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Cracking the Time Code: When Bad Greek Meets Bad Theology · The Remnant Radio's Podcast

0:51
SPEAKER_00: I am so excited to be talking to you about this new book, Cracking the Time Code.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a book published in 2025 by Dr.
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SPEAKER_00: Candace Smithyman, an apostolic prophetic minister and the founder of Dream Mentors International, who hosts the Glory Road television program and your path to destiny on the It's Supernatural Network.
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SPEAKER_00: The book claims that Jesus' death, burial, resurrection, and ascension didn't just secure your salvation, but it literally broke the curse of time placed on you at the fall of humanity, freeing believers from scarcity, aging, financial lack, and every pressure, including the pressure of your own personal deadlines, by relocating you into the here and now what she calls the eternal and everlasting time zone, a heavenly time zone of limitless abundance, modeled on the Garden of Eden.
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SPEAKER_00: She draws on Greek and Hebrew word studies and goes through Old and New Testament narratives.
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SPEAKER_00: Additionally, she adds her own personal dreams and her trips to heaven.
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SPEAKER_00: In doing so, Smithiman offers readers a series of faith activations and prayers meant to help them stop toiling and access the supernatural healing wealth, prosperity, and blessing that has already been given in the promises of God, and they've already been fulfilled because in her framework they technically have been in eternity.
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SPEAKER_00: We just need to walk them out here and now on the earth.
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SPEAKER_00: But if you strip away all the branded vocabulary from cracking the time code and the eternal time that we're living in now, what Smithiman is essentially describing is the standard prosperity word of faith gospel through packaging a pseudoscience veneer borrowed from garbled readings of Einstein.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just the prosperity gospel with a time traveler soup slapped onto it.
2:20
SPEAKER_00: Way to go, Destiny image.
2:22
SPEAKER_00: You guys have really outdone yourselves on this one.
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SPEAKER_00: In this video, I'm going hard in the paint.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not pulling any punches.
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SPEAKER_00: This book contains Gnosticism, a first century heresy that was thoroughly debunked by the early church.
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SPEAKER_00: It contains some anthropological heresies that elevate us to divine status, even if she does that accidentally.
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SPEAKER_00: It repeatedly lies about the Greek and the Hebrew meaning of words, and it does not even include all of her constant contradictions that are just rampant all throughout the book.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't have time to cover that in this program, unfortunately.
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SPEAKER_00: But if you want to burn a couple brain cells and an hour, uh you can go pick it up on Destiny Images website.
2:59
SPEAKER_00: Stay tuned, guys.
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SPEAKER_00: It's going to be an interesting episode.
3:03
SPEAKER_00: Hey guys, welcome back to the wonderful world of Remnant Radio.
3:06
SPEAKER_00: For those of you who are new, my name is Joshua Lewis.
3:08
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for tuning in to this book review.
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SPEAKER_00: I had a really hard time trying to figure out where I was going to start in this book because we really have a target-rich environment here.
3:15
SPEAKER_00: And it's really hard to figure out uh where to start when you're a hammer and everything looks like a nail.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you right now, I think the best place to start, I've decided, is going to be with the languages, the original languages, because uh a lot of the load-bearing weight of this book, what's what's propping up all of this book is Smithman's constant appeal to the Greek and Hebrew.
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SPEAKER_00: She's not really trying to carefully exegete the text, she's not trying to figure out what the author's original meaning was when he wrote the text, uh, how it fits within the context of a passage.
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SPEAKER_00: She she just starts explaining things and then mid-paragraph takes a break to tell you what the Greek and Hebrew really means, but can this woman actually read Greek and Hebrew?
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, because if the linguistic foundations of this entire book is faulty, I think the vast majority of the book falls under the weight of that and it just kind of crumbles apart.
4:02
SPEAKER_00: And we need to be precise uh in this critique.
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SPEAKER_00: There are actually two distinct errors happening here in the book uh when she uses Greek and Hebrew.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes she just invents a word and creates a definition outright, fabricates an etymology that doesn't exist in any lexicon.
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SPEAKER_00: It presents a breakdown of the original word and builds a doctrine around it.
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SPEAKER_00: Other times she actually gets the word right or close enough and then imports an entirely theological system into that word as if the lexicon itself was delivering it, when really the lexicon isn't doing that.
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SPEAKER_00: She is, and she's just using the Greek as a cover to import her own theology.
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SPEAKER_00: Either way, the function is exactly the same.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not translation work.
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SPEAKER_00: She's using a word study as a rhetorical authority move, independent of whether the etymology of the word is actually right or wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: What's really happening is she's saying, Let me show you what the Greek really says.
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SPEAKER_00: It's really not trying to help expound the text, it's actually trying to create this feeling of exegetical depth and insider information.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's what your English Bibles are hiding from you.
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SPEAKER_00: This is what the text really says.
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SPEAKER_00: It subverts the reader's critical thinking.
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SPEAKER_00: And once the claim has been dressed up in Greek and Hebrew clothing, the reader sees it as scholarly rather than an invention when the invention of her own theology is actually doing the work.
