Prophecy Countdown _ Devils and Dead Prophets _ Doug Batchelo

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To open the pages of Scripture.

And what we are asking for is an encounter with

the Holy Spirit this evening, that he would open our hearts,

that he would open our minds to the truths of Scripture,

but not just the words that are revealed on those pages,

but also how they apply to our life and the times.

In which we live.

Lord, I am so grateful for everyone who is with

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I pray that at the end of this program we

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name of Jesus.

Amen, please be seated. Well, we've got a wonderful treat.

We've got a choir that's going to be sharing with us.

The Dallas Fortworth Advance Ensemble will be bringing us an

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Hey man, thank you choir, beautiful, wonderful hope the soon

coming of Jesus. Well, it's time for our Bible Q

and A. And if you have a Bible question, you

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Or you need to do is scan that QR.

Code and you'll be able to post your Bible question

right there online. And as we normally do, we'll try

to address as many questions as possible. Well, I'd like

to invite pass the Doug to come join me for

Bible questions, and let's give him a warm welcome pass

A Doug, thank.

You, thank you, thank you passer us, and thank you

for the choir that beautiful song.

Or We've got a number of great questions that have

come in and so let's just get right to it.

Question number one.

As a college student, I don't know if I'm following

God's plan for my life, especially when it seems that

the Second Coming is so near.

How do I know what God's plan is for my life?

The biggest criteria if you want to know God's will

for your life in any category is first be sure

that you are willing to do whatever his will is. Usually,

when we want to know God's well, the big battle

is am I perfectly willing to do whatever He reveals?

So if you commit your way to the Lord, he

will direct your path. Now, if the Lord's coming is

near and you're thinking, well should I go to college,

I would say, you know, every Christian needs to live

like you might die tomorrow and plan for a thousand years.

So we need to be ready to meet the Lord

at any time. But you want to be as educated

as you could be. You know, when I first became

a Christian, I thought, all the Lord's coming any day. Now,

I'm going to build my house with oak pier blocks

instead of concrete, because the Lord will come before they rot. Well,

they rotted, you know, So I think you need to

plan ahead, try and get a good education. If Jesus

comes while you're being educated for his service, you will

not regret it all. Right.

Next question that we have, what is the best way

to start reading the Bible?

Well, that is a good question because sometimes I got

bogged down when I first started reading the Bible. I

just went to read from Genesis all the way through,

and you know, you'll get to some of the technical

stuff in Leviticus and Exodus. They're building the sanctuary, the

ceremonial system, and you don't want to lose interest. You

might get the overview in Genesis, a great story there

about the birth of Israel and the creation and so forth.

Read the first few chapters of Exodus about slavery and

the exodus of Egypt. Then you might want to go

to the books of History, meaning you read first and

second Samuel, first and second Kings, Chronicles, Repeats, Kings. You

might jump then to the New Testament. Some people just

start with a New Testament, but ten percent of everything

Jesus said, he's quoting the Old Testament. So it's really

good to have a foundation in some of the Old

Testament books. And you may want to also read Deuteronomy. Now,

there are a lot of great Bible study guides online.

You can study the Bible by topic, you can study

it by book. You can actually listen to the Bible

being read to you as you study. One of the

things that helped me anyone remember the old Alexander Scorby

Bible records, and they later made it was a King

James version. This incredible actor had a wonderful voice in diction,

and he read through the whole Bible. King James version.

I couldn't pronounce the names in the Bible, but I

listened to him night after night reading the Bible, and

I got where I could say most of the names.

And so listening also can help as you read.

Okay, will we be given a new name when we

get to heaven?

The Bible seems to indicate in Revelation chapter two. In

chapter three, Jesus said, He's going to give us a

new name, and that new name will be something between

us and the Lord, just like he gave a new

name to Abraham. He gave a new name to Jacob,

gave a new name to Peter. We'll be getting new

names in heaven that has something to do with our

character and are a struggle, I'm assuming all right.

Here's an interesting question.

It says, doesn't the apostle poll say that it doesn't

matter whether or not you keep the Sabbath according to Coloutions,

Chapter two and verse sixteen.

Okay, well, I invited you to ask this question, and

you did. Thank you. Let me read this to you.

When people hear the Sabbath truth, please be patient. We

get a lot of questions on this subject. One of

the principal places that people go is Colossians too. I'll

read it to you and you'll see why. Starting with

verse thirteen. Stay with me, and you, being dead in

your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has

made alive together with him. Having forgiven you all your trespasses,

having wiped out the handwriting of requirements ordinances that was

against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken

it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross,

having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle

of them triumphing over them in it. So let no

one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding

a festival or new moon, or sabbaths, which are a

shadow of things to come, but the substances. Christ I

got to take a minute. First of all, he's writing

this to Colossians. They are not Jews. He talks about

being dead and the uncircumcision. They weren't circumcised. They had

not followed the Jewish ceremonial laws. This is really dealing

with their keeping the annual Sabbaths that we mentioned. Notice

having wiped out the handwriting. The annual Sabbaths were part

of the ceremonial law that written on paper that could

be nailed to the cross. You don't nail the Ten

Commandments to anything. Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements

that was against us, you might not think that means much.

But when it says against us, you go to the

Old Testament. When they took the ceremonial law, they put

it in a pocket on the outside of the arc

of the The Ten Commandments were on the inside. The

ceremonial law was on the outside, and Moses said specifically

put it there as a witness against you. The ceremonial

laws were there as a witness it said against us,

he says, wiping out the ordinances, the handwriting that was

against us, talking about all the ceremonial sabbaths, passover, feast

of trumpets, feast of tabernacle, so forth, we're not required

to keep these. The Sabbath of the weekly cycle that

has to do with our rest and following God's example,

is completely different from the annual Jewish sabbath's circumcision. We

don't have to sacrifice lambs anymore. All of that was

nailed to the cross. But there is a very big

difference between that and the weekly Sabbath of the Ten Commandments. Amen.

So this is what Paul's talking about. You read the language.

He's talking about the ordinances, handwriting, handwriting of Moses nailed

to the cross. God didn't nail the Ten Commandments to

the cross.

Capacity Just to add to that, in there, it mentioned sabbaths,

which we're all shadow. That's right, And the ceremonial law

had certain feast days that were considered sabbaths, and they

could fall on any day of the week.

So we know about the seventh day Sabbath here in

this past.

That's right. It's a small s right in there.

All right.

Another question that we have, what is the best thing

to do on the Sabbath besides going to church? Can

I take my grandkids to the park? Or can I

take the dogs on a walk? What should I do?

Yeah, well, all of the above. It's a good idea.

