1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,840 Welcome to the God's Goodness podcast where our mission is to encourage and highlight God's 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:17,320 goodness and modern-day miracles. We are your hosts, Josh and Shelley Hankins. Today we have 3 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:23,720 with us a special guest. His name is Yol Ben Israel and he and I met through a Facebook group 4 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:29,280 called Christian Podcasters and you are just gonna be blessed by what the Holy Spirit has 5 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:34,560 led him to share today. And if you're new to us I want to thank you for joining us. I'm so glad 6 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:39,200 you found us and if you're a longtime listener or at least a one-time listener and you love 7 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:44,400 podcasts please rate it in Spotify or Apple Podcasts so people can know that people are 8 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,520 liking it and then the algorithm can share it with more people and then more people can be 9 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:56,200 encouraged. So we're gonna have Yol Ben introduce us, oh before we get going, we'll have him do an 10 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:02,160 opening prayer and then we'll get into it. So thanks for being with us. Thank you all so very much 11 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:09,840 for having me on and yes I'm about to get us in an opening prayer as well. Thank you. King Yahweh, 12 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:15,520 we thank you so very much for this beautiful opportunity to come together and to talk about 13 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:21,960 you to glorify you, to pour out our hearts regarding what you have done for us, what you're 14 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:27,120 doing inside of us and what you're doing through us. We thank you so very much for this time on 15 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:32,880 your Shabbat to be able to relax and to focus on you as well and I pray that you continue to pour 16 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:39,000 into all of us. Everybody who is working on this podcast, who the hosts, whose people are working 17 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,000 behind the scenes, the audio editor and the audience who will listen to this episode and future 18 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:50,000 episodes as well. I pray that you will continue to use this podcast to advance ultimately your 19 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,360 kingdom of heaven and to invite lost souls into the kingdom of heaven all for your glory. We 20 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:00,880 thank you and we love you so very much and it is in the authority of your son that you sent to 21 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:06,040 die for us and that you resurrected. It's in the name of your son, the Messiah, and the Holy 22 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:13,200 Shabbat that we thank you our King. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you for that. So where would 23 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:21,640 you like to get started? I know you have a lot to share, so let's go ahead. Yes, yes, so I would 24 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:27,000 like to start, I guess at the beginning of what your audience and kind of like give Mr. Fowle who 25 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,680 I am because people, people may be like, well, who is, who is this guy? Yeah. That's the same as you 26 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:37,600 guys interviewing. We find a lot of interesting people and the Holy Spirit's guiding us to everybody, 27 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:45,240 so you never know what you're going to get. Really interesting journey. Yes, indeed. Yeah, 28 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:53,920 so my name is Elyquen Lies-Sed already. Yo, el bin, bin ye sra'el. And my journey to kind of give 29 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:58,960 you, I guess, a truncated version, but to give you enough details so that you, so that you can 30 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:05,760 know more about me. I was born in Southfield, Michigan, to two lovely parents, my mom and my 31 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:12,560 dad. They worked together for a time, but they divorced when I was relatively young. So I spent 32 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:18,640 most of my life growing up with my mom and my younger brother. I still keep in time, keep in 33 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:24,160 contact with my father as well too. And we have a beautiful relationship actually. I feel like 34 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:29,360 Kenyawa, he's really doing something beautiful between the two of us as regards to my father and 35 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:37,440 his son dynamic. And so my mom, she would take my brother and I to a place called the Kingdom Hall 36 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:43,840 of Jobless Witnesses. So essentially, I was born into what is called, it's a real long name, 37 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:50,320 the Watchtower Bible Man-Trak Society of Pennsylvania, aka the Jobless Witness of the 38 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:59,280 nomination to make it short. So I was born into this, the Watchtower Society. And for the most 39 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:05,360 part, I really loved the organization. I still love the people till this day. And so my mom took 40 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:10,800 us when we were relatively young, my brother and I, and we were frequent in Kingdom Halls. So much so 41 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:19,520 that I really became interested in this book called The Bible, because for me, I feel like I've 42 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:25,600 always been this really deep existential thinker, always questioning. And I feel like my mom, she 43 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:33,680 had like the patience of Job, entertaining all of my questions, like, you know, why is the sun 44 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:38,400 hot or why is the sky blue or why do the clouds look like that and like cotton candy, whiskey, 45 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,800 and the sky like, what's up with everything? What's up with this thing called life? So me 46 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:48,560 asking all these questions, and The Bible just seemed to be this beautiful book, this library, 47 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:56,000 if you will, that really helped engage the reader to think deeper and to think in a intellectual 48 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:02,400 way. Yes, but I think also in a spiritual manner, that really helps us understand the purpose of 49 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:08,640 life while we're here and our Creator is and things of this nature. So I went to the Kingdom Hall 50 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:15,120 and I got so fascinated and I began to have a zeal for this religion. And to the point where I 51 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:21,040 matriculated into what's called the Theocratic Ministry School. And so essentially, this school 52 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:29,920 is basically like a seminary, so to say, for for Job's witnesses to teach us how to share our world, 53 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:37,360 you ask Job's witnesses to the outside world, essentially. And so I just remember getting my 54 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:43,280 very first talk, because they call sermons talks. And so my very first talk or sermon, it was actually, 55 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:49,440 it was a Bible reading. And so I remember just taking that they gave me a small white slip. 56 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:54,000 And I took this white slip home and they had the portion that I was going to read a scripture. 