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00:35 Hello, friends, and welcome to
00:36 Sabbath School Study Hour 00:38 here at the Granite Bay Seventh-day Adventist Church. 00:40 I'd like to welcome our online members 00:42 and our friends joining us across the country 00:44 and around the world for our study time together. 00:48 And again, I'd like to welcome 00:49 our regular members and visitors 00:50 right here at the Granite Bay Church. 00:52 We have been studying through 00:53 just a very important set of lessons entitled 00:56 "Preparation for the End Times," 00:59 looking at some prophecies 01:00 in the books of Daniel and Revelation. 01:02 Today, we have an important subject. 01:04 That's lesson number nine 01:06 if you're following along in your lesson quarterly. 01:08 It's entitled "End-Time Deceptions." 01:11 Now you'll remember the words of Jesus were He said, 01:13 "In the last days, 01:14 the devil's deceptions will try and deceive 01:17 if possible," who? 01:19 "Even the very elect." 01:21 So it's pretty important for us to study the Word of God 01:23 so that we can distinguish between truth and error. 01:27 And that's some of the things 01:28 we're gonna be talking about today 01:29 in our lesson for this morning. 01:31 But before we get to our lesson, 01:33 we'd like to let our friends know 01:34 who are joining us on Facebook 01:36 and around the country of a free offer 01:38 that we have today. 01:40 We have a DVD that is from the "Here We Stand" series 01:44 and this is the free offer. 01:45 If you'd like to receive a DVD, 01:48 the number to call is 866-788-3966, 01:52 and you can ask for offer number 847. 01:56 And if you'd like to get a digital download 01:58 of that same sermon, 02:00 all you'll need to do is text the code 02:03 to the number 40544, 02:07 and we'll be able to send you a link 02:08 where you can actually download the same sermon entitled 02:12 "The Day of the Lord." 02:13 It's part of the "Here We Stand" series. 02:16 Well, before we get to our lesson, 02:17 we'd like to begin by lifting our voices in song. 02:20 I'd like to invite our song leaders 02:21 to come forward. 05:02 Are you looking forward to that day 05:04 when we will be caught up in the clouds 05:06 and reunited with our loved ones, 05:09 and we get to see Jesus face to face 05:11 and spend eternity with Him in heaven? 05:15 At this time, Pastor Ross will have our opening prayer. 05:19 Dear Father in heaven, 05:20 we thank You for the opportunity 05:22 to gather together and lift our voices in song 05:24 and open up Your Word 05:25 and study these very important truths 05:27 how we can prepare for the last days 05:29 and how we can avoid the errors that are so prevalent. 05:33 Lord, we just pray for Your Sprit 05:35 to guide us as we open the scriptures, 05:36 be with Pastor Doug 05:37 as he shares with us this morning, 05:40 for we ask this in Jesus' name, amen. 05:43 Our lesson this morning is gonna be brought to us 05:45 by our head pastor 05:46 here at the Granite Bay Church, Pastor Doug. 05:51 Good morning. Happy Sabbath. Morning. 05:52 I want to welcome our friends 05:53 who are watching on satellite right now 05:56 or you may be streaming this live on Facebook 05:59 or some other internet mechanism, 06:01 we want to welcome you 06:03 to our Sabbath School Study Hour. 06:05 As Pastor Ross mentioned, 06:06 we're getting into another lesson today, 06:09 lesson number nine, 06:10 talking about preparation for the final deception. 06:13 Lesson is called "Preparation for the End Time." 06:16 And in particular, today we're gonna be talking about 06:18 End-Time deceptions. 06:20 And we have a memory verse. 06:22 And the memory verse is from Revelation 12:9. 06:25 Now this is a good memory verse for everyone to remember. 06:29 Revelation 12:9, 06:30 Revelation is that great chapter that talks about 06:33 the battle between the dragon and the bride of Christ. 06:38 You ready? 06:39 This is from the New King James Version, 06:40 Revelation 12:9. 06:43 "So the great dragon was cast out, 06:46 that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, 06:50 who deceives the whole world. 06:52 He was cast to the earth, 06:53 and his angels were cast out with him." 06:57 This is a very significant verse 07:00 if for no other reason. 07:01 If you've ever wondered if the devil, and the dragon, 07:04 and the Satan were the same, and the serpent, 07:07 we're talking about the same creature. 07:10 This brings them all together here and tells us 07:12 that this is the same creature. 07:14 It's just different names and metaphors 07:16 for the arch fiend, 07:19 the supreme enemy, the devil. 07:21 Now when we discuss, in particular, 07:24 concerns about deception in the last days, 07:27 it is a priority we need to think about. 07:31 When the disciples came to Jesus, 07:32 in Matthew 24, and they say, 07:34 "Lord, what will be the sign of Your coming 07:36 in the end of the world?" 07:38 He answers them, first thing He says right out of the gate, 07:43 He said to them, "Take heed that no one deceives you. 07:47 For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am Christ,' 07:51 and deceive many.'" 07:53 Now that verse can be taken two different ways. 07:55 First of all, Jesus can be saying, 07:57 many will come, saying, 07:59 I am Christ, 08:00 they will be claiming personally 08:02 that they're Christ. 08:03 Another way that verse can be taken 08:04 is many will come in His Name, saying, 08:07 He is Christ and deceive many. 08:10 Either way you take it, it's true. 08:13 There are people who have claimed to be Christ, 08:14 there's false Christ, 08:15 and we know there's a delusional occults 08:18 where the leader claims to be a Christ 08:21 or some incarnation of Christ. 08:23 And then there's a lot of people that say 08:25 that Jesus is the Christ and they deceive many. 08:28 And so either way that's true. 08:29 And then the next thing He says, 08:30 and this is still Matthew 24:24. 08:34 "For false christs and false prophets will rise 08:38 and show great signs and wonders to deceive, 08:42 if possible, even the very elect." 08:44 That's telling us that these deceptions are gonna be 08:47 so convincing that if it were possible, 08:49 even the very elect would be deceived. 08:52 The people that are as close to the Lord as you can imagine, 08:57 they're walking with the Lord, they're not safe. 09:00 So how careful should we be to know 09:03 what the devil's tactics are 09:05 so that we are not taken by surprise. 09:07 And that's the, one of the important things 09:10 about the lesson here. 09:13 Now the first section we're looking at, 09:14 it talks about the grandest deception, 09:17 the great deception. 09:18 If you look in Revelation 13:13, it says, 09:22 "He performs great signs, 09:25 so that he even makes fire come down 09:27 from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 09:30 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth 09:33 by those signs 09:34 which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, 09:38 telling those who dwell on the earth 09:39 to make an image to the beast 09:41 who was wounded by the sword and yet lived." 