I like to welcome you to Battles of Faith, 00:00:15.07\00:00:16.55 my name is David Shin and I'm here with 00:00:16.58\00:00:18.10 Steve Wohlberg who is the speaker and director 00:00:18.13\00:00:19.90 of While Horse Media based in Fresno, California. 00:00:19.93\00:00:22.24 He is the author of several books 00:00:22.27\00:00:23.52 and has done extensive research on the super 00:00:23.55\00:00:25.62 natural from a Biblical perspective and I like 00:00:25.65\00:00:27.75 to welcome you again to our program here. 00:00:27.78\00:00:30.15 I know your handshake. Yes, we've been doing 00:00:30.18\00:00:31.81 it quite often now, series of 13 00:00:31.84\00:00:34.11 and We have to keep going. 00:00:34.14\00:00:35.60 We've, taking a Biblical perspective as we 00:00:35.63\00:00:37.68 always like to do and basing it upon the 00:00:37.71\00:00:39.42 word of God, we've gone through the book 00:00:39.45\00:00:40.69 of Genesis, Revelation, Exodus, the book of 00:00:40.72\00:00:43.36 Acts and we've gone into our last program, 00:00:43.39\00:00:46.47 our last series of programs about 00:00:46.50\00:00:47.97 who is on the other side that behind these 00:00:48.00\00:00:50.56 magicians, there are strong super natural 00:00:50.59\00:00:53.30 currents that are driving these things and 00:00:53.33\00:00:55.55 we've going to be talking a little bit more 00:00:55.58\00:00:56.76 about that, I think when we're going to talking 00:00:56.79\00:00:57.92 about the chief, there is a little bit of 00:00:57.95\00:00:59.94 organizational structure in this isn't there? 00:00:59.97\00:01:01.60 There is a lot of organization structure 00:01:01.63\00:01:03.83 and you're right. Okay. We're going to focus 00:01:03.86\00:01:05.53 right now on the leader of Evil, 00:01:05.56\00:01:08.83 the prince of darkness himself and then 00:01:09.45\00:01:11.46 of course we want to focus and really center 00:01:11.82\00:01:15.24 everything on the prince of life, 00:01:15.27\00:01:17.24 the prince of light who is Jesus Christ. 00:01:17.27\00:01:18.86 The issue of the Devil is really an issue 00:01:18.89\00:01:22.23 today, it's a big issue the more you get 00:01:22.26\00:01:24.76 into the whole issue of the super natural 00:01:24.79\00:01:27.78 and who is out there and what's out there 00:01:27.81\00:01:29.98 and what's happening in Hollywood and 00:01:30.01\00:01:32.47 and in popular books and movies and 00:01:32.50\00:01:34.44 websites and just the whole supernatural 00:01:34.47\00:01:37.13 arena the question arises you know is 00:01:37.16\00:01:40.10 there a leader of Evil that is out there. 00:01:40.13\00:01:42.81 Some sinister being that is pulling the 00:01:43.70\00:01:46.07 strings behind the scenes, someone such 00:01:46.10\00:01:49.78 as the Devil, also called Lucifer or Satan 00:01:49.81\00:01:54.84 the prince of darkness, Beelzebub, 00:01:54.87\00:01:57.15 he has many names, there is a slide on 00:01:57.18\00:01:59.90 the screen that she just pulled that just 00:01:59.93\00:02:01.75 showed you know some sinister 00:02:01.78\00:02:03.39 personality pulling the strings behind the 00:02:03.42\00:02:07.56 scenes directing traffic in planet Earth, 00:02:07.59\00:02:12.42 on planet Earth, around planet Earth. 00:02:12.45\00:02:14.02 It's no secret that those that are into the 00:02:15.25\00:02:17.90 occult generally speaking do not 00:02:17.93\00:02:20.02 believe in the existence of a personality 00:02:20.05\00:02:22.76 named Satan. This is certainly a doctrine 00:02:22.79\00:02:26.23 of modern witchcraft or what we have 00:02:26.26\00:02:28.41 been talking about Wicca, Wicca, a 00:02:28.44\00:02:30.48 religion that practices witchcraft. We've 00:02:30.51\00:02:32.48 mentioned the other book teen witch 00:02:32.51\00:02:34.00 a couple of times in past programs, 00:02:34.53\00:02:36.59 this is a best selling books its being read 00:02:36.62\00:02:38.78 by unsuspecting teenagers around the 00:02:38.81\00:02:42.09 world. We certainly don't recommend it 00:02:42.12\00:02:43.94 at all, but it's no secret that the author of 00:02:43.97\00:02:47.22 that book who reflects the current 00:02:47.25\00:02:49.54 Wiccan philosophy just comes right out 00:02:49.57\00:02:51.54 openly and says there is no Devil. 00:02:51.57\00:02:53.03 Many times those that are into witchcraft 00:02:53.75\00:02:55.61 or Wicca will criticize Christians and 00:02:55.64\00:02:58.71 they will say to us, you Christians are 00:02:58.74\00:03:00.76 all wet you're all wrong, you think that 00:03:00.79\00:03:02.61 we're Devil worshipers and we don't 00:03:02.64\00:03:04.58 even believe in Satan and they use that 00:03:04.61\00:03:06.98 as an argument in favor of the fact that 00:03:07.01\00:03:10.46 they are not doing anything wrong, that's 00:03:10.49\00:03:12.96 their line. And I come back and say well 00:03:12.99\00:03:15.29 I understand that you don't believe in 00:03:15.32\00:03:17.10 Satan, but that doesn't mean that there is 00:03:17.13\00:03:19.20 no Satan, it just means that you don't 00:03:19.23\00:03:21.02 believe in him. Just to give a few more 00:03:21.05\00:03:25.50 evidences that the modern Wiccan 00:03:25.53\00:03:27.85 movement does not believe in Satan I 00:03:27.88\00:03:29.34 mentioned an article that was sent to me 00:03:29.37\00:03:31.87 from the Paso Robles High School 00:03:31.90\00:03:33.56 where I used to live. This is just a, 00:03:33.59\00:03:35.56 you know campus newspaper and there 