Participants: Pr. Dwight K Nelson
Series Code: NP
Program Code: NP020208
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00:27 A time for every tribe and nation
00:33 All of Your creation. 00:34 For all of Your creation 00:36 To come and honor You. 00:37 To come and honor You 00:42 You are my creator 00:45 Lord over Heaven and Earth 00:50 You are my sustainer 00:53 My soul You redeemed from the curse 00:58 And as I delight in You 01:01 You cause me to ride on the high places of the earth 01:06 My King, my God 01:10 This is Your day 01:13 My King. 01:14 My King, my God 01:18 This is Your day 01:23 Amen. 01:27 It's Your day Father, and today we say 01:28 blessed be Your name 01:31 in the good times and in the bad times. 01:35 Blessed be Your name. 01:47 Blessed be Your name 01:50 In the land that is plentiful 01:54 Where Your streams of abundance flow 01:58 Blessed be Your name 02:03 Blessed Be Your name 02:06 When I'm found in the desert place 02:10 Though I walk through the wilderness 02:14 Blessed Be Your name 02:17 Every blessing. 02:18 Every blessing You pour out 02:22 I'll turn back to praise 02:26 When the darkness closes in, Lord 02:30 Still I will say 02:32 Blessed be the name of the Lord 02:36 Blessed be Your name 02:39 Blessed be. 02:40 Blessed be the name of the Lord 02:44 Blessed be Your glorious name 02:51 Blessed be Your name 02:54 When the sun's shining down on me 02:58 When the world's all as it should be 03:02 Blessed be Your name 03:07 Blessed be Your name 03:10 On the road marked with suffering 03:13 Though there's pain in the offering 03:17 Blessed be Your name 03:20 Every voice, every blessing. 03:22 Every blessing You pour out 03:25 I'll turn back to praise 03:29 When the darkness closes in, Lord 03:33 Still I will say 03:36 Blessed be the name of the Lord 03:39 Blessed be Your name 03:43 Blessed be the name of the Lord 03:47 Blessed be Your glorious name 03:53 You give and take away 03:57 You give and take away 04:01 My heart will choose to say 04:05 Lord, blessed be Your name 04:09 You give and take away 04:13 You give and take away 04:16 My heart will choose to say 04:20 Lord, blessed be Your name 04:25 Blessed be the name of the Lord 04:29 Blessed be Your name 04:33 Blessed be the name of the Lord 04:37 Blessed be Your glorious name 04:41 Blessed be the name of the Lord 04:45 Blessed be Your name 04:49 Blessed be the name of the Lord 04:52 Blessed be Your glorious name 04:59 Hallelujah. Blessed be Your name, Jesus. 05:04 He's been so good toward us. 05:07 We're gonna sing that song Amazing Love. 05:09 How can it be that the King, He would die for you and me. 05:13 I want to invite you to stand and sing the song. 05:16 Contemplate the sacrifice of our Lord for your sins, 05:21 for my sins and "Amazing Love." 05:35 I'm forgiven. 05:38 I'm forgiven 05:41 Because You were forsaken 05:45 I'm accepted 05:49 You were condemned 05:53 I'm alive and well 05:55 Your Spirit is within me 05:59 Because You died and rose again 06:06 Let sing that chorus. 06:08 Amazing love 06:10 How can it be 06:15 That You, my King 06:17 Would die for me 06:23 Amazing love 06:26 I know it's true 06:31 It's my joy to honor You 06:36 In all I do 06:40 I honor You 06:55 I'm forgiven. 06:57 I'm forgiven 07:00 because You were forsaken 07:03 Just think about it. 07:05 I'm accepted 07:08 You were condemned 07:11 I'm alive and well 07:14 Your spirit is within me 07:18 Because You died and rose again 07:24 Just pray our church, amazing love. 07:27 Amazing love 07:29 How can it be 07:34 That You, my King 07:36 Would die for me 07:41 Amazing love 07:44 I know it's true 07:49 And it's my joy to honor You 07:54 In all I do 07:58 I honor You 08:01 You are my King. 08:03 You are my King 08:10 Jesus 08:11 You are my King 08:18 You are my King 08:25 Jesus 08:26 You are my King 08:32 Amazing love 08:34 Amazing love 08:36 How can it be 08:41 That You, my King 08:43 Would die for me 08:48 Amazing love 08:51 I know it's true 08:55 It's my joy to honor You 09:01 In all I do 09:05 I honor You 09:09 In all I do 09:13 I honor You 09:18 I love you, Lord 09:23 Let's sing together. 09:25 And I lift my voice 09:32 To worship You 09:39 Oh, my soul 09:44 Rejoice 09:48 Take joy, my King 09:55 In what You hear 10:02 May it be a sweet 10:07 Sweet sound 10:11 In Your ear 10:17 Let's sing that one more time, I love you, Lord. 10:20 I love you, Lord 10:27 And I lift my voice 10:35 To worship You 10:42 Oh, my soul 10:47 Rejoice 10:51 Take joy, my King 10:57 In what You hear 11:05 May it be a sweet 11:09 Sweet sound 11:14 In Your ear 11:23 Lord, we thank You for this moment. 11:26 And even in silence God, 11:29 we thank You for Your presence. 11:32 Continue to be with us, in Jesus name, amen. 11:47 I, the Lord of sea and sky 11:52 I have heard my people cry 11:56 All who dwell in dark and sin 12:01 My hand will save 12:05 I who made the stars and night 12:09 I will make the darkness bright 12:14 Who will bear my light to them? 12:18 Whom shall I send? 12:23 Here I am Lord 12:28 Is it I Lord? 12:32 I have heard 12:34 You calling in the night 12:40 I will go Lord 12:43 If You lead me 12:48 I will hold 12:50 Your people in my heart 13:02 I, the Lord of snow and rain 13:06 I have born my peoples pain 13:10 I have wept for love of them 13:14 They turn away 13:19 I will break their hearts of stone 13:23 Give them hearts for love alone 13:27 I will speak My word to them 13:31 Whom shall I send? 13:36 Here I am Lord 13:41 Is it I Lord? 13:45 I have heard 13:47 You calling in the night 13:53 I will go Lord 13:57 If You lead me 14:01 I will hold 14:03 Your people in my heart 14:23 I, the Lord of wind and flame 14:28 I will tend the poor and lame 14:32 I will set a feast for them 14:36 My hand will save 14:40 Finest bread I will provide 14:45 Till their hearts be satisfied 14:49 I will give My life to them 14:53 Whom shall I send? 14:58 Here I am Lord 15:02 Is it I Lord? 15:06 I have heard 15:08 You calling in the night 15:14 I will go Lord 15:18 If You lead me 15:22 I will hold 15:25 Your people in my heart 15:32 Here I am 15:35 Here I am 15:38 Here I am, Lord 15:56 Father, we want to respond with the children. 