Thank you for joining us for series titled Eternal Truths 00:00:17.98\00:00:24.02 Matter. In the first two presentations we pointed out 00:00:24.05\00:00:27.26 that the Bible is the very foundation of our faith. But the 00:00:27.29\00:00:30.99 question that atheists cannot answer is why is the Bible so 00:00:31.03\00:00:35.13 accurate in its predictions if it's an uninspired book? And we 00:00:35.16\00:00:39.43 traced down through the prophecies of the Bible to point 00:00:39.47\00:00:44.14 out that the Bible is accurate and that we can trust it. That 00:00:44.17\00:00:47.91 it's the very foundation of our faith. In the second 00:00:47.94\00:00:49.98 presentation we talked about Jesus as the Divine Son of God. 00:00:50.01\00:00:54.55 Both of those presentations prepare us now for launching in 00:00:54.58\00:00:59.55 to the rest of our series on end time events. We're going to look 00:00:59.59\00:01:05.06 in this presentation to unravel Satan's greatest deception just 00:01:05.09\00:01:12.00 before Jesus comes. But we need the Bible as our anchor and 00:01:12.03\00:01:15.17 Christ as our guide. So let's pray. 00:01:15.20\00:01:17.24 Father in heaven, thank you for the opportunity of sharing your 00:01:17.27\00:01:23.95 word. I pray that as we get into some very heavy topics, some 00:01:23.98\00:01:29.38 very deep prophetic water that you'd give us eyes to see and 00:01:29.42\00:01:32.65 ears to hear and hearts to understand your message to us 00:01:32.69\00:01:37.03 just now. In Christ's name, Amen 00:01:37.06\00:01:39.26 Spiritualism and witchcraft and demon possession are very much a 00:01:39.29\00:01:45.83 part of African culture. One of the places that I enjoyed 00:01:45.87\00:01:51.17 preaching more than anything else because you see the power 00:01:51.21\00:01:53.88 of God come down and the miraculous deliverances from 00:01:53.91\00:01:57.91 demon possession and witchcraft and the occult. You see that 00:01:57.95\00:02:02.75 very vividly in Africa. In 2018 my wife and I were holding 00:02:02.78\00:02:08.92 evangelistic meetings via satellite across the continent 00:02:08.96\00:02:13.36 of Africa and we were broadcasting from Mwanza, 00:02:13.40\00:02:16.20 Tanzania. Some Christian friends brought a lady to our meetings 00:02:16.23\00:02:20.30 and as they brought this particular woman, she had been 00:02:20.34\00:02:26.07 involved in some witchcraft. She had been involved in some 00:02:26.11\00:02:31.68 demonic activities like offering sacrifices to the gods, wearing 00:02:31.71\00:02:37.42 devil charms. But she came with this terrible pain in her leg. 00:02:37.45\00:02:41.22 And the story that she told us was this: That there was a witch 00:02:41.26\00:02:46.63 doctor in her city and this witch doctor took a devil charm 00:02:46.66\00:02:52.77 and put it on a pathway and that devil charm had a curse in it 00:02:52.80\00:02:59.07 and that anybody who stepped on that devil charm would get 00:02:59.11\00:03:02.68 paralysis in their legs terrible pain and burning sensation. So 00:03:02.71\00:03:08.08 this woman walking down the pathway stepped on the devil 00:03:08.12\00:03:10.82 charm believing in the power of Satan, believing in the power of 00:03:10.85\00:03:16.46 the evil one and for over eight years had this terrible terrible 00:03:16.49\00:03:21.23 pain in her legs. They brought her to every witch doctor in the 00:03:21.26\00:03:26.00 area. Ones that were more powerful than the one that 00:03:26.03\00:03:28.27 supposedly put the devil charm on the pathway. They brought her 00:03:28.30\00:03:32.67 to Christian churches and apparently there was no 00:03:32.71\00:03:37.71 possibility of healing this woman. They heard about our 00:03:37.75\00:03:41.82 meetings and they brought her. Filled with pain, body wracked 00:03:41.85\00:03:45.92 with suffering and we gathered our prayer group around and 