Participants: Philip Sizemore (Host)
Series Code: LOE
Program Code: LOE000007
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00:01 The harvest truly is plenteous,
00:03 but the laborers are few. 00:04 Pray ye therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that 00:06 he will, he will send forth laborers into 00:09 His harvest. Also I heard the voice 00:12 of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? 00:15 And who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I, 00:20 send me, send me. Life On The Edge will enable 00:25 you to be an effective harvester for the Lord. 00:28 We now invite you into our class room 00:30 to come experience life. 00:44 Welcome back to the Lay Institute for Evangelism. 00:46 I'd like to welcome you at home back here 00:47 with us again. We would like to see you here 00:49 in person sometime, I know right now you're 00:51 watching us either on the network, on a 00:53 DVD or something like that but we would love 00:56 to see you here in real life. 00:58 You can find out more about how to do that 00:59 by going to www.come experiencelife.com, 01:02 go to our website, you can download and find out 01:04 more about how to come to life or if you would 01:06 like to get more rest of the Bible studies that 01:08 you we will be studying, as we go through 01:09 this series of life on the edge classes. 01:12 This class here we're gonna be, talking 01:14 about today, we're gonna be going into 01:16 the Antichrist part 1. The first part of the 01:18 Antichrist you see that on the screen there. 01:20 Antichrist part 1 and as we go into it we just 01:24 jump right into the study, we'll look at the slides 01:26 here on your screen. And the purpose of the 01:28 study is to show that the devil seeks to deceive 01:31 us by counterfeiting the truth. 01:34 The studies that help us to find out, 01:36 that the devil he seeks to deceive us by 01:37 counterfeiting the truth. There's all kinds of 01:40 things that the devil has to try to pull us away 01:42 from what God's word actually has to say the 01:43 truth of God's word and what we're gonna find 01:45 out as we go through this study. 01:47 It maybe a surprise to some folk that the 01:48 devil's opposition to the word of God is not open, 01:52 open clear rebellious thing its more of a subtle 01:54 imposter type thing and that's what we're gonna 01:56 be finding out as we go through this study. 01:58 Let us go and here to find the center, 02:00 it's pretty simple. The center of this study 02:01 is Jesus. You know the Bible says unless 02:03 we know Him we have no life in us. 02:06 And so the whole idea of studying and finding 02:09 out who the Antichrist is will do us no good 02:11 if you don't know who Jesus Christ is. 02:13 So what we're gonna do comparison, 02:14 a comparison sort of study today. 02:17 We're gonna be looking at what the Antichrist 02:19 is doing and what Jesus Christ is doing and 02:23 comparing the two. Let us go first right 02:25 after our first well I guess before we go into 02:27 our text we look on the screen here at all 02:29 the texts in this study you will notice that the 02:31 antichrist study has a lot of texts. 02:35 Most of our texts, most of our studies that 02:36 we have about 13, 12 or 13 this is the first 02:39 page of the study you're seeing on this screen 02:41 here. It starts off in Revelation 12:9 and 02:43 we'll go through all those texts and then we 02:45 will finally end up John 17 verse 3 and that's 02:49 22nd text in the study, seems like a lot doesn't 02:52 it? 22 texts. Now we are gonna through 02:55 them pretty quickly as a matter of fact, 02:56 we will probably get all these done 02:57 in an hour's time span, no I am just kidding, 02:59 it will take two hours to get all this done 03:02 to get to the whole study and we're gonna 03:03 spend little bit time on each one and explaining 03:06 exactly why we were saying, what we were 03:08 saying and some of them have, need a little 03:09 more explanation than others. 03:11 So that's why we're gonna spend so much 03:12 time on that. So let's go and jump in to the 03:14 first part of the study and before we get open 03:16 up our Bibles, before we get to that part, 03:18 what does we must always do. Pray. 03:20 We must always pray. Spiritual things are 03:22 spiritually discerned, so we must first ask God 03:24 for guidance, as we open his words. 03:25 So let us bow our heads for prayer. 03:27 Father, I wanna thank you so much that you've 03:29 given us an opportunity again to study 03:31 your word. I pray Lord as we study it today 03:33 that you will give us clear minds. 03:35 Father, I pray that you'll speak to us out 03:37 of your word and as we do this first part 03:38 of this Antichrist study I ask you, you 03:40 will make it clear and that we will understand 03:43 what is, you wanted us see from it and 03:45 we pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen. 03:48 All right let's go to our first text here and 03:49 it's Revelation chapter 12 and verse 9 03:51 we're gonna let Solita to read that one for us, 03:53 Revelation chapter 12 and verse 9 and 03:56 the most of the study, I don't know if you notice 03:58 that when we had slides upon the screen, 04:00 but most of the study we're gonna spend 04:02 in the book of Revelation in this comparison study. 04:05 And so Solita, go right ahead Revelation 12 and 04:08 verse 9. And the great dragon was cast out, 04:11 that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, 04:14 which deceiveth the whole world: 04:16 he was cast out into the earth, 04:18 and his angels were cast out with him. 04:20 According to this text and this is how, 04:22 this is just like the easiest way to open up 04:24 the Bible study, is just simply to say this 04:26 according to this text what is the job 04:28 of the devil. Deceive .To deceive, 04:30 deceive who? The whole world. So his job, 04:33 what he wants to do is to deceive the whole world. 04:35 Now when you think of most people, 04:37 many of the people today, many of the other 04:39 things were taught much of Christianity 04:40 abort the Antichrist. Do you think of it is much 04:43 of the deception? You know one of the things 04:45 that it comes to mind right off to me when 04:46 I was started thinking about this, is that the 04:48 whole left behind series, you know that's out 04:51 there and they have this scenario of an Antichrist, 04:53 of this guy coming down basically saying 04:56 I am Jesus Christ worship me. Now how many 04:58 people do you supposed to be deceived by 04:59 that kind of satanic movement? Like some guy 05:04 comes into the room and says okay I'm Jesus, 05:06 start worshiping me. Do you think a whole 05:07 lot of people are gonna do that? Even under 05:09 penalty of death, are there a whole lot of 05:10 people gonna do that? No. But when you look, 05:12 when you started reading in the Bible you find 05:13 out that many times in the Bible it says that 05:16 speaking of the Antichrist or the devil and 05:18 what he is doing, he is being very deceptive. 05:21 Another text that you can look at and compare 05:23 it to when Jesus started talking in 05:24 Matthew chapter 24 He says three different 05:26 times its in verse, I believe its in verse 5 and 05:29 verse, I can think the other one in verse 24, 05:32 but its verse 24 which I wanna clue in on 05:33 Matthew 24 verse 24 there it says, 05:35 He says there are many false Christs and false 05:37 prophets if they were possible they would 05:38 deceive even the very elect. 05:41 So Jesus himself speaking of the last days and 05:43 what's gonna be going on talking about the 05:44 Antichrist power this false Christs and false 05:46 prophets, He says if it is possible these guys 05:48 will be, it will actually deceive the very elect. 05:51 But most of the ideas when we think of Antichrist, 05:54 is not very deceptive. On the contrary rather 05:58 than deceptive it's pretty obvious, 05:59 widely obvious some of the things they want. 06:01 They want to present out there I mean 06:03 the devil would have us, if the devil knows that 06:05 he is gonna be very deceptive in basically 06:07 deceiving people, if he didn't get other people 06:10 to make it look like its not deceptive in other 06:12 words make it so obvious that there's no 06:14 way that I can fall for that. Then he can come 06:16 in and suddenly bring in heresy or the deception, 06:20 and that's the purpose there. 06:21 And the Bible tells us he went out to deceive 06:23 the whole world that's his job is to deceive 06:26 the whole world. And our job is to find out what 06:28 the truth is so that we're not deceived by 06:31 his deceptions. You know the whole idea 06:33 about the counterfeit money. 06:34 You know why counterfeiter don't 06:36 counterfeit $13 bill, don't you? Right. 