051-ict-tw-spaces-2023-09-24-The-End-From-The-Beginning
Last modified by Drunk Monkey on 2023-09-26 12:54
Outline
00:42 - Faith and belief in Jesus Christ.
- ICT believes in Jesus Christ as the only way to God and cites Acts 2:38 as the basis for his belief.
- ICT discusses why he chooses to place his faith in the Bible, despite it being referred to as a book of myths by others.
- The speaker believes in God and shares their personal journey of faith, citing the Bible as a supernatural collection of events that are historically validated.
- The speaker encourages listeners to seek God and understand their purpose in life, as He provides direction and accountability when no one else can.
06:22 - The Bible's inspiration and purpose.
- Peter believes the Bible is inspired by God, despite its human authors (16:22)
- Peter argues that apocryphal books should be included in the Bible (17:00)
- ICT emphasizes the importance of discovering God and developing a relationship with Him as the purpose of life.
- ICT believes that God has placed a God-shaped hole in everyone, and the only thing that can fill it is a relationship with Him.
12:07 - Hearing God's voice through prayer and faith.
- ICT shares personal experiences of hearing God's voice, including instances where He spoke to him directly and comfortably.
- ICT emphasizes the importance of listening to God's voice and understanding that our conscience is given to us for the purpose of knowing what He would have us do.
- The speaker finds peace and purpose in their faith in God, despite past feelings of hopelessness and lack of success.
- ICT shares his personal experience of hearing the voice of God, which was not thunderous or overbearing, but rather a real, quiet, and calming voice.
- ICT does not believe in extrasensory perception or psychic powers, but he has seen the unction of the Holy Spirit unfold in his life and the lives of his family members and friends.
19:11 - God's existence and the Bible.
- ICT believes God is a supernatural being outside of time, who created time for us and revealed the end from the beginning through the Bible.
- ICT highlights the treasure of the gospel of Jesus Christ hidden in the names of the 10 men in Genesis chapter 5, and plans to teach more about this later in the discussion.
- The speaker grew up in a troubled home with a violent and abusive father, and their understanding of God was limited.
- The speaker prayed for protection and a peaceful death, and later added a request for a better life.
25:03 - God's nature, the Trinity, and suffering.
- ICT shares his personal journey of understanding the nature of God, from debating with his friend Sean as a teenager to later recognizing the dual nature of Jesus Christ as both fully human and fully divine.
- ICT emphasizes the importance of identifying the distinction between Christ's humanity and divinity, and how this understanding is essential for understanding God's nature and role in the Bible.
- The speaker emphasizes that God values all people, even those who are sinful or hateful, and that He does not want anyone to perish.
- The speaker addresses the question of why God allows evil and suffering in the world, citing Genesis 3 and the entry of sin into the world as the source of these problems.
31:05 - The nature of God and faith.
- God confronts Adam and Eve about their disobedience in the Garden of Eden.
- God wants genuine affection given to Him, not conditionally.
36:20 - Hebrew language and its connection to the Bible.
- The speaker discusses the meaning behind the word "bearer sheet" in the book of Genesis, using Hebrew letter analysis to reveal a connection to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
- The speaker highlights the unique nature of Hebrew as a language, with letters that hold numerical value and pictographic meanings, and how this is reflected in the word bearer sheet.
- Jesus confounds Pharisees with wisdom, creates living organism from dust.
41:38 - God's character and Jesus' identity.
- The speaker describes God as a jealous and vengeful God who will not be mocked, as seen in the story of Noah and the flood.
- The speaker shares a testimonial about an evangelist who witnessed people being persecuted and their attackers' guns malfunctioning, suggesting God's protection.
- The speaker believes that Jesus was not a white man, but rather an olive-skinned person based on his cultural and historical context.
- The speaker references the Hebrew word "bearer sheet" and its connection to the Gospel, arguing that there is historical evidence outside of the Bible to prove Jesus' divinity.
47:30 - Faith, God, and suffering.
- ICT believes that people are afraid of death because they don't know God and His plan for eternity.
- ICT is not afraid of death because he knows God will take him to a place of paradise, free from fear and suffering.
- The speaker shares their personal experience of losing a baby due to a miscarriage, and how they struggled with understanding why God would allow such a tragedy to occur.
- The speaker acknowledges that they cannot fully understand God's ways, but trusts that He has a good reason for allowing the miscarriage to happen.
53:27 - God's role in suffering and evil.
- The speaker reflects on God's allowance of suffering, recognizing it as a gift and a contrast to evil.
- The speaker believes that Satan was already on Earth before the fall of man, contradicting the traditional view that Satan was cast out of heaven after the fall.
- The speaker compares themselves to Jonah, who ran from God's instruction to preach to a Gentile nation, highlighting the importance of obedience to God's will.
58:58 - The Bible and Satan's role.
- Jonah's internal dialogue reveals his reluctance to obey God's command to go to Nineveh, and his anger towards God's mercy towards the city.
- The book of Jonah teaches that God's mercy and grace are available to everyone, regardless of their actions, and that walking with God and trusting Him provides protection and blessings.
- Lucifer, the chief covering cherub, was created with a limitation and was perfect otherwise.
- Lucifer's sin was wanting to be like the Most High, leading to a totally different outcome in the world today.
- God creates Adam and gives him dominion over animals, defying Lucifer's claim to the throne.
01:07:45 - Creation, Lucifer's jealousy, and God's purpose.
- The speaker claims God created Eve by taking a rib from Adam while he was in a deep sleep.
- ICT believes God created Eve as a punishment for Lucifer's rebellion.
01:12:19 - Biblical interpretation and Satan's fall.
- ICT discusses the symbolism of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, connecting it to Lucifer's fall and the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent.
- ICT emphasizes the importance of understanding the Old Testament as a whole, including its use of similitudes and metaphors, to uncover hidden truths about the nature of Lucifer and the fall of humanity.
- ICT claims that Satan seduced Eve and Adam, using his power and influence as an angel to beguile them.
- Adam laid with his wife after she was seduced by Satan, making him an adulterer, according to ICT's interpretation of the Bible.
01:18:46 - Marriage roles and spiritual warfare.
- Pastor warns against neglecting spouse, inviting adultery through disrespectful behavior.
- Azzaman tells the husband that he is the leader of the household and has to subject himself to the Lord, but also has consequences for his actions.
- Louis is jealous of Adam's relationship with God and tries to trick him, but God allows free will and Eve makes the wrong choice.
01:24:23 - God's enduring love and sacrifice.
- Jesus emphasizes the importance of baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- God allowed suffering to show His enduring love and give humans a choice to love Him.
- Jesus endured mockery, beatings, and death to demonstrate God's love and give humans a choice to accept or reject it.
01:29:46 - Biblical angels and their actions.
- Lucifer seduces Eve, leading to sin and jealousy.
- ICT claims the Bible says Cain was fathered by the devil, not Adam, and angels in the Book of Enoch had sexual relations with daughters of men leading to the flood.
01:34:06 - Biblical interpretation and spiritual transformation.
- The speaker argues that the Bible teaches that humans are born sinful and in need of a new heart, not just a simple prayer to be saved.
- Aaron's rod swallows up the magicians' rods, symbolizing Jesus' victory over death.
01:39:19 - Biblical symbolism and redemption.
- The speaker discusses the symbolism of snakes in the Bible, particularly in Exodus chapter 7, where Aaron's rod becomes a snake to heal the Israelites.
- The speaker connects this symbolism to Jesus being made sin for us on the cross, as seen in Isaiah chapter 53 and Numbers chapter 21, and how looking to the cross brings healing and redemption.
- Daniel describes future events in chapters 7-12, using symbols to convey meaning.
01:45:02 - Biblical prophecy and world events.
- Daniel receives visions of beasts, including a bear with three ribs, a lion with eagle's wings, a leopard, and a fourth beast that is dreadful and terrible.
- ICT says the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are rising up and forming a new world order, with Russia referring to itself as the bear.
- The speaker believes the United Nations is building a statue that resembles the description in the book of Revelation, signaling the formation of a new world order.
01:51:15 - Biblical genealogy and Israel's rebirth in 1948.
- ICT predicts increasing lawlessness and chaos before the end, with a reference to Genesis 5.
- Adam to Abraham genealogy totals 1948 years, matching Israel's rebirth in 1948.
01:54:54 - Job and Satan's role in God's plan.
- God tempts Satan by asking him to curse Job, revealing Satan's arrogance and pride.
- God allows suffering to test faith, not love (Jovi)
01:59:40 - Job's faith in the face of adversity.
- Job complains to God about his suffering, but Satan possesses his friends and makes them say things to try to discourage him.
- Satan touches Job's health and gives him a form of leprosy, causing him to scrape worms from his skin, despite his impatience and wife's urging to curse God and die.
- ICT shares his personal experience of losing a child and how Satan tempted him to blame God, but he chose to trust in God's promise and have faith in His plan.
- ICT's wife was also affected by the loss and turned away from God, but ICT stood firm in his faith and God miraculously healed their marriage and brought them another child.
- Pastor ICT emphasizes the importance of having Old Testament faith and bragging on God, citing examples of His power and goodness.
- Pastor ICT encourages listeners to praise God and magnify His greatness, rather than focusing on their own problems and lack.
Transcript
| 1 | 00:00:42 --> 00:00:59 | ICT: Good morning, it is good morning. Hope you're all doing well is the volume Okay? You guys coming it's gonna be a five by five, if the volumes good, you can |
| 2 | 00:00:59 --> 00:00:59 | hear me |
| 3 | 00:01:05 --> 00:01:12 | using my Bose headset, so it's gonna probably sound a little different than it was last time into the space |
| 4 | 00:01:20 --> 00:01:37 | Thank you very much. Alright, so obviously got a share with you some of the things that I believe last Sunday, I was actually kind of surprised to get the |
| 5 | 00:01:38 --> 00:01:49 | feedback that I got, I was expecting to get a lot of invitations to debate, which I'm not interested in, you're not going to convince me otherwise. And I'm |
| 6 | 00:01:49 --> 00:01:58 | probably not going to convince you if you want to debate that means you really believe what it is you believe. And that's good. I mean, all of us should have a |
| 7 | 00:01:58 --> 00:02:14 | faith in something other than and bigger than ourselves. And something that, you know, hopefully is leading you towards a more wholesome life that's not so |
| 8 | 00:02:14 --> 00:02:26 | adversarial to one another. My personal belief is there's only way to one way to God, and that's through Jesus Christ. I believe he was God manifest in the |
| 9 | 00:02:26 --> 00:02:37 | flesh. And there is no repentance and remission of sins apart from His death, burial resurrection, and that gospel being applied to you the belief in that and |
| 10 | 00:02:37 --> 00:02:52 | the way we apply and obey that gospel is depicted in the book of Acts, chapter two, verse 38. So with that said, one of the things I want to talk about today |
| 11 | 00:02:52 --> 00:03:06 | was why I actually believe all this stuff, you know, like, why, why would I put my faith on a book that's many times referred to by other people, a book of |
| 12 | 00:03:06 --> 00:03:17 | myths, you know, stories and whatnot. And if you guys liked these kinds of discussions here on Sunday, you know, I am happy to do it, I really enjoyed |
| 13 | 00:03:17 --> 00:03:26 | doing it. I have so many topics, that it's very hard for me to the pick. And this one here is not going to be exhausted today. So I'll probably have to come |
| 14 | 00:03:26 --> 00:03:36 | back to this one every now and then. Because there's so many little subtitled topics that would fit perfectly inside this general theme, the end from the |
| 15 | 00:03:36 --> 00:03:51 | beginning. But one might ask the question, like, you know, why bother believing all this stuff? That's a valid question. One might ask the same question of why |
| 16 | 00:03:51 --> 00:04:02 | someone wouldn't want to believe in something like a creator, where it allows you to trust that there's a purpose for your life if you just seek it, and seek |
| 17 | 00:04:02 --> 00:04:14 | the one that you put in play, but gives you a free will. You know, if there's a creator, there's a God, you know, easy capricious, is it hard to figure out what |
| 18 | 00:04:14 --> 00:04:27 | he wants to see from you how you're supposed to live your life? Or has He provided a way for us to pattern our life and direct our actions, how we speak, |
| 19 | 00:04:28 --> 00:04:41 | which is one of the things I have a very hard time with, and how we're supposed to feel and deal with one another as brother and sister and as neighbors. And |
| 20 | 00:04:41 --> 00:04:56 | one of the greatest discoveries I found was that the Bible is not 66 books written about stories that have no relevance to us. It's a supernatural |
| 21 | 00:04:58 --> 00:05:10 | collection of you events that are historical, a lot of secular history records the validity of the things that are in our Bible. The person of Christ is |
| 22 | 00:05:10 --> 00:05:27 | written in secular records. The events that took place in the book of Exodus, are recorded in the annals of history even in Egypt. So if there is a God, I'm |
| 23 | 00:05:27 --> 00:05:38 | gonna pose that question rather facetiously, because obviously, I do believe there's a God. If there was a God, and you don't know him yet, or want to know |
| 24 | 00:05:38 --> 00:05:48 | him, I would think that the fact that you've been listening this because it's not about trading, that your interest is piqued enough to know, well, let's hear |
| 25 | 00:05:48 --> 00:05:58 | what somebody else has to say about. And I don't claim to be a pastor, I don't want to be viewed as a pastor, I'm not trying to operate in the role of a |
| 26 | 00:05:58 --> 00:06:08 | prophet or anything like that. Not even an evangelist. I'm just sharing my faith, as Peter said, always be ready to give reasons for your faith. And I'm |
