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00:33 WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:35 WE ARE SO EXCITED THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TO STUDY 00:39 GOD'S WORD TOGETHER. 00:40 THERE ARE SO MANY OF YOU THAT FAITHFULLY JOIN US 00:43 WEEK AFTER WEEK AFTER WEEK TO JOIN OUR FAMILY AND 00:47 STUDY GOD'S WORD AND WE LOVE THE LORD AND THAT IS 00:50 WHAT WE WANT TO DO TOGETHER. 00:53 WHETHER YOU'RE JOINING US RIGHT HERE - FROM ACROSS 00:56 THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD, WELCOME AND PULL 00:59 OUT YOUR HYMNALS AND SING WITH US HYMN #141 - 01:04 WHAT CHILD IS THIS? - WE WILL SING ALL THREE 01:07 VERSES OF HYMN #141. (MUSIC) 01:19 >>WHAT CHILD IS THIS, WHO, LAID TO REST, ON MARY'S LAP IS 01:32 SLEEPING? WHOM ANGELS GREET WITH ANTHEMS SWEET, WHILE 01:43 SHEPHERDS WATCH ARE KEEPING? 01:51 THIS, THIS IS CHRIST THE KING, WHOM SHEPHERDS 02:01 GUARD AND ANGELS SING: HASTE, HASTE TO BRING HIM 02:13 LAUD, THE BABE, THE SON OF MARY. 02:24 WHY LIES HE IN SUCH MEAN ESTATE WHERE OX AND ASS 02:36 ARE FEEDING? GOOD CHRISTIAN, FEAR: FOR 02:44 SINNERS HERE THE SILENT WORD IS PLEADING. 02:56 THIS, THIS IS CHRIST THE KING, WHOM SHEPHERDS 03:05 GUARD AND ANGELS SING: HASTE, HASTE TO BRING HIM 03:17 LAUD, THE BABE, THE SON OF MARY. 03:29 SO BRING HIM INCENSE, GOLD, AND MYRRH, COME 03:37 PEASANT, KING, TO OWN HIM, THE KING OF KINGS 03:48 SALVATION BRINGS, LET LOVING HEARTS ENTHRONE HIM. 04:00 THIS, THIS IS CHRIST THE KING, WHOM SHEPHERDS 04:10 GUARD AND ANGELS SING: HASTE, HASTE TO BRING HIM 04:22 LAUD, THE BABE, THE SON OF MARY. 04:34 >>NOW I KNOW YOU ARE WATCHING THIS IN JANUARY 04:37 AND YOU'RE WONDERING, 'WHY ARE WE STILL SINGING 04:39 CHRISTMAS HYMNS?' 04:40 WELL, THAT IS BECAUSE NEXT WEEK OUR FAVORITE GROUP ON 04:43 THE PLANET, FOUNTAINVIEW ACADEMY CHOIR AND 04:47 ORCHESTRA, ARE GOING TO BE HERE JOINING US AND SO WE 04:51 ARE GOING TO LET THEM END THE CHRISTMAS SEASON. 04:54 SO UNTIL THEN, WE ARE GOING TO KEEP SINGING. 04:57 THIS IS HYMN #23 - NOW THE JOYFUL BELLS A-RINGING . 05:01 YOU'RE GOING TO RECOGNIZE THE TUNE. 05:04 WE FOUND IT AS WE WERE GOING THROUGH THE HYMNAL 05:06 LISTENING TO - LEARNING NEW HYMNS. 05:08 HYMN #23 - NOW THE JOYFUL BELLS A-RINGING. 05:12 (MUSIC) >>NOW THE JOYFUL BELLS A RINGING, ALL YE 05:26 MOUNTAINS, PRAISE THE LORD! 05:29 LIFT OUR HEARTS LIKE BIRDS AWINGING, ALL YE 05:34 MOUNTAINS, PRAISE THE LORD! 05:37 NOW OUR FESTAL SEASON BRINGING KINSMEN ALL TO 05:43 BIDE AND BOARD, SETS OUR CHEERY VOICES SINGING: 05:50 ALL YE MOUNTAINS, PRAISE THE LORD! 05:55 DEAR OUR HOME AS DEAR NONE OTHER; WHERE THE MOUNTAINS 06:02 PRAISE THE LORD! GLADLY HERE OUR CARE 06:06 WE SMOTHER; WHERE THE MOUNTAINS PRAISE THE LORD! 06:12 HERE WE KNOW THAT CHRIST OUR BROTHER BINDS US ALL 06:18 AS BY A CORD: HE WAS BORN OF MARY MOTHER WHERE THE 06:26 MOUNTAINS PRAISE THE LORD! COLD THE YEAR, NEW 06:33 WHITENESS WEARING, ALL YE MOUNTAINS, 06:37 PRAISE THE LORD! PEACE, GOOD WILL TO US 06:41 ABEARING, ALL YE MOUNTAINS PRAISE THE LORD! 06:47 NOW WE ALL GOD'S GOODNESS SHARING BREAK THE BREAD 06:53 AND SHEATH THE SWORD: BRIGHT OUR HEARTHS THE 06:58 SIGNAL FLARING, ALL YE MOUNTAINS, PRAISE THE LORD! 07:08 >>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 07:10 OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO COME 07:13 AND WORSHIP YOU - OUR SAVIOR AND OUR KING AND 07:15 OUR LORD - AND WE JUST THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 07:19 GIVING YOUR SON JESUS TO COME AND GIVE US HOPE THAT 07:23 WE CAN GET OFF THIS PLANET AND LIVE ETERNALLY WITH YOU. 07:26 LORD, YOU ARE IMMANUEL - GOD WITH US - AND WE JUST 07:29 ASK YOU TO DWELL IN OUR HEARTS, INDIVIDUALLY. 07:32 HELP US TO BE THE AMBASSADORS FOR YOU THAT 07:36 YOU WANT US TO BE, SO THAT YOUR COMING MAY BE HASTENED. 07:39 PLEASE BE WITH PASTOR DOUG THIS MORNING AS HE BRINGS 07:42 US YOUR WORD, LORD. JUST TOUCH OUR HEARTS 07:44 THROUGH HIS WORDS THAT ARE REALLY YOURS. 07:47 AND HELP US TO BE MORE LIKE YOU. 07:49 I PRAY THESE THINGS IN THE PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. 07:53 AT THIS TIME OUR STUDY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY 07:55 PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. >>WELCOME, ONCE AGAIN. 07:58 I ALSO WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE SOME OF THE 08:00 EXTENDED MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH. 08:03 WE'RE THANKFUL THAT YOU'VE JOINED US TODAY. 08:05 AND SOME OF YOU ARE SCATTERED AROUND THE WORLD 08:09 IN PLACES WHERE YOU CANNOT STUDY THE REGULAR LESSON 08:11 BECAUSE THERE'S NO LOCAL CHURCH YOU CAN ATTEND, AND 08:14 WE KNOW THAT IS YOUR CHURCH AND WE'RE VERY 08:15 THANKFUL THAT YOU'VE STUDY - ARE STUDYING WITH US. 08:17 SOME OF YOU ARE IN THAT CATEGORY AND YOU DON'T 08:19 HAVE A LOCAL CHURCH. IF YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE 08:22 ABOUT HOW YOU CAN BE ONE OF THE GRANITE BAY ONLINE 08:24 MEMBERS, THEN JUST GO TO THE WEBSITE 08:26 GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG AND YOU CAN CONTACT US THERE. 08:30 NOW WE HAVE A FREE OFFER FOR TODAY'S STUDY. 08:32 WE'RE BEGINNING A NEW QUARTERLY DEALING WITH 08:35 REBELLION AND REDEMPTION AND THE FIRST LESSON IS 08:38 TALKING ABOUT A CRISIS IN HEAVEN. 08:41 AND SO THE LESSON - THE FREE STUDY GUIDE - IS 08:43 CALLED HEAVEN, IS IT FOR REAL? 08:45 - HEAVEN, IS IT FOR REAL? - ASK FOR OFFER #189 - 08:49 HEAVEN, IS IT FOR REAL? - WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. 08:51 AND JUST CALL 866-788-3966 - THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE - 08:58 AND WE'LL SEND THAT TO YOU FOR FREE. 09:00 NOW THIS QUARTER'S LESSON - OUR LESSON THIS QUARTER 09:05 IS GOING TO BE DEALING WITH ONE OF THE GREAT 09:08 THEMES IN THE BIBLE. WHY IS THERE SIN IN THE WORLD? 09:15 A QUESTION THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK IS: 'IF GOD IS 09:18 LOVE, AND IF GOD IS GOOD, AND IF GOD IS ALL-POWERFUL, THEN WHY 09:24 DOES HE ALLOW THE INNOCENT TO SUFFER?' 09:26 'WHY IS THERE SO MUCH PAIN AND SUFFERING IN THE 09:28 WORLD?' AND, 'IF GOD IS LOVE, WHY 09:31 WOULD GOD MAKE A DEVIL?' AND WE'RE GOING TO BE 09:35 ADDRESSING THAT IN NEXT - NEXT QUARTER'S LESSON. 09:38 OUR LESSON TODAY IS A CRISIS IN HEAVEN . 09:41 IT REALLY ALL STARTED IN HEAVEN. 09:42 AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. 09:44 THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM REVELATION CHAPTER 7, VERSE 10. 09:48 IF YOU HAVE YOUR QUARTERLIES WITH YOU, I 09:50 ENJOY IF YOU COULD SAY THAT ALONG WITH ME. 09:53 REVELATION 7, VERSE 10, HERE WE GO, "AND CRYING 09:56 OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE SAYING, 'SALVATION BELONGS 10:01 TO OUR GOD WHO SITS ON THE THRONE AND TO THE LAMB." 10:06 VERY GOOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 10:08 NOW, TO FIRST UNDERSTAND THIS THEME, WHAT THE BIBLE 10:12 SAYS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ABOUT THE DEVIL IS 10:15 SOMETIMES A LITTLE MORE CLOAKED IN MYSTERY THAN 10:18 SOME OF THE VERY DIRECT STATEMENTS YOU'RE GOING TO 10:19 FIND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 10:21 BUT YOU CAN STILL SEE THE STORY THERE, ALL THE WAY 10:24 BACK TO THE FIRST BOOK IN THE BIBLE. 10:26 WHO KNOWS WHAT THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE WAS 10:28 WRITTEN? WHAT BOOK WAS IT? >>JOB. 10:31 >>JOB, YEAH. JOB PREDATES EVEN GENESIS. 10:35 CHRONOLOGICALLY, OF COURSE, YOU WOULD START WITH GENESIS. 