The John-Henry Westen Show - How To Really Pray： Hymns, Scripture, And Chant

00:00:00.000 Our Protestant brothers will say, hey, well, you know, you have to discern if that's from God or

00:00:03.160 not. But the reality is those fruits are unmatched by anything. The millions of conversions, the

00:00:07.720 entire continent converted. And what came out of that? Repentance, turning to Jesus. There's really 0.67

00:00:12.340 nothing to discern. If you're going to fight the importance of Guadalupe, I think you have to take

00:00:18.140 a hard look at yourself and say, am I looking to justify myself? Am I looking to say what I believe

00:00:23.100 is right? Or am I really looking to see what heaven is doing? Now, I know many of you saw

00:00:29.180 the show I did with Drew Mason, who was telling us about the missing Bible verses in Matthew 21,

00:00:37.560 just completely missing from Bibles, about fasting, the key to defeating Satan that our Lord gave to

00:00:44.260 his apostles removed from the Bible. I want to go a little bit deeper into that today, because in

00:00:50.300 addition to fasting, there's ways of praying that we need to learn about that most, I'd even say most

00:00:58.260 Catholics don't know anything about, certainly I didn't, about one aspect of this. This is the 1.00

00:01:03.900 John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.

00:01:12.660 Drew Mason, so good to see you again. Thank you so much for having me, John Henry. Praise be Jesus.

00:01:17.720 Let's begin, as you always do, with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father,

00:01:20.560 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Amen.

00:01:26.140 Drew, tell us about this prayer. I was stunned, because when you mentioned about prayer in the

00:01:35.080 fourth watch, I had not heard that before, and then learned that it's actually in the scriptures,

00:01:40.720 but give it to us from the beginning, if you will.

00:01:42.740 So fasting is the power that overcomes evil when it's strongest, but it can only be effective if

00:01:51.300 it's in combination with prayer. And I don't believe, John Henry, that most Catholics in particular

00:01:56.280 really know how to pray. They haven't been formed. And so some of the things you kindly asked us to

00:02:02.300 share that we do when we're fasting, how we pray, the first thing that you're referring to is when we

00:02:08.360 pray. And if you go back to Genesis, it said that God came and spoke to Adam during the cool of the

00:02:15.800 day. It was unprecedented communication for humanity with heaven at that time. And science

00:02:21.540 tells us the cool of the day is 3 to 6 a.m. approximately. So fast forward to Jesus, and what

00:02:27.720 we see in the Gospels is again and again, scripture telling us he went out to pray well before sunrise,

00:02:34.260 during the fourth watch. And then scriptures explicitly tell us one of the greatest, most

00:02:39.140 powerful manifestations of his divinity came during the fourth watch. When he did something

00:02:44.580 that had never happened in history before, he walked on water and went out to the boat to meet

00:02:49.120 the apostles and calm the storm. And there they really realized who he was because he didn't pray

00:02:55.660 to God to calm the storm. He commanded the storm as Lord to be calm. So all that happened during the

00:03:01.380 fourth watch. And John Henry, I think we have a lot to learn from our Protestant brothers

00:03:05.960 about prayer. And they have a great insight on this. And their analogy they'll often make is

00:03:13.340 if you want to make progress, if you want to hear from God and you want to quickly make progress and

00:03:17.920 deepen your relationship with him, praying during the fourth watch versus other times of the day

00:03:22.820 would be like flying from city to city versus walking. The Holy Spirit will just speak to you

00:03:28.020 with such an abundance of insights. You're going to have trouble handling all the content he's giving

00:03:32.600 you. If you're a pastor looking for ideas, et cetera. So I think that's a super powerful time.

00:03:38.320 And we would encourage people to start with that. Then the second, once we're, once we're there,

00:03:43.060 what, you know, and the Holy Spirit often will just wake people up. Don't think, Oh, I got to go

00:03:47.200 back to sleep. I'm tired. Think of it as a divine appointment. The Holy Spirit wants to spend time

00:03:52.900 with you. He's whispering to you, I have gifts for you. So you get up, you take, you make the commitment,

00:03:57.740 you go, you sit in your favorite comfy chair. And then what do you do? Well, the word worship,

00:04:03.100 I don't think most Catholics realize means praise. So when we go to Sunday worship, it's not us

00:04:08.120 showing up with our sad song or our want list, our obligation, our duty. What God expects of us

00:04:14.320 is to praise him because he fully deserves it. And that's how we want to start our praying.