09:44 Are signs and wonders important? 09:49 Any of you ever prayed for signs and wonders? 09:52 Did the Lord use signs and wonders 09:55 to convince the early church that it was genuine? 09:59 Jesus did signs... 10:00 He says, "Look, if you don't believe Me, 10:01 believe the miracles." 10:03 The apostles went out during the time of Christ, 10:06 doing signs and wonders. 10:08 The Lord did many signs and wonders by Paul. 10:11 And by Peter, they did miracles. 10:14 So it would substantiate the truth. 10:17 But what's the risk of putting 10:19 all of our credence in signs and wonders? 10:23 Can the devil do them? 10:26 Are there false christs that do signs and wonders? 10:29 And so, what's the final criteria, 10:32 what the truth is, signs and wonders? 10:35 No, that's not it at all. 10:37 It's got to be the Bible 10:39 'cause the devil can counterfeit 10:41 signs and wonders. 10:42 And that's what it's telling us, He says, 10:43 false christs and prophets will arise 10:45 showing great signs and wonders. 10:47 And then it tells us the beast power. 10:49 There is one particular sign that He does, 10:51 what did I just read? 10:54 Brings fire down from heaven. What does that mean? 10:58 Who brings fire down from heaven in the Bible? 11:03 Let's talk about sometimes fire came down. 11:06 Now if you call out an answer, 11:07 I'll repeat it for those that are listening. 11:10 All right, in the days of Elijah, 11:11 fire came down, how many times? 11:16 Three times. 11:17 Once on Mount Carmel, 11:19 two other times when the King tried to have him arrested, 11:22 he prayed and fire came down and burnt up the soldiers 11:24 who came to arrest him. 11:26 Am I right? 11:28 What other times did fire come down? 11:31 Sodom and Gomorrah. 11:33 I wasn't even thinking of that one, that's true. 11:36 Now that wasn't really performed by a person, 11:38 but yeah, God brought down fire, 11:40 signs and wonders there, yeah. 11:42 Who else? 11:44 I heard Gideon. Samson. 11:46 Samson, when Samson's parents prayed, 11:49 fire came down to consume the sacrifice. 11:54 When the temple of Moses was dedicated, 11:57 did God bring fire down from heaven 11:59 to put the first holy fire on the altar, when He... 12:03 When else did that happen? 12:06 Cain and Abel. 12:08 There a fire came down on Abel's sacrifice, 12:10 but it did not accept Cain's. 12:14 What about the sons of Aaron? 12:15 Did they get barbecued? 12:19 For disobedience, fire came down from heaven. 12:23 And how many of you remember, it's a very brief reference, 12:27 but when Solomon dedicated the temple was the last time 12:30 it came down in the temple, and it says, the fire, 12:33 the Lord came down on the sacrifice 12:34 and the glory of the Lord so filled the temple, 12:37 the priests were not even able to minister 12:39 'cause there's some of the glory emanating 12:41 from the presence of God. 12:43 Now you're all forgetting one other. 12:49 Pentecost, fire came down. 12:51 Of course, that's a good one, I wasn't thinking of that. 12:54 I'm talking about the Old Testament. 13:00 Oh, I hear the wheel spinning. Amen. 13:05 And Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. 13:09 And among the plagues that happened to Job, 13:13 fire came down and burned up his flocks and shepherds. 13:17 So can the devil bring fire down from heaven? 13:20 At least he did there. 13:22 But most of the time in the Bible, 13:23 fire coming down is a sign of God's power. 13:27 Elijah prays and the fire comes down. 13:29 So when the Lord tells us in Revelation 13:32 that among the things we need to be careful of, 13:34 the devil's gonna, 13:36 he's gonna do the greatest sign 13:39 that God does is fire coming down from heaven. 13:42 I've heard some pastors try to make a case 13:44 that this is when nuclear war 13:46 began with the atomic bomb 13:47 that America is that beast that brought fire down 13:50 from heaven on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 13:53 I don't think that's what it's talking about. 13:55 That wasn't done for the purpose of proving 13:57 that the power was divine. 14:01 Look at Revelation 2:13 14:03 and then we're gonna go to 2:24. 14:05 Did Jesus warned the churches 14:07 during the seven messages to the seven churches, 14:09 they needed to be aware of Satan and his deceptions. 14:14 Look for instance, Revelation 2:13, 14:16 "I know your works, and that you dwell, 14:18 where Satan's throne is. 14:20 And you hold fast My name, 14:22 and you did not deny My faith even in the days 14:24 when Antipas was My faithful martyr, 14:27 who was killed among you, where Satan dwells." 14:32 And look at Revelation 2:24, 14:34 Now I say to you, and to the rest 14:35 that are in Thyatira..." 14:37 By the way that other church was Pergamos. 14:39 "I say to the rest that are in Thyatira, 14:41 as many as do not have this doctrine, 14:43 who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say." 14:47 And you read in Revelation 12, 14:48 that the Satan who has come down 14:50 who deceiveth the whole world. 14:52 And so Satan is known as a great deceiver. 14:56 Now what is deception? 15:00 Is deception just a blatant lie? 15:03 Or is deception the co-mingling of truth with a lie? 15:09 So the lie is made to look like truth. 15:14 Revelation 12:12, 15:16 and this I just quoted to you actually, 15:18 "Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! 15:21 Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! 15:24 For the devil has come down to you, 15:25 having great wrath, 15:26 because he knows that his time is short." 15:29 So what does the devil do with his power and his wrath? 15:32 He tries to deceive God's people 15:35 for the sake of destroying them. 15:37 Now if you look in the book Great Controversy, 15:40 and this is page 495, there's a quote there 15:43 and you'll have this in your lesson. 15:46 "Leaving his place in the immediate presence of God, 15:48 Lucifer went forth to diffuse..." 15:50 This is before the fall. 15:53 So this is how the devil started. 15:56 "He went forth to diffuse 15:57 the Spirit of discontent among the angels. 16:00 Working with mysterious secrecy, 16:02 and for a time concealing his real purpose 16:04 under an appearance of reverence for God, 16:06 he endeavored to excite dissatisfaction 16:08 concerning the laws that governed heavenly beings, 16:11 intimating that they imposed an unnecessary restraint." 16:16 And so the devil goes out among the angels 16:18 and he deceives them. 16:20 But with an air of piety, 16:23 don't forget that Cain made an offering. 16:25 There's an air of religiosity before he kills his brother. 16:29 And those who kill you in the last days 16:31 will think they're serving God, Jesus said. 16:34 So is Satan alone in his work of deception 16:39 or does he have a team? 16:42 Let's look at some verses on this. 16:43 In a moment, someone's gonna read 16:45 Matthew 12:24, is that you, John? 16:48 Okay. 16:50 I'm gonna do Jude 1:6, only one chapter in Jude 1:6. 