We have been
looking at the counterfeit
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of what Satan is
doing to counterfeit
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what our Lord has
promised in His Word.
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We've been looking
at spiritual formation
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and its eastern mystical roots,
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and we're seeing how
the enemy is duplicating,
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he is lying and deceiving.
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And through these eastern arts,
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he's infiltrating
the Christian church.
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I want to open tonight
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with a promise
in Romans Chapter 8.
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Turn with me there, Romans 8:19,
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it says, "For the
earnest expectation
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of all creation is
waiting for the manifestation
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of the sons and
daughters of God."
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That's what the entire
universe is waiting to see,
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and that's the one thing
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that Satan is
seeking to counterfeit.
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Tonight, we're going to show
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what he is doing,
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and how this is
coming into our church.
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Mystery unveiled the omega
of a most startling nature.
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You remember that
in the very beginning
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I asked you to make
note of that word nature.
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We know that
there's two mysteries
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spoken of very
prominently in scripture.
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The first mystery that we see
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is in 1 Thessalonians or
2 Thessalonians Chapter 2.
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It says, "The mystery of
iniquity doth already work."
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But in Timothy,
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Paul tells Timothy
the mystery of godliness
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is God manifest in the flesh.
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So what we have seen
over the last few messages
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is that the mystery of
iniquity is the exact opposite
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of the mystery of godliness.
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Instead of it being
God manifest in the flesh,
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it is evil
spirits and demonic forces
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that are
manifesting in human flesh.
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I'm gonna open with a
statement from the Lord servant,
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8 Testimonies, page 28,
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"The world is a theatre,
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the actors its inhabitants
are preparing to act their part
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in the last great drama.
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Transgression has
almost reached its limit.
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Confusion fills the world,
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and a great terror is
soon to come upon human beings.
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The end is very near.
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And we who know the Truth
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should be preparing
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for what is soon to
break upon the world
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as an over whelming surprise."
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We who know the truth,
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we have looked at
that and we've seen
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that the word truth
literally means in the Greek
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the unfailing
verity of God's Word.
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We who know that He cannot lie,
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we that have grown
in faith trusting Him
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should be preparing.
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Matthew Chapter 24 tells
us, and this is a common text,
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this is a common
chapter, most of us know this.
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In Matthew 24, the Lord says,
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"Jesus went out and
departed from the temple,
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and His disciples came to him
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to show him the
buildings of the temple."
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This was one of the
most magnificent structures
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that'd ever been built
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and Herod had
refurbished the temple
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after the Hebrew
people had come back
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out of their
Babylonian captivity.
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"Jesus said unto
them," unto His disciples,
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"see ye not all these things?
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Verily,
assuredly I say unto you,
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there shall not be left
here one stone upon another,
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that shall not be thrown down."
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Jesus was speaking not only
of the destruction in AD 70,
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but I believe we are yet to see
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a physical
manifestation of this prophecy,
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because if you go
to Jerusalem today,
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the Wailing
Wall was still there.
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Those stones that are there
have been there for 2000 years.
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There are still stones
stacked one upon another,
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and right now in our world
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we're seeing
the focus on Israel.
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But what's more important
than the physical temple
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is the spiritual truth
which it was a shadow of,
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which it was a symbol
in which it represented.
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Desire of Ages, page
160 to 161, we're told,
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"God designed that
the temple at Jerusalem
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should be a continual
witness to the high destiny
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open to every soul.
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But the Jews had not understood
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the significance of the building
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they regarded
with so much pride,
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for they did
not yield themselves
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as holy temples
for the Divine Spirit.
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That glorious building,
its walls of glistening gold,"
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representing
purity, purity and holiness,
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"reflecting in
rainbow hues the curtains
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that were
inwrought with cherubim,
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the fragrance of
ever-burning incense
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pervading the entire building,
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the priests robed
in spotless white,
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and in the deep
mystery of the inner place,
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above the mercy seat,
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between the figures of
the bowed, worshiping angels
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was the glory of the Holiest."
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The very presence
of the living God.
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"In all these,
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God desired His
people to read His purpose
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for the human soul.
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It was that same
purpose long afterward set forth
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by the Apostle Paul,
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when speaking
by the Holy Spirit,
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he said,
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'Know ye not that you
are the temple of God,
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and that the Holy
Spirit of God dwelleth in you?'
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And as Jesus sat
upon the Mount of Olives,
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the disciples came to
Him privately, saying,
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'When shall these things be?
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And what shall be
the sign of thy coming,
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and of the end of the world?'
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Jesus answered
and said unto them,
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'Take heed that
no man deceive you.'
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For many shall
come in My name, saying,
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I am the Christ,
and shall deceive many.
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And you shall hear of
wars and rumors of wars,
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but see that ye be not troubled,
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for all these
things must come to pass,
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but the end is not yet.
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For many false
prophets shall arise
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and shall deceive many.
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And because
iniquity shall abound.'"
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Do you remember what
the Apostle Paul said?
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He said, "The mystery of
iniquity doth already work."
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The mystery of how
Satan takes possession
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of God's temple by yielding
to sin and transgression,
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because iniquity shall abound.
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The over
spreading of abominations
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is what the
Prophet Daniel calls it.
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"The love of
many shall wax cold."
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"And this gospel, the
glad tidings of the kingdom
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shall be
proclaimed in all the world
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for a witness unto all nations,
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and then shall the end come."
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You know, growing
up as a Christian,
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I thought the kingdom
is Christ's second coming.
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And I didn't realize
there is a deeper meaning,
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when you look up the
word kingdom in the Greek,
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it literally means
the sovereign, the king,
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and the reign of God.
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He said, "This glad
tidings of the reign of God
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shall be proclaimed in
all the world as a witness,
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and then shall the end come."
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Galatians 3:8-9,
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listen to what the
Apostle Paul tells us,
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"And the scripture, foreseeing
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that God would justify
the heathen through faith,
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proclaimed before
these glad tidings
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even unto Abraham, saying,
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in thee," and
later on "in thy seed
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shall all nations of
the earth be blessed."
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And we looked at
this the other night,
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the word justify
literally means to declare,
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and to render,
just, and innocent,
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and clean, and pure,
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and holy, and
righteous, and perfect.
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The scripture foreseen that
God would justify the heathen
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through faith.
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"That the blessing of Abraham
might come on the Gentiles
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through Jesus Christ,
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and that we might
receive the promise
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of the Spirit through faith."
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Galatians 3:14 says.
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It's interesting because it says
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the blessing of Abraham
might come on the gentiles.
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The word come on
means to generate
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or to bring into being.
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Jesus went on and said,
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"When ye therefore
shall see the abomination
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which causes desolation,
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spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
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stand in the holy place,
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whoso readeth,
let him understand."
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When you look
this verse up, it says,
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this abomination
that causes God's temple
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to be desolate will
stand in the holy place.
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And the word stand
in Greek means to abide,
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to literally to
covenant and abide.
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"Then let them
which be in Judaea
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flea into the mountains.
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For then shall be
great tribulation,
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such as was not
since the world began,
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no, nor ever shall be."
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This was the
focus of Christ message
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in Matthew 24,
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and in Luke 21, and in Mark 13,
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the abomination
that cause desolation.
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When the children
of Israel had went back
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and rebuild the temple
after the Babylonian captivity.
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We talked about the other night,
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that when they
built that temple,
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the Ark of the
Covenant had been secreted away,
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God servant says.
