Good evening again everyone,
you all have the study guide?
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Yes or no? [Audience] Yes.
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Okay, tonight is the first
of a 2 part series in which
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we're going to be
discussing the Biblical topic
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of the Antichrist, and I
want to let you know that we
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will be revealing, not tomorrow
night, but the following night,
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precisely who the Antichrist is.
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And you're sitting
there thinking: "What?!"
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"Is he really going to say
it? Is he going to tell us"
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"who the Antichrist
is?" The answer is "no",
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you're going to tell me
who it is because we're going
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to put all the
Biblical identifiers up there,
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and you will see there is
only 1 power, only 1 individual
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that can meet all of those
specifications, and I'm not
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whistling Dixie when I
you will tell me who it is.
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But before we get right into
that, this is the first part
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tonight, and before we
talk about the identity
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of the Antichrist, what
we're going to do this evening
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is talk a little bit about the
principle behind the Antichrist.
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What does that even mean?
Many people have a very wrong
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idea of what it means to
even talk about an Antichrist,
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they say: "Oh, here's
Jesus Christ, so the Antichrist"
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"would be someone
against Christ", that's what
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they think, well, we're
going to discover that that is
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an overly simplistic definition
of what the Antichrist is,
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and our message is
entitled "Does Jesus Christ"
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"have a twin". Is
that kind of an unusual
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title, yes or
no? [Audience] Yes.
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And you're going to
discover tonight why we give it
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that somewhat unusual
title. Before we get right into
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the Bible proper, what
are we going to do first?
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- [Audience] Pray. -
So let's do that together.
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Father in heaven, we
come before You just now.
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We want to confess
that we are sinners in need
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of a Saviour. We want to confess
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that it is not our own
intelligence, and our own
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education that will enable
us to understand Your word.
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Spiritual things are spiritually
discerned, so Father,
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tonight we need You to
come into this room, to give us
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Your Holy Spirit that
we may understand Your word
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correctly and right.
Father, as we open Your word
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may You open our
hearts and teach us great
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and mighty, and true things,
in Jesus' name let everyone
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say amen. Okay,
let's go directly
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to our study guide, if you need
a study guide, you can raise
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your hands and I think
the ushers will be glad to get
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you one.
Discover Prophecy Nr. 7:
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"Does Jesus Christ have a twin?"
Let's begin in the introductory
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paragraph: This lesson and the
following lesson will address
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the very important issue of
the Antichrist from a Biblical
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perspective. Conjectures,
opinions and ideas about
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the Antichrist, the identity
of the Antichrist abound.
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I'll be perfectly candid
with you, much of it is rubbish;
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much of it is not based
upon the Bible, much of it
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is not based upon the
Scriptures, and you'll be
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seeing that over the
course of the next 2 meetings.
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We are not interested in
opinions, we want to know
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the truth, we want to know
what the Bible actually teaches.
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This is a serious topic, so
we want to be sure to be honest
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and humble in our study, God
will richly bless us if we seek
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to do this.
Let's talk about simple
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salvation as we
begin this evening.
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Perhaps the simplest salvation
text in all of the Bible
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is John 17:3, fill in the blanks
and I'll quote it for you:
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Jesus was speaking and He
said "And this is life eternal"
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"that they might know
Thee, the only true God,"
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"and Jesus Christ,
whom Thou has sent. "
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I'll repeat it again: "And
this is life eternal that they"
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"might know Thee, the only
true God, and Jesus Christ"
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"whom Thou hast
sent. " In other words,
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the essence, the distillation
of salvation is to know God
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and to be in a faith
relationship with Him.
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We talked about that last
night, so here's Jesus Christ,
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Jesus says: "come unto Me
all ye that labor and are"
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"heavy laden and I
will give you rest. "
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This is life eternal, to
know God, to have a relationship
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of trust and of faith with God;
in its simplest distillation,
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salvation is to know God.
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So we're asked the
question tonight, does Jesus
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have a twin? I'm
back to the study guide,
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it says: There it is, simple,
having a faith relationship
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with Him, to know
God is to have salvation,
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to not know God is to
fail of experiencing salvation.
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As we shall see, the
thrust of Satan's attack through
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the Antichrist is to prevent
individuals from coming to know
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God personally and
truly. This is precisely why
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we spent the last 3
lesson grounding ourselves
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in the cross of Jesus Christ
and its prophetic importance.
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Knowing who the Antichrist
is won't save anyone, knowing
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who Jesus Christ is, however,
will result in Salvation.
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I want you to think
about this, it's very simple,
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in fact, it's so easy to
understand that my little
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5 year old boy could understand
it: if salvation comes from
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knowing God, then Satan
is going to try to prevent us
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from knowing God, and
thus obtaining salvation,
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does that make sense everyone?
What we're going to discover
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is that the thrust of
the Antichrist's attack
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is to prevent us from knowing
God personally and truly.
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Very simple, so we're
asking the question tonight:
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Does Jesus Christ have a twin?
This is an artist's portrayal
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of the Antichrist beast of
Revelation 13, does this look
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like Jesus' twin? [Audience] No.
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Of course, we don't
know what Jesus looked like,
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the picture that we had up
there just a moment ago was
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an artist's representation,
but we could be very confident
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that this beast with the body of
a leopard, the feet of a bear,
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the mouth of a lion, this
horrific, strange, amalgamated
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beast surely is now Jesus' twin.
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Go back to your
study guide and it says:
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Are you deceived? Are you sure?
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Never forget
this: [text on screen]
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For example, you never
see anyone walking around
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with a sign around their neck
saying: "I'm being deceived"
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because if they had a sign
around their neck that said
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"I'm being deceived"
it means they know it,
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and be definition deception
is when you don't know it.
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It's a little bit like
this, think of sleeping.
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Have you ever noticed that
you didn't know you were asleep
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until you wake up. Try
that experiment at your home
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some time. You
suddenly have the awareness
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"Oh, I was asleep", but
you don't have that awareness
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until you have a
perspective of being awake.
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So the only way you would
ever know if you were deceived
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is to get undeceived. You
might sitting here tonight
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and thinking: "I'm glad
I'm not deceived", the problem
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is that's exactly how deceived
people think. [Audience laughs]
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So the essence of deception
is that you are unaware that you
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are being deceived, that's why
we say "Are you being deceived",
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you say: "No", "Are you sure?"
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"How would you know?"
Look at the study guide,
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down to the bottom: The
problem is that this is exactly
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how deceived people
think. How can we be sure that
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we will remain undeceived?
Simple: be sure that everything
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you believe is
consistent with the Bible.
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The Bible is the
cure for deception.
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Don't trust what a man
says, we spent a little time
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on that the other evening,
and we put that picture up there
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of Dr. Hose Louise De
Jesus Miranda, who claims to be
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Jesus on earth, who
claims to be Christ on earth
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and who has an estimated
1-10 million followers.
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Are those people deceived
that are following that man?
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Yes or no? [Audience] Yes.
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Do they think they're
deceived? [Audience] No.
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And that's the
point. How could they become
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undeceived, by listening to him?
No, by listening to the Bible.
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We're on the second
page: The apostle Paul and
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the Antichrist.
What did the apostle Paul
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have to say about this?
Well, first of all, let's talk
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about this whole
concept of Antichrist.
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We've already said
that some people think:
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"This'll be elementary,
this'll be easy, this'll be"
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"a piece of cake, here's
Jesus Christ and whoever"
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"is against Jesus Christ
in a violent opposition,"
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"well that's
clearly the Antichrist. "
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Is the Devil that stupid?
Hardly, in fact, what we're
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going to discover tonight
is that the prefix "anti"
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from the Latin "anti"
does not mean "against",
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notice the actually definition
from the Strong's Exhaustive
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Concordance: [text on screen]
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So look, in definition "a",
"instead of", definition "b",
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"as a substitute". So
"anti" is not this elementary
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simple definition "one who is
against", the Antichrist is one
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who tries to
substitute for Christ,
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not somebody who
violently opposes, but somebody
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who subtly betrays. More
on that in just a moment,
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but open your Bibles
to 2 Thessalonians 2.
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That's in the New Testament, you
can find it, 2 Thessalonians 2.
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Here we find the apostle
Paul writing to the church
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in Thessalonica warning
them about an Antichrist power,
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an Antichrist
figure. 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
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He says: "Let no one deceive
you", so Paul was concerned
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about deception, "Let no
one deceive you by any means"
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"for that day", in the
context "that day" is the second
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coming, "for that day will
not come unless a falling away"
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"comes first".
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The Greek word here for
"falling away" is "apostasia",
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or "aposteia", it
means "to divorce".
