1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,119 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,240 Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,400 County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,720 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,800 If we can eliminate the Holy Trinity and replace it with the 6 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:47,400 Unholy Trinity, then the powers that be on the earth at that 7 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,800 particular time will be able to bring astounding deceptions and 8 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:55,200 confusion to everyone who's on the face of the earth. 9 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,080 This particular beast speaks like a dragon, and basically 10 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,800 he's speaking the same messages of the first beast who 11 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,640 blasphemes. Got the whole idea and it won't 12 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,280 be in your face initially, it'll be more subtle. 13 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,120 My wife loves to watch dramas on TVI find it funny that something 14 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,960 like that is appealing but nonetheless what I find even 15 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:19,960 crazier is how 1 little lie can cause someone to believe 16 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:23,840 something that isn't true. These people go around spreading 17 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,000 gossip to try to win people over to believe their story. 18 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,080 In today's message, Pastor Clark warns you of the lies that the 19 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,080 enemy will spread. He wants to make sin not seem 20 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,760 that bad. So what he does is he'll slowly 21 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,600 drip it into everything that you consume. 22 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,400 Now here's Pastor Clark in the Book of Revelation chapter 13 23 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,880 with today's edition of Living Waters of Grace. 24 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,440 Revelation chapter 13, verse 11. Then I saw another beast coming 25 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,400 up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and spoke 26 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,360 like a dragon. And he exercises all the 27 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,560 authority of the first beasts in his presence, and causes the 28 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,960 earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast. 29 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,320 Beast whose deadly wound was healed. 30 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,480 He performs great signs, so that he even makes the fire come down 31 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,080 from heaven on the earth and the sight of men. 32 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,160 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs, 33 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,880 which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling 34 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,200 those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who 35 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,120 was wounded by the sword and lived. 36 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,280 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the 37 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,240 beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and 38 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,640 'cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast 39 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:42,600 to be killed. He causes all, both small and 40 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,720 great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on 41 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,920 their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may 42 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:52,280 buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the 43 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,240 beast, or the number of his name. 44 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,320 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding 45 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,200 calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a 46 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,040 man. His number is 666. 47 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:10,120 Today we're going to examine the issues of what's going to happen 48 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,680 in this world in these days ahead, what's happening in our 49 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,880 culture today. There's a dumbing down of 50 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,520 America and it starts, unfortunately, in many of the 51 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,920 churches in our country where there's a movement away from the 52 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:29,760 teaching of the Bible and more of a movement into what's hip or 53 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,040 what's cool or what people seem to be interested in. 54 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,880 And what happens as people move away from the Scriptures in the 55 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,520 Bible, they move more into this philosophy of what we call 56 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,320 humanism. And humanism is you would say 57 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,880 today, hey, Clark, this is my opinion or this is what I think 58 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,440 about life and this is who I think God is, if there's even a 59 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,040 God that exists. And this is my truth. 60 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,000 And and then I would tell you, well, this is my truth. 61 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,280 And we would shake hands and say, well, that's cool. 62 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:59,680 You know, your truth is your truth. 63 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:02,480 My truth is my truth. So we can all get along with 64 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,120 each other, right? This agree to disagree and and 65 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,040 just move on. And that's unfortunately what's 66 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,160 happening in churches nowadays. There's a movement away from 67 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,200 historical perspective regarding the second coming of Christ, end 68 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,959 times, final judgment. I mean, there's churches today 69 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:20,000 that are teaching that there's other ways to heaven than Jesus 70 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,959 Christ. Churches that teach that there 71 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:25,520 is no literal hell, there is no punishment for those who die 72 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,720 without Christ. And so what's happening as you 73 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:34,680 see the culture changing, it's becoming more fashionable to not 74 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,040 be spiritual in regard to knowing Jesus Christ, being 75 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,000 spiritual in regard to like whatever you want to believe, 76 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,440 Buddha, Krishna, a new age, whatever, that's okay. 77 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,920 But in regard to bringing up the name of Jesus Christ, that 78 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:52,560 that's verbatim, that's almost getting to the point of being 79 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,120 culturally unacceptable, right? Or politically incorrect. 