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. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.120 Welcome to the Born for War podcast. 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:29.440 So, before I get into the Word, I'm going to give you my opinion. 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:33.520 So, this is not God's opinion, this is my opinion. 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:41.039 And so you can take it or leave it, and you're allowed to disagree in this church. 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:43.520 We value different opinions, we really do. 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:48.479 So you don't have to, everybody doesn't have to hook, line, and sinker be exactly the same. 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:59.039 On the essentials of the faith, I believe we should be united, but on the non-essentials, there's room for gray, there's room for disagreement. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:08.000 But in my opinion, and I read widely, I study different opinions, I don't just read one particular side of the news. 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:18.959 I believe that the military-industrial surveillance can't have anything but a good war complex, is behind the wars that are happening right now. 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.519 And that there's a lot of money to be made by having wars. 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:42.079 I think nothing would give the military-industrial that can't find a bad war complex more joy than to make billions and billions of dollars on the slaughter of young people. 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:53.920 Every one of you in this room, every Ukrainian, every Palestinian and Israeli is created in the image of God. 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:56.879 And it's good. 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:00.319 God hates war. 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.000 But wars are gonna happen because of sin. 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:09.520 And because of satanic and demonic powers that are on this earth. 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.159 They will go on, they will continue. 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:15.199 Never rejoice in a war. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:19.439 Rejoice in a kingdom of God revolution. 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:27.039 And if God needs to use war to bring a revolution, then who am I to have anything but my opinion on this? 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:47.120 But I've grown to, since, even before COVID, but especially during COVID and since then, I've grown to be very questioning of what government does and how much they really care about you and me. 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:51.199 And that's both sides of the aisle, even in this country. 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:54.960 But I do believe God is doing a great work. 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.879 And that our vision of a Kingdom of God revolution is the right vision to have. 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.360 That is the right vision to have. 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:08.159 And we don't get to play on the field with some of these people. 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:10.159 We pray for them. 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:18.879 And when I say what I said, I say this from the perspective of the leadership at the highest levels. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:25.120 Not the men and women in uniform who we know, who we love, and who we appreciate. 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:31.120 That's why we have you stand on Memorial Day and Veterans Day and why we believe in you. 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:37.599 And we believe in everyone who's standing up and fighting and being willing to give their life for our country. 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.319 I'm talking about deeper things. 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:47.840 I'm talking about stuff that's high up, that's very, very demonic. 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:49.840 Again, let me say this. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.800 I'm not saying everybody in the higher ups is demonic. 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:53.680 I'm not saying that. 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:59.520 I am saying, because we're on the cosmic war, and I'm gonna really cover this more next week. 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:10.719 Because I'm gonna talk about the divine counsel of God and how demons, demonic spirit level, high level, probably archangel levels, are controlling nations. 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:12.479 They're controlling nations of the world. 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:14.080 We don't have time to get into it here. 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:18.720 If you want to get a heads up, you can read Daniel chapter 10 to get you ready. 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:22.399 But that's just my opinion, done with my opinion. 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:25.600 It's over that I just had to make that commentary. 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:26.160 Okay. 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:28.079 Amen. 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:42.000 So, if you are at Garden of the Gods right now and you were standing in front of the balanced rock, do you guys know the balanced rock? 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:49.279 Okay, the balanced rock is this 700-ton rock that's balanced on this very tiny base. 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:52.160 And it's it seems supernatural, it's just amazing. 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:56.720 People come from all over the world to see the balanced rock in Garden of the Gods. 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:59.839 And if you stood right in front of it, it looks like just any other rock. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:04.560 And then if you took a step back, it still seems like a big rock. 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:14.240 And then you step back a few more, and suddenly you realize, wow, this big 700-ton rock is balanced on this small base, right? 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:24.480 And then you keep going back and you see, if you're on the on the north side of the rock, sort of the northeasterly side, what do you see? 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.000 You see pikes peak. 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.240 You start seeing pikes peak up there. 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:32.000 And then you turn and you see Garden of the Gods. 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.319 That's what we're doing in this series. 