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Caption transcript for The Dark Prince: “Satan’s Rise and Demise in Genesis” (1/10)

• 00:38 HOW YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING,
• 00:42 YOU SHALL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO HELL TO THE DEPTHS OF THE PIT
• 00:47 AND ALL WHO GAZE UPON YOU WILL WONDER...
• 00:51 "IS THIS THE MAN THAT MADE THE NATIONS TREMBLE?"
• 01:04 HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:06 JEFFREY SEIF HERE AND PLEASED TO WELCOME YOU TO ANOTHER ADDITION OF ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 01:12 WE'RE PRESENTING A SERIES ON THE DEVIL, A TOUGH SERIES AT ONE LEVEL TO BE SURE.
• 01:17 IT'S SUBTITLED "WHEN THE DEVIL HAS HIS DAY" AND IT SEEMS THAT SO MUCH THE CASE THESE DAYS.
• 01:22 PAUL WILBUR IS GOING TO JOIN US TO LIFT UP OUR SPIRITS, HOWEVER, IN PRAISE
• 01:27 AS WE CONSIDER ALL THIS AND MORE.
• 01:29 AND NOW OFF WE GO TO JERUSALEM TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES TO BEGIN OUR JOURNEY INTO GOD'S WORD.
• 01:37 THEY'RE GOING TO THINK HE'S THE SOLUTION
• 01:40 BUT REALLY HE'S THE PROBLEM.
• 01:44 THE RELIGIOUS ARE GOING TO THINK THAT HE'S THE ANSWER TO PRAYERS.
• 01:49 TRUTH BE KNOWN, HOWEVER, AND LITTLE BE KNOWN THAT HE'S THE REASON FOR THE PRAYERS.
• 01:56 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 01:58 IT'S THAT HE WHO COMES AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT IS REALLY THE DREADED PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
• 02:07 AND THIS SERIES LOOKS AT HIS DAYS AND LOOKS AT HIS WAYS.
• 02:16 ISAIAH SPOKE ABOUT HIM IN THE 14TH CHAPTER.
• 02:19 HE SPOKE IN VERSE 12 OF LUCIFER, SON OF THE DAWN, SAYING THERE "HOW YOU HAVE FALLEN".
• 02:29 NEVER MIND HIS DEMISE FOR THE MOMENT OUR STORY BEGINS WITH HIS RISE FIRST
• 02:36 AND LIKE THE SUN HE'S REFERRED TO AS "LUCIFER", A LATIN EPITHET MEANING "LIGHT BEARER".
• 02:46 DARKNESS COVERS THE EARTH, A COLD EARTH
• 02:52 AND THEN THE LIGHT ARISES AND DISPLACES THE PREVAILING DARKNESS
• 02:57 AND THEY GO "AH, HOPE AT LAST".
• 03:01 A WORLD THAT'S STAGGERING, INTOXICATED BY ITS OWN MISERIES,
• 03:07 UNABLE TO LIFT ITSELF AND MOVE ITSELF FORWARD SAYS, "AHA, NOW...."
• 03:13 LITTLE DO THEY KNOW, HOWEVER, THAT NOW IS THE DAY OF DARKNESS.
• 03:20 THIS SERIES SPEAKS TO THESE DREADED DAYS AS WE CONSIDER THE DEVIL AND HIS VARIOUS WAYS.
• 03:28 WE BEGIN IN THE BOOK GENESIS
• 03:34 AND WE CONSIDER HOW THIS EVIL PERSONALITY MADE HIS ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA.
• 03:40 AND WE LOOK AT JOB...WE SEE THIS CONTEST OVER HOW JOB IS GOING TO CARRY HIMSELF.
• 03:48 WILL HE LET HIS CIRCUMSTANCES CAUSE HIM TO CURSE GOD?
• 03:53 THERE'S THIS CONTEST OVER THE MAN'S LIFE WITH THE DEVIL AS THE PRINCIPLE ACTOR.
