"End-Time Deceptions" - Study Hour - Lesson 9 - Pastor Doug Batchelor

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] are you looking forward to that day when we will be caught up in the clouds and reunited with our loved ones and we get to see Jesus face-to-face and spend eternity with him in heaven at this time pastor Russ will have our opening prayer via Father in Heaven we thank you for the opportunity to gather together and lift our voices in song and open up your word and study these very important truths how we can prepare for the last days and how we can avoid the errors that are so prevalent Lord we just pray for your spirit to guide us as we open the scriptures be with pastor Doug as he shares with us this morning for we asked us in Jesus name Amen now listen this mall is gonna be brought to us by our head pastor here at the Granite Bay Church pastor Doug good morning happy Sabbath want to welcome our friends who are watching on satellite right now or you may be streaming this live on Facebook or some other internet mechanism we want to welcome you to our Sabbath school study hour as a pastor Ross mentioned we're getting into another lesson today lesson number 9 talking about preparation for the final deception lesson is called preparation for the endtime and in particular today we're going to be talking about endtime deceptions and we have a memory verse in the memory verse is from Revelation 12:9 now this is a good memory verse for everyone to remember revelation 12:9 revelation is that great chapter that talks about the the battle between the dragon and the Bride of Christ you ready this is from the New King James Version Revelation 12:9 so the Great Dragon was cast out that serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world he was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him this is a very significant verse if for no other reason if you've ever wondered if the devil and the dragon and Satan were the same in the serpent we're talking about the same creature this brings them all together here and tells us this is the same creature it's just different names and metaphors for the arch fiend the supreme enemy the devil now when we discuss in particular concerns about deception in the last days it is a priority we need to think about when the disciples came to Jesus in Matthew 24 and they say Lord what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the world he answers them first thing he says right out of the gate he said to them take heed that no one deceives you for many will come in my name saying I am Christ and deceive many now that verse can be taken two different ways first of all Jesus can be saying many will come saying I am Christ they'll be claiming personally that their Christ another way that verse can be taken as many will come in his name saying he is Christ and deceive many either way you take it it's true there are people who have claimed to be Christ there's false Christ's and we know there's delusional of cults where the leader claims to be a christ or some incarnation of christ and then there's a lot of people that say that Jesus is the Christ and they deceive many and so either way that's true and then the next thing he says and this is still Matthew 24 verse 24 for false Christ's and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive if possible even the very elect that's telling us that these deceptions are going to be so convincing that if it were possible even the very elect would be deceived the people that are as close to the Lord as you can imagine they're walking with the Lord they're not safe so how careful should we be to know what the devil's tactics are so that we are not taken by surprise and that's the one of the important things about the lesson here now the first section we're looking at it talks about the grandest deception the great deception if you look in Revelation 13 13 it says he performs great signs so that it even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men and he deceives those by who dwell on the earth by those signs which we he was granted to do in the sight of the Beast telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet live our signs and wonders important any of you ever pray for signs and wonders did the Lord use signs and wonders to convince the early church that it was genuine Jesus did signs he says look if you don't believe me believe the miracles the Apostles went out during the time of Christ doing signs and wonders the Lord did many signs and wonders by Paul and by Peter they did miracles so it would substantiate the truth but what's the risk of putting all of our credence and signs and wonders can the devil do them are there false christs that do signs and wonders and so what's what's the final criteria of what the truth is signs and wonders no that's not it at all it's got to be the Bible because the devil can counterfeit signs and wonders and that's what it's telling him is he says false Christ's and prophets will arise showing great signs and wonders and then it tells us the beasts power there's one particular sign that he does what did I just read brings fire down from heaven what does that mean who brings fire down from heaven in the Bible let's talk about sometimes fire came down now if you call out an answer I'll repeat it for those that are listening all right in the days of Elijah fire came down how many times three times once on Mount Carmel two other times when the king tried to have him