rights? The answer is yes.
Speaker: um Genesis 1.27 is when God says, well, Jesus is the one speaking. He is the word of God. When Jesus says, let's make man and woman in our image. Let's make male and female. Let's make Adam and Eve.
Speaker: And humans have intrinsic value because they came from the Lord himself. That's why every human has inherent dignity. and Jesus taught people to love their neighbor as themselves.
Speaker: Matthew 22, 37. thirty seven In Galatians 3, 28, the Apostle Paul said that in Jesus Christ, there's neither male nor female, Jew nor a Gentile, slave nor free.
Speaker: All people are one in God. In Philemon, which is the last book in the Bible, order that Paul wrote, and a slave ran away from his master and And Paul told the slave to go back, but to go back as an equal, to go back as a brother, not as a slave.
Speaker: and And then in the 18, well, 17 and 1800s, even though the British Empire was wicked and evil and advanced slavery,
Speaker: and The Lord used British men and American men who were all Bible believers to actually fight against what the Empire was doing.
Speaker: um William Wilberforce, probably the most famous name, and then even a former slave trader named John Newton, um the one who wrote the song Amazing Grace.
Speaker: He became a huge... cog in the wheel and to turn things around as well.
Speaker: And then for women, again, Genesis 1, 27, Eve um eve came from gods And you see in Jesus life, there were women who would travel around with him as his disciples.
Speaker: There were women who financed his ministry. There were women who would sit at his feet. He being the rabbi, them being the disciples, and he would teach them.
Speaker: And it was women who were the first to arrive at the empty tomb on Easter Sunday. A lot of people say that, you know, the Bible hates women. If the Bible hated women, men would have been the first ones to arrive and been the heroes of the story.
Speaker: But it women who got up the Krakadon, made their way there, and actually and had the revelation of the resurrection. It was the men who said they were lying. The men said they were crazy.
Speaker: And then Jesus appeared to the men himself and gave out to them. And also in so many cultures around the world where women were not receiving education or where baby girls were being left up on mountainsides to die, it was Christians who set up um the necessary procedures, orphanages, and policies to liberate them.
Speaker: Then there question about Hitler and Stalin. Did they represent social Darwinism? So the idea of survival of the fittest. a Yeah, and and in different ways.
Speaker: For Hitler, it was biological, racial, and genetic. Some people were better than others. For Joseph Stalin, who was actually more evil than Hitler.
Speaker: um Sometimes I hear people talk about Hitler so much and they never mention his contemporary Stalin. I distrust those people. and Stalin killed about 10 million of his own people and then about 10 million foreigners.
Speaker: um He just happened to switch sides at the right time World War II that ah people criticized him less. He was more evil. um For him, it was a class structure.
Speaker: It's that some classes and were more expendable than others. So, yeah. As is today. 100%. Because the thing with Stalin is he was a Marxist and a Leninist. He read the Communist Manifesto and filed everything through class.
Speaker: What happens today, and especially in the Western world, is you have a hodgepodge of a mixture where for some it's a class struggle, for some it's it's a gender struggle between the men and the women.
Speaker: For others it's, well you're pale and stale because you're white, you need elevate these ones. Or we need to pander to this group to turn them against this group. That's how you up BLM setting America on fire in 2020.
Speaker: But it all comes from the Communist Manifesto. They just express it differently, they just tweak it and manage it differently for depending which country they're trying to obliterate.
Speaker: So, um yeah, they're not exactly the same thing, but you can see echoes across all of them.
Speaker: This was an interesting question. Is it good to live in a theocracy? Is it good to live in a country under one religion?
Speaker: Humanly, my answer is no. um Look at what Ireland was like under the thumb of the Catholic Church in the 1800s. You up with the Magdalene laundries.
Speaker: Look at India, where you have Hindu extremists running the shop, and the media and politicians literally reward you if you murder Christians.
Speaker: And they hate Muslims as well. In an Islamic state... No one of other faiths is having much fun there either. But the Bible does talk about a theocracy in the far future when Jesus runs the world and finally we have world peace.
Speaker: So if people are walking in step with the Lord, of course, it's a lot easier, lot more fruit, lot more blessed. But if people try to create a one religion state in it themselves, no.
Speaker: That's you very, very easily end up with discrimination and tyranny.
Speaker: Is it possible for an atheist to be a peace loving, socially responsible person? I thought those adjectives were very interesting. Obviously the answer is yes.
Speaker: But the
Speaker: the warning is you can be a a socially responsible person, but not be morally good. And Mark 10, 18, a rich young ruler came to Jesus and said, oh, Jesus, I have followed all the commandments.
Speaker: Well, you know, he didn't murder or commit adultery, but You know, he he kind of did the easy ones. um And he says to Jesus, you're so good. how can I everlasting life? And blah, blah, blah, blah. blah And Jesus challenged his concept of goodness.
Speaker: Jesus asked, why do you call me good? No one's good except God. Now Jesus is God, but he was testing, does does this guy know what he means? Does he actually know the words he's saying?
Speaker: And that's what Jesus does a lot. If you read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Jesus answers very few questions directly. Normally, he wants to get to the heart the matter or expose the reason you asked.
Speaker: And this guy thought he was a good person because he had never committed fraud or murder or adultery or stolen something. You're not good because of what you didn't do.
Speaker: Only God is absolutely good. He puts his goodness in you when you're saved, when you're his child. But socially responsible does not make you good.
Speaker: Peace-loving does not make you good. While I've never committed that crime doesn't make you good. While my neighbor gets her bins collected even though she hasn't paid for it, that doesn't make you good by extension.
Speaker: Your goodness comes exclusively from God. Right.
Speaker: Are you skeptical about climate change? Good
Speaker: good question. In the 1960s, it was 1969, Science and Mechanics magazine said that a new ice age is imminent. was the front cover.
Speaker: one And then Time magazine, which for some reason people still think is reputable and I don't know why, um Told people to get ready for the big freeze.
Speaker: This was in the 1960s and 70s and thereof. Sorry. Didn't happen.
Speaker: Then they told you in 1977 how to survive the coming ice age. Still hasn't happened. In heaven six, be worried. Be very worried. And because of, now look at this, global warming.
Speaker: So we shifted from The Ice Age. The Ice Age is coming to things are getting hotter. And it's the same magazine.
Speaker: And in both of them, it's the same alarmism. The whole desire is that you freak out, you lose your mind, you put your trust in what your telly tells you, you believe your government, and you pay them more money in taxes.
Speaker: Yes, it's a bit like that booklet that went around last week. I had actually intended to just speak with that booklet. I might do it next week. Yeah. Alarmism. Yeah. Scare-mongering. 100%. Yeah, most of you probably got this. You know, what to do in an emergency. You know, you need to have this. need have that. need have this. You need to have that. What the government did with that booklet, and I probably will talk about next week, is one of two things.
Speaker: One, they want to make you worried sick, and I am emphasizing the word sick, and two, they are putting an imprint into the earth.
Speaker: What did that mean?
Speaker: Have you ever watched a TV show and one of the characters said something, you know, we need a virus to eliminate the people and decimate the human population? And then in 2020, there's a virus that eliminated the population. or they say, oh you know, you need to aim.
Speaker: Oh, you know, well, this might happen. There's gonna be a war between these two countries. And next thing, there's a war between those two countries. Or they say, oh, the stock market, it's never gonna exceed this figure.
Speaker: And then in real life, it never exceeds that figure. They put an imprint in time. It's like it's a counterfeit prophecy, a dark prophecy. And if you agree with us as a society, you get yoked to it.
Speaker: And the next thing they execute their plan and instead of resisting it, you go good was can you told us Well, that just makes sense.
