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May 8, 2024 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Jim Bakker Show With Phil Hotsenpiller (FULL EPISODE)
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Proclaiming God's Vision 00:13:12
Hello and welcome to the Jim Baker Family Show coming to you from the village of Morningside, USA, snuggled in the beautiful Ozark Mountains.
Today, our special guest is pastor of Influence Church and in-time prophetic expert, Phil Hodzenpiller.
Our co-hosts today are Maricella Woodall and Mondo De Vega.
And now, live from Gray Street at Morningside, USA, here's your host, Ricky Baker.
Hello, you're watching Jim Baker's PTL Television Network.
We want to thank you for tuning in today.
We have an exciting broadcast with an even more exciting guest today.
You are not going to want to miss this.
The PTL Television Network is growing.
It's expanding.
And you are the reason, friend.
Your faithfulness to this ministry, your dedication to this ministry, and making sure that we broadcast the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world.
We want to say thank you.
We are upping our distribution, Mondo.
Whereas before, you know, the pandemic, we may have been on 20 plus networks.
Some things happened.
We went back down to a couple networks, but now we are upping our distribution again.
You know, rebuilding is key and restoration is key.
And that word is for you.
Rebuilding your home, restoration in your home.
Amen.
Because this is what's happening.
This ministry is a family ministry.
You're part of our family.
You have watched us the last few years with all the turmoil that has happened.
And I can tell you that sometimes it doesn't look like you're winning, but when you step back and realize what God has done, what God is doing in your life tells you that you are in the right place at the right time because the battles have been won.
Listen, when you look back and you realize 22 stations were carrying the Jim Baker show, and the battle started and people started getting scared and networks started getting scared.
But I want to thank the Impact Network for standing with us because listen, anytime you go through something, you find out who your friends are and you find out who's standing alongside of you and you begin to realize that at the end of the day, what you have is friends and family that can help you restore.
And that's what's happening with the network and with the Jim Baker show is that we're restoring back to where we were.
But this time, God has given us a vision, a plan to execute, to do it the right way, and to understand that the battle is real, yet the faithful are also real, Ricky.
That's right.
And that's the beauty of this.
The Lord has given us such a clear and concise plan.
He says, these are your next steps.
Just simply follow them.
And the Lord does the same thing for you, friend.
Whenever you're in a position where you're saying, well, God, I don't know what the future holds for me.
He wants you to know he holds the future already in his hand.
Before the foundation of the beginning of the earth, before he said, let there be light, he understood the position you would be in today.
God is all-powerful.
He's all-knowing.
And better yet, friend, he loves you.
He sent his son to die on a cross for you so that you could be called a son and a daughter.
You know, that's why we have the PTL Television Network.
It's so that we can proclaim the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ until our last breath.
That's why we go into the avenue of even having apps.
You can download the free app on an iPhone and Android.
And, you know, I've had people ask me, why are you guys dedicated to having an app?
Why are you guys dedicated to making sure that it's on the internet, video on demand?
Because we understand that it's not always applicable for somebody to sit down and watch something on their television.
You're busy.
You have family.
You're running kids back and forth from school.
You're a pastor of a church.
Sometimes all you have, Mondo, is just your cell phone in the 30-minute drive.
So it's nice to be able to listen to an encouraging word from the gospel.
So we want to thank you guys for standing with the PTL Television Network and for ensuring that we can continue to preach the gospel.
You know, before you gave that word today, I was asking the Lord what we should share today.
I was brought to Colossians 1.
Colossians 1.13 says this.
He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son that he loves.
Him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Listen, that's so important because more than ever, we need to remind people that they are important, that listen, God has a plan for your life and the plans he has for you are beyond your circumstances.
Amen, and you are watching at.
You know a family that used to say it by faith.
Now we can say it by experience, that all things work together for good for those that love the lord.
And I can tell you this, that God has been faithful and God has been faithful in your family.
God has been faithful in your business, and I can tell you that the easy thing is to give up.
That's the easy thing.
The hard thing is when Jesus came and said hey, don't give up, that's right.
That's right.
Listen, when he goes up to heaven and he's fighting the fight for us, we can't give up amen.
We have to write the vision down.
Listen, Habakka tells us that, write the vision down, make it plain so when others read it they can run with it.
And I can tell you that we have written the vision down.
We have made it very clear, very simple to understand.
That when you see it, when you watch this program, you share it.
You you, you listen, you can't just give up.
I I, that word is for you right now, because so many people have told us, hey, you guys are going to go away, you're not going to last long.
It doesn't make sense that we're here when business people don't understand how in the world does the JIM Baker Ministry still operate right now?
Because in the financial world, you guys would have been written off long time ago.
Yeah, I can tell you that when God has a vision and a plan for you, it doesn't have to make sense to people, that's right.
It doesn't have to make sense to people around you, amen.
But it does make sense Ricky, to go, because when God starts giving you the vision to expand the network in the middle of a crisis, God Maricella spoke to Dad and we were there with him when he signed the contract that the birth of the PTL network has to go out.
He had a stroke.
Everything came against us.
The the the, you know, different states started suing us.
We went into legal battles.
The credit card processing came again.
Everything was against us.
Yet God's vision was, hey, birth the PTL network.
And you're watching a network that was birthed out of a crisis.
And yet here we are.
You can watch us on ROKU AMEN.
Can you imagine that?
You can watch us on Apple TV, Amazon FIRE?
You can go on youtube.
You can watch the uh, the downstream and the live stream and all the kind of streams.
I mean, you lose vocabulary just trying to get it all out.
