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Sept. 15, 2021 - Knowledge Fight
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#596: Possibly Too Much Wacky

Today, Dan turns heel on the world by digging deeper into wackiness. In this installment, he tells Jordan about an episode of The Jim Bakker Show in order to infuriate him with details about the Court of Heaven.

Participants
Main voices
d
dan friesen
32:25
j
jordan holmes
21:07
p
pastor robert henderson
10:59
Appearances
j
jim bakker
02:38
Clips
a
alex jones
00:33
s
steve quayle
00:02
Callers
andy in kansas
00:00
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unidentified
knowledge fight damn and jordan i am sweating knowledgefight.com it's time to pray i have great respect for knowledge fight knowledge fight i'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys
Chang, we are the bad guys Knowledge of the fire Dan and Jordan Knowledge fight.
Need money.
Andy in Kansas.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas.
unidentified
Stop it.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas.
unidentified
It's time to pray.
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding us.
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your room.
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
Knowledgefight.com.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We're a couple dudes.
I can sit around, drink, worship at the altar of Celine and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
unidentified
Dan!
Jordan!
jordan holmes
Quick question for you.
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
What was your bright spot today?
dan friesen
My bright spot today, Jordan, is that my watching of Survivor continues.
jordan holmes
Oh, it continues.
dan friesen
I've made it to season 31, I think.
pastor robert henderson
Oh, boy.
jordan holmes
Maybe 32. Oh, boy.
dan friesen
It's a brains versus brawn versus beauty season.
Survivor has a couple of themes that they've developed over the course of the years.
One of them is very interesting and compelling, and that is blood versus water, where you have people who have to play against their loved ones.
Right.
Like their wife or their husband or their child.
And having people have to compete in a physical challenge against their child is nuts.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that is very weird.
dan friesen
People are crying all over the place.
jordan holmes
Of course they are.
dan friesen
It's interesting.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's a compelling twist.
If you have to keep changing this show from what it originally was, at least that's sort of an interesting sociological thing.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
Turn it into a fucking Dostoevsky novel.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
pastor robert henderson
Get in there.
dan friesen
The first season was just like, can you make a hut?
jordan holmes
That is a Dostoevsky novel, yeah.
dan friesen
So the other theme is this beauty versus brawn versus brains, which is like, what's the most important thing?
And so you have three tribes.
One of them are like beautiful people.
What a weird thing to do.
I find it to be a really poorly done idea, too, because it's not like the people who are the brawn tribe, the strong tribe, it's not like they have no mental ability.
jordan holmes
I mean, yeah, it seems like in order for it to truly be fair...
All things must be boiled down to a single attribute.
dan friesen
You have only strength.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly!
You can only use strength, or you can only use beauty, or you can only use your brains, that type of thing.
dan friesen
That seems to me like that would be how you would do that.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it would have to be.
dan friesen
And it doesn't.
jordan holmes
Otherwise, it's just three groups.
dan friesen
They're all pretty attractive people, too.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course, it's on TV!
dan friesen
Sure, the beauty tribe is full of people who are maybe models and stuff.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
One of the guys on the brain tribe is like, everybody says I look like Obama.
jordan holmes
Okay, well, fuck off!
dan friesen
You're a very attractive man.
jordan holmes
You're a good-looking dude.
Calm it down.
I'm very smart, and I look like President Obama.
No big deal.
No big deal!
dan friesen
I've been watching this.
It's been infuriating me.
So I guess that's my bright spot.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's great.
That's great.
dan friesen
How about you?
jordan holmes
My bright spot, Dan.
You know, over the years, I've had many petty feuds for no reason other than...
dan friesen
Connor Friedersdorf is one of the big ones.
jordan holmes
Connor Friedersdorf has appeared in my life again today.
For some reason...
Did he tweet at you again?
No, he just decided to be the shithead of the day.
He said something stupid and people started tipping up.
What made it good for me, though, was it was like revisiting an old neighborhood, you know?
I went back to Avondale the other day and you see all the stuff that's the same and you see the stuff that's different and you're like, oh, I remember this place.
I remember what this used to be.
Friedersdorf's still a shithead.
Never change, man.
Never change.
dan friesen
That's your word of encouragement.
jordan holmes
That's my word of encouragement.
dan friesen
It always feels like home to see your bad takes.
jordan holmes
It is!
You low-level asshole.
dan friesen
I'm happy for you on that phone.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it was great.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, we've got an episode to do today and some complaining.
But, before we get to that, let's take a little moment to say thank you and hello to some new wonks.
jordan holmes
We're not mad at the crew.
dan friesen
No, I'm not mad at the crew.
First, the Hobbit.
Thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you, the hobbit.
unidentified
Thank you.
dan friesen
Next, help, I'm stuck in a podcast factory.
Thank you as much for a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, hey, you.
You're now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
Thank you.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Annette, thank you so much.
You are now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thanks, Annette.
dan friesen
And also, I'd like to say thank you to a technocrat out there.
What's up, Lauren L.?
How you doing?
You're now a technocrat.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
Crikey, mate.
That's fantastic.
jordan holmes
Have yourself a brew.
dan friesen
How's your 401k doing, bro?
alex jones
Alright, we gotta go full tilt boogie on this, Watson, alright?
Let's just get down to business.
We ain't making that money off that heroin.
unidentified
Why are you pimps so good?
alex jones
My neck is freakishly large.
I declare Infowar on you.
dan friesen
Thank you, Lauren.
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you very much, Lauren.
dan friesen
Now, before we get to business on this episode today, Jordan, what we have to do is we have to take a little trip.
jordan holmes
Are we going to be taking a trip into the past?
dan friesen
No.
Are you ready to take a trip with me?
jordan holmes
Where are we going?
dan friesen
Scotland.
jordan holmes
Okay, I'm into Scotland.
I like Scotland.
dan friesen
While we're here, we've got to say happy birthday to Ross from Scotland.
We missed this on Monday, but he sent a very nice message, so happy birthday.
And also in Scotland, there's big news.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Thanks to Tyler.
In the Glencoe woods of Scotland, there is a plot of land that has been adopted in the name of Selene.
jordan holmes
That's fantastic.
dan friesen
This is a conservation kind of thing, environmentalism, but one of the fun things that comes along with this is that with this land, you get a title.
So now...
jordan holmes
Is Selene a baroness?
dan friesen
She's a lady.
jordan holmes
She's a lady.
dan friesen
Lady Selene.
jordan holmes
All right.
It's about time that we're moving up, not just in the animal world, but in the earth world.
We're taking over.
dan friesen
It's very exciting.
unidentified
Very slowly.
dan friesen
So congratulations to Lady Selene.
Thank you so much, Tyler.
That was very cool.
jordan holmes
Yes, I would like many people to compliment Selene and Scott's.
unidentified
Yes.
jordan holmes
That would be a delay.
dan friesen
Let's get back to Chicago so we can record the episode.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Here we are.
unidentified
We're back.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Thanks, Mr. Peabody.
dan friesen
So, I've had a bad week already, and a lot of it has to do with people posting that goddamn song of Alex's.
Another million and a half views on this video flying all over Twitter.
The Bon Ivera parody.
jordan holmes
Oh, great.
dan friesen
And it really was bumming me out.
And it's going to make me need to fully turn off notifications and any kind of...
You know what?
Because here's the thing.
I went and I checked.
We talked about that on episode 65 of this podcast.
jordan holmes
65?
Oh my god.
dan friesen
That was back in 2017.
jordan holmes
Oh wow.
dan friesen
We dealt with that and discussed how that is actually...
Though it's fun and it's funny and it feels good.
It is actually something that plays directly into Alex's hands.
And actually...
Making content like that and making it really popular allows him to better inoculate or keep trapped his audience, inoculate them from outside influences, and make him seem like somebody who's actually above board, and it solidifies a lot of the negative narratives and the dangerous.
Worldviews that he perpetuates.
And I wanted to discuss that again, and maybe in greater detail, but I realized we've already done it, and I've banged that gong a hundred times.
But then when I'd see these tweets come in, I'd get notifications on my phone because I hadn't turned off the notifications.
It just felt constantly like, your work doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
unidentified
Your point?
dan friesen
No one cares.
jordan holmes
It really bums me out to know that we did that five years ago.
That's too long ago.
That's too long ago.
Especially for us to have essentially the same take.
Like, to have not grown at all in five years because the correct take has already been laid down.
dan friesen
I don't want to say that there's no room for growth.
I'm sure there's nuance we could add to it.
Sure.
It's a little bit of a bummer, and that really sort of messed with my emotional state.
