The Eric Metaxas Show - Mario Murillo (continued)

Episode Date: December 23, 2021

Mario Murillo continues his prophetic look at the future of this country, examining remedies that people of good will can use to combat whatever awaits.

to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas. Folks, welcome to hour two. Yes, there are two hours. Don't be scared. Everything's going to be okay. I'm still talking to Mario Marillo. We are, we're going to get into some really important stuff. And Mario just began that at the end of hour one about where we are in the culture today

and whether the church has an obligation to wade into the political waters, parentheses, yes, obviously they do, close paren. So, Mario, you, my wife and I have been watching you and, you know, reading some of your stuff and we just cheer because there are so few

who seem to get what strikes us unfortunately as obvious that if we do not speak out against evil, I mean, I think it was just last night, I was with a friend, and we were talking about how is it possible at some of the these pastors don't get into this stuff and by not getting into it are helping, aiding, and abetting

the enemy. They don't think they are. They think there's some neutral ground. And as I thought about it, I thought to myself, they have persuaded themselves or they have allowed the enemy in a sense to put them in a corner where they say, hey, it's all about evangelism. We can never be political because we might offend somebody. And there's a time when that all has to go away.

You say, like, you know what? I just have to speak the truth, and I might offend somebody, but things have come to a place where I need to speak truth. And if that offends somebody who voted this way, that way, that can't be the final arbiter. It doesn't mean I don't care, but that can no longer be the final arbiter. But for some people, that is the final arbiter. When they cross a line into something that might offend a political group,

they say, for the cause of the gospel, I won't go there. And what it reminds me of, and you just referenced it, is Bonhofer, he saw exactly the same thing. In my book, I write about how there were some folks, there was an American evangelist. He was just a few blocks from where I'm sitting here in Manhattan. Was it Bookman? I can't remember anyway. He was so obsessed with quote-unquote evangelism that he couldn't see the evil in front of his face. He couldn't see that we need to defeat Hitler. We need to do anything we can

to defeat Hitler. Not because we don't care about the soul of Hitler. We care about the soul of everyone, but he couldn't see that. And so he was sort of, you know, playing patty cake with the Nazis and not understanding that we've crossed a line where we need to fight. You want to talk about souls at stake. You want to talk about lives at stake. That is somehow what is missing today. There are many who still believe there's some safe, neutral ground. And you and I and others have said, unfortunately, there isn't. You need to see that. So talk about that because you've been a very rare heroic voice on these things. Well, thank you for the opportunity to clarify something. In Fresno, I spoke to a large group of people. The Holy Spirit told me to stand that they were

over 50 or 60 pastors in the room. So I asked for a show. Is this recently or years ago? This is probably one year ago. And I asked for a show of hands from the audience. I said, how many of you have had a child suspended from school for wearing a Christian t-shirt? Raise your hand. Hands went up. I said, how many of you have lost your job because someone canceled you through social media talking about your view on abortion or marriage? And hands went up.

And I said, how many of you are recognized? experiencing daily hostility in your job because you witness or you mention that you're Christian and hands went up. Then I looked at the pastors and I said, are you preaching anything to what your people are actually going through? So here is the real problem with the pastors. They have to ask himself, am I obsessed with self-preservation and using the excuse that I won't be political? And so when I was attacked and asked, well, Mara, you're nothing but a politician. So I confronted this pastor and I said, why aren't you mentioning abortion or same-sex marriage or the policies of the Democrat Party, which are clearly against everything that you and I believe?

why aren't you speaking? He said, well, I would lose I would lose members. I said, you mean you'd lose votes? I said, you're the politician, not me. Oh. And this, and I said, because that's exactly,

I mean, no one's phrased it that way. You framed it perfectly. That's exactly right. It's no longer about truth. It's about numbers, votes, people in the pews. That's not biblical, brothers. That's not biblical.

