S2E04 Derek Taylor Interview from 1870offroad

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All right, everybody, welcome to the program. I'm your host, Matthew. Tonight,

we have a very special guest from a very long

time ago, way back when we got our ministry off

the ground, way back in twenty ten. Within a few

years I think around twenty twelve some timeframe like that,

we acquired a very good confidante, lists say, and he

had his own ministry and that ministry was called eighteen

seventy and due to circumstances, which I'm going to have

him explain, he kind of dropped out of the limelight

for circumstances. I'll let him explain. Like I said, but

the other day I got the umption from the Holy

Spirit to hey, you need to check on Derek. So

I grabbed my phone, I looked, and come to find out,

the last time I had called Derek was back in

twenty twenty. So we're going to get an update from

him what he's been doing, and more importantly, where he's

at with his ministry, because one thing that I know

of Derek, in one way, shape or form, he is ministering.

That's what he does. I mean, I could describe what

his employment is, I can describe how many children he is.

I can describe to you. You know, he might be

a coach of some certain sport. All that things rest aside.

When you interact with Derek, you come to the realization

that all those things are really just extras of Derek,

and Derek is a Christian, That's really what he is.

So Derek, why don't you explain to everybody just who

you are and more importantly, where you came from, how

we gotten to contact are two different ministries, and just

paint us a picture from that time to today.

So, yeah, we would have.

Met, say round about twenty twelve, and I can't remember

exactly when in that timeframe, but yeah, I had been

a Christian for a few years at that time, a

handful of years. And you know, as everybody else there knows,

I grew up in Georgia. I grew up in the

Bible Belt. I've always been around Christian influence, but there

was no Bible.

I mean, there was one of a house. I read

a couple verses out of it I thought talked about aliens.

At one point.

I was pretty curious about that, so as a little kid,

I read that verse something to Ezekiel, which had nothing

to do with aliens. But anyways, I read it, you know,

and that was what I knew of Scripture, very nothing

at all. And then in my late twenties, I found

Christ in a very isolated, introverted kind of way, adjacent

to the very isolated introverted life.

I grew up in.

I grew up in a rural area with very little

outside influence. Outside of my life. It's basically me and

my dad sometimes.

In the woods, with nobody within a mile of.

Us, you know, as a little kid for much of

my life and not my entire life. I also lived

in the suburbs in the South side of Atlanta for

a good part of my life too. So I found

faith in my late twenties, and I just was full

of questions, and because the thing that amazed me was

that the people I found when I found faith and

I began to talk about my faith, people nobody had

like a foundational reference point for their faith.

It was all hearsay they heard rumors of this, and

this guy said this, and this guy said this, like I,

it must be true.

And I was much more of a I don't want

to get down to the fact what my faith is

all about, you know. So I was I had started

reading the Bible. I said, if I won't believe in this,

and it took me a little bit, obviously to sort

through whether not I'm going to believe in this stuff.

And I said, I believe in this, but uh, if

I'm going to believe in God and in a creator,

I must read his handbook he left me. So yeah,

I read his handbook, and man, I was so full

of questions. So on down the line, I've been reading

and I'm just trying to find anybody who has answers

to what is the script for talking about sometimes?

You know.

I mean I'd read it, and I'd read it, and

I was starting to see connections on things, and I would.

Hear what people talk about that pop up on the

TV or people pop up on local radio shows. And

some of this stuff was good. You know, it's good

stuff for your heart.

You know, how to love people, how to live, which

is very important. But at the same time it's like, man,

there was just no scripture in it.

You know.

I'm like, God left this, this owner of Manuel for

a reason. You know, if I got a vacuum cleaner,

it came with an owner's manual. I'm like, I'm a

lot more complex in a vacum cleaner.

I should have an.

Owner's manual tell me how to life works. And came

across Matthew. You were doing the show called The End

Time Tribune at the time. When I came across y'all

and now y'all are talking scripture, and y'all were pulling threads,

and I'm like, these are these little dots I'm seeing

And I've realized.

When you connect this one, it connects back over here, and.

This connects here, and this connects here, but it all

still connects back to this. And I could see that

studying the scripture, but I just had so many questions

and this was the first place I had found that

was making these connections. And uh, I just started listening

and then all of a sudden, Man, I'm I'm like, I.

Was pumped up and I was encouraged.

I started as like, well, I'm gonna get on this

blog talk thing and figure out how this works.

You know. I started trying to figure out how to

do it, and I started talking about the connections.

I was seeing the things, and I did that for

a while and it just you know, it went on

for a little ways there, and I got to hang

out with Matthew and God so many other people that

came along there, not time. There was a good three

four year run there. We probably had it. It feels

like three or four years.

I don't know how long it was really, but it

was several years for sure, were with me involved.

You've obviously still been doing the same thing. But uh yeah,

that was uh, I mean, that was how we met.

That was how we got it got going there, and

uh really I think I was doing like what you

were doing light and so when you were doing your

Bible studies Light, I was, hey, you know, these these

scriptures connect. You know, there's so many ways this stuff

connects to I was amazed every time.

Somebody's like, hey, I heard this new way to connect.

Oh yeah, let me show you this boom.

You know, it's like, oh yeah, okay, the Bible revolves

around itself.

Let me show this trick.

You know, all the Hebrew and Greek work together. Yeah,

watch what happens when you do these words together. It's

like you knew all this stuff already.

You know.

And I was like, this is amazing, and uh, I

kind of talked about some of the same stuff, but obviously,

I say, light, I was nowhere near the same level

you were on with this. And that's how we got

together and we started to talking about things.

Man, open my eyes to look at things I never

conceived looking at.

But at the end of the day, it was all

rooted in scripture. It not rooted in you know, Hey,

I've got this crazy idea. I had this wild dream.

I ate some bad pizza last night, you know, and

this I've got this new idea.

We're going to doo. No, it was it was in here.

All you had to do was this is English, get this,

get a concordance, compare the Hebrew and Greek. Goes with it,

and it was all there. You know. That was.

As amazing to have the Bible as your source of knowledge.

Not how did Christ say it? Was it rumors of

not rumors of men, which I remember where Christ said

it now I want to quot him when'm a misquote

Christ that the traditions of men. That's what it was.

That's what I'm quoting it with what traditions of men.

I grew up knowing traditions of men. You know, I

knew that the Bible and the Bible. I knew the

Devil was read with a pitchfork and have pointed ears

and was in a place that was really fiery.

You know, That's what I knew from tradition.

Watching TV, I started reading the Bible and I'm like, well,

none of this stuff was in here, you know, I

mean just so many little things.

Uh yeah, we're all gonna fly away to save our souls.

You know. I couldn't find that one in there. We're

all gonna, Uh what was the other one? Jesus died

on dog woo tree.

It's one of my favorite ones. Jesus died on a

dogwood tree. And that's why a dogwood tree is not straight.

Every day I'm like, man, dogwood tree is not straight.

You know, go read the Bible the first time. I'm like,

where's the thing about the dogwood tree? You know, maybe

that's what gopher wood was. Yet, look and I ain't

what gopher wood is, Like, what does.

This dogwood tree thing? Yeah? Just I knew traditions. Man,

I didn't know the word.

So yeah, that's uh, that's where I found you. And

we just we dug into the.

Word and uh, I don't know how much far you

want me to go till I go to the Ford apartment.

That's how we got to us getting together.

Well, you know, you need to kind of fill in

the blanks with you know, I appreciate why you always

called your ministry eighteen seventy. Now now I know I

know where it comes from, but they don't. So why

don't you tell us how that exactly dawned on you

and you started doing this ministry called eighteen seventy? What's

the catch?

So I don't remember how the idea came to me

to look here, but we were going and I what

did it? Because I had to have a logging name.

It maybe because at the time you had to have

used names. I don't remember, and I might I might

be wrong with that part, but at the time I'm

looking back twenty twelve or so, you got to have

user names for everything, you know, and it was I

was like, well, what it would be my username?

What would be something that is me but also just

my own thing? But yet it's still me and so

I'm really I don't have it here. We'll say, say,

Shaun record its.

I opened it up one day and I'm studying these words,

and I'm digging through its scripture, and this is probably,

I think, honestly, before I had met you, I had

already found this.

I was digging through my scripture and I remember they're

talking about the way Christians are the Way.

In the beginning, they were the Way. I'm like, okay,

that's interesting, they're the Way. Okay, before they were called Christians,

they were called the Way. And I got back in

Hebrew and I'm reading about the Way, and I'm studying

in the Hebrew and I'm looking at a cord it.

So I'm like, that's my name, you know in Hebrew.

The name Derek in Hebrew is eight eighteen seventy. And

I'm like that day I was like, well, there's my handle.

You know, I'm a grow up watching smoking to bandit.

You had a handle on the CEBE radio, and I'm like, well,

there's my handle right there. Eighteen seventy's that's my name

for your simple handle. To have your own name just

encoded in the way that people might not realize it's

your name, so the eighteen seventy things stuck. It is

my name in Hebrew, at least that would be transliterated

in Hebrew. Transliterate my name in Hebrew. It means the way,

and it is Derek. It is eight eighteen seventy. See,

and that's the origin of how eighteen seventy came.

So you keep referencing back the strongs concordance, So tell me,

did you already have a strong concordance before you met me?

I did. I actually had been studying with the Shampson

cord its.

I mean, because I knew the Bible was written in

other languages, and I didn't really know which ones, but

I always knew I was obviously reading a translation I mean,

because this one is my reading Bible, New King James.

Uh.

The Bible on my iPad that I read from is

English Standard version. The audio Bible which is on this

phone right here that I used to listen to audio

is New American Standard, and my King James is I mean,

my strong is King James version. So I obviously had

knew there were different translations, and so early on I

was like I wish I knew what the source said.

But I tried learning Spanish and I didn't go too well.

So I knew me learning a dead language was not

going to.

Go very well either.

And somehow nother came across a strong I believe it

was a gull on TV had mentioned as Sharanth's cord

as trom Amorcractly. I was just scrolling through channels one

day guys talked about Sharleton cordence. So, uh, yeah, I

looked one up and I saw what was in it,

and I was like, this is amazing. I bought me

one and I was reading. And this is probably two

years maybe three years before I had met you, because

I know I had one in twenty ten. So yeah,

at least about twenty ten, I had a seanc cordance

and I was digging in it and I was studying it,

and you know, it was uh and man, it was

eye opening, you know, just to learn that how much

depth of meaning there was in this language. That I

can somewhat read Hebrew and Greek extremely slowly and very poorly.

I mean like maybe a first grade level. I can

read Hebrew and Greek. I can look at it and

kind of understand what I was seeing I still have

to have a dictionary to define this.

Stuff, you know.

In fairness, I'm kind of that way with English too,

so now that i'm the extremely very in depth of

the English language.

But yeah, and I started reading this Charleston Cord it

so and then that's, uh, that's where I got to handle,

you know.

And I think I had it because of the early

on like saying, I was happing to set up usernames

for stuff, and I just it was something I needed.

And it has man, it has stuck.

It is.

Uh.

I still to this day use it for a lot

of things, you know. I see what I'm doing nowadays

is still called eighteen seventy. So it is the root

of everything. This about everything I'm doing going forward, with

anything I do in my life, if I have to

give it a name or a title to it, it's

got eighteen seventy in it some kind of way.

Well, you know, do this for us, Derek. You were

obviously at the top of your game there when you

were doing your ministry on first the broadcast on BTR

you said, and then you got to the YouTube channel.

So you replied to me in a text that now

use in a different life phase. So is that what happened?

Is that what got you out of the ministry, because

you obviously stopped at some point in time, So what

is it that made you stop?

So there are a few a few layers to this,

you know.

Obviously, you know with the old BTR days, you can

see who's reading and who's looking and stuff. You know,

how many people are seeing your stuff, and you could

just tell what your your circle. I could tell the

people I was interacting with more or less, there were

also the same people you were interacting with. Like I

wasn't reaching new ground, you know. I was like, as

I'm if I'm doing.

Anything, you're trying to break out new territory, you know,

if you're trying to spread the gospel and spread it

to new areas well, if I'm just I realized after

a while I was only coming behind you and.

Hitting the same area as you were hitting. And I'm like,

I'm not really stretching my net out to new waters.

So I'm not.

I just felt like at some point I'm not being

useful this way, not with what I was doing. Obviously

this doesn't mean I quit study ships here, of course,

but uh, I'm sitting there and I'm still doing my

same studying, and I was like, what can I do

to reach more people? So and as I'm realizing this,

I'm thinking this, a few phases of my life changed.

Number One, my kids were getting older. They were getting

They were little when we started doing I mean twenty twelve,

they were seven and three, so they were young obviously

in twenty twelve, and they were getting older and never

get more involved the stuff. But at the same time,

I was in my church that I had been with here,

local that I've been going to for years now, and

I had they had obviously everybody knew from Bible studying

with me. I had read this thing, you know, it

was pretty obvious when questions got asked.

I had to read it.

And every now and then they'd be a studying something

and they would, you know, the pastor. I'll never forget this.

One time the pastor comes over there and I had

said something and he comes and looks at my Bible

see if I was cheating. He looks somebody's looking at

I was.

Like, God, you did that for a memory, you know,

because I don't remember what We were reading something and

Daniel and I don't remember what it was, I said, now.

But uh, I when that happened, people started asking me

to teach at the church for and it was like

our pastors because I go to a methdist church, and

so uh the way methis do they change out pastors

ever so often. And so he was the founding pastor

of the church. He was leaving, we were getting a

new one, and they had asked me to teach the

Wednesday nights Bible school time to fill in the gaps.

And I ended up teaching that class for several years.

But when I started teaching that class and I got

to interact with people, it was a lot only to

try to do that and also try to do the

radio stuff. Because I am not very technologically literate. I

didn't know how this stuff worked. I didn't have a

good setup. I mean back then I had a how

was I even I think I was connecting on my

cell phone. Audio is horrible.

I had it just a cell phone trying to connect

into it.

I might have had a tablet that I was trying

to hotspot off my cell phone. And I had issues

with a crashing on me in the middle of doing stuff,

and it just it was a frustrating technologically way to

do this because I didn't.

I didn't I didn't own computer or nothing.

So I just realized, I said, I can now see

when I'm interacting with people physically, it's I'm bearing fruit.

On the BTR side, I didn't feel like I was

bearing fruit. There say, there was people I was talking

to and interacting with, but again, I just felt like

I'm riding behind the trail you had already made, and

I feel like sometimes I'm just making a mess out

of this trailer. I'm not helping, you know anything. Probably

when I get done, Matthew is like, hey, that was

very good. We're gonna tend this on refrigerator.

He I.

We'll go out behind you clean this mess up you

just made while you're not looking, you know, and probably.

Correct the four million things I said that were you know,

scripturally wrong, you know. So I'm like, well, maybe I

need to figure out another way to be useful. So

I went off into the side of working directly with

my church and working interacting with people directly, which was

eye opening because on the PTR side you can't see people.

I'm speaking to a camera and I know.

In my head this makes sense, but I may not

be articulating it very well. And so getting to work

with people really helped me learn that, Man, I have

to explain this stuff. And I can tell when I

talk to people in their eyes gloss over first class

I ever taught. I lost the entire class. I think

by like the fourth verse, we were in Revelation God,

we were in fifteen or sixteen.

We're in fifteen. I finished.

We were studying book relation in church, and I picked

up in Revelation fifteen and I had a chart of

the tabernacle, and I said, watch all this stuff up

here in a tabernacle, and watch all these things appear

in this ver in this chapter here, and I started

going over and I ain't lined. By the fourth verse,

I had lost the entire room. I had dumped so

much information on them, and I was like, okay, And

that was eye opening to me that I've got to

figure out how to explain this stuff better, how to

articulate these things. And that was that direction went there,

And as my kids got older and older, I got

to experience more different groups of people to h to

explain this stuff too. And then then of course my

work schedule changed, and then I woun't teach on urch

no more.

So that completely all changed, and eventually I moved twenty nineteen.

I moved to where I live at now, and out

here was there was no internet, there was no cell service,

so there was going to be no more BTR, no

more YouTube, no nothing here. And it lived this what lived,

I mean almost all. I don't think I had air power,

you know, no running no running water.

I have a well accepted tank, all that stuff.

No no cell phone, no phone line, no internet, and

absolute heaven.

Yeah, best place in the world to be. When COVID happened,

Oh my god. But yeah this uh so Obviously at

that point the BTR days for me were completely done.

There was no way to even connect and the ability

to get on the internet only came back for me

a year ago. So uh so, yeah, basically.

But in that time, the cool thing that I have

learned is I've gotten better at dealing with people. I've

gotten better at reading people and telling man, am I losing.

This person when I'm talking to them?

And I've got a lot more crafty and how I

deliver my messages that I have I'm talking about something

so that I don't lose the person I'm talking to

because at first, man, I was I was a fire hoseer.

Oh I my unaquote Matthew here. Now, I was giving am.

Both barrel straight to the chest, you know, and it

was too much for him. They couldn't handle it. So

you know, I had to learned that one, and I

learned that. So, yeah, that ministry, it was a different phase.

That ministry closed. But I'm always you know, I'm a believer.

I'm always walking in the faith. And even when I'm

messing up and I'm getting off the path, sometimes God

I'll tug you and pull you back, you know. But

I'm always walking in the path and I'm always whatever I'm.

Doing, you know, I'm trying my best to be with

God along the way, and I'm always going to be

trying to all on that path.

Man, be a light shining in the darkness, no matter

what path I'm on, no matter where I'm at. And

you know, life changes, you know.

With moving here, Man, I thought I had, Oh Lord,

I thought I had God's playing for me figured out.

It is the most hilarious thing in the world because

I think God let it play out exactly like I

thought it was going to go.

Until everything came together and I of it worked out.

My life completely changed directions on me.

So you know, it's interesting how when you think you

haven't figured out, God shows.

You how little you know.

So, yeah, everything around here changed, And I mean, who

would have thought that a couple of years ago. I'm

coaching a softball team that's my daughter started playing softball,

and the amount of time and dedication that takes, you know,

But at the same time, you imagine how it is

to be in that intent.

Of an environment and.

You know, you're not running around saying for a lot

of words everybody you're You're not You're not going home

and drinking every day.

You know, you're not doing.

All the things that people in this environment do. I'm

not doing all those things, and I'm being true to

my faith. And yet I'm still I'm still I'm still

being intense, I'm still coaching a team.

All the things we do, I'm still teaching to be competitive.

Yet I'm doing it completely through a Christian lens, which

is not something you see a lot of You can

tell it's a lot of these guys that do this

kind of work are not They may have their faith,

but they're not as heavily devoted to it, and I hope,

I hope somewhere along the way. My greatest wish I

have with this coaching these girls is that I you know,

seeds are planted in years down the road. This leads

them to a faith in Christ, you know, ending every

game and a prayer you know, on the picture's mouth

at the end of the game is another thing we do.

And they all quote the Lord's Prayer. So you know,

we get pictures catches in there and one of them

is quotes the Lord's Prayer.

Sometimes I'll lead it and I'm like, look, I'm y'all,

We're not gonna quote Word's paier this time. I'm gonna

talk to Jesus from the heart for a minute and

I'll just I'll come up with something. I'll say it

with everybody there. But little things like that, man, spread

your faith every chance you get.

Well, absolutely spread your spread your faith every chance you get.

And you know, I just have to say this, I

seriously hope that your coach is Jersey has eighteen seventy on.

I wish it did.

No, it's it's wrecked, so it has every The rec

Department gives me just as coach, so that would be

awesome if it did. We actually were going we were

going to be the Killer Bees this summer if we

had been able to make that team. We just ended springball.

God we two still maybe now, I think two weeks

ago and we didn't make All Stars, and so we

were going to try to build a B team to

go along with the All Stars. And I'll thinking of

a name. I didn't think bout eighteen seventy, but I

was there thinking of a name, and uh, the name

I came up with was like, we're gonna be the

kept saying we're the B team. You All Stars a team,

We're the B team, and uh, just talking to nobody

of mine of work, he's a big Georgia Tech fan.

And there, of course their logos yellow jackets. I'm not

a Georgia Tech fan, but uh, there the logos yellow jackets.

I'm like, oh, man, killer Bees. You know we were

the B team. That's an awesome name for your softball team.

But didn't work out. We were Uh we didn't get

a pitcher and a catcher. So my daughter can do

either one of the positions, but she's definitely not a

starter at pitching and we didn't have one, so yeah,

uh we had to uh squash that idea. That didn't happen.

We're still gonna be practicing, but no B team. And

now you say the eighteen seventy, that's a good idea.

I got fagir a way to corporate that one at

some point.

Cool thing is, I don't have a number. I mean

you gotta have a number on Jersey.

Oh, I don't know the coaches with the wreck. See

it's a wreck thing. So my daughter has a number.

I don't have a number.

D I'd have to I'd have to. I see.

Now you've got to think of that. There's the way

I gotta do this now. I use my YouTube channel

to coach my team, which obviously the players watch the

YouTube channel.

I can tell because thing with YouTube, I can look

at the algorithm. I can tell where people jump into

the video and watch.

So I can tell you which people from the other

teams watch my videos because they want to see their

at bats too, you know which. All these girls out

here will know I have a channel, you know, so

we'll play the other teams and they all know my channel,

so they'll go pull up the game and watch themselves.

