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The Entire Story of Satan, Mapped · Off The Kirb Ministries

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Once you see this and this, you will know that Satan is closer
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than you think. You're not going to believe
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this, but the Bible literally tells us the location of Satan's
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throne. But here's the scary part.
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If you look closely, you can see it here on Google Earth.
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For you to realise why this is such a massive discovery, we
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need to travel to the Persian Gulf because this is where
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Satan's story on Earth begins. Everyone knows that the devil
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transformed himself into a serpent and then tricked Adam
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and Eve into doing this, but not many know how he managed to do
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it. OK, watch this.
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When Eve rejected Satan's initial temptation to eat the
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fruits, Satan subtly suggests this.
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For God knows when you eat from this tree, your eyes will be
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opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
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Did you catch that? In other words, the serpent is
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craftily proposing that God is somehow holding back some hidden
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knowledge from them. And I can promise you one thing,
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He will do the exact same thing with you.
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He will make you believe that being a Christian is boring and
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that God is holding back fun from you.
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So if you've ever been tempted to feel like the non Christians
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around you are living a much more exciting life, you probably
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should take a look at this. No one has ever seen this
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before, but I believe there is an invisible strategy that Satan
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operates from. And the 3rd letter that spells
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this strategy is C and it stands for concealment.
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Because just like he did in the Garden of Eden, he'll do the
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same with you. He will trick you into thinking
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God is hiding or concealing something good from you so that
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you'll fall into sin. Whilst you're busy figuring out
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what this strategy is named, let's zoom out of our map and
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let's fly through the clouds to find the sons of God presenting
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themselves before the throne room in heaven.
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And who else do we spot in this crowd?
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You guessed it, Satan. So God asks where he has been
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and he answers that he's been roaming through the earth.
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This is actually a massive statement and I'll tell you why
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in a second. But first I want you to notice
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God does something that is very difficult for you and I to
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understand. He points out the godliest man
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on earth, a man called Job, and he reminds Satan that he would
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be a good option for someone to test.
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See, God found no fault with Job, but Satan did.
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Are you imagining this right now, a kind of courtroom scene
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with God and Satan each delivering verdicts about Job
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because it's essential. You remember Satan's accusation
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against Job was really a confrontation aimed at God.
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We might paraphrase it like this.
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The only reason Job fears you is because you pay him to do it.
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You 2 have made a contract. You protect him and prosper him
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as long as he obeys and worships you.
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You are not a God, God worthy of worship.
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You only have to pay people to honor you.
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May I ask you a personal question?
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Is that the way you view God? That as long as he does what you
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want, you worship him. But if he doesn't do what you
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want, suddenly he's not a God who's worth worshiping anymore
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and you even at times question his existence.
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Before I show you another clue to our invisible country, it is
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worth noting that Job was from the land of us and this is
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believed by Bible scholars to be east of the Jordan River today.
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So although no one knows for sure, let's pin it on our map in
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the ancient region of Edom. All right, over to you.
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What do you think Satan's strategy is in the life of Job
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that he still uses on you and I today?
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If you said loss, you'd be right on the money.
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And I'm going to choose my words carefully now.
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But when I have gone through a time of loss, there is certainly
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a kind of thought in the back of my mind that whispers, how can
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your good God allow this to happen to you?
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Is this your reward for following him when the people of
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the world around you they again, but you are losing.
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So let's add our 11th letter L to our invisible strategy or
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dare I say country, and I will be amazed if anyone guesses it
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correctly. I can see why people say the
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Bible is full of contradictions, but is it really?
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Let's examine one of the most perplexing verses in the Bible.
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Jump over to the city of David in Jerusalem with me because it
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is here where we will watch David make a census for the
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Lord. If you're one of my younger
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listeners and you don't know what a census is, it's basically
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basically where someone counts all of the people in a country
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or in a group to see how many there are and then they keep a
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record of it. So what's the big deal here
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then? Well, in one Chronicles 21 verse
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one, it says Satan is the one who incited David to make a
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census. But in Second Samuel 24, it says
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God is the one who moved David's heart to make a census.
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Is that a contradiction? No, as we've just seen in Job,
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Satan can do zero. He can do nothing without God's
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permission first. OK, but am I the only one who
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wants to know why did God allow Satan to do this in the 1st
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place? Well the fact is this guys, God
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loved David deeply and so wanted to expose what was wrong in
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David's heart to bring him to a place of repentance.