06:40 There is no original $13 bill, there is no original 06:42 so they don't counterfeit a $13 bill and then 06:44 I could ask you how many of you are handled 06:46 a counterfeit $20 bill? And likely every one 06:49 of you handled a counterfeit $20 bill. 06:52 You've held one before you just didn't know it. 06:55 And I saw a TV program one time on this guy, 06:58 he was a professional at picking out counterfeit 07:01 money, I mean that was what his job was and 07:03 basically all he does, all they do when people 07:06 that do that they just study actual real money, 07:08 the real thing they study it. And they give this 07:10 guy a stack of $20 bill, it was like that maybe 07:13 100 of them or something like that, 07:14 of $20 bills and there was three counterfeits 07:17 in there. Three counterfeits $20 bills in 07:18 that stack and he said see if you can find them. 07:20 And the guy went to the stack like this, 07:22 he is counting, counting and he pulled that 07:24 one out, count on, count on, pull that one out. 07:27 He pulled out the three counterfeit $20 bills, 07:29 now if you and I would took the three 07:30 counterfeits and compared to the original, 07:31 we would have a real, real tough time to 07:33 figure out which one, figure out the 07:34 difference, but the guy can do just like that. 07:36 And the reason that guy was able to do that 07:38 because he spend his life, he spend his time 07:40 studying real, and. So its important to 07:43 understand who the Antichrist is and what 07:45 his deceptions are, and we're gonna, 07:46 that's we are gonna be studying as we go 07:47 through this. But remember his job is to 07:50 deceive and so if he can make his original 07:53 or what he has looked so close to the original 07:56 that you are not can tell the difference, 07:58 then he's got us, you aware that the devil 07:59 doesn't care how he gets us to worship him? 08:02 He doesn't care. God is very particular, 08:04 you know God has his specific times and he 08:06 has specific ways and different things that 08:08 he wants us to worship but the devil, 08:09 his job is to deceive us to make us think, 08:11 every thing is okay when actually its not. 08:13 That's I guess a good definition of deception 08:15 isn't it? Do you think that every thing is okay, 08:17 when actually it's not okay? So the devil's job 08:20 is to deceive and now we're gonna go onto our 08:22 first part of this text, we are getting into the 08:24 comparison part now. We just wanted to lay 08:26 that out at the beginning kind of lay that 08:28 foundation there that the idea that the devil 08:31 wants us to think everything is okay when 08:32 its not. Now we're gonna find out how it is 08:34 that he counterfeits the truths that God has. 08:37 And the first counterfeit we're gonna be looking 08:38 at and this is gonna kind of lead into the, 08:40 to the whole rest of the study, it will everything 08:42 else who kind of funnel down through this first 08:44 couple of texts we to look at, and we're gonna 08:45 find out that God has a trinity and the devil 08:48 has a counterfeit trinity. Now let us first go 08:51 to the book of Matthew chapter 28 and verse 19. 08:53 Matthew 28 and verse 19 is our second study 08:58 our second text, I'll put it on the screen up 09:00 here Matthew 28:19, Here it is on your screen 09:02 and we're gonna have Jessica to read that 09:06 one for us. Matthew Chapter 28 and verse 19 09:13 let me get there myself. Okay! I Am there 09:16 Jessica go ahead sister. Therefore go and make 09:20 disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the 09:23 name of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit. 09:27 All right, So Jesus here is speaking and he 09:29 names he says go Baptize, Go Baptize everybody 09:33 go preach the gospel everywhere and after 09:34 you preach them never fail to baptize them. 09:36 And with an baptize them, baptize them in the 09:38 name of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit. 09:40 And with an indication of trinity there the father, 09:41 Son, the Holy Ghost. Now I know that there's 09:43 people that will look at and say oh wait a minute, 09:47 I don't believe in that trinity doctrine and then 09:48 they have a whole, you know arguments and 09:50 letting things, they would like to say about that. 09:53 Well I got, since I was thinking about this 09:55 before we've done this study and we really 09:56 don't have a study on the trinity that we do 09:58 through this 24 Bible studies that we do here 10:01 at Life On The Edge. So what I wanted to do 10:03 is just spend a few moments here and show 10:04 you a few texts from the Bible. 10:06 They would, they help to back this up a little 10:08 bit indicate, why we believe it, and there 10:10 is a trinity that God is that in fact a trinity, 10:13 one God three separate beings. 10:15 Let me just show you a couple of them 10:16 right now. You know one I like to turn to is 10:18 in the Old Testament, it's in the book of Genesis. 10:22 Right, the very first book of the Bible. 10:24 Very first chapter of the Bible. 10:26 You find in verse one it says, In the 10:29 beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 10:31 And the earth was without form, and void; 10:33 and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 10:35 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face 10:37 of the waters. So you have like the spirit, 10:40 the Holy Spirit of God doing something there, 10:41 He is moving upon the face of the waters, 10:43 you see that. Now from that place, 10:46 let's go to the same chapter Matthew, 10:47 in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 26, 27 and 28, 10:52 we're gonna read those, actually we may just 10:55 read verse 26 here, And God said let us 10:58 make man in our image after our likeness, 11:00 who is our? And this is God's speaking right, 11:04 He said let us make man in our image and there's 11:06 another indication of that, well now, 11:07 let's go to the stay in Genesis, we're just gonna 11:09 go through to a few texts real quick. 11:11 Go to verse in chapter 11, Genesis chapter 11, 11:13 this is a real interesting one too to kind 11:15 of show where God can refer to things that 11:18 are multiple in singular form and He refers 11:21 to things that are singular in multiple form. 11:23 Right. Let us look at this Genesis chapter 11 11:26 starting in verse 1. The whole earth was of 11:27 one language and of one speech. 11:30 And it came to pass as they journey from 11:32 the east that they found a plain in the land 11:33 of Shinar and they dwelt there. 11:35 And they said to one another let us make us 11:37 brick and burn them thoroughly. 11:40 And they had brick for stone and slime they 11:41 had for mortar. And they said go to let us 11:45 build us a city and a tower whose top may 11:48 reach unto the heaven, and let us make us 11:51 a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the 11:52 face of the earth. You hear there are all the 11:54 multiple things there us, as we, all that going on. 11:56 Look what it says, it goes on, And the Lord, 11:58 the Lord, now how many is that, its only talking 12:01 about one there right? The Lord came down 12:03 to see the City and the tower which the children 12:04 of men built. And the Lord said behold the 12:07 people are one, were they one? 12:10 No they were actually multiple people around 12:12 right, what this is one person but he is 12:13 talking about to come together in one. 12:15 They are one and they have one language and 12:17 this they begin to do and now nothing will be 12:19 restrained from them which they imagined to do. 12:21 Then verse 7 says something very 12:22 interesting, let us go down and confuse their 12:27 language so it says that the Lord comes down 12:30 and looks at the multiple people, 12:32 looks at a bunch of people and says they are one. 12:35 And then says let us go down and confuse 12:37 their language. Who's us? It says the Lord said us, 12:41 Right. So you see another indication of that 12:43 now another one that I would like to turn to, 12:45 and this is one of them it's pretty strong and 12:46 it's in the New Testament, Book of Matthew. 12:48 Go to Matthew just for a minute here with me, 12:50 that's the first book of The New Testament that 12:52 should be pretty easy to find. Matthew chapter 12:54 22 and verse 41 and we're gonna start 12:57 reading. The Pharisees was trying to catch 13:00 Jesus up just prior to this, they were trying to 13:02 catch him up and get him confused and try to 13:06 get him to fall into a trap of saying the wrong 13:09 things, so they could accuse him and have him 13:10 turned over to the Romans and be killed. 13:13 And so he comes along and they asking this 13:15 question about the commandments of God and 13:17 he answers them really well, they want to know 13:18 which one is the best commandment. 13:20 And he didn't answer them the way they wanted 13:21 to be answered, so he said let me ask you 13:22 a question, While the Pharisees were gathered 13:24 together, in verse 41, Jesus asked them saying, 13:26 What do you think ye of Christ, whose son is he? 13:30 And they said unto him, The son of David. 13:32 And he said unto them, How then is that 13:34 David in spirit calls him Lord, saying, 13:38 The Lord said unto my Lord. David says the 13:42 Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand, 13:44 till I make thine enemies thy footstool. 