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If everything is “new,” why does it feel ancient

• Buddy Foy Jr • Season 2 • Episode 1

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A world that calls darkness “light” can make faith feel like walking upstream. We open the Scriptures not as scholars, but as learners—honest about our flaws and bold about our hope—and trace a straight line from Isaiah’s warnings to today’s moral confusion. With Ecclesiastes as ballast, we reject the myth that our moment is unprecedented and find peace in God’s steady hand, even as headlines spin. The goal isn’t to win an argument; it’s to recover reality and live it.

We talk through a simple but piercing practice: sort what you see and what you do into two buckets—demonic or godly. That filter starts at home with temper, pride, and habits, then expands to the flashpoints that divide families and feeds. The point is clarity without cruelty. We explore how kingdom-building shows up in small choices—truth-telling, generosity, prayer, self-control—and why those practices matter when the culture feels upside down. Along the way, we ground courage in Jesus’ own words from Luke 4, when He reads Isaiah and declares fulfillment in the synagogue. That moment reframes the battle: the enemy still lies, but Christ has already won, and God turns intended evil toward good.

If you’re new to the Bible or returning after years away, we share where to start, how to pick a church that opens the text, and why reading in community anchors conviction without arrogance. Expect a humble tone, a clear spine, and practical steps you can take this week to build the kingdom instead of amplifying the noise. Listen, reflect, and then join us: subscribe, share with a friend who’s searching, and leave a review with the verse that steadies you right now.

