Jonathan Pokluda

Pokluda recommends a weekly accountability practice built around three questions on spiritual input, output and confession.

“How did you feed your soul? How did you feed others? How did you feed your flesh? Input, output, confession”

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Pokluda recounts being sued within two weeks of signing the contract for his book on spiritual warfare.

“I was sued. I got sued within 14 days of signing it”

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Pokluda says Satan knows his eventual fate and therefore pursues a destructive scorched-earth strategy.

“He knows his destiny is the lake of fire. And so he's running a scorched earth strategy”

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Pokluda holds that Satan is not omnipresent and instead leads an army of fallen angels as demons.

“Like Satan has never probably been anywhere near me. He's not omnipresent”

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Pokluda argues that spiritual warfare is fought over people's thinking.

“The spiritual war is fought over the real estate of the mind. Satan is after our thinking”

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Pokluda speculates that the divisions of 2020 reflected a demonic strategy to divide people politically and socially.

“I want you to divide them politically. I want you to divide them socioeconomically”

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Pokluda says his introverted daughter, relying on the Holy Spirit, is the most successful evangelist he knows.

“She has the highest hit rate of anyone I know, like the highest success rate”

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Pokluda contends churches should celebrate the act of sharing the gospel, not just conversions, since only God saves.

“And I think the church actually under celebrates sharing. Like we celebrate saving, but not sharing”

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Pokluda claims every revolution and revival in history has had a person in their twenties or early thirties at its center.

“is somebody in their 20s or early 30s, every single one without exception”

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Pokluda reports that he saw 50,000 people commit their lives to Jesus during one month of Forrest Frank's tour.

“in the month of july i saw 50 000 people give their life to jesus”

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Pokluda argues the Dead Sea Scrolls demonstrate that biblical texts have not been substantively changed.

“The Dead Sea Scrolls show parts of like Isaiah and some of the scriptures that predate the dark ages and actually show that the scripture hasn't changed”

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Pokluda argues Christians err when they reject new technologies like AI as only evil, comparing it to the printing press.

“I would say, you know what? That's the mistake that Christians have made many, many times”

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Pokluda argues that a roughly 50-year gap between American Great Awakenings positions the present for a new one.

“2026 would be about 50 years after that one ended, which would poise us well for a great awakening right now”

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Pokluda warns that occult and New Age practices give demons permission to interfere in people's lives.

“with that Ouija board, crystals, manifesting, tarot cards, horoscopes, like none of that stuff is spiritually neutral”

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Pokluda argues that consuming pornography gives the devil a foothold and amounts to demonic worship.

“So like pornography is Satan's iconography. It's not innocent. When you give yourself to that, it's demonic worship”

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Pokluda argues that no credible atheist denies Jesus existed, citing non-Christian historical sources.

“There's not a credible atheist today alive that would deny the existence of Jesus”

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