16:55 "And the angels 16:56 who did not keep their first estate, 16:58 their proper domain, but they left their own abode, 17:01 He has reserved in everlasting chains 17:04 under darkness for judgment of the great day." 17:07 What angels is he talking about? 17:10 It's the bad angels, the ones that are fallen. 17:13 Look in 2 Peter. 17:14 Now Jude and 2 Peter here are very similar. 17:17 2 Peter 2:4, 17:19 "For if God did not spare the angels 17:21 who sinned, 17:22 but cast them down to hell 17:24 and delivered them into chains of darkness, 17:26 to be reserved for judgment." 17:28 You remember, when Jesus began preaching, 17:30 He was in the synagogue and a demon possessed 17:33 man began to speak or the demon speak through him, 17:36 and he says, "We know who you are, Son of God, 17:38 if you come to torment us before the time." 17:41 The angels know that they have a judgment coming, 17:44 that's what it says here in Peter. 17:46 They know that they have been cast out of heaven 17:49 and they're doing everything they can to wreck 17:51 as much damage as they can on this world before. 17:58 And if you look in Revelation 12:9, 18:00 let's read that again. 18:02 "So the great dragon was cast out, 18:05 that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, 18:08 who deceives the whole world." 18:11 Why does Jesus call the devil the prince of this world? 18:14 'Cause is it safe to say 18:16 most of the world is deceived by the devil? 18:20 We're gonna talk about some of the particular 18:22 last day deceptions in a minute. 18:24 It says, "He deceives the whole world, 18:25 he was cast to the earth, 18:27 and his angels were cast out with him." 18:32 So 99.99999% of the time 18:36 when you say the devil is tempting me, 18:37 is that actually Satan himself 18:39 or is he working usually 18:40 through one of his fallen angels? 18:43 These used to be great beings. 18:45 They were wonderful, they were noble, 18:47 they were perfect, they had names, 18:48 God knows everyone of them 18:50 and their individual, angelic personalities, 18:53 and now they've got 18:54 their individual diabolical personalities, 18:57 but they are very real intelligent spirits 19:02 that work with the devil. 19:03 And people talk about goblins, and ghosts, and demons, 19:07 and they're all fallen angels, is what they are. 19:10 All right, please read for us Matthew 12:24. 19:14 Matthew 12:24, 19:16 "Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, 19:19 'This fellow does not cast out demons 19:21 except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.'" 19:25 So here it says, he is the ruler of demons. 19:28 He's got all these fallen angels 19:30 that work among him and with him. 19:33 And if you look in Matthew 25, 19:36 who does God specifically designed the lake of fire for? 19:39 Is it for the lost? 19:42 What is it for? Well, let's read it here. 19:43 Matthew 25:41, 19:46 "Then He will say to those on his left hand, 19:48 'Depart from Me, you cursed, 19:49 into the everlasting fire 19:52 prepared for the devil and his angels.'" 19:54 Does that mean the fire is gonna burn forever and ever, 19:57 or that the work of the fire is everlasting? 20:01 It means that what the fire does lasts forever. 20:04 It devours eternally those that are cast into it, 20:07 no second chance. 20:10 All right, now getting into some of the specific errors, 20:13 we're talking about 20:15 some of the last day deceptions. 20:17 We don't have time in our lesson 20:18 to talk about all the last day deceptions. 20:20 I could just ask you to raise your hand and say, 20:22 all right, 20:24 name one of Satan's last day deceptions. 20:26 And I'll bet you we can come up with 50. 20:28 You want to try it for a minute? 20:32 Yes. Yes, okay. 20:33 You like interaction with the class, okay. 20:36 Yeah, hold up your hand, I'll repeat it after you. 20:38 What is the name a "last day deception"? 20:41 There, Vicki. Day of worship. 20:43 The day of worship. What day, the worship, yeah. 20:47 That's actually coming up. 20:49 Spiritualism, those are two that are mentioned in a lesson. 20:58 Well, you know, spring has sprung, 21:01 and you'll see me up here, I don't have a cold but, boy, 21:03 it's just been so windy the last few days 21:04 with the pollen and stuff that, 21:07 yeah, just it had been hitting me too. 21:09 Okay, yeah, Katrina. False christs. 21:11 False christs. We just read that. 21:13 There's gonna be false christs, false prophets, yes. 21:17 The counterfeit baptisms 21:19 is an example of some of the false teachings. 21:23 I can think of lots of that, 21:25 you know, lots more than this, guys, come on. 21:27 Counterfeit, Holy Spirit counterfeit, 21:30 trinity, I heard. 21:31 What else did I hear? 21:32 Counterfeit spiritualism, counterfeit state of the dead. 21:35 Counterfeit tongues. 21:38 Counterfeit for every truth of God. 21:40 Anyone else? I see in the back. 21:41 Calling fire down from heaven. 21:43 Calling fire down, 21:44 or it was counterfeit signs and wonders. 21:47 And worshipping idols, 21:51 and icons, and Mary. 21:55 And there's a lot of, you know, 21:57 there's almost an endless list of things you could think of. 22:00 But there's two in particular that are mentioned 22:03 that are gonna be key in the last days. 22:06 From the book Great Controversy, 22:07 if you read in page 588, 22:10 "Through the two great errors of immortality of the soul 22:15 and Sunday sacredness, 22:17 Satan will bring people under his deceptions. 22:20 While the former lays 22:21 the foundation for spiritualism, 22:23 the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome." 22:26 Then you remember this. 22:27 "The Protestants of the United States 22:28 will be foremost in stretching their hand 22:30 across the gulf to clasp the hand of spiritualism. 22:34 They will reach over the abyss and clasp 22:35 the hand of the Roman power. 22:37 And under the influence of this threefold union, 22:40 this country will follow in the steps of Rome 22:42 trampling on the rights of conscience." 22:44 So it talks about two particular things 22:47 that will be a glue bringing together 22:50 this counterfeit alliance of 22:54 Apostate Protestantism, Apostate Orthodoxy 22:57 or Catholicism, and Spiritualism, 23:01 counterfeit Holy Spirit. 23:03 Is there a counterfeit version of the Holy Spirit 23:05 among Christians today? 23:08 Yeah, you know, 23:09 sometimes I'll turn on Hope channel or 3ABN 23:12 Friday night and right with our satellite, 23:17 just north and south of those channels, 23:19 you've got a number of other Christian channels. 23:21 Sometimes just for fun, 23:22 I'll click and look at some of the others, 23:23 many of them are charismatic channels, 23:26 and you see people, you know, 23:27 just going off into a trance and ostensibly 23:31 under the influence of the Holy Spirit, 23:32 they just begin to jabber and babble, 23:36 and I don't mean to be disrespectful, 23:38 but it doesn't look like anything I see in the Bible. 23:41 And then they start to give out these ecstatic prophecies 23:45 that are sort of disjointed Oracles of Delphi 23:48 that don't make any sense. 