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And Josephus
also talks about that.
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They indicate
that it was probably
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the Prophet Jeremiah
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that instructed the priest
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to hide that
Ark of the Covenant.
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That ark was the throne of God.
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Without the throne,
the king cannot reign.
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And now Christ tells us,
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"When you see the abomination
that causes My temple,
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My sanctuary to be desolate,
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you know it's time to flee."
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And God's Word
says that the temple
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that was desolate was
not just a physical temple,
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it was men's hearts.
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The Prophet Daniel
tells us in Daniel 9,"
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Now therefore, O our God,
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hear the prayer of Thy servant,
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and my supplications.
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Let Thine anger and Thy fury
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be turned away
from Thy city Jerusalem,
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a symbol of his people,
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from Thy holy
mountain and cause Thy face
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to shine upon Thy
sanctuary which is desolate."
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When Jesus went into the
temple in John Chapter 2,
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many people don't
realize there was a veil
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between the holy,
and the most holy place.
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The holy place was
known as the tabernacle
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and the tent of
the congregation.
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And the most holy
was the presence of God,
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and there was a veil
that divided those two.
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But they don't realize
that for almost 500 years
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there was
nothing behind the veil.
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They had a form of godliness
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but no power.
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Jesus went on
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and He inspired the Apostle Paul
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in 2 Thessalonians,
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and listen to what Paul
says about this very same event.
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He says, "Let no man deceive you
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by any means,
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for that day of
Christ return shall not come
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except there come
a falling away first,
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an apostasy,
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and that man of sin
be unmasked and unveiled,
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the son of perdition."
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The son of destruction.
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"Who opposeth
and exalteth himself
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above all that is called deity
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or God or that is worshiped.
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So that He as God is
sitting in the temple of God,
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showing himself that He is God."
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There may be a physical event
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that takes place
in the Middle East,
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I'm not denying that.
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But more importantly,
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Satan and his fallen
angels are going to strive
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to take possession of the hearts
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and minds of every
man, woman, and child
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that has not surrendered
completely to Christ.
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Then Paul tells
us, "Remember ye not,
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that when I was yet with you,
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I told you these things
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but now you know
He that witholdeth,"
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he that is holding back,
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"that he might be
revealed in his time,
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for the mystery of
iniquity doth already work."
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When you look on the screen,
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and you look on
the right hand side
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that is the hexagram,
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it's called the Star
of David by many people.
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Most people don't realize
that symbol was never used
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in the Bible by God's children.
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Solomon, there is
record that he possibly
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could've used that
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when he had went into apostasy,
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but what that symbol
means is even more striking.
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It is the union of a
male and female triangle,
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one ascending
and one descending.
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It's the same
symbol that Hitler used
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when he developed the
symbol for the swastika,
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or when he adopted that symbol.
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That was
actually a Hindu symbol,
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and a Buddhist symbol.
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And we see that same philosophy,
00:17:46.90\00:17:49.86
that same ideology,
00:17:49.90\00:17:52.13
with a symbol
of the yin and yang
00:17:52.17\00:17:54.10
which you see below.
00:17:54.14\00:17:55.67
It is the joining of opposites.
00:17:55.70\00:17:59.41
And in the occult world
00:17:59.44\00:18:01.18
as well as in eastern mysticism,
00:18:01.21\00:18:05.18
they tell you on
the higher levels
00:18:05.21\00:18:09.08
it is the joining
of spirit and flesh.
00:18:09.12\00:18:14.62
The joining of
what the pagans say
00:18:14.66\00:18:17.16
are the heavens and the earth.
00:18:17.19\00:18:23.13
Revelation Chapter
14 and 18 tells us,
00:18:23.16\00:18:27.40
"And there
followed another angel,
00:18:27.44\00:18:29.50
saying Babylon is
fallen, is fallen,
00:18:29.54\00:18:33.68
and she has made all
nations to drink of the wine
00:18:33.71\00:18:40.62
of the wrath of
her fornication."
00:18:40.65\00:18:43.22
The word fornication
there means immorality
00:18:43.25\00:18:46.92
and the illicit
union with pagan gods.
00:18:46.96\00:18:51.93
Revelation 18
goes on and gives us
00:18:51.96\00:18:54.56
another description of this,
00:18:54.60\00:18:56.77
he says, the Apostle
John says, after these things,
00:18:56.80\00:19:01.34
after Revelation 14,
00:19:01.37\00:19:03.61
after the three
angels' messages,
00:19:03.64\00:19:06.41
"I saw another angel
come down from heaven,
00:19:06.44\00:19:10.98
having great power,
00:19:11.01\00:19:13.18
and the earth was
lightened with his glory.
00:19:13.21\00:19:17.19
And he cried mightily
with a loud cry, saying,
00:19:17.22\00:19:21.62
Babylon the great
is fallen, is fallen,
00:19:21.66\00:19:25.73
for she has become
the habitation of devils,
00:19:25.76\00:19:29.90
and the stronghold
of every foul spirit,
00:19:29.93\00:19:34.60
and a cage of every
unclean and hate filled bird."
00:19:34.64\00:19:40.48
This is telling us
that when Christ returns,
00:19:40.51\00:19:44.55
every human being on
the face of the planet
00:19:44.58\00:19:48.02
is either going to be filled
with Spirit of the living God
00:19:48.05\00:19:51.85
or they will be
filled with unclean
00:19:51.89\00:19:54.66
and unholy spirits.
00:19:54.69\00:19:58.33
"History is repeating...
00:19:58.36\00:20:00.73
with the Bible open before them,
00:20:00.76\00:20:03.03
and professing to
reverence its teachings,
00:20:03.06\00:20:06.77
many of the
religious leaders of our time
00:20:06.80\00:20:10.37
are destroying
faith in the Bible,
00:20:10.41\00:20:14.74
as the Word of God,
as the Word of Deity."
00:20:14.78\00:20:20.98
We're told in Psalm 33
that by the word of the Lord
00:20:21.02\00:20:24.55
were the heavens made
00:20:24.59\00:20:26.05
and all the host of them
by the breath of His mouth.
00:20:26.09\00:20:31.06
That Word has power.
00:20:31.09\00:20:34.13
Jesus said the words
that I have speak unto you,
00:20:34.16\00:20:37.67
they are spirit
and they are life.
00:20:37.70\00:20:42.84
When these men
destroy faith in God's Word,
00:20:42.87\00:20:47.28
they take away
from men and women
00:20:47.31\00:20:50.65
the only thing that
has power to save them.
00:20:50.68\00:20:54.58
"These men busy themselves
with dissecting the Word,
00:20:54.62\00:20:59.09
and they set their own opinions
above its plainest statements.
00:20:59.12\00:21:04.53
In their hands God's Word
loses its regenerating power.
00:21:04.56\00:21:11.43
This is why
infidelity runs riot,
00:21:11.47\00:21:15.60
and iniquity is so wide spread.
00:21:15.64\00:21:20.91
When Satan has
undermined faith in the Bible,
00:21:20.94\00:21:24.38
he directs men to other
sources for light and power.
00:21:24.41\00:21:30.45
And thus through
these other sources,
00:21:30.49\00:21:33.49
he insinuates himself.
00:21:33.52\00:21:36.22
Those who turn from the
plain teaching of Scripture
00:21:36.26\00:21:39.69
and the convicting
power of God's Holy Spirit
00:21:39.73\00:21:43.60
are inviting the
control of demons.