15:59 Here we are, here I am, here each of us is. 16:05 In the night we've heard Your voice, 16:08 that noon day we hear. 16:13 What we are simply asking now holy Father, 16:15 is that as You speak to us through Holy Spirit that 16:18 we would hear clearly what You had to say. 16:20 We need You to engage our minds, 16:22 that we need You to address our hearts as well, 16:25 because we've got to heed 16:29 what You will teach us in Your word. 16:30 So here we are, have Your way, in Jesus name, amen. 16:38 Its probably will not come as a surprise to you 16:40 but when I was a kid growing up 16:42 about the age of these boys up here 16:44 my mouth used to get me in trouble with my mother. 16:49 My mother adopted a form of torture 16:51 that is not even exercise today in Guantanamo Bay 16:56 as a response and that is 16:59 she would wash my mouth out with soap. 17:04 If you have never had your mouth washed out 17:07 with soap see me afterwards. 17:13 My mother is watching this, this is a satellite network, 17:15 we are on three satellite networks 17:16 and my mother in Banning, California 17:18 is watching this right now. 17:20 I'm telling you this story 17:21 because I hope she won't want to wash my mouth out 17:25 after we begin this sermon. 17:27 I'm gonna use a word right now that is not used 17:31 in polite conversation or gentle company. 17:36 It's a very strong word and we find it 17:39 in a sentence making a very strong point. 17:45 The sentence belongs to E.W. Maunder 17:48 and then he refers to what he calls 17:50 the Bastard Science, that was the word. 17:55 Going to the dictionary bastard describes 17:58 and according now "any irregular, inferior, 18:01 illegitimate or counterfeit thing." 18:05 So bastard science would be an illegitimate 18:08 or counterfeit, a fake science. 18:12 And what would that be? 18:14 Well, E.W. Maunder, 18:16 I quote the sentence here, he is writing 18:18 "The bastard science which has always tried 18:21 parasite like to suck its life from astronomy." 18:27 Now everybody knows what astronomy is. 18:30 Astronomy is the study of the astro's, 18:32 that's a Greek word for stars. 18:33 Some of you are taking astronomy 18:35 right now in this university 18:36 but I predict there is nobody here today 18:38 enrolled in astrology. 18:40 You know why? 18:41 Because it's a fake, illegitimate science 18:44 that a science psychic prophetic powers to the moon 18:48 and of the planets and the stars. 18:51 So imagine my surprise to discover that 18:54 that this bastard science of astrology lies at the heart 18:57 of much of the confusion today over the Sabbath. 19:05 Do you know that there are some people 19:06 who believe that you can find astrology 19:09 in the creation account in Genesis 1? 19:12 I'm gonna show this to you, take a look at this. 19:14 We got to do some multitasking right now. 19:16 So open your Bible to Genesis 1, page 1 19:19 if you use the pew Bible and I hope you'll follow along 19:21 if you didn't bring your own Bible. 19:22 But we are gonna multitask. 19:23 While you find in that take out your study guide, 19:26 brand new study guide in your worship bulletin today, 19:28 take it out because I want to get 19:30 both of these parallel tracks going right away 19:33 and your generation is brilliant at multitasking 19:35 so you are not having any problem with this. 19:37 In fact, here's the third task, hold your hand up 19:38 if you don't have a study guide. 19:40 Thank you ushers, right now I see hands 19:42 right through to the back I see hands up in the balcony, 19:45 maybe in the overflow chapel as well, 19:47 make sure that everybody today gets a study guide. 19:49 And those of you, who are joining us on television 19:51 we are honored to have you. 19:53 This will be a fascinating study. 19:54 You're gonna want to have this study guide. 19:56 We put our website on the screen for you, 19:59 www.pmchurch.tv. 20:03 You are looking for the series called, "The Sabbath." 20:06 This is part three of the Sabbath. 20:08 Title of this teaching 20:09 "The Legacy of the Bastard Science." 20:14 When it says study guide right there, 20:16 you click it, you have what we have 20:17 and then we can all go together. 20:21 If you are listening on a podcast 20:22 or watching on a DVD all you have to do is hit pause 20:25 and go to your computer do the same thing 20:27 you will be able to follow with us. 20:29 All right, let's just, let's just plunge into this. 20:31 I want to make sure we get this E.W. Maunder sentence down, 20:34 so would you write it please? 20:35 "Astrology is the 'bastard science 20:39 which has always tried parasite like 20:42 to suck its life from astronomy.'" 20:44 All right, Maunder's words. 20:47 Keep writing, Astrology lies at the heart 20:49 of the confusion today over the Sabbath. 20:52 So here's the question, can you find astrology 20:55 in the creation account, in Genesis 1? 20:57 Open your Bible to Genesis 1, you've already got there 20:59 and I'm sitting up here talking. 21:00 I haven't found it yet. 21:01 Genesis 1, page 1 in your pew Bible. 21:05 Same translation and I'll be reading 21:07 from here the New King James Version. 21:08 Let's go to the fourth day of creation, all right, 21:10 fourth day of creation, drop down to verse 14. 21:13 Genesis 1:14, "Then God said," day four creation, 21:17 "'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens 21:20 to divide the day from the night 21:22 and let them be for signs and seasons, 21:24 and for days and years, 21:25 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens 21:28 to give light on the earth,' and" boom "it was so." 21:31 Verse 16, "Then God made two great lights, 21:35 the greater light to rule the day, 21:36 and the lesser light to rule the night. 21:37 He made also the stars." Verse 17 21:40 "God set them in the firmament 21:41 of the heavens to give light on the earth, 21:43 and to rule over the day and over the night, 21:45 and to divide the light from the darkness. 21:46 And God saw that it was good." 21:50 Finally verse 19 "So the evening 21:51 and the morning were the fourth day." 21:54 Now astrologers have tried to justify 21:56 their divination of the celestial bodies 22:00 by the phrase there in verse 14, 22:01 these shall be for signs and seasons, 22:03 they say that's astrological science. 22:06 Are you serious? 22:08 Let me disabuse you about notion 22:11 by showing that quite to the contrary 22:12 what we've just read is a polemic against astrology. 