13:47 If David then calls him Lord, how has he been 13:49 his Son? And no man was able to answer him 13:51 a word, neither durst any man from that day 13:53 forth ask him any more questions. 13:54 Do you understand what Jesus says here? 13:56 He's quoting from the Psalms, 13:57 Psalms 110 of verse 1, where David says 14:00 the Lord said unto my Lord, well now who's 14:03 speaking, The Lord. And who's he speaking to? 14:07 The Lord. So there's an indication there that 14:10 God is speaking to God. And David actually, 14:13 I mean Jesus here is actually quoting that text 14:16 and he is referring as that was happening, 14:18 he was actually referring to God speaking 14:20 to God. How is it that the God can say to God, 14:24 you are my son and I am going to make your 14:26 enemies your footstool? And Jesus questioned 14:28 why he was wording the question was simply this. 14:30 How's that the David can call the Lord his 14:31 son and be speaking to him whenever, 14:34 his son hasn't even been born yet. Right? 14:38 At the time that David was calling the Lord 14:40 you know calling him Lord and if he's gonna 14:42 be come and be his son, how does that work out? 14:44 Is that, did you understand the confusion 14:46 there? It almost sounds confusing even now 14:47 doesn't it? But because Christ was pre-existing 14:52 then he was able to call him Lord, 14:54 talk to him before he's actually come to the earth. 14:56 You follow that call him Lord. So there you go, 14:58 and then one more place there referring 15:00 that same thing is an Acts chapter 2 and that's 15:02 the last text we're gonna go to. 15:03 Now this is outside of the study that's why 15:04 I said the last text we're gonna go to. 15:07 On the section outside of what our Bible study is. 15:09 In other words you write these texts here 15:10 down and if you are giving a Bible study 15:12 someone says, I don't believe in the trinity 15:13 or anything like that. You're gonna at least 15:15 thorough of these things out a real quick and 15:16 say well this is why I do. And get just a few 15:18 examples of the Bible saying that God is not 15:23 just a singular entity, you know even as one God 15:27 you have the Lord speaking to the Lord. 15:29 You have the Lord saying Let us make man in 15:30 our image, you have the Lord saying let us go 15:32 down and confuse their languages and there's 15:33 many places you have also in the book of Genesis. 15:37 When whenever fire and brimstone rain down 15:39 out of God from heaven, I think its Genesis 15:41 chapter 18 it says, the Lord called fire down 15:44 from the Lord out of heaven. So you had the 15:46 Lord there talking to Abraham, you remember 15:47 of Jesus and the two angels come and talked 15:49 to Abraham and then it says that the Lord 15:51 called fire down from the Lord out of heaven. 15:53 There in Genesis 18 as well. So there's another 15:54 one of those indications you can put that down 15:56 as well. But here in Acts chapter 2, 15:59 just another little, again another indication 16:02 that they whenever Peter hears preaching 16:05 this powerful sermon on the day of Pentecost, 16:07 he kind of, he uses the same text in verse 34, 16:10 Acts 2 verse 34. For David is not yet ascended 16:13 into the heavens: but he saith himself, 16:16 The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 16:19 until I make thy enemies thy footstool. 16:21 So there you have it again. The Lord said 16:23 to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand till 16:25 I make thy enemies thy footstool. 16:27 So he was again quoting from the same 16:30 section there, the same part of the Bible 16:31 on Psalm 1:10. And it is, through out the Bible 16:33 in many different places, it's in Hebrews too where 16:35 it says something to the effect of what, 16:37 to which of the angels did he say? 16:39 To which of the angels did the Lord say, 16:42 Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy 16:43 enemies thy footstool. Well He didn't say 16:44 that to any of angels, that's the point 16:46 He was saying that to the Lord. 16:48 You follow that, so we do have strong indications 16:49 in the Bible that God is a trinity or what 16:52 we call a Triune Godhead. Right! The Father, 16:54 the Son, the Holy Spirit. And so we find out 16:57 that God has that but what we're also gonna 16:58 see now is that the devil tries to replicate that 17:01 and we're gonna just put these things up 17:06 here right now, and then we're gonna go 17:07 through the rest of the study showing why 17:09 it is that the devil has a trinity? 17:10 How that works out. Let's look at Revelation 17:12 chapter 12 and we're gonna read verse chapter 17:14 12 verse 9 again, 13:1 and 13:11 all in this 17:17 section. So when you mark it up and you're 17:18 marking this one in your Bible the way I've done 17:20 mine, is I just basically since I know that 17:22 I'm gonna be going to these three texts, 17:24 I got Revelation 12:9 and then from there 17:26 I'll just put little things with Revelation, 17:29 just write a 13:1 beside it, and then beside 17:31 that when I go to 13:1, I put beside that 13:11 17:34 and then 13:11 where I put this next, 17:37 the next text we'll be turning to. 17:39 You follow that, well that's alright 3AC1. 17:42 Is that making any sense? So when you're marking 17:44 your Bible up for the Bible study, 17:45 here's Revelation 12:9 then Revelation 13:1 17:48 but then it 13:11 where you put this part 17:50 in the 3AC and the Matthew 28:19 and 17:53 Matthew 28:18. Is that making any sense? 17:56 You don't wanna go marking everyone of those 17:58 with the same thing. You just go from one 17:59 to the next, you know, you'll be going pretty 18:01 quickly. So Revelation 12:9, we're gonna find 18:03 out that God the Father has a counterfeit 18:08 that the devil tries to use as a counterfeit 18:10 and that counterfeit is gonna be the devil 18:12 himself or the dragon. Tom is gonna read that 18:14 for us Revelation chapter 12 and verse 9. 18:16 Tom, I want you read all three of those if you 18:17 don't mind there. Sure. So the great dragon 18:22 was cast out, that serpent of old called the 18:24 Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; 18:28 he was cast to the earth, and his angels 18:31 were cast out with him. Okay. Then I stood 18:35 on the sand of the sea and I saw a beast 18:38 rising up out of the sea having seven heads 18:42 and ten horns. And on his horns ten crowns 18:45 and on his heads a blasphemous name. 18:50 And verse 11. Then I saw another beast 18:52 coming up out of the earth and he had two 18:54 horns like a lamb and spake like a dragon. 18:57 Okay! This is what we're gonna call the false 18:59 trinity bill, our Tom, oh I am sorry. 19:01 Hey Bill, sitting next to you, Right. 19:03 This is what we're gonna, I want to say this 19:04 is that false trinity trying to mimic Christ. 19:06 Now let me just give you some examples 19:07 we go through these with more detail as we 19:09 get into the study, but it is just interesting 19:10 that the first one the dragon, 19:11 when we look at that he's gonna try to mimic 19:14 God the Father. And you'll see how that works 19:16 out who do things like, he gives his power and 19:18 his seat, his great authority to the antichrist 19:21 this first beast power comes up, 19:22 that comes out of the water he gets his power 19:24 to him just like God the Father gives his power 19:26 to Jesus Christ, when he was on the earth, 19:28 those kind of things and we'll look at that in 19:29 more detail as we go along. Even like the very 19:31 last one, the beast that comes up out 19:33 of the earth, the third one there that comes 19:35 out of the earth, he, what he does is he calls us 19:37 everyone to worship that first beast and he 19:40 tries to force worship to the first beast. 19:41 Well, the job of the Holy Spirit is to get people 19:43 to worship Jesus Christ, by convicting them 19:45 of their sins and by that conviction we know 19:49 that something is wrong, that points us, 19:50 and he points us to Jesus Christ that we worship 19:53 and get forgiveness of our sins and get the 19:54 cleansing. So we'll find out that this 19:56 false trinity, this false trinity that we're looking 19:58 at here actually tries to copy the true Godhead. 20:02 And that will play itself out more as we go along, 20:05 we just had to lay the foundation there and then 20:06 we'll get right on into the rest of it, 20:08 to understand how this works. So let 20:10 us go on to our next text in the study here, 20:12 Matthew chapter 28 and verse 18 we're gonna 20:15 find out that Jesus receives his power from 20:17 the Father. Jesus actually receives his power 20:19 from the Father when he get to the earth. 20:21 Matthew chapter 28 and verse 18, 20:24 I got to get there myself and Bill is gonna 20:34 read that verse for us, go ahead Brother Bill. 20:39 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, 20:40 all authority has been given to me in heaven 20:43 and on earth. So Jesus says that all authority 20:46 has been given to him. All power, all power, 20:51 all authority whatever has been given to him, 20:53 Now who was it given to him by? 20:54 Who can give Jesus power on this earth? 