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Red horns, pitchfork,
pointy tail...
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the stereotype of the
Devil as some sort of
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cartoonish figure has little
to do with the reality.
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Satan the Devil is a
powerful spirit being
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of immense influence in
the world around us.
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Not just a "symbol" of
evil or a mere abstract
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representation of sin or
temptation, Satan is a real,
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living, personal entity devoted to resisting the plan
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of God, corrupting the true faith, and destroying humanity.
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Yet, for all people know or think they know about the Devil,
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one question inevitably
arises, and today--
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we'll answer
that question.
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Join us for this episode
of Tomorrow's World
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where we ask and
answer the question:
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"Where Did Satan Come From?"
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♪
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Welcome to Tomorrow's World, where we help you make sense
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of your world through
the pages of the Bible.
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Today, we're going to
answer the question
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of where Satan the
Devil came from.
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And we won't be guessing
or speculating--
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we'll dive right into God's
word to see His answer...
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which, in reality, is the
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Now before we answer our
question today, we should
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perhaps first address
a larger question:
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Is Satan the Devil real?
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Increasingly, people say "No."
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In July of 2023, The Hill
reported on a Gallup poll
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asking Americans if they
believed in certain ideas or
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beings rooted in religion,
such as God or angels.
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Results showed that
belief in these ideas
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has diminished in the
United States relatively
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consistently for more
than 20 years, reaching
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a record low in all
categories in 2023.
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And belief in the Devil was lowest of all--at only 58%.
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More than four out of
every ten Americans
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believe Satan the
Devil is not real.
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And I guarantee you, the
Devil prefers it that way...
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It is far easier for him to influence society on every
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level--entertainment, education, government policy, science, and
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religion--if we think he does not exist in the first place.
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How can we know if
the Devil is real?
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By turning to God's word.
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Because if anyone knows
whether Satan is real or not,
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it is the God of the Bible, the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
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In fact, if the Devil is a
created being--and he is, as
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we'll see in a few moments--
then God created him.
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Or, at least, created
what became him.
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So, let's turn to Scripture,
the divinely revealed mind
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of God in print, and see what
He has inspired in its pages
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that can teach us about the
very real Satan the Devil.
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As we consistently tell you
here on Tomorrow's World,
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don't just believe us--
believe your Bible.
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And that Bible is filled with
warnings about the Devil...
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warnings that, frankly,
few people believe--
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including, believe it
or not, most who consider
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themselves "Christians."
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Let's read some
of those warnings.
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In the book of Revelation,
chapter 12 and verse 9,
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the Apostle John speaks of
a war to come in heaven and
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describes Satan in a manner
that we must understand:
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"So the great dragon was cast
out, that serpent of old,
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called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he
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was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
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Now we learn several
things from this.
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For instance, there are
fallen angels who choose
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to follow Satan.
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We'll discuss them
later in our program.
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But we also learn that
Satan the Devil has
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deceived the whole world.
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My friends, do you believe
what the Bible says,
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or don't you?
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If you do, then you must
accept that when God
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inspires His word to say that
the Devil has deceived
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"the whole world,"
it means just that.
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That means most of the
people around us--
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including the one looking
back at us in the mirror.
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Now, it's easy to conclude,
"Well no, that couldn't be me.
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I believe in Jesus,
I'm a Christian."
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Well, that might be fine
if the Devil always came
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across demonically,
but he doesn't.
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Frankly, he is quite
focused on imitating
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Jesus Christ and convincing
those who are following
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him that they're
following Jesus.
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Look at the Apostle Paul's
words in 2 Corinthians 11,
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where he explains how the
devil, not Jesus Christ,
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is behind many so-called
"Christian" ministries.
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He says there plainly:
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"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
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transforming themselves
into apostles of Christ.
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And no wonder!
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For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light."
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No, not a red cape, "bad guy"
mustache, and a pitchfork.
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Rather, an "angel of
light", he is the master
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of lies and deception.
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Read this description of
him in John 8:44, where
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Jesus is addressing the religious leaders of His
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day and condemning them:
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"You are of your father
the devil, and the
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desires of your father
you want to do.
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He was a murderer from the
beginning, and does not
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stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
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When he speaks a lie,
he speaks from his own
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resources, for he is a liar
and the father of it."
