Pound for Pound with Mike Kai

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey everybody, thank you for tuning into Prey dot com Radio.
My name is Mike Kai, the senior pastor of Inspired
Church in Hawaii. Be sure to check out my channel
on pray dot com and for more messages and other
great content. You can also head over to www dot
mike ki dot tv for leadership resources, podcast information, and

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ways to connect from Hawaii to wherever you are listening from.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I hope you enjoy this message.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Right here on Prey dot com Radio. We are in
a series called The Way Back.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
The Way Back.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
I figured out, how do we know our way back
if we don't know where we came from? So I
figured that God put it on my heart while I
was on vacation to go through this series. It's a
unique series. I've never done anything like really quite like
this before. It's involved a lot of study, and I've
learned so many things that I never learned before. It
reinforced things that I was learning and things that I
was thinking about side I'm going back into history. I

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also want to say that I'm not a history major.
I'm not a history teacher, but I'm a student of history.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
So if you give me a.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Book to read, I will read it and I will
learn everything that I can. So this series, I've had
all kinds of different sources. Actual Museum of the Bible
in Washington, DC, walking on the second floor, founded by
Steve Green, the family that owns the Hobby Lobby put
half a billion dollars into that museum just outside as
one of Washington, DC, right in the city, and also

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half a million dollars worth of artifacts from all over
the world brought together that actually shaped this. I also
felt that if I didn't talk about what happened in Hawaii,
not just the founding of our nation with the Gutenberg print,
how God used the Gutenberg press right in order for
the Bible to be produced faster.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
If it wasn't for Martin Luther and nailing.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
His ninety five thesis on that church in Germany, I'm
saying in the Protestant or the protest Reformations, that the
Bible has to be given to people like us, that
we could read it not just in Latin, and not
only what's wrong with the church, but also how you
could fix the church. If it wasn't for the Magna
Carta telling a king that you can have only this

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much power and you cannot just decree and mandate anything
any time that you want.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
That my property is my property. That the king was
under the law, that king wasn't only could never.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Be above the law anymore, and at least put some
restraints on him and didn't allow him to overreach. If
it wasn't for the Mayflower Compact and the Mayflower Compact
on those forty one families before they got off that
ship in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and said we will be
under the rule of law and under God's law before
we leave this place. So we're all signing our names

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to it. And if it wasn't for what God was
doing through the revolution and a war torn country where
brother was fighting against brother in the Civil War, if
God did not use what God was using, and if
God did not pour out his spirit at different times
with the Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening and revivals
in between, we would not have the country that we
have today. So now when we looked at the revivals

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and how God sovereign he pours out his presence on
a place, it's called an awakening sovereign. It's a sovereign
move of God, but it also involves men and women.
It involves people like us who pray that God would
send revival, that God would do something powerful. And so
it has taken me through this awakening to what I've
been waiting to teach on this.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
On the Hawaiian Great Awakening. The Hawaiian Great Awakening, I.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Don't know if you knew this, but one of the
greatest revivals in the history of the world, according to
Elmer towns On his book called the World's Top Ten Revival,
the ten greatest revivals ever from Pentecost to present. One
of them took place here in these islands in the
mid eighteen fifties. And so that has always captured my
imagination as a pastor.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I always want to know, how do you get revival?
How does that happen? When will it happen?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
When? And if I look at America and I look
at Hawaii, there the only thing that's really going to
fix this.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Is a revival.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's a revival what permeates the culture where God begins
to sweep through the land and it affects every aspect
of society. That's what I'm believing. For j'ess the same
somebody say, amen, come on, So this is my biggest service.
It's usually my liveliest, so you're gonna have to help
the preacher preach. And again I said, I just want
you to know that some of you may may know

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way more about Hawaiian culture than I do. Of course
you do, and probably could speak a lot more Hawaiian
than I can speak. Okay, but I want you to
know that I'm doing my best. I put in thirty
to forty hours of study this week.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
In this alone.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
A lot of distractions were going on, but I stayed
on point and here it is. So now when we
look at what God was doing, I have to reveal
the blackboard.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
There we go again.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Boom. Okay, we have to bring it on this side
because this side is closer, it's a lot easier, so
you can see the screen on that side. And so
now here we go Hawaii in put the line the
timeline up on the screen. In two thousand and eight,
these islands were populated that people that came from the Marquesas.
They not only came from there, but actually where did

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they originate. They originated from the Tower of Babel. When
the Tower of Babel spread people throughout the earth, there's
a mass migration of people. There were two or three
waves of migrations of people that actually made their way
through the Middle East down through India. Then they you know,
and they don't just they didn't just like take a
two hundred day journey, No, like they plant, they stay,
they live, then their children go to find food and

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live somewhere else, and they move again. And they slowly,
over one hundreds of years, if not a few thousand years,
slowly migrated through India, through Sumatra in Indonesia, then through
the Marquesas in different islands in Tahiti and Fiji, and
made their way to Hawaii in two thousand AD. The
people in Hawaii back then, or in Polynesia, still had

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a concept of a one true God. His name was
Yahweh to us, but to them his name is Eo
eo I apostrophe oh Eo EO's name was spoken, was revered,
was worship up until about three thirteen hundred AD. In
thirteen hundred AD, a very wicked and evil warrior named
Pa'au came with this massive canoe and came to these