80 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,040 That's sort of where things are right now. 81 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,520 And so as a result of that, there's this dumbing down. 82 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,320 Now, if you as a student of the Scriptures aren't astute 83 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,480 yourself to study these things yourself, you're going to be 84 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,680 swept down the same path that the majority of people out there 85 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,520 today are on. Just do is your own survey with 86 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,400 people you work with or people you go to school with or your 87 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:20,040 neighbors, just that, you know, like curiosity. 88 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:21,680 Hey, what do you think about the Bible? 89 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,560 And they'll they'll give you some pretty bizarre thoughts. 90 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:25,440 Who do you think Jesus Christ is? 91 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,280 What do you think about the end of the world? 92 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,120 What do you think about you think Christ is going to come 93 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:34,080 back again and it'll stand you at where people's thoughts and 94 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:35,920 minds are regarding this subject. 95 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:40,200 And so you can see when Jesus speaks to the apostle Paul and 96 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,360 says he's going to send God will send a strong of delusion to 97 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,040 people that they'll believe a lie rather than the truth. 98 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,560 The culture is already being set up, right to understand this 99 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,480 concept of whatever you want to believe is OK. 100 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,960 Relativism is also called truth is relative. 101 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,440 Your truth is your truth. My truth is my truth. 102 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,920 But we can't go by people's opinions. 103 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,760 We have to go by this book. This is the truth. 104 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,120 Jesus is the truth. He said I am the way, I am the 105 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:11,280 truth. I am the light. 106 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,160 No man comes to the Father but through me. 107 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,280 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is 108 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:21,160 profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction and 109 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,240 instruction and righteousness that the people of God may be 110 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,760 thoroughly furnished. In other words, being equipped 111 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,920 and prepared to know the difference between a lie, 112 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:33,800 deception, and the truth. So we look at verse 11 here. 113 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,840 It's speaking about this beast coming up out of the earth. 114 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,240 There's two beasts, one in this section of Scripture today that 115 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,920 comes up out of the earth and one that comes up out of the 116 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,400 sea. This particular beast is 117 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,360 different than the first beast that came out of the sea. 118 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,440 This second beast is coming up out of the earth and he has a 119 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,200 lamb like appearance. Here it says he has horns like a 120 00:06:55,200 --> 00:07:00,560 lamb and spoke like a dragon. The first beast was described as 121 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,160 looking like a leopard. This beast is described as being 122 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,560 some similar to the likeness of a lamb. 123 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:10,760 This particular beast is subordinate to the first beast. 124 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:15,120 If you look in verse 12, it says this beast exercises all the 125 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,600 authority of the first beast in his presence and causes the 126 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,240 earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast whose 127 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:26,480 deadly wound was healed. So the focus of this individual 128 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,040 is to pay homage to the Antichrist. 129 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,000 This particular beast we're reading about here is referred 130 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,280 to also as the false prophet, and he'll be the person that 131 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,440 does all the PR work for the the Antichrist. 132 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:43,200 Now we see in verse 11 it talks about this beast having two 133 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,920 horns and we believe that these horns represent power in two 134 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:53,120 different realms, political power and religious power. 135 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:58,320 The last days will represent A1 world church and a one world 136 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,400 government. It's amazing right now the 137 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,360 negotiations that are going on around the world with world 138 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,680 powers and G20 summits and that kind of stuff. 139 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,040 There's an issue right now, as I talked last week about the 140 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,880 problem with the euro and the dollar and the 1:00 and all 141 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,560 these different currencies. And until there's really one 142 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,920 currency, we're going to have chaos economically. 