00:03:45.95\00:03:50.19 began to pray earnestly for the power of the living God to 00:03:50.23\00:03:52.99 deliver this woman, to give her peace. Miraculously she was 00:03:53.03\00:03:56.77 healed. The pain subsided. The demons left her. Eventually 00:03:56.80\00:04:04.37 she became a committed Christian following the teachings of the 00:04:04.41\00:04:08.14 Bible. The Bible is very, very clear on witchcraft, wizards, 00:04:08.18\00:04:14.48 because you see spiritualism and witchcraft is not limited to 00:04:14.52\00:04:19.22 African society. It's the subject of multimillion dollar 00:04:19.25\00:04:24.66 Hollywood productions in our society. Spiritualism is rampant 00:04:24.69\00:04:29.56 today in the media. Blockbuster movies, best-selling books have 00:04:29.60\00:04:37.91 all focused on this theme of wizards and witches. If you look 00:04:37.94\00:04:44.41 at the book of Deuteronomy we have clear instruction because 00:04:44.45\00:04:49.88 in the last days of earth's history spiritualism will be 00:04:49.92\00:04:53.12 prevalent, it'll be rampant again. Deuteronomy chapter 18 00:04:53.15\00:04:57.56 verse 10-12 God tells his people not to mix the occult arts with 00:04:57.59\00:05:08.50 the worship of the true God. Deuteronomy chapter 18 00:05:08.54\00:05:12.51 verse 10 and onward. 00:05:12.54\00:05:14.31 Now let's look at that text 00:05:44.07\00:05:45.57 and try to get down what it's saying. It says 00:05:45.61\00:05:50.25 let no one be found among you anyone that makes his son or 00:05:50.28\00:05:51.88 daughter pass through the fire. This was an occult art. They 00:05:51.91\00:05:57.12 believed that the demonic spirits could guide that person 00:05:57.15\00:06:00.92 through the fire and they wouldn't be burned. Then it says 00:06:00.96\00:06:03.89 that uses divination. What's divination? It's fortune telling 00:06:05.16\00:06:07.66 the fortune tellers. God blessed the minds of the prophets. 00:06:08.16\00:06:15.10 Wisdom came from above, not from the fortune tellers. Or the 00:06:15.14\00:06:18.14 observer of times. What's the observer of times. That's an 00:06:18.17\00:06:21.04 astrologer. Not an astronomer. Astronomy and astrology are two 00:06:21.08\00:06:24.85 different things. Astronomers study the stars. Astrologers try 00:06:24.88\00:06:28.45 to guide your life through the stars. Think of those people 00:06:28.48\00:06:32.15 today that open up the newspaper every morning and look at the 00:06:32.19\00:06:35.99 astrology column. There are more than 2000 astrology columns in 00:06:36.02\00:06:39.13 newspapers across America and some people make their decisions 00:06:39.16\00:06:42.90 based on those astrology columns And then it says or an enchanter 00:06:42.93\00:06:47.54 or a witch. An enchanter is a psychic or a witch or a charmer 00:06:47.57\00:06:54.48 or a consulter with familiar spirits or a wizard. Notice the 00:06:54.51\00:06:59.98 emphasis here on witches and wizards or a necromancer. What's 00:07:00.02\00:07:04.19 a necromancer? It's one who tries to communicate with the 00:07:04.22\00:07:07.52 dead. It says all these things are an abomination to the Lord. 00:07:07.56\00:07:10.99 You say do we have these things in our society today? A casual 00:07:11.03\00:07:14.36 look at Hollywood or reading some of the best seller books 00:07:14.40\00:07:16.87 would indicate that. But let me give you one example. It's the 00:07:16.90\00:07:21.07 example of the Harry Potter film series and books. In 2018 sales 00:07:21.10\00:07:27.88 of Harry Potter's books. that was just five years ago, went to 00:07:27.91\00:07:35.38 500 million, went beyond that. In the United States Harry 00:07:35.42\00:07:38.29 Potter's The Goblet of Fire sold three million copies the first 00:07:38.32\00:07:44.19 weekend. Harry and the Half blood Prince sold 6.9 million 00:07:44.23\00:07:51.53 copies in 24 hours. It's