EP: 412 The Kingdom Manifesto with Brad Gray and Joel Edwards

It's Holy Week, and most of us will say the Lord's Prayer at some point over the next few days without ever really hearing it. Brad Gray, author of "Bringing Heaven Here" and a veteran of over fifteen years of biblical study hiking trips in Israel, joins filmmaker and Evolve Studios founder Joel Edwards in the Blurry Basement to walk through The Lord's Prayer that Jesus gave us and show why it's not a formula or a ritual but a kingdom manifesto. Brad walks through how this prayer functions as a chiasm with "kingdom come" at its center, how each line echoes the Exodus narrative, and why the early church prayed it three times a day as a discipleship anchor. This isn't a crusty piece of liturgy. It's the most powerful thing Jesus ever gave us and quite possibly the most underutilized. The conversation also dives into forgiveness as the number one foothold for the demonic, temptation as spiritual warfare language, and prayer as participation rather than just petition. Joel and Brad share the incredible story of making both the film and the series, a journey marked by relentless opposition and miraculous provision at every turn. The crew arrived in Israel the same night Iran launched an unprecedented missile and drone attack on the country, and when the dust settled and the airspace closed, they found themselves with empty holy sites and open doors no film crew had ever walked through, including the inner tomb shrine at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Six years in the making, "The Lord's Prayer" film and "The Sacred Thread" series are now streaming on Angel. Watch it free at angel.com/blurry and grab the book "Bringing Heaven Here" at thelordsprayer.com. This episode is sponsored by: https://timtebow.com/tree-blurry/ — Get your copy of If the Tree Could Speak by Tim Tebow on Amazon today!https://livemomentous.com — Get up to 35% off your first order with promo code BLURRY at checkout!https://go.goodranchers.com/BLURRY — Get $25 off your first order with code BLURRY at checkout! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ashley's father was not a storyteller. He didn't chase the supernatural, and he wasn't the kind of guy to make things up. So when he told his daughter about the night he encountered a three-foot, gray-skinned, hairless creature standing upright in the road outside the family barn on the Oregon coast, she believed him. The thing had no distinguishable face, moved like nothing natural, and when he followed it into the brush, it seemed to shimmer and phase in and out of visibility. He called it the Hellcat after the trail behind his parents' property, and the story stuck with Ashley long after her father passed away in 2016. What unfolds from there is a deeply personal conversation about generational spiritual warfare, from a hex placed on her dad in Southern California to Freemasonry in the family line, a spirit of suicide that plagued multiple people in her life, familiar spirits operating in the homes she lived in with her young daughter, and a childhood moment where God shielded her from an exploding pot of grease that covered the entire kitchen but never touched her skin. Ashley also shares how a dream about the hive mind led her to Blurry Creatures and how she's now doing the hard work of breaking generational cycles for her family. Raw, heavy, and full of hope. Want to listen to this episode and a whole backlog of members-only episodes? Check out the community and perks of being a Blurry Creatures member at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bestselling author and minister John Bevere joins the basement for a wide-ranging conversation that starts with Nephilim and UFOs and lands squarely on the return of Jesus Christ. John has written 25 books, given away over 65 million resources to pastors in 243 nations, and spent 40 years in ministry, but he had never preached a message on the second coming until recently. He explains why he avoided the topic for decades after the fallout of the 1988 rapture predictions, and what changed when God put it on his heart five years ago to dig into what the Bible actually says. What he found transformed his personal life, his marriage, his ministry, and his understanding of why eagerness for Christ's return is one of the most overlooked and powerful themes in all of Scripture. The conversation moves through the fear of the Lord, holiness as a doorway to intimacy with God, why the bride of Christ has a responsibility to prepare herself, and what it looks like practically to stay dressed and ready for a King who could return at any moment. John shares personal stories about fatherhood, marriage, discipline, apologizing to his sons, and the moment a famous imprisoned minister told him the difference between loving Jesus and fearing God. He also weighs in on why believers shouldn't be shaken by the supernatural, from chariots of fire to UAP disclosure, and makes the case that he believes no other generation in history has had the prophetic conditions in place the way this one does This Episode is Sponsored By: https://get.stash.com/blurry — See how you can receive $25 towards your first stock purchase and to view important disclosures. https://timtebow.com/tree-blurry/ — Get your copy of If the Tree Could Speak by Tim Tebow on Amazon today! https://homechef.com/blurry — Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box & free dessert for life! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doug Van Dorn returns to the Blurry Con stage for his third year and delivers what he calls the most important work he's ever presented. Recorded live at Blurry Con 3, Doug walks through a detailed textual case showing how second-century rabbis systematically altered key Old Testament passages to undermine the supernatural worldview of Genesis 6, Psalm 82, Deuteronomy 32, and Psalm 110. He traces how "sons of God" became "sons of the rulers," how "gods" became "the mighty," how 15 words were removed from the Song of Moses, and how the number 70 was strategically swapped for 75 in the genealogies to sever the connection between Melchizedek and Jesus. Every change, Doug argues, was deliberate. And every change targeted the same thing: the deity of Christ.Doug connects the dots between the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Masoretic text, and the Babylonian Talmud to show that the very arguments many Christians use today against the angelic view of Genesis 6 trace back to sources that were created to discredit Jesus. He unpacks Justin Martyr's confrontation with Trifo, the rabbinical curse on anyone who called them "sons of God," and the shocking language the Talmud uses about Jesus himself. This is textual criticism with teeth, and Doug doesn't hold back. If you've ever wondered why your study Bible reads the way it does on these passages, this talk will rearrange your bookshelf.Want to listen to this episode and a whole backlog of members-only episodes? Check out the community and perks of being a Blurry Creatures member at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members.Check out Doug's new book, The Battle for the Bible's Truth: Genesis 6, Jesus, and the Second Century Plot to Deny the Messiah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Astrophysicist and apologist Hugh Ross returns to the blurry basement to talk about his new book, Noah's Flood Revisited, and the case he's making that the Genesis flood account is scientifically credible when read literally and historically. Hugh walks through why he believes the flood was universal to all humanity but not necessarily global in geographic scope, how no Christian scholar explicitly argued for a global flood until the 17th century, and why the Bible itself, in Job, Psalms, and Proverbs, may rule out water covering the entire planet after creation day three. He also unpacks Noah's overlooked role as a prophet, the "two books" framework of nature and scripture, and why this passage is by far the most ridiculed section of the Bible among skeptics and believers alike.The conversation goes deep on ancient human migration, the dating of the flood to a possible Ice Age event tens of thousands of years ago, the Nephilim and what Genesis 6:4 actually says about their return, and how 300+ flood legends across the Americas support a pre-migration event. Hugh also drops news about a forthcoming book on ETI and UAPs, talks about why ancient peoples weren't as ignorant as we assume, and shares why getting skeptics past the flood narrative might be the key to getting them all the way to Jesus.  This Episode is Sponsored By: https://rocketmoney.com/blurry — Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster! https://zocdoc.com/blurry — Find and instantly book top-rated doctors today! https://timtebow.com/tree-blurry/ — Get your copy of If the Tree Could Speak by Tim Tebow on Amazon today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Something is moving through the Ohio woods, and it's not alone. Eight reported Bigfoot sightings in five days have turned a quiet stretch of northeast Ohio into ground zero for the cryptid world, and the story has gone viral. Fox News, Newsweek, NewsNation, and the New York Times, among other major outlets, have all picked up the story. Blurry Creatures and The Bigfoot Society are crossing over for a deep dive into one of the most concentrated and bizarre clusters of Bigfoot activity in recent memory, the Ohio Flap. Multiple witnesses. Unfamiliar sounds. Evidence that doesn't fit the typical profile. We're breaking it all down together — the sightings, the patterns, the theories, and the question nobody wants to answer out loud. What is happening in Ohio?