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SPEAKER_00: So let's look at a few of these arrows.
5:12
SPEAKER_00: Starting uh with, I guess, the lies, the book has somewhere around 18 separate instances where Smith Emens just invents a Greek or Hebrew meaning completely out of thin air.
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SPEAKER_00: She doesn't just stretch a meeting, she doesn't have a creative application of the meeting, she invents a new meeting.
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SPEAKER_00: And we don't have to run through all 18 of those examples.
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SPEAKER_00: That would be an hour seminary lecture, and ain't nobody got time for that.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, so here are the four clearest, more most checkable answers that you can check on on your blue letter Bible, a free app that you can jump on online.
5:41
SPEAKER_00: Example one is the word regal.
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SPEAKER_00: So she in chapter two and again in chapter five tells us to look at Joshua 1:3.
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SPEAKER_00: Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon is actually hiding a secret.
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SPEAKER_00: The Hebrew word for foot is regal, and she says it actually means to walk as step, to endure in the journey and possess time.
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SPEAKER_00: But guys, regal just means foot.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the whole word.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the most boring anatomical noun in the Hebrew Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: Priests wash their regal in Exodus 30.
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SPEAKER_00: Ruth uncovers Boaz's regal on the threshing floor.
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SPEAKER_00: Judges use it for someone getting their feet wounded.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh there's no lexicon on the planet.
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SPEAKER_00: Strong's BDB, it doesn't matter, that gives possessed time as a definition.
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SPEAKER_00: She translates this word.
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SPEAKER_00: She just hallucinates its meaning and hands it to you as if it were some kind of ancient wisdom.
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SPEAKER_00: That's just not the case.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, there's a bunch of studies out there that'll say that foot can be used or uncovering feet can be used as a metaphor, uh as a as a uh pre-packaged idiom in the ancient Near East.
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SPEAKER_00: But an idiom is not the meaning of a word.
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SPEAKER_00: It is a phrase that is used that conveys a meaning.
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SPEAKER_00: She does not even say that this is an idiom.
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SPEAKER_00: She just says foot means possessing time, and it does it.
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SPEAKER_00: It means foot.
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SPEAKER_00: Now let's go to example number two.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh Edu.
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SPEAKER_00: This is my favorite one because she doesn't even try to hide the con from you.
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SPEAKER_00: In chapter nine, she discusses Matthew 13.
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SPEAKER_00: She informs you that the Greek word for spiritually perceiving is edu, and quoting her precisely in her book says this perceiving is the Greek word edu, which is pronounced I do, as in making a covenant.
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SPEAKER_00: When you say in your marriage vows, you say I do, agreeing with the commitment and unity that is marriage.
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SPEAKER_00: You see what she's doing here?
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SPEAKER_00: She takes a Greek word, and because it sounds like the English phrase I do, she changes the meaning of the Greek word and invents it to be some kind of marriage vow.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not what the Greek word says.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not Greek word study.
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SPEAKER_00: That's an English pun.
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SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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SPEAKER_00: There's no scholarship.
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SPEAKER_00: Edu is one of the most common verbs in the entire New Testament, and it just means to know.
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SPEAKER_00: Paul uses it constantly for the most mundane knowledge imaginable.
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SPEAKER_00: We know that all things work together for our good.
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SPEAKER_00: Romans 8 28.
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SPEAKER_00: Nobody is exchanging wedding vows every time Paul is saying I do or edu.
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SPEAKER_00: That's nonsense.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, she she heard a Greek word that sounds like an English phrase and put it into uh her doctrine and again packages it as some kind of wisdom.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not Greek and Hebrew word study.
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SPEAKER_00: Example number three is halak in chapter eight.
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SPEAKER_00: She says that Enoch walked with God, and she says that Hebrew word walked is halak, means to walk in conversation.
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SPEAKER_00: And then she says, if you break it down, the separate words and the roots of this means to prosper, but there is no such breakdown.
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't exist in Hebrew grammar.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's what she is conveniently skipping.
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SPEAKER_00: The identical word halak shows up in the next chapter with Noah, where Noah walks with God.
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SPEAKER_00: But Noah spent over a century building a boat while the entire community mocked him, right before the whole world was drowned.
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SPEAKER_00: If halak secretly means to prosper, I'd love for you to explain that to Noah.
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SPEAKER_00: So, example number four is gonna be Abad.
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SPEAKER_00: And that is the word that we have for till in our Bibles.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, she's gonna argue in chapter six that this is just not a good translation.
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SPEAKER_00: It's better translated toil, because she's gonna look to Genesis 3.23, where God sends Adam out to till the ground.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, but after the fall, that's gonna be difficult.
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SPEAKER_00: But she says that Hebrew word abad really means toil.
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SPEAKER_00: It means bondage, slavery, it's got curse language attached to it.
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SPEAKER_00: There is a superior kind of tilling that takes place.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, that's good.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus brings us into this place of just being able to work with ease, uh, you know, uh, apart from the curse, even though we still have thorns and thistles.
