WEBVTT 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:02.799 It's time now for the rope. 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:04.240 That's your people. 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:06.879 I know church there. 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:07.919 Well, you can't, you know. 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:10.800 You can't be demon-possessed if you're a believer. 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:11.759 Well, actually believe that. 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.880 I'm going to be demon-possessed as a Christian. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:16.399 But you can be demonized. 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:21.760 And what I mean by that is the actually the Greek word means demonization that you can be influenced by. 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:27.679 That's why virtually every epistle in the New Testament written to believers is about spiritual warfare. 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:28.160 Okay? 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:31.519 So it is part blonde, what you signed up for. 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:35.840 Welcome to another edition of The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:40.399 Steve is the head pastor of the Road in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:47.679 It's our vision to make whole-hearted disciples of Jesus Christ and to see you grow in the grace and knowledge of his love. 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:54.159 If you're in the area, we welcome you to come out and join us for our Saturday night service beginning at 6 p.m. 00:00:54.479 --> 00:01:03.039 We meet at Chapel Hills Church, located at 2025 Harleman Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80920. 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:09.040 On this edition of the road, we'll continue this exciting study on spiritual warfare. 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.319 Make sure you have your Bibles handy because we're going to be looking at a few different scriptures today. 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:18.560 Here now with part one of today's message is Pastor Steve. 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.200 This is in uh USA Today. 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:28.400 I felt like it was important to just uh read the first part here on the front page. 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:31.599 Feds foil July 4th terror plots. 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:36.319 10 plus suspects linked to ISIL arrested in the month. 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:49.280 FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that federal authorities disrupted an undisclosed number of suspected plots timed to the July 4th holiday to quote kill people in the United States. 00:01:49.519 --> 00:02:02.319 I just want to say a prayer for our men and women in uniform who put their lives in harm's way, both military as well as law enforcement. 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:26.000 So, Father, thank you for these men and women who are constantly doing stuff that we don't know about that I believe sometimes you even give divine intelligence about that are attempting to destroy our nation and kill people because they're believers, because they're Christians, and and because they uh are freedom-loving people. 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.479 And so I ask a blessing, God, over them. 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:31.840 And I thank you for them and those that are even here at the road. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:34.479 We appreciate who they are and what they do. 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:36.319 So we bless them, Lord. 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:45.759 And Father, as we open the word, it seemed timely to read this as you've guided me to speak about the strategies of the enemy over nations. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:48.719 So, God, would you anoint and bless this message in your name? 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:49.599 Amen. 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:50.400 All right. 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:53.120 Um, tonight we're gonna be kind of jumping around a little bit. 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:55.120 We're gonna be in Daniel chapter 10. 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.240 Um, we're going to be in Psalm 2 and Joel 2. 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:03.599 You can work your way toward Daniel chapter 10 because that's where we'll we'll kind of launch out. 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:20.000 We've been talking about this issue of the fourth dimension and the aspect related to this world of a dimension of angels and demons that many Americans believe in, but they have no idea how to engage. 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:30.479 And um, I'll tell you, I've been to like 40 nations of the world, and most of the world believes that there's actually an engagement between the three-dimensional world and the fourth-dimensional world. 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.639 It's only the West where they don't believe that. 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:35.280 And uh, we call it the excluded middle. 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:36.639 The excluded middle. 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:41.439 This idea that there's this, there's this, there's these entities, seraphim and cherubim. 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:45.199 We see that in Revelation 4 and 5, worshiping before the Lord. 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.599 We see demons, we know about demons, we know about angelic beings. 00:03:49.759 --> 00:04:04.560 And then there's this three-dimensional world that we live in where we pay our bills and we wash our car and we have a job and we lose our job and we gain a job and we get married and we have relationships, and and yet we think there's kind of like it's excluded middle. 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:06.080 They don't really interact. 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:10.879 And it's sort of like uh TV transmission or radio transmission. 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:18.399 Right now, there's actually images flying through this room, and if you had a TV and you had an antenna, you'd pick it up. 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:21.279 And if you had an FM receiver, you'd pick it up. 