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That's exactly what he's
saying "Let no one deceive you"
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"by any means for that day
will not come unless a divorce"
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"comes first". I
want you to just think
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about that for a moment:
could you divorce someone
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that you were never married
to? That would be impossible,
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so think about it this
way, in order to have a divorce
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you must first have had a
prior favorable relationship.
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So my wife is sitting
right here in the front row
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and I would never think of
divorcing her because she's
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the best wife I've ever
had, I like to tell people,
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she's my first wife, but
could I get a divorce from her?
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God forbid, is that possible?
Sure, but she's sitting next to
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my friend Andrea, who
I've never been married to,
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could I get a divorce
from Andrea? No, so the moment
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you start talking about divorce
you know automatically there
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must have been a prior
favorable relationship.
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So look, he says:
"Don't let anyone deceive you"
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"for that day", what day?
The second coming of Jesus,
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"... will not come until a
falling away, or a divorce"
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"comes first. " Now notice this:
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"And the man of sin
is revealed", that's
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the Antichrist, "the son
of perdition who opposes"
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"and exalts himself
above all that is called God"
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"or that is worshipped so that
he, as God, sits in the temple"
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"of God showing
himself that he is God. "
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Notice it doesn't say:
"So that he is as God,"
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"sitting in the temple of
God showing himself that he's"
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"against God", it doesn't
say that at all, it says he goes
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into the temple of God
to show that he is God.
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Is that the idea of against
and opposition, or is that
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the idea of substitution?
Substitution! I want you
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to notice something very
interesting. On your study guide
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there are 2 phrases, 2
names that the apostle Paul used
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to refer to this Antichrist
power, Nr. 1 was "the man of
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sin", and the other one
is "the son of perdition".
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Notice the paragraph
there: What is the significance
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of that second name?
That name "son of perdition"
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occurs in only one other place
in the Bible, it's in John 17:12
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The only other person in
the Bible referred to as the son
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of perdition is Judas
Iscariot. I'll quote it for you
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very quickly. Jesus was
praying in the garden, He said
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"Father, of all that Thou
hast given me I have lost none"
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"but 1, the son of perdition
that the Scriptures might be"
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"fulfilled", so when the
apostle Paul uses the term
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"son of perdition", he is
thinking of language of Jesus
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referring to Judas
as the son of perdition.
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Only 2 figures in all of
Scripture referred to by that
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name: the
Antichrist and Judas Iscariot.
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Now look at this, you can
fill in your blanks there:
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But watch this, Judas Iscariot
did not violently oppose
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Jesus Christ, rather
he subtly betrayed Him.
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He came not from the violent
opposition of the Pharisees
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or the Romans, but from the
very inner circle of Christ's
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followers, the disciples, he
looked friendly, but secretly
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he betrayed.
When the apostle Paul
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uses the term "son of perdition"
to refer to the Antichrist,
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what he's saying is: "Don't
expect a violent political"
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"opposer, hardly, no
ones going to fall for that. "
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Remember that the issue at
the end of time is the issue
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of worship. So
don't expect a violent
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opposition to Jesus Christ, if
that's what you're looking for,
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you think "that's going
to be Antichrist", wrong,
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you missed it. He
employs the analogy
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of the son of perdition of
Judas Iscariot because Judas
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Iscariot came from within
the inner sanctum not to oppose
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Christ, but to betray Him.
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Hey, wow, that goes along
perfectly with that language
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he had just used, that a
falling away, or a divorce,
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so we're getting this
idea "anti" is a substitute,
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"anti" is one who
stands in the place of,
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like a Judas Iscariot who would
subtly betray, and there would
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be a divorce.
Rather than violent
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opposition, we're
looking at subtle betrayal.
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That's exactly what we
have here. [text on screen]
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This is very important to
grasp, you can fill those in
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on your blanks. Notice
also according to verse 4
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the Antichrist goes
also into the temple of God
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not to show himself, that he is
against God, but rather that he
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is God. Next paragraph: Another
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important text taken
from a sermon by Paul preached
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in Ephesus is found
Acts 20:28-30, we've got that
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on the screen for
you, Acts 20:28-30.
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This is Paul preaching,
Luke writing, Paul knows
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that he's on his way
to Jerusalem where he'll
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be betrayed, and
then he's going to Rome.
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Okay, now watch this, verse
28, he's speaking to the elders
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of the church in
Ephesus: [text on screen]
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He says: "You're the leaders
of the church, take heed!"
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[continues to read]
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So Paul is talking to
the leaders of the church.
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Notice the next verse,
verse 29: [text on screen]
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That must have been shocking
to them, but what he said
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next must have been
very shocking, verse 30:
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"Also from among the
Romans", is that what it says?
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"Also from among the Pharisees",
is that what it says?
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No, "From among the
heathen", is that what it says?
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No, [text on screen]
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Paul was concerned that there
would be a falling away within
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the church itself.
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He says: "Hey listen, I
know that after my departure"
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"savage wolves are going
to come in among the flock,"
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"even from among your
own selves will men arise,"
00:17:52.18\00:17:54.67
"speaking perverse things
to draw away the disciples"
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"of the Lord after themselves.
" So we're getting this picture
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in our mind of a subtle
betrayal rather than a violent
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opposition.
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Let's continue on then:
Here Paul says that these
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coming deceivers would
arise from within the church,
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just like Judas.
Where did Judas come from?
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Was he a violent opposer
or was he from within the very
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inner circle? The inner circle.
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Just like Judas Iscariot,
the conflict comes from inside,
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betrayal, not from
outside, overt opposition.
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Now, before we go to
the book of Revelation,
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remember that the dividing
issue in the book of Revelation
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is worship, it deals
with the issue of worship.
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Remember also that Satan uses
the Antichrist as a front man
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in order to procure
what he has always wanted,
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and what has Satan
wanted since his fall?
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Worship.
Remember, the highest form
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of his intoxication, the
highest form of his audacity
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was there in the wilderness
when he said to Jesus Himself,
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"all this will I give
you if you just fall down"
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"and worship Me. " I
mean, height of follies.
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Here, the created is asking
the Creator to worship him,
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total insanity, this is
the longing desire of Satan's
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perverted heart,
is to receive worship,
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but we've already said it:
if the Devil walked in here
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tonight and said "Hey everyone,
notice to have you all here,"
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"my name's Satan and I want
you to bow down and worship me.
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" Would you do
it? [Audience] No.
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You'd say "No,
we're not going to do it".
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The Devil, does he know
that? Of course he knows that
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so what he does is he
gets himself a front man
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and he props him up, and
when he props up that front man
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by giving him, as we saw in
Revelation 13 the other night,
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his power, his
throne, his great authority,
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when the beast is worshipped,
who really is being worshipped?
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Satan himself.
It's called worship by
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representation.
Just think about that
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for a moment, I'm going
to quote a few words of Jesus
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for you, Jesus said: "No
man comes unto the Father"
00:20:09.85\00:20:14.50
"but by Me", beloved,
how do we worship the Father
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in spirit and in truth?
We worship Jesus Christ.
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We worship Jesus, Jesus is our
representative before the throne
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and the Father gave His power,
His throne, His great authority
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to Jesus, isn't that
what Jesus said in Matthew 28?
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"All power is given unto
Me in heaven and on earth,"
00:20:35.04\00:20:37.62
"go ye therefore, and teach
all nations, baptizing them",
00:20:37.65\00:20:40.31
in other words, the way that
we have access to the Father
00:20:40.34\00:20:43.32
is through Jesus
Christ. So we worship Jesus
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in spirit and in truth,
and that worship is transferred
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to His Father, because He's the
representative of His Father,
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"if you have seen Me,
you have seen the Father. "
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In fact, it's actually quite
powerful, you have a counterfeit
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trinity in the book of
Revelation, how many of you
00:20:59.45\00:21:02.07
knew that? There's
a counterfeit trinity
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right in the book of
Revelation. In the nature of God
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you have Father,
Son and Holy Spirit.
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Some people say: "The Bible
never says the word trinity",
00:21:13.61\00:21:16.68
of course the Bible
doesn't use the word "Trinity",
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it's a contraction of 2
words, "tri" which means three
00:21:19.32\00:21:21.72
and "divinity", which is
God. The Bible actually uses
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the word "God head", and
somebody says "Well, I don't"
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"like the word Trinity", then
I have a good piece of advise
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for you, don't use it.
If you go to the doctor
00:21:29.89\00:21:32.61
and you say "Oh doc,
when I bend me arm like this,"
00:21:32.64\00:21:35.38
"that just hurts, I just
can't bend it back like that. "
00:21:35.41\00:21:38.25
Any good doctor's going to say:
"Don't move your arm like that".