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shores and saw that the peace loving people could easily
be ruled, so he brings in the Coppu system. The
Coapu system was brought in in thirteen hundred AD. It
says you can't eat, you cannot touch, you cannot look.
But it was.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Deadlier than that.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
It came with so much more mana or power than
the people realized, and ultimately the coapus kept the people
in bondage, in spiritual bondage. There was human sacrifice. Quite often.
Wars were fought because of this, and the peace loving
people of Hawaii at that point where you cannot even
say the name Eel. As a matter of fact, Pa'au

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took all of his canoes that he brought too from
Tahiti and burned them all so that nobody else could escape,
because there were other priests or kahunas that actually were
of Eel, and they escaped and they ended up in
at at All, which is New Zealand. Now, when you
have this Coppu system, you also have you have the
priests or the kahunas.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
That do that, but you also have the Ali.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
The Ali was the ruling class and the greatest elite
of all time. For us, it's Kamihama the Great, kame
he Mao the Great. You can have to understand that
we're pretty much in the seventeen hundreds are in the
Stone Age, so to speak, we have no metal. We're
fighting with wood and with stone and with bone. That's
the way that we're fighting. There's a symbiosis, there is
a working through with nature, working with the priests, working

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with the elite, and working with the commoner. Okay, so
this something is happening. But if you look at the
timeline throughout the history, what you'll see is the word
first Koonani move, second, koonani move, third klonani. Koonane is
the Hawaiian word for checkers, Hawaiian checkers. God was moving pieces,
seven major pieces throughout Hawaiian history in order for us

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to get But where we are today, So that koondani move,
it's a black stone and it's a white stone, and
you play that game and you can still buy it
to this day. So God was moving pieces on the
board of life. But now when King Kamihamea the Great
in seventeen seventy eight, Captain Cook comes to America and
comes to Hawaiian and he comes here, and he makes
another trip down to New Zealand, makes a trip to Australia,

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and he comes back and of course he comes during
the Makahiki season, which is almost like the Jubilee time
where there is no war. There's only competition games kind
of like the Olympics during that time.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
And he comes at that time.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
They thought because the prophecy about the Messiah was coming
and his white sales, and so they thought that at
first that he might be the promised one that they
were thinking about, or.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
At least Lono in the flesh, but he wasn't.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
So he dies in Kyo Kua Kona because he gets
into a skirmish because he wants his rowboat.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Okay, now I want you to know.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Let me give you the credentials of the people that
I've been speaking to and the books that I have
been reading.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
I wanted to call out their names.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Kypo Kelling, Kypoei Kelling, great scholar, Qiha Piman tal Sonny
shimo Oka, Kahu Kurt Kikuna from Kavaija Church, numerous books
that I've read in the last two weeks in order
to prepare for this very moment of this series. Okay,
so this is all the my pigeon English is gonna

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come out. I want to warn you I will read
from the Bible. I promise and some of you're gonna
go he's going too fast. Watch the replay online because
this one just soak it in. Okay, just just receive this, okay, right, Okay,
So now so now you have the amazing moves of God.
Kamehameh had the Great unites the islands. It's incredible on
how the King of Kawaii did not need to fight him,

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and Kamehameha tried several times, taking his warring canoes all
the way to Kawaii, but just to be lost in storms.
So he never got the opportunity to physically subdue Kawaiti.
But the Kawaii king comes to Oahu, meets Kamehameha face
to face, and it's pretty powerful in their exchange. He
basically submits himself to become a vassal without bloodshed of Kamehameha. Kamehameha,

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the Great unites the islands. The final battle is on
the Puli Highway. If you if you've seen that of
great painting by Herb Khane, an incredible artist, and where
off of pu Highway right over here on the lookout
there's Conneo Hey in the distance to Coli Mountain Range
and this is where he subdued them.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Also important to know that King.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Captain George Vancouver came from Great Britain after even after
Captain Cook was killed, came and as a peace offering
to Kamehamea gave him cattle. I mean a lot of
a lot of cattle. So Kameiama puts a kapu on
the cattle that you can't touch the cattle and releases
the cattle with fencing with with that you can and

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leaves them on mona kail. After ten years, then he
brings in the vocaros because the vocaros are teaching the
Hawaiians how to be poniolos, how to be cowboys. That's
an incredible story. And there you have Parker Ratch. Anyway,
that's a little dog lake for history. Okay. So now
back in the late seventeen hundreds, one of the greatest
priests of that time.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
His name was Heva Heeva. He was Kamehameha's personal priest,
his personal calhuna. Now Kahunas were skilled in different arts.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
They could they could they could do black magic, they
could heal that different kinds of arts. There's different kinds
of calhouna back then, but this one heaven Haveva, was
the top of all of them. In the Hawaiian kingdom.
He personally advised Kamehameha, but also he already was. He
knew Eeo. But you could not say the name Eo.
You cannot even mention his name. If you mentioned his name,
you will die. But he had a concept of one