22:18 Watch this, Moses who is writing, 22:21 please note, in fact jot this down. 22:23 "God carefully avoids naming" did you catch this? 22:26 "God carefully avoids naming 22:27 the two most prominent celestial bodies to earth, 22:30 that will be the sun and the moon." 22:31 Is it word sun bad word? 22:34 You get your mouth washed out? 22:35 No, the moon isn't either. 22:36 All the way, you'll find them all the way through the Bible 22:38 but here in the initial, in the beginning 22:42 Moses refers to them 22:43 as the greater light that rules the day 22:45 and the lesser light that rules the night. 22:48 No, sun, no moon, why? 22:50 Because Moses has been schooled in Egypt 22:52 and Moses knows that in Egypt they worship the sun god "Ra" 22:56 and Pharaoh is the sun of the sun god. 23:00 Pharaoh is the sun of-- the incarnate sun 23:02 of the sun god, you see. 23:04 Moses says, no way, 23:05 clearly we have an over attempt to make certain 23:08 that you cannot leave the defecation 23:10 of celestial bodies into Holy Scripture. 23:13 Certainly not into the creation account. 23:16 So they are simply called the greater light for the day, 23:18 the lesser light for the night. 23:21 By the way, if you are not clear there please not, 23:25 God does not tolerate the defecation 23:27 of celestial bodies and you get that sense 23:29 because of the very strong language 23:31 He uses in Holy Scripture. 23:33 I'm gonna have you look this up. 23:34 Go to the Book of Isaiah, you are in Isaiah, 23:37 you need a page number here that's page 416. 23:41 I'm sorry that's page 492, 492, Isaiah 47. 23:47 Isaiah 47, 23:52 Isaiah 47, this is fascinating. 23:54 Now this is God speaking in Isaiah 47 23:56 and He is speaking as you'll notice, 23:57 we'll start in verse 1, that's not where I want to go. 23:59 Go quickly to the end of the chapter 24:00 but just get the feel for it in verse 1. 24:02 Isaiah 47:1 God is speaking, 24:04 "Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon," 24:10 So let's be clear God's-- 24:11 this is a judgment against Babylon. 24:13 Virgin daughter Babylon you sit in the dust. 24:16 "Sit on the ground without a throne, 24:17 O daughter of the Chaldeans! 24:19 For you shall no more be called tender and delicate." 24:21 God is saying, hey listen Babylon, listen to me. 24:23 Read my lips. You are under judgment now. 24:25 By the way because Isaiah 47 24:28 is a judgment against Babylon you come to Babylon 24:31 in the apocalypse Revelation Chapter 18 24:33 and it heavily borrows the language of Isaiah 47. 24:37 There is another Babylon at the end of time 24:39 but this is the ancient Babylon that 24:41 God is speaking to through Isaiah. 24:43 Go down to the end, go down to verse 12 24:44 near the end of the chapter, God still speaking to Babylon. 24:47 "Stand now with your enchantments 24:50 and the multitude of your sorceries," 24:52 see the Babylon has always been 24:53 the seat of the occult, sorceries. 24:57 And the multitude of your sorceries 24:59 in which you have labored from your youth, 25:02 Perhaps you will be able to profit, 25:03 Perhaps you will prevail." 25:04 Maybe your, maybe your witchcraft 25:07 will get you out of this by now. 25:09 In fact, God says I have another suggestion 25:10 for you, verse 13. 25:12 "You are wearied 25:13 in the multitude of your counsels," 25:14 you've been going everywhere for counsel. 25:16 "Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, 25:19 and the monthly prognosticators" 25:22 those who study which house is the moon 25:23 and which house is the moon in. 25:25 "The monthly prognosticators" 25:27 let them "stand up and save you 25:28 from what shall come upon you. 25:29 Behold, they "your astrologers shall be as stubble," 25:32 and the fire shall burn them." 25:34 There is no question ladies and gentlemen, 25:36 jot this down, unequivocally it is strong language here 25:40 by which God condemns astrolatry. 25:44 That is the human worship of celestial bodies. 25:47 God says, nope, nope, cannot do it. 25:52 About truth be known, there has been somebody 25:53 from the very beginning of earth time 25:55 whose been drawn like a moth, like a moth to the flame. 25:58 Ever seen a moth go to a flame? 26:00 Its not smart enough, stay away. 26:01 Like a moth to the flame from the beginning 26:03 he has been drawn to the sun, to the sun. 26:07 He is big on the sun. 26:09 There are some mysterious attraction for him 26:12 Go to chapter 14 here in Isaiah, 26:14 since we are there Isaiah 14. 26:16 Who is this somebody 26:18 who from the beginning has been drawn to the sun? 26:20 Isaiah 14, this will be page 469. 26:27 Isaiah 14:12, God is speaking to this being. 26:32 Now, who is this being? 26:33 "How are you fallen from heaven, 26:35 O Lucifer, son of the morning! 26:39 How you are cut down to the ground, 26:40 You who weakened the nations!" 26:42 Verse 13 "For you have said in your heart, 26:43 'I will ascend into heaven,'" 26:45 Notice he asked the logical language here, 26:47 I will ascend to heaven. 26:48 "I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, 26:51 I will also sit on the mount of the congregation 26:54 on the farthest sides of the north," 26:55 verse 14 "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds," 26:58 I'm going up there. 26:59 "I will be like the Most High." 27:04 Somebody has a fascination 27:07 with the sun like a moth to the flame. 27:10 Hey, by the way, did you know this? 27:11 Lucifer is not in the Bible, 27:13 you can't find that name anywhere. 27:14 It's not a Hebrew name, that's no name. 27:16 That's from the Latin Vulgate. 27:18 The actual Hebrew reads right here 27:20 "How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer." 27:21 The Hebrew reads, "O shining one," 27:24 which would be helel "son of the dawn!" 27:26 Ben HaShachar. There is no Lucifer. 27:30 Lucifer is Latin and it means light bearer, 27:32 kind of close but that little Latinized mistake 27:36 is how we got the name Lucifer. 27:40 The New American Standard Bible, jot this down, 27:42 it translate the-- translates that line, 27:44 "O Lucifer, son of the morning" this way. 27:46 "O star of the morning" 27:48 that's what the Hebrew helel means. 27:50 "O star of the morning, son of the dawn." 27:54 But isn't it amazing ladies and gentlemen, 27:55 those are the titles, that is really the title 27:58 for Christ in the New Testament. 28:00 That belongs to Jesus. 28:01 Watch this, 2 Peter 1:19 jot it down. 28:04 "Until the day dawns 28:06 and the morning star rises in your heart." 