57 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,080 And I just remember just pouring over those scriptures, just reading those scriptures over 58 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:03,120 and over and over again. So the point where I try my best to almost memorize it, because I didn't 59 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:10,160 want to miss a period, a comma, exclamation point. I want to make sure that the reading was perfect. 60 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:17,120 And so the time the night came, and my family came to support me in this endeavor, my first 61 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:22,800 public Bible readings. And I went up there, I read it. And when I got done reading, I heard this 62 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:30,480 thunderous applause from the audience and just to look up and to see my mom smiling and to see 63 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:36,880 my dad and to see my brother and all these familiar faces, all my loved ones just showering me with 64 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:42,400 this support, just chilling in me along the way of this, me taking more steps deeper into my spiritual 65 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:48,880 journey. That got me hooked. And so I began to go from there to give more public sermons, public 66 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:54,720 discourses. And then I went to what is called a field service or door-to-door evangelism. 67 00:06:55,280 --> 00:07:01,360 And so you all may know that they, when we go from door to door, sometimes you get people who are 68 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,480 really just their side, they really, sometimes they're excited to see you. They're excited to 69 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,280 talk about the Bible and they're excited to talk about God and religion and what's going on in the 70 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:16,400 world. And then you have others who, you know, they're not so excited. They close their minds and 71 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,960 we knock on the door and they say, we're not home, but we heard you say you're not home, so you're 72 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:30,240 kind of our home. And so I went through that for about, for years. I was a Joe's witness for decades. 73 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:36,240 And then there came a time where I became a teenager, I became 18, the fast forwarded. And 74 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:43,360 I began to go through this identity crisis, this existential identity crisis about myself. And 75 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:51,440 essentially what I feel like really was the catalyst for this was, I think it was, it was two 76 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:58,880 things. One, I really do think that it was, yeah, really trying to get me to ask him deeper 77 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:04,960 questions than I was already asking him when I looked back at it at 2020. Then also too, 78 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:12,320 I went to a high school that was, it was very multicultural. And so seeing all these different 79 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:20,320 cultures, it really began to provoke or galvanize me to want to know more about my own culture. 80 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:29,040 You know, I guess for those who are African American, they would know that we, I guess we 81 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:33,920 could all come to a point where we're searching for our culture. We're trying to trace it past 82 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:39,280 slavery and go beyond slave shifts. And we're trying to find out, you know, what do we come from, 83 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:44,000 our ethnicity and things of that nature. I mean, so I got to a point within my 84 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:52,800 spiritual journey within this religion to where my ethnicity began to wrestle with my 85 00:08:52,800 --> 00:09:00,960 Joe's witness religion. And I feel like this wrestling really began me, my journey to really 86 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:08,400 know Yahweh, who I called Joe back then on a, on a much deeper level. And so fast forwarding, 87 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:15,280 when I graduated high school and I'm still wrestling with this question and this nagging 88 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:22,240 question of who am I, why am I here? And I'm also asking, I'm getting to the point where I'm asking 89 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:28,640 God about the condition of the African American. I'm asking him a hard question about slavery. 90 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:33,200 Why did slavery happen? The transatlantic slave trade, 400 years of slavery? Why did all these 91 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:40,320 things happen? And so I'm asking him these questions. And he's such a good father. And I feel 92 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:46,640 like no question is too big for him. And no question is intimidating to him because he, 93 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:55,840 he answered me in such, such a beautiful way. I feel like, because I was going to my religion, 94 00:09:55,840 --> 00:10:01,600 and I'm also to my, to the elders and asking them questions. And to tell you all this too, 95 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:06,960 to be even more transparent, I actually called the headquarters in New York City. 96 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:08,080 And to the top. 97 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:11,680 Yes. Yes. I want answers. 98 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,320 Yeah. Yeah. Like I look, I went to the big wigs. 99 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:16,960 I need to know. 100 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:23,600 And I, yes, I need to know. So I asked some questions about, about slavery and about 101 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:28,240 things that happened in American history, trafficking Americans. And I just couldn't 102 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:35,680 find any satisfactory answers. But I think this is a, is a lesson that I, that he wanted. 103 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:39,600 Yeah. I want to meet a gleam. And I think this is going to bless the audience as well. 104 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:48,480 Is that sometimes when we have questions, we go to our religion first, and we don't go to the 105 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:54,800 creator. Even today, when I think about me being, being a millennial, sometimes I'll go to Google 106 00:10:54,800 --> 00:11:01,600 first or I'll go to a chat GPT first as opposed to going to King Yahweh first. And so I feel like 107 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:06,640 he was teaching me that lesson that he wants that intimacy. He wants that tells us to start 108 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:12,320 that conversation with him and ask him those hard questions because he's only going to reveal to us 109 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:21,520 the pristine, pure, unadulterated truth. Right. So I went to my mother's basement because there 110 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:26,640 was some things happening within America that were really just perturbing my, my, my, my spirit. 