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What is the mindset that you have to have in order to really go through the unpredictability of the future? Let's go back to where we were. Look at the unique relationship we've had and Flashpoint has had as a prophetic news organization, which is what it really is. It's a prophetic news. It gives a perspective that is biblically synthesized on current events. And a lot of our people are preachers and I don't expect them to be knowledgeable about global economics and stuff like that. So. But Gene has a great way of bringing in subject matter experts and kind of like shock, you know, surprising you with people that bring a unique perspective. And that's, that's something which is very unique about this platform. But one of the things that I've observed is, look, we had to go through the rise of Trump, which was unusual, but we had it. We understood that he was a unique historical figure. All the squeaky clean evangelicals were running and we had one heathen from Queens who really had a troubled past with Stormy Daniels and all kinds of philistine babes that Samson had in his personal history. But he was good at clubbing philistines. And so God said, I need someone to do something. Now, I have a theory on this that I don't, that I would only do on like Gene's platform because it's too controversial to do on my own. So I'll just put it here. My theory is that God was making a prophetic statement in Trump that if the church won't do it in a clean way, he'll do it in a messy way. So you see, the church is always the critic on Trump. Well, if he's saved, how come he cusses so much? You know, they say the stupidest stuff. So in other words, they don't show up for the fight, but they critique how the gladiator does it. So I think God threw Trump in there and said, here, this is for the religious spirit in America that's looking for. Its the kind of leader that doesn't embarrass them. And God says, well, you need some embarrassing because you're doing an embarrassing job. So the church has a challenge. It has to engage the cultural battle more intentionally. That doesn't Mean you go out and become like, you know, a card, you know, poster carrying activist. But it does mean that you recognize that the gates of influence in your city, like Des Moines, Iowa or wherever you are, Boise, Idaho, Des Moines, Iowa, you know, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, California, various, whatever state you're in, you have your own specific territory you've got to guard, you got to take hold of. Does that make sense? So that's the reason why I always go back to this, because it's a simple metaphor, it's a simple word picture and it goes like that. So what this says is no matter what city you're in, the church here can't live in isolation from the gates of influence because Hell plans on occupying the gates. He who controls the gates controls the territory. So the church has to be committed to raising up leaders that go out into all the world. Now I'll do it this way for you real fast. This is the quick reminder in the religion realm. It used to be, I used to call it the church mountain. But now with Islam we have to make it the religion mountain. Because if the church doesn't dominate religion in America, you're going to have false religions reshaping the conversation. So let's recapture the religion mountain over here. Then it comes to family. What are these things I'm doing? Education. When Satan wants to take over a country, he literally utilizes. Even with despots, media, arts and entertainment. I'm going to put, now I'm putting science and technology here because with AI we have a whole new beast emerging. And then we have business over here. These are the seven domains that will shape a culture. Whoever controls the high places there will control the flag of that country. So it's like a game, capture the flag. Your job is to preserve your country and your religious liberty. What we have now is for a Christian understanding. I will build my ecclesia. Ecclesia. And the gates of hell will not overcome it. So my burden in 20 years has been to make this clearer to Christians so it's not fuzzy. So the, the gates of hell, start calling them the gates of influence. Because the way that hell controls people is through the mind. Satan wants to be a deceiver. He has to work with the apparatus of this. He doesn't have the power of God to go into the spirit of man. So he goes for the, he goes for the head. He wants to control. Therefore you'll see media and arts. He will have a gate where he's going to have lies and propaganda controlling that gate in terms of education, you're going to have the propagandizing of youth. That's why the introduction of the queer theory and the rainbow flag and the transgender ideology into the school system is Satan's way of getting right to the root of the environment into which your children are. So it's normative to be perverse, creating a Sodom culture in the classroom based on religious liberty. Or you could say diversity is their form of religion. But the point is education gateways. This is going to be the school systems, the curriculums, the administrations, the boards. I want you to start thinking about who. Where the gates of hell are located. Where are they located? They're located at the top of these institutional mountains. That's why the battle is always at the gates. But we make this some abstract spiritual thing. It's. It's not. The gates of a city are the place where leaders congregate to make decisions that affect the city. At the top of every one of these vertical hierarchies are leaders, influencers, people with prestige, power, money or wealth. Whether it's acquired wealth or acquired power, like the Soros, money buys access however they get there. The goal is to get to the top of the institutional mountain where you can control the ideology, you could control what's authorized, you can control what's allowed to happen in the mountain. I know this is a. It's a conceptual realm we're in right now, but I want you to see that in education, you're going to have. In the Ivy League world, you've got your Harvard and Princeton and Yale disproportionately influencing because the graduates that come out of those gateway universities populate the tops of all these mountains. So they have. They go into there. The New York Times, as much as I know the New York Times is the New York slimes. And we joke about it and never tell us the truth. Why do we quote it? Why are we stuck having to