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true god, even though he was perpetuating this system of
kapu and this system of demi gods.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
But he knew that to him they were false in
his heart?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
How do I know that by the books that I've
been reading and by the counsel that I've been receiving.
As a matter of fact, gave one of the greatest
prophecies the priests have.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
He said, he said, a god greater than this.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Would come on a canoe bigger than this, he said
to Kamehameha. And this God would come in a box. Now,
if you tell a king there is a canoe, a
person with a canoe bigger than yours in which is coming,
What do you do with that? What do you do
with that? If you don't like what you're hearing, you
fire the guy. You get a new kohuna. He's saying

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there is one coming on a boat greater than yours,
and he's coming.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Watched this in a black box, in a black box.
What is the black box?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
The black box prophecy was written in nineteen twenty three
perpetuated in nineteen twenty three in this Honolulu Star bulletin story.
It wasn't started in ninet twenty twenty three, but the
story came out in nineteen twenty three that heaven Hava
talked about the black box. The black box was actually
a box that was opened, and in it was the Bible.

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When the missionaries first came to our own Plymouth Rock
in Kailua Kona on the Big Island FBI, from Big Island,
from Best Island.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Just say, when you look at that, that blows my mind.
That God is speaking to a kahuna, a kahuna.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Nui, the biggest, baddest kahuna in the place, speaking to
Kamehameha the Great, that there is one coming great with
a boat greater than yours, and in a black Not
only that, another priest went out on a limb because
he heard this, and he said to Kamehamea, says these altars,
these hey yau They're all coming down stone by stone.

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These men had so much to lose by speaking the
prophecy that would basically make them irrelevant and make them
lose their power. They were willing to say what God
had put on their minds to their hearts, to Kamehameha
the Great. During that time, though, there was still bloodshed
and there was still war on the Big Island, especially
in Kau, where I've been told some of the greatest

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kings were born in Kou. I lived in Kou for
two years in a town called Pahala. My father was
a police officer before where I grew up all on
the Big Island up until the age of seventeen. For
two years we lived in Pahala. I went to punt
a little black sand beach that was my beach and
as little kids, And I remember that while I was
there and I'm studying this, I'm with Kypo Kelly. He's

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sharing his screen with me. He's teaching me all this
Hawaiian and all this stuff is just resonating with me
because I know that this is powerful and this is history,
and I.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Know that it's God used it.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
So when I'm studying this and he goes KiHa, I'm
talking to Keiha. Now KiHa goes Mike. Yeah, you know
opukaha Ya. I said, yeah, oh Pookahya yeah yeah. And
this is this was the boy that was basically jumped
on a seal ship, not a whaleship, but a seal
ship that brought.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Him to New England. I'm gonna tell you that story.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
But Opukahaia is a young boy living Inku. There is
war between Kamehameha and some of his other chiefs that
do not want to be subdued, and so Apukahaia and
his mother and his father and his baby brother, like
a lot of people during that time, were hiding in
the caves near Punulu. While he was hiding there, the
father was thirsty. The story says that the father goes

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out to get water. While he gets out, the warrior
sees him, takes him, kills his father, kills his mother,
and Opukahaia is witnessing this with his very own eyes.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
When he sees this, he is fearful.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
He grabs his three month old baby brother, throws him
on his shoulder, and starts to run through the jagged
a a because there's no pahoy hoy there in that
part of kau the jagged a a lava running through
the warrior takes his spear throws it at Opikahaia, but.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hits his baby brother in the back, and his baby.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Brother is dead. He now becomes the property of that warrior.
He is now enslaved by that warrior, and he is
transferred all the way up to Kohala, up on the
north shore of the Big Island. While he is at Kohala,
this poor boy, can you imagine what he's going through?
Can you imagine the PTSD, the fear? Can you imagine
just his soul is crushed because he sees his baby

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brother die before his eyes, and his mother and father
slaughtered by the warrior who now owns him. And now
he has to live with this man. That's what he's
going through. He's about twelve years old. He gets to Kohala.
While he's in Kohala, God's providence providentially moves a kolonanistone.
What does he do? His uncle is Pahua. Pahua is

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a Kahuna. Pahua is under the line of heavn Heva.
He's learning from the high priests have Heva. He's they
they believe that they take Opukahaya and they nurture him.
When my friend KiHa was telling me, Mike, you gotta
go look it up. Yeah Puna Lud, I said, yeah,
I know, Puna Lud, that's my beach as a kid.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
He goes, yeah, he goes.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
I remember sixteen years ago, I call KiHa and I
said to Keiha, It said, brother, I need a Hawaiian name,
because if you want a Hawaiian middle name, you can't
just you know, get one from the internet and it
gonna make up your own. You know what I mean. Uh,
you have to actually have a kupuna or an elder
bless you with a name. You ask them for the name,
they pray about it, and then they give you the name.
My middle name came from my great grandmother esther Carter

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in Hilo, and she gave me the name o Kalani.
She named all my brothers and my sister gave us
all our middle names. So I go to my father,
I said, Dad, I need a name for Lisa's pregnant.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
She's haw Hi.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
She's like eight months and Lisa's going You better get
a Hawaiian name. I said, I know, she's gonna get
on Chinese name. No, no, I get a Hawaii name, getting
on Hawaii name.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
I know what.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
I got to hold that thought.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
So she's she's she's hot by and I call KiHa
and I said to Kiya, I said Kiah, I knew
a Hawaiian name.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Okay, let's pray
about it. Let's pray about it. He asked me two
key questions or one key question. He goes, where do
you see her in nature? Where do you see where
do you see her? What part of nature do you
see that makes you think of her? And I said,
you know what I think about that. I think about
this speech in Kailua Oahu. But no, no, uh. So

