Do you want
another key to unlock
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the secrets in the books
of Daniel and Revelation?
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Well, stay tuned
to meet a young man
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who has made a
compelling documentary
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about these prophetic books.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis.
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And I'm Jason Bradley
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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I have my Dare to Dream co-host,
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my Urban Report co-host...
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Right. Jason Bradley.
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Good to be here. And
good to have you Jay.
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And our guest today
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is no stranger to Dare
to Dream or Urban Report,
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he's none other
than Ryan Johnson,
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producer and director
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of the popular
Dare to Dream film...
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We took it over, redemption.
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And producer of the
Mindful Minute fillers
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that we show.
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Thank you so much,
Ryan, for being with us.
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Oh, I'm honored to be here.
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Jason, so good to see you, man.
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Good to see you.
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You...
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When you're here last time. Yes.
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We talked about a project
that you were gonna work on.
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We talked about
it on Dare to Dream
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and we talked about it on
the parent network as well.
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Yes.
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This was gonna be the
Daniel and Revelation series.
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Yes.
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Tell us, have
you gotten it done?
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And what's happened with that?
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From the time
you were here to now.
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So, yes, we are in
postproduction on all of it.
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And as you recall it
is in three sections,
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we have the
signs of Jesus return,
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and then we have
Daniel, the Book of Daniel.
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That's four sections, excuse me.
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And then we have Revelation
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and the fourth
section is discussing
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the second
coming of Jesus Christ,
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nothing but the second
coming of Jesus Christ.
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A lot has happened
since I was last here
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and I can't wait
to tell the story.
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Oh, I know, I know, I
can't wait to hear it.
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But before you start,
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what's different
about your series
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from any of the other
Daniel and Revelation series
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that are out there?
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What's different?
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Well, first I
have to acknowledge
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the God filled men and women,
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who are out there,
they are in the field,
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they have a
passion for making sure
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that we humanity are
as ready as we can be,
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as filled with
Biblical knowledge as we can be
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for the second
coming of Jesus the Christ.
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And I have had the privilege
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to work with
many of these people
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and they've been doing
series and doing seminars.
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But I grew up in the
age of Project Sunlight.
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Now we're talking earlier,
I know you've read that.
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Unleashed and then there was
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this audio
production called "Now".
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And these are
people who would get on
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and they would
dramatize biblically
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the things that
we are told about
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in the Word of God.
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And they would take
it all the way through to
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when the clouds roll back
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and Jesus comes in
the clouds of glory.
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So as we were
putting this together,
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we realize that John,
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there alone on
the Isle of Patmos
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and Daniel, of course,
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the Titan there
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at the different stages
of the Babylonian Empire
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and the Medo-Persian Empire.
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When the Spirit
of God came to them
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and showed them these things,
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they were given this
massive meal of visual input.
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In fact, one of
the prophets has told,
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what you see right
and that is what they did
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and the Word of
God is effective.
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Yes, we read what
it is that they saw,
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and we read what it is
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that they were
impressed to write,
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but we are reading
an account from men
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who are doing their best
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to describe the
powerful things that they saw.
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And that motivated us.
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Of course, we could never equate
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to what it is that they saw,
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but what if we
could use our skills
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and our talents prayerfully
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to create an extremely
visually stimulating series
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that bounced back and
forth between the instruction
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and the visual
all of it, of course,
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on the backbone
of the Word of God.
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And that is what we believe
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it makes this a bit different
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than the other prophecies,
series that are out there.
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The focus on the
dramatizing and bringing to life
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the things that are
discussed in the Word of God.
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I'll tell you what.
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You've got me on
the edge of my seat.
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You know, I think you
should do like an audio book.
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With that voice, right? Exactly.
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I'm just listening
like I'm just stuck.
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You, guys, are too kind.
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The graphics are so
powerful... Oh, praise the Lord.
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In fact we have a
clip that we're gonna show
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in just a minute.
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That will kind of
illustrate to our viewers,
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just how intense some
of these graphics are.
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Because I think
we need visual aids,
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when we're working with books
like Daniel and Revelation,
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we need to have something
that really that we can see.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Not just that we
read but that we can see
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so it really impacts us.
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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Mentally and spiritually.
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And there's so much symbolism.
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Yes.
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So it helps to be
able to visualize that.
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Now how did you get
started in all this,
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like where did you start?
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That's a great question, Jason,
without queuing the violins
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and going on and on for ever.
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I am a classic example of a man
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who had his direction...
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Serving a God
who had his direction
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and then being taught to
follow the God, not the man.
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You may know that
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I have a background in medicine,
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I've a medical degree,
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and while I was
in medical school,
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we developed a software,
an educational software
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using the skills that we
have and it was very visual.
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Anatomy is, of course,
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something that
one must experience
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tactile and visually in
order to orient him or herself
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to the human body.
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And our software began with that
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and we just perfected
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and, of course,
we're still in the process
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of getting better and better.
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We perfected ways
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to economically represent
the human body visually
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and found ourselves standing
in the middle of a field,
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that we call visual effects.
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Now right about
that time, my home church
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which is the Northeast
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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in Charlotte, North Carolina,
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they do this Easter
program every single year.
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And they had done this
program, my dad and my mother
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very instrumental in that
and I called my mom and said,
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"You know, I've
got a crazy idea,
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what if we take some
of these visual effects
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and just see what
we can do with it?"
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And it is out of that,
that redemption was born.
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And we're standing there on
the precipice of opportunity
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and realizing that
there's an entire ministry
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here in this direction.
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And then the infamous
Lord, what would you have me do?
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And through a lot
of things, you know,
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we have found ourselves here.
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How does the
medical degree tie in?
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Well, I do get
many opportunities
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to preach and talk on health.
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We do believe
that the health message
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is an integral part of
the three angels' message
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and give glory to Him
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and that includes our
bodies, minds, and bodies.
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And Daniel talks about
that in Daniel 1 I believe.
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And that's kind of
how all of that ties in
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but anyway I hear the
violins, so let me back off.
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No, no, no. You're good.
You're good. You're good.
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But that's how I
get into this. Yes.
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So you used your...
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You kind of started out
in your medical place...
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Yes.
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But then you saw the
spiritual application of...
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Yes, ma'am.
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Of what you had
learned with the software.
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Yes, ma'am. Look at God.
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Look at how God. Look at God.
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It's amazing to me,
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how he just leads and
guides and orchestrates things
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and gets us
where He wants us to be
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with His different projects.
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Yes, He does. I
love it. I love it.
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If we were just
listened have mercy.
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And so as I had said before
these graphics are amazing.
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Let's take a look at
that clip, right now.
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Wow.
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Is that powerful or what?
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Praise the
Lord, praise the Lord.
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Oh, this is a series
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that
everybody's gonna wanna see.
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Oh, we hope so. We hope so.
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Really, because it's got
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all these
different elements in it.
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Who are some of the
speakers that we saw in it?
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Oh, yes.
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And you remember over the
years you and I would discuss
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who shall we use.
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Well, the first speaker...
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The entire project
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is divided up into
four main sections.
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I mean, we're gonna be
playing with your permission
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a lot of stuff on the air
here, over the next year or so.
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Oh, wait, wait. Yes, ma'am?
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You heard that right, viewers?
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You've heard that?
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Dare to Dream gets to
play a lot of this on the air.
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I'm just saying.
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You can't get out of it now.
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Oh, I'm on it.
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Our first section is signs.
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And the Pastor Taj
Pacleb, wonderful young man,
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I know you know him.
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Yes.
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And I've had a great opportunity
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to work with him.
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I just have to say,
when he's shooting his part,
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he's impeccably dressed.
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You know his tie, his
shirt is stark's and everything.
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But he's a Hawaiian.
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So when you get down
and he's there on camera
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and he's preaching with
such passion, such conviction,
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and then you get to
his feet and he's barefoot.
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Oh, you're kidding.
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Oh, I love this,
little behind the scene stuff.
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But anyway Pastor Pacleb
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he has the first
section it is signs
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and he talks about the
signs of Christ return.
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But tries to tie
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in some of the
current events, you know,
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and just remind us
that God is in control
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and truly He's coming.
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Our second
section is a big section
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and it is Daniel, the
entire book of Daniel.
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Pastor Peter
Neri, who is the pastor
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of the Paradise
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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in Las Vegas
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and we were
talking about him earlier.
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He takes on the
entire Book of Daniel,
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beginning with chapter 1
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and going all the
way through chapter 12.
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And that is...
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Well, that was
something we'll talk about
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some of the
challenges that he was having
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during that time.
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The third section of Daniel
that is Pastor Henry Wright
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the infamous.
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I know. A wonderful man...
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He is incredible. A
frighteningly prepared man.
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A brilliant man.
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Brilliant, I'd
tell you, you know,
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you're standing
there and you're just like,
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"Ryan, this guy is awesome."
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And he...
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In fact, he told us, he said,
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"I will be doing
the book of Revelation."
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And Pastor Wright
has spoken, he is...
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Yes, he is.