amazing! The Deathly Hollows, 00:07:51.57\00:07:57.67 the fastest selling fiction book in history sold 8.3 million 00:07:57.71\00:08:02.28 copies in the first 24 hours. That's 96 books a second. The 00:08:02.31\00:08:07.02 films have grossed well over eight billion dollars. The vast majority of young people 00:08:07.05\00:08:15.16 reading Harry Potter series. Now many teachers praised the series 00:08:15.19\00:08:19.76 because of the fact that they say it's getting kids to read. 00:08:19.79\00:08:23.87 And I will acknowledge that this series is written to engage 00:08:23.90\00:08:29.30 one's attention. It's written in a very fascinating way by J.K. 00:08:29.34\00:08:33.34 Rowling who wrote the series. But are there some problems with 00:08:33.38\00:08:38.55 it? Now even some Christians see very little wrong with the Harry 00:08:38.58\00:08:42.28 Potter series. They look at it and they say well it has some 00:08:42.32\00:08:45.15 good moral values because it teaches you unselfishness and 00:08:45.19\00:08:48.16 love. That's their view point. But I think you've got three 00:08:48.19\00:08:51.16 major problems with that series. At least three. Problem number 00:08:51.19\00:08:57.00 one: The Bible openly condemns witches and wizards. You know 00:08:57.03\00:09:03.24 the story. Harry Potter goes to the Hogwarts School, and he 00:09:03.27\00:09:07.51 learns wizardry and witchcraft. And the whole series is about 00:09:07.54\00:09:12.11 witches and wizards. When children get fascinated with 00:09:12.15\00:09:17.25 the witches and wizards the second problem is it unfits them 00:09:17.29\00:09:22.66 to read the Bible and it opens their mind to the supernatural 00:09:22.69\00:09:27.50 world to be deceived by the evil one. So problem number one is 00:09:27.53\00:09:33.54 that witches and wizards are an abomination to the Lord, 00:09:33.57\00:09:36.54 condemned by the Bible. Problem number two: Reading fanciful 00:09:36.57\00:09:41.44 literature like this unfits one to read the Bible. The Bible 00:09:41.48\00:09:46.01 then becomes more of a boring book because one's mind has been 00:09:46.05\00:09:51.79 captured by another source. But there's another problem, too, 00:09:51.82\00:09:55.29 and it's quite significant and the problem is this. When you 00:09:55.32\00:10:00.16 read the Harry Potter novels where a young person reads those 00:10:00.20\00:10:02.96 you do not read about the higher power of God. You do not read 00:10:03.00\00:10:05.50 about the blood of Christ. You do not read about the sacrifice 00:10:05.53\00:10:08.60 of Christ. So at best, at best it's a humanistic view point of 00:10:08.64\00:10:16.08 so called love and unselfishness and white magic. That's at best. 00:10:16.11\00:10:19.35 But there's something much worse than that That's the captivation 00:10:19.38\00:10:24.62 of the mind by evil forces. The Bible says we wrestle not 00:10:24.65\00:10:29.99 against flesh and blood, but against evil forces in the 00:10:30.03\00:10:34.86 heavenly realms. And that's truly what's taking place today. 00:10:34.90\00:10:38.60 The Bible predicts that in the last days of earth's history the 00:10:38.63\00:10:46.04 minds of men and women will be captured by spiritualistic 00:10:46.07\00:10:50.81 forces. I wonder. Could it be? Might it be, is it possible that 00:10:50.85\00:10:58.72 Satan is conditioning the minds of young people today. Could it 00:10:58.75\00:11:03.69 be possible that he's conditioning the minds of 00:11:03.73\00:11:06.90 adults through movies that feature spiritualistic themes. 