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SPEAKER_00: But she's gonna say, hey, look, Jesus frees us from this.
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SPEAKER_00: The curse of toiling is difficult.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, that word abad, it's a bad word.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but hey, till good, toil bad.
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SPEAKER_00: Except if you just go back in Genesis or or go into blue letter Bible and type in that word abad, or type in that word toil, what you're gonna find is that same Hebrew word shows up a chapter before the fall in Genesis 2.15.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, right there, you're gonna see that that word exists in the narrative.
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SPEAKER_00: Adam is placed in paradise itself and he's told to work and keep it.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the same identical Hebrew word, the same identical Hebrew phrasing that exists before the fall.
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SPEAKER_00: So either the Garden of Eden was already under a curse, uh, and Adam was toiling before sin ever entered the world, which again is theological nonsense, or she just invented a new doctrine that isn't in the text because the same word is in both places.
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SPEAKER_00: The curse in Genesis 3 isn't a different verb.
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SPEAKER_00: Thorns, thistles, sweat.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, those things were added because of Adam's sin.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, that difficulty, yes, but it's still the same word.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like saying, hey, uh, hey, you've got to go out and work, but now your work is hard.
10:23
SPEAKER_00: That's what the text is saying.
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SPEAKER_00: And and nothing is indicated in the specific word abad that would indicate that this is something, you know, more inferior than some other kind of toil word that she would prefer.
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SPEAKER_00: So these are the four.
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SPEAKER_00: These are the four major errors that are really easy to check on your own.
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SPEAKER_00: You can just go open up a blue letter Bible and check out these words, check out lexicons.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, really easy to decipher for yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: But there are 14 more exactly like these sitting in the book.
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SPEAKER_00: And we're not going to go through all of them.
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SPEAKER_00: If we're going to go through all of them, we would sit here all day working on that.
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SPEAKER_00: But this pattern is actually pervasive all throughout the work.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, they take ordinary words and assign these meanings that no lexicon would ever do.
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SPEAKER_00: And they build complete doctrines on these interpretations of these new made-up definitions.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, this next category is actually worse than the first category.
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SPEAKER_00: In the first category, we have words that are completely made up.
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SPEAKER_00: The second one's actually worse because it's actually harder to catch.
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SPEAKER_00: She's not actually saying anything linguistically that is incorrect.
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SPEAKER_00: She has a good definition, at least at some times.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, it's it's worth noting what she does with those good words that should alarm us because she begins to smuggle in bad theology with those right words.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's look at a few examples.
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SPEAKER_00: Example one is anablipo.
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SPEAKER_00: In Matthew chapter 14 at the feeding of the 5,000, Jesus looks up into heaven.
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SPEAKER_00: And before he blesses the bread, the Greek word he uses is anablipo, there in the text.
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SPEAKER_00: And yes, it can genuinely mean look up, or as she says, genuinely mean recover sight.
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SPEAKER_00: Fine.
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SPEAKER_00: That part is in fact accurate.
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SPEAKER_00: But here's what she does with the text.
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SPEAKER_00: She tells you right before this miracle that Jesus was overwhelmed by looking at the crowd's poverty, at their sickness, that he dropped into what she calls a natural earthly sight, the same fallen curse that we're all seeing in the rest of us because of the consequence of sin.
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SPEAKER_00: And Jesus, quote, had to call himself out of that place of depravity and recover his spiritual sight in order to perform the miracle.
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SPEAKER_00: So sit with that for a second.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, really meditate on this.
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SPEAKER_00: She is telling you that the sinless eternal Son of God, fully God, in the same breath, she calls him the great I am in this text, elsewhere in the book, becomes spiritually compromised looking at poor people and had to snap himself out of this kind of carnal depravity that's overtaken him and to look upward and an ublipo and remove that kind of earthly vision in order to gaze into heaven.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a Christological heresy.
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SPEAKER_00: Either Jesus is God, and God doesn't get spiritually degraded by looking at a crowd, or he isn't God, and the book has a bigger problem than bad Greek.
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SPEAKER_00: More on Matthew here in a moment.
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SPEAKER_00: But let's jump to the next uh example.
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SPEAKER_00: So, example number two is Ion versus Kronos, and I'm not pronouncing these right words.
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SPEAKER_00: I put the wrong emphasis on the wrong syllable here, I'm sure.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, many of you uh Greek students are going to be very upset with me.
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SPEAKER_00: I apologize, but this is one of the engines of her book, and we have to address it.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, she correctly notes that the New Testament uses these two different words, uh, time uh being ion, which does carry a sense of age or eternity, uh, and chronos, which does refer to a measured span or period of time.
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SPEAKER_00: And that distinction is real, right?
13:34
SPEAKER_00: Any first-year Greek student could tell you this.
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SPEAKER_00: What she does with this is entirely novel, though.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, she essentially argues that there's like almost parallel dimensions of cosmology, two separate time zones that she causes them to run side by side, this earth time zone and this heavenly time zone that kind of coexist.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, and one can supernaturally dip in and one out of one and the other with Kairos moments, where uh they sync up and unlock specific blessings where these two earthly zones and heavenly zones kind of overlap, and the the space gets thinned between, and well, blessing comes and breaks through.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, none of that architecture is actually found in the words.
