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Oct. 16, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Episode 18 – Oct 16, 2023 – Pastor Todd Coconato on achieving spiritual freedom and rejecting...
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Welcome to today's episode of Decentralized TV.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com and joined today, of course, by my co-host Todd Pitner.
And our special guest today is a pastor, Pastor Todd Coconato, who is going to speak about decentralization of your spiritual life and how to, let's say, extricate yourself from any kind of unreasonable authoritarianism that might be associated with various Church institutions, we'll say.
But this is going to be a fascinating show, a topic you don't normally hear.
But welcome both Todd's, Todd Pitner and Pastor Todd Coconato.
It's great to have you both on the show today.
Thanks, Mike.
Great to be here with both you guys.
It's great to have you.
Pastor Todd, say something again so you can pop in on the video there.
Oh yeah, I just said it's great to be here with you guys.
I love this new show, by the way, and I've caught several of them, and it's just very informative and needed.
Great television.
People need to watch this and share it all around, because this is the kind of conversation that we need to be having right now.
Well, thank you so much, Pastor Todd, and I think we all agree with you.
The audience loves it.
We're getting a lot of traction, and my co-host here, Todd Pitner, he and I are having a blast every day.
So let's just, before we begin, could you introduce yourself to Pastor Todd, to our audience, because someone just looking at this who doesn't know you, just visually they're going to say, well, you don't look like you're a pastor in a church with a Bible in your hand.
What's going on?
Yeah, what does a pastor look like?
Well, I hope it's not the skinny jeans and latte crowd, that's for sure.
I'll tell you this.
I've been a pastor now.
It's 24 years.
Can you imagine that?
24 years I've been pastoring.
And I'm actually in my late 40s.
And I have a family and a church here in Nashville.
But for 17 years, I pastored out in Los Angeles.
Very difficult area to pastor.
I was raised up in a gentleman named Dr.
Jack Hayford.
I went to the King's College and Seminary.
But before all that, I was a child actor, and I have a much different story in my childhood and growing up years, and then the Lord got a hold of my life.
Real short version of a long story, but I ended up getting stabbed nine times.
One was in the heart, and the Lord spared my life, and I was literally, pastor was the last thing you would have ever thought that Todd Coconata would have been.
But God had different plans, and once I realized He was real, I started studying, as you both gentlemen do very well.
And as I studied more and more, I found out just how real God is.
And so I believe we're in the middle of a major spiritual battle.
That's what we're seeing play out.
If you were to just zoom out and look at everything from, you know, a 50,000-foot level, this is a massive spiritual battle, and it's time for lions and generals to stand up and speak the truth, because if we don't do it now, I don't know when else we're going to do it.
If not now, when?
If not us, who?
If not here, where, right?
So here we are.
Well, exactly.
Okay, well said.
And I know, Todd Pitner, I know you've been watching some of Pastor Todd's videos.
What's your comment right now so far from getting to know Pastor Todd and his message?
Well, first of all, he just has a rock-solid, awesome first name.
But after watching and doing my bit of study, I just have so many questions for you, but allow me to ask you what I deem to be the most important.
Please.
What is the gospel?
Can you please share that with our audience?
Yeah, the gospel is basically explaining what Jesus Christ himself did.
He was a fulfillment of prophecy, and he came as the eternal sacrificial lamb.
So what he did was he didn't abolish the law.
He fulfilled the law.
He fulfilled the prophecy, and he came to die on the cross for our sins.
And we, unfortunately, all of us are sinners in need of a Savior.
And before Jesus, you had to do all kinds of sacrifices and all different things.
We're in now what's called the New Covenant.
And so the message is that even though we're sinners, Jesus connected us back to a holy God.
And so if we accept Him as our Lord and Savior, and we believe in our heart and we confess with our mouth that He is Lord, and we repent of our sin, by the way.
That's a very important part.
We turn from our past lifestyle, because this is a big factor that a lot of people leave out nowadays.
Then we are saved.
Our name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
That means that we're on our way to heaven.
It's the biggest decision, the most important decision that we will ever make here on this earth, and it literally will decide where you're going to spend eternity.
So not a lot of churches talk about this.
A lot of them talk about your best life now or all these different things that are going to happen on this earth, and that's great, but we've got to remember the Apostle Paul said to live is Christ, to die is gain.
But the thing is that when we die, if we're on our way to heaven, if we've accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we're going to rule and reign for all eternity with him.
So kind of a big deal.
That's eternity.
Eternity, eternity, eternity.
So that is the gospel message.
It's available to anybody.
And I will tell you, I was a wretch.
I was a messed up person in the world.
I was totally off.
And God spared me.
So I'm no better than anybody watching this.
The gospel message means that this love, this Jesus, he's available for you as well.
And it's a free gift.
It's a free gift of salvation.
All you've got to do is accept Him as Lord and Savior.
I'm sorry, Mike.
I'm just going to sum that up by saying, so is it fair to say that Jesus, this carpenter dude, a couple thousand years ago, He really was real.
He really did walk the earth.
And this Bible thing, I believe, what, 66 books?
You know, if God wrote a book, I think we should probably read it, and I was challenged at the age of 42, and I did.
I spent five years really taking a deep dive.
And what I learned is that even though I'm a schlup, you know, sinner, it's like Jesus died for my sins in my place as my substitute, right?
So he took on my sins, past, present, and future.
And if I believe in him, if I believe that he did that and I am repentant, that means when they say you are saved, that you are covered by his propitiation.
Do I have that right?
No, you do.
That's absolutely correct.
And the thing is, if you think of all the other gods, Buddha, Mohammed, whatever other god you can think of out there, none of them are alive.
They've all died.
Jesus is the only one that was resurrected and is living and is part of the Trinity, the Godhead.
And so, you know, he is alive.
He is sitting on the right hand of the Father right now.
And he's real.
And here's what I always tell people is that, you know, there's been reporters.
In fact, I know one.
His name is Lee Strobel.
He was a Award-winning reporter.
And he went on a mission to try to disprove the Bible.
What ended up happening was he ended up accepting Jesus.
And you find this story over and over and over again.
You think about it.
You talked about the Bible, and people try to disprove the Bible all the time.
But think about the left, for instance, that are constantly coming after biblical Christianity, especially now.
Think about it.
If there could be one thing that they could for sure say is wrong in the Bible, they'd be all over it.
But the fact is that here's this book, and yet not one single thing in it, Has been proven wrong.
In fact, if anything, everything just keeps getting confirmed.
And we're literally seeing the Bible come into life right now in our world.
So they've tried many times to come against its validity.
They've tried many times to discredit it.
But yet now I wrote a book, Todd, and I'll tell you this.
In a couple of years, there'll probably be parts of this book that I just wrote that are outdated.
But the Bible, which, you know, in many different parts and different times when it was written, but none of it has been proven wrong and none of it is outdated.
Think about how crazy that is.
It's amazing.
Pastor Todd, show us that book again.
I think your camera may be flipped horizontally, so we're getting it backwards.
But what is it?
Come out from among them, which is what we need to do.
We've got to come out of the Babylon system.
And that's what we need to be set apart.
There's all these plans.
The World Economic Forum has plans.
Klaus Schwab, Noah Harari.
I mean, all these guys have wicked, evil plans.
UN Agenda 2030.
It's all stuff that the Bible mentioned.
A one-world global government.
