Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021351
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:49 HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE 00:53 TUNING IN, WHETHER YOU'RE WATCHING LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE AT 00:56 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', LISTENING ON THE RADIO, OR ON THE VARIOUS 01:01 TELEVISION NETWORKS - HOWEVER YOU'RE JOINING US WE'RE SO GLAD. 01:04 AND TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION, WE SING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AND 01:08 I HOPE YOU HAVE HAD A GOOD WEEK AND ARE READY TO SING WITH US 01:12 BECAUSE WE'RE ALL WARMED UP AND WE'RE READY TO GO HERE. 01:14 AND, OF COURSE, TODAY WE'RE GOING TO SING MY FAVORITE - 01:19 WE'LL SING THAT AS THE NEXT SONG, 'SILENT NIGHT' - BUT WE'RE 01:23 GOING TO START WITH 'ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH' - #142. 01:27 SO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS, THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, AND JOIN 01:30 WITH US HERE. 'ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH' - WE'RE GOING TO 01:33 SING THE FIRST, SECOND AND FOURTH STANZAS - #142. 01:39 (MUSIC) 04:04 >>THANK YOU ANDREA, BIANCA, ELINA, AND DIMITAR IN BULGARIA, 04:09 TONY IN GHANA, MERIN IN IRELAND AND JUDY IN SAINT KITTS 04:12 AND NEVIS AND MANY MORE FOR CHOOSING THEIR FAVORITE 04:15 CHRISTMAS SONG. AND IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE 04:18 TO SING WITH US ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT'S SO SIMPLE. 04:21 JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 04:24 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE SONG AND 04:27 WE WILL SING THAT WITH YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM. OUR NEXT ONE 04:32 - THIS IS FROM NOEL AND MARGARET IN AUSTRALIA, MARIAN IN NEW 04:36 ZEALAND, BETSY IN PANAMA, AND ROSELYN, NAOMI, NATHAN, NATASHA, 04:40 AND RACHEL IN VANUATU AND A WHOLE BUNCH MORE AND MYSELF. 04:47 'SILENT NIGHT' - WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL FOUR STANZAS - #143. 04:51 (MUSIC) 08:18 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING IN 'SILENT NIGHT'. AT THIS TIME 08:23 I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE PRAY. 08:27 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 08:31 THANK YOU FOR GIVING UP THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN AND COMING 08:37 DOWN HERE TO THIS WORLD WHERE YOU KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO BE 08:41 MISTREATED, MISUNDERSTOOD, AND CRUCIFIED. BUT YOU GAVE IT ALL 08:46 UP BECAUSE YOU LOVE US AND I PRAY THAT OUR HEARTS WILL BE 08:52 OVERFLOWING WITH THAT LOVE TODAY FOR YOU THAT YOU HAVE FOR US. 08:58 BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. 09:01 BE WITH PASTOR DOUG AS HE BRINGS US THE LESSON STUDY AND THANK 09:05 YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL SABBATH DAY. 09:07 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS 09:11 GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 09:14 HE IS OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL 09:17 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 09:23 >>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND OUR MUSICIANS. 09:26 AND IT'S ALWAYS A NICE TIME OF YEAR WHEN WE GET TO SING THOSE 09:31 BEAUTIFUL SONGS THAT ARE SO CLASSIC AND ENDURING. 09:34 HOW IS EVERYBODY? DID YOU SURVIVE THANKSGIVING 09:38 OKAY? ANYONE HAVE LEFTOVERS LEFTOVER? 09:45 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS - OF COURSE, THIS IS BROADCASTING 09:47 A FEW WEEKS AFTER THANKSGIVING, BUT FOR US HERE IT JUST HAPPENED 09:51 AND I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO MIGHT BE STUDYING WITH US. 09:54 WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ONLINE MEMBERS - WE WELCOME YOU. 09:56 AND THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE INTERESTED IN - 09:58 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 10:00 WE HAVE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WHO HAVE NO LOCAL CHURCH THEY 10:02 CAN ATTEND, FOR SOME REASON, AND SO THROUGH EITHER THE INTERNET 10:05 OR SATELLITE THEY'VE BECOME SOME OF THE ONLINE MEMBERS OF 10:09 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT YOU 10:12 CAN GO TO 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND THERE'LL BE SOME INFORMATION 10:16 THERE ON HOW YOU CAN BE PART OF OUR FAMILY AS WELL AS WE CAN DO 10:21 IT THROUGH THE INTERNET. AND WE ARE GOING TO BE GETTING 10:25 INTO OUR LESSON IN JUST A MOMENT. 10:26 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY AND 10:29 THIS IS FROM THE SERIES CALLED 'STORACLES OF PROPHECY'. 10:34 IF YOU WANT THIS, CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN 10:36 866-STUDY-MORE - YOU'LL REALLY ENJOY IT - 866-STUDY-MORE AND 10:40 ASK FOR OFFER #804 AND THAT NUMBER IS 788-3966. 10:48 WE'RE CONTINUING - WE'RE ON LESSON 12 IN THE STUDY ON THE 10:51 SANCTUARY AND TODAY'S LESSON, IN PARTICULAR, IS DEALING WITH THE 10:55 COSMIC CONFLICT OVER GOD'S CHARACTER. 10:59 THE SANCTUARY IS DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF GOD'S GOODNESS 11:07 AND HIS EFFORTS TO REDEEM A MAN FROM BADNESS. 11:11 THERE IS A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 11:15 YOU KNOW, ONE THING I NOTICED IS - I WAS NOT ALWAYS A CHRISTIAN 11:19 OR A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN, AND I WORSHIPED WITH 11:23 A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS, BUT EVEN BEFORE I 11:26 WAS A CHRISTIAN I WAS INVOLVED IN BUDDHISM, YOGA, 11:32 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION, SYLVAN MIND CONTROL - 11:37 I MEAN, I WAS DABBLING IN ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS - 11:40 HINDUISM - YOU KNOW, BACK IN THE BEATLES' ERA THE EASTERN 11:43 RELIGIONS WERE THE THING. SOME OF YOU REMEMBER. 11:46 AND SO WE WERE EXPLORING THAT, READING THE BOG DIVIDA, 11:49 SIDDHARTHA AND ALL THOSE BOOKS, TRYING TO LEARN HOW TO BE AT ONE 11:52 AND I EVEN GOT INVOLVED IN SOME OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIONS 11:56 AND ONE THING I NOTICED WITH VIRTUALLY EVERY RELIGION, THEY 12:01 ALL RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 12:07 THEY CALL IT THE GOOD SPIRIT AND THE BAD SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT OF 12:10 LIGHT AND THE SPIRIT OF DARKNESS, THE GREAT SPIRIT AND 12:14 THE SPIRIT OF EVIL, CHRIST AND THE DEVIL, SATAN AND GOD, I 12:20 MEAN, IT JUST SEEMED LIKE EVERYONE RECOGNIZED THAT THERE 12:22 IS A BATTLE IN THIS WORLD BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND 12:26 EVIL AND THE BIBLE BEARS THAT OUT AS WELL. 12:29 NOW THE BIG QUESTION THAT PEOPLE WANT TO UNDERSTAND: 'IF GOD IS 12:36 ALL-POWERFUL AND IF GOD MADE ALL THINGS, AND IF GOD CREATED 12:40 EVERYTHING, THEN HE MUST HAVE MADE A DEVIL.' 12:44 AND PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND. NO, GOD DID NOT MAKE A DEVIL. 12:49 'WELL, IF GOD'S IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING.' GOD ISN'T 12:53 IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING. NOW IT DOESN'T MEAN HE CAN'T BE. 12:58 THAT MEANS GOD HAS LAWS AND HE ALLOWS CERTAIN THINGS TO HAPPEN. 