00:04:19.780 Praise is the threshold that allows us to come into his presence and praise precedes miracles.

00:04:26.020 So the way we praise, of course, is starting to tell him how, you know, your favorite things,

00:04:31.120 his extraordinary brilliance, his power and hanging the stars where he did, lighting the sun,

00:04:36.780 making the ocean surge, the mountains so beautiful. Then we sing. Scriptures again, tell us sing

00:04:43.000 again and again, sing a song to the Lord. And when you sing, God doesn't hear your voice. He hears your

00:04:48.660 heart. So if you are miserly and you say, Oh, I'm too tough to sing or my voice doesn't sound good. He

00:04:54.900 doesn't care. He wants to hear you sing. And specifically want to encourage people to sing

00:04:59.320 songs of praise to him. So we always start out with Holy Spirit by Battistelli. The words in it

00:05:05.020 are extraordinary. She talks about how once you come into his presence, there's nothing else that

00:05:09.720 can compare. When we sing, we want to encourage you to sing songs of praise. And there are some

00:05:15.440 fabulous ones. I'm just going to list a handful of them here for you that if you're not familiar with

00:05:19.640 them, I think you will like them very much. Holy Spirit by Battistelli is what we start with,

00:05:25.180 because heaven has told us when you pray, pray first for the Holy Spirit, then you'll have

00:05:28.440 everything. An extraordinary insight that heaven has spoken to believers. Tremble by Lauren Daigle,

00:05:36.140 First by Daigle, Oceans by Hillsong, Unrivaled from Lakewood, I Speak Jesus, that powerful song,

00:05:43.100 Speaking the Name of Jesus. No matter what time of year it is, we love Noel by Chris Tomlin,

00:05:47.880 Protector by Kim Smith, Your Great Name by the awesome Natalie Grant, I Can Only Imagine by Mercy

00:05:54.080 Me, Beautiful Name by Hillsong. I'm listening to these so that if people are looking for content,

00:05:59.800 those are great songs to sing. And when we sing, I want to encourage you to get your paws up,

00:06:05.320 right? When we see in scripture, when Moses raised his hands, they were victorious. It was him in praise.

00:06:12.780 And often, you know, people sit in Catholic churches with their arms folded and just by

00:06:17.560 language that says you're not that excited to be there. You're not happy to be there.

00:06:21.120 So I want to encourage you, as silly as you may feel, show him that you're super happy to be in 0.97

00:06:25.260 his presence. Show him that you're so thrilled that he considers you so important to him. And then, 0.94

00:06:31.220 of course, we turn to scripture and we read a little bit of scripture. Our lady has said at one

00:06:36.240 point, read the scriptures every day. She makes the point that it's almost impossible to understand

00:06:42.700 how significant it is to pray every day. Almost perhaps like if you were scuba diving and one day

00:06:48.820 thought, I'm just going to go without my backpack, without my oxygen. You would never do that. She's

00:06:52.820 saying it's that important. So in the scriptures program that we use, it's just the mass readings.

00:06:59.320 Every day, those readings from mass are the most studied passages in the world. And they were chosen

00:07:05.860 decades and centuries ago before anyone knew what today was. But the spirit knew that his articulate and

00:07:11.860 his extraordinary plan of detail. And those words, I think, will speak to you in your life. And it is

00:07:19.440 what is on the mind of the spirit. So those first few ideas there for John Henry, clearly our Protestant

00:07:26.700 brothers would say, hey, we've championed this. And that's how our Protestant brothers pray. I take

00:07:31.180 great inspiration from them. And if you look at the fruits from many of these independent Protestant

00:07:35.560 churches, you see the Holy Spirit is working powerfully through them. And I think we want to,