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You see, this very act of counting men in Israel made God
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angry because it showed that David was filled with pride,
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with self-reliance, and thus was trusting in the numbers of men
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rather than in the Lord's strength.
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Whilst that was pretty bad, here's what made God real angry.
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David was misusing his authority.
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Israel belonged to God, and back in those times, a man only had
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the right to count a number of what belonged to him.
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And Israel did not belong to David, it belonged to God.
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So without a clear divine command, when David took that
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census and started counting the men, it was almost as if he was
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claiming ownership of what belongs to the Lord.
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Between you and me, I can't judge David, not even a tiny bit
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because I know that I have similar wrong motives in my evil
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heart. I've just recently hit the 10
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year anniversary on my YouTube channel and I remember when I
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reached 100 subscribers, 100,000 subscribers, and I certainly
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remember the day when I reached 1,000,000 subscribers.
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Some people would say there's nothing wrong with this and
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you're just celebrating what God has done by reaching all of
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those precious souls of the gospel and I agree.
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But the problem is this what happened when your subscribers
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stop growing, when your views drop and you get that dreaded
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comment from some Gen. Z kid bro fell off.
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If you haven't guessed already, I'm speaking from experience.
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Because through not seeing the same growth on YouTube and also
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other losses, the Lord God has taught me some very valuable
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lessons. He's shown me what's truly
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inside of me. And it's not that pretty at all.
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You see, every single one of us, we do try to build something,
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don't we? But the lesson you and I need to
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learn is this. There is only one Kingdom that
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will truly last, and that is Christ's.
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Every huge Kingdom, every empire will one day fall.
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Look at Alexander the Great, whose vast empire crumbled
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quickly once the grave claimed him.
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Or the mighty Roman Empire that ruled the world and collapsed
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from within. And even the British Empire that
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once spanned the entire earth and then slowly faded into our
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history books. So over to you.
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You think of your Prime Minister.
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You think of your you think of your president and ask yourself
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this question. How long can they cling on to
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their Kingdom? Look at the heavyweight
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champions of the world. Once they were unbeatable, but
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how long did they manage to hold on to their kingdoms?
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For every YouTube, every actor, every singer is always replaced
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by the younger model. And it's just part of life.
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And we all need to thank God for this.
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Thank God that we all lose our temporary kingdoms, these
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kingdoms that are made of sand, they will go eventually.
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And why is that a good thing? Because if David had wrong
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motives running his Kingdom and he was called a man after God's
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own hearts, what hope of you and I got?
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But everyone now praise the Lord because he is the King of kings
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and he is the Lord of Lords, and He is coming back to rule the
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earth one day in righteousness and His Kingdom will last
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forever. It is pretty obvious what the
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fourth word for our code name for Satan's invisible strategy
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is, and it's E for exaltation. All right, if you thought that
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raised a few eyebrows, wait until you see the location of
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Satan's throne later in the video.
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My friend, we are still in Jerusalem, but we are going to
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the temple to observe Joshua the high priest, and something very
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memorable is about to happen to him.
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But let's just hit the brakes for a second because I'm not
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talking about that Joshua who succeeded Moses and led the
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people of Israel into the Promised land.
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Now I'm talking about this Joshua who came nearly 900 years
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later, who was the high priest who served the people of God
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whilst they were rebuilding the temple and after they returned
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from exile. OK, now we've cleared that up.
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We need to meet another man of God, the prophet Zechariah.
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He sees a vision of another courtroom scene.
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Joshua is standing before the Angel of the Lord.
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But there's a catch. Satan is standing there too, and
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he begins accusing Joshua. Did he accuse him of, Well,
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Joshua was wearing filthy garments and this was a picture
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of Israel's sin before a holy God.
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But what the Lord does next will melt your heart.
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He rebukes Satan and says, is this not a brand plucked from
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the fire? He then has Joshua's filthy
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garments taken away and clothes him in beautiful, rich robes.
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What I'm going to say next actually affects your eternal
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destiny. What do I mean by that?
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Well, it's how you respond to it.
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This courtroom scene is an accidental.
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It's a picture of you and it's a picture of me.
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We're just like Joshua standing there as the defendant.
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God is the judge and Satan is the prosecuting attorney, but
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Jesus Christ is our defence attorney, the advocate of us,
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God's people before the holy throne of God.