• 03:59 WE'LL LOOK AT THE PROPHETS...ISAIAH BEING ONE, WHOM WE JUST CONSIDERED...
• 04:05 A SISTER PASSAGE IN EZEKIEL WHERE MORE IS SAID ABOUT THE DEVIL THERE
• 04:10 THAN ELSEWHERE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT STORY IT SEEMS.
• 04:13 ...AND DANIEL, A FAMOUS BOOK THAT TALKS ABOUT THE DARK PRINCE.
• 04:20 OH FRIENDS I LOVE COMING TO YOU FROM HERE IN ISRAEL.
• 04:26 JERUSALEM BEHIND ME IS IN A HAZE MATERIALLY,
• 04:31 BUT THAT PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE HAZE THAT WILL DESCEND UPON THIS CAPITAL CITY
• 04:38 AND THIS WORLD IN THE DAY WHEN THE DEVIL HAS HIS DAY.
• 04:44 THOUGH I'M MORE GIVEN TO WANTING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD...JESUS
• 04:50 ...AND THOUGH I PLAN TO DO JUST THAT,
• 04:54 BEFORE DOING THAT IN THIS SERIES WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO THE DEEP, DARK RECESSES OF THE BIBLICAL STORY
• 05:04 AND CONSIDER THE DARK PRINCE AS WE LOOK AT THE STORY OF WHEN THE DEVIL HAS HIS DAY.
• 05:15 IT WILL BE THE DAWNING OF A NEW AGE FOR THAT'S WHAT HE'LL HAVE THE WORLD BELIEVE.
• 05:20 AND THEY WILL BELIEVE THIS ANGEL OF LIGHT.
• 05:26 (Spokesman) I WILL SAY THAT HE GAVE A VERY CLEAR MESSAGE
• 05:28 AS TO HOW OUR ALLIES CAN OVERCOME THIS SITUATION.
• 05:34 (Reporter) CAN YOU SAY WHEN THIS MIGHT HAPPEN?
• 05:38 THE WAYS OF SATAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN CUNNING ESPECIALLY IN UNSETTLING TIMES.
• 05:42 SO IT WILL BE IN THE END.
• 06:08 THE APOSTLE JOHN WAS KNOWN AS THE DISCIPLE WHOM JESUS LOVED.
• 06:14 THAT FATEFUL EVENING HE LAY CLOSE TO JESUS' BREAST
• 06:20 AND IT WAS ON THAT VERY NIGHT WHEN SOMEONE IN THEIR PARTY LEFT THE TABLE,
• 06:25 BESTED BY THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS AS HE WAS, JOHN SAYS THAT WHEN THE DEVIL ENTERED INTO HIM
• 06:34 OFF HE WENT TO TAKE CARE OF HIS BUSINESS.
• 06:39 AND IN THIS SERIES IT'S OUR JOB TO EXPLORE WHAT BUSINESS THAT IS.
• 06:45 IN JOHN CHAPTER 12, JOHN CALLS THE DEVIL "THE RULER OF THIS WORLD".
• 06:51 LATER ON AS HE WRITES EPISTLES TO CONSTITUENTS
• 06:57 HE SAYS IN CHAPTER 5, VERSE 19 OF FIRST JOHN,
• 07:12 UNPLEASANT AS IT IS ITS OUR JOB IN THIS SERIES TO EXPLORE THE POWER OF THAT WICKED ONE
• 07:22 AND HIS KINGDOM AS WE LOOK AT VARIOUS BIBLICAL PASSAGES
• 07:28 THAT GIVES US INSIGHT INTO THE NETHERWORLD, THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS,
• 07:34 AND CONSIDER THE FORCES THAT ARE DRIVING DEATH, DECAY, DESPAIR AND DISORIENTATION.
• 07:43 PREVIOUSLY IN THIS VERY EPISTLE JOHN WENT ON RECORD SPEAKING OF THE ANTI-CHRIST
• 07:52 AND WHAT HE SAID BACK THEN IS TRUER NOW THAN EVER.