00:07:40.580 you know, learn from them, take some of the points from them that we can improve upon in our own

00:07:45.720 church. Because I'd say in 98% of cases, we're agreeing and we need to improve our unity. Those

00:07:50.660 first points, John Henry, I have really learned from my experiences with the Protestant churches. I love

00:07:55.840 praying with our Protestant brothers. The next two points of how we pray are viewed as Catholic. And

00:08:02.160 these points, I place great importance to because they have been emphasized by the greatest miracles

00:08:11.420 in Christendom since the Bible was written. So today we happen to be recording this, no coincidence,

00:08:17.380 on December 12th, which I would say is the greatest miracle we know. 500 years ago, there was this talk

00:08:26.920 given by this preacher woman who went right into the heart of satanic worship in Latin America, 0.78

00:08:33.140 where although it was called Aztec religion, was satanic worship. They would literally cut the hearts

00:08:38.820 out of living beings and offer them up to Satan as a blood sacrifice. Christianity had failed. The 0.99

00:08:46.040 missionaries had gotten nowhere. She shows up and she says to do exactly what Abraham had done. It was an

00:08:52.220 echo of Abraham, where after the angel appeared to Abraham, he went and he built an altar to offer a

00:08:57.380 sacrifice. She said, build an altar here to Jesus. And what happened, Christianity flourished. That is

00:09:04.840 why it wasn't the Catholic missionaries. It was that spectacular miracle that made Latam Christian.

00:09:11.060 And today, the idea that that talk, those words were so important to God that you and I can go to

00:09:16.740 Latin America today, see a miracle with our own eyes that science today still can't even begin

00:09:22.100 to explain as evidence that heaven was emphasizing this. And our Protestant brothers will say, hey,

00:09:27.840 well, you know, you have to discern if that's from God or not. But the reality is those fruits are

00:09:31.960 unmatched by anything. The millions of conversions, the entire continent converted. And what came out of 0.85

00:09:36.720 that? Repentance, turning to Jesus. There's really nothing to discern. If you're going to fight the

00:09:41.840 importance of Guadalupe, I think you have to take a hard look at yourself and say, am I looking to

00:09:46.580 justify myself? Am I looking to say what I believe is right? Or am I really looking to see what heaven

00:09:51.360 is doing? The second extraordinary miracle, perhaps the second most, I would say, in history,

00:09:57.100 John Henry, was in Fatima. A hundred years ago, we had this biblical echo of Esther and of Isaiah,

00:10:04.880 where 75,000 people saw the sun look like it was ripped out of its orbit and come hurtling towards

00:10:11.700 them as the sun, of course, was rearranged in the Old Testament. And as an echo of Noah, God had flooded

00:10:17.960 the world with Noah. Here he dried up the floods. In a period of moments, no one could explain how that

00:10:23.920 happened. And what was the message there? Again, it was biblical. Repent, turn to Jesus. But here she

00:10:30.200 gave a little more granularity and said, pray the biblical meditation of the rosary. And she actually

00:10:35.140 gave an ultimatum with that miracle, saying, if you want peace, pray the rosary. So I would say to

00:10:41.980 our Protestant brothers, again, look at Fatima, but look at fruits, look at the teachings, because

00:10:47.460 Jesus said a house divided can't stand against itself. Look at how she explicitly talked about

00:10:52.580 evil and how Christians have to defend themselves against it. So it gives credence to the idea of the 1.00

00:10:58.800 rosary. Now, as Mary has explained, she was asked, should we pray to you or pray to God? Protestants will be 1.00

00:11:06.120 so glad to know. She explicitly said, direct every prayer to God. But she said, if you would like me

00:11:12.460 to pray with you, I will gladly do so. We have only one mediator, and that's Jesus. But we can intercede

00:11:18.580 for one another, like you can intercede for me, I can intercede for you. There's nothing in Scripture

00:11:22.920 that says once you die, you can no longer pray for others. Just the opposite. We see all these thousands

00:11:29.720 of cases of near-death experiences. The people often see links where people they loved are interceding

00:11:36.000 for them. So it supports that. And this biblical prayer is to God the Father. Some Protestants may 0.70

00:11:43.340 say, well, you know, how can that be when the words of the prayer that's recited the most is,

00:11:49.120 Hail Mary, full of grace. What I think she's clearly telling us is, we're to pray that to God the Father.