20:57 Yeah, remember when Jesus was, was 20:58 first into his ministry and he's out being 21:00 tempted that the devil came to him in 21:02 Matthew chapter 4 and He says I will give you 21:06 all the power. Remember He wanted to give 21:07 him the power, Right! If you bow down and 21:09 worship me then I'll give you these things on 21:11 this earth but Jesus refused to worship him, 21:14 Right. And so Jesus says all power was given 21:16 to him we know, he didn't worship the devil, 21:18 so who do you suppose gave him the power? 21:20 It came from God the Father right? 21:22 So God the Father gives Jesus his power. 21:24 Now we're gonna find out that the antichrist 21:26 power in order to counterfeit that does 21:28 exactly the same thing. He gives, 21:30 the dragon or the false God the Father, the one, 21:33 the devil trying to mimic God the Father, 21:36 he actually does the same thing as he gives 21:38 his power and his seat and his authority 21:39 to the sea-beast, the sea-beast. 21:43 Let's look at that now. That's the next one, 21:44 it will be on your screen right here, 21:45 Revelation chapter 13 and verse 2, 21:47 Revelation 13 and verse 2. We make camp here 21:56 just for a minute because it's something 21:57 interesting in this. Jessica I believe it's 22:00 your turn, alright. Who is gonna read this one? 22:03 Is okay, Mrs. Gloria, I'm sorry. Mrs. Gloria 22:05 is gonna read there, go ahead Gloria, 22:06 Revelation chapter 13 and verse 2, 22:08 are you ready for it? Go ahead. 22:11 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard. 22:15 His feet were like the feet of a bear and his mouth 22:20 like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him 22:23 his power and his thrown and great authority. 22:27 So the Bible says that the dragon, 22:29 now who's the dragon? The devil. 22:31 We know that from Revelation chapter 12 22:32 and verse 9. The dragon is the devil; 22:34 he says that he gives this sea beast his power, 22:37 his seat and his great authority. 22:39 Now I think that's very ironic, 22:40 you remember the great controversy study 22:41 when we looked at the Book of Isaiah. 22:44 Isaiah the 14th chapter and let's go to 22:46 Isaiah chapter 14 just for a minute, 22:48 this is not in part of this study particularly 22:50 but we're gonna get a kind of little bit review 22:51 here of what we saw in the antichrist study 22:55 in the Book of Isaiah, Psalms, Proverbs, 22:57 Ecclesiastes, keep rather moving to the right 22:59 you go to Proverbs and you get to Isaiah 23:04 chapter 14 verse 12, 13 and 14. 23:11 Now look, check this out, it says, 23:13 verse 12 says, How art thou fallen from heaven, 23:14 O Lucifer, son of the morning! 23:17 How art thou cut down to the ground, 23:18 which didst weaken the nations! For you said 23:20 in your heart I will ascend into heaven, 23:23 I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: 23:25 I will sit also upon the mount of the 23:26 congregation, in the sides of the north: 23:28 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; 23:30 I will be like the most High. 23:32 What was it that the devil wanted? 23:33 The dragon. He wanted God's power? 23:36 He wanted his thrown? He wanted God's 23:37 authority, didn't he? That's what he wanted 23:38 was all of God stuff. But when he finally 23:40 gets to this earth and he gets what does 23:42 he wants, his power, his seat and his 23:43 authority, that he wanted on this earth, 23:44 he gets people worshiping him. 23:45 He doesn't wanted any more, 23:47 he actually takes and gives it to the sea-beast. 23:49 Now what he supposed, he is doing that. 23:51 Because the devil knows that both you and 23:54 myself are not gonna worship the devil as 23:56 the devil, Right. If the devil comes here with 23:59 all his power and his authority and he comes 24:01 here and all the devils glory you and I are 24:02 gonna say wait a minute there's something 24:03 not right about this because we studied our 24:05 Bibles and we know that when Christ comes 24:08 you know he's gonna catch us up in the air 24:09 and so the devil knows we won't worship him 24:10 as the devil. He knows we won't worship him 24:12 as the devil but he has to get himself a front man. 24:15 So when he finally receives his power and 24:16 his seat and his great authority that he wanted, 24:18 and wanting all long, he gives it to according 24:20 Revelation 13:2 he gives it to the antichrist 24:23 power. Just like God the Father give his power 24:28 and authority he gives it over to Jesus Christ. 24:31 You find the dragon or the devil giving his 24:32 power over to the antichrist or that first 24:36 beast of Revelation 13 who is the antichrist 24:38 and that's another study as we continue along. 24:40 So as we go on from that point lets go on to 24:43 the next part of this, Now we find out that God 24:44 the Father, gets his power to Jesus Christ 24:47 and the dragon or the devil gives his power 24:50 to the antichrist we're gonna find out now 24:52 that both God has a Throne and that the 24:55 devil has a Throne. Now our next text here is, 24:57 we will be found in John 16, oh the spirit okay 25:01 I am sorry well not that for you, 25:02 I got a little bit ahead of my self John 16:13. 25:05 Gospel of John chapter 16, we're gonna find 25:11 out show the counterfeit of the Holy Spirit. 25:14 Like what the job of the spirit of God is 25:17 and what the job of the antichrist spirit you 25:20 might say this, alright. John chapter 16 and 25:23 verse 13 and 14 is what we're gonna turn to. 25:26 Who's up to read now, Solita you up to read, 25:28 Okay verse 13 and 14. Howbeit when he, 25:33 the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you 25:36 into all truth: for he shall not speak himself; 25:40 but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: 25:44 and he will show you things to come. Keep going. 25:49 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, 25:52 and shall show it unto you. So what is the job 25:55 of the Holy Spirit according to this text, 25:57 there's a couple of things here, couple of fold, 25:58 howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, 26:00 first he'll guide you in the all truth right and 26:02 then it says in verse 14, he glorifies Jesus. 26:06 The job of the spirit is to glorify Jesus now 26:08 how can he, how he can glorify Jesus. 26:10 By having people worship Jesus right, 26:12 by bringing putting the glory and the honor and 26:15 everything, giving it to Jesus. Now also just 26:17 as an extra text if you want an extra one, 26:19 we're in verse 26 of the preceding chapter. 26:21 Chapter 15 and verse 26 is an interesting 26:24 text there, it says about, But when he the 26:25 comforter being the Holy spirit is come, 26:27 I will send him unto you from the father even 26:30 the spirit of truth which proceeds from the 26:32 Father and he shall do what? Testify me, 26:35 so what's the job of the Holy Spirit? 26:37 To testify Jesus or point people to worship 26:39 the Lord Jesus Christ right. That's the job 26:42 of the Holy Spirit, now what we're gonna find 26:43 out is that the antichrist power. 26:46 His job is actually do the same thing or actually 26:50 the whole the false Holy Spirit that we find 26:52 that the third part of the trinity there, 26:54 his job what he tries to do according to 26:56 Revelation 13, is to force or enforce worship 26:59 of the first beast. Now you'll notice that 27:01 the Holy Spirit never forces worship of Jesus 27:04 Christ. The Bible says that God woos us, 27:08 that God works on our hearts, he plead with us, 27:10 he stands at the door and he knocks but 27:12 he never forces his way in, he never forces his 27:14 way in and calls us or forces to worship 27:17 Jesus Christ, it's our option. But what we're 27:19 gonna find out in Revelation 13 is this 27:21 false trinity, it's close to the original. 27:24 I mean it's close to the actual one that the 27:26 Holy Spirit tries to get us to worship Jesus and 27:28 then this false spirit forces us to worship the 27:31 antichrist, if you don't its all pains of death. 27:34 So that your option is you need to worship 27:35 or die is what we're gonna read here. 27:36 So let's go back to Revelation chapter 13, 27:38 put it on this large screen here. 27:40 Revelation chapter 13 and verse 12. 27:42 Revelation 13:12. Jessica, would you like to 27:44 read that for us? I'm out there yet myself, 27:49 so give me a minute. Revelation 13:12 okay, 27:58 go ahead, whenever you get there. 28:02 He exercise all the authority of first beast 28:06 and he required all the earth and those who 28:08 belonged to this world to worship the first beast 28:11 whose death wound has been healed. 