WEBVTT 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:07.440 Hey, I'm Pastor Steve Hole. 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:11.759 I want to empower you today to walk in your true identity as a worshiper and warrior. 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:15.839 Today, embrace the power of God's Word and the Holy Spirit. 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:19.120 Welcome to the Born for War podcast. 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:27.839 Now we're on this series called The Cosmic War, and I've got a lot to cover today. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:34.399 As a matter of fact, so much to cover that I decided to make it a part one and a part two on this particular passage. 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:48.399 But, you know, don't miss it because if you miss this series, if you miss one, you need to catch up because I'm building a panoramic view of scripture built on building blocks of the fourth dimension. 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:57.920 And so because of that, I want to just quickly rehearse where we've been, and that is in the first message, I talked about the war in the heavenlies. 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:06.319 I talked about the gap theory, and I talked about that, I believe there's possibly millions of years gap between Genesis 1.1 and Genesis 1.2. 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:12.159 That is not saying that I don't believe in the literal creation of what we might call a young earth theory. 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:13.200 I still believe in that. 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:22.560 I'm just saying that even before God came to create the heavens and the earth, as we see it today, there was a war in times before that. 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:29.040 It could have been five minutes, it could have been five million years, I don't know, and I'm not gonna act like I know. 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.640 But I shared those passages with you and why we believe that. 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:45.120 And then last week we talked about Lucifer, and we talked about the origin of Lucifer, the origin of sin, and him being driven out of heaven because of two wills, and I talked about a declaration of independence. 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:51.680 And what I said was that any personal declaration of independence is the beginning of all sin. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:59.120 It's when you start saying, my will be done instead of God's will be done, that's the beginning of sin. 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:08.879 And I'm gonna talk about this as we move along, that that's actually foundational for how demons begin to affect your life. 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:14.960 And I don't believe Christians can be demon-possessed, and I'll talk about the difference between demonization and demon possession later. 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:16.879 We're not at that point yet. 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.840 But um, I do believe in demon possession, and I do believe in demonization. 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:24.479 And I do believe Christians can be demonized. 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:26.400 It doesn't mean they're demon-possessed. 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:28.719 And so we'll talk about that when it's the right time. 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:30.560 I'm still building a case right now. 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:34.479 So I want you to look up and I want you to see Colossians 1. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:40.240 Don't turn there, because I'm gonna have you guys turning all over the place today, but I wanted to just put this up on the PowerPoint. 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:45.680 He, Christ, is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:50.240 For by him all things were created that are in heaven and on earth. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:56.719 So you already see the dualism, heaven and earth, visible and invisible, dualism again, the visible and the invisible. 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:15.199 And then I have taken a little bit of grammatical freedom here and put a colon for invisible to make it more clear, because this is what it means, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through him and for him. 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:23.199 So here's the point God created thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers before he created man. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:24.960 And I'll explain that in just a moment. 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.319 What I mean by that, I'll show you the passage that supports that from Job. 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:31.039 But that he has a heavenly family. 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:42.080 He actually has a heavenly, divine family, which I'm gonna call the divine counsel of God, that are in the heavenly realm that are activated. 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:55.039 There's a purpose for their hierarchy, and there's a purpose, they actually have job descriptions, and they're activated on your behalf through prayer, through prayer and declarations. 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:07.039 And this is so important for us to understand that I felt like I can't do justice to the passage of Daniel chapter 10, which we're gonna go into in a few minutes, without doing it next week, also. 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:08.960 So this is all just a setup for that. 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:15.039 So the Bible and science agree that there are many dimensions or unseen worlds. 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:20.639 Dimensions are simply the different facets of what we perceive to be reality. 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:31.040 We are immediately aware of the three dimensions that surround us, those that define the length, width, and depth of all objects in our universe. 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:36.160 Beyond these three dimensions, scientists believe that there may be many more. 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:45.920 In fact, the theoretical framework of super string theory posits that the universe exists in ten different dimensions. 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:55.199 These different aspects govern the universe, the fundamental forces of nature and all the elementary particles contained within, all created by God. 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:59.600 Remember what I read in Colossians 1, that God's over all of that. 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:10.319 The super string theory, scientists speak of the fifth and sixth dimensions being other worlds that exist. 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.279 Basonic string theory suggests 26 dimensions. 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:24.000 So even science, men and women, is proving that there's an unseen world of thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers. 