143 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:22,320 Now the most pragmatic thing to do from a financial perspective 144 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,000 logically would be to have a world currency so that the 145 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,680 markets can be balanced. But the intention of that isn't 146 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,480 to cause prosperity in the sense of long term Kingdom of Earth 147 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:38,320 type mentality, but it's to give someone the ability to 148 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,640 politically roll the financial markets from one location and 149 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,440 that we'll all be in submission to that new particular financial 150 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,480 setup. Also the one world church, 151 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,560 there's this movement today to integrate all spirituality 152 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,360 together. You know, it doesn't matter if 153 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,320 you're Hindu or Islam or Buddhist or, you know, a 154 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,240 Christian. There's this mindset now that if 155 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,480 we could just have one church and everybody would sort of get 156 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,800 along together and we decide like, what are the main things 157 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,160 we should all agree on? Well, we should love one another 158 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,440 and we shouldn't hate and we shouldn't steal and we shouldn't 159 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,360 kill. Those are pretty obvious in in 160 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,160 most world religions. But the idea of eliminating the 161 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:23,280 concept or the truth of a real God and a real Savior and a real 162 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:28,760 Holy Spirit, if we can eliminate the Holy Trinity and replace it 163 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:34,440 with the unholy Trinity, then the powers that be on the earth 164 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,560 at that particular time will be able to bring astounding 165 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:41,800 deceptions and confusion to everyone who's on the face of 166 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,120 the earth. This particular beast speaks 167 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,800 like a dragon, and basically he's speaking the same messages 168 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,960 of the first beast who blasphemes God. 169 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,240 The whole idea, and it won't be in your face initially, it'll be 170 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:58,560 more subtle. We have to give equal time to 171 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:02,920 other world religions. We have to allow the Dalai Lama 172 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,600 to have his ability to speak to the United Nations. 173 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:10,440 We have to have the Enman, the Islamic leader, have the ability 174 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,480 to communicate his vision for World Peace in these last days. 175 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:17,960 And so all these different entities will be rising up to 176 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:22,480 have a a vocal word and they'll basically by their character and 177 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:27,360 their demeanor and by their denial of who Jesus Christ is be 178 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,120 blaspheming the truth of who who God is in Christ. 179 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:35,040 The name of Christ will become more and more commonly used just 180 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,440 in swear words and not worship jokes movies. 181 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,440 I'm astounded if you go to a secular movie nowadays. 182 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,760 And I don't go to too many of them unless I really screen what 183 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,640 they're about and and what the verbiage is. 184 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,640 And most of them unfortunately aren't worth a whole lot, but 185 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:51,920 it's astounding. You can be going to a good movie 186 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,400 and say, well, this movie has some depth and some meaning and 187 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,360 it's interesting. And they have to use the Lord's 188 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,680 name in vain. It's so out of context at this. 189 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,560 Like it's like, you know, people, they take their 190 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:03,640 fingernails on a chalkboard. You know how that makes you feel 191 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,760 like weird? You know, it's like it does hit 192 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,440 you that way. If you love Christ, you can't 193 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,000 stand hearing his name used in vain. 194 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,640 It's just so inappropriate. And and you'll say, well, why 195 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:14,880 would they have to have that word in the midst of the movie? 196 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:19,440 Well, the media in the fallen world has an agenda and every in 197 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:23,160 the music and the movies and the literature is to defame the 198 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,120 person of Jesus Christ and to blasphemy him. 199 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,160 The second beast is also called the false prophet in Revelation 200 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:34,760 1613 chapter 19 verse 20 and chapter 20 verse 10. 201 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,840 He's distinct from the first beast, the Antichrist and the 202 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:46,640 dragon, who is Satan himself. Now with the dragon, we see the 203 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,680 beasts rising from the sea, who is referred to as the 204 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:52,320 Antichrist. And then we see as we're 205 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,680 studying here in this section of scripture, the false prophet. 206 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:00,600 This beast comes up out of the earth again, the unholy Trinity, 207 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:05,000 the dragon is the anti father Satan, the beast. 208 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,400 Coming up out of the sea is the Antichrist. 209 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,840 And the beast here we're reading about today coming up out of the 210 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,280 land is the anti spirit, the false prophet. 211 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,960 So we look in verse 12 through 15 now and we see the job 212 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,960 description of this second beast. 213 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,320 And this is what his responsibility is. 214 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,520 It says he exercises the authority of the first beast. 215 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,680 He's the spokesperson for this Antichrist. 216 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,280 He causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the 217 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,640 Antichrist, the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. 218 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,400 Now, we talked last week, there's some kind of issue that 219 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,760 occurs with this first beast that is world known, some kind 220 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:48,320 of perhaps attack on his life to kill him or to destroy him and 221 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,680 he somehow miraculously comes back to life. 222 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:54,920 It's so amazing that CNN and Fox and every major news network 223 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,080 will be talking about this all over the world. 