13:02 HE ALLOWS HIS INTELLIGENT CREATURES TO HAVE A WILL AND 13:06 THEY MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES AND THEN THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES OF 13:10 THOSE CHOICES. WHY DO WE PRAY IN THE LORD'S 13:13 PRAYER, 'THY WILL BE DONE'? IS GOD'S WILL ALWAYS DONE? 13:18 IF GOD'S WILL IS ALWAYS DONE THEN WHY DO WE PRAY THAT? 13:21 GOD'S WILL IS NOT ALWAYS DONE. PEOPLE CHOOSE TO DO THEIR OWN 13:25 WILL AND SOMETIMES, INSTEAD OF LOVE, PEOPLE CHOOSE SELFISHNESS. 13:30 AND SO THERE'S THIS TENSION. THERE'S A CONFLICT BETWEEN GOOD 13:33 AND EVIL IN THE WORLD AND OUR LESSON DELVES INTO THAT TODAY 13:37 WITH A LITTLE BIT OF THE BACKGROUND OR THE BACKDROP OF 13:40 THE SANCTUARY TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THAT. 13:43 WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE: REVELATION 16, VERSE 7, AND YOU 13:46 CAN FIND THAT EITHER IN YOUR LESSON OR IN YOUR BIBLE - IT'S 13:49 RIGHT THERE AT THE TOP OF LESSON 12. REVELATION 16:7 - 13:53 I APPRECIATE IF YOU WANT TO SAY IT WITH ME. I THINK THIS IS 13:55 OUT OF THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. ARE YOU READY? 13:59 "AND I HEARD ANOTHER VOICE" - I'M SORRY - "AND I HEARD ANOTHER 14:04 OUT OF THE ALTAR SAY, 'EVEN SO, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, TRUE AND 14:09 RIGHTEOUS ARE YOUR JUDGMENTS.'" AND SO, FROM THE ALTAR A 14:15 DECLARATION IS MADE: 'TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE THY JUDGEMENTS.' 14:19 ALRIGHT, WELL THERE IS A REVOLT IN THE HEAVENLY SANCTUARY. 14:23 NOW WHEN WE SAY SANCTUARY, THE WORDS TABERNACLE AND SANCTUARY 14:29 ARE USED A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS IN THE BIBLE. 14:32 YOUR BODY IS CALLED THE TEMPLE OF GOD, RIGHT? 14:36 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SANCTUARY. 14:37 AND, YOU KNOW, IN THE - IN THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY THERE WAS AN 14:41 ALTAR WHERE THERE WAS A FIRE BURNING. 14:44 DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BODIES ARE CONSTANTLY BURNING ENERGY? 14:48 AND IN THE SANCTUARY THEN, THERE WAS A LAVER FOR CLEANSING - YOUR 14:52 BODY HAS A CIRCULATORY SYSTEM THAT IS CLEANSING. 14:55 AND IN THE SANCTUARY YOU WENT INTO THE HOLY PLACE THERE WAS 14:59 BREAD - WHERE THEY STORED FOOD. WELL, YOUR BODY STORES FOOD. 15:04 SOME OF US STORE MORE THAN OTHERS AFTER THANKSGIVING. 15:07 AND IN THE SANCTUARY THERE WAS A LIGHT AND THAT REPRESENTED - 15:11 JESUS SAID THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE. 15:14 AND THEN THE SANCTUARY - THERE WAS THIS ETHEREAL SMOKE THAT 15:18 WENT UP INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD LIKE THE SPIRIT OF MAN. 15:20 AND IN THE SANCTUARY THERE WAS AN ARK AND IN IT WAS THE TRUTH - 15:23 THE COVENANT - THE LAW OF GOD. 'THY WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY 15:26 HEART.' THAT'S LIKE THE MIND OF MAN - 15:28 THE PRESENCE OF GOD. YOU KNOW GOD DOESN'T SPEAK TO 15:30 YOU THROUGH YOUR ELBOWS AND YOUR KNEES. 15:33 HE DOESN'T SPEAK TO YOU THROUGH YOUR CHEEKS AND YOUR CHIN. 15:36 HE SPEAKS TO YOU THROUGH YOUR MIND. 15:38 AND SO SOME HAVE SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD EVEN SEE A PATTERN FOR 15:42 THE BODY IN THE SANCTUARY. PAUL - WHO WAS IT? 15:46 PETER SAID, 'GOD HAS SHOWN ME' - 'JESUS HAS SHOWN ME THAT I MUST 15:48 PUT OFF MY EARTHLY TABERNACLE.' IT WAS A TENT. 15:52 IT WAS A DWELLING PLACE. 15:53 SO SOMETIMES IT WASN'T ALWAYS A PLACE OF SACRIFICE. 15:56 SOMETIMES THE SANCTUARY WAS A DWELLING PLACE. 15:59 SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE SANCTUARY - THE DWELLING PLACE 16:03 OF GOD IN HEAVEN - THERE WAS A REVOLT. 16:06 NOW WHEN YOU WENT INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES - I'M ASSUMING THAT 16:11 MOST OF YOU HAVE BEEN WITH US AND YOU KNOW THESE THINGS - 16:14 THERE WAS A GOLDEN CHEST - BOX - IN THE MIDDLE. 16:20 WHAT WAS THAT CALLED? ARK OF THE COVENANT. 16:23 AND THERE WERE TWO PROMINENT FIGURES ON TOP. WHAT WERE THEY? 16:27 THEY WERE CHERUBIM - THEY WERE ANGELS, RIGHT? 16:30 THEY WERE CALLED THE COVERING CHERUBS BECAUSE THEY THEN USED 16:35 TO SHADOW THE ARK WITH THEIR WINGS. THEY WERE DWELLING IN THE 16:40 PRESENCE OF GOD. NOW THOSE GOLDEN ANGELS WERE 16:43 FIGURES OF THE VERY REAL ANGELS OF GOD. 16:47 NOW WHEN I WAS A KID I HAD A MATCHBOX CAR AND WE HAD 16:49 HOT WHEELS AND WE'D PLAY WITH THEM. 16:51 WE HAD ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF HOT WHEELS. 16:52 YOU COULDN'T CLIMB IN AND DRIVE IT, THEY WERE JUST MINIATURES. 16:57 THEY ACTUALLY MAKE THEM TO SCALE, DID YOU KNOW THAT? 16:58 THEY'RE 1/100TH SCALE OF THE REAL VEHICLES. 17:02 IT'S AN INTERESTING SCIENCE HOW THEY DO THAT. 17:04 BUT IT WAS A MINIATURE - VERY INFERIOR - YOU NEVER STARTED IT 17:10 UP AND HEARD IT RUN. THOSE GOLDEN ANGELS ON THE 17:13 EARTHLY ARK, THEY WERE A MINIATURE OF VERY REAL, LIVING, 17:17 BREATHING ANGELS BY THE THRONE OF GOD. 17:20 YOU SEE THEM IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 6 WHERE IT'S GOT THESE SERAPHIM 17:25 THAT FLANK THE LORD - WITH SIX WINGS - THAT SAY, 'HOLY, HOLY, 17:28 HOLY IS THE LORD OF HOSTS.' ONE OF THOSE ANGELS, WHO WAS THE 17:32 HIGHEST OF THOSE ANGELS, HIS NAME WAS LUCIFER. 17:37 HE WAS CALLED THE COVERING CHERUB. 17:38 HE REBELLED AGAINST GOD. NOW LET ME START READING. 17:42 I'M JUST TELLING YOU THE STORY, BUT LET'S GET A BACKGROUND. 17:44 GO WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES TO EZEKIEL AND AS YOU READ SOME OF 17:48 THESE VERSES THAT TELL ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF EVIL, YOU'RE GOING TO 17:50 HAVE A QUESTION THAT I NEED TO ANSWER ABOUT 'WHY DOES IT SEEM 17:54 TO DRIFT?' GO TO EZEKIEL CHAPTER 28 PLEASE 18:00 AND WE'LL BE STARTING WITH VERSE 11. 18:05 "MOREOVER THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME," - EZEKIEL 28:11 - 18:10 "SAYING, 'SON OF MAN, TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR THE KING OF 18:14 TYRE, AND SAY TO HIM, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD:''" - NOW THE KING 18:18 OF TYRE WAS - YOU HAVE THE CITIES OF TYRE AND SIDON - THEY 18:22 WERE ANCIENT CITIES - YOU CAN READ ABOUT THEM BACK IN THE TIME 18:25 OF DAVID. THEY HAD AN ALLIANCE. 18:27 THE KING OF TYRE WAS FRIENDS OF DAVID - HELPED HIM BUILD HIS 18:29 TEMPLE - FRIENDS WITH SOLOMON. EVEN DURING THE TIME OF JESUS - 18:33 HE WENT UP TO THE REGION OF TYRE. 18:34 THAT'S WHERE ELIJAH FLED WHEN HE RAN FROM JEZEBEL. 18:37 HE STAYED WITH A WIDOW UP IN SIDON. 18:39 TYRE AND SIDON, THEY WENT TOGETHER. 18:41 THEY WERE VERY WEALTHY BECAUSE THEY WERE THE PHOENICIANS. 18:43 THEY HAD A SEA PORT - ALL THE TRADE AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN - 18:46 THAT WAS THEIR PRINCIPLE PORT. AND YOU CAN EVEN SEE THE RUINS 18:50 OF THAT TODAY ON GOOGLE EARTH. NOW, FIRST OF ALL, THIS LETTER 18:54 IS HISTORICAL - THIS MESSAGE - THIS PROPHECY. 18:57 THE KING OF TYRE WAS A VERY WEALTHY MAN. 19:00 ACCORDING TO THE GREEK HISTORIAN DIODORUS SALEUCIUS, HE WROTE IN 19:06 BIBLIOTECA HISTORICA - THIS IS AN ANCIENT HISTORY BOOK - THAT 19:10 THE NAME OF THIS KING OF TYRE WAS ETHBAAL OR ETHOBALIS. 19:15 NOW YOU REMEMBER JEZEBEL HAD A FATHER WHO WAS A KING OF TYRE, 19:18 NAMED ETHBAAL. IT'S A DIFFERENT ONE. IT'S A COMMON NAME. 19:21 AND IT SAYS THAT HE WAS A VERY CAPABLE MAN. 19:26 HE WAS ACCOMPLISHED. HE WAS FAMOUS. 19:28 BUT WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR ATTACKED TYRE, HE WAS DESTROYED BECAUSE 19:32 OF HIS INIQUITY, ACCORDING TO MATTHEW HENRY. 