• 07:59 JOHN SAID IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 18,
• 08:19 ON THE ONE HAND THERE IS "THE ANTI-CHRIST", THIS NEFARIOUS, THIS INHERENTLY EVIL PERSON
• 08:31 ...AND NOT JUST THAT...IN ADVANCE OF HIS COMING
• 08:36 HIS MINIONS ARE DISPATCHED FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL THROUGH HISTORY.
• 08:41 JOHN SAYS EVEN AS MANY ANTI-CHRISTS HAVE COME...
• 08:46 EVEN SO ONE IN PARTICULAR WILL ARISE.
• 08:53 FRIENDS, WHAT WAS TRUE THEN IS TRUER NOW AS HISTORY MOVES FORWARD TO THE DAY
• 09:02 WHEN THE FINAL SHOWDOWN OCCURS IN ADVANCE OF WHICH THE WORLD'S GOING TO HEAT UP,
• 09:11 THE KETTLE'S GOING TO BE BURNING AND ITS GOING TO BE FERMENTING INTERNALLY WITH SHAME,
• 09:17 DISCONTENT AND VARIOUS MISERIES SPIRITED ALONG BY THIS PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
• 09:25 OH THEY THINK HIM TO BE GOOD...TRUTH BE KNOWN HE'S BAD.
• 09:32 THEY THINK HIM TO BE SPLENDID...WHEN TRUTH BE KNOWN HE'S DECREPIT,
• 09:39 THE RULER OF THIS WORLD AND IT'S TO HIS STORY THAT WE'LL NOW ATTEND.
• 09:51 SPLENDID IN EXPLOIT BUT VILE IN ASPIRATION, WHO CAN QUESTION PROSPERITY?
• 09:59 WHO DARES VOICE OBJECTION TO PEACE?
• 10:03 HE'S BROUGHT ECONOMIC STABILITY AND NOW TO A WORLD ON THE BRINK OF WAR HE'S BROUGHT RESOLUTION.
• 10:11 THE FALLEN ANGEL HAS BECOME THE PRINCE OF DECEPTION...
• 10:15 TO AN EMPIRE OVER WHICH HE REINS SUPREME.
• 10:32 NONE OF US LIKE TO BE OWNED.
• 10:35 NO MAN WANTS TO BE A SLAVE.
• 10:38 WE WANT TO BE FREE, WE WANT TO BE AUTONOMOUS
• 10:42 BUT THIS EVIL PERSONALITY, THIS DECEIVER GETS THE BETTER OF MEN AND WOMEN
• 10:50 AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW IT.
• 10:54 COMING TO YOU FROM JERUSALEM WITH AN OMINOUS HAZE BEHIND ME
• 11:01 THAT REMINDS ME OF WHAT WILL DESCEND UPON THIS CITY AND THIS WORLD AT SOME POINT IN TIME
• 11:12 OUT THERE IN THE WORLD FROM THIS PLACE.
• 11:17 I WANT TO LOOK AT A BOOK THAT WAS WRITTEN IN MANY RESPECTS TO, FOR AND ABOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS
• 11:25 IN THIS PLACE AND CONSIDER THIS INHERENTLY EVIL PERSON,
• 11:32 THIS DECEIVER REFERRED TO BY JOHN PREVIOUSLY AS THE ANTI-CHRIST,
• 11:40 THIS ONE WHO COMES AND EVER SO STEALTHFULLY GETS THE WORLD IN HIS GRIP.
• 11:51 LONG BEFORE JOHN SPOKE OF THIS ANTI-CHRIST
• 11:58 THE PROPHET DANIEL ENVISIONED
• 12:02 THE EMERGENCE OF THIS EVIL RULER AND THIS WICKED EMPIRE.
• 12:10 HE SPEAKS OF A PERSON WHO BY STEALTH, WHO BY FLATTERY,
• 12:16 WHO THROUGH INTRIGUE GETS THE BETTER OF PEOPLE.