Speaker: Well, that was an inevitable. And instead of resisting the devil. you accept it. Yes, they're embracing it. They're all talking about it and getting, saying I have candles. Like, what have you got? When we were walking yesterday, they were talking about it. I don't have that, but I have candles. And what I would say there is, whenever the government tells you to to buy you something,
Speaker: it would be worth investigating what the government over the last several months, or previous months, have invested into. Because what will often happen is they will be investing into something and then they will tell you that it's important.
Speaker: And then all of a sudden you start buying it and their personal profits will go up. and Because what they're doing is they've done that property. They've all bought property. Now they're telling you you don't need to own the property. yeah do You need to rent is the way to go. You're renting from them. Or even think about how not very many years ago, if you used paper, you were evil, you were backwards, you were destroying the environment, you were ruining the planet, you were... Countries, I don't know where they are on the map, were going to be underwater because you were reading books and yadda yada, yada, yada.
Speaker: And the best way you could save the planet was by making everything digital using technology. So people by and large said, you know what? I'm not even going to read my Bible. I'm just going to use my phone. If you're in your phone with your Bible, I'm not judging you. But this is what people said.
Speaker: So people began to use technology for everything. But now, oh boy you like because you're using your phone and your laptop for everything, and now you need to go back to paper.
Speaker: How did that become a thing? Well, presumably they had already made their investments in technology before they told you you need to use technology. And to make you use technology, they inflated the price of paper. price of paper went way up. You can't even afford books.
Speaker: That's why people began to, instead of buying a 20 euro book, they bought a 600 euro laptop. But it will flip flop with the turn of a dime, however they want it. Follow the money.
Speaker: Money speaks. Mm hmm. And what I would also say to that is, is climate change real? Well, climates have always changed.
Speaker: That's okay. But when it comes to the global freezing, global warming, global boiling, and the whole thing's a scam. They want your money. And what I'll also say is, consider CERN.
Speaker: I spoke about these guys before.
Speaker: These are the ones who went to the Temple of Apollo in Switzerland and they built the Hadron Collider. They built a portal machine.
Speaker: They say they're looking for the god particle. They're looking for the voice that starts reality. What they're actually doing is they're trying to open Tartarus, the abyss, the bottomless pit.
Speaker: The demons who got women pregnant in Noah's day are in Tartarus. Revelation 9 tells us during the apocalypse those demons will get out. They're trying to open that dimension in these days.
Speaker: However, this summer, they said, you know what? Let's take a wee break. and I've been praying against these guys for years. I was like, God, you shut that thing down.
Speaker: And finally, my prayer was answered. They buckled. And they said, okay, you know what? We're going to take a break. We'll start back in 2030 when you will have nothing and be happy, according to the communists of the World Economic Forum.
Speaker: How many of us actually saw the sun this summer?
Speaker: I mean, we actually had sunshine. We had heat. For the first time in how many years summer was actually summer? The year...
Speaker: They shut down that Hadron Collider.
Speaker: There is no way they're firing that much, whatever it is, into the atmosphere, into the air, and it's not having an effect. So even, let's say, do climates change?
Speaker: Well, we didn't have a summer for a number of years, but actually I would say in part, it would have been due to that collider. They're trying to open this portal machine literally to a demonic realm, and I believe that sin changes the weather.
Speaker: I believe sin can change the atmosphere. And when these things get suppressed or they get shut down, they get pushed back, and you will actually see return to regularity, a return to what God always always wanted to be normal.
Speaker: Okay, this was a good one. Should children be told that God exists or that God doesn't exist? And the Bible has quite a lot to say about this, but I'll just give four examples.
Speaker: Proverbs 22, 6 says, Train up a child in the way he should go. Even when he's old, he will not depart from it. So God is saying, yes, speak to your children.
Speaker: Give them good instruction, good life lessons.
Speaker: Proverbs 1, 8 9. My child, listen when your father corrects you. Don't neglect your mother's instruction. What you learn from them will crown you with grace and be a chain of honor around your neck.
Speaker: I'll this for Christian families who are doing the right things. And they will set you up to win. and God wants you to prosper.
Speaker: there's Deuteronomy 6, 6 to 7. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children.
Speaker: Talk about them when you're at home and when you walk along the road. When you lie down and when you get up, God wants you to talk about him all day long.
Speaker: And then there's Psalm 78.4. We will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord, of his power and of his mighty wonders.
Speaker: Tell your family what God has done in your life. So should you tell children of Yeah. But obviously be wise with the degree of exposure.
Speaker: When I was teaching beginners English, I was not teaching them how to construct a sentence in third conditional.
Speaker: If I had not missed the bus, I would have arrived at work on time. Of course not. I was like, book.
Speaker: Remote control. Remote control? No. Remote control. No, control. hu re Remote control. Remote control.
Speaker: That was the lesson. You grade the exposure for the demographic. And obviously, there's a difference between what you can tell your own family as opposed to what tell other kids.
Speaker: and I've done kids' church long enough to know that they don't need to know everything in the Bible. You grade it appropriately. But yes, God does want you to two share your faith with the kids who have been entrusted to you.
Speaker: All right, the next section and the last section is on what happens after we die. are there any questions so far on anything that I've shared before we do the final section?
Speaker: or that all been clear so far. Okay, great. um So I just i have a question. ye ah So you said something about you know the age of enlightenment, right?
Speaker: right Because maybe i it was wrong information, but whenever I was learning about it, usually it would come up in like atheist circles as like the age of enlightenment was the time when people were actually distancing themselves from God and church because they didn't need And then they were going into the occult and that's where the names like Illuminati and Witchcraft came in. So was the Age of Enlightenment called that because atheists were trying to say, oh, we're enlightened without God? Or was that because God was more involved in like invention? Does that make sense? Super question, Naomi. Thank you. two through doesn't see that
Speaker: hey Two things can be true at once. And no matter what God is doing, you can expect the enemy to offer a counterfeit or to try to hijack it.
Speaker: So let's say the age of reason, so many of those, what you would now call scientists or actually godly men and women who looked at the Bible and said, okay, God's a God of order.
Speaker: God's a God of structure. God is very precise. He does not mince words. He says what he means. And There are so many days in a week. There are so many hours in a day.
Speaker: You got this, you got that, you got this, got that. Presumably, reality has order. Presumably, the natural realm has a certain structure about it.
Speaker: And they went out of their way to study botany plants, the natural realm, to prove that God was real.
Speaker: that not everything was just random, but that God had put certain things in place, structurally, specifically, intentionally, cleverly, and they conducted their experiments and got their findings to evidence that he is a creator and a an orderly creator.
Speaker: Then you have the flip side, when you have the enemy whispering people's ears, saying, okay, I can't have people knowing this. I can't have people doing that. I can't have people saying this about God.
Speaker: So we need to start using our imagination, let's say. So this can't be, you know, a few thousand years old. It has to be millions. um This, okay, that's a kind of creature. That's different kind of creature.
Speaker: Let's pretend that this kind of creature became this one. I remember being in Leven's Surf Biology. They showed us a video where a dog came to the side of a lake, wanted to swim, and then magically millions of years path and it turned a blue whale.
Speaker: And I just looked at the teacher and thought, are you actually joshing me? I came here to learn you're being paid by the government. And you expect me to believe a dog magically became a blue whale so it could catch some extra fish.
Speaker: Are you having a laugh? This kind of thing. But yet that's in the Leaving Cert curriculum. So let's say evolutionist science and old age science, it was kind of running concurrently to hijack what God was doing.
Speaker: ah and the revelation that was being poured out and the exposure that was coming out. At some point that I'll do a lesson on it actually I'll go through the specific names and the specific findings and everything else.
Speaker: Today I'm just going to focus on the ones that came through dreams. yeah But there will be some even that you read about in your junior third history books The History Book would never have told you that they were Christians, or that they got these findings to prove the Bible was real. Because obviously different historians have a certain agenda, and it's not a leaving certain curriculum. The government know what they want you to take away from it and what they do not want you to take away from it. ah But and yeah, i I'll a teaching at some point, I'll pull out those names, those discoveries.