00:11:06.93\00:11:11.07 They may feature wizards witches Some of them may feature 00:11:11.10\00:11:15.80 communication with the dead. Ghost Busters, for example, the 00:11:15.84\00:11:21.21 movie. Could it be that the devil is conditioning the mind 00:11:21.24\00:11:27.85 to accept supernatural deceptions that will lead the 00:11:27.88\00:11:36.36 world to ultimately the mark of the beast in the last days of 00:11:36.39\00:11:38.89 earth's history and Armageddon. Revelation, we're going to go 00:11:38.93\00:11:41.83 deeply into the book of Revelation. Take your Bible and 00:11:41.86\00:11:44.57 turn to Revelation chapter 16. Revelation chapter 16. Satan's 00:11:44.60\00:11:49.34 greatest deception is to capture us through the 00:11:49.37\00:11:53.74 supernatural and to deceive men and women regarding what is 00:11:53.78\00:11:58.95 coming upon the world. Because the devil is going to palm off 00:11:58.98\00:12:02.78 the greatest supernatural so called miracles of deception. 00:12:02.82\00:12:08.06 Revelation 16, we're looking there at verse 14. And notice 00:12:08.09\00:12:16.46 how the book of Revelation puts it. It's talking about the 00:12:16.50\00:12:20.40 Battle of Armageddon. Verse 14 puts it this way. 00:12:20.44\00:12:24.71 Now this text says 00:12:42.96\00:12:49.53 they are the spirits of who? The spirits of who, everybody. The 00:12:49.56\00:12:53.00 spirits of devils. And what do these spirits of devils do? They 00:12:53.03\00:12:57.61 go forth to the kings of the earth and the whole world to 00:12:57.64\00:13:02.44 gather them to the battle of the great day of God Almighty. And 00:13:02.48\00:13:05.55 what does Jesus say? He says behold, I'm coming quickly, I'm 00:13:05.58\00:13:08.35 coming as a thief. Watch. Keep your garment. Don't be deceived. 00:13:08.38\00:13:11.95 In other words, at a time of crisis, of famine, fire, flood. 00:13:11.99\00:13:17.66 At a time of natural disasters a time of war and conflict, at a 00:13:17.69\00:13:22.40 time of rising crime and violence. When this world is 00:13:22.43\00:13:27.14 falling apart, the devil works false miracles with the 00:13:27.17\00:13:36.14 supernatural powers that he has he works signs and wonders to a 00:13:36.18\00:13:40.15 generation whose mind has been conditioned to accept the 00:13:40.18\00:13:44.29 supernatural and wizards and witches and false miracles. To 00:13:44.32\00:13:50.73 a generation that's been conditioned to understand about 00:13:50.76\00:13:53.13 the communication with the dead. To that generation, Satan palms 00:13:53.16\00:13:58.17 off amazing false miracles. Apparently, the sick 00:13:58.20\00:14:05.94 are healed. It's false healing of course. Apparently when those 00:14:05.97\00:14:11.01 signs and wonders take place, in the sky, throughout society 00:14:11.05\00:14:12.58 And the devil says look if only we could unite. If only we could 00:14:12.61\00:14:21.49 be together as one. The conflict in this world would cease. Now 00:14:21.52\00:14:28.50 notice. Revelation chapter 18. We're studying the book of 00:14:28.53\00:14:32.40 Revelation, Satan's greatest deception at end time Revelation 00:14:32.43\00:14:36.10 chapter 18: Verses one to four. The scripture puts it this way. 00:14:36.14\00:14:42.18 So here you have a triple triumvirate of error. You have 00:15:17.98\00:15:26.45 Babylon which represents false religion. Babylon also 00:15:26.49\00:15:31.73 represents apostasy, drifting away from God. Then you have the 00:15:31.76\00:15:34.30 kings of the earth, that's the political leaders. So Babylon 00:15:34.33\00:15:37.67 the religious leaders, all false religion. You have the political 00:15:37.70\00:15:44.47 leaders, that's the governmental leaders. Then you have the 00:15:44.51\00:15:48.54 merchants of the earth. So did you notice the merchants of the 00:15:48.58\00:15:51.81 earth joined them. So you have the religious powers, the 00:15:51.85\00:15:55.55 political powers and the financial powers. They unite but 00:15:55.58\00:15:57.95 why do they unite? Because they've seen these supernatural 00:15:57.99\00:16:03.32 miracles, they've seen these signs and wonders, minds have 00:16:03.36\00:16:07.76 been conditioned over generations, but particularly in 00:16:07.80\00:16:11.93 this final generation and particularly these last few 00:16:11.97\00:16:14.04 years. Minds have been conditioned to accept the 00:16:14.07\00:16:18.11 supernatural and demonic worship and devil worship and so forth. 