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:41.839 We're stepping back from some verses to look at the panoramic view of Scripture. 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:49.839 And so last week we went from Genesis to Revelation and we looked at Genesis 1, 1 and 2, and it's called the gap theory. 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:55.360 And I put it up with my parentheses around it so you understand what I was saying last week. 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:58.319 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:03.759 There was sometime immemorial, it could have been millions of years, could have been five minutes. 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:10.800 I'm not making a statement about that, but that God created the earth, this is before the sixth day. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:12.319 So this is not the sixth day. 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:17.680 God created the earth, and then a war broke out, and we looked at Revelation chapter 12. 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:31.600 The earth then became, now this is verse 2, the earth became without form and void and darkness, waste and void, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:33.199 Those are my parentheses. 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:37.199 The New King James Version says, without form and void. 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:43.759 The American translation is more accurate here and says the earth was formless and void. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:54.720 Other translations have it as waste and void, and this comes from the Hebrew words used tohu bohu, meaning a wasteland, wilderness, confusion, or a wreck. 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:59.759 So comparing the Bible with the Bible, we looked at Isaiah 45, 18. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:10.319 For thus says the Lord who created the heavens, he is the God who formed the earth and made it, he established it and did not create it a waste place. 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:17.040 He did not create it a chaos, revised Standard Version, but formed it to be inhabited. 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:33.920 So my thesis last week was there was a war in heaven in time immemorial, in which, like a like a nuclear blast possibly, uh Lucifer rebels against God and is cast down to the earth and lays it waste. 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:35.759 Just lays it waste. 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:40.399 Anything Satan does is always wasteful. 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:45.199 Anything that Satan does is to destroy the goodness of God. 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:46.879 That's why I hate war. 00:07:47.279 --> 00:08:01.120 Because war, most of the time, is demonic powers coming against the second most hated created thing in the universe, which is human beings. 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:07.199 So Lucifer, Satan, or the dragon, those are the three terms you're gonna hear me use in this series. 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:10.000 Lucifer, Satan, dragon. 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:21.759 Those are scriptural terms for this entity, this spirit being hates God, but second, right up there in the same category, hates you. 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:25.839 Because you're created in the image of God. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.720 So every time Satan and demons get around human beings, they hate us. 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:35.759 So if you're inviting demons into your life, you're creating chaos. 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:47.279 You're creating a void in your heart that could be a beautiful place for the creative genius of the Holy Spirit working in you. 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:49.679 And that's your choice. 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:59.200 But we have to have a panoramic view to understand how the enemy works, because the way he worked at the very beginning is how he works today. 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:04.399 And so today I want to talk about Lucifer and the origin of sin. 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:10.799 Sun Chu in the art of war makes a very insightful statement. 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:20.000 If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:28.159 If you know yourself, but not the enemy, for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat. 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:33.919 If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb to every battle. 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:43.600 And I can tell you today, having been a pastor for as long as I have, that most believers do not fall into the first sentence. 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:48.720 Most either know their self, but they don't know the enemy, or they don't know themselves, they don't know the enemy. 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:53.759 But very few know the works of the enemy and know themselves. 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:55.919 That's why we're doing this. 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:00.879 Because I want you to come away with confidence over the next few weeks. 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:07.759 I hope that each sermon will build increasing confidence in you against the enemy, not fear. 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:15.840 But if it does create a little bit of fear, because you recognize the work of the enemy in your life, that's a good thing. 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:21.039 Because you gotta know your enemy and you have to know yourself. 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:23.919 And all of us in this room have shame. 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:29.840 All of us in this room have areas, dark shame caves where the enemy's trying to get in. 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:36.000 And I'm hoping and praying that you're gonna grow in confidence enough to say, I'm not gonna let the enemy in there anymore. 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.720 I'm gonna cut him off. 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:43.919 And I'm gonna walk in the victory that's mine in Christ. 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:46.720 That is what this is all about. 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:48.320 So Ezekiel 28. 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:50.879 So turn in your Bibles to Ezekiel 28. 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.559 Today we're talking about Lucifer and the origin of sin. 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:58.480 The name Lucifer means son of the morning. 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:08.559 If you are into astronomy, if you're into the cosmos, the stars, many of you know that the term for Venus is Lucifer. 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:14.559 That's uh in ancient Hebraic thought as well as Sumerian thought. 