Take your dog for a walk. Otherwise you have other

consequences that create work for the Sabbath. But you know,

if you've got a farm, you gotta milk your cows,

you gotta milk your goats. So there's certain things that

are God understands. You shouldn't harvest your crops. I can

usually wait a day, but the Bible says that you

should as far as possible. Your animals should rest and

take the kids to the park. Kids get ins in

their pants. It's good for them to get out and

run around and nature. You know, I don't think they

should be involved in, you know, sports, but let them

go for a walk in nature. It's good to visit

people that might need a Bible study to get together

with other believers. Be part of a Bible study group,

saying be part of a music group. Our church Pastor

Ross and I are both pastoring at a church in Grantape, California.

We can't keep up with all the stuff they're going on.

They're having health lectures and music programs and Bible studies

and baptismal classes, and there's stuff going on all day.

So there's lots of wonderful things you can do on

the Sabbath a that are considered holy in keeping with

its holy nature.

All right, what is the meaning of the full living

creatures of the full beasts that are described around the

throne of God in Revelation chapter four?

Okay, Now, keep in mind in Revelation there's a lot

of symbolism there. You've got, you know, you got dragons,

you got a lamb with seven eyes and seven horns,

and the seven spirits of God. Then you've got these

four creeds around the throne of God. Four in the

Bible is usually number representing something universal. The four You've

got angels to go to the four corners of the

earth to gather together his elect You've got four angels

holding back the winds of strife that would blow on

the world before the Second Coming. The four creatures around

the throne are revealing different characteristics of the one who

sits on the throne, says, one is like an eagle,

one is like a lion, one is like an oxen,

one is like a man. Where do you first find that?

Not in Revelation, It's in Ezekiel. Remember what I said.

The key to understanding the four hundred and four verses

in Revelation two one hundred and seventy eight of the

four hundred and four verses in Revelation you can find

in the Old Testament. So Christ. In the Book of Mark,

Jesus is sort of revealed as an eagle. Talks about

his speed, the eagle's eye, his vision. Matthew describes Jesus

as the lion of the tribe of Judash. The Majesty.

You've got Luke, who is a physician. He describes Jesus

the man caring for the poor. Luke has a lot

to say about that. In his Gospel, John shows Jesus

as the sacrifice, which would be the calf for the oxen,

the lamb of God that takes away the sin of

the world. So they're showing different facets or aspects of

the nature of Christ.

All right, next question that we have King, you still

repent and be saved during the tribulation just before the

Second Coming.

There is a time when probation closes and it's too late.

Someone asked a rabbi what is the best time to repent.

He said, the last day of your life. And they said, well,

what if you don't know what the last day of

your life is. He said, exactly, this could be the

last day of your life. Every day is a gift. Friends.

You know, before the rain came in the days of Noah,

all the animals entered the ark. Noah stood in the door,

made his final appeal. Everybody looked at each other, and

they looked at the blue sky and they said, well,

it's not raining yet. Nobody else is going in. I'm

not going in. And then the door was shut. Probation

for them had closed. When the final seven last plagues

begin to fall, it is then too late. That's where

Jesus declares in Revelation twenty two. Let him who is

just be just still. I look at John because he's

a real expert on revelation. He's letting me answer the questions,

but he's written lessons on revelation. Let the just be unjust,

Let the filthy, be filthy, Let the righteous be righteous, still,

let the pure be pure. At that point, there's no

changing teams. Right now, the door of mercy is open.

You don't know what a wonderful opportunity that is. But

there is a limit to God's grace, So do not procrastinate.

The devil is going to fill hell to overflowing with

people who planned on turning to the Lord tomorrow today.

If you hear his voice, do not harden your heart horry.

Next question, if Satan in heaven was able to rebel,

is the chance that I could send after going to

heaven and be cast out?

You would be free to do that, But the Bible

promises it will never happen again. Through eternity, We're going

to see the scars in Jesus' hands that show that

God is love. We will never forget this terrible accusation

that was made by the devil that living selfishly somehow

was going to give us more freedom. It's a big lie.

Love is more blessed to give than receive. Love is

the real source of happiness. And you know, the key

to happiness is not looking for happiness. The key to

happiness is looking for holiness. In the process of looking

for holiness, you will collide with happiness. That's the way

it works. And that's why Jesus said, he that loses

his life will find it, but hef who tries to

find his life for himself will lose it. So when

you give your life to the Lord, that's when you

really begin to live. But I answer the question, yeah, look,

I wasn't sure. Sometimes I get distracted by my own voice,

and I all right.

All right, Christian human.

Nine.

Then if drinking wine is wrong, why did Jesus turn

watering to wine at a wedding.

The word wine in the Bible is used to describe

both the fermented wine that we usually think of, but

the word wine is also used to talk about fresh

grape juice. In the Bible, God tells us that drinking

alcohol is a very bad idea. Noah drank alcohol, and

he wandered around drunk and naked, and he cursed one

of his sons as a result. A lot's daughters got

him to drink, and they committed incest with their father.

David tried to get Uriah drunk so that he would

go against his conscience. The Bible says woe to him

who gives his neighbor drink. Wine is a mocker's strong

drink is raging. Whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Over fifty percent of the accidents that will happen in

Texas in the next twenty four hours alcohol is connected.

Over half of the crimes that are committed that will

put people in jail alcohol is committed. I forget, but

it's nearly half of birth defects can be connected with alcohol.

So how much should a Christian support that? When Jesus

turned the water to wine, the Bible says, as the

new wine is in the cluster, Jesus made fresh grape juice.

Jesus did not make sixty gallons of booze for a party.

When Jesus had the last supper with the disciples, he said,

take this cup, drink it. I will not drink it

until I drink it together with you. Knew in the

Father's kingdom new wine. He says that, so passover, and

the communion service is supposed to be unleavened bread. The

juice is to be unfermented. Fermentation is a process of rottenning.

Jesus does not want us to use the leaven or

the fermentation in the Lord's supper.

All right, well, that's about time for our questions for

this evening. Of course, tomorrow evening we'll be answering more

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Amen, thank you, thank you Ryan. Have you been blessed

by the music that we've had thus far? We really

appreciate all the work.

Now this is somewhat sad for us, Pastor Ryan Johnson,

this is his last evening with us. He's gonna actually

fly back to three EBN tomorrow. There's some filming taking place.

But we have so been blessed and enjoyed working with him.

And thank you Pastor Ryan for the music and Jackie.

Tonight our lesson is entitled Devils and Dead Prophets, very

important subject.

Welcome friends once again to the Prophecy Countdown. What's the

next seminar? And we're so glad that you're joining us here.