10:38 BUT THE BOOK OF JOB WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST BOOK 10:40 THAT MOSES WROTE AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE DEVIL COMING AND 10:46 THERE'S A BATTLE - A CONTROVERSY BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL AND 10:50 IT'S PORTRAYED THERE. WHY DON'T YOU TURN WITH 10:54 ME, FIRST, TO THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, THOUGH. 10:56 ISAIAH CHAPTER 14, VERSE 4 - AND WE'RE GOING TO BE 11:02 READING SEVERAL VERSES FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 14 - 11:05 ISAIAH 14, VERSE 4 - ONE OF THE BIG STATEMENTS THAT 11:09 TALKS ABOUT THE FALL OF THE DEVIL OR THE FALL OF 11:11 LUCIFER - IT BEGINS WITH AN INTERESTING STATEMENT. 11:15 IT SAYS, 'THAT YOU WILL TAKE UP THIS PROVERB 11:18 AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON, AND SAY: - NOW 11:22 ISAIAH IS OFF IN VISION. HE'S HAVING A PROVERB. 11:26 HE'S GIVING THIS ORACLE ON THE KING OF BABYLON. 11:29 ALL OF A SUDDEN HE SAYS SOMETHING LIKE, 'HOW YOU 11:31 ARE FALLEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING.' - WHERE'D 11:36 LUCIFER COME FROM? WHAT DOES THE KING OF 11:38 BABYLON HAVE TO DO WITH LUCIFER? 11:41 NOW TO UNDERSTAND THAT - AND NOW SOMEBODY HERE'S 11:45 GOING TO READ A VERSE FOR ME IN A MINUTE AND I THINK 11:47 YOUR VERSE IS GOING TO BE DANIEL 10, VERSE 13, 11:50 BUT YOU'VE GOT A MINUTE. 11:51 I'M JUST GETTING YOU A HEAD'S UP HERE. 11:53 IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN REVELATION 12, VERSES 3 11:58 AND 4, IT SAYS, "AND ANOTHER SIGN APPEARED IN 12:01 HEAVEN: BEHOLD, A GREAT, FIERY RED DRAGON HAVING 12:05 SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND SEVEN DIADEMS ON HIS 12:08 HEADS. HIS TAIL DREW A THIRD OF 12:10 THE STARS OF HEAVEN AND THREW THEM TO THE EARTH. 12:13 AND THE DRAGON STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN WHO WAS 12:15 READY TO GIVE BIRTH, TO DEVOUR HER CHILD AS SOON 12:18 AS IT WAS BORN." NOW WE'RE GOING TO TALK 12:20 MORE ABOUT REVELATION 12, BUT I JUST READ 12:21 THAT FOR A REASON. WHO IS THE DRAGON? 12:28 FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN, IN THE BEGINNING, UNTIL 12:30 YOU GET TO REVELATION, YOU'LL SEE THERE'S THIS 12:33 CONFLICT THAT GOES ON BETWEEN THE WOMAN AND THE 12:37 SERPENT - OR THE DRAGON - IN REVELATION 12 IT CALLS 12:40 HIM THE DEVIL, THE DRAGON, THE SERPENT. 12:42 THERE'S NO QUESTION WHO HE IS. 12:44 AND THE WOMAN - BUT WHEN THE DEVIL TRIED TO DESTROY 12:48 JESUS AS A BABY, WHAT KINGDOM DID HE OPERATE THROUGH? 12:55 WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE WICKED KING THAT WANTED 12:56 ALL THE BABY BOYS SLAIN? >>HEROD. 12:58 >>HEROD. WHAT EMPIRE DID HE RULE UNDER? 13:01 ROME. AND SO THE DEVIL USES 13:05 KINGDOMS AND HE OPERATES THROUGH KINGDOMS. 13:08 AND SO, WHEN ISAIAH SAYS, 'TAKE UP THIS PROVERB 13:10 AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON' - THEN, WHILE HE 13:13 BEGINS TO TALK ABOUT THE KING OF BABYLON, HE GOES 13:16 TO THE POWER BEHIND THE KING OF BABYLON. 13:20 BECAUSE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD, OFTENTIMES, 13:23 IS A BATTLE BETWEEN CHRIST AND THE DEVIL, BUT THEY'RE 13:26 OPERATING THROUGH THE POWERS OF THE WORLD. 13:29 THAT'S WHY IT WAS SO IMPORTANT THAT THE NATION 13:31 OF ISRAEL BE THE POWER IN THE WORLD THROUGH WHICH 13:33 GOD WOULD OPERATE. BUT, IF YOU READ A LITTLE 13:36 FURTHER - FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU GO TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 13:38 14, VERSE 12 - YOU TELL ME IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE IT'S 13:42 TALKING ABOUT THE KING OF BABYLON. 13:45 "HOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF 13:48 THE MORNING!" - WAS THE KING OF 13:50 BABYLON EVER IN HEAVEN? - "HOW YOU ARE CUT DOWN 13:53 TO THE GROUND, YOU WHO WEAKENED THE NATIONS! 13:56 FOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART:" - NOW SOMEONE ONCE 13:58 SAID LUCIFER HAD I TROUBLE - NOTICE: "I WILL ASCEND 14:02 INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS 14:05 OF GOD; I WILL ALSO SIT ON THE MOUNT OF THE 14:11 CONGREGATION ON THE FARTHEST SIDES OF THE 14:13 NORTH; I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS, 14:16 I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH." 14:18 - WHAT WAS THE - THE DESIRE OF THE DEVIL? 14:24 TO BE WORSHIPED LIKE GOD. HE WANTED TO BE 14:26 LIKE THE MOST HIGH. NOW, ONE OF THE GREAT 14:32 PROOFS THAT GOD MAKES ALL OF HIS CREATURES FREE IS 14:35 THAT ONE COULD CHOOSE NOT TO LOVE HIM. 14:39 IF GOD PRE-PROGRAMMED HIS CREATURES - IF THEIR 14:41 TRANSISTORS CAME FROM THE FACTORY WHERE THEY JUST 14:43 DID NOT POSSESS THE CAPACITY TO NOT LOVE GOD 14:50 THEN, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU NEVER WOULD HAVE HAD THIS 14:52 PROBLEM. BUT BECAUSE GOD MADE ALL 14:54 OF HIS CREATURES FREE - YOU SEE, YOU CAN'T FORCE LOVE. 14:57 IF GOD PRE-PROGRAMMED ALL OF HIS CREATURES SAYING, 14:58 'YOU MUST LOVE ME.' AND SOME PEOPLE PROBABLY 15:01 PREFER HE HAD DONE THAT, BUT THAT WOULDN'T BE REALLY LOVE. 15:05 IF LOVE IS FORCED, IS IT LOVE? 15:07 IF IT'S MANIPULATED, IF IT'S PRE-PROGRAMMED - I 15:11 USED TO DO AN ILLUSTRATION WHERE I WOULD TAKE A TAPE 15:13 PLAYER AND IN THE TAPE PLAYER I WOULD TALK ABOUT 15:16 HOW WONDERFUL I WAS AND THEN I'D PLAY IT BACK TO 15:19 MYSELF AND I'D SAY, 'YOU KNOW, WHENEVER I'M 15:22 STRUGGLING WITH LOW SELF-ESTEEM I JUST LISTEN 15:23 TO THIS AND IT JUST PERKS ME RIGHT UP. 15:27 BUT WHEN YOU COMPLIMENT YOURSELF, IT'S JUST NOT 15:30 THE SAME, IS IT? 15:33 I REMEMBER PAUL HARVEY - ONE TIME KAREN AND I WENT 15:36 TO A PROGRAM WHERE PAUL HARVEY, THE FAMOUS RADIO 15:38 BROADCASTER GAVE A SPEECH AND, AFTER HE WAS 15:43 INTRODUCED BY GEORGE VANDEMAN, HE SAID, THAT'S 15:46 THE THIRD-BEST INTRODUCTION I'VE EVER 15:48 HAD.' AND, OF COURSE, EVERYONE'S WONDERING 15:51 'WHY'D HE SAY THE THIRD BEST?' 15:53 HE SAID, 'THE SECOND-BEST WAS ONCE MY MOTHER HAD 15:56 INTRODUCED ME BEFORE I SPOKE. 15:59 AND IN THE FIRST-BEST WAS WHEN THE PERSON WHO WAS 16:01 SUPPOSED TO INTRODUCE ME DIDN'T SHOW UP AND I HAD 16:03 TO INTRODUCE MYSELF' - BECAUSE WE CAN THINK OF 16:09 WONDERFUL THINGS TO SAY. BUT IT'S NOT SAME, IS IT? 16:13 YOU CAN'T FORCE LOVE AND GOD MADE HIS CREATURES FREE. 16:16 AND THE VERY FACT THAT LUCIFER REBELLED AND BEGAN 16:19 TO RESENT THAT HE WASN'T GOD AND STARTED COVETING 16:21 GOD'S POSITION, SHOWS HE HAD THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE 16:24 TO LOVE OUT OF HIMSELF, BUT INSTEAD HE CHOSE TO LOVE IN. 16:30 YOU SEE, LOVE GOES ONE OF TWO DIRECTIONS: IF THE 16:33 LOVE COMES FROM YOU TO OTHERS, YOU LIVE. 16:37 IF YOU TURN THAT COMPASS NEEDLE AROUND AND YOU 16:39 SPEND YOUR LIFE SUCKING LOVE TO YOURSELF, YOU DIE. 16:44 THIS IS WHAT THE WHOLE PLAN OF SALVATION - IT'S 16:46 EITHER SELF OR GOD - GREAT COMMANDMENT: LOVE THE 16:49 LORD; LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. 16:51 THE WORLD TURNS IT AROUND. LOVE YOURSELF AND IF 16:53 THERE'S SOMETHING LEFT OVER, YOU SHARE IT WITH 16:55 GOD AND YOUR NEIGHBOR. BUT THAT'S REVERSE 16:58 POLARITY AND IT JUST DOESN'T WORK. WELL THE DEVIL, HE TURNED 17:02 IT AROUND SO THAT HE WAS GOING TO LIVE FOR HIMSELF. 17:06 HE SAID, 'I WANT TO BE GOD. 17:08 I WANT TO BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH. 17:09 NOW, THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE - AND I'LL GIVE 17:13 YOU A FEW - WHERE YOU SEE THESE BATTLES BETWEEN KINGDOMS. 