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he goes, okay, what's the other one? I said, I
think of puno Lu sixteen years ago. I think of
pun Alu. He goes, why pun Alu?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
I said, because when I was a boy, I remember
sitting down on the black sand, okay with my chaperone
at the chaperone teacher, and I'm sitting down on the
black sand. I can come over here, okay, okay, ah
my knee. So I'm sitting down and I put my
fingers she says, put your fingers in the sand over there,
put it right here, and said this.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
The water was coming up and going down, and then
you see this what looked like, you know, like a
small little baby rivers, you know, ocean come back up.
She goes, put your finger in there. Put your finger
there and put my finger in. She goes, Now, taste
I'm like, no, I'm not dumb. It's salty, right, I'm
not okay. She goes, no, put it there and taste it. Michael,
taste it. They were like, wow, it's like fresh water.
She goes exactly says the fresh water springs come all

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under here. You know.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
She goes from mana loa, when it all the way
up to the top, comes down to the bottom.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
So I said to Kia, I think of my daughter
like that. She's going against the grain. She might be
in the sea, but not of the sea. Come on,
the seed takes life, water gives life. She's she even
though my last name is Kai Kai, which means ocean.
The ocean can take life, but VI gives life.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
So anyway, so I said, he goes, I got him.
I got him.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Kavai whu a puna lulu, I said yes, that's her
middle name. So then when I'm studying this, Kia, says Mike.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
The church that the church in commemorates Opu Kahaia is
called hook Law.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
However, they named that after Henry Opakahia. He goes look
him up. And I looked it up, and there's the
picture of the church. And I wanted you guys to
see that this is my little girl. But and and
this is the one anyway, just just.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
This.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
I don't know about you, but I was blowing my mind.
I was blowing my mind.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
So moving right along, Okahaya is now in Kialakua on
the Big Island FBI. He's there. He's being trained, he's
being loved, he's being nurtured to be the next great kahuna,
to be the next great priest. That's what that's what
he was trained for. But then God does something. You
will help people.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
But I'm gonna teach you a different way and a
better way under the line of Eel and not of Ba'u.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
I'm gonna teach you a better way.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
So the seal ships were coming to Hawaii. They were
all coming to worry. I'm gonna read scripture.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Everybody don't worry, will okay, seal ships are coming to Hawaii.
Before the missionaries got here, you already had foreigners that
were coming.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
They were coming because of trade. They were going to Leahina.
Lehina was that was like a capital of of whaling
back then. That's why Nantucket in Massachusetts and Leahina called
himself sister cities because of the whale trade.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
And so now what you have is you have steel trade.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
People.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
They're coming in. They're getting all other pelts.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
They're getting all kinds of different furs and pelts from
the American Northwest. They come down to Honolulu Harbor, they restock,
they get everything that they need, and they get sandal
wood because sandalwood was so plentiful. There's any at all,
but they would take that sandalwood and they'd use it
for trade with the fragrant wood, take it all the
way to Canton, China, bring it all back. So a
seal ship was off of Kiala Kikua, and there was

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something in Opukahai's heart that says, I want to go
with you.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
I want to go. And he had some deep discussions
with his.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Uncle and hev Heva, and they finally said, let the
boy go.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
He needs to explore.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Let him go. That year when he goes and he
begins to Opukahai aboard the ship. In eighteen oh nine,
he's taken on this great vessel, take him to China,
taken to the Northwest, and eventually later in that year,
gets to Boston. While he's in Boston, then he goes
to New York and he goes to Connecticut. The ship's captain,

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let's lets him live with him Christian brotherly love, entertaining
a stranger right. He also takes him to the different universities.
And let me fast forward in the story. Because Opukahaia
began to learn at a rapid pace. Now here's why.
Here's why Hawaiians, all of their language was not written.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
It was memorized.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
So all of the chants, the only right, all of
the genealogies, they just go through it in the mind
and they memorize it and they have to pass it
on to the next generation. Everything is orally generated and
in their minds and they have to pass it on verbally.
And that's why the hula was so important. That's why
it was. It wasn't just for worship. It was really

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to remember the stories and passing it down from generation
to generation. Not just the dance, but the chant that
went with the dance helped him to memorize. So when
Opa Kahaia is in north and he's in Boston, he's
in he's in Connecticut. He's on the stairs of Yale University.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
This this Hawaiian boy with his best friend Thomas Hopou
are there and they want to learn. He's crying. He's crying.
He's on this He's on the He's on the stairs
of Yale University.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
You know, Yo Yoe, not Yale University was Yale Seminary
back then, all right, So he's at Yale Yale.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
What's a Hawaiian boy doing in Yelle? Incredible?