00:03:36.18\00:03:38.26 was one particular article dealing with 00:03:38.29\00:03:39.89 witchcraft and it says here in Wicca 00:03:39.92\00:03:41.86 there is no Devil. A lot of Christians are 00:03:41.89\00:03:44.29 amazed by that, they think that witches 00:03:44.32\00:03:46.10 are Satan worshipers but the fact is they 00:03:46.13\00:03:48.09 are not Satan worshipers because they 00:03:48.12\00:03:49.27 don't believe there is a Satan. Here is 00:03:49.30\00:03:50.85 that quite a few statements, published 00:03:50.88\00:03:52.75 statements from people that are involved 00:03:52.78\00:03:54.63 in Wicca, one of them and most of these 00:03:54.66\00:03:57.24 are teenagers. There is not Devil in the 00:03:57.27\00:03:59.16 craft and as long as you do not harm 00:03:59.19\00:04:02.34 others it says so in the Wiccan read and 00:04:02.37\00:04:05.15 in the witches creed, that's their doctrine, 00:04:05.18\00:04:07.25 no Satan. Another Wiccan person said 00:04:07.28\00:04:10.28 Wiccans give no power to Satan because 00:04:10.31\00:04:12.16 they do not accept his existence. He is a 00:04:12.19\00:04:14.99 Christian creation only, we don't believe 00:04:15.02\00:04:17.68 in him. Another one from a woman 00:04:17.71\00:04:19.15 named Becky, she said this is just a 00:04:19.18\00:04:21.05 teenager, she said being only 16 years 00:04:21.08\00:04:23.03 old even I know that Wicca has nothing 00:04:23.06\00:04:25.26 to do with Satan, and here is one more 00:04:25.29\00:04:27.62 from a person that posted something on 00:04:27.65\00:04:30.27 the Internet, she says as a Wiccan we 00:04:30.30\00:04:32.83 know there is no such thing as a Satan 00:04:32.86\00:04:34.67 because there is no such thing as heaven 00:04:34.70\00:04:37.12 or hell. So, this is just typical and I just 00:04:37.15\00:04:40.15 want to bring this out for your 00:04:40.18\00:04:41.29 enlightenment in case you don't know 00:04:41.32\00:04:42.56 that, that people in the modern 00:04:42.59\00:04:44.46 witchcraft Wiccan movement that is 00:04:44.49\00:04:46.55 growing by leaps and bounds, all over 00:04:46.58\00:04:48.31 planet Earth is being reflected and 00:04:48.34\00:04:50.26 promoted in different television 00:04:50.29\00:04:52.50 programs and books and movies and 00:04:52.53\00:04:54.53 Hollywood has really gotten behind the 00:04:55.27\00:04:56.80 whole sorcery sells phenomenon, 00:04:56.83\00:05:00.27 you know witchcraft is making a lot of 00:05:00.30\00:05:01.87 money these days and it's just growing 00:05:01.90\00:05:03.67 rapidly and it's important for us to 00:05:03.70\00:05:05.48 realize that Wiccans don't believe that 00:05:05.51\00:05:07.95 there is a Satan. Now the same thing 00:05:07.98\00:05:09.45 applies David, to those is that are into 00:05:09.48\00:05:11.74 the medium spiritualist movement. 00:05:11.77\00:05:14.01 Modern mediums also don't accept the 00:05:14.66\00:05:16.65 existence of Satan. I've mentioned 00:05:16.68\00:05:18.30 Sylvia Brown, she is a best selling 00:05:18.33\00:05:21.01 author, she is written many books she 00:05:21.04\00:05:23.10 has been interviewed on the Montel 00:05:23.13\00:05:24.74 Williams Show on television many, many 00:05:24.77\00:05:26.68 times she's. You mentioned that you 00:05:26.71\00:05:28.63 you saw her. I saw her one time, yeah. 00:05:28.66\00:05:30.33 Once, you saw a clip of her being 00:05:30.36\00:05:31.45 interviewed by Montel and anyway she 00:05:31.48\00:05:33.54 has written numerous books and one of 00:05:33.57\00:05:35.47 her books she just comes right out and 00:05:35.50\00:05:37.29 says and by the way this woman 00:05:37.32\00:05:39.74 actually, she is a pastor of a church, 00:05:39.77\00:05:42.31 she has her own church and she speaks 00:05:42.34\00:05:45.09 and she quotes from the Bible many 00:05:45.12\00:05:46.92 times, which is amazing to me that she 00:05:46.95\00:05:48.99 doesn't read the entire Bible and that she 00:05:49.02\00:05:50.94 doesn't really accept the Biblical truth on 00:05:50.97\00:05:53.02 this but anyway here is one of her books 00:05:53.05\00:05:54.49 where she says that evil is a creation of 00:05:54.52\00:05:56.94 human kind, not from God and since 00:05:56.97\00:06:00.12 God not some mythical Devil created us 00:06:00.15\00:06:02.86 with souls that are eternal and then she 00:06:02.89\00:06:05.03 goes on and gives her philosophy, 00:06:05.06\00:06:06.55 she says the idea of equating anything 00:06:07.36\00:06:08.98 evil in the spiritual world is mystifying 00:06:09.01\00:06:11.16 to her. She doesn't, she can't comprehend 00:06:11.19\00:06:13.50 why we would think that there maybe 00:06:14.21\00:06:15.60 evil out there in visible world, because 00:06:15.63\00:06:18.69 she doesn't believe in a Devil. She refers 00:06:18.72\00:06:20.79 to the concept as a mythical Devil and 00:06:20.82\00:06:24.82 there is of lot statements like this 00:06:24.85\00:06:26.31 that I could share and so it's important to 00:06:26.34\00:06:29.09 realize this, and important to 00:06:29.12\00:06:30.86 understand that in the occult movement 00:06:31.77\00:06:34.55 today whether it's witchcraft or whether 00:06:34.65\00:06:37.16 it's mediums and spiritualists, there is a 00:06:37.19\00:06:40.28 general belief and that is that there is no 00:06:40.31\00:06:43.59 such thing as a personal Devil. 