And so the most, arrived when I said to the crowd, I said, look, when I preached against drugs, none of you attacked me. When I preached against gang violence, none of you attacked me. But when socialism became the worst drug and the Democrat Party became the most lethal gang, suddenly I'm political. I said, all I have done is I have connected the dots, the same convictions that have guided me throughout time. I haven't changed. The Democrat Party hasn't changed. I haven't become political. The Democrat Party jumped the fence, left the Constitution, left the idea that there should be free speech in the pulpit, and came after us. So two things that I say to any pastor that says,

I'm not going to reference politics, I'm going to preach the gospel. You're doing neither. because as I reflect, most of you weren't preaching the gospel before, but therapeutic kind of psychological babble that you were counseling your crowds because that was selling books and selling and growing crowds. But here's the point. The fact is, there are two things that must be in every heart of every man and woman of God. Number one, preach the gospel. Number two, preserve the right to preach.

the gospel. And if you're not completely and directly engaged in the threat against our freedom to preach the gospel in America, that you are abandoning your post as a shepherd of God. And I have no other way to say it. Well, you know what? You just bring up the image when you say shepherd of God. Obviously, it's easy to think of David. The folks who are preaching, they have bought there's a million ways to trace how we got here. But when you say politics is off limits, it's a meaningless statement. It's an idiotic statement. There's no such thing as pure politics or the pure gospel.

Truth is truth and these things bleed into each other. But they have created this no-go zone, you know, whatever it is. And it's kind of meaningless. And it's like they're putting handcuffs on themselves. They can't, you know. but when you talk about people getting stuck in that, it reminds me that at the heart of it, really, at the heart of this bad theology that says no politics, whatever,

is also the same idea that fighting is unchristian, that the Christian, I understand I lay down my life. I understand that. I understand letting the enemy walk over me and God will be my deliverer. Okay, but they take it so far that they say, fighting is somehow unbiblical. That, of course, that idea is unbiblical. When you look at David, who is the model of the shepherd, what do we remember him doing as a shepherd?

You know, it's not petting the lambs. It's not feeding the lambs. It is killing a lion, killing a bear, and then using those experiences to inspire him to kill Goliath. That idea seems to have been wiped away that there are times. when we need to fight. Well, and, you know, the Bible says that the man who does not care for his family is worse than an infidel and is denied the faith.

So I'll look at the audience and I'll say this. They're building a prison, a socialist prison for your children and your grandchildren. And the most terrifying dimension of that is that they're going to live in it without you. You have a degree of time. You have your portion of the race to run. And in that moment, you have to say to yourself, what did I do to keep my children from that thousand years of darkness that Ronald Reagan mentioned so clearly? That I did everything in my power. Let's hit pause.

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retire. I don't know what you thought. And something happened. Can you talk about that? Well, I was told that because of the pandemic, I couldn't preach the gospel in California. It was the first time. Yeah. And so that kind of like was my wake-up call.

And one day I was sleeping in about middle of the night, I had this experience where I saw a man from Fresno, California, who was the embodiment of what the culture had done to people. He was homeless, he was addicted, he was in agony. And he said these words to me, if you want to, you can come and help me. And what I put together from that, I woke up, I got in the Word of God, and I got to Matthew 8, where the leper said to Jesus, if you will, you can heal me. And then the vision of Paul Macedonia, where he said, the man appeared in the vision said, come over and help us. I went to Fresno, brought a tent against every local injunction against meeting,

but I felt that God told me to do it. The police were on our side. The mayor of the city sat with me. The owners of the park that we put up our tent in said, we're going to stand with you in case Sacramento decides to shut you down. But instead of being shut down, thousands came to the tent and were healed and born again. And members of gangs, the homeless camps, it was an amazing thing. Since then, we've done a string of tent crusades up and down what I call the Corridor of Glory, Highway 99 in California. And we've done them in Bakersfield, Modesto, Sacramento. and we've never been able to find enough seats for people.

