I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
Capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in Soweto.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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In today's lesson,
John Carter guides us
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through "The Origin
and the End of Evil."
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The topic today is
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"The Origin and
the End of Evil."
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After 9/11, some philosophers
in North America said,
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"Hey, maybe
there's evil in the world."
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They said, "Maybe
there's bad in the world."
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Well, of course, you
see, if there's no God,
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if you're going to
be absolutely logical.
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If there's no God,
then there's no good either.
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And today we're
going to talk about
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the origin of evil
and the end of evil.
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We're going to
answer the question,
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"Are there evil spirits?"
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Are there beings who
are actually in existence
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who are evil spirits?"
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You know who a philosopher
is or what a philosopher is?
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It has been said that
a philosopher is a man
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who was in a round room
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and has got no
windows, and has got no doors,
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and has got no light either.
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And so, here's this
man in this round room,
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no doors, no windows, no light,
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and no sight,
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and he's looking for a cat.
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He's looking for a
cat that doesn't exist.
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That's what a
philosopher really is.
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A person who is grasping
and trying to find something
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and he has no
real sense of reality.
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I believe today that we need
an infallible source of truth.
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Something you can depend on.
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And I believe this is it.
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The Bible, or the Word of God.
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We believe it is not
man's word, it is God's Word.
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I want you to take your
Bibles please and turn with me
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to the Prophet Ezekiel 28:12-13,
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please.
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We're going to
have a lot of text.
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We're gonna talk today about
the origin and the end of evil.
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Ezekiel 28 verse...
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Let me see verse 12.
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You got it?
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"Son of man..."
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Listen to the text.
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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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Verse 13, which
seems completely absurd.
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It says, "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, and diamond,
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beryl, onyx, and jasper,
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sapphire,
turquoise, emerald with gold.
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The workmanship of your timbrels
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and pipes was prepared for you
on the day you were created."
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And this... Listen, bit amazing.
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Because it's
talking about a being
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who was in the very presence
of God in the Eden of God.
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And He was a perfect being
from the day he was created
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and calls Him the King of Tyre.
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Have you read this text before?
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The king of Tyre
was a human being.
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But the person we're
talking about in this text
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is not a human being.
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Because behind the king of Tyre
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was an evil spirit,
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who was made, not
as an evil spirit,
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but a great personality,
who was made by God.
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Look at Ezekiel
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28:14-15.
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And we're going to
read down the page,
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a little bit, verse 14 and 15.
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"You were the
anointed cherub who covers."
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So this person is an
angel, behind the king of Tyre.
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I wonder why the
world is in such a mess.
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Because behind many
rulers are evil spirits.
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Hey...
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"You are in the
holy mountain of God,
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you walked back and forth
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in the midst of
fiery stones," it says.
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I mean, this is
sort outstanding.
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Verse 15,
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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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Behind the king of Tyre,
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as behind many of the
rulers in this world today
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is an evil spirit.
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And this being was in
the very presence of God.
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Once upon a time, the
Bible says he was perfect,
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he was sinless,
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and this sinless
being was made by God.
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People say, "Then God
must have made the devil."
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No, God didn't make the devil.
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The devil by his
own choice made himself.
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And the devil once
upon a time was a beautiful,
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wonderful, majestic,
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overwhelmingly intelligent,
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supernatural being.
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Look at verse 17.
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It says, "Your
heart was lifted up
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because of your beauty."
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I can't understand that.
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"You corrupted your wisdom
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for the sake of your splendor.
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I cast you to the
ground, I laid you before kings,
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that they might gaze upon you."
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This is inexplicable.
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I can't understand this.
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So I have some idiom.
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It is unexplainable,
if there is such a word.
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This is mysterious.
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Here is a, ladies and gentlemen,
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a cherub angel,
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a spirit being of immense power,
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a created being
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who was to challenge the
power of God, the Creator.
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We had a beginning.
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God in the scriptures in
the Old Testament is called
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by Tetragrammaton,
which is the word Yahweh.
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This is the most sacred
word in all of creation,
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even if you go
outside our galaxy.
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There's no word that
equals this word, Y-H-W-H.
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This is the word
for the self existent
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Almighty God.
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He doesn't live in
time, time lives in Him.
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Where did He come from?
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He's always there,
existed before time.
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And the Bible tells us
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that this
Almighty God made of being
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and we shall discover His name.
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God's name
means, "I am that I am."
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The self-existent.
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The Almighty One.
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This great angel
whom Yahweh Elohim
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created has a name.
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And if you turn with
me to Isaiah 14:12-14,
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you find here the name of
this created spirit being.
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Now God is a
spirit, but God was never,
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never created unlike this being.