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And we're trying to get the word out. Amen. Tonight,

We've got a very important study. And the title may

seem a little ominous Devils and Dead Profits, but I

think that'll make sense as we proceed. I like to

start with an amazing fact, and you've probably heard about

Harry Houdini. Now, Houdini was a legitimate magician, also known

as an escape artist. He was one of the greatest

escape artists in history. He's become legendary and in some

myths have written about him that are not true. But

he was extremely strong. He was double joined that he

was able to pick locks, and he could get out

of handcuffs. He escaped from Scotland Yard jails they said

were unescapable. He escaped from many jails and prisons. They

would handcuff him, put him in a box, chain up

the box, throw the box in the river, and he

would get out. And these weren't tricks and illusions. He

really would get out. But then he also was something

of a magician, but he sort of resented what was

happening during the same time he was doing his escape

artist acts. There were all of these people that were

spiritualists that were claiming that they were consulting with the dead,

and Houdini didn't like that one bit, and so he

began to try to expose phony spiritualists in mediums. He

presented himself as the scourge of fake spiritualists. He was

a president of the Society of American Magicians. He maybe

didn't know there was such a thing, and he was

very keen to uphold professional standards and to expose frauds. Well,

he was very successful, and he kept surpassing one escape

procedure after another, but he got a severe case of

appendicitis when he was like fifty one years of age,

and they were not able to catch it in time,

and he died from that. He died on October thirty one,

what day is that, Halloween nineteen twenty six. And then

all these spiritualists said, well, he was taken out because

he was fighting against the evil spirits, but if you

listen carefully, he's going to contact us. And so for

years afterward, his wife Bess would get together with other

spiritualists on Halloween and they would try to make contact

with Houdini. And even today there are people who say

we're going to try and contact Houdini through these mediums,

but so far, as far as we know, there's been

no success. There's a reason for that, as the Bible says,

the living know that they will die, but the dead

know not anything. Now, you might wonder why are we

talking about a subject like this In connection with Prophecy

got to tell you a story in the Bible. I

don't have time to read it all to you, but

if you look at first Samuel, chapter twenty eight, you

can read the whole story. King Saul was a good king,

chosen by God, filled by the spirit. But over the

years he began to become proud, and it got worse

and worse, until he drove the spirit of God away.

He killed the priests of the Lord. He became so

jealous that God was now having David chosen to replace him.

He was consumed with jealousy and selfishness and pride, so

that he basically grieved away the Holy Spirit. Then, as

he was facing a great final battle with the Philistines,

he asked God for some guidance, and there was no word.

Trying to find a prophet who had some word for him.

No prophet would speak to him, so he said, well,

then I'll get a witch shows you how quickly he

could switch. And they found the witch of Indoor, and

he disguised himself. He went to the witch and he said,

I want you to conjure up for me the spirit

of Samuel the Prophet, to tell me what I'm supposed

to do. She went through her incantations and rigormarole, and

she said, oh, I see this man and this being,

this apparition appeared claiming to be the prophet Samuel. Some

people wonder, what's that really, Samuel. Does the devil have

the power to resurrect the dead? No, he does not.

Does he have the power to create illusions? Yes? This

demon that was in person Nadian Samuel the prophet gave

Saul a completely hopeless message that you're going to die

and be with me tomorrow when your sons will die

and David'll be king. He mixed some truth with discouragement,

and the next day, in the battle, discouraged, wounded King

Saul fell on his sword and committed suicide. So why

does this matter? In the book of Revelation, if you

take your Bible and you go to Revelation chapter sixteen.

You need to understand the subject of what does the

Bible say about the dead, because the devil is going

to exploit the idea that we can communicate with the

dead to deceive people. If you look in Revelation sixteen,

you've got the seven last plagues are being poured out.

And if you go to verse twelve, this is the

sixth plague. By the way, the seventh plague is the

second coming the sixth plague. The angel poured out his

bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was

dried up. That's interesting because the Euphrates river is actually

drying up right now. But that's not the fulfillment. Don't worry,

so that the way of the Kings of the East

might be prepared. Why the way of the Kings of

the East. When Babylon fell, some of you who were

here from the beginning, remember that Cyrus the General diverted

the water of the Euphrates, so the water dried up

that was going to Babylon. His soldiers marched under the wall.

The water of Euphrates is a harbinger of the fall

of Babylon. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs.

That was one of the plagues of Egypt, coming out

of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth

of the beast, and out of the mouth of the

false prophet. Now they're coming out of the mouth. And

what's a frog's weapon? Anyone ever been bitten by a frog?

Or scratch? Watch by fright. It's his tongue, every quick

tongue out of the mouth. Let's talk about a message.

And frogs are unclean, in case you didn't know biblically,

So it's an unclean message. For they are spirits of demons,

performing signs that go to the kings of the earth

in the whole world to gather them to the battle

of the great day of God Almighty. Before Saul went

to this great battle, he met with the witch, deceived

him through a spirit, and his men lost all courage

because the king was discouraged and they were terribly defeated.

God says verse fifteen. Behold, if you have a normal

read letter edition Bible, you notice this word isn't read.

These are the words of Jesus. Behold, I am coming

quickly as a thief. Blessed is he who watches and

keeps his garments lest he walk naked, and they see

a shame. We must be clothed with Christ's righteousness, and

says they gathered them together to a place called in

Hebrew armageddon. So before the end, the devil is going

to do a masterpiece of deceptions, with evil spirits going

to the leaders of the world to deceive them and

manipulate them, and it's going to culminate in the great battle.

The battle of Armageddon is not missiles flying back and forth.

The battle of Armageddon is when the dragon makes war

with the woman. It is when Jesus comes charging out

from the heavens with his white horse and a sword

coming out of his mouth. It is a battle between

truth and error, those who follow Christ and those who don't,

those who have the seal of God and those who

have the mark of the beast. People who think the

battle of Armageddon is going to be between countries, they

get that from Douglas MacArthur when he retired. He said,

if we don't find some more equitable means of solving

our problems than world wars, armageddon is at our door.

And people took this quote from MacArthur and they assumed

that Armageddon must be a military conflict. But the Bible

doesn't teach that. The big war in the Bible is

between Christ and Satan. It's not between Russia and China

and the US and all these different nations. Jesus said

there's going to be wars and rumors of wars in

the world up until the end. But the big war

is the war where Jesus comes to deliver us, and

it's a war where the devil is going to seek

to annihilate those who have the seal of God and

they do not worship the beast Or's image. All right?

Is that clear? Why do we need to understand what

happens with the dead? Now, this is a sensitive subject.

There's probably nobody here. If you're an adult, you've not

been touched in some way by a death. It may

be parent, spouse, sibling, child, all of the above. For me,

and I know it's it's as hard as it someone

you love. It leavest a terrible vacuum. Death is terribly permanent,

and so I don't want to be insensitive about this.

But here's what you need to know is that the

dead are dead until the resurrection. What confuses people is

you read a verse in the Bible where it says

absent from the body present with the Lord. They don't

read the whole verse, and they say, well, as soon

as you die, you're immediately in the presence of the Lord. Well,

in a sense, if you're saved and you die, your

next conscious thought is the resurrection and being caught up

to meet the Lord in the airth So for the

person who dies, it is their next conscious thought. But

it hasn't happened yet, because the judgment has not happened yet,

and the resurrection has not happened yet. And Jesus said,

the dead or asleep. So when people say I'm having

my dead loved one talk to me, well, they may

have memories that are coming to them. They may feel

like that person that they've lived so much of their

life with is impressing them. But it could also be

evil spirits that are manipulating them. So you've got to

be very clear that dead people do not talk to

the living. And you know the Bible forbids that the

Bible says anybody who tries to communicate with the dead

is forbidden. Those people will call mediums, in which it's spiritualists.

