Flat Earth, The Book of Enoch, False Prophets, and Signs of True Revival with Dr. Michael Brown
In this powerful episode, Pastor Mike Signorelli sits down with revival scholar, theologian, and frontline voice Dr. Michael Brown to deliver a wake-up call to the Church. If you've ever asked, "What is real revival?" or "How do we sustain it?" — this episode is for you.
🔥 With decades of experience from the frontlines of Brownsville and global movements, Dr. Brown doesn’t just talk about revival — he’s lived it. Together, Pastor Mike and Dr. Brown dismantle false revival hype, address the pride that kills movements, and expose the deceptions threatening the Body of Christ today.
- A true biblical definition of revival (it’s not what you think)
- Why you can’t schedule revival — and what happens when you try
- The danger of pride and celebrity culture in revival spaces
- How to discern between emotional hype and authentic Holy Spirit fire
- The growing deception of Kabbalah, numerology, and esoteric teachings in the Church
- Why the Book of Enoch and Flat Earth theology aren’t biblical
- Why fruit that remains is the only revival metric that matters
📖 Dr. Brown also shares insights from his latest book, Seize the Moment: How to Fuel the Fires of Revival, offering 25 powerful principles to help leaders and believers alike steward the move of God without burning out or veering off course.
💬 “Revival that makes you bigger is not revival at all.”
💬 “You can no more schedule revival than you can schedule an earthquake.”
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Speaker AMichael Brown, thank you so much for being on the broadcast.
Speaker AYou know, before we jump in and talk about your new book, I just want to just.
Speaker AThis is going to be an amazing conversation, but I want to start by you defining what exactly revival is.
Speaker AYou know, I made a movie entitled the Domino Revival, and I was able to ask, you know, some of the most premier leaders and revivalists of our generation, people who are movers and shakers, and they all had such a different definition.
Speaker AAnd we try to show that in the movie.
Speaker ABut, man, I have been dying to get the answer directly from you as somebody who has been laboring, you know, for this definition and somebody that's, you know, I go back in the archives of your life and all the things that you've accomplished for the kingdom, and I feel like, man, if there's anybody's definition about what revival is that we need, it's yours for this generation.
Speaker ASo how would you define it?
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BIn its essence, revival is a season of unusual, divine visitation.
Speaker BEverything flows out of that.
Speaker BPeople talk about God stepping down from heaven, or Jesus came to our village.
Speaker BThe Holy Spirit indwells us as believers as we worship.
Speaker BThe Holy Spirit's in our midst.
Speaker BOn a certain level, God fills the heavens and the earth.
Speaker BAnd yet in times of revival, it's a season of unusual divine visitation.
Speaker BGod comes with intense power, with intense conviction, with intense transformation.
Speaker BEverything is amped up.
Speaker BThe salvations are radical.
Speaker BThe deliverance is radical.
Speaker BThe repentance is the deepest you've ever seen.
Speaker BThe joy is the highest you've ever seen.
Speaker BAnd you can say, it started here and it ended here.
Speaker BThat's when we talk about the Welsh Revival from 1904 to 1905, or I was part of the Browns Revival from 1995 to 2000.
Speaker BIt's not always absolutely clear.
Speaker BSometimes it can wane or transfer out in different ways in terms of the ending.
Speaker BBut something happened.
Speaker BGod came, and it's this unusual visitation.
Speaker BThings you prayed for and longed for and cried out for, sometimes for generations.
Speaker BSuddenly, they're happening in front of your eyes, and it's as if everything in the Bible that you knew was true.
Speaker BIt's really true.
Speaker BIt's really happening in front of your eyes.
Speaker BIt's almost like you call your friend after a Sunday service and say, jesus is al.
Speaker BWe all know.
Speaker BHe's like, no, no, no.
Speaker BHe's really alive.
Speaker BHe's really.
Speaker BHe's in the car with me.
Speaker BIt becomes that real.
Speaker BAnd that's why in a short period of time, you can often see more things happen just, just in, in a month of revival than you see in years and years of your best work.
Speaker BSo you have to do what you do day by day.
Speaker BYou know, look at it that you, you walk all during a time of famine.
Speaker BYou walk miles and miles to a spring and to get water to carry it back.
Speaker BBut, oh, if you could get some thunder showers, think of what would happen.
Speaker BThat's what revival is like.
Speaker AOh, that is so deep that that definition is rich and it's needed, you know, so one of the things I do on my broadcast is really just blow up the deceptions.
Speaker AAnd, you know, there's so much in the body of Christ as, you know, people, you know, can be incredibly manipulative.
Speaker AAnd leaders use the term revival in know.
Speaker AOne thing my wife and I have been grieved about for years and years is this concept that, you know, churches will use the term revival almost as like a money maker, you know, and, and, and you know, I know we're, we're jumping right in.
Speaker ABut, you know, there's this concept that we've observed where people are like, oh, we're having a revival, and then it's like, how many offerings can we collect in the revival week?
Speaker AAnd my wife and I are, are kind of like old school Pentecostals, I guess.
Speaker AAnd, and so where we come from, as we got older and then we became lead pastors, we.
Speaker AWe noticed that some pastors legitimately have a heart for revival.
Speaker AAnd yet there were other pastors that it seemed as if their annual revival was more of an annual fundraiser that they were using the term revival for.
Speaker AAnd so, you know, what is your concept of churches holding revivals?
Speaker AAnd I want to be fair.
Speaker AI believe, you know, some have an authentic, real heart for it.
Speaker AI think others, it's more gimmicky.
Speaker AYou know, what, what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker BYou can no more hold a revival than you can hold a hurricane.
Speaker BYou can no more schedule a revival than you can schedule an earthquake.
Speaker BRevival is not something that people work up.
Speaker BRevival is something that God sends down.
Speaker BAnd Mike, when we moved, so I'm in New York originally, then lived in Maryland, outside of D.C.
Speaker Band then moved down to Pensacola, Florida in my early 40s.
Speaker BMy wife and I are family.
Speaker BAnd it was a shocker to see, kind of the church custom that maybe August you'd be driving down the street, you'd see A sign revival September 11th to 15th, there was a schedule for next month.
Speaker BAnd then you see another sign revival September 18th to 20th.
Speaker BAnd it was just a custom meetings.
Speaker BWere holding a series of special meetings with a special speaker, special music and, yes, special offerings.
Speaker BAnd now here's the problem with it.
Speaker BLet's put.
Speaker BLet's just say it's all legit.
Speaker BIt's not a bad fundraising thing.
Speaker BIt's okay.
Speaker BThe problem is you get emotionally psyched, you get charged, you get.
Speaker BYeah, yeah.
Speaker BBut nothing really happens on the inside.
Speaker BThere's not a real deep, lasting encounter with God.
Speaker BAnd that now produces a downward trend because after the emotional high, there's nothing to carry it.
Speaker BRevival absolutely ties in with emotion, of course, but it's emotion because of an encounter with God and the truth of the word.
Speaker BAnd that's the massive difference.
Speaker BLook, if it was that easy to produce the revival, we wouldn't be reading about revivals in history.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker BWe wouldn't be praying for years and years and years for God to visit.
Speaker BNow there's the other error on the other side that Charles Finney encountered.
Speaker BFinney, who lived from 1792 to 1875.
Speaker BFinney encountered the other side, which is there's nothing you can do to bring about a revival.
Speaker BGod just sovereignly sends it.
Speaker BWhen he does so, you kind of sit on your hands.
Speaker BNo, you do what you know how to do on a day to day basis.
Speaker BLove God, love your neighbor, win the loss, make disciples while you cry out and say, God, there must be more.
Speaker BOur city's going to hell.
Speaker BOur young people are turning their backs on you.
Speaker BOur nation doesn't know you because the light is not shining.
Speaker BOh, God, visit us.
Speaker BAnd the reason I wrote my new book, Seize the Moment, is because when God comes, it's a unique thing.
Speaker BYou don't want to miss it.