19:35 SO THERE REALLY IS A KING OF TYRE. 19:37 BUT THE VISION OF EZEKIEL - HE BEGINS TO GO BEHIND THE POWER 19:43 THAT WAS MANIPULATING THE KING. THERE'S SEVERAL EXAMPLES IN THE 19:49 BIBLE WHERE YOU SEE A KING IS DOING SOMETHING WICKED AND THE 19:53 PROPHET THEN TAKES YOU TO THE POWER BEHIND THE KING. 19:57 YOU HAVE IN REVELATION 12 - IT TALKS ABOUT THIS DRAGON AND THE 20:02 DRAGON WANTS TO DESTROY THE MAN-CHILD AS SOON AS HE'S BORN. 20:07 WHO'S THE MAN-CHILD THAT IS CAUGHT UP TO GOD'S THRONE? 20:10 CHRIST. WHO WAS THE KING THAT TRIED TO DESTROY JESUS 20:14 AS A BABY? HEROD THE GREAT. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? 20:18 HE SENT HIS SOLDIERS INTO BETHLEHEM? 20:19 BUT IN THE VISION IT TALKS ABOUT THE DEVIL WORKING BEHIND THE 20:23 ROMAN EMPIRE TO TRY AND DESTROY THE CHILD. 20:26 DID THE DEVIL MAKE AN EFFORT TO DESTROY A SAVIOR IN EGYPT DURING 20:31 THE TIME OF MOSES THROUGH THE PHARAOH? 20:35 WAS IT JUST THE KING THAT HAD A WHIMSICAL IDEA THAT HE WOULD 20:38 KILL ALL THE BABY BOYS OR WAS THE DEVIL, KNOWING THAT A SAVIOR 20:42 WAS COMING, TRYING TO STOP IT FROM HAPPENING? 20:45 BECAUSE HE'S JUST KILLING THE BABY BOYS. AND THEN YOU CAN READ 20:49 ABOUT WHEN YOU GO TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL - IT TALKS ABOUT THIS 20:54 BATTLE BETWEEN MICHAEL AND THE PRINCE OF PERSIA. 20:58 WELL, IT'S REALLY A BATTLE BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN. 21:01 YOU'VE GOT MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS AND THE DRAGON AND HIS 21:03 ANGELS HAVE A WAR IN HEAVEN AND THERE'S THIS BATTLE BETWEEN - 21:07 YOU SEE, THE DEVIL IS OPERATING BETWEEN EARTHLY POWERS TO 21:10 PERSECUTE AND OPPRESS GOD'S PEOPLE. 21:13 SO IT STARTS OUT TALKING ABOUT THE KING OF TYRE AND THEN THE 21:16 VISION TRANSITIONS TO THE POWER WHO'S REALLY BEHIND 21:19 THE KING OF TYRE. NOW NOTICE IF YOU DON'T AGREE. 21:21 ALRIGHT, SO I'M STILL AT VERSE 11 - VERSE 12 - "...TAKE UP A 21:26 LAMENTATION FOR THE KING OF TYRE, AND SAY TO HIM,...' 21:29 YOU WERE THE SEAL OF PERFECTION, FULL OF WISDOM AND PERFECT 21:32 IN BEAUTY. YOU WERE IN EDEN, THE GARDEN OF 21:35 GOD;''" - NOW WAS THE KING OF TYRE EVER IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? 21:39 THE GARDEN OF EDEN WAS CAUGHT UP TO HEAVEN BEFORE THE FLOOD. 21:44 JUST LIKE THE NEW JERUSALEM WILL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, THE 21:47 GARDEN OF EDEN WAS PRESERVED BECAUSE THE GARDEN OF EDEN IS IN 21:49 THE NEW EARTH. SO IT - IT'S NOT ON THE WORLD 21:51 ANYMORE TODAY AND SO WAS THERE ANY EARTHLY KING IN EDEN? NO. 21:58 MUST BE TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE. 22:00 "''YOU WERE IN EDEN, THE GARDEN OF GOD; EVERY PRECIOUS STONE WAS 22:03 YOUR COVERING: THE SARDIS, TOPAZ, AND DIAMOND, BERYL, ONYX, 22:07 AND JASPER, SAPPHIRE, TURQUOISE, AND EMERALD WITH GOLD. 22:11 THE WORKMANSHIP OF YOUR TIMBRELS AND PIPES WAS PREPARED FOR YOU 22:16 ON THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED.''" - WAS THERE MUSIC 22:18 IN THE SANCTUARY ON EARTH? AND WAS THERE MUSIC AROUND THE 22:22 THRONE OF GOD IN HEAVEN? YOU READ ABOUT THAT IN 22:25 REVELATION - THE SINGING GOING ON CONSTANTLY IN REVELATION 22:28 AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD AND THERE WAS SINGING - DAVID HAD 22:31 PEOPLE CONSTANTLY SINGING TO GOD IN HEAVEN. 22:33 BUT THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE HAPPENING IN HEAVEN BEFORE SIN. 22:37 BACK WHEN LUCIFER REBELLED, HIS JOB AS REPRESENTATIVE - YOU 22:42 KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO USE THE WORD 'PRIEST' PER SE IN EXCEPT 22:46 THAT HE WAS TO BE A REPRESENTATIVE TO GLORIFY GOD, 22:50 TO PRAISE GOD IN THAT RESPECT, BUT THERE WAS NO SACRIFICE AND 22:53 BLOOD BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SIN BEFORE THE DEVIL REBELLED. 22:57 BUT YOU SEE, THE SANCTUARY THERE IS LIKE THE DWELLING PLACE 23:00 OF GOD. IT'S NOT THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE 23:02 WHERE THERE'S AN ALTAR AND SO FORTH - AND BLOOD IS BEING 23:04 SPRINKLED. SO LET ME READ ON HERE. GO TO VERSE - WELL, 23:13 I READ VERSE 13 - OH, I WANT TO READ - YEAH, LET ME FINISH 13 - 23:17 "''...SAPPHIRE, TURQUOISE, AND EMERALD WITH GOLD. 23:19 THE WORKMANSHIP OF YOUR TIMBRELS AND PIPES WAS PREPARED FOR YOU 23:22 ON THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED.''" - NOW THERE'S ANOTHER CLUE: 23:25 THE KING OF TYRE - ETHBAAL - WAS HE CREATED OR WAS HE BORN 23:29 LIKE OTHER HUMANS? WAS THE DEVIL BORN? 23:32 DO ANGELS MARRY AND GIVE IN MARRIAGE, OR ARE ANGELS CREATED? 23:36 THEY ARE CREATED TO BE MINISTERING SPIRITS OF GOD, 23:39 THE BIBLE SAYS. THEY ARE ALL UNIQUE. 23:42 AND IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER DOUBTS, LOOK AT VERSE 14 - 23:44 EZEKIEL 28:14, "''YOU WERE THE ANOINTED CHERUB WHO COVERS;''" - 23:50 YOU WERE - "''I ESTABLISHED YOU; YOU WERE ON THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF 23:54 GOD; YOU WALKED BACK AND FORTH IN THE MIDST OF FIERY STONES. 23:58 YOU WERE PERFECT IN YOUR WAYS FROM THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED, 24:01 TIL INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN YOU.''" - NOW NO EARTHLY MAN 24:04 WAS PERFECT. IT'S TALKING ABOUT LUCIFER NOW, 24:07 WHO HAD BEEN MANIPULATING THE KING OF TYRE. 24:09 THE PROPHET OF GOD IS GOING BEHIND THE SCENES, THE VEIL IS 24:12 BEING PULLED ASIDE AND WE ARE SEEING THE ORIGIN OF THE DEVIL. 24:17 - "''YOU WERE PERFECT IN YOUR WAYS FROM THE DAY YOU WERE 24:20 CREATED, TIL INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN YOU. 24:22 BY THE ABUNDANCE OF YOUR TRADING YOU BECAME FILLED WITH VIOLENCE 24:25 WITHIN, AND YOU SINNED;''" - THIS TRADING IS PROBABLY A 24:27 REFERENCE TO AS HE WENT ABOUT THE OTHER ANGELS HE BEGAN TO SOW 24:32 SEEDS OF DISCORD. - "''THEREFORE I CAST YOU AS A 24:36 PROFANE THING OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN''" - THE DWELLING PLACE 24:39 - THE KINGDOM OF GOD - THAT'S HEAVEN. SATAN WAS CAST OUT OF 24:43 HEAVEN, REVELATION 12 - "''AND I DESTROYED YOU, O COVERING 24:46 CHERUB, FROM THE MIDST OF THE FIERY STONES. 24:49 YOUR HEART WAS LIFTED UP BECAUSE OF YOUR BEAUTY; YOU CORRUPTED 24:52 YOUR WISDOM FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR SPLENDOR; I CAST YOU TO THE 24:56 GROUND, I LAID YOU BEFORE KINGS, THAT THEY MIGHT GAZE AT YOU. 25:00 YOU DEFILE YOUR SANCTUARIES BY THE MULTITUDE OF YOUR 25:03 INIQUITIES, BY THE INIQUITY OF YOUR TRADING; THEREFORE I 25:06 BROUGHT FIRE FROM YOUR MIDST; IT DEVOURED YOU, AND I TURNED YOU 25:11 TO ASHES UPON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF ALL WHO SAW YOU. 25:16 ALL WHO KNEW YOU AMONG THE PEOPLES ARE ASTONISHED AT YOU; 25:19 YOU HAVE BECOME A HORROR, AND SHALL BE NO MORE FOREVER.''" 25:22 SO THERE IT'S TELLING ABOUT THE FATE OF THE DEVIL. 25:25 'I'LL BRING FORTH A FIRE FROM THE MIDST OF YOU AND IT WILL 25:27 DEVOUR YOU.' SO THIS IS SORT OF AN OVERVIEW. 25:31 NOW LET ME JUST GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND AND THEN I'LL GO TO A 25:33 PASSAGE IN ISAIAH THAT ALSO TALKS ABOUT IT. 25:38 AND SOME OF YOU, I THINK, HAVE VERSES YOU'RE GOING TO HELP ME 25:40 READ. HIS NAME WAS LUCIFER. 25:43 MATTER OF FACT, I SHOULD PROBABLY READ ISAIAH AND THEN 25:46 I'LL TELL YOU - JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW. 25:49 GO TO ISAIAH 14 - ISAIAH 14, VERSE 12. 25:54 ANOTHER SIMILAR PASSAGE - MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO TURN THERE 25:58 QUICKLY BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - IT SAYS IN ISAIAH 26:02 14, VERSE 4, "...TAKE UP THIS PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF 26:07 BABYLON" - AND THEN THIS LAMENTATION BEGINS. 