December 10, 2025 • 66 mins
The Church is in an ongoing battle against deception, both spiritual and worldly. From the temptation in the Garden of Eden to warnings from the Lord and the apostles about false prophets, teachers, and the coming apostasy the battle goes on. Believers have to guard their hearts and remain anchored in truth and be immovable in faith and knowledge of the Lord in the face of increasing opposition and the threat of apostasy before the rise of the Antichrist.
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of infirmity in all the elements of this fallen world
for our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world. Seems
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Various social media platforms do and the people that post it,
but in general it doesn't seem to be anything anyone
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cares about. But we do and we always have and
pray for the peace of Jerusalem because to me, that
means the return of the Prince of Peace, and the
Bible tells us to so. Father Abbah Papa, we come
to you as your children with love and excitement because
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you are our dad. You are everything to us, and
we know that we were everything to you because you
sent your only begotten son, you show Ahamashiah, Jesus the Messiah,
to shed every drop of blood to cover our sins
so that we could come home, that we could be
reconciled to you. Thank you for doing that. Thank you,
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Thank you for loving us when we were unlovable. Thank
you for the grace and the mercy that you offer. Lord.
I don't I no words can be enough to thank
you for what you did for us, for the cross,
which is empty but bloodied. For the tomb. You're no
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longer in that tomb. You have risen for the upper room,
which is where you sent the fire of the Holy
Spirit to mark your church, to empower it, to give
us the dunamous self replicating power to do everything you
need us to do. Thank you for that. Thank you
for your love which continues and allowing us to sit
with you in the heavenly places. For our families, our homes,
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I passed, our possessions. Everything we have comes from you
and your blessings. Thank you for the Holy Spirit who
walks with us, teaches us, guides us. So we ask you,
Holy Spirit to do that. Now we open our hearts
and minds to you. We ask you to bless this time.
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Protect the technology. Do not let anything interfere with this word.
And Lord, I pray personally that it does what you
desire it and what you needed to do in me
and my brothers and sisters. And I pray all these
things in your shoe his name. Amen.
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Get those Bibles open however you follow along, but before
we do, before we get started, I want to clarify something.
Every week, at some point in the Bible study, the
Holy spirital hit me, sometimes harder than others. Last week
he was eight minutes in. I don't want to think
that I'm trying to draw attention to myself for doing
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anything other than being honest and transparent. But let me
explain what's going on. This word that I bring every
week has been percolating inside of my spirits, sometimes for days.
The Lord will wake me up overnight, as he did
last night, to begin to fill into blanks for me
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on what he wants set. So this new wine is
expanding and growing. And as it's spoken out loud, as
I the word, as I bring forth the revelation, it's
a visceral feeling that I can't explain in that moments.
It just bubbles out and bubbles over. And if you've
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ever had that feeling, you understand, and if you never have,
I pray that you will. So Talking Spiritual Warfare, Part eight,
I think this is it? Pretty sure it is, but
we'll see what the Lord does with it. But go
with me to Ephesian six, starting verse eleven. A pretty
regular area that we have covered. But on the whole
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armor of God, that you may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil. For we do not
wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against
spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take
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up the whole armor of God, that you may be
able to withstand in the evil day. And having done
all to stand, stand therefore, having girded your waste with truth,
having put on the breastplate of righteousness, having shot your
feet with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Above
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all taking the shield of faith with which you'll be
able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of
the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Within those
scriptures you hear the word stand three times, and the
Word withstand once. To be solid, to be immovable, to
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be strong. In the Greek his steme to make a stand,
to stand ready, to be prepared to hold your position
against the foe. Withstand, and they steme to stand, I
guess or oppose to resist Satan the adversary. That's a
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variation of this word one who resists God. So the
apostle Paul is passing an exhortation to the Church, to
the saints, to the believers to behave with firmness and
constanty of mind, to be consistent in your thoughts. Because
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we have an enemy that is mighty and powerful that
we have to rely on the power and the strength
of the Lord. We have to make use of this armor.
We have to protect that mind. We have to guard
our heart and to take a stand and withstand in
the worst of times. One thing you learn in life,
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whether it's warfare or not, circumstances change, But I'll say
the Lord does not. He never changes. You can always
count on that and on him. In warfare, the winds
of change are always blowing. You never know which way
it's going to go. You don't know what the enemy's
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going to do. Just like the Lord told Nicodemus, the
Holy Spirit is like the wind. You never know where
he's come from or where he's going. Well, remember, the
kingdom of darkness is a counterfeit. It's a mirror of
the Kingdom of God. So Satan and his kingdom, his power,
his network of demons and fallen angels, they're always moving,
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they're always going, they're always planning. So that means we
must always be prepared. Put on the full armor of God.
Take it. His precepts are a splendid armor of the
heavily armed soldier. Why so that you'll be able to
successfully stand against all the schemes and strategies and the
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deceits of the devil. Schemes, strategies and deceits. That's what
we are in the midst of and have been since
the foundation of the Church. The phrase to stand his
stay has military overtones. The verb used in the classical Greek,
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means to resist the enemy and hold a critical position
in battle, to hold your ground. Now, one of the
main targets of the enemy. And what spired this teaching
is the heart and the mind. It inspired a by
the spirit, of course, and by what I'm seeing out
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in the world and the deception that is destroying the Church.
But we have to understand that this is our battlefield
two Corinthians ten, starting verse four. We use God's mighty weapons,
not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasons,
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to destroy false arguments. We destroy every proud obstacle that
keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts
and teach them to obey Messiah. And after you have
become fully obedient, we will punish everyone who remains disobedient.
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Talking to the church, we cannot be victorious until our
obedience is fulfilled. So the weapons we've been given are
not of the flesh, but they are supernatural. They're mighty
in God to pull down the strongholds of the mind
and the false arguments that the enemy has planted. Again
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this message to the church, in this case to the remnant.
But this battle has been going on since the beginning.
Go with me to Jenni three, verse one. Now the
serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made. And he said to
the woman, has God indeed said you shall not eat
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of every tree of the garden. And the woman said
to the serpent, we may eat the fruit of the
trees of the garden. But the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden. God has said,
you shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it,
lest you die. The serpent said to the woman, you
will not surely die, for God knows that in the
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day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
So when the woman saw that the tree was good
for food, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and
a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of
its fruit and ate, and she also gave to her
husband with her, and he ate. And then the eyes
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of both of them were opened, and they knew that
they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and
made themselves coverings. And when they heard the sound of
the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool
of the day, Adam and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of
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the garden. Is that really what God said? Eve? Are
you sure you got that right? Well? In Genesis two
verses fifteen through seventeen, we see what the Lord actually said.
Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat,
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
you shall not eat, for in the day that you
eat it, you shall surely die. And the phrasing in
the Hebrew is dying. You shall surely die. Well, you
will be in the process of dying. It says nothing
about touching it, and of course you'd have to touch
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it to reach the fruit and eat of it, but
that wasn't what he said. That's how deception begins. You
shall surely certainly die because of your disobedience, both spiritually
and physically, the physical death and the sense that you
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will become mortal because they were created immortal, which is
why when the Lord comes back and he puts us
back to where we were in the garden, we will
be immortal as Adam and Eve should have been. So
the defeat for them came through seduction, pleasing to the eye,
and deception. So the battle has never changed. That's always
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been the battleground. I know some are saying, hey, Richard,
this says spiritual warfare, and I want to learn about
casting out demons and confronting fallen angels. You know, do
some of what you do? No, first of all, you.
Second of all, the main battle that we're in that
seems to be The focus in the teachings of the
apostles is first internal within ourselves, and then within the church. Yes,
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they went out, they preached, and they taught, and they
dealt with the demonic as it came their way, which
is what the Lord did. But the focus is, if
you can't win the battle in your mind, you're not
going to win a battle anywhere else. Deception has always
been the key focus Matthew twenty four, Starting verse one,
Yeshuo went out and departed the temple, and his disciples
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came to show him the buildings of the temple, And
he said, do you not see all these things? Assuredly,
I say to you, not one stone shall be left
here upon another that shall not be thrown down. And
he was prophesying about the siege of Jerusalem in seventy
a d. Now, as he sat on the Mount of Olives,
the disciples came to him privately, saying, tell us when
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these things will be, and what will be the sign
of your coming in the end of the age. And
you sure I answer to them, this is the first
thing he says. Take heed that no one deceives you,
for many will come in my name, come in my authority,
saying I am the Messiah and will deceive many. And
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as I've explained, according to the Synix and the content,
people will come in his name, obviously from within the
church or within the body, claiming that they aren't telling
you that Jesus's Lord, that he is the Messiah. They're
saying he's the Messiah. But they will deceive many. Now,
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how can that possibly be, because he's not there messiah.
A demon will acknowledge that Jesus's Lord, but he will
never acknowledge that Jesus is his lord. He's your lord.
The demon's mindset is he's your lord. He's the lord
of all you people that got it wrong. So it
continues to go on. He says, there will be you'll
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hear of wars and rumors of war. See that you
are not troubled. For all these things must come to pass.
