(MUSIC) 00:00:00.36\00:00:45.86 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:00:45.86\00:00:49.80 HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE 00:00:49.80\00:00:53.26 TUNING IN, WHETHER YOU'RE WATCHING LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE AT 00:00:53.26\00:00:56.70 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', LISTENING ON THE RADIO, OR ON THE VARIOUS 00:00:56.70\00:01:01.36 TELEVISION NETWORKS - HOWEVER YOU'RE JOINING US WE'RE SO GLAD. 00:01:01.36\00:01:04.90 AND TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION, WE SING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AND 00:01:04.90\00:01:08.90 I HOPE YOU HAVE HAD A GOOD WEEK AND ARE READY TO SING WITH US 00:01:08.90\00:01:12.13 BECAUSE WE'RE ALL WARMED UP AND WE'RE READY TO GO HERE. 00:01:12.13\00:01:14.93 AND, OF COURSE, TODAY WE'RE GOING TO SING MY FAVORITE - 00:01:14.93\00:01:19.40 WE'LL SING THAT AS THE NEXT SONG, 'SILENT NIGHT' - BUT WE'RE 00:01:19.40\00:01:23.56 GOING TO START WITH 'ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH' - #142. 00:01:23.56\00:01:27.66 SO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS, THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, AND JOIN 00:01:27.66\00:01:30.23 WITH US HERE. 'ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH' - WE'RE GOING TO 00:01:30.23\00:01:33.30 SING THE FIRST, SECOND AND FOURTH STANZAS - #142. 00:01:33.30\00:01:39.96 (MUSIC) 00:01:39.96\00:01:41.00 >>THANK YOU ANDREA, BIANCA, ELINA, AND DIMITAR IN BULGARIA, 00:04:04.36\00:04:09.26 TONY IN GHANA, MERIN IN IRELAND AND JUDY IN SAINT KITTS 00:04:09.26\00:04:12.80 AND NEVIS AND MANY MORE FOR CHOOSING THEIR FAVORITE 00:04:12.80\00:04:15.16 CHRISTMAS SONG. AND IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE 00:04:15.16\00:04:18.53 TO SING WITH US ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT'S SO SIMPLE. 00:04:18.53\00:04:21.73 JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 00:04:21.73\00:04:24.36 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE SONG AND 00:04:24.36\00:04:27.63 WE WILL SING THAT WITH YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM. OUR NEXT ONE 00:04:27.63\00:04:32.70 - THIS IS FROM NOEL AND MARGARET IN AUSTRALIA, MARIAN IN NEW 00:04:32.70\00:04:36.73 ZEALAND, BETSY IN PANAMA, AND ROSELYN, NAOMI, NATHAN, NATASHA, 00:04:36.73\00:04:40.76 AND RACHEL IN VANUATU AND A WHOLE BUNCH MORE AND MYSELF. 00:04:40.76\00:04:47.10 'SILENT NIGHT' - WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL FOUR STANZAS - #143. 00:04:47.10\00:04:51.93 (MUSIC) 00:04:51.93\00:04:52.83 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING IN 'SILENT NIGHT'. AT THIS TIME 00:08:18.10\00:08:23.33 I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE PRAY. 00:08:23.33\00:08:27.80 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 00:08:27.80\00:08:31.66 THANK YOU FOR GIVING UP THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN AND COMING 00:08:31.66\00:08:37.00 DOWN HERE TO THIS WORLD WHERE YOU KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO BE 00:08:37.00\00:08:41.43 MISTREATED, MISUNDERSTOOD, AND CRUCIFIED. BUT YOU GAVE IT ALL 00:08:41.43\00:08:46.60 UP BECAUSE YOU LOVE US AND I PRAY THAT OUR HEARTS WILL BE 00:08:46.60\00:08:52.16 OVERFLOWING WITH THAT LOVE TODAY FOR YOU THAT YOU HAVE FOR US. 00:08:52.16\00:08:58.10 BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. 00:08:58.10\00:09:01.13 BE WITH PASTOR DOUG AS HE BRINGS US THE LESSON STUDY AND THANK 00:09:01.13\00:09:05.03 YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL SABBATH DAY. 00:09:05.03\00:09:07.00 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS 00:09:07.00\00:09:11.70 GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 00:09:11.70\00:09:14.53 HE IS OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL 00:09:14.53\00:09:17.06 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:09:17.06\00:09:23.70 >>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND OUR MUSICIANS. 00:09:23.70\00:09:26.80 AND IT'S ALWAYS A NICE TIME OF YEAR WHEN WE GET TO SING THOSE 00:09:26.80\00:09:31.33 BEAUTIFUL SONGS THAT ARE SO CLASSIC AND ENDURING. 00:09:31.33\00:09:34.63 HOW IS EVERYBODY? DID YOU SURVIVE THANKSGIVING 00:09:34.63\00:09:38.36 OKAY? ANYONE HAVE LEFTOVERS LEFTOVER? 00:09:38.36\00:09:45.23 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS - OF COURSE, THIS IS BROADCASTING 00:09:45.23\00:09:47.03 A FEW WEEKS AFTER THANKSGIVING, BUT FOR US HERE IT JUST HAPPENED 00:09:47.03\00:09:51.33 AND I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO MIGHT BE STUDYING WITH US. 00:09:51.33\00:09:54.26 WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ONLINE MEMBERS - WE WELCOME YOU. 00:09:54.26\00:09:56.70 AND THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE INTERESTED IN - 00:09:56.70\00:09:58.93 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 00:09:58.93\00:10:00.30 WE HAVE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WHO HAVE NO LOCAL CHURCH THEY 00:10:00.30\00:10:02.96 CAN ATTEND, FOR SOME REASON, AND SO THROUGH EITHER THE INTERNET 00:10:02.96\00:10:05.90 OR SATELLITE THEY'VE BECOME SOME OF THE ONLINE MEMBERS OF 00:10:05.90\00:10:09.03 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT YOU 00:10:09.03\00:10:12.20 CAN GO TO 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND THERE'LL BE SOME INFORMATION 00:10:12.20\00:10:16.56 THERE ON HOW YOU CAN BE PART OF OUR FAMILY AS WELL AS WE CAN DO 00:10:16.56\00:10:21.20 IT THROUGH THE INTERNET. AND WE ARE GOING TO BE GETTING 00:10:21.20\00:10:25.30 INTO OUR LESSON IN JUST A MOMENT. 00:10:25.30\00:10:26.93 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY AND 00:10:26.93\00:10:29.96 THIS IS FROM THE SERIES CALLED 'STORACLES OF PROPHECY'. 00:10:29.96\00:10:34.03 IF YOU WANT THIS, CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN 00:10:34.03\00:10:36.10 866-STUDY-MORE - YOU'LL REALLY ENJOY IT - 866-STUDY-MORE AND 00:10:36.10\00:10:40.60 ASK FOR OFFER #804 AND THAT NUMBER IS 788-3966. 00:10:40.60\00:10:48.56 WE'RE CONTINUING - WE'RE ON LESSON 12 IN THE STUDY ON THE 00:10:48.56\00:10:51.30 SANCTUARY AND TODAY'S LESSON, IN PARTICULAR, IS DEALING WITH THE 00:10:51.30\00:10:55.90 COSMIC CONFLICT OVER GOD'S CHARACTER. 00:10:55.90\00:10:59.20 THE SANCTUARY IS DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF GOD'S GOODNESS 00:10:59.20\00:11:07.46 AND HIS EFFORTS TO REDEEM A MAN FROM BADNESS. 00:11:07.46\00:11:11.90 THERE IS A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 00:11:11.90\00:11:15.43 YOU KNOW, ONE THING I NOTICED IS - I WAS NOT ALWAYS A CHRISTIAN 00:11:15.43\00:11:19.60 OR A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN, AND I WORSHIPED WITH 00:11:19.60\00:11:23.56 A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS, BUT EVEN BEFORE I 00:11:23.56\00:11:26.90 WAS A CHRISTIAN I WAS INVOLVED IN BUDDHISM, YOGA, 00:11:26.90\00:11:32.83 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION, SYLVAN MIND CONTROL - 00:11:32.83\00:11:37.73 I MEAN, I WAS DABBLING IN ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS - 00:11:37.73\00:11:40.70 HINDUISM - YOU KNOW, BACK IN THE BEATLES' ERA THE EASTERN 00:11:40.70\00:11:43.80 RELIGIONS WERE THE THING. SOME OF YOU REMEMBER. 00:11:43.80\00:11:46.23 AND SO WE WERE EXPLORING THAT, READING THE BOG DIVIDA, 00:11:46.23\00:11:49.73 SIDDHARTHA AND ALL THOSE BOOKS, TRYING TO LEARN HOW TO BE AT ONE 00:11:49.73\00:11:52.30 AND I EVEN GOT INVOLVED IN SOME OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIONS 00:11:52.30\00:11:56.83 AND ONE THING I NOTICED WITH VIRTUALLY EVERY RELIGION, THEY 00:11:56.83\00:12:01.90 ALL RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 00:12:01.90\00:12:07.13 THEY CALL IT THE GOOD SPIRIT AND THE BAD SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT OF 00:12:07.13\00:12:10.53 LIGHT AND THE SPIRIT OF DARKNESS, THE GREAT SPIRIT AND 00:12:10.53\00:12:14.76 THE SPIRIT OF EVIL, CHRIST AND THE DEVIL, SATAN AND GOD, I 00:12:14.76\00:12:20.26 MEAN, IT JUST SEEMED LIKE EVERYONE RECOGNIZED THAT THERE 00:12:20.26\00:12:22.70 IS A BATTLE IN THIS WORLD BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND 00:12:22.70\00:12:26.43 EVIL AND THE BIBLE BEARS THAT OUT AS WELL. 00:12:26.43\00:12:29.93 NOW THE BIG QUESTION THAT PEOPLE WANT TO UNDERSTAND: 'IF GOD IS 00:12:29.93\00:12:36.63 ALL-POWERFUL AND IF GOD MADE ALL THINGS, AND IF GOD CREATED 00:12:36.63\00:12:40.83 EVERYTHING, THEN HE MUST HAVE MADE A DEVIL.' 00:12:40.83\00:12:44.83 AND PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND. NO, GOD DID NOT MAKE A DEVIL. 00:12:44.83\00:12:49.30 'WELL, IF GOD'S IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING.' GOD ISN'T 00:12:49.30\00:12:53.40 IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING. NOW IT DOESN'T MEAN HE CAN'T BE. 00:12:53.40\00:12:58.00 THAT MEANS GOD HAS LAWS AND HE ALLOWS CERTAIN THINGS TO HAPPEN. 00:12:58.00\00:13:02.90 HE ALLOWS HIS INTELLIGENT CREATURES TO HAVE A WILL AND 00:13:02.90\00:13:06.53 THEY MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES AND THEN THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES OF 00:13:06.53\00:13:10.76 THOSE CHOICES. WHY DO WE PRAY IN THE LORD'S 00:13:10.76\00:13:13.70 PRAYER, 'THY WILL BE DONE'? IS GOD'S WILL ALWAYS DONE? 00:13:13.70\00:13:18.30 IF GOD'S WILL IS ALWAYS DONE THEN WHY DO WE PRAY THAT? 00:13:18.30\00:13:21.30 GOD'S WILL IS NOT ALWAYS DONE. PEOPLE CHOOSE TO DO THEIR OWN 00:13:21.30\00:13:25.20 WILL AND SOMETIMES, INSTEAD OF LOVE, PEOPLE CHOOSE SELFISHNESS. 