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brought to you by the friends
of the Amazing Facts ministry.
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Doug Batchelor: For 9
months, between 1898 and 1899,
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two famous man-eating lions of
Tsavo terrorize workers employed
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in the construction of a
railway bridge in Uganda.
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As the death toll rose,
construction was brought
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to a virtual standstill.
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The workers said they refused
to continue until protection
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could be provided.
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Finally, the reign of
terror was brought to an end
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when Lieutenant
Colonel J.H. Patterson
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succeeded in tracking
and killing the two lions
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that had devoured 135 men.
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The lions are now on permanent
display in the Field Museum
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of Chicago.
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Even more deadly was a tigress
in India that was reported to
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have killed and eaten 436 people
in 1907 before it was killed.
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But the record for
man-eating goes to one lion that
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has devoured more than
all these other cats combined.
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1 Peter chapter 5,
verse 8 advises us: "Be sober,
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be vigilant, because
your adversary the devil
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is going around
like a roaring lion,
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seeking whom he might devour."
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So how can we be protected
against this man-eater?
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Join me, friends, today as
we continue our exploration
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to understand the
originator of sin: the devil.
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Doug: Chapter 14 of Revelation
basically coalesces the whole
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theme of Revelation.
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It's kind of concentrated
and melted down in that chapter,
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and we're going to be
studying those themes.
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Now, the first thing we're
studying tonight, it explains
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the big question: Why
is there evil in the world?
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If God is good, if God is
loving, if God is all powerful,
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then why do so
many bad things happen?
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Why do innocent people suffer?
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If God is good, what--why did
God make a devil, people wonder.
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Let's get into the
first question in your lesson
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that you have in your hands.
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Question number one:
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What are the good angels like?
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"All the angels stood
around the throne and the elders
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and the four living creatures,
they fell on their faces
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before the throne
and they WORSHIPED God."
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And so, the angels
worshiped the Lord.
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They--and these, of
course, are the good angels.
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What do the good
angels do on earth?
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Hebrews 1:14: "Are they not
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ministering spirits
sent forth to MINISTER
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for those who will
inherit salvation?"
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They are the army of God.
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They're the hospital
staff that's always doing God's
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bidding, going to and fro the
earth, working to save people.
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Now, this is where the
study gets interesting,
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because something happened
that once you understand
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what I'm about to
explain, a lot of things
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are going to click for you.
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A lot of people who
say, "Why, why, why?"
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Listen very carefully.
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Which angel turned
against God and why?
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"How you are fallen from heaven,
O LUCIFER, son of the morning!
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For you said in your heart:
'I will ascend into heaven,
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I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God; I will be like
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the Most High.'"
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Satan, something went wrong.
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He didn't start out Satan.
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He started out Lucifer.
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He was a beautiful angel.
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It began with him.
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You can read it says there in
Ezekiel 28:17: "Your heart was
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lifted up because of
your beauty; you CORRUPTED
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your wisdom for the
sake of your splendor."
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Now, all of God's
creatures are created.
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The highest of God's
creation was the leader of
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all His angels, top general,
super-talented, super-brilliant,
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super-good
looking, super-musical.
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Name was Lucifer.
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This is the big
question, number four:
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Did God create
Lucifer to be a devil?
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You know what the answer is?
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No.
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What does it say
in Ezekiel 28:15?
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"You were," what's the word?
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"You were PERFECT in your ways
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from the day you were created."
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He's a created being,
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"until iniquity
was found in you."
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And people say, "Well, if God
made him and he went bad and God
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knows everything, then God knew
he was going to go bad, right?"
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God makes His creatures free.
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God wants us to love Him.
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And in order for us to
love God, we need to be free.
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You cannot force love.
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That means God wants us to
love Him because of who He is.
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And if God pre-programs
everybody to love Him,
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is that love?
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It must be freely given.
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Could God have made creatures
that say, "I love You, God.
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I love You, God.
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I'll tell You whatever
You want. I worship You.
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You're wonderful, You're great"?
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Sure.
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Would that be love?
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God makes His creatures free
and He made all of them free.
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Lucifer, because of his
power and his brilliance and his
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wisdom and his beauty and the
adoration of the other angels,
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it began to go to his head and
he resented that he did not have
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all the power of God.
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And it began to eat at
him, and it probably happened
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over a long period of time.
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But he nurtured this discontent
and then he began to sow seeds
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of discord among the other
powerful angels in the universe.
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He is a very smooth operator
and he just assumed that people
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think that he's this kind
of impish, diabolical-looking,
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ghoulish character.
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Don't be fooled.
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The devil is very real and he
is the leader of the rebellion
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against God.
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Question number five: How
many angels were convinced
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by Lucifer's deception?
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Was he alone?
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No, he began to campaign.
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You see, the angels
have tremendous power.
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They're stronger than humans.
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And the devil, Lucifer, as the
chief angel, tremendous power.
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And somehow they believed
that if they could just campaign
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against God, He would
give the angels more freedom
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and more power, and
Lucifer began to sow discontent
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among the other angels.
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And he's so smooth and he is
so clever and he's just a real
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manipulator, he was
able to persuade how many?
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"His tail drew a THIRD of the
stars of heaven and threw them
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to the earth."
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Now, that's a third of,
who knows, billions of angels.
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The Bible talks about angels
and it uses the highest number
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you can use in Greek,
says 10,000 times 10,000
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and thousands of thousands.
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There's--the Bible talks
about an innumerable company.
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What happened as a result of
Lucifer's deceptions in heaven?
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It says: "WAR
broke out in heaven:
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Michael and his angels
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fought with the
dragon," and who's the dragon?
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Satan, clearly.
That will come out later.
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"And the dragon
and his angels fought,
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but they did not prevail,"
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because the dragons
got one third and Jesus
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and God have got two thirds.
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Not only were they
outnumbered, but you got light
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against darkness,
good against evil.
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They won.
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And they basically
were evicted from heaven.
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You might be thinking,
"Why didn't God just annihilate
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all of them?"
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Can He do that?
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I mean, He's God.
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Is there any limit to His power?
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Couldn't God just blink His eyes
and vaporize all of the evil
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angels and Lucifer?
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He could have done it as
soon as Lucifer rebelled,
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but just think about that.
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Lucifer has been hurling
all kinds of terrible aspersions
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and claims and slander against
the name of God: "He's brutal.
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He's a legalist.
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He's cruel.
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He forces us to
be a certain way.
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He doesn't give us more freedom,
doesn't let us have His powers."
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I mean, who knows what he said?
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But it wasn't good.
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And God said, "Okay,
enough of you," and he's gone.
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The other angels would go, "Oh,
don't rub God the wrong way.
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Look what He did to Lucifer.
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Maybe Lucifer was right.
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Maybe God is
mean and arbitrary."
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God could not do that and secure
loyalty throughout eternity
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in the universe.
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He wants His
creatures to love and trust Him.
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It's one of the central messages
in the Bible: Have faith in God.
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If He forced us to obey,
we'd never love and trust Him.
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So He gives us freedom,
not only us, but He gave
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the angels freedom.
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So He had to allow Lucifer and
his fallen angels to carry out
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their program and say, all
right, if anyone in the universe
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wants to buy into what
Lucifer is saying, they all had
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an opportunity to
listen to his claims.
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Most of the universe rejected
it except one planet that was
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new and the devil came down and
he took possession of a serpent.
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And now I'm
getting ahead of myself.
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War broke out in heaven.
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And it goes on to say,
"He," Lucifer, "was cast
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to the earth," and
who was cast out with him?
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His angels were cast
out with him to the earth.
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Why did he come to the earth?
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Because he found
an audience here.
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So what methods does the devil
use in his war against God?
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So we can understand
his tactics, we need to know
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something about the enemy.
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What does the Bible say?
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And what are his
tactics that he uses?
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Says, "He," Jesus, "was there
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in the
wilderness for forty days,"
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and what happened?
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"He was TEMPTED by Satan."
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He is called the tempter.
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He's constantly trying to entice
people to do things wrong,
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to sin, to break God's law.
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Why?
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The devil hates people.
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The devil hates Jesus.
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If you don't think so,
just look at the cross.
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You can see what they did to
Jesus was the devil unloading
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his anger and his
fury against Jesus.
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He can't reach Jesus now, but he
knows how much Jesus loves us.
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So the way he hurts
God is by hurting us.
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And the devil has claimed this
world as his dominion because
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our first parents chose to
listen to the lies of the devil
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instead of trusting God and
obeying God, and all the sin
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and the misery that we see in
the world today and the war and
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the suffering, people say, "If--
why does God allow all this?"
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God has no choice if
He's going to be a loving God
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and make us free.
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This world rebelled.
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Satan set up his headquarters
down here as a beachhead
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to battle
against God in our world.
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Paul says it's like a theater to
the universe of what's going on.
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He tempts.
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There in the Garden of
Eden, he came and he possessed
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the serpent and he
spoke through the serpent.
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God said, "Do not eat
from the forbidden tree."
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And while she was doing her
work in the garden, she looked
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over at the tree and the
devil said, "Hah, she's looking.
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That's a start."
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And he took
possession of the most subtle
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and hypnotic creature
in the Garden, the serpent.
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Probably had wings back then.
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A lot of cultures
talk about flying reptiles.
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And the Bible says,
"fiery flying serpent."
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Did you know that?
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And God cursed the serpent.
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So it went on the
ground, probably flew.
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So it's up in the tree
and he says, "Hi there.
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Oh, you're beautiful.
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Come here for a minute."
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And she came, she says,
"Wow, I didn't know serpents
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could talk."
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"I couldn't till
I ate this fruit.
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Look what it did for me.
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You know, God's trying
to keep something from you.
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He said you can't
eat from the trees."
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"Oh no, He said we
can eat from all the trees
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but not this tree."
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"He knows you will be like
God if you eat from this tree."
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That's what he wanted.
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He wanted God's position
and he was able to persuade her
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to reach up, take it, eat it.
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Then she gave it to Adam later.
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He ate it.
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Basically, the Bible
says in Romans chapter 6:
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"Whoever you obey you
are the servants of the one
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who you obey."
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Adam was given
dominion of this world.
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When he surrendered dominion
to the devil, the devil called
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all his angels and they were
cast down, they were restricted
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to this planet because
they found an audience here.
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They claimed it as their own.
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That's not me, friends.
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That's what Jesus said.
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Jesus calls the devil,
the prince of this world.
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Isn't that what He says?
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That's right.
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That's why the devil said, "Fall
down, worship me, I'll give you
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the world," because
he claims it as his.
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Jesus came through His
life to redeem the world,
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to buy it back, by His life.
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It's--if it wasn't for God,
we'd be in much worse shape.
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We got so much to thank the
Lord for because he's got angels
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that are guarding us, to buy us.
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You've got one life to choose.
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What master do
you want to follow?
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The Bible says in
John 8:44, Jesus said:
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"He was a MURDERER
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from the beginning,
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and he does not
stand in the truth,
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because there
is no truth in him.
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When he speaks a lie, he
speaks from his own resource,
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for he is a LIAR
and the father of it."
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The devil is a
liar and he's a deceiver
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and he's a murderer.
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Revelation 12, verse 10:
"Then I heard a loud voice
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saying in heaven,
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Now salvation, and strength,
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and the kingdom of our God,
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and the power of
His Christ have come,
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for the ACCUSER of our
brethren, who ACCUSED them."
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What else does the devil do?
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He's pointing the
finger and accusing.
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"For they are the spirits
of demons, performing SIGNS."
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So, does the devil have power?
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Yeah.
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You read where Moses cast
his rod down before the Pharaoh.
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It became a serpent.
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The Pharaoh then
calls his magicians who work
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for the devil, sorcerers.
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They throw down their
rods, they become serpents.
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But the rod of Moses or the
serpent of Moses, ate theirs.
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God's power is greater,
but the devil's got some power
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to create illusions.
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So just because there's some
religious movement and they say
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we've got signs and wonders,
that doesn't mean it's always
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from God, amen?