Speaker 1 (22:28):
The Reverend Timothy Dwight was also the president of Yale
proven the seminary. He's on the stairs and he's crying,
and this is what he says. Nobody teaching me, Nobody
teaching me, Nobody teaching me. His Coupoona taught him, His
elders taught him.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
They poured into him all this knowledge, all this incredible stuff.
Soka is taken under Yale University's president's wing. Before you
know it, he earns what is equivalent to a PhD.
Without getting the PhD, he translates Hebrew into Hawaiian because
Hebrew sounds a lot like Hawaiian. He's learning English, he

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knows Greek. He speaks four languages. He's multi lingual. Right,
why because he we trained like that to pass it
on to the next generation. He gives his life to Jesus.
It is powerful. And now he asks that a missions

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ship be sent.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
To Hawaii, in his words, to reach my heathen brethren,
because he was set free.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Come on by the mercy of God. Right okay.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Bac seventeen, verse twenty six to twenty seven. Since from
one man he made all the nations that they should
inhabit the whole earth, and he marked out their appointed
times in history and the boundaries of their land. And
God did this so that they would seek him and
perhaps reach out for him and find him. Though he's
not far from any one of us. God is moving
pieces all over the konane board.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Now watch this.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
So now at that time you had some of the
most important kings in eighteen eighteen. Sadly, though Opukahaia dies
of typhoid fever.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
He dies.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
That's the tragedy of all this, but it's the birth
of all this.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
He dies, but they still.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Are going on that mission's journey. All of these young
men and their new wives. They had to get married fast,
you know, because they were single. They were all single.
So Hiram bingham Asa Thurston Elisha lumis, they need to
get married fast because they don't want to fall in
love with the Hawaiian girls. And it's over. The mission
is not accomplished, okay, because the women were beautiful. So
now when you look at this, these three men bring
their wives.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
This is their old pictures. They were, they were, they were.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
They came when they were twenty five years old, twenty
five years old. How many you twenty five years old,
twenty six years old? Razially on twenty five, twenty six.
So they come over right out. Elisha lumis, he's the
guy with the printing press. It's going to take two
years for him before he starts to print documents. Take
taking two years taking too long? And two years now,
remember when I talk to you about the Gutenberg Press.
When the Gutenberg press was was was upgraded, and the

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Bible was mass produced. Come on, the Bible was mass produced.
It started a revival. That was important that when they
brought that here to Hawaii. Elizia lumis Asa Thurston, another
great preacher that came. They all had the heart for
the people that they had not yet met yet. And
then the other one, Hiram Bingham, who'd be the leader
of all of them. Hiram Bingham first, Hiram Brigham junior,
Hiram Brigham the third. They were all born over here,

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and Hiram Bingham the third was born in Honolulu, went
to Putna the whole school and it was called something
something else before that. Let me tell you about Hiarm
Bingham the third. Hiram Bingham the third actually became a
great explorer. He discovered Machu Picchu. I was reading one
of my books and I discovered it because I want
to read on, you know, on on Peru and the Incas.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
And I was reading that. I see a picture of
Hiram Bingham. Then I said, cannot be related to the
real Hiram Bingham. Turns out that's his grandson. And in
fact he.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Was an explorer, a scholar, and a military leader. And
he actually became the inspiration for the Indiana Jones Temple
of doom and that series loosely upon his character.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
All right, moving right along, Come on, is this working
for anybody here? How about decide you guys? Quiet? Decided eye? Okay,
oh yeah, all right, thank you? So now so now okay,
so I cut the worship song, so I'm gonna get
more time, okay, So, and I promise you I'm.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Gonna end on time. So stick with me, stick with me,
and anything that I give that i'm doing. I'm going
to give you a bibliography when we're done. So if
you want to go read this on your own, please do.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
It's it's wild. This is wild, and even to all.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
The other books that I read for the series, so
for everything else. So now, the Missionaries eighteen nineteen get
on a boat and are commissioned at Park Street Church
in Boston on July fourth, fifth, I was in Boston.
I went to Park Street Church, did a video, took
a video. Outside of that, we should have put up
that picture. I didn't think about it. And at that church,

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I just imagine what it was like for all of
these missions young men in their twenties, to for to
leave everything their comforts in New England to come to
Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific to people they
never met before.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
It just blows my mind.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
And so when they left on eighteen nineteen, unbeknownst to them,
when they're gonna take, they're gonna take five months together her.
In that five months, King Kamehameha passes away. Kamehamea the
Great dies. He dies, but they don't know until they
get to kawai Hi kawai Hi by you know, on
the big island. They get there, and when they get there,

(27:38):
they meet lee Hooliho and they meet his advisor, his
military advisor, who is his father's military advisor. Ku.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
There they are together his mother or his Kamehamia as
not his mother his mother. Okay, well let me go there.
His mother, kiyopu Olani, the queen mother.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
She had this fiery kapou that wherever she walked, if
her shadow fell on a commoner, they would be put
to death.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
But she would never let anybody be put to death.
But that's how much power she had. Her son, le
Holijo would become Kamehameha, the second.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Kamehameha is dead right. He had several wives. Queen Kahumanu
was one of them. Now you have all of this.
Now you have.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
When the missionaries arrive, they are.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Skeptical about the missionaries, what is your real mission? Are
you here to take over our lands? The fear was
put into them, but they did not come for that.
They came to propagate.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
The gospel because of Opu Kahaia.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
When they get here, they go to Kona and when
they get off the ship onto that plymouth rock I
told you about, the Bible prophecy comes true. The black
boxes open the Bibles on the inside and they're blowing
their minds.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
They split the missionary team in two.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
They send one to Oahu to keep the other one
in Kailua Kona. Eventually they get reunited. They're out there
at Kawaiha Church. They have no land. King gives them land.
On that land they begin to live. Then they begin
to build a wooden church. Then it comes to a
beautiful colorol built church. And you know, the ocean would
come up right up about where the fire station is
right now, writ in kaka Aku. That's how much the

