Participants: Christopher Hudson
Series Code: FRC
Program Code: FRC000004
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01:05 Hi, and you're now with The Forerunner Chronicles.
01:09 Alright everybody, I want to welcome you to Part 3 of our 01:13 special Forerunner Chronicles series, The New Age Agenda. 01:17 And if you've already missed parts 1 and 2 of this series, 01:20 you've missed a great deal of information. 01:24 So please pay close attention, because you're not going to want 01:27 to miss a drop of what I'm getting ready to share with you. 01:31 In the Bible, in the book of Revelation 12:17 we are told, 01:37 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, 01:40 and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, 01:43 which keep the commandments of God, 01:45 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 01:48 We've already learned that according to Revelation 1:1 01:53 the book of Revelation is filled with codes and symbols. 01:58 That dragon, and that woman that we're looking at in 02:01 Revelation 12:17, are symbolic of two different entities. 02:06 According to Revelation 12:9, the dragon is a symbol 02:12 of the Devil, for we are told there: And that great dragon, 02:15 that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, 02:18 which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, 02:22 and his angels were cast out with him. 02:25 And that woman is symbolic of God's people, or God's Church. 02:30 We are told this in the book of Jeremiah 6:2 which says: 02:35 I have likened the daughter of Zion unto a comely 02:39 and delicate woman. 02:41 Then in Isaiah 51:16, at the very end of that verse 02:46 we are told: and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. 02:51 Zion is a symbol of the people of God. 02:54 And in Jeremiah 6:2 God has likened Zion to a comely 02:59 and delicate woman. 03:00 So what we're looking at in Revelation 12:17 is the Devil 03:05 being wroth with God's people, or God's Church, 03:08 and he is going to make war with the remnant of her seed, 03:11 because they keep the commandments of God, 03:13 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 03:17 There is a movement by the Devil to make war with God's people 03:21 because they uphold His commandments, 03:23 and they uphold the testimony, the faith, 03:26 the Spirit of Prophecy concerning Jesus Christ, 03:30 according to Revelation 19:10. 03:33 But did you realize that the Bible gives another title 03:37 to Satan other than the dragon? 03:39 And that title was found within the same Bible verse, 03:42 Revelation 12:9. We are told there, once again: 03:59 Notice that the Bible identifies Satan as being 04:03 'that old serpent'. 04:04 This is really important information. 04:07 Because as we look at some of the activities of that 04:10 old serpent found within the Bible, we will quickly realize 04:13 that God is giving us insight into how Satan is carrying out 04:18 his movement of warfare against God's people in these last days. 04:23 We are told some information about that old serpent 04:27 within the book of 2 Corinthians 11:3. 04:32 The Bible tells us: But I fear, lest by any means, 04:37 as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, 04:40 so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity 04:44 that is in Christ. 04:46 The Bible is warning us that we are in danger 04:49 of being corrupted. 04:50 Or as the original Greek says, we are in danger of being 04:54 spoiled, and ruined from the simplicity of Christ Jesus 04:58 by falling to the deceptive, beguiling of the Devil, 05:02 which he utilized against Eve in the garden of Eden, 05:06 to draw her out in rebellion against God 05:09 by disobeying His commandments. Wow! 05:13 Now, the question is, what was the method that the Devil used 05:19 to seduce Eve into disobeying God's commandment? 05:23 Well, we don't need to scratch our heads on this one. 05:26 All we need to do is go back to the book of Genesis in the Bible 05:31 and we'll find all the information that we need. 05:34 In Genesis 3:1 the Bible tells us: Now the serpent was more 05:41 subtle than any beast of the field 05:43 which the Lord God had made. 05:45 And the serpent said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, 05:49 Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 05:52 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit 05:55 of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree 05:59 which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, 06:02 Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 06:06 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. 06:11 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, 06:15 then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, 06:20 knowing good and evil. 06:22 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 06:25 and pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one 06:30 wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, 06:33 and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 06:38 Now let's take a look, starting back at verse 1 at all of this 06:41 information, because as we analyze this we will see that 06:45 Satan has a particular methodology that he follows 06:49 to draw people out of their relationship with God, 06:53 to make people disobey God's commandments, 06:55 and unite with him in rebellion against the King of kings, 06:59 and the Lord of lords. 