Hello and welcome
back to "3ABN Today Live."
00:00:11.00\00:00:13.59
Thank you for joining us.
00:00:13.62\00:00:14.94
I hope you are
with us the first hour,
00:00:14.97\00:00:16.98
if not we have with us
our guest tonight Ty Gibson,
00:00:17.01\00:00:21.00
I started to say James Rafferty
00:00:21.03\00:00:22.47
because I've never--I hardly
ever said those two names-
00:00:22.50\00:00:25.45
You say them
together, don't you?
00:00:25.48\00:00:27.42
But Pastor
David Asscherick and--
00:00:27.45\00:00:29.52
I wish James was here actually.
00:00:29.55\00:00:31.05
Me too I love him, great guy,
00:00:31.08\00:00:32.95
like having here all
three you guys really,
00:00:32.98\00:00:36.35
to me you're a miracle
what God can do with people
00:00:36.38\00:00:40.64
when you submit and commit.
00:00:40.67\00:00:41.88
Because all of you're
backgrounds are suspect,
00:00:41.91\00:00:43.94
you know, when
you-- It's true actually.
00:00:43.97\00:00:47.09
Tell us how you really feel?
00:00:47.12\00:00:48.71
Yeah, yeah, all of your
backgrounds are suspects
00:00:48.74\00:00:50.88
so as mine of
course but I'm saying,
00:00:50.91\00:00:52.29
knowing where you come from,
00:00:52.32\00:00:53.37
now weren't you one
time a skateboarder and--
00:00:53.40\00:00:56.15
I'm still a skateboarder.
00:00:56.18\00:00:57.21
But I was punk
rock skateboarder.
00:00:57.24\00:00:58.77
Okay, punk rock skateboarder.
00:00:58.80\00:01:00.38
You were in a gang
or something, right?
00:01:00.41\00:01:02.28
Yes, I was.
00:01:02.31\00:01:03.34
Now, maybe
surely, James didn't have,
00:01:03.37\00:01:04.58
he didn't have
anything back like that.
00:01:04.61\00:01:06.17
It's sorted. It
got sorted, okay.
00:01:06.20\00:01:09.41
So isn't that great that God can
take for all you human agents
00:01:09.44\00:01:13.23
when you submit
and commit your life
00:01:13.26\00:01:15.24
that He can do a
great and mighty things,
00:01:15.27\00:01:17.63
you know, it's amazing, He says,
00:01:17.66\00:01:19.47
"Greater things shall
you do than I have done."
00:01:19.50\00:01:21.89
And so but none of us would say,
00:01:21.92\00:01:23.28
"Well, I'm doing something
greater than Jesus today."
00:01:23.31\00:01:25.60
What did He mean?
00:01:25.63\00:01:26.77
I have thought about
it, you ever think about it,
00:01:26.80\00:01:28.23
I mean, with me, when
Jesus, He went places,
00:01:28.26\00:01:31.06
He walked from place to place.
00:01:31.09\00:01:32.41
When He spoke,
whoever has been hearing.
00:01:32.44\00:01:34.84
Today, He's given us
technology to reach the world
00:01:34.87\00:01:37.90
setting right here in this chair
00:01:37.93\00:01:39.65
greater things that
we're doing than He did.
00:01:39.68\00:01:41.53
Not in the fact that he
said, I'm gonna give you tools
00:01:41.56\00:01:44.78
I'm gonna give you equipment
00:01:44.81\00:01:45.84
to take this
gospel to the world.
00:01:45.87\00:01:47.63
You don't, I've
got to have to do it,
00:01:47.66\00:01:48.77
like I'm doing
right here. Beautiful.
00:01:48.80\00:01:50.17
But I'm going to help you.
00:01:50.20\00:01:51.23
That's just does saith, Danny,
00:01:51.26\00:01:52.65
but-- No, I like it,
00:01:52.68\00:01:54.39
I mean I was on plane to Eugene
this morning and here I am.
00:01:54.42\00:01:57.51
You know, I mean,
it's-that is something
00:01:57.54\00:01:59.80
that would have
been inconceivable
00:01:59.83\00:02:01.76
in those times, here we are.
00:02:01.79\00:02:03.12
So He has given
us every advantage
00:02:03.15\00:02:04.87
to get the gospel to
the world. Absolutely.
00:02:04.90\00:02:06.47
I also want to mention,
Danny, if you don't mind.
00:02:06.50\00:02:09.28
We've mentioned
James and he is definitely
00:02:09.31\00:02:13.37
a part of Light
Bearers and what we're doing
00:02:13.40\00:02:15.72
and he and David
and I are co-directors.
00:02:15.75\00:02:19.48
There are three of
us that are running
00:02:19.51\00:02:21.30
Light Bearers together,
00:02:21.33\00:02:22.84
but I think it
would be appropriate
00:02:22.87\00:02:24.40
to also mention
that Nathan Renner,
00:02:24.43\00:02:28.68
who was a
co-founder with David of ARISE,
00:02:28.71\00:02:33.14
is also still active in ministry
and still working with us in,
00:02:33.17\00:02:36.65
in a different capacity but
he is still working with us.
00:02:36.68\00:02:38.68
He teaches at ARISE.
00:02:38.71\00:02:40.41
He is actually pastoring
a church in California,
00:02:40.44\00:02:42.55
the Sonora
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:02:42.58\00:02:44.01
And we have tried to
woo him away but he is,
00:02:44.04\00:02:47.80
he is riveted
fast to that church
00:02:47.83\00:02:50.41
but as far as being
involved in our ministry
00:02:50.44\00:02:53.76
and being
supportive of our ministry.
00:02:53.79\00:02:55.09
He is just as
committed as he is ever.
00:02:55.12\00:02:57.11
He will be teaching through
the Book of Romans in fact--
00:02:57.14\00:02:59.33
Yeah, just a couple of weeks.
00:02:59.36\00:03:00.39
Yeah, in a couple of
weeks, he will teaching
00:03:00.42\00:03:01.91
through the Book of
Romans for the students.
00:03:01.94\00:03:03.99
Oh, great, great. Yeah.
00:03:04.02\00:03:05.65
All right, so we are talking
for those just joined us,
00:03:05.68\00:03:08.16
we're taking us through
seven points Territorial Forces.
00:03:08.19\00:03:11.98
That's right.
00:03:12.01\00:03:13.04
And we're talking
about the great controversy
00:03:13.07\00:03:14.72
which you guys have done
in a absolutely beautiful way.
00:03:14.75\00:03:17.31
I know that the Holy Sprit has,
00:03:17.34\00:03:19.26
you know, led and guided
you in what you're doing here
00:03:19.29\00:03:21.87
but it's a way that
right now that to me
00:03:21.90\00:03:23.92
it's beautiful to really
see that we've never been alone.
00:03:23.95\00:03:27.75
Yeah.
00:03:27.78\00:03:28.90
It's never been in question
that God has always had a plan.
00:03:28.93\00:03:33.18
He says, "I have plans for you"
00:03:33.21\00:03:34.47
in Jeremiah, right? Yes.
00:03:34.50\00:03:35.78
I have plans for
you that you'll prosper
00:03:35.81\00:03:37.54
depending on what translation.
00:03:37.57\00:03:39.33
But that you'll do
well, you will succeed,
00:03:39.36\00:03:41.22
you will make it and
so I think it's wonderful
00:03:41.25\00:03:44.49
that I always tell people,
00:03:44.52\00:03:47.64
you know, Satan can rob us
of everything that we have,
00:03:47.67\00:03:50.55
he can rob us of our
health, he can rob us of,
00:03:50.58\00:03:52.63
you know, our
finances, he can rob us of,
00:03:52.66\00:03:55.07
you know, relationships but
he can't rob us of our soul.
00:03:55.10\00:03:58.54
'Cause it's not
his, it's not his,
00:03:58.57\00:04:00.43
wasn't his and you guys
are confirming that. Yeah.
00:04:00.46\00:04:02.69
Saying you know what,
00:04:02.72\00:04:04.25
he politicked
his self into getting
00:04:04.28\00:04:07.57
this dominion that was
given by God to Adam and Eve.
00:04:07.60\00:04:10.57
So bringing these folk up,
00:04:10.60\00:04:12.37
so He gave this to Adam and
Eve and then they transferred,
00:04:12.40\00:04:16.18
I'm not gonna
say that word again.
00:04:16.21\00:04:17.52
You got it say
it, say it, say it.
00:04:17.55\00:04:18.96
Well, you know my dad, my
dad is resting in the grave
00:04:18.99\00:04:20.29
I'm not gonna say it
'cause that is something
00:04:20.32\00:04:21.93
that I had got worked
about saying the word like that.
00:04:21.96\00:04:24.39
It's a good word, abdication.
00:04:24.42\00:04:26.73
Yeah, I heard of
that but I still feel--
00:04:26.76\00:04:27.79
Hey, he's-he's not
gonna say abdicate but just
00:04:27.82\00:04:29.09
two seconds ago he
said-- That German word.
00:04:29.12\00:04:30.42
His self. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:04:30.45\00:04:32.34
Politicking his
self. I love it, I love it.
00:04:32.37\00:04:35.24
Well, you can see why I
would have got that, got that--
00:04:35.27\00:04:37.73
Yeah, I would--my home, my home,
my home was a little different.
00:04:37.76\00:04:40.33
I would have got a
whipping for saying his self.
00:04:40.36\00:04:43.30
Yeah, his self.
00:04:43.33\00:04:44.75
Well, I probably
learned it from home
00:04:44.78\00:04:46.65
instead of himself, his self.
00:04:46.68\00:04:48.04
But the German
word that you used
00:04:48.07\00:04:49.34
I feel the same way
about it, I'll say, oh,
00:04:49.37\00:04:51.14
I'm not going to say that
word, I'll get into trouble.
00:04:51.17\00:04:52.73
Do you now what it was? No.
00:04:52.76\00:04:54.11
I don't even know all these
English words you guys are doing
00:04:54.14\00:04:57.84
and then you want to know
if I know the German word.
00:04:57.87\00:04:59.82
Do you ask me-- they asked me,
00:04:59.85\00:05:01.57
"Have you ever
heard this German word?"
00:05:01.60\00:05:03.19
I probably did but I have
no idea what it meant. Right.
00:05:03.22\00:05:06.21
So but I'm glad
that you guys are here
00:05:06.24\00:05:08.10
and you guys are on the
seat to hopefully explain.
00:05:08.13\00:05:09.79
Well, hopefully it's
clear even despite the language
00:05:09.82\00:05:12.47
that we're wrapping around it.
00:05:12.50\00:05:13.58
It's the basic
idea that God set it up,
00:05:13.61\00:05:15.74
number one, as dominions.
00:05:15.77\00:05:17.16
Number two, that
Adam and Eve abdicated
00:05:17.19\00:05:19.94
or relinquished their dominion
00:05:19.97\00:05:23.17
turned it over
to the enemy power.
00:05:23.20\00:05:25.48
The third scene in the play here
00:05:25.51\00:05:28.60
or in the movie is
that a warrior is promised.
00:05:28.63\00:05:32.64
And in the process of
crushing the enemy's head,
00:05:32.67\00:05:36.84
his heal would be bruised.
00:05:36.87\00:05:38.71
Now this brings us to the
fourth part of the presentation
00:05:38.74\00:05:41.78
which is something that.
00:05:41.81\00:05:43.12
You know, you talk
about how we're seeing
00:05:43.15\00:05:44.23
the great
controversy here through
00:05:44.26\00:05:45.41
new eyes and new perspective.
00:05:45.44\00:05:47.98
This part is really
fascinating and what it details
00:05:48.01\00:05:52.05
is that the way that God has
organized His angelic forces.
00:05:52.08\00:05:58.05
And Satan has organized
00:05:58.08\00:06:00.41
his fallen angelic
forces is territorially
00:06:00.44\00:06:05.14
and there is a ton of
biblical evidence of this.
00:06:05.17\00:06:08.60
We want to look at some
of that biblical evidence
00:06:08.63\00:06:10.30
and see that this is not just
00:06:10.33\00:06:12.37
a fly by the seat of
the pants you know sort of.
00:06:12.40\00:06:14.32
No, there is a, there is
a method to this madness.
00:06:14.35\00:06:17.30
And there is an
organization to it
00:06:17.33\00:06:18.98
that's central to
the biblical story
00:06:19.01\00:06:22.16
about to territory and the
Bible story about territories.
00:06:22.19\00:06:24.50
So that brings us
to point number four
00:06:24.53\00:06:26.11
and for those
who are taking notes,
00:06:26.14\00:06:29.01
the fourth point you want
to entitle organized forces.
00:06:29.04\00:06:33.31
Okay. Organized forces.
00:06:33.34\00:06:35.18
So in other words the demonic
side of the great controversy
00:06:35.21\00:06:40.77
is not a rag tag group
of unorganized individuals,
00:06:40.80\00:06:46.62
they are highly organized.
00:06:46.65\00:06:48.33
We have to remember,
00:06:48.36\00:06:49.56
that Satan is
described in Scripture
00:06:49.59\00:06:51.54
as once being Lucifer
00:06:51.57\00:06:54.08
a brilliant beam of
light and radiant with glory,
00:06:54.11\00:06:58.99
But also the Bible
says that he had wisdom.
00:06:59.02\00:07:02.91
So he had a massive intellect
00:07:02.94\00:07:05.60
and he was the ruler of
the unfallen angelic race.
00:07:05.63\00:07:11.70
Yeah, I love it. You
said he had wisdom too.
00:07:11.73\00:07:14.47
Now sometimes we
think people are smart,
00:07:14.50\00:07:16.73
but it's a lot better to
have wisdom than to be smart.
00:07:16.76\00:07:18.88
It is. You know--
00:07:18.91\00:07:19.94
The Bible says he was
perfect in wisdom. Okay.
00:07:19.97\00:07:22.45
And he of course lacks
wisdom now in the moral sense,
00:07:22.48\00:07:26.87
but he still is very
intelligent and organized,
00:07:26.90\00:07:30.26
very deceptive
and wily and subtle
00:07:30.29\00:07:32.84
and he's organized his forces.
00:07:32.87\00:07:34.51
Now let's just build
this picture Deuteronomy 32,
00:07:34.54\00:07:39.54
Deuteronomy 32 if
you turn there, Danny,
00:07:39.57\00:07:42.58
and viewers at home who
are studying this with us.
00:07:42.61\00:07:47.05
Moses is explaining to
the children of Israel.
00:07:47.08\00:07:50.04
He's recounting
of what has happened
00:07:50.07\00:07:52.75
so far in their history and
in the history of the world.
00:07:52.78\00:07:56.21
And it's
interesting in Chapter 32:1,
00:07:56.24\00:07:59.08
He says, "Give
ear, O ye heavens,
00:07:59.11\00:08:02.37
and I will speak, and hear,
00:08:02.40\00:08:04.52
O earth, the words of my mouth."
00:08:04.55\00:08:07.20
And then he proceeds to
teach and to explain things.
00:08:07.23\00:08:10.72
So it's fascinating
to began with that Moses
00:08:10.75\00:08:13.80
and the Lord through Moses
00:08:13.83\00:08:14.93
is calling upon the
inhabitants of earth
00:08:14.96\00:08:19.05
and the inhabitants of heaven
00:08:19.08\00:08:21.15
to sit up and take
notice and pay attention
00:08:21.18\00:08:23.95
to what is about
to be explained. Okay.
00:08:23.98\00:08:26.06
So we need to realize
00:08:26.09\00:08:27.51
that this great
controversy on planet earth
00:08:27.54\00:08:30.26
is the arena of
a great controversy
00:08:30.29\00:08:33.11
that is under observation,
00:08:33.14\00:08:35.11
by the heavenly universe. Yeah.
00:08:35.14\00:08:36.17
So God actually,
here actually says,
00:08:37.05\00:08:39.19
hey heavens, in
heavens aren't you know,
00:08:39.22\00:08:43.11
planets heavens here refers
to the inhabitants of heaven.
00:08:43.14\00:08:46.55
Revelation 12 says,
00:08:46.58\00:08:48.01
"Rejoice ye heavens and
those who dwell in them."
00:08:48.04\00:08:51.69
So when the heavens
are addressed in scripture
00:08:51.72\00:08:54.03
is addressing rational
sentient volitional beings
00:08:54.06\00:08:58.07
that inhabit the heavens
and Deuteronomy 32 is saying,
00:08:58.10\00:09:01.15
okay, heavens
and earth listen up,
00:09:01.18\00:09:03.39
everybody listen to
what I'm about to explain.
00:09:03.42\00:09:06.08
Okay, so then we come
down to verse 8, and it says,
00:09:06.11\00:09:12.45
"When the Most
High," that's God,
00:09:12.48\00:09:14.72
"divided their
inheritance to the nations,
00:09:14.75\00:09:18.72
when he
separated the sons of Adam,
00:09:18.75\00:09:20.95
he set boundaries of the peoples
00:09:20.98\00:09:23.35
according to the
number," in this version,
00:09:23.38\00:09:25.94
according to the number
of the children of Israel."
00:09:25.97\00:09:27.97
That's the New Kings
James Version, okay. Okay.
00:09:28.00\00:09:30.39
Now this is a little complex,
00:09:30.42\00:09:31.78
but we got to
just break this down.
00:09:31.81\00:09:34.20
In the Septuagint and a
few other English translations
00:09:34.23\00:09:38.31
they rendered the
children of Israel
00:09:38.34\00:09:40.76
here at the end of
verse 8 differently,
00:09:40.79\00:09:43.46
because in the Hebrew language
00:09:43.49\00:09:46.73
it could be
translated one of two ways.
00:09:46.76\00:09:49.55
Okay, so the way the Septuagint
00:09:49.58\00:09:51.68
which is the Greek
version of the Old Testament
00:09:51.71\00:09:54.33
renders the text is,
00:09:54.36\00:09:56.36
"When the Most High
divided the inheritance,
00:09:56.39\00:09:59.48
divided the nations
and their inheritance,
00:09:59.51\00:10:02.40
he separated the sons of
Adam," that is the human race.
00:10:02.43\00:10:06.03
"And set their boundaries
00:10:06.06\00:10:07.83
according to the
number of the holy angels."
00:10:07.86\00:10:12.18
Not the sons of
Adam. It's Interesting.
00:10:12.21\00:10:13.91
And the reason why
they went this direction
00:10:13.94\00:10:16.47
is because as I said
the original language
00:10:16.50\00:10:18.97
could be
translated one of two ways
00:10:19.00\00:10:21.11
and in some English
translators they couldn't make
00:10:21.14\00:10:23.65
heads or tails out of
it, what is this mean?
00:10:23.68\00:10:26.02
In what's sense
the territory divided
00:10:26.05\00:10:28.31
according to the angels? Yeah.
00:10:28.34\00:10:29.99
Must be the children of Israel.
It must be children of Israel.
00:10:30.02\00:10:32.13
But in my Bible,
your's is probably the same
00:10:32.16\00:10:33.83
is actually a marginal reading
00:10:33.86\00:10:35.29
it just says right here,
that is in the Septuagint,
00:10:35.32\00:10:39.33
"the Angels of God." Okay.
00:10:39.36\00:10:41.27
The Angels of God.
00:10:41.30\00:10:42.38
So what this means then,
Danny, is that when the--
00:10:42.41\00:10:45.50
now this is very, very important
00:10:45.53\00:10:47.97
for where we're
going in the story.
00:10:48.00\00:10:50.00
When the nations were divided up
into their various territories
00:10:50.03\00:10:54.90
and became, you know,
00:10:54.93\00:10:56.99
various different
countries and territories.
00:10:57.02\00:11:00.21
The Lord assigned
angels to be protectors
00:11:00.24\00:11:05.97
and guardians over nations,
00:11:06.00\00:11:08.95
is what's
happening here, all right?
00:11:08.98\00:11:11.03
The devil we find
out later in Scripture,
00:11:11.06\00:11:14.40
followed suit and has his
own organizational structure.