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:25.120 That's what Paul called them. 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:30.000 Paul called them thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers. 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:38.079 Those in the scientific community would call them in the super string theory and the basonic string theory dimensions. 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:47.120 So, as I've said so many times before, and in my new book that I'm working on, science is actually catching up with kingdom. 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:49.439 Science is actually coming. 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:53.279 I'm talking about real science, not fake science. 00:05:53.680 --> 00:06:04.720 I'm talking about real science where I can't remember who said it, but someone once said the greatest danger in all scientific theory is having a little understanding of science. 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:13.040 Because when you have a little bit of understanding of science, you tend to latch on to things that are actually not scientifically true. 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:31.839 But when you go deeper, you're finding that science, both in the medical realm, physics, and especially quantum physics, supports these dimensions of something happening that we cannot see that has a cause and effect. 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:45.439 So what I'm introducing you to over these weeks is the worldview of Jesus, the worldview of the Sumerians, the worldview of the Jews. 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:54.240 And the reason that's important is because the American worldview, our scientific theory worldview is not the same. 00:06:54.879 --> 00:07:13.839 So I'm trying to dial it in as one who's lived in Asia for 10 years, where I was exposed to more of the two-thirds world worldview, and then back to America where I'm back to a scientific worldview, which is great, to the limitations that it has. 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:32.959 And in my opinion, you're you're at the best place if you have a Western worldview scientifically, but you have an Asian or two-thirds world or biblical worldview spiritually, because they work well together. 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:38.079 So, for Jesus, so let's just start with Jesus. 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:53.920 Jesus comes upon someone who is blind, or Jesus comes upon someone who can't hear, or Jesus comes upon someone who's having what we might call an epileptic fit, and he doesn't say, you need to go to the pharmacy and pick up some drugs. 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.160 He doesn't say, Have you seen your pediatrician lately? 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:05.839 No, Jesus immediately, in his worldview, biblical worldview, all through scripture, was this is demonic. 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:19.040 There's a spiritual reason behind, again, cause and effect, this person being blind, this person not being able to hear, this person having an epileptic fit. 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:25.759 So you and I, in a Western worldview, think, what's the drug I need for this? 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.160 Who's the doctor I need to see for this? 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:37.440 When actually, in many cases, if we believe in a biblical worldview, demons are behind much of your sickness. 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.519 Demons are behind much of your problems that you're experiencing. 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:42.720 But you don't go to that. 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:44.320 So God gives us freedom. 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:54.960 He gives us total freedom to go and inoculate ourselves from the real power source of the kingdom of God by drugging up on everything. 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:56.960 Okay, now I'm not against drugs. 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:01.120 Well, I'm not against 5% of the drugs. 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:02.000 Okay? 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.759 Most drugs you shouldn't be taking, in my opinion. 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:07.200 I'll just tell you that right now. 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:14.159 And that's based not just in my viewpoint, that's based also in my experience of all the years that I've been alive. 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:23.279 Is that most of the cause and effects, not most of it is demonic, I'm not saying that, but I'm saying that much of it is way more complex than that. 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:24.080 Okay? 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:35.039 So if I were to draw concentric circles, you've got a physical side of you, you have a spiritual side of you, you have a mental side of you, you have an emotional side of you, you have a stressed-out side of you, okay? 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.279 All of those coelate into being you. 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:54.320 So a lot of times what you're struggling with with headaches and the stuff you're struggling with with cancer, the stuff you're struggling with, issues related to hearing or related to stomach ailments, let's just go through the whole list, is related to something else in there. 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:57.679 You don't need a drug, you need to look at your whole lifestyle. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:06.000 So when I say, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you, it's the healthiest way to live. 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:15.360 In other words, the more kingdom you are, the more physically and emotionally and mentally stable you're going to become. 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.600 And so the scientific community is discovering this. 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:20.960 Great book. 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:27.919 I won't go into it here, but I talked about it when we did our uh health conference called Who Gets Sick? 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:30.320 Um, Blair Justice, Dr. 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:31.600 Blair Justice wrote that. 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:33.039 Gosh, that was 30 years ago. 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:39.200 And that was a groundbreaking book for me when I read it, because he ties everything into the emotions and the spirituality. 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:40.159 I don't even know if he's a believer. 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:42.879 I don't think he's a believer, but it was it was it was fascinating. 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:50.639 So sometimes what you need is less drugs and more Jesus. 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:57.840 And what you need is less visits to the hospital and more visits to your Bible. 