It is absolutely forbidden in the Bible. And yet I

hear Christians all the time say, all I heard them,

they were speaking to me. We don't talk to the dead.

Isaiah said, should a living people consult with the dead

go to wizards and peep and mutter according to the

law and the testimony? That means along the prophets, if

they speak not according to this word, there's no light

in them. So, friends, when we discover what the Bible

says about life and death, where are we going to

get our answer? Pastor Doug are from Jesus in the Bible.

So we're going to be quote Bible tonight. Listen carefully,

all right. Question number one? Was the spirit that was

conjured up by this witch? The witch at Endore really

Samuel the prophet? What does the Bible say one kings

twenty two, verse twenty one, and a spirit came forward

and stood before the Lord and said, I will go

and be a lying spirit. Are there lying spirits in

the mouth of all his prophets? Are there false prophets

that are being manipulated by lying spirits? And you realize

that not every pastor that uses the name of Jesus,

not every pastor that holds a bible is telling the truth.

There are some wolves in sheep's clothing. Jesus said, beware

speaking of the second Coming. The first thing Jesus said

is beware there will be false christ and false prophets.

The devil finds he does more damage from the inside.

What else does it say, First Chronicles ten thirteen. So

Saul died for his unfaithfulness, which he had committed against

the Lord, because he did not keep the word of

the Lord, or to keep the word of the Lord.

Also because he consulted a medium for guidance. He died

for doing that. It is not God's plan for us

to go and talk to astrologers. Now. Astronomy is the

legitimate study of the heavens. And I would love to

be the first pastor to go up on the International

Space Station. That'd be so cool. But that's different from astrology.

You know.

My mother she was into we'd use Ouiji boards growing

up in astrology. My mother actually wrote an album of astrology,

twelve songs for the different signs. And my mother's friends

used to write articles. They wrote the astrology section in

the paper. My mother was in show business and she

wrote she was a Hollywood film critic, and she used

to write songs for Elvis Presley. And I won't talk

about that right now, just to let you know that

she told me. I said, Mom, do you believe that?

She said, you kidding? It makes money the people writing

the zodiacs and the astrology signs for the folks reading it,

don't even believe it. Number two, through what agency will

Satan gather the armies of the earth to the final

battle of Armageddon? We just read it. I saw three

unclean spirits like frogs. It's like a counterfeit trinity. It's

not the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It's the Beast,

the Dragon, and the false Prophet coming out of the

mouth of the dragon. The mouth of the beasts and

the mouth of the false Prophet. They are the spirits

of demons, fallen angels performing signs. Can the devil do signs?

In wonders? Doesn't it sane revelation that he'll deceive the world,

going so far as bringing fire down out of heaven

and the sight of men to deceive them. So when

you say, oh, you know, I know what the Bible says,

but my pastor he the signs and wonders that should

not be our criteria. If it doesn't go along with

the word of the Lord. There's no light in them

to gather them to the battle of that great day

of God Almighty. And they gathered them together to a

place called in Hebrew Armaged. And that word is something

of a mystery, because there is a very important valley

in Israel called Megiddo, and it was a crucial point.

A lot of battles happened. King Saul's battle with the

Philistines happened in Megiddo. When Gideon fought against the Amalekites

and Midianites and the people of the East, that happened

in Megiddo. King Josiah was killed in Megiddo. When Debra

and Barrick went against the army of Cicera, it was Megiddo.

So all through these Old Testament battles, these pivotal battles

happened here. Now one Bible translator, when they say, what

does armaged mean, as far as I know, it means

Harma hill of Megiddo, the hill of Megiddo. Mghiddo's actually

a valley. So but in the story of Gideon in

Judges chapter six, when it says in Hebrew, the Lord

said to Gideon. You know how that translates Harma Gideon.

So it may be referring to the Battle of Gideon,

where Gideon only had three hundred soldiers, and using a

sword and a lamp and the voice the trumpet, they

overcame an army of like almost a million. I mean

it said they were like the sand of the sea

in the last days, God's people are going to overcome

with a lamp. Thy word is a lamp under my feet,

and a sword. The word of God is sharper than

any two edged sword, and a trumpet. Lift up thy

voice like a trumpet. Three symbols for the Bible. So

it may be revelation could be pointing back to this

battle of Gideon in the Valley of Megiddo. It's something

of a mystery, but that's what it's taught talking about.

Don't be waiting for different armies to gather in Israel

and they've been shooting each other over there for one

hundreds thousands of years. That's actually it can confuse people,

all right, what do people out there in the community

think about what happens when you die? I think we

might have some man on the street videos.

Well, in my culture, I was raised Buddhist, and in

my culture we have incarnation.

What do I think happens when we die? If we're

non believers? I believe that we would go to hell

and burn eternally. But I do believe if we follow

God's law that we would be with Him in heaven.

Oh, probably nothing. I believe that you will be with

God in heaven.

Absolutely gross are one thousand versent real? As someone who

visibly sees ghosts twenty fourth heaven, I can confirm. I

believe that ghosts are definitely for me personally, it's loved ones.

It's always been loved ones. But they can be you know,

people that you normally pass on the street, someone completely random.

I believe ghosts are real.

One thousand ghosts are.

Energy of souls of probably dead people. They are real,

But I think ghosts can die too, because if if

everyone turned into a ghost, then there would be a

lot of a lot of ghosts, be too many ghosts.

So I think, you know, it's a second life and

then then you're gone again. But they're probably dead people.

It's energy, spiritual stuff.

I don't know.

A book fell off a shelf when I was a kid,

and I was ghosts are probably definitely real.

For me, Uh, they are real because like, if you

have a good like side, then you also have a

bad side. So I feel like ghosts for me represent

like maybe spirits.

I have communicated with the dead on multiple occasions. I

think it can happen. I just think you need to

have a really really strong connection with whoever has passed.

No, I've witnessed some stuff and I kind of think

it's cool. But I don't know.

Some people can just scam you, but some people, I

think somewhere in this world can. All right, would you

all agree that the world is pretty confused about the

state of the dead and can you communicate with the dead?

And ghosts are ghosts real? Yes, but they are not

dead people. They are demons impersonating the dead. So when

people say they saw something go bump in the night,

or something levitate, or they saw some sign or wonder

some spooky something, yeah, I don't doubt that for a minute.

But these are what you call demons and evil spirits.

They are impersonating the dead. And that's why we've got

to understand that the dead are dead, because all of

a sudden, if some being appears and claims to be

Moses and has a new message the conflicts with the Bible.