00:21:38.28\00:21:42.62
So if you don't like the word
"Trinity", hey, you don't have
00:21:42.65\00:21:45.60
to use it, instead use
the Biblical word, and that
00:21:45.63\00:21:48.26
word is "Godhead", but
what it says is that God
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is 3 in 1: Father,
Son and Holy Spirit.
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But when you come to the
book of Revelation do you know
00:21:55.85\00:21:58.88
what you have?
You have the dragon,
00:21:58.91\00:22:01.76
which is Satan, the
false prophet, and the beast.
00:22:01.79\00:22:04.63
Just as you have a
real Godhead: Father, Son,
00:22:04.66\00:22:07.36
Holy Spirit, there is a trinity
in the book of Revelation
00:22:07.39\00:22:10.77
of a Satanic trinity:
the dragon, the false prophet
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and the beast, it's incredible.
This counterfeit theme
00:22:15.55\00:22:19.82
is amazing in the
book of Revelation.
00:22:19.85\00:22:22.77
Take, for example, God
has a city, that city is
00:22:22.80\00:22:25.67
New Jerusalem, Satan
has a city, that's Babylon,
00:22:25.70\00:22:28.93
spiritual Babylon. God
has a church, and you find
00:22:28.96\00:22:31.81
that in Revelation 12, a
chased woman who's standing
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on the moon, the sun and
the stars, and then you go to
00:22:35.67\00:22:38.32
Revelation 17 and the
Devil has a church, a harlot
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who's decked of all
kinds of gaudy jewellery etc.
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So you have this counterfeit
theme, and now you begin to see
00:22:44.35\00:22:49.44
"Oh, that's why they ask
the question: Does Jesus Christ"
00:22:49.47\00:22:53.33
"have a twin?" I'm on page 3:
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Does Jesus Christ have a
twin? The book of Revelation
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as we would expect, agrees
perfectly with what Paul says
00:23:02.13\00:23:05.04
about the Antichrist. We
discover that the Antichrist
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is a religious entity that
seeks to obscure the true place
00:23:08.29\00:23:12.60
and person of Jesus Christ.
You say: "Wait a minute,"
00:23:12.63\00:23:15.39
"how do you know
it's a religious entity?"
00:23:15.42\00:23:17.98
Because he goes into the
temple of God to show himself
00:23:18.01\00:23:20.95
that he is God. If
you're showing yourself
00:23:20.98\00:23:23.42
as God, that would
make you a religious entity.
00:23:23.45\00:23:29.41
Notice as we go on here: In
fact, strange as it may seem,
00:23:29.44\00:23:32.31
the Antichrist actually seeks
to impersonate Jesus Christ,
00:23:32.34\00:23:36.06
this is portrayed
very clearly in Revelation,
00:23:36.09\00:23:38.21
and this is why the lesson
is entitled: "Does Jesus Christ"
00:23:38.24\00:23:40.34
"have a twin?" Of
course the answer to that
00:23:40.37\00:23:43.21
question is "no", but the
way the Antichrist seeks to ape
00:23:43.24\00:23:46.58
Jesus, one would
wonder. Here's what we're going
00:23:46.61\00:23:49.50
to do tonight: we're
going to compare the picture
00:23:49.53\00:23:53.26
of the Antichrist beast in
Revelation 13 with the Lord
00:23:53.29\00:23:57.68
Jesus Christ and we're going to
look at 8 points of counterfeit.
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You can begin to write
them down now, we're going
00:24:06.13\00:24:08.88
to look at them in your
Bible, we're going to have them
00:24:08.91\00:24:11.94
up on the screen so you
can write them down, and we'll
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look at them in your Bible.
Let's note Nr. 1- Jesus began
00:24:14.90\00:24:18.60
His earthly ministry
by rising from the water.
00:24:18.63\00:24:24.23
Jesus began His earthly
ministry, He went down to
00:24:24.26\00:24:27.31
the waters of the River
Jordan, He walked up to John,
00:24:27.34\00:24:30.85
He said: "John, I need
to be baptized by you. "
00:24:30.88\00:24:33.61
He said: "I can't baptize
You, I can't even unloose Your"
00:24:33.64\00:24:36.59
"sandals", and He said: "suffer
it to be so for now, for thus"
00:24:36.62\00:24:39.68
"it becometh us to
fulfill all righteousness sake",
00:24:39.71\00:24:42.48
and Jesus was baptized,
and coming up out of the water
00:24:42.51\00:24:45.41
according to Matthew 3,
there was a voice from heaven
00:24:45.44\00:24:48.24
that said: "This is My
beloved Son in whom I am"
00:24:48.27\00:24:51.35
"well pleased", and then Jesus
goes out into the wilderness
00:24:51.38\00:24:53.93
and from that day forward
begins His public ministry.
00:24:53.96\00:25:01.93
So, Jesus begins His
public ministry by rising from
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the waters of baptism.
Now look at Revelation 13,
00:25:06.23\00:25:11.96
keep your finger all night
in Revelation 13 because we're
00:25:11.99\00:25:16.29
going to spend all
night in this chapter.
00:25:16.32\00:25:20.21
So if you've got one of these
little ribbons, you just keep
00:25:20.24\00:25:22.86
your finger or a pen, or
something right in there,
00:25:22.89\00:25:26.06
Revelation 13, because
we'll be flipping back and forth
00:25:26.09\00:25:28.80
from other passages in
the Bible to Revelation 13.
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I'm reading in Revelation
13:1, John says: "Then I stood"
00:25:31.38\00:25:36.75
"upon the sand of the sea
and I saw a beast rising up out"
00:25:36.78\00:25:41.99
"of the sea, having 7
heads and 10 horns, and on his"
00:25:42.02\00:25:46.34
"horns 10 crowns, and on
his heads a blasphemous name".
00:25:46.37\00:25:51.09
Interesting, here the beast
is depicted by John as rising
00:25:51.12\00:25:55.09
up from the water to begin his
mission to deceive and destroy.
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Notice the parallel,
Jesus Christ begins His ministry
00:26:01.08\00:26:03.62
to save by rising
from the waters of baptism.
00:26:03.65\00:26:06.40
The Antichrist begins
his ministry, symbolically,
00:26:06.43\00:26:10.05
to deceive and to destroy
by rising from the water.
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Nr. 2- Jesus Christ
resembles His Father.
00:26:16.74\00:26:23.54
We've already quoted it
for you, I'll quote it again,
00:26:23.57\00:26:26.48
this is John 14, Jesus says:
"Phillip, have I been so long"
00:26:26.51\00:26:29.32
"time with you that you
have not seen the Father?"
00:26:29.35\00:26:32.15
"He who has seen Me
has seen the Father. "
00:26:32.18\00:26:38.51
I'll give you several
other verses to write down:
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Hebrews 1:1-3, where
the author of Hebrews says
00:26:40.34\00:26:46.49
that Jesus Christ is
the express image of God.
00:26:46.52\00:26:51.63
Here's another verse you can
write down, 2 Corinthians 4:6
00:26:51.66\00:26:59.15
where the apostle Paul
says: "For God, who commanded"
00:26:59.18\00:27:02.20
"the light to shine out
of darkness has shone in our"
00:27:02.23\00:27:05.63
"hearts to give us the light
of the knowledge of the glory"
00:27:05.66\00:27:09.18
"of God in the
face of Jesus Christ. "
00:27:09.21\00:27:13.80
So Jesus resembles His Father,
not just in a physical sense,
00:27:13.83\00:27:19.36
but if you had seen Him
and seen His love, seen His
00:27:19.39\00:27:21.74
kindness, seen His
care, seen His munificence,
00:27:21.77\00:27:24.53
you have seen the
character of the Father.
00:27:24.56\00:27:28.75
But the
Antichrist resembles Satan.
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Look at Revelation
13, notice what it says.
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Verse 1: "Then I stood
upon the sand of the sea"
00:27:40.89\00:27:43.74
"and I saw a beast rising up
out of the sea having 7 heads"
00:27:43.77\00:27:47.42
"and 10 horns, and
on his horns 10 crowns,"
00:27:47.45\00:27:51.72
"and a blasphemous name. "
Keep your finger right here
00:27:51.75\00:27:54.22
and go to Revelation
12:9. In fact, don't even have
00:27:54.25\00:27:57.87
to turn the page in my
Bible, Revelation 12:9.
00:27:57.90\00:28:03.90
We can look at it
in several places here,
00:28:03.93\00:28:06.43
pick it up in
Revelation 12:3, it says:
00:28:06.46\00:28:11.89
"Another sign appeared
in heaven, behold a great"
00:28:11.92\00:28:16.09
"fiery, red dragon", according
to verse 9 who's the dragon?
00:28:16.12\00:28:21.18
- [Audience] Satan.
