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>>Announcer: It has
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CHRIS: Dear friends, have you
ever witnessed a tornado before?
Now, I'm sure my friends in
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Saskatchewan have witnessed some
very powerful tornadoes. I
actually had the unfortunate
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experience of going through
Tuscaloosa, Mississippi in the
aftermath of a tornado. It was a
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devastating tornado, a mile wide
in some instances. Here is the
amazing thing: there was a
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neighbourhood that we went
through, there was not one home
left. But in every instance,
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what was still standing was the
foundation. The foundation was
solid, anchored to the earth.
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And you see, friends, in the
spiritual life, we need a
foundation that will anchor us.
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We need a foundation that will
not be moved. And the Bible
tells us what that foundation
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is: that foundation is the
sanctuary. Why is it the
sanctuary? Because Jesus is in
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the sanctuary in heaven. The
sanctuary shows us that Jesus is
a very personal God, that He
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wants to have interaction with
you. The sanctuary teaches us of
the interaction of heaven and
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earth. And you know, the person
that's been helping us
understand that is Pastor Karl
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Tsatalbasidis. Pastor Karl, I
want to welcome you back to It
Is Written Canada. And today,
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we're going to get right into
it; we have a lot to cover But I
want to take just a few
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moments of review. Real
sanctuary, where'sthe real
sanctuary? PASTOR KARL: In
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heaven. CHRIS: In heaven. And
that real sanctuary in heaven
teaches us of the interaction
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between heaven and earth; not
two separate, distinct time and
nature and all separated, no,
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no, no. It is time and space,
God wanting to meet with
mankind, and the sanctuary
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teaches us all about that
interaction. We talked about
your personal testimony in our
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last show, where you talked
about how your learning about
the sanctuary really drew you
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into personal relationship with
Jesus. But what we got most is,
if we reject the sanctuary, when
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we reject the sanctuary, we
reject, we reject the Word of
God. We cannot, we must not,
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reject the sanctuary. And so,
Pastor Karl, let's talk about
this. The sanctuary teaches us
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it has a purpose, it has a
function, and it reveals some
very important things. So let's
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get right into it, Pastor Karl:
What is it that the sanctuary
reveals to us? PASTOR
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KARL: Chris, I think one of the
broadest themes in all of the
Bible, aside from the sanctuary,
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that the sanctuary reveals, is
that there's actually this
conflict going on between good
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and evil, a conflict going on
between Christ and Satan. And it
really reveals this. Now, the
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reason why this is so
revolutionary is that - if your
viewers will remember, and if
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they don't, they will have to go
back and review what we studied
before - is that under Greek
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thinking, which was promulgated
by the little horn power,
ultimate reality wasoutside of
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time and space. The great
controversy between Christ and
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Satan is
inseparablylinkedwithhistory.
And so one of the reasons why
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this theme has never really been
resurrected from the Bible is
because, again, the eyeglasses
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that the Christian church was
wearing simply did not look in
this direction, because ultimate
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reality is outside of time and
space, and God was outside of
time and space and incompatible
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with time and space. And so this
historical theme of a
controversy going on between
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Christ and Satan, as we see in
the scriptures, and as we're
about to find out, is integrally
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connected with the sanctuary,
was something they were not
looking for. Their previous
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eyeglassespresuppositions - a
fancy word - prevented them from
seeing that. And so once those
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eyeglasses are removed and
placed in check and say, "Wait a
minute, God is not this
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timeless, space-less God; He's
able to dwell with us, as the
sanctuary tells us," then we can
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take a good look at the
sanctuary to find out what it
reveals. So, it really reveals
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this great controversy between
Christ and Satan. And I want to
start with the book of Isiah
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chapter 14. We're going to begin
at verse 12. CHRIS: Alright. So
Isaiah is going to rehearse a
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little bitof the history. Now,
one of the things that's
important, as you're pointing
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this out - and I'm not an expert
in this area, Pastor Karl - but
as you're talking, it came to
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mind that Greek philosophy
actually introduces what they
believed to be a concept through
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mythology to kind of demonstrate
some of the great controversy
theme. But the interesting thing
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about it, good's not really
good, because good can be evil;
and evil's not really evil,
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because sometimes evil is good.
