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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Arch-Villain of Prophecy (Part 1) | May 4, 2025
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- Male announcer: coming to you from new york city at the
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- Historic manhattan center with your host doug batchelor.
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- Join this exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth
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- About bible prophecy, explore the timeless wisdom of god's
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- Word, and see how it relates to our lives today.
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- Stay tuned your "amazing facts" adventure begins now.
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- Doug batchelor : you know, whenever i present this subject,
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- I do it with much prayer because the adversary, i can promise
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- You, is not happy that were exposing his tactics, but i know
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- That there are people around the world that are hedging in this
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- Entire event with prayer.
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- Bible says, "the angel of the lord encamps round about those
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- That serve him and delivers them," and the devil was mad at
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- The lord and he says, "you set a hedge about job."
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- And we're praying that god will just hedge in this whole series
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- With this protection because we're going to tell you what the
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- Devil's up to.
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- He appears all the way from genesis to revelation, and the
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- Battle between good and evil is one of the central battles that
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- You're going to find in the books of prophecy.
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- So, you need to understand the enemy and what you're
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- Up against.
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- I don't like to focus on the devil.
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- I don't spend an inordinate amount of time talking about it,
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- But jesus talked about the devil, so we must to understand
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- His tactics.
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- Paul said we do not want to be ignorant of satan's devices.
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- Well, we always like to start with an amazing fact, and you
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- Know, i don't think i ever did mention that you might wonder
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- What is "amazing facts" and where did you come from?
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- "amazing facts" has been around now over 65 years.
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- Started with a 15 minute radio program that began with an
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- Amazing fact from science or from history or from nature and
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- Then we would weave in spiritual biblical truth and it just
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- Became very popular and grew from radio to television to
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- Bible school to mission training and we've got mission training
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- Schools around the world and broadcast and god just has been
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- Blessing, ministry has been growing by faith for over 65
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- Years now.
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- But we like amazing facts and i love amazing facts.
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- Well, we're going to start with one about the octopus.
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- Now karen and i, we have our scuba license and we like
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- To dive.
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- We were diving off of egypt a couple of years ago and the
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- Octopus is an amazing creature.
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- It's among the most flexible and versatile and clever, very
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- Intelligent, they say it's intelligence level is on the
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- Same level as a dog.
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- When it comes to disguise, an octopus is the ultimate
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- Chameleon thanks to special cells in its skin.
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- It's not only able to change the color in just the flash of a
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- Moment, but it can change the texture of its skin, so it can
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- Suddenly look like a rock on the sea floor or appear like the
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- Coral where it's hiding.
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- There's an octopus in that picture.
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- That octopus that you're looking at, if he wants, he can turn
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- Purple or red, and he can look--they can change and look
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- Like a crab walking, they can look like a fish swimming, they
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- Can even make themselves look like a sea snake.
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- They're so clever they will find an empty clamshell, they'll get
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- Inside the clamshell, they'll open and close the clamshell and
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- Stick one little tentacle out like a worm to lure fish over
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- And then they pounce.
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- They have a famous way--if people put them in aquariums of
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- Escaping from the aquariums.
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- They're incredible.
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- And if they're being pursued by a predator, they'll let out a
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- Blast of ink and then jet off in another direction, leaving their
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- Predator totally bewildered and confused.
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- No, i have nothing against octopus, but it makes me think
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- About the devil who is a master deceiver.
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- And through history, the devil has also inspired and possessed
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- Individuals that have deceived.
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- Jesus said, "in the last days there will be false christ."
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- Jesus came into the world to show us what god is like.
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- It's called the incarnation, god became a man.
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- Before the second coming, the devil is going to come and
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- Impersonate christ and deceive much of the world.
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- We need to know how to spot him and recognize his devices.
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- Another little fact of history, some of you may have heard of
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- Grigori rasputin.
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- You know, for years the russian family, tzar alexander and for
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- Generations back they ruled russia with the imperial family
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- And there was this peasant born in siberia, very clever, and he
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- Became something of a mystic quasi-priest.
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- He went to saint petersburg and he sort of wormed his way into
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- The upper echelons, a very clever manipulating man,
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- Very charismatic.