But the end is not yet. For nation will rise
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There'll be famines, pestilences,
and earthquakes in various places. All these things are the
beginning of the sorrows. Then they will deliver you up
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to tribulation and kill you, and you'll be hated by
all nations. For my name's sake. And then many will
be offended, betray one another, will hate one another again
within his church. Then many false prophets will rise up
and deceive many within his church. And because lawlessness will abound,
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the love of many will grow cold. But he who
endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel
of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world.
Has a witnessed all the nations, and then the end
will come again. Who was he speaking to He's speaking
to those that believe in him. In that day, it
was the Jewish believers, the Messianic believers. Take heed, no
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one deceives you. Deception is your greatest danger when this
time happens. Be mindful of the possibility of being deceived.
Take notice, be aware, beware. False messiahs and false prophets
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will rise up and show great signs and wonders to deceive,
if possibly even the electors. Matthew twenty four. He goes
on about the type of deception which we are seeing
right now, false prophets, false teachers rising up great signs
and wonders, but they're not of him. Look twenty one eight.
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Take heed that you not be deceived from any will
come in by the name, saying I am He. The
time is drawn near. Therefore, what do not go after them?
Don't follow them, don't listen to them. So what is
the greatest danger to the church, What is the greatest
danger to the kingdom? What is the Lord pointing out?
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And then that the apostles will follow deception within the church?
The Bible's filled with it two Corinthians eleven, starting verse thirteen.
For such a false apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into
apostles of Messiah. And no wonder, for Satan himself transforms
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himself into an angel of light. Therefore it's no great
thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness,
whose end will be according to their works. So there
are people that are ministers of Satan within the church.
Stop thinking that anytime we talk about the demonic or
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the satanic it's about the world. It can be. But
when you take it within the content and the context
of what is being said, there are ministers of Satan
functioning in the church right now. And this kind of
deception is a sign of the end times. Oh, Richard,
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So what if I'm being fooled and fall into deception.
It's no big deal, right, I can just repent. No,
it is a big deal. It is a big deal.
We have to start taking this warfare seriously because what
I'm seeing in social media especially and within the church
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as people that are so easily fooled. They don't know
enough of the word to realize that what they're being
told doesn't line up with his word. And it's frustrating
to try to share this. And there's a quote that's
been attributed to Mark Twain that says it's easier to
fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.
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It feels that way sometimes going on these rants or
pointing this out over all these years, whether it was
Reflections in the Dark on Sunday Nights, covering the paranormal,
the supernatural, on the Occult, or here every week on
the porch. The one thing I've seen personally is that
the more refined and the laser like focus this message
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has become, the more the numbers have dwindled. When we
first started doing this, the numbers were pretty high. There'd
be months that there'd be you know, a thousand listens
and downloads and it was pretty substantial. But then when
I hone the message in to you must be born again,
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to holiness, to this kind of purity that we're talking now,
it fell away. I wasn't tickling the years, I wasn't
regaling them with tales of the supernatural. The spirit was
trying to get them ready for what was coming, but
they weren't interested. If you're here, you're interested. You see
the signs of the times. You are concerned for yourself
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and your family, especially for your children. Two Peter two Soudy.
Verse one warns us about destructive doctrines in the church,
but they are also false prophets among the people. Even
as will be false teachers among you, who will secretly
bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who brought them,
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and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow
their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth
will be blasphemed by covetousness, they will exploit you with
deceptive words for a long time, their judgment has not
been idol and their destruction does not slumber by covetousness.
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They will exploit you. They want you to click their
video or click their link, or come to where they speak,
or pay for the conference, or buy the DVDs or
the books. Will they will deceive you with greedy exploitation.
In my love for his flock, for his sheep, and
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my disgust with this drives me to do what I do.
These false teachers, like unreasoning animals, mere creatures of instinct,
born to be captured and destroyed, reviling things they do
not understand, will also perish in their own corruption. In
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their destroying. They will be destroyed, suffering wrong, destined for
judgment as the punishments of doing wrong, as the wages
of doing wrong. They counted a delight to revel in
the daytime, living luxuriously big mansions, fancy cars. They are
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stains and blemishes on mankind, reveling in their deceptions even
as they feast with you. They have eyes full of adultery,
constantly looking for sin, enticing and luring away unstable souls,
having hearts trained in greed. They are children of a curse.
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I could name names, but I don't. The Lord has
stopped me over the years from doing it. But you
know them, the ones that live in the mega mansions,
I mean mansions that are small resorts, who drive the
Escalades and the Mercedes and the luxurious cars, who live
a lifestyle of a rock star or a drug dealer.
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Wolves in sheep's clothing. And what I read to you
from two Peter was written about sixty four sixty five AD.
Just before Peter died. He was trying to warn the church.
He was trying to rally the church after deception. And
it's interesting that a lot of this deception started in Rome,
settled in Rome. Correlation. Then we won't go into it.
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How are they going to do this? Peter picks it
up in verse eighteen. Although speak great swelling words of
emptin diss they will allure you through the lust of
the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped
from those who live in error. Actually, while they promised
them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption. For by
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whom a person is overcome, by him, also he has
brought into bondage. For if after they have escaped the
pollutions of this world through the knowledge of the Lord
and Savior Jesus the Messiah, they are again entangled in
them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them
than the beginning, for it would have been better for
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them not to have known the way of righteousness, and,
having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered
to them. Serious warning here, Church. It would have been
better had they never known the way of righteousness than
to know it and then reject the command that they
were given to live a holy life. Now, why is
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this happening. Who's inspiring this? Well, we know that Satan is,
but I believe that there's an actual we'll call it
an entity right now, whether it's in a human suit
or not, which it may be. I believe that it is,
but I cannot equivocally say that. But we know that
this apostasy is being manipulated by the man of lawlessness,
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which is why Paul warns in Second Thessalonians, chapter two.
And let me add this to that. When you're in battle,
military leaders come and go, they move, they platoons, they
do things that the Church really does not understand. You're
not just battling one entity, Satan. You're battling the entire
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kingdom of darkness, every general, every ruler, every soldier, every demon.
You're if you've studied warfare, this is easy to understand.
If you've never have. You don't understand it. But they
shift and they move. They bring in a different spirit,
they bring in a different prince, they shift them around.
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Just as you focus on one, they hit you with another.
I could rattle off the names of all the princes
that I've had the misfortune to have to face off against,
whether in ministry or in my life, or with SRT.
But that's not the point. The point is I've learned
from this warfare, from my own experiences in the demonic,
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from my time in that realm, how things actually work
in regard to the coming of our Lord. This is
second Thessalonians to one now, in regard to the coming
of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and our gathering together
to meet him, which is the snatching of the way
the rapture. We ask you, brothers and sisters, not to
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be quickly unsettled or alarmed, either by so called prophetic
revelations of a spirit or a message or a letter
alleged to be from us, to the effect that the
day of the Lord has already come. Now, what was
going on at the church, His letters were going on.
People were saying, the Lord's coming gone. It's already happened.
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Paul's correcting that whether so called prophetic revelation of a spirit,
or a message or a letter alleged to be from
us to the effect that the day of the Lord
has already come, let no one in any way deceive
you or entrap you, for that day will not come
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unless the apostasy comes first. That is the great rebellion,
the abandonment of the faith by professed believers, and the
man of lawlessness is revealed. That's the twofold thing, the
son of destruction, the Antichrist, the one who is destined
to be destroyed, who poses and exalts himself so proudly
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and so insolently above every so called God or object
of worship, so that he actually enters and takes his
seat in the Temple of God, publicly proclaiming that he
himself is God. Do you not remember that when I
was still with you, I was telling you these things? Now,
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how do I know this is the rapture and not
the second coming of the Lord. The second coming of
the Lord, none of the other things he mentions will happen,
because the second coming of the Lord brings a finality.
So everything he describes has to happen before the second Coming,
So what is the meeting with him in the air.
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That's the rapture where he snatches the church out of
the world. And when he does that, all these other
things come flooding forth. The anti Christ is revealed. He
walks into the temple of God. Is there a temple
of God right now? No? Therefore this has not happened.
So it's right there, the men of lawlessness in the Apostasy.
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This was written from Corinth around fifty one or fifty two.
The church is less than twenty years old, and it's
already in trouble. Why is that? I mean, you've got
the original apostles. You've got Paul, You've got Peter, You've
got James, you got John. You've got them all out
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there doing what they do. And the ones that don't
have letters in the Bible are out there preaching and evangelizing.
How is this even happening? Because Satan and his kingdom
is always active and always undermining every day all the time.
They never sleep, they don't need to. How is the
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church so easily fooled? There are people there that have
walked with Yeshia, have seen him, have heard his word
and has experienced his miracles. Because this is human nature.
Israel suffered from it no matter what the prophet said.