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ocean came up, and that's all landfield.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
The beach was right about there.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
So now, after years of teaching of praying, here's what
begins to happen. The literacy rate in Hawaii jumps. As
a matter of fact, it jumps so great that the Hawaiians,
because they were given their own language, they would listen
to the aeiou the missionaries trying to figure out why
does a W sound like a V?

Speaker 2 (29:24):
The L the kid they were pulling out the bees.
There's no B in the Hawaiian language, there's no R.
We'll pull that out.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
And they finally began to realize after everything that ho
no media nani, Sorry, I forgot about that. You guys
wanted to think about all of the things that he
was teaching. His name is Opukahaya, that he was teaching
up in Boston. He was learning started to make sense
to them. They brought four Hawaiian boys back with them
who began to be their teachers. So now they started

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printing paper. They started bringing their paper. They begin to
give them, here's your alphabet, here's a spelling book, and
they're teaching them to read their Bible or they didn't
even have a Bible yet, to read words in Hawaiian
and write their names in English too. The literacy rate
became so amazing that I didn't write it down here.

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But I can tell you this, Hawaii became the most
literate place in America in five years.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
In five years.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Why why the pala pala the words and the paper
they needed they desired it? Why because the king wanted
it first? The elite needed it. Then they wanted to
converse with their merchants, with King George or the other
king up in England. They wanted communication, but they always
had to have a translator and didn't trust the translators.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
After a while, they needed their own language. When they
got their own language, they began to read, they began
to write. Now the Bible started put and once, like
I said Gutenberg.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Once you put the Bible in the hands of people
who never had it before, guess what a revival will
take place. And that's it started to happen.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
So now Hiram.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Bingham Asa Thurston, my.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Ancestor David Lyman. David Lyman went to Hilo. Have you
ever been to the Lymanhouse Museum or go to check
it out online.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
The Limans held down the fourth until the protegee of
Charles Finney in the second grade Awakening came to Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
And his name is Titus Cohen.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Titus Cohen comes to Hilo in eighteen I don't know,
like eighteen twenty seven, maybe eighteen thirty. He comes to Hilo.
He goes to a small church that has thirty people.
The Limans are running the church, my ancestors, and he
begins to come in and he ends up praying and

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preaching and teaching. They have a great working relationship. They
co pass to the church and then Titus starts to walk,
no horse for him that's there, and walk to Puna,
the Puna district, come back around from the Hilo to
the Puna district, go down to Kou to the Kou district,
and he preaches in all these villages along the way.
It said that he would preach from sun up to sundown.

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That people didn't even give him time to eat when
he wake up in the morning when the rooster crow,
thirty Hawaiians outside waiting for him to wake up. It
was amazing. They were so hungry for the word of God.
God was sovereignly pouring out his spirit. He'd go down
south point, come back up to Miliale. He'd preach in
Mili Lie, and then he would go further.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Up to Kailuakon, then Kaylua Kona, come back around to
Kohala up here, going Kamuela, come back Honaka where I'm from,
come down to Hilo.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
He would take a month to travel and just preach, preach.
He was a circuit preacher. This is what he do.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Go to these different places. God pour out his spirit.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Let me tell you the results, the results of the
presence of God pouring out in Hawaii, making it one
of the top ten revivals in the history of the world,
him calling it number four since the day of Pentecost.
How does that happen? Well, here's here's how it happens.
The people were ready the prophet to see what was happening.
The queen welcomed the missionaries and the word that she

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was about to bring. Not only is that in the
Hawaiians they had this thing called makavalu. Makavalu means you
see eight different ways maka eyes vallu eight you see
it eight different ways.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Americans we get two options. Hawaiians get eight.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, eight ways of doing this thing, eight ways of
eight ways of.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Looking at it, eight ways.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
And because they could see it eight ways, they were
always asking what is what is what is God? What
is Akoula doing? What is the Great One doing? So
it was prime. I forgot to mention that when the
missionaries arrived and kamehamehad died, the coppu system.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Was already a ballist. I forgot to tell you about that.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
I forgot to tell you that the people that were
eating together, You know how the kapu, the couple with
this was a minor kapu, but an irritating coppu. Men
could not eat with women, and women could only eat
certain foods. So the women, you couldn't have certain fish,
You couldn't have bananas, you couldn't eat a delicacy. Dog.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Dog was a delicacy back then, you couldn't have it.
Only the men.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, you'd be like, I'll pass anyway, all right, But anyway,
look at this.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
So then four major players sit down and eat together.
I'm almost done. Worst the team can come up.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
King le Holi Hoo, Kamehameha, the second Queen, Kahumanu, the
Queen Regent, Kukailimoku, the military adviser from Kamehameha, the great
Kiyopu Olani, the queen mother of Kamehameha, a second Kamehamea.
The third they eat in front of everybody.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Everybody held their breath.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Everybody waited for an earthquake, a tsunami to come in.
They waited for all of that, and none of that happened.
And they said, these gods have heard us for too long.
They're useless. Hevah Habah takes all of his idols, throws
them into the fire and burns them. The Christians didn't
make them do it. They weren't even here yet they