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- He finally said that he believed he could heal tzar alexander's
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- Son alexei, that was a hemophiliac.
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- And they brought him into the palace, and it seemed like his
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- Advice when followed was helping the boy.
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- He eventually wormed his way into the royal court and began
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- To manipulate the family, especially the tzar's wife.
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- Some accused him of having a--an affair, but that was
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- Never proven.
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- And started encouraging military decisions.
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- And the advice was just awful.
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- And finally the imperial family disintegrated, communism
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- Took over.
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- They were assassinated and so was rasputin.
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- Historians look back and say--they call him the mad monk.
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- Because of the evil influence of this mad monk, the whole kingdom
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- Was lost.
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- And the devil is a master manipulator.
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- Now, before we go to our lesson, we like to go out and just talk
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- To people on the streets and ask if there's a good god, then why
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- Is there so much evil in the world and a couple of
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- Other questions.
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- So, let's take a listen to what our people on the street
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- Have to say.
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- Female: i believe that there's evil in the world because so
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- Many people are looking to fill the hole in their heart with
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- Things that are not sustainable, like how jesus christ
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- Is sustainable.
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- Male: maybe it has to do with your upbringing?
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- Female: well, because people are not looking for god, they don't
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- Have god in their lives.
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- Male: it's human nature, i guess.
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- Female: oh, that's a trick question.
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- Yes.
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- Female: ah, probably not in the traditional sense.
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- Probably not how most people believe in the devil.
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- I think there's a balance of bad and good in the world.
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- Male: no.
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- Male: and maybe the presence of satan is a kind of way to like
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- Guide people away from him, but i think, you know, maybe he
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- Needs him.
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- Female: to know the difference between the good thing and the
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- Bad thing and--.
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- Male: you know, i've had that same thought myself, along with
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- Other thoughts, but yeah, i don't know.
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- I don't know.
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- Male: wow, that's a very good question.
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- I don't know.
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- I think it's far more, you know, i don't know if i can answer
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- That question, you know?
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- Male: they can duke it out three or four rounds, probably, i
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- Don't know.
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- I honestly don't have an answer to that.
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- Doug: well, there you have it.
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- One thing is perfectly clear is that people are not perfectly
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- Clear on whether or not there is a devil, and if there is a
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- Devil, why would god make a devil and if god's more powerful
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- Than the devil, is god evil in allowing the devil to do evil?
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- How many of you have thought these things or wondered or
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- Heard these questions before?
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- You just think about it.
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- If god is love, if god is good, if god is all powerful, then why
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- Is there so much suffering and evil in the world?
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- This is one of the most important questions that we need
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- To understand and if you pay attention and study the lesson
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- Tonight, you're going to have the most important answers.
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- Why is there evil in the world today if god is good and he is a
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- Loving god?
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- Well, to get the answer to that, we need to go to the questions.
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- We're going to go to the bible, and these lessons, of course,
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- We're on lesson number 3 tonight, talking about this arch
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- Villain, and we're going to begin with question number one.
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- The bible says god did not make a devil.
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- Every good and perfect gift comes from god.
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- According to james, god is good, good.
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- Jesus said, "god is good."
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- In the beginning, when he made the world, said it was good, and
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- He saw that it was good, and it was good, and it was very good.
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- The word god comes from, it's derived from the word good, the
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- Goodness of god.
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- And why would a good god make a bad devil?
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- He didn't.
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- He made a good angel.
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- You can read about this in a few principal passages.
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- If you look in your bible in isaiah chapter 14, "how are you
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- Fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning!"
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- When you say the word luce, it means light.
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- Some of you have heard of lucite or luminescence.
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- It's talking about light.
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- He was a glorious morning star, a bright angel.
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- God made a beautiful angel.
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- The most powerful of his created intelligent beings was this
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- Mighty general, this angel that we know as lucifer.
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- If you had known him back then, you would have liked him.
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- The other angels loved him.
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- Some people like him the way he is today.
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- But god didn't make anything evil.
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- You know, i think it's probably a good idea.
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- I always like to start by turning to the book itself.
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- If you have your bibles or on your phones, you at home,
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- Hopefully you have bibles at your fingertips.
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- Turn to isaiah chapter 14.