26:11 WHO DOES IT START OUT TALKING ABOUT? 26:13 EZEKIEL IT STARTS OUT WITH THE KING OF TYRE. 26:15 ISAIAH IT STARTS OUT WITH THE KING OF BABYLON AND THEN HE 26:18 BEGINS TO TALK ABOUT THE POWER BEHIND THE KING OF BABYLON 26:22 WHO WAS PERSECUTING GOD'S PEOPLE. 26:24 YOU SEE, THE KING OF THE SIDONIANS WERE PERSECUTING AND 26:26 OPPRESSING ISRAEL BECAUSE THEY'D BEEN CARRIED OFF BY THE 26:29 ASSYRIANS AND THEY BEGAN TO TAKE THE TERRITORY AND TO BOAST AND 26:33 TO OPPRESS GOD'S PEOPLE. THE KING OF BABYLON DESTROYED 26:35 THE TEMPLE OPPRESSING GOD'S PEOPLE. 26:37 SO THE POWER BEHIND THAT IS THE DEVIL. 26:40 NOW GO TO VERSE 12 AND YOU'LL SEE THAT. "HOW YOU ARE FALLEN 26:44 FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING! HOW YOU ARE CUT 26:48 DOWN TO THE GROUND, YOU WHO WEAKENED THE NATIONS! 26:52 FOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART: 'I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I 26:55 WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I WILL ALSO SIT ON 27:00 THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION ON THE FARTHEST SIDES OF THE NORTH; 27:04 I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS'" - BY THE WAY, 27:06 SOMETIMES THE DEVIL'S CALLED THE KING OF THE NORTH OR HE'S THE 27:08 POWER BEHIND IT - "'I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE 27:11 CLOUDS, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.' 27:14 YET YOU SHALL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO SHEOL, TO THE LOWEST DEPTHS OF 27:17 THE PIT." - THE BOTTOMLESS PIT IS WHERE THE ANGEL CASTS HIM - 27:22 ISN'T THAT WHAT WE READ IN REVELATION 20? 27:24 AND SO, JUST TO GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND - AND BY THE WAY, I 27:27 READ - I RECOMMEND YOU READ A BOOK THAT JUST REALLY EXPLAINS 27:30 IT IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WAY I'VE EVER SEEN. 27:32 IT'S A BOOK CALLED 'PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS' AND IT TALKS ABOUT 27:37 THE ORIGIN OF SIN AND IF GOD IS GOOD AND IF HE'S LOVING AND 27:40 POWERFUL, WHY DID HE ALLOW THE DEVIL TO CARRY ON HIS REBELLION? 27:44 QUICK STORY - ALL THE UNIVERSE WAS PURE AND PEACEFUL. 27:50 GOD HAD COUNTLESS ANGELS THAT SERVED HIM. 27:52 THEY WERE HIS MINISTERING SPIRITS BRINGING MESSAGES AND 27:54 JOY BACK AND FORTH TO HIS LIMITLESS CREATION, AND THE 27:58 HIGHEST OF HIS ANGELS - THE FIRST OF HIS CREATED WORKS - I 28:03 MEAN, THE FIRST THING YOU'D MAKE IF YOU WERE STARTING OUT TO MAKE 28:06 A CREATION IS YOU'D HAVE YOUR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS - YOU'D 28:10 HAVE YOUR PRIME MINISTER, YOUR CHIEF ANGEL, AND SO LUCIFER WAS 28:16 THE MOST INTELLIGENT, MOST BEAUTIFUL, MOST GIFTED OF ALL OF 28:19 GOD'S CREATED WORKS - JUST BELOW GOD AND CHRIST HIMSELF IN POWER. 28:26 AND, BY THE WAY, WHO CREATED LUCIFER? 28:30 GOD THE FATHER OR THE SON? 'ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE 28:36 MADE BY HIM. WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING 28:37 MADE THAT WAS MADE.' WHO'S THAT TALKING ABOUT? JESUS, RIGHT? 28:42 AND IT SAYS THAT HE BEGAN TO START TO THINK, WHEN HE SAW THE 28:48 OTHER CREATURES WORSHIPING GOD, 'I'M SO POWERFUL.' 28:51 HE ENJOYED WHEN THEY PRAISED HIM FOR HIS SINGING AND HIS POWER 28:55 AND HIS DECISIONS AND HE BEGAN TO FEEL THOUGHTS OF JEALOUSY 29:01 THAT HE WAS NOT GOD. AND WHEN GOD ENGAGED IN THE WORK 29:05 OF CREATION HE THOUGHT, 'I CAN DO ALMOST EVERYTHING GOD CAN DO. 29:08 HOW COME I CAN'T CREATE?' AND YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 29:10 'WHY DID LUCIFER THINK THOSE THOUGHTS? 29:13 DID GOD MAKE HIM WITH A DEFECT WHERE HE WASN'T WIRED PROPERLY?' 29:17 THAT'S A NORMAL THOUGHT. 29:19 'THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME FACTORY DEFECT.' 29:22 WELL, THE DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN A COMPUTER AND BETWEEN A CREATOR 29:28 IS THAT GOD MAKES HIS CREATURES GENUINELY FREE TO THINK 29:32 INDEPENDENT THOUGHTS AND LUCIFER, HE WAS ABLE TO PROCESS 29:38 A ZILLION THOUGHTS JUST LIKE YOU CAN. 29:39 ALL KINDS OF THINGS WENT THROUGH HIS MIND AND THE FLEETING 29:42 THOUGHT CAME THROUGH HIS MIND ONCE, 'I'M NOT GOD. 29:46 I CAN'T DO EVERYTHING GOD CAN DO. WHY NOT? 29:48 I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE WORSHIP OF GOD. 29:50 I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE POWER OF GOD.' 29:52 NOW WHEN THAT THOUGHT CAME, HIS CONSCIENCE TOLD HIM, 'I SHOULD 29:55 BE SO THANKFUL THAT I AM WHERE I AM - CLOSEST TO GOD - HIGHEST - 29:59 BUT INSTEAD, HE NURTURED THAT WRONG THOUGHT. 30:04 IT STARTED OUT JUST AS A - A MUSING. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE 30:08 A WILD THOUGHT GO THROUGH YOUR MIND IT'S NOT ALWAYS A SIN. 30:11 SOMETIMES YOU'LL HAVE A STRANGE THOUGHT - I'M HAVING SOME RIGHT 30:16 NOW - SOMETIMES YOU'LL HAVE A STRANGE THOUGHT GO THROUGH YOUR 30:21 MIND AND IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NECESSARILY A SIN BECAUSE YOUR 30:24 WIRES GET CROSSED - PEOPLE THINK ALL KINDS OF GOOFY THINGS - AND 30:27 YOU JUST NEED TO PUT THOSE THINGS OUT OF YOUR MIND. 30:29 BUT LUCIFER CLUNG TO THAT AND HE NURTURED IT AND HE CULTIVATED IT 30:34 AND HE CHERISHED IT AND HE MAGNIFIED IT AND HE KEPT 30:37 THINKING AND HE KEPT CHEWING ON IT AND SAYING, 30:40 'HOW COME I'M NOT GOD? IS THERE ANY WAY I COULD BE GOD? 30:44 HOW COME I CAN'T CREATE? HOW COME I'M NOT WORSHIPED? 30:48 WILL I EVER GET PROMOTED OR IS THIS A DEAD-END JOB? 30:51 AM I GOING TO STOP RIGHT HERE AT CHIEF ANGEL OR DO I GET TO BE 30:53 GOD OF MY OWN UNIVERSE?' AND HE BEGAN TO THINK THOUGHTS 30:58 LIKE THAT AND PRETTY SOON, WHEN HE REALIZED THAT GOD WAS NOT 31:01 GOING TO STEP OVER AND LET HIM SHARE DIVINITY, HE RESENTED IT. 31:06 AND HE BEGAN TO THINK, 'YOU KNOW, GOD'S POWERFUL 31:10 BUT I'M POWERFUL TOO. AND IF I HAVE ALL THE SUPPORT OF 31:12 THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN, I CAN PRESSURE GOD INTO GIVING ME ALL 31:17 OF HIS POWERS AND THEN I'LL TAKE OVER COMPLETELY. 31:21 I KNOW THAT SOUNDS CRAZY TO ME AND IT HOPEFULLY SOUNDS CRAZY TO 31:25 YOU, BUT THE CREATURE WOULD THINK IT COULD OVERPOWER THE 31:29 CREATOR, RIGHT? BUT SIN WILL MAKE YOU STUPID. 31:35 SELFISHNESS WILL MAKE YOU DO SOME REALLY DUMB THINGS. 31:38 AND THE DEVIL BEGAN TO NURTURE THAT THOUGHT. 31:42 AND THEN HE BEGAN TO SOW DISCORD - HIS TRADING THE BIBLE TALKS 31:45 ABOUT - AMONG THE OTHER ANGELS AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW, IF I WAS 31:49 GOD, WE WOULD HAVE MORE FREEDOM. IF I WAS IN CHARGE - YOU KNOW, 31:52 GOD, HE DOESN'T TRUST US AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THIS LAW.' 31:56 NOW, WHAT WAS THE COVERING CHERUB'S JOB? 31:59 HE WAS STATIONED ABOVE THE ARK, FACING THE ARK. 32:02 HE WAS IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S PERFECT LAW AND HIS WILL. 32:05 AND THE ANGELS ALL - THEY ALL OBEYED GOD'S LAW BECAUSE THEY 32:09 LOVED GOD, THEY LOVED EACH OTHER. 32:11 THEY PROBABLY DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THERE BEING A LAW. 32:14 IT PROBABLY CAME TO THEM AS A SURPRISE BUT THEN THEY THOUGHT, 32:17 'YOU MEAN THERE ARE RESTRICTIONS ON OUR FREEDOM? 32:20 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOVE GOD AND YOU LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR, THE LAW 32:22 KIND OF COMES NATURALLY. AND IT WASN'T AN EFFORT. 