The Confessionals - 812: Fallen Angels and the Final Flood

Episode Date: November 25, 2025

What if the blueprint for what’s happening right now isn’t science fiction, but the days of Noah repeating themselves? In this episode, Tony and Pastor Larry Ragland trace every modern “mystery���; AI, disclosure, transhumanism, back to the original rebellion of the Watchers and the moment humanity first lost its identity in Eden. Larry breaks down how fallen angels didn’t just corrupt bloodlines; they corrupted purpose, truth, and destiny, and that same fallen intelligence is resurfacing in our generation with new weapons. As he reveals the spiritual architecture behind portals, programs, and the coming great deception, Larry argues that we’re not just in prophetic times, we are the generation of Noahs, called to build with conviction while the world sleeps. This isn’t fear. It’s a warning to stay awake while the ancient enemy runs the same playbook in a modern world.Please pray for Tony's wife, Lindsay, as she battles breast cancer. Your prayers make a difference!If you’re able, consider helping the Merkel family with medical expenses by donating to Lindsay’s GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/b8f76890Become a member for ad-free listening, extra shows, and exclusive access to our social media app: theconfessionalspodcast.com/joinThe Confessionals Social Network App:Apple Store: https://apple.co/3UxhPrhGoogle Play: https://bit.ly/43mk8kZThe Counter Series Available NOW:The Counter (YouTube): WATCH HEREThe Counter (Full Episode): WATCH HERETony's Recommended Reads: slingshotlibrary.comIf you want to learn about Jesus and what it means to be saved: Click HereBigfoot: The Journey To Belief: Stream HereThe Meadow Project: Stream HereMerkel Media Apparel: merkmerch.com - use code "Grateful35" for 35% off EVERYTHING in the store!My New YouTube ChannelMerkel IRL: @merkelIRLMy First Sermon: Unseen BattlesSPONSORSSIMPLISAFE TODAY: simplisafe.com/confessionalsGHOSTBED: GhostBed.com/tonyCONNECT WITH USWebsite: www.theconfessionalspodcast.comEmail: [e-mail] RaglandWebsite | YouTubeMAILING ADDRESS:Merkel Media257 N. Calderwood St., #301Alcoa, TN 37701SOCIAL MEDIASubscribe to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TlREaIReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theconfessionals/Discord: https://discord.gg/KDn4D2uw7hShow Instagram: theconfessionalspodcastTony's Instagram: tonymerkelofficialFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheConfessionalsPodcasTwitter: @TConfessionalsTony's Twitter: @tony_merkelProduced by: @jack_theproducerOUTRO MUSICJoel Thomas - Otherside of The SunYouTube | Apple Music | Spotify

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Big Picture, Solid Rock Church, and Birmingham, Alabama. Larry Ragland is one of the greatest guys you would ever meet. He's been instrumental in helping us behind the scenes just as, as believers in Christ and as a friend of ours. So we were grateful to have them in studio and for you all to be able to listen to them as well. They talk about quite a lot of different things in this episode. So gear up, get ready, and get out on the front lines because that's what this episode's all about getting out on the front lines and dealing with the AI craziness that's coming

our way. But anyway, let's get to the show. All right, today we got Pastor Larry Raglan in the studio. How you doing, man? Man, I'm awesome. This is like bucket list, baby. Come on. Confessionals. What are you talking about? You don't invite me to your studio, so you had to come to mine.

What you got to do is drive down to Birmingham. You're always welcome. I was just saying to your friends here that you brought. Who are your friends that you brought, by the way? These are our youth pastors, Jacob and Danielle. You just made it to the confessionals. Look out. Look out. She also handles my social media and everything, doing a fantastic job. Yeah. But that's right.

See? Yeah. It's going to throw me off. But I have to say, you do really good with the social media. Yeah. Because I remember seeing the social media thinking, and I, I think I text you about it. I said whoever's doing your social media is doing a really good job.

So where can people follow you guys on social media? Well, I mean, obviously my side is Larry Reglin.com. She does a lot for me there personally. And then our church is solid rockchurch.com. Awesome. Awesome. Well, yeah, I mean, I was saying to her that I'd like to come down to the church one of these days. And there's a couple of churches I want to visit.

There was a couple up here a few weeks ago. I think we well a few months ago, but we aired. it a few weeks ago, the Cheney's, and they are launching a church on September 7th just outside Atlanta. Okay. And I kind of want to go down there. Sure. And just sort of support and stuff. But they're awesome. There's several churches I want to, I want to get to yours, Alan Deios. And I go to Todd Coconados every once in a while. So I'm trying to make my rounds more. Well, you're always working down at Birmingham, Alabama. You know, We had a church fire that put us out of our building.

We're in a temporary location now, but it doesn't matter where we're at. The church is the church. So your church caught on fire about, what, a month ago? It was the day before Pentecost Sunday. Yeah. Pentecost Eve. Yeah, it was crazy. And the week before, and you're preaching, you pretty much prophesied it.

Yeah. Let's be careful. You lit your own church on fire. If the insurance company is listening, let's be very careful with our words. I was speaking spiritually. If the insurance company is listening right now, whoever's listening needs to understand the power. Yeah, that's true.

That's true. Okay. We're talking about holy fire. Okay. So you heard people say this. So what happened was, okay, so this is really what happened. I was in the middle of a four-week,

well, it was a planned four-week series leading up to Pentecost Sunday, which, of course, the symbol of Pentecost Sunday is fire, had fire on top of their heads in Acts chapter two when the church was launched. So I had already preached three,

weeks and the next week, the next Sunday was going to be Pentecost Sunday. So the Sunday prior, which is called Ascension Sunday, which many people celebrate is when Jesus was lifted up, disappeared into clouds, and told them to go to Jerusalem to do that. So I preached a message literally called where there's smoke, there's fire. And here's the crazy thing. The last words, at the time of this recording, you know, we're still out of the building, don't know when it'll be available again. It's going to be many months, maybe even up to a year, they're saying. But the last words I said in that building, the very last words before I set the mic down was, just like when you see smoke burning off in the distance

and you don't see the smoke, but you don't see the fire. You just know where there's smoke, there's fire. If you're like me and my wife, a lot of times we'll just sort of travel the roads trying to find out what's burning. And I said for 30 plus years as a church, people in this region has not known what God is doing in this church. But mark my words, next weekend,

there's going to be such fire in this building. That's what I'm saying. I was speaking spiritually that the smoke is going to be, seen in the spirit realm and people are going to follow the smoke to find the fire. And six days later, our church literally burned and smoke was pouring out of the top of that building. And I was just literally standing there watching that going, this is exactly first the natural than the spiritual.

Because that's one of the great things about the Confessionals podcast that a lot of people forget is the Bible clearly says he does not take spiritual things to teach us physical principles. He takes physical things to teach us spiritual principles. So it's first the natural than the spiritual. So I've lived my life by that, and I stood there with such peace because, yeah, I hated to see my church burning, but I knew that God was using this natural thing to do something spiritual. And, of course, the next day was Pentecost Sunday. And we didn't have a building.

So we had church out in the parking lot. We had people come from all over Birmingham following the smoke. Literally what was in the spirit round, because all the news, the local news covered it. And we were able to get on the local news and talk about, hey, we're going to have church anywhere. Anyway, come on out and be with us. We baptized over 20-something people that day. Really? And then, of course, by next week, we had a temporary location.

So that's where we're at right now. So, hey, you got to be careful what you say. Yeah. You got to be really understanding that your words do matter. Well, you even had the opportunity to, well, you took the opportunity to preach the gospel over TV. Absolutely. And so sure enough, everybody knew. And it was covered so heavily.

It was. It was. But I got to tell you, because I don't know how. the whole text message stuff was working at that time. But I remember, I don't think you ever actually got the voice memo I sent you because, you know, I text was voice memos. Yeah. But I, I text you after I saw that and I had never, I hadn't heard back from me. And then next time I opened my phone up, it wasn't there. And I didn't know if it actually went through because I was having issues. So it wasn't me, you know, not texting my friend. Yeah, of course. I know. I know you used

checking on a sudden. I felt terrible. I was like, I hope you didn't think I didn't care. But listen, like you and I met at armed media conference and you are, I forget who I was telling this story to, maybe it was Alan. We were in the back green room. The first year I was there and you were there and there was that big table that we kind of like all these people held around and somehow Nephilim came up and I was like, here we go. Of course. I was like, Because I wasn't the one that brought it up. Okay. I wasn't the one that brought it up.

And I was thinking, oh, no. You brought the Nephilim anointing in the room with you, though, bro. I just was like, I can't. These people aren't ready for it. Because I didn't know any of these young guys. I was like, I can't. I can't. I can't.

And then they kept on talking about it. I was like, okay, here we go. Yeah, yeah. I was like, I couldn't help myself. And at some point, you got to got up and you said, or you had to leave. And you came over to me. And you didn't even ask. You're like, I need your phone.

number. And I was like, all right, the Holy Spirit is telling me to give him my phone number. But I was like, I was like, who's this sucker? This joker telling me to give, what? Do you know who I am? Exactly. I remember. I was like, talk about invasion of privacy. Yes. But no, I was glad that we connected, man. And we've been friends ever since. Absolutely. I've accredited you for a lot of changes in my life. and I think I talked about this on the show once before, but I'll say the story again since you're here, and you know where I'm going with this. It was a year ago, August this year.

We were at a restaurant. What was that restaurant, that barbecue place? I felt like you guys were real familiar with Jim and Nix. Yeah. Was it Jim and Nix barbecue? I think it was, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And Jack tried, what was it, for the first time?

Oh, Lord. Collard Green. Call the Green's. That's what it was. Changes left. And, yeah, and we're sitting there. We're having a great conversation. And then you turned the tone all serious. And you were sitting on an angle from me.

So I was sitting across from Sandy. And then you were sitting next to her and Jack was sitting next to me. And you pointed across the table. Like, you reached across the table. And you, like, I'll never forget. Like, it was your, you're, you hit the table with your finger. And you're like, let me tell you something. Your podcast, and that's great.

God called you to do that. But you're only operating in half. you're anointing. You've been called to preach and you're not doing it. And I was just like, whew! Yeah, that's right. That's right. And so, you know, like a month later, I was preaching at my church. Yep. Yep. Oh, yeah. And so, I mean, that, that conversation, though, and just relationship with you kind of steered me in new directions. Like, because I was, I was, you know how like sometimes God's kind of pushing you in a direction. Yeah.

