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Our world today is not the
world God wants it to be.
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One of the reasons, which
will surprise many, is
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that our planet, its governments, and
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its peoples are all living
under the weight of
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Satan's rule.
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From the beginning of mankind's existence to today,
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human history is the written record of what it means
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to live under the rule
of the devil.
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Yet that rule is coming
to an end.
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And what a difference
that will make.
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Join us here on Tomorrow's
World as we dive into
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God's word and see the coming end of Satan's rule.
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Welcome to Tomorrow's World, where we help you make
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sense of your world through the pages of the Bible.
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Have you ever heard the old Protestant hymn,
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"This Is My Father's World"?
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Its poetic praise of the
created, natural world
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around us is beautiful.
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Yet, when we look more broadly, it seems very apparent that
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this world is not our
Father's world.
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It is filled with suffering, misery, conflict,
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and heartache...
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surely not His desire for
this beautiful place He
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created--or for the people He fashioned in His own image.
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That's because the world around us, in a very real way,
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is under the authority and control of Satan the Devil.
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That might be hard to believe.
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Maybe you've never
heard it before.
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But I assure you, based on God's own word, it is true.
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Today, we'll discuss the consequences of Satan's rule,
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and how dramatically all will change when that rule ends.
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realm and to understand the impact it has on the world
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around us--as well as how
to resist its influence.
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Again, it might seem odd to say that Satan rules the world--
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maybe even a
little over dramatic.
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But we don't want you to just take our word for it.
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Don't just believe us--
believe your Bible.
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In fact, in this case, you can take Jesus' word for it.
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In John 14:30 we read something Jesus said to His disciples as
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His crucifixion was
drawing near...
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"I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this
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world is coming, and he has nothing in Me."
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That "ruler of this world"
Jesus talked about was
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Satan the Devil--and
He calls Him this in
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two additional passages:
John 12:31 and John 16:11.
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Now, you might wonder about how that meshes with other
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statements in the Bible.
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For instance, in Matthew 28:18, we read Jesus' comment,
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after His resurrection, that...
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"All authority has been given
to Me in heaven and on earth."
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We see the answer to this
question reflected in
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the temptation of Jesus Christ, early in His ministry.
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At that time, three and a half years before His crucifixion,
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Jesus had been fasting, 40 days and 40 nights, drawing near
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to His Father before launching His ministry.
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At that time, Satan appeared to the Son of God and tempted Him--
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and among the devil's temptations was an offer
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of power.
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We read about it in Luke 4, starting in verse 5...
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"Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him
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all the kingdoms of the world
in a moment of time.
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And the devil said to Him,
"All this authority I
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will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered
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to me, and I give it to
whomever I wish.
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Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours."
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And Jesus answered and said to him, "Get behind Me, Satan!
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For it is written, 'You
shall worship the Lord
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your God, and him only
you shall serve.'"
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Now of course, Jesus did not take the bait--if He had,
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He wouldn't be our Savior.
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But notice what Jesus
didn't say...
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He didn't say Satan was lying about having that authority.
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He didn't say the kingdoms of the world had not been
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delivered to the Devil.
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In fact, the kingdoms of the world have been given to
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Satan--again, as Jesus said:
the Devil is the
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"ruler of this world."
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And why?
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Because rulership of the nations had been given to Satan--as he
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says to Jesus in the passage:..
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"All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for
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this has been delivered
to me..."
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Yes, God reigns supreme in
all things, but--for this time,
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in this age--He has given
Satan a certain amount of
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authority and freedom to act.
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That's why, even after Jesus' resurrection, the Apostle
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Paul still refers to Satan as "the god of this age."
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Now, you might think--why in the world would God do that?
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But the short story is that Satan wasn't always Satan.
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He was once Lucifer, an angel
of God given responsibility
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over the world.
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His fall from light to darkness is described in Scripture--and
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explained in today's DVD.
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In fact, before we go further, let me give you an opportunity
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Demons," and "How to
Overcome Satan."
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The spirit world is very
real, and you need to
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understand it--not based
on traditions and
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fantasies of men, but on the eternal truth revealed by
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the only source of knowledge
you can trust:
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the character of its ruler, Satan the Devil.
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Welcome back.
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In our last segment, we saw
that the Bible's own testimony
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is that the "ruler of this world" or the "god of this age"
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is Satan the Devil.
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As explained in detail
in today's free DVD,
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responsibility for the world
had been given to him when
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he was the archangel Lucifer, before his sin and descent
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into darkness.
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However, mankind had an
opportunity to replace him--
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to take the reins of the
world and bring it back
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into line with the will
and desire of God.
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But if you've read Genesis 1 through 3, then you
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know the story.
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Given the choice between following Satan's lead
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or God's--between disobeying
their Creator and deciding
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right and wrong for themselves, or obeying their Creator
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and choosing His guidance over their own desires--they chose
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to follow Satan's lead.
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And, frankly, each of us,
at various times in our
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own lives, have made the exact same choice as Adam and Eve.
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Romans 3:23 is plain...
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"all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God."
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So, Satan remains, as
Christ called him, the
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"ruler of this world."
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And what have been the
results of following
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the Devil's lead?
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We've had thousands of
years--generation after
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generation after generation--
to figure out how to build
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the world while deciding right and wrong for ourselves instead
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of obeying our Creator.
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What have we achieved
in all this time?
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What does a world under the rule of the Devil look like?
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Consider these four facts.
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First, our world is filled
with confusion.
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Humanity has thousands
upon thousands of
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different religions, philosophies, worldviews,
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ideologies, and
belief systems.
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Right and wrong differ from culture to culture--even
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family to family and
person to person.
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In fact, many today believe there is no "right" or
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"wrong"--that life is a matter of what you can get away with,
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so long as no one catches you.
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In some of our most scientifically advanced
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societies, the most
astonishing ignorance is
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on the rise, where even the most basic questions--such as
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What is a family?
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What is a man or a woman?
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What is a boy or a girl?
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--generate blank stares and stammering, babbling nonsense.
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We are becoming, simultaneously, the most educated and the most
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stupid generation in
human history.
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And under Satan's rule
our world is one
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of near-constant warfare.
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John Arquilla, professor of defense analysis at the U.S.
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Naval Postgraduate School,
wrote on this fact at the
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end of 2012 for Foreign
Policy magazine:
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"Writing their Lessons of History in the tumultuous
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year 1968, Will and Ariel
Durant observed that in
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"the last 3,421 years of recorded history, