A Sharper Focus

The Truth About Spiritual Babylon Part 6

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Participants: Pr. John Lomacang

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00:20 Hello, friends,
00:21 welcome to another Wednesday Night Bible Study here
00:24 at the 3ABN Worship Center,
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00:28 And we know that the Lord is going to bless you tonight
00:30 as we take time to walk
00:31 through the Word of God together.
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00:53 and what better place to be then here at 3ABN.
00:55 So we welcome you tonight.
00:57 We're going to continue in our topic,
00:58 "The Truth about Spiritual Babylon,"
01:02 and we want to join you.
01:03 So invite your friends and family members to sit down
01:05 with you for less than an hour actually.
01:09 And we're going to try to rifle
01:11 through by the spirit's direction,
01:14 the Word of God.
01:16 In a moment, I'll tell you
01:17 where to get a copy of the lesson.
01:18 But right now, let's go to the Lord in prayer.
01:21 Heavenly Father, we thank You tonight
01:23 for this opportunity to open Your Word.
01:26 We pray that You will also open our hearts.
01:29 Father, we know that the Bible is a book
01:30 that's too deep for our natural understanding.
01:34 So send Your Holy Spirit, the one who inspired the book
01:38 that holy men might write and scribe those things
01:42 that are blessing to us today.
01:44 Be our teacher, be the resident power,
01:47 and may all the praise and honor and glory go to You.
01:51 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
01:55 Now for a copy of the lesson, go to this website,
01:59 ASF.3ABN.org.
02:03 Download lesson number 29.
02:05 Now if you've joined us last week,
02:06 you'll say, I already downloaded lesson 29.
02:09 Hey, I got a clue for you.
02:11 We have one more final page.
02:12 How many pages we have for this lesson?
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02:17 How many? Four.
02:18 So the first page is 1 to 6,
02:22 then 7 to 17,
02:24 the third page 18 to 29
02:26 and the last page 30 to 38.
02:30 So you should have the last page
02:32 that begins with 30
02:34 and ends with 38.
02:37 So go to that website and download this lesson.
02:40 And in just a moment,
02:42 we'll begin with question number 25.
02:43 But before we do that,
02:45 we always begin with our theme song
02:47 which is what?
02:48 "Victory in Jesus."
02:50 Let's sing this song together.
03:00 I heard an old, old story
03:04 How the Savior came from glory
03:07 How He gave His life on Calvary
03:11 To save a wretch like me
03:15 I heard about His groaning
03:19 Of His precious blood's atoning
03:22 Then I repented of my sin
03:26 And won the victory
03:30 O victory in Jesus
03:34 My Savior forever
03:37 He sought me and bought me
03:41 With His redeeming blood
03:45 He loved me ere I knew Him
03:49 And all my love is due Him
03:53 He plunged me to victory
03:56 Beneath the cleansing flood
04:00 I heard about a mansion
04:04 He has built for me in glory
04:08 And I heard about the streets of gold
04:11 Beyond the crystal sea
04:15 About the angels singing
04:19 And the old redemption story
04:23 And some sweet day I'll sing up there
04:27 The song of victory
04:29 Key change.
04:30 O victory in Jesus
04:34 My Savior forever
04:38 He sought me and bought me
04:42 With His redeeming blood
04:46 He loved me ere I knew Him
04:49 And all my love is due Him
04:53 He plunged me to victory
04:57 Beneath the cleansing flood
05:01 He plunged me to victory
05:04 Beneath the cleansing flood
05:11 Amen? Amen.
05:12 What a wonderful song.
05:15 We have been walking through this topic,
05:18 "The Truth about Spiritual Babylon"
05:21 for a number of weeks.
05:23 And tonight, we're going to go ahead
05:25 and tackle that topic again.
05:27 Surely we may not finish it,
05:29 but that's the beauty of being able
05:30 to continue next week.
05:32 If you just joined the program and missed the opening,
05:36 you may want to go to the website
05:37 ASF.3ABN.org
05:41 and download lesson number 29,
05:44 "The Truth about Spiritual Babylon,"
05:47 and if you've done so already, there's one additional page.
05:50 Now we have been talking about the message of Babylon.
05:53 Babylon is fallen, is fallen.
05:57 That is the second of the three angels' messages.
06:01 As you know, if you're following
06:02 the chronology of it,
06:04 the very next topic we're gonna be covering is
06:07 "The Mark of the Beast."
06:09 That's a huge topic,
06:11 quite an extensive topic with a great understanding,
06:14 and quite a bit of information.
06:16 But what Babylon opens up to us is this very important fact,
06:20 how to know the difference
06:22 between light and darkness, between truth and error,
06:28 between what man has said,
06:30 and between what or compared to what God has said.
06:34 And so tonight,
06:36 the question we're gonna dive
06:37 right into is question number 25.
06:41 And we have quite a bit to cover tonight.
06:43 The question we're gonna begin with tonight
06:45 is question number 25.
06:47 When you follow this question,
06:48 or when you allow the Bible to speak,
06:51 one of the most important things
06:52 about the Bible is this,
06:53 the Bible reveals the truth.
06:56 Let's say that together,
06:57 the Bible reveals the truth.
07:00 If you wanna know truth, you have to read the Bible,
07:02 but not just a single verse, you have to read it in context,
07:06 read prior to the verses, and also after the verses,
07:10 get the entire picture.
07:12 Because a lot of doctrines today exist
07:14 in the Christian world,
07:15 where it's kind of like going to a smorgasbord.
07:18 You know, people pick and choose what they want
07:19 from the smorgasbord, and they'll say,
07:21 "I didn't see any onions."
07:23 Somebody will say, "I didn't see any oranges."
07:25 Because they scanned, but the Word of God
07:27 is not a smorgasbord.
07:29 It is a Genesis to what?
07:31 Revelation.
07:32 It is the Old Testament, and what else?
07:34 New Testament.
07:35 And as Isaiah the Prophet says, "Line upon line,
07:38 line upon line, here a little,
07:41 here a little, there a little, there a little."
07:45 So never base an entire doctrine
07:49 on one single verse.
07:53 Search the Bible to find
07:54 all that it says about one particular doctrine,
07:57 and then you can formulate the true picture about it.
07:59 Because some verses that you read,
08:02 will give you a certain portion of the picture
08:04 if you stop there,
08:06 it's kind of like those puzzles.
08:08 You ever put a puzzle together?
08:10 There is some, you know, for children,
08:11 they have 10 piece puzzles,
08:13 some adults like 5000 piece puzzles.
08:15 I don't have the time for 5000 piece puzzle.
08:18 But what you discover with puzzles is if you stop,
08:21 anywhere you stop, the picture is not complete.
08:24 The Bible is not a puzzle, but it has many parts.
08:28 And when you put all the parts together,
08:29 then you see the picture as the way it should appear,
08:33 right?
08:34 So this very important question tonight,
08:36 question number 25.
08:38 How does the Bible teach us to recognize a false prophet?
08:44 Let's go to 1 John 2:3-4.
08:47 Now, I also want you to pray because tonight,
08:49 we are not going to tip toe through the tulips.
08:52 Amen, somebody?
08:53 We are living too late in earth's history
08:56 to meander in the maze of mediocrity
08:58 and leave it up to you to figure out
08:59 what we try to say.
09:01 We have to allow the Word of God to be clear.
09:03 If the Bible is not clear, then people just don't know
09:06 what God is saying.
09:07 If the trumpet doesn't sound certain,
09:09 then you can't tell whether it's war,
09:12 or whether it's a memorial, you just don't really know.
09:14 Look at 1 John 2:3-4.
09:17 How does the Bible teach us to recognize a false prophet?
09:21 Here it is, and the Bible reads as follows.
09:25 Let's read this first one together,
09:26 it's on the screen.
09:27 Are you ready? Here we go.
09:29 Let's put some fervor behind this.
09:30 "Now by this we know that we know Him, if," what?
09:34 "If we keep His commandments."
09:37 Verse 4, "He who says, 'I know Him'
09:41 and does not keep His commandments, is a liar,
09:44 and the truth is not in him."
09:48 One of the reasons that text is important
09:50 and, you know, we read that verse
09:51 and what I wanna remind you of
09:53 is that verse wasn't put in by any particular denomination.
09:56 That's the Lord's word.
09:58 That was put so that every one of us
10:00 could be measured by the same standard, right?
10:03 When you go to court, the judge doesn't say,
10:07 "What country are you from?
10:09 What's your nationality?
10:11 How much money do you make?
10:12 I'll decide whether or not to use the same laws
10:14 and rules and regulations."
10:15 When you walk into a court of law,
10:17 the rules apply to everyone.
10:20 At least that's what we hope.
10:22 Some people say, "Well, the wealthy don't live
10:24 by the same rules as the poor."
10:26 That's not the point I wanna make.
10:28 In the actual book of law,
10:30 the law is supposed to apply to everyone.
10:33 God's law applies to what?
10:35 So here's the point of the text.
10:36 If someone says,
10:38 "I know Jesus,"
10:40 but they don't keep His commandments.
10:43 The Bible says, "Wait a minute, wait a minute,
10:45 that guy is not connected to me.
10:49 He's a liar, and don't trust him.
10:52 Because if he lies on that,
10:55 he's not going to tell you
10:56 the truth about other things.
10:58 So the commandments of God
11:01 are a safeguard,
11:03 they are a criteria.
11:05 When you measure to that criteria,
11:07 when someone says,
11:09 "I honor the commandments of God."
11:11 Then you can say, "Okay, that is a true prophet of God,
11:15 that is someone that we can trust
11:18 for the other truths to unfold."
11:21 Let's look at another text.
11:22 We're gonna go to another one, so the answer right there is,
11:25 how does the Bible teach us to recognize the false prophet?
11:28 If they don't keep God's commandments,
11:30 there's no light there.
11:31 If they don't keep God's commandments,
11:33 and by the way,
11:34 how many commandments are there?
11:36 How many? Ten.
11:37 Ten.
11:39 Somebody said 11, I know they were joking around.
11:43 Which one?
11:44 Spoke to John, He said, when you come in,
11:47 and I'll give you another one.
11:50 And by the way,
11:51 if you look at the 1 Book of John,
11:52 that's not new, that was in Deuteronomy.
11:54 He told him in Deuteronomy,
11:56 "Love your neighbor as yourself."
11:57 That's not new.
11:59 What was new about that was in the New Testament Church,
12:01 one of the struggles they had was to love each other.
12:05 It was unusual to them.
12:07 Because as Peter was told,
12:09 Lord, I heard that you,
12:11 you know, if you forgive somebody
12:13 three times,
12:15 that's pretty good.
12:16 So he doubled it and said, "Well, isn't seven okay?"
12:19 Lord said, "No, seventy times seven."
12:22 You know, the big issue today
12:24 and I'm glad that that point was made.
12:26 The big issue today is not so much,
12:29 just what is truth and what is not truth?
12:32 The big issue is do you really love the Lord enough
12:36 to follow what He says we should follow?
12:39 And if love for someone is not there,
12:41 then it's just a matter of rules and regulations,
12:43 ain't that right.
12:44 And people don't like rules and regulations,
12:46 but you will be amazed
12:47 how rules and regulations really are not a big issue
12:50 when you love somebody.
12:52 I use the example of my wife and I,
12:54 married going on 32 years now.
12:56 If we were aware of all the laws
12:58 on the state of...
13:00 Well, we got married in New York.
13:02 We didn't go down to the courthouse and say,
13:03 "Now before we get married,
13:05 can I see all the laws
13:06 on the book of the state of New York?
13:08 And if I can live up to all these laws,
13:11 then I'll marry her."
13:13 That's not what we did.
13:14 But we said, "Okay, we love."
13:16 Love preceded.
13:18 And so therefore, when Roman says love,
13:21 Romans 13 says,
13:22 "Love is the fulfilling of the law."
13:25 What in essence is being said is when you love the Lord,
13:27 His requirements are not a burden to you.
13:30 Amen?
13:31 Let's go to number,
13:32 so the answer here is how does the Bible teach us
13:34 to recognize a false prophet?
13:35 If someone says, he knows the Lord
13:37 but doesn't keep the commandments,
13:39 the Lord says, "Hey, run to the hills,
13:42 that's not the person you wanna hang around."
13:44 Look at number 26.
13:47 How can we know that false prophets
13:49 are in darkness?
13:51 How can we know?
13:53 Okay,
13:55 let's go to Isaiah 8.
13:56 Now before you bring up the text on the screen,
13:58 I would like to go to Isaiah 8.
14:00 And before we bring up the scripture,
14:02 which is Isaiah 8:20.
14:04 I want to go to Isaiah 8:16.
14:08 All right, Isaiah 8:16.
14:13 A lot of times people think that the word disciple
14:16 is a New Testament word.
14:18 Disciple is an Old Testament word.
14:20 Anyone that follows Christ is a disciple.
14:23 Anyone that follows God is a disciple.
14:27 They are being taught to lead others to Christ.
14:31 Notice Isaiah 8:16,
14:35 before we bring up the text.
14:37 Look at the Bible together.
14:38 The Bible says, "Bind up," what's the next word?
14:41 "The testimony," And what's in it?
14:44 "Seal the law," among my what?
14:47 "Disciples." That's a powerful scripture.
14:49 Bind up, you know, bind means,
14:50 if you think of the terminology in the sense of a ship,
14:54 I preach on about a boat that was tossed.
14:56 What happens when the boat starts rocking?
14:58 What do you do?
15:00 You tie everything down,
15:01 you make sure it's tight.
15:03 Matter of fact, I'm taking my lawnmower
15:05 to get service tomorrow and I asked somebody
15:07 if they have a flatbed, they said,
15:08 "Well, your lawnmower will fit
15:10 but don't forget to tie it down."
15:12 Because even though it fits, if you don't tie it down,
15:15 it could roll off, it could flip over,
15:17 anything could happen.
15:18 So when the Lord says bind up the testimony,
15:20 He doesn't say the testimony is,
15:25 let me correctly say this,
15:28 because sometimes people say,
15:29 "By keeping the law you're bound."
15:32 There's a difference all together.
15:33 When you bind up someone's wound,
15:35 you're not binding them.
15:38 You're bringing an healing process.
15:40 When the Lord says bind up the testimony,
15:42 that means make sure
15:44 that it is connected to my disciples,
15:46 and when it's connected,
15:47 seal it, seal the law among my disciples.