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Daniel seven twenty five warns about the coming Antichrist. He
shall speak words against the Most High God, and shall
wear out the saints of the Most High, and think
to change the times of the sacred feasts and holy days,
and the law and the saints shall be given into
his hand for a time two times and half a
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time three and one half years, the second half of
the Tribulation twenty five. And through his policies he shall
cause trickery to prosper in his deception. He shall magnify
himself in his heart and mind, and in their security
he will corrupt and destroy many. He shall also stand
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up against the Prince of princes, but he shall be broken,
and that by no human hand. It's going to take
a stand against the Lord. He's going to take a
stand against the son of the Living God, you know.
First John tells us that the spirit of the Antichrist
is already out there. It was out there from day one.
It's out there right now. Revelation thirteen, starting verse one
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shows us this beast coming from the sea which is
tying into the warnings and Daniel, And it just strikes
me as I'm saying this out loud, with all of
these warnings, why doesn't anybody listen. It's like walking through
a cow pasture or a horse pastor be careful. There's
a lot of manure out there. Watch where you step.
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One two oops, stepped in. Some couldn't see it, went
right into it. Need new shoes. Now, it just as
amazing to me. Revelation thirteen one. Then I stood on
the sand. This is John, John the Revelator. Then I
stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw
a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven
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heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns,
and on his head's blasphemous name. Now, the beast which
I saw was like a leopard, his feet like the
feet of a bear, in his mouth like the mouth
of a lion. The dragon Satan gave him his power,
Who's throne in great authority. And I saw one of
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his heads as it had been mortally wounded, and his
deadly wound was healed, as see Antichrist. And all the
world marveled and followed the beasts. So that they worshiped
the dragon who gave authority to the beast. He will
inspire the worship of Satan. Now whether they know it
Satan or not is up for debate. And they worship
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the beast, saying, who is like the beast, who is
able to make war with him? And he was given
him out speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was
given authority to continue for forty two months. And then
he opened his mouth and blasphemy against God, to blaspheme
his name, his tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.
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It was granted to him to make war the saints
and to overcome them. And authority was given to him
over every tribe, tongue, and nation. And those who dwell
on the earth will worship him. Whose names have not
been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world, the Lambs Book
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of Life the Church cannot be here for that description
to be fulfilled. Speaking of the Jews and those that
will believe in him afterward. And he will stand up
against the prince of princes, who's that you're sure of?
The King son of God. Michael is a prince of Israel.
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He's not the prince of princes, Jesus is and he
will be broken by no human hand. There's a war
that will be going on on the earth that if
you think you want to be here, you really don't understand.
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The pit will be opened. Everything that's been down in
that pit for thousands of years will be let out.
All the fallen angels, all of their demonic offspring that
were imprisoned will be let out. I have seen in
dreams and visions what that will be like, and I
tell you you don't want to be here. I saw
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the beasts of the kings of the earth, and their
armies gathered together to make war against him who sat
on the horse, and against his army. Then the beast
was captured, and with him the false prophet, who worked
signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who
received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped
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his image. These two were cast alive into the lake
of fire, burning with brimstone, and the rest were killed
with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of him
who sat on the horse, and all the birds were
filled with their flesh. Revelation nineteen nineteen through twenty scary time,
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hard to imagine. We don't have to experience it. He
gave us a way out. But broken vows, whether or
to God, broken vows start with seduction and end in
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destruction and eternal sadness. That's another reason why I do
what I do, and why I get so passionate about this,
and why I stand against the enemy. And the Lord says, go,
I go. Doesn't matter what's standing there, doesn't matter what
shows up. I've been sent by the King of Kings
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and the Lord of lords. That's not the issue, never
will be. But there will come a time when people
will stand before him, as it described to Matthew twenty
five forty one, and he will say to those on
the left, depart from me, you cursed into the everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Don't let
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that happen, not to you, not to your loved ones.
Keep telling them the truth holds your ground owned. And
this is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. This is
the fulfillment of Isaiah sixty six, starting verse twenty two.
For as the new heavens and the new Earth, which
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I shall make remain before me says the Lord. So
shall your descendants and your name remain. And it shall
come to pass that from one new moon to another,
from one sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to
worship before me, says the Lord. And they shall go
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forth and look upon the corpses of the men who
have transgressed against me, For their worm does not die,
and their fire is not quenched. They shall being abhorrenced
all flesh. Who is Isaiah speaking to speaking at that
point to Israel the vine that the Church has been
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grafted into, that fire that is not quenched, we know
is the eternal fire, the lake of fire. Horrible, horrible
thing to think about. That word transgressed, according to the
Nelson Study Bible, means rebelled against God. Are we seeing
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any of that right now? Are we seeing people that
if they don't repent and get born again or get
back to the Lord that loves them, are going to suffer?
And this imagery I've shared this with you before, is
derived from the Valley of Hinam, which was Jerusalem's garbage dump,
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where the uncleaned corpses decomposed and were burned. So although
the Book of Isaiah depicts God's coming salvation. It closes
with the strong statement of the judgment of the wicked
who don't get saved. Over and over the Lord talks
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about this. Peter and John, and Paul and James, do
you think the falling away is not something to be
worried about? The falling away the massive rebellion against God
and his authority, first by unbelieving mankind during the Great Tribulation,
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but it happens to the Church because it happened to
Israel and the corrupt, disobedient kings which rebelled against God
and his rule and who went into bondage. So the
great falling away, the apostasia, the final apostasy or repudiation
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of the believer's faith that will occur at the appearance
of the Antichrist, the son of Tradition, which tells me,
if as I believe the Church is snatched away, that
means only part of the church, the so called church,
is snatched away. There will be others who have turned
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their back on the Word and turned their back on
the Lord, who will completely repudiate their faith in him
and accept allegiance ledge allegiance to the Antichrist for favor
for the ability to buy and sell for safety. Are
we seeing evidence of that already in the world. I
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believe we are the man of sin, the man of lawlessness,
the beast out of the sea of revelation, the little
horn of Dan, the false messiahs and leaders that have
ruled the world. We have to stand against that. We
have to stand against anything that reeks of him. In
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Jewish history, we've already seen this in Antiochus, Epiphanes and
the you know, the Book of Maccabee's and the Hankkah
story that I share sometimes every year, But that's what
that represents. We've seen it with Roman emperors like Gaius,
Caligula and Domation. They wanted to be considered divine, They
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wanted to be worshiped as gods, corrupt political power, enslaving
mankind for their own pleasures, showing us an example of
the man of sin. Even in our lifetimes or our history,
we have Adolf Hitler as an example of this. I
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think it was the final dry run to see what
people would stand up against. Would people fight, would people
push back? But he said in motion something that I
want to touch on as a danger as a war
that you need to know. Let me read you a
quote from Hitler. He said, by the skillful and sustained
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use of propaganda, one can make a people see even
heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
What is propaganda. It's the idea of facts or allegations
spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an
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opposing cause. The spreading of ideas, information, or rumors for
the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause,
or a person. Boys, it's in effect right now, and
just as a side note, the word the concept propaganda
first appears in sixteen twenty two by Pope Gregory the
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fifteenth as a means of furthering Catholic missionary activity. That's unique.
I thought Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary says. Apostasy is a defection,
it's a revolt. So believers, those who claim to be
believers who fall into apostasy by deliberately rejecting the death
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and resurrection of Yoshiah, Hamashiah, Jesus the Messiah are in
a more tragic position than unconverted pagans who still have
an opportunity to get saved. Believers. Now, I don't call
them born again believers. I don't believe you can be
born again and do this. But those who claim to
be believers, those that sit in a feuse somewhere, those
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that are part of some church who return to their
former corrupt lifestyle are more worse off than they were before.
So apostases the abandonment of your faith. It's an abandonment
of your principles. It's an abandonment of what one has professed,
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a total desertion, a departure from faith principles, or in theology,
an abandonment of the Lord. And while there are those
in a generation who fall away, this is a specific
condition that occurs prior to the revelation and the appearance
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of the Antichrist. Which is why I believe from everything
I'm seeing, the Antichrist is waiting in the wings, and
he has set things in motion to step out and
do what he's always desired to do. But right now,
the presence of the Church and the power of the
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Lord is holding that back. Every time I think we're there,
something shifts and the remnant rises up. In the classical Greek,
that word apostasy is a revolt staged by a military
commander who's the military commander, the one who used to
serve him Satan. But the Holy Spirit explicitly and unmistakably
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declares that in the latter times some will turn away
from the faith, paying attention to deceitful and seductive spirits
and doctrines of demons. One Timothy four. To one who
says it, who is explicitly declaring this the Holy Spirit,
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we should heed his warning. We should feel something inside
of us as we consider this. Two Peter three, starting
verse seventeen. Therefore, let me warn you. This is the amplified. Therefore,
let me warn you, Peter says, beloved, knowing these things beforehand,
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be on your guard so that you are not carried
away by the error of principled men who distort doctrine. U.
So I'll add, men and women today and fall from
your own steadfastness of mind, knowledge, truth, and faith, grow
spiritually mature in the grace and knowledge of our Lord
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and Savior, Jesus the Messiah. To him be glory, honor, majesty,
and splendor, both now and to the day of eternity.
