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When You're Ready to ListenEP 58 Revelation 6 verses 9-11Seal 5 is opened. John saw the souls of those having been slain for the word of God and for the witness or the testimony they had borne. These “souls” have yet to receive their new bodies which Jesus promised would be given to His bondservants at the time of the rapture. Yet all true believers who are killed during the first 3.5-years of the tribulation take part in the first resurrection, which is a reference to the rapture. They will also be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years. There is a sp...2022-09-2633 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP57 Revelation 6 verses 7-8With the opening of the 4th seal, there becomes a merger between the spiritual and physical realms. The 4th horse and rider address God’s creative works from one end of the earth to the other. The pale green or ashen horse is released, and its angelic rider is identified as “Death” and he has an angelic companion that travels with him identified as “Hades”. Hades follows Death in purpose, they accompany one another and are one the same journey, having been granted authority to kill a fourth of the earth. Killing is their fundamental purpose for existence.
Their po...2022-09-1939 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP56 Revelation 6 verses 3-6Seal 2 is opened and unleashes the red horse. This horse and rider are given a sword to divideand to remove peace from the earth, to set people against one another, so that men would literally butcher, slaughter, and maim one another. The removal of peace extends wars and to all other means of violence that occurs in our homes, neighborhoods, towns, villages, cities, states, provinces, countries, etc., whether motivated by greed, avarice, jealousy, covetousness, revenge, racial prejudice, or class prejudice, and it extends beyond slaughter to sexual violence, family violence, school violence, and-on-and-on it goes.
Seal 3 is...2022-09-1238 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP55 Revelation 6 verses 1-6It is often presumed that with the opening of the scrolls, the End Times or the “7-year Tribulation” begins, but some of the events that are unleashed by the opening of the seals are even NOW occurring and have been occurring every moment of our now, since the time of the unveiling.
The white horse and rider are released and told to ride. White speaks of purity and righteousness. There is NEVER EVER, EVER a time all throughout the Bible where white speaks of deception, fraud, or duplicity. The idea that this horse is the Antichrist, per mode...2022-09-0532 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP54 Revelation 5 verses 7-14The Lamb takes the scroll from the one who chooses to now be sitting on the throne and our attention is drawn to the only one who is worthy, the one who chose to give up His glory and do the unthinkable, become a man (which was one huge sacrifice), and then chose to sacrifice His life for the sins of the entire world. Sacrifice is a key theme throughout the Revelation narrative, and it defines the Chosen of God. Yahweh’s bondservants are and will be required to follow in Jesus’ footsteps and be a willing sacrifice. Next, spon...2022-08-2937 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP53 Revelation 5 verses 1-6John sees a scroll in heaven in the right hand of the one sitting on the throne. This scroll was sealed with 7-seals. No one was worthy to take the scroll. This truth crushed John as he thought that some man should be worthy, whether it is Enoch, Noah, Moses, Daniel, Job, or even himself. But none were worthy—no man could take the scroll. Only the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the one who conquered sin and death, and who is imaged as a Lamb having been slain, was worthy to take the scroll. This lamb has se...2022-08-2236 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP52 Revelation 4 verses 8-11In Revelation 4:8-11 we are washed over with praise and worship from the Four living creatures and from the 24-Elders. The Four start with acknowledging Adonai El Shaddai, the one who is the ultimate sovereign over all the affairs of our lives, the one who is great and mighty such that the Four declare holy, holy, holy acknowledging that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are separate and set apart from all others. Nothing and no one are like Adonai El Shaddai.
The Four state that He WAS, addressing the incarnation of the Godhead in the...2022-08-1535 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP51 Revelation 4 verses 6-8The Four creatures around the throne are like the Cherubim (the faces, the eyes) and to the Seraphim (the wings). However, these Four living creatures do not have 4 faces, each creature has only one face: that of a lion, a man, an eagle, and a cow, respectively. Each face has overtones to the gospels: Matthew (Lion), Luke (Man), John (Eagle), and Mark (Ox). The Four have a unique role in protecting the saints of God.
The Four and their faces are also Code revealing deep secrets about apostasy, the Antichrist, the Kingdom of the Beast and the...2022-08-0841 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP50 Revelation 4 verses 1-5John’s First Glimpse into the Heavenly Realms, the Throne of God, and the Worship of Him Who Was, Who Is Being, and Who is Now Choosing to be Coming. John saw a door that had previously been opened by God and was remaining open. Jesus was calling John or commanding him to come up to His great Assembly and get His perspective of things, to come up before Him that he might understand how things function in the heavenly realms and how the spiritual impacts us in our natural realms.
Jesus commanded John to “come up here...2022-08-0141 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP49 Revelation 2-3 Promises & ReflectionsThe Revelation is a book that with every turn of the page we find a wonderful surprise to which we can look forward both for our Eternity Now and for our Eternity Then. In this episode we will address the letters to the churches and the prophetic way they are linked in terms of the promises which Jesus makes to those who are now overcoming.
To those who are now believing, He spoke only blessing and encouragement, but to those in Ephesus, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, and even Laodicea, He spoke terrifying words of judgment bringing up such...2022-07-2526 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP48 Revelation 3 verses 14-22 P3Jesus is their friend, but He now wants to become their lover. He commands them to choose to be zealous, or hot (like the healing waters of Hierapolis), and to have their life defined by repentance—but with this reference to being zealous and its overtones to the healing waters of Hierapolis, He is hinting at His purpose for standing at the door and knocking. He desires their deep inner healing.
Yahweh has taken His position at the door, and He has always been there. Yahweh Shammah is there and has never taken His eyes or His at...2022-07-1839 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP47 Revelation 3 verses 14-22 P2To find healing from their sick condition, Jesus instructs them to buy from Him gold having been refined in the fire. If we are willing, the Father will use the fire of sufferings to teach us obedience and to perfect us in Him, just as He did with Jesus.