But we as the believers in Jesus Christ that have accepted Him, we come out from the Babylon system and we're meant to be set apart.
That's what the book's about.
It's a whole strategy.
Actually, I'm going to send you a copy, Mike, because I think you'd really appreciate it.
Oh, please do.
I'd love to read that.
And if you don't mind, consider my co-host, too.
Yes, both of you.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
Let me give out your website.
It's pastortodd.org, which forwards to this website, the Todd Coconato website.
But pastortodd.org.
Now, Pastor Todd, since this is a show about decentralization, So my next question is in that area.
And a lot of people who are in crypto, by the way, not all, but I would say the vast majority of people who are in crypto are not active in a church.
They're not religiously active.
They tend to be much younger people.
By the way.
And so a lot of people are going to be watching this show and they're going to ask, whoa, why are we talking about the church?
And so let me lay this out and you can respond.
But I think you'll agree that, and I think Todd Pitner, I think you'll agree as well, the church has been weaponized as a system of authoritarianism over free-thinking people or elements of the church, let's say.
And the church has been Wielded as a weapon to demand obedience rather than a pathway for you to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ to set you free.
Would you agree with that assessment, Pastor Todd?
Yeah, I would.
Actually, there's a lot of notes that I have here today, and hopefully we'll get to some of them, but there's a lot that led to where we are today.
A lot of the church today is like the Pharisees in Jesus' day.
So there's a lot of religion, man-made stuff, and unfortunately that's been used to manipulate people I'll tell you about both this.
This is something that just grieves my heart.
But I talk to more people as I go around the country and speak that have been hurt in churches.
And they come to me and they say, Pastor Todd, and they just tell me these stories.
Now look, I know there's some folks that just walk around and they're offended by everything.
So I know that there's some that maybe aren't saying the whole story.
But the deal is that I believe the folks.
I believe many of these people have indeed been hurt by church leaders and people that have manipulated their position of power.
They've overreached.
They've done things that they should have never done in the name of Jesus.
There are people out there right now that are making all kinds of ridiculous claims and saying all these different things under the guise of God said when God never said these things.
So it's a real minefield.
And to your point, this is why I call it going back to basics.
In fact, I talk about in our book, I think there's a real disruption.
You know, there's a disruption in so many different areas of society right now, and one of them is the church.
There's a lot of changes that are happening.
I mean, there's been these denominations, you know, these different groups that have been, you know, for years and years, so many denominations.
There's thousands, thousands of denominations.
And they argue and they bicker and they argue over doctrine and things like that.
And so it's actually really divisive.
And I really got back to the basics in studying how the church was formed, you know, in the book of Acts.
And, you know, when the followers of the way came together, there was no mention about denominations.
In fact, it's completely unbiblical.
Now, I can understand the premise of denominations.
I understand there was to bring in some accountability and it was kind of like, you know, how the U.S. government in D.C. is over the states.
And I understand they're trying to bring some type of governmental order structure.
But what's happened is it's gotten extremely corrupt to where now some of these denominations have actually gone woke.
And they're actually leading the people away from biblical Christianity.
So to your point, Mike, there's a lot of overreach.
There's a lot of abuse.
And so I think this disruptive period right now is causing real believers, real people that are seeking the heart of God to truly go back and say, okay, what is Christianity?
What does it mean to be a follower of Christ?
And what do I actually need to do according to the Bible?
Well, there you go.
And that's all about decentralization because any individual can just open the Bible, start reading, start practicing, start applying the principles in their own lives.
And even if they don't go to a church, although perhaps they can find a church or a church group or local community in that philosophy, even if they don't, they can deepen their relationship with Christ.
And they can learn what it means to be closer to God.
Todd, co-host Todd, sorry.
There's two Todds today.
Double Todd Tuesday.
Todd, what's your assessment of all of this?
Do you agree with this or do you disagree?
Well, when I came to Christ, and shout out to Adam, a very, very good friend of mine.
He used to work for me.
And when I was 42 years, he just told me, he goes, you know, I've been praying about you a lot.
And that kind of struck me, you know.
And I was raised Catholic, but I put it in the rearview mirror once I went off to college and never looked back.
But he was like, you know, God put on my heart that I need to have a little intervention.
I'm like, okay, that's interesting.
And he said, I bought you this Bible, and it was actually this one.
It's a little worn.
And he gave it to me, and he says, if God wrote a book, don't you actually think that we should read it?
And I said, yes.
And he goes, do me a favor.
Read the book of John as if it were true.
And that really unpacked everything.
And once I started to, that's when the Holy Spirit goes to work.
And then all of these different things came into my life.
Lee Strobel.
I was in Asheville, North Carolina, and he was speaking in Charlotte, two hours away.
My wife had gone back to Russia for six weeks, and I had nothing to do that weekend.
So I'm like, hmm, I'll drive over there.
So it's interesting that you brought that up.
But then that got me into Christian apologetics.
And I'm like, hey, this is kind of fun.
Even though I don't know a lot of it, I think I can learn.
I'm just going to go start debating atheists online.
And so...
And that's literally how I got into it.
And then I had so many answers to all of these challenges that I created a website called iloveatheists.com.
Wow.
And the tagline was, Just Not Their Worldview.
But then, like five years ago, I'm so sorry, but the person who was hosting it, they just went belly up, and that content's gone, so it breaks my heart.
But I still have it all somewhere.
But anyway, I share that with you because when you become open to it, I have found that all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit really does do His thing.
And brings all of these people into your lives and then all of a sudden...
Let me ask you one question.
Do you have a favorite Bible verse in the entire Bible?
I have what I call my life verse, which is Romans 420.
And it's kind of a funny story why it's Romans 420.
But, you know, when I was in the world and I was in the L.A. party scene, 420 was like weed.
And so, you know, I was looking up, you know, Romans 420.
And what it says, it's amazing.
It's about Abraham.
And it talks about he has an account in righteousness that what God promised he's also able to do.
And for me, when I first started being a Christian, it was so foreign to me.
When I walked into a church, I thought I was going to get hit by a lightning bolt.
I felt so dirty.
I mean, think about coming out of Hollywood and the club scene in L.A. and the underground scene.
I mean, you know, sitting in a real conservative church where everyone's wearing suits and ties.
And here I am.
I was sweaty.
I was nervous.
I thought, you know, I'm totally out of water here.
I'm fish out of water.
But yet I knew it was the right thing and God got a hold of my life, you know.
And so that's why that verse in particular is important to me.
But yeah.
I do.
That's good.
Pastor Todd, if I could jump in.
I'd like you to speak more to that because the life that you saw, the Hollywood, what do you call it, like the rave party scene or the underground party scene, whatever it was, I really appreciate the fact that you saw that in your life before you became a pastor because there are many people who have never seen that dark chapter of humanity and they don't know the depths to which people can sink if they reject Christ and they begin to worship demonism or satanism
or pedophilia or whatever.
Probably all those things is going on, you know, in the underground scenes in Hollywood and Yeah, I mean, I learned so much because, first of all, when I was on drugs and alcohol, I would see things that I felt were demonic.
I felt like there were times when I actually saw demonic things, demons.
And so I recall this very distinct, several times, very distinctly seeing things that I knew were not there in the physical, but they were actually there.
So that was one thing.
And I saw, to your point, pedophilia.
I saw all that stuff.