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did it. More was to come.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
The Holy Spirit swept through the land during that.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
It is factly it was so powerful that Daidis Cohan
would write in his book he says one could scarcely
go in any direction in the sugar Cheno banana groves
without finding children praying and weeping for God. The great
things that the missionaries did, let me tell you the
great things that they did. They introduced Christianity. They developed
a written language for the Hawaiians. Within two years that
swept that we became the most literate people on the planet.

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They read in Hawaiian, they spoke Hawaiian and English until
it was banned in the early nineteen hundreds. By the
plantation owners who said you cannot speak Hawaiian, do not
teach that in school anymore. That's one of the bad
things that came out of this. But we're not blaming
the We can't blame the missionaries for that. Who we
can blame or who we could question rather than finding

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blame is really on several sides. It was on one
side the willingness to trade and to give up things
on one side, and the other side the sly way
of taking advantage of the people. I would say that
we need to look at the merchants that were in

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cahoots with the government that was placed here to dethrone
the queen. There's so much more I could unwrap on that,
but I could get in trouble for unwrapping that just
a little too much. But I want you to know
that the queen loved Jesus. Let me tell you kiopu
Olani before she died. Let me quote her. This is

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what she says, Jehovah is a good God. This is
in the seventeen hundred, State eighteen hundreds, the mid eighteen hundreds.
She's eighteen twenty something. She died on It's on here
on the Koonani. This says, when I die, that none
of the evil customs of this country be practiced. Let
not my body be disturbed, Let it be put in
the coffin. Let the teachers attendant speak of the people

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at my internment. Let me be buried, and let my
burial be after the manner of Christ's people. I think
very much of my grandfather kloni Opuu, and my father Ki,
and my husband Kamehameha, and all my deceased relatives. They
lived not to see these good times and to hear
Jesus Christ. They died depending on false gods. I exceedingly

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mourn and lament on account for them.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
For they saw not these good times. This is on
her deathbed. She was the first Christian. She was the
first baptized in Hawaii. The queen mother and her son
would eventually become king. Not coming on the second Lego.
Lego got on a ship and wanted to go see
King George.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
So the Hawaiians bought a lot of ships. They bought
them from the whalers. They bought it from from anybody
that brought it. If they liked the ship, it was
a great ship, they would buy it. They didn't make
their own. They bought it.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Ships were often bought and sold back in those days.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
So he got on his custom made ship and he
sells it to England and sadly he dies in England.
When he dies in England, his ten year old brother
is now the king Kamehameha the third.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
He becomes king.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
And I'm going to paraphrase what he actually says because
I don't see it in my notes. His name is
kai Kyoli. Now you need to remember Kai Kyoli died
as a baby. When he was born. He was placed
on a stone and he was he was dead. They said, wait,
don't bury him, don't don't, don't put him on the altar.

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We're calling for the Kahuna. The kohuna comes and raises
him to life as a baby. Now he is ten
years old. And he is ten years old, and this
is what he says. He's standing on the corner where
we you and I know in Kakaako. Watch this where
Word of Life church is and the fire department office
is in Kacaako. He's standing there and he says, chiefs

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Ali Kahuna people, my kingdom will be a kingdom of learning,
and it will be a learning of English, Hawaiian and
the Bible. And I'm giving this kingdom to gods. Oh,
in the spirit of Josiah in the Bible, he.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Gives the kingdom to God. So how does this work? Quickly?
How do we make this work?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Number one? Number one?

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Number one?

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (39:12):
At that time? Okay?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Can you have five more minutes?

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Okay? Can I get ten?

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Can I get twenty?

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Just kidding, I just see what I can get away with.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Look I I I.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Asked for more time, so only because of this here?
Number one?

Speaker 1 (39:27):
How's that going to happen?

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Again?

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Well, simple but not easy. We have to have a
concern for our for our for the state. We have
to have a concern for this state. That Yeah, you
have to be concerned that moves that are being made
they're not right. No matter where you.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
At decide on that side, they're not right. It's stop politics.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
What we need is a move of God, though I'm
convinced the only thing that's going to fix what's going on. God.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
We need revival or we're gonna be judged, or we're
gonna be judged. We need a revival or sweeping judgment
is gonna come. You guys, you don't hear me talk
like that. One Peter three three, verse nine says. This
says God is not willing that anyone would perish, but
that all would come to repent us. First Peter three nine.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Here's the second thing. You have to understand that there's
spiritual warfare that is going on. Spiritual warfare. We are
in the midst of spiritual warfare. You know that once
you gave your life to Jesus. You knew that before
you gave your life to Jesus, we're spiritual warfare. I
came back from vacation. I was gone for about four weeks.
I got off the plane, and within days I felt
the oppression here.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
I felt it. I felt it.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
I'm like, oh, I was free up there, came over here.
I felt it over here. We sometimes we don't realize
it because we're in it, right. It's the pot, it's
the frog and the kettle.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
You don't realize that you're there.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
We have to break through that. That's why prayer and
worship in the name of Jesus forgiveness breaks those bonds.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
In the name of Jesus, we don't have.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
To fight against press in Blood Ephesians chapter six, verse twelve.
You know that verse, but against rulers, against authorities, against
the powers of this dark world, against the spiritual forces
of evil in the heavenly realms. Number three, we need repentance.
Been saying it for three weeks. We have to repent
before God. We have to repent for our practices. We
have to repent for corruption. We have to repent as