28:09 Now how can a star? 28:11 What is there in my heart that would rise? 28:13 Oh, look at this, Revelation Chapter 22, 28:15 let's put it on the screen please, verse 16. 28:17 "I Jesus, am the bright Morning Star." 28:22 Isn't it amazing? 28:23 By the way I got to just hit the pause button here. 28:26 Isn't that beautiful news 28:27 about Christ being the morning star? 28:29 There are times when it seems in your life 28:31 that you are stuck in night forever. 28:34 Jesus says, that's okay. 28:36 Even in the darkest night I appear. 28:38 Do you know that Venus the morning star 28:40 is seven times brighter than the brightest fix star 28:43 in our heavens and that would be serious? 28:45 Venus is seven times brighter and Jesus says 28:49 I'll be that bright light in your dark night 28:52 and I'll care you all the way to the morning one day. 28:58 Don't you give up the night is not forever, 29:01 I'm the morning star. 29:02 Oh, that's beautiful. 29:04 But isn't it something 29:05 how Lucifer is called the morning star 29:08 leading some scholars to conclude and it-- 29:11 you and I would certainly concur. 29:13 Write this down, this Lucifer, 29:15 whoever he is and you and I already know who he is. 29:18 This "Lucifer is clearly portrayed 29:19 as a being who once occupied a high and exalted 29:23 state in heaven next to Christ himself." 29:28 Whoever he is he is way up there. 29:32 Its no wonder he was susceptible 29:34 to the delusion of pride, I, oh, I could be God. 29:38 I, I, I, and you know what, every time Dwight 29:42 get stuck on that same solitary vow. 29:45 Other way the letter "I" 29:46 is the middle letter to Lucifer's name. 29:51 I quickly check my name to make it wasn't the middle. 29:54 It's not because only six letters 29:56 in my name so thank you. 29:57 Those of you are named Tim it's the middle of your name 30:01 or if have a name Anita 30:02 it would be the middle of your name too. 30:04 Anyway, every time I get stuck, 30:05 because it doesn't matter my name, 30:07 every time I get stuck on that solitary vowel 30:10 that first person proving on I'm just like Lucifer. 30:13 I'm tempted to deify myself 30:16 and assert myself just like Lucifer. 30:20 Robert Odom, in this amazing bit 30:22 of research he did in his book entitled 30:24 "Sunday in Roman Paganism." 30:27 This is fascinating. 30:28 He suggest that star of the morning that Lucifer is, 30:31 star of the morning actually can also referred 30:33 to the greater light that rules the day. 30:34 Because what's the star we have all day long? 30:36 The star that we have is the sun, isn't it? 30:38 Now jot this down, this is in your study guide. 30:41 Odom writing, "It is not to be wondered at 30:43 that Satan should choose the shining solar orb 30:46 the most glorious object in the sky 30:49 to be the supreme symbol of paganism." 30:54 Come on, what is paganism? What is paganism? 30:56 If not at its heart it's Satanism. 30:59 And is not Satanism 31:00 at the heart of all sun worship? 31:02 But of course which explains why sun worship 31:06 this really-- when you sit down 31:08 and begin to just kind of brood over this, this is striking. 31:12 Sun worship is riddled all through sacred history. 31:17 Now, I know why somebody thinks of himself as the sun. 31:25 Job, I just read Job-- Job read through in January 31:30 and I never even caught this text 31:32 that Robert Odom point is out to me. 31:33 Let me put this verse on the screen for you. 31:34 This is Job what's the what's the chapter, 31, Job 31:26. 31:39 Job is saying look at 31:40 "If I have observed the sun when it shines, 31:43 or the moon moving in brightness." 31:45 Look at if I've shown attention to the celestial bodies. 31:47 "So that my heart has been secretly enticed, 31:49 and my mouth has kissed my hand," 31:51 I explain that in a moment. 31:52 "This also would be in iniquity deserving of judgment, 31:54 for I would have denied God who is above." 31:57 This is fascinating. 31:58 Do you know that the pagans who worship the sun, 32:01 every time the sun came up 32:02 they went like this, they blew a kiss. 32:07 Job said have I kissed my hand toward the sun? 32:11 They blew kisses to the sun. Isn't that amazing? 32:14 Who do you suppose has been behind sun worship 32:16 from the very beginning if not Lucifer? 32:19 Star of the morning, son of the dawn. 32:23 Job is one of the oldest stories in Scripture. 32:25 The Exodus happens after Job. 32:27 I love the Exodus story. 32:29 You know, you may not have ever known 32:30 this about those ten plagues. 32:31 Sometimes we get to read get really mad at God. 32:34 I mean what kind of God are you to use ten plagues 32:36 and bang-up the people like that? 32:38 Listen to me carefully, those ten plagues 32:40 by through which God liberates Israel, 32:42 those ten plagues are not against Egyptians. 32:45 In fact, and in every plague 32:46 that threatens human life God gives a word. 32:49 Hey, you can get out this will not happen to you. 32:51 Follow these directions. 32:53 They're not-- they're not directed against Egyptians. 32:55 Guess what? 32:56 They are directed straight against 32:57 the Pantheon of Egypt's top god's 33:00 and the last two plagues are going for one main God. 33:06 Watch this here's plague number nine, 33:07 we'll put it on the screen. 33:08 This will be Exodus 10: 21. 33:10 "Then the Lord said to Moses, 33:12 'Stretch out your hand toward heaven, 33:14 that there may be'" what? 33:16 "'There may be darkness over the land of Egypt, 33:18 darkness which may even be felt.'" 33:21 All right, Pharaoh, son of the sun God. 33:23 Pharaoh, you want light ask your God, asking him again. 33:28 What's the matter with your god? 33:29 Ask him again. 33:31 God strikes raw. Isn't that amazing? 33:34 And by the way, the plagues increase in their intensity, 33:37 the final plague is number ten. 33:40 Do you know what number ten is against? 33:42 The firstborn, your firstborn, Pharaoh. 33:45 The only way you will survive, your boy will survive 33:49 is if you put blood over her palace door. 33:51 If you don't and he didn't 33:53 you will lose the son of the son of the sun god. 33:58 Now where is the raw? See God win's. 34:02 He tries to spare Egypt, the people but they let him go. 34:06 They let the people go. 34:08 You got sun worship ladies and gentlemen, 34:09 from the get-go. 34:10 And in fact isn't this embarrassing 34:12 not only to sun worship riddle pagan history 34:16 it riddles sacred community of faith history as well. 34:22 They're just out of Egypt by days, maybe weeks. 