• 12:22 IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN VICTIMIZED BY SOMEONE WHO EVER SO SUBTLY PULLED THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES
• 12:30 THEN YOU'LL UNDERSTAND IN WAYS THAT OTHERS CAN'T,
• 12:34 THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING DUPED AND THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING IN THE CLUTCHES OF SOMEONE
• 12:43 AND HAVING TROUBLE EXTRICATING OURSELVES FROM THAT POWER.
• 12:49 DANIEL SAYS IN CHAPTER 11, IN VERSE 35 AT A PARTICULAR TIME, AN APPOINTED TIME,
• 12:58 WHAT HE REFERS TO IN THE LITERATURE AS THE TIME OF THE END...
• 13:03 HE SAYS THAT A KING WILL DO ACCORDING TO HIS WILL,
• 13:07 THAT HE'LL EXALT AND MAGNIFY HIMSELF ABOVE EVERY GOD...
• 13:13 TRUTH BE KNOWN, THERE'S ONLY ONE....
• 13:16 BUT THIS PERSON JUST HAS THE WORLD IN HIS GRIP,
• 13:20 ALL OF WORLD RELIGION COW TOWS TO HIM AS DO THE SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS ALIKE.
• 13:27 IT CAN BE SAID OF THEM, QUOTE, "HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS".
• 13:35 HE SPEAKS BLASPHEMIES AGAINST GOD....THIS WICKED PERSON WHO DECEIVES, WHO PLUNDERS...
• 13:44 AND HE PROSPERS UNTIL THE WRATH HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.
• 13:50 HIS REIGN GOES OUT EVER SO FAR...THIS FAR...AND NO MORE.
• 13:58 THIS IS BUT THE FIRST OF A TEN PART SERIES WHEN WE CONSIDER THE REIGN OF THE DARK PRINCE.
• 14:07 GO WITH US ON THE JOURNEY AND LEARN ABOUT THIS WICKED PERSON.
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• 16:12 A SERIES,"ISRAEL, THE CHURCH AND THE FUTURE".
• 16:16 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THE SUBJECT THIS IS FOR YOU.
• 16:24 FROM THE DARK SHADOWS OF THE ABYSS HE ENTERS, STEALTH-LIKE
• 16:31 ...WITHIN HIS OWN EVIL MONARCH SURROUNDED BY FORCES OF THE UNDERWORLD
• 16:37 HE EXALTS IN HIS LETHAL MIGHT.
• 16:40 FOR MILLENNIA THIS DARK SINISTER SPIRIT HAS ROAMED FREELY ABOUT THE PLANET
• 16:48 DERANGING, DISTURBING, DEVOURING...COUNTERING GOD'S EVERY MOVE.
• 17:02 AND IT ALL STARTED IN A LUSH UTTERLY PRISTINE PARADISE...THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
• 17:11 AS THE SUN SETS OVER JERUSALEM ONE MORE TIME
• 17:18 AND JUST BEFORE DARKNESS LITERALLY ENGULFS THIS CITY
• 17:23 LET ME SAY LOOKING AT THE BIBLE STORY THAT AT ONE POINT IN TIME THE LIGHT WILL BE DISPLACED
• 17:30 OVER THIS AREA AND DARKNESS WILL INDEED PREVAIL.
• 17:37 WRITING TO THE THESSALONIANS PAUL SPOKE OF THAT DAY WHEN THE DEVIL HAS HIS DAY.
• 17:45 AND HE SAID IN CHAPTER 2, VERSE 3,
• 18:28 AND THEN IN VERSE 5 HE CHIDES THEM A LITTLE, PAUL DOES SAYING,
• 18:39 LET ME JUST PAUSE THERE FOR A MINUTE AND ASK YOU THE QUESTION
• 18:42 "TO WHAT EXTENT ARE PEOPLE TEACHING THESE THINGS?"