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the people. The church has gotta go first. We cannot
tell the world repent that God tell the world to repent.
We repent, We repent. We repent from our evil ways,
our wicked ways. Our duality are straddling. Defense, are lying,
are ripping people. If you've been ripping somebody off, or
you've been unfaithful, whatever, we have to do.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
That judgment starts in the house of God. First repentance,
and when.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
You repent, God is God is gracious.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
It is this kindness that leads us to repentance. That's
what it says. That's what the Bible says. Here's number four.
We need faith. We need faith.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
We need the kind of faith that runs into forty
foot season rescues. You need the kind of faith that
goes into a burning house and grabs your kids. That's
the kind of faith we need. That's the kind of
faith we need. We need that kind of faith. We
cannot be fearful. We have to be faithful. We need
the kind of faith like Dadiel Shadrack me, it's not
gonna bet the go had study them, they had faith.

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Number five, we have to permeate the culture. We have
to permeate the culture. We have to get in there.
Maybe if you've lost a little bit of ground, but
you've got.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
To pray, pray in your office. You don't have to
make a big deal about it.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
You don't have to say, hey, if you don't want
to pray with being no, just do it covertly. Find
other people in your office that want to pray for
your office. They want to pray for your chop site,
they want to pray for your company, they want to pray.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
For your barracks, whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
Pray, pray, permeate the culture.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
That God do great things. And I know that all.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
I could write so much more, And I can make
my notes available to you if you go to our app.
We're giving you the downloadable version of what you can
of the bibliography, and I'll give you my notes. This
is my shortened version. It's only eighteen or eight pages long.
Version has twenty and I cannot. I couldn't do that.
It's just too much. But I hope that this. I
don't want to end this series. I'm just trying to think,

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where does Guy want me to go? I said this
is gonna be the end. I don't think it's gonna
be the end. But anyway, huh, yeah, we're gonna find
something that kind of whatever, whatever the Lord wants. And
I know that, I know that I normally open this,

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I take a whole chapter, or I take ten verses
or thirteen of the story and I break it down
and and all that. This one was a little bit different.
Like I said, it's a little bit more unique. So
please don't think, oh, he's getting away from the Bible.
I'm not getting away from the Bibe.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Please. Okay, So I love this. Let's pray. Lord you
did wait, don't pray, said, we'll pray. I just have
a question. We're gonna pray.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
There's seven Kanane moves on the timeline, Makavalu eighth ways, what's.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
The eighth stone?

Speaker 1 (44:13):
What's the eighth Kanane's eighth Kanani? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you have you have the stone you have the eighth stone.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
You have it, it's yours, It's our move. Now we
look back on history. Go kani kani, Kani, kani kani
Kanane Kanane.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Who's gonna look back on.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Our life and point to this year to point to
this time, this time and go konane. That was the
eighth move?

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Could it possibly be the final move? Could it possibly
be the last awakening before Christ's return and calling up
the saints into heaven?

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Could this be the last.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
And final end Time's harvest? Could be?

Speaker 2 (45:04):
I hope it not. It could be you hold the stone?

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Can I get somebody to go to the store and
give me stones?

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Said that last service? Okay, just give me some stones.
I wanna give you some stones.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
I want to go home with a stone in your
pocket rather than the stone in your shoot. You know
what I'm talking about. Okay, come on, let's pray not Father.
We just need you now more than ever before.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Lord, I pray that you help us to realize that
if you did it before, you can do it again.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
God.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
I've heard prophecies. I've heard Cindy Jacobs.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Say, tell my friends that the next revival in the
world is gonna happen in Hawaii, and.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
It's gonna go back to Jerusalem.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
It's gonna sweet, It's gonna come from Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
I hope it's true.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
I've heard similar reports from Jim Lafoon. I've heard similar
things from David McCracken, all these prophets, who says, just
seems logical after everything that Hawaii's gone through and everything,
and how the Gospel would go to the ends.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Of the earth.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
And if you look on the globe, the ends of
the earth is actually Jerusalem.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
To Hawaii, that's the end of the earth.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
And so Father, I pray that you would just move
powerfully throughout this state, every church, every pastor, every businessman,
every leader, teacher, doctor, a student, tradesman, you name it.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
God, did you would sweep in locker rooms?

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Did you would sweep through classrooms, sweep.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Through offices, blow into businesses?

Speaker 1 (46:22):
God, Father, I pray Lord, that where there are separation,
there will always be unity. Father, I pray that you
would do a work, a mighty work in this place
and in our hearts, set in our lives, in the
name of Jesus.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
And everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
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