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- The principal passages where you're going to find information
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- About the devil that goes back in time is isaiah 14, ezekiel
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- 28, revelation chapter 12, and a few other places, but we're
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- Going to go to isaiah 14.
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- We'll start with verse 12, "how you are fallen from heaven, o
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- Lucifer," see jesus said, "i saw satan cast from heaven."
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- "how you are fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning!
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- How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened
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- The nations!
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- For you have said in your heart: 'i will ascend into heaven, i
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- Will exalt my throne above the stars of god; i will also sit on
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- The mount of the congregation on the farthest sides
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- Of the north--'" that means the heights.
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- "i will ascend above the heights of the clouds, i will be like
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- The most high."
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- He wanted god's position.
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- Yet god says, "you will be brought down to sheol, to the
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- Lowest depths of the pit."
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- He wanted to exalt himself higher and higher and higher,
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- And if you have your bibles, you may just turn quickly to ezekiel
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- 28, and we'll start reading here in verse 14 and then we'll get
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- To the lessons here.
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- It says, "you were the anointed cherub," how many of you
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- Remember, you've probably seen images even in the movies, what
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- They call the ark of the covenant?
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- It's this golden box that had the ten commandments on the top.
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- They called it the mercy seat, and the shekhinah glory of god
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- Would appear to moses and the high priest between these two
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- Golden cherub angels.
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- Now they were golden angels, and heaven god has real angels.
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- You read in isaiah chapter 6, it says, "in the year that king
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- Isaiah died, i saw the lord high and lifted up.
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- The train of his robe filled the temple, and on the right and on
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- The left there are these cherubim.
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- And they're saying the seraphim and they're saying, 'holy, holy,
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- Holy is the lord of god."'
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- The lord almighty is flanked by these two mighty beings.
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- Lucifer held the highest position.
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- Ezekiel's reminding us of that.
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- "you were the anointed cherub who covers;" one of the covering
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- Angels, "i established you; you were on the holy mountain of
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- God; you walk back and forth in the midst of the fiery stones.
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- You were perfect," you were what?
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- "you were perfect in all your ways from the day you were
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- Created," he wasn't born.
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- Angels aren't born.
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- Jesus said they don't marry or given in marriage.
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- They're created, "until iniquity was found in you."
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- Now we'll go to some other passages a little later on, but
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- I just wanted that as a background for where
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- We're going.
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- All right, going back to our question number one,
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- Second part.
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- Lucifer was his name.
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- Second part, isaiah 14:13 and 14, "for you said in
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- Your," what?
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- "said in your heart, 'i will be like the most high.'"
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- He wanted god's position.
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- The devil became jealous that he did not have the same power of
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- Christ to create and he wanted to take that from him.
- 00:13:17.546 --> 00:13:22.418
- It says, "your heart was lifted up because of your," what?
- 00:13:22.418 --> 00:13:27.022
- "your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of
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- Your splendor."
- 00:13:31.293 --> 00:13:33.462
- Here it depicts this beautiful splendid being.
- 00:13:33.462 --> 00:13:38.267
- Now, we've been here three nights.
- 00:13:38.267 --> 00:13:40.002
- I hope you trust me.
- 00:13:40.002 --> 00:13:42.371
- Would you trust me for just a moment?
- 00:13:42.371 --> 00:13:43.739
- I want you to just imagine something, but you're going to
- 00:13:43.739 --> 00:13:45.708
- Have to close your eyes to imagine this.
- 00:13:45.708 --> 00:13:47.142
- So, for just--i promise i won't do anything to you.
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- No hypnosis, just trust me.
- 00:13:50.179 --> 00:13:52.114
- Close your eyes for just a moment and i want you to picture
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- What do you see when you think of the devil?
- 00:13:54.984 --> 00:13:57.920
- What do people usually see when they think of the devil?
- 00:13:57.920 --> 00:14:00.489
- How many of you will make you saw something red?
- 00:14:00.489 --> 00:14:03.192
- Fess up, all right.
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- How many saw a pitchfork?
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- That ostensibly is so he can keep people evenly cooked in
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- Hades, right?
- 00:14:11.734 --> 00:14:14.470
- How many saw a creature with a goatee in your minds?