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:29.920 And so right now, MIT, MIT about 10 years ago, uh started a, they have a course, and this course is on paranormia. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:37.199 And in the paranormia class, they talk about taking meters into haunted houses, and we're gonna talk about this later. 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:42.480 In several weeks, we'll get to UFOs and and the issue of um haunted houses. 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.639 I've been in haunted houses, they're real. 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:52.560 And there's ghosts that, I mean, you know, I think they're demons, but there's a reason why all through history and civilizations they believed in ghosts. 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:55.839 They call them ghosts, but they're really demons, these demon spirits. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:02.480 And so it's only in the West that we think that there's this fourth, some don't even believe there is that. 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.360 I mean, atheists and agnostics, I don't know what they believe sometimes, but they don't acknowledge that. 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:18.720 But most people, like 95% of it, believe, okay, I believe in that, and then I believe in this, but in the actual experiential world we live in, we don't think they interact. 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:20.800 Folks, they do. 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:21.920 They do. 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:37.279 I mean, we had um we had a couple that was at the road last week, and um they had come, and then they were intrigued by our our uh series on war, even though I wasn't talking about that last week. 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:42.480 We were talking about the end times church as it related to some of the legislation that had come down. 00:05:42.720 --> 00:06:03.759 But they went in and they and they listened back and caught caught up and listened to that, so she comes up to me, and I don't even know you know what their faith background is, but she came up to me at a baseball game and she said, Man, I was listening to those first two messages, and I can't explain it, but on a regular basis, I get up in the morning and it's a good day. 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:11.759 I take the kids to school, everything's fine, and then I just feel this oppression come over me and this anger toward my husband. 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:13.360 I know her husband, he's a great guy. 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:15.279 It's like Joe? 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:15.920 Yeah. 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.279 And now I'm starting to realize it's it's demonic. 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.879 And so this week I just said, in the name of Jesus, get out of here. 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:24.240 And it left. 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:34.000 You know, and I'm telling you, you guys, in the Philippines and in Malaysia, and in Thailand, India, when you become a believer, they just know to do that. 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:41.759 But we, the civilized West, are just getting taken out. 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:45.839 Nobody has divorces like we do. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:49.199 No other part of the world has divorces like Americans do. 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:53.360 There's not nearly the infidelity and the fairs in other parts of the world. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.959 I'm talking about even non-Christian nations like there is here. 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:02.079 We are idiots spiritually sometimes as to what's actually happening. 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:03.279 So that's why we're doing this. 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.439 And believe me, I've been in that world too. 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:17.120 I know what it's like, and to come to the reality that there's an enemy that comes to steal, kill, and destroy, I mean, actually taking out an entire family is a powerful thing because here's why Jesus came. 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:18.800 This is what Jesus said in 1 John. 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:21.680 The devil has sinned from the beginning. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:27.600 For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:44.720 Do you realize that when you become a faith believer, when you become a Jesus follower, you have the spirit of Jesus living within you, and he starts to give you the capacity and the power through his spirit to destroy the works of the devil. 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:49.279 You don't have to stay in the place you've always known. 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.920 You can start breaking strongholds over you. 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.439 So, tonight, 1 Peter 5.8 says this. 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.040 Jot this down if you're taking notes. 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:00.800 You don't have to turn there, I'll just read it to you. 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:03.120 But this is where we're gonna be for the next several weeks. 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:04.079 1 Peter 5.8. 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:12.879 So, Peter, if anybody understood this issue of being used by the enemy even though you love Jesus. 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:18.319 I know churches say, well, you can't, you know, you can't be demon-possessed if you're a believer. 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:19.199 Well, I actually believe that. 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:23.920 I don't believe you can be demon-possessed as a Christian, but you can be demonized. 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:29.199 And what I mean by that is the actually the Greek word means demonization, you can be influenced by. 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:35.200 That's why virtually every epistle in the New Testament written to believers is about spiritual warfare. 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:35.679 Okay? 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.360 So it is it is carte blanche what you signed up for. 