The Tucker Carlson Show - July 16, 2024


John Rich: Donald Trump, the Darkness of Eminem’s New Album, and the Song He Wrote Through God


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In this episode of the Tucker Carlson Show, Tucker sits down with Christian singer-songwriter, songwriter, and songwriter-song-producer, Andrew W. Smith, to discuss his new song, "What's in Revelation," a song about Revelation, a book of the bible that preachers don't teach that most Christians don't want to talk about. In this episode, Tucker and Andrew talk about the process of writing the song, the inspiration behind the song and how it came to be, and what it means to be a Christian songwriter in the modern era. He also shares the story of how he came up with the idea for the song as well as how he was hit upside the head with a hammer by a song he wrote about Revelation and the experience that led him to write the song that would become one of the most popular songs of the past decade, "The King is Coming" by the group, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and how the song came to life in the wake of a near-death experience he had while writing the lyrics to the song. We promise you the most honest content, the honest interviews we can without fear or favor, without fear and without fear without fear. Here's the latest episode of The Tucker Carlson Show. Subscribe today using our new podcast, "Tucker Carlson's Honest Interviews" Subscribe to "The Tucker Show" Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices! Subscribe to the show Subscribe on Podchaser Podcast Subscribe on PODCAST Subscribe on YouTube Learn about our new music and more! Subscribe on the show, learn more about our upcoming projects Learn about the latest releases and more, including our plans for the future of Christian music, including what we are listening to in the future, including how to become a Christian music podcast, and much more. Join our new show, we promise you'll get a chance to know more about what we're doing in the coming future of what we can do for you in the next episode of "The Lord's Kingdom Podcast, coming soon, coming out in 2020! Learn more on what we'll be doing next week, coming in 2020, coming to you'll be hearing more of his future, coming more of what you can expect from us in 2020? we'll hear more about it! and we'll get to know you'll learn more on that!


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00:00:00.000 welcome to tucker carlson show it's become pretty clear that the mainstream media are dying
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00:00:27.560 um so when you you texted me when was that what did you text me about texted you probably i sent
00:00:34.320 you the audio of it probably four months ago so i'm not a you know a musician or a musical performer
00:00:40.360 or anything like that so i don't you know i have no idea what's you know what the market wants or
00:00:45.460 anything like that but um when you said you were you've written a song about revelation i was like
00:00:52.200 well um it's a legitimate book of the bible but it's the one that preachers don't teach
00:00:57.300 that no one really wants to read and i'm thinking i don't that's so great i couldn't wait to talk to
00:01:02.320 you about it but yeah i didn't think that anyone it's an uncomfortable book so tell the story like
00:01:08.980 how i've never heard of anybody doing something like that right first of all what is revelation
00:01:15.280 revelation uh was written by the apostle john at the end of his life um when he was basically a
00:01:23.140 castaway at that point and he started receiving visions and prophecies and he wrote down what he
00:01:28.740 saw and a lot of what he saw you got to remember he only had his life experiences to try to describe
00:01:35.380 what it was that he was seeing in these prophecies he was on an island as i recall yeah out of patmos
00:01:40.400 yeah and uh so he was writing this out as it was coming can you imagine what he must have felt like
00:01:46.520 what is that what is that like he's seeing all these things that are going to happen thousands of
00:01:50.820 years in the future and he's trying to describe it to us uh in the terms that he was familiar with
00:01:56.640 so i mean the book is absolutely incredible and it's not just revelation revelation ties back into
00:02:02.980 daniel which was around thousands years before john yes it also ties into matthew 24 and second
00:02:08.940 thessalonians 2 and first corinthians and a lot of other places people think that the whole
00:02:13.760 end times discussion only resides in the book of revelation but that's not true so the book of
00:02:20.080 revelation tells the story of the end of history that's my read tells the story about about the
00:02:24.980 return of jesus christ yes it says it's telling you what is going to happen prior to him coming back
00:02:31.720 and what's going to happen after he comes back lays it out so how did you decide to write a song
00:02:41.000 about a book of the bible that most christian preachers don't want to talk about i did not decide
00:02:46.400 to write this song because first of all how do you sing what's in revelation i mean think about it
00:02:53.180 you know uh last november i'm at my house in nashville was not thinking about writing a song
00:03:00.260 about anything and out of nowhere it felt like a hammer hit me in the back of the head boom like that
00:03:08.940 like what is this what is going on what's this feeling and this melody and these lyrics oh revelation
00:03:15.160 i can feel it coming like a dark train running oh get ready because the king is coming the king is
00:03:20.860 coming back again just but i'm talking like that and i went where were you okay i was at home in
00:03:26.640 nashville just sitting in your living room just being just chilling out and i said okay i hear you
00:03:33.680 i grabbed a guitar off the wall a pencil a notebook went sat in a quiet room in the house and in about
00:03:38.960 60 minutes the entire song had come out i sang it into my little voice notes on my iphone put my
00:03:46.000 earbuds in and walked around the house just pacing around the house listening to it over and over and
00:03:50.520 the hair is raising up on my arm is this how part of my ignorance but is this how songwriters write
00:03:55.320 songs does this has this happened to you before is this nothing's ever the only other song i ever
00:03:59.640 wrote that felt like this was one called earth to god that i wrote a few years ago that was the
00:04:03.500 same experience with that but this one was more intense than that um you know when he hits you
00:04:09.340 you know it it is it is you cannot mistake uh when the lord slaps you upside the head with something
00:04:17.540 you have a physical reaction to it i do i have a physical reaction to it it does not happen very
00:04:23.640 often it's a very rare occurrence but when it happens listen what i'm built to do is take a pencil
00:04:29.840 and put the words on the paper put music to that and then project that out that i've spent my whole
00:04:34.620 career getting to a point where i'm pretty good at that except this message this message is beyond
00:04:41.220 and it's incredible that it hit me when it did in this period of time you felt like you were channeling
00:04:46.020 this i felt like he slammed it right through me and as i'm walking around listening to it and the
00:04:52.320 hairs raising up on my arms i remember looking out the window and i looked up and i went what do you
00:04:56.200 want me to do with this i mean what is what do you want me to do and the message i felt coming back to
00:05:02.460 me was take it all the way to the mat that's the phrase that hit me meaning make the audio as great
00:05:09.800 as you can with your skill set make the video as compelling as you possibly can and when you get
00:05:15.740 those things done tell as many people as you can slam it out there with no fear as hard as you
00:05:21.140 possibly can and let let this thing be heard that is your job go do it so you're describing a creative
00:05:27.540 process in which you're kind of like not driving the train at all at all no no because i didn't come
00:05:34.340 up with the song i did not lay out some marketing strategy for the song i was given instructions as
00:05:40.200 to what to do with it and listen uh it's it's an unnerving thing to write a song like that to sing
00:05:46.920 it and then put it out there in front of god and everybody especially in the way the world thinks
00:05:51.920 and operates today that's that's not what uh that's not what a popular artist would do i mean well what's
00:05:59.120 again i don't know anything about this world um but when you told me that i didn't even think about
00:06:04.560 you know would anyone download that song and then as of this morning it's one of the top downloads in
00:06:11.480 the country it's in all genres it's it's in the top five ish right now of all genres of downloaded
00:06:18.100 songs it's battling people like eminem who i looked up his record just to see what eminem's doing
00:06:24.360 one of the titles on his record is just called evil one is called lucifer and one is called
00:06:30.120 antichrist how crazy is that and so i see eminem and revelation of course he's got the entire machine
00:06:37.360 behind him i don't have anybody i don't have any you know any physical machine behind me and so to
00:06:42.500 watch those two songs sitting there uh coexisting was a pretty when you say machine to people who
00:06:47.960 weren't in the music business like maybe they don't know what you're talking about what are you talking
00:06:51.100 about massive record labels massive radio play massive budgets to to push and promote and manipulate
00:06:57.320 media and get get his get his song out there what is your record label doing for you my record label
00:07:04.300 yeah my record label is a p.o box called rich records llc so you don't have the president founder
00:07:11.020 and uh employee so you don't you don't have anybody pushing this song nope just the people that hear it
00:07:19.800 and if the song strikes them they they push it forward to whoever's following them so before we get into
00:07:26.400 what the song is actually about um will you just describe like how do you how do you roll something
00:07:33.300 like this out if you don't have publicists record label if you don't have the machine how do you do
00:07:39.500 that i do have a publicist so jules has been with me a long time so when it's time to roll she'll call
00:07:44.460 people and go hey john's got the song revelation would you interview him about it so we do do that
00:07:49.940 we go out and talk to people and you know come talk to you but beyond that uh nothing you just post
00:07:55.320 it i posted it on my x account at john rich and i went up there and i said this is the most important
00:08:02.620 song i've ever written it's called revelation i hope it brings courage to the saved conviction to
00:08:09.620 the lost and absolute fear to the truly wicked that was the post and within about 48 hours it's
00:08:18.780 now battling some of the biggest artists in the world that's all i said that's just absolutely
00:08:23.900 incredible and that's it there's nothing else that's it then the song and that video does its
00:08:29.860 thing you know it's it's got the boss's hand on it he he gave it to me he told me to write it so i