111 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:31,760 Like for example, when Trevor Martin got killed by George Zimmerman, these, these like this began 112 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:36,960 to really just, just really saddened me in a way, saddened me about the state of America. And, and, 113 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:44,000 and me thinking that America has gotten past this rather, I guess, soft mark or juvenile 114 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:50,160 attitude of discriminating against people because of that they have a certain skin color. So I, 115 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:56,640 I remember vividly like it was yesterday. I walked down into, to my mom's basement and I got on both 116 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:04,320 knees and I put my head to the basement floor and I began to pray to Joe for God and to ask him 117 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:09,760 just about, about everything to ask him what, what like to ask him questions like, who am I? 118 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:15,600 Like why are my people going through such, such a struggle within America? I believe I asked him 119 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:23,840 about police brutality and, and, and everything. And lo and behold, he guided me back to his word. 120 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:30,160 And when he guided me back to his word, he took me to duty around in me chapter 28. And 121 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:38,160 it was so beautiful because I believe that the King of heaven, King Yahweh being our father, 122 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:44,080 he knows each and every one of his children individualistically. And he already knew how 123 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:52,720 much of a history nerd that, that, that I already was. And I feel like he was playing to my forte 124 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:57,280 regarding reading history. So I will always read about history, especially when it comes to 125 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:03,920 African American history. And I began to read the Bible to read it around me 28 and to line up 126 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:10,560 different things that happened within African American history. And to, I guess, to kind of 127 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:16,960 fast forward a little bit more. I realized that a lot of things that have happened to African 128 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:22,880 Americans, the root of it is sin. The root of it is disobedience. The root of it is deviating 129 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:29,280 from our loving heavenly father and from the King of heaven and going our own way. As it talks about 130 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:36,320 within scripture in Isaiah 53, we have all like sheep. We've all gone our own way. And that blew 131 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:45,920 my mind. But then also upon doing further research, King Yahweh began to reveal to me that I actually 132 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:54,400 had bloodline ties to Abraham, Isaac and to Jacob. And once he revealed this to me, things really 133 00:13:54,400 --> 00:14:01,280 start to make a lot more sense. So I began to really embrace my Hebraic identity being a man 134 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:08,960 of Hebrew ethnicity. And this is where I came into like a fork in the road with my religion, 135 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:16,880 because I began to read the Bible more and more, not so much so with the running commentary of the 136 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:22,480 West Tower Society and with their canon, their canonical literature, but just me, the Father, 137 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:29,120 and I feel like the Holy Spirit just guiding me. And I kind of feel like the Apostle Paul, 138 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:35,200 when scales begin to fall off my eyes and I began to see that what my religion was teaching me as a 139 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:42,240 Jehovah's Witness, it really wasn't congruence or harmonious with what the Bible was saying to me. 140 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:52,480 And so after getting this new information, in my zeal, I went on Facebook and I, you know, 141 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:59,680 as a quintessential millennial, I began making a, I made a Facebook post about what I was learning. 142 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:06,160 And this eventually caught wind of the leadership of the Kingdom Hall that I was going to. 143 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:12,720 And so I, yes, man, oh man, yeah, yeah, you are spot on. 144 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:22,640 And so I remember distinctly, it was a Thursday night and we had switched Kingdom Hall. So at 145 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:28,880 this point, my younger brother Dominique wasn't going to the Kingdom Hall. I was more so more 146 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,960 zealous for the religion. And my mom and I, we had switched going from a predominantly African 147 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:38,800 American Kingdom Hall to a predominantly like, like a white Kingdom Hall. And I'm still active. 148 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:44,960 So I'm reading from the stage. I'm carrying the rolling microphone. You're dedicated. You are in 149 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:51,200 it. Yes. Yes. Like, like, like I am needy. Yeah. There's a lot of Christians, they want to dedicate 150 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:57,440 themselves to sharing Jesus door to door. And yes, you know, like, that's a dedication. And you're 151 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:02,080 and you're like, wait a minute, I'm going in the wrong direction. I need to pivot just a little bit 152 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:08,720 to go along with the Bible. The word says the truth. And then so what happened next? 153 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:18,800 Yes. So I remember distinctly one Thursday night, I was going into the Kingdom Hall. 154 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:28,080 And I got this tap on my shoulder. And it was a dear brother of mine, brother Rami. And he 155 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:32,160 whispered into my ear and he said, you know, you don't have to carry the microphone tonight. 156 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:42,720 And I was like, Okay, this is very interesting. So I just I always say so I sat down. And it was a 157 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,600 regular normal meeting, you know, they went through the Watchtower study and they went through the 158 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:55,680 different publications that they have. And then but after the meeting concluded, I got another tap 159 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:01,760 on my shoulder. And it was from another dear brother who I still have have love for brother 160 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:07,280 Nico Salamos. And he asked me said, Do you mind coming to the to the back room for a minute? 161 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:15,680 And I was like, again, like, this is very interesting. I'm like, Okay, so I picked up my 162 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:20,320 my black briefcase with my Bible in it, the new new world translation, whether Joe's win is you. 163 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:27,840 So I had that. And I'm following him to the back room. And in this back room, 164 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:37,600 he Nico, he was he opens the door. And in the back room, there are seated two other one yet 165 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:44,800 two two elders, and one younger brother. So it is Nico, and then there are three other brothers 166 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:51,600 within this room. And they asked me to sit down. And so I sit down and Nico proceeds to sit down. 167 00:17:51,600 --> 00:18:00,160 And what he does is he takes out his iPad, and he begins to scroll. And he scrolls on he's on 168 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:07,200 Facebook, mind you, and he scrolls up to the post that I had recently posted about the new 169 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:12,080 information that I've been learning about about me being a hero about my my age, like ancestry 170 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:17,360 about us, about us, we should do our best to strive to to honor the laws of the Bible to 171 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:24,080 to live as the Bible says. And he began to ask me he began to say, So what's up with these posts, 172 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:29,280 