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Did you know the Hebrew term ha, Satan literally means the Satan,
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the adversary or the accuser of God's people?
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Have you ever thought about that before?
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When Satan, Satan talks was about God, he lies.
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But when he talks to God about us, he tells the truth.
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So here we have God's throne, and it's a throne of justice.
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God is righteous. He's a judge.
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And knowing this, Satan pointed out Joshua's defilement and
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insisted that a holy God must punish his sinful people.
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It seemed like an airtight case, except for one factor, God's
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grace. We shouldn't get the idea that
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the Father is waiting to punish us and that the Son pleads with
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Him to change his mind, because that is not the picture at all.
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The Father and the Son both love us and want the best for us.
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But never forget this. The Lord God cannot ignore our
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sins because He's holy. And that's exactly what the
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cross was about. On the cross, Jesus took the
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weight of our sin, all of our wrongdoing, all of our
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filthiness, and He paid the price for all of our sins so
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that God's justice could be met. As a holy, righteous God, He
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punished innocent Jesus in our place.
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It was like 1 huge swap. The worst of us, our sin, was
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laid on Jesus. He pays the price for it.
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Then the best of Jesus Christ is transferred to us.
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And just like in the picture, God takes our filthy garments
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and he lays them on Jesus. He pays the price for them.
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He rips apart our debt. He forgives us, washes away our
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sins, and then clothes us in Jesus Christ's perfect righteous
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robes. The Bible says he made him.
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That's Jesus who knew no sin to be sin so that we might inherit
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the righteousness of God. And that is what I'm asking you
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right now. Are you clothed in the
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righteousness of God? Are you wearing that rich robe
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of righteousness because you have asked Jesus to be your Lord
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and Savior? But hey, now, while we are on
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the subject of Thrones, I cannot wait to see your reaction when I
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tell you the true location on this earth of the throne of
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Satan. Because quite literally
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thousands of people have been misled about where it is.
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It's around 700 BC and the prophet Isaiah is sending us to
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ancient Babylon where we will find our next location on the
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map. In the book of Isaiah, we hear
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him predict the fall of the once glorious being known as Lucifer.
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Now please don't misunderstand me.
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It's clear from the primary interpretation of Isaiah 14 that
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this prophecy is against a human king, the king of Babylon.
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Historically, this fall took place in 539 BC when
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Belshazzar's reign ended and Darius the Mede captured
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Babylon, which then led to the empire's collapse.
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But listen to this. In this vision, it's obvious
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that there is a second meaning. Yes, the prophet saw something
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deeper than the defeat of an empire.
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He saw the defeat of the Prince of this world who works to
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influence the leaders, the nations, and to act contrary to
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the will of God. Interestingly, the phrase Son of
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the morning or Morningstar shows us that Satan tries to imitate
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Jesus Christ, who is known as the true bright Morningstar.
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And I think it is this very phrase that uncovers the king of
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Babylon to also be Satan because Jesus Christ himself said, I saw
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Satan fall like lightning from heaven, which really does seem
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to be an echo from this prophecy.
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So when Satan says I will be like the Most High, it reveals
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his secret strategy to copy and to oppose the one true God,
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Jehovah. And yet, just like the king of
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Babylon, Satan will one day be defeated.
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He'll be cast out of heaven for good.
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Wait a second, Joe. Are you trying to tell me that
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Satan hasn't yet been cast out of heaven already?
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Well, strap on your seatbelts, because we're about to go on a
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very bumpy ride. All right, we've just arrived
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back into heaven where we witness an epic battle take
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place between Michael and God's angels and Satan and the fallen
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angels. Who do you think wins?
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You've got it. Satan has deluded himself and
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thought that he could somehow beat God and he is quickly
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thrown out of heaven with his his fallen angels forever.
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I am embarrassed to admit this to you, but I always thought
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that this battle in Revelation 12 was the fall that happened
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right at the beginning and that there was only one.
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But it turns out I was actually wrong.
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Time and time again. My study showed me that this
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event is in the future, likely right in the middle of the
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tribulation. But if you thought that was
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crazy, it's nothing compared to what I'm going to tell you next.
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Satan is actually not in hell right now, and believe if it or
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not, he still has access to heaven.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, Joe, aren't you getting a little bit off the
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curb again? No, guys, I promise you study it
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for yourself. There are numerous occasions in
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the Bible where it is clear that Satan isn't barred from heaven
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and he still has some kind of access.