- So the great dragon
00:28:21.21\00:28:24.18
was cast out, that
serpent of old called the Devil
00:28:24.21\00:28:27.60
and Satan. So back
to verse 3, it says:
00:28:27.63\00:28:29.90
"Another sign appeared in
heaven, behold a great fiery"
00:28:29.93\00:28:32.84
"red dragon having 7 heads,
and 10 horns, and on his horns"
00:28:32.87\00:28:38.29
"crowns", do you
see the similarity?
00:28:38.32\00:28:40.64
The Antichrist beast is
depicted symbolically as having
00:28:40.67\00:28:43.47
7 heads, he has 10 horns and
he has crowns upon those horns.
00:28:43.50\00:28:47.59
He looks just like the
dragon. The dragon has 7 heads,
00:28:47.62\00:28:55.82
10 horns, how many
crowns? Doesn't say exactly,
00:28:55.85\00:28:58.28
but crowns on
those horns probably 10.
00:28:58.31\00:29:01.19
So just as Jesus
Christ resembles the Father,
00:29:01.22\00:29:04.08
the Antichrist resembles Satan.
We've already said several times
00:29:04.11\00:29:09.61
tonight, we just looked
at the verse right here, that
00:29:09.64\00:29:12.75
the Antichrist
has horns and crowns.
00:29:12.78\00:29:18.85
Did you know that in the book
of Revelation Jesus is depicted
00:29:18.88\00:29:21.49
as having horns and
crowns? Look at this,
00:29:21.52\00:29:24.11
you're in Revelation,
keep your finger in 13, go to
00:29:24.14\00:29:27.28
Revelation 19.
Many of you already know
00:29:27.31\00:29:33.03
this verse by heart, if I
began to quote for you verse 16:
00:29:33.06\00:29:35.93
"He has on His robe and
on His thigh a name written"
00:29:35.96\00:29:38.77
" 'King of kings, and Lord of
lords'", so you know this vision
00:29:38.80\00:29:43.73
already, now look at verse
12. This is speaking of Jesus
00:29:43.76\00:29:49.02
"His eyes were like a
flame of fire, and on His head"
00:29:49.05\00:29:53.35
"was many crowns. "
You can be sure it's Jesus,
00:29:53.38\00:29:58.02
jump down to verse 13:
"He was clothed with a robe"
00:29:58.05\00:30:00.90
"dipped in blood, and His name
if called, The word of God. "
00:30:00.93\00:30:05.27
Who's the word of
God? Jesus of course.
00:30:05.30\00:30:07.89
John 1:1: "In the beginning
was the Word and the Word"
00:30:07.92\00:30:11.53
"was with God and
the Word was God. "
00:30:11.56\00:30:14.79
So this is Jesus on that
white stallion, riding back
00:30:14.82\00:30:18.23
to conquer His foes, to conquer
His enemies, to conquer His
00:30:18.26\00:30:21.64
adversaries, and it
says He has many crowns.
00:30:21.67\00:30:26.54
Go to Revelation 5. Here we find
00:30:26.57\00:30:34.68
a marvelous vision,
in Revelation 4 John sees
00:30:34.71\00:30:38.39
this throne, and then
in Revelation 5 he begins
00:30:38.42\00:30:43.13
to weep because there's the
scroll and there's something
00:30:43.16\00:30:45.51
about that scroll, and he
knows that that scroll needs
00:30:45.54\00:30:48.23
to be opened, but no one was
found worthy to open the scroll,
00:30:48.26\00:30:51.68
and then the lion of the
tribe of Judah appears, verse 5:
00:30:51.71\00:30:56.68
"But one of the elders
said to me, Do not weep John,"
00:30:56.71\00:31:00.21
"behold, the lion of the tribe
of Judah, the root of David"
00:31:00.24\00:31:04.61
"has prevailed to open
the scroll and to loose its"
00:31:04.64\00:31:06.63
"7 seals. " Verse 6:
"Then I looked and behold"
00:31:06.66\00:31:10.37
"in the midst of the throne,
and of the 4 living creatures"
00:31:10.40\00:31:12.87
"in the midst of the
elders stood a lamb as though"
00:31:12.90\00:31:16.76
"it had been
slain, having 7 horns. "
00:31:16.79\00:31:24.37
This is symbolic, let's
think about what was a horn
00:31:25.04\00:31:28.23
in the mind of the Israelites,
you find that many times.
00:31:28.26\00:31:31.33
For example, in the Old
Testament, the book of Psalms,
00:31:31.36\00:31:34.09
it would say things
like: "O God, raise up a horn"
00:31:34.12\00:31:37.36
"of salvation", you
think: "What does that mean?"
00:31:37.39\00:31:39.91
"Raise up a horn of salvation?"
It's actually very simple:
00:31:39.94\00:31:43.13
the Israelites and the
Jewish people and others
00:31:43.16\00:31:46.54
in ancient Palestine, they
had goats and they would see
00:31:46.57\00:31:49.86
these different kinds
of goats up on the rocks.
00:31:49.89\00:31:52.38
When mating season would come
they would smash their heads
00:31:52.41\00:31:55.60
into one another,
you've seen the rams do that
00:31:55.63\00:31:58.56
when they sort of rear back
and do that thing [demonstrates]
00:31:58.59\00:32:01.63
and in the mind of the
ancient Israelite, the one with
00:32:01.66\00:32:04.22
the larger horns tended
to prevail, so the horn came
00:32:04.25\00:32:09.68
to symbolize strength, the
horn came to symbolize power,
00:32:09.71\00:32:14.20
does that make
sense? So when it says here
00:32:14.23\00:32:16.55
that this lamb has 7 horns,
7 is a very important number
00:32:16.58\00:32:19.42
in the book of Revelation by
the way, there are 7 trumpets,
00:32:19.45\00:32:22.55
7 seals, 7 plagues,
seven, seven, all throughout
00:32:22.58\00:32:25.04
the book of Revelation,
it's like God is trying to say
00:32:25.07\00:32:28.02
something about 7, "pay
attention to the number 7",
00:32:28.05\00:32:30.87
He says, "Seven, seven,
seven", but here it says He has
00:32:30.90\00:32:33.56
7 horns, 7 is the
number of completion.
00:32:33.59\00:32:38.63
It's the perfect number;
the earth was created and
00:32:38.66\00:32:41.58
constructed in
how many days? 7 days,
00:32:41.61\00:32:44.38
it's that number of fullness,
of completion, so here this lamb
00:32:44.41\00:32:48.58
is in the midst of the throne
and He has a horn, which means
00:32:48.61\00:32:51.44
strength and power, and
he has 7 of them, which means
00:32:51.47\00:32:54.57
He has perfect
strength and power.
00:32:54.60\00:32:58.00
So far so good? So
Jesus Christ in the book
00:32:58.03\00:33:01.11
of Revelation is depicted
as having horns and crowns.
00:33:01.14\00:33:03.77
Think about a
crown, who wears a crown?
00:33:03.80\00:33:06.34
A king wears a crown, and
so, when a king has a crown
00:33:06.37\00:33:10.67
and has a horn symbolically,
this would represent
00:33:10.70\00:33:14.63
kingly power.
00:33:14.66\00:33:19.27
So the Antichrist is
depicted as having kingly power,
00:33:19.30\00:33:22.47
and Jesus Christ, as the
King of kings, is depicted
00:33:22.50\00:33:25.78
as having kingly
power. Point Nr. 3.
00:33:25.81\00:33:28.54
Now look at point
Nr. 4: [text on screen]
00:33:28.57\00:33:31.92
Look at Matthew 28, first
book of the New Testament,
00:33:36.02\00:33:41.28
last chapter of
that book, Matthew 28,
00:33:41.31\00:33:47.05
say "amen" when you
get there. Matthew 28.
00:33:47.08\00:33:50.43
Your flipping, flipping,
trying to write, trying to flip,
00:33:50.46\00:33:53.10
trying to keep up, you
can do it. [Audience laughs]
00:33:53.13\00:33:57.30
See, I'll slow down
when that clock slows down,
00:33:59.31\00:34:02.21
the moment that clock starts
slowing down, then I'll slow
00:34:02.24\00:34:05.09
down, but the clock
isn't slowing down, so I can't
00:34:05.12\00:34:08.68
slow down, okay? Matthew 28:18:
00:34:08.71\00:34:14.39
"Jesus came and spoke to them
saying, All authority has been"
00:34:14.42\00:34:19.92
"given to Me in
heaven and on earth. "
00:34:19.95\00:34:22.60
Question: who gave
Jesus all authority?