From the Lord to the apostles. They're saying it will happen.
Don't fall for it. It is happening. Don't fall for it.
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We've been warned, and forewarned is forearmed. Ignore the warning
and set yourself on a path of deception, a path
of rebellion, and eventually a path of judgment if you
don't get off that path. So how's this going to happen? Well,
it happens. Deception is in sired by a spiritually weak heart.
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In mind. See, everybody wants power, everybody wants manifestations. And
I see people that have tremendous followings putting on deceiving
signs and wonders that are spiritually weak in art. In mind,
men and women that have left their husbands or wives
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that have begun relationships in affairs that they then parade
across the stage and behind the pulpit, who have abandoned children,
and yet people flock to them. I'm sorry, that should
be the warning bell or the red light. Don't follow
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this person. Proverbs four twenty three. Keeping guard your heart
with all vigilance, and above all that you guard, out
of it flow the springs of life. Jeremiah seventeen nine
and ten. The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked. Who can know it the answer. I the
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Lord search the heart, I test the mind, even to
give every man according to his ways, according to the
fruit of his doings, heart and mind, each fruits and actions.
You can claim one thing, But if your heart your
mind produce a different kind of fruit, that's what you're
gonna get. How do I know that? He says it
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in Matthew twelve, verses thirty three through thirty seven. Either
make a tree good and it's fruit good, or make
the tree bad and it's fruit bad. For a tree
is known by its fruit. Please remember that scripture, a
tree is known by its fruit, not by its label,
not by what it calls itself. What is it producing
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fruit of vipers? How can you, being evil, speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
And a good man, out of the good treasure of
his heart, brings forth good things. An evil man, out
of the evil treasure, brings forth evil things. But I
say to you that for every idle word man may speak,
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they will give an account of it in the day
of judgment. For by your words you will be justified,
and by your words you will be condemned. The abundance
the surplus. Superabundance has left over and above of the heart,
influenced the words that form in our brain and exit
our mouth. If it's a good treasure, If that deposit
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is of wealth both legerity, literally and figuratively, you know
the words will be good. What is that wealth, it's
the word, it's the spirit. If it's evil, if it's fleshly,
if it's of the world, it'll be evil. So whatever
is deposited in your heart will your treasure is held,
according to Matthew six twenty one, will determine the spiritual
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value of what comes out of your mouth. See what
I mean about the war. We said it last week.
The war's internal. Yes, we talk about the world, the
flesh of the devil, all those things, but it starts
in us. And if we can't win the war in us,
how can we win any other war? And whatever's inside
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of us will come out of us. When you squeeze
a sponge, whatever is deep, deep inside of that sponge
is gonna come out. Matthew fifteen thirty, verse eighteen, Lord
speaking read letters. Those things which proceed out of the
mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
For out of the mouth procede, evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, deaths,
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false witness, blasphemies. Just dawned on me that the church
at large's heart's sick. It has a sickness in its heart.
What's coming out of it is not of Him. And
I pray right now that they would wake up and
seek the Lord and be healed and get their hearts
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right with him. So this spiritual warfare connection between the
heart and the mind is something I've covered a lot
over the years. I think it's started in twenty twelve,
and it's the battlefield the enemy can control. The one
thing that you will learn about the enemy is that
it wants to fight on a battlefield which it can control,
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and if it can't, it'll move the battlefield. Which is
why I will always encourage you to stand your ground,
hold your ground, control the field Philippians four eight. Finally, believers,
whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect,
whatever is right and confirmed by God's word, whatever is
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pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever
is admirable and of good repute, If there's any excellence,
if there's anything worthy of praise, think continually on these
things sent to your mind, on them, and implant them
in your heart Philippians four eight. That's how you control
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the battlefield and this heart mind connection. I want to
cover this. We're over, but I need to finish this thought. Traditionally,
the communication between head and heart has always been approached
from a rather one sided perspective, meaning the heart responds
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to the brain's commands. But that's not how we were designed.
They've discovered that the communication between the heart and the
brain is actually a dynamic, ongoing two ways dialogue, with
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each organ continuously influencing the other's role in life, both
natural and spiritual. The heart communicates with the brain and
the body in four ways. And I'll explain why I'm
sharing this. Neurological communication which is our nervous system, the
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biophysical communication is pulse waves which can be measured, biochemical
communication which is our hormones, which is why they're so
important to our behavior. And energetic communication which is electro
magnetic fields, which if you've read the book or you've
seen any of the teachings I've covered in depth. So
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modern mind control is spiritual as well as technological and psychological,
and the enemy uses. All three tests have shown that
by exposing the methods of mind control, the effects can
be reduced or eliminated, at least for control that's been
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created through advertising or propaganda. So by me exposing it
to you, it loses its power. Boy, does that have
spiritual connotations? Pull it out to the light. It loses it.
But we are being bombarded with subliminal messages, you know,
below the normal conscious recognition thresholds. Message is meant to
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appeal to our subconscious mind, which is when we get
into the world, the flesh, the world and the devil,
we get into what's in our heart, what's inside of us.
There was a man named Edward Albernese. He's the father
of propaganda, happened to be Sigmund Freud's nephew. And I
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want to read a quote, but I want you to
hear it through spiritual filter. The conscious and an intelligent
manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses
is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate
this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which
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is the true ruling power of our country. Whoever controls
the mind controls the people. We are governed, Our minds
are molded, our taste formed ideas suggested largely by men
we've never heard of. This is a logical result of
the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast
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numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if
they are to live together in a smoothly functioning society.
You've got to go along to get along, or you
get punished for it. In almost every act of our
daily lives, whether in the sphirit, politics or business. And
I will add spirit, you know, a social conduct or
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ethical thinking. We are dominated by the relatively small number
of persons and I add under control who understand the
mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is
they who pull the wires which control the public mind. Now,
if you find that quote and you read it, you
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see immediately how the Antichrist is going to do what
he does through propaganda, through social controls. Well, to get
the mark of the beast, you have to have it,
or you can't buy or sell, you can't get food,
you can't live. That's how he's going to manipulate people
into doing things they wouldn't normally do interestingly enough, just
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as in a side Sigmund Freud's daughter Anna Freud's pioneer
in child psychology, isn't that interesting? So there a series
of things that must happen to get to this point,
and it's a process that happens over time, which is
why I believe the Lord has inspired this teaching and
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gone in this direction, because we're seeing people fall into
the pits. We're seeing people blind, people following the blind
and falling into the pit of destruction and deception. Because
it's a process that happens over time. And to get
to this falling away, the world needs the word to
go silent. To get to the falling away from the faith.
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The world needs the word to go silent. Why do
you think they want to shut the church up or
we're offended? No, because if I tell you the truth,
the lightbulb is going to go off in your mind
and you're going to want to get saved, healed, and
delivered as I did. We don't want your light, we
don't want your word. These people are happy in the
bondage that they are. No, they're not, so, Paul says
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to Timothy and two Timothy four, I solemnly charge you
in the presence of God and of Messiah, asheu who
is to judge the living of the dead, and by
his appearing and his kingdom, reach the word. Be ready
when the time is right, even when it's not. Keep
your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable,
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whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome. Correct those
who err in doctrine behavior, warn those who sin, Exhort
and encourage those who are growing towards spiritual maturity with
inexhaustible patience and faithful teaching. For the time will come
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when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction
that challenges them with God's truth, but wanting to have
their ears tickled with something pleasing, they will accumulate for them.
Many teachers, one after another, chosen to satisfy their own
desires and to support the errors they hold, and will
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turn their ears away from the truth, And we'll wander
off into myth and man made fictions, and will accept
the unacceptable two Timothy four to one through four. The
church must be torn down, unraveled, shut up, and stripped
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of its power and influence before the Antichrist can come
to power while we are here. We cannot allow that
to happen. So we must be ready no matter what,
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at any time. We must have a sense of urgency,
and whether it's a favorable or unfavorable situation, we need
to share the truth. Tell it in love, whether it's
convenient or inconvenient, welcome or unwelcome. We need to correct
our brothers and sisters with love and patience. If they
are in error, we need to warn them of the
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price of sin and exhort and encourage those who are
growing towards spiritual maturity. We need to be faithful in
our teaching or in a time where people do not
tolerate sound doctrine, they will not accept accurate instruction, but
they want to have their ears tickled. They want something pleasing.
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Tell me something I want to hear, and they will
accumulate for themselves teacher after teacher after teacher to satisfy
that desire and support the errors that they hold, and
they will fall away from the faith and wander off
into demonic teachings and lead to their destruction. The Lord
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warned us. Paul warned us, we need to heed the warning.
We need to take a stand and hold our ground.
When having done all what stand. We need to be
immovable in our faith and the knowledge of the Lord
and his word, and have His Holy Spirit inside of
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us to empower us to do this. Let's finish the fight.
Let's do what the Church has been called to do,
no matter what, Let's hold our ground. The King is coming. Abah,
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Papa Daddy, Oh boy. We need an infusion, an infusion.