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when a self-described atheist builds a career investigating the darkest corners of the paranormal, and something starts following him home? Barry is a writer who tried to launch his career as a paranormal journalist back in the early 2000s and wrote one of the original deep-dive articles on Black Eyed Children for UFO Digest. He was flooded with over 250 emails from people with their own encounters and shares the stories that stuck with him most, including a woman who pulled over to help a homeless person only to lock eyes with completely black eyes, and a Georgia prison guard who was lifted off the ground by an inmate speaking in an unknown language whose eyes turned black mid-sentence. But the deeper story is Barry's own — how researching the darkest corners of the paranormal opened doors he didn't know he was opening, and how something seemed to become aware of him during that season.Barry's journey takes a sharp turn when he gives his life to Christ, and the sleep paralysis that plagued him for years comes to a dead stop after his baptism. But the story doesn't end clean. A mission trip to Nicaragua, where his team entered brothels to share the gospel and walked into palpable spiritual darkness, brought the sleep paralysis roaring back, this time with physical hands pinning him to the bed. Barry walks through the practical tools that ultimately brought freedom: praying over his home, playing worship music through the night, the spoken name of Jesus, and the power of simply sharing his story. It's a raw, first-time-told testimony about the reality of spiritual warfare, the doors we open without realizing it, and the only name that shuts them. Want to listen to this episode and a whole backlog of members-only episodes? Check out the community and perks of being a Blurry Creatures member at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Acuff is a pastor's kid, former rock and roll guitarist, co-founder of Nashville nonprofit Corner to Corner, and author of No Elevator to Everest. He sits down for a conversation about the blurriest member of the Trinity: the Holy Spirit. Will grew up in a theology where the Spirit was, as he puts it, a weird third cousin nobody knew how to engage with. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Bible. But a series of life-altering events cracked that framework wide open. He walks through what it practically looks like to develop a rhythm of listening to the Spirit, starting with ten minutes of stillness each morning, getting curious about what you're feeling and why, and learning to distinguish between the voice of the inner critic and the invitation of the Father running out to meet the prodigal son. Will makes the case that spirit-led self-awareness, not the Oprah version but the kind where you never go inward alone because the Holy Spirit is already there, is the missing piece for most Christians who've reduced the faith to knowledge of God without ever learning to walk with Him.But the episode takes a sharp turn when Will shares a story he's never told publicly. His honeymoon ended in a New Orleans psych ward after a perfect storm of sleeplessness, stress, and praying alone over spiritual forces he had no business engaging with at 24 years old. What started as insomnia spiraled into hallucinations, his wife watching his eyes roll back and his body rise off the bed, cops breaking down the hotel door, and a commitment to the psychiatric unit where he was misdiagnosed and put on antipsychotics for two years. Will is honest about the intersection of mental health and spiritual warfare, how being physically compromised makes you vulnerable, how he believes he knocked on a door he wasn't meant to knock on, and how he now never does anything in the spiritual realm alone. The conversation lands on joy, not the dopamine hit happiness of circumstance, but the deep, guitar perfectly in tune kind of joy that comes from living in union with the Spirit, even in the middle of more sorrow than you ever anticipated. Will's life carries more of both than most, and his practical framework for hearing from God is one of the most grounded and accessible we've had on the show. This Episode is Sponsored By: https://go.goodranchers.com/BLURRY — Get $40 off your first order, then $30 off your next two with code BLURRY at checkout! https://timtebow.com/tree-blurry/ — Get your copy of If the Tree Could Speak by Tim Tebow on Amazon today! https://livemomentous.com — Get up to 35% off your first order with promo code BLURRY at checkout! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew reached out to us with a story he's never told publicly before. A lifelong outdoorsman and hunter from Ohio with a background in criminology, he has had close to two decades of encounters with Dog Man, a bipedal canine creature that most people have never heard of and fewer believe exists. It started with a late-night encounter at his parents' property near Norton, Ohio, where something massive jumped a four-foot fence without touching it, chased the family rooster in circles on two legs, pinned it with a hand the size of a football, and then let it go. The late researcher Linda Godfrey told Drew the chicken was bait to lure him outside. That night launched years of escalating activity at the property, including wall-shaking bangs on the house at all hours, footsteps on the roof, pack vocalizations from multiple creatures at once, and sightings by his mother, stepfather, sister, niece, and neighbors. Drew's five-year-old niece, who had never heard the word werewolf, told her grandmother she wouldn't sleep upstairs anymore because "the big dog" watches her. Drew walks through encounter after encounter with the precision of someone who has spent sixteen years processing what he's seen. Brown ones, gray ones, a black one that materialized out of a bush in suburban Akron, twenty feet from him and a friend. One that followed his exact footsteps up to the back door and then walked back down the driveway. One that rode on the roof of his car for fifteen minutes after he left his parents' house. Juvenile prints on his mother's car that suggest they breed and raise young. And just a week before recording, fresh bipedal canine tracks in the snow at his new property, an hour and a half from his parents' place. Drew believes these creatures are physical, not purely demonic, noting they leave prints, eat animals, respond to firearms as deterrents, and blur with speed when they run. But he also believes there's a spiritual dimension to them, a paralyzing dread that accompanies every encounter and a fixation on fear that suggests something deeper than predatory instinct. His advice to anyone who says they want to see one: you don't. It steals a part of you. This is his first time telling his full story.  Want to listen to this episode and an entire back catalog of members-only episodes? https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamie Walden doesn't do soft landings. A Marine infantryman who pushed to Baghdad in '03, turned firefighter-paramedic, turned missionary, turned pastor in the shadow of Mesa Verde, Jamie has been consuming and contending with the intersection of the UAP space, intelligence operations, and biblical prophecy for over twenty years. Jamie is deeply connected to a task force of Green Berets and intelligence community operators who are briefing Congress and policymakers on the UAP and NHI space, and he brings a battlefield perspective to what he sees as the most comprehensive influence campaign in human history. He breaks down why 90% of what's being seen in the skies is human-made advanced tech, which is either ours, adversarial, or private sector breakaway, while the remaining unknown percentage traces back to channeled ancient knowledge from the powers of darkness. Jamie walks through the elephant analogy his task force uses to explain how the government is intentionally showing different people different angles of the same reality to keep everyone confused, divided, and most importantly, distracted from Christ. The deception, he argues, is not the existence of the phenomena, but the context and narrative wrapped around it.Jamie doesn't stop at disclosure. He connects the UAP conversation to the golden age language coming out of the current administration, tracing it back to the Cumaean Sibyl prophecies and the cult of Apollo, the occult symbolism embedded in the Great Seal, and what he calls a continuity of agenda running through every presidency. He unpacks how 'Christ consciousness' is being sown through the institutions of the new age, NAR, Mormonism, Catholicism, and even mainstream evangelicalism, and is priming the world to receive an anti-Christ. Though not through a jackboot on the neck, but through a deception so appealing that people will demand it, cheer it, and turn on anyone who refuses. Jamie lays out his polycrisis theory, which is a convergence of World War III, AI-driven bioweapons, astro-catastrophism, and global trauma designed to soften the collective consciousness, and makes the case that the only thing that will survive what's coming is an unmitigated, uncompromised identity in Christ. Not knowledge about Him, but a knowing of Him, and identity rooted in Him. https://brooklynbedding.com — Get 30% off sitewide when you use code Blurry. https://preborn.com/blurry — Visit the PreBorn! website or dial #250 and use keyword BABY to donate today. https://timtebow.com/tree-blurry/ — Get your copy of If the Tree Could Speak by Tim Tebow on Amazon today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices