Miracles, Celebrities, and the Power of Prophecy: Hubie Synn's Astonishing Encounters

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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen Strang and today on The Strang Report we're going to talk about the prophetic.

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We're also going to talk about the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge.

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These are things that you don't see operated and also

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sadly, there's a lot of flakiness out there in the body of Christ where people may misuse it.

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Well today we're going to talk to my friend and one of our authors, Hubie Synn, who has had a

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very significant ministry in this area and he's going to tell us stories that you'll find very interesting.

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Some dealings where the Lord has opened up doors that he didn't even expect, even with some celebrities.

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So stay tuned for my conversation today with my friend Hubie Synn.

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Welcome back and Hubie, thank you for taking time to be on my podcast.

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You've become a good friend but you're also an author and one of the things I want to do in our

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podcast today is to talk about the two books that you've written. The first one being The

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Tales of a Wandering Prophet and the second one Lessons from a Wandering Prophet. I have read

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both of these books. They're both excellent but why don't we start by saying why do they call you

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the Wandering Prophet? I guess because I don't really have a destination sometimes.

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Actually I was on a show once and Jonathan and I were both on the show and then they wanted me to

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Jonathan being Jonathan Cahn. Yes and they wanted me to pray for some people and then I just,

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the host basically just held out his arms like that and I went down and I kind of wandered through

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the crowd because there wasn't really anything like there wasn't an altar call or anything.

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So I just kind of went up to various people and he coined me the Wandering Prophet. That's kind of

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what happened. Well you know there's whole segments of the church that believe prophecy is not for

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today, that God does not speak today and then there's all kinds of debates on different kinds

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of prophets and like I've done podcasts and books with prophets that are, thus saith the Lord,

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America's going to hell in a hand basket, you know and the Lord wants the church to wake up and all

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you know things that are that are valid of course but your prophetic gift is more like

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hearing what God is saying and helping people to understand that. And so why don't we start

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before we actually get into your story by you explaining the kind of prophecy that you do

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where the Lord will show that maybe a person is grappling with a problem or maybe even something

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from their childhood or it's you know I've been with you in settings and I've had you prophesy

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over me and my family and it's almost always encouraging. So how is that different from the

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John the Baptist kind of prophesying into wilderness with what did they say what honey and

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locust or something and dressed in animal skins you don't look the type.

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There is scripture that says that we prophesy in part and I kind of take that to mean at least my

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interpretation is it has many interpretations but for myself it's like there's different parts of

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different prophecies that people do. So a lot of people want me to comment on let's say where the

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country's going I don't do that that's not what I do a lot of people want me to prophesy about

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current events that's not what I do. Mine is more of a personal type of prophecy and it's kind of

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mixed in with words of knowledge. Okay that's a good way to put it and that's a gift one of the

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gifts of the spirit that we don't hear much about in the typical church. Fairly rarely would there

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be a word of knowledge although sometimes if a leader or pastor or others are saying something

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that ministers to people it's a word of knowledge whether they call it or not but that's really what

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you do. You really give people a word of knowledge often confirming what God is saying to them

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personally isn't that right? Yes and I think that because I was quote raised in the kids church of

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teaching the kids that that's kind of the kind of prophecy that I do that it kind of trained me to

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do what I do because when you when I the words that come through me when I'm doing it it's very

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individual and I have to sit there and pay a lot of attention. So you're saying when you got into

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ministry in your church yes you did it in the kids ministry and had to learn to explain things very

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simply. Simply I had to give them the time I had to act like they're the most important thing in the

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world and to look them in the eye speak very clearly and very simple and that's kind of what I do.

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So I didn't realize that I was actually being trained for something later because that's what

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I was doing. Well your books are full of stories you're an excellent storyteller if you're

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ministering at a church or if you're ministering one-on-one you tell stories and one of the most

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interesting stories to me is about a famous football play they called it the catch it was

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by David Tyree and I know you know the story well but that's how I first got to know you is through

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that a friend of mine from Jacksonville who's also a friend of David Tyree called me before the Super

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Bowl I'm not a big football fan but I usually watch the Super Bowl because it's a big thing yeah in

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our culture it's a big thing and they said there's been a prophecy that something's going to happen

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with David Tyree this is before the game yeah so I was watching the whole game thinking is this it

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there was some play early that it was pretty spectacular but it wasn't the catch so it's

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scored a touchdown right David Tyree did but and you know from my perspective as a journalist

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covering the body of Christ it is often difficult to verify when a prophecy really came true

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because it's not often not documented ahead of time but here even though we weren't really

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documenting it I was interested because okay I've heard this prophetic word I'm not hearing about

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it later I want to see if it comes true and of course it did so why don't you tell the story

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and maybe start at the beginning on David Tyree how did you even get to know him to give him a

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prophetic word I had met his financial advisor at the time and I started to do some work with him

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so one day we went to David's house and I didn't know who he was either at that time because he

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played for the New York Giants I'm a New York Jets fan so it wasn't like I knew any of the

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Giants players so we went there and you know he's sitting at the table with David and he's like this

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is what we're going to do financially and by the way this is UB I was sitting in it off to the side

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he goes he's going to do your taxes and maybe I should explain to my viewers because I know

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you pretty well you're you're an accountant by training and that's how you earn a living

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yes and so you were being an accountant and David Tyree was a client is that right yes that's correct

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so went to the house and he said this UB is going to do your taxes and then he's like okay and then

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we just left I mean the interaction was probably just a couple of minutes I was sitting next to

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him but he was so busy having a meeting with the financial advisor that he really didn't get to know

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me so we went back to the office and you know I started to pray for the man which I didn't really

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know him so I started to pray for him on and off for I guess about a few days the Lord kept getting

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me up at night and making me restless and I'm just like I don't even know this man so I don't

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really I don't understand so then after a while the Lord kind of impressed on me that I should call him

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and I didn't really want to do that because you know I'm in a professional capacity and I didn't

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want to cross the line because I didn't know the effects of it or anything else so the restlessness

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and the waking up at night got worse during the week so finally I said okay I'm going to do it so

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I grabbed the Rolodex or his number off of the chart and I figured I would call him on a Friday

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night because if anything blows up I have the weekend that I can kind of handle this because

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at that time that was my major job at the time so Friday night came I called him and it's ringing

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and I'm like okay well I don't have to do anything to worry about he's not answering the phone

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and a few rings later he answered the phone and he said this is David and I froze I didn't really

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know what to do because I was like stumbling and you know the way my gift works is it just starts

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to come out so he was like hello hello and I was like oh this is Hubie he's like who I go Hubie the

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accountant he's like oh yeah yeah because now he's trying to remember so he's like yeah what's up and

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I and then it started the prophecy just started to flow out and so that went on for a little while

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and then there was an eerie pause like he didn't react he wasn't reacting and I'm and it's over a

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phone so I don't know how he's taking this I don't know what he believes or anything which was

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frightening and then he said oh okay yeah that that makes a lot of sense there's a lot of things

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that you said in there about you know my wife and I were discussing and things like that and

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things like that so we should really get to know each other that was the phone call so let me help

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you with the story a little bit because we actually published okay yes David's story in a book called

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more than to catch and you prophesied that God that something was going to happen supernaturally

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that was going to give him a platform to share the gospel and this is something that he and his

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wife had been praying for so you know I know from personal experience that when you're really seeking

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God and you don't really know the answer and you get a confirmation like that is extremely

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encouraging so I can see how you've been encouraged and then you met with him later I guess and gave

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him more details and then during the game this big game they call it the catch you know some people

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have said is the most famous catch in history because he actually caught the ball on his helmet

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yes it was against his helmet and he put his hand on it and kept it from falling which I guess would

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be what do they call that an incomplete yes you know but it was what caused the giants to win

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the super bowl really against all odds I think they were the underdog weren't they were the

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underdog because the Patriots were undefeated but what I always like to add to it is that when I

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called him it was October it was way months before the super bowl and he wasn't playing he was

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actually injured and he wasn't sure when he was going to be back on the field so God told him

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when he wasn't even playing didn't know if he'd come back that all this was going to happen and

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he wasn't even playing in the game he wasn't eligible so and God took that and it was unlikely

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that the Giants were even going to make the super bowl and they went on a run that I don't think I

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think it's one of the few in history that somebody has made so many wins to get all the way to the

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super bowl so there was a lot of a lot to unpack from it and I remember watching the game and of

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course seeing the catch and and afterwards of course we wanted to do a story in charisma which

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we did we were able to track you down and track down David Tyree and do an article and I had the

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opportunity to meet you I was curious by this point and we met in New York City when I was up

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there on business I can remember we sat and had coffee and talked and kind of formed a friendship

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that a year or so later maybe not even that long you were flying and changing planes in Charlotte

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North Carolina and you had a chance encounter that I've written about you've written about it

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Jonathan Kahn has written about it it was had to do with Jonathan Kahn and he was also grappling

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with something and asking God to give him some answers and then he ran into you tell tell us

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that story okay um my flight was supposed to leave on a Friday night and we had a terrible

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storm called a nor'easter and they kept bumping my flight later and later until finally they

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wanted me to fly out late at night and there would be no connection in Charlotte so I said why stay in

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the airport overnight so I took the next flight early the next morning and little did I realize

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that Jonathan was on that flight so we flew into Charlotte and the Lord kind of maneuvered both of

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us to kind of sit next to each other so as we sat next to each other I didn't know him he didn't know

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me the Lord's telling me I have to speak to this man who's so let me help out again okay I've told

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this story myself I know it's your story that's fine but you were in the waiting area waiting to

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get on the flight lots of people around and you have this gift and often the Lord will cause you

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to minister to a complete stranger yes and you are asking the Lord Lord is there someone you want me

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to speak to is am I getting that right uh actually I was not looking to to pray for anybody I just

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wanted to be alone but when the gifts start stirring it's kind of like well what do you want

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me to do so that's kind of what happened so meanwhile Jonathan Khan who is a messianic

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rabbi from New Jersey ends up not being that far an hour or so from where you live he was flying

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to Dallas to a speaking engagement changed planes in Charlotte which is very common place to change

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planes and was praying about something and he hadn't really been able to focus on it and just

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decided that he was going to spend the time as much as he was able to while he was alone traveling

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to just pray and seek the Lord and to think about this decision he had to make and then he ran into

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you so you pick up the story okay so I'm just sitting down I found a seat that was

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near the windows and I'm sitting down and you know my gift starts to stir and the Lord starts

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speaking to me and he says you know look at the person to the right so I look over and I see a

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rabbi and I'm thinking something's wrong so he's got a full beard he's dressed in black

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and I'm like something's wrong and then the Lord just kept kind of you know my gift the way it

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works it starts to bubble so it starts to bubble and I look over and I'm just like this doesn't

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make any sense I'm trying to understand why I am looking at this messianic rabbi well I didn't

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was messianic but he was a rabbi and I was like something's wrong because you know they're waiting

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for the Lord to come I know he's come already so what am I going to talk to him about and I'm like

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what am I going to talk to this person about so all these questions were filling my head

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and then I look over a few times and Jonathan's praying he is reading

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scripture but it's Proverbs the Old Testament so nothing really made sense so finally I said you

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know what let me just test it out so I put my arm on the there was like a middle chair that was kind

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of broken so I put my arm over there and I'm just looking at him I didn't say anything I'm just kind

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of staring at the side of him so he turns around he looks at me and he goes you know yes and I said

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you know I said what's the good word because I couldn't think of anything else to say and it

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kind of stunned me that he turned around and just looked at me and it caught me off guard

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so when I said what's the good word he turns and says God loves you and I was like okay well

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I kind of know that so you know and then we just kind of started to chit chat but you also

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realized pretty quickly that he was a believer yes as we started to speak he told me that he was one

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of the he had a radio program the two nice Jewish boys and I used to listen to that many years ago

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so I said oh okay yeah I used to listen to that he's like well what happened I was like well

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I was like well I stopped listening to it sorry so we kind of just had a small conversation and then

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they called us for the flight and so it's like nice talking to you nice talking to you and then

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because the gift didn't start yet and then right when Jonathan was ready to get up I all of a

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sudden it just happened and I was like you can't get up yet and he was like no and I went no I said

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you know you need to sit down and you tell you something so he sat down and then the prophecy

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just started to flow and the prophecy was what basically that what he has written God gave it to

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him and that God was going to use it to change many things or change things about the government

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or something like that I don't remember all of it but it was kind of like he was going to use this

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and it was God is going to do well it spoke about his his wife there was something about children

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uh just things about him and his ministry things like that so well again I know the story pretty

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well there you go and here he was a messianic rabbi he has what some have said is the largest

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messianic synagogue or congregation in the country so he's been successful he was on the radio but

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he'd never written a book right but he had written this book in fact he'd written it once and then

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once and then rewrote it and he had some friends that were encouraging him to get it published

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but they were encouraging him in ways that he was uncomfortable for some reason and he felt he needed

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to know what God's will was and so he was asking what God's will was and you told him or the Lord

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showed you I guess your word of wisdom that he had a book that would touch the nations or something

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to the effect well that got his attention yes and and I think that while this is going on

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he was he was going to see a literary agent and the literary agent wanted to highlight him

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and he didn't feel comfortable with that which says a lot about his character so he said no I

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don't want to highlight myself I want to highlight the book and what God is saying in it so that's

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part of the conflict that he was having that he shared with me and somehow in the conversation

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I'm not even sure how maybe I'll learn something you said I guess maybe it's toward the end of your

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conversation because you didn't you sit next to each other on the airplane and kind of continue

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talking well I was on the air in the airplane he was in a different section so he said I'm

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going to come back and find you and then you need to tell me again because he didn't write it down

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so he came up and he found me we went to the back of the plane we sat down we started praying it

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came back out he took notes and you know he was just kind of asking me questions about how I am

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have I done this before and things like that which kind of led it to the next step of you know what's

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eventually led to you and you did this in October or this this took place in October didn't it I

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think it was October also so I guess a lot of things happen in October so it was probably the

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following year or maybe even a couple years later actually was a couple years later because

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it was in 2000 well I know when it was it was 2011 okay in 2000 in January of 2011 you emailed me

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that was yes our encounter was months before and and you emailed me and said I met this nice

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Jewish man who's on the radio and he has a book that I don't remember what you said although I

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I actually saved a copy of the email and I think it's going to you know be a significant book

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shake the world some kind of superlative like that and are you interested and I emailed back

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and said well I think I need to know more than what you've said but if you're interested I'm

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interested right but I had never read the book I had gone to his church like after we met we

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didn't think anything really of it at least I didn't and we used to go to his church all the time

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and so one day he was there and he's like you know I didn't meet with a literary agent I'm

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not sure what to do with this can you speak to Mr. Strang and I wasn't comfortable doing that

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because I don't like to ask for favors so I was like should I should I not and so after praying

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for it the Lord told me that I could send you that email that's why I sent it and it was very simple

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you know I told you why I there wasn't much detail right I showed you I told you what happened at the

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airport I said there could be something to this can you you know just look into it that's all

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and of course for those who maybe don't know or haven't figured it out yet that book was the

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harbinger right it came out almost exactly a year later in January of 2012 and it was what God was

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saying to America through 9 11 and comparing it to how he was warning ancient Israel and how God

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is warning America today the book I you know we've said this publicly the book and a couple of

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small derivatives a bible study guide and that kind of thing has sold two million copies biggest

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book we've ever had and then it spawned all of his other books he's had eight books in a row in the

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New York Times bestseller none of them as big as the harbinger itself although I will say that the

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new one called the dragon's prophecy which is coming out for those who are seeing some people

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will see this podcast later but it's coming out the day after Labor Day in 2024 and it it is a

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very powerful book in fact I'll be doing some podcasts with Jonathan Cahn about it but but

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um that was a very impactful conversation you had in the airport and thank you for following up

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I had not met even though I've met many many many people with my course of my career I had never met

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Jonathan Cahn or if I did I met him in passing we were we figured out we were both at a conference

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together a number of years ago but I have no recollection of meeting him

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okay and in publishing of course we're always reaching out looking for authors who have

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something to say and then all those also people are all the time giving us suggestions I mean

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yesterday I visited a church and I had two people come up and want me to publish their books yes

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I'm sure that was one of the reasons I didn't want to email you because I was like he gets it all the

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time all the time so but you know what is the old saying swallow the fish and spit out the bones