Speaker BAnd early on in the Brownsville revival, there was an article in Charisma magazine.
Speaker BSo you have to remember this was in 1995.
Speaker BIt was right before the cell phone Internet explosion.
Speaker BSo news was not happening and spreading instantly the way it is now.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BSo I read in the article a quote from Steve Hill.
Speaker BSteve and I knew each other.
Speaker BHe was the evangelist God used to ignite this.
Speaker BSteve and I knew each other through our mutual friend, Leonard Ravenhill, author of the classic book why Revival Carries.
Speaker BI had been very close to Brother Len the last five years of his life.
Speaker BThe most extraordinary revivalist man of prayer I ever met.
Speaker BAnd he had these cutting little sayings.
Speaker BHis famous question, are the things you're living for worth Christ dying for?
Speaker BOr the man who's intimate with God will never be intimidated by man These sharp little sayings.
Speaker BAnd when Steve was asked in charisma, why did you cancel all your preaching meetings all around the world?
Speaker BWhy did you stop what you were doing and just stay here in Pensacola?
Speaker BHe said, the opportunity of a lifetime must be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.
Speaker BAnd I said, that sounds like Ravenhill, but I never heard him say it.
Speaker BSo I called his widow, Martha, and she said, no, she didn't hear him say it either.
Speaker BWhen Steve and I got to talking, he said, mike, a few weeks before Len had his stroke and then subsequently died, he turned to me one day and said, stevie, the opportunity of a lifetime must be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.
Speaker BBecause Steve would be preaching in Columbia.
Speaker BHe'd been a missionary in South America.
Speaker BHe'd be preaching in Columbia, God moving it.
Speaker BAnd he'd come back and tell Leonard Ravenhill, brother Len, I felt like revival was right about to happen.
Speaker BI felt like if we stayed a few more days, we could have a visitation.
Speaker BAnd Len said to them, why are you here?
Speaker BWhy'd you leave?
Speaker BSo when God visited in Pensacola, it's because you can't just hold it, you can't just produce it.
Speaker BYou can't just turn it on.
Speaker BIf it was that easy, especially in America, we would have it every day.
Speaker BWe would package it.
Speaker BWe would have Internet revival coming your way now, live streaming in three.
Speaker BNo, you can't do that.
Speaker BYou can pray, you can cry out, you can do what you know how to do.
Speaker BBut then God comes, that season of unusual visitation.
Speaker BAnd the very first thing that normally indicates something unusual, there's this presence that wasn't there and nobody wants to leave.
Speaker BA colleague of mine in Colorado, when he heard about Asbury last year, they were having a move of God in their church, but he was hungry for more.
Speaker BAnd he said, God, what about us?
Speaker BAnd they started on Sunday morning and ended 8 o'clock the next morning.
Speaker BThe service just went on.
Speaker BAnd people stayed through the 8:00 clock.
Speaker BLiterally almost a 24 hour service.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BAnd then, because revival comes to set things right, remember, it is reviving, it is bringing back to life.
Speaker BLike Jesus says to Sardis In Revelation 3, you have a reputation for being alive, yet you're dead.
Speaker BLaodiceans say, I'm rich and priest involved, have need of nothing.
Speaker BYou don't realize you're wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
Speaker BRight?
Speaker BEphesus, you've left your first love.
Speaker BSo it is a bringing back to life of God's people.
Speaker BAnd that's why the next thing you almost always see is deep conviction of sin.
Speaker AExactly.
Speaker BBecause something is wrong and the Holy Spirit is exposing it.
Speaker BAnd then out of that, you have the radical transformations that bring joy and freedom.
Speaker BAnd then as the church is changed, our witness is now changed.
Speaker BAnd now you see that same spirit coming down in the workplace.
Speaker BYou start to see the radical conversion of sinners.
Speaker BThis is what happens.
Speaker BAnd when you see God moving, you can't say, well, we'll just meet again next week.
Speaker BNo, no, we're not going anywhere.
Speaker BOr, let's meet again tonight and the next night.
Speaker BAnd before you know it, the thing can be going on for months or years.
Speaker AI love that.
Speaker AI absolutely love that.
Speaker AWell, guys, I want to show you this.
Speaker AIt seize the moment.
Speaker AThis is the.
Speaker AThe new book.
Speaker AAnd there's an urgency behind this book.
Speaker AYou know, that's why I have Dr.
Speaker AMichael Brown here on the broadcast, because there is an urgency.
Speaker AAnd I know you spoke about that.
Speaker AYou know, 25 year history to Brownsville.
Speaker AFor those of you who saw the Domino revival movie.
Speaker AYou saw that we went to Brownsville and conducted services there and had some really powerful moments.
Speaker AYou guys can go back in the archives and see Doc.
Speaker ADr.
Speaker AMichael Brown there, you know, in real time.
Speaker AAnd so you kind of have this lineage, this history of revival, different epicenters in the United States.
Speaker AYou mentioned Asbury.
Speaker ABut there's like an urgency right now, and I felt it.
Speaker AYou know, when this book came in, there was just something different.
Speaker ASeize the moment.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker AAnd so can you maybe talk about why now?
Speaker ALike what?
Speaker AYou know, let's talk about that moment.
Speaker ABecause for me, people, somehow or another, I got sucked into the deliverance movement.
Speaker AAnd I thought it was hilarious because I never considered myself a deliverance guy.
Speaker AI always consider myself a deep repentance guy.
Speaker AAnd I was going around the country drawing people to a place of absolute surrender and repentance and trying to communicate the extremity by which Christ communicated repentance, right?
Speaker ALike, hey, if your hand won't stop sinning, cut it off.
Speaker ASo the rest of your body goes to heaven.
Speaker AYou know, that type of language.
Speaker AAnd one of the statements that I went viral for is 99% obedience is 100% disobedience.
Speaker AAnd so I really went across the country calling people to 100% surrender.
Speaker AAnd then in the midst of that repentance, demons would manifest like crazy.
Speaker AAnd somehow that sucked me into the deliverance movement.
Speaker AI'd say, well, I'm a gospel guy, not a deliverance guy, but wherever the gospel is being declared, I Think with that level of wholeheartedness, like, hey, what would it look like if we actually said go and sin no more?
Speaker AYou know, instead of just struggle with it for the next 25 years?
Speaker ABecause I think here in American evangelicalism, we've excused our sin and we've really, you know, kind of played with it and went more the route of, like, motivational speaker versus, you know, radical surrender.
Speaker AAnd so for me, I was going around the country doing that, and.
Speaker AAnd I felt that urgency.
Speaker AYou know, even the impetus for my movie was being in prayer here in New York City and seeing a vision of this huge domino being pushed down.
Speaker AAnd then each domino was dropping around the country as people were saying yes to Jesus wholeheartedly.
Speaker AAnd so, you know, I.
Speaker AI feel like there's something stirring in the spirit.
Speaker AI'm connecting with that.
Speaker AI know you are as well.
Speaker ASo maybe you could talk about, like, what are you sensing?
Speaker AWhy.
Speaker AWhy the book now?
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BSo let me just briefly go back.
Speaker BWhat was happening in Brownsville.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BGod had promised me in 83 that I would be part of a revival that would touch the world.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker BAnd I longed and prayed and cried out and everywhere I traveled preached repentance and these long altar calls of people crying out to God, surrendering their lives and representation.
Speaker BSo when Brownsville came, it was the dream come true that the thing that I've been longing for.
Speaker BAnd you have to picture this.
Speaker BA traditional assembly of God church in the south.
Speaker BPensacola, not the easiest city to get to.
Speaker BIt's only got a regional airport, and people would get outside the building, standing online beginning at six in the morning to wait for the doors to open at 6 in the evening.
Speaker BThis went on for years, but the services started seven in the evening to go past midnight every night.
Speaker BI mean, it was extraordinary.
Speaker BMore than 300,000 different people repented at the altar.
Speaker BWe had people from 130 nations coming.
Speaker BAnd it wasn't known for divine healing.