00:11:14.43\00:11:18.79
But he's didn't have it
as many, does he, angels?
00:11:18.82\00:11:20.82
He doesn't have as many,
there is no doubt about that.
00:11:20.85\00:11:22.75
But he definitely organized
his forces in such a way
00:11:22.78\00:11:27.06
as to assign demonic forces
fallen angels over the nations.
00:11:27.09\00:11:32.38
Now we referred to this earlier,
00:11:32.41\00:11:34.47
we kind of hinted at this
when we talked about the fact
00:11:34.50\00:11:37.59
that God sets a protective
hedge around individuals,
00:11:37.62\00:11:42.76
families, who operate
by His principles. Okay.
00:11:42.79\00:11:46.17
Cities, nations
and the world, okay.
00:11:46.20\00:11:49.39
There's that
protective hedge idea.
00:11:49.42\00:11:52.61
Now the nation or city
00:11:52.64\00:11:57.41
is making its vote if you will,
00:11:57.44\00:12:00.67
by its moral voice, by actions.
00:12:00.70\00:12:04.46
My actions are
saying to the Lord.
00:12:04.49\00:12:08.04
Lord by my actions I choose
Your principles in Your kingdom.
00:12:08.07\00:12:12.69
And the Lord legally
in the great controversy
00:12:12.72\00:12:15.34
has then the perfect right
without violating free will
00:12:15.37\00:12:19.16
to protect me and my family
and to be a part of our lives.
00:12:19.19\00:12:23.13
But if I begin, I'm
gonna use a very, very,
00:12:23.16\00:12:26.61
you know, crass example here.
00:12:26.64\00:12:28.14
But if I begin
secretly for example,
00:12:28.17\00:12:31.73
having an affair, okay
00:12:31.76\00:12:34.02
I violated the
integrity of the marriage vow.
00:12:34.05\00:12:37.47
That immorality in my life
says to the heavenly universe
00:12:37.50\00:12:42.55
and to Satan and to the Lord,
00:12:42.58\00:12:44.76
I'm operating by
different principles,
00:12:44.79\00:12:46.32
I may be going
to church each week,
00:12:46.35\00:12:47.82
I may be praying formal
prayers and singing songs.
00:12:47.85\00:12:52.00
But my actions
are saying to those
00:12:52.03\00:12:56.40
that are engaged in
a great controversy.
00:12:56.43\00:12:59.60
He now is making
choices that render him
00:12:59.63\00:13:04.14
a member of the
kingdom of darkness.
00:13:04.17\00:13:06.61
And God does not have the legal
right by virtue of the laws of--
00:13:06.64\00:13:11.01
the rules of
engagement and freewill
00:13:11.04\00:13:13.03
to just force
his protection on me.
00:13:13.06\00:13:15.80
My choices are
tending in a direction
00:13:15.83\00:13:18.97
that causes the devil to
have leverage in my life.
00:13:19.00\00:13:22.10
That would be a good way---
00:13:22.13\00:13:23.16
It's a great way
of saying it. Yeah.
00:13:23.19\00:13:24.29
So he now has influence
and leverage in my life.
00:13:24.32\00:13:26.53
So nations operate the same way.
00:13:26.56\00:13:30.84
God assigns Holy
Angels, to be protective--
00:13:30.87\00:13:34.92
United States of
America. Absolutely, sure.
00:13:34.95\00:13:37.73
Every nation God
wants as His territory
00:13:37.76\00:13:40.54
to be invited in by the general
00:13:40.57\00:13:44.64
trajectory of the
moral choices of the nation.
00:13:44.67\00:13:47.33
Who decides how
much protection we have?
00:13:47.36\00:13:50.45
God ultimately as the
sovereign of the universe
00:13:50.48\00:13:54.35
is paying attention to
how freewill is exercised.
00:13:54.38\00:13:58.43
And the way
freewill is exercised,
00:13:58.46\00:14:00.16
the Lord honors free
will by drawing close
00:14:00.19\00:14:04.28
to having access to lives
00:14:04.31\00:14:06.62
that give Him
access in and He has to,
00:14:06.65\00:14:09.41
I mean one scripture says,
00:14:09.44\00:14:10.70
He has to back up so
much in Revelation 3,
00:14:10.73\00:14:13.89
that He's on the outside
of a door knocking to get in.
00:14:13.92\00:14:17.08
So that, that scripture
00:14:17.11\00:14:18.83
"Behold, I stand at
the door, and knock"
00:14:18.86\00:14:20.73
is a scripture about freewill.
00:14:20.76\00:14:22.76
It's a scripture
that's about the fact
00:14:22.79\00:14:24.70
that God honors the
parameters that we set.
00:14:24.73\00:14:28.43
That's a great way of saying it.
00:14:28.46\00:14:29.51
The boundaries that we
established God honors.
00:14:29.54\00:14:31.65
Yes, He honors those boundaries.
He wants in, but He's not--
00:14:31.68\00:14:33.70
He's a great
gentlemen, he doesn't force us.
00:14:33.73\00:14:35.48
Satan will force
himself and take over politicked
00:14:35.51\00:14:38.59
to get in and the Lord
just knocks.That's right.
00:14:38.62\00:14:41.08
And if you open
the door he comes in,
00:14:41.11\00:14:43.86
so does that
mean we as a nation,
00:14:43.89\00:14:45.97
if we adopt
principles, its anti-God
00:14:46.00\00:14:49.26
whatever the commandments
are, we're breaking them to,
00:14:49.29\00:14:52.12
we then set the boundaries
00:14:52.15\00:14:54.68
as to how much
protection we have got--
00:14:54.71\00:14:56.21
Absolutely. Yep.
00:14:56.24\00:14:57.36
And you know,
Danny, and Ty and I know
00:14:57.39\00:14:59.95
and many of our
viewers maybe aware as well,
00:14:59.98\00:15:01.95
that when we speak specifically
about the United States,
00:15:01.98\00:15:05.04
that Revelation 13,
00:15:05.07\00:15:06.42
I'm getting just little
ahead of the story here.
00:15:06.45\00:15:08.05
But Revelation 13 says,
00:15:08.08\00:15:09.29
that this power would
have horns like a lamb,
00:15:09.32\00:15:12.42
but would speak like a dragon.
00:15:12.45\00:15:14.30
So this power,
this national entity
00:15:14.33\00:15:17.09
the United States of America
00:15:17.12\00:15:18.91
would enact laws and legislation
00:15:18.94\00:15:21.18
that is so
incompatible with the character
00:15:21.21\00:15:23.51
and governments of God
that it's satanic. Wow.
00:15:23.54\00:15:26.66
That's the
direction that we're headed
00:15:26.69\00:15:28.59
but before we get there,
00:15:28.62\00:15:30.04
we're just doing that to
just kind of give us a feel
00:15:30.07\00:15:31.44
for the whole of the
scriptural picture here.
00:15:31.47\00:15:34.02
At this point we're just
seeing how is it organized.
00:15:34.05\00:15:36.40
God arranges, He
divides up the nations
00:15:36.43\00:15:39.06
and this is kind
of weird verse here,
00:15:39.09\00:15:40.61
but it's there
in Deuteronomy 32,
00:15:40.64\00:15:42.95
"According to the angels." Yeah.
00:15:42.98\00:15:45.10
And I like what
you said there, Ty,
00:15:45.13\00:15:46.74
that Satan then followed suit.
00:15:46.77\00:15:48.81
You know, this isn't organized--
it's a war, it's a conflict.
00:15:48.84\00:15:50.87
It's not a fly by
the seat of the pants,
00:15:50.90\00:15:52.19
hey just, a sprinkle
here and dash here, no.
00:15:52.22\00:15:54.90
God is organized,
Satan is organized.
00:15:54.93\00:15:56.87
And we know in the
very context David,
00:15:56.90\00:15:58.86
that this is happening
because and that's the proper
00:15:58.89\00:16:02.17
interpretation
of verse 8 as angels
00:16:02.20\00:16:04.48
because when we come
down to verses 16 and 17.
00:16:04.51\00:16:07.73
Yeah, this is
really, check this out.
00:16:07.76\00:16:09.06
Yeah, this is incredible.
00:16:09.09\00:16:10.12
Look at verses 16 and 17
of Deuteronomy 32, Danny.
00:16:10.15\00:16:13.58
And our fellow Bible students
at home, this is amazing.
00:16:13.61\00:16:17.73
So well wait a
minute, wait a minute,
00:16:17.76\00:16:19.59
we got to back up to verse 9.
00:16:19.62\00:16:21.68
This is, I was
going to 16 and 17,
00:16:21.71\00:16:23.50
but we didn't
finished verses 8 and 9. Yeah.
00:16:23.53\00:16:25.72
So in verses 8, okay,
00:16:25.75\00:16:27.91
the boundaries of the
nations are established
00:16:27.94\00:16:30.23
according to the
number of the Holy Angels.
00:16:30.26\00:16:32.15
But then verse 9, it says,
00:16:32.18\00:16:35.06
"For the Lord's
portion is His people,
00:16:35.09\00:16:38.19
Jacob is the place
of His inheritance."
00:16:38.22\00:16:42.35
It says in verse 10, "That
he that is the Lord found him,"
00:16:42.38\00:16:45.05
that is Israel or Jacob.
00:16:45.08\00:16:46.95
"In a desert land
and in the wasteland,
00:16:46.98\00:16:49.37
a howling wilderness
and He encircled him,"
00:16:49.40\00:16:53.91
that's the
protective language again.
00:16:53.94\00:16:55.91
He encircled
him. Where am I here?
00:16:55.94\00:16:58.78
"And He instructed
him, and He kept him."
00:16:58.81\00:17:01.37
God kept Israel as
the apple of His eye."
00:17:01.40\00:17:04.21
The apple of
His eye, just means,
00:17:04.24\00:17:05.63
the focus of his
attention and protection.
00:17:05.66\00:17:10.38
And then in verse 11.
00:17:10.41\00:17:12.00
I love this verse. Yeah.
00:17:12.03\00:17:13.06
"As an eagle stirs up its nest,
00:17:13.09\00:17:15.82
hovers over its young,
spreading out its wings,
00:17:15.85\00:17:19.90
taking them up,
carrying them on its wings.
00:17:19.93\00:17:23.36
So the Lord alone led them,
00:17:23.39\00:17:26.38
and there was no
foreign God with them."
00:17:26.41\00:17:30.82
Okay, so you see
the picture here,
00:17:30.85\00:17:32.51
so now we have this idea of
national borders being set up,
00:17:32.54\00:17:37.47
angels from the
Lord been assigned
00:17:37.50\00:17:39.37
to be protective
guardian angels of the nations.
00:17:39.40\00:17:41.57
And then the Lord says,
00:17:41.60\00:17:42.63
but I myself will take
responsibility for Israel.
00:17:42.66\00:17:46.53
Israel will be my
nation that I will give
00:17:46.56\00:17:49.00
personal care
and protection too.
00:17:49.03\00:17:51.86
This is Jesus
before His incarnation
00:17:51.89\00:17:54.26
as the Prince of Israel
taking charge of Israel.
00:17:54.29\00:17:57.00
And He says, I
will protect Israel,
00:17:57.03\00:17:58.77
I will encircle
Israel, I will do everything
00:17:58.80\00:18:02.16
that I can to
preserve Israel. Now why?
00:18:02.19\00:18:05.14
Because in the story before
00:18:05.17\00:18:06.99
the Lord is setting
up a lineage a women,
00:18:07.02\00:18:09.78
a human lineage through which
the warrior can come. Okay.
00:18:09.81\00:18:12.96
So He is
establishing people here.
00:18:12.99\00:18:14.79
Yeah. Okay.
00:18:14.82\00:18:15.85
Okay, to make that happen.
00:18:15.88\00:18:17.08
Now check this
out, this is amazing.
00:18:17.11\00:18:19.19
Going down to verse 15?
00:18:19.22\00:18:20.46
Yeah, he's saying,
I'm gonna protect Israel,
00:18:20.49\00:18:21.92
but then going down to,
why don't you take verse,
00:18:21.95\00:18:25.18
you go on from there, David--
00:18:25.21\00:18:26.28
You want me to go to 15 or 16.
00:18:26.31\00:18:27.61
Yeah. 16 and 17.
00:18:27.64\00:18:28.67
Okay, so 16 says,
00:18:28.70\00:18:30.28
"They provoked Him to
jealousy with foreign God's,
00:18:30.31\00:18:34.20
with abominations
they provoked Him to anger.
00:18:34.23\00:18:37.34
They sacrificed to
demons, not to God,
00:18:37.37\00:18:40.99
to gods they did
not know, to new gods,
00:18:41.02\00:18:43.74
new arrivals that
your fathers did not fear."
00:18:43.77\00:18:46.30
Isn't that astounding,
so notice something--
00:18:46.33\00:18:48.82
Break that
down, break that down.
00:18:48.85\00:18:49.88
Okay, notice
something here, Danny.
00:18:49.91\00:18:51.43
In verse 16, the
language is foreign gods,
00:18:51.46\00:18:55.27
provoked God to jealousy,
because He chose Israel,
00:18:55.30\00:18:58.04
and He was protecting
Israel as His people, all right.
00:18:58.07\00:19:01.60
But then Israel
began to apostatize,
00:19:01.63\00:19:03.83
they began to rebel against God.
00:19:03.86\00:19:04.99
And they began to
worship foreign gods. Wow.
00:19:05.02\00:19:08.50
That's verse 16,
they're called foreign gods.
00:19:08.53\00:19:10.91
In verse 17, those foreign
Gods are called demons. Wow.
00:19:10.94\00:19:15.60
So the Gods of the
nations in the Old Testament,
00:19:15.63\00:19:19.16
like Dagon the God of
the Philistines I believe.
00:19:19.19\00:19:22.53
And Moloch and Ishtar,
these gods that have names.
00:19:22.56\00:19:26.74
Baal. Yeah.
00:19:26.77\00:19:27.80
Baal is the most
commonly mentioned one.
00:19:27.83\00:19:30.55
These are not figments
00:19:30.58\00:19:32.21
of the
imagination of these peoples.
00:19:32.24\00:19:35.67
These are
according to scripture.
00:19:35.70\00:19:37.37
Demons, fallen angels that have
set themselves up over nations
00:19:37.40\00:19:41.87
and are masquerading
as deities, as gods.
00:19:41.90\00:19:45.99
So when these people
are worshiping Dagon,
00:19:46.02\00:19:48.57
they are worshiping
a fallen angel as gods.
00:19:48.60\00:19:51.30
Scripture says they
are worshiping demons,
00:19:51.33\00:19:53.29
sacrificing to demons. Wow.
00:19:53.32\00:19:54.92
Yes. Okay.
00:19:54.95\00:19:55.98
And so do you see
what's happening here.
00:19:56.01\00:19:58.03
There's the nations divided up
00:19:58.06\00:20:00.31
into various
territories, national borders.
00:20:00.34\00:20:03.08
God assigns protecting Guardian
Angels, Holy Angels to them.
00:20:03.11\00:20:08.45
The devil follow suit and sins
in foreign gods, new arrivals,
00:20:08.48\00:20:13.58
that's very interesting
language. Very interesting.
00:20:13.61\00:20:16.37
These new arrivals are demons
00:20:16.40\00:20:18.27
that are
encroaching on territory.
00:20:18.30\00:20:19.99
They're coming in
to the various nations
00:20:20.02\00:20:21.72
and saying, you know, and
taking charge of the peoples
00:20:21.75\00:20:24.97
according to
their moral choices.
00:20:25.00\00:20:27.01
That's what's
happening in this context.
00:20:27.04\00:20:29.58
That is absolutely, you know,
00:20:29.61\00:20:31.69
I uphold the time
in which we're living.
00:20:31.72\00:20:33.37
And I mean right
now as we are looking,
00:20:33.40\00:20:35.61
you know, at our own government
00:20:35.64\00:20:37.74
and we have and
that's why I'm not political
00:20:37.77\00:20:40.18
and I won't go
one side or the other,
00:20:40.21\00:20:41.94
but you know, it's a
very solemn thought. Totally.
00:20:41.97\00:20:46.73
To look it, right now
and leadership on both sides.
00:20:46.76\00:20:50.85
You have people who, you
know, are promoting platform
00:20:50.88\00:20:54.82
in same-sex marriage, abortion.
00:20:54.85\00:20:56.35
And then on the
other side you have people
00:20:56.38\00:20:58.29
whose belief or
head leader is not,
00:20:58.32\00:21:00.67
you know, lines up with
Christian with the Bible. Yeah.
00:21:00.70\00:21:03.24
So, you know, you can do
00:21:03.27\00:21:04.67
whatever you
want, I'm not judging.
00:21:04.70\00:21:06.12
Tell you what to do,
I'm not voting this time.
00:21:06.15\00:21:08.10
I can't, because I
believe that a vote says,
00:21:08.13\00:21:10.78
I agree, I
support. I endorsed this.
00:21:10.81\00:21:13.03
I support same-sex
marriage, I support abortion,
00:21:13.06\00:21:15.97
I support the heaven or god
00:21:16.00\00:21:18.85
other than the
creator God of the universe
00:21:18.88\00:21:21.02
and recognize in Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior as a God,
00:21:21.05\00:21:24.72
that means I endorse that.
00:21:24.75\00:21:26.09
So I'm just not going to do it
00:21:26.12\00:21:27.58
because I think
it's very serious
00:21:27.61\00:21:29.19
and we didn't plan this,
00:21:29.22\00:21:30.25
but you guys have
woken us-- this protection.
00:21:30.28\00:21:32.84
I mean what great
timing for you guys
00:21:32.87\00:21:35.24
to come in and say, you know,
this is solemn for each of us.
00:21:35.27\00:21:39.39
The nation, we
ultimately are deciding
00:21:39.42\00:21:42.80
how much protection that
God is gonna give us, right?
00:21:42.83\00:21:46.50
I believe that's exactly right.
00:21:46.53\00:21:47.56
You know, the passage
00:21:47.59\00:21:48.62
that we mentioned
there in Revelation 13,
00:21:48.65\00:21:50.42
where it says that this power
that comes out of the earth
00:21:50.45\00:21:53.47
which we believe is the
United States of America,
00:21:53.50\00:21:55.21
which is another study.
00:21:55.24\00:21:56.48
You can bring us
back for that one, Danny.
00:21:56.51\00:21:58.55
It has horns like a lamb,
00:21:58.58\00:22:00.35
so there is a
Christ like element.
00:22:00.38\00:22:02.47
Christ is
referred to as the lamb
00:22:02.50\00:22:03.71
26 or 27 times in
the New Testament.
00:22:03.74\00:22:06.39
But here horns like a
lamb, but speaks like a dragon.
00:22:06.42\00:22:08.85
So there is this
conflict where the United States
00:22:08.88\00:22:12.08
is largely founded
upon Biblical principles
00:22:12.11\00:22:15.62
of liberty and
freedom and justice,
00:22:15.65\00:22:18.33
but we are seeing
increasingly, rapidly, lately
00:22:18.36\00:22:23.90
that those principles of justice
00:22:23.93\00:22:25.43
and equality and liberty
are being abandoned and--
00:22:25.46\00:22:29.40
Yeah, we are very much
00:22:29.43\00:22:31.00
in the process of
aligning ourselves
00:22:31.03\00:22:33.25
with forces that
will make it impossible
00:22:33.28\00:22:35.86
for God to protect
us as a nation. Wow.
00:22:35.89\00:22:38.26
And then it breaks it
down as a nation I can still,
00:22:38.29\00:22:42.51
am I right or wrong?
00:22:42.54\00:22:43.57
God can still
bless me. Absolutely.
00:22:43.60\00:22:45.58
But unless I go along with
what the nation is teaching
00:22:45.61\00:22:49.02
and I can do that by my support,
00:22:49.05\00:22:50.74
by lending my support
00:22:50.77\00:22:52.10
or becoming members
of certain organizations
00:22:52.13\00:22:55.21
that are anti-God so to speak--
00:22:55.24\00:22:56.86
But we have many
instances of this in scripture
00:22:56.89\00:22:58.31
and it's just slightly
off topic but it's relevant.
