In today's troubled world,
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people are
wondering where are we headed?
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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I'm glad you're here tonight
for what is a serious subject,
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"Babylon Rising"
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where tonight we
reveal or uncover the identity
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of the last day antichrist.
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I think we both
know that over the years
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this subject has been
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the subject of a
lot up speculation.
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Much of it rather unbiblical,
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the fact that somebody invokes
a text here or text there
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doesn't mean they
are being biblical,
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it just means, it might mean
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they are being
careless and unbiblical.
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What we're gonna do tonight
is go to the Word of God.
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Ron will open the Bible
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and will look at
scriptures that will be clear.
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There's not going to be
any speculating tonight.
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You'll be able to
leave tonight knowing that
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you've been in an encounter
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with the leading
of the Holy Spirit.
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Was the antichrist
really Mikhail Gorbachev?
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He had the mark on
his forehead, you know.
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No, but it didn't stop
people from saying that it was.
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Was it really Ronald
Reagan because his name
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
had six letters, 666?
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No, it wasn't former
president Ronald Reagan at all.
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Some of the other common targets
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down through the
years, guess work.
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But what happens when
you go to the Word of God?
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We're gonna find out tonight.
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Our subject is "Babylon Rising."
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And the present
of Revelation Today
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is Ron Halvorsen.
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Good Evening. Good Evening.
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Let's bow our heads in word
of payer as we being tonight,
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every head
bowed, every eye closed
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we seek God's presence.
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Gracious Father, I
thank You for the word
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because it's a
light unto our feet,
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a lamp unto our path.
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We humbly bow in
Your presence here
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in Charlotte, North
Carolina and around the world.
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We pray God that
You'll speak to us
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through Your word that
will be courageous enough
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and will be convicted enough
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to let Your word
guide us and direct us.
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With all said and done,
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we pray for a
place in Your kingdom.
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In Christ name, amen.
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And Amen.
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Our subject
tonight, "Babylon Rising,
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Revelation's Antichrist."
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Some years ago
I was out visiting
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and I was
making a pastoral visit
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and I visited a home
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and when I walked
in the living room
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they were transfixed
looking at the television set.
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I was trying to
get a word in edgewise,
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you know, trying
to-- but they were fixed.
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And then soon I was watching it
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and I was fixed.
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It was a program, a TV program
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where there were
three contestants
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and there was a expert panel.
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And these three contestants
introduced themselves
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as the same person.
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And the panel had to figure out
by asking intelligent questions
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who was the real Mr. Jones.
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Before you know what,
I was so captured by it
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because I wanted to know
and I'm trying to figure it out
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and you know, I'm brilliant
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and I said,
contestant number one.
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It was number three.
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I mean, I was so far off.
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But you know, this
is about the situation
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you and I find ourselves
today concerning the future,
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the events that
work in the future.
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I mean, every evangelical book
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that comes out
now on the antichrist,
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it's someone else.
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Have you noticed that?
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I mean, if God is
right, and God is true
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and God is knowledge
and the Bible is true
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then it should be
easy to understand.
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But with every new
leader there's a new antichrist,
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with every new nation
that becomes a superpower,
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there's a new antichrist nation.
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There's some wild
prediction out there.
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I mean, really wild predictions.
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Someone said,
"Antichrist is a super person
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to come upon the
scene in the near future."
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Whatever that means,
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antichrist someone already born,
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growing up in the
Middle East, I heard that one.
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That was Jean Dixon by the way.
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Someone said, antichrist
is some super Jewish person
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from the tribe of Dan.
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By the way, there is no
longer any tribe called Dan.
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But the question is,
just who is the antichrist?
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The question we have to ask
is, just why is the antichrist?
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And the question we have to ask,
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just what is the antichrist?
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And so we turn
to the Word of God.
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In fact, I
believe it's important
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for us to understand
who the antichrist is
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because the Bible says he
will be the final deception,
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he'll deceive the nations.
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And we want to
be ready for that,
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we don't want to be deceived.
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So we want to know
who the antichrist is.
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Now the
antichrist must be important
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because much of the epistle John
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is given over to the antichrist.
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In fact Revelation
speaks about the antichrist
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and its deception and
its influence on religion
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and on the
theology or the doctrine
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of religion in the last days
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and how he will
deceive the nations
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and deceive not only the nations
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but deceive the church of today.
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And you know, he's
working-- he's at work already
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at every level of
society and our culture.
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I mean, this antichrist
is as real as Christ himself.
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I mean, terror personification
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of all that is
evil in our world.
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He is at work in
every level of society
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and every level culture
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I mean, he's
entered legislative halls
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and he's entered classrooms,
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he knocked on the
doors of our churches
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and climbed up into our pulpits
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and climbed into
our television set.
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He's entered out lives
to our senses of touch,
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sound, sight, smell and taste.
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He is the counter
of all that is true
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and yet he teaches at
the every level in classroom,
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in Sunday school,
yeah even Sabbath School.
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He's painted all the world gray.
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No black and
white, no objective truth,
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everything goes, he says.
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And he will
intensify his work even more
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so in the final
days the earth's history.
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So we need to be prepared,
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we need to see what
God says about antichrist
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so that we will not be
deceived in the last days.
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Now for us to find a clue
we must turn to the Bible.
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It doesn't matter what
I say about antichrist,
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doesn't matter what
some famous TV evangelist
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says about antichrist,
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it only matters what
God says about antichrist.
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Because there's
anyone who knows about
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antichrist is Christ.
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So we want to
hear what Christ says
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about antichrist, all right.
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And that's why I want to
turn to the Bible together.
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I first want to
turn to Ephesians
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to show you how
deceptive this power is.
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"We wrestle not
against flesh and blood,
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but against
principalities, against powers,
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against the rulers of
the darkness of this world,
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against spiritual
wickedness in high places."
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Notice, he says, that
according to the Bible
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the antichrist is a tyrant.
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The antichrist is an impostor.
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The antichrist is a
diabolical dictator.
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The antichrist is enemy of God
and the enemy of God's people.
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The antichrist is
a murderer, a liar
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and a miracle maker, all in one.
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He tells you one
thing and he means another.
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He tells you're
beautiful when you're ugly,
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he tells you're ugly
when you're beautiful.
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I mean, you can't
believe a word that he says
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and we need to understand
that because that's how serious
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it is what we
talk about tonight.
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According to the Bible
we find all these things.
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In the Book of Revelation
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the antichrist
makes the final attack,
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a final assault
and that final assault
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is not in the world,
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it's not against the
worldling it against the church,
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it's the final attack
against the remnant of God.
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That is made clear in
Revelation Chapter 12,
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13 and Chapter 18.
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Now it reminds me
of the Greek legend,
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you probably heard
about it, the Trojan Horse.
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I mean, John Bradshaw,
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in one of his
books tells about it,
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I borrowed it from--
Oh, no, I stole it from him.
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But I'm sure
before his life ends
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he's gonna steal a
lot for me all right.
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But anyway, I
thought it was great
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because I thought it
really illustrated the truth.
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You see, you remember the legend
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the Trojan War
began after Helen,
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the wife of the king
of Sparta left him to be
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with a man name
Paris to the city of Troy.
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The expedition to
avenge the Spartan King
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was unsuccessful
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so the Greek
warriors got together,
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sail to Troy in
a thousand ships.
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And the siege
against Troy lasted 10 year.
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They didn't get
anywhere, no progress.
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Nine years, no progress.
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But then they got an
idea, trickery, deception.
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They would build a Trojan horse
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and that horse,
it hollow inside,
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it was wooden and it was filled
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with armed
warriors outside the city.
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A Greek spy by
the name of Sinon,
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he persuaded the Trojans
that this horse was miraculous,
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that this horse
would bless their city,
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that if they could put
this horse in their city,
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I mean, they
would be invincible.
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I mean, they believed it.
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And so they wheeled
in the Trojan horse,
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locked the city gates.
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And there was a Trojan
horse in the city of Troy.
