Shall we bow our
heads for prayer?
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Our Father in Heaven, we thank
You once again for the privilege
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of being here to study the
marvelous things from Your Word,
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and specifically
from the book of Genesis.
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We ask for the guidance of Your
Holy Spirit as we study about
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the origin of evil, and how You
will dispose of it eventually,
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very, very soon. We thank You,
Lord, for hearing our prayer
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for we ask it in
Jesus' name, Amen.
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I'd like to begin our study
in the book of Genesis 1:31,
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Genesis 1:31. This is
a very well known verse.
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It's speaking about
the conclusion of creation,
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and it makes a very
important statement.
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Genesis 1:31. This is at
the end of the sixth day.
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It says there: Then God saw
every thing that he had made,
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and, indeed, it was very good.
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Notice every day God
sees, that's it's good,
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but on the sixth day we're told
that God saw that every thing
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that He had made was very good.
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So the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.
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Thus the Bible begins by telling
us that God made every thing
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good in this world.
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But then we go to Genesis
3 and we discover that in the
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garden of Eden a
mysterious serpent shows up.
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And this mysterious serpent
is actually slandering God,
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which seems to be a discordant
note in the context of every
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thing being created
good, and created perfect.
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Notice Genesis 3: 4, 5.
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See, God had said, you're going
to die if you eat from the tree.
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The serpent says:
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In other words,
God is a liar. Verse 5:
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Now in Genesis the serpent
appears suddenly, speaking,
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talking, and it makes you wonder
where this serpent came from,
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because God made
Adam and Eve in His image.
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He gave them the
capacity to speak.
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He gave them the
capacity to communicate,
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to make moral decisions, to
hold on rational discussions.
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Here we have a serpent
holding a rational discussion
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with the woman. The question
is, where did this serpent
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come from? Obviously, the
serpent, as he's spoken of
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here in Genesis 3, was not
part of the creation of God.
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I know that the snake itself
was, but the serpent who was
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using this animal obviously
was not created during creation
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week, because God
made everything good.
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Now where did he come from?
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Go with me to the book
of Revelation chapter 12.
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Revelation chapter 12
speaks about the origin
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of this slanderous serpent.
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We're told there in
Revelation 12:7 the following:
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And war broke out in heaven.
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Where did war break out?
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It broke out in heaven.
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This is important.
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Michael and his angels
fought with the dragon;
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and the dragon
and his angels fought,
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but they did not prevail.
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That is the devil and
his angels did not prevail,
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nor was a place found for
them in heaven any longer.
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Now notice the
reference back to Genesis.
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The Old King James version
says: the ancient serpent.
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So this is referring
to the story in Genesis 3.
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That ancient serpent
called the Devil and Satan...
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Now we know how the
Devil got to planet Earth.
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Scripture tells us that
he was cast out of heaven,
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and he ended up
here on planet Earth.
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Now I'm so thankful that God
in His Holy Word has given us
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some details about the
origin of this being in heaven.
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We know about his origin.
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We know about his sin in heaven.
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And we also know what
his final end will be.
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Let's study a few things about
this being as he originally
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existed in heaven. Go with
me to the book of Ezekiel 28,
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and I would like to read verses
13 and 15, Ezekiel 28:13, 15.
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Speaking about this
being, it says this:
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Notice what we find in verse 15.
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How was this being
created according to Ezekiel 28?
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He was created perfect in his
ways until iniquity was found
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in him. God did
not create the Devil.
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God created a glorious, perfect
being who chose to become
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the devil. Because if
God created the devil,
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God is a greater
devil than the devil.
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But scripture tells us
that God created him perfect
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in all of his ways.
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He was beautiful.
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Now the question is, who
created this glorious being,
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which according to
Isaiah, his name was Lucifer,
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the star of the morning.
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Who created him? Well, go
with me to Colossians 1:16, 17,
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Colossians 1:16, 17.
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We read this in our last
lecture, but we want to read it
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again, because it's very
important to understand who
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created this glorious being.
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It says there in verse
16, speaking about Jesus:
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Clearly these verses
teach that Jesus was the Creator
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of everything in the universe.
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Not only things in heaven,
but also things on earth,
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which must mean that Jesus
was the Creator of Lucifer.
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Now let's go back once again
to Ezekiel 28:12, Ezekiel 28:12.
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Here we find another interesting
detail about this glorious
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being. It says there:
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And, of course, the king
of Tyre is an earthly being,
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but behind the earthly being
is this Lucifer. And so it says:
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Is it clear to you that this
being was originally perfect?
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He was full of wisdom.
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He was full of beauty.
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And that there was no sin in
him when he was created by God.
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This is very, very
clear in Ezekiel 28.
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Now what position did this
majestic individual occupy?
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Well, go with me to
Ezekiel 28: 14, Ezekiel 28:14.
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We find a very important detail
here that I want to underline.
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Very, very important!
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It says here,
speaking about this being:
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Wow, now we understand
that this being was an angel.
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And he wasn't any old type of
angel, he was a covering cherub
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according to this verse.
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Now let's
continue reading verse 14.
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By the way, that's Mount Zion.
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The fiery stones are stars.
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They represent angels.
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He walked up and down
in the midst of the angels,
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according to this. Now you'll
notice here that he's called
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the covering cherub.
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Now what is that,
a covering cherub?
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Well, we have to go back to
the book of Exodus to discover
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what a covering cherub is.
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Let's go to the book of Exodus
25:19, 20, Exodus 25:19, 20.
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Here we find a description
of the sanctuary that Moses was
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commanded to build by God.
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And I want you to notice
when the ark of the covenant
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was built, how it
was supposed to be built.
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It says there in verse 19:
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That is of the
ark of the covenant.
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That's the plural.
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And now notice the next word.
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So you noticed that the
cherubim, or the cherubs were on
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either side of the
ark of the covenant.
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The top of the ark of
the covenant was known as the
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mercy seat, and that's where
the glory of God was manifested,
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which is known as the Shekinah.
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In other words, the ark
of the covenant, the cover,
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the mercy seat,
represents the throne of God,
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which means that Lucifer was
one of the individuals who were
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closest to God, who was sitting
on the throne, because he was
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one of the covering cherubs
on one of the sides of the ark
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of the covenant. Now somebody
might be thinking, well,
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Pastor Bohr, are you saying
that in heaven there was an
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ark of the covenant originally?