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:23.440 Um, Venus is often called the Luciferian star because it is the star of the morning. 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:25.200 That's the first star you see. 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:30.240 When I'm out hunting early in the morning, that you'll see that bright star there. 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:32.080 Um, the sun of the morning. 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:35.440 Lucifer means sun of the morning, that's why they gave it the name. 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:39.279 Most beautiful of created divine beings. 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:43.759 But something terrible happened, something awful happened. 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:56.639 And in Ezekiel 28, we get a we get a theological view of how Lucifer came about and kind of how he works. 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:58.879 A little bit about his strategies is actually here. 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:05.840 In verse 1, it says, the word of the Lord came to me again, saying, Son of man, say to the Prince of Tyre. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:06.879 Underline that. 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.519 Prince of Tyre, thus saith the Lord. 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:13.840 So there is a, in historical literature, there is a prince of Tyre. 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:22.240 So this is really a man who is the prince of a nation, a province called Tyre. 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:32.639 Now, in the 11th verse, though, there's a shift, and Ezekiel writes about a king of Tyre. 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:34.159 Interesting shift. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.320 Verse 11, jump down to verse 11. 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:44.399 Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre. 00:12:45.200 --> 00:13:01.279 So theologians believe that the king of Tyre is Satan or Lucifer here, and this is our first indication of his work outside of obviously Genesis, where we see an idea of his pre-fallen state. 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:41.279 We believe some kind of a pre-fallen state in which he's working behind the scenes, and this is probably where he was at work in his job description as a chief prime minister of God, as a high-level archangel over all of the counsel of God, and the counsel of God I'm gonna cover next week, so you understand the hierarchy of the counsel of God in Scripture, but that this prince of this prince of Tyre is being influenced by the king of Tyre. 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:50.720 In other words, this satanic spirit being, we're gonna call him Satan, is working behind the scenes of this world or provincial leader. 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:52.559 Could have been a world leader. 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.000 We see this a lot in scripture. 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:58.799 So this is this is not really uncommon. 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.120 In other words, there was a serpent. 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:09.360 In other words, Satan doesn't come with little horns and a little pitchfork, like something out of Halloween. 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.200 You know, and so you see his pictures of Satan, and he looks a certain way. 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:25.039 That's actually that picture of him is based on ancient literature, and some of it's actually biblical in its imagery, but that's not how he's way, way more sophisticated than that. 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:30.720 He's not gonna come into your room and he's got a little pitchfork and he's gonna say trick-or-treat or something. 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:38.799 Um, no, he works behind the scenes and he always needs a person or an object to embody. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:42.639 So the serpent in Genesis 3 comes to Eve. 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:44.080 It's in the form of a serpent. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:53.360 We observe this with Peter in the Gospels when he rebukes Jesus, and then Jesus says, get behind me, Satan. 00:14:54.159 --> 00:15:03.600 With Ananias and Sapphira in the book of Acts, Satan is working behind the scenes, and Peter says, Satan has filled your heart. 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:12.879 We see a magician that Peter must deal with who's being used by Satan to manipulate the power of the Holy Spirit, to fake out people with the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:27.919 We see it today with certain churches and certain groups that say that they're having all these signs and wonders, and we find out later that the leader is involved in all kinds of weird stuff, and the church is into all kinds of crazy stuff. 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.120 Could be that it's demonic power. 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.600 Demonic power can do signs and wonders. 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:46.879 We have that with Moses and Pharaoh, where Moses does a sign and a wonder, and the magicians do a sign and a wonder, and then and then Moses does a sign and a wonder from God, and then this magician does it from demonic powers. 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:52.799 So there's this king of Tyre working behind the prince of Tyre. 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:57.440 So let's look at it starting at verse 12, what it says about Lucifer or Satan. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:08.240 Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre and say to him, Thus says the Lord God, you were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.320 You were in Eden, the garden of God. 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:24.639 So this Luciferian figure, this spirit being, and I don't even like to use like the to use the third person he, but it's definitely not a she, and it's a he or it's not a he. 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:25.039 I don't know. 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:26.399 It's probably androgynous. 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:27.200 We don't know. 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:30.559 Maybe we should say it's an it, but in scripture it's called a he. 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:40.480 So I'm just gonna go with the scriptural perspective of this spirit being, this high-level spirit being having a seal of perfection. 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:54.240 I mean, this being is in a place in the heavenly realm of high, high authority and power, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 00:16:54.720 --> 00:17:01.440 So to be fair to Eve, when this spirit came, it must have looked beautiful. 