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Isaiah 14:12 and onwards.
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"How you are
fallen from heaven, O..."
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What does this say?
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"Lucifer, son of the morning!
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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 will sit also on the
mount of the congregation,
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on the farthest
sides of the north.
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I will ascend above
the height of the clouds.
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I will be like the Most High."
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There was this tremendous being
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who was created eons ago,
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who somehow got
into his tremendous mind.
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The lustful thought that
not only would he be like God,
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not in character but in power.
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Not only would
he become like God,
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but he would overthrow God.
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And he would rule the world
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and the universe
and other universes.
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His name is Lucifer,
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the shining one,
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the daystar,
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the great deceiver.
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Now let me give you some
stuff which is very strong,
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which is very marvelous
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and it's wonderful
and it's scientific.
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Listen, just because someone
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or something cannot be
seen doesn't mean that mass
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or energy does not exist
in a real and powerful way.
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Did you know this,
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that 95% of the universe
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is composed of dark
matter or dark energy?
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We could not exist without it.
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To this point of time,
nobody knows what it is.
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Now we're not talking
about clouds or darkness,
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we're not talking about that.
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I want you to think
of the Milky Way system.
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Vast, huge,
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composed of a
hundred thousand million
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blazing suns with a
great black hole in the center.
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Then we know there are billions
of galaxies in the universe.
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NASA has pointed
out that the universe
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is now 10 times bigger
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and is made up of
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2 trillion galaxies,
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not stars.
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But systems like
the Milky Way system,
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vast, huge
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and it can be
seen with telescopes,
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optical or radio telescopes.
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It can be seen.
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We can quickly
put pictures of it
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on the screen.
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But that is only...
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That is less than
5% of the universe,
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because the rest of
the universe cannot be seen
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because it's
composed of a substance
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that we cannot understand.
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How little we know.
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But this substance is called
dark matter and dark energy,
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but we know it's there
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because it exerts a force.
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Gravity reacts to it.
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The universe is
expanding like this
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because of the dark energy
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that lives on the
edges of the universe
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and drives the universe.
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We would not be here.
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Therefore, more
than 95% of the universe
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is not the stuff
that you can see.
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It is the stuff
that cannot be seen.
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Who believes this?
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Because everybody does.
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But there's another
universe, cannot be seen.
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In the same way,
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there is an unseen world,
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not just invisible,
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that creatures,
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spirit beings
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that are real and alive,
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have mass and have energy
and can do amazing things.
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I have to smile when I read,
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talk to cynics,
which I do all the time.
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And they say,
"Well, we couldn't believe
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in anything we couldn't see."
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Come on, wake up,
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get out of the dark ages.
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There is an unseen
world of spirit beings.
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Look at Hebrews 1:14, please.
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Hebrews 1:14.
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It says, speaking
of the good angels,
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and get that, the good angels.
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"Are they not all
ministering spirits
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sent forth to minister
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for those who will
inherit salvation?"
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These are the good angels,
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but they are spirits.
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You know, they
are here, don't you?
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In this television studio,
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Southern California.
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They are here.
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And the Bible teaches
there are good spirits
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and there are evil spirits.
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And today we're talking about
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the origin and the end of evil.
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And the Bible says,
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that behind the king of Tyre
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was a mighty evil spirit.
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Now we're not gonna talk
about world leaders, are we?
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But when you see
what's happening in the world
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and in some nations,
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you're tempted to say,
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"Is this man or is this person
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being controlled
like the king of Tyre
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by an evil spirit?"
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We're going to talk
today about these evil spirits,
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what they're doing in the world
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and what is
going to happen to them
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at the very end.
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Come with me to the apocalypse
that is the Book of Revelation,
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dear hearts and gentle people.
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Revelation 12:7 and onwards.
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"And war broke out in heaven."
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You know, we went no further,
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this verse is enough
to take your breath away.
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And so evil
started not in this planet,
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but started in heaven.
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And this is not just
referring to the atmosphere,
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this is referring
to the third heaven
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in the very paradise of God.
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War broke out it says.
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"War broke out in heaven.
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Michael..."
another name for Christ,
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"and His angels," his spirits,
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"fought with the dragon."
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This is Lucifer.
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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,
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called the Devil and
Satan, who deceives..."
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What does it say?
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It says, "The whole world."
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So the whole
world is being deceived.
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He deceives the whole world.
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And then the Bible says,
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"He was cast to
the earth, and..."
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Now there you've got it.
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"And his angels," these spirits,
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"were cast out with him."
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The Bible says,
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very, very long time ago,
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in a way that we
cannot comprehend,
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we're just little kids playing
around here on the seashore.
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The Bible tells us that
they broke out in heaven
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a tremendous war.