00:21:43.63\00:21:48.84
Criticism and speculation
concerning the Scriptures
00:21:48.87\00:21:54.24
have opened the way for
Spiritism and Theosophy.
00:21:54.28\00:21:59.41
Those modernized
forms of ancient heathenism,
00:21:59.45\00:22:03.05
to gain a foothold even
in the professed churches
00:22:03.08\00:22:06.65
of our Lord Jesus Christ."
00:22:06.69\00:22:10.33
Now I want to show you
how this happening in our day.
00:22:10.36\00:22:14.20
The men that I'm going to quote,
00:22:14.23\00:22:17.17
all of these men are
part of the emergent church
00:22:17.20\00:22:20.34
or emerging church movement,
00:22:20.37\00:22:23.14
ancient mystical practices
00:22:23.17\00:22:25.27
that they are trying to
blend with Christianity.
00:22:25.31\00:22:29.81
And all of
these men are teachers
00:22:29.84\00:22:33.75
in spiritual formation.
00:22:33.78\00:22:35.78
They're using what
we have been learning
00:22:35.82\00:22:39.25
to influence the congregations
and millions across this world.
00:22:39.29\00:22:45.43
This is the statement
from Professor Marcus Borg,
00:22:45.46\00:22:49.23
he was Professor at
Religion and Culture
00:22:49.26\00:22:52.43
at the Oregon State University.
00:22:52.47\00:22:54.70
Listen to what he says,
00:22:54.74\00:22:56.87
"Enlightenment
as an archetypal,"
00:22:56.91\00:23:00.71
and I may not be
pronouncing that correctly,
00:23:00.74\00:23:03.48
forgive me,
00:23:03.51\00:23:04.91
"as an archetypal
religious metaphor
00:23:04.95\00:23:08.35
belongs to a mystical
way of being religious.
00:23:08.38\00:23:13.76
Outside of the Jewish
and Christian traditions,
00:23:13.79\00:23:18.56
the best-known
enlightenment experience
00:23:18.59\00:23:22.03
is the Buddha's
mystical experience."
00:23:22.06\00:23:26.37
He is a professor of religion
and culture and he is saying,
00:23:26.40\00:23:31.01
"We need to look to Buddha
to understand enlightenment."
00:23:31.04\00:23:35.28
And then he says,
00:23:35.31\00:23:36.75
"So it is in the Gospel of John,
00:23:36.78\00:23:40.82
enlightenment is
a central metaphor
00:23:40.85\00:23:44.35
for salvation."
00:23:44.39\00:23:45.72
And this is not true.
00:23:45.75\00:23:47.86
He says, "To be enlightened
is to be born from above
00:23:47.89\00:23:51.89
and of the spirit.
00:23:51.93\00:23:53.76
In other words,
to be born again.
00:23:53.80\00:23:57.73
Thus the born
again experience, "
00:23:57.77\00:24:00.20
according to Professor Borg,
00:24:00.24\00:24:02.90
"in John is an
enlightenment experience."
00:24:02.94\00:24:07.28
Now we need to look and
see what this enlightenment is?
00:24:07.31\00:24:11.11
Obviously he's
tracing it back to the Buddha,
00:24:11.15\00:24:14.92
to the Buddhist religion.
00:24:14.95\00:24:17.79
Shane Claiborne,
00:24:17.82\00:24:19.15
another Christian author
and Christian activist says,
00:24:19.19\00:24:22.69
"If you tell me I
have to be born again
00:24:22.72\00:24:25.86
in order to enter
the Kingdom of God,
00:24:25.89\00:24:29.20
I can tell you
that you also have
00:24:29.23\00:24:31.63
to sell everything you
have, and give it to the poor,
00:24:31.67\00:24:36.00
because Jesus said
that to one guy also."
00:24:36.04\00:24:41.14
If Jesus said it,
00:24:41.18\00:24:42.51
can we not take
His word literally?
00:24:42.54\00:24:45.71
Listen to what he says,
00:24:45.75\00:24:47.75
"But I guess that's why
God invented highlighters
00:24:47.78\00:24:52.62
so that we can
highlight the parts we like
00:24:52.65\00:24:56.26
and ignore the rest."
00:24:56.29\00:24:59.16
This is identical to
what Thomas Jefferson did
00:24:59.19\00:25:04.83
in the Jefferson Bible.
00:25:04.87\00:25:06.80
He took the parts he liked,
00:25:06.84\00:25:09.14
and he cut out the
parts he didn't like.
00:25:09.17\00:25:12.57
He took out the
miracles of Christ.
00:25:12.61\00:25:15.18
He took out the virgin birth.
00:25:15.21\00:25:17.51
He took out every statement
00:25:17.55\00:25:19.45
where Christ declared
that He was the Son of God.
00:25:19.48\00:25:26.42
Listen to what
Pastor Tony Campolo said.
00:25:26.45\00:25:30.23
He said, "I
learned about this way
00:25:30.26\00:25:33.40
of having a
born again experience
00:25:33.43\00:25:37.23
from reading the
Catholic mystics,
00:25:37.27\00:25:40.74
especially 'The
Spiritual Exercises'
00:25:40.77\00:25:44.11
of Ignatius Loyola."
00:25:44.14\00:25:46.47
Ignatius Loyola was the
founder of the Jesuit movement.
00:25:46.51\00:25:49.94
He was heavily
involved in eastern mysticism.
00:25:49.98\00:25:54.12
His book, The
Spiritual Exercises
00:25:54.15\00:25:57.05
is now being used
across the western world
00:25:57.09\00:26:00.76
by yoga instructors and gurus,
00:26:00.79\00:26:03.49
and tai chi and
qigong instructors.
00:26:03.53\00:26:06.29
They have found that by
using what Ignatius taught,
00:26:06.33\00:26:11.37
they can enhance the
practice of their eastern arts.
00:26:11.40\00:26:18.14
"Like most Catholic mystics,
he developed an intense desire
00:26:18.17\00:26:22.81
to experience a
'oneness' with God.
00:26:22.84\00:26:27.05
Gradually, he came to
feel an intense yearning
00:26:27.08\00:26:31.65
for the kind of spiritual purity
00:26:31.69\00:26:34.59
that he
believed would enable him
00:26:34.62\00:26:37.69
to experience the fullness
of God's presence within."
00:26:37.73\00:26:44.27
Another leader
Brian Mclaren, he said...
00:26:44.30\00:26:48.87
This is from his new book,
A New Kind of Christianity.
00:26:48.90\00:26:53.21
"When Jesus
promises life of the ages,
00:26:53.24\00:26:58.35
a far better translation
of the Greek I believe,
00:26:58.38\00:27:02.28
than eternal life,
00:27:02.32\00:27:04.49
he is not
promising life after death
00:27:04.52\00:27:07.72
or life in eternal
heaven instead of eternal hell.
00:27:07.76\00:27:13.36
Being born of God and born again
00:27:13.40\00:27:17.37
or being born from
above would in this light mean
00:27:17.40\00:27:22.20
being born into
this new creation.
00:27:22.24\00:27:26.37
So again, Jesus is offering
a life in the new Genesis,
00:27:26.41\00:27:31.61
a new creation
that is of the ages.
00:27:31.65\00:27:35.85
What he just did was,
he twisted the Word of God,
00:27:35.88\00:27:41.62
he made it so complicated.