In fact, for many years when I became a Christian, I didn't want to share all that stuff because I was ashamed.
I was ashamed of my past.
And I think that sometimes, you know, the church that we're talking about today, which is not the decentralized church, but the shaming part of your church, they'll sometimes make you feel bad about your past, or, you know, everybody's just blessed and highly favored, nothing going on.
You know, meanwhile, everybody's got, like, all these skeletons that haven't been dealt with, they haven't been delivered, they haven't been healed, and yet they're sitting in this church for 10, 15 years.
Sometimes folks don't even get to talk to their pastor in some of these megachurches where they, I know people that have sat in a church for 15 years, they've never even shook their pastor's hand, you know?
Wow.
Yeah, I mean, it's crazy.
So, you know, this is, I think, why this is such an important time right now, because folks are looking at this structure that's been in place for like 30 plus years or more here in the Western world, and they're saying, we can't go on like this.
This is how we got to where now, you know, you got kids getting castrated from You know, and all the just wickedness in our society where we've completely gone off the moral cliff.
Why has this happened?
Because the church was stagnant, and it was basically powerless.
Now, I'm not saying there weren't remnant people that were really doing the work of the Lord in this time.
Of course there weren't.
I know many of them.
But what I'm saying is that as a whole, though, the body really retracted.
We got out of politics.
We got out of all the spheres of influence in our culture.
And we said, oh, we're just going to stay within the four walls.
And meanwhile, the country went to hell in a handbasket.
So this is why I think God is awakening his bride right now, because he comes back for a bride without spot nor wrinkle.
In Hollywood, I saw it all, Mike.
I saw drug addiction.
I saw criminal lifestyles.
I saw people that got abused.
I saw, you know, I didn't see sex trafficking happening, but I just narrowly averted a couple of times being molested myself.
I had friends that were molested.
The casting couch, all that stuff is real.
And it's coming out more and more, and I'm so glad that the Lord is revealing this.
We're seeing, like with Disney and some of these companies, you know, just massive things coming out, even governors standing against these companies now.
Pretty, pretty impressive, but for years, I knew this stuff because I was in that machine, and I was trying to warn Christians, and they thought I was some kind of conspiracy theorist, you know, because I was saying, hey, this company is actually not good.
They're actually bad.
And, you know, there's all this evil stuff going on at the corporate level, and there's all these people that are doing all these things.
People thought, no way, that couldn't be.
Now there's this expose, and I think God is allowing this all to come out.
So I think he allowed me to see these things, and I also saw a plumb line from Hollywood to government.
And that's why I started getting involved in government.
I started, you know, studying, like, the Church Commission and, you know, Operation Mockingbird and all these things.
And it's all connected.
And now we're seeing this so overtly, so in our face.
Think about during the Trump era, how the news, every Friday night they'd come out with a hit piece.
I mean, it was all synchronized.
And it's still going on today, and we're seeing it more and more.
And so I think more and more people are waking up, even folks that were asleep, and they're saying, wait a minute, yeah, something is wrong here, you know?
So It's a good time.
I think it's an exciting time to be alive.
Even though there's a lot of egregious and evil things that are happening, it's an exciting time because God is moving.
And we are being shown so many things, like you just said.
And by the way, Todd, I'll turn it back over to you in a minute.
But I've got one more follow-up question on that.
What really showed me that the church as an institution had failed us was the COVID lockdowns and the vaccine mandates.
So when churches, by and large, I know there were exceptions to this, but by and large, the churches across America, they agreed to be shut down.
They refused to take a stand.
They pushed vaccines on their congregations.
And the vaccines consisting of the bioweaponized spike protein, which I believe is a molecular rendition of satanic destruction of the human cell, which is created in the image of God.
But that's, I guess, another big topic right there.
But the church has failed us, and it showed us that...
If you surrender your, let's say, spiritual sovereignty to the church, you've just handed it over to somebody who's not going to care for you.
We talk about self-custody in cryptocurrency and money and finance.
You have to have self-custody of your soul, your spirit.
You can't just hand it over to the church and say, do whatever you want with it, I'll obey.
That's an excellent point, Mike.
Spiritual self-custody.
Pastor Todd, your comments?
Oh, 100%.
I mean, to your point, I think the Lord allowed that because he separated the wheat from the chaff.
You know, you saw who was really willing to stand and who wasn't.
You know, we had, you know, friends of mine that had, one of my friends went to jail for having his church open.
We had the city coming after us for the power.
They were going to shut the power and all kinds of threats.
We didn't know if we were going to get raided.
Think about a church pastor thinking about maybe getting raided by the city for having church.
Who would think that would ever happen in the United States of America and yet it happened?
You know, and many people were shutting down left and right.
And, you know, I understand there were some that shut down just for a minute or two, a couple weeks, because, you know, that's what Trump said to do, and they didn't really know what was going on.
But I'm talking, some of these churches stayed closed for months, and they were making everybody wear the masks and separate, and it just looked like a bunch of aliens walking around.
You know what I mean?
You couldn't even sit with your friends.
It's so ridiculous.
Meanwhile, the Bible says that if you lay hands on the sick, they'll be healed.
It says, don't forsake the assembling together of the brethren.
And I even saw church leaders telling people to get the vaccine.
That really shocked me.
And they were saying, one said Jesus would take the vaccine.
Oh yeah, I remember that.
Are we talking about the same Jesus, the one that sits on the throne?
You think he needs a vaccine from Pfizer?
Some chemical nonsense?
Right, right.
Because being able to be resurrected is not enough.
You need Pfizer jabs also, right?
Todd Pittner, what are your comments on all this?
Well, Pastor Todd, when I was young, the alphabet began with A-B-C-D-E-F-G, and now it begins with L-G-B-T-Q-P-E-D-O-M-O-U-S-E. Pastor Todd, we have to be living in the end times, are we not?
Yes, I believe we are.
I believe we're at the end of the birth pangs.
I don't think we're in the tribulation period yet, but obviously, just by looking at the prophecies in the scripture, we're seeing the book of Revelation play out.
You know, I think this is just a theory, but I think that the vaccine itself is actually a precursor to the mark.
I think that they're putting together the infrastructure, and I think that this was a test.
To see who is willing.
If you think about it, why are Christians the target?
Why is the target on our back?
Because who is standing up against the tyranny?
Who is standing up against the mandates?
It was Bible-believing Christians.
They said, wait a minute.
This doesn't feel right.
Why?
Because we walk in discernment of the Holy Spirit.
And we knew something was wrong.
And it's cost a lot of people, family members, and just a real high cost If you listen to the government officials and you listen to the ones who caved and capitulated rather than listening to people that were anointed by the Holy Spirit, they were sharing truth.
Oh yeah, these Druid Babylonian bastards, they mean business.
But I think that there are archangels out there and there's some white hats and folks like you.
This next comment is going to blow people's mind and I want you to unpack it.
I learned about this just from doing a little bit of research on you and another gentleman having a discussion.
Can you tell us about Microsoft's patent number 666, Pastor Todd?
Yeah, I mean, this is just so in our face.
If you look up patent 060606, I mean, they have this, it basically allows you to be tracked and traced and monitored.
And Yvarno Harari talks about this, where they're going to, you know, it's going to go under your skin.
Well, that reminds me of the Mark of the Beast, the Mark of the Beast.
Bingo!
You know, it's like, wow.