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And this being who had stood
in the very presence of God
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and who shun with
a luster of the stars
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with a mighty mind,
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after God with the
greatest intellect,
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and he led a rebellion
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because he was not content
to be the covering cherub.
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He said, "I will be like God."
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And so long time ago,
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evil started in heaven.
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What was this war like?
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I don't think there was anything
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like we can imagine.
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For us to try to
understand it today,
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it'd be like
comparing cyber warfare
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with bows and arrows.
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The people few hundred
years ago with bows and arrows
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will not
understand cyber warfare.
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We do know that this
war involved millions,
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even billions of
powerful spirit beings,
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unseen by us like dark
matter and dark energy,
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but nevertheless, very real.
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And the Bible says,
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they will cast
down to the Earth.
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Now for many, many years,
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as I studied
the geologic column,
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which of course, is a fact.
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If you go and if you look
at all the layers of the earth,
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you'll find that,
embedded in the layers
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there are specimens.
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And when you see
the beautiful flowers,
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that's easy to understand.
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But in this column,
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you find creatures
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that are hideous and vicious,
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such as T-Rex,
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this guy here on the screen.
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And people,
especially Christians
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have been perplexed by this.
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I know my own
mother was, totally...
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She'd say, "John,
why did God make T-Rex?"
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My question was, why
did God make the devil?
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He didn't.
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I believe that God made life.
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And I believe that
there was a mastermind,
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master geneticist.
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And this great
mastermind, in His laboratories,
00:20:13.54\00:20:19.78
these supernatural laboratories
bred these dreadful creatures.
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I believe the geologic column
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is the evidence of evil
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working in the world.
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Going back a long, long time,
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he took the life
that God had created
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and gave it a twist.
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Now I want you to remember this,
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if you remember nothing else.
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God is the author of goodness.
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Satan or Satan,
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Lucifer, is the author
of death, cancer, pain,
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suffering, and sorrow, not God.
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Take your Bible please
and come to Matthew 13:27-28.
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And Jesus talked about it.
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Jesus, the man who
came from another world,
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another universe.
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Matthew 13:27-28,
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look at it in the Word of God.
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Get your Bible,
follow me in the Bible.
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Verse 27,
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"So the servant of the
owner came and said to him,
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Sir, did you not sow
good seed in your field?''
00:21:38.56\00:21:43.60
This is the parable Jesus gave.
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"How then does it have tares?"
00:21:46.70\00:21:50.37
Why is there bad in the world?
00:21:50.41\00:21:53.31
Why is there evil in the world?
00:21:53.34\00:21:56.11
"He said to them,
00:21:56.14\00:21:58.85
"An enemy has done this.
00:21:58.88\00:22:01.55
The servants said to
him, do you want us then to go
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and gather them up?"
00:22:04.35\00:22:07.32
Jesus said,
00:22:07.36\00:22:09.79
"It'll be a great mistake
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to a tribute to the Creator,
00:22:13.46\00:22:16.87
the work of the enemy."
00:22:16.90\00:22:20.44
And so in the geologic column,
other things in the world,
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we see the hand
00:22:26.81\00:22:30.71
of the great
manipulator of genes.
00:22:30.75\00:22:34.68
And the Bible says,
00:22:34.72\00:22:36.72
"He's alive and well."
00:22:36.75\00:22:41.16
Now we come to the
most perplexing question
00:22:41.19\00:22:44.13
that one can ever ask.
00:22:44.16\00:22:46.70
Why does a good
God permit suffering?
00:22:46.73\00:22:52.10
If God is Almighty, why tell me,
00:22:52.13\00:22:56.64
somebody tell me,
00:22:56.67\00:22:58.31
why does God permit suffering?
00:22:58.34\00:23:01.31
I want you to take your Bible
00:23:01.34\00:23:02.68
and come with me to the
first book in the Bible,
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Book of Genesis that
explains all other mysteries.
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Genesis 3:1 and onwards.
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Genesis 3:1 and onwards.
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The Bible says, "Now the serpent
00:23:16.29\00:23:18.33
was more
cunning," this is Satan,
00:23:18.36\00:23:20.23
"than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made.
00:23:20.26\00:23:23.20
He said to the
woman, has God indeed said,
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you shall not eat of
every tree of the garden?
00:23:25.07\00:23:27.70
And the woman
said to the serpent,
00:23:27.74\00:23:29.07
we may eat the fruit of
the trees of the garden,
00:23:29.10\00:23:31.47
but of the fruit of the tree
00:23:31.51\00:23:32.91
which is in the
midst of the garden.
00:23:32.94\00:23:34.71
God has said,
you shall not eat it,
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nor shall you touch it,
00:23:36.64\00:23:37.98
lest you die.