00:08:36.540 did and he told me to go put it out there so i did it's on him now what do you what do you think
00:08:41.880 the message so you basically have said that you didn't write the song the song came through you
00:08:45.740 that's correct and i know that may sound like some kind of weird thing for people to hear
00:08:50.240 but that is exactly what happened i'm not capable of writing lyrics like that and and first of all
00:08:56.960 they're not really lyrics it's they come right off the pages of the book man i mean it i just made it
00:09:01.980 rhyme i just made what john talked about in revelation i just made the crafted them so where
00:09:07.560 they would rhyme and become a song but you know the the the entrance of the song says
00:09:13.240 dancing in the flames the people cursed his name talking about jesus and bowed at the altar
00:09:22.520 of the father of lies but there's a number to their days and all their evil ways the lord's going to
00:09:29.220 turn away from all their cries meaning at the end and what that's talking about is when you watch the
00:09:35.640 super bowl halftime show or you watch the grammy awards or you watch some of these big concerts and
00:09:41.300 music videos where they are putting satanic symbolism right in your face they are they are
00:09:47.780 practicing witchcraft on the stage right in front of you you're watching a football game or an award
00:09:52.840 show and with your kids and now whammo straight evil coming straight at you we've all seen this now
00:09:59.220 somebody has to counter that you know these guys have all these massive budgets the entertainment value
00:10:06.780 that the ability to produce those things at such a high level it's impossible to look away from it
00:10:12.180 you know it's like boom pow huge special effects all this stuff and everybody's just mesmerized
00:10:17.600 and it's going right into them so on revelation we can just ask you to pause yeah go ahead i actually
00:10:23.660 haven't seen any of that because i don't have to be but um i've read that this happens yeah
00:10:29.400 why why are they putting why are they pushing satan worship on television because they're doing
00:10:38.540 the work of their father just like i am
00:10:42.140 wow um and there's kind there's kind of no denying i mean there's they're not getting richer by pushing
00:10:52.040 satanic symbols sure they are yeah yeah because the industry uh you know the way that the way those
00:10:57.660 movie industries music industries all of that now not everybody in those industries obviously is
00:11:02.700 you know some kind of a satan worshiper or something but there's a lot of that in there
00:11:06.880 there's a lot of that in there and they have spent decades programming us from a young age to think
00:11:14.380 those things are fine and normal and they get rewarded for that you know that people that people that
00:11:20.680 really serve the father of lies they get rewarded by him when they when they proclaim his word
00:11:25.980 and do what he tells them to do and so revelation is the other side of that that's why i went to such
00:11:32.820 extremes with this video because i wanted it to compete visually with what people are used to seeing
00:11:38.640 i didn't want it to be like some one-dimensional looking thing i wanted it to be up to the level to
00:11:43.700 what people are used to seeing if we're going to combat we're going to present both sides play at a
00:11:48.240 high level bring it at a high level and that's why we went so far with it it's just it's so
00:11:54.340 interesting to see the way you're framing this so it's it you're framing it very differently it's
00:11:59.140 not just that the the media and entertainment businesses are liberal or in the pocket of the
00:12:05.180 democratic party you're saying that they're pushing a theology on the country a hundred percent no doubt
00:12:12.680 about it you know the devil uh he's scared to death of jesus christ i mean it says in the scripture
00:12:22.620 resist the devil and he will flee from you flee like wet his pants and run out the door if you
00:12:30.080 deny him if you go nope of course with jesus in you you go uh-uh get out of here and he will he'll
00:12:38.400 take off running and so you're not supposed to have fear of him the only one you're supposed to
00:12:42.760 fear if you're a christian is not the ones who can kill your body it says don't fear the ones who can
00:12:48.780 kill your body fear the one who can kill your body and kill your soul meaning the creator the boss
00:12:56.080 jesus christ the trinity and so i look at this situation as man if he's going to hit me with this
00:13:02.020 song and trust me it makes me nervous i'm a i'm a little nervous right now just sitting here
00:13:06.720 talking about it but if he's going to task me with that someday when i go see him i'm gonna i'm gonna
00:13:12.900 have to answer for a lot of things i didn't do right but i hope this is one where he goes but you
00:13:17.720 did a good job on that one because i gave you the song i told you what to do with it and you did it
00:13:22.160 you put it out there it so when you say these things you're not saying them as someone who's
00:13:28.020 guessing i mean you've been in the entertainment business your whole life over 30 years since you
00:13:31.940 were a kid i think 19 19 so i mean you know how it works again this is not something that you read
00:13:39.100 it's something you've seen when did it become clear to you that this was a theology that these people
00:13:46.020 were working knowingly or not on behalf of evil actual evil like when did that dawn on you well it
00:13:54.120 became they got so arrogant with it it seems like in maybe the last less than 10 years it i don't
00:13:59.680 know what happened on their side but i guess they got the green light to go all the way in and that's
00:14:05.240 when you started seeing for instance grammy award performances where people are literally coming out
00:14:11.000 wearing satanic symbols they are carrying out i guess they were mock seances but i mean it looked
00:14:20.180 pretty real to me and all of this stuff started happening even some of your biggest artists in the
00:14:24.860 world during their live concerts in full of giant stadiums full of people are doing these things out
00:14:30.920 on the stage in between their hit songs they'll come out as just part of the production of the show
00:14:34.980 it's art it's just art i mean go look at there's a rapper named lil nas out there and trust me everybody
00:14:42.040 watching you won't know but everybody watching this most people will know what i'm talking about
00:14:46.120 when you see him uh giving a lap dance to the devil in his video straight up and they are not ashamed
00:14:53.720 about it you look at eminem's new record where the titles are lucifer antichrist evil this is out
00:14:58.560 right now so i don't know what happened on their side to go pedal to the metal with it but they
00:15:03.680 absolutely did so on the other side of that what are we supposed to do in response to that just yell
00:15:08.860 at it scream at it be disgusted by it you can do all those things well the first thing you should take
00:15:13.800 action is naming you're naming it you're which i think is so interesting you're calling it what it is
00:15:19.220 you're not falling for the lie which is this is just art right it's more than that i mean maybe
00:15:24.660 it's art we can debate that but it's certainly more than that this is a theology you're pushing
00:15:28.380 a religion on me yeah and it's a religion of darkness and lies right and they're you know
00:15:32.880 they're pushing the same uh their same theology because it is that on our kids they're pushing
00:15:38.800 it in schools they're pushing it in pop culture they're pushing it everywhere you turn around you
00:15:42.860 can't get away from it i mean we're inundated with it right now we are swimming
00:15:46.520 and what these people have put out there it's again it's just really important to know what
00:15:53.720 you're dealing with and to say it out loud yes i think if you had said that to me five years ago
00:15:59.700 i would have thought well you know really like john rich a little far out um nothing i'm saying right
00:16:06.700 now okay anybody that's had a tv set on in the past year knows what i'm talking about it's just beyond
00:16:13.400 um thank you for saying that so tell us about revelation you said revelation is the story of
00:16:20.240 jesus coming back right um what's in it exactly because i think even a lot of christians haven't
00:16:27.040 read it carefully don't understand it don't want to confront it what what is it so in in in this song
00:16:35.180 and in this video what what it is talking about is what the real war is lord's gonna turn away from
00:16:41.700 the real war is not trump and biden the real war is not left and right the real war is not culture war
00:17:09.420 it says in ephesians we wrestle not with flesh and blood but with principalities and powers and
00:17:16.880 the rulers of spiritual darkness of this earth of this world that is the battle that's the real battle
00:17:22.920 and and they say you know in the bible it says you can't see that because there's a thin veil between
00:17:27.740 the physical and the spiritual what's going on just on the other side of the veil but when you read
00:17:33.460 daniel and you read revelation it says at some point that veil will be torn which my song talks
00:17:39.240 about that and when that veil is torn you'll be able to see what's going on on the other side of
00:17:44.840 that and so in the video you see the devil come blasting through a fiery portal out in the woods
00:17:50.920 of tennessee on one side of a little country church on a black horse and he starts running
00:17:55.180 and he looks nasty it's nick searcy by the way the actor my good friend he plays the devil he's one
00:18:01.660 of the nicest guys you ever met so it's funny that he's the devil but he plays a good one and on the
00:18:05.840 other side of that church out in the woods in tennessee this massive beam of energy comes crashing
00:18:11.760 down to the ground and the trees go like this and out of that blast comes michael the archangel and
00:18:17.800 he pulls a broad sword out of his sheath and he start and he grits his teeth and this guy's got
00:18:22.880 muscles that's hollywood yates my buddy from california he comes walking straight towards
00:18:27.800 the devil and they're coming like this and i'm standing in the middle i'm humanity and here's
00:18:33.060 evil and here's righteousness and they are about to clash and the point of that is to put into people's
00:18:39.740 mind a representation of what is spiritual warfare i wonder what it actually looks like and i did the
00:18:45.500 best job i could trying to depict that but when you see those scenes i think that's one reason why this
00:18:50.860 song is doing what it's doing because to my knowledge nobody's ever even approached this
00:18:56.360 subject in the world of music or video amazing so why is it um why is revelation so hard for people
00:19:05.620 to to grasp to read to understand so for thousands of years um the prophecies and revelation and daniel
00:19:15.620 other places seemed like such science fiction to people they just couldn't understand how these
00:19:20.620 things were even possible including my own dad who's been preaching since he was about 19 he's in