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You can also read it says
that "great dragon was cast out,
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the serpent of old,
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called the Devil and Satan,"
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no question about
who the dragon is.
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Says he's the devil, he's Satan.
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"Who deceives the whole world."
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He is a deceiver.
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The danger with deception,
it is the commingling of truth
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and error.
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You say, "Oh yeah,
I went to that meeting
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and there's a lot of truth."
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But they might
put some poison in it.
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And so there's lots of religious
groups in the world today and
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different religions and there's
a lot of counterfeit out there.
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Devil's not afraid
of having some truth.
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He just mixes in lies to
deceive and makes it deadly.
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Question eight: When is
Satan the most dangerous?
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It's when he goes to church.
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It says there in 2 Corinthians
chapter 11, verse 14:
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"Satan himself is
transformed into," what?
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"An ANGEL of light."
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So when the devil came to tempt
Jesus in the wilderness, do you
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think he plopped down
on the ground and he had
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his red leotards and
his bat wings and his horns
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and his goatee
and his pitchfork?
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Is that how he
appeared to Jesus?
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No, he came as a messenger
from heaven, an angel of light.
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And then he mixed into and
said, "If You're the Son of God,
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turn these stones into bread.
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Just prove it."
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The devil is very cunning.
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You know, the devil is going
to impersonate Jesus in the end.
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You know the first
thing Jesus said when He talks
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about the last days?
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"Beware that you are not
deceived, for there will be
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many false Christs
and false prophets."
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Friends, I'm going to show
you how not to be deceived,
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so you can know for yourself,
ask any question you want.
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We're going to make it as
plain and open as possible.
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Matthew chapter
4, verse 5 and 6,
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"The devil said to Him,
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'If You're the Son of
God, throw Yourself down.
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For it is WRITTEN--'"
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What?
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The devil is quoting the Bible?
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Some people think that,
you know, devil comes along and
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all you've got to do is hold up
your Bible, like when a vampire
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comes, you know, you
hold up garlic or a cross,
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and he's going to run.
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The devil will snatch the Bible
out of your hand and he'll read
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it back to you and
then he'll misquote it.
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That's when he's
especially dangerous.
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He says, "It is written."
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So what animals in the Bible
are used to symbolize Satan?
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These animals have
characteristics that help us
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to recognize the enemy.
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Says: "The great
DRAGON was cast out, that,"
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what's the other creature?
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The "SERPENT of old,
called the Devil and Satan."
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Question number ten:
After his eviction from heaven,
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upon whom did the
devil direct his fury?
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Where did he
focus his attention?
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It says: "The dragon
was enraged with the woman."
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This is God's church.
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Two women in Revelation.
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Got a study on that.
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Keep coming.
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"And he went to make war
with the rest of her OFFSPRING,
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who keep the commandments
of God and have the testimony
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of Jesus Christ."
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That phrase is also there in
Revelation chapter 14, verse 12.
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"Here's the
patience of the saints.
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Here are those who
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus."
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Two characteristics of those
who are saved in the last days:
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They have faith and they obey.
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They trust and they obey.
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The devil hates the
people that trust and obey God.
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So you've got this dragon
trying to attack the woman.
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It's like the age old story
of the dragon and the maiden
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in distress finally
being rescued by the knight
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in shining armor who is Jesus.
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They drew all those fairy
tales from this Bible imagery
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that you find.
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Zachariah 3:1, another
characteristic of the devil
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is he's fighting the church.
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Then "he showed me Joshua
the high priest," he's the one
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who intercedes for all of
God's people, "standing before
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the Angel of the Lord, and
Satan standing at his right hand
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to OPPOSE him."
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The devil is constantly working
to oppose and attack the people
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of God.
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You can also read in John
10:10: "The thief does not come
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except to steal, and
to kill, and destroy."
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Jesus said, "I have come
that they might have life,
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and have it more abundantly."
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Now, friends tonight,
those are the two choices.
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It's talking about Jesus
saying I want you to have life,
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life abundantly.
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The devil wants to kill,
to steal, steal your life,
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steal your
eternity, and destroy.
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And we see that battle going
on in our world today between
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these two Titanic forces.