28:14 So the Bible says that the second beast, 28:17 the second beast of Revelation chapter 13 28:19 it comes up out of the land, he calls us 28:21 or forces everyone to worship the first beast, 28:25 the sea-beast. And so let us look at this parallel 28:27 trinity just for a minute here. 28:28 You have the true trinity the Father, Son, 28:31 and the Holy Spirit. Right you have that 28:33 on one side here and you have the counterfeit 28:36 on the other side. You have God the Father 28:38 who rolls over all and gives his power to the 28:40 Jesus Christ, You have the antichrist dragon, 28:43 the devil actually himself the dragon who gives, 28:44 after he gets his power, he gives it to the 28:46 sea-beast or the antichrist. And then you 28:49 have the Holy Spirit this false Holy Spirit, 28:52 first have the true Holy Spirit that directs 28:53 worship to Jesus Christ. He directs us to worship 28:55 Jesus he brings conviction of our sins he glorifies 28:57 Jesus, he testifies Jesus and he calls us 29:00 to wanna worship Jesus. But then he finds this 29:02 false Holy Spirit here that the land beast 29:05 he calls us or forces those to worship the 29:08 first beast. So we're finding out there's 29:10 a parallel here. Remember the devil's job is to 29:14 deceive and he knows that he can't just openly 29:17 come at us with open and rebellious things and 29:20 get all of us to worship him, and to get all of us 29:22 to follow him. Now there are people out there 29:24 that do worship the devil openly you know 29:26 that's right, they just openly, clearly say yeah 29:27 I worship the devil. He knows he's got those 29:29 people but what's his job is to deceive just 29:31 those people in Revelation chapter 12 and 29:34 verse 9 what was his job is, get them to 29:36 worship the whole world. He wants to deceive 29:39 the whole world. Not just the people that he 29:41 already has. So we've seen now that just 29:44 a quick review that God has a trinity, 29:47 the devil has a trinity, that God gives his power, 29:49 God the Father gives his power to Jesus Christ 29:51 and the dragon gives his power to the sea-beast 29:54 or the antichrist. And then we find that the 29:56 spirit of God calls, he's not actually calls us 29:59 in the form of forcing but he helps us to 30:01 point our direction, our worship to Jesus Christ 30:04 and the antichrist power has the false holy 30:06 spirit that force us, actually force that makes 30:09 people to worship the first beast. 30:11 And you can read more about that Revelation 30:12 chapter 13 this follow on down through 30:14 a little bit it says he exercise all, 30:16 I mean verse 12, Revelation 13:12, 30:18 Exercise all the power of the first beast 30:20 before him, he caused the earth and them 30:22 which dwell therein to worship the first beast, 30:24 whose deadly wound was healed. 30:26 And he went, And he doeth great wonders, 30:28 so that he maketh fire come down from heaven 30:31 on the earth in the sight of men. 30:32 He deceived them that dwell on the earth 30:33 by his miracles, let's go right on down 30:36 to verse 16, 15, 15, he had power to give 30:40 life unto the image of the beast, that the 30:42 image of the beast should both speak, 30:43 and force or cause as many as would not 30:45 worship the image of the beast should do what? 30:47 Be killed. So this false fear what's he actually 30:50 doing? If you decide you won't wanna worship 30:52 the way he wanted, what's he gonna cause 30:53 for you to happen? He's gonna cause you to kills. 30:56 That's not the way God works that. 30:59 So he can't be an exact replica, he's not 31:01 gonna be an exact replica what God has, 31:03 but he's gonna be a counterfeit, 31:04 a sort of counterfeit. Let us go down to the 31:06 next one here and I would like this one really 31:07 well, it's about God's Throne, we looked 31:09 that the spirit of God now, And now 31:11 Revelation chapter 4 verse 9-11. 31:12 we're gonna read about God's Throne and 31:14 I think I'll go ahead and take this one verse 9-11 31:17 and will be ready for the next one, 31:19 Revelation chapter 4 let's go back to 31:21 Revelation chapter 4. We're gonna find out that 31:22 God has a Throne, God has a Throne and that 31:26 the antichrist or the devil he also has 31:27 a Throne. Revelation chapter 4, verse 9 and 31:33 when those beasts give glory and honor and 31:35 thanks to him that sat upon the Throne 31:39 who lives for ever and ever. 31:40 Now who is that the sets upon the Throne lives 31:41 for ever and ever? It will be God right? 31:44 The four and twenty elders fall down before 31:46 him that setup on the Throne and they 31:48 worship him that lives for ever and ever and 31:50 cast their crowns before the Throne, saying, 31:52 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory 31:55 and honor and power: for thou hast 31:56 created all things, and for thy pleasure 32:00 they are and were created. 32:02 So, we find here that God has a throne and he 32:04 is sitting on his throne, and we find that the, 32:07 now we are gonna look at from this point 32:09 I guess you could say that the devil the 32:10 antichrist, the devil right now also has a throne. 32:14 He has a throne himself, and we are gonna 32:15 look at that now in Revelation chapter 3 32:18 we just went from Revelation 4 we are gonna 32:20 Revelation chapter 3 back up one more, 32:22 3 and verse 21 Revelation chapter 3 and verse 21, 32:29 the Bible says, okay I'll read it, 32:34 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with 32:37 me in my throne, all this is still the God 32:39 the father having his throne, 32:40 even as I also overcame, and set down with 32:42 my Father in his throne. So we find now that 32:43 the Jesus has a throne. And if those who a 32:46 overcometh are gonna get sit on that throne 32:47 with him right. So, we know that God has 32:50 a throne, Jesus has a throne now we are 32:53 gonna find out that the devil has a throne 32:55 and we've already saw part of this in Revelation 32:56 chapter 13 because the devil has a throne and 32:58 what's he do with his throne, he gives it or 33:02 shares it with the anti-Christ. 33:04 The parallel here is with what God the Father 33:08 does with Jesus Christ right, and we are gonna 33:10 go to that now and find out Revelation chapter 2, 33:14 Revelation chapter 2 and verse 13. 33:22 Mrs Gloria, do you wanna read that for me? 33:27 I know your works, and where you dwell, 33:31 where Satan's throne is: and you hold 33:34 fast to my name, and did not deny my faith and 33:38 even in the days in which Antipas was my 33:42 faithful martyrs, who was killed among you, 33:48 where Satan dwells. So, he says John 33:51 writing here Jesus is speaking John is writing 33:54 and he says I know where Satan's throne is. 33:56 Satan does he have a throne? He sure does, 33:58 he has a throne and we know, 33:59 we know for sure he has a throne because 34:00 when we went back to Revelation chapter 13 34:03 that will be the next on this study 11 AC 34:06 1 here Revelation chapter 13 and verse 2 34:08 we already looked at this one a couple of 34:09 times but we'll just see it again, 34:11 does the devil have a throne we just read 34:13 that he did. God says, I know where his 34:15 throne is at even and then after he has 34:17 a throne of course just like God the Father 34:19 shares his throne with Jesus Christ we are 34:21 gonna find that the dragon or the false father 34:24 in this false trinity here shares his throne 34:27 with the dragon or the antichrist or the 34:29 false Jesus Christ. And so we read that 34:31 in verse 2 there and the same in 34:32 Revelation chapter 13, And the beast which 34:35 I saw was like unto a leopard, 34:37 his feet like the feet of a bear, 34:38 his mouth was a mouth of a lion: 34:40 and the dragon gave him his power, 34:41 his throne or seat and great authority. 34:46 So, the dragon gives the antichrist his throne 34:49 or his seat and the Bible says we just read 34:50 there in the previous verses, let me make sure 34:53 I got the right verses here. 34:54 Revelation chapter 4:9-11 and Revelation 34:57 chapter 3:21, we find, it was in 3:21 34:59 we found that the Jesus shares his throne 35:01 with the father and the dragon here is sharing 35:04 his throne with the sea beast or the antichrist. 35:07 The devil is never original you aware of that? 35:10 All kinds of things that I think is interesting, 35:11 I mean where did the devil originally come from? 35:13 Lucifer, where did he come from, 35:14 we've already discovered this, 35:15 he came from heaven, right. And you know we 35:16 are gonna find out as we go through this study 35:18 that in heaven God has a city, right. 