God’s goal is to have His nature fill and inhabit our bodies, hence, He has to remove all that is in the way of His occupancy. There is all necessary to learn why we should put off the old nature and how to put on the new na...2022-07-1132 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP46 Revelation 3 verses 14-22 P1The Church at Laodicea P1. Overall Theme: Let Me In
Those in Laodicea are NOT hiding behind their religious deeds, they are not comingling their faith with demonic idolatry, they are not lusting after the riches of religion, and they are not manipulating others with spirituality to control and dominate them. They have not fallen into the apostasies of Cain, Balaam, or Korah.
As such, Jesus takes a markedly different approach because they are apostasy free, and not given to other lovers (spiritually speaking). They are misinformed, misguided, and lost, but they are not using...2022-07-0425 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP45 Revelation 3 verses 7-13 P3Jesus now comes quickly, so he wants us to hold fast to what we now have. In our endurance, Jesus promises to come and protect over the choice we have made to live as a Chosen one, a bondservant of Jesus Christ. We must be alert for there are those who are actively hunting believers, who want to steal their crown. The secret however to enduring and holding on to the crown of victory is to enter through the open door and seek and find provision from the Father. He promises, “If you make Yahweh your refuge, if you ma...2022-06-2724 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP44 Revelation 3 verses 7-13 P2Jesus said that there were those who say they believe but are of a synagogue of Satan. This entire concept of those who are not now of God but are of a synagogue of Satan is consistent with what we studied in the Prelude in 1 John 5:19, “We know that we are now of God, and that the whole world now chooses to lie in the power of the evil one.”
It is quite binary and a bit shocking. There is no middle ground. One is either a son of God or they choose to now lie in the...2022-06-2032 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP43 Revelation 3 verses 7-13 P1The Church at Philadelphia: Overall Theme: Hold on & Seek Refuge
It is possible for a person, a people group, a church, to even now be believing or abiding in Christ. All that we have learned about the Design Point, the Substitution Principle, and how the source matters, the source is everything, can practically be lived out.
Jesus assures them that because His very nature is holy, Yahweh Mekoddishkem (Yahweh who sanctifies, makes holy, or sets apart) has set them apart for Himself. Thus, even though they suffer intense persecution, they can hold on to the...2022-06-1334 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP42 Revelation 3 Verses 1-6 P5The Thessalonian church is an example of those who will be rescued from the wrath to come. Their faith is described as a work of faith and labor of agape love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father. Therefore, Jesus chooses to now deliver them from the wrath to come as He is justifying and reconciling those who let Him, those who choose to let Him be their I AM.
Wrath is not an appointment God has set aside for those He has called into His household...2022-06-0733 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP41 Revelation 3 verses 1-6 P4God’s promises of protection from the wrath to come are given to His bondservants—the Chosen—to those who are deemed to be “in Christ.” But He will be clearing His threshing floor and, in His wrath, bring about a judgment of the religious masses within His household who do not live by grace through faith and therefore CANNOT bear good fruit which comes only through Jesus as a person clings to Him as a branch clings to the vine.
Those who love their own goodness and hide behind their tall steep walls of “church worthy” deeds will fin...2022-05-3039 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP40 Revelation 3 verses 1-6 P3The Church at Sardis: Overall Theme: Spiritual Delusion=Death
The Spirit’s command is that we repent and change how we think about our strong walls of good religious deeds. We must be willing to let God change what we believe about all our church worthy deeds, and what we believe about our need to be dependent upon Jesus for ALL things ALL the time.
Jesus warns them (and us) that if we do not wake up and watch He will come like a thief to plunder and disposes from those things that hinder their li...2022-05-2326 min
Whole Man SuccessHeRose Noble Manhood with NY Times Best Selling Author Stephen MansfieldWe have a powerful episode this week with NY Times bestselling author, International speaker, entrepreneur, and expert on noble manhood Stephen Mansfield. He is a hero of mine. His work has had a direct impact on HeRose The Men's mastermind through His three books Building Your Band of Brother, Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men, and Men on Fire. Today we talk to Stephen about Noble manhood defined Why Initiation into noble manhood is important Why every man needs a band of brothers Follow Stephen at: https://greatman.tv/ Join the...2022-05-1926 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP39 Revelation 3 verses 1-6 P2The Church at Sardis
Overall Theme: Spiritual Delusion=Death
Many churches, and therefore the spiritual lives of many individuals, have not been founded upon the truth revealed by the Spirit of God. That is not to say that their foundations are void of the truth or of that which has been revealed by the Spirit of God, but it is not complete or secured in Christ. It all starts with one big lie and a faulty and cracked foundation stone. when a person begins their spiritual journey with a lie, it is no wonder that...2022-05-1634 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP38 Revelation 3 verses 1-6 P1Revelation 3
Overview: Jesus’s Letters to Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Religion is Lambasted and Faithfulness in Humility is Honored.
The Church at Sardis
Overall Theme: Spiritual Delusion=Death
This is one of the hardest letters for those within the religion of Christianity. It speaks of an unimaginable reality where a church with a grand reputation for being alive in Christ is in fact dead. In God’s eyes they were completely lawless, for none of their works (yes, NONE) were performed before the face of the Father. What they did “for God” w...2022-05-0925 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP37 Revelation 2 verses 18-29 P4There will come a time when His Chosen ones will no longer be ruled by the Jezebels of our day and other false authorities, for Jesus will rule. In turn, He will hand His rule over to those who are now overcoming and now keeping His deeds until the end. He will literally give His bondservants the power over the nations of the earth (in the Greek, the ethnicities of the world), and they will rule the ethnicities with a rod of iron.
