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Where Was Jesus During Lucifer_s Rebellion in Heaven · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: What was Jesus doing during Lucifer's rebellion? Not after it,
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  Speaker 1: but during it. Before Genesis 1-1, before the first human breath,
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  Speaker 1: before light existed, there was a war in heaven. The
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  Speaker 1: most beautiful angel God ever created looked at his own
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  Speaker 1: reflection and declared war on the throne of God. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was there. Luke 10-18 I saw Satan fall like
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  Speaker 1: lightning from heaven. Not, I heard about it, I saw, eyewitness,
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  Speaker 1: past tense. He was in the room when it happened.
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  Speaker 1: But what was he doing? Was he watching, fighting, or
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  Speaker 1: already preparing for what would come next? If the rebellion
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  Speaker 1: happened before creation, then the serpent in the garden had
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  Speaker 1: already fallen, already cast down. Which means the cross was
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  Speaker 1: not a reaction. It may have been planned before the
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  Speaker 1: first star ignited. This is not speculation. This is scripture.
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  Speaker 1: And what you're about to hear could change everything you
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  Speaker 1: thought you knew about Jesus and Lucifer. The 72 disciples
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  Speaker 1: had just returned from their mission. They were celebrating. They
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  Speaker 1: were amazed. Lord, even the demons submit to us in
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  Speaker 1: your name. They had watched evil spirits flee at the
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  Speaker 1: sound of his authority. They were thrilled. Jesus did not
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  Speaker 1: celebrate with them. He did not match their excitement. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he delivered a statement that went far beyond their report,
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  Speaker 1: far beyond that afternoon, far beyond anything a human being
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  Speaker 1: could claim. Luke 10.18 I saw Satan fall like lightning
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  Speaker 1: from heaven. The Greek word is aetheron. I was watching,
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  Speaker 1: continuous past tense. This was not a vision. This was
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  Speaker 1: not a prophecy received secondhand. This was an eyewitness observation.
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  Speaker 1: The disciples saw demons flee that afternoon. Jesus replied by
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  Speaker 1: describing something he personally witnessed before time began. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a teaching moment. This is a deposition. Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: giving testimony under his own authority of an event no
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  Speaker 1: human being could have witnessed. And he did not say
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  Speaker 1: it only once. The entire New Testament confirms it. John 1.1-3
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
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  Speaker 1: with God, and the Word was God. All things were
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  Speaker 1: made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that
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  Speaker 1: was made. Not some things, not later things, all things.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing that was made was made without Him. John 17.5
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  Speaker 1: Jesus prays to his Father the night before his crucifixion. Father,
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  Speaker 1: glorify me in your presence with the glory I had
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  Speaker 1: with you before the world existed. Before the world existed.
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  Speaker 1: Past tense. A glory he already possessed and is asking
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  Speaker 1: to return to. John 8.58 Before Abraham was, I am.
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  Speaker 1: The Jews picked up stones, not because they misunderstood, because
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  Speaker 1: they understood exactly what he was claiming. He was using
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  Speaker 1: the covenant name of God, the name spoken to Moses
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  Speaker 1: at the burning bush, and applying it to himself. Colossians 1.15-17
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  Speaker 1: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
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  Speaker 1: over all creation. For by him all things were created,
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  Speaker 1: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. whether
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  Speaker 1: thrones or powers or rulers or authorities. All things have
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  Speaker 1: been created through him and for him. He is before
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  Speaker 1: all things, and in him all things hold together. Hebrews 1.2
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  Speaker 1: Through whom he also made the worlds. Micah 5.2 Whose
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  Speaker 1: goings forth are from of old, from everlasting. Revelation 22.13
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  Speaker 1: I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and
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  Speaker 1: the last, the beginning and the end. Seven witnesses, seven texts,
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  Speaker 1: spanning a thousand years of Scripture, all saying the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: He was there, before anything was. But there is one
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  Speaker 1: more witness, and this one is hidden in the oldest
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  Speaker 1: poetry of the Old Testament, Proverbs 8, 22-31. Wisdom speaks.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way,
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  Speaker 1: before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting,
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning, before the earth was. When he established
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  Speaker 1: the heavens, I was there. When he marked out the
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  Speaker 1: foundations of the earth, I was beside him, like a
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  Speaker 1: master craftsman. I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him,
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  Speaker 1: rejoicing in his inhabited world. And my delight was with
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  Speaker 1: the sons of men, Listen to that language. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a cold theological abstraction. This is joy, delight, a
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  Speaker 1: presence beside God before the first Adam existed, already rejoicing
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  Speaker 1: over the human race that had not yet been created.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever this is, they loved us before we existed. Scholars
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  Speaker 1: have debated for centuries whether Proverbs 8 speaks of Christ
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  Speaker 1: directly or of wisdom as a poetic attribute of God.