07:01 Starting at verse 1, the Bible tells us: 07:11 1. The Devil will use the most subtle method by which he can 07:16 promote his deception. 07:18 The deception will not come overtly. 07:20 The deception will come covertly. 07:23 2. The Devil will use the most attractive means that he can 07:29 to allure you into this deception. 07:32 What most people don't realize is that prior to sin, 07:35 the serpent was one of the most beautiful creatures 07:38 which God created. 07:40 As a matter of fact, this creature had the ability to fly. 07:44 The only reason why serpents currently go along upon their 07:48 bellies, and eat the dust of the ground, is because God Himself 07:52 pronounced this curse upon the serpent in the 07:55 book of Genesis 3:14. 07:57 Because it was used as a medium by the Devil 08:01 to allure men into deception. 08:03 Satan will always mingle subtlety with great 08:08 attractiveness to seduce people into his net of lies. 08:12 Remember this the next time you go to the mall clothing 08:17 shopping, or the next time you sit down in front of the 08:20 television to watch your television program 08:23 that you love so much, or to play video games, 08:26 or to sit in front of your computer and go on the internet 08:30 to look at who knows? 08:32 Remember this: the Devil will always make it extremely 08:36 attractive when you're listening to your favorite genre of music, 08:39 or watching your favorite videos, 08:41 or playing your favorite games. 08:43 It will be so attractive! 08:45 But this is because nine times out of ten this is a medium, 08:50 a vehicle by which the Devil is using to introduce into your 08:55 hearts principles of death. 08:58 And that is a fact. 09:01 Point 3. Notice that the very first words which were spoken 09:06 by the serpent, or by Satan to Eve; they were framed 09:10 within a question, and this question was: 09:17 Now this wasn't some haphazard question that the Devil just 09:21 threw out there hoping that Eve would give a good response. 09:25 We're talking about one of the most brilliant intellects that 09:28 are within existence. 09:29 The mind of Satan is only superseded by the intelligence 09:34 of the all wise God Himself. 09:36 This was a well thought out question. 09:40 It was calculated to make questions pop up 09:44 in the mind of Eve. 09:45 Questions like, why is it that God said we could eat of every 09:49 tree except for this one tree? 09:51 What's so special about this one tree? 09:54 Is there something that God is trying to hold back from me? 09:58 Why would God want to hold anything back from me? 10:00 These were the types of questions that the Devil desired 10:04 to be conjured up in the mind of Eve so that he would have the 10:10 opportunity to answer these questions 10:13 with his deceptive lies. 10:16 And falling for the seduction of the Devil, Eve responded: 10:39 Now in that one statement is a multitude of deceptions. 10:45 Deception 1. Satan insinuated to Eve that God was a liar. 10:50 Because it was God that told Eve that if she ate from the 10:55 tree she would die. 10:57 Deception 2. Satan insinuated to Eve that God didn't love her. 11:02 Because only someone that doesn't love you tells you lies. 11:08 And Deception 3. Is a deception that is still presently being 11:14 perpetuated in our present society by television, 11:19 by magazines, by books, by movies, even by churches. 11:24 And this deception is that man possesses an immortal soul. 11:29 This belief that man possesses an immortal soul is the very 11:34 foundation belief system of all spiritualist movements. 11:39 The Bible teaches that the only being that is within existence 11:44 currently that possesses immortality is God Himself. 11:49 We are told this in the book of 1 Timothy 6:16, Who only hath 11:57 immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach 12:01 unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor 12:07 and power everlasting. Amen. 12:11 According to the Bible, God who dwells in light unapproachable, 12:15 which no man has seen; He is the only being that possesses 12:20 immortality at this time. 12:22 But for those of us who live a life of faith in the power of 12:27 Jesus Christ to make us holy, and by our faith in Jesus, 12:30 we live daily in obedience to His commandments, 12:34 we will one day receive immortality at the 12:37 second coming of Jesus Christ. 12:39 This is what the Bible promises in the book of Romans 2:7. 12:45 It says there: 12:57 You do not seek for something that you already possess. 13:01 You seek for something that you are trying to obtain. 