00:34:22.63\00:34:25.41
God did, that's exactly right,
so Jesus receives authority
00:34:25.44\00:34:29.56
from the Father. Very
quickly, while we're here,
00:34:29.59\00:34:32.78
just look up at verse 17, just
very quickly so we don't have
00:34:32.81\00:34:35.21
to come back here, it
says: "And when they saw Him"
00:34:35.24\00:34:38.46
"they worshipped Him, but
some doubted", hang on to that,
00:34:38.49\00:34:42.30
take that verse, verse 17, and
hang it on a hook in your mind,
00:34:42.33\00:34:45.57
we're going to come back to
it. Jesus receives His authority
00:34:45.60\00:34:48.81
from the Father.
Go to Revelation 13,
00:34:48.84\00:34:52.26
you've still got your finger
in there, so you should be
00:34:52.29\00:34:54.81
able to just flip
right back like I just did.
00:34:54.84\00:34:57.73
Revelation 13:1:
00:34:57.76\00:35:02.60
"Then I stood upon the
sand of the sea and I saw"
00:35:02.63\00:35:05.45
"a beast rising up out
of the sea, having 7 heads"
00:35:05.48\00:35:08.21
"and 10 horns, and on his horns
10 crowns, and on his heads"
00:35:08.24\00:35:11.33
"a blasphemous name.
The beast which I saw"
00:35:11.36\00:35:14.05
"was like a leopard, his feet
were like the feet of a bear,"
00:35:14.08\00:35:16.89
"his mouth like the mouth
of a lion", you're thinking:
00:35:16.92\00:35:19.80
"Whoa, where's all
of this coming from?"
00:35:19.83\00:35:22.54
You've got to hang in there,
in fact, we're going to spend
00:35:22.57\00:35:25.25
a whole lot of
time on that on Monday,
00:35:25.28\00:35:28.11
but look at this, it says:
"The dragon", who's the dragon
00:35:28.14\00:35:31.22
everyone?
[Audience replies] Satan.
00:35:31.25\00:35:33.81
"The dragon gave
him", who's "him"?
00:35:33.84\00:35:36.50
The Antichrist beast.
Notice this: "... his power,"
00:35:36.53\00:35:39.42
"and his throne, and
his great authority. "
00:35:39.45\00:35:42.41
I want you to think
about that, that's amazing.
00:35:42.44\00:35:44.95
What did we just learn in
our presentation last night?
00:35:44.98\00:35:47.98
Satan wanted to go up or down?
00:35:48.01\00:35:50.64
He wanted to go up,
"I will exalt my throne,"
00:35:50.67\00:35:53.50
"and I will go up, up,
up", we had that picture
00:35:53.53\00:35:56.49
yesterday, a powerful
presentation, and Jesus Christ
00:35:56.52\00:35:59.54
is willing to go down. So
Satan here apparently finally
00:35:59.57\00:36:02.59
gets his throne, and when
he gets his throne what does
00:36:02.62\00:36:05.63
he do with it? He gives it away,
00:36:05.66\00:36:08.41
look at it in verse 2, it
says: "The dragon gave him",
00:36:08.44\00:36:11.95
the Antichrist, "his power,
and his throne, and his great"
00:36:11.98\00:36:15.47
"authority", the very
thing he wanted to obtain,
00:36:15.50\00:36:17.95
he gets it only to give
it away? Why is he so quick
00:36:17.98\00:36:21.47
to give it away?
Because he knows no one
00:36:21.50\00:36:24.86
will worship Satan as Satan.
So he gets himself a religious
00:36:24.89\00:36:29.88
front man called the Antichrist,
not one who's against Christ,
00:36:29.91\00:36:33.73
but one who's in the place
of Christ, he props him up,
00:36:33.76\00:36:36.90
sets him up real good,
"you have my throne, you have"
00:36:36.93\00:36:39.24
"my power, you have my
great authority", he steps back,
00:36:39.27\00:36:42.40
so when he's worshipped,
who's really worshipped?
00:36:42.43\00:36:45.21
- [Audience]
Satan. - You've got it.
00:36:45.24\00:36:47.75
So Jesus Christ received
His authority from the Father,
00:36:47.78\00:36:50.78
and the Antichrist receives
his authority, his throne
00:36:50.81\00:36:53.74
and his power from none
other than Satan himself.
00:36:53.77\00:36:56.88
Do you see the
parallels everyone, yes or no?
00:36:56.91\00:36:59.58
- [Audience] Yes.
- Powerful, in fact,
00:36:59.61\00:37:02.41
this counterfeit theme is a
consistent in all of Revelation.
00:37:02.44\00:37:05.41
Many scholars have brought
this out, it's impossible
00:37:05.44\00:37:08.32
to miss, God has a
city, Satan has a city,
00:37:08.35\00:37:11.24
God is [triune], Satan has
a [triune] counterfeit, etc.
00:37:11.27\00:37:16.04
Notice this, crowns indicate
kingly authority as we've
00:37:16.07\00:37:19.31
already said, we
go now to the last 4.
00:37:19.34\00:37:27.47
Beginning at
number 5: [text on screen]
00:37:27.84\00:37:31.05
Now you say: "Well where's
the verse that says that?"
00:37:41.47\00:37:44.51
There's not a single
verse that says that, you have
00:37:44.54\00:37:47.48
to study the gospels,
particularly the gospel of John
00:37:47.51\00:37:50.47
and you see that there
were 3 Passovers that took place
00:37:50.50\00:37:53.34
during the ministry of
Jesus. Jesus was baptized
00:37:53.37\00:37:55.99
in the fall of 27 AD.
00:37:56.02\00:38:00.27
Now watch my fingers very
carefully, baptized in the
00:38:00.30\00:38:03.00
fall of 27 AD.
Then the fall of 28
00:38:03.03\00:38:06.16
would be 1 year, that's
1 Passover; the fall of 29
00:38:06.19\00:38:09.21
would be 2 years, that's
another Passover; the fall of 30
00:38:09.24\00:38:12.69
and then have a
year, 3 and a half years,
00:38:12.72\00:38:15.37
3 Passovers.
Baptized in the fall,
00:38:15.40\00:38:17.78
crucified in the
spring, Passover took place
00:38:17.81\00:38:20.54
in the spring. It
would take me probably
00:38:20.57\00:38:22.99
15-20 minutes to show you that
out of John, but you can look
00:38:23.02\00:38:26.01
at it yourself, just look
up the word "Passover" in a
00:38:26.04\00:38:28.88
concordance through the book
of John, there were 3 Passovers,
00:38:28.91\00:38:31.64
Jesus' ministry lasted
approximately 3 and a half years
00:38:31.67\00:38:34.56
from being baptized in the
fall of 27 AD and crucified
00:38:34.59\00:38:37.25
in the spring of 31 AD,
does that make sense everyone?
00:38:37.28\00:38:39.92
Very powerful, in fact, if
I had time I could show you
00:38:39.95\00:38:42.75
very easily. Now
look at Revelation 13.
00:38:42.78\00:38:48.41
This beast here,
Revelation 13:5, it says:
00:38:48.44\00:38:53.61
"And he was given a mouth,
speaking great things and"
00:38:53.64\00:38:57.26
"blasphemies, and he was
given authority to continue"
00:38:57.29\00:39:04.52
"42 months", this is one of
the most important time periods
00:39:04.55\00:39:08.38
in all of the Bible, in
fact, this time period occurs
00:39:08.41\00:39:10.91
7 times in the Bible, and it's
always in the book of Daniel
00:39:10.94\00:39:14.60
and Revelation, sometimes
it's called the 42 months,
00:39:14.63\00:39:17.66
sometimes it's called the 1260
days, and sometimes it's called
00:39:17.69\00:39:20.83
a time, times and half a
time. How many years would
00:39:20.86\00:39:24.48
42 months be? 3 and a half
00:39:24.51\00:39:27.43
because 1 year would be
12, 2 years would be 24,
00:39:27.46\00:39:31.77
3 years would be 36, and
then half of that would be 6,
00:39:31.80\00:39:35.18
and that would be 42. So
how long does the mission,
00:39:35.21\00:39:39.32
the prophetic mission of
the Antichrist figure last?
00:39:39.35\00:39:42.42
3 and a half. So we
have Jesus' ministry
00:39:42.45\00:39:45.29
lasting 3 and a half literal
years, the Antichrist's mission
00:39:45.32\00:39:48.64
to deceive lasts 3 and
a half prophetic years.
00:39:48.67\00:39:52.29
Very very
powerful. Now go to Nr. 6:
00:39:52.32\00:39:57.39
[text on screen]
00:39:57.42\00:39:59.99
Do I have to go to a
verse to show you that?
00:40:00.14\00:40:02.66
You know that.
Jesus Christ was slain
00:40:02.69\00:40:06.28
and He was resurrected.
You say: "Well, what?"
00:40:06.31\00:40:09.20
"Are you saying the
Antichrist was slain?"