35:21 In Revelation 21, John sees the city coming 35:23 down from God out of heaven, right, So, 35:25 God has a city. And as we read about the city 35:28 you'll find out that the city is like four square, 35:30 you know the wall it's all squared up and 35:32 it has a river running right through the center 35:33 of it. And when you read in the Old Testament 35:35 the city of Babylon that there the like the devils 35:37 see there, his city there in Babylon in the 35:40 Old Testament, it has a river running through 35:41 the middle of it and its four square as well. 35:44 And so he knows what heaven looks like and 35:46 he comes down, and he tries to counterfeit 35:47 everything here, he can't have what he had it, 35:49 what is in heaven, he can't have it there but 35:51 he gets as close as he can get to it here. 35:54 And so he is creating his, I guess you can say 35:55 he is creating his little heaven on earth 35:57 right here, but this isn't gonna last long. 35:59 His heaven isn't gonna last long so his so 36:01 these counterfeits are just that they are 36:02 just counterfeits and they don't last forever, 36:04 God is all gonna last forever, 36:05 so we found that God is a trinity, 36:09 God has power and he gives his, 36:11 gives his power, and authority to Jesus Christ 36:14 His son, God the Holy Spirit directs worship 36:18 to Jesus Christ and we also find out that God 36:20 has a throne and now we're gonna look 36:22 at just like the devil he has all these different 36:24 things at his counterfeit he is just copying 36:26 every truth that God has the devil has 36:28 a counterfeit. And you know this is what's good 36:30 about this study doing this right now in this 36:32 time of our Bible studies, because what, 36:34 we are just really early into the study still yet 36:35 around this number 5 in the studies number 36:38 4 or 5 I can't remember exactly. 36:40 We were still really early into the studies. 36:43 Now here's what interesting about 36:44 this when you think about it when we get 36:46 past this point and now we recognize that 36:49 the devil has a counterfeit for every 36:51 truth that God has, now we started looking at 36:53 other subjects, we are gonna find out the reason, 36:55 the reason that these things seem to be 36:58 so hard to understand its because the devil 37:00 has counterfeit it.. You know so many people 37:03 are deceived by so many deceptions that 37:04 the devil has and the reason they have 37:06 is because it's not a blatant miscoding 37:09 of the scripture, this is not a blatant just 37:11 outside out now oppose, opposition after seeing 37:16 to those scriptures but it's a subtle 37:17 counterfeit of the scriptures. 37:19 You remember the very first and we have 37:21 already looked at this in back in the study 37:23 of the great controversy I believe we saw this at, 37:25 but the very first problem that arose on 37:27 this earth was whenever the devil came and 37:30 quoted the scriptures. You remember that he 37:34 told Eve, he says, has God said you shall 37:37 not eat from every tree of the garden; 37:38 remember that's what he asked. 37:39 That's exactly what God said, he quoted 37:42 God word for word, let us look at that just 37:44 for a second because this will help us 37:46 understand I think clarify a little bit the 37:48 importance of understanding that the 37:50 devil is counterfeiting every truth. 37:52 So, its in Genesis chapter 2 and verse 16, 37:56 Genesis 2:16 it says the Lord God commanded 37:59 the man, saying of every tree of the 38:01 garden thou may freely eat. 38:03 Now did God say they could eat from every 38:04 tree of the garden? I just read it to you right, 38:07 did God say you can eat from every tree 38:08 of the garden. So whenever the Lucifer comes 38:11 along the devil here in chapter 3 and verse 2 38:15 actually chapter 3 and verse 1 the later part 38:16 of it chapter 3 later part verse 1, 38:18 he says Yea, hath God said, 38:20 Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 38:23 Did God say that? I just read it to you, 38:26 Solita, we say no. Look Solita, 38:27 I'll read it to you again sister, verse 16, 38:30 chapter 2 verse 16, the Lord God commanded 38:31 the man, saying of every tree of the garden 38:33 you may freely eat. So that's what the Bible 38:35 says right? Now lets go to chapter 3 and 38:38 verse 1 latter part of it and the serpent says Yea, 38:41 hath God not said, you shall eat of every tree 38:43 of the garden? Had God said they can eat 38:44 from every tree of the garden? 38:46 Yes, so was the devil quoting the scriptures? 38:49 He was, he was quoting these scriptures word 38:50 for word. He coded exactly word for word, 38:54 so what he is doing when he comes to eat 38:55 as he is coming with the out not open rebellion 38:59 of the scriptures and then saying oh the 39:00 scriptures aren't really true and just coming, 39:02 coming with something, they pull the odd 39:03 or different. No he was quoting the word of God, 39:06 quoting the word of God, but he was missed 39:09 he was underquoting the word of God, 39:10 because if you go back to chapter 2 and verse 17, 39:14 God finishes the statement by saying, 39:16 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 39:17 thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that 39:18 thou share surely thereof thou shalt surely die. 39:20 So you understand that the devil doesn't come 39:22 with wide open clear obvious counterfeit 39:26 to God it's not something that's just like oh 39:28 yeah! Everybody sees that he's quoting the 39:30 scriptures but he's just a little bit of abrupt 39:33 and of course you know how the story ends, 39:35 Eve comes along and she codes the scriptures 39:36 too but she overstates what God originally said. 39:40 She adds to the word of God and that's why 39:42 we're in this mess today. So, as we're going 39:45 through this whole, Solita always disagrees 39:47 with me there, she said no its Adam's fault 39:49 for not being next to his wife and not standing 39:53 up to her and she always gives excuses as 39:54 to why I'm not right there because she just 39:57 didn't like for women to be blamed on this whole 39:59 thing and I'm not blaming women Solita 40:01 I'm just blaming one of you, well that would 40:05 be Eve and so what we just read there is a fact 40:07 that the devil come and he quotes the 40:10 scriptures to Eve and she's deceived by him. 40:13 Now you're ready it for me that she was 40:14 deceived that's what she says that it wasn't Eve 40:16 that mess up she was just deceived. 40:18 Well you know deception is the devils job. 40:22 And that's why this study, this is a very 40:24 important study to realize that when get to the 40:25 book of Revelation he hasn't changed his tactics. 40:29 You know the devil doesn't change and say okay, 40:31 deception is not working anymore I need to come 40:32 up something different because deception 40:34 always works. I forgot to tell you this you know 40:38 at the beginning part of the study when I sit down 40:40 and study with somebody and I read that 40:41 first part of Revelation 12:9, his whole job 40:43 is to deceive the whole world right, 40:44 and I asked the person you know and you've 40:46 probably heard this before, I asked the person 40:48 are you deceived, and you know and they will go, 40:52 many times I say I don't think so or they say no, 40:57 I'm not deceived and its like well how do you know? 41:01 How do you know you are not deceived Solita? 41:03 You know that's a good question I asked 41:04 isn't it? Did Eve know that she was deceived? 41:07 No, had she known she was deceived guess 41:08 what she would have done. 41:11 She wouldn't have taken the fruit. 41:12 She wouldn't have taken from that fruit. 41:13 She would have say no I'm not gonna deceived 41:14 here right but she was deceived that's why 41:16 she took from it. And the devil's job even to 41:18 this day is to deceive us and so the elixir 41:22 or the cure for deception is the Bible and 41:26 it's understanding the Bible. And this study 41:28 I believe this is very important that we, 41:30 as we figure out here that the devil is not 41:32 gonna come at us open, openly and obviously 41:36 its gonna be a settle counterfeit just like 41:38 it was in the very beginning. 41:39 Because his job his whole desire is to get 41:41 you and I to be lost. He doesn't want us to be 41:44 saved, he wants us to share in his reward 41:48 and I don't want to share in that reward. 41:49 So, that's why this study is important to share 41:52 with the people that they get the idea that its 41:54 not an open and clear thing about how the devil 41:57 is gonna come and try to deceive them and 41:59 trick them its not gonna be easy thing. 42:00 If you are gonna help the people that you are 42:02 studying with understand that then when you 42:04 start studying the other subjects that will be 42:06 looking through. Now I guess I can go and talk 42:07 about this now, for instance if you are gonna 42:08 be studying the Sabbath with somebody or you 42:11 are gonna be studying the state of the dead 42:12 and these things, you can show them that these 42:14 things that the false teachings that are out 42:16 there you know like the whole Sabbath issue 42:18 from Saturday to Sunday that issue whether 42:20 Sabbath is Saturday or the Sabbath is on 42:22 Sunday which one is the right answer. 42:24 Well the question no longer becomes Saturday 42:27 versus Sunday a day versus a day, 42:29 it becomes the deception that the devil has 42:31 versus the truth that God has. 42:33 Do you see the difference there it makes, and it 42:35 carries more weight? You know most people 42:37 when we, often times a lot of times when 42:40 we present those subjects we present them 42:42 in such a way that we are asking them to choose 42:44 between two days. You know choose between 42:46 Saturday or choose between Sunday but 42:49 that's not the job. That has no effect really 42:52 but when they got to make a decision between 42:53 Jesus Christ and antichrist oh, its lot easier 42:56 making decision there isn't it. I want to follow 42:58 Jesus and his truth and so if they can 43:01 understand that there is a deception that 43:03 he brings then you have, you have the, 43:05 you have the two options there. 