15:51 Now look at Isaiah 8:20.
15:53 Here's the answer.
15:55 Isaiah 8:20.
15:56 The Lord says again,
15:58 "To the law," to the what?
16:00 "To the law and to the testimony!
16:03 If they do not speak according to this word,
16:06 it is because there is no, " what?
16:09 "No light in them."
16:11 You know, these measurements are so clear,
16:12 a lot of times people say,
16:14 "Well, how could I in this world
16:15 of so many churches, so many religions
16:19 so many doctrinal teachings,
16:20 how could I possibly know
16:22 which ones are handling the truth?
16:25 Well, if you just use
16:26 these two texts right off the bat,
16:28 and begin to apply them, go to the church, pastor...
16:31 And I did this when I was a teenager.
16:33 I'll tell you the story very, very quickly.
16:35 When I was a teenager about,
16:37 I think I was about 17 years old.
16:39 And I went to a...
16:40 I won't tell you what denomination it was,
16:42 but I went to the church, and it was a Sunday Church.
16:43 I went on my bicycle, and I asked the youth pastor
16:46 about the Sabbath.
16:47 I said, "I want to know
16:49 because I was in my disc jockey world,
16:52 my partying world.
16:53 And I was trying to find a church
16:54 where I could still party,
16:56 and still be saved.
16:58 I was trying to compromise,
17:01 so I said to the pastor,
17:02 "Can you tell me, youth pastor,
17:03 can you tell me about the Sabbath?"
17:05 He said, "Come with me, young man."
17:06 So I thought he's gonna go and explain something to me.
17:08 He asked me, I was in this youth class.
17:11 And he asked, he said, "Come with me."
17:12 And he walked me up the steps across the hall,
17:15 down the steps outside the church.
17:17 And then he said,
17:18 "Don't you ever come back here again?"
17:20 And I thought, "Hmm, what?"
17:24 He didn't even answer my question.
17:26 He just asked me, "Come here.
17:29 Come with me, young man."
17:30 I just simply as a teenager said,
17:32 "Could you tell me about the Sabbath?"
17:35 I hadn't had a personal relationship
17:36 with Jesus yet
17:37 but the Sabbath was a part of my practice.
17:39 And since I really wasn't practicing anything,
17:42 I was partying.
17:43 I was figuring out, "Do I really have to keep
17:44 the Sabbath to be saved?
17:46 Let me ask this pastor the question?"
17:47 "Come on, young man."
17:49 Up the steps, across the hallway,
17:50 down the steps, and he said to me,
17:52 "Don't you ever come back here again."
17:53 I thought, "What?
17:56 What was that all about?"
17:58 And I did that twice.
18:00 Again, and I want to tell you,
18:01 I'm not going to identify the denominations at all.
18:04 But I went to another pastor,
18:05 and I sat in his office and asked him again,
18:07 a different denomination.
18:08 And he said, "Don't tell me that."
18:10 He said, "I know you're not gonna tell me
18:11 that in 321 AD Roman Emperor Constantine
18:14 passed the first Sunday Law."
18:15 I said,
18:16 "You know?"
18:18 He quoted history.
18:20 He knew when the first Sunday law was...
18:21 I said, "Do you know?"
18:23 And he got up and walked out of the office.
18:25 After about 40 minutes,
18:27 I figured he wasn't coming back.
18:28 So I left.
18:30 The unfortunate thing and I just confessed this.
18:32 The unfortunate thing is,
18:33 I let me let me rephrase that...
18:35 not the unfortunate but the fortunate thing
18:37 is his church was right across the street
18:38 from where I lived.
18:42 And one Sunday I saw on his marquee,
18:44 he was preaching on the Ten Commandments.
18:47 And I thought, "What could he say
18:49 about The Ten Commandments?"
18:50 So I went in the house.
18:52 I got all my Amazing Facts folders.
18:55 Do you see where I'm headed with that?
18:57 And I went to all the cars that were parked up
19:00 and down the street double parked
19:02 in front of my house,
19:03 across the street double parked,
19:05 got a very thin line, because in New York City
19:06 you gotta get little parking lots.
19:09 They're double parked while church is in,
19:11 thin line you go down the middle,
19:12 I had all those cars covered.
19:15 I put a Don't Be Fooled Amazing Facts folder
19:19 under the windshield wiper of every one of those.
19:22 And I looked out my window
19:23 when the church was over like this.
19:26 And I saw everybody looking at this.
19:27 I wonder who put that on there.
19:29 You see, the beauty of it is,
19:30 one, you know, the truth of God's Word.
19:32 When you know the truth of God's Word,
19:34 then the light comes on.
19:35 Amen?
19:36 That's why the text says,
19:38 "If they don't speak according to this Word
19:39 it is because there is,"
19:40 how much light?
19:42 "No light in them."
19:44 And you don't want to hang around people
19:46 that are walking in darkness.
19:48 All right, put for the answer,
19:49 how can we know that false prophets
19:51 are in darkness?
19:52 They don't honor God's law.
19:54 They do not speak according to God's law,
19:57 and surely not according to God's testimony.
20:00 All right, number 27.
20:02 Number 27.
20:04 Wow.
20:05 What does the Lord reveal
20:09 is the motive of false prophets?
20:11 This is huge,
20:13 because we're talking about Spiritual Babylon.
20:16 Now a lot of people...
20:17 I'm going to just broaden this as we go to the text,
20:20 Jeremiah 14:14.
20:21 The question is,
20:22 what does the Lord reveal
20:24 is the motive of false prophets?
20:25 You know, we could easily say, "Well, he's innocent,
20:30 he's innocent, they're innocent.
20:32 They don't really know.
20:33 They don't really know.
20:35 They don't really know."
20:36 We could, we could whitewash
20:38 the whole entire religious world and say,
20:39 "Everybody's ignorant."
20:42 But I've discovered otherwise.
20:44 I've discovered that there are those
20:45 who know the truth
20:46 and are determined not to tell it.
20:50 And the motive is clear,
20:51 and this text is going to reveal some of the motives.
20:54 All right, Jeremiah 14:14.
20:58 Here it is, Jeremiah 14:14.
21:00 And the Bible says,
21:02 "And the Lord said to me,
21:04 'The prophets prophesy," what?
21:07 "Lies in my name.
21:10 I have not sent them,
21:13 commanded them,
21:14 nor spoken to them.
21:17 They prophesy to say a false vision, divination,
21:23 a worthless thing,
21:24 and the deceit of their heart."
21:27 Now look at those things that are pointed out,
21:29 look what they do.
21:30 First of all, the Lord says, "I haven't sent them."
21:32 What do they do? What do they do?
21:34 They prophesy to you a false vision.
21:41 They also prophesy divination.
21:42 You know a divination?
21:44 Divination is a spiritualistic practice.
21:46 You know, they try to say,
21:48 "Here's what's gonna happen in four weeks.
21:50 Here's what's gonna happen in two months."
21:53 I never forget going to, and I didn't go
21:55 because I was looking for any answers at all,
21:58 but I went out of inquisitive nature.
22:00 And this is when we lived in Orlando, Florida.
22:03 Not too long, it was a while ago,
22:05 my wife and I,
22:07 and also her cousin went to a miracle service.