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- Bat wings, anybody?
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- Red circus leotards?
- 00:14:22.177 --> 00:14:25.915
- You know, i grew a goatee a few years ago back when my hair
- 00:14:25.915 --> 00:14:28.784
- Before it turned gray.
- 00:14:28.784 --> 00:14:30.953
- And somebody said, "doug, you can't do what you do with
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- A goatee."
- 00:14:34.123 --> 00:14:35.491
- He said, "you look like the devil."
- 00:14:35.491 --> 00:14:38.961
- I said, "what makes you think he's got a goatee?
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- Where in the bible does it say he's got a goatee?"
- 00:14:42.631 --> 00:14:46.135
- They said, "i don't know, but you look like a
- 00:14:46.135 --> 00:14:47.536
- Sinister minister.
- 00:14:47.536 --> 00:14:48.904
- You need to get rid of that."
- 00:14:48.904 --> 00:14:51.640
- And karen tells me to shave it off, but isn't, you know, you
- 00:14:51.640 --> 00:14:55.411
- Talk about red devil paint or other people say devil's
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- Food cake.
- 00:14:59.415 --> 00:15:00.749
- And if you look at these modern concepts of the devil, this is
- 00:15:00.749 --> 00:15:05.254
- What people think.
- 00:15:05.254 --> 00:15:06.588
- If they think of some ghoulish creature that is, you know, like
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- A goblin and hideous looking and scary, but what does he really
- 00:15:09.525 --> 00:15:16.365
- Look like according to the bible?
- 00:15:16.365 --> 00:15:18.968
- You know, the bible tells us that in 2 corinthians chapter
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- "11, do not be surprised, for satan himself can be transformed
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- Into an angel of lights."
- 00:15:28.644 --> 00:15:32.481
- The devil wants you to think that he's this medieval ghoulish
- 00:15:32.481 --> 00:15:38.053
- Creature, but in reality, he can impersonate christ.
- 00:15:38.053 --> 00:15:43.092
- And he often comes as a creature of light and a creature
- 00:15:43.092 --> 00:15:46.261
- Of glory.
- 00:15:46.261 --> 00:15:48.097
- So, the devil, the bible says, he was a beautiful, he
- 00:15:48.097 --> 00:15:53.702
- Was splendid.
- 00:15:53.702 --> 00:15:55.104
- He just assumed that he--you think of him in terms of this
- 00:15:55.104 --> 00:15:59.341
- Terrifying ugly creature.
- 00:15:59.341 --> 00:16:01.477
- In reality, in the last days, he's going to appear as people's
- 00:16:01.477 --> 00:16:05.714
- Modern concept of jesus around the world performing miracles,
- 00:16:05.714 --> 00:16:09.718
- Quoting some of the scripture, and much of the world is going
- 00:16:09.718 --> 00:16:12.955
- To be deceived.
- 00:16:12.955 --> 00:16:14.323
- Revelation chapter 12 says, "who deceiveth the whole world?"
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- If he looked like that guy in red leotards with the pitchfork
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- And the horns, would he deceive anybody?
- 00:16:21.830 --> 00:16:25.401
- Who's going to listen to that?
- 00:16:25.401 --> 00:16:27.236
- So, did god make a devil when he created lucifer?
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- No, bible says, "you were perfect in your ways from the
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- Day you were created, until iniquity was found in you."
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- Now, i want you to think about something for a minute.
- 00:16:42.017 --> 00:16:46.221
- I think everybody here will agree with me that we want love.
- 00:16:46.221 --> 00:16:51.693
- I don't know about you.
- 00:16:51.693 --> 00:16:53.062
- I mean, i don't want to sound too self-centered, but if i had
- 00:16:53.062 --> 00:16:55.297
- A choice, i prefer to be liked, as opposed to being unliked.
- 00:16:55.297 --> 00:17:01.637
- You ask any girl when she's courting, she wants to
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- Be wanted.
- 00:17:06.341 --> 00:17:07.709
- How many will admit that?
- 00:17:07.709 --> 00:17:10.612
- Some of you didn't raise your hand, you're lying.