But listen, that means there's no excuse to get involved.
There's no excuse in this time, to give up.
If god can do it for us, I believe that God is going to do it for you as well.
He absolutely will.
You know, we have the honor of bringing on some of the best guests in the world today and Mondo.
We have an exciting guest and i'm excited for you to hear from this man of god.
We have Phil Hotson, pillar pastor.
Phil is the founder and the president of America Faith and the senior pastor of Influence Church.
Now, he is also a biblical prophecy expert, and he's the author of It's Midnight in America: Confront Fear and Embrace Courage as the Final Hour Approaches.
Pastor Phil, we want to thank you for being on our broadcast today.
Oh, thank you so much.
Great to be with you, and good to see Mondo again.
We were just with him, I think, last week or the week before.
So, exciting times.
My wife also sends a shout out.
I know she was on your show last year with one of her books that she'd written.
So, good friends, good to be in your company today.
Amen.
Pastor, give us an update on your church.
How's everything going?
We want to know how life's been since the last time you've been on.
Yeah, things are going great.
We're still expanding.
You know, the pandemic came and it was really a blessing for us on one hand because it really refined us.
It really was a clarifier of our congregation.
We chose to stay open during the pandemic, and it really became the genesis of this book that I've just released through Charisma.
Wow.
Amen.
Mondo, I'm holding this book in my hand.
Whenever this was given to me, the title alone shocked me.
And I thought, okay, we got to read this book.
It's Midnight in America.
I want to ask you a question.
What caused you to title a book?
It's Midnight in America?
Well, you know, as we all experience that 2020, I really began to take serious the freedoms that we have as Americans and incorporate those into messages.
And I didn't know how long I would speak on the subject, but I actually did a sermon series that was 62 weeks long, and it addressed freedom from a biblical perspective.
We looked at the founding of our nation, things like that.
And so the first chapter is called This is a Dress Rehearsal.
And I came across the writing of a man named Bitterman.
Bitterman wrote the chart of coercion and he modeled it.
He built it from the communist and the North Korean interrogation of captured airmen.
And there were eight points to that.
And I looked at it and I said, that's exactly what's happening in America.
Point number one was you have to isolate the airmen and you have to put them six feet apart.
If you put them five feet apart, it doesn't work, but six feet is the magic number.
And I realized that's what was happening.
They were telling us we had to isolate six feet.
And then it went on and every single one of those eight points you could see were being implemented not only in America, but around the world.
And that's when I knew we had to do something.
And so we started our news media outlet, AmericanFaith.com.
We really didn't expect it to turn into anything.
We just wanted to get the message out.
And now we have 22 million people on it.
So we produce about 35 to 40 new stories every single day.
And God just got his hand on that.
And this book really is kind of answers the questions that people ask or try to find in the Bible.
You know, the Bible is a pretty big book.
And people say, oh, I don't know about prophecy.
And I'm, you know, the book of Revelation frightens me.
So I wrote chapters that are understandable and clarify key and salient points that you find in the Word of God.
Wow.
Amen.
You know, what's important here is I know COVID was a very difficult time, but when I step back and look at everything that God birthed through COVID and everything that happened, it woke up the church.
Amen.
And we have to understand that if we're going to make an impact in our community and our society, we can't be lazy.
We can't be asleep.
And I think the church got to the point that we got comfortable to the point where we had to become uncomfortable and understand what's at stake here.
I think we're watching America for us, for our generation, become a different America than our ancestor talked about.
Because America today is so divided on every issue that we can't even understand how to have a conversation.
And when I looked at this title, Ricky and Mari Salah, it's midnight in America.
I'm thinking it's later than what we think.
That's right.
Listen, the conversations cannot be had anymore.
There's no logic to the conversations anymore because we're one-sided on so many issues.
The church is still trying to understand culture today.
But I thank God for men and women of God that has had the revelation to help us understand Bible prophecy.
That's right.
Understanding really the calendar of God and understanding why we're watching this event unfold in ways that the Bible has always talked about and predicted, yet in real time, is really hard to understand unless you have men and women of God that can help us translate or interpret what is really happening behind the scenes as we're watching Israel in turmoil,
as we're watching the economic system in turmoil, as we're watching the world leaders really dictating the future of the nations.
But yet when you're watching turmoil in America, in our colleges right now, it really tells you: could we be at that midnight hour?
What does the time clock look like?
And stay tuned because we're going to reveal a lot of what we're talking about and unpack so you can understand how to pray in this season.
Amen.
You know, there is a lot of turmoil around the world.
The United States of America is seeing it even on our college campuses, but we're seeing this take place in the Middle East as Iran directly attacked Israel.
Red Heifer Ritual 00:03:10
Now, that is literally without precedence, and it has a biblical prophetic significance.
And Pastor, I want you to talk about that significance.
Oh, absolutely.
Well, you know, Gaza has always been a really hot bed of demonic warfare in the Bible.
If you remember, there was a guy named Samson.
And Samson betrayed his covenant with God to Delilah.
And when he did that, what he did was he lost his strength.
And they took him down into the temple of Dagon, which is Gaza.
And there, with his eyes put out, you saw the covenant was renewed.
So I just want to set the stage where this place is and how significant it really is.
So this conflict that came up against Israel, really unprecedented since World War II, in terms of the number of deaths that were taken, their lives that were taken.
But on the 100th day of that war, a Hamas fighter was interviewed by a CBS reporter.
And what he said was that when they asked, why did you do this?
He said the major reason was the red cows.
Now, most people would not even know what that meant, but he was referring to the red heifers.