34:25 Remember that? And where is this Moses guy? 34:27 Come on, where is he? 34:28 He's gone up into that mountain. 34:29 Aaron, make a God for us and scholars now believe that 34:32 the God Aaron fashioned out of their gold jewelry 34:35 the Egyptian bull, is a bull 34:37 and in Egypt it was always bright yellow 34:40 and the name of the bull is Ptah. 34:43 The bull was the symbol of the sun god. 34:46 Isn't that amazing, 34:47 the children of the most high God 34:49 are dancing to the music of the sun god. 34:54 Boy, I hate for that to happen again, wouldn't you? 34:56 I'd hate for that to happen again. 34:58 To get confused who our God is even in the way we worship. 35:06 Yeah, we have sun worship all the way through. 35:08 And by the way, just before they go, 35:10 just before they go into the Promise Land, 35:11 you remember Balaam? 35:12 Does that name ring a bell, Balaam? 35:14 Did the false prophet, the true but then turned false prophet. 35:17 Remember he sent those pretty little Moabites girls 35:19 into the camp, they infiltrated the camp. 35:21 They were all cult prostitutes for Baal worship 35:24 which is the worship of the sun god. 35:26 And Israel it says there Numbers 25:4, 35:29 Israel bows down just before the Promise Land 35:32 and worships the sun god. 35:35 You can't believe it. 35:36 Ladies and gentlemen, it's everywhere. 35:37 And by the way the top one thousand leaders 35:39 who are stricken in the judgment, 35:41 you know the instructions are string them up 35:43 and make sure the sun is shining on their bodies. 35:46 There is deep irony. 35:48 You have a battle from the beginning. 35:50 From the fall of the human race the one who says I'm the sun 35:54 and the God who says I made the sun. 35:56 You have an intense battle all the way through. 36:00 You get to the books of the judges 36:01 and the kings and its all over, 36:03 again I'm gonna skip all the stories 36:04 and end with one last story 36:06 and that's the one about the pagan princess. 36:07 She was rather pretty from what I hear. 36:10 Ahab, the true, the king of the true Israel 36:12 fell in love with Jezebel. 36:15 And when he married her, be careful gentlemen, 36:17 whom you marry, be careful whom you marry, 36:21 she brings with her a lot of baggage. 36:23 By the way let me flip that around just, 36:24 because this is a different age. 36:26 Be careful ladies, whom you marry. 36:29 Got more amen's from the ladies, look at that. 36:33 Be very careful because 36:34 you bring your family's baggage with you. 36:37 And Jezebel is from the cult of Baal 36:41 and she got the whole nation of Israel 36:44 to be caught up in astrolatry. 36:49 Worship of the celestial bodies. 36:51 And then you remember the day 36:53 when that, oh, I love this guy, 36:54 you know, some bushy bearded, 36:56 leather clad come slapping into the throne room of King Ahab 36:59 and he points his prophetic finger at Ahab 37:02 and he says, you want the sun? 37:03 You love the sun, don't you? 37:05 I'm gonna give you three and half years 37:06 of nothing but sun. 37:07 Not a drop of water until this place 37:09 is crisp dust ball until you hear 37:12 from me again and Elijah is gone and boom. 37:15 Baal can't do a thing for three and half years 37:19 and then there is that heart stopping showdown, 37:21 850 priests of the sun god 37:24 and one lonely prophet of the Creator God. 37:28 Hey, listen guys, doesn't matter the numbers. 37:31 If you are standing for Jesus 37:32 you just stand as one, because one plus Jesus, 37:35 you know the outline, you win, you win. 37:40 Elijah-- 37:43 All right, I want to just share one text, 37:45 this is the last text we look up Ezekiel. 37:47 This is near the end of the Old Testament, 37:48 sun worship is still going on. 37:51 You are not gonna believe this text is in your Bible. 37:52 Ezekiel Chapter 8, 37:55 you will not-- oh, did I leave out. 37:56 Let me just put up here Deuteronomy 4:19. 38:01 Thank you, mezzanine for going with us. 38:02 Just before they went into the Promise Land 38:04 this is how serious God is about 38:06 not getting involved in astrology. 38:07 Watch this, this is God speaking 38:09 just before the Promise Land. 38:10 "And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, 38:13 and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, 38:15 and all the host of heaven," be very careful now 38:18 lest "you feel driven to worship them and serve them, 38:20 which the Lord your God has given" 38:22 I put them up there for all the peoples 38:24 under the whole heaven as a heritage." 38:26 They are therefore your light not your worship. 38:28 There is a strong word, 38:30 but in spite of that strong word here 38:32 we are Ezekiel 8 and if you need a page number 38:35 that would be page 561 in your pew Bible. 38:38 Look at this Ezekiel 8:15. 38:42 Now Ezekiel is already captive in Babylon 38:44 and God says boy, you are not gonna believe 38:46 what's happening back at home. 38:47 I'm gonna give you a series of insights. 38:49 This is one of those insights. This is a climaxing inside. 38:53 He's given us to what's going on in his hometown. 38:55 Verse 15, "Then He" the Spirit of God "said to me, 38:58 'Have you seen this, O son of man? 39:02 Turn again, '" I'm gonna show you one thing 39:03 that's even a "greater abomination." 39:05 Look at this, verse 16 39:07 "So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house 39:11 and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, 39:12 between the porch and the altar, 39:14 were about twenty-five men 39:16 with their backs to the church of the Lord 39:19 and their faces toward the east, 39:21 and they were worshiping the sun toward the east." 39:25 In the church they are worshiping the sun. 39:29 That's one of the heart breaking lines 39:30 of the Old Testament, 39:31 they are worshiping sun apparently. 39:36 Apparently sun worship has that 39:39 strong and magnetic an appeal. 39:44 Even within the community of faith 39:47 we can be led to worship the sun. 39:53 They say, hey, come on, Dwight, please. 39:55 I mean, you start off talking about sun 39:56 or you are talking about sun worship and astrology 39:58 and you say this has something to do with the Sabbath. 40:00 I don't see the connection. 