Speaker: But yeah, you had a godly movement. in Yeah. But then the enemy came to to hide out. And the um the attempt hasn't stopped, basically.
Speaker: Because that makes a lot of sense because I feel like obviously Satan is trying to demean God in every industry, but particularly in academia and in the scholar ways, you know, yeah they just kind of make it seem like, like that for example, that question about do we kind of use God as a cope and to add gaps to what science can explain, they almost make a way to seem that believing in God in general is dumb, whereas we believe that to not believe in God is foolish. And I think academia, that place is where there's so many intelligent people who are, i don't want to say damned, but simply because of their intelligence. And they think that their intelligence is just not, doesn't need God, but it's from there. And it's hard to speak to them. They're kind of like, because I find that really frustrating, especially in TikTok recently, having to kind of go off it. There's every, every time on my F4U page, it's just like,
Speaker: deconstructing and I understand like some people they leave their faith forever but there's this idea that you know there's another God and then like for example like Gnosticism and these different names regarding what is the God of the Bible is really Satan and then they make it sound so intelligent I'm like where are they getting this from you know and it's hard to kind of combat that when they use all this big language you know.
Speaker: It is it's like when you look at a painting our painting
Speaker: And you're looking at it with abject disdain. You're thinking, my two-year-old next-door neighbor has, because I've been in his kitchen, I've looked at his fridge, has produced something more attractive than this monstrosity.
Speaker: And the next person comes up beside you, And they've got this weird new collar thing going on around their neck. A black shirt that's skin tight. They're wearing an overly priced jacket.
Speaker: No thread. They're stained on their trousers. Their shoes are squeaky clean. Their chin is resting on their knuckles. And they say,
Speaker: I really get a sense on the artist's childhood trauma. The reds represent the issues he had with his father, how his heart was just bleeding all over the place. The purple represents the bruises his mother sustained in a violent... And you can look at them thinking that's a lot of crap.
Speaker: Exactly. The whole thing is built on creating an illusion. Mm-hmm. That you're the crazy one because you do not see what is so obvious to these people.
Speaker: Yeah. right That's it. You start going, oh, right, yeah, yeah. I always think that. Anger, I suppose. always think that just feel like I'm missing something that they're not like. And I'm thinking, is it because God is shielding me or is that there's nothing to shield because there's nothing there? know, I'm thinking. And that painting costs 53 million euros. Yeah, exactly. I'm thinking, what? What?
Speaker: I don't know. The whole thing is designed to make you come into agreement with a lie while they sell you crap. And it's the very same 100%. one hundred yeah right yeah And the whole thing I'm not going to say it strictly speaking dates back to the 1800s, early 1900s. But that is when it took off on another level.
Speaker: Because what happens in the artistic realm, the scientific realm, the spiritual realm, occult realm, the political realm, they're all interconnected. And let's say if we go with the 1800s, 1900s, if I say who is the father of modern psychology, would any of you have an answer for me?
Speaker: Initials, F, F? Freud, Freud. Freud, yeah, was going to say. Sigmund Freud. Or Jung, how Jung is it? Jung was connected to him. I won't go into it in too much detail today. Sorry, I just i just studied him, so I know a bit about him. Yeah, exactly. You got the exclamation point straight away, the light bulb straight away.
Speaker: Sigmund Freud literally became famous in Vienna because he was a pedophile protector.
Speaker: Children were being raped up and down the streets of Austria His wealthy clients were coming to him and he gaslit the children in thinking this is all their vain imagination.
Speaker: And he wrote book after book after book after book to protect the pedophile class and he called it psychology. And somehow he found a way to blame mothers for almost everything wrong in children's lives.
Speaker: Yeah, I heard that. His work, you mentioned academia. m I don't know how many colleges and universities there are in Europe that would not teach abroad.
Speaker: I imagine they're in the minority. His work is mainstream. And he was the father of moderns. like thought He was a pedophile protector. It is.
Speaker: Brandon, like, isn't it so... Sorry, man. Isn't it true to say when you're just on this subject? Sorry to stop your butt. Sure, sure. isn't this so isn't this so true to say when you're just on this subject sorry stop your books yeah You're either, you know, your work is either based from God or it's based on... There is no in-between, man. Yeah. There isn't. There's no... I'm learning that. There's no in-between.
Speaker: There's no in-between. It's either from him or from God. And that's just it, you know? Yes. And because, like I said earlier... John 14, 30, Satan is the prince of this world and the world includes the affairs of the world, the systems of the world and the wealth of the world. And the ones who, no, I believe things will change. yeah I believe God is doing something where he's taken the wealth from the wicked for the righteous. I believe that's happening.
Speaker: amen But on the whole, the wealth of the world is in the pockets of terrorists. fear mongers, war mongers, communists and pedophiles.
Speaker: And that includes pedophile protectors. And we are living in days, I think, of increased exposure when we're seeing just how deep the rot is and just how high the rot goes.
Speaker: And it's important. And people are frustrated, they're putting hair their heads i'm like, Jesus, send the rapture already. um But you actually have to see how bad it is before the world really and truly will just cry out for Jesus to be their savior, their deliverer, their restorer, and their Lord.
Speaker: But how you can be a pedophile protector in Vienna of all the cities in the world and suddenly your name is in the ears and lips of almost every arts student, I mean arts in the general word, in the Western world decades and decades and decades and decades and decades and decades later.
Speaker: How did that happen? Who are the people, the invisible hands behind the scenes pulling off the strings who would push a pedophile protector to the forefront of psychology, of modernity, of postmodernism, but he's he's still there, he's still hanging around.
Speaker: and make him a household name.
Speaker: The systems of the world are rigged in favor of wickedness, and yet we're supposed to look at this guy like he's a good man. a He invented the talk in Curetna. The Bible says if you have a problem with your brother, you talk to your brother.
Speaker: That was in the Bible five of years earlier. But he gets the credit. because he protected the right people who are actually the wrong people.
Speaker: So um that is something that's been on my mind for a long time and we will look it in detail again. need more Sundays the week.
Speaker: right we needed that we wanted david billbar did rather than than invented favorver we eat more sundays in the week but Then, sorry, you know, when you said that, um, i do something about like, was trying to think about what you said about, you know, we're talking about climate change and then people like the media, the media and the government trying to get you to kind of imprint like an idea on you. Then going back to the whole, like,
Speaker: Freud thing. i mean, even online, like I see people say, oh, that was a Freudian slip or that, and the third, and you're proving his point. And is that like in the academia, an example of the government imprinting? Yeah, imprinting the idea. So then anything that kind of sort of coincides with Sigmund is like, oh, he was right. When really was like a pattern, like a cycle of you continuing it. Is that like an imprint as well?
Speaker: i actually think that is a brilliant idea. Linkage. Yeah. just um Because it would be like, let's say for a Christian, you know, when I realized that we had left that cafe, i maybe you joined a bit late, Naomi.
Speaker: Basically, Martina, Mary and I were in a cafe, Page and Stone and Delique, on Friday. We got this really, really uncomfortable feeling, so we left. Normally we'd be together for hours, not that day. have Two hours, we were gone.
Speaker: if I got home, and next day, before I even got home, Martina sends me this video on Facebook. The building is on fire.
Speaker: It's in smoke. And I was like, ahhh. So God was basically like get the heck out of Dodge, scrammed. I don't know if an appliance went wrong. I don't know if it was started by demons, started by humans. I don't know. I haven't listened to it that much. I've been busy.
Speaker: But that was, I say, God, like I get out there. What did I say? I was like, thank God. Why? Because I fill my life with the word of God. The word of God a thing.