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Wasn't that just an earthly
piece of furniture that God
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told Moses to build?
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The fact is folks, that the
Bible tells us in Hebrews 8:5
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that the earthly sanctuary was a
copy of the heavenly sanctuary.
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In other words, what God did
was show Moses on the mountain
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a scale model of the heavenly
sanctuary, and He told Moses
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to build the earthly sanctuary
in harmony with the scale model
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of the heavenly one
which God showed him.
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So this must mean that if
there was an ark of the covenant
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in the earthly sanctuary, and
the earthly sanctuary is built
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according to the scale model,
which is a model of the heavenly
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sanctuary, that must mean that
the heavenly sanctuary must also
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contain what? It must
contain the ark of the covenant.
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Now let's prove
that from scripture.
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Go with me to the
book of Revelation 11:19,
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Revelation 11:19. Here we
are told of a moment when the
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heavenly temple is opened, and
I want you to notice what John
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sees inside the heavenly temple,
of which the earthly temple
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is a shadow or a
copy. It says there:
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...and there were lightenings,
noises, thunderings,
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an earthquake, and great hail.
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Question, is there an ark
of the covenant in the heavenly
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sanctuary
according to this verse?
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Absolutely, because John
saw the heavenly sanctuary open
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and he saw in the
temple the ark of the covenant.
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So when you have these
two cherubim in the earthly
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sanctuary on either side
of the ark of the covenant,
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is that a reflection of
two covering cherubs that are
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originally, and also
now, even though Lucifer isn't
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one of them, does the heavenly
sanctuary have an ark of the
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covenant, and are there
cherubim on either side?
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Obviously, yes. Now there's
something else that we need to
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take a look at when we talk
about the ark of the covenant.
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Go with me to the
book of Deuteronomy 10:2,
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Deuteronomy 10:2.
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Here we find a description
of the ark of the covenant.
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And we're going to find that
inside the ark of the covenant
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was something very, very
important, which all of us have
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heard of. Actually,
let's begin by reading verse 1.
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It says: At that time the Lord
said to me, Hew for yourself two
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tables of stone
like the first,...
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Because Moses
had broken the first.
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...and come up to me on
the mountain, and make yourself
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an ark of wood.
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And now notice this:
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What was Moses
supposed to put in the ark?
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He was supposed to put
the tables of stone with the
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ten commandments inside
the ark of the covenant.
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Now here's my question.
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If the earthly sanctuary is
a reflection of the heavenly
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sanctuary, and the heavenly
sanctuary has an ark of the
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covenant, and the earthly
sanctuary has an ark of the
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covenant, and the
earthly sanctuary has the
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ten commandments
within it, what must be within
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the ark of the covenant
in the heavenly sanctuary?
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You must also have
the ten commandments,
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because if the earthly sanctuary
is a reflection of the heavenly,
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and the earthly sanctuary
had the ten commandments inside,
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it must mean that in heaven the
ark of the covenant must also
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contain what? It also must
contain the ten commandments.
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And by the way, the reason why
the ten commandments are inside
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the ark, the mercy seat is
above, is because God is trying
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to teach that the ten
commandments are the foundation
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of God's government.
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They are the foundation of God's
throne, just like the laws of
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the United States are the
foundation of our government.
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In other words, the mercy
seat is the throne of God,
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the ten commandments underneath,
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inside the ark of the covenant
represent the fact that the
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ten commandments are the
foundation of God's throne,
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the foundation
of His government.
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Now we need to take a
look at something that happened
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with this being, Lucifer.
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Go with me to Ezekiel
28, and let's read verse 16,
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Ezekiel 28:16. Something
happened with this being.
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It says there:
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We'll come back
to what means later.
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You what? sinned!
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Why did God cast
this being out of heaven?
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Because he what?
Because he sinned.
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The question is, what is sin?
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Go with me to 1 John 3.
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The Bible has a
very clear definition.
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1 John 3 and we will read, first
of all verse 8, 1 John 3:8.
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Here we are told, and the
reason why we connect this verse
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with Ezekiel 28 is because it's
speaking about the same being.
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Now notice verse 8. It says:
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From Mount Sinai on.
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What does the text say? It says:
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So Jesus came to
destroy sin, right, correct?
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When did Satan sin?
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He sinned from the beginning.
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Where? In heaven.
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Now what is sin?
Go with me to verse 4.
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I like the way the King
James Version translates it.
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It says sin is the
transgression of the law.
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In other words, sin is
breaking God's holy law,
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according to 1 John 3.
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And the devil
sinned from the beginning.
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So let me ask you, did
Satan, did Lucifer break
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God's holy law? He must have!
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And where was that law?
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That law was in the
ark of the covenant.
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In fact we just noticed that the
angels, you know they were on
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either side of the ark, and they
were looking down in reverence
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towards the place where the
glory of God was manifested.
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Towards God's holy law.
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In other words, this being came
up with the preposterous idea
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of breaking the very
law of God, which was found
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in the ark of the covenant.
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And thus he sinned, and for
this reason the Bible says that
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God cast him out of heaven,
and he came to this Earth.
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Now we need to look at something
that happened on this Earth.
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Now that we know where this
being originated, where he was.
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He was created perfect.
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By the way, he was
created; he's not eternal.
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He going to have an
end, according to scripture,
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because he was created by God.
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Everything that God creates
He can destroy if He wishes.
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Now let's notice what
happened when this being came
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to this Earth. Go with
me to Genesis 2:16, 17,
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Genesis 2:16, 17.
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Here we find a commandment
given by God to Adam and Eve,
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and it says there: And the Lord
God commanded the man, saying,
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Of every tree of the
garden you may freely eat.
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I like the fact that God
gives a positive command first.
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He says, You can eat of
every tree of the garden.
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Verse 17: But of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil,
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you shall not eat: for in
the day that you eat of it
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you shall surely die.
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One command that
God gave Adam and Eve.
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Now listen to
what I'm going to say.
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In this one command were
actually contained all of
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the ten commandments.
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You say, now how is that?
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Well, let me take a
look at some of them.
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You know, I've gone through
all of them, but I'm going to go
00:23:30.15\00:23:32.50
just through some of
them, and I'm going to ask you
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if when Adam and
Eve ate from the tree,
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they actually
broke that commandment.
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The first commandment says
thou shalt have no other gods
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before me. Did Adam and
Eve break that commandment?
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What did the serpent say to Eve?
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You shall be like God.