00:16:18.14\00:16:23.11 And so when the devil masquerades as Christ, as the 00:16:23.14\00:16:26.48 fallen angel of light. As he does that he has power to 00:16:26.51\00:16:32.19 deceive. But there's something about verse 4, that I wanted you 00:16:32.22\00:16:35.66 saying Come out of her, my people Come out of who, come out 00:16:38.89\00:16:41.70 of who Come out of Babylon, Come out of all false religion. But 00:16:41.73\00:16:45.10 how do According to the Bible do you remember what 00:16:51.24\00:16:55.58 sin is? According to scripture how do we define sin? Remember 00:16:55.61\00:16:59.31 it says in 1 John 3:4 that sin is what Sin is the transgression 00:16:59.35\00:17:07.26 of God's law. So the scripture says Babylon is fallen, Come out 00:17:07.29\00:17:12.73 of her my people. Many of God's people are still in churches and 00:17:12.76\00:17:18.57 religious organizations that are breaking God's law. Come out of 00:17:18.60\00:17:22.07 her, my people, lest you partake of her what? Sins. What is sin 00:17:22.10\00:17:29.01 1 John 3:4, it's the transgression of God's law. So 00:17:29.04\00:17:32.11 God is calling us from every law-breaking church. The devil 00:17:32.15\00:17:35.72 will unite with spiritualistic phenomena, religious leaders, 00:17:35.75\00:17:41.62 political leaders and financial leaders through signs and 00:17:41.66\00:17:45.79 wonders to establish a counterfeit day of worship and 00:17:45.83\00:17:51.40 lead men and women contrary to the law of God. Just as in 00:17:51.43\00:17:57.24 Daniel chapter 3, there was a counterfeit image all of gold 00:17:57.27\00:18:01.04 that counterfeited of the genuine image in 00:18:01.08\00:18:03.68 Daniel chapter 2 with the head of gold, 00:18:03.71\00:18:06.68 the breast and arms of silver, the thighs of 00:18:06.72\00:18:09.18 brass, the legs of iron, feet of iron and clay. Remember the head 00:18:09.22\00:18:11.02 of gold represented Babylon, another empire would follow, 00:18:11.05\00:18:14.72 Medo-Persia, another empire would follow, Greece, and 00:18:14.76\00:18:18.39 another Rome. Nebuchadnezzar would not accept God's 00:18:18.43\00:18:22.83 interpretation that his kingdom would be followed by another 00:18:22.86\00:18:26.43 kingdom, so he made an image all of gold. Every citizen in the 00:18:26.47\00:18:32.77 kingdom was commanded to worship that golden image. The test 00:18:32.81\00:18:36.81 question was the second commandment, Thou shall not make 00:18:36.85\00:18:40.18 unto thee any graven image and the first commandment, Thou 00:18:40.22\00:18:42.58 shall not have any other false gods before me. So in the last 00:18:42.62\00:18:45.79 days of earth's history through Satanic delusions the devil is 00:18:45.82\00:18:50.66 going to try to get men and women to violate God's law at 00:18:50.69\00:18:56.36 a time of crisis by establishing a substitute image or a 00:18:56.40\00:19:00.84 substitute Sabbath. Now will 00:19:00.87\00:19:02.67 the law of God play a part in the last days of Earth's history 00:19:02.70\00:19:05.44 Take your Bible and turn, please to Isaiah chapter 8, Isaiah 8 00:19:05.47\00:19:10.11 verses 19 and 20. Notice the relationship between 00:19:10.15\00:19:16.48 spiritualism and the Law of God In these two verses. Isaiah 8 00:19:16.52\00:19:20.79 We're looking there at verse 19 and 20 and looking particularly 00:19:20.82\00:19:24.86 at spiritualism and the law of God. And you find it here in the 00:19:24.89\00:19:30.47 The book of Isaiah, Isaiah is speaking of the last days 00:19:30.50\00:19:34.54 of earth's history. Verse 19 00:19:34.57\00:19:36.81 Now notice that we read about wizards, that we read 00:19:55.12\00:20:01.56 about witches, that we read about spiritualism that God 00:20:01.60\00:20:05.97 condemned that in Deuteronomy. He did. But did we read about 00:20:06.00\00:20:08.67 This spiritualistic phenomenon in Revelation 16 and Revelation 00:20:08.70\00:20:12.64 18. Yes. And did we hear the call to come out of these 00:20:12.67\00:20:17.05 law-breaking churches who are not keeping God's commandments. 