And even now, that might seem like, what are you talking about?
Well, in Numbers chapter 19, what God had prescribed for the cleansing of the temple was that they would sacrifice a red heifer that had to be spotless.
It had to be the right age.
It could never have pulled the yoke.
And it would then be burned down to white ashes.
And those white ashes were stirred with water.
And that was referred to as living water.
And that's what Jesus was talking about in the Gospel of John when he said, if you want my water, it's living water.
He was talking about the ultimate cleansing that comes because they would take that living water.
They would cleanse the priests.
They would cleanse the utensils that were used in the temple and the temple itself.
So the temple hasn't existed for 2,000 years.
It was destroyed in 70 AD by Titus.
And when it was destroyed, the need for that red heifer was gone.
The sacrificial system was gone.
And they have not had that.
So this Hamas fighter understood very well that if the red heifer is back, that signals the only thing left now is to rebuild the temple.
And that would go on the Temple Mount.
That means the mosque has to be moved.
And we know that the temple will be rebuilt.
And it will be sacrificial system will return during the tribulation period.
So we're living in one of the hottest, one of the freshest prophetic fulfillments that we can see right here.
And just to kind of put that in perspective, how do we know there's a temple?
Well, Daniel actually said he was given instructions to measure the future temple.
And then we know in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, it says that the Antichrist will take a seat in the temple, declare himself to be God.
Campus Protests and Jewish Students 00:06:24
So we have many, many data points that we can look at and understand that we're living in one of the freshest, hottest prophecy times, really in the last generation.
We are truly living.
Mondo, that is a good word.
In the last generation, we have never seen more prophecy be fulfilled at the expeditious rate at which it has been fulfilled in the generation that is alive right now.
Mondo, we're seeing Jews being hidden on college campuses, not because they want to, but because they're being forced to, Mondo.
What do you think we need to do in response to our college campuses attacking Jewish students?
Absolutely.
I think the first thing we need to do is understand what's happening, understanding before reacting.
Number two, really put the pressure on this current administration to stand for the right thing to do.
I think this is a very critical moment that we're in right now.
Any time now looks like yesterday, we are in trouble.
Right now, we're watching over 14 universities.
Can you imagine some of the top universities in America allowing this to take place, allowing this to become a problem?
When you look at the news, you're thinking you're looking at a different nation.
Yet it's America that we're looking at.
And when you're watching, you know, the prime minister, Netanyahu, really send a stern warning to America.
This is like the 1930s and understanding that this is what they did to the Jewish communities.
And what we're watching right now is almost like a repeat of history.
Yet we have to stand for the right thing to do.
The right thing to do is to stop this and create this unbelievable protection for the Jewish community like never before.
Yet, again, we go back to what we were talking about.
There's a division in America that doesn't make sense.
That's right.
Common sense tells you, stop the chaos.
Yet, the Bible has predicted that we will be seeing this type of events take place.
Yet we're watching the turmoil in real time.
That's right.
The world's going to watch how America is going to respond to this.
Because if we start seeing a trend in other universities in London, if we start seeing universities and other nations repeat what is happening here, we got ourselves a big problem.
That's right.
And I want to tell you that the world is also going to be closely watching how the church responds to this.
Pastor, it is your responsibility, deacon, elder, door greeter, whatever you are.
It is your responsibility that you ensure the people know that we stand with Israel.
Now, Pastor, I want you to watch this video.
It's a CBN report about Jewish students fearing for their safety.
On Columbia's campus, Jewish students endured threats with calls to go back to Poland.
Here, a demonstrator points at pro-Israel students while holding a sign that reads Al-Qassam's next targets.
And a Jewish professor is denied entry to the campus while school officials look on.
I am a professor here.
I have every right to be everywhere on campus.
You cannot let people that support Hamas on campus and me a professor knock on campus.
Let me in now.
Meanwhile, other Columbia faculty members join protesters chanting Free Palestine and calling for the school to divest from companies selling weapons to Israel.
Demonstrations growing more radical have Jewish students fearing for their safety, leading one rabbi to tell students to stay away because the school can't protect them.
I was there today and it visit that made me sick hearing the things they were saying and doing.
So over this holiday, I kind of just want to try to avoid it as best as I can for my own safety.
Monday, the school went to online classes only as New York Governor Kathy Hochel came to see the situation firsthand.
Students are scared.
They're afraid to walk on campus.
They don't deserve that.
But I've never seen a level of protest that is so person-to-person.
It is so visceral.
And I'm not calling on everyone.
People need to find their humanity.
Have the conversations.
Talk to each other.
Protests, however, spread to other schools in the Northeast.
Monday night at NYU, police clashed with protesters while making arrests as they tore down a tent encampment.
At Yale, police arrested 45 students for trespassing as their peers celebrated them as heroes.
Pro-Palestinian students at MIT have declared part of their campus a liberated zone.
While at Harvard, officials shut down Harvard Yard until Friday to prevent similar protests.
The reaction is simply horror.
Rabbi Moisha Hauer told CBN News it needs to be stopped.
It's been happening in one place after the other at different degrees.
And if it's not addressed properly and efficiently, it will continue to grow.
If they're doing things which break the law, they should have consequences as defined by the law.
But they must have consequences.
The answer can't be, we spoke to them.
Monday, President Biden condemned the anti-Semitic protests while also condemning those who says don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians.
Pastor, dozens have popped up on college campuses, including Columbia University.
Now, why has there been a rise of college-age students who think Hamas is the good people here and that swatzikas are woke?
Because we are seeing them wave flags with swastikas on them.