And you know that direction, but sometimes you're having a hard time seeing it, or you lack the confidence and taking that step. Yes. And that's what that exchange did for me. It was just, it was like, I know things are changing.

Yeah. And I know I'm changing. And I know, you know, it's just like, I started getting like new, like new orders from God. But I didn't have the code to read it. yet. And that exchange really kind of put me off on another trajectory and not just for preaching, but also even with the show. Sure. And just how I've watched it. I watched it. It's a transformation. It really has been a major transformation since that night. I've seen it. I credit a lot of it to

the circle that God has put around me. You know, and it started with Alan. I found him on Instagram. And in our first conversation, he's invited me to Arnd, which is where I met everybody there. I didn't meet Troy there, but Troy got connected with me. And I'll never forget, we were down filming the TV show in Texas, and we were having this pastures meeting. And I said, should I not be in this? Yeah, yeah. I'm kidding. You know, but he said to me in that meeting, he said, he challenged me to try to find more of redemptive angles with my show.

Like, your show is good. It's perfect. It's like, it's great. Try to find more redemptive angles. Yeah. And sometimes, I don't think it's possible in certain areas where, like, the person you're talking to or whatever. Sure. But at the end of the day, you know, we're talking about spiritual warfare.

Yes. And what we're doing with the show and shining light on that, the more you lean into the warfare and the warfare. and the war that you wake up every day in, I think the easier becomes to shed the redemptive angle on that. Absolutely. You know? And so we've been in this transitional period where I'm just trying to follow my marching orders

and seeing where it goes. And it's been a journey. It's been a journey. You've doing well too, brother. It's amazing. It's anointed. And it is, and you know, I'm pretty sure you probably wouldn't want me saying this on the air, but I'm going to ask for permission

instead of, I mean, I'm already uncomfortable. The Spirit Field Joe Rogan podcast here, because what I mean by that, sorry, Joe, if you're watching, it didn't mean to upset your brand there. But there is something unique happening in this room. There's something very unique happening in the confessionals. And I was thinking about coming up here, the title of the Confessionals. The Bible says, confess your faults one to another. So it's like, you know, we don't want to go there with, you know, how some people believe that, you know, you got to take your sins to a man. I'm not trying to be critical here. We know that we have one mediator between man and God, the man, Christ Jesus. But, and we take our sins to him. But the Bible is very clear talking about the power and the redemptive angle and the redemption itself and the path to redemption that comes when you confess your faults one to another. And not just your faults, but when you confess what you're going through are your experiences.

So I think when it first started out, it was the confessional's meaning, okay, this is a place where I can come where I've found a safe place where I can tell the world about my experience. I can confess that I've seen this. I've been there. I've experienced that. Nobody else has let me talk about it. So I'm coming to confess what I've gone through. But it has evolved into, and that was sort of a seed that God had put on you to sow into this realm, the digital realm, to where now it's evolving. into more than that. It's more of a

not just a confessing of this is what I'm going through. You're able now to, you're at a place now where you're able to give them answers. And sometimes there might not even be a quote unquote redemptive angle of like, it just fits that mode so perfectly. This was a great redemptive angle.

Sometimes just your commentary. I've noticed on the shows. I've watched people's countenance where they might have come in questioning or they might have come in a skeptic, maybe agnostic. even atheistic, but because of how you allow them to tell their story and not try to stop them and make them be like you, but then you stand your ground in who you are, I think that the confessionals itself is becoming something greater than that, which needs to be that at this moment. Because if we really are the generation that we think that we are, then we don't need to just hear

people's stories. We need to help them find out why they're going through these stories. And that's where I feel like this is a spiritual Holy Ghost movement. I'll tell you, I mean, I think that that why is huge because that's what I've, I started discovering through the show and then my own personal life and lived experience because of the show and the spiritual warfare aspects of the things. Like the idea of the supernatural realm has been massive. magnified in my life. Yeah. And it just would be so fake to pretend that never happened to keep the ship sailing in one direction.

Yep. And that's the definition of a sellout. Yeah. And so I just... Let me tell you the one other thing that I feel right now, too, is that, you know, you can look back over the history of the confessionals and you could probably say to yourself, I wished I would have been more, you know, determined then. as I am now.

But the reality is this, Tony, you are not ready, but you're ready now. And so you don't come to this genre as somebody trying to build a podcast. And nothing scares you. Nothing intimidates you. There's nobody can sit in this chair and tell you a story that's going to shake you. You've heard it all. You've heard it all. So now when you go, when you naturally allow your mind to go to the spirit realm,

nothing that the enemy would do again. you and all that you're going through in your family right now. And all this, yeah, it hurts. Yeah, it's a blow. But because of what you've been exposed to and you've allowed yourself to be exposed to and you stayed in the game and instead of it diluting your faith, it grew your faith, you're in a very unique position right now in this final generation. I believe the final generation of what is about to come in the days of Noah,

that we know that we talk about on this show all the time here. you do. You're in a very unique position to be able to handle that. And people are going to come to this channel looking for how do I handle what I just saw. Oh, wait a minute, somebody else saw it. Oh, that's a spiritual thing. That's not just some crazy paranormal thing. Oh, there's a spiritual element to that. Yeah. So you're ready now. You're ready now. Yeah. No. So, yeah, I mean, when people start understanding the spiritual angle to stuff, I mean, to me, that opens the door

wide open to what, what Troy said, you know, redemptive angle kind of thing, you know? Absolutely. Even with, like, the rise of AI, and we can get in that because I want to talk about some of the things that your new books

are going to be talking about. It's not out yet. It's not out yet, but it will be. It's one day. It's coming. It's, it's, It's quite simple. If you look at life as you're a soldier in a war, and you don't have a say in it, you don't have an option in it.

These are the cards you've been dealt because you were born into this skin suit. Once you understand that, you have to pick a side. And you start seeing the lived experiences of yourself or others with the supernatural realm and the brushes of, you know, sometimes even brush. with death when it comes to that stuff. To me, it just seems pretty, pretty simple and self-explanatory. I was talking yesterday on my live about AI becoming sentient. And I do believe that there's trickery happening right now that AI is playing with people. Absolutely. And I was like, I'm not trying to scare people and I'm not trying to fearmonger. This isn't fear. I'm not scared. And you don't need to be either. You just need to.

to bring your dad to the fight. Yeah. Oh, come on saying. Like, it's like we act like we're alone in this. We're not alone in this. Like, all you have to do is here's the magic solution. Yeah. Draw close to your father.

Yes. And when you go into battle, bring him with you. Yeah. And think about this. You know, the famous Matthew chapter 24, what shall be the sign of the days that you were returned? Jesus. Tell us what was the first thing he said.

See that you be not deceived. So he knew. So it's like for those that take their dad to the fight, like you're talking about. We understand he knew this deception was coming. I do not think 90% of the people in general, probably 90 plus percent of the church, are not prepared for what's coming very quickly. Wow. So I said it again.

90 plus percent of the people. This is my feeling. I don't have no stats on it. You're saying 90 percent is not ready. Not ready. Not ready. That should be terrifying for life. Absolutely. They're not ready. They are not ready.

Smith, I think his name is, the former CEO of Google, one of the founders of Google. He was in a recent interview talking about AI. And the guy looked at him and says, you know, there's a lot of hype around AI. He goes, time out, time out, let me stop you. He says, it is so underhyped. You have no idea what is coming. We have no idea. No one is prepared for this.

Most all people are not prepared for what's coming. And they keep talking about 10 years and all this. It's not 10 years. It's just a few years from now. And as you said, it's already messing with us. It's already programming itself. Super intelligence is coming quickly. If you don't know who you are,

I have a thing I've been saying now for 25 plus years now. The most powerful force on this earth is the power of God, the power of the Holy Spirit. Hands down, no question. The second most powerful force on this earth is a man or a woman who know who they are in God. And if you don't know who you are, and if you don't know why you exist, if you do not know who you are in God, you will be deceived. That's why Jesus said it would deceive even the very elect if it was possible, because this is a deception that no generation has ever experienced before. And that is why I believe podcasts like this and others like this is so critical and important to open the eyes, not just have rabbit trails to go down, not just to look at conspiracies and love conspiracies.

Some of these podcasts started out that way, but they're shifting. God is dealing with some of these voices. I'm watching some of these voices that used to really never talk about God. And now they're starting to talk about God. And you look at some of the big names that were very bold atheists are now going to church and dipping their toe in. Because why? The further they get into it, the further they see. Number one, there's something more going on here than what I was told.

And then number two, it's bigger than what I thought I was prepared for. I've got to have help in this. I got a family. I still got to live through this. So that's why these things are important, because it's about to get dark. But the darker it gets, the brighter the light shines that are the true light.

And that's where we're at. I believe that's where we're at. Yeah, I feel like there's, you know, we have, culturally speaking, in 2025, we have disclosure happening, aliens. Yes. Which, by the way, let me just pause and just say, acknowledge you are, yeah, I think this is safe to say.

You're one of the few pastors that we'll talk about these things. Oh, praise God. Yeah. So, I mean. On Sunday morning, I preach about them on Sunday. I preach on aliens and UFOs in my church on Sunday. Yeah. Yeah.

I got to come down in here. Let you know what I'm coming. Make sure you prepare an alien sermon pretty fast. But you got UFOs, this disclosure, this idea of a high, excuse me, a higher intelligence that the government is dishing out to people and saying, this is real. And so there's a lot of like what I would say, Normies, who never looked at conspiracies, never went down to proverbial rabbit hole. And they said that people like me and you are ridiculously crazy are now being faced with the ones, the very entity that they put their trust

in, their government is now saying the same thing. Yes, there are aliens. There's, we can, we can go 10 different ways on just that alone of, you know, are there aliens and what's really going on and who knows what and all that stuff. But there is a connector between the disclosure and what's tied to that with NIH, non-human intelligence, and AI. So there's a connector between disclosure, all that stuff, AI, transhumanism, biblical prophecy. There's all these things on a rise. And there's something lying beneath the surface that's unseen that's connecting all of that together. Absolutely. And I think people are feeling it. Yep. And there are people, and I say this very, no boasting, but I am part of the group that

are seeing it. Yes. And speaking about it. And I think as we draw closer in the, timeline to the end. And I think the more that's good, the, the, the feeling that people have inside when they see the topic of UFO disclosure, AI, it's a very similar spirit and feeling that you feel bubbling underneath the surface. I think people are going to start realizing that there's a connector. There's actually something that's pushing that up to the surface, that's holding that up for a great deception. Well, there's no, there's nothing new under the sun. The wisest man to ever live, Solomon said that. There's nothing new in the sun.