Jesus will conquer and judge the nations and afterwards His bondservants will shepherd them...2022-05-0222 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP36 Revelation 2 verses 18-29 P3Jesus is addressing the doctrine that is associated with the deep of Satan, specific teaching which captured the heart, minds, and soul of many believers. This teaching stands in stark contrast to the good teaching which resulted in deeds of “agape love, and faith and service and perseverance,” all of which were growing in that community of believers.
What Satan wants is what he has always wanted, that which belongs to the Son—both His throne and His people.
The spirit of antichrist is found operating deep within the leadership of our churches, and far too ma...2022-04-2530 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP35 Revelation 2 verses 18-29 P2The Church at Thyatira
Overall Theme1: The Word of God Must Be Our Ultimate Authority.
Overall Theme 2: God Really Does Hate Religion—All the Unauthorized Things Done in His Name.
We need to learn how the Spirit leads us in truth, and then only do what He is now leading us to do when He is leading us to do it. We must let His word be authoritative.
Jezebel led her “children” of Thyatira into compromise, likely to participate in the trade guilds and all their ceremonies which exalted other gods. Her me...2022-04-1832 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP34 Revelation 2 Verses 18-29 P1Overall Theme1: The Word of God Must Be Our Ultimate Authority.
Overall Theme 2: God Really Does Hate Religion—All the Unauthorized Things Done in His Name.
In Thyatira, Jezebel, the prophetess, used her spiritual gifting as the basis for her authority in the church, notwithstanding the fact that she was channeling a spirit other than the Spirit of God. Therefore, Jesus makes a clear distinction between His words and her words. His are the words of the “Son of God”. Thus, His words trump those of this prophetess, and His words are the ones to which t...2022-04-1134 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP33 Revelation 2 verses 12-17 P3Jesus then says that if they do not repent, He will choose to now come quickly. This has overtones to His Second Coming. It also is a firm promise that He will come in their now and personally invade their time and space in judgment giving them the opportunity to learn why they should repent.
Yahweh can go to war and with just a word bring about judgment and death. This may come through many agencies: angels, governments, bad people, etc., but it comes from the word of truth which He spoke that set everything into motion...2022-04-0426 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP32 Revelation 2 verses 12-17 P2There were those in Pergamum who put a stumbling block before these believers, just like Balaam did before the sons of Israel. This instruction seems to be all about relationship, or better said, unauthorized relationships, those not established by the Father. Instead of encouraging the people to wait on Yahweh Adonai and Yahweh Raahto provide relationship in His timing, they gave them reasons they could take what they needed now.
As we eat the things sacrificed to idols, the next step is to “commit immorality”. Once a person gives themselves to another in deep desirous intimacy, and that...2022-03-2833 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP31 Revelation 2 verses 12-17 P1Letter to Pergamum: Overall Theme: Wait for Me—I Will Satisfy!
Jesus thoroughly understands the difficulties of living where Satan’s throne is set. Thus, His name is to be the filter through which we pass all things: all thoughts, emotions, experiences, and so on. He wants us to know Him by His name and to hold fast to his name by living desperately, needy for Him in all things all of the time. The more the enemy is present and active in our lives, the more we are given the opportunity to choose how we will live...2022-03-2134 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP30 Revelation 2 verses 8-11 P2Most have not accepted God’s intention or purpose in our suffering, especially when much of it came early on in our lives at the hands of those who were responsible to love us and care for us. Accordingly, at the core of our being is a deep festering wound of betrayal that for most it is buried deep within, never to be seen or understood, but always impairing the quality of their relationships both with people and with God. Yet, it is “by means of their suffering that He rescues those who suffer, for He gets their attention thro...2022-03-1436 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP29 Revelation 2 verses 8-11 P1We come to the smallest letter which is addressed to the church at Smyrna. I like the fact that it is small because the message of this letter is all about suffering. Have you noticed when you talk to someone who is going through intense suffering, they do not want a lot of words or explanations? They tend to be good with just a few words of consolation and hope or with the comfort of someone’s presence. So here Jesus gives them a few words—7 sentences—intended to be a complete expression of what these believers need to adequa...2022-03-0739 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP28 Revelation 2 verses 1-7 P2Those at Ephesus had departed, fallen away, or apostatized from their relationship with Jesus. They had left their first love. What had gone wrong? They had stopped living by grace through faith—which is the vehicle by which God moves in-and-through our lives. Rather, they had become convinced that their works were in fact good and godly works. Yet, to live by grace through faith is that “first work” where we are believe with our heart, mind, soul, and strength that we are needy, and He is our only provision. Religion deludes us to this reality, and it tempts us to...2022-02-2836 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP27 Revelation 2 verses 1-7 P1The letter to the church at Ephesus. Theme: God hates religion! The Ephesians took the business of religion seriously. They were strong advocates for the faith, exposing false teachers. But Ephesus was all about the work of their hands, what they could do for God. 6 times, Jesus mentions “your works”. They simply were not works that were sourced in Him. And they had left, fallen away, apostatized from agape love—from the one who is agape love.