00:27:41.66\00:27:44.26
Jesus said, "I have
given unto you eternal life."
00:27:44.29\00:27:49.20
Our Father said, "I have
given unto you eternal life?
00:27:49.23\00:27:52.57
and this life is in My Son."
00:27:52.60\00:27:56.00
It means literally
you will live forever.
00:27:56.04\00:28:00.24
What Brain Mclaren just said
was almost the exact same thing
00:28:00.28\00:28:04.81
that Pastor Rick
Warren is teaching
00:28:04.85\00:28:06.88
in the Purpose Driven Life.
00:28:06.92\00:28:08.72
Don't worry
about heaven and hell,
00:28:08.75\00:28:11.25
it's about here and now.
00:28:11.29\00:28:16.93
Ministry of Healing,
page 429, we are told,
00:28:16.96\00:28:21.06
"These theories that God resides
00:28:21.10\00:28:24.40
in all matters or pantheism,
00:28:24.43\00:28:27.20
if they are followed to
their logical conclusion,
00:28:27.24\00:28:30.24
they sweep away the
entire Christian economy,
00:28:30.27\00:28:35.08
the plan of Salvation.
00:28:35.11\00:28:37.51
They do away with the
necessity for the atonement,
00:28:37.55\00:28:42.55
the at-one-ment of man with God
00:28:42.58\00:28:46.82
and they make
man his own savior.
00:28:46.86\00:28:51.56
These theories regarding
00:28:51.59\00:28:53.53
God make His
Word of none effect,
00:28:53.56\00:28:56.87
and those who accept
them are in great danger
00:28:56.90\00:29:00.74
of being finally led
00:29:00.77\00:29:03.14
to look upon the
whole Bible as a fiction.
00:29:03.17\00:29:07.58
They may regard virtue
as being better than vice.
00:29:07.61\00:29:12.11
But God being removed
00:29:12.15\00:29:14.78
from his
position of Sovereignty,
00:29:14.82\00:29:17.19
the throne of our heart,
00:29:17.22\00:29:19.79
they place their dependence
upon human power alone,
00:29:19.82\00:29:24.46
which without God is worthless."
00:29:24.49\00:29:30.13
Now I want to show you
00:29:30.17\00:29:31.87
something a
little more up-to-date.
00:29:31.90\00:29:35.10
Listen to what
happened at an interview.
00:29:35.14\00:29:38.81
In 1988, Barbara
Walters held an interview
00:29:38.84\00:29:42.84
with George H.W. Bush,
00:29:42.88\00:29:46.01
George Bush Sr.,
00:29:46.05\00:29:48.28
when he was on
his campaign trail
00:29:48.32\00:29:50.29
for the presidency.
00:29:50.32\00:29:52.35
And she asked him a question
00:29:52.39\00:29:54.62
that completely
caught him off guard.
00:29:54.66\00:29:58.19
She asked the upcoming
new president of our nation,
00:29:58.23\00:30:02.70
if he was a Christian,
00:30:02.73\00:30:04.30
because there were
things he was saying
00:30:04.33\00:30:07.07
that were causing the Christians
00:30:07.10\00:30:08.80
in America to say,
00:30:08.84\00:30:10.24
"Finally we've got
a Christian president.
00:30:10.27\00:30:13.38
This is a good thing."
00:30:13.41\00:30:15.04
And she wanted to make
this clear in her interview.
00:30:15.08\00:30:19.28
When she asked if
he was a Christian,
00:30:19.31\00:30:21.72
listen to what
George Bush Sr. said.
00:30:21.75\00:30:24.95
He stumbled over his words.
00:30:24.99\00:30:28.22
He looked down for a moment.
00:30:28.26\00:30:30.73
And then he answered,
00:30:30.76\00:30:33.06
"If by being a Christian,
00:30:33.09\00:30:36.23
you ask, if I'm born again,
00:30:36.26\00:30:40.54
then yes, I am a Christian."
00:30:40.57\00:30:43.97
What many don't realize
is that George Bush Sr.,
00:30:44.01\00:30:48.48
George Bush Jr.,
00:30:48.51\00:30:50.21
and Prescott
Bush, the grandfather,
00:30:50.25\00:30:52.81
were all members
of an occult society
00:30:52.85\00:30:56.08
at Yale University.
00:30:56.12\00:30:58.02
That society was
called The Skull and Bones.
00:30:58.05\00:31:01.69
And in their initiation,
00:31:01.72\00:31:05.39
they went through a ritual
00:31:05.43\00:31:08.23
that once it was achieved,
00:31:08.26\00:31:12.77
you were now classified as a man
00:31:12.80\00:31:15.87
that had been twice born.
00:31:15.90\00:31:21.61
Manly P. Hall,
00:31:21.64\00:31:23.21
one of the greatest
philosophers of Freemasonry
00:31:23.24\00:31:27.12
that they've ever had.
00:31:27.15\00:31:28.52
Listened to what he says,
00:31:28.55\00:31:30.92
"Among the ancients,
00:31:30.95\00:31:32.59
a fabulous bird
called the Phoenix
00:31:32.62\00:31:35.49
is described by early writers,
00:31:35.52\00:31:38.59
in size and shape
it resembles the eagle,
00:31:38.63\00:31:42.13
but with certain differences.
00:31:42.16\00:31:45.03
The Phoenix, it is
said, lives for 500 years
00:31:45.07\00:31:50.21
and at its death, its body opens
00:31:50.24\00:31:54.51
and there's this flame of fire
00:31:54.54\00:31:57.48
and out of the ashes
emerges a new Phoenix.
00:31:57.51\00:32:03.49
Because of this symbolism,
00:32:03.52\00:32:06.42
the Phoenix is
generally regarded
00:32:06.45\00:32:09.06
as representing
immortality and resurrection."
00:32:09.09\00:32:14.30
In the Chinese arts,
00:32:14.33\00:32:15.86
and that's where
they got it from.
00:32:15.90\00:32:18.33
You usually see two symbols
00:32:18.37\00:32:20.34
that are held
higher than all others,
00:32:20.37\00:32:24.07
the Dragon and the Phoenix.
00:32:24.11\00:32:26.78
And often you will
see the two intertwined.
00:32:26.81\00:32:31.51
It means the Dragon is
the symbol of occult wisdom,
00:32:31.55\00:32:35.68
and the Phoenix is
the symbol of rebirth.
00:32:35.72\00:32:39.35
So through occult
wisdom and initiation,
00:32:39.39\00:32:43.99
they believe that
a man can be reborn.
00:32:44.03\00:32:48.60
Manly P. Hall went on to say,
00:32:51.63\00:32:53.60
"The Phoenix is one
sign of the secret orders
00:32:53.64\00:32:57.11
of the ancient world
00:32:57.14\00:32:59.07
and of the
initiate of those orders,
00:32:59.11\00:33:02.74
for it was
common to refer to one
00:33:02.78\00:33:05.35
who had been
accepted into the temples
00:33:05.38\00:33:08.32
as a man twice-born or reborn.
00:33:08.35\00:33:14.16
Wisdom confers a new life,
00:33:14.19\00:33:17.36
and those who become wise
are said to be born again."
00:33:17.39\00:33:23.23
Do you know this
is the same thing
00:33:23.26\00:33:25.07
that Satan said to Eve?
00:33:25.10\00:33:27.77
It's a tree that
will make you wise.