We lift the flaps of the tent, and our tent at that time could see was 8,000 square feet. We just bought a new one that's 19,000 square feet, and we're putting it in Hanford, California, and we're approaching right now 1,000 volunteers who are going with me to reach out to areas where there are thousands of homeless people, and it's just a bit of people. amazing that I'm not going to be golfing. I'm going to be in that tent. I'm so glad you're not going to be golfing. Now, so this is, but this is a new iteration of your ministry. You were not planning to be doing this. So if we go back a couple of years, where were you, where were you headed at that point before this? Well, I think I think I felt more like a mentor and a father and I was

going to get some young, young preachers around me and kind of help them understand what they needed to do and how they needed to face the future. And so now it's, it's like, I don't know, maybe I was watching Tom Brady. That might have been part of it too. Tom Brady's a young punk. He's, come on. Yeah. No, but you, you, um, but it is interesting to me that something new is happening with you. God decided. I mean, when you talk about having that dream, that vision of the proverbial man in Fresno, homeless, drug addicted, saying, if you want, you can help me. Yeah. That's a call from God.

That's a new call from God to be doing what you're doing right now. So you are seeing, I want to be really clear. You're seeing miracles. You're not an idiot. You know the difference between a fake miracle and a real miracle. You're seeing this. For me, the amazement, I'm always amazed at something like a miracle, but then I'm saying, further amazed, the second amazement comes that nobody's reporting on this, nobody talks about it.

It's as if these things don't happen. Of course, they do happen. You see them, I see them. But the media isn't talking about this. I mean, if they cared about these folks, they'd say, we don't care how they get out of this poverty and addiction, whatever. Like, this looks like it's working. Yeah. But they don't seem to, that seems to be out of bounds. Well, and that's part of the revelation that we need right now. You know, we had this incident last January the 6th in Washington. After Portland, Oregon had 120 straight nights of riots, burnings, several deaths, everything else, that was a peaceful protest.

But this event on January 6th is framed as something. heinous that we must build an American Guantanamo for those who participated in that day. And a lot of times it's easy to dismiss conspiracy theories because the people who give them are so over the top in their descriptions. Like, for example, we can rail against the vaccine. We can say things against what happened on the election

last year. But here's the point. What I would like to appeal to is people's intelligence and honesty. Why can't we talk about side effects of a drug? Why can't we ask simple questions of our government?

What is it that is so apathetic about the American mind right now that they are watching themselves being manipulated by a handful of people who are telling them what they can think, what they can say, what they can eat, where they can work, when they can do something,

and like sheep, we're going for it. I'm not saying that the jab is the mark of the beast, but when I talk to a Christian, and I hear them say something like this, they go, well, yeah, I got the shot, and I'm not appealing to to or against the shot right now. What I'm appealing to is something even higher. I'm looking at, you know, I'm saying,

it was so easy for you to make that decision. Did you think about it? Did you consider all sides? If you did, then I would respect your choice. But they said, you know, I got the shot. And he said, but if I really thought it was the mark of the beast, no way would I take it. I said, dude, you got the shot so you could go to Starbucks.

And if you can't even resist coffee, how are you going to resist the Antichrist? There's no way. So the wake-up call for me is to tell people, look at what's going on around you and discern it in the spirit, as Jesus said, understand the signs of the time. I was in Berkeley to be prepared for this hour. I'm old enough now. I'm like over a lot of things. I'm definitely over myself. But I feel that all of it is for now, that now I can see this onslaught.

And the reason your books, again, I sound like I'm your publicist here. The reason your books are so powerful is because you're a historian. And writing is the greatest discipline there is. I don't care what art form there is. Writing like Bench said, he said it's like sitting at a keyboard and opening a vein. and when history is left out blocked and statues are indiscriminately toppled and language is completely banned

the liberals should be number one in line to wake up right now. Minority should be number one to say critical race theory, I hate it. Not because I don't see what white people have done but because I see beyond this Trojan horse. This is a mechanism to hate a color of skin. And once I do that, I can lose the power of what color of skin becomes hated next.