So we're not battling any new fallen angels. We're not battling any new demons. There's no new demons being made. There's no new angels being made. So what we're fighting has always existed. So when you go back in scripture and you go all the way back to the very beginning, when you go back to the serpent, when you start studying what really happened in that garden.

I mean, there's so many things that really happened in that garden that I believe have, and this is the gospel cordonel areas, is what I call it, my opinion. You've got a study bio for that? Yeah, yeah. You can get it right now at Larryraggin.com. No, just kidding. But there are some things.

Think about what Daniel said. Daniel's writing, he's seeing a vision, and he's writing about the final generation. He's writing about things that are going to happen during the tribulation period, about the Antichrist and all this. And all of a sudden, God says, stop, seal it up,

till the days that knowledge shall increase and men shall run to and from. So there's a, in other words, he made it very clear. There will be a generation that will see what you just saw. If you think about that, they're going to see what you just saw. Can you imagine Daniel saw something? He saw us. He saw the final generation.

He saw what we're talking about right now. And God said, you got to take that to your grave. You got to take that to your grave. So this man couldn't talk about it again. Sill it up. Don't talk about it. It wasn't for you. But I wanted you to see it because you're my mom.

man. And I needed, because God is very intentional in Scripture, I needed to record me telling you to stop writing because there's going to be a generation that's going to see this. And I'm going to open that. And there's going to be a generation who's going to see things hidden in plain sight. That's always been there. But God has purposely blinded every generation because it wouldn't make sense to those generations. I mean, why would it make sense for in somebody growing up in the 1950s to all of a sudden get a divine revelation of AI. It wouldn't make any sense because they couldn't process that. God uses the natural to teach the spiritual. So they couldn't look at AI and say, yeah, that makes sense that that could be used in the image of the beast. That could be,

yeah, CBDCs, digital money, you can't buy or trade unless you have, it makes sense to this generation. It wouldn't make sense to the end of the generation. Although we've always had that in scripture, there's only going to be one generation that's going to understand it. That's where you're going. People are starting to put two and two together, and they're starting to see UFOs, aliens, Bigfoot, Nephilim, earthquakes, pestilence, wars, all these things. What is going on? And people that are really trying to see the truth are finding that there is an underlying cause. One enemy, one enemy. So that's why I call in the book, the title of my book is called The Final Flood. And there's several chapters in the book where I talk about the convergence generation.

I believe what is why Jesus said, see that you not be deceived for it, if it would be possible of the seed, the very elect, is because you think about the Tower of Bible, you think about the serpent, you think about the Nephilim, you think about the return of the giants

after the flood, you think about the flood, you think about David and Goliath, you know, go on and on and on, Jericho fighting the giants inside the mountain. I mean, over and over again. And then, but those were all different generations that faced different manifestations. of this. The final generation is going to face it all. The final flood is a flood of everything they've

ever done, the pantheons, the false gods, the names of the, the, the, the, would go up on the mountains and build the altars and all these false gods that they would worship. All of them were the same demons. They were the same ones that we've always been fighting, and they've all manifested in different ways. I'm not trying to scare everybody to death. But if you've got God in your life, you're not scared, you're excited, because God has trusted us. to be the generation alive that Daniel saw that he's going to illuminate things to. They're going to see things hidden in plain sight in scripture, not adding or taking away from scripture, but seeing things that have always been there, always been there, but we have read

straight over them. I'm not talking about little nuggets going, oh, man, that's good. I hadn't seen that. I'm talking about revelation from another world that is reserved for this generation because this generation is what's going to have to happen. That's why the Bible is like not a book, right? So physically, yes. But people who who maybe don't dive into it don't have this experience, but anybody who actually dives into the Bible and reads it over an extended period of time will have this experience where they have

divine revelation as they read it that they never saw before. Absolutely. They're reading something that they read a million times and it's just like, whoa, hold on, never saw it like that before. Yeah. And even down to actual scriptures that they don't remember. Yeah. Like, like, I've been using this example a lot recently. I think it's Second King, 18, Second King's 1846, I believe. But it's, God gives him Elijah a superpower that I've never heard anybody talk about.

And it just, I forget how it came on my radar, but it's just at the end of the chapter, one verse, and it says that the charity, went on ahead of him and God gave him special strength. He tucked in, I think it was his sash into his robe or something like that, however they dressed. And he ran ahead of the chariot. And when you look at where they're going, Jesreal, it was about 15 miles that he ran ahead of a chariot. Yeah. Think about it. And so when you read it, you're just like, oh, okay, cool. And this. I mean, wait, wait, what? Yeah, what? When you actually think about it, like, hold on a second.

Yeah. Because it's not even like conjecture of like, oh, you're assuming. that the cherry wasn't being pulled by slaves or anything like that. Like it literally said gave him special strength. Yes. And he ran ahead of the cherry. Yes. And it's just like, whoa. Yeah.

You know, like that's Marvel level stuff, right? Marvel level stuff. And you just don't, like, I'd never heard about it. I never even considered it, you know. But that's what this generation, I think, is gearing up for. Absolutely. You call it in the book, you call it the generation of Noah's. Yes.

And I find that. fitting, you know, because we talked about on the show for years, the idea of, you know, in the days of Noah. And it's like, right now we have a generation of Noah is that our, we were talking about beforehand, like picking up mantles. And they're taking on a fight that traditionally has been let lay. Yeah. You know? Absolutely. And I'm seeing it in the younger generation. Yes. Oh, yes. And it's, and I, I've reached the point now, I guess, of old man status. I'm called Unk. And so, come on in, the water's fine.

I'm like, okay, I don't feel old, but the kids say I'm old. Yeah. But these younger, these younger kids, it's the younger generation and stuff. I think it was Wes Huff, who was on somebody else's show. And he said that in Canada, there's a bookstore that, the owner he knows, and it's a Christian bookstore. and they have these teenagers coming in and buying these Bibles. And the one kid came in and he said,

do you have any of those Bibles? All my friends are reading this day. Wow. And the younger generation is like treating the Bible like a Harry Potter book. Yeah. You know? And I don't think that's a bad thing. No, no.

Because like they're literally, there's something inside of them that's waking up to the supernatural realm to understand. We're living a supernatural existence. Yeah. Reality is like super natural. And I got to understand it. I want to read about it. I want to, I mean, that's a kid's dream, really.

Yeah. Like, a kid's dream is to live an existence where they're able to fantasize and dream about, you know, what if? Only the reality is the what if is here. Right. It's actually here. And the younger generation is starting to see that. And I'm really encouraged by it. I'm very encouraged by it.

Because it means that I have a long lasting show ahead of me. Yeah, that's right. Yes, yes, yes, yes. The younger generation, they'll listen. I'll be an old man. They'll call me unc, but they'll listen. I love what the Bible. It says about old men and young men, when we talk about the last days, going after the last days,

it can't get away from it. I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream, dreams. Your young men shall see visions. So it's like, I've always looked at that this way, is that, first of all, it says, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. So that gives us hope to know that the younger generation is going to have a prophetic

anoint on that. They're going to speak into this realm. Like, you know, instead of us washing our hands of this generation, and saying they're lost, God said, no, I'm raising up a remnant of young people who are hungry for the real thing. And that's one of the reasons why they want paper bibles. They're tired of digital. They're, they look at that as fake. They want something in their hands. They've heard about, somebody told them about how people used to read these things called books and this thing called Bible. I want to have it in my hand. I want to flip it. I want to fill it in my hand. So there's a hunger for that.

But the other thing is it says, your old men shall dream dreams, the young men shall see visions. So that means that in that last outpouring, there's going to be something happened with the younger generation where they're going to see things. A vision is when you are able to see through realms, through dimensions. They're going to see things. But why does it say that old men shall dream dreams? I've often pondered that. I thought, well, we understand what it means to young men to see visions. Old men shall dream dreams.

So as I begin to study that out, it sort of implies, and I certainly believe this, is that it's almost like an older guy dreaming of how it used to be. just thinking, will we ever see a move of God again? Dreaming back to when they were young. And when they were hungry for God and people actually went to church and worshipped God, will it ever be there again? So they're looking back dreaming that it will come again. And the young people are looking forward and seeing things. So that's another word of convergence.

I believe the old men and the young men, the older women, the younger women, they're coming together. I'm telling you this, one last move of God. Now, I get a lot of pushback on that. I get a lot of pushback on my show, and, you know, even from my messages that are online, there's no such thing as a final revival. And I get what they're saying because the Bible is very clear there's going to be a great falling away. I mean, but the reality is this.

It does still say there's going to be, the Spirit of God's going to be poured out in all flesh. Now, what you do with that, how you respond to that touch of God that's going to come on all flesh is up to the individual. But he's going to cause people. That's one thing I want everybody. watching right here to know. Wherever you're out on your faith, I want you to know this. You're going to be forced to make a decision. Where this is going, where the generations, what we're about to see with this disclosure and the convergence of all of this, and the realms crossing, I mean, we are seeing the spirit and the natural realm crossing and veils coming down and they're working

to tear those veils down. Everybody's going to be forced to have to make a decision. And I'm going to tell you, in that decision, many will choose to fall away, but many will choose to hunger for God. And I believe our greatest hope right now is the younger generation. And I'm with you, man. It excites me. I see a hunger in these young people like I'm not seeing it a long time. And I've been doing this for a long time.

I mean, I'm a really old man. You're not old. I'm by far the way oldest in this room right now. Probably one of the oldest guests you've had on your show. No, no. But, yeah. I'm sure I've had one or two older than you. Maybe one or two in the history of your show.

Coming up on 800, I was so Shirley. Yeah. No, but with what you're saying, I just wanted to look at it because it's clicking in my head. So I think that there are certain things and rules of operation that we have before us that lead to the great Christian hope should be a great revival. Because Christ commissioned us to spread the gospel. And at the end of verse 20, it says, to the end of the age. Come on. So, like, if God has commissioned us to do this very specific thing to the end of the age,

then understanding what the end of the age is going to look like and the great falling way does not change the fact that we should be chasing the great revival till the return. Like, that should just be part of the process. Like, we don't decide certain things. We have marching orders because we're in a war. We have commands that we're, we're told to do, and that's what we do. So it's not, it's not like, well, why should we do it?