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.360 Okay, so not against hospitals, not against doctors. 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.960 I'm not, if you break your arm, you definitely need somebody to set the arm, okay? 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:06.879 So don't hear me saying 100%. 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:08.320 I'm just saying. 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:10.159 I'm challenging your thinking. 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:11.440 So that's what this is about. 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:25.200 That's why we're doing this, because I want you to understand that even in the scientific and the quantum physics theory side of things, they also acknowledge there's a spiritual realm that has a cause and effect. 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:32.080 And so for Jesus, he recognized a demon was causing this illness and he cast it out. 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:37.279 Now, you could see, this is important, you could see the cause, but you couldn't see the effect. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.679 I mean, you could see the effect, but you couldn't see the cause. 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:44.159 So you can see the effect of demons, but you couldn't see the cause coming from demons. 00:11:44.240 --> 00:12:06.480 And I'm hoping that 10 weeks from now, your eyes are a little more opened to the reality of a biblical, Christian, uh, Old Testament, New Testament worldview that will even challenge some of our just science solidly kind of Western, dualistic, scientific, medical worldview. 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.519 So now turn to uh Psalm 82. 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:17.840 So turn to Psalm 82, and I'm gonna call this series, this message today, the Divine Council Activated Over Nations. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:25.919 The Divine Council activated over nations, and I'm gonna have to talk really fast to get through just part one, and we'll do more next week. 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.799 God stands in the divine assembly or congregation of the mighty. 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.679 He judges among the gods, plural. 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:41.840 In my spirit-filled study by mighty is mighty ones, assembly or the congregation of the mighty ones. 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:45.360 And if you look up at the PowerPoint, I've put in a little bit of Hebrew. 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:51.200 So God, Elohim, stands in the assembly or the congregation of the mighty ones. 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:55.039 He judges among the gods, Elohim again. 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:58.080 Elohim occurs twice in our verse. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.600 Other than the covenant name Yahweh, Elohim is the most common word in the Old Testament for God. 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:06.399 The first use of the word works fine. 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:11.679 It's singular and describes the one true God or Yahweh. 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:17.440 But it's the second use of the word, translated plural, that may surprise some of us. 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:31.840 The singular God of the universe stands in a congregation of gods or divine beings as part of an assembly, a pantheon of spiritual beings or small G gods. 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:36.960 Now, this was the way people thought in biblical times. 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:47.759 You couldn't find any self-respecting Jew, you couldn't find anybody from any of the lands of Babylon or Persia who did not believe that there was a pantheon of gods. 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:49.360 And you see it all through scripture. 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.559 This is going to open your eyes to a lot of passages in Scripture. 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:54.559 Now, here's what I want you to understand. 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:59.360 I don't believe in a pantheon of capital G gods that are all equal. 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:15.360 I'm talking about Yahweh, the one true God, Elohim, capital E, in the phonetic spelling of the Hebrew, Elohim, as the one true God over a pantheon of divine beings. 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:21.919 But what I'm telling you is the way the translators translated it was small g gods. 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:29.440 Michael Heiser writes, God's divine council is an assembly in the heavens, not on earth. 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:35.519 This is precisely what we'd expect if we understand the Elohim to be divine beings. 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:45.360 There's no reference in Scripture to a council of human beings serving Yahweh in the skies, Jews or otherwise. 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:58.559 So the rest of the passage, if you're gonna come back to, we're gonna, do you guys, if you have those little dividers, those little strings that are on your Bible, I don't know what you call them, little things you put for chapter heading, you know, you can you can save. 00:14:58.720 --> 00:14:59.600 What do you call that? 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:00.480 I don't know what you call that. 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:11.440 But anyway, that little string thing that you have that's usually red, purple, black, whatever, put that in Psalm 82, because we're gonna dance around to a few passages and we're gonna come back to Psalm 82. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:18.240 So, one of the most controversial, if not the most controversial passages in all of Scripture is Genesis 6. 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.879 Genesis 6, 1 through 4, don't go there. 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:22.320 I'm gonna put it up on the screen. 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:23.679 Um that's what I'm saying. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.440 If you follow me, if you'll just get really confused, okay? 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:30.639 But Genesis 6, 1 through 4 is about the Nephilim. 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:32.960 How many have heard of the Nephilim or the Nephilim? 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:33.440 Okay. 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:37.039 Now this is important, and I'll cover the Nephilim later. 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:45.039 Way too much to cover on that right now, but I'm just I'm gonna scratch the surface of it because I'm talking about the divine counsel of God. 00:15:45.200 --> 00:16:04.159 So in Genesis 6, we read, Now it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God, Ben Elohim, saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:09.440 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh. 