- 00:17:10.612 --> 00:17:13.115
- You want to be wanted and that's a sin.
- 00:17:13.115 --> 00:17:16.718
- You want to be wanted. boys want to be wanted.
- 00:17:16.718 --> 00:17:18.954
- Everyone wants to be wanted. god wants us to want him, right?
- 00:17:18.954 --> 00:17:23.058
- We all want love.
- 00:17:23.058 --> 00:17:26.228
- Why didn't god make lucifer where there was no
- 00:17:26.228 --> 00:17:29.064
- Bad transistors?
- 00:17:29.064 --> 00:17:30.432
- Obviously, does god know everything?
- 00:17:30.432 --> 00:17:33.001
- Did god know that someday lucifer was going to go bad?
- 00:17:33.001 --> 00:17:37.139
- If he knows everything, yeah, then why did he make him?
- 00:17:37.139 --> 00:17:41.477
- See, some people start blaming god.
- 00:17:41.477 --> 00:17:42.811
- Now let me explain how this--once you get this, light's
- 00:17:42.811 --> 00:17:45.647
- Going to go on.
- 00:17:45.647 --> 00:17:47.850
- Can you make somebody love?
- 00:17:47.850 --> 00:17:51.987
- Ai can do anything.
- 00:17:51.987 --> 00:17:55.257
- I've discovered recently, i'm probably the last one who's
- 00:17:55.257 --> 00:17:57.860
- Discovered it, they got this program now called chat gtp
- 00:17:57.860 --> 00:18:00.629
- Where you just give it a few cues and it'll write a letter
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- For you.
- 00:18:04.666 --> 00:18:06.401
- So, i would like a love letter.
- 00:18:06.401 --> 00:18:10.539
- And so, i turn on my chat gtp and i say, "please compose a
- 00:18:10.539 --> 00:18:17.779
- Love letter for me talking about doug, how intelligent and
- 00:18:17.779 --> 00:18:24.720
- Beautiful and handsome and irresistible he is."
- 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:33.228
- Wait for it.
- 00:18:33.228 --> 00:18:37.699
- Okay, you ready?
- 00:18:37.699 --> 00:18:40.002
- "dear doug, i hope this letter finds you well.
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- I wanted to take a moment to express just how much you mean
- 00:18:44.139 --> 00:18:46.909
- To me and how deeply i appreciate everything about you.
- 00:18:46.909 --> 00:18:51.213
- First and foremost, your beauty is something that never ceases
- 00:18:51.213 --> 00:18:54.850
- To amaze me.
- 00:18:54.850 --> 00:18:57.953
- Whether," i didn't write this honest, chat gtp, "whether it is
- 00:18:57.953 --> 00:19:01.490
- The sparkle in your eyes or the warmth of your smile," karen,
- 00:19:01.490 --> 00:19:06.528
- You ought to use this next time.
- 00:19:06.528 --> 00:19:09.798
- "or the way you carry yourself with such grace and confidence,"
- 00:19:09.798 --> 00:19:15.571
- And it's true too, yeah.
- 00:19:15.571 --> 00:19:19.141
- "and you are truly a sight to behold.
- 00:19:19.141 --> 00:19:21.510
- Your presence lights up any room, and i feel incredibly
- 00:19:21.510 --> 00:19:24.413
- Lucky to be able to witness your beauty every day.
- 00:19:24.413 --> 00:19:28.383
- Beyond your physical appearance and your wisdom is something i
- 00:19:28.383 --> 00:19:31.553
- Deeply admire.
- 00:19:31.553 --> 00:19:32.888
- You have a way of seeing the world that is both insightful
- 00:19:32.888 --> 00:19:34.590
- And inspiring.
- 00:19:34.590 --> 00:19:36.425
- Your advice has guided me through many of tough times, and
- 00:19:36.425 --> 00:19:40.362
- Your perspective always helps me see things in a new light.
- 00:19:40.362 --> 00:19:44.099
- I am constantly learning from you and i am grateful for the
- 00:19:44.099 --> 00:19:47.936
- Wisdom you share so generously.
- 00:19:47.936 --> 00:19:51.573
- Your sense of humor is another quality i cherish.