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  Speaker 1: But this much is certain. The Old Testament itself testifies
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  Speaker 1: that someone was beside God at creation, someone who delighted
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  Speaker 1: in the sons of men before they drew breath. And
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  Speaker 1: the New Testament identifies that someone by name. Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: there before the foundations, before the first atom split, before
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  Speaker 1: the first star ignited. But he was not alone. There
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  Speaker 1: was a throne room. There were beings. And there was one,
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  Speaker 1: described in terms so magnificent that the prophet who saw
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  Speaker 1: him struggled for words. His name, before it became a curse,
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  Speaker 1: was the anointed cherub. Most people read Genesis 1-1 and
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  Speaker 1: assume nothing existed before it. The Bible disagrees. Job 38,
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  Speaker 1: 4-7 God speaks to Job from the whirlwind. Where were
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  Speaker 1: you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if
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  Speaker 1: you understand, who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know.
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  Speaker 1: On what were its footings set? Or who laid its
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  Speaker 1: cornerstone while the morning stars sang together and all the
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  Speaker 1: sons of God shouted for joy? The morning stars, the
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  Speaker 1: sons of God, they were already there, watching, celebrating, before
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  Speaker 1: the earth was formed. There was an audience at creation,
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  Speaker 1: a heavenly court. beings who existed in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: God before matter, before time, before let there be light.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 1-1 is not once upon a time. It is
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  Speaker 1: the moment God built a stage in front of an
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  Speaker 1: audience that was already watching. This means that before light existed,
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  Speaker 1: before matter was formed, before the first molecule vibrated into being,
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  Speaker 1: there was already a kingdom, a realm, a dimension of
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  Speaker 1: existence that predates the physical universe. And that kingdom was
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  Speaker 1: not empty. It was populated, ordered, and governed. And that
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  Speaker 1: audience had structure. It had hierarchy. It had rank. The seraphim,
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah 6, 1 to 3, six wings, two covering their faces,
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  Speaker 1: two covering their feet, two for flying. And they cried
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  Speaker 1: without ceasing, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE LORD OF HOSTS.
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  Speaker 1: THE WHOLE EARTH IS FULL OF HIS GLORY. SO CLOSE
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  Speaker 1: TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD THAT THEY COVERED THEIR OWN FACES,
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  Speaker 1: NOT FROM SHAME, FROM THE SHEAR WEIGHT OF HIS HOLINESS.
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  Speaker 1: THE CHERUBIM. EZEKIEL 1 AND 10. FOUR FACES, FOUR WINGS.
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  Speaker 1: THEY MOVED LIKE LIGHTNING. THEY DID NOT TURN AS THEY WENT.
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  Speaker 1: EACH ONE WENT STRAIGHT FORWARD. THEY GUARDED THE HOLIEST THINGS
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  Speaker 1: IN CREATION. THEY GUARDED THE ENTRANCE TO THE GARDEN OF
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  Speaker 1: EDEN AFTER THE FALL. THEY WERE CARVED INTO THE MERCY
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  Speaker 1: SEAT ABOVE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. WHEREVER GOD'S PRESENCE RESTED,
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  Speaker 1: THE CHERUBIM STOOD WATCH. THE ARCHANGELS. MICHAEL IS THE ONLY
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  Speaker 1: ONE NAMED AS ARCHANGEL IN SCRIPTURE. JUDE 1-9. A WARRIOR.