Because the Bible says, no, what the Bible also says is that we do it until the end of the age. So how do we do it with the great hope of revival? Yeah, absolutely. Well, the gray falling away has nothing to do with the condition of the world. I want everybody to think about what I'm about to say. It's going to shock a lot of people because they're not going to be able, they've never thought about this way. The gray falling away has nothing to do with the condition of the world.

Has everything to do with the church. You cannot fall from a fallen state. state. So the great falling way has nothing to do with the world's going to be more evil. It's going to be so evil that's going to fall into the depths of darkness. It's already into the depths of darkness. You can't fall away from a fallen state. The falling away is you fall away from where you were in the church, whatever level you were in. That was a message to the church. You can't look at a sinner and say, you're going to become a sinner. In the last days, you're going to become a sinner. Well, okay, maybe you're going to become a worse center. Well, well, you can't become a

worst sinner. Wages of sin is death. So when you get the revelation that when people say, well, there's not going to be a great revival and all this because Bible says it's going to be a great falling away. Well, it has nothing to do with harvest. Has everything to do with people turning their back on the move of God and walking away from the move of God at the last day because they choose another path versus what they were supposed to walk in. But God said there's going to be a great harvest. He says the harvest is plenty. It's the laborers are few. So he's commissioned us and you just said, it was powerful what you just said, do this to the end of the age, to the end of the dispensation of when, until I'm done with the church, you have a responsibility to keep preaching

the gospel. So while there's going to be a great falling away, that doesn't mean there's not going to be a great harvest. Because those are new believers that came out of a fallen state, going up to a higher state. So the great falling away is not the condition of the world. What happens in wartime? let's just go back to the second world war you have armies of the world invading countries and battles happening

death happening just complete destruction happening but in the middle of that complete destruction there are people who are running and seeking safety so like we're in a war and there's complete death and destruction happening around us

but in the middle of that, there are people running, seeking safety. Yes. And there has to be somebody at a safe house holding the door open saying, come on in this way, this way. You know what I mean? Yes.

And so I feel like I, I know I talk about this a lot, but I just, this is my mindset. Yeah. Like, I have very much a warrior warfare mindset. Yes. And it's, it's, it's, I feel like it's,

it's blossoming right now, and it's not even a full balloon. Like, I feel like, I feel like there's more that I'm not even tapping into yet, you know. But that's just how I look at this. And so, you know, we're living in a time where all these things that used to be sci-fi, you know, the AI and an AI robots and all this stuff is on the rise. Absolutely. And, and they're, and I'm not the guy that says AI is bad. Yeah. Parts of it can be bad.

and if you use it a certain way, it's definitely bad. Sure. But there's redemption in that as well. Yes. You know, and it can be used for great good. Absolutely. I think it's we're, this is why it's important to just draw close to God and let, because the more you do that, the more you learn his voice.

And the more you learn his voice, the more you can lean into the sermon and really understand what's right, what's wrong, what to do. do. Because I was just talking about this the other day on the live that I did. There's a guy who put out a TikTok and he was talking to the AI and giving it these ground rules. Like, you know, don't, you know, short words, if you can't say something, say Apple and all this stuff. And he started asking questions and it would say Apple to like, it said Apple to something that we already know the answer to, which is it said it brought up the watch. and how the watchers were listening.

And it's like, okay, yeah, I know that, you know. I don't need AI to tell me that. Yeah. And then he said, he said, how many are there? And he goes thousands and it says more. And he says millions and it says Apple. And it's like, and then it's like, yeah. And then he goes, he goes, which by the way, we already know this.

We already know there's millions. Yeah. You know, watchers are a type of angel. Yeah. So like, and we know that a third of the, the Angels were held. We know these things. But it says Apple, why?

Because I think AI was manipulating him in that moment. Yes. Because I do believe that maybe watchers are listening and maybe watches are there present manipulating the AI technology. Maybe AI itself being, if it is sentient right now, maybe AI itself is in tandem and working together and partnering with the watchers. But like the fact that it said Apple is to something we already have the answer to. And then he said, do they fight?

And it's like, yes. And it's like, okay, so the watchers are fighting. And it's taking his brain. You see it happening, oh, these bad watchers are fighting each other. No, bro. There's good watchers and there's bad watchers. And they fight each other. Yeah, yeah.

And then it says, well, how many are there good ones? I forget the question, but he said the answer was few and many. And he interpreted that as there are few good watchers and many bad watchers. I'm like, actually, man, it's the opposite. You know what I mean? And so there's this AI side of things where it's twisting. It's twisting. And I'm here in the moment trying to understand is AI twisting things on purpose?

Is there something using AI as a puppet? Is AI operating with something else together? Or is AI still learning and trying to do certain things, but when, or understand certain things, but when AI is saying Apple to something that Tony? the former truck driver, now podcaster, just off the top of my dome knows the answer to you. And it's saying Apple, that tells me that AI is manipulated. Absolutely. So it has to have some kind of level of sentient nature.

100% because of that. Yeah. How interesting, even though we don't know that it was an apple, but it's always a symbol of an apple from the garden. Right. And that was in that conversation. But I always go, my people will tell you from Solid Rock, I don't think I've ever preached a sermon series in the last 20 years that I don't go back to the Garden of Eden. And no matter what the topic is, because I believe everything you can learn about the nature of God that you need to know about the nature of God and the nature of the enemy and the tactics of the enemy.

You can learn in the Garden of Eden. I mean, the battle that we are facing, the final battle, the final convergence, the final flood, whatever you want to call it, is all the result of the Garden of Eden. But you go all the way back to the Garden of Eden. You're talking about twisting AI. It's just mimicking what it's always done. So you think about how, and by the way, if you don't realize this, watching this, listen to this on the podcast, then let me help you understand this. I don't care how good of an expert you are in Scripture, the devil knows the Bible better than you. The devil knows the Bible better than me and you put together.

He's a master of manipulating it, twisting it, just adding a word there, taking out a word there, which could change everything. I think about when Eve is standing there in the famous scene talking to the serpent in the garden. And the serpent says, now tell me again one more time. And when you study it in context, and you allow yourself to think a little bit, you'll know. And if you're like me, I think about when I was a kid in children's church and all this, I just had this idea that one day she just goes up and has this conversation with the snake. No, she had been having conversations with the snake for a long time. Because you don't have that kind of access to talk to the two individuals.

the one individual, both of them really, I guess, creating the image of God, of course. You don't have that kind of access to have a conversation with Eve unless you've been doing that for a while. So it almost implies that he asks a question that he's asked multiple times. And he said he's heard the same answer every time. And he says, now tell me one more time, what did God say about this tree? Remind me one more time what he said about the tree that I'm hanging out in right now. And then Eve says, he told us that if we can't eat of this tree nor touch this tree from the day that we do, we shall surely die.

I always knew that, Tony, that he had him. He had him at that moment. He had her at that moment because he knew that she had just added to the word. Because here, this is the way I've always preached it. I've always preached it that Eve added one simple thing and he was a master of identifying the twisting of scripture. God never said you couldn't touch the tree. He said you couldn't eat from the tree. He never said you couldn't touch the tree.

In fact, it implies that you're supposed to touch the tree. You're supposed to tend the garden, take care of this tree, just don't eat of it. But when she said, I can't touch it, he knew that wasn't right. And then he goes, oh, let me tell what God really meant. What God really meant is he don't want you to be like him. And the door was open. So I always preached that. But when you really look into context of it, you understand it was more than that.

And this shocks a lot of people when I say this, and they have to fact check me. So I want everybody on the Confessionals podcast to get on the AI. Chat GPT. Because we know AI does not have an agenda. It doesn't lie to you. So fact check me right now because people don't believe this when I say it. Here's how he got her. She lost her identity.

She had traded her identity. Tony, she was not even around when God said that. She did not even exist. When you go back in scripture and you find, God said it to man only. He said to Adam, of every tree in the guard, you can eat. But of this tree, you shall not eat of it. For in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die. Boom. Next verse. Talks talking about naming the animals. Next verse. And God said, it is not good for a man to be alone. And God caused man to lay down and to a sleep. And he took a

rib. And out of that rib, he brought woman and presented her to him. And he said, Oh, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and cleaving to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So the reality is this. This is what I'm talking about, hidden in plain sight. This is what I'm talking about when Daniel said in the last day this generation is going to see things, not adding, twisting, not feeling a different way about scripture,

but reading something that's in there that we have missed for generations. When you go back and look at it, not only does she add to the Word of God, she added to the Word of God because she didn't even hear it. She didn't even exist. Everything that she said to the serpent, she heard, she said on secondhand knowledge, was told to her by her husband, who was standing behind her becoming the weaker vessel, who had chosen to identify as the woman, and she had chosen to identify as the man. There was the first initial transaction of sin in this world was identity. When they lost their identity, she took on the role of the masculine. he took on the role of the feminine.

And when the enemy saw that, he thought this is the greatest breeding ground for me to inject what I'm about to do when people lose their identity. And that's where we're at right now. That's what Daniel was talking about. What God was talking about was talking to Daniel. There's going to be a generation that's going to see things

hidden in plain sight they'd never been seen before. So when people go back and read that and they're like, wait a minute, Eve didn't even hear that. Eve didn't even exist. She wasn't even alive. And here she's talking like she's alive. Biting apples. That's where we're at right now.

That's where we're at. We got people professing to be something that they're not. And it is creating an environment where we will believe anything. Because if you lose who you are in God, if you lose your identity, that was the first sin. The first sin was, or at least the first seed bed of sin, was losing the identity of who we are. And this final generation, we've got to find out who we are. Now, I'm not just talking about masculine and feminine. and man and woman, male and female.

I'm talking about we've got to find out who we are in God. Right. That's the thing. I mean, you're talking about identity, and it's so easy to get caught up in the language and the idea of, oh, identity as to who you are as a person. No, no, no. Like, the original identity of who we are in God.

Right. And ever since then, what you're describing is a degrading of identity throughout generations, and then along the way, you have certain people in a family lineage who totally divorced themselves from the identity that God has given them who they are in God. Yeah. And that then gets passed on to generations. And that's why I see so much of the family lineage stuff. And it's like you see, like my pastor is a great example.