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:12.960 Yet his day shall be one hundred and twenty years. 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:24.480 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God, Ben Elohim, came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:30.960 Those were the mighty men who were of old and men of renown. 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:46.720 So what's interesting about this passage is that it appears that the divine counsel of God, that some of those gods, as it were, these divine beings, mated with the daughters of men and had a progeny of giants in the land. 00:16:46.960 --> 00:17:01.840 And this this leads credence to why when Joshua was taking the promised land, I'll show you in scripture, he chose certain tribes to go after that had giants. 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:02.879 Okay? 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:08.799 Even Caleb, who's like in his 80s, 90s at this point, says, give me Hebron. 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:10.880 I want Hebron because there's giants. 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.319 I'll take on the giants. 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:19.279 So we believe that even Goliath was a progeny of the Nephilim, these giants. 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.799 And some say that these the Nephilim are still on the earth. 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:25.440 I don't personally believe that, but some people do. 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.559 So when you study this stuff, it gets weird, man. 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:30.960 I just tell you, there's a lot of weird theories out there. 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:34.480 And I don't know, some have said that the Antichrist will be a Nephilim. 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:35.039 I don't know. 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:49.440 But the point here is that the Ben Elohim, so these sons of God, came and had the ability to actually cross over from this other dimension into our dimension. 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:56.319 And I believe, how many of you would say that at some point in your life you may have pretty sure you met an angel? 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:59.519 Okay, yeah, about half of you in the room. 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.960 So I think that's I think that's typical. 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:06.240 I think I think we're meeting angels more than we know. 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:08.559 That you'll be in certain situations. 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:14.480 I remember I was surfing in um the wedge, which is in Newport Beach, California. 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:19.680 I was 21, 20 or 21, and I was surfing with the red flag. 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:24.960 So it was a big storm, and I got I went over what we call going over the falls on my board. 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:32.079 I hit this really great wave, and I went over the falls, got a little too too ahead of my people like in Colorado say, get ahead of your skis. 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:42.640 I got ahead of my board and went over the top, and I smashed my head into the wedge, into the sand, and then just kept getting ripped and ripped and ripped by wave after wave. 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.920 And I went down and up and down and up, and I was on my last. 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:49.039 I was, this was the last, I was, it was over for me. 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:50.480 I was gonna drown. 00:18:50.640 --> 00:19:00.480 And suddenly this guy, uh, I came up, it was a lull for about two seconds where there was, where I was about to get hit by another wave, and my board is busted in half. 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:02.160 I mean, that's how bad I hit. 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:08.640 This guy, I saw him, he saw me, and he threw his board and it skipped across this lull in the water. 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:10.559 I grabbed it and I rode in. 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:12.319 And then the guy came up and said, Are you okay? 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:13.680 And I said, Yeah, and he just took off. 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:15.279 He walked away, took his board. 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:18.480 And I believe that was an angel that saved my life. 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:27.680 So, so this dimension, spirits come, these divine beings come, and they can be demonic. 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:31.920 In other words, they can be of the dark one of evil, but they can also be good. 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:34.559 So turn now to Job 38. 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:40.160 So keep your marker in Psalm 82, go to Job 38. 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:43.440 The scope of the sons of God. 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:47.200 What I'm saying, let's start with the very, very beginning. 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:59.279 So this is before or either when God is laying the foundations of the earth, this is before the creation of man. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:02.559 So Job 38, 4 through 7. 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:05.359 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:06.799 So he's speaking to Job. 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:08.720 Tell me if you have understanding. 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:10.559 Who determined its measurements? 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:12.000 Surely you know. 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:14.480 Or who stretched the line upon it? 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:18.799 To what were its foundations fastened? 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:21.200 Or who laid its cornerstone? 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:31.359 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:42.400 So when God laid the foundations of the earth, the sons of God and the morning stars, which is parallelism in the Hebrew, they both mean the same thing, were shouting for joy. 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:46.559 They're not humans, because man has not even been created yet. 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:56.880 It would appear that the unseen invisible world has a hierarchy reflected in such terms as angels and demons and archangels, principalities and powers. 00:20:57.200 --> 00:21:08.000 Sons of God, again using the word Elohim, is speaking of divine beings, small d, who have responsibilities and job descriptions in the cosmic realm. 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:12.640 The morning stars are being referred to as the sons of God. 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:18.079 So I believe these sons of God, as we've already talked about, are the principalities and powers in the heavenly realm. 