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yeah so but I think you were drawn to it because I told you what happened at the at the airport

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right and so that it seemed like there was something with you and of course I have a lot of

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respect for you yeah so let's speed up the story a little bit subsequent to that we were interested

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in the tales of a wandering prophet how God can use anyone for his purpose and glory I love that

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subtitle and Jonathan Cahn did a forward and I can just tell you as Jonathan Cahn's publisher he

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doesn't do forwards for people right because he would get nothing else done everybody who publishes

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a book would want him to do a forward so it's a real tribute to you that he decided to make an

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exception to his own rule and so that was a real honor but honor but I can remember you'd never

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written a book either no and if I remember correctly you kind of struggled to write this book

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I did there was an original due date and I remember going out on my porch with my computer

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all excited ready to start writing and then I would spend the whole day write a page and I would

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read it and I'd be like I'm not getting anywhere and it was frustrating because I figured how hard

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could it be and it's really hard so then I struggled to get started because there were many ways I was

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trying to do it and then Vicki my wife was like you know you got to get going you got to which

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added the pressure to it then some people from your company had called me and so I felt all this

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pressure and I'm just like nothing's flowing and if it's not flowing what am I going to do

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so it took a few months then finally it started to flow so it taught my wife and I how to how to

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like handle how to work it through so we managed to start writing it and then we figured out the

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process on how we could do it so then it went much smoother and then because of that the success of

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this book and for a first time author did well you got endorsements from Sid Roth, Joni Lamb

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and others we did this follow-up

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Lessons from a Wandering Prophet, Discover the Keys to Growing Your Call

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and this forward is from Kathy Lee Gifford. Tell me how you even knew Kathy Lee Gifford.

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Well I got a Facebook message from a person named Squire Rushnell which I had no idea who he was.

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He sent me a message and he said that he found a radio interview on the internet and he wanted to

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interview me for his book and then he put down that he's the author of the God Wings books him

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and his wife and so they wanted to speak to me but it came in tax season and I'm like I have no time

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for this so I kind of pushed it off and the more I pushed it off the Lord just wanted me to talk to

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them so I set up a appointment and I spoke to them and they're good friends with Kathy Lee.

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So I spoke to them and they were talking about putting me on and so on their book and then we

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just became friends and then one day they were at lunch which I didn't know and I never really

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watched much TV so I mean I've heard of Kathy Lee but I didn't really know much about her.

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I knew her from the In Mattoon when I was a child I used to watch that game show that's what I knew

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it in so the Lord was kind of on me to get a message to her and I was reluctant kind of like

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the way I was reluctant to you to bring you the harbinger because I didn't want to ask for a favor

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and I'm like well if the Lord's gonna do it he's gonna open up the door so I texted Squire and I

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said can you ask her for her email because I need to tell her something and he was like well you

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know he speaks like well Hughby it so happens we're having lunch with her right now so now I'm like

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oh no what am I gonna do he's like send it to me and I'll give it to her so I'm like all nervous

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and everything I'm like typing it out on the phone and I'm texting it to him and I gave it to him and

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he showed her and then I don't hear anything back so expecting the worst which is kind of what I do

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I'm like I really messed up I really I don't want them to look bad and he goes sorry she was having

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a moment she she's never gotten one of these before and it was very clear to her what it meant

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and he said that you know meaning she had a moment she was getting emotional over it so she

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wanted to know who I was so he gave her my number and probably about a year later she said she was

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a friend of mine and she was like I'm so glad you're here and probably about a week later

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Vicki and I she invited us to her house in Connecticut so Vicki and I went and we walked in

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and she ran up to me and she gave me a hug and she's she said I'm so honored to meet you

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and I was speechless I was like what do you mean honored to me it's kind of the other way around

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and so we just hung out for the day and we just chatted about scripture we chatted about messianic

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bible concordance and encyclopedia so we were just trading scripture back and forth just hanging out

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and then she started to call me and we used to chat back and forth and you know it was very

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special to find her as a friend because she was like I'm praying for you she would call me and

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just say I'm praying for you and hang up the phone so and then that kind of spawned our friendship

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well thank you for being with me today I wanted to encourage people to get either of these or both

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sinned thank you for writing these books thank you for being my guest today on the Strang Report

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