When we look at the idols of the old days and the idols of those cultures, many Christians
see that there was nothing behind that. This was just people who were just deceived but
you bring to the reality from the scripture that actually these were spirits behind that and then
when Christianity came in, this reference that you made about the parable that Jesus actually
was not necessarily talking about an individual exorcism but a national application where He says
to this generation, this is what will happen and so because a lot of people take the verse
mainly to apply to an individual deliverance but are you referring it, it actually refers
to a nation, to a whole culture and because what you're looking right now, Jonathan well,
Pastor Jonathan. I'm going to call you Pastor Jonathan okay, what we're seeing right now in
our generation exactly, paganism. What's happening with their youth, what's happening with our kids,
what's happening with our generation, the demonization. But you said that the reason
why these demons have returned, these gods have returned is because first these evil spirits
have made a way for them themselves to return by emptying our culture of God you know and you go in
your book extensively through all the things that happen in the United States where we pushed God,
pushed the prayer out, how we pushed the importance of you know our truth. One truth.
Now it's all about tolerance and relevance and all of this stuff and that has opened the door
to demons. Now you've alluded to that. Now can you explain a little bit about you pretty much
target mainly three gods that are taking possession of our culture. Do these gods
or spirits pose a danger and would you say that now we as Christians, believers, we are at war?
Yeah. They do pose a danger because their agenda is not tolerance. Their agenda is domination. You
know when they come in, they come in in the name of tolerance. Hey anything goes
you know be open. Once they get a foothold in a culture just like the days of Ahab and Jezebel,
once Baal gets in, once they get a foothold, it's every knee shall bow, every tongue will confess,
everyone will celebrate us you know and so that's why we're watching this you know we come to
this cancel culture, that's linked to all this. Because that's what the gods do. No longer it's
toleration, it's canceled. It is, we will force you, we will compel you. That's what happened in
Rome. They try to force the Christians. So yes. This is like round two of what happened in Rome
you know it was the Christians versus the gods and it is round two now, they're back and we're
back. The other thing is there's a vendetta, they've come back with a vendetta because who
was it that cast them out? Christians. What was it that cast them out? The gospel. In what name?
Jesus. So they are warring against the gospel. They are warring against the name of Jesus and
they are warring against Christians. So yeah we are at war. Now the thing is that that there's
so much to know but I will just say this, the last part of the book is about hope and
that is that's called the other God. Because you know we have yes this is in the world but
we have a greater power and we got to remember that. You see, when Moses crossed the Red Sea,
he sang a song. He said, mi-kamoka baʾelim Adonai. Who is like You, O Lord among the gods. You know
there is no one. We got to remember that. There is no power like the power we have. The problem is if
we are intimidated and we're silent and because the gods want us all to shut up. They want us all
to disappear. Well we cannot disappear, we cannot be silent and we cannot be timid. Listen, these
are days that produce greatness you know when the dark gets darker, it's time for the light of God
to get brighter and so that's exactly where we are right now and you know we're not the first to deal
with it you know most of the biblical people dealt with it. Moses dealt with gods of Egypt. You know
Elijah dealt with the gods of Canaan, actually actually Paul dealt with the gods of Rome you
know so now it's our turn but we got to stand. We are still no matter what happens in the world,
we are still on the winning side and we have the power that overcomes the world and we got
the name of Jesus, Yeshua that actually cast the gods out of an entire civilization. You got that
power in you. We've got that power. You cannot stay silent. Be bold. Live you know be bold,
manifest love, manifest truth in love but do it because if you are silent then they win you know
this is the hour we were born for you know God if He didn't want you in the last days, He would
have put you somewhere else. He put us here that means He has appointed you, He will anoint you,
He will empower you, He will accomplish His will through you but you gotta rise to it. We
all have to rise to it and if there's anything as you said at the beginning was a great point,
if you have anything in your life that is linked to these gods, get it out of your life just like
Gideon how to smash that altar of Baal then he could become the great hero that he became. Same
with you, whatever it is. Pornography, witchcraft, occult, whatever it is get it out of your, any
idol get it out and say, God come in. The Spirit of God is so much more powerful than any spirit
in the world. Greater is He in you than he is in the world and so this is the time for greatness.
You got the gospel. Spread it. You've got the truth. Proclaim it. You got the light. Shine it.
This is our hour because our God you know Jesus is greater. He is the Lord above all lords. He's
the King above all kings. He's the Power above all powers and He's the God above all gods. Come on!