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The devil has cast
his vote against you.
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Jesus has cast His
vote for you, and you have
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the tie-breaking vote.
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So how do people resist
Satan and his temptations?
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You can read here in
Matthew chapter 4:10:
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"Jesus said, 'It is WRITTEN,
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"You shall worship the Lord
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your God, and Him only
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will you serve.'"
00:19:18.99\00:19:20.29
So how do we fight him?
00:19:20.32\00:19:21.79
Christ said that it's
through the Word of God.
00:19:21.82\00:19:24.66
You see, the devil
attacks us in our minds.
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And when you read the Bible,
the promises of God, the truth
00:19:28.10\00:19:30.93
of God affects your mind and
your thinking and it gives you
00:19:30.97\00:19:34.27
the power and the
reasoning to be able to resist.
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And God gives you His Spirit.
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Something happens as you
draw close to God in reading
00:19:40.68\00:19:43.18
His Word.
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You're going to notice a
blessing come into your lives
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as you participate in
the seminar, I promise you,
00:19:46.15\00:19:48.62
because Jesus promised you.
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Blessed are those who
read here and keep the words
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of this prophecy.
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He wants to bless you.
00:19:54.69\00:19:56.02
The devil wants to destroy you.
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So we read His Word.
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What else did Jesus say?
00:19:59.73\00:20:01.36
"Watch and
PRAY," talk to the Lord,
00:20:01.40\00:20:05.13
"lest you enter into temptation.
00:20:05.17\00:20:07.14
The spirit indeed is
willing, but the flesh is weak."
00:20:07.17\00:20:09.97
In James chapter 4, verse 7, it
says, "Therefore SUBMIT to God.
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Resist the devil and
he will flee from you.
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Draw near to God,
and," what will God do?
00:20:18.81\00:20:22.08
Draw near to God,
you're here, you're watching,
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you're listening, you
are drawing near to God.
00:20:24.09\00:20:26.02
He said, "He will
draw near to you."
00:20:26.05\00:20:28.22
He'll speak to you
through His Spirit.
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You watch and
see if I'm not right.
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Number 12: What is Satan's fate
according to Bible prophecy?
00:20:32.86\00:20:40.00
Does he get to live forever?
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It says in Isaiah 14, verse 15:
"Yet you shall be brought down
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to Sheol, to the
lowest depths of the PIT."
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You can also read in
Matthew chapter 25, verse 41:
00:20:51.15\00:20:55.35
"Then He'll say to those on
His left hand, 'Depart from Me,
00:20:55.38\00:20:59.39
you cursed, into
everlasting,'" what?
00:20:59.42\00:21:02.32
"FIRE," prepared for who?
00:21:02.36\00:21:05.59
"For the devil and his angels."
00:21:05.63\00:21:08.83
Is that pretty clear, that
there's evil power in the world?
00:21:08.86\00:21:11.87
Satan and his angels
are fighting against God
00:21:11.90\00:21:16.04
and His angels
for your attention.
00:21:16.07\00:21:19.51
And the Holy Spirit is
working through God's angels,
00:21:19.54\00:21:23.88
and sometimes the angels of
God will be nudging you, saying,
00:21:23.91\00:21:27.25
"You need to pray, you
need to read the Bible.
00:21:27.28\00:21:29.15
You need to not
do that and do this."
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And there is a spiritual battle
that's going on every day in
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our lives and we get to choose
who we listen to, but there are
00:21:36.22\00:21:39.36
tangible things we can
do to draw closer to God.
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Furthermore, you can
read in Ezekiel verse 28:19.
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It says: "You have become
a horror, and you shall be
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no more FOREVER."
00:21:51.97\00:21:54.38
You know what
that's saying, friends?
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When God makes a new heaven
and a new earth wherein dwells
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righteousness, there are no evil
angels, there are no devils,
00:22:00.48\00:22:05.09
there is no Satan,
there is no Lucifer.
00:22:05.12\00:22:07.02
Can you say, "Amen"?
