The Stone Zone dives into rural hospitals’ collapse under congressional threats while Roger Stone praises Judge Jeanine Pirro’s DOJ appointment, framing it as a Democratic roadblock. He ties it to Ed Martin’s new Weaponization Working Group probing the Obama-Biden era’s "Russian collusion hoax," naming Comey and Brennan as potential treason suspects. Meanwhile, the DOJ investigates Letitia James over alleged 40-year mortgage fraud, contrasting Trump’s pending conviction appeal. Stone credits Pastor Randy Coggins with his faith revival post-persecution, blending prophecy debates with Catholic skepticism, before pivoting to Manhattan University’s graduate programs. The episode ties legal battles to cultural and spiritual shifts under Trump’s shadow. [Automatically generated summary]
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Across every state and every community, America's rural hospitals are the first line of defense, protecting our families, neighbors, and loved ones.
No matter where you live, hospital care doesn't clock out.
They're there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Each year, America's over 5,000 hospitals care for millions of patients, providing 24-7 emergency care, delivering babies, cancer treatments, and other life-saving care that patients rely on.
Behind every one of those patients are doctors, nurses, and caregivers working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe.
Hospitals are our community's lifelines.
They employ our neighbors and keep our families health.
But now, some in Congress are threatening access to care.
Tell Congress, protect patient care to keep America strong.
Don't cut rural health care.
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You are entering the Stone Zone, the hottest political commentary show on radio today.
Here we tell you the stone-cold truth, and we give it to you straight.
Well, after Rhino Tom Tillis, the Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina, torpedoed the nomination of D.C. interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, President Donald Trump came back with a strong choice.
My colleague here at 77WABC, Judge Janine Pierrow, a former tough prosecutor, will serve as the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Those Democrats who were high-fiving each other may want to think again because Jeanine Pierrot was both a tough prosecutor and a tough judge.
On True Social, President Trump said, I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Piro will appoint interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Janine was assistant district attorney for Westchester County, New York, and then went on to serve as a county judge and district attorney, where she was the first woman ever to be selected to those positions.
During her time in office, Jeanine Pirro was a powerful crusader for victims of crime.
Her establishment of the Domestic Violence Bureau in her prosecutor's office was the first in the nation.
She excelled in all ways.
In addition to her legal career, she's continued hosting her own show at Fox as well as at 77 WABC in New York.
Judge Justice with Janine Piro is a popular show and of course occasionally co-hosting the Five, one of the highest rating shows on television.
Jeanine Pirro is incredibly well qualified for this position, is considered one of the top district attorneys in history of the state of New York.
She's in a class by herself.
Indeed, I've known her for over 25 years and she is.
The selection comes after Attorney Ed Martin's appointment was blocked, as I say, in the Senate by Rhino Tom Tillis of North Carolina.
Now, I think it is vital that President Trump foster a primary challenge to Tillis, particularly in the first two years of his new term.
It's essential from a political point of view that the president signal those of his own party that he is the party leader and he expects those who are elected largely, in many cases on his coattails, need to support his agenda.
Turning around immediately, President Trump, in a very savvy move, gave Ed Martin a new and perhaps even more powerful office to run.
Ed Martin has done an amazing job as the interim U.S. attorney and will now be moving to the Department of Justice as the new director of the Weaponization Working Group, also Associate Deputy Attorney General and Pardon Attorney, the President announced.
In these highly important jobs, Ed Martin will be sure we finally investigate the weaponization of our government under the Biden and Obama regimes and provide needed justice for its victims.
I have a personal interest in this because, well, they tried to destroy my life in the Russian collusion hoax.
And we now know that that was perhaps the greatest single abuse of power in American political and governmental history.
It was nothing less than the full use of the authority of the United States government and the extraordinary capabilities of our intelligence agencies, utilizing what we now know were two completely fabricated pieces of evidence: the so-called steel dossier.
That was actually commissioned and paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign.
They laundered the bills through a law firm to hide their involvement.
But the allegations against President Donald Trump that he had dallied with prostitutes in Moscow when visiting as a private businessman were completely and totally fabricated.
Also fabricated was the claim that the Russians hacked the Democrat National Committee and somehow gave that information through the Trump campaign to WikiLeaks for dissemination.