23:51 And Benny Hinn used to do that. 23:53 He predicted the end of the world several times, 23:56 speaking in tongues, I mean specific dates 23:58 when it was gonna happen and nothing happened. 24:00 So there's a counterfeit for the Holy Spirit 24:04 that seems to be uniting some of these churches. 24:06 By the way, the Roman Catholics and many of the Greek Orthodox 24:10 had now accepted speaking in tongues 24:12 and there's a whole charismatic branch 24:17 in their churches now. 24:19 All right, look at some of the ways 24:21 that Satan deceives here. 24:22 If you look in 2 Corinthians 2:11, 24:25 someone in a moment is gonna read 2 Thessalonians 2. 24:28 You'll have that, okay. 24:31 2 Corinthians 2:11, 24:33 "Lest Satan should take advantage of us, 24:36 for we are not in ignorant of his devices." 24:40 So the devil's got different devices, 24:42 and he says, we should not be ignorant. 24:45 We should know what some of these devices are. 24:48 If you look in 2 Corinthians 11:13, 24:51 "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, 24:55 transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 24:59 And no wonder! 25:00 For Satan himself, 25:02 Satan transforms himself into an angel of light. 25:06 Therefore it's no thing if his ministers also transform 25:09 themselves into ministers of righteousness, 25:11 whose end will be according to their works." 25:14 So there are a number of counterfeit 25:16 that try to transform themselves into the true. 25:20 All right, go ahead, read for us your verse 25:21 here in 2 Thessalonians 2:9. 25:25 Okay, 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 25:29 "The coming of the lawless one 25:31 is according to the working of Satan, 25:33 with all power, signs, and lying wonders." 25:38 So someone's gonna have power. 25:41 It's real power, signs lying and wonders. 25:46 Now I want you to notice something, 25:49 and I know I talked about Armageddon last week. 25:52 We're gonna jump ahead to... 25:54 I'm gonna go, actually jump back 25:55 and then we're gonna jump from Revelation. 25:57 If you go to 1 Chronicles 10:13, 26:00 King Saul was facing a mammoth battle. 26:03 But before that battle, 26:05 the Bible tells us 26:06 that God wanted to speak to him. 26:11 So he went and sought out a witch, 26:14 and he went to the witch 26:16 and she called up a medium 26:18 that looked very real and sounded very real. 26:20 It turns out it was a lying spirit. 26:24 Now didn't we just see power, signs, 26:26 and lying wonders in Thessalonians? 26:28 Look in 1 Chronicles 10:13, 26:31 "So Saul died for his unfaithfulness 26:34 that he had committed against the Lord, 26:36 because he did not keep the word of the Lord, 26:38 and because he consulted a medium for guidance." 26:42 Some people think, "Well, wasn't that really Samuel?" 26:44 Now you can read in... 26:45 If you go to Chronicles, if you read just 1 Samuel, 26:47 it could leave you confused. 26:49 But read the commentary there that we just read in Chronicles 26:52 and it says, one of the reasons 26:53 Saul died is he did not consult the Lord, 26:55 where instead he consulted a witch 26:58 who conjured up an evil spirit that spoke to him. 27:02 That's what mediums do. 27:05 Now with that in mind 27:06 before that great battle that Saul fought, 27:09 he was deceived by evil spirits. 27:12 What does Revelation say? 27:13 Look in Revelation 16:14, 27:15 "For they are the spirits of demons, 27:18 performing signs that go out 27:20 to the kings of the earth and the whole world, 27:22 to gather them to the battle of the great day 27:24 of God Almighty." 27:26 Now what specifically did the witch of Endor do 27:30 to deceive Saul? 27:34 Because he did not understand the state of the dead, 27:36 he thought he was talking to Samuel, 27:38 and he was talking to a fallen angel, a devil. 27:42 Isn't that right? 27:44 What is gonna happen in the last days? 27:47 These three unclean spirits like 27:48 frogs go out of the mouth of the beast, 27:50 the dragon, and the false prophet, 27:53 and they gather together, the kings, the governments, 27:55 the powers of the earth to battle. 27:59 And it says, "They are spirits of demons performing signs." 28:03 They're gonna use spiritualism and there's gonna be, 28:08 ostensibly, dead people appearing 28:11 to these world leaders, saying, 28:12 I am, you know, I am Mary, I am Peter, I am James, John, 28:17 who know, they'll say I'm Abraham Lincoln. 28:18 I don't know what they'll do. 28:20 But they'll be calling up him, and they'll say, 28:22 I'm the ghost of Ronald Reagan. 28:23 Listen to me, 28:24 they'll be calling up all of these things 28:26 and say, whoa! 28:28 And under this counterfeit guidance 28:29 because they don't understand the state of the dead, 28:32 it's gonna play a major role in deceiving people. 28:36 If you look in Revelation 20:2, 28:42 it says that speaking of the millennium, the devil, 28:45 "He laid hold on the dragon, that serpent of old, 28:49 who is the devil and Satan, 28:51 and bound him for a thousand years." 28:53 He's that old serpent, the one who deceives the world. 28:57 And you look in Revelation 20:10, 29:01 "The devil, who deceived them, 29:04 was cast into the lake of fire." 29:06 One of the things he's being destroyed for is, 29:09 he's a liar, and he's the father of it. 29:11 He's a murderer, and he's a first of that too. 29:13 He's been a great deceiver. 29:15 All right, see, it looks like we have some of our viewers 29:17 that have sent in some questions, 29:19 it looks like they came in on Facebook. 29:21 All right, "How can we determine 29:23 between true and false prophets?" 29:26 Well, we read in Matthew, where it says, 29:27 there's gonna to be false christs 29:28 and false prophets. 29:30 Tell you what, I'm gonna put that out to you. 29:33 Give me some of the criteria 29:35 and raise your hand, I'll repeat. 29:37 How do you tell the difference 29:38 between a true and a false prophet? 29:40 I see one hand. 29:41 Isaiah 8:20, they can follow the light. 29:44 "According to the law and the testimony, 29:46 if they speak not according to this word, 29:48 there is no light in them." 29:49 So it's gonna... 29:51 Yeah, if what they say is not in harmony with the Bible. 29:53 Very good. Saw another hand I thought. 29:56 John, you're gonna do same one, according to the Word of God. 30:00 How do you know a true from a false prophet? 30:02 There is about 11 things 30:03 that we have in the Amazing Facts study guide 30:05 to tell the difference. 30:06 Yes. Prophecies of truth. 30:08 Yeah, if their prophecy fall on the ground. 30:11 Now can you think of an Old Testament prophecy 30:13 that made a prophecy and it didn't happen. 30:17 Jonah, when they repented, 30:19 of course, that was a conditional prophecy. 30:21 When they repented, 30:22 they were gonna be destroyed for their sin, 30:23 and when they repented, he forgave them. 30:25 But if a prophet says something is gonna happen 30:27 and it's not a conditional prophecy 30:28 and it doesn't happen, Moses said, 30:30 do not believe that prophet. Vicki? 