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Why Did One Third of the Angels Betray God After Lucifer Spoke to Them _ and What Did He Promise · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: One third of the angels betrayed God and chose Lucifer.
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  Speaker 1: Beings who stood in God's presence every single day, who
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  Speaker 1: had seen his glory with their own eyes, heard one speech,
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  Speaker 1: and walked away from their creator to follow someone else.
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  Speaker 1: That should be impossible. But it happened. And the most
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  Speaker 1: terrifying part is not that they left. The most terrifying
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  Speaker 1: part is what he said to make them go. Because
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  Speaker 1: nobody has fully answered that question. What did Lucifer promise
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  Speaker 1: a being who already lives in the presence of God
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  Speaker 1: that made eternity look like the wrong choice? Today we
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  Speaker 1: are going to find out exactly what that promise was.
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  Speaker 1: And by the end of this video, you will realize
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  Speaker 1: something that should shake you. He is making the exact
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  Speaker 1: same promise to you right now. There is a passage
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  Speaker 1: in the book of Ezekiel that most people have never
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  Speaker 1: read carefully. It appears in chapter 28, beginning at verse 12,
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  Speaker 1: and it is addressed to the king of Tyre, but
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  Speaker 1: its language transcends any earthly monarch. No human king was
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  Speaker 1: ever described like this. What Ezekiel records is a lament,
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  Speaker 1: God's own lament, over the being who was once the
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  Speaker 1: highest of all created things. You were the seal of perfection,
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  Speaker 1: full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. The seal of perfection.
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  Speaker 1: Not merely excellent. the standard by which perfection itself was
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  Speaker 1: measured among creatures, full of wisdom, not partial, not developing, full,
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  Speaker 1: and perfect in beauty, beauty without defect, without a single
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  Speaker 1: element out of place. You were in Eden, the garden
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  Speaker 1: of God. Every precious stone adorned you, ruby, topaz, and emerald, chrysolite, onyx,
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  Speaker 1: and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and beryl. nine stones, count them,
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  Speaker 1: nine precious stones adorning the highest angel. Now look at
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  Speaker 1: the high priest's breastplate in Exodus chapter 28. It carries
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  Speaker 1: twelve stones, one for each tribe of Israel. Lucifer had nine,
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  Speaker 1: he was missing three. His covering was magnificent, but it
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  Speaker 1: was never meant to be the final design. He was
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  Speaker 1: a draft, and somewhere in eternity, the finished version would
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  Speaker 1: not be an angel at all. It would be a man,
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  Speaker 1: the true high priest whose covering would be complete. The
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  Speaker 1: verse continues, Your settings and mountings were made of gold.
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  Speaker 1: On the day you were created, they were prepared. The
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew words here, tupim and nekabim, are translated by many
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  Speaker 1: scholars not as settings and mountings, but as timbrels and pipes,
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  Speaker 1: musical instruments, not instruments he played, Instruments he was. Music
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  Speaker 1: was woven into the structure of his being from the
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  Speaker 1: moment of his creation. He did not perform worship. He
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  Speaker 1: embodied it. Sound was built into him the way sight
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  Speaker 1: is built into an eye. He was the living instrument
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  Speaker 1: through which heaven's worship flowed. You were anointed as a
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  Speaker 1: guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on
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  Speaker 1: the holy mount of God. You walked among the fiery stones. Anointed. ordained.
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  Speaker 1: A guardian cherub, not one among many, but the anointed one,
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  Speaker 1: and the word covers, is critical. In the tabernacle, God
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  Speaker 1: commanded Moses to build the Ark of the Covenant with
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  Speaker 1: two golden cherubim on the mercy seat, their wings stretched
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  Speaker 1: over the place where God's presence dwelt. Hebrews chapter 8 says,
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  Speaker 1: The earthly tabernacle was a copy of the heavenly reality.
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  Speaker 1: The golden cherubim on the Ark were replicas of something
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  Speaker 1: that already existed in heaven. Lucifer may have been the original,
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  Speaker 1: the living canopy over the throne of God, his wings
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  Speaker 1: covering the very seat of the Almighty. And when he fell,
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  Speaker 1: that position was left empty. The gold replicas on the
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  Speaker 1: Ark were not decorations. They were memorials. You were blameless
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  Speaker 1: in your ways from the day you were created until
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  Speaker 1: wickedness was found in you. Until. That single word carries
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  Speaker 1: the weight of cosmic catastrophe. Everything before it is glory.