22:09 We didn't go to get any miracles,
22:11 we just went to see.
22:12 And we stood in the back,
22:14 and we saw all these people in wheelchairs,
22:16 and some of them had tubes,
22:18 and some of them are paraplegic and they were all...
22:21 And the place was packed with people
22:23 that needed a miracle.
22:25 And I was listening to the prophet,
22:29 false vision, divination, worthless thing,
22:31 deceit of their heart.
22:32 And of calling somebody
22:34 that really had an obvious ailment,
22:37 they call somebody and said, "Let me touch your ear.
22:40 The Lord has told me that in a X amount of days
22:43 or X amount of month,
22:44 you're gonna be able to hear God's voice speaking
22:45 to you about the plan for your future."
22:47 And I'm thinking, "What,
22:49 what about all these folks
22:51 that really need obvious things?"
22:53 When I did a revelation seminar,
22:55 my first Revelation seminar
22:56 back in 1989 in Northern California,
22:59 in a small town called Weaverville.
23:01 Soon as I began my Revelation seminar,
23:04 nine other churches began one the next week.
23:07 Why?
23:09 In this small town,
23:10 everybody was trying to counteract my meetings.
23:13 And so on one of my nights off,
23:14 I went to hear about this prophet
23:16 that had an edge on prophecy.
23:19 And what I heard him say was nothing,
23:21 it had nothing to do with prophecy,
23:23 and had everything to do with,
23:24 "In about four months,
23:26 God is gonna speak to your heart
23:27 and reveal to you the things that I'm thinking."
23:28 People are paying for that?
23:30 And I was telling the truth,
23:32 and everybody was upset with me.
23:33 And that's what happens.
23:34 They prophesy to you a false vision.
23:38 What else?
23:39 Divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.
23:43 And you know, I tell you today in America...
23:47 there has been so many investigations
23:49 on people that are living high on the hog,
23:52 rather than telling the truth.
23:53 The unfortunate thing is, many people are in it
23:55 for the benefit,
23:57 and not for the truth of God's Word.
23:58 Go with me to the Book of Matthew
23:59 before we go to number 28.
24:01 So the answer for number 27.
24:03 What does the Lord reveal is the motive
24:04 of the false prophet?
24:06 False visions, false prophecies,
24:09 worthless things, and that's the motive.
24:12 It's just not of God.
24:14 You want to just put that all together.
24:16 It's not of God, it's a cover up.
24:18 If I could put all that together,
24:19 it's a cover up.
24:20 Go with me to Matthew Chapter 7,
24:22 I want you to see something.
24:23 The Lord also points this out,
24:25 because we're living in a day and age
24:26 where a lot of things are being done
24:29 in the name of the Lord.
24:35 But to call on the Lord's name,
24:38 is also to represent the Lord in what you teach,
24:41 ain't that right?
24:43 You call on the Lord's name,
24:44 make sure that what you teach represent the Lord.
24:48 Matthew 7, look together at verse 21,
24:51 down to verse 23.
24:54 And then we'll go to number 28, for the next question.
24:58 Here's what the Lord says
24:59 and He talks about them by their fruits,
25:01 you will know them verse 20.
25:02 But then he says in verse 21,
25:04 "Not everyone who says to me," what?
25:07 "Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven,
25:11 but he who does the will of My Father," where?
25:14 "In heaven.
25:15 Many will say to me in that day,
25:19 Lord, Lord,
25:21 have we not," what?
25:23 "Prophesied in your name?"
25:24 Did you get that?
25:26 They prophesy a false vision,
25:29 but whose name do they do it in?
25:30 The Lord's name.
25:32 He said, "I haven't sent them but they used His name."
25:34 Many have.
25:35 "Have we not prophesied in Your name,"
25:37 a direct correlation to Jeremiah 14:14.
25:40 "And cast out demons in Your name,
25:43 and done many wonders in Your name.
25:47 Haven't we done all that?" And look at verse 23.
25:50 "And then I will confess or declare to them I," what?
25:53 Let's say together. "I never knew you.
25:57 Depart from me
25:59 you who practice lawlessness."
26:01 Or as the King James Version says,
26:02 "Work iniquity."
26:04 What that means is,
26:06 you say you're connected with me,
26:07 but I don't know you.
26:09 And it goes all the way back to 1 John 2:3-4.
26:11 "He who says, I know him
26:13 and does not keep His commandments is a liar."
26:15 Lord says, "I don't know you.
26:17 You've done a lot of things."
26:18 And this is amazing.
26:19 You may think you have to know the Lord to cast out demons.
26:21 Wow.
26:23 That's what deception is all about.
26:25 I wanna just plant this thought,
26:27 "Do you know
26:28 and there are examples in history
26:32 where people have been possessed,
26:35 and then the possession has been removed
26:38 by false prophets,
26:40 to make people believe
26:42 that that was the work of God?"
26:44 I'm gonna bring up the text in just a moment
26:45 to show it to you
26:47 because the Lord says,
26:48 "If a prophet speaks a thing,
26:50 and it comes to pass,
26:52 exactly as he has spoken."
26:56 And then he says to you,
26:57 "Let us go after other gods."
26:59 The Lord says,
27:01 "I'm just testing you to see
27:02 whether or not you'll keep My commandments."
27:04 Because there are a lot of people
27:05 that have gone to miracle services,
27:07 they see people falling over,
27:08 they see a lot of healing taking place,
27:11 but you don't in many cases,
27:12 we don't understand that this place called Babylon,
27:16 which the Bible says,
27:17 has become the habitation of demons,
27:19 foul spirits, every unclean and hated bird.
27:22 We have discounted
27:24 how much deception exists in Christianity today.
27:28 So you'll see things that look like miracles,
27:31 casting out demons, like the verse says here,
27:33 "But the Lord says, I don't know you.
27:35 I haven't done that.
27:36 You're using My name, but I haven't sent you."
27:39 All right.
27:40 Look at number 28.
27:42 Question number 28.
27:43 So be careful when you're in these services
27:45 because what's happening today,
27:47 and it's happening with television
27:48 and anything external,
27:49 we are being stimulated by the external
27:52 to be convinced
27:54 of what is not really in fact truth.
27:57 If it doesn't measure up with God's Word,
27:59 then do not believe it.
28:02 All right?
28:04 Question number 28.
28:05 Here it is.
28:07 What plan does the Lord have
28:10 for those deceived
28:12 by false prophets?
28:14 I love this question.
28:16 Because a moment ago,
28:17 you could come to the conclusion that,
28:19 "Well, you're deceived too bad."
28:21 Whoa, God still loves His people,
28:23 no matter where they are.
28:25 Amen, someone?
28:26 And there are many people that love the Lord
28:27 that up until that particular moment,
28:29 that's all they know.
28:31 And so they're under the leadership,
28:33 or the guides, or the tutelage, or the direction of a prophet
28:38 who knows the truth but doesn't communicate it.
28:41 But God is not gonna let the false prophet
28:43 have the final say.
28:46 Let's go to Jeremiah 23 to answer this question.
28:49 What plan does the Lord have for those deceived
28:52 by false prophets?
28:54 Matter of fact, as you go to Jeremiah 23,
28:56 we're gonna read verse 1-4.