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And he has the
book of Revelation
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and he discusses it
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from the
standpoint of redemption,
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a wonderful standpoint.
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In a way that I
have never heard it,
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presented before.
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And then of course my
mentor, Pastor Ezra Mendinghall
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from Charlotte, North Carolina.
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He does a fireside chat,
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sort of account
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of the second
coming of Jesus Christ.
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Just sits down
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and then begins
to talk narratively.
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Now the first section
that is released that,
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which you have seen we
actually began with that.
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And we introduced, you
know, the other speakers
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but the primary
course in that meal
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is the second coming of Jesus.
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"Why?" One would ask,
"Why would you begin there?"
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Because the
entire Bible all of it,
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all of the
prophecies when you put together
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and looked at as a sum
it's about the coming of Jesus,
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the coming of Jesus
in his first advent,
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the coming of Jesus again
to take his children home.
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And I believe particularly
now in our tumultuous society
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we need to be encouraged
so we released that first.
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"Hey, Jesus coming."
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Yes, yes. You know.
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But these are the
preachers, outstanding people
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with whom I have been
very honored to work with.
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Yes, ma'am.
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This project has not
been without challenges,
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tell us some of
the things that you...?
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Well, first of all,
how long has it been
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that you've
been working on this?
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And then what's happened
as you've been working on it?
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Because we know that the
enemy does not want this out
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so tell us what
some of the challenges
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that you've been faced with.
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I think it's
been about four years
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from conception to
where we are right now.
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It's been a number of years
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since I was blessed to
be on the air with you.
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You know, 1 Peter says,
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"I think it not strange."
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The fiery trials.
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And we read a text like that
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over and over and over.
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And just the way
the human mind is,
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we allow it to lose
its meaning and pertinence.
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And then every now and then
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I will say I will call it
a blessing, we are blessed.
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To be reminded that
this thing is serious.
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The devil is not playing
and our God is all powerful.
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That it is spiritual warfare.
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Oh, so well put, Dr. Lewis.
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Yes, ma'am.
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You will remember...
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When you came out
and thank you so much
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for coming out to Las Vegas
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for the premier
of Silent Witness
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and I'll tell our
viewers' a Silent Witness
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is a production that we put on
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that discusses
personal evangelism.
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And if you're
interested, you're welcome
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to play that as well.
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Thank you.
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You will remember
that when you came
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to the premier of Silent Witness
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my left arm was not working.
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And you said to me,
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"Ryan, you know,
what's going on?"
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I said, well I've got this
problem with my with my arm."
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And I had a kind of
tucked like an injured wing
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next to my body.
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And you gathered
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my little
brother Rodney and myself
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and right there in the arena
you prayed, you remember that?
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No.
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You don't remember
that? No, I don't remember.
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You prayed a
special prayer. She did.
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She said, "Lord,
there are challenges,
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the enemy wants
to stop this project,
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and I pray a special
blessing on this team."
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And we did not know that
we were standing at that point
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just in the gateway.
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And through the gateway
there was an obstacle course,
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and we did not know.
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Now jokingly Pastor
Ezra Mendinghall and I
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had made a pact
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when we embarked on
this and this is before that.
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We joked on the phone
that we were not afraid
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of what the enemy would do,
00:17:55.54\00:17:57.84
we would go
forth, we are soldiers,
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you know, "You're not afraid?"
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"I'm not
afraid." "You're afraid?"
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"I'm not afraid."
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And if only we had
known what stood before us,
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I would like to thank that
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we would still
have made such a pact.
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You probably would
not have been laughing.
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Right, right, right.
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You know, I'm not afraid.
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It would have been
more, you know, in that vain.
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And immediately following
that we went on vacation
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after you went back.
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Oh, you're all over the world.
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I assume you went to Illinois,
you could have gone to Russia.
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I don't know.
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And then began the
reign of terror for me.
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I was diagnosed with
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an extremely severe aggressive
form of rheumatoid arthritis
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and what
happened in my left hand
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soon spread all over my body.
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I was preaching sermons,
you know, with the cane,
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just leaning, I had
the gloves, you know,
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the braces just
leaning on the pulpit.
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One time I was I was
preaching in a church
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and the cane
fell off of the pulpit
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onto the ground and I thought
00:19:04.24\00:19:05.84
I'm going to be
standing here forever.
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I'll be here next Sabbath, guys.
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Oh, wow.
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And this gentleman,
this elderly gentleman,
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you know, far
more ambulatory than I,
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gets up, he grabs the
cane, and he hands it to me
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and he says, "You
know, here you're doctor."
00:19:17.62\00:19:18.95
I said "Thank you."
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It was during that period
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and I have to try to
illustrate the overlap.
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It was during that period,
while I was on a severe decline
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that we were scheduled to
shoot Pastor Henry Wright.
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And it was November by
the time we got to Takoma Park
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and I was very, very bad off.
00:19:40.31\00:19:42.91
I couldn't do
the camera equipment,
00:19:42.94\00:19:45.15
Jason, so I had to have
help putting it together,
00:19:45.18\00:19:47.38
my father was there with me,
00:19:47.42\00:19:49.05
and he had actually
just had surgery on his foot.
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So we were two crippled Johnsons
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showing up in the
Takoma Park, Maryland
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and we're there.
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And, you know, Pastor Wright
is so full of energy and life,
00:19:58.39\00:20:01.63
you know, and he's
like, "Do you need any help?"
00:20:01.66\00:20:03.93
I was like, "Oh, yes, sir."
00:20:03.97\00:20:05.80
So I go creeping out on
the cane over to the car
00:20:05.83\00:20:09.04
and he's standing there
and I look down the road
00:20:09.07\00:20:11.94
and these young people's
good looking men and women,
00:20:11.97\00:20:14.64
they're coming
from the university,
00:20:14.68\00:20:16.38
and I didn't wanna be
standing there with a cane.
00:20:16.41\00:20:18.51
You know, when the
young people went by.
00:20:18.55\00:20:19.95
So I said, "You
know, hey, Pastor Wright
00:20:19.98\00:20:21.48
would you hold my
cane for a second?"
00:20:21.52\00:20:25.72
Set him up.
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He takes the cane
00:20:27.59\00:20:28.92
and then he sees
this people, young people,
00:20:28.96\00:20:30.79
he just gives me
this look, you know.
00:20:30.83\00:20:33.90
"So I have to keep this thing?"
00:20:33.93\00:20:35.26
You know, "Please don't, sir."
00:20:35.30\00:20:37.07
But it got very
bad, very quickly,
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we did that taping that filming
00:20:40.27\00:20:42.77
and that was
November by December
00:20:42.80\00:20:45.37
I was unable to get out of bed,
00:20:45.41\00:20:47.11
unable to feed myself,
unable to go to the bathroom.
00:20:47.14\00:20:50.05
The arthritis had
settled in my lungs,
00:20:50.08\00:20:52.95
I had an effusion, I've...
00:20:52.98\00:20:55.75
Breathe like that.
00:20:55.78\00:20:57.19
It had gotten
into my heart and...
00:20:57.22\00:21:01.39
Wow.
00:21:01.42\00:21:02.76
There came a day,
00:21:02.79\00:21:04.13
when I knew
that I was gonna die.
00:21:04.16\00:21:08.00
You know, in my
medical experience
00:21:08.03\00:21:13.80
we're always on the
front side of the desk.
00:21:13.84\00:21:18.34
When you look a person
in their face and you say,
00:21:18.37\00:21:20.91
"There's nothing we can do."
00:21:20.94\00:21:23.21
But I got to be
on the other side.
00:21:23.24\00:21:27.95
And they said,
"There's nothing we can do.
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We've never seen
a case like this."
00:21:31.65\00:21:35.92
While this is going on
00:21:35.96\00:21:37.63
Pastor Mendinghall calls me
as he would do encourage me.
00:21:37.66\00:21:42.30
And in passing he
says, "You know..."
00:21:42.33\00:21:44.87
Now Pastor Mendinghall is
00:21:44.90\00:21:48.50
he would be just be
so glad to know that
00:21:48.54\00:21:50.61
I'm going to say something
00:21:50.64\00:21:51.97
that could be even
construed his praise
00:21:52.01\00:21:54.08
but he's a fine
example of a man,
00:21:54.11\00:21:56.64
in my opinion, and in
the opinion of many others.
00:21:56.68\00:21:58.61
He really is, he walks the walk.
00:21:58.65\00:22:01.08
And the health
message is something that he,
00:22:01.12\00:22:04.82
at hears to he hold
it close to his heart
00:22:04.85\00:22:08.26
and lives by example.
00:22:08.29\00:22:10.33
So when he said, "You know,
00:22:10.36\00:22:12.13
I went and had a physical
and my levels are a little high
00:22:12.16\00:22:14.90
and I'm thinking about
having a prostate biopsy."
00:22:14.93\00:22:19.50
Now I have permission
for him to tell the story.
00:22:19.53\00:22:22.60
And I was there
and I was, you know,
00:22:22.64\00:22:24.77
all balled up and
everything and I said,
00:22:24.81\00:22:28.31
"Well, you're gonna do it?"