00:06:43.62\00:06:46.45 This has been amazing to me 00:06:46.48\00:06:49.06 because from a Christian standpoint 00:06:49.09\00:06:50.72 it's always been assumed that those 00:06:50.75\00:06:52.37 involved in Wicca or the occult are 00:06:52.40\00:06:55.05 Devil worshiper or worshipers or Satan 00:06:55.08\00:06:57.61 worshipers and we categorically assume 00:06:57.64\00:07:00.33 that these individuals adhere to the 00:07:00.67\00:07:02.55 existence of Satan, but this isn't true. 00:07:02.58\00:07:05.64 That's not true at all. Over and over 00:07:05.67\00:07:08.16 again they say there is no Devil and that 00:07:08.19\00:07:10.13 doesn't mean there is no Devil it just 00:07:10.16\00:07:11.84 means they don't believe he is there. 00:07:11.87\00:07:12.98 It reminds me of or just thinking about a 00:07:13.78\00:07:16.18 boy that wanders away from the village 00:07:16.21\00:07:18.65 one night in Africa and doesn't believe 00:07:19.11\00:07:21.25 that there are man-eating lions 00:07:21.91\00:07:22.92 out there. Now does that mean there are 00:07:22.95\00:07:24.80 no man-eating lions? No, it just means 00:07:24.83\00:07:26.75 he doesn't believe in them and that even 00:07:26.78\00:07:29.30 makes them more dangerous, because if 00:07:29.33\00:07:31.11 you don't believe that they're there and 00:07:31.14\00:07:32.15 they are there, they can much more 00:07:32.18\00:07:34.59 easily hurt you and destroy you. I like to 00:07:34.62\00:07:37.87 share a quotation from a book that's a 00:07:37.90\00:07:40.18 classic book in Christian literature 00:07:40.21\00:07:41.77 of you are familiar with it. It's called the 00:07:41.80\00:07:43.51 Great Controversy and it deals with the 00:07:43.54\00:07:45.18 battle between the forces of good 00:07:45.21\00:07:46.84 and evil and here on page 516 it says 00:07:46.87\00:07:50.83 that as we approach the close of time 00:07:50.86\00:07:53.27 as we get nearer and nearer to the end to 00:07:53.99\00:07:56.31 the return of Jesus. It says when Satan is 00:07:56.34\00:07:58.88 to work with greatest power to deceive 00:07:58.91\00:08:01.84 and to destroy, he spreads everywhere 00:08:01.87\00:08:05.44 the belief that he does not exist. 00:08:06.01\00:08:09.17 That's right; it is his policy to conceal 00:08:09.85\00:08:11.96 himself and his manner of working. 00:08:11.99\00:08:14.48 And it just makes sense that he would do 00:08:15.39\00:08:16.64 that, he would just that he would try to 00:08:16.67\00:08:18.46 convince people he is not there and if 00:08:18.49\00:08:20.56 you don't think he is there, then he can 00:08:20.59\00:08:21.76 just come right in and take over your 00:08:21.79\00:08:23.33 life. I've mentioned that on a previous 00:08:23.36\00:08:24.99 program my friend Pam that she was, 00:08:25.02\00:08:28.24 she grew up in a Christian home, she 00:08:28.27\00:08:29.49 went off into witchcraft, she was a 00:08:29.52\00:08:30.72 practicing witch for many years and then 00:08:30.75\00:08:33.02 God opened her eyes and she came out 00:08:33.05\00:08:34.63 and she wrote to me her testimony, she 00:08:34.66\00:08:37.05 sent me an email and one of that lines 00:08:37.08\00:08:38.85 I did not read before this is what she 00:08:38.88\00:08:40.90 said, she said pure Wicca holds that 00:08:40.93\00:08:43.79 there is no evil force, no Devil in the world 00:08:43.82\00:08:46.57 Clever ploy of the Devil. If he 00:08:47.15\00:08:50.28 doesn't exist we don't need to worry 00:08:50.31\00:08:51.68 about him and then she continues on 00:08:51.71\00:08:53.78 and talks about the dangers that she sees 00:08:53.81\00:08:55.79 in the craft. And that's it, if you don't 00:08:55.82\00:08:58.95 think he is out there then you don't 00:08:58.98\00:09:01.61 worry about him and he can easily come 00:09:01.64\00:09:03.65 right in to your mind and into your heart 00:09:03.68\00:09:05.78 and he can as the Bible says he can 00:09:06.28\00:09:08.23 seduce, deceive and destroy. Now let's 00:09:08.26\00:09:11.05 take a look at what this book actually 00:09:11.08\00:09:12.42 says and its amazing to me David, as I've 00:09:12.45\00:09:14.21 done a little bit of research into the 00:09:14.24\00:09:16.23 teachers of Sylvia Brown that she claims 00:09:16.26\00:09:19.00 as a modern medium to actually believe 00:09:19.03\00:09:21.43 in the Bible but then she says in the 00:09:21.46\00:09:23.34 same breath there is no Satan, there is no 00:09:23.37\00:09:25.20 Devil. Well, my Bible teaches 00:09:26.05\00:09:27.91 differently if you look at Isaiah chapter 00:09:27.94\00:09:31.59 14, verse 12, the scripture says how art 00:09:31.62\00:09:36.27 thou fallen from heaven? How you've 00:09:36.30\00:09:38.47 fallen from heaven, O Lucifer son of the 00:09:38.50\00:09:41.09 morning. Here talks about a being 00:09:41.12\00:09:43.55 named Lucifer that has actually fallen 00:09:44.14\00:09:46.61 from heaven and there are liberal 00:09:46.64\00:09:47.75 scholars that read this passage and they 00:09:47.78\00:09:49.59 say that this is just talking about a person 00:09:49.62\00:09:52.21 but it can't apply to an individual normal 00:09:52.85\00:09:56.55 human being because this being was in 00:09:56.58\00:09:59.09 heaven and he fell from heaven. Now 00:09:59.12\00:10:02.04 especially when you look at Ezekiel 00:10:02.07\00:10:04.43 chapter 28 and this is another chapter 00:10:04.46\00:10:06.41 that people spiritualize away 00:10:06.44\00:10:08.67 and rationalize away liberal scholars and 00:10:08.70\00:10:10.46 apply this to some human being. Ezekiel 00:10:10.49\00:10:13.49 28, verse 15, verse 14 talks about an 00:10:13.52\00:10:16.30 anointed Cherub, Cherub in the Bible is 00:10:16.33\00:10:18.54 an angel, it's a glorious angel 00:10:18.57\00:10:20.48 and God is here talking through his 00:10:20.97\00:10:22.36 prophet about someone who was an 00:10:22.39\00:10:24.53 anointed Cherub that used to cover. 