00:33:27.80\00:33:31.71
And the Apostle James says,
00:33:31.74\00:33:33.88
"This wisdom
descended not from above,
00:33:33.91\00:33:37.38
but from beneath."
00:33:37.41\00:33:40.98
General Albert Pike,
00:33:41.02\00:33:43.39
he was a
confederate Civil War General.
00:33:43.42\00:33:47.02
He wrote the
Bible for Freemasonry
00:33:47.06\00:33:50.39
called Morals and Dogma.
00:33:50.43\00:33:52.46
Listen to what he
says in that book,
00:33:52.49\00:33:55.46
"Initiation was considered
to be a mystical death,
00:33:55.50\00:34:00.14
and the perfect initiate
in the Eleusinian Mysteries
00:34:00.17\00:34:06.44
was then said to be regenerated,
00:34:06.47\00:34:11.08
new-born and restored
to a renovated existence
00:34:11.11\00:34:16.02
of life, light and purity."
00:34:16.05\00:34:19.99
The Bible says,
professing themselves
00:34:20.02\00:34:22.19
to be wise, they become dumb.
00:34:22.22\00:34:27.26
"In the ancient
system of initiation,
00:34:27.30\00:34:30.37
the truth seeker must
pass through a second birth,
00:34:30.40\00:34:35.77
and those who
attain this exalted state
00:34:35.80\00:34:38.71
were known
thereafter as twice born.
00:34:38.74\00:34:43.18
This new birth must
be personally earned
00:34:43.21\00:34:46.72
through a complete regeneration
of character and conduct."
00:34:46.75\00:34:51.75
Now I want you to pay
attention to his words,
00:34:51.79\00:34:54.76
"This new birth must
be personally earned."
00:34:54.79\00:35:00.63
You earn wages.
00:35:00.66\00:35:03.63
God's Word tells us
00:35:03.67\00:35:05.00
that the new birth
is a gift from God.
00:35:05.03\00:35:08.60
You cannot do anything
00:35:08.64\00:35:11.14
to earn
perfection and righteousness.
00:35:11.17\00:35:15.48
This new birth, he says,
00:35:15.51\00:35:17.88
"This ceremony
involves a symbolic death
00:35:17.91\00:35:21.18
according to Kenneth Mackenzie,"
00:35:21.22\00:35:23.65
who is another Masonic author,
00:35:23.69\00:35:26.19
"he writes in the
ancient mysteries,
00:35:26.22\00:35:29.69
the aspirant
could not participate
00:35:29.72\00:35:32.59
in the highest secrets,
00:35:32.63\00:35:34.36
until they had
been placed in a coffin.
00:35:34.40\00:35:38.43
And this ceremony,
00:35:38.47\00:35:41.14
he was then
symbolically said to die,
00:35:41.17\00:35:44.97
and his
resurrection was to the light."
00:35:45.01\00:35:48.98
Albert Pike goes on and says,
00:35:51.71\00:35:54.45
"The day has come
when fellow craftsmen
00:35:54.48\00:35:59.15
must know and
apply their knowledge.
00:35:59.19\00:36:02.79
The lost key to their grade
is the mastery of emotion..."
00:36:02.82\00:36:08.00
When I was in Chinese kung fu,
and in qigong and in tai chi,
00:36:08.03\00:36:13.07
all of those arts
focused on channeling emotion,
00:36:13.10\00:36:17.54
because Satan knows
00:36:17.57\00:36:19.04
the emotions are
the easiest doorway
00:36:19.07\00:36:21.78
to find access to
the throne of your heart.
00:36:21.81\00:36:26.05
He says,
00:36:26.08\00:36:27.42
"Once they have achieved
mastery of their emotions,
00:36:27.45\00:36:32.72
it places the energy
00:36:32.75\00:36:34.82
of the universe
at their disposal.
00:36:34.86\00:36:39.23
When the Mason
learns that the key
00:36:39.26\00:36:41.76
to the warrior on the block
00:36:41.80\00:36:44.80
is the proper application
of the dynamo of living power,
00:36:44.83\00:36:50.87
then he has learned
the mystery of his craft."
00:36:50.91\00:36:55.14
You remember what Paul said?
00:36:55.18\00:36:57.05
The mystery of iniquity.
00:36:57.08\00:36:59.41
Satan works to
control our emotions.
00:36:59.45\00:37:02.95
We know that faith is
not based on emotions.
00:37:02.98\00:37:06.49
Faith is based on
thus saith the Lord,
00:37:06.52\00:37:09.26
regardless of how I feel,
00:37:09.29\00:37:11.86
I have to take
God's Word and say,
00:37:11.89\00:37:14.76
"This is sure, He cannot lie."
00:37:14.80\00:37:18.93
But the occult world says,
"It's all based on emotions."
00:37:18.97\00:37:24.57
He says, "The
seething energies of Lucifer
00:37:24.61\00:37:30.18
are then in his hands
00:37:30.21\00:37:32.28
and before he may
step onward and upward,
00:37:32.31\00:37:35.88
he must prove his ability
to properly apply this energy."
00:37:35.92\00:37:41.12
When I was in Chinese kung fu
00:37:41.16\00:37:43.12
and I was working
on discipleship level.
00:37:43.16\00:37:46.59
That was the one
thing that we had to do,
00:37:46.63\00:37:49.90
we were told we have to channel
this energy that they call chi,
00:37:49.93\00:37:55.00
into our hands
00:37:55.04\00:37:56.54
and into our arms
and move it in the body.
00:37:56.57\00:37:59.91
And then we had to demonstrate
we were able to do that.
00:37:59.94\00:38:03.85
Some people would demonstrate
that through breaking,
00:38:03.88\00:38:06.72
you know, cinder
blocks or stones.
00:38:06.75\00:38:09.75
Some people would demonstrate it
00:38:09.78\00:38:11.45
through breaking
coconuts with their palm.
00:38:11.49\00:38:15.42
Other people
would demonstrate it,
00:38:15.46\00:38:17.19
like the other man and I,
00:38:17.23\00:38:19.16
we had to be
able to take our hand
00:38:19.19\00:38:21.36
and make the hand get hot,
00:38:21.40\00:38:23.60
and the other one freezing cold.
00:38:23.63\00:38:25.70
And then we were told
00:38:25.73\00:38:27.07
make the pointer finger get hot,
00:38:27.10\00:38:29.27
the rest of the
hand freezing cold.
00:38:29.30\00:38:32.31
Once we had done that,
00:38:32.34\00:38:34.04
we began practicing
with channeling that energy
00:38:34.08\00:38:37.01
into the hand
when we would strike,
00:38:37.05\00:38:40.18
but all of this were gifts
00:38:40.22\00:38:42.62
that were given
to us by the spirits
00:38:42.65\00:38:46.39
that had come into our lives.
00:38:46.42\00:38:50.76
Albert Pike says,
00:38:50.79\00:38:52.63
"He must follow in the footsteps
00:38:52.66\00:38:55.23
of his fore-father, Tubal-Cain,"
00:38:55.26\00:38:58.80
he was one of the
off-spring of Cain in Genesis,
00:38:58.83\00:39:04.67
"who with the mighty
strength of the war god
00:39:04.71\00:39:09.08
hammered his
sword into a plowshare.