00:11:55.680 When we do, we're quoting him, his favorite Scripture verse of all time. He had all eternity to think of

00:12:03.080 the birth announcement for his son. And those are the words he picked. Hail, full of grace. The Lord

00:12:09.480 is with you. So we're quoting that, this greatest hit, when the Trinity will never act in a similar

00:12:15.300 way again, right? This was the wedding of the Holy Spirit. He took his girl. He took Mary at this

00:12:20.600 moment. Jesus became man. This is never going to be replicated again. And so that is the essence

00:12:26.940 of that Hail Mary prayer. We're quoting it to God the Father. So I think Protestants can very comfortably 0.95

00:12:33.260 understand that the rosary is a biblical meditation to God. And this is, again, being held up by the

00:12:39.560 greatest miracles that Christendom has seen to emphasize its importance. And then the last type

00:12:46.980 of prayer that I would emphasize, which is paramount above all others, is the Eucharist,

00:12:53.900 which obviously is scriptural, coming from the Last Supper. And I would say to our Protestant 0.91

00:13:00.120 brothers, you know, who often practice communion, look, however, at, again, the miracles that heaven

00:13:06.500 is holding up that we see through the Catholic Mass, the Catholic celebration of the Eucharist.

00:13:12.860 We have case studies that are hundreds of years old that, again, like Guadalupe, are inexplicable,

00:13:17.680 where there is a heart tissue that has never deteriorated, where you have these miracles

00:13:23.900 across the world. It's always the same blood type. Heaven has told us that we will never be able to 0.96

00:13:29.280 fully appreciate how powerful that moment is. And what I would say to our Protestants brothers is,

00:13:35.980 although I love, you know, singing with them, praying, et cetera, I believe the time is going to come

00:13:43.100 when we die, we will gladly trade all the prayers, all the worship, all the singing, all the good

00:13:49.520 experiences in our life combined for the chance to go to Mass just one more time, to receive the Eucharist

00:13:55.340 just one more time in a worthy state. What the monks and nuns did for centuries is actually listed

00:14:04.280 in the Scriptures and encouraged for all of us to engage in. That was startling and stunning.

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00:14:36.160 Allocate a portion of your wealth to whatever you think looks best, but make sure you have

00:14:42.820 a portion, especially if you're a conservative, allocated to gold because nothing has protected

00:14:48.580 wealth like gold through the centuries. And that's our message, John Henry.

00:14:55.140 Just recently, the head of pensions in the U.S. government talked about avoiding a financial

00:15:01.240 apocalypse. And for that reason, they had to send $36 billion to prop up pensions for the

00:15:09.640 Teamsters. There's been something similar seen in the U.K. What in the world is going on with

00:15:16.440 finances around the globe? We have with us Drew Mason, who works with LifeSite in getting people

00:15:23.800 to get gold as part of St. Joseph's Partners. Public talk about a financial apocalypse. I mean,

00:15:32.120 we were always worried, you know, as we're looking at the deficit in Canada, in the United States and

00:15:39.440 elsewhere, I wonder if the money that I'm constantly putting toward pension is actually going to come

00:15:46.820 back. But everybody said, oh, yeah, it's going to, it's going to, no problem, no problem.

00:15:50.820 Except things are looking very strange right now. What's really going on?