As I know we have your spirit inside of us, Lord,
but we need an infusion. Some are worn down, some
are tired, some a beat up. We need an infusion
of dunamous power. We need provision. We need to be
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free of the distractions of this world to be able
to go rescue our brothers and sisters. We need right
now the Word, more than we've ever needed it before,
to come alive inside of us so that when we
open our mouths, it's right there. We can speak a
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word and do season. And we need supernatural love to
do it, so that we don't respond in the flesh
that the enemy can't use any part of it. It's
the Holy Spirit. This has been your time, this has
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been your direction in part to my brothers and sisters
what you wanted them specifically to receive, and then help
them go. Do it as I ask you for me.
Keep us from evil and the evil one, protect us.
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Spread your wings over us and help us. And I
pray all these things. And you shoe his name. Amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
may I don't know, I make his face to shine
upon you. Be gracious to you. And may the Lord
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I don't know you shoe a Hamashiah Jesus the Messiah,
lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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Get those Bibles open however you follow along, but before
we do, before we get started, I want to clarify something.
Every week, at some point in the Bible study, the
Holy spirital hit me, sometimes harder than others. Last week
he was eight minutes in. I don't want to think
that I'm trying to draw attention to myself for doing
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anything other than being honest and transparent. But let me
explain what's going on. This word that I bring every
week has been percolating inside of my spirits, sometimes for days.
The Lord will wake me up overnight, as he did
last night, to begin to fill into blanks for me
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on what he wants set. So this new wine is
expanding and growing. And as it's spoken out loud, as
I the word, as I bring forth the revelation, it's
a visceral feeling that I can't explain in that moments.
It just bubbles out and bubbles over. And if you've
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ever had that feeling, you understand, and if you never have,
I pray that you will. So Talking Spiritual Warfare, Part eight,
I think this is it? Pretty sure it is, but
we'll see what the Lord does with it. But go
with me to Ephesian six, starting verse eleven. A pretty
regular area that we have covered. But on the whole
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armor of God, that you may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil. For we do not
wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against
spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take
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up the whole armor of God, that you may be
able to withstand in the evil day. And having done
all to stand, stand therefore, having girded your waste with truth,
having put on the breastplate of righteousness, having shot your
feet with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Above
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all taking the shield of faith with which you'll be
able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of
the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Within those
scriptures you hear the word stand three times, and the
Word withstand once. To be solid, to be immovable, to
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be strong. In the Greek his steme to make a stand,
to stand ready, to be prepared to hold your position
against the foe. Withstand, and they steme to stand, I
guess or oppose to resist Satan the adversary. That's a
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variation of this word one who resists God. So the
apostle Paul is passing an exhortation to the Church, to
the saints, to the believers to behave with firmness and
constanty of mind, to be consistent in your thoughts. Because
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we have an enemy that is mighty and powerful that
we have to rely on the power and the strength
of the Lord. We have to make use of this armor.
We have to protect that mind. We have to guard
our heart and to take a stand and withstand in
the worst of times. One thing you learn in life,
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whether it's warfare or not, circumstances change, But I'll say
the Lord does not. He never changes. You can always
count on that and on him. In warfare, the winds
of change are always blowing. You never know which way
it's going to go. You don't know what the enemy's
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going to do. Just like the Lord told Nicodemus, the
Holy Spirit is like the wind. You never know where
he's come from or where he's going. Well, remember, the
kingdom of darkness is a counterfeit. It's a mirror of
the Kingdom of God. So Satan and his kingdom, his power,
his network of demons and fallen angels, they're always moving,
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they're always going, they're always planning. So that means we
must always be prepared. Put on the full armor of God.
Take it. His precepts are a splendid armor of the
heavily armed soldier. Why so that you'll be able to
successfully stand against all the schemes and strategies and the
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deceits of the devil. Schemes, strategies and deceits. That's what
we are in the midst of and have been since
the foundation of the Church. The phrase to stand his
stay has military overtones. The verb used in the classical Greek,
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means to resist the enemy and hold a critical position
in battle, to hold your ground. Now, one of the
main targets of the enemy. And what spired this teaching
is the heart and the mind. It inspired a by
the spirit, of course, and by what I'm seeing out
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in the world and the deception that is destroying the Church.
But we have to understand that this is our battlefield
two Corinthians ten, starting verse four. We use God's mighty weapons,
not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasons,
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to destroy false arguments. We destroy every proud obstacle that
keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts
and teach them to obey Messiah. And after you have
become fully obedient, we will punish everyone who remains disobedient.
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Talking to the church, we cannot be victorious until our
obedience is fulfilled. So the weapons we've been given are
not of the flesh, but they are supernatural. They're mighty
in God to pull down the strongholds of the mind
and the false arguments that the enemy has planted. Again
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this message to the church, in this case to the remnant.
But this battle has been going on since the beginning.
Go with me to Jenni three, verse one. Now the
serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made. And he said to
the woman, has God indeed said you shall not eat
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of every tree of the garden. And the woman said
to the serpent, we may eat the fruit of the
trees of the garden. But the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden. God has said,
you shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it,
lest you die. The serpent said to the woman, you
will not surely die, for God knows that in the
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day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
So when the woman saw that the tree was good
for food, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and
a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of
its fruit and ate, and she also gave to her
husband with her, and he ate. And then the eyes
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of both of them were opened, and they knew that
they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and
made themselves coverings. And when they heard the sound of
the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool
of the day, Adam and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of
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the garden. Is that really what God said? Eve? Are
you sure you got that right? Well? In Genesis two
verses fifteen through seventeen, we see what the Lord actually said.
Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat,
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
you shall not eat, for in the day that you
eat it, you shall surely die. And the phrasing in
the Hebrew is dying. You shall surely die. Well, you
will be in the process of dying. It says nothing
about touching it, and of course you'd have to touch
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it to reach the fruit and eat of it, but
that wasn't what he said. That's how deception begins. You
shall surely certainly die because of your disobedience, both spiritually
and physically, the physical death and the sense that you
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will become mortal because they were created immortal, which is
why when the Lord comes back and he puts us
back to where we were in the garden, we will
be immortal as Adam and Eve should have been. So
the defeat for them came through seduction, pleasing to the eye,
and deception. So the battle has never changed. That's always
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been the battleground. I know some are saying, hey, Richard,
this says spiritual warfare, and I want to learn about
casting out demons and confronting fallen angels. You know, do
some of what you do? No, first of all, you.
Second of all, the main battle that we're in that
seems to be The focus in the teachings of the
apostles is first internal within ourselves, and then within the church. Yes,
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they went out, they preached, and they taught, and they
dealt with the demonic as it came their way, which
is what the Lord did. But the focus is, if
you can't win the battle in your mind, you're not
going to win a battle anywhere else. Deception has always
been the key focus Matthew twenty four, Starting verse one,
Yeshuo went out and departed the temple, and his disciples
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came to show him the buildings of the temple, And
he said, do you not see all these things? Assuredly,
I say to you, not one stone shall be left
here upon another that shall not be thrown down. And
he was prophesying about the siege of Jerusalem in seventy
a d. Now, as he sat on the Mount of Olives,
the disciples came to him privately, saying, tell us when
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these things will be, and what will be the sign
of your coming in the end of the age. And
you sure I answer to them, this is the first
thing he says. Take heed that no one deceives you,
for many will come in my name, come in my authority,
saying I am the Messiah and will deceive many. And
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as I've explained, according to the Synix and the content,
people will come in his name, obviously from within the
church or within the body, claiming that they aren't telling
you that Jesus's Lord, that he is the Messiah. They're
saying he's the Messiah. But they will deceive many. Now,
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how can that possibly be, because he's not there messiah.
A demon will acknowledge that Jesus's Lord, but he will
never acknowledge that Jesus is his lord. He's your lord.
The demon's mindset is he's your lord. He's the lord
of all you people that got it wrong. So it
continues to go on. He says, there will be you'll
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hear of wars and rumors of war. See that you
are not troubled. For all these things must come to pass.
But the end is not yet. For nation will rise
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There'll be famines, pestilences,
and earthquakes in various places. All these things are the
beginning of the sorrows. Then they will deliver you up
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to tribulation and kill you, and you'll be hated by
all nations. For my name's sake. And then many will
be offended, betray one another, will hate one another again
within his church. Then many false prophets will rise up
and deceive many within his church. And because lawlessness will abound,
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the love of many will grow cold. But he who
endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel
of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world.
Has a witnessed all the nations, and then the end
will come again. Who was he speaking to He's speaking
to those that believe in him. In that day, it
was the Jewish believers, the Messianic believers. Take heed, no
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one deceives you. Deception is your greatest danger when this
time happens. Be mindful of the possibility of being deceived.
Take notice, be aware, beware. False messiahs and false prophets
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will rise up and show great signs and wonders to deceive,
if possibly even the electors. Matthew twenty four. He goes
on about the type of deception which we are seeing
right now, false prophets, false teachers rising up great signs
and wonders, but they're not of him. Look twenty one eight.