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:03.039 Just comes beautiful. 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.400 Have you noticed that sin comes beautiful to you? 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.359 Those beautiful bodies on the internet. 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:16.720 Always in some form of beauty that you're tempted. 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:19.200 The beauty of wealth. 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:21.519 Not all wealth is bad. 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.440 The beauty of sex, of course, not all sex in its prior place is good. 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:31.359 It's beautiful, but it's an embodiment of beauty by the enemy because he was beautiful. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:43.839 Every precious stone was your covering, the Sardis, the topaz, and diamond, barrel, onch, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:50.240 The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created. 00:17:50.880 --> 00:18:08.079 So if you if you know about the beauty of the of the gems that are on the breastplate of the priest in Israel, it's a picture here of a priest, a high-level priest with these emeralds all over the breastplate. 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:14.880 And I don't know if this, I actually haven't done the research on it. 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:17.200 If anybody wants to do the research, this would be interesting. 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:21.440 But the workmanship of your timbrels and pipes. 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:30.400 I have wondered if this wasn't the motivation or inspiration for the pipe organ. 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:41.119 Because we're talking here, as you're gonna, as we continue to read, of a high-level worship leader, a priest of the most high God as a spirit being. 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:45.039 And I grew up with pipe organs in my background. 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:49.279 So I grew up Lutheran, high church, high church Lutheran. 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:55.920 And uh my dad was the pastor of the oldest, most well-known Lutheran church in the Atlanta era, St. 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.799 John's Lutheran Church, massive pipe organ. 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:08.480 I mean, the pipe organ was maybe, I would say probably 25 feet, you know, in width, and probably went up to the top here to the ceiling. 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:09.119 It was huge. 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:13.279 And so choir masters and organists all came to St. 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:18.799 John and did concerts and stuff because the acoustics were so amazing in the church. 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:29.359 But somebody had a vision for the idea of a pipe and different openings in the pipe to form a sound, right? 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:42.160 I've just wondered, it's just me, if maybe this came from this particular place about the idea of pipes and sound coming through on the uh in the early days, it'd be the pump organ and stuff. 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:50.640 But in Revelation 21, we see the beauty of the wall of the city adorned with all kinds of precious stones. 00:19:50.880 --> 00:20:11.519 The first foundation was jasper, the second, sapphire, the third, Chalcedony, the fourth, emerald, the fifth, Sardonx, the sixth, Sardis, the seventh chrysalite, the eighth beriel or barrel, the ninth topaz, the tenth, chrysopras, the eleventh, Jacinth, and the twelfth Amethyst. 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:21.519 So the workmanship of God and the beauty of the heavenly realm is all over Satan. 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:28.880 So Satan has some kind of an exalted position over God's creation. 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:34.559 I'm gonna say that Lucifer, Satan or the dragon, well, I'm not gonna say it that way. 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:42.880 I'm gonna say Lucifer, so before he fell, was the first worship leader over divine beings in the fourth dimension. 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:54.079 So he, it appears, and all theological evangelical conservative theologians believe this to be, I think actually liberals do too, that this was the exalted position of Lucifer at that time. 00:20:55.039 --> 00:21:08.079 Now, the key operable verse here to me, the most important of all the verses, is this one was prepared for you on the day you were created. 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:09.920 Now, why is that important? 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:17.599 Well, I was just driving through Woodland Park a few days ago and I saw that the Exorcist is out in theaters now. 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:18.720 Maybe it's been out for a while. 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:19.119 I don't know. 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:25.440 I don't watch those kind of movies, but it just came out of whatever one that is. 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:28.480 It's like you got the exorcist and you got Rocky. 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:30.480 They never end, okay? 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:47.680 But um, if you watch these movies, you could get the impression that Lucifer, Satan, or the dragon is almost omniscient and omnipotent because of the way they're they're depicted in the movie. 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:50.160 That is not true, church. 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:54.799 This spirit being was created by God. 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:56.480 That's what the scriptures say. 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.759 That creation by God is unconscious. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:00.880 Under God. 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.240 What we create is ours. 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:05.359 We control that. 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:08.160 That's why it's important in naming your kids. 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:14.160 You should name your children because when you name them, you claim them. 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:16.319 They become yours. 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:17.519 They are yours. 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:21.200 And hopefully, you know, in your life, that name is significant. 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:23.279 If it's not, it will become significant. 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:27.680 But giving names to the animals by Adam is key. 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:29.440 It's more important than we know. 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:34.000 It shows, men and women, that we possess creation. 