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  Speaker 1: A COMMANDER. THE ONE WHO WOULD LATER STAND AGAINST THE
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  Speaker 1: DRAGON HIMSELF AND THE HOST. Daniel 7.10 A thousand thousand
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  Speaker 1: served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
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  Speaker 1: An army, a court, an administration, not chaos, order, a
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  Speaker 1: kingdom with rank, with authority, with position. And at the
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  Speaker 1: highest point, beneath only the throne of God itself, stood
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  Speaker 1: one being who was described in terms no other angel received.
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel 28, 12-15. The passage is addressed to the king
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  Speaker 1: of Tyre, but the language transcends any human king. No
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  Speaker 1: earthly ruler has ever walked in the garden of God.
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  Speaker 1: No mortal has ever stood on the holy mountain of fire.
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  Speaker 1: You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God.
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  Speaker 1: Every precious stone was your covering. Sardius, topaz, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, emerald, carbuncle,
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  Speaker 1: and gold the workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was
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  Speaker 1: prepared for you on the day you were created music
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  Speaker 1: was built into his being not learned not practiced woven
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  Speaker 1: into his very design you were the anointed cherub who
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  Speaker 1: covers I established you you were on the holy mountain
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  Speaker 1: of God you walked back and forth in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of the stones of fire you were perfect in your
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  Speaker 1: ways from the day you were created till iniquity was
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  Speaker 1: found in you. Read that list again. Perfection, beauty, wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: music built into his body, access to the holy mountain, anointed,
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  Speaker 1: covering the very throne of God. This was not a
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  Speaker 1: minor angel. This was the crown of creation, the most
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  Speaker 1: magnificent being God ever made. And that is exactly why
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  Speaker 1: the fall was so catastrophic. Ezekiel says iniquity was found
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  Speaker 1: in him not planted, not forced, found. Something happened in
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  Speaker 1: the mind of the most beautiful being in existence that
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  Speaker 1: turned worship into war. And Isaiah saw exactly what it was.
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  Speaker 1: Five sentences, five declarations. The moment perfection became rebellion. Ezekiel
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  Speaker 1: gives us the cause, the precise moment the fracture began.
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  Speaker 1: You were perfect in your ways from the day you
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  Speaker 1: were created. till iniquity was found in you. And then
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  Speaker 1: the diagnosis. Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty.
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  Speaker 1: You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. The
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  Speaker 1: most dangerous sentence in the universe is not a lie.
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  Speaker 1: It is a truth turned inward. Lucifer did not look
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  Speaker 1: at God and see a rival. He looked at himself
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  Speaker 1: and saw a God. This is the anatomy of the
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  Speaker 1: first sin. not murder, not theft, not idolatry, pride. The
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  Speaker 1: creature looking at its own reflection and forgetting the Creator
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  Speaker 1: who designed it. And the pride did not stay silent.
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  Speaker 1: It spoke. Isaiah 14, 12-15 How you have fallen from heaven,
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  Speaker 1: O morning star, sun of the dawn! How you are
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  Speaker 1: cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!
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  Speaker 1: And then... Five declarations, not prayers, not petitions, declarations of war.
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  Speaker 1: I will ascend into heaven. He would rise above his station.
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  Speaker 1: I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.
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  Speaker 1: He would rule over the other angels. I will sit
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  Speaker 1: on the mount of the congregation, on the farthest sides
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  Speaker 1: of the north. He would take God's seat of authority.
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  Speaker 1: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. he
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  Speaker 1: would surpass the glory of God himself. I will be
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  Speaker 1: like the Most High. The final declaration, not to serve,
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  Speaker 1: to be. Five sentences, and with them evil was born,
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  Speaker 1: not in a garden, not on the earth, not in
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  Speaker 1: a human heart, in the throne room of heaven, from
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  Speaker 1: the most beautiful mouth ever created. And then came the war.