00:10:24.56\00:10:27.43 He was in the Holy mountain of God; 00:10:27.46\00:10:29.90 he walked up and down in the midst of 00:10:29.93\00:10:32.13 the stones of fire. In verse 15 Ezekiel 00:10:32.16\00:10:35.52 said you were perfect in your ways from 00:10:35.55\00:10:39.27 the day that you were created until 00:10:39.30\00:10:41.86 iniquity which means sin was found in 00:10:41.89\00:10:44.91 you, now there is just no way around it, 00:10:44.94\00:10:47.75 there is no human being in this world, 00:10:48.24\00:10:50.39 in this fallen world that was created 00:10:50.85\00:10:53.36 perfect down here until sin was found in 00:10:53.39\00:10:58.97 that person and that can only apply to a 00:10:59.00\00:11:01.41 supernatural being. And when you again 00:11:01.44\00:11:03.85 the read the context it's talking about the 00:11:03.88\00:11:05.65 anointed Cherub, who was walking up 00:11:05.68\00:11:07.96 and down in the midst of the stones 00:11:07.99\00:11:08.96 of fire. And verse 17 says that he was 00:11:08.99\00:11:11.68 beautiful he was exalted but his wisdom 00:11:11.71\00:11:13.84 corrupted him and eventually he fell and 00:11:13.87\00:11:17.80 so the Bible's clear when you put the 00:11:17.83\00:11:19.14 pieces together. Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28, 00:11:19.17\00:11:21.83 especially when you compare it with 00:11:21.86\00:11:23.41 Revelation, chapter 12, which is the 00:11:23.44\00:11:26.08 greatest chapter that deals with the fall 00:11:26.11\00:11:28.27 of this heavenly being, this angelic entity 00:11:29.28\00:11:32.68 named Lucifer, Lucifer means light 00:11:32.71\00:11:35.42 bearer and after he's sinned against God 00:11:35.45\00:11:38.05 his name was changed to Satan, which 00:11:38.81\00:11:40.44 means the adversary, the enemy of God. 00:11:40.47\00:11:43.44 Revelation chapter 12:1, you read this 00:11:44.19\00:11:45.87 David. Chapter 12 verses 7 through 9 00:11:45.90\00:11:49.22 and this is the greatest book on 00:11:49.25\00:11:51.28 prophecy ever written, lifting the veil 00:11:51.31\00:11:53.01 showing us what's going on behind the scenes. 00:11:53.04\00:11:55.52 In Revelation 12:7, and war broke out in 00:11:55.55\00:11:58.86 heaven, Michael and his angels fought 00:11:58.89\00:12:01.06 with the dragon and the dragon fought 00:12:01.09\00:12:02.98 and his angels. But they did not prevail, 00:12:03.01\00:12:05.44 nor was a place found for them in 00:12:05.47\00:12:07.28 heaven any longer. So was the great 00:12:07.31\00:12:09.67 dragon cast out that serpent of old called 00:12:09.70\00:12:12.03 the Devil and Satan, who deceives the 00:12:12.06\00:12:14.09 whole world. He was cast out into the 00:12:14.12\00:12:16.25 earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 00:12:16.28\00:12:19.06 That's right, so that the first war was not 00:12:19.09\00:12:22.77 a war that occurred on Earth. It was not 00:12:22.80\00:12:25.07 a war that occurred in the Middle East, 00:12:25.10\00:12:26.68 it wasn't World War I, World War II; 00:12:26.71\00:12:28.51 it wasn't any human war, it was a 00:12:28.54\00:12:30.40 heavenly war that took place way up 00:12:30.43\00:12:32.43 beyond the stars. And it was a cosmic 00:12:32.46\00:12:35.22 conflict and Lucifer rebelled against God 00:12:35.25\00:12:38.87 and some of his sympathizers, the other 00:12:38.90\00:12:42.97 angels eventually joined him entirely in 00:12:43.00\00:12:45.70 their rebellion and the heavenly host was 00:12:45.73\00:12:47.89 divided, one group of angels stayed with 00:12:47.92\00:12:50.81 God and the other group of angels sided 00:12:50.84\00:12:53.82 with Lucifer and there was a conflict. 00:12:53.85\00:12:55.88 The Bible says there was a war that took 00:12:56.51\00:12:58.48 place in heaven and Lucifer and his 00:12:58.51\00:13:00.29 angels lost and it says that they were 00:13:00.32\00:13:02.50 kicked out. Verse 9 says the great dragon 00:13:02.53\00:13:04.76 was cast out, that old serpent called Devil 00:13:04.79\00:13:07.93 and Satan who deceives how many people. 00:13:07.96\00:13:11.16 The whole world. He deceives the whole world, 00:13:11.19\00:13:13.58 that's right and one of the deceptions of 00:13:13.61\00:13:15.26 the Devil is that there is no Devil. I mean 00:13:15.29\00:13:19.13 it's pretty simple, that's what he is trying 00:13:19.16\00:13:21.52 to pull off. It says he was cast out into 00:13:21.55\00:13:24.08 the Earth which is right here and his 00:13:24.11\00:13:27.50 angels, those are holy angels on his side 00:13:27.53\00:13:29.92 or they were holy angels and now they're 00:13:29.95\00:13:31.85 fallen angels, his angels were cast out 00:13:31.88\00:13:34.79 with him. And there's many examples in 00:13:34.82\00:13:37.41 the Bible of these evil angels appearing 00:13:37.44\00:13:40.50 and even of Satan himself showing up in 00:13:40.53\00:13:44.80 certain ways, tempting people, doing 00:13:44.83\00:13:46.88 things, working behind the scenes, one 00:13:46.91\00:13:48.97 of the classic examples is in Matthew 00:13:49.00\00:13:51.36 chapter 4. Matthew chapter 4 contains as 00:13:51.39\00:13:54.50 and seen when Jesus himself came down 00:13:54.53\00:13:58.20 to this world to do battle with this 00:13:58.23\00:14:00.23 enemy, this invisible angelic being and 00:14:01.01\00:14:04.62 he met him in conflict in the wilderness. 