30:32 And like Isaiah and some of the other prophets 30:35 prophesied wonderful things that would happen to Israel, 30:39 but it was all contingent on 30:41 if they turn their hearts to the Lord. 30:43 Yeah, some prophets were contingent to Israel, 30:46 were contingent on their repenting. 30:48 Now what about... 30:50 What is the emphasis of a true prophet? 30:52 Is it to glorify self or God? 30:54 Glorify God. 30:56 Will a true prophet ask for your credit card number 30:58 before they give you their prophecy? 31:01 Do they charge for their prophecy? 31:03 Can you ever see Elijah standing before Ahab 31:06 and saying, thus save the Lord, now here is your receipt, 31:09 now I'll share what the Lord said. 31:12 All right, got another one. 31:15 Their lives would bear the fruits of the spirit, 31:18 they will be holy in their lives. 31:19 And so some people said they're prophets of God, 31:22 but they just followed with all kinds of wicked scandal, 31:24 you wonder if they're really prophets of God, okay. 31:29 I see, yeah. 31:31 They want to build up the church. 31:33 Yeah, their prophecies, very good point, 31:35 are gonna be designed 31:36 not to just bring attention to themselves 31:38 but to build up the church. 31:40 So, and the prophecy they give will be in harmony 31:45 with other scripture. 31:46 Now I know, I talked about being scriptural, 31:48 but they're gonna have the trademarks 31:51 of a true prophet in the language. 31:54 Okay, so there are some signs of true and a false prophet. 31:58 We got another question here. 32:00 "How could it be possible for the elect to be deceived 32:05 in the last days?" 32:07 Well, it doesn't say they are deceived, 32:09 Jesus said, if it were possible, 32:11 the very elect would be deceived. 32:13 It means that it's gonna be so powerful that 32:17 they're nearly deceived. 32:19 How powerful were the temptations 32:21 that the devil brought to Jesus? 32:24 When the devil appeared to Jesus, 32:26 did he appear with, what, he have, you know, 32:30 red leotards and goat feet, and a beard, and horns, 32:36 and bat wings, and long fingernails, 32:40 he plopped down on the ground and said, 32:42 "I've got a proposition, 32:43 if you turn these stones into bread." 32:45 Would you have ever been fooled by that? 32:47 Or did he look like an angel of light? 32:50 It's like an angel came to Elijah 32:52 when he was starving in the wilderness. 32:53 And this angel said, I've been sent from God, 32:56 just like an angel was sent to help Elijah, 32:59 I know you're hungry, you've also fasted 33:01 40 days and 40 nights. 33:03 And just one little thing, if you're the Son of God, 33:06 this is a little test, turn these stones into bread. 33:09 And it seems so real. 33:12 So the last day deceptions are coming 33:14 and see elect are gonna border with the true. 33:18 They're gonna look very similar. 33:20 And that's what makes deception. 33:22 If you're gonna make a counterfeit $10 bill, 33:25 what number will be on it? 33:27 Six? 33:29 No, so you're gonna make it 33:30 as close to the real as you can, 33:33 and that's what's gonna deceive people. 33:36 Are there counterfeit churches and counterfeit denominations? 33:40 Do they read the Bible? 33:43 Do they sing some of the same songs? 33:45 Do the people look like us? 33:48 And there's just a lot of similar things, 33:50 but in some of the teachings 33:52 it's something that is deadly toxic. 33:55 And so the last day deceptions are gonna be very similar. 33:58 Okay, let's do a little more 33:59 and I see more questions are coming in, 34:01 but we'll do some of the lesson here. 34:03 Immortality of the soul, 34:05 so that is one of the major deceptions. 34:09 If you read in Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, 34:12 in a moment someone's gonna have Psalms 115:17, 34:15 you'll have, okay? 34:17 Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, we all know this, 34:19 so you should know this by heart. 34:20 "The living know that they will die, 34:22 but the dead know not anything." 34:26 Right, I read that to a pastor one time, 34:27 he says, "You're not supposed to take that seriously." 34:29 I said, "What?" 34:31 He said, "I know it looks like that's what it seemed," 34:32 he said, "but Solomon wrote the book of Ecclesiastes 34:35 while he was depressed." 34:37 Matter fact, I think that's in Scofield's Commentary. 34:40 You've heard of a Scofield Bible, 34:41 that's why I don't like the Scofield Bible. 34:44 Now there are other reasons. 34:46 He says, just ignore it, that Solomon was depressed, 34:49 he's saying everything is vanity of vanity, 34:51 and he just said, oh, we're all gonna die 34:53 and we don't know anything and it's not inspired. 34:57 It's pretty sad. 34:58 No, I think Solomon knew just what he was saying. 35:00 Last part of the book, he says, 35:01 "Fear God and keep His commandments, 35:03 for this is the whole duty of man." 35:05 But he knew that in death we know nothing. 35:08 He goes on, he says, "Their love, their hatred, 35:10 their envy is now perished. 35:12 Nevermore will they have a share 35:13 in anything done under the sun." 35:15 Meaning in this life, when the person dies, Job says, 35:18 they do not return back to their house, 35:19 he says the same thing Solomon says. 35:22 Ecclesiastes 9:10, just go to verse 10. 35:25 "Whatever your hand finds to do, 35:27 do it with your might, 35:29 for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom 35:32 in the grave where you are going." 35:35 The people in the grave have no wisdom, 35:37 they have no knowledge. 35:38 They don't know anything. They are asleep. 35:41 All right, please read for us Psalm 115:17. 35:45 Psalm 115:17. 35:48 "The dead do not praise the Lord, 35:52 nor any who go down into silence." 35:56 Now, if when you die, your next conscious thought 36:01 is the resurrection and it happens, you know, 36:03 while we're still here on earth that you die 36:05 and you're up in heaven praising the Lord. 36:07 I would think the next thing you do 36:08 if you're in heaven would be to praise the Lord. 36:10 But here David said, 36:11 the dead do not praise the Lord. 36:12 What does the Bible say about David? 36:15 David was a good king, man after God's own heart. 36:19 You read in Acts 2, Peter says David is dead and buried 36:23 and he's not ascended to heaven. 36:25 Says his grave is with us to this day. 36:27 It says, David slept with his fathers. 36:29 I mean, how more clear can God be? 36:31 Slept, dead, not in heaven, dead don't know anything. 36:38 But what about the verse Pastor Doug that says, 36:41 I know most of you know the answer to this, 36:43 but there is people watching. 36:45 What about the verse that says, 36:46 "Absent from the body, present with the Lord." 36:49 Doesn't that mean that once you die, 36:52 you're then present with the Lord? 36:54 Well, yes, as far as you're concerned 36:57 if you die and you have a dreamless sleep, 36:59 what's your next conscious thought? 