arrested he prayed and fire came down and burned up the soldiers it came to arrest him am i right yeah what other times did fire come down Sodom and Gomorrah I haven't even thinking of that one that's true now that wasn't really performed by a person but yeah God brought down flying signs and wonders area who else I heard Gideon Sampson when Samson's parents prayed fire came down and consumed the sacrifice when the temple of Moses was a dedicated did God bring fire down from heaven to put the first holy fire on the altar when he mm-hmm what else did that happen huh Cain and Abel the fire came down on Abel sacrifice but it did not accept Cain's what about the sons of Aaron did they get barbecued for disobedience fire came down from heaven and how many of you remember it's a very brief reference but when Solomon dedicated the temple was the last time it came down in the temple and it says the fire the Lord came down on the sacrifice and the glory of the Lord so filled the temple the priests were not even able to minister because there's someone to glory emanating from the presence of God now you're all forgetting one other Pentecost fire came down that's of course that's a good one I wasn't thinking about it I'm talking about the Old Testament I hear the wheel spinning and Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and among the plagues that happened to job fire came down and burnt up his flocks and Shepherds so can the devil bring fire down from heaven at least he did there but most of the time in the Bible fire coming down as a sign of God's power Elijah prays and the fire comes down so when the Lord tells us in Revelation that among the things we need to be careful of the devil's gonna he's gonna do the the greatest sign that God does is fire coming down from heaven I've heard some pastors try to make a case that this is when nuclear war began with the atomic bomb that America is that beast that brought are down from heaven on Hiroshima and Nagasaki I don't think that's what it's talking about that wasn't done for the purpose of proving that the power was divine look at revelation 2:13 then we're gonna go to 224 did Jesus warn the churches during the seven messages of the seven churches they needed to beware of Satan and his deceptions look for instance revelation 2:13 I know your works and that you dwell where Satan's throne is and you hold fast my name and you did not deny my faith even in the days when Antipas was my faithful martyr who was killed among you where Satan dwells look at revelation 2:20 for now I say to you and to the rest that are in Thyatira by the way that other church was programís I say to the rest that our entire Tyra's many as do not have this doctrine who have not known the depths of Satan as they say and you read in Revelation 12 at the Satan who has come down who deceiveth the whole world and so Satan is known as a great deceiver now what is deception his deception does a blatant lie or it's deception the commingling of truth with a lie so the the lie is made to look like truth revelation 12:12 and this I just quoted to you actually therefore rejoice o heavens and you who dwell in them woe to the inhabitants of the earth in the sea for the devil has come down to you having great wrath because he knows his time is short so what does the devil do with his power in his wrath he tries to deceive God's people for the sake of destroying them now if you look in the in the book great controversy and this is page 495 there's a quote there and you'll have this in your lesson leaving this place and the immediate presence of God loser who went forth to defuse that this is before the fall so this is how the devil started he went forth to defuse the spirit of discontent among the angels working with mysterious secrecy and 4-time concealing Israel under an appearance of reverence for God he endeavoured to excite dissatisfaction concerning the laws that governed the heavenly beings intimating that they imposed an unnecessary restraint and so the devil goes out among the angels and he deceives them but with an air of piety don't forget that Cain made an offering there's an air of realest religiosity before he kills his brother and those who kill you in the last days will think they're serving God jesus said so is Satan alone in his work of deception or does he have a team let's look at some verses on this and a moment someone's gonna read matthew 12:24 is that you John okay I'm gonna do Jude 6 only one chapter in Jude verse 6 and the angels who did not keep their first estate the proper domain but they left their own abode he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for judgment of the great day what angels is he talking about he's the bad angels the ones that are fallen look in the second Peter and then Jude and second Peter here are very similar 2nd Peter 2:4 for if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of Darkness to be reserved for judgment you remember when Jesus began preaching he was in the synagogue and a demon-possessed man began to speak where the demons speak through him and he says we know who you are son of God have you come to torment us before the time the Angels know that they have a judgment coming that's what it says here in Peter they know that they have been cast out of heaven and they're doing everything they can to wreck as much damage as they can on this world before and if you look in Revelation 12:9 let's read that again so that Great Dragon was cast out that serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world why does Jesus call the devil the Prince of this world because oh is it safe to say most of the world is deceived of the devil we're gonna talk about some of the particular last day deceptions in a minute it says he deceives the whole world he was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him so 99.99999% of the time when you say the devil's tempting me is it actually Satan himself or is he working usually through one of his fallen angels these used to be great beings they were wonderful they were noble they were perfect they had named Scott knows every one of them and their individual angelic personalities and now they've got their individual diabolical personalities but they are very real intelligent spirits that work with the devil and people talk about goblins and ghosts and demons and they're all fallen angels is what they are all right please read for us matthew 12:24 matthew 12:24 now when the Pharisees heard it they said this fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub the ruler of the demons so here it says he's the ruler of demons he's got all these uh fallen angels that work among him and with him and if you look in Matthew 25 who does God specifically designed the lake of fire for is it for the lost where's it for my let's read it here Matthew 25:41 then he will say to those on his left hand depart from me ye cursed into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels does that mean the fire is going to burn forever and ever or that the work of the fire is everlasting it means that what the fire does lasts forever it devours eternally those that are cast into a no second chance all right now getting into some of the specific errors we're talking about some of the last a deceptions we don't have time in our lesson to talk about all the last day deceptions I could just ask you to raise your hand and say all right name one of Satan's last day deceptions and I'll bet you we can come up with 50 you want to try it for a minute yes okay you like interaction with the class okay yeah hold up your hand I'll repeat it after you what does the name a last a deception that Vicki Oh what day the of worship yeah that's actually coming up spiritualism those are two that are mentioned in a lesson because in tight well you know spring has sprung and you'll see me up here I don't have a col but boy it's been so when he the last few days with the pollen and stuff that ya just had been hitting me - okay yeah Katrina false christs we just read that is gonna be false Christ false prophets yes the counterfeit baptisms is an example of some of the false teachings I can think a lots of that no a lots more than this guys come on counterfeit the Holy Spirit counterfeit Trinity I heard what else that I hear counterfeit spiritualism counterfeit state of the Dead counterfeit tongues counterfeit for every truth of God anyone else I see in the back calling fire down or so it's counterfeit signs and wonders and worshipping idols and icons and Mary and there's a lot of you know there's almost an endless list of things you could think of but this two in particular that are mentioned that are going to be key in the last days from the book great controversy if you read and page 588 through the two great heirs of immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness Satan will bring people under his deceptions while the former lays the foundation for spiritualism the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome then you remember this the Protestants of the United States will be foremost and stretching their hand across the Gulf to clasp the hand of spiritualism they will reach over the abyss and clasp the hand of the Roman power and under the influence of this threefold union this country will follow in the steps of Rome trampling on the rights of conscience so it talks about two particular things that will be a glue bringing together this counterfeit alliance of apostate Protestantism of pas state orthodoxy or Catholicism and spiritualism counterfeit holy spirit is there a counterfeit version of the Holy Spirit among Christians today yeah you know I sometimes I'll turn on hope channel or 3bn Friday night and right and with our satellite just north and south of those channels you've got a number of other Christian channels sometimes just for fun I'll click and look at some of the others many of them are charismatic channels and you see people you know just going off into a trance and ostensibly under the influence of the Holy Spirit they just begin to jabber and babble and I don't mean to be disrespectful but it doesn't look like anything I see in the Bible and then they start to give out these ecstatic prophesies that have sort of disjointed Oracle's of Delphi they don't don't make any sense and Benny Hinn used to do that and he predicted the end of the world several times speaking of taxes I mean specific dates when it was gonna happen - nothing happened so there's a counterfeit for the Holy Spirit that seems to be uniting some of these churches by the way the EM the Roman Catholics in many of the Greek Orthodox is now accepted speaking in tongues and there's a whole there's a whole charismatic branch in their churches now all right look at some of the ways that Satan deceives here if you look in 2nd Corinthians 2:11 someone in a moments gonna read 2nd Thessalonians - you'll have that ok 2nd Corinthians 2:11 lest Satan should take advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices so the devil's got different devices and he says we should not be ignorant we should know what some of these devices are if you look in 2nd Corinthians 11 verse 13 for such are false apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into a muscles of Christ and no wonder for Satan himself translating transforms himself into an angel of light therefore it's no thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness whose in will be according to their works so there are a number of counterfeit that try to transform themselves into the truth right go ahead read for us your verse air in 2nd Thessalonians 2 verse 9 ok 2nd Thessalonians 2 verse 9 the coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan with all power signs and lying wonders so someone's going to have power it's real power signs lying wonders now I want you to notice something now I know I talked about Armageddon last week we're gonna jump ahead to I'm gonna go actually jump back and then we're gonna jump from revelation if you go to first Chronicles 1013 King Saul was facing a mammoth battle but before that battle the Bible tells us that God wouldn't speak to him so he went and sought out a witch and he went to the witch and she called up a medium that looked very real and sounded very real it turns out it was a lying spirit now didn't we just see power signs and lying wonders in Thessalonians look in 1st chronicles 10:13 so Saul died for his unfaithfulness that he had committed against the Lord because he did not keep the word of the Lord and because he consulted a medium for guidance some people think well wasn't that really Samuel no you can read him if you go to Chronicles if you read just for Samuel it could leave you confused but read the commentary there that we just read in Chronicles and it says one of the reasons Saul died is he did not consult the Lord but instead he consulted a witch who conjured up an evil spirit that spoke to him that's what mediums do now with that in mind before that great battle that Saul fought he was deceived by evil spirits what does revelation say look in Revelation 16:14 for they are the spirits of demons performing signs that go out to the kings of the earth and the whole world to gather them to the Battle of the great day of God Almighty now what specifically did the Witch of Endor do to deceive Saul because he did not understand the state of the Dead he thought he was talking to samuel and he was talking to a fallen angel a devil isn't that right what is gonna happen in the last days these three unclean spirits like frogs go out of the mouth of the Beast the dragon the false prophet and they gather together the king is the government's the powers of the earth to battle and it says they are spirits of demons performing signs they are going to use spiritualism and there's going to be dead ostensibly dead people appearing to these world leaders saying I'm you know I'm Mary I am Peter I'm James John oh who knows they'll say I'm Abraham Lincoln I don't know what they'll do but they'll be calling up hate on to say I'm the ghost of Ronald Reagan listen to me they'll be calling up all of these things looks at all and under this counterfeit guidance because they don't understand the state of the Dead it's gonna play a major role in deceiving people if you look in Revelation 20 verse 2 it says that speaking of the Millennium the devil he laid hold on the dragon that serpent of old who is the devil and Satan and bound him for a thousand years he's that old serpent the one who deceives the world and you look in Revelation 20 verse 10 the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire one of the things he's being destroyed for is he's a liar and he's a father of it he's a murderer and he's the first of that - he's mean a great deceiver now I see it looks like we have some of our viewers that have sent in some questions this looks like they came in on Facebook all right how can we determine between true and prophets we read in Matthew where it says there's gonna be false Christ's and false prophets tell you what I'm gonna put that out to you give me some of the criteria hot and raise your hand I'll repeat how do you tell the difference between a qu and a false prophet see you won him according to the law and the testimony if they speak not according to this word there's no light in them so it's gonna yet if what they say is not in harmony with the Bible very good so on the other hand I thought John you're going to same one according to the Word of God how do you know a true from a false prophet there's about 11 things that we have in the amazing fact study guide to tell the difference yes yeah if they're prophecy fall on the ground now can you think of an Old Testament prophecy that made a prophecy and it didn't happen Jonah when they repented of course that was a conditional prophecy when they repented they were going to be destroyed for the sin when they repented he forgave them but if a prophet says something is going to happen and it's not a conditional prophecy and it doesn't happen Moses said do not believe that prophet Vicki yeah some prophets were contingent to Israel were contingent on their repenting now what about what is the emphasis of a true prophet is it to glorify self or God glorify God will a true prophet ask for your credit-card number before they give you their prophecy do they charge for their prophecy can you ever see Elijah standing before a have been saying