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So did she break
that commandment?
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Did Adam? Absolutely!
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Let's take the
third commandment.
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What does the
third commandment say?
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You shall not take the name
of the Lord your God in vain.
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You say, well, Eve
didn't break that one.
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She certainly did. Do you
know in fact that she attributed
00:24:08.46\00:24:12.44
to God words that God had not
spoken, bringing dishonor upon
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the name of God,
because she told the serpent,
00:24:17.56\00:24:20.53
God has told us that we
should not eat of the tree,
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or even touch it. The
fact is God didn't tell them
00:24:24.36\00:24:28.49
that they couldn't touch it.
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God told them that they couldn't
eat, so she's bringing dishonor
00:24:29.84\00:24:34.17
to the name of God.
00:24:34.20\00:24:35.23
What about the
commandment that says,
00:24:35.26\00:24:37.90
Honor your
father and your mother?
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Does that include honoring
our Heavenly Father? Yes.
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Did they break that one? Yes.
00:24:43.16\00:24:45.09
How about the commandment,
Thou shalt not kill?
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Did they break that one?
00:24:47.01\00:24:48.97
What came into the world
as a result of what they did?
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Death came into the world.
00:24:51.91\00:24:53.89
What about the
commandment that says,
00:24:53.92\00:24:55.65
Thou shalt not commit adultery?
00:24:55.68\00:24:56.94
Spiritually, did they
break that commandment?
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They most certainly did, because
their only love relationship was
00:24:59.97\00:25:03.74
to be between them and God.
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Marriage is used as a symbol
of the relationship between
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God and His people, but when
Eve listened to the serpent,
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she, so to speak, spiritually
adopted a different lover
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than God. There's a commandment
that says, Thou shalt not steal.
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Did Eve steal? Yes, she took
the fruit that did not belong
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to her. There a commandment
that says, Thou shalt not covet.
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Did Eve covet? It
says so in Genesis 3.
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And so contained in this one
command, in principle, were all
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of the ten commandments.
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Now the question is,
what was the serpent trying
00:25:40.75\00:25:44.39
to get Adam and Eve to do?
00:25:44.42\00:25:46.58
Let's go to Genesis
3:4, 5, Genesis 3:4, 5.
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In other words, God is lying.
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We'll study this a
little bit later on.
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Do you know what the serpent
is really telling the woman?
00:26:20.58\00:26:23.74
He's saying, listen you
think that God has to define
00:26:23.77\00:26:26.85
what is good and what's evil?
00:26:26.88\00:26:28.43
You think that you
just have to listen to God?
00:26:28.46\00:26:31.37
That it's okay to eat from all
of the trees, but you can't eat
00:26:31.40\00:26:34.21
from this one
because you're going to die?
00:26:34.24\00:26:35.77
He says, listen, you don't
have to have God define what
00:26:35.80\00:26:38.74
is good and what is evil.
00:26:38.77\00:26:39.80
You can be God, and you
can define that yourself.
00:26:40.78\00:26:45.19
You can know what is good
and evil without God telling you
00:26:45.22\00:26:50.64
what is good and evil.
00:26:50.67\00:26:52.15
Are you
understanding what I am saying?
00:26:52.18\00:26:53.34
What is the serpent
trying to get Eve to do?
00:26:53.37\00:26:56.99
He is trying to get her
to disobey God's commandment.
00:26:57.02\00:27:04.31
He is trying to get
Eve to disobey God's law.
00:27:04.34\00:27:08.05
Is that exactly what
happened to him in heaven?
00:27:08.08\00:27:12.93
Did he sin? Did he
transgress God's law?
00:27:12.96\00:27:17.72
He most certainly did.
00:27:17.75\00:27:18.78
So now he comes to Earth
and he says, I'm going to do
00:27:18.81\00:27:21.73
the same thing
with the human race.
00:27:21.76\00:27:24.18
I'm going to get them to break
God's commandment, God's law.
00:27:24.21\00:27:27.79
I'm going to get them to depend
upon themselves, and in that way
00:27:27.82\00:27:32.66
they will have the
same experience that I have.
00:27:32.69\00:27:36.99
They will be mine!
They will be my slaves.
00:27:37.02\00:27:40.20
So what
happened to him in heaven
00:27:40.23\00:27:42.51
is now happening
on Earth as well.
00:27:42.54\00:27:47.05
By the way, the law is much
deeper than what most people
00:27:47.08\00:27:55.89
realize. Let's go to the
other passage that speaks about
00:27:55.92\00:28:01.28
the rebellion of
this being, Lucifer,
00:28:01.31\00:28:04.22
and look at a
deeper dimension of sin.
00:28:04.25\00:28:06.44
You see, sin isn't
only breaking a code.
00:28:06.47\00:28:08.66
You know, some people look at
the ten commandments just as a
00:28:08.69\00:28:12.38
bunch of rules
written on tables of stone.
00:28:12.41\00:28:14.64
They say, okay, I'm
not supposed to steal.
00:28:14.67\00:28:17.42
I'm not supposed
to commit adultery.
00:28:17.45\00:28:19.24
I'm not supposed to kill.
00:28:19.27\00:28:20.30
I'm not supposed
to bear false witness.
00:28:20.33\00:28:22.06
I'm not supposed to covet.
00:28:22.09\00:28:23.32
Okay, I'm going to try my best
to obey the ten commandments,
00:28:23.35\00:28:26.48
and they can't,
because in ourselves we can't,
00:28:26.51\00:28:34.62
because we have a sinful nature.
00:28:34.65\00:28:36.98
We'll be talking about that,
by the way, in our next lecture.
00:28:37.01\00:28:40.37
What On Earth Is
Happening is our next lecture.
00:28:40.40\00:28:42.85
We're going to be dealing with
this issue of the observance
00:28:42.88\00:28:45.52
of God's Holy Law. Sin is
deeper than breaking a code.
00:28:45.55\00:28:51.09
Sin is deeper than
breaking a list of rules.
00:28:51.12\00:28:54.90
Now let's notice what
the essence of sin is.
00:28:54.93\00:28:58.96
It is breaking the law, but
there's something deeper than
00:28:58.99\00:29:02.65
just breaking the law.
00:29:02.68\00:29:03.71
Notice Isaiah 14:12-14.
00:29:03.74\00:29:07.04
Here it speaks about Lucifer and
what happened to him. It says:
00:29:07.07\00:29:13.94
Now it's going to explain
the reason why he was cast down.