They are commanded to repent and do the first works that were rooted in agape love. They must let God change...2022-02-2129 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP26 Revelation 1 verses 17-20Nothing could prepare John to see the glorified Son of Man. His emotions were overrun as he tried to connect his previous experience with Jesus the man to this image of Jesus the glorified Son of Man. He simply could not do it, so he fell at his feet as though dead. Jesus is introduced as the First and the Last, which is a statement on His prophetic declarations. He declares what will be and He brings it all about, it is always just a matter of time. He is also the living one, the one in whom we...2022-02-1426 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP25 Revelation 1 verses 8-16Jesus speaks and identifies Himself as the Alpha and the Omega. Jesus being the “Alpha and Omega" communicates that He is eternal, outside of time, and all of time is held in His sovereign hands. He is the Lord God "who is and who was and who chooses to be coming, the Almighty." “Who is” speaks of Jesus being the Hayah, for He is the “I AM”.[1]Being rendered in the present active participle, it speaks of His eternal self-existent nature. “Who was” speaks of His incarnation, or His life on the Earth as a man, including His death and resurrecti...2022-02-0730 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP24 Revelation 1 verses 1 to 7John’s Commission and Introduction to our Lord God Almighty – the Alpha and the Omega. This is all about the unveiling of Jesus Christ more so than it is about the unveiling of future events. We must not ever divorce the person of Jesus Christ from the prophecies. They are first and foremost about Him as He is revealed over time.
The Father gave Jesus this revelation to show His bondservants what “must soon take place.” In effect, the events written about would now be launched onto the scene of human history, as “must” is rendered in the present...2022-01-3135 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP23: Revelation Introduction P3The Tribulation is not the same as the Great Tribulation nor the time of the Lord’s Wrath. The Tribulation is comprised of two very distinct 3.5-year periods. The famed Great Tribulation, however, does not occur until AFTER an event called the Abomination of Desolation, which occurs during the middle, right between the two 3.5-year periods of time.
The Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord’s Wrath are synonymous terms. This time of wrath is demarcated by angels who literally pour out 7-bowls containing plagues and the wrath (or anger) of God. These bowls of wrat...2022-01-2421 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP22 Revelation Introduction P2Continuing with the Introduction, we cover some of the mysterious references to time: days, months, times, times, and half a time and they mysterious and merciful prophetic number of 3.5. the numbers reveal that in God’s province, mercy and judgment are intertwined and are to be understood synonymously, as His judgment in the now is a time of grace (mercy in judgment) intended to help people avoid His wrath and destruction.
We also explore the difference between the Tribulation, the Great Tribulation, & the Time of Wrath. The Tribulation refers to two 3.5-year periods of time where Yahweh br...2022-01-1727 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP21 Revelation Introduction P1To start any Biblical study, we need to do the customary who, what, where, when and why to frame for ourselves as much background information on this letter as possible. This gives us our context for applying this letter to our lives. Who is the Author? Who is the Audience? The What, the Where, the When and the Why of it all. We also touch on the historical setting, the Chronology of the book, and we look at time and how it is to be understood in prophetic literature.
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When You're Ready to ListenEP20 Revelation Overview (Toolbox 2 The Code Pt2)In the book of Revelation, we are given a view of how Yahweh sees things; it is a view like no other and is delivered from the perspective of the heavenlies though images of angels, demons, horses, scrolls, trumpets, bowls, thrones, dominions, kingdoms, a dragon, a Beast, a woman who rides the Beast, etc. This glimpse into the heavenly realms makes it extremely difficult for our earthly minds to comprehend.
The Code helps us navigate the heavenly perspective and bring a tangible understanding to the Spirit’s use of colors, objects, numbers, and phrases, many which allude to...2022-01-0318 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP19 Revelation Overview Toolbox 2 The Code“ALL scripture is inspired by God” (or literally, “God breathed”)[1]and therefore the truth is NOT dependent upon custom, convention, or the authors’ own choices separate from how the Spirit led them to write and express themselves. “For no word of prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke form God”.
Throughout the Codex (the entirety of the Biblical text), the Holy Spirit used the language as He desired in such an exacting way that it reveals patterns and distinguishing characteristics (Code). The Code is the cypher (or the plumb l...2021-12-2725 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP18 Jude 22-25We are continuing our exploration of what it means to live as a bondservant knowing WHY we can believe and trust ourselves completely to Jesus and practically HOW to bet our lives on His name. In so doing, we show mercy to others by choosing to deal with them not based on their sin, but on God’s perfect love and His perspective of the sin in our lives. It is how we consider others more important than ourselves. This is how we choose to live in Him instead of living for Him.
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When You're Ready to ListenEP17 Jude 20-21We started this study in Jude 1 by understanding what it means to be a bondservant of Jesus Christ and we close this letter with solid instruction on what that practically looks like. First, we are to build each other up in our faith. This speaks to our neediness, it speaks to our inability, it speaks to our utter and desperate dependence upon God, and it speaks to our need-to-know God for whom He says He is, and to understand and believe who He says we are to Him.
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When You're Ready to ListenEP16 Jude 17-19The Spirit is clear, we must ignore the boasts of these apostates and instead choose to listen to what the apostles of our Lord Jesus always said and stand for the truth. We all have a job to protect the body of Christ from apostasy. We must continue to shepherd one another and guard each other all the while willing to lead each other and to follow. We must be willing to stick together as a family in Jesus and fight for each other.
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When You're Ready to ListenEP15 Jude 14-15When Yahwehcomes, His purpose will be to execute judgment or literally to bring about crisis upon the ungodly. The idea being communicated is that this judgment is not going to be pretty, as this will be a reckoning. It will be very personal; thus, He is not going to send His angels to do His dirty work. Jesus Himself is going to bring judgment on ALL the ungodly for all the ungodly stuff they have done in an ungodly way, and for all the nasty things that these ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
The time to...2021-11-2920 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP14 Jude 12-13, 16Autumn trees withouthttp://threshermediagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/EP14-Jude-12-13-16.pdf fruit, doubly dead, uprooted. What would make us think that we could expect to receive anything from a tree in this condition? Yet, for some reason (as with the clouds without water), we come running to this doubly dead and uprooted tree looking for something to eat.