00:22:58.34\00:23:00.47
You think about
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
00:23:00.50\00:23:02.53
They were in the
nation of Babylon,
00:23:02.56\00:23:05.83
but they could not go along
00:23:05.86\00:23:07.43
with the bowing
down to the golden image
00:23:07.46\00:23:09.64
that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
00:23:09.67\00:23:10.80
So God could still bless them.
00:23:10.83\00:23:13.54
He got to put hedge like
Job, he put a hedge around them,
00:23:13.57\00:23:16.75
but if they had gone
along like the other--
00:23:16.78\00:23:19.81
He put a fireproof
hedge around, I mean--
00:23:19.84\00:23:21.89
He put a hedge, it's exactly--
it was not just a hedge,
00:23:21.92\00:23:23.44
it was a force
field of sorts. Yeah.
00:23:23.47\00:23:25.58
And but they would've
relinquished that protection,
00:23:25.61\00:23:28.43
that very protection if
they had opted to go along
00:23:28.46\00:23:31.21
with the Zeitgeist,
the spirit of the age.
00:23:31.24\00:23:33.85
I'm not sure
with words like that.
00:23:33.88\00:23:36.33
I want to just
reel us back in here,
00:23:36.36\00:23:38.18
I'm gonna read this verse here.
00:23:38.21\00:23:39.24
Now this is for those
who are taking notes at home.
00:23:39.27\00:23:41.44
Very same idea, Psalm
106:37-38, listen to this.
00:23:41.47\00:23:47.56
Psalm 106:36-37, it says,
00:23:47.59\00:23:50.78
"They served their idols,
which became a snare to them."
00:23:50.81\00:23:54.46
Verse 37, "They even
sacrificed their sons
00:23:54.49\00:23:57.32
and their daughters to demons,
00:23:57.35\00:23:59.62
And shed innocent blood,
00:23:59.65\00:24:00.83
The blood of their
sons and daughters,
00:24:00.86\00:24:02.15
whom they sacrificed
to the idols of Canaan,
00:24:02.18\00:24:04.91
And the land was
polluted with blood."
00:24:04.94\00:24:06.37
So this is exactly
what Deuteronomy 32 says.
00:24:06.40\00:24:09.04
They were sacrificed to idols,
00:24:09.07\00:24:10.32
but these were not
just as you said, Ty,
00:24:10.35\00:24:12.33
figments of their, you
know, creative imagination.
00:24:12.36\00:24:14.83
They were sacrificing to demons.
00:24:14.86\00:24:17.98
And notice it says in
that scripture, David,
00:24:18.01\00:24:19.86
that the land was
polluted. Polluted.
00:24:19.89\00:24:22.03
By the shedding of
the innocent bloods, yeah.
00:24:22.06\00:24:24.69
The territories.
00:24:24.72\00:24:25.84
But, I mean this
is really deep to me,
00:24:25.87\00:24:27.85
you guys are
bringing some stuff,
00:24:27.88\00:24:29.41
because the sacrificing now,
00:24:29.44\00:24:31.44
let's say that I put
my allegiance to people
00:24:31.47\00:24:35.32
and government that are totally,
00:24:35.35\00:24:39.02
I'm sacrificing my children
because they're gonna be taught
00:24:39.05\00:24:41.81
all of these things
that I don't believe in,
00:24:41.84\00:24:44.38
that's contrary to the Bible.
00:24:44.41\00:24:46.08
So I still can
sacrifice them without somebody
00:24:46.11\00:24:48.60
take and rout them
doing what we think.
00:24:48.63\00:24:50.84
We sacrificed them spiritually,
00:24:50.87\00:24:53.66
when I lend my support
to these people the rant,
00:24:53.69\00:24:57.16
I just call them
antichrist spirits,
00:24:57.19\00:24:59.00
because when you're anti-Bible
00:24:59.03\00:25:00.81
and I can say
this more comfortably,
00:25:00.84\00:25:02.90
because right
now I see two sides
00:25:02.93\00:25:05.11
and I see
leadership on both sides.
00:25:05.14\00:25:07.29
That the Bible
seems to be the last thing
00:25:07.32\00:25:09.61
anybody really wants to look to.
00:25:09.64\00:25:11.58
Well, Danny, it's
actually even more serious
00:25:11.61\00:25:15.46
and what you just mentioned
there and you did mention,
00:25:15.49\00:25:17.39
you know, my
children going to schools.
00:25:17.42\00:25:18.60
But what about the children
00:25:18.63\00:25:19.73
by the millions
and tens of millions
00:25:19.76\00:25:21.64
that don't get to be
born and are sacrificed
00:25:21.67\00:25:24.56
on the altar of
sexual promiscuity.
00:25:24.59\00:25:26.64
Come on now. And--
00:25:26.67\00:25:27.70
This is serious. That is.
00:25:27.73\00:25:29.55
I mean, you know, these are
numbers we just through out,
00:25:29.58\00:25:31.89
millions and
hundreds of thousands.
00:25:31.92\00:25:33.35
But these are children
that are being sacrificed
00:25:33.38\00:25:35.87
in the name of in
many cases, not all,
00:25:35.90\00:25:39.28
but in many cases the
vast majority of cases,
00:25:39.31\00:25:41.49
sexual promiscuity and my
desire to do it whatever I want
00:25:41.52\00:25:44.52
and, you know,
damn the consequences.
00:25:44.55\00:25:46.80
That is the decisions
that we are making as a nation.
00:25:46.83\00:25:49.49
Yeah, as a nation, that's true.
00:25:49.52\00:25:50.72
I mean, that's--
00:25:50.75\00:25:52.65
Let's add additional
scripture to wrap our minds
00:25:52.68\00:25:57.24
around this idea
of organized forces.
00:25:57.27\00:26:00.50
Okay, I'll just
call our attention
00:26:00.53\00:26:03.39
to some that come to mind,
00:26:03.42\00:26:04.92
but our fellow Bible students
00:26:04.95\00:26:07.03
will find this throughout
scripture this idea, okay.
00:26:07.06\00:26:10.04
But Daniel 10 is incredible,
00:26:10.07\00:26:14.49
in connection with
Deuteronomy 32 and Psalm 106.
00:26:14.52\00:26:17.65
And the reason why is because,
00:26:17.68\00:26:19.38
Daniel has received a vision,
he doesn't know what it means.
00:26:19.41\00:26:22.21
And so he begins to pray
that the Lord will intervene
00:26:22.24\00:26:26.09
and give him a revelation
of what this vision means.
00:26:26.12\00:26:28.77
It's
fascinating because it says,
00:26:28.80\00:26:31.70
that he prays
for three full weeks.
00:26:31.73\00:26:35.32
And so finally when
his prayer is answered,
00:26:35.35\00:26:39.00
the angel
Gabriel comes to Daniel.
00:26:39.03\00:26:42.67
And he says, Daniel, I
want you know something.
00:26:42.70\00:26:45.30
Number one, you're
greatly beloved of the Lord.
00:26:45.33\00:26:48.40
God loves you very much.
00:26:48.43\00:26:49.75
So you were praying
for three full weeks
00:26:49.78\00:26:52.51
and feeling like
you weren't getting
00:26:52.54\00:26:53.71
an answer to your prayer.
00:26:53.74\00:26:55.25
It's not because of a lack of
love for you on the Lord's part.
00:26:55.28\00:26:58.07
God loves you and the
moment you began to pray.
00:26:58.10\00:27:01.84
From the day you
began praying Daniel,
00:27:01.87\00:27:04.41
for an answer to your prayer,
00:27:04.44\00:27:05.63
I was sent to
answer your prayer.
00:27:05.66\00:27:07.17
So picture this, Danny.
00:27:07.20\00:27:08.54
The moment Daniel
prays, God says to Gabriel,
00:27:08.57\00:27:12.05
Gabriel, I love
Daniel, greatly beloved.
00:27:12.08\00:27:16.43
Go answer his prayer.
00:27:16.46\00:27:17.93
So Gabriel is dispatched from
the heavenly angelic armies.
00:27:17.96\00:27:23.87
He comes to Daniel and
three weeks have passed.
00:27:23.90\00:27:26.99
And the first thing he
tells Daniel is God loves you
00:27:27.02\00:27:29.03
and the moment you
prayed, I came to answer,
00:27:29.06\00:27:30.55
but he explains why it
was that it took three weeks.
00:27:30.58\00:27:35.73
He says the reason
it took three weeks
00:27:35.76\00:27:37.30
to get the answer
to your prayer Daniel,
00:27:37.33\00:27:39.44
is because he says--
What verse are you in, Ty?
00:27:39.47\00:27:41.87
This is verse, I
just was referring,
00:27:41.90\00:27:44.33
greatly beloved verse 11,
00:27:44.36\00:27:46.31
"And then from the day that you
set your heart to understand."
00:27:46.34\00:27:50.39
That's verse 12, "I was sent
00:27:50.42\00:27:52.08
to answer your
prayer, and now I've come."
00:27:52.11\00:27:54.41
This is interesting.
00:27:54.44\00:27:55.47
In the verse 12, Gabriel says,
00:27:55.50\00:27:57.30
"I have come
because of your words."
00:27:57.33\00:28:00.71
That's powerful. Beautiful.
00:28:00.74\00:28:02.14
Human being speak, God listens,
00:28:02.17\00:28:04.15
I have come because
of your words. Okay.
00:28:04.18\00:28:06.59
Okay, then verse 13, but
there is a qualification,
00:28:06.62\00:28:10.85
"But the prince of the kingdom
of Persia withstood me 21 days."
00:28:10.88\00:28:17.84
Okay, so he says,
this is incredible.
00:28:17.87\00:28:20.90
He says, Daniel,
00:28:20.93\00:28:21.97
I was sent to answer
your prayer immediately,
00:28:22.00\00:28:23.53
I would have been
here three weeks ago,
00:28:23.56\00:28:25.06
but the Prince of the kingdom
of Persia was withstanding me.
00:28:25.09\00:28:29.65
I couldn't get through to
answer your prayer until--
00:28:29.68\00:28:32.73
Look at this.
"And behold Michael,
00:28:32.76\00:28:36.90
one of the chief
princes, came to me,"
00:28:36.93\00:28:40.23
verse 13, and I--
00:28:40.26\00:28:42.73
well, where am I?
"Came to help me."
00:28:42.76\00:28:43.79
"Came to help me, and
now, I'd been left alone,
00:28:43.82\00:28:49.77
I'd been left alone
with the kings of Persia."
00:28:49.80\00:28:52.36
So who are these forces?
00:28:52.39\00:28:54.69
Okay, first of
all, this is a battle,
00:28:54.72\00:28:56.60
that's not
happening on the human realm,
00:28:56.63\00:28:58.67
obviously,
because, Gabriel is saying,
00:28:58.70\00:29:00.66
I have been in a battle
with the Prince of Persia.
00:29:00.69\00:29:04.86
Who is the Prince of Persia?
00:29:04.89\00:29:06.56
Well, the Prince of
Persia is a fallen angel,
00:29:06.59\00:29:11.12
a demon, who is
presiding over Persia
00:29:11.15\00:29:14.27
that it's basically saying,
00:29:14.30\00:29:15.84
Daniel is a
captive in this land,
00:29:15.87\00:29:18.35
and you can't
have access to him.
00:29:18.38\00:29:19.66
You have no right--
you have no right to come
00:29:19.69\00:29:20.72
and answer his prayer,
he is in our territory.
00:29:20.75\00:29:22.20
Yeah, he is in our territory.
00:29:22.23\00:29:23.26
You can't come
and answer his prayer.
00:29:23.29\00:29:24.87
And Gabriel, yeah resists
and remonstrates and says,
00:29:24.90\00:29:29.27
no according to the
rules of the great controversy,
00:29:29.30\00:29:32.03
this is a dispute,
00:29:32.06\00:29:33.14
this is a legal
dispute in a great controversy.
00:29:33.17\00:29:35.31
According to the rules
of the great controversy,
00:29:35.34\00:29:37.22
Daniel was exercising
his freewill my praying.
00:29:37.25\00:29:40.83
Okay, he maybe
in your territory,
00:29:40.86\00:29:42.63
but he's God's man,
00:29:42.66\00:29:44.46
that's what he's
saying basically. Okay.
00:29:44.49\00:29:45.95
Very similar to
the conflict with Job.
00:29:45.98\00:29:47.38
Yeah, so here I
come let me through.
00:29:47.41\00:29:50.08
No, you are not gonna answer
00:29:50.11\00:29:51.35
and you are not
getting near Daniel
00:29:51.38\00:29:53.73
and then Michael shows up. Okay.
00:29:53.76\00:29:56.90
Michael shows up and
adds his argumentation,
00:29:56.93\00:30:00.22
his strength as it
were to that of Gabriel
00:30:00.25\00:30:03.30
and then Gabriel
says in, now verse 14,
00:30:03.33\00:30:05.68
"Now I have come to
make you understand."
00:30:05.71\00:30:07.80
I finally got through to you
00:30:07.83\00:30:10.06
when Michael added
his strength to mine,
00:30:10.09\00:30:13.33
now I'm here to
answer your prayer.
00:30:13.36\00:30:14.64
The three weeks of delay
was due to a spiritual conflict
00:30:14.67\00:30:17.81
between spiritual forces
behind this Territorial Forces.
00:30:17.84\00:30:21.15
And Michael, we
should say, you know, we know
00:30:21.18\00:30:22.88
that Gabriel is an
angel who excels in strength,
00:30:22.91\00:30:24.82
Michael's not just
any ordinary angel,
00:30:24.85\00:30:26.93
scripture shows us
Michael five times I think.
00:30:26.96\00:30:30.15
And every time
whether it's in Daniel 12
00:30:30.18\00:30:32.72
or Daniel 10 or
Revelation 12 or Jude,
00:30:32.75\00:30:36.32
every time, he's the archangel,
He's the one over the angels.
00:30:36.35\00:30:40.59
He shows up and he's like,
hey step aside, step aside.
00:30:40.62\00:30:43.76
That's right, that's right.
00:30:43.79\00:30:44.87
He is the one in
the Book of Jude.
00:30:44.90\00:30:46.74
Oh, I love this. Yeah.
00:30:46.77\00:30:47.80
Can I quote
this, can I quote this?
00:30:47.83\00:30:48.86
Please do it, please do it.
00:30:48.89\00:30:49.92
It says, "Yet
Michael the Archangel,
00:30:49.95\00:30:50.99
when contending with the
devil about the body of Moses,
00:30:51.02\00:30:53.53
did not bring against
him railing accusation,
00:30:53.56\00:30:55.53
but said, The Lord
rebuke thee." Yeah.
00:30:55.56\00:30:57.41
So you have this conflict here,
00:30:57.44\00:30:58.87
where Michael comes to
resurrect Moses a territory,
00:30:58.90\00:31:03.32
a person who is a territory.
00:31:03.35\00:31:04.88
And Satan himself stands
and says you have no right.
00:31:04.91\00:31:07.97
And Michael says, he didn't
get into an argument with him
00:31:08.00\00:31:11.32
and he just said,
the Lord rebuke thee
00:31:11.35\00:31:13.09
and he resurrected him. Yeah.
00:31:13.12\00:31:14.35
So this is yet another
window and insight into the fact
00:31:14.38\00:31:17.66
that there is an actual conflict
00:31:17.69\00:31:20.35
and organized
demonic behind the scenes
00:31:20.38\00:31:23.56
conflict is taking
place at national borders,
00:31:23.59\00:31:26.95
at the borders of homes,
00:31:26.98\00:31:29.07
at the borders
of people's hearts.
00:31:29.10\00:31:31.31
I mean this is
taking place. Yeah.
00:31:31.34\00:31:32.95
And it's very fascinating.
00:31:32.98\00:31:34.75
People say,
well, who is Michael?
00:31:34.78\00:31:36.89
We believe that
scripture teaches
00:31:36.92\00:31:38.85
he is the pre-incarnate Christ
00:31:38.88\00:31:40.20
which in no way indicates
that he is a created being.
00:31:40.23\00:31:42.94
We believe that
he's the son of God,
00:31:42.97\00:31:44.89
that he is divine, but
Michael is definitely Jesus.
00:31:44.92\00:31:48.64
And we know, because of Jude,
00:31:48.67\00:31:50.50
that he is Jesus and
not just an ordinary angel
00:31:50.53\00:31:53.44
because he has
resurrection power. Okay.
00:31:53.47\00:31:56.34
Angels can't
raise the dead, God can.
00:31:56.37\00:31:59.81
So Michael is the
pre-incarnate Christ.
00:31:59.84\00:32:02.30
We just want to reiterate again,
00:32:02.33\00:32:03.74
that does not mean
in any way shape or form
00:32:03.77\00:32:06.34
that we believe that Jesus
was created or that He had no.
00:32:06.37\00:32:11.09
No. It's exactly what you said.
00:32:11.12\00:32:12.73
The Michael is a name,
it's actually the warrior name.
00:32:12.76\00:32:15.19
Every time Michael shows up,
00:32:15.22\00:32:16.70
every time it's
in a warrior context.
00:32:16.73\00:32:19.39
It's in a combat context,
00:32:19.42\00:32:21.32
it's one of the names of
the pre-incarnate Christ,
00:32:21.35\00:32:25.18
it's the one who comes in
moments of intense battle.
00:32:25.21\00:32:29.75
We see in Daniel 10.
00:32:29.78\00:32:31.08
Let me ask you guys a
question, we are on four right?
00:32:31.11\00:32:35.17
We are finishing
four. Five, six, seven.
00:32:35.20\00:32:36.90
Well, okay. What I want to do.
00:32:36.93\00:32:39.18
This is the one of
the most important studies
00:32:39.21\00:32:40.74
we could ever have.
00:32:40.77\00:32:42.29
If we need to
we'll let master control
00:32:42.32\00:32:44.37
and everybody know we are
gonna take an extra 30 minutes.
00:32:44.40\00:32:46.38
Because I don't
want you rush through it,
00:32:46.41\00:32:47.71
but you know, what
you got to give us,
00:32:47.74\00:32:49.86
can we do three
more in 24 minutes?
00:32:49.89\00:32:51.96
I think we can, because---
00:32:51.99\00:32:53.02
We can? Yeah.
00:32:53.05\00:32:54.10
The organized
forces, we will try.
00:32:54.13\00:32:56.18
The organized
forces one required---
00:32:56.21\00:32:59.14
All right, I just want to
give a notice if we do it,
00:32:59.17\00:33:01.43
we are gonna be
changing network program.
00:33:01.46\00:33:03.94
Can you do that?
Absolutely, we want to.
00:33:03.97\00:33:06.43
Who can say no right now?
00:33:06.46\00:33:07.67
They may get on me later,
they may get all over me later.
00:33:07.70\00:33:10.18
But right now we happen to
be sitting in the chair so,
00:33:10.21\00:33:12.77
but if we need to
we'll prepare them for.
00:33:12.80\00:33:15.39
So maybe be on standby about,
00:33:15.42\00:33:17.92
we will see because this
is too important to rush over.
00:33:17.95\00:33:20.28
I love what you guys are doing.
00:33:20.31\00:33:21.71
This is a clearer
stuff I've ever heard this.
00:33:21.74\00:33:23.74
And I had some of these
questions in my own mind.
00:33:23.77\00:33:25.72
Yes. And thank
you for helping me.
00:33:25.75\00:33:28.06
It's awesome---
Praise God, it is awesome.
00:33:28.09\00:33:29.12
When we really see
what scripture says,
00:33:29.15\00:33:31.76
it's profoundly impacting
00:33:31.79\00:33:34.97
that there is an organized
angelic-satanic conflict
00:33:35.00\00:33:40.07
that is taking
place, over territories,
00:33:40.10\00:33:42.10
over countries, over homes,
00:33:42.13\00:33:44.06
over families, over
people and there are--
00:33:44.09\00:33:46.78
I love the
language you use there Ty.
00:33:46.81\00:33:48.15
There are rules of engagement.
00:33:48.18\00:33:50.61
You can't, God just
can't come in and willy-nilly
00:33:50.64\00:33:52.93
and just do whatever he wants.
00:33:52.96\00:33:54.75
He is operating on
principles that honor liberty,
00:33:54.78\00:33:58.28
that honor freedom,
that honor choice. Yeah.
00:33:58.31\00:34:00.94
And Satan is also
seeking to capitalize.
00:34:00.97\00:34:03.03
I mean it's a fascinating,
00:34:03.06\00:34:05.22
what we were doing tonight
is we're pulling the veil back.
00:34:05.25\00:34:08.26
We see what's taking
place on the stage, right?
00:34:08.29\00:34:11.53
And work tonight
looking behind the scenes
00:34:11.56\00:34:13.39
and saying, well,
what's really going on.
00:34:13.42\00:34:15.62
God simply says, I'm truth
00:34:15.65\00:34:16.95
and then Satan is
trying to steal all that,
00:34:16.98\00:34:19.56
get people to think he's
giving truth and doing all this.
00:34:19.59\00:34:22.28
And God hasn't change from
the beginning. That's right.
00:34:22.31\00:34:24.72
He is same today,
yesterday, forever.
00:34:24.75\00:34:26.82
He is there, He has our
best interest in His mind,
00:34:26.85\00:34:29.69
He wants us to be with
Him for eternity. Amen.
00:34:29.72\00:34:32.62
Satan is out, the Bible says,
00:34:32.65\00:34:34.00
to steal, kill and to destroy,
00:34:34.03\00:34:35.67
though sometimes our prayers we,
00:34:35.70\00:34:37.54
I myself and I'm sure
those others we wonder,
00:34:37.57\00:34:40.14
where are you Lord,
I'm praying for this
00:34:40.17\00:34:42.25
and maybe we are struggling
00:34:42.28\00:34:43.38
with what Daniel
did some-- That's right.
00:34:43.41\00:34:45.24
The end result,
greater is he that is in us,
00:34:45.27\00:34:47.27
than he that is in the world.
00:34:47.30\00:34:48.68
So God hadn't
forgotten about us,
00:34:48.71\00:34:50.49
but He's there,
He kept him safe,
00:34:50.52\00:34:52.68
He took care of him at
the right time delivered him.
00:34:52.71\00:34:55.61
Now, Ty, can I
ask you a question?
00:34:55.64\00:34:56.74
Did you feel like we're good
now to go to our fifth scene?
00:34:56.77\00:35:00.28
I think we are,
there are so my scriptures
00:35:00.31\00:35:02.01
on the organized forces part.
00:35:02.04\00:35:04.09
We don't have to
turn to all of them,
00:35:04.12\00:35:05.41
but we can just
mention that the word legion
00:35:05.44\00:35:08.53
for example in
the New Testament.
00:35:08.56\00:35:09.71
Oh, yeah, great
point. That's good one.
00:35:09.74\00:35:10.77
Yeah, okay.
00:35:10.80\00:35:11.83
Where Jesus in the
Garden of Gethsemane.
00:35:11.86\00:35:14.41
For the note
takers this is Luke 8.
00:35:14.44\00:35:16.09
Oh, in the
Garden of Gethsemane--
00:35:16.12\00:35:17.25
Yeah, Garden of
Gethsemane is-- Okay, go ahead.
00:35:17.28\00:35:19.00
Is what Matthew 26,
where Jesus is praying
00:35:19.03\00:35:23.02
and Peter defends him by
force, takes out of his sword
00:35:23.05\00:35:27.01
and cuts off the high
priest's servant's ear.
00:35:27.04\00:35:29.70
And Jesus said
something interesting,
00:35:29.73\00:35:31.96
that plays into the storyline.
00:35:31.99\00:35:33.80
He says, "Put your sword away.
00:35:33.83\00:35:35.59
Don't you know
that if I wanted to,
00:35:35.62\00:35:36.83
I could call to My Father
00:35:36.86\00:35:37.89
and He would forth with
send 12 legions of angels."
00:35:37.92\00:35:42.69
Now the word legion is a
very specific kind of language.
00:35:42.72\00:35:47.79
It's a specific kind of word.
00:35:47.82\00:35:49.37
It refers to a particular
regiment of the Roman army,
00:35:49.40\00:35:54.89
that consisted of something like
2,000 footmen, foot soldiers
00:35:54.92\00:36:00.32
and 600 or 700 horse
soldiers and that's a legion.
00:36:00.35\00:36:06.06
And so He is
using military language,
00:36:06.09\00:36:09.25
organizational language to say,
00:36:09.28\00:36:10.81
hey, if I wanted to
there are organized forces
00:36:10.84\00:36:14.65
in the heavens that
are at my disposal Peter,
00:36:14.68\00:36:17.51
so I don't need your defense
00:36:17.54\00:36:19.60
with your little
plastic sword there.
00:36:19.63\00:36:21.71
You can put that thing away,
I know what I'm doing here.
00:36:21.74\00:36:24.98
So the passage that I
was mentioning there, Ty,
00:36:25.01\00:36:26.70
is Luke 8. Yes.
00:36:26.73\00:36:27.99
Which is were,
you'll remember the story
00:36:28.02\00:36:30.12
were Jesus is sailed across
to the area of the Gadarenes,
00:36:30.15\00:36:34.56
and these demoniacs
come rushing toward Him.
00:36:34.59\00:36:36.71
Remember this is the story where
they are casted into the pigs.
00:36:36.74\00:36:39.63
And a dialogue
begins between Satan
00:36:39.66\00:36:43.56
and the demon possessed man,
00:36:43.59\00:36:45.55
and Jesus asks a
question, who are you?
00:36:45.58\00:36:49.83
Who are you? This is Luke 8.
00:36:49.86\00:36:51.79
And the demon responds and says,
00:36:51.82\00:36:55.32
we, I am or we are legion.
00:36:55.35\00:36:58.81
Right, we are many and
we are organized. Yeah.
00:36:58.84\00:37:02.31
And this was their territory.
00:37:02.34\00:37:03.88
This area of the
Gadarenes, what happened is
00:37:03.91\00:37:06.35
that Jesus has come
into their territory.
00:37:06.38\00:37:08.61
And they come down
and they protest Jesus.
00:37:08.64\00:37:10.26
We know who you are,
you are the Son of God.
00:37:10.29\00:37:11.89
Then flying over the
cliff became their territory
00:37:11.92\00:37:14.25
and drifting down there--
00:37:14.28\00:37:16.05
Good riddance
to him. Yeah, yeah.
00:37:16.08\00:37:18.23
But it is an interesting fact
00:37:18.26\00:37:19.80
that they wanted to
remain in the territory.
00:37:19.83\00:37:21.52
I believe that's why they said,
00:37:21.55\00:37:22.70
permit us to go into the pigs,
allow us to go into the pigs.
00:37:22.73\00:37:25.32
Because this area,
they believeed that
00:37:25.35\00:37:27.55
because of the peoples
of those-- of that land,
00:37:27.58\00:37:32.16
they said, we have a
right to be here, this is our.
00:37:32.19\00:37:34.49
So they are protesting
Jesus right to just come.
00:37:34.52\00:37:37.89
Hey, we know who you
are, Son of the Most High God.
00:37:37.92\00:37:39.75
Have you come to torment us
00:37:39.78\00:37:41.08
or to torture
us before the time,
00:37:41.11\00:37:42.34
it shows they had a total
misunderstanding of who God was.
00:37:42.37\00:37:44.33
God didn't come to torture,
but to be tortured. Right.
00:37:44.36\00:37:48.42
But the point here is that,
00:37:48.45\00:37:49.68
Jesus there in Gethsemane says,
00:37:49.71\00:37:51.33
"I could call My
Father, he'd send legions."
00:37:51.36\00:37:54.11
And here when
Satan's, when Jesus' confronts
00:37:54.14\00:37:56.89
and says who, who are you?
00:37:56.92\00:37:58.33
Oh, we're legion?
00:37:58.36\00:37:59.49
We're many, we're organized.
00:37:59.52\00:38:01.38
And it's fascinating to notice,
00:38:01.41\00:38:03.10
what happens in
the story there, David.
00:38:03.13\00:38:05.24
That Jesus takes back a
little piece of territory.
00:38:05.27\00:38:09.91
That's right.
00:38:09.94\00:38:10.97
He takes back a inch of mind,
00:38:11.00\00:38:13.21
a human heart, a human will.
00:38:13.24\00:38:16.00
This man was in bondage
00:38:16.03\00:38:17.43
and Jesus rescued
him, liberated him.
00:38:17.46\00:38:20.18
The demons had to
accept his body and his mind.
00:38:20.21\00:38:24.23
And this man was now
a liberated individual,
00:38:24.26\00:38:27.49
so this tells us that ultimately
00:38:27.52\00:38:29.46
the territory that
God is interested in,
00:38:29.49\00:38:31.69
is not the terra
firma under our feet,
00:38:31.72\00:38:34.20
but this 3 pound hunk
of flesh between our ears,
00:38:34.23\00:38:37.91
our minds, our hearts.
00:38:37.94\00:38:39.35
It's fascinating that in
scripture this is something.
00:38:39.38\00:38:43.05
That in Revelation,
God just straight up says,
00:38:43.08\00:38:46.60
I want your forehead.
00:38:46.63\00:38:49.21
I want to put my
name in your forehead.
00:38:49.24\00:38:51.91
I want your frontal lobe,
I want your thinking process,
00:38:51.94\00:38:54.63
your feeling process,
00:38:54.66\00:38:55.90
your volitional
freewill process.
00:38:55.93\00:38:57.61
I want this territory,
your mind, your heart.
00:38:57.64\00:39:00.94
That's ultimately
what He's aiming for.
00:39:00.97\00:39:03.15
Ty, have you ever, I love that.
00:39:03.18\00:39:04.49
Have you ever thought of
this in light of the story?
00:39:04.52\00:39:05.92
I hadn't, but there in Luke 8,
00:39:05.95\00:39:08.35
you'll recall that the people
00:39:08.38\00:39:10.62
that lived in that
area of the Gadarenes.
00:39:10.65\00:39:12.04
They came to Jesus and
requested Him to leave. Yes.
00:39:12.07\00:39:15.09
They came and they say,
00:39:15.12\00:39:16.85
get out of here,
we don't you anymore.
00:39:16.88\00:39:18.91
But now this is a
very interesting thought.
00:39:18.94\00:39:21.53
The man who was
formerly demon possessed
00:39:21.56\00:39:23.58
who is now healed
says, can I go with you?
00:39:23.61\00:39:26.76
Is this awesome? Yeah, yeah.
00:39:26.79\00:39:28.66
Can I go with you, it was Jesus
00:39:28.69\00:39:30.05
essentially says
no, hey I need you here.
00:39:30.08\00:39:32.75
We need to
establish the beachhead
00:39:32.78\00:39:34.08
here in this territory.
00:39:34.11\00:39:35.47
I need you here,
because if he leaves,
00:39:35.50\00:39:38.51
then that
territory can go right back--
00:39:38.54\00:39:40.68
Wow, that's incredible.
Have never thought it.
00:39:40.71\00:39:42.02
Oh, I never thought of that.
00:39:42.05\00:39:43.08
Yeah, that is. It's good.
00:39:43.11\00:39:44.68
So he established. A beachhead.
00:39:44.71\00:39:46.82
A beachhead in that
territory. Right there.
00:39:46.85\00:39:49.14
Stay here, we
need your influence,
00:39:49.17\00:39:51.40
powerful, powerful. Beautiful.
00:39:51.43\00:39:53.66
So this is how the great
controversy ensues, Danny.
00:39:53.69\00:39:56.57
It unfolds, it
happens like this.
00:39:56.60\00:39:59.95
We are not aware of that,
now we know in this context.
00:39:59.98\00:40:02.68
I'll just say this in passing,
although it's not our subject.
00:40:02.71\00:40:05.34
Now we know why prayer is
powerful and why it matters.
00:40:05.37\00:40:09.30
Because prayer is
basically an act of war.
00:40:09.33\00:40:12.97
Oh, I like that.
Prayer is act of war.
00:40:13.00\00:40:16.93
It is an exercise of my freewill
00:40:16.96\00:40:21.05
to leverage divine
power in a situation.
00:40:21.08\00:40:25.63
That might be a
two hander as I say.
00:40:25.66\00:40:27.27
Yeah, I like that. Two hander.
00:40:27.30\00:40:28.86
I like that. Yeah, absolutely.
00:40:28.89\00:40:30.37
So shall we go to the
next part of the story?
00:40:30.40\00:40:32.33
Yeah, I think we are good.
00:40:32.36\00:40:33.39
All right, we got 16 minutes,
00:40:33.42\00:40:34.79
are you sure you don't want me
to put another 30 on that clock?
00:40:34.82\00:40:37.85
You can pay attention to it
and see if you think we need it.
00:40:37.88\00:40:40.34
All right, here we go.
00:40:40.37\00:40:41.55
I think we gonna need it,
00:40:41.58\00:40:42.61
because Luke 11
itself is five parts-
00:40:42.64\00:40:46.60
I'm willing to-- I
think we should do it.
00:40:46.63\00:40:48.40
For master control,
those of you watching here
00:40:48.43\00:40:51.41
we gonna, we
probably, in fact we are,
00:40:51.44\00:40:53.49
I think, we can just say
we are gonna to 10:30 tonight
00:40:53.52\00:40:56.02
because I don't want
to rush you guys at all.
00:40:56.05\00:40:57.51
This is great stuff,
and then we want to make
00:40:57.54\00:41:00.24
the DVDs available to these
folk also that are at home so.
00:41:00.27\00:41:03.84
Okay, we've covered
numbers one through four.
00:41:03.87\00:41:06.33
Scene one, Dominion.
00:41:06.36\00:41:08.96
Scene two, Abdication.
00:41:08.99\00:41:11.19
Scene three, A Warrior Promised.
00:41:11.22\00:41:13.68
Scene four, we've covered
now which is Organized Forces.
00:41:13.71\00:41:17.54
We've seen that the
forces of good and evil
00:41:17.57\00:41:19.99
are organized for
battle in the great controversy
00:41:20.02\00:41:23.51
on both sides of the great war,
00:41:23.54\00:41:26.08
the great controversy
between good and evil.
00:41:26.11\00:41:28.20
Scene five in this
unfolding narrative
00:41:28.23\00:41:31.64
is we've just called it
the Unarmed Warrior. Okay.
00:41:31.67\00:41:36.27
So the warrior that was foretold
originally in Genesis 3:15,
00:41:36.30\00:41:43.05
at this part of the story
00:41:43.08\00:41:44.74
we are entering
into the New Testament
00:41:44.77\00:41:46.65
and the fulfillment of
the promise and the prophecy
00:41:46.68\00:41:50.38
that the warrior would come.
00:41:50.41\00:41:51.88
And now he's
landed on earthly soil,
00:41:51.91\00:41:55.61
He's here, He's been as it were,
00:41:55.64\00:41:57.90
you know, He's parachuted
into in enemy territory
00:41:57.93\00:42:03.15
through the incarnation,
00:42:03.18\00:42:04.53
He's come into the world
through the womb of Mary.
00:42:04.56\00:42:07.40
And as He comes into the world,
00:42:07.43\00:42:09.78
we've wrapped this language
00:42:09.81\00:42:11.08
around the Savior Jesus
Christ, Unarmed Warrior,
00:42:11.11\00:42:15.46
we like the word unarmed,
00:42:15.49\00:42:17.22
because we want to emphasize
00:42:17.25\00:42:18.57
that He wins the
great controversy
00:42:18.60\00:42:23.26
by principles that
are completely opposite to
00:42:23.29\00:42:28.09
and contrary to the principles
that Satan operates by.
00:42:28.12\00:42:31.48
Satan operates by
deception and force primarily.
00:42:31.51\00:42:35.73
Jesus operates
by love and truth.
00:42:35.76\00:42:39.23
Those are the principles that He
exerts in the great controversy.
00:42:39.26\00:42:44.52
So He's the unarmed warrior.
00:42:44.55\00:42:47.74
Now let's just
unpack with scripture.
00:42:47.77\00:42:49.99
Well, when you were saying that,
00:42:50.02\00:42:51.09
yeah, let's go to
the scripture text here.
00:42:51.12\00:42:52.50
But just let's remind our
viewers that and ourselves,
00:42:52.53\00:42:55.82
let's remind ourselves
that soon after Jesus was born,
00:42:55.85\00:42:59.05
when the wise men
come from the east,
00:42:59.08\00:43:00.47
it says that
Herod and all of Israel
00:43:00.50\00:43:02.15
was troubled to hear
that some were saying,
00:43:02.18\00:43:04.50
"Oh, where is the Messiah?
00:43:04.53\00:43:05.56
We've seen His
star in the east."
00:43:05.59\00:43:07.21
And we know how this story goes.
00:43:07.24\00:43:09.26
Herod basically
says to the wise men,
00:43:09.29\00:43:11.21
hey you go, you find Him,
00:43:11.24\00:43:12.63
and then you come
and tell me about Him.
00:43:12.66\00:43:14.66
Well, and angel says
to them, hey don't go back
00:43:14.69\00:43:16.66
because he's not
interested in worshiping,
00:43:16.69\00:43:18.47
he's interested
in something else.
00:43:18.50\00:43:19.53
So they go another
way, so what does Herod do?
00:43:19.56\00:43:22.00
He begins, you are
talking about control
00:43:22.03\00:43:24.21
and force and deception
is what you said, I think.
00:43:24.24\00:43:27.37
So what does he trying to do?
00:43:27.40\00:43:28.69
Satan really believes,
hey I'm gonna win this war.
00:43:28.72\00:43:31.95
That challenge that was
elicited back in Genesis 3.
00:43:31.98\00:43:35.46
He says, oh, man I'll
win this thing right now.
00:43:35.49\00:43:37.58
I'll just go
slaughter all of these children.
00:43:37.61\00:43:40.71
I mean that's what we
are dealing with here,
00:43:40.74\00:43:42.27
a density that suggests a mental
density on behalf of Satan
00:43:42.30\00:43:46.12
that you can win
this kind of a war
00:43:46.15\00:43:48.63
by just with a knife,
with a sword, with the gun.
00:43:48.66\00:43:51.98
Yeah. Right?
00:43:52.01\00:43:53.23
So he's gonna try to kill
that's the world the war zone,
00:43:53.26\00:43:57.90
the theater of operations
into which Jesus is born.
00:43:57.93\00:44:01.86
Children are being
slaughtered in order to kill Him
00:44:01.89\00:44:04.22
because Satan believes
this would be to win the war.
00:44:04.25\00:44:06.12
Yeah, yeah. It's
fascinating, isn't it?
00:44:06.15\00:44:08.33
It is, it is, it's
absolutely, it's life changing.
00:44:08.36\00:44:10.95
Okay. So, Luke 11, David
and I love this scripture.
00:44:10.98\00:44:16.11
Danny, you're gonna,
you're gonna love this too.
00:44:16.14\00:44:18.22
This is an amazing
scripture in which Jesus
00:44:18.25\00:44:22.31
basically lays claim
to the warrior status.
00:44:22.34\00:44:28.40
And says, "I'm here
to execute a victory,
00:44:28.43\00:44:32.90
I'm here to win the war."
So, it's very fascinating.
00:44:32.93\00:44:37.06
Follow the
language here in Chapter 11
00:44:37.09\00:44:39.05
of Luke verses 21, 22.
00:44:39.08\00:44:41.54
Jesus is speaking and He says,
00:44:41.57\00:44:43.21
"When a strong man, fully armed,
00:44:43.24\00:44:46.40
guards his own palace,
his goods are in peace."