man? Like, like, this is like, what is going on with what you and these posts like this is not 173 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:38,560 what we teach within the West tower society. And so I began to articulate and to elucidate 174 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:46,880 what I was learning. And long story short, and you guys you caught caught caught already, 175 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:53,360 they they really didn't, you know, it didn't go over to too well. So, what they did was I was 176 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:58,080 stripped of all of my privileges of carrying a microphone of going out from door to door evangelism 177 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:05,440 from speaking from giving public talks. And after a series of more conversation about me 178 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:10,240 learning the Hebrew language, I mean, learning that Jehovah is one pronunciation, but then seeing 179 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:16,160 pronunciation like Yahweh and seeing Yeshua and reading the Hebrew more and more and seeing that 180 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:22,480 that this book that we call the Bible, and this is maybe shocking to some people, but it wasn't 181 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:27,840 written in 16th century Elizabethan English. Originally, it was written, it was written 182 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:37,440 it written within Hebrew. And when I began to really study this out, one meeting sealed the 183 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:42,000 deal for me. And this this with a fork in the roll comes to me actually leaving and and being 184 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:49,920 what they call disassociated from the West house society. I went to my friend's house Mattel, 185 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,920 a very, very good friend of mine. And he said that, you know, I haven't been seeing you at the 186 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:58,880 Kingdom Hall lately, what's going on with you? And so I said, man, I look, I got to share with you 187 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:04,400 what I've been learning. And I was so excited. I went to his home, sit down on this couch, put 188 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:11,040 out my phone and I was showing him God's name Yahweh and within Hebrew. And this was on the 189 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:16,560 Bible Hub website. And this was the moment when I feel like King Yahweh was showing me that I'm 190 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:22,800 leading you in another direction. I pulled up the website Bible Hub and I was showing him about 191 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:27,520 the name and like, yeah, like, so like, here's the letter, yo, then the hay and the wall and the hay. 192 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:35,040 And here's the vocalization. And without missing a beat, he said to me, he said, we should not be 193 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:45,200 on this demonic website. Once I heard that I began to get emotional, because that's when I knew you 194 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:51,680 are that that was going to be the last conversation that I was going to be able to have with Mattel, 195 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,280 because I was going to have to leave the organization, the religious organization, 196 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:02,160 because the thing is, you don't know you're being brainwashed while you're being brainwashed. 197 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:08,640 And you don't know that people are controlling information that you can look at while you're 198 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:15,040 in the middle and midst of that particular organization. And I just had this thought 199 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:23,840 being pressed on me that if you stay yoel, you are going to become just like that. And so I 200 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:30,640 decided that what I need to do is I need to write my letter of this association within 201 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:37,840 from the organization. So I did that. And so I broke away. And for a long time, it was it was 202 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:44,720 just me, the Bible and my Heavenly Father King Yahweh just just me. I feel like during this time, 203 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:49,680 it was I was going through this deconstruction period of my faith, everything that I learned 204 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:55,600 from the West Tower for those because I left when I was about 22 for those 20 plus decades 205 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:02,000 have been it was all being deconstructed. And that can be a very scary thing, especially when 206 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:07,120 you're by yourself. And I know that with the younger generation, generation Z generation Alpha as 207 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:13,520 well, that they go through that as well, millennials to but I love how loving our father is and how 208 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:19,760 I feel like he held my hand through the entire process and showed me that just like how I called 209 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:25,520 Abraham and Genesis 12 to leave what was familiar, leave your father's house, leave your country, 210 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:30,480 leave your kindred and go to this land that I'm calling you to go to. I feel like he was doing 211 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:38,320 that with me. And he was guiding me on this journey to not a religion, but to actually enter into his 212 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:47,920 his kingdom of heaven. And that's that that I guess leads me into probably the this is the 213 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:57,680 punchline of the entire story. Being a Joe was witness. We are I guess the hallmark was 214 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,840 the whole door to door thing warmers are known for you know, being on their bicycles and 215 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:07,840 being going to an evangelism as well too. But that's like that's the hallmark for us going from 216 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:17,920 the door and preaching the good news. But but the punchline is I didn't hear the good news 217 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:25,600 until I left the organization that was supposed to be preaching it. I didn't hear 218 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:30,560 the good news until I came across a man by the name of Dr. Miles Monroe. 219 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:38,640 During the summer of 2022, my wife and I were celebrating the biblical feast feast of weeks 220 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:45,600 and in the Vatican is 23. And I just had this I don't know if you all have ever had this feeling 221 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:52,320 of like, yes, I'm reading my I'm reading the word and I feel like I'm being a quote unquote good 222 00:23:52,320 --> 00:24:00,080 unquote good believer. But simultaneously, I feel like something is still missing. And with me, 223 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:07,040 that something that was missing is I feel like I was missing something regarding the good news 224 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:12,960 message. Because at this point, yes, I left the watchtower society, but I fell into two other 225 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:18,880 religions messianic Judaism or messianic Talmudism. And then I didn't when it comes to messianic 226 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:27,120 Judaism, I kind of put my big toe into the pool. I did not in cannonball all the way in, but I left 227 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:34,400 that one. Then I fell into another religion called Hebrew Israelism. When I say I cannonballed and 228 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:40,720 and plunged into that one. Yeah, like I was soaking wet and everything but regarding that particular 229 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:46,080 religion. But within that religion, I feel like something was still missing. And that was the 230 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:53,200 good news. And so I came across Dr. Miles Monroe. And I heard him talking with a guy named Benny, 231 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:59,280 and I had never heard of these two characters before he's two men. He was in Nassau Bahamas. 