37:02 The resurrection. Now David died 3000 years ago. 37:08 Does it seem like 3000 years to him? 37:12 What's the next conscious thought David will have? 37:15 When the Lord descends from heaven 37:17 and the trumpet blows and the dead in Christ rise, 37:19 it will seem like a moment, 37:20 the twinkling of an eye for him, 37:23 but it hasn't happened yet. 37:25 And the reason it's important to know that 37:26 they're not there yet. 37:27 As far as they're concerned, we're happy for them 37:29 'cause that's their next conscious thought. 37:31 But they're not there yet because you could be deceived 37:34 by someone pretending to be the dead 37:36 if they go right to heaven. 37:38 Oh, what about Elijah and what about Moses? 37:41 Well, we know there are unusual circumstances. 37:43 Elijah went to heaven in a fiery chariot. 37:45 Moses was resurrected three days after he died. 37:48 You read that in the Book of Jude 1:9. 37:51 Let's look at a few more. 37:53 Psalm 146:4, "His spirit departs, 37:57 he returns to his earth. 37:58 In that very day his thoughts perish." 38:01 Breath of life goes away, they don't start thinking 38:03 new enhanced thoughts, they stop thinking 38:06 'cause they are asleep. 38:07 Daniel 12:2, "Many of those who sleep 38:10 in the dust of the earth shall awake," 38:12 when the Lord comes, "Some to everlasting life, 38:15 and some to shame and everlasting contempt." 38:18 When Jesus was talking about his friend Lazarus, 38:20 this to me, I think is one of the most convincing. 38:23 He said, this is John 11:11, "These things He said, 38:28 and after that He said to them, 'Our friend Lazarus sleeps, 38:31 but I go that I might wake him up.'" 38:34 His disciples misunderstood. 38:35 They said, Lord, if he sleep, he get well, that's good. 38:37 However, Jesus spoke of his death, 38:40 but they thought He was talking about taking rest and sleep. 38:43 Jesus said to them plainly, Lazarus is dead, 38:47 and I'm calling it sleep. 38:49 Now, how long was Lazarus dead? 38:52 Almost four days, yeah, when he finally got to the tomb 38:56 and Jesus resurrected him. 39:00 And when Jesus resurrected Lazarus, 39:03 what did Lazarus say about his death experience? 39:06 Did he say, "Thank You Lord for saving me 39:10 from the chasm of the lake of fire." 39:13 Or did he say, "Lord, why did you bring me back 39:16 from the golden streets and the tree of life?" 39:19 Did he make any comment on anything? 39:23 Now if that happened today, if a person had been dead, 39:29 medically certified dead, 39:31 already decomposing for four days 39:33 and they suddenly are reconstitute 39:35 and they come back to life. 39:37 Every news agency in the world would have reporters there 39:43 and they would push a microphone in your face 39:44 and say, "What did you see?" 39:47 Wouldn't that be the question? What was death like? 39:49 We've been wanting to know about death 39:51 for thousands of years, you've got the answer now. 39:52 What happens when you die? 39:55 And Lazarus would have said, I don't remember. 39:59 I don't know anything. 40:01 I knew I had a fever, I was fading in and out, 40:04 next thing I knew, here I am, 40:05 wrapped in grave clothes, right? 40:09 He had no consciousness. 40:10 Matter of fact, to me, 40:11 this is I think is one of the strongest arguments. 40:14 There are about a dozen resurrections in the Bible. 40:16 Now we're not exactly sure because when Paul was stoned 40:21 and he got back up again, some have argued, 40:22 they stoned him to death, and God just resurrected him. 40:26 Now Eutychus fell out the window, 40:28 it looked like Eutychus died, and some think 40:29 he was just knocked out, 40:31 but I think the Bible's clear, he was dead. 40:33 So there is some question about a few of them. 40:36 But there is about a dozen resurrections in the Bible. 40:39 Do you realize that out of those 12 people 40:41 that are raised, not a single one said 40:43 they had any consciousness in death. 40:47 When did you think that you should have 40:49 at least one testimony? 40:52 Someone will say what about the parable 40:53 of the rich man and Lazarus? 40:55 Doesn't say the rich man or the Lazarus never comes back 40:58 from the dead and that is a parable. 41:01 Did the people in heaven and hell talk to each other? 41:04 No. 41:05 Can a drop of water cool a person burning in hell? 41:08 No. 41:09 And so does every dead person go to the bosom of Abraham? 41:14 You know, a lot of acreage in his bosom if that's true. 41:17 I mean, so it's obviously full of metaphors 41:20 and you don't want to build your theology on that. 41:24 And you go to 1 Corinthians 15, here's a couple more that 41:27 I think are slam dunk verses on the state of the dead. 41:30 This is an important last day deception. 41:33 How many of you have been to a funeral, 41:34 where they say, "Our dearly beloved sister or brother, 41:38 they're now on the streets of gold, 41:40 they're singing." 41:41 And, you know, if these famous people die, 41:44 and is that what the Bible says? 41:45 When does the resurrection take place? 41:47 1 Corinthians 15, Paul says a lot about it 41:49 in the 1 Corinthians. 41:51 Go to verse 16, 41:52 "For if indeed, the dead do not rise, 41:54 then Christ is not risen. 41:56 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile, 41:58 you are still in your sins! 41:59 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 42:03 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, 42:06 we are of all men most pitiable." 42:08 Go down now to verse 22. 42:11 "For as in Adam all die," so Paul says here 42:14 in verse 16 through 19, 42:15 they have fallen asleep in Christ. 42:18 Go to verse 22, 1 Corinthians 15, 42:22 "For in Adam all die, 42:23 even so in Christ all shall be made alive." 42:27 Are they alive now or they shall be? 42:29 That's future. When? 42:31 "Each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits," 42:33 Christ has already risen, He is first, 42:35 "Afterward," talking about the others, 42:38 "Those who are Christ's," the saved, "At His coming." 42:42 So when are they raised? At His coming. 42:45 How could it be more clear than that? 42:47 The Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, 42:49 the voice of the archangel, the trump of God, 42:51 then the dead in Christ will arise. 42:54 They're not risen yet, you can't rise them 42:56 if they're already risen, right? 42:59 Go to 1 Corinthians 15:51, "Behold, I tell you a mystery, 43:03 we will not all sleep, 43:05 but we will all be changed in a moment, 43:07 in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. 43:10 For the trumpet will sound, 43:11 and the dead will be raised incorruptible." 43:14 That's when they're raised is when the Lord comes. 43:17 Now we said that there's a couple of different 43:20 major deceptions, one was spiritualism, 43:24 not understanding the state of the dead. 43:25 It's gonna be used by the devil in the last days 43:27 and it's being used now. 43:29 The other was a misunderstanding 43:31 of the Sabbath and the holy day, 43:33 Sunday sacredness. 43:35 And so, why is that important? A number of reasons. 43:40 You look in your lesson here, it has to do first of all 43:44 with worshipping God the way He says. 43:46 Look in your lesson in Genesis, it says, 43:48 the Sabbath and the Theory of Evolution. 