00:19:25.300 his early 70s now and he said yeah john you know just never could understand how some of these things
00:19:32.060 were possible for instance the mark of the beast how is it possible we would all say that you could
00:19:39.260 track every human being in the world and know where they are and how they get their money and where
00:19:43.620 they spend their money i mean that's just impossible and here we sit going oh no they're tracking us
00:19:49.000 right now they know exactly where we spend our money and where we get our money because it says
00:19:53.480 you won't be able to buy or sell unless you have the mark of the beast you could you could replace
00:19:58.520 the word beast with system revelation says that oh yeah without the mark won't be able to buy or sell
00:20:04.080 unless you bear the mark of the beast and when you when you go back and look that up in the hebrew
00:20:10.340 it's talking about the global power that's in place at that point the system that is in place
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00:23:45.440 what is the what is the beast the beast is going to be whatever entity a group of nations it speaks of
00:23:57.640 that will set into motion we always talk about globalists and the globalist agenda and all these
00:24:03.000 things it will be a a globalized stranglehold on the human population that they will know
00:24:10.800 where you spend your money where you get your money reminds me of central bank digital currency
00:24:17.820 if something like that so i've read i'm embarrassed this is being recorded i probably
00:24:21.800 shouldn't admit this i've read revelation actually i tried to understand it um last year
00:24:26.200 i didn't realize it said how did i miss that it says you can't buy or sell without the mark of the
00:24:33.160 beast without the mark yes john on the apostle john on some greek island 2 000 years ago said that
00:24:39.760 yes he did yes he did and so so prior to technology showing up where it's at now in 2024
00:24:46.600 these things were impossible couldn't i mean this how's that going to happen that's a pretty
00:24:50.440 specific call though to very specific yeah so now all the things that need to exist physically
00:24:58.260 are all here now so that the prophecies that have been laid out could now physically manifest now i
00:25:04.720 don't know if that's going to be today or a hundred years from now or a thousand years from now i don't
00:25:08.980 know the answer to that but i do know this is a new era so when you read revelation and you read
00:25:14.840 daniel and you read these other these other prophecies it's now doesn't sound like science fiction
00:25:20.000 anymore because we see it every single day that is absolutely crazy is that a light bulb going off
00:25:26.860 or what well yeah yeah i don't and i also don't quite know how i read the whole thing and didn't
00:25:33.000 catch that well it's a because that is this that is one of the central questions i mean that's like
00:25:38.320 top three question of our current moment is will we allow technology to take our autonomy away
00:25:44.880 and for example control what we buy or sell i mean right well i mean yeah with the advent what
00:25:52.080 we've got ai now in the mix we've got all these things that i mean we already know they they track
00:25:57.060 us we already know they know where we spend our money we already know all those things i wanted to
00:26:01.080 talk about you know spiritual warfare we just saw president trump almost murdered on stage and
00:26:08.960 everybody i've heard talk about it even his detractors say that was an act of god that he did
00:26:16.140 not die yes it was it was also an act of god that the situation was allowed to happen in the first place
00:26:22.340 don't forget that part it's all an act of god all of it so the lord allowed the situation to happen and
00:26:30.880 then he allowed donald trump to survive the situation i wonder i had this thought this
00:26:38.080 morning before i came and saw you and i was reading and thinking praying about it and i said
00:26:43.420 i wonder if what just happened to donald trump this near-death experience he just survived
00:26:50.680 is not an analogy for what's about to happen to the united states of america is america at some
00:26:59.900 point gonna have a near-death experience but survive it but nevertheless have a near-death
00:27:05.940 experience you know if you look at america nobody's ever been more blessed than america
00:27:11.940 nobody's ever been more prosperous than america more free than america we've been given every
00:27:16.100 possible thing you could ever want life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and what has our country
00:27:21.920 done with that not every person but as a whole what have we done with that how much blasphemous
00:27:28.880 things have come from this country and exist unchecked right now in our society and i think
00:27:35.280 to myself well is america immune from the wrath of god are we immune from it because i'm pretty sure
00:27:41.860 he's really upset with a lot of the things we've done and i think the only way people ever truly repent
00:27:47.960 and come back around is to have those what we could call a near-death experience that those experiences
00:27:54.460 happen throughout the bible where uh saul from uh futurely known as paul who wrote most of the new
00:28:00.700 testament his whole job was to go out and hunt down christians and cut their heads off that's his job
00:28:07.900 he was good at it he was ruthless town to town to town they oh saul's coming hide hide he cut their
00:28:15.120 heads off cut their heads off and then on the road to damascus he gets knocked flat on his butt and is
00:28:21.820 blinded for several days and in those moments he realized oh wow he's real i've been cutting the
00:28:29.220 heads off of his people this entire time and he had a near-death experience and when paul came when paul
00:28:35.200 saul came out of that he then became paul and then he wrote half of the new testament this is not new
00:28:41.340 in in god's mo when the bible's when when god says about himself i am the same yesterday today and
00:28:48.060 forever my word does not change we change culture changes the world changes but he doesn't so i however
00:28:56.280 he dealt with things all the way back to the beginning of the written word is exactly how he's
00:29:00.880 going to deal with them now and into the future and that is something people don't want to come to grips
00:29:05.260 with they america likes to make jesus into their own image a lot of christians like to make jesus in
00:29:11.960 their image they want the version of jesus that they like they like the savior part they don't like
00:29:17.180 the lord part it's lord and savior what's the difference well the savior part is is the part
00:29:23.240 that saves your soul and you you get to go be with him when you die the lord part he refers to uh
00:29:30.800 his people as bond slaves bond slaves we are supposed to be bond slaves to christ meaning you are a piece
00:29:39.980 of property he owns you you don't have your will does not matter what you want to do does not matter
00:29:47.080 he owns you that's what it means to truly become an actual real christian as you turn everything over
00:29:54.100 to him it's like the the what does it mean to repent what does that mean repentance is like uh if
00:30:02.900 you were if you were driving your truck out here and you saw jesus christ standing on the side of the
00:30:07.420 highway you go holy cow jesus standing on the side of the highway he needs a ride so you pull over
00:30:13.340 you roll down the window you go hey jesus you need a ride and he goes yep and he walks around to your
00:30:18.820 side of the car and knocks on the door and says move over and he sits behind the steering wheel and
00:30:24.480 turns a u-turn and goes the other direction or wherever he wants to go that's repentance repentance is
00:30:31.480 not i like the savior part i don't like the lord part it's just like belief and faith the difference
00:30:36.820 between those two things the devil himself believes in jesus christ he knows all about him he's been
00:30:41.660 fighting with him since the beginning belief i'm listen what is this it's a chair it's a nice chair
00:30:47.320 good strong chair made well before i sat down in this chair i look at that chair and i go i believe
00:30:53.660 that chair will hold me up i really do it's a nice chair strong chair but until i sit down in the chair
00:30:59.940 i don't have faith that the chair will hold me up you have i have to trust and and have faith in this
00:31:06.880 chair that i will not go crashing down to the floor when i sit down on it that's what faith is
00:31:12.100 the jesus that um exists and whose words and deeds are recorded in the new testament
00:31:20.360 how is that jesus different from the one that we hear about in a lot of churches
00:31:26.840 you know um there's a verse i actually printed it out i know it but i just i don't want to misquote
00:31:34.160 uh scripture at all second chronicle 7 14 very well-known verse gets quoted all the time
00:31:43.480 if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from
00:31:51.940 their wicked ways then i will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land
00:31:58.620 okay that gets read all the time here's the part they missed tucker the very first line if my people
00:32:05.500 will repent if my people will turn from their wicked ways not the devil's people he's not saying
00:32:13.400 yeah if the devil's followers will just repent and turn around i'll come heal your land no he said if
00:32:18.060 my people will mine the ones who have my name who bear my name christians if they will repent and turn
00:32:27.440 from their wicked ways and humble themselves i will come heal their land so the answer to your question
00:32:32.460 is for a very long period of time in this country we've not had any type of persecution or horrible
00:32:40.460 things happening that would that would humble a christian like that and refocus them to understand
00:32:46.000 who he actually is and so because of that all these bad things are happening now that is not going
00:32:52.420 to be preached in a church i promise you tucker no preacher is going to say it's our fault that this
00:32:57.940 is happening why because it puts the onus on them on me on you on christians they don't want to have
00:33:05.000 to take that what it can't be my fault this is all the devil's work well it says right here if my people
00:33:10.540 if my it says it right there if my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and
00:33:16.180 seek my face and turn from their wicked ways dude read what it says i mean for too long preachers have
00:33:24.300 gone in and and sanded the edges off of these very literal and very powerful verses to suit the
00:33:31.160 narrative it's not it's not unlike uh what they do in the media we always talk about how the media will
00:33:35.980 take a a story about how a war started or some some big thing that's going on and they'll twist it
00:33:42.640 around to fit the narrative that they want to have to accomplish whatever it is well the same thing
00:33:48.040 happens with scripture all the time and it's been happening for a very long time i would i would say
00:33:53.520 even hundreds of years it's been happening so it is interesting the i mean they replace the white