17:16 WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAY? 17:18 IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL 4:30 - DANIEL 4:30 - DO YOU 17:24 REMEMBER WHAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID BEFORE 17:25 HE LOST HIS MIND? >>I DID IT. 17:27 >>HE'S WALKING ON THE PALACE - THE BALCONY 17:31 OVERLOOKING THE PANORAMA OF THIS SPECTACULAR 17:34 KINGDOM - AND BABYLON WAS A SPECTACULAR KINGDOM. 17:37 IT WAS - IT WAS ENORMOUS - AND HE SAID, 'IS THIS NOT 17:42 GREAT BABYLON THAT I HAVE BUILT? 17:45 FOR A ROYAL DWELLING BY MY MIGHTY POWER, FOR THE 17:47 HONOR OF MY MAJESTY?' 17:50 AND THEN GOD SAID, 'THE KINGDOM IS DEPARTED FROM 17:53 YOU.' - BECAUSE HE WAS FOCUSING INWARD. 17:56 HE BECAME A RAVING LUNATIC - LIKE AN ANIMAL - FOR 17:59 SEVEN YEARS, UNTIL HE REALIZED THE MOST HIGH 18:02 RULES IN THE KINGDOM OF MEN. 18:03 SO WHEN - WHEN ISAIAH SAYS, 'TAKE UP THIS 18:06 PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON' THAT HE WANTED 18:10 TO BE GOD, THAT WAS ALSO TRUE OF THE EARTHLY KING 18:13 IN HIS HEART. BUT HE GOES BEYOND THAT, TO THE POWER THAT THE 18:17 EARTHLY KING WAS REFLECTING. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ 18:21 FOR ME DANIEL CHAPTER 10:13, I THINK IS NEXT. 18:25 >>"BUT THE PRINCE OF THE KINGDOM OF PERSIA 18:28 WITHSTOOD ME TWENTY-ONE DAYS; AND BEHOLD, MICHAEL, 18:33 ONE OF THE CHIEF PRINCES, CAME TO HELP ME, FOR I HAD 18:36 BEEN LEFT ALONE THERE WITH THE KINGS OF PERSIA." 18:40 >>SO DANIEL, IN VISION, HE'S TALKING WITH THE 18:42 ANGEL AND THE ANGEL GABRIEL SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I 18:47 KNOW GOD'S PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DELIVERED. 18:48 AFTER SEVENTY YEARS THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO GO HOME. 18:51 AND THERE IS A TITANIC BATTLE RAGING RIGHT NOW BETWEEN - IT 18:55 TALKED ABOUT MICHAEL AND THE PRINCE OF PERSIA. 18:58 WELL, THE KING OF PERSIA LIKED THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL 19:01 AND HE ENDED UP LETTING THEM GO HOME AND HE GAVE 19:02 THEM THE MONEY AND CYRUS DEFENDED THEM. 19:05 BUT THE DEVIL WAS TRYING TO POSTPONE THAT. 19:09 THE DEVIL WAS TRYING TO GET CYRUS' ADVISORS NOT TO 19:11 DO IT - 'THINK OF THE PEOPLE YOU'LL LOSE. 19:14 THEY ARE YOUR SERVANTS RIGHT NOW. 19:15 WHY WOULD YOU LET THEM GO? AND THEN MICHAEL 19:17 - MICHAEL IS WHO? >>JESUS. 19:19 >>MICHAEL'S A TERM THAT'S OFTEN A SYMBOLIC TERM FOR 19:22 CHRIST PRIOR TO HIS INCARNATION. 19:24 HE'S STRIVING WITH THE KING OF PERSIA. 19:26 THIS IS PULLING ASIDE THE VEIL AND IT'S SHOWING A 19:28 BATTLE BETWEEN NOT GABRIEL AND ONE OF THE DEVIL'S 19:32 FALLEN ANGELS, IT'S SHOWING A BATTLE BETWEEN 19:34 CHRIST AND SATAN. JUST LIKE YOU HAVE THAT 19:37 BATTLE IN THE BOOK OF JOB TAKING PLACE. 19:40 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE IT PLAYING OUT IN THE BOOK OF 19:44 REVELATION HERE IN A MINUTE. 19:46 AND SO, NOW, IF YOU GO ALSO TO EZEKIEL, YOU'LL 19:49 SEE THE SAME BATTLE. GO TO EZEKIEL 19:51 28 - EZEKIEL 28. NOW WE'RE GOING TO BE 19:54 READING SOME OF THIS SO YOU'LL WANT TO JUMP THERE. 20:00 AND YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN VERSES 1 AND 20:02 2: "THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME AGAIN, SAYING, 20:05 'SON OF MAN, SAY TO THE PRINCE OF TYRE, 'THUS SAYS 20:08 THE LORD GOD: 'BECAUSE YOUR HEART IS LIFTED UP, 20:12 AND YOU SAY, 'I AM A GOD, I SIT IN THE SEAT OF GODS 20:15 IN THE MIDST OF THE SEAS,''''" - NOW, RIGHT 20:18 THERE, IT TELLS YOU THAT HE'S GOT THE SAME SPIRIT. 20:22 YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE BATTLE IS ABOUT WHO YOU WORSHIP. 20:25 WILL YOU WORSHIP YOURSELF AS GOD OR IS GOD, GOD? 20:27 AND SO THIS IS WHAT WAS HAPPENING - KING OF TYRE - 20:29 BUT THEN YOU READ ON AND YOU GO, FOR INSTANCE, IN 20:32 VERSE 11 - AND, LISTEN, YOU TELL ME IF IT'S 20:34 TALKING ABOUT THE KING OF TYRE: "MOREOVER THE WORD 20:38 OF THE LORD CAME TO ME, SAYING, 'SON OF MAN, TAKE 20:40 UP A LAMENTATION FOR THE KING OF TYRE, AND SAY TO 20:43 HIM, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD: 'YOU WERE THE SEAL OF 20:47 PERFECTION,'''" - YOU WERE THE SEAL - IT'S PAST TENSE 20:51 - "'''THE SEAL OF PERFECTION, FULL OF WISDOM 20:52 AND PERFECT IN BEAUTY.'''" - WAS HE PERFECT IN 20:54 BEAUTY? - "'''...EVERY PRECIOUS 20:57 - YOU WERE IN EDEN, THE GARDEN OF GOD;'''" - WAS 21:00 THE KING OF TYRE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? 21:03 HE'S TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE. 21:04 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE POWER BEHIND THE KING OF 21:06 TYRE - "'''EVERY PRECIOUS STONE WAS YOUR COVERING: 21:10 THE SARDIUS, TOPAZ, AND DIAMOND, BERYL, ONYX, AND 21:14 JASPER, SAPPHIRE, TURQUOISE, AND EMERALD WITH GOLD. 21:17 THE WORKMANSHIP OF YOUR TIMBRELS AND PIPES WAS 21:20 PREPARED FOR YOU ON THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED.'''" 21:23 - NOW THAT'S A CLUE RIGHT THERE. 21:24 HE'S IN EDEN, BEAUTIFUL MUSICAL VOICE, HE WAS NOT 21:30 BORN - CREATED. NOW THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE 21:34 OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT WERE CREATED. 21:36 ONE WAS ADAM, THE OTHER WAS EVE. 21:38 EVERYONE ELSE WAS BORN. BUT LUCIFER WAS NOT BORN. 21:42 ANGELS DO NOT MARRY, NEITHER ARE THEY GIVEN IN 21:44 MARRIAGE. ANGELS ARE CREATED MINISTERING SPIRITS OF GOD. 21:48 AND SO HERE IT'S GIVING US A CLUE THAT IT'S LOOKING 21:51 AT THE POWER BEHIND THE KING OF TYRE. YOU SEE THAT? 21:56 "'''...ON THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED. 21:58 YOU WERE THE ANOINTED CHERUB WHO COVERS;'''" - 22:01 NOW IS IT PRETTY CLEAR WHO HE'S TALKING ABOUT? 22:04 - "'''I ESTABLISHED YOU; YOU WERE ON THE HOLY 22:06 MOUNTAIN OF GOD; YOU WALKED BACK AND FORTH 22:08 IN THE THE MIDST OF THE FIERY STONES. 22:11 YOU WERE PERFECT IN YOUR WAYS FROM THE DAY YOU WERE 22:14 CREATED, TILL INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN YOU.'''" NOW THIS 22:17 IS - THIS IS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT POINT - WAS 22:22 THERE SOME DEFECT IN LUCIFER? 22:25 I MEAN, WHY DID LUCIFER FALL AND GABRIEL DIDN'T? 22:29 OBVIOUSLY, THERE WAS A FACTORY FLAW. 22:32 THIS IS A QUESTION EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW. WHY? 22:36 DID GOD MAKE A MISTAKE WHEN HE MADE LUCIFER? 22:38 >>NO. >>OR DID HE MAKE HIM FREE? 22:40 WHY DOES A PARENT - THEY HAVE TWO CHILDREN AND ONE 22:43 LOVES THE LORD AND ONE DOESN'T? ONE'S A CAIN AND ONE'S AN ABEL? 22:46 >>FREE CHOICE. >>THEY - WELL, SOME OF IT IS 22:48 GOING TO BE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MAY COME INTO THEIR LIFE. 22:51 WHAT THEY DO WITH THE CIRCUMSTANCES - THEY GET 22:53 TO CHOOSE EVERY DAY HOW YOU RESPOND TO THE 22:55 CIRCUMSTANCES. HOW YOU RESPOND TO THE 22:57 VOICES AND THE TEACHINGS AND THINGS YOU HEAR. 23:00 YOU GET TO SIFT AND SORT AND YOU, THROUGH YOUR WILL 23:03 AND YOUR CHOICES, BECOME WHO YOU ARE. 23:07 AND LUCIFER BEGAN TO RESENT - IT'S A MYSTERY 23:10 HOW THOSE SEEDS OF SIN FIRST SPROUTED, BUT THEY 23:12 GERMINATED IN HIS HEART. HE SAW THE OTHER ANGELS 23:15 WORSHIPING GOD AND HE HAD THE THOUGHT, 'I WONDER 23:18 WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE TO BE GOD?' AND HE BEGAN NURTURING - 23:21 'HOW COME I'M NOT GOD? I WONDER IF I COULD EVER BE GOD?' 23:26 IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THE CREATION TO OVERTHROW THE CREATOR? 23:30 WHO KNOWS WHAT KIND OF CRAZY THINGS HE WAS THINKING? 23:33 BUT HE BEGAN TO TALK HIMSELF INTO THINKING HE 23:35 COULD INCITE A REBELLION AND TAKE GOD'S PLACE. 