Grumblers, malcontents, loud-mouthed boasters. These people are out to please themselves to gain advantage of others for their own benefit—to satisfy their own sinful desires and to promote their own agenda of social and religious advancement. They ar...2021-11-2226 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP13 Jude 12The second statement in Triad 12 speaks of these teachers shepherding themselves without fear. The implication is that they are without the fear of Yahweh. These teachers, these dreamers are fools, for they do not allow themselves to be shepherded by wisdom and knowledge—by the fear of Yahweh. Rather, without fear, they shepherd themselves.
The third statement in Triad 12speaks of “Clouds without water”. What an amazing word picture. The idea is that we see clouds coming, we have great expectation for rain, provision, refreshment, satisfaction, shade even, and we have great hope for life. After all, we des...2021-11-1520 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP12 Jude 11-12We pick up with the third (6) of the mysterious 666. The third example is found in the rebellion of Korah, which is represented by those who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ—those who are seduced by “the boastful pride of life” e.g., the lust for power and authority over the people. Those who follow in Korah’s rebellion want the power, the rule, the authority, and they want it now. These apostates are found in the midst of believers, but they are like craggy rocks, shepherding themselves, clouds without water and will shipwreck our lives; but with dis...2021-11-0825 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP11 Jude 11We have now come to the center piece of the text with the apostasies of Cain, Balaam, and Korah. The Spirit uses a triad of Old Testament examples of apostasy as a picture and a WARNING and as a sign which gives us insight into the meaning of the infamous and mysterious 666 –the number of the Beast.
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When You're Ready to ListenEP 10 Jude 10In Jude 10 the Spirit is addressing those who had crept into the church and introduced perversions to the grace of God. The Spirit is warning that despite their seductive words, which tend to sound so right because they sound so “religious,” these people are led (and judged) by their instincts. As such, they are like wild or unreasoning animals. If they do not like or understand something, they will revile it or speak impiously about it (which is what it means to blaspheme). And they exercise their blasphemy and perversions from within the church—they may be those who themse...2021-10-2531 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP9 Jude 6-9The picture that is painted for us in the 5th through the 9th triad is tragic, and it sets up for us Jude 10 and 11. All the judgments against the Israelites, the rebellious angels, Sodom and Gomorrah, and even the devil came from the direct hand of God. We must understand how serious God is about the wrong belief and unbelief that leads to apostasy. It does not matter who you are or what position of AUTHORITY you now occupy, if you abandon the place that God has called you to possess, you will experience the outer darkness where there is...2021-10-1828 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP8 Jude 5We now come to 3 groups of triads (the 5th, 6th, and 7th triad). The Spirit begins with a sarcastic or jabbing comment, but His point is that they had already deviated from what they knew to be true. They had already set aside the truth and were walking on a dangerous and perilous pathway of wrong belief and unbelief that would lead to apostasy. They were teetering on becoming like the first generation of Israelites who were freed from Egypt lived out their lives as apostates—holding to a form of religion, but never willing to bet their lives on...2021-10-1127 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP7 Jude 4Sadly, people cling to their religion despite its impotency for it does not result in their freedom from sin or in the peace and rest which they so desperately desire and which they are promised. Accordingly, they fight the truth or else they would have to admit they believe a lie. The Spirit is clear, all that matters is a faith which manifests itself in God’s agape love—a love that can only be produced by the Spirit of God.
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The Early American Brass Band Podcast43 - Interview with Jari Villanueva: Music For and About Abraham LincolnEpisode 43 is our conversation with recurring guest Jari Villanueva about all things Abraham Lincoln. Chris, Stephen, and Jari discuss Lincoln’s love for music, his favorite tunes, relationship with the Marine Band, and how music impacted public sentiment during the Civil War.Jari and his current projects can be found at https://www.tapsbugler.com/, and https://www.tapsforveterans.org/.You can now support the show on Patreon and Teespring! The show is made possible by the support of listeners.You can get in touch with us on social media, and by emailing ea...2021-09-291h 23
When You're Ready to ListenEP6 Jude 2-3We all want mercy in that we do not want God to deal with us as we deserve. But what we do not tend to grasp is that God’s mercy demands that He do whatever it takes to remove all the obstacles of wrong belief and unbelief from our lives—to remove all obstacles that war against Him being our I AMin all things, all the time. Mercy is the means by which God attempts to free us from all that will lead us apostate.
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When You're Ready to ListenEP 5 Jude 1Jude addresses the culture that will be prevalent during the End Times – a culture that is even now rampant within the visible church (the place where all the action is centered). After all, it is from within the visible church that the platform is laid for the Beast to deceive those who are to otherwise know better. We will address the Who, What, Where, When and Why of this letter and jump into verse 1. But be warned, Jude pulls from stories dealing with ancient Israel, angels, demons, cities of old, as well as the time right after the Garden of...2021-09-2023 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP4 Prelude to Jude and RevelationToo many “believers” are trying to be friends with those in world (especially the world of religion) by sheepishly joining them in their darkness instead of drawing them into the light. And still others are trying to redefine relationships between those in the light and those in the darkness into some co-existent grey, just so they can get something that they think they need from those relationships. But that never works. It is just a recipe for disaster, emptiness, loneliness, pain, despair, and a set up for apostasy.
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When You're Ready to ListenEP3 Introduction to Jude and RevelationJude andRevelation utilizes a unique Code that is communicated through colors, numbers, symbols, and images, all of which portray a deeper or alternate meaning than what we might otherwise conclude. The Codex that we will use to break the Code (or the key to understand the Code) is found in the Old Testament and New Testament as they provide the prophetic framework for understanding both Jude and Revelation. The first toolbox to breaking the Code will be found in the underlying use of language as every little detail was put there by the Spirit of God for our exploration...2021-09-0620 min
When You're Ready to ListenEP2 Introduction to Jude & RevelationThe Bible is written primarily to instruct those within the household of God. Extraordinarily little of its message is directed to those on the outside. Rather, Yahweh instructs those He has brought into His own household not to choose to live in unbelief, for the consequences of unbelief are dire. In Jude and Revelation, the commands, exhortations, requests, and pleas are for Yahweh’s children to now and continually believe—to always be found believing!