• 18:48 PAUL SAYS, "COME ON GUYS WE TALKED ABOUT THIS".
• 18:51 WE LOOKED AT GOD'S STORY AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF HUMAN HISTORY.
• 18:59 THIS IS A STORY NEVER TOLD OR RARELY TOLD,
• 19:02 BUT A STORY THAT'S NOW BEING TOLD THROUGH THIS MINISTRY
• 19:07 NOT JUST COAST TO COAST BUT AROUND THE WORLD AS WE LOOK AT THE BIBLE
• 19:14 AND SEE WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT THE DAY WHEN THE DEVIL HAS HIS DAY,
• 19:20 THIS WICKED PERSON, THIS SON OF PERDITION WHO HAS THE WORLD IN HIS CLUTCHES
• 19:28 BUT WHO AT SOME POINT IN TIME IS FINALLY BESTED BY THE LORD WHEN HE RETURNS WITH HIS SAINTS WITH HIM
• 19:39 AND TAKES THIS PERSON, BINDS HIM, THROWS HIM INTO A PIT FOR A LENGTHY PERIOD OF TIME
• 19:47 TO RELEASE HIM THEN SHORTLY ONLY TO THEN UTTERLY DESTROY HIM
• 19:55 AND THEN BRING ABOUT WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS A NEW HEAVEN, A NEW EARTH
• 20:01 AND FELICITY IN CREATION FINALLY.
• 20:07 OUR STORY BEGINS IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS IN GAN-EDEN
• 20:12 AND IN THE NEXT PROGRAM WE'RE GOING TO GO THERE AND SEE WHEN SATAN VITIATED HUMANITY
• 20:21 WHEN HE DEFILED THE SPECIES.
• 20:24 AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH THE BIBLICAL DRAMA
• 20:29 AND CONSIDER VARIOUS WAYS WHEN THIS PERSON IS TALKED ABOUT
• 20:33 AND HOW WE LEARN HOW TO GET THE BETTER OF THE INHERENTLY EVIL PERSON
• 20:38 UNTIL SUCH TIME AS LORD HIMSELF RETURNS
• 20:43 AND WITH HIS SO DOING BRINGS ABOUT THE TRIUMPHANT KINGDOM.
• 20:48 AND NOW IN PROCLAMATION OF OUR LORD'S TRIUMPHANT KINGDOM HERE'S PAUL WILBUR IN SONG.
• 20:57 (Paul) HALLELUJAH!
• 20:58 ♪LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM♪
• 21:02 ♪OF ISAAC AND ISRAEL♪
• 21:07 ♪COME PURIFY US WITH YOUR HOLY FIRE♪
• 21:13 ♪YOU ARE GOD♪
• 21:15 ♪YOU ARE THE HOLY ONE,♪
• 21:19 ♪HIGHLY EXALTED ONE♪
• 21:23 ♪AND WE SURRENDER TO YOUR SOVEREIGN WILL♪
• 21:31 ♪OH, LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM♪
• 21:37 ♪FOR THE LORD, HE IS GOD♪
• 21:41 ♪FOR THE LORD, HE IS OUR GOD♪
• 21:46 ♪AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVERMORE EVERMORE...♪
• 21:54 ♪YOU ARE THE HOLY ONE,♪
• 21:58 ♪HIGHLY EXALTED ONE♪
• 22:03 ♪WE'VE COME TO WORSHIP AT YOUR HOLY HILL♪
• 22:12 ♪YOU ARE THE HOLY ONE,♪
• 22:16 ♪HIGHLY EXALTED ONE♪
• 22:21 ♪AND WE SURRENDER TO YOUR SOVEREIGN WILL♪
• 22:27 ♪OH, LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM♪
• 22:43 (PEOPLE CLAPPING)
• 22:44 TRUMPET SOUNDING
• 22:48 (Paul) HALLELUJAH!
