When people encounter God's presence in Scripture, they physically react: priests can't stand before His glory, soldiers fall backward arresting Jesus, Saul is struck down on the Damascus road. The speaker argues these accounts are undeniable and that objecting to them is just nitpicking.
So we know then that God manifests his presence throughout Scripture, and that those manifestations sometimes cause physical reactions. The priests were unable to stand in God's glory. That's 1 Kings 8:10-11. The soldiers who arrested Jesus were knocked backwards by his power, John 18:5-6. And Saul was knocked back by the presence of the Lord. That's Acts 26:13-14. In God's presence, people can tremble and people can fall to the ground. No student of the Bible would ever deny that Scripture records physical reactions to God's presence and power. Now, in an attempt to explain this away, some move the goalposts and demand hyper-specific references. You may hear phrases like, well, they fell backward, not forward, or, that was judgment, not a spiritual encounter, or the oft-parroted, but nobody laid hands on them. Now, this is nitpicking, and while these may at face value seem convincing, They're nothing more than emotional, stubborn rejections of what the Bible clearly shows us, that God's presence can invoke reactions. There's no getting around this airtight principle. So you're on solid biblical ground to embrace these manifestations, even if fringe sects of the church attempt to put God in a box.