So when racism appears, even if it's socially acceptable racism, evil has to be called out for what it is. As I said earlier, there's so few people who see what you see. It's one of the reasons I'm just so thrilled to know you're out there. you're being really, really vocal. Why do you think there are people in the prophetic world who seem to get this, who seem to be on this page somehow? And I've never, you know, I never dreamt when I first became a Christian. I never knew that there were these divisions,

that there are some people that they have a kind of cerebral intellectual faith, and they get very, very wary of anything like healings, much less the prophetic. and all they can think about is where it goes wrong. They don't want to know if maybe some of it is real. But there's some people like you and others in what we call the prophetic movement who have sort of seen what is happening on a certain level. We've only got 30 seconds here,

but you're friends with some of these people. What do you see happening? In other words, in the prophetic, what do you see happening in America right now? I think there's a separation of the sheep and the goat, the true prophetic, and those who were false prophets, who were in this because everyone else was saying it, as Jeremiah said, woe unto those prophets who steal my word from each other. They were echoes, but they hadn't directly heard from God on their own. And I think there's a coming in accountability. And I think that the herd is being thinned because when the money stops and the praise stops,

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or visit them online at legacy p.m.investments.com. Folks, I'm talking to Mario Morillo. I encourage you to look him up. Mario-Marillo.org. Mario Morillo.org. Mario, you were involved in something. It was some months ago. I can't remember exactly when,

but it was all, I mean, it was Kent Christmas, I think, put it on. And I've discovered these folks over the last couple of years. And just, you know, imagine as a Manhattan, Yale-educated person, saying those are the guys that I'm with.

Culturally, we couldn't be more different. When you think about people like, you know, Hank Kuhnam and Kent Christmas and the whole gang of crazies, except I'm exactly crazy in the same way. It's just a, it's a delightful thing. But there are some folks out there saying stuff, and I know that it's like it might as well be a foreign language to many Christians, certainly to anybody that isn't a person of faith. They just think, I don't know what to say.

So I find it extraordinary, really, that somehow God is allowing these voices to come out. what do you make of where we are prophetically on the time clock? Do you think, I'll ask you questions like, you know, hey, do you think Trump will be back? Do you think that we're going to see revival? What do you think? Well, what I do believe is that we are on the cusp.

You see, I'm speaking as a war correspondent. I'm on the front line. I'm watching it. We have to have one counselor for every, 10 souls that are trying to get saved in our meetings. We are overwhelmed, shortages of every kind. We are never adequately equipped. Even with a thousand volunteers, the voracious hunger of the average American for Christ is something that both the media is scared of and the compromised pastor is oblivious to. But it's real and it's coming. Do I believe Trump is going to run again?

he's giving every indication of building a coalition. He wouldn't be doing that unless he's got something in mind. I don't know what it is. Well, I'm talking about the prophetic. There are people in the natural. I think anybody can kind of see all that stuff. But then I think there have been folks like my friend Chris Reed and a lot of other of those kinds of folks.

They seem to be, they seem to believe that we're going to get through this extraordinary nastiness and the dysfunction, which is a very kind word, the Marxist, anti-American direction of the Democrats, that we're going to somehow get through to the other side. Do you have a sense prophetically, or are there people who are talking about that that you would agree with or disagree with? Yeah. What I agree with in the prophetic is that a reformation is coming. I believe that with all my heart. And I believe that it is far more than an emotional knee-jerk, return to God and groovy feelings. I would even put it on the level of something that you understand is what Martin Luther was used of God to do. Laws need to be rewritten.

Values need to be re-established. There doesn't just need to be a course correction in America. there needs to be a total repudiation of this value system that has taken us over. And I believe that God is stirring his church. One of the reasons that God sends prophets is because judgment must begin at the house of God. So the first in line to be corrected are this generation of leaders. I look at the evangelicals. I feel something prophetic about them. And I know many evangelicals have been reading my book, and I'm really gratified by that.

But the evangelical community needs some soul searching. Does there live in you an inferiority complex where you want to impress the intellectual establishment of America? And because of this need to show, oh, I'm evangelical, but I still can do my trigonometry. and my psychology, and I've got my intellectual chops, lose that inferiority, because that's completely irrelevant now. It's not only irrelevant, it's the voice of the devil. Let's be honest. Yes, it is.