28:58 You can also see that in Revelation 18,
29:00 we talked about this, God is gonna say,
29:02 "Come out of her," who?
29:05 "My people."
29:06 So the Lord is not gonna allow people
29:07 to stay in deception.
29:09 He wants them to come out.
29:10 But notice what the Lord has, what plans He has,
29:13 for those that are deceived by false prophets?
29:16 Here it is.
29:17 On the screen,
29:19 "Woe to the shepherds
29:20 who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!'
29:25 says the Lord.' "
29:27 Notice if they're of his pasture,
29:28 they're his sheep,
29:30 "Therefore that says the Lord God of Israel
29:32 against the shepherds,"
29:33 who do what?
29:34 "Who feed my people."
29:36 Look at what he said,
29:37 "'You have scattered My flock,
29:39 driven them away,
29:42 and not attended to them.
29:44 Behold, I will attend to you
29:46 for the evil of your doings,'
29:49 says the Lord."
29:51 "But,"
29:53 Notice He changes the cadence.
29:55 "But I will gather the remnant of My flock
29:59 out of all the countries where I have driven them,
30:03 and bring them back to their," what?
30:05 "To their folds,
30:07 and they shall be," what?
30:09 "Fruitful and increase."
30:11 I will set up shepherds over them
30:14 who will do," what?
30:16 "Who will feed them,
30:17 and they shall fear no more,
30:20 nor be dismayed,
30:22 nor shall they be lacking,
30:25 "says the Lord."
30:26 Amen.
30:28 God is saying, "I know what's happened.
30:29 They are those false shepherds
30:32 that are feeding My sheep."
30:34 When you read about John 10,
30:35 John 10 is so amazing.
30:38 That's where Jesus is the good shepherd.
30:40 He said, "There are some people
30:42 that I've not hired their hirelings.
30:44 They did try to come in here other ways."
30:47 But He said the good thing about it.
30:49 Let's go there very quickly.
30:50 John Chapter 10.
30:51 So put the answer here on number 28.
30:53 What plan does the Lord have for those deceived
30:55 by false shepherd?
30:56 He will gather them back.
30:58 He will gather them back.
31:01 Amen.
31:02 Let's go to John Chapter 10.
31:04 Look at this.
31:06 John Chapter 10.
31:09 See what we have to keep in mind
31:11 is as the Bible says,
31:13 Paul says,
31:14 "There's one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
31:15 one God, one Father of all, one fold, one shepherd."
31:19 But there are people and one of the reasons
31:21 why you find even during the time
31:24 with the birth of Christ,
31:25 that the shepherds were watching
31:27 over their flock by night
31:28 is because people try to steal their sheep.
31:32 And that's what's happening today
31:33 under false pretence,
31:34 false doctrines,
31:36 false prophecies God's sheep
31:39 are being stolen.
31:42 But look at the good news.
31:43 John Chapter 10.
31:45 Wow, look at this.
31:48 Verse 1,
31:50 "Most assuredly, I say to you,
31:54 he who does not enter the sheepfold
31:57 by the," what?
31:58 "Door, but climbs up some other way,
32:02 the same is a thief and a robber."
32:04 There are those who are trying to find another way to get in
32:08 'cause there's only one way,
32:10 through the door, Jesus is the door.
32:13 He says, "But he who enters by the door
32:15 is the shepherd of the sheep.
32:18 To him," this is beautiful,
32:19 "the doorkeeper opens,
32:22 and the sheep," do what?
32:24 "Hear his voice,
32:25 and he calls his own sheep
32:28 by name and leads them," what?
32:30 "Out."
32:31 So once again, Revelation 18:4, come what?
32:34 "Out of her My people."
32:36 What are they gonna do to come out?
32:38 They're going to hear His voice.
32:40 They're going to hear His voice.
32:42 They hear His voice. Look at the next verse.
32:44 Verse 4,
32:45 "And when he brings out his own sheep,
32:48 he goes before them,
32:50 and the sheep follow him,
32:52 for they," what?
32:53 "Know his voice."
32:55 Let me ask you a question today.
32:56 Let me take this thing.
32:58 How can we hear God's voice today?
32:59 Hint. How can we hear God's voice?
33:01 Fear His Word?
33:03 Be careful when people come into your church and say,
33:05 "God gave me a revelation today.
33:08 God told me..."
33:10 And it's not in harmony with God's Word.
33:11 You got a lot of that going on nowadays.
33:13 I've seen so many of these self-proclaimed shepherds,
33:16 self-proclaimed prophetesses and prophets.
33:19 One Saturday,
33:22 one Saturday evening,
33:23 we were sitting in our bed together,
33:25 my wife and I... It's just kind of,
33:26 you know, relaxing,
33:28 the day was a stressful day,
33:29 and a lot of activity and lot of blessings,
33:32 and we just kind of thumbing through the channels.
33:34 We stopped at a channel where there was a prophet
33:37 and two prophetesses,
33:38 they were selling a prophet program.
33:42 And depending on what level of prophet you wanted to be,
33:46 four easy payments of,
33:48 three easy payments of this prophet kit cost 200,
33:52 this one is 400,
33:53 this one is 600,
33:54 depends on what kind of prophet you want to be.
33:56 You buy my prophet kit and in a year and a half,
33:59 you'll be a prophet or prophetess.
34:01 And this guy referred himself as a prophet
34:03 and prophetess Diana,
34:05 and prophetess, and they gave the lady's name
34:06 and I'm thinking,
34:08 "Lord, have mercy."
34:12 And I want to so badly to write him,
34:13 but, I knew it was just a commercial,
34:15 you know, a show that was taped
34:17 a number of months ago
34:18 kind of like, some of our programs
34:20 and I thought, "This is sad."
34:22 That's why
34:24 God has allowed ministries like 3ABN.
34:27 Amen.
34:28 And Loma Linda broadcasting, and Hope channel,
34:30 and Amazing Facts, and Amazing Discoveries,
34:33 God has many tentacles out there proclaiming the light
34:36 to the world,
34:37 and it's going to get brighter
34:38 before Jesus comes,
34:40 wonderful thing about that.
34:41 And by the way, when you read that Jesus' saying,
34:44 "I'm the good shepherd."
34:46 And the beauty of this is
34:47 they are going to hear His voice.
34:49 When the Word of God is being preached,
34:52 be like the Thessalonicans.
34:55 What did they do?
34:58 They examined the Word of God to see
35:01 whether what the prophet spoke was so.
35:03 See, these were more noble.
35:05 In that, they searched the scriptures to see
35:08 whether these things were so...
35:10 Don't just take a person's word for it.
35:12 Matter of fact, we always say, "Don't take my word for,
35:13 you know why?
35:15 Because your destination is in your hand."
35:18 Amen.
35:19 Let's go to the next one, number 29,
35:21 number 29.
35:22 I think we are moving right along.
35:24 Okay.
35:25 Here it is.
35:27 Okay.
35:28 Wow, wow.
35:32 What is the message against Spiritual...
35:35 Why is the message against Spiritual Babylon
35:38 important to the world?
35:40 Why is it important?
35:41 It's important to know why it's important.
35:43 Somebody who say
35:45 "Okay, so you have this message
35:46 that you're proclaiming,
35:47 why is it important?"
35:50 Let's go to Micah 4:2.