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:49.200 We as emissaries of, as stewards of all creation, by God, given divine abilities to name and to rule over creation is important. 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:54.480 But remember, Lucifer, Satan, dragon were created by God. 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:58.640 It's just a created being. 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:03.519 Not equal to God in any way. 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:06.559 You are the anointed cherub who covers. 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:08.400 I established you. 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:15.599 So God put him as this anointed cherub, covering over all the spirit beings. 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:17.920 You were on the holy mountain of God. 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.559 Holy mountain of God means the government of God, it means the presence of God. 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.400 You walked back and forth in the midst of the fiery stones. 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:40.400 The commentator Pimber writes: the mountain of God is the place of the presence, invisible glory, where his high priest would stand before God to minister. 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:48.640 We know that the cherubim of God are stationed just below the footstool of the throne of God, Ezekiel 1.26. 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:52.000 So he's over the holy mountain of God. 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:54.000 Lucifer is ruling over. 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:58.240 He's taking the worship of the cherubim and the seribim and the spirit beings. 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:05.440 And again, I'll tell you next week we're going to talk about what the holy council of God is and what that what's happening in the heavenly realm. 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:09.759 And he's receiving that and then giving it back to God. 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:18.240 The French translator Sagonde writes, thou wast the protecting cherub with spread out wings. 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:35.519 Now he's taking other aspects of scripture about the cherubs to devise that, but he gives the idea that there was this protecting cherub, kind of protecting the mountain of God over the mountain of God, that was Lucifer. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:38.319 So, church, music's important. 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:43.119 Music is powerful in a nation. 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:50.000 Karl Marx said, if you give me the poetry, art, and music of a nation, I will control them. 00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:57.200 We look at the advent of rock and roll music in the 1950s. 00:24:57.519 --> 00:25:07.279 You know, I'm not gonna throw everything at the feet of Buddy Holly or something, but um there is a there is a sound of the universe. 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:09.279 There's actually a sound of the universe. 00:25:09.359 --> 00:25:14.480 And you may have seen the studies that have been done on the sounds of the universe. 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:18.880 I know Louis Giglio has done some great stuff on that, on the sounds of the universe. 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:20.240 We don't have time to go into it. 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:23.440 But there is almost like there's a tuning fork. 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:27.119 It's almost like there's God's tuning fork for the universe. 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:36.559 And they have taken rock music and put it in a nursery, put it in a uh greenhouse, and the plants die. 00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:46.720 And then they put classical music in a greenhouse and the plants flourish. 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:58.240 So, hey man, I'll listen to Boston, I like Boston, I I I like Marshall Tucker band, I have to just be honest with you, okay? 00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:11.279 Um but but there there is no doubt that with the advent of rock music as we know it today, um forms of rock music came, right behind that was a sex revolution. 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:16.559 I I don't think it's a mistake by the enemy that he did that together. 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:22.319 And that our country has been on a major slippery slope morally since then. 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.960 I mean, right on the cuspus of all of that was kicking prayer out of the schools. 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:29.519 So there's a strategy here, folks. 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:30.559 Don't be dumb. 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:34.000 I mean, there's a strategy here that was coming together. 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:41.519 There's a strategy with a demonic spirit over Israel right now to take out Israel. 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:49.759 There is a strategy by terrorists in these countries to kill and to maim and to slaughter. 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:54.720 And it's been true in all time, but it's especially true today. 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:59.519 Karl Marx, if you give me the poetry and art and music of a nation, I will control them. 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:07.039 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you. 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:11.759 By the abundance of your trading, you became filled with violence within, and you sinned. 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.680 So if your kids ever ask you, mommy and daddy, where did sin start? 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:16.880 Or where did it all begin? 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:18.880 It's not Adam and it's not Eve. 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:19.839 It's Satan. 00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:20.960 It started in him. 00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:26.240 So something, um, I'm gonna say, just call it what it is, I think pride. 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:28.720 Pride's the root of all evil. 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:41.920 And uh pride was welled up because of the worship, I think, and the adulation that Lucifer received, and suddenly we go from one will in heaven to two wills. 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:45.440 And you know there can only be one will in heaven. 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:53.440 So when there became two wills in heaven, one will needed to go, and then that was Lucifer, and that's the first world war. 00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:56.240 That's what we were reading about in Revelation 12. 