40:01 Okay, here comes right now, enter now the seven day week. 40:06 You understand this, don't you, 40:08 that the Hebrew record of creation 40:10 is the oldest extent record we have for the origin 40:13 of the septenary or seven day week. 40:17 It's the oldest record we have 40:19 in all human literature, this is it. 40:22 And from the creation account onward did you know this, 40:25 from creation all the way through the New Testament 40:27 the Hebrews never named their days. 40:31 Its first day, second day, third day, fourth day, 40:32 fifth day, six day, seventh day. 40:34 Oh, seventh day would be the exception. 40:35 The one day that God himself named, dated and named it. 40:38 God says this seventh day we are calling the Sabbath. 40:43 No other names. 40:45 And that's why chiseled into the garnet 40:48 of the Decalogue were these words. 40:49 You remember them Exodus 20, the fourth commandment, 40:52 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 40:55 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 40:57 but the seventh day is the Sabbath" proper name. 40:59 This is my Sabbath, 41:00 "the Sabbath of the Lord your God." Why? 41:02 "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and earth, the sea, 41:05 and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. 41:08 Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." 41:12 Hey, guys, listen, listen. 41:13 From our primeval beginnings 41:17 there has always been a sacred month 41:19 between the septenary cycle, 41:21 the seven day a week and the seventh day 41:26 they have been bound together just like this. 41:29 In the words of Robert Odom, I get this down. 41:32 This is some, it's in your study guide. 41:34 "The week of seven days is not a natural division of time, 41:38 and is not related to the movements 41:40 of any of the heavenly bodies." 41:42 Oh, let's hit the pause button right there. 41:44 Okay, let's do this. 41:46 Every year something in our solar system goes like this. 41:51 It takes one year to do it. 41:52 What is happening, come on you scientist, 41:54 what's happening every year? 41:56 The earth goes where? 41:58 Once around the sun. Okay, very good. 42:01 Every month something goes around. 42:03 Every month something goes around. 42:06 All right? All right, isn't that right? 42:07 Its 28 days but every month the moon goes round. 42:10 Listen, every 24 hours, every 24 hours 42:14 something turns on its axis, what's that? 42:17 The earth, 24 hour a day. 42:19 Every seven days, all right, 42:21 every seven days now what's the cycle? 42:23 Every seven days what goes around? 42:25 Come on, you get it. 42:27 Every seven days what goes around? 42:28 The answer is absolutely nothing. 42:32 Nothing. 42:33 You can point to the day, you can point to the month, 42:34 you can point to the year 42:35 and say, oh, we got it naturally. 42:37 There is one cycle of human time 42:39 that did not come naturally, it came supernaturally. 42:42 It's the gift of the septenary week, 42:45 the seven day a week, proof. 42:48 Philosophers of time do not know 42:50 how to explain the seven day a week. 42:51 See, we got it. Yeah, we did. 42:56 That's Robert Odom's point, keep going here. 42:58 "The week of seven days is not a natural division of time, 43:00 and is not related to the movements 43:02 of any of the heavenly bodies. 43:03 The creation record of Genesis, the Decalogue, 43:05 and the Mosaic law clearly show that it was originally 43:09 a divinely established institution 43:12 and is a" now I like this 43:13 "is a twin sister of the Sabbath." 43:19 You know what that means? They are twins. 43:21 The seven day a week and the seventh day Sabbath 43:24 they go just like two twins. 43:26 You know what that means? Jot it down. 43:27 "The only reason for the septenary 43:29 for the seven day week was so that the human race 43:32 might keep track of the seventh-day Sabbath 43:34 and their weekly appointment with the Creator." 43:36 God didn't need a week, He didn't need a week. 43:39 The only reason we have a week so that you can keep trace, 43:42 every seven days you come back to me. 43:44 Every seven days it's you and Me, 43:46 you and Me, friend, just you and Me. 43:49 I'll make sure you'll never miss it. 43:52 I'll put us on a seven day cycle, 43:54 you can't go to anywhere in the universe 43:55 to prove this one, I gave it to you. 43:58 You see, they are twins. Where did they come from? 44:01 Exodus 20:10, "For the seventh day 44:04 is the Sabbath of the Lord your God." 44:07 Now I need you to really start thinking with me, really now. 44:10 Can you now understand why if you were Lucifer, 44:14 thank God we are not, 44:16 but you were Lucifer can you understand you and I, 44:19 if we were he, why if you were Lucifer 44:23 and in rebellion against the Creator 44:25 and you were hell bent on securing the adulation, 44:29 the allegiance and the worship of the human race. 44:31 Can you not understand that you would mark 44:34 your diabolical sights on the twin gifts? 44:39 You would go for the week to kill the day. 44:43 If you can kill the week you got the day. 44:47 The one reminder of the human race has 44:49 that it has come supernaturally 44:50 from the hand of the Almighty Creator. 44:52 Kill the week, so you can kill the day. 44:57 Enter now not the seven day a week, 44:59 enter now the astrological week 45:01 of the Claudian or Babylonian astrology 45:04 that was eventually embraced by the Romans 45:06 where the order is changed and-- 45:10 hey, this would really throw them off. 45:12 Instead of having a day that reminds you of the Creator 45:14 what if we took all seven days and turned every day 45:17 into a day of honor to another celestial god, 45:20 will make the planetary gods the hero's of the seven days. 45:25 You would have to be pretty brilliant 45:28 and pretty desperate to secure the worship 45:32 that belongs only to the creator by coming up 45:35 with the devilish strategy like that. 45:39 So what do we have not? We have a new order. 45:42 The order has been changed and names have been inserted. 45:44 The names of the seven celestial bodies 45:46 the ancients worship. 45:47 Let's put them up. 45:48 Day one, Saturn Day, that was the first day, 45:52 I'll show in a moment how it got changed 45:53 but that was the order. 