He says, I've got fresh evidence. What are you gonna believe? Spirits,

signs and wonders or you know how many times around

the world Mary appears to people with messages. They call

them marrying apparitions. This is very dangerous because a lot

of those messages conflict with the Bible. For one thing,

though Mary was a godly woman, I expect to see

her in the Kingdom of Heaven. Nowhere in the Bible

are we told to communicate with the dead. It is

actually forbidden. And yet I hear Christians all the time

talk about yes, I'm you know, they say, Robin Williams

died and he's in heaven telling God jokes, And I'm

going where are they getting these ideas? Do the dead

people come back to converse with or haunt the living?

What does the Bible say Job fourteen twenty one speaking

of someone that dies, his sons come to honor. He

does not know it. They are brought low. He does

not perceive it. For the living know that they will die.

This is Solomon Ecclesiastes nine five and six the living

know they'll die, But the dead no nothing, not a

zero zip. They don't know anything. They have no more

a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Also

their love, their hatred. If they hated you when they died,

don't worry about them haunting you. They're dead and their

envy has now perished. Never more will they have a

share in anything done under the sun. Under the sun

means in this life there will be a resurrection, for

there is no work or device, or knowledge or wisdom

in the grave. This is what the Bible says. Friends,

here's I could give you fifty scriptures. It's just not

time Psalms six, verse five. In death, there is no

remembrance of you. Now you would think if someone died,

the first thing they do is remember God. The dead

do not praise the Lord, nor any who go down

into silence, Job seven, verse ten. He shall never return

to his house. If you're afraid they're going to come

back and haunt your house. Karen and I bought a

house about thirty years ago, and we know that the

prior owner died in the house, and some people were

spooked by that, and I thought, oh, I don't care.

Get a discount. It's not gonna didn't bother me one bit,

and he wasn't gonna bother me. Number four, according to

the Book of Revelation, who is it that has the

keys of life and death? Answer? Jesus said, I am

he who lives and was dead, And behold, I am

alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades.

And the word hades there means the grave. It's a

Greek word. I have the keys of the grave and

of death. It's only Jesus who can unlock the grave.

And he proves that in first of all his own resurrection.

For one. Number five, how did God make man in

the beginning? So if we'll understand something about creation, you

can understand something about the reverse. The Lord God formed

man from the dust of the ground, and he breathed

into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became

a living being. The Bible refers to the breath of life.

It is his essence of life, this power of life,

that God gives his creatures. What happens to death, it's

creation in reverse. Notice Eclesiastes twelve, verse seven. Then the

dust will return to the earth as it was and

the spirit will return to God who gave it. Now,

when it says the spirit returns to God, people say, well,

there you have it, pastor Doug. When a person dies,

their spirit goes off to be with God. This is

what you've got to catch. The word spirit there means breath.

It means breath of life. It is the same word

that is used for a dog, a cat, a bat,

a cow, anything that's alive. Every creature breathes, and when

they stop breathing, they die. And it's the breath of life,

the power of life that returns to God that gave it.

In this passage and Ecclesiastes, he's talking about not only

good people and bad people, but animals. The breath of

life of everything that dies returns to God. Let me

give you some more scriptures for that. The Bible teaches

that the spirit that returns to God is simply the

breath of life which God breathed in the man at

the beginning. So in our auditorium right now, we've got

a lot of apparatus that's operating through electricity. Heaven forbid,

we should have a power of failure. If that did happen,

you might say, where where did the electricity go. Well,

it's back at the power plant where it came from.

It's this same electricity as operating many different apparatus, right,

But that's all it's talking about it when it's the

breath of God. In Hebrew, the word is roach. In

Greek it's the word numa. When someone has problems breathing,

they call it pneumonia. And if you men have worked

with some tools that are called pneumatic tools, what does

that mean? They're operated by air pressure. That's what numa means.

It means when breath. Let me give you some verses

that prove that. Psalm one of four, verse twenty nine.

You take away their breath, they die and return to

their dust. You send forth your spirit, your breath, and

they are created. It's the breath of life that creates.

And when that breath is taken away, they die. Where

did by the way the oh, I think the verse

is in here, so I'll wait until I get to it.

Number seven, Where do the dead go when they die?

They go right to Heaven? Do they go to hell?

Before the judgment? It says, yet he will be brought

to the what the grave and the vigil will be

kept over the tomb again, it says John five twenty eight,

these are the words of Jesus. All who are in

the graves will hear his voice and come forth. He's

talking about the day of the Lord second coming future.

Matter of fact, three times in John chapter six it says,

it's at the end of time when they're resurrected. They're

in their graves now, that's why they're resting in peace.

And if you ever walk through a cemetery and you

read some of the graves some of the tombstones, are

any of you at all spooked by walking through a

cemetery doesn't bother me. I'm just afraid I'm gonna trip.

I'm not. I try to be respectful. You don't stand

like right on a grave, you know, around just I

believe in respect. I've done a lot of funerals, and

sometimes I get there early and I walk around. I

read some of the tombstone. Some are really sad. You know.

You see the mother's life twenty five years and then

right next to it is a baby that lives one

day and she it's the same day she died. She

died giving birth. You can get the whole story right there,

and some of them will say our beloved Mother now

singing with the angels in heaven, and the same church

cemetery you'll see another one that will say our beloved

Mother resting until the resurrection trumpet, which tells me there's

a lot of confusion in the cemetery about what happens.

And some of them are funny. I remember there was

this one tombstone that it said, stop my friend, as

you go by as you are now, So once was

I as I am now you soon will be. Prepare

yourself to follow me coming home from school. When day

a kid read that and he took out his crayon

and he wrote down to follow you. I'm not content

until I know just where you went. So I remember

James Dobson. He said his father told his mother to

put on his tombstone. I told her I was sick.

So you know, we can laugh about it. And there

are some funny tombstones, but it's also very serious subject.

Bible says they're in their graves. What about people, pastor Doug,

I know you die, you go right to heaven or hell.

Because I read a book somebody died on the operating table.

They had a car accident and they left their body

and they had a whole experience in hell or in heaven,

and that proves it must be true. Do we base

our theology on somebody having an experience when they stopped reading.

They've done experiments now and they know people who report

what they call these near death experiences. They have elevated

levels of carbon dioxide in their blood, and they suffer

from oxygen deprivation, which causes hallucinations, and many of them

will see this channel of light. Many of the will

feel like I was outside my body looking in. And

one reason I know you cannot trust these near death

experience books to figure out what happens when you die

for heaven or hell is because if you're in a

Christian country, they say I went to heaven. I was

with Jesus. If you're in a Buddhist country, they say

I was with Buddha waiting to be reincarnated. If you're

in a Hindu country, they have near death experiences with Krishna.

They were with their God, and based on their training,

they have their various visions. Now God can speak to somebody.

I'm not detracting that it is possible that a person

could have a near death experience, and the Lord can

give them a vision or dream that is for them.