00:13:25.20\00:13:30.50 AND SO THERE'S THIS TENSION. THERE'S A CONFLICT BETWEEN GOOD 00:13:30.50\00:13:33.36 AND EVIL IN THE WORLD AND OUR LESSON DELVES INTO THAT TODAY 00:13:33.36\00:13:37.30 WITH A LITTLE BIT OF THE BACKGROUND OR THE BACKDROP OF 00:13:37.30\00:13:40.56 THE SANCTUARY TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THAT. 00:13:40.56\00:13:43.16 WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE: REVELATION 16, VERSE 7, AND YOU 00:13:43.16\00:13:46.96 CAN FIND THAT EITHER IN YOUR LESSON OR IN YOUR BIBLE - IT'S 00:13:46.96\00:13:49.90 RIGHT THERE AT THE TOP OF LESSON 12. REVELATION 16:7 - 00:13:49.90\00:13:53.10 I APPRECIATE IF YOU WANT TO SAY IT WITH ME. I THINK THIS IS 00:13:53.10\00:13:55.43 OUT OF THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. ARE YOU READY? 00:13:55.43\00:13:59.23 "AND I HEARD ANOTHER VOICE" - I'M SORRY - "AND I HEARD ANOTHER 00:13:59.23\00:14:04.66 OUT OF THE ALTAR SAY, 'EVEN SO, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, TRUE AND 00:14:04.66\00:14:09.93 RIGHTEOUS ARE YOUR JUDGMENTS.'" AND SO, FROM THE ALTAR A 00:14:09.93\00:14:15.06 DECLARATION IS MADE: 'TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE THY JUDGEMENTS.' 00:14:15.06\00:14:19.10 ALRIGHT, WELL THERE IS A REVOLT IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. 00:14:19.10\00:14:23.10 NOW WHEN WE SAY SANCTUARY, THE WORDS TABERNACLE AND SANCTUARY 00:14:23.10\00:14:29.50 ARE USED A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS IN THE BIBLE. 00:14:29.50\00:14:32.26 YOUR BODY IS CALLED THE TEMPLE OF GOD, RIGHT? 00:14:32.26\00:14:36.53 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SANCTUARY. 00:14:36.53\00:14:37.93 AND, YOU KNOW, IN THE - IN THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY THERE WAS AN 00:14:37.93\00:14:41.93 ALTAR WHERE THERE WAS A FIRE BURNING. 00:14:41.93\00:14:44.43 DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BODIES ARE CONSTANTLY BURNING ENERGY? 00:14:44.43\00:14:48.46 AND IN THE SANCTUARY THEN, THERE WAS A LAVER FOR CLEANSING - YOUR 00:14:48.46\00:14:52.53 BODY HAS A CIRCULATORY SYSTEM THAT IS CLEANSING. 00:14:52.53\00:14:55.93 AND IN THE SANCTUARY YOU WENT INTO THE HOLY PLACE THERE WAS 00:14:55.93\00:14:59.20 BREAD - WHERE THEY STORED FOOD. WELL, YOUR BODY STORES FOOD. 00:14:59.20\00:15:04.80 SOME OF US STORE MORE THAN OTHERS AFTER THANKSGIVING. 00:15:04.80\00:15:07.76 AND IN THE SANCTUARY THERE WAS A LIGHT AND THAT REPRESENTED - 00:15:07.76\00:15:11.53 JESUS SAID THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE. 00:15:11.53\00:15:14.46 AND THEN THE SANCTUARY - THERE WAS THIS ETHEREAL SMOKE THAT 00:15:14.46\00:15:18.23 WENT UP INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD LIKE THE SPIRIT OF MAN. 00:15:18.23\00:15:20.76 AND IN THE SANCTUARY THERE WAS AN ARK AND IN IT WAS THE TRUTH - 00:15:20.76\00:15:23.63 THE COVENANT - THE LAW OF GOD. 'THY WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY 00:15:23.63\00:15:26.10 HEART.' THAT'S LIKE THE MIND OF MAN - 00:15:26.10\00:15:28.50 THE PRESENCE OF GOD. YOU KNOW GOD DOESN'T SPEAK TO 00:15:28.50\00:15:30.83 YOU THROUGH YOUR ELBOWS AND YOUR KNEES. 00:15:30.83\00:15:33.06 HE DOESN'T SPEAK TO YOU THROUGH YOUR CHEEKS AND YOUR CHIN. 00:15:33.06\00:15:36.40 HE SPEAKS TO YOU THROUGH YOUR MIND. 00:15:36.40\00:15:38.56 AND SO SOME HAVE SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD EVEN SEE A PATTERN FOR 00:15:38.56\00:15:42.80 THE BODY IN THE SANCTUARY. PAUL - WHO WAS IT? 00:15:42.80\00:15:46.36 PETER SAID, 'GOD HAS SHOWN ME' - 'JESUS HAS SHOWN ME THAT I MUST 00:15:46.36\00:15:48.90 PUT OFF MY EARTHLY TABERNACLE.' IT WAS A TENT. 00:15:48.90\00:15:52.13 IT WAS A DWELLING PLACE. 00:15:52.13\00:15:53.80 SO SOMETIMES IT WASN'T ALWAYS A PLACE OF SACRIFICE. 00:15:53.80\00:15:56.83 SOMETIMES THE SANCTUARY WAS A DWELLING PLACE. 00:15:56.83\00:15:59.63 SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE SANCTUARY - THE DWELLING PLACE 00:15:59.63\00:16:03.40 OF GOD IN HEAVEN - THERE WAS A REVOLT. 00:16:03.40\00:16:06.26 NOW WHEN YOU WENT INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES - I'M ASSUMING THAT 00:16:06.26\00:16:11.06 MOST OF YOU HAVE BEEN WITH US AND YOU KNOW THESE THINGS - 00:16:11.06\00:16:14.06 THERE WAS A GOLDEN CHEST - BOX - IN THE MIDDLE. 00:16:14.06\00:16:20.03 WHAT WAS THAT CALLED? ARK OF THE COVENANT. 00:16:20.03\00:16:23.10 AND THERE WERE TWO PROMINENT FIGURES ON TOP. WHAT WERE THEY? 00:16:23.10\00:16:27.56 THEY WERE CHERUBIM - THEY WERE ANGELS, RIGHT? 00:16:27.56\00:16:30.83 THEY WERE CALLED THE COVERING CHERUBS BECAUSE THEY THEN USED 00:16:30.83\00:16:35.93 TO SHADOW THE ARK WITH THEIR WINGS. THEY WERE DWELLING IN THE 00:16:35.93\00:16:40.03 PRESENCE OF GOD. NOW THOSE GOLDEN ANGELS WERE 00:16:40.03\00:16:43.96 FIGURES OF THE VERY REAL ANGELS OF GOD. 00:16:43.96\00:16:47.73 NOW WHEN I WAS A KID I HAD A MATCHBOX CAR AND WE HAD 00:16:47.73\00:16:49.76 HOT WHEELS AND WE'D PLAY WITH THEM. 00:16:49.76\00:16:51.06 WE HAD ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF HOT WHEELS. 00:16:51.06\00:16:52.86 YOU COULDN'T CLIMB IN AND DRIVE IT, THEY WERE JUST MINIATURES. 00:16:52.86\00:16:57.03 THEY ACTUALLY MAKE THEM TO SCALE, DID YOU KNOW THAT? 00:16:57.03\00:16:58.93 THEY'RE 1/100TH SCALE OF THE REAL VEHICLES. 00:16:58.93\00:17:02.46 IT'S AN INTERESTING SCIENCE HOW THEY DO THAT. 00:17:02.46\00:17:04.70 BUT IT WAS A MINIATURE - VERY INFERIOR - YOU NEVER STARTED IT 00:17:04.70\00:17:10.50 UP AND HEARD IT RUN. THOSE GOLDEN ANGELS ON THE 00:17:10.50\00:17:13.66 EARTHLY ARK, THEY WERE A MINIATURE OF VERY REAL, LIVING, 00:17:13.66\00:17:17.40 BREATHING ANGELS BY THE THRONE OF GOD. 00:17:17.40\00:17:20.43 YOU SEE THEM IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 6 WHERE IT'S GOT THESE SERAPHIM 00:17:20.43\00:17:25.03 THAT FLANK THE LORD - WITH SIX WINGS - THAT SAY, 'HOLY, HOLY, 00:17:25.03\00:17:28.10 HOLY IS THE LORD OF HOSTS.' ONE OF THOSE ANGELS, WHO WAS THE 00:17:28.10\00:17:32.33 HIGHEST OF THOSE ANGELS, HIS NAME WAS LUCIFER. 00:17:32.33\00:17:37.13 HE WAS CALLED THE COVERING CHERUB. 00:17:37.13\00:17:38.96 HE REBELLED AGAINST GOD. NOW LET ME START READING. 00:17:38.96\00:17:42.26 I'M JUST TELLING YOU THE STORY, BUT LET'S GET A BACKGROUND. 00:17:42.26\00:17:44.30 GO WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES TO EZEKIEL AND AS YOU READ SOME OF 00:17:44.30\00:17:48.03 THESE VERSES THAT TELL ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF EVIL, YOU'RE GOING TO 00:17:48.03\00:17:50.76 HAVE A QUESTION THAT I NEED TO ANSWER ABOUT 'WHY DOES IT SEEM 00:17:50.76\00:17:54.80 TO DRIFT?' GO TO EZEKIEL CHAPTER 28 PLEASE 00:17:54.80\00:18:00.80 AND WE'LL BE STARTING WITH VERSE 11. 00:18:00.80\00:18:05.26 "MOREOVER THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME," - EZEKIEL 28:11 - 00:18:05.26\00:18:10.10 "SAYING, 'SON OF MAN, TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR THE KING OF 00:18:10.10\00:18:14.30 TYRE, AND SAY TO HIM, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD:''" - NOW THE KING 00:18:14.30\00:18:18.66 OF TYRE WAS - YOU HAVE THE CITIES OF TYRE AND SIDON - THEY 00:18:18.66\00:18:22.93 WERE ANCIENT CITIES - YOU CAN READ ABOUT THEM BACK IN THE TIME 00:18:22.93\00:18:25.26 OF DAVID. THEY HAD AN ALLIANCE. 00:18:25.26\00:18:27.16 THE KING OF TYRE WAS FRIENDS OF DAVID - HELPED HIM BUILD HIS 00:18:27.16\00:18:29.70 TEMPLE - FRIENDS WITH SOLOMON. EVEN DURING THE TIME OF JESUS - 00:18:29.70\00:18:33.46 HE WENT UP TO THE REGION OF TYRE. 00:18:33.46\00:18:34.96 THAT'S WHERE ELIJAH FLED WHEN HE RAN FROM JEZEBEL. 00:18:34.96\00:18:37.26 HE STAYED WITH A WIDOW UP IN SIDON. 00:18:37.26\00:18:39.43 TYRE AND SIDON, THEY WENT TOGETHER. 00:18:39.43\00:18:41.06 THEY WERE VERY WEALTHY BECAUSE THEY WERE THE PHOENICIANS. 00:18:41.06\00:18:43.86 THEY HAD A SEA PORT - ALL THE TRADE AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN - 00:18:43.86\00:18:46.96 THAT WAS THEIR PRINCIPLE PORT. AND YOU CAN EVEN SEE THE RUINS 00:18:46.96\00:18:50.10 OF THAT TODAY ON GOOGLE EARTH. NOW, FIRST OF ALL, THIS LETTER 00:18:50.10\00:18:54.66 IS HISTORICAL - THIS MESSAGE - THIS PROPHECY. 00:18:54.66\00:18:57.83 THE KING OF TYRE WAS A VERY WEALTHY MAN. 00:18:57.83\00:19:00.86 ACCORDING TO THE GREEK HISTORIAN DIODORUS SALEUCIUS, HE WROTE IN 00:19:00.86\00:19:06.53 BIBLIOTECA HISTORICA - THIS IS AN ANCIENT HISTORY BOOK - THAT 00:19:06.53\00:19:10.33 THE NAME OF THIS KING OF TYRE WAS ETHBAAL OR ETHOBALIS. 00:19:10.33\00:19:15.63 NOW YOU REMEMBER JEZEBEL HAD A FATHER WHO WAS A KING OF TYRE, 00:19:15.63\00:19:18.66 NAMED ETHBAAL. IT'S A DIFFERENT ONE. IT'S A COMMON NAME. 00:19:18.66\00:19:21.53 AND IT SAYS THAT HE WAS A VERY CAPABLE MAN. 00:19:21.53\00:19:26.30 HE WAS ACCOMPLISHED. HE WAS FAMOUS. 00:19:26.30\00:19:28.76 BUT WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR ATTACKED TYRE, HE WAS DESTROYED BECAUSE 00:19:28.76\00:19:32.73 OF HIS INIQUITY, ACCORDING TO MATTHEW HENRY. 