45:54 Day two, Sun Day. Day three, Moon Day. 46:01 Day four, Mars-- you say Dwight, 46:04 doesn't sound like-- Tuesday didn't sound like Mars? 46:06 Any English dictionary you look up Tuesday, 46:08 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 46:10 and you find out the Latin equivalent 46:12 and you will discovered they are all named after gods, 46:14 all of them after planetary gods. 46:17 So got Mars Day, day four. 46:18 Day five, Mercury Day. Day six, Jupiter Day. 46:21 Day five, Mercury Day. Day seven, Venus Day. 46:24 Every day for another god. 46:28 Won't have to worry about that Creator around, this hear pods. 46:36 The astrological week of the bastard science, 46:38 who do you suppose was the dark mind behind that creation? 46:46 Whose agenda was it to obliterate 46:48 the septenary reminder of the Creator 46:50 of the heavens and the earth? 46:54 Enter now finally, 46:56 the wily pagan Roman Emperor name Constantine. 47:02 You may have grown up believing that 47:03 Constantine was some sort of hero? 47:04 I did. 47:05 I mean, isn't it, isn't this the Roman general 47:08 to become emperor who one morning 47:09 before battle in 312 AD is having a vision 47:12 and he sees a cross and then he hears a voice 47:14 that says, by this sign you shall conquer. 47:17 Yep, that's the same Constantine. 47:18 Oh, by the way, a little bit of revision of history 47:21 since we found out through Eusebius 47:23 that actually that very morning when Constantine was praying 47:25 and getting that vision he was praying to the rising sun. 47:29 Praying to the most high god? 47:31 yeah, but wait a minute, wait a minute, 47:32 wasn't Constantine the one who converted to Christianity 47:35 and then he painted the Greek letters the key 47:37 which looks like an "X" and then the row 47:38 which looks like a "P" on all their shields. 47:40 Wasn't that? 47:41 Yep, that was Constantine, all right. 47:43 But guess what we found out now? 47:44 We've discovered that in fact those two letters were 47:47 heathen initials used long before 47:49 Christianity as a symbol of the sun. 47:53 You are gonna gone real excited about 47:55 having Constantine as a Christian, 47:57 turns out he is a sun worshipper. 47:58 You know what the family god of Constantine was? 48:00 Apollo. You know who Apollo is? 48:01 He is the form of the old Roman god Sol. 48:05 You ever say solar for the sun, 48:06 Sol and the Caesars worshipped the Sol. 48:10 Constantine was the high priest 48:15 for solar religion for the worship of the sun. 48:18 Yeah, but come on, come on pastor, 48:19 didn't Constantine was neither one that 48:21 chaired the gathering of the bishops 48:22 and the delegates of Christianity 48:23 from across the far flung empires 48:25 as they gathered in that mighty church council, 48:27 325 AD, the council of Council of Nicaea? 48:29 Yep, that's the same one but guess what, 48:32 while he is chairing that meeting 48:35 he is bearing upon himself the title "Pontifex Maximus" 48:39 the pagan title for Roman emperors 48:41 is the head of occult of the invincible sun. 48:44 Guy's, its sun worship all the way through. 48:48 Leading Edward Gibbon, 48:49 the great historian Edward Gibbon 48:51 in his celebrated book, the volumes 48:53 "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" 48:55 these are his words, put it on the screen for you. 48:57 "As he Constantine gradually advanced 48:59 in the knowledge of the truth, 49:01 he proportionately declined in the practice of virtue, 49:05 and the same year of his reign 49:07 which he convened the Council of Nice," 49:08 we say Nicaea "was polluted by the execution, 49:11 or rather murder," he murdered "his eldest son." 49:14 He felt so threatened to the throne. 49:16 This is the same, this is the same Constantine. 49:19 "Constantine may have converted to Christianity" 49:20 jot this down "but historians rightfully 49:22 consider it a conversion of convenience." 49:26 He was brilliant as a politician, 49:28 which by the way explains his most infamous 49:30 or famous depending upon your perspective imperial decree. 49:33 The first civil Sunday law in history, March 7, 321 AD, 49:39 that Sunday law begins with these words. 49:41 On the-- you got it in your study guide. 49:43 "On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates 49:47 and people residing in cities rest, 49:50 and let all workshops be closed." 49:54 And ladies and gentlemen, with that single sentence 49:57 Constantine with wily political savvy blends 50:00 the septenary cycles of time in his empire. 50:03 He takes the astrological week of the pagans 50:05 and he takes the biblical week of the Christians 50:07 and he makes them one. 50:09 I'll take-- I'll keep the planetary gods 50:11 for the names but I'll use the order. 50:13 And now Saturn Day will be seven instead of one 50:16 and I'll make Sunday the greatest day of the week. 50:22 Thus officially adopting the week 50:24 into the Roman civil calendar 50:25 and by edict declaring for the first time in history 50:28 that pagan name Dies Solis, Solis the day the sun 50:32 to be the legal name of the first day. 50:34 And so tomorrow when you say today is Sunday 50:37 you can thank Constantine for that ability, he's the one. 50:42 Braved, brilliant. Now jot this down. 50:47 "Not only did he declare the venerable day 50:49 of the Sun to now be the first day of the week" 50:51 get this "he also mandated 50:53 this new pagan Christian veneration 50:55 to be a day of 'rest' for everybody." 51:00 Have mercy. And the rest is history. 51:07 Two triumphing historic genius, jot them down, 51:13 the genius of Constantine who united both church 51:16 and state in a marriage of convenience 51:18 for the compromise of truth and the genius the Lucifer 51:21 who with his bastard science 51:23 created his own counterfeit twins, 51:25 the astrological week and the day of the Sun 51:28 thus replacing the Creator with his own-- 51:30 with Lucifer's own deified self 51:32 and the seventh day Sabbath of the Creator 51:34 with the first day Sun Day of Lucifer. 51:37 I'm the sun and I'm king of this earth 51:40 and that will be my day. 51:43 Sunday is Lucifer's day 51:49 and rest is history. 51:52 Hey history by the way, hey, hold on, hold on, 51:54 now come on, come on, come on, come on, 51:55 a history that might had been mended by people 52:03 raised up by God for such a time as this. 52:10 I don't know what you want to call them. 52:11 I don't know what to call them, let's just agree on this, 52:13 we call them God's seventh day Sabbath people. 