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When night came Sinon
open the back of the horse
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and came out the
soldiers, overcame the guards,
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threw open the gates
and the soldiers came in
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and destroyed the city.
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Wow.
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It seems so harmless
but did such a great damage.
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The Bible talks
about a Trojan horse
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in Revelation 13.
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I mean, the devil's plan
to low the world into sleep
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and false sense of
security and prepare the way
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for his final deadly attack
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and he's going to
work in these last days.
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Deception at a cosmic level,
deception at a human level.
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We will use--
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he will use political-religious
power and leaders
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and a political
confederacy in last days of man
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that will seek to
unite the whole world
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under the remnant of Revelation.
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And with that background,
let's turn our attention
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to the Bible
description of antichrist.
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But I'm gonna ask
you to do one thing,
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I want you to push
out all that you've heard,
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just make yourself available
to what God wants to say to you
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from His word tonight
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and then you come to
the conclusion, all right.
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Try to empty that
and try to just thinking
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what the Word of God says.
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Let's see if the
Word of God is reasonable.
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Remember, it doesn't matter
what I say about antichrist.
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I've tried to uphold
what here every night?
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Come on, a what?
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The Bible-- come on.
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Is that-- let me see your hands.
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I've been preaching the
Bible and Bible only, all right.
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Great.
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All right, I
want that to be true.
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Those of you who come
every night know that,
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that we've been
preaching the Bible.
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Remember, it doesn't matter
what the radio evangelist says,
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so what your pastor even says,
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it only matters with
the Word of God says,
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what the Bible says
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and there should be enough proof
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for us to
understand, for us to see.
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In fact, let's go to the Bible,
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let's go here to the
fist epistle of John 2:18.
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Many people think the antichrist
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is mentioned a lot in Daniel.
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It's mentioned.
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Many think it's
mentioned a lot in Revelation.
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It's mention.
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But where it really is mentioned
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where it develops
expositionly or exegetically
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which means step-by-step
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is there in the epistle of John.
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In 1 John 2:18, it says,
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"Little children,
it is the last time
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and as you heard the
antichrist shall come,
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even now are
there many antichrists
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where by we know
that it is the last time.
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"Notice the characteristic
of Antichrist's principal
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of understanding is
the context word used,
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use of the words or word.
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If you look
closely at the passage
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you will notice
that the word antichrist
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is used sometimes
singularly, in the single tense.
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So in other words,
when it says antichrist
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it speaks in the singular tense.
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Well, we want to know,
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what it means
antichrist ingular tense.
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Then it says about
the antichrists, plural.
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And so we say, well,
here's the antichrist
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then there is antichrists
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and then finally
in 1 John it says,
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not only is
there the antichrist,
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not only there are
antichrists, plural
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but he says there is the
spirit of the antichrist.
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So we need to look at
those three things tonight.
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We need to look at
the antichrist, singular,
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we need to look at
the antichrists, plural,
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we need to look
at the antichrist
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in the spirit of the antichrist.
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Now that's why significant,
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antichrist is
sometimes used singular.
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"Antichrist, when
used singular," what?
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"Referrers one who was
at enmity with the Christ
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from the very beginning.
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He started the war in heaven."
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You see, Antichrist was
there the angel warrior,
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who was called
son of the morning,
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who was one of
the angels of heaven,
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who was there leading
the choirs with heaven,
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who was there
equal to all angels.
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He was in heaven,
his name was Lucifer,
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son of the morning.
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He was a great singer there
and the great leader a music
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until pride came into his heart,
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until that came within his
soul he wanted to be like God.
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Out comes deception.
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I want to be like God,
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I'm gonna tell the
other angels I'm God
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and the other angels are going
to be leave this deception.
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And this is how the
great controversy began.
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This is how the battle began
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there in the
very courts of heaven.
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The antichrist was
there in the beginning,
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it was war, the
weapon was deception.
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The angel warrior
sought to control heaven
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and later he was cast out.
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Remember, he's
cast out to this earth,
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there came the struggle,
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he had touched
himself to this earth.
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God was
continually creating worlds.
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God was continually
creating places to dwell
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and there He
recreated human beings,
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He created them
from the dust to earth,
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and they were
tested, they had free will
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just as the
angels had free will,
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just as son of the
morning had free will,
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just as the angel the
choirs of heaven had free will.
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He chose to sin.
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He chose rebellion against God,
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and their even in
the Kingdom of Heaven he,
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the dark angel of all.
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And then in 1 John
2:14, 18, 22 it says,
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"I've written unto you, fathers,
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because you've known him
that is from the beginning."
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Antichrist is
from the beginning,
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not at the end,
not in the last day,
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the antichrist
is in the beginning,
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even before the words of
John were written from Patmos,
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he says, he was
in the beginning.
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"I've written
unto you, young man,
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because you are strong
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and the word of
God abideth in you
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and ye have
overcome the wicked one."
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Now notice, he use that
word, he is the wicked one.
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"Little children,
it is the last time,
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and as ye heard the
Antichrist should come
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even now are
there many antichrist,"
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many antichrist" whereby we know
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that it's the last time.
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Who is a liar
but he that denieth
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the Jesus if the Christ?
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He is antichrist,
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that denieth the
Father and the Son."
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Who is the wicked one?
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It's none other
than Satan himself.
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Listen, 1 John 3:8,
this is the whole exposition
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of the passage
concerning with the Antichrist.
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"He that committeth
sin is of the devil,
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for the devil
sinneth from the beginning."
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Who is he?
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The devil, the wicked one.
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"For this purpose the
Son of God was manifested,
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that he might destroy
the works of the devil."
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My dear friend, the
great enemy of mankind,
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the great enemy of
you and me is the devil.
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Never forget it.
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He is the power, pure
power behind our sinning.
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He is the power
behind our deception.
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He is the power
behind our weakness
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and he is the assaulting
one here in 1 John 3:8.
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He is antichrist,
when it's singular tense.
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No one else, he
sins from the beginning.
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Who's that? Satan.
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He's an angel warrior.
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Whose that? Satan.
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"And every
spirit that confesseth
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this not Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is not of God,
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this is that
spirit of antichrist."
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So he says this, the
antichrist is the antichrist
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and that's a
spirit of antichrist.
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I hope to show you
what the antichrist
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and the antichrists are
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and what the
spirit of antichrist
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is in the church.
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1 John 4:3,
"Whereof ye have heard
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that it should come,
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and even now
already it is in the world."
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You see most evangelicals
and most people today,
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prophetic preachers
today tell us the Antichrist
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is going to come
down at the end of time.
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You see, that is
the very deception
00:18:42.06\00:18:43.67
that Satan is
wanting you to believe.
00:18:43.70\00:18:45.86
He wants you to
relax, chill out,
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it's not here, it will come.
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No, it's here, sit
up, look up, it's here.
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And so they tell you,
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well, its way down
at the end of time.
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I mean, but it
says no, God says, no,
00:19:00.50\00:19:02.96
it's already
here the antichrist.
00:19:02.99\00:19:06.90
So we need to be
ready at all times
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to the deception of
this the antichrist.
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John 8:44, "Ye are of
your father the devil,
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and the lusts of
your father ye will do.
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He was a murderer
from the beginning,
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and abode not in the
truth," the Bible tells us about
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"because there
is no truth in him.
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When he speaketh a
lie, he speaketh of his own
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for he is a liar,
and the father of it."
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You can't
believe a word he says.
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Now notice, "And
there was war in heaven,
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Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon,
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the dragon
fought and his angels."
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This is where sin first begin.
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This was there at the
beginning of the antichrist,
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the one who was against Christ.
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Antichrist is the one
who was against Christ.
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And who was
first against Christ?
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It was the angel,
the choirs of heaven.
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Wow.
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Something for us to think about.
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"He prevailed not,
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neither was their place
found any more in heaven."
00:20:01.16\00:20:03.09
Notice the Bible says,
00:20:03.12\00:20:04.72
"Any more in heaven
and the great dragon"
00:20:04.75\00:20:06.69
Who? Satan.