It was at my trial, actually, that the FBI was forced to admit that they never actually examined the computer servers at the Democrat National Committee.
And when pressed to produce evidence of my trial that this hacking had actually taken place, my lawyers were told, well, that was a matter of national security.
Later, however, when the head of CROWD strikes, that's the left-wing Democrat IT firm who's come in to theoretically examine the computer servers, this fellow, Sean Henry, who just coincidentally happened to be a former deputy of former FBI director Robert Mueller, who was heading this witch hunt, testified under oath before the House Intelligence Committee.
He admitted that his famous report, which by the way, the judge withheld from my defense attorneys at my own trial, had no evidence whatsoever that the Russians had ever hacked the DNC.
So now you have a situation in which Ed Martin will be able to examine not only the Russian collusion hoax and the role of not only President Barack Obama, but Vice President Joe Biden, the FBI director James Comey, the CIA director John Brennan, the Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, the National Security Advisor Susan Rice,
all of whom I would argue or could realistically be charged with treason.
But he'll also be able to look at the so-called Ukrainian impeachment hoax that was completely cooked up by Congressman now Senator Adam Schiff and the Venman brothers, one of them is now in Congress, both of whom should be in jail.
This strikes fear into the hearts of the radical left, I assure you.
So Ed Martin has now moved a little higher up in the hierarchy of the Department of Justice, and perhaps, just perhaps, we're finally going to get justice.
Only yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi made it very clear that the FBI is indeed going through literally thousands of videotapes of Jeffrey Epstein and his well-heeled clients and unfortunately thousands of victims, which the Attorney General says are overwhelmingly children, underage.
It's nauseating.
Now, I don't expect those videos to be released because they would be both graphic and pornographic.
I do believe that there's going to be justice served as we learn who Jeffrey Epstein's wealthy, powerful clients were.
Who was it that he was providing underage playmates for?
It's nauseating.
I covered all of this in my 2015 book, The Clinton's War on Women, but I still get to read online that people say, oh, Roger Stone, he visited Epstein's Island.
We know it was him.
He was wearing a bull mask.
We could tell by that Nixon tattoo on his back.
By the way, anybody who wants to say that and put their name on it, well, yeah, I'll see you in court.
Now, there's a very high barrier for defamation in this country.
It's unfortunate.
If you're a public figure, and I guess I am.
Unfortunately, just about anybody can say just about anything they want about you.
But accusing me of pedophilia, yeah, that crosses a line.
It's interesting to me how the people who fling this always do so anonymously.
It is outrageous, but I lay it out there for all to see.
If you want to say that, put your name on it, well, I will sue you in a heartbeat.
In the meantime, the Democrats have no frontrunner or their frontrunner is a nightmare hiding in plain sight.
Democrats have three years to organize and not a second to waste, but they don't seem to be able to resist the temptation to return back to the future.
It's true they offered voters not one, but two of the worst presidential and vice presidential candidates in the history of American politics.
Of course, they got saddled with Tim Walz when Barack Obama vetoed the selection of Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, thought to be the original frontrunner.
But Obama evidently decided that they would lose the Muslim American votes in Michigan and Minnesota had they chosen the Jewish candidate Shapiro.
In retrospect, they needed Pennsylvania, which they also lost.
Shapiro might, might have brought them that, but by playing ethnic and religious politics, they came up with the wackiest candidate for vice president in the history of either party.
That guy, as you recall, lied about his military service, lied about seeing combat.
He even lied about being a basketball coach, the worst candidate of all time.
But Kamala Harris don't think that she's done, despite her cackle and her affection for Venn diagrams and her inability to express any coherent thought, she still garnered almost 70 million votes.
Now imagine the power of a Democrat nominee who could actually string together an intelligible sentence.
There's no one prominent Democrat is moved capable of doing so, at least with more regularity than Harris.
She has all the unwritten qualifications of a progressive nominee, too, non-male, non-white, adept lapsing into an accent at the constituency of the day.
She has name recognition, fundraising capability, above all, those particularly constituencies, a bit of star power.
Yes, I speak, of course, of Congresswoman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
I predict you that she, not Kamala Harris, will make a presidential bid in 2028.
The recent clearest indicators yet of her unannounced ambitions seem to be this tour that she's on with Bernie Sanders.
She herself said recently, it's actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority as much as I think would be necessary.