232 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:05,200 He was talking about the good news. And he was saying he kept on saying that, yeah, you know, 233 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:12,240 the Messiah priests about the kingdom of heaven and it's a rival. And I was like, huh? What is he 234 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,560 what he's talking about? Like, no, he preached about he preached didn't preach about something else. 235 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:26,160 And so this began to really pick my curiosity. And I went to the Hebrew text of Matthew. And when 236 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:32,160 I read it for myself, you all, because I was really cynical because I was like, I was like, 237 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:36,640 nah, like, I don't I don't know if Dr. Miles is here. I don't know if he really knows knows what 238 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:43,360 he's saying here. But when I read it in the Hebrew text for myself, and I actually saw the plain 239 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:51,040 words of our Messiah of our rabbi what he said in the Hebrew text, I was like, whoa, this is actually 240 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:56,720 what he what he preached. And this is actually what I need to preach. But when I read it, I read 241 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,960 five words within the Hebrew and I'll say them real fast, and I'll take it to translate it and 242 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:12,160 conclude here. But I read in Matthew 417, five words in Hebrew, which essentially mean to repent 243 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:19,120 or to change our mindset because the Kingdom of Heaven has arrived. And when I heard this, 244 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:24,080 I probably did the same dance that you all did when you all played the funky music intro to your 245 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:34,880 podcast. Because as and I feel like I'm an evangelist, but I'm but I also I love to write as well too. 246 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:40,880 I mean, I love to break down scripture. I feel like this was the biggest missing puzzle piece 247 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:46,640 that finally come and finally clicked for me. And then the Bible began to really make sense 248 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:52,080 because I began to look at the Bible not so much as a religious book anymore, but to look at it as 249 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:58,800 a kingdom book. And the overarching theme of the Messiah's ministry was all about the Kingdom of 250 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:06,560 Heaven. And I began to see it from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And it just blew me away. And it 251 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:13,280 still blows me away today how King Yahweh can take us from a point where we are so zealous 252 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,760 for our religion, but we're not zealous for a relationship with him. 253 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:25,280 And how he took me from being zealous for, I guess, almost like the apostle Paul being so zealous 254 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:31,840 for his religion, so zealous for phariseism. But then on that road to the mass, because he encounters 255 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:38,320 the way the truth and the light falls to the ground, being humbled, being blinded for three 256 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:44,080 days, but then his eyes finally being open, I think both physically, but also spiritually, 257 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:51,040 that there was so many things that you haven't learned yet. And we have a loving Heavenly 258 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:57,760 Father who is the King of Heaven who wants us to, who is waiting for us to show up to his 259 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:03,200 classroom, so to say, so he can teach us about his Kingdom of Heaven curriculum. And so yeah, 260 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:08,560 and so that has really been on my heart to share and to learn more about the Kingdom of Heaven. 261 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,800 And I guess what I'll do is, it's here, why I think that this is the good news message, 262 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,480 why it's so important. I feel like the good news message about the Kingdom of Heaven, 263 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:23,920 it's so important because for the Israelite, for the Gentile, for the Jew, for the Greek, 264 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,520 and I talk about this within the book, A Little Thoughts of a Kingdom Citizen, 265 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:35,920 we all have lost something. And what I mean by that is, we all have lost this inheritance 266 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:43,920 called the Kingdom of Heaven. And when I look in Scripture, I see that our first parents, Adam and 267 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:52,080 Eve, they didn't really lose their religion, but they lost their relationship with the King of Heaven 268 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:59,680 via having citizenship within his Kingdom. And when I read Scriptures like Genesis 126, 269 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,960 and when Heavenly Father says, let's make mankind an art image and our likeness, 270 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:13,440 and let them have dominion over the entire earth, that's exactly what I feel like we were all created 271 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:19,360 for. And the only way that we are going to have true dominion in a way that that's not 272 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:28,160 in a totalitarian manner, that's not in a dictator-esque manner, but in a way that's loving, 273 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:34,080 that's kind, that's caring, that's reflecting all of the fruits of the Holy Spirit, is if we are born, 274 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:39,200 born again, born from above, through water and the Holy Spirit, and when we're born twice, and we 275 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:44,640 now are filled with the Holy Spirit, and we're now reconnected with our home government, with the Kingdom 276 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:54,240 of Heaven, to where we can now advance our Father's government by healing the sick, by raising the dead, 277 00:29:54,240 --> 00:30:00,240 by cleansing lepers, by casting out demons, anywhere where there's darkness. We just like our 278 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:09,120 Savior, just like our Rabbi, the Messiah, Yahushua, we are able to bring Heaven to earth, and I feel 279 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:16,320 like it's just really up to us as citizens of Heaven to make this place called earth look a little 280 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:25,040 bit more soul-like Heaven. So yes, and one last thing, I've been looking at what I get, what's 281 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:31,200 called in the scripture the keys or the keys of Heaven, and how Matthew 16, the Messiah, he talks 282 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:37,040 about giving us the keys, the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and I think that this will be very 283 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,720 encouraging regarding your audience. I think this is going to bless the audience as well too, 284 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:48,880 regarding one of the keys of Heaven, one of the principles is this thing called Kingdom Commonwealth. 