43:07 Now you say are you deceived and 43:08 I say well not I am not deceived well please 43:10 show me here, explain to me here, then why, 43:12 what, where did the Sunday comes from. 43:15 Right because it looks so much like the original 43:18 that is deceptive, pretty powerful isn't it? 43:23 When you look at it like that. So let us go on 43:25 I got a just a little bit plangent there but 43:26 I feel like I, they would help out a little bit 43:29 with us here and with the people at home 43:30 as they're trying to way out. 43:32 Wonder what is this study all about, 43:33 you know why are we going through the 43:35 antichrist versus Jesus Christ and all these 43:37 parallels, that's the reason because the devil 43:40 is going to try to not bring a wide open obvious 43:45 rebellion but a subtle deception. 43:48 So, let us go on where we just finished with 43:50 the throne and we are gonna go to the next 43:52 part of the study here that God has a city and 43:55 the devil has a city and we look at the 43:56 Revelation chapter 21 verse 1 and 2, 43:58 Revelation chapter 21 Jessica verses 1 and 2, 44:02 that's where we ask you to read. 44:04 If anybody will ask you from one of those 44:05 favorite texts and all the Bible is you've just 44:07 found it and actually its Revelation chapter 21 44:09 verses 1 through 5, I love this that whole 44:12 section of text right there, my most favorite. 44:17 Jessica, Revelation 21:1 and 2. 44:20 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, 44:22 for the old heaven and the old earth had 44:25 disappeared. And the sea was also gone. 44:28 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, 44:31 coming down from God out of heaven like a 44:33 beautiful bride prepared for her husband. 44:36 So, John sees what? The holy city new Jerusalem 44:41 God city coming down from God alright out of 44:43 heaven prepares as a bride adoring for her 44:44 husband. So, he sees the holy city, 44:47 I think its fascinating right there in that text. 44:49 When you read all through the Gospel of John, 44:51 John never refers to himself by his name, 44:53 never once he always just says he whom Jesus 44:56 loved and he did a little research a little study 44:58 there and actually the context here is like 45:00 he is saying he whom Jesus loved anyway. 45:03 You know it's like he loved me 45:04 and inspired myself. He wasn't like being proud 45:06 and saying I'm the one that Jesus loved, 45:07 he was like I can't believe he still loves me 45:09 was the kind of the context what he was 45:10 always saying there. But he never referred 45:11 himself and put by his first name, 45:13 you read through the Gospel of John and the 45:14 Epistles of John he never referred himself 45:16 in first name basis, right, but he is like oh! 45:20 So overwhelmed, he is there on the Island 45:21 of Patmos all by himself, he is so overwhelmed 45:22 because he actually sees the city of God 45:24 coming down out of heaven. Can you imagine 45:26 what it must have been like for him? 45:28 I mean it was probably better than any blue 45:30 ray high definition television that we have 45:32 right now you know real life John says, 45:35 I John saw it, the holy city new Jerusalem 45:38 I saw it coming, I would have loved to have 45:40 seen that. We will one day if we are faithful, 45:42 amen, amen. So, John sees the holy city coming 45:45 down from God out of heaven, in other words 45:47 God has a city and now he describes that city 45:50 on through Revelation chapter 22 there but 45:52 we know that God has a city and we're gonna 45:54 find out that the city that God has is actually 45:56 compared to a woman. We just looked at it 45:58 here it says the city was a bride prepared 46:01 for her husband. So if the city, 46:04 God has a city it's compared to woman what 46:05 you think that devils gonna have? 46:07 A city and it's gonna compare to a woman, 46:10 it would all make the sense, wouldn't it? 46:11 And he actually does that. This is a little 46:14 side note just for a fun thing, in 46:17 Revelation chapter 21 verse 1 there, 46:19 when it says I saw a new heaven and a new earth; 46:21 for the first heaven and the first earth 46:22 passed away, and there was no more sea. 46:24 Right. In Old Testament Book of Micah chapter 7 46:28 and verse 19, God says he cast all of our sins 46:30 into the depths of the sea, right, 46:33 you know he cast all our sins in the depths of sea. 46:35 And then glory to God by the time he gets 46:36 Revelation he does away with the sea. 46:39 So no one there will be gonna able to dig 46:40 those sins up again the sea's gonna be gone with 46:42 sins in it. So, just a little food for thought 46:45 there to that something that kind of encourage 46:46 you on your way a little bit, one day right now 46:50 our sins under the blood of lamb, 46:51 didn't that right? I mean does away with our 46:52 sins right now but it somehow, 46:53 somehow like my friends here will sometimes 46:56 remember some of my old past sins and they 46:58 will make, bring it up and remind me of it right. 47:01 But when a new heaven new earth comes 47:03 that's you are all gonna be done away with, 47:04 you are all not gonna remember that anymore. 47:05 You are not gonna bring that up, amen. 47:08 Alright let us go on, we found that God 47:10 has a city, it's compared to a woman and now 47:12 in Revelation chapter 14 verse 8 we are gonna 47:16 find out that the devil, not to be out 47:18 done has the same thing. Revelation chapter 14 47:21 we'll actually go through two different texts 47:22 here Revelation 14 be the first one to show 47:25 this and verse 8 go ahead Tom. 47:30 And another angel followed, saying, 47:32 Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, 47:36 because she has made all the nations drink 47:38 of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 47:41 So, Revelation 14:8, Tom says that followed 47:44 another angel and speaking of Babylon that 47:46 great city and it says that I'm sorry because 47:50 she made all nations drink of the wine 47:52 of the wrath of her fornication. 47:53 So, he is talking about the devil city 47:55 and refers to it as a woman. So the antichrist 47:58 was a devil he has a city and it's referred 48:00 to as a woman. We also see that again in 48:02 Revelation chapter 17 verse 18 I think that 48:03 one is actually even more clear than what 48:05 we just read Revelation 17:18, go ahead and 48:08 read it again, The woman whom you saw 48:10 is the great city, which reigneth over the kings 48:13 of the earth. So, and that speaking 48:15 Revelation 17 of the harlot, 48:18 the whore of Babylon, the harlot of Babylon 48:20 and her daughters, says this woman that 48:22 you see that great city she reigns over 48:24 the kings of the earth so we find that the 48:25 devil has his city, he's control of here on earth 48:28 and it's compared to a woman just like 48:31 God's city is also compared to a woman. 48:35 Now we've looked at a quick review again, 48:39 Trinity, false and true, we have the spirit 48:43 of God and the spirit of the antichrist, 48:45 doing the work, the work of the spirit of 48:47 God directs worship to Jesus, the work of the 48:49 antichrist spirit directs worship to the 48:52 sea-beast. Then we find God has a throne and 48:54 he shares it with God the son right, 48:57 father and son share the throne, right, 48:58 and then we find out that the antichrist or 49:00 rather the dragon has a throne and he shares 49:03 it with the sea-beast, see the parallel 49:05 there right. Let us go on the city and the woman, 49:10 God has a city compared to a woman and 49:13 then the antichrist has a city it's compared 49:14 to woman. Now we are gonna look at the mark 49:17 versus the seal. God has the mark so does 49:21 the devil and we are looking into first, 49:23 when we look at God's side first. 49:24 Once again Revelation chapter 7 verses 2 49:26 and 3, Revelation chapter 7 verses 2 and 49:29 3 that God has a seal or a mark and so does 49:32 the antichrist, Revelation 7:2 and 3. 