Speaker BIt was people getting right with God, thank God for healing, but that wasn't the focus.
Speaker BSo in the midst of the revival, you know that there are many things that can hinder revival that can cut it short.
Speaker BAnd it's this very holy line that you walk to give place to the spirit, but not to disorder, not to the wrong things or you don't want to get burnt out and exhausted.
Speaker BAnd anyway, in the midst of it, towards the end, I started to write a book on all the things not to do if you wanted to see the move of God continue.
Speaker BI just started writing it, and Then got caught up in other projects, then revival ended there.
Speaker BI never got back to it.
Speaker BWhen I was teaching one day in New York City about 20 years ago, I just felt the spirit say to me, you're going to need to finish that book.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker BAnd I said, that means I get to be in another move, that I'm going to see it in my lifetime.
Speaker BSo I began to Sense probably about 2019, I was very grieved because I said the state of America.
Speaker BI don't need to go on and talk about the state of the nation.
Speaker BWe all live here and the state of much of the church in the nation.
Speaker BBut in many ways, we become better known for scandals.
Speaker BWe become better known for superficiality.
Speaker BWe've been become better known for political support than we have for being gospel people living holy lives.
Speaker BAnd it brings reproach to the name of the Lord.
Speaker BWe're watching the younger generation get sucked up by the world in crazy agendas.
Speaker BTikTok has done a better job of discipling our kids than.
Speaker BThan many of our many of us have.
Speaker BSo it's an urgent time.
Speaker BWe know that.
Speaker BAnd I was grieved because I said, we're not seeing the hunger and the thirst and the brokenness in the body to equal the urgency of the situation.
Speaker BAnd I've seen much more of that in the years leading up to Brownsville.
Speaker BI started to see something rising in late 2019, I began preaching on God coming as a refiner's fire.
Speaker BAnd the next thing, all hell breaks loose.
Speaker BIn2020, we had Covid, we had the race riots, we had the political upheaval, the events of January 6th, the whole nation shaking, and then scandal after scandal in the church.
Speaker BI'm not saying this to throw stones at people.
Speaker BAnd it was only subsequently I looked back and thought, the refiner's fire has been working and bringing all this stuff up to the surface.
Speaker BAnd then I began to see Mike in my.
Speaker BIn my mind's eye.
Speaker BNot an open vision, which I don't have, but just a clear picture of my mind's eye.
Speaker BI saw thousands of holy fires all over America.
Speaker BI didn't just see a Brownsville or a Toronto.
Speaker BI saw thousands of places where God was moving all over America.
Speaker BAnd I said, okay, this next move is going to be in thousands of different places, and pastors and leaders who have never experienced this are going to need some guidance.
Speaker BAnd I've got to get this book finished because I've been in it.
Speaker BI've been in the thick of it.
Speaker BI've lived it out.
Speaker BAnd here are 25 principles.
Speaker BIf we'll hold to these, if we'll live these out as pastors, leaders, as individual believers, then the fire that falls we can cultivate.
Speaker BLeviticus 6.
Speaker AYes, I was just going to ask you about that.
Speaker BYeah, it must not go out three times.
Speaker BGod says that.
Speaker BWhy?
Speaker BWell, on the one hand, it symbolized 247 worship of God.
Speaker BBut on the other hand, when you read through the end of the ninth chapter, the first fire on the altar was sent by God.
Speaker BGod sent the fire, and God consumed Aaron's sacrifices.
Speaker BSo the fire on the altar was divine fire.
Speaker BSo God said, never let it go out.
Speaker BLet it not be man's fire, but God's fire.
Speaker BSo I felt I've got to finish.
Speaker BSeize the moment.
Speaker BI wrote the book to come out end of last year, ended up getting released at the beginning of this year.
Speaker BBut a year ago, I got on the air.
Speaker BAs I had been traveling across America, I was in church after church that's experiencing a move of God.
Speaker BNot because I was there, I was witnessing it.
Speaker BYoung people flocking to the altars, people repenting and getting right with God.
Speaker BSpontaneous baptisms every week.
Speaker BAnd I said, okay, the first wave of this next revival movement, it's already here.
Speaker BObviously you had a thriving church, many others, but I was seeing it in so many places.
Speaker BAnd because of my daily radio show, we've got a wide range of listeners, right?
Speaker BA lot of hardcore Pentecostal charismatics, others.
Speaker BI'm the only charismatic they trust, skeptics, mockers, critics, the whole bit.
Speaker BSo I am circumspect in proclaiming things.
Speaker BBut I got on the air and I said, listen, it's very clear to me, and I want to say it.
Speaker BThe beginning of the first wave of the next revival has hit America, and we're in the early stages, but it is the beginning of the first wave of the next revival.
Speaker BEight days after that, Asbury happened and I got back on the air and I said, hey, hey.
Speaker BDid I tell you or did I tell you?
Speaker BThat was just a divine exclamation point.
Speaker BAnd it's not supposed to just be one place.
Speaker BOf course, soon enough it got shut down with everybody flocking there.
Speaker BBut we are going to be seeing this.
Speaker BAnd literally, if we don't get this right, if the Church of America does not broadly embrace what the Spirit is doing, that could be the end of America as we know it, Right?
Speaker BIt literally could be the last hope, the last breath of America.
Speaker BAnd when you mentioned Domino Revival for years.
Speaker BI had this internal vision for years because God promised me that I would see a gospel based moral and cultural revolution in my lifetime.
Speaker BWe need to be some kind of pushback.
Speaker BAnd that can only happen through revived church.
Speaker BI saw dominoes falling in the negative sense.
Speaker BWow.
Speaker BFalling across the country in terms of moral and spiritual collapse.
Speaker BBut then I saw through the gospel move the dominoes standing back up across the country.
Speaker ACome on.
Speaker BAnd the only way that can happen is with a revived church.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BSo this is it.
Speaker BAs God's moving, God moves in your local church, God moves in your life.
Speaker BYou've got to seize the moment.
Speaker BYou've got to.
Speaker BYou've got to pour fuel on the fires of revival because this literally could be the last breath for America.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker AI almost started weeping when you were talking about Leviticus 6 because, you know, that's such a theme recently.
Speaker AAnd you know, for those of you that watch, I mean, I've amassed hundreds of thousands of followers by releasing prophetic words that would then come to pass.
Speaker AAnd I don't regard myself as a prophet, but just simply somebody who says, okay, God, what are you doing in the earth?
Speaker AHow can I narrate it?
Speaker AAnd so last Sunday, I was sharing with our church.
Speaker AYou know, I'm originally from Indiana.
Speaker ADavid Wilkerson was, you know, kind of originally from the Midwest as well.
Speaker ASo God has a way of like exporting us to New York City, I guess.
Speaker ABut.
Speaker ABut I had this vision of this wave hitting New York City.
Speaker ABut when I first got to New York, so I had been raised around Lake Michigan.
Speaker ASo a lake is very different than the ocean.
Speaker AAnd I remember trying to baptize our first disciples here in New York City.
Speaker AAnd I didn't realize that the, that the water recedes.
Speaker AAnd so you could be standing up to your waist in water, but it'll recede all the way down to the sand.
Speaker AAnd we were basically pushing people into the sand, missing the timing of the waves in the early days of the church.
Speaker AMy point in saying that though is this Sunday I was on stage and I started feeling in the spirit like that recession where there was a drawback before the formation of a large wave.
Speaker AAnd I really felt like the Lord was telling me to tell my church that, that.
Speaker AThat drawing is a drawing back to intercession, a drawing back to prayer, a drawing back to fasting and longing and desperation and repentance.
Speaker ARepentance.
Speaker ABecause before you ever see the formation of a wave, there's a.
Speaker AThere's a drawing back.
Speaker AAnd I really feel like what we're.
Speaker AWhat's happening right now, and I want to really honor the vision that you gave, is that many people are feeling drawn to prayer, drawn to the secret place.