That I tell who's doing it because I can see

they click to their bets. But yeah, so I coach

my team through the eighteen seventy all road channel that

I have. But yeah, now there's a team. See, now

you've got to go on. I will, I'll, I will

figure out a way.

I'll said. Now, obviously, with Wreck, I have to do

what the WRECT Department is.

So we're gonna be the Pirates, and I'll say that

they just changed out this year. We're still the Pirates.

But We've been the Pirates whole time I've been there,

because that's our local county, is the Pirates. But uh see,

I have to do whatever they have. But if we

ever get outside of Wreck and go into travel teams

or something like that, and then yeah, there'll be an

eighteen seventy in or some kind of way.

So you know, it's pretty obvious that we need to

need to talk about this. So so within the past year,

you get internet and you open up this other channel.

So just tell me all the channels that you have.

Well, put simply, the channel I opened had already existed.

I just never used it.

Way back in twenty sixteen or so at my old house,

they ran in andet out there the last two years

I lived there, So maybe it was twenty seventeen, but

oh well, I'll give you a little bit backstory on

behind this channel too. But I opened up the channel

back then called eighteen seventy Garage, and of course eighteen

seventy thing was there, but at the time it was

more of afillment of me and my best friends growing up.

We grew up.

We were pearheads before I found christ too, but we

were gearheads growing up.

You know. I had a old Camaro. He had old

bar Bird. You know, we built cars. God.

I had old Transam. I had a old C ten truck.

I had a Cutlass. I had all these really cool

classic muscle cars. I also had my low rider truck.

I had made Toyota.

I want a bunch of car shows that had trophies.

Put you down there, do the stairs right down there.

But I chopped that thing up, had it laying on

the ground. There's actually a very short clip of it

on YouTube, because I have like four or five pictures

of that truck.

It's all I have because I had that thing it

over twenty years. But we were always building cars, you know,

we're always into it. God, a lot of guys you

might not even know this. I don't talk about much.

Before my current job, I worked for Nopie, and Nopie

was big in the nineties and two thousands. We actually

a very small part in building cars for the Fast

and Furious movies, the second one, not the first one,

the second movie, and they were all background cars. There's

a scene in Teja's garage where there's two cars for

sure on a lift that we built a Nopie.

And then there was two cars I think they were

there in the parking lot and not even certain. They

changed the car so much for the movie. And so

this is all the way. Back then, I was always

in the cars. I worked on cars when I at

that age, and me and my best friend were always

talking about, Man, we're gonna do this like.

Then do on TV shows and Saturday. We're gonna build cars.

We're gonna go to cars shows. We're gonna show them off.

You know.

Of course I talked about earlier if life changes, I

got married, I had kids, you know, life goes along.

We basically got divorced many years later, but uh, you know,

me and my buddy always kind of stayed in touch.

But now, of course I'm single father trying to raise kids,

and it's like, man, look I can't be off building cars.

I gotta raise kids. And this is hard by myself,

you know. I mean they still their mother over me, row.

She's still evolved, but it's when they're with me, I

am by myself trying to do this stuff, you know,

trying to be a mother and a father at the

same time. And so I just wasn't in the ability

at that time to mess with cars, you know. That

was that's a luxury, and I had to focus on

things that mattered.

And but we had me and him.

I always talked about, hey, we're can get back into this,

and so that's where I started the eighteen seventy garage

YouTube channel.

Was I was like, this is very early on.

I was building a shop in my house to start

building cars, and I had already gotten some foolers that

have worked on that weren't running. I had did a

little work on them till I got get them all

cleaned up, and I was like, we're gonna start feeling

this stuff. Of Course I didn't have I had broke

my phone right after I started the channel, so I

couldn't feel anything, so I ended up going back. I

had an iPhone and I broke it, so I didn't

have an iPhone three years to do this stuff.

But even though I had, the channel started. So then,

of course, the tragic side of this, my best friend

killed himself.

So that kind of derailed a whole lot of stuff

in my life when I happened.

That was a hard couple of years. So things go on.

I move out here to where I'm at now, and

I'm like, it changed, because obviously I don't hear it.

One do I have a grudge. But the reason why

I moved.

One of the reason why I moved was I don't

want this littberitty house, which I acsolutely loved. God, I

wish you could buy houses that small. I hate big houses.

But I'm in this little.

Bitty house and that was perfect because I'm like, it's

just you're right in my space. Had a little grudge,

but it had a little bitpiece of slam go with it.

And even though I lived in a town in the

size of Maybury, I lived in the town and I

had less than a quarter of an acre, and I'm

trying to have two fourielers and old cars to build up,

and I'm like, yeah, this is not gonna work. I

can't live like this and have my neighbors who all

have their houses looking around.

I can't park cars in front of my house. I

don't want to be I don't.

Want to be that neighbor, you know. So I was like, yeah,

I got to figure out on the layside. I moved

out here to get some land, but uh, I brought

eighteen seventy garage out here with me and like, I'm

going to do this thing and I'm gonna make this

work some kind of way. But uh, it morphed into

eighteen seventy off road because I bought a jeep.

Because at the time I.

Was trying to get I was trying to get completely

off not off the grid completely, but off the grid

living man. I had goats out here. I had a

massive farm going out here. I had my tractor, but

still got the tractor. I had trails cut all the

way around the proper line.

I had goats out here I was raising and I

was trying to sell them off. And uh, you know

that goes back to me. I thought I had my

life figured out in time. I'm like yeah, I'm doing this.

I'm gonna be self sustained.

I found this property because it has fresh water going

to it that has never been touched by road or

a city, and I'm like, that is hard to find,

especially in the South, you know. So it starts from

a spring about five miles off the road, and it

starts this big old creek down here eventually feeds in

their Flint River. And I found this property here. It

came up for sale and all these people are selling

this house.

And I'm like, yeah, I remember talking to.

Our agent was mol I'm like, these people don't know

how I think. I do not think like the average

person buying a house. I'm looking at this property. I

didn't care about the house. I wanted the property because

I'm like, man, I can live the way I want

to live out here. But uh, that's where things did

not go like I thought they were going to, and

all that kind of fell apart. But I ended up

getting a jeep and kind of I just realized that

since I can't do what I want to do here

and I'm never my Lord, I'm never going to afford.

Land to live the way I want to live. It

takes so many acres of land to be self sustaining,

to have your water, to have your cattle. I'd never

even got point of.

Getting cows because the goats was where it stopped. But

trying to get all this stuff, you know, is like

it takes so much land. I'll never be able to ford.

And we want to buy the land to to pay

taxes on the land, because you know, you shall not

live on the King's land without paning King's tax, just

like I shall not drive down the King's road up

pan and king sax. So I'll never afford pay taxes

on land. And so I was just I realized that

point mathematically, I'm not going to get to that dream

that I thought I was going to get to living here,

and all the land around me got sold. They were

kind of waiting on me, and then when COVID happened,

they changed their mind, so I didn't want to wait

on me no more. We didn't have a contract, so

they were completely in the right to do that and

not I don't want to. They sure to want to

bat now when they were here, but uh, you know,

we just we had talked, We had an understanding of

I had plans of buying the slam within a few years.