- 00:19:51.573 --> 00:19:55.344
- You have an incredible ability to make me laugh even during the
- 00:19:55.344 --> 00:19:58.914
- Darkest days.
- 00:19:58.914 --> 00:20:00.782
- Your jokes and your playful banter and your infectious
- 00:20:00.782 --> 00:20:03.552
- Laughter bring me so much joy.
- 00:20:03.552 --> 00:20:06.421
- I love how we can share moments of silliness and fun, making
- 00:20:06.421 --> 00:20:10.025
- Every day a little brighter.
- 00:20:10.025 --> 00:20:12.127
- And then there's your physical strength.
- 00:20:12.127 --> 00:20:14.963
- Whether it's helping out with heavy lifting or tackling
- 00:20:14.963 --> 00:20:18.700
- Challenges or simply being there to offer strong and comforting
- 00:20:18.700 --> 00:20:22.170
- Embrace, your strength is something i deeply appreciate.
- 00:20:22.170 --> 00:20:25.307
- It's not just about you, the physical aspect plus all the
- 00:20:25.307 --> 00:20:28.310
- Strength of your character and the way you stand by me through
- 00:20:28.310 --> 00:20:31.580
- Thick and thin.
- 00:20:31.580 --> 00:20:33.181
- Doug, you are an extraordinary person.
- 00:20:33.181 --> 00:20:36.451
- I'm so grateful to have you in my life.
- 00:20:36.451 --> 00:20:39.021
- Your beauty, wisdom, humor, and strength make you truly one of
- 00:20:39.021 --> 00:20:42.658
- A kind.
- 00:20:42.658 --> 00:20:44.159
- Thank you for being you and for sharing your wonderful self
- 00:20:44.159 --> 00:20:48.497
- With me."
- 00:20:48.497 --> 00:20:50.499
- After reading that, i think i'm going to leave karen and run off
- 00:20:50.499 --> 00:20:52.801
- With my phone.
- 00:20:52.801 --> 00:20:57.939
- It's been good, dear, all these years, but i've never had this
- 00:20:57.939 --> 00:21:01.943
- Kind of appreciation before.
- 00:21:01.943 --> 00:21:06.214
- So, let me ask you.
- 00:21:06.214 --> 00:21:08.283
- And while i find this entertaining, do i think for a
- 00:21:08.283 --> 00:21:12.354
- Moment that my phone loves me like karen?
- 00:21:12.354 --> 00:21:16.258
- It is telling me what it was programmed to say.
- 00:21:16.258 --> 00:21:20.929
- That is not love.
- 00:21:20.929 --> 00:21:22.597
- God cannot pre-program his intelligent creatures to love.
- 00:21:22.597 --> 00:21:26.601
- He gives them freedom.
- 00:21:26.601 --> 00:21:27.936
- The greatest proof he gives that freedom is the evil in the
- 00:21:27.936 --> 00:21:30.906
- World today.
- 00:21:30.906 --> 00:21:32.941
- And that's why he doesn't just destroy the devil.
- 00:21:32.941 --> 00:21:37.012
- He wants our love.
- 00:21:37.012 --> 00:21:39.181
- Now he knows whether or not we're going to love him.
- 00:21:39.181 --> 00:21:42.217
- He knows because he knows everything, but you still have
- 00:21:42.217 --> 00:21:44.720
- Freedom to choose.
- 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:47.122
- And god values real love so much that he even took the risk to
- 00:21:47.122 --> 00:21:52.994
- Make a creature that would process in his own mind that he
- 00:21:52.994 --> 00:21:57.032
- Chose to love himself more than god and that's what's caused all
- 00:21:57.032 --> 00:21:59.601
- The problem in the universe, is the devil's self love.
- 00:21:59.601 --> 00:22:03.372
- You see, god created his creatures for love to go out.
- 00:22:03.372 --> 00:22:08.276
- What's the great commandment?
- 00:22:08.276 --> 00:22:09.811
- Love the lord, love your neighbor, and lastly, as you
- 00:22:09.811 --> 00:22:13.515
- Love yourself.
- 00:22:13.515 --> 00:22:14.883
- The devil, the compass needle broke.
- 00:22:14.883 --> 00:22:16.852
- It's love yourself first.