00:20:06.72\00:20:08.09
Now the dragon,
00:20:08.12\00:20:09.17
"he's cast out,
the old serpent."
00:20:09.20\00:20:11.20
He's cast out.
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Notice the down fall of Lucifer
00:20:12.45\00:20:14.25
from an angel to a
dragon to the serpent,
00:20:14.28\00:20:17.22
to the one who deceives us
and he is cast out of heaven.
00:20:17.25\00:20:21.59
He's cast out and the Bible says
00:20:21.62\00:20:23.70
the "angels were
cast out with him.
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" By the way one-third
of the heavenly hosts sin,
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one-third of the
heavenly host followed Satan.
00:20:27.99\00:20:30.21
They were so
deceived by what he said,
00:20:30.24\00:20:32.05
and he said, come with me
and I'm gonna be like God,
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I will be like God,
you will be with me.
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And he was cast out.
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You see, sin cannot be
in the presence of Jesus.
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Hey, listen to me, God
is gonna take away your sin,
00:20:43.99\00:20:46.56
He's going to
cleanse you of your sin
00:20:46.59\00:20:48.07
so you can be in
the presence of Jesus.
00:20:48.10\00:20:51.02
He's gonna
cleanse you of your sin
00:20:51.05\00:20:52.17
so when He comes in glory
00:20:52.20\00:20:53.23
you'll be able to look up
and say, Lord, this is my God.
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He has saved us,
He` has saved us.
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Now, no, now there are,
00:21:00.79\00:21:04.00
will be and has
been the antichrist
00:21:04.03\00:21:07.85
from the very beginning
and that's what the Bible says,
00:21:07.88\00:21:10.71
"How art thou
fallen from heaven,
00:21:10.74\00:21:11.83
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
00:21:11.86\00:21:13.14
How art thou cut
down to the ground,
00:21:13.17\00:21:14.89
which didst weaken the nations!
00:21:14.92\00:21:16.51
For thou hast
said in thine heart,
00:21:16.54\00:21:17.96
I will ascend into " what? "
00:21:17.99\00:21:19.65
Into heaven, I will" do what? "
00:21:19.68\00:21:21.69
I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God,
00:21:21.72\00:21:23.95
I will sit also upon the
mount of the congregation,
00:21:23.98\00:21:26.20
in the sides of the north,
00:21:26.23\00:21:27.52
I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds,
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I will be like the most High.
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"There is the first deception.
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Follow me because I'm God.
00:21:34.05\00:21:37.08
Follow me because I'm
the spokesman for God.
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Follow me because my
decision are equal to God.
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Follow me.
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And we've been following
him ever since, ever since.
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He's borne the war with
Christ from the very beginning.
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No child born in
the Middle East here,
00:21:54.39\00:21:57.74
no future antichrist
there, but he has been,
00:21:57.77\00:22:01.69
he is and he will
be there till the end
00:22:01.72\00:22:04.76
when God will finally
crush him under His foot.
00:22:04.79\00:22:08.97
He was there.
00:22:09.00\00:22:10.37
My Bible says he
was there in the past,
00:22:10.40\00:22:12.71
he was there in
heaven, he was there to present
00:22:12.74\00:22:14.93
and he will be here
00:22:14.96\00:22:16.02
in the near
future, the antichrist.
00:22:16.05\00:22:18.34
And who is he?
00:22:18.37\00:22:19.43
The Bible says in Revelation 20,
00:22:19.46\00:22:21.31
that he is a deceiver.
00:22:21.34\00:22:22.92
Who is he?
00:22:22.95\00:22:23.98
The Bible says, he is
the prince of this world?
00:22:24.01\00:22:26.25
Who is he, the Bible
say he's the destroyer.
00:22:26.28\00:22:28.77
Revelation 9:11. Who is he?
00:22:28.80\00:22:31.07
He's the tempter, Matthew 4:3.
00:22:31.10\00:22:34.11
Who is he?
00:22:34.14\00:22:35.18
The Bible teaches us who he is.
00:22:35.21\00:22:37.00
He is sitting on the throne.
00:22:37.03\00:22:38.60
By the way, that's Revelation
2:13, this is Antichrist.
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He says, who is he?
He's the man of sin.
00:22:42.17\00:22:44.17
Who is he? He's
the son of perdition.
00:22:44.20\00:22:46.45
He is Lucifer.
00:22:46.48\00:22:48.07
He is Satan.
00:22:48.10\00:22:49.88
He is Beelzebub.
00:22:49.91\00:22:51.55
He is the one
00:22:51.58\00:22:53.04
who was in
enmity and antichrist.
00:22:53.07\00:22:56.60
So watch out for him.
00:22:56.63\00:22:58.85
He's no-- somebody in a little
red suit with a pitchfork.
00:22:58.88\00:23:05.85
He could be a beautiful angel,
00:23:05.88\00:23:08.38
revealing himself to you.
00:23:08.41\00:23:10.99
The only safeguard
is the Word of God.
00:23:11.02\00:23:16.23
Amen.
00:23:16.26\00:23:17.55
Because when he
comes in that deception,
00:23:17.58\00:23:19.23
when he comes in
a very form of Jesus
00:23:19.26\00:23:20.75
which he will, the Bible says,
00:23:20.78\00:23:22.18
you wouldn't be kept in
the miracles he'll perform,
00:23:22.21\00:23:24.91
great miracles
and signs and wonders
00:23:24.94\00:23:27.20
and people follow him.
00:23:27.23\00:23:29.02
I mean, there's the Christ.
No, that is the antichrist.
00:23:29.05\00:23:33.63
So close to the
real, the counterfeit.
00:23:33.66\00:23:37.34
When you look for
a counterfeit bill,
00:23:37.37\00:23:38.75
when they teach people to
watch for counterfeit bills,
00:23:38.78\00:23:41.12
they get the real bill.
00:23:41.15\00:23:44.64
You know the fake by the real.
00:23:44.67\00:23:46.66
Come on now.
00:23:46.69\00:23:47.82
You know, Amen.
00:23:47.85\00:23:48.95
You know the fake by the real.
00:23:48.98\00:23:52.03
And Jesus is,
00:23:52.06\00:23:53.83
Jesus is the
real, He's the real one.
00:23:53.86\00:23:57.41
Antichrist, who is He?
00:23:57.44\00:23:58.95
He's the author
and originator of sin.
00:23:58.98\00:24:02.35
Who is he?
00:24:02.38\00:24:03.41
He is the one
00:24:03.44\00:24:04.47
who cause sickness
and pain and death.
00:24:04.50\00:24:06.80
Who is he? I'm a
revealing who he is.
00:24:06.83\00:24:09.24
He is the accuser of
the believer before God,
00:24:09.27\00:24:12.73
Revelation 12:10.
00:24:12.76\00:24:14.64
Satan has always
been against Christ.
00:24:14.67\00:24:17.83
From times past
till this very day
00:24:17.86\00:24:19.62
and to the very future
until Christ destroy Satan.
00:24:19.65\00:24:25.75
You know, battles in the sky.
00:24:25.78\00:24:27.21
I mean, intrigue, high places.
00:24:27.24\00:24:29.14
I mean, heaven is
the ballet ground,
00:24:29.17\00:24:30.60
the universe is conquered,
the warrior gathers his armies
00:24:30.63\00:24:33.43
from the angelic
host of the past.
00:24:33.46\00:24:35.65
Wow, war in heaven.
00:24:35.68\00:24:37.24
Angel, son of morning
is not prince of darkness.
00:24:37.27\00:24:41.00
How can it happen?
00:24:41.03\00:24:43.39
How can an angel become a devil?
00:24:43.42\00:24:47.36
Choice. Choice.
00:24:47.39\00:24:51.32
What you choose.
00:24:51.35\00:24:53.77
Some of you here
in this auditorium,
00:24:53.80\00:24:55.53
you need to make choices.
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Some of the people watching
on television around the world,
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you've been
listening to these message,
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you need to make a choice
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either for Christ
or for antichrist.
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That's God up
making it available to you.