Speaker AI've been getting hundreds of messages from people in our text community, in our email saying, I'm at work and I'm just using my entire lunch break to pray.
Speaker AYou know, I'm.
Speaker AI'm literally underneath my kitchen table and with, you know, just praying.
Speaker AI'm finding myself in the bathroom praying.
Speaker AAnd I believe God is really uniting people on a heart level for this desperation.
Speaker AAnd, you know, generationally, when you talk about seize the moment, and you said, I was there, you know, I was there in Brownsville and I made a manual for revival.
Speaker AGuys, this is more than just a promo for the, For a book.
Speaker AThis is a general in the faith who has a lifetime of experience that God is putting in these books now for so that we don't miss it.
Speaker ABecause the fastest route to extinguishing a revival is from know it alls who try to impose, you know, and I think there can be an immaturity.
Speaker AAnd I'm speaking to the millennial pastors and the Gen Xers, you know, and, and this.
Speaker AI think sometimes what will happen is we ignore the.
Speaker AThe wisdom of the sages that God has in this generation.
Speaker AAnd Dr.
Speaker AMichael Brown, I want to honor you publicly right now, and I just want to commission everybody.
Speaker AThe link is in the chat.
Speaker AIt's in the description of this video.
Speaker AYou've got to get seized the moment.
Speaker ADon't assume that you've cornered the market on revival.
Speaker AAnd I think there's a little bit of arrogance, and I just kind of feel led by the Holy Spirit to speak into this now.
Speaker AA little bit of arrogance.
Speaker AYou know, you go to people's Instagram and they have, I'm a revivalist, you know, and, and.
Speaker AAnd it's like, I'm not trying to kill the passion or kill the desire, but I am trying to kill the pride.
Speaker AAnd I think there's a level of humility.
Speaker AI mean, seize the Moment as mandatory reading for V1 church leaders and those that are underneath my leadership.
Speaker AAnd so can you maybe speak to them, the people watching right now, about, you know, don't assume, you know, don't assume that you're the expert on revival.
Speaker AYou know, why the necessity to really get into seize the moment.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BSo here's the reality.
Speaker BIt would be one thing if I was sitting on the sidelines talking about these old days in Pensacola and, you know, Sitting with nostalgia.
Speaker BI'm on the front lines, man.
Speaker BI'm burning as great as I've ever burned.
Speaker AExactly.
Speaker BI'm seeing God move wherever you reach America, around the world.
Speaker BI just came back from India, my 29th trip there, and the brother said that they were most impacting meetings that they've ever had.
Speaker BThat's it.
Speaker BI'm in the thick of this now.
Speaker BAnd I'm shouting as loudly as we can, as I can.
Speaker BLook, I've lived in it, in the intensity of revival for four or five years before that, and outpouring for three months and six days that got cut short.
Speaker BThat's what put the desperation in me when I saw things get cut short.
Speaker BEven at the end of Pensacola.
Speaker BEverything God did there was a temporary split between the pastor, John Kilpatrick, and me leading the school.
Speaker BOne reason is we got so exhausted, we were going 70, 80 hours a week for years and years and years.
Speaker BAnd I preached about this.
Speaker BI preached about the danger of overworking yourself, but thinking, you know, this is different.
Speaker BNo, no, it's never different.
Speaker BThere are no exceptions.
Speaker BThe same with sin.
Speaker BYou realize, hey, the same way my good friend fell, and this one fell, I could fall.
Speaker BWhen I teach you about sexual immorality, that's the first lesson.
Speaker BIt can happen to you as easily as anybody else.
Speaker BIf you play with fire, you will get burned.
Speaker BAnd I've watched now, you know, I'm almost 69 years old.
Speaker BI'm fresh and ready to run.
Speaker BI work out with guys in their 20s and they throw up.
Speaker BI mean, I'm doing my best to be a good steward because the best years are right ahead, and I want to be ready for the decades to come.
Speaker BBut please hear me.
Speaker BI've watched all the people come and go.
Speaker BI've watched the shooting stars.
Speaker BThere was this great poem by Amy Carmichael called Scars.
Speaker BIf you've never read it, just search online.
Speaker BShe was a missionary to India for decades and died there.
Speaker BAnd she's like, oh, yeah, we heard you're the rising star.
Speaker BBut you don't have any scars.
Speaker BYou have any scars.
Speaker BAnd I've watched.
Speaker BOh, this one's different.
Speaker BThis move is going to bypass repentance.
Speaker BNo, it does.
Speaker BThere is no move that bypasses repentance.
Speaker AYeah, come on.
Speaker BIt may be that people are so beaten down and discouraged that God just pours out love and grace and love and grace to get them healthy enough.
Speaker BBut as soon as they're healthy enough, you better believe he's gonna claw out the surgeon's knife because Sin in our spirit is far more deadly than cancer in our bodies.
Speaker BI've warned the people privately, and for whatever reason, they don't hear.
Speaker BIt's interesting.
Speaker BMy online constituency.
Speaker BAnd by God's grace, we're able to reach millions every week, or online constituency, the number one demographic, aside from Facebook, which is a lot of older ladies, is 25 to 34 years.
Speaker AThat's it.
Speaker BSo I'm talking to a younger generation, Gen Z, millennial all the time.
Speaker BThis, again, is not just.
Speaker BI'm sitting on the sidelines wishing for the old days and jealous for those succeeding.
Speaker BNo, I want you and everyone in your generation to do things I've dreamed about.
Speaker BBut look, when I used to teach in New York city in the 2004, 5, 6, when I used to preach for David Wilkerson in the 90s regularly, there were times when I would walk the streets of the city late at night for hours, praying for revival, praying for God to come.
Speaker BAnd obviously I was one tiny element.
Speaker BSo many others prayed.
Speaker BI want to see God do see things through people whose names we don't know.
Speaker BLet Jesus be glorified.
Speaker BLet him get the credit.
Speaker BThat's not it.
Speaker BBut when I stand by people and warn them and say, you cannot do this with the flesh, right?
Speaker BThere are no celebrity pastors here.
Speaker BCome on, you cannot bypass the cross.
Speaker BAnd they're like, no, no, look at our success.
Speaker BAnd then I watch them crash and burn.
Speaker BAnd I'm not there to say, I told you so.
Speaker BI'm there to say, hey, let's pick up the broken pieces.
Speaker BBut there are no exceptions.
Speaker BWhat struck me when I originally put together a list of 30 items that ended up making them 25 for Seize the Moment, how to fuel the fires of revival.
Speaker BI went and read Finney's sermon on hindrances to revival, and I think he had 20.
Speaker BAnd I was amazed at how much overlap there was.
Speaker BIt's because it's the same principles.
Speaker BWe cannot play with fire.
Speaker BYou read the Book of Proverbs.
Speaker BI don't care who you are.
Speaker BI don't care how famous you are.
Speaker BI don't care how big your platform is.
Speaker BI don't care how fast growing your church is.
Speaker BIf you don't follow the principles, if you let your personal devotional life get eroded, you'll fall.
Speaker BIt's going to happen.
Speaker BIf you let pride enter in.
Speaker BIf you think, I've got the method and I can control it, and on the contrary, I've seen people who've honored the Lord who kept the Fire burning in their private lives, who walk in humility, who welcome the Holy Spirit, who are grounded in the word, and decades later, they're burning bright.
Speaker BAnd their churches are healthier and stronger than ever.
Speaker BI'm not impressed with a shooting star.
Speaker BI've been around too long for that.
Speaker BI long to see lasting fruit.
Speaker BAnd Mike, every single week in the revival because God would come in power and bodies would be flying as we laid hands on people at the end of the night, the power of God was there.
Speaker BEvery week we tell people we don't care if you shake or fall.
Speaker BThe only question is, one year from now, how are you living?
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BThe question is, how are you living when you walk out this building?
Speaker BAnd Steve Hill will tell people the true test of revival, the true test of an evangelist is five or ten years down the line.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BI can introduce you to our workers all around the world who were touched in Brownsville 25 years ago or longer and have been on the mission field bearing fruit and burning bright for over 25 years.