00:22:28.34\00:22:29.68
He says, "Well,
I've lived right,
00:22:29.71\00:22:31.05
I've done everything,
I don't really know."
00:22:31.08\00:22:33.08
And I said, "Well, sir,
00:22:33.11\00:22:34.45
I think you have
it in your family,
00:22:34.48\00:22:35.82
you think you should
go and have that biopsy."
00:22:35.85\00:22:37.49
And I would call him
00:22:37.52\00:22:38.85
and I would stress him out
have the biopsy, have the...
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I got to do a funeral,
here I have go to Fresno.
00:22:40.72\00:22:43.16
"Get the biopsy,
sir. Get the biopsy, sir."
00:22:43.19\00:22:45.89
And he did.
00:22:45.93\00:22:48.10
Now when you see
Pastor Mendinghall
00:22:48.13\00:22:51.27
on the Daniel project
00:22:51.30\00:22:53.23
know that he is just a
few days from that biopsy,
00:22:53.27\00:22:58.27
which is an invasive process.
00:22:58.31\00:23:00.91
And I was concerned
about whether or not
00:23:00.94\00:23:02.84
he could even
sit there and do this
00:23:02.88\00:23:04.55
but he said, "We
have work to do."
00:23:04.58\00:23:06.88
This was after the biopsy.
00:23:06.92\00:23:09.25
This wasn't days before, right?
00:23:09.28\00:23:12.12
Say again please.
00:23:12.15\00:23:13.49
Was this before the
biopsy that he did...?
00:23:13.52\00:23:15.46
No, he did it...
It's right after...
00:23:15.49\00:23:17.89
His taping following the biopsy.
00:23:17.93\00:23:19.26
Okay. Wow.
00:23:19.29\00:23:20.63
So the overlap is while I was
on this severe physical decline
00:23:20.66\00:23:24.73
then his trials
began, right about there.
00:23:24.77\00:23:28.50
So we leave his story
for a second if I may,
00:23:28.54\00:23:31.57
and then I just
plummeted, plummeted
00:23:31.61\00:23:34.64
it was absolute awfulness.
00:23:34.68\00:23:37.65
I must admit,
I'll admit on the air.
00:23:37.68\00:23:40.72
I turned to my
wife one day and I said,
00:23:40.75\00:23:42.15
"I cannot do this any more.
00:23:42.18\00:23:44.65
I can't live in this
kind of pain anymore."
00:23:44.69\00:23:50.19
And all production on Daniel
had come to a complete stop.
00:23:50.23\00:23:56.67
And it's often then
00:23:56.70\00:23:58.07
when we are at the very
end of our understanding
00:23:58.10\00:24:00.67
that we remember the
great physician, "Oh, yes."
00:24:00.70\00:24:04.97
There is one greater
than I, is there not.
00:24:05.01\00:24:07.68
And he has outlined so clearly
in the Bible how we should live
00:24:07.71\00:24:12.45
so there's a
little place called Wiemar
00:24:12.48\00:24:14.78
many of you heard of
it, out there by Sacramento.
00:24:14.82\00:24:17.72
After the
doctors had nothing else,
00:24:17.75\00:24:19.35
I had nothing else.
00:24:19.39\00:24:20.72
No one knew what to do.
00:24:20.76\00:24:22.12
It wasn't even me,
I was like, you know,
00:24:22.16\00:24:24.03
I'll go cart me around,
you know, just do whatever.
00:24:24.06\00:24:29.00
My wife and my
mother got together
00:24:29.03\00:24:30.63
and they began a GoFundMe,
00:24:30.67\00:24:32.83
one of these
crowd funding things
00:24:32.87\00:24:34.37
and churches from
around the country
00:24:34.40\00:24:35.97
put in money to
get me to Wiemar,
00:24:36.00\00:24:37.77
they laid me out in
the back of this SUV
00:24:37.81\00:24:40.01
they rented and they
drove me up to Wiemar.
00:24:40.04\00:24:42.51
And I wish you could
have seen their faces,
00:24:42.54\00:24:44.28
that there are
people there with cancer,
00:24:44.31\00:24:45.85
with congestive heart
failure, and various issues.
00:24:45.88\00:24:48.55
And I like the
youngest one there,
00:24:48.58\00:24:51.19
they just pulled me out
00:24:51.22\00:24:53.25
and they looked at me
00:24:53.29\00:24:55.29
and the Wiemar
physicians admitted to me later.
00:24:55.32\00:24:58.96
They said, "When
we first saw you,
00:24:58.99\00:25:00.46
we thought what are we
supposed to do with this."
00:25:00.50\00:25:04.97
They did what they always do.
00:25:05.00\00:25:06.87
They applied those
principles of health.
00:25:06.90\00:25:09.24
And I began to just...
00:25:09.27\00:25:11.37
I had not been doing
00:25:11.41\00:25:13.61
what I would consider poorly
00:25:13.64\00:25:15.14
but I ate dairy,
I daily ate cheese
00:25:15.18\00:25:17.11
they took all of that away
00:25:17.15\00:25:18.81
and after severe
decline in about five days
00:25:18.85\00:25:22.22
I was able to walk
kind of like a duck.
00:25:22.25\00:25:24.89
And I got on the phone
it was a Sabbath afternoon
00:25:24.92\00:25:27.16
I called my wife
I said, "Baby..."
00:25:27.19\00:25:28.69
Can I say baby? Yes. You are.
00:25:28.72\00:25:31.23
I said, "Baby..." I
said, "I can walk like a duck."
00:25:31.26\00:25:34.20
She said, "You go my duck."
00:25:34.23\00:25:36.20
And we were
praising God and rejoicing.
00:25:36.23\00:25:39.90
My good friend
Jackie Esposito Cunningham,
00:25:39.93\00:25:42.90
you know her as well.
00:25:42.94\00:25:44.27
She's been here on the air,
00:25:44.31\00:25:45.71
she's working as a
nurse there at Wiemar
00:25:45.74\00:25:48.14
and she would help me,
00:25:48.18\00:25:49.74
because I really needed
help, I couldn't feed myself
00:25:49.78\00:25:51.58
and then when I got there.
00:25:51.61\00:25:52.95
And when we were
rejoicing and praising God.
00:25:52.98\00:25:55.95
It was Sabbath afternoon
00:25:55.98\00:25:58.05
my very first
week there at Wiemar
00:25:58.09\00:26:01.29
that things
began to get bad again
00:26:01.32\00:26:04.33
progressively worse and worse
00:26:04.36\00:26:07.30
and then by Sabbath
afternoon I gonna say
00:26:07.33\00:26:10.03
maybe four or five
00:26:10.07\00:26:12.10
I was completely
paralyzed on my left side.
00:26:12.13\00:26:14.60
Wow.
00:26:14.64\00:26:15.97
And I lay there in pain
00:26:16.00\00:26:19.87
is beyond my
ability to describe.
00:26:19.91\00:26:24.21
And the phone rang
00:26:24.25\00:26:25.58
I had the cell
phone on my chest,
00:26:25.61\00:26:26.95
and my wife was there,
00:26:26.98\00:26:28.32
and I reached with my right hand
00:26:28.35\00:26:29.68
and I answered
the phone, you know,
00:26:29.72\00:26:31.05
and she goes, "How's my duck?"
00:26:31.09\00:26:32.59
And I tried to be
dishonest with my wife.
00:26:32.62\00:26:36.39
But she heard it in my voice.
00:26:36.42\00:26:39.33
I later heard the
account of what happened
00:26:39.36\00:26:41.83
she was still at church
for the afternoon program
00:26:41.86\00:26:43.93
the kids there,
00:26:43.97\00:26:45.40
when she heard the disease
having returned in my voice.
00:26:45.43\00:26:52.01
There was just
crying, "Lord, why?
00:26:52.04\00:26:56.68
Why we come so far?
00:26:56.71\00:26:59.08
But I had hung up the phone
00:26:59.11\00:27:00.45
because to hear
my wife in that state
00:27:00.48\00:27:02.32
was far harder than
what I was going through
00:27:02.35\00:27:05.45
and I lay there.
00:27:05.49\00:27:07.79
And there was a
knock on the door
00:27:07.82\00:27:10.63
and I couldn't get to the door.
00:27:10.66\00:27:12.79
I guess they had missed me
00:27:12.83\00:27:14.93
and one of the
attendants there at Wiemar.
00:27:14.96\00:27:17.50
I don't have the
permission to talk about her
00:27:17.53\00:27:18.87
so I'll keep her name she says,
"Johnson, are you all right?"
00:27:18.90\00:27:21.74
And I said from
my bed "I'm a mess."
00:27:21.77\00:27:25.41
She opens the
door, she comes in,
00:27:25.44\00:27:26.94
they came and they scrape me up,
00:27:26.98\00:27:28.64
they took me to
those infamous showers,
00:27:28.68\00:27:30.38
they did their
thing, rub me down,
00:27:30.41\00:27:31.75
they did whatever they could do.