00:29:28.12\00:29:30.60
And I'm going to
underline one little word here.
00:29:32.83\00:29:35.41
I would say that
Lucifer had an I problem.
00:30:02.71\00:30:05.11
And the I
problem is called myopia.
00:30:05.14\00:30:10.57
He was near sighted.
00:30:10.60\00:30:12.80
He could only see himself.
00:30:12.83\00:30:15.15
In fact, do you know, that
we're told, and we're not going
00:30:15.18\00:30:20.01
to read this now,
but I'll just mention it.
00:30:20.04\00:30:22.88
We're told that Lucifer
was created with four assets:
00:30:22.91\00:30:28.91
First of all he was
created beautiful, with beauty.
00:30:28.94\00:30:35.41
Secondly, he was
created full of wisdom; wise.
00:30:35.44\00:30:40.81
In the third place,
he was created very rich.
00:30:40.84\00:30:45.23
You could find
that in Ezekiel 28.
00:30:45.26\00:30:47.12
And in the fourth place, he
was created to occupy a very
00:30:47.15\00:30:52.18
powerful position
next to the throne of God.
00:30:52.21\00:30:55.34
And so Lucifer had beauty,
wisdom, riches, and power.
00:30:55.37\00:31:02.01
But if you read Ezekiel 28,
you'll discover that it says
00:31:02.04\00:31:07.11
that he was lifted up
because of his beauty.
00:31:07.14\00:31:11.61
We're told that he
corrupted his wisdom.
00:31:11.64\00:31:15.48
We are told that his heart was
lifted up because of his riches.
00:31:15.51\00:31:19.89
And we are told in the passage
that we just read that he said,
00:31:19.92\00:31:24.79
I will be like the Most High.
00:31:24.82\00:31:26.72
I'm not satisfied
with being second fiddle.
00:31:26.75\00:31:30.05
I want to be first fiddle.
00:31:30.08\00:31:32.32
I want to be the main thing.
00:31:32.35\00:31:35.36
So really at the heart of
breaking God's law is what?
00:31:35.39\00:31:42.18
self! That is the root
of breaking God's holy law.
00:31:42.21\00:31:50.00
Now I'm going to mention some
words, and I want you to give me
00:31:50.03\00:31:54.16
the antonym of these words.
00:31:54.19\00:31:56.09
Right: wrong. Wrong, good.
00:31:56.12\00:32:00.76
Good: evil. Come
on, you just had supper.
00:32:00.79\00:32:05.07
You can do better than that!
00:32:05.11\00:32:06.49
White: black. Light: dark.
00:32:06.52\00:32:12.87
Love: hate. I knew you
were going to say that.
00:32:12.91\00:32:17.22
The opposite of
love is not hate.
00:32:20.10\00:32:23.50
The opposite of love is self.
00:32:23.53\00:32:27.28
Let's take a look at
the ten commandments.
00:32:29.94\00:32:32.04
Go with me to Romans 13:8-10.
00:32:32.07\00:32:37.73
I always trick
people with that one.
00:32:37.76\00:32:39.29
Don't feel bad. Romans 13:8-10.
00:32:39.32\00:32:43.37
I'll be you this is the
second time I've tricked
00:32:43.40\00:32:45.05
some of you, too.
00:32:45.08\00:32:46.11
Romans 13:8-10. It says
here, the Apostle Paul speaking:
00:32:46.14\00:32:53.96
Owe no one any thing,
except to love one another:
00:32:53.99\00:33:01.68
for he who loves
another has fulfilled the law.
00:33:01.71\00:33:06.66
Did you catch that?
00:33:06.69\00:33:10.13
Loving others is to
what? To fulfill the law.
00:33:10.16\00:33:14.94
Somebody says, well, which law?
00:33:14.97\00:33:16.72
Verse 9: For the commandments,
You shall not commit adultery,
00:33:16.75\00:33:20.54
You shall not murder, You shall
not steal, You shall not bear
00:33:20.57\00:33:25.75
false witness, You shall not
covet; and if there is any other
00:33:25.78\00:33:30.85
commandment, are all summed
up in this saying, namely,
00:33:30.88\00:33:34.55
You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.
00:33:34.58\00:33:37.86
Love does no harm to a
neighbor: therefore love is the
00:33:37.89\00:33:42.54
fulfillment of the law.
00:33:42.57\00:33:44.34
So Lucifer's attack
was against God's love.
00:33:44.37\00:33:48.66
In attacking the law, he
was attacking God's love.
00:33:48.69\00:33:54.46
Now what do I mean?
00:33:55.86\00:33:56.89
Can you really understand
the ten commandments unless you
00:33:56.92\00:34:00.48
understand that the purpose
of the ten commandments is to
00:34:00.51\00:34:03.38
protect relationships?
00:34:03.41\00:34:05.19
For example, honor
your father and your mother.
00:34:07.20\00:34:12.82
Could you really
keep that commandment
00:34:12.85\00:34:14.10
unless you had a father
and a mother? Obviously not!
00:34:14.13\00:34:18.08
You shall not kill.
00:34:18.11\00:34:20.14
Could you keep that commandment
if there wasn't someone to kill?
00:34:20.17\00:34:23.69
You shall not commit adultery.
00:34:25.81\00:34:27.11
Could you break that commandment
if there wasn't someone else's
00:34:28.29\00:34:30.93
wife that you could
commit adultery with?
00:34:30.96\00:34:33.32
You shall not steal.
00:34:33.35\00:34:35.57
Could you break that commandment
if there wasn't someone
00:34:35.60\00:34:38.04
you could steal from?
00:34:38.07\00:34:39.10
You shall not bear false
witness against your neighbor.
00:34:41.07\00:34:43.39
Could you break that commandment
unless you had a neighbor
00:34:43.42\00:34:45.17
to bear false witness against?
00:34:45.20\00:34:46.68
You shall not covet.
00:34:46.71\00:34:49.44
Could you covet if there
wasn't something that belonged
00:34:49.47\00:34:52.34
to someone else
that you could covet?
00:34:52.37\00:34:54.95
Obviously not. The purpose of
the commandments is to protect
00:34:54.98\00:35:00.61
relationships. Let me
ask you, the commandment
00:35:00.64\00:35:04.26
thou shall not commit adultery.
00:35:04.29\00:35:05.80
Does that protect
human relationships?