00:15:55.360 What happened was last week, the U.S. government announced that they were investing this $36 billion

00:16:00.620 because the head of pensions in the Senate said it was necessary, quote, to avert a financial

00:16:07.060 apocalypse. Now, John Henry, this $36 billion one-time injection is not going to be enough

00:16:13.500 to stem what is going on. It's just basically wasted money that they're throwing at something,

00:16:19.340 trying to avoid what is unavoidable. And what has happened, John Henry, is, and this is something

00:16:27.400 that we have also seen just play out in the UK as well, these pensions have obligations that they

00:16:34.240 must pay out to retirees. And historically, pensions have had a heavy allocation to fixed income because

00:16:41.300 of the yield they could count on the income each year to meet these obligations. But as the central banks

00:16:49.200 have pushed interest rates to abnormally low levels, levels literally never seen in 5,000 years of

00:16:55.860 financial history, where in Europe, they actually turned negative, it began to create this unexpected

00:17:01.420 stress in the financial system where they no longer had income to match with these demands,

00:17:08.480 these needs for their pensioners. So what happened was the financial firms began coming up with products

00:17:15.120 of excess leverage, so they could still invest in bonds, and the excess leverage would allow them to get the

00:17:21.520 income they needed. Because after all, everybody knows bonds never go down, right, John Henry?

00:17:25.560 So as always, the unexpected seemed to surface. And not only did the bonds go down, but the leverage these

00:17:31.880 pension systems had compounded and made the losses even worse.

00:17:35.780 So we first saw Great Britain doing an about-face recently when they had been raising rates to fight

00:17:44.720 inflation, their central bank. And then they seemed to get a call from above saying,

00:17:49.720 we have to, you know, our pension system's on the verge of eviscerating. And they did an about-face.

00:17:55.860 Come across the pond here, and last week we saw something similar in the U.S. with this $36 billion

00:18:01.000 injection into the Teamsters. And what I would really just want to leave with viewers is the

00:18:09.240 urgency of what is going on. When you see public institutions being forced to put up capital to

00:18:16.660 preserve the wealth of these plans, you don't want to have all of your assets aligned with what is

00:18:24.020 obviously a very stressed market, or they wouldn't need to come in and invest this money in the first

00:18:29.660 place, right? I mean, if you back up a step, QE, Fed Chairman has been saying since 2010, they were

00:18:36.080 going to withdraw that liquidity right away and right-size the balance sheet. Well, they haven't

00:18:40.200 just forgotten about it. They haven't been able to do it because they know if they took that artificial

00:18:43.740 liquidity out, the market would be extraordinarily stressed. So what we say to our clients is,

00:18:51.140 obviously, we're hoping for the best. We're not rooting for a market correction. However,

00:18:55.480 you don't want to build your future, especially your retirement, on hope. You want to have an

00:19:01.980 allocation that historically has thrived when these other assets, stocks, bonds, and real estate

00:19:08.260 are stressed. And historically, gold has done just that. If you go back and you look through the

00:19:14.140 hundreds of case studies that history offers us, or those who will look, you see that when a country

00:19:19.540 becomes overly indebted, it leads to a depreciation, the value of its currency, and a commensurate shift

00:19:25.440 in wealth to gold. And so we would say to investors, you don't need to sell everything. We're not talking

00:19:31.580 about Armageddon. We've seen this hundreds of times, but you want to have eyes wide open. You don't want

00:19:37.320 to be scared. Be on your front foot. Allocate a portion of your wealth to whatever you think looks

00:19:42.920 best, but make sure you have a portion, especially if you're a conservative, allocated to gold because

00:19:48.640 nothing has protected wealth like gold through the centuries. And that's our message, John Henry.

00:19:54.900 What is happening? It's very hard for those of us who aren't looking at financial markets,

00:19:59.240 who aren't in the stock market or anything else, to really understand how this all works from the

00:20:05.720 ground up. Can you give us just a sort of simple run through as to where we are right now financially?

00:20:10.900 We've had the worst start to a year for stocks and bonds combined in an extraordinarily long period of

00:20:17.520 time. So the ideas that stocks and bonds were complementary is really being blown out of the

00:20:22.240 water. You're seeing the biggest financial firms in America now admitting that they can both go down

00:20:27.300 at the same time. Why is that? It's the simple laws of finance that are irrefutable. And that is

00:20:32.700 when inflation rears its head, the value of stocks and bonds and real estate compresses because all those

00:20:40.780 assets are expected cash flows in the future. And the higher inflation, the less those cash flows are

00:20:48.040 worth. So we're seeing these multiples compress. Having said that, with all the pain that's happened