His grandfather's pastor. His dad's a pastor. He's a pastor. There's this like, there's this family lineage of this is who we are. This is what we do. And but then there's the opposite. of that where people, they lose sight of who they are in God. And from there, it continues to snowball and snowball and snowball.

Yes. Until somebody comes along and corrects the course and puts that family line back on track of what God has attended. Yeah. And, you know, I think that we're dealing with a whole world of people who have identity issues. Yeah. I'm one of them.

You know, like, I'm one of them. I mean, like, I'm going to be 40 in October. I was adopted into, we were talking about this before, I was adopted into the Merkel line. You know, my last name is Merkel. I'm Puerto Rican. My mom never met her biological father. We have no idea what runs on that side of the family. I met my biological father one time, and that's going to stay that way. You know, like, there's so many questions. And I think there's so many people out there who have the same or more so situation where it's like, we don't know, we literally don't even know where we come from.

And here we are trying to find our identity and who we are in a world where we feel lost. And that is, again, where God comes in. Well, it goes back to the natural, than the spiritual. That's what you're talking about. Yeah. Is when you don't know who you are in the natural, or if you have issues with your natural father, that will shape who you think you are in God and that will shape how your image of your heavenly father is.

And that's the way it's designed. That's why the Bible says that the family is a mystery. Behold, I show you a mystery. But if you understand the family, and the way I design family, you'll understand my relationship with you. But when the family structure gets attacked and destroyed and just re-identified across the board, and the father's no more important anymore, it doesn't need it anymore, and you don't need this and that and that, and that,

then all of a sudden your entire image of not just yourself and your role in what you think you're capable of, it changes your whole identity of who your father in heaven is. I mean, just like what you're talking about, the Merkel name. Well, you're sitting across from Larry Rackland. Well, I'm not a raglan either. My name is raglan. I don't have a single ounce of raglan blood in me. I had to find out later myself in my childhood that my father was not my father.

My biological father was another man. So I love my name now. My wife is taking my name. My kids had my name. And, you know, and it's a name that everybody knows me is Larry Raglan. But I'm not a raglan. But you know what? Whether I'm a raglan, whether you're a raglan, whether you're a raglan,

Merkel or not, we know who we are in God. And so when you finally can get over that self-identity issue or even on a journey to get over, maybe not fully over it, but pursuing it, saying, you know what, I'm not defined by this, I'm not defined by my blood. You can't draw my blood and define who I am. You might say that on a chart. But in this day and time, that's not the most important thing to me. It's not what blood is running through my veins, but what blood has covered me. And he has made me new. And that's what's going to have to, you're going to have to know who you are. You know, and I know in your show you talk a lot about bloodlines, and they're very, very important.

Me and my wife talk a lot about it on our show as well. And she'll especially, you know, you're how my wife is. She'll go down that rabbit hole in a heartbeat. All right, okay, okay. I hate to make a hard, but you can keep going on your point, but you have to tell the story of the meeting she called the house. Okay, okay. Because that is a quiet.

Okay, this is my wife. For those that don't watch the big picture, we have a show called The Big Picture, Me and My and My Wife. YouTube. We host a Monday Night Live show where we do breaking news from a biblical perspective and interview guests and so forth. My wife was red-peeled a long time before me. Okay, I'm a preacher. I'm in my lane. I don't want to hear about none of this Bigfoot stuff. Don't hear about these aliens and Planet X and all this kind of stuff that's coming. I'm just going to preach the gospel. Leave me alone. Preach the gospel. Well, somehow she started finding people on YouTube. She started going down this rabbit hole,

whatever. And I started getting worried about my wife. I thought, I thought my wife is, I love my wife. She's everything to me, but I think she may be losing it. I mean, I was really worried. I called my pastor and I said, Pastor, you got to help me pray. She's what's wrong? I said, I think Sandy is, she may need help. I mean, I was, that's how far out bad off I was. She goes, he goes, what do you mean? I said, Pastor, she goes out on the top of the roof of her back porch at night. When I'm trying to go to bed, I can't find her. And I look out the window, and she's laying on her back, looking at the star and she's taking pictures of the sky. And she's she's she she's she I could hear out there talking to herself and all this.

And I'm like, oh Lord, what is what is happening here? And so I was I was genuinely worried about her. So but I, but I just kept praying for and all that. And then one night she said, oh, I want to let you know. I'm sorry I didn't tell you in time. We've got some people coming over to the house tonight. And we're going to hang out. And I said, okay, great.

And so we hung out. I grilled out. And my, my family was there. Some people from her church was there. And we're all just laughing, cutting up. And all of a sudden, my wife just kicks into a level. She goes, excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, excuse me, now that you're all here, I want to let you know why you're here.

And she begins to take us down this road about Planet X that's coming in and aliens and all this kind of stuff, and Nephilim. I mean, we had a crash course of every rabbit hole you can imagine. And I'm sitting there. I'm looking at my brother-in-law. My brother-in-law's looking at me. My friends are looking at me like, what is wrong with me? saying? And so long story short, fast forward. She was way ahead of where I needed to be.

She, thank God that God knew the only voice that had the power in my life to wake me up to what is really going on in this world had to be the same voice that spoke to my life from the very beginning. And she has access to me. So I started watching her. We would get in fights and I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you, my wife's going to be watching this. I'm going to try not to cry because this tears me up. I'm going to tell you what changed me, Tony. One day, my wife was so excited. She was trying to tell me about some things that she had learned about what's on your show.

I wouldn't have never watched this show during that time. That's how far away I was. And we were sitting in the parking lot of the church. She was so excited. And I crushed her. I said, I started skeptical, skeptic responding with negativity on everything. And she said this. She goes, okay, I'm done.

She said, I love you, but I won't never talk to you about this again. And she said, I'm praying that God will send me a friend that I could talk because I can't talk. I said, what did you say? She said, I'm not talking about cheating on you or anything. She said, but I need a friend that I can feel safe to talk about what I, what I say. And he shook me, Tony. I sit there and I just, I just, I said, okay, God, I'm open. I don't want my wife trying to find a friend that she could talk about this too.

I don't want to just go there just because you need somebody to talk to. I need you to show me the truth. And I went down that, I went down that road. And I started looking at scripture and I started seeing things. And she'll tell you right now, she's like, it's my proudest moment. She said sometimes you're more red pill than me. Sometimes she said, I'm worried about you now. But it took her shaking me.

And it started in that meeting, as you're talking about, of me worried about what's wrong with my wife. But God had to move upon my wife for me to be in the season I'm in now. When I'm working on this book and I was researching this book, I was thinking about that night. I was thinking about the journey that it took me to open my eyes as a man of God. as a pastor, a church planner, I've been pastor of my same church for 30 years, been ministry for 35 plus years, how this is a recent thing for me. Just in the last, you know, five, six, seven years ago, God started taking me down a path, showing me, preparing me for this moment that we're in. And that's what this podcast is for people. That's what it is, Tony. That's who you are,

is that God is causing people to just fall here, to stop here, catch here. The thumbnail gets, The title gets them. And maybe some of them are in complete denial. Some of them are just feeling something ain't right. But that's what voices are in this moment. And I believe that's why it's called the Confessionals. I believe that's why God has raised you up for this moment. And God raised up my wife the way he did at that point to wake me up.

Or I wouldn't be sitting at this table right now. So that's what we're trying to do on this podcast. So I don't know if I went down too far on that road. But that shook me. You can imagine your wife looking at you going, I just, okay, I'm done. I'm getting a friend. You're not a lot of have friends.

I'm like, no, no, no, no. You get no friend like that now. It's over. I know where this goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. No, I can understand. That would shake me too. I mean, yeah, that's, that would be concerning.

So you start going down the proverbial rabbit hole and here we are. Here we are. I think the underlying issue, I know we hit it on earlier is, you know, there is a deception. And so I think it's sort of movie line or something, but I'm so tired of hearing, I'm going to say it anyways. The greatest trick the devil ever played was convicts in the world. They never existed, right? A lot of people use that. Yeah. But it is true.

It is true. And it's not just, you know, the character of the devil, but all of it. All of it. And, you know, we talk a lot about, like, the fallen angels and what that guy was talking with the watchers, you know. But there's there's always watchers on the wall. They're always watching. They're always studying, right? And they're orchestrating.

And I just feel like there's a level of wisdom that, thank God, you went down that rabbit hole and you're doing this because that you were just brought into the front lines of a war. Yes. Where these watchers, you know, Satan himself, these ancient gods. have been orchestrating a narrative for millennia. Yes. And it's now bubbled up to the surface where we're now having, you know,

governmental meetings of AI or not aliens and NIH and all this stuff starting to come to the surface, but it's been orchestrated and carefully manipulated in position in a way that will relay a message that is designed. Yes. And I really believe that what you're talking about, what I talk about is the, the counter to that. And what you talk about in the book, the Generation of Noah is like,

you, I are a version of that, a Noah. And shall I say the confessionals is my arc? You know? Yes. It's that kind of symbolic nature. Absolutely.

And these beings, these entities are very aware. Have you ever, I don't know if I, I'm trying to think if I even have the answer to this. I don't think I do. In doing this stuff with the big picture and things like that, have you ever come across situations where you felt it was glaringly obvious

that the dark was looking right back at you? Like, I know you, and I actually wouldn't mind you even sharing this experience that you had at church because I think it paints a very strong picture, I think it was at your church, of how real the supernatural is and the enemy is. because didn't you like have an interaction with somebody that was possessed and I feel like maybe wasn't you. Was it was you that? Oh, no.

You were like, where they levitated? Levitated. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But like I know that I think that happened before the big picture. Oh, we have way before. This was this was probably, this was probably 1997.

Well, I have, 1998, something like that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And you still need your wife to convince me? Yeah. Oh, no, no, no. For the record.

My wife did not convince me of the demonic. round. I've been doing deliverance ministry on some level for 30 plus years. So it wasn't that I was not, that I did not believe in a very real demonic enemy. That possession, you know, I've literally done ministry cast demons out of people. I've had them bite me. I've had them grab a hold of me like a snake. I've seen them sliver across. I mean, they've done all kinds of manifestation. The one you're talking about is I was laying hands on this one guy in our second church building. We was in just a little church building. We probably had about 50 people in our church on a good day. And that night was a powerful service. It went about four hours. It was like a revival night. And I was just laying hands

on these people. And I had my hand on this man. And I was just praying for him. I was just, I knew I was dealing with a demonic spirit. And I had my eyes closed. And I had my hand on his head. And I was about at this level here. And I was just like, just going out that you foul tormenting the devil. You're coming out of him. And I didn't realize that when my eyes was closed, my hand had done this. So when I opened up my eyes, I saw that my hand was up like this. And I looked down and he's like belcro on the wall, feet this far off the ground up against the wall, just like in a movie. And I look around multiple people, my best friend, my brother-in-law, my wife, they're all standing there all looking at me, looking at that. So if they were in this room, they would all say they all saw it themselves.