And it's this counterfeit for
what really happens. The Bible
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really describes where there is
a real God Who is good, and a
real devil who is evil, who come
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into conflict with one another.
You're going to read about that
conflict here in Isaiah chapter
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14. PASTOR KARL: That's right,
yes. PASTOR KARL: Now, the first
thing we need to do is just
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establish the fact that this
setting here is really a setting
in the heavenly sanctuary. And
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the key phrase is found in verse
13, when it says, "I will exalt
my throne above the stars of
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God: I will sit upon the mount
of the congregation," that
phrase "mount of the
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congregation" actually refers to
that heavenly sanctuary. Now,
that's taken from two Hebrew
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words: har and moad. And both of
these words, if we do a word
study on har, we'll find out
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that in Exodus 15:17, Isaiah
66:20, Jeremiah 26:18, that that
word har is connected with the
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sanctuary. If we look at the
word moad, in some versions of
the Bible, the sanctuary is
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referred to as a tent of
meeting. CHRIS: A-ha. PASTOR
KARL: And the word for "meeting"
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there is the word for moad. And
so you can look atExodus 29
verse 4, verse 10, verse 30,
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verse 32, where moad is
referring to the tent of
meeting. So it's basically
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demonstrating that the two words
are integrallyconnected with the
sanctuary. So the sanctuary here
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reveals that there is a great
controversy. And you can see it
played out here with Lucifer,
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whose objective was - it says,
"I will ascend into heaven: I
will exalt my throne above the
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stars of God." We're going to
get to Revelation 4 and 5 in
just a minute here, which the
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throne is the central aspect in
those two chapters that are
couched in this heavenly
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sanctuary setting. And so
wherever you have a throne, you
have administration, you have
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laws. And it's as if the enemy
was saying, "I want to exalt my
throne above the stars of God,
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so Lord, Your throne is
insufficient. Your throne and
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administrations have problems.
Your laws and Your And my throne
is going to be superior to
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Yours." And so this great
controversy is started. And the
Bible pulls the curtain aside
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and says, "You know, he wasn't
really interested in developing
a better administration; he
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wanted to be God." Now, he
didn't want to be like God in
character; he wanted to exercise
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the privileges and prerogatives
that only belong to God, through
aiming at His law and His
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administration as a major
problem. CHRIS: So the sanctuary
helps us understand there is an
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angelic being by the name of
Lucifer. Now, to the viewer, if
you've missed our previous
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series called "Star Wars" or the
series "Noah: The Real Story,"
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www.itiswrittencanada.ca and
there, find archives of our you
can go to program, or you can go
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to YouTube.com/IIWCanada. Find
those archives. And when you
find those archives, look up
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"Noah: The Real Story," look up
"Star Wars: The Battle Begins,"
and you see Lucifer, this angel
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who attempts to dethrone God.
And so that's what we're picking
up here. Lucifer exists in the
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sanctuary, and he's not
interested in becoming like God
- becausethe Bible is quite
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clear: the character of God, He
is our refuge, He is our
strength, He is love-Lucifer is
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interested in taking over.