quote. You see, what Bill Maher said, I don't even want to quote. Bill Maher is not a Christian, but I keep quoting him because he has the influence, you see. So in each of these mountains, there's a thing called gates at the top, and there are gatekeepers. What does God say to the Christian? This is. So this is why I get accused of being a Christian nationalist dominionist. I'm not. I'm just saying why for you that are in business, what makes you think that being a Christian, having the Holy Ghost walking with God, who blessed Abraham, Isaac and Jacob supernaturally and gave Solomon supernatural, why would you Having the Spirit, spirit of God and the blessing of God be a disadvantage to you in business, it can only be an advantage. So therefore, when the Old Testament, which is an inferior covenant, and I'm part Jewish, so I'm telling you the Old covenant is inferior according to the teaching of the Bible, it is an inferior covenant with inferior promises, which means there are better promises for a better covenant for you Gentiles in the New Testament. Well, what the. What were they told in the Old Testament? Think about this. You shall be the head and not the tail. And to make it even more clear, you will be above and not beneath. These are metaphors that talk about positioning within the hierarchy. You're supposed to be at the top of the mountain, not at the bottom. So what the devil did was he released a brand of theology which was. Which sounded spiritual, called pietism. I came under it, which I left Wall Street, I left business. I left it. I mean, I was a Jesus move and kid, it made sense to me. Forsake the world system like the, like the Jesus movement, like hippies, get rid of the world. We're going to just radically follow the Galilean prophet, Jesus of Nazareth. Well, it made sense until one day I kind of had my eyes open to realize that God took me out to get Babylon out of me and then sent me back in to go raid corporations and businesses to bring people to Jesus and influence culture. Then I started looking. I'm going, well, pietism says separation from the world is holiness. And we all fight this subconsciously. If you haven't worked it out yet, how far in the world should you go? How far into Hollywood? Well, I don't go for that filthy lucre. If you're called to make millions and billions of dollars, what you do is you figure out how much you need to prosper and be a success and have the house and lifestyle you believe God blessed you to have. Then everything above that you channel into the kingdom. When you stand before him, you're not going to get points because you could have made millions but chose not to because you didn't want to be involved with filthy money. Your gift was making money and you didn't give God your gift. Make sense. So to be the head and not the tail from my world is to say the church mountain over here unfortunately got prophylactically isolated from cultures so it couldn't impregnate the world with our ideas. So we isolated ourselves with. What kind of spirit does that? A religious spirit. A religious spirit gives you the four up, lets you go to whatever level of revelation you're at and stops you at that level and then isolates you at that level. The purpose is hold it right there. Doesn't, doesn't talk you out of being a Baptist. Don't talk about being a fundamentals. Just says don't hang out with them laying out of hands, prophetic tongue talking people. It stops you and it says then pull back so that you don't get contaminated or defiled come out of her my people. And so you kind of live like Christian Amish people. So, so, so that, and then, and then we do this with education. So what happens with education instead of going in and take Harvard was started by Christians, Yale was started by Christians. You understand? Princeton was the first president was Jonathan Edwards the revivalist. The Great Awakening. Who's the second president? My point is we give up the ground because the devil knows that's part boardwalk and Park Place and he grabs it and then we go and start our Christian Bible college over here. You know, I couldn't, I don't want to get myself in more trouble here. But I could tell you the top two Christian Bible colleges and campuses in the charismatic community, top three would not have me on their campus. And they kind of apologetically was explained, you know, you're a little too political now what am I actually doing? I'm training their kids to go where the gates of influence are being occupied by their enemies. Because what you don't occupy that you're authorized to occupy will be occupied against you as a father. You neglect your responsibility as a father with your children. Don't be surprised if the devil sends somebody else that disciples your children. So what you fail to occupy that you're authorized to occupy will be territory Satan will use against you. So go into all the world and preach the gospel. I thought that was going down to Mozambique with Heidi Baker and making sure. So I was looking for the most outright outposts where the gospel never went. So I realized there's in some of these places there's more gospel preached because Americans and Europeans are going all over the world planting churches. Next thing you know, you got. I went to the Caribbean once. I remember going down, getting in these islands and everywhere I went there was a tent with another preacher. And I thought, well, how come these Caribbean countries are so loaded with drug trafficking, sex slave trade and all the corrupt crime and corruption, but they got preachers, they got churches everywhere. Then it was like the Lord said to me, because you're only occupying one mountain, dummy. You're just going for the religion mountain. You're not going into the government. Does that make sense? So I hate to keep going back like, I got nothing else to talk about, but I have to keep coming back. This, because this is the blueprint that scares the devil. It's the reason why if you go to Wikipedia, it has nothing nice to say about me because the devil knows who I am. So you're the head and not the tail above and not beneath. In religion, the churches like this and churches that are of the same spirit, that associate with this, actually are doing something which is very powerful. They're apostolic churches in the heart of the city. And this is the model here. Do you understand it? This here is what I teach. But from a local church perspective, you get together with other apostolic pastors and you combine yourself together. Now, you look at