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  Speaker 1: Revelation 12, 7 to 9. and war broke out in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the
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  Speaker 1: dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail,
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  Speaker 1: nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.
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  Speaker 1: So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old,
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  Speaker 1: called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world.
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  Speaker 1: He was cast to the earth, and his angels were
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  Speaker 1: cast out with him. A third of the stars of
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  Speaker 1: heaven swept away with his tails, Revelation 12.4 One-third of
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  Speaker 1: the angelic host chose his side. One-third of the beings
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  Speaker 1: who had shouted for joy at creation now stood against
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  Speaker 1: the Creator. Some scholars place this war before creation in
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  Speaker 1: the pre-temporal realm described by Isaiah and Ezekiel. Others connect
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  Speaker 1: Revelation 12 to Christ's incarnation and victory at the cross,
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  Speaker 1: reading it as Satan's defeat accomplished through Calvary. Either reading
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  Speaker 1: leads to the same conclusion. He was cast down, and
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  Speaker 1: the outcome was irreversible. And Jesus, the one who was
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  Speaker 1: with God, who was God, watched it happen. Luke 10.18
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  Speaker 1: I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Lightning. Not
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  Speaker 1: a slow descent. Not a quiet exit. Lightning. Violent. Instant. Irreversible.
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  Speaker 1: And then, for a span of time Scripture does not measure...
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  Speaker 1: there was a void, a throne room with empty ranks,
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  Speaker 1: a kingdom with a third of its court gone. And
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  Speaker 1: in that silence, God made a decision. He spoke, let
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  Speaker 1: there be light. But why? If the war was over,
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  Speaker 1: if Lucifer was cast down, if heaven was cleansed, why
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  Speaker 1: create a world? Why make beings of dust, fragile, mortal,
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  Speaker 1: capable of the same rebellion, and place them in a
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  Speaker 1: garden with the serpent already in it? The answer is
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  Speaker 1: in a verse that most people have never truly read.
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  Speaker 1: Revelation 13.8 The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Before the first human sinned. Before Adam touched the fruit.
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  Speaker 1: Before the serpent opened his mouth, the Lamb was already slain.
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  Speaker 1: The cross was not an emergency plan. It was not
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  Speaker 1: God adapting to a crisis. The sacrifice was predetermined. PREPLANNED.
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  Speaker 1: PREACCOMPLISHED IN THE MIND OF GOD BEFORE GENESIS 1-1. 1
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  Speaker 1: PETER 1-20. HE WAS FOREKNOWN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD,
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  Speaker 1: BUT WAS MADE MANIFEST IN THE LAST TIMES FOR THE
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  Speaker 1: SAKE OF YOU. EPHESIANS 1-4. HE CHOSE US IN HIM
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  Speaker 1: BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE
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  Speaker 1: HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN LOVE. This timeline
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  Speaker 1: suggests something staggering. God did not create the world and
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  Speaker 1: then scramble to save it. The rescue was designed before
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  Speaker 1: the world was designed. The cross came before the cradle.
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  Speaker 1: The blood came before the breath. Many ancient theologians from
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  Speaker 1: Irenaeus to Augustine observed this same connection. The evidence does
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  Speaker 1: not demand certainty here, but it demands attention. That changes everything.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 1, 26. Let us make man in our image,
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  Speaker 1: according to our likeness. The angels were powerful. They were magnificent.
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  Speaker 1: They were glorious. But they were never called the image
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  Speaker 1: of God. That title, that designation, was reserved for dust. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why would God take the weakest possible material, clay, dirt, earth,
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  Speaker 1: and stamp his own identity onto it. Why would the Creator,
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  Speaker 1: who had just watched the strongest being in existence destroy
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  Speaker 1: himself through pride, choose to build his next masterpiece from
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  Speaker 1: the ground? Orthodox scholars remain divided on this. Some hold
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  Speaker 1: that humanity was always the primary desire of God, His family,
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  Speaker 1: His purpose, independent of any angelic rebellion. Others observe a
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  Speaker 1: staggering pattern. The angels who fell, fell from strength. Their
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  Speaker 1: beauty became their idol. Their power became their poison. And God,
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  Speaker 1: in response, chose weakness. He chose fragility. He chose mortality.
