The Eric Metaxas Show - Rick Joyner

Episode Date: September 27, 2022

Rick Joyner has a new book that is perfect for our times, "Overcoming Evil in the Last Days: Exposing Satan's Three Most Powerful Evil Strongholds."

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Dr. Rick Joyner, my friend, welcome. Well, good to be with you, Eric. I'm so impressed that you're up this early. It's extraordinary. I want to tell you that I have a book out, at the same time as your book. And I think so much of you that I want to promote your book more than I want to promote my book. Let me put it that way. When you say something, first of all, there are people who listen to this program who are not people of faith. And I think some of this language maybe is confusing to them.

So I just want to be clear, folks. Dr. Rick Joyner and I believe that we're in a spiritual battle right now. It's not just a political battle or whatever you want to see, whatever you want to call it. It's at its heart a spiritual battle. And if you're a Christian, you need to understand that God calls you to spiritual warfare. We're not talking about guns. We're talking about prayer. We're talking about spiritual warfare.

So, Rick, the book is called Overcoming Evil in the Last Days. I guess that implies that you believe they were. we're able to overcome the evil spiritually that we're seeing? Yes, I do. I believe there are three levels that we need to overcome the evil in. You know, first in ourselves, second in the body of Christ that represents Christ on the earth. And then when we have those established, I believe we have authority to shut the gates

of hell into our countries. And gates of hell are where hell has access, where hell is. where hell is getting into our country, to subdue it, you know, to pervert it, things like that. And I think as we come into a unity, first in ourselves, then the body of Christ, we can go after these ultimate strongholds. Well, that's interesting because I think you're right. The key, you know, you hear this said over and over. People say, what's wrong with the world? And I don't know if it was Chesterton who said it, but he said, I am.

In other words, our own sin, our own brokenness, the first thing, if you care about your country, if you care about the world, if you care about any of these things, the first thing to do is to read the Bible and to give your heart to Jesus utterly in every way, anything that is preventing you in your life from getting closer to him, from walking with him, that's step number one. And we often don't talk about that. We often talk about external things, but you and I know that's the first thing and the most important thing that God wants us to do. Yeah, and I, you know, I think we can recognize evil. We need to have our senses trained to discern good and evil.

We're told in Hebrews. And I think that is a process of maturity. But once we discern it, like if we discern evil that is taken over our country or influential, in our church or something, we need to first look, does it have a root in us? Jesus had authority of all evil because evil had no place in him. So before I look at, you know, maybe accusing others of racism or something, I want to be sure I'm free of that, you know. And then I think, as we see in the parable, you know, about having a speck in your eye

or a log, you know, Jesus didn't say that we shouldn't try to help get a speck out of somebody else's eye. He just said, get to log out of your own first. Then you can see clearly to help get it out of somebody else's eye. So I do think we look at ourselves first. You know, Second Chronicle 714 is if my people who are called by my name would repent, humble themselves, pray. turn from their wicked ways. He's saying, my people need to do this before we're going to have authority to take up called the world to do it. Well, it seems to me that the horrors that we're experiencing in this country and around the world are in part the Lord's way of getting our

attention, of waking up those who are still sleeping and saying, I need you to join the holy remnant, to stop sitting on your hands and pretending that there's nothing. to do but pray. Of course, we're supposed to pray. But you hear over and over again, Christian leaders have been either silent on a lot of these issues we're facing. They act like, well, I don't want to be divisive, or they are openly advocating not getting involved in these things. In other words, they say that anything that touches on these issues that's too divisive, and we're just about preaching the gospel. And in my own book, Letter to the American Church, I go, after this, I say, that's not biblical. Biblically, the Lord doesn't recognize these divisions. He

basically says, truth is truth. And when there's suffering, when there's oppression, when there's injustice, my people are to speak out. My people are to pray and to do what they can. And to me, that is part of what I would call a religious spirit, the idea that we're going to be so theologically fussy. We're just going to focus on, you know, what we call spiritual stuff. But the reality is the Lord doesn't acknowledge that kind of division. He says, you know, everything is supposed to belong to me. You're supposed to bring me into every sphere. So I assume that's part of what you're talking about when you talk about religious spirit. Yeah, part of it. I would also include that under the category of cowardice more than maybe even the religious spirit. It's,