00:40:09.23\00:40:11.80
Oh yeah, sure, look at
your Bible, Revelation 13:3.
00:40:11.83\00:40:16.12
John says: "I saw one of
his heads as if it had been"
00:40:16.15\00:40:20.87
"mortally wounded. " If
you're reading the King James
00:40:20.90\00:40:25.15
it says "wounded to
death", is that what it says?
00:40:25.18\00:40:29.07
Okay, a mortal wound
is a deadly wound, "I saw"
00:40:29.10\00:40:31.60
"one of his heads as if it
had been wounded to death",
00:40:31.63\00:40:35.26
but notice what the rest of that
verse says: "... but his deadly"
00:40:35.29\00:40:38.73
"wound was healed", and
after that what happens?
00:40:38.76\00:40:42.50
"All the world marveled
and followed the beast. "
00:40:42.53\00:40:45.15
Let me ask you a question:
if you get a deadly wound,
00:40:45.18\00:40:48.13
what happens to
you? [Audience] You die.
00:40:48.16\00:40:51.31
You die, and if a deadly wound
is healed, what happens to you?
00:40:51.34\00:40:54.25
You are raised from the
dead. Does that make sense?
00:40:54.28\00:40:57.25
So Jesus was slain and
then resurrected, the Antichrist
00:40:57.28\00:41:01.32
was wounded to death
and then healed, but it gets
00:41:01.35\00:41:04.72
even more amazing. We
just read it, remember
00:41:04.75\00:41:07.56
I told you to take that
verse and hang it on a hook
00:41:07.59\00:41:10.55
in your mind? Matthew
28:17, that many people
00:41:10.58\00:41:13.54
worshipped Him
after His resurrection,
00:41:13.57\00:41:17.44
so Jesus Christ receives
worship after the resurrection,
00:41:17.47\00:41:24.46
but what did we just read there?
00:41:24.49\00:41:27.27
Look at it there,
Revelation 13:3: "I saw one"
00:41:27.30\00:41:30.13
"of his heads as if it
had been mortally wounded"
00:41:30.16\00:41:32.97
"and his deadly wound was
healed, and all the world"
00:41:33.00\00:41:35.69
"marveled and
followed the beast. "
00:41:35.72\00:41:40.04
Look at verse 4: "So
they worshipped the dragon",
00:41:40.07\00:41:43.94
and the dragon
is? [Audience] Satan.
00:41:43.97\00:41:46.95
So they worshipped Satan,
who gave authority to the beast,
00:41:46.98\00:41:50.12
and they worshipped the beast,
saying: "who is like the beast?"
00:41:50.15\00:41:53.02
"Who is able to
make war with him?"
00:41:53.05\00:41:55.31
In other words, no wonder
they're saying: "Who's like"
00:41:55.34\00:41:58.34
"the beast, who's
able to make war with him?"
00:41:58.37\00:42:01.10
He had been
slain and resurrected.
00:42:01.13\00:42:03.91
They said: "Whoa, who
could make war with him?"
00:42:03.94\00:42:06.81
"Even if you knock him
down he just rises up again. "
00:42:06.84\00:42:09.56
"Even if he's slain,
he resurrects again. "
00:42:09.59\00:42:12.56
You see this
counterfeit theme. And number 8:
00:42:12.59\00:42:15.14
Jesus Christ was given universal
dominion, we already saw that,
00:42:15.17\00:42:17.99
"all authority, all
power has been given to Me"
00:42:18.02\00:42:21.95
"in heaven and on earth. "
Now look at Revelation 13:7.
00:42:21.98\00:42:32.53
It says: "It was granted to
him to make war with the saints"
00:42:32.56\00:42:38.51
"and to overcome them,
and authority was given him"
00:42:38.54\00:42:44.73
"over a couple, few
people, not very many people"?
00:42:44.76\00:42:49.33
What does it say?
"Authority was given to him"
00:42:49.36\00:42:52.33
"over every tribe,
and tongue and nation. "
00:42:52.36\00:42:55.31
That sounds like
universal authority, doesn't it?
00:42:55.34\00:42:58.05
That's exactly what it sounds
like, every tribe, every tongue
00:42:58.08\00:43:01.78
and every nation.
Jesus Christ was given
00:43:01.81\00:43:05.14
universal dominion,
the Antichrist claims
00:43:05.17\00:43:07.65
a counterfeit
universal dominion.
00:43:07.68\00:43:10.91
Do you see the
counterfeits everyone?
00:43:10.94\00:43:13.78
Okay, so take a look at
it, the resurrection of Jesus
00:43:13.81\00:43:16.98
Christ, He raised from the
dead. Let's go to our review.
00:43:17.01\00:43:21.91
Jesus Christ is
worthy of our worship.
00:43:21.94\00:43:24.72
Okay, and 1 more, I
was ahead of myself.
00:43:24.75\00:43:27.60
Powerful, look at this:
the Antichrist will not appear
00:43:27.63\00:43:31.14
as a violent opposer,
but as a subtle impostor.
00:43:31.17\00:43:38.12
That's very interesting,
go to the last page of your
00:43:39.74\00:43:42.30
study guide.
00:43:42.33\00:43:46.64
It says: The stage is
set, we are now prepared
00:43:48.61\00:43:53.47
to identify the
Antichrist. The Biblical picture
00:43:53.50\00:43:57.22
is compelling and
conclusive. In our next lesson
00:43:57.25\00:44:00.55
we'll give you 10
identifying characteristics of
00:44:00.58\00:44:03.34
the Antichrist. We
began this lesson with
00:44:03.37\00:44:06.07
John 17:3: "And this is life
eternal, that they might know"
00:44:06.10\00:44:10.95
"Thee, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom Thou"
00:44:10.98\00:44:13.86
"hast sent", and we concluded
that eternal life comes from
00:44:13.89\00:44:17.22
knowing God. So
then Satan's attack
00:44:17.25\00:44:21.72
would be to prevent us
from coming to know God in
00:44:21.75\00:44:26.04
a true way. This
text makes it very clear
00:44:26.07\00:44:30.60
that salvation is beautiful
in its sublime simplicity.
00:44:30.63\00:44:34.16
Salvation is based on
a relationship of love
00:44:34.19\00:44:36.73
and commitment
between an individual and God.
00:44:36.76\00:44:39.43
The plan of Satan through
the Antichrist, in brief, is to
00:44:39.46\00:44:43.68
obscure the person and place
of Jesus, and thus compromise,
00:44:43.71\00:44:51.79
or prevent all
together that relationship.
00:44:51.82\00:44:56.09
The essence of deception is that
one doesn't know that he or she
00:44:56.12\00:45:00.93
is being deceived.
So a person may actually
00:45:00.96\00:45:04.86
believe that he has a
relationship when in reality
00:45:04.89\00:45:08.78
he may have been
deceived by the Antichrist.
00:45:08.81\00:45:13.00
The Bible is the
cure for deception.
00:45:13.03\00:45:15.93
Our relationship with God
must be based on love and truth,
00:45:15.96\00:45:20.67
Biblical truth. This
is what Jesus meant when
00:45:20.70\00:45:24.84
He said in John 4 that we must
worship in spirit and in truth.
00:45:24.87\00:45:30.43
Final paragraph: Bible
truth makes our love for God
00:45:30.46\00:45:37.77
intelligent.
00:45:37.80\00:45:41.64
Some people are going to
be satisfied to worship God
00:45:43.47\00:45:46.54
in any old willy-nilly
way, but beloved, God wants
00:45:46.57\00:45:50.01
to be worshipped in
the way that He asks us
00:45:50.04\00:45:53.56
to worship Him.
Think of Cain and Abel
00:45:53.59\00:45:56.39
in the Garden of Eden.
Both of them brought an offering
00:45:56.42\00:46:00.30
to the right
God, isn't that true?
00:46:00.33\00:46:03.48
Cain brought his offering to
the right God, he just brought
00:46:03.51\00:46:06.30
the wrong thing. He
didn't bring what God
00:46:06.33\00:46:08.77
had asked him to, and I
can imagine Cain saying:
00:46:08.80\00:46:11.61
"Well, you know, God'll
understand, God's a big boy,"
00:46:11.64\00:46:14.73
"He'll understand an
appreciate, surely. "
00:46:14.76\00:46:17.32
So he brings his thing,
the first fruits of the field
00:46:17.35\00:46:20.02
and God rejected it, why?
Because God's a great big meany?
00:46:20.05\00:46:23.00
No, because that's not
what God had asked for.
00:46:23.03\00:46:28.71
Some of us have parents
that just let us get away
00:46:28.74\00:46:31.59
with whatever we
wanted to get away with.