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:48.320 So when you entered into this thing called the Christian life, you had an arch enemy that put a target on your back, and here's what Peter said. 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:57.840 Who was the one who just acclaimed at the Last Supper how much you loved Jesus, and then the very next moment says to Jesus, No, you can't go to the cross. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:59.039 And Jesus says, What? 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:00.960 Get behind me, Satan. 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.720 That's how quickly the enemy strategies can work. 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:10.399 So in 1 Peter 5.8, Peter writes this Be sober and alert. 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:15.120 Your enemy, the devil, is like a roaring lion. 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:20.480 He is on the prowl looking for someone to devour. 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.919 Resist him strong in your faith. 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.919 So my title tonight is Strategies of a Roaring Lion. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.120 Strategies of a Roaring Lion over a Nation. 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:39.200 Reality is this, is that you gotta understand the setup before we get to actually how we cast them out, how we get set free. 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:42.799 So he says that the enemy is like a roaring lion. 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:48.240 So there's a roaring lion out there, and he has devices, you guys, and he has strategies. 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.720 He has strategies for you. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:54.960 He knows you, but he also has strategies over nations. 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:59.519 There is a strategy by Satan over America. 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:02.639 And he uses leaders in government. 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:14.159 He uses mayors, he uses presidents, he uses um council members, he works in churches, he works through boards, he works through people of influence. 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:15.840 And we're gonna see that in a moment. 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.320 But what I want to talk about now is nations. 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:24.000 Revelation 12, 7 talks about the battle in the heavenlies when we spoke of the great battle. 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:25.440 I call it the first war. 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:27.200 The first world war. 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:32.240 The first world war was not in 1916 to 1918. 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:45.759 The first world war was eons, yea, even many, maybe millions of years ago, when the worship intercessor Lucifer, morning stars, what that means, rebelled against God, Isaiah 14, the five eye wills that are there. 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:50.000 We've already discussed all this, rebelled against God, he was cast to the earth. 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.039 Here's what it says in Revelation 12, 7. 00:10:53.279 --> 00:11:03.360 The war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:14.639 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old called the devil and Satan, and this is the part that's key, who deceives the whole world. 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:16.879 Who deceives the whole world. 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:18.879 So they didn't talk about a job description. 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:20.559 There's your job description. 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:24.159 He is here, he's on the earth, he's called the prince of the power of the air. 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:30.559 2 Corinthians 4, 4, Ephesians 2.2, he's a prince of the power of the air to deceive the whole world. 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:35.440 He was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:54.320 So Satan, who longed to be worshipped, who desired worship, had what uh Donald Gray Barnhouse in his great work, The Invisible Works, said, a spontaneous generation in his heart of pride that welled up within him, I will be like the Most High God, Isaiah 14, 12 through 14. 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.960 And in so doing, he was cast out. 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.440 He now is here to deceive the whole world. 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:05.200 So then we have this interesting scenario where Jesus begins his public ministry. 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:10.159 And he goes into fasting and prayer for 40 days and 40 nights. 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.000 During that time, he became hungry. 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:13.360 It's the end of the 40 days. 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:14.799 Satan comes to him. 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:17.759 And there's this interaction on the pinnacle of the temple. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:27.440 And this is what Satan says to Jesus I will give you all the power and glory of these kingdoms. 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:34.799 All of it, listen, all of it has been given to me, and I give it to anyone I please. 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:35.679 Okay. 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:41.120 So Jesus never contends at all with what Satan says. 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.639 In a sense, by being mute, he agrees with it. 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.320 In other words, he's look actually Satan is telling the truth there. 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.679 He can give it to anyone he wants, but it's been given to him. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:13:01.600 So, you know, you juxtapose Daniel chapter 12, and then Luke and Matthew 4, with this interaction, God gave him the earth. 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:02.639 That's all I can say. 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:04.080 I mean, why did he do that? 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:04.639 I don't know. 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:05.840 Don't ask that question. 