the gates of government in your city, you look at the gates of media, you look at the gates of who's on the campuses in your city. What, the gates surround the church. But the church is supposed to go into all the world. So we should be going into the systems. Otherwise, where you're going off to some. Like I said, you can go to Africa. Africa is more Christianized than the United States right now. God's sending Nigerians to Europe and America to go preach to us and Australians. Yes, It's the truth. It's exactly true. What I want you to catch is this. God calls you to be the head and not the tail, above and not beneath. Well, I wish somebody had taught me this when I was younger. I mean, I would have maybe done some things different. Age doesn't restrict you from being supernatural. Caleb took his mountain in his 80s under an old covenant that was inferior to yours. He did more. Donald Trump has redefined what you do after 65. So to be the head and not the tail above and not beneath means that we need to have new gatekeepers at these gates of the city. Now, if you're. If you're in business, it's powerful, and then make all the money you can, but then utilize that money to give you leverage to get in people. You always have an open door when you got money. It's always amazing to me, the people I can't get to answer my call are answering calls for all the big donors they've got. So I just show up with a donor when I want to meet somebody who's supporting that person. Good. Tell them I want to meet with them. That's how I get a hold of people. What I'm saying to you is you ought to be praying. You ought to know who the gatekeepers are in your territory. You ought to know who I know. Listen, where is your passion? Where is your burden? Where do you have the most frustration? What, what arouses you the most? That's the part of the city gate that you're called to occupy first as an intercessor. And I'll warn you, as you pray into the spirit realm over any of these mountains, don't be surprised if you don't have divine appointments that invites you into some assignment within those mountains. Because I don't care if you're, if you're just doing a program in the high school for kids that are depressed or suicidal, God will open the door for you to start to transform the school system. It's just the nature of the beast. When you start moving with the Holy Ghost through an open door you prayed into because you're concerned, concerned about what's happening in that area, you end up becoming an invading force. And you go, well, I'm not qualified. Well, guess what? The Lord's particularly attracted to humble people that know they can't take credit. Age isn't a factor because he knows you're too old and you know you're too old. That makes you perfectly pliable to his anointing. It's the young people that are running away. He has to constantly reel them back in because they're moving in the and zeal without wisdom. You're going to have the wisdom to do it because you're dependent on God to get it done. So age is not a factor. Notice I'm drawing these, these dotted lines here. This is if you want to see the sequence for where the church's blueprint is. And I repeat this stuff all the time and I hate to do it, but you know what? The prophets like Lou Engel, I'm with intercessor Sidney Jacobs, the praying prophets all prophesied and I believe they set up the Cyrus Trump era. So what happens is you pray, pray, pray, pray during Obama, oh my God. With Biden. And you pray and it stores up enough where God actually starts to rain down and he comes down and there was a movement that took place where this government mountain began to be taken over by Christian influence. Democrats know that 50% of the Maga base are Christians. That's why you're not going to be able to hide. They're going to come after you to shut you down. They'll replace you with a woke counterfeit if they can, but they will come after you because they know, 50% of the power of Trump and his cabinet is 70% Christian. And in a matter of months, by November, 30% of the Christians that vote for a presidential election do not vote in midterms. We need to be mid terminators. Mid terminators. We have to terminate the devil's assignment that wants to impeach this man and make him play defense for the next two years because you may only have a couple of months before they start coming after us. So just to just so we're not too, too hyper fixated on like, well, it's not a presidential election. We have to be smart, harder than that. 30% of Christians don't vote. You understand that? I'm talking about the ones that do vote for presidential don't vote during midterms. Bad enough that half the church isn't registered to vote because they're under this religious spirit of pietism that teaches the end times is inevitable and therefore you're fighting against the Bible says going to get worse and worse, but you're going to get raptured out. Whippy, I can almost promise you that theory won't work. So what I'm looking at here is this thing here is the church. You know what the church is? The house of God. The house of God is when Cyrus was prayed into God gave political cover so that what could happen, the Jews could go back and rebuild the house of God. This is the story. Chuck Missler put it so clearly. I want to make sure I'm burn it into your brain that when Israel was restored as a Nation in 1948, there are three prophets and three history books of the Bible that become the code breaker for what happens next. The three prophets you're going to deal with is Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. Why? Because they're the prophets that revealed what happened after Israel came back into the land. The three books that reveal what's going to happen are going to be Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. Why? Because they're the three books that deal with what happens in history when Israel gets back in their land. So I look at this and I go, aha. Who was it that sent the Jews to go rebuild your house? Cyrus And I prophesied Cyrus Trump. I saw him. Isaiah 45. Thus says the Lord to Cyrus, whom I've anointed when I was trying to make an argument to evangelicals. Look for the best Christian to be president. Look for the one God anointed. Well, God doesn't anoint heathen. Well, thus says the Lord, to Cyrus, whom I've anointed, though you do not know me, argue with God. It's like, well, I don't. The prophets and the prayer people prayed in an answer to their prayer that they were like quizzical about when it showed up.