Speaker: But when the enemy, let's say, yeah, they want you to see Freud as some kind of demigod. Modernity. Yeah. Or post-modernity or post-post-modernity, whatever the academics are calling the days that we live in. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: to make it part of the vernacular, it does give him a certain level of it does reliability, a certain level of authority. And it's not that I ever considered, but yeah, I think it's a great link actually. Absolutely, yeah, and never thought about it. No, no. It's just because when you said, I was thinking that kind of made me think back to like, what are the things that I was kind of agreeing with because it sounds logical when really it's just continuing kind of workers or continuing some sort of power, you know, just didn't think about that. Like it was that serious about agreeing with people or whenever they talk about the government and they say, sure, well, the government's going to do it's going to do. But then you're kind of just imprinting and continuing on instead of saying, they're not supposed to do that.
Speaker: Yeah. Or what often hear people say is, ah wish the government would do this. I wish them would give us that. Why don't the government just do that? have to say, my friend.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. Can we stop using the word government and can we start calling what it is? Taxpayer money. Absolutely. Yeah. start Substitute the word government for taxpayer money and you will start speaking those comments a lot less.
Speaker: Because you're the taxpayer. Every time you buy something that's already been taxed. Every time you want to drive something bought and you have to pay a special tax and there's a priority tax on the thing you bought.
Speaker: um every time you work to support yourself financially and the government is stealing your money because it is a daylight robbery you want to live in house that they didn't want to live in there was a tax on the house and then you have to pay an extra tax every single year you drain that house and for everything you do with your property because it's now yours you're being punished because you have two sheds you're doing more tax substitute government for taxpayer money and I think people would shut up very quickly.
Speaker: are Amen. Yeah, that's a good tool actually. It's a great tool. Yeah. i Like owning your zone. Yeah. I think this world comes out of people's mouth.
Speaker: yeah And but do not even think about what saying. Why do don't? like It's all like brainwashing. It is. Yeah. Yeah. no yeah
Speaker: if They should be preaching that on like the pulpits. Yeah. They should be preaching that in, I know they always talk about, you know, power of life and death is in a tongue, but really preaching that in that perspective on like the pulpits, because that'll make a lot more sense to people.
Speaker: Because everyone's doing it. Yeah, well, you see, the reality is the Bible has two books called kings. You got first kings, you got second kings. And yet for some bizarre reason,
Speaker: I find that so many believers actually have intention whatsoever of politics or the government, especially on Sundays or like i a church setting.
Speaker: Because I'll be honest, I think if people are tithing to your church, giving offerings to your church, I think Even if someone's voting for the most evil, wicked people in your country, they want to keep the the money coming in. They want to keep the cash cow coming in. that's right And therefore, they don't want to upset the congregation, so they literally will not speak against evildoers.
Speaker: um I was in a church WhatsApp in the past, and...
Speaker: ands yeah tell can Yeah. Thank you. and nine And people kept on asking me, you know, they knew the elections were coming up in 2024.
Speaker: And they said, oh, Brandon, you know, who should I vote for? Who should not vote for? gaddy addda yada, yada. So I was thinking, okay, well, let's say this one would be a strategic choice. This one will share your Christian values.
Speaker: This one thinks every problem can be fixed with money, which is why we're in the problem, which is why we're in the state they're in. But socially, they've got good policies. They support terrorists. They support evil.
Speaker: They hate Irish neutrality. They say they like Irish neutrality, and yet they have an opinion on everything happening everywhere apart from here. So I was thinking, well, let me be a good Samaritan.
Speaker: So I posed on this group so I wouldn't be getting 30 messages from individuals. I said, right, lads, these your most strategic choices. didn't tell them, you know, what to do. I said, these are most strategic choices. thing The thing was taken down, I get this private message from the group admin saying, you know, you can't talk about politics and yada, yada, yada.
Speaker: And I just said,
Speaker: two books in the Bible called First Kings and Second Kings, God is interested in politics. And with that, I left that group and I just said, you know what? You obviously don't actually have a care or a concern about what God is concerned about.
Speaker: So let's just sever our relationship now. Because the Bible says that when a righteous ruler is in power, the people are happy. And God wants you to be happy. He wants you to prosper.
Speaker: When wicked rulers in power, one to fill your children's library, your library's children's section with books on pornography and transgenderism.
Speaker: When people are in power who absolutely despise their native population. When people are in power who put judges in courtrooms And it doesn't matter if a woman gets her face slashed with a knife while she's waiting to hop on the Lewis tramway in Dublin, the attacker is going to get off scot-free.
Speaker: When your justice department are putting judges in a courtroom who will let rapists off scot-free just because they don't sufficiently speak the English language,
Speaker: well enough, whatever that means. When people are being fleeced to high heaven with taxes and it's going towards other countries and not your own. When you have motorways that are owned by Spain of all the countries on earth and you're paying a foreign government so you can get to your day job.
Speaker: When all this happening, the people are on unhappy. the And the Bible says God wants to be happy under a rightful rule or under rightful leadership. So these are all things that God is very, very concerned with.
Speaker: And you do your flock, your congregation, church family, a disservice by just taking Tippex and blotting out hundreds and thousands of lives of the Bible.
Speaker: So yeah, that's why I don't shy away from it. Because important to God, it has to be important to us. Amen. Yeah, thank you. Amen. Just one thing, Brendan, there about what you're talking about, Freud.
Speaker: yeah like The greatest teacher who ever lived that was an expert on the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious mind was Jesus Christ.
Speaker: that's right yes he lived amongst us and everything you need is in that book and the only thing that is familiar to me with uh psychology pride was his famous thing was psychoanalyst he was like similar enough the only thing that is familiar with that um it's it's just a healing process, do you know?
Speaker: But like, you know, the proper healing process is through Jesus, you know? And like, so... narrative Well, are you ready? Where did your toilet go last night?
Speaker: Yeah, so... But it's all about creating artificial... substitutes. Yeah, absolutely. yeah And you can see, yeah like I mean, as said, I keep going back, is but even over me over the last nine months, you know, if you want to put it at a percentage level, like it's probably as 90-something percent of the world is just under the eyes of the enemy. Would you agree with that, Brendan?
Speaker: I believe a great shift is going to But yes, the vast majority of humiliation, I've always... chosen to be under the thumb of the devil yeah yeah like again the greatest teacher who ever lived was Jesus Christ and I wish and some so many more we'll see that and read the word and you know if they have to you know have to have to have to decipher the word themselves which is understandable yeah it's it's all in there you know amen that's right everything we need yeah amen
Speaker: Alright guys, we've come to the final section, a and this is on the afterlife. What happens after you're dead and in the future.
Speaker: So, first question for this one is is Purgatory real Nope, purgatory is not mentioned in the Bible at all.
Speaker: And what really happened actually was in the pre-Reformation days, there was a man named Johann Tetzel, who we call it nowadays and the sale of indulgences.
Speaker: He ran around in the box called the coffer, and he said, as soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from Purgatory Springs... So basically, na had already the lie had predated him, but he really made it infamous in history.
Speaker: The idea was if someone you knew knew Jesus and loved Jesus and died, they did not go to heaven. Instead, they went to a supernatural waiting room called Purgatory.
Speaker: And the only thing that would possibly liberate their soul was if you put money in his box, Why? Because they wanted to pay for St. Peter's Basilica.
Speaker: So the whole thing was a financial yeah and financial scam. Financial scams did not start with climate change. um They have been around for for as long as money has been a thing.
Speaker: Then there's question, what happens when we die? I'll start with the bad first, then I'll do the good.
Speaker: For the wicked. Romans 2.8 says, for those who are self-seeking and reject the truth and follow evil, there'll be wrath and anger.
Speaker: Again, this was originally written in Greek. Wrath means indignation, violent passion, fixed opposition, extended personal exposure. And anger in Greek means wrath, fierceness, indignation,
Speaker: Rage, angry tempers, actions emerging out of strong and evil food. Basically, people will be at the absolute whim and will of their enemies, their spiritual demonic enemies.
Speaker: Romans 2.9 says there'll be trouble. In Greek, that means tribulation, affliction, anguish, distress, persecution.