00:39:09.11\00:39:13.11
Incessant vigilance over
thought, action, and desire
00:39:13.15\00:39:18.05
is indispensible to
those who wish to make progress
00:39:18.09\00:39:22.42
in the unfolding or
unveiling of their own being."
00:39:22.46\00:39:28.43
They are showing like they
did in that previous slide.
00:39:28.46\00:39:32.03
This figure from the Freemasons
00:39:32.07\00:39:34.54
is showing a mason
with a hammer and a chisel
00:39:34.57\00:39:38.24
cutting himself
out of the stone.
00:39:38.27\00:39:42.61
God's Word says
that Christ was the stone
00:39:42.64\00:39:46.25
that was cut out of
the mountain without hands
00:39:46.28\00:39:50.22
and that we also
are living stones
00:39:50.25\00:39:54.82
cut and chiseled without hands
00:39:54.86\00:40:00.40
but by the power of God.
00:40:00.43\00:40:02.13
Once this progress has been made
00:40:05.13\00:40:07.90
in the unfolding
of their own being,
00:40:07.94\00:40:11.34
he says, "The
Fellow Craft's degree
00:40:11.37\00:40:14.58
is the degree of transmutation."
00:40:14.61\00:40:18.91
That's another
word for transformation,
00:40:18.95\00:40:21.82
the changing of the character
that we were designed to be,
00:40:21.85\00:40:27.89
the image that we
were designed to be
00:40:27.92\00:40:30.53
into the image of
Lucifer and Satan.
00:40:30.56\00:40:36.16
Now look where
all this goes back to.
00:40:36.20\00:40:39.33
New World Encyclopedia tells us,
00:40:39.37\00:40:42.30
"In Hinduism, the highest
three classes of Hindu society
00:40:42.34\00:40:48.44
are known as the Dvija,
00:40:48.48\00:40:51.81
that means in Hindu
Sanskrit the twice-born ones
00:40:51.85\00:40:57.09
because they have undergone
the sacred thread ceremony,
00:40:57.12\00:41:01.86
in which male
members are initiated
00:41:01.89\00:41:05.76
into the second stage of life,
00:41:05.79\00:41:08.53
called the ashrama
of a Vedic follower.
00:41:08.56\00:41:12.70
This sacred thread
ceremony is considered
00:41:12.73\00:41:15.84
to be a type of second birth.
00:41:15.87\00:41:19.71
The doctrine of the
twice-born has been criticized
00:41:19.74\00:41:23.85
for promoting hierarchy
and elitism in Hindu society,
00:41:23.88\00:41:29.42
but its supporters see it
00:41:29.45\00:41:31.95
as a type of
initiation and purification
00:41:31.99\00:41:37.06
into a higher
state of existence,
00:41:37.09\00:41:40.80
analogous, analog...
00:41:40.83\00:41:44.43
"Forgive me, I
can't even pronounce that,
00:41:44.47\00:41:47.67
"analogous to the
baptism of other religions."
00:41:47.70\00:41:51.34
The British Ki Society it says,
00:41:54.98\00:41:58.45
"Zen Buddhism began the
idea of understanding life.
00:41:58.48\00:42:04.82
It suggests that
when one understands life,
00:42:04.85\00:42:08.69
one feels as if
one is newly born"
00:42:08.72\00:42:13.23
that's where the
word Sensei comes from.
00:42:13.26\00:42:17.00
That's what a Japanese master
instructor is called a Sensei.
00:42:17.03\00:42:24.01
He says the word,
00:42:24.04\00:42:25.37
"Sen means before
and Sei means to be born.
00:42:25.41\00:42:31.21
So Sensei literally means
00:42:31.25\00:42:33.82
a person who is
twice-born or born before.
00:42:33.85\00:42:40.16
This birth is a
spiritual, not physical birth."
00:42:40.19\00:42:45.56
People tell me all the time,
00:42:45.59\00:42:47.03
aren't martial arts
just about self defense.
00:42:47.06\00:42:50.27
That's what Satan wants
you to think when you begin.
00:42:50.30\00:42:54.00
Isn't yoga just
about stretching?
00:42:54.04\00:42:56.84
That's what the serpent,
00:42:56.87\00:42:58.67
the Kundalini as
they call them in yoga,
00:42:58.71\00:43:02.01
that's what he wants you
to believe when you begin,
00:43:02.04\00:43:07.12
but the masters will tell
you, the gurus will tell you,
00:43:07.15\00:43:11.62
this birth is a
spiritual, not a physical birth.
00:43:11.65\00:43:16.59
"The original meaning of Sensei
is one who is spiritually born
00:43:16.62\00:43:22.76
before others."
00:43:22.80\00:43:26.20
Desire of Ages, page 35,
00:43:26.23\00:43:29.24
"Satan was seeking to shut out
00:43:29.27\00:43:31.54
from men a
knowledge or knowing of God,
00:43:31.57\00:43:35.38
and to turn their attention
from the temple of God,
00:43:35.41\00:43:39.85
and to
establish his own kingdom.
00:43:39.88\00:43:43.18
Through heathenism,
00:43:43.22\00:43:45.59
Satan won his great triumph
00:43:45.62\00:43:48.36
in perverting
the faith of Israel.
00:43:48.39\00:43:51.63
By contemplating and worshiping
their own conceptions,
00:43:51.66\00:43:57.10
the heathen had
lost a knowledge of God,
00:43:57.13\00:44:00.57
and had become
more and more corrupt.
00:44:00.60\00:44:03.47
And so it was
with ancient Israel.
00:44:03.51\00:44:08.78
The principle that
man can save himself
00:44:08.81\00:44:13.72
by his own works
lay at the foundation
00:44:13.75\00:44:17.22
of every heathen religion,
00:44:17.25\00:44:19.85
it had now become the principle
of the Jewish religion.
00:44:19.89\00:44:24.86
Satan had
implanted this principle
00:44:24.89\00:44:27.70
and wherever it is held,
00:44:27.73\00:44:29.90
men have no
barrier against sin."
00:44:29.93\00:44:34.14
We need to ask
ourselves as Christians
00:44:34.17\00:44:37.47
and even more importantly
00:44:37.51\00:44:39.34
as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians,
00:44:39.37\00:44:41.61
are we following the footsteps
of the ancient Jewish people?
00:44:41.64\00:44:45.88
Are we striving
to earn salvation
00:44:45.91\00:44:49.28
and to set
ourselves free from sin
00:44:49.32\00:44:51.92
through our own will and works?
00:44:51.95\00:44:54.36
"The means by which we
can overcome the wicked one
00:44:57.39\00:45:01.73
is that by
which Christ overcame,
00:45:01.76\00:45:05.17
by the power of the Word."
00:45:05.20\00:45:08.30
The same word that
spoke light in the darkness,
00:45:08.34\00:45:13.74
spoke life to the dead.
00:45:13.78\00:45:17.05
It spoke purity
to Mary Magdalene.
00:45:17.08\00:45:21.05
It spoke wholeness to
the leper in Luke Chapter 5.
00:45:21.08\00:45:27.32
"God does not control our
minds without our consent,
00:45:27.36\00:45:31.49
but if we desire to
know and to do His will,
00:45:31.53\00:45:37.17
he has promised,
00:45:37.20\00:45:39.87
we shall know the truth
00:45:39.90\00:45:42.20
and the truth
shall make us free."
00:45:42.24\00:45:46.11
"The world is a theater,
the actors are its inhabitants,
00:45:46.14\00:45:51.41
they are
preparing to act their part
00:45:51.45\00:45:54.22
in the last great drama.