let's say the Lord here's your receipt and I'll share what the Lord said okay got another one their lives will bear the fruits of the spirit they will be holy in their lives and so some people said they're prophets of God but they're just followed with all kinds of wicked scandal you wonder if they're really prophets of God okay I see yep now want to build up the church yeah they're prophecies or a good point are going to be designed not to just bring attention to themself but to build up Church so and you the prophecy they give will be in harmony with other scripture and I know well I talked about being scriptural but they're gonna have the trademarks of a true prophet in the language okay so there are some signs of true and a false prophet we got another question here how would how could it be possible for the elect to be deceived in the last days well it doesn't say they are deceived Jesus a different word possible the very elect would be deceived it means that it's gonna be so powerful that they're nearly deceived how powerful were the temptations that the devil brought to Jesus when the devil appeared to Jesus did he appear with when he have you know red leotards and goat feet and and a beard and and horns and bat wings and long fingernails and he plopped down on the ground and said I've got a proposition if you turn these stones into bread would you have ever been fooled by that or did he look like an angel of light it's like an angel came to Elijah when he was starving in the wilderness and this angel said I've been sent from God just like an angel was sent to help Elijah I know you're hungry you've also fasted 40 days and 40 nights and just one little thing if you're the Son of God this is a little test turn these stones into bread and it seems so real so the last day deceptions that come against the elect are gonna border with the truth they're gonna look very similar and that's what makes deception if you're gonna make a counterfeit $10 bill what number will be on it six no so you're gonna make it as close to the real as you can and that's what's going to deceive people are they're counterfeit churches and counterfeit denominations do they read the Bible do they sing some of the same songs do the people look like us and there's just a lot of similar things but in some of the teachings is something that is deadly toxic and so the last day deceptions are gonna be very similar okay let's get do a little more and I see more questions are coming in but we'll do some more the lesson here the immortality of the soul so that is one of the major deceptions if you read in Ecclesiastes 9 verse 5 and 6 in a moment someone's gonna have psalm 115 17 you'll have okay please he asked these nine five and six we all know this you should know this by heart the living know that they'll die but the dead know not anything III read that to a pastor one time he says you're not supposed to take that seriously I said what he said I know it looks like that's what it's saying he says but Solomon wrote the book of Ecclesiastes while he was depressed matter of fact I think that's in Scofield commentary you've heard of the Scofield Bible that's why I don't like the Scofield Bible not another reasons he says just ignore this Solomon was depressed he's saying everything is vanity of vanity and he just said all we're all gonna die and we don't know anything and and it's not inspired that's what he said no I think Solomon knew just what he was saying last part of the book he says fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man but he knew that in death we know nothing he goes on he says their love their hatred their envy is now perished Nevermore will they have a share in anything done under the Sun meaning in this life when the person dies job says they do not return back to their house he says the same thing Solomon says Ecclesiastes 9:10 just go to verse 10 whatever your hand finds to do do it with your might for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going the people in the grave they have no wisdom they have no knowledge they don't know anything they're asleep all right please read for a psalm 115 verse 17 Psalms 115 verse 17 the dead do not read do not praise the Lord nor any who go down into silence now if when you die your next conscious thought is the resurrection and it happens you know why we're still here on earth that you die and you're up and have been praising the Lord I would think the next thing you do if you're in heaven would be to praise the Lord but here David said the dead do not praise the Lord what does the Bible say about David David was a good King man after God's own heart you read in Acts chapter 2 Peter says David is dead and buried and he's not ascended to heaven says his grave is with us to this day it says David slept with his father so I mean how more clear can God be slept dead not in heaven dead don't know anything but what about the verse pastor Doug that says I know most of you know the answer to this but there's people watching what about the verses says absent from the body present with the Lord doesn't that mean that once you die you're then present with the Lord well yes as far as you're concerned if you die and you have a dreamless sleep what's your next conscious thought the resurrection now David died 3,000 years ago does it seem like 3,000 years to him what's the next conscious thought David will have when the Lord descends from heaven and the trumpet blows and the dead in Christ rise