Paul said, if I were still seeking to please men, I would not be a bond servant of Christ. I think a lot of that is simply the fear of man, fear of causing controversy or whatever. But Jesus gave us only three instructions, three things to do when he was asked about the signs of what's going to happen. At the end of the age, his conclusion was, you need to do these three things, speaking to his people. You need to stand up. Number one, we've got to start standing up for what we believe. Didn't Jesus, he came to show us how we're supposed to live. He boldly confronted the darkness of his times. He didn't back down one bit. He would call him hypocrites when that's what they were being. Then he said to look up. Number two, look up. Keep your eyes on him, the one who really has authority. When Peter kept his eyes on the Lord, he could walk on the troubled waters. If we take eyes off him, we're going to sink. We can fall into the same fears and paranoia and all that much of the world has fallen into

if we don't keep our attention on him. And then he said, number three, rejoice. Don't ever lose your joy. The joy of the Lord is your strength. And I think if we're trying to confront the evil in the world with bitterness, with resentment, by a reactionary spirit, rather than really understand, no, we're supposed to have the truth

that sets people free. You know, people are not our enemy. We don't war against flesh and blood, we're told. It's what has control of people, and we want to break that darkness off of them so they can be free. And if we lose our joy, we're going to lose everything. Well, I was saying, I think earlier,

in the first hour of this program with my producer, Albin, that I have never, when I post something on Instagram or on Twitter, whatever, the most negative, discouraging comments I get are from religious Christians who are almost happy to say, it's all over, God has already judged us, like basically throw in the towel. It's the voice of the devil coming through this religious spirit. And then on the other end of the spectrum, you have what you called cowardice.

And I think it's one of the last verses in the scripture that who will be thrown into the lake of fire? It's such a chilling verse in Revelation. The cowardly, cowards. I mean, I thought to myself, you don't hear that very often, that God judges cowardice, that if you fear, man,

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overcoming evil in the last days. You identify three strongholds, racism, witchcraft, and the religious spirit. Let's talk about that. Racism. I have to say that. recently, it came to me that the folks who are involved in critical race theory, BLM, they are stoking the fires of racism. For them, it's almost as though they worship an idol of racism because it's good for business. Now, I don't know whether some of them may be aware of that, but the irony is that if somebody is making progress in their own, in their own issues with other races or whatever. That's bad for business for these folks that they're stoking these fires.

They seem to have a glee in the division. They don't really seem interested genuinely in bringing healing or unity or even acknowledging healing and unity when you see it. Because most of the churches I go to are completely multi-ethnic, every color, every race. But their voices out there, that they don't like that. They want to pretend that things are worse than ever. It's just kind of a bizarre thing, as I've observed it. So when you talk about that being one of the three, what's your

perspective? Well, I think, you know, Jesus said Satan cannot cast out Satan. I think many of those who are out there doing the most accusing of others being racist are doing and saying the most racist things of all. And I think that also is because, as we were warned, you know, you who accuse others, do you do the same things? And you're right. When you try to use Satan or you try to use evil to cast out evil, it only multiplies that evil. You know, rebellion will not cast out, you know, racism or witchcraft or any of these other things. We can't use the thing. Jesus said, if I cast out demons by the spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. So first, we need to see, yeah, racism is an ultimate issue. It's an ultimate evil of the human

heart. It's something the Lord warned about in that same, you know, dialogue he had. in Matthew 24, where he said nation would rise against nation. That was the Greek word ethnos would rise against ethnos or ethnic conflict, not just countries fighting each other. And we see that rising in the world. And yet Jesus said, which I think is the antithesis to that, he said his church would be a house of prayer for all ethnos, all ethnic groups, all nations. So we've got to be sure that we are not of a racist spirit, and that we, you know, I think would have the heart of God, the creator who so loves creativity, made every one of us different, makes every snowflake different, supposedly, which he loves diversity that much. I think we should have in our heart that we're not going to