285 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:55,920 I think that as believers when things get tough, I think especially financially, and it's crazy, 286 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:01,440 I'm saying this because I just got done stressing out about finances and things of that nature, 287 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,120 but I feel like I think this is going to help somebody as well, put things in perspective. 288 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:12,000 Within a Kingdom, the economic system, it's called Commonwealth, and what that essentially means is 289 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:20,720 that the wealth within a Kingdom is common because all of us, all the law-abiding citizenry, 290 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:27,840 we all have equal access to the King's riches, to his wealth, and to his resources. And so that 291 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:36,640 means that if I am in need of something, whether it be food, whether it be water, whether it be 292 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:42,560 clothing, whether it be shelter, whether it be finances, whatever it may be, this means that 293 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:48,080 as long as we are law-abiding citizens, and as long as we seek the Kingdom first and his 294 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,160 rights, since we are right standing with the government by being law-abiding citizens, 295 00:31:52,720 --> 00:32:00,320 then the King, since he owns everything and he owns everybody who was on earth, he can shift 296 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:06,560 resources, wealth or riches to his citizenry whenever they need it. Now I guess a 297 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:16,960 prime example of this is when the Messiah and Matthew 21, he was telling his students that 298 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:25,280 it's time for me to be crucified essentially, and he told them that when you go to this certain place, 299 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:32,800 go and unhook this coat from this donkey, and if anybody asks you, everybody says, 300 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:41,440 well wait, what are you doing? That's my coat, that's my donkey. He tells them that the Lord 301 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,920 has need of it, the Lord needs this, and right away they're going to send it to you. 302 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:52,560 And so what that speaks to me regarding Kingdom Commonwealth is that within the Kingdom of Heaven, 303 00:32:52,560 --> 00:33:01,680 we don't own anything, but we have access to everything. And so what that means is that 304 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:10,240 before the Messiah, before he was born, there was this man who was grooming this donkey, 305 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:16,400 who was feeding this donkey, who was taking care of it every day, every month, every year, 306 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:27,840 until it came time for the owner of it, the owner of that donkey, his Heavenly Father, 307 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:35,200 said, my son, he needs this now to fulfill Zechariah 999, to fulfill prophecy. And so when it came to 308 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:42,800 that point, I think that person realized that I was just meant to be a sublime steward and a 309 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:49,120 magnificent manager over what the Kingdom of Heaven put under my managerial care. I didn't own this 310 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:55,360 donkey, but the owner owns it and the owner needs it. And so that's what Kingdom Commonwealth is, 311 00:33:55,360 --> 00:34:00,560 is that both in the Kingdom is common, and King Yahweh the owner, he owns everything and everyone 312 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:07,280 on earth. And so whatever we need and whatever moment he can call for because he owns it, he made 313 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:14,480 that donkey, he made that coat, and he used his son to talk to his disciples, his students, 314 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:20,960 and say now's the time for me to fulfill my mission and to die for your sins and to bring the Kingdom 315 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:27,360 of Heaven back to earth. And this donkey is me fulfilling prophecy. And when you go ask him 316 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:33,520 for it, tell him that the owner needs it. And so I feel like that, I pray that that's going to encourage 317 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:38,240 somebody that if you're out there and you're listening and and you're going through like hard 318 00:34:38,240 --> 00:34:43,520 time struggling to make ends meet financially or you feel like you're always lacking something. 319 00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:50,480 I would just encourage you to, if you're not already a citizen, to want to become a citizen 320 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:56,240 of this beautiful Kingdom called Heaven, and to know that within this Kingdom, the provision is 321 00:34:56,240 --> 00:35:01,760 army directional. It can come from any direction, not just your job, your nine to five or what you're 322 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:07,280 doing on the side or whether you're a solopreneur or what have you, it can come from any any direction. 323 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:12,080 And we see this all through our all through our scripture. And so I would like to encourage the 324 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:20,800 listenership that will tune into this is that we serve the King who is doubly rich and doubly 325 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,400 infinitely rich. He owns everything in Heaven and he owns everything on earth. And so as long as we 326 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:32,000 come to him and put him in his Kingdom first, then we'll lack absolutely, positively nothing. 327 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:40,240 Mm hmm. For sure. Amen. Yes. And so I pray that that that that that that's a blessing to somebody 328 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:46,080 out there who's listening. I pray that that that that I guess maybe sharing my testimony and me 329 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:52,320 sharing about the Kingdom and how the Kingdom is really how we through the Kingdom of Heaven, 330 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:57,040 by being a citizen in the Kingdom of Heaven, being filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, it's 331 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:03,840 really going to help us to make to make the world and ultimately a better place. And it's 332 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:11,920 really going to help people to see that there is a Creator. There is a an ultimate God, ultimate 333 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:18,000 Judge, a King who loves us and he wants us not to be stressed out, not not to worry, not to 334 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:25,760 to listen and to believe the lies lies of Satan and the adversary, but to actually come back home, 335 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:32,000 to come back and to enter into his Kingdom and our very lifetime within our very generation. 336 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:39,360 I am reminded of Matthew 633. You mentioned it. Seek first the Kingdom and its righteousness 337 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:45,360 and all these things will be added to you and use. You were seeking answers and you're like, 338 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:51,120 I'm going to the Bible. Some people say the basic instructions before leaving earth. 