What's happening to our education system here in America, Pastor?
Well, we've created this problem over the last 50 years.
Colleges have been very, very quick to take large endowments that really are funding Muslims and radicals on campus.
We've also created the problem by having very few, if any, conservative professors that teach in these universities.
Never Palestinian State 00:05:29
And so this is a natural outcome of what you see.
There's always been an anti-Israel sentiment around the world.
It's always been there.
It manifests itself greatly, obviously, in World War II, but that has not gone away.
And so when you flood your universities with a lot of money, a lot of endowments, and a lot of students that hold this view, you're going to create a problem.
The other side of it is not really understanding Israel's right to the land.
So everybody thinks there's a two-state solution or it belongs to the Palestinians.
However, there's never been a Palestinian king.
There's never been a Palestinian currency.
There's never been a Palestinian land at all.
And remember, the word Palestine was a term of derision used by one of the Roman leaders when he slurred the word Philistine.
And so the history of this is very, very interesting.
But if you don't believe that Israel has a right.
So the interesting thing is they're quoting from the rivers to the sea.
Well, that was the promise that was given to Abraham, not to Ishmael, basically the great relative of the Arab nation.
It was given to Abraham for the Jews.
The Jews would have the land from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean.
And that's never been in dispute.
We go back to the time of David.
The only time the Jews have not had control is when they've been forced out of the land, when they've been killed, murdered, and raped on behalf of some ideology that is demonic.
For me, I'm trying to comprehend where the confusion started.
Here, Pastor, you just laid out the foundation.
That's right.
Yeah, there's a spirit of confusion in the land that many people don't understand.
I think we are having a hard time really trying to make sense of some of the dialogues and exchange that is happening.
I got to ask you this because many experts are concerned that we are one step away to having another civil war in America.
I feel like we're in one already.
Do you feel we will be having another civil war as things are changing and escalating in America?
You know, wars come and go and they change their weapons.
I think we are in a civil war, but not with guns and rifles and cannons.
It's a civil war of ideology, and it's fueled by the electronic age that we live in.
So we can instantly capture a picture without context, incite a riot in another part of the state or the world.
And so we're fueling this and constantly.
You know, you look what's happening on campuses.
It's not going to stop.
It's not slowing down.
If it's 14 now by tomorrow, it'll be 20.
And this is going to exponentially move to the place to where we're going to be in a crisis zone.
You know, this has happened in Paris.
There are parts of Paris you can't even go into anymore.
It's not safe because they're radical Muslim enclaves.
And this is going to happen to America.
You're going to see isolation.
You're going to see things happen.
Remember, it was prophetically, let's kind of jump into the prophetic timeline because we can show you how this goes.
So Israel was dispersed all over the world.
And yet God had a plan.
And the plan was he was going to bring his people back.
So before 1948, the Palestinians didn't want the land.
It wasn't until Israel transformed it, according to scripture, into the land that it is now of great worth, great technology, great value, agriculture, freedom, you name it.
Then everybody wanted it.
Okay?
So 1948, Israel becomes a nation.
The prophetic clock begins to tick.
1950, what does Israel do?
They established the law of return.
That meant any Jew living anywhere in the world could have citizenship in Israel.
1972, the great Russian expulsion of Jews happened.
And guess where most of them went?
They came to Israel.
And Russia had no idea they were losing some of the brightest, smartest people, scientists and otherwise, that the world had known.
They came into Israel.
And that was fulfilling a scripture in Jeremiah.
Out of the north will I call my people.
Then 1980 to 1984, Zephaniah prophesied, out of Ethiopia of all places, will I call my people.
And what happened?
We had three airlifts out of Ethiopia to bring Ethiopian ancestered Jews into Israel.
So now all of a sudden we're seeing the fulfillment of this.
We're going, that's 72, that's 84, and things just keep moving prophetically showing you what's happening because God is preparing a people for a plan that he has.
And that's why I say in my book, you know, things aren't falling apart, they're falling in place.
And we look at life and we say, wow, this is terrible and this is bad.
It is terrible.
It is bad.
But remember, some things are going to be managed by God very closely because they're those moments in prophetic history that are very, very significant.
Midnight In America 00:03:39
And I believe we're living in one of those moments.
I absolutely believe we're living in one of those moments as well.
And I want you to go, this is a book from Charisma House, Marcel.
This is an exciting book.
I really believe that you need to get your hands on this because it truly is midnight in America.
We have that available through Charisma House in our affiliate program.
Yes, that's right, Ricky.
So all you have to do is go to our website.
That's jimbakershow.com.
Click on the Charisma House, an incredible offer that they've put together for our audience today.
And you can also call our toll-free number.
That's 1-888-988-1588.
And they can call an order.
That's right.
And while you're looking at that and you call and order that number, I want to read this from the back of the book.
It says, it's midnight in America.
It delivers a stark revelation about America's role in biblical prophecy and the urgent need for revival in church.
Drawing a parallel to the biblical character of Samson, Pastor Phil Hotson Pillar highlights how the American church, like Samson, is unaware of its waning power and influence.
Marto, that is the most beautiful comparison I have ever seen because that's really where we are right now.
Absolutely.
And I want to ask you this, Pastor Phil, because some prophecies in scripture are apocalyptic, symbolic, and often more than a little confusing to a lot of people.
How can we get a better understanding of Bible prophecy with much of the confusion and chaos taking place in our world today?
Well, you know, one of the things I aimed to do, and I think I achieved it, was to make it understandable.
You know, if you tell people to go read the book of Revelation, by chapter seven, they're timing out.