PASTOR KARL: Correct. CHRIS: He
wants all the power taken to
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himself. So the sanctuary helps
us get a peek into the reality
that's happening there in the
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sanctuary in heaven where
Lucifer actually tries to, for
lack of a better word, he tries
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to run a coup to take over. And
we have insights later in the
Bible that help give us a deeper
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look onto that coup that the
devil brings about. Where do we
find that? PASTOR KARL: Well, I
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wanted to mention something in
connection with this, because in
Isaiah 14, it says, "I will
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exalt my throne above the stars
of God." And it sounds like a
nice little, "Well, I've got a
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better way than God does." If
you go to Revelation 12:7, the
Bible actually says that there
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was war in heaven. And it says
Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon and his
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angels, and they were kicked
out. The interesting thing is,
that word for war, in Revelation
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12:7, is the Greek word polemos
from which we get the English
word "polemic." And so again -
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and you can't fight a successful
war without a successful
disinformation and deception
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campaign. And what Lucifer
basically challenged God was
with this: he didn't say, "God,
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I'm stronger than You are." That
contest would've been over
before it even began. But he
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basically said, "I'm more right
than You are." And so how was
God going to deal with that? Was
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He just going to take out His
bazooka and then blow him away
and say, "Well, that'll teach
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anybody else to challenge My
authority"? When he challenged
Him and said, "No, I'm more
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right than you are," that meant
that the longsuffering of God
now had to be put into effect,
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and God had to actually
demonstrate, throughout
ceaseless ages, Who He actually
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was, so that you and I could
behold it and not be beguiled by
the enemy's deceptions. And so
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this sanctuary reveals that,
really, at the heart of it, this
is an ideological warfare. I
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used to teach my students that,
you know, the devil, just like
animals, they do divide and
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conquer; well, with the Greek
thinking, that's exactly what
the enemy does. He dichotomizes
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and separates things and says,
"This is essential and this is
not essential, and you know,
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heaven is like this, and earth
is like that," and there's all
these dichotomies. And so
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there's an ideological warfare
going on. So this is a great
controversy going on over the
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character ofGod, over right
versus wrong, over whether
there's an absolute truth or
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not, and so forth and so on.
It's really a devastating attack
here that we find. CHRIS: You
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know, and what's fascinating,
when you look at history, and
when you look at the course of
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history, the devil is waging
this attack and certainly is
winning battles. But along the
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way - and we talked about this
in some of our previous shows -
there seems to be,amongst God's
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people, a time of restoration, a
time of revival; a time where
they stray away, a time of
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revival; a time of straying
away, a time of revival.
Something happens, when Jesus
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exits this scene, when Jesus
leaves this earth, returns to
the sanctuary, the church seems
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stable for a bit, but then the
devil changes his tactic. You
know, in the first century, the
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devil attacked Christians
through persecution of Rome. And
during these great persecutions,
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the churchhistorianTertullian
wrote that the blood of the
martyrs was as seed to the
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church. The church exploded in
growth. But the devil, because
he's a tactician, realized he
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had to change the game up a
little bit. He had to distract
people. And one of the
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distractions is, you have to
turn people away from the
sanctuary. You have to crush the
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sanctuary underfoot, because
that's what establishes absolute
truth. And so we've seen already
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in Daniel 8 that he crushes, he
trampled the sanctuary
underfoot. And you've used the
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word - and I like it so much -
that through the little horn
power, he eclipses the light
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shining forth from the
sanctuary, and he removes this.
What else is happening there,
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Pastor Karl? PASTOR KARL: Yeah,
I want to go to Revelation
chapter 4 and 5, because in
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Isiah, we read about the fact
that the enemy, he said, "I want
to exalt my throne above the
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stars of God." In Ezekiel - I'll
just kind of allude to it for
the sake of time here - in
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Ezekiel 28:14, he's the anointed
cherub, the enemy of souls.
CHRIS: Yes, we're speaking of
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Lucifer, who eventually becomes
Satan. He was the anointed
cherub. PASTOR KARL: Yes, and he
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is there in the midst of the
stones of fire, it says. So this
phrase "in the midst of the
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stones of fire," you also find
that in Ezekiel 1:4-5 to refer
to the living creatures that are
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right around the throne and
thepresence of God. So he's
making his accusations from the
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very presence of God there in
the sanctuary. When we get to
Revelation chapters 4 and 5, the
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throne is mentioned about 17
times, just in those two
chapters. I mean, let's take a
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cursory glance here, and I want
you to notice who is
conspicuously absent this time
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from the midst of the throne. So
in Revelation 4:2, it says:
PASTOR KARL: And there are many
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other references that talk
about. or in Revelation 5:6, it
also talks about being in the
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midst of the throne. And it
finallyintroduces the Lamb of
God. So in chapter 4, you have
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this scene of, it's basically
the Father seated on the throne.