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Welcome. Welcome to the Buddy for Junior Show. We continue with just my journey. I'm sharing a journey that I've been on for the last seven years biblically. I'm not a holy one. I do not think I am above anyone else. I'm a sinner. I do that believe that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. And I have been shy on or lack courage in sharing my journey. I have had a vision of a podcast of sharing my journey biblically. It has been critiqued and warned that I shouldn't do it. And at the Charlie Kirk assassination, I just I'm not going to hold back. And I'm not doing this to judge anyone. I'm doing this just for my own practice and taking you along that practice journey and hopefully it helps you too. I say this. I play the guitar. I've been trying to learn it for 10 years. I'm not that good. And every video I watch online, or whenever I'm with an instructor, I'm just like, whoa, slow down. Like, do you remember how hard this chord was or how hard this pattern was? I feel like people who are instructing sometimes are so far removed from the experience of a beginner that it's hard for us new people to learn. So I figured, why can't I share the Bible as someone who's been into it for seven years? Share it now before I know it more, that I become disconnected with what it was like not to know the Bible. So I just want to share the journey with you on a layman's term, not a scholar, and take you through some things that have impacted me. And when I read the Bible, what really hit me in the Old Testament, two books really hit me hard. And that's that's uh Ecclesiastes and Isaiah. But Isaiah, what really kind of punched me in the face to get my attention was Isaiah 5, 20 and 21. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. I'm reading the NIV version. There's multiple versions of the Bible. They're just translations into different verbs and words. So why that hit me? Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. That really hit me in the last four to five years because of what was happening in our society. The apologetic behavior of Christians over the past 50 years on we can't judge, let's keep it to ourselves, and whatever happens, happens. It is what it is. To me, that's a cowardly way out. Charlie has proven that's the wrong way because of his now, let's say, the awareness that the people are having to his faith, which is my faith, not my deep, not as deep as him. I'm at the same belief system. And Charlie unapologetically went out there and told the truth to the youth, which we're going to get into in a minute, and Isaiah 1. But men are women, women are men, men can play women's sports. It's not a sin to have an abortion. You can have it and celebrate it and drink champagne about it. Those aren't riots and burning fires in the background. All this behavior of news and what's being put in our face in social media, it's upside down, which is really Isaiah 20, 21. We're living in an upside-down world. And so were the Jewish people of the times of Isaiah, right? Which is before Christ. This is an Old Testament book. Jesus Christ references Isaiah. We'll go over one of the references today in Luke. So this is a very legitimate book. I think the whole Bible is legitimate. Isaiah in particular reminds me of when the Jewish people went astray and away from God and they were considering what was good, evil, and what was evil, good. What was black was white. What was up was down. What was sweet was sour. What was sweet for bitter. So, and then they kind of on their own wise, their own wisdom in order to discern things, and they didn't turn to God in prayer. To those, and that's 21, 521, woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. I mean, that's all over the place. I can play rear, real after real after real of this happening in our country with the media. It's just lies, right? And one, where is it? One four, woe to the civil nation, a people whose guilt is great, a broad of evildoers, children given to corruption. Our children have been hijacked, their minds have been hijacked, and they're running around protesting the opposite, the opposite point of view, assassinating, shooting up churches, going after any pro-lifers, and just there's this army of evildoers. And I believe it's all by design. And when I say that, you keep hearing spiritual battle. This is a spiritual battle. And one thing I've learned that I hope I can get across here is that, first of all, everything that we're doing and seeing has been done before. None of this is new to God. It happened with the Jewish people as they were going to the promised land, after they found the promised land, et cetera, et cetera. Right? And he says it in Ecclesiastes. I'm flipping the pages here. Ecclesiastes, meaningless, meaningless, says the teacher, utterly meaningless. Everything is meaningless. What did people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north. Round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place of the streams come, there they will return again. All things are worrisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again. There's nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, look, there's something new? It was already here long ago. It was here before our time. No one remembers a former generation, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them. Ecclesiastes chapter 1. So between Isaiah and Ecclesiastes, it's whoa. This has all been done before. We're all kidding ourselves if we think we're different than those that were in the past, those that struggled with God, and nations that rebelled against God. And here we are. We're a nation rebelling against God. We are in a spiritual battle, and the only way out of it is to turn back to Christ. That's what I've learned. We all have our free will, and I'm just showing you the impact that the word has had on me in realizing that what's happening today happened in ancient biblical days before Christ, after Christ, and here we are in 2025, living the same demonic spiritual battle that's among us. And the quicker we see it, the quicker we understand it, the better we're going to be equipped to battle it. And I'm not judging people of the opposite position that I am. I'm just sharing with you biblical standards. That is the truth in my world and in the Christian world. And when you hear Christian nationalists and the liberal media trying to victimize Christians, what that is, is spiritual and of the demonic realm. That's what I've learned. What is a demonic realm? I'm going to do a podcast with one of my pastors, and we're going to go through the demonic realm and the spiritual battle that we're in. He's a pastor that gave me some incredible books to read that have completely opened my eyes and blown my mind. There are demons there, which are darkness, and there is a spiritual world that is light, which is good and godly, that is in our world. And when we look at things, what I've, by the way, I have demonic behavior. When I want to pull somebody over in a car and cut me off and rip them out of the car, that's not heavenly. That's not kingdom. That's demonic. That's evil. That's a demonic evil spirit that enters me that wants to rip a guy out of the car and hurt him because he cut me off or stopped too fast. Right? And I can go on and on with the cross that I carry and the sin that I have, that I praise God that Jesus Christ was crucified, was raised again from the dead, was nailed to a cross for my transgressions. Praise the Lord, praise