00:44:46.43\00:44:50.93
Very simple, right? Yes.
00:44:50.96\00:44:52.24
Strong man, he has a territory
00:44:52.27\00:44:53.95
and he's guarding his territory,
00:44:53.98\00:44:56.01
he's guarding his
palace, everything is fine.
00:44:56.04\00:44:58.33
But then verse 22,
"But when a stronger
00:44:58.36\00:45:01.50
than he comes upon
him and overcomes him,
00:45:01.53\00:45:06.66
he takes from him all his
armor in which he trusted,
00:45:06.69\00:45:10.92
and divides his
spoils." What is Jesus saying?
00:45:10.95\00:45:14.53
You've got two individuals here.
00:45:14.56\00:45:16.39
You've got the strong
man and the stronger than he.
00:45:16.42\00:45:20.00
One is strong and he's guarding
00:45:20.03\00:45:22.52
the territory that he
has, that he possesses.
00:45:22.55\00:45:25.56
But then somebody
stronger comes along
00:45:25.59\00:45:28.11
and conquers and
takes the territory back.
00:45:28.14\00:45:30.85
The devil is
the strong man. Wow.
00:45:30.88\00:45:34.46
And the stronger
than he is Jesus,
00:45:34.49\00:45:37.12
none other than Jesus Himself.
00:45:37.15\00:45:39.10
He's basically saying,
"I have come to this world
00:45:39.13\00:45:42.81
to overcome the
kingdom of darkness
00:45:42.84\00:45:44.39
by the implementation of
principles of a higher order
00:45:44.42\00:45:49.32
that will win the
great controversy."
00:45:49.35\00:45:51.16
Now in the
immediate context, Ty,
00:45:51.19\00:45:53.27
of the story and I was
gonna read it very quickly,
00:45:53.30\00:45:56.27
beginning in verse 14
00:45:56.30\00:45:57.35
which leads up to
what you've just read.
00:45:57.38\00:45:58.92
Luke 11:14, it says, "And
He was casting out demons--
00:45:58.95\00:46:02.94
and He was casting out
demons, and it was mute.
00:46:02.97\00:46:04.59
So it was, when
the demon had gone out,
00:46:04.62\00:46:06.12
that the mute spoke,
and the multitudes marveled.
00:46:06.15\00:46:07.78
But some of them
said, 'He casts out demons
00:46:07.81\00:46:09.35
by Beelzebub, the
ruler of the demons.'
00:46:09.38\00:46:11.70
Others, testing him, sought
from Him a sign from heaven.
00:46:11.73\00:46:15.13
But He, knowing their
thoughts, said to them,
00:46:15.16\00:46:16.55
'Every kingdom divided against
itself is brought to desolation,
00:46:16.58\00:46:18.89
and a house divided
against a house falls.
00:46:18.92\00:46:21.59
If Satan also is
divided against himself,
00:46:21.62\00:46:23.74
how will his kingdom stand?
00:46:23.77\00:46:25.31
Because you say I cast
out demons by Beelzebub.
00:46:25.34\00:46:27.78
If I cast out
demons by Beelzebub,
00:46:27.81\00:46:29.62
by whom do your
sons cast them out?
00:46:29.65\00:46:30.93
Therefore they
will be your judges.
00:46:30.96\00:46:32.82
But if I cast out
demons with the finger of God,
00:46:32.85\00:46:35.18
surely the kingdom of
God has come upon you.'"
00:46:35.21\00:46:36.85
And then the two
verses that you read.
00:46:36.88\00:46:38.63
So this idea of a strong man
who's guarding his territory,
00:46:38.66\00:46:42.40
who's guarding his house
00:46:42.43\00:46:43.63
who is then
overcome by a stronger
00:46:43.66\00:46:46.21
is in the immediate context
00:46:46.24\00:46:47.68
of Jesus removing
territorial forces. Okay.
00:46:47.71\00:46:51.56
He's just cast a demon, a
mute demon out of a person.
00:46:51.59\00:46:54.58
And it proves
that Jesus' miracles
00:46:54.61\00:46:58.57
were of such a
character and such a magnitude
00:46:58.60\00:47:00.73
that they required a
supernatural explanation. Wow.
00:47:00.76\00:47:03.23
They couldn't say "Oh, well,
that was just a party trick."
00:47:03.26\00:47:06.59
No, they recognized there's
something supernatural here.
00:47:06.62\00:47:10.09
So they attributed
to the dark powers.
00:47:10.12\00:47:12.10
They say, "Oh, you
did this by the Beelzebub
00:47:12.13\00:47:14.66
which is
literally the lord of flies.
00:47:14.69\00:47:17.07
You did this by the lord
of the flies by Beelzebub."
00:47:17.10\00:47:19.43
And then Jesus says, "Think
about what you're saying."
00:47:19.46\00:47:21.61
If a kingdom is
fighting against itself,
00:47:21.64\00:47:23.33
how would that
kingdom remain solid? Right.
00:47:23.36\00:47:26.03
If a house is divided,
how would it remain standing?
00:47:26.06\00:47:29.69
I'm casting out
demons not by Beelzebub
00:47:29.72\00:47:31.94
but if it's the finger
of God then the kingdom--
00:47:31.98\00:47:36.98
if I cast out
demons by the finger of God
00:47:37.01\00:47:38.84
then the kingdom of heaven
is coming right up next to you.
00:47:38.87\00:47:41.72
And then He says,
let me tell you a story.
00:47:41.75\00:47:43.94
If a guy, a
strongman is guarding his house
00:47:43.97\00:47:47.11
and all is well
and he's at peace.
00:47:47.14\00:47:48.94
And somebody else comes
and displaces him, right,
00:47:48.97\00:47:52.24
a stronger than
he displaces him.
00:47:52.27\00:47:53.97
That's what's taking place.
00:47:54.00\00:47:55.50
This was Jesus' own metaphor,
this was Jesus' own MO,
00:47:55.53\00:48:01.34
modus operandi
for what He was doing.
00:48:01.37\00:48:03.05
This is how, this was
Jesus' self-awareness.
00:48:03.08\00:48:06.41
He sees Himself as
place by place, city by city,
00:48:06.44\00:48:10.67
village by
village, person by person
00:48:10.70\00:48:13.24
taking back
reclaiming territories
00:48:13.27\00:48:17.05
that Satan had
legitimately claimed. All right.
00:48:17.08\00:48:19.36
Let me just say
one more word here.
00:48:19.39\00:48:21.35
Check this out.
00:48:21.38\00:48:23.33
Satan knew that this is
what Jesus was coming to do,
00:48:23.36\00:48:25.50
I'm just gonna rewind
the tape here very briefly.
00:48:25.53\00:48:27.25
Remember when we
went back to Luke 4,
00:48:27.28\00:48:29.53
he showed Him all
the kingdoms of the earth
00:48:29.56\00:48:31.03
and he said, "All
these I will give you
00:48:31.06\00:48:32.21
if you will just bow
down and worship me."
00:48:32.24\00:48:34.74
Satan knows that Jesus has
come to take the territory.
00:48:34.77\00:48:38.70
He knows that this is going
to be a territorial conflict.
00:48:38.73\00:48:41.52
So what he
tries to do is get him
00:48:41.55\00:48:43.19
to fulfill a legitimate desire
00:48:43.22\00:48:45.34
namely to be the
king of the earth
00:48:45.37\00:48:47.80
which He is legitimately
by an illegitimate means. Wow.
00:48:47.83\00:48:51.83
And he says, "Hey,
this is gonna be tough,
00:48:51.86\00:48:54.02
you're gonna have
to go to the cross.
00:48:54.05\00:48:55.30
It's gonna be difficult.
Let's just make this easy.
00:48:55.33\00:48:58.39
You bow down and worship me
and I'll just give it to you."
00:48:58.42\00:49:00.17
He's trying to get Jesus
to operate by his principles.
00:49:00.20\00:49:02.07
By his principles. Okay.
00:49:02.10\00:49:03.67
So Jesus here-- It
worked with Adam and Eve.
00:49:03.70\00:49:08.03
Exactly. Right.
00:49:08.06\00:49:09.09
It's not working with
the second Adam. Yeah.
00:49:09.12\00:49:11.26
Not with Jesus. Yeah.
00:49:11.29\00:49:13.14
So what Jesus is doing here,
00:49:13.17\00:49:14.91
Jesus owned
self-image of what He's doing.
00:49:14.94\00:49:17.86
If you were to go to Jesus--
00:49:17.89\00:49:18.92
if we could go
back 2000 years in time
00:49:18.95\00:49:20.66
and say, "Jesus,
what are you doing?"
00:49:20.69\00:49:21.78
He'll say, "I'm
taking back territory."
00:49:21.81\00:49:23.87
I'm reclaiming hearts,
I'm reclaiming villages,
00:49:23.90\00:49:26.33
I'm reclaiming-- this is why
00:49:26.36\00:49:27.45
He would come to some
villages the Bible says
00:49:27.48\00:49:28.78
and He could
perform no work there. Why?
00:49:28.81\00:49:30.30
Because the territorial forces
were so strong in that area
00:49:30.33\00:49:33.85
and the disbelief and unbelief
of the people were so strong.
00:49:33.88\00:49:36.39
Jesus couldn't-- even
Jesus couldn't breach.
00:49:36.42\00:49:39.77
But He would
come to other places
00:49:39.80\00:49:40.93
and whole
villages would be healed.
00:49:40.96\00:49:43.22
Jesus here is carrying
on a warfare of a session.
00:49:43.25\00:49:48.03
He's grabbing new
territories, new places,
00:49:48.06\00:49:50.91
new people for
the kingdom of God.
00:49:50.94\00:49:53.32
And that's why
it's so great is to me
00:49:53.35\00:49:55.55
I'm sitting here
listening to you.
00:49:55.58\00:49:57.11
The plan of salvation is
death, burial, and resurrection
00:49:57.14\00:50:00.03
because now he says all
authority he has given me
00:50:00.06\00:50:02.76
and the very next word, "Go ye
therefore, teach all nations."
00:50:02.79\00:50:06.52
"I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me,
00:50:06.55\00:50:08.86
for my God shall supply all
of your needs for we know that
00:50:08.89\00:50:12.35
all things work together
for good to them that love God.'
00:50:12.38\00:50:14.82
They just keep going on
and on because of what He did--
00:50:14.85\00:50:17.40
That's right. What He did.
00:50:17.43\00:50:18.73
Now I always tell people that
I've read the back of the book
00:50:18.76\00:50:22.08
and it says, 'We win'.
00:50:22.11\00:50:23.22
That's right. That's good.
00:50:23.25\00:50:24.94
So I love it when we're seeing
00:50:24.97\00:50:26.95
what you're
bringing in is the picture
00:50:26.98\00:50:28.74
but you're bringing in a way
00:50:28.77\00:50:30.75
that the way
this Bible is written,
00:50:30.78\00:50:32.76
threaded this truth
from Genesis to Revelation,
00:50:32.79\00:50:35.77
there's no coincidence.
00:50:35.80\00:50:36.97
It wasn't just a bunch
of people writing stories
00:50:37.00\00:50:39.07
and then we pick
and choose what we want.
00:50:39.10\00:50:41.04
No, it's a theme.
00:50:41.07\00:50:42.17
You're showing a
foundation of theme
00:50:42.20\00:50:43.83
that were set from the beginning
of the foundation of the world
00:50:43.86\00:50:46.75
that God loves us
so much to redeem us
00:50:46.78\00:50:49.80
that He says, you know what,
00:50:49.83\00:50:51.05
I got you back, I'm
gonna do this whole thing
00:50:51.08\00:50:54.08
but He cannot compromise you.
00:50:54.11\00:50:56.35
You've got to look to me.
00:50:56.38\00:50:57.41
You've got to
allow Me to bless you.
00:50:57.44\00:50:59.32
Yes. To put
that hedge about you.
00:50:59.35\00:51:01.31
Your decision is that
you said a city, a nation,
00:51:01.34\00:51:03.93
you know, whatever
country but individually
00:51:03.96\00:51:07.33
you're telling us now that
God is dealing looks at us.
00:51:07.36\00:51:10.61
Our territory is
an individual also,
00:51:10.64\00:51:12.72
territory that so there
is entities within entities
00:51:12.75\00:51:16.23
but the end
result is our own self.
00:51:16.26\00:51:19.12
That's right. Amen, amen.
00:51:19.15\00:51:20.42
Now at this time we
want to go to John 12?
00:51:20.45\00:51:22.64
Yes, absolutely.
We've got to go there.
00:51:22.67\00:51:24.82
John 12 is where Jesus declares
00:51:24.85\00:51:29.84
the victory that is
coming at the cross.
00:51:29.87\00:51:32.28
But He also indicates
how the victory is won.
00:51:32.31\00:51:35.41
And this is tha plot to it
00:51:35.44\00:51:36.77
that Satan could
have never anticipated.
00:51:36.80\00:51:39.04
Good, good stuff.
You're there, David?
00:51:39.07\00:51:40.91
I'm there, I'm ready.
I'm not there, go for it.
00:51:40.94\00:51:43.24
So John 12:31, which
we've already alluded to.
00:51:43.27\00:51:48.11
"Now is the
judgment of this world,
00:51:48.14\00:51:51.78
now the ruler of this
world would be cast out."
00:51:51.81\00:51:55.48
So Jesus says
something determinative,
00:51:55.51\00:51:58.01
something
pivotal is happening now.
00:51:58.04\00:51:59.34
He uses that word twice.
00:51:59.37\00:52:00.40
Now is the
judgment of this world,
00:52:00.43\00:52:02.37
the principles by which--
00:52:02.40\00:52:03.43
you said the prince of
the power of the earth,
00:52:03.46\00:52:04.68
the Zeitgeist. Yeah.
00:52:04.71\00:52:06.03
The principles by which
00:52:06.06\00:52:07.21
this world has been
operating is being judged.
00:52:07.24\00:52:10.82
And the ruler
of those principles
00:52:10.85\00:52:12.97
is about to be cast out.
00:52:13.00\00:52:14.03
Well, how, how will that happen?
00:52:14.06\00:52:15.24
Will it be with
force? Will it be with might?
00:52:15.27\00:52:16.86
Will it be with strength?
00:52:16.89\00:52:18.67
Verse 32, "And I, if I
am lifted from the earth,
00:52:18.70\00:52:23.68
I will not force, not drive
but draw all peoples to Myself."
00:52:23.71\00:52:30.58
Isn't that
something? That is beautiful.
00:52:30.61\00:52:31.94
Jesus is wining
the great controversy
00:52:31.97\00:52:35.24
by a completely
unexpected maneuver.
00:52:35.27\00:52:39.00
That unexpected
maneuver is the cross.
00:52:39.03\00:52:41.26
The devil is expecting
force with force. That's right.
00:52:41.29\00:52:47.28
Manipulation
against manipulation.
00:52:47.31\00:52:49.57
He has developed in
his own imagination,
00:52:49.60\00:52:53.27
his dark and
twisted imagination,
00:52:53.30\00:52:56.09
a horrible picture of
God in which he believes
00:52:56.12\00:52:58.89
that God operates by
the self-centered principles
00:52:58.92\00:53:01.62
that he himself operates by.
00:53:01.65\00:53:03.54
But Jesus comes into the
world and it's fascinating
00:53:03.57\00:53:06.97
when He comes into the world,
He says right here very clearly,
00:53:07.00\00:53:10.25
"The Prince of this
world is gonna be casted out,
00:53:10.28\00:53:12.42
He's gonna be
overcome by the cross."
00:53:12.45\00:53:14.37
What is the cross?
00:53:14.40\00:53:15.60
The cross is this beautiful,
undeniable demonstration
00:53:15.63\00:53:22.31
of love for
others, even enemies.
00:53:22.34\00:53:25.52
Love for all
others above Himself.
00:53:25.55\00:53:28.14
Jesus proves that God loves
every member of the human race,
00:53:28.17\00:53:33.13
more than His own existence,
more than His own life.
00:53:33.16\00:53:35.70
And so Jesus says "When
people look at the cross,
00:53:35.73\00:53:39.27
they are going
to encounter a love
00:53:39.30\00:53:42.53
that will draw
their hearts back to Me.
00:53:42.56\00:53:44.52
I won't have to
force or manipulate
00:53:44.55\00:53:46.47
or deceive them,
I simply love them.
00:53:46.50\00:53:49.57
And by loving them,
by giving my own life,
00:53:49.60\00:53:51.92
I'm going to win
the great controversy."
00:53:51.95\00:53:53.85
Simultaneously two things
are happening at the cross.
00:53:53.88\00:53:56.07
Satan is
conquered and human hearts,
00:53:56.10\00:53:59.14
territories are won back
00:53:59.17\00:54:01.12
to the kingdom of
God through the cross.
00:54:01.15\00:54:04.38
That's where the victory is won.
00:54:04.41\00:54:05.96
Now the Apostle Paul,
00:54:05.99\00:54:07.67
the Apostle Paul
understands this.
00:54:07.70\00:54:09.74
You
fast-forward to Colossians 2.
00:54:09.77\00:54:11.79
Yeah, Colossians
2:15, isn't it great, David?
00:54:11.82\00:54:13.87
Oh, it's just amazing.
00:54:13.90\00:54:14.93
Here Paul understands that
00:54:14.96\00:54:16.39
what happened at the
cross was a great controversy.
00:54:16.42\00:54:18.73
So just to repeat,
so our viewers get it
00:54:18.76\00:54:20.08
because we're
moving quickly here.
00:54:20.11\00:54:21.14
Colossians 2, we're
gonna look at verse 15.
00:54:21.17\00:54:23.94
Verse 15, the Apostle
Paul says of Jesus at the cross
00:54:23.97\00:54:28.61
that having 'disarmed'
There's a military term.
00:54:28.64\00:54:32.60
"Disarmed principalities
and powers, He, that is Jesus,
00:54:32.63\00:54:37.20
made a public spectacle of them,
00:54:37.23\00:54:40.59
triumphing over them in
it." The context is the cross.
00:54:40.62\00:54:45.05
In the cross.
Yeah, in the cross.
00:54:45.08\00:54:46.59
The cross was the means
00:54:46.62\00:54:48.72
by which Jesus
disarmed the devil.
00:54:48.75\00:54:51.55
So you have to ask
yourself the question.
00:54:51.58\00:54:53.37
What kind of
armaments did He have?
00:54:53.40\00:54:56.49
What kind of
weaponry was He bearing
00:54:56.52\00:54:58.74
against the kingdom of God?
00:54:58.77\00:54:59.80
It wasn't grenades
and bombs and swords.
00:54:59.83\00:55:02.45
I mean that plays into the great
controversy on the human level-
00:55:02.48\00:55:05.71
It was written in
red. But what is it?
00:55:05.74\00:55:07.75
What is it? It
was written in red.
00:55:07.78\00:55:09.69
Yes. So, what is the armament?
00:55:09.72\00:55:13.72
You remember Luke 11,
take away His--what is it?
00:55:13.75\00:55:17.74
His armor in which he trust.
His armor in which he trusted.
00:55:17.77\00:55:19.97
What's the armor
that Satan is trusting in?
00:55:20.00\00:55:22.90
What are the
weapons he's been using?
00:55:22.93\00:55:25.07
Deception regarding
the character of God.
00:55:25.10\00:55:27.40
Yeah. And coercion and force.
00:55:27.43\00:55:30.83
Jesus comes
along and by the cross
00:55:30.86\00:55:32.71
He completely
overturns these principles
00:55:32.74\00:55:36.42
and proves that truth
and love are more powerful
00:55:36.45\00:55:40.81
than deception
and force. Absolutely.
00:55:40.84\00:55:43.19
And that's how He
wins the great controversy
00:55:43.22\00:55:44.43
and it's fascinating, He says,
00:55:44.46\00:55:45.49
He makes a public spectacle
00:55:45.52\00:55:47.59
of the kingdom of
darkness at the cross.