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Take heed that you not be deceived from any will
come in by the name, saying I am He. The
time is drawn near. Therefore, what do not go after them?
Don't follow them, don't listen to them. So what is
the greatest danger to the church, What is the greatest
danger to the kingdom? What is the Lord pointing out?
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And then that the apostles will follow deception within the church?
The Bible's filled with it two Corinthians eleven, starting verse thirteen.
For such a false apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into
apostles of Messiah. And no wonder, for Satan himself transforms
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himself into an angel of light. Therefore it's no great
thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness,
whose end will be according to their works. So there
are people that are ministers of Satan within the church.
Stop thinking that anytime we talk about the demonic or
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the satanic it's about the world. It can be. But
when you take it within the content and the context
of what is being said, there are ministers of Satan
functioning in the church right now. And this kind of
deception is a sign of the end times. Oh, Richard,
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So what if I'm being fooled and fall into deception.
It's no big deal, right, I can just repent. No,
it is a big deal. It is a big deal.
We have to start taking this warfare seriously because what
I'm seeing in social media especially and within the church
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as people that are so easily fooled. They don't know
enough of the word to realize that what they're being
told doesn't line up with his word. And it's frustrating
to try to share this. And there's a quote that's
been attributed to Mark Twain that says it's easier to
fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.
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It feels that way sometimes going on these rants or
pointing this out over all these years, whether it was
Reflections in the Dark on Sunday Nights, covering the paranormal,
the supernatural, on the Occult, or here every week on
the porch. The one thing I've seen personally is that
the more refined and the laser like focus this message
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has become, the more the numbers have dwindled. When we
first started doing this, the numbers were pretty high. There'd
be months that there'd be you know, a thousand listens
and downloads and it was pretty substantial. But then when
I hone the message in to you must be born again,
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to holiness, to this kind of purity that we're talking now,
it fell away. I wasn't tickling the years, I wasn't
regaling them with tales of the supernatural. The spirit was
trying to get them ready for what was coming, but
they weren't interested. If you're here, you're interested. You see
the signs of the times. You are concerned for yourself
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and your family, especially for your children. Two Peter two Soudy.
Verse one warns us about destructive doctrines in the church,
but they are also false prophets among the people. Even
as will be false teachers among you, who will secretly
bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who brought them,
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and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow
their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth
will be blasphemed by covetousness, they will exploit you with
deceptive words for a long time, their judgment has not
been idol and their destruction does not slumber by covetousness.
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They will exploit you. They want you to click their
video or click their link, or come to where they speak,
or pay for the conference, or buy the DVDs or
the books. Will they will deceive you with greedy exploitation.
In my love for his flock, for his sheep, and
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my disgust with this drives me to do what I do.
These false teachers, like unreasoning animals, mere creatures of instinct,
born to be captured and destroyed, reviling things they do
not understand, will also perish in their own corruption. In
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their destroying. They will be destroyed, suffering wrong, destined for
judgment as the punishments of doing wrong, as the wages
of doing wrong. They counted a delight to revel in
the daytime, living luxuriously big mansions, fancy cars. They are
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stains and blemishes on mankind, reveling in their deceptions even
as they feast with you. They have eyes full of adultery,
constantly looking for sin, enticing and luring away unstable souls,
having hearts trained in greed. They are children of a curse.
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I could name names, but I don't. The Lord has
stopped me over the years from doing it. But you
know them, the ones that live in the mega mansions,
I mean mansions that are small resorts, who drive the
Escalades and the Mercedes and the luxurious cars, who live
a lifestyle of a rock star or a drug dealer.
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Wolves in sheep's clothing. And what I read to you
from two Peter was written about sixty four sixty five AD.
Just before Peter died. He was trying to warn the church.
He was trying to rally the church after deception. And
it's interesting that a lot of this deception started in Rome,
settled in Rome. Correlation. Then we won't go into it.
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How are they going to do this? Peter picks it
up in verse eighteen. Although speak great swelling words of
emptin diss they will allure you through the lust of
the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped
from those who live in error. Actually, while they promised
them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption. For by
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whom a person is overcome, by him, also he has
brought into bondage. For if after they have escaped the
pollutions of this world through the knowledge of the Lord
and Savior Jesus the Messiah, they are again entangled in
them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them
than the beginning, for it would have been better for
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them not to have known the way of righteousness, and,
having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered
to them. Serious warning here, Church. It would have been
better had they never known the way of righteousness than
to know it and then reject the command that they
were given to live a holy life. Now, why is
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this happening. Who's inspiring this? Well, we know that Satan is,
but I believe that there's an actual we'll call it
an entity right now, whether it's in a human suit
or not, which it may be. I believe that it is,
but I cannot equivocally say that. But we know that
this apostasy is being manipulated by the man of lawlessness,
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which is why Paul warns in Second Thessalonians, chapter two.
And let me add this to that. When you're in battle,
military leaders come and go, they move, they platoons, they
do things that the Church really does not understand. You're
not just battling one entity, Satan. You're battling the entire
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kingdom of darkness, every general, every ruler, every soldier, every demon.
You're if you've studied warfare, this is easy to understand.
If you've never have. You don't understand it. But they
shift and they move. They bring in a different spirit,
they bring in a different prince, they shift them around.
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Just as you focus on one, they hit you with another.
I could rattle off the names of all the princes
that I've had the misfortune to have to face off against,
whether in ministry or in my life, or with SRT.
But that's not the point. The point is I've learned
from this warfare, from my own experiences in the demonic,
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from my time in that realm, how things actually work
in regard to the coming of our Lord. This is
second Thessalonians to one now, in regard to the coming
of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and our gathering together
to meet him, which is the snatching of the way
the rapture. We ask you, brothers and sisters, not to
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be quickly unsettled or alarmed, either by so called prophetic
revelations of a spirit or a message or a letter
alleged to be from us, to the effect that the
day of the Lord has already come. Now, what was
going on at the church, His letters were going on.
People were saying, the Lord's coming gone. It's already happened.
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Paul's correcting that whether so called prophetic revelation of a spirit,
or a message or a letter alleged to be from
us to the effect that the day of the Lord
has already come, let no one in any way deceive
you or entrap you, for that day will not come
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unless the apostasy comes first. That is the great rebellion,
the abandonment of the faith by professed believers, and the
man of lawlessness is revealed. That's the twofold thing, the
son of destruction, the Antichrist, the one who is destined
to be destroyed, who poses and exalts himself so proudly
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and so insolently above every so called God or object
of worship, so that he actually enters and takes his
seat in the Temple of God, publicly proclaiming that he
himself is God. Do you not remember that when I
was still with you, I was telling you these things? Now,
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how do I know this is the rapture and not
the second coming of the Lord. The second coming of
the Lord, none of the other things he mentions will happen,
because the second coming of the Lord brings a finality.
So everything he describes has to happen before the second Coming,
So what is the meeting with him in the air.
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That's the rapture where he snatches the church out of
the world. And when he does that, all these other
things come flooding forth. The anti Christ is revealed. He
walks into the temple of God. Is there a temple
of God right now? No? Therefore this has not happened.
So it's right there, the men of lawlessness in the Apostasy.
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This was written from Corinth around fifty one or fifty two.
The church is less than twenty years old, and it's
already in trouble. Why is that? I mean, you've got
the original apostles. You've got Paul, You've got Peter, You've
got James, you got John. You've got them all out
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there doing what they do. And the ones that don't
have letters in the Bible are out there preaching and evangelizing.
How is this even happening? Because Satan and his kingdom
is always active and always undermining every day all the time.
They never sleep, they don't need to. How is the
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church so easily fooled? There are people there that have
walked with Yeshia, have seen him, have heard his word
and has experienced his miracles. Because this is human nature.
Israel suffered from it no matter what the prophet said.
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Daniel seven twenty five warns about the coming Antichrist. He
shall speak words against the Most High God, and shall
wear out the saints of the Most High, and think
to change the times of the sacred feasts and holy days,
and the law and the saints shall be given into
his hand for a time two times and half a
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time three and one half years, the second half of
the Tribulation twenty five. And through his policies he shall
cause trickery to prosper in his deception. He shall magnify
himself in his heart and mind, and in their security
he will corrupt and destroy many. He shall also stand
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up against the Prince of princes, but he shall be broken,
and that by no human hand. It's going to take
a stand against the Lord. He's going to take a
stand against the son of the Living God, you know.
First John tells us that the spirit of the Antichrist
is already out there. It was out there from day one.
It's out there right now. Revelation thirteen, starting verse one
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shows us this beast coming from the sea which is
tying into the warnings and Daniel, And it just strikes
me as I'm saying this out loud, with all of
these warnings, why doesn't anybody listen. It's like walking through
a cow pasture or a horse pastor be careful. There's
a lot of manure out there. Watch where you step.