It kind of made me a little madder than I like to be generally.
jordan holmes
No, I understand.
dan friesen
And it's no one's fault.
And like even we talked about in 2017, it's like, I get it.
It's just we need to get to a place where we recognize the things that are useful for propagandists and the things that are not.
And I don't know.
jordan holmes
What's important is that those things are great, but will only be great after Alex is no longer a threat to everyone.
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, I think...
jordan holmes
I would love to enjoy it five years from now when Alex is, I don't know, in space or something.
dan friesen
I think that was even kind of the point, was like, in a perfect world, this would be great.
But, you know, I mean, it doesn't work.
jordan holmes
No, no.
dan friesen
Anyway, look, here's the deal.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Another thing happened, and that was that on Friday, over the weekend, Alex was on some stream, some gamer, or not gamer, but I guess, I don't know, some people have told me these guys are gamer-gate-ish types.
unidentified
Great.
dan friesen
But I don't know, it's like a pop culture stream.
Sure, sure, sure.
Whatever they are.
I don't even care.
People had asked that we cover it, because Alex Jones showed up on this weird stream, and...
jordan holmes
He really will show up anywhere now.
dan friesen
You know what?
Without saying anything too much, I think he might be showing up a lot of places.
He might be willing to show up a lot of places.
jordan holmes
He might be willing to go just about anywhere.
dan friesen
You might be surprised by the pathetic places you may end up seeing him.
But let's just say Rogan is not the floor.
Not taking him.
unidentified
So...
dan friesen
I went and I watched this, and it was just a depressing display.
It was just really boring, too.
These guys, eight white dudes, just sitting around letting Alex yell things at them, and then them being like, you're a genius.
Wild.
Yeah, it was a bummer.
It was a little bit depressing.
And it was also strange to see these people who fancy themselves, or at least the presentation, as far as I can tell, I have no idea.
I don't know who...
I've not watched these people's content, but they're doing a pop culture-related show, and at least three of them have beards that are unacceptable for the office place.
And most of them are broadcasting from bedrooms with DVD collections behind them.
jordan holmes
Great.
dan friesen
And so it's weird for me to see these people who are like...
Modern pop culture.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then they have their minds blown by like repackaged John Birch Society talking points from back when these like Alex's heroes were fighting against the civil rights movement.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like it just it's so weird to me to see like them think this is fresh.
jordan holmes
They are I mean.
It's very fresh whenever you're not in the middle of seeing the consequences of that bullshit, you know?
dan friesen
Perhaps.
jordan holmes
Like, I feel like the United States has gone through a constant ebb and flow of like, okay, the far right kills everybody and then it flows back as everybody's like, hey, no, we can't allow that to go on.
For a couple of years, everything goes fine and everybody forgets that it's your fucking far right friends who are going to kill everybody.
They do it again and then we go another 20 years and it's like, hey, everybody quit it.
We can't let this happen.
And then, you know, a new generation of...
Shithead show up.
dan friesen
And we'll see what happens this time.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Anyway, I watched this stream and I just didn't think it was interesting.
I didn't think it really brought up any points that I felt compelled to really cover.
And it really kind of just bummed me out.
Because here I am, trying to go down these roads.
I'll check out Alex in a different context.
This may be fun.
Wasn't.
And then all these people just bombarding me with, like, why don't you watch this Bon Iver meme?
I almost turned supervillain.
Like, it was almost enough for me to be, like, this is my Victor Von Doom backstory.
jordan holmes
So wait, there were eight people on that stream?
dan friesen
Yeah, eight dudes.
jordan holmes
Eight dudes all in their own boxes.
dan friesen
It looked like a Brady Bunch theme song.
jordan holmes
Jesus Christ.
See, it was Coach Dave.
They were Coach Daving it.
dan friesen
Coach Dave doesn't usually have them all on video at the same time, but yeah.
jordan holmes
That's infuriating.
How could you do that to me?
dan friesen
Well, yeah.
I just...
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
Gross.
No.
And so anyway, I decided I wanted to do a Sneaky Snake episode.
jordan holmes
Uh-huh.
dan friesen
But I didn't want to do any of this shit.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
I almost want to punish the world.
jordan holmes
Well, you are Victor Von Doom now.
dan friesen
Well, they dare make Alex go viral for this stupid bullshit again.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
dan friesen
And so I am turning heel.
jordan holmes
Oh, God, no.
unidentified
Son of a bitch.
jordan holmes
I knew this was coming.
unidentified
Today, our special guest is the author of the best-selling Courts of Heaven series, Pastor Robert Henderson!
jordan holmes
Pastor Robert Henderson.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
We're going back to Jim Baker.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
It's been a long time.
It's been a long time.
dan friesen
We shouldn't have left you without some canned food to step to.
Look, here's the thing.
Yeah.
Jim Baker had a stroke a while back, and there's been a long period of time where I've been like, I don't want to talk about his show because...
I don't feel good about it.
jordan holmes
Right.
He's a stroked out old weirdo propagandist monster.
dan friesen
And I've watched...
jordan holmes
With a cult compound.
dan friesen
I've watched some of his stuff.
And this episode that I was watching made me kind of realize that, like, I don't think it's the stroke.
I think he's just old.
jordan holmes
You think he's just old?
dan friesen
Yeah.
And I don't feel as bad.
But at the same time, I'm going to pull some punches and be a little bit restrained.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And I have no interest in making fun of the points where, like...
You know, just aging maybe coming into effect.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Like if he forgets something or whatever.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
I have no interest in that that's low-hanging fruit.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But at the same time, this episode was amazing.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
This Robert Henderson guy is someone who must be spoken about.
jordan holmes
You're selling me on this pretty hard.
We're going to find out.
dan friesen
Have you ever heard about this guy?
jordan holmes
No, I have not heard about Pastor Robert Henderson.
dan friesen
He fancies himself an apostle.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
That's a bad start.
dan friesen
And he also claimed responsibility for Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death.
jordan holmes
Okay.
All right.
Interesting.
Interesting start for a pastor.
dan friesen
So here's what he said.
jordan holmes
I control life and death!
I am your new pastor!
dan friesen
Here's what he said.
Quote, we were in the meeting on Monday night in D.C. and I told them, I said, look, we need to go to the courts of heaven right now while we're on site in D.C. and we need to shut the mouth of a lion judicially.
We need to ask for a judgment against the lion that has actually been devouring and intends to devour from the Supreme Court.
We need to get a judgment against this lion that Paul said God shut the mouth of.
So I led us into that place.
Well, guess what?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away.
President Trump will establish a new Supreme Court justice.
That's no accident.
jordan holmes
Okay.
All right.
Well, I mean...
I guess, arrest him?
He's a murderer.
dan friesen
He's claimed through prayer he put a hit on...
jordan holmes
You know what?
I'm gonna go with that is a confession, and I think he should be arrested.
If he believes that he murdered Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he should be punished accordingly.
dan friesen
He later walked that back a little bit and was like, look, I'm just saying, I was praying.
jordan holmes
I imagine so.
dan friesen
So anyway, I heard this...
Okay, I'll just put all my cards on the table.
The episode is...
Titled, like, Speaking in Tongues.
jordan holmes
All right.
Now we're in my wheelhouse, buddy.
dan friesen
I was pretty excited about, like, okay, what's Jim Baker gonna talk to this guy about speaking in tongues?
Uh-huh.
It does not end up being mostly about that.
jordan holmes
Disappointing.
dan friesen
He has a new book that's about speaking in tongues.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But the content of this episode is way more interesting than that.
But, you know, every episode of Jim Baker's show starts with a little bit of lighthearted discussion with the family.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Because his wife, Lori, is his co-host.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Tammy Sue Baker sings the theme song and brings people in.
jordan holmes
They're really all insane.
They're in their own compound doing a fake TV show for fake people in a fake situation for money for no reason.
It's bananas.
dan friesen
When I was watching this, I will not say that I didn't think it's possible this is satire.
It's so over the top.
And Robert Henderson, this guy, this preacher who's the guest, he has to stop himself from laughing a couple times.
jordan holmes
Get the fuck out!
No, that's not fair.
dan friesen
There's a couple times and it's clear that he almost breaks.
jordan holmes
You can't be Jimmy Fallon and a fucking con man at the same time.
That's not how it works.
dan friesen
It's pretty wild.