35:54 Micah Chapter 4,
35:56 and we're going to look together at verse 2.
36:00 All right.
36:03 Just to review very quickly of your thinking.
36:06 The messages of the three angels
36:08 is to every nation, every kindred,
36:12 every tongue, every people,
36:15 that's the context of the answer to this question.
36:18 Micah 4:2 and the question,
36:20 why is the message about against Spiritual Babylon
36:23 important to the world?
36:24 Micah 4:2, all right.
36:29 A little minor prophets.
36:30 Here we are.
36:33 And the Lord's Word,
36:34 "Many nations shall come and say,"
36:38 Quite nations say this together,
36:40 "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
36:44 to the house of the God of Jacob,"
36:47 and look at this beautiful.
36:48 "He will do," what?
36:49 "Teach us His way, and we shall," what?
36:53 "Walk in His paths."
36:55 Why?
36:56 "For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
37:00 and the Word of the Lord from," where?
37:03 "Jerusalem."
37:04 Notice what He's compared together.
37:07 The law of God and His Word.
37:09 If you combine that two together,
37:11 that's a law and the testimony,
37:14 these two things together.
37:15 Nations, why are they coming?
37:17 They're looking, they're seeking,
37:19 there're lots of people today
37:21 that are not satisfied with surface religion.
37:25 There're lot of people today that are not satisfied
37:27 with what they're hearing from week to week.
37:29 But, you know, you never hear about that.
37:31 You always see that, the lights, the camera,
37:33 the action.
37:34 But there are many people and I've heard some people say,
37:36 "Well, there are lots in numbers,
37:38 but there's great turnover."
37:40 Where the Word of God is proclaimed,
37:42 people are being fed, and the growth is taking place.
37:44 Praise the Lord for that.
37:46 But where are they going to find?
37:48 I'm going to go back to this point.
37:50 It says, "And we shall,"
37:51 this is what they're going to say.
37:54 "He will teach us His way,"
37:57 not man's way,
37:58 "And we shall walk in His paths,
38:01 for out of Zion the law shall go forth
38:04 and the Word of the Lord
38:05 from Jerusalem."
38:07 Today, when you talk about the law of God,
38:09 you find a ton of excuses.
38:12 It was nailed to the cross,
38:14 it's for the Jews only,
38:16 it's just the Old Testament,
38:18 we are New Testament Christians,
38:20 it doesn't apply anymore,
38:22 it's a burden
38:23 if you keep at your bound.
38:26 I'm thinking, "What is the problem here?"
38:29 Well, but they are going to be those
38:32 that will respond to the voice of God,
38:35 and when they hear God's voice,
38:37 they will walk in His paths.
38:39 Praise God for that.
38:40 All right, question 30.
38:43 We are on the final page.
38:45 I'm looking at all the scriptures here.
38:49 I have to be Speedy Gonzales to get through this tonight.
38:53 And I'm not Speedy Gonzales.
38:54 Okay.
38:56 So we will go as far as we can.
38:58 Question number 30.
39:02 I'm going to Revelation 18
39:03 to precede my asking you to turn there.
39:07 Number 30, here it is.
39:08 How does God plan to orchestrate
39:12 the destruction of Babylon?
39:15 God has a plan.
39:16 How is He going to orchestrate
39:18 the destruction of Babylon?
39:22 And by the way, if you haven't joined us
39:23 for the last broadcast,
39:25 we're talking about Spiritual Babylon.
39:27 There's no literal Babylon today.
39:29 That's how it was brought down in according to the prophet,
39:32 it will never be inhabited again
39:34 and it never has been inhabited again.
39:36 How does God plan to orchestrate
39:39 the destruction of Babylon?
39:42 Revelation 18:6.
39:44 Revelation 18:6.
39:47 All right, I want to...
39:49 Let me see if I've done this here.
39:51 I want to make sure I don't want to go ahead of myself.
39:54 Okay.
39:55 Let's stop with verse 5 and then we get to verse 6,
39:57 bring the text upon the screen.
39:59 I appreciate that.
40:00 Look at verse 5.
40:01 Here is why God is going
40:03 to orchestrate Babylon's destruction.
40:05 Verse 5 says,
40:07 "For her sins have done," what?
40:10 "Reached to heaven,
40:12 and God has remembered her iniquities."
40:15 Now look at verse 6,
40:17 it'll be on the screen for those of you watching.
40:20 It says, "Render to her," what?
40:23 "Just as she rendered to you,
40:27 and repay her," what?
40:29 "Double according to her works,
40:31 in the cup which she has mixed,
40:35 mix double for her."
40:37 Wow.
40:38 When people think they're getting away
40:40 with the lies, you don't get away with lies,
40:41 it's double jeopardy.
40:43 You cannot deceive someone
40:45 and think, "I got away."
40:47 When there are lots of people today
40:49 for the purpose of financial gain,
40:51 for wealth, for fame, for the reasons
40:53 that are too numerous to even mentioned here today.
40:56 Some people are motivated
40:58 by anything other than
41:00 telling the truth of God's Word.
41:02 I've had preachers that have said to me,
41:03 "Yeah, I know the Sabbath is true."
41:06 But why would I want to tell my people that?
41:07 Did you realize what will happen to my job
41:09 if I told them that?
41:11 What will happen to your job?
41:13 What about what will happen to your eternal life?
41:16 It's not just a paycheck, it's about what?
41:17 Eternal what?
41:19 Eternal life.
41:21 But there are those that have set themselves up
41:24 in such a financial way,
41:25 they've got their own jobs and their companies,
41:27 and it's all based on
41:29 what they want to tell their people.
41:31 To tell them anything other will lead them away
41:34 from their camp to the true shepherd,
41:36 to the sheepfold.
41:39 But the Lord is saying here,
41:41 when the time comes for the fall of Babylon
41:44 in Revelation 18 is so filled-in.
41:47 We won't take the time tonight obviously
41:48 to go through Revelation 18, all of it,
41:51 but you can be sure
41:53 that the way that she has deceived,
41:56 it will be poured upon her double.
41:59 The way that she has martyred,
42:01 it will be poured upon her double.
42:03 Everything that Spiritual Babylon
42:05 has done to deceive,
42:07 she will be repaid double.
42:10 Wow. What a thought!
42:12 What a thought!
42:13 Now we're going to walk through something
42:15 very carefully here.
42:16 Question number 31.
42:17 And as you know there're five texts,
42:19 but they're all in Revelation 17.
42:21 Now what I want to do a little differently right now
42:23 because we use these texts in the past,
42:26 but what I want to do now is I want to extract,
42:28 what word did I just used?
42:30 Extract.
42:31 Extract means we're going to take from these verses,
42:34 identifying marks,
42:36 so we can know according to the question
42:38 what the answer is.
42:39 Here's question number 31.
42:41 All right.
42:43 The Bible repeatedly calls Babylon "Her"
42:48 how can we know who she is?
42:51 All right.
42:52 Somebody wrote me that question,
42:54 emailed me that question a couple of weeks ago.
42:55 How can we know who she is?
42:57 Who is this woman?
42:59 All right, let's go ahead
43:00 and look at some of the identifying marks.
43:02 Let's begin with the Revelation Chapter 17
43:05 and we're going to look at verse 1.
43:07 All right.