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One two oops, stepped in. Some couldn't see it, went
right into it. Need new shoes. Now, it just as
amazing to me. Revelation thirteen one. Then I stood on
the sand. This is John, John the Revelator. Then I
stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw
a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven
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heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns,
and on his head's blasphemous name. Now, the beast which
I saw was like a leopard, his feet like the
feet of a bear, in his mouth like the mouth
of a lion. The dragon Satan gave him his power,
Who's throne in great authority. And I saw one of
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his heads as it had been mortally wounded, and his
deadly wound was healed, as see Antichrist. And all the
world marveled and followed the beasts. So that they worshiped
the dragon who gave authority to the beast. He will
inspire the worship of Satan. Now whether they know it
Satan or not is up for debate. And they worship
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the beast, saying, who is like the beast, who is
able to make war with him? And he was given
him out speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was
given authority to continue for forty two months. And then
he opened his mouth and blasphemy against God, to blaspheme
his name, his tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.
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It was granted to him to make war the saints
and to overcome them. And authority was given to him
over every tribe, tongue, and nation. And those who dwell
on the earth will worship him. Whose names have not
been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world, the Lambs Book
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of Life the Church cannot be here for that description
to be fulfilled. Speaking of the Jews and those that
will believe in him afterward. And he will stand up
against the prince of princes, who's that you're sure of?
The King son of God. Michael is a prince of Israel.
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He's not the prince of princes, Jesus is and he
will be broken by no human hand. There's a war
that will be going on on the earth that if
you think you want to be here, you really don't understand.
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The pit will be opened. Everything that's been down in
that pit for thousands of years will be let out.
All the fallen angels, all of their demonic offspring that
were imprisoned will be let out. I have seen in
dreams and visions what that will be like, and I
tell you you don't want to be here. I saw
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the beasts of the kings of the earth, and their
armies gathered together to make war against him who sat
on the horse, and against his army. Then the beast
was captured, and with him the false prophet, who worked
signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who
received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped
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his image. These two were cast alive into the lake
of fire, burning with brimstone, and the rest were killed
with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of him
who sat on the horse, and all the birds were
filled with their flesh. Revelation nineteen nineteen through twenty scary time,
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hard to imagine. We don't have to experience it. He
gave us a way out. But broken vows, whether or
to God, broken vows start with seduction and end in
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destruction and eternal sadness. That's another reason why I do
what I do, and why I get so passionate about this,
and why I stand against the enemy. And the Lord says, go,
I go. Doesn't matter what's standing there, doesn't matter what
shows up. I've been sent by the King of Kings
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and the Lord of lords. That's not the issue, never
will be. But there will come a time when people
will stand before him, as it described to Matthew twenty
five forty one, and he will say to those on
the left, depart from me, you cursed into the everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Don't let
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that happen, not to you, not to your loved ones.
Keep telling them the truth holds your ground owned. And
this is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. This is
the fulfillment of Isaiah sixty six, starting verse twenty two.
For as the new heavens and the new Earth, which
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I shall make remain before me says the Lord. So
shall your descendants and your name remain. And it shall
come to pass that from one new moon to another,
from one sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to
worship before me, says the Lord. And they shall go
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forth and look upon the corpses of the men who
have transgressed against me, For their worm does not die,
and their fire is not quenched. They shall being abhorrenced
all flesh. Who is Isaiah speaking to speaking at that
point to Israel the vine that the Church has been
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grafted into, that fire that is not quenched, we know
is the eternal fire, the lake of fire. Horrible, horrible
thing to think about. That word transgressed, according to the
Nelson Study Bible, means rebelled against God. Are we seeing
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any of that right now? Are we seeing people that
if they don't repent and get born again or get
back to the Lord that loves them, are going to suffer?
And this imagery I've shared this with you before, is
derived from the Valley of Hinam, which was Jerusalem's garbage dump,
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where the uncleaned corpses decomposed and were burned. So although
the Book of Isaiah depicts God's coming salvation. It closes
with the strong statement of the judgment of the wicked
who don't get saved. Over and over the Lord talks
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about this. Peter and John, and Paul and James, do
you think the falling away is not something to be
worried about? The falling away the massive rebellion against God
and his authority, first by unbelieving mankind during the Great Tribulation,
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but it happens to the Church because it happened to
Israel and the corrupt, disobedient kings which rebelled against God
and his rule and who went into bondage. So the
great falling away, the apostasia, the final apostasy or repudiation
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of the believer's faith that will occur at the appearance
of the Antichrist, the son of Tradition, which tells me,
if as I believe the Church is snatched away, that
means only part of the church, the so called church,
is snatched away. There will be others who have turned
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their back on the Word and turned their back on
the Lord, who will completely repudiate their faith in him
and accept allegiance ledge allegiance to the Antichrist for favor
for the ability to buy and sell for safety. Are
we seeing evidence of that already in the world. I
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believe we are the man of sin, the man of lawlessness,
the beast out of the sea of revelation, the little
horn of Dan, the false messiahs and leaders that have
ruled the world. We have to stand against that. We
have to stand against anything that reeks of him. In
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Jewish history, we've already seen this in Antiochus, Epiphanes and
the you know, the Book of Maccabee's and the Hankkah
story that I share sometimes every year, But that's what
that represents. We've seen it with Roman emperors like Gaius,
Caligula and Domation. They wanted to be considered divine, They
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wanted to be worshiped as gods, corrupt political power, enslaving
mankind for their own pleasures, showing us an example of
the man of sin. Even in our lifetimes or our history,
we have Adolf Hitler as an example of this. I
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think it was the final dry run to see what
people would stand up against. Would people fight, would people
push back? But he said in motion something that I
want to touch on as a danger as a war
that you need to know. Let me read you a
quote from Hitler. He said, by the skillful and sustained
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use of propaganda, one can make a people see even
heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
What is propaganda. It's the idea of facts or allegations
spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an
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opposing cause. The spreading of ideas, information, or rumors for
the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause,
or a person. Boys, it's in effect right now, and
just as a side note, the word the concept propaganda
first appears in sixteen twenty two by Pope Gregory the
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fifteenth as a means of furthering Catholic missionary activity. That's unique.
I thought Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary says. Apostasy is a defection,
it's a revolt. So believers, those who claim to be
believers who fall into apostasy by deliberately rejecting the death
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and resurrection of Yoshiah, Hamashiah, Jesus the Messiah are in
a more tragic position than unconverted pagans who still have
an opportunity to get saved. Believers. Now, I don't call
them born again believers. I don't believe you can be
born again and do this. But those who claim to
be believers, those that sit in a feuse somewhere, those
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that are part of some church who return to their
former corrupt lifestyle are more worse off than they were before.
So apostases the abandonment of your faith. It's an abandonment
of your principles. It's an abandonment of what one has professed,
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a total desertion, a departure from faith principles, or in theology,
an abandonment of the Lord. And while there are those
in a generation who fall away, this is a specific
condition that occurs prior to the revelation and the appearance
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of the Antichrist. Which is why I believe from everything
I'm seeing, the Antichrist is waiting in the wings, and
he has set things in motion to step out and
do what he's always desired to do. But right now,
the presence of the Church and the power of the
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Lord is holding that back. Every time I think we're there,
something shifts and the remnant rises up. In the classical Greek,
that word apostasy is a revolt staged by a military
commander who's the military commander, the one who used to
serve him Satan. But the Holy Spirit explicitly and unmistakably
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declares that in the latter times some will turn away
from the faith, paying attention to deceitful and seductive spirits
and doctrines of demons. One Timothy four. To one who
says it, who is explicitly declaring this the Holy Spirit,
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we should heed his warning. We should feel something inside
of us as we consider this. Two Peter three, starting
verse seventeen. Therefore, let me warn you. This is the amplified. Therefore,
let me warn you, Peter says, beloved, knowing these things beforehand,
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be on your guard so that you are not carried
away by the error of principled men who distort doctrine. U.
So I'll add, men and women today and fall from
your own steadfastness of mind, knowledge, truth, and faith, grow
spiritually mature in the grace and knowledge of our Lord
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and Savior, Jesus the Messiah. To him be glory, honor, majesty,
and splendor, both now and to the day of eternity.
From the Lord to the apostles. They're saying it will happen.
Don't fall for it. It is happening. Don't fall for it.
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We've been warned, and forewarned is forearmed. Ignore the warning
and set yourself on a path of deception, a path
of rebellion, and eventually a path of judgment if you
don't get off that path. So how's this going to happen? Well,
it happens. Deception is in sired by a spiritually weak heart.
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In mind. See, everybody wants power, everybody wants manifestations. And
I see people that have tremendous followings putting on deceiving
signs and wonders that are spiritually weak in art. In mind,
men and women that have left their husbands or wives
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that have begun relationships in affairs that they then parade
across the stage and behind the pulpit, who have abandoned children,
and yet people flock to them. I'm sorry, that should
be the warning bell or the red light. Don't follow
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this person. Proverbs four twenty three. Keeping guard your heart
with all vigilance, and above all that you guard, out
of it flow the springs of life. Jeremiah seventeen nine
and ten. The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked. Who can know it the answer. I the
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Lord search the heart, I test the mind, even to
give every man according to his ways, according to the
fruit of his doings, heart and mind, each fruits and actions.