They're saying, I don't know what's going on, but it doesn't look good.
And I wanted to make it to where you could understand it.
You could put your arms around it and you could find really purpose and safety and hope knowing that God knows the end from the beginning and you as his child, you are going to be protected by God through all these difficult and challenging circumstances that are coming up.
The other thing I did was I wrote each chapter so that it would stand alone.
So if you look at the chapter headings and you say, well, I'm interested in this one, you can read that one and you don't have to read the previous one or the one that follows in order to grab it.
And that way you can kind of take it in bite-sized pieces and understand biblical prophecy because it's really not that complicated once it's all put together and framed for you in a chapter.
That's right.
Now, I want to talk about the prophetic time clock that you write about in chapter three of your book.
What time are we in right now, Pastor?
Well, you know, there's some really interesting things.
We remember the six-day war.
That was a miracle.
But one of the things that made that miraculous was not just how quickly they won, but it was Israel regained access to the wailing wall.
And if you've ever seen the pictures, there's video of it where these IDF soldiers, Israeli Defense Force soldiers, are standing at the wall for the first time in their life, praying and weeping because God had given them now authority over that area.
And so I believe that was the beginning of a scripture that says that the times of the Gentiles will come to an end.
So we still see the Gentiles running the world, but I really believe that capturing of the wall and the area of Israel at that time was very, very significant in prophetic history, along with some of these other ones we've talked about.
A Move of God Among Men 00:04:17
I believe 9-11 was also a prophetic moment.
It really was the end of the age of innocence for America.
We saw that we were no longer strong.
We were more like Samson, blinded and bound and subject to the invasion of foreign enemies.
A new thing for us, really.
And you keep kind of moving down the road.
We're seeing right now, I believe, some of the fulfillment of the promise of Malachi, where Malachi said he was going to restore the fathers to the children.
And I'm seeing a real move of God among men in our church.
I'm seeing it elsewhere.
Other men are reporting this, that they've never seen more men actively engaged in the church.
We have more men's Bible studies now than we have women's.
We have more guys up at the front worshiping.
You know, we have kind of excitable worship, emotional worship.
And we have more men up there jumping up and down, lifting their hands than we ever have.
And so I think that we're seeing some things.
Gen Z is a major, there's a major move of God among Gen Z, but primarily among the boys.
And I think that's because the attack of masculinity and guys are looking around going, wow, I'm becoming an endangered species here, and I need to find God.
We've got Jesus clubs going on in our schools.
We're seeing 250 kids per school coming out every single week.
We're seeing 40 and 50 kids at each school saved every week.
Well, that's a move of God.
We weren't doing that 10 years ago.
So I think there's a move of God that's moving us toward revival, an end-time revival, where we're going to see signs, wonders, and miracles like we've never seen before.
We're going to see a move of God like we've never seen before.
The miracles are going to happen in the middle of the darkness, and it's going to point the light on Jesus Christ.
You know, we cannot give up on the education system in America.
I think we are seeing the results of the absence of Christians really starting, you know, Jesus clubs and universities.
And, you know, when I started, I think it was 26 years ago, I started speaking, and I started speaking in high schools and junior highs and colleges where I was being invited to share my story.
And there was a great move of God.
This is 26 years ago.
And as I got older, I started getting less and less invites to go out and speak in colleges.
And not because they didn't want me, it was because the absence of Christian clubs inside of those school systems were not there.
And I remember going up to the principals and superintendents and say, man, did you guys kick him out?
No, he says, they just left.
They didn't want to do anything here.
And all of a sudden, we started seeing a rise of other religion clubs and Satan clubs.
But we always wonder what happened to the Christian clubs.
That's right.
And I think you're seeing the results in our schools of what happens when the church is not involved in the culture.
We got to stay vigilant and not really encamp ourselves in a four-wall building.
We have to remain out there in the middle of where things are happening because that tells you we can influence the change.
When I hear of these numbers of students getting saved every week, that's hope.
That's your grandchildren.
That's your daughter.
That's your son.
That's someone that you have been praying for that God can send someone like Pastor Phil in that ministry back into the school systems because they need hope.
That's right.
We are watching more suicides in the lives of young people than any other time.
I shared, I think it was a few weeks ago, where I shared where there's two major schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma that are dealing with fentanyl deaths in Christian schools.
China And The Kings Of East 00:06:26
The rise of drugs in the Christian schools are rising more than ever.
Yet they're making a difference because they're talking about it.
They're creating an atmosphere of hope.
That's right.
And I got to tell you this, when you see other nations investing in their children, why aren't we doing it?
That's right.
Right.
And that tells you, you know, if China's moving in, you know, it tells you, could China have something to do with Bible prophecy?
Pastor Phil, you write about the kings of the East and the role that China plays in Bible prophecy.
Why did you feel it was important to address Bible prophecy in connection with the kings of the East?
Well, you know, the kings of the East were really, you see a foretail of those in the book of Genesis.
And that is when Abraham goes down to battle against the kings of the East at the bottom of the Assalt Sea.
So they crossed the Euphrates once.
God was giving us a little prophetic snapshot what was going to happen.
So now let's fast forward to the book of Revelation.
And it talks about the kings of the East will cross the Euphrates River.
They will come in into Israel to seek to destroy it, and God will intervene.
Well, who are these kings of the East?
Well, the interesting thing about them is that there's said to be an army of like 200 million soldiers.
And that seems like an odd number because the number of people living in the first century when John wrote the book of Revelation was 100 million.
So that would be like saying there's an army somewhere in the world of 16 billion that's going to invade a land.