00:27:31.78\00:27:33.18
They brought me
back into the bed
00:27:33.21\00:27:34.68
and they lay me there.
00:27:34.72\00:27:36.48
Every Bible
story about paralytics
00:27:36.52\00:27:38.65
is running through my mind
00:27:38.69\00:27:40.02
but now not from the perspective
00:27:40.06\00:27:41.69
of one who was reading a
scripture about a paralytic
00:27:41.72\00:27:44.59
but now I understand,
00:27:44.63\00:27:47.56
the sinner,
00:27:47.60\00:27:49.33
helpless before the power of God
00:27:49.36\00:27:51.97
and they prayed over me.
00:27:52.00\00:27:54.77
Lord, we need a miracle.
00:27:54.80\00:27:57.64
Don't bother asking me
00:27:57.67\00:27:59.24
if the things I'm
telling you today are true,
00:27:59.27\00:28:01.08
for they are, and
there are witnesses.
00:28:01.11\00:28:04.38
And as they were leaving
this attended, this woman says,
00:28:04.41\00:28:09.25
"You know, let me
give you something,"
00:28:09.28\00:28:11.12
and she gave me a
benadryl, one pink pill
00:28:11.15\00:28:15.06
7:39 at Walgreens.
00:28:15.09\00:28:16.79
And then they put
down the newspapers
00:28:20.10\00:28:22.03
and everything that I
couldn't get to the restroom.
00:28:22.06\00:28:24.27
They said, "We'll
check on you later."
00:28:24.30\00:28:26.67
Benadryl is an
antihistamine put you to sleep
00:28:26.70\00:28:29.24
and I went to sleep.
00:28:29.27\00:28:30.87
For a while my
friend Jackie had come in
00:28:30.91\00:28:33.07
and sat on the corner
of the bed and watched me.
00:28:33.11\00:28:36.88
4:30 in the morning
Dr. Jesus showed up.
00:28:36.91\00:28:41.38
Come on. Come on now.
00:28:41.42\00:28:45.82
I had to use the
restroom, excuse me.
00:28:45.85\00:28:48.96
Emotional here and
I got to through that,
00:28:48.99\00:28:50.96
I got more to tell.
00:28:50.99\00:28:52.33
I had to use the restroom
and I just jumped out of bed.
00:28:52.36\00:28:57.37
Standing on my
feet for the first time
00:28:57.40\00:29:00.50
and it scared me.
00:29:00.54\00:29:03.41
I wish I had a video camera
00:29:03.44\00:29:07.74
that you all could see
the looks on their faces
00:29:07.78\00:29:10.55
the next day when
they had breakfast
00:29:10.58\00:29:12.21
and I walked in that place.
00:29:12.25\00:29:15.58
Walked in.
00:29:15.62\00:29:16.95
So much so that the
physicians had pull me aside
00:29:16.99\00:29:22.02
and they pulled my wife aside.
00:29:22.06\00:29:24.26
When she heard,
she got in the car,
00:29:24.29\00:29:25.73
and drove all the way to say,
"I got to see this for myself."
00:29:25.76\00:29:28.43
And they said, you
know, we need to talk about,
00:29:28.46\00:29:30.70
how you're
gonna talk about this.
00:29:30.73\00:29:32.20
We had people here, who need to,
00:29:32.23\00:29:33.90
and hear to the health program.
00:29:33.94\00:29:35.97
And here over night
something has happened
00:29:36.00\00:29:38.64
we don't want them to think that
00:29:38.67\00:29:40.28
they can just
drop how shall we...
00:29:40.31\00:29:42.41
Oh, my goodness a
miracle had taken place.
00:29:42.44\00:29:45.61
People are crying
00:29:45.65\00:29:46.98
and then that began
this phase in my life
00:29:47.02\00:29:50.42
when I'm going
all over the country
00:29:50.45\00:29:52.05
talking about what God can do.
00:29:52.09\00:29:54.72
Now I get in the
car when the time is up
00:29:54.76\00:29:58.69
and the doctors
are there at Weimar
00:29:58.73\00:30:00.10
and they're waving at me.
00:30:00.13\00:30:01.46
Almost like a
prodigal son that has come home
00:30:01.50\00:30:04.00
and I drive all the way home.
00:30:04.03\00:30:06.00
And my muscles have atrophied,
00:30:06.03\00:30:08.37
I'm in bad
condition but I can walk.
00:30:08.40\00:30:11.67
And I get back to Las Vegas.
00:30:11.71\00:30:15.44
And I'm having to go
and get iron infusions
00:30:15.48\00:30:19.11
because my body
is been just that,
00:30:19.15\00:30:22.15
it deteriorated that much.
00:30:22.18\00:30:24.29
And one day I'm driving home
00:30:24.32\00:30:26.22
and I decide to
call Pastor Mendinghall.
00:30:26.25\00:30:28.66
And I said,
"Pastor, how are you doing?"
00:30:28.69\00:30:30.56
And he had just finished
listening to the message
00:30:30.59\00:30:35.63
and I was the first to here.
00:30:35.66\00:30:38.10
He said, "Boy, you
know, this thing is cancer."
00:30:38.13\00:30:40.54
Hard day.
00:30:44.31\00:30:46.17
Hard day.
00:30:46.21\00:30:49.51
And he said, "Don't tell anyone,
00:30:49.54\00:30:54.25
because I got to
tell Sister Mendinghall."
00:30:54.28\00:30:56.92
I go to church that Sabbath
and I'm bearing this burden
00:31:00.39\00:31:03.66
because I love Ezra Mendinghall,
00:31:03.69\00:31:07.16
I dressed like Ezra Mendinghall
00:31:07.20\00:31:09.46
I preach like Ezra Mendinghall.
00:31:09.50\00:31:12.40
I try.
00:31:12.43\00:31:16.10
Somewhere, someone is
like, "No, you don't."
00:31:16.14\00:31:20.38
You wish.
00:31:20.41\00:31:22.74
And so Pastor Neri...
00:31:22.78\00:31:25.41
I go to the Paradise Church,
which is there in Las Vegas.
00:31:25.45\00:31:28.52
He is out of town,
00:31:28.55\00:31:30.95
he has gone to
Arkansas to preach a series
00:31:30.99\00:31:34.89
that he calls "The Shaking."
00:31:34.92\00:31:38.06
He wants to talk about
00:31:38.09\00:31:39.43
how we need to get
back to the Word of God
00:31:39.46\00:31:41.83
because a little lady
by the name of Ellen White
00:31:41.86\00:31:44.53
predicts that a
shaking is coming
00:31:44.57\00:31:46.47
and while he is down there
00:31:46.50\00:31:48.20
his heart rate goes
to about three hundred,
00:31:48.24\00:31:50.97
we're talking
about cardiac arrest.
00:31:51.01\00:31:53.07
What do you mean 100?
00:31:53.11\00:31:56.21
They set him down they
send him to the hospital.
00:31:56.24\00:32:01.15
And through many,
many diagnostic process
00:32:01.18\00:32:04.49
because this came and it
went, and it came and it went.
00:32:04.52\00:32:07.76
They find out that he had AFib.
00:32:07.79\00:32:10.03
And this is not uncommon
00:32:10.06\00:32:11.86
but, of course,
it was a severe case.
00:32:11.89\00:32:16.26
He is the first to say,
00:32:16.30\00:32:21.07
we got on the phone and he said,
00:32:21.10\00:32:22.77
"It seems to me, Ryan.
00:32:22.80\00:32:25.71
That since we have all
agreed to do this Daniel thing,
00:32:25.74\00:32:31.28
all of these things
are happening to us."
00:32:31.31\00:32:34.52
And that is when we coined
the term the Daniel effect.
00:32:34.55\00:32:41.26
It got to the point
that when people volunteered
00:32:41.29\00:32:43.79
we let them know
the devil is busy.
00:32:43.83\00:32:46.49
Everyone on the team
00:32:46.53\00:32:47.90
the gentleman who
plays Jesus leukemia,
00:32:47.93\00:32:50.93
I could just go on and on and on
00:32:50.97\00:32:52.77
the devil got very, very busy.
00:32:52.80\00:32:56.71
Pastor Neri's
case just horrible,
00:32:56.74\00:33:00.64
horrible things
that he went through
00:33:00.68\00:33:03.35
before he was finally able
to get the medical treatment
00:33:03.38\00:33:05.98
needed to mitigate
00:33:06.01\00:33:07.62
the symptoms that he was having.
00:33:07.65\00:33:09.25
Pastor Ezra Mendinghall
00:33:09.28\00:33:11.05
brought all the way down
00:33:11.09\00:33:12.75
into the valley of
the shadow of death.
00:33:12.79\00:33:16.16
And then Jesus...
00:33:16.19\00:33:17.53
And brought all the way back
out everyone with a testimony
00:33:17.56\00:33:20.90
me with a testimony,
Taj with a testimony,
00:33:20.93\00:33:24.13
and Pastor
Wright with a testimony,
00:33:24.17\00:33:25.93
Pastor
Mendinghall with a testimony,
00:33:25.97\00:33:28.10
Pastor Neri with a testimony.