32:24 ANGELS DIDN'T GO AROUND DAY AFTER DAY SAYING, 32:26 'OH, BETTER NOT LIE TODAY. BETTER NOT STEAL TODAY. 32:29 OH, IT'S GOING TO BE SO HARD.' THEY DON'T THINK ABOUT IT. 32:32 IT WAS THEIR DESIRE TO DO GOD'S WILL, RIGHT? 32:35 BUT HE BEGAN TO PLANT SEEDS OF DOUBT AND, GRADUALLY, HE WAS 32:40 EVEN ABLE TO RECRUIT ONE-THIRD - THAT'S A LOT, BECAUSE THERE ARE 32:44 BILLIONS OF ANGELS. THESE ARE THE MINISTERING SPIRITS 32:47 OF THE ARMY - THEY'RE CALLED THE HOST OF GOD - THE ARMY OF GOD - 32:50 THEY FAN OUT INTO THE WHOLE COSMOS AND DO GOD'S WILL. 32:54 AND WE KNOW FOR EVERY PERSON BORN GOD HAS A GUARDIAN ANGEL. 32:57 HE MAY ALSO HAVE A GUARDIAN ANGEL AND A RECORDING ANGEL. 33:00 I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE ONE AND THE SAME. 33:02 THEY CAN PROBABLY MULTI-TASK, BUT HE'S GOT LOTS OF ANGELS OUT 33:06 THERE. LUCIFER MANAGED TO GET ONE-THIRD 33:09 OF THE ANGELS TO FOLLOW HIM IN HIS REBELLION. 33:12 AND, FINALLY, IT BROKE OUT INTO AN OPEN REVOLT AND THEY WERE 33:17 CAST OUT OF HEAVEN. YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN 33:19 REVELATION CHAPTER 12. THAT - HEAVEN THERE KIND OF 33:23 REPRESENTS THE SANCTUARY - THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD. 33:28 ANOTHER ANGEL HAS TAKEN LUCIFER'S PLACE. 33:31 SOME SUSPECT WE KNOW HIS NAME. GABRIEL. 33:36 THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT GABRIEL TOOK LUCIFER'S PLACE SO 33:40 I DON'T THINK THEY GET ALONG VERY WELL. 33:42 IT'S THE ONLY OTHER ANGEL THAT'S NAMED. NOW YOU HAVE MICHAEL 33:46 THE ARCHANGEL IN THE BIBLE, BUT HE'S - THAT'S A DIFFERENT NAME. 33:50 THAT'S REALLY A TITLE FOR CHRIST. JESUS IS NOT AN ANGEL. 33:54 THE ARCHANGEL MEANS THE GREATEST MESSENGER. 33:56 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE GENERAL OF GOD'S ARMIES. 33:58 JUST LIKE THE WORD 'DRAGON' IN THE BIBLE IS A SYMBOLIC NAME FOR 34:03 THE DEVIL, MICHAEL IS A SYMBOLIC NAME FOR CHRIST IN THE BIBLE. 34:06 THAT'S WHY YOU SEE HIM COMING TO RESURRECT MOSES AND THAT'S WHY 34:09 YOU SEE HIM - IT SAYS, 'THE LORD WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A 34:12 SHOUT OF THE ARCHANGEL.' THE LORD DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN 34:16 WITH THE SHOUT OF THE ARCHANGEL, RIGHT - AND THE TRUMPET OF GOD. 34:19 SO IT'S A FIGURE AND HE INSPIRED THIS REBELLION. 34:24 YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WELL, DOUG, AS SOON AS HE REBELLED AND 34:28 HE SINNED AND ONE-THIRD OF THE ANGELS FOLLOWED, WHY DIDN'T GOD 34:31 JUST, YOU KNOW, SNAP HIS FINGERS OR WIGGLE HIS NOSE OR DO 34:35 SOMETHING AND SAY, 'KAZAM! YOU'RE DEAD.'? 34:39 COULDN'T HE HAVE DONE THAT? WHY DIDN'T - WHY, AS SOON AS HE 34:42 REBELLED AND ALL THE ANGELS WERE FOLLOWING LUCIFER OUT OF HEAVEN 34:47 - WHAT THAT WAR LOOKED LIKE - I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF WEAPONS 34:50 THEY USED - IT'S HARD TO SAY, BUT THERE WAS SOME KIND OF 34:53 CONFLICT AND SATAN AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT. 34:58 IF THE LORD HAD DESTROYED LUCIFER, THERE MIGHT - EVEN 35:01 AMONG THE GOOD ANGELS - THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME THAT STILL 35:03 HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT SATAN'S ACCUSATIONS AND THEY SAID, 'YOU 35:10 THOUGHT, 'I'D BETTER OBEY GOD OR HE'S GOING TO VAPORIZE ME.' 35:14 GOD DOES NOT WANT HIS CREATURES TO OBEY BECAUSE HE'S GOING TO 35:17 DESTROY THEM IF THEY DON'T. HE WANTS US TO OBEY WILLINGLY 35:21 AND FREELY. SO SATAN WAS CAST OUT - EXCUSE 35:26 ME - AND THEN, WHEN HE CAME TO THIS EARTH - HE WENT THROUGH THE 35:29 UNIVERSE TRYING TO FIND OTHER WORLDS TO FOLLOW HIM. 35:32 HE COULDN'T FIND ANY UNTIL HE CAME TO OUR PLANET AND THAT'S 35:35 WHEN HE BEGAN TO INSINUATE DOUBTS ABOUT GOD AND SAY, 35:38 'GOD'S HIDING SOMETHING FROM YOU, EVE. 35:40 YOU EAT THIS FRUIT, YOU'LL BE LIKE GOD. 35:42 NOW HE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO BE LIKE HIM.' 35:44 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE DEVIL WANTED. 35:46 SO HE INSPIRED WITHIN HUMANITY HIS OWN DESIRE. 35:49 'YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD.' AND THE FOUNDATION OF MANY FALSE 35:52 RELIGIONS IS THAT YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD. 35:56 I KNOW WHEN I WAS IN A NUMBER OF EASTERN RELIGIONS - YOU MEDITATE 35:58 AND YOU KEEP REINCARNATING AND EVENTUALLY YOU'LL BE GOD. 36:02 AND THE WORLD SAYS, 'YOU ARE NUMBER ONE. YOU ARE GOD. 36:05 LIVE FOR YOUR SELF-SATISFACTION. HAVE EVERYBODY WORK FOR YOU. 36:08 YOU COULD BE RICH AND FAMOUS. YOU WILL BE GOD.' 36:11 ISN'T THAT WHAT THE WHOLE MESSAGE OF THE MEDIA IS? 36:14 YOU CAN BE THE STAR. YOU CAN BE THE IDOL. 36:18 I MEAN, IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU. THAT'S THE DEVIL IMPLANTING IN 36:21 HUMANITY HIS OWN DESIRE TO BE GOD. 36:24 YOU'LL NEVER BE HAPPY THAT WAY. 36:26 YOU'LL BE CAST OUT OF HEAVEN THAT WAY. 36:29 IF YOU WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN YOU MUST SUBMIT TO GOD AND WORSHIP 36:32 GOD AND THAT'S WHERE YOU REALLY FIND - FIND YOUR LIFE. 36:36 ALRIGHT, WELL I NEED TO GET BACK TO OUR LESSON. 36:38 THERE'S A LOT TO COVER HERE. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT - 36:40 SATAN IS CALLED THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 36:42 SOMEONE LOOK UP JUDE VERSE 9 - JUDE 9 - YOU GOT - 36:47 LET'S GET A YOU A MICROPHONE. 36:49 RIGHT THERE - THEY'LL HAND YOU A MICROPHONE. 36:50 NOW I'M GOING TO READ IN - IN JOB 1, VERSE 6. 36:57 SATAN IS CALLED 'THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN'. 37:00 "NOW THERE WAS A DAY WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT 37:03 THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD, AND SATAN CAME AMONG THEM. 37:06 AND THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 'FROM WHERE DO YOU COME?' 37:09 SO SATAN ANSWERED THE LORD AND SAID, 'FROM GOING TO AND FRO ON 37:13 THE EARTH, AND FROM WALKING BACK AND FORTH ON IT.'" 37:16 NOW HERE'S A MEETING THAT IS NOT ON EARTH - WHERE THESE SONS 37:19 OF GOD - THESE - YOU KNOW, ADAM WAS CALLED THE SON OF GOD, 37:22 RIGHT? YOU AND I ARE SONS OF OUR PARENTS. 37:27 ADAM WAS A SON OF GOD BECAUSE GOD WAS HIS FATHER LITERALLY AND 37:31 BEFORE SIN ADAM WOULD HAVE COME TO THIS CELESTIAL MEETING AND 37:35 REPRESENTED OUR WORLD. BUT AFTER SIN, SATAN SAID, 37:39 'LOOK, ADAM AND EVE LISTENED TO ME. I AM THE PRINCE OF 37:42 THIS WORLD.' EVEN JESUS SAID 'THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD COMES 37:44 AND HAS NOTHING IN ME.' THE REASON THE DEVIL OFFERED 37:47 JESUS - SAID, 'ALL THESE KINGDOMS I'LL GIVE YOU IF YOU 37:50 FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.' THE DEVIL CLAIMS THIS WORLD 37:52 AS HIS OWN. HE SORT OF KIDNAPPED IT. 37:54 AND SO, PART OF WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SANCTUARY IS REDEMPTION. 37:59 THROUGH THE LAMB A PRICE IS PAID. 38:03 THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS A RANSOM IS PAID TO REDEEM A 38:08 PLANET THAT HAS BEEN HIJACKED OR KIDNAPPED BY SATAN. 38:12 BUT HE CALLS HIMSELF THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. 