| 27 | 00:06:08 --> 00:06:18 | basically giving you an ongoing testimony as to why I believe what I believe. It gives me a lot of peace. It gives me a lot of direction in my life. He holds me |
| 28 | 00:06:18 --> 00:06:28 | accountable. When no one else can. You no one else can hold me accountable. But he does. And when I many times, I'm done talking to you, either by tweets or |
| 29 | 00:06:29 --> 00:06:46 | things that I'd say in trade related spaces. I'm immediately convicted, and immediately convicted about how I spoke in the in the manner that I instructed, |
| 30 | 00:06:46 --> 00:07:05 | because it's not, in my opinion, and I'm sure in his as well. It's not as tactful, modest. A whole slew of things that could be, could be used to describe |
| 31 | 00:07:05 --> 00:07:19 | what it should have not been. But many times like, like Peter was, you know, foot and mouth disease, I have my mouth up my foot. Or many times, it's referred |
| 32 | 00:07:19 --> 00:07:28 | to as ready fire aim, Peter. And I didn't mess that up. I said it right. Yeah, he just didn't think before he speaks and just goes at it. And I think that's |
| 33 | 00:07:28 --> 00:07:36 | one of the things about the Bible. And why, why is there 66 books, there's certainly there's certainly more books that could have been included in the |
| 34 | 00:07:36 --> 00:07:44 | canon that we call the Bible. Because there's books I mentioned this before. There's books in our Bible that are referred to but they're not actually in the |
| 35 | 00:07:44 --> 00:07:55 | collection that's referred to as the Holy Bible, the collection of Old Testament New Testament writings. And even with those missing, it doesn't do any harm to |
| 36 | 00:07:55 --> 00:08:07 | this message or the gospel of Christ. It doesn't dilute it, it doesn't mask it, it doesn't make it more confusing or less understandable, because of their |
| 37 | 00:08:07 --> 00:08:24 | absence. I believe there's some apocryphal books, okay, that should be included. And I have read them. I believe that they have a place in all of this. But I |
| 38 | 00:08:24 --> 00:08:38 | believe also, that there's ways that we can look at the Bible and feel confident that it is the inspired Word God. It was penned by men, but the men that were |
| 39 | 00:08:38 --> 00:08:48 | writing these scriptures, were inspired by the Holy Spirit. That's scriptural. And how can you impact we know that how can we have trust in the Bible when you |
| 40 | 00:08:48 --> 00:08:55 | why if there's a God, okay, it's one thing atheists many times when I've talked to talk to them, and I've also seen people try to debate this is why I don't |
| 41 | 00:08:55 --> 00:09:04 | want to debate with an atheist, because you're not going to convince an atheist. Okay? Just like you won't convince a homosexual, that what they're doing is a |
| 42 | 00:09:04 --> 00:09:17 | sin. And you may be listening, you may live in that lifestyle. I'm not trying to alienate you. I'm just saying that the Bible itself says that, that's a sin, |
| 43 | 00:09:17 --> 00:09:30 | just like cursing is that I do. It is a sin just like stealing, just like theft. Adultery, okay? I've done all those things, okay. They're sinful, every one of |
| 44 | 00:09:30 --> 00:09:40 | them in any one of them would place me and you in jeopardy of Hellfire for eternity unless we repent and turn away from our sins and ask God to forgive us |
| 45 | 00:09:40 --> 00:09:51 | and then obey the gospel. So there's a there's a limit, which I believe in I tried it many times to preach to people because I was overzealous in the |
| 46 | 00:09:51 --> 00:10:01 | beginning. You know, I found faith I found God I found you know, a walk in life where everything had a purpose where before didn't have a purpose. It was just |
| 47 | 00:10:01 --> 00:10:09 | why am I here. And even if I had money, it wasn't all that great, I was depressed, that wasn't satisfying. So making money making lots of money was |
| 48 | 00:10:09 --> 00:10:20 | never a satisfaction. For me. It was a tool that I later discovered it was useful. But it did not make me happy. It didn't, it didn't happen, okay, it did |
| 49 | 00:10:20 --> 00:10:30 | not happen, the more I made didn't make me even happier. And many of you that listen to me for other reasons may think that that's what's gonna happen for |
| 50 | 00:10:30 --> 00:10:36 | you, like, you're gonna have happiness, because you make a lot of money, or you're successful, or you get that job promotion. And once you get it, you |
| 51 | 00:10:36 --> 00:10:50 | don't, you don't feel any happier. You start thinking yourself, I expected more. And God unfortunately, has placed in us a God shaped hole in all of us, and the |
| 52 | 00:10:50 --> 00:10:53 | only thing that could fill it is him. |
| 53 | 00:10:55 --> 00:11:05 | So that pursuit and the purpose of life is for you to discover God, develop a relationship with him, and then walk with Him every day. That's the purpose of |
| 54 | 00:11:05 --> 00:11:14 | life. That is the what, that's the why that you're here. That is the reason why you were born. That's the reason why you still exist. That's the reason why he |
| 55 | 00:11:14 --> 00:11:21 | still continues to give the breath that you breathe, whether you choose to believe in him or not. Every moment that you're here is a gift that's coming |
| 56 | 00:11:21 --> 00:11:28 | from him. Whether you choose to believe that he exists or not. You feel him right now, whether you recognize it or not. Because when you get the hell and |
| 57 | 00:11:28 --> 00:11:37 | you don't see or feel or have any presence of them around you. You're going to know it. Because there is absolutely no atheists in hell, zero atheists in hell. |
| 58 | 00:11:39 --> 00:11:51 | But when I was younger man, and I started walking closer to God and had a lot of faith given to me, because Christ is our author and finisher of our faith. You |
| 59 | 00:11:51 --> 00:11:59 | should always pray for more if you actively want to have a relationship with Him. prayerfully ask him this go in a quiet place where you're not being |
| 60 | 00:11:59 --> 00:12:12 | distracted by other people things, TV, radio, you know, social media, computers, whatever. And just spend time with Him in prayer. I'm not saying that he can't |
| 61 | 00:12:12 --> 00:12:22 | speak to you like I've heard him audibly speak to me. Many, many times. And that sounds very uncomfortable hearing that from someone that maybe you never heard |
| 62 | 00:12:22 --> 00:12:33 | me say that for. Or you think when people say that, that they're obviously off their rocker, they're nuts or something to that effect. And you would think also |
| 63 | 00:12:33 --> 00:12:43 | hearing a voice that is comfortable hearing. And you're probably asking yourself, okay, well, you're saying you heard God talk to you? What does he |
| 64 | 00:12:43 --> 00:12:51 | sound like? And I get that question every time I've ever mentioned it. And someone has the ability to ask him because in this setting here, I'm just |
| 65 | 00:12:51 --> 00:13:01 | talking to you. It's for me to just share a testimony with you, and things that I've had in my life after. I'm not interested in hearing the opposing side, |
| 66 | 00:13:01 --> 00:13:09 | because it's unfruitful for me to try to do that. I'm not going to convince you if you're going to be argumentative. I'm here to speaking for the folks that |
| 67 | 00:13:09 --> 00:13:21 | want to listen. But anytime that I've ever said that I heard was a god. The number one question is, what does he sound like? And it's not my like, it's not |
| 68 | 00:13:21 --> 00:13:29 | my conscience. It's not the same voice that you hear when you know you're about to do something. And you know, you shouldn't do it in your own internal voice. |
| 69 | 00:13:29 --> 00:13:36 | It's, it's you, okay, it's your conscience speaking to you, man, you better not do this. You know what's going to happen if you do that. And either you listen |
| 70 | 00:13:36 --> 00:13:47 | to it, and you don't do it, which is wisdom. Because that's how God deals with us in the beginning, He speaks to us and through us through our conscience. The |
| 71 | 00:13:47 --> 00:13:58 | closer you walk with God, the more likely now I'm not saying it's guaranteed, but the more likely it is that He will speak to you in a manner that is above |
| 72 | 00:13:58 --> 00:14:06 | that. But you have to understand that our conscience is given to us for the purpose of knowing what he would have us do. So his Holy Spirit speaks through |
| 73 | 00:14:06 --> 00:14:18 | us and through us through our conscience. If we keep sinning, willfully sinning, and never feel the convictions and or repent, and ask for forgiveness, when we |
| 74 | 00:14:18 --> 00:14:30 | do it, eventually, that conscience can be seared. That means we no longer will have that internal dialogue that the Holy Spirit utilizes through our conscience |
| 75 | 00:14:30 --> 00:14:45 | to guide us and teach us many times preventing us from doing the very things that we shouldn't do, but our sinful nature many times brings us to the point |
| 76 | 00:14:45 --> 00:14:57 | where we ignore that conscience and push it aside and say no, I want to do this and that's your flesh. When your flesh rises up. When I curse when I lose |
| 77 | 00:14:57 --> 00:15:11 | control of the Focus and in the delivery that I want to do, when I'm speaking, sometimes I have an imbalance chemically and I run to an extreme, whether it be |
| 78 | 00:15:11 --> 00:15:24 | euphoric, or violent, but rarely, rarely, rarely is it balanced. And I find that whenever I'm talking about him, and I've invited him into this through prayer, |
| 79 | 00:15:25 --> 00:15:37 | this is the closest I get to ever being balanced. So I love talking about him, I love bragging on him. Because he gives me peace, gives me purpose, you think my |
| 80 | 00:15:37 --> 00:15:50 | purpose is trading, and teaching other people how to make money. That's not my purpose. That's not my purpose. That's just one facet of my life. But this, this |
| 81 | 00:15:50 --> 00:16:05 | is my life. This is what I spend the majority of my time placing my faith own, in, in whom I placed my faith in. This is the very person that kept me going |
| 82 | 00:16:05 --> 00:16:17 | when I didn't have any hope. In myself, I didn't have any, any trust that I would ever be successful, that I would ever amount to anything. And there were |
| 83 | 00:16:17 --> 00:16:29 | times where I felt that and then I would feel inspired, I would feel rejuvenated. And he would encourage me, audibly. And again, that sounds a little |
| 84 | 00:16:29 --> 00:16:40 | crazy. And I know, if I was an atheist, I can, I can put myself in the position of someone that doesn't have a faith in Christ, or God in any capacity, whether, |
| 85 | 00:16:41 --> 00:16:50 | if it's all up to some of you to somebody else's God, you know, Buddha, whatever, or an absence of any god, I can understand how someone that would be |
| 86 | 00:16:50 --> 00:17:00 | in that position, hearing someone, whether it be me or anyone else say they heard audibly, the voice of God, that might be a little strange. But when it |
| 87 | 00:17:00 --> 00:17:17 | happened, it wasn't scary. It wasn't. It wasn't alarming. It didn't make me feel like I was crazy. I was surprised, pleasantly surprised that I heard a voice |
| 88 | 00:17:17 --> 00:17:30 | that I still today, like if I if I were asked, like, Who does he sound? Like? Is there a voice that he sounds like? No. It wasn't, like thunderous, and like |
| 89 | 00:17:30 --> 00:17:39 | bass. And like, you know, making the sound, the sound of the voice would make the earth shake that type of thing. It wasn't like that. It was like a real, |
| 90 | 00:17:41 --> 00:17:57 | quiet, mellow, calming, just a real pleasant voice. Manly, but not, like, overbearing, and it was very short to its words, it said, these very few things. |
| 91 | 00:17:57 --> 00:18:09 | And it said, and it was it was just a directive each time. And every single time I listened to it, I'm thankful for it. The few times that I dismissed it as a |
| 92 | 00:18:09 --> 00:18:21 | younger man, not knowing who it was. And what it was. I found myself in trouble, or I got hurt. Or the warning that it was given me, the tail, the person that |
| 93 | 00:18:21 --> 00:18:29 | was next to me about to do something they shouldn't do. I didn't want to say it, because I was afraid they would look at me strange. I don't have that fear |
| 94 | 00:18:29 --> 00:18:38 | anymore. So when I get the unction by the Holy Spirit to say something, and my family members and friends have seen this happen. Like they have seen it happen |
| 95 | 00:18:38 --> 00:18:49 | in their presence around me. The things that were going to happen in their life and mine. They watched it happen right there in front of them unfold. And I |
| 96 | 00:18:49 --> 00:18:57 | don't believe in extrasensory perception, ESP, that type of thing. I don't I have no faith in that. I don't think that Claire buoyancy is a thing. I don't |
| 97 | 00:18:57 --> 00:19:07 | think that psychic powers are real. I don't believe in things like that at all, like reading palms and all that kind of stuff. That's that's witchcraft. That's, |
| 98 | 00:19:07 --> 00:19:17 | that's things that, you know, I don't have a faith in that. But I do believe that God is a supernatural being he's outside our domain of time. He created |
| 99 | 00:19:17 --> 00:19:31 | time for us to exist in he's outside of it. And the beautiful thing about it is that he proves that he's God, because his words tells you what the end will be |
| 100 | 00:19:32 --> 00:19:42 | from the beginning. Was that mean? Well, if there's a God and He knows everything. Wouldn't he be able to tell you beforehand? What's going to happen |
| 101 | 00:19:42 --> 00:19:50 | before it does? He's already done that in the Bible. And if you look around in the world right now, you're watching a lot of the stuff that's written in the |
| 102 | 00:19:50 --> 00:20:05 | last few books come to pass. But he wrote it in a manner where it's undenied Enable, if you seek it, if you look for it, you'll be able to see that he he |
| 103 | 00:20:05 --> 00:20:22 | alone, no one else, there's no other God by him. There's no other God. But him. There's no other god that's called the future before it's happened. Happens. In |
| 104 | 00:20:22 --> 00:20:33 | fact, he, he puts that on you. In Isaiah chapter 46, in Isaiah chapter 48. He basically he's bragging on himself. That's why I love the book of Isaiah, |
| 105 | 00:20:33 --> 00:20:45 | because he literally is walking around beating his chest saying, Come at me. If you have a God, if there's another god, but me, show me him, because I'm up |
| 106 | 00:20:45 --> 00:20:56 | here, and there ain't no other God. And he made a mockery of every god that Egypt believed in. Literally, just walked all over it. |
| 107 | 00:20:59 --> 00:21:13 | And I believe that if you study the Scriptures, you'll see that He absolutely has called the end from the beginning. What is the beginning? Well, the first |
| 108 | 00:21:13 --> 00:21:25 | book of the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, the Pentateuch, the book of Genesis, or the book of beginnings, as it's referred to, it opens up with in the |
| 109 | 00:21:25 --> 00:21:38 | beginning, bear sheath, the Hebrew repair sheet, the last time we spoke, I said, no Twitter space where I was ranting and raving from the pool. I talked about |
| 110 | 00:21:39 --> 00:21:51 | Genesis chapter five, how it wonderfully hides a treasure, that is the gospel of Jesus Christ within the names of those 10 men from Adam to know that genealogy. |
