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The question isn't whether the lights in the sky are real. It's what doors you're actually opening when you go looking for them.

Something strange has been happening at the intersection of UFO culture and spirituality. People are gathering in the dark, meditating in circles, performing rituals, and then pointing cameras at the night sky and calling it contact. Steven Greer has built an entire ecosystem around it with documentaries, paid expeditions, and a protocol he calls CE-5 or Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind. And long before Greer, a man named Albert Bender was sending telepathic transmissions into space from a room he'd converted into a chamber of horrors, complete with an altar.

What is the Christian response? Many believers aren't sure how to engage the UFO conversation without dismissing it entirely or getting pulled into frameworks that are functionally occult. This episode names that tension and gives you a theological map to navigate it. 2 Corinthians 11:14 says Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. His strategy is not to appear monstrous, but to appear luminous, benevolent, and higher. The CE-5 framework, examined through that lens, looks less like a spiritual frontier and more like a very old deception wearing a new coat of paint.

And underneath all of it? The desire is real. People want to know they're not alone. That contact with something higher is actually possible. That desire isn't wrong — it's just aimed at the wrong door. John 10:9: "I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved."

0:00 – Introduction
0:53 – Albert Bender's Origins
2:47 – World Contact Day
5:40 – Steven Greer & C5
9:18 – Benevolent ETs Claim
13:26 – Prophet Yahweh's Hoax
15:21 – Genuine UAP Phenomena
17:07 – Demonic Spiritual Danger
20:06 – The Gospel Answer
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The church that prays boldly for healing and the church that honors its suffering members aren't two different churches. They're the same church. Most of us haven't figured out how to be both at once.

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There's a tension running through charismatic communities that almost no one names out loud. We believe the Spirit still heals. We preach it, we pray for it, we build entire ministry cultures around expecting it. And yet, in those same communities, those who are suffering — the chronically ill, the disabled, the ones who've prayed a hundred times and heard nothing — quietly absorb an unspoken message: If you had more faith, you would be healed. If God loved you, that diagnosis would already be gone.

That's not the gospel. But it can live inside healing culture without anyone intending it. 

Has our theology of healing accidentally built a hierarchy of spiritual status? Scripture doesn't let us resolve this tension cheaply. Paul prays three times for his thorn to be removed, and God says no (2 Corinthians 12:7-9). Epaphroditus nearly dies in ministry and Paul mourns it (Philippians 2:27). The man at the pool of Bethesda waits 38 years (John 5:5). The gifts of healing described in 1 Corinthians 12:9 are real, active, and given for the building up of the body, and yet the body includes members whose weakness, Paul says, is indispensable (1 Corinthians 12:22). 

This episode explores what it looks like to pray with genuine faith and expectation for healing, while simultaneously building communities where suffering is not spiritually oversimplified, those who suffer long are not treated as problems awaiting solutions, and chronically ill or disabled members are not made to feel like a project or somehow less than. 

HEALING & DELIVERANCE PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMsjeViSScFG2ynSDtQTV6NcDuJtZteIv
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Isaac trembled violently after realizing he blessed the wrong son. He didn't reverse the blessing. He couldn't . . . That moment, super easy to read past, is actually one of the most theologically loaded scenes in the entire book of Genesis.

Most of us read past the patriarchal blessings in Genesis the same way. The text doesn't slow down to explain them. Lamech names his son Noah, announces he'll bring relief from the curse on the ground, and the narrative moves on. Jacob gathers all twelve sons and speaks over each one (tribal territories, political trajectories, a coming ruler) and the story continues. We absorb it as family drama or ancient religious custom. We rarely stop to ask: How do these words actually work?

That question opens up an under-examined corner of Genesis, and the answer has real implications for how we understand prophecy, the gifts of the Spirit, and the character of a God who never stopped speaking. 