00:45:54.25\00:45:56.92
With the great masses of
mankind there is no unity,
00:45:56.95\00:46:01.32
except as men
confederate to accomplish
00:46:01.36\00:46:05.36
their selfish
purposes and God is looking on.
00:46:05.39\00:46:10.17
A power from beneath
is working to bring about
00:46:10.20\00:46:13.84
the last great
scenes of the drama
00:46:13.87\00:46:17.57
Satan coming as Christ,
00:46:17.61\00:46:21.44
and working with
all deceivableness
00:46:21.48\00:46:24.31
of unrighteousness
00:46:24.35\00:46:25.81
in those who are
binding themselves together
00:46:25.85\00:46:29.25
in the secret societies."
00:46:29.28\00:46:32.25
"The forces of darkness
will unite with human agents
00:46:32.29\00:46:36.09
who had given themselves
into the control of Satan
00:46:36.12\00:46:40.10
and the same scenes
00:46:40.13\00:46:41.76
that were
exhibited at the trial,
00:46:41.80\00:46:44.27
rejection and
crucifixion of Christ Jesus
00:46:44.30\00:46:48.84
will be revived again.
00:46:48.87\00:46:52.77
Through yielding
to satanic influences,
00:46:52.81\00:46:56.78
men will be
transformed into fiends,"
00:46:56.81\00:47:01.18
look that word up,
00:47:01.22\00:47:03.32
"And those who were
created in the image of God,
00:47:03.35\00:47:07.09
who were formed to honor
and to glorify our Creator,
00:47:07.12\00:47:12.96
will become the
habitation of dragons.
00:47:12.99\00:47:17.70
And Satan will see
in an apostate race
00:47:20.10\00:47:24.77
his masterpiece of evil,
00:47:24.81\00:47:28.14
men who reflect his own image."
00:47:28.18\00:47:33.42
"Transgression has
almost reached its limit.
00:47:33.45\00:47:37.55
Confusion fills the world,
00:47:37.59\00:47:40.39
and a great terror is
soon to come upon human beings.
00:47:40.42\00:47:45.43
The end is very near,
00:47:45.46\00:47:48.50
and we who know the
truth should be preparing
00:47:48.53\00:47:52.80
for what is soon to
break upon this world
00:47:52.83\00:47:56.44
as an overwhelming surprise!"
00:47:56.47\00:47:59.51
Jesus told us
when Satan appears,
00:47:59.54\00:48:04.68
don't even go and look,
00:48:04.71\00:48:07.02
don't cut your
television on to see,
00:48:07.05\00:48:09.98
because it will be an
overmastering delusion.
00:48:10.02\00:48:16.09
"And I saw another angel
fly in the midst of heaven,
00:48:16.12\00:48:19.93
having the everlasting
gospel and glad tidings
00:48:19.96\00:48:23.87
to proclaim to them
that dwell on the earth,
00:48:23.90\00:48:27.20
to every nation, and kindred,
and tongue, and people,"
00:48:27.24\00:48:32.77
and listen to what he says,
00:48:32.81\00:48:35.21
"With a loud
voice," he cries, and says,
00:48:35.24\00:48:38.65
"Fear God, and
give the glory to Him,
00:48:38.68\00:48:44.69
for the hour of
His judgment is come,
00:48:44.72\00:48:47.99
and worship Him that
made heaven and earth,
00:48:48.02\00:48:52.19
and sea, and the
fountains of water!"
00:48:52.23\00:48:55.26
This is the Sabbath.
00:48:55.30\00:48:56.90
It is a sign that we
have faith that the same word
00:48:56.93\00:49:00.70
that brought the worlds
and the universe into existence
00:49:00.74\00:49:04.81
is able to recreate you and I
00:49:04.84\00:49:08.54
in the image of our Savior.
00:49:08.58\00:49:12.81
"Let everyone
who claims to believe
00:49:12.85\00:49:15.08
that the Lord is soon coming,
00:49:15.12\00:49:17.32
search the
Scriptures was never before,
00:49:17.35\00:49:20.89
for Satan is determined
to try every device possible
00:49:20.92\00:49:25.66
to keep souls in darkness,
00:49:25.69\00:49:28.10
and blind their minds
to the perils of the times
00:49:28.13\00:49:31.57
in which we are now living.
00:49:31.60\00:49:34.47
Let every believer take up
his Bible with earnest prayer,
00:49:34.50\00:49:38.61
that he may be
enlightened by the Holy Spirit
00:49:38.64\00:49:43.04
as to what is Truth,
00:49:43.08\00:49:46.11
what is the
unfailing verity of God's Word,
00:49:46.15\00:49:50.75
that he may know more
of God and of Jesus Christ,
00:49:50.79\00:49:55.16
whom He has sent.
00:49:55.19\00:49:57.53
Search for the Truth
as for hidden treasures,
00:49:57.56\00:50:01.03
and disappoint our enemy."
00:50:01.06\00:50:04.90
"The time of test is
just upon us," she says,
00:50:04.93\00:50:09.00
"For the loud cry
of the third angel
00:50:09.04\00:50:11.77
has already begun to
sound in the revelation
00:50:11.81\00:50:16.88
and revealing of the
righteousness of Christ,
00:50:16.91\00:50:20.22
as our sin-pardoning Redeemer.
00:50:20.25\00:50:24.05
This is the beginning
of the light of the angel
00:50:24.09\00:50:28.39
whose glory will
fill the whole earth.
00:50:28.42\00:50:32.16
If you would stand
through the time of trouble,"
00:50:32.19\00:50:35.73
the Lord servant tells us,
00:50:35.76\00:50:37.63
"You must know Christ,"
00:50:37.67\00:50:40.90
for this is life eternal,
00:50:40.94\00:50:43.44
"And appropriate,
00:50:43.47\00:50:45.11
as your own the gift
of His righteousness,
00:50:45.14\00:50:49.21
which He imputes to
the repentant sinner!"
00:50:49.24\00:50:53.28
First Selected
Messages, page 363,
00:50:53.31\00:50:58.29
"The message of
Christ's righteousness
00:50:58.32\00:51:00.66
is to sound from one end
of the earth to the other,
00:51:00.69\00:51:04.63
to prepare the way for our King.
00:51:04.66\00:51:08.56
This is the glory of God,
00:51:08.60\00:51:11.10
which closes the
work of the third angel."
00:51:11.13\00:51:15.74
Then she says,
00:51:15.77\00:51:17.11
In Testimonies to
Ministers, page 456,
00:51:17.14\00:51:20.78
"What is justification by faith?
00:51:20.81\00:51:25.08
It is the work of God
00:51:25.11\00:51:28.42
in laying the
glory of man in the dust
00:51:28.45\00:51:32.15
and doing for you and I
00:51:32.19\00:51:35.12
that which it
is not in our power
00:51:35.16\00:51:37.79
to do for ourselves."
00:51:37.83\00:51:39.43
Luke 17,
00:51:41.66\00:51:43.00
listens to what our Savior says,
00:51:43.03\00:51:45.93
"And when Jesus was
demanded by the Pharisees,
00:51:45.97\00:51:49.34
when the Kingdom
of God should come.