They had plans of selling it, but they weren't in

a hurry, and they had always said, hey, the right

offer came along, they would sell it. And I was like, hey,

that's good, I'll take that risk, you know. But at

the same time, I want to try to bottle land

as much as I possibly could. And uh, when COVID happened,

they panicked and they sold this land way less. So yeah,

I was hoping to have about minimum twenty seven acres

if i'd.

Gotten over there, to be thirty five, i'd gotten out over.

There too, and that just that all fell apart and

it's all got houses on the now. So I'm like, well,

that's all gone. I lost out ass of the creek.

It's still nice out here, and we're wrong. I still

love it. I still think it was in the you know.

I still feel like I followed the path to get here.

I just didn't understand what doubt I was going to be,

you know.

So I felt like when I came out here, this

is the first place out of town. I was like,

I felt called, I'm like, I think I need to

be here. And I had thought it was to do

all the stuff I was thinking I was gonna do

and that ain't what it was. But I got out here.

Next thing, I know, after being here a little while,

we talked about the running internet out here. I had

started riding the jeep and I had got out there,

and I was like, I just remember going back to

all these Bible studies we did, and I'm like, you know,

picturing scripture. You know, I picture David being in the wilderness,

and I pictured David in the woods in Georgia. I

didn't know what the wilderness is drill was desert until

I saw a picture of Israel. I was like, huh,

that's not what the wilderness looks like where I'm from.

Because I remember it, I was thinking, David can't hack.

In the wilderness for a couple of days running from

Sault somef of that.

You know, I didn't know what the wilderness was there.

It's not like the wilderness we have around here. And

so when I got the jeep, I'm like, man, I

wanted to go start exploring God's creation. And that's the

first thing I thought, like, I had never, you know,

I had never I thought about this this morning until

Labor Day two years ago.

It's one of my YouTube videos.

I had never seen mountains before outside of these fifteen

hundred foot mountains here.

In Georgia and middle of Georgia I live at. I

had been to the North Georgia Mountains twice and it

had rained both time I was up there.

I never saw the mountains. We were just passing through

an intersect going to Tennessee. I'd want a five seventy five.

So I never saw the mountains in Tennessee or Georgia.

And I remember that. I'm like that, I've never seen

God's creation. I have no visual reference of how God

made this earth. I just look at Google Earth all

the time. Man, I studied Google Earth, and I see

God's creation, you know. I see Noah's flood. I see

you know, the Earth being split and cracked open. I mean,

the stars are still there, you know, everybody. I've seen

pictures of the Grand Cana. Haven't been a Grand Canyon yet,

but I've seen pictures of Grand Canyon, all these layers

of dirt. And the people who are God haters, you know,

they're like, oh, this is a layer from however, many

hundreds of millions of years ago, or this is a

layer from a hundred millions years.

Later, and I'm looking around. I'm like, that's good in

that one little area. But you know, if you see

them my.

Book of the whole thing, it looks as though this

whole area is underwater. And at some point the flood

receded and the water pulled up. At a lot of places,

you know, water pulls up, it sole evaporates, it creates salt,

and now you got salt flats ever out there. And

when water pulls them up, and eventually the dam releases

and the rushes out, it rips massive sections of the

earth out and creates canyons and they're created overnight.

I'm like, I can see this stuff, and I'm like,

these people don't read scripture when they develop their world views.

You know.

It's definitely not scripture based. And part of me with

this jeep was, man, I want to go see this place,

and I want to film it, and I want to

show it. There's a trail called Top of the World

in Moe ab Utah.

I've seen it on video and I've never laid my

eyes on it, and I hope to one day be

able to get out and climb to the top of

this trail. I don't know if I jeep can do it,

but we'll find out. But I want to be to

climb to the.

Top of this thing and fly my drone up there

and film it and just share God's creation because I'm

to me, I look at this stuff and I'm like, man,

you can see creation, you know. So along the way,

using an off road thing, I'm filming a cool forty

minute video.

But along the way as.

I'm doing it, I'm like, you can tell, Like, you know,

I am seeing this stuff for the first time myself,

and I'm like, guys, this is creation. This is amazing,

you know. I'm like, every time I go see some overlook,

it brings me back to Scripture some kind of way.

The last time I remember was that I took a

trip in April and I filmed it. We're in this

place called the Huddle World and I spent three days

up there and uh, just me and my dog, you know,

living off road for several days, off the grid.

It was great.

And the last day I'm there, maybe the second day,

I pulled this overlook and I've seen this overlook before.

This is the second time I've seen it.

And you can just see from your right on the

Georgia Tennessee line. You can see like half of North

Georgia from this overlook.

It see, it seems like and I'm like, I remember

looking at I'm thinking, if you I didn't think I

said this to my camera, you would feel like grasshoppers

in the sight of giant. You know, when you're sitting there,

I'm like, I'm like grasshoppers this, I'm so you I'm

so small. I'm such a small little piece of this world.

You know, you don't realize it because when you're here

in your long little county where everybody knows you, like,

I'm a big shot, you know, I'm a big fishing

little pond. But I get up there, I'm like, man,

I'm a grasshopper on the side of giants.

You know.

I remember I said that to the camera, you know.

So it's always the little script verses out. Even started

talking about the days the mountains reform, and the would

quote it, and I said, I'm trying to in my head,

I'm doing a math on camera.

The mountains formed on a third day, they formed the

fourth day. I'm going backwards in my head, We'll see

make man on the sixth day. You know, I think

it's the third day.

But then I look at the camera. I said, you know,

I'm gonna try to figure this out right now. I

encourage you go look it up and read it for yourself.

Go to the very first page of the book. It

will give you all the answers you're looking for. So,

you know, little things like that, I drop them off.

Road videos because, like I say, everything I'm doing is

from a fate standpoint.

It is from I'm a believer in Lord Jesus Christ, and.

I'm a believer in as resurrection, and I'm a believer

that because he died for the sends of all of

all mankind, and he defeated death, and he rose again,

and he promised that Hey, not only did I raise again,

You're gonna rise again. And you know the whole deal

where you can't go to heaven with sin on you. Yeah,

I'm gonna forget your set and you're gonna get guilt

here with me. I'm like, man, sign me up, brother,

I'm in. You know, that's the right I want to

be on. So that's my viewpoint of everything I do.

And I noticed when I'm watching everybody, I see other

people with YouTube channels they do. You're not getting that

for anybody else. Now, they may be believers and not

want to discredit them. They're just they may be choosing

to be believers a.

Little more privately, you know.

But when I'm doing mine, I'm like, yeah, I'm I'm

a believer, and I don't mind saying it, you know,

now I'm not. I don't make my entire forty minute

video about me being a believer because that's not the

audience I'm reaching. The audience I'm looking for is just

the average person who loves the stuff and somewhere along

the way, Hey, by the way, you know God made

all this, right, But anyways, back to look at these

amazing mountains that God made. You know, that's kind of

how I do what I do on there, and it

is to fill a void. When I became a Christian,

I couldn't find what I'm what I'm trying to be now.

When I became one, I didn't find just the average

person who lived out their life and you know, you.

Didn't like I would go back.

I think I've said this before, but the Amish was Christians,

and then there was everybody else you know that was

I didn't have that person in the middle.

And I was like, how was it. I couldn't just find.