So, at the beginning, they talk a little bit about, you know, family stuff.
unidentified
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
And, you know, we've got some birthdays coming up.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And Laurie makes an interesting point.
jordan holmes
Let's hear it.
jim bakker
Laurie's having a birthday this next year.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
My baby daughter is over 50 years old now.
jim bakker
She told me the other day and I just don't accept it.
unidentified
I don't accept it either, Jim.
dan friesen
So, like, that's cute.
That's cute as hell.
I really like that.
There's also a point where Lori says that their anniversary is coming up and she's like...
Can you remember which one it is?
And he's like, 22?
She says, 23?
And he's like, wait, but it's gonna be 23, so I am right.
And it's kind of like, eh, this is a family.
I still think they're horrible people.
But at least it's a presentation of softness.
jordan holmes
Sure!
dan friesen
Like it's caring?
jordan holmes
Yeah, I imagine it's how people envisioned Queen Victoria back in her day of like this matronly figure, but you know, she killed people.
dan friesen
I can't accept that my daughter is 50 years old.
I don't accept it either, Dad.
That's good family fun.
jordan holmes
That's great.
jim bakker
Those little kids, aren't they?
Aren't your babies always the babies?
unidentified
Yeah.
You just never stop thinking of it as the babies.
jim bakker
And Lori, you're going to be, how old are you going to be?
unidentified
Of course, you always have to tell.
I mean, when you're around Jim Baker, you know you're not supposed to ask a lady how old she is, but it's okay.
64. I'm grateful.
Oh, no!
jim bakker
Oh, you can retire in one more year.
unidentified
I'm like, I just wish I was turning 65 so I could get my Medicare.
jordan holmes
What?
unidentified
Why if we haven't had 64, we should just skip over that year and go straight to 65. What is this?
No, I'm so grateful.
dan friesen
I can't wait another year so I can take advantage of social...
Programs that I'm philosophically opposed to.
jordan holmes
Oh my god.
Everything that the Democrats have ever done is the work of Satan!
Except for in the 1960s, whenever they did pass Medicare and Medicaid, that was a pretty good call.
I will admit that.
Social Security in the 1940s, that was a great idea.
I can't live without that.
dan friesen
Everything about my political ideology leads me to...
Definitely want this to go away, but I also would like to skip this year so I can take advantage of the free healthcare that I refuse to accept should be allowed.
I don't want to pay into this, but I want to skip a year so I can experience socialism.
jordan holmes
Exactly!
I like to vacation in socialism.
It's so much better there.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So that's fun.
I'm going to generally not spend too much time on Jim's stuff, because I really do think that this Henderson guy...
jordan holmes
This guy's nuts.
dan friesen
Not so much.
Yes.
But I think he's...
I don't know.
I got a lot of theories about him.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
But what he's bringing to the table is amazing.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So he has this new book about speaking in tongues.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But in his introduction, Jim brings up his other books.
That's the series called The Courts of Heaven.
jordan holmes
Get the fuck out.
jim bakker
Well, we're about to introduce our guest.
unidentified
We are.
Pastor Robert Henderson is here with us today.
pastor robert henderson
Come back with us.
unidentified
We love you.
We love your ministry, your teaching.
jim bakker
One of the most sought-after speakers in America today.
Can you believe that his books on the courts of heaven have just gone bananas?
No, that's not a good word to use.
Just spectacularly, though.
People love their books.
pastor robert henderson
They do.
The Court of Heaven series.
It's actually a series.
And I continue to write books on it.
It's just people have found an answer to unanswered prayer in those books.
And that's what's caused them to be so successful.
jim bakker
It's so powerful that it's almost supernaturally the way to believe it.
pastor robert henderson
Oh, absolutely.
It's almost too powerful.
I do believe that there's a supernatural unction on those books.
Because when people read them, it's like it's not just letters on a page.
It's like an importation.
dan friesen
Do you understand?
This book is magic.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
This book is essentially magic that he's got.
unidentified
It's supernatural.
jordan holmes
Are you going to come out the gate with this book will heal you because the words are literal magic?
dan friesen
It has an unction.
jordan holmes
It's got unctuous abilities.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I was intrigued.
jordan holmes
I am blown away by the gall of someone to be like, my book is literally magic.
dan friesen
Yeah, I was pretty blown.
Pretty taken aback by the opening of this.
And I was like, I want to know more.
What's going on?
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, if you trace some of his words in silver and you get the name, the true name of the person that you want to curse, then you will, of course, have power over them.
dan friesen
That isn't in the book.
jordan holmes
Oh.
dan friesen
This has more to do with the courts of heaven.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I don't want to spoil too much, because learning about this is going to be amazing.
jordan holmes
Man, I'll tell you this.
If RBG is in the courts of heaven, he's going to be real pissed.
dan friesen
No, she didn't make the cut.
One of the things that we always find the most fascinating is...
The preoccupation among space weirdos and Alex with, like, interstellar contract law.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that's really why this episode is special.
Because when he's talking about the courts of heaven, he's talking about it literally.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
He is not going to try and tell me that when I go to heaven, there is still a court system.
dan friesen
Well, there is a little bit of a, like, you know that movie Defending Your Life?
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
There's a little bit of that in there.
jordan holmes
Sure, of course.
dan friesen
But it's not just after you die.
It's also while you're alive.
You can take advantage of the heavenly court system.
jordan holmes
Okay.
All right.
Who do I sue?
dan friesen
The devil.
jordan holmes
I sue the devil.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
Okay.
So I take the devil to court.
I get a summons.
I get a subpoena.
He's got to be served.
So somebody, a court representative has to go serve the devil.
dan friesen
Yeah, a process server angel.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
And then a demon shows up in a suit and tie that's the lawyer for the devil.
jordan holmes
I'm going to go with the guy from The Wire, naturally.
And then you argue your case.
And then what happens?
Do you get...
Restitution?
What if you lose?
unidentified
See, these are the questions that I'm glad you have.
dan friesen
And only one man can explain to you.
But in due time.
jordan holmes
No!
dan friesen
I understand.
jordan holmes
So many questions.
dan friesen
I understand this excitement.
This is what happens when I turn heel.
So, he's got a book he's working on that has to do with the court system.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
There's some really interesting dynamics at play.
jim bakker
Telling you there's going to be another one?
pastor robert henderson
Oh, yeah.
There's going to be one coming out with me and my son real quickly.
unidentified
Oh, that's awesome.
pastor robert henderson
It's called Imparting...
Generational blessings from the court of heaven.
jordan holmes
Yes.
pastor robert henderson
Because lots of times we talk about the court of heaven and undoing all that the devil's doing, but there are legal things that are hanging in the spirit world that we can grab hold of and they can be generational blessings imparted in our family life.
jim bakker
Would you release that book on our show?
pastor robert henderson
Oh, I would love to.
jim bakker
Please come in here.
unidentified
Absolutely.
jim bakker
Because you have a brand new book out, The Gifts of Tongues, and boy, is it a good book.
dan friesen
So you can kind of get the idea of why this guy can't keep a straight face.
This stuff is ridiculous.
jordan holmes
That is hilariously serious.
There are legal things you can do in the spirit world.
dan friesen
Do you want to avoid the generational death tax in the spirit court?
jordan holmes
I mean, yeah.
Obviously, I don't want to have to pay taxes on the money that I want to leave behind.
dan friesen
Or the blessings.
jordan holmes
Well, absolutely.
dan friesen
You don't want God taking one-sixth of your blessings?
jordan holmes
I can't.
Here's the number one problem I have.
I swear to you.
If I was a religious person, that would infuriate me so much more than anything else.
Just because if you are expecting me to live through this shit, to get to heaven, and you're telling me that when I get to heaven, it's this shit?
I'm gonna be furious!
dan friesen
You have to calm down.
Because, again, it's not about, like, when you die.
I understand how that judgment and court thing, it really seems like it's when you die.
That's probably part of it.
But it's more important that it's happening now.
It's like every day.
jordan holmes
Alright, every day.
dan friesen
The courts are open 24-7, 365.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
And you can go to them.
jordan holmes
Get a mediator.
dan friesen
Sure.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Gotcha.
Deal with the devil for all the wrongs he's done.
Naturally, naturally.
Take him to court for suing in that fiddle contest.
jordan holmes
He cheated!
dan friesen
For cheating.
jordan holmes
He cheated!
That was a golden fiddle!
dan friesen
Yeah.
So we recently learned that Alex has had COVID multiple times.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
And his entire staff got COVID.
jordan holmes
Yeah, because he's a moron.
dan friesen
And so it seems like Jim's had some troubles on that front, too.
jim bakker
The Holy Spirit's quickening me to pray for our son Ricky.
unidentified
Yeah.
jim bakker
And he's been down a little bit.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah?
jim bakker
In bed.