224 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,640 You know, we'll all be talking, of course, we won't be here, but 225 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,640 people on the face of the earth at that time will be all talking 226 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,920 about the excitement of what has just happened. 227 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:09,200 It says this false prophet will perform great signs so that he 228 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,160 even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth and then the 229 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,960 sight of men. He will deceive those who dwell 230 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,680 on the earth by the signs which he was granted to do in the 231 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:21,160 sight of the beast. He'll tell those who dwell on 232 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,160 the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the 233 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,840 sword and lived. He was granted power to give 234 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,440 breath to the image of the beast, and the image of the 235 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,960 beast should both speak and cause as many as would not 236 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,440 worship the image of the beast to be killed. 237 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:39,080 This is his job description. He exercises all the authority 238 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,720 of the first beast, the Antichrist, and the second beast 239 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:46,560 is truly the false prophet. And his goal is to lead the 240 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:49,560 whole world to worship the Antichrist. 241 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:53,480 Satan, you might sit here and you you read this and and I have 242 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,320 the same concept of times. How in the world can anybody be 243 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:02,480 so stupid or so uninformed to worship something like this? 244 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,280 I mean, is that your first thought when you you hear this 245 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,000 stuff? Who in the world this is? 246 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,840 This is insane. Well, when Stalin and Hitler 247 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,520 were risen up to power, who would have ever Like when you 248 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:18,600 look back historically now, how could you be so blind to pay 249 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,000 homage to these world leaders? I remember as growing up as a 250 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,400 kid and they would show you pictures of China, right? 251 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,960 Mao Zedong, his poster was everywhere, right? 252 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,960 Thousands of people will be in the square paying homage and 253 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:35,200 worshipping him is like their God Hitler. 254 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,480 They they gave him worship by raising their hand and saluting 255 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,200 him, saying hi, Hitler. And and so we can look back in 256 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,920 history to see how people can be deceived. 257 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,480 And today we look at these different religions that are out 258 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,200 there, humanism, there's no God, but you are your God. 259 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,360 You are your own God. That's what the humanists will 260 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,120 say. Complete denouncing of the 261 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,320 authority of a creator. The public schools have pushed 262 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,480 out right the concept of a creator God. 263 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:08,680 Our kids are being indoctrinated in the public school systems by 264 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,520 a system of religion called humanism, right? 265 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,240 It's so clear there is no prayer anymore in the public schools. 266 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,800 You know, even to the point that they don't want to pledge the 267 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,080 allegiance because you have to say 1 nation under God. 268 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,200 Well, you might offend someone because we think of that God in 269 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,760 this country is based upon a Christian God, the Lord Jesus 270 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,600 Christ. But now what about the Muslim 271 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,520 that's going to school or the Hindu or the atheist? 272 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,920 And now you have these cults and these occult movements and it's 273 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,240 a big deal. Spirituality without the Holy 274 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,480 Spirit. Go into Barnes and Noble or 275 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,560 borders and this look in the New Age philosophical section, it's 276 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,200 huge. It's growing month after month. 277 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,120 The titles are very alluring. Find the God in you. 278 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:02,600 Become a God yourself. Find total freedom, freedom 279 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,080 without the creator God. They don't tell you that, but 280 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:07,960 they want you to not even acknowledge him. 281 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,880 So it's a spirituality without this, the Holy Spirit, it's a 282 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,840 counterfeit spirituality. Now it's interesting to me if 283 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,760 you bring up Jesus Christ and any kind of discussion with 284 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,520 anybody that doesn't know him, do you get a good response? 285 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,760 Usually it's like a down or if you're to party and you're 286 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,120 talking to people or to work event, you know, and you're 287 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,440 asking how your life's going. Oh, I got to tell you this cool 288 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,280 thing that the Lord did for me. They're like, excuse me, let's 289 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:36,000 change the subject. I remember years ago, I'm 290 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,360 interested in world religion. So I've hung out with different 291 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:39,760 people. And one time I went to this 292 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,160 Buddhist sitting group and they knew I was a Christian. 293 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,160 And then at first they were thinking like, why is this guy 294 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,120 here? Is he going to like start like 295 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,000 evangelizing us or whatever, you know? 296 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,160 And so I watched what they were doing and then paid attention. 