00:19:32.73\00:19:35.30 SO THERE REALLY IS A KING OF TYRE. 00:19:35.30\00:19:37.20 BUT THE VISION OF EZEKIEL - HE BEGINS TO GO BEHIND THE POWER 00:19:37.20\00:19:43.70 THAT WAS MANIPULATING THE KING. THERE'S SEVERAL EXAMPLES IN THE 00:19:43.70\00:19:49.10 BIBLE WHERE YOU SEE A KING IS DOING SOMETHING WICKED AND THE 00:19:49.10\00:19:53.10 PROPHET THEN TAKES YOU TO THE POWER BEHIND THE KING. 00:19:53.10\00:19:57.10 YOU HAVE IN REVELATION 12 - IT TALKS ABOUT THIS DRAGON AND THE 00:19:57.10\00:20:02.80 DRAGON WANTS TO DESTROY THE MAN-CHILD AS SOON AS HE'S BORN. 00:20:02.80\00:20:07.60 WHO'S THE MAN-CHILD THAT IS CAUGHT UP TO GOD'S THRONE? 00:20:07.60\00:20:10.63 CHRIST. WHO WAS THE KING THAT TRIED TO DESTROY JESUS 00:20:10.63\00:20:14.13 AS A BABY? HEROD THE GREAT. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? 00:20:14.13\00:20:18.06 HE SENT HIS SOLDIERS INTO BETHLEHEM? 00:20:18.06\00:20:19.63 BUT IN THE VISION IT TALKS ABOUT THE DEVIL WORKING BEHIND THE 00:20:19.63\00:20:23.63 ROMAN EMPIRE TO TRY AND DESTROY THE CHILD. 00:20:23.63\00:20:26.23 DID THE DEVIL MAKE AN EFFORT TO DESTROY A SAVIOR IN EGYPT DURING 00:20:26.23\00:20:31.60 THE TIME OF MOSES THROUGH THE PHARAOH? 00:20:31.60\00:20:35.26 WAS IT JUST THE KING THAT HAD A WHIMSICAL IDEA THAT HE WOULD 00:20:35.26\00:20:38.60 KILL ALL THE BABY BOYS OR WAS THE DEVIL, KNOWING THAT A SAVIOR 00:20:38.60\00:20:42.70 WAS COMING, TRYING TO STOP IT FROM HAPPENING? 00:20:42.70\00:20:45.00 BECAUSE HE'S JUST KILLING THE BABY BOYS. AND THEN YOU CAN READ 00:20:45.00\00:20:49.73 ABOUT WHEN YOU GO TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL - IT TALKS ABOUT THIS 00:20:49.73\00:20:54.16 BATTLE BETWEEN MICHAEL AND THE PRINCE OF PERSIA. 00:20:54.16\00:20:58.06 WELL, IT'S REALLY A BATTLE BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN. 00:20:58.06\00:21:01.63 YOU'VE GOT MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS AND THE DRAGON AND HIS 00:21:01.63\00:21:03.76 ANGELS HAVE A WAR IN HEAVEN AND THERE'S THIS BATTLE BETWEEN - 00:21:03.76\00:21:07.83 YOU SEE, THE DEVIL IS OPERATING BETWEEN EARTHLY POWERS TO 00:21:07.83\00:21:10.76 PERSECUTE AND OPPRESS GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:21:10.76\00:21:13.06 SO IT STARTS OUT TALKING ABOUT THE KING OF TYRE AND THEN THE 00:21:13.06\00:21:16.20 VISION TRANSITIONS TO THE POWER WHO'S REALLY BEHIND 00:21:16.20\00:21:19.26 THE KING OF TYRE. NOW NOTICE IF YOU DON'T AGREE. 00:21:19.26\00:21:21.80 ALRIGHT, SO I'M STILL AT VERSE 11 - VERSE 12 - "...TAKE UP A 00:21:21.80\00:21:26.63 LAMENTATION FOR THE KING OF TYRE, AND SAY TO HIM,...' 00:21:26.63\00:21:29.30 YOU WERE THE SEAL OF PERFECTION, FULL OF WISDOM AND PERFECT 00:21:29.30\00:21:32.60 IN BEAUTY. YOU WERE IN EDEN, THE GARDEN OF 00:21:32.60\00:21:35.90 GOD;''" - NOW WAS THE KING OF TYRE EVER IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? 00:21:35.90\00:21:39.90 THE GARDEN OF EDEN WAS CAUGHT UP TO HEAVEN BEFORE THE FLOOD. 00:21:39.90\00:21:44.80 JUST LIKE THE NEW JERUSALEM WILL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, THE 00:21:44.80\00:21:47.13 GARDEN OF EDEN WAS PRESERVED BECAUSE THE GARDEN OF EDEN IS IN 00:21:47.13\00:21:49.13 THE NEW EARTH. SO IT - IT'S NOT ON THE WORLD 00:21:49.13\00:21:51.56 ANYMORE TODAY AND SO WAS THERE ANY EARTHLY KING IN EDEN? NO. 00:21:51.56\00:21:58.63 MUST BE TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE. 00:21:58.63\00:22:00.33 "''YOU WERE IN EDEN, THE GARDEN OF GOD; EVERY PRECIOUS STONE WAS 00:22:00.33\00:22:03.46 YOUR COVERING: THE SARDIS, TOPAZ, AND DIAMOND, BERYL, ONYX, 00:22:03.46\00:22:07.56 AND JASPER, SAPPHIRE, TURQUOISE, AND EMERALD WITH GOLD. 00:22:07.56\00:22:11.60 THE WORKMANSHIP OF YOUR TIMBRELS AND PIPES WAS PREPARED FOR YOU 00:22:11.60\00:22:16.20 ON THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED.''" - WAS THERE MUSIC 00:22:16.20\00:22:18.66 IN THE SANCTUARY ON EARTH? AND WAS THERE MUSIC AROUND THE 00:22:18.66\00:22:22.73 THRONE OF GOD IN HEAVEN? YOU READ ABOUT THAT IN 00:22:22.73\00:22:25.33 REVELATION - THE SINGING GOING ON CONSTANTLY IN REVELATION 00:22:25.33\00:22:28.16 AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD AND THERE WAS SINGING - DAVID HAD 00:22:28.16\00:22:31.03 PEOPLE CONSTANTLY SINGING TO GOD IN HEAVEN. 00:22:31.03\00:22:33.56 BUT THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE HAPPENING IN HEAVEN BEFORE SIN. 00:22:33.56\00:22:37.80 BACK WHEN LUCIFER REBELLED, HIS JOB AS REPRESENTATIVE - YOU 00:22:37.80\00:22:42.26 KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO USE THE WORD 'PRIEST' PER SE IN EXCEPT 00:22:42.26\00:22:46.73 THAT HE WAS TO BE A REPRESENTATIVE TO GLORIFY GOD, 00:22:46.73\00:22:50.26 TO PRAISE GOD IN THAT RESPECT, BUT THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE AND 00:22:50.26\00:22:53.13 BLOOD BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SIN BEFORE THE DEVIL REBELLED. 00:22:53.13\00:22:57.43 BUT YOU SEE, THE SANCTUARY THERE IS LIKE THE DWELLING PLACE 00:22:57.43\00:23:00.40 OF GOD. IT'S NOT THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE 00:23:00.40\00:23:02.03 WHERE THERE'S AN ALTAR AND SO FORTH - AND BLOOD IS BEING 00:23:02.03\00:23:04.43 SPRINKLED. SO LET ME READ ON HERE. GO TO VERSE - WELL, 00:23:04.43\00:23:13.33 I READ VERSE 13 - OH, I WANT TO READ - YEAH, LET ME FINISH 13 - 00:23:13.33\00:23:17.46 "''...SAPPHIRE, TURQUOISE, AND EMERALD WITH GOLD. 00:23:17.46\00:23:19.53 THE WORKMANSHIP OF YOUR TIMBRELS AND PIPES WAS PREPARED FOR YOU 00:23:19.53\00:23:22.63 ON THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED.''" - NOW THERE'S ANOTHER CLUE: 00:23:22.63\00:23:25.20 THE KING OF TYRE - ETHBAAL - WAS HE CREATED OR WAS HE BORN 00:23:25.20\00:23:29.33 LIKE OTHER HUMANS? WAS THE DEVIL BORN? 00:23:29.33\00:23:32.53 DO ANGELS MARRY AND GIVE IN MARRIAGE, OR ARE ANGELS CREATED? 00:23:32.53\00:23:36.53 THEY ARE CREATED TO BE MINISTERING SPIRITS OF GOD, 00:23:36.53\00:23:39.73 THE BIBLE SAYS. THEY ARE ALL UNIQUE. 00:23:39.73\00:23:42.43 AND IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER DOUBTS, LOOK AT VERSE 14 - 00:23:42.43\00:23:44.70 EZEKIEL 28:14, "''YOU WERE THE ANOINTED CHERUB WHO COVERS;''" - 00:23:44.70\00:23:50.00 YOU WERE - "''I ESTABLISHED YOU; YOU WERE ON THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF 00:23:50.00\00:23:54.46 GOD; YOU WALKED BACK AND FORTH IN THE MIDST OF FIERY STONES. 00:23:54.46\00:23:58.13 YOU WERE PERFECT IN YOUR WAYS FROM THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED, 00:23:58.13\00:24:01.10 TIL INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN YOU.''" - NOW NO EARTHLY MAN 00:24:01.10\00:24:04.23 WAS PERFECT. IT'S TALKING ABOUT LUCIFER NOW, 00:24:04.23\00:24:07.70 WHO HAD BEEN MANIPULATING THE KING OF TYRE. 00:24:07.70\00:24:09.80 THE PROPHET OF GOD IS GOING BEHIND THE SCENES, THE VEIL IS 00:24:09.80\00:24:12.76 BEING PULLED ASIDE AND WE ARE SEEING THE ORIGIN OF THE DEVIL. 00:24:12.76\00:24:17.80 - "''YOU WERE PERFECT IN YOUR WAYS FROM THE DAY YOU WERE 00:24:17.80\00:24:20.33 CREATED, TIL INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN YOU. 00:24:20.33\00:24:22.60 BY THE ABUNDANCE OF YOUR TRADING YOU BECAME FILLED WITH VIOLENCE 00:24:22.60\00:24:25.33 WITHIN, AND YOU SINNED;''" - THIS TRADING IS PROBABLY A 00:24:25.33\00:24:27.66 REFERENCE TO AS HE WENT ABOUT THE OTHER ANGELS HE BEGAN TO SOW 00:24:27.66\00:24:32.30 SEEDS OF DISCORD. - "''THEREFORE I CAST YOU AS A 00:24:32.30\00:24:36.13 PROFANE THING OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN''" - THE DWELLING PLACE 00:24:36.13\00:24:39.56 - THE KINGDOM OF GOD - THAT'S HEAVEN. SATAN WAS CAST OUT OF 00:24:39.56\00:24:43.16 HEAVEN, REVELATION 12 - "''AND I DESTROYED YOU, O COVERING 00:24:43.16\00:24:46.40 CHERUB, FROM THE MIDST OF THE FIERY STONES. 00:24:46.40\00:24:49.20 YOUR HEART WAS LIFTED UP BECAUSE OF YOUR BEAUTY; YOU CORRUPTED 00:24:49.20\00:24:52.56 YOUR WISDOM FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR SPLENDOR; I CAST YOU TO THE 00:24:52.56\00:24:56.60 GROUND, I LAID YOU BEFORE KINGS, THAT THEY MIGHT GAZE AT YOU. 00:24:56.60\00:25:00.26 YOU DEFILE YOUR SANCTUARIES BY THE MULTITUDE OF YOUR 00:25:00.26\00:25:03.60 INIQUITIES, BY THE INIQUITY OF YOUR TRADING; THEREFORE I 00:25:03.60\00:25:06.60 BROUGHT FIRE FROM YOUR MIDST; IT DEVOURED YOU, AND I TURNED YOU 00:25:06.60\00:25:11.06 TO ASHES UPON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF ALL WHO SAW YOU. 00:25:11.06\00:25:16.56 ALL WHO KNEW YOU AMONG THE PEOPLES ARE ASTONISHED AT YOU; 00:25:16.56\00:25:19.70 YOU HAVE BECOME A HORROR, AND SHALL BE NO MORE FOREVER.''" 00:25:19.70\00:25:22.93 SO THERE IT'S TELLING ABOUT THE FATE OF THE DEVIL. 00:25:22.93\00:25:25.70 'I'LL BRING FORTH A FIRE FROM THE MIDST OF YOU AND IT WILL 00:25:25.70\00:25:27.90 DEVOUR YOU.' SO THIS IS SORT OF AN OVERVIEW. 00:25:27.90\00:25:31.76 NOW LET ME JUST GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND AND THEN I'LL GO TO A 00:25:31.76\00:25:33.73 PASSAGE IN ISAIAH THAT ALSO TALKS ABOUT IT. 00:25:33.73\00:25:38.50 AND SOME OF YOU, I THINK, HAVE VERSES YOU'RE GOING TO HELP ME 00:25:38.50\00:25:40.10 READ. HIS NAME WAS LUCIFER. 00:25:40.10\00:25:43.80 MATTER OF FACT, I SHOULD PROBABLY READ ISAIAH AND THEN 00:25:43.80\00:25:46.43 I'LL TELL YOU - JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW. 00:25:46.43\00:25:49.30 GO TO ISAIAH 14 - ISAIAH 14, VERSE 12. 00:25:49.30\00:25:54.40 ANOTHER SIMILAR PASSAGE - MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO TURN THERE 00:25:54.40\00:25:58.23 QUICKLY BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - IT SAYS IN ISAIAH 00:25:58.23\00:26:02.66 14, VERSE 4, "...TAKE UP THIS PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF 00:26:02.66\00:26:07.76 BABYLON" - AND THEN THIS LAMENTATION BEGINS. 