Jesus for that. Okay, now, and He has, God has given me grace because of that. Does not make me sinless. So spiritual battle. When I read the Bible and I read these materials and these supplemental readings, whether it's Hillsdale College or credit um certification, certified courses, or it's books that my pastors give me, or it's conversations, what I began doing is putting every situation into one of two buckets. Demonic, godly. I get a phone call. Can you believe that the president has made abortion illegal? First of all, it's false information. He kicked it back to the states. That's a constitutional conversation, or it's a spiritual conversation. So whenever I get a conversation with somebody about abortion, first of all, everyone has their free will. I get that. However, we do have to talk about the truth. Is killing someone or something demonic or godly in the world of a Christian? So when you're, even if you don't believe you don't believe in Jesus, you have to understand where people of Christ are coming from. And what people of Christ are gonna start doing more, and people who are really in the word have been doing forever, is putting every conversation, situation politically, socially, or otherwise into one or two buckets. Is it demonic or is it heavenly? Buddy getting angry at a car on a highway, demonic. Buddy sitting here reading the Bible and meditating on a word and sharing it with his listeners, that's godly. Doesn't make me perfect. It just means this activity that I am participating in at this moment is godly, and I want to be doing more of those, not less of those. I want to be doing less of the road rage and more of the biblical kingdom building. So spiritual warfare is something that I've learned to understand, and there's a term that I've learned from people that I speak with whose fingerprints are on that. Look at Charlie Kirk's murder. Well, that was God's will. No, God turns evil into good. God wins all the time, the devil loses, he's a liar, he's a thief, and the devil burns in a sulfur burning lake of sulfur fire at the end. Like he loses, it's already been determined. The Lord and God defeats him with Jesus Christ at the cross, and Jesus Christ was uh uh uh resurrected. And we'll go over more of that with some pastors. But my point is what is my point? My point is our activities are what are we doing? What with the events that are happening before us? Are they spiritual? Yes. Okay, now that they're spiritual, everything is spiritual. It's spiritual, it's a spiritual world we live in. Are they demonic activities? Is it a demonic message or is it heavenly? Is it of the kingdom? Charlie Kirk's murder has the fingerprints of the devil over it. Again, Charlie Kirk's murder has the fingerprints of the devil all over it. God does not destroy, He builds. So Charlie's murder was the devil. The result of Charlie's murder is becoming a kingdom-building event. And I had to pivot to kingdom building. And these are things I'm gonna go into with pastors so that you can hear from the experts, biblical people, biblical scholars, people who are in the word 24-7. Kingdom, the kingdom, kingdom building is a term that I've learned since I've been going to church and reading the Bible. This is a term used to illustrate or to execute kingdom on earth, building God's kingdom here in the world of earth. You have the heavenly realm, and then you have the world that we live in. The world is filled with the spirit war that we've already discussed, and then how do we plant the kingdom here on earth? That's the our, you know, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, the Lord's prayer. That is a term used by Christians to make sure that the activity and the behavior that we are portraying and exuding and executing builds the kingdom of God versus embarrassing the kingdom or depleting the kingdom. We want to build the kingdom here on earth with our behaviors, our tithes, our efforts, our prayers, our behaviors again. So spiritual battle, kingdom building, the fingerprint of the Lord versus the fingerprint of the enemy, the devil. And those are played out in the Bible. It's all over it. The spiritual warfare is all over the pages in these books, yes, books with an S plural. The Bible's not one book, it's many. I think 66. Yeah, 66 books in the Bible. And as we wrap up here, I said in the beginning of the podcast that I would go over the connection between Isaiah and Jesus in the New Testament. So there's there's many, but I'm gonna read Luke 4, 16. He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. This is Jesus. He was Jewish, remember. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it was written. The Spirit of the Lord is on him, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind. He set the oppressed free to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Jesus rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fascinated on him. He began saying to them, Today, this scripture is fulfilled in you hearing. Can you imagine? Now, this is the religious order. They had just this is where it starts. Jesus starts getting hunted. Who is he? That's blasphemy. So that's just one reference of Jesus with uh and the prophet of Isaiah, Jesus referencing Isaiah. And part of the reason why it's one of my favorite books, right? So most of the back then you didn't have a Bible. They had to go to a synagogue and scroll. There were many scrolls as a head said. There's 66 books in the Bible, and part of that is the Old Testament, and they were scrolls that are now in print form. And he's referring to Isaiah 61. When I say he, obviously the great one, Jesus Christ, when he's reading 4 16 through 40 through 21, he is referring to Isaiah 61. And again, Isaiah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Ecclesiastes, one of my favorite. And I always say to people, be careful, I'm reading the Old Testament. You'll know what I mean if you pick it up. So my biggest advice to people out there that have been talking to me, DMing me, saying, you know, how do I get into God? What do I do? I, you know, I was a Catholic, I went to a Catholic church. I have nothing against the Catholic Church. I know now go to a non-dominational church. That's just where the Lord put me. It's a Bible reading church. So whether you're Catholic, Presbyterian, non-dominational, Jewish, what I tell people is you get, you know, I give my friends a hard time. If you took Rosh Hashanah off, I hope you're going to the synagogue. And more than just during the high holy days. And as Christians, as believers in Christ, I hope you're going to church and not just during our high holy days. There's a term I'll I'll bring up in one of my podcasts that my pastor uses, referring to people who go only during the holidays. I think uh we'll do I'm gonna mess that up. So, anyhow, I'm just sharing my journey, folks. This is a non-judgmental conversation, sharing my journey that uh the Holy Spirit has just come upon me and what I've learned about the Holy Spirit, and what I've learned about the word, what I've learned about Christianity, and what I've witnessed myself in my own relationship, and what I have witnessed with others around me and the impact and the miracles can only be described as one thing the heavenly realm. Please come back in one of our next podcasts and the next two podcasts we do will be on spiritual battles, the realm, the heavenly, and the demonic realms. Thank you. Thank you for listening to buddy for a junior show. God bless.

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