| 111 | 00:21:53 --> 00:22:02 | I'm gonna teach you something else about that today a little bit later in the discussion. But for now, that was one of the things that got me really geared up |
| 112 | 00:22:02 --> 00:22:12 | about the Bible, because growing up as a Baptist, and I say that with my tongue in cheek, because I really wasn't a person that went to church because nobody |
| 113 | 00:22:12 --> 00:22:20 | would take me as a little boy, whenever there was an event that that churches would sometimes do. And they still do these things that they'd like functions |
| 114 | 00:22:21 --> 00:22:29 | that allow you to get inspired to go there with your family. It would be like craft day, where you go in, figure out what you want to paint, the praying |
| 115 | 00:22:29 --> 00:22:37 | hands, the dove across something to that effect. And you'd go in and you paint it, and they would glaze it for you and you can take it home, and it doesn't |
| 116 | 00:22:37 --> 00:22:46 | cost you anything and do it and their hopes were that you would want to keep coming back to be a part of that church. So if you were asking me when I was a |
| 117 | 00:22:46 --> 00:22:56 | child, what denomination I was, I guess the closest thing would be referred to as a Baptist. But it really wouldn't be accurate because I wasn't a card |
| 118 | 00:22:56 --> 00:23:09 | carrying member and my family never went to church. No one in my family were churchgoers. They were all drunkards, drug abusers. You notice sorry, my dad was |
| 119 | 00:23:09 --> 00:23:19 | a drug user. He picked up the heroin addiction from Vietnam came home, couldn't function had a lot of pts and figured, well, you know, I'm gonna kill him. So |
| 120 | 00:23:19 --> 00:23:29 | I'll just do that for contract. And he was a real life, Hitman. And I know that sounds crazy, but you can look it up. His name is Michael Joe Harrington is in |
| 121 | 00:23:29 --> 00:23:51 | MC numbers. 155634 out of Jessup, Maryland. It's a real thing. But I come from a pedigree that is not holy. I'm not from a pedigree of people that were godly. I |
| 122 | 00:23:51 --> 00:24:09 | grew up in a very troubled home, a broken home, a violent home, an abusive home. And the idea of God was very far away from me, but I was reaching for him |
| 123 | 00:24:09 --> 00:24:24 | always. Because as a child, I was scared 99% of time I had fear for my life, my well being or my mom. So I don't have a whole lot of childhood upbringing, |
| 124 | 00:24:25 --> 00:24:36 | around the faith of Christianity, but I can see looking back how, just like the scripture says that he is the author and finisher of our faith. Because I |
| 125 | 00:24:36 --> 00:24:46 | believed in him, I believe that he existed and I asked for him in the only manner and capacity I could as a child, you know, protect me and protect my mom. |
| 126 | 00:24:47 --> 00:24:57 | And if I die while I'm sleeping, let me go to heaven. That was pretty much my prayer. And then later on when I became a teenager, early years, I still pray |
| 127 | 00:24:57 --> 00:25:17 | that simple prayer, but I would add on please Maybe Rich, I don't have to live like this. He answered all of them. So when I started thinking about me being |
| 128 | 00:25:17 --> 00:25:31 | closer to God, as an older man because as a teenager, the only interest I had in God was debating my best friend Sean, who was wrestling with the idea of being a |
| 129 | 00:25:31 --> 00:25:40 | Trinitarian. What's the Bible doesn't teach, there's a Trinity it teaches and preaches that God is one. And He manifests Himself just like you manifest |
| 130 | 00:25:40 --> 00:25:52 | yourself as a husband, a son, a brother, a mentee, an employee, it doesn't take more people than you to be to fulfill those roles. And God is invisible spirit. |
| 131 | 00:25:52 --> 00:26:05 | And He manifests Himself in flesh, this humanity and flesh of Jesus Christ, revealing his nature and revealing His name, Jesus, His Spirit is holy. So his |
| 132 | 00:26:05 --> 00:26:17 | operation and role and manifestation in those three offices. They are the one saying God, in My only interest in God, as a younger teenager was simply |
| 133 | 00:26:17 --> 00:26:28 | explained to my friend, Shawn. And I have scripture to lean on it just that was my understanding. And then later on, you know, when we would have these heated |
| 134 | 00:26:28 --> 00:26:39 | debates about, well, this pastor, I'm going to which was his girlfriend, and now wife's uncle, he would say this is teaching the Trinity. And I'd say, Well, what |
| 135 | 00:26:39 --> 00:26:47 | do you do with John where it says, you know, he is the Father, if you're looking at him, you're seeing the father, the only way you can see the Father. And the |
| 136 | 00:26:47 --> 00:26:59 | distinction is that he's his flesh is all of what makes him human, which has to be permitted, otherwise, he can't be a substitute for us, for the remission of |
| 137 | 00:26:59 --> 00:27:13 | sins being paid through his shedding His blood. So you have to identify the fact that Christ has a dual nature, he has every bit of humanity before he died and |
| 138 | 00:27:13 --> 00:27:23 | was resurrected, He had a dual nature. So when sometimes he would speak, he would be, he would speak and teach through the medium of his humanity, and you |
| 139 | 00:27:23 --> 00:27:33 | will see his weaknesses, you would see that he hungered, you would see that he was tired, he needed sleep, God doesn't need to sleep. But that flesh needed to, |
| 140 | 00:27:34 --> 00:27:45 | and it wasn't glorified yet. That's why his flesh would say, Your Father glorify me like I was in the beginning. Because in the beginning, the logos, which |
| 141 | 00:27:45 --> 00:27:56 | reminds me, I gotta tell you what resources I got, I gotta make sure I make a note of that. Write that down. The Logos, which is you know, the word like John, |
| 142 | 00:27:56 --> 00:28:14 | one, start off same way as Genesis was, you in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, the Word was God. Okay, and that logos, that word is a |
| 143 | 00:28:14 --> 00:28:24 | dynamic thought, basically. Okay, much like me sitting down with you today. I was a little nervous, because I have so many topics that I want to talk about. |
| 144 | 00:28:25 --> 00:28:30 | And because I'm unfiltered, and I don't have a script, really, I have a notepad here to write down things that may jump in my head as I'm talking, but I want to |
| 145 | 00:28:30 --> 00:28:46 | come out like I just did here. But the the Word was God because it comes from Him. All good things come from above from the Father. And anything he says His |
| 146 | 00:28:46 --> 00:28:57 | Word will not return unto him void. So when it's preached, whether you accept it at the time or not, that seed will eventually take root if you allow it in. But |
| 147 | 00:28:57 --> 00:29:07 | sometimes that word will fall on stony ground, and the birds will come devour it, and that's Satan and his angels. And people that he uses the influence you |
| 148 | 00:29:07 --> 00:29:18 | did this, to sway you from listening to things like this. But a good fertile ground, someone that has had pain, someone that has had loss, someone is |
| 149 | 00:29:18 --> 00:29:30 | destitute, they're looking for a reason to exist. Maybe they're looking to end their own life. That is a person with a very fertile ground for the Word of God |
| 150 | 00:29:30 --> 00:29:42 | be planted in because it gives them purpose. It gives them a real reason to, to exist and not in themselves. And God says, Why die before the time. He doesn't |
| 151 | 00:29:42 --> 00:29:54 | want any of us to perish. Even people that are hateful, sinful, that don't even know him. He still would not want them to perish, because part of him is in |
| 152 | 00:29:54 --> 00:30:07 | them. That living soul that he gives us. That's part of him. That's Why he sees value in all of us, even sinners? How can he love us? If God so perfect? Why is |
| 153 | 00:30:07 --> 00:30:16 | he so? All Knowing? How does he allow for the devil? Why does he make? Why does he make allowance for the devil? Because in the beginning, if you're saying, |
| 154 | 00:30:16 --> 00:30:28 | Michael, in the Bible says that He knows the end from the beginning, how did he not know that Satan was going to do this in the garden and begotten Eve? If he's |
| 155 | 00:30:28 --> 00:30:40 | God, why, why didn't he stop that? If God's so powerful, why can't he beat the devil? Why does the devil get to do these things? If God is so good? Why does he |
| 156 | 00:30:40 --> 00:30:51 | allow children to be molested and raped and women to be beaten and raped? And people murdered? If God's so loving and good? How and why does He allow those |
| 157 | 00:30:51 --> 00:31:01 | things? Well, guess what, folks? Here's a reminder, in Genesis, chapter three, sin entered into the world. And all the things that come with it. |
| 158 | 00:31:05 --> 00:31:18 | In this world, God said that you will have trials and tribulation. That means you're going to have a hard way. He told Adam, because you have sinned. Because |
| 159 | 00:31:18 --> 00:31:31 | you have sinned, you now will work by the sweat of your brow to eat. And thorns and thistles will come up in your crops and things that you do and it's gonna be |
| 160 | 00:31:31 --> 00:31:44 | harder because everything prior to that they walked with God in the cool the breeze. He walked with God. He communed with God daily how amazing how amazing |
| 161 | 00:31:44 --> 00:31:56 | an existence that may have been the the books of poetry, Psalms and Proverbs. If you really study them, they imply that Adam and Eve walked with bodies of light. |
| 162 | 00:32:00 --> 00:32:20 | They were that that was nakedness. But because they were sinful. Because they sinned. They recognized their nakedness. And God showed up said, Hey, Adam, |
| 163 | 00:32:20 --> 00:32:30 | where are you? And it's not that God doesn't know where he's at. He's asking, Where are you spiritually? Take inventory right now. Well, where are you? You're |
| 164 | 00:32:30 --> 00:32:47 | not where I left you. You're not where I created you. There's something different about you, Adam. Where are you? I'm hiding. My Hidin because I'm |
| 165 | 00:32:47 --> 00:32:49 | naked. Who told you you're naked? |
| 166 | 00:32:54 --> 00:33:08 | That woman you gave me a call man, right? This woman I'm married to keeps me healthy. It holds me back. Right? So God turns to Eve and says, Woman, what have |
| 167 | 00:33:08 --> 00:33:21 | you done. And immediately, she says, the serpent beguiled me. That is a study in and of itself for another day, because that's going to take a whole lot of |
| 168 | 00:33:21 --> 00:33:31 | things that have scriptures for and take you to because it's not your typical Sunday sermon or Bible study. But there was no eating of an apple in the Garden |
| 169 | 00:33:31 --> 00:33:45 | of Eden. That's not what the original sin was not that it was sex. And it was not sex between Adam and Eve. So we have God turning to Satan, who was the |
| 170 | 00:33:45 --> 00:33:57 | serpent. Because you did this, you know, you're gonna crawl on your belly, and all the days of your life, you're going to eat dust of the earth. And you'll be |
| 171 | 00:33:57 --> 00:34:09 | beneath everything, and you'll bruise His heel, and his heel will bruise your head. That's prophetic, referring to his future coming as Christ, the seed of |
| 172 | 00:34:09 --> 00:34:25 | the woman in the seed of the serpent. So, at that moment, he's telling you why he allowed Satan to exist. But you have to understand what's going on. God is |
| 173 | 00:34:26 --> 00:34:41 | has given mankind a choice. He could have, he could have said, your man, your woman, you have no capacity to not worship me. You only can worship me. And this |
| 174 | 00:34:41 --> 00:34:55 | is the way it's going to be is that love? Because God wants love. He wants genuine affection given to him not conditionally. He wants us to love him. He |
| 175 | 00:34:55 --> 00:35:03 | wants us to have an ongoing walk in relationship with him and I trust you placed in him, even when it doesn't look like it's possible that it's going to be an |
| 176 | 00:35:03 --> 00:35:13 | outcome that's favorable to us, we still trust them. And if it doesn't come to pass like we want, yet we still trust him. That's how it is that we're supposed |
| 177 | 00:35:13 --> 00:35:22 | to be walking with God. That's how we're supposed to live. And we live by faith that with his outcome in mind is for us is the best. And whatever it is, we |
| 178 | 00:35:22 --> 00:35:31 | accept it, and we want that, not what we want. And that's a very hard thing to grow into. In the beginning, I needed certain things. And I believed in my |
| 179 | 00:35:31 --> 00:35:43 | heart, if I didn't see him, I was gonna walk. And he knew that. And he showed me exactly what I need to see. And nothing, nothing would ever, ever cause me any |
| 180 | 00:35:43 --> 00:35:53 | doubt in who he is, as the creator. He's the only god, he's the person that has spoken to me. And when you pray, that's the person you're praying to. If you |
| 181 | 00:35:53 --> 00:36:08 | believe in God, you believe in Christ. That's who I was. undeservedly, the recipient of many instances of his movement in my life, his instruction audibly, |
| 182 | 00:36:09 --> 00:36:19 | sometimes speaking to my conscience, but delivering the very right now word, the thing that needed to be heard, and it needed to be understood at that moment, |
| 183 | 00:36:19 --> 00:36:36 | that's where it came from. And I'm sorry, folks, ESP and psychic ability, and have that doesn't have anything to do with this. So the word bearer sheet, in |
| 184 | 00:36:36 --> 00:36:51 | the first few words of the book of Genesis, in the beginning, bear sheet, if you go through the original letters of that word, break it down. Each one of those |
| 185 | 00:36:51 --> 00:37:00 | letters have a meaning. And when we look at modern Hebrew, I'm not going to bore you with all this stuff, I'm just gonna inspire you to go look at it. But if you |
| 186 | 00:37:00 --> 00:37:08 | want to see a detailed teaching on it, I can put one together real quick, and throw it on, I want to do it today. But for those that are familiar with it, |
| 187 | 00:37:09 --> 00:37:26 | there is obviously modern Hebrew today. And there is older format, Hebrew. And like before, Babylon type, Hebrew, and Hebrew, much like Greek. It's a very |
| 188 | 00:37:26 --> 00:37:38 | dense language. And I believe that's the reason why God chose those two languages. Hebrew is the oldest of languages, and it has a numerical value. The |
| 189 | 00:37:38 --> 00:37:49 | LBC has the letter for writing down things in being able to communicate, but also has a photography, and it's it has a picture format, that tells you |
| 190 | 00:37:49 --> 00:37:59 | something behind it as well, which is very unique about it. And if you look at that, from the word bearer sheet in Hebrew, from the very first few words of |
| 191 | 00:38:00 --> 00:38:15 | Genesis, it literally is the same thing that Genesis Chapter Five is, which is the gospel of Jesus Christ. The very first letter that letter is a pictograph. |
| 192 | 00:38:15 --> 00:38:26 | It's a picture. Okay, kind of like a foundation have a home or a tent. Okay, inside that tent, who's in that tent? Who's inside that home? And what are they |
| 193 | 00:38:26 --> 00:38:40 | doing? They're leaving that? Well, the next letter in the word bearer sheet is like a prince, a ruler, someone that's very authoritative. And they're leaving |