00:26:07.76\00:26:11.23 WHO DOES IT START OUT TALKING ABOUT? 00:26:11.23\00:26:13.30 EZEKIEL IT STARTS OUT WITH THE KING OF TYRE. 00:26:13.30\00:26:15.46 ISAIAH IT STARTS OUT WITH THE KING OF BABYLON AND THEN HE 00:26:15.46\00:26:18.76 BEGINS TO TALK ABOUT THE POWER BEHIND THE KING OF BABYLON 00:26:18.76\00:26:22.33 WHO WAS PERSECUTING GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:26:22.33\00:26:24.36 YOU SEE, THE KING OF THE SIDONIANS WERE PERSECUTING AND 00:26:24.36\00:26:26.63 OPPRESSING ISRAEL BECAUSE THEY'D BEEN CARRIED OFF BY THE 00:26:26.63\00:26:29.53 ASSYRIANS AND THEY BEGAN TO TAKE THE TERRITORY AND TO BOAST AND 00:26:29.53\00:26:33.03 TO OPPRESS GOD'S PEOPLE. THE KING OF BABYLON DESTROYED 00:26:33.03\00:26:35.66 THE TEMPLE OPPRESSING GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:26:35.66\00:26:37.53 SO THE POWER BEHIND THAT IS THE DEVIL. 00:26:37.53\00:26:40.56 NOW GO TO VERSE 12 AND YOU'LL SEE THAT. "HOW YOU ARE FALLEN 00:26:40.56\00:26:44.90 FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING! HOW YOU ARE CUT 00:26:44.90\00:26:48.33 DOWN TO THE GROUND, YOU WHO WEAKENED THE NATIONS! 00:26:48.33\00:26:52.10 FOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART: 'I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I 00:26:52.10\00:26:55.66 WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I WILL ALSO SIT ON 00:26:55.66\00:27:00.40 THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION ON THE FARTHEST SIDES OF THE NORTH; 00:27:00.40\00:27:04.06 I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS'" - BY THE WAY, 00:27:04.06\00:27:06.06 SOMETIMES THE DEVIL'S CALLED THE KING OF THE NORTH OR HE'S THE 00:27:06.06\00:27:08.53 POWER BEHIND IT - "'I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE 00:27:08.53\00:27:11.96 CLOUDS, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.' 00:27:11.96\00:27:14.70 YET YOU SHALL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO SHEOL, TO THE LOWEST DEPTHS OF 00:27:14.70\00:27:17.70 THE PIT." - THE BOTTOMLESS PIT IS WHERE THE ANGEL CASTS HIM - 00:27:17.70\00:27:22.00 ISN'T THAT WHAT WE READ IN REVELATION 20? 00:27:22.00\00:27:24.10 AND SO, JUST TO GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND - AND BY THE WAY, I 00:27:24.10\00:27:27.33 READ - I RECOMMEND YOU READ A BOOK THAT JUST REALLY EXPLAINS 00:27:27.33\00:27:30.30 IT IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WAY I'VE EVER SEEN. 00:27:30.30\00:27:32.76 IT'S A BOOK CALLED 'PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS' AND IT TALKS ABOUT 00:27:32.76\00:27:37.10 THE ORIGIN OF SIN AND IF GOD IS GOOD AND IF HE'S LOVING AND 00:27:37.10\00:27:40.26 POWERFUL, WHY DID HE ALLOW THE DEVIL TO CARRY ON HIS REBELLION? 00:27:40.26\00:27:44.73 QUICK STORY - ALL THE UNIVERSE WAS PURE AND PEACEFUL. 00:27:44.73\00:27:50.16 GOD HAD COUNTLESS ANGELS THAT SERVED HIM. 00:27:50.16\00:27:52.33 THEY WERE HIS MINISTERING SPIRITS BRINGING MESSAGES AND 00:27:52.33\00:27:54.86 JOY BACK AND FORTH TO HIS LIMITLESS CREATION, AND THE 00:27:54.86\00:27:58.80 HIGHEST OF HIS ANGELS - THE FIRST OF HIS CREATED WORKS - I 00:27:58.80\00:28:03.53 MEAN, THE FIRST THING YOU'D MAKE IF YOU WERE STARTING OUT TO MAKE 00:28:03.53\00:28:06.86 A CREATION IS YOU'D HAVE YOUR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS - YOU'D 00:28:06.86\00:28:10.03 HAVE YOUR PRIME MINISTER, YOUR CHIEF ANGEL, AND SO LUCIFER WAS 00:28:10.03\00:28:16.30 THE MOST INTELLIGENT, MOST BEAUTIFUL, MOST GIFTED OF ALL OF 00:28:16.30\00:28:19.30 GOD'S CREATED WORKS - JUST BELOW GOD AND CHRIST HIMSELF IN POWER. 00:28:19.30\00:28:26.83 AND, BY THE WAY, WHO CREATED LUCIFER? 00:28:26.83\00:28:30.66 GOD THE FATHER OR THE SON? 'ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE 00:28:30.66\00:28:36.00 MADE BY HIM. WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING 00:28:36.00\00:28:37.70 MADE THAT WAS MADE.' WHO'S THAT TALKING ABOUT? JESUS, RIGHT? 00:28:37.70\00:28:42.06 AND IT SAYS THAT HE BEGAN TO START TO THINK, WHEN HE SAW THE 00:28:42.06\00:28:48.70 OTHER CREATURES WORSHIPING GOD, 'I'M SO POWERFUL.' 00:28:48.70\00:28:51.93 HE ENJOYED WHEN THEY PRAISED HIM FOR HIS SINGING AND HIS POWER 00:28:51.93\00:28:55.73 AND HIS DECISIONS AND HE BEGAN TO FEEL THOUGHTS OF JEALOUSY 00:28:55.73\00:29:01.90 THAT HE WAS NOT GOD. AND WHEN GOD ENGAGED IN THE WORK 00:29:01.90\00:29:05.33 OF CREATION HE THOUGHT, 'I CAN DO ALMOST EVERYTHING GOD CAN DO. 00:29:05.33\00:29:08.50 HOW COME I CAN'T CREATE?' AND YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 00:29:08.50\00:29:10.96 'WHY DID LUCIFER THINK THOSE THOUGHTS? 00:29:10.96\00:29:13.43 DID GOD MAKE HIM WITH A DEFECT WHERE HE WASN'T WIRED PROPERLY?' 00:29:13.43\00:29:17.56 THAT'S A NORMAL THOUGHT. 00:29:17.56\00:29:19.23 'THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME FACTORY DEFECT.' 00:29:19.23\00:29:22.60 WELL, THE DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN A COMPUTER AND BETWEEN A CREATOR 00:29:22.60\00:29:28.53 IS THAT GOD MAKES HIS CREATURES GENUINELY FREE TO THINK 00:29:28.53\00:29:32.80 INDEPENDENT THOUGHTS AND LUCIFER, HE WAS ABLE TO PROCESS 00:29:32.80\00:29:38.13 A ZILLION THOUGHTS JUST LIKE YOU CAN. 00:29:38.13\00:29:39.80 ALL KINDS OF THINGS WENT THROUGH HIS MIND AND THE FLEETING 00:29:39.80\00:29:42.76 THOUGHT CAME THROUGH HIS MIND ONCE, 'I'M NOT GOD. 00:29:42.76\00:29:46.16 I CAN'T DO EVERYTHING GOD CAN DO. WHY NOT? 00:29:46.16\00:29:48.30 I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE WORSHIP OF GOD. 00:29:48.30\00:29:50.00 I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE POWER OF GOD.' 00:29:50.00\00:29:52.06 NOW WHEN THAT THOUGHT CAME, HIS CONSCIENCE TOLD HIM, 'I SHOULD 00:29:52.06\00:29:55.90 BE SO THANKFUL THAT I AM WHERE I AM - CLOSEST TO GOD - HIGHEST - 00:29:55.90\00:29:59.90 BUT INSTEAD, HE NURTURED THAT WRONG THOUGHT. 00:29:59.90\00:30:04.60 IT STARTED OUT JUST AS A - A MUSING. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE 00:30:04.60\00:30:08.30 A WILD THOUGHT GO THROUGH YOUR MIND IT'S NOT ALWAYS A SIN. 00:30:08.30\00:30:11.63 SOMETIMES YOU'LL HAVE A STRANGE THOUGHT - I'M HAVING SOME RIGHT 00:30:11.63\00:30:16.43 NOW - SOMETIMES YOU'LL HAVE A STRANGE THOUGHT GO THROUGH YOUR 00:30:16.43\00:30:21.53 MIND AND IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NECESSARILY A SIN BECAUSE YOUR 00:30:21.53\00:30:24.23 WIRES GET CROSSED - PEOPLE THINK ALL KINDS OF GOOFY THINGS - AND 00:30:24.23\00:30:27.00 YOU JUST NEED TO PUT THOSE THINGS OUT OF YOUR MIND. 00:30:27.00\00:30:29.80 BUT LUCIFER CLUNG TO THAT AND HE NURTURED IT AND HE CULTIVATED IT 00:30:29.80\00:30:34.40 AND HE CHERISHED IT AND HE MAGNIFIED IT AND HE KEPT 00:30:34.40\00:30:37.40 THINKING AND HE KEPT CHEWING ON IT AND SAYING, 00:30:37.40\00:30:40.03 'HOW COME I'M NOT GOD? IS THERE ANY WAY I COULD BE GOD? 00:30:40.03\00:30:44.53 HOW COME I CAN'T CREATE? HOW COME I'M NOT WORSHIPED? 00:30:44.53\00:30:48.46 WILL I EVER GET PROMOTED OR IS THIS A DEAD-END JOB? 00:30:48.46\00:30:51.10 AM I GOING TO STOP RIGHT HERE AT CHIEF ANGEL OR DO I GET TO BE 00:30:51.10\00:30:53.50 GOD OF MY OWN UNIVERSE?' AND HE BEGAN TO THINK THOUGHTS 00:30:53.50\00:30:58.00 LIKE THAT AND PRETTY SOON, WHEN HE REALIZED THAT GOD WAS NOT 00:30:58.00\00:31:01.16 GOING TO STEP OVER AND LET HIM SHARE DIVINITY, HE RESENTED IT. 00:31:01.16\00:31:06.53 AND HE BEGAN TO THINK, 'YOU KNOW, GOD'S POWERFUL 00:31:06.53\00:31:10.33 BUT I'M POWERFUL TOO. AND IF I HAVE ALL THE SUPPORT OF 00:31:10.33\00:31:12.76 THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN, I CAN PRESSURE GOD INTO GIVING ME ALL 00:31:12.76\00:31:17.33 OF HIS POWERS AND THEN I'LL TAKE OVER COMPLETELY. 00:31:17.33\00:31:21.96 I KNOW THAT SOUNDS CRAZY TO ME AND IT HOPEFULLY SOUNDS CRAZY TO 00:31:21.96\00:31:25.13 YOU, BUT THE CREATURE WOULD THINK IT COULD OVERPOWER THE 00:31:25.13\00:31:29.60 CREATOR, RIGHT? BUT SIN WILL MAKE YOU STUPID. 00:31:29.60\00:31:35.60 SELFISHNESS WILL MAKE YOU DO SOME REALLY DUMB THINGS. 00:31:35.60\00:31:38.96 AND THE DEVIL BEGAN TO NURTURE THAT THOUGHT. 00:31:38.96\00:31:42.26 AND THEN HE BEGAN TO SOW DISCORD - HIS TRADING THE BIBLE TALKS 00:31:42.26\00:31:45.46 ABOUT - AMONG THE OTHER ANGELS AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW, IF I WAS 00:31:45.46\00:31:49.23 GOD, WE WOULD HAVE MORE FREEDOM. IF I WAS IN CHARGE - YOU KNOW, 00:31:49.23\00:31:52.76 GOD, HE DOESN'T TRUST US AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THIS LAW.' 00:31:52.76\00:31:56.53 NOW, WHAT WAS THE COVERING CHERUB'S JOB? 00:31:56.53\00:31:59.73 HE WAS STATIONED ABOVE THE ARK, FACING THE ARK. 00:31:59.73\00:32:02.03 HE WAS IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S PERFECT LAW AND HIS WILL. 00:32:02.03\00:32:05.03 AND THE ANGELS ALL - THEY ALL OBEYED GOD'S LAW BECAUSE THEY 00:32:05.03\00:32:09.83 LOVED GOD, THEY LOVED EACH OTHER. 00:32:09.83\00:32:11.56 THEY PROBABLY DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THERE BEING A LAW. 00:32:11.56\00:32:14.73 IT PROBABLY CAME TO THEM AS A SURPRISE BUT THEN THEY THOUGHT, 00:32:14.73\00:32:17.06 'YOU MEAN THERE ARE RESTRICTIONS ON OUR FREEDOM? 00:32:17.06\00:32:20.00 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOVE GOD AND YOU LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR, THE LAW 00:32:20.00\00:32:22.06 KIND OF COMES NATURALLY. AND IT WASN'T AN EFFORT. 