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The Devil truly has
deceived the entire world.
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In 2 Corinthians 4:4, the
Apostle Paul calls him
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"the god of this age," and three
times in the book of John,
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no less an authority
than Jesus Christ
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calls Satan "the ruler
of this world."
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Does that shock you?
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Luke 4:6 makes this
explicit during the
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temptation of Jesus.
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During that trial, the
Devil offers Christ all
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the kingdoms of the world if only Jesus would worship him.
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Yet, Jesus never disputes
with the Devil about that,
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or tells him he has no
authority to do that.
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Quite the contrary.
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How did Satan come to possess such authority in the world?
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Why would God allow that?
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Answers to those questions
are rooted in our central
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question today: Where
did Satan come from?
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And we'll begin answering that question in our next segment.
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Welcome back.
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The first smaller question
we should address as we
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answer the overall question, "Where did Satan come from?"
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is whether Satan
was created or not.
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Some philosophies or religions
like Zoroastrianism claim
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good and evil as eternally co-existing and some claim
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that God and the Devil must somehow exist forever together,
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as eternal representatives
of those two forces.
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The Bible, on the other hand, reveals that to be nonsense.
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God is the Creator, and
all that exists--in both
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the spirit and the physical realm--came into existence
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because it was created by
God--the two persons we
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now call God the Father
and Jesus Christ.
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In fact, Ephesians 3:9 tells
us that God the Father
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created all things
through Jesus Christ.
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And God created the
angels, as well.
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In Psalm 104, in which
King David praises God
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for the many beautiful
aspects of His creation,
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the warrior poet writes
in verse 4, God
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"makes His angels spirits, His
ministers a flame of fire."
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In fact, the Bible speaks
of a very specific angel's
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creation in Ezekiel 28.
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There, God is inspiring
the prophet to preach
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against the leader of
Tyre--but, as the words
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make plain in a number
of ways, the focus shifts
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from the human leading the
nation to the spiritual
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power behind the throne,
as if the human is only
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a prince, while the angelic
power is the real king.
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Let's read, beginning
in verse 12:
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"Son of man, take up a
lamentation for the king
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of Tyre, and say to him,
"Thus says the Lord God:
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'You were the seal of
perfection, Full of wisdom
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and perfect in beauty.
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You were in Eden,
the garden of God;
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Every precious stone
was your covering:
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The sardius, topaz, and
diamond, beryl, onyx, and
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jasper, sapphire, turquoise,
and emerald with gold.
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The workmanship of your
timbrels and pipes was
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prepared for you on the
day you were created.
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You were the anointed
cherub who covers;
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I established you; you were
on the holy mountain of God;
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you walked back and forth in
the midst of fiery stones.
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You were perfect in your
ways from the day you were
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created, till iniquity
was found in you.'"
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Isaiah 14:12 names this
being "Lucifer," and he
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is the fallen angel that
became Satan the Devil.
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But notice in this passage
that he was clearly
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a remarkable creation.
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Clearly, God created him
wise, beautiful, skilled,
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and perfect in his ways.
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But a time came when iniquity, or sin, was found in him.
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The nature of that sin is
addressed in more detail
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in Isaiah 14, but first,
let's take some time
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with this one here in
Ezekiel--because it
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answers some important
questions that many people
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ask about God
and the Devil.
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For instance, some ask,
"If the Devil is so evil,
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why did God make him
in the first place?
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Why would God make
an evil angel?"
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And we see here in Ezekiel
that God did no such thing.
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God didn't create the
devil as some sort of evil
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enemy of all that is good.
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He created him wonderful,
glorious, and good.
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Look again: Ezekiel writes
that before iniquity was
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found in him, Lucifer was
"the seal of perfection,
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Full of wisdom and
perfect in beauty."
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He was even "the anointed
cherub who covers" God's
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throne, and he was "perfect
in [his] ways from the
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day [he] was created."
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God did not create an
embodiment of evil--
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He created something
good and beautiful.
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Any claims that God
would make someone
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inherently evil by design
misunderstand the Bible.
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In Revelation 15 and verse 3,
at the end of this age,
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we read a song sung by the resurrected and glorified
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saints, and they say something important about God:
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"They sing the song of
Moses, the servant of God,
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and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and
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marvelous are Your works,
Lord God Almighty!