So I believe I'll be staying put in the House.
Well, that means she's not running for the Senate, meaning she's not challenging Chuck Schumer.
It's hard to believe, but she could give Schumer a true run for his money.
That's how far left New York's Democrat primary has gone.
But if AOC chooses to be a candidate, folks, don't laugh.
She has to be taken seriously.
Despite the fact that I don't like her views, and I think that she's somehow, sometimes pretty wacky in the way she expresses them, she does have star power.
She does have charisma.
And yes, she could harvest millions and millions of small donations from the hard left.
This comes as good news also as Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas evidently may also be interested in the position.
Now, perhaps an AOC Crockett ticket is more than Republicans can wish for.
Crockett really is out in left field.
She's actually advocated violence on numerous occasions, I think crossing a line.
If the Democrats should take control of the House in two years, of course, both their positions would be enhanced.
I'm praying that doesn't happen.
But an AOC Jasmine Crockett ticket for 2028, well, I mean, Bernie Sanders on his tour seems a little long in the tooth for the nomination.
So if I have to guess right now, I'm betting on an AOC Crockett ticket.
And I have to admit, Republicans could do no better.
You're just tuning in now.
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So please don't go away.
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Across every state and every community, America's rural hospitals are the first line of defense, protecting our families, neighbors, and loved ones.
No matter where you live, hospital care doesn't clock out.
They're there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Each year, America's over 5,000 hospitals care for millions of patients, providing 24-7 emergency care, delivering babies, cancer treatments, and other life-saving care that patients rely on.
Behind every one of those patients are doctors, nurses, and caregivers working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe.
Hospitals are our community's lifelines.
They employ our neighbors and keep our families healthy.
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Tell Congress, protect patient care to keep America strong.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into what appears to be serial mortgage fraud over a almost 40-year period by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
One of Ms. James' constituency's constituents confronted her only last night.
Take a listen.
My question is for Tush James.
Will you apologize to President Trump for wasting millions of dollars and the state of New York for a witch trial?
And how does it feel to know that you will be imprisoned for mortgage fraud?
We want to thank him for coming.
We respect all opinions.
Everybody knows those allegations are baseless.
They're discredited.
And so we want to thank him.
Our next speaker.
Yeah, unfortunately for the Attorney General, the allegations are neither baseless nor are they discredited, unless, of course, you count the New York Daily News Editorial Board, which literally a newspaper that no one is reading.
I guess the Albany Times Union, another newspaper no one reads.
I've actually looked at the underlying documents.
I think that the Attorney General is a busted.
In addition, we now know that a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia sent out subpoenas related to the accusations that James misrepresented a single-family home in Virginia as her primary residence, in other words, to be owner-occupied, in order to obtain more favorable loan terms.
You see, one cannot be, under the New York State Constitution, the Attorney General of New York and reside as she said she would under oath in Virginia.
News of this criminal probe and the grand jury follows a criminal referral from the Trump administration's federal housing finance agency director William Bolte, who requested that the Department of Justice investigate James for both fraud in Virginia and another incident in which he misrepresented the number of livable units in a multifamily Brooklyn house to once again fraudulently obtain better loan terms.
James has retained noted defense attorney Abby Lowell, but evidently his bill is now going to be paid for not by Letitia James, but based on a new bill in the legislature by the taxpayers of New York, claiming because James is saying the charges against her appear to be political.
Well, the charges against President Donald Trump were political.
By the way, the appeals court has already indicated they are likely to overturn that conviction.
In fact, the esteemed law professor Jonathan Turley called out the breathtaking irony of the New York Attorney General's legal defense.
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Karma is crushing here.
It's the greatest irony, of course, to hear her counsel and her spokesperson say this is just wrong because Trump campaigned on against moving against his enemies.
Who can forget the fact that Letitia James herself said during her campaign for Attorney General, one of the principal reasons that voters should elect her is that she would get Donald Trump.
This, of course, was before she had any evidence of a crime by Donald Trump.
So she had to go out and manufacture one.
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You're back in the Stone Zone.
Yesterday in the Stone Zone, I interviewed Callie Means.
His sister, Dr. Casey Means, was appointed Surgeon General of the United States yesterday.
And their book, which is entitled Good Energy, The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health, which I read about two years ago, changed my life in a very big way.