00:32:22.06\00:32:24.90 ANGELS DIDN'T GO AROUND DAY AFTER DAY SAYING, 00:32:24.90\00:32:26.66 'OH, BETTER NOT LIE TODAY. BETTER NOT STEAL TODAY. 00:32:26.66\00:32:29.10 OH, IT'S GOING TO BE SO HARD.' THEY DON'T THINK ABOUT IT. 00:32:29.10\00:32:32.20 IT WAS THEIR DESIRE TO DO GOD'S WILL, RIGHT? 00:32:32.20\00:32:35.33 BUT HE BEGAN TO PLANT SEEDS OF DOUBT AND, GRADUALLY, HE WAS 00:32:35.33\00:32:40.33 EVEN ABLE TO RECRUIT ONE-THIRD - THAT'S A LOT, BECAUSE THERE ARE 00:32:40.33\00:32:44.90 BILLIONS OF ANGELS. THESE ARE THE MINISTERING SPIRITS 00:32:44.90\00:32:47.30 OF THE ARMY - THEY'RE CALLED THE HOST OF GOD - THE ARMY OF GOD - 00:32:47.30\00:32:50.06 THEY FAN OUT INTO THE WHOLE COSMOS AND DO GOD'S WILL. 00:32:50.06\00:32:54.36 AND WE KNOW FOR EVERY PERSON BORN GOD HAS A GUARDIAN ANGEL. 00:32:54.36\00:32:57.90 HE MAY ALSO HAVE A GUARDIAN ANGEL AND A RECORDING ANGEL. 00:32:57.90\00:33:00.43 I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE ONE AND THE SAME. 00:33:00.43\00:33:02.23 THEY CAN PROBABLY MULTI-TASK, BUT HE'S GOT LOTS OF ANGELS OUT 00:33:02.23\00:33:06.33 THERE. LUCIFER MANAGED TO GET ONE-THIRD 00:33:06.33\00:33:09.63 OF THE ANGELS TO FOLLOW HIM IN HIS REBELLION. 00:33:09.63\00:33:12.10 AND, FINALLY, IT BROKE OUT INTO AN OPEN REVOLT AND THEY WERE 00:33:12.10\00:33:17.23 CAST OUT OF HEAVEN. YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN 00:33:17.23\00:33:19.60 REVELATION CHAPTER 12. THAT - HEAVEN THERE KIND OF 00:33:19.60\00:33:23.56 REPRESENTS THE SANCTUARY - THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD. 00:33:23.56\00:33:28.36 ANOTHER ANGEL HAS TAKEN LUCIFER'S PLACE. 00:33:28.36\00:33:31.16 SOME SUSPECT WE KNOW HIS NAME. GABRIEL. 00:33:31.16\00:33:36.90 THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT GABRIEL TOOK LUCIFER'S PLACE SO 00:33:36.90\00:33:40.06 I DON'T THINK THEY GET ALONG VERY WELL. 00:33:40.06\00:33:42.23 IT'S THE ONLY OTHER ANGEL THAT'S NAMED. NOW YOU HAVE MICHAEL 00:33:42.23\00:33:46.40 THE ARCHANGEL IN THE BIBLE, BUT HE'S - THAT'S A DIFFERENT NAME. 00:33:46.40\00:33:50.96 THAT'S REALLY A TITLE FOR CHRIST. JESUS IS NOT AN ANGEL. 00:33:50.96\00:33:54.40 THE ARCHANGEL MEANS THE GREATEST MESSENGER. 00:33:54.40\00:33:56.23 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE GENERAL OF GOD'S ARMIES. 00:33:56.23\00:33:58.76 JUST LIKE THE WORD 'DRAGON' IN THE BIBLE IS A SYMBOLIC NAME FOR 00:33:58.76\00:34:03.03 THE DEVIL, MICHAEL IS A SYMBOLIC NAME FOR CHRIST IN THE BIBLE. 00:34:03.03\00:34:06.93 THAT'S WHY YOU SEE HIM COMING TO RESURRECT MOSES AND THAT'S WHY 00:34:06.93\00:34:09.73 YOU SEE HIM - IT SAYS, 'THE LORD WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A 00:34:09.73\00:34:12.43 SHOUT OF THE ARCHANGEL.' THE LORD DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN 00:34:12.43\00:34:16.33 WITH THE SHOUT OF THE ARCHANGEL, RIGHT - AND THE TRUMPET OF GOD. 00:34:16.33\00:34:19.96 SO IT'S A FIGURE AND HE INSPIRED THIS REBELLION. 00:34:19.96\00:34:24.30 YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WELL, DOUG, AS SOON AS HE REBELLED AND 00:34:24.30\00:34:28.16 HE SINNED AND ONE-THIRD OF THE ANGELS FOLLOWED, WHY DIDN'T GOD 00:34:28.16\00:34:31.83 JUST, YOU KNOW, SNAP HIS FINGERS OR WIGGLE HIS NOSE OR DO 00:34:31.83\00:34:35.23 SOMETHING AND SAY, 'KAZAM! YOU'RE DEAD.'? 00:34:35.23\00:34:39.23 COULDN'T HE HAVE DONE THAT? WHY DIDN'T - WHY, AS SOON AS HE 00:34:39.23\00:34:42.90 REBELLED AND ALL THE ANGELS WERE FOLLOWING LUCIFER OUT OF HEAVEN 00:34:42.90\00:34:47.10 - WHAT THAT WAR LOOKED LIKE - I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF WEAPONS 00:34:47.10\00:34:50.20 THEY USED - IT'S HARD TO SAY, BUT THERE WAS SOME KIND OF 00:34:50.20\00:34:53.76 CONFLICT AND SATAN AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT. 00:34:53.76\00:34:58.03 IF THE LORD HAD DESTROYED LUCIFER, THERE MIGHT - EVEN 00:34:58.03\00:35:01.36 AMONG THE GOOD ANGELS - THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME THAT STILL 00:35:01.36\00:35:03.50 HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT SATAN'S ACCUSATIONS AND THEY SAID, 'YOU 00:35:03.50\00:35:10.60 THOUGHT, 'I'D BETTER OBEY GOD OR HE'S GOING TO VAPORIZE ME.' 00:35:10.60\00:35:14.63 GOD DOES NOT WANT HIS CREATURES TO OBEY BECAUSE HE'S GOING TO 00:35:14.63\00:35:17.83 DESTROY THEM IF THEY DON'T. HE WANTS US TO OBEY WILLINGLY 00:35:17.83\00:35:21.50 AND FREELY. SO SATAN WAS CAST OUT - EXCUSE 00:35:21.50\00:35:26.63 ME - AND THEN, WHEN HE CAME TO THIS EARTH - HE WENT THROUGH THE 00:35:26.63\00:35:29.43 UNIVERSE TRYING TO FIND OTHER WORLDS TO FOLLOW HIM. 00:35:29.43\00:35:32.03 HE COULDN'T FIND ANY UNTIL HE CAME TO OUR PLANET AND THAT'S 00:35:32.03\00:35:35.33 WHEN HE BEGAN TO INSINUATE DOUBTS ABOUT GOD AND SAY, 00:35:35.33\00:35:38.60 'GOD'S HIDING SOMETHING FROM YOU, EVE. 00:35:38.60\00:35:40.53 YOU EAT THIS FRUIT, YOU'LL BE LIKE GOD. 00:35:40.53\00:35:42.76 NOW HE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO BE LIKE HIM.' 00:35:42.76\00:35:44.26 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE DEVIL WANTED. 00:35:44.26\00:35:46.10 SO HE INSPIRED WITHIN HUMANITY HIS OWN DESIRE. 00:35:46.10\00:35:49.23 'YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD.' AND THE FOUNDATION OF MANY FALSE 00:35:49.23\00:35:52.70 RELIGIONS IS THAT YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD. 00:35:52.70\00:35:56.13 I KNOW WHEN I WAS IN A NUMBER OF EASTERN RELIGIONS - YOU MEDITATE 00:35:56.13\00:35:58.76 AND YOU KEEP REINCARNATING AND EVENTUALLY YOU'LL BE GOD. 00:35:58.76\00:36:02.00 AND THE WORLD SAYS, 'YOU ARE NUMBER ONE. YOU ARE GOD. 00:36:02.00\00:36:05.70 LIVE FOR YOUR SELF-SATISFACTION. HAVE EVERYBODY WORK FOR YOU. 00:36:05.70\00:36:08.96 YOU COULD BE RICH AND FAMOUS. YOU WILL BE GOD.' 00:36:08.96\00:36:11.40 ISN'T THAT WHAT THE WHOLE MESSAGE OF THE MEDIA IS? 00:36:11.40\00:36:14.16 YOU CAN BE THE STAR. YOU CAN BE THE IDOL. 00:36:14.16\00:36:18.16 I MEAN, IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU. THAT'S THE DEVIL IMPLANTING IN 00:36:18.16\00:36:21.83 HUMANITY HIS OWN DESIRE TO BE GOD. 00:36:21.83\00:36:24.90 YOU'LL NEVER BE HAPPY THAT WAY. 00:36:24.90\00:36:26.86 YOU'LL BE CAST OUT OF HEAVEN THAT WAY. 00:36:26.86\00:36:29.00 IF YOU WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN YOU MUST SUBMIT TO GOD AND WORSHIP 00:36:29.00\00:36:32.36 GOD AND THAT'S WHERE YOU REALLY FIND - FIND YOUR LIFE. 00:36:32.36\00:36:36.73 ALRIGHT, WELL I NEED TO GET BACK TO OUR LESSON. 00:36:36.73\00:36:38.83 THERE'S A LOT TO COVER HERE. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT - 00:36:38.83\00:36:40.46 SATAN IS CALLED THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 00:36:40.46\00:36:42.56 SOMEONE LOOK UP JUDE VERSE 9 - JUDE 9 - YOU GOT - 00:36:42.56\00:36:47.56 LET'S GET A YOU A MICROPHONE. 00:36:47.56\00:36:49.00 RIGHT THERE - THEY'LL HAND YOU A MICROPHONE. 00:36:49.00\00:36:50.56 NOW I'M GOING TO READ IN - IN JOB 1, VERSE 6. 00:36:50.56\00:36:57.50 SATAN IS CALLED 'THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN'. 00:36:57.50\00:37:00.43 "NOW THERE WAS A DAY WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT 00:37:00.43\00:37:03.36 THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD, AND SATAN CAME AMONG THEM. 00:37:03.36\00:37:06.96 AND THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 'FROM WHERE DO YOU COME?' 00:37:06.96\00:37:09.66 SO SATAN ANSWERED THE LORD AND SAID, 'FROM GOING TO AND FRO ON 00:37:09.66\00:37:13.13 THE EARTH, AND FROM WALKING BACK AND FORTH ON IT.'" 00:37:13.13\00:37:16.36 NOW HERE'S A MEETING THAT IS NOT ON EARTH - WHERE THESE SONS 00:37:16.36\00:37:19.76 OF GOD - THESE - YOU KNOW, ADAM WAS CALLED THE SON OF GOD, 00:37:19.76\00:37:22.83 RIGHT? YOU AND I ARE SONS OF OUR PARENTS. 00:37:22.83\00:37:27.56 ADAM WAS A SON OF GOD BECAUSE GOD WAS HIS FATHER LITERALLY AND 00:37:27.56\00:37:31.16 BEFORE SIN ADAM WOULD HAVE COME TO THIS CELESTIAL MEETING AND 00:37:31.16\00:37:35.96 REPRESENTED OUR WORLD. BUT AFTER SIN, SATAN SAID, 00:37:35.96\00:37:39.73 'LOOK, ADAM AND EVE LISTENED TO ME. I AM THE PRINCE OF 00:37:39.73\00:37:42.23 THIS WORLD.' EVEN JESUS SAID 'THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD COMES 00:37:42.23\00:37:44.43 AND HAS NOTHING IN ME.' THE REASON THE DEVIL OFFERED 00:37:44.43\00:37:47.26 JESUS - SAID, 'ALL THESE KINGDOMS I'LL GIVE YOU IF YOU 00:37:47.26\00:37:50.13 FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.' THE DEVIL CLAIMS THIS WORLD 00:37:50.13\00:37:52.20 AS HIS OWN. HE SORT OF KIDNAPPED IT. 00:37:52.20\00:37:54.96 AND SO, PART OF WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SANCTUARY IS REDEMPTION. 00:37:54.96\00:37:59.83 THROUGH THE LAMB A PRICE IS PAID. 00:37:59.83\00:38:03.56 THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS A RANSOM IS PAID TO REDEEM A 00:38:03.56\00:38:08.73 PLANET THAT HAS BEEN HIJACKED OR KIDNAPPED BY SATAN. 00:38:08.73\00:38:12.73 BUT HE CALLS HIMSELF THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. 