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Just and true are Your
ways, O King of the saints!"
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Yes, great and marvelous
are His works, and just
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and true are His ways.
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He did not create
an evil Satan.
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Lucifer was created
beautiful and with the
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potential for good things.
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In fact, doesn't the Bible
say the same about us?
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In Ephesians 2:10, God says
there to you and me,
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"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
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for good works, which God
prepared beforehand that
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we should walk in them."
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Yes, you and I, too, are
created for good works.
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Yet human history--and,
if we're honest, even
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the record of our own lives-- reveals that being created
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with the potential for good works and actually choosing
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to do those good works are
two very different things.
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Lucifer may have been
created with the potential
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for great good, but, as the
passage in Ezekiel noted,
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eventually "iniquity
was found in [him]."
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What sin was found in Lucifer that could bring him so low?
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What was able to cause a beautiful, perfect being of
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such wisdom and majesty--as this angelic being was--to become
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the bitter, demonic Satan the Devil, utterly corrupt and
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wholeheartedly intent on destroying, if he could,
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the plan of God and
the people of God?
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We will see that the fall
of Lucifer is a warning
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for us all, because his
path can very easily
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become our own, as one
single dangerous attitude
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finds a home in his mind.
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We will examine that
attitude and his fall
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in our next segment.
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But first, let's take a
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dangerous attitude
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that transformed
Lucifer into Satan.
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When the Bible first
introduces the Devil,
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he is the serpent of
Genesis 3, who tempts
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our first parents to sin
in the Garden of Eden.
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That is, even in
the Garden of Eden,
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he's already the villain.
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Yet, we also read that he
was not always that way,
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and that, eventually,
iniquity was found in him.
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We read that he was good, perfect, and beautiful.
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So what transformed him?
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Well if it can be summarized
in one, single word, that
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word would be "pride."
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In the first century, the Apostle Paul advised Timothy
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about appointing men to authority in the Church,
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telling him to choose
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"not a novice, lest being
puffed up with pride he fall
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into the same condemnation
as the devil".
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Yes, even the greatest of
angels can be subject to pride.
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This is explained in
Ezekiel 28 and verse 17,
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where, speaking to
the Devil, God says,
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"Your heart was lifted up
because of your beauty;
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you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor...."
17:06.158 --> 17:09.428
Today's free DVD, "The Occult
and the Spirit World"
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goes into much more
detail concerning angels
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and demons, but for now,
I will refer you to that
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DVD for more details and
simply point out that
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God created the angels
as free moral agents.
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Like human beings, they
can choose right or
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wrong for themselves.
17:26.512 --> 17:29.248
In fact, the Scriptures
tell of angels who defied
17:29.314 --> 17:33.218
God and abandoned the
assignment God gave them.
17:33.285 --> 17:38.056
One place we read of that is
in Jude 6, there we read:
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"And the angels who did not
keep their proper domain,
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but left their own abode, He
has reserved in everlasting
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chains under darkness for the
judgment of the great day."
17:50.702 --> 17:53.639
Now we learn more about
this "proper domain"
17:53.705 --> 17:56.408
in another passage that
we'll read in a moment.
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But first, notice that
the Apostle Peter refers
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to these angels
in 2 Peter 2:4:
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"...God did not spare the
angels who sinned, but
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cast them down to hell [or,
in the Greek, Tartarus,
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a place of restraint] and delivered them into
18:14.860 --> 18:18.664
chains of darkness, to be
reserved for judgment...."
18:18.730 --> 18:21.633
In Lucifer's case, his
pride led him to be
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discontent with his assigned
place and to stage a
18:26.004 --> 18:29.775
rebellion against God
and Heaven itself.
18:29.842 --> 18:34.379
We read of that rebellion
in Isaiah 14, beginning
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in verse 12.
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"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
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How you are cut down to
the ground, you who
18:44.056 --> 18:45.591
weakened the nations!
18:45.657 --> 18:49.161
For you have said in your
heart: "I will ascend into
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heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
18:53.398 --> 18:56.902
I will also sit on the mount
of the congregation on the
18:56.969 --> 19:00.272
farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the
19:00.339 --> 19:04.676
heights of the clouds, I will
be like the Most High."