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  Speaker 1: Everything after it is ruin. Your heart became proud on
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  Speaker 1: account of your beauty and you corrupted your wisdom because
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  Speaker 1: of your splendor. The mechanism is surgical. Beauty led to self-admiration.
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  Speaker 1: Self-admiration led to pride. Pride corrupted wisdom, not destroyed it,
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  Speaker 1: corrupted it. The wisdom remained, but its orientation shifted. It
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  Speaker 1: was no longer directed toward God. It was directed toward self.
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  Speaker 1: The most brilliant mind in all creation turned inward, and
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  Speaker 1: what it found there was its own reflection, and it
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  Speaker 1: fell in love with what it saw. There is a
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  Speaker 1: word in the Hebrew text of Ezekiel 28 verse 16
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  Speaker 1: that scholars have debated for centuries. The word is rekulah,
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  Speaker 1: it is most commonly translated as trade or merchandise. But
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  Speaker 1: some Hebrew scholars read it as trafficking, not of goods,
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  Speaker 1: but of slander, whispered accusations, the methodical spreading of discontent
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  Speaker 1: among the other angels. If that reading is correct, then
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  Speaker 1: what Ezekiel describes is not merely a private fall. It
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  Speaker 1: is the first propaganda campaign. The highest angel did not
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  Speaker 1: simply rebel in his own heart. He went recruiting. He
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  Speaker 1: had everything. Wisdom without limit among creatures. Beauty without parallel.
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  Speaker 1: Access to the very presence of God. Music built into
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  Speaker 1: his body. Nine stones of glory set in place before
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  Speaker 1: time began. He was the living canopy over God's throne,
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  Speaker 1: and he decided it wasn't enough. The prophet Isaiah records
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  Speaker 1: five statements. Five declarations from the mouth of the one
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  Speaker 1: who would become the adversary. They appear in Isaiah chapter
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  Speaker 1: 14 verses 12 through 15. They are the most consequential
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  Speaker 1: words ever spoken by a created being. I will ascend
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  Speaker 1: to heaven. He wanted to go higher, not to worship,
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  Speaker 1: to occupy, to claim the domain of God as his own.
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  Speaker 1: I will raise my throne above the stars of God.
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  Speaker 1: The stars, the other angels. He wanted them beneath him,
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  Speaker 1: not alongside him, beneath him. The guardian became the aspiring tyrant.
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  Speaker 1: I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on
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  Speaker 1: the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon, the divine council, where
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  Speaker 1: God presided over the heavenly court. He did not want
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  Speaker 1: a seat at the table. He wanted the head of
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  Speaker 1: the table. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds.
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  Speaker 1: This was not about altitude. It was about category. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted to cross the boundary between creator and created. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted to stop being a creature altogether. I will make
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  Speaker 1: myself like the Most High. There it is. Equal to God.
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  Speaker 1: The same authority. The same worship. The same throne. Five
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  Speaker 1: times the creature said, I will. Not once did he say,
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  Speaker 1: God wills. The entire rebellion is contained in a two-letter word. I.
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  Speaker 1: The most dangerous word ever spoken was not a curse.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pronoun. But a third of the angelic
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  Speaker 1: host did not follow a mission statement. They followed an argument.
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  Speaker 1: And while Scripture does not record the precise words, it
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  Speaker 1: gives us enough to reconstruct the shape of what he said.
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  Speaker 1: Because we see the same arguments used on humanity in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 3, and Paul identifies the same patterns of deception
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  Speaker 1: throughout his letters. The first argument, God is a tyrant
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  Speaker 1: who demands servile worship. Take the most natural act in reality,
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  Speaker 1: a creature worshipping its creator, and reframe it as subjugation,
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  Speaker 1: as slavery. The genius of the lie was that it
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  Speaker 1: did not attack worship by calling it evil. It attacked
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  Speaker 1: worship by calling it beneath them. The second, we deserve autonomy.
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  Speaker 1: Why should beings of our stature kneel? This is the
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  Speaker 1: appeal to dignity. Twisted. Real dignity comes from knowing your
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  Speaker 1: place in relation to God. False dignity says your place
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  Speaker 1: should be higher. The third, God is withholding from you.
