WHY IS THIS TOPIC/SUBJECT RELEVANT? 1. Because of a lot of Christian practices today 2. Because heavenly encounters are increasing and will continue to increase in the days to come 3. Because we need to understand God's role and our role in such encounters 4. Because we need to know how to stay safe and be protected 5. Because we need to be Biblically grounded This podcast looks carefully at several angelic visitations - we look at what the people were doing, how they were living, and the nature...
Feb 18, 2024•58 min•Season 4Ep. 165
Disclaimer - This teaching is LONG. Disclaimer #2 - it is important because many Christians believe it is their mandate to command/rebuke/bind so-called "Territorial Spirits". This practice has become known as doing Strategic Level Spirit Warfare (SLSW). Other parts of SLWS include "Spiritual Mapping" and Identificational Repentance". I used to practice many of these things. Hundreds of thousands of Christians, if not millions, are regularly engaging in SLSW. In this message, I will be demonstra...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Season 4Ep. 164
RELATED WORDS/CONCEPTS to address our “self-deception” Envy - painful or resentful awareness of an advantage or possession (situation) enjoyed by another and the desire to possess the same thing. Theological: Sin of jealousy over the blessings and achievements of others. Jealousy – synonym of envy Covetousness - the feeling of having a strong desire for the things that other people have (situations/circumstances/ministries) Discontentment FOMO – Fear of Missing Out Resentment Bitterness James 3:...
Jan 21, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 163
This is an unusual message. And even the title will be confusing to some as we are NOT in the year 5784 as many believe. According to the most ancient Hebrew calendar, we are actually in the year 7576. A change the rabbis made to the Hebrew Bible's chronology and therefore the Jewish calendar nearly 100 years AFTER Christ. And they did that for a very specific reason that I explain at the beginning of this message. Advent has all but been lost in our day and age. We begin celebrating Christmas o...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 162
It is incredible how we can read Acts and see a verse like Acts 15:41 - "And he [Paul] went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches." And what we don't realize is that there were NO CHURCHES at that time as we would envision or experience churches today. Paul wasn't doing "conferences" at First Baptist Berea or Philippi Pentecostal Assembly. He was visiting churches that met in people's homes. This was the center of 1st-century Christianity. In a series entitled, Houses of Fire, we...
Dec 03, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 161
One of the greatest theological questions that has ever faced the church (or should I say "the church since the 5th century"?) is, "What did the Apostle Paul mean when he penned Romans 7?" Was Paul talking about his present struggle with sin in the passage or was he referring to either his life before Christ (or the life of someone else outside of Christ)? For many years of my Christian life, I sided with St. Augustine (who actually changed his position) and the Protestant Reformers that Paul wa...
Nov 06, 2023•43 min•Season 4Ep. 160
In this message, we consider Acts 14 and slay the "myth" that the Christian life is somehow problem-free. Paul's life was anything but problem-free. Somehow through nearly 2000 years of Church History, a "version" of Christianity has been (is being) preached that gives people the impression that following Jesus amounts to life enhancement and the disappearance of problems. It may not be stated as such, but it is often implied. It is a version of the so-called "Prosperity Gospel" which Paul's lif...
Oct 08, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 159
Philippians 2:1-17 (ESV) 1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, whic...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 158
Natalie shares a powerful teaching from John 15. It is time to bear fruit. If the pruning time is over, then it is FRUIT TIME!
Sep 27, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 157
We begin by reviewing what a New Testament False Prophet was/is and more importantly IS NOT. Many today are being called "False Prophets" who according to the New Testament are not. Next, we turn back to Paul's 1st Missionary and look at HOW Paul shares the Gospel in Acts 13. What was his message? Who was his audience? Who we are sharing the Gospel with will determine how we share the Gospel. What is the worldview of our audience? Paul is communicating the Gospel in Acts 13 in Jewish synagogues ...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 156
Natalie shares a powerful message about giving God full access to every area of your life. In so doing, He will give us more; He will entrust us with more. This in short is about complete and total surrender. This message is anointed. Ask God for ears to ear, and allow Holy Spirit to speak to you. For such a time as this..