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:06.879 I mean, I don't know. 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:07.279 We don't know. 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:08.159 There's a lot of things we don't know. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:09.440 There's one of the things we don't know. 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:11.679 We don't know, but it's true. 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:23.039 So Jesus, when he came, was kind of a special forces paratrooper for the kingdom of God dropped into enemy territory. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:27.919 And so that's why when he begins here, some would say he bound the enemy here. 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:40.559 I'm not sure exactly what people mean by that, but I do know this that the main and the plane of the ministry of Jesus, you guys, was preaching the kingdom, healing the sick, and casting out demons. 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:55.840 So if we talked about a threefold ministry of Jesus, he came to set the captives free, Luke 4, 18 and 19, through preaching the kingdom of God, obviously living the kingdom of God, but I'm talking about what he actually did as far as ministry. 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.039 He preached the kingdom of God, the reign and the rule of Christ. 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.000 He healed the sick and he cast out demons. 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:02.639 Okay? 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:11.679 So he starts driving back the enemy, but he never contends with what Satan said, that he's here and he has power and glory. 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:13.759 And that's why the Lord's prayer is so powerful. 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:18.960 When you pray the Lord's Prayer, you're praying the opposite of what Satan said to Jesus. 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:23.039 We're praying that you are the power, and you are the glory. 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:24.559 And this is your kingdom. 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:25.759 Your kingdom has come. 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.000 That's why the road is here, folks. 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:36.399 The road is here as a last day's ministry that the Lord has to push back darkness in Colorado Springs. 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:43.919 And then if he sends us to other places to church plant, if he sends us to other places to develop worship and prayer, then we go to contend against the darkness. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:50.399 So the God of this world has blinded the minds of those who don't believe. 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:51.759 And the way that's what he does. 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:54.799 He blinds our, I mean, sin makes you stupid. 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:57.360 Have you realized that sin makes you stupid? 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:05.120 I've met some of the greatest pastors, I mean, godly men, I thought, you know, who've done the dumbest things. 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:10.799 I mean, just ruined the ministry that was touching thousands of people. 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:14.639 You know, with the information you had and the knowledge, how could you do that? 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:16.639 Sin makes you stupid. 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:21.679 And here's what listen, the filling of the Holy Spirit makes you smart. 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:26.159 You can be smart, scriptures say you can be smarter than your teachers. 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:32.559 All you young people in this room, you're some of you going to college and everything, you're smarter than your teachers if you know Jesus. 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:37.519 Most of your teachers who don't know Jesus are just working with humanism. 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:44.480 They're just working with human ingenuity, human fabric that comes from the systems that we develop. 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:45.679 And all truth is God's truth. 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:46.720 Some of it's God's truth. 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:48.240 Great, wonderful, praise God. 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:52.720 But the reality is you may know stuff and you shouldn't be shy about it. 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:57.200 I mean, you need to be strategic about it, but you don't want to be shy about it, but just, you know, you're smarter than your teachers. 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:58.720 Now don't go tell them that. 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:01.120 I know a guy who did that when we were in Georgia one time. 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:02.720 I'm smarter than you. 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:07.519 He didn't do well in that class, and it really kind of ruined his GPA. 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:12.159 But in Ephesians 6.12, and I would call it hierarchy over nations. 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.480 The hierarchy over nations. 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:25.759 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, and against the ruler of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:36.960 Now, when you break this down, it appears that there's kind of like generals, you know, kind of lieutenant colonels, colonels, uh, majors, captains, sergeants. 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.679 There appears to be some kind of a hierarchy. 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:49.360 I've told you the story before that one time I was I was casting out demons in Okinawa, and I had this guy, and I mean to tell you, I got way over my head. 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:52.879 And we had we had come into this guy, this guy was into automatic typing. 00:16:52.960 --> 00:17:00.320 If you don't know what that is, that's where you blindfold yourself, and then you ask the spirits to come and you channel spirits, and then you type stuff, and there's a message in it. 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:04.240 And this guy was totally into channeling, he was totally in, he was not a believer. 