Physically ill.
unidentified
Yeah, he had COVID.
I already told everybody on TV.
jim bakker
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
I already said it.
He had COVID.
jim bakker
If you think I'd tell everything, she would tell everything.
unidentified
Oh, I can tell you so much more.
And his whole platoon.
I mean, and he had it bad.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
Yeah, so apparently Lori brought this up in a previous episode and Jim didn't realize it.
So he was going to just say he was sick, but then the game was busted.
jordan holmes
Jim's out here being like, you realize we're not...
Doing that.
We're not saying it.
dan friesen
I was hoping to pretend doing something else.
jordan holmes
I'm going to have to take you to a court.
dan friesen
One of the things that I noticed, too, is that Lori's really coming into her own.
I don't know if it's the time since.
Like, you know, Jim had a stroke and she had to host a bit more.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She had to step up.
dan friesen
I think that she has a lot more personality than when I was watching the show before.
jordan holmes
Nice.
She's gotten some chops out of this.
dan friesen
I think a little bit of confidence.
To be able to have her own identity more.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's like on a Kitchen Nightmares episode.
You know, the old boss has got to step aside and let the young blood take over.
Otherwise, it's just going to go out of business.
dan friesen
I still don't think she's great.
And she also insists on referring to Jim as Jim Baker all the time.
Using full names.
Which is really weird.
It's clearly a conversation they've had off air.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
You can call me Jim Baker.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, Robert Henderson recently spoke at this conference called the Pentecostal Fire Conference, which is about getting the spirit together.
It's a revival.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
It's a revival.
Now, there's a reason that they had him come, and he had to open the entire conference.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah?
dan friesen
Yeah, for a very specific reason.
jordan holmes
Why is that?
pastor robert henderson
A lot of what was there was these young revivalists.
You know, there's a lot of young revivalists that are rising up across this nation.
And I mean, revival services are breaking out in tremendous ways.
But the whole issue was to...
Grab a hold of Pentecostal fire so that we could see a revival come to the nation of America.
And so what I did, my part, what I did was they wanted me to open the conference and present us that we might step into the courts of heaven so that everything that was done in that conference could speak in the courts of heaven and that God, on the basis of that testimony, could render a judgment that would let His glory come to the earth.
dan friesen
Yeah, you had to open it because...
Because they needed things to be on the record in the court of heaven.
And so, like, you need an official, like, a barrister, a lawyer.
jordan holmes
You know, I like that we've moved...
You know, when I was growing up, there was that paradoxical question of, like, could God, who can do everything, create a mountain that he can't move?
I'm glad we've moved on beyond that to just, like...
Look, if you don't open the court, God can't hear you.
Duh!
dan friesen
Or he can choose to hear you or not.
jordan holmes
God has a lot of weird rules that also happen to be ones that maybe I created for fun.
dan friesen
This thought is coming too late because we're in the middle of recording this episode, but I really should have called the opening arguments guys and tried to get their take on this.
jordan holmes
What are your deals in the courts of heaven?
dan friesen
Do you have any understanding of heavenly law?
jordan holmes
What are the legal ramifications in the courts of heaven?
What's the statute of limitations?
If it's eternal, how long do I got?
dan friesen
So Jim wants a little bit of an explainer on the courts, which is great because we all need that.
jordan holmes
I think we all need that.
dan friesen
And apparently, I'm going to do a lot more looking into this guy because this seems like a tip of an iceberg on this Henderson character.
Okay.
unidentified
But there's new listeners.
dan friesen
Give a little background.
jim bakker
Can you explain how we...
I need to be able to enter the courts of heaven again.
We never get tired of hearing that.
unidentified
And we have a lot of new viewers.
Maybe they've never heard about the courts of heaven that we're talking about.
pastor robert henderson
Well, you know, I just keep getting...
I have my own show on your network.
unidentified
You'd think they would because they would be in the Bible if they were part of the...
jordan holmes
You would hear it.
pastor robert henderson
You would hear it.
jordan holmes
It would be in the Bible.
pastor robert henderson
Every week, you know, I teach a little bitty piece of the court of heaven.
dan friesen
He has a show on Jim's network that...
It's just all about the Court of Heaven.
jordan holmes
All about the Court of Heaven.
dan friesen
You go and you watch that show and you're gonna get a law degree in the Court of Heaven.
jordan holmes
Alright.
Not a joke.
Honest to God pitch.
Night Court of Heaven.
dan friesen
Love it.
I was like, how can we improve this?
unidentified
You can't.
You can't.
It's perfect.
jordan holmes
I would like a giant bailiff to take care of me, yes.
unidentified
Bull.
jordan holmes
Bull!
Come on, baby.
dan friesen
I think that there is a very good chance I will be watching the shit out of this show.
Because I find if it's anything like it seems like it would be, this sounds amazing.
unidentified
Teach a little bitty part about the court of heaven.
dan friesen
Yeah, we gotta talk a little bit about tariffs.
jordan holmes
Just a lovely, lovely little teaser for every day.
What's your daily Court of Heaven knowledge?
dan friesen
So there's a little bit of that.
A little bit of education about the Court of Heaven.
And then he talks about also testimonials.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Things that people have written into him about.
jordan holmes
Christians love that shit.
dan friesen
And it turns out a lot of people have experience in the courts.
jordan holmes
Oh, of course.
pastor robert henderson
People are amazed that there's that many testimonies that come out of the court.
In fact, I just got a testimony this morning from someone in England who was in a coma or in whatever state they were in with COVID.
And while they were with COVID, they were in the Court of Heaven.
They knew nothing about the Court of Heaven.
They were in the Court of Heaven, and the enemy had a case against them.
And they began, while they were in the Court of Heaven, while they were in this state, to answer that case.
They got completely well.
When they got back and started sharing their testimony, someone said, have you heard of Robert Henderson and the teaching on the Court of Heaven?
They said no.
And they said, they emailed us and they said, everything you say is real.
unidentified
Wow.
pastor robert henderson
Everything you say.
I was there.
I got healed from COVID out of the court of heaven.
Everything you're telling people is real.
unidentified
Amen.
pastor robert henderson
Wow.
unidentified
Wow.
jordan holmes
What a giant pile of bullshit.
What a spectacular pile of garbage.
dan friesen
Oh man, this person from the United Kingdom beat a COVID case.
jordan holmes
The enemy has a case against you.
dan friesen
A COVID case.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
The mind reels.
jordan holmes
Oh, did you hear the devil?
Hey, you hear about Robert Henderson?
dan friesen
What about him?
jordan holmes
Well, he's going to take care of you in the courts.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He's going to bring a case against you.
dan friesen
There is no implication or insinuation that you need a lawyer.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
You can represent yourself.
jordan holmes
I would assume that God would provide a lawyer for you.
dan friesen
No, it seems like God's on the bench.
God's the judge.
jordan holmes
I mean, but yeah, so God is also the lawyers, and God is also Satan, and God is the court, and God is heaven.
dan friesen
He's the lawyer, the bailiff, and the judge.
jordan holmes
The whole thing!
It's what he is!
What is God?
Why is there a court?
dan friesen
Jordan.
I regret that you lost your shit so much at that last clip, because that wasn't the one that I thought was going to be...
jordan holmes
Oh, it's going to get bad?
dan friesen
This next clip was where I was like, definite Mike down for this.
jordan holmes
I like a clip that turns into a mic down clip because I have to put the mic down.
dan friesen
Yeah, sometimes they're unexpected a little bit, but this one, holy shit.
So Jim plays a trailer for Anderson's show.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
dan friesen
This seems absolutely like it's a joke.
I have almost no ability to believe this is serious.
jim bakker
This is a trailer from his show, so let's roll that and then we'll talk about it.
pastor robert henderson
But we have a right to stand and put the divine restraining orders, God's restraining orders, into place in behalf of us and our family.
But I want you to notice what this widow said.
When she came before the judge, she literally said, get justice for me.
She said, get justice for me.
Watch this.
From my adversary.
So she was saying, I...
I want the devil judged.
I don't want to just be free from judgment.
I want the devil judged and I want back what he stole from me.
God did not only vindicate Job, he gave him punitive damages.
jordan holmes
Did he just do that?
That sounded exactly like a lawyer commercial on...
unidentified
Oh yes it did.
jordan holmes
That is exactly what that sounded like.
dan friesen
It sounded like some late night...
Have you been injured by...
unidentified
Yes!
jordan holmes
Call 1-88-INJURED for heavenly justice.
dan friesen
Have you been injured by the devil?