A person who is just a normal, everyday person that

is my neighbor next to me, but yet they're a Christian.

They believe in God. Yeah they live in this world.

Yeah they're not permanently in this world. They're so Joenners,

just like everybody else. We're all, you know, this is

our exodus, everybody, we're all on our exous journey together

the Promised Land. But they're still here and they still

go to work every day. You know, they still live,

They're still my neighbor. I didn't find that person when

I became a Christian. My entire network around me was

people who were not at least not people who's to

show a lot of people believe in God, but they

didn't know, they didn't know God. And I just said,

I'm like, you know, I want to be that person

who can somewhere along the way there will be that

maybe the only one person. You know, I keep having

them a head. Maybe I'll reach one hundred people. Maybe

there's only one person that I got to reach at

some point, but somewhere along the way, I'm gonna bridge

that gap for somebody to say, hey, you know, God's real,

Maybe that person who's questioning something somewhere along the way,

and they just I'm the right person.

There at the right time.

And I've had a lot of good conversations sometimes with

brothers that I get out there and get things and

they don't. They don't really talk about the faith. They're

not really out there about it. But it's like, Man,

I'm out there with my you know I do. There's

you know, stuff on my jeep to get you to

ask me about my faith. You know, there's the channel

name in eighteen seventy to get people to ask me, Man,

where'd that come from? Oh there's a story behind that,

you know. People look at my jeep, Man, what's that

writing on the hood your jep?

That's not English?

Like, Oh, there's a story behind that, you know. And

it opens up the story. It allows me a the

avenue to spread the gospel. And then to just back

to my lessons. I learned after our BTR days to

throw a little bit out there and see if.

They take a bike. You know, you don't you can't

go to catch fish, you know, you got to get

them to bike the lore. Then I always bike the Lord.

So noiw I, you just go to fish a really

into fifty and bike right without fifteen bike and move

on the next fish, you know.

But uh, it's kind of some tactfulness I've learned to

have over the years by interacting with people physically from

church that I've learned how to hold this craft.

A little bit.

And so that's kind of what I'm doing with this

and also encouraging other people to do it.

You know. When I became at.

Work, I used to set my Bible on my toolbox.

And it's fifteen years ago when I started doing this,

and that sparked so many people to talk about their

faithful work because I would just set my Bible on

there and we'd go to break I picked my ble

up taking breakroom.

I mean I read it, you know, got done. Break

time's over, go ouack to work my Bible on a toolbox.

I go to work my Bible just there in my toolbox.

That started so many conversations with people that, you know,

strengthen brothers who are like man I would never thought

I could even you know they are. They think like

they have to keep this in a closet, you know,

because the world has conditioned us that our faith only

matter is on Sunday between eleven and twelve, and that's

when we're Christians, and for the rest of the week

we're not Christians no more. And I'm like, no, we're

Christians all the way long. When you're going to the

gas station, of you're Christian. When you're out buying groceries,

you're a Christian. You know, when you're going off for

your family just having a good time.

You're a Christian.

So it's be a Christian and everything you do, not

just Sunday from eleven to twelve. So when I'm at work,

I'm a Christian. You know, I'm also there to work,

so I'm working.

I want to mix that one up there.

When I'm at work, I'm paid to be working. But

while i am working and earning my pay, I'm a Christian.

So I'm also being a person of faith and I'm

trying to show my faith but also still work and

everything I'm doing.

Well, this exemplifies your name anyway.

I mean this.

I like how you put it, and you succinctly laid

this out that you have become what you were looking for,

and that took a whole lot of qualifications and knowledge

was not enough because you certainly had acquired a font

of knowledge, but you were not able to connect with people.

And it's amazing to me that you had to do

the next step. Now you didn't know it, but that's

exactly what God had planned, and he stuck you in

front of a classroom. Boy, that must have really crashed

your party. You must have got up in front of

that classroom thinking, man, I know it all. I'm going

to teach this class everything they need to know, and

within four verses they glaze over and they're dear in

the headlights. So it is a wonderfully encouraging road. Or Derek,

as we might say, that God puts you in to

be the person that you needed. I mean, you've become

that person you were trying to find. So if you

were to go back in time right now and put

on a ball hat and talk to yourself back then

you would exactly be the person you needed. And that

is a truly amazing thing that He used all this

circumstance and place with you to get you where you

needed to be so that you could be that person

for people who need it. Because what you're talking about

is the mold today today, if you work at the

gas station, you have to work at the gas station.

You're not a Christian at the gas station. You're not

allowed to be a Christian at the gas station. But

you have bridged that gap and you've become that person

that all those people you meet meet, And that's pretty

amazing to me. But you know, you you started out

the conversation saying that you know, you knew all the

traditions of men, so to speak, as Jesus quoted, and

there's some great, big traditions of men, and if you

go to church on Sunday, you can talk about those traditions. However,

when you read the Bible, that's a completely different story.

That is a completely different story. Most of the things

that Christians talk about is completely fiction, just so disconnected

from the reality of the Bible. So why don't you

tell us that you've familiarize yourself with a text. You

might say that you absolutely have absorbed it into your personhood. Right,

So give us your take. What is to come? What's

your eschatology? What do you think the Bible is actually

saying is going to happen?

I would say, if I'll start off with this, I

believe that I live in the days.

I believe every generation things of living the end of

the days. So I'll say this with a granna and

I look around. I'm like, man, you guys, if you're

looking for a sign and you were allowed. This year,

we've had solar flares auroras in Georgia which I captured

both on YouTube, and pretty soon we're gonna have a

nova going off in the.

What's that constellation Corona Borealis.

There'll be a nova going off. They believe this summer

they should be able to see it. And I'm like,

if you're looking for signs, look up, they are happening.

I have never in my life, well, I had seen

a blood moon once. I think in the past five years,

i've seen this five times.

Now, I've seen it once. My entire left up at

this point.

Never seen their roar before, never seen a solar eclipse before,

seen two of them in the past couple of years.

I'm like, you know, that's the one thing. I truly

believe we're living in the days. I always preface I

was saying, though, I do believe when I read what

Christ said about the end of the days, it seems

like he's telling every generation to think you live in

the days, because he wants you to be prepaired, you know.

So I do want to be paired, But I truly

believe that we're in the end of the days. But

what I think is coming, what I think is going

to happen, is exactly what Scripture said. It's going to

be the same thing that's already happened before. Because there

is nothing new under the sun. Same patterns are happening

over and over again. Details may be changed from revolution

to revolution, but you know, this earth keeps spinning in

a circle, and yeah, every time it goes in a circle.

It's to do day.

You know, the stars are all still in the same place,

the Sun's in the same place. It looks pretty much

like you did day before. As the Earth goes around

the Sun all the way around complete this year. Yeah,

we've changed our positions. And this planets over here.

Now, this planets over here, and this star is over here.

Now it's over here. But you know, it's still kind

of the same pattern.

So I'll look at script and I will say, what

is coming is a pattern repetitious of what has already been.

And if you would, all you gotta do is read

this book. It's the same things coming. I've got stuff

I study that may.

Be completely wrong.

I mean, I'm trying to think of I'll just try

to look at my list on my iPad.

I've studies. I've done. Some of these I've never finished.

I've got one called the ten Kings.