38:14 AND WHILE HE'S THERE HE SAYS, 'THESE PEOPLE NOW, ON THIS 38:17 PLANET, GOD, THEY DON'T WORSHIP YOU. THEY WORSHIP ME. 38:20 THEY DON'T OBEY YOU. THEY OBEY ME. THEY SIN.' 38:25 AND SO HE WAS ACCUSING AND SAYING 'THE WORLD IS MINE.' 38:28 AND GOD SAID, 'OH REALLY? WHAT ABOUT JOB? 38:32 THERE'S A MAN ON THAT WORLD THAT WORSHIPS ME.' 38:34 ISN'T IT SAD THAT GOD COULD ONLY NAME ONE NAME? 38:38 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT - 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB 38:43 THAT THERE'S NONE LIKE HIM IN THE LAND, A PERFECT MAN THAT 38:45 FEARS GOD AND HATES EVIL?' AND THEN THE DEVIL SAYS - HE 38:48 ACCUSES HIM IN VERSE - JOB 1, VERSE 9, "SO SATAN ANSWERED THE 38:52 LORD AND SAID, 'DOES JOB FEAR GOD FOR NOTHING? 38:55 HAVE YOU NOT MADE A HEDGE AROUND HIM, AROUND HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND 38:58 AROUND ALL THAT HE HAS ON EVERY SIDE? 39:00 YOU HAVE BLESSED THE WORK OF HIS HANDS, AND HIS POSSESSIONS HAVE 39:03 INCREASED IN THE LAND. BUT NOW, STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND 39:05 AND TOUCH ALL THAT HE HAS, AND HE WILL SURELY CURSE YOU 39:07 TO YOUR FACE!'" - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 39:09 FIRST OF ALL, YOU KNOW WHAT THIS TELLS US? WAS THE DEVIL RIGHT 39:14 THAT GOD CAN PRODUCE A HEDGE ABOUT HIS PEOPLE? 39:19 THE LORD WOULD NOT LET THE DEVIL CURSE JOB. GOD HAD SET 39:25 A BLESSING - A HEDGE AROUND HIM. SO THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT GOD 39:31 CAN CREATE A HEDGE ABOUT US, BUT SOMETIMES HE ALLOWS US TO BE 39:34 TESTED AND THAT PROTECTION IS REMOVED. 39:37 AND SO GOD SAID, 'ALRIGHT, I'LL REMOVE MY HEDGE OF PROTECTION 39:40 BUT DON'T TOUCH HIS BODY.' SO JOB LOSES ALL OF HIS 39:43 POSSESSIONS AND GOD SAYS, 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED' - TO THE DEVIL 39:47 GOD SAYS, 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED JOB STILL SERVES ME EVEN THOUGH 39:50 YOU MOVED ME AGAINST HIM?' HE SAID, 'OH, THAT'S JUST 39:52 BECAUSE HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT HIS STUFF, HE ONLY CARES ABOUT 39:55 HIS PHYSICAL COMFORT. YOU TOUCH HIS BODY HE'LL CURSE 39:58 YOU TO YOUR FACE.' THERE HE IS AGAIN, ACCUSING. 40:01 GOD SAID, 'OKAY, I'LL LET YOU AFFLICT HIM PHYSICALLY, 40:04 BUT DO NOT TAKE HIS LIFE.' AND I CAN'T IMAGINE THE 40:07 AFFLICTION THAT JOB WENT THROUGH BECAUSE THE DEVIL HIMSELF GOT 40:09 INVOLVED, BUT IT WAS FROM THE CROWN OF HIS HEAD TO THE SOLE OF 40:13 HIS FOOT. HE WAS SUFFERING MISERY AND LOST 40:17 EVERYTHING - LOST EVERYONE - AND DOES HE CURSE GOD? 40:21 NO, HE SAYS THAT EVEN THOUGH HE SORRY HE WAS EVER BORN - HE 40:25 WISHES HE COULD DIE - HE STILL KNOWS THAT WE RECEIVE GOOD FROM 40:28 GOD - WE RECEIVE EVIL AND HE TRUSTS THE LORD. 40:32 THERE THE DEVIL IS ACCUSING. 40:35 ALRIGHT, READ TO US JUDE 9 - I DON'T SAY CHAPTER BECAUSE 40:39 THERE'S NO CHAPTERS - THERE'S ONE CHAPTER, IT'S VERSE 9. 40:44 >>JUDE 9, "YET MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, IN CONTENDING WITH 40:48 THE DEVIL, WHEN HE DISPUTED ABOUT THE BODY OF MOSES, DARED 40:53 NOT BRING AGAINST HIM A REVILING ACCUSATION, BUT SAID, 'THE LORD 40:58 REBUKE YOU!'" >>ALRIGHT, SO HERE MICHAEL 41:01 COMES TO RESURRECT MOSES. NOW THIS IS NOT IN THE BIBLE, 41:04 BUT IN JEWISH TRADITION IT SAYS, THREE DAYS AFTER MOSES DIED THE 41:08 LORD RAISED HIM. BECAUSE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE 41:11 RAISED BEFORE YOUR BODY BEGAN TO CORRUPT OR DECOMPOSE. 41:15 AND THAT'S ALSO KIND OF A TYPE OF CHRIST. 41:18 NOW WE DO KNOW MOSES WAS RAISED. HOW DO WE KNOW THAT? 41:21 HE APPEARS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, FOR ONE THING, IN THE MOUNT OF 41:25 TRANSFIGURATION. AND THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT WHEN 41:30 MICHAEL CAME TO RAISE HIM THE DEVIL CONTENDED - HE CONTESTED 41:34 AND SAID, 'YOU CAN'T TAKE MOSES. HE SINNED. 41:36 HE'S MINE.' BUT GOD SAID, 'THE LORD REBUKE YOU. 41:39 HE REPENTED OF HIS SINS. HE HAS BEEN REDEEMED. 41:42 HE IS MINE.' BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 41:44 SANCTUARY WITH THE SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB, MOSES CLAIMED THE 41:47 BLOOD OF THE LAMB, HE WAS FORGIVEN AND HE WAS REBUKED. 41:51 NOW DOES THE DEVIL SOMETIMES COME TO YOU AND SAY, 'YOU DON'T 41:54 REALLY LOVE GOD. YOU'RE MINE.' AND IF YOU HAVE REPENTED OF YOUR 41:58 SINS AND ACCEPTED THE LORD THEN JESUS SAYS TO THE DEVIL, 'THE 42:03 LORD REBUKE YOU. HE BELONGS TO ME. SHE BELONGS 42:06 TO ME.' AND SO HERE HE IS AGAIN ACCUSING THE BRETHREN. 42:10 GO TO REVELATION 12 - WHO HAS THAT? OVER HERE. 42:15 REVELATION 12, VERSE 10. 42:18 AND WHILE WE GO THERE, I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW 26:60, WHEN THEY 42:23 WANTED TO CONDEMN JESUS - THEY HAD TO FIND FALSE WITNESSES. 42:26 "BUT FOUND NONE: YEA, THOUGH MANY FALSE WITNESSES CAME" - BUT 42:30 THEY COULDN'T AGREE - "AT THE LAST CAME TWO FALSE WITNESSES, 42:33 AND SAID, 'THIS FELLOW SAID, 'I AM ABLE TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE OF 42:37 GOD, AND TO BUILD IT IN THREE DAYS.''" 42:40 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? NOW, JESUS DID SAY SOMETHING 42:43 SIMILAR TO THAT, BUT THEY TWISTED IT. 42:45 JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND IN THREE 42:47 DAYS I WILL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.' 42:49 HE WAS SPEAKING OF HIS BODY - THAT HE WOULD RAISE UP HIS BODY. 42:52 AND - BUT HERE IT IS, THEY HAVE FALSE WITNESSES - THE THING THAT 42:58 THEY FOUND TO ACCUSE JESUS OF IS DESTROYING THE TEMPLE. 43:02 DID JESUS COME TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE OR TO RAISE UP THE 43:04 TEMPLE? PHYSICAL TEMPLE WASN'T IMPORTANT - THE TEMPLE OF HIS 43:10 CHURCH - HIS BODY. HIS RESURRECTION IS A TYPE OF THE 43:13 CHURCH BEING BORN. YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST. YOU ARE THE 43:16 TEMPLE OF GOD, RIGHT? ALRIGHT, REVELATION 12:10. 43:20 >>"THEN I HEARD A LOUD VOICE SAYING IN HEAVEN, 'NOW SALVATION 43:25 AND STRENGTH, AND THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD, AND THE POWER OF HIS 43:29 CHRIST HAVE COME, FOR THE ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN, WHO 43:33 ACCUSED THEM BEFORE OUR GOD DAY AND NIGHT, HAS BEEN CAST DOWN." 43:39 >>WHAT IS IT THAT CAUSES HIM TO BE CAST DOWN? 43:43 IT'S BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SANCTUARY. 43:46 YOU NOTICE IN REVELATION ALL OF THIS IS TRANSPIRING IN THE 43:49 SANCTUARY. FIRST CHAPTER OF REVELATION 43:51 JESUS IS AMONG THE CANDLESTICKS. THEN YOU READ ABOUT THE ALTAR 43:59 AND YOU TEMPLE OF HEAVEN. AND SO, IT'S IN THE CONTEXT OF 44:03 THE SANCTUARY THE ACCUSER IS CAST DOWN BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD 44:06 OF THE LAMB THAT IS SLAIN. WHAT DO YOU SEE IN CHAPTER 4? 44:10 A LAMB THAT HAD BEEN SLAIN - OF REVELATION, RIGHT? 44:13 AND SO YOU'VE GOT THESE PICTURES - ACTUALLY, IT'S CHAPTER - YEAH, 44:16 IT'S CHAPTER 5. YOU'VE GOT THESE PICTURES IN 44:19 REVELATION OF THE SANCTUARY TAKING PLACE. 44:22 AND WHAT CAST DOWN THE ACCUSER? IT'S THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS. 44:27 THAT'S WHAT - WHAT RIGHT WOULD ANY OF US HAVE TO STAND BEFORE 44:30 THE LORD IN THE JUDGMENT IF IT WASN'T FOR JESUS. 44:35 YOU KNOW, IN THE BOOK 'CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS' PAGE 167 - AND 44:39 THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON - ELLEN WHITE SAYS THAT "SATAN IS 44:42 ACCUSING THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND MAKING THEIR CASE APPEAR AS 44:46 DESPERATE AS POSSIBLE. HE PRESENTS BEFORE THE LORD 44:49 THEIR EVIL DOINGS AND THEIR DEFECTS." 