It changed everything about my diet and a lot about my lifestyle.
But the man I want to interview and bring on now changed my life in a far more profound way.
That is my good friend, Pastor Randy Coggins, Randy Coggins II.
Now, Randy and his wife Carrie seem to have a kid every time I turn around.
He's a growing family.
He is an incredibly effective apostle for the Lord.
And back when I was going through the tribulation of the Russian collusion hoax in which I was put through a Soviet-style stroke trial, despite the fact that I had actually done nothing wrong, I was being prosecuted because essentially I refused to bear false witness against my friend of now 50 years, Donald Trump.
It was a very trying time for me and my family.
I admit to you that a time came when I realized that I would not get a fair trial, that I was going to be both unconstitutionally gagged, so I couldn't even defend myself, but also lynched by a hateful judge, a biased jury forewoman, and a rigged D.C. jury.
That's not conjecture, by the way.
That was actually proven.
We learned that the jury forewoman in my trial, who said during jury selection and the trial, she knew nothing about me, never heard of me, wasn't familiar with the case.
In fact, she'd been attacking me and President Trump by name on both her Twitter and her Facebook pages for a full year, 19 months actually, before she was selected as a juror and the jury forewoman in my trial.
But she had those attacks on me by name regarding the very case in which she was selected on a private setting.
So my lawyers in due diligence could not find them.
In any event, a time came when I hit rock bottom, and it was Pastor Randy Coggins who relentlessly urged me to turn my burden over to the Lord.
It was Pastor Randy Coggins who arranged the meeting with Reverend Franklin Graham that really did change my life.
Up until that time, many, many pastors, priests, rabbis, and other clerics were urging me to change my life, to turn this horrific burden and stress over to the Lord.
But I wasn't feeling it.
I wasn't hearing it.
That was until Randy Coggins set up this fateful meeting with Reverend Franklin Graham.
And of course, I was still thinking politically.
I said, you know, Pastor Graham, I really think that I'm going to be destroyed here, that I'm going to be lynched.
And I wondered if you could put in a good word for me with the president regarding executive clemency, since my lawyers would no longer let me talk to Donald Trump, nor would Donald Trump's lawyers let him talk to me.
And Franklin Graham said, well, I'll see what I can do about that.
But let me give you a much better piece of advice.
You need to turn your burden over to the Lord.
You need to confess your sins and get right with God.
And I guarantee you, he said, Randy Coggins was there.
I guarantee you the Lord will lift you up.
He will deliver you from your persecutors.
And then Randy Coggins and I went out into this open field with several thousand other Christians.
And the time came in his ovation, oration, that Pastor Graham said, Reverend Graham said, I don't care whether your problem is alcoholism or gambling addiction or drug addiction or family problems or health problems or financial problems.
If you turn your burden over to the Lord, if you confess your sins, get right with God, the Lord will lift you up.
And those who want to live with our Heavenly Father forever, rise now and along with me, confess your sins and you will be saved.
And in that moment, thanks to the urgings of Randy Coggins and Franklin Graham, I stood in an open field with 200, 300 other Christians.
I confessed my sins and everything in my life changed.
And I was, of course, delivered from my persecutors.
Ultimately, after going through hell in a DC-rigged trial, but when President Donald Trump understood that I was being persecuted and prosecuted simply because of my refusal to lie and bear false witness against him, he accumulated my sentence and later gave me a full and unconditional pardon.
Christmas of 2020.
Pastor Randy Coggins, God bless you and welcome to the Stone Zone.
Roger, thank you so much.
It's an honor to be back.
And I'm grateful to have a small part of what God has done in your life for sure.
So thank you for having me on the Stone Zone today.
I appreciate it.
You know, it's amazing to me.
And I've told that story again.
Of course, because we have a limited amount of time here, I gave the shortened version of it, but you were relentless, just relentless in urging me to take refuge in the Lord and turn my burden over to the Lord.
I don't know that I would have ultimately done that, but when I came out publicly and announced that I'd had this change in my life, Washington Monthly mocked me.
I mean, they mocked me, said this is some kind of a head fake.
This is some kind of an act.
This is some kind of a public appeal for sympathy.
So I've said many times, I don't really care what they think.
I only care what he thinks.
And it is a blessing.
You are a blessing.
How many children do you have now?
We have four.
We have four now.