He's trying to tell them something, maybe wake them up

or comfort them. I don't know, but you don't base

your theology on a person's dream when their body is

robbed of oxygen. We base our theology on the unchanging

word of God. Amen, Heaven and earth will pass away.

Jesus said, my word will not pass away. People say,

you know, I had this experience and I was caught

up and I saw these things, and they make movies

about it. And I don't know if you heard. There

was one book that was written became very popular, and

they made a whole movie about this kid that said

that he had he died on the operating table, and

he saw loved ones and new things that only they

would know. And later he confessed he made the whole

thing up. After the book was a best seller and

after they made a movie, he said, I just made

the whole thing up. And so yeah, you can check

that out on the internet. Just don't do it right now.

Number eight, The Bible makes it plain that King David

is saved and in heaven. No wait, I read that wrong.

The Bible makes it plain the king David is saved.

So is he in heaven? Now? Is David in heaven? Now?

First of all, we're talking about good king. David killed Goliath.

He will be saved. Are we in agreement? Yeah? Bible

says he was a man after God's own heart. What

does the Bible say about David? Read this Acts chapter two.

This is after Jesus died. This is fifty days after

the resurrection. Peter is preaching. He says, let me freely

speak to you of the patriarch David, that he is

both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us

to this day. I've been to Israel. That's a picture

of David's tomb. It's still there today. And then he

goes on to say, David is not ascended into the

heavens Now, if you're going to use a English to communicate,

how could you be more clear than that dead, buried,

not in heaven. The Bible says that David diepproximately one

thousand years before Christ. It says he slept with his

father's Now, David, has it been three thousand years for him? No?

David closed his eyes in death, and the next thing

he knows is he is going to wake up, come

out of his grave, meet Christ in the air with

a glorified body, and for him it will seem like

a moment, the twinkling of an eye. It's going to

seem like fifteen seconds. So for people to die, don't

be discouraged. Your loved ones that die in the faith,

you can rejoice for them because their next conscious thought

is the presence of the Lord. I remember doing the

funeral service for the pastor who baptized me. He retired

before I was born. This guy loved the Lord, real worker,

and I was doing his wife's funeral service. This lady

was a saint. Died in her nineties working in her garden,

and she woke up that morning did her Bible study,

and the last thing she wrote was we shall not die.

She was quoting from an Old Testament prophet. She had

a stroke, she died. She was talking about the second death.

So I'm doing her funeral and there is Sister Phillips

and she's stretched out in the coffin as they often

have before me. And I was jealous because I thought,

here she's been a faithful you know, fought a good fight,

finished the faith. Her next conscious thought is she's going

to come out of the grave, what not with a

ninety four year old body, but with a glorified, young,

vivacious body, never to feel pain or suffering. Again, I

was jealous.

You know what I'm saying.

For those who die in the Paul says, we sorrow

not as others that have no hope. We sorrow for

ourselves because we're gonna miss them, But don't sorrow for

them if they died save. A Christian funeral should almost

be a celebration if a person has lived a full life. Heymen,

number nine, isn't it true that the soul is in

immortal and that only the body dies? Now, how many

of you have heard that? You know we have an

immortal soul? Have you heard someone say that before? There's

an immortal soul to save. I'm gonna turn the camera around.

Let's get an audience shot. Please show me the verse

in the Bible that says we have an immortal soul.

We got people here visiting from all different places. If

there's a verse, I don't know what that verse is.

Let's tell you what the Bible does. Say Ezekiel eighteen,

verse four, the soul who sins. What does it say,

will die? And then can mortal man?

Does?

Does job say we're immortal or mortal? He says can mortal?

Mortal means you die? Can mortal man be more righteous

than God? Listen to this one one Timothy six verse

fifteen and sixteen. The King of kings, the Lord of lords,

who so alone has immortality. So when do we get immortality? Yes,

we do get it, but sinners do not have immortality.

When will the righteous be given immortality? It's question number ten?

Look at this first Corinthians fifteen, verse fifty one. We

shall not all sleep, but we will be changed in

a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the

last trumpet, For the trumpet will sound, the dead will

be raised incorruptible. We will be changed for this corruptible.

The word corruption means bodies that get old and wrinkled

and decay, and you turn back to earth when you die.

This corruptible will put on incorruption, and this mortal will

put on what immortality? When? When the trumpet sounds? And

when it's that when the Lord descends the Bible Read

verse Criantians fifteen, and you can't misunderstand The whole chapter

is about the resurrection and that we will get glorified

immortal bodies. Someone's going to write down, will we recognize

our loved ones in heaven when they you know, Grandma's

not going to be ninety. It is such a miracle

to me. How a caterpillar gonna be this fat little worm.

It builds a chrysalis, goes through this metamorphosis where then

it emerges with the aerodynamic design. There is no scenario,

There is no scheme in evolution, and can explain how

a worm will decide that it's going to go through

a change where its body turns into a virtual soup

of chemicals and reorganizes where it's got delicate legs and

wings and it can pump blood into those wings and

then fly off for flowers. I mean, that is still

mind boggling when you think about it. This has to

be designed by God. And you know Jesus compares the

resurrection to seeds. I've done some amazing facts on seeds.

Seeds can stay viable for thousands of years. They found

some seeds of an extinct Judaean date palm in Masada

down in the desert. It was very dry, perfect conditions.

They planted several of them. Some of them were not

viable anymore, but two or three of the seeds sprouted.

One of them turned into a mature day tree at

several years old. Now they call it the Methuselah tree,

and it is now bearing fruit two thousand years. The

essence of life was somehow kept in that seed that

when the conditions were right, with the moisture and the sunlight,

it came back to life. And the Bible says, and

Paul says, God can do this. It shouldn't be a mystery.

He was encouraging the Corinthians. God can resurrect us. Nothing's

too hard for the Lord. And some of you might

be thinking, will passer, Doug. But if we're cremated and

our ashes are scattered, will God come back and look

around and say, oh man, they're all over the place.

I don't think I can put them back together again.

Don't worry about it, Franz. For one thing, he's not

putting back together the old body. He's going to take

the essence of who you are. It's kind of like today,

you know, you take your computer programs and you put

it on a little USB drive and you can take

your program and plug it into a brand new computer,

and there it is. And so he's going to take

the software of your character and plug it into new hardware,

and you're going to have a brand new body. Does

that make sense? Samen? Okay, the young ones all said

Amen one Thessalonians four sixteen. For the Lord himself will

descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of

the archangel. The Lord has the voice of the archangel,

and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in

Christ will rise first. That's when this mortal puts on

immortality number eleven. How does the Bible consist? Sidently refer

to death. You rest with your father's The Bible calls

it a sleep. The graves were opened, and many of

the bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

Now are there any people in heaven? Now? Yes? Who's there? Moses?