339 00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:01,440 The one part and they may think Jesus is the one we need to go to first for answers. We were 340 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:10,640 having a conversation at Christmas dinner and my niece, she's young and young. She was talking 341 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:18,080 about this one topic and of course my mom being the grandparents, she just spills it. She's like, 342 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:24,400 you shouldn't do that. But then I'm like, did you consider asking the Bible and seeing what the 343 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:29,280 Bible says about that? And she's like, no, I didn't even think about that. And I'm like, yeah, this 344 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:36,080 is like things that people don't generally think about, but it leads you to the right direction 345 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:40,160 because you're like, oh my gosh, I've been going in the wrong direction this whole time. And then 346 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:46,880 you got answers and that, you know, he discipled you, God discipled you personally and that's what 347 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:53,280 he did for my husband as well. And, you know, because nobody came alongside him once he, 348 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,800 you know, got baptized. I accepted Jesus and it was a congratulations handshake and then 349 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:08,720 you're on your own. Good luck, you know. Wow. Cultivate away. And so mom stubborn and so is God 350 00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:15,200 and he got through to me and he continues to work in my life and the hardest ways possible for me 351 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:23,360 because that's the way I learned. I can relate. But he led you both to the truth and 352 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:32,400 him and when you were seeking that relationship, it opened up a plethora of knowledge and truths 353 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:39,920 and it was life changing for both of you. That's right. Absolutely. I bet a lot of people weren't 354 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:46,640 expecting that at the beginning. Like, oh, how's the Jehovah's Witness and I'm like, just just wait. 355 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:58,960 Yes, yeah, it's, it's man like it's the journey has been so amazing and I always say Hollywood 356 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:09,120 couldn't have written a better script. And I feel like the, the best story is told by our heavenly 357 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:17,120 father. The best journeys are directed by him. The best testimonies are formed by him. And yeah, 358 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:24,480 like there's, there's no better person to go to. But whenever we feel like we are just stuck or 359 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:31,600 that we're losing in life in general, that who better to go to than the creator of life? Who 360 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:38,160 better to go to than the manufacturer who created, who knows us, who knows how we work, who knows, 361 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,520 who knows our thoughts, who knows how we think, how we move, who knows our secret motives, who knows, 362 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:50,160 who knows our agenda when people can't see it, who better to go to than the one who is omniscient, 363 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:56,400 who knows everything about us that maybe even our spouse may not even know. But the, but the king 364 00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:02,480 who formed us together in our mother's womb, he knows us so intimately who better to go to and 365 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:10,320 to ask questions than the almighty King Yahweh. And so I'm the journey that, that he's given me. 366 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:18,320 And I feel like I'm still on. It's blessing of an adventure. And you're like, I'll do the 367 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,640 hardship, the ups and downs, the roller coaster ride that he took him, that I feel like I went 368 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:28,800 through. I wouldn't change anything because I feel like it all worked together for our good. 369 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:33,920 Anything he allows us to go through, he could turn that test into a testimony. He can make our 370 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:38,400 message into our message. And I feel like that, I feel like that's what he wants to do with every, 371 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:42,400 every single person who seeks him earnestly and who seeks him with the pure heart as well. 372 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:47,440 For sure. What a difference it makes leaning into him. 373 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,520 Life changing. Absolutely life changing. My life has, 374 00:40:54,960 --> 00:41:00,160 since I left the watch tower and since, since I've been reading the Bible in Hebrew and studying it. 375 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:05,280 And yeah, my, and learning that, that the kingdom is here and that it's our existential reality. 376 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:13,840 Yeah. My life has never been the same. It has been radically optimized in ways that, that I can, 377 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,440 that I couldn't even dream up in my wildest imagination. 378 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:24,400 I'm part of this group called Kingdom Seekers. There's an app and every January they do a 31 379 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:30,560 day wisdom challenge. And so I've been part of it all this year. And Pedro Deo, he was talking about 380 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:35,680 the third heaven authority. Basically there's actually a book written by Mike Thompson called 381 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:40,320 third heaven authority. And he talks about when you're praying from that third heaven, like from 382 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:45,200 the throne room of heaven, you're over the circumstances instead of praying from the 383 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:50,800 circumstances in your earthly realm, like the first heaven. And like, it's like, 384 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:56,880 depending on your perspective on where you pray from, it can like level up your prayer. 385 00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:03,600 So like if you're praying from your circumstances, it's like 30 times powerful than just doing nothing. 386 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:08,080 But then when you pray from your third heaven authority, it's like 100xing it. 387 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:17,760 And it just changes things. And I was thinking when you talked about God can change this change, 388 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:25,040 he owns all the resources. And we went through 27 months of no and one week of no discernible 389 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:32,960 income. And we didn't lose the house, the utilities, nothing and every we had an interruption in service, 390 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:40,000 nothing. And God kept showing up. And we kept tithing on every single dollar that came into the 391 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:49,040 house, every scrap, even it was $2 on 20 bucks. We just kept given because you can't out give God 392 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:55,520 when he owns everything, he can make it come in. And right. Yeah, you know, we're ambassadors here. 393 00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:01,760 This isn't our home. So of course, God owns it. It doesn't belong to us. And so we shouldn't want 394 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:06,960 to have this world. This isn't for us. This is this is for us to go and reach out and tell people 395 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:13,520 of his word and of his son and of his deeds to give him glory. It's not supposed to be something I 396 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:18,000 hold attachment to. And I'm very grateful that God manages the resources he gives to me because 397 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:23,840 sometimes I can be an