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When You're Ready to ListenJude & Revelation IntroductionDue to many of the religious fictions which abound in our day-and-age, it does not readily enter the believers’ worldview that Jude and Revelation speak directly, personally, to them. In large part, believers think it is addressed primarily to unbelievers (those in the world) or to those who have “obviously” gone apostate; but that is far from the truth. The messages of both Jude and Revelation direct intense warnings to those who identify as believers (those within the household of God) and exhorts them to, now and continually, bet their lives on the truth of who Jesus is – Yahweh, our God...2021-08-2325 min
When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP28 (The Name Yahweh In Review)With Yahweh, everything is always personal, and that includes how He handles and deals with the name of the Father, which was also given by the Father to the Son. He values and cherishes this name, as it is His memorial name to all generations. Yahwehis the name by which we must come to know Him such that we call on His name. “If we call on His name we will be saved, for there is much power in thename when it is accompanied by faith.”
Our primary goal in studying the names of God has been twof...2021-08-1618 min
When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP27 (Yahweh Yasha)Yahweh Yasha, means that Yahweh Frees or Yahweh Saves. Yahweh Yasha releases the captives and sets free the oppressed. This specific name speaks to what He does in our lives, He frees us and saves us from ourselves, from our Old Sinful Nature (our flesh), from all our attachments to this world, from our fear, and from everything in our lives that stands in opposition to His being our I AM.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP26 (Yahweh Shalom P2)Yahweh asks us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, letting Him do what He needs to do and slay what He needs to slay to secure and stabilize us in Him as one of the chosen. All He wants is our willingness. “Willingness” is a free will offering. It is not a duty, compulsion, or obligation; rather, it is a relational reciprocation to the invitation He has extended for us to be transformed into the image of the Son. And Yahweh Shalom makes us safe and has bound us in peace despite the mess that results from our...2021-08-0228 min
When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP25 (Yahweh Shalom P1)Yahweh Shalom. Yahweh is Peace. Peace is not so much a feeling as it is an aspect of Yahweh’s personhood that is personally experienced through the Design Point. In the same way that we are told that God is love, we now know that Yahweh is peace. Thus, to experience this peace, we need the one who is peace to be living in and through our lives. Peace is Yahweh.
Therefore, those who are now believing in Yahweh have peace because they have Him who is peace.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP24 (Yahweh Sabaoth P2)All the angels, even the demonic nasty evil creatures (including Satan) work for Yahweh Sabaoth and they are ministering spirits, sent out to render service to those who will inherit salvation. They are servants to the children of God. And there is nothing those bad angels can do against a chosen one of God unless they first receive Yahweh Sabaoth’s permission to “minister” to a chosen one of God (in demonic terms, to come against them) and receive guarantee by Yahweh Sabaoth of their plan’s limitations and success.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP23 (Yahweh Sabaoth P1)Yahweh Sabaoth (the Lord of Heaven’s Armies” or the “Lord of Hosts”) is the most used compound name referring to Yahweh. This name declares is that the good angels and the demonic angels (all the evil beings) work for Yahweh. They all do what He commands and are all subject to Him. This is consistent with what we have learned in our study of Yahweh Adonai, there are no rogue or free agents, just servants subject to Yahweh’s strict administration, and that includes the spiritual being we call Satan.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP22 (Yahweh Jireh)The name Yahweh Jireh covers every aspect of our existence on this earth, both physical and spiritual. Yahweh Jireh will meet every need we have in terms of equipping us to complete all the work which the Father has assigned to us.
He is our bread; He is our springs of water that never run dry; He is our life; our comfort; and He is our love. He is even the full provision for our fear, pride, and the means to conquer all the enemies in our land. And we should not be surprised, but Yahweh Jireh...2021-07-0521 min
When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP21 (Yahweh Qanna)In the exodus journey out of Egypt, Yahweh confirmed a covenant with His people, and He stated, “for you shall not worship any other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” Thus, He lets Moses, and the people, know that jealousy goes to the very fabric of His personhood, as it defines His name. Thus, in the same way that He knew Moses by name, He wanted Moses and all the people to know Him by His name.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP20 (Yahweh Mekoddishkem P4)The “called” is a term that refers to all who are in the household of God. But the term “chosen” refers to the sons of God (those sons of promise in the manner of Isaac) and not to the slaves who live in His household (those sons of servitude in the manner of Ishmael).
A chosen one of God has been called by Yahweh Mekoddishkem (as they are both the called and the chosen), however, being one who is called into the household of God does not automatically make that person a chosen son of promise. In fact, fa...2021-06-2123 min
When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP19 (Yahweh Mekoddishkem P3)According to Exodus 31 and Leviticus 20 if those who were called by Yahweh Mekoddishkem(made holy) rejected the Sabbath life, they would 1) get cut off from the people of God, and 2) be subject to the death penalty. And these same two consequences are applicable to our lives when we reject the Sabbath life.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP18 (Yahweh Mekoddishkem P2)Yahweh Mekoddishkem has selected people out from amongst the great sea of humanity to be His own—to be holy—much like He did with the nation of Israel. Why? Because that is what He does. No one earns it, no one deserves it; rather, like a dragnet that pulls in all manner of fish, Yahweh Mekoddishkem pulls in all manner of people into His household from all the nations, peoples, tongues, and tribes of this world declaring that they are holy, set apart unto Him.