Sep 10, 2023•59 min•Season 4Ep. 155
It was in the fulness of time, the PERFECT TIMING that Christ came. The fulfillment of prophecies from thousands of years earlier, including the 5500-year prophecy that ancient Judaism and the early Christians believed was given to Adam when he and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. The world was ready for the spread of the Gospel - a Roman Empire characterized by peace, roads built and a unifying language (Greek) - and the Jews had a Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Septuagin...
Sep 03, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 154
There is arguably no greater story in Biblical and Church History that the collection, translations, canonization, and preservation (or as you shall see the attempts to corrupt the text) of the Old Testament Scriptures. Everyone is the product of a "Tradition" and we will look at some of them. The main question that is looked at is why there are differences between the Masoretic Text (MT) and the Septuagint (LXX) of the Old Testament. The New Testament writers quote the LXX 80-90% of the time an...
Aug 13, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 153
A message from Natalie out of the Epistle of 2nd Peter which challenges ideas that many Christians have about "freedom". In the name of "being free", many are actually getting hardened, saying yes to sin, and actually getting deceived. Here is the key Scriptural passage - 2 Peter 1:1-15 1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle (special messenger, personally chosen representative) of Jesus Christ, To those who have received and possess [by God’s will] a precious faith of the same kind as ours, b...
Aug 06, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 152
Acts 11:27-30 – What? Prophets in the Church? No epistles by Agabus? / "Foretelling” / Prophets from Jerusalem Response: People believed and acted GIFT OF PROPHECY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH - QUESTIONS 1. Difference between OT Prophets and NT Prophets – Authority in OT vs. NT? 2. Who can prophesy in the NT? Who can be prophets? 3. What do we do with prophetic revelation in the NT? 3. Prophetic Gifts vs. Prophet(s) - Office 4. What are the prophetic gifts? 5. Why would we still NEED prophetic g...
Jul 23, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Season 4Ep. 151
GENTILE REVIVAL BEGINS - AD 41 Acts 11:19-26 - 19 Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen (AD 34-5) traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews . 20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord Jesus. 21 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord . 22 The report of this came to ...
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 150
In early June, an Air Force officer and former intelligence officer named David Grusch came forward as a protected whistleblower and testified that the U.S. Government is in possession of 12 crafts/vehicles (made by "non-human intelligence") that either landed or crashed and had also recovered "non-human bodies". Additionally, he claimed the secret Pentagon program has been working on reverse engineering of the technologically advanced "spacecraft". The US Government tried to take control of the...
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 149
Are we under the Law of Moses (Mosaic Law/Sinai Covenant/Old Covenant) today? There is so much confusion amongst followers of Jesus as to what from the Old Testament In this podcast, we will look at Acts 11:1-18 where Peter explains what happened with Cornelius and a group of Gentiles in Acts 10. We will also look at Acts 15 where under the Holy Spirit's inspiration, we learn exactly what God required of Gentile believers. We will also see that as the 1st century progressed there was in fact a s...
Jun 06, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 148
In this message, I synthesize the 2 messages I've recently posted about House Churches. I share my journey and prophetic history with how God has led us and spoken to us. I discuss the issue/question "What about the Big Church?" - the way we have been doing church for so long. I then look at 4 points: 1. Church BEGAN in houses 2. Revival REQUIRED/WILL REQUIRE houses 3. Houses are KEY to evangelism - to reach the unreached/despised 4. Holy Spirit Ministry and House Churches 5. The future - will t...
May 19, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 147
Ezekiel 47:1, 8-12 - 1 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. … 8 And he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and enters the sea; when the water flows into the sea, the water will become fresh. 9 And wherever the river g...