It's absolutely, you know, it's negative confession to the max. It's a real repudiation of what the scripture says about who we are and the message we carry, whose message we carry. And I think that a true prophet speaks truth to power. You know, prophecy has got to be elevated out of the swamp of people having parlor meetings where they flatter each other with words from God that can reduce a gift that's powerful into a daily horoscope. The prophetic has got to become the voice of a man or a woman of God at points a finger like Nathan did to David and set the record straight about what God wants and what God is calling for. And I think it is repentance. And I think also that we cannot be content to say it'll be, you know, a course correction.

It's going to be a revolution of morality and awakening. That's big stuff. And I think you're right. I think that most people look around and say the madness has just, you know, the lunatics have taken over the asylum. There's just no question. Most people in America, I think, see that. and they don't know what to do about it. They don't know where to turn.

They maybe are afraid of sharing what they're thinking with their friends or their colleagues because they don't know if they'll get canceled for having those thoughts. But I think something is happening where more and more people are knowing this is ridiculous or knowing that what is happening, you know, with the current stolen administration,

that this is not incompetence. And competence could never dream of being this effective and destroying the America of the founders. There has to be something more at play. We're going to be right back. Continuing the conversation with Mario Marillo. Don't go away.

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that's what America is. It's at the very heart of who we are as a people. We are free. We choose. We are the government. We choose our leaders. It seems to me that any thinking person knows there was something fishy with the 2020 presidential election. But we've been told you can't talk about that. That's been settled. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. And as soon as somebody tells me to shut up, I think, why do you feel the need to tell me I can't talk about something? It makes me feel like you're hiding something. You're nervous. Why are you so nervous? What's making you nervous? What are you afraid of? This is something that I'm just astonished at how much. many people were just willing to, you know, get with that program, don't bring that up.

I thought, if there's any question about this, this should be the most central thing. It trumps every, no point of ten, it trumps everything else. That if you cannot have the voice of the people heard, you're no longer free. We need to get that clear. But people are being told, no, no, no, you can't, you can't bring that up. And there are many people that I know that have a lot of evidence that Biden ought not to have been the occupant of the White House, and it's almost like the whole the January 6th thing is like the Reichstag fire. It's being used by the powers that

be to crush anyone that would even bring up this idea. I say that's what tells me something's wrong, is the desire to shut the mouths of anybody who is dissenting. You know, isn't it shocking how non-liberal liberals have become? Because in Berkeley, I had, what was called the free speech movement. And now that the left is anti-free speech. You know, I was in a doctor's office yesterday,

and I'll use this as an analogy, because I want to appeal to the audience to think about something, to consider a thought. You just brought up the most salient point about what happened to the last election. I was sitting in a doctor's office, getting a new doctor here in Tennessee, and the commercial came on about this particular drug.

And then it went into this hyper mode saying all the things that deaths have been reported sometimes causes a rash. We'll give you heart palpitations. If this happens, consult a doctor. Now, here we have a drug that says for 55 years no one can sue us. And no reference can be made to any side of. effects. And when one is accidentally uncovered, we muffle it by saying, oh, well, that's the case in only certain cases. That should be like the alarm going off in everyone's spirit. Take that now, the New York Times,

our beloved friends. They say that the Russian collusion hoax is still real. Then they turn around and say, but this January 6th committee is legit. So the same people that tell you something that didn't happen, did happen, are telling you something did happen when in fact it is fabrication. So look, in common sense, how do you look in the mirror and say to yourself, nobody has looked at the evidence, it's compelling, no one has considered what happened that night with those voting, loading machines. We want to vilify, destroy, we're over the top, we're doing Saturday

night live skits, and we're making it a point. And here every late night comedian on every late night show is now a mouthpiece for the state. When and where does reality kick in, and you say to yourself, this thing is evil and wrong, and every true American must oppose it. And in that we get to the bottom of. If you love Joe Biden, you should be first in line because you want your man to be validated as a legitimate president. But you don't because this is something else entirely. And those who don't see it are doing it to their own peril.