00:38:12.73\00:38:14.50 AND WHILE HE'S THERE HE SAYS, 'THESE PEOPLE NOW, ON THIS 00:38:14.50\00:38:17.66 PLANET, GOD, THEY DON'T WORSHIP YOU. THEY WORSHIP ME. 00:38:17.66\00:38:20.66 THEY DON'T OBEY YOU. THEY OBEY ME. THEY SIN.' 00:38:20.66\00:38:25.10 AND SO HE WAS ACCUSING AND SAYING 'THE WORLD IS MINE.' 00:38:25.10\00:38:28.46 AND GOD SAID, 'OH REALLY? WHAT ABOUT JOB? 00:38:28.46\00:38:32.10 THERE'S A MAN ON THAT WORLD THAT WORSHIPS ME.' 00:38:32.10\00:38:34.33 ISN'T IT SAD THAT GOD COULD ONLY NAME ONE NAME? 00:38:34.33\00:38:38.36 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT - 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB 00:38:38.36\00:38:43.10 THAT THERE'S NONE LIKE HIM IN THE LAND, A PERFECT MAN THAT 00:38:43.10\00:38:45.20 FEARS GOD AND HATES EVIL?' AND THEN THE DEVIL SAYS - HE 00:38:45.20\00:38:48.33 ACCUSES HIM IN VERSE - JOB 1, VERSE 9, "SO SATAN ANSWERED THE 00:38:48.33\00:38:52.60 LORD AND SAID, 'DOES JOB FEAR GOD FOR NOTHING? 00:38:52.60\00:38:55.40 HAVE YOU NOT MADE A HEDGE AROUND HIM, AROUND HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND 00:38:55.40\00:38:58.53 AROUND ALL THAT HE HAS ON EVERY SIDE? 00:38:58.53\00:39:00.66 YOU HAVE BLESSED THE WORK OF HIS HANDS, AND HIS POSSESSIONS HAVE 00:39:00.66\00:39:03.00 INCREASED IN THE LAND. BUT NOW, STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND 00:39:03.00\00:39:05.80 AND TOUCH ALL THAT HE HAS, AND HE WILL SURELY CURSE YOU 00:39:05.80\00:39:07.90 TO YOUR FACE!'" - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 00:39:07.90\00:39:09.93 FIRST OF ALL, YOU KNOW WHAT THIS TELLS US? WAS THE DEVIL RIGHT 00:39:09.93\00:39:14.63 THAT GOD CAN PRODUCE A HEDGE ABOUT HIS PEOPLE? 00:39:14.63\00:39:19.53 THE LORD WOULD NOT LET THE DEVIL CURSE JOB. GOD HAD SET 00:39:19.53\00:39:25.26 A BLESSING - A HEDGE AROUND HIM. SO THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT GOD 00:39:25.26\00:39:31.03 CAN CREATE A HEDGE ABOUT US, BUT SOMETIMES HE ALLOWS US TO BE 00:39:31.03\00:39:34.26 TESTED AND THAT PROTECTION IS REMOVED. 00:39:34.26\00:39:37.50 AND SO GOD SAID, 'ALRIGHT, I'LL REMOVE MY HEDGE OF PROTECTION 00:39:37.50\00:39:40.96 BUT DON'T TOUCH HIS BODY.' SO JOB LOSES ALL OF HIS 00:39:40.96\00:39:43.63 POSSESSIONS AND GOD SAYS, 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED' - TO THE DEVIL 00:39:43.63\00:39:47.70 GOD SAYS, 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED JOB STILL SERVES ME EVEN THOUGH 00:39:47.70\00:39:50.26 YOU MOVED ME AGAINST HIM?' HE SAID, 'OH, THAT'S JUST 00:39:50.26\00:39:52.40 BECAUSE HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT HIS STUFF, HE ONLY CARES ABOUT 00:39:52.40\00:39:55.73 HIS PHYSICAL COMFORT. YOU TOUCH HIS BODY HE'LL CURSE 00:39:55.73\00:39:58.56 YOU TO YOUR FACE.' THERE HE IS AGAIN, ACCUSING. 00:39:58.56\00:40:01.43 GOD SAID, 'OKAY, I'LL LET YOU AFFLICT HIM PHYSICALLY, 00:40:01.43\00:40:04.43 BUT DO NOT TAKE HIS LIFE.' AND I CAN'T IMAGINE THE 00:40:04.43\00:40:07.83 AFFLICTION THAT JOB WENT THROUGH BECAUSE THE DEVIL HIMSELF GOT 00:40:07.83\00:40:09.96 INVOLVED, BUT IT WAS FROM THE CROWN OF HIS HEAD TO THE SOLE OF 00:40:09.96\00:40:13.43 HIS FOOT. HE WAS SUFFERING MISERY AND LOST 00:40:13.43\00:40:17.70 EVERYTHING - LOST EVERYONE - AND DOES HE CURSE GOD? 00:40:17.70\00:40:21.90 NO, HE SAYS THAT EVEN THOUGH HE SORRY HE WAS EVER BORN - HE 00:40:21.90\00:40:25.40 WISHES HE COULD DIE - HE STILL KNOWS THAT WE RECEIVE GOOD FROM 00:40:25.40\00:40:28.96 GOD - WE RECEIVE EVIL AND HE TRUSTS THE LORD. 00:40:28.96\00:40:32.53 THERE THE DEVIL IS ACCUSING. 00:40:32.53\00:40:35.03 ALRIGHT, READ TO US JUDE 9 - I DON'T SAY CHAPTER BECAUSE 00:40:35.03\00:40:39.06 THERE'S NO CHAPTERS - THERE'S ONE CHAPTER, IT'S VERSE 9. 00:40:39.06\00:40:44.20 >>JUDE 9, "YET MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, IN CONTENDING WITH 00:40:44.20\00:40:48.96 THE DEVIL, WHEN HE DISPUTED ABOUT THE BODY OF MOSES, DARED 00:40:48.96\00:40:53.56 NOT BRING AGAINST HIM A REVILING ACCUSATION, BUT SAID, 'THE LORD 00:40:53.56\00:40:58.43 REBUKE YOU!'" >>ALRIGHT, SO HERE MICHAEL 00:40:58.43\00:41:01.46 COMES TO RESURRECT MOSES. NOW THIS IS NOT IN THE BIBLE, 00:41:01.46\00:41:04.76 BUT IN JEWISH TRADITION IT SAYS, THREE DAYS AFTER MOSES DIED THE 00:41:04.76\00:41:08.33 LORD RAISED HIM. BECAUSE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE 00:41:08.33\00:41:11.40 RAISED BEFORE YOUR BODY BEGAN TO CORRUPT OR DECOMPOSE. 00:41:11.40\00:41:15.16 AND THAT'S ALSO KIND OF A TYPE OF CHRIST. 00:41:15.16\00:41:18.86 NOW WE DO KNOW MOSES WAS RAISED. HOW DO WE KNOW THAT? 00:41:18.86\00:41:21.70 HE APPEARS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, FOR ONE THING, IN THE MOUNT OF 00:41:21.70\00:41:25.20 TRANSFIGURATION. AND THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT WHEN 00:41:25.20\00:41:30.83 MICHAEL CAME TO RAISE HIM THE DEVIL CONTENDED - HE CONTESTED 00:41:30.83\00:41:34.13 AND SAID, 'YOU CAN'T TAKE MOSES. HE SINNED. 00:41:34.13\00:41:36.13 HE'S MINE.' BUT GOD SAID, 'THE LORD REBUKE YOU. 00:41:36.13\00:41:39.56 HE REPENTED OF HIS SINS. HE HAS BEEN REDEEMED. 00:41:39.56\00:41:42.70 HE IS MINE.' BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 00:41:42.70\00:41:44.76 SANCTUARY WITH THE SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB, MOSES CLAIMED THE 00:41:44.76\00:41:47.43 BLOOD OF THE LAMB, HE WAS FORGIVEN AND HE WAS REBUKED. 00:41:47.43\00:41:51.90 NOW DOES THE DEVIL SOMETIMES COME TO YOU AND SAY, 'YOU DON'T 00:41:51.90\00:41:54.90 REALLY LOVE GOD. YOU'RE MINE.' AND IF YOU HAVE REPENTED OF YOUR 00:41:54.90\00:41:58.23 SINS AND ACCEPTED THE LORD THEN JESUS SAYS TO THE DEVIL, 'THE 00:41:58.23\00:42:03.00 LORD REBUKE YOU. HE BELONGS TO ME. SHE BELONGS 00:42:03.00\00:42:06.06 TO ME.' AND SO HERE HE IS AGAIN ACCUSING THE BRETHREN. 00:42:06.06\00:42:10.06 GO TO REVELATION 12 - WHO HAS THAT? OVER HERE. 00:42:10.06\00:42:15.86 REVELATION 12, VERSE 10. 00:42:15.86\00:42:18.43 AND WHILE WE GO THERE, I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW 26:60, WHEN THEY 00:42:18.43\00:42:23.06 WANTED TO CONDEMN JESUS - THEY HAD TO FIND FALSE WITNESSES. 00:42:23.06\00:42:26.96 "BUT FOUND NONE: YEA, THOUGH MANY FALSE WITNESSES CAME" - BUT 00:42:26.96\00:42:30.30 THEY COULDN'T AGREE - "AT THE LAST CAME TWO FALSE WITNESSES, 00:42:30.30\00:42:33.70 AND SAID, 'THIS FELLOW SAID, 'I AM ABLE TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE OF 00:42:33.70\00:42:37.70 GOD, AND TO BUILD IT IN THREE DAYS.''" 00:42:37.70\00:42:40.30 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? NOW, JESUS DID SAY SOMETHING 00:42:40.30\00:42:43.03 SIMILAR TO THAT, BUT THEY TWISTED IT. 00:42:43.03\00:42:45.13 JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND IN THREE 00:42:45.13\00:42:47.40 DAYS I WILL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.' 00:42:47.40\00:42:49.13 HE WAS SPEAKING OF HIS BODY - THAT HE WOULD RAISE UP HIS BODY. 00:42:49.13\00:42:52.83 AND - BUT HERE IT IS, THEY HAVE FALSE WITNESSES - THE THING THAT 00:42:52.83\00:42:58.23 THEY FOUND TO ACCUSE JESUS OF IS DESTROYING THE TEMPLE. 00:42:58.23\00:43:02.53 DID JESUS COME TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE OR TO RAISE UP THE 00:43:02.53\00:43:04.70 TEMPLE? PHYSICAL TEMPLE WASN'T IMPORTANT - THE TEMPLE OF HIS 00:43:04.70\00:43:10.63 CHURCH - HIS BODY. HIS RESURRECTION IS A TYPE OF THE 00:43:10.63\00:43:13.46 CHURCH BEING BORN. YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST. YOU ARE THE 00:43:13.46\00:43:16.43 TEMPLE OF GOD, RIGHT? ALRIGHT, REVELATION 12:10. 00:43:16.43\00:43:20.53 >>"THEN I HEARD A LOUD VOICE SAYING IN HEAVEN, 'NOW SALVATION 00:43:20.53\00:43:25.00 AND STRENGTH, AND THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD, AND THE POWER OF HIS 00:43:25.00\00:43:29.53 CHRIST HAVE COME, FOR THE ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN, WHO 00:43:29.53\00:43:33.96 ACCUSED THEM BEFORE OUR GOD DAY AND NIGHT, HAS BEEN CAST DOWN." 00:43:33.96\00:43:39.23 >>WHAT IS IT THAT CAUSES HIM TO BE CAST DOWN? 00:43:39.23\00:43:43.93 IT'S BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SANCTUARY. 00:43:43.93\00:43:46.63 YOU NOTICE IN REVELATION ALL OF THIS IS TRANSPIRING IN THE 00:43:46.63\00:43:49.26 SANCTUARY. FIRST CHAPTER OF REVELATION 00:43:49.26\00:43:51.66 JESUS IS AMONG THE CANDLESTICKS. THEN YOU READ ABOUT THE ALTAR 00:43:51.66\00:43:59.96 AND YOU TEMPLE OF HEAVEN. AND SO, IT'S IN THE CONTEXT OF 00:43:59.96\00:44:03.50 THE SANCTUARY THE ACCUSER IS CAST DOWN BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD 00:44:03.50\00:44:06.86 OF THE LAMB THAT IS SLAIN. WHAT DO YOU SEE IN CHAPTER 4? 00:44:06.86\00:44:10.10 A LAMB THAT HAD BEEN SLAIN - OF REVELATION, RIGHT? 00:44:10.10\00:44:13.43 AND SO YOU'VE GOT THESE PICTURES - ACTUALLY, IT'S CHAPTER - YEAH, 00:44:13.43\00:44:16.70 IT'S CHAPTER 5. YOU'VE GOT THESE PICTURES IN 00:44:16.70\00:44:19.26 REVELATION OF THE SANCTUARY TAKING PLACE. 00:44:19.26\00:44:22.76 AND WHAT CAST DOWN THE ACCUSER? IT'S THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS. 00:44:22.76\00:44:27.00 THAT'S WHAT - WHAT RIGHT WOULD ANY OF US HAVE TO STAND BEFORE 00:44:27.00\00:44:30.90 THE LORD IN THE JUDGMENT IF IT WASN'T FOR JESUS. 00:44:30.90\00:44:35.83 YOU KNOW, IN THE BOOK 'CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS' PAGE 167 - AND 00:44:35.83\00:44:39.13 THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON - ELLEN WHITE SAYS THAT "SATAN IS 00:44:39.13\00:44:42.76 ACCUSING THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND MAKING THEIR CASE APPEAR AS 00:44:42.76\00:44:46.30 DESPERATE AS POSSIBLE. HE PRESENTS BEFORE THE LORD 00:44:46.30\00:44:49.50 THEIR EVIL DOINGS AND THEIR DEFECTS." 