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SPEAKER_00: Ion and Kronos are just two Greek words with overlapping but distinguishable ranges of meanings, the kinds of things that will show up in any kind of word for time in any language.
14:20
SPEAKER_00: She's taken a genuine vocabulary distinction and inflated it into a science fiction multiverse.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and because the underlying Greek fact checks, it's technically accurate, the whole structure gets a free pass, and readers don't know any better to look at the uh implications of what she's saying.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh look, words have a semantic range, and this is really important.
14:40
SPEAKER_00: I have a hand.
14:41
SPEAKER_00: That means I have an appendage.
14:42
SPEAKER_00: I can say, hey, give me a hand, that means I need your help.
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SPEAKER_00: If I say, hey, keep out an eye out on Uncle Tommy, right?
14:48
SPEAKER_00: He's known for being really handsy.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you to keep your distance from unwanted sexual advances.
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SPEAKER_00: But if I call my brother a handyman, you should not then assume that I am telling you that my brother is a predator because that is not my meaning.
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SPEAKER_00: The context shows you the way that that word is supposed to be used.
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SPEAKER_00: What she does is find the root of that word, finds one of its applications, and then spins off an entire theology based off of an application that the author never intended.
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SPEAKER_00: When we engage with the Greek and the Hebrew and what it really means, we should always be looking at it at in its ancient Near Eastern context.
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SPEAKER_00: We should be looking at it as the author intended it to be used in the first century or in the Old Testament dating further back.
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SPEAKER_00: The aim of our goal is not to find secret truths in the text, but try to figure out what the author meant it and how he purposed it uh in the past.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the aim.
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SPEAKER_00: These two patterns are pervasive throughout the book.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, either she's inventing new definitions of groeping in Hebrew, or she's occasionally using the correct one, but then imports all kinds of nonsense into the interpretation with a correct Greek word.
15:57
SPEAKER_00: Now we turn to the word of faith imports.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, when you strip away all the Greek and Hebrew costumes and you look at the Einstein garnishes that are placed all throughout the book and you realize, oh, this is just gobbledygook nonsense that's been shoved into the book.
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SPEAKER_00: When you pull all of that out, what you actually see is left is a word of faith prosperity style theology, the doctrine that's been around since the 1980s.
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SPEAKER_00: And when you think about it, think about how she handled Matthew earlier.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus looking at poor people gets sucked into this vision of depravity.
16:23
SPEAKER_00: It makes sense because even Clinth Copeland can't ride on a plane without those demons and coach just kind of swarming him.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's tracking with me.
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SPEAKER_00: So here are three places, straight from her own teaching, where this becomes undeniable.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: This is word of faith teaching.
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SPEAKER_00: The first one is a bummer.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, look at the first one where she talks about your faith is actually what produces your money and your health.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not God's work, uh, it's not your work, uh, it's not God's discretion.
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SPEAKER_00: It's actually just your faith.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: Go to chapter seven, she's working through Romans 4, a passage about Abraham being justified by faith, uh, not by works.
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SPEAKER_00: And maybe the word work is tricky here.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe she thinks it means occupation.
16:57
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, but she says, You don't get gain because you worked hard.
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SPEAKER_00: You got the gain on earth because you believed and you did what the Lord asked, and then he blessed you with it.
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SPEAKER_00: So maybe she's saying God is calling us to have faith.
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SPEAKER_00: And when we have faith, we're justified, right?
17:12
SPEAKER_00: Like she's clearly making a connection, author's intent that God told Abraham to trust him.
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SPEAKER_00: He trusts God, it's credited to him as righteous.
17:20
SPEAKER_00: Like maybe that's what she's saying.
17:21
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but a few paragraphs later, when you look at that, she starts to apply it to your paycheck.
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SPEAKER_00: To the one who does not work but trusts God and justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
17:31
SPEAKER_00: Love that.
17:31
SPEAKER_00: That's great, that's scripture.
17:32
SPEAKER_00: Then she says, This is powerful to those who have the right attitude in faith while they're working, while they're doing their purpose and destiny, and believes on God, being their only provider, not the person paying you.
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SPEAKER_00: That is the culture of heaven made manifest.
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SPEAKER_00: So in Romans 4, a passage about justification, how a sinner is declared righteous before God has nothing to do with your job, nothing to do with your paycheck.
17:55
SPEAKER_00: She has taken a doctrine about salvation and quietly turned it into a doctrine about your income.
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SPEAKER_00: Your employer isn't the reason you got paid, it was your faith.
18:18
SPEAKER_00: Now, that's not exegesis.
18:20
SPEAKER_00: That's writing a text and trying to rewriting a text, trying to fund your own position of theology.
18:26
SPEAKER_00: Now, you said pun, like that was definitely a pun on purpose, right?