| 194 | 00:38:40 --> 00:38:51 | that home. And they're going somewhere, to do something. And I'll leave the rest of it to you to study for those that you're listening to understand Hebrew, and |
| 195 | 00:38:51 --> 00:39:04 | you have access to pre battle on Hebrew, the way the letters were, were drawn out, and what they mean. Individually, each letter tells you the entire Gospel |
| 196 | 00:39:04 --> 00:39:26 | of Jesus Christ, that He comes, basically leaving his original home, which is heaven. He comes here and is crushed. For our redemption. And again, it's a |
| 197 | 00:39:26 --> 00:39:36 | miracle. Because you see how when Christ wrote in on a donkey, which is messianic, when everybody in Jerusalem at that day, when the Passion Week on |
| 198 | 00:39:36 --> 00:39:46 | that Sunday when he was riding on a donkey, they were laying down palm leaves, saying hosanna hosanna in the highest and you place it as he comes in the name |
| 199 | 00:39:46 --> 00:39:57 | of the Lord. They they expected him to be one of the two Messiahs that Jews expected to see. They believed they believed that there was a suffering Messiah. |
| 200 | 00:39:58 --> 00:40:08 | And they also believe that there was a The ruler that's going to sit on the seat of David and guess what Christ is both of them. But they wanted the ruler, they |
| 201 | 00:40:08 --> 00:40:18 | wanted to see the Messiah come in and put down Roman leadership over them. Even the Pharisees wanted to see that. But they didn't want to be fooled either. They |
| 202 | 00:40:18 --> 00:40:31 | don't want to look silly in front everyone else. So they constantly challenged him. And he made them look like children. He literally confounded their wisdom. |
| 203 | 00:40:31 --> 00:40:40 | At the age of 12, he was in a temple, teaching them about the human body because he is the author and creator, an engineer of that. Who else is going to know the |
| 204 | 00:40:40 --> 00:40:50 | body better than him? He made it. In fact, he went right down into the dirt and made atom. Which is interesting, because if you watch the headlines recently, |
| 205 | 00:40:51 --> 00:41:06 | they announced that they have finally created a living organism, human organism, without an egg, and without sperm. Do it with nothing. Start with nothing. |
| 206 | 00:41:07 --> 00:41:16 | You're trying to play God, you're never gonna be there. But we are at that time, just like in Genesis chapter six. When the angels the fallen angels came down, |
| 207 | 00:41:16 --> 00:41:29 | and they started messing with the DNA, okay, when he started messing with the DNA, God takes His role of creator higher than anything even greater than that |
| 208 | 00:41:29 --> 00:41:49 | which of his redemption plan. Clear planar terms. God is a jealous God. He is quick to anger most Lee about his authorship, His deity as the Father, the |
| 209 | 00:41:49 --> 00:42:00 | Everlasting Father and Creator, He is the alone only singular God there is in existence, there is no other God. And his role as Creator, He is jealous over |
| 210 | 00:42:00 --> 00:42:11 | that, and he is immediately enraged. When that is challenged, made fun of and when it's marked, God is not mocked. |
| 211 | 00:42:20 --> 00:42:30 | And that's the reason why he only put eight people on that ark, and everything else got scrubbed off this planet. Unless it was a fish or an aquatic animal, it |
| 212 | 00:42:30 --> 00:42:47 | died. That sounds like a guy that takes his word very seriously. He's a vengeful god, he's a jealous God. But apart from those attacks of who he is as as his |
| 213 | 00:42:47 --> 00:43:05 | character. Apart from that, he's long suffering. He allows people to make mockery of his name and make fun of him as the Redeemer. We were listening to |
| 214 | 00:43:06 --> 00:43:23 | when I was going to a church. There was an evangelist that was over in Africa. And he had saw some amazing things. And he would testify and say, Look, man, |
| 215 | 00:43:23 --> 00:43:32 | this is what the Lord was doing here. And this that no one thing. And one of the testimonies he gave, he was standing in an area where these individuals were |
| 216 | 00:43:32 --> 00:43:41 | kind of like trying to take over the area and had guns like ak 47, Uzis, and things like that. And they were like, oh, yeah, nobody's gonna save you from |
| 217 | 00:43:41 --> 00:43:48 | what we're gonna do. We're not gonna you're not gonna be able to save but none of that none. There's nothing, nothing is gonna save you from what we're going |
| 218 | 00:43:48 --> 00:43:57 | to do. And he's one of the leaders of that group that had all the guns that was persecuting the people over there. They started calling people's names like, |
| 219 | 00:43:57 --> 00:44:09 | here's Buddha in a wood stop down on the ground. And he can't protect you. Here's Mary stomped down, you know, Mary, Jesus, mother, stomped down on it. You |
| 220 | 00:44:09 --> 00:44:17 | know, here's, you know, everything else that they could name I'm not gonna go to a whole list of things. But then he said, and here's Jesus. And since he lifted |
| 221 | 00:44:17 --> 00:44:26 | his leg up, and before he could put his foot down, the gun slipped out, his hands spun around on the strap, the head on his shoulder, and the whole clip |
| 222 | 00:44:26 --> 00:44:43 | emptied into really that's a little much to take in, isn't it? And testimonial from him and other people that were there, said it happened just like that. |
| 223 | 00:44:49 --> 00:45:00 | Don't tempt the Lord. Okay, that's the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. You should have reverence for him towards him because It's a fearful and |
| 224 | 00:45:00 --> 00:45:16 | dreadful and terrible thing to end up and fall in the hands of the Lord. His long suffering and patience is going to eventually end in that long haired, blue |
| 225 | 00:45:16 --> 00:45:30 | eyed, Caucasian hippie Jesus that a right thinks is coming, or who he is. That's not who he is. That's not, that's not who he is. He's not a white boy. He's not. |
| 226 | 00:45:33 --> 00:45:47 | He's probably olive colored. At I believe that, you know, from where he was born, and through the, the process of how he came into this existence, I believe |
| 227 | 00:45:47 --> 00:45:54 | he's probably olive colored like anyone else out there in the Mediterranean area. But he certainly wasn't a white white guy. That was not, that's not who he |
| 228 | 00:45:54 --> 00:46:05 | is. And I say that, because I'm so sick and tired of seeing people depict him as this long haired hippie, because he would have never had long hair. He never |
| 229 | 00:46:05 --> 00:46:15 | would have had long hair, he would have had long, like, I guess like where your sideburns would start from the hair that grows in your head that would grow down |
| 230 | 00:46:15 --> 00:46:27 | long. They're like a, like a regular orthodox dude grows there. They're locked right there, but their whole heads not long. And he again, he's not white. So. |
| 231 | 00:46:29 --> 00:46:45 | But if you look at that word bearer sheet, in Hebrew, those letters tell you the entire Gospel and the last letter is literally shape and cross. And it's |
| 232 | 00:46:45 --> 00:46:58 | fascinating to me, how a Jew, if they look at that, and they study, how do they reconcile that? Like, how can they reconcile Genesis Chapter Five talking about, |
| 233 | 00:46:58 --> 00:47:07 | you know, man is appointed mortal sorrow, but the blessing God shall come down teaching his death shall bring to this bearing rest or comfort. That's Jesus |
| 234 | 00:47:07 --> 00:47:17 | Christ. There's no other person in history that ever claimed to be God, prove that He was God has historical evidence to prove that He was God that's outside |
| 235 | 00:47:17 --> 00:47:28 | of the Bible. Oh, you circular reasoning, you're going to talk about the Bible using that as the only justification wrong. miracles recorded in secular |
| 236 | 00:47:28 --> 00:47:39 | history. You don't know your history, you just take someone else's words. You're taking someone else's words, their opinion about it, because you don't want to |
| 237 | 00:47:39 --> 00:47:47 | look for it. You want to stay in sin, you want to disagree. just dismiss it because it's uncomfortable to understand that you are sinful and you're being |
| 238 | 00:47:47 --> 00:47:59 | held accountable for it. And when you die, then the judgments coming. If you have not made a concession with God, and said, hey, you know, this is what you |
| 239 | 00:47:59 --> 00:48:12 | said, I have to do. I believe it. I did the best of my ability. I believe that you have wrote my name in the book of life, and you will not blot it out. That |
| 240 | 00:48:12 --> 00:48:22 | way, when you leave this world, whether timely or untimely, you don't have to worry about anything. instant death, wonderful, instant glory. That's why I |
| 241 | 00:48:22 --> 00:48:33 | don't live in fear. I don't care. People threatened me all the time because of the they've lost money because of what I'm teaching. I put my stuff out when |
| 242 | 00:48:33 --> 00:48:41 | they were selling it, but only YouTube channel. Now they can't sell it. They're angry at me. And they threatened me through email. They leave things on my |
| 243 | 00:48:41 --> 00:48:53 | doorstep. They leave things in my mailbox, which is a federal offense because you didn't mail it. I have cameras out there. I see your car. I don't live in |
| 244 | 00:48:53 --> 00:49:02 | fear. If something ever happens to me, if some nut job out there does something to me where I'm no longer able to talk to you and I'll leave this world. I'm in |
| 245 | 00:49:02 --> 00:49:13 | paradise. The only thing you did is extradite me going to who I want to be with. I'm not afraid. When I was a younger man, I was terrified of death. Because I |
| 246 | 00:49:13 --> 00:49:24 | was afraid of what's it going to be like? Is death gonna hurt? How long is it gonna last? It's not eternity transitioning from this world to the next. But it |
| 247 | 00:49:24 --> 00:49:36 | was unreasonable fear and unreasonable fear I fit it. Because I didn't know the God that knows the end from the beginning. If you look at the book of |
| 248 | 00:49:36 --> 00:49:49 | Revelation, many pastors and churches and you know, group leaders, whatever, they try to avoid that book. And I have people that have been in my mentorship. |
| 249 | 00:49:49 --> 00:50:01 | I've had friends that have come in to my life in and out. I've talked with other people that go to church online when online forums Were a thing for me where I |
| 250 | 00:50:01 --> 00:50:10 | would go in and more or less discuss what I believe versus what other people do not in the purpose of debating. But you always find these people that want to |
| 251 | 00:50:10 --> 00:50:20 | come out there, and they want to tell you, this is the way it is. And I really want you to understand that I'm not trying to be so dogmatic that I believe that |
| 252 | 00:50:20 --> 00:50:31 | you should believe what I believe because I say I believe that. You have to determine in your heart, if the scripture say what it is that I'm saying, is |
| 253 | 00:50:31 --> 00:50:40 | biblical or not. If you don't feel that, if you don't want to be part of it, and that's obviously new, it goes without saying, but if you want to be closer to |
| 254 | 00:50:40 --> 00:50:52 | God, this ask, you know, ask him, open your understanding, open your eyes, and let him reveal Himself to you. An atheist will say, unless God appeared in front |
| 255 | 00:50:52 --> 00:50:59 | in front of me in my living room, I'm not going to believe him, because he lets all these bad things happen. So therefore, if he's God, he's all powerful. Why |
| 256 | 00:50:59 --> 00:51:13 | does he let the devil do all these things? Or why does He allow all the suffering to occur in the world? I had moments like that. After he showed me and |
| 257 | 00:51:13 --> 00:51:28 | spoke to me, my wife had a miscarriage. And truth be told, Lord, forgive me, you, you know, my heart. But I was angry at God. I was scared, and I was angry. |
| 258 | 00:51:32 --> 00:51:36 | I was driving on 95. And I couldn't get home fast enough. I couldn't do anything to stop it. |
| 259 | 00:51:41 --> 00:51:57 | But in a storm of rain and lightning, I was driving down 95 south, coming home from New Jersey, northbound town of New York. And I got a text. I said, I got |
| 260 | 00:51:57 --> 00:52:12 | really bad stomach, cramps and hurt. And I said, okay, just relax. I'll be home a little while. hour. So I'm in Jersey now. Because I just passed a really big |
| 261 | 00:52:12 --> 00:52:26 | blood clot in my stomach really hurts. I'm scared. And I knew what that was. And I just repeated what I said before, I said, I'm on my way, this rest. I started |
| 262 | 00:52:26 --> 00:52:36 | weeping and asking God not to do what he was allowing to happen. And ask him why he would do that. |
| 263 | 00:52:43 --> 00:52:55 | I begged him not to take the baby, but he did. And I don't know why. But I trust he knows why. |
| 264 | 00:53:02 --> 00:53:17 | So I know. It's easy for an atheist, or anyone else who had this faith, to look at people like me that have a faith in someone that has all power. All authority |
| 265 | 00:53:20 --> 00:53:21 | speak it in it's done. |
| 266 | 00:53:27 --> 00:53:45 | The Bible says God allow suffering so that way we will have a testimony. I still love him. I still trust him. And I know that I will meet that baby in heaven. I |
| 267 | 00:53:45 --> 00:53:49 | have seven children to her waiting for me in heaven |
| 268 | 00:54:01 --> 00:54:18 | God is Love Him when He allows us to have a child. He's sharing his child with us. And he's placed us in a position of custodial while on this earth that |
| 269 | 00:54:18 --> 00:54:30 | anytime he wants that child back in his presence, he can call them anytime he wants. And that was the perspective I didn't understand. But that's what I hold |
| 270 | 00:54:30 --> 00:54:44 | now. A gift from God through children is trying as they are sometimes raising them stressful as they are as adult children. You think once they grow up, |
| 271 | 00:54:45 --> 00:54:58 | you'll have less things to worry about you find out it's more troublesome. I thought this is gonna be easier. You make me worry about even more. But God is |
| 272 | 00:54:58 --> 00:55:12 | love and the only way you can identify him and recognize him and see his light is that he has to he has to allow darkness. He has to allow us to see the |
| 273 | 00:55:12 --> 00:55:27 | contrast the distinctions between evil and him. The devil is not his equal, the devil is not even remotely considered an adversary to him. He's our adversary. |
| 274 | 00:55:27 --> 00:55:38 | He's literally a created being that Jesus Christ created with limitations. And as a Bible study, I'll teach if you want to know about that, The Origin of Evil. |
| 275 | 00:55:44 --> 00:55:51 | He allows satan because he could have smashed him and put him in hell immediately right then and there in Genesis chapter three. But he said, No, |
| 276 | 00:55:51 --> 00:56:12 | because you've done this. Cursed are you. Above all other things, you are the least you're the lowest prior to that, prior to his falling, because he had |
| 277 | 00:56:12 --> 00:56:25 | fallen already. So there's people that believe that there's going to be a future war in heaven, and then Satan's cast out. Satan was already on the earth. See, |