And to think about what did they say, you know, the number of the beast is, it's 666.
I mean, why?
Just think of the probability from a statistical standpoint.
Why would it be those three numbers?
I mean, it's just...
Look, they're playing with us like catnip.
You know, inserting a chip that tracks everything.
And if you're a good boy or a girl or, I guess, pat these days, you get rewarded with what?
Cryptocurrency in your chip.
That's all part of the patent.
Yes.
Crazy.
Crazy.
Yes, and they're talking about now these central bank digital currencies, which most big countries have already signed on to this.
We have the FedNow app that's already being rolled out, and it's an infrastructure.
If you're in the banking sector, you know this, that the big four have already signed on to this.
Look what happened during the truckers up in Canada when the truckers were protesting the vaccine mandates.
What happened?
Their bank accounts were frozen.
This has happened to other leaders that I know that have stood up against tyrannical mandates.
And so this is where we're going.
And if folks think that they can avoid this or the folk that say, well, if I just don't say anything or they're going to leave me alone, this is the direction that we're headed right now.
And I think if you're a person of God, a person of faith, this is exciting because even though it's evil, it's exactly what Scripture said.
And so what we need to be doing is preparing and getting our minds prepared for what's to come and having that fortitude and tenacity and understanding of Scripture and hiding it in our heart to understand how we're going to trade and barter, building communities.
When you talk about decentralization, there's so much to that.
I call it building an underground railroad for the remnant.
And that's what we really are working.
That's one of the visions of the ministry.
What are the remnant for those that may not be?
Super simple.
It's people that actually live out the Word of God.
People that wholeheartedly hunger and thirst for righteousness.
People that are followers of Jesus Christ.
Not the people that are claiming it but not living it.
I'm talking about those that actually say, look, I believe this and I'm going to do my very best to live this out.
And you repent.
I'm a good repenter like David.
I'm not saying I've got it perfect or figured out.
But we live a lifestyle of repentance and we do our best to serve the Lord.
And in the end times, there's two important players, the Antichrist and the Whore of Babylon.
Can I take a shot at who they are?
I want to hear this, too.
Go for it.
The Antichrist is Klaus Schwab, and the whore of Babylon is Michael Obama.
Boom!
Sorry.
I just saw an article, Todd.
This is crazy, where they're already planning, and these are high-level Democrat operatives that are saying that we're going to replace Joe Biden and we're going to put in Michelle Obama.
So there's real talk about this happening in the Democrat circles right now, because they know that Biden obviously is...
No cognitive skills.
But as far as the Antichrist, look, we don't know if he's here right now or if he's still coming, but we know that there's a spirit of Antichrist.
And so if you have discernment, you can see that this is rising where persecution is at an all-time high of Christians.
We're seeing censorship of pastors.
I just got censored on Facebook for talking about Nephilim.
Yeah.
It's in the book of Genesis.
It's in the Torah, and it's in the Bible, and yet I said it on Facebook, and they fact-checked me, and they demerited my account.
It's amazing I even have an account still.
I think it's because I'm a pastor, and they're worried from a religious liberty standpoint, but bottom line is I'm always censored.
I'm always suppressed.
This is the rise of the spirit of Antichrist, because if you're speaking truth and you're setting people up for success in Jesus Christ, they're coming after you.
You mentioned another thing.
You said the Antichrist.
What was the second thing?
Poor Babylon.
Poor Babylon.
So there's a lot of people, and this is just a theory, but a lot of people think Babylon the Great is the United States of America.
Now, you know, there'll be different people that'll say different things, but many people believe that if you look at...
What they talk about with Babylon the Great and falling in one day.
It sounds a lot like America, but there's a Babylon system, and the Babylon system is the globalists, the elites, the cabal, whatever you want to call them, the people that are pulling the strings behind the scenes, the Wizard of Oz, if you will, that are pulling us into this one-world government system.
Yeah, Pastor Todd, you mentioned CBDCs.
I want to redirect our conversation there, but it's all related.
And I want to ask you, what are the obligations of a Christian in terms of rejecting CBDCs?
In other words, is there a real spiritual penalty to From God's point of view, if you interact with the CBD system, which is probably the mark of the beast system in any way.
Now, for example, suppose you have to go buy groceries.
And the grocery store, they stop accepting cash and they don't take crypto.
So is it acceptable for a Christian to use a small amount of a CBDC in order to buy gasoline or to pay property taxes or whatever is needed?
Or must a Christian completely reject the CBDC system?
What are your thoughts on that?
I would say that we should completely reject it as of right now because we can see where this is going.
I don't think that God is going to surprise us where we're going to be confused if it's the mark or not.
I think it's going to be very clear.
And so I think through discernment and wisdom, we're going to know what actually is the mark.
But obviously, this is on the way there.
I saw a woman the other day.
It's like a viral video.
She's waving her palm over a Whole Foods checker.
Yeah, I saw that.
And it's like, Here we go.
You know, she's all excited about it.
You know, so I think, look, what I would say is a clarion call to every person that's watching this right now.
Push back with everything that you got.
Use cash.
Call your local officials.
Get governor.
Look, every red state governor should be pushing back against this.
And the fact that they're not is really shocking but not shocking.
But I'm glad there are a few that at least are pushing back.
But There is an ability, like in Texas, where they're trying to create their own currency.
And there are ways around this.
There's a lot of countries that are not going to be participating in this.
There might be a point, like I had to escape California because it turned communist.
There might be a point where we're going to have to really pray and be led of the Lord on how to go in the future.
But I would say for sure, if anything's on your right hand or your forehead or even close to that, no, no, no.
And as a Christian, I'm going to be pushing back every single thing I've got, Mike, to not participate.
Okay, well said.
And there are also some very peaceful ways to protest against this.
There was a video of a man in the UK, and I regret I forgot his name, but there's an Aldi store in the UK that is digital payment only, no cash accepted.
Right.
So he went in.
It was all being recorded.
He had a little small crowd of supporters.
He went in.
He picks up a box of strawberries and he announces, I am paying for the strawberries using the currency of the realm.
And he puts cash down and he walks out with the strawberries and the store manager is like, you can't leave with those strawberries.
You can't do this.
And he just walks out and says, I paid for the strawberries.
And I'm thinking, this is awesome.
We all need to do this.
Just put the cash down.
I paid for it.
This is the currency.
This recognizes currency.
I'm not stealing.
I'm not shoplifting.
You, store people, it's your job to take the freaking money.
I'm leaving with the strawberries.
I think that was awesome.
I'm going to buy some strawberries, and I'm offering exactly the right amount of money here on the help desk.
So you people, take that money, £1.90, and I will take my strawberries outside.
You can't take that.
You can't take that.
Police is on their way.
You can't take that.
I've paid by legal tender.
I've paid by legal tender and I am going out with my strawberries.
I've released my strawberries.
I've paid by legal tender in this dystopian place.
Okay.
Brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
Because you should be able to spend wherever you want.
This is an absolute joke.
You'll want one, mate.
Thank you.
I love that.
It's what we need to do.
I mean, that's the kind of the peacefully protest.
You know, I was just talking to Martin Luther King Jr.'s grandson last night.
We were kind of talking about some of these things.
But, you know, his grandfather peacefully protested and was able to change things.
I mean, we could do our part in pushing back against the wicked agenda.
The Lord spoke to me many times.
