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584- Mondo Gonzales – Audio Only Version

September 12, 2025·41 min·3 clips

Mondo Gonzalez warns that rapture date-setters are causing real pastoral harm: one listener wrote to him saying 'if it doesn't happen on the 23rd, I don't know what I'm going to do.'

Tony opens from New Zealand. Mondo Gonzalez joins from the US, and the distance between them sits beside a shared sense that too much is happening at once. The tone is grave. Mondo has just returned from two weeks in Europe, naming the UK, Norway, and Germany as places where he saw plenty going on. Tony says the world is crazy. The conversation does not treat polarization as simple politics. It reads it as part of a spiritual condition. Scripture becomes the measure. Mondo points to Paul telling Timothy to correct opponents with gentleness, then brings in the fruit of the Spirit from Galatians. The concern is contempt. Self-appointed heresy hunters get called out for claiming authority while missing the basic marks of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Tony agrees, then pushes the warning closer to home. He calls the motive pharisaical and asks whether that same Pharisee lives in their own hearts. Then New Zealand breaks into the conversation. Tony brings up the Tom Phillips shootout with police and says the story has divided people in the country in a way people elsewhere, especially in America, may not fully understand. It is personal for him. He grew up in the same area, so the story is tied to memory, not just headlines. Phillips had become a folk hero to some. Tony says people admired how he evaded police for four years while hiding with his kids, even as the facts demand a harder moral reckoning. The episode keeps returning to discernment. Public controversy, online accusation, and division all test whether believers are acting from the Spirit or from self-righteous heat. The close turns pastoral. Tony asks listeners to support A Minute to Midnite, says Holly is due back in New Zealand in under a week, and urges people to stay safe and keep their eyes on the Lord.

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A faith-centered talk on polarization, gentleness, and a tragic New Zealand case.

Tony and Mondo Gonzalez spend A Minute to Midnight moving between worldwide polarization, recent travel in Europe, and a biblical caution against self-appointed heresy hunters.

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For when you want scripture, current events, and a hard look at division in one sitting.

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