| 278 | 00:56:25 --> 00:56:39 | in the beginning, God created the angels. They were the first sons of God. They were the witnesses of his creation of everything. Because the Bible says that |
| 279 | 00:56:39 --> 00:56:46 | they watched the creation. They, they they were there when he created it all that means he had to create them first. The Scripture doesn't say that. In |
| 280 | 00:56:46 --> 00:56:59 | Genesis, it says in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Where is he mentioning the Elohim, the sons of God, the angels. It's not necessary in |
| 281 | 00:56:59 --> 00:57:14 | that context there. It's going to be taught in other places in the Bible, as that revelation is unfolding throughout centuries and millennia. The revelation |
| 282 | 00:57:14 --> 00:57:26 | of all these things were, they were going to be jammed. That signal would be jammed. I knew Satan and his angels. That's why there were 66 books. Why didn't |
| 283 | 00:57:26 --> 00:57:35 | God just say one time, here's the instruction manual, it's done. It's one, it's one paragraph, this is do this. Why is there all these different people in the |
| 284 | 00:57:35 --> 00:57:44 | Bible, all these different stories, because you're going to be a Jonah, and you're going to run from what God wants you to do. And you're gonna keep running |
| 285 | 00:57:44 --> 00:58:02 | until he end you. And he makes you do what he wants you to do. That's him, showing you who he is. Jonah didn't want to go to a Gentile nation and preach to |
| 286 | 00:58:02 --> 00:58:12 | them say, hey, you know, this is what it is. You don't want to go to Nineveh. I mean, I don't want to go there. You shouldn't be trying to say them anyway. What |
| 287 | 00:58:12 --> 00:58:25 | you're trying to tell God who he's supposed to be, and he says back so he ran off in a different direction. He has to go three days journey to Nineveh that |
| 288 | 00:58:25 --> 00:58:34 | said, Okay, I mean, I asked you politely, but you want to do it the hard way. So he calls a great storm to happen. And mariners that are used to being out in the |
| 289 | 00:58:34 --> 00:58:48 | water when it's rough. They were scared. They said, This is not normal. This is a different kind of storm, somebody on his boat sin. John says me, you know, |
| 290 | 00:58:48 --> 00:59:02 | just pick me up, cast me over, because it's the Lord doing it. It's me. It's done all this and chuck them over. In a great fish wild. If you read the Psalms, |
| 291 | 00:59:03 --> 00:59:14 | it gives you the internal dialogue of what was going on in Jonah's mind, because Jonah died as a little kid when I was in at Baptist Church. We used to have |
| 292 | 00:59:14 --> 00:59:20 | these little coloring pages where it was show this little guy sit down with a campfire, he's roasting, I guess it was hot dogs or marshmallows or something. |
| 293 | 00:59:21 --> 00:59:31 | And he's sitting inside this belly of this big whale, the Bible and say, well, it says great fish, swallowed him up. In the Psalms, it talks about how seaweed |
| 294 | 00:59:31 --> 00:59:39 | was wrapped around his head. He went down to the depths of the ocean in the mountains of deep. That's interesting, because there's never been any submarines |
| 295 | 00:59:39 --> 00:59:53 | back then. How do you know that was down here? Interesting. But then Jonas spat out on the beaches of Nineveh, his skins bleached. He looks white like a ghost. |
| 296 | 00:59:54 --> 01:00:06 | And they believe that they were looking at Dagon the fish God That's it. 40 days, maybe it's over, God's gonna come here and judge everything unless you |
| 297 | 01:00:07 --> 01:00:20 | repent. And it King sets it set out of the tree, but ash on your head in every living thing, wrap yourself up in sackcloth, and pray and ask for forgiveness. |
| 298 | 01:00:22 --> 01:00:41 | And June was angry, angry. And it's just like today, when Christians get angry that God chooses to save someone else. They're jealous. Why does God allow that |
| 299 | 01:00:41 --> 01:00:49 | still, that person is still getting blessed in this world. And things that they're doing is ungodly, and they're still being blessed. That's not right. |
| 300 | 01:00:50 --> 01:01:01 | There's Christian Karen's and Kevin's in the world. And Jonah played that role. You're gonna have a moment where you're resisting God, and then when he does |
| 301 | 01:01:01 --> 01:01:11 | something, you're not going to want to agree with it. And pout about it. Like the book ends in June. It's only four chapters. Why does the book of Job exist? |
| 302 | 01:01:11 --> 01:01:20 | It's the oldest book in the Bible, actually. That really pulls back the veil and tells you what's going on. Because it teaches you what the devil can't do |
| 303 | 01:01:20 --> 01:01:36 | whatever he wants to do. Satan just can't throw up in there and say, Okay, I'm going to take everything. You have to do something. That means you sin, and that |
| 304 | 01:01:36 --> 01:01:51 | takes down God's head. If you walk with God, and you trust Him, God, it puts a hedge around you. His job, He's righteous, he's rich, beyond all measure. Got a |
| 305 | 01:01:51 --> 01:02:10 | big family, lots of livestock, which is wealth back then. And he said, wife and God says, Satan, where are you? Are you been? Oh, you know, Manana, walking to |
| 306 | 01:02:10 --> 01:02:20 | and fro in the world. And Peter says, Satan is a lion, walking to and fro on the earth, seeking whom he may devour that gives you the details. It was missing in |
| 307 | 01:02:20 --> 01:02:31 | joke. What was he doing in time a job he was looking around, seeking whom he may devour. Why? Because that's his role. That's his role. God allowed him to be |
| 308 | 01:02:31 --> 01:02:39 | that he's the destroying angel. That's the angel that went across during the Passover and killed the firstborn. He allows Satan to do those things, because |
| 309 | 01:02:39 --> 01:02:51 | God's not the person to do those things. Satan is an instrument that God makes allowance for. That way, there's a difference between light and darkness. |
| 310 | 01:02:52 --> 01:03:03 | Darkness cannot comprehend the light and it can't exist when the light shows up. There's no shadows. When Christ enters the situation. There's no darkness. All |
| 311 | 01:03:03 --> 01:03:22 | angles are covered. He illuminates everything. God allows the destroying angel, which is Lucifer, who he created with a limitation. He had a limitation. But |
| 312 | 01:03:22 --> 01:03:35 | that small little limitation, taking them away from the discussion from him and he was perfect otherwise. The Look at him. You would think wow, this is |
| 313 | 01:03:35 --> 01:03:44 | magnificent. Even the other angels were like, wow, look at you. Your voice can create every instrument. And when he would call all the angels together, they |
| 314 | 01:03:44 --> 01:04:01 | would all listen to him. He's the chief covering cherub. He was the one that was above all of them. He had access to the throne of God. They could never see God. |
| 315 | 01:04:02 --> 01:04:15 | They just saw the light where he inhabited. But when Lucifer called all the sons of God in the morning to worship God, they all listened to him. And the Bible |
| 316 | 01:04:15 --> 01:04:18 | says some of the angels told him |
| 317 | 01:04:23 --> 01:04:37 | You are wonderful. You're beautiful. When you call us we come Yeah, we know the Lord's there in that light. We know he's there. We can't see him. But when you |
| 318 | 01:04:37 --> 01:04:53 | call us we all listen to you. You should be like the Most High. You You should be like the Most High and what was Lucifers sin it wouldn't totally different |
| 319 | 01:04:53 --> 01:05:03 | outcome and the way the way things are in the world today. If Lucifer would have said you know what? That right There is unacceptable. What you just said is sin. |
| 320 | 01:05:05 --> 01:05:19 | He didn't do that. He didn't do that. He said, You know what, you're right. You're right. You're absolutely right. I like how this is making me feel puffed |
| 321 | 01:05:19 --> 01:05:36 | up. I will elevate my throne, like the most Hi, I will do this, and I will do that. And God said, a really Michael pitchy man. He said, The Lord rebuked you. |
| 322 | 01:05:37 --> 01:05:42 | And then Jesus said, Behold, I saw Satan, fall like lightning |
| 323 | 01:05:49 --> 01:06:05 | he fell to the earth. Before me and Cain was formed. He thought that this word was his. He claimed it as his. And God showed up and said, I'm not done |
| 324 | 01:06:05 --> 01:06:23 | punishing you. I have sons, all these angels, your brother, your brethren, the other angels. The ministering spirits of fire. But I'm going to come down to |
| 325 | 01:06:23 --> 01:06:35 | this planet that created that you fell to and I want you to see where you really are in my eyes. It he went down to the lowest thing they could have reached for |
| 326 | 01:06:35 --> 01:06:50 | without speaking into an existence. And God knelt down, fashioned a shape of a man out of the dirt. Now think about what he's doing now. This being Lucifer, |
| 327 | 01:06:51 --> 01:07:06 | he's just been cast out. He's not been made ugly. Nothing says he's ugly. Still, to this day, he can transform himself into a being of light. If a being a light |
| 328 | 01:07:06 --> 01:07:19 | showed up in front of you and said, He's God, you're gonna believe that that's God. You're gonna bow down to it. Yeah, be careful with that. But God bent down |
| 329 | 01:07:19 --> 01:07:32 | into the dirt, the dirt, in fashion until the shape of a man and in breathed into its nostrils. And that dirt became a man, a living being with a soul |
| 330 | 01:07:32 --> 01:07:44 | spirit, and a physical manifestation that was created from dirt. And he said right in front of Lucifer, this is yours. I give you dominion over this and |
| 331 | 01:07:44 --> 01:08:00 | every animal you name. That's what it's going to be called. What do you think Lucifer was feeling at that moment? Rage, jealousy. But could He touch Adam? No, |
| 332 | 01:08:00 --> 01:08:18 | couldn't do it. I could not do it. Why? Because he walked with God and the cool breeze every day. So he sat there afar off. Cleaning, if I get an opportunity, |
| 333 | 01:08:19 --> 01:08:31 | if I get an opportunity, oh, I'm going to pounce on this one. I gotta take this back. This was my dominion. This is my world. And God saw it. It's not good for |
| 334 | 01:08:31 --> 01:08:46 | Adam to be alone. So he calls out on the go into a deep sleep. That's what that is folks. Amnesia, on anesthesia. You're like amnesia. Anesthesia before was |
| 335 | 01:08:46 --> 01:08:57 | actually created. Because Adam did go into a deep sleep and he performed surgery. And he took a rib out of the side. And out of that rib, he made woman |
| 336 | 01:08:59 --> 01:09:10 | close up the wound. And DNA cloning basically, before it was a thing. God, you're not creating anything. You globalist elitist people that think that |
| 337 | 01:09:10 --> 01:09:23 | you're doing something godly. You have to start from nothing like God did. Manipulating cells and things like that. That's not creating anything. God's |
| 338 | 01:09:23 --> 01:09:32 | created everything. He is the Creator. There's nothing new under the sun. Nothing new is going to be created. He created every bit of dirt that's ever |
| 339 | 01:09:32 --> 01:09:41 | going to be you cannot do what he's done. His ways are above your ways. His thoughts are above your thoughts. You can't be like God |
| 340 | 01:09:46 --> 01:10:07 | but here's God taking part of the first man. Does he take a bone out of his foot? Taking lord over the one And now he takes a rib, the closest bone to his |
| 341 | 01:10:07 --> 01:10:17 | heart under the protection of his loving arm and that's why woman has one extra rib |
| 342 | 01:10:22 --> 01:10:36 | so here's Lucifer sitting out here. Oh Louis stewing What is this? Like when's this going to stop? I was already kicked out of the house. Now I'm down here I |
| 343 | 01:10:36 --> 01:10:45 | thought I had own fasters pad when doing whatever I want to do, then you let this guy come moving in. Then you'd give him something I don't even have none of |
| 344 | 01:10:45 --> 01:10:57 | the other angels had another woman. There's no female angels, folks. That doesn't exist there's never been and never will be a female Angel wasn't ready |
| 345 | 01:10:57 --> 01:11:12 | for that was Yeah. Well, you're sexist ICT now that's just that's what it is. There's no necessity for a woman. II was the first of her kind. The first female |
| 346 | 01:11:13 --> 01:11:31 | the mother of all living. She was beautiful. Can you imagine? Can you imagine the very first woman that God created? How amazing how amazing. Was the case my |
| 347 | 01:11:31 --> 01:11:41 | wife listens pride looks just like my wife. I can protect myself right? I can throw out when I get out of here. Anything on top that somebody else on TV |
| 348 | 01:11:41 --> 01:11:57 | right? All right, get serious ICT Come on. Lucifers looking at this. And they're walking around, you know, they're not wearing Gucci. You know, they're not |
| 349 | 01:11:57 --> 01:12:12 | walking around and new drips, new threads and stuff. They're naked. There's no need to hide anything. And they're walking around innocent because their |
| 350 | 01:12:12 --> 01:12:21 | creation is exactly what God created for him. That's their purpose. That's, that's this is exactly it's pleasing to God. And they were comfortable in that |
| 351 | 01:12:21 --> 01:12:39 | state. But the books of poetry imply that they were closed in light. If you look at the book of Isaiah and Ezekiel, write this down, take a look at this and |
| 352 | 01:12:39 --> 01:12:46 | study this on your own. If you want a deeper study on this, how we will do it next weekend if you want to talk about it. But Isaiah chapter 14 And Ezekiel |
| 353 | 01:12:46 --> 01:12:56 | chapter 28, real easy to remember those two, because 14 of Isaiah times that by two, you get 20. Ezekiel, both of those chapters talk about Lucifer and the fall |
| 354 | 01:12:56 --> 01:13:09 | of Lucifer. And his being how he was made, where he was, and he was in the garden. He was the the anointed chair of that color. When you understand that, |
| 355 | 01:13:10 --> 01:13:24 | and you read the Bible, in the Old Testament, Hosea talks about how God spoke in similitudes. Through the prophets similitudes are like metaphors and shadows of |
| 356 | 01:13:24 --> 01:13:37 | things that are teacher to come, or a way of hiding something. Okay, and the Bible says, its glory, God that conceal matter. And it's an honor kings to seek |
| 357 | 01:13:37 --> 01:13:48 | out that. So there are things that are written in the Old Testament that were supposed to be hidden, not from you, not from you, but from Satan and his |
| 358 | 01:13:48 --> 01:13:58 | angels, because the Bible says, if the princes of this world would have knew what was going on, when Christ was crucified, they never would have been |
| 359 | 01:13:58 --> 01:14:09 | allowing him to be put on that cross. princes of this world when he talks about the kings and presidents know. The Fallen Angels and the evil spirits, their |
| 360 | 01:14:09 --> 01:14:21 | offspring came from by having sex with women in Genesis chapter six. Would you just say no ICT that's wrong. It's the sons of Seth the lines of set wrong |
| 361 | 01:14:21 --> 01:14:32 | because the lines of Seth no matter where you want to slice it, okay, the sons of Seth, having sex are not going to create giants. There was something |