00:20:54.660 this year, today is we're taping this. We are still at levels that were equal to the prior bubble peak in

00:21:01.600 the dot-com era. So we have been so richly valued. People don't appreciate how we're still in the

00:21:08.580 stratosphere from historic valuations. So as inflation, we believe, won't be transitory,

00:21:15.440 like the press says, we think the reprieves from inflation will be transitory. As inflation persists,

00:21:21.260 you're going to continue to see pressure on the valuations of those assets. In the 1970s,

00:21:26.740 for example, which was the last time America saw significant inflation over a prolonged period,

00:21:32.460 the S&P multiple was cut in half. Meanwhile, gold traded higher by multiples. And so we think

00:21:40.660 that is this dynamic. There's no single economic input that's more important to value all assets

00:21:46.260 than inflation. And when it rises, it's bad for these traditional paper assets. When it rises,

00:21:51.680 it's great for gold. Job 101 of portfolio construction or management, if you're an advisor or if you're for

00:21:57.700 your family, is you want to have some exposure to assets that complement one another. You don't have

00:22:03.300 all your eggs in essentially one basket that's going to tank if inflation skyrockets, if stress

00:22:08.400 increases. You want to have some exposure to these assets that thrive. And history tells us,

00:22:14.940 don't dally, don't wait. This is about, again, management. If everything I'm saying is dead wrong,

00:22:21.640 and the Fed is able to bubblegum this miracle solution, right? And again, that has never happened.

00:22:26.700 If all you had to do is print money out of your trouble, ancient Greece would still be standing.

00:22:31.200 Ever since then, every government that's tried it has failed. But let's just say I'm totally wrong,

00:22:35.600 and the government is going to be able to bring prosperity to all the markets. Well, if you do

00:22:39.700 that, if that happens, and you have a small allocation to gold, less than a quarter of your

00:22:45.140 investments, then you're going to be in good shape because the other 75 plus percent of your

00:22:50.500 portfolio is going to be doing great as the Fed makes this miracle work, pulls this trick out of their

00:22:55.240 hat. However, if history plays out as it always has, and the Fed is only able to do this for a

00:23:01.740 certain amount of time, and then reality comes back to the markets, then you're going to be very happy

00:23:05.960 you have this gold allocation. So the risk-reward is looking at ways that you can preserve your

00:23:12.120 family's wealth. And this is about giving families more opportunities for what's coming.

00:23:18.320 Gold is this bridge that gets one's wealth to the future amidst all this fog with your wealth

00:23:25.560 intact. And then when you get there, you can reallocate to stocks, bonds, whatever it is you'd

00:23:30.940 like to buy at that moment in time. Because history suggests when we get to that point, gold will be

00:23:36.900 worth a lot more. And those other assets will probably have peeled off from their all-time high

00:23:41.780 valuations.

00:23:42.500 One interesting thing that I just want to leave people with is that you suggest that people actually

00:23:48.480 get physical gold themselves rather than investing in gold as you could do, but you would suggest

00:23:55.640 that they actually hold the physical gold themselves.

00:23:58.620 That's correct. At the end of the day, again, gold is about diversifying one's wealth. And as you reflect

00:24:04.580 on this, that includes diversifying what's called your counterparty risk, right? So if there's a problem

00:24:11.480 with the stock exchange, like look at September of 2001, right? The planes hit the World Trade Centers,

00:24:17.980 all the exchanges, the U.S. exchange was shuttered for over a week, right? That's just with one local

00:24:23.700 incident, albeit it was horrific, right? But when you have physical gold, you're not dependent upon the

00:24:29.660 exchanges being open. You're not dependent upon what any government says is a law because gold sits above

00:24:36.920 the capital stack of any country. And we're seeing this play out again and again with the way Russia 0.96

00:24:43.040 and Asia are moving. If your readers and viewers aren't aware, John Henry, what has also just happened

00:24:49.580 is that the central banks around the world who make the rules, who print the money, who know what's

00:24:56.500 coming, are investing more money in gold than they ever have since records have been kept. We are seeing