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I'll give you some examples like what we've just looked at.
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Remember Job One where Satan presents himself before God.
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And surely we've not already forgot Zechariah 3 where he
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points his arrows of accusation that Joshua.
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Then of course we've got proof that the devil isn't just locked
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away in hell because he appeared before Jesus in the wilderness.
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And then there is this less talked about verse in one Kings
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22 verse 21 where a spirit comes forward and stands before the
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Lord. Who was that spirit?
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Well, I think the strongest possibility is that it was
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Satan. I'm just so curious about this,
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and I know you are too. But how can Satan be barred from
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heaven in one passage of the Bible, but then in others we see
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him literally returning to heaven?
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Well there is it's 1 theory and I think it's worth mentioning.
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You may already know, but just in case you don't, the Apostle
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Paul talked about being caught up in the 3rd heaven and many
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Bible scholars teach that there are actually 3 realms of heaven.
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The 3rd heaven is the home of God where the Father and Jesus
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dwell. Then there's the second heaven
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called the celestial heaven which is the universe or outer
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space, the sun, the moon, the stars.
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And next we have the 1st heaven, which is known as the
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atmospheric heaven or trophosphere if we want to sound
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fancy. Alright, but I can hear you loud
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and clear though. Isn't that just the air we
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breathe? Absolutely.
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But it's interesting that the Greek word for air, oronos, is
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the same word used to describe the birds of the air.
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But it's also the same word used in James 5 verse 18 to describe
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heaven. So take all of that into your
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mind and then stop me if I get something wrong.
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It would appear from scripture that Satan is able to operate in
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the 1st and 2nd heaven. The Bible calls Satan the Prince
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of the power of the air, and it also tells us that those who are
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born again struggle with the powers against spiritual hosts
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of wickedness in the heavenly places.
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In other words, when it says the great red dragon who we know to
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be Satan, when it says he will be cast down to earth with his
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tail and he will drag 1/3 of the stars of heaven with him.
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I think a likely conclusion is that he has been thrown out of
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all the realms of heaven for good, and he will bring a whole
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bunch of stars from the celestial realm with him as a
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protest that he has been removed from heaven once and for all.
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This battle between Satan and his angels reveals another key
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part of Satan's secret strategy that he still uses today.
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He wants to get as many people together to rebel against the
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King of Kings, Jesus Christ. So let's add AT on our code
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word, which stands for treason. We're sailing north right now
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and we're going along the Lebanese coast until we reach
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the ancient harbour city of Tyre.
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This was once the jewel of Phoenicia.
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Here in about 586 BC, the prophet Ezekiel announces a
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massive warning. It's a little bit like what we
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saw towards the king of Babylon here.
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We've got a prophet and he's aiming his message, a public
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figure. But beneath his message is
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another warning from God to Satan himself.
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Ezekiel preaches against the Prince of Tyre, who has uttered
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something very, very dumb. He has just said I am God.
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You know, we've got a lot, a lot of new age people right now who
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have a similar mindset trying to make themselves like gods.
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But over to you. Who else believed they were
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gods? It was Lucifer.
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The unavoidable conclusion is this.
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When we read Ezekiel 28, we see that God created Lucifer as a
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very beautiful Angel. He was the most beautiful
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creature in all of God's creation.
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Big news, everyone. That cartoon Satan that we so
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often see with red horns, A pitchfork and a tail.
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It's not biblical. It's started in Greek mythology,
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taking inspiration from the Greek God Pan and a little bit
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of Zeus with his pitchfork. And then somehow medieval art
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adopted it. And now even the football club,
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Manchester United, who have a nickname called the Red Devils,
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they use it as their logo. But the real Satan, Lucifer, he
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was called the son of beauty. He was unlike anyone else.
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He was the son of the morning. He was unbelievably beautiful,
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incredibly wise. He was an anointed cherub.
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Now I'm going to show you something and I want you to
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figure it out. The Bible says the workmanship
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of your timbrels and pipes was created for you in the day you
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were created. Look carefully.
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It says your timbrels or thy pipes in the King James Version.
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Now do you see it? He was an organ.
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He was a tambourine. He didn't just play.
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It's almost as if he actually was that instrument.
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Am I the only one who gets this picture that it seems like he
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had these beautiful instruments and they were built into him?