00:34:00.640 house replaces easter with trans visibility day they put an old lady and many others in prison for
00:34:08.020 praying in an abortion clinic these are obvious attacks on christianity um putting christians in
00:34:14.000 prison because they're christians that's an attack on christianity and you haven't heard a ton from
00:34:19.140 preachers on that i mean some but you'd think they would be rising up as one and saying no no not allowed
00:34:26.280 but they're not and so it does feel like if there is pushback against us well you're a country music
00:34:32.380 star and you're pushing back why is it falling to you that's a great question i mean trust me i'm going
00:34:39.600 i'm asking the same question um but if you read back through the the history of the bible some of the
00:34:44.500 people that came forward and and brought messages forward were the most unlikely human beings you would
00:34:50.840 have ever picked almost almost all the 12 disciples i mean a bunch of sailors a tax collector i mean
00:34:57.600 random people that became the 12 disciples are saul going into paul i mean the guy that's murdering
00:35:05.920 the christians we're going to have him write most of the new testament guys that's the plan really
00:35:09.540 i mean who would have thought that no it's you're totally right go back to go back to moses you know
00:35:14.100 moses uh did not want to did not want to go tell pharaoh to let my people go he goes it says that
00:35:19.760 moses basically had a speech impediment he couldn't speak well yeah he goes you want me to go give this
00:35:24.680 big message to pharaoh i can't even speak very well he goes yeah but your brother aaron can so aaron's
00:35:29.900 going to go with you and aaron's going to help you speak and tell but you're going to be the one
00:35:34.240 delivering the message moses like i don't want to do this i don't want to do this he goes you're
00:35:38.580 going to do it and he goes okay fine i'll go do it i mean and moses doesn't even have like he's so
00:35:44.700 mad at his own people that at one point he says to god just kill me i can't deal with these people
00:35:48.520 they're hard right exactly why did you pick this guy david is a great example so david david is the
00:35:56.400 only man in the bible that god said is a man after my own heart i got to be the greatest compliment
00:36:01.700 ever given to a human being for god to say david is a man after my own heart but let's let's think
00:36:07.400 about who david was for a minute so david when we first really start learning about him he's a shepherd
00:36:12.340 boy probably a teenager and the israelites are facing off with the philistines and they refuse
00:36:20.300 to take on the philistines because of this giant standing out there named goliath we all know this
00:36:25.260 story and david goes to visit his brothers out there in the field and he's like why are you guys
00:36:30.460 not why are they still over there blaspheming us i mean why haven't you taken these guys out and they
00:36:35.580 go well david don't you know they've got a giant he goes oh that's why you're not doing it because
00:36:40.300 they got a giant well yeah he's 10 feet tall he goes oh okay i'll be right back and david runs down
00:36:46.400 to the creek and he picks up a few rocks and has his sling on him he goes watch this wham he lets
00:36:52.980 the rock fly hits goliath right between the eyes and knocks him down people think that that's what
00:36:58.120 killed goliath but that's not what killed goliath that's what knocked him down and so when he knocked
00:37:02.480 him down there's goliath laying there dazed and confused like wow what just happened and as he's in
00:37:07.180 that state david pulls goliath's own sword out of out of goliath's sheath which was probably heavier
00:37:12.940 than he was raised it up over his head and cut goliath's head off in front of the philistines
00:37:19.080 and the hebrews and then he turns around and looks at the hebrews go you ready to fight now
00:37:23.140 and they went wham and here they come and they destroyed the philistines they ran them completely
00:37:28.600 out of there so if david's a man after god's own heart and that's how david operated
00:37:33.380 i would argue that's how christians are supposed to operate there's a difference between you know
00:37:39.060 the scripture it says pray for your enemies you know that one of course there's a difference in
00:37:44.700 our enemies and god's enemies does not say to pray for god's enemies matter of fact it's the quite
00:37:52.520 opposite of that in proverbs 6 people that say well god loves everybody nowhere does it say that
00:37:59.500 proverbs 6 it lists the people that god hates it uses the word hate and one of the first thing
00:38:05.040 he lists is those whose feet are swift to shed innocent blood yes he hates them we are not supposed
00:38:11.680 to pray for them and you go into psalms 139 and david says i hate your enemies talking to god with a
00:38:18.440 perfect hatred that's what he wrote down so there's a lot that christians are confused about right now
00:38:26.000 it's all kind of mangled up and mished and mashed together from from all the centuries of preaching
00:38:30.800 this stuff that they have lost their edge they've forgotten who they are and they've forgotten
00:38:36.440 how jesus operated how his people operated and where we're supposed to land when this is all said and
00:38:43.060 done especially when you were taking on the absolute evil that runs the world like we talk about in
00:38:47.820 ephesians the spiritual warfare it's interesting i i learn most by sort of negative assessments in other
00:38:54.640 words if you look at people who you know are doing the wrong thing um what do they hate what are they
00:39:00.680 opposed to and that tells you a lot and they're so focused on christians who are the most peaceful
00:39:08.200 law-abiding decent even if you think they're insane they're they're definitely not mugging anybody
00:39:15.380 right why are you mad at them right but they are and they feel very very threatened christian nationalism
00:39:21.220 yeah you know what i mean do you really think that those are the people you need to worry no you want
00:39:25.780 more people like that but the the people in charge don't feel that way they're very threatened by the
00:39:31.700 christians and i just think that that's the most revealing of all yeah because they know who dwells
00:39:37.100 within the christians the boss the ultimate the alpha the omega the one whose blood was poured out
00:39:44.980 on a tree for us that's who lives inside of us the one who created the devil himself
00:39:50.580 that's who they're afraid of so you said a minute ago that um that history will end time will end
00:39:59.080 jesus will return you don't know when right it says we don't know exactly okay so can you and i i get
00:40:05.620 at least once a day someone coming by my house and leaving me something about the end times and which
00:40:10.920 i appreciate of course and um no i'm i'm actually serious sure and uh every single day and that's
00:40:17.640 great and i and i've met a lot of the people and that couldn't be nicer but in some of the stuff that
00:40:22.480 they leave which i read actually um there's a sense that like we can predict through numerology for
00:40:28.180 example like the day this is history's ending and you're saying we can't no the bible says we can't
00:40:34.240 i'm not saying anything the bible says uh no man knows the time nor the hour when jesus will return
00:40:39.800 and that's correct nobody knows can i back up 200 years with you real quick i know you love history
00:40:48.960 yes 200 years ago basically in 1830 a very wealthy very charismatic preacher named john darby d-a-r-b-y
00:41:00.100 came with this doctrine that's now referred to as the secret rapture or the pre-tribulation rapture
00:41:08.520 and that message took off why wouldn't it i mean who doesn't want to hear that we'll all be out of
00:41:15.620 here before anything bad happens that's a great message that'll that'll pack the fuse right there
00:41:19.660 i love it and and it allowed them to say for all we know the rapture could happen before this church
00:41:24.520 service ends right now so you better move and i guess to that end it had a great effect a lot of
00:41:29.040 people a lot of people got saved over that who came up with the idea that you only vote in november
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00:43:14.040 a few decades after that a guy named c.i. schofield have you ever heard of a schofield bible yes i have
00:43:33.200 okay so c.i. schofield was a basically a student of john darby and he adopted that part of the
00:43:40.040 doctrine and he incorporated that into the bible it was the first bible ever made that had study notes
00:43:45.400 with it we have all kinds of bibles now that have you know concordances and study notes and all kinds
00:43:50.040 of stuff that go along but this was the first one that was ever ever made it became so popular
00:43:55.180 every christian was reading it every minister was reading it and this this continues today to this exact
00:44:00.900 second my own dad when he went in seminary and was you know wanting to become a minister they said
00:44:07.080 make sure you have a schofield bible now when you come to class have your schofield bible schofield
00:44:11.800 bible also adopted that that entire john darby philosophy of christians will not be here when the
00:44:19.120 bad stuff starts to happen and most christians still believe that matter of fact a lot of my friends
00:44:24.220 that are christians are going to watch this interview are probably right now going hang on a minute
00:44:27.720 now hang on so this is a this is pushing back against a doctrine that's been in existence now
00:44:34.660 for coming up on 200 years the problem with that doctrine is there's a several places in the bible
00:44:41.500 where it talks about what's going to happen prior to jesus christ coming back to the earth when he does
00:44:49.200 come back that is when what we call the rapture happens the word rapture is nowhere in the bible it
00:44:53.580 talks about us being caught up with him and pulled out of here and then and then the ultimate wrath is
00:44:58.080 poured out on this planet that's what we call the rapture but so that's not in debate the question is
00:45:03.940 what happens leading up to that it's a good question to ask right for some reason nobody ever preaches that
00:45:09.700 they don't want to talk about what all happens prior to it so if i can can i just read if we have
00:45:15.720 time that's why i love the thought of this interview just oh i do too but just to be clear
00:45:20.060 what you're saying is the scofield bible its theology is deceptive i'm saying that the same
00:45:27.360 way the media takes a factual situation and twists it and gives you a version of it which we all know
00:45:34.940 we're force-fed every single day the same exact tactic was used in 1830 by john darby and guess who
00:45:42.940 he was connected to by the way the rothschilds interesting yeah he was connected to the rothschilds
00:45:49.120 family back in the day that he did the same exact tactic and twisted that i don't know why he did
00:45:54.040 that it worked because it took off and i mean it was there were churches popping up everywhere
00:45:59.340 right after that i'm saying that including me including my own father for a long time that's what