00:22:07.06\00:22:08.56
There's going to be a
world without sin and, you know,
00:22:08.59\00:22:11.46
no one will ever doubt God's
love again because this terrible
00:22:11.49\00:22:16.46
experiment with sin that
the devil launched is going
00:22:16.50\00:22:19.53
to be understood.
00:22:19.57\00:22:20.80
The Bible tells us in the book
of Nahum: Sin will not rise up
00:22:20.84\00:22:24.77
a second time.
00:22:24.81\00:22:26.14
I'm sorry, you and I
were born on a battlefield.
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All you have to do
is look around and say,
00:22:29.94\00:22:31.48
"There's a strange
contradiction in the world."
00:22:31.51\00:22:35.48
You can see in
creation, the power of God
00:22:35.52\00:22:39.22
and the relationships
and the wonders of creation.
00:22:39.25\00:22:42.02
You see there's miracles
everywhere in just the way
00:22:42.06\00:22:44.76
your bodies work
and how a baby's born.
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There's miracles everywhere.
00:22:46.59\00:22:48.63
But then we see evil.
00:22:48.66\00:22:49.96
Something went wrong.
00:22:50.00\00:22:52.10
We answered that
question tonight.
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A very powerful--the
most powerful being rebelled.
00:22:54.67\00:22:58.51
He's fighting against
God and he wants your hearts.
00:22:58.54\00:23:02.64
But you need to
make the decision.
00:23:02.68\00:23:05.38
How does God--question
13: How does God feel about
00:23:05.41\00:23:08.62
the destruction of Satan
and his angels, and the wicked?
00:23:08.65\00:23:12.89
God is sad.
00:23:12.92\00:23:14.22
You know, He made
them, He loved them.
00:23:14.26\00:23:16.76
God is love, but He cannot
abide sin in His world made new.
00:23:16.79\00:23:22.96
Ezekiel 33, "He says,
'Say to them: "As I live,"
00:23:23.00\00:23:26.20
says the Lord,
"I have NO PLEASURE
00:23:26.23\00:23:28.20
in the death of the wicked,
00:23:28.24\00:23:29.74
but the wicked
TURN from his way.
00:23:29.77\00:23:31.87
Turn ye, turn ye
from your evil ways!
00:23:31.91\00:23:35.31
Why will you die?'"
00:23:35.34\00:23:37.05
This is what the Lord
is saying to you and me.
00:23:37.08\00:23:39.05
He doesn't want us to die.
00:23:39.08\00:23:40.42
He's calling for our
hearts and our souls.
00:23:41.15\00:23:42.95
He wants us to worship Him.
00:23:42.98\00:23:46.05
You know,
Revelation chapter 3, verse 20,
00:23:46.09\00:23:48.76
says that Jesus stands
00:23:48.79\00:23:50.63
at the door and He knocks.
00:23:50.66\00:23:52.46
He says, "If you open the door,
00:23:53.66\00:23:55.70
I will come in
and abide with you."
00:23:55.73\00:23:57.73
I think you hear Him
knocking on your heart tonight.
00:23:58.27\00:24:00.70
He brought you to this meeting.
00:24:00.74\00:24:02.44
He's arranged that
you're watching or listening.
00:24:02.47\00:24:05.61
He wants your heart.
00:24:05.64\00:24:06.98
The devil wants to destroy you.
00:24:07.01\00:24:08.81
Jesus wants to save you.
00:24:08.84\00:24:10.78
All you have to do is open your
heart and open the door and say,
00:24:10.81\00:24:13.11
"Lord, come in.
00:24:13.15\00:24:14.48
Help me."
00:24:14.52\00:24:15.82
How many of you would like
to say, "I want the Lord's help
00:24:15.85\00:24:17.55
to get through the last days"?
00:24:17.59\00:24:18.89
You at home.
00:24:18.92\00:24:20.22
Can I pray with you?
00:24:20.26\00:24:21.56
"Father in heaven, we've learned
some important things tonight.
00:24:21.59\00:24:25.56
We pray that Jesus will come
into our hearts, transform us.
00:24:25.59\00:24:29.13
Bless this seminar, we
ask in His name, amen."
00:24:29.16\00:24:32.67
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