00:14:04.65\00:14:08.26 Matthew chapter 4, finds Jesus fasting 00:14:08.69\00:14:11.99 and praying at the beginning of this 00:14:12.02\00:14:13.15 ministries and then he is tempted, right, 00:14:13.18\00:14:16.19 three times by this being that the Bible 00:14:16.22\00:14:20.53 clearly identifies as Satan. Matthew 00:14:20.56\00:14:23.44 chapter 4, let me find it here. In verse 1, 00:14:23.47\00:14:27.52 it says Jesus was led by the Spirit into 00:14:27.55\00:14:29.60 the wilderness, to be tempted by the 00:14:29.63\00:14:31.50 Devil and when he had fasted 40 days 00:14:31.53\00:14:33.86 and 40 nights afterward he was 00:14:33.89\00:14:35.14 hungry and when the tempter came to 00:14:35.17\00:14:37.43 him he said, if your are really the son of 00:14:37.46\00:14:40.53 God command that these stones become 00:14:40.56\00:14:43.03 bread and Jesus responded in verse 4 00:14:43.06\00:14:45.52 and he said, it is written man shall not 00:14:45.55\00:14:48.19 leave by bread alone but by every word 00:14:48.22\00:14:50.81 that proceeds out of the mouth of God. 00:14:50.84\00:14:54.44 Each time Satan temped Jesus in the 00:14:55.76\00:14:58.20 wilderness he resisted those temptations 00:14:58.23\00:15:00.45 with scripture, he quoted the word 00:15:00.48\00:15:02.24 of God, quoted the word of God, just 00:15:02.27\00:15:04.11 like he did here that we should live by 00:15:04.14\00:15:05.92 every word that proceeds from God's 00:15:05.95\00:15:07.73 mouth and if we're going to do that, 00:15:07.76\00:15:09.48 if we're going to believe the Bible, 00:15:09.51\00:15:10.93 every word of the Bible then we're going 00:15:10.96\00:15:12.87 to believe that Jesus Christ was really 00:15:12.90\00:15:14.52 tempted by the Devil and there is a real 00:15:14.55\00:15:16.81 Devil and we're going to resist that Devil 00:15:16.84\00:15:19.17 with scripture and that's what witches 00:15:19.64\00:15:22.11 and Wiccans and mediums need to 00:15:22.14\00:15:23.51 understand, is there is a real Devil out 00:15:23.54\00:15:25.52 there and because they don't believe in 00:15:25.55\00:15:27.28 Satan they play with these supernatural 00:15:27.31\00:15:31.23 world and think they can tap in to the 00:15:31.26\00:15:33.72 energies and the spirits of nature and the 00:15:33.75\00:15:36.07 spirits of the dead and they are not on 00:15:36.10\00:15:38.46 God against an entity, a personality 00:15:38.49\00:15:42.91 named Satan and his fallen angels and 00:15:42.94\00:15:45.73 it's just a perfect set up. It's a perfect trap 00:15:45.76\00:15:48.21 and they are wide open to being just 00:15:48.24\00:15:50.62 duped and let astray. 00:15:50.65\00:15:52.36 So the, the irony for me is that it actually 00:15:52.91\00:15:55.65 place into the Devil's advantage to say 00:15:55.68\00:15:58.76 that he does not exist. Sure. 00:15:58.79\00:16:00.27 Because it opens you up to be more 00:16:00.30\00:16:01.88 susceptible to his deceptions. Now, 00:16:01.91\00:16:04.99 I just like to recap a little bit here so, 00:16:05.02\00:16:06.90 we're saying in Isaiah chapter 14, 00:16:06.93\00:16:08.85 Ezekiel chapter 28 as we pointed out 00:16:08.88\00:16:10.42 Lucifer, who was next to God fell from 00:16:10.45\00:16:13.91 heaven, he was in need in according to 00:16:13.94\00:16:15.32 Ezekiel chapter 28 and it says in book of 00:16:15.35\00:16:17.52 Revelation that there was war in heaven 00:16:17.55\00:16:19.33 and then we see Matthew chapter 4 00:16:19.36\00:16:21.33 that the war was transferred from heaven 00:16:21.36\00:16:23.62 to earth and so there is a conflict on a 00:16:23.65\00:16:26.98 spiritual level that we do not see of 00:16:27.01\00:16:29.74 which we are evidently a part, because 00:16:29.77\00:16:31.66 its here on planet earth. 00:16:31.69\00:16:32.84 That's exactly right. And we are in the 00:16:32.87\00:16:34.63 middle of that conflict. We have the 00:16:34.66\00:16:37.77 forces of good on the one side, the forces 00:16:37.80\00:16:39.74 of evil in the other side. People think of 00:16:39.77\00:16:42.28 you know the little proverbial Devil, Devil 00:16:42.31\00:16:45.72 sitting on your shoulder and whispering 00:16:45.75\00:16:47.59 into your ear well that's just a little 00:16:47.62\00:16:49.78 cartoonish illustration of a very real 00:16:49.81\00:16:53.22 reality that there is an evil force out 00:16:53.25\00:16:55.84 there, there is an a being named Satan, 00:16:55.87\00:16:57.82 he does command a host of fallen angels 00:16:57.85\00:17:01.05 and he certainly isn't happy that we are 00:17:01.47\00:17:03.55 discussing this and talking about what 00:17:03.58\00:17:05.84 the Bible actually says about it. Now 00:17:05.87\00:17:07.67 let's look at another passage, let's go to 00:17:07.70\00:17:09.48 Luke chapter 22 verse 3, this is a rather 00:17:09.51\00:17:12.47 frightening text and it shows one of the 00:17:12.50\00:17:15.30 goals of this fallen entity, this personality 00:17:15.33\00:17:19.28 named Satan. Luke chapter 22, verse 3 00:17:19.31\00:17:23.02 says then entered Satan into Judas, 00:17:23.75\00:17:26.76 surnamed Iscariot being of the number 00:17:27.31\00:17:29.61 of the 12. Judas was one of the disciples 00:17:29.64\00:17:32.89 of Jesus, he was in the inner circle of 00:17:32.92\00:17:35.17 