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  Speaker 1: He chose beings who would need him every single day
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  Speaker 1: just to survive. 1 Corinthians 1.27 God chose the foolish
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  Speaker 1: things of the world to put to shame the wise,
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  Speaker 1: God chose the weak things of the world to put
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  Speaker 1: to shame the things which are mighty. Whether humanity was
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  Speaker 1: God's original design or his sovereign counter move, one thing
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  Speaker 1: is not debated. The image was placed on dust, not
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  Speaker 1: on power, not on beauty, on dust. Humanity is not
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  Speaker 1: a downgrade from angels. Humanity is a statement, a declaration.
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  Speaker 1: God looked at creation and chose to build his family
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  Speaker 1: from the weakest material in existence. And they would choose him,
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  Speaker 1: not because they were strong enough to earn it, but
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  Speaker 1: because they were loved enough to receive it. If God
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  Speaker 1: knew Lucifer had fallen, why put the tree in the garden?
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  Speaker 1: Why allow the serpent access? This is the question that
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  Speaker 1: has haunted theologians for 2,000 years. And the answer is
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  Speaker 1: embedded in the nature of the image itself. The image
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  Speaker 1: of God is not just intelligence. It is not just creativity.
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  Speaker 1: It is choice. Angels chose. One-third chose. rebellion. Two-thirds chose loyalty.
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  Speaker 1: And now a new order of beings, made of dust
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  Speaker 1: and carrying the image of God, must make the same choice.
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  Speaker 1: The tree was not a trap. It was a throne.
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  Speaker 1: A place where a creature made of clay could do
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  Speaker 1: what the highest angel refused to do. Surrender. The serpent
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  Speaker 1: had to be there. Because love that has no alternative
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  Speaker 1: is not love. It is programming. God does not want robots.
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  Speaker 1: He wants children. And children must be free to leave
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  Speaker 1: in order for their return to mean anything. Genesis 3.1
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  Speaker 1: Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of
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  Speaker 1: the field. This was not a random encounter. This was
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  Speaker 1: a military operation. Lucifer, the fallen cherub, the one who
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  Speaker 1: lost the war in heaven, went directly to the new image-bearers,
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  Speaker 1: the ones made from dust, the ones carrying the identity
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to destroy. And he used the same weapon.
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  Speaker 1: the exact same weapon. Genesis 3, year 5. You will
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  Speaker 1: be like God. The same lie, the same five words
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  Speaker 1: that destroyed him, weaponized against humanity. He fell because he said,
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  Speaker 1: I will be like the Most High. He attacked humanity
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  Speaker 1: by whispering, You will be like God. The serpent did
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  Speaker 1: not introduce a new temptation. He recycled his own rebellion
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  Speaker 1: and handed it to Adam and Eve like a gift.
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  Speaker 1: If you have followed the evidence this far, hold on,
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  Speaker 1: because what comes next is not about the past. It
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  Speaker 1: is not about a throne room you cannot see or
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  Speaker 1: a war you cannot remember. What comes next is the
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  Speaker 1: reason he came down, to finish what started before the
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  Speaker 1: world began. Genesis 3.15 And I will put enmity between
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  Speaker 1: you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed.
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  Speaker 1: He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first prophecy in the Bible. And notice
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  Speaker 1: who God is speaking to. Not Adam, not Eve, the serpent.
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  Speaker 1: God looked at the being who had just corrupted his
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  Speaker 1: image bearers and told him to his face that a
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  Speaker 1: descendant of the woman would crush his skull. The war
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  Speaker 1: that started in heaven now had a new battlefield, the earth.