00:55:47.62\00:55:49.33
And love hang on to cross,
00:55:49.36\00:55:50.78
I mean because God is love
and so love hung on to cross.
00:55:50.81\00:55:54.09
Rusty Goodman, a friend of
mine he is resting in Jesus
00:55:54.12\00:55:56.46
now wrote a song
called written in red.
00:55:56.49\00:55:58.83
And the whole thing is
this that is basically, you say,
00:55:58.86\00:56:01.85
well, what did Satan
bring to table to deceive,
00:56:01.88\00:56:03.89
you know, all
these terrible things,
00:56:03.92\00:56:05.41
God just brought
love, brought Himself.
00:56:05.44\00:56:07.14
That's right. You got it.
00:56:07.17\00:56:08.44
He won the great
controversy by that means. Yeah.
00:56:08.47\00:56:11.24
And it was totally unanticipated
00:56:11.27\00:56:12.86
that's the thing
that I love about it,
00:56:12.89\00:56:14.42
is that Satan believed that
00:56:14.45\00:56:16.31
this would be a force
for force, mano e mano melee.
00:56:16.34\00:56:20.81
But what it ends up
being is he gets flanked,
00:56:20.84\00:56:23.37
that's really what
happens, he gets out flanked.
00:56:23.40\00:56:25.18
Victory comes at the very moment
00:56:25.21\00:56:27.01
that he thinks
he's achieving victory
00:56:27.04\00:56:29.15
mainly by killing
Jesus in a terrible,
00:56:29.18\00:56:32.23
hideous,
ignominious, satanic way he--
00:56:32.26\00:56:37.41
and I love the way
that Ellen White says that
00:56:37.44\00:56:38.90
she says that He--it's
my paraphrase what she says.
00:56:38.93\00:56:42.27
But he boar his chest only
to receive the stroke of death.
00:56:42.30\00:56:47.54
You know, sort of stuck, he
really believed that he is--
00:56:47.57\00:56:50.50
I've done it only to re--
00:56:50.53\00:56:52.76
I've lost it I've lost it.
00:56:52.79\00:56:54.55
Yeah. I've lost it.
00:56:54.58\00:56:56.73
Think about what was
happening at the cross.
00:56:56.76\00:56:58.41
You have groups
of people, the mob,
00:56:58.44\00:57:01.53
who are saying something to
Jesus as He hangs on the cross,
00:57:01.56\00:57:04.07
it's very fascinating
what they're saying to Him.
00:57:04.10\00:57:06.29
If you are the Son
of God, save Yourself.
00:57:06.32\00:57:08.98
Come down. Come
done off the cross.
00:57:09.01\00:57:10.08
If you are the Son
of God, saves Yourself.
00:57:10.11\00:57:11.68
If you're the Son
of God, save Yourself.
00:57:11.71\00:57:13.28
Here's the irony of it, Danny.
00:57:13.31\00:57:15.61
He was the Son of God, therefore
He wouldn't save Himself. Okay.
00:57:15.64\00:57:21.02
Jesus would not
yield to the impulse
00:57:21.05\00:57:24.80
to live for self at
the expense of others.
00:57:24.83\00:57:28.23
He chose to give
His life for His enemies
00:57:28.26\00:57:32.04
and thereby demonstrated that
He was in fact the Son of God
00:57:32.07\00:57:35.49
and operating by principles
that are completely contrary
00:57:35.52\00:57:39.86
to the principles
of self preservation.
00:57:39.89\00:57:42.46
It is that way He says,
00:57:42.49\00:57:43.72
if I be lifted
up from this earth,
00:57:43.75\00:57:45.31
will draw all man to me.
00:57:45.34\00:57:47.05
It sounds like to me in
our own individual life,
00:57:47.08\00:57:49.36
if we live by His principles,
then people see Jesus in us.
00:57:49.39\00:57:54.60
That's what's drawing,
we don't want Him to see us.
00:57:54.63\00:57:57.02
But if I--no matter what's
going around me in this world
00:57:57.05\00:58:00.09
if I--my pledge is to
God, my loyalty is to God,
00:58:00.12\00:58:03.19
my heart is to God
then they will actually see,
00:58:03.22\00:58:06.39
they will be drawn
to the Jesus in me.
00:58:06.42\00:58:08.26
That's right. Amen.
00:58:08.29\00:58:09.32
Yeah, that--I mean
that's an amazing thing.
00:58:09.35\00:58:11.84
I've said it many times before.
00:58:11.87\00:58:13.57
God doesn't need us, I
tell people in churches.
00:58:13.60\00:58:15.93
Why did He said, "Go
ye into all the world."
00:58:15.96\00:58:17.22
He doesn't need us.
00:58:17.25\00:58:18.28
Do you think He
needs us to save anybody?
00:58:18.31\00:58:20.81
The Lord doesn't need
us, we don't save anybody.
00:58:20.84\00:58:23.13
So why does He tell us
to go into all the world,
00:58:23.16\00:58:25.64
since we are
not really a factor.
00:58:25.67\00:58:27.53
And I say, you know, my
little heart say, Danny,
00:58:27.56\00:58:30.63
who I say I'm thinking about it
00:58:30.66\00:58:31.83
is we need it for
our own salvation.
00:58:31.86\00:58:35.41
Otherwise, go ye
into all the world
00:58:35.44\00:58:37.08
because I get to
experience what it's like
00:58:37.11\00:58:40.08
and I submit and commit
00:58:40.11\00:58:41.14
and watch you be a
channel of blessing.
00:58:41.17\00:58:43.52
And you see God
flowing in you and through you
00:58:43.55\00:58:46.12
and it keeps me from just
00:58:46.15\00:58:47.57
worrying about me,
myself and I over here.
00:58:47.60\00:58:49.98
And we're
getting that selfishness,
00:58:50.01\00:58:51.38
as you talk about Satan is.
00:58:51.41\00:58:52.77
So now as I begin to
allow God to live in me
00:58:52.80\00:58:56.46
that love flows
through me and people see it
00:58:56.49\00:58:58.60
and you say,
"Wow, what a blessing."
00:58:58.63\00:59:00.57
So I think God tells
us, you go out and do this.
00:59:00.60\00:59:03.30
Really, it's for our salvation
as much as anybody else's
00:59:03.33\00:59:06.53
'cause He could
do it on His own.
00:59:06.56\00:59:08.95
We have instances in scriptures
where He did it through fish,
00:59:08.98\00:59:11.61
He did it through a rooster,
He did it through a donkey.
00:59:11.64\00:59:13.90
He said, the rocks
could cry out. Yeah.
00:59:13.93\00:59:16.39
And they are by
the way. Radio was--
00:59:16.42\00:59:20.08
Yeah. I love that.
00:59:20.11\00:59:21.21
Radio, it comes from
what? What's--you know what?
00:59:21.24\00:59:24.46
Silicon. That's right.
00:59:24.49\00:59:26.67
Rocks are involved
in transmission process.
00:59:26.70\00:59:29.21
So through rocks, right? Yeah.
00:59:29.24\00:59:31.48
Came radio, comes television
00:59:31.51\00:59:33.62
and on top of every
mountain there's antenna. Yes.
00:59:33.65\00:59:36.52
So today rocks and mountains are
crying out to proclaim the name.
00:59:36.55\00:59:38.81
So we said here of Jesus. Yeah.
00:59:38.84\00:59:40.68
And the rocks
are crying out. Yeah.
00:59:40.71\00:59:42.36
And so were the donkeys. Yeah.
00:59:42.39\00:59:45.51
Watch it, you don't have to
tell everything that's true.
00:59:45.54\00:59:48.95
Hey, I just
remembered a statement
00:59:48.98\00:59:50.94
that in Desire of Ages where
Ellen White wraps a language
00:59:50.97\00:59:55.16
around what's
happening at the cross
00:59:55.19\00:59:56.56
that I think is just very
clear and beautiful language.
00:59:56.59\01:00:00.97
She describes that
victory in this way
01:00:01.00\01:00:02.84
and I can't remember the page
maybe one of you know the page.
01:00:02.87\01:00:05.68
But in Desire of Ages, it says
01:00:05.71\01:00:07.47
that what happened
at the cross is this.
01:00:07.50\01:00:09.57
That love and
selfishness stood face to face.
01:00:09.60\01:00:14.32
Wow. And love
gained the victory.
01:00:14.35\01:00:17.29
Okay. Isn't that something?
01:00:17.32\01:00:18.61
Yeah, I love
it. I love that one.
01:00:18.64\01:00:19.67
Love gained the
victory at the cross.
01:00:19.70\01:00:21.97
That's what we see taking
place. Praise the Lord, wow.
01:00:22.00\01:00:23.71
You know, Danny, you are--
01:00:23.74\01:00:24.81
I'm a bit of a basketball fan,
you're bit of basketball fan.
01:00:24.84\01:00:27.27
You know there's always debates.
This is an illustration.
01:00:27.30\01:00:29.45
Tell me what you think of this.
01:00:29.48\01:00:31.02
There's always debates
about who was the greatest team.
01:00:31.05\01:00:34.07
You know, was it
the 76 Celtics or the--
01:00:34.10\01:00:36.45
you know, '80 Bulls or
whatever, whatever the team.
01:00:36.48\01:00:39.28
And there are the people
that spend a lot of time,
01:00:39.31\01:00:41.95
too much time
thinking about these things
01:00:41.98\01:00:43.49
and they'll say well, no,
if the '76 Celtics had played,
01:00:43.52\01:00:46.71
you know, 2000 Lakers
and. But we don't know.
01:00:46.74\01:00:49.71
Had the dream team of, you know,
01:00:49.74\01:00:50.77
of the '90 played
the dream team now.
01:00:50.80\01:00:53.02
Which dream team would have won?
01:00:53.05\01:00:54.25
But here's a fascinating thing
that I love about the cross
01:00:54.28\01:00:57.33
and the great
controversy is that
01:00:57.36\01:00:59.70
unlike these basketball teams
01:00:59.73\01:01:01.68
where we don't really
know because we can't--
01:01:01.71\01:01:03.79
because of time and space we
can't get those teams to play
01:01:03.82\01:01:07.30
the greatest act
oflove and grace and mercy
01:01:07.33\01:01:11.08
and magnanimity took place here,
01:01:11.11\01:01:13.08
at this place, in
this time at the cross.
01:01:13.11\01:01:15.52
And the greatest
act of selfishness,
01:01:15.55\01:01:18.06
cruelty and satanic
hideousness took place
01:01:18.09\01:01:22.36
in the same
place at the same time.
01:01:22.39\01:01:24.78
So we don't have to
say well, what was--
01:01:24.81\01:01:26.70
was this better
and this was worse
01:01:26.73\01:01:28.43
or was this worse
and this was better.
01:01:28.46\01:01:29.81
Both of those things were
right there at the same time.
01:01:29.84\01:01:33.74
Yeah. I love that. Absolutely.
01:01:33.77\01:01:36.09
So we can cast our vote,
we can make our decision.
01:01:36.12\01:01:38.92
That's right. It's all
there. We can cast our vote.
01:01:38.95\01:01:41.06
Okay. That's right.
01:01:41.09\01:01:42.12
On Jesus. I'm voting for Jesus.
01:01:42.15\01:01:44.72
Now there is
something I want to say here
01:01:44.75\01:01:45.96
that might be a little
deep but I think it just--
01:01:45.99\01:01:48.76
I want to throw it out there
especially for Bible students
01:01:48.79\01:01:51.25
that are tracking right with us
because this is a little heavy.
01:01:51.28\01:01:55.08
In the Book of
Revelation, Revelation 12,
01:01:55.11\01:01:58.46
couple together
with other passages
01:01:58.49\01:01:59.80
that we've
talked about it's clear
01:01:59.83\01:02:01.42
that Satan had limited
access to heavenly territories.
01:02:01.45\01:02:08.10
Those heavenly territories
that he had access to.
01:02:08.13\01:02:10.02
We've already seen
in Job where he comes
01:02:10.05\01:02:11.65
and he says, hey,
I'm here in this--
01:02:11.68\01:02:13.40
we know it wasn't they.
01:02:13.43\01:02:14.50
We know that they
couldn't have been on earth
01:02:14.53\01:02:15.56
because God says,
where did you come from?
01:02:15.59\01:02:16.86
It couldn't have been earth,
01:02:16.89\01:02:17.92
it must have been
some other place. Okay.
01:02:17.95\01:02:19.63
So when we get to Revelation 12
01:02:19.66\01:02:21.20
this fascinating
thing happens at the cross,
01:02:21.23\01:02:24.77
at the cross in
fact I'll just read it.
01:02:24.80\01:02:26.89
At the cross in Revelation
12 and it says verse 8,
01:02:26.92\01:02:32.23
"So the great dragon was
cast out, that serpent of old,
01:02:32.26\01:02:35.72
called the Devil and Satan,
who deceives the whole world,
01:02:35.75\01:02:38.05
he was cast to the earth,
01:02:38.08\01:02:39.59
and his angels
were cast out with him."
01:02:39.62\01:02:41.17
Three times, cast
out, cast out, cast out.
01:02:41.20\01:02:43.98
That's what Jesus just said.
01:02:44.01\01:02:45.62
Now is the
judgment of this world,
01:02:45.65\01:02:47.56
the principles upon
which this world operates.
01:02:47.59\01:02:49.19
Now the ruler of this world will
be cast out but in what context?
01:02:49.22\01:02:52.93
When I am lifted up.
01:02:52.96\01:02:55.04
"When I'm lifted
up from the earth,
01:02:55.07\01:02:56.60
I will draw all men unto me."
01:02:56.63\01:02:57.66
Now look at verse
10 of Revelation 12.
01:02:57.69\01:02:59.70
"Then I heard a loud
voice saying in heaven,
01:02:59.73\01:03:01.46
'Now salvation, and strength,
and the kingdom of our God,
01:03:01.49\01:03:04.93
and the power of
His Christ have come,
01:03:04.96\01:03:07.68
for the accuser of our brethren,
01:03:07.71\01:03:09.18
who accused them
before our God day and night,
01:03:09.21\01:03:10.60
has been cast down."
01:03:10.63\01:03:12.24
Well, let's ask the question.
01:03:12.27\01:03:13.44
When was it that salvation came?
01:03:13.47\01:03:15.87
When was it that
the strength of God,
01:03:15.90\01:03:17.93
a unique and wonderful
new kind of strength came?
01:03:17.96\01:03:20.51
And when was it that
the power of His Christ
01:03:20.54\01:03:22.53
was fully demonstrated?
01:03:22.56\01:03:23.90
At the cross. At the cross.
01:03:23.93\01:03:25.40
So in the context of the cross,
01:03:25.43\01:03:27.02
Satan is cast out,
cast out, cast out.
01:03:27.05\01:03:29.11
Now watch this.
Verse 11, "And they--"
01:03:29.14\01:03:31.90
that's us and all
believers throughout time.
01:03:31.93\01:03:34.54
"Overcame him--" Satan,
"By the blood of the Lamb."
01:03:34.57\01:03:37.87
Amen. That's written in
red. That's your friend's song.
01:03:37.90\01:03:40.25
"They overcame by
the blood of the Lamb
01:03:40.28\01:03:41.76
and by the word
of their testimony,
01:03:41.79\01:03:42.87
they did not love
their lives to the death."
01:03:42.90\01:03:44.30
And look at
verse 12, "Therefore--"
01:03:44.33\01:03:46.56
on the basis of the
cross and this casting out
01:03:46.59\01:03:49.86
and this goes back, Ty,
01:03:49.89\01:03:51.00
how we begin this whole study.
01:03:51.03\01:03:52.28
Listen heavens and earth,
"Therefore rejoice, O heavens,
01:03:52.31\01:03:57.50
and you who dwell in them!"
01:03:57.53\01:03:59.57
Hey, it's happy, it's good,
something great has happened.
01:03:59.60\01:04:01.83
Why? Well, because Satan been
cast out, cast out, cast out.
01:04:01.86\01:04:05.02
That limited access that he had
is now been totally taken away.
01:04:05.05\01:04:09.35
Wow. At the cross.
01:04:09.38\01:04:10.41
At the cross. At the cross.
01:04:10.44\01:04:11.78
But where does He
spend all of his time now?
01:04:11.81\01:04:13.43
"Wow to the inhabitants
of the earth and the sea
01:04:13.46\01:04:17.44
For the devil has come down
to you, having great wrath."
01:04:17.47\01:04:20.09
Why is this wrath so great?
Why is this wrath so intense?
01:04:20.12\01:04:23.32
Because he knows
that he has a short time.
01:04:23.35\01:04:25.25
Post cross. Post cross.
01:04:25.28\01:04:27.63
So what's happened here
is that Satan's territory,
01:04:27.66\01:04:31.01
think of it as quarantine.
01:04:31.04\01:04:33.13
He's been
increasingly quarantined.
01:04:33.16\01:04:35.05
In the garden, he was allowed
01:04:35.08\01:04:36.11
only at the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
01:04:36.14\01:04:38.41
But then when
Adam and Eve abdicated
01:04:38.44\01:04:40.42
his territory began to expand
01:04:40.45\01:04:42.65
and he began to make
the rounds in heaven.
01:04:42.68\01:04:44.89
He had access to
some heavenly places.
01:04:44.92\01:04:47.96
But then he is
quarantined away from there
01:04:47.99\01:04:51.39
and then he is
quarantined still further.
01:04:51.42\01:04:52.96
And when the final quarantine
comes, two quarantines.
01:04:52.99\01:04:56.57
In Revelation 20,
all the people are gone.
01:04:56.60\01:05:00.45
He's by himself on a planet.
01:05:00.48\01:05:02.31
He's--he's
locked away by himself
01:05:02.34\01:05:05.06
and then eventually
he will be quarantined
01:05:05.09\01:05:07.84
even away from life itself.
01:05:07.87\01:05:09.91
He will lose, his
territory expanded
01:05:09.94\01:05:13.12
and then he's
losing it, he's losing it,
01:05:13.15\01:05:15.47
he's losing it, he's losing it.
01:05:15.50\01:05:16.76
But he's not losing it
by the size of God's biceps
01:05:16.79\01:05:19.73
but by the decisions,
01:05:19.76\01:05:20.92
the free
decisions of individuals
01:05:20.95\01:05:22.50
to align
themselves with love and truth
01:05:22.53\01:05:25.29
rather than
control and deception.
01:05:25.32\01:05:26.76
Amen. Amen.
01:05:26.79\01:05:28.13
I'm preaching
now. Give me a pulpit.
01:05:28.16\01:05:29.19
You are. You are.
01:05:29.22\01:05:30.25
Give me a pulpit. You are.
01:05:30.28\01:05:31.63
Okay. So we are
up through act 5.
01:05:31.66\01:05:34.34
We're through scene
five, we got two to go.
01:05:34.37\01:05:36.68
We got 21 minutes
left. Oh, yeah we'll do it.
01:05:36.71\01:05:38.90
We can do this two. All right.
01:05:38.93\01:05:40.22
So now we come to
number six. Number six.
01:05:40.25\01:05:44.08
Is we're going to just again,
01:05:44.11\01:05:46.18
we're just wrapping
language around this.
01:05:46.21\01:05:47.99
And so we are calling it
01:05:48.02\01:05:49.05
the church
militant /triumphant. Okay.
01:05:49.08\01:05:53.46
The church militant, it has--
01:05:53.49\01:05:55.23
the church has a militant phase
where it is taking territory,
01:05:55.26\01:05:59.12
it's expanding the
kingdom of God. Yes.
01:05:59.15\01:06:01.20
Then it has a
final triumphant phase.
01:06:01.23\01:06:04.53
Now what we're-- the scriptures
01:06:04.56\01:06:06.46
we read now at this
stage in the storyline
01:06:06.49\01:06:11.42
make absolute sense
with the context behind us.