00:46:31.62\00:46:34.63
My dad wasn't that way, I hear
that there are parents that way,
00:46:34.66\00:46:38.10
but my dad was 36 years in
the military, he had an index
00:46:38.13\00:46:41.00
finger about that long and he'd
point it at me all the time.
00:46:41.03\00:46:43.64
He'd say: "Boy!"
Think this through,
00:46:43.67\00:46:47.22
God asks us to worship
Him in spirit and in truth.
00:46:47.25\00:46:55.46
That doesn't mean:
"Well, I'm going to worship God"
00:46:55.49\00:46:57.74
"how it makes me feel
good, and blah blah blah",
00:46:57.77\00:47:00.27
listen, you might be worshipping
God in a way that makes you
00:47:00.30\00:47:03.42
feel good, but if it's
not in a way that's Biblical,
00:47:03.45\00:47:07.13
you are in danger
of being deceived.
00:47:07.16\00:47:11.56
Does that makes
sense? [Audience] Yes.
00:47:11.59\00:47:14.53
That's the world in which you
live; the culture, the society
00:47:14.56\00:47:17.66
in which we live says "hey,
if it's true to you, it's fine".
00:47:17.69\00:47:22.23
You've heard that ridiculous
saying, it's an absolute
00:47:22.26\00:47:24.61
effrontery to the
English language, people say:
00:47:24.64\00:47:27.22
"Well, that's true for
you, but it's not true for me",
00:47:27.25\00:47:29.98
that doesn't even make sense
grammatically, something is
00:47:30.01\00:47:32.72
either true or it's not true.
"Well, you know, 2+2 is 6... "
00:47:32.75\00:47:37.36
"... for you, but for me
it's 3." [Audience laughs]
00:47:37.39\00:47:41.71
No no no, listen! I
come from a different day
00:47:42.54\00:47:46.30
and age, I come from a day and
age, I'm a whole 34 years old
00:47:46.33\00:47:50.10
so everyone older than
me will understand exactly
00:47:50.13\00:47:52.89
what I'm talking
about. When I was math class
00:47:52.92\00:47:55.80
we would have to go up to
the board and do the problems
00:47:55.83\00:47:58.79
that were on the board.
Does anybody remember this?
00:47:58.82\00:48:01.49
- [Audience] Yes. - In
front of the whole class,
00:48:01.52\00:48:04.19
"9x9", and you're going
up there, absolute fear,
00:48:04.22\00:48:07.09
absolute trepidation,
all of the students looking,
00:48:07.12\00:48:09.91
every student in the classroom
knows the right answer,
00:48:09.94\00:48:13.00
and you can't remember if it's
81 or 82, and you get up there
00:48:13.03\00:48:15.93
and you say: "82" and you
write it down, and the teacher
00:48:15.96\00:48:18.79
said: "Wrong!" [Audience laughs]
00:48:18.82\00:48:23.12
Nowadays the teacher would
say: "Well, that's another way"
00:48:23.15\00:48:27.85
"of looking at it.
" [Audience laughs]
00:48:27.88\00:48:31.64
"You know David, I just
want to affirm your creative"
00:48:31.67\00:48:34.51
"and of the box
thinking, good job", [claps].
00:48:34.54\00:48:38.62
No! Not the society I grew
up in, not the school system
00:48:38.65\00:48:41.84
I went to, that was
wrong. [Audience laughs]
00:48:41.87\00:48:45.43
But in today's day and
age "we don't want to make"
00:48:45.46\00:48:48.62
"the kid feel bad". I
want him to feel terribly bad
00:48:48.65\00:48:51.49
if he's going to go
on and become an engineer
00:48:51.52\00:48:54.35
and design a bridge, I
want him to know his math.
00:48:54.38\00:48:57.43
[Audience laughs]
00:48:57.46\00:48:59.64
Amen? [Audience] Amen!
00:48:59.67\00:49:01.66
That's the world we live
in, we don't want to hurt
00:49:01.69\00:49:04.47
anybody's feelings.
God doesn't want to hurt
00:49:04.50\00:49:07.16
anybody's feelings either, but
God gives us truth in His word,
00:49:07.19\00:49:10.40
and if what God says is A,
and we say: "well, I prefer B",
00:49:10.43\00:49:13.52
shame on you.
00:49:13.55\00:49:15.64
"Well, I think God
understands, I think God... ".
00:49:15.67\00:49:18.36
Listen, God does understand,
God understands that He
00:49:18.39\00:49:21.27
told you what to do, He
made it clear what He wanted you
00:49:21.30\00:49:24.12
to do, and you didn't do
it, He understands just fine.
00:49:24.15\00:49:27.08
Beloved, the Bible is not hard
to understand, but there are
00:49:27.11\00:49:30.81
going to be many people at
the end of time who will be
00:49:30.84\00:49:33.63
deceived not because
God's word wasn't clear,
00:49:33.66\00:49:37.40
but because they just
went about it their own way.
00:49:37.43\00:49:40.84
"I'll do my own
thing". No, no, no!
00:49:40.87\00:49:45.47
God makes His commands, and
His teachings, and His truths
00:49:45.50\00:49:50.58
clear.
00:49:50.62\00:49:52.75
If everything we believe
is grounded and rooted in this
00:49:54.32\00:49:59.35
word, there is no
danger of being deceived.
00:49:59.38\00:50:08.25
Everything I believe as a
Christian, every single thing
00:50:11.62\00:50:14.71
I do, everything I
believe, I can give you a plain
00:50:14.74\00:50:18.40
"Thus sayeth the Lord" for
it, I don't say: "Well, that's"
00:50:18.43\00:50:20.91
"the way my church does
it. " "Well, that's the way my"
00:50:20.94\00:50:23.71
"pastor does it. "
"Well, that's just the way"
00:50:23.74\00:50:26.36
"I prefer it", no, everything
I believe comes from what
00:50:26.39\00:50:29.28
the Bible says, and you
should do the very same thing.
00:50:29.31\00:50:33.09
Many people go looking
for a "church" that fits them:
00:50:33.12\00:50:35.66
"I want to find a
church where I'm comfortable",
00:50:35.69\00:50:38.51
a church where
you're comfortable?
00:50:38.54\00:50:41.12
Find a church where
they're teaching the truth!
00:50:41.15\00:50:44.02
Lord have mercy, you can
be comfortable every other day
00:50:44.05\00:50:46.96
of the week, go find a church
that's teaching the truth.
00:50:46.99\00:50:51.02
"Oh, I'll find a church
and hopefully it's comfortable"
00:50:51.05\00:50:53.70
"for me", no!
First find the truth
00:50:53.73\00:50:56.26
and then go find a church
that's teaching what's true,
00:50:56.29\00:50:58.96
not the other way round.
00:50:58.99\00:51:01.68
Jesus Himself had
to change churches.
00:51:01.71\00:51:04.54
Jesus began His
earthly ministry and He said:
00:51:04.57\00:51:07.29
"Take these things out of here,
you've made My Father's house"
00:51:07.32\00:51:10.18
"a den of thieves", He
began His earthly ministry,
00:51:10.21\00:51:12.72
it was "My Father's house",
but at the end of 3 and a half
00:51:12.75\00:51:15.45
years He went back into
that same temple and He walked
00:51:15.48\00:51:18.16
out and He said: "Your house
is left to you desolate", why?
00:51:18.19\00:51:20.97
Why had He changed?
Because they had consistently
00:51:21.00\00:51:23.93
rejected the evidences
of His Messiahship, He says:
00:51:23.96\00:51:26.62
"If you won't follow the
truth, I'll take My show"
00:51:26.65\00:51:30.04
"somewhere else. "
[Audience] Hallelujah.
00:51:30.07\00:51:33.20
Are we clear?
[Audience replies] Yes.
00:51:33.23\00:51:35.95
We say: "My grandpa went to
this church, my grandmother,"
00:51:35.98\00:51:38.76
"she played that organ, and
my uncle, he made that stained"
00:51:38.79\00:51:41.97
"glass", and oh good for you.
Beloved, Jesus Christ Himself
00:51:42.00\00:51:46.49
went into the very temple
that was built and designed
00:51:46.52\00:51:50.34
as an edifice to show Him,
but when truth wasn't being
00:51:50.37\00:51:54.22
taught there anymore, He took
His 12 disciples and He went
00:51:54.25\00:51:57.09
and met under
and oak tree. Amen!
00:51:57.12\00:52:01.22
Because truth is more
important than a building.
00:52:02.89\00:52:06.84
That's not the
world you live in though.
00:52:07.03\00:52:09.24
The world you live in says
"Well, you know, truth-smuth",
00:52:09.27\00:52:12.11
"come on, we all get
along. The Bible is so hard"
00:52:12.14\00:52:15.17
"to understand, there are so
many different interpretations",
00:52:15.20\00:52:18.05
how many of you have
ever heard that before?