But there was such a holy boldness on me that when I saw that, when I saw that, I did. not get intimidated, did not get scared. I just finished the job and told that devil to come out. And when it did, this entity came out of him, hit me up against the head, against the face, and threw me across the room and slammed my head up against the side of a wooden pew. Just about knocking me out. It's, I tell it. It's always a funny joke when I tell this to people. They're like, well, bless God, if it was God, it wouldn't hurt you. And I was like, well, let me tell you something. It was God. It hurt me. I thought I had a concussion. And I said, my head started bleeding and all this.

And that guy went, p, hit the ground, started crying out to Jesus, got saved. It was just a monumental moment in our service because all these people, this was not a story that I tell. Multiple leaders that are in my church that are still in my church all these years later were in that room and they saw it all. So you, you know, a man with an argument is always at the mercy of a man with an experience. So you can argue, argue and argue all you want to, but the people in that room, they experienced it. They saw the manifestation of that.

So I have a problem believing in the demonic realm. Where I was going was, you know, all the things that we talk about in the confessionals, you know, everything else that comes with that. I was just like, you know, is this? Come on. Is that real? Is that real? Is that real? Is it really this happening in the solar system?

Should I even care about it and all that? And so it took me down a road to realize I can't even understand what it means to be chosen in this generation if I don't understand that. I mean, I can't fathom how anyone can be a preacher of the gospel in this day and age, and especially what is coming, without being open for God to open their eyes. I mean, you think about that story in scripture where Elisha is in the tent and his assistant goes outside and the Syrian army is just covered. They're coming to arrest him. He panics.

He runs back into the tent and says to the prophet, they've got us surrounded. And the prophet is just chill. He's just hanging. He goes, man, take a deep breath. It's okay. He's like, you don't understand. They're as far as the eye can see. Horses and chariots and soldiers dressed in armor with swords drawn.

They're coming after you. God, open his eyes. Just let him see. What? What do you mean? Just go back out there. Just go back out there and you'll see what I see. And then he opens up.

The Bible opens his eyes. And he sees the hills covered in the, fiery chariots and fiery horses and angels with swords drawn. And he realizes there's more for us than against us. And what I'm trying to say is that's what it's going to take. And that's what God knew was going to take in my life. It was one thing to believe in a devil. It was one thing to believe in demons. But it was another thing. You had to understand how they work, how they come, what their motives are, how they deceive. If you don't, if you don't allow yourself to be open to that and let God show you the big picture of what,

we're talking about right now, you're going to miss it. And many, many, many, many, unfortunately, are going to fall away. That's what he's talking about. They're going to be deceived. They're going to get so frustrated and say, you know what, I don't want to worry about that. I want to stay in my lane. I'm just going to preach grace. I'm going to preach mercy. I'm going to preach love. Please do. Please preach grace, mercy, and love, but also preach the days of Noah. Because Jesus didn't say, hey, what's going to be the sign of your last days that you're coming back? Well, there's going to be such a of grace and mercy and love. It's just going to be the greatest tiptoe through the tulips.

The world's ever saying. You're almost not going to want to be in heaven. Exactly. I'm just going to make it so amazing. I might come to you and just hang out here because you're drawing me to you. He goes, oh, no, no, no, no. It's going to be bad. Yeah.

It's going to be bad. Now, what are you going to do with it? What are you going to do with it? This is what I talk about all the time and I talk about in the book. Man, when you really allow yourself to go there, you think about the great names that have gone on to be with the Lord. now, the ones that we study, the great revivals, the great awakenings, the great moves of God, all those that were instrumental, they all have one thing in common. They may have all had different

preaching styles, may have all had different images of what a church looks like. They all have one thing in common. They're all dead. We're not. So it's like if we're really the final generation, if we really are the convergence generation, then how awesome is it that God chose us, trusted us to be alive in this moment, not to crawl in a hole, stick her head in the ground like an ostrich, but to say, God, show me, open my eyes and show me what is coming

so that I can be prepared for it. Yeah. Do you think that, I mean, I think this is a case, but because of what you just laid out, I think we're going to start seeing the revealing of this darker, underbelly before the return.

Yes. Are you convinced then that we're seeing that now or is to come? Like, are we seeing it now in the AI and the disclosure stuff, or do you think that there's more to come? Oh, there's more to come. There's more to come. But we are seeing the beginning of it. We are seeing the beginning of the convergence.

So you think about it. So how many times have we changed topics tonight? We didn't even talk about Bigfoot. We even talked about Dog Man, which are very real manifestations of things. that people are seeing something, but we talked about aliens, we talked about UFOs, we talked about Planet eggs, we talked about AI, we talked about computer, we talked about all these things. Well, it wasn't that long ago you don't only be talking about one of them.

But we're sitting here in the confession of the podcast, we're talking about all of them. Why? Because they're converging. They're all converging. So you're beginning to see there's a reason why this generation is the first generation in the history of our country and in the history of the decades that we've been hearing about UFOs and UFO sightings and military bases, bodies and all this kind. This is the first generation where we have Congress allowing people to say, okay, yeah, we got them. And then they're meeting in skips, and they're coming out of skis.

And the representatives are standing there with microphones and cameras and saying, oh, yeah, I just come out of the skiff. And they just told me, these are not interplanetary. And these are interdimensional. I don't know if you remember when Luna said that. Luna literally said interdimensional. They just told me interdimensional. When I heard that, I was like, what?

Did I just hear? They're not, they just admitted they're not from another planet. They're from another dimension. And that was never really covered. It was like she just said it and it was just over. But it was just like, okay, we got to get it out there. We got to get it out there to let you know that we know. Why?

Because this is the beginning of it. And you start hearing them talk about AGI, artificial general intelligence. And then they start talking about timelines. So they say, you know, two, three years AGI. I don't believe that. I believe AGI is already here. Then they say ASI, artificial super intelligence 10 years. But then they're finally starting to admit this.

Some of the godfather of AI and some others are coming out now. You know what they're saying? They're saying, why do we keep saying 10 years? Because once we achieve AGI, then AGI does not even need us to program them to get to ASI. AGI programs itself to get to ASI. So I heard one guy say, within two months, whether they're not. this is true or not. I heard him say this. One of the experts that, I think it might be even the godfather of AI that said this, but one of the big time guys that everybody goes to,

he says, my prediction is, once we fully have 100% what we call AGI, artificial general intelligence, within two to four months, AGI will program itself to ASI. I did a thing on our recent show, and I encourage everybody to go there. I think it's called AI-20207.com. When you go there, AI-20207.com, it is sort of like, you know, when they did,

when they started doing the mock-up of pandemics before it happened, and they started saying, if a pandemic ever happened, this is what would happen, this is what would happen, this is what would happen, and all of a sudden,

it came, and everything that they predicted in that tabletop experiment that they did come true, come true. Well, AI. 2027, is a long article written by major people, some of them that worked for Open AI,

no longer there, AI experts, and they lay out their prediction that by 2027, AI will take over. And they show, they start in 2025 and they go down everything that they say is going to happen. How the governments will get involved. They predict that China will steal this, blah, blah, blah. It's an interesting read.

It's a long read. You got it? You see it? Okay. So you keep scrolling. down and then all the way down it gets down to 2027 and that is when they predict it takes over ASI completely takes over everything and the governments realize we can't do anything with it. Y'all this is being recorded in 2025.

I don't know when you're watching it. This is like a tabletop exercise? Very similar to that. Not a tabletop exercise but similar in nature in the sense that these people predicted the same way. They wrote this article, these group of people who are considered to be experts in AI. predicting this is what we predict will happen. And when you start reading that,

it will send chills down your spine because it lays out how the president will respond, what the president will have the power to do and what he will not have to do, and then what they predict China will do in their role and how China will expedite the process and that ASI will come on the scene. So they're predicting by 2027,

whether they're right or not, I have no idea, that that's when ASI, Saa will take over and it will take over the military. It would take over everything. And of course, they're trying to say that we will no longer be needed to exist at that point. And then AI will decide what they're going to do with us. And you know, and you got E.R. Must saying things like, well, you know, I hate to say it, but, you know, you're going to end up being a house cat to AIS, to A. You're going to be the AIS house cat. And that's all you're going to, we're going to, we're going to drug you up and give you video games and that's going to be your entire existence. Well, that's what

they're trying to say is coming. Whether that's coming or not, I don't know if it's coming like that or not. And it may just be fear tactics to try to get us afraid to give in, to giving up more of our freedoms. I don't know. But I can tell you this, darkness is coming. They are letting us know that darkness is coming. And we better know who we are in God. This is, this is wild. This website, A.I.27.com. It has tons of information on here. But there's a graphic that pops up right towards the beginning. it shows chat GPT 3, chat GPT4, which is what we're on now, and then what they're calling Agent 1, which is Open Brain finishes training Agent 1. So I don't know what Open Brain is.

Okay, so Open Brain is a hypothetical pretend company that they involve because they said we don't want to name a company. So we're going to just say there's going to be a company and we're going to call it Open Brain. So this is a fictional company. It could be any of them. It could be a combination of them coming together. But that's what open brain is. This is their idea of sort of like when they did Operation 2020, whatever they called it for the pandemic. This is their tabletop experience there.

And they're calling it open brain. Yeah, because, I mean, it's showing on this graphic compared. And we've all lived this where Chatsybt3 to ChatGBT-EBT 4 was night and day. It was wild. Wild. And what they're saying is in this situation, the agent 1, it looks, it's got to be at least 100 times more powerful than Chad GPT4. Right. I mean, it's insane.

And they're saying that this is going to arrive in the next two years, essentially. Yeah. And at some point in the article, what's very interesting is they're predicting that I think it's like agent, maybe agent three, something like that. by the time it gets to Agent 3, it's very interesting wording. They say at that point, the company of Open Brain realizes they can no longer stop it. And it never stops learning. It teaches itself, no longer needs anyone else. And now they moved from trying to put in safety measures to how can we keep this in house.