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.160 The dragon was cast down to the earth. 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:04.640 Genesis 1, 1, between 1.1 and 1, 2. 00:28:05.599 --> 00:28:09.519 Suddenly there's no longer one will over the universe, but two. 00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:20.319 Two wills in heaven, and sin began in the heart of Lucifer, some kind of a spontaneous generation, and he is, or it is cast to the earth. 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:27.839 Now let me just say this about something I talked about with the gap theory last week, because there was one person came up, and if there's one, there's probably ten. 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:36.240 But I believe in a literal, I'm a young earther in the sense that I believe in a literal six-day creation. 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:36.799 Okay? 00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:38.319 Seventh day he rested. 00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:39.519 Six-day creation. 00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:45.440 I'm talking about before that creation began, which I would argue is a second creation. 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:49.519 And in the old Schofield Bible, they believed in the gap theory too. 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:50.960 How many have heard of Chuck Mitzler? 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:51.920 Anybody heard of Chuck Mitsler? 00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:55.119 Chuck Mitzler was a big believer in the gap theory also. 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:57.680 And lots and lots and lots of other theologians. 00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:03.039 It was very popular actually from the 1700s up to about 1950. 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:05.119 And then there were some changes in it. 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:09.359 So, anyway, it that's a that's one of those areas like I'm not gonna argue with anybody about it. 00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:15.359 I gave you my thoughts, but you totally can say, I don't believe what Steve's saying, I believe in this. 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:16.160 That's great. 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:18.160 You can that's totally cool with me. 00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:19.200 I don't care. 00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:26.000 Um I just want to give you an idea that there was a war in heaven, and that I believe it lines up with uh with Genesis. 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.559 Therefore, I cast you out as a profane thing out of the mountain of God. 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:35.599 I destroyed you, oh covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones. 00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:40.079 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. 00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:43.359 So that's where sin began. 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:50.319 And that's why it's so hard for beautiful people to stay humble. 00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:53.200 Some of you say, Well, I'm not very beautiful. 00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:54.079 Good. 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.000 That's a good thing, you know. 00:29:56.160 --> 00:30:06.079 I remember thinking I'm so short, I'm like, I've got lots of zits, you know, and when I'm in high school and everything, and I now look back and go, that was a good thing. 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:08.480 Nobody was attracted to me, right? 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:09.839 It's a good thing. 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.160 Um, now look back at verse 2. 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:27.519 So look at the same passage, look back, verse 2, because this bears notice, because the king of Tyre, who we just read about, whose heart was lifted up because of his beauty, look at the description now in verse 2 of the prince of Tyre. 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:30.559 Because your heart is lifted up, sound familiar? 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:41.440 And you say, I am God, I sit in the seat of the gods in the midst of the sea, yet you are not a God, though you set your heart as the heart of God. 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:44.480 That's where we struggle, church. 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:46.000 We think we're gods. 00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:49.680 We think we're capital G gods. 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:51.119 Okay? 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:53.279 And that's where you get into trouble. 00:30:53.440 --> 00:31:09.200 The more talented you are, the more beautiful you are, the more um elevated you are, the more you're gonna be tempted toward the ways of this anointed cherub, Lucifer, and pride's gonna well up, and you're gonna get yourself in trouble. 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:17.440 And so what happened in the past through this anointed cherub happens today all the time. 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:20.400 I mean, when you read the book of Daniel, look at Nebuchadnezzar. 00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:32.799 Nebuchadnezzar looks out, he looks over all of his kingdom, pride wells up, and then Daniel has to give him a prophetic word that you're gonna be cast down from your throne because of the pride that's in your heart. 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:33.680 It happens all the time. 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:35.039 Happened to David. 00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:37.519 And so we're all susceptible to that. 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.119 And it's an old, old way of the enemy. 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:44.559 Now, turn to Isaiah 14. 00:31:45.039 --> 00:32:03.200 Isaiah 14 has to be juxtaposed to Ezekiel 28 because Isaiah 14 describes what happened in the spontaneous generation of the heart of Lucifer for him to be cast out. 00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:08.160 I like to call it the five I wills, the five I wills of Lucifer. 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:11.599 And so we see what happened in his spirit. 00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:17.519 This is an anatomical view of the beginning of sin. 00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:19.119 Verse 12. 00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:24.240 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? 00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:34.400 How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations, and I'm going to talk a lot about that next week, about the weakening of the nations. 00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:38.240 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven. 