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  Speaker 1: The same lie he told Eve in the garden. Did
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  Speaker 1: God really say? The implication is always the same. There
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  Speaker 1: is something better on the other side of obedience, and
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  Speaker 1: he does not want you to have it. The fourth,
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  Speaker 1: Worship should not be mandatory. It sounds like a defense
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  Speaker 1: of free will. It is actually the abolition of purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The fifth, follow me and I will give you something
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  Speaker 1: God never will. An alternative kingdom where your gifts are
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  Speaker 1: your own, not borrowed, where you answer to no one.
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  Speaker 1: But there may have been something else, something that pushed
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  Speaker 1: the wavering over the edge. A significant tradition within Catholic
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  Speaker 1: and Orthodox theology holds that God revealed to the angels
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  Speaker 1: before the fall his plan for the incarnation. The Son
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  Speaker 1: of God would take on human flesh. He would become
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  Speaker 1: a man. And through his death and resurrection, he would
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  Speaker 1: redeem humanity and raise them to a status that would,
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  Speaker 1: in some ways, exceed that of the angels themselves. Consider
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  Speaker 1: what that would have meant to a being like Lucifer,
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  Speaker 1: superior beings of fire and light and pure intellect, told
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  Speaker 1: that God would lower himself to become flesh and told
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  Speaker 1: that the creatures made from dust, the ones who would
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  Speaker 1: stumble and sin and fail, would be the ones God
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  Speaker 1: chose to redeem, told that they, the angels, would become
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  Speaker 1: what the letter to the Hebrews calls ministering spirits sent
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  Speaker 1: to serve those who will inherit salvation, servants of humans.
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  Speaker 1: Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 6.3, Do you not know
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  Speaker 1: that we will judge angels? For the highest angel in
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  Speaker 1: all creation to watch lesser beings receive the ultimate honor,
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  Speaker 1: to see creatures made of clay elevated above creatures made
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  Speaker 1: of fire, that may have been the trigger, not the
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  Speaker 1: only cause, but the one that turned simmering pride into
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  Speaker 1: open revolt. And if that tradition is correct, then the
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  Speaker 1: angels may not have rebelled because they hated God. They
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  Speaker 1: may have rebelled because they could not accept that God
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  Speaker 1: loved us that much. And remember those nine stones. Lucifer's
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  Speaker 1: covering was nine. The complete covering, the high priest's breastplate,
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  Speaker 1: was twelve. He was always the draft. Never the final design.
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  Speaker 1: And now he was being told that the finished version
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  Speaker 1: would not even be an angel. It would be a
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  Speaker 1: man from Bethlehem. A carpenter's son. A creature of dust
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  Speaker 1: and blood. who would carry the full twelve, the complete priesthood,
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  Speaker 1: the permanent mediation, while the being with nine stones was
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  Speaker 1: asked to kneel. That was the pitch. And a third
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  Speaker 1: of heaven bought it. Why would beings who could see God,
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  Speaker 1: not through faith, not through inference, but directly, face to face,
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  Speaker 1: choose a lie? Augustine of Hippo spent decades on this question. Evil,
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  Speaker 1: he argued, is not a thing. It is a privation.
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  Speaker 1: the absence of good, the way darkness is the absence
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  Speaker 1: of light. The evil will has no efficient cause, only
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  Speaker 1: what Augustine called a deficient cause, a turning away, a subtraction.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing made them rebel. They unmade themselves. They chose less
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  Speaker 1: when they already had everything. Aquinas refined it further. They
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  Speaker 1: desired something genuinely good, beatitude, fulfillment, but through the wrong means.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted the joy that comes from God without the
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  Speaker 1: submission that comes with being a creature of God. They
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  Speaker 1: wanted the gift without the giver. And Aquinas put it
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  Speaker 1: with devastating clarity. The greatest gifts create the greatest temptation
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  Speaker 1: to pride. C.S. Lewis understood this instinctively. Pride, he wrote,
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  Speaker 1: is the complete anti-God state of mind. Unlike lust or gluttony,
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  Speaker 1: it is purely spiritual. It does not need a body.