You're not the only one.
Join the class action lawsuit.
jordan holmes
I've got G-Zothelioma!
dan friesen
I...
I...
unidentified
I cannot believe this is real.
jordan holmes
Punitive damages?
dan friesen
You get punitive damages.
jordan holmes
Like Job.
What does that count for?
What does that count for?
I get that Job got twice as many sons as he had before, but all of his sons still died.
Who gives a shit?
He doesn't get those old sons back.
dan friesen
Look, the court can't do anything about that.
jordan holmes
Why not?
unidentified
You're gone!
dan friesen
Those new kids are good.
jordan holmes
They're good enough.
dan friesen
But I like the idea that there's punitive damages and that that is what happened in the story of Job.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's the lesson that you should have taken from Job.
What I learned from Job was not...
Don't question God.
He'll just fuck with you for no reason.
Who are you to say shit?
What I learned was that you gotta take the devil to devil court because that's the only place you can get justice for the devil.
dan friesen
Yeah, and then you get punitive damages.
Yeah, of course.
This is so weird.
I think it probably goes without saying, but at one point in this, he does say he's not a big research guy.
He's not big into researching the Bible.
unidentified
Or the Bible.
dan friesen
Kind of just feeling it out.
jordan holmes
He's just kind of got a vibe from the Bible.
dan friesen
But I can't believe...
Like, I've watched some really ridiculous stuff on Jim Baker's show.
Like, I've seen some swings for the fences.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Fucking Mike Lindell's been on.
jordan holmes
Oh, hell yeah.
dan friesen
Sidney Powell's been on.
jordan holmes
Why not?
dan friesen
There's some stuff...
jordan holmes
Luminaries of the Christian world.
dan friesen
There's stuff that's outrageous.
We've talked about...
What's her name?
Paula White Kane.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's batshit evil.
dan friesen
Even, like, a lot of these prosperity gospel people.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
They...
Pale in comparison to the guy who's pitching Heaven Court.
jordan holmes
I just...
I'm blown away.
I'm blown away.
I mean, that's just...
unidentified
People are so interested to learn about Heaven Court.
jordan holmes
Of course they are, because it's not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.
dan friesen
Well, it is.
jordan holmes
And it's not really discussed or anything, and honestly, that sounds crazy.
dan friesen
Well, I should tell you that in this next clip, Henderson does give a scriptural basis.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
For his beliefs.
jordan holmes
His beliefs in the night court.
dan friesen
And then also, he explains how it works.
And if you don't quite pick up on what he's saying, I'll explain it on the other end of the clip.
pastor robert henderson
Daniel 7.10.
For anybody that's kind of unfamiliar, one of the best, maybe the best scripture on the court where it says that Daniel's seeing all of this activity in the unseen realm.
And then it says, and the court was seated and the books were opened.
So what that means is that the books, that means that's the place that cases come out of.
For instance, let me just use the ministry here.
Your ministry has a book in heaven.
unidentified
Okay.
pastor robert henderson
It's written because you didn't just dream this ministry up.
unidentified
No.
pastor robert henderson
This ministry originated in heaven before time began.
unidentified
Right.
pastor robert henderson
That's what it says in Psalms 139, 16, that before time began, anything that has a kingdom purpose, it was written in heaven before time began.
So what happens is that God comes and he begins to reveal what this ministry is supposed to be, what it's supposed to do.
You take that prophetic awareness and you present it in the courts.
You say, God, let...
What you said about this ministry come to pass.
And then, anything that dares to touch that, just like this onslaught you went through, anything that dares to touch that, you bring that and you say, God, this is not about me.
This is about your purposes.
This is about your will through this ministry.
I'm asking that what you wrote in the book, it would come to pass.
Everything that's supposed to happen would come to pass.
And anything that dares to touch this thing, I'm asking that judgment would come to pass.
I'm asking that you would judge that out of heaven right now from the courts of heaven, and you're asking for a legal judgment against anything that would dare touch the purposes of God.
unidentified
Amen.
jim bakker
It's happening.
dan friesen
It's happening.
jordan holmes
Excuse me.
dan friesen
You took off your glasses.
You seem a little bit in a mood, counselor.
jordan holmes
Mr. Henderson, I would just like to point out that court...
It has multiple definitions.
dan friesen
Oh, yeah, it does.
jordan holmes
So, one court could simply be the king's court.
Or another word for retinue, a group of people who surround the king and provide assistance.
dan friesen
And even beyond that, you know, when you get into biblical translation, there's a lot of issues where words mean multiple things, and like the Aramaic that it comes from in the book of Daniel is a little bit questionable, could just mean judgment.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and it's unsurprising that the King James Version would include the word court, considering the circumstances around which it was written.
dan friesen
Sure, sure, it's dubious.
at best.
And if he was more of a study guy, I imagine he could have gotten to the bottom of this.
jordan holmes
I would recommend a research guy to help him.
Maybe a research It'd be helpful.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So here's how it works.
As he explains, there's these books in heaven that are predetermined everything that's going to happen.
jordan holmes
No, you can't include that part because if you include the part where it's predetermined, then the rest of it means nothing.
dan friesen
Everything is predestined in these books.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So everything that you're going to do that is meaningful to heaven is in these books.
Like Jim Baker having his...
TV station and weird compound.
That's in that book.
And it has been since the beginning of time.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
So before now...
Okay, sorry.
dan friesen
I guess him going to prison was also part of that.
jordan holmes
Yes, it was.
dan friesen
That's in that book, right?
And so when Jim Baker gets a silly idea about what he wants to do, like...
Add another layer to the compound.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Or whatever.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure, sure.
Build up.
dan friesen
Put in an ice cream parlor.
jordan holmes
Well, you gotta ask for God's permission before that.
unidentified
No, no, no.
dan friesen
But he gets these ideas, and then that is experienced as prophecy.
So he gets these prophetic visions of what he's gonna do with his compound.
jordan holmes
Correct.
dan friesen
And it's all been predestined in the book.
What he's actually getting is a glimpse at that book.
So if anything stands in the way of him putting up that ice cream shop at Morningside...
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Then he's got to take it to court.
He's got to take that shit to court, and he's got to get a judgment.
jordan holmes
Right.
Now, and I'm going to throw this out here for you.
I'm just going to toss this one wide out.
I'm just going to break this whole case wide open.
dan friesen
Watch yourself, counselor.
jordan holmes
If it's predetermined, then it doesn't matter if someone tries to get in the way.
That is also predetermined.
All of this is predetermined if it's so predetermined.
It can't not happen.
Otherwise, you're saying that your god has no actual power unless you take him to court!
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a lot of loose threads.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I wonder if you could get a sidebar in the court of heaven.
jordan holmes
I mean, I would hope so.
I would hope to take God to the side and be like, you realize this guy is insane, sir.
This is madness.
You should injunction him.
dan friesen
So let's say that something is like you have a plan that you've decided is prophetic and something comes up against it, right?
You've got to go take it to heaven court.
jordan holmes
Then if it doesn't matter, because if it's not a prophecy, it won't happen.
dan friesen
You're getting hung up on that.
jordan holmes
I'm getting really hung up on the thing that means something.
dan friesen
You have to let it go.
jordan holmes
Fair enough.
dan friesen
Because if you take these things to court that are getting in you, the way...
Stop it.
You can get damages.
pastor robert henderson
Once you get a judgment from the Lord, then you ask for restoration, just like Job.
Lord, we want double back everything.
Not only what was lost, but we want punitive damages.
The punitive damages pays you for your pain and suffering.
jim bakker
Is that true?
pastor robert henderson
Yes.
That's what happened to Job.
He got doubled back everything he lost because the whole book of Job is a court case.
Even Job recognized that.
dan friesen
This is just amazing.
jordan holmes
This is an outrageous scam.
dan friesen
I do think it's fun, though.
It's so bizarre.
And I don't know if Jim Baker really does have a large enough audience that this is dangerous as a belief.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
You know, at least before the internet, you used to have to sell snake oil.
There had to be some oil.
This is literally a guy just going like, hey man, if you buy my books and take your evil people to court, then you'll get snake oil.
dan friesen
It's really the Steve Pachanek of televangelist swings.
Yeah, it's a big one.
It's a big swing.
jordan holmes
It's a big swing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So Jim recently had a prophetic dream.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
North Koreans brought ballots over to Maine.
dan friesen
Lower stakes.
jordan holmes
Lower stakes.
Okay.
dan friesen
He's thinking about putting some parking in.
jordan holmes
No, this is not real!