it'll seem like a moment the twinkling of an eye for him but it hasn't happened yet the reason it's important to know that they're not there yet as far as they're concerned we're happy for them because that's their next conscious thought but they're not there yet because you could be deceived by someone pretending to be the dead if they go right to heaven Oh what about Elijah and what about Moses well we know they're unusual circumstances Elijah went to heaven and a fiery period Moses was resurrected three days after he died you read that in the book of Jude verse 9 let's look at a few more Psalm 146 verse 4 his spirit departs he returns to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish breath of life goes away they don't start thinking new enhanced thoughts they stop thinking because they're asleep Daniel 12 verse 2 many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake when the Lord comes some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt when Jesus was talking about his friend Lazar this to me I think is one of the most convincing he said this is John 11 verse 11 these things he said and after that he said to them our friend Lazarus sleeps but I go that I might wake him up as disciples misunderstood they said lord if he sleep he'll get well that's good however Jesus spoke of his death but they thought he was talking about taking rest and sleep jesus said to them plainly Lazarus is dead and I'm calling it sleep now how long was Lazarus dead almost four days yeah when he finally got to the tomb and Jesus resurrected him and when Jesus resurrected Lazarus what did Lazarus say about his death experience did he say thank you Lord for saving me from the chasm of the lake of fire or did he say Lord why did you bring me back from the golden streets in the Tree of Life did he make any comment on anything now if that happened today if a person had been dead medically certified dead already decomposing for four days and they suddenly are reconstituted they come back to life every news agency in the world would have reporters there and they would push a microphone in your face and say what did you see wouldn't that be the question what was death like we've been wanting to know about death for thousands of years you've got the answer now what happens when you die and Lazarus would have said I don't remember I don't know anything I knew I had a fever I was fading in and out next thing I knew Here I am wrapped in grave clothes right he had no consciousness matter of fact to me this is I think that one of the strongest arguments there are about a dozen resurrections in the Bible now we're not exactly sure because when Paul was stoned and he got back up against some of argue D they stoned him to death and God has resurrected him Eutychus fell out the window it looked like eutychus died and some think he was just knocked out but I think the Bible's clear he was dead so some question about a few of them but there's about a dozen resurrections in the Bible do you realize that out of those 12 people that are raised not a single one said two had any consciousness in death what did you think that you should have at least one testimony someone will say well what about the parable of the rich man and Lazarus doesn't say the rich man are the Lazarus ever comes back from the dead and that is a parable did the people in heaven and hell talk to each other no can a drop of water cool a person burning in hell no and so does every dead person go to the bosom of Abraham you know a lot of acreage in his bosom you know if that's true I mean it's so it's obviously full of metaphors and you don't want to build your theology on that and you go to first Corinthians 15 here's a couple more that I think are slam dunk verses on the state of the Dead this is an important lastly deception how many of you have been to a funeral where they say our dearly beloved sister or brother they're now on the streets of gold they're singing and you know if these famous people died and is that what the Bible says when does the resurrection take place 1st Corinthians 15 Paul says a lot about it in the first Corinthians go to verse 16 for if indeed the dead do not rise in Christ is not risen and if Christ is not risen your faith is futile you're still in your sins then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished if they live in if in this life only we have hope in Christ we're of all men most pitiable go down now to verse 22 for as in Adam all die so Paul says here in verse 16 through 19 they have fallen asleep in Christ go to verse 22 for and first Corinthians 15 for in Adam all die even so in Christ all shall be made alive are they alive now where they shall be that's future when each one in his own order Christ the firstfruits Christ has already risen he's first afterward talking about the others those who are Christ the saved at his coming so when are they raised at his coming how could it be more clear than that the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout the voice of the Archangel the Trump of God then the dead in Christ will rise they're not risen yet you can't rise them if they're already risen right go to first Corinthians 15:51 behold I tell you a mystery we will not all sleep but will all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible that's when they're raised is when the Lord comes now we said that there's a couple of different major deceptions one was spiritualism not understanding the state of the Dead is