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OK, here is the part that's going to leave you absolutely
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speechless. Satan was the one that led
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heaven into worship. He was the worship leader of
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myriads and myriads of angels in the heavenly courts.
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Why is this so important? Because we know that music has a
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tremendous influence on a person, and that is likely why
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Satan was able to lead such a rebellion in heaven.
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You know, as we've just seen, he was able to commit treason to
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get all of those angels to turn. Away from God Why?
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Because he had so much influence So here's the thing if I asked
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you which industry on earth right now has the most influence
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on the world, what would you say is it the acting industry?
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No. Is it the church?
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No is it the political sphere? No.
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It's the music industry. And that's why we see fans
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screaming, begging for selfies, autographs, and even bowing down
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in adoration to musicians. So could it be just tell me if
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I'm wrong right now? But could it be the the one who
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played music in heaven is now playing music on earth?
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And that is why you and I need to be so careful what kind of
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music we listen to. Because are these the beasts?
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Are these the notes that are leading us to worship the Lord
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God? Or are they leading us to do the
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very opposite, to worship Lucifer, the one who wants to
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turn everyone's attention away from the Lord God and towards
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himself? In a moment's time, we are not
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only going to see where Satan's throne on earth is, but we're
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also going to see Satan's secret strategy.
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So what do you think is our next letter in our code word?
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NN is our ninth word, and it stands for notes because Satan
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can easily lead you away with musical notes if you're not
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careful. Everything we need is almost
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ready to reveal Satan's strategy to the world.
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So let's run through the remaining few.
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Glide with me because we're back to the wilderness of Judea where
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we see Satan tempting Jesus. He tempts Christ three times.
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First, it turns stones into bread because Jesus was very
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hungry. Second, he tempts him to prove
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to the world that he is God who can call upon angels at the drop
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of a hat. And thirdly, he tempts him with
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all the kingdoms of the earth. It was an offer of glory before
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the cross. Have you thought about this
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before? I hadn't.
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But what I now see is that all three of these temptations have
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something in common. And it's this.
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The Evil 1 tempts Jesus with shortcuts as a way to bypass the
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will of God. And my dear friend, he will do
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the exact same with you if you let him.
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God at times tells us to wait for something, but then Satan
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presents us another option, something that's contrary to the
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will of God. And when this happens, you have
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a choice to make. Who will you obey?
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So take a look at this because that leaves us with our six
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letter T on our code word, which of course T stands for
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temptation. Hey, we're travelling to two
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locations right now. First, let's sweep across the
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Galilee where we're going to see the religious rulers of the day.
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The Pharisees accused Jesus of using the power of Beelzebub,
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that ancient Philistine God who became a high-ranking demon to
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the people of Israel. Put simply, they were saying
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Jesus was working for Satan, but Christ stopped them all in their
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tracks when he said every Kingdom divided against itself
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is laid waste. If Satan drives out Satan, he is
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divided against himself. How then will his Kingdom stand?
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All right, so hold that in your mind for a second, and then
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let's trek over to Jerusalem because we are going to witness
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Satan using precisely the same tactic.
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Here Jesus turns around to one of his disciples, Simon Peter,
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and says, Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat.
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But what does that even mean, Joe?
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Well, sifting like wheat was a metaphor for being shaken or
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broken down. During Bible times.
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Grain was powerfully sifted using a large sieve to separate
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what was pure from what was impure.
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So when Satan sought to sift Peter, he was really saying he
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wanted to shake his faith apart, to divide anything that loved
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God that was inside of him and show the world all of his
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failings. How do you and I apply this to
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ourselves? Then?
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I think it's very clear his God goal is to crush the faith of
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every believer and his best tool at doing this is through
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division, divide and conquer. This is almost getting a little
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exciting, isn't it? Because I will be amazed if
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anyone guesses the name of this invisible country or this
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strategy. But here's the first letter and
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it's D for divide. Guys, we need to hit the road
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again. Let's whirl over to Greece, to
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ancient Corin. Now we're going to meet a guy
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called the Apostle Paul. He's the man who wrote pretty
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much half of the New Testament, and if you don't know him yet,
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he is one of the Christian heroes of the faith.
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And yet he says that even he was bothered by Satan.
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Paul, writing a letter to the Church of Corinth, states that
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to keep him from pride, the Lord gave him a thorn in the flesh,
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what he calls a messenger of Satan to buff at him.