I think I wrote a book called If You Can Keep It About America. And I got to say that in the course of writing that book, the clarity of the founder's vision for self-government and liberty, it hit me in a way that I was ashamed to say, I never really understood this. And once I understood it, it made me a super patriot. It made me, you know, an American exceptionalist because I said, this idea, first of all, the idea belongs to the world. So we're not trying to keep it to ourselves. This is a beautiful idea that is an outworking of the gospel, the idea that we can govern ourselves and be free. And I think one of the major lessons for me, Whenever I learn anything, it's, you know, I'm astonished that I didn't know it.

I'm astonished that everyone doesn't know this. And I realize that if you're anybody that grew up in the 60s and onward, these basics were no longer really communicated, not in the public schools. The opposite was communicated at the elite universities. And in the culture, more and more and more, these ideas about the American founder's vision and why this is a great country. and why people died for freedom, those ideas were increasingly less communicated, and then the other narrative, the more Marxist narrative,

which has been percolating along in the culture since the 60s and before, that has been getting the upper hand. So the idea is that, you know, when people tell you, you can't talk about this, you can't do that, most Americans, any real American, ought to instantly be scandalized by that,

say, what? You know, that's like saying George Washington, Washington is evil. I mean, wait a minute. What do you mean by that? Like, we all ought to be, but most Americans by now have been kind of quieted into thinking that America is maybe neutral, probably not very good, probably racist. All the stuff that if you said this to somebody in 1950, they would have been taken aback by all of these things. I want to keep you into the next segment because I've just been talking and talking here. I'm just, you know, you probably know this, Mario, but when there are folks like you saying the kinds of things you're saying, it's galvanizing and encouraging to folks like me and other folks out to think that, am I the only one?

Are there? How many people have been have been silenced or have been confused into silence or intimidated? and we need to speak out for God's purposes. We'll be right back, folks. I'm talking to Mario Morillo. Go to Mario Morillo.org. Check it out. Hey there, folks.

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He's doing everything he can. The church, which ought to be fearless, because Jesus defeated death on the cross. We know it. We don't fear death. We fear nothing, but disappointing the God who loves us and died for us. The church has been quiet, has been backing away, has wanted intellectual respectability or something.

Final comments. I believe that God needs to wake us up to the, the reality of what will happen if we don't oppose the evil that is unfolding in our nation. Just because it is fantastic, just because it is so against the grain of your normal concept of reality does not mean it isn't real. It is very real. And one of the things you said in your book about Bonhoeffer is that Germany did not take him seriously. Now, it's very interesting what people are saying right now, that what they're not

taking seriously. You can have all your opinions of Mike Lindell and his evidence, which I think is towering, overwhelming, and compelling. But you cannot escape the personal responsibility that you have to say, are my children worth me looking into what's actually going on right now and making sure that in God I'm doing my duty in this hour for American freedom? That's the issue. That's the question. I think, you know, because my parents were, you know, came out of war-torn Europe and they saw communism and that evil, they raised me knowing that that's possible in this world, that things aren't always going to be.

wonderful. I think a lot of Americans think, like, living in America, this is normal, and you think there's nothing normal about this. We are living in a place that is unlike, just about unlike any place in the world today, but also in history, the despots, the lying, the evil, we have forgotten, and Christians ought to be the most cognizant, that there is evil, there's satanic evil warring against God. And sometimes, the Lord allows the battle to come to us and says, what will you do now? We will see what you believe now by how you behave.

And so we're in a moment that is very difficult, a lot of division going on. And as we go out, Mario, I just want to really thank you for being a very rare voice in the midst of these things. I wanted my audience to know you, to begin to get to know you. I hope they will go to Mario Morillo.org. That's M-U-R-I-L-O-Marillo.org. But on behalf of my audience and me and my fellow Americans,

thank you, my brother, and God bless you. God bless you. Thank you.