How do we know? Jude verse nine, there's only one

chapter Jude verse nine. Enoch. The Bible says that Enoch

walked with God, and he was not for God took him,

and it's also repeated in the New Testament. Elijah went

to heaven and a fiery Chariot, Second King's Chapter two,

and Matthew twenty seven says, when Jesus died, there was

a great earthquake. He first he said it is finished.

The sky was dark, and there was a great earthquake,

and many of the graves, not all, many of the

graves of them that slept in Jerusalem were opened. And

after his resurrection, they came out of their grave and

appeared to many in the city. And when Christ descended

to Heaven, they ascended with him. Now that must have

been just a small group, because John, Mark and Luke

don't even mention that. But some of the patriarchs, we

don't know who they were. Could have been John the Baptist,

could have been Isaiah, we don't know. Some of the

faithful suddenly appeared to other faithful in the city and

said Jesus was a Messiah. He's alive, just like Moses

and Elijah appeared to Peter, James, and John. Some of

the saints who had died around Jerusalem appeared to other

faithful in the city to say, Jesus is the Messiah.

I am Isaiah, and we're going to Heaven together. I

don't know, but it's very vague. But there are others

that went to heaven. The rest of the people are

doing what rip sleeping, rest in peace. They're in their graves.

Jesus said, if you know the story there John chapter eleven,

verse eleven. Our friend Lazarus is what sleeping. But I

go that I might wake him. And then his disciples

said to him, a Lord, if he's got a fever,

if he's sleeping, that's good. He'll maybe get better. And

j says, no, no, no, no, Lazarus is dead. So

how did Jesus refer to death sleep? Now when Jesus

comes to resurrect Lazarus, does Lazarus comment on it? The

Bible says, even so God will bring with him those

who sleep in Jesus, there are people asleep. The reason

it says bring with him is because the dead in

Christ rise first. So as the Lord comes from heaven

and he circles around the earth, and the dead and

Christ are caught up to meet him in the air,

they're there first. So when we are transformed and caught up,

they're with him. You understand, he's telling us the sequence

of how this happens, so that we will have a reunion.

They're not enjoying heaven a thousand years before us. We're

going to all celebrate that grand experience together. It says,

then we will together be with the Lord where for

comfort one another. With these words. Now, let me get

you to think about something. Just use use common sense.

There are about a dozen resurrections in the Bible. I

can't remember them all, but I'll try. You've got Elijah

resurrects a boy. The widow's boy dies. Interestingly enough, Elisha

then resurrects a boy from the Shunemite woman. You've got

a man who is let down on the bones of Elisha,

he comes back to life. You got Moses who is resurrected.

Jesus resurrects Jerius's daughter. Jesus resurrects the son of the

widow of Namee. Jesus resurrects Lazarus Paul. We believe Eudicus

died when he fell out the window. They said he's dead,

and Paul said his life still in him, So that

would be another resurrection. If if that's what happened there,

then you have Paul was stoned and they thought he

was dead, but he got back up. Maybe they weren't

praying God said, look, Paul, not done. Get back up.

We've gone just resurrected Paul. We don't know, I mean,

but it may have been a death, and I might

be leaving a couple out.

I think this.

Oh, Peter resurrected Dorcas. Thank you. So there's about a

dozen resurrections in the Bible. Now, you work for a

news agency, BBC, Fox, CNN, pick your news agency. You've

just heard that there is a resurrection and a lot

of witnesses are verifying this has happened. You are going

to run to them with your microphone from all around

the world. You ever seen where they're interviewing some international

celebrity and they got fifty microphones right there and they're

all waiting for this statement, and the news is all

gathered in the back where their camera's going. First question

they'd ask is what was it like? What happened when

you died? Where did you go?

What did you see? What did you feel?

Don't you think it's interesting that of all those resurrections

in the Bible, not one person comments on what they

experience during death. Pastor Doug, what about the story of

the rich men and Lazarus. That's a parable. Someone please

write that down. When's our next meeting? Write it down

between now and tomorrow, and Pastor Ross and all answer

that tomorrow night. People have built a whole theology out

of this parable that was not at all the intention

of Jesus. No one resurrected ever commented on what they

experienced while dead, because they'll living though they'll die. The

dead don't know anything. Whatever your hand finds to do,

do it with all your might, for there's no knowledge

in the grave where you're going. Those that sleep in

Jesus will be brought forth. Number twelve. What does Satan

want us to believe? Sorry, why does Satan want us

to believe that the spirits of the dead are really alive?

The serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die,

one of the first lies. And isn't it strange that

even pastors are repeating the devil's life. You don't really die.

You go right to heaven, you go right to hell,

you go to some reincarnation waiting area, you go to purgatory,

you go to limbo. They get all these theories. The

Bible says, you're sleep, you're dead, you're unconscious. False Christs

Jesus said, false prophets will show great signs and wonders

to deceive, if possible, even the elect. If suddenly a

whole city sees this big apparition of Mary and she's

giving some message that may be slightly contrary to scripture,

how many people are going to believe what they see

rather than what the Bible says. A lot of people

will believe what they see because they don't know what

the Bible says. They're just believing what they hear from

the pastor once a week and you know, and he says, oh,

everything's great, you can be a better you. And that's

all they hear. Is the kind of the sloppy, goppy, happy,

slappy kind of Christianity out there. They're not here in

the whole thing. So a lot of them are being deceived.

False christ and false prophets will arise and deceive many.

For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also

transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be

according to their works. There are a lot of counterfeit

ministries out there that are deceiving people. Now, I also

want to hasten to say. I know a lot of

ministers in other churches. I think are sincere. I think

they love the Lord. I think they teach the Bible.

They're doing their very best. We would respectfully disagree on

some points, but there's some Charlatans out there that are

just taking advantage of people, and they're lining their checkbooks

while they do it. Number thirteen. How effective will Satan's

use be of these evil spirits in the last days?

The serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives,

how much he is deceiving the whole world? And just

before the Battle of Armageddon, these unclean spirits, they're going

out to the world to deceive world leaders. Some of

you remember years ago when someone attempted to kill Ronald Reagan.

From that point on, it's documented, and she'll freely it.

Nancy Reagan said she began to consult an astrologist when

she was working with President Reagan on his schedule. Hillary

Clinton said, yes, she did talk to a friend, Sylvia Brown,

and tried to connect with the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt

to know how can I be a better first lady

and Mary Todd Lincoln. She had seances in her house.

Now Abraham didn't go for that. But I'm just saying,

there are people in high places. I just heard them.

Maybe I'm letting the cat out of the bed too soon,

because we're talking about this later. It was a Peter Thiel,

the billionaire of PayPal, is now talking about the Antichrist. Yeah,

I'll read you that article later. Babylon the Great is fallen,

is fallen. It has become the dwelling place of demons. Remember,

God's people are in Babylon. There's demons in Babylon deceiving

and every foul spirit a prison for every foul spirit.

There's spiritualism in the world by your sorcery. And I

understand that one of these words, I think is pharmacia,

which means drugs. By your sorcery, all nations were deceived.