00:33:28.14\00:33:29.64
Now when you
look at these people
00:33:29.67\00:33:32.04
looking at the
camera and talking
00:33:32.07\00:33:33.84
they are talking from a depth.
00:33:33.88\00:33:36.68
They're talking from a level
that they were not at before.
00:33:36.71\00:33:41.45
And when we do
the Daniel section,
00:33:44.19\00:33:46.22
you will see that
Pastor Wayne O'Bannon
00:33:46.25\00:33:49.92
is playing King
Darius, King Darius.
00:33:49.96\00:33:53.83
I was filming him on this day.
00:33:53.86\00:33:58.43
We were over at
00:33:58.47\00:33:59.80
the Abundant Life
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
00:33:59.83\00:34:01.60
which is also the school,
00:34:01.64\00:34:02.97
where my wife was a teacher,
and she came in and she said,
00:34:03.00\00:34:05.21
"Ryan, when you finished,
00:34:05.24\00:34:06.98
I need you to
take a look at Jaylen."
00:34:07.01\00:34:08.64
Jaylen was my...
00:34:08.68\00:34:10.01
She just turned eight
year old daughter, my oldest.
00:34:10.05\00:34:12.88
I said, "Okay,
I'll take a look."
00:34:12.91\00:34:14.25
We're laughing, we're talking,
you know, what I'm walking,
00:34:14.28\00:34:17.82
we're having a great time
because the first thing I said
00:34:17.85\00:34:22.09
when I got on the phone
00:34:22.12\00:34:23.63
after the Wiemar experience was,
00:34:23.66\00:34:26.06
"Now let's get back to Daniel."
00:34:26.09\00:34:28.76
Pastor Mendinghall said
from the bed in the hospital,
00:34:28.80\00:34:32.07
"We must complete
Daniel, we have work to do."
00:34:32.10\00:34:35.30
Pastor Neri calling
me from the hospital,
00:34:35.34\00:34:38.27
"When I am done with this,
00:34:38.31\00:34:39.81
make sure that
I'm able to do mine."
00:34:39.84\00:34:44.65
We were just in this
very, very high state
00:34:44.68\00:34:47.65
when my wife said,
00:34:47.68\00:34:49.28
"I want you to
have a look at Jaylen."
00:34:49.32\00:34:52.79
And I didn't
think anything about it
00:34:52.82\00:34:55.26
I went on and we
filmed Pastor O'Bannon.
00:34:55.29\00:34:58.89
I'm just gonna
just embarrass him.
00:34:58.93\00:35:00.73
He is a wonderful
man but, you know,
00:35:00.76\00:35:02.93
he had to dress up as
a meed and so, you know,
00:35:02.96\00:35:07.50
he is there and
he is in the process.
00:35:07.54\00:35:08.87
He is kind of a
diesel I didn't know and...
00:35:08.90\00:35:11.97
Hair on his chest
and everything, you know,
00:35:12.01\00:35:13.81
he is walking around.
00:35:13.84\00:35:15.98
I was like, I
didn't know Pastor O'Bannon
00:35:16.01\00:35:17.38
had it like that, you know...
00:35:17.41\00:35:19.11
We're laughing and
having a great time.
00:35:19.15\00:35:21.25
And six hours
later I finished this
00:35:21.28\00:35:23.65
and my wife is
still waiting on me,
00:35:23.69\00:35:25.02
"Will you look at Jaylen?"
00:35:25.05\00:35:26.62
Jaylen is there in
the little kid's infirmary
00:35:26.65\00:35:29.52
and I went in there.
00:35:29.56\00:35:30.89
And she said, "Hey, daddy."
00:35:30.93\00:35:32.26
She jumped on me
down, I shut the door.
00:35:32.29\00:35:34.10
"Hey, sweetheart,
how you're doing?"
00:35:34.13\00:35:36.00
So I went on, and I had a look,
00:35:36.03\00:35:38.43
my wife is
showing me when I saw it.
00:35:38.47\00:35:43.20
I thought
00:35:43.24\00:35:48.18
rhabdomyosarcoma.
00:35:48.21\00:35:50.11
You're here and
then you're here.
00:35:55.72\00:36:00.56
No ladder, no
steps, no pole, just...
00:36:00.59\00:36:06.39
For our viewers who don't know
00:36:06.43\00:36:08.10
what the symptoms are with that?
00:36:08.13\00:36:09.66
And what that is,
it's a form of cancer?
00:36:09.70\00:36:11.37
What is that? It
is a form of cancer.
00:36:11.40\00:36:13.94
And because of it the nature
00:36:13.97\00:36:19.04
I will use
judgment as I describe this.
00:36:19.07\00:36:24.38
It usually shows up in children,
00:36:24.41\00:36:30.22
female children.
00:36:30.25\00:36:33.15
There is a higher prevalence
00:36:33.19\00:36:34.52
in the
African-American demographic.
00:36:34.56\00:36:39.06
It is a highly
malignant form of cancer,
00:36:39.09\00:36:44.07
usually when children get cancer
00:36:44.10\00:36:46.57
it is not the result,
00:36:46.60\00:36:48.60
it's not so much
exogenous that cigarettes
00:36:48.64\00:36:51.04
but we're talking about.
00:36:51.07\00:36:52.97
It's not so much
of a genetical nature
00:36:53.01\00:36:55.94
such as a mutation,
00:36:55.98\00:36:57.78
something that one is
born with like breast cancer
00:36:57.81\00:37:00.35
the BRCA gene and
that kind of thing.
00:37:00.38\00:37:02.68
But it is often left over's
from the embryonic experience.
00:37:02.72\00:37:07.32
You get these embryonic cells
00:37:07.36\00:37:09.82
and they're very
nondescript stem cells
00:37:09.86\00:37:14.06
and they can
kind of go either way
00:37:14.10\00:37:16.77
and there are forms of cancers
that show up in children.
00:37:16.80\00:37:20.64
That kind of in this
classification and this is one.
00:37:20.67\00:37:26.37
I immediately said,
you know, we need to call
00:37:26.41\00:37:29.61
her primary care
physician and we did.
00:37:29.64\00:37:32.61
And then we go rushing
over there and Dr. Darcy,
00:37:32.65\00:37:35.78
she says all other
things, all the platitudes,
00:37:35.82\00:37:38.22
all the things that
are necessary to say,
00:37:38.25\00:37:39.75
and then she gives me this look.
00:37:39.79\00:37:42.29
We go from there to
the pediatric surgeon,
00:37:42.32\00:37:44.86
this is in like
a matter of days.
00:37:44.89\00:37:46.96
And now this is an emergency
00:37:47.00\00:37:49.20
and now Jaylen whom
we have tried to shield
00:37:49.23\00:37:51.97
from the reality
00:37:52.00\00:37:55.00
is beginning to pick
up on what is going on.
00:37:55.04\00:37:58.24
There was this...
00:37:58.27\00:38:00.71
This scene they were...
00:38:00.74\00:38:02.08
That plays in my mind
over and over they were,
00:38:02.11\00:38:04.11
they were learning
a song at the academy
00:38:04.15\00:38:05.75
and Jaylen is sitting
there on the doctor's table
00:38:05.78\00:38:08.48
and she's singing this song,
00:38:08.52\00:38:09.92
tears are just
coming out of her face...
00:38:09.95\00:38:11.65
I called Mendinghall
during one of these visits,
00:38:14.66\00:38:17.69
"Sir, we must
pray, we have to pray."
00:38:17.73\00:38:20.53
And then I
pulled the Mendinghall,
00:38:20.56\00:38:21.90
I didn't tell
anyone and I asked my wife,
00:38:21.93\00:38:24.03
"No, let's not even
speak it into existence."
00:38:24.07\00:38:26.43
The weekend went by
00:38:26.47\00:38:28.14
and I had to
speak at a special thing
00:38:28.17\00:38:31.81
they were having on a
Sunday believe it or not.
00:38:31.84\00:38:33.91
And I'm standing up
00:38:33.94\00:38:35.28
and I had to say
to the congregation
00:38:35.31\00:38:36.64
my little girl is sick.
00:38:36.68\00:38:39.01
I can't even think straight yet
00:38:39.05\00:38:42.55
here's the
sermon Lord be with me.
00:38:42.58\00:38:45.25
And then we went through this.
00:38:45.29\00:38:47.16
Pastor Neri was in the audience
that day and he came up to me
00:38:47.19\00:38:49.86
and he said,
"Ryan, what is going on?
00:38:49.89\00:38:51.93
Don't bear, whatever
you are bearing alone."
00:38:51.96\00:38:54.20
And I told him.
00:38:54.23\00:38:56.43
And by this point we
had scheduled a surgery,
00:38:56.46\00:38:59.03
a biopsy for my little girl.
00:38:59.07\00:39:03.47
Pastor Neri prayed with me.