going to be used by the devil in the last days and it's being used now the other was a misunderstanding of the Sabbath and the holy day sunday sacredness and so um why is that important a number of reasons you look in your lesson here it has to do first of all with worshiping God the way he says look in your lesson in Genesis it says the Sabbath and the theory of evolution has something changed in our culture in the last 50 years has there have been a major shift of people going from believing in divine creation to believing that we've evolved from lower forms of life if people were really keeping the Sabbath the way God said and the Sabbath says for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and sea and look at all and I know this is terribly politically dangerous to say this but look at all the confusion in our culture about the distinction between men and women doesn't the Bible say that Jesus said in the beginning God made them male and female they are different but look at how far our society and a corrupt culture is going in trying to amalgamate men and women into one sort of nebulous thing and they've got they're trying to redefine it and you actually get to pick your own definition somebody sent me a little clip yesterday that in England they're upset about Mother's Day because it's leaving out people that don't get to identify as mothers and so yeah it was the most absurd thing I've ever seen but yeah the people are angry at Mother's Day now because it's too feministic is you it should be for anybody you don't have to be a mother yeah you may want to identify even if your father you should be able to celebrate Mother's Day yeah you do through your wife that's right but why are we having all these problems it's because evolution basically says you're your own God and you're evolving and you're becoming like it's like what the devil said to Adam and Eve you will be God and you sort of made yourself over millions of years you can do whatever you want because you're not accountable to anyone because you've just evolved by accident that's the main reason for evolution is to get rid of the accountability factor that we don't have to answer to God so revelation 16:13 i'm sorry rather Genesis 1:3 God said let there be light and there was light and God saw the light it was good and God divided the light from the darkness God called the light day in the darkness he called night so the evening in the morning were the first day that word day there is Yom it's talking about a distinct clear 24 hour period of time whenever we celebrate the Sabbath on the seventh day of the week we are celebrating a 24 hour period of time and when God tells us to remember the Sabbath day for in six days the Lord made the heaven in the earth he's telling us that he made those six days in 24-hour periods of time that's why every Sabbath day were remembering what God did that's why there's seven days in the week because he made everything in six days he said I'm making one more day 24-hour period to remember the others but more and more churches are trying to combine the they they think well you know the scientific world is laughing at Christians because we don't believe in evolution so let's say we sort of believe in evolution get them off our back well to say that God created through evolution and doesn't work the Bible says that God created it's six literal days and there are dicks in the church let's say that God the first 11 chapters up to the Tower of Babel India until you get to Abraham they said it's all parables it's all symbolic don't take it literally and even the Catholic Church officially says that Genesis should not be taken literally and that God created that these stories are there to teach moral lessons and and at some point you know you got this this ape-like creature draggin his knuckles or on the ground and he's dragging his wife by her hair and suddenly some spark illuminates his eyes and now he has a soul and he becomes man he goes from ape to man and that was the moment and and he just kind of kept evolving upward and this is a concept I've actually heard Catholic theologians say yeah there was a moment when God put a soul and man and made him in his own image but up until then he was an animal I think it's Jehovah Witnesses that say that the six days of creation were really thousands of years and it was really 7,000 years kid that doesn't work friends God made the vegetation on the third day he did not make the sunlight for the vegetation until the fourth day plants can live 24 hours without the Sun they can't live 6,000 years without the Sun these are not epics of thousands or millions or billions of years jesus said don't forget this jesus said if you do not believe Moses you do not believe me and so if you don't believe what Moses said in those first eleven chapters don't say well I believe in you I believe the Bible I just believe that God used evolution to create you don't believe the Bible because the Bible is clear he did it in six 24-hour days every Sabbath is a memorial of that amen look in Colossians chapter 1 verse 16 for by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created through him and for him now just because we maybe have not observed God making lighter things doesn't mean that God doesn't do it he did it by his divine power oh but pastor Doug it took it takes billions of years for the light from the distant stars to reach our earth how could he have made those in a literal day and it takes so long