Number fourteen. How does God regard these miracles by evil angels?

The Bible says a man or a woman who is

a medium shall surely be put to death. Now, friends,

I'm not asking anybody to start going on a witch trial.

This is talking about when the people of Israel were

a theocracy and when God was their king. If there

was someone in their midst that was dabbling and consulting

with the dead. The penalty was the most severe penalty.

The only reason I read that is so that you

understand how did God view it. He knew that people

could be led astray by evil spirits, and they were

not to tolerate people trying to communicate with the dead.

Do not be deceived. Now I'm going to the New Testament.

Evil company corrupts good habits. Awake to righteousness and do

not sin. For some do not have the knowledge of God.

And again some will depart from the faith. Speaking of

in the Last Day, Paul says one Timothy four to one,

some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving

spirits and doctrines of devils. They were Christians. They've departed

from the faith. And what did it? They said? A

spirit spoke to me. I remember once I gave a

Bible study about the Sabbath truth to a pastor, and

the pastor said, you know, brother Doug, if I'm going

to go buy the Bible, what you say is clear enough.

But I had a spirit speak to me, and he

told me that I'm not under the law anymore. And

I don't need to worry about this, And I've got

peace that this, what this spirit is telling me, is

more important than what the Bible tells me. Now, did

Jesus say the Holy Spirit will ever contradict the Bible?

Or did he say when he the spirit of truth

has come, he will bring to your remembrance what I

have said. The job of the Holy Spirit is to

reinforce the teachings of Jesus in the Bible, never to

contradict it. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,

but rather reprove them. I think we saw a question

we didn't get to it tonight. How should a Christian

respond to Halloween? Is it just me friends? Or it

seems like Easter is almost over? And then they get

the Halloween stuffs in the stores. It's as a booming

business and all around our neighborhood in California. I know

the kids are going out, they're having fun, and it's

a cultural thing. But I think as a Christian, I

don't feel peace participating in a holiday that you know

can be traced back to Druid priests making offerings to

pagan gods. And if you don't give us a treat.

We're gonna do a trick. It's just something sinister. And

you know people have big skeletons on their lawn and

tombstones and skeleton dogs being walked by skeleton people, and

little kids come dressed up like ghouls and zombies and witches,

and I just, ah, no, I don't slam the door

in their face. When they knock on the door. We

open the door and say here, we got a box

of Regan reasons in a Bible track for you. And

you know there's some churches they just slam the door

and they said, we don't believe in Halloween. I think

you can use it as an opportunity to witness Amen.

Amazing Facts has booklets you you can order for Halloween

to give to the kids. They'll probably frown when you

give it to them, so give them the raisins also.

But maybe some of them will read the little books.

They're very interesting little comics that they can read. So yeah,

I believe. You know, there are some cultural holidays we

can enjoy. I mean, who shouldn't enjoy Thanksgiving? Shouldn't we

all be thankful? But if there's one holiday that I

think Christians should not get excited about it's Halloween. It's

got too many evil trappings connected with it. The works

of the flesh which are evident, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery.

You read about those who are going to be in

the lake of fire? What does it say in Revelation

twenty one? Sorcerers shall have their part in the lake

that burns with fire in brimstone, which is the second death.

I don't know if I haven't seen in Texas, but

we've got him in California. When I was in New

York City. Some of the cities it says astrologer, palm reader, psychic.

Do you have those businesses around? Yeah? And you know

they used to have one. It was, you know, one

eight hundred psychic. You'd called his number and they'd give

you your psychic reading. And I had a friend that

was very curious and little mischievous. He called the number

and they said, okay, can we have your credit card please?

And he said, well, if you're psychic, you tell me

and then I'll know that you can. You can answer

my other questions. Yeah, but there are people that you

know that you know what it is. They're looking for answers.

People want to know what's the future. That's why we

do these prophecies seminars. God can tell you what the

future is in his word. You don't need to go

to a psychic. God tells you the part of the

future we need to know. He can tell you what

your future will be. If you turn your back on God,

and he can tell you what your future will be.

If you follow Will for your life, you can know

the future. You can know that your life is in

good hands. You can know what the future of the

world is as well. Number fifteen. What glorious power does

God offer his people? Answer that I might know Him

and the power of His resurrection. Now, I would rather

not die, but I'm not afraid of dying. It's like

Woody Allen said, I'm not afraid of death. I just

don't want to be there when it happens. I would

rather be among those who are alive when Jesus comes.

Can you say, man, you know there's going to be

two kinds of people when Jesus comes. Moses and Elijah

were with Christ on the mountain. It was a miniature

picture of the Second Coming. Moses died, but he was resurrected.

Elijah was translated, that's the word that we use. Never

really experienced death. He went through this tren information where

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, he

received his glorified, immortal new body. And if I could choose,

I would rather be that group that somehow survives what's

coming in the future. And Jesus said, we will look up.

He said, when you see these signs come to pass,

lift up your heads for your redemption. Draws and eye

says every I will see him coming. There are going

to be saved people that will see Jesus coming that

will escape the pains of death. And they'll say, death,

where is your staying grave?

Where is your victory?

That's what I want to be. I want to be

in that group. Amen, So you all pray for me,

because when it gets tough, I'm kind of visible. You

know that, don't you. So I've got a cave I'm

going to and I'm not telling anyone where it is.

Being confident of this very thing, He that has begun

a good work on you will complete it until the

day of Christ. Jesus. You know, friends, we are talking tonight,

life and death. Death is a serious subject. Usually we

hear people talk about it at a funeral. But you

realize that if Jesus doesn't come, there is a one

hundred per death rate in the world. It should not

frighten a Christian because Christians do not die. They go

to sleep. When the martyr Stephen was being executed, he

looked up to heaven. His face was shining and he said, look,

I see Jesus standing on the right hand of the Father.

He said, Lord, Jesus, receive my spirit, and he went

to sleep. Christians don't die. They go to sleep and

they wake up with a glorified body. So we don't

need to be afraid of death. Friends, Amen, he that

has the Son has life. Have you invited Jesus, the

Son of God, into your heart? You know it's not

as hard as you think. Even if you struggle with

sin and your willingness to say, Lord, make me willing

to be willing, and he will. He wants to save you.

You can be saved. He died. His blood is potent

enough to save the sins of the whole world. He

can cover your sins and give you a new heart.

Would you like that? Loving Lord, help everybody here. Everyone listening,

pray that prayer and say, Lord, we want everlasting life.

We want to have those glorifying bodies with nothing to fear.

Bless these people that they might experience that new life

and the peace that comes from having that gift. We

pray in Jesus' name. Amen, God bless. When is our

next meeting friends? Tomorrow night. Don't miss it. We're going

to be talking about Satan, bound and burned, the one

thousand Years of Revelation twenty. Bring a friend, you will

be blessed. Thank you very much