297 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,280 And then they're trying to get you to sit down and be this like 298 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,240 real still and empty your mind, which is not a biblical concept. 299 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,400 You empty your mind, you're going to allow it to be open up 300 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,760 to other spirits, right? But anyway, at the end of this 301 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,800 discussion, I was talking to the leader. 302 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,240 This is this so-called guru and he's acting real loving and real 303 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:14,160 calm and everybody's in unity and there's World Peace and man, 304 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,040 like, you know, this is just like awesome. 305 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,480 We're in Nirvana here. And so I'm sitting down with 306 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,000 him. I said, you know, whenever I sit 307 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,480 down and I want to be still, I like to think about Jesus. 308 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,160 Oh, you can't do that. Well, why not? 309 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,480 Well, you know, if you do that, then your mind's real closed and 310 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,760 you can't be free. And, and I said, well, Jesus 311 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,240 said that you know the truth and the truth shall set you free. 312 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:38,200 And he became this loving, peaceful, gentle when his big 313 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:42,640 robe and real calm. He became so like in my face, It 314 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,000 was like he turned into a demon and he's worshipping demons. 315 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,560 He doesn't even know about it. And so it's it's fascinating 316 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:53,400 that you bring up this name, Jesus Christ, and you'll see the 317 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:58,240 hostility in the world today. Now in verse 13, we see what 318 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,000 this person does. He performs great signs and 319 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,880 wonders. There's a big movement today, 320 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:06,920 these modern evangelists on TV, some of them, not all of them, 321 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,080 but some of them have one agenda, right? 322 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,960 Come to our meeting in Pittsburgh, Signs and wonders 323 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:14,480 and people like get their ears up. 324 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:16,480 Wow, that sounds cool signs and wonders. 325 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,320 I like miracles and I want to see signs and I want to see 326 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,280 proof. And so all this kind of stuff. 327 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,360 Well, this this false prophet is going to have the ability to do 328 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:28,480 signs and wonders that people on the earth at that time are going 329 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,240 to think that have to be from God. 330 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,360 And these signs and wonders will support his false teachings. 331 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,400 Now one of the signs that it says he does is that fire comes 332 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:46,040 down and he makes this event occur like Elijah did. 333 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:50,720 Now think about Elijah. He's dealing with the prophets 334 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,240 of Baal, the New Agers at that particular time that didn't 335 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:58,560 believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob fighting against 336 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,160 the ungodly influence of idolatry and immorality and and 337 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,520 this disgustful things that the nation was experiencing at that 338 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,480 time. And he's got a responsibility 339 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,400 called by God to do some amazing things. 340 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,240 And this is in first Kings chapter 1836 and seven it says, 341 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,520 and it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening 342 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:23,800 sacrifice that Elijah the prophet came near and said, Lord 343 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:28,080 God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or Israel, let it be known this 344 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:33,880 day that you are God in Israel and I am your servant, and that 345 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,600 I have done all these things at your word. 346 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,960 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that you 347 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,400 are the Lord God and that you have turned their hearts back to 348 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,720 you again. So what happened was it was an 349 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,560 amazing situation. The fire came down from heaven. 350 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:55,520 It consumed the evening sacrifice and the wood on the 351 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,600 altar and the stones and the dust, and it even licked up all 352 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,720 the water that was in the trench. 353 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,480 Not one drop of water was left. Now the deception of the 354 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:10,000 Antichrist, if you turn to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2, you're 355 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,840 going to see that it's very interesting in what he's going 356 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,080 to do. Second Thessalonians chapter 2 357 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,480 verse 9, it says the coming of the lawless 1 is according to 358 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:24,720 the working of Satan all with all power signs and lying 359 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,240 wonders and with all unrighteousness deception among 360 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,040 those who perish because they didn't receive the love of the 361 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:33,360 truth that they might be saved. So all the people that are on 362 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:36,720 earth at the time are going to be set up to believe this lie 363 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,680 and this deception. If you don't have any background 364 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,880 in the Scriptures, you don't know the truth about God and his 365 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,880 Kingdom. If you're a human being at the 366 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,320 time, who wouldn't at that time say, wow, did you see what 367 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,200 happened? This has got to be like God and 368 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,520 this is wonderful and look at the miracles he's doing and it 369 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,440 says they will be deceived by these lying signs and wonders 370 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,080 because they're perishing, meaning they're on their way to 371 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:01,960 hell. Why? 372 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,000 Because they didn't receive the love of the truth that they 373 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,400 might be saved. Now, if you're here today and 374 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,720 you don't know who Jesus Christ is, I implore you to receive Him 375 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,480 as your Savior so you don't have to be left here to deal with 376 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,800 these things in the last days or they're going to be horrendous. 