18:29
SPEAKER_00: Funding your vision of theology.
18:31
SPEAKER_00: Hope you got it.
18:31
SPEAKER_00: Okay, and the next one we're gonna look at.
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SPEAKER_00: And when blessing doesn't come, she already built in an excuse.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: Your own perception can shut down God's power.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: Look to chapter two.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: She writes this.
18:43
SPEAKER_00: She says, We can only receive from God what we can see through the lens of our soul.
18:48
SPEAKER_00: If our lens or our small eyes devalues and makes less of something that God sees as great, we will diminish that blessing and render it powerless.
18:57
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
18:58
SPEAKER_00: Like I need a minute and take some blood pressure medication.
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SPEAKER_00: She doesn't say that we're failing to recognize the blessings that God has already given, right?
19:11
SPEAKER_00: That would actually be an ordinary spiritual blindness, something that the Bible actually talks about, right?
19:15
SPEAKER_00: He gives reign to the righteous and the unrighteous and the righteous.
19:17
SPEAKER_00: The unrighteous, I would imagine, don't recognize that God is the one who is bringing them a blessing.
19:22
SPEAKER_00: She says that our small thinking can render God's blessings powerless.
19:27
SPEAKER_00: That is the sovereign, unstoppable God of Scripture, the one who spoke the universe into existence with his words.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: And you're saying that his power uh becomes limited based on your imagination.
19:41
SPEAKER_00: So faith doesn't just receive what God gives in this framework.
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SPEAKER_00: Faith is now the precondition that activates God's power in the first place.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: And unbelief is strong enough to override God's faithfulness.
19:56
SPEAKER_00: Um, isn't there a scripture about our unfaithfulness not nullifying God's faithfulness?
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SPEAKER_00: Doesn't matter.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: Let's keep going.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: And we've got example number three, and this one, if the other ones didn't, this one should genuinely alarm you because she teaches that death itself is optional, not just for Enoch, but also for you and your faith, if it's rightly calibrated.
20:17
SPEAKER_00: Go to chapter eight of this book and you're gonna see her work through Genesis chapter five.
20:20
SPEAKER_00: And I say work through, uh, that might be a bit of a stretch.
20:23
SPEAKER_00: Uh, she begins to look at this passage and she writes this of Enoch.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: His flesh was so in tune with heaven that he lived until he was 365 years old.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: His flesh was even defiled in this earthly time code.
20:37
SPEAKER_00: That alone would just be a strange reading of an obscure verse.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: But she doesn't leave us there.
20:43
SPEAKER_00: She continues with Enoch, not just a one-off.
20:46
SPEAKER_00: She explicitly extends this possibility to you and me, the reader, right now.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: She writes, if we're going to be taken physically up to heaven without seeing death, which is Enoch's testimony, then we need to be living in a place where the culture of heaven and life already exists for us.
21:00
SPEAKER_00: We're living by faith, all that heaven is manifesting in a current moment.
21:05
SPEAKER_00: You don't go living in this realm being consumed by death and expect to have your body translated and taken up without living today in a realm of faith.
21:13
SPEAKER_00: Read what that's saying again.
21:15
SPEAKER_00: Like be careful to study what is actually being said here by this lady.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: She's saying the only thing standing between you and Enoch's faith is whether you are significantly spiritually attuned enough to see the vision of heaven, having a heavenly mindset and living a life of faith, not God's sovereign singular choice that he made about one man and one particular time and all of the history of scripture, but your own spiritual calibration, that's the only thing keeping you from that experience.
21:40
SPEAKER_00: That's telling readers in print that death is a finite problem that you can train your way out of if you get all of the doctrine right, if you get all of your thinking just so so.
21:51
SPEAKER_00: If the blessing comes by faith, and then faith gets that credit.
21:55
SPEAKER_00: If it doesn't, your lack of faith then gets the blame.
21:58
SPEAKER_00: God is the system, he's never actually the one who decides who lives and dies.
22:03
SPEAKER_00: And yet in the scripture, he has written all of our days in his book, and he's appointed for every man once to die, and then the judgment.
22:11
SPEAKER_00: And on top of that, the way that she is teaching people to escape death isn't through being uh in faithful relationship to Jesus, it's being in tune with heaven.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: The focus from confidence in Jesus' finished work is then usurped to heavenly imagination.
22:28
SPEAKER_00: I don't know about you, that seems blasphemous to me, not to mention a little kooky that she's teaching people that they can bypass death on this side of eternity.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: I'm sure you're thinking, it can't get worse than this, right?
22:39
SPEAKER_00: We've got this this doctrine about Jesus being corrupted because he was around poor people.
22:45
SPEAKER_00: Now we can all escape death as long as we're in tune with heaven.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: What's next?
22:49
SPEAKER_00: Well, next I have for you is Gnosticism.
22:51
SPEAKER_00: You're probably thinking to yourself, how could any publisher get through all of this and and still publish this book?
22:56
SPEAKER_00: It was destiny image after all, guys.
22:58
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
22:59
SPEAKER_00: Um if you know, you know.