idiot. And I really need someone who knows what he's doing in charge of me. 398 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:31,280 And I'm so very grateful that God is to have one. Yes, I want to give this kind of like a 399 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:38,320 parable because I kind of like this will help people to understand all the more so what it's 400 00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:45,440 like to operate within the kingdom of heaven. And also I think operate from a kingdom mindset 401 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:53,920 as well. And so I give this parable of the kingdom of heaven being like a millionaire 402 00:43:55,120 --> 00:44:03,920 who walks into a Walmart. And this millionaire, he he has money and he has millions. So he goes 403 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:09,120 around and he buys whatever he wants, food, clothes, the latest and greatest electronics, 404 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:13,760 whatever, whatever his heart desires, he buys all that stuff and with his money, with his credit card, 405 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:21,040 with his finances. And he walks out the store and he goes back to his home. But then there's this 406 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:28,640 second man who walks into the same Walmart and he has nothing within his pockets. He has no money. 407 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:36,240 He's like, I mean, just just just broke as a joke. He's been late. He's been late all the 408 00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:42,240 late off the job. He got fired. The economy, it's been rough on him. And he goes and he's walking 409 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:46,400 around the Walmart and he's looking looking at all the food and the rotisserie chicken and looking 410 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:51,280 at the clothes and the big screen TVs. He's like, and he has faith that he said, like, man, you know, 411 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:58,960 one day I'm going to be able to go back home to my family and provide this for them. But as he's 412 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:04,800 walking out of the Walmart, he he encounters the owner of the Walmart. And the owner of the Walmart 413 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:14,000 says to him, you know what? You've been coming to this store. And you've been just so nice and so 414 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:19,120 respectful to everybody to the staff, to the new cashier, to the trainee, to the janitor, to everybody 415 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:27,520 within the store. And we we watch you on our cameras. And you're just so faithful to this store. And 416 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:32,240 you she were she everybody everybody was such love and such respect. I want to I want to do 417 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:37,840 something for you and the owner reaches into his pocket and he pulls out this 24 seven access key 418 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:46,080 card. And he gets it to the man and he says, you now have access to this Walmart 24 seven, 419 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:51,200 no matter what happens, just use this card, it'll be it'll be open to you have access. 420 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:57,600 And whatever you want to get for it, just just get it. But the man says, I don't have any any money 421 00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:02,800 though. I don't have I don't have a wallet. I have nothing I have a bank. I don't have anything. And 422 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:11,200 the owner says, don't worry, it's all on the house. And the owner walks away. Out of that scenario, 423 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:17,760 I would I would rather be not the millionaire. I would rather want to be the man who has that 24 424 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:25,280 seven access card, because that's what the kingdom of happiness like in democracies in America. 425 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:33,680 We spell wealth M O N E Y. But in the kingdom, wealth is wealth is spelled a C C S S access. 426 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:44,240 And so being able to access what we need from the owner, our heavenly father, we are able to 427 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:51,040 go to him whenever whenever we need to pray to him whenever we need to ask him whatever whatever 428 00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:59,280 we we want, whatever whatever we have, what's on our heart. And we are able to not just rely on 429 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:06,640 America's economy, but we're able to rely on a far more superior economy called the economy of heaven, 430 00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:12,720 which the last time that I checked heaven, the economies of heaven has no recession, 431 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:21,520 no bankruptcy. The stock market is not crashing. No inflation. It's always super abundant. It's 432 00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:27,600 always a thriving economy. And I believe that's what the kingdom of heaven is like. It's just 433 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:33,840 like that man who got this 24 seven access card, and he can go and he can get whatever he wants, 434 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:39,680 because the owner says, I'm covering you, I will provide for you. Just trust in me. That is what 435 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:47,200 you have. Man is what I'm giving you. And everything that you need, everything that you 436 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:53,040 everything that that needs to be provided to you, it will come from the owner. And that's what I 437 00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:58,320 feel like it's like living within the kingdom of heaven. We I feel most Christians miss out on that. 438 00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:02,160 And that's why we have the story of the prodigal son or the older brother that stayed behind 439 00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:07,760 feels some kind of way. But he actually had access the whole time. And he just didn't realize 440 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:13,520 what he had. Wow. Wow. He was he was like a prisoner because he didn't know how to use the card he had. 441 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:19,520 Wow, that is so true. That is so true. Wow. 442 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:28,720 You know, I'm so very grateful to have you today. You are, you know, you've come from a lot. And I 443 00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:34,480 appreciate the discernment you used while going to the word. I appreciate that God spoke to you 444 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:40,720 through the word and shifted your perspective enough to align yourself with Jesus. It's just 445 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:45,360 an incredible journey. And it's not something that you could do alone that clearly God is behind 446 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:50,400 you and inspirational for you. And the Holy Spirit is leaving you. Thank you for being on this show. 447 00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:58,880 Wow. Wow. Hallelujah. Pray I thank King Yahweh for you all. And I thank King Yahweh for for this 448 00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:04,480 beautiful podcast ministry that he has you are doing together. And that is my sincere prayer, 449 00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:11,360 key invitation that this podcast will continue to thrive and continue to be that beautiful 450 00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:16,240 invitation to him by people into the kingdom of heaven to enter into it. And I just I just thank 451 00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:23,280 you all that you allowed me to to speak and to share my heart and to share how good the king of 452 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:27,920 heaven truly is. So thank you all so very much. I truly appreciate you all. 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