• 22:53 WELL YOU'VE SEEN HIM IN ISRAEL AND HEARD HIM IN ISRAEL
• 22:56 AND NOW IN OUR STUDIO,
• 22:58 PAUL WILBUR I LOVE HAVING YOU HERE BUDDY.
• 23:00 THANK YOU,
• 23:01 IT'S GREAT TO BE WITH YOU JEFF.
• 23:02 WE'RE OLD FRIENDS.
• 23:03 LONG TIME AND NOW IT CONTINUES.
• 23:05 ISN'T THAT AMAZING?
• 23:06 YEAH, I HOPE MY WIFE IS WATCHING THIS
• 23:08 CAUSE SHE SAID I COULDN'T HAVE A FRIEND
• 23:09 FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME EXCEPT HER.
• 23:11 AND WE'RE BREAKING THAT CURSE.
• 23:12 THAT'S RIGHT, SO PATTY I HOPE YOU'RE WATCHING BABE!
• 23:15 NOW LISTEN, JOKING ASIDE
• 23:17 YOU'RE JUST ALL ABOUT PRAISE AND WORSHIP AREN'T YA?
• 23:20 YEAH IT GOES WAY BACK TO INDIANA UNIVERSITY WHERE I MET OUR MESSIAH.
• 23:26 I WAS WORKING ON A MASTERS DEGREE, I HAD DONE BACHELORS,
• 23:28 I'D BEEN TO EUROPE, STUDIED PRIVATELY...I REALLY WANTED TO BE A CANTOR.
• 23:33 WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN THE TEMPLE MY VOICE TEACHER WAS THE CANTOR AT THE TEMPLE,
• 23:37 DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND AND THAT'S THE TRACK I WAS ON.
• 23:40 WHEN I WENT TO INDIANA UNIVERSITY TO FURTHER THAT AND GET A MASTERS DEGREE
• 23:45 I WAS INTERRUPTED BY THE MESSIAH OF OUR PEOPLE
• 23:48 AND ITS BEEN AN AMAZING JOURNEY EVER SINCE.
• 23:51 AND THE LORD SAID YOU "CAN'T". (LAUGHING) >>EXACTLY!
• 23:53 PEOPLE MIGHT NOT KNOW A CANTOR IS A MUSIC MINISTER IN A JEWISH CONGREGATION.
• 23:56 EXACTLY...A WORSHIP LEADER IN A TEMPLE.
• 23:58 I'M SURE THAT YOU CAN EXPLAIN IT BETTER THAN ME.
• 24:00 WELL, MAYBE. I HOPE.
• 24:02 YOU CAN EXPLAIN A LOT OF THINGS
• 24:03 AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.
• 24:05 YOU KNOW OUR PREDECESSOR, ZOLA,
• 24:07 GRADUATED FROM INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC.
• 24:10 HE WAS A MUSICIAN AND A THEOLOGIAN.
• 24:12 HERE I'M SOMETHING OF A THEOLOGIAN
• 24:14 YOU'RE SOMETHING OF A MUSICIAN
• 24:15 ...BATMAN AND ROBIN
• 24:16 ...WE'RE GOIN AFTER IT!
• 24:17 NOW YOU'RE GONNA HEAR FROM ZOLA LEVITT.
• 24:20 HE'S GOING TO BE TEACHING THROUGHOUT THIS SERIES ON PROPHECY.
• 24:24 THE LATE ZOLA LEVITT BRINGS YOU INTO GOD'S TIMELESS WORD,
• 24:27 SPEAKING A FRESH WORD THAT SPEAKS SO MUCH TO TODAY.
• 24:32 WHEN WE HEAR A SERMON ON PROPHECY WHICH ISN'T VERY OFTEN
• 24:35 AFTER ALL THE CHURCHES HAS ABOUT DROPPED THE SUBJECT,
• 24:38 LIKEWISE THE SEMINARIES.
• 24:39 I DON'T KNOW WHY EXACTLY...IT'S THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY.