Christ followers and right before he 00:17:35.20\00:17:37.90 betrayed his master with a kiss, this 00:17:37.93\00:17:41.43 verse says that he entered in to Judas 00:17:41.46\00:17:44.37 and then Judas went out, he went in to the 00:17:44.40\00:17:46.48 night, he betrayed Jesus for money, 00:17:46.51\00:17:48.87 he led the group of the Roman soldiers 00:17:49.73\00:17:52.65 and some of the temple priests to the 00:17:52.68\00:17:54.18 Garden of Gethsemane and he gave Jesus 00:17:54.21\00:17:56.62 a kiss which was the sign of betrayal to 00:17:56.65\00:17:59.72 his, to this mob and then they arrested 00:17:59.75\00:18:02.31 Jesus because Judas showed them who 00:18:02.34\00:18:04.96 the Messiah was and that this the one 00:18:04.99\00:18:07.42 that you are to arrest and take away 00:18:07.45\00:18:09.44 and eventually Jesus went through a 00:18:09.90\00:18:11.16 series of trials until he was whipped and 00:18:11.19\00:18:13.28 beaten and crucified on a cross for you and me. 00:18:13.31\00:18:16.80 And before Judas did hid deed, his 00:18:17.58\00:18:20.33 dastardly deed that has made him 00:18:20.36\00:18:21.85 infamous throughout history, the Bible 00:18:21.88\00:18:24.94 says that Satan actually entered him 00:18:24.97\00:18:26.93 and that shows us that Satan's goal is to 00:18:27.56\00:18:30.74 actually come inside of human beings, 00:18:30.77\00:18:34.01 he is an invisible being I've said often 00:18:34.04\00:18:36.52 that human beings were created as 00:18:36.55\00:18:38.83 indwell-able beings, that we have the 00:18:38.86\00:18:42.81 capacity as human beings to be indwelt 00:18:42.84\00:18:45.63 by one side or the other. And God wants 00:18:46.22\00:18:49.77 his Holy Spirit to come into our life and 00:18:49.80\00:18:52.69 Satan wants to come in himself and take 00:18:52.72\00:18:55.00 over and posses us. 00:18:55.03\00:18:56.26 So here on this angle on in Luke chapter 22, 00:18:56.97\00:18:59.83 verse 3, you see the concept of possession, 00:18:59.86\00:19:03.23 here Judas was going to betray Christ 00:19:03.26\00:19:06.36 and the Bible says that he possessed 00:19:06.39\00:19:08.04 not, that Satan possessed Judas 00:19:08.07\00:19:10.57 and then Judas went out to betray Jesus 00:19:10.60\00:19:12.41 and so you see on one hand the Christian 00:19:12.44\00:19:14.71 faith, Christ and on the other hand 00:19:14.74\00:19:16.61 you have Satan. So, these two are at 00:19:16.64\00:19:19.41 odds with one another. And so I don't 00:19:19.44\00:19:22.95 know as a young person, this is kind of 00:19:22.98\00:19:24.46 scary and so what is the alternative, 00:19:24.49\00:19:26.82 obviously we don't want to be possessed 00:19:26.85\00:19:28.84 by the other side, we don't want to betray 00:19:28.87\00:19:30.50 Christ, so is it possible for Christ to 00:19:30.53\00:19:33.45 posses us. Yes, very much so 00:19:33.48\00:19:36.13 and his possession is not like a Devil 00:19:36.16\00:19:38.33 possession, but its more of indwelling 00:19:38.36\00:19:40.69 where he comes into our lives and he 00:19:40.72\00:19:42.88 blesses us and gives us peace and love 00:19:42.91\00:19:44.54 and joy and before I finished this 00:19:44.57\00:19:46.32 program I want to illustrate this in a very 00:19:46.35\00:19:48.12 personal way through my son but before 00:19:48.15\00:19:50.24 we do that I want to show another 00:19:50.27\00:19:52.34 picture on the screen of a book written 00:19:52.37\00:19:56.04 or actually channeled by a woman 00:19:56.07\00:19:58.74 named Jane Robert that you see the 00:19:58.77\00:20:00.32 book called Seth Speaks and the voice 00:20:00.35\00:20:02.61 there says, I do not have a physical body, 00:20:02.64\00:20:04.51 yet I am writing this book. Jane Roberts 00:20:04.54\00:20:08.34 was one of the most famous mediums in 00:20:08.37\00:20:11.01 the 1960s, she was playing with the 00:20:11.04\00:20:12.95 Ouija board with her husband in 00:20:12.98\00:20:14.11 New York. In 1963 and a spirit took 00:20:14.14\00:20:19.07 control of the Ouija board and began to 00:20:19.10\00:20:21.49 talk to her and this spirit said his name 00:20:21.52\00:20:24.11 was Seth and he eventually came inside 00:20:24.14\00:20:27.70 of Jane Roberts and began to actually 00:20:27.73\00:20:30.31 dictate books and she wrote many, many 00:20:30.34\00:20:34.40 books. They are now called the Seth 00:20:34.43\00:20:36.28 material and those that have done their 00:20:36.31\00:20:38.12 homework about this it's very easily 00:20:38.15\00:20:40.45 documented that this woman truly was 00:20:40.48\00:20:43.09 possessed by some spirit from the other 00:20:43.12\00:20:46.31 side that called itself Seth. Now she 00:20:46.34\00:20:48.51 thought it was the spirit of a dead person 00:20:48.54\00:20:50.37 and it's fascinating that and I haven't 00:20:51.23\00:20:53.61 done this but I've read about it that if you 00:20:53.64\00:20:56.30 take the Seth dictated books and there is 00:20:56.33\00:20:58.79 many of them and then you compare 00:20:58.82\00:21:00.65 them to other books that Jane 00:21:00.68\00:21:02.56 Roberts herself wrote. She was also a writer 00:21:02.59\00:21:04.58 and when you compare the two books, 00:21:05.05\00:21:06.54 they are very different, the Seth dictated 00:21:06.57\00:21:08.77 books have a totally different personality 00:21:08.80\00:21:11.15 a different tone, a different flavor from 00:21:11.18\00:21:13.33 the books that Jane herself wrote and so 