That's so outlandish, it seems impossible.
And yet in 1963, Time magazine did an article and they talked about China's standing army and militia numbered 200 million.
So there we see that in, you know, 50 years ago, 70 years ago, they already had an army of that size.
Now we see China developing things, enhancement of soldiers, basically bionics, drugs, doing everything to enhance them so that they're not subject to biological warfare.
They're protecting them about that.
Also, the colors, the colors that John saw were red and blue and yellow.
Now, he saw those colors coming from the kings of the East.
But isn't it interesting?
Those are the military colors of China.
And so this is a prophetic glimpse that God gave John 2,000 years ago.
So is that comforting or distressing?
Well, it can be both.
You can say, wow, those are terrible times.
They are if you're in the middle of them.
But if you're raptured out, they're not terrible times.
And that's one of the great things that we know in scripture, that God has not destined us to wrath.
And the tribulation is called the time of God's wrath.
So that's why I can be confident, I can be sure, and I can live every day with hope and joy.
Amen.
You know, we see the end times model, it's the biggest topic.
You can go on any social media site like X and you can go on TikTok and you will see something trending about the end times because it is a hot topic that especially young people, they really want to now be involved in because they realize, okay, it seems a lot later than it is.
But a lot of the things that are talked about is something like the Antichrist.
Now, the question that we see a lot is, what are some of the ways that the Antichrist achieves global domination?
Because that may sound like a lofty thought to someone who doesn't maybe study the Bible.
They say, okay, one figure achieving global domination.
That doesn't make any sense.
But we see in the Bible that this will happen.
And what are some of the ways that he'll do that, Pastor?
Well, you know, with technology today, doing that is much easier than it was before.
We see a move of the World Economic Forum to try to unite the world, do away with private property, you know, go to a one-world currency, to a digital passport.
All of these things from a technology standpoint are very achievable.
And there's an agenda that is moving in that direction very strongly.
We kind of forget that Adolf Hitler, if he hadn't made a couple of mistakes, the outcome could have been much different.
If he, for example, had not attacked with Japan or joined forces with Japan, that could have been a different thing.
America may not have got in it.
If he had not attacked and turned his alliance against Russia, it could have been a whole different picture.
He could have been ruling over.
He had a picture of ruling the world.
So when we see these despotic rulers of the past, what do they do?
Well, they're doing exactly what's happening in America today.
They're killing free speech.
They're overriding authority.
They're questioning the founding documents or traditions of that nation, that is, the Constitution, in our case.
We're seeing DOJ and FBI both have been really weaponized against people.
We see surveillance that speaks of that novel 1984 when we think, how is it possible for Big Brother to be watching everything we do?
And then you create fear.
If you can get people afraid for their life like they did in the pandemic, that was a test.
That was just a dress rehearsal.
I think everyone that was behind that pandemic, I like to call it, everyone was behind that were shocked how quickly everyone complied to just fear, just fear.
And it was a flu.
Granted, it was a flu that could have been averted.
It was a flu that could have been handled better from a medical standpoint, in my opinion.
But think about global fear that took place and roads were empty, businesses shut down, people were under control.
Well, the Antichrist could do that very, very easily in the climate that we're moving into in the future.
Wow.
Listen, what you need to do is order this book right now.
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Pastor Phil goes into depth into what we just talked about, the Antichrist, chapter five, actually, rise of the Antichrist.
Rising Power Through Deception 00:04:25
And you list a list that is unbelievable because you have to understand what this is going to, what all this is going to look like.
Number one, rising to power through deception.
We're watching that right now.
Second, exploding global crisis, establishing a regime.
Listen, if we don't understand the power of artificial intelligence, I want to tell you something.
That is going to be used in ways that is going to benefit us in one way, but it's also going to manipulate in a different way that we're not going to be ready for.
And the times that we're in right now are signaling what Matthew 24 talked about.
And I have to ask you this because I find it fascinating that you write about the days of Noah.
Can you provide a prophetic insight?
Because this has a prophetic warning, but it also has a whole message within this and also elaborate on the days of Lot.
How does that parallel to where we are right now and where are we headed?
Well, you know, this comes right out of scripture.
Jesus talked about days of Noah, days of Lot.
And if you really want to study end time prophecy, go back and study those two events.
What happened in Sodom with Lot and what happened with Noah in chapter six of the book of Genesis?
The interesting thing is, I did extensive teaching on Genesis 6 20 years ago, and everyone just kind of ho-hummed it.
They didn't think much about it.
What's made it different today is chapter six, and this is going to seem a little far out to some people, but it talks about the Nephilim.
Now, the Nephilim are the product.
They were giants in the land.
They were the product of what the Bible describes as the sons of God and the daughters of men.
And this was a cohabitation of these demonic creatures with women on earth.
It created the Nephilim.
And the Nephilim were giants in the land.
So why did God destroy the planet at that time?
Because sin was so great?
Yes, but because also the Nephilim.
And he wanted to rid the earth of all of this DNA, corrupted DNA on planet Earth.
And he could only find eight people that somehow had not been affected or had bought into that.
Well, what do we have today?
Transhumanism.
Transhumanism is going on.
They're predicting that in the next 50 years, there will not be a standard issue created in the image of God, human being, that has not been enhanced.
Now, think about that.
That can be anything from a computer chip in your head.
It can be the way that you function, even with artificial organs that are not subject to decay or attack.
Many, many things.
So we're living in a transhuman age that parallels that.
Couple that with the days of Lot.
Well, why was Sodom destroyed along with other cities?
They were destroyed because of the rise of homosexuality in the land.