00:23:38.01\00:23:40.25
Then the serpent
said to the woman,
00:23:40.28\00:23:41.85
you will not surely die."
00:23:41.88\00:23:43.25
God is a liar.
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"For God knows that
in the day you eat of it
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your eyes will be opened,
00:23:47.49\00:23:49.39
and you will be like
God," like he wanted to be,
00:23:49.42\00:23:52.66
"knowing good and evil.
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So when the woman saw
00:23:54.26\00:23:55.60
that the tree was good for food,
00:23:55.63\00:23:57.67
and that it was
pleasant to the eyes,
00:23:57.70\00:23:59.80
and a tree
desirable to make one wise,
00:23:59.83\00:24:02.60
she took of its fruit and ate.
00:24:02.64\00:24:04.67
She also gave to
her husband with her,
00:24:04.71\00:24:07.18
and he ate.
00:24:07.21\00:24:08.54
Then the eyes of
both of them were opened,
00:24:08.58\00:24:10.85
and they knew
that they were naked,
00:24:10.88\00:24:12.61
and they sewed
fig leaves together
00:24:12.65\00:24:14.65
and made themselves coverings."
00:24:14.68\00:24:17.42
Now this talks
about the original
00:24:17.45\00:24:21.02
sin in the Garden of
Eden, not the original sin
00:24:21.06\00:24:22.89
because it had happened
previously with Lucifer.
00:24:22.92\00:24:25.96
But look at verse 18 and 19.
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Verse 18 and 19.
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"Both thorns and thistles
it shall bring forth for you,
00:24:33.90\00:24:38.04
and you shall eat
the herb of the field.
00:24:38.07\00:24:40.21
In the sweat of your
face you shall eat bread
00:24:40.24\00:24:43.78
till you return to the earth,
00:24:43.81\00:24:45.68
for out of it you were taken,
00:24:45.71\00:24:47.42
for dust you are and
to dust you shall return."
00:24:47.45\00:24:51.62
Listen carefully.
00:24:51.65\00:24:54.22
God gonna stopped it.
00:24:54.26\00:24:58.76
But He couldn't have been God.
00:24:58.79\00:25:00.46
Love is a choice.
00:25:03.73\00:25:08.30
You can't love unless
you got freedom of will.
00:25:08.34\00:25:13.78
And so God took...
00:25:13.81\00:25:17.65
If one were using
this human thought,
00:25:17.68\00:25:21.15
God took the
greatest possible risk.
00:25:21.18\00:25:24.82
And He gave to the angels,
00:25:24.85\00:25:27.29
and He gave to every one of us
00:25:27.32\00:25:30.09
the gift of choice
00:25:30.13\00:25:33.70
or else we would
have been robots.
00:25:33.73\00:25:38.70
And robots can't love you.
00:25:38.73\00:25:43.71
Today, we're talking about
the origin and the end of evil.
00:25:43.74\00:25:49.81
We're talking
about evil spirits.
00:25:49.84\00:25:54.75
And we'll be back very soon
00:25:54.78\00:25:58.09
as we continue this
amazing presentation.
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Hello, friend. I'm John Carter.
00:26:20.14\00:26:22.58
Behind me is the
great city of Manila,
00:26:22.61\00:26:26.75
the Capital of the Philippines.
00:26:26.78\00:26:28.95
Did you know
this is quite amazing?
00:26:28.98\00:26:30.85
There are more
people living in this area
00:26:30.89\00:26:33.05
than in New York City.
00:26:33.09\00:26:35.09
And Christ died
for these people.
00:26:35.12\00:26:37.89
We came here, oh, long time ago,
00:26:37.93\00:26:40.63
back in 1984.
00:26:40.66\00:26:43.97
What's that, 34, 35 years ago.
00:26:44.00\00:26:46.87
And we came here with
a team of young people
00:26:46.90\00:26:49.20
and we came to the PICC.
00:26:49.24\00:26:52.34
It is our intent to come here,
00:26:52.37\00:26:54.71
hire the biggest
hall that's available,
00:26:54.74\00:26:56.85
the greatest outdoor
stadium, whatever it takes.
00:26:56.88\00:27:01.22
You've got more than
20 million souls out here.
00:27:01.25\00:27:06.19
And I say it again,
00:27:06.22\00:27:07.56
these are people
for whom Christ died.
00:27:07.59\00:27:10.26
I'm asking you to pray
00:27:10.29\00:27:11.63
for the people
of the Philippines.
00:27:11.66\00:27:13.90
Please pray for the
people here in Metro Manila.
00:27:13.93\00:27:17.67
And please write
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00:27:17.70\00:27:20.17
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We're back in Manila
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