As such, the name Yahweh Mekoddishkem encapsulates the fundamental principle of grac...2021-06-0720 min
When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP17 (Yahweh Mekoddishkem P1)Yahweh Mekoddishkem—Yahwehwho sanctifies, sets us apart, or declares us to be holy. This name declares a spiritual fact: those who bet their lives upon His name have been set apart from everything and everyone as belonging exclusively to God. They have become His personal possession. This is what it means to be made holy. To be holy does not mean to be without sin, or to behave in a certain prescribed way, it means to be set apart from all else for a special purpose—God’s purpose.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP16 (Yahweh Tsidkenu P2)To practically know Jesus by His name Yahweh Tsidkenu, we must be willing to come to grips with our absolute inability to be good, and by faith relinquish all our own attempts at finding favor, blessing, and right standing with God, and with other believers, though what we do.
We must let go of all our “would have’s,” “could have’s,” and “should have’s” of our life, and never return to their lies, especially the one that tells us that “next time, we will”.
We must detest the work of our hands knowing that even our best goo...2021-05-2425 min
When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP15 (Yahweh Tsidkenu P1)Yahweh Tsidkenu. Yahweh our righteousness. Yahweh Tsidkenu declares one of the most shocking yet glorious truths that most believers have never considered: we do not have to be good because the truth is, we cannot be good, for Only God is Good.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP14 (Yahweh Shammah)Yahweh Shammah – Yahweh who is there. No matter where we go, He is there because Yahweh Shammahhas made His abode in the New Creation which He has placed in our being; and He dwells in us by His Spirit. Accordingly, we are never alone, for as He promised, He will never leave us nor forsake us, for He is with us always, even until the end of the age. Besides, “Shammah”—there—just happens to be within us.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP13 (Yahweh Rapha P3)With Yahweh, everything is personal, therefore, everything comes with purpose and intent. The physical and psychological maladies are there for a reason. Perhaps there are places deep within our soul that He wants to get at, which we would otherwise not allow Him to touch. Then again, He may want to use our body to glorify Himself or maybe He is protecting us from ourselves, from the depths of our sinful nature.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP12 (Yahweh Rapha P2)The spiritual healing that God wants to accomplish in our lives always has a higher priority over the physical healing. The physical, it seems, is often used as a tool to accomplish what Yahweh desires in the spiritual. Therefore, Yahweh wounds and Yahweh Rapha heals. For although He wounds us, He also bandages or repairs our wounds. Yahweh Rapha is our healer.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP11 (Yahweh Rapha P1)Yahweh Rapha—Yahweh our healer and heals us from every wound which Yahweh Adonai appointed for our lives and to which Yahweh Raah led us to experience in our lives. Yet it is these same very wounds that cause us to be needy, and our neediness causes us to begin to look beyond ourselves, beyond our flesh, beyond religion, money, success, lovers, fame, and status, for answers.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP10 (Yahweh Raah)Yahweh Raah means Yahweh our Shepherd – the one who leads our every step. In the New Testament we are told that not only is Yahweh our Shepherd, but He is our Great Shepherd and the Chief Shepherd. Yahweh Raah has guided our every step—sometimes for peace (in the Hebrew “shalom”), and sometimes for evil (in the Hebrew “Ra”)? Regardless of the outcome, it has been Him all along.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP9 (Yahweh Nissi)Yahweh Nissi—Yahweh our refuge or our token—our banner and rallying place. Yahweh Nissi is the one we are to run to when trouble nears. He is the one we gather around when the enemy seeks to devour us. He is the run we cling to when everyone else has left and abandoned us. Yahweh Nissi is the one we hold high as our token or banner always identifying our lives with His name.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP8 (Adonai)The name Adonai speaks of Yahweh’s role as the absolute master, the sovereign, the Lord, the one who is in control of all things, all the time, with no exceptions. The name Yahweh Adonai speaks very personally of God’s ownership over our lives and the responsibility He takes for our lives. It emphasizes that we belong to Yahweh and that Yahweh possesses the legal and legitimate natural right to determine the affairs of our lives—all of them. He is the Master, the Sovereign, the Lord, the Ruler, the King, and the one who is personally responsible for al...2021-03-2921 min
When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP7 (Call On His Name P3)Yahweh makes no distinction amongst the races and tongues of mankind. Yahweh is well, Yahweh of all. And salvation is experienced, or it is acquired, as we choose to call on His name. Which, by the way, is what the whole transformation process is all about. As we choose to walk down that road of trouble (or squeezing), He wants us to learn to call out to Him (and to no other) and come to know Him intimately by name, such that we come to trust Him implicitly. When we bet our lives upon His name, salvation is the...2021-03-2221 min
When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP6 (Call On His Name P2)Our “salvation” is one of the paramount promises made to those who have been called into the household of God. Yet, salvation is the result of our strong confession, which comes as a fruit of the work of the Holy Spirit and something that comes because of our having been caused to confess as a personal covenant and proclamation that Jesus is our I AM.
To be able to make the bold personal promise that Jesus is our I AM, we must first learn WHY we can trust Him to be our I AM and HOW to trus...2021-03-1526 min
When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP5 (Call On His Name P1)To confess with the mouth Jesus as Yahweh, means that we are making a solid and sworn profession or a covenant to be identified according to that profession. In effect, this is a strong profession that Jesus is more than the I AM, but it is personalized, He is my I AM. And Declaring Jesus as Yahweh, as our I AM, brings forward all His personal promises into our lives.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP4 (It's Always Personal P2)The Spirit must transform all the ways we have chosen to define love and relationship as well as responsibility, so that we love as we have been loved, we are joined relationally to those the Father has sent for us to be joined to, and we do only what He wants us to do, when He wants us to do it, say what He wants us to say, when He wants us to say it, and only go where He wants us to go, when He wants us to go.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP3 (It's Always Personal P1)What are the implications for our lives of the incredible name, Yahweh? Why did God reveal to us His personal name for ALL generations? His name, Yahweh, communicates that every promise He made will be fulfilled; in fact, it is guaranteed, it is just a matter of time. After all, God revealing His name to His people is reflective of His deep desire to have a personal relationship with them—for them to be His people and for Him to be their God.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP2Jesus who is revealed as the Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament is none other than Yahweh. But we have largely lost an understanding of this name, His personal name, as we have melded His name with His role as our Adonai (the Lord), and with HIs existence as God.