And because so evil was it that when the angels came to deliver Lot out of his, out of out of Sodom, remember the men of the town, they came, they saw these men, these angelic men, and they came to the door knocking, pounding, demanding that Lot turn him over.
Lot was so corrupt himself that he offered his virgin daughter to them, and they refused.
They didn't want the woman.
And we see this fulfilling scriptures all through the Bible that there's going to be this rise.
Romans chapter one deals with it.
It's an interesting chapter.
It's now forbidden in the country of New Zealand to read chapter one of the book of Romans in your church.
Now think about that.
Why?
Because it directly deals with this subject of homosexuality.
You know, this is why you're watching.
This is unbelievable.
I hope you're paying attention.
Most people, I didn't know that.
Did you know?
I was going to say, I did not know that, and that is shocking to me.
You should be ashamed of yourself if you are a politician who set that into place.
We have the infallible word of God, the 66 books which were given to us right here, and you must adhere to every word of it, not just the parts that make you feel comfortable.
Challenging Times Ahead 00:07:21
Mondo, that is absolutely baffling.
This is why we need to stay informed in AmericanFaith.com.
And I want to go there, get the latest news on what's happening there, but also get this book as I'm reading, and I've been reading this book for several days now, but I want to tell you something.
We have to understand what this looks like.
Because as you're talking about artificial intelligence and transhumanism, I'm watching the headlines, and this is unbelievable.
This is according to News Atlas, AI now surpasses humans in almost all performances, benchmarks.
That's right.
That means that everything, every challenge that they set the artificial intelligence machine to do has met every single one of them and is looking for more.
What's next?
Can you imagine what's next?
What's down the pipeline?
It's going to shock all of us unless we stay in tune on what's happening right now because everything is falling into place.
That's right.
Everything.
This is what we want you to do.
We want you to get this book.
It's Midnight in America.
When you order this book, you're helping this ministry to continue to go forward.
You're helping us bring pastors and leaders that helps us understand the times that we're in right now.
But better yet, you have a practical tool that can guide you.
And really, order several of them because you want to start a Bible study and start digging through this.
There's a lot of scripture in this book, but I want to tell you something.
I also found that there's a lot of hope, Ricky, in this book.
Well, that's right.
He lays out everything that is going to happen, everything that has happened, everything that is happening right now.
But I can tell you that on each chapter, Pastor Phil ends with hope.
There's hope.
Don't give up on hope.
Don't give up on God.
Don't give up on the miracles that are going to take place.
You know, when sin abounds, much more grace abounds.
We're going to start seeing miracles like never before.
We're going to start watching the protocols of things that are supposed to happen, but we're also going to see the return of our loved ones back into the gospel.
And I want to tell you something.
Don't give up.
Don't give up.
Call right now, 1-888-988-1588.
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You know, Mono, you made a great point.
This would make a wonderful Bible study tool.
There are four parts to this book.
There's 14 chapters.
You could break that up over, you know, four different Bible discussions if you wanted to, or you could break it over 14 different ones.
This is a key, pivotal book for you and your family to have.
What we always say is, Mono, get one for your pastor.
Make sure that they know the times we're living in.
And Pastor, I want to ask you, how important is it for us to remain watchful as church members, as the body of Christ, as the American church?
It's key.
And let me just go back to the universities in America.
Do you realize that every Ivy League university in America, except for Columbia, was founded by Christians?
Yes.
But what we did was we took our hand off.
We were very good at starting things and casting the vision and living by faith.
But then what happens, you see this slow corruption come into.
You realize that most hospital systems across America were built and started by a Christian initiative.
So we have to be not only watchful about what's going on, we have to hold on to what has been given to us.
That's called stewardship.
We've got to manage things really, really well.
One of the chapters that I think people really find encouraging is Israel, that America needs more blacksmiths.
And I use the story of the Philistines when they invaded Israel.
They removed all the blacksmiths so that Israel could not make weapons of war, nor could they make tools for their agricultural system.
And so they were totally dependent on a foreign entity.
Does that sound familiar?
Totally dependent on a foreign entity.
And guess what?
They couldn't defend themselves.
So we have things that have been taken from us or are threatened to be taken, like free speech.
If you don't have free speech guaranteed in the Constitution, what are you going to do?
What you see playing out on college campuses today is there is no free speech going on.
It's just violence.
It's just anger and all of these things.
So we're not the democracy or the republic that our founders intended.
Honest dialogues no longer happen.
And so we are living in really challenging times.
I think the blacksmiths come back to America when parents go to school board meetings and stand up for what is right, when you're not intimidated on social media because you think you're going to be criticized.
When your pastor stands up for truth, that's returning a blacksmith.
When you, as an individual person, you don't hold your opinion back about truth and God.
You're a blacksmith back in the land.
Let's take back the land for Jesus.
Amen.
You know, if someone's being overtaken by fear in these moments, what are the antidotes to fear in these times we're living in?
Well, you know, a lot of people think fear is simply an emotion, but it's not.
It is an emotion, and we all have that emotion, but it's also a spirit.
The Bible says God has not given us a spirit of fear.
Okay, so fear is a spirit.
What spirit has God given us?
The Holy Spirit, which is strength and courage.
So if you think about it, there is a spirit, a demonic spirit of fear that arrests us.
Without courage, and courage is not something you're born with.
Courage is something because you're driven by truth and values that's so strong in your life.
Winston Churchill, who was a great emblem of courage during World War II, said that courage is a foundational character quality.
And all other character qualities issue from that one thing: courage.
So we just have to be willing to stand.