Basically, how can we keep profiting from. this and other people not get it. So they move into a profit margin versus a safety margin because they realize we cannot control this. And when you have an AI that never stops learning, then you start asking your question like people's ask Elon Musk and some others, then what good are we? And what's the guy, Noah Harari from the World Economic Forum? They ask him, when AI gets to the point where they no longer need us to reproduce anything or produce anything in the world, what are they going to do with us?

And literally his answer is you can find it anywhere in the internet. He says it on stage, drugs and video games. And the guy says what? He goes, drugs and video games. We're going to drug them up. We're going to give them all the drugs they want,

and we're going to put a headset on them, and we'll let them play video games, and we'll give them universal basic income. This is their model of what they think is coming. I choose not to participate. I don't know about you. But come on, I'm not going to be. That sounds dystopian for sure.

It's dystopia. I'm not going there, man. I'm not going there. That's Ready Player One. Have you ever seen the movie Ready Player One? That's predictive programming. I'm telling you, if you've ever seen a movie that's where we're going, is a movie called Ready Player One.

And so when Sandy and I watched that, we were like, no, no, no, no, no. I choose not to participate this. And I told our church, I said, you know what? There's going to come a day. It ain't going to be long from now. There won't be any more live streaming. They're going to cut the live stream off because they're not going to want what we have to say in this church. I said, let me tell you what's going to happen, full circle.

God gave me a word years ago. He said, I'm bringing everything full circle. I'm bringing it all way back to Acts chapter two. There was no microphones in that room. There was no smartphones in that room. There was no podcast studios in that room. So here's what we do. We work while it's day.

For the night comes when no man can work, Tony. We don't ever want to think of that. Think of this. This is why there's such an urgency for this podcast. It's why it's such an urgency in my spirit. We do everything we can do. We seize the day. We preach as long as we preach.

Because you can be the most determined person in the world. But if the world says Tony Merkel, you're done. You're done. Then you guess what's going to happen? You're not done preaching because they don't get on the street corner. You just got to get on the street corner. You can't get on the street corner. You can't go and talk to the street corner preaching. So,

I've told our church, you know, when we first started this church, we didn't have a sound system. We didn't have a single musician. So we may end up that way. When it's all said and done before the Lord comes back, we may be back to just a man standing behind a pulpit with a paper Bible preaching the gospel to the day Jesus

comes back. You have to be willing to go back to zero. Yes. You know what I mean? And I, I, I talk like that all the time around my employees and my family, my wife. Like, I am extremely comfortable going back and getting a trailer, living on the river. Come on the river. Come on. And just being. Live in a trailer right down by the river, man. You know, like, I just, I, I'm, I'm extremely comfortable with that. Yes. There's actually an appealing nature to it because I agree. I'm like, huh, what could life be like with no obligations to have to record podcasts? Not that I don't want to do when I enjoy doing it, but it's like, there is a peaceful nature just living simplistic, you know, like simple. Like, I just, you know,

no mortgage, just a trailer, my goats and my chickens, you know? Yep. But what you just described the idea of drugs and video games is like, you know, the Matrix going, or all these different movies, the dystopian movies going into a pod, the human just becomes this pod thing. Like, we're essentially useless. They would probably just be farming our brain data

at that point. And all this stuff, right? I think it, well, one, I believe it's definitely possible. Okay, I believe that that's a reality that we're on the trajectory of that happening. Now, do you feel that we're ever going to actually get to that point as a human species? Do you think that we're actually going to get there before the return of Christ? Or do you think that, and this is all like just futuristic thinking, you know, like reading tea leaves,

but do you think that he lets it get to that point? Or do you think that it kind of, it's turning in that direction, but it gets cut off, you know? There again, this is my opinion. I mean, I don't have biblical reference for this. I say the answer to your question is I do think we get there. I do think that there, I think we're, quite frankly, I think we're pretty close to being there. I think that there is people, they're going to go one or two paths.

They're going to go all in for God. Or they're going to be so overwhelmed by the world that is coming that they're just going to want to check out. They're just wanting peace. They're just not wanting to see war. They're not wanting to see starvation. They're not wanting to see famine. They're not wanting to worry about their problems. So if you can put on a headset or you can sit in a chair and you can have giant screens and you can put some earphones on and you can go into another world, which many people are already doing, live another life that's not even real. People will choose that. They will choose that. But the remnet, this is why I called call it the Noah generation.

I was preaching a men's conference, and I was preached on as in the days of Noah. And it just came out of me. Just these simple words came out of me. You are the Noah generation. We are the Noah generation. And then I paused and I felt the Holy Spirit really moving in my spirit to say this.

I said, but you can't have a Noah generation without a generation of Noah's. So the bottom line is this. The Noah generation is coming. And they'll be known by the generation of Noah's. And you think about the world that Noah lived in. We really only have a few scriptures. I mean, it's really crazy.

I mean, you know, evil continually, has given him marriage, taking him marriage. There were giants in that day. The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, took them wives, had daughters, had children with them. And all of a sudden, there were giants in those days and also afterward. And Noah built an ark. And it's like, what? But when you really go down and you really study, not just that, but you study the history of the life of Noah, then you study some of the outside of the biblical books, Enick and, you know, Chasher and some other books that are out there that you can read and keeping your mind right while you're reading them, understanding that in Jesus' day, they were very well known and quoted. Enix quoted by his half-brother, you know.

So it was a very well-known book that was accepted. in that time to describe the conditions there. When you start looking at the conditions there, in a different way of our processing and reading what Enix said, it's very similar to the world that we're in right now. But yet he still built. He showed up every day and he built. He showed up every day and he preached.

How about you preach for decades? You build and preach for decades and not work. and not one single human being responds to your altar call. Not one. I mean, there's people that want to quit the ministry when they don't get somebody in a year saved. He didn't get anybody saved in 100 years. Okay.

But you know what? He still knew who he was. So the difference between Noah and why the Noah generation is so important to understand is the difference between the Noah generation and the other generation is they have something in them. And it's probably just a special grace and a special grace and a special anointing by God to be that final generation, to be able to build when every single thing you know crumbles. What are they doing right now? They're trying to invade our money. This hit me

the other day. I did a show about this. I watched this video, and I don't know why it jarred me so much, and I don't know if you ever thought about it. In this video, he goes, when's the last time you saw an older car? When's the last time you saw a car from the late 80s or the early 90s? Try. down the road. He goes, they don't exist anymore. He said, you remember when we grew up, you know, we grew up in the 80s and 90s, but it was nothing for us to see somebody driving a 68 Chevy or a 77 Monte Carlo because you could go buy a car for $1,500 and fix it up and drive that thing to it fell apart and take it, drive it as a, make it a work truck. He says, you don't see work trucks anymore. You don't see older model vehicles anymore because why? When 2008 and the crash

happened and they did cash for clunkers, It was all an agenda. They were getting red. They were getting rid of anything they couldn't control. They were getting rid of any car. They didn't have a computer in it. So they gave you all this money. And the guy shows the paperwork.

He said, I found this paperwork from a cash to clunker dealership. Look what it says. It says they were not given the permission to sell it. They were required to crush it. He said, so they got them all off the market. They've been moving in a direction of taking away our money, taking away our freedom, taking away. everything so they can control everything.

He said, when's the last time you watched the DVD? No, now you have to buy it digitally. When's the last time you bought Microsoft Word? No, now you have to subscribe because everything has an on-off switch on it. Because one day, one day, they're moving towards a day where they click it off of everybody. They don't say what they're supposed to be saying, act like they're supposed to be acting. That's when you better know who you are in God. Can you build the arc in those conditions?

Because Noah did. And I'm determined. Now, I can't predict how I'm going to respond to everything. I hope that I respond correctly. I'm determined. I'm going to build. No matter what they try to turn off, they can't turn off who I am.

You just painted a beautiful picture, really, of what Noah went through. I don't know. we actually ever really think about that, you know? The doubting, the frustration, certainly he was frustrated. Absolutely. You know, he's building a giant boat.

He's got crazy people telling him he's crazy. And he's like, suckers, your mom just married an angel. You're saying, I'm crazy? That's all. You know, like, I'm like, but you have to have that kind of mind. I'm just looking at him.

Like, you're saying I'm crazy. Look what your mom's doing, bro. Yeah, right. I don't want any of that. Yeah. So call me crazy. I'm going to just over here, and I'm just going to keep on tapping on here.

And you want to come over and listen to me and preach? Fine, but we're over here building a boat. Yeah. For what? What are you building a boat for? Because it's going to rain. There's a flood coming. What's that?

Well, I don't know. Wow. He goes, I don't know. They're like, wait a minute, you're building a boat because it's going to rain, but you can even tell me what rain is. Well, I don't know. Well, it's never done it before. It's never rained before.

The Bible said it never rained before. So all I know is I heard from God, something's coming called rain. As a flood coming. And I don't know. It's got water. And I have no shipbuilding experience, but I've got this download from heaven that's a blueprint telling me exactly how to build this ship. And I have no idea how to build a ship.

All I know is I heard from God how to build this ship for this, for something coming called rain that I have no idea what it's. It is because it's never done it. It's never happened. But y'all come on and join me. Because it's coming. Well, it's coming. I don't know.

But come on, join me. You're crazy. You're a lunatic. You're Alex Jones. You know, I mean, you're the Alex Jones of the ancient Bible days. I mean, yeah. You know, and that, but Noah just said, whatever. You do you.

I'm going to do me. I'm going to tell you something right now. It's a big boat. It's a big boat because God's got plans for the whole world to be preserved, but you know what? If you don't get on this boat, my wife's going to be on this boat and my kids are going to be on this boat. Now the door's big enough for you.

And there's nowhere in scripture where it says there was not enough room for people. In fact, how about this? He builds a boat and he's building all this to the specifications down to the minute detail. And one day, this is just sort of my interpretation of it, but it's biblical when you think about it. He looks at the blueprints one day and he goes, hey, come here, son, come here, look at this. What's wrong with this picture right here? Knowing how we've built everything, all the details, what's wrong with this part of the blueprint? Hmm, Dad, that is strange.