Speaker: External pressure, no way of escape. Internal pressure, they'll make someone feel confined and restricted. There'll be no option for it to end or to get out, to escape.
Speaker: Their heart will be burdened, they'll be in dire straits. So they'll experience distress, which means narrowness of room, so an inability to move.
Speaker: limitations, calamity, difficulties, the result of living at outside God's will, helpless, extremely afflicted, and they will be in hostile circumstances. That is how the Gorda God describes hell.
Speaker: And it says they'll suffer, they'll have to pay a penalty for what they've done, And the penalty of external destruction, of like eternal destruction, characterized by being separated from God.
Speaker: But for the righteous, not that any man is good and of himself, but God gives us his own goodness. 2 Corinthians 5.8 We are of good courage and confident hope.
Speaker: and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. So as soon as you die, you are going Right in the world of
Speaker: Now that's the question. um This was more recent, this this week. Are there different levels of torment in hell? the answer is a resounding yes Jesus said in Matthew 10, 14 to 15, whoever does not welcome you, there's 112 apostles here while Jesus is physically on the earth.
Speaker: They don't listen to your message. Walk away. Shake the dust off your feet in contempt. Break all ties with them. Because, you know, they only had three and a half years to save world. They were on a tight schedule.
Speaker: I assure you and most solemnly say to you, It will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that city since it rejected Messiah's messenger.
Speaker: So Jesus is saying to his contemporaries, to the disciples, to the apostles, tell people about me. If they receive what you have to say, wait. If they reject you, go away, tell somebody else.
Speaker: But the ones who rejected Jesus when he was physically on the earth and could be seen and listened to and touched, they will be punished more than those from Sodom and Gomorrah.
Speaker: The people of Sodom literally tried to rape angels in the Book of Genesis. Angels can take on human form temporarily. These humans tried to rape angels.
Speaker: Jesus said it was worse to deny him While he was there in 3D, had to try to rape an angel. And the punishment would be fitting for the crime.
Speaker: And in Luke 12, 47 to 48, Jesus shares a parable, but it's there's a real harsh warning to it. And he says, that servant who knew his master's will and yet did not get ready or act in accord with his will,
Speaker: will be beaten with many lashes off the whip. But the one who did not know and did things worthy of a beating will receive only a few lashes. Now we're talking about all of eternity here, so a few is comparative.
Speaker: From everyone to whom much been given, what will be required. And to whom they trusted much, of him they'll ask all the more. So I'll just focus on the punishment part of this.
Speaker: People who had incredible revelation of God and still chose to deny him, to hate him, they'll be punished more because they forsook him.
Speaker: Those who had no opportunity to know about him and chose live wickedly will be punished for what they've done, but not to the same degree as outright denying Jesus.
Speaker: And then I think this might be the second last question. Yeah, we have three more. God made hell to torment demons and wicked souls. That is correct. If God's in charge of hell, how do demons have the freedom to roam about it and torment humans there? Great question.
Speaker: Matthew 25, 41. Jesus does say that hell was prepared for the devil and his angels. The only creatures who should be in hell are demons. That was the aim. That was the goal.
Speaker: Hell is used by a lot of people to spiritually intimidate Christians and to coerce behavior. Don't do this or you're gonna go to hell. you do that, you're gonna go. That's wicked.
Speaker: It was made to punish supernatural evil beings. People chose to go there by rejecting Jesus. But Romans 6, 16 says, don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you're a slave, the one you obey, whether you're slaves to sin, which leads to death or to obedience, which leads to righteousness.
Speaker: If you choose to be in bondage to the enemy, you will be in bondage to the enemy. If you choose to be enslaved to the darkness, be enslaved the darkness. If you choose to let the enemy ride on your back like you are a mule, the enemy will ride on your back like you're a half-breed between a horse and donkey, you'll be a slave to whatever master you choose.
Speaker: And that can be God, who wants to free you, it can be to devils who want to steal, kill, and destroy you. That's why in Hell, Demons can do whatever they want to humans because the human decided it on the Earth.
Speaker: Brendan. so That was me who asked you that question. So just one more little and this question on that. So are they going to be able to roam freely? i don't even know why I'm asking this, but it's kind of in my head. Are they going to be able to roam freely on hell for eternity or just for the moment?
Speaker: Do you know? Yeah, we see hell has an expiry date. Okay. On the day of judgment, hell is emptied. And all everyone in hell will be judged in Jesus' courtroom.
Speaker: And then there's a different fiery realm which will last forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and that's called the Wicked Fire. Where basically they will all have their day in court and Jesus will actually tell them outright These the things you said. These are things you did. These are things you thought. These are things you collaborated in. These are the things you participated in. These are the things you allowed.
Speaker: These are the evil people that you intentionally empowered. These are the wicked things that you were part of. You financed abject wickedness here. That'll be the day of judgment for the wicked.
Speaker: And then they'll go into the leg of fire, but all the demons will be in there too. And there'll be no relief or release for any of them. So... they I would say it'll be I'm trying to think of a phrase, I forgot what it is. Open season, where on one hand, everyone there will be punished, but they'll also probably try to, like you know,
Speaker: harm one another if they see them. I mean, humans will gang up on the demons and vice versa. But in hell, know, humans are utterly powerless. could could Yeah, that makes sense. that As you said, they won't be able to do it forever. Thanks, much cook could a man. So let that motivate you all to talk about Jesus, who has many people at your Because if it's not Jesus' it's will, that anyone should go there. was only ever meant for demons.
Speaker: Yeah. Alright, think this the second last one. Is it possible for an atheist to go to heaven? Alright, I got four Bible verses, then I'll give you the answer.
Speaker: Romans 1, 19-20. For what can be known one about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived.
Speaker: Ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. This is God saying, he has made the world so perfectly, so amazingly, so ecstatically, so phenomenally.
Speaker: Every single person should be able to say there is a grand design. There is someone who made all this.
Speaker: That's how God sees it. No one has an excuse to assume this will happen for an illegal. Romans 3, 23. For everyone has sinned. We all fall short of God's glorious standards.
Speaker: Sin means you missed the mark. You an archery, or you're playing darts, and you don't get a ball of the That's it. So basically, everyone is on the same level.
Speaker: Second Peter 3, 9. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. God wants every single person to be in his family because he knows what the alternative is. I explained it five minutes ago. he does not want anyone to experience that alternative.
Speaker: And in John 14, 6, Jesus says, am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes the Father except through me.
Speaker: He is the door to heaven. The cross has two beams. One connects you to all people, that's the horizontal beam. and then you've got the the vertical beam, which connects earth to heaven, people to God, or really God to people, because Jesus came down to us.
Speaker: So, can anyone and everyone be saved? Yes, but only through Jesus. No one can be a good person in and of themselves.
Speaker: Now, what does that mean for children? Children are innocent. All children go straight to heaven. Jesus said, let little children come to me. But when you're old enough to have that age of accountability and to know what you're doing, all people need put a faith in Jesus.
Speaker: I'll add to this, if someone has such extreme worrying difficulty that they can't comprehend these things, of course Jesus will welcome them straight into his open arms. He's not going hold that against them.
Speaker: But he, anyone who can make that decision for themselves, needs to.
Speaker: And then the last question that was submitted, I'm not mistaken, Yep. Is will all people be bodily resurrected?
Speaker: Will all people come back to life at some point or another? A super question. The Bible gives a lot of prophecies. It's a very prophetic book.
Speaker: And it prophesies a few distinct resurrections. The first resurrection is prophesied and sam i'm revo in about in Psalm 1610.
Speaker: 1 Corinthians 15, 20 to 23, and Matthew 27, 51 to 53. I'm just giving the citations. By all means, between now and next week, read all these for yourself.
Speaker: And it's a prophecy that Jesus would come back from the dead. And when he came back from the dead, believers who were in Jerusalem came out of their tombs as well.