52:15 Let's just call them that, 52:16 God's seventh day Sabbath people 52:18 who cherish his friendship above all odds in life 52:20 and who honor his day above all other days and time. 52:23 Let's just call them God's seventh day Sabbath people 52:26 who chose to be loyal to the Creator 52:28 and His creation no matter the popular culture, 52:30 no matter the unpopularity of obedience 52:32 to the fourth commandment. 52:33 We just call them God's seventh-day Sabbath people. 52:37 Who might even yet by their faithful witness be 52:40 led by God to bring forth a generation 52:44 to reject Lucifer's counterfeit dominion. 52:49 You were born accidentally for this time, my friend. 52:53 You are born for a reason. History can still get mended. 53:00 We call them God's seventh-day Sabbath people 53:03 who one day will refuse to bow to the edict of church, 53:07 a united church and state for we sure yet hear 53:11 from a new Constantine. 53:13 Trust me, we are gonna hear from a new Constantine one day 53:20 and it is that reality and prospect 53:22 and compels me now to end 53:25 these moments together with this appeal. 53:27 Do you understand? 53:28 Did you listen to my friend Vern Alger? 53:30 Do you understand that there are forces today 53:32 in both the government and society that are seeking 53:33 to blend church and state? 53:35 Do you understand it? 53:36 Now I know that you and I believe 53:37 in a separation of church and state 53:39 as our founding fathers did. 53:40 But we are in a political season now 53:41 and you'll hear all kinds of new notions. 53:49 Constantine's legacy, the union of church and state, 53:52 I need to remind you is a tragic legacy. 53:56 Because you know what-- you know who wants-- 53:57 you know who wants the union? 53:59 The state doesn't want the union, 54:00 it's the church that wants a union. 54:02 Why does the church want the union? 54:03 Because when the church unites 54:04 with the state it's always this way. 54:06 The state becomes the enforcing arm of the church. 54:09 That's all the church wants, 54:10 we need somebody to make everybody go with us. 54:13 That's all, you think that 54:14 church is in honor with the state? 54:16 Are you kidding? 54:17 We got more power, I got more, 54:18 I got more in my army 54:20 than you have in yours and it's true. 54:24 Ladies and gentlemen, 54:26 the Constantinian packed. 54:32 It not only destroys the church and the state 54:34 but it destroys all the innocent people in between. 54:37 This summer I went with the architects, 54:39 I see some of the architects here. 54:40 I went with the architects. Where did we go? 54:41 We went to Italy. 54:42 We went into those green alpine valleys 54:44 and stood where the Waldenses once stood. 54:46 Do you know what the cost was to stand 54:48 as the loyalist to the Creator? 54:50 Did you know what the cost was then? 54:53 It's a high cost. 54:56 I'm warning you, it's not a pretty picture 54:58 when the new Constantine comes. 54:59 You are saying, Dwight, what are you talking about? 55:00 Well, I'm talking about, you know, what, 55:02 we ought to seize this moment as this generation. 55:04 We ought to seize the moment 55:05 and appeal in the highest judicial 55:07 and legislative circles in America. 55:09 We ought to appeal to our leaders to maintain 55:13 the separation of church and state. 55:16 One day it's gonna be over, I understand that. 55:20 And when it's over, listen to me carefully, 55:21 I'm not a prophet or the son of a prophet 55:23 but I promise you that when church and state 55:26 unite as they were one day 55:27 and apocalyptic prophecy assures us 55:29 it will happen all over again. 55:30 When they unite, the very, the very fruit of that union 55:35 will be the same as with Constantine the day of the sun 55:40 will be codified for the human race. 55:44 You just watch, 55:48 it always happens in the history of Christendom 55:51 when church and state unite. 55:55 State becomes the power to enforce the church. 56:01 What should we do? 56:04 Two responses. 56:06 Response number one, stand tall. 56:10 Stand tall as a child of the Creator. 56:12 Want to go around and apologize. 56:14 Well, you know, can you get together with us? 56:16 Now see, I'm sorry but I kind of preoccupied that day. 56:19 Don't apologize. 56:21 Sam, I'm child of the Creator and I had that day, 56:24 I have that day with another friend, my forever friend. 56:29 You never apologize, never, never, never apologize 56:33 for standing up for the Creator that's why you are here. 56:37 He needed you for this hour. 56:38 There's gonna be a generation that will turn-- 56:39 that will mend history and you are part of it. 56:43 So number one, stand tall for the Creator 56:44 and number two invest what you have now 56:49 to advance the cause of liberty on earth. 56:54 Invest what you have now 56:56 to advance the cause of liberty on earth. 57:02 I wanted to take one more moment here 57:04 at the end of the telecast 57:05 to let you know how grateful I'm 57:06 for your journey with us, 57:08 with our New Perceptions Ministry. 57:10 You may think that New Perceptions 57:11 is only about television, 57:13 but I need to tell you we do have a website 57:16 which is more than just the study guide. 57:18 I know we go to the study guide every week 57:19 but if you go to our website let me put the address 57:21 on the screen again, www.pmchurch.tv, 57:26 you will find at that website a blog. 57:28 Every Wednesday I sit down on my laptop 57:30 and write up a blog something as commenting on world events, 57:33 something local, something national, 57:35 you get the blog. 57:36 You want to archive previous teachings 57:38 from here the Pioneer pulpit you go to that 57:41 annotated archive you can pick out a message, 57:43 it will be sent to you. 57:45 You want to podcast business 57:48 I'm not real hi-tech here on this 57:50 but if you click podcast you will be able to connect 57:53 instantly with every new teaching 57:54 that comes from the Pioneer pulpit. 57:56 The point is, we're trying to connect 57:57 with the generation on the move, on the go. 58:00 Thanks for being a part of it. 58:01 Thanks for your prayer partnership. 58:03 We've got to connect with this generation 58:05 at this time in earth's history 58:07 and I'm grateful you and I are sharing the mission. 58:10 God bless you, until next time. |
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