00:46:06.980 we believe too but when you start actually going back and reading line by line by line what is said
00:46:11.920 that will be leading up to jesus coming back which is when the rapture happens it's a it's the inverse
00:46:17.220 of what john darby put down i didn't know that uh but somehow i'm not surprised even a little bit
00:46:24.760 yeah yeah um yeah i'm sorry i interrupted you i just want to be totally clear about what you were
00:46:31.080 saying so you're saying you want i'm curious how you take this what i'm telling you right now i don't
00:46:35.060 know that personally i mean i know nothing about any of this stuff um but i decided to read the bible
00:46:41.680 about a year and a half ago i did um and it really just changed my life i just thought it was just the
00:46:47.480 most amazing thing i've ever read or or done uh but when i decided to do that i'm so distrustful
00:46:54.320 you know i didn't grow up around preachers but i i have real distrust and i think it's earned and so
00:47:01.220 i didn't want any commentary in my but the bible that i bought on amazon.com
00:47:05.700 thanks jeff yeah i just want to know what it says and um so yeah i and uh to this day including
00:47:15.220 this morning i mean i just i just want to because i'm coming from total ignorance that my father was
00:47:19.420 not a preacher not to put it mildly so um yeah i don't have the background at all so i just want
00:47:25.160 to know what it says i don't want to be misled i've lived a life uh you know in the media so i'm
00:47:30.780 highly familiar with how populations are misled lied to deceived and then hurt on the basis of
00:47:37.580 those lies i know a lot about that and i didn't want that i don't want that's why i don't have tv
00:47:41.160 that's why i don't like the internet i don't want that stuff in my head and so i have no commentary at
00:47:45.100 all in the bible that i'm reading and um but my sense was the scofield stuff which has had
00:47:50.760 massive implications uh for our foreign policy for example and in our domestic politics was was
00:47:57.220 probably a lie you know it seems like a lie to me but i but i don't really know because i don't think
00:48:02.360 i don't think all of it was a lie i think this this particular subject uh that that was you know
00:48:08.560 that that translation or that that commentary on uh the bible has had massive effects on our politics
00:48:17.920 that have been very very negative and resulted in the deaths of a lot of people so i do know that
00:48:23.780 for a fact but i don't know much about the theology so would you mind explain i interrupted you you're
00:48:29.360 gonna get to that you're not interrupt to me this this is a great it's very powerful conversation i
00:48:34.040 don't i think we're the only two humans on earth having this conversation in front of everybody i
00:48:39.060 feel like people are very open to things that well i speak for myself i i had zero interest in having
00:48:44.680 any kind of conversation about the bible three years ago right um not against the bible never been
00:48:49.520 against the bible i believe in god i believed in god three years ago but i i wasn't that interested
00:48:54.180 in talking about revelation i mean i'm right i'm a wasp you don't talk about that stuff so um but i feel
00:49:00.300 like it's not just me i think that a lot of people are reaching the conclusion that the materialist
00:49:06.380 society we grew up in you know is insufficient to explain what we're seeing yeah and that we're
00:49:13.660 facing off against these forces we ascribe names to them like leftism or communism or there's
00:49:19.320 something that's more than that those are that that doesn't tell the whole story this is a theology
00:49:23.600 that's being pushed on us and so maybe it's worth knowing more about it yeah i think people are
00:49:29.080 watching what's happening in our country and around the world and they're becoming more and more fearful
00:49:33.180 of it even to the point of dread a lot of people are just consumed by what is happening that's right
00:49:38.040 and they want answers they want a truthful answer will somebody please tell me the truth and the truth
00:49:43.120 about that is the only ultimate truth is not me and it's not you and it's not any politician or
00:49:48.660 anybody on tv it's what the book says now if you're if you're watching this and you go i i don't believe
00:49:54.640 in i'm an atheist and that whatever that doesn't matter that's fine but if you're watching this you're
00:50:00.400 going to hear it anyway because it is the truth and the truth has a way of penetrating well i would
00:50:04.140 also say this is how i felt about myself like i had all kinds of opinions about god and religion and
00:50:08.560 all that stuff but it's kind of hard to have it's like i have lots of opinions about anna karenina
00:50:14.240 but i've read it i mean i guess it's just worth reading the document and it's long it took me you
00:50:21.600 know 15 months to read it or 14 months but it's work it's like no one has read it just read it and
00:50:28.220 then get back to me and let's have a conversation about what what's in there right that's like the
00:50:32.020 first step just read it maybe you're an atheist maybe you're christopher hitchens it doesn't matter
00:50:36.260 just read what's in there by the way that's the foundation of western civilization so just as a
00:50:41.040 you know as a historical matter you should know what's in there but nobody does agreed very few
00:50:46.340 people do so why is it dangerous right now that christians have this idea that they're going to
00:50:56.620 be out of here before any of the things that are prophesied about happen why is that dangerous it's
00:51:01.360 dangerous because when the mark of the beast shows up when the son of perdition shows up who is who
00:51:08.020 referred to as the antichrist when those things happen and they're still here they'll say well
00:51:15.440 that can't be the mark of the beast that can't be the antichrist because i'm still here what danger
00:51:22.040 does that put someone in that's not the mark of the beast because i'm still here so go ahead sign
00:51:26.380 me up think about the the level of danger with that and it has not existed in my opinion until
00:51:32.700 recently since technology has gotten to the point to actually execute these things so if if you got a
00:51:39.160 second can i can i read something for you or unless you want to ask me something yeah so uh lexi's just
00:51:44.280 come in with this yeah uh breaking news judge dismisses classified documents case against donald trump
00:51:53.380 judge eileen cannon has dismissed the classified documents case in a ruling monday
00:51:57.760 uh she said the appointment of the special counsel jack smith violated the constitution
00:52:02.240 well that's kind of um i mean i'm just hearing this because it just happened but uh
00:52:08.220 it does it does seem like all of a sudden and i'm sorry to interrupt but i just don't respond to that
00:52:16.100 um it seems like everything has aligned in the period of like three days to make it very obvious
00:52:23.400 donald trump's gonna be the next president there's no doubt about it at this point very little doubt
00:52:27.600 to the extent you can tell the future but what do you make of that uh well they tried to kill him
00:52:33.860 yeah well well there's that i mean and they missed or god turned his head and they missed and then
00:52:41.260 within like four minutes elon musk endorses him richest man in the world right biggest most
00:52:46.440 important media mogul in the world by far and you know bill ackman lifelong democrat it's like all of
00:52:53.180 a sudden it's just everything changes in one moment well when god shows up uh that clearly it's hard for
00:53:00.100 even the biggest detractors to deny it they go what did i just watch you just watched god turned
00:53:07.440 donald trump's head literally a split second part of a second right before the bullet whizzed by i mean
00:53:13.560 if he'd have still been looking this way it catches him here he turns this way it catches him here we
00:53:18.000 all just watched it i mean think about god making his presence known i mean on the biggest possible
00:53:23.380 story you ever could and the whole world just saw that so now now you've got people going okay i
00:53:28.780 believe it i believe it because how do you deny that no that's exactly right and and further further
00:53:35.820 evidence i mean we're i feel like we're in the middle of history we're in the middle america is
00:53:40.840 a movie and we have no idea how it ends but clearly right right and the timing of revelation coming out
00:53:48.080 i could there's no way to know all this stuff i mean that song comes out a few days ago and then this
00:53:54.960 happens and that happens and and now i looked on looked on x and spiritual warfare is trending and
00:54:00.660 all these people are talking about that and i went okay i get it i mean that's why it was written
00:54:07.720 that that's like the musical component that's out floating around out there right now while all this
00:54:13.040 is happening i mean there there's no coincidence in the world that can allow for that to happen
00:54:17.840 do you believe that there are any coincidences no do you no i used to i've seen too much i'm 55
00:54:26.760 i don't think god is coincidental i keep sidetracking you no you're fine so i'm sorry i just
00:54:36.020 wanted to she brought that in no that's big deal that's crazy that's absolutely crazy so a lot of a
00:54:42.560 lot of christians watching this right now are very upset with me why because i'm saying something that's
00:54:47.760 pushing back against something they have grown up believing i grew up believing it too so did my dad
00:54:52.060 and for since 1830 people have believed this that you're going to be out of here before any of the
00:54:56.540 bad stuff happens it just doesn't say that so if you can give me enough time to read oh my gosh
00:55:03.300 please i'm i'm fascinated this is second thessalonians 2 which doesn't get preached very much this is paul
00:55:11.160 wrote this now brethren concerning the coming of our lord jesus christ and our gathering together to him
00:55:17.860 meaning his second coming we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled either by spirit
00:55:25.240 or by word or by letter as is from us as though the day of christ had come let no one deceive you
00:55:33.040 by any means for that day the day he comes back will not come unless the falling away comes first
00:55:42.000 and the man of sin is revealed the son of perdition who is who we refer to as the antichrist
00:55:49.200 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called god or that is worshiped so that he sits
00:55:56.700 as god in the temple or in the place of god showing himself that he is god
00:56:03.580 jesus hadn't come back yet this is happening do you not remember when i was still with you
00:56:11.940 i told you these things and now you know what is restraining that he may be revealed in his own
00:56:18.560 time for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work only he who now restrains will do so until he
00:56:25.820 is taken out of the way meaning it's being held back and then the lawless one will be revealed whom
00:56:32.020 the lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming
00:56:37.440 talking about the second coming the coming of the lawless one is according to the work of satan
00:56:44.180 with all power signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish
00:56:51.100 because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved meaning it was rejected they
00:56:57.180 were told the truth and they rejected it and for this reason god will send them a strong delusion
00:57:03.520 that they should believe the lie that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had
00:57:10.260 pleasure and unrighteousness let's stop right there you're telling me god is gonna send a delusion on
00:57:16.840 people he's gonna do that he's gonna be the one to make them go into chaos and not understand he says
00:57:23.860 yes that is what he's gonna do because he's given them chance after chance after chance and they refused
00:57:29.500 to believe the truth and rather believe the lie when the antichrist shows up but we are bound to
00:57:36.080 give thanks to god always for you brethren beloved by the lord because god from the beginning chose you
00:57:41.180 for salvation through sanctification by the spirit and belief in the truth to which he called you by our
00:57:47.780 gospel for the obtaining of glory of our lord jesus christ therefore brethren stand fast and hold the
00:57:54.680 traditions which you were taught whether by word or by epistle meaning by letter now may our lord jesus
00:58:01.440 christ himself and our god and father who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope
00:58:06.500 by grace comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work so that's second
00:58:12.840 thessalonians 2 he lays out before he comes back you're gonna see the antichrist he's gonna show up
00:58:20.360 he's gonna be running the place now that goes i'm telling you right now heads are exploding
00:58:25.600 in in the church world and with a lot of christians they're going but you can get mad all you want to
00:58:31.460 i'm reading it verbatim if you don't if you got a problem with that go tell him you got a problem with
00:58:36.700 it if you don't want to believe it put some louder fluid on your bible and throw it in the fireplace because
00:58:40.940 what's the point it says what it says so i i'm personally in a weird position where i've never heard
00:58:48.560 any of these conversations i didn't grow up in a in a church like that at all i grew up in a fake church
00:58:53.260 and um that makes total sense to me that there would be deception well there is deception everywhere
00:59:03.200 but you're saying that well it's saying that this letter paul's letter to the thessalonians says
00:59:09.980 and revelation says and maybe daniel says too it's all over the bible that there will be a leader
00:59:16.280 who people worship as god who is not god yeah let me i'll read this this piece one more time
00:59:22.480 let no one deceive you by any means for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first
00:59:29.760 and the man of sin is revealed the son of perdition which means lying this yeah the the son of perdition
00:59:36.880 is who they we would refer to as the antichrist the word antichrist doesn't exist in the bible
00:59:41.720 neither does rapture that's just when we read this throughout history really the word antichrist
00:59:46.100 is not in there no or rapture huh it's but it's it's the words we use to describe what they're laying
00:59:55.440 out so how dangerous is that if christians believe i'll be gone before this ever happens so when they
01:00:01.180 are still here and he does show up they're going to be walking right into a buzzsaw so that i mean but
01:00:06.980 it like raises the question that i wrestle with every day in every context which is how do you
01:00:12.300 know what's true how do you spot you know you're being lied to how do you know how do you know what's
01:00:18.780 deception and what's truth praying for discernment is very important that's that's my go-to but um
01:00:24.640 right think of anything else but what are the what are the signs that you're being lied to what are the
01:00:32.060 signs that something is bad i mean jesus says and it's it's it's just true you don't need to be a
01:00:37.340 christian to believe it that you judge a tree by its fruits i can call it an apple tree but if pears
01:00:42.320 come out it's not right exactly so how do we know which leaders are lying to us which are bad like what
01:00:50.820 are the signs if what they say and do runs counter to what god's word says they are lying
01:00:59.980 it's as simple as that people complicate this whole process and go exactly the question you're asking
01:01:06.200 how do i know who's telling the truth how do i know who's not well look at what they're standing for
01:01:11.160 fighting for how they're talking and then go take that and go read what the book says about it
01:01:16.980 what is god's stance on it and if they're opposed to that or out of line with that then they're wrong
01:01:22.440 and you base it against the ultimate truth that's it well i think that's why we have the bible i think
01:01:27.840 that's i think that's right humans can't figure this stuff out so this winter i'm standing in the
01:01:32.400 kitchen with my dogs and my wife comes in she's just come back from a long walk and she has this
01:01:37.240 look on her face this look of tranquility and joy and peace and i said what have you been doing and
01:01:44.320 she said i was praying and i said where she said on my walk for an hour and a half and it turns out
01:01:50.840 she was listening to something i'd never heard of before which is an app called hallow hallow h-a-l-l-o-w
01:01:57.960 hallow like hallowed and a friend of hers gave it to her and this set off a chain reaction in my family
01:02:04.520 where pretty much everyone in my family started to listen to hallow every day it's a prayer app
01:02:08.380 and it's the best way as you know to find peace and this makes it very easy to set aside the time
01:02:14.860 to deeply pray every single day i'm so impressed by hallow that i tracked down the number of the ceo
01:02:21.700 and i called him and i said i want to advertise this on our podcast because it's something that
01:02:25.420 i really believe in and i think you do an amazing job and it's basically non-denominational
01:02:29.980 christian you don't have to be catholic or protestant you can be any kind of christian but hallow will
01:02:34.880 help you focus your prayer in a way um that'll be very obvious to your husband when you walk into
01:02:40.760 the kitchen i can promise you that um it's an amazing amazing resource they've got like 10 000
01:02:46.740 audio guided prayers meditations bible studies famously mark walberg leads one of them it's just
01:02:53.380 really really good you can download it for three months free at hallow.com slash tucker and uh i strongly
01:03:00.740 recommend that you do that it puts a lot of us including me who's only read it once um at a
01:03:21.160 disadvantage because we're not that literate we're not biblically literate it's like i don't know
01:03:26.120 you know i didn't you've already told me a bunch of things that i thought i would have picked up
01:03:30.620 having read it and i missed them um so one marker that seems well i'll ask you do you think this is
01:03:36.400 a fair way to judge god creates order out of chaos right that's beginning of genesis and so
01:03:44.280 order and chaos are really significant markers for whether something is from god or or not and if you
01:03:51.840 get a lot of chaos like that's probably not from god right probably not most of the time except in
01:04:00.560 second thessalonians it says he will send a great delusion on the people because they refused the truth
01:04:06.560 and refused him for so long that he goes okay i've given you every shot i'm going to give you now here
01:04:12.220 comes the cloud here comes the fog here comes i don't know where i'm at and he's going to let those
01:04:16.980 people who rejected him over and over and over and rejected the truth he allows them as i call it
01:04:22.600 walking into the buzzsaw walking into the woodchipper that's a hard thing man for christians to come to
01:04:27.540 grips with that he said that that he would do that that's what it says so that means good people are
01:04:34.940 going to fall for lies it means that it it means that first of all there's i don't believe there's
01:04:41.400 such a thing as a good person and it says uh all of our trying to be i agree with all of our
01:04:47.060 righteousness is as filthy rags on the side of god is what it says i mean the only good thing about a
01:04:52.380 christian is that god's in them that jesus is in them that's it short of him being in there you're
01:04:56.720 just nasty filthy you know so but i think to your point yeah people who are not inherently wicked
01:05:03.400 people but have refused to to believe what he's told them for all this time and reject it reject it
01:05:10.480 reject it it says he'll send a great delusion anybody that wants to go read it i hope they
01:05:14.440 pick their bible up after this interview and go look it up but people who think of themselves as
01:05:18.660 sincerely godly people who are trying to be christian call themselves that right um they'll
01:05:23.600 fall for for the lie too it says many will it says many will so it sounds like you got to be
01:05:31.420 just on your game you got to be aware you got to be connected yeah tightly that some of the
01:05:37.440 things you think are good or not good right exactly right i mean you go back to like you
01:05:42.680 said 1830 and john darby and c.i scofield and i wasn't there i don't know why they did what they
01:05:48.780 did but that doctrine was very popular still it's still the main doctrine today oh i know
01:05:54.220 well the speaker of the house believes that of christian church most i'd say 99 of christians
01:05:59.140 believe it i mean i've been i've been anxious about this interview because i knew what i'm going
01:06:03.280 to say is going to rattle people in a major way but this is not my opinion tucker it's so funny i'm
01:06:09.040 just laughing because i'm i'm from a world where i don't think i don't think i know anyone who's
01:06:13.480 heard of scofield i'm only learning of this recently right there are many different cultures in america
01:06:18.220 we're just from very different ones so yeah it's funny but is that true so even now people believe
01:06:23.780 that 100 percent well maybe that's a a good example of the principle that you're describing
01:06:29.400 or the fact that you're describing yeah that christians were you know trying their best
01:06:35.380 yeah we're still going to fall for things that are lies because because they have they have
01:06:39.880 yes because not just them and this is not the preacher's fault this is not the christians fault
01:06:46.080 they're not at fault for this this has been around since way way way before any of us were ever
01:06:50.980 thought about it's become accepted doctrine that that the footnotes and the that scofield adopted
01:06:57.640 from darby is biblically accurate and the only way those can be biblically accurate is you're
01:07:02.800 going to have to erase several of the things that were said and they're like the one i just read in
01:07:07.720 second thessalonians 2 you'd have to rip those pages out for that to make sense because it literally