for the light to get to the earth I always say that you just got to think of tree rings when God made the first trees did they have rings in them sure when he made the first tour turtle did he make it full-grown you know some turtles increase the number of plates as they get older a rattlesnake will have different numbers of rattles based on how many times its shed its skin the first rattlesnake that God make I know you don't like to think about that first rattlesnake that God made did he have a little button like a baby or did he have a full raft rattles and so when God made the Stars why can't God make the star light already in route of course you can he can do anything and so it's a question of do you believe I mean just any of the evidence that you seem to see for time in the environment God can build that time into the original creation and so I believe it says if it says he made it in six days he made it in six days and I'll tell you something else this is a very very important this is a pastor Doug ISM if you're struggling with how much of the Bible to believe and you're wondering should I believe too much or too little I'll always believe too much if you're gonna make a mistake in saying I'm gonna start nitpicking and say I'm not sure I believe this and it seems like a contradiction there and you start saying this part can't be trusted you are on the road to ruin when you begin to take the Bible apart because pretty soon you won't believe any of it you are much better off there are difficult passages but you are much better off believe it is all the inspired Word of God and you're safe as soon as you start to dissect it and to say well I can't believe that part and that didn't really mean what it says yeah your your building on the sand then alright just a few moments left I have another question what can I do in my spiritual life so I'm not deceived in the last days good good question how do I know that I'm not deceived well first of all keep your eyes on Jesus my word I have hid in my heart that I might not sin fortify your mind I remember there's a quote I think it's in great controversy only those who fortify their minds where the truth of God's Word will stand in the final conflict how did Jesus fight the deceptions of the devil it is written it is written it is written we use the same strategy amen is there another question or was that the last one there yes how do we distinguish between miracles from God and those from Satan well that'd be some of the same things you do to distinguish between the true prophets and the false prophets if there's a miracle and it glorifies man or it contradicts the Bible it's not from God all right counterfeit Trinity now this is very important you notice in Revelation it seems like the devil seeks to counterfeit every truth of God revelation 16 these three unclean spirits like frogs out of the mouth of the dragon the mouth of the Beast and the mouth of the false prophet in Revelation in the first chapter you fight it identifies the Trinity have you ever noticed that and you find even the Holy Spirit last word spirit and the bride say come talked about the seven spirits before the throne and from Jesus and from God there in the first chapter and here you got a counterfeit Trinity if you will but what else does the devil counterfeit in Revelation well does it tell us that Christ has crowns in Revelation does the Beast have crowns does the Bible says that Christ has a seal that identifies his people he's still with me yeah what about the Beast does it have a seal does the Bible says that Christ has power it says in Revelation it says the Beast unto him was given power does the Bible talk about worshiping Christ all the Angels fell and they worship Him yes does the Bible talk about worshiping the Beast in Revelation yes what about Christ's resurrection does it talk about the Lamb that was slain does Jesus say I was the one who is dead and now I'm alive forevermore so as the resurrection of Christ in Revelation is there a counterfeit resurrection beast receives a deadly wound and the deadly wound is healed he comes back to life and all the world wonders you know one of the powerful things about Christ is a resurrection but the devil counterfeits that does Jesus have a bride and resen Revelation chapter 12 does Frankenstein have a bride in Revelation chapter 17 just wondered if you're still listening you got there that bride of the beast in Revelation 17 right Babylon is Christ do you see in Revelation that God becomes a man in Christ yes and what about the Beast does it say it is the number of a man and there's some incarnation of that power that's happening there does the Bible say Christ has true apostles and did we read in 2nd Corinthians 11 the devil has false apostles deceitful workers and so you can see revelation one of the reasons it is a masterpiece of deception is the devil is taking all the truths of God and I haven't listed them all and has created a counterfeit for them and some of you are gonna say pastor Doug I want those notes and we usually post them at the amazing facts website so you'll you'll see them there now the devil has got a counterfeit so we need to know we need to spend time studying the authentic so that we're not deceived in the last days amen I want to thank you again friends for studying his word with us and a very interesting study we look forward to doing it again with you again next week let's face

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