He said, many are the plans of the wicked.
But if you think about it, they've been thwarted many times, too.
You know, they got ahead of themselves.
And I think that sometimes they're trying to push this whole beast system in prematurely.
So, you know, what if the church, what if every pulpit in America, just think about this, every pulpit got out there and said, don't participate in this.
And pastors got involved and people of God got involved.
They wouldn't know what to do.
They wouldn't be able to handle it.
So we have power, but the problem is...
People are going to assert that power, and they think it's either one way or the other, and there are other ways.
And I love how Mike and Todd, both of you, bring up in your shows how we can do that, because that's how we have to educate the folks.
Let me jump in, Todd.
You're going to love this question.
Big question for the show, for the audience.
Given that cryptocurrency is peer-to-peer, doesn't require you to go through the government of Rome or whoever, it's person-to-person, so it's kind of the people's currency.
In your opinion, is cryptocurrency compatible with the teachings of Jesus?
Or is it incompatible?
Are you there, Pastor Todd?
Oh, you're asking me.
I thought you were asking the audience.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I'm sorry.
My mistake.
But in your opinion, is cryptocurrency compatible with the teachings of Jesus because it's peer-to-peer decentralized?
I think peer-to-peer decentralized, yes.
I think we'd have to take it case by case because I know there's some government cryptos and different things that they're going to be putting out there.
But from the premise of what cryptocurrency should be and has been sold to us, because I know you've kind of covered the differences in some of these cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrencies, I would say yes.
From a high level, yes.
But obviously you've got to look at each individual currency.
Yeah, yeah.
We're not talking about government-run or corporate-run or bank-run.
We're talking about just sort of the people's currency.
And I'm not claiming that every cryptocurrency project is ethical or moral.
There's probably, I mean, look at FTX. Who knows what kind of weird trafficking was going on with some of that money.
Master Todd said FTX is okay.
No, no.
But I mean, just in general, the principle of people trading value with people without permission from central authorities.
That's right.
And that's the direction we need to go.
Why are they making it where trade and barter is illegal?
Why do they care?
Why does the government care about that?
Why is the government interfering in what we grow?
Everything's got to be Monsanto and all this.
Why are they getting involved in all these different things?
So the people have to push back.
And to your point, that is the way to do it.
It's peer-to-peer.
And so I think that is, you know, if you look at the advancement of technology, that would be similar to what was supposed to happen in Jesus' day.
Yes.
Fascinating.
Fascinating.
Isn't that Todd Pitner?
Yeah.
I have to keep remembering.
We have two Todds today.
But yeah, Todd Pitner.
Do you think of peer-to-peer currency as being aligned with biblical principles?
A hundred percent.
I mean, barter, exchange.
Look, here's the deal, and you know this, Pastor Todd, better than 99.999% of the people, because you referenced the Nephilim and what occurred in Genesis 6, the fallen angels.
What people don't realize is they were real, too.
And they walked this earth at one point in time, and they were giants.
And they were...
All of the gods that we hear about, whether it's Apollo or any...
They're all just, you know, the same 200 fallen angels just with putting on a different mask and dressing up, you know, like a girl.
Because they really like to do that.
And these demons, they literally are very good at what they've done.
They've been at it a long time, and they are eternal.
They don't die.
So at some point in time, and I don't know when, you could educate me on that, but they cease from being in the physical, but they are in the spiritual realm, very much running the show still, as does Satan.
So that's the way that I can reconcile this world right now that is turned so upside down, is these spiritual beings who hate God and God's creation, they hate everything that is good, beautiful, and true.
And so they converge everything.
That's why it's okay to say, I'm a woman and compete in sports against you.
That's convergence.
They turn everything upside down.
And so, you know, they are not going to stop until God's creation is stopped.
And that's why there's this global depopulation, is because these guys have taken it, or these spiritual beings have taken it to the next level.
Well, powerful.
And I believe they possess all of the physical Drew Babylonian bastards out there, like Klaus Schwab, like Bill Gates, like the CEO of Pfizer, all of these people who are trying to kill us.
And so, frankly...
I don't think it's about going to the government and calling your senator.
I think it's about bending a knee and actually seeking God right now and asking for His favor and His help because we're not going to do it by ourselves because you know why?
The percentage of people who are going to stand up with conviction Are the same percentage of people that walked around over the last three years without a mask.
The remnant is what, 144,000?
I'm telling you, that's not a lot of people, right?
And I witnessed it in my Publix and my grocery store.
I never wore a mask because I just didn't.
But...
You know, I don't think the answer is that all of this mass awakening in these churches and pastors who are totally converts themselves are going to automatically be able to preach to the NPCs out there and say, stand up and say no to the CBDC. Heck no.
They're going to say, oh, cool.
This is convenient.
If I convert all my cash over, I get 200 additional dollars.
Yeah, I get the UBIs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I think it's all about turning to God right now and inviting Him into our lives.
And I'm telling you, I'm looking myself in the mirror, and I need to pay Him more attention.
That's so good.
You know what?
I always tell Mike this.
I get more anointing and time with the Lord being with guys like you than 90% of the pastors that I know in the country.
And I'm so thankful for you and for what you're doing.
Thank you.
This is a ministry, what you're doing.
And you're awakening the folks and you're informing the folks.
And I agree with you.
I mean, I try to push the needle as much as I can.
I have seen pastors awaken, thank God.
But to your point, this is a time to get serious about our faith.
This is a time to understand this is the reality of our world.
You know, I think a lot of this, look at the fake alien invasion and all the stuff they're trying to do right now.
This is all part of the same agenda that you're talking about.
I personally think, and this is a theory, but I think some of these deep state cabal people are actually interacting with demonic beings.
I think that that's...
Oh, yeah.
100%.
Right.
I think that's what CERN was.
I think that was to open the dimensions and all that.
I think that there's so much going on that we don't understand.
And that's where all this wicked...
Think about this fourth industrial revolution that's happening and the explosion of technology and AI and all these things.
You know, I saw some video where people went to some AI church and they were watching some AI preacher.
I saw that.
It's so powerful.
Bizarre.
You know, there's no anointing of the Holy Spirit.
Give me a break.
But yet there's going to be, like you said, NPCs and people that are going to go and say, oh, I went to church today, just like a lot of the LGBTQ people think that they're going to church and hearing a sermon.
There's no anointing.
It's not from the Holy Spirit.
It's literally the Church of Satan that you're going to.
But people don't understand that.
And so to the remnant, those that have ears to hear and eyes to see, you get it.
You're tracking.
This is a high-level conversation.
This isn't those drinking the milk.
This is those that want the spiritual meat and have a desire to go deeper.
And this is the hour that we're in right now.
Wow, wow.
I mean, this show is just so powerful and profound.
And Todd, what you just said, Todd Pitner, what you said before, Pastor Todd, was just really nailing it, very powerful.
And it reminds me to ask Pastor Todd about demonic possession, because, I mean, you just said that you believe that's happening.
And I believe that's happening, too.
I think I've observed that there are people who are demonically possessed.
I've interviewed other people who have dealt with...
You know, treating possession, I guess, or, you know, exorcisms.
There are exorcists in the Catholic Church right now who are active, and I think they have a long waiting list, actually, from what I've heard.
But what else can you tell us, Pastor Todd, about, as I understand, there's demonic influence, there's possession, there's perfect possession, which is a whole different thing.