00:20:17.08\00:20:20.42 We did but notice here in Isaiah chapter 8 it says that these 00:20:20.45\00:20:27.69 spiritualistic phenomena they're going to try to lead you into 00:20:27.72\00:20:30.36 this confederacy. Unto the law and to the testimony if they 00:20:30.39\00:20:31.96 don't speak according to this word it's because there's what? 00:20:31.99\00:20:34.80 No light in them. Now notice what it does not say. It does 00:20:34.83\00:20:38.20 not say there's no power in them because the devil has power. 00:20:38.23\00:20:42.07 It says there's no truth in them because the devil mingles truth 00:20:42.10\00:20:46.47 and error. That makes it more deceptive. It doesn't say 00:20:46.51\00:20:49.88 there's no love in them because the devil can create a false 00:20:49.91\00:20:54.98 sense of sentimentality and love. What does it say. It says 00:20:55.02\00:20:58.85 there's no light in them. That's very important. Why does it say 00:20:58.89\00:21:01.69 to the law and to the testimony that is to the word of God, the 00:21:01.72\00:21:06.80 testimony of scripture. To the law of God. It says if you do 00:21:06.83\00:21:10.53 not follow that there's no light. Why does it say no light? 00:21:10.57\00:21:16.30 Because light's what you follow. Light illuminates the darkness. 00:21:16.34\00:21:20.58 So a church may have power, it may have a sense of love, but if 00:21:20.61\00:21:30.02 it does not follow the word of God there's no light in that 00:21:30.05\00:21:32.99 organization for you to follow and God says come out of her my 00:21:33.02\00:21:37.23 people. Don't be deceived because in the last days there 00:21:37.26\00:21:40.80 will be spiritualistic phenomena that will be working miracles, 00:21:40.83\00:21:43.43 that'll sweep you off your very feet. The first lie that the 00:21:43.47\00:21:47.34 devil gave in Genesis was about this lie of spiritualism, this 00:21:47.37\00:21:52.41 lie about death. Genesis chapter 3; we're looking here, Genesis 00:21:52.44\00:21:57.15 the third chapter, verses 1-4. This is the lie the devil gave. 00:21:57.18\00:22:02.98 Genesis 3 verse 1-4: 00:22:03.02\00:22:05.19 What indeed was Satan's deception to Eve. Satan 00:22:28.94\00:22:35.38 masqueraded as a serpent. This was a spiritualistic deception. 00:22:35.42\00:22:41.09 And as he did he said you can partake and eat of this fruit 00:22:41.12\00:22:45.49 And you are not going to surely die. He said you're naturally 00:22:45.53\00:22:50.43 immortal. He said if you eat this fruit you'll have 00:22:50.47\00:22:54.20 immortality. Now the Bible is very clear. It says when God 00:22:54.24\00:22:57.54 created man, he formed him, Genesis 2 verse 7. He formed him 00:22:57.57\00:23:02.31 out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils 00:23:02.34\00:23:07.38 the breath of life and man became a living soul. The Bible 00:23:07.42\00:23:14.69 says that God breathed his breath, the life-giving power of 00:23:17.33\00:23:20.50 of God and man became this living being. When a person 00:23:20.53\00:23:25.27 dies, what happens. The life goes back to God. The body goes 00:23:25.30\00:23:30.41 to the earth. It's the spirit that goes back to God. But Bible 00:23:30.44\00:23:34.14 never says the soul goes back to God. The Bible used the word 00:23:34.18\00:23:37.78 soul 1600 times but never once uses the term immortal soul. 00:23:37.81\00:23:40.95 What is the spirit that goes back to God? It's the life God 00:23:40.98\00:23:44.35 gave it. It's not something that thinks or feels. In fact, the 00:23:44.39\00:23:48.12 Bible uses the term sleep 53 times for death. In the book of 00:23:48.16\00:23:51.93 Ecclesiastes it says: The living know that they shall die: but 00:23:51.96\00:23:53.29 the dead know not what? They do not know anything. 