00:39:03.51\00:39:07.48
And on a bright fine Monday
00:39:07.51\00:39:14.05
I think we get up and we dress
00:39:14.08\00:39:17.02
like we're going
to church, you know,
00:39:17.05\00:39:19.95
with my little
girl and her stuff
00:39:19.99\00:39:21.49
and we go down to
Sunrise Medical Center,
00:39:21.52\00:39:25.66
the pediatric surgical wing.
00:39:25.69\00:39:29.20
We entered the hospital
00:39:29.23\00:39:30.97
and there are
parents all of whom
00:39:31.00\00:39:32.73
are going through
their own private terror.
00:39:32.77\00:39:35.57
And there is Pastor Neri,
00:39:35.60\00:39:37.57
he is there before we are there
00:39:37.61\00:39:38.94
and he stands up
and he walks over
00:39:38.97\00:39:40.54
and I like to say
that at this point
00:39:40.58\00:39:42.24
God was put on trial.
00:39:42.28\00:39:44.95
Because now these
people see the preacher
00:39:44.98\00:39:47.22
and the family come in
00:39:47.25\00:39:48.58
and we pray right
there in front of everybody.
00:39:48.62\00:39:51.52
And now everybody wants
to see what God is gonna do.
00:39:51.55\00:39:57.49
After the prayer
00:39:57.53\00:39:58.86
I go back into
the preparation room
00:39:58.89\00:40:00.40
with my wife and my little girl
00:40:00.43\00:40:02.66
and we're there
and we're talking
00:40:02.70\00:40:04.03
and I'm the man of the
house who supposed to be,
00:40:04.07\00:40:06.53
the strong one.
00:40:06.57\00:40:07.90
I had to step out.
00:40:07.94\00:40:10.41
I stepped out and Pastor
Neri is there in the hall
00:40:10.44\00:40:12.71
waiting on me.
00:40:12.74\00:40:14.08
And then I go Pastor Neri
00:40:14.11\00:40:16.24
and I said, "Pastor, I
know why this is happening.
00:40:16.28\00:40:21.52
In fact, we made a
deal, we made a pact,
00:40:21.55\00:40:24.85
we would be
afraid, we would go forth,
00:40:24.89\00:40:27.19
we would do this thing,
00:40:27.22\00:40:28.89
but this is a
price I cannot pay."
00:40:28.92\00:40:32.19
I said this is too high
or cost, not my little girl.
00:40:32.23\00:40:35.86
Pastor Neri put
his hand on my shoulder
00:40:39.30\00:40:42.54
and he said, "Ryan,
00:40:42.57\00:40:45.17
I can only imagine what
you're going through right now."
00:40:45.21\00:40:49.34
He says, "I know
God gave His son,
00:40:49.38\00:40:53.85
He knows."
00:40:53.88\00:40:56.38
And then he looked me
in my eye and he said,
00:40:56.42\00:40:59.59
"But I got to tell you,
00:40:59.62\00:41:02.39
when it comes to the gospel
00:41:02.42\00:41:05.56
no price is too high."
00:41:05.59\00:41:10.17
He said, "We agreed to
fight are you a solider?"
00:41:10.20\00:41:14.60
And then he said,
"We need to pray."
00:41:18.04\00:41:19.67
And he said, "Ryan, you
pray first and I pray Lord,
00:41:19.71\00:41:22.38
mitigate it,
Lord, make it better,
00:41:22.41\00:41:25.08
Lord, don't let it be so
bad, let us have this far."
00:41:25.11\00:41:28.65
Jaylen was in
classes to be baptized
00:41:28.68\00:41:31.75
and my wife had accompanied me,
00:41:31.79\00:41:33.12
maybe we should baptize her now.
00:41:33.15\00:41:34.89
You know, this is
the kind of conversation,
00:41:34.92\00:41:36.99
Lord, just smooth it over.
00:41:37.03\00:41:39.89
And Neri was like,
"Okay, okay, my turn to pray.
00:41:39.93\00:41:43.26
Jesus take it."
00:41:43.30\00:41:46.43
And then he left
00:41:49.57\00:41:51.44
and I went back into the room
00:41:51.47\00:41:53.11
and now they're
prepping my little girl
00:41:53.14\00:41:54.51
and all the tubes and things
00:41:54.54\00:41:55.88
that one should
never see in a child
00:41:55.91\00:41:57.68
are being attached
to this little girl.
00:41:57.71\00:41:59.95
And my wife and I are standing
00:41:59.98\00:42:01.65
and then they go off
in those double doors
00:42:01.68\00:42:03.55
that you can't go through
00:42:03.59\00:42:05.22
and they direct us
to the waiting room.
00:42:05.25\00:42:06.72
You know, whenever I
tell this story up front
00:42:06.76\00:42:09.19
this is where I
focus the waiting room,
00:42:09.22\00:42:12.59
when you are there,
00:42:12.63\00:42:15.56
and you realize your
absolute helplessness.
00:42:15.60\00:42:18.73
But you called on
Jesus and you're waiting.
00:42:18.77\00:42:23.77
And what I tell
you is true 10 minutes,
00:42:23.81\00:42:26.24
we had been sitting there
00:42:26.27\00:42:28.11
I was staring
pretending to read a USA Today
00:42:28.14\00:42:32.15
and the surgeon himself
came into the waiting room.
00:42:32.18\00:42:37.82
And said, "Johnson's..."
00:42:37.85\00:42:41.12
Now I'm 6'4" and my
wife 5'9" we're hard to miss
00:42:41.16\00:42:47.00
and when we stand up
and everyone is looking,
00:42:47.03\00:42:51.10
everyone that had seen us pray,
00:42:51.13\00:42:54.30
he meets us in the
center of the waiting room
00:42:54.34\00:42:58.21
and he said, "Go home."
00:42:58.24\00:43:03.65
He said.
00:43:03.68\00:43:05.28
We went in there
00:43:05.31\00:43:10.59
to biopsy
00:43:10.62\00:43:13.46
and there is nothing there.
00:43:13.49\00:43:18.03
Wow. Yes.
00:43:18.06\00:43:19.56
Look at God.
00:43:19.59\00:43:21.06
It's what he said.
00:43:21.10\00:43:22.43
Nothing there?
That's what he said.
00:43:22.46\00:43:24.47
I'll have you know
I've been asked to lunch,
00:43:24.50\00:43:27.24
I've been asked
to dinner by people
00:43:27.27\00:43:29.07
who've heard me tell the story.
00:43:29.10\00:43:30.44
And they said,
00:43:30.47\00:43:31.81
"Now that I have
you face to face doctor.
00:43:31.84\00:43:33.64
Look me in my eye
00:43:33.68\00:43:35.14
and you tell me
that story is true."
00:43:35.18\00:43:37.85
I said nothing makes me happier,
00:43:37.88\00:43:41.08
than I tell you
that story is true.
00:43:41.12\00:43:43.72
And that evening as
we are there rejoicing
00:43:43.75\00:43:46.15
and I'm just gonna let you know
00:43:46.19\00:43:47.52
that right there
in the waiting room
00:43:47.56\00:43:48.89
church broke out.
00:43:48.92\00:43:50.33
Wow. People are
rejoicing for you.
00:43:50.36\00:43:52.89
Unplanned church, yes,
00:43:52.93\00:43:55.36
and I learned
the power a testimony
00:43:55.40\00:43:58.47
you can talk about
it, preach about it,
00:43:58.50\00:44:00.00
philosophize
about it, read about it,
00:44:00.04\00:44:02.30
all these things
00:44:02.34\00:44:04.01
but nothing is as
powerful as saying
00:44:04.04\00:44:06.68
and this is what God did for me.
00:44:06.71\00:44:08.68
Amen.
00:44:08.71\00:44:10.05
I know that everybody's
story won't end like that.
00:44:10.08\00:44:13.72
I know that not
until we get to glory
00:44:13.75\00:44:15.98
will sickness and
death be a thing in the past.
00:44:16.02\00:44:18.62
But I also know that regardless
of the world in which we live
00:44:18.65\00:44:23.99
there was a God who is
greater and we serve Him.
00:44:24.03\00:44:28.76
And look at how God, you know...
00:44:28.80\00:44:31.43
Satan he couldn't get...
00:44:31.47\00:44:33.74
He tried to work you.
00:44:33.77\00:44:36.54
Yes, ma'am.
00:44:36.57\00:44:37.91
And God delivered you.
00:44:37.94\00:44:40.04
So then he does it in
even more cowardly thing
00:44:40.08\00:44:43.38
he goes for your
children, for your child.
00:44:43.41\00:44:46.21
Yes, ma'am.
00:44:46.25\00:44:47.58
And God stepped in and
said, "Get away from her."
00:44:47.62\00:44:50.19
Yes, ma'am. And she...
00:44:50.22\00:44:51.89
I cannot, I had no idea
that all this is happening.
00:44:51.92\00:44:55.82
I'm trying to hold it together
while you tell the story
00:44:55.86\00:44:59.09
because I'm just, yes,
00:44:59.13\00:45:01.36
it's just I cannot imagine
going through all of this
00:45:01.40\00:45:05.67
and yet look at
what God has brought you.