Speaker: That's the part of the Easter story no one ever talks about. We're all like, Jesus came back on Easter Sunday. Yeah, okay. He took other people with him. but but Those who were buried around in Jerusalem also left their tombs.
Speaker: That's the first big resurrection on the prophetic timeline.
Speaker: Then we have the second resurrection. This is the one that refers to all of us. This is the rapture. Those of us who are there at Radiant, um two Saturdays ago, a question was asked about this and I gave an answer to it.
Speaker: This is mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15-23, 1 Corinthians Thessalonians 4, 14-17, and 2 Thessalonians 1, 1-6. And this basically...
Speaker: first thesalonians four fourteen seventeen and second thessalonians one one to six and and this is basically as the body of Christ, God's kids, there will come a day before the apocalypse when Jesus will come into the sky, because we are citizens of heaven, we're a heavenly people.
Speaker: He will blow a horn or a trumpet, and the dead body of every Christian for the last 2,000 years will shoot up out of their graves, and their corpses will be in the sky.
Speaker: He will remake their bodsies perfectly. No back pain, no silver teeth like I have. and No wonky toenails, maybe like me, your baby toe, toenails bit funny. a No broken bones, no gray hair, no wrinkles.
Speaker: He'll make you perfectly. Then... Every Christian who's still alive when this happens will be caught up into heaven as well, and their bodies and their souls will be made perfect.
Speaker: Those who are alive will go into heaven, and they will live in heaven in a three-dimensional, physical, perfect body heaven. Those who are already in heaven, and they're dead, they're now living in a soul and they're They will then live in their remade physical body.
Speaker: This is spoken about many times in the Bible to the body Christ. Why? Why is this necessary? Because Jesus does not just want you to have a perfect spirit and perfect soul.
Speaker: He made the physical body. cares about your physical body. And he wants you to live in a perfect physical body. Again. Why? What's the difference between your resurrected body and this one?
Speaker: Well, when Jesus was resurrected and he goes talking to the disciples, he can teleport. He can walk through all He talks to disciples. thing he's gone. you don't know where he is.
Speaker: And he can fly. on the 50th day, he just flew into heaven and got hidden by cloud. That is what your resurrected body will do in heaven.
Speaker: You'll be able to fly. Every human ever has wanted to fly. Hello. You'll be to teleport around the world of heaven. And you'll be able to walk through walls and phase through them.
Speaker: It will be a supernatural superhuman body. You will be like superhero. That is a promise God's given to all of us.
Speaker: Then in Revelation 11, 9-12, we're told about a resurrection of two people, two witnesses, Enoch and Elijah.
Speaker: They're the only two humans who have never died. They've already been raptured. During the apocalypse, they will come back to the earth and they will fight against the Antichrist, one world government.
Speaker: They will die, but they'll be resurrected and they'll fly into heaven.
Speaker: Then the second last resurrection. When the apocalypse is over, Jesus will rule on the earth for 1,000 years. 19, 25-27. 73-26. Isaiah 25-8. Isaiah 26, 19-21. Ezekiel 37, 1-15. Daniel 12, 1-4.
Speaker: sam seventy three twenty six isaiah twenty five eight as zaah twenty six nineteen twenty one ezekio thirty seven one to fifteen daniel twelve once to floor Hosea, 13, 14. Matthew, 5, 8. Luke, 9, 24.
Speaker: John, 5, 19, 31. John, 6, 35 to 40. John, 6, 53 to 59. John, 11, 23 27. 1 John, all talk about this. All Old Testament saints.
Speaker: john eleven twenty three to twenty seven first john three two the three her revelation twenty four to five they all over this all the old testament saying And the saints, the Christians who died during the apocalypse will be brought back to live in Jesus' 1,000 year earthly reign.
Speaker: It will be paradise on earth. It will be the most perfect the world has ever been since Adam and Eve.
Speaker: After that 1,000 years, Satan, and I can't even believe this will happen, Satan is going to turn most human beings against Jesus again.
Speaker: There's one final battle. And then Jesus scraps up the physical realm. And every single human will suddenly be in heaven for the day of judgment.
Speaker: On that day, Jesus will also resurrect the damned. Those in hell. That's Daniel 12 to John 5, 28 to 20, 11 to 15.
Speaker: The righteous we will have our day in court and we will be even more blessed than we have been before. The damned will be told why they're damned. And then the Lord will create doorway to a dimension called like a fire.
Speaker: And he will say in life you are wicked. You are idolatrous. You are hateful. You are murderous. You did this. You did that. You heard that person.
Speaker: Continue on your way.
Speaker: And they will enter like a fire dimension. And that will be even worse than hell. Because hell has an expiry date. Like fire does not.
Speaker: And that concludes. Our second, Josh Regeneration. Q&A. Before we have communion, any thoughts, comments, observations?
Speaker: Well, I got a drink. Well, I'd just like to say, thanks everyone for sending in your questions. and Fantastic questions. They were deep. And some I wouldn't think of. You know, I think I learn all the time.
Speaker: you know We should be. Yeah. We should be. That's the beauty of it. Yeah. No, great. Very thought-provoking. Brilliant.
Speaker: And well done you. Thank you. That was so in. done. Well done. That was really, it was really it hit just such really good spiritual points, but also like just normal points, like everyday things we can do, and it was really encouraging. Very well done. Thank you so much.
Speaker: Thank you so much. When you're sitting with SF, do you know what came to my head? Twin fan.
Speaker: they we are going on next yeah exactly exactly they are yeah they're taking inspiration well the worst people there are yeah yeah brendan that was amazing man thanks for putting so much work into bringing that to us like i mean yeah i know that's fantastic they were questions were planned very good questions yeah There was a lot of work for you behind the scenes. I know that. So thank you, man. Can I just cheekily ask two very quick questions before we go? Okay.
Speaker: When Elijah and Enoch return, are they going to be known to people as to who they were before? Are they just going to be new people to the earth? Great question.
Speaker: I would say there is always a remnant. of believers on the earth. and So there will be people who become Christians after the rapture.
Speaker: So basically they will live... They'll be Christians, but they will live during the apocalypse because they they missed in the boat. and If you will. um Those ones will obviously know be picking up a Bible and saying what is actually going on in the world. And...
Speaker: There'll probably have to be, like, you know, subwaves and in order for people like to pick up the equivalent of a God channel, this, that, and the other. There'll be an attempt in which we're to burn as many Bibles were possible and to stop people from accepting word of God.
Speaker: But they'll find it, they'll read through it, oh, that's happening. What's happening? This happened yesterday. That's happening to me. And they'll go, oh my goodness. Two people are going to come out of heaven and they're going to breathe fire from their mouths and declare curses on the Antichrist. Oh, what's happening in that country over there?
Speaker: So there will be some we will know. but we're told that the vast majority of the world, when they die, because they die at the halfway point, the Antichrist killed them The apocalypse lasts seven years.
Speaker: The Antichrist will kill them after three and a half years, or the halfway point. We're told that the world celebrates and gives each other gifts.
Speaker: The vast majority of the world will absolutely despise Jesus so much that they will despise these two witnesses and they will treat it like it's Christmas.
Speaker: Here's 5,000 euros.
Speaker: Here's a car.
Speaker: Here's a pearl necklace. People are going to celebrate and delight. And I say celebrate, I'm talking celebrate with a capital C. there a day Their death, their demise.
Speaker: And then we're told three and a half days later, so we're kind of into the the second half of the apocalypse, and That's when Jesus resurrects them. So their bodies will just be lying on the ground or that people might desecrate their corpses.
Speaker: You know, it's not unheard of for people to chop off corpses, do witchcraft and horses, stick them up on pole, whatever happens to their corpses. And after three and a half days, Jesus will reanimate their corpses, send their soul and spirit back into them, they'll fly into the sky, and the whole... Well, I assume it'll be televised.
Speaker: and The whole world is going to see this resurrection take place in real time. yeah But the good news is, we will be in heaven for all this. It will not be our concern. a but say that does bring me to a nice segue, actually.