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We can't say for sure what this thorn in the flesh was, but what
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we can say for sure is that Paul asked for it to be removed, but
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the Lord said no because he was working a greater good through
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this evil messenger of Satan. What was this good?
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It was that God's grace might be displayed through weakness.
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May I go deeper? There is something very
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revealing about Satan's operations even here.
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Paul was exhausted by this thorn in the flesh.
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Whatever it was, it didn't leave him.
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It was constant. And it reminds us that Satan
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never sleeps in. He doesn't go on vacation.
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He doesn't take his foot off the gas.
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Why? Because he is persistent.
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So let's add P to our code word to remind you that you also must
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be persistent in prayer to keep Satan from gaining a foothold in
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your life. I was so taken aback the first
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time I heard about what happened to this man and his wife.
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Ananias and Sapphira were your average church members and they
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decided to sell a piece of property as a sort of church
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tithe to give to the Lord's work.
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But here's the sneaky part. They kept back part of the money
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whilst pretending to donate the entire amount to the early
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church. Ananias brought only a portion
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to the apostle but claimed it was the full sum.
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Peter confronted him and said Satan has filled his heart
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because he not only lied to men but to God.
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Immediately Ananias found himself in eternity with his
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wife tracing his footsteps. But here's my question to you.
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Does that seem harsh? On the surface level it might
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seem a little over the top to our generation.
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But what we don't understand is that God hates eye pleasers.
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And the real problem here is that Satan had gained access
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into Ananias's heart somehow and this thwarted his motivations to
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want to receive glory for himself and to also hide his sin
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before the church guys. That's why I believe I'm here
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today to warn someone in the church to be careful that Satan
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doesn't twist their motives by instigating an evil plan of how
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you can hide your sin from the people of God, but at the same
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time keep up the appearances before men.
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So that gives us an eye for our 12th letter, and it stands for
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In a moment's time. I'm going to show you all where
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Satan's throne is located. But first I want you to know how
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much I severely underestimated how active the devil is.
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He uses so many different tools as part of his strategy.
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Fly with me. Let's go to Asia Minor because
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in one Peter 5 we read that Satan, the adversary prowls
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around like a lion, seeking whom he may devour.
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This reveals something very, very important.
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Not only is it RE from our code word, and I wonder if anyone's
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figured out what this imaginary country could be yet.
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So he is for entrapment, but it also shows us that he is not
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like God. He is not omnipresent, meaning
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he can't be in two places at once.
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So when someone says Satan has tempted me, that might not be
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entirely true. But here's what you're probably
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thinking. Well, how can he tempt multiple
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people at once then? Well, he does it through his
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network of demons and fallen angels who he uses to carry out
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his strategy to G, and that's why he prowls or as the book of
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Job says, he walks to and fro across the earth.
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And it has made me think though, when something very serious
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happens in the world in the news, it's quite possible that
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the real Satan himself was standing there orchestrating
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those unthinkable things. If that challenge your thinking,
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well, here's another one for you.
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Some people say the devil tried to stop me, but is that
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biblically accurate? Well, actually it is.
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Shall we surge over to Thessalonica in Greece?
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Because it is here where we read that Paul wanted to visit the
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church here, but Satan hindered him.
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In other words, Satan can sometimes try to block us from
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doing the Lord's work. And that's why we'll add another
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letter. O to Satan's secret strategy.
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O is for obstruction. I am sorry if I'm repeating
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myself, but I do want to drift over to the Isle of Patmos
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because it is there we are going to watch the apostle pen these
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very words about Satan. He calls him the accused of the
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brethren. Now, I want to draw your
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attention back to this because so many times Christians write
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to me and they say I feel so guilty.
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I feel so unlovable. I feel like God has written me
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off. I've gone too far.
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I've committed too many sins. God could never love me.
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He could never forgive me. I'm sure that I'm not even a
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Christian anymore. Well, if that's you, I want to
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tell you something. Those thoughts, they don't come
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from the Lord very often. They come from the accuser
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because that's who he is. He's the accuser of the
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brethren. And so when I have a negative
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thought about myself, I have to stop myself in my tracks and
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ask, is this from the Holy Spirit?
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Is he convicting me? Or is this thought from Satan
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trying to deceive me into thinking that I'm no longer
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saved? So A stands for accuser and that
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means we only have two more left before I reveal this hidden
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strategy that Satan operates by. But I can assure you one thing,
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there is nothing secretive about the location of Satan's throne.