This is not real!
dan friesen
Oh, boy.
jim bakker
I mean, he just showed me every detail of it.
Sidewalks.
Walkways around.
All the things that he wanted here.
Things that you wouldn't even think about.
The new studios.
I'm going to go ahead and announce something.
unidentified
None of the rest of us know about it.
jim bakker
Only me and God know about it so far.
unidentified
He has to talk to us about it.
jim bakker
Of this great mountain that's right where the studio is going to sit in the center.
All the way on the edge, you showed me how to level this thing out, put two stories of parking underneath, out of the weather, for the people that live here and the people that visit here.
unidentified
Right.
jim bakker
Be out of the weather.
You know what I mean?
unidentified
Absolutely.
jim bakker
I didn't mean to go into my building, but I saw it last night.
And I said, God, where am I going to get the money?
You got the money, honey?
I got the time.
unidentified
Wild.
jim bakker
I don't know what it is.
pastor robert henderson
But see, that dream.
jim bakker
But you said it.
Right now, this is a piece of my puzzle.
pastor robert henderson
That's right.
That dream is a prophetic awareness of what God intends to do.
So you take that word into the courts.
And you say anything that would dare stand in the way of this.
We're asking for a judgment against that thing so that what God wants to be done can be done.
jim bakker
If we had just do what we lost in this debacle, as I'm going to call it, we could do what we just said.
dan friesen
Yeah, so this dream of a parking lot is a prophetic glimpse at what's in that book that's in the courts of heaven.
So anything that would stand in the way of Jim making this parking lot, he's gotta get a judgment against it.
jordan holmes
He's gonna have to get an injunction from the court.
dan friesen
Does the heavenly court deal with zoning?
jordan holmes
Look, what if somebody is like, hey, this could be an indigenous burial ground.
You can't just let them get away with looking for the crimes of the past.
You gotta go to court.
With heaven, and then he'll give you twice as many indigenous people as were in the graves.
Is that how that works?
dan friesen
Possibly.
jordan holmes
I think so.
dan friesen
Is there a small claims heaven court?
jordan holmes
I mean, this is first grade cult leadership right here.
You can't even just say, I think we want a parking lot.
It has to be a prophecy.
You can't even just be like, hey, I think people could appreciate a parking lot.
We don't have enough parking here.
People get rained on all the time.
dan friesen
They're in the Ozarks.
There is winter issues with parking.
Inside parking would be advantageous.
jordan holmes
Why do we gotta bring the courts into this?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Because it's prophesied.
You're not gonna be able to handle this next clip.
jordan holmes
Oh my god.
I dreamt of a parking lot.
Well, my yes and to that is, that's a fucking prophecy from God.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, mic down for this one too.
Alright.
Man, I don't know what kind of a deal this Henderson character has with having his show on the network and Jim selling his books and what have you, but if he ever needed to claim that he made his money, right here is where he earns his money.
pastor robert henderson
May I say one more thing about your givers, your partners?
jim bakker
Yes.
pastor robert henderson
When they partner with you by giving their finance, they become a part of your breakthrough.
What I mean by that is there is a connection made in the spirit that allows them to claim for themselves the same blessing that comes up on Jim Baker, PTL Network, all these kind of things.
Because finances make connections in the spirit world.
And so whenever we take our finances and we show them, we are connecting to something that we literally have a legal right to claim drawing rights from.
jordan holmes
You're not even fucking trying!
unidentified
You know, with that $1,000, I just want to say this is our SOS.
We have to put it out there for you.
dan friesen
Amazing.
It's just...
unidentified
Oh my God!
jordan holmes
Oh, baby.
If you give him money.
Indulgences are back, baby!
unidentified
If you give Jim Baker money, then you have special drawing rights on the blessings.
jordan holmes
You get a little blessing.
You get a little peace.
You get a little of that taste.
It's trickle-down faithonomics, Dan.
dan friesen
It's not just that.
unidentified
It's a legal right that you have on these blessings.
jordan holmes
Can I take Jim Baker to heaven's court?
I'm gonna need to.
dan friesen
What if, like, Jim Baker is doing bad things?
Then giving him money would actually be a detriment to you, right?
jordan holmes
Yeah, you would be liable for damages.
dan friesen
I have some things about Jim Baker and his life that are pretty bad.
unidentified
Uh-oh.
jordan holmes
Uh-oh.
This could be trouble.
dan friesen
So yeah, but if you donate...
jordan holmes
So if you donate to Jim Baker, you're running a deficit on karma or whatever.
dan friesen
Yes, you're throwing money in a pit.
Literally and spiritually.
Yes.
But it turns out if you give $1,000 to this fundraising campaign of his, you get a very special gift.
jordan holmes
Don't do it.
dan friesen
You get a special gift.
jordan holmes
Don't do it.
unidentified
With that $1,000, just don't quit SOS offer, we have Joan Hunters, which we love this, the miracle blanket.
We absolutely love this.
dan friesen
So you get a miracle blanket.
Do you want to know what the miracle blanket is?
jordan holmes
I was just speechless.
dan friesen
You don't want to know what the miracle blanket is?
jordan holmes
Yeah, let's hear it.
dan friesen
It's just a blanket that says miracles happen.
unidentified
No!
jordan holmes
No!
Nope, for a thousand dollars, you get a blanket of the system?
dan friesen
Well, there's a couple of other things, like a book and a CD.
jordan holmes
Sure, but yeah.
Nobody reads, and what is a CD?
dan friesen
Well, apparently the CD is this preacher friend of theirs speaking the word over very relaxing music.
jordan holmes
I actually do think I might listen to it.
dan friesen
But yeah, so this miracle blanket, this friend of theirs, this other preacher, prays over all of them.
jordan holmes
My God, don't do this.
dan friesen
They have a couple of pictures that...
No!
jordan holmes
Oh my god, like a weird Christmas carol situation!
dan friesen
But it's a very staged photo.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
It looks awesome.
jordan holmes
I am just...
You know, it's almost like it's so brazen.
You're more likely to be like, there's no way they could get away with that if it's not true.
That's insane to think that somebody would be like, finances equals heaven.
Like, that's bananas.
dan friesen
Trying to imagine the dark moments of curiosity or doubt are really difficult.
If you don't imagine that they know they're fucking around, and they know that this is a scam, if they think it's sincere, I just don't understand how you would ever get out of a moment of crisis where you're like, what if this doesn't make sense?
jordan holmes
No.
No way.
No way.
dan friesen
It's so silly that it has to be all like...
jordan holmes
Yeah.
The house of cards is such that anything, even the slightest whiff of doubt, would knock the whole thing down immediately.
So it has to be perfect.
Or nothing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I think that anybody, any right-thinking person, checking out that trailer for the dude's show, if you're trying to put out a trailer for this guy's show, you'd be like, guys, this looks ridiculous.
jordan holmes
This is Better Call Saul.
dan friesen
Yeah.
This looks like a parody of what we're doing.
We need to take another pass at this.
Let's try and make it look serious.
Let's try and give it a little bit of gravitas.
Let's give an edge to it.
It's awesome.
jordan holmes
You know, I do appreciate that it does seem like the Scientology scam Took all the lessons from the early revivalist preachers, the Marjos and the like, that whole thing.
And then they were like, what if we made it even more brazen and just asked for money and blackmailed people?
And then Jim Baker's like, well, Scientology's got a great scam going, but what if we just go even crazier, don't even bother blackmailing people, and just tell them the weirdest shit?
dan friesen
Let's just freak people out and then...
jordan holmes
You don't need to pay to get these secrets.
These secrets are so crazy, we can't not give them to you.
dan friesen
Right.
I'm in court.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
So, it turns out it's, you know, end times.
jordan holmes
Oh boy, it's been end times with the Baker family for quite some time now.
dan friesen
You're not wrong.
jordan holmes
I believe it's been since the 80s.
dan friesen
Maybe even before.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But it's end times, and Lori would like to remind us that, you know, like, hey, shit's bad.
There's a lot of people falling away.
But it's also harvest time.
unidentified
You know, we have to always remember that.
This is harvest time.
Yes, there's going to be a great falling away, the Word says, but it's the harvest time right now.
pastor robert henderson
The meeting I was just in on Pentecostal fire, this is what one of the young evangelists said.
People are getting saved because COVID is making them know they're not immortal.
And they're realizing we're going to die.
Maybe not now, but at some point we're going to die, and it is causing people to look at their eternity.
dan friesen
That's depressing.
jordan holmes
That's bananas.
I shouldn't use that word.
dan friesen
No.
That really, I mean, a lot of this is really funny.