Speaker BThat's what I'm talking about.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BNot just a momentary excitement or people were blessed for a few weeks.
Speaker BI'm talking about decades down the line when you raise your kids differently because you were touched as a child yourself.
Speaker BThat's what we need to see, that kind of lasting fruit.
Speaker BAnd it does not come through playing games or thinking that we're the big shots or we figured it all out.
Speaker BLook, we can have social media followings of hundreds of millions.
Speaker BThe biggest social media followings in the world are celebrities, but they're not changing the world.
Speaker BSo we have the numbers, but our lives being changed.
Speaker BIs there lasting fruit?
Speaker BAnd as a word based person, you know, that's.
Speaker BThat's what matters.
Speaker AThat's it.
Speaker BAre the foundation solved?
Speaker BBecause otherwise it's going to be here today.
Speaker BWatch it grow, watch it collapse.
Speaker BOr it's going to be massive in numbers, but there's no substance.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BSo what does Jesus say in the parable of the sower in Matthew 13, in Mark 4 and Luke 8, that when trouble and testing comes because of the word.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BThen they quickly follow it.
Speaker BWell, what if trouble and testing doesn't come for years?
Speaker BWhat if you build this great thing filled with people, but if there's not the foundation of repentance.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BOnce the shaking comes, that could be 10 years into your ministry.
Speaker BEverything's going to be gone.
Speaker BAnd then what?
Speaker AOh, well, I asked you to assassinate pride, and I will tell you mission accomplished.
Speaker AThat was so needed, though some of you Guys need to replay that whole section of this interview over and over and over to get that in your spirit.
Speaker ABecause John, chapter 15, first fruit that remains.
Speaker AThat's been my number one prayer.
Speaker AYou know, we have enough eloquent sermons.
Speaker AWe've got people who are good with words, wordsmiths, but we desperately need fruit that remains.
Speaker AAnd I love that you just pretty much unloaded your clip on Pride.
Speaker ABecause, you know, real quick story is I.
Speaker AAs I was touring the country a couple years ago, I had a very humbling moment where I came crawling into an event in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker AI just didn't feel it.
Speaker AI was personally discouraged, I was wore out, I was tired, and I just got up on stage and I said, you know, I'm just going to sort of get through this, God.
Speaker AAnd that's not my.
Speaker AEverybody who knows me knows I, you know, I go all in and I leave it all on the altar.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker ABut that particular event, I said, you know, God, I just can't.
Speaker AAnd it was a quote unquote revival style event.
Speaker AThey had brought me in large 10 event.
Speaker AAnd here's Mike Signorelli, the revival revivalist.
Speaker AAnd I just said, God, I just don't have anything left in me.
Speaker AAnd I'll tell you what, I got up there and it was like, immediately the Lord just began to do what only he could do.
Speaker AAnd there was like a fragrance that just released over that tent.
Speaker AAnd I'm not kidding, one person came out of a wheelchair, I mean, another woman, she had bones removed in her inner ear when she was a child and had lost all of her hearing.
Speaker AAnd miraculously, it was a creative miracle she received hearing in her ear.
Speaker AAnd they're bringing these people to me.
Speaker AI did nothing, doctor.
Speaker AI did nothing.
Speaker AAnd it was one of those moments where the Lord said, you think you're so advanced.
Speaker AYou've traveled the entire country but without saying the prayers.
Speaker AYou always say them, you know, with your, your formulaic prayers, without your, you know, because I kind of had a sequence like you said, and part of it.
Speaker AAnd I don't know if my good friend Vlad Softchuk is watching, but Vlad had been to the event right before me.
Speaker AAnd I said, hey, Vlad, what did you do?
Speaker AAnd he said, oh, I kind of did your move.
Speaker AYou know, I started with repentance, then people surrender drugs and this.
Speaker ASo part of that was like, oh, Lord, what am I going to do?
Speaker AYou know, that was my plan.
Speaker AAnd Vlad took my plan, which was really the gospel.
Speaker ASo I shouldn't have been mad.
Speaker ABut I again, I say that to say when those miraculous healings started to take place, I mean, one guy took his hearing aids out, threw him on the ground on stage, was like, I have full hearing.
Speaker AIt was one after another.
Speaker AAnd it was in the midst of my own personal frustration, my own tiredness, and in the midst of a lack of any sort of formula.
Speaker AI mean, it was just the Lord doing it.
Speaker AAnd I think for me, that was a humbling moment where it was almost like God was showing me how little he needed me.
Speaker AAnd so.
Speaker AOh, yeah, you know, And I just wanted to pause and say that because, Dr.
Speaker AMichael Brown, we're living in an era where people are putting their identity in being a revivalist and not being a son or a daughter.
Speaker AAnd it's like, you know what I mean?
Speaker AOr being a disciple.
Speaker BWhat happened to me towards the end of the revival is God really was revealing flesh in my own life.
Speaker BAnd one of the lessons for me was that I had.
Speaker BI had always put all my trust in God.
Speaker BAnd if you don't help, if you don't anoint, if you don't give me words, I can't even open my mouth and speak.
Speaker BAnd yet there was a subtle self confidence joined with a God confidence.
Speaker BAnd God had to burn that out of me.
Speaker BAnd really, as we got as the revival waned, some God really began to reveal flesh that was in my life and brought me to a new place of repentance.
Speaker BAnd part of that was in the busyness and intensity of being in powerful meetings where the Spirit's moving and you're on your face in worship, weeping and God's touching people through you that you can neglect the secret place.
Speaker BYou can get so caught up in the busyness of life and ministry that you miss the beauty of personal devotion.
Speaker BI remember one night early in the revival where I had to confront a brother about something and rather than respond to me respectfully in any way, he kind of barked back.
Speaker BIt was just a shocker the way he responded.
Speaker BAnd right after that, it was after the altar call, after everyone got personal ministry.
Speaker BNow we went to lay hands on people who wanted prayer.
Speaker BAnd I hadn't lost my temper, but I was so shocked.
Speaker BIt would be like a kid cursing out their parents.
Speaker BLike what?
Speaker BI was so shocked.
Speaker BI was agitated in my spirit.
Speaker BAnd they said, Dr.
Speaker BBrown, Dr.
Speaker BBrown, time to pray for people.
Speaker BAnd I'm thinking, not tonight.
Speaker BI got nothing in me.
Speaker BAnd I said, okay, the whole team's there ready for me to go praying for people.
Speaker BI'll pray for a few Nothing will happen.
Speaker BI'll say, hey, for some reason, it's not happening tonight.
Speaker BI'll go home.
Speaker BThe first person I touched, it's like God crippled the intensity.
Speaker BAnd then the next and then.
Speaker BAnd I was in a state of shock.
Speaker BAnd God said to me, it's not you.
Speaker BIt's not your power.
Speaker BPower coming through your.
Speaker BA man of God, powerful, you know, or you know, you got healing in your head.
Speaker BNo, it's nothing.
Speaker BGod used me once to pray for people.
Speaker BIn an obscure meeting in Canada.
Speaker BThey'd driven for a while from a reserve.
Speaker BWe call it a reservation.
Speaker BThey had a little church there.
Speaker BIt was a community of 1200 people.
Speaker BThey had a little church that went through a split and now they had two tiny churches.
Speaker BThey were deeply discouraged.
Speaker BOut of the thousand or so people I prayed for that night after the repentance and getting right with God were these Native Canadian people.
Speaker BJust out of the whole crowd, they went back.
Speaker BEncouraged by the Lord, they started holding meetings.
Speaker BI had three different eyewitnesses confirm this to me.
Speaker BOne year later, three different separate, independent people, they went back, had meetings.
Speaker BGod moved.
Speaker BThey said, let's go another night.
Speaker BLet's go another night.
Speaker BLet's go another night.
Speaker BThey finally got so exhausted, they brought in local pastors, one of whom I met.
Speaker BA year plus later, they went on.