13:05 And in this case, according to Romans 2:7, for those of us 13:11 who will humble ourselves, and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord 13:16 and Savior, and ask Him for the power of His Holy Spirit so that 13:21 we can have the ability to live daily lives of obedience, 13:26 we are seeking for glory, and honor, 13:30 and immortality; eternal life. 13:34 And the Devil has been deceiving people all the way 13:37 from the garden of Eden into believing that they already 13:42 possess this gift, which God will only give to those who live 13:46 in loving obedience to Him. 13:49 But back at the book of Genesis 3, starting at verse 4, 13:53 we are told that the: 14:10 Did you realize that Satan insinuated to Eve that her eyes 14:14 were currently closed, because she was living in obedience 14:17 to God's commandment? 14:19 Remember he said if she ate from the tree, which is to disobey 14:23 God, then and only then her eyes would be opened. 14:28 And, by the way, he could have been talking about the eyes 14:31 that were on her face, because he knew that Eve could see him, 14:35 the tree, and the fruit that he was trying to 14:38 deceive her into eating. 14:40 So what were these eyes that Satan was talking about 14:44 that would be opened? 14:45 Well, the Bible gives us information on this in the book 14:48 of Matthew 6 starting at verse 22. The Bible says: 15:13 Here in Matthew 6 we are being shown that the eye can be used 15:19 in the Bible as a symbol of the human intellect; 15:23 the mental faculties. 15:24 You see, the same way that we use our literal eyes to direct 15:29 the course of our footsteps, is the same way that we use our 15:34 mental faculties, our intellect, to direct 15:37 the course of our lives. 15:39 And the Bible says if your mind is single, then your whole body 15:45 will be full of light. 15:47 And that word single there doesn't just mean singular, 15:50 like I have one single finger in the air at this time, 15:54 but it also means, in the original Greek, clean. 15:58 So if your mind, your intellect is clean, then your whole body 16:03 will be full of light. 16:05 How does one make their mind clean and pure? 16:09 The Bible tells us in the book of Psalm 19:8 16:14 how this is possible. 16:15 We are told there: The statutes of the Lord are right, 16:19 rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is 16:23 pure, enlightening the eyes. 16:26 And that word pure there in the original Hebrew means clean. 16:32 So the commandment of the Lord is clean, enlightening the eye. 16:36 The way that our minds can become clean and enlightened 16:41 is by storing our hearts with God's commandments, 16:45 because as we live in obedience to God's commandments, 16:48 we can begin to discern the difference between good 16:52 and evil, right and wrong, light and darkness, truth and error, 16:58 the genuine and the counterfeit. 17:01 And the devil does not want us to have this clear perception 17:06 of reality, so he is trying to deceive us into believing 17:10 that if we reject God's commandments we will become 17:13 knowledgeable creatures. 17:15 We will become intelligent. 17:16 Matter of fact, like he said to Eve in the book of Genesis 3:5, 17:22 Ye shall be as god's. What a lie. 17:25 But the worst part of this scenario is found within the 17:29 book of Genesis 3:6. 17:33 We are told there: 17:54 At the very beginning of her interaction with the serpent 17:58 Eve clearly stated that she believed that in the very day 18:03 that she ate from that tree she would surely die. 18:07 But now Eve's perception of the tree is radically different. 18:11 Her whole belief system is absolutely different. 18:15 Because now the tree that she previously looked upon as the 18:20 minister of death, she now sees it as good for food. 18:23 It is now pleasant to her eyes, and she now believes that it is 18:28 desirable to make her wise. 18:31 Where did Eve get these new thoughts from? 18:35 And why has her perception of reality become so 18:39 radically different? 18:40 You know exactly why. 18:43 It is because Eve parlayed with the deception of the Devil. 18:48 This didn't take years. 18:50 This didn't take months. 18:52 This didn't take days. 18:54 It only took a matter of moments for the Devil's 18:58 deceptions to turn Eve out. 19:01 And that's exactly what he's trying to do to us. 19:05 You see it only takes a matter of moments for you to download 19:09 that music on your iPod, or for you to watch your favorite music 19:13 video, to listen to your favorite song, to play your 19:16 favorite video game, to visit your favorite internet site. 19:19 It only takes a matter of moments, but that's all the 19:23 time that the Devil needs to twist you inside out. 19:28 He has interwoven these principles of deception into 19:33 almost every aspect of our society. 19:37 And I hope you've been paying close attention to all the 19:41 information that I have been sharing with you. 19:44 Because what we've been looking at are the very basic principles 19:49 that are at the foundation of the New Age Movement: 19:53 the belief in the immortality of the soul, 19:57 the belief that humanity has within ourselves this dormant 20:01 power that we need to learn how to tap into so that we can be 20:06 like God, the belief that humanity must learn how to 20:10 balance the powers of good and evil. 20:13 All of these are the very same Satanic lies that are being 20:18 taught currently by the New Age Movement. 