00:35:05.83\00:35:07.60
Is it a good commandment?
00:35:07.63\00:35:09.53
How many of you
believe that the commandment
00:35:09.56\00:35:10.86
thou shall not commit
adultery is a good commandment?
00:35:10.89\00:35:12.71
Do you think
that's a good commandment?
00:35:12.74\00:35:13.77
Don't think it was
nailed to the cross, huh?
00:35:13.80\00:35:16.07
It's a good commandment.
00:35:17.38\00:35:18.85
How would you like to live
in a world where everybody keeps
00:35:18.88\00:35:21.08
the ten commandments?
00:35:21.11\00:35:22.14
What kind of world would it be?
00:35:23.45\00:35:25.02
Ho ho, my lands!
It would be wonderful!
00:35:25.05\00:35:28.03
You would have no death, no
killing, everybody would respect
00:35:28.06\00:35:32.77
each other's wife. You
could leave your doors open
00:35:32.80\00:35:35.50
day and night; no theft.
00:35:35.53\00:35:39.29
And, by the way, the first
four commandments protect our
00:35:39.32\00:35:42.23
relationship with God; our
loving relationship with God.
00:35:42.26\00:35:44.93
You see, if I love God, I'm
not going to have other gods.
00:35:44.96\00:35:47.88
If I love God, I'm not going to
worship a representation of God,
00:35:47.91\00:35:54.37
which lowers my
image and view of Him.
00:35:54.40\00:35:58.37
If I love God, I'm
going to respect His name.
00:35:58.40\00:36:02.07
If I love God I'm going to spend
the time that He has set aside
00:36:02.10\00:36:07.23
for me to spend
with Him, to enhance my
00:36:07.26\00:36:10.08
relationship with Him.
00:36:10.11\00:36:11.14
In other words, the purpose
of the ten commandments is to
00:36:11.17\00:36:14.87
protect human relationships.
00:36:14.90\00:36:17.22
They define what love is.
00:36:17.25\00:36:20.79
So an attack on
the ten commandments
00:36:20.82\00:36:22.98
is an attack on love.
00:36:23.01\00:36:24.30
Raise your hand if you're
understanding what I'm saying.
00:36:24.33\00:36:27.87
To attack the
commandments is to attack love.
00:36:27.90\00:36:30.40
And, by the way, when we
break the ten commandments,
00:36:30.43\00:36:32.43
you break relationships.
00:36:32.46\00:36:33.49
When Adam and Eve
sinned, they're hiding from God.
00:36:33.52\00:36:38.05
They've broken a relationship.
00:36:38.08\00:36:40.39
In fact Isaiah 59:2 says, Your
iniquities have made separation
00:36:40.42\00:36:45.18
between Me and you.
00:36:45.21\00:36:46.72
And when Adam and Eve sinned,
they broke their relationship.
00:36:46.75\00:36:50.59
Adam who, by the way, knew what
he was doing when he sinned,
00:36:50.62\00:36:54.89
but he couldn't stand the
idea of living without Eve.
00:36:54.92\00:36:57.15
His real sin was that he loved
Eve more than he loved God.
00:36:57.18\00:37:02.61
He says to God, huh, this woman
that You gave to be with me.
00:37:06.47\00:37:10.82
A little while before
he's saying, oh, I can't stand
00:37:10.85\00:37:16.48
the idea of living without
Eve, so I'm going to sin, too.
00:37:16.51\00:37:20.15
So now he's bickering with Eve,
because when they broke God's
00:37:20.18\00:37:26.84
law, they broke
their relationship,
00:37:26.87\00:37:29.68
their loving
relationship, one with another.
00:37:29.71\00:37:34.03
Are you
understanding the depths of sin?
00:37:34.06\00:37:36.27
And, by the way, sin,
basically, is selfishness,
00:37:36.30\00:37:40.36
because selfishness
is the opposite of love.
00:37:40.39\00:37:43.47
Do you believe that?
00:37:45.57\00:37:46.89
You know what? I have to do
a lot of marriage counseling.
00:37:46.92\00:37:49.94
Do you know what the biggest
problem is among couples?
00:37:49.97\00:37:55.05
Selfishness! He
doesn't do what I want.
00:37:55.08\00:37:59.92
He doesn't go
where I want to go.
00:37:59.95\00:38:02.09
He doesn't pay
any attention to me.
00:38:02.12\00:38:04.45
He forgets my Anniversary.
00:38:04.48\00:38:06.91
And the same the
other way around.
00:38:06.94\00:38:10.15
It's self! That's why we
find in Isaiah 14 the word I
00:38:10.18\00:38:18.66
used six times by
Lucifer; saying, I will be
00:38:18.69\00:38:23.61
like the Most High.
00:38:23.64\00:38:24.71
His attack was an
attack on the love of God,
00:38:24.74\00:38:30.96
which was
attacking the law of God.
00:38:30.99\00:38:34.48
But the law cannot be isolated
from human relationships.
00:38:34.51\00:38:39.45
So whoever today tells you that
the law was nailed to the cross;
00:38:39.48\00:38:42.70
that Christians
don't have to keep the law;
00:38:42.73\00:38:45.19
what they're doing is they're
attacking love, because love is
00:38:45.22\00:38:50.36
fulfilling the law.
00:38:50.39\00:38:51.52
Somebody says, well
I only live by two now.
00:38:51.55\00:38:53.72
Jesus said love God
and love your neighbor.
00:38:53.75\00:38:55.73
What does it
mean to love you God?
00:38:59.01\00:39:00.35
It means you
keep the first four.
00:39:00.38\00:39:02.46
What's the definition
of loving your neighbor?
00:39:02.49\00:39:05.50
It's the last six.
00:39:05.53\00:39:07.46
The ten commandments
simply amplify the two,
00:39:07.49\00:39:13.00
but they do not get rid
of the two commandments.
00:39:13.03\00:39:15.94
Now the question is, how
many in heaven followed Lucifer
00:39:15.97\00:39:23.43
in his rebellion? Go with me
to the book of Revelation 12:4,
00:39:23.46\00:39:30.82
Revelation 12:4. Do you know
that we live in a world filled
00:39:30.85\00:39:36.80
with demons? But do you know
that for every demon there's two
00:39:36.83\00:39:43.19
of God's
angels. Praise the Lord!
00:39:43.22\00:39:45.89
It's two against one!
00:39:45.92\00:39:47.07
Ha ha! And we have
God on our side besides.
