Everyone once
believed in the devil,
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a horrible red
demon with pointy horns,
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a long tail, and a
pitchfork in his hands.
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This fanciful creature
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was invented by
superstitious religious fanatics
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in the dark ages.
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Most people
today no longer believe
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in this foolish devil myth.
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Many today have
accepted the original version
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that was taught by the prophets
of the ancient scriptures.
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This is about a
beautiful, super intelligent,
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powerful spirit
being who eons ago
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became the enemy of God
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and the implacable
foe of human beings.
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His name is Satan,
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and he is alive and
well on planet earth.
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Thank you for
joining us here today
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in the Carter Report
studio in Southern California.
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We're glad to see you
and we thank you for coming.
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Have you heard the story
about the two little boys?
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They were discussing the devil.
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The topic today incidentally,
well, not incidentally,
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but really, the topic
is about Satan or Sa-tan.
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Here were these two little boys
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and they were discussing
the topic of the devil.
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And one was a little
boy, one was a big boy.
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Big boy said to the little boy,
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"No, no, there's no
such person as the devil."
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He said, "You know
about Santa Claus."
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When you're little,
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you think Santa
Claus is a real person.
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But he said, "When you
grow up and you get smart,
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you discover it's
just your father."
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What he said.
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"That's how it
is with the devil."
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When you're a little guy,
you think it's a real person,
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when you grow up,
just like Santa Claus,
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you find out
it's just your father.
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But it's not just your father.
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Is there an actual being
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who is the embodiment of evil?
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Before 9/11 came,
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when America was
given this tremendous blow
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by Muslim terrorists,
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a lots of philosophers said,
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liberal philosophers said,
"There's no such thing as evil.
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There are things
that are convenient,
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things that are,
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you know, maybe not so good,
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but there's no such
thing as ultimate guru,
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ultimate evil."
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The attacks upon America
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that happened
seems so long ago now,
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9/11 caused by a group of
religious fundamentalists,
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far to the right,
as you can imagine,
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they were called, did
you know this, the Wahabi.
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They came out of
the burning deserts
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of Saudi Arabia.
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And Saudi Arabia,
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most folks are
not aware of this,
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have spent $100 billion
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exporting
Wahabiism to the world.
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Didn't know that, did you?
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Then they struck America.
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And before they struck America,
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lots of people said
in the universities,
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there's no such thing as evil.
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But after 9/11, I said,
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"Whoops, there is evil."
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And if there is evil,
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I would suggest you today
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that evil has
got to have a source.
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And so today we're going to talk
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about the origin of evil.
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If there is evil,
where did it come from?
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Is Satan a real person?
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Or is he like Santa Claus?
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Is Satan the boogie man?
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When I was a little
boy, my mother told me,
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"You just be careful
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or else the boogie
man is going to get you."
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Is he the boogie man?
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Is Satan, Jesus' brother?
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Now there's a great church
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here in the
United States of America.
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And I teach that Satan
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is the brother of
the Lord Jesus Christ
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like Cain and Abel.
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So who is this person?
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Is he active in politics?
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Is he active in churches?
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Is Satan the leader
of an army of demons?
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Could they be demons?
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And if there is Satan,
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who made Satan
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and what does Satan look like?
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We have this
mythological character.
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He's an awful, ugly creature,
head of a goat, and so forth,
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and carries pitchfork.
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Is he like that?
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Of course, we
know this is simply
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a relic of a barbaric age.
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Is he immortal?
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Can he be killed?
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And is Satan in charge of hell?
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The great Roman Catholic Church
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taught for more than 1,000 years
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that the devil, Satan or Satan,
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was in charge of hell,
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where the disembodied souls
and spirits of the damned went.
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Come with me over
here to Revelation please,
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12:7-9,
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Revelation 12.
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Please look at
this in the Bible.
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"And war broke out
in heaven, Michael,"
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Christ, "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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nor was a place found for
them in heaven any longer.
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So the great
dragon was cast out,
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that serpent of old,
called the Devil and Satan,
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who deceives the whole
world, he was cast to the earth,
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and his angels
were cast out with him."
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This is an amazing concept.
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The Bible says
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that there was a war
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fought out there
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somewhere in space
or beyond the space.
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It was forth
between God and His angels,
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and Satan and his
angels, all spirit beings.
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I think we've grown
beyond the supposition,
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which is rather naive,
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that we will only
believe in those things
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that we can see.
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We now know with
an absolute certainty
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that 99% of the universe
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is composed of dark
matter or dark energy.
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It is there, but
it cannot be seen.
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It is a scientific fact.
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We're not saying
there's stuff out there,
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we can't see it because
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we don't have big
enough telescopes.
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No.
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It is a substance or something
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that cannot at present be seen
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and we do not know what it is.