You know, when we opened our church and said, we're not going to close, we're not going to close our doors again.
We're going to defy the army, it was or the military or the government or anybody else.
We said, no, we're going to stand in courage.
What's the outcome?
We don't know.
When we were raided by OSHA and raided by the health department, they put notices on our doors.
We ignored them.
We just kept going.
And that's courage.
Plus, I was willing to get arrested.
I look good in orange.
I look good in orange.
That's why he's a friend of this ministry.
No wonder you wanted to come over to the Mondo show and go to our website, jimbakershow.com.
You can go to our affiliate, which is Charisma Media, and you can find this book.
It is important for you to read this.
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Preparing With Hope 00:06:11
Mondo, this is a book that is vital for this generation.
Yeah, you know, he talks about spiritual preparation and also physical preparation.
And I love people that are not ashamed to talk about preparing.
Listen, you don't have to be this crazy, obsessed type of person.
No, you have to be smart about it and understand that.
Yeah, you can prepare spiritually and you can prepare everything you can with that.
And that's what we offer.
There's amazing books so you can prepare spiritually about what's happening right now, but also prepare your home with food and water and essentials because you never know the day that will come that you're going to be needed to show up with food.
That's right.
Ricky, we showed up to many events, many historical events here in America with the food buckets.
And I want to tell you something.
Not one person turned it down.
People that were in need, people that had lost everything, they were looking to the church to give them a help.
And I want to tell you something.
We were there to help people.
We passed out food.
We passed out water bottles.
We passed out essentials that people needed at that moment.
We're not ashamed to get prepared.
I want to tell you something.
We have seen the faces of people that have nothing.
And when they saw us, they remembered.
And one of them even said, I used to make fun of you guys, but today I understand the mission that you guys are in right now to help people get prepared.
That's what we brought and partnered with this new group called New Mana.
That's right.
There's an amazing family of believers, Ricky, that love Jesus, but they also understand the importance to getting prepared.
And today we want to make that available to you.
This is the New Mana Family Pack, and it's unbelievable because the recipes inside of this food bucket goes beyond anything that you can expect.
You can have the sweet habanero chili with pineapple, the rice piloff, the black bean soup, the classic chili, the cheesy potato soup, oatmeal and brown sugar.
I mean, I can go down the list of some of the amazing recipes that this family has put together.
And when you order, I can tell you that the wait is not long.
The moment you place your order in, this is immediately shipped to you and it can be in your home right away.
We want you to go to the website and get more information about this and how you can get one, maybe two.
They're working with your budget to make sure.
But most importantly, if you're a pastor and you're watching, they are working with churches right now to get you prepared.
And I can tell you that this people are ready to work with you with your budget and even work with you on getting the food right away.
Visit jimbakershow.com or give us a call, 1-888-988-1588.
Make a decision today.
It's time to get ready.
It's time to be prepared.
It's time to know that God has chose you and us to come together and make a difference.
That's right.
It is time to make a difference.
Pastor, I want to thank you for being on with us today.
If there's somebody who is watching this broadcast who doesn't know our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ as their King of King and Lord of Lords, what would you say to them today?
You know, I would say that he's been looking for you and he loves you.
And anything you've done in the past, anything you'll do in the future, he still loves you.
And if you call upon his name, as the Bible says, if we confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus, believe in our heart that God has raised him from the dead, here's the promise.
You will be saved.
You can call on his name right now and just invite him to save you, to remove all your sins and write your name in the Lamb's book of life.
Amen.
That is the best message.
Mondo, I'm going to read a little expert out of this book right here.
You know, this is, it's midnight in America.
This is one of the chapters.
It says, unlike weeds, people have choices and intentions.
Since Jesus taught this parable as an example of the kingdom of heaven, and since the wheat and the tares represent people, we need to consider how any of these seeds got to be good.
No person starts off as good as we see in Matthew 19.
Only after we repent, confess our sins, and receive the righteousness that only God can supply, do we become good seeds.
Wow.
That's the hope we have.
And that is the hope we have.
Listen, order this book today.
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This book is filled with hope.
Everything that we do is filled with hope.
I know we talk about a lot of things that are fearful and all that, but I can tell you that if you're not knowledgeable, if you don't get the wisdom, then you are going to live in fear.
There's a whole chapter on how not to live in fear.
Amen.
And if you do, he explains what happens when you do live in fear.
But there's more scriptures against fear than anything else.
Stay connected.
Be encouraged to know that we love you, Ricky.
That's right.
We really do, man.
We love people.
Everywhere we go, we get people tell us, man, we feel like we're family.
That's right.
We're praying for you.
We're fighting for you.
Amen.
We've had, we honestly, I say this, we have the best partners in the entire world.
Whether we go out and we see you guys or we're traveling and we see you, you always come up and you always have an encouraging word.
We want to say thank you for standing with us as a ministry, as a network, as a family.
Mondo, it is wildly encouraging to see that people stand with the PTL television.
Absolutely.
And thank you for praying for mom and dad, your friends, Pastor Jim and Lori Baker.
Amen.
You have seen them a few times.
They come back.
And I can tell you that.
Keep praying for them.
Keep seeing them through because we are expecting a miracle like never before.
But when you support this ministry, and by the way, if you want to do a special offering to help us continue, do it today.
Stand with us.
We need your help.
We need your support.
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That's right, Brendan.
Make sure that your foundation is firmly rooted on the only foundation that will never budge.
And that is the only way to heaven, Jesus Christ.
We want you to remember that and remember this: that God loves you.
He really does.
Bye-bye for today.
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