00:52:18.08\00:52:20.57
"That's your interpretation
and this is mine",
00:52:20.60\00:52:23.27
let me tell you something:
there are only 2 kinds
00:52:23.30\00:52:26.13
of interpretations:
right and wrong.
00:52:26.16\00:52:28.75
"Well that's just your
interpretation of 9x9,"
00:52:28.78\00:52:31.34
"mine's a little
different. My interpretation is"
00:52:31.37\00:52:33.89
"that it's 84." No!
00:52:33.92\00:52:36.01
The Bible says there is
no private interpretation,
00:52:36.04\00:52:39.02
2 Peter 1.
00:52:39.05\00:52:41.27
You got me fired
up, see how that works?
00:52:41.30\00:52:44.22
[Audience laughs]
00:52:44.25\00:52:46.20
Beloved, there is a
real danger, the Devil is not
00:52:46.23\00:52:48.88
whistling Dixie,
he is out to deceive,
00:52:48.91\00:52:54.25
and deceived people are unaware
that they're being deceived.
00:52:54.28\00:52:57.94
Again, you're sitting there
thinking "Man, I'm just so glad"
00:52:57.97\00:53:01.07
"I'm not deceived",
that's how every deceived person
00:53:01.10\00:53:03.70
in the world thinks.
The moment that you know
00:53:03.73\00:53:06.31
you're being deceived,
you're un-deceived, makes sense?
00:53:06.34\00:53:10.26
Because now you're aware of it,
it's just like when you wake up
00:53:10.29\00:53:13.23
and think: "Oh, I was sleeping",
yeah, now you're awake.
00:53:13.26\00:53:18.00
And the Antichrist comes in
to subtly counterfeit Christ.
00:53:18.03\00:53:24.13
People have this ridiculously
obvious, elementary idea
00:53:24.16\00:53:27.71
that the Antichrist is going
to come with a great big sign
00:53:27.74\00:53:30.52
around his neck that says:
"Antichrist, I hate Jesus,"
00:53:30.55\00:53:33.88
"honk if you don't love Jesus.
" Everybody's going to say:
00:53:33.91\00:53:36.54
"Oh, there's the Antichrist,
don't have anything to do"
00:53:36.57\00:53:39.64
"with him", are you kidding?
00:53:39.67\00:53:41.86
The Antichrist comes on
the scene not to show himself
00:53:41.89\00:53:44.92
that he's against
God, but that he is God.
00:53:44.95\00:53:47.81
He's a religious figure, like
a Judas Iscariot, not who will
00:53:47.84\00:53:51.30
violently oppose, but who will
subtly betray, and Revelation
00:53:51.33\00:53:54.17
sets us up for this.
Jesus began His ministry
00:53:54.20\00:53:56.73
by rising from the water, the
Antichrist begins his mission
00:53:56.76\00:53:59.81
by rising from the water.
Jesus resembles His Father,
00:53:59.84\00:54:02.87
the Antichrist
resembles his father.
00:54:02.90\00:54:05.52
Jesus has horns and crowns
representing kingly authority,
00:54:05.55\00:54:08.50
the Antichrist, horns and crowns
representing kingly authority.
00:54:08.53\00:54:11.61
Jesus received His
authority from who? The Father.
00:54:11.64\00:54:14.48
The Antichrist
receives his authority from who?
00:54:14.51\00:54:17.15
The Dragon. And then Nr. 5:
00:54:17.18\00:54:19.79
Jesus' ministry lasted 3
and a half literal years,
00:54:19.82\00:54:22.59
the Antichrist's ministry lasts
3 and a half prophetic years.
00:54:22.62\00:54:25.57
Jesus was slain and resurrected,
the Antichrist was wounded
00:54:25.60\00:54:28.58
to death then healed.
Jesus receives worship
00:54:28.61\00:54:31.39
after the resurrection,
the Antichrist received worship
00:54:31.42\00:54:34.17
after his deadly
wound was healed.
00:54:34.20\00:54:36.77
Jesus is given universal
dominion, the Antichrist
00:54:36.80\00:54:39.62
is claims universal dominion.
What you're seeing here
00:54:39.65\00:54:42.58
is a counterfeit, an
impostor, and that's why we ask
00:54:42.61\00:54:45.60
the question: does
Jesus Christ have a twin?
00:54:45.63\00:54:48.47
The answer is "No", but
if the Antichrist has his way
00:54:48.50\00:54:51.34
you'll think so.
Are we clear everyone?
00:54:51.37\00:54:54.10
2 questions as we close tonight,
Nr. 1: has this been clear?
00:54:54.13\00:54:57.25
Raise your hand
if it's been clear.
00:54:57.28\00:54:59.58
Okay good. 2nd question is this:
00:54:59.61\00:55:02.21
how many of you...
listen, I'm not up here
00:55:02.24\00:55:04.88
for my good health and I
don't make a penny off of these
00:55:04.91\00:55:07.71
meetings, I couldn't
care less about all of that,
00:55:07.74\00:55:10.63
I want to know how many of
you are committed to taking
00:55:10.66\00:55:13.44
everything that you believe,
everything that you stand on,
00:55:13.47\00:55:16.14
your religious
experience with God and saying:
00:55:16.17\00:55:19.09
"If it's not traceable to here,
I'm willing to give it up. "
00:55:19.12\00:55:24.05
Come on... slowly wind
the crank. [Audience laughs]
00:55:24.08\00:55:31.22
Are you with me?
Beloved, that's dangerous
00:55:31.25\00:55:34.17
what you just did
there is dangerous.
00:55:34.20\00:55:36.67
Look, my hand's up.
00:55:36.70\00:55:39.29
If it's not in here
it's not worth believing.
00:55:39.32\00:55:44.71
This is the essence and
the elixir of deception.
00:55:44.74\00:55:47.81
In today's day and age,
you go to many churches,
00:55:47.84\00:55:50.53
they place a bigger
emphasis on feeling good than on
00:55:50.56\00:55:53.49
doing good.
00:55:53.52\00:55:55.90
I've been to churches where
I've said: "Open your Bible"
00:55:55.93\00:55:58.88
"to the book of Hezekiah",
and everybody starts looking:
00:55:58.91\00:56:01.69
"Oh yeah, Hezekiah, that's
in the New Testament right?",
00:56:01.72\00:56:04.69
there is no
Hezekiah! [Audience laughs]
00:56:04.72\00:56:07.49
Beloved, we need to know this
Word, we need to love this Word.
00:56:07.52\00:56:10.80
We won't be here tomorrow night,
but we will be here on Monday,
00:56:10.83\00:56:13.65
we're going to look at
"The Actual, Certain, Definite,"
00:56:13.68\00:56:16.48
"Unavoidable Identity of
the Antichrist", and it won't be
00:56:16.51\00:56:19.16
from me, it'll be from
the Word, I guarantee that.
00:56:19.19\00:56:24.71
I won't tell it to
you, you'll tell it to me.
00:56:24.74\00:56:27.54
So bring a friend, bring
an enemy, don't bring a pet,
00:56:27.57\00:56:30.94
bring anyone, [Audience laughs]
00:56:30.97\00:56:33.54
we'll see you on Monday
night. Let's pray together.
00:56:33.57\00:56:37.41
Father in heaven, we
want to know what's true.
00:56:37.44\00:56:43.77
So please Father, give
us a passion for Your word.
00:56:43.80\00:56:48.07
Father, we live in a society,
and a world, and a culture
00:56:48.10\00:56:51.02
that is turned upside
down and what's wrong is right
00:56:51.05\00:56:53.63
and what's right is wrong,
and everything in between,
00:56:53.66\00:56:56.62
but Father, You are
calling us to know truth.
00:56:56.65\00:56:59.40
You tell us that Your
church is the pillar and ground
00:56:59.43\00:57:02.01
of truth, we want
to know what's true.
00:57:02.04\00:57:04.77
So help us Father tonight,
as we bring our hearts to You,
00:57:04.80\00:57:09.23
we bring our lives to You,
we bring our worship to You,
00:57:09.26\00:57:12.05
Father, refine us.
00:57:12.08\00:57:15.41
Make us willing to let go of
the dearest things if they can't
00:57:15.44\00:57:19.03
be traceable to Your word.
00:57:19.06\00:57:22.89
Father in heaven, bind our
hearts together with Your heart,
00:57:22.92\00:57:28.19
and bind our hearts together
with one another in Christian
00:57:28.22\00:57:31.36
love.
00:57:31.39\00:57:33.06
God we love You, teach us
how to love You more and better.
00:57:33.09\00:57:39.76
In Jesus' name, let all of
God's humble people say amen.
00:57:39.79\00:57:44.59