In Revelation chapter 5, there's
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this strong angel who says,
"Who's worthy to open the book
and to loose the seals" that he
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has in his hand? John looks in
every direction, he can't find
anyone. And finally, someone
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says, "Hey, there's the Lamb of
God." In verse 6, it says:
PASTOR KARL: The one who is
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conspicuously absent here is the
one who made all those charges
in the beginning, who said, "I'm
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going to exalt my throne above
the stars of God," or in Ezekiel
28, who was in the midst of the
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stones of fire as the anointed
cherub. In other words, as a
result of the sacrifice of our
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Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
He has overcome the enemy, and
now, he is not there. He's
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completely vanquished his
arguments through His sacrifice.
CHRIS: And this is powerful
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imagery here, because what it's
demonstrating to us - because
you know, the Bible calls the
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devil the accuser of the
brethren - and you know,
something I've talked about when
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I talk about the sanctuary is,
so often, we play this scene of
judgement, that God is upon the
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throne, doing all He can to keep
us out of heaven. The sanctuary
actually teaches us first that
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it's actually Jesus Who is the
Judge; second, that it's
actually Jesus Who is our
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Advocate, the One Who is on our
behalf; and then third, Jesus is
the One Who has paid the
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penalty, paid the price. But
what's fascinating is, the devil
is even absent. So his
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accusations actually don't even
have a place in the sanctuary
any longer. This is powerful,
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powerful imagery, as Satan is
absent from the sanctuary. The
sanctuary continues to teach us
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about this interaction of heaven
and earth, and that God is not
doing everything He can to keep
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us out of heaven, but rather,
God is doing everything -
because the very foundation of
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His throne, the sanctuary upon
which where His throne sits, is
fundamentally operating on the
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principle of connecting heaven
and earth. PASTOR KARL: Correct,
yeah. CHRIS: So let's talk a
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little bit more about that. We
get the picture of the great
controversy. We get a picture of
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good versus evil. So let's be
done talking about the evil one,
and let's move to the presence
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of God, because this is where
the sanctuary really draws out
some really powerful imagery and
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some very powerful promises of
hope for us. Talk to me about
the presence of God in the
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sanctuary. PASTOR KARL: Very
good. Actually, Chris, I want to
begin, if we can go back to
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Exodus 3.Let's begin there, and
we're going to connect Moses'
experience with God at the
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burning bush later with the
sanctuary. But let's go there
first. So Exodus 3, and we can
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begin with verse 1, as we seek
to talk about the presence of
God, something else that the
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sanctuary reveals. CHRIS: And
the reason that the presence of
God is so important, as we're
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turning to Exodus 3, Pastor
Karl, is, we want to experience
the presence of God. And so when
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we talked about the presence of
God, we're not talking about
some kind of mystical
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experience; we're talking about
a genuine, personal encounter
with God. PASTOR KARL:
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Absolutely. CHRIS: So let's talk
about this. PASTOR KARL: Okay.
PASTOR KARL: I want to stop just
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there for a minute. It's
important to note that when
Moses first saw the burning
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bush, he didn't automatically
equate that with the presence of
God. So he sees this
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out-of-the-ordinary sight,
something that doesn't happen
all the time, and you know, that
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just alerts me, Chris, that you
and I have to be alert to when
God is trying to make an
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entrance into our lives. And
sometimes we get so caught up in
the things of the world, that we
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don't see when He's trying to
catch our attention. CHRIS:
That's right. PASTOR KARL: And
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so, Moses was alert here, and he
said, "You know, this is an
extraordinary sight. I need to
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go check it out." What he didn't
do was, hey, he sees the burning
bush, all of a sudden, he starts
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to take off his shoes, and
pretends like he's on holy
ground. He didn't do that. It
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was only when God called to him
out of the midst of the bush. It
was only when he heard the voice
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of God and the word of God that
he automatically realized that
he was in the presence of God at
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that point. So the presence of
God comes to us. It is revealed
to us through His Word. And that
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is the method that God uses in
order to speak to us. And this
foundation is very important. As
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Moses and God continue to talk
on, Moses is wondering, you
know, God tells him to go rescue
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the Israelites. Well, what's
Your name, you know? Who am I
going to tell them is sending
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me? And God says in verse 14,
PASTOR KARL: So, the presence of
God is not to be equated with
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the material creation, not with
the bush itself, but with the
words of God that were spoken to
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Moses. That was the indicator
that Moses was actually in His
presence. That place isn't holy
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right now; God's presence, He
didn't choose. He doesn't choose
to reveal Himself that way. He's
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actually in the heavenly
sanctuary at this time. So
that's the name of God, that's
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the presence of God. God wanted
to meet the Israelites in a
certain location. Now, God is
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omnipresent, okay, a difficult
concept to grasp, admittedly.