43:51 Has something changed in our culture 43:54 in the last 50 years? 43:56 Has there been a major shift of people going 43:58 from believing in divine creation to believing 44:01 that we've evolved from lower forms of life? 44:05 If people were really keeping the Sabbath the way God said 44:08 and the Sabbath says, "For in six days 44:10 the Lord made heaven and earth, and sea." 44:14 And look at all, and I know this is terribly, 44:16 politically dangerous to say this, 44:18 but look at all the confusion in our culture 44:22 about the distinction between men and women. 44:26 Doesn't the Bible say that Jesus said, 44:28 in the beginning God made the male and female, 44:32 they are different? 44:34 But look at how far our society and a corrupt culture is going 44:39 in trying to amalgamate men and women 44:42 into one sort of nebulous thing, 44:45 and they're trying to redefine it 44:46 and you actually get to pick your own definition. 44:50 Somebody sent me a little clip yesterday that in England, 44:56 they're upset about Mother's Day 44:57 because it's leaving out people 45:00 that don't get to identify as mothers. 45:05 And so, it was the most absurd thing I've ever seen. 45:10 But yeah, that people are angry at Mother's Day now 45:12 'cause it's too feministic as it should be for anybody. 45:17 You don't have to be a mother, you may want to identify. 45:21 Even if you are father, 45:22 you should be able to celebrate Mother's Day. 45:25 Yeah, you do through your wife, that's right. 45:31 But why are we having all these problems? 45:33 It's because evolution that basically says, 45:37 you're your own God, and you're evolving, 45:39 and you're becoming like... 45:40 It's like what the devil said to Adam and Eve, 45:42 you will be God. 45:44 And you sort of made yourself over millions of years. 45:49 You can do whatever you want 45:50 because you're not accountable to anyone 45:51 because you just evolved by accident. 45:53 That's the main reason for evolution 45:55 is to get rid of the accountability factor 45:57 that we don't have to answer to God. 46:00 So Revelation 16:13, I'm sorry, rather, Genesis 1:3, 46:06 "God said, 'Let there be light,' 46:08 and there was light. 46:09 And God saw the light, it was good. 46:11 And God divided the light from the darkness. 46:13 God called the light Day, 46:15 and the darkness He called Night. 46:17 So the evening and the morning were the first day." 46:19 That word day, there is Yom. 46:21 It's talking about a distinct clear 24 hour period of time. 46:26 Whenever we celebrate the Sabbath 46:28 on the seventh day of the week, 46:29 we are celebrating a 24 hour period of time. 46:33 And when God tells us to remember the Sabbath day, 46:35 "For in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth," 46:38 He's telling us that He made those six days 46:40 in 24 hour periods of time, that's why every Sabbath day, 46:43 we're remembering what God did. 46:46 That's why there are seven days in the week 46:48 'cause He made everything in six days. 46:49 He said, I'll make it one more day, 46:51 24 hour period, to remember the others. 46:54 But more and more churches are trying to combine. 46:56 They think, well, you know, the scientific world 46:59 is laughing at Christians 47:00 'cause we don't believe in evolution, 47:01 so let's say we sort of believe in evolution, 47:03 get them off our back, 47:05 we'll just say that God created through evolution. 47:08 That doesn't work. 47:10 The Bible says that God created it six literal days 47:13 and there are skeptics in the church 47:17 that say that God... 47:19 The first 11 chapters up to the Tower of Babel, 47:21 until you get to Abraham, they said it's all parables. 47:24 It's all symbolic, don't take it literally. 47:27 And even as the Catholic Church officially says 47:31 that Genesis should not be taken literally, 47:34 and that God created that these stories are there 47:37 to teach moral lessons. 47:40 And at some point, you know, 47:42 you've got this ape like creature, 47:45 dragging his knuckles on the ground, 47:47 he's dragging his wife by her hair. 47:50 And suddenly, some spark illuminates his eyes 47:53 and now he has a soul and he becomes man, 47:55 he goes from ape to man. 47:56 And that was the moment 47:58 and he just kind of kept evolving upward. 48:00 And this is a concept I've actually heard. 48:01 Catholic theologians say, yeah, there was a moment 48:03 when God put a soul in man and made him in His own image. 48:08 But up until then, he was an animal. 48:11 I think it's Jehovah's Witnesses 48:13 that say that the six days of creation 48:15 were really thousands of years, 48:18 and it was really 7,000 years, you can't go... 48:21 That doesn't work, friends. 48:23 God made the vegetation on the third day, 48:25 He did not make the sunlight for the vegetation 48:28 until the fourth day. 48:30 Plants can live 24 hours without the sun, 48:32 they can't live 6000 years without the sun. 48:35 These are not epics of thousands or millions 48:37 or billions of years. 48:40 Jesus said, don't forget this. 48:41 Jesus said, "If you do not believe Moses, 48:45 you do not believe Me." 48:48 And so, if you don't believe what Moses said 48:50 in those first 11 chapters, don't say, 48:52 well, I believe in... 48:53 Yeah, I believe the Bible. 48:54 I just believe that God used evolution to create, 48:56 you don't believe the Bible 'cause the Bible's clear, 48:59 He did it in 6, 24 hour days, 49:02 every Sabbath is a memorial of that. 49:04 Amen. Look in Colossians 1:16. 49:10 "For by Him all things were created that are in heaven 49:13 and that are on earth, visible and invisible, 49:15 whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. 49:19 All things were created through Him and for Him." 49:22 Now just because we maybe have not observed 49:25 God making light or things, 49:30 doesn't mean that God doesn't do it. 49:32 He did it by his divine power. 49:34 "Oh, but, Pastor Doug, 49:37 it takes billions of years for the light 49:40 from the distant stars to reach our earth. 49:41 How could He have made those in a literal day? 49:44 And it takes so long for the light 49:46 to get to the earth." 49:47 I always say that you just got to think of tree rings. 49:52 When God made the first trees, did they have rings in them? 49:58 Sure. 50:00 When He made the first turtle, did He make it full grown? 50:06 You know, some turtles increase 50:08 the number of plates as they get older. 50:11 A rattlesnake will have different numbers of rattles 50:14 based on how many times it shed its skin. 50:16 The first rattlesnake that God made, 50:17 I know you don't like to think about that. 50:19 First rattlesnake that God made, 50:21 did He have a little button like a baby 50:22 or did He have a full raft or rattles? 50:25 And so when God made the stars, 50:27 why can't God make the starlight already in route? 50:33 Of course, He can. He can do anything. 50:35 And so it's a question of do you believe. 