43:09 Revelation 17
43:10 and we're going to look together at verse 1.
43:14 Okay.
43:16 Some of you are so smart, you know where I'm headed
43:19 or you know what's in the verse.
43:20 Okay, we're going to put down each of these lines,
43:24 the identifying, qualifying description
43:27 the Bible gives,
43:28 so we can know who this woman is.
43:30 All right, let's stop at Revelation 17:1.
43:33 "Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls
43:36 came and talked with me, saying, "Come,"
43:41 saying to me, "Come,
43:43 I will show you the judgment of the great harlot
43:47 who sits on," what?
43:49 "Many waters."
43:50 So what's the first description the Bible gives to this woman,
43:53 she's a what?
43:54 A great harlot.
43:55 Okay, write that down.
43:57 Great harlot, all right.
44:00 A great harlot.
44:04 That's the first description that we have.
44:07 Now Revelation 17:2.
44:11 Something more about who she is
44:13 and what she does.
44:15 All right.
44:16 Here it is,
44:18 "With whom the kings of the earth
44:21 committed fornication,
44:23 and the," what?
44:25 "Inhabitants of the earth were made," what?
44:27 "Drunk with the wine of her fornication."
44:30 The second place for her power is flexed
44:32 is among the leaders of the earth
44:36 and the people of the earth.
44:37 So you want to put that down here.
44:40 Her power is above the kings of the earth,
44:42 the leaders of the earth, and the people of the earth.
44:46 And when you begin to put this together,
44:48 you have to ask yourself the question
44:49 as the picture is being drawn.
44:51 What power on earth has power both politically
44:55 and religiously over almost the entire earth?
44:59 What power today has political and religious power
45:03 over almost the entire earth?
45:06 I know, slow down, you're ahead of me,
45:08 I can hear your answers, just slow down.
45:11 All right.
45:12 Now let's go to Revelation 17:4.
45:15 We passed verse 3 intentionally.
45:18 Verse 4.
45:20 Look at the next description.
45:21 All right.
45:24 "The woman was arrayed in" together,
45:26 "purple and scarlet,
45:29 and adorned with," what?
45:30 "Gold, precious stones and pearls,
45:34 having a," what?
45:35 "In her hand
45:37 a golden cup full of abominations
45:41 and the filthiness of her fornication.' "
45:44 So what colors are prevalent there?
45:46 Purple, scarlet, gold,
45:50 precious stones, and pearls.
45:53 When you begin to connect this,
45:55 you begin to see
45:56 what power on earth
45:57 is lavishly decorated with these colors?
46:00 What political, religious power on earth
46:03 is so lavishly decorated
46:05 that it's mesmerizing
46:07 when you're in the presence of this power?
46:10 Okay.
46:11 Not going to answer your question yet.
46:13 We're going to keep unfolding.
46:14 All right.
46:16 Let's go to the next one.
46:21 And if you wanted to summarize it,
46:23 you could just put, see the whole verse,
46:25 but if you want to put the answer there,
46:27 when you see this power,
46:29 it is amazing,
46:30 it causes you to marvel.
46:33 It's designed to do that.
46:35 When you go back to Babylon, the city of antiquity,
46:37 Babylon was the most mesmerizing, the city of gold,
46:40 massive columns of gold,
46:42 the gold leaf, the golden lion.
46:45 It was designed to capture the human imagination,
46:49 but it was surely a system of diabolical satanic origin.
46:53 That's why God did not connect Himself
46:56 in any particular to Babylon, the literal city.
47:01 Now let's go to the next one.
47:02 Revelation 17:6.
47:04 Revelation 17:6.
47:06 All right.
47:08 Here is the answer again,
47:09 "I saw the woman,"
47:11 notice what she's guilty of,
47:13 "drunk with the," what?
47:15 "Blood of the saints and with the blood
47:18 of the martyrs of Jesus.
47:20 And when I saw her, I marveled with," what?
47:24 "Great amazement."
47:26 She's guilty of killing the saints
47:29 and she's guilty of martyring those
47:31 that followed Jesus.
47:34 Wow.
47:35 Some of you already know the answer.
47:38 But don't say it yet.
47:40 Okay?
47:41 There's only one power on earth
47:43 that fits all these descriptions,
47:45 only one political and religious movement on earth
47:48 that fits all this description.
47:50 All right.
47:51 And by the way, let me make it very, very clear.
47:53 I've said it before, but it fits right here.
47:55 We're not talking about people.
47:57 Who do the people belong to?
47:59 Somebody tell me.
48:01 God, He says come out of her what?
48:03 My people.
48:06 I want to get that clear.
48:07 We're talking about systems.
48:09 All right. Okay. Here we go.
48:11 Revelation 17:5.
48:13 And we have them out of chronological order
48:15 for a particular purpose.
48:16 All right.
48:18 And here it is.
48:19 "And on her forehead a name was written,"
48:26 Let's read this together,
48:27 "Mystery, Babylon the Great,
48:31 the," what?
48:32 "Mother of harlots and of the," what?
48:35 "Abominations of the earth."
48:38 This is saying, she's the mother,
48:40 she's the mother church,
48:42 she's the mother in leadership.
48:44 If you're a mother,
48:47 do you have children?
48:49 Come on, help me out. Yes or no?
48:50 Yes, you have children.
48:52 And in the basis of this,
48:54 she has daughters,
48:56 mother of harlots,
48:58 a term used for the old order prostitution.
49:02 Harlotry, that term is used
49:04 throughout the scriptures quite a bit.
49:05 It was even used in reference
49:07 to when the children are Israel
49:08 when became unfaithful to God.
49:11 He said you've gone harrowing or he used a phrase harlotry,
49:14 you'll find that also in the Book of Hosea
49:16 when he described
49:17 the unfaithfulness of His people.
49:19 Let me go ahead and make the point here.
49:20 Write that down.
49:22 This system is the mother of all the systems
49:25 that are harboring false teachings.
49:29 All right.
49:31 I'll do like one of my instructors once said,
49:35 he said, "I'm not going to spoon feed you."
49:37 He would bring a big, gigantic pot spoon
49:40 and he would lay it on the table,
49:42 and he said, "I'm not going to use this.
49:45 You're going to find the answers yourself."
49:48 All right.
49:49 Let's go to the very next question now.
49:51 We're going to build it together.
49:52 And by the time we get down to the end of this lesson,
49:54 I won't even have to tell you the answer, you'll know it.
49:57 All right. Let's go to the next one.
50:00 Question number 32. Question number 32.
50:05 All right.
50:08 Wow. Strong language.
50:09 This is not an easy topic,
50:11 but here we go.
50:13 "Where does this Mother Harlot get her power?"
50:18 Where does this Mother Harlot get her power?
50:21 'Cause she's the Mother of Harlots.
50:23 Where does she get her power?
50:25 Now we're going to go to Revelation 17:3.
50:29 We're going to go to Revelation 17:3.
50:34 Here it is on the screen
50:35 for the benefit of those of you
50:37 who are watching the program.
50:39 The Bible read as follow,
50:41 John envision on the Island of Patmos said,
50:44 "So he carried me away in the," what?
50:48 "Spirit into the," what?
50:50 "Wilderness.
50:52 And I saw a woman,"
50:53 for all intents and purposes,
50:55 this was the harlot woman.