20:21 And they are using all manner of serpent like disguises to make 20:28 these lies attractive to us, so that we will invite them into 20:32 our homes, and receive them into our lives. 20:36 For our children they're using cartoons like Yu-Gi-Oh!, Naruto, 20:42 Bleach, Dragon Ball Z. 20:44 They're using Mickey Mouse to Lion King, to Cinderella. 20:49 All of these have been seeded with the very 20:52 same Satanic deceptions. 20:55 And by no means did I just give you an exhaustive list. 20:59 They're using television programming like American Idol, 21:03 and Dancing With the Stars, Oprah Winfrey. 21:06 They're using the movies like Harry Potter and Twilight, 21:10 Tron, Transformers, Thor. 21:13 They're using music. 21:14 Why do you think rappers like Jay Z can nickname themselves 21:20 J- Hova when Jehovah is the title of God Himself. 21:25 This is because this poor soul has fallen to the deception 21:29 of the Devil that ye can be as gods. 21:32 And now the Devil, the Prince of Darkness, is using this 21:36 individual to promote this same deception to us. 21:40 Why do you think R and B singers like Beyonce can use titles like 21:47 I Am to name her tour? 21:50 The title I Am is God's name! 21:53 This is because this poor individual has as well fallen to 21:58 the deception of the Devil. 22:00 But we need to pray for them as we realize at this same time 22:05 that the Devil is trying to use them to prey on us. 22:09 Ladies and gentlemen, this is what the Bible was warning us 22:13 about in the book of 2 Corinthians 11:3, But I fear, 22:21 lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his 22:27 subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity 22:33 that is in Christ. 22:34 The seducing spirits, and the doctrines of devils that have 22:39 been unleashed on our world are seeking to spoil and ruin us 22:44 from a relationship with Jesus Christ, and to gather us with 22:49 them, and all the host of hell, to march against God 22:53 in the battle of Armageddon. 22:58 But do you want to know something? 23:00 Eve never had to fall to the Devil's deception. 23:03 If she only stayed by the side of her husband Adam 23:07 she would have never fallen to the Devil's lies. 23:11 Did you know that we have a husband? 23:14 The Bible tells us in the book of 2 Corinthians 11:2, 23:19 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have 23:24 espoused you to one husband, that I may present you 23:28 as a chaste virgin to Christ. 23:31 Jesus Christ is our husband. 23:35 And as long as we stay close to His side, He will protect us, 23:39 He will keep us. He will never allow the Devil to pluck 23:44 us out of His care. 23:46 So we have some questions that we need to 23:49 begin to ask ourselves. 23:51 My friend, when you're sitting down in front of the television 23:55 watching your regular favorite programming, can Jesus, 23:59 your husband, sit down there with you? 24:01 If Jesus can't watch those programs with you, 24:04 then you have departed from the side of your husband, 24:09 and like Eve, you are standing on enchanted ground. 24:13 And the Devil is there ready to deceive you, 24:16 twist you inside out, and bring your mind into a state of 24:21 perversion that you will begin to call truth error, 24:25 and light darkness. 24:27 My friend, can Jesus listen to the music that you have on your 24:32 iPod, or on your computer, or on your cell phone? 24:36 If Jesus can't stand there with you as you're listening to that 24:40 music, then know that you have strayed from the side 24:43 of your husband. 24:45 And the Devil is at hand to destroy your soul, 24:48 and to twist you so that you will become his servant, 24:51 and then use you to draw others as well into the same deception. 24:56 The Bible tells us clearly in Romans 6:16, Know ye not, 25:04 that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, 25:07 his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto 25:12 death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 25:16 We can't serve two masters. 25:19 Who will be your master is the decision you need to make today. 25:24 I hope and pray that you will decide to dedicate your life 25:29 to the service of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, 25:34 which taketh away the sin of the world, 25:36 according to John 1:29. 25:39 Because only those that are in the service of the Lamb 25:43 will prevail in this warfare. 25:46 For when this whole battle comes to its conclusion, 25:49 we are told exactly what will happen in the book of 25:52 Revelation 17:14. 25:56 The Bible tells us, These shall make war with the Lamb, 26:00 and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, 26:04 and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, 26:09 and chosen, and faithful. 26:12 My prayer for you is that you will receive the call of Jesus 26:16 Christ on your life today; that you will choose to serve Him 26:21 with all your heart, with all your soul, 26:24 and with all of your strength. 26:26 And that you will be faithful unto Him, even unto the death. 26:31 And if you are, when He appears, you shall 26:35 receive a crown of life. 26:37 God bless you! 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