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So it is scientific
to believe in things
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that we cannot see or touch.
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Eons ago,
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there was a war
between Christ and Satan.
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And Christ and
Satan are not brothers.
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Christ is the
eternal Son of God,
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the Creator.
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If you look at
Hebrews 1:6-8 and 10,
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Hebrews Chapter 1,
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I want you to notice this verse.
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Hebrews 1:6-8,
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"But when He,"
that's God, the Father,
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"again brings the
firstborn into the world.
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He says,
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'Let all the angels
of God worship Him.'"
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When Jesus is born,
the angels worship Him.
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"And the angels He
says, 'Who makes his angels,'"
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what does it say?
"'Spirits,'" they're spirits.
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"'And his
ministers a flame of fire.'
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But to the Son, He says,
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'Your throne, O
God, is forever and ever,
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a scepter of righteous
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is the scepter
of your kingdom.'"
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And...
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talking to Christ,
"'You, Lord, in the beginning
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laid the
foundation of the earth,
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and the heavens are
the work of your hands.'"
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You Lord.
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This is a quote from Psalm 102.
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And in Psalm 102,
when it says, "You Lord,"
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the actual word is Yahweh.
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And so here,
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Jesus Christ is
actually called Yahweh.
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This is the most
awesome word in the universe
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for time and eternity.
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Y-H-W-H,
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Yahweh Elohim,
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Lord God Almighty.
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And the Father
turns to Jesus Christ
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and He says, "And you, Yahweh."
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So Jesus is called Yahweh.
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Jesus created the universe,
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but Satan was not a co-creator,
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he was a created being.
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He's created by God.
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Turn to Ezekiel 28:15, please.
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Ezekiel 28:15,
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God says,
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"You are perfect in your ways
from the day you were created
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till iniquity was found in you."
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Eons ago,
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God created this
magnificent spirit being
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whose name was Lucifer,
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means the day star.
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Ezekiel 28:12, 15,
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look at these
verses, verses 12 and 15,
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"Son of man,
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take up a lamentation
for the king of Tyre,"
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just remember
this, the king of Tyre,
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"and say to him
'Thus says the Lord God,
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'You were the
seal of perfection,
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full of wisdom and
perfect in beauty.'
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You were perfect in your ways,
from the day you were created,
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till iniquity
was found in you.'"
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And so he was perfect.
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Did God make the devil?
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No, God did not make the devil.
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God made him
sinless, beautiful angel
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who made the wrong choice.
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But this text refers to him
by the term the king of Tyre
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because behind the evil
genius of the king of Tyre
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was a supernatural spirit being,
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real power behind the throne.
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And he's the real power
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behind the throne
of every dictator.
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You know what I'm telling you?
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Full of wisdom,
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perfect in beauty,
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no pitchfork, no cloven hooves
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but a person of
extraordinary beauty,
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and the Bible
says full of wisdom,
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smarter than the
smartest human being.
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And some people say,
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"I can't believe in him
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because I can't see him."
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Ezekiel 28:13 tells us more.
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Ezekiel 28:13,
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"You were in
Eden, the garden of God.
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Every precious
stone was your covering,
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the sardius, topaz, diamond,
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beryl, onyx,
jasper, sapphire, turquoise,
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emerald with gold.
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The workmanship of
your timbrels and pipes
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was prepared for you on
the day you were created."
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He was actually,
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the Bible says
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in a very
presence of Almighty God.
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And he shone with luster.
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Amazing.
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But in contrast,
Jesus had no beginning.
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He is called Yahweh Elohim,
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He's called the self-existent,
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"I am."
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So Jesus and
Satan are not brothers.
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He is called
the covering cherub.
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Ezekiel 28:14,
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Ezekiel 28:14,
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"You were the
anointed cherub who covers,"
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right next to God.
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"I established you,
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you were on the
holy mountain of God.
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You walked back and forth
in the midst of fiery stones."
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He, God is seated on his throne.
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And standing as
the covering cherub
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spreading out his wings
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is this magnificent creature
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that is filled
with glory and beauty.
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You almost say
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God's best friend
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created in
perfection, no sin, no fault.
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So God did not create the devil,
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remember this, He
did not create the devil.
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He created a pure,
wonderful, beautiful,
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sinless being
who stood next to Him
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apparently in
authority and in power.
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And he's alive and
well on planet earth.
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Now because God loves,
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He gives to all of his children,
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the gift and power of choice.
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Now some people
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find this very, very
difficult to understand.
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And they say,
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"Why is there sin in the world?
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Why is there suffering?
Why is there a devil?"
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Listen to this.
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You cannot have
love with that freedom.
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So God was the
first person to say,
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"Let freedom reign."