Speaker: At the end of October, which will be here before we know it, I will be starting the next Wednesday the Clapshot series on the end times, and every question you've ever had about the end of the world will be addressed. I made a good stab at the start the series already, making the PowerPoints, making the teachings,
Speaker: And we are going to go from cover to cover. From Genesis to Revelation on everything the Bible has to say about the end times.
Speaker: It will probably not be what any you expect it to be, but I will make it as deep and as accessible as possible. Because a lot Christians throw around the end times, the last days, the apocalypse very casually, and they can't explain it.
Speaker: I've seen Christians throw those words around to coerce behavior from other Christians. If you don't do this, you won't be raptured. If don't do this, you'll go to hell. don't do this, you live under the Antichrist. Tony Blair is the Antichrist. I've heard it all.
Speaker: and i'm just fed up with it so so that'll be the next wednesday series starting in a month brilliant and um i just want final question zero my time yeah why is it then that catholic priests mainly keep harping on about purgatory like is it because of what they learned in you know minute or is it you know like why do the keep harping on about it as if it's you know like good question i would say well firstly i've seen deception in every denomination um but purgatory one i think it is for money and to coerce behavior to coerce participation um for instance
Speaker: and let's say a funeral mass. One of my friends lost his dad last year. So i went to the funeral mass for it. And
Speaker: I was a little bit confused as to the point that was trying to be relayed. On one hand, he was dead and he was in heaven. And I said, that's nice. Five minutes later, they were praying him into heaven. And I said, jeepers, what happened in the last 300 seconds?
Speaker: Then something, I forget what it was, but I just remember it was so outlandish that I just saw the family sit up and of like, you know, turn their heads. And I was thinking, this and So part of it comes from ignorance, just not actually knowing what they believe.
Speaker: and i'm part of it is, well, if they're not in heaven, Well, then you have to come back a year later for the anniversary, give us money, and we'll pray them into heaven.
Speaker: But they accept your money two years later, so clearly that wouldn't work. And they accept your money 15 years later, so what's going on here? It becomes a financial scam. You coerce participation.
Speaker: For the funeral mat, that's like five or six hundred pounds. Oh my god, stop. Yeah. Oh my god. We were just talking about the other day. Oh God.
Speaker: Wow. Okay. Thank you, Amanda. That's just my point. That's right. Steve, can I ask a question? Yeah, of course. Are you going to be wearing those cool glasses up there?
Speaker: we Oh, in in heaven? yes Yeah, I'll bring them to the cats. You won't be too thin, cool, and man. I'll recognise you by those things. I only wear them just because they're called blue blockers to stop you. It kind of screams. Yeah, the blue light from the laptop. That's a good idea, actually. But I love supernatural light in heaven, so I might be. Amen.
Speaker: Good question. Good question. Yeah, but I would say that that's a big part of it, is yeah so for money, ignorance, and it coerces behavior.
Speaker: um And in other churches, I've heard the only gifts God gives people are teaching, pastoring, and evangelizing. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: And maybe the gift of giving, because they also want your money. um But you don't dare commit the word of prophecy, or you'll be shown the door. You don't dare say God's given me a word of knowledge or a word of wisdom, they don't want to hear it.
Speaker: If you start supernaturally speaking a language God's given you, and they probably need to cast demons out of you. I'm like, this is biblical, guys. Come on, what's happening here?
Speaker: I've seen other churches where Jesus... has liberated us from the 10 commandments and we live under grace, but you have to follow all 10 commandments and do this and this and this and this and this and this and this, or you won't be raptured.
Speaker: So basically you have to join every ministry that they have of an operation that has too few people And you'll give this much money and yada yada yada. Otherwise, and you might be like, fine.
Speaker: Jesus might just forget about you. And yeah, I think
Speaker: population control, it's not just a governmental thing. It's not just a media thing. and God's children have, unfortunately, been doing it for just as long.
Speaker: Thanks man. It's very concerning you know because because so many people in Ireland just rely on the Catholic Church so much and it's just it seems to be just a lot of false teachings you know from what I can see.
Speaker: Yeah. So yeah thanks thanks for that. But I've gotten some very strong prophetic words that God's going to do something amazing in the Catholic Churches in Ireland. I hope so. But like everyone they have to be willing to confront okay this what i've been told This what I've been taught in Minutes when I paid all those thousands of euros for a university course.
Speaker: This is what I was told when I went to this place. This is what was told when I went there, but actually bring it back to the word. And even the same with the Vatican, and I was in Rome a few years ago, so I went to the Vatican because I love history, I love art.
Speaker: But at one point, and I do love art, I felt queasy. actually thinking, okay, that's 500 years old, that's 600 years old, 450 years old, 550 years old. And I thought they were living in such opulent splendor here while the rest of the continent were skimping and scraping and dying of starvation and plagues and diseases.
Speaker: But telling people, yeah, your loved ones are trapped in supernatural dimension and we need your funds in order to get their souls out of there. That really made me feel pleased.
Speaker: And then there is a room called the Room of the Prophets where they have a painting. Oh, well, that's Elijah. There's fire that's so-and-so. That's so-and-so. That's yada, yada, yada.
Speaker: It's a very strange. I actually have a photograph on my phone. A very strange individual that I could not place. And basically it's a transgender satanic prophet from the days antiquity that the Pope apparently thinks is on a par with the prophets of the word of God.
Speaker: So when there's rot at the foundation,
Speaker: if there's rot in the roots, there'll be rot in the shoot. Yeah. afraid of ask some like Thank you so much. You can't deny us after certain amount of i time. yeah Thanks, man. Thank you so much. You're so welcome.
Speaker: Well, guys, let's have communion and then let's join together and pray such a special blessing and prosperity for our super special, awesome, beautiful, amazing Naomi.
Speaker: who will be leaving us for Germany this week. Well, not leaving us, but leaving Ireland temporarily for a hard time. you. And then yeah, because it's abundantly, exceptionally important. do that.
Speaker: Thank you. Thank you so much. Apple juice, would you like water? I'm nervous. Yeah, great. You okay with your break there? A bit of apple juice, just a splash.
Speaker: I
Speaker: don't think I was going to be. I just think I was going to be. iirs youd think i'm go to be and no one so something surprise and i by the stains
Speaker: Well, Father God, I thank you, Lord, for such a super Sunday, Lord, such inquisitive minds and such fantastic like questions, Lord.
Speaker: So, Lord, it is your will that your people grow and learn together. You say, ask and the door, ask and you'll be answered too.
Speaker: Knock and the door will be open to you. Lord, you want people to know that it is safe and okay and commendable have to answers, to grow together, to share it together, to learn together, to grow together, not to sit in ignorance or fear.
Speaker: Why? Because we are part of one body. the bosy of pride not The body of Christ. of Christ or the bodies of Christ.
Speaker: The body of Christ linger. And when one part rejoices, the whole part rejoices. When one part suffers, the whole body suffers.
Speaker: When one part stretches, the whole body is stretched. When one part grows, whole body grows. And Lord, that's only possible because your body was shredded.
Speaker: So the shreds of our lives could be made whole.
Speaker: And where we were poured out on the floor in our desperation, you poured out your blood upon us and made us clean.
Speaker: So Lord, we have these communion elements right now that signify, that denote, that represent your body and your blood. And that's Sigmund Freud. And that's Sigmund Freud.
Speaker: Or Sinn Féin. Oh God, we do it with cheer. We do rejoicing. We do it with gratitude.
Speaker: May we grow ever closer to you and ever closer to each other. In Jesus' name.
Speaker: then
Speaker: So I like her pray for the special function that we pray for Naomi and Coby today. Travel mercy as she heads to Germany, as she settles that every eye be dotted and every two cross.
Speaker: I pray for her, okay? It can be long, it can be short. It's the important thing about from behind.