00:44:49.50\00:44:52.33 YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION THAT A PERSON WHO IS ALWAYS 00:44:52.33\00:44:56.10 POINTING A FINGER AT EVERYBODY ELSE HAS THREE FINGERS 00:44:56.10\00:44:59.03 POINTING BACK? 00:44:59.03\00:45:00.43 AND IT'S OFTEN PEOPLE WHO ARE THE MOST CRITICAL AND ACCUSING 00:45:00.43\00:45:06.43 OF OTHERS - THEY'RE REALLY USING IT AS A DIVERSIONARY TACTIC 00:45:06.43\00:45:10.33 BECAUSE THEY FEEL GUILTY AND THE WAY THEY COPE WITH THEIR GUILT 00:45:10.33\00:45:13.33 IS BY POINTING OUT THE MISDEEDS OF EVERYBODY ELSE. 00:45:13.33\00:45:16.53 AND SO YOU NEED TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN YOU'RE POINTING THE FINGER 00:45:16.53\00:45:19.43 AT EVERYONE ELSE, IS IT REALLY A MECHANISM TO DEFLECT ATTENTION 00:45:19.43\00:45:24.26 FROM YOURSELF AND YOUR OWN GUILT AND YOUR OWN SINS? 00:45:24.26\00:45:29.30 YOU KNOW THERE'S ONE OTHER QUOTE I WAS GOING TO READ YOU AND THIS 00:45:29.30\00:45:31.66 IS FROM THE BOOK 'PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS'. 00:45:31.66\00:45:33.16 "LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING, WAS THE FIRST OF THE COVERING 00:45:33.16\00:45:37.30 CHERUBS, HOLY AND UNDEFILED. HE STOOD IN THE PRESENCE OF THE 00:45:37.30\00:45:41.76 GREAT CREATOR AND UPON CEASELESS BEAMS OF GLORY THAT ENSHROUDED 00:45:41.76\00:45:47.06 THE ETERNAL GOD RESTED UPON HIM." 00:45:47.06\00:45:50.16 JUST HE WAS IN THE BEAUTIFUL PRESENCE OF GOD. 00:45:50.16\00:45:53.43 ALRIGHT, NOW, STILL TALKING ABOUT THE ACCUSER OF THE 00:45:53.43\00:45:56.16 BRETHREN, GO WITH ME TO ZECHARIAH - THE MINOR PROPHET 00:45:56.16\00:46:00.10 ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 3 - HERE'S A CLEAR PICTURE OF IT ALSO IN THE 00:46:00.10\00:46:05.26 CONTEXT OF THE SANCTUARY AND THIS COMES FROM THE NIV VERSION. 00:46:05.26\00:46:11.33 "THEN HE SHOWED ME JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST STANDING BEFORE THE 00:46:11.33\00:46:15.23 ANGEL OF THE LORD, AND SATAN STANDING AT HIS RIGHT SIDE TO 00:46:15.23\00:46:18.36 ACCUSE HIM. THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 00:46:18.36\00:46:20.70 'THE LORD REBUKE YOU, SATAN! THE LORD, WHO HAS CHOSEN 00:46:20.70\00:46:24.13 JERUSALEM, REBUKE YOU! IS NOT THIS MAN A BURNING STICK 00:46:24.13\00:46:31.00 SNATCHED FROM THE FIRE?'" SO HERE YOU HAVE A PICTURE. 00:46:31.00\00:46:34.13 WHO DOES THE HIGH PRIEST REPRESENT? 00:46:34.13\00:46:37.33 THE JOB OF THE HIGH PRIEST IS HE MAKES INTERCESSION FOR THE 00:46:37.33\00:46:40.06 PEOPLE. WHO BORE THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE 00:46:40.06\00:46:42.66 INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT? 00:46:42.66\00:46:45.63 THE HIGH PRIEST, RIGHT? SO WHEN THE DEVIL IS ACCUSING 00:46:45.63\00:46:49.26 THE HIGH PRIEST, WHAT IS HE INDIRECTLY ACCUSING? 00:46:49.26\00:46:52.83 GOD'S PEOPLE. HE'S ACCUSING GOD'S PEOPLE OF 00:46:52.83\00:46:54.90 THEIR SINS. HE'S POINTING - WHAT KIND OF 00:46:54.90\00:46:56.66 GARMENTS DID THE HIGH PRIEST HAVE ON? DIRTY GARMENTS. 00:46:56.66\00:47:00.60 WAS IT TRUE? YES, HIS GARMENTS WERE DIRTY. 00:47:00.60\00:47:03.43 AND THE DEVIL'S POINTING SAYING, 'LOOK AT THE SINS OF YOUR 00:47:03.43\00:47:05.56 PEOPLE. HOW CAN YOU SAVE THIS PEOPLE?' 00:47:05.56\00:47:09.33 I THINK I COVERED WITH YOU IN A PREVIOUS STUDY ON THE SANCTUARY 00:47:09.33\00:47:15.36 - CAN YOU THINK OF ANOTHER STORY OF THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS 00:47:15.36\00:47:18.76 POINTING TO THE SINS OF SOMEBODY IN THE TEMPLE? 00:47:18.76\00:47:22.36 WHEN THAT WOMAN, POSSIBLY MARY MAGDALENE WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT 00:47:22.36\00:47:25.56 OF ADULTERY - SHE WAS CAST DOWN AT THE FEET OF JESUS - WHERE WAS 00:47:25.56\00:47:28.63 THAT? IN THE TEMPLE? WERE THEY ACCUSING HER? 00:47:28.63\00:47:31.93 WERE THEY POINTING? WERE THEY CONDEMNING? 00:47:31.93\00:47:33.53 WERE THEY SAYING 'STONE HER! ACCORDING TO THE LAW SHE'S 00:47:33.53\00:47:35.43 GUILTY'? WHY DID THEY COME TO JESUS? 00:47:35.43\00:47:37.43 WHY DIDN'T THEY TAKE HER AND STONE HER? 00:47:37.43\00:47:39.23 THERE THEY ARE - ACTUALLY, THEY'RE TRYING TO USE THAT AS A 00:47:39.23\00:47:41.66 MECHANISM TO CONDEMN JESUS. AND WHAT DOES JESUS SAY? 00:47:41.66\00:47:46.56 HE STARTS TO - HE SAYS NOTHING AT FIRST - WRITES IN THE DUST OF 00:47:46.56\00:47:49.40 THE TEMPLE FLOOR THEIR SINS. DO YOU WANT THE LORD TO WRITE 00:47:49.40\00:47:53.40 YOUR SINS? BE CAREFUL THAT YOU ARE NOT 00:47:53.40\00:47:56.63 CATEGORIZED WITH THE DEVIL AS AN ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 00:47:56.63\00:48:00.96 NOW YOU TRANSITION TO THE NEXT SECTION, 'VINDICATION AT THE 00:48:00.96\00:48:05.20 CROSS' AND YOU READ THE REST OF ZECHARIAH - THE DEVIL ACCUSES 00:48:05.20\00:48:10.43 BUT WHAT DOES GOD SAY? ZECHARIAH 3 - NOW SOMEONE LOOK 00:48:10.43\00:48:12.76 UP FOR ME 1 JOHN, 4:10 - WHO HAS THAT? 00:48:12.76\00:48:16.60 WE GAVE - I THINK WE GAVE THEM OUT - 1 JOHN, 4:10 - IF YOU'VE 00:48:16.60\00:48:20.40 GOT THAT, HOLD YOUR HAND UP. YOU GOT IT? 00:48:20.40\00:48:22.93 ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A SECOND. 00:48:22.93\00:48:24.90 ZECHARIAH 3, VERSE 3, "NOW JOSHUA WAS DRESSED IN FILTHY 00:48:24.90\00:48:28.73 CLOTHES AS HE STOOD BEFORE THE ANGEL. 00:48:28.73\00:48:31.50 THE ANGEL SAID TO THOSE WHO WERE STANDING BEFORE HIM, 00:48:31.50\00:48:34.53 'TAKE OFF HIS FILTHY CLOTHES.' THEN HE SAID TO JOSHUA, 00:48:34.53\00:48:38.10 'SEE, I HAVE TAKEN AWAY YOUR SIN," - 00:48:38.10\00:48:40.03 WHAT DO THE FILTHY CLOTHES REPRESENT? 00:48:40.03\00:48:43.30 ALL OF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIKE FILTHY RAGS - IT SAYS, "'TAKE 00:48:43.30\00:48:48.50 OFF HIS FILTHY CLOTHES...SEE, I HAVE TAKEN AWAY YOUR SIN AND I 00:48:48.50\00:48:51.83 WILL PUT FINE GARMENTS ON YOU.'" - WHAT IS THAT GARMENT? 00:48:51.83\00:48:55.56 THAT REPRESENTS THE ROBE OF CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:48:55.56\00:48:58.13 "THEN I SAID, 'PUT A CLEAN TURBAN ON HIS HEAD.' SO THEY 00:48:58.13\00:49:01.46 TAKE AWAY HIS FILTHY CLOTHES, AND FILTHY TURBAN - THEY PUT ON 00:49:01.46\00:49:04.26 CLEAN ROBES, CLEAN TURBAN ON HIS HEAD - "WHILE THE ANGEL OF THE 00:49:04.26\00:49:08.53 LORD STOOD BY." AND SO, WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO 00:49:08.53\00:49:12.13 PROVIDE THAT ROBE FOR HIM? AND THAT'S CHRIST - IS, I 00:49:12.13\00:49:15.43 BELIEVE, ONE OF THOSE MESSENGERS STANDING IN THAT SCENE. 00:49:15.43\00:49:18.93 AND SO, WE'RE VINDICATED BECAUSE THE SIN IS TAKEN AWAY. 00:49:18.93\00:49:23.43 WHERE DO WE GET OUR ROBE? WHAT DID JESUS LEAVE BEHIND 00:49:23.43\00:49:26.06 ON THE CROSS? A BLOOD-STAINED ROBE WAS THE ONLY THING HE LEFT. 00:49:26.06\00:49:30.86 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US 1 JOHN, 4:10. 00:49:30.86\00:49:34.96 >>1 JOHN CHAPTER 4, VERSE 10, "IN THIS IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE 00:49:34.96\00:49:39.66 LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE 00:49:39.66\00:49:44.06 PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS." >>ALRIGHT, PROPITIATION MEANS 00:49:44.06\00:49:48.86 TO BE SUBSTITUTE - TO BE THE REPLACEMENT - TO COVER FOR US. 00:49:48.86\00:49:53.40 GOD SENT HIS SON TO BE THE COVERING - TO BE THE REPLACEMENT 00:49:53.40\00:49:56.86 - THE SUBSTITUTE FOR OUR SINS. NOT FOR OUR SINS ONLY, BUT IT 00:49:56.86\00:50:01.23 SAYS FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. 00:50:01.23\00:50:03.43 AND SO WE ARE VINDICATED BECAUSE CHRIST SAID THAT HE WILL TAKE 00:50:03.43\00:50:06.10 OUR PLACE. NOW THERE ARE THREE PHASES IN 00:50:06.10\00:50:09.46 THIS SALVATION THAT WE TALK ABOUT. 00:50:09.46\00:50:12.36 YOU'VE GOT JUSTIFICATION, SANCTIFICATION, GLORIFICATION. 00:50:12.36\00:50:18.03 JUSTIFICATION MEANS YOU COME TO THE LORD JUST AS YOU ARE. 00:50:18.03\00:50:20.86 YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE ANYTHING. 00:50:20.86\00:50:22.86 WHEN YOU FIRST COME TO THE LORD, YOU COME TO HIM WITH YOUR SINS - 00:50:22.86\00:50:25.60 JUST AS I AM - WITHOUT ONE PLEA. HE THEN EMBRACES YOU, HE WILL 00:50:25.60\00:50:30.06 COVER YOUR SINS, THEN IF YOU REALLY LOVE HIM AND YOU'RE 00:50:30.06\00:50:33.20 FORGIVEN, YOU WANT TO BE CLEANSED AND SANCTIFIED AS WELL. 00:50:33.20\00:50:37.60 SO AS SOON AS YOU'RE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST HE DECLARES YOU CLEAN, 00:50:37.60\00:50:41.03 YOU'RE NOT ON PROBATION, YOU'RE RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH IN HIS 00:50:41.03\00:50:44.66 SACRIFICE. BUT THEN, IF YOU WANT TO RETAIN 00:50:44.66\00:50:47.43 THAT FORGIVENESS, YOU THEN LIVE A NEW LIFE, YOU TURN - THE BIBLE 00:50:47.43\00:50:51.43 TELLS US - YOU REPENT, YOU CONFESS, AND A SANCTIFICATION 00:50:51.43\00:50:54.96 HAPPENS WHERE YOU'RE LEARNING TO DO GOOD, CEASING TO DO EVIL. 00:50:54.96\00:50:58.10 THERE'S A GROWTH THAT TRANSPIRES AND ALL OF THAT CHRIST PROVIDES 00:50:58.10\00:51:02.50 TO VINDICATE US SO WE CAN ULTIMATELY BE 00:51:02.50\00:51:04.63 GLORIFIED AND BE WITH HIM IN THE KINGDOM. 00:51:04.63\00:51:07.23 ROMANS 3:23, "FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE 00:51:07.23\00:51:10.93 GLORY OF GOD, BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE 00:51:10.93\00:51:15.16 REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS, WHOM GOD SET FORTH AS A 00:51:15.16\00:51:19.13 PROPITIATION BY HIS BLOOD, THROUGH FAITH, TO DEMONSTRATE 00:51:19.13\00:51:23.16 HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE IN HIS FORBEARANCE GOD HAD PASSED 00:51:23.16\00:51:26.86 OVER THE SINS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED." 00:51:26.86\00:51:29.30 SO WHEN YOU COME TO JESUS HE PASSES OVER ALL THE SINS THAT 00:51:29.30\00:51:32.76 WERE WHAT? PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED. 00:51:32.76\00:51:35.90 ALL OF YOUR PRIOR SINS ARE FORGIVEN. 