Speaker BOne year later, 1150 out of the 1200 people had professed faith in Jesus.
Speaker BThe most extraordinary story that I've ever been personally part of.
Speaker BI got this testimony and I told my wife Nancy, you know what her first words were?
Speaker BShe said, and you can't take any credit for it.
Speaker BThose were her first words.
Speaker BShe said, think of all the thousands of people you prayed for and that never happened.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BAnd it's God working through human vessels.
Speaker BAnd the moment we think, look at me.
Speaker BPower of God anointed.
Speaker BNo, no.
Speaker BThe moment we put trust in numbers or following or anything like that, then we miss God's heart.
Speaker BAnd I mentioned early in 2020, preaching on the refiner's fire.
Speaker BSo I'm in a church of about 6000 in California Preaching on God coming as a refiner's fire.
Speaker BAt the end of the service, we have this massive altar call, people repenting, get right with God.
Speaker BAnd I knew it's one of these sacred moments where God wants to take it a step further.
Speaker BAnd I said, some of you will not be free until you get up on stage and take the mic and publicly confess.
Speaker BI don't want you to embarrass yourself, but I knew it was one of these sacred moments when God was doing that.
Speaker BSo the next thing, there's a whole line of people, old and young, weeping, shaking and testifying.
Speaker BYou know, I've been in drug ministry, but I'm on drugs myself.
Speaker BAnd next thing, they're weeping.
Speaker BEveryone's surrounding them, praying for them.
Speaker BIt was amazing.
Speaker BI get back to my hotel room, I'm so charged by the spirit.
Speaker BI thought, okay, I'm not going to chill or anything.
Speaker BI just got to get on my knees and pray some more.
Speaker BAs I'm praying, suddenly I start getting these thoughts about ambition and pride.
Speaker BI wanted to be somebody.
Speaker BThis is 2020.
Speaker BI mean, I'm in my mid-60s, right?
Speaker BI'm thinking, where is this?
Speaker BThis is filthy.
Speaker BThis is ugly.
Speaker BBut it was so real.
Speaker BI journaled it all.
Speaker BAnd then I realized I just preached under a refiner's fire, and God just sent the.
Speaker BSee, that's why people get uncomfortable with real revival, because the refiner's fire brings stuff to the surface we didn't even know was there.
Speaker AThat's it.
Speaker BAnd now it's like, hey, I could either humble myself in get low.
Speaker BLike many pastors would bring their congregation to Brownsville because their people needed a fresh touch.
Speaker BAnd at the end of the service, literally, they are the first ones not walking to the altar, running to the altar, weeping to repent and get right.
Speaker BWhat's their congregation thinking?
Speaker BHe's been in adultery, he's been stealing.
Speaker BIt could be God.
Speaker BJust conviction of prayerlessness.
Speaker BBut the conviction is so intense, it's like Isaiah undone in the presence of God.
Speaker BSo if revival makes me bigger, it's not real revival.
Speaker BIf revival somehow lifts me up and my reputation, then it's become polluted along the way.
Speaker BIf revival makes me less dependent on God and less in love with him and less intimate with him.
Speaker BAnd now it's this thing I can kind of navigate in merchandise.
Speaker BWoe to us.
Speaker BBecause this is sacred, sacred stuff.
Speaker BAnd when God moves, you know, and I've had that exact same thing.
Speaker BYou're exhausted, you're jet lagged, you've got nothing.
Speaker BAnd God moves and he reminds you, it's me, the Excellency of the power.
Speaker BThat's what Paul writes is in Urza.
Speaker AThat's it.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BSo that God gets the glory.
Speaker BAnd that's the great lesson.
Speaker BAnd one of the lessons that I learned through my own weakness in Brownsville was God's strength is made perfect in our weakness.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker BAnd we know it.
Speaker BI knew it.
Speaker BIntellectually, I could teach on it.
Speaker BBut I learned it on a deeper level, and the more quickly we can recognize that it's not an excuse for sin, God forbid, but it's the recognition that it's God's strength, it's God's power, it's God's grace.
Speaker BThat's why even if you hear about a leader, unless there's a tangent, some leader who fell, or maybe they were living a double life, and you think, but their books really bless me or their music really blessed me.
Speaker BWell, it was God through them.
Speaker BIt was never them.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BIt was never God used them, but it was God's grace and God's gift.
Speaker BJust like SAMSON In Judges 16, he sleeps with a philistine prostitute, and then he gets attacked and he carries the gates on his shoulders.
Speaker BThat's a very scary passage because the gift still operated.
Speaker BThere was still a divine grace in him, but then his sin led to his downfall.
Speaker BSo putting even revival aside, do not be seduced by the success of ministry.
Speaker BDo not be seduced by the success of numbers.
Speaker BThe more God uses you, the less you think of yourself and the more you realize it's his grace, and the less you feel liberty to play with sin and mess with the world.
Speaker AOh, that is so good.
Speaker AAnd I know we're in the final stretch here, guys.
Speaker AWe're saving the best for last.
Speaker ASo make sure you do not click off of this.
Speaker AI, I.
Speaker AAnd I want to see you in the comments section because this has been speaking to me.
Speaker AYou know, a lot of people ask me, pastor Mike, you know, how this person fell?
Speaker AThis person fell.
Speaker ABut what were the salvations real?
Speaker AWere the healings real?
Speaker AAnd I say, yes, it's more a reflection of.
Speaker AIn an affirmation of God's love for the people who are being ministered to than his approval of the minister, you know, and so God will use somebody even when there is sin in their life, not, not as an affirmation of that person's sin, but more an affirmation of his love for the people receiving ministry.
Speaker AAnd that's what makes it dangerous, is that you could.
Speaker AMinistry is one of the few jobs that you could stay in it for a long time.
Speaker AWell past the time God already fired you.
Speaker AYou know, it's.
Speaker AAnd because you just keep going through the motions, and I don't want to be that guy.
Speaker AAnd this conversation's been deeply convicting and, and that was my prayer.
Speaker ABut because we can't play with revival, you know, we can't monetize revival, we can't market revival.
Speaker AAnd.
Speaker AAnd so even for me, you know, making the movie, and I don't want to ruin the ending, it's getting ready to go to digital distribution.
Speaker ABut my attempt with the movie was to take all of that selfish ambition and turn it on its head.
Speaker AYou know, where people get in there and then they're like, oh, you know, and.
Speaker AAnd really, even when we did the.
Speaker AWe actually did the movie premiere, and I had all the cast of characters and some of the most significant voices with the biggest platforms all in one auditorium.
Speaker AAnd when that last scene rolled, it was like the organic response was everybody hit their knees.
Speaker AI mean, we had viral footage of it.
Speaker APeople just weeping, balling their eyes out, saying, God, let it start with me, you know?
Speaker AAnd so my prayer has been that at this point in this.
Speaker AThis conversation, that people right now are like, I don't even know if I can keep watching.
Speaker AI just need to begin to pray.
Speaker AI do want to ask you a few questions, though, just as we get ready to close it down, because one of the things I love about your ministry is how you just demolish strongholds, and I think God has used you powerfully to just dismantle that.
Speaker AYou're a perfect convergence of, you know, the anointing of God, but also, you know, intellectual.
Speaker AI think about Paul, who's like, sometimes I come with a cunning of words and other times a demonstration of God's power.
Speaker AAnd I.
Speaker AI've always loved that about your ministry.
Speaker ASo if you don't mind, if you've got time for just a few more quick questions, we could just quickly demolish some strongholds.
Speaker AThat is that all right?
Speaker BPerfect.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AAnd guys, by the way, we want you to subscribe to his channel.
Speaker AWe're going to have all that linked in the description as well, so you can grab the book and also subscribe to his channel.
Speaker AHe's got so many teachings, so the things that we're talking about here.
Speaker AAlso, he's got videos in depth, which I'll link to.
Speaker ABut right now, something that I've been seeing is this Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah creeping into the church.
Speaker AYou know, where do you see this happening?