That's not.
jordan holmes
Really sad.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's the danger, though, of religion.
You can laugh at how stupid all of it is, but then you get into that.
dan friesen
This isn't religion.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
I understand.
I understand this isn't religion.
dan friesen
Anybody who has, I don't know, a relationship with a deity or has some kind of a belief in a divine, that is not something that should be impugned necessarily or just outright thought of as wrong or stupid.
This is stupid.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
This is not religion.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
I would say that any kind of connection you have with eternity is fine.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But when you start making up dumb rules for it, that's when we start talking about religion that I think is incredibly insane.
dan friesen
And dangerous.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Like having this perspective towards COVID.
And, you know.
Not for nothing.
jordan holmes
Or a perspective towards infidels, if you like.
dan friesen
But not for nothing.
Stay on COVID for a second.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
The courts can help you with that.
Did you know that?
jordan holmes
Don't.
Don't do anything.
jim bakker
You said there's a way to receive divine protection from the courts of heaven.
What must we do?
pastor robert henderson
Well, I believe Job is a picture before he went through what he went through, there was a hedge around him.
And that means literally a protective, restraining order, if you will.
It's not some kind of flowery thing that the devil can't penetrate.
It's a legal rendering that says, you can't go past that.
You can't touch him.
He's mine.
And whenever that was set in place, three things happened.
No harm could come to Job in his house.
Accumulation of wealth.
And great influence.
Because the enemy had no power to devour that.
Because he couldn't touch him because he was behind the restraining order of God.
jim bakker
Amen.
unidentified
It's awesome.
jordan holmes
That is awesome.
dan friesen
So I guess what you need to do to protect yourself from COVID is go to heaven court and somehow prove that it's predestined that you're not supposed to get COVID.
And then get a restraining order from viruses.
jordan holmes
You know, I would recommend that Pastor Henderson read a wonderful play by Scotsman Archibald McLeish called JB, in which he much better explains the point of the book of Job and how to go about interpreting it from an existentialist point of view.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
It's quite good.
dan friesen
I'm sure he's going to put that on his reading list.
jordan holmes
I will tell you what the point of Job wasn't.
That there is a court system that both God and the devil abide by as though there were a higher power.
dan friesen
It would seem to imply that, wouldn't it?
jordan holmes
Yes.
It would imply that there is a level of power that both God and Satan bow to.
dan friesen
Right.
unidentified
Because it's a legally binding document.
dan friesen
It's just amazing.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I didn't expect this.
I mean, like, I just wanted to hear about speaking in tongues.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that would have been great.
dan friesen
Instead, I learned about a bizarre judicial system that exists.
So, he's on two days.
Robert Henderson's on two days.
And so the first day is mostly getting off track into the courts of heaven.
And I feel edified that I have learned about it.
jordan holmes
I've learned some things.
dan friesen
Some things.
jordan holmes
They have been learned.
dan friesen
So I wanted to still learn about the...
Speaking in tongues, though.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
I find that to be something that I'd love to see demonstrated.
jordan holmes
Oh, speaking in tongues is a great scam.
It's one of the best.
dan friesen
I would have loved to, spoiler alert, they don't end up doing any speaking in tongues, but I thought it might be fun if this guest started doing it.
jordan holmes
Well, you can't do it on command, otherwise people will know you're faking it.
dan friesen
I think this guy can do it on command.
jordan holmes
Well, you can't do it on command, because otherwise people will know you're faking it.
dan friesen
You can't do it on command, because in the wrong audience, someone might say you're faking it.
jordan holmes
Somebody might point out this is faking it.
dan friesen
So there's two things that appear to be speaking in tongues according to this conversation that they have on the second episode.
And one of them is what we would understand as speaking in tongues.
Speaking...
What could appear to be gibberish.
jordan holmes
The angel's language, and then it is given to someone else within the congregation to interpret it and spread their words to the people.
dan friesen
Well, there's that, and then there's also, like, you end up speaking sometimes in known languages, like you could end up speaking just some other foreign language that you don't know.
Right, right.
And so that's one end of it.
But there's another end of it, and it's what this Henderson fella describes, kind of like...
It's like praying in tongues.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And I actually found this incredibly fascinating, because what he's describing is essentially just having a mantra.
He's just talking about meditation with a mantra.
So here's him a little bit on the subject.
pastor robert henderson
The truth is, if I didn't have the gift of tongues, I wouldn't have a prayer life, for me personally.
Because, and I would just ask even your audience, have you ever...
Try to spend any amount of time praying at all.
It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do.
I remember back when Larry Lee was so popular and teaching us to pray for an hour.
I was like, I started in trying to pray for an hour and I thought it's got to have been 30 minutes.
It'd been like three minutes.
It was like one of the hardest things.
But because I was filled with the Spirit and I could speak in tongues, when I didn't know what to pray, because that's actually what it says, I could begin to pray in the Spirit.
And then out of my prayer in the Spirit, understanding would begin to unlock, and I could pray in English, and I'd pray in the Spirit some more.
dan friesen
All I can hear is the description of the challenges of meditation.
Because it is kind of boring if you're not used to it to sit.
In quietness for a long period of time.
But one of the things that is advantageous about having a mantra is that they are words that don't necessarily mean anything in your primary language.
A sentence that has a meaning to you, if you think that...
Then your brain will actively be thinking that.
Whereas if you think or chant or repeat something that doesn't have an intrinsic meaning to you, you have a better ability to let your mind settle and let your thoughts roll as opposed to grabbing onto the thoughts as they happen.
This is something that's pretty basic meditation.
jordan holmes
I wonder if they could get David Lynch on.
dan friesen
TM?
Yeah.
I mean, it's very similar.
jordan holmes
It sounds a lot like transcendental meditation.
dan friesen
It's basically the same thing.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's exactly the same thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, hey, you put enough New Agey bullshit in there, maybe they'll get a little something out of it and they'll give you some money.
dan friesen
But no, it's praying in tongues is what it is.
unidentified
Yeah, exactly.
jordan holmes
Yeah, just put it in there.
dan friesen
So anyway, much like meditation, whenever Henderson needs a little bit of clarity, he goes and he prays in tongues.
It's just meditation.
pastor robert henderson
And so if I'm feeling discouraged, I'm feeling overwhelmed, I can start praying in the Spirit.
And what happens to me is all of a sudden it's like the fog clears.
And a new perspective starts to come.
And I move from doubt and fear back into faith.
I mean, that's what happens to me when I pray in the Spirit.
And I begin to tap that unseen realm.
Because this is what I believe.
I believe tongues is an entry point.
It's the entry point that we go through a gate into the supernatural realms of God.
dan friesen
See, this is all fun, but if this was a Hindu person saying this, or a Buddhist, they would be like, this is...
jordan holmes
Evil!
The devil!
unidentified
This is heretical!
This is awful!
dan friesen
I mean, I do, as somebody who has had stretches of time where I've been more active in meditating than currently, certainly not at the moment.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
I've experienced some of the benefits that are similar to what he's saying.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
You know, like, that calm state you can get into definitely feels supernatural at times.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it reminds me of, there's a book called A Pilgrim's Way, or The Pilgrim's Way, if I recall correctly, and the idea behind it is just there's a dude...
He's like, what does it mean in Thessalonians when God says, pray without ceasing?
And then he goes on this journey and talks to a bunch of wise men about it, and ultimately he's just like, oh, the prayer should be essentially your heartbeat.
You know, the way you breathe in and breathe out should have something to do with mindfulness, essentially.
So, you know, through the whole Christianity mythos, he gets to the same place that Buddhism gets to or that Hinduism gets to with that meditation of controlling and of mindfulness.
dan friesen
There's something interesting about that.
Not at all.
jordan holmes
Not even a little bit.
Nope.
dan friesen
Contract law.
I was looking for examples of Robert Henderson talking about when he spoke in tongues.
And here's an example of it, and I found this to be uncompelling.
pastor robert henderson
You can try to explain it to people and all that, but once you experience tongues, it's like...
Oh, now I understand.
I will never forget, I was in a prayer meeting, and I was leading the prayer meeting.
And so I was leading this prayer meeting, and we were all praying, and there was a guy from Haiti that happened to be in the prayer meeting.
And so as I was praying and doing, when we got through after about an hour, he walks up to me and he says, Do you know French?
Because they speak French in Haiti.
And I said, No, I can barely speak English.
And he said, well, he said, every time you would finish praying in the Spirit, you would say, Shittim.
He said, do you know what je t 'aime is?
He said, it's French for I love you.