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:08.319 He had tried to commit suicide, and in so trying to commit suicide, he killed two people. 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:14.000 And so I got called in and I'm like, you know, every place I'd gone, man, I'd just gotten the job done. 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:20.079 And so I kind of felt like I was sort of this, you know, kind of Clint Eastwood, make my day kind of attitude. 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:25.599 And I mean, I was I got blown away, and and I mean, it was bad. 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:36.799 Um, I brought a guy with me, and when we walked in, I had this young Japanese guy, he's a new not a new believer, but sort of a new believer, not in years, but in maturity level, he was a new believer. 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:40.720 And so we come in and we start talking to this guy, and he's the one who called us. 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:45.359 So I thought his his will was engaged to get set free, which is like number one. 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:46.480 It's the first thing you gotta do. 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:53.519 He comes in and then the guy goes, he says to me, he says, he calls out the secret sins of the guy I brought with me. 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:57.519 And then he manifests a demon, and I brought him to help me. 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.000 When you have friends like that, who needs enemies, right? 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:05.599 So, I mean, we you know, he cast, trying to deal with that, uh, it was bad. 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:06.640 It's a long story. 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:15.440 But anyway, the dude had a he had high-level spirits that he had picked up in Okinawa, and they were there, and I and I was I couldn't handle it. 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:16.720 So I had to back out. 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:19.839 I had all my clothes on, though, I promise you, I didn't leave nude. 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:24.079 Sons of Skeva, you know, you know, no clothes on. 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:28.079 Original, you know, spiritual warfare streaker. 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:28.720 No. 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:30.480 But Isaiah 14 is interesting. 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:35.359 Isaiah 14 speaks of the king of Babylon. 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:36.960 This is really interesting, you guys. 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:38.799 The king of Babylon. 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:47.440 And then in reference to the king of Babylon, by verses 1 through 11, in verse 12, he talks about Lucifer. 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:49.359 He talks about Lucifer. 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:50.799 What's that about? 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:53.200 Well, I think you'll understand it as we put it all together. 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:56.000 So just kind of take that, put it over here. 00:18:56.240 --> 00:19:07.359 Then in Ezekiel 28, the chapter begins with the pride of the, listen, the prince of Tyre, is what it says, because your heart is lifted up and you say, I am God. 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:11.039 Now that's that's not even getting into the king of Tyre. 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:12.640 So that's the prince of Tyre. 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:24.240 Later, when we get into the five-eye wheels, which is the passage about the spontaneous generation by which Lucifer becomes Satan and he rebels, this guy is called the Prince of Tyre. 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:29.680 Now, historically, we have a king of Tyre, but when historically we do not have a prince of Tyre. 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:31.119 What's going on? 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:56.079 I think in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, there is a spirit, a prince behind the national leadership that is using that king or that prime minister or that president as his mouthpiece to do work that he wants to do over a nation. 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.400 So now let's look at Daniel chapter 10. 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:00.400 So that's all a setup for this. 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:04.960 In Daniel chapter 8, before this, we read of Satan's strategies. 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:05.759 It's very interesting. 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:11.680 Daniel writes this by his treachery, he will succeed through deceit. 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.160 Now he's talking about the last days, he's talking about in the latter days. 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:18.079 He's talking about Satan, by his treachery, he will succeed through deceit. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:23.200 He will have an arrogant attitude, and he will destroy many. 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:27.759 Listen, he will destroy many who are unaware of his schemes. 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:34.799 Many of you in this room are being destroyed because you're unaware of his schemes. 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:36.480 That's why we're doing this teaching. 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:43.759 That's why we're doing this training, is because at the road, we've got to be equipped about the strategies of a roaring lion. 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:47.839 So in Daniel chapter 10, what I love about this is it's a real story. 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:48.960 It really happened. 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:50.880 There's no theological points to it. 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:52.720 It's not theological like the New Testament. 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:54.799 It's just telling you this is what happened. 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:56.400 So look at verse 1. 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.960 In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, so there's a king of Persia. 