23:38 NOW YOU AND I, IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT 23:40 HOW MUCH MORE POWERFUL WOULD YOU THINK GOD IS 23:44 THAN THE DEVIL? BUT AT THE SAME TIME, DON'T UNDERESTIMATE HOW 23:49 MUCH MORE POWERFUL THE DEVIL IS. NOW, DOES THE BIBLE SAY THE 23:54 DEVIL WAS AN ANGEL? ARE ANGELS MORE POWERFUL THAN 23:58 HUMANS? >>YES. 24:00 >>THEY'RE EXCEEDINGLY MORE POWERFUL THAN HUMANS. 24:03 ONE ANGEL - WASN'T LUCIFER - ONE ANGEL DESTROYED 24:06 185,000 ASSYRIAN SOLDIERS IN ONE DAY. 24:10 AND ANOTHER ANGEL, WHEN ISRAEL WAS NUMBERED, 24:12 DESTROYED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN ISRAEL. 24:16 ONE ANGEL THREW AWAY THE STONE THAT COVERED THE TOMB. 24:19 NOW THESE ARE NOT THE CHIEF ANGELS, SO HOW 24:22 POWERFUL - IF LUCIFER WAS THE MOST POWERFUL CREATURE 24:26 THAT GOD MADE, HOW POWERFUL IS HE? WHEN HE GOES FROM THE 24:30 PRESENCE OF GOD - CAN LUCIFER BRING FIRE DOWN 24:33 FROM HEAVEN TO DESTROY ALL OF THE POSSESSIONS OF JOB? 24:37 CAN HE CREATE A TORNADO TO KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE HIS 24:40 CHILDREN ARE IN AND KILL THEM ALL? 24:43 WE UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF LUCIFER. 24:47 AND SO HE ACTUALLY CONVINCED HIMSELF, 'MAYBE 24:50 I AM POWERFUL ENOUGH WHERE I AND THE ANGELS CAN 24:54 OVERTHROW GOD.' I KNOW IT SEEMS CRAZY TO YOU AND I, 24:56 BUT SIN'LL MAKE THAT - SIN'LL DO THAT TO YOU. AND SO IT'S TELLING 25:01 US ABOUT THE DESIRE OF THE DEVIL BEHIND. 25:04 IN THE BOOK PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS YOU CAN READ ON 25:06 PAGE 35, "LITTLE BY LITTLE LUCIFER CAME TO INDULGE 25:12 THE DESIRE FOR SELF-EXALTATION." 25:15 HE BEGAN TO WANT TO BE GOD AND WANT THAT POSITION. 25:19 ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE NEXT SECTION 25:21 WHICH IS CALLED THE PRINCE OF THE WORLD - THE PRINCE 25:23 OF THIS WORLD - AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 25:27 JOHN 5:19 IN JUST A MOMENT. 25:30 I WILL READ JOHN - OH YEAH, IT'LL BE 1 JOHN 5:19. 25:35 I'LL READ JOHN 14:30. CHRIST SAID, "I WILL NO 25:38 LONGER TALK MUCH WITH YOU, FOR THE RULER OF THIS 25:41 WORLD IS COMING, AND HE HAS NOTHING IN ME." 25:44 - WHO IS JESUS TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE SAYS, 25:45 'THE RULER OF THE WORLD'? >>SATAN. 25:48 >>HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE DEVIL. 25:50 SO WAIT A SECOND! WE SING THAT SONG 'THIS IS 25:54 MY FATHER'S WORLD' - SO, WHICH IS IT? 25:58 IS IT GOD'S WORLD OR IS IT THE DEVIL'S WORLD? 26:03 IT'S GOD'S WORLD, BUT IT'S BEEN HIJACKED. 26:06 IT'S BEEN KIDNAPPED. IT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO 26:09 GOD, BUT THE DEVIL HAS SEIZED IT AND EVEN JESUS 26:13 RECOGNIZED THAT HE IS THE RULER OF THE WORLD. 26:15 NOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN HE OWNS IT, BUT WHO DO - OH, 26:19 LET ME BACK UP AND SAY THIS DIFFERENTLY. 26:21 WILL MORE PEOPLE BE SAVED OR LOST IN THE END? 26:24 >>LOST. >>'BROAD IS THE WAY THAT 26:27 LEADS TO DESTRUCTION.' I KNOW, IT'S A SAD THOUGHT. 26:30 'AND MANY THERE BE THAT GO IN.' 'FEW' - 'STRAIGHT IS 26:33 THE GATE AND NARROW IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO LIFE AND 26:35 FEW FIND IT' - FEW ARE LOOKING FOR IT - FEW WANT IT. 26:37 SO IF THAT'S TRUE, DO THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE 26:41 WORLD LISTEN TO SATAN OR DO THEY LISTEN TO GOD? 26:44 >>SATAN. >>WE ALL AGREE? 26:47 SO WHEN CHRIST CALLS HIM THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD, 26:49 HE'S TALKING ABOUT MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD 26:52 RECOGNIZE HIM - KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY - AS THE 26:56 KING, BECAUSE THEY LIVE BY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE 26:58 DEVIL - OF SELFISHNESS. AND IF YOU GO TO JOHN 16:11, JESUS 27:05 SAYS, "OF JUDGMENT, BECAUSE THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD IS JUDGED." 27:08 - THERE'S JUST ANOTHER VERSE HE REFERS TO HIM AS 27:10 THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. READ FOR ME 1 JOHN 5:19. 27:14 >>"WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD, AND THE WHOLE WORLD 27:16 LIES UNDER THE SWAY OF THE WICKED ONE." 27:19 >>HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD? THE WHOLE WORLD LIES UNDER 27:23 THE SWAY OF THE WICKED ONE. 27:25 AND THIS IS WHAT JOHN SAYS. 27:27 IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 2 CORINTHIANS 4:4, IT 27:31 SAYS, "WHOSE MINDS THE GOD OF THIS AGE HAS BLINDED, 27:36 WHO DO NOT BELIEVE, LEST THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL OF 27:39 THE GLORY OF CHRIST, WHO IS THE IMAGE OF GOD, 27:41 SHOULD SHINE ON THEM." 27:44 NOW HOW DID THE DEVIL COME TO OWN THIS WORLD? 27:48 ALRIGHT, THERE'S A PRINCIPLE: ROMANS 6:16, 27:53 "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT TO WHOM YOU PRESENT 27:56 YOURSELVES SLAVES TO OBEY, YOU ARE THAT ONE'S SLAVES 27:59 WHOM YOU OBEY, WHETHER OF SIN LEADING TO DEATH, OR 28:03 OF OBEDIENCE LEADING TO RIGHTEOUSNESS?" 28:05 THERE'S TWO CHOICES: YOU CAN OBEY GOD - LIVE - 28:07 DISOBEY - LISTEN TO THE DEVIL, BE A SLAVE, AND DIE. 28:12 WHEN GOD TOLD ADAM AND EVE, 'I MADE THIS WORLD. 28:15 YOU ARE THE LEADING CREATION. 28:17 I HAVE MADE YOU IN MY IMAGE.' NOT ONLY DID ADAM 28:21 AND EVE HAVE THE ABILITY TO PROCREATE THROUGH AN 28:23 ACT OF LOVE - AS GOD CREATES - BUT HE SAID, 28:26 'I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU THE GOD OF THIS WORLD. 28:28 YOU ARE TO HAVE DOMINION.' - ISN'T THAT WHAT GOD GAVE THEM? 28:31 'THIS PLANET IS YOUR DOMAIN.' BUT WHEN THE 28:35 DEVIL CAME ALONG AND SAID, 'YOU CAN'T TRUST GOD. 28:37 YOU'VE GOT TO LISTEN TO ME. HE'S LYING TO YOU. 28:39 DON'T LISTEN TO HIS WORD, LISTEN TO MY WORD.' AND HE 28:42 STARTS TO QUESTION GOD'S WORD - HE SAYS, 'HATH GOD SAID?' 28:45 - 'GOD DIDN'T REALLY MEAN THAT, DID HE? 28:46 YOU CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT GOD SAYS.' WHAT WAS THE RESULT? 28:50 ADAM AND EVE CHOSE TO LISTEN TO THE DEVIL. 28:52 THEY OBEYED THE DEVIL AND, LET ME READ IT TO YOU 28:55 AGAIN, "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT TO WHOM YOU PRESENT 28:58 YOURSELVES SLAVES TO OBEY, YOU ARE THE SLAVES TO THE 29:00 ONE WHO YOU OBEY" - WHEN THEY CHOSE - 29:03 WHEN ADAM AND EVE CHOSE TO LISTEN TO LUCIFER INSTEAD 29:06 OF GOD, THEY HANDED THE KEYS OF DOMINION FOR THIS 29:10 PLANET TO THE ENEMY. THE DEVIL, THEN, BEGAN TO 29:14 OPERATE HERE IN THE WORLD. GOD RESTRICTED SATAN TO 29:17 THIS PLANET FOR HIS FUTURE OPERATIONS. 29:19 HE WAS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN TO THIS EARTH, AND THAT'S 29:23 HOW HE, BASICALLY, TOOK DOMINION. 29:25 AND PEOPLE SAY, 'IF GOD IS GOOD, WHY IS THERE SO MUCH 29:29 WICKEDNESS AND SUFFERING?' WHO'S IN CHARGE DOWN HERE? 29:33 WAIT A SECOND. PEOPLE ARE SAYING, 29:35 'ISN'T GOD SOVEREIGN?' ISN'T GOD ALL-POWERFUL? 29:39 I THOUGHT GOD WAS IN CHARGE.' GOD IS 29:41 ALL-POWERFUL, BUT GOD DOESN'T FORCE HIMSELF ON 29:43 ANYONE. IS GOD'S WILL BEING DONE? 29:46 IS GOD'S WILL ALWAYS DONE? NO. 29:49 WHAT DO YOU SAY IN THE LORD'S PRAYER? 29:51 'THY WILL BE DONE' - WHY DO WE PRAY 'THY WILL BE 29:54 DONE'? BECAUSE MOST OF THE TIME IT'S NOT HIS WILL. 29:59 DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH? 30:03 AM I RIGHT? DOES GOD WANT ANYONE TO PERISH? HE IS NOT WILLING. 30:07 WILL MOST PEOPLE PERISH? THAT'S NOT HIS WILL. 30:11 SO WHY ARE WE PRAYING, 'LORD, YOUR WILL BE DONE'? 