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I remember I was
preaching somewhere
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in the north in
one of the cities
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and a woman came up
to me after, she says,
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Halvorsen, I
wish I never met you.
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Couldn't you
imagine I'm such a nice guy.
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I mean, you
really should meet me.
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But I said, why?
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She said, well,
how you taught me
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everything I didn't believe
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and everything I
believe wasn't what was true
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and now you got me in a corner.
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I said, no, the Bible is
given you a way of escape.
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Amen.
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Better be a person walking alone
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then following the
crowd in the wrong direction.
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That's why the
Bible is given to us.
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Well, brother, I know you said,
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I see it in Bible but I
better run and ask my minister.
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What is he gonna give you
that the Bible can't give you?
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Oh, I got to run to my priest.
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What does a priest know?
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For a thousand years
he's been teaching things
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that you know is not true.
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So what am I going to go
to, the one who teaches me
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that's not true to
find out what's true?
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I tried that, I
went to my minister.
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I said to him,
Pastor, and I said,
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I just discovered
that Saturday was Sunday.
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He said, what do you mean?
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I said, while I
was reading the Bible
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I just become a Christian,
a born-again Christian.
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He was very happy for that,
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and I said-- He
said, what do you mean?
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I said, well, I discovered
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from the reading the Bible that
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Saturday is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
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And I went to him, he
said, of, it doesn't matter.
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Why should I have to
go to someone who says,
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it doesn't matter
when I could go to God
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who says it matter.
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Now if God says it matter
and he says it doesn't matter,
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who am I gonna
listen to God or man?
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That is the issue.
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That's the issue, God or man.
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Now the antichrist, singular
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but secondly,
follow me carefully,
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secondly, the
antichrist, plural.
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Now there's significance here.
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antichrist in the plural sense,
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it's about all who
align themselves with Satan.
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You see, it's been used
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to persecute the people of God
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from the beginning
down through the century.
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Sometimes even using
the very name of Christian,
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the very name of Christ,
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coming in a name of Christ
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to prosecute us, they burned us
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and Jerome, to
burn the reformers
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in the name of Christ.
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Fifty million people,
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50 million Protestants
were burned at the stake
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and persecuted to
death and thrown to the lion
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in the name of Christ.
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History reveals the fact.
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What does history reveals to us?
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Let's go to
history, let's go see.
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"Many will say
to me in that day,
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Lord, Lord, have we
not prophesied in thy name?
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And in thy name
have cast out devils?"
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So it doesn't
matter if he speaks
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in the name of Christ,
who uses the name of Christ.
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That doesn't necessary mean
that he's a follower of Christ.
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He may be a
follower of the antichrist
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not realizing it.
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I don't think he wakes
up in the morning says,
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I want to follow antichrist.
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But the
decisions we make about God
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and about the Bible and
about what the Bible says
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that is what makes us
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whether we are
followers of the antichrist.
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Now notice, he says this,
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"And in thy name
done many wonderful works?
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And then will I
profess unto them, What?
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I never knew
you: depart from me,
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ye that work iniquity."
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Wow.
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But Lord, have we not done
these miracles in Your name?
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Have we not done these great
holy meetings in Your name?
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Have we not bought
thousands and thousands
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to come worship
You in Your name?
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Jesus says, depart from me.
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I know you not, I know you not.
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How can that happen, friend?
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How can that happen?
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For the mystery of
inequity this is how it happens.
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"For the mystery of
iniquity doth already work,
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only he who now
letteth will let,
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until he be
taken out of the way.
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And then shall
that Wicked be revealed,
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and the Lord shall
consume with" what?
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"The spirit of his
mouth, and shall destroy
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the brightness of his coming."
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Wow, that's
serious, isn't it, friend?
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I mean, that is really serious.
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That's serious. The
antichrist were there.
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Listen to me now,
they were there at Ephesus.
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The antichrist was at
Ephesus in the Nicolaitans.
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They had lost their
first love of the gospel,
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they were, the
antichrist at Smyrna
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in a synagogue of Satan.
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They were there at Pergamos
and Thyatira and Laodicea.
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Read the first
two to three chapters
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of the Book of Revelation.
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They were at Laodicea,
the spirit had the influence
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of the Laodiceans
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with the spirit
of the antichrist,
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down through the centuries.
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Listen to me, down
through the centuries
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the antichrist would have
work in the church and why not,
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where else would
Satan work and why not?
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Why wouldn't he want
to deceive the church?
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He already has the world,
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so he's gonna
deceive the church.
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Watch...
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hey, don't
believe anything you see,
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anything you
hear, look at the word.
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And the word
tells you who he is,
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stay away, stay away.
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They were their.
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You see, the down
through the centuries,
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the antichrists at work
in the church and why not?
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Antediluvian
world, pagan and perverse
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so much that the judgment came
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and fell upon
them without mercy.
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The days at Carmel,
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there was the
apostasy of Baal, Balaam
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and the days of dark
ruled the kings and the judges.
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Christianity felt the
onslaughts of antichrist.
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The filing it with
traditions and false doctrines
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and patronizing the church
and it became the antichrist.
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They created the Dark Age.
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And the Christian church
was baptized into paganism
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and theologies truth away.
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They left their first love.
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Listen, leave your first love
and you're in dangerous place.
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He'll suck you out of the church
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faster than you can turn around.
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Forsake your first love,
and he'll you pull you away
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from Christ
faster than you could--
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that's what happened.
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You see, they did
their best to make non-effect
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the efficacy of the Cross.
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They tried to pull away
the gospel from the church
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and the grace of God
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and the wonderful
teaching of God's grace and love
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and they made God
mean and tough and stern.
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They were the antichrist,
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false prophets and
priests and yeah popes.
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At one time three popes
call, claiming to be a pope
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and all claiming
absolutely authority
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and power from Christ.
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Down through the dark ages,
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listen to me, the
church was corrupted.
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Leaders that had
no right to lead,
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theology of corruption.
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John outlines not
only the political stance
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of antichrist in Revelation
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but the theological corruption
caused by the antichrist.
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I mean, it was
doctrinally corrupt.
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First of all they
denied the deity of Christ,
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they tried to
make Christ so human,
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He was no more than a
man wrapped in divinity.
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Listen to me, He
was God of very gods.
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Listen to me, he
was a God of every gods,
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He was a deity,
He was the Son of God
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not less than the Father,
He was equal to the Father,
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He was equal in every sense.
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And when they denied that
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there came schism in the church.
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Listen to this, "Who is a liar
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but he that denieth
that Jesus is the Christ?
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He is antichrist, that
denieth the Father and the Son."
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What is he saying here?
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He that denies the
trinity, the Father, Son
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and the Holy
Spirit is in here, too.
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If he denies the Father,
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Son and Holy
Spirit, he is antichrist.
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I'm not saying that.
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Sean is saying that.
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And we have a lot
of them running around.
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I take claming even
to very name of Christ
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yet deceptively
teaching contrary to Christ,
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deceiving to
miracles and signs and wonders
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and false tongues and all that.
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I mean, listen, and yet denying
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the very truth
of the Word of God.
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Listen to me, friend,
it's not how high you jump,
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or how loud you shout,
it's how straight you walk.
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Amen. Give God praise, tonight.
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Give God praise.
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Denying the truth, corrupting
the Christian message.
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I mean, listen to me,
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deceiving a
multitude with great signs
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and wonders and
miracles, Revelation 13.
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And I'm gonna reveal
that on Sunday night,
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the real, the real
beast of Revelation,
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the real mark in that beast.
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The centuries
the tyrannical hands
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of despotic system that rages
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in the whole world
a war against Christ.
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We call those
days the Dark Ages.
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Read it sometime.
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I mean, they were there,
civil and religious power
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forging its
change on the conscience,
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telling the world,
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using the state to
enforce its stigmas.
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Using the state to
enforce its doctrine.
00:34:37.75\00:34:40.48
Using its state to make
them pray to the leader,
00:34:40.51\00:34:45.83
to pray to the hierarchy,
to bow before the hierarchy.
00:34:45.86\00:34:50.17
They forced them in chain.