00:39:47.10\00:39:51.89
So don't worry about it.
00:39:51.92\00:39:53.45
Revelation 12:4, Revelation
12:4 Speaking about this dragon,
00:39:53.48\00:39:58.79
the ancient serpent.
00:39:58.82\00:39:59.85
It says: His tail. We'll
talk about the tail in a moment.
00:39:59.88\00:40:02.36
So you'll find how many of
the stars of heaven did he take
00:40:13.09\00:40:16.28
with him? A third of the stars.
00:40:16.31\00:40:18.87
What were those stars?
00:40:18.90\00:40:20.12
Go with me to Revelation 12:7.
00:40:20.15\00:40:23.26
And war broke out in heaven.
00:40:23.29\00:40:24.78
The stars
represent what? Angels.
00:40:44.41\00:40:49.41
So a third of the
angels were cast out with him.
00:40:49.44\00:40:52.90
And, by the way, when
you realize that according to
00:40:52.93\00:40:55.45
Revelation 5:11, if you'll
go with me there for a moment.
00:40:55.48\00:40:58.75
Revelation 5:11. The
number of angels is practically
00:40:58.78\00:41:03.79
incalculable. You know that
this world has lots of angels
00:41:03.82\00:41:10.09
involved in the
battle between righteousness
00:41:10.12\00:41:13.14
and unrighteousness.
00:41:13.17\00:41:14.20
It says there
in Revelation 5:11:
00:41:14.23\00:41:16.48
By the way, in the Greek
there's no word for million,
00:41:29.73\00:41:32.14
and so it's calculated
by multiplying thousands.
00:41:32.17\00:41:37.07
Ten thousand times ten thousand,
and thousands of thousands.
00:41:37.10\00:41:42.64
How could the devil get one
third of the angels to follow
00:41:42.67\00:41:49.34
him in his rebellion?
00:41:49.37\00:41:50.48
Well, we need to take a look
at this because this is very
00:41:50.51\00:41:54.36
important because the devil
is doing the same thing on Earth
00:41:54.39\00:41:57.13
right now. If we know
what he did in heaven,
00:41:57.16\00:42:00.22
we're going to know what he
does on Earth, and we're going
00:42:00.25\00:42:03.98
to be able to protect
ourselves from his power.
00:42:04.01\00:42:06.47
Let's go back to Ezekiel 28:16
and notice a very important word
00:42:06.50\00:42:12.88
here. We're going to see
the strategy that the devil used
00:42:12.91\00:42:15.58
to deceive a third of the
angelic host to follow him
00:42:15.61\00:42:19.81
in his rebellion. It
says there in Ezekiel 28:16:
00:42:19.84\00:42:24.88
That's the word I
want to underline.
00:42:29.43\00:42:31.65
What did he do? The
abundance of his what? trading.
00:42:41.15\00:42:46.66
So the devil trades. The
devil is a wheeler dealer.
00:42:46.69\00:42:52.28
The devil is a businessman.
00:42:54.80\00:42:56.35
The question is,
what does he trade?
00:42:56.38\00:42:58.39
What does he try to sell?
00:42:58.42\00:42:59.65
Well, we need to look for this
word other places in scripture.
00:42:59.68\00:43:04.68
It's the same root word,
but it's translated differently.
00:43:04.72\00:43:09.00
It helps us
understand what he did.
00:43:09.04\00:43:10.53
Go with me to
Ezekiel 22:9, Ezekiel 22:9.
00:43:10.56\00:43:16.60
The very same root word.
00:43:16.63\00:43:18.35
You would never know it by the
translation, but if you go to
00:43:20.27\00:43:23.04
Strong's Concordance you'll find
that it's the same root word
00:43:23.07\00:43:26.80
in Hebrew. It says in verse 9:
00:43:26.83\00:43:29.70
That word, slander, is
the same root word trading.
00:43:44.19\00:43:50.22
Isn't that interesting?
00:43:50.25\00:43:53.01
You can check me out in Strong's
Concordance, if you wish.
00:43:53.04\00:43:56.81
And notice that it says, In
you are men who slander to cause
00:43:56.84\00:44:01.96
bloodshed. Do you remember
that we read in Ezekiel 28
00:44:01.99\00:44:05.81
that because of his trading
he became filled with violence
00:44:05.84\00:44:09.45
within? So what was he trading?
00:44:09.48\00:44:13.80
He was actually
trying to sell what?
00:44:13.83\00:44:16.58
He was trying to sell lies.
00:44:16.61\00:44:20.40
What do you say sometimes when
somebody says something that
00:44:20.43\00:44:24.78
sounds pretty preposterous?
00:44:24.81\00:44:26.21
You say, I don't buy that.
00:44:26.24\00:44:30.33
We even use the
expression today.
00:44:30.36\00:44:34.02
Oh, you can't sell me that one!
00:44:34.05\00:44:36.28
You see what he was trying
to do was to sell his slanderous
00:44:36.31\00:44:42.63
accusations against God.
00:44:42.66\00:44:44.71
Notice also Leviticus 19 where
the same root word is used.
00:44:44.74\00:44:50.00
Leviticus 19:16.
We'll just read one verse.
00:44:50.03\00:44:55.91
Leviticus 19:16.
God is saying to Israel:
00:44:55.94\00:45:02.94
The word talebearer there is the
same root word that is used for
00:45:16.88\00:45:22.66
trading in Ezekiel 28.
00:45:22.69\00:45:24.63
So what did the devil do?
00:45:24.66\00:45:26.70
What did Lucifer do in heaven?
00:45:26.73\00:45:29.01
He started telling
tails about whom? About God.
00:45:29.04\00:45:33.22
Do you know what he said?
00:45:33.25\00:45:34.84
He said, listen, we don't
need God to be telling us what's
00:45:34.87\00:45:38.15
right and what's wrong; what
we can do and what we can't do.
00:45:38.18\00:45:40.70
We're smart enough. We
can decide that on our own.
00:45:40.73\00:45:45.16
You know, God is a slave master.
00:45:45.19\00:45:47.97
He wants us to
render him blind service.
00:45:48.00\00:45:51.29
You can see this by the way
in which the devil spoke to Eve
00:45:51.32\00:45:54.51
in the garden. He says, you
know, you don't have to accept
00:45:54.54\00:45:58.35
what God says as the
definition for good and evil.