But possession, as I understand it, is rare, whereas influence is very common.
and a demonic influence where somebody invites them in a little bit, usually through sin, and then there's this dark entity that's kind of trying to tweak your decisions and destroy your life little by little.
Is that a real thing?
It absolutely is a real thing.
I've seen many, many people over the years that have been demonically possessed.
Usually, to your point, it's through an open door, an area of sin in your life, where you've allowed a certain area for the enemy to come in.
I've seen people that are possessed, and then a lot of people are oppressed.
And there's a big debate actually in Christian circles right now about whether a Christian could be possessed by a Christian.
It is my view that a Christian is oppressed and is influenced from the demonic.
I don't believe light and dark can stay in the same place, but I don't get into big arguments with my friends that do.
Look, I say this, if you've got a demon, get it out, right?
I mean, that's...
Right.
Here's the problem, is there's a lot of pastors in churches that don't understand deliverance.
You know, it's a big part of Jesus' ministry here on earth, you know, His earthly ministry, and yet they're afraid of deliverance.
They're not taught in the seminaries about deliverance.
They don't want to...
So I've heard people say, there's somebody that came into this church and they were demonically possessed, and they say, well, you make an appointment and come back to say...
What do you mean?
Like, you've got to get them out right there and then.
I mean, what are you talking about?
Come back Tuesday.
You know, what are they going to do?
You know, it's just so bizarre the way some people are handling this.
But the bottom line is, look, if you're a pastor, if you're a person of God, if you love the Lord, you don't have to be a pastor.
It's absolutely real, but we have the tools, and the Bible instructs us exactly what to do, and we have authority in Jesus' name to cast out the demons.
That's right.
That's what we need to do.
And look, I was delivered when I came out of the world.
I think I was messed up and probably had some demonic influence in my life, and the Lord set me free.
You know, when I got off of drugs and alcohol, they said there was a 2% chance of recovery.
When I was in Hollywood, and all the Hollywood actors, I'm sure you've seen this time and time again, they go to these rehabs, and they're super expensive, and then what, a couple months later, they're back.
Why?
Because they're not getting deliverance.
They're just getting it.
A band-aid.
And the fact is, is that if you get delivered by the Holy Spirit, you're set free.
The Son sets free is free indeed.
So that's what we have to understand.
This is a battle of light versus darkness, and you can't fix a spiritual problem with a chemical solution.
Oh, exactly.
Well said.
Nailed it.
Okay, so for both of you then, we're about out of time for this segment.
So Todd Pitner, first of all, let me give you a chance to ask any last question, and then Pastor Todd, anything else you want to cover that's in your notes before we wrap this up?
Well, I just want to repeat what my good friend Adam said to me when I was 42.
You know, get a Bible.
I know it can be very intimidating, especially if you start at the beginning and you ultimately get into Numbers and Deuteronomy, and you're going to be like...
The family tree of history!
But go to the book of John and try to read it as if it's true.
And when it comes to...
Repentance.
Adam shared this with me.
He said, Todd, it can be as easy as this.
Jesus, I'm sorry.
I was wrong.
Please forgive me.
And if you mean that in your heart, and you invite Him to say, okay, here's the controls.
You know, I'm yours now.
Guide me.
I'm not very good at this.
And then it doesn't have to be so hard.
And my favorite prayer of all...
Is, Lord, help.
It's two words.
I get fines all the time.
And I'm just like, Jesus, help.
Lord, help.
God, help.
Right?
And you'll find that He will.
Because He's real.
And He can be real for you, too.
Powerful.
Powerful.
Thank you, Todd.
And Pastor Todd, anything you want to wrap up here and leave our audience with?
Yeah, such a good conversation today.
I'll just say this, you know, back to the being hurt in the church or from the institution of the church, I just want you to know, look, I've been in the church for many, many years, and I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly, and I've seen so much junk.
And if I didn't have a personal relationship with Jesus, I would have bailed out a long time ago.
But, you know, the thing is, is that I do have a personal relationship.
And that's what I encourage everybody on here to do, is to, you know, people are going to let you down.
Man's going to let you down.
People fall.
There's a bunch of imperfections.
Even the greatest people that I know in Christ still have flaws.
I have flaws.
We all have flaws.
But here's the deal.
Have a personal relationship with Him.
Wake up every day.
Pray.
Get into the Word of God.
That's going to set you up for success.
I've never seen somebody that loves the Word of God be unsuccessful in life.
I'm going to tell you that again.
I've never in my life seen anybody that loves the Bible be unsuccessful in life.
And so if you get into the Scripture, you have a personal relationship with Jesus, nothing is going to stop you.
The gates of hell will not prevail, and you will stand.
And no matter what happens around us, we are on the winning team.
We win in the end.
We know that.
So stand firm with the Lord.
It's the best decision you'll ever make, and it'll involve your whole eternity.
Wow.
That's kind of like the wrap-up of wrap-ups right there.
Thank you, Pastor Todd.
Outstanding.
I always love interviewing you.
You know, you're so dynamic.
You have such a powerful message, and it matters.
You know, it's not just, you're not here just, oh, let's analyze price action in today's Wall Street.
No.
This is stuff that's going to affect you for eternity.
And everybody can make a choice, and the thing is, no government can stop you from choosing to have a relationship with Christ.
That's the thing.
You can simply seize self-custody of your spirit or your spiritual journey, as I say, and you can do this.
No one can stop you.
That's what's so amazing about it.
Pastor Todd, I have a sneaky suspicion that there are going to be a lot of people watching this who are going to say, I really like him.
How can they connect with you?
How can they hear you preach the Word of God?
Well, thank you.
Thank you both.
I think everybody's looking for real.
I'm looking for real.
You two are real.
That's what people want right now.
And so I would love to meet you and connect with anybody that's watching.
And you have the best audience, by the way, Mike.
I mean, you have literally my favorite audience.
They always reach out and say the most amazing things.
And so thank you to both of you and this amazing audience.
You can go to PastorTodd.org, PastorTodd.org, and that is the central hub, and it'll get you right to where you need to be.
Okay, perfect.
And check out Todd's new book.
You've got the Remnant channel, on-demand videos, and so much more.
And of course, also check out Pastor Todd at brighttown.tv as well.
And we thank you for your contributions to our broadcast platform, Pastor Todd.
It's an honor to know you.
Kidding me?
Thank you, brother.
I tell people all the time what an amazing resource Brighton is, and people don't even understand how important that's going to be in the days, months, and years ahead.
So definitely support Brighton, and thank you for having me on.
It's an honor.
Thank you so much.
God bless.
Have a wonderful day.
You as well.
Thank you.
Cheers.
Have a great weekend.
Thank you, Todd.
God bless.
God bless.
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Alright, Todd Pitner.
Wow, I am so glad that we had Pastor Todd Coconato on.
I mean, this is a topic that we need to have on this show.
And this was a very powerful episode even before the after party here.
Right.
But wow!
And your piece that you put out there was just super powerful as well.
Thank you.
I'm just...
Yeah, go ahead.
I mean, frankly...
To me, it's just self-evident of the Holy Spirit at work.
I have my simple questions.
You know me.
I prepare six to eight questions before each show, but I had no idea I was going to go down that path.
Thank you, Holy Spirit.
No words, not mine.
Right.