Speaker AAnd could you speak on that?
Speaker BIt's a superficial fascination with things that they know absolutely nothing about.
Speaker BThe first thing is to really understand Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism.
Speaker BThere's even a Jewish tradition that Jewish men can't even begin to study it until they're past 40 years old because it can be so esoteric.
Speaker BSo even with all my knowledge and background and studies that I've done.
Speaker BMysticism is still a very esoteric thing.
Speaker BSo the Kabbalah and the stuff that people get, it's just this poor man's version of a trinket of something that somebody passed on.
Speaker BAnd it has nothing to do with scripture, it has nothing to do with spiritual revelation.
Speaker BIt's generally based on the less you know, the more you talk about it, in short, because the more you knew about it, the less you would actually talk about it or tie it in with the gospel.
Speaker BSo you're going to find this numerology or, you know, try to derive meanings of, you know, from Hebrew letters and things and it's, it's all bogus.
Speaker BPeople that know Hebrew well know it's bogus, but then when you go to expose it, you get called the Antichrist and false prophet because people get so caught up with the sensationalism.
Speaker BI'm thinking, isn't God's living word enough?
Speaker BIsn't relationship with the Holy Spirit enough?
Speaker BWhy do you need this cheap nonsense?
Speaker BIt's frivolous.
Speaker BAnd then when you tie it in with prophetic words, it's deception added to deception.
Speaker AYeah, I mean, just briefly, what do you think people's fascination, I mean, calling a year, you know, something based on Hebrew numbers or the Alphabet, like, you know, what is the fascination?
Speaker AWhy are they drawn to that?
Speaker AIs it just a lack of personal discipline to study the word of God that we have?
Speaker AAnd it's just, is it the emotionalism that's connected to it?
Speaker AIs it that it's sort of a counterfeit or, or how do I put this?
Speaker ALike a, it runs parallel to like a psychic medium, New age kind of thing.
Speaker ALike why do, why are Christians so, You know, it's like you post a video about, we're going to go through the book of James and you get five videos and then you post a video about some esoteric mystical aspect and you get a million views.
Speaker AWhat is that, that phenomenon?
Speaker BYeah, you know, there's the principle in Proverbs 9, that's that that food eaten in secret is delicious, that something that's stolen has a certain allure to it.
Speaker BOr, or Jesus rebukes it in revelation to Satan's so called deep secret.
Speaker BOne of the early heresies the church dealt with was Gnosticism, this special knowledge.
Speaker BSo anytime, just like a conspiracy thing, hey, I've got insider information that has a certain allure to it, or a deeper spiritual truth by which we can predict the future.
Speaker BNo, there is this completely idiotic, one of the most idiotic pathetic, nonsensical videos I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker BAnd people started to ask me about it.
Speaker BDr.
Speaker BBryant, have you seen this?
Speaker BHave you seen this?
Speaker BHave you seen this?
Speaker BSo I go, of course.
Speaker BIt's millions of views and it's laying out why Jesus is coming before the end of 2023.
Speaker BThis is a video posted in 2018 with a book based on the first word in Genesis, bereshit in Hebrew.
Speaker BBased on alleged numeric value of the letters, this was now laying out the whole plan of redemption.
Speaker BEvery so I watched the beginning.
Speaker BEvery single point made was bogus.
Speaker BIt would be like saying your name is Mike Jones and you're from Mars and your parents live in Paris.
Speaker BEvery part was factually bogus.
Speaker BAnd then I said, the only good thing is it's got dates.
Speaker BSo I said, I guarantee you Jesus is not coming by the end of 2023.
Speaker BHere's what I want you to do.
Speaker BI want you to archive my article and I want you to archive this video and I want you to see which one ages better.
Speaker BIt's this.
Speaker BIt's this fascination.
Speaker BIt's this.
Speaker BAnd, and I think if people had a vibrant personal relationship with God.
Speaker BYeah, we're grounded in the Word and we're bearing fruit.
Speaker BSeeing people come to the Lord, lives touched, that would be so consuming and so life giving.
Speaker BThey wouldn't have time for this trivial nonsense.
Speaker AOh, that's so good.
Speaker AOkay, I've got two more questions because this is this.
Speaker AObviously I could talk to you all day, but I've got to respect your time.
Speaker ABut I have two more questions.
Speaker ASuper quick question.
Speaker ASo obviously me kind of getting sucked into the deliverance world.
Speaker AThere's this huge fascination with the book of Enoch.
Speaker AWhy was the book of Enoch not canonized in the 66 books of the Bible?
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BSo what people need to know outside of the Ethiopic canon, parts of the Ethiopian church that recognized Enoch.
Speaker BEnoch was highly esteemed by early Jews and early followers of Jesus, but it was never considered part of the Jewish canon.
Speaker BSo what you have to understand is there was not a formal process where 50 people sat around and voted.
Speaker BIt was more organic that, okay, here are the words of Moses and now this is the book that God gave.
Speaker BAnd now God has verified that book through the Exodus.
Speaker BSo these are sacred.
Speaker BNow here are words of the prophets or words of the apostles that became recognized by the people.
Speaker BSo Enoch number one does not all go back to Enoch.
Speaker BWe know for sure that although there may be words like Jude quotes and go back to him that otherwise there's much in Enoch that's not going back to him.
Speaker BIt's called pseudepigraphical literature.
Speaker BIt would be like me writing a letter to the church From Mike Signorelli 100 years after you're gone.
Speaker BYou didn't really write it, but it's in your name.
Speaker BAnd I try to write it, it's in your name.
Speaker BSo there are parts of Enoch that are clearly later than Enoch.
Speaker BSo it was falsely attributed to him.
Speaker BAlso, it's produced in between the Old and the New Testament.
Speaker BSo basically the canon of the Old Testament is closed.
Speaker BIt's not part of the New Testament canon.
Speaker BSo it was a respected book.
Speaker BJust like shepherd of Hermos or Epistle of Barnabas.
Speaker BThese were respected books, but they never became part of scripture.
Speaker BSo as you go through in the early church, as they're listing different books, this was never part of.
Speaker BOf, you know, one of the standard lists that they agreed on.
Speaker BSo it's not that there was this conspiracy to keep Enoch.
Speaker BAnd there are lots of things in it that are very interesting and that shed light on certain things that were happening in the 1st century in Jewish thought.
Speaker BBut it was never part of the Bible.
Speaker BIt did not get excluded because someone took it out.
Speaker BIt was never part.
Speaker BSo in a certain level, it came at the wrong time.
Speaker BIn between the Old and New Testaments, it contained material that was pseudepigraphical, in other words, not really going back to Enoch.
Speaker BAnd it may have some other ideas that are not exactly orthodox.
Speaker BSo it never made it in.
Speaker BYou know, it's like the guy that didn't make it into the major leagues, it wasn't because of his last name.
Speaker BIt wasn't because of his funny beard.
Speaker BIt's that he didn't quite play well enough to make it.
Speaker BSo it's a very interesting book, a compilation of several books, actually.
Speaker BYeah, it's interesting to read, but that's it.
Speaker BYeah, it's not scripture.
Speaker AIt's a great answer.
Speaker AOkay, this last question, I'm going to probably lose some subscribers over, so I'm going to take this risk with you right now.
Speaker AI just want to say I'm in it with you, but I'm probably going to lose some subscribers and I'm going to have to tell my wife that the next couple days after this are going to be hard couple days for me.
Speaker ASo why is.
Speaker AIf you're willing.
Speaker AIf you're willing, you can bow out of this.
Speaker AWe'll.
Speaker AWe'll delete it.
Speaker ABut why Is the idea of the flat Earth not biblical?
Speaker BOkay, you talk about something nonsense.
Speaker BSo I'm not a scientist, I don't claim to be a scientist, but did the sun rise where you live today?
Speaker AIt did, yes.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BThat's observational language.
Speaker BWe use observational language to this day.
Speaker BThe sun rising, the sun setting.
Speaker BBut we know.