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  Speaker 1: And from this moment forward, every act of Satan in
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  Speaker 1: scripture is the same act, trying to destroy the seed
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  Speaker 1: before it arrives. If you know what to look for,
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  Speaker 1: the pattern is everywhere. Cain kills Abel, the righteous seed destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: But God raises Seth. The Nephilim corrupt the human bloodline
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis 6, a genetic attack on the line of
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah. But God preserves Noah. Pharaoh orders the death
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  Speaker 1: of every Hebrew boy in Exodus 1, an attempt to
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  Speaker 1: destroy the nation that carries the seed. But God raises Moses.
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  Speaker 1: Saul hunts David across the wilderness, trying to destroy the
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  Speaker 1: royal line of Judah. But God preserves the shepherd. Athaliah
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  Speaker 1: murders the entire royal family in 2 Kings 11. One
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  Speaker 1: woman nearly wipes out the line of David. But one child, Joash,
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  Speaker 1: is hidden in the temple. Haman plots to destroy every
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  Speaker 1: Jew in the Persian Empire in Esther 3. Genocide on
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  Speaker 1: a national scale. but one woman stands in the gap.
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  Speaker 1: Herod massacres the infants of Bethlehem in Matthew 2, the
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  Speaker 1: closest Satan ever got to killing the seed before it
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  Speaker 1: could grow. But an angel warns Joseph in a dream,
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  Speaker 1: and the family flees to Egypt. Every story, every villain,
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  Speaker 1: every genocide, one target, the seed. And every time, God
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  Speaker 1: kept the line alive. one child, one family, one survivor.
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  Speaker 1: The seed could not be stopped. Then, in Matthew 4,
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  Speaker 1: the serpent changed his strategy. For 4,000 years, he had
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  Speaker 1: used violence. He had used armies. He had used kings
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  Speaker 1: and queens and pharaohs. None of it worked. The seed
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  Speaker 1: survived every time. So in the wilderness... Satan tried something different.
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  Speaker 1: He tried words. Jesus was in the desert, 40 days.
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  Speaker 1: No food, no water, no companionship. His body was at
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  Speaker 1: its weakest. His flesh was screaming. And then the serpent appeared,
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  Speaker 1: not in disguise this time, not hiding behind a snake
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  Speaker 1: in a garden, face to face. And he offered Jesus
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  Speaker 1: the same thing he stole from Adam. Turn these stones
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  Speaker 1: to bread. Satisfy your flesh. Throw yourself from the temple.
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  Speaker 1: Prove your power. All the kingdoms of the world, if
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  Speaker 1: you worship me, take the shortcut. Skip the cross. The
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  Speaker 1: third temptation reveals the true stakes of the entire cosmic war.
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  Speaker 1: Satan was offering Jesus the kingdoms of the world without
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  Speaker 1: the cross. without Gethsemane, without the nails, without the blood,
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  Speaker 1: a crown without a sacrifice, a throne without a tomb.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus said no. He refused the shortcut because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did not come to rule the world. He came to
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  Speaker 1: buy it back. And the only currency accepted was his
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  Speaker 1: own blood. On a hill outside Jerusalem, the one who
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  Speaker 1: existed before Genesis 1-1 hung on a Roman cross. Satan
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  Speaker 1: thought this was his victory. The seed crushed. The line broken.
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  Speaker 1: The war won. 1 Corinthians 2-8 None of the rulers
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  Speaker 1: of this age understood it, for if they had, they
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  Speaker 1: would not have crucified the Lord of glory. If Satan
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  Speaker 1: had understood what the cross would accomplish, he would have
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  Speaker 1: done everything in his power to stop it, because the
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  Speaker 1: cross was not a defeat. It was a detonation. Colossians 2.15
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  Speaker 1: Having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle
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  Speaker 1: of them, triumphing over them in it. Hebrews 2.14 Through
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  Speaker 1: death he might destroy him who had the power of death,
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  Speaker 1: that is, the devil. The serpent bruised his heel, but
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  Speaker 1: the seed crushed his head. The war that started in
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  Speaker 1: the throne room of heaven before light existed, before dust
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  Speaker 1: was formed, before time had a name, ended on a
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  Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, on a hill, in blood. And the one
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  Speaker 1: who saw Lucifer fall like lightning let himself fall so
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  Speaker 1: that you could rise. But this was never just their story.