00:21:13.36\00:21:15.60 it's very clear that there was a being that 00:21:15.63\00:21:19.52 entered into Jane and called itself Seth. 00:21:19.55\00:21:21.92 Now, one of the fascinating things 00:21:21.95\00:21:23.21 is that most of the Seth books today have 00:21:23.24\00:21:26.10 very friendly covers, they're glowing in 00:21:26.13\00:21:28.67 there, they look nice. The first book that 00:21:28.70\00:21:32.48 came out, one of the Seth books that was 00:21:32.51\00:21:36.16 dictated by this spirit showed a picture 00:21:36.19\00:21:38.51 of Jane Roberts on the cover of it and 00:21:38.54\00:21:41.10 I've actually seen a copy of that, of that 00:21:41.13\00:21:43.69 book cover they've changed it because 00:21:44.36\00:21:46.74 it's just, it's not something that 00:21:46.77\00:21:48.44 you want to look at. But it used to be 00:21:48.47\00:21:51.42 there and we're not going to show a 00:21:51.45\00:21:53.20 picture of it, but let me just tell you that 00:21:53.23\00:21:54.99 I've seen it and on the cover is a picture 00:21:55.02\00:21:57.65 of Jane Roberts indwelt by this spirit 00:21:57.68\00:22:00.92 called Seth and her face looks absolutely 00:22:00.95\00:22:05.14 ghastly. I mean it's all contorted, her 00:22:05.17\00:22:08.52 eyes look dark, she looks like she is 00:22:08.55\00:22:10.68 almost being tortured. And a friend of 00:22:10.71\00:22:13.22 mine Tal Brooke is the president of the 00:22:13.25\00:22:14.85 spiritual counterfeit projects, who wrote 00:22:14.88\00:22:16.53 the forward to one of my books, he has 00:22:16.56\00:22:18.52 seen that cover as well and he said it 00:22:18.55\00:22:20.30 looks like something from a horror film 00:22:20.33\00:22:22.29 and it just, my point in sharing that is 00:22:22.68\00:22:25.57 that when this entity named Seth came 00:22:25.60\00:22:27.72 into Jane it made her look terrible, her 00:22:27.75\00:22:30.31 face looked awful and then when also lot 00:22:30.34\00:22:32.31 of other things have happened 00:22:32.34\00:22:33.36 in the history of Jane's experience that 00:22:33.39\00:22:35.82 are very, very frightening and I am 00:22:35.85\00:22:37.94 totally convinced without any doubt 00:22:37.97\00:22:39.54 especially based upon what I read in the 00:22:39.57\00:22:41.25 Bible that that spirit was an evil spirit 00:22:41.28\00:22:43.67 and what showed up on her face or 00:22:43.70\00:22:46.09 through her face was a reflection of 00:22:46.12\00:22:48.34 darkness and wickedness. Now, I want to show 00:22:48.37\00:22:51.43 another picture of another Seth which 00:22:51.46\00:22:55.03 hopefully will come up pretty quick, 00:22:55.06\00:22:56.75 there we go. Now there is another Seth. 00:22:56.78\00:22:59.06 That's right, there is me and my son 00:23:00.29\00:23:02.28 Seth, we there you Seth about two years 00:23:02.31\00:23:05.54 old, sitting on my shoulders, I 00:23:05.57\00:23:08.00 just, my wife's name is Kristen, our son is Seth, 00:23:08.03\00:23:10.34 we live up in Arbury, California and he 00:23:10.37\00:23:12.07 is just the joy of our lives and there is 00:23:12.10\00:23:13.93 another picture, that was a fairly recent 00:23:13.96\00:23:15.60 one and he is just as happy as can be, 00:23:15.63\00:23:18.37 we didn't name him Seth because of the 00:23:18.97\00:23:20.95 spirit that took over Jane Roberts, we 00:23:20.98\00:23:23.48 named him because in the Bible the third 00:23:23.51\00:23:25.49 son of Adam and Eve was Seth, right 00:23:25.52\00:23:28.04 and Seth means one who is appointed, 00:23:28.07\00:23:29.72 appointed by God and my point in 00:23:30.76\00:23:33.10 showing you those pictures is that 00:23:33.13\00:23:35.89 there is a vast difference. 00:23:35.92\00:23:38.56 What a contrast. What a contrast, 00:23:39.29\00:23:41.04 between what will happen to us if God's 00:23:41.07\00:23:43.78 love and his blessing and his joy is in 00:23:43.81\00:23:46.29 our lives, if the Holy Spirit is in lives as 00:23:46.32\00:23:49.44 compared to if we open ourselves up to 00:23:49.47\00:23:52.39 the forces of the Devil, when Satan came 00:23:52.42\00:23:54.64 into Judas he used him to betrayed Jesus 00:23:54.67\00:23:56.85 Christ. When the spirit calling himself 00:23:56.88\00:23:58.96 Seth came into Jane Roberts her face 00:23:58.99\00:24:01.31 looked horrible. In spite of what all these 00:24:01.34\00:24:04.01 mediums and witches and Wiccans say 00:24:04.04\00:24:05.73 today that there is no Devil, there is a 00:24:05.76\00:24:08.01 real Devil, he is out there, he is working 00:24:08.04\00:24:10.14 behind the scenes. We read in the Great 00:24:10.17\00:24:11.88 Controversy that one of his goals in the 00:24:11.91\00:24:14.12 end of time is to convince people 00:24:14.15\00:24:16.52 everywhere that he doesn't exist but that 00:24:16.55\00:24:19.45 just opens an open track, trimmed for 00:24:19.48\00:24:22.96 him to come right in to people's lives 00:24:22.99\00:24:24.79 and destroyed them And I, when I look 00:24:24.82\00:24:27.40 at the happy face of my boy I don't want 00:24:27.43\00:24:30.33 any evil influences inside of his happy 00:24:30.36\00:24:33.99 face, I only want the Holy Spirit, I want 00:24:34.02\00:24:36.72 God's love, God's goodness, God's 00:24:36.75\00:24:38.79 power and Bible truth inside of him 00:24:38.82\00:24:41.43 because that is what will make our faces 00:24:41.99\00:24:44.23 shine. And I want to finish David, 00:24:44.26\00:24:47.28 I know our time always seems to be 