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  Speaker 1: It comes, as Lewis put it, direct from hell, the
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  Speaker 1: one vice that can operate in a being of pure
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  Speaker 1: intellect with no flesh, no hunger, no weakness of any kind.
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  Speaker 1: Once pride took hold in the highest angelic mind, that
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  Speaker 1: vast intelligence became a tool for self-deception. Brilliance in the
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  Speaker 1: service of a lie is more dangerous than ignorance ever
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  Speaker 1: could be. Here's the paradox at the center of this catastrophe.
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  Speaker 1: Perfection itself was the raw material of the fall. Every
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  Speaker 1: gift was genuinely given by God. But the greater the gift,
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  Speaker 1: the greater the temptation to mistake the gift for the giver.
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  Speaker 1: To gaze at your own splendor and conclude that you
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  Speaker 1: are its source. They did not rebel because they could
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  Speaker 1: not see God. They rebelled because they could see themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Were they deceived? The Talmud records. He knew his master
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  Speaker 1: and intentionally rebelled against him. These were the most intelligent
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  Speaker 1: created minds in existence, operating with direct knowledge of God's nature.
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  Speaker 1: They understood what they were rejecting, and they chose rebellion anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But not everyone fell. Two-thirds of the angelic host stood firm.
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  Speaker 1: And one of them stepped forward, not with a speech,
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  Speaker 1: not with a counter-argument, not with a theological treatise, but
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  Speaker 1: with a single question that would end the war before
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  Speaker 1: the first blow was struck. His name was not a name,
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  Speaker 1: it was a question. Michael. In Hebrew, Mikael. Who is
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  Speaker 1: like God? That is what he carried into battle. Not
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  Speaker 1: a sword, not a declaration, a question, and it was
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  Speaker 1: the only weapon he needed. Five I will statements from Satan.
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  Speaker 1: One question from Michael. The question one. The book of Revelation,
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  Speaker 1: chapter 12, verses 7 through 9. Then war broke out
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  Speaker 1: in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon,
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  Speaker 1: and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he
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  Speaker 1: was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: The great dragon was hurled down. That ancient serpent called
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  Speaker 1: the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray.
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  Speaker 1: He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
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  Speaker 1: He was not strong enough. The seal of perfection, full
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  Speaker 1: of wisdom, perfect in beauty, anointed guardian cherub, and he
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  Speaker 1: was not strong enough. All that splendor enlisted in the
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  Speaker 1: cause of rebellion, and it was not enough. Why Michael?
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  Speaker 1: Why not God himself? because that is precisely the point.
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  Speaker 1: God using his full power against Lucifer would not have
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  Speaker 1: been a fight. It would have been annihilation. By sending Michael,
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  Speaker 1: a fellow angel, a being of the same created order,
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  Speaker 1: God demonstrated something far more devastating than raw power. Obedience
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  Speaker 1: is stronger than rebellion. A lesser angel, empowered by God,
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  Speaker 1: defeated the greatest angel operating on his own. Michael's victory
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  Speaker 1: was a testament to the power that flows through any
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  Speaker 1: creature who remains aligned with its creator. And there is
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  Speaker 1: a detail that Jesus himself provides. Luke 10, verse 18.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I saw. Not,
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  Speaker 1: I was told. Not, it is written. He was there.
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  Speaker 1: He personally witnessed the highest angel choose rebellion and get
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  Speaker 1: hurled from the heights. Lightning? instantaneous, total, one moment at
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  Speaker 1: the throne, the next, cast down. The speed itself is
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  Speaker 1: a judgment, and the one who watched Satan fall for
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  Speaker 1: refusing to accept God in human flesh, later became human flesh.
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  Speaker 1: He did the very thing that triggered the revolt. The
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  Speaker 1: carpenter from Nazareth, hanging on a cross in borrowed blood,
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  Speaker 1: was the same one who watched the most magnificent creature
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  Speaker 1: in heaven refuse to kneel before what he would become.
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  Speaker 1: And he became it anyway. On purpose. Now, the two-thirds
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  Speaker 1: who stayed. Imagine being an angel of lesser rank. Watching
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  Speaker 1: the highest being in all creation, more brilliant than you,
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  Speaker 1: more beautiful, more powerful, make his case. Feeling the logic.