May 16, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 146
Summary of Part 1 + The Church BEGAN in a house (will it END in houses?) + No Church ‘buildings’ (earliest in the 200s, converted house) + Revival needed houses – evangelism/teaching/discipling + Public Meetings (i.e. Temple) often led to problems + First 10-year period involved ONLY Jews & circumcised proselytes (2:5 - “devout Jews”, 2:11 - “both Jews and converts to Judaism”) + House-sized churches are still the norm in many places on Earth + Fearful (masked) people won’t go to big meeting...
May 13, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 145
Why do I think we can re-affirm that there is a strong case of "Endtime-itis" today in the Body of Christ? Just recently I found the following titles for podcasts/videos being done by Christians: • “Has the Tribulation Begun?” • “The End has Begun” •“ Is the United States Mystery Babylon [in] THE BOOK OF REVELATION?” • “What is the system of the Beast”? • “End of the World” • “God of Magog and the Antichrist” • “The Antichrist Agenda” • “666 and the Last Generation of Humans” In this podcast, I ...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 4Ep. 144
Pascha 2023 – Christ’s Descent Apostle’s Creed - I believe in God the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, who suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried, descended to the dead (lit. “to the lower”), rose again from the dead on the third day, Acts 2:22-28, 31-32 22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with might...
Apr 10, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 143
TEXT - ROMANS 7:14-24 2 "Roman Roads" of Interpretations - Romans 7 1. Paul is describing his current situation/struggle as a Christian - Portrays the experience of believers after their conversion . They have died and risen with Christ with the capacity to renounce sin. Yet as children of Adam, they continue to possess a sinful nature that dogs their well-intended efforts to do what is right. This sets up the struggle that Paul presents in this chapter. It is his struggle and every believer’s s...
Apr 08, 2023•48 min•Season 4Ep. 142
A follow-up to the last podcast message - wherein we definitely need a BAPTISM of BOLDNESS to preach the Gospel, throughout Church History the most spectacular expression of BOLDNESS is undoubtedly the hundreds of thousands of Christians who have lost their lives for their faith as martyrs. In this follow-up message, I share many of those stories - from the Apostle Peter's martyrdom in the first century to Polycarp's (a personal disciple of the Apostle John) in the 2nd century to the innumerable...
Apr 02, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 141
A powerful message by my wife Natalie where she looks at the transformation that took place in the life of the Apostle Peter when he received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. A baptism we ALL need as well. May this message inspire you to pursue God for the type of encounter that Peter himself had so that we can live the lives that God is calling us to live! Acts 2:16-21 - 16 But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel: 17 “‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pou...
Mar 27, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 140
SECOND TEMPLE JEWISH VIEW of the Origin of Sickness & Demons “And we acted in accord with all of his words. All of the evil ones, who were cruel, we bound in the place of judgment, but a tenth of them we let remain so that they might be subject to Satan upon the earth. And the healing of all their illnesses together with their seductions we told Noah so that he might heal by means of herbs of the earth. And Noah wrote everything in a book just as we taught him according to every kind of heal...
Mar 18, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 138
Awareness of & Standing Against “the schemes of the devil” 2 Corinthians 2:11 - 11 in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes. Ephesians 6:10-12 - 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present dark...
Mar 12, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 137
REVIEWING THE QUESTIONS How long would you have had to follow Jesus around until you saw someone healed? How long would someone have to follow YOU around until they saw someone healed!?!? Previous Healing messages - 1. Healing Revisited 1.0 – The Issue of God’s Will / 2. Healing Revisited 2.0 – The Issue of Fear MESSAGE - HEALING Revisited 3.0 - The ISSUE OF LACK OF LOVE Why don't we heal the sick? • Ignorance • Deception / False Teaching (God’s will, Gifts ceased) • Unbelief • Fear – Fear of Fa...
Mar 05, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 136
“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17) Is there something “at Hand” in 2023? REPENTANCE and the KINGDOM OF GOD John the Baptist - In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matt 3:1-2) Jesus - From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matt 4:17) Peter - “Repent” (Acts 2:38, 3:19) – to believing Jews Paul - “Repent” (Acts 17:30) – to pagan Gre...
Mar 04, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 135