44:52 YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION THAT A PERSON WHO IS ALWAYS 44:56 POINTING A FINGER AT EVERYBODY ELSE HAS THREE FINGERS 44:59 POINTING BACK? 45:00 AND IT'S OFTEN PEOPLE WHO ARE THE MOST CRITICAL AND ACCUSING 45:06 OF OTHERS - THEY'RE REALLY USING IT AS A DIVERSIONARY TACTIC 45:10 BECAUSE THEY FEEL GUILTY AND THE WAY THEY COPE WITH THEIR GUILT 45:13 IS BY POINTING OUT THE MISDEEDS OF EVERYBODY ELSE. 45:16 AND SO YOU NEED TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN YOU'RE POINTING THE FINGER 45:19 AT EVERYONE ELSE, IS IT REALLY A MECHANISM TO DEFLECT ATTENTION 45:24 FROM YOURSELF AND YOUR OWN GUILT AND YOUR OWN SINS? 45:29 YOU KNOW THERE'S ONE OTHER QUOTE I WAS GOING TO READ YOU AND THIS 45:31 IS FROM THE BOOK 'PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS'. 45:33 "LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING, WAS THE FIRST OF THE COVERING 45:37 CHERUBS, HOLY AND UNDEFILED. HE STOOD IN THE PRESENCE OF THE 45:41 GREAT CREATOR AND UPON CEASELESS BEAMS OF GLORY THAT ENSHROUDED 45:47 THE ETERNAL GOD RESTED UPON HIM." 45:50 JUST HE WAS IN THE BEAUTIFUL PRESENCE OF GOD. 45:53 ALRIGHT, NOW, STILL TALKING ABOUT THE ACCUSER OF THE 45:56 BRETHREN, GO WITH ME TO ZECHARIAH - THE MINOR PROPHET 46:00 ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 3 - HERE'S A CLEAR PICTURE OF IT ALSO IN THE 46:05 CONTEXT OF THE SANCTUARY AND THIS COMES FROM THE NIV VERSION. 46:11 "THEN HE SHOWED ME JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST STANDING BEFORE THE 46:15 ANGEL OF THE LORD, AND SATAN STANDING AT HIS RIGHT SIDE TO 46:18 ACCUSE HIM. THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 46:20 'THE LORD REBUKE YOU, SATAN! THE LORD, WHO HAS CHOSEN 46:24 JERUSALEM, REBUKE YOU! IS NOT THIS MAN A BURNING STICK 46:31 SNATCHED FROM THE FIRE?'" SO HERE YOU HAVE A PICTURE. 46:34 WHO DOES THE HIGH PRIEST REPRESENT? 46:37 THE JOB OF THE HIGH PRIEST IS HE MAKES INTERCESSION FOR THE 46:40 PEOPLE. WHO BORE THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE 46:42 INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT? 46:45 THE HIGH PRIEST, RIGHT? SO WHEN THE DEVIL IS ACCUSING 46:49 THE HIGH PRIEST, WHAT IS HE INDIRECTLY ACCUSING? 46:52 GOD'S PEOPLE. HE'S ACCUSING GOD'S PEOPLE OF 46:54 THEIR SINS. HE'S POINTING - WHAT KIND OF 46:56 GARMENTS DID THE HIGH PRIEST HAVE ON? DIRTY GARMENTS. 47:00 WAS IT TRUE? YES, HIS GARMENTS WERE DIRTY. 47:03 AND THE DEVIL'S POINTING SAYING, 'LOOK AT THE SINS OF YOUR 47:05 PEOPLE. HOW CAN YOU SAVE THIS PEOPLE?' 47:09 I THINK I COVERED WITH YOU IN A PREVIOUS STUDY ON THE SANCTUARY 47:15 - CAN YOU THINK OF ANOTHER STORY OF THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS 47:18 POINTING TO THE SINS OF SOMEBODY IN THE TEMPLE? 47:22 WHEN THAT WOMAN, POSSIBLY MARY MAGDALENE WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT 47:25 OF ADULTERY - SHE WAS CAST DOWN AT THE FEET OF JESUS - WHERE WAS 47:28 THAT? IN THE TEMPLE? WERE THEY ACCUSING HER? 47:31 WERE THEY POINTING? WERE THEY CONDEMNING? 47:33 WERE THEY SAYING 'STONE HER! ACCORDING TO THE LAW SHE'S 47:35 GUILTY'? WHY DID THEY COME TO JESUS? 47:37 WHY DIDN'T THEY TAKE HER AND STONE HER? 47:39 THERE THEY ARE - ACTUALLY, THEY'RE TRYING TO USE THAT AS A 47:41 MECHANISM TO CONDEMN JESUS. AND WHAT DOES JESUS SAY? 47:46 HE STARTS TO - HE SAYS NOTHING AT FIRST - WRITES IN THE DUST OF 47:49 THE TEMPLE FLOOR THEIR SINS. DO YOU WANT THE LORD TO WRITE 47:53 YOUR SINS? BE CAREFUL THAT YOU ARE NOT 47:56 CATEGORIZED WITH THE DEVIL AS AN ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 48:00 NOW YOU TRANSITION TO THE NEXT SECTION, 'VINDICATION AT THE 48:05 CROSS' AND YOU READ THE REST OF ZECHARIAH - THE DEVIL ACCUSES 48:10 BUT WHAT DOES GOD SAY? ZECHARIAH 3 - NOW SOMEONE LOOK 48:12 UP FOR ME 1 JOHN, 4:10 - WHO HAS THAT? 48:16 WE GAVE - I THINK WE GAVE THEM OUT - 1 JOHN, 4:10 - IF YOU'VE 48:20 GOT THAT, HOLD YOUR HAND UP. YOU GOT IT? 48:22 ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A SECOND. 48:24 ZECHARIAH 3, VERSE 3, "NOW JOSHUA WAS DRESSED IN FILTHY 48:28 CLOTHES AS HE STOOD BEFORE THE ANGEL. 48:31 THE ANGEL SAID TO THOSE WHO WERE STANDING BEFORE HIM, 48:34 'TAKE OFF HIS FILTHY CLOTHES.' THEN HE SAID TO JOSHUA, 48:38 'SEE, I HAVE TAKEN AWAY YOUR SIN," - 48:40 WHAT DO THE FILTHY CLOTHES REPRESENT? 48:43 ALL OF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIKE FILTHY RAGS - IT SAYS, "'TAKE 48:48 OFF HIS FILTHY CLOTHES...SEE, I HAVE TAKEN AWAY YOUR SIN AND I 48:51 WILL PUT FINE GARMENTS ON YOU.'" - WHAT IS THAT GARMENT? 48:55 THAT REPRESENTS THE ROBE OF CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. 48:58 "THEN I SAID, 'PUT A CLEAN TURBAN ON HIS HEAD.' SO THEY 49:01 TAKE AWAY HIS FILTHY CLOTHES, AND FILTHY TURBAN - THEY PUT ON 49:04 CLEAN ROBES, CLEAN TURBAN ON HIS HEAD - "WHILE THE ANGEL OF THE 49:08 LORD STOOD BY." AND SO, WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO 49:12 PROVIDE THAT ROBE FOR HIM? AND THAT'S CHRIST - IS, I 49:15 BELIEVE, ONE OF THOSE MESSENGERS STANDING IN THAT SCENE. 49:18 AND SO, WE'RE VINDICATED BECAUSE THE SIN IS TAKEN AWAY. 49:23 WHERE DO WE GET OUR ROBE? WHAT DID JESUS LEAVE BEHIND 49:26 ON THE CROSS? A BLOOD-STAINED ROBE WAS THE ONLY THING HE LEFT. 49:30 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US 1 JOHN, 4:10. 49:34 >>1 JOHN CHAPTER 4, VERSE 10, "IN THIS IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE 49:39 LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE 49:44 PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS." >>ALRIGHT, PROPITIATION MEANS 49:48 TO BE SUBSTITUTE - TO BE THE REPLACEMENT - TO COVER FOR US. 49:53 GOD SENT HIS SON TO BE THE COVERING - TO BE THE REPLACEMENT 49:56 - THE SUBSTITUTE FOR OUR SINS. NOT FOR OUR SINS ONLY, BUT IT 50:01 SAYS FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. 50:03 AND SO WE ARE VINDICATED BECAUSE CHRIST SAID THAT HE WILL TAKE 50:06 OUR PLACE. NOW THERE ARE THREE PHASES IN 50:09 THIS SALVATION THAT WE TALK ABOUT. 50:12 YOU'VE GOT JUSTIFICATION, SANCTIFICATION, GLORIFICATION. 50:18 JUSTIFICATION MEANS YOU COME TO THE LORD JUST AS YOU ARE. 50:20 YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE ANYTHING. 50:22 WHEN YOU FIRST COME TO THE LORD, YOU COME TO HIM WITH YOUR SINS - 50:25 JUST AS I AM - WITHOUT ONE PLEA. HE THEN EMBRACES YOU, HE WILL 50:30 COVER YOUR SINS, THEN IF YOU REALLY LOVE HIM AND YOU'RE 50:33 FORGIVEN, YOU WANT TO BE CLEANSED AND SANCTIFIED AS WELL. 50:37 SO AS SOON AS YOU'RE JUSTIFIED BY CHRIST HE DECLARES YOU CLEAN, 50:41 YOU'RE NOT ON PROBATION, YOU'RE RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH IN HIS 50:44 SACRIFICE. BUT THEN, IF YOU WANT TO RETAIN 50:47 THAT FORGIVENESS, YOU THEN LIVE A NEW LIFE, YOU TURN - THE BIBLE 50:51 TELLS US - YOU REPENT, YOU CONFESS, AND A SANCTIFICATION 50:54 HAPPENS WHERE YOU'RE LEARNING TO DO GOOD, CEASING TO DO EVIL. 50:58 THERE'S A GROWTH THAT TRANSPIRES AND ALL OF THAT CHRIST PROVIDES 51:02 TO VINDICATE US SO WE CAN ULTIMATELY BE 51:04 GLORIFIED AND BE WITH HIM IN THE KINGDOM. 51:07 ROMANS 3:23, "FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE 51:10 GLORY OF GOD, BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE 51:15 REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS, WHOM GOD SET FORTH AS A 51:19 PROPITIATION BY HIS BLOOD, THROUGH FAITH, TO DEMONSTRATE 51:23 HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE IN HIS FORBEARANCE GOD HAD PASSED 51:26 OVER THE SINS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED." 51:29 SO WHEN YOU COME TO JESUS HE PASSES OVER ALL THE SINS THAT 51:32 WERE WHAT? PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED. 51:35 ALL OF YOUR PRIOR SINS ARE FORGIVEN. 