- 00:22:16.852 --> 00:22:20.322
- And all of us have got a broken compass needle.
- 00:22:20.322 --> 00:22:23.024
- We're all, without salvation and the holy spirit, we're
- 00:22:23.024 --> 00:22:25.861
- Selfish creatures.
- 00:22:25.861 --> 00:22:27.996
- And jesus came, he was motivated by the love of god.
- 00:22:27.996 --> 00:22:31.933
- It was a love to give, a love that went out, and he wants to
- 00:22:31.933 --> 00:22:35.837
- Give us that love.
- 00:22:35.837 --> 00:22:37.372
- Lucifer, you notice what he wanted?
- 00:22:37.372 --> 00:22:38.707
- He wanted god's position.
- 00:22:38.707 --> 00:22:40.842
- You find the word pride, you find the word lucifer, you find
- 00:22:40.842 --> 00:22:44.413
- The word sin, and at the middle of all those words,
- 00:22:44.413 --> 00:22:46.982
- What do you find?
- 00:22:46.982 --> 00:22:48.316
- The letter i: i, i, i.
- 00:22:48.316 --> 00:22:51.019
- The devil had i problems.
- 00:22:51.019 --> 00:22:53.989
- "i will ascend into heaven, i will exalt my throne.
- 00:22:53.989 --> 00:22:56.658
- I will sit--." i.
- 00:22:56.658 --> 00:22:58.794
- You know, they say people that are struggling with
- 00:22:58.794 --> 00:23:00.929
- Insanity use the words i, me, my, mine and myself five times
- 00:23:00.929 --> 00:23:06.101
- More than sane people.
- 00:23:06.101 --> 00:23:09.171
- Selfishness is a form of insanity, and you will
- 00:23:09.171 --> 00:23:13.041
- Self destruct.
- 00:23:13.041 --> 00:23:14.376
- God did not make us to live unto ourselves.
- 00:23:14.376 --> 00:23:17.579
- He made us to learn to love and to give and to think of others.
- 00:23:17.579 --> 00:23:21.983
- It is more blessed that jesus said to give than receive.
- 00:23:21.983 --> 00:23:24.352
- The devil's whole wiring is broken.
- 00:23:24.352 --> 00:23:27.989
- And when adam and eve chose to listen to the devil instead of
- 00:23:27.989 --> 00:23:30.592
- God, we ended up with the same problem.
- 00:23:30.592 --> 00:23:32.928
- Question number three.
- 00:23:32.928 --> 00:23:34.696
- What finally happened to lucifer?
- 00:23:34.696 --> 00:23:37.866
- Well, as he began to resent that he was not god, that he did not
- 00:23:37.866 --> 00:23:40.769
- Have the power that god had, he began to sow seeds of discord
- 00:23:40.769 --> 00:23:45.140
- Among the other angels in heaven.
- 00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:47.542
- And he started saying, "you know, god doesn't give
- 00:23:47.542 --> 00:23:50.312
- Us freedom.
- 00:23:50.312 --> 00:23:51.680
- We don't need god's laws to guide us.
- 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:53.782
- We are intelligent creatures.
- 00:23:53.782 --> 00:23:55.584
- We don't need to rule one god.
- 00:23:55.584 --> 00:23:57.786
- I'm just as powerful as god.
- 00:23:57.786 --> 00:23:59.621
- We could also worship me," and he was able, like the best
- 00:23:59.621 --> 00:24:04.426
- Politician ever to persuade one third of the angels to follow
- 00:24:04.426 --> 00:24:08.430
- Him until finally, and god's very patient, we don't know how
- 00:24:08.430 --> 00:24:11.700
- Long this dispute transpired, but eventually there was a war
- 00:24:11.700 --> 00:24:16.872
- That broke out in heaven.
- 00:24:16.872 --> 00:24:19.107
- And you read here in revelation 12:7, "and war broke
- 00:24:19.107 --> 00:24:24.346
- Out," where?
- 00:24:24.346 --> 00:24:25.981
- You usually don't think of heaven and war together, do you?