19:04.743 --> 19:08.046
Yet you shall be brought
down to Sheol, to the
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lowest depths of the Pit."
19:10.716 --> 19:13.385
Notice, too, a glimpse
of the "proper domain"
19:13.452 --> 19:15.454
to which Jude referred.
19:15.521 --> 19:18.323
When Lucifer decided to
attack God's throne,
19:18.390 --> 19:20.192
where was he at the time?
19:20.259 --> 19:22.794
Read verse 13 carefully:
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"For you have said in
your heart, 'I will
19:25.430 --> 19:28.066
ascend into heaven..."
19:28.133 --> 19:29.601
And in verse 14,
19:29.668 --> 19:33.972
"I will ascend above the
heights of the clouds...."
19:34.039 --> 19:37.209
Now if you ascend above
the clouds to leave your
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responsibility, then that responsibility is below them,
19:41.880 --> 19:43.749
here on earth.
19:43.815 --> 19:48.153
Before human beings,
this world was Lucifer's.
19:48.220 --> 19:51.790
That explains why he told
Jesus Christ in Luke 4:6
19:51.857 --> 19:55.294
that earth's kingdoms were
given to him by God.
19:55.360 --> 19:59.264
This was his assigned area
of responsibility, and it is
19:59.331 --> 20:04.136
the Devil whom Jesus will
replace when He returns.
20:04.202 --> 20:07.072
Lucifer's rebellion was
devastating to the earth
20:07.139 --> 20:10.409
before the recreation
week of Genesis 1 and 2,
20:10.475 --> 20:14.913
leaving it in ruins--
"without form and void."
20:14.980 --> 20:17.616
He was no longer Lucifer,
the light bringer,
20:17.683 --> 20:20.652
but Satan,
the Adversary.
20:20.719 --> 20:24.323
So, that is where
the Satan came from.
20:24.389 --> 20:29.127
But more important than the Devil's past is his future.
20:29.194 --> 20:32.164
What is his future, and the future of his influence
20:32.230 --> 20:34.600
on this planet?
20:34.666 --> 20:37.135
We'll answer that
in our last segment.
20:37.202 --> 20:40.305
But first, let me take one
more short break to recommend
20:40.372 --> 20:44.409
today's free DVD, "The Occult and the Spirit World."
20:44.476 --> 20:48.313
This DVD contains three full Tomorrow's World programs
20:48.380 --> 20:50.549
on this mysterious topic:
20:50.616 --> 20:54.820
Modern Dangers of the Occult, The World of Angels and Demons,
20:54.886 --> 20:57.389
and, How to Overcome Satan.
20:57.456 --> 21:00.626
Between Hollywood and the fantasies of fiction, there
21:00.692 --> 21:03.595
is a lot of misinformation
out there about the spirit
21:03.662 --> 21:07.065
realm--and yet, that
realm is very real.
21:07.132 --> 21:10.802
God's word gives you the truth about this hidden dimension and
21:10.869 --> 21:14.272
its influence on your life and the lives of those you love.
21:14.339 --> 21:18.744
And this DVD will make the truth of God's word open to you.
21:18.810 --> 21:21.747
As always, it is
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Welcome back.
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We've examined the origins
of Satan and seen in the
22:38.990 --> 22:41.860
pages of Scripture his
rebellion against God--
22:41.927 --> 22:45.397
a rebellion that Revelation
12 verses 3 and 4 suggest
22:45.464 --> 22:49.768
may have swayed one-third
of the angelic host.
22:49.835 --> 22:52.771
Now he, and the fallen
angels he corrupted,
22:52.838 --> 22:56.541
are what we know as demons
and evil spirits.
22:56.608 --> 22:59.144
We've also noted that
the earth was given
22:59.211 --> 23:01.847
to him as a region
of responsibility.
23:01.913 --> 23:05.851
This explains why Jesus
did not disagree with him
23:05.917 --> 23:08.754
when the Devil said that
authority and kingdoms
23:08.820 --> 23:11.957
of this world "[had] been delivered to [him],"
23:12.023 --> 23:15.861
why Jesus calls him three
times in the book of John
23:15.927 --> 23:19.731
the "ruler of this world,"
and why Paul calls him
23:19.798 --> 23:23.902
"the god of this age," as we noted earlier in the program.