00:34:50.20\00:34:53.75
No wonder why we
call it the Dark Ages.
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He changed the laws.
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And I'm gonna show
you that on Sunday night,
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he admits it, he
thought to change times
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and laws and soon
the Sabbath was cast out.
00:35:06.96\00:35:09.46
I mean, some other things that
was so important to Christians,
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baptism by
immersion, that was thrown out.
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And the idea that God
would destroy the wicked,
00:35:14.44\00:35:16.91
by the way, I am
gonna talk on that.
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Destroy, the
wicked, listen to me,
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and all they came up
with hell and gehenna.
00:35:20.73\00:35:24.88
I mean, they came up
with all these ideas of limbo
00:35:24.91\00:35:27.68
and purgatory and--
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Not in the word of God at all.
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Absolution.
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You could pay
your way into heaven,
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that's why Martin
Luther stood against it.
00:35:36.26\00:35:39.08
That's why Martin Luther a monk,
00:35:39.11\00:35:41.16
went up against the
wall and hammered his thesis
00:35:41.19\00:35:45.94
on the wall and
rebelled against Rome,
00:35:45.97\00:35:48.55
rebelled against that darkness,
00:35:48.58\00:35:50.32
rebelled against
that persecution.
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And there was Huss
and Jerome and Wycliffe
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and-- I mean, acumensy denies
00:35:56.03\00:35:59.21
freedom of religion to minority.
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They were the
antichrist and in last days
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they will manifest themselves
again in a triple alliance.
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And a cult fall in monistic,
humanistic, secularist,
00:36:06.19\00:36:09.81
pagan, Protestantism and
fallen faith was Romanism.
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You'll see more and
more corrupt of angels
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parlance for the most money,
00:36:18.10\00:36:20.81
the biggest kingdoms
and the Messiah complex.
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I have nothing to
do with your spiritual,
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I can share with
you the Word of God
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but only Christ
can make use spiritual.
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Only Jesus Christ can do for you
00:36:32.29\00:36:34.53
what you need for your heart.
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I can't do it for you, I can't.
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I can pull the Word of God,
I can preach the truth of God
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but I can't in any
way make you spiritual,
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only God can do that.
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Amen.
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Don't place
your faith in people,
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place it in God.
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Listen to me
carefully, the last stage
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will see a resurgence
of the triple alliance.
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We will speak about it
in the mark of the beast.
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This one thing I know and
that is this triple alliance
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will take control of government,
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of churches, of seminaries
and of the whole culture.
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And John, here in the epistle
warns us against antichrist,
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against the
antichrists which are many,
00:37:12.15\00:37:17.33
and the spirit of antichrist.
00:37:17.36\00:37:20.00
Now I know when I speak on this,
00:37:20.03\00:37:22.71
some of you will be disturbed,
00:37:22.74\00:37:24.75
that's all right
00:37:24.78\00:37:28.07
because the spirit of antichrist
00:37:28.10\00:37:30.12
is not out there,
the spirit of antichrist
00:37:30.15\00:37:34.17
is in the church
that claims Christ.
00:37:34.20\00:37:38.00
Yeah, men and
women in the last days
00:37:38.03\00:37:39.63
will be devil inspired.
00:37:39.66\00:37:42.18
Look around, every
year, every week, every day
00:37:42.21\00:37:46.19
the spirit of antichrist.
00:37:46.22\00:37:47.62
I mean listen to talk shows,
00:37:47.65\00:37:50.03
they always
defend evil against good.
00:37:50.06\00:37:51.92
Have you heard them?
00:37:51.95\00:37:53.37
I mean, they make fun
and ridicule spiritual people
00:37:53.40\00:37:55.81
and honesty and
morality, they hate it.
00:37:55.84\00:37:58.99
Pure--talk about purity,
00:37:59.02\00:38:00.64
try to teach your
teenager's purity,
00:38:00.67\00:38:03.02
try to teach them family values.
00:38:03.05\00:38:06.26
I mean, oh, they
don't want to hear
00:38:06.29\00:38:08.12
nothing about that, not at all.
00:38:08.15\00:38:10.36
I mean, they preach on and on
00:38:10.39\00:38:12.12
but they don't want to
really hear the talk shows
00:38:12.15\00:38:14.50
but that's the
spirit of the antichrist.
00:38:14.53\00:38:16.79
That's the spirit of
dishonesty in juvenile crime
00:38:16.82\00:38:19.96
and teenage
murders and white supremacy
00:38:19.99\00:38:22.47
and skinheads and punkers
00:38:22.50\00:38:23.81
and rock stars to promote
immorality and drug culture.
00:38:23.84\00:38:27.26
Now I know you like
pretty little sermons
00:38:27.29\00:38:28.95
with bubbling books but
we are at the last time.
00:38:28.98\00:38:32.82
Amen.
00:38:32.85\00:38:35.41
They try to get
allies our children.
00:38:42.32\00:38:44.62
Come on, now.
00:38:44.65\00:38:47.01
Walk down the street
with the bridges that--
00:38:47.04\00:38:48.65
come on now.
00:38:48.68\00:38:54.70
God save me from
prison, I am not going back.
00:38:54.73\00:39:01.08
Glorifying violence,
immorality, drugs, hate,
00:39:01.11\00:39:08.40
that is the
spirit of antichrist.
00:39:08.43\00:39:10.45
Music with mixed messages
00:39:10.48\00:39:12.11
and
disconnected message of hell,
00:39:12.14\00:39:14.02
to hate, to make
babies, get high,
00:39:14.05\00:39:16.90
lyrics written in
hell and they sing it
00:39:16.93\00:39:20.37
and they claim to be Christ.
00:39:20.40\00:39:24.03
And they claim to be saved.
00:39:24.06\00:39:28.64
Saved for what?
00:39:28.67\00:39:32.79
We wonder why our
culture is corrupt,
00:39:32.82\00:39:35.47
our world is doomed?
00:39:35.50\00:39:37.82
It's the spirit
of Christ everywhere.
00:39:37.85\00:39:40.38
Today we hear a lot
about meaningful relationships,
00:39:40.41\00:39:43.13
shadow thought
short the relationship.
00:39:43.16\00:39:45.67
Listen to me, friend,
God wants you to be happy,
00:39:45.70\00:39:48.30
God want you to come together,
God wants to make you one,
00:39:48.33\00:39:52.08
just as He wants to
make you one in Christ,
00:39:52.11\00:39:54.01
He wants to make you one.
00:39:54.04\00:39:55.10
He says, He loves the family.
00:39:55.13\00:39:58.65
I've been married 56 years.
00:39:58.68\00:40:02.58
That camera's in my way.
00:40:02.61\00:40:05.01
My girl is sitting over there.
00:40:05.04\00:40:07.62
Listen to me, you think
God didn't mean her for me?
00:40:07.65\00:40:11.92
Did I down more joy
by being faithful to her
00:40:11.95\00:40:14.58
and her faithful to me?
00:40:14.61\00:40:15.86
I don't have to
go on a trip in worry
00:40:15.89\00:40:17.32
where she's gonna be
and I don't have to go on--
00:40:17.35\00:40:19.52
and she don't
have to go on a trip
00:40:19.55\00:40:20.99
and I wonder
where she's gonna be.
00:40:21.02\00:40:24.10
Oh, but we're soul mates.
00:40:25.70\00:40:31.51
He has a red
car, I have a red car,
00:40:31.54\00:40:33.17
we have something in
common, let's live together.
00:40:33.20\00:40:35.72
No, that's not soul mate.
00:40:35.75\00:40:36.99
You want to know
what a soul mate is?
00:40:37.02\00:40:38.50
He prays with you. Amen.
00:40:38.53\00:40:40.89
That's the soul mate.
00:40:40.92\00:40:43.07
Goes to church with
you, that's a soul mate.
00:40:43.10\00:40:47.10
Give's God
testimony, that's a soul mate.
00:40:47.13\00:40:49.51
I mean, come on
now, come on now.
00:40:49.54\00:40:54.44
Drug culture
destroying our children.