CHRIS: And just to help
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everybody, "omnipresent" means
God can be everywhere at the
same time. PASTOR KARL: Yeah, at
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the same time. Not just
everywhere, but everywhere at
the same time. But, just because
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God is omnipresent, doesn't mean
that He reveals His presence.
Let me give you just a quick
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illustration of that. Like, take
the Garden of Eden with Adam and
Eve. God is omnipresent, but He
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told them that He would not be
at the forbidden fruit. He says,
you know, "Don't go near that
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tree." He was not going to be
there. In light of the great
controversy, God even allows in
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the enemy in order to make His
case. And so, as Eve ventured on
that ground, it was the enemy
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that occupied that space, and
his presence began to speak to
her. So God basically says that
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He's not going to manifest
Himself in every location, even
though He's omnipresent. And He
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told the children of Israel -
this is in Deuteronomy 12:5 -
that you are to meet Me in this
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place. In Deuteronomy chapter
16, He said the same thing. In
First Kings chapter 8, as
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Solomon was dedicating the
temple - just to mention a few
texts there - He said that He
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was going to place His
Name there. First Kings 8:16:
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PASTOR KARL: Verse 17, verse 18
verse 19, verse 20, verse 21, He
says, "I'm putting My Name
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there." That meant that He
wasgoing to reveal Himself
there, 'cause His name is
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associated with His presence.
And this is what made the sin of
Jeroboam so great, is that God
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was now confused with all of
creation, so allegedly, the
presence of God is now revealing
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Himself everywhere. But that's
the counterfeit. God said, "Yes,
I'm omnipresent, but I'm going
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to reveal Myself here. If you
want to have a relationship with
Me, you're going to meet Me
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here," okay? CHRIS: And this
becomes so important, because we
see this, as we studied
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Jeroboam, that God's not in Dan
and Bethel; He's not in the
golden calf; He's not in the
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golden calf of the Exodus.
Although God is omnipresent, He
is not everywhere. What happens,
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unfortunately, is. PASTOR
KARL: God doesn't reveal Himself
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everywhere. CHRIS:
Unfortunately, what happens, is
that people culturally condition
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where they believe God will
reveal Himself. And what is
essential for us to understand -
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and it's really unbelievable, we
only have about a minute left -
is that God doesn't reveal
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Himself in the creation itself.
PASTOR KARL: It's not synonymous
with Himself, yes. CHRIS: He
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reveals Himself through His
Word. And we must never lose
sight of that: the sanctuary
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demonstrates that God resides in
the sanctuary, revealing Himself
through His Word. PASTOR KARL:
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Correct. CHRIS: Pastor Karl,
will you pray for us as we end
today? PASTOR KARL: Let's pray.
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Our Father in heaven, Lord, You
want to have a relationship with
us. And that happens through
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Your Word. And we pray that we
would study Your Word each and
every day, that You would speak
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to our minds and to our hearts.
Thank You, Father, for giving us
the sanctuary. Thank You for
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giving us Your Words. May You
bless us, lead us, and guide us,
in Jesus' name, we pray, amen.
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CHRIS: Amen.
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Pastor Karl, I thank you so much
for being with us once again to
see the desire of God's heart in
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the sanctuary. PASTOR KARL: It's
been great to be with you,
Chris. CHRIS: Friend, I hope
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that through the program today,
you've found Jesus Christ.
Please join us again next week.
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Until then, remember, it is
written, "Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word
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that proceeds
from the mouth of God."
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