00:45:58.38\00:46:00.74
He says, you can be
God knowing good and evil.
00:46:00.77\00:46:05.12
By the way, he was telling Adam
and Eve that God wanted them to
00:46:05.15\00:46:07.49
be blind, because he says, if
you eat from the tree your eyes
00:46:07.52\00:46:09.86
are going to be opened.
00:46:09.89\00:46:10.92
God wants blind service.
00:46:10.95\00:46:12.98
He wants you just to
obey without questions.
00:46:13.01\00:46:16.43
Well, you don't have to
have God tell you what to do.
00:46:16.46\00:46:18.65
You're smart enough, and you're
wise enough to decide that
00:46:18.68\00:46:22.32
on your own. So he's
saying God is a dictator.
00:46:22.35\00:46:26.31
And a third of the
angels bought his lies.
00:46:27.15\00:46:32.58
Now do you remember the tail?
00:46:32.61\00:46:34.54
It says the tail of the dragon
drew a third of the stars?
00:46:34.58\00:46:40.11
Now what does a tail represent?
00:46:40.14\00:46:42.68
Go with me to the book
of Isaiah 9:15, Isaiah 9:15.
00:46:42.71\00:46:49.98
Very clearly we're
told what the tail is there.
00:46:50.01\00:46:53.63
It says here in Isaiah
9:15, The elder and honorable,
00:46:53.66\00:47:05.35
he is the head; the prophet who
teaches lies, he is the tail.
00:47:05.38\00:47:13.43
What is the tail? The
prophet who teaches what? lies.
00:47:13.46\00:47:19.95
How did the devil get a third
of the stars of heaven to follow
00:47:19.98\00:47:23.94
him? By telling lies.
00:47:23.97\00:47:27.97
The tail is a
prophet who tells lies.
00:47:28.00\00:47:32.21
And, by the way,
there's an interesting phonetic
00:47:32.24\00:47:37.83
relationship between
tail and to tell a tale.
00:47:37.86\00:47:42.28
There was the tail that
draws a third of the angels
00:47:44.88\00:47:49.73
by telling tales about God.
00:47:49.76\00:47:53.36
And we know that
because he came to the Earth,
00:47:53.39\00:47:55.98
and he did the
same thing. Didn't he?
00:47:56.01\00:47:57.76
If you know what he did on
Earth, you will know what he did
00:47:57.79\00:48:01.05
in heaven. We have Biblical
examples of this as well.
00:48:01.08\00:48:03.87
It's very, very interesting.
00:48:03.90\00:48:05.81
You take, for example, the story
of Absalom, the son of David.
00:48:05.84\00:48:09.60
David was the king.
Absalom was his son.
00:48:09.63\00:48:13.86
And Absalom gets the
preposterous idea that he needs
00:48:13.89\00:48:18.11
to be sitting on the
throne instead of his father.
00:48:18.14\00:48:19.98
And so he sits at the gate of
Jerusalem, and anybody who comes
00:48:20.01\00:48:25.83
to the king for judgment, to
set things right, Absalom says,
00:48:25.86\00:48:31.98
don't even bother
to go to the king.
00:48:32.01\00:48:33.26
He doesn't care about you.
00:48:33.29\00:48:34.32
But if you put me on the
throne I would look out for you.
00:48:34.35\00:48:40.12
Same spirit of
Lucifer in heaven!
00:48:40.15\00:48:45.92
He said to the angels, listen,
if you put me on the throne
00:48:45.95\00:48:49.11
things will improve.
00:48:49.14\00:48:50.36
No loss! Everybody can live
according to the law that comes
00:48:50.39\00:48:54.91
from within. I guess
he was the first New Ager.
00:48:54.94\00:48:58.79
No dictators!
Everybody will live to himself.
00:49:01.17\00:49:04.91
Same thing that the devil
has done with human beings
00:49:04.94\00:49:08.55
on this Earth ever since.
00:49:08.58\00:49:11.14
John 8:44.
We're told that Satan:
00:49:11.17\00:49:19.40
In other words, Satan
is the father of lies,
00:49:24.97\00:49:29.83
according to scripture.
00:49:29.86\00:49:30.89
From the very
beginning he lied about God.
00:49:30.92\00:49:34.47
And, by the way, it's no
coincidence that Jesus came
00:49:34.50\00:49:37.98
to this Earth to
reveal the truth.
00:49:38.01\00:49:42.01
Do you know that Jesus
came to this world to counteract
00:49:43.44\00:49:45.61
the lies of Satan? Satan said,
Ah, God only sits on the throne
00:49:45.64\00:49:49.71
and He has everybody
serve Him and do what He says.
00:49:49.74\00:49:52.55
And when somebody doesn't do
what He says, He makes them sick
00:49:52.58\00:49:57.05
and He casts them out of
heaven, and He mistreats them,
00:49:57.08\00:49:59.12
and He beats them up.
00:49:59.15\00:50:01.87
Jesus comes down to the
Earth and He leaves His throne
00:50:01.90\00:50:04.83
in heaven. He who had the power
of God now becomes a servant.
00:50:04.86\00:50:09.87
The Jews believed
that God made people sick.
00:50:12.54\00:50:15.11
Why is that man blind?
00:50:15.14\00:50:16.83
Who sinned, his
parents or did he?
00:50:16.86\00:50:18.83
Why does that man
happen to have leprosy?
00:50:18.86\00:50:21.77
Oh, because it's
the finger of God.
00:50:21.80\00:50:24.83
They believed that
God made people sick.
00:50:24.86\00:50:28.00
Jesus came to the Earth
and now He heals people.
00:50:28.03\00:50:32.50
He casts out demons.
00:50:32.53\00:50:34.98
He restores people. And the
devil hated Him because Jesus
00:50:35.01\00:50:39.78
was showing what
God is really like;
00:50:39.81\00:50:44.06
that God loves human beings.
00:50:44.09\00:50:46.59
That Tsunami; that
wasn't any more an act of God
00:50:46.62\00:50:50.85
than the man in the moon exists.
00:50:50.88\00:50:56.64
I mean, how can you conceive
that God caused that Tsunami
00:50:56.67\00:51:00.54
to kill over a
quarter of a million people?
00:51:00.57\00:51:03.14
The book of Job tells us
that this is the work of Satan.
00:51:03.17\00:51:06.80
It is not the work of God.