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You cannot have love
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unless you have
the capacity to choose.
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So when God made us,
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He made us with
this dangerous gift.
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Some people have called
it an intolerable burden.
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We cannot carry
this, it's a burden.
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We'd rather be told what to do.
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There are people like this.
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Just tell us what to do.
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But God didn't
make us like this.
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God made us intelligent
beings with freedom of choice,
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with the capacity
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to choose good
and to choose evil.
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And thus He made Lucifer.
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That's very hard to
understand what happened.
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But I want you to notice
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Isaiah 14:12-15,
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Isaiah 14:12-15.
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I want to welcome
today our tremendous audience
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And that's how outreach now
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And if you're tuning in today,
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I just want to welcome you today
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to this Carter Report program.
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This program is
not just air and fluff.
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On this program,
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we deal with the
great fundamentals
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of human existence.
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And if you want
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Today we're talking about Satan
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and the great origin of evil.
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Why is there evil in the world?
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Why is this world in such,
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can I say it, a
hell of a situation?
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Isaiah 14:12-15, my friend,
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God says,
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"How you are fallen from heaven,
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O Lucifer,
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son of the morning!"
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Like the sun.
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"How you are cut
down to the ground,
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you who weakened the nations.
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For you have said in your heart,
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'I will ascend into heaven,
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I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God,"
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I travel,
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"I will also sit on the
mount of the congregation
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on the farthest sides the North,
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I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds,
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I will be like the Most High,
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yet you shall be
brought down to Sheol,"
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down to hell,
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"To the lowest
depths of the pit."
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This is pretty
difficult to understand
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that he, who've got
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a totally sinless,
magnificent creature,
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not flesh and bones,
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but a being
like this dark matter
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and this dark energy.
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We now know it
is the dark energy
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that drives the
expansion of the universe,
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that makes it
possible first to even exist,
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incomprehensible power.
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And sometimes,
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we will meet
people who will say,
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"I can't believe in God
because I can't see him."
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Come on, let's get real.
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I can't believe in this
because I don't understand it.
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How much do we understand?
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Not 1/10th of 1/10th of
1 billionth of a billionth.
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And so here is this
magnificent creature
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made in the image of God,
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and in some way
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into his soul,
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there came a thirst
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and a lust for power.
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He was beautiful.
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He was the leader
of a trillion angels.
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And I guess they told him,
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"Lucifer,
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you're absolutely magnificent."
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And after a bit he started
to believe the compliments.
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Something got inside his soul.
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Vanity and pride,
where did it come from?
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I do not understand it.
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But God made him
with the capacity
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to choose good and evil as
He's given to you and to me.
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He wanted to be like God,
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not in character,
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not in character, no cross fame,
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not in character but in power,
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hence the origin of evil.
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Evil goes back to this being,
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Lucifer, who
became Satan or Satan.
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If you look at 14:4, it
is of great significance
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because God is talking
here to the king of Babylon,
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"That you take up this proverb
against the king of Babylon,
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and say, 'How the
oppressor has ceased,
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the Golden City ceased.'"
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Now listen,
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this is the chapter
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that is talking about Lucifer
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because behind
the king of Babylon,
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there was a supernatural power
00:20:20.55\00:20:24.29
behind the king of Babylon.
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It was Lucifer
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calling the shots.
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Do you think the king knew?
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"In the throne of
Babylon stood to Lucifer,
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the king of Babylon
had a lust for power,
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authority,
conquest, and territory."
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What's new?
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He had the character of Lucifer,
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the day star, the shining one.
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There, I said,
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he is
reminiscent of some leaders
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in the world today
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who want power,
glory, authority,
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they're not
there for the people,
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they are there for themselves.
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You know it's true.
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They are the great liars.
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What's wrong with telling a lie?
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If you're a liar, you
are a son of the devil.
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The great liars
and the boasters,
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the great lovers of
money, and the lovers of power.
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Oh, everybody loves money,
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yes, especially the devil.
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They are, the Bible says,
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listen to this,
"Little antichrists."
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Bible said many antichrists.
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The so great
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were the
persuasive powers of Lucifer,
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he charmed
one-third of the angels.
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He was the original con artist.
00:21:56.85\00:22:00.58
You know what it means,
con artist, a confidence man.
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A confident man is a
person who gets your confidence,
00:22:03.89\00:22:08.02
a charmer,
00:22:10.99\00:22:12.69
a smooth talker.
00:22:12.73\00:22:15.16
He was the
original smooth talker
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and slippery salesman.
00:22:20.80\00:22:23.91
And the Bible says,
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"One-third of the
supernatural beings
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that excelled in power and glory
00:22:28.68\00:22:33.85
believed the lie,
00:22:33.88\00:22:35.22
and they joined up."