In this episode, we'll discuss:

- Why the patriarchal blessings in Genesis can't be explained as lucky guesses or shrewd fatherly observation
- Why the "covenant authority" interpretation, that the patriarchs could speak things into existence by virtue of their office, is theologically dangerous
- Why the most defensible interpretation is that the patriarchs were prophesying: instruments of divine revelation, voicing what God had already shown them
- How Lamech's blessing (Genesis 5:28-29) functions as the hermeneutical template for every patriarchal blessing that follows
- What the patriarchal period reveals about the cluster argument,  and why a steady, continuous stream of prophetic activity through ordinary domestic moments challenges cessationist assumptions

The God of Genesis isn't a God who shows up in dramatic bursts. He's a God who never stopped speaking, threading his voice from generation to generation long before anyone had a formal theology of what a prophet even was. Join us to learn more!

0:00 – Introduction
0:15 – Patriarchal Blessings Overview
2:09 – Genesis Examples Surveyed
6:20 – How Do They Work?
9:33 – Speaking Things Into Existence
14:06 – Patriarchs as Prophets
15:02 – Lamech's Prophetic Fulfillment
17:00 – Cessationism Challenged
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Joshua Lewis and Michael Miller answer your questions from their recent livestream on the rise and fall of the Kansas City Prophets. They tackle some of the toughest questions surrounding false prophecy, discernment, and the legacy of Mike Bickle and IHOP.  

Topics covered include:

-How many false prophecies does it take to be considered a false prophet?
-Did God really speak to Mike Bickle in Egypt while he was actively sinning?
-Can movements rooted in Branhamism or the Latter Rain be redeemed?
-What is the value of prophecy if words can't be taken at face value?
-Was Jonah's prophecy over Nineveh a false prophecy?
-Which charismatics have actually stood up and called out bad leaders?
-Why didn't Rick Joyner publicly expose Paul Cain?

Plus, Josh and Michael reflect on Remnant Radio's own history of prophetic reviews and why they believe charismatics need to be the ones holding other charismatics accountable.

PREVIOUS LIVESTREAM:
The Rise & Fall of the Kansas City Prophets: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojy0CtsS0e8
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There's a version of complementarian theology that quietly reshapes the Trinity to make its argument. Most people who hold it don't realize that's what they're doing. Dr. Malcolm Yarnell does — and he wrote the book on why it matters.

Dr. Malcolm Yarnell, professor of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of the Theology for Every Person series, joins Joshua Lewis to work through some of the most contested terrain in Christian doctrine: the person of Christ, the unity of the Trinity, and the debate over eternal functional subordination (EFS).

What We Cover:
- Why the Trinity and Christology are the two doctrines that everything else in systematic theology depends on
- The three senses of "Word of God" in scripture: the personal Word (Jesus), the written Word (scripture), and the proclaimed Word
- What eternal functional subordination is, where it came from, and why Dr. Yarnell considers it a grave theological error
- How EFS was crafted primarily to answer feminism — not to answer a theological question — and why that origin matters
- The unified will of the Trinity, and why the garden of Gethsemane is about the submission of Christ's human will, not an eternal subordination within the Godhead
- A close reading of 1 Corinthians 15:28: what is actually being subjected — humanity, not deity
- The Athanasian scope of scripture: limitations in the text refer to Christ's humanity; perfections refer to his deity
- Why you don't need to reconfigure the Trinity to be a complementarian

0:00 – Introduction
2:08 – Theology for Every Person
5:38 – Christ's Deity and Humanity
10:42 – Word: Person vs. Scripture
15:23 – Eternal Functional Subordination
26:32 – Doctrine and Cultural Moments
33:43 – The Divine Will
54:46 – 1 Corinthians 15:28
1:00:46 – Closing Thoughts

INTRO TO CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY:
https://www.theremnantradio.com/intro-to-christian-theology-course

ABOUT THE GUEST:
📖Word (Theology for Every Person, Vol. 2) https://a.co/d/0ddyCS4F
📖God (Theology for Every Person, Vol. 1) https://a.co/d/0ibY6QQ1
📖God the Trinity https://a.co/d/05bCwH0d
📖The Formation of Christian Doctrine https://a.co/d/0dwRSFQH
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