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:01.440 Get that? 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:02.559 Everybody understand that? 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:04.559 There's a real guy named Cyrus. 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:06.559 He was really the king of Persia. 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:10.000 But we're going to find out he's sort of not the king of Persia. 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:15.519 In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belshazzar. 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:19.359 The message was true, but the appointed time was long. 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:23.680 And he understood the message and had understanding of the vision. 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:24.640 Verse 2. 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:28.000 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:33.359 I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all. 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:34.799 All three whole weeks were fulfilled. 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:41.680 So 21 days he's going to be, he's fasting, he's praying, he wants wisdom from God about this vision that he had. 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:59.599 Now on the twenty fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is the Tigris, I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz, his body was like barrel, his face. 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:11.680 Like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude. 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:13.680 Now, is this a pre-incarnate Jesus? 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:14.559 I don't know. 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:15.519 We don't know. 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:24.000 Because you know, in error, I've talked about this in the past, when we speak of the angel of the Lord in the Old Testament, I believe many times it's a pre-incarnate Christ who shows up. 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:27.200 Um, I don't know if this is, but it has very much that kind of description. 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:30.160 The reason you'll understand later why, I'm not sure. 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:33.279 Um, because if this is Jesus, I mean he could get the job done, okay? 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:36.319 It's like Jesus shows up, like, aha! I'm out of here. 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:38.160 You know, any demons like scatter. 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:40.319 But that didn't happen, so I don't think it's Jesus. 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:40.720 Is it? 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:44.640 I think it's a very high-level archangel. 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:46.480 A very high-level archangel. 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:55.440 And I, Daniel alone, saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great terror fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:59.200 By the way, any of you there said, you know, if an angel would just show up, I'd believe. 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:00.319 No, no. 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:03.200 This is the way angels show up. 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:06.480 I mean, Monica in touch by an angel, hmm. 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:07.839 Sorry, guys. 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:12.720 Um Irish, you know, some Irish beauty. 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:16.799 Uh no, this is like everybody runs and hides themselves. 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:21.759 And anytime an angel shows up, the angels have to say, fear not, because everybody's freaking out. 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:27.279 Therefore, I was left alone, great friends, when I saw this great vision. 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:28.720 No strength remained in me. 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:32.880 I mean, he just literally wilts because of fear over the being. 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:37.920 For my vigor was turned to frailty within me, and I retained no strength. 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:44.079 Yet I heard the sound of his words, and while I heard the sound of his words, I was in deep sleep on my face and my face to the ground. 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:45.200 Verse 10. 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:51.920 Suddenly a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands. 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:56.319 And he said to me, Oh Daniel, man greatly beloved. 00:23:56.799 --> 00:23:57.759 Isn't that awesome? 00:23:58.319 --> 00:24:00.240 Listen, guys, God knows your name. 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:03.839 He knows your name, and you're greatly beloved. 00:24:05.119 --> 00:24:06.480 You're beloved of the Lord. 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:12.160 Understand the words that I speak to you and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you. 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:15.680 While he was speaking this word to me, I stood up trembling. 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:16.559 Verse 12. 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:26.240 Then he said to me, Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:29.920 Folks, when you're crying out to God, your words are heard. 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:36.000 When you're praying and you feel like nothing's happening, remember Daniel chapter 10. 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:37.279 Go back and read it. 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:51.920 When you're praying for your marriage, you're praying for your school, you're praying for your friends, you're praying for your dad, you know, you're praying for your uncle, you're praying because people make fun of you at school and they poke fun at you and they're bullying you and you're crying out to God. 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:54.799 God hears your prayer. 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:57.039 Do not fear, Daniel. 00:24:57.119 --> 00:25:02.400 From the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. 00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:05.279 I have come because of your words. 