"Hit the Bar" Episode 51: David Crank's Terrible Sermon of Awfulness!
This is how it begins:
“Everything about you ought to preach! My pants preach! Come on somebody they’re screaming right now! Ahh! Ehh! ”
The video of David Crank, Expect More This Year! June 6, 2019, is what the Kozars were reviewing in the above YT video. It contains his outlook on the future . . . apparently he did not see 2020 coming, ‘just before a lot of people lost their jobs’, as Steve Kozar said.
If you have not watched their video, please do so. For one thing, they were in rare form but more importantly, they had things to say which need to be said about this false teacher and what he said.
“I believe it’ll [the shofar] sound it for 16 months and we’re gonna go, ‘when that trumpet sounds and we’re in the Year of Jubilee and God has unleashed the [yobel] supernatural favor in our life it means flee your labor’. Now I’m not saying quit your job I’m saying that you’re gonna keep working but now you’re gonna work with a sweatless anointing with an ease anointing it’s gonna be fun going to work it’s going to be fun growing your business...”
Crank pronounces “yobel” and the auto-generated transcript writes it out as “Joe Bell”.
““Yobel” Strong’s Definitions: יוֹבֵל yôwbêl, yo-bale’; or יֹבֵל yôbêl; apparently from H2986; the blast of a horn (from its continuous sound); specifically, the signal of the silver trumpets; hence, the instrument itself and the festival thus introduced:—jubile, ram’s horn, trumpet. ”
There is a pronunciation icon on this website if you are interested.
As the video review progressed, more and more scriptures were taken out of context and given meaning that pertained to what Crank wanted to say. He was not teaching nor preaching The Word of God. And, unless you are one who has studied the Word of God, or you take the time to go to the verses he does mention and see the context of the verse(s), you might never realize you’ve been deceived. See Confirmation Bias: Why You Are Protecting Your False Beliefs.
I like to define words, even regular everyday words I have used often take on a deeper or new meaning when I take the time to look them up in a dictionary. I also like to look into the Hebrew and Greek words used in the Bible; however, though I wanted to study these languages, I never did.
“Deceptive (adjective): Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress false opinions; as a deceptive countenance or appearance. ”
What is the year of jubilee?
The following is my layperson’s understanding. It is not an understanding I have developed all on my but I did choose to study it for myself some years ago.
Exodus 21; Leviticus 25; and Deuteronomy 15 outline what this year means.
Exodus 21:1-11 discusses the purchase of a Hebrew slave, who is to serve for six years but be release on the seventh year as a free man without payment. (21:2) A further reading will outline what happens if the man has a wife and children. If the slave loves his family and his master and will not leave his family, the master takes him to the door of the doorpost and pierces his ear with an awl indicating the slave will serve him permanently.
Leviticus 25 discusses the process which the LORD requires of the Hebrews when He brings them into the land which He gives them. That land is to have a sabbath (intermission/rest). They are to sow the land six years but give it rest on the seventh. There are instructions on what they are to do to get the land ready for the rest. When they do this, the LORD will see to it they have what they need for food supply on the seventh year when they are not planting and harvesting.
There is also the sabbath after the passage of 49 years. The 50th year is consecrated, debts are cancelled, property is returned to original owners, and they are not to sow nor reap in the 50th year. This is where the Hebrew word yobel (jubilee, or jubil in the KJV) shows up. There are quite a few instructions concerning this year of jubilee.
Deuteronomy 15 is a time when every seven years there is a remission of debts and setting a kinsman Hebrew free after serving six years. They are not to be sent away empty-handed. This section also talks about the piercing of the ear for what is called a bond slave or bond servant. Such a person is able to conduct business on the behalf of their master and is greatly respected in the community. They are known by the pierced ear. There is also a discussion of consecration of firstborn males.
In case you have not already noticed, there is nothing in these verses which suggest anything of which Crank talked about in the video. Nothing. This is a wayward (false) teaching.
““Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
“I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
“Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.””
If anyone claims something is from God, the Book has already been written and you may verify it with the Word of God. However, you may have to be diligent and vigilant about it. Start with a good translation (not a paraphrase or one of the Johnny-Come-Lately versions/translation wanna be-s). Get a good dictionary, paper and pen or pencil, and an Exhaustive Concordance with the Hebrew and Greek words/definitions included. Take time and investigate what you have been told. An Exhaustive Concordance has every word in the Bible available to you. More common words are treated differently. Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance was originally compiled with KJV words. There is one by Zondervan which is based on NASB but I have found it doesn’t have complete definitions and is missing some words. It takes a little bit to work through using a KJV Bible to get to the words but it is every bit worth it.
John 4:35 is the account of the woman at the well and the harvest that is white are those coming from Samaria wanting to hear for themselves what the Messiah has to say.
Back in the 1970’s there was something called plunking in the Bible in order to find answers. You just opened the Bible, let the pages fall open and whatever it fell open to was a message directly for you. Many times people just kept plunking until they read something they liked. To make the point of error: First plunk : Matthew 27:5 “…and he went away and hanged himself.” Try again. Second plunk: "Luke 10:37 “Go and do the same.”
“And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.
And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the book and found the place where it was written,
“THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR. HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED,
TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.”
And He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.””
Jesus is quoting from Isaiah and this involves His redeeming grace to set people free. The year of jubilee is the favorable year of the LORD … when grace is available to all because of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This means Gentiles (heathens) are welcome to what was previously Hebrew and of the circumcision.
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners;
To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD”
Should you look up the verses in Isaiah, verse two contained two future events. The first one has been fulfilled by Jesus when He read from it while here on earth. The other is yet to come.
Matthew 6:33 needs the previous verses in order to be applied correctly.
““Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
“But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
“The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.
“But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
“Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?
“And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?
“And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.
“But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!
“Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’
“For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
“So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Can you see where Crank is off with his message? I sure hope so. This post does not contain all of the misuses of scripture but it’s a fair start, wouldn’t you say? Get the YT Transcript and look these things up for yourself. Please.
“Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”
Jesus answered, “Are you saying this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about Me?”
Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered You to me; what have You done?”
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.”
Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and *said to them, “I find no guilt in Him.”
Stop being gullible!!
Be sure to check out the Cornucopias on The Messed Up Church, there you will find discussions on various false teachers, false ‘gospels’ (such as the prosperity ‘gospel’) and more.