00:40:54.47\00:40:58.63
Meth, terrible.
00:40:58.66\00:41:01.08
I worked with these people,
I work in the inner cities,
00:41:01.11\00:41:05.38
I have an anti-drug program,
00:41:05.41\00:41:06.95
I have a race team,
a motor-cross race team
00:41:06.98\00:41:09.78
and we go into the
schools of the inner cities
00:41:09.81\00:41:11.94
and we talk against
gangs and drugs and--
00:41:11.97\00:41:14.75
let me tell you,
it's a terrible thing.
00:41:14.78\00:41:18.06
It's ruing out nation
and our boys and girls
00:41:18.09\00:41:21.75
are listening to their lies
and it's a lie that Satan uses.
00:41:21.78\00:41:26.21
Oh, this is high, man.
00:41:26.24\00:41:28.25
High?
00:41:28.28\00:41:29.34
It's as high as hell is low.
00:41:29.37\00:41:32.42
It's as high as hell is low.
00:41:32.45\00:41:34.40
Turn away from
it, don't be involved
00:41:34.43\00:41:37.68
and if you're involved
in it now be sure to see me.
00:41:37.71\00:41:40.43
I want to anoint you
in the name in the spirit
00:41:40.46\00:41:42.30
and I want to see
God deliver you from it.
00:41:42.33\00:41:44.37
Listen to me,
give your life to God
00:41:44.40\00:41:46.39
and He will do that for you.
00:41:46.42\00:41:49.37
Growing family
values everywhere.
00:41:49.40\00:41:51.74
Listen to me, they
are really partying.
00:41:51.77\00:41:55.28
I was down-- I
go down in the areas
00:41:55.31\00:41:57.18
where they have nude bars,
00:41:57.21\00:41:58.24
nude restaurants,
topless donut shop.
00:41:58.27\00:42:00.65
That takes the cake.
00:42:00.68\00:42:03.38
Come on now.
00:42:03.41\00:42:05.33
Exploiting women, corrupting
the morals of our children
00:42:05.36\00:42:10.60
and that's the
spirit of antichrist.
00:42:10.63\00:42:12.92
It pervades every
area of our whole society,
00:42:12.95\00:42:16.42
condones what has been condemned
00:42:16.45\00:42:18.72
in the
scripture for 2,000 years.
00:42:18.75\00:42:21.11
Wonder why we as a society
00:42:21.14\00:42:22.36
are suffering from
the sins to the sodomites?
00:42:22.39\00:42:25.51
Secular press, the
theatre, arts are creating
00:42:25.54\00:42:27.63
a violent
immoral world and culture
00:42:27.66\00:42:29.99
and then they
wonder what's wrong.
00:42:30.02\00:42:32.99
The only hope is
coming of Jesus Christ
00:42:33.02\00:42:34.79
back to earth again
to redeem us and free us.
00:42:34.82\00:42:39.78
And those who
have no relationship
00:42:39.81\00:42:42.04
with Jesus Christ
00:42:42.07\00:42:43.55
will call
anything a relationship,
00:42:43.58\00:42:46.10
not only
society but the churches
00:42:46.13\00:42:47.66
that help create the
spirit of antichrist.
00:42:47.69\00:42:50.31
They get up in their pulpit
00:42:50.34\00:42:51.37
and they preach
against the moral law of God.
00:42:51.40\00:42:54.00
They say, the law of
God is done away with
00:42:54.03\00:42:56.08
because they don't want to
face the Fourth Commandment.
00:42:56.11\00:42:58.11
You're hanging from
the Empire State Building
00:42:58.14\00:43:00.10
on ten link chain,
every link is important.
00:43:00.13\00:43:04.04
And what God said
remember, you better remember.
00:43:04.07\00:43:06.91
Amen.
00:43:06.94\00:43:09.07
You know Preacher,
you don't understand,
00:43:09.10\00:43:10.38
I'm-- No, I do understand.
00:43:10.41\00:43:15.95
We created the
spirit of antichrist.
00:43:15.98\00:43:18.40
And let me tell
you, when a church
00:43:18.43\00:43:19.76
who think yourself so righteous,
00:43:19.79\00:43:22.51
you look your
noses down on everybody,
00:43:22.54\00:43:25.79
you condemn them, you
look at these new infants,
00:43:25.82\00:43:29.21
you think you are superior,
00:43:29.24\00:43:31.67
you want them to
get it up to your level,
00:43:31.70\00:43:34.38
you spend all your time
trying to make them like you
00:43:34.41\00:43:36.93
when they should be made
00:43:36.96\00:43:37.99
by the Holy
Spirit by Jesus Christ.
00:43:38.02\00:43:40.31
Amen.
00:43:40.34\00:43:43.54
With your
hardness and your legalism
00:43:43.57\00:43:45.62
you're destroying the gospel
00:43:45.65\00:43:47.17
and you're destroying
the way that God saves us
00:43:47.20\00:43:49.68
and you're
trying to get to heaven
00:43:49.71\00:43:51.00
on your own bootstraps.
00:43:51.03\00:43:52.52
You're not gonna make it,
00:43:52.55\00:43:53.66
you're not gonna
keep enough Sabbaths
00:43:53.69\00:43:55.11
that's going to get you there.
00:43:55.14\00:43:56.27
You're not gonna
do enough good things
00:43:56.30\00:43:57.81
that are gonna get you there.
00:43:57.84\00:43:58.87
You need to
surrender to Jesus Christ
00:43:58.90\00:44:01.37
and uphold Jesus
as Lord evermore.
00:44:01.40\00:44:04.96
That is the
spirit of antichrist.
00:44:04.99\00:44:09.20
That is the
spirit of antichrist.
00:44:09.23\00:44:11.34
And in the midst of all this
00:44:11.37\00:44:13.35
God is a preparing a
people, do you hear me?
00:44:13.38\00:44:15.24
God is preparing a
people in the midst of all this.
00:44:15.27\00:44:18.22
My Bible tells me,
00:44:18.25\00:44:20.02
"For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood,
00:44:20.05\00:44:21.59
but against
principalities, against powers,
00:44:21.62\00:44:23.75
against the rulers of
the darkness of this world,
00:44:23.78\00:44:26.05
against spiritual
wickedness in high places."
00:44:26.08\00:44:29.03
Wow.
00:44:29.06\00:44:30.53
That' the Word of God.
00:44:30.56\00:44:32.94
Families.
00:44:32.97\00:44:34.14
Isn't that beautiful?
00:44:34.17\00:44:35.61
There's nothing more beautiful--
00:44:35.64\00:44:37.02
when do I get
Christmas we love it
00:44:37.05\00:44:38.88
and we get them all-- I
know there's some scrooges.
00:44:38.91\00:44:43.61
You know, how paganism it is.
00:44:43.64\00:44:44.78
It's not pagan in my family,
00:44:44.81\00:44:46.39
we love each
other, we gather together.
00:44:46.42\00:44:49.16
And my grandkids
come and my kids come
00:44:49.19\00:44:54.05
and family gathers around.
00:44:54.08\00:44:56.59
We have the greatest time.
00:44:56.62\00:44:58.86
We go out swimming together.
00:44:58.89\00:45:00.00
The old man leading
them to the manatee.
00:45:00.03\00:45:03.54
Listen to me, that's family.
00:45:03.57\00:45:06.66
Won't trade it in for nothing.
00:45:06.69\00:45:08.89
Every day my son calls me
the minister of the gospel,
00:45:08.92\00:45:12.36
every day my daughter calls me,
00:45:12.39\00:45:13.95
every day my
grandchildren call me.
00:45:13.98\00:45:18.10
One or two of them call, I
know at least calls me everyday
00:45:18.13\00:45:21.46
and the others call
me at least once a week.
00:45:21.49\00:45:24.60
And if they don't, I call them.
00:45:24.63\00:45:27.20
They rather call me
that me call them, all right.
00:45:27.23\00:45:29.80
Anyway God is
wonderful and God is good
00:45:29.83\00:45:34.09
and we want to
know that Jesus Christ.