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It's a very real place. So here is the answer you've all
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been waiting for. Where is this mysterious place
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on Earth? I wonder whether I should tell
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you this, but there is a claim that's swirling around the
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Internet and it's completely false.
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And it goes like this. Now, the first part they
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actually get right in the Bible. It says, I know your works and
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where you dwell, where Satan's thrown in.
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And so the Bible goes on to talk about a faithful St. called
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Antipus and the place where he paid the ultimate price is also
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the place where Satan dwells. The first bit is accurate.
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If you find out where Antipus spent his final days, you can
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trace where Satan's throne is said to be.
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However, this is the part they get wrong.
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Literally thousands of people have been misled into believing
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that. This is in Geneva, Switzerland.
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My friend, I promise you I've researched this thoroughly and I
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see zero historical evidence supporting this claim.
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There's nothing credible about this except a few viral TikTok
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videos that all came out at the same time, which is just like
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we'd see with another trend. Alright Joe, so tell us, where
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do all the clues point to as the throne of Satan?
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If you type in Pergamon W Turkey into Google Earth, you will see
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this. And when you hear these three
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pieces of evidence, you will know there can be no other
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option. But here in Revelation 2 verse
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13, John writing to the Church of Pergamos plainly says it.
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Second, Pergamon was the centre of idolatrous worship, with
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grand temples to gods like Zeus and Athena, a notably as clear
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person, the God of healing whose trademark was a serpent coiled
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around his staff. And as you already know, Satan
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is likewise often depicted as a serpent.
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Third, it was a seat of the Roman imperial worship, with a
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temple dedicated to the Empress Caesar himself, who was a
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passionate promoter of emperor worship and demanded loyalty
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from the people, just like we've talked about earlier as part of
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Satan's evil strategy for us to exalt ourselves over God.
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All right, let's ask the obvious question here.
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If Pergamon is historically and biblically regarded as the
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throne of Satan, and it's certainly not Geneva, what on
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earth is this invisible country you've been barking on about all
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the way through this video, Joe? Well, it's time I introduced to
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you the plot twist of the century.
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In case you haven't realised, although Pergamon is the real
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location for the throne of Satan, what I've come up with in
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this video is an invisible country, if you like, an
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imaginary place where if Satan were to have a country or a code
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name, I think it'd be called this.
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And so as you and I have been working together throughout this
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video, we've created an acronym that I think every single one of
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you should write down and memorize so that we can be more
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aware of the strategy of Satan in our own lives.
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But there is a problem. The final letter that completes
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this code word is missing. So let's navigate back to the
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Isle of Patmos one last time to uncover Satan's final strategy.
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Here is the apostle, and he's caught up in the spirit where he
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sees 2. Very scary, scary things that
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will happen in the future. First, he sees Satan, who has
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been bound up for 1000 years in the abyss.
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And then later, he's released on the earth to perform all kinds
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of evil to the remaining people there.
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And then #2 he sees something even scarier.
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But let's just pause here for a moment because we've finally
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found our last letter from our acronym, and it's Y for Yoke.
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This represents the yoke that Satan was bound in, but also the
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yoke that he places on all of his citizens.
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This burden, this heaviness, all of us who live a life of sin, we
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will experience this. And yet, if you need freedom
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today, remember what Jesus himself said.
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If the sun sets you free, you shall be free indeed.
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OK, just before John shows us the scariest part of his vision,
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I'm curious, did anyone guess our code word earlier in this
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video? Because I do want you to write
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it down or screenshot this act so that next time you attempt
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it, you can see which of these strategies Satan might be using
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on you. And also, can I ask you this?
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Don't you agree? If Satan was to own a country,
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deceptionality would be a very fitting name.
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Hey, this next part's very important.
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So you might want to catch this. What was this second scary thing
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that John saw? He sees Satan and his angels
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cast into eternal fire where they will remain in hell
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forever. So just a minute, is being
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trapped in hell forever only for the devil and his angels?
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Or is it for every single person who doesn't believe and doesn't
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trust in Jesus Christ too? I wanted to be absolutely sure I
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got this right, so I went away and I studied nothing but this
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for an entire week. And here in this video, I shared
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my shocking conclusion about what the Bible actually teaches.