- 00:24:25.981 --> 00:24:29.451
- "michael and his angels fought with the dragon," and michael is
- 00:24:29.451 --> 00:24:32.854
- A symbolic name, "and the dragon," is a symbolic name,
- 00:24:32.854 --> 00:24:37.492
- "and his angels fought."
- 00:24:37.492 --> 00:24:39.928
- Number four, what powerful beings work under the
- 00:24:39.928 --> 00:24:43.598
- Devil's command?
- 00:24:43.598 --> 00:24:45.166
- We just referenced that.
- 00:24:45.166 --> 00:24:46.835
- And the dragon and his angels fought,
- 00:24:46.835 --> 00:24:50.539
- But they did not prevail, nor was a place
- 00:24:50.539 --> 00:24:53.008
- Found for them in heaven any longer.
- 00:24:53.008 --> 00:24:55.477
- So that great dragon was cast out," and who's the
- 00:24:55.477 --> 00:24:58.780
- Great dragon?
- 00:24:58.780 --> 00:25:00.115
- "that serpent of old, called the devil and satan,
- 00:25:00.115 --> 00:25:04.619
- Who deceives the whole world."
- 00:25:04.619 --> 00:25:06.488
- "and his angels were cast out with him."
- 00:25:06.488 --> 00:25:10.058
- All right, so a lot of times when people are saying, "well,
- 00:25:10.058 --> 00:25:12.127
- There was a ghost that was spooking me," it's not a ghost,
- 00:25:12.127 --> 00:25:14.996
- It's fallen angels.
- 00:25:14.996 --> 00:25:16.331
- There's not only a battle between christ and satan,
- 00:25:16.331 --> 00:25:19.067
- There's a battle between the good angels and the bad angels.
- 00:25:19.067 --> 00:25:22.671
- And you probably all seen cartoons and there's a certain
- 00:25:22.671 --> 00:25:25.006
- Amount of truth to it, where they got the good angel with the
- 00:25:25.006 --> 00:25:27.108
- Halo on one wing and he's saying, "do what's right."
- 00:25:27.108 --> 00:25:29.911
- Then you got the bad angel on the other side, he says, "no, do
- 00:25:29.911 --> 00:25:32.514
- What's bad."
- 00:25:32.514 --> 00:25:34.015
- And it's really our conscience.
- 00:25:34.015 --> 00:25:36.184
- It's the holy spirit and the devil tempting.
- 00:25:36.184 --> 00:25:39.554
- So, it's a very real battle we face every day.
- 00:25:39.554 --> 00:25:42.424
- Doug: you know, jesus came into our world for three reasons.
- 00:25:42.490 --> 00:25:45.727
- First of all, he came as our example to live a life that we
- 00:25:45.727 --> 00:25:49.197
- Might follow his steps.
- 00:25:49.197 --> 00:25:50.865
- He came to show us the father.
- 00:25:50.865 --> 00:25:52.801
- He said, "if you've seen me, you've seen the father."
- 00:25:52.801 --> 00:25:55.804
- And then he came as our sacrifice.
- 00:25:55.804 --> 00:25:58.106
- He died on the cross as a substitute for all our sins, but
- 00:25:58.106 --> 00:26:01.910
- We must come to him, we repent of our sins, we confess, he'll
- 00:26:01.910 --> 00:26:05.780
- Receive us with loving arms.
- 00:26:05.780 --> 00:26:07.482
- Why don't you ask him now?
- 00:26:07.482 --> 00:26:09.751
- Doug: hi friends, i trust you're being blessed by what
- 00:26:09.818 --> 00:26:11.953
- You're watching.
- 00:26:11.953 --> 00:26:13.288
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- Doug: friends, we learned a lot in our study today, but there's
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- Still more.
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- If you'd like to better understand where satan came
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- From, you're going to want to get the "amazing facts" study
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- Guide, "did god create a devil?"
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- It's going to show you everything you need to know
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- About satan and what it means for you today.
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- To get your copy, simply follow the instructions you see there
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- We'll send it to you absolutely free of charge.
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- You'll be glad you did.
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- Doug: what you've seen just now is only part one in
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- This presentation.
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- Make sure and join us for part two in our next broadcast for
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- Some of the most important points on this topic and to
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- Complete the corresponding study guides.
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- Until then, god bless.
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