50:38 I mean just any of the evidence that you seem to see for time 50:42 in the environment, God can build that time 50:45 into the original creation. 50:48 And so, I believe if it says, He made it in six days, 50:51 He made it in six days. 50:52 And I'll tell you something else, 50:54 this is very, very important. 50:56 This is a Pastor Dougism. 51:00 If you're struggling with 51:01 how much of the Bible to believe, 51:03 and you're wondering should I believe too much 51:04 or too little, always believe too much. 51:07 Amen. 51:08 If you're gonna make a mistake and saying, 51:10 I'm gonna start nitpicking and say, 51:12 I'm not sure I believe this, 51:13 and it seems like a contradiction there 51:14 and you start saying, this part can't be trusted, 51:17 you are on the road to ruin 51:20 when you begin to take the Bible apart 51:22 because pretty soon you won't believe any of it, 51:23 you are much better off. 51:25 There are difficult passages, but you are much better off, 51:27 believe it is all, the inspired Word of God and you're safe. 51:32 As soon as you start to dissect it 51:34 and to say, well, I can't believe that part, 51:36 that didn't really mean what it says. 51:38 Yeah, you're building on the sand then. 51:41 All right, we got just a few moments left. 51:43 I have another question. 51:45 "What can I do in my spiritual life, 51:46 so I'm not the seed in the last days?" 51:50 Good, good question. 51:52 How do I know that I'm not deceived? 51:54 Well, first of all, keep your eyes on Jesus. 51:57 Thy word I have hid in my heart that I might not sin. 52:02 Fortify your mind. 52:03 I remember there's a quote, 52:04 I think it's in Great Controversy, 52:06 "Only those who fortify their minds 52:08 with the truth of God's Word 52:09 will stand in the final conflict." 52:12 How did Jesus fight the deceptions of the devil? 52:14 It is written. It is written. 52:16 It is written, but we use the same strategy. 52:19 Amen. 52:20 There's another question, or is that the last one there? 52:22 Yes, "How do we distinguish between miracles from God, 52:25 and those from Satan?" 52:27 Well that be some of the same things you do 52:30 to distinguish between the true prophets 52:32 and the false prophets. 52:34 If there is a miracle and it glorifies man 52:39 or it contradicts the Bible, it's not from God. 52:42 All right, counterfeit trinity, now this is very important. 52:46 You notice in Revelation, it seems like the devil seeks 52:48 to counterfeit every truth of God. 52:51 Revelation 16, "These three unclean spirits 52:55 like frogs out of the mouth of the dragon, 52:58 the mouth of the beast, 52:59 and the mouth of the false prophet. 53:01 In Revelation, in the first chapter, 53:03 it identifies the trinity. 53:05 Have you ever noticed that? 53:07 And you find even the Holy Spirit, 53:08 last words, spirit in the bride say come. 53:11 It talks about the seven spirits 53:12 before the throne, and from Jesus, and from God. 53:15 They're in the first chapter and here you got 53:17 a counterfeit trinity if you will. 53:20 But what else does the devil counterfeit in Revelation? 53:23 Well, does it tell us 53:25 that Christ has crowns in Revelation? 53:28 Does the beast have crowns? 53:30 Does the Bible says, that Christ has a seal 53:33 that identifies His people? 53:35 You're still with me? Yeah. 53:37 Yeah. What about the beast? 53:38 Does it have a seal? 53:41 Does the Bible says, that Christ has power? 53:44 It says in Revelation, it says, 53:46 the beast unto him was given power. 53:49 Does the Bible talk about worshipping Christ? 53:51 All the angels fell down and they worship Him? 53:54 Yes. 53:55 Does the Bible talk about 53:57 worshipping the beast in Revelation? 53:59 Yes. 54:01 What about Christ's resurrection? 54:03 Does it talk about the lamb that was slain? 54:06 Does Jesus say, I was the one who is dead 54:07 and now I'm alive forever more, 54:09 so is the resurrection of Christ in Revelation. 54:11 Is there a counterfeit resurrection? 54:14 Beast receives a deadly wound, and the deadly wound is healed. 54:18 He comes back to life and all the world wonders. 54:22 You know, one of the powerful things 54:23 about Christ is the resurrection 54:24 but the devil counterfeits that. 54:27 Does Jesus have a bride in Revelation 12? 54:32 Does Frankenstein have a bride in Revelation 17? 54:36 Just wondering if you are still listening. 54:38 You get the bride of the beast in Revelation 17, 54:41 right, Babylon. 54:45 Is Christ, do you see in Revelation 54:47 that God becomes a man in Christ? 54:50 Yes. 54:51 And what about the beast does it say? 54:53 It is the number of a man, there's some incarnation 54:56 of that power, that's happening there. 54:59 Does the Bible say Christ has true apostles? 55:03 And did we read in 2 Corinthians 11, 55:05 the devil has false apostles. 55:07 Deceitful workers. 55:09 And so, you can see Revelation, one of the reasons 55:12 it is a masterpiece of deception 55:14 is the devil is taking all the truths of God 55:16 and I haven't listed them all, 55:18 and He created a counterfeit for them. 55:19 And some of you're gonna say, 55:20 "Pastor Doug, I want those notes." 55:22 And we usually post them at the Amazing Facts website, 55:25 so you'll see them there. 55:27 Yeah, the devil has got a counterfeit. 55:28 So we need to know, we need to spend time 55:31 studying the authentic, 55:33 so that we're not deceived in the last days. 55:35 Amen. 55:36 I want to thank you again, friends, 55:37 for studying His Word with us and a very interesting study. 55:41 We look forward to doing it again with you again next week. 55:44 Let's face it, it's not always easy 55:46 to understand everything you read in the Bible. 55:49 With over 700,000 words contained in 66 books, 55:53 the Bible can generate a lot of questions. 55:55 To get biblical straightforward answers, 55:58 call into Bible Answers Live, 56:00 a live nationwide call-in radio program 56:02 where you can talk to Pastor Doug Batchelor 56:05 and ask him your most difficult Bible questions. 56:07 For times and stations in your area 56:09 or to listen to answers online, visit Bal.AmazingFacts.org. 57:01 Heavens were parted for Him. 57:03 The Holy Spirit came down. 57:04 This is what God wants you to experience. 57:07 You come to Christ, your sins are washed away, 57:10 you become a new creature. 57:11 It's a land of beginning again, 57:13 and how many of you wish you can restart. 57:17 For I was hungry 57:19 and you gave me something to eat, 57:22 in as much you shall do it to one of the least of these, 57:25 my brethren, you did it to me. 57:37 Can't get enough Amazing Facts Bible study? 57:40 You don't have to wait until next week 57:42 to enjoy more truth filled programming. 57:44 Visit the Amazing Facts media library at aftv.org. 57:49 At aftv.org, you can enjoy video and audio presentations, 57:54 as well as printed material all free of charge, 57:57 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 58:00 right from your computer or mobile device. 58:02 Visit aftv.org. |
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