00:24:47.31\00:24:49.62 running out about this point, but in 00:24:49.65\00:24:52.13 Colossians chapter 1, verse 27 there is 00:24:52.16\00:24:55.53 very powerful passage about God's goal 00:24:55.56\00:24:57.88 for us. Colossians 1:27 it's called the 00:24:57.91\00:25:00.79 mystery, the Bible says to whom God 00:25:00.82\00:25:03.10 would make known what is the riches of 00:25:03.13\00:25:06.75 the glory of this mystery among the 00:25:06.78\00:25:09.66 Gentiles, and what is this mystery, it is 00:25:09.69\00:25:12.55 Christ in you, the hope of glory. When 00:25:12.58\00:25:16.82 Jesus comes into our lives through the 00:25:16.85\00:25:18.65 power of the Holy Spirit and when 00:25:18.68\00:25:20.35 angels are guarding us, all around us and 00:25:20.38\00:25:22.88 protecting us our faces are going to shine 00:25:22.91\00:25:25.16 just like Moses' face shown when he 00:25:25.74\00:25:27.35 came off the mountain, when he 00:25:27.38\00:25:28.84 received the Ten Commandments, 00:25:28.87\00:25:29.98 just like the face of my little boy is 00:25:30.01\00:25:32.15 happy, you know he is growing up in a 00:25:32.18\00:25:33.60 Christian home. He is memorizing the 00:25:33.63\00:25:35.41 Bible, he loves, he loves to talk to daddy 00:25:35.44\00:25:39.30 about scripture, he has memorized quite 00:25:39.33\00:25:41.92 a few verses and it's just, it's thrilling to 00:25:41.95\00:25:44.00 me and that's what God wants, that's 00:25:44.03\00:25:47.51 what God wants for me, that's what he 00:25:47.54\00:25:49.12 wants for you and so even though we've 00:25:49.15\00:25:51.19 talked about Satan and his real and he is 00:25:51.29\00:25:53.25 out there, we certainly must not lose our 00:25:53.28\00:25:56.29 awareness of that, we need to be on our 00:25:56.32\00:25:58.37 guard, but we don't need to be afraid 00:25:58.40\00:26:00.02 God's angels are more powerful, the 00:26:00.58\00:26:02.46 Holy Spirit is more powerful and God 00:26:02.49\00:26:04.85 wants to come in and make our faces 00:26:04.88\00:26:06.97 glow and that will, that is what will 00:26:07.00\00:26:09.91 happen to us if we open our hearts to the 00:26:09.94\00:26:13.12 love and to the goodness and to the 00:26:13.15\00:26:15.26 mercy of Jesus Christ. 00:26:15.29\00:26:17.10 Amen, and I like that illustration that 00:26:17.13\00:26:19.66 you use, one of illustration that 00:26:19.85\00:26:21.12 historical fact of Jesus while his was 00:26:21.15\00:26:23.34 tempted in the wilderness by Satan 00:26:23.37\00:26:25.27 the ammunition that he used to combat 00:26:25.30\00:26:28.96 the Devil's deception was scripture, 00:26:28.99\00:26:30.73 every answer was it was written and like 00:26:30.76\00:26:33.47 we see in Colossians chapter 1, verse 27, 00:26:33.50\00:26:35.46 that we have a mystery Christ in us, 00:26:35.93\00:26:38.31 the hope of glory. That exactly right 00:26:38.92\00:26:40.67 and I want to also clarify that in this 00:26:40.70\00:26:43.04 special series here that we are doing 00:26:43.07\00:26:44.65 that's called magic and ghosts in the 00:26:44.68\00:26:47.19 Bible. There are times when we do show 00:26:47.22\00:26:50.02 a picture on the screen, that is a book 00:26:50.05\00:26:53.03 that we certainly don't recommend, we're 00:26:53.06\00:26:54.83 simply doing this to illustrate what is 00:26:54.86\00:26:58.03 happening in our world and then to warn 00:26:58.06\00:27:00.98 people not to be mislead and not to be 00:27:01.01\00:27:03.13 deceived and to direct them away from 00:27:03.16\00:27:05.76 the darkness and to the light of God's 00:27:05.79\00:27:07.81 love and it's true if that's why we are 00:27:07.84\00:27:09.05 doing this. We are heading these issues 00:27:09.08\00:27:11.10 head on, we are talking about Wicca, 00:27:11.13\00:27:12.54 we are talking about witchcraft, we are 00:27:12.57\00:27:13.88 talking about mediums, we are talking 00:27:13.91\00:27:15.15 the occult, we are talking about these 00:27:15.18\00:27:17.19 things because they're happening all 00:27:17.22\00:27:18.25 around us and we are doing it as a 00:27:18.28\00:27:20.23 warning, as a warning to alert parents, 00:27:20.26\00:27:23.73 to guard their kids and to encourage 00:27:23.76\00:27:25.97 people to give their hearts to the one that 00:27:26.00\00:27:28.31 loves them and gave his life on the cross 00:27:28.34\00:27:30.43 and he is the only one that can heal and 00:27:30.46\00:27:33.43 fulfill and satisfy their souls. 00:27:33.46\00:27:35.66 Thank you so much Steve, this has been, 00:27:36.66\00:27:38.12 this has been a great study and very 00:27:38.15\00:27:40.39 educational for myself as well. 00:27:40.42\00:27:41.98 Well our time is quickly slipping away from us 00:27:42.59\00:27:44.89 and I'm sure that you've enjoyed the 00:27:44.92\00:27:46.96 study as much as I have and we've been 00:27:46.99\00:27:49.22 going from a Biblical perspective, 00:27:49.25\00:27:51.27 exposing some of the madness behind 00:27:51.30\00:27:54.33 the frenzy and so forth and I like to 00:27:54.36\00:27:56.75 invite you to join us again next time for 00:27:56.78\00:27:58.77 another edition of Battles of Faith, 00:27:58.80\00:28:00.77 my name is David Shin and I'm here with 00:28:01.25\00:28:02.77 Steve Wohlberg and we would like to 00:28:02.80\00:28:04.62 invite you to join us again next time and 00:28:04.65\00:28:06.97 live by every word that 00:28:07.00\00:28:08.46 proceeds from the mouth of God. 00:28:08.49\00:28:10.36