| 362 | 01:14:32 --> 01:14:49 | abominable about the idea of angels laying down with women. That's what Lucifer did. He is the tree in the garden. That is the tree of the knowledge of good and |
| 363 | 01:14:49 --> 01:15:08 | evil. And the tree of life was a theophany. It's a metaphor It's a way of saying it's Jesus, basically. There's two trees in the garden that's specifically |
| 364 | 01:15:08 --> 01:15:21 | named. It's a similitudes, to understand that this war between the enmity of those two seeds, the seed of the woman in a sea of the serpent how they Lucifer |
| 365 | 01:15:21 --> 01:15:34 | have the knowledge of good and evil, because in the beginning, he was good. He was the anointed cherub, above all of them. But he discovered what sin was when |
| 366 | 01:15:34 --> 01:15:51 | he committed it. Now he knows he has the knowledge of good and evil. Nobody else had it. Just him. But he didn't get cursed with ugliness. He still had his |
| 367 | 01:15:51 --> 01:16:06 | power. He still had his influence. He has his abilities as an angel, but he uses them in a manner that beguile Eve, the word beguile you gotta look it up because |
| 368 | 01:16:06 --> 01:16:18 | Paul uses it also in the New Testament. He was referring to Eve where he said Satan beguiled Eve beguiled means solely, utterly to the fullest extreme, |
| 369 | 01:16:18 --> 01:16:30 | seduced, sexually. You're not going to hear that in your Sunday Bible school. You're not going to hear a preacher get up on the pulpit and preach that because |
| 370 | 01:16:30 --> 01:16:37 | it's going to be like, what? That's offensive. But guess what, folks? You really want to know what the Bible says. That's what it says. That's exactly what it |
| 371 | 01:16:37 --> 01:16:53 | says. So when he laid with Eve? And then Adam, folks, this is be not to be crude. Okay. We're all adults here, hopefully. But a man if he lays down with |
| 372 | 01:16:53 --> 01:17:08 | his woman, his wife, and he hadn't been with her. He can tell another man has been down there. And we don't need to be crude about it. But because Adam still |
| 373 | 01:17:08 --> 01:17:23 | loved her. He laid with her. He didn't want to judge her. He didn't want to say anything to her. He knew that was his sin. What is the sin ICT? What does that |
| 374 | 01:17:23 --> 01:17:36 | mean? How does he sin? Because when Eve laid with someone else, that makes her an adulterous, and the Bible says, an adulterous or an adultery that lays down |
| 375 | 01:17:36 --> 01:17:50 | with someone else, whether they're innocent or not, makes them equal as an adult or their sinful. Adam didn't really technically do anything sinful. He just laid |
| 376 | 01:17:50 --> 01:18:05 | with his wife who was an adulterous, that's Eve, she was seduced by all the influences by Satan, then Lucifer. Think about it. All the other angels were |
| 377 | 01:18:05 --> 01:18:17 | enamored by him as well. And they're supernatural beings. When you read Isaiah, chapter 14, and zekiel, Chapter 28, those terms are really reaching to describe |
| 378 | 01:18:18 --> 01:18:34 | the utter magnificence that Lucifer was. He had all manner of beauty. He was clothed in light. His voice was amazing. He had influence and power authority |
| 379 | 01:18:34 --> 01:18:47 | over all the other angels. And who was a woman to stand up against that a man to stand up against that? A married couple to stand up against that. And you wonder |
| 380 | 01:18:47 --> 01:18:56 | why people fall into adulterous affairs. He's behind it, folks. He's behind. That's why he had to stay prayed up. That's why you have to love and honor the |
| 381 | 01:18:56 --> 01:19:04 | person you're with. Always. And always have a relationship with God. Because when that hedge comes down, he's going to show up and what you're going to do |
| 382 | 01:19:04 --> 01:19:14 | the same thing you did in the beginning. We are not ignorant of his devices. We know the Scriptures say we know what he's gonna do. He does the same thing all |
| 383 | 01:19:14 --> 01:19:28 | the time. But he's clever. He comes in a different angle. always steal, kill, destroy. He's smooth he comes in, you don't see a common. So when you gentlemen |
| 384 | 01:19:28 --> 01:19:38 | talk down to your woman, make her feel less than she should. And you leave her in that state leaving the house or she leaves the house like that. You've taken |
| 385 | 01:19:38 --> 01:19:52 | down the hedge. And you don't know. Like Hebrew says. Be careful when you deal with strangers because you're many times entertaining angels unaware. And guess |
| 386 | 01:19:52 --> 01:20:08 | what that means, folks? It might not be God's angel. And she, in a state of depression, feeling less than she should be feeling unloved, uncared for |
| 387 | 01:20:08 --> 01:20:19 | unappreciated. She runs into some eye and tells her everything she wants to hear, and beguiles her, your marriage will follow the same way. |
| 388 | 01:20:22 --> 01:20:40 | So you have to be guarding yourself guarding your, your, your marriage. Women the same thing the Scripture saying, Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands. |
| 389 | 01:20:42 --> 01:21:00 | But the next verse says, And Husbands, love your wife, like Christ loved the church. He's one die for it. Just like Adam, he knew. God said, these are the |
| 390 | 01:21:00 --> 01:21:09 | way the things are. We didn't need to hear all that dialogue. God is God. These are the roles. This is what it is. What do you think they were talking about |
| 391 | 01:21:09 --> 01:21:18 | everyday walking in the cold breeze, how everything smelled good. And it was pleasant out that day. He was telling him, this is how you're going to exist. |
| 392 | 01:21:18 --> 01:21:29 | This is what you're supposed to do this is and he was he talking to the husband. He's the leader of the household. He's the head of the household. Above him is |
| 393 | 01:21:29 --> 01:21:38 | the Lord. He has to subject themselves to the Lord. Women, you subject yourself to Azzaman. And don't worry about it. submission and being some submitting |
| 394 | 01:21:38 --> 01:21:45 | yourself to your husband doesn't mean he gets to be abusive to you talk down to you like you're less than. But when he says this is the way it's supposed to be |
| 395 | 01:21:45 --> 01:21:57 | all the authority and the consequences fall on his hands. You shouldn't have a problem with that. That's what it means to be submissive, not whatever he says, |
| 396 | 01:21:57 --> 01:22:07 | I'm going to do it and I can No, because they he has a role, he has to live up to the expectation that the Lord placed on him to not be abusive. Not to be |
| 397 | 01:22:07 --> 01:22:16 | lording over you for the sake of lording over you and controlling every aspect of your life. But you should be living a modest life, both of you together. And |
| 398 | 01:22:16 --> 01:22:31 | when one of you sin, the hedge comes down, and you're both susceptible to the enemy's attacks. So let's roll back. So here's Louis, he's jealous. He gets a |
| 399 | 01:22:31 --> 01:22:52 | chance while God is walking with Adam, and the cool the breeze rolls up on he says, Hey, which donor was hanging. He waited for an opportunity where Adam was |
| 400 | 01:22:52 --> 01:23:03 | not there. Now, God obviously knew what was going on. But he is a God that allows free will Eve could have said, Get away from me. And listen to the |
| 401 | 01:23:03 --> 01:23:11 | instructions that was given to Adam and Adam clearly must have been telling Eve, this is the way God said to do it. This is we're supposed to do nothing. We're |
| 402 | 01:23:11 --> 01:23:24 | not to eat up any tree. That's called the knowledge of good and evil. Any other tree, we can freely eat of it. But we cannot partake of anything from this tree. |
| 403 | 01:23:24 --> 01:23:36 | It's called the not the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. And who starts rolling up on her? That very tree. Michael, this is this is reaching really when |
| 404 | 01:23:36 --> 01:23:45 | Jesus was healing the blind man. Okay, first of all, the principle is first spiritual than the natural if you turn it upside down, because everything that |
| 405 | 01:23:45 --> 01:23:53 | we see is the Scripture. We see. We see things naturally first, and then apply it spiritually. But God looks at it differently. You have to understand things |
| 406 | 01:23:53 --> 01:24:00 | spiritually. But it uses things that the natural world to explain it in the beginning because you won't understand otherwise. Just like when Nicodemus came |
| 407 | 01:24:00 --> 01:24:10 | to him in the night, hiding sneaking, hey, look, Master, tell me what it is I'm supposed to do here. You're gonna be born again. What? Because, look, how can we |
| 408 | 01:24:10 --> 01:24:20 | go back into our mother's womb again? Because not a good lesson. Don't think of it like that. You must be born of water and spirit. So he peeled back the veil. |
| 409 | 01:24:20 --> 01:24:26 | He first gave it to him from a natural perspective. You gotta be born again. Okay, what does that mean? spiritually? You have to go through this process of |
| 410 | 01:24:26 --> 01:24:44 | being born of water baptism and receive the Holy Spirit. That's a new birth experience that's later expounded on and then is instructed to the apostles. |
| 411 | 01:24:44 --> 01:24:51 | When Christ's resurrection took place. He gave them instructions in Matthew 2019 Go therefore to all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, the |
| 412 | 01:24:51 --> 01:24:58 | Holy Spirit. What does that mean Jesus. So if you've been baptized and this I baptize you now in the name of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit, you were not |
| 413 | 01:24:58 --> 01:25:07 | that tight, you got wet you People talk about it. That's all that was. There's no authority in the titles. There's no if you sign a check to me or anyone else |
| 414 | 01:25:07 --> 01:25:19 | are you going to write the father if your son's name the husband of your wife's name, mentee of ICT, there's no authority in that. There's no authority in that. |
| 415 | 01:25:19 --> 01:25:33 | The name actually for 12 tells you there is no other name. That's it. There's one faith, one Lord, one baptism. That's the way it's supposed to be. And you |
| 416 | 01:25:33 --> 01:25:34 | can't pick and choose. |
| 417 | 01:25:41 --> 01:26:02 | Louis rolls up and says to you, are you free right now? Well, we're not really supposed to talk to you. Did God really say that? Surely, surely, God didn't |
| 418 | 01:26:02 --> 01:26:12 | really say that. Did he really say that? Knowing that God told Adam, and then Adam, being the head of the household told Eve the way the house is gonna be |
| 419 | 01:26:12 --> 01:26:26 | ran. So he doesn't really know. If God really said it exactly like that. She has to have full faith. She has to trust that her husband told her exactly what God |
| 420 | 01:26:26 --> 01:26:45 | told him. Do you trust your husband? Adam trusted his wife that day. But God allowed this for good. He's going to show you how much he's willing to suffer |
| 421 | 01:26:45 --> 01:26:59 | for us. See, we all like to say God is so not like I want him to be it's put it that way. Because he allows suffering, he allows death. He allows disease. He |
| 422 | 01:26:59 --> 01:27:09 | allows children to be abused and people to be abused and murdered and abducted and put into slavery. And all these things bad happening. Not knowing that he |
| 423 | 01:27:09 --> 01:27:30 | himself who is God allowed himself to be made sin. The thing he hates the thing he detests. He became that for us. And you want to talk about how it's hard for |
| 424 | 01:27:30 --> 01:27:40 | you because something bad happened to you. Someone did something to you here in this world. Everybody has that, folks. Everybody has that. But imagine a perfect |
| 425 | 01:27:40 --> 01:27:53 | deity. The only God the God Himself coming down in the flesh, to be mocked, ridiculed, beaten, stripped down, made to walk in front of everyone naked. Every |
| 426 | 01:27:53 --> 01:28:04 | time you see the Jesus of Nazareth. Every time you see the Passion of the Christ, that's still nothing nowhere near what he went through. At any time, he |
| 427 | 01:28:04 --> 01:28:19 | said, he could have said, Hey, this isn't it ain't worth it. None of you are worth this. I flooded everything millennia ago for less than this. But he wanted |
| 428 | 01:28:19 --> 01:28:33 | to show you what he was willing to go through to show you his love. Would you be willing to do that? Would you be willing to go through everything that he went |
| 429 | 01:28:33 --> 01:28:49 | through, to be mocked, belittled, spat upon, beaten, laughed that stripped, shamed. be beaten to a point where you no longer look like a human being in the |
| 430 | 01:28:49 --> 01:29:00 | fact that he had God's spirit in him is the only reason why he was still alive because anybody else would have been dead long time ago. Isaiah says his |
| 431 | 01:29:00 --> 01:29:05 | business was so large, he no longer look like a human being. You can't even comprehend that. |
| 432 | 01:29:15 --> 01:29:27 | God allowed it, because he had a plan, that he was going to still allow everyone to have a choice. And he wants to show how much his enduring love is. He would |
| 433 | 01:29:27 --> 01:29:39 | be willing to put himself through that. He wants you to choose to love him. And somebody might say, I can't love somebody who would do that. If God was real, I |
| 434 | 01:29:39 --> 01:29:47 | couldn't find a way to love someone like that. Okay, that's your choice. He's given you a choice. Just like he gave the angels a choice. You didn't create |
| 435 | 01:29:47 --> 01:30:03 | them like a robot either. They had the capacity to choose not to worship and and listen to him, and they sinned. 1/3 of the angels fell. With Lucifer Where were |
| 436 | 01:30:03 --> 01:30:18 | they at? on earth. And God came down here and said, Watch this creates man greets Eve. And you know that Lucifer was sitting around watching when they |
| 437 | 01:30:18 --> 01:30:30 | would come together. When a man and a woman come together, husband and wife come together and join is one. I'm sure, looking at it, because most of you men out |
| 438 | 01:30:30 --> 01:30:39 | there probably are addicted to pornography. You get paid, you get pleasure watching that. And you can probably feel aroused by it, and it'll make you do |
| 439 | 01:30:39 --> 01:30:50 | something. What do you think Lucifer was feeling watching that he's never seen that before. And they loved each other, they enjoy each other's embrace. And as |
| 440 | 01:30:50 --> 01:30:59 | they climax together, he's thinking myself, well, you know, oh, himself is not me. So he's thinking to himself, you know, why don't I have that? And more |
| 441 | 01:30:59 --> 01:31:14 | jealousy. So he uses his influence. When he gets Eve, apart from God and Adam, he beguiles her The Bible says, solely and utterly seduces her sexually, and he |
| 442 | 01:31:14 --> 01:31:30 | lays with her. Now, in medical terms, there's something called superfood, fertilization, it's where two men can lay with one woman. And they both can get |
| 443 | 01:31:30 --> 01:31:42 | her pregnant if there's two eggs. It's real it happened is there's case studies of it. Usually, it's when men go away to military to go away, and they obviously |
| 444 | 01:31:42 --> 01:31:52 | lay down with their significant others, whether it be girlfriend or spouse, and then the woman has an extramarital affair, or a relationship issue that's |