00:23:53.33\00:23:59.80 So anything is not something. And something is not anything. 00:23:59.83\00:24:03.71 When you die, it's just a perfect rest until the 00:24:03.74\00:24:08.48 resurrection. Can a person ever returns to their house when they 00:24:08.51\00:24:14.38 die? Take the book of Job. Job chapter 7 verse 9 and 10. Job 00:24:14.42\00:24:23.12 7:9 and 10. Can a person ever go back to their house when they 00:24:23.16\00:24:26.83 die? See the devil's going to have all kinds of delusions, 00:24:26.86\00:24:30.00 signs, wonders, wizards, witches, the dead purportedly. they're really evil 00:24:30.03\00:24:35.77 spirits masquerading. The dead purportedly appearing to loved 00:24:35.80\00:24:43.75 ones. This scripture says, it points out very clearly that the 00:24:43.78\00:24:47.55 dead can never return to their house. It says: 00:24:47.58\00:24:51.62 Scripture is very, very plain. When a person dies they rest. 00:25:05.63\00:25:11.61 The devil's deception, and let me make it very plain so we 00:25:11.64\00:25:18.41 don't miss it. Here's the devil's greatest deception. In 00:25:18.45\00:25:20.45 the last days of earth's history, the devil will use 00:25:20.48\00:25:27.16 spiritualistic phenomena to try to bring the world together at a 00:25:27.19\00:25:31.89 time of crisis to deceive mankind, to get them to violate 00:25:31.93\00:25:38.00 God's word and God's commandments so that they will 00:25:38.03\00:25:42.80 accept the false Christ rather than the real Christ. But the 00:25:42.84\00:25:47.14 real Christ is coming. He will descend down the corridor of 00:25:47.18\00:25:49.54 the sky. He invites you, and he invites me to respond to his 00:25:49.58\00:25:56.18 love, to accept the truths of scripture. Remember what the 00:25:56.22\00:26:01.89 Apostle Paul said. He said in 1 Thessalonians 00:26:01.92\00:26:06.39 chapter 4, verse 16 and 17: 00:26:06.43\00:26:09.46 Satan wants to establish his kingdom 00:26:38.06\00:26:41.76 on earth. Satan wants to establish an earthly kingdom and 00:26:41.80\00:26:46.43 he's going to attempt to do that by uniting religious leaders, 00:26:46.47\00:26:49.74 political leaders, economic leaders at a time of crisis. He 00:26:49.77\00:26:54.54 will say there is a common day of worship and rest that we all 00:26:54.58\00:26:59.55 can worship to unite the entire world. That day of course 00:26:59.58\00:27:04.62 will be the day of the sun, the day the Constantine tried to 00:27:04.65\00:27:09.46 unite his empire on. But at that time there'll be a mighty 00:27:09.49\00:27:14.43 movement. The earth will be lightened with the glory of God 00:27:14.46\00:27:16.36 and as the earth is lightened with the glory of God, the 00:27:16.40\00:27:19.53 knowledge of truth will go from every human being around the 00:27:19.57\00:27:24.54 earth who is honest-hearted and open-hearted will have a chance 00:27:24.57\00:27:27.11 to accept God's truth. Many in Babylon in false religions will 00:27:27.14\00:27:32.98 take their step to follow Christ They will become part of his 00:27:33.01\00:27:36.58 commandment-keeping people. That's why Jesus is appealing to 00:27:36.62\00:27:40.52 you right now. You may have been in a church that's very confused 00:27:40.56\00:27:44.99 about things like the law of God things like the Sabbath, things 00:27:45.03\00:27:49.60 like death. God is appealing to you at this moment to make an 00:27:49.63\00:27:54.64 eternal decision to follow him. Now and forever more. 00:27:54.67\00:28:00.48 ¤ ¤ 00:28:00.51\00:28:28.50