00:45:05.70\00:45:08.90
Yes, ma'am.
00:45:08.94\00:45:10.27
When you walked in here,
00:45:10.31\00:45:11.64
we had no idea that
you had been knurled
00:45:11.67\00:45:14.88
and that you had been on a cane.
00:45:14.91\00:45:17.25
We had no idea
because God has restored.
00:45:17.28\00:45:20.78
Yes, ma'am.
00:45:20.82\00:45:22.15
And He's done
that with Jaylen too.
00:45:22.18\00:45:24.22
Yes, ma'am. Praise God.
00:45:24.25\00:45:25.65
And so there's nothing left now?
00:45:25.69\00:45:27.52
She has no... Nothing.
00:45:27.56\00:45:29.79
Oh my...
00:45:29.82\00:45:31.16
Praise the Lord.
00:45:31.19\00:45:32.53
The thing that my wife
had brought me into see.
00:45:32.56\00:45:35.66
Gone. Wow.
00:45:35.70\00:45:37.60
And that night as
my wife and I lay,
00:45:37.63\00:45:43.81
side by side,
starring at the ceiling.
00:45:43.84\00:45:48.18
And we're talking
about the things of the day,
00:45:48.21\00:45:50.01
as how do you even digest that?
00:45:50.05\00:45:52.08
The doctors themselves,
the word they used is miracle.
00:45:52.11\00:45:57.15
The doctors, they
don't like to use that word.
00:45:57.19\00:45:59.79
That's... It's not scientific.
00:45:59.82\00:46:01.46
The word. It is not.
00:46:01.49\00:46:03.66
That is not in the
annals of allopathy,
00:46:03.69\00:46:06.39
that's not in
there. Not in there.
00:46:06.43\00:46:07.76
That's right, not
there, let's look on.
00:46:07.80\00:46:09.46
But we're lying in bed
00:46:09.50\00:46:10.83
and then my wife
turns to me and says,
00:46:10.87\00:46:13.17
"Now finish Daniel."
00:46:13.20\00:46:19.77
We have known for a while
00:46:19.81\00:46:24.41
now that the devil
doesn't want his people
00:46:24.45\00:46:28.92
telling the truth,
00:46:28.95\00:46:30.82
particularly in this
age, he didn't want it.
00:46:30.85\00:46:35.02
And we have
known now for a while
00:46:35.06\00:46:39.46
that he is willing to
do anything to stop us.
00:46:39.49\00:46:43.77
We also know
that God is greater.
00:46:43.80\00:46:47.20
That's right.
00:46:47.24\00:46:48.57
And that he cannot stop
you, the devil can't stop you.
00:46:48.60\00:46:51.71
You know, when I'm
sitting here and thinking about
00:46:51.74\00:46:55.21
what you're
telling us right now,
00:46:55.24\00:46:57.81
I envision Satan
trying to put an end to it,
00:46:57.85\00:47:02.22
trying to hurt you,
00:47:02.25\00:47:04.25
and in his attempt to do so
00:47:04.29\00:47:07.02
how many souls were won,
that are waiting for him.
00:47:07.06\00:47:09.39
An excellent point Jason.
00:47:09.42\00:47:10.76
I cannot wait to get to heaven
00:47:10.79\00:47:13.26
and find out, find you,
00:47:13.29\00:47:19.13
and see how many people were won
00:47:19.17\00:47:24.91
as a result of God showing up
00:47:24.94\00:47:27.84
and showing out in that
waiting room in that hospital.
00:47:27.88\00:47:30.11
He did make a wonderful point.
00:47:30.15\00:47:31.51
Your point is well
made and well stated
00:47:31.55\00:47:34.42
that the thing that
Satan intended for evil.
00:47:34.45\00:47:37.52
How is it wind up being...
00:47:37.55\00:47:39.25
Even more
powerful tool for good.
00:47:39.29\00:47:41.79
Because can you
imagine even this interview
00:47:41.82\00:47:45.29
without my being able to
say everything I just said
00:47:45.33\00:47:48.06
at over last half hour.
00:47:48.10\00:47:50.73
And I can appreciate as well
00:47:50.77\00:47:54.10
a God who knows what He's doing
00:47:54.14\00:47:57.04
in the times when we
say, "I don't get this,
00:47:57.07\00:48:01.41
I can
appreciate a God who does."
00:48:01.44\00:48:04.91
I've done a lot of talking...
00:48:04.95\00:48:06.58
No, no. This is powerful.
00:48:06.61\00:48:09.08
Yes, yes.
00:48:09.12\00:48:10.45
This is exactly what we want...
00:48:10.49\00:48:12.49
When I asked you
what had been happening.
00:48:12.52\00:48:14.19
Yes, ma'am.
00:48:14.22\00:48:15.56
I had no idea
00:48:15.59\00:48:17.36
of all the behind
the scenes, things,
00:48:17.39\00:48:21.20
the tragedies that
you've been enduring
00:48:21.23\00:48:25.10
and yet the triumphs.
00:48:25.13\00:48:26.97
Yes, ma'am. In Christ.
00:48:27.00\00:48:28.84
Yes, ma'am.
00:48:28.87\00:48:30.21
I and all the
members of our team,
00:48:30.24\00:48:34.71
that we talked about
how we can't go into details
00:48:34.74\00:48:37.25
because we don't
have that permission.
00:48:37.28\00:48:38.81
But even you and I,
00:48:38.85\00:48:40.45
in some of the
discussions we've had
00:48:40.48\00:48:42.02
and some of the people that
we were wanting to work with.
00:48:42.05\00:48:46.09
You know, the enemy very angry.
00:48:46.12\00:48:50.33
Very.
00:48:50.36\00:48:52.23
I know we have
another clip to play
00:48:52.26\00:48:54.43
and I've taken up
a lot of time but...
00:48:54.46\00:48:56.63
Oh, we wanted you to...
00:48:56.67\00:48:58.00
I have really
wanted to tell this story.
00:48:58.03\00:49:01.37
And our viewers will
really be blessed by it.
00:49:01.40\00:49:04.01
Oh, praise the Lord.
Really be blessed by it.
00:49:04.04\00:49:06.31
Setup the second clip for us.
00:49:06.34\00:49:08.04
Certainly. Let
see what we have here.
00:49:08.08\00:49:10.15
John. John.
00:49:10.18\00:49:11.68
So we discussed earlier...
00:49:11.71\00:49:15.52
As I get old and
crusty I really...
00:49:15.55\00:49:18.65
Hey, watch it not
everybody old is crusty.
00:49:22.42\00:49:25.19
You're immune to the crust.
00:49:25.23\00:49:29.00
But, you know, I look at
these stories in the Bible
00:49:29.03\00:49:32.37
and I begin to be introspective.
00:49:32.40\00:49:36.10
You know, you
imagine as a person.
00:49:36.14\00:49:40.38
These pillars of the Bible,
00:49:40.41\00:49:42.38
these men and women in the Bible
00:49:42.41\00:49:44.41
what it must have been?
00:49:44.45\00:49:45.78
I try to put myself, you know,
00:49:45.81\00:49:47.62
if I may in their
place and there's John.
00:49:47.65\00:49:50.42
You know, Pastor Wright
talks about this so eloquently
00:49:50.45\00:49:53.89
John on the Isle of
Patmos, John the last,
00:49:53.92\00:49:57.79
John his brother is
dead, Peter is gone.
00:49:57.83\00:50:02.93
That crazy guy Paul came
out of no where he is gone
00:50:02.96\00:50:05.90
and there he is
the last and old man
00:50:05.93\00:50:08.47
Jesus called him, loved,
00:50:08.50\00:50:13.07
beloved he was there
at the foot of the cross.
00:50:13.11\00:50:15.64
And I imagined
that at this point
00:50:15.68\00:50:18.45
John doesn't think that
he will see Jesus again.
00:50:18.48\00:50:23.12
Until the return
00:50:23.15\00:50:25.12
and then there on the Lord's Day
00:50:25.15\00:50:26.59
on the Isle of Patmos,
00:50:26.62\00:50:28.89
he turns around and there He is.
00:50:28.92\00:50:32.73
I am the alpha, the omega.
00:50:32.76\00:50:37.73
And what that
meant to him personally
00:50:37.77\00:50:40.10
this last clip just
kind of sets that up,
00:50:40.14\00:50:44.41
we began with some things,
00:50:44.44\00:50:45.94
show the other preachers
00:50:45.97\00:50:47.58
but then the
backend sets up this moment
00:50:47.61\00:50:51.01
in John's experience
on the Isle of Patmos.
00:50:51.05\00:50:53.48
Let's take a look.
00:50:53.52\00:50:54.85
Praise God in His Holy
Word, has given us some alarms.
00:51:00.46\00:51:04.59
Alarms to help us wake
up from spiritual slumber
00:51:04.63\00:51:07.43
because friends we have a
celestial flight to catch,
00:51:07.46\00:51:11.70
a flight from earth to heaven.
00:51:11.73\00:51:14.17
Imagine that it tells
here that Michael stands up
00:51:14.20\00:51:18.41
when the death who creates
pass he says, "That's it."