| 445 | 01:31:52 --> 01:32:03 | outside of their relationship. And that has happened where she gives birth to one man's child and another man's child. That's not That's not a made up thing |
| 446 | 01:32:03 --> 01:32:18 | here. It's a legitimate thing. That's why Cain is not in the genealogy of just chapter five of Genesis, because he was not Adam son. The Bible itself says that |
| 447 | 01:32:18 --> 01:32:28 | Cain was up his father the devil, but you're going to ignore it because it doesn't sound good. It's offensive. You're twisting scripture ICT, you're not |
| 448 | 01:32:28 --> 01:32:36 | actually talking about your profane man, you cuss too much. The devil is inside you, you're possessed. You're gonna have all kinds of stuff, right? You don't |
| 449 | 01:32:36 --> 01:32:47 | know your scripture. Have you read the Book of Enoch? What were those angels doing? Where do you get the idea from? They watched Louis do it |
| 450 | 01:32:53 --> 01:33:02 | Sure, he got a stern talking to God said because you did this you're you're cursed above all beasts of the field, your your, your low of the Earth, your |
| 451 | 01:33:02 --> 01:33:12 | this your net? Okay, sure. You scolded him really bad. The other angel saw that? Was it enough to say we're not going to? We're not going to do what he did. No, |
| 452 | 01:33:12 --> 01:33:27 | they went out and did the same thing. And there was giants in the land. That's why the flood came. Because those angels were not just doing it with daughters |
| 453 | 01:33:27 --> 01:33:38 | of men. The whole idea of beasts, the reality came from them too. So God said, I gotta scrub everything |
| 454 | 01:33:43 --> 01:33:57 | to two of every creature seven of the clean animal because the clean animal had to be sacrificed while on the ark. Once they were unclean, just male and female. |
| 455 | 01:33:57 --> 01:34:06 | They were on there. They were put in hibernation. Why do bears go into hibernation to teach you that that's exactly what was going on, on the ark. How |
| 456 | 01:34:06 --> 01:34:17 | can a bear survive all that time without eating? Right. Even nature itself proves and teaches there is a God. A fool says in his heart there is no God. |
| 457 | 01:34:27 --> 01:34:44 | Everything that happened in the Garden of Eden, is much more sinister and offensive. When you understand really what took place and because Eve is what a |
| 458 | 01:34:44 --> 01:35:01 | sinner now she's an adulterous. Every child born after her, and from her is a sinner. You're born and shapen in iniquity. I How's that possible? Go back to |
| 459 | 01:35:02 --> 01:35:11 | fair sheet. Make sense now, doesn't it? When you go to church and you hear these people talking about, you know, Adam and Eve, you're in the garden, God said, |
| 460 | 01:35:11 --> 01:35:19 | Don't eat that apple. And Eve takes the apple bites it and gives it to Adam and says, Oh, this is some good stuff, make me a pie. That's not how it worked. |
| 461 | 01:35:19 --> 01:35:30 | That's not what took place. That's not what took place. But people trying to teach the Word of God, I'm sure long ago, and they want to run it as a business |
| 462 | 01:35:30 --> 01:35:41 | and make money and get people to give 10% on their money, which the Bible doesn't teach that. Satan's in the churches today. And people go into these |
| 463 | 01:35:41 --> 01:35:47 | institutions thinking that they're going to have a commitment to God, and he's going to touch their lives, and they're going to walk differently and all their |
| 464 | 01:35:47 --> 01:35:53 | problems gonna be sorted out, and they are being fleeced, and they're being lied to, and they're not even being taught what the Bible says. And their lives are |
| 465 | 01:35:53 --> 01:36:01 | not transformed. They're not empowered. They don't have a relationship with God because they don't know how to. They're not saved because they're told, just ask |
| 466 | 01:36:01 --> 01:36:14 | God to come into your heart. The Bible doesn't say that. Your your heart is wicked. We have to be given a new heart. Our hearts are profane or vile. |
| 467 | 01:36:20 --> 01:36:29 | When God told Moses, take your hand and place it into your robe, place it over your heart, and say, take it out. What do you see? His hand was leprous. And |
| 468 | 01:36:29 --> 01:36:46 | then he healed him. Was he teaching your wicked? I can't indwell you. You have to die. You're your old man, you as the center that has to die. I cannot live in |
| 469 | 01:36:46 --> 01:37:00 | you like that. That's where the whole idea of new wine cannot be placed in an old wineskin first. Oh, now it's starting to make a little bit more sense now. |
| 470 | 01:37:02 --> 01:37:18 | Welcome to church. So we understand that the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed in the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed. Everything in the |
| 471 | 01:37:18 --> 01:37:30 | Old Testament is a hidden similitude it's a metaphor of something that Christ is going to do, either himself or in his ministry. Or something prophetic that has |
| 472 | 01:37:30 --> 01:37:41 | something to do with the church. What does that mean? Give me an example ICT what does that mean? Exodus chapter seven. Okay, so chapter seven. Moses, God |
| 473 | 01:37:41 --> 01:37:50 | tells Moses, you know, stand before Pharaoh with Aaron, because Moses is he's a stuttering man. And Aaron's going to speak for you. So here's what's gonna |
| 474 | 01:37:50 --> 01:38:06 | happen. I want you to take your rod, the Aaron's rod and throw it down on the ground and it becomes a snake it fair it says okay, okay, okay. Go get Janice |
| 475 | 01:38:06 --> 01:38:16 | and Jan breeze Who's that? Who are these guys? You know like they're your best friends ICT Come on. How do you know my name is Bob says who the art Genesis |
| 476 | 01:38:16 --> 01:38:30 | January's are the two magicians that show up on the scene. And they take their rod and they throw it down and guess what happens? They turn into snakes to two |
| 477 | 01:38:30 --> 01:38:43 | against one baby. Two against one. Aaron's rod now become a snake and it's outnumbered in the presence of Pharaoh. But what happens in Genesis? I'm sorry, |
| 478 | 01:38:43 --> 01:38:56 | in Exodus chapter seven. It says Aaron's rod swallows up their rods. Now, what does that mean? What does that have similitude of Oh death Where's die steam or |
| 479 | 01:38:56 --> 01:39:12 | agree with? Where's that victory? Those two snakes are death in the grave. Or she'll or Hades, hell, death and hell? Who swallowed up that? Jesus? What are |
| 480 | 01:39:12 --> 01:39:23 | you talking about ICT? You're just said that Aaron's rod which is a stick? He was told to throw it down on the ground. And when it did it turned into a snake. |
| 481 | 01:39:24 --> 01:39:37 | How's that God? How's that Jesus? The Bible says Jesus was made sin for us. What's the what's the symbol of sin? The serpent? Well, how do you draw that to |
| 482 | 01:39:38 --> 01:39:49 | Jesus? In Numbers? I believe 21 But don't quote me on that. I don't have it in front of me. But I think it's Numbers chapter 21 God said he's a sick and tired |
| 483 | 01:39:49 --> 01:40:02 | of them complaining. The Israelites are they're complaining constantly to Moses like man, come on. This is hard. You know, at least if we were back in Egypt, |
| 484 | 01:40:02 --> 01:40:13 | you know, we had things to eat. We could do things there, okay, and not suffer out here. It was, it would be better for us to be back in bondage basically, |
| 485 | 01:40:13 --> 01:40:23 | it's better for us to live in sin. You let us out here. Where's the promised land? If you promising us? Where's this? Where's this better living versus |
| 486 | 01:40:23 --> 01:40:37 | better life through living with God? And they complain. And they complain, and they complain, and what does God do? Since fiery what? serpents and they bite |
| 487 | 01:40:38 --> 01:40:54 | every single one of them. I'm sure I hurt. And God told Moses, he said every single one on that a bit, they're gonna die. The remedy? The remedy is this. |
| 488 | 01:40:56 --> 01:41:07 | Take a piece of brass. Beat it into the shape of a serpent hanging on a pole on the hill. And everyone that turns their attention up to that and looks upon it |
| 489 | 01:41:07 --> 01:41:17 | will be healed. Guess what that is folks. That's Jesus being made sin on the cross. Look to the cross, the redemptive work of Christ on that cross, that |
| 490 | 01:41:17 --> 01:41:28 | redeeming work of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the death, burial resurrection, and you shall be healed. Isaiah chapter 53. Right there, hidden in the Old |
| 491 | 01:41:28 --> 01:41:40 | Testament. That's what that whole scene was, in Exodus chapter seven, where Aaron's rod gets cast down. Where is that? What does that mean? The rod of God. |
| 492 | 01:41:42 --> 01:41:57 | The scepter. Think think, folks, all those scriptures tie together comes down. When it gets to Earth. It does the work of what being made sin to do what what |
| 493 | 01:41:57 --> 01:42:16 | was the purpose of Jesus being made sin for us? To swallow up, Death, and Hell. That's Genesis January's. They don't produce miracles that were helpful. They |
| 494 | 01:42:16 --> 01:42:34 | were witches. They were Magus they were things that were evil. And once like I said earlier, Lucifer did not lose his power. He's lost his authority over us as |
| 495 | 01:42:34 --> 01:42:52 | believers. But outside of Christ he has every access to you. You want to walk through this world is evil is becoming look around folks. Look around. We have |
| 496 | 01:42:52 --> 01:43:03 | never been in the state of existence like we are right now. We have so much information at our disposal at our fingertips. The thing you're listening to me |
| 497 | 01:43:03 --> 01:43:17 | right now, that little, little phone, it has more power in it then President Reagan had at his disposal. It's it's amazing how much we have at our fingertips |
| 498 | 01:43:17 --> 01:43:27 | in terms of reaching for knowledge, technology, all these things that are available to us right now. And Daniel said in the last days, your information |
| 499 | 01:43:27 --> 01:43:41 | will explode, knowledge will explode. We're seeing and it says that people will be going to and fro that means automobiles, airplanes, all those things we can |
| 500 | 01:43:41 --> 01:43:56 | travel just like that all over the world. And God knows the end from the beginning. Give me example, how can I? How can I see how God called the end from |
| 501 | 01:43:56 --> 01:44:06 | the beginning. But you know, our Bible is divided into obviously books, the Old Testament, New Testament, and then individual books, those 66 books, we call it |
| 502 | 01:44:06 --> 01:44:14 | either the Old or New Testament, and Old Testament before Christ burial resurrection, and in the new covenant that came by His death, burial |
| 503 | 01:44:14 --> 01:44:24 | resurrection is the New Testament. Bibles are, are not Bibles, but the books of the Bible are broken up into chapters and they have verse numbers. And while |
| 504 | 01:44:24 --> 01:44:31 | that's not technically, you know, biblical, in a sense, it's a way for us to study things and be able to find things and locate things and I don't think |
| 505 | 01:44:31 --> 01:44:49 | there's a problem with that. And if you go to Daniel, chapter seven and you go to verse four, and you read that, it's talking about these four beasts that's |
| 506 | 01:44:49 --> 01:45:03 | going to come up in this in the world, okay. And I want you to think about the, the symbols that are being used there. Now, this is millennia ago. Here's here's |
| 507 | 01:45:03 --> 01:45:15 | Daniel, he gets a vision from God. And it says that this first beast is just like a bear. He's got three ribs in his mouth, and he rises up on one side. And |
| 508 | 01:45:16 --> 01:45:28 | I'm going to ask you to think about what animal is typified as a bear in the world today, what comes to mind? The Russian bear, right? Well, there's three |
| 509 | 01:45:28 --> 01:45:36 | provinces that they're still having an issue with and a rise, it rises up on one side, because all the wars it's ever fought on is on one side of its country. |
| 510 | 01:45:38 --> 01:45:52 | Don't worry, it gets better. And then it says all of this isn't being said in verse four, but verse four, it talks about how there is a lion. And out of its |
| 511 | 01:45:52 --> 01:46:10 | back, grows eagle's wings. And the eagle's wings are plucked off. And it stood up above the rest of the world in a man's heart was given unto it. That's |
| 512 | 01:46:10 --> 01:46:21 | interesting. What country uses the lion as their symbol? It's on their coat of arms. Everything has anything to do with England. |
| 513 | 01:46:22 --> 01:46:42 | Is the lion. A funny thing happened in 1776. The United States declared their independence from that nation. What symbol does the American country use? The |
| 514 | 01:46:42 --> 01:47:01 | eagle? What was the date in 1776? That took place? Fourth of July right 747 Chapter, verse four. You see God giving Daniel the vision of the Declaration of |
| 515 | 01:47:01 --> 01:47:13 | Independence and the birth of the United States, right there out of the very country that we were in declared independence from England. Pretty awesome, |
| 516 | 01:47:13 --> 01:47:24 | isn't it? The next piece is a leopard. That's Germany. Everything has nothing to do it. Like look at the Panthera tank. Okay. It had two wings of fowl. Well, in |
| 517 | 01:47:24 --> 01:47:35 | a in a world war, research, what two nations gave them air support. That's why there's two sets of wings of a foul. But then there's something happening in |
| 518 | 01:47:35 --> 01:47:48 | that fourth beast. That fourth beast is unlike any other nation. It says it's an unlike all the previous beasts. So its meaning the beast is a country. It's a |
| 519 | 01:47:48 --> 01:48:03 | nation. This fourth one that rises up is dreadful and terrible. And it's unlike anything before it. It tramples down and beats into the EU into the residue that |
| 520 | 01:48:03 --> 01:48:15 | neither the other countries or oh no longer even recognize anymore, because this one is risen up. That's what we're watching happen right now. That's what we're |
| 521 | 01:48:15 --> 01:48:23 | watching right now. That's these BRICS nations. I've had people in my mentorship. I've had friends I've had people at the head Bible study. What do |
| 522 | 01:48:23 --> 01:48:31 | you call it collections where people have wrote about in commentary, what they think that talks about, in some of these commentaries were written before Israel |
| 523 | 01:48:31 --> 01:48:39 | became a nation. How could you possibly, how could you possibly know what that vision is? Before Israel became an ancient because Christ said when you see |
| 524 | 01:48:39 --> 01:48:50 | Israel become a nation again, and I have not forgot something about the Genesis chapter five. I'm about to tell you about that. But you can't have the vision. |
| 525 | 01:48:51 --> 01:48:58 | The understanding that because even Daniel said, What is all this you had me write down? Like, what does all this mean? He says, it's not for you to know |
| 526 | 01:48:58 --> 01:49:11 | Daniel. Shut up the book. It's for the last generation, they will know and understand. It's not for you to know Daniel, it's none of your business. Daniel, |
| 527 | 01:49:11 --> 01:49:17 | just do the job of recording it and writing it down. Because the last generation is going to know exactly what I'm talking about. Because they're going to see it |
