Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I know I got your attention bold, right? Yes, not really. I believe that you speak

things into existence. And when people ask me how I'm doing, I say I'm awesome.

Whether I'm having a bad day or not, I think that you can literally use words as power tools in your life.

So I do.

So this podcast is awesome, not just because I'm awesome, and I am, but because I get to talk with amazing awesome people.

So up next, stay tuned as I sit and talk with somebody who's

truly awesome. Joining me is theologian. She's also named one of 10 Christian women shaping the church

in 2020 by sojourners. And she's got a book called Red Lip Theology for church girls who

consider tithing to the beauty supply store when Sunday morning

isn't enough. Let me welcome Candice Marie Benbow. Welcome. Thank you. How are you? I am blessed and highly

favored. That's the response. You see what I just did? Yes, that is it. Child. Oh, the roateness of it all.

Like, I feel like we're in those times where people are trying to usher something in and supporting everything that Jesus said was wrong to get to the end times when Jesus come back and he'll be like, I don't know you. Get away from me. I don't know. I didn't know. Who? It always happens when we have some kind of, whether it's a natural disaster or whether it is

an evil, manmade evil, such as war, you always have these people that come up and say,

this is indicative of God coming back and you've got to get ready or you're going to be left behind.

And they never say, is it possible that this is also an opportunity for us to be more like God,

be more like Jesus and help the people who are in need of help, be what people need for us to be?

No.

Everyone wants to live in revelations, but don't know about to read it for real, right?

Like, if this idea that everything has to just be sheer destruction and gloom in order for a guy to lift up and be like,

oh, this is the world I want. These are the people that I want. And it's just not only that as my grandma would say, tacky, it's crazy. It's so interesting. I've actually studied revelations a lot. Could probably teach it. I don't, right? Because I was obsessed. These have nightmares as a child with the end times and what the, and I was like, no, I'm going to be here. And I want people to be prepared because it's, you know, you're going to wish for death, but it ain't going to come. And I just, oh, don't go back to the house. Woe to pregnant mothers. Let me tell you how much this messed me up as a teen. I'm like, whoa to pregnant women and nursing mothers. I was like, okay, I can't get pregnant because I don't want

the end times are coming in this messed me up as a teen. I'm like, whoa to pregnant women and nursing mothers. I was like,

okay,

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