30:14 BECAUSE WHAT YOU SEE GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY, 30:16 WITH ALL OF THE SUFFERING AND THE MISERY, IS NOT GOD'S WILL. 30:20 THERE IS AN ENEMY - THERE IS A FIEND - THERE IS AN 30:22 ARCH-SINISTER-TERRIBLE DICTATOR - DESPOT - WHO IS 30:27 RAMPAGING AROUND THIS PLANET CAUSING ALL KINDS 30:29 OF PROBLEMS, CALLED THE DEVIL, SATAN, LUCIFER, 30:31 PRINCE OF DARKNESS. THEY'VE GOT ALL THESE RELIGIONS 30:34 THAT HAVE TERMINOLOGY FOR THE EVIL ONE - SATAN. 30:40 AND SOME UNSOPHISTICATED PEOPLE, THEY LAUGH AT THE 30:42 IDEA THAT YOU SAY THERE'S A DEVIL. 30:44 I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY CAN LAUGH. I ALMOST THINK THERE'S 30:46 MORE EVIDENCE IN THE WORLD FOR A DEVIL THAN ANYTHING. 30:50 THERE IS SO MUCH EVIL THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, IT'S 30:53 JUST BEYOND IMAGINATION THAT - IT'S MIND-BOGGLING 30:59 FOR ME, THAT PEOPLE WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE THERE'S 31:02 A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL IN THE WORLD. 31:04 AND SO HE IS THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. 31:06 ADAM AND EVE LOST THE DOMINION. 31:08 AND YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS, NOW IN THE BOOK OF JOB. 31:11 WE'RE GOING TO JUMP THERE REAL QUICK. 31:12 JOB CHAPTER 1, VERSE 6, "NOW THERE WAS A DAY WHEN 31:17 THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE 31:19 THE LORD, AND SATAN ALSO CAME AMONG THEM." 31:24 - I'VE GOT TO STOP THERE. WHO ARE THESE 'SONS OF GOD'? 31:26 WELL, ONE CLUE IS THIS MEETING IS NOT HAPPENING 31:30 ON EARTH. THIS MEETING IS HAPPENING 31:32 SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN THE EARTH BECAUSE GOD SAYS TO 31:35 THE DEVIL, 'WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?' 31:37 IT SAYS 'I CAME FROM THE EARTH - FROM WALKING TO 31:41 AND FRO IN IT AND UP AND DOWN IN IT.' SO THESE SONS 31:45 OF GOD - WHAT DID - WHAT DID GOD CALL ADAM AND EVE 31:47 AFTER HE MADE THEM? IT SAYS IN - ENOS WAS THE SON OF SETH, WHO 31:55 WAS THE SON OF ADAM, WHO WAS THE SON OF GOD. 31:59 NOW JESUS IS CALLED THE SON OF GOD, BUT ADAM WAS 32:02 MIRACULOUSLY CREATED. HE WASN'T BORN. SO THESE OTHER SONS OF 32:06 GOD, WE CAN FIGURE - DOES GOD HAVE UNFALLEN WORLDS 32:09 OUT THROUGH THE COSMOS AND THE UNIVERSE? 32:13 THEY ARE THE LEADERS OF THESE UNFALLEN WORLDS THAT 32:15 DID NOT GIVE UP THEIR DOMINION TO THE DEVIL. 32:18 BUT WHO COMES FROM THIS PLANET REPRESENTING PLANET 32:21 EARTH? NOT ADAM. LUCIFER COMES. 32:25 AND THE VERY FACT HE SAYS, 'FOR I HAVE COME FROM 32:27 WALKING TO AND FRO AND UP AND DOWN.' 32:31 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IMPLIES? OWNERSHIP. 32:33 YOU NOTICE WHEN GOD GAVE ABRAHAM THE PROMISED LAND, 32:37 HE SAID TO ABRAHAM, 'I WANT YOU TO WALK THE 32:41 LENGTH AND THE BREADTH. I WANT YOU TO WALK UP AND 32:43 DOWN, BACK AND FORTH IN THE PROMISED LAND BECAUSE 32:46 - LOOK IT OVER BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE YOUR 32:47 TERRITORY.' IT'S LIKE THIS MAN WAS INVITED 32:50 TO THE WEDDING FEAST. HE SAID, 'I CAN'T BECAUSE 32:52 I BOUGHT SOME LAND. I'VE GOT TO GO SEE IT. 32:54 I'VE GOT TO WALK BACK AND FORTH, UP AND DOWN, STAKE 32:56 MY CLAIM, PUT THE FLAG DOWN. 32:58 THIS IS MY LAND.' AND SO WHEN THE DEVIL SAYS, 'I'M 33:01 WALKING BACK AND FORTH TO AND FRO, UP AND DOWN, IN 33:03 THE WORLD, HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'THIS IS MY 33:04 TERRITORY.' LIKE A LION ON THE PROWL - 'MY HUNTING 33:08 GROUNDS.' SO HE'S CLAIMING THE EARTH AS HIS OWN. 33:13 ALRIGHT, SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE WAR IN 33:15 HEAVEN AND YOU NEED TO TURN TO REVELATION CHAPTER 12. 33:20 NOW THE VERY TERM 'WAR IN HEAVEN', DOESN'T IT SOUND 33:23 LIKE IT'S AN OXYMORON? YOU SAY, 'HEAVEN' AND THEN YOU SAY 33:28 'WAR' - DO THOSE WORDS GO TOGETHER? YOU WOULDN'T THINK SO. 33:33 YOU'D THINK THAT HEAVEN WOULD BE LIKE, YOU KNOW, 33:34 EXHIBIT A OF A PLACE OF PEACE. 33:37 BUT, WHILE IT WAS LIKE THAT, IT WASN'T - DIDN'T 33:40 ALWAYS STAY THAT WAY. REVELATION CHAPTER 12 - 33:44 AND IF YOU READ - WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? 33:46 I'M GOING TO READ THE FIRST FEW VERSES HERE. 33:48 "NOW A GREAT SIGN APPEARED IN HEAVEN: A WOMAN CLOTHED 33:54 WITH THE SUN, WITH THE MOON UNDER HER FEET, AND 33:56 ON HER HEAD A GARLAND OF TWELVE STARS. 33:58 THEN BEING WITH CHILD, SHE CRIES OUT IN LABOR AND IN 34:02 PAIN TO GIVE BIRTH. AND ANOTHER SIGN APPEARED 34:05 IN HEAVEN: BEHOLD, A GREAT, FIERY RED DRAGON 34:07 HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND SEVEN 34:10 DIADEMS ON HIS HEADS. HIS TAIL DREW A THIRD OF 34:14 THE STARS OF HEAVEN AND THREW THEM TO THE EARTH. 34:18 AND THE DRAGON STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN WHO WAS 34:20 READY TO GIVE BIRTH, TO DEVOUR HER CHILD AS SOON 34:22 AS IT WAS BORN." SO HERE YOU SEE THIS WOMAN 34:26 - AND SHE'S A SYMBOL OF GOD'S CHURCH. 34:28 SHE'S WANTING TO BRING FORTH THE PROMISED SEED - 34:31 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THAT A LITTLE 34:32 LATER TODAY IN THE SERMON - AND THE DEVIL WANTS TO 34:35 DEVOUR THE CHILD AS SOON AS IT'S BORN. 34:38 THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL EFFORTS OF THE DEVIL TO 34:41 PREVENT THE MESSIAH FROM COMING. 34:43 WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THE PHARAOH WANTED ALL THE 34:48 BABY BOYS IN EGYPT CAST INTO THE RIVER? 34:54 THE DEVIL KNEW A MESSIAH WAS COMING. 34:57 HE DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN. 34:59 HE WAS TRYING TO PREVENT - HE KNEW IT WOULD COME 35:01 THROUGH ISRAEL - TRYING TO PREVENT THAT PROMISED 35:03 CHILD FROM BEING BORN. WHY DID ATHELIAH KILL ALL 35:08 OF THE SEED OF DAVID - EXCEPT ONE ESCAPED? JUST LIKE MOSES 35:11 ESCAPED - REMEMBER JOASH WAS HIDDEN IN THE TEMPLE? 35:14 WHY WAS THERE AN EFFORT MADE TO KILL ALL THE BABY BOYS? 35:18 BECAUSE THEY KNEW THE MESSIAH WAS COMING. 35:20 THE DEVIL WANTED TO PREVENT THIS. 35:21 HE TRIED TO DEVOUR - WHY WERE ALL THE BABY BOYS 35:23 KILLED IN BETHLEHEM? YOU SEE THIS PATTERN? 35:28 BECAUSE THE CHILD WAS GOING TO COME FROM THE SON 35:29 OF DAVID FROM THE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM. 35:32 AND SO, AS MUCH AS THE DEVIL COULD READ THE 35:33 PROPHECIES, HE SAID, 'I'M JUST GOING TO EXTERMINATE 35:35 ALL THE BABY BOYS AND TRY AND GET HIM WHILE HE'S 35:37 YOUNG AND VULNERABLE. SO THE DRAGON STANDS 35:40 BEFORE THE WOMAN WHO'S READY TO GIVE BIRTH, TO 35:43 DEVOUR HER CHILD AS SOON AS IT'S BORN. 35:46 AND "SHE BORE A MALE CHILD WHO WAS TO RULE ALL 35:49 NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON. 35:51 AND HER CHILD WAS CAUGHT UP TO GOD AND HIS THRONE. 35:54 THEN THE WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS, WHERE SHE 35:57 HAS A PLACE PREPARED BY GOD, THAT THEY SHOULD FEED 36:00 HER THERE ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS." 36:04 - AND THEN YOU GO TO THE NEXT VERSE, IT SAYS, "AND 36:07 WAR BROKE OUT IN HEAVEN: MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS 36:10 FOUGHT WITH THE DRAGON; AND THE DRAGON AND HIS 36:12 ANGELS FOUGHT," - NOW, ONCE AGAIN, WHO IS THE DRAGON? 36:17 WELL, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION ABOUT THIS, YOU 36:19 JUST LOOK DOWN TO VERSE 9, "SO THE GREAT DRAGON WAS 36:23 CAST OUT, THAT SERPENT OF OLD, CALLED THE DEVIL AND 36:26 SATAN, WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD; HE WAS CAST 36:29 TO THE EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM." 36:31 SO IF YOU EVER HAD ANY DOUBT BEFORE, IT'S THE DRAGON, 36:35 THE SERPENT, THE DEVIL, SATAN. I MEAN, HOW CAN YOU 36:39 GET THAT MIXED UP? WHO THIS BATTLE IS ABOUT? 