01:06:11.45\01:06:14.09
Now think of one
of those scriptures
01:06:14.12\01:06:15.89
that you were
quoting earlier tonight,
01:06:15.92\01:06:17.39
Danny, that perfectly,
01:06:17.42\01:06:18.64
Matthew 28. Yeah.
01:06:18.67\01:06:20.49
Matthew 28:19 or 18-20. Yes.
01:06:20.52\01:06:24.96
Where Jesus says all authority
01:06:24.99\01:06:28.19
has been given to
me in heaven and earth.
01:06:28.22\01:06:30.34
"Go ye therefore
and teach all nations,
01:06:30.37\01:06:32.11
baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
01:06:32.14\01:06:33.58
Son and Holy Spirit
01:06:33.61\01:06:34.75
and lo, I am with you
always to the end of the age."
01:06:34.78\01:06:36.79
Jesus very clearly says here
01:06:36.82\01:06:39.19
that all authority
has now been taken back.
01:06:39.22\01:06:43.73
Okay. By him.
01:06:43.76\01:06:45.69
He possess all authority now.
01:06:45.72\01:06:47.85
And this is replete
through the New Testament.
01:06:47.88\01:06:49.97
You have the Apostle Paul
01:06:50.00\01:06:51.13
for example in
Philippians 2 saying,
01:06:51.16\01:06:53.83
"Let this mind in you
which was also in Christ Jesus.
01:06:53.86\01:06:57.72
Who, being in very nature God,
01:06:57.75\01:06:59.82
did not consider
equality with God
01:06:59.85\01:07:01.49
something to be held on to.
01:07:01.52\01:07:03.13
But made himself
of no reputation,
01:07:03.16\01:07:05.65
took the form of a servant."
01:07:05.68\01:07:07.36
And you have
these descending steps
01:07:07.39\01:07:09.69
of self sacrificing love.
01:07:09.72\01:07:11.63
And He died even
the death of the cross
01:07:11.66\01:07:13.24
and then it says-- Therefore.
01:07:13.27\01:07:16.31
Therefore, he was
highly exalted above all
01:07:16.34\01:07:21.50
so that the name of
Jesus every knee shall bow
01:07:21.53\01:07:24.45
and every tongue confess.
01:07:24.48\01:07:25.51
So you have very clearly
scripture is saying again.
01:07:25.54\01:07:28.78
The authority that
was taken by the enemy
01:07:28.81\01:07:32.04
has now been
reclaimed by the Savior.
01:07:32.07\01:07:35.26
All authority
has been given to me
01:07:35.29\01:07:37.14
and now I'm delegating.
01:07:37.17\01:07:38.55
I'm giving that
authority to my followers
01:07:38.58\01:07:40.65
to go out and to take territory
01:07:40.68\01:07:42.77
on behalf of the
kingdom of God. Isn't great.
01:07:42.80\01:07:44.73
Mark Trammell wrote a
song. He sings here on 3ABN.
01:07:44.76\01:07:47.70
"He is Lord, He is Lord.
01:07:47.73\01:07:52.14
He has risen from the
grave and He is Lord." Yes.
01:07:52.17\01:07:58.26
"Every knee shall bow." Yes.
01:07:58.29\01:08:01.19
"Every tongue confess
01:08:01.22\01:08:04.16
that Jesus Christ is Lord." Yes.
01:08:04.19\01:08:09.25
Beautiful, thank
you. That's beautiful.
01:08:09.28\01:08:11.08
You got a great
voice, Danny. You do.
01:08:11.11\01:08:12.71
You should record
some CDs. I should.
01:08:12.74\01:08:14.58
I may think about it someday.
01:08:14.61\01:08:16.31
Okay. What about Luke 10?
01:08:16.34\01:08:18.52
We were in chapter 11
where Jesus basically said that
01:08:18.55\01:08:22.21
there's a strong man
01:08:22.24\01:08:23.86
and then there's
a stronger than he.
01:08:23.89\01:08:27.25
And Jesus is the stronger man
01:08:27.28\01:08:29.09
that basically
conquers the enemy.
01:08:29.12\01:08:31.18
But back in chapter 10
01:08:31.21\01:08:32.25
in the immediate
context of all that
01:08:32.28\01:08:34.90
is the story of the 70
01:08:34.93\01:08:36.36
who are sent out as witnesses
for the kingdom of God.
01:08:36.39\01:08:40.55
In verse 17, he says
01:08:40.58\01:08:42.39
"Then the seventy
returned with joy, saying,
01:08:42.42\01:08:45.25
'Lord, even the demons are
subject to us in Your name.'
01:08:45.28\01:08:49.60
And He said to them."
01:08:49.63\01:08:50.66
Verse 18, "I saw Satan fall like
a lightning from heaven" Yes.
01:08:50.69\01:08:57.33
"And behold, I
give you the authority
01:08:57.36\01:08:59.89
to trample on
serpents and scorpions,
01:08:59.92\01:09:02.03
and over all the
power of the enemy,
01:09:02.06\01:09:03.96
and nothing by any
means will hurt you."
01:09:03.99\01:09:07.24
So here Jesus is using
the language of Satan falling,
01:09:07.27\01:09:11.95
his kingdom crumbling.
01:09:11.98\01:09:14.16
Satan is falling as
the witnesses of the gospel
01:09:14.19\01:09:19.07
go out and proclaim the truth.
01:09:19.10\01:09:22.22
As they go out and they live
the principles of the kingdom.
01:09:22.25\01:09:25.49
Satan--Jesus says, when
you are out ministering,
01:09:25.52\01:09:28.56
when you are out ministering,
01:09:28.59\01:09:29.71
when you were preaching,
when you were teaching,
01:09:29.74\01:09:31.77
when you were healing,
01:09:31.80\01:09:32.92
when you were touching people,
01:09:32.95\01:09:33.98
when you were sharing with them
01:09:34.01\01:09:35.62
my forgiveness,
my grace, my love.
01:09:35.65\01:09:37.29
When all of that
ministry was happening,
01:09:37.32\01:09:39.56
I saw Satan like
lightening fall from heaven
01:09:39.59\01:09:42.55
in the wake of your ministry.
01:09:42.58\01:09:43.85
His--I love what you say
there, his kingdom is crumbling.
01:09:43.88\01:09:46.54
Now look at verse 20.
01:09:46.57\01:09:47.60
I love verse 20,
Ty, because it gives us
01:09:47.63\01:09:49.65
a window into the heart of God.
01:09:49.68\01:09:51.23
Jesus has just
said, "Hey you have power
01:09:51.26\01:09:53.06
over serpents and scorpions
01:09:53.09\01:09:54.33
and nothing will hurt you over
all the power of the enemy."
01:09:54.36\01:09:56.94
Verse 20, "Nevertheless
do not rejoice about this."
01:09:56.97\01:09:59.99
'Cause that's the thing
they were really happy about.
01:10:00.02\01:10:01.31
Right. They were
little inflated in there.
01:10:01.34\01:10:03.21
They were inflated,
01:10:03.24\01:10:04.27
"That the spirits are subject
to you, but rather rejoice
01:10:04.30\01:10:06.84
because your names
are written in heaven."
01:10:06.87\01:10:07.90
What a window
into the heart of God.
01:10:07.93\01:10:09.19
What Jesus is
essentially saying here is,
01:10:09.22\01:10:11.65
don't rejoice that
they're out. Right.
01:10:11.68\01:10:14.81
Rejoice that you are in. Yeah.
01:10:14.84\01:10:16.21
See what the Bible says that
01:10:16.24\01:10:17.67
we need to study to
show ourselves approved
01:10:17.70\01:10:19.38
because so often just
like you bringing up this point
01:10:19.41\01:10:22.37
where Jesus said, I
think about they spoke
01:10:22.40\01:10:24.79
rather than to
look at the big picture
01:10:24.82\01:10:26.61
that say well, we're
gonna pick up these rattlesnakes
01:10:26.64\01:10:28.94
'cause He said, no harm
will come now to us. Yeah.
01:10:28.97\01:10:31.11
Of course many
of them get bitten
01:10:31.14\01:10:32.31
and then they say well, the
guy didn't have faith, you know.
01:10:32.34\01:10:35.14
But I mean we
missed the whole point
01:10:35.17\01:10:37.02
and thank you
for bringing that up.
01:10:37.05\01:10:38.71
This is not Jesus
says, that's not the point.
01:10:38.74\01:10:40.50
That's not the point. No.
01:10:40.53\01:10:42.01
The point is not
that they're out,
01:10:42.04\01:10:43.41
it's that you're in. Yeah.
01:10:43.44\01:10:44.71
You can just think of the
heart of God breaking here,
01:10:44.74\01:10:46.38
Jesus is the creator.
01:10:46.41\01:10:47.91
The Bible says without Him
was nothing made that was made.
01:10:47.94\01:10:50.05
That means that
Jesus would have known
01:10:50.08\01:10:51.23
those angels by
name, that's John,
01:10:51.26\01:10:52.84
that's Mark,
that's--I don't know.
01:10:52.87\01:10:54.21
Those obviously
aren't angel names
01:10:54.24\01:10:55.82
but Jesus would have--
01:10:55.85\01:10:58.41
when He saw His
disciples gaining territory
01:10:58.44\01:11:01.23
and the kingdom
of Satan crumbling.
01:11:01.26\01:11:03.73
This is a period of
great sadness one, joy
01:11:03.76\01:11:06.30
that the disciples
have taken hold of ministry.
01:11:06.33\01:11:08.84
But sadness that
this is all taking place
01:11:08.87\01:11:10.98
in the context of a civil war
01:11:11.01\01:11:12.57
against God's own
love and government.
01:11:12.60\01:11:14.83
Jesus says
please, please, please,
01:11:14.86\01:11:16.56
don't rejoice about that.
01:11:16.59\01:11:17.62
Jesus actually had fellowship
with those fallen angels.
01:11:17.65\01:11:19.58
Of course He did, He knew them,
01:11:19.61\01:11:20.93
He named them, He
spent time with them. Yeah.
01:11:20.96\01:11:23.37
So He's saddened by it
while the disciples in there--
01:11:23.40\01:11:26.27
They think this is great. Yeah.
01:11:26.30\01:11:27.38
They are immature but
they are growing in their faith
01:11:27.41\01:11:29.86
and Jesus is sending them out.
01:11:29.89\01:11:31.74
He said I want you to go
01:11:31.77\01:11:33.08
and proclaim the
gospel of the kingdom
01:11:33.11\01:11:35.56
and Satan's kingdom crumbles
01:11:35.59\01:11:39.68
in direct proportion
to your effective ministry
01:11:39.71\01:11:43.32
on behalf of the kingdom of God.
01:11:43.35\01:11:44.74
Beautiful. Yeah, that's great.
01:11:44.77\01:11:46.26
That's why He said to
Peter, when they are converted,
01:11:46.29\01:11:49.09
go strengthen your brethren.
Strengthen you brethren.
01:11:49.12\01:11:50.84
Because we saw what He
had done earlier, you know.
01:11:50.87\01:11:53.17
And the Lord finally says
01:11:53.20\01:11:54.23
when you get
what I'm saying here,
01:11:54.26\01:11:55.70
when you really tracking
with me and you finally get it,
01:11:55.73\01:11:58.42
you will
understand it's not that sword
01:11:58.45\01:12:00.45
that you carry but
it's my spirit. Beautiful.
01:12:00.48\01:12:02.78
Now go and teach to all nations.
01:12:02.81\01:12:06.19
Now what about the Book of
Acts in this regard, David?
01:12:06.22\01:12:08.72
Did--I didn't even
think of this scripture early.
01:12:08.75\01:12:10.63
Go ahead with that.
01:12:10.66\01:12:11.69
Acts 1 where He says
okay, I've given you authority
01:12:11.72\01:12:14.85
and He says, now I want
you to what here in Jerusalem.
01:12:14.88\01:12:17.83
Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria.
01:12:17.86\01:12:19.16
The outermost
parts of the earth.
01:12:19.19\01:12:20.22
Outermost parts of the earth.
01:12:20.25\01:12:21.28
That's territorial
language. That's territorial.
01:12:21.31\01:12:22.61
He's saying
basically begin right here
01:12:22.64\01:12:24.41
with whatever I've given you.
01:12:24.44\01:12:26.00
Proclaim the gospel in Jerusalem
01:12:26.03\01:12:27.94
but then gradually reach out
01:12:27.97\01:12:29.45
the tentacles
of truth from there
01:12:29.48\01:12:31.16
and just take
in the whole globe.
01:12:31.19\01:12:33.93
The church continues the victory
01:12:33.96\01:12:36.94
and mission that
Jesus had established.
01:12:36.97\01:12:38.48
Let's go back to
what Danny said there.
01:12:38.51\01:12:40.47
Greater things you
will do, well in what sense.
01:12:40.50\01:12:42.82
Well, Jesus was one man
01:12:42.85\01:12:44.04
limited as you
said by His humanity.
01:12:44.07\01:12:45.99
But now He has disciples
who themselves have disciples,
01:12:46.02\01:12:48.66
who themselves have disciples,
who themselves have disciples.
01:12:48.69\01:12:51.78
And so the
ministry of the announcement
01:12:51.81\01:12:54.73
of the life death
resurrection of Jesus
01:12:54.76\01:12:56.28
and the triumph
of truth and love
01:12:56.31\01:12:58.34
over coercion and
force goes out in a way
01:12:58.37\01:13:02.09
and with a breadth and
just a new miracle power
01:13:02.12\01:13:06.56
that Jesus Himself, even His God
01:13:06.59\01:13:08.57
could not never have
done, just by Himself.
01:13:08.60\01:13:10.51
'Cause if He's
here, He can't be here
01:13:10.54\01:13:12.30
and if He's
here, He can't be here.
01:13:12.33\01:13:13.51
And of course this
happens by a spirit.
01:13:13.54\01:13:15.91
He sends His spirit into us
01:13:15.94\01:13:17.46
and I saw this just a moment ago
01:13:17.49\01:13:18.52
and I see it there now.
You are in 2 Corinthians 10.
01:13:18.55\01:13:21.36
Are you there? This pass--
01:13:21.39\01:13:22.58
I'm going there right in it.
01:13:22.61\01:13:23.64
This is--you wanted to do 2
Corinthians 10, Danny. Okay.
01:13:23.67\01:13:26.76
This is a powerful
scripture that David
01:13:26.79\01:13:28.47
and I've been
rejoicing about recently.
01:13:28.50\01:13:31.61
You know, I don't
know if you know this
01:13:31.64\01:13:33.18
but we do the Sabbath
school lesson, commentary.
01:13:33.21\01:13:38.04
And we took this scripture up,
01:13:38.07\01:13:40.08
but you know the
Sabbath school quarterly. Yeah.
01:13:40.11\01:13:41.73
So we do a commentary on
the lessons study ahead of time.
01:13:41.76\01:13:45.29
So people can get
it and listen to it.
01:13:45.32\01:13:47.27
And they can study the
lesson ahead of time with us,
01:13:47.30\01:13:52.65
sharing with them the insights
that we gain from the lesson.
01:13:52.68\01:13:55.32
And this is one
of the scriptures
01:13:55.35\01:13:57.05
that we dealt with.
01:13:57.08\01:13:58.97
We were just--
we were just like--
01:13:59.00\01:14:00.03
Yeah, we were
floating. That's great.
01:14:00.06\01:14:01.57
Yeah, that was a
good stuff, good stuff.
01:14:01.60\01:14:03.79
Okay. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5.
01:14:03.82\01:14:10.07
"For though we
walk in the flesh,
01:14:10.10\01:14:12.15
we do not war
according to the flesh.
01:14:12.18\01:14:14.42
For the weapons of
our warfare are not carnal
01:14:14.45\01:14:17.70
but mighty in God
for the pulling down
01:14:17.73\01:14:20.90
of strongholds,
casting down arguments
01:14:20.93\01:14:24.22
and every high
thing that exalts itself
01:14:24.25\01:14:27.19
against the knowledge of
God, bringing every thought
01:14:27.22\01:14:31.22
into captivity to
the obedience of Christ."
01:14:31.25\01:14:34.18
Wow. That's heavy, isn't it?
01:14:34.21\01:14:36.56
It is heavy, that's deep.
01:14:36.59\01:14:37.85
This scripture is describing
I guess one way we could say,
01:14:37.88\01:14:41.61
this scripture is describing
the nature of our warfare. Yeah.
01:14:41.64\01:14:45.77
But what kind
of warfare is this?
01:14:45.80\01:14:47.14
Are we called to take up
bombs and guns and knives
01:14:47.17\01:14:50.83
and to defend the kingdom of God
01:14:50.86\01:14:53.17
with that kind of warfare, no.
01:14:53.20\01:14:55.26
And there are people in the name
of God, they are doing that.
01:14:55.29\01:14:57.86
They believe, they
believe that's the point.
01:14:57.89\01:14:59.76
But that's not what
Paul says here. Right.
01:14:59.79\01:15:01.76
It's not what Jesus
said either. Go ahead.
01:15:01.79\01:15:03.42
Yeah, the
nature of our warfare--
01:15:03.45\01:15:05.14
They call Him terrorist
nowadays. The terrorist, yeah.
01:15:05.17\01:15:07.40
Well, now what Jesus said I
will just throw this in there,
01:15:07.43\01:15:09.25
when He was
standing before Pilate.
01:15:09.28\01:15:10.31
Pilate said, are you a king?
01:15:10.34\01:15:11.64
If you are a king, then what
are you standing before me here?
01:15:11.67\01:15:13.07
He said, I, just my
kingdom is not of this world
01:15:13.10\01:15:15.27
where else my
servants would fight. Okay.
01:15:15.30\01:15:17.60
So now we're there.
01:15:17.63\01:15:18.68
We are not fighting, we don't
fight the way you fight. Okay.
01:15:18.71\01:15:21.52
Yeah, we fight but
not the way you fight.
01:15:21.55\01:15:23.61
And that's Paul's point here,
01:15:23.64\01:15:24.78
"For though we
walk in the flesh,
01:15:24.81\01:15:26.39
we do not war
according to the flesh."
01:15:26.42\01:15:27.68
We would say that this way.
01:15:27.71\01:15:28.74
We don't fight like
the worldly kingdom fights.
01:15:28.77\01:15:30.99
It's a different
battle that's going on.
01:15:31.02\01:15:32.19
There's a reason for it.
01:15:32.22\01:15:33.45
If we-- when you
fight in the physical,
01:15:33.48\01:15:36.20
there's an end to life.
01:15:36.23\01:15:38.30
When you're fighting
this spiritual battle
01:15:38.33\01:15:40.42
that God fought is
one for eternity. Yes.
01:15:40.45\01:15:44.35
And when you fight physically,
01:15:44.38\01:15:46.52
you think you're
winning but you're losing.
01:15:46.55\01:15:48.59
Because by the exertion
of force and taking life,
01:15:48.62\01:15:53.17
you're actually demonstrating
principles of selfishness
01:15:53.20\01:15:57.47
and you are
giving-- you are arousing
01:15:57.50\01:16:00.83
the response of
the territory violence.
01:16:00.86\01:16:03.35
And that's why some
people refer to violence
01:16:03.38\01:16:05.91
in the name of God or
violence of any sort that
01:16:05.94\01:16:08.33
you are expected
to get a good result
01:16:08.36\01:16:09.66
out of as the myth
of redemptive violence.
01:16:09.69\01:16:13.25
It's a myth, it's not
true that violence redeems.
01:16:13.28\01:16:16.57
You don't solve any
conflicts between human beings
01:16:16.60\01:16:20.62
by throwing punches and grenades
01:16:20.65\01:16:22.93
and pushing
buttons to set off bombs.
01:16:22.96\01:16:24.88
That just produces
the same kind of response
01:16:24.91\01:16:27.92
so you
perpetuate the battle. So--
01:16:27.95\01:16:30.08
So, Ty, if
that's not our warfare.
01:16:30.11\01:16:32.27
What does Paul say
our warfare is here?