Well, sometimes there's just divine guidance that steps in and brings in information that the audience needs to hear.
And you think about the audience of this show, and like I said earlier, many of them may not know Christ or may not even have considered it.
They may have been turned off by a church experience.
Oh, 100%.
I don't want any part of that.
They're controlling, they're authoritarian, and they want to be free, which is why they're into maybe privacy crypto or whatever.
But you can find freedom with Christ in a personal relationship that you don't have to obey some human-created false authority.
It's so true.
It's a refreshing way to look at it.
Yeah, you know, man, I have so much to share.
I just don't know whether I should.
Well, it's your fault, man.
I don't think my brother will mind, but we were raised Catholic, you know, six kids in our family.
And my brother, he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest.
Oh, my.
And, you know, Once my dad learned of that, it's just amazing how that whole Catholic cabal, they go to work to protect their own, and all they did was move him to a different town, city.
Apparently, later my brother learned after there was a whole group that were suing the Catholic Church and they asked if he wanted to participate and he declined.
It just didn't want to open up all of the wounds.
But there was 67 people participating in that.
Think of how evil it is that when the church realizes that they have a child molesting abuser and All they do is move the chess piece from one place to the other.
That's right.
As if there's not other children to be victimized at the new place.
Yes.
But I, frankly, I'm of the opinion, after just being so disgusted by it, is that I think it's just a whole...
You know, collection of pedos that are even at the higher levels, and they're just moving people around to protect their own.
And so I think there are a lot of people that probably had similar experiences somehow, some way, or they know somebody who does, and talk about a turnoff.
I mean, my goodness, that would turn 99% of the people away from God, right?
I know from my standpoint, I swore to...
Jesus!
I'm never going to go back into another Catholic church as long as I lived.
Of course, funerals I've had to and such.
But I put it in the rearview mirror, but it turned me off to the notion of religion.
And then when I had my experience with Adam, and I went down that five-year deep dive of serious biblical exegesis study...
I started to realize that my relationship...
I realized the big aha, Mike, was religion really wasn't Jesus' thing.
In fact, I would add that satanic forces have infiltrated...
the upper echelon of the Catholic Church in order to turn people away from God through these kinds of experiences.
And by the way, thank you for sharing that very personal history of your family.
And I think a lot of our viewers will know someone that that has happened to as well.
Because again, I think the Catholic Church in particular has been infiltrated.
And I'm not anti-Catholic by any means at all.
by the way.
Look at all the other denominations that are out there.
You talk about woke and turned upside down.
It's just pervasive everywhere.
Sadly, it is pervasive everywhere.
But my point is that I think it's a demonic takeover of the institution of the church in order to wield it as a weapon against humanity.
And this is exactly what's happening with banking and finance.
It's what's happening with government, with culture and entertainment, Hollywood, pop music, full-on Satanism, full-on pedophilia, child exploitation throughout all those industries.
And also education now, which is, of course, attacking children and genital mutilations in public schools and all these things, chemical castration.
But these are really the sins of centralization of power, which is what this show fights against.
Yes.
That's a great way to put it.
I mean, we are fighting against centralized sin.
Yeah, exactly.
Because if you send your kids to a government school, that's a centralized indoctrination brainwashing system.
You should homeschool instead.
Or if you send your kids to a centrally controlled church...
They may be abused or raped or whatever happens in some of those churches.
Or if you send your kids, I don't know, out to the movies without wondering what is it that they're seeing, they're going to be indoctrinated.
The Boy Scouts.
Send them to participate with the Boy Scouts.
The Boy Scouts, man.
What happened to the Boy Scouts?
Just utter abuse, pedo attraction.
Yeah, right, right.
And then you look at entertainment, Mike, right?
And the other thing, if we want to talk about centralized sin, the other thing that I think that has really destroyed the American male in particular, and I'm sure female as well, women as well, is just the easy access to porn.
You know, it's that...
That, I think, has probably ruined more young men who aren't even looking to get married.
What do you mean?
You mean porn is a replacement for them even dating or anything or meeting real women?
Yeah, I have been in the business of providing prescription savings cards to people all across the country, people who don't have insurance, and it helps give them discounts up to 80% off of certain prescription medications.
You know, so many of us are in high deductibles.
We don't even get into the land of copay.
So I know a lot about prescription medications and the most popular.
And it was blown away.
Do you know the highest percentage, what demographic of males, age-wise, Take Viagra.
I mean, I would think it's like people 60 plus, but am I wrong about that?
You would think that it's 25 to 35.
No way.
And they attribute that to porn.
No way!
Because these kids grow up with these fantasies, right?
And then when they find a real woman...
They have issues, you know?
Are you kidding me?
I'm not kidding you.
I mean, okay, so first of all, if any young men are watching, there's something called nitric oxide, by the way, that is, I mean, you know, it's all about blood flow, folks.
I mean, you know, circulation, nitric oxide, look into it.
But secondly...
I mean, I'm a food scientist, nutritionist, health expert, and I do know that a lot of prescription medications cause sexual dysfunction, and that includes antidepressants.
So I'm wondering if a lot of young people are on antidepressants, and then they have difficulty with sexual performance, and then they turn to Viagra.
Which, by the way, was originally researched as a heart medication.
Did you know that?
No.
To bring circulation and oxygen to the heart.
Oh, interesting.
Okay.
Which it does.
And other places, it turns out, it just brings oxygen.
But that's why I'm talking about nitric oxide.
But I can't believe that young...
25 to 35.
Why would they need Viagra at all?
How do we even get on this topic?
But it just seems...
I can't imagine!
I was given proper attribution to online porn as being...
And so what can everyone do?
Stop watching porn.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm still just blown away by this because...
I mean, I think it's...
I mean, I don't want to get too anatomical here, but I think for young males, you know, it's normal to experience arousal even involuntarily as a teenager.
Sure.
I mean, like every young male has experienced that.
You probably spent a decade trying to not have that happen at inopportune moments.
That's true.
Right?
Yeah.
That's true.
Oh, my God.
No, no, no, no.
Right.
So, like, you know, think ugly, think ugly, think ugly, please, God.
But what has happened in society where now they're having trouble getting aroused at age 25?
I don't get it.
Man.
Well, you know, this might be a good time to introduce the fact that, folks, if you're watching this, Go to Telegram, Decentralized TV, and what we're going to do is we're going to start a segment, not every show, but maybe every third show or whatever, where we're going to collect questions and have a good old-fashioned mailbag.
You know, ask Mike anything.
Even questions about arousal, apparently.
And then let us know in your comment if you're cool with us giving proper credit.
Most people in there are pseudos anyway.
Yeah, you can just give your name or first name or made-up name or whatever.
Made-up, we don't care.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
But if it's important to you that you get proper credit and you want your full name presented, give us that too.
But send us some questions so that we can interact with you in a little different way.
I love that idea, Todd.
You've got the best ideas for this show.
By the way, for everybody watching, it was Todd's idea to call this the after-party discussion.
We've got to have some after-party branding and music and graphics and everything.
We're working on that.
There you go.
But we are going to have the after-party celebration with every show.
But the mailbag is also a great idea, so give us your questions.
Do we have any questions today, Todd, that you're aware of that have been posted in the Telegram group?
You know what?
On the spot, I have no answer for you.
Okay, it's okay.
Well, we're just announcing it now.