36:43 AND SO THEN YOU LOOK AND WHAT WERE THE WEAPONS THAT 36:46 THEY USED? HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER SEEN 36:48 OUR COSMIC CONFLICT STUDY? OUR DVD? 36:53 AND, YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN WE 36:54 PORTRAYED THAT WAR IN HEAVEN. 36:56 I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW I WAS NOT THERE THAT DAY AND 36:58 THEY GOT THESE - THEY WANTED TO MAKE SWORDS AND 37:01 WANTED TO LIGHT THEM UP AND WHEN WE GOT DONE WE 37:03 THOUGHT, 'OH MAN, IT LOOKS LIKE STAR WARS. 37:05 THIS IS KIND OF SILLY.' WE WERE TRYING TO THINK, 37:07 'WHAT DO YOU DO TO HAVE DEVILS FIGHT WITH EACH 37:09 OTHER? WHAT KIND OF WEAPONS DO THEY USE?' 37:11 GO AHEAD, READ YOUR VERSE IN EZEKIEL. 37:15 >>EZEKIEL 9, VERSE 2, "AND SUDDENLY SIX MEN CAME 37:19 FROM THE DIRECTION OF THE UPPER GATE, WHICH FACES 37:21 NORTH, EACH WITH HIS BATTLE-AX IN HIS HAND." 37:25 >>NOW THESE ARE THE ANGELS THAT GO AROUND AND THEY'RE 37:29 - THEY'RE FIGHTING A BATTLE AND THEY'VE GOT 37:32 THIS DESTROYING WEAPON - A BATTLE-AX - THAT'S ALL IT MEANS. 37:35 IT JUST MEANS A SHATTERING WEAPON. 37:37 WHAT DO YOU THINK ANGELS USE? 37:39 IT'S SAYS THEY'RE SPIRITUAL CREATURES. 37:41 IT'S KIND OF HARD TO IMAGINE THAT THEY'RE USING 37:43 AXES AND SWORDS AND - I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN 37:47 EVEN COMPREHEND IT. WE DO SEE ANGELS USING SWORDS. 37:51 IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 CHRONICLES 21 - 1 37:55 CHRONICLES 21, VERSE 16 - "THEN DAVID LIFTED HIS 37:59 EYES AND SAW THE ANGEL OF THE LORD STANDING BETWEEN 38:03 EARTH AND HEAVEN, HAVING IN HIS HAND A DRAWN SWORD 38:07 STRETCHED OUT OVER JERUSALEM. SO DAVID AND THE ELDERS, 38:10 CLOTHED IN SACKCLOTH, FELL ON THEIR FACES." 38:14 SO, YOU KNOW, GOD - AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE 38:17 LORD COMING WITH HORSES AND CHARIOTS OF FIRE. 38:20 I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING THAT THE 38:23 WAY WE NORMALLY DO, BUT GOD USES CHARIOTS OF FIRE 38:27 BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THEY GOT AROUND BACK THEN - TO 38:29 HELP US DEPICT IT. WHEN IT SAYS A CHARIOT AND 38:32 HORSES OF FIRE CAME AND SCOOPED UP ELIJAH, WAS 38:35 IT REALLY A CHARIOT? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 38:38 I THINK GOD IS GIVING US TERMS - THERE'S THINGS 38:40 THAT WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND. IT TALKS ABOUT THE LORD 38:42 MOVING AROUND WITH WHEELS WITHIN A WHEEL. AND SO, NOW THERE'S 38:47 SOMETHING INTERESTING WE SEE HAPPENING. 38:49 THERE ARE FOUR GREAT THREATS DESCRIBED IN 38:51 REVELATION 12 AND EACH OF THEM IS FOLLOWED BY AN 38:54 INCREDIBLE DELIVERANCE. IN DRAMATIC VISION, JOHN 38:57 IS SHOWN THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN 39:00 AND IT APPEARS THAT, IN EACH CASE, THERE'S THIS 39:02 TERRIBLE MISMATCHED CRISIS. ALRIGHT, YOU LOOK, FOR 39:06 INSTANCE, IN THE FIRST PART, IT SAYS THERE IS 39:08 A GREAT RED DRAGON WHO PREPARES TO EAT BABY JESUS. 39:14 SO YOU'VE GOT THIS CRISIS BETWEEN THESE TWO FORCES 39:16 AND IT LOOKS LIKE THE SITUATION IS HOPELESS. THE DRAGON IS ABOUT 39:19 TO DEVOUR THE BABY, BUT WHAT HAPPENS? 39:23 THERE'S GREAT DELIVERANCE THE BABY'S CAUGHT UP TO GOD. 39:26 SECOND TIME: THE DRAGON THEN ATTEMPTS TO PERSECUTE 39:29 THE WOMAN - THE MOTHER - THAT'S A SYMBOL FOR THE 39:31 PEOPLE OF GOD - AND HOW CAN THIS MOTHER DEFEND 39:34 HERSELF AGAINST THE DRAGON? BUT IT SAYS SHE ESCAPED. 39:38 SHE'S GIVEN WINGS - SHE ESCAPES. 39:40 IN THE THIRD ATTEMPT, IT'S A DRAGON ATTEMPTS TO 39:44 DESTROY THE WOMAN WHO HAS NOW FLED INTO THE 39:46 WILDERNESS AND HOW IS SHE GOING TO FIGHT AGAINST 39:49 THIS FLOOD? BUT GOD HELPS. THE EARTH OPENS ITS MOUTH 39:52 AND, VERSE 16 - SWALLOWS UP THE FLOOD. 39:56 AND THEN, IF YOU LOOK AT THE END OF CHAPTER 12, IT 40:00 SAYS THE DRAGON NOW TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO THE 40:02 REMNANT OF THE WOMAN'S SEED. 40:04 HE'S FURIOUS AND HE WARS AGAINST THEM. 40:08 NOW, YOU DON'T REALLY - YOU REALIZE, THERE'S NO 40:10 CHAPTER DIVISIONS IN THE BIBLE? 40:12 AND SO, TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END OF 40:14 CHAPTER 12, YOU NEED TO MOVE ALONG A LITTLE BIT 40:16 AND YOU CAN GO TO CHAPTER 14 AND YOU SEE THE 40:18 FAITHFUL, NOW THAT THE DRAGON WAS TRYING TO 40:21 DESTROY THE SEED OF THE WOMAN, AND THE - THE 40:24 NATURE OF THE WAR AGAINST THE WOMAN IS CHAPTER 13 - 40:28 THE MARK OF THE BEAST. ALL OF THEM CAN'T 40:30 BUY OR SELL. THEY'RE ALL GOING TO BE 40:32 DESTROYED IF THEY DON'T WORSHIP THE BEAST. 40:34 THIS IS THE WAR THAT IS MADE AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE. 40:37 BUT THEN YOU GO TO CHAPTER 14, THEY'RE STANDING 40:40 BEFORE GOD'S THRONE AND THEY HAVE BEEN DELIVERED. 40:43 SO YOU'VE GOT THIS - THIS CONTEST THAT'S HAPPENING 40:47 ALL THROUGH CHAPTER 12. CHAPTER 12 IS SOMEWHAT 40:49 LIKE THE MIDDLE OF THE PROPHECY OF REVELATION. 40:51 IT - IT TELLS YOU THAT THERE'S WAR THAT GOES ON 40:54 THAT YOU FIND ALL THE WAY FROM REVELATION TO 40:58 GENESIS, BETWEEN THE SERPENT AND THE WOMAN AND 41:00 THE SEED - THE CHILD. HAVE YOU NOTICED SEVERAL 41:06 BATTLES OVER BABIES IN THE BIBLE? 41:10 THAT SORT OF RHYMED - BATTLES OVER BABIES IN THE 41:12 BIBLE - DO YOU SEE - IN THE STORY OF SOLOMON, TWO 41:17 WOMEN ARE FIGHTING OVER - ARE THEY FIGHTING OVER 41:20 GIRL BABIES OR BOY BABIES? BECAUSE THEY'RE 41:23 TYPES OF CHRIST. AND ONE'S SAYING, 'IT'S 41:26 MINE.' AND THE OTHER ONE'S SAYING, 'IT'S MINE.' 41:28 'LET'S KILL IT.' 'NO, LET'S SAVE IT.' THERE'S A 41:33 VERY DISTURBING STORY IN 2 KINGS CHAPTER 6, ABOUT TWO 41:36 WOMEN FIGHTING OVER A BABY BOY DURING A FAMINE. 41:39 I WON'T READ ALL OF THAT TO YOU, BUT IT'S SIMILAR. 41:41 ONE IS SAVED. ONE IS DESTROYED. 41:45 HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT WITH THE WIVES OF JACOB, 41:47 THEY'RE FIGHTING OVER THEIR HUSBAND ABOUT WHO IS 41:51 GOING TO HAVE A SON - AND THEY'RE GOING BACK AND 41:54 FORTH? DO YOU SEE THE BATTLE OVER 41:56 THE BABY BOYS HAPPENING WITH HAGAR AND SARAH? 42:01 IT'S THIS INTERESTING CONTEST THAT GOES ON - YOU 42:04 CAN SEE THROUGH THE BIBLE - AND HERE YOU GET TO 42:05 REVELATION AND THERE'S THIS PROMISED CHILD - THEY 42:09 WERE ALL TYPES OF THE PROMISED CHILD - IS 42:11 HAPPENING AGAIN. ALRIGHT, NOW LET'S GO TO 42:13 THE SECTION CALLED SATAN EVICTED . 42:16 SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT, IS GOING TO READ JOHN 12:31. 42:22 AND HERE WE'VE GOT, IN LUKE CHAPTER 10, VERSE 17, 42:25 IT SAYS, "THEN THE SEVENTY RETURNED" - FROM THEIR 42:28 PREACHING - THEY "RETURNED WITH JOY, SAYING, 'LORD, 42:31 EVEN THE DEMONS ARE SUBJECT TO US IN YOUR 42:34 NAME.' AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'I SAW SATAN FALL 42:38 LIKE LIGHTNING FROM HEAVEN. 42:41 BEHOLD, I GIVE YOU THE AUTHORITY TO TRAMPLE ON 42:43 SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS" - NOW, WAS JESUS SAYING HE 42:47 WANTED THEM TO GO FIND SCORPIONS, THROW THEM IN 42:51 THE MIDDLE OF A CIRCLE AND DO A DANCE ON TOP OF THEM? 42:55 WAS JESUS SAYING HE WANTED THEM TO GO ON A SNAKE 42:58 SAFARI, GATHER UP A BUNCH OF RATTLESNAKES, LIKE THEY 43:01 DO IN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA, AND THEN PLAY A LOT OF 43:04 HOOTENANNY MUSIC AND PICK UP THE SNAKES TO PROVE 43:07 THEY HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT? SOME PEOPLE INTERPRET 43:09 THESE VERSES THAT WAY. YOU READ THIS IN ITS 43:12 CONTEXT, WHO DOES THE SERPENT AND THE SCORPION REPRESENT? 