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The Confessionals
Merkel Media
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Kristine and Nick share one of the most intense testimonies ever told on the show, a complete unraveling of New Age spirituality, mediumship, plant medicine, and spirit guides that led them straight into open spiritual warfare. After years of teaching Reiki, tarot, hypnosis, and mediumship, and relocating to Belize under direct guidance from spirits; they found themselves under violent, supernatural attack involving witches, astral battles, animal manifestations, and demonic oppression that threatened their children’s lives. At the breaking point, Kristine cried out to the one true God, triggering a dramatic encounter with the Father, repentance for breaking the first commandment, and a desperate turning to Jesus Christ as their only authority. What follows is a harrowing but hopeful journey of deliverance, renunciation, miraculous healing, baptism, and the complete destruction of everything they once built in the New Age. This conversation exposes the cost of deception, the reality of spiritual warfare, and the unmatched power of Christ to rescue, heal, and restore, even from the deepest darkness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is a preview of today's members episode. If you want to hear the whole thing, |
| 0:04.4 | head on over to the confessionalspodcast.com, hit the join button and become a member today. |
| 0:10.7 | Merkel. Media. |
| 0:17.0 | This was all circulating around the base that a giant had been kill, but no one was supposed to talk about it. |
| 0:22.6 | I saw three long, bony fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. |
| 0:33.6 | When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me. |
| 0:40.3 | And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen. |
| 0:47.3 | And he starts running and firing up this giant. |
| 0:50.3 | With a giant move, he's got a spear in one hand and he's running really fast and spears |
| 0:57.0 | Dan holds him up like this. |
| 1:00.0 | Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face. |
| 1:02.0 | They basically decapitated. |
| 1:04.0 | Got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, when he got about 15 yards away from me, I raised that 12 days |
| 1:12.9 | and I blow this head off. |
| 1:14.8 | I feel something pulling at my leg, and I look over and there are two small gray entities |
| 1:22.4 | pulling it, and they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed. |
| 1:26.4 | I reached my hand into this bush, |
| 1:28.6 | and I touch air. Couldn't breathe. And I couldn't move because I know I'm seeing a monster. |
| 1:35.4 | All right. Today we have Christina and Nick on the show. How are you two? |
| 1:39.8 | Great. Pretty good. Thank you, Tony. I'm so glad you guys are here. I'm so glad you're here. I really am. Like, I told you, I was so excited connecting with you guys. We'll share with the audience here at some point in this conversation. But I was so excited that I was expressing to you how excited I was. And I was like, man, this is weird. I got to calm down because I don't want them to get weird it out. |
| 2:06.5 | But is it not though? Like what I told you kind of crazy. Yeah, it's nuts. I never, I didn't expect that. I was expecting not to be what you said at all. I'm a little bit blown away. |
| 2:11.6 | It's wild. It's wild. It's a unique story to us., but. Well, yeah, we'll get into it. |
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