377 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:20,840 Come to Christ so you can be saved. 378 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,040 He's the only one who can save you. 379 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,600 And it says for this reason, God will send them a strong delusion 380 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,880 that they should believe a lie, that they all may be condemned 381 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,240 who did not believe the truth but had pleasure and 382 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,840 unrighteousness. So there's this movement of 383 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:40,960 supernaturalism today, the counter and copy the movements 384 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,880 of God in the Scriptures. The Lord warns us in Exodus 385 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,520 Chapter 7 through 9. Aaron, remember when he was 386 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,840 working with Moses to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt, 387 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:57,040 he performed miracles by God. It was very clear and up to a 388 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,040 point. These miracles were matched by 389 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:01,960 the magicians in Egypt, weren't they? 390 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,040 Didn't that amazed you that they were able to copy and do some of 391 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,520 the same miracles up to a point until they just became too 392 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:12,160 staggering and too miraculous that truly only God could do? 393 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:17,160 So we also see there's a warning from God regarding false 394 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:18,640 prophets. Turn to Deuteronomy. 395 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,840 And I think it's very important that we get on the same page 396 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,600 regarding what is a true prophet versus a counterfeit false 397 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,680 prophet. And these days that we live, 398 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,960 there's a lot of people that are claiming that they're prophets 399 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,480 and the Bible tells us the prophet has to be 100% accurate 400 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,800 and correct. If they're not correct and you 401 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,560 stone them. Some of us unfortunately, have 402 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,480 been involved in church movements who've had false 403 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,720 prophets come in and we've been told to accept everything they 404 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,080 say. And if they make a mistake, 405 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,600 well, they only got a couple things wrong. 406 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,200 They got a couple things right. The Bible is clear. 407 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,320 A false prophet is a false prophet. 408 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,680 A true prophet is a true prophet. 409 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,640 And this is what Deuteronomy, this is what it says in 410 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,840 Deuteronomy chapter 13 verse one. 411 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,120 If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, 412 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,320 and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the 413 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,800 wonder comes to pass at which he spoke to you, saying, let us go 414 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,360 after other gods which you have not known, and let us serve 415 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:17,560 them. And that's the goal of the 416 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,320 Antichrist and the false prophet, to get the people to 417 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,360 move away from the true God. It says you shall not listen to 418 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:27,240 the words of that prophet or that dreamer or dreams of 419 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,600 dreams. For the Lord your God is testing 420 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,760 you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your 421 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,200 heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord 422 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,600 your God and fear him, and keep his commandments and obey His 423 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,880 voice. You shall serve him and hold 424 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,040 fast to him. But that prophet or that dreamer 425 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,640 of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order 426 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,000 to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of 427 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,000 the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the House of bondage. 428 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,800 Thanks for being with us today here on Living Waters of Grace. 429 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,440 We're in the Book of Revelation, and we find it fascinating how 430 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:09,080 influential and involved the angels are in this book. 431 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,640 They bring about whatever it is that God has instructed them to 432 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,000 do, but it's through their actions that much of the 433 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,920 judgements come on the earth. The angels are in submission to 434 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,000 God as their authority, but He utilizes them in unique ways 435 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,440 throughout this book. Like angels have a specific 436 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,120 purpose from God, you have a unique purpose and plan too. 437 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,320 God wants to use you in your life as a testimony to others 438 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,800 and to bring others who are currently lost into the fold of 439 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,480 God. God would love more than 440 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,920 anything for all who are willing to come to Him for salvation, 441 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,440 but He wants it to be their choice, not a forced situation. 442 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:55,320 This is the way God works, not forcing himself on anyone, but 443 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,480 giving each person free will. 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