51:37 HE'S NOT GIVING YOU A LICENSE FOR FUTURE SIN. 51:41 SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE GRACE OF GOD - YOU COME TO 51:43 JESUS, YOU'RE FORGIVEN, AND HE'S FORGIVING YOU AND SAYING, 'I'M 51:46 NOT ONLY GOING TO FORGIVE YOUR PAST SINS - ANY OTHER SIN YOU 51:49 MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN, HELP YOURSELF.' 51:51 NO, THAT'S A VERY - BUT I'VE HEARD IT PREACHED THAT WAY 51:54 BEFORE. THAT'S NOT WHAT IT SAYS. 51:56 IT SAYS 'SINS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED.' 51:58 YOU'RE TO REPENT OF YOUR PAST SINS AND YOU'RE WANTING TO LIVE 52:00 A NEW HOLY LIFE, RIGHT? IT'S NOT A LICENSE FOR NEW SIN 52:04 THAT JESUS IS PROVIDING. IF YOU DO SIN - NOTICE THAT WORD 52:07 'IF'. HE'S NOT SAYING, 'HELP YOURSELF.' 52:10 IF YOU DO SIN THEN WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER AND HE 52:12 DOES COVER US. BUT WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING, BY 52:14 GOD'S GRACE, TO TURN FROM THAT LIFE OF SIN. 52:18 "TO DEMONSTRATE AT THE PRESENT TIME HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT HE 52:21 MIGHT BE JUST AND THE JUSTIFIER OF THE ONE WHO HAS FAITH IN 52:25 JESUS." SO, A FINAL THOUGHT THAT WE'RE 52:29 GOING TO HAVE TIME FOR HERE IS JUST THE VINDICATION THAT TAKES 52:31 PLACE THEN IN THE JUDGMENT. AND SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 52:35 REVELATION 19:2 - YOU GOT THAT RAY? 52:38 ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A SECOND. 52:48 IS LAID UP FOR ME THE CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH THE LORD, 52:51 THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE, WILL GIVE TO ME ON THAT DAY, AND NOT TO ME 52:54 ONLY BUT ALSO TO ALL WHO HAVE LOVED HIS APPEARING." 52:58 GOD IS THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE. 52:59 BY THE WAY, PAUL WROTE THAT WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO BE EXECUTED BY 53:03 NERO AND HE KNEW THAT NERO WAS AN UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGE. 53:08 HE SAID, 'I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT THAT JUDGE, I'M LOOKING FORWARD 53:10 TO THE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE IS GOING TO GIVE ME 53:13 BECAUSE HE'S FORGIVEN ME.' ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD PLEASE AND 53:16 READ - WHAT DID I SAY? - REVELATION 19:2. 53:20 >>"FOR TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS JUDGEMENTS, BECAUSE HE HAS 53:23 JUDGED THE GREAT HARLOT WHO CORRUPTED THE EARTH WITH HER 53:27 FORNICATION; AND HE HAS AVENGED ON HER THE BLOOD OF HIS SERVANTS 53:32 SHED BY HER." >>AND SO HERE HE DECLARES GOD'S 53:36 JUDGMENTS ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS. 53:38 YOU KNOW, WE REALLY GET TO PARTICIPATE WITH GOD IN THAT 53:41 FINAL JUDGEMENT AND THE BIBLE TELLS US - OF COURSE, WE - AT 53:45 THAT POINT WE'VE GOT HIS SPIRIT, HIS MIND, AND HIS HEART - IT 53:48 SAYS, 'DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT SAINTS WILL JUDGE THE WORLD?' 53:51 BUT WE ARE VINDICATED BECAUSE OF THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS. 53:55 THE FINAL SECTION 'COSMIC SPECTACLE' - THAT'S BASICALLY 53:58 SAYING THAT EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING HERE IS HAPPENING IN 54:02 THE PRESENCE OF HEAVENLY AGENCIES. 54:04 ANGELS ARE WATCHING WHAT'S GOING ON HERE ON EARTH. 54:07 AND SO, AS THE SANCTUARY WAS SORT OF LIKE A THEATER IN WHICH 54:12 GOD'S SALVATION WAS ACTED OUT HERE ON EARTH, OUR PLANET IS 54:16 SHOWING THE WHOLE UNIVERSE - THE PLAN OF SALVATION IS BEING ACTED 54:19 OUT - THAT WAR BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL - IN OUR WORLD. 54:22 WELL OUR TIME IS UP BUT WE WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY WE HAVE A 54:25 SPECIAL OFFER THAT TALKS ABOUT THE FALL OF LUCIFER AND THIS 54:29 COSMIC CONFLICT BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 54:31 IT'S CALLED 'THE REBELLIOUS PRINCE', WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU 54:33 FOR FREE. JUST ASK FOR OFFER #804 WHEN YOU 54:36 CALL AND THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966. 54:41 AND OUR TIME IS UP FOR OUR STUDY TODAY. 54:43 HOPE YOU LEARNED SOMETHING AND WERE BLESSED AND, GOD WILLING, 54:46 WE'LL STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. GOD BLESS. 54:52 >>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION. (MUSIC) 55:05 >>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN FROM THE FIRST 55:09 COMING OF JESUS AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CHURCH UP UNTIL 55:13 JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 55:16 IT SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND THEN, 55:22 ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION. 55:27 THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE. 55:30 IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A 55:34 PROPHET, THOSE THINGS ARE PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY. 55:38 (MUSIC) >>THIS IS AN EXCITING DAY. 55:50 THIS IS NOT ONLY OUR FIRST SHOOT FOR STUDIO FOR REVELATION, BUT 55:54 THIS IS ALSO OUR FIRST REAL SHOOT IN THIS STUDIO. 55:59 WHEN WE STARTED THIS PROJECT, THE PAINT WAS LITERALLY DRYING 56:02 ON THE BLUE SCREEN THAT WE SHOT MOST OF THE SCENES ON AND WE 56:06 LITERALLY PUT IN THE FLOORING AND ALL THE PILLARS AND 56:09 EVERYTHING TO SHOOT THE SCENES WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 56:14 WHEN WE CREATED OUR SCENE BREAKDOWN, WE DECIDED THAT THERE 56:18 WERE ABOUT 68 SCENES THAT WERE REALLY PIVOTAL TO TELLING THIS 56:22 STORY - TO MAKE IT WHAT WE DREAMED AND IMAGINED 56:25 IT COULD BE. 56:26 >>WE HAD A WISH LIST OF THINGS WE WANTED TO RECREATE, BUT YOU 56:30 ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITHIN REALITY AND A BUDGET AND SO WE NEEDED TO 56:33 PICK, YOU KNOW, WHICH OF THE SCENES THAT WE NEEDED TO 56:36 COMMUNICATE THE DRAMA AND EMOTION OF WHAT HAS REALLY 56:40 HAPPENED IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST'S FIRST 56:43 COMING UP UNTIL WHERE WE ARE TODAY. 56:46 WE MADE THE CHOICE TO ACTUALLY SEND A FILM CREW TO DIFFERENT 56:49 PARTS OF THE WORLD TO GET FRESH FOOTAGE OF SOME OF THE SCENES OF 56:53 THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE AND SOME OF THE CATACOMBS IN ROME. 57:01 >>NOW WE'RE IN ROME AND WE'RE ACTUALLY IN A CATACOMB WHERE THE 57:05 CHRISTIANS WOULD BURY THEIR DEAD. 57:09 THIS IS THE CATACOMB DOMATILLA AND THIS ONE IS ONE OF THE MOST, 57:14 I GUESS, MOST FASCINATING ONES BECAUSE IT'S SEVENTEEN 57:18 KILOMETERS IN DISTANCE. THAT'S ALMOST TEN AND A HALF 57:21 MILES OF BURIAL SPOTS. YOU'VE GOT SO MUCH ARTWORK ON 57:25 THE WALLS. YOU'VE GOT AREAS WHERE PEOPLE 57:27 HAVE ENGRAVED TOMBSTONE OR YOU'VE GOT - YOU'VE GOT SOME OF 57:30 THE SYMBOLS WHICH COME FROM THE CONSTANTINE ERA. 57:33 SO IT'S BEEN VERY, VERY EXCITING TO SEE ALL OF THIS HISTORY ALL 57:37 IN ONE PLACE - WHERE THE CHRISTIANS ACTUALLY CAME, NOT 57:41 JUST TO BURY THEIR DEAD BUT TO ESCAPE - TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE 57:44 IN THEIR FAITH. >>GETTING THE ACTUAL SHOTS OF 57:47 THE PLACES WHERE THESE EVENTS TRANSPIRED BRINGS IT TO LIFE AND 57:51 MAKES IT REAL. (MUSIC) |
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