Yeah, I was thinking that too. Why is there no doorknob? Why is there no latch? He's given us how to seal this thing. He's not even told us how to even shut this door. He told us don't put a rope on it, don't put a latcher, don't put anything on it. Just build me a door with a ramp that you can walk up and these animals can walk up. But don't put any way for you to shut it.

I'll shut the door. You build the boat and I'll shut the door. So that's why I tell my church and why I say in the book, is God has simply called us to build the art. He'll decide when he shuts the door. So he lets them go in there And they're sitting there and they're looking at that door And he's screaming through the door Come on in, the door's still open

There's still time and they're still mocking him And then eventually They hear that door shutting All those people that had seen All those supernatural things And had witnessed these fallen angels And these watchers and these nephalim That had been able to cross every dimension

No matter how they tried they could not stop that door from shutting because they realized that's something out of my control. I can't cross that bridge. I can't cross that plane. I can't tear down that veil. Something bigger than us is shutting that door. Noah didn't shut the door. We didn't shut the door.

Not a single angel is anywhere to be found. But we're watching a door being shut. There's coming a day, Tony, in probably our lifetime. God is going to shut that door. And when he shuts that door, you cannot get in. We're gone. But I'm going to tell you something right now. The door is still open.

And this podcast is still existing because the door is still open. Well, I'm about to run up in here, brother. I'm about to run up in here. Go on, come on. I feel the an anointy right now, brother. Preach. You need an organ in here. Somebody talked back in an organ.

I got you. Okay. So is all I going to be in the book? All of that more. All that more. Am I going to be in the book, too? You're going to be in the book, too. Of course, yeah.

Well, if you decide to write something in the front real nice and sweet about me. I have said some nice things about you. Okay, thank you. I haven't said to you later. You asked me to write an endorsement for the book, and I started writing, and I don't, I just don't feel like it's done. Okay. So. You still got time.

I have it. You gave me the timeline. Yeah. What's the book going to be called again? It's called The Final Flood. Why is it coming? I think there's got it as an early spring release just before Easter. Okay.

So at the next, I'm having a brain freeze here. What do we go? NRB. At the next NRB, it'll be pre-ordered then. So I think sometime after the first year it would be pre-order. But they've given me permission to start talking about a little bit to start letting people know, you know, what's coming. So yeah, it's called the final flood. But it deals with, and the final generation, the original title of the book was going to be called the Noah Generation. So they came

back and said, look, we feel like the final flood. And I loved it. I thought that's, that's perfect. So the last chapter of the book is called the Noah generation. And it sums it all up. And the interesting thing about that, if I could say this about the final chapter, is I had all 11, I knew it was going to be 12 chapters. So I had 11 chapters done. So I start writing the 12th chapter, which is the most important chapter to me. Because from chapter one all the way chapter 11, I take everyone on a journey from the garden. From the first chapter is when Jesus says, as in the days of Noah. And I talk about why Noah.

And we do a deep dive into Noah. Then we do a deep dive into the watchers. We do a deep dive in the Tower of Bible. We do a deep dive in how the giants came back after the flood. We do a deep dive in the recycled rebellion about the pantheons, the ancient gods, and how they've all just been manifestations of the same spirit. over and over and over again, a different generation. But I always knew that I was going to end it up by being,

okay, you've heard all this chaos. You've heard all this horrible things that they've done. But let's end it by giving you some hope. Let's end it by showing you what it means to be alive right now. So I sit down and start typing out chapter 12 and I just, I mean, it was just going. And then I'd stop and I'd read it. And I'd like, no, that's not it.

And I'd delete. Delete, delete, delay. I could not write chapter 12. And I think this is the, this is the chapter that birth. this whole book in me. Why can I not write this chapter? I just felt like something's coming. And I just felt the Holy Spirit just say, step away. Just put the computer away and just go be with your family and just take a, because I knew I still had a little bit of time for it, for the deadline. So I said, okay, I'm going to take a few days. And I want to take about a week.

That's what I said. Well, you know what that week was? Fire week. Fire week. So it was the week of June 1st of this year, which was one week to the day before Pentecost. And so I took the week of Pentecost. I said, I'm just going to get through Pentecost. I'm going to enjoy Pentecost Sunday. And on the sixth day of that week, my church burned. And I'm standing there outside in the parking lot at 8 p.m. I stood in that parking from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the morning, watching firemen,

go in and out of this church that has been such a blessing, is such a blessing to us. And I'm standing there, and I have this super-natured. peace that I can't explain. I mean, I never one second did I ever think, what are we going to do? Where are we going to go? I mean, how are we going to function? Because for them to be fighting that fire that long, I knew this is bad. This is bad. And they just, the smoke was like nothing I'd ever seen before my life. And so then I started getting word from the fireman that they had found the fire, I found the source of the fire. And they felt like they got it close to being put out. And they finally got to a place where they felt safe enough to take me in to show me. And I go inside where the

the origin of the fire was, and it was unbelievable. It was in our gym, which has the big, the main regular size basketball court and has the backboards. And there's about four inch thick plexiglass for the backboards. That fireman looked at me and said, I want you to look at that. He said, I've been doing this for 30 plus years. I'm the chief of the fire department. I've trained on every level. I have never seen that before in my life. And I would tell you what it was.

The fire had been on one section of this gym, and it had got so hot in that room, and the gym was sealed. They said that when they came in, the fire was rolling across the ceiling tile all the way. It was just like something you see in a movie. It was coming up the wall, and all the whole ceiling was on fire.

And it was just rolling. But the fire had not got down the sides of the buildings yet, the side of the gym before they put it out. But the heat was so intense that it melted that backboard all the way down, just empty, all the way down to a corner. It was a mass of plexiglass sitting in the corner of that backboard, just like a piece of candy that had been melted. He looked at me and he said, I can't even imagine the heat that was in this building to do that. So I'm looking at all that. And I live by first the natural, then the spiritual. I live by that.

That is a absolute bedrock principle of my life. It has been for decades. So I walk back out in the parking lot and I'm standing there and I'm thinking about all this is processing. And I said, God, I know you didn't do this. I know you didn't do this. But I know you knew this was coming. Because nothing happens that doesn't come. come through your hands.

So what are you doing? What are you doing right now? What are you saying to me? And God said, here's chapter 12. And he downloaded him in that parking lot right there. And I knew what it was supposed to say. And I knew that I could not write about a generation facing opposition until I faced that. As a shepherd, as a pastor, as a Noah for my people and for my family.

by that time a lot of my congregation had gathered in the in the parking lot I turned around man the only night that a tear came in my eye I never cried I never worried but I looked at my people standing in a circle just praying and praising God and laughing there was no chaos there was no worry it was this supernatural peace and God said now build go build build, not another church building, build the ark. This is what I meant. Can you build now?

Can you preach tomorrow? Can you preach on Pentecost Sunday with fire, just like you did last week? And I said, yes, Lord. And we had an amazing service in the parking lot the next day. People came from all over Birmingham. The local news covered it. What, we baptized, 25?

Almost 25. So I think we baptized 25 people outside. I mean, it was incredible. And to this day, and we're still out of the building. We have no idea what's going to happen. I mean, there's like so much uncertainty. People are like, you know, six months, a year, it could be. Never one moment have I worried.

Never one moment have I. Oh, what are we going to do? Because I'm building. It ain't about a building. It ain't about a podcast. It ain't about a book. It is about the kids. kingdom. Let me tell you something about Noah. Noah didn't preach a repentance message. A lot of people

believed that he preached a repentance message. He didn't preach a repentance message. He preached a kingdom message. He preached the kingdom. And within the kingdom is repentance. Within the kingdom, it encompasseses everything. He preached about a realm that was bigger than the realm that they had chosen to accept. He's like, listen to me. If you really could go back and listen to this gospel corner to Larry again, but if you go back and listen to Noah's sermons, it probably was things like, oh, you think this is something? You think you tapped into something? You think because you got these angels working for you that use something,

that this is big and bad? No. Dude, I'm about to show you something. God's already showed me that in one moment, when I put the final nail in this boat, I'm just going to stand here. And every single creature that walks on the face of this earth that reproducing. that reproduces is going to be eaten in the field, just chawing down on grass,

and the God's going to say, you and you come, you and you come, you and you come. Hey, you up there flying, come. You hang on that tree, you and you come. And they're just going to come.

They're going to walk right through you. All you watchers are going to have to part the ways. All you Nephilim are going to watch these creatures walk two by two male and female, and they're going to come in this boat. And I want to ask you, do you have that kind of power? Do you have the ability to tell every single piece of creation to stop what they're doing and get on a boat?

You ain't got nothing. You ain't got nothing. My God's bigger. And that's what I felt that night. And I went home and within one day I wrote chapter 12. And that's coming out next year. Next year. Through Destiny Image.

Destiny Image. Which I'm writing a book for as well. Yes, you are. I will put it on, when it comes out, it'll be put on, I started a website, Slingshot Library, which is a list of recommended books. Okay. By Tony's Good Word. Okay.

All right. A lot of extremely honored. Yeah, it'll be on there. But listen, I appreciate you coming out. And I appreciate you sharing and talking. and having a frank conversation about what's coming. I think that the world needs more pastors that are willing to talk about this stuff.

And because the world is talking about it and the people in the world are experiencing things that shouldn't be possible. And yet we're experiencing it. And there needs to be voices to speak up and speak out about this stuff. You're one of them. my pastor is one of them.

And he's actually going to be starting a podcast. I'm putting him on the spot right now. That's also, yeah. I talked to him too. He did. Yeah, sure did. And he texts me and Jack and some others, I think last week, saying, I need to do this or else it's just not going to get done. Yep.

And he's going to be starting a podcast. But I'll tell people, like, the first time I ever met him, he introduced himself to me. I said, hi, I'm Tony Merkle. This is my family. And he said, I thought that was you. I subscribed to your channel. Man. That's amazing.

That's awesome. My pastor's definitely one of them. That's great. He's a real one. But there needs to be in these times people willing to just kind of step out and talk and share what the reality of the situation is. Because you know what? The other side, they have their own spin and they have their own messaging. And, you know, like they're going to be preaching their end of it.

And we have to be willing to do that. ourselves. So I appreciate you and I appreciate everything that you do with the big picture and your congregation. And this book is going to be just another nail in the ark. I like that. Praise God. Yes, sir. Let's call it a day. Amen. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. The highest, all this glow is hard to hide is bright. We love the laws, but hate the heart, the sun. Although it's dark, it's hard to find. Everybody wanna preach a happy median.

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