00:45:34.12\00:45:37.06
The three things
antichrist cannot do,
00:45:37.09\00:45:38.55
he cannot penetrate
the blood of Christ.
00:45:38.58\00:45:40.08
That is a fact. Put
the blood on your heart.
00:45:40.11\00:45:43.28
The devil cannot
only penetrate the blood,
00:45:43.31\00:45:45.45
he cannot
penetrate the armor of God,
00:45:45.48\00:45:47.09
dressed in the armor of God.
00:45:47.12\00:45:48.42
In the morning, when you get up,
00:45:48.45\00:45:49.65
put the armor on.
00:45:49.68\00:45:50.75
Listen, devil try to defeat you
00:45:50.78\00:45:52.32
but he cannot defeat
the one in the armor of God.
00:45:52.35\00:45:54.45
And then, well, someone
said, I want to be spiritual.
00:45:54.48\00:45:56.83
There it is. And
cannot read your mind.
00:45:56.86\00:46:00.42
Hey, so give God praise,
00:46:00.45\00:46:02.54
your heart today
with Jesus, amen.
00:46:02.57\00:46:05.18
And God is happy,
God is rejoicing with you
00:46:05.21\00:46:08.08
and the devil hates praise,
he hates the name of Jesus.
00:46:08.11\00:46:11.48
Quote the name of
Jesus, quote scripture.
00:46:11.51\00:46:13.49
I mean, it's all
there in the Word of God.
00:46:13.52\00:46:15.80
"He shall speak great
words against the most High,
00:46:15.83\00:46:17.76
and shall wear out the saints"
00:46:17.79\00:46:18.82
I am going to say more
about that on Sunday night.
00:46:18.85\00:46:20.86
"To think to
change times and laws
00:46:20.89\00:46:22.64
and they shall be given
into his hand until the time
00:46:22.67\00:46:24.26
and times and the
dividing of time."
00:46:24.29\00:46:26.03
And there it is speaking
about the beast of Revelation.
00:46:26.06\00:46:29.77
"And he had power to give life
unto the image of the beast,
00:46:29.80\00:46:31.72
that the image of the
beast should both speak,
00:46:31.75\00:46:33.24
and cause that as
many as would not worship
00:46:33.27\00:46:35.03
the image of the
beast should be killed."
00:46:35.06\00:46:37.10
This power, this religious power
00:46:37.13\00:46:39.10
is going to again affect
00:46:39.13\00:46:41.57
the lives of people as
they did in the Dark Ages.
00:46:41.60\00:46:45.03
And it's coming,
it's coming in America.
00:46:45.06\00:46:48.27
"And he that
leadeth into captivity
00:46:48.30\00:46:49.56
shall go into
captivity, he that killeth
00:46:49.59\00:46:51.66
with the sword must
be killed with the sword.
00:46:51.69\00:46:53.30
Here is the patience and
the faith of the saints."
00:46:53.33\00:46:55.89
Don't be deceived.
00:46:55.92\00:46:57.30
"And they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb,
00:46:57.33\00:46:59.31
by the testimony--
00:46:59.34\00:47:01.30
and they loved not
their lives even unto" What?
00:47:01.33\00:47:04.76
"Death."
00:47:04.79\00:47:06.25
It was during the
time of the Roman Empire
00:47:06.28\00:47:08.27
and there were Christians
00:47:08.30\00:47:09.50
and they were to be
thrown to the lions.
00:47:09.53\00:47:11.30
But instead one captain
or leader of the legionnaires
00:47:11.33\00:47:15.21
he decided the best thing
to do was way up in the north,
00:47:15.24\00:47:18.01
Put them out on a frozen lake
00:47:18.04\00:47:19.81
and let's see how
their faith would stand.
00:47:19.84\00:47:22.25
And so they cast
out on this frozen lake,
00:47:22.28\00:47:23.91
it was late at night.
00:47:23.94\00:47:25.08
And the Roman soldiers
built a fire on the shoreline,
00:47:25.11\00:47:28.46
hoping that it would
entice them to come in
00:47:28.49\00:47:31.00
and they would
sing, Forty wrestlers,
00:47:31.03\00:47:32.69
wrestling for thee O Christ
00:47:32.72\00:47:34.42
Claim for thee the victory
00:47:34.45\00:47:36.21
And ask of thee a crown
Forty wrestlers, wrestling
00:47:36.24\00:47:39.86
And after late into the night,
00:47:39.89\00:47:42.00
one came running
out from the lake
00:47:42.03\00:47:43.88
and fell by the fire.
00:47:43.91\00:47:45.82
And they heard 39 wrestlers,
wrestling for thee O Christ,
00:47:45.85\00:47:50.07
Claim of thee a crown.
00:47:50.10\00:47:51.34
Listen, and then one
of the Roman legionnaires
00:47:51.37\00:47:54.17
through off his armor
and threw down his armor
00:47:54.20\00:47:57.40
and he ran out onto the
lake to be with the Christian.
00:47:57.43\00:48:00.99
And you heard again,
00:48:01.02\00:48:02.48
Forty wrestlers,
wrestling for thee O Christ
00:48:02.51\00:48:06.66
Claim of thee the victory
00:48:06.69\00:48:08.90
And ask of thee a crown
00:48:08.93\00:48:13.97
What is better than
that, my dear friend?
00:48:14.00\00:48:16.24
Listen to me, that
is good news, good news
00:48:16.27\00:48:19.68
that we can turn to this
Jesus in the coldest night.
00:48:19.71\00:48:22.89
We can turn to
Jesus in the hardest time.
00:48:22.92\00:48:26.50
We can turn to Jesus
when men are seducing us
00:48:26.53\00:48:29.61
with their false
doctrinaire, their false ideas
00:48:29.64\00:48:32.20
and trying to deceive us
00:48:32.23\00:48:34.06
like Satan himself
from the beginning.
00:48:34.09\00:48:35.73
And we can look
to Jesus and He says,
00:48:35.76\00:48:37.84
come son, come daughter,
this is the way, walk in it.
00:48:37.87\00:48:40.88
And you can take
that step by faith
00:48:40.91\00:48:43.36
and even if it
means turning away,
00:48:43.39\00:48:45.26
you take that step by faith.
00:48:45.29\00:48:47.80
It's better to walk alone
00:48:47.83\00:48:50.10
than to walk in the
wrong direction with the crowd.
00:48:50.13\00:48:52.91
That's what
Jesus is saying here.
00:48:52.94\00:48:54.89
He's saying I'm
calling the faithful
00:48:54.92\00:48:57.64
and that is good news.
00:48:57.67\00:48:59.80
Dark is the night
of the antichrist,
00:48:59.83\00:49:01.90
dark is the night of
the reign of the antichrist
00:49:01.93\00:49:05.70
but darker still is the
spirit that pervades culture
00:49:05.73\00:49:10.87
and church in the last days
00:49:10.90\00:49:14.61
the spirit of the antichrist.
00:49:14.64\00:49:18.06
May you not be
deceived but you look to Him
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who is the author,
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who is the
finisher of your faith.
00:49:24.88\00:49:28.23
And that faith is in
Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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Another Bible
question we'll look at,
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and thank you for
your Bible questions.
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"If hell doesn't burn
until after the millennium
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and after Jesus' returns,
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doesn't that take
away some on the motivation
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for people to be saved?"
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If there's no hell burning now
and I think I can add to that,
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if there's no
eternally burning hell,
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doesn't it take away the
motivation for some people?
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Maybe for some, but I hope not.
00:50:35.47\00:50:38.30
Maybe that takes
away the motivation
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from those who
don't really understand
00:50:40.42\00:50:42.32
how salvation works.
00:50:42.35\00:50:45.04
You know the truth.
00:50:45.07\00:50:46.83
Some people have
what we might call
00:50:46.86\00:50:48.34
a fire escape religion.
00:50:48.37\00:50:51.18
They get religion
00:50:51.21\00:50:53.00
just so they
can escape the fire.