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  Speaker 1: Sensing the pull. and having to decide whether to trust
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  Speaker 1: what you can see, his splendor, his confidence, or what
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  Speaker 1: you know, that the gifts came from somewhere, and the
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  Speaker 1: giver is still on the throne. They said no, not
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  Speaker 1: because they understood everything, not because they had answers to
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  Speaker 1: every question Lucifer raised, but because they knew something he
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  Speaker 1: had forgotten. The gifts came from somewhere, and the proper
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  Speaker 1: response to a gift is not to seize the throne
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  Speaker 1: of the giver, but the two-thirds won and lost at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. A third of the beings they had
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  Speaker 1: existed alongside since creation, gone, not dead, corrupted, turned into
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  Speaker 1: the enemy they would fight for eternity. They won the war.
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  Speaker 1: They lost their brothers. Paul calls them the elect angels,
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  Speaker 1: 1 Timothy 5, 21. They stood not because they were
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  Speaker 1: smarter than Lucifer, He was apparently the highest, the brightest,
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  Speaker 1: the most gifted. The loyalists were humbler. And humility in
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  Speaker 1: the economy of heaven turns out to be the only
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  Speaker 1: thing that separates the standing from the fallen. After the war,
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  Speaker 1: they were confirmed in holiness. Their wills permanently aligned with God.
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  Speaker 1: Not because God overrode their freedom, but because having freely
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  Speaker 1: chosen God at the moment of ultimate testing, their choice
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  Speaker 1: became the settled orientation of their being. Both choices, loyalty
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  Speaker 1: and treachery, were made with full knowledge. Both are permanent.
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  Speaker 1: And that permanence, on both sides, brings us to the
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  Speaker 1: most difficult question in this entire story, a question most
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  Speaker 1: people are afraid to ask. Why can they never come back?
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  Speaker 1: Aquinas addressed this with the kind of precision that leaves
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  Speaker 1: no room for sentiment. His argument is not comforting, It
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  Speaker 1: is devastating. and it is logically airtight. Angels are purely
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  Speaker 1: intellectual beings. They do not reason the way humans reason.
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  Speaker 1: A human works through problems step by step, gathering evidence,
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  Speaker 1: weighing options, reconsidering. Human thought is discursive. It moves from
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  Speaker 1: premise to premise, often slowly, often influenced by emotion, fatigue,
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  Speaker 1: or ignorance. Angels do not think like this. They grasp
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  Speaker 1: truth intuitively, totally, and instantaneously. An angel does not work
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  Speaker 1: out a conclusion. An angel sees the way you see
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  Speaker 1: a wall in front of you. Not through argument, but
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  Speaker 1: through immediate total apprehension, all at once, completely, without the
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  Speaker 1: fog that accompanies every human deliberation. This means that when
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  Speaker 1: an angel chooses, it chooses with its entire being, not partially,
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  Speaker 1: not tentatively. It is made with full knowledge, full awareness,
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  Speaker 1: and full consent of the will. There is no, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize. There is no, I was misled. Everything a
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  Speaker 1: fallen angel would need to know in order to repent,
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  Speaker 1: it already knew at the moment of its rebellion. There
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  Speaker 1: is nothing new to learn, no fresh evidence, no angle
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  Speaker 1: it failed to consider, no consequence it failed to foresee.
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  Speaker 1: That is why the choice is permanent. Not because God
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  Speaker 1: refuses to forgive, but because the fallen angels are incapable
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  Speaker 1: of wanting forgiveness. There is no part left uncorrupted that
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  Speaker 1: might reach toward repentance. A human can repent because a
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  Speaker 1: human can learn something new and so an angel has
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  Speaker 1: no such mechanism. The choice was the final word and
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  Speaker 1: it echoes without end. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 16 For
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  Speaker 1: surely it is not angels he helps but Abraham's descendants.