Four children now.
The oldest is nine and the youngest is one.
And then, but to go back on what you were saying, though, it's amazing how none of this was planned as far as me and you, our connection, relationship, what God's done in your life.
I was sitting in Miami, Florida, at my wife's grandparents' home the morning of when the FBI raided your home.
And at that point, I had never met Roger Stone.
And I watched, I saw the CNN footage, I saw everything, and I said, hey, this is not right.
And I knew from that moment, I felt God spoke to me and said, that you need to go after this guy because he needs my help.
And from that moment, we connected in Sarasota and God did the rest.
And so I'm super, super grateful to be a part of the journey with you and Edia and your family for sure.
Well, your wife, Carrie, is also a pastor.
She's a wonderful woman.
You have a beautiful family.
And we consider you family.
I do think that there's a spiritual revival going on in America.
You can see it.
You can feel it.
It transcends politics to say the very least.
Again, I notice that I've started, I'm new in my faith journey.
I'm new in my faith walk, but I'm getting more and more familiar with the Bible.
And I used to think it was just some kind of outdated book of fables.
The language was hard to understand.
Now I understand, and I've got one of these Bibles that gives you a guide that helps you put the language in more common everyday idiom, makes it more understandable.
But I now realize that the Bible is an incredibly practical book that really addresses virtually any problem or any issue in which you might be curious.
It has really become a very important part of my life.
There's a very good friend who's a pastor in Canada.
I think he gets up at like 5 o'clock in the morning and he picks out one important part of the Bible for me to read that day.
And that's how I start my day every single morning.
And then I still, as a Catholic, I still say the Rosary at night.
And there are specific people that I'm praying for who may be going through issues, health issues, or other issues.
So I pray for them.
It's an important part of my life.
If you told me this 15 years ago, I would never, ever have believed it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The word of God is an incredible resource.
And it's something that you said it transcends time.
It transcends politics.
And it's amazing how you can read one passage of scripture one day, but then read it several days later and then something else pops out at you.
And so it's an amazing thing.
It's a living thing.
It says in the Bible that the word is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
It never changes.
So it's a powerful, powerful tool.
Randy, I want to tell us about your family because you come from a long tradition of pastors.
Yeah, my parents, going into my great-grandparents, all Pentecostal preachers, and was raised at a pastor's home.
And I accepted, I felt the call to preach at a very young age.
At the age of 12 years old, I was in a revival service at my father's church in Northeast Georgia.
And I had what I call a super spiritual experience.
And it was at that moment I told God, whatever you want me to do, I'll do.
Whatever you want me to say, I'll say.
And wherever you want me to go, I'll go.
And I always tell people, be very careful when you tell God that because he just might make you do it.
And that is exactly what happened in my life.
And I had a semi, if you want to call it, semi-normal teenage years, middle school, high school, and all that stuff.
But I knew that there was a call in my life.
And right after high school, I started really digging in to that call, seeking the face of God for my life, and stepped into full-time ministry on the road from 2014 to 2020.
I was an itinerant evangelist and preached 80 to 100 dates a year all across the nation, all across the world, television, radio, different churches, from non-denominational churches to independent churches to all kind of all sides of the aisle there.
And then in 2020, I began pastoring.
And now we are pastoring outside of Atlanta, Georgia, the campus pastor of Seven Springs Church in Lithia Springs, Georgia.
And I'm super excited.
This summer will be my 11th year in full-time ministry.
And God just, God is blessing us during the season.
So super grateful about everything that we've seen in ministry this far.
I cannot tell you how impressed I continue to be with Franklin Graham.
As you know, as a very young man, I met Billy Graham when I was working for President Richard Nixon.
I actually still have an autographed Bible, a signed Bible that Billy Graham gave me then.
And it's right on the bookshelf next to a Bible that Franklin Graham gave me when I was saved more recently.
When you add these to the literally hundreds of Bibles that people have mailed me, that is the truth.
Those are two of my prouded possessions.
He's done amazing, amazing work, particularly the charitable work, particularly when you had these natural disasters in North Carolina.
I mean, again, Franklin Graham is not his father.
He has his own individual style, but he's an extremely effective apostle for the Lord, and he's doing great, great public works.
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Absolutely.
Absolutely.
His Samaritan's purse, amazing organizations, amazing organizations.