be afraid of others because they're different from us, or we're not going to consider ourselves superior to others just because we're different. But when we see or find others who are different, we have an expectation of learning from them, of honoring them and respecting them, and being open to, we need to learn things from them that they're seeing that we probably don't see. So yeah, I think it's, to me, the way we combat all of these strongholds is basically we have faith in God. we look to him, we get changed into his image, we become like him, and we fight the evil with truth that will set people free. Rick, I just have to ask you, because you've moved in the prophetic for a long time, and

in some ways that can be confusing. It's been, to some extent, confusing to me. What do you see happening in the years ahead? Or can you talk about that? Because so many people are wondering, what are the prophets saying? how are they saying it? What is your sense of that? Well, first, I think we do have a situation where, you know, even in the New Testament,

there were not many prophets. There were actually far more apostles than there were prophets in the New Testament. And the real thing is rare. I think many are claiming to be prophets. Christian can prophes out, by the way, we're told Corinthians, but that doesn't make you a prophet. So I think we have many voices out there right now that may indeed someday mature into a genuine prophetic ministry, but we all see in part and we know in part, nobody has the whole picture. So, you know, when he said, the Lord said, name us, that he would not do anything unless he reveal his

secret counsel to his servants, the prophets. That's plural, not just singular. There's supposed to be a fellowship and an interchange, not with just prophets with prophets, but I believe prophetic people who have taken their right place in the body of Christ and relate to the whole body of Christ, rightly. That's crucial for us to stay, I believe, accurate before the Lord in the things that we see. Well, so many people, it seems to me, have prophesied an end-time billion-soul harvest. Just the other day, I was with Dutch Sheets, and he reiterated that, I guess, I don't know, Bob Jones, Paul Kane, you've heard this over the years. Can you comment on that, how you see that. fitting into where we are on the prophetic time clock? Because that's where I get, where I have questions, let me say. Yeah. Well, I was shown something similar in 1987 in a two and a half day prophetic experience I had that I wrote about then in my book, The Harvest. Most of what I wrote

about then has already come to pass. The rest, I think you can see it's imminent. It's being fulfilled. But one of the things I was seen was that the harvest was going to come in two waves, the souls being gathered into the kingdom. And the first wave would be so big that most people would think this is the harvest that Jesus said was the end of the age. But the Lord said, no, this is just the gathering of those who are going to be laborers for the final greatest wave of harvest we've ever had. Now, some of the leaders of Youth with the Mission wrote me about, I think it was 17 years after I had published that book, The Harvest, and said they had done a study, and that in the 17 years since I had put that word out, more people had come to Christ in those 17 years than in all of previous history from the day of Pentecost until I had published that book. Now, a whole lot of that has to do with the population as so much greater in all, but many nations at that time were experiencing the greatest revival, I believe the greatest thing gathering the world has experienced, but it missed America.

It seems like it missed America, missed Europe, but countries in South and Central America and Asia, even Eastern Europe, they were having people born again at a rate faster than people were being born in their countries. It was massive change in a massive end gathering. And then I was shown there would be a long period of kind of relative inactivity before the next wave. And that's when we needed to prepare those who had been gathered in the first wave to be the laborers for the second wave. And all that that entailed, and I was warned, don't waste that time. Use every bit of it.

Well, listen, we now have evidence, clear evidence, the second wave is upon us. And, you know, if you know you've been at the ocean, if a big wave is coming and you're not positioned rightly, you're not going to ride the wave, you're going to get crushed by it. And I think there are so many people that have not prepared for what is now, obviously already upon us. and I think a lot of that is because most of our attention has been on the evil. And we're told that's the way it's going to be when this happens. Isaiah 60, when darkness covers the earth and deep darkness, people, that's when the glory of the Lord appears. Throughout history and throughout scripture,

it was during the times of greatest apostasy that the greatest prophets arose, that the greatest moves of God were begun. But I am so excited right now that we're seeing the first stages of what I believe will be the last great waiver, at least the last one I was shown in that vision. And there could be more after it, but I wasn't shown them. That's amazing. We've got more folks. We're talking to Rick Joyner.