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:41.279 I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. 00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:47.839 I also sit on the mount of the congregation on the furthest sides of the north. 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:50.799 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. 00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:54.799 I will be like the most high. 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:56.000 This is what happened. 00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:57.920 This is the first great world war. 00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:02.000 The first world war was not 1918. 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:04.480 The first world war is right here. 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:18.559 He, willing to take over heaven, to take over God's place, is what cast him out, and he became the dragon, the ancient dragon of old. 00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:24.240 So, men and women, the beginning of all sin is you making a declaration of independence. 00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:33.200 That's the beginning of all sin, is you saying, my will be done instead of thy will be done. 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:36.880 All sin starts there. 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:58.160 But you who know Christ and have a personal relationship with him are complete in him, and you, being created in the image of God, with the Holy Spirit living within you, have power over every principality and power in the heavenly realm. 00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:00.640 So as we close, go to Colossians. 00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:05.039 Go to the New Testament, turn to Colossians chapter 2. 00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:08.159 And I want to close with this. 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:12.079 Definitely don't want to close talking about Satan. 00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:18.639 I want to talk about who you are in Christ if you receive Christ. 00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:22.960 If you've not received Christ, this is not true of you yet. 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:24.880 You're on your own, man. 00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:29.119 You and Lucifer can hang out together all you want. 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:40.480 But if you want to be free, if you want to be able to hold your head up, pick your chest out, push your chest out, put your head where it's supposed to be, which is on your shoulders. 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:46.320 Not confidence in you, but confidence in Christ, this is for you. 00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:47.920 Colossians 2, 6. 00:34:48.239 --> 00:35:01.039 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. 00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:03.039 That's the life you can have. 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:17.119 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ. 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:31.679 That's why some of our kids go to college, fired up, and they come back totally hating God, hating the church, not wanting to follow God because they've been listening to these professors who are of the traditions of men. 00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:36.159 Empty deceit, philosophy, basic principles of the world. 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:37.840 And we're surprised. 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:40.559 We're surprised? 00:35:41.519 --> 00:35:45.119 And we're paying them to indoctrinate our kids. 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:51.440 I'm sorry, you guys, that's that's something we've got to start reconsidering. 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:56.480 Do you want your kids going into philosophical situations? 00:35:56.639 --> 00:36:01.119 You're actually paying them to indoctrinate your kids against Christ. 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:08.559 For in him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in him. 00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:09.760 Underline that. 00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:16.639 You are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power. 00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:17.840 Underline that. 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:25.599 He is over every principality and power, and if you put your faith in him, he lives in you. 00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:30.159 That means you have power over any principality and power. 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:39.199 There's not an archangel out there, there's not a Satan out there that has any power over you if you're filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:45.119 You get filled with the Holy Spirit, you can walk with a confidence, and you can tell the devil to leave. 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:58.079 And I'm going to talk about the power of fasting and prayer as it relates to this next week and the week after, because we see in Daniel 10 a picture of how we do our warfare against the enemy. 00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:01.440 And I'll tell you, man, I've cast out a lot of demons. 00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:06.719 And they know when they encounter me, I know what I'm talking about. 00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:09.360 Because I spend a lot of time in this book. 00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:16.719 So I know this book, I understand this book, they don't, they think they do, and then I tell them to get out of Dodge and they do. 00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:18.719 And you can too. 00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:20.239 So let's stand. 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:24.239 And I want you to remember who you are in Christ. 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:31.920 You go, oh man, if you only knew all the mistakes I made or who I was, what I was doing on Saturday night, I don't care. 00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:33.280 Here's what I care about. 00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:37.360 I care about you starting today and in the days ahead. 00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:39.440 Hang with me over the next few weeks. 00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:40.400 Hang with me. 00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:45.360 My prayer is that this teaching will give you great confidence. 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:57.440 I want you to walk in greater confidence than you've ever walked in before in your life because you understand your weapons, you understand your God, and you also know the enemy, and you know what he's up to. 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:04.480