00:51:06.83\00:51:10.06
Yes, God withdraws His hand
and allows it, but God does not
00:51:10.10\00:51:14.03
cause these things. Now
the question is, is the devil
00:51:14.06\00:51:18.79
ever going to have an end?
00:51:18.82\00:51:20.06
Do you know where
he got his death blow?
00:51:20.09\00:51:23.52
He got his death
blow on the head.
00:51:23.55\00:51:26.02
He will crush your head,
and you will bruise his heel.
00:51:28.08\00:51:34.82
But you know, when his
head was whacked by Christ,
00:51:34.85\00:51:39.56
the devil still exists.
00:51:39.59\00:51:41.58
In one of our future lectures
we're going to study about the
00:51:41.61\00:51:45.62
conflict between
David and Goliath.
00:51:45.65\00:51:47.87
That story has to be seen
in the light of Genesis 3:15.
00:51:47.90\00:51:51.64
You know, David, he swung
his sling, threw the stone,
00:51:51.67\00:51:58.18
the stone encrusted itself in
his forehead, and he fell to the
00:51:58.21\00:52:04.03
ground, but he wasn't dead.
00:52:04.06\00:52:05.09
He was almost dead.
00:52:07.87\00:52:08.97
He had received the death blow
on his head, but the Bible says
00:52:09.00\00:52:13.84
that David went and with his
own sword, he took out the sword
00:52:13.87\00:52:18.03
and he cut off his head.
00:52:18.06\00:52:19.89
The devil has been
wounded with this stone.
00:52:19.92\00:52:23.30
What only remains is for
his head to be chopped off.
00:52:23.33\00:52:30.62
And that will happen after the
millennium, which we will study
00:52:30.65\00:52:36.24
in this seminar.
Revelation 20 refers to that.
00:52:36.27\00:52:40.92
Notice Ezekiel 28:18,
19, speaking about the end
00:52:40.95\00:52:47.60
of this being. Praise
the Lord that he is going to
00:52:47.63\00:52:49.57
come to an end. Meanwhile
we have to battle with him.
00:52:49.60\00:52:52.91
We have to put up with his lies,
but we don't have to give in
00:52:52.94\00:52:57.69
to his lies. When the devil
tells us to break God's law,
00:52:57.73\00:53:01.35
we don't have to break
God's law, because we know what
00:53:01.38\00:53:05.30
he's up to. Now
notice Ezekiel 28:18, 19.
00:53:05.33\00:53:11.03
It says: You defiled your
sanctuaries by the multitude of
00:53:11.06\00:53:15.11
your iniquities. By the
iniquity of your trading.
00:53:15.14\00:53:18.35
There's the word again.
00:53:18.38\00:53:19.41
Notice he's going
to be reduced to ashes.
00:53:27.95\00:53:30.99
Is that good
news? That's great news!
00:53:44.14\00:53:47.86
It's coming soon. Now allow
me to conclude by saying this:
00:53:47.89\00:53:54.73
In this world there are
only two groups, not three.
00:53:54.76\00:54:02.46
There's not the good,
the bad, and the half bad:
00:54:02.49\00:54:06.30
those that are going to heaven,
to hell, and to purgatory.
00:54:06.33\00:54:10.28
In the world there are two
groups: the seed of the serpent,
00:54:12.74\00:54:17.59
and the seed of
the woman's seed.
00:54:17.62\00:54:21.81
The Seed is Christ,
but Christ has seed.
00:54:21.84\00:54:24.99
If you are
Christ's you are His seed.
00:54:25.02\00:54:26.88
So there's only two
groups in the world.
00:54:26.91\00:54:29.95
Now let me ask you, what is it
that characterizes both groups?
00:54:29.98\00:54:34.61
Go with me to 1
John 3:10, 1 John 3:10.
00:54:34.64\00:54:41.58
And actually we'll read
several verses from 1 John,
00:54:41.61\00:54:46.16
as we bring this to a close.
00:54:46.19\00:54:47.74
1 John 3:10. We find the
two groups mentioned and what
00:54:47.77\00:54:53.72
characterizes the two
groups. It says there:
00:54:53.75\00:54:57.02
In this way you can
know who a child of God is,
00:55:08.98\00:55:10.98
and who a child of the devil is.
00:55:11.01\00:55:12.58
Notice what the
characteristics are.
00:55:12.61\00:55:15.94
What is righteousness?
00:55:22.52\00:55:23.60
If sin is transgression of
the law, what is righteousness?
00:55:23.63\00:55:27.62
It is obeying God's law;
not because we can do it,
00:55:27.65\00:55:31.82
but because we love
God, and He empowers us.
00:55:31.85\00:55:34.40
You need to come
to the next lecture.
00:55:34.43\00:55:36.39
We're going to talk
about the law of God,
00:55:36.43\00:55:38.35
and how it is
possible to overcome;
00:55:38.39\00:55:40.86
not in ourselves, but in
His power because we love Him.
00:55:40.89\00:55:43.64
And so it continues
saying there, in 1 John 3:10:
00:55:43.67\00:55:48.00
In this the children of God,
and the children of the devil
00:55:48.03\00:55:51.01
are manifest. Whoever does not
practice righteousness is not of
00:55:51.04\00:55:56.35
God nor is he who
does not love his neighbor.
00:55:56.38\00:56:01.64
And what is
keeping the commandment?
00:56:03.41\00:56:05.60
It is what? love.
00:56:05.64\00:56:10.18
Now go with me to two
passages in closing: 1 John 2,
00:56:10.21\00:56:19.20
1 John 2:3, 4. Now by
this we know that we know him:
00:56:19.23\00:56:28.18
If we keep his commandments.
00:56:28.22\00:56:32.80
He who says I know him and
does not keep his commandment
00:56:32.84\00:56:37.93
is a liar, and the
truth is not in him.
00:56:37.96\00:56:41.60
Hello! Who was the first liar,
and the truth was not in him?
00:56:43.04\00:56:46.42
John 8:44. Who was it? Satan.
00:56:46.46\00:56:49.90
So whoever says, I
know him and does not keep
00:56:49.94\00:56:52.95
his
commandments; whose seed is he?
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Satan's seed. It says so here.
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Now let's notice one more text.
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1 John 5, very
quickly, and verse 3.
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For this is the love of God
that we keep his commandments.
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And his
commandments are not burdensome.
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Because some people
say, oh, that old law.
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That's such a
hard thing to keep.
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It's such a burden.
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Don't believe it.
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