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:19.920 So God has a family. 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:24.160 God's got a divine family, and God's got a human family. 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:27.359 So before humans were created, God had a council. 00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:30.160 He had an assembly of the sons of God. 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:32.880 And so, in a sense, God has two families. 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:47.119 He has a family made up of angels and archangels, and in part of that case, some that rebelled against him, which we talked about a little bit last week, but then he's got a human family, and we're creating the image of God, they're not creating the image of God. 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:56.559 So we're his most special creation of all creation, and that's why these principalities, thrones, and powers hate us. 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:57.680 Some of them do. 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:59.680 They hate you, they they want you to. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:00.960 Commit suicide. 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:06.000 They want you to be destroyed because you're created in the image of Yahweh. 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:08.799 You're created in the image of Elohim. 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:14.079 And so you're uniquely created for that with a unique purpose on your life. 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:23.119 Which is really important because that's important for understanding the activation over nations that I'm going to come to. 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:26.799 Okay, now back to Psalm 82. 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:28.960 So go back to Psalm 82. 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:32.000 I want you to notice a few things here. 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:33.920 So all we did was look at verse 1. 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:46.880 I want to read the whole thing, and I want you to note how both God and spirits are ruling over nations. 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:57.440 So Psalm 82 is God admonishing the divine beings to rule over nations correctly. 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:00.559 And you say, well, how did I mean how did that happen? 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:06.000 Well, it's because of the Tower of Babel. 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:13.279 And we don't have time to go into the Tower of Babel, but this all relates back to the Tower of Babel and the division of languages, division of nations. 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:21.759 And somehow, in time immemorial, God placed these divine beings over what we now call nations. 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:26.559 I think at that time we might maybe refer to them as tribal or tribes. 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:30.559 God stands in the congregation of the mighty or the mighty ones. 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.440 He judges among the gods, Elohim. 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:36.559 How long will you judge unjustly? 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:38.000 Now that's an interesting phrase. 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:44.799 So God, in his admonition here, is actually speaking to the divine beings that they judge. 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:50.640 They have some kind of ability to judge and show partiality to the wicked. 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:53.519 Defend the poor and fatherless. 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.079 Do justice to the afflicted and needy. 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:57.920 Deliver the poor and needy. 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:00.240 Free them from the hand of the wicked. 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:02.960 They do not know, nor do they understand. 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:04.720 They walk about in darkness. 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:08.799 All the foundations of the earth are unstable. 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:17.599 So these divine beings can actually bring unstability to the earth, it appears. 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:20.000 I said, You are God, Elohim. 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:24.559 And all of your children of the Most High. 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:28.960 But you shall die like men and fall like one of the princesses. 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:31.200 So he's speaking totally here of Lucifer. 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:34.000 Lucifer being cast out of heaven. 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:38.960 Arise, O God, and judge the earth, for you shall inherit all nations. 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:43.359 Now, parenthetically, this is what I believe, and I'm gonna talk more about it next week. 00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:45.440 But parenthetically, I believe this. 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:53.920 Arise, O God, and judge the earth is not that God is going to just sovereignly judge the earth in some random way. 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:55.599 He's gonna use people. 00:24:56.559 --> 00:25:02.799 He's gonna use good men, he's gonna use good women who follow the Lord. 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:18.400 He always uses people to bring jurisdiction, which has already been given to us through the power and authority we have through the filling of the Holy Spirit to take back what the enemy has stolen. 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:23.119 So all around us, so look at the darkness, it's the last days and everything. 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:24.640 By the way, it is the last days. 00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:25.599 John said it. 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:27.839 2,000 years ago, it's the last days. 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:31.039 It's the laster days than it was then. 00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:32.079 Okay? 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:34.960 But is it the LD Capital? 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:36.000 I don't know. 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:37.599 I don't think that way. 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:39.839 I just don't think that way. 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:42.799 I think in terms of dominion. 00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:47.599 I think in terms of let's make an impact for the time that we have here. 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:52.799 I'm not working toward spending hours trying to figure out who the Antichrist is. 