23:23.969 --> 23:27.105
So, does that mean God
has given up the earth
23:27.172 --> 23:29.141
to the Devil forever?
23:29.207 --> 23:31.143
Not at all.
23:31.209 --> 23:36.481
In fact, in 1 John 3:8,
the Apostle writes of a
23:36.548 --> 23:40.385
very important purpose
for Jesus' coming:
23:40.452 --> 23:44.322
"For this purpose the Son
of God was manifested,
23:44.389 --> 23:48.293
that He might destroy the
works of the devil."
23:48.360 --> 23:52.330
By living in the hearts of
converted, Spirit-begotten
23:52.397 --> 23:55.600
Christians, and living His
life of obedience to God's
23:55.667 --> 24:00.705
laws again, in and through
them, Jesus has already
24:00.772 --> 24:03.041
begun doing just that.
24:03.108 --> 24:05.944
And when He returns, the
glorified Christ takes one
24:06.011 --> 24:11.116
giant step toward freeing
all of mankind from
24:11.183 --> 24:12.784
the Devil's influence.
24:12.851 --> 24:16.288
We read of that step
in Revelation 20:
24:16.354 --> 24:19.424
"Then I saw an angel
coming down from heaven,
24:19.491 --> 24:22.294
having the key to the
bottomless pit and a great
24:22.360 --> 24:24.029
chain in his hand.
24:24.095 --> 24:27.699
He laid hold of the dragon,
that serpent of old, who is
24:27.766 --> 24:32.204
the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
24:32.270 --> 24:35.140
and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut
24:35.207 --> 24:39.277
him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive
24:39.344 --> 24:43.248
the nations no more till the thousand years were finished.
24:43.315 --> 24:47.886
But after these things he must be released for a little while."
24:47.953 --> 24:51.122
During these 1,000 years,
the world will be turned
24:51.189 --> 24:52.757
into a paradise.
24:52.824 --> 24:55.293
As Isaiah describes
this marvelous time,
24:55.360 --> 24:59.998
"They shall not hurt nor destroy
in all My holy mountain,
25:00.065 --> 25:02.834
for the earth shall be
full of the knowledge
25:02.901 --> 25:06.304
of the LORD as the
waters cover the sea."
25:06.371 --> 25:09.241
Though, as Revelation 20
says, he must be released
25:09.307 --> 25:11.610
for a short time at the
Millennium's end,
25:11.676 --> 25:14.613
his ultimate fate is
the Lake of Fire,
25:14.679 --> 25:18.583
never to influence another
individual ever again.
25:18.650 --> 25:23.855
God will ultimately solve the
problem of Satan the Devil.
25:23.922 --> 25:26.358
But we don't have
to wait 1,000 years.
25:26.424 --> 25:28.326
We don't even have
to wait a day.
25:28.393 --> 25:31.296
We can begin the process
right now of experiencing
25:31.363 --> 25:35.100
the work of Jesus Christ
as He destroys the works
25:35.166 --> 25:38.603
of the Devil in our own
lives--agreeing to seek
25:38.670 --> 25:42.874
God's laws and ways in all things, obeying His commands,
25:42.941 --> 25:46.411
and asking God the Father
and Jesus Christ for
25:46.478 --> 25:49.948
the help we need to be
more like Them...
25:50.015 --> 25:53.518
Asking them for the strength
to embrace uncomfortable
25:53.585 --> 25:57.222
truths--about ourselves,
our beliefs and practices,
25:57.289 --> 26:00.592
and our faith--rather than allowing ourselves the
26:00.659 --> 26:03.461
luxury of comfortable lies.
26:03.528 --> 26:06.498
For those who seek God's
help, with all their heart,
26:06.564 --> 26:09.968
in turning away from their
sin and disobedience
26:10.035 --> 26:14.105
to God's laws, and turning
to obedience, submission to
26:14.172 --> 26:16.574
the will and authority of
God and Jesus Christ over
26:16.641 --> 26:20.412
their lives, rest assured
that the ears of God are
26:20.478 --> 26:22.314
open to such requests.
26:22.380 --> 26:25.450
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