And going back to what you said, though, we are truly in a spiritual revival.
I believe that within our nation, but not just within our nation, but around the world.
We saw just the other day, the Catholic Church, we saw a brand new pope come to light, Pope Leo.
And so we are in very, very interesting times.
And I think not just interesting times, but exciting times, I believe, in the body of Christ as a whole.
Well, as a Catholic, the jury is out on the new Pope.
I'm very hopeful.
I was a critic, in all honesty, of Pope Francis.
I did not like the fact that he brought Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was exposed as a vicious pedophile, back to the Vatican as an advisor.
I particularly didn't like the fact that Pope Francis reached an accommodation with the Chinese Communist Party that essentially allowed them to veto who could be a bishop or a priest in China.
I think accommodation with evil is evil.
And Chinese communism is one of the most brutal, most evil regimes in the history of man.
I really objected to that.
I also did not like the fact that the church was never critical of radical Islam.
I'm hoping, more importantly, however, that the new Pope will recognize that matters such as the issue of illegal immigration, political matters are outside his responsibilities as the leader of the church.
I mean, as a Catholic, there's a time when the Pope speaks a Catholic, he speaks from the throne of Peter.
He speaks in the voice of God.
The other times when he is issuing opinions that, well, and sometimes I think are inappropriate.
This new pope has criticized President Trump, Vice President Vance.
I don't do not think that is his role.
We're going to be back for more discussion of the new Pope and also this great, I think, religious revival that's happening in America with my good friend Pastor Randy Coggins on the other side.
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And we're back in the Stone Zone.
We're talking to Pastor Randy Coggins.
Randy Coggins is really the real reason that I am redeemed in the blood of the cross.
It changed my life, and I'm proud to call him my friend.
He's almost like a member of my family.
And we're talking about this great revival that I think is going on in America.
Tough question for you, Randy.
And that is, and many Christians disagree about this, but I'm interested in your view on the role of prophecy in the church.
Along with the Bibles given me by Billy Graham and Franklin Graham, I have the personal Bible of Kim Clement.
Kim Clement was a famous Christian prophet, had many, many prophecies that turned out to be eerily accurate.
And I know different people disagree about this, but your view of prophecy in the church.
Yes, the role of prophecy in the church, I believe, as a Pentecostal believer, is still very, very active today.
Something about prophecy is prophecy reveals God's heart and God's intentions.
If you look up the word prophecy, prophecy is simply a divine communication from God to his people.
When we read the word of God, we read that happening numerous times, numerous places, from quote-unquote God's prophets.
Now, you know, we live in a time where just because someone necessarily calls themselves a prophet doesn't make them a prophet.
That's why God instructs us in the word of God.
You know, you test the words.
You test the words that people give.
You either accept them for what it is or you don't accept it for what it is.
So it reveals his heart, his plans, his purposes.
And in scripture, though, prophecy often served to warn, correct, encourage, and guide.
But one thing about prophecy is prophecy always points to Jesus as well.
Revelation chapter 19, verse 10 says, the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
So true biblical prophecy always glorifies Jesus.
It always aligns with his word.
It always leads people towards him, not away from him.
So prophecy builds, encourages, and it strengthens the church.
But prophecy also warns of judgment, calls of repentance.
It prepares the church as a whole, not just one specific church or one specific denomination or affiliation, but it prepares the church for what's ahead.
But again, like I said, prophecy must be tested and rooted in scripture.
It says in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5, verses 20 through 21, it says, do not treat prophecies with contempt, but test them all.
Hold on to what is good.
So a word may be powerful or emotional, but it's not prophetic unless it aligns with scripture and it aligns with the character of Christ.
So that's my two cents on prophecy.
Well, that was the perfect answer.
Look, I'm a Catholic who believes in prophecy.
I followed Kim Clement.
Kim Clement said the giant would be brought down by a simple stone.
Remember that name.
Now, I want to be clear: I'm not claiming to be a prophet.
I'm not claiming to be a saint.
That's for sure.
I am merely a soldier in God's army, but I will do his will.
And it is only thanks to Pastor Randy Coggins and to Reverend Franklin Graham that I changed my life and I'm proud of my belief in Christ.
Thank you very much for joining us today, Pastor Randy Coggins.
You've been listening to the Stone Zone.
God bless you until we meet again.
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