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:54.960 I think it'll sort of be obvious. 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:55.839 Okay? 00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:59.680 I think what matters is what's right in front of you. 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:02.640 Are you seeking God for your family? 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:04.960 Are you crying out to God for our city? 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:07.599 Are you crying out to God for your marriage? 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:11.440 Are you working on those addictions in your life and getting those demons out? 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:13.519 I mean, that's how we're supposed to live. 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:16.079 He'll take care of all that other stuff. 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:22.799 So, divine beings, it appears, rule and influence national leaders. 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:27.119 These divine beings have jurisdiction over nations given by God. 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:31.119 We can see the interactions of the unseen with the seen. 00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:39.839 With the unseen dimension and the three-dimensional in one of the most interesting passages in the Bible, and that's Daniel chapter 10. 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:53.759 So turn to your Bibles to Daniel chapter 10, and I'm just gonna start into this because I had so much to cover, I thought, ah, I gotta wait, I gotta, I gotta break this down into another message. 00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:55.680 To do it justice. 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:00.240 Daniel 10 is a really, really bizarre passage. 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:07.920 And by the way, I hope that at the end of this time together, you'll realize the Bible's very bizarre. 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:08.559 Okay? 00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:11.920 And but you will not be intimidated by it or skip over it. 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:22.559 Like in some of your study Bibles, you'll see stuff about the sons of God, and they make it sound like it's a well, there was this superstition, you know, back then of these divine beings. 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:24.880 That's a bad, bad translation. 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:32.720 Um, but actually, these are really divine beings, and they really do have supernatural power. 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:34.880 But you have more power. 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:36.480 That's where we're going with this. 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:38.240 It's really exciting. 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:42.880 How many in here would say you feel like that you have cast out a demon before? 00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:44.400 Raise your hand. 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:45.680 Super. 00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:48.079 I'm gonna call on you next week. 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:53.920 All of you that are in your kitchen eating warm soup and food. 00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:55.839 How many of you would think no? 00:27:56.400 --> 00:28:04.960 Um okay, I'm gonna call this the five truths, the five truths about the battle of cosmic divine beings. 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:08.000 The five truths about the battle of cosmic divine beings. 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:10.319 Um, and I'm just gonna do the first two. 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:14.319 I'm only gonna do two today, and then next week we'll cover the last three. 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:16.559 And who knows, by next week there may be seven. 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:21.359 But there's five truths today, right now, that I see. 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:28.880 In the third year of Cyrus, the king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Beth Shazzar. 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:33.599 The message was true, but the appointed time was long. 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:38.559 And he understood the message and had understanding of the vision. 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:45.119 In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:55.039 I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled. 00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:58.640 So you can tell from this, he's very skinny and he stinks. 00:28:59.119 --> 00:28:59.440 Okay? 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:06.079 Um, but for three weeks he's been on his, what we now classically call a Daniel fast. 00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:18.720 And what I I make a difference, a distinction between that, a Daniel fast being one by which you're not eating tasty foods, uh, maybe not even eating meat or any out taking any alcohol or anything. 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:19.920 That'd be a Daniel fast. 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:21.279 That's where this comes from. 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:23.519 So he's fasting and praying. 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:28.160 Now I'm gonna cover fasting and prayer and the power of prayer next week. 00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:36.720 But there's so much to be said here that I felt like, man, I've gotta I've gotta wait on this. 00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:38.240 But what is he mourning about? 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:42.960 Okay, well, there's two perspectives on what he was mourning about. 00:29:43.200 --> 00:30:01.200 One is the idea that the first wave of exiles had returned to Jerusalem under Zarebabel, Ezra 1 and 2, and that not many Jews went. 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:14.240 Not many went back, not many left Persia, not many left Babylon and went back, and he's mourning the fact that the Jews don't want to return to Jerusalem. 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:20.400 Another aspect is that maybe Ezra was facing opposition to the rebuilding of the temple. 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:23.119 And uh Daniel's 84 years old here. 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:26.640 Daniel's 84 years old, he's fasting and praying, he's mourning about something. 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:28.640 But those are the two theories that are out there. 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:32.960 How many here have ever bred horses or dogs? 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:34.960 Anybody breed any breeders in here? 00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:35.920 Okay, a few. 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:40.640 So I don't breed dogs, but I buy bred dogs. 