50:56 "I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast
51:00 which was full of names of blasphemy,
51:05 having seven heads and," what else?
51:08 "Ten horns."
51:09 So the seven heads and ten horns...
51:12 I'm going to ask my students, the seven heads
51:15 and ten horns of Revelation describes who?
51:24 His name starts with the letter S.
51:26 Together, "Satan."
51:28 Look at Revelation Chapter 12.
51:30 "Before the woman was a great red dragon,
51:33 having seven heads and ten horns."
51:35 In Revelation 12:9,
51:37 describes that as the serpent of old called the Devil
51:40 and Satan who deceives the whole world.
51:42 Here's the connection now.
51:45 She receives her power from Satan himself.
51:49 And if Satan is into deception, what is she into?
51:52 She's into deception also.
51:54 So now we're going to go
51:55 and walk through this together.
51:57 And we're going to see from 33 on down,
52:01 some of the teachings
52:03 that the harlot has
52:04 that are influenced by Satan himself.
52:08 Now the reason I'm not going to give
52:10 any particular denominational identities
52:12 because what you're going to discover
52:13 as we go through this is,
52:15 you're going to discover who the mother is
52:17 and then you're going to be able to find her daughters
52:19 wherever they are.
52:21 Did you follow that?
52:22 Once I described what the mother looks like
52:25 and what the mother believes,
52:27 and then you find the daughters
52:28 that believe the same thing,
52:30 you'll say, "You're just like your mother."
52:33 You heard that before?
52:34 You got to be able to identify because people have said.
52:37 You've heard the song years ago about Amy Grant?
52:39 You have your father's eyes.
52:41 Well, when you begin to line up the teachings,
52:43 here is the most beautiful thing.
52:45 So I don't have to get in trouble.
52:46 Somebody don't have to say,
52:47 "You call my denomination out."
52:49 Let me tell you something.
52:50 This is bigger than anything of the denomination.
52:52 Wherever you find these teachings
52:54 that we're going to now unfold,
52:56 you'll be able to say,
52:57 "It came from the mother
52:59 who got it from Satan
53:00 and the daughters have embraced this same teaching
53:02 because she's a mother, she has daughters,
53:04 and the power comes from Satan himself.
53:07 Now let's begin with question number 33.
53:10 We're moving right along pretty well,
53:12 but I don't think we're going to get through all of these.
53:14 But here we go.
53:15 Question number 33,
53:17 "What are some of the Harlot's teachings
53:20 influenced by Satan?"
53:23 Tonight, I want to go back to the very first teaching
53:26 of the harlot that the harlot has embraced to this day
53:29 the very first teaching that she was influenced by,
53:33 and you're going to amazed when you read the text.
53:35 Quickly, Genesis 3:4.
53:38 Now is the Harlot a male or a female?
53:42 Male or female?
53:43 Is the Harlot a male or female?
53:45 Female, because she's a mother, right?
53:47 And Revelation says,
53:48 "The woman, the woman, the woman."
53:50 Now this is huge.
53:51 Genesis 3:4, are you ready?
53:52 Let's go there.
53:54 Let's go there. Let's go there.
53:55 Whoa!
53:56 This is powerful because Revelations,
53:58 the message didn't begin in Revelation.
54:00 It started from the Book of Genesis.
54:02 And all the components in Revelation started
54:04 from the very first lie
54:05 and you're going to see right now,
54:07 the liar talking to the one that got who swallowed the lie.
54:11 The one that swallow the lie has perpetuated the lie.
54:15 Here it is.
54:16 Okay, together,
54:17 "Then the," what?
54:19 "Serpent said to the," who?
54:21 "Woman, 'You'll not surely die.' "
54:24 This is huge.
54:26 The serpent has been lying to the woman
54:28 ever since the fall of man in Eden.
54:33 And the woman is the same symbol used
54:36 in Revelation 18 to describe the harlot.
54:40 He said it to her,
54:42 "What did she do next?"
54:44 What did the woman do next?
54:45 Come on, we all know the story.
54:47 When he told her she wouldn't die,
54:49 who did she tell?
54:51 She told what?
54:53 She right away became an evangelist
54:56 for the devil.
54:57 She told him the same lie that the devil told her.
55:00 Now this is a powerful spiritual connection.
55:02 The lie that Satan has told to the harlot woman,
55:05 she's now been telling to other people.
55:07 And you'll be able to trace this
55:09 all around the world.
55:11 What's the first lie he told, write it down.
55:15 You won't die, you won't die.
55:19 And today,
55:22 let's go to the question number 34,
55:23 let's go quickly.
55:25 I'll elaborate later on. I'll elaborate later on.
55:29 But I'll let the Bible speak for itself.
55:31 Here it is. Okay.
55:33 The first lie he ever told was, "You won't really die."
55:36 The question, what is the truth
55:38 that counter acts
55:40 the teaching on the immortal soul?
55:44 What is the truth that counteracts
55:46 the teaching on the immortal soul?
55:49 All right.
55:51 Okay.
55:52 Go to Ecclesiastes 9:5-6.
55:55 All right.
55:57 Okay, let's go there.
56:00 All right.
56:01 Are you all ready?
56:03 I'm going to read it now for the interest of time.
56:05 Together, "For the living know
56:09 that they will die,
56:11 but the dead know," how much?
56:14 "Nothing,
56:16 and they have no more reward,
56:19 for the memory of them is forgotten."
56:21 That means their mind cease to function.
56:24 That's what happened...
56:25 Their mind is no longer working.
56:27 They're not thinking about closed accounts
56:29 and people that are hanging out of their house.
56:31 Look what else it goes on to say
56:32 about this very same interaction.
56:35 It says, "Also their," what?
56:37 "Love, their," what else?
56:39 "Hatred, their," what else?
56:42 "Envy have now," what?
56:44 "Perished.
56:46 Nevermore will they have a share in anything.
56:52 what? "Done under the sun."
56:55 How long?
56:56 Nevermore.
56:58 Now, I'm looking at my next text
57:00 that's going to come up,
57:01 and I'm going to hit it very quickly.
57:03 Okay? Here it is.
57:04 It's not on your scripture, it's not on your sheet,
57:06 I included this as annexure.
57:08 Let's write this down on this sheet.
57:10 Ezekiel 18:4. Ezekiel 18:4.
57:14 It's on the screen, so you can bring it up.
57:15 Here's what the Bible says about the immortal soul.
57:18 Together, "Behold, all souls are Mine,
57:23 the soul of the father
57:24 as well as the soul of the," what?
57:26 "Son is Mine," together,
57:28 "the soul who sins shall," what?
57:30 "Die."
57:32 Is there anything called an immortal soul?
57:34 No. Only God has immortality.
57:37 Now, we will get the gift of immortality.
57:40 We will put on immortality at the Second Coming of Christ.
57:43 But there is no such thing as you'll not surely die.
57:46 Satan told that lie and, friends, today,
57:48 many people have believed that lie.
57:51 Here at A Sharper Focus, we believe that the truth
57:53 will make you free
57:54 and we're going to continue proclaiming the truth.
57:56 If it doesn't make sense,
57:58 keep consulting God's Word
57:59 because I can assure you one day,
58:01 it'll all come into A Sharper Focus.
58:04 God bless you.


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