Speaker BUnless you actually believe that the sun goes around the Earth as a flat Earther, which I don't think flat Earthers actually believe that the sun goes around the Earth.
Speaker BSo unless you believe that, you recognize the Bible uses observational language, talking about to the ends of the Earth or to the corners, it uses other observational language or just kind of conceptions of the time that it's built on foundations, or do we actually believe that there are foundations that have.
Speaker BIf there's a flat earth and you went.
Speaker BThere's like a table with legs going out of.
Speaker BNo, but if you want to read it literally, that's what you have to read.
Speaker BOn the flip side, you can read in Job where he hangs the earth on nothing.
Speaker BYou read in Isaiah where God sits on the hoog of the Earth, which is the circle or the sphere of the Earth.
Speaker BAnd people use that to say the Bible knew that the Earth was a globe.
Speaker BIt's not talking about.
Speaker BThe Bible is not there to make scientific observations about the shape of the Earth.
Speaker BAnd if you want to read through all the different foundations, you'll see many, many different descriptions.
Speaker BSome of it's poetic language, and others is just observational language.
Speaker BAnd for people to, you know, I talked to a guy, a solid Christian, who was an astronaut who took more pictures of the Earth than any human being in history.
Speaker BYou know, so when you talk to him about the flat Earth, having circled the Earth endlessly, endlessly, and looked at it, documented and taken pictures, you think, what are people thinking?
Speaker BWhat concerns me, though, is not people misreading the Bible and misunderstanding the Bible and forgetting that it uses observational language.
Speaker BSo I see the sun set, the sun rise.
Speaker BRemember this.
Speaker BIf the Bible was attempting to give accurate scientific information about every statement that it makes, I don't mean it speaks falsely, but it can just use different language.
Speaker BThen all the years up until us discovering that the Earth went around the sun rather than someone around the Earth, if the Bible said two, three thousand years ago that the Earth goes around the sun, every person in the world would have thought the Bible was wrong because scientific knowledge had not caught up.
Speaker BThen when it catches up, oh, now the Bible is right.
Speaker BAnd what if 500 years later we learn something new and it keeps developing.
Speaker BSo the purpose of scripture is to teach us about God and to tell us how to live before him and not to make these random scientific observations.
Speaker BSo again, if I presented every single picture and we wanted to take it literally, you'd end up with something maybe a kind of a globe or maybe more flat, sitting on actual physical pillars.
Speaker BIt's not what it means.
Speaker BAnd the concern to me is not that people believe something weird or stupid.
Speaker BIn other words, it's not going to hurt them following Jesus, but it makes us look idiotic.
Speaker BIt further brings reproach to the gospel.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BSo if you hold to a flat earth, just let it be between you and God.
Speaker BDon't announce it to the world.
Speaker BWe have enough obstacles to overcome.
Speaker BLet not that be added to it.
Speaker BWell, listen, listen, if you lose a lot of followers over that, just like I lost a ton of followers when I went after QAnon.
Speaker BYeah, those people are not worthy of following you, man.
Speaker BCome on.
Speaker BThat's it.
Speaker AYou guys heard it first here at the Michael and Mike show.
Speaker AYou guys, you got.
Speaker AWell, you know, one of the travesties, one of the first travesties I experienced here in New York City when I first moved here was being evangelized to on the streets.
Speaker AAnd they didn't know I was a pastor and a preacher.
Speaker ASo I said, yeah, you lead me to Jesus, let me see what you got, you know, and they were kind of taking me on that journey and exchanged numbers with me.
Speaker ASo they don't, they don't realize they're talking to a full blown lead pastor of a church the whole time.
Speaker AAnd I wasn't trying to lie, lied to them, but I wanted to see, like, what, what is this all about?
Speaker AWell, long story short, they ended up being a cult that believes that every time the phrase the bride of Christ is being used that there was a literal bride.
Speaker ALike, so they took that phrase as if it was.
Speaker AThere was one woman who married Jesus Christ and she is the, the bride of Christ.
Speaker AAnd me trying to convince that entire cult in Queensland that that is figurative language, that's symbolic, obviously of the collective, of all of us who've accepted Christ.
Speaker AI mean, was like, beat my head against the wall.
Speaker AI was unsuccessful.
Speaker AI did.
Speaker AI just, I want to tell my listeners, I, I did not successfully dismantle that cult.
Speaker ABut it just goes to show you, using the limitations of language and, you know, faulty argumentation, they're, they're able to amass a whole audience and build a whole cult.
Speaker AA New York City, and there's churches that rightly divide the word, that can't even keep their doors open out here.
Speaker ASo, you know, the deception runs deep.
Speaker AThank you so much for talking about, you know, the.
Speaker AThe usage of the, you know, we would be on physical pillars that.
Speaker AListen, guys, rewind that.
Speaker AWatch it a couple more times before you send us hate mail.
Speaker BAnd let me just say this.
Speaker BIt's in the book.
Speaker BSeize the moment as well, because revival comes with such intensity.
Speaker BYou can get caught up with the manifestations or just deliverance, Right?
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BAnd everything becomes about demons or, you know, the latest viral video kind of thing, whatever it is, or some esoteric angelic revelation.
Speaker BMajor on the majors.
Speaker BThat's it.
Speaker BThe whole reason I earned a PhD in Semitic languages was to better study scripture and understand.
Speaker BI love to dig deep.
Speaker BI love to dig, and I love to explore and study and learn and want to be like that all my life.
Speaker BBut the more I go on, the more I'm drawn to the center, the more I major, the more I want to discover who Jesus is and the wonders of the nature of God and the depth of the wisdom of the word of God.
Speaker BAnd then practically, how do we live this out?
Speaker AThat's it.
Speaker BAnd that.
Speaker BThat forever and ever and ever is going to be enthralling, is going to be overwhelming.
Speaker BYou know, like the elders, you know, you picture it at the throne of God, and they're saying, holy, holy, holy, right?
Speaker BAnd they're casting down their crowns, but they're continually doing this.
Speaker BSo the mental picture I get is they, you know, they cast the crowns down, they worship, and then they kind of get resettled.
Speaker BThey put the crown back on their head, and they look up like, oh, they get a fresh revelation of God and it's new every month.
Speaker BOh, and they're overwhelmed.
Speaker BThe holy.
Speaker BAnd they throw the crowns down and they kind of get settled, and that's what happens in revival.
Speaker BOh, God, it's real overwhelming.
Speaker BSo major on the majors.
Speaker AThat's it.
Speaker BThere's enough there, enough meat to dig into.
Speaker BAnd I'm constantly just reading through the Word after all these decades, learning something new about the basics, and that's it.
Speaker BInsight.
Speaker BWow.
Speaker BI never knew that.
Speaker BI never saw that.
Speaker BIt's so rich.
Speaker BDon't get lost in the weeds.
Speaker ANo, it's so good.
Speaker AI was just telling our congregation, you know, the further you go in Christ, the more sick, simple you become.
Speaker AI thought I was going to become more complicated, but I want to pray more, I want to read the Word more.
Speaker AI want to serve more.
Speaker AIt's like maturity in the faith.
Speaker AIt doesn't make you more complicated.
Speaker AIt makes you more simple.
Speaker ASo here's what I want you guys to do.
Speaker AWe have seize the moment.
Speaker AI've got this in my hands.
Speaker AYou need to get this book in your hands.
Speaker AI want you guys to all get that book.
Speaker AI want you to subscribe to his channel.
Speaker ABut also, he didn't ask me to do this, but we believe, believe in sewing.
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Speaker AThank you so much.
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Speaker BSo share my testimony from LSD to PhD.
Speaker BCome on.
Speaker BI was shooting heroin at 15 on Long island, the whole transformation and then the three R's of our ministry revival in the church, leading to gospel based moral and cultural revolution, leading to the redemption of Israel.
Speaker BThat's what causes our heart to burn and that's what we want to see.
Speaker AOh, I love your heart and we're so grateful for this conversation.