01:07:12.640 lays out step by step this you're going to see this and then i'm going to show up the greatest one ever
01:07:18.100 is matthew 24 and that that does get preached a lot but they preach it backwards and i don't know how
01:07:24.220 much i don't know how much scripture you'll let me read on the show i'm really interested by the way
01:07:28.420 anyone who's not interested in this stuff will have fallen away by now sure but i think again
01:07:34.500 at least in the weird world that i'm from more people are interested in this than have ever been
01:07:39.460 i think so i think it does talk about a great revival happening at some point you know that's when i go
01:07:45.180 back to a near-death experience will get your attention faster than anything it happened to me i know
01:07:49.800 yeah i've had a couple myself yeah all right matthew 24 you ready yeah now this is jesus talking to the
01:07:56.560 disciples and they're hanging out in a park basically in a nice little spot that they were
01:08:01.260 hanging out matthew 24 start with verse 3 now as he sat on the mount of olives talking about jesus the
01:08:08.320 disciples came to him privately saying tell us when will these things be and what will be the sign of
01:08:13.920 your coming in the end of the age asking him and jesus answered and said to them take heed that no
01:08:21.140 one deceives you for many will come in my name saying i am the christ and will deceive many and
01:08:28.220 you will hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you are not troubled for all these things must come
01:08:34.880 to pass but the end is not yet for nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and
01:08:41.340 there will be famines pestilences and earthquakes in various places all these are the beginning of
01:08:48.040 sorrows then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and you will be hated by all nations
01:08:56.360 for my name's sake now that's an important part right there because a lot of people have taught over
01:09:03.440 the years that because he was talking to the 12 disciples that he was specifically only referring to
01:09:09.300 them and their country and their their heritage but when it says for bearing my name for my name's
01:09:16.800 sake that means chinese christians north korean christians eskimo christians south american christians
01:09:22.300 american christians anybody in this period of time that bears the name of jesus christ will be hunted it
01:09:28.320 says killed hunted hated by all the nations around the earth that's an important distinction and then many
01:09:35.020 will be offended that sounds familiar will betray one another and will hate one another then many
01:09:41.740 false prophets will rise up and deceive many and because lawlessness will abound the love of many
01:09:48.460 will grow cold but he who endures to the end shall be saved and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached
01:09:54.680 in all the world as a witness to all nations and then the end will come now here we go here
01:10:00.520 therefore when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by daniel the prophet
01:10:07.960 the abomination of desolation tucker is when the antichrist steps into that role that we talked about
01:10:13.280 in second thessalonians when you see him standing in the holy place then let those who are in judaea
01:10:19.980 flee to the mountains let he who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of the house and let
01:10:24.760 him who is in the field not go back to even get his clothes and woe to those who are pregnant
01:10:30.200 and to those who are nursing babies in those days and pray that your flight may not be in winter
01:10:35.220 or on the sabbath for then will be the great tribulation such has not been seen since the
01:10:42.900 beginning of the world under this time no nor ever shall be jesus still hadn't come back yet remember
01:10:49.560 this is the disciples asking him what's it gonna what's gonna happen before you come back all these
01:10:53.740 things are happening and unless those days be shortened no flesh would be saved but for the elect's sake
01:10:59.880 meaning his people those days will be shortened then if anyone says to you look here's the christ
01:11:05.480 or there do not believe it for false christ and false prophets will rise and show great signs and
01:11:10.560 wonders to deceive meaning they'll perform miracles in front of you if possible they could even deceive
01:11:16.160 the elect see that i've told you beforehand therefore if they say to you look he's in the desert do not
01:11:23.060 go there or look he's in the inner rooms do not believe it for as the lightning comes from the east and
01:11:28.360 flashes to the west so also will be the coming of the son of man for wherever the carcass is there
01:11:34.000 the eagles will be gathered together now we're in verse 29 immediately after the tribulation of those
01:11:41.400 days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light the stars will fall from heaven and
01:11:47.260 the powers of heavens will be shaken then verse 30 then the sign of the son of man will appear in heaven
01:11:54.960 and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the son of man coming on the clouds
01:12:00.180 of heaven with power and great glory and then he will send his angels with a great cloud and a trumpet
01:12:06.600 and they will gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other
01:12:12.120 matthew 24 when the disciples asked him what's going to be happening before you come back boss
01:12:17.940 all right sit down i'm going to tell you and he goes play by play and then this and then that and
01:12:25.020 then this and this and this and after this happens then you'll see me coming so it is such a dangerous
01:12:32.420 mindset for really save people and christians to think that they're going to be pulled out of here
01:12:38.080 before any of this happens why is that dangerous because when those things happen you're going to
01:12:42.480 think it's not the real deal you're going to think well i'm still here so that can't be it it must be
01:12:47.660 something else and the decisions you make under that false pretense could could be catastrophe would
01:12:52.820 be catastrophic to you it says anybody that takes the mark of the beast that their name is not written
01:12:58.780 in the lamb's book of life meaning the names that are written down the ones that are that are going to
01:13:04.400 heaven your name is not written in the lamb's book of life if you take that i mean this is no joke
01:13:09.720 how do you not take it how do you not take the mark yeah you have to be willing to die
01:13:16.080 suffer uh i think about there's there's christians right now all over the world being killed by the
01:13:23.180 hundreds of thousands we just don't talk about it they're killing them in china they're killing
01:13:26.660 them in north korea they're killing them in africa they're killing them in the middle east why are we
01:13:31.820 above those people you think you think america gets to dodge this at some point absolutely not it is a
01:13:40.080 it's a perilous thing to bear the name of jesus christ in this world one of the reasons i wound up
01:13:48.400 believing that this was true is because as you read this and you read jesus's pitch to his followers
01:13:56.180 his disciples right it's kind of the opposite well you're in the entertainment business you know
01:14:00.760 it's the opposite of any other advertising campaign that you would mount like use this laundry
01:14:07.140 detergent it makes your clothes cleaner right you know what i mean right eat this food it's delicious
01:14:11.740 right jesus is like follow me and you're going to get hated by everybody including your own family
01:14:18.340 and then killed bingo people are going to celebrate your death and that message became the world's biggest
01:14:25.180 religion created western civilization and you're like well wait a second that's really that's the pitch
01:14:31.360 how'd you get anyone to sign up for that well when yeah when christianity launched everybody knew
01:14:36.660 that's what it was and they they just not that long ago jesus was crucified why would anybody sign
01:14:41.240 up for that i mean if a preacher and many do comes out and says if you believe this you're going to get
01:14:49.160 rich get a hot wife get a huge house you know all good things will happen to you i get it i mean who
01:14:56.420 wouldn't want that but if someone like jesus says you're going to get to you get to be tortured to
01:15:02.920 death if you follow this like why would anyone follow that because they know that he's the son
01:15:08.140 of god okay that they that but that's what i'm saying that's like the greatest testimony in my view
01:15:13.700 this is the conclusion i came to after reading i was like how could well it must be true because
01:15:17.640 who would follow that no i don't think cerebrally you would ever take you'd ever bite that of course
01:15:24.940 not ever bite that hook i mean now you follow me and get tortured to death no i don't think
01:15:29.840 went past that hook yeah but when he gets a hold of you in a real way there's no denying what that is
01:15:34.900 and that's when people are converted that's when that when they feel that and they really give their
01:15:39.240 life to jesus christ and he comes in it's wham i mean it's there i mean there is no escaping what
01:15:45.840 that is it is as real as a heart attack so how should we feel about so what you're saying and i think
01:15:51.740 a lot of people will nod their heads like you you feel like something first of all that this is
01:15:55.980 this moment is real we're not making this up in our minds and you know there's suffering ahead
01:16:01.540 how should we feel about that well it's it's he gives a lot of tough commandments he says uh rejoice
01:16:07.460 when you're persecuted for bearing my name if they if they persecuted me what do you think they're
01:16:12.040 going to do to you i mean yeah exactly it's not it's not really your best tony robbins pitch as to
01:16:16.760 why you should sign up for this program but the benefit is it's it's your eternity that you're
01:16:23.180 talking about here you know if you live to be 200 years old it's like that in the history of time
01:16:28.780 it's nothing i mean like that if you touch your hand i had this thought a while back when uh somebody
01:16:35.060 says i broke my arm my arm is broken and i go and it hit me funny out of nowhere i went my arm like who
01:16:45.020 which part of you is claiming ownership of that arm does does anything own itself that's this is my
01:16:51.260 table that is my dog that is my car that is my business i'm somebody's employee they say that's
01:16:57.020 my employee something is is is is claimed by by something else throughout the world so you go my
01:17:04.660 arm my arm is broken what is that that's the spirit that's you that's the real you that has to live in
01:17:10.480 this piece of junk for however long it lives there you're actually hearing your spirit talk when you
01:17:15.940 say that this is my arm my face my head my talent my my my all this stuff and so people understand
01:17:25.260 they have to understand that god created you to live forever somewhere one place or the other
01:17:30.900 he sticks you down on these weak little banged up bodies that he gives us the weakest thing ever