43:17 IT'S THE DEVIL, RIGHT? I MEAN THOSE ARE - WHAT 43:21 DID - WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST TALKED TO THE 43:24 RELIGIOUS LEADERS THAT WERE HYPOCRITES, WHAT 43:26 DID HE CALL THEM? DEN OF VIPERS. SO SERPENTS WERE A TYPE OF 43:31 THE DEVIL - AND SCORPIONS. YOU CAN ALSO EVEN FIND 43:35 THAT ILLUSTRATION IN REVELATION LATER ON. 43:41 'NEVERTHELESS, DO NOT REJOICE IN THIS, THAT THE 43:44 SPIRITS ARE SUBJECT TO YOU, BUT RATHER, REJOICE 43:46 BECAUSE YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.' 43:50 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, PLEASE READ FOR US JOHN 12:31. 43:54 >>"NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD; NOW SHALL THE 43:57 PRINCE OF THIS WORLD BE CAST OUT." 44:00 >>ALRIGHT, WHEN WAS SATAN CAST OUT OF HEAVEN? 44:05 PEOPLE ASK THAT QUESTION SOMETIMES. 44:08 WELL, THERE HAVE BEEN A COUPLE OF CASTING OUTS. 44:11 SATAN, WHEN HE WAS FIRST EVICTED FROM HEAVEN, WHEN 44:14 HE REBELLED WITH HIS ANGELS, HE WAS KICKED OUT 44:17 OF THE CITY OF GOD, YOU MIGHT SAY. 44:22 BUT HE WASN'T RESTRICTED TO THE EARTH RIGHT AWAY. 44:25 SATAN WAS ABLE TO GO THROUGH THE UNIVERSE AND 44:28 TRY TO RECRUIT OTHER FOLLOWERS AT THAT POINT. 44:31 BUT WHEN THEY REJECTED HIS TEMPTATIONS - JUST LIKE HE 44:33 MET ADAM AND EVE AT THE TREE - THE DEVIL WAS ABLE 44:36 TO SHARE HIS VIEW - CAMPAIGN FOR HIS ELECTION, 44:40 AMONG THE OTHER UNFALLEN CREATURES, AND THEY 44:43 WOULDN'T LISTEN TO HIM. THEY TRUSTED GOD. 44:44 THE ONLY PLANET THAT LISTENED TO THE DEVIL WAS HERE. 44:48 YOU REMEMBER THE PARABLE THAT JESUS SHARES? 44:52 THE SHEPHERD HAD A HUNDRED SHEEP AND ONE WANDERED OFF 44:55 AND GOT LOST AND HE LEFT THE NINETY-NINE TO COME 44:58 AND LOOK FOR THAT ONE LOST SHEEP? 45:00 CHRIST LEFT ALL THE UNFALLEN WORLDS THAT WERE 45:03 SAFE AND HE CAME TO THIS ONE. 45:06 HE SAID, 'IT'S NOT THE SICK THAT NEED - OR THE 45:08 WELL THAT NEED A PHYSICIAN, BUT THE SICK.' 45:10 HE CAME TO THIS SICK PLANET. 45:11 SO SATAN, THEN, WAS RESTRICTED HERE BECAUSE HE 45:14 FOUND PEOPLE HERE THAT WOULD LISTEN TO HIM. 45:16 THIS BECAME THE BEACHHEAD - OUR PLANET BECAME THE 45:18 STAGING GROUND FOR SATAN TO CONTINUE HIS REBELLION 45:21 AGAINST GOD. AND SO, WHEN CHRIST DIED 45:24 ON THE CROSS, THERE WAS AN ADDITIONAL CASTING DOWN. 45:29 SEE, AT ONE POINT, IN THE STORY OF JOB, ISN'T THE 45:31 DEVIL GOING AWAY FROM THE EARTH? 45:34 AT LEAST TO THE GATES OF HEAVEN TO REPRESENT THE 45:36 EARTH? HE CAN'T DO THAT ANYMORE. 45:39 BUT HE IS STILL THE ACCUSER OF THE HEAVEN - OF 45:42 THE - HE'S STILL THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 45:45 IF YOU LOOK IN COLOSSIANS 2:15 IT SAYS, "HAVING 45:50 DISARMED PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, HE MADE A 45:54 PUBLIC SPECTACLE OF THEM, TRIUMPHING OVER THEM IN IT." 45:58 HAS THE DEVIL BEEN DISARMED? 46:01 THROUGH THE POWER OF CHRIST, HIS POWER CAN BE 46:03 RESTRICTED - THROUGH THE TRIUMPH OF JESUS. 46:07 WE CAN PUT ON THE ARMOR OF GOD AND WE HAVE THE 46:10 EQUIPMENT, NOW, TO RESIST ALL THE ATTACKS OF THE DEVIL. 46:13 SO SATAN HAS BEEN CAST DOWN - TWICE - OUT OF 46:16 HEAVEN - RESTRICTED TO EARTH. IS HE DONE BEING CAST? 46:20 WHAT DOES IT SAY IN EZEKIEL IS GOING TO BE THE 46:22 FATE OF THE DEVIL? AND WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW 46:24 SOME OF THESE THINGS IN FUTURE LESSONS, BUT I 46:26 REALIZE THAT NOT EVERYBODY HEARS EVERY LESSON. 46:30 IF YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN EZEKIEL 28, VERSE 17, 46:37 "YOUR HEART WAS LIFTED BECAUSE OF YOUR BEAUTY; 46:40 YOU CORRUPTED YOUR WISDOM FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR 46:42 SPLENDOR; I CAST YOU TO THE GROUND," - 46:45 YOU NOTICE THAT? CASTING? 46:47 - "I CAST YOU TO THE GROUND, I LAID YOU BEFORE 46:49 KINGS, THAT THEY MIGHT GAZE AT YOU. 46:52 YOU DEFILE YOUR SANCTUARIES BY THE 46:53 MULTITUDE OF YOUR INIQUITIES, BY THE 46:55 INIQUITY OF YOUR TRADING; THEREFORE I BROUGHT FIRE 46:58 FROM YOUR MIDST; IT DEVOURED YOU, AND I TURNED 47:01 YOU TO ASHES UPON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF ALL 47:03 WHO SAW YOU. ALL WHO KNEW YOU AMONG THE 47:06 PEOPLES ARE ASTONISHED AT YOU; YOU HAVE BECOME A 47:09 HORROR, AND SHALL BE NO MORE FOREVER." 47:12 SO SATAN IS GOING TO BE, ULTIMATELY, BROUGHT TO THE 47:15 PIT, IT SAYS IN ISAIAH. WHAT HAPPENED TO ABSALOM 47:18 WHEN HE REBELLED? YOU KNOW, IT SAYS THEY PUT 47:22 HIM IN A GREAT PIT IN THE WOOD AND THEY SET UP A BIG 47:26 PILE OF STONES ON HIM THAT WOULD JUST BE FILLING IN 47:28 WITH COMPOST EVENTUALLY AND THE PLACE WAS COVERED. 47:32 THERE'S NO MEMORIAL FOR ABSALOM IN THE VALLEY 47:35 WHERE HE WAS SLAIN. ALRIGHT, IF YOU GO ON 47:39 NOW AND YOU LOOK AT THE CONTINUING BATTLE - AND 47:42 THIS IS OUR LAST SECTION - YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 16:33 47:47 - NOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT. 47:49 JESUS SAID, "I HAVE SPOKEN THESE THINGS TO YOU THAT 47:52 IN ME YOU MIGHT HAVE PEACE. IN THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE 47:55 TRIBULATION, BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER; I HAVE 47:58 OVERCOME THE WORLD." CHRIST IS TELLING US 48:01 - DO WE HAVE TO FEAR? HE SAYS, 'BE ENCOURAGED. 48:04 I'VE OVERCOME THE WORLD.' ARE WE GOING TO HAVE 48:07 PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD? >>YES. 48:09 >>ARE WE GOING TO BE TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL? 48:11 AND THERE'S GOING TO BE CHALLENGES. 48:13 HE SAID, 'BUT DON'T BE DISCOURAGED BY THAT.' HE 48:15 SAYS - SHOULD WE JUST BEAR WITH IT OR DOES HE SAY, 48:18 'BE OF GOOD CHEER'? 48:20 WE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED, HE SAYS, 'BECAUSE I HAVE 48:22 OVERCOME THE WORLD.' AND THEN YOU READ IN ROMANS 48:25 16:20, "AND THE GOD OF PEACE WILL CRUSH SATAN 48:29 UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY." IS THAT A GOOD PROMISE? 48:33 WHY DOES IT SAY, 'SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET'? 48:37 YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT SAID ABOUT - THE SERPENT WOULD 48:39 BRUISE HIS HEEL, BUT THE SERPENT'S HEAD WOULD BE 48:44 CRUSHED. AND SO, ULTIMATELY, THE 48:48 DEVIL'S HEAD IS GOING TO BE CRUSHED. 48:50 DON'T EVER TRY AND STEP ON A RATTLESNAKE UNLESS 48:52 YOU'RE REALLY FAST. (LAUGHTER) YOU DON'T GET 48:56 THE HEAD, THEY CAN STILL SPIN AROUND AND BITE. 49:01 REVELATION 12:11, "AND THEY OVERCAME HIM BY THE 49:04 BLOOD OF THE LAMB" - SO IS THERE A PROMISE THAT THE - 49:07 THE SEED OF THE WOMAN - THEY ULTIMATELY ARE VICTORIOUS? 49:11 - "AND THEY OVERCOME HIM BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, 49:13 AND BY THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY, AND THEY DID 49:15 NOT LOVE THEIR LIVES TO THE DEATH." SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO 49:18 OVERCOME THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL? 49:21 BY TRUSTING IN THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS, HAVING 49:24 FAITH IN HIS PROMISE THAT HE WILL COME INTO OUR 49:27 LIVES, BY THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY - AS WE 49:29 SHARE IT WITH OTHERS, GOD RELEASES HIS POWER IN OUR 49:32 LIVES, AND LOVING THE LORD MORE THAN OUR OWN LIVES. 49:36 ISN'T THAT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED IN THE LAST 49:38 DAYS, WHERE WE'D RATHER DIE THAN DISOBEY? 49:41 "THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES TO THE DEATH." 49:43 AND THAT REALLY MAKES YOU AN OVERCOMER. 49:45 IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU DEFEATED. 