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Take a chance on me. If you need me, let me know. Folks, welcome back. We're talking to our friend Dr. Rick Joyner, J-O-Y, and he are. The book is overcoming evil in the last days. Rick, in the, um, these three, uh, strongholds that you mentioned, these strongholds of evil, racism, witchcraft, and the religious spirit. There are a lot of people, I think, listening to this program, they're not familiar with some of the language we're using when they hear witchcraft. They don't quite understand what we're talking about.

Obviously, we mean the occult. Uh, there are dark spiritual forces. All spirituality is not good spirituality. If you believe in the God of the Bible, you know that there are hosts of demons who war against God's angels. This is called reality, folks. This is the invisible reality of the spirit. So, Rick, when you say that this is one of the strongholds today, how do you mean it? Well, I think what you're talking about, the occult, is one form. I actually think that is the smaller form of witchcraft. It's like the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the good side of that tree was just as deadly as the evil side, is rooted in human goodness, human idealism and things like that.

I think what I would call white witchcraft, charismatic witchcraft, not speaking of a charismatic movement, but of care of human charisma, basically witchcraft is counterfeit spiritual authority. It's using any spirit other than the Holy Spirit to manipulate, to control, to dominate, to influence others, even to do the work of God. I believe many Christian leaders are using more counterfeit spiritual authority than they are the real thing. And I think the way it enters, we see clearly in the lives of King Saul and King David. King Saul lost the authority. The kingdom was rent from him, or true spiritual authority was rent from him.

When he caved into the pressure and offered a sacrifice, he was not authorized to sacrifice. He was a Benjaminite, not a Levite. But he did that because he saw the enemies gathering. and the people scattering. He feared the circumstances and he feared the people more than he did God in the command of God. And that's what I think causes us

to start serving men, even to start serving evil, and we can even do it, claiming to be doing it in the name of Jesus, the name of Christ. Can you give me an example? Because I feel like I'm not understanding specifically what are the kinds of manifestations.

of this that are happening now? Well, I think a control spirit where you can try to intimidate and control others by pressuring them, threatening them, and things like that, even to do good things, even to do good works, that's counterfeit spiritual authority. Well, to me, it sounds like the cancel culture. It sounds like the, it sounds like the woke Marxist left that has infiltrated the church. because that's a big part of what we're dealing with right now is that churches that we would say our evangelical churches have been for a long time. They've opened a door to critical race theory, which is Marxist and atheist.

And it's in the name of good things. It's saying that it's because we care about the poor, because we care about injustice, racial injustice. They, you know, there are all kinds of terms, virtue signaling. But it seems clear to me that the. spirits animating that are not of God. And at least that's how I'm interpreting part of what you're saying. Yeah. And I would say that most of those who are doing that in the world, it started in the church. You know, if we, whatever we loose in heaven gets released on the earth, whatever we bind in heaven gets bound on the earth. I think the council culture started in the church, just like a lot of dark

things. When we started manipulating people, we tried to cancel other churches or other ministries we didn't like or if somebody, you know, we had a conflict with, and we would try to do all those things to them, even though they're brothers and sisters in Christ. And Jesus said, as we did into the least of his little ones, he would take it the way we've done to him, the way we've treated him. So I think, like, again, like we said at the beginning of the program, if this thing starts manifested in the world, we need to start looking at the church and at ourselves. How have we been operating in this same spirit that is not the spirit of God? It is not the Holy Spirit.

And then when you talk about the religious spirit, it seems to me that part of what I see happening is that there are people, I mean, I write about it in my world. my own new book, Letter to the American Church, where I say that there are many people in the church that say, we're not supposed to be political. And I write away, say, what do you mean by that? I mean, truth is truth. William Wilberforce stood against slavery because of his faith in Jesus. And people at the time were saying, you're not supposed to mix faith and politics. The abolitionist movement in the United States. You had plenty churches speaking boldly against, uh, you're slavery, but they were told, well, you're just being political. There are plenty of people in the congregation that have a different view of that. You can't speak on that. When we come back,

I'm going to give Dr. Rick Joyner a chance to answer this because there's so much here. But I do want to say that that is what I'm seeing is that there are people using phrases to silence people. They say, well, that's not a gospel-related issue. We don't want to be political. And I see it as a religious spirit. They're trying to confine God into this little theological box. And the Lord says, I want you to bring me into every part of society. Whether people call you political or don't, that's not the issue. And we need to be obedient in the way that Wilberforce and Bonhofer were obedient. We'll be right back with Dr. Rick joined up. With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses.