01:17:35.940 and then turns the devil loose and then he gives us free will to decide which way do we want to go
01:17:43.440 that's why he became a man so he could empathize with man so he could understand the plight of man
01:17:48.740 what man has to deal with every single day from temptation to torture to love and sadness and
01:17:53.860 everything else jesus experienced all of that stuff so i think to your point of why would anybody ever do
01:17:59.280 that it's because it's not this you're trying to save it it's the actual eternal you that that is
01:18:05.620 being saved that gets to go live in eternity in heaven with him instead of on the other side and it's
01:18:10.800 why the other side fights so hard too they're not trying to take their bodies they're trying to take
01:18:14.400 their souls i also think there's there's something about hearing something true even if it's unexpected
01:18:20.940 you've never heard it before you never thought of it before it seems bizarre if it is true it was
01:18:26.180 actually true it resonates like a tuning fork it hums it feels different a true word feels different
01:18:33.540 from a false word yeah and there's something about these words that has struck people for thousands of
01:18:38.340 years in ways that you could never explain it's like oh that's true i know that that's true i was
01:18:43.640 made to know that that was true yeah because it's in you it's in you what kind of preacher is your dad
01:18:48.520 he is non-denominational uh he my dad generally focused his his ministry in prisons street ministry
01:18:58.000 my dad when i was growing up he did uh i think it was 34 mardi gras
01:19:02.940 in a row with a guitar hanging around his neck standing in the french quarter as all the parades
01:19:10.200 are going by and he's standing down there singing gospel music and preaching through a little speaker
01:19:16.480 that he had standing next to him and these parades would come by and spit on my dad from the top of his
01:19:23.240 head all the way down to his boots over and over and over and i asked him one time i said why did you
01:19:29.460 34 years 34 yeah i said why did you just why did you keep standing there with people hundreds of
01:19:35.960 people just spitting on you and he said because about one out of a hundred of them would stop
01:19:41.380 and ask me what i was talking about so you wipe spit off your face and you tell them what it is you're
01:19:47.020 here to talk about and i i have seen him do this where some i mean crazy looking guy you know totally out
01:19:55.120 there start locking in with my dad and before it's over guys down on his knees balling his head off
01:20:01.800 getting right with god uh there's been stories of men who were who had murdered multiple people and
01:20:07.400 gotten away with it and on a street ministry like that went and turned themselves into the police and
01:20:12.220 spent the rest of their life in prison that's my dad that's where he went did he get pretty rich
01:20:17.480 doing it oh yeah he's loaded yeah there's a lot of money in street preaching
01:20:21.060 you know you know ask him because he is a extremely charismatic very i mean his communication is just
01:20:28.800 i hope you get to hear him someday it is unbelievable he could have probably pastored the biggest churches
01:20:34.000 in america and been a very wealthy man doing it you ask him why didn't you do that he said because the
01:20:39.620 people that need to hear what i have to say are never going to walk into one of those church buildings
01:20:43.900 they're a lot behind bars they're out on the street at mardi gras they're wherever they are they're
01:20:48.860 never going to run into it unless i go to where they are so he has always gone to where the humility
01:20:53.460 required to preach at mardi gras on the street through a speaker is awe-inspiring and bravery
01:20:59.780 and conviction that's a scary moment but you're lowering yourself when you do that you're on the
01:21:06.020 street in the french quarter and i bet people did you're holding up a candle in a hurricane
01:21:09.720 yeah no one's impressed i mean most people are not impressed they think you're a fool you're crazy
01:21:15.080 sure you know there's kind of very limited affirmation from people no it's like you know
01:21:20.940 it's really cool you did that they're like shut up weirdo get out of here except when you've when
01:21:24.960 you've done that to hundreds of thousands of people the success rate may be one percent that's
01:21:31.240 still thousands of people it's just an amazing thing to do what did you think of that when you
01:21:36.040 were a kid oh i mean it's probably no doubt it's why i am like i am in a lot of ways that when you
01:21:44.700 grow up watching a dad who has that level of conviction and it's not that not that there's
01:21:49.700 no fear involved or like oh wow this is going to be no you're still going to feel that but but you
01:21:54.720 go do it anyway i mean trust me the conversation we just had about all this stuff i've been thinking
01:21:59.920 about it for weeks before i came here going there's a lot of people are not going to like
01:22:03.740 what i'm about to say what i'm about to read to them and push back against what they've been taught
01:22:08.500 their entire lives they're not going to like that but when a song like revelation comes along
01:22:13.360 when that's pounded into you and and you're like what do you want me to do with it and he goes all
01:22:17.180 the way this interview is part of going all the way with that you just go do it
01:22:21.680 were you proud of your dad when you were a kid oh my hero
01:22:27.520 100 i mean what kind of what kind of person can do that i mean
01:22:37.360 we see preachers on tv with 20 000 people in the audience and buy my book
01:22:42.720 buy my book put your money in the offering plate i'm going to get on my g6 and go fly over here on
01:22:48.880 a mission trip right and they give these lukewarm messages that keep all the all the christians just
01:22:54.840 feeling nice and comfortable all the time and they never go into the stuff that we're actually
01:22:58.700 talking about which by the way tucker is what is going to happen in this country and in this world
01:23:03.040 at some point and like i said early on everything that needs to be in place for these things to
01:23:07.760 happen exists now for preachers not to be preaching the truth about what's going on right now is such
01:23:13.420 a disservice to their congregations it's it's criminal truly and you and you feel it too oh you can
01:23:20.020 feel it all day long the stakes are so high right now it's like i said back in 1830 if you want to tell
01:23:24.720 people nothing bad's going to happen before you're raptured out of here okay well the rapture wasn't
01:23:29.100 possible at that point because a lot of the a lot of the prophecies hadn't come true everything we
01:23:33.960 just talked about in matthew 24 and second thessalians 2 but but now i would argue we're on
01:23:39.600 the doorstep of it seems pretty obvious that we are it feels like it is and and i think that's that's
01:23:45.620 why you see things like spiritual warfare trending on x really i mean and it's also why you see the
01:23:55.180 other side coming with everything they got it's why you see these songs about lucifer antichrist evil
01:23:59.660 and all this other horrible stuff being pushed out there they're throwing everything they got at it
01:24:03.900 right now and uh we got to stand up and go well i'm not strong enough to push you back but my dad is
01:24:11.460 you don't want to my daddy can beat up your daddy that's that it's that old phrase my daddy can beat
01:24:18.060 up your daddy and that's the absolute truth how how should christians respond day to day
01:24:23.100 christians better get as close as they possibly can because i think we all feel big things coming
01:24:31.020 we don't know what they are how bad they'll be or exactly when but everybody feels it in the air
01:24:35.900 i'm sure you feel it in the air there's just this thing you wake up you can feel it and the only real
01:24:41.400 truth out there is on the pages of the book everybody's got one in their house there's one in
01:24:45.400 every hotel room there you can go online and look up anything you want to look up and read it anytime you
01:24:50.140 want to that the word of god has never been more accessible to humanity than it is at this exact
01:24:54.880 second so i suggest you don't take the preacher's word for it don't take my word for it or anybody
01:24:59.560 else's you sit down and you read it for yourself and then put it into action what i mean what's your
01:25:08.100 life like now i mean no you're not you're not here to talk about yourself but you just had better
01:25:12.840 than it's ever been well i can tell but you've had this kind of amazing journey your whole life in
01:25:19.620 this business um but it's i'm at some level it's a very very secular business obviously of course i was
01:25:26.860 part of it oh yeah so like what do people you've known for all these years in the entertainment
01:25:32.520 business think of you now um a lot of them i don't talk to a lot anymore but the ones i still do
01:25:38.840 are 10 times stronger than they've ever been because they know what the truth is too you know
01:25:43.880 i was the definition of what you'd call prodigal son growing up with a dad like that and then at 18
01:25:49.040 19 years old i take off instead of going to college i go out start playing honky tonks all over the
01:25:53.180 united states can you imagine what my dad must have felt like that his underage son is playing in bars
01:25:58.060 all across the united states and then you come with you know these rocking hard party songs and all this
01:26:03.340 stuff and the songs are one thing but the lifestyle is something totally different when you go out and
01:26:07.600 actually live like the songs you're singing and doing those things i can only imagine how bad that
01:26:12.440 must have tore him up for a long time and at some point i remember um is that i got i got saved when
01:26:19.780 i was a kid with my dad but at one point in my life i had the feeling that i had i had i had bank
01:26:27.420 push back against what he wanted me to do for so long that he he stood up and walked out of the room
01:26:31.520 meaning god walked out of the room left me sitting there like abandoned is what the feeling felt
01:26:37.980 like and that was the most desolate feeling i've ever had and if you go reading psalms king david
01:26:43.460 talked about that a lot because king david had a king david had a uh a woman's husband killed uriah
01:26:49.700 had him killed and then took her and married her i mean that's pretty bad yeah it's about as bad as it
01:26:56.980 and then he got punished like you can't believe horrible things happened to david after that
01:27:01.120 including god left him sitting there all by himself for a long time and i think that's that's the way
01:27:06.100 he gets our attention is you you push back long enough he will get your attention if you're lucky
01:27:12.120 he'll let you survive it and we we just saw somebody survive something and i think our country's
01:27:18.000 going to survive it but i think it's going to be quite a thing when it happens soon feels like it
01:27:26.980 john rich thank you thank you for letting me talk about this bro appreciate it i loved it keep up
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