23:01
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, let's talk about Gnosticism.
23:02
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna assume all of you know what the word Gnosticism actually means, it was this first sentence.
23:06
SPEAKER_00: Heresy.
23:07
SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to kind of unpack it real briefly so that you kind of get some of the context.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: In the first century, there's a movement that infiltrated the church with a mythology that went something like this.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: So there was this divine realm, and in that realm existed a play Roma, essentially a pantheon of gods.
23:20
SPEAKER_00: So a bunch of beings that kind of existed.
23:22
SPEAKER_00: Wisdom was one of those pantheons of beings.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: And wisdom produced this lesser god called a demi-urge who acts apart from the play Roma.
23:30
SPEAKER_00: And because he acts apart from wisdom and the rest of the gods, he's kind of ignorant and he creates this physical world.
23:36
SPEAKER_00: Wisdom, trying to figure out a solution here and depowering the Demi-urge, decides to trick him by getting him to breathe his life into humanity in order that those humans could worship him.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: And accidentally, he ends up creating humans, giving up some of his divinity, but giving the spark of divinity all inside of these humans.
23:55
SPEAKER_00: The catch is that we can't perceive it.
23:57
SPEAKER_00: We can't perceive that we have this supernatural divine nature that's trapped inside of our physical bodies.
24:05
SPEAKER_00: So salvation within a Gnostic framework is the system is trying to not necessarily deal with sin.
24:11
SPEAKER_00: It's actually waking up to this reality that we're divine and escaping the illusion of the physical, realizing that our bodies in this material world are basically a prison keeping you from your true divine nature and all the cool things that are really inside you.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: Now, the church obviously rejected this completely and rejected it early.
24:30
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we got Irenaeus in 144 riding against the heresies, and he's dealing with Gnosticism all over the place, right?
24:36
SPEAKER_00: The material world is good.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: God created it in Genesis and says it's very good.
24:40
SPEAKER_00: There's certainly parts of the world that are corrupted by sin and destruction has come into the world.
24:44
SPEAKER_00: But even when God comes back to rule and reign here on the earth, he does it on the earth.
24:48
SPEAKER_00: We're not just hanging out in clouds, hanging out with diapers and harps, playing with wings on our backs.
24:53
SPEAKER_00: We come back to rule and reign on this physical earth.
24:57
SPEAKER_00: So Gnosticism makes your body an obstacle to your true spiritual nature and your fullness instead of being part of God's plan to redeem all things.
25:05
SPEAKER_00: Like your body is going to be redeemed.
25:07
SPEAKER_00: The earth is going to be redeemed.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: Creation will be redeemed.
25:09
SPEAKER_00: And to be fair to Smithyman, she never actually says that God, that you are God or that you can become God one day in the classic Gnostic way.
25:18
SPEAKER_00: But watch the shape of what she actually does say, because the shape is the same in her system.
25:22
SPEAKER_00: What is keeping you from your true supernatural nature, your health and your wealth and your miracle power and your freedom from time itself?
25:30
SPEAKER_00: It's not sin.
25:31
SPEAKER_00: It's actually just your perception.
25:33
SPEAKER_00: It's believing the lie that this ordinary physical reality is evil.
25:37
SPEAKER_00: And you've got to escape the illusion of this world in order to access what is already yours.
25:43
SPEAKER_00: So in that way, it's Gnostic.
25:45
SPEAKER_00: Now it's not Gnostic uh proper, it's not Gnosticism proper, but it is Gnostic adjacent.
25:51
SPEAKER_00: Uh, a lot of similarity in the way that we're being redeemed.
25:54
SPEAKER_00: Uh, how does Enoch escape death?
25:56
SPEAKER_00: Is it faith in God?
25:58
SPEAKER_00: No, it's actually having this life of faith where we see the heavenlies rightly and we're rightly attuned with heaven.
26:04
SPEAKER_00: We get snatched up.
26:06
SPEAKER_00: Okay, here are three places where that shows up explicitly in her text.
26:10
SPEAKER_00: Let's look at this first quote where your body is a disposable container.
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SPEAKER_00: Chapter one.
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SPEAKER_00: When you come to know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you become eternity in action.
26:23
SPEAKER_00: You become eternity in action.
26:26
SPEAKER_00: What meaneth this?
26:27
SPEAKER_00: We'll soon find out.
26:28
SPEAKER_00: What that means is that as a believer, your spirit and your soul immediately enter the realms of eternity.
26:35
SPEAKER_00: But your body, your earth suit, is here and now.
26:38
SPEAKER_00: She says, earth suit.
26:40
SPEAKER_00: That's the phrase she chose.
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SPEAKER_00: Not your body being redeemed and awaiting resurrection, not your body, which Paul calls the temple of the Holy Spirit, a suit, something you put on, something you're wearing, something that's not really you.
26:52
SPEAKER_00: The real you is the inner framework, somewhere else entirely, already living in eternity.
26:58
SPEAKER_00: And the body is just a costume.