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They're known to sell quickly. So order now with promo code Eric at mypillow.com. promo code Eric at my pillow.com. Folks, I'm talking to Rick Joyner. His new book is overcoming evil in the last days. Rick, I was just kind of giving part of my perspective on what I see as a religious spirit that we're dealing with right now. Can you respond to what I was saying and tell us what you mean by that? Well, I agree with what you said about it.

I think you've done a whole lot to give people an understanding of how, you know, we're not to submit to that perspective of not being the, salt and light we're called to be through your books about Wilberforce, Bonhofer and others. And I think most Christians really get that now. To me, it's a decreasing voice of those who think we shouldn't get engaged in what's happening in the world. But I think the real root of a religious spirit is trying to base our relationship to God on religious performance rather than what he accomplished on the cross. You know, where it's, you know, he's our righteousness.

And we also, you know, I think there are ways that the religious spirit is the most deadly. You know, Jesus had no trouble dealing with demons. They come bow to bow to him. It was the religious community that had him killed, that had him crucified. So that religious spirit to me is the foundation and root of the one that binds the other three together, which I call Satan's court of three strands that is not easily broken. But, you know, to get free of it is to follow Christ, to become like him, not just what people's opinions of him were or opinions of what is right and wrong in our society.

we've got to eat of the tree of life, not the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And that tree of life is a person. It's Christ himself. Well, it's absolutely extraordinary. We just, I don't know, when I was with you at Morningstar a number of years ago, you and I got in a conversation not really related to what we're talking about right now, but about Rudolph Hess. Do you remember that conversation?

I know I've talked a lot of. about Rudolph Hess, so I can imagine what it was. Well, just the idea that he was part of Hitler's inner circle and that he was held at Spandau prison and that you knew someone who shared Jesus with Rudolf Hess, one of the top figures in the Nazi high command. It's just one of the most amazing things. And I always thought if I ever got you back on the program, I wanted to ask you if you could mention anything about that.

Yeah, my friend, Colonel Eugene Bird, was the American commandant of the Spandale Prison for seven years. They housed all the Nazi war criminals. And he did help lead Albert Speer, von Scherrock, who was the founder of the Hitler youth. Rudolph Hess, who was Hitler's number one man, his vice premier, and other Nazi leaders who were war criminals, led them all to the Lord. And Rudolph Hess was the last one, but one of the most remarkable conversions I've ever heard of. But yeah, I think when we get to eternity,

we're going to find out why those Nazi leaders were there. They are going to be there with us, which only shows us we should not limit the power of the cross to change anyone. I mean, when I heard you talk about this, I mean, in my Bonhofer book, of course I talk about Rudolph Hess Hess. It's one of the most crazy, amazing stories in history.

And then he became the only prisoner at Spandau Prison. He was basically the only one who lived. I don't know when he died exactly. But he lived into his 90s, I think. He was there. It's just one of the most astonishing things imaginable. But you were friends with the man who led this guy who was so close to Hitler, who led him to faith.

Now, have you written about that, about any of the details of that? Well, Colonel Byrd wrote a book called The Loneliest Man in the World about Rudolph Hess. And that became an international bestseller for eight years. It was one of the top-selling books in the world. I think it's been reprinted and re-released under the title of Prisoner Number Seven, that was Rudolph Hess's number at the Spandale Prison.

But yeah, he dug, Byrd spent his entire time, his commandant of that prison, trying to understand what had happened to Germany, how did it happen, how did these brilliant, learned people get taken over by such evil, such darkness. And I think he gained many insights, which he wrote about in that book about Rudolph Hess.

And Byrd and I used to get together are often discussed these literally for days. I would go to Berlin and see him. I'd take a lot of our youth over, and he would take them on tours and all. But then he would take me in the afternoons to some famous Nazis house who was still alive, and I'd get to meet them myself and discuss these things.