00:50:53.03\00:50:55.10
They've been told
the hell is so bad,
00:50:55.13\00:50:57.91
I know some of this
preaching where hell is so hot
00:50:57.94\00:51:01.32
and sinner are going
to burn there forever,
00:51:01.35\00:51:03.34
oh, it's going to be--
00:51:03.37\00:51:04.51
I don't think hell
is going to be a picnic
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by any stretch of imagination
00:51:05.84\00:51:07.21
but the motivation for
someone to come to Jesus
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isn't to escape the fire.
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You know we read in 1 John 4:19
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and actually in verse 16.
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It says, "God is love."
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That's right in the
middle of the verse.
00:51:19.60\00:51:21.14
Then verse 19, "We love him,
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so that we don't go to hell."
00:51:24.49\00:51:27.12
That's not what it says.
00:51:27.15\00:51:28.36
"We love him, because" why?
00:51:28.39\00:51:30.87
"Because He first loved us."
00:51:30.90\00:51:32.90
Not because we want to
escape some punishment.
00:51:32.93\00:51:37.32
If knowing that
hell doesn't burn
00:51:37.35\00:51:39.28
forever takes away
the motivation for some
00:51:39.31\00:51:41.04
then I don't know what to do.
00:51:41.07\00:51:42.69
We are drawn by the love
of God to want to be saved.
00:51:42.72\00:51:46.94
God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son.
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Whatever happens to the wicked,
00:51:50.27\00:51:51.79
that's kind of a
different matter.
00:51:51.82\00:51:54.34
Our motivation for following
and serving God is that
00:51:54.37\00:51:56.70
God is good, God is love.
00:51:56.73\00:51:58.38
He only wants
the very best for us.
00:51:58.41\00:52:00.25
He's magnificent.
Jesus is our great Savoir.
00:52:00.28\00:52:02.90
There is a
perfect heaven that awaits
00:52:02.93\00:52:04.82
where we can be happy
forever with God our Lord,
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our maker, our best friend.
00:52:09.53\00:52:14.79
Hell fire, you
don't want to go there,
00:52:14.82\00:52:17.04
that's gonna be no fun.
00:52:17.07\00:52:18.63
Will it burn
forever? No, it won't.
00:52:18.66\00:52:20.84
Should that
impact our motivation
00:52:20.87\00:52:23.75
for following
Jesus and being saved?
00:52:23.78\00:52:26.39
No, it shouldn't impact
that in any way, shape or form.
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Time for one
more Bible question.
00:52:30.91\00:52:32.24
And this the
question we're looking at,
00:52:32.27\00:52:34.51
"do lost people burn
forever for as long time lasts?"
00:52:34.54\00:52:38.50
We'll answer that
quickly, no, they don't.
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How do know that?
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Well, there are
several verses in the Bible,
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many in fact
that make that clear.
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For the sake of
time, I'll look at one.
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It's in the last
book of the Old Testament,
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right before Matthew
is the Book of Malachi.
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And I'll look in Malachi
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Chapter 3 sorry
Chapter 4 starting in verse 1.
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Malachi 4:1, " For,
behold, the day comes,
00:53:04.12\00:53:08.12
that shall burn as an oven,
00:53:08.15\00:53:10.44
and all the proud, yea,
and all that do wickedly,
00:53:10.47\00:53:13.01
shall be stubble
and the day that comes
00:53:13.04\00:53:16.02
shall burn them up,
says the Lord of hosts,
00:53:16.05\00:53:19.04
that it shall leave them
neither root nor branch."
00:53:19.07\00:53:22.22
Listen to this, verse 3,
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"You shall tread down the wicked
00:53:24.09\00:53:26.84
for they shall be ashes
under the soles of your feet
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in the day that I shall do this,
00:53:31.63\00:53:33.37
says the Lord of hosts."
00:53:33.40\00:53:35.50
The wicked turned to ashes.
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Very, very clear.
00:53:38.62\00:53:40.60
You know, it says,
further back in the Bible
00:53:40.63\00:53:42.34
that the wicked
consume into smoke,
00:53:42.37\00:53:44.42
did you know that?
00:53:44.45\00:53:45.57
It says, there will
be like the fat of lambs,
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nothing left of them.
00:53:48.11\00:53:49.79
Smoke, gone,
disappears into the air.
00:53:49.82\00:53:53.26
All we know
that, that will be left
00:53:53.29\00:53:54.42
of the wicked is ashes.
00:53:54.45\00:53:56.78
Can they burn forever?
00:53:56.81\00:53:58.42
It's not possible
that they can burn forever.
00:53:58.45\00:54:00.97
If you want to base your
faith or what the Bible says.
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Psalm 37:20, "The
wicked shall perish,
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and the enemies of the Lord
shall be as the fat of lambs
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they shall consume, into
smoke they shall consume away."
00:54:10.31\00:54:15.83
And let me appeal for your sense
00:54:15.86\00:54:17.54
of your sense about
what God is really like.
00:54:17.57\00:54:22.26
Ask yourself,
what does it make God
00:54:22.29\00:54:26.50
if He would burn people forever?
00:54:26.53\00:54:31.81
Have you ever been burned?
00:54:31.84\00:54:34.00
Even a burn on
your figure on your hand
00:54:34.03\00:54:36.09
and some people
had terrible burns.
00:54:36.12\00:54:38.45
It's awful.
00:54:38.48\00:54:41.16
And yet God would
torture people without end,
00:54:41.19\00:54:45.83
without relief for all eternity?
00:54:45.86\00:54:49.17
Well, take the Bible
00:54:49.20\00:54:50.35
then and tear out the
part that says, God is love.
00:54:50.38\00:54:53.38
Take that away.
00:54:53.41\00:54:54.80
God is not a
monster, God is good.
00:54:54.83\00:54:59.25
Now somebody is gonna say,
00:54:59.28\00:55:00.48
well, if God wants
to burn people forever
00:55:00.51\00:55:02.80
He can, and I
won't argue with them.
00:55:02.83\00:55:04.96
Fair enough.
00:55:04.99\00:55:07.36
But God doesn't want
to burn people forever.
00:55:07.39\00:55:10.51
And I say, thank God for that.
00:55:10.54\00:55:12.61
Now hell doesn't
burn forever and ever.
00:55:12.64\00:55:14.64
How long does it burn?
00:55:14.67\00:55:15.91
I don't know.
00:55:15.94\00:55:17.11
Well, wait, what about
those passages that says,
00:55:17.14\00:55:19.68
the smoke of the atonement
ascends up forever and ever.
00:55:19.71\00:55:22.49
Okay, fine.
00:55:22.52\00:55:23.55
But you know by now
00:55:23.58\00:55:25.18
that will you read
forever in the Bible
00:55:25.21\00:55:27.19
it doesn't always mean forever
and ever and ever without end.
00:55:27.22\00:55:31.53
John in the Bible says,
00:55:31.56\00:55:32.62
what's in the belly
of the whale? Forever.
00:55:32.65\00:55:35.35
Three days and three nights.
00:55:35.38\00:55:36.97
Samuel was taken to
the temple by his mother
00:55:37.00\00:55:39.38
to be there
forever, as long as he lives.
00:55:39.41\00:55:43.02
Sometimes forever just means
00:55:43.05\00:55:44.99
as long as the time lasts.
00:55:45.02\00:55:47.79
Forever?
00:55:47.82\00:55:49.15
Well, however long hell burns,
00:55:49.18\00:55:52.61
it's terrible and for
the lost it's too long.
00:55:52.64\00:55:58.50
They all ought to be saved.
00:55:58.63\00:56:00.75
So friend, don't delay
in your decision for Jesus.
00:56:00.78\00:56:03.29
Follow Him, yield to Him,
make a true surrender to Jesus.
00:56:03.32\00:56:07.87
That's the best
decision you could make.
00:56:07.90\00:56:10.81
Thank for your question.
00:56:10.84\00:56:11.87
I appreciated your questions.
00:56:11.90\00:56:14.53
We'll do this again
next time we are together.
00:56:14.56\00:56:17.04
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