• 24:42 BUT STILL WHEN WE DO SO STUDY SOME PROPHECY WE TYPICALLY STUDY THE TRIBULATION PERIOD,
• 24:48 THE ANTI-CHRIST, ARMAGEDDON, STUFF THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE UNBELIEVER.
• 24:52 WELL, THE TRUTH IS THE BIBLE DETAILS THESE THINGS CAREFULLY AS A WITNESS.
• 24:57 IF ONLY TO WAKE PEOPLE UP IT TELLS YOU THAT THE FUTURE WITHOUT THE MESSIAH IS VERY BLEAK,
• 25:04 THAT THERE'S TROUBLE COMING.
• 25:06 IT'S A LITTLE LIKE NOAH...YOU KNOW THE LORD COMPARED HIS SECOND COMING...
• 25:10 HE TALKED ABUT THE WORLD AS BEING LIKE IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.
• 25:13 WELL THE DAYS OF NOAH...I MEAN HERE HE WAS BUILDING A BIG SHIP
• 25:16 AND OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE CAME BY BUT THEY LAUGHED AT HIM.
• 25:19 THE BIBLE, HOWEVER, CALLS PEOPLE'S ATTENTION TO A DIRE FUTURE IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE
• 25:24 IN ORDER TO GET YOU TO CONSIDER IT, IN ORDER TO GET YOU TO BELIEVE.
• 25:28 BUT ONCE WE ARE SAVED IT'S A DIFFERENT MATTER.
• 25:32 NOW WE LOOK FORWARD TO A VERY HAPPY FUTURE.
• 25:36 IT'S A SCARY WORLD IN SO MANY WAYS.
• 25:39 HOW ABOUT YOU PAUL,
• 25:40 IS YOUR INNER MOOD
• 25:42 STRESSED OUT BECAUSE OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN?
• 25:45 NO JEFF ITS NOT
• 25:46 AND ONE REASON IS BECAUSE GOD INHABITS THE PRAISES OF HIS PEOPLE.
• 25:52 KING DAVID, THE SINGING PROPHET,
• 25:53 WROTE ABOUT THAT IN PSALM 22, VERSE 3.
• 25:56 AND PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST SONGS THAT I'VE EVER RECORDED, BEST KNOWN,
• 26:02 IS "DAYS OF ELIJAH"
• 26:03 AND CERTAINLY THESE ARE THE DAYS OF ELIJAH.
• 26:06 WHEN WE READ IN MALACHI, CHAPTER 4,
• 26:09 IT STARTS DARK,
• 26:11 IT TALKS ABOUT DESTRUCTION,
• 26:12 BUT THEN THERE'S THIS WONDERFUL VERSE
• 26:14 RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT SMALL CHAPTER AND IT SAYS,
• 26:18 "BUT FOR YOU WHO HONOR MY NAME".
• 26:20 THERE'S DESTRUCTION ALL AROUND
• 26:22 BUT THE LORD SAYS,
• 26:29 THESE ARE TOUGH TIMES
• 26:31 BUT THERE IS A SON OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
• 26:33 THAT'S SUCH A GOOD WORD TOO
• 26:35 BECAUSE WE ARE SO BOMBARDED WITH FEAR AND DOUBT AND DESPAIR.
• 26:38 WE DO WELL TO BE REMINDED THERE'S A GOOD GOD
• 26:40 AND HE INHABITS THE PRAISES OF HIS PEOPLE.
• 26:43 ABSOLUTELY,
• 26:44 THIS GOD WHO INHABITS THE PRAISES OF HIS PEOPLE
• 26:47 CHANGES THE VERY ATMOSPHERE AROUND US
• 26:50 AND OUR CIRCUMSTANCES AS WE PRAISE HIM.
• 26:53 YES HE DOES
• 26:54 AND I HOPE YOUR ATMOSPHERE HAS BEEN CHANGED.
• 26:56 THANK YOU FOR JOING US ON THIS PROGRAM.
• 26:58 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 27:01 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.