49:47 HEBREWS 12:1 AND 2, "THEREFORE WE ALSO, SINCE 49:51 WE ARE SURROUNDED BY SO GREAT A CLOUD OF 49:54 WITNESSES, LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT, AND 49:57 THE SIN WHICH SO EASILY ENSNARES US, AND LET US 50:00 RUN WITH ENDURANCE THE RACE THAT IS SET BEFORE 50:02 US, LOOKING UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF 50:06 OUR FAITH," - SO WHAT'S ANOTHER WAY THAT WE GAIN 50:10 THE VICTORY AGAINST THE DEVIL? 50:12 "SINCE WE'RE SURROUNDED BY SO GREAT A CLOUD OF 50:14 WITNESSES" - WHAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES - WHAT'S THE 50:17 CLOUD OF WITNESSES THAT PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT HERE 50:20 IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11? HAVE YOU READ THE HALL OF 50:23 FAITH THAT HE MENTIONS - ALL OF THE FAITHFUL THERE? 50:27 HE SAYS, 'SINCE YOU CAN SEE THE EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE 50:29 JUST LIKE US' - AND YOU SEE WHERE MOSES AND DAVID AND 50:34 GIDEON AND SAMSON AND ALL THESE CHARACTERS THAT THEY 50:37 END UP BEING VICTORIOUS IN THE END - HOW? THROUGH FAITH. 50:41 HE SAYS, 'LET US BE ENCOURAGED. LET'S RUN THAT RACE AND 50:46 LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT AND THE SIN THAT SO EASILY 50:50 ENSNARES US AND RUN WITH ENDURANCE, WITH PATIENCE. 50:53 DON'T GIVE UP THE RACE THAT'S BEFORE US.' HOW? 50:57 "LOOKING UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR 51:00 FAITH, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM" - 51:03 LOOKING AHEAD - "ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE 51:06 SHAME, AND HAS SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE 51:10 THRONE OF GOD." AND SO CHRIST HAD THAT 51:11 VICTORY BY LOOKING AHEAD. WE HAVE THE VICTORY THE 51:14 SAME WAY, THROUGH FAITH. SO HERE WE'VE GIVEN - 51:18 WE'RE GIVEN THIS EXAMPLE IN THE BIBLE. 51:20 WELL, FRIENDS, THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT STUDY 51:22 AND I'LL BET YOU, SOMEWHERE, BEFORE IT'S ALL 51:24 OVER, WE'RE GOING TO REFER PEOPLE TO THE DVD COSMIC 51:27 CONFLICT . YOU KNOW, AMAZING FACTS 51:29 HAS THIS DVD THAT GOES INTO GREAT DETAIL THAT 51:32 TALKS ABOUT THE REBELLION AND HOW THIS ALL STARTED. 51:35 I ALSO WANT TO REMIND OUR CLASS THAT IF YOU DIDN'T 51:37 CATCH IT AT THE BEGINNING, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER 51:39 CALLED HEAVEN, IS IT FOR REAL? WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU 51:42 A COPY OF THIS IF YOU JUST CALL AND ASK FOR IT. 51:44 IT'S OFFER #189 AND YOU CALL THE NUMBER 51:47 866-788-3966 - THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE AND WE'LL 51:54 MAKE THIS AVAILABLE TO YOU OR YOU CAN READ IT FOR 51:56 FREE JUST BY GOING TO AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 52:00 IN THE MEANTIME, GOD BLESS YOU. WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO 52:02 STUDYING HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 52:05 (DRAMATIC MUSIC) >>HELLO FRIENDS, WE'RE HERE IN 52:18 THE PHILIPPINES OVERLOOKING THE TAAL VOLCANO AND LAKE, 52:22 WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING PIECES OF 52:24 GEOGRAPHY IN THE WHOLE WORLD. 52:26 FOR ONE THING, THIS GREAT CALDERA WAS ONCE THE 52:29 BIGGEST VOLCANO IN THE WORLD AND NOW IT HOLDS A 52:32 LAKE THAT HOLDS ANOTHER VOLCANO THAT HAS ANOTHER 52:35 LITTLE LAKE IN IT THAT HAS ANOTHER LITTLE ISLAND IN 52:39 IT. THIS VOLCANO HAS ERUPTED 52:40 SIX TIMES, IN A MAJOR WAY, SINCE THE 1500S. 52:45 AND EVEN IN 1911 THERE WAS AN ERUPTION WHERE OVER 52:48 1300 PEOPLE DIED - KILLED BY THE SMOKE AND THE ASH 52:52 THAT COVERED THE COMMUNITY. THERE WERE TSUNAMIS THAT 52:55 CAME FROM THE LAKE AND DESTROYED THE VILLAGES 52:57 THAT SURROUNDED THE BORDERS OF THE LAKE. 52:59 IN FACT, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST CAREFULLY 53:02 MONITORED SEISMIC PLACES IN THE PHILIPPINES. 53:05 THIS VOLCANO IS BEING WATCHED ALL THE TIME. 53:07 AND THEY'VE NOTICED, AS OF 2006, THAT IT APPEARS THAT 53:11 THE WATER TEMPERATURES ARE GOING UP. 53:13 THERE'S INCREASED SEISMIC ACTIVITY. 53:15 IN OTHER WORDS, THEY KNOW THAT THIS VOLCANO IS A 53:18 TICKING TIME BOMB PREPARED TO BLOW AND IT'S VERY 53:21 INTERESTING BECAUSE THIS PLACE IS A PLACE OF GREAT 53:24 SEISMIC ACTIVITY BUT, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THE 53:27 VOLCANOLOGISTS KNOW THIS IS GOING TO BLOW AGAIN 53:30 SOMEDAY, IT IS A POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATION. 53:32 THEIR FIGHTING FOR THE REAL ESTATE. 53:34 THEIR BUILDING LIKE MAD AND SIT ON THE EDGE OF DISASTER. 53:37 IT MAKES US THINK ABOUT HOW GOD HAS GIVEN US SO 53:40 MANY WARNINGS, IN HIS WORD, THAT THE WORLD IS 53:43 GOING TO END, THAT JESUS IS GOING TO COME, THAT THE 53:45 HEAVENS'LL DISSOLVE WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE 53:48 ELEMENTS WILL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, SEEING THEN 53:51 THAT ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT KIND OF 53:53 PEOPLE SHOULD WE BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND 53:56 GODLINESS? 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I DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED. 54:54 >>I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE AND - 54:57 >>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - 54:59 >>I REALIZED THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE. 55:02 >>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS. 55:03 >>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME. 55:04 >>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL. 55:05 >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST WHEREVER HE GOES. 55:07 >>AMAZING FACTS. MORE THAN 45 YEARS OF 55:11 PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 55:14 >>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 55:18 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT 55:21 THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING 55:23 SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY 55:26 PICK IT UP AND I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. 55:29 LET ME - LET ME LOOK THROUGH AND FIND THIS. 55:31 >>THAT I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 55:32 >>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDIES. 55:34 EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS STARTED BEING 55:37 CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF. >>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY 55:41 DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH 55:44 OUT AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A FATHER. 55:47 >>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS WHEN I REALIZED 55:50 THAT IT WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE. 55:52 >>I WENT TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. 55:56 THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND SO 55:59 IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT, 'THIS IS REAL. 56:01 THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' 56:06 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 56:10 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE 56:13 SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS 56:16 OF PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 56:20 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 56:23 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 56:25 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? 56:28 DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S LAW AND HOW IT WAS 56:30 CHANGED. VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. 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