00:22:40.29\00:22:41.62
I say, "Beware
the smooth talker."
00:22:41.66\00:22:47.66
The Bible says he
tempted our first parents.
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He got into the garden.
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It sinned before Adam and Eve,
00:22:52.57\00:22:55.44
and he was there
waiting for them.
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Genesis 3:1-3,
00:22:57.37\00:22:59.14
Genesis 3:1-3,
00:22:59.17\00:23:00.81
"Now the serpent
was more cunning,"
00:23:00.84\00:23:02.64
this is Lucifer,
00:23:02.68\00:23:04.18
"was more cunning
than any beast of the field
00:23:04.21\00:23:06.31
which the Lord God had made.
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He said to the
woman, 'Has God indeed said,
00:23:08.52\00:23:10.89
'You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden'?
00:23:10.92\00:23:14.56
And the woman
said to the serpent,
00:23:14.59\00:23:16.09
'We may eat the fruit
of the trees of the garden,
00:23:16.12\00:23:18.79
but the fruit of the tree,
00:23:18.83\00:23:20.16
which is in the
midst of the garden,
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God has said,
00:23:22.06\00:23:24.23
'You shall not eat it,
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nor shall you
touch it, lest you die.'"
00:23:25.63\00:23:28.44
God said here is a test,
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you can have
everything your heart desires,
00:23:30.74\00:23:34.71
but this, you cannot have.
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And verse 4, Genesis 3:4,
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"Then the serpent," Lucifer,
00:23:44.72\00:23:47.86
"said to the woman,
'You will not surely die.
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God's a liar.'"
00:23:50.36\00:23:54.06
The great liar calls
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the Creator of
the universe a liar.
00:23:57.57\00:24:00.44
You're a liar, God is a liar.
00:24:00.47\00:24:04.51
He knows you'll be better off.
00:24:04.54\00:24:08.91
Verse 5 says,
00:24:08.94\00:24:11.98
but God knows this
is the serpent talking,
00:24:12.01\00:24:15.18
"For God knows that
in the day you eat of it
00:24:15.22\00:24:17.95
your eyes will be opened,
00:24:17.99\00:24:19.85
and you will be like God,
00:24:19.89\00:24:22.32
knowing good and evil."
00:24:22.36\00:24:24.06
God is holding out on you.
00:24:24.09\00:24:25.73
What sort of God is this?
00:24:28.76\00:24:31.23
God who love? I don't think so.
00:24:31.27\00:24:33.23
Sin is good.
00:24:33.27\00:24:37.47
Fornication is
good, adultery is good,
00:24:37.51\00:24:41.44
the lust for power is good,
00:24:41.48\00:24:44.58
lying is good,
00:24:44.61\00:24:48.18
it's all good.
00:24:48.22\00:24:49.58
And if you'll eat of it,
00:24:49.62\00:24:51.72
you'll be better off,
00:24:51.75\00:24:54.02
and you'll be like God.
00:24:54.06\00:24:56.32
And the little lady
00:24:59.56\00:25:02.46
and her husband
00:25:02.50\00:25:06.90
used the capacity of this gift
00:25:06.94\00:25:09.24
that God has given
to every one of us,
00:25:09.27\00:25:12.34
freedom of choice,
00:25:12.37\00:25:13.71
and they said,
"That sounds good to me."
00:25:13.74\00:25:16.18
When they made that choice,
00:25:19.88\00:25:23.85
they opened the door.
00:25:23.89\00:25:27.46
And outside the door,
00:25:27.49\00:25:29.22
there was a tsunami,
00:25:29.26\00:25:30.96
and the flood came in.
00:25:35.03\00:25:36.36
We're going to talk about that
00:25:39.53\00:25:42.04
in our next segment.
00:25:42.07\00:25:43.41
We're talking today about Satan,
00:25:43.44\00:25:47.84
Lucifer,
00:25:47.88\00:25:49.68
the origin of evil
00:25:49.71\00:25:52.38
and why there is
so much suffering
00:25:52.41\00:25:54.95
in the world today.
00:25:54.98\00:25:56.32
And most importantly,
00:25:56.35\00:25:58.35
what is God
going to do about it?
00:25:58.39\00:26:01.56
And what should I do?
00:26:01.59\00:26:04.26
Stay with me,
00:26:04.29\00:26:06.06
and we'll be back for Satan.
00:26:06.09\00:26:09.03
This is my 43rd visit
00:26:28.65\00:26:31.62
to preach the everlasting gospel
00:26:35.02\00:26:37.73
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:26:37.76\00:26:39.29
And they had smoke
bombs and they had fire bombs,
00:26:49.50\00:26:52.71
and the Russian army had
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00:26:52.74\00:26:55.44
I come here, my
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