00:25:02.340 record central bank investing in gold. And these nations are aggressively decreasing their exposure

00:25:08.960 to the U.S. dollar. So we would say to investors, if that's what you see the most informed sources

00:25:15.500 doing with their money, it probably makes sense for you to do something similar. Dial back your risk

00:25:21.380 into what history says has been a great asset to be in during times of stress. I would encourage people,

00:25:26.800 if you are thinking of investing in gold, do so with St. Joseph's Partners. LifeSite News is indebted

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00:25:38.060 it will take you right to the LifeSite News page at St. Joseph's Partners so that you can make your

00:25:43.360 investment there. Thank you so much, Drew, for filling us in on the latest as with regard to what

00:25:47.840 is happening financially around the world. Thank you, John Henry. God bless you and God bless all of you.

00:25:53.880 We'll see you next time.

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00:26:44.620 When you first told me this about the Bible being changed, I had to actually look it up because,

00:26:51.900 well, I read the Dewey Rhames and I looked it up and there it is in front of my face. And it is so

00:26:59.860 strange. It's so strange to me because you'd think especially the evangelicals would have freaked out

00:27:08.100 to notice that there's a change from the King James Version to the NIV, which is now the most popular

00:27:13.980 one. So, okay, you tell us. I'm going to let you do the big reveal because you were, this was so

00:27:21.320 stunning to me. Where is it changed and why? Beginning with the why you asked, I would call to

00:27:29.760 mind all believers, the quote that we have in the New Testament telling us, don't ever wonder why

00:27:35.600 something happens, whether it's a financial, a political issue, health, whatever it is.

00:27:41.340 The scriptures tell us it happens because of the spiritual war we are in. We are so priceless that

00:27:47.600 Jesus died for us. And because that Satan hates us with a passion, with an intensity that is difficult

00:27:53.880 for us to imagine. And so there's this constant battle going on around us that we're really oblivious

00:27:59.980 to. And that is what is shaping everything. So imagine Jesus teaching one of his most important

00:28:07.480 revelations in his whole ministry. He tells his believers, when you are confronted with evil,

00:28:14.100 here is your playbook on how to defeat evil. You need to know this or you will never defeat evil.

00:28:21.420 You will lose every time by prayer alone when evil is at its strongest. And where we see this teaching

00:28:27.920 for centuries in the Dewey Reims and for centuries in the King James is in two places. The first is in

00:28:33.740 Mark chapter nine. And what we see happening there is the apostles have been on fire. They're just doing

00:28:40.300 incredible miracles. And then it seems they come back together. And then these 12 men that Christ

00:28:46.140 handpicked and hand-trained confront one evil person. And when they do, the evil person is actually

00:28:52.580 able to take down the 12 apostles. So they have to run and get Christ to come and save the day.

00:28:58.600 And he does, of course. And then it tells us explicitly, when they had him alone, they said,

00:29:03.620 Lord, why did this happen? Why couldn't we have victory here like we have in every other case?

00:29:08.740 And then Jesus gives us this incredible teaching. He says, because this, when evil is strongest,

00:29:14.040 can only be won with prayer and fasting. For centuries, that was a clear understanding.

00:29:20.040 Similar, exact translation to King James. The parallel is in Matthew chapter 17. And in there,

00:29:27.240 you'll see in verse 21, he says the same thing. Now, what has happened post-Vatican II,

00:29:33.880 a very interesting development took place. Those references on how to defeat evil, what we must

00:29:40.680 do and understand in order to defeat evil, were removed. So the teaching was taken from us

00:29:46.100 on what we need to do and think of what's happened to the church, to our countries since then. And so

00:29:51.840 now, most modern Catholic Bibles, and like you referenced, the NIV, the ESV, say this can only

00:29:58.480 be won by prayer. What's nonsensical? The apostles had prayed and they had lost. The teaching was about

00:30:04.280 fasting. And it's even more bizarre in Matthew, because there you'll see verse 21 has entirely been

00:30:10.500 omitted in many of these Bibles. So sequentially, the chapter goes, verse 18, 19, 20, 22. Wait,

00:30:16.300 what happened to verse 21? They took it out. And then you compare it in the King James and the Dewey

00:30:21.140 Reams, and you see that was what was removed, this knowledge of how to defeat evil.