He said, you were telling God in French, the French language, I love you, every time you would finish whatever else you were saying.
unidentified
Yeah, that's so amazing.
You know, I've heard that story so many times.
jordan holmes
I've heard that one story.
dan friesen
Or similar stories.
I have a couple thoughts.
First, je t 'aime is not really exactly how I would say je t 'aime.
I think the pronunciation's a little bit off.
It also is a sound that you might just make like, you know, like it sounds like something you might do.
jordan holmes
It also sounds like maybe if you were screaming about how Satan is evil, then somebody might hear you end a sentence with Satan their own way.
dan friesen
And also, as somebody who took French in high school, like, je t 'aime is more like, I like you.
J 'adore is closer to I love you.
I don't know.
I don't find this compelling.
I think that if you were just bebopping and scatting a little bit...
pastor robert henderson
Sure.
dan friesen
You might come up with...
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I mean, no.
There's no doubt if you've ever been to those religious experience kind of places.
I've been into a god camps where I've felt the Holy Ghost and stuff.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But that's the same thing that happens with any large crowd is you start to feel the energy.
You get the same thing at a fucking music festival.
You know?
dan friesen
There's like sort of a collective...
jordan holmes
Yeah, there's an experience.
dan friesen
So, we get back to praying in tongues here, and we learn that this is how our friend Robert came up with...
pastor robert henderson
Heaven's court.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
pastor robert henderson
So when I'm praying in tongues, I'm praying in tongues.
I'm not having to think about it because it's just flowing out of my spirit.
But it lets my mind be free to think about that scripture.
So I'm praying in tongues and thinking about it.
And all of a sudden, things just start unlocking.
And I start seeing revelation from that scripture that can be life-changing.
And that's what happened with the court of heaven and many other things that the Lord's allowed me the privilege to teach.
But it has its source in my prayer language.
dan friesen
So he was just basically meditating and came up with the idea of Heaven's Court and then decided it was a revelation.
jordan holmes
This is what happens when an entire generation grows up with illegal marijuana.
Because if this guy was just smoking weed and he had this idea, he'd be like...
That was a hilarious idea, guys.
This was really great.
Let's get something to eat and we will never speak of this again.
dan friesen
What if?
What if?
I base a career on it.
unidentified
Exactly.
jordan holmes
Everyone around him is like, don't do that.
And he would have friends because, you know, he's got weed.
That'd be great.
dan friesen
Yeah, but then they'd be wrong because he's, I mean, from everything I can tell, yeah, he's got a scam going.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
Pretty good.
jordan holmes
That's true.
He's got a comfortable scam, but he has to live with...
The Baker family, right?
dan friesen
I don't think he lives there.
He doesn't live at morning.
jordan holmes
Well, he has to live with himself.
dan friesen
Emotionally, he has to live with the fact that he's hanging out with the Bakers.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So, another thing that's very interesting within this is the universal truth that we always find that any of these fucks...
jordan holmes
It's a movie.
It's always a movie.
pastor robert henderson
But when I pray in the Spirit, I used to tell people this.
I said, to me, praying in the Spirit, and we're all old enough to remember the old Batman series, when Commissioner Gordon would pick up the red phone and he'd go straight to the bat cave.
I say, praying in the Spirit is like that bat phone.
It goes straight to God.
With no interruption.
I said, it literally is a hotline, a hotline to God.
dan friesen
It's like the bat phone.
Also, that seems to imply that other prayers, just normal prayers, are like they go to an answering service.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I mean, if they're not in the court, then they're not in the official docket.
dan friesen
That's pretty...
Wild?
jordan holmes
You know, God doesn't always check his inbox first thing in the morning.
dan friesen
Look, I'm bad with correspondences.
I understand.
jordan holmes
What, do you think you're better than God?
dan friesen
No.
I think God's better than me.
If God exists, his email inbox is at zero.
I find this to be a little bit silly.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
It is always funny to me that whenever we really get down to all of these weirdos comparing everything to movies, like...
If you go back and look at all of the culture that they compare everything to, it was almost 80% and above made by people that they would despise and hate, you know?
Like, all of their cultural touchstones were made by the very people they are trying to destroy now.
And they have no way to figure that out.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, it's the same thing with, like, Lori wishing she was 65 so she could get Medicare.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
It's the same shit.
jordan holmes
I want to enjoy all the stuff.
That you guys make, but I don't want to...
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, we have one last clip here, and it's Laurie asking if...
A very important question, I would say.
And that is, like, you know, these demons, can they understand it when you speak in tongues?
Like, if you're praying in tongues, can the demons understand you?
unidentified
So, is it true that when you pray in the Spirit, you're praying with your heavenly language, that it's going, like you were just talking about Batman, and it goes straight to God, so can the enemy, can Satan understand that prayer language?
pastor robert henderson
I don't think so.
jim bakker
I don't either.
pastor robert henderson
I don't think so.
jordan holmes
What?
pastor robert henderson
I mean, I don't have a scripture in verse for that, but he does say we speak with the tongues of men and of angels.
And so I would say, and someone told me, I agree with this, that when you pray in tongues, you're speaking, you could be speaking in a known language that you don't know.
Like I spoke in French and didn't know French.
Or you could be speaking in an archaic language that used to be in the earth but it's not here anymore.
Or you could be speaking in the tongues of angels.
And I tell people, I say, be very careful about criticizing what a tongue sounds like.
You might be insulting an angel.
dan friesen
Yeah, you gotta be careful.
jordan holmes
Don't fuck with the game.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Okay?
dan friesen
If someone is speaking in tongues and it sounds a lot like gibberish...
Don't say that, because that could be angel language.
It might be insulting an angel.
jordan holmes
It could really fuck the whole thing up for us.
Have you ever heard that story about that king who wasn't wearing any clothes?
As long as everybody was like, yeah, he's wearing clothes, nobody cared.
But what's that asshole who's like, hey, he's not wearing any clothes.
Everybody's like, yeah, you're right.
He's an asshole.
dan friesen
Can't have any of those kids.
jordan holmes
Can't have any of those fucking kids around.
dan friesen
I don't know how worthwhile I thought there was literally no chance that I could resist telling you about Heaven Court.
jordan holmes
Heaven Court is just too good.
dan friesen
The joy and the mirth.
jordan holmes
It's just too good.
dan friesen
And that's what I would like to bring some of that happiness into the world to negate the negative feelings that I have about everybody tweeting a goddamn stupid Alex Jones meme.
jordan holmes
Dan, can devils understand the meme, though?
dan friesen
Probably.
Can I take Satan to court for that meme?
jordan holmes
What damages would you like, Dan?
Does God get to decide the damages?
Is there a jury award?
dan friesen
Can I also add this?
One of the things that I felt was not at all adequately discussed.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And that's why I need to watch more of this guy's content.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
What if you don't get what you want?
Does that imply that it's not predestined, so it's not in the book, so there was no prophecy for you to take to court?
Or is it possible that you go to court and God says, nah.
Can you lose a case in heaven's court?
He never really addresses this.
jordan holmes
Now, I don't think it's a good idea to get bogged down with all these little nuances.
Don't you just want a court where God tells you that you're a good boy?
dan friesen
Well, hey, I do think that when you're talking about heaven's court, let's get in the weeds with the legalese of it.
jordan holmes
How do you create a god that's perfect and yet still has to go to court?
dan friesen
I will say that conceptions about court are generally really bogged down in specifics.
And technicalities.
Those are the things that are really important to the law.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And so I kind of would like to see a little bit more of that.
jordan holmes
What are the major precedents?
That's what I want to know.
Does God respect Brown v.
Board of Education?
dan friesen
Is there anything that's been overturned?
jordan holmes
Yes, I would like to know!
Oh, God's still fine with segregation, I bet.
dan friesen
Probably.
According to these guys.
jordan holmes
According to these guys, for sure.
dan friesen
So yeah, we'll be back.
I'll get back to Alex Jones on Friday, but I just had to kick the can down the road because it was a bad couple days.
But until we are back, we have a website.
jordan holmes
We do.
It's knowledgefight.com.
dan friesen
Yep, we're also on Twitter.
jordan holmes
We are on Twitter.
It's at knowledge underscore fight, and I go to bed Jordan.
dan friesen
You can also find us in the docket in Heaven's Court.
jordan holmes
Yes, you can.
dan friesen
We'll be back, but until then, I'm the I'm Leo.
I'm DZX Clark.
I'm Daryl Rundus.
steve quayle
And now here comes the sex robots.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
unidentified
Thanks for holding.
Hello, Alex.
andy in kansas
I'm a first-time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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