| 528 | 01:49:17 --> 01:49:29 | and recognize it exactly as it is. I'm sorry, folks. But there is no other nation that refers to themselves as the bear but Russia. England is the lion. |
| 529 | 01:49:30 --> 01:49:46 | Germany is the leopard. In this coalition of nations, look at how to describe it has parts of certain countries together, and you get more detail and revelation. |
| 530 | 01:49:48 --> 01:49:58 | And it's interesting last year, the United Nations put up a I don't know what this thing you'd call it. It's a statue that closely resembles what those books |
| 531 | 01:49:58 --> 01:50:10 | are describing Sitting right outside, they're building this new world order this collection of countries that are coming together with the idea that this is the |
| 532 | 01:50:10 --> 01:50:24 | way it needs to be done. That's what you're watching right now. You're watching the way currency is changing. And everybody out there that thinks they know what |
| 533 | 01:50:24 --> 01:50:31 | the currency is going to be. You don't know what it is, it hasn't been, it hasn't been revealed to you yet. It will be on blockchain. It will not be |
| 534 | 01:50:31 --> 01:50:44 | Bitcoin. It will not be XRP. It will not be anything that's already out there. It's already waiting. But they have to present the problem to release the |
| 535 | 01:50:44 --> 01:50:45 | solution. |
| 536 | 01:50:50 --> 01:51:07 | Stores are being put out of business. That way you can have socialist level type stores, grocery stores are going to be out there while they're being allowed to |
| 537 | 01:51:07 --> 01:51:16 | go into stores right now and just take whatever they want. Look around. No, no, we're not going to call, don't call the cops. We're not bothering with it. What? |
| 538 | 01:51:17 --> 01:51:29 | That's lawlessness. That's exactly what the Bible says gonna be like before the end. We're about to see a lot of bad things start increasing in its taste, its |
| 539 | 01:51:29 --> 01:51:38 | frequency and intensity. Just like a woman in child labor, you start having the Braxton contractions in the beginning, that's not labor, that's just that, you |
| 540 | 01:51:38 --> 01:51:56 | know, there's somebody coming. And they start getting more intense, more painful. And we're entering that seven years of Jacob's trouble. And it's gonna |
| 541 | 01:51:56 --> 01:52:00 | get real bad, real ugly. And if you ain't walking with God, you're gonna wish you were |
| 542 | 01:52:06 --> 01:52:18 | if you look at the Genesis, chapter five, I'm gonna say this, cover this part, I'm going to get off to a very high your time too long today. I have a lot of |
| 543 | 01:52:18 --> 01:52:28 | things I want to talk about still, but I'll try to like defer some of it to another day. But if you'd look at Genesis chapter five, and you go through each |
| 544 | 01:52:28 --> 01:52:42 | one of those verses, where it says, you know, Adam, and he was born, and how many years you know, 135 years and then Seth, Enoch, there was 105 years and |
| 545 | 01:52:42 --> 01:52:55 | whatnot. If you do that. You add all that up, add it all up, and then come to Genesis chapter 11. And do the same thing every time it tells you the number of |
| 546 | 01:52:55 --> 01:52:57 | years add all that up. Okay. |
| 547 | 01:53:03 --> 01:53:17 | Oops, they got tested, tested. And then there's a very particular verse in Genesis chapter 11, that is interesting. In Genesis, chapter 11, verse 10, it |
| 548 | 01:53:17 --> 01:53:27 | says two years after the flood, so you have to add two years to the total number of years that's listed in Genesis chapter 11. Plus the total years in Genesis |
| 549 | 01:53:27 --> 01:53:40 | chapter five. Okay, if you total that all together, you're going to get a total of 1948. And what you're looking at is a genealogy from Adam to Abraham. Abraham |
| 550 | 01:53:40 --> 01:54:06 | is called the father of nations. What nation was first in God's eyes? Israel? What nation was born May 14 1948. Israel I'm sorry, folks. I'm sorry. But that |
| 551 | 01:54:06 --> 01:54:23 | level of precision in like you can't deny that, like you cannot deny that 1948 years is the birth of Israel showing you from the very first human being born |
| 552 | 01:54:24 --> 01:54:39 | and shaping by the dirt in God's hands, from Adam to Noah 1948 years. That is the exact year that the entire world the Gentile nations actually worked |
| 553 | 01:54:39 --> 01:54:57 | together to make sure Israel became reborn really. So God really does know the end from the beginning. He sets up kingdoms and put down kingdoms he sets up |
| 554 | 01:54:57 --> 01:55:04 | kings and sets down kings. Nothing can happen unless he allows it. That's what job teaches. |
| 555 | 01:55:09 --> 01:55:19 | Job was minding his business. He's mine as businessman. He wasn't doing anything wrong. He was sinless. He was righteous and nothing nobody can say anything bad |
| 556 | 01:55:19 --> 01:55:40 | about like Noah blameless. But here's God poking Satan. Where you been? You know what I always do go into and fro on the earth. Remember what Peter said and the |
| 557 | 01:55:40 --> 01:55:55 | New Testament? Satan is a lion roaming the earth, seeking whom he may devour. Could he devour job? If he could if he would have right? So here's God, he |
| 558 | 01:55:55 --> 01:56:12 | served him up. Have you considered my servant Job? In this, you read the book of Job you can hear the level of arrogance in Lucifers tone to him. Of course, |
| 559 | 01:56:12 --> 01:56:28 | you're gonna pick him. Of course, you're gonna pick him. Take down your hedge. And he'll curse you to your face. What is he doing? He's tempting the Lord is |
| 560 | 01:56:28 --> 01:56:42 | ballsy, any arrogance, pride. He loves that. He's now mad. Because he's been challenged. Have you considered my servant Job? Well, of course I haven't |
| 561 | 01:56:42 --> 01:56:53 | because you have a hedge around him. But take down your hedge. And he'll curse you to your face. Meaning that I'm going to make him curse you to your face God. |
| 562 | 01:56:55 --> 01:57:08 | Of course he loves you. You give him everything. Why wouldn't he love you? Why wouldn't he have all his faith in you? This isn't a challenge. But if you take |
| 563 | 01:57:08 --> 01:57:24 | the edge away, I can make it happen for me. And right then in there, God says, go do anything you want to do. But you cannot kill him. You cannot take his life |
| 564 | 01:57:24 --> 01:57:36 | instantly immediately. He was dispatched in Amelie he went out there, killed all of his cattle. A tornado came, killed his family, all his children gone. His |
| 565 | 01:57:36 --> 01:57:50 | wealth gone that hour. In one hour. That's interesting. Because the Bible says in the last days, in one hour, such great wealth was made not who's going to |
| 566 | 01:57:50 --> 01:58:09 | bring that? To destroying angel? America has cast out God. And you think he's not gonna let this place get judged? Look who he's allowed into office. |
| 567 | 01:58:11 --> 01:58:19 | Remember, the Bible says he sets up kingdoms and puts down kingdoms in he sets up kings and puts down kings. You can cry and complain about how we have an |
| 568 | 01:58:19 --> 01:58:31 | idiot in the White House right now. But that's judgment. We're being judged folks. If God doesn't destroy and judge America, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an |
| 569 | 01:58:31 --> 01:58:34 | apology. And somehow I don't see that happening |
| 570 | 01:58:41 --> 01:58:54 | so here's Jovi's tore up. He's not complaining. Not one thing come out his mouth, complaining about what God has allowed to happen to him. So his friends |
| 571 | 01:58:54 --> 01:59:02 | come to visit like they always do you notice things are going bad and your life your friends want to show up and want to give you advice. They want to tell you |
| 572 | 01:59:03 --> 01:59:19 | what you did to cause it. Oh, Joe, what happened? Ah, bro, what? What's going on? Wow, look at look what's happened to you. That encouragement, they didn't |
| 573 | 01:59:19 --> 01:59:33 | come there and encourage him. They came here to increase the pain who's in them. Louis talking right through their tongues beating him down. So that way he feels |
| 574 | 01:59:33 --> 01:59:49 | when he hasn't felt yet. Like God doesn't love Him. He knows God loves him. He complained about that. But Satan goes into his friends possesses them and makes |
| 575 | 01:59:49 --> 02:00:01 | them say things to try to discourage him to lose his faith and has no effect on him. And then all sudden Satan touches his health. gives him a form of leprosy |
| 576 | 02:00:01 --> 02:00:11 | that has worms in his skin. And he takes pieces of broken pottery to scrape the scabs off and he picks the worms out. And it's actually a real, real disease. |
| 577 | 02:00:12 --> 02:00:21 | The name of it escapes me if I recall what it is. I'll tweet it, but it's a real disease where these worms are literally in your skin can that's terrible. That |
| 578 | 02:00:21 --> 02:00:31 | would be living maggots under your skin, you get the scrape that scab off that pull them out of your skin to find any relief. And this goes on for a little |
| 579 | 02:00:31 --> 02:00:46 | while. And finally, because of impatience, Satan goes into his wife. And she says, look at you. Look at you, everything has happened to you. Why don't you |
| 580 | 02:00:46 --> 02:01:05 | just curse God and die? Who's talking? He served that up. The he fallen like he thought he was going to do. He made his own wife say what he said to God, that |
| 581 | 02:01:05 --> 02:01:24 | job would do. curse you to your face. Why don't you curse God and die? What is he saying? First woman. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Though he slay |
| 582 | 02:01:24 --> 02:01:31 | me yet well, I serve him. If he wants to take everything I have, it says to take who am I to say you can't do this and you can't do that. |
| 583 | 02:01:38 --> 02:01:57 | Job was unaware of this bet, if you will, between the devil and him. See, God knows the end from begin. He knew. He knew job. He knew him. He knew that he |
| 584 | 02:01:57 --> 02:02:11 | would not lose faith in him. It was a winning bet for God. And God restored all of his animals, his wealth. And he had seven children. So he doubled his his |
| 585 | 02:02:11 --> 02:02:24 | loss. He only had seven kids, right? Yes, seven and heaven waiting for him. Like I have to wait. And for me that teaches the afterlife. But you don't see it that |
| 586 | 02:02:24 --> 02:02:33 | way unless it's been shown to you pointing it out. Because if he was getting double, he should have got 14 Kids, right? He does. Seven are in heaven. |
| 587 | 02:02:38 --> 02:02:56 | Think about that. You lost the child. If you lost one, because I've lost two you can be mad at God. You could have spiked towards God, lose faith in God because |
| 588 | 02:02:56 --> 02:03:13 | he's taken what you think was yours. There his left is a man whose quiver is full. And those arrows the Bible's talking about our children. God blesses us |
| 589 | 02:03:13 --> 02:03:19 | with children, his children, and we're just custodial while we're here. |
| 590 | 02:03:25 --> 02:03:40 | When we have lost like that, Satan's gonna show up and want us to have hatred towards God. Like he entered into my wife. When I had, like I told you the last |
| 591 | 02:03:40 --> 02:03:51 | time when we had the miscarriage, and I couldn't, I couldn't connect to what the preacher was preaching. And God spoke to me said judges 13 Five. And it talks |
| 592 | 02:03:51 --> 02:04:04 | about a woman who can't get pregnant. And that verse says, Behold, you shall can see the son, my son, Caden is that child and my wife cursed me. And said she |
| 593 | 02:04:04 --> 02:04:15 | didn't want to hear about God. We're gonna have any more kids and she's done with it. turned her face away from me. And that was it. I knew who that was in |
| 594 | 02:04:15 --> 02:04:20 | the house responded with well, you must get ready because you're pregnant. You're getting pregnant and you're gonna be a boy. And this is the way it's |
| 595 | 02:04:20 --> 02:04:32 | gonna be. We're gonna have any more kids. Okay. We'll see God said so I'm just telling you out the door. I went, I wasn't hearing it. Following Sunday |
| 596 | 02:04:32 --> 02:04:42 | pregnancy test, she was pregnant. And Caden was that child. The same child at that nurse said that Satan entered into and said, Well, you're gonna have to |
| 597 | 02:04:42 --> 02:04:54 | have a C section. The placenta is covering the cervix. And I said, that's a lie. I know who you are. You are a liar. God promised us this boy. And he's going to |
| 598 | 02:04:54 --> 02:05:05 | come out naturally. I said, missy, you will not have a C section. Well, I'm just telling you that I'm just telling you, lady, I'm telling you, you are a liar. |
| 599 | 02:05:06 --> 02:05:29 | This boy is coming out natural. And he did no C section. Sorry. But I know whom I believe in. I know my Redeemer liveth. I know who God is. And if he before me |
| 600 | 02:05:29 --> 02:05:46 | who can be against me? Who can be against me? If God be for me? Nobody. You need to have Old Testament faith. That's the kind of faith you need to have. When you |
| 601 | 02:05:46 --> 02:06:03 | get that kind of faith. The waters will park. The dead will rise. The oil will not run out. You got to brag on God. Find opportunity every day, every day to |
| 602 | 02:06:03 --> 02:06:17 | brag on God. He inhabits the praise. He inhabits that you're by yourself. You're feeling depressed. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I know who you are. You're |
| 603 | 02:06:17 --> 02:06:27 | not welcome here. Holy Spirit, come in. Have your way here. You are magnificent. You are holy, you're majestic. There's none like you, Father, come here. Make |
| 604 | 02:06:27 --> 02:06:36 | your residence in my home. In my heart in my being filming with your Holy Spirit. Lord, there's none like you, Father, there's none like you. Holy is Your |
| 605 | 02:06:36 --> 02:06:52 | Name, Lord. The enemy can't stay around that. The light comes in all darkness and all shadows have to flee. And depression can't exist there. I feel the Holy |
| 606 | 02:06:52 --> 02:07:08 | Ghost right now. I feel the presence of God right now. And Father, thank you. Thank you. Somebody needed this today. Beyond me because I needed somebody got |
| 607 | 02:07:08 --> 02:07:20 | stirred up today. You should be thankful you have a living God. You have a living God that cares for you that wants to have a walk with you that wants to |
| 608 | 02:07:20 --> 02:07:35 | have a communion with you. Has things stored up that you can't even imagine Gifts, gifts that you have no idea there was such a blessing. When you start |
| 609 | 02:07:35 --> 02:07:47 | this week, you better walk with a foot forward in praise. Thanksgiving, be thankful for what you have and what you were not given as a hardship, what |
| 610 | 02:07:47 --> 02:07:57 | you've been preserved through what you've been kept from. All of us have things like that to be thankful for. All of us do. But it's so easy to reach for the |
| 611 | 02:07:57 --> 02:08:04 | things that we feel lack in and magnify those problems. Instead of magnifying God who's greater than all those things. |
| 612 | 02:08:12 --> 02:08:24 | God knows the end from the beginning. Nobody else does, but him. I hope I reached somebody with this message today. Hope you were encouraged. Hope you |
| 613 | 02:08:24 --> 02:08:31 | found something that was insightful. And I will talk to you next time. Be safe |