If they're out today, and I'm trying to figure out

in my head, who would the ten Kings be?

Like?

Guy, I got about five or six. I think it

could possibly be. You know, I got another one we

talked about earlier Bible mistakes or in parentheses things not

in the Bible, where I start taking all these little

verses that I think the Bible I've always heard the

Bible said.

I write it down. I said, we'll come back to

study this later, see what it says. Now, a lot

of these things I study.

And I just opened little threads that I just don't

get time to finish because commasoned earlier.

I got to work.

I'm coaching a team, I'm still doing the eighteen seventy

off road stuff. So there's a lot of me and

little things get pulled in all these different directions to do.

So a lot of times I never finished the study.

So sometimes it's maybe two three months later. When I

sat out in Ga Hunt in April, I spent a

ton of time reading scripture. My plan was on this

day of the irony, that means you started talking. Now

on this day, I did this entire thing called a

big Frog loop. In a day, I had downloaded the

Marinatha ministries on the podcast to start listening to them.

I think I got through one and a half.

I've brand into so many people that wanted to talk

to me in the wilderness that I've never met before.

And I ended up not hard to listen to it

because I'd stop and talk people, you know, and I

just I'd meet people all the time. They oh my god,

I've seen your YouTube videos. You know, they pull off

and talk to them whatever. They recognize my GEP or

something out there and you know, riding these trails and stuff.

So you know, I had plans of doing that. That

was kind of my idea, but hey, I ended up

minishing people instead.

That's that's wrong with that. SEX say.

Sometimes I think I know what God's plan is, and

God's like, nah, you got something different doing the day.

So I'm always fluid and ready to be.

When the time comes, I'm not out chasing normal try

to already have morel with me, you know.

So I'm trying to say.

All right, when I'm going out to the world, I

am prepared to do what I think I'm gonna do,

but I'm also prepared for the Holy Spirit to say, yeah,

you're doing something different. Is to this day is not

going to go the way you thought it was ended

up doing something completely different. So I had planned to'll

do so much study. I wanted to catch up with

stuff because I hadn't listened to the podcasts from you

probably in a year or so.

I was like, man, I gotta catch up with Matthew's doing.

And uh, I remember one I think was you and

your daughter talking about love, and that's the one I

didn't get to finish. I was like, that's kind of

getting into that one, like this is really good, you know,

and it's just I didn't get to finish that one.

That's the one where I the first people to stop

me in a Forerunner started talking to them, and then

it was another group of guys that I actually called

them a video and I stopping with them. So I'd

kept bumping into people I was like, well, this this,

this thing will happen. I guess I'm doing something different today.

But yeah, so I'm always prepared with scripture. But the

thing is, this goes back to what you're saying, what's coming.

It may not go down exactly like I think it's

going to, but I know the pattern will be true.

The the format has been set, you know, the foundation

has been true. Maybe I've got the details wrong my

Ken King's list, every one.

Of them might be. I might have the wrong ten guys,

but you know, it's just me.

It's just me playing around thinking maybe I can figure

out how some of these guys are. I want to

study and see, you know.

You know and exactly. You know, it's amazing that. Wow.

Once people pick up their Bible and actually start reading it,

a lot of times they become disassociated from their church

family because they quickly realize that, wait a minute, whatever's

going on in the Bible, that's not what's happening at

Sunday School, that's not what happening at church, and everything

they're saying at church, that's not what the Bible actually says.

Especially when they get to the read letters in the Bible.

You start reading those you like way, something's terribly wrong.

You know, the life and situation is so far left

and right of center where God put it. It's really

kind of disturbing. And you know, it's encouraging that God's

putting you where only he can put you. And that's

that's a good thing. And I appreciate that you heard

Mariah and I's episode. They're the fundamentals love. You know,

that was her idea, that was her baby. It's still

her baby. Now. She's doing full time ministry up at

Lakewood Park Bible Camp, so that's what she has to

do the whole summer. That's what she wants to do

with her career. She is going to be in ministry.

So you know, that's it's amazing to me that the

Lord pricked me and said, man, you need to check

upon Derek and see where he's at. And very encouraging

to see that you're still doing what you do. And

how many people do you know are like that? How

many people do you know that after this much time,

still are doing what it is God wants them to do.

And that's very encouraging to me. That's extremely encouraging. And

you know, you say, you know you're pretty sure we're

right there at the end, and a lot of people

don't think that. Well, let's just put two and two together.

Let's see where we can go with this. And you know,

I'm not going to cover the chapter and verse, but

I'm just going to just going to read this and

I'm sure everybody's heard this verse before. Seventy weeks have

been decreed for your people in your holy city to

finish the transgression, to making a desin, to make it

a coment for iniquity, to bring an everlasting righteousness, to

steal a vision prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.

Now that's as succinct as you can get it. That's

the gospel truth. That's what he said, right, I mean,

that's the gospel truth when you realize that when you

take a look at you know, your people in your

holy city. Everybody knows what the Christian's capital is, and

it ain't Rome. It's not Rome. Everybody knows that the

Christian capital is where our Savior was crucified. It's where

our Savior resurrected. We have no other capital. That's it Jerusalem.

So you know, let me put this pastory. I'm going

to tell you what I was just doing today, just

for fun. Okay, the Bible's very clear that there is

a time of the Gentiles. Now, lots of people thinks

it's this and that and the other. However, this is

the truth. The Temple Mount was liberated on June seventh,

nineteen sixty seven. Now the problem is is that the

Jews didn't keep it. They handed it over voluntarily to

the Gentiles. They voluntarily they handed it over to the

King of Jordan. They did this voluntarily, thereby instituting the

time of the Gentiles. So when is seventy years from

that day? Well, you would think it would be June seventh,

twenty thirty seven. That's what you would think. But then

you look into the heavens and you realize that what

happened on that day was the new moon. Back in

June seventh, nineteen sixty seven, there was a new moon

right between Chorus's horns. If you go to twenty thirty seven,

that winds up being six days later, on June thirteenth,

twenty thirty seven. Now, I'm just being very light here.

When you back off there seven years, you all better

figure this out. That's twenty thirty and this is a

historical fact. We know from the astronomical data that Jesus

had you have been crucified on one of two dates.

It was either pass over in thirty a d or

pass over in thirty three AD. And we know that

jose It comes right out and says that after two

days we will be redeemed. So when you throw that

information at people, it makes them stop when their tracks thray.

Wait a minute, let me write that down. You can't

be right. I mean, you can't be right because you

just said that we're going to enter into great tribulation

in twenty thirty. Yeah, that's exactly what I said, But

I didn't say it's just the math. So that's just

lightly what I was doing this afternoon when my alarm

set to text you is I was in the middle

of bringing up stilarium. I didn't want to know the date.

I want to know where the faithful Witness was compared

to the sun on the day that the Jews liberated

at the Temple mount. So what a rabbit hole that was.

But God is going to use that. He's going to

use that information to people that come in contact me.

People send me messages and questions every single day about

celestial somology. Every day. I want to know what's happening here,

what does this mean? What's going on over here? And

it amazes me that you said, yeah, here, within the

past little while, you've seen the northern lights and that

ain't normal in Georgia. I should know. I lived in Georgia.

I attended an academy in Georgia. This is why I

graduated high school in two years. That's where I went.