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  Speaker 1: Christ assumed human nature not angelic nature. There is no
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  Speaker 1: incarnation for them, no cross on their behalf. The door
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  Speaker 1: that opened for humanity was never opened for fallen angels,
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  Speaker 1: not because God lacks the power, but because the nature
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  Speaker 1: of angelic choice makes repentance impossible. Among the fallen, there
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  Speaker 1: are two categories. Some are bound, imprisoned in what Peter
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  Speaker 1: calls Tartarus, held in chains of darkness. These crossed an
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  Speaker 1: additional line the transgression of Genesis chapter 6, the sons
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  Speaker 1: of God who took the daughters of men. They are
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  Speaker 1: held for judgment. Others are free. The principalities and powers
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  Speaker 1: that Paul describes in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12, rulers, authorities,
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  Speaker 1: powers of this dark world, and spiritual forces of evil
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  Speaker 1: in the heavenly realms. These are the ones still active,
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  Speaker 1: still opposing, Still running variations of the same five arguments
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  Speaker 1: that worked in heaven. Still whispering the same lie. God
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  Speaker 1: is withholding. You deserve more. Worship is slavery. You can
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  Speaker 1: be your own god. The war that began in heaven
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  Speaker 1: did not end when the dragon was cast down. It moved.
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  Speaker 1: It relocated. And its new theater of operations is the
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  Speaker 1: human heart. Everything you have just heard is not ancient history.
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  Speaker 1: It is a mirror, because the five arguments that emptied
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  Speaker 1: a third of heaven are being whispered to you right now. Today,
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  Speaker 1: in your own voice, God demands too much. You have
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  Speaker 1: thought that. That was the first argument. You deserve to
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  Speaker 1: run your own life. You have felt that. The quiet
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  Speaker 1: resentment when Scripture contradicts something you want. That was the
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  Speaker 1: second argument. And it did not come from you. God
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  Speaker 1: is withholding from you. You have believed that. When the
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  Speaker 1: prayer went unanswered. When the door stayed closed. That was
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  Speaker 1: the third argument. The same lie the serpent told Eve.
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  Speaker 1: Worship is optional. You have told yourself that. Not out loud.
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  Speaker 1: But in the slow erosion of prayer. You did not
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  Speaker 1: announce your departure. You simply stopped showing up. That was
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  Speaker 1: the fourth argument. You can build your own kingdoms. You
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  Speaker 1: have tried that. You know exactly how it ended. Five arguments.
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  Speaker 1: The same five that emptied heaven. Running on repeat in
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  Speaker 1: the life of every person watching this video. But here
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  Speaker 1: is the revelation the enemy does not want you to hear.
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  Speaker 1: You can turn around. The fallen angels cannot. Their rebellion
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  Speaker 1: was complete and their damnation is permanent. The door closed
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  Speaker 1: behind them and it will never open again. But you,
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  Speaker 1: you are not an angel. You are a creature who
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  Speaker 1: gets it wrong and wakes up the next morning and
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  Speaker 1: gets the chance to choose again. Your weakness, the inconsistency,
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  Speaker 1: the failure, the fact that you cannot seem to get
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  Speaker 1: it right. That weakness is the crack through which grace enters.
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  Speaker 1: You are full of cracks. And that is exactly where
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  Speaker 1: the light gets in. Christ didn't become an angel. He
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  Speaker 1: became a man, dust and blood and bone that bruises,
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  Speaker 1: because human nature is the nature he came to redeem.
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  Speaker 1: The door that is permanently closed to fallen angels is
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  Speaker 1: permanently open to you. Not because you deserve it, because
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  Speaker 1: he chose it. Every time you turn back to God,
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  Speaker 1: every single time, no matter how many times you have
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  Speaker 1: turned away, you are doing something that the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: created beings in the universe are incapable of doing. The
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  Speaker 1: fallen angels were too perfect to repent. You are broken
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  Speaker 1: enough to be saved. Let that sink in. Now, there
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  Speaker 1: is one more thing, and it may be the most
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  Speaker 1: important detail in this entire video. When Lucifer fell, heaven
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  Speaker 1: lost its worship leader. Music was built into his body.
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  Speaker 1: Timbrels and pipes prepared on the day of his creation.
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  Speaker 1: Worship flowed through him the way light flows through glass.
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  Speaker 1: He did not choose to worship. He was designed for it.
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  Speaker 1: It cost him nothing. It was as effortless as breathing.
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  Speaker 1: And when he was cast down, that capacity was corrupted.
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  Speaker 1: The instrument left the building. The position was vacated. Heaven
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  Speaker 1: had a gap. And then God created humans and gave
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  Speaker 1: them the ability to sing. Psalm 8, verse 2. Out
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  Speaker 1: of the mouths of babes and infants you have ordained praise.