49:39 Go ahead Bill, Then I saw another angel 49:43 ascending from the east having the seal 49:45 of the living God, and he cried with a loud voice 49:47 to the four angels to whom it was granted 49:52 to harm the earth and the sea, saying, 49:54 do not harm the earth, the sea or the trees, 49:57 till we have sealed the servants of our God 49:59 on their foreheads. So God's servants will 50:02 be sealed with the seal from God and where 50:03 will that seal be taking placed at? Forehead, 50:06 in their foreheads. So, God's servants are 50:07 gonna be sealed aren't they? Now Pastor 50:10 Scott is gonna do a study on the mark 50:12 of the beast and we are gonna find out 50:13 that the mark or that seal that God has and 50:15 the mark that the devil has is not a open clear 50:17 like this tattoo that is gonna come across 50:19 and stamp everybody on the hand or 50:20 forehead with the tattoo but its, 50:22 we will find out what that's all about later 50:23 on in another study but we do know that God's 50:26 people are sealed. Now we are gonna find 50:28 out so are the devil's people there are sealed 50:30 as well. Go on with me to Revelation chapter 7, 50:34 now we just done Revelation chapter 7, 50:35 we're going to Revelation chapter 13 verse 50:37 16 and 17. Revelation chapter 13 verse 16 50:42 and 17, Mrs. Gloria, do you want to read 50:46 that one for us? 16 sir, yes ma'am, he causes all, 50:55 he causes all both small and great, 50:59 rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a 51:04 mark on their right hand, or in their foreheads: 51:08 And that no one may buy or sell, 51:14 except one who has the mark of a name 51:18 of the beast or the number of his name. 51:23 So, you find out now that the dragon or the 51:25 antichrist also, he has a mark or a seal that 51:29 he forced that he put on who? His followers, 51:33 his followers have this mark or seal. 51:35 So, God has a mark or a seal that his followers 51:37 have and the antichrist has a mark or seal 51:39 that his followers have, very interesting isn't it? 51:41 I know many people who say just avoid all marks, 51:45 everybody is gonna get marked one way or 51:46 another right, they are gonna be sealed or 51:47 marked one way or another. 51:48 Now the last part of this of the study here 51:52 is to me like the most interesting when 51:55 you find out the ministry of Jesus Christ 51:57 and the impersonation that the devil does there, 51:59 first of all I'm gonna go through these right 52:00 here on myself in Luke chapter 3 and verse 21 52:02 we find out that the Jesus Christ rather, 52:05 Jesus Christ begins his ministry remember 52:07 how he began his ministry Jesus was baptized 52:10 and he began his ministry by coming up out 52:11 of the water. So Jesus starts his ministry by 52:13 coming up out of the water. And that's Luke 52:16 chapter 3 verse 21 and then when you get to, 52:20 the next part of Jesus' ministry, 52:22 Jesus ministry last three and half years. 52:25 Jesus ministry last three and half years, 52:27 we know that if you go to the Gospel of John 52:29 you can count the Passovers in the Gospel 52:30 of John and we know his ministry last 52:31 basically 27 the fall 27 AD to the spring of 52:34 31 AD three and one half years. So, 52:37 he begins his ministry by coming up out 52:39 of the water, his ministry lasts three 52:40 and half years and you know what happens 52:42 at the end of Jesus' three and half years 52:43 according to John chapter 12 and verse 32 52:45 and 33, Jesus says in John chapter 12 verse 52:48 32 and 33, And I, if I be lifted up will draw 52:53 all men unto myself. Now those slides 52:56 I guess I should have put those on the screen 52:57 there but there are in the study guides you 53:00 can get those at www. comeexperiencelife.com 53:02 you can download those. I'll put the first one up 53:03 there Luke chapter 3 and verse 21, 53:06 Luke 3:21 tells you that Jesus begins his 53:08 ministry by rising up out of the water. 53:10 That's Luke chapter 3 and verse 21, 53:12 it's on the screen now. And then after that 53:14 takes place, after he does that the next one 53:17 even it will be on the screen we don't go 53:19 through these texts. When I give this Bible 53:20 study I just reference it because its 53:22 John chapter 2, 5, 6 and 19, right, 53:25 and we don't go read these whole chapters 53:26 but basically what you find in these 53:27 chapters are you counting the Passovers 53:29 that Jesus went through in his ministry three 53:31 and half years. It's the only gospel that gives 53:33 all that detail there and that's the Gospel 53:36 of John. And then after the three and half years 53:38 of Jesus ministry at the end of that time 53:40 according to John chapter 12 verse 32 and 53:42 33 and I've had that one on the screen the guys 53:45 taking care of the slides little crazy when 53:47 I do this, I'm gonna, they are gonna have me, 53:49 have them hide after this right. 53:51 I jumped ahead of myself little bit but John 53:53 chapter 12 verses 32 and 33 tells us that 53:56 Jesus he says I if I be lifted up will draw 53:59 all men unto me, I if I be lifted up will draw 54:02 all men unto me, Jessica, why don't you go 54:03 and read that one, do you have that one 54:05 John chapter 12, do you have at handy. 54:07 Actually, actually who has at handy right now? 54:09 Tom you go ahead and do that, 54:12 John chapter 12 verse 32 and 33. 54:15 And I, if I'm lifted up from the earth, 54:16 would draw all peoples under myself. 54:19 This he said signifying by what death he would die. 54:24 So Jesus says that He is going to be lifted up 54:27 and draw all to Himself. How was He lifted up? 54:28 What happened? Yeah, He was signifying what 54:31 death He would die there, the Cross, 54:32 the death on the Cross. So Jesus, 54:34 now check this out, He begin to Minister 54:35 by rising up out of the water. 54:37 He's ministered last three and half years. 54:39 At the end of the three and half years, 54:40 he receives a deadly wound, He is crucified. 54:42 But you know what happens after 54:43 He receives that deadly wound, right. 54:45 Yeah, the deadly wound is healed because 54:46 He is resurrected and then all the world 54:48 follows after Jesus. Now you know the devil 54:49 is not going to be outdone by that, right. 54:52 And we figured out that the Antichrist, 54:53 who wanted to mimic Jesus Christ, 54:55 the Antichrist in Revelation Chapter 13 54:56 where we are going to next, 54:57 Revelation 13:1; Jessica, you want to read 55:03 that point in Revelation 13:1? 55:08 And now in my vision I saw beast rising up 55:10 out of the sea. It had seven heads and 55:14 ten horns, with ten crowns on its horns. 55:17 And written on each head were 55:19 names that blasphemed God. 55:23 Okay, so the Antichrist power begins his ministry 55:25 by doing what, rising up out of where, the sea. 55:27 Jesus begin his Ministry by coming up out 55:29 of the water. The Antichrist begins his 55:31 Ministry by coming up out of the water. 55:32 Both of them begin coming up of the water. 55:34 And then after the Antichrist according to 55:36 Revelation 13:1; comes up out of the water. 55:38 We are going to Revelation 13:5, 55:40 Revelation 13:5 and we are going to look 55:42 at in paragraph once again, of Jesus' Ministry 55:45 versus the Antichrist Ministry. 55:46 I would read this one in Verse 5, this time. 55:49 "And there was given unto him a mouth 55:50 speaking great things and blasphemies; 55:52 and power was given unto him to continue, 55:53 for how long, 42 months". Now how long 55:56 is 42 months when you divide that up by 12? 55:58 Three and half years! Isn't that fascinating? 56:00 So you find out that Jesus Christ begins by 56:02 coming up out of the water, 56:03 the Antichrist begins by coming up out of 56:04 the water. Jesus Christ goes on his Ministry 56:06 lasts three and half years, the Antichrist 56:07 Ministry lasts three and half years. 56:10 Then what happens in the Antichrist Ministry? 56:12 Well let's find out, as we go to 56:13 Revelation Chapter 13, we are still in 56:15 Revelation 13:3, and I will take that one. 56:19 "And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded 56:20 to death; and his deadly wound was healed; and 56:23 all the world wondered after the beast." 56:26 Isn't that fascinating? Every truth 56:28 that Jesus has, the devil has his counterfeit. 56:32 And the Bible says that when Jesus after 56:34 He receives His deadly wound, 56:35 His deadly wound is healed and He said, 56:36 "I, if I am lifted up, will draw all men under me", 56:38 the Antichrist not to be outdone, 56:40 his ministry lasts three and half prophetic years 56:42 and we will learn more about that later on 56:43 today for hearing about prophecy and that 56:45 kind of thing, but his Ministry lasts 56:46 three and half prophetic years and at the end 56:48 of that timeframe the Antichrist receives 56:50 a deadly wound, the deadly wound is healed 56:52 and all the world would wander after him. 56:54 And that's exactly what is taking place. 56:57 The parallel that the Antichrist has versus 56:59 what Jesus Christ has. Now that probably 57:01 was the most powerful of the comparison 57:03 to look at. But once again it does us no good 57:07 to know about who the Antichrist is, 57:09 unless as the Bible says we know who 57:11 Jesus Christ is. So the last text in our study 57:13 will go to in John 17:3, John 17:3, 57:23 the Bible says this, John 17:3; 57:25 is everybody there. "And this is life eternal, 57:29 that they might know thee the only true God, 57:32 and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." 57:34 How is that we have eternal life? 57:36 By knowing Jesus Christ, and now that we have 57:39 set the stage here with the Antichrist part one, 57:42 we will be ready for Antichrist part two. |
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