00:30:26.060 I want everybody watching, please stop for a second. Get out your Bible, especially if you have an NIV. 0.99

00:30:33.460 And you can do the comparison later, but just take out your NIV for a quick second.

00:30:39.200 Let me just read to you. I'm going to read it first from Mark. Mark, verse 29.

00:30:46.880 So I'll start at 29. Excuse me, sorry. Mark, from the Dewey Reams, it's actually 28,

00:30:52.780 but it's in everything else, it's 29. So, and this is Jesus replying. Just as Drew said there,

00:30:58.240 the conversation is about inability to cast out this demon, and Jesus does, and they ask him

00:31:03.460 privately what. And the punchline is 28 in the Dewey Reams and 29 in everything else. So you check

00:31:08.420 29, what it says. Remember Mark 9, 29, in Dewey Reams 28. And he said to them, this kind can go out by

00:31:18.200 nothing but prayer and fasting. Now you notice how the and fasting is missing from the NIV and any of

00:31:25.920 the other modern translations. Look it up in the King James. It's the same, prayer and fasting.

00:31:31.340 Okay. Now let's turn to Matthew. So in Matthew, you see again, here you have Matthew 17.

00:31:42.600 What verse is it again, Drew?

00:31:44.320 21.

00:31:44.800 Okay. So the whole verse is actually missing. That's, that's just brilliant. So let's look at

00:31:51.920 it in the Dewey Reams in Matthew. You're talking 17, 20, but in everything else, it's 21. Look at

00:31:58.900 the numbers, just as Drew said. You see it goes 17, 18, 19, 20, 22. It's missing. Here it is in the

00:32:06.700 Dewey Reams. Again, same words, but this kind is not cast out, but by prayer and fasting. 0.98

00:32:15.580 It's so bizarre that in the other versions, it's, it's there in the King James version too,

00:32:19.580 by the way, but not in these modern versions. Let's actually just skip the verse altogether.

00:32:24.760 This is unreal. My mind was blown. Um, okay. So Drew, back to you. Why in the world have they done this?

00:32:33.720 Because this doesn't make sense. How did they get away with this? Was there any explanation or was

00:32:37.780 just, oh, well, let's just skip it. Well, how did they get away with it is a great question,

00:32:41.600 John Henry. It was, I would equate it to a Navy SEAL type operation to be able to sneak into the

00:32:47.220 church and undercover to do this and just decimate the church is an extraordinary event. One of evil's

00:32:55.300 greatest victories in the last century plus. Now, I don't know. Anyway, I'd welcome anyone who did.

00:33:01.360 We don't know who it was in the Catholic church who championed this, but in the Protestant church,

00:33:06.580 there were two gentlemen, Westcott and Hoyt, who championed this to change the King James.

00:33:12.440 It turned out they were later associated with the occult. And I suspect that's exactly what happened

00:33:17.340 in the, in the Catholic church as well. People who were in disguise, they were, they were the wolves 0.98

00:33:22.720 in sheep's clothing who took this defense away from us. Now, to your point, John Henry, there is,

00:33:28.320 of course, a justification. Evil always has a justification for what it does. And here,

00:33:34.220 what the, the justification is, is that they discovered two manuscripts that they believed

00:33:39.340 were the oldest found about the New Testament, the Vaticanus and the Siatic, I believe is the two,

00:33:45.880 is the exact pronunciation of it. And those two manuscripts did not talk about fasting. So the

00:33:51.480 argument was raised, since these are the oldest, they must be the most accurate. So we're just going to

00:33:55.940 omit fasting. But the reality is there are thousands of manuscripts of the Old Testament

00:34:02.300 that talk about fasting. And those are dog-eared, meaning think about it's parchment. People were

00:34:08.460 using them. They were referring to them. They were teaching by them.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - January 19, 2023

How To Really Pray： Hymns, Scripture, And Chant

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