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SPEAKER_00: It appears to be dragging on here on the earth in the meantime, kind of like the matrix.
27:06
SPEAKER_00: Then we've got quote number two, the physical sense of actively blocking supernatural power.
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SPEAKER_00: In chapter six, she writes, I must look up way above into the heavens to take my eyes off the earth completely.
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SPEAKER_00: I must set my affections there only with no look to gain in the earth.
27:20
SPEAKER_00: I must believe I am there in the heavenly places, and my affections are on him and heavenly places.
27:27
SPEAKER_00: I am cut off from the earth and have no eyes for here.
27:31
SPEAKER_00: I must literally restrict my eyes from seeing what is in the room.
27:35
SPEAKER_00: Now, here Candace is speaking about how she received supernatural power for healing in her meetings.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: She says she has to physically and literally cut off her ordinary sight from her actual eyes, from seeing what's actually in the room in front of her, the room that she's standing in, in order to access supernatural power.
27:54
SPEAKER_00: In this testimony, she's going to tell a story of where she kind of closes her eyes, kind of gazes into heaven spiritually.
27:59
SPEAKER_00: Um, and in doing so, people in the room start getting healed and delivered.
28:03
SPEAKER_00: And why is that happening?
28:04
SPEAKER_00: Because her affections aren't here.
28:06
SPEAKER_00: She's trying to get rightly attuned in heaven.
28:08
SPEAKER_00: Perception of the physical world isn't neutral in this framework.
28:12
SPEAKER_00: It's actually the obstacle you have to get around.
28:14
SPEAKER_00: You have to shut it down and get to what is real, the real thing, not the illusion.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: None of these are one-off phrases.
28:21
SPEAKER_00: This is a pervasive pattern running throughout the entire book.
28:24
SPEAKER_00: Your body is not integral to who you are.
28:27
SPEAKER_00: Ordinary perception of physical reality is a curse to escape rather than a good that God has gifted you to be steward.
28:33
SPEAKER_00: And the whole project of cracking the time code is fundamentally about training yourself to stop believing what your eyes are actually telling you because that's not true.
28:43
SPEAKER_00: The true spiritual, eternal vision can only uh unchain you from the reality that you're currently living in.
28:50
SPEAKER_00: This is not a Christian doctrine of the body.
28:52
SPEAKER_00: This is a Gnostic anthropology wearing Christian vocabulary as a costume.
28:56
SPEAKER_00: Look, guys, I think I've saved the worst for last.
28:58
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I want to end on the most dangerous thing that I see in this book, in the teachings of this book, because we see clearly that she has butchered the Greek and the Hebrew, and that was really bad.
29:06
SPEAKER_00: The word of faith imports, hey, that's objectively false.
29:08
SPEAKER_00: The Gnostic flavor, all throughout this book, dangerous.
29:11
SPEAKER_00: But I want to end on two lines that I don't think are just wrong, but are rather reprehensible.
29:16
SPEAKER_00: Let's go look at chapter three.
29:18
SPEAKER_00: She writes, to fully enjoy the life God has given you through Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection and ascension, then live out the power of an endless life, which means you have no beginning and no end and live out fullness and completion from the eternal realms today and every day.
29:35
SPEAKER_00: I hope you caught it.
29:36
SPEAKER_00: She said, You have no beginning and you have no end.
29:39
SPEAKER_00: You understand what that phrase is?
29:40
SPEAKER_00: It's not just poetic language, that is historic theological language to describe God's own nature, what theologians call his ascety, his self-existence, his being uncreated.
29:50
SPEAKER_00: That's literally the description of Jesus in the book of Revelation as the Alpha Omega, the beginning and the end.
29:56
SPEAKER_00: He has no beginning, he has no end, he has existed forever.
29:59
SPEAKER_00: And she is saying, You have existed forever when you have come to faith.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
30:05
SPEAKER_00: And she just hands it to you.
30:06
SPEAKER_00: No qualifier, no footnote, no well, in a sense, this is what I mean.
30:11
SPEAKER_00: She looks at the reader, straight in her stinking eyes, and says, You were in the beginning.
30:16
SPEAKER_00: You do, you had no beginning.
30:18
SPEAKER_00: You were conceived on a specific day, you were conceived by specific parents.
30:23
SPEAKER_00: And before that, you did not exist.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: I don't care what she says, I don't care what Destiny Image publishes.
30:28
SPEAKER_00: This is dumb.
30:30
SPEAKER_00: The truth is, every single human being who has ever lived, uh, that is gonna be redeemed, it's gonna be forgiven uh by faith in Christ alone, is gonna be filled with the spirit.
30:38
SPEAKER_00: All of us did not exist from eternity past.
30:42
SPEAKER_00: We came into being.
30:43
SPEAKER_00: The only being who ever existed in eternity past that was human is Jesus.
30:49
SPEAKER_00: And he was not in eternity past in his humanity, he was in eternity past in his deity, everlasting life, a real glorious biblical promise means you have endless time in the future.
31:03
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't refer to your state in the past, it cannot and will never mean that you had no beginning.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: Those are not the same category.