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  Speaker 1: The same lie that corrupted an angel. The same whisper
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  Speaker 1: that destroyed a garden. The same war is being fought
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  Speaker 1: right now, inside of you. Revelation 12.12 Woe to the
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  Speaker 1: inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil
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  Speaker 1: has come down to you, having great wrath, because he
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  Speaker 1: knows that he has a short time. The war in
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  Speaker 1: heaven is over. Lucifer was cast down. The war on
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  Speaker 1: Calvary is over. The seed crushed his head. But the
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  Speaker 1: war on earth is still raging, and the reason is simple.
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  Speaker 1: He knows his time is short, and he is not
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  Speaker 1: going quietly. 1 Peter 5.8 Be sober, be vigilant, because
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  Speaker 1: your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion,
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  Speaker 1: seeking whom he may devour. He has already lost the
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  Speaker 1: cosmic war. He has already lost the war of the cross.
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  Speaker 1: There is only one battlefield left, your mind. This story
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  Speaker 1: was never just about angels and thrones and wars in
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  Speaker 1: places you cannot see. The same lie that brought down
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  Speaker 1: the most magnificent angel, the same five words, is the
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  Speaker 1: same weapon used against you every single day. you will
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  Speaker 1: be like God. The whisper that says you do not
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  Speaker 1: need him, that you are enough on your own, that
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  Speaker 1: your wisdom, your strength, your beauty is the source, not
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  Speaker 1: the gift. Lucifer looked at his own reflection and forgot
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  Speaker 1: the one who designed him. Adam looked at the fruit
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  Speaker 1: and believed he could upgrade himself. And every day, in
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  Speaker 1: a thousand different ways, that same whisper reaches your ear.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you have been listening to it for years. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it has shaped the way you see yourself, the way
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  Speaker 1: you make decisions, the way you hold people at a distance.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the pride that destroyed the highest angel has been
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  Speaker 1: quietly building a throne in your own heart, and you
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  Speaker 1: did not even notice. Because pride never announces itself. It
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  Speaker 1: just redecorates the room and puts your name above the door.
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  Speaker 1: But here is what Lucifer never understood. Here is what
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  Speaker 1: the serpent never calculated. God did not create you to
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  Speaker 1: be like him. He created you to be with him.
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  Speaker 1: The angels were servants. They were powerful, glorious, magnificent, but
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  Speaker 1: they were never called sons. They were never called daughters.
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  Speaker 1: They were never invited into the family. Romans 8.15 Lucifer
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  Speaker 1: wanted God's throne. God is offering you His table. Lucifer
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be above God. God is inviting you to
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  Speaker 1: sit beside him. The one who was there before the
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  Speaker 1: foundations of the world, the one who watched the most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful angel destroy himself, the one who spoke light into
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  Speaker 1: darkness and breath into dust, that same one hung on
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  Speaker 1: a cross for you, not because you earned it, not
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  Speaker 1: because you deserved it, because he chose you before the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of the world. The first verse of the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The last book of the Bible says, I am the
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  Speaker 1: Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the
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  Speaker 1: beginning and the end. He was there before the first
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  Speaker 1: angels sang. He was there when the brightest one fell.
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  Speaker 1: He was there when the morning stars went silent. He
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  Speaker 1: was there when dust became man. He was there when
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  Speaker 1: the serpent whispered. He was there when innocence ended. He
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  Speaker 1: was there when the first blood was shed. He was
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  Speaker 1: there when the prophets cried out into the darkness. He
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  Speaker 1: was there when the nails went in. And He is here,
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  Speaker 1: right now, in this room, in this moment. Not as
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  Speaker 1: a memory, not as a doctrine, not as a concept
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  Speaker 1: written in a book you keep on a shelf. He
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  Speaker 1: is here as the living, eternal God. Pre-existent Son of
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  Speaker 1: God who saw it all, endured it all, and conquered
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  Speaker 1: it all. Before the world began, after the world ends,
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  Speaker 1: He was there. Before the world began, He was there.
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