But Berne and I both had a passion to understand that because the Lord had shown us both that the same evil that took over Germany was going to try to take over our. our country, that it would not come as Nazis. It would come in a whole different form, but it was the same spirit, the intolerance, all of the stuff we're seeing trying to take us over right now. I wasn't planning to go there, but of course, that's exactly the thesis of my book, Letter to the American Church. I'm basically begging people to see the parallel of exactly

what happened. In the early 30s in Germany, it is what's been happening in the American Church today, and it is astonishing that some good people could be deceived and could be used to deceive millions. We have voices in the church today in the evangelical church, writing books saying we shouldn't be political, which we shouldn't be about, and exactly what the German church was mostly saying, keep your nose clean, don't speak against the wickedness of the Nazis, just let it go, just focus on the gospel and you think, what dead gospel are you preaching that you cannot speak against these evils? What God are you worshipping? It's extraordinary that we're living through these times. But Rick, you and your book give us hope. The Lord is giving us hope. Folks, the book is called

Overcoming Evil in the Last Days. My guest has been Dr. Rick, Joyner, Rick. Just a privilege to have you. Thank you, sir. Likewise, good to be with you again. What a day, wake at night. Wait for the morning night. To shining through would not be. What a day. Sean Foyt, Rick Joyner.

It's crazy. Okay, I want to read this on the air to everybody who's listening. Okay, we're all concerned by cancel culture. That's part of what we're talking about when we're talking about all these things. Okay. So specifically, if a public school teacher is being dismissed for refusing to teach woke ideology, if a business comes under attack by left-wing activists, we know that this thing we call cancel culture is harming American society every day. You know this, folks, right? Okay. But that is why today I, Eric Mataxis, on this program,

I'm asking for your support for our friends at the Alliance Defending Freedom. You hear about all these court cases, okay? I mentioned it when I was talking to Sean. You have a Che on his church being sued, or they sued the governor. You have all these kinds of things going on. Who fights these court cases? Well, it's just a handful of folks. And at the leading the pack, our friends at the Alliance Defending Freedom,

it's the world's largest nonprofit legal organization committed to protect. religious freedom, parental rights, free speech, the sanctity of life. People say, what can I do, Eric? What can I do? You can do a lot of things, but one thing you could do is give something to the Alliance Defending Freedom. You have to go to Metaxistalk.com, click on the banner to make a tax deductible donation. I ask this unapologetically, folks. These are heroes. Alliance Defending Freedom. Tyson Langhofer, who was with ADF, says truth is the number one weapon in the battle against cancel culture. sure, I think we have a clip. It takes courage to speak the truth, and it takes courage to stand up to the repressive regime of cancel culture.

At Alliance Depending Freedom, I get to see that courage in the clients we serve every day. Since 2011, ADF has won 13 cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. We've also achieved more than 435 victories for students and faculty across the country. We have a 91% success rate when we file lawsuits in those cases. When Americans have the courage to fight cancel culture, we can win. What about you? Are you ready to join us and do your part to stand up for the truth? I hope that people will take this opportunity. Folks, people always say, what can I do? I'm telling you, do this, because I know the folks at ADF, okay? If you care about religious freedom,

which is to say if you care about freedom, which is to say if you care about America and the gospel, if you care about these things, you have to step up. So just go to our website, metaxis talk.com. Any gift of $100 or more will help them protect your God-given rights. against unconstitutional government overreach, which is in the headlines every single day. So right now, thanks to a generous friend of ADF, your first gift in any amount will be doubled. So this is one of these opportunities.

So please go to metaxis talk.com, metastastalk.com. Click on the Alliance Offending Freedom banner. The impact of your first gift will be doubled. Or you can call if you prefer. I'm going to give you a phone number. I hope you're hyped up to do this because this is an opportunity. We can fight back. We still can fight back.

we need to fight. Here's the number 855-5-4-7-53-33-8-55-5-4-7-53-53. Again, 855-5-4-7-5-4-7-53-53. Another thing that you can do, if you want, is to see some of the films we're talking about at SalemNow.com. No Vacancy. Oh, yeah. We just had Dean Canaan. Superman. The other day, Superman. So go to SalemNow.com. And always, as we say, please support our sponsors, nutrometics.com. Use the code Eric.

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