31:10
SPEAKER_00: She's flattened the single most important distinction on all of Christian Christianity, the distinction between the creator and his creation.
31:19
SPEAKER_00: And she does it in a throwaway sentence in a self-help chapter about not feeling rushed.
31:25
SPEAKER_00: It's crazy.
31:27
SPEAKER_00: Second, we have chapter nine.
31:29
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus had compassion, he moved from a place of spiritual sight to natural and earthly sight to see their depravity and sickness.
31:37
SPEAKER_00: And then he had to call himself out of that place of depravity to do the miracle.
31:42
SPEAKER_00: This should encourage us.
31:43
SPEAKER_00: If the Savior of the world can get overwhelmed by the depravity of humanity and the curse of the fall of man, then so can we.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: He had to an oblipo in order to do the miracle and recover his spiritual sight to get back to the heavenly place of seeing as God sees, Jesus had to reposition himself.
32:04
SPEAKER_00: Now I told you that we're going to return to this passage, and I kept my promise.
32:08
SPEAKER_00: We're back once again.
32:10
SPEAKER_00: See, we mentioned this earlier.
32:12
SPEAKER_00: Um, but here, now in a again, Christian book, she is published.
32:16
SPEAKER_00: She's speaking of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, fully God, fully man, the one who spoke the world into existence, that he looked at a hungry, poor crowd, and somehow degraded, somehow fell from his heavenly vision into an earthly vision, that his his sight dropped into the same cursed, fallen, earthly register that she spends the entire rest of the book telling you uh is a result of sin.
32:41
SPEAKER_00: And then he had to put himself back into that heavenly realm.
32:45
SPEAKER_00: In order to do a miracle, he had to recover his sight.
32:48
SPEAKER_00: He had to, Annablipo, she says, if you're gonna say that Jesus Christ is God, you have to say that he's omniscient.
32:52
SPEAKER_00: And if he's going to be God, that means he has to be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
32:56
SPEAKER_00: And in this framework, she is saying that he has to recover his sight because he's thinking differently, seeing differently in a way that he shouldn't.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: Um, but this is not the historic Christian faith.
33:05
SPEAKER_00: The savior of the world, God and flesh, uh, his always been the same as the historic church has confessed.
33:11
SPEAKER_00: There is no orthodox category where the eternal Son of God, uh, his perception can dip into the fallen, cursed world.
33:17
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and it needs a moment to kind of snap out of looking at things incorrectly.
33:22
SPEAKER_00: The church has actually spent the first four centuries fighting and dividing over this exact question, whether Christ's human human nature could somehow compromise his deity and infect his divine nature.
33:33
SPEAKER_00: And the whole answer that the church gave, East, West, uh, and everyone in between was heck to the no, uh, not for even for a second.
33:41
SPEAKER_00: Uh, not while he wept, not while he hungered, not while he bled on the cross.
33:45
SPEAKER_00: And here uh is what is just casually stated in a chapter about feeding 5,000 people, trying to make the point about a miracle and how you can do miracles too.
33:52
SPEAKER_00: She is delving into the core of historic Christian doctrine, saying that Jesus' humanity somehow affected the way that he was omnisciently looking at the world.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: The real cost to this book, and it's not just the fake Greek, uh, that's rather embarrassing.
34:09
SPEAKER_00: It's underneath that fake Greek that this book quietly rewrites who God is as merely a human being and does it so smoothly, wrapped up in so much scripture and so many explanations and points and personal experiences that most readers will never actually notice those two sentences that that told them that Jesus needed spiritual rehab and that they personally are in the same eternal state that God is from eternity past to eternity future.
34:36
SPEAKER_00: That's not a revelation, that's not cracking the proverbial time code, that's heresy.
34:41
SPEAKER_00: Uh, with a cover price of$22 and destiny image put its name on the spine.
34:47
SPEAKER_00: Here's the truth life of a Christian is painfully ordinary.
34:52
SPEAKER_00: We suffer, but we do not suffer without hope.
34:56
SPEAKER_00: Our hope is anchored in Christ, not a magical formula that you can get healthy, wealthy, and blessed through.
35:02
SPEAKER_00: We have our confidence, that is, confidence in a person.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: That's what faith is, not a heavenly vision.
35:08
SPEAKER_00: We have faith in Jesus that Christ can save us, he will save us, but even if he doesn't in this life, our ultimate hope is in the age to come.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: God is still granting his people his power.
35:23
SPEAKER_00: We still see signs, wonders, and miracles in the church today.
35:26
SPEAKER_00: And he grants his people prophetic revelation to comfort and console and encourage them.
35:30
SPEAKER_00: He grants his people health, both through physical and emotional healing, but God is sovereign.
35:36
SPEAKER_00: He is not a formula.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: It's not uh a grace that you can control through the force of your faith.
35:43
SPEAKER_00: It's not your psychological certainty of an outcome.
35:47
SPEAKER_00: It is confidence in the person of Jesus Christ.
35:51
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35:55
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36:02
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