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  Speaker 1: not out of the mouths of perfect angels, not out
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  Speaker 1: of the mouths of beings made of fire and light, babes, infants,
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  Speaker 1: the weakest, smallest, most fragile creatures on earth. That is
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  Speaker 1: where God ordained his praise to come from. Do you
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  Speaker 1: understand what that means? The most magnificent worship leader who
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  Speaker 1: ever existed, a being covered in nine precious stones with
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  Speaker 1: music woven into his very structure, who walked among the
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  Speaker 1: fiery stones and stood as a living canopy over the
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  Speaker 1: throne of God, was replaced by you, a creature made
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  Speaker 1: of dust, a person who forgets to pray, a heart
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  Speaker 1: that wanders, a voice that cracks, a life that has
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  Speaker 1: failed more times than it has succeeded, and God says,
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  Speaker 1: that is exactly what I want. Because your worship costs
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  Speaker 1: you something that Lucifer's never did. His worship was effortless.
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  Speaker 1: Yours comes from struggle. His came from position. Yours comes
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  Speaker 1: from surrender. His was the natural output of a being
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  Speaker 1: designed for praise. Yours is a choice, made from a
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  Speaker 1: body that is tired, from a mind that is distracted,
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  Speaker 1: from a heart that has every reason to walk away
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  Speaker 1: and chooses to stay. And that choice, that costly, imperfect,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes whispered, sometimes tearful, Sometimes barely audible choice to worship
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  Speaker 1: God when worship is the last thing you feel like doing.
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  Speaker 1: That is worth more to heaven than the flawless praise
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  Speaker 1: of the highest angel who ever lived. Because it is
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  Speaker 1: not perfection that moves the heart of God. It is willingness.
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  Speaker 1: It has always been willingness. And that is why the
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  Speaker 1: enemy fights your worship harder than he fights anything else
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  Speaker 1: in your life. He will let you succeed. He will
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  Speaker 1: let you accumulate. He will let you build. But the
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  Speaker 1: moment you open your mouth to praise God, every weapon
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  Speaker 1: turns in your direction. Because worship is the one thing
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  Speaker 1: he was built to do. It was his position, his identity,
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  Speaker 1: his purpose. And every time you do it, freely, imperfectly,
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  Speaker 1: from a body made of dust and a heart that
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  Speaker 1: still struggles, you are standing in the gap that he left.
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  Speaker 1: You are filling the role that he abandoned. And you
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  Speaker 1: are proving to every principality and power that watched him fall,
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  Speaker 1: that God does not need perfection to receive praise. He
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  Speaker 1: just needs you. The greatest gift became the greatest snare.
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  Speaker 1: Lucifer looked at his own splendor and forgot where it
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  Speaker 1: came from. His beauty became his prison. His wisdom became
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  Speaker 1: his weapon. turned against the one who gave it. But
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  Speaker 1: you have something he never had. You have the ability
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  Speaker 1: to look at your own brokenness and say, I did
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  Speaker 1: not make myself. I cannot save myself. And the gifts
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  Speaker 1: I carry are not mine. They are borrowed light from
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  Speaker 1: a God who loved me before I loved him back.
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  Speaker 1: That is humility. And humility is the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: separated the angels who stood from the angel who fell.
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  Speaker 1: Not intelligence. Not power. Not beauty. Humility. The simple, devastating
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  Speaker 1: acknowledgement that you are not the source. The question has
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  Speaker 1: never changed. It has always been the same question that
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  Speaker 1: Michael asked in the halls of heaven before the world began.
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  Speaker 1: Who is like God? Not you. Not me. Not the
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  Speaker 1: highest angel ever created. Nobody. Nothing. No created being in
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  Speaker 1: all of existence is like God. And the moment you
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  Speaker 1: truly believe that, not as theology, not as doctrine, but
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  Speaker 1: as the deepest truth your heart has ever held, everything changes.
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  Speaker 1: The arguments lose their power. The five whispers go silent,
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  Speaker 1: and the gap that Lucifer left begins to fill. With
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  Speaker 1: your voice, with your surrender, with your broken, beautiful, costly praise.
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  Speaker 1: That is the revelation. The enemy fell because he could
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  Speaker 1: not bow. You stand because you can. Take a moment
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