00:51:18.44\00:51:21.64
And after he
stands up to what happens,
00:51:21.68\00:51:24.48
to time of
trouble such as never was.
00:51:24.51\00:51:27.28
And I can imagine approaching
the pearly gates with Jesus
00:51:27.32\00:51:30.65
and all this
numberless hosts behind Him.
00:51:30.69\00:51:33.66
And over got the 144,000
00:51:33.69\00:51:35.66
but then there's the
number that no man number
00:51:35.69\00:51:38.23
and they're
coming toward the gates.
00:51:38.26\00:51:40.56
This is the John,
00:51:43.83\00:51:46.84
the last living apostle
00:51:46.87\00:51:50.54
was given the
Revelation of Jesus Christ.
00:51:50.57\00:51:56.11
He's old,
00:51:56.14\00:51:58.78
he's tired,
00:51:58.81\00:52:02.12
he's alone.
00:52:02.15\00:52:03.49
So powerful.
00:53:39.28\00:53:40.62
You know, I just know that
00:53:40.65\00:53:43.15
you're going to
love this documentary.
00:53:43.18\00:53:46.76
I don't know, can
we call a documentary?
00:53:46.79\00:53:48.89
What do we call it?
00:53:48.92\00:53:50.26
Docudrama you invented
that term for us sometime ago.
00:53:50.29\00:53:52.79
It's a kind of a
docudrama. Yes, ma'am.
00:53:52.83\00:53:55.33
Yeah. It's so
powerful. Praise the Lord.
00:53:55.36\00:53:58.63
And now you know the story
behind all of this and, I mean,
00:53:58.67\00:54:04.27
you know that it's got to be
00:54:04.31\00:54:06.71
something really, really special
00:54:06.74\00:54:08.51
because the enemy
was trying to stop it
00:54:08.54\00:54:10.65
and he can't stop it.
00:54:10.68\00:54:12.21
He can't, it's unstoppable.
00:54:12.25\00:54:14.68
What do you want
the viewers to take away
00:54:14.72\00:54:17.95
from Daniel and the Revelation?
00:54:17.99\00:54:20.16
What do you want them
to know in about a minute?
00:54:20.19\00:54:22.76
We have this very interesting
these two sides of the coin,
00:54:22.79\00:54:27.73
on one side
people are searching,
00:54:27.76\00:54:31.10
people are looking for truth.
00:54:31.13\00:54:33.70
It's not just church folk
going to see what's going on.
00:54:33.74\00:54:35.74
On the other side as
you're discussing earlier
00:54:35.77\00:54:37.67
it seems to have
fallen out of fashion,
00:54:37.71\00:54:40.48
the doctrine, the prophecy,
00:54:40.51\00:54:42.14
and as one person said
00:54:42.18\00:54:43.55
we only like to
discuss social injustice.
00:54:43.58\00:54:46.08
And I, you know,
as an African-American
00:54:46.11\00:54:48.52
can appreciate social injustice
00:54:48.55\00:54:50.35
but we can never
say that prophecy
00:54:50.39\00:54:53.12
is going out of style.
00:54:53.15\00:54:54.49
Absolutely.
00:54:54.52\00:54:55.86
We must particularly
now return to the word.
00:54:55.89\00:54:58.89
I'm hoping that
what this does it spurs,
00:54:58.93\00:55:01.86
it sparks an
interest in the word
00:55:01.90\00:55:05.13
and that people will return.
00:55:05.17\00:55:06.50
Yes, ma'am.
00:55:06.53\00:55:07.87
And so we get it
on Dare to Dream.
00:55:07.90\00:55:09.94
Of course. Oh, I can't wait.
00:55:09.97\00:55:12.14
So what we'll do
is we'll let you know
00:55:12.17\00:55:14.51
when it's going to air
00:55:14.54\00:55:15.88
because we just have
to do some tweaks on it.
00:55:15.91\00:55:19.51
And you're in
postproduction right now.
00:55:19.55\00:55:21.12
Yes.
00:55:21.15\00:55:22.48
What stage are you in right now?
00:55:22.52\00:55:23.85
Yes, so with the segment
00:55:23.89\00:55:25.22
that you're going
to be showing first
00:55:25.25\00:55:26.59
was cleaning up some audio,
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audio was our
Achilles heel, you know.
00:55:28.06\00:55:30.39
So we don't have the
same wonderful equipment
00:55:30.43\00:55:32.93
that I'm seeing here
00:55:32.96\00:55:34.33
so it takes us a
little longer to do that
00:55:34.36\00:55:36.23
and get some
releases taken care of
00:55:36.26\00:55:38.70
and then we can do the thing.
00:55:38.73\00:55:41.00
Oh, that's gonna be incredible.
00:55:41.04\00:55:43.00
We're gonna air
it multiple times.
00:55:43.04\00:55:45.47
Oh, praise the Lord.
00:55:45.51\00:55:46.84
Lord willing on
the Dare to Dream
00:55:46.88\00:55:48.21
because we want people to know
00:55:48.24\00:55:50.45
about the end of
time as Danny always say
00:55:50.48\00:55:53.05
we read the back of the book,
00:55:53.08\00:55:54.68
we know that we're
victorious through Jesus Christ.
00:55:54.72\00:55:57.79
So that's really important
00:55:57.82\00:55:59.55
but it's so good to see
00:55:59.59\00:56:01.16
what happens up to
that point we know that.
00:56:01.19\00:56:04.89
If we have the visual
aids, we have the word first,
00:56:04.93\00:56:08.03
we have visual aids,
00:56:08.06\00:56:09.40
it can really help
people to understand
00:56:09.43\00:56:12.27
what's in Daniel and Revelation.
00:56:12.30\00:56:14.50
So I'm excited.
00:56:14.54\00:56:16.10
Oh, I am too and honored
00:56:16.14\00:56:18.51
that you all would let
me go on and tell my story.
00:56:18.54\00:56:21.84
Thank you so much.
00:56:21.88\00:56:23.21
I could not believe the story,
00:56:23.24\00:56:26.38
I mean, all of the
things that, the Daniel effect.
00:56:26.41\00:56:29.75
I mean, that is
really a good term for it.
00:56:29.78\00:56:31.85
Yes, ma'am.
00:56:31.89\00:56:33.22
Because everyone
met with opposition.
00:56:33.25\00:56:35.39
Yes, ma'am.
00:56:35.42\00:56:36.76
And we're not just talking
about little minor things,
00:56:36.79\00:56:38.79
we're talking
about life threatening,
00:56:38.83\00:56:40.96
life altering situations.
00:56:41.00\00:56:44.93
You and your
child too. Yes, ma'am
00:56:44.97\00:56:47.24
And then Pastor
Mendinghall, Pastor Neri,
00:56:47.27\00:56:49.84
everybody that was involved.
00:56:49.87\00:56:51.64
All of them. Yes, ma'am.
00:56:51.67\00:56:53.44
That's incredible.
00:56:53.48\00:56:54.81
It's an all in
just that little time
00:56:54.84\00:56:56.64
since I was here last year.
00:56:56.68\00:56:58.01
Yes, yes. Indeed.
00:56:58.05\00:57:00.98
But now tell us in
like 30 seconds or so
00:57:01.02\00:57:03.89
how you're doing now?
00:57:03.92\00:57:06.02
Physically.
00:57:06.05\00:57:07.39
So I had lost like
60, 70 pounds or just all.
00:57:07.42\00:57:11.66
I began lifting
weights again about a year ago.
00:57:11.69\00:57:14.30
I put on 40 pounds muscle,
00:57:14.33\00:57:17.43
I'm bench
pressing like 300 pounds,
00:57:17.47\00:57:19.30
and this is
usually a locker room talk.
00:57:19.33\00:57:20.84
But I'm just talking
about what God can do.
00:57:20.87\00:57:22.20
Yes.
00:57:22.24\00:57:23.57
Before I couldn't open a
jar and I walk into a room
00:57:23.61\00:57:26.78
and people who knew
how far down I had been
00:57:26.81\00:57:29.51
they see how God can restore.
00:57:29.54\00:57:32.25
So I'm doing well,
I still have arthritis
00:57:32.28\00:57:35.52
but, God is in control.
00:57:35.55\00:57:37.35
God is so good.
00:57:37.39\00:57:38.72
Thank you so much
for being with us.
00:57:38.75\00:57:40.76
It's been a blessing.
00:57:40.79\00:57:42.26
Thank you, Jay... Gracious.
00:57:42.29\00:57:44.73
For being my co-host,
some wonderful co-host.
00:57:44.76\00:57:48.30
Don't forget that
the Lord's got you
00:57:48.33\00:57:51.90
and he's got a plan for you
and he can change everything.
00:57:51.93\00:57:56.14
Well, we've reached
the end of another program
00:57:56.17\00:57:58.71
thank you for joining us.
00:57:58.74\00:58:00.18
Join us next time
because, you know, what?
00:58:00.21\00:58:02.58
It just wouldn't be
the same without you.
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