00:51:35.90\00:51:37.90 HE'S NOT GIVING YOU A LICENSE FOR FUTURE SIN. 00:51:37.90\00:51:41.46 SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE GRACE OF GOD - YOU COME TO 00:51:41.46\00:51:43.63 JESUS, YOU'RE FORGIVEN, AND HE'S FORGIVING YOU AND SAYING, 'I'M 00:51:43.63\00:51:46.83 NOT ONLY GOING TO FORGIVE YOUR PAST SINS - ANY OTHER SIN YOU 00:51:46.83\00:51:49.26 MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN, HELP YOURSELF.' 00:51:49.26\00:51:51.60 NO, THAT'S A VERY - BUT I'VE HEARD IT PREACHED THAT WAY 00:51:51.60\00:51:54.66 BEFORE. THAT'S NOT WHAT IT SAYS. 00:51:54.66\00:51:56.06 IT SAYS 'SINS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED.' 00:51:56.06\00:51:58.26 YOU'RE TO REPENT OF YOUR PAST SINS AND YOU'RE WANTING TO LIVE 00:51:58.26\00:52:00.56 A NEW HOLY LIFE, RIGHT? IT'S NOT A LICENSE FOR NEW SIN 00:52:00.56\00:52:04.30 THAT JESUS IS PROVIDING. IF YOU DO SIN - NOTICE THAT WORD 00:52:04.30\00:52:07.80 'IF'. HE'S NOT SAYING, 'HELP YOURSELF.' 00:52:07.80\00:52:10.46 IF YOU DO SIN THEN WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER AND HE 00:52:10.46\00:52:12.66 DOES COVER US. BUT WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING, BY 00:52:12.66\00:52:14.83 GOD'S GRACE, TO TURN FROM THAT LIFE OF SIN. 00:52:14.83\00:52:18.46 "TO DEMONSTRATE AT THE PRESENT TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT HE 00:52:18.46\00:52:21.66 MIGHT BE JUST AND THE JUSTIFIER OF THE ONE WHO HAS FAITH IN 00:52:21.66\00:52:25.93 JESUS." SO, A FINAL THOUGHT THAT WE'RE 00:52:25.93\00:52:29.23 GOING TO HAVE TIME FOR HERE IS JUST THE VINDICATION THAT TAKES 00:52:29.23\00:52:31.50 PLACE THEN IN THE JUDGMENT. AND SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 00:52:31.50\00:52:35.83 REVELATION 19:2 - YOU GOT THAT RAY? 00:52:35.83\00:52:38.90 ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A SECOND. 00:52:38.90\00:52:48.36 IS LAID UP FOR ME THE CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH THE LORD, 00:52:48.36\00:52:51.30 THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE, WILL GIVE TO ME ON THAT DAY, AND NOT TO ME 00:52:51.30\00:52:54.83 ONLY BUT ALSO TO ALL WHO HAVE LOVED HIS APPEARING." 00:52:54.83\00:52:58.46 GOD IS THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE. 00:52:58.46\00:52:59.83 BY THE WAY, PAUL WROTE THAT WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO BE EXECUTED BY 00:52:59.83\00:53:03.50 NERO AND HE KNEW THAT NERO WAS AN UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGE. 00:53:03.50\00:53:08.20 HE SAID, 'I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT THAT JUDGE, I'M LOOKING FORWARD 00:53:08.20\00:53:10.76 TO THE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE IS GOING TO GIVE ME 00:53:10.76\00:53:13.43 BECAUSE HE'S FORGIVEN ME.' ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD PLEASE AND 00:53:13.43\00:53:16.06 READ - WHAT DID I SAY? - REVELATION 19:2. 00:53:16.06\00:53:20.06 >>"FOR TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS JUDGEMENTS, BECAUSE HE HAS 00:53:20.06\00:53:23.36 JUDGED THE GREAT HARLOT WHO CORRUPTED THE EARTH WITH HER 00:53:23.36\00:53:27.43 FORNICATION; AND HE HAS AVENGED ON HER THE BLOOD OF HIS SERVANTS 00:53:27.43\00:53:32.40 SHED BY HER." >>AND SO HERE HE DECLARES GOD'S 00:53:32.40\00:53:36.73 JUDGMENTS ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS. 00:53:36.73\00:53:38.53 YOU KNOW, WE REALLY GET TO PARTICIPATE WITH GOD IN THAT 00:53:38.53\00:53:41.73 FINAL JUDGEMENT AND THE BIBLE TELLS US - OF COURSE, WE - AT 00:53:41.73\00:53:45.16 THAT POINT WE'VE GOT HIS SPIRIT, HIS MIND, AND HIS HEART - IT 00:53:45.16\00:53:48.50 SAYS, 'DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT SAINTS WILL JUDGE THE WORLD?' 00:53:48.50\00:53:51.90 BUT WE ARE VINDICATED BECAUSE OF THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS. 00:53:51.90\00:53:55.50 THE FINAL SECTION 'COSMIC SPECTACLE' - THAT'S BASICALLY 00:53:55.50\00:53:58.66 SAYING THAT EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING HERE IS HAPPENING IN 00:53:58.66\00:54:02.53 THE PRESENCE OF HEAVENLY AGENCIES. 00:54:02.53\00:54:04.80 ANGELS ARE WATCHING WHAT'S GOING ON HERE ON EARTH. 00:54:04.80\00:54:07.70 AND SO, AS THE SANCTUARY WAS SORT OF LIKE A THEATER IN WHICH 00:54:07.70\00:54:12.16 GOD'S SALVATION WAS ACTED OUT HERE ON EARTH, OUR PLANET IS 00:54:12.16\00:54:16.06 SHOWING THE WHOLE UNIVERSE - THE PLAN OF SALVATION IS BEING ACTED 00:54:16.06\00:54:19.10 OUT - THAT WAR BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL - IN OUR WORLD. 00:54:19.10\00:54:22.60 WELL OUR TIME IS UP BUT WE WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY WE HAVE A 00:54:22.60\00:54:25.66 SPECIAL OFFER THAT TALKS ABOUT THE FALL OF LUCIFER AND THIS 00:54:25.66\00:54:29.16 COSMIC CONFLICT BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 00:54:29.16\00:54:31.36 IT'S CALLED 'THE REBELLIOUS PRINCE', WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU 00:54:31.36\00:54:33.40 FOR FREE. JUST ASK FOR OFFER #804 WHEN YOU 00:54:33.40\00:54:36.33 CALL AND THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966. 00:54:36.33\00:54:41.23 AND OUR TIME IS UP FOR OUR STUDY TODAY. 00:54:41.23\00:54:43.26 HOPE YOU LEARNED SOMETHING AND WERE BLESSED AND, GOD WILLING, 00:54:43.26\00:54:46.56 WE'LL STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. GOD BLESS. 00:54:46.56\00:54:52.90 >>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION. (MUSIC) 00:54:52.90\00:55:05.83 >>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN FROM THE FIRST 00:55:05.83\00:55:09.53 COMING OF JESUS AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CHURCH UP UNTIL 00:55:09.53\00:55:13.53 JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 00:55:13.53\00:55:16.66 IT SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND THEN, 00:55:16.66\00:55:22.56 ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION. 00:55:22.56\00:55:27.90 THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE. 00:55:27.90\00:55:30.83 IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A 00:55:30.83\00:55:34.90 PROPHET, THOSE THINGS ARE PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY. 00:55:34.90\00:55:38.93 (MUSIC) >>THIS IS AN EXCITING DAY. 00:55:38.93\00:55:50.60 THIS IS NOT ONLY OUR FIRST SHOOT FOR STUDIO FOR REVELATION, BUT 00:55:50.60\00:55:54.16 THIS IS ALSO OUR FIRST REAL SHOOT IN THIS STUDIO. 00:55:54.16\00:55:59.03 WHEN WE STARTED THIS PROJECT, THE PAINT WAS LITERALLY DRYING 00:55:59.03\00:56:02.83 ON THE BLUE SCREEN THAT WE SHOT MOST OF THE SCENES ON AND WE 00:56:02.83\00:56:06.50 LITERALLY PUT IN THE FLOORING AND ALL THE PILLARS AND 00:56:06.50\00:56:09.90 EVERYTHING TO SHOOT THE SCENES WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 00:56:09.90\00:56:14.23 WHEN WE CREATED OUR SCENE BREAKDOWN, WE DECIDED THAT THERE 00:56:14.23\00:56:18.53 WERE ABOUT 68 SCENES THAT WERE REALLY PIVOTAL TO TELLING THIS 00:56:18.53\00:56:22.23 STORY - TO MAKE IT WHAT WE DREAMED AND IMAGINED 00:56:22.23\00:56:25.46 IT COULD BE. 00:56:25.46\00:56:26.86 >>WE HAD A WISH LIST OF THINGS WE WANTED TO RECREATE, BUT YOU 00:56:26.86\00:56:30.30 ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITHIN REALITY AND A BUDGET AND SO WE NEEDED TO 00:56:30.30\00:56:33.60 PICK, YOU KNOW, WHICH OF THE SCENES THAT WE NEEDED TO 00:56:33.60\00:56:36.40 COMMUNICATE THE DRAMA AND EMOTION OF WHAT HAS REALLY 00:56:36.40\00:56:40.13 HAPPENED IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST'S FIRST 00:56:40.13\00:56:43.66 COMING UP UNTIL WHERE WE ARE TODAY. 00:56:43.66\00:56:46.63 WE MADE THE CHOICE TO ACTUALLY SEND A FILM CREW TO DIFFERENT 00:56:46.63\00:56:49.40 PARTS OF THE WORLD TO GET FRESH FOOTAGE OF SOME OF THE SCENES OF 00:56:49.40\00:56:53.93 THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE AND SOME OF THE CATACOMBS IN ROME. 00:56:53.93\00:57:01.70 >>NOW WE'RE IN ROME AND WE'RE ACTUALLY IN A CATACOMB WHERE THE 00:57:01.70\00:57:05.90 CHRISTIANS WOULD BURY THEIR DEAD. 00:57:05.90\00:57:09.86 THIS IS THE CATACOMB DOMATILLA AND THIS ONE IS ONE OF THE MOST, 00:57:09.86\00:57:14.70 I GUESS, MOST FASCINATING ONES BECAUSE IT'S SEVENTEEN 00:57:14.70\00:57:18.30 KILOMETERS IN DISTANCE. THAT'S ALMOST TEN AND A HALF 00:57:18.30\00:57:21.50 MILES OF BURIAL SPOTS. YOU'VE GOT SO MUCH ARTWORK ON 00:57:21.50\00:57:25.26 THE WALLS. YOU'VE GOT AREAS WHERE PEOPLE 00:57:25.26\00:57:27.56 HAVE ENGRAVED TOMBSTONE OR YOU'VE GOT - YOU'VE GOT SOME OF 00:57:27.56\00:57:30.33 THE SYMBOLS WHICH COME FROM THE CONSTANTINE ERA. 00:57:30.33\00:57:33.56 SO IT'S BEEN VERY, VERY EXCITING TO SEE ALL OF THIS HISTORY ALL 00:57:33.56\00:57:37.40 IN ONE PLACE - WHERE THE CHRISTIANS ACTUALLY CAME, NOT 00:57:37.40\00:57:41.36 JUST TO BURY THEIR DEAD BUT TO ESCAPE - TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE 00:57:41.36\00:57:44.76 IN THEIR FAITH. >>GETTING THE ACTUAL SHOTS OF 00:57:44.76\00:57:47.86 THE PLACES WHERE THESE EVENTS TRANSPIRED BRINGS IT TO LIFE AND 00:57:47.86\00:57:51.80 MAKES IT REAL. (MUSIC) 00:57:51.80\00:57:52.80