I moved to Georgia to attend the academy so I

could graduate in two years instead of four. So I

know all about Georgia. And if you're saying you've seen

the northern lights there, we are obviously way outside of normal. Right.

Oh yeah, that is uh.

That day that happened, I knew it was coming because

I knew about and seeing me it happens, I knew

there was a possibility because as you say, I'm always man,

I study what the sun's doing. I try to study

as much as I can what stars are doing, because

that's those are God's stars.

He put them up there and they're there for.

Us, and so I keep an eye out, man. I

to this day, it's a habit people don't think it's weird.

I'll walk out of a door. My first place I look,

of course, I was outside of SIDEAE.

I'll walk in nothing, and I look up every time,

out of habit, your habit, because I know my redemption's coming.

Every time I've got look up. Not yet you got

a few more dunts so here on my walk, But

I'm always looking up.

And that day that had come, we had a doubleheader

softball game. And I remember, matter of fact, guys, you

could on my Facebook page.

My personal one, which I hardly use, but.

Other than coaching my softball team, I remember that morning

I had posted, hey guys, pretty big ceme coming.

This is rare. We don't get this. It's like you

might see some northern lights today. There's a chance of it.

And sure enough that night I'm out here in the field,

in my softball field behind my house, on the golf

cart with my camera out taking pictures and photo I mean, wow,

to have the sky glow in all those cars. I'd

never seen anything like that before my life. It didn't

move like I thought it was supposed to be. Cou

I've never seen it on TV. I guess what I

see on TV must be sped up for time laps.

But I look up that, I'm like, wow, you know,

but I already believe I've already got my heart set

in cryt.

That's not for me. So I hope if.

You were in Georgia that day, or however far you

saw the life, I hope y'all saw them, because that

that wasn't for me. God's already got my heart. But

some of you out there, maybe who are not sure

of the times you live in, you're kind of questioning

things look up because there are signs that keep coming.

Let's say I mentioned you know this other stuff that

could be coming. You know, with everybody who's talking about

the star Beetle Juice going super and over, everybody's expecting it,

and of course what happens anytime soon. It would have

went super over a couple hundred years ago. But that

ain't one I would talk about earlier. Do you want to

talk about earlier?

Is T? I remember? This? Is it? T c RB? Yeah?

TCRB, So it's t Corona boy allis I'm watching that

one and I'm like, if that I want to see

how it goes.

It may just be a.

Little popular of them and it goes away and it

wasn't really much assign people. But that's another one that

could be coming soon.

A new star.

Appear in the sky and then disappear a couple of

weeks later, that's a sign God's got letting. You know, guys,

this stuffs up. You know this is uh. I've never

known a time that you had this.

Much stuff popping up.

And I got it that Matthew hit me with something

with a new moon on nineteen sixty seven. I don't

believe I knew about that. But you know, when they

took the Timple mount in nineteen sixty seven, I don't

think I knew that was a new moon.

I'm trying to remember to date that happened. Was that

an odd.

So now I'm getting off from the side topic here,

But anyway, see now you got me want to look

into something. I love playing with Stilario man. I remember

when we were doing BTR days. I shared a picture

and I'm going to redo that into a YouTube video.

It's been on my mind to do it at some point.

But uh, I remember setting stelarium into the Temple Mounts,

backing the star date up to the time of the Crucifixion.

It don't matter which year you do it in because

stars are in the same place every year, and there's

a little bit of procession of the equinoxes where they

move around.

A little bit. But two thousand years ago there's a

little movement.

But if you go to then set your selarium back

to those years ago, you're right in the Temple mounts

in Jerusalem, right to the hour when Christ is on

the cross and the stars. I'm sorry, when the sun

the sky went dark for three hours and you look

straight up, there's a star that goes right over the cross.

And if I'm telling you, if that it was closer,

the cross would have pierced his eye. And uh.

The star is called ros al Ghul. I never will

remember this one. It is in Arabic.

It means the devil, and I just remembered as like,

the constellation is this the uh.

Says that Andrama that has the head of Percy's I

don't for gotten him. The constellation Consolation is is it

Persius or Andromeda who has the head in his hand?

Lordy, I'm forgetting your name. But anyways, that constellation goes

over the Temple mount goes right over the cross. That

cross would have pierce his right eye. And then I'm

thinking of two verses of.

Scripture number one where it talks about in zachar Raiah,

is it eleven that would pierce his right eye? And

then I also remember the other verse in Matthew chapter

five or six, where he says, you fool, you're worried

about the splinter and your brother's off when there's a

plank in your own off.

And I'm like, the stars are telling you scriptures. Guys.

You just pull a sterium and a look, the scriptures

are in the stars. You ain't got to have the Bible.

I've read it before in the Bible, but I knew

when I looked at the stars. I'm like, I know

what verses I told me about. So, yeah, God's word

is even in the stars. His creation is so powerful

that creation itself can pich the Gospel to.

You, so says Romans.

Yep, so says Romans cry out.

Yes absolutely, boy. We could talk about that for another hour,

couldn't we. So it's it's been good catching up with you, Derek,

and I hope you continue to become what it is

you needed back there when you got you know, that

around around that time you met me, when you were divorced,

you had two kids, trying to find your way, and

you had no fellowship there, and it really is pleasing

to hear that you've actually become that fellowship for those

people that you're meeting. And you know, I can only

say this. You're the coach. So you could probably have

whatever name you wanted or whatever number on your jersey

you wanted, and I'm telling you to go have eighteen

seventy embroidered on it. Okay, that's that's what your number

needs to be.

Man, So you've said it. Now, we'll forgot a way

to make that happen.

All right, Derek, it's been Uh, it's been good to u.

Good to catch up with you. Is there anything you'd

like everybody to know, maybe where they can catch your

videos at or whatever?

So yeah, if you want to find me, I use

Instagram and I use YouTube. Eighteen seventy off Road is

a name on both of them. Say the reason behind

the name, guys, it.

Is it is jeep centered. Everything I'm doing is in the.

Jeep and exploring God's creation, So it's not like obviously

the stuff we used to do. It is not the

same thing as that this is gonna be a whole

lot of me just out exploring in the woods in

the wilderness, and sometimes me working on the vehicle and

building the vehicle. Obviously, I think today my last video

was me doing a radio doing a mod. So you know,

it's not really again like I messon earlier. It's not

that the channel is centered to be about my faith.

Is that I am living up my life and faith

and I'm not ashamed to show up people. There's another

video coming or to film one part over. I'm actually

gonna show Bible at one point. It's gonna be funny.

It's actually in a joking level. Yeah.

So you can catch eighteen seventy off road. Instagram and YouTube.

That's the two things I use right now at least

that you can see me on and you can kind

of follow my walk there in a way and see

as it goes that. I guys, I have no idea

where this goes in the future. I know what I

think is going to happen, and.

I can tell you every time I think I figured

it out, God show me something different.

So I am going wherever the Holy Spirit leads this thing.

And I have no idea where that's going to be

two years from now. I got pretty God there where

to be tomorrow and.

The next day. But that's about it. Let's so yeah,

eighteen seventy off road is where you'll find me at.

All, right, Derek, It's been good to catch up with you.

Till next time. God bless, God speed.

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