01:16:32.30\01:16:34.65
Was very
fascinating because he says
01:16:34.68\01:16:36.63
that our warfare
is one that involves
01:16:36.66\01:16:39.84
pulling down strongholds
and casting down arguments.
01:16:39.87\01:16:44.28
What a strange
thing to say. Arguments.
01:16:44.31\01:16:46.20
What's an argument?
01:16:46.23\01:16:47.35
And argument is the
articulation of an idea
01:16:47.38\01:16:51.97
in order to illicit agreement.
01:16:52.00\01:16:55.51
An argument is the articulation
of an idea with verbiage,
01:16:55.54\01:16:59.34
with words to articulate an idea
01:16:59.37\01:17:02.28
in order to win
somebody's thinking.
01:17:02.31\01:17:05.21
Not to force them,
not to manipulate them.
01:17:05.24\01:17:07.56
But to say hey,
hey, do you see this?
01:17:07.59\01:17:10.42
Point A, point B.
01:17:10.45\01:17:11.48
Let me explain something to you
01:17:11.51\01:17:13.68
that's an-- it's
not argumentation
01:17:13.71\01:17:15.63
in the sense of being
of an argumentative spirit.
01:17:15.66\01:17:18.66
It's basically saying--
01:17:18.69\01:17:19.85
Ideas. Ideas. Explain.
01:17:19.88\01:17:22.51
It's explanatory
power is what it is.
01:17:22.54\01:17:25.51
So you explain the
truth, you preach the cross.
01:17:25.54\01:17:30.86
The cross is an argument. Amen.
01:17:30.89\01:17:33.01
In favor of the
character of God.
01:17:33.04\01:17:34.28
Hallelujah. Sure.
01:17:34.31\01:17:35.65
And so you preach the
cross and strongholds come down.
01:17:35.68\01:17:39.83
Where do the
strongholds come down?
01:17:39.86\01:17:41.76
They come-- they
come down in the arena,
01:17:41.79\01:17:44.63
it says in verse 5
of people's thoughts.
01:17:44.66\01:17:49.40
Another version calls
that their imagination. Yeah.
01:17:49.43\01:17:52.30
Bringing every
thought into captivity
01:17:52.33\01:17:54.39
to the obedience of Christ.
01:17:54.42\01:17:55.59
It's the thoughts
that we're seeking to win.
01:17:55.62\01:17:58.16
We're not trying to win
01:17:58.19\01:18:00.12
people's
physical territory. Right.
01:18:00.15\01:18:02.72
We don't want their
land under their feet.
01:18:02.75\01:18:05.76
We want their hearts
for the kingdom of God.
01:18:05.79\01:18:08.29
So that's how
the great controversy
01:18:08.32\01:18:10.39
is fought by the
members of God's church.
01:18:10.42\01:18:13.24
It's a militant
triumphant church
01:18:13.27\01:18:15.43
that is going out
and claiming hearts,
01:18:15.46\01:18:17.40
you know, to make
this very practical.
01:18:17.43\01:18:19.35
When you sit down
and do the simple act
01:18:19.38\01:18:22.21
of giving
somebody a Bible study.
01:18:22.24\01:18:24.89
You're advancing
the kingdom of God
01:18:24.92\01:18:27.47
and you're expanding
the territory of the kingdom
01:18:27.50\01:18:30.08
into their thinking.
01:18:30.11\01:18:31.42
They begin to believe
the gospel what happens.
01:18:31.45\01:18:33.87
Well, they begin to share
01:18:33.90\01:18:35.04
with the members of
their household. Yes.
01:18:35.07\01:18:37.21
Their husband, their
wife, their children,
01:18:37.24\01:18:39.11
their aunties and
uncles and nanas and papas.
01:18:39.14\01:18:41.42
And that whole house
now is a territory captive
01:18:41.45\01:18:45.56
to the obedience of
Christ, right? Yeah.
01:18:45.59\01:18:47.95
And they begin to share
in their community. Yes.
01:18:47.98\01:18:50.19
You see what's happening--
01:18:50.22\01:18:51.87
Back to the
demoniac of the Gaterines.
01:18:51.90\01:18:53.25
Can I go with
you? No, you stay here.
01:18:53.28\01:18:54.31
Exactly. I need you here.
01:18:54.34\01:18:56.44
Now we're gonna go to our--
01:18:56.47\01:18:57.50
Eight minutes, we
got eight minutes.
01:18:57.53\01:18:58.56
We're gonna go to
our final act here
01:18:58.59\01:18:59.83
but let me just read this
and I'll just read it quickly.
01:18:59.86\01:19:01.74
Romans 16:20.
01:19:01.77\01:19:02.80
Look at what Paul does here
01:19:02.83\01:19:03.86
where he takes that
promise of the warrior.
01:19:03.89\01:19:07.20
In Genesis 3:16.
01:19:07.23\01:19:08.26
In Genesis 3 and he
applies it to the church.
01:19:08.29\01:19:10.28
Listen to this, Romans 16:20.
01:19:10.31\01:19:12.52
"And the God of peace will crush
Satan under your feet shortly."
01:19:12.55\01:19:19.33
This is awesome.
01:19:19.36\01:19:20.39
Paul here is appropriating
the promise back in Genesis
01:19:20.42\01:19:24.00
and he's saying that
crushing that took place
01:19:24.03\01:19:26.48
that victory that
Jesus won on the cross.
01:19:26.51\01:19:28.58
He's winning in your life
as you believe the gospel,
01:19:28.61\01:19:31.12
as you accept it and as
you getting back to your point,
01:19:31.15\01:19:33.16
Danny, as you share with others.
01:19:33.19\01:19:35.14
You know, you were
saying that God has raised us up
01:19:35.17\01:19:36.97
to preach not
primarily for others,
01:19:37.00\01:19:39.13
certainly that's an element
but even just for ourselves.
01:19:39.16\01:19:42.60
In doing that we are crushing
01:19:42.63\01:19:44.38
the head of
Satan under our feet.
01:19:44.41\01:19:45.57
Not with power, not with biceps,
01:19:45.60\01:19:46.96
not with-- well, it's a power
01:19:46.99\01:19:48.55
but not with
physical or carnal power.
01:19:48.58\01:19:50.76
It's with spiritual power.
01:19:50.79\01:19:52.90
So I'm just
gonna review, Ty, here.
01:19:52.93\01:19:54.33
We've gone through, let's
see if I can remember them all.
01:19:54.36\01:19:56.15
We've gone through dominion,
01:19:56.18\01:19:57.84
then abdication,
then declaration of war,
01:19:57.87\01:20:02.00
the promise of a
warrior to come. That's right.
01:20:02.03\01:20:04.81
Then organized
forces, number four.
01:20:04.84\01:20:07.52
Then five was the-- remind me.
01:20:07.55\01:20:11.45
Number five is the unarmed
warrior comes-- He comes.
01:20:11.48\01:20:14.52
He comes, Jesus comes
01:20:14.55\01:20:15.68
and He wins the
victory at the cross.
01:20:15.71\01:20:16.77
Sixth is the church
carrying forward the victory
01:20:16.80\01:20:19.55
that Christ gained.
That's right, church militant.
01:20:19.58\01:20:21.92
So what's-- what's
the end of the story?
01:20:21.95\01:20:24.74
The end of the story is
number seven. That we win.
01:20:24.77\01:20:28.23
And that--and you
can use that language,
01:20:28.26\01:20:30.42
you can use that language.
01:20:30.45\01:20:31.87
The language that
we wrapped around it
01:20:31.90\01:20:33.32
is the first
dominion restored. Okay. Yes.
01:20:33.35\01:20:37.04
You see, how we're looping
back now to Genesis, right.
01:20:37.07\01:20:40.28
Genesis 1, God created
Adam and Eve. That's right.
01:20:40.31\01:20:43.10
He gave them dominion.
01:20:43.13\01:20:44.20
So it's restored. Yeah.
01:20:44.23\01:20:45.39
That dominion was lost. It
was transferred to the enemy.
01:20:45.42\01:20:49.00
The great controversy
unfolds through history.
01:20:49.03\01:20:51.97
Jesus gains the
victory at the cross. Amen.
01:20:52.00\01:20:55.03
He then empowers
and delegates authority
01:20:55.06\01:20:57.99
to His followers
to expand the kingdom
01:20:58.02\01:21:02.08
throughout the world.
01:21:02.11\01:21:03.14
In an organized
way-- In an organized way.
01:21:03.17\01:21:06.15
And then the end
result, the end goal is
01:21:06.18\01:21:10.09
that the former Dominion
01:21:10.12\01:21:11.37
the first Dominion
is completely restored.
01:21:11.40\01:21:14.75
And you find this
throughout scripture
01:21:14.78\01:21:16.64
in all kinds of language.
01:21:16.67\01:21:18.38
A scripture that immediately
will just be familiar to people,
01:21:18.41\01:21:22.01
but we never think
of it in this context
01:21:22.04\01:21:23.75
and now it make sense.
01:21:23.78\01:21:25.21
Jesus said, I'm gonna
tell you something here,
01:21:25.24\01:21:28.42
"The meek shall
inherit the earth."
01:21:28.45\01:21:31.12
Wow. That's right.
01:21:31.15\01:21:32.18
It's theirs, they are
getting it back. Okay.
01:21:32.21\01:21:34.99
The earth is going to
become-- Not the powerful,
01:21:35.02\01:21:37.54
not the
controlling, not the coercive.
01:21:37.57\01:21:39.58
Right. But the meek.
01:21:39.61\01:21:40.80
The meek inherit the
earth. Isn't that powerful?
01:21:40.83\01:21:43.65
It is, it's beautiful,
it's absolutely beautiful.
01:21:43.68\01:21:47.32
Now, okay now the
language first Dominion,
01:21:47.35\01:21:51.10
we want to give
people the scriptures,
01:21:51.13\01:21:52.48
so they know where we
derived this language from.
01:21:52.51\01:21:53.86
Its Micah 4, it's an
Old Testament prophecy,
01:21:53.89\01:21:57.46
in Micah 4 and this beautiful,
01:21:57.49\01:22:01.10
this beautiful prophecy unfolds
01:22:01.13\01:22:03.03
that basically
says in short form.
01:22:03.06\01:22:05.38
We only have five minutes,
but this prophecy basically says
01:22:05.41\01:22:09.53
that God is
working toward an end
01:22:09.56\01:22:11.49
in verses 3 and 4 of Micah 4.
01:22:11.52\01:22:14.03
Where people will not raise
01:22:14.06\01:22:16.57
swords of violence
against one another any longer.
01:22:16.60\01:22:21.04
They'll beat their
swords into plowshares.
01:22:21.07\01:22:22.89
Plowshares, yeah.
01:22:22.92\01:22:24.61
Into implements
of agriculture. Okay.
01:22:24.64\01:22:27.08
Okay, so they
can feed the hungry--
01:22:27.11\01:22:29.09
Spears into pruning
hooks. Yeah, that's right.
01:22:29.12\01:22:31.59
That's the old spiritual.
Ain't gonna study war no more.
01:22:31.62\01:22:34.72
Yeah, exactly. Yes, okay.
01:22:34.75\01:22:35.78
So there is--
01:22:35.81\01:22:36.93
Have you made any CD's?
01:22:36.96\01:22:38.38
Oh, no, I don't have
quite the voice that you have.
01:22:38.41\01:22:41.23
No, I didn't mean
that. No it's great.
01:22:41.26\01:22:43.20
You're lifting it
up for the Lord. Amen.
01:22:43.23\01:22:44.39
So it's a great voice.
Amen, that's right. Amen.
01:22:44.42\01:22:46.38
So then you have this idea,
01:22:46.41\01:22:48.45
Danny that God is
working through history
01:22:48.48\01:22:52.86
to bring an end
to war and violence
01:22:52.89\01:22:56.23
as a means of
interaction for human beings.
01:22:56.26\01:22:59.65
And as this prophecy
comes to conclusion in verse 8.
01:22:59.68\01:23:03.01
This is just so powerful,
"And you, O tower of the flock,
01:23:03.04\01:23:06.82
The stronghold of
the daughter of Zion,
01:23:06.85\01:23:09.46
To you it shall
come," what will come?
01:23:09.49\01:23:12.69
"Even the first
dominion shall come,
01:23:12.72\01:23:16.82
The kingdom of the
daughter of Jerusalem."
01:23:16.85\01:23:20.33
Now, King James
Version is the first dominion.
01:23:20.36\01:23:23.98
New King James
is even better here,
01:23:24.01\01:23:26.92
the former dominion.
01:23:26.95\01:23:27.98
Because that's
saying, look back,
01:23:28.01\01:23:30.47
what is it used to have.
01:23:30.50\01:23:32.14
What was the
former dominion? Eden.
01:23:32.17\01:23:35.56
A garden, a place
where you need pruning hooks
01:23:35.59\01:23:39.19
and plough
spears, not spears. Yeah.
01:23:39.22\01:23:42.60
It starts in a garden
and it ends in a garden.
01:23:42.63\01:23:45.04
Ends in a garden, okay. Yeah.
01:23:45.07\01:23:46.90
So then we of
course fast-forward
01:23:46.93\01:23:49.27
to where this picture is
filled out with great detail,
01:23:49.30\01:23:51.75
Revelation 21 and 22. Yes.
01:23:51.78\01:23:56.08
Where God says,
"I'm going to behold,
01:23:56.11\01:23:59.08
I make all things new." Wow.
01:23:59.11\01:24:01.07
Yes. That's great.
01:24:01.10\01:24:02.35
Everything is restored.
01:24:02.38\01:24:03.95
Planet earth becomes the
home of the redeemed forever
01:24:03.98\01:24:08.55
the city of God, New Jerusalem
is brought to this world.
01:24:08.58\01:24:12.74
God says and I, Myself will
be there with you as your God
01:24:12.77\01:24:16.34
and you'll be My
people. I'll be on my kingdom.
01:24:16.37\01:24:18.86
My throne will be
established on planet earth
01:24:18.89\01:24:21.45
and forever and ever
into eternity future.
01:24:21.48\01:24:24.30
This becomes His territory.
01:24:24.33\01:24:25.49
Yes, this little
world ravaged by sin
01:24:25.52\01:24:30.09
taken captive by an enemy Lord,
01:24:30.12\01:24:33.85
completely restored.
01:24:33.88\01:24:35.07
This place where Jesus
was crucified becomes His home
01:24:35.10\01:24:40.32
and the home of the
Father and the Holy Spirit
01:24:40.35\01:24:42.17
and all the Holy
Angels for eternity future.
01:24:42.20\01:24:44.59
This planet in rebellion
becomes the most highly honored
01:24:44.62\01:24:48.69
of all the
planets in the universe.
01:24:48.72\01:24:51.23
And God himself will reside here
01:24:51.26\01:24:53.11
and it's on that beautiful
note that the story ends
01:24:53.14\01:24:56.43
and at that
point it's only begun.
01:24:56.46\01:24:59.87
Eternity
stretches out before us.
01:24:59.90\01:25:01.07
"The Love of God
is greater far than
01:25:01.10\01:25:02.96
tongue or pen could ever tell,
it goes beyond the highest star,
01:25:02.99\01:25:06.01
and reaches to the lowest hill."
01:25:06.04\01:25:08.81
Second verse, "If we
with ink the ocean fill
01:25:08.84\01:25:11.61
and all the sky
of parchment made.
01:25:11.64\01:25:13.66
And every man on earth
01:25:13.69\01:25:16.34
or every stalk
on earth was a quill
01:25:16.37\01:25:18.49
and every man a scribe by trade.
01:25:18.52\01:25:20.58
To write the love of God above
would drain the oceans dry.
01:25:20.61\01:25:24.16
Isn't that
amazing the love of God.
01:25:24.19\01:25:25.91
So incredible. Praise God.
01:25:25.94\01:25:27.96
Thank you so much for this.
01:25:27.99\01:25:29.36
What we want to
do is, is I wanna,
01:25:29.39\01:25:30.82
we are gonna come back
we have time for prayer
01:25:30.85\01:25:32.46
but, maybe you can
just put up your address
01:25:32.49\01:25:34.34
because we are
not going to put up
01:25:34.37\01:25:35.40
the regular 45 seconds.
01:25:35.43\01:25:36.66
But you have an
email or website?
01:25:36.69\01:25:40.00
Lightbearers.org. Okay.
01:25:40.03\01:25:41.85
And we could put
the phone number up
01:25:41.88\01:25:43.36
541-988-3333. 541-988-3333.
01:25:43.39\01:25:50.57
There is just a
couple of things,
01:25:50.60\01:25:52.40
they can get the
DVD from 3ABN. Yes.
01:25:52.43\01:25:54.83
We've made that available.
01:25:54.86\01:25:55.89
Write to 3ABN
for the Zambia DVD.
01:25:55.92\01:25:57.45
Okay, all right.
01:25:57.48\01:25:58.56
They call or write to us
01:25:58.59\01:26:01.26
or call us for the
publication called "Territories"
01:26:01.29\01:26:04.96
that explains
all of these concepts
01:26:04.99\01:26:06.44
in greater detail. Good.
01:26:06.47\01:26:07.72
And it's a beautiful
magazine. Thank you so much.
01:26:07.75\01:26:09.98
So for us our
hope is at the cross,
01:26:10.01\01:26:12.35
through the cross of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
01:26:12.38\01:26:14.26
All we have to do is
submit and commit our lives.
01:26:14.29\01:26:16.70
Nothing we've done are so bad
01:26:16.73\01:26:17.93
that God won't
forgive us, right?
01:26:17.96\01:26:19.77
And if we stay within His will,
01:26:19.80\01:26:22.07
that protective
hedge would be around us.
01:26:22.10\01:26:24.50
And Satan can
rob us of some things
01:26:24.53\01:26:26.77
but he can't keep us
from eternity, right?
01:26:26.80\01:26:28.02
Amen. Amen.
01:26:28.05\01:26:29.08
So it's our hope
and prayer today.
01:26:29.11\01:26:30.49
I'm gonna ask Brother David,
01:26:30.52\01:26:31.78
we'll just go out praying
tonight, all right. Okay.
01:26:31.81\01:26:33.40
We got some time,
so take your time,
01:26:33.43\01:26:34.82
we want to pray
for these folk at home.
01:26:34.85\01:26:37.04
Father in heaven, tonight
we've walked through scripture
01:26:37.07\01:26:39.76
and we have seen
there is a great conflict,
01:26:39.79\01:26:41.87
a great battle that is
being waged over territories.
01:26:41.90\01:26:45.63
Not just physical geographical
national territories,
01:26:45.66\01:26:48.77
but especially the
territories of human hearts.
01:26:48.80\01:26:52.71
Father earlier Ty,
01:26:52.74\01:26:53.86
and I think
Danny as well alluded
01:26:53.89\01:26:55.07
to that
scripture in Revelation 3,
01:26:55.10\01:26:57.77
"Behold, I stand at
the door and knock."
01:26:57.80\01:26:59.16
And, Father, if any of
our viewers tonight feel that
01:26:59.19\01:27:02.13
Jesus is on the outside,
01:27:02.16\01:27:03.58
that God is on the
outside knocking to come in,
01:27:03.61\01:27:05.60
I pray that they
tonight would open that door
01:27:05.63\01:27:09.02
and that He would
come in to their territory.
01:27:09.05\01:27:11.83
Father, please
expand our borders.
01:27:11.86\01:27:14.19
Bless 3ABN,
bless even our country,
01:27:14.22\01:27:17.98
we're worried about our country.
01:27:18.01\01:27:20.50
Help us to see that we
are part of a large conflict
01:27:20.53\01:27:25.32
and authentic actual
conflict that is taking place.
01:27:25.35\01:27:28.89
May we play our role
faithfully trusting totally
01:27:28.92\01:27:31.80
to the righteousness of Christ.
01:27:31.83\01:27:34.12
In His name we pray, amen.
01:27:34.15\01:27:35.61
Amen. Amen.
01:27:35.64\01:27:36.69