You can claim one thing, But if your heart your
mind produce a different kind of fruit, that's what you're
gonna get. How do I know that? He says it
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in Matthew twelve, verses thirty three through thirty seven. Either
make a tree good and it's fruit good, or make
the tree bad and it's fruit bad. For a tree
is known by its fruit. Please remember that scripture, a
tree is known by its fruit, not by its label,
not by what it calls itself. What is it producing
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fruit of vipers? How can you, being evil, speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
And a good man, out of the good treasure of
his heart, brings forth good things. An evil man, out
of the evil treasure, brings forth evil things. But I
say to you that for every idle word man may speak,
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they will give an account of it in the day
of judgment. For by your words you will be justified,
and by your words you will be condemned. The abundance
the surplus. Superabundance has left over and above of the heart,
influenced the words that form in our brain and exit
our mouth. If it's a good treasure, If that deposit
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is of wealth both legerity, literally and figuratively, you know
the words will be good. What is that wealth, it's
the word, it's the spirit. If it's evil, if it's fleshly,
if it's of the world, it'll be evil. So whatever
is deposited in your heart will your treasure is held,
according to Matthew six twenty one, will determine the spiritual
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value of what comes out of your mouth. See what
I mean about the war. We said it last week.
The war's internal. Yes, we talk about the world, the
flesh of the devil, all those things, but it starts
in us. And if we can't win the war in us,
how can we win any other war? And whatever's inside
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of us will come out of us. When you squeeze
a sponge, whatever is deep, deep inside of that sponge
is gonna come out. Matthew fifteen thirty, verse eighteen, Lord
speaking read letters. Those things which proceed out of the
mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
For out of the mouth procede, evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, deaths,
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false witness, blasphemies. Just dawned on me that the church
at large's heart's sick. It has a sickness in its heart.
What's coming out of it is not of Him. And
I pray right now that they would wake up and
seek the Lord and be healed and get their hearts
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right with him. So this spiritual warfare connection between the
heart and the mind is something I've covered a lot
over the years. I think it's started in twenty twelve,
and it's the battlefield the enemy can control. The one
thing that you will learn about the enemy is that
it wants to fight on a battlefield which it can control,
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and if it can't, it'll move the battlefield. Which is
why I will always encourage you to stand your ground,
hold your ground, control the field Philippians four eight. Finally, believers,
whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect,
whatever is right and confirmed by God's word, whatever is
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pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever
is admirable and of good repute, If there's any excellence,
if there's anything worthy of praise, think continually on these
things sent to your mind, on them, and implant them
in your heart Philippians four eight. That's how you control
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the battlefield and this heart mind connection. I want to
cover this. We're over, but I need to finish this thought. Traditionally,
the communication between head and heart has always been approached
from a rather one sided perspective, meaning the heart responds
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to the brain's commands. But that's not how we were designed.
They've discovered that the communication between the heart and the
brain is actually a dynamic, ongoing two ways dialogue, with
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each organ continuously influencing the other's role in life, both
natural and spiritual. The heart communicates with the brain and
the body in four ways. And I'll explain why I'm
sharing this. Neurological communication which is our nervous system, the
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biophysical communication is pulse waves which can be measured, biochemical
communication which is our hormones, which is why they're so
important to our behavior. And energetic communication which is electro
magnetic fields, which if you've read the book or you've
seen any of the teachings I've covered in depth. So
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modern mind control is spiritual as well as technological and psychological,
and the enemy uses. All three tests have shown that
by exposing the methods of mind control, the effects can
be reduced or eliminated, at least for control that's been
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created through advertising or propaganda. So by me exposing it
to you, it loses its power. Boy, does that have
spiritual connotations? Pull it out to the light. It loses it.
But we are being bombarded with subliminal messages, you know,
below the normal conscious recognition thresholds. Message is meant to
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appeal to our subconscious mind, which is when we get
into the world, the flesh, the world and the devil,
we get into what's in our heart, what's inside of us.
There was a man named Edward Albernese. He's the father
of propaganda, happened to be Sigmund Freud's nephew. And I
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want to read a quote, but I want you to
hear it through spiritual filter. The conscious and an intelligent
manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses
is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate
this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which
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is the true ruling power of our country. Whoever controls
the mind controls the people. We are governed, Our minds
are molded, our taste formed ideas suggested largely by men
we've never heard of. This is a logical result of
the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast
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numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if
they are to live together in a smoothly functioning society.
You've got to go along to get along, or you
get punished for it. In almost every act of our
daily lives, whether in the sphirit, politics or business. And
I will add spirit, you know, a social conduct or
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ethical thinking. We are dominated by the relatively small number
of persons and I add under control who understand the
mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is
they who pull the wires which control the public mind. Now,
if you find that quote and you read it, you
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see immediately how the Antichrist is going to do what
he does through propaganda, through social controls. Well, to get
the mark of the beast, you have to have it,
or you can't buy or sell, you can't get food,
you can't live. That's how he's going to manipulate people
into doing things they wouldn't normally do interestingly enough, just
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as in a side Sigmund Freud's daughter Anna Freud's pioneer
in child psychology, isn't that interesting? So there a series
of things that must happen to get to this point,
and it's a process that happens over time, which is
why I believe the Lord has inspired this teaching and
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gone in this direction, because we're seeing people fall into
the pits. We're seeing people blind, people following the blind
and falling into the pit of destruction and deception. Because
it's a process that happens over time. And to get
to this falling away, the world needs the word to
go silent. To get to the falling away from the faith.
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The world needs the word to go silent. Why do
you think they want to shut the church up or
we're offended? No, because if I tell you the truth,
the lightbulb is going to go off in your mind
and you're going to want to get saved, healed, and
delivered as I did. We don't want your light, we
don't want your word. These people are happy in the
bondage that they are. No, they're not, so, Paul says
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to Timothy and two Timothy four, I solemnly charge you
in the presence of God and of Messiah, asheu who
is to judge the living of the dead, and by
his appearing and his kingdom, reach the word. Be ready
when the time is right, even when it's not. Keep
your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable,
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whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome. Correct those
who err in doctrine behavior, warn those who sin, Exhort
and encourage those who are growing towards spiritual maturity with
inexhaustible patience and faithful teaching. For the time will come
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when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction
that challenges them with God's truth, but wanting to have
their ears tickled with something pleasing, they will accumulate for them.
Many teachers, one after another, chosen to satisfy their own
desires and to support the errors they hold, and will
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turn their ears away from the truth, And we'll wander
off into myth and man made fictions, and will accept
the unacceptable two Timothy four to one through four. The
church must be torn down, unraveled, shut up, and stripped
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of its power and influence before the Antichrist can come
to power while we are here. We cannot allow that
to happen. So we must be ready no matter what,
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at any time. We must have a sense of urgency,
and whether it's a favorable or unfavorable situation, we need
to share the truth. Tell it in love, whether it's
convenient or inconvenient, welcome or unwelcome. We need to correct
our brothers and sisters with love and patience. If they
are in error, we need to warn them of the
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price of sin and exhort and encourage those who are
growing towards spiritual maturity. We need to be faithful in
our teaching or in a time where people do not
tolerate sound doctrine, they will not accept accurate instruction, but
they want to have their ears tickled. They want something pleasing.
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Tell me something I want to hear, and they will
accumulate for themselves teacher after teacher after teacher to satisfy
that desire and support the errors that they hold, and
they will fall away from the faith and wander off
into demonic teachings and lead to their destruction. The Lord
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warned us. Paul warned us, we need to heed the warning.
We need to take a stand and hold our ground.
When having done all what stand. We need to be
immovable in our faith and the knowledge of the Lord
and his word, and have His Holy Spirit inside of
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us to empower us to do this. Let's finish the fight.
Let's do what the Church has been called to do,
no matter what, Let's hold our ground. The King is coming. Abah,
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Papa Daddy, Oh boy. We need an infusion, an infusion.
As I know we have your spirit inside of us, Lord,
but we need an infusion. Some are worn down, some
are tired, some a beat up. We need an infusion
of dunamous power. We need provision. We need to be
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free of the distractions of this world to be able
to go rescue our brothers and sisters. We need right
now the Word, more than we've ever needed it before,
to come alive inside of us so that when we
open our mouths, it's right there. We can speak a
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word and do season. And we need supernatural love to
do it, so that we don't respond in the flesh
that the enemy can't use any part of it. It's
the Holy Spirit. This has been your time, this has
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been your direction in part to my brothers and sisters
what you wanted them specifically to receive, and then help
them go. Do it as I ask you for me.
Keep us from evil and the evil one, protect us.
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Spread your wings over us and help us. And I
pray all these things. And you shoe his name. Amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
may I don't know, I make his face to shine
upon you. Be gracious to you. And may the Lord
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I don't know you shoe a Hamashiah Jesus the Messiah,
lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Give you shallow. I'm Richard Grund. This has been the
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