Speaker: I see an airplane flying towards
Speaker: massive sun and a pink sky.
Speaker: And Jesus is the sun for righteousness. have You have healing. And
Speaker: I believe this is going to be such a time
Speaker: Sorry, you can't really hear a bit. The audio is a bit. Sorry, the audio is a bit. Is it clearer now? Yeah. have my but let'll Go through the screen. I believe a goddess saying this is going to be such a season of healing.
Speaker: Deep, deep soul healing.
Speaker: Don't, I'm not think it's going happen, but don't be surprised if the enemy tries to hijack that healing.
Speaker: And I believe one of the big words from today has been decisions. You make
Speaker: Godly decisions, wise decisions, and you do not forsake, go against, or drop those decisions.
Speaker: Make a decision that whatever ever God has for you in this season is going happen. He's going to do it.
Speaker: And when the moment of indecision comes,
Speaker: Not if, when the moment of indecision comes. You come back to the decision you made in the moment of clarity. That you will not be waylaid.
Speaker: You will not be set off course.
Speaker: I believe there will be some testing time. But that's not always a bad thing. A test gives you the chance to get an A+.
Speaker: A chest... A test gives you the chance to put into practice what you've learned. To demonstrate that it has sunk in.
Speaker: And it gives you more authority. It expands your tent, expands your territory.
Speaker: And that pink sky that I saw is heavenly revelation of what it means to be a child of God.
Speaker: You're going to learn about your identity, which I know has been a big thing in conversations we've had over the years. Yeah. I believe in this season because you won't have, in the very next room, the same go-tos and support networks and cutting corners that you've had so far, I believe you are really deeply going to learn what it means to be God's daughter.
Speaker: The Father's favorite one. A citizen of heaven and everything that means for you, what that entitles you to, who that makes you. The call that puts on you.
Speaker: I know this is not a forever season. Like all seasons, they start and they end. That's why it's a season.
Speaker: But get out of it. Absolutely everything God has for you in this time.
Speaker: Amen. Amen.
Speaker: We're going to give you all
Speaker: the last minute.
Speaker: Detail bit fire.
Speaker: Signatures or stamps, visas, we give you all Lord God.
Speaker: Lord God, we speak against any and all delays and spirits of delay,
Speaker: that this will swimmingly for Naomi.
Speaker: That you will move so beautifully
Speaker: so organically, so wonderfully.
Speaker: She will have peace before she leaves, peace as she's going, peace when she arrives.
Speaker: But this will be such a smooth transition.
Speaker: And it's an exciting new season.
Speaker: A blessed season.
Speaker: A season that you have ordained.
Speaker: That you spoke to her about a long time ago.
Speaker: she pondered the word, she sat on the word, she stood on the word, she probably asked, God, when is this happening? Is this happening?
Speaker: But Lord, you are the God of seasons. You are the God of ages. You are the Lord of time.
Speaker: And we say, Lord, whatever it is you have for her to learn, to do, to accomplish, to achieve, to drop off, to let go of, will that take place in this season where she won't have the same the poor network at her fingertips, Lord God, that she currently does, and she'll have to rely on you at a whole new level, in a whole new way, in a whole new territory, a whole new environment.
Speaker: Lord, move so beautifully and so powerful
Speaker: that when you return her to us, She'll come back with an even greater anointing
Speaker: that she currently does, Lord.
Speaker: Get in the word refiner's fire.
Speaker: Things are going to burn in your life, but it's heavenly fire burning away the drop.
Speaker: One thing when it's hellfire.
Speaker: It's different thing than it's got. And it's gonna be burning up what should not be there, what should never have been there, what has overstayed its welcome.
Speaker: He knows your love when he knows you have a heart, friend. But this fire is going to burn up.
Speaker: Replacements or stand-ins. in your life for him.
Speaker: And you're going to see that he is your provisor.
Speaker: He is your all-sufficient one.
Speaker: Everything you need is in it
Speaker: going to change how you see yourself? it going change how you speak? It's going to change how you walk, it's going to change how you talk.
Speaker: It's going to change your expectations from people and from things. And it's a refiners find.
Speaker: Burning away what needs to be burned away you can truly become the woman he wants you to be. You're already amazing.
Speaker: He has even more from you, more for you, and there's more he expects from you.
Speaker: But there's only so much he can currently entrust into your hands. He wants your hands to be bigger and wider, to encapsulate more, more people, more hearts, more responsibilities.
Speaker: That enlarging of the tense, that enlarging of your sphere of influence, will come as he burned away
Speaker: was never yours to carry.
Speaker: Jesus.
Speaker: Amen.
Speaker: Thank you so much. Thank you. Yeah, that was some of the stuff you said. I was like, yeah, I have feeling that's going to happen. i'm looking forward to it now. You should be. You should be. I'm delighted.
Speaker: I'm delighted. No, I'm listening. I'll swing around later on today and pray in person as well. Okay. Okay, i was gonna I wanted to tell you a time, but I didn't want to say it throughout the... Any time after three is fine, whatever. That's all right. I saw an image there, Naomi, and there was it was a tree, a solid tree, standing on its own.
Speaker: It was a beautiful ground, and there was blue and pink sky behind you, and white just floating, but there was one solid tree standing tall one on its own.
Speaker: And I believe that's you. I think it's your time. I think it's the time of freedom. I think it's a time of growth, of expansion. And you're really coming to your own.
Speaker: Amen. You're the person that you're meant to be. And I really feel this is your time now that you will just get solid and solidified within yourself as a person, you know, and I think you're,
Speaker: death and to do great things if you allow yourself you know just to go with it to be strong enough just to you know leave the fear behind and just just go with and not be looking back to distractions or other things and other people I think now is your time to focus on you and yeah I think have a wonderful time yeah thank you you're very capable I think it was the godly time actually I appreciate it. Thank you. I'm kind of worried about being faithful because I can kind of get distracted. I say, is this God? Is it not God? Should I move? Is he telling me to wait? and So that's important. I want to be faithful.
Speaker: When you said the faithful and the peaceful of Israel, that verse kept coming up to me all the time and I really kind of want to hone in on that. yeah Well, you know what? There's one thing necessary for that tree to stay ascending.
Speaker: Deep. roots yeah deep roots and it's not deep roots in the temporal in the transitional in the transitory it's deep roots in the one thing that jesus says will outlive heaven and earth he said heaven and earth will pass away but one thing will never pass the away the word that he spoke the word of god
Speaker: So get more rooted and more grounded in it than you already are. And when you think you're just about maxed out and reached your limits, go deeper.
Speaker: That will keep you standing. Amen. Amen.
Speaker: All right, everyone. I know we've had long session today. There's a card currently covering the clock. and I'm probably happy because I'm afraid to see what time it is. But I thank you so much for being here, for your time, your attention, and your participation. Thank you, Brandon. Your commitment.
Speaker: I hope you all gleaned a lot from that today. was a very different Sunday, but a good Sunday, I believe. ah But not as good as God himself, because he is absolutely good. Amen. Amen.
Speaker: amen and then Have a super special, awesome, wonderful rest of your week, guys. We'll be in touch. um Remember, the link to the next revival is already on Eventbrite. I'll post on the group chat. a We currently have a discount price, which will last for another week.
Speaker: I'll shave off a few euros. Better off in your pocket than in the Gateway Hotel. And that we'll be together this day next week, all right? Thanks, Brendan.
Speaker: Thank you. God bless everyone. Safe journey, Naomi. Thank you so much. I'll keep you in my prayers. God bless you. Oh, thank you, Manny. appreciate it they' No problem. it problems ah Thank you, Steve. You're very working. You'll have a great time.
Speaker: I will, yeah. Thank you. evo Don't forget to let us know how you're doing. I will, yeah. Thanks so much, Brendan. That was powerful. Thank you, man. Thanks so much for submitting some questions to you. Good job.
Speaker: God bless. Thanks, man. God bless, everyone. no Bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