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:08.240 I've become because you didn't give up. 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:10.480 For 21 days, you did not give up. 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:12.240 You kept praying. 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:18.480 You've been listening to the road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:21.359 We pray that you've been blessed by the message today. 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:24.880 Our hope is to make wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ. 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Steve Hope. 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:20.079 Folks, we are going to see a violent anger growing in the United States against the church and against believers. 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:21.920 Just get ready. 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:24.880 We've now been a nation for over 200 years. 00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:26.480 We haven't had it like other nations. 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:28.319 It is coming. 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:29.839 It's coming. 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:34.720 And if you're not ready in your faith, you're going to be in trouble. 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:39.359 You're going to be living your life in fear, and you're going to compromise. 00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:40.319 You will. 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:45.359 Welcome to another edition of The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:49.920 Steve is the head pastor of the Road in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:57.200 It's our vision to make wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ and to see you grow in the grace and knowledge of his love. 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:03.680 If you're in the area, we welcome you to come out and join us for our Saturday night service beginning at 6 p.m. 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:12.559 We meet at Chapel Hill Church, located at 2025 Harleman Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80920. 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:18.559 On today's program, Pastor Steve continues his eye-opening study on spiritual warfare. 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:23.920 If you have your Bibles handy, we'll be picking up in Daniel chapter 10, verse 13. 00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:28.079 It's a powerful study, and one we're sure you're going to be blessed by. 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:32.720 Here now is Pastor Steve with part two of today's message. 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:36.240 Verse 13. 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:47.039 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia, the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me 21 days. 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:58.319 And behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, that's an archangel, archangel over Israel, by the way, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia. 00:28:59.279 --> 00:28:59.920 What? 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:01.200 What is this? 00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:03.039 This is so weird, man. 00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:07.519 But so that's the reason I don't believe it's a pre-incarnate Jesus, because Jesus doesn't need help, okay? 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:21.680 So this is an archangel that has been trying to answer the prayers and speak to Daniel, and he cannot, because there's a prince over Persia, a high-level demon that won't let him get there. 00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:24.480 So he has to call in reinforcements. 00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:32.319 And so Michael shows up because this is important, because the prophecy is about Israel in the latter days. 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:36.640 It's about what God's gonna do in the last days with Israel. 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:37.519 Okay? 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:42.079 So Ark, the archangel over Israel, I believe there's an archangel over America. 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:46.720 I believe there may even be archangels over churches because of Revelation 2 and 3. 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:51.039 But then he calls it Michael, Michael gets a breakthrough. 00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:54.480 Now I've come to make you understand what will happen to your people. 00:29:54.559 --> 00:30:00.960 Remember, Israel, in the latter days, for the re the vision refers to many days to come. 00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:10.079 So Daniel has been anointed by God to get information, divine intelligence about what's gonna happen in the latter days to Israel. 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.480 This angel, this high-level spirit, can't get to him. 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:17.200 But he's fasting and praying for 21 days. 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:26.720 Remember, Jesus said when the disciples could not cast the demon out of this young man, he says, some won't come out except through fasting and prayer. 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:40.000 So sometimes, men and women, in these latter days, we're gonna have obstacles for the church and obstacles in your job and obstacles in your marriage and relational obstacles that you cannot break through without unless you fast and pray. 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:49.200 You've got to fast and pray because the spirit over that is just high level and they're powerful, they're a principality and a power. 00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:52.240 And so, and so for 21 days he tried. 00:30:52.400 --> 00:31:06.240 Now, look at verse 20, it's really interesting, and I only recently kind of read this when I was studying this, and I I mean, I've studied this passage so many times, but I just went back and it's kind of interesting because he talked about being greatly beloved again. 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:09.599 And then in verse 20 he says, then he said, and he's getting ready to leave now. 00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:13.119 Okay, he says, and I'm sure he's glad Daniel's happy he's leaving. 00:31:13.359 --> 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