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:48.640 And so whenever I hear people say, Man, my dog won't do this, my dog won't do that, I said, Well, is it is it one are you one of those search and rescue people? 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:53.440 And you got him at the pound, and they go, Well, yeah, I just love my dog. 00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:55.279 And I said, That's a stupid dog. 00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:56.000 Okay. 00:30:56.319 --> 00:30:57.119 I'm sorry. 00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:02.160 You know, you can love that dog, but it's never gonna learn what you want it to learn because it's a dumb dog, okay? 00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:05.680 If you if you want a smart dog, get one that's been bred, okay? 00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:06.559 Pay the money. 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:08.720 You're gonna have them for 10 or 12 years. 00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:10.640 Okay, but some people like dumb dogs. 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:12.079 That's it's cool, that's fine. 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:15.839 Um, I've ridden on dumb horses, let me just tell you. 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:20.000 I've been thrown for more horses than I even want to talk about or think about. 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:23.359 But my granddad was great with cattle, but he was lousy with horses. 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:24.079 He just was. 00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:28.880 And so every time he put me on a horse, I knew I'm gonna get thrown again, you know. 00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:34.480 And I'd always have a horse that couldn't wait to get back to the barn, it would run and stop immediately at the fence. 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:40.160 I'd fly into the poop in the mud, in the pen, and the horse would laugh. 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:45.920 Um but but the reason I say that is the Jews are bred well. 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:50.480 The Jews are bred well. 00:31:51.759 --> 00:32:05.440 Jews, because of the purity of their religion and their commitment to God's word in most cases, and the and the festivals, things that they followed, tend to be smarter than you and me because they're bred well. 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:13.759 So, what had happened in Babylon, Persia, at that time, was that they were successful. 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:18.240 Everywhere the Jews go, by and large, they become very, very successful. 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:21.359 So they had become successful, they didn't want to leave. 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:28.880 They had built houses, they had built these beautiful palatial uh companies and stuff in Babylon, they didn't want to leave. 00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:32.960 So, so Daniel is mourning that. 00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:35.519 He's crying out to God, he's fasting and praying. 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:47.680 Now, on the 24th day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is the tigress, I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen. 00:32:47.920 --> 00:33:14.000 So he called him a certain man, but this is not a man, whose waist was girded with the gold of Uphas, his body was like bereal or barrel, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze and color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude. 00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:33.759 Now, if you saw the first movie of Raiders of the Lost Ark, there is this scene with the opening of the Ark of the Covenant that's that sounds, feels, and looks a lot like this, because I knew the pastor who was the consultant for Spielberg. 00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:35.839 And he told him, look at this passage. 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:41.359 That's kind of what you want to picture this scene to be like. 00:33:41.519 --> 00:33:42.799 It was from this passage. 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:44.079 So here's the first point. 00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:45.039 Here's my first point. 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:47.839 We're only going to cover the first two. 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:56.079 The divine council is made up of divine beings that are activated through our actions on earth. 00:33:56.400 --> 00:34:02.079 The divine council is made up of divine beings that are activated through our actions on earth. 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:17.039 I want you to see the correlation between Daniel fasting and praying for 21 days and the activation of a divine being coming from another dimension into our dimension to answer his prayers. 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:24.880 Men and women, when you pray, you activate heaven. 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:27.840 Things start to happen in heaven. 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:36.159 When you start to pray for that son or that daughter or for your marriage, something happens, man. 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:37.599 I don't get it all. 00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:40.480 But but things start happening in heaven. 00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:41.760 You see how heavy that is? 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:43.360 See how important and deep that is? 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:44.719 That's why we got to do that next week. 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:45.840 We'll cover that. 00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:56.800 But this divine being, either a pre-incarnate Christ or an archangel, comes down to deal with the prayers of Daniel. 00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:58.159 Verse 10. 00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:05.440 Suddenly a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands. 00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:14.719 And he said to me, O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you and stand upright. 00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:21.199 For I, and this is the part I want you to underline or circle, for I have now been sent to you. 00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:23.840 I have been sent to you. 00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:27.119 While he was speaking this word to me, I stood up trembling. 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:31.840 Number two, all divine beings are under the jurisdiction of God. 00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:40.800 All divine beings are under the jurisdiction of God, even demons, even Satan are under the jurisdiction of God. 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:47.440 He says here, for I have now been sent to you. 00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:54.079 And now, next week, we're going to go into a lot more on the cosmic battle going on. 00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:58.880