00:51:49.37\00:51:52.54
He answered and said unto them,
00:51:52.57\00:51:55.98
'The kingdom of God,
00:51:56.01\00:51:58.35
the reign and
the sovereign of God
00:51:58.38\00:52:02.12
cometh not with observation,
00:52:02.15\00:52:04.89
neither shall they say,
00:52:04.92\00:52:06.76
Lo here! or lo there.
00:52:06.79\00:52:10.53
For behold, the kingdom,
00:52:10.56\00:52:13.60
the reign of
God is within you!'"
00:52:13.63\00:52:17.27
Nicodemus came to Jesus,
00:52:20.44\00:52:22.10
and he asked the same question
00:52:22.14\00:52:24.74
and "Jesus
answered and said unto him,
00:52:24.77\00:52:27.51
'Except a man be born again,
00:52:27.54\00:52:31.95
begotten again,
00:52:31.98\00:52:34.75
he cannot see
the kingdom of God.'
00:52:34.78\00:52:38.32
And Nicodemus asked,
'How can these things be?'
00:52:38.35\00:52:43.66
Jesus answered,
00:52:43.69\00:52:45.26
'That which is born of
the flesh is just flesh,
00:52:45.29\00:52:49.96
but that which is born by
the Spirit of God is spirit.
00:52:50.00\00:52:56.54
Marvel not that I say unto you,
00:52:56.57\00:52:59.17
you must be born again.'"
00:52:59.21\00:53:04.35
Now I want to look
in our last moments,
00:53:04.38\00:53:07.72
I want us to see
how this happens.
00:53:07.75\00:53:12.39
Galatians 3:1-3,
00:53:12.42\00:53:15.89
the Apostle Paul tells us,
00:53:15.92\00:53:18.69
"O foolish Galatians,
00:53:18.73\00:53:21.53
who hath bewitched you,
00:53:21.56\00:53:23.80
that you should
not obey the truth..."
00:53:23.83\00:53:27.47
And you look up the word obey,
00:53:27.50\00:53:29.04
and it means have
confidence in and believe,
00:53:29.07\00:53:32.87
who has bewitched you,
00:53:32.91\00:53:35.21
that you do not
believe the Word of God.
00:53:35.24\00:53:40.22
"Before whose eyes Jesus Christ
00:53:40.25\00:53:43.65
hath been evidently set forth
00:53:43.69\00:53:47.19
and before
ordained, crucified for you?
00:53:47.22\00:53:53.26
Are you so foolish?
00:53:53.29\00:53:55.60
Having begun by the Spirit,
00:53:55.63\00:53:58.50
are you now made
perfect by the flesh?"
00:53:58.53\00:54:02.64
Do you remember
how Isaac was born,
00:54:02.67\00:54:05.97
God came to Abraham and Sarah
00:54:06.01\00:54:09.88
and he said, Ishmael,
00:54:09.91\00:54:13.21
who you had, by
the power of the flesh,
00:54:13.25\00:54:16.89
he's not even counted
as seed of your own flesh,
00:54:16.92\00:54:21.49
you're going to bear a Son.
00:54:21.52\00:54:25.76
God promised Abraham and Sarah
00:54:25.79\00:54:30.50
would have that son
and Galatians 4 says,
00:54:30.53\00:54:34.30
"That's why Isaac
was born by the Spirit."
00:54:34.34\00:54:40.81
"For as many as
received Him, John says,
00:54:40.84\00:54:44.98
to them gave he power
to become to be brought
00:54:45.01\00:54:49.18
into being as the
sons and daughters of God,
00:54:49.22\00:54:52.69
even to them that
believe on his name."
00:54:52.72\00:54:56.19
John 1:12-13,
00:54:56.22\00:55:00.16
"Which are born or
begotten not by blood,
00:55:00.20\00:55:05.73
nor by the will of the flesh,
00:55:05.77\00:55:08.84
nor by the will of man,
00:55:08.87\00:55:12.14
but of God.
00:55:12.17\00:55:14.98
For of his own will begat he us
00:55:15.01\00:55:19.58
with the word of truth,
00:55:19.61\00:55:22.15
so that we should be a kind
00:55:22.18\00:55:24.49
of firstfruits of his creatures,
00:55:24.52\00:55:27.62
his creation."
00:55:27.66\00:55:29.59
James 1:18-21 tells us,
00:55:29.62\00:55:34.56
and then Galatians says,
00:55:34.60\00:55:36.03
"Now we brethren..."
00:55:36.06\00:55:38.23
Galatians 4:28-29,
00:55:38.27\00:55:41.14
"Now we brethren, as Isaac was,
00:55:41.17\00:55:45.07
are children of God by promise.
00:55:45.11\00:55:49.78
But just as it was then,
00:55:49.81\00:55:52.55
he that was born by
the flesh persecuted him
00:55:52.58\00:55:56.48
that was born by the
Spirit, even so it is now!"
00:55:56.52\00:56:00.82
Do you remember
what happened in 1888?
00:56:00.86\00:56:03.93
The majority of God's leaders
00:56:03.96\00:56:06.76
and the majority of our
church rejected the message
00:56:06.80\00:56:11.20
that Christ had given
through Jones and Waggoner.
00:56:11.23\00:56:14.60
They said,
00:56:14.64\00:56:15.97
"We're doing
this fine on our own."
00:56:16.00\00:56:18.24
They repeated what
the children of Israel
00:56:18.27\00:56:20.61
had said at Mount Sinai.
00:56:20.64\00:56:22.68
The Lord came down and
spoke His commandments,
00:56:22.71\00:56:26.18
His laws of life,
00:56:26.21\00:56:29.08
and they said,
everything you've said,
00:56:29.12\00:56:31.52
we will do.
00:56:31.55\00:56:33.76
Ellen White says,
"Every command is a promise."
00:56:33.79\00:56:37.33
And God says, "All
that I have spoken,
00:56:37.36\00:56:40.73
I will do for it is I
that work in you both to will,
00:56:40.76\00:56:46.63
and to do that
which pleases me."
00:56:46.67\00:56:50.97
1 Peter 1:22-23 says,
00:56:51.01\00:56:56.85
"Therefore being born,
00:56:56.88\00:57:00.82
and begotten again,
not of corruptible seed,
00:57:00.85\00:57:05.22
but of incorruptible,
by the Word of God,
00:57:05.25\00:57:10.39
which liveth and
abideth for ever."
00:57:10.43\00:57:14.53
And this is the word
which by the glad tidings
00:57:14.56\00:57:20.07
is proclaimed unto you.
00:57:20.10\00:57:23.34
"Behold, brothers and sisters,
00:57:23.37\00:57:26.47
what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us,
00:57:26.51\00:57:30.61
that we should be
called the sons of God.
00:57:30.65\00:57:34.02
It is for this reason
that the world knoweth us not
00:57:34.05\00:57:37.95
because it knew him not."
00:57:37.99\00:57:40.62
Beloved, now, today,
00:57:40.66\00:57:44.03
if you will, but hear my voice,
00:57:44.06\00:57:47.20
and harden not
your hearts in unbelief.
00:57:47.23\00:57:50.53
"Now are we, the
sons and daughters of God,
00:57:50.57\00:57:54.04
and it doth not yet
appear what we shall be,
00:57:54.07\00:57:57.64
but we know that,
00:57:57.67\00:57:59.67
when he appeareth,
we shall be like Him,
00:57:59.71\00:58:03.91
for we shall see Him as He is."
00:58:03.95\00:58:07.02