We'll start gathering questions, and then we'll do that next.
Okay.
Perfect.
But I just want to kind of put a cap on today's discussion.
Great.
I think that along the theme of decentralized living, which is what we focus on here, we spend a lot of time introducing people about ideas of decentralizing your finances, money, value, commerce, trade, those kinds of things.
We talk about protecting privacy.
We talk about decentralizing food supply, right?
All these things are important.
But decentralizing your spiritual advancement is a topic that almost nobody talks about in this realm, certainly of tech and crypto.
You never hear people talking about Jesus or spirituality in the crypto space.
So I'm really glad that we're doing that.
Me too.
It needs to be covered.
It's probably, ultimately, the most important topic beyond this world.
Yes.
You know?
I mean, whatever crypto you gather in this world, you're not taking it with you, folks.
And eternity's a long time, Mike.
And, you know, XMR doesn't work in heaven, by the way.
I mean, it's only good for this realm.
And, by the way, if you die and your seed phrase dies with you, then the crypto dies with you, too.
So...
Make sure somebody else has your seed phrase in case you go out and get jabbed and die suddenly or something.
You shouldn't be laughing.
No, it's not.
But I'm glad we covered this topic.
Me too.
Pastor Todd was amazing.
He rocks it.
Just amazing.
I have to meet him in person at some point in time.
He's got that energy, and I just...
Man, to be near him where you could go watch him in person on an every week basis...
Oh, yeah.
Man, those of you who can...
I'm jealous.
Jealous.
He would just fill your spiritual tank every week.
So I'm going to start watching him online, Mike.
Well, he's on our network, brighttown.tv.
Great.
You can look for a show there.
I think it's a once-a-week show he has there, and then PastorTodd.org, of course, is his website.
He's got all his videos.
I think he's also got a video channel on BrightTown.com.
But, you know, we'll have him back here as events unfold that are relevant to this.
If we start seeing portals opening up out of the ground and demon creatures walking out, Like in broad daylight and the videos are being posted on YouTube.
Yeah, the demon vortex opened up today down the street next to the CVS pharmacy.
We've got to have Pastor Todd on to talk about it.
Yo, Pastor Todd, what are the words that you say to get rid of them and click your heels and be gone?
Right.
How do we make holy water really fast, please?
Do we start with colloidal silver and add, like, prayer?
What do we do?
Add some incense, you know, and some...
What did the three wise men bring as gifts?
Myrrh.
Myrrh, right?
Incense.
Was it amber?
Was amber one of them?
And myrrh and frankincense or something?
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, so gather up.
Do the holy water.
Get your crossbow demon flamethrower arrows and bolts and everything.
Get it ready in case we go into a kinetic war with demon vortexes.
Well, I think they say in the Bible that you say, in the name of Jesus...
And then you fill in the blank.
Yeah.
Stop!
Be gone!
Right.
Or...
Maybe sunlight gets them too.
Leave me alone.
Yeah.
Maybe have like a battery operated ultraviolet light beam lantern.
How do we get onto these topics, Todd?
That's what's so funny.
I don't know, but we do.
I think that's why people probably stick around through the whole show.
It's like, you know, I'm always good for one or two questions that has a little bit of a twist to it.
Yeah, well, it was Bigfoot the other day.
We were talking about the Bigfoot and the Chupacabra creature in Mexico.
I thought my joke today of the Whore of Babylon being Michael Obama was kind of good.
Yeah, that was quite good.
I wasn't going to comment on that, but I think our audience gets it.
They get it.
Yeah, they totally get it.
Alright, so look, bottom line, I think we've said everything we need to say for this episode here today.
It's been a really great episode.
Todd, you were really on fire.
It was awesome.
Thank you.
And Pastor Todd was just naming it.
Yeah, and by the way, Pastor Todd's studio looks so good.
How did he do...
Is that a chroma thing he's got going?
But, I mean, it looks flawless.
I know.
I know.
I've never seen a chroma background.
But he was wearing something green.
He had like a green sweater on.
So I don't know if he's got like a different chroma color set or something, but that set looks flawless.
He just has the Holy Spirit as one of his helping hands.
I guess so.
It looks so great.
He's got it together.
And I love the fact that he...
And by the way, he didn't even share the whole story with you about what happened to him in Hollywood.
But yeah, he was stabbed almost to death.
He was left for dead, stabbed in the heart.
You know, he saw the pedophilia.
He saw the criminals and the addicts and the violence and everything.
I mean, firsthand, he was like part of that underground scene for a while, you know?
Goodness gracious.
He came through that personal transformation.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Yeah.
And then look what God did with him.
Exactly.
You know?
Exactly.
What is it, 24 years he's been pastoring?
That's right.
Amazing.
Yep.
Yep.
So, folks, if you're watching this and if you're suffering from an addiction of any kind, you know, God can forgive you.
Reach out for help.
I mean, not...
Not here on the show.
We're not qualified to help you.
Not that we don't want to, but people like Pastor Todd and others, there are people in the community who can help you.
And you can make it through.
You can transform your life.
And whether you're an addict or whether you've sinned or whether you rejected God in the past, you can make a choice and you can change it now.
It's very simple.
And when you get to that point where you do turn to God and you seek help and you have some addiction problems or whatever...
I learned at one point, you know, the best morning prayer that you can ask is, God, you keep me from the first drink, and I commit to you, I will not take the second.
And then at the end of the day, you just drop to the knees and say, God, we did it.
Thank you.
Let's do it again tomorrow.
There you go.
One day at a time.
Doesn't have to be much harder than that.
Yep.
Yep.
Well, you know, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
came through addiction and substance abuse.
Yeah.
Because I interviewed the author of the book.
Dick Russell is the author of The Real RFK Jr.
Wow.
And it's in the book, and he was talking about it, and it's not a secret.
And, you know, RFK Jr.
went through some dark times.
In fact, he said he has so many skeletons in his closet that if they all voted for him, he'd win in a landslide.
That's great.
I just wish for his own health that he would be in better shape.
He can only do ten one-finger push-ups.
No, he lifts weights.
He's pumped at age, what, 69 or something?
He's in great shape.
Dude, when I'm 70 years old, if I'm that...
Oh, man.
I got a lot of work to do before I can match him.
I know.
A lot of sit-ups between here and age 70 to look like that.
Let me tell you.
But in the meantime...
So, folks, look.
This has been a really inspiring message, I hope, for all of you watching.
And remember, it's not just about your money and your crypto and your finances.
It's about your soul.
It's about your relationship with the creator of our universe.
And it's also about what happens after this life.
Because...
Every single one of us is going to graduate from this world, this realm, this life.
And you only have this one life opportunity to make it count and to do what will secure your place for eternity.
So think about that.
The ultimate decentralization, you know, philosophical discussion right there.
I love that.
Yeah.
Okay.
Very good.
I think very timely as well.
I think so too.
Yeah.
Well, thank you, Todd.
It's been a great show.
Thank you, Mike.
We'll do another one here shortly.
All right.
Thank you.
Take care.
Thanks, everybody.
Cheers.
Thank you all for watching.
Of course, I'm Mike Adams, and Todd Pitner is the co-host, and this is Decentralized TV here on Brighteon.com.
So thank you for watching today, and God bless you all, by the way.
I don't often say that on this show, but today in particular, it is warranted.
God bless you.
Thank you for watching.
Take care.
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