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When You're Ready to ListenJesus Has a Name EP1With the phrase “in the name of Jesus” we close our prayers, cast out demons, baptize, heal, exercise the power to speak and operate in various spiritual giftings, and we even sing “There is power in the name of Jesus.” But have you ever thought through what that phrase means? Could Jesus have a name, a name that we need to know?
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When You're Ready to ListenTriple Catch EP5We have been exploring what Jesus wanted us to understand when it comes to our harboring unforgiveness and how that impacts our ability to move mountains and to whither the fruitless tress in our lives. The prerequisite however is that we MUST forgive so that He will forgive.
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When You're Ready to ListenTriple Catch EP4We have been exploring what Jesus wanted us to understand when it comes to our harboring unforgiveness and how that impacts our ability to move mountains and to whither the fruitless tress in our lives.
And keep in mind, we are still exploring the triple catch in order to find out what it takes for God to give us a heart that does not doubt, so we can pray without doubting, and by faith say to this mountain, “be removed” and it be lift up and cast into the sea.
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When You're Ready to ListenTriple Catch EP3Picking up where we left off in our last episode, we were exploring what Jesus wanted us to understand when it comes to our harboring unforgiveness, and how that impacts our ability to move mountains and to whither the fruitless tress in our lives.
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When You're Ready to ListenTriple Catch EP2If we want to have great obstacles removed from our life, if we want to instantly experience the dead and dying trees withering before us, first we have the requirement for each of us to have faith. Check, God has given each of us a measure of faith (presumably bigger than a mustard seed). Therefore, we are fully equipped for action; we have been given what is necessary. But the catch is that we must not doubt, or we must not let anything cause us to doubt, this is a work God must do in us.
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When You're Ready to ListenTriple Catch EP1I am sure that every time you have come across some amazing promise in scriptures and get all excited that they are for you, suddenly you realize there is a catch, something that must happen to release that promise, and then as you start digging into the catch you realize that there is often a catch to that first catch, and in this case, there is a triple catch: a catch to a catch to a catch.
In short, God has given me understanding of the mysterious passages which say that if we had even the smallest...2021-01-0420 min
When You're Ready to Listen3-Things EP4There are really only 3 things we need to believe, 3 things that we need to bet our lives upon, and if we do, we will come to know and experience the deepest intimacy with God, privileged to abide in His joy, peace, and rest.
The 3 things we need to believe are as follows:
1. Yahweh is the sovereign Lord (in control of all things all of the time).
2. Yahweh is good.
3. We are aliens and strangers in this world.
This 3rd issue of being aliens and strangers brings even more clarity...2020-12-2843 min
When You're Ready to Listen3-Things EP3How can a good and loving God be personally responsible for evil and all the terrible things that occur to people in this world? And with those questions raised by the issue of the absolute sovereignty of God (See EP2), it brings us to the second of 3 things we need to believe, and that is that Yahweh is good.
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When You're Ready to Listen3-Things EP2As I closed off our last Podcast, I suggested that there are really only 3 things we need to believe (that is to actively believe) to settle our trust issue with God, and everything else will sort of take care of itself. These 3 things cover so much of our relationship with God that if we were to believe them with our heart, mind, soul, and strength, we would begin to experience the deepest sort of intimacy with God and find that we can live in His joy, peace, and rest regardless of our circumstances.
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When You're Ready to Listen3-Things EP1When it comes to our relationship with God, there are really only 3-Things we need to actively believe. If we are willing to bet our lives (actively believe) these 3-things, the rest will sort of take care of itself.
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When You're Ready to ListenOnly God is GoodOnly God is good, and therefore only God can do good. We simply cannot be good or do good. Therefore, unless God is the one who does His work in and through our lives, what we do for God, regardless of our intentions, is absolutely worthless to God. The Source Matters, the Source is Everything!
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The Early American Brass Band Podcast22 - Interview with Jari Villanueva: The History of the 26th North Carolina Regimental BandEpisode 22 features Jari Villanueva, back for round 2! In the episode, we talk all about the history of the 26th North Carolina Regiment Band. The Federal City Brass Band, which Jari founded and directs, re-creates the 26th NC Regiment Band in performance and they have done extensive research into the music, uniforms, and history of the men who were in the 26th NC Band during the American Civil War. In this episode, we discuss the band's history, their service during the war, activities after the war, and the Federal City Brass Bands's reenactment activities.You can now support...2020-09-091h 30
The Early American Brass Band Podcast6 - Interview with Jari Villanueva: Federal City Brass Band and the History of TapsEpisode 6 is a fantastic interview with Jari Villanueva, former trumpeter with the United States Air Force Band. Jari is heavily involved in all things related to 19th century American Brass Band, most notably with researching the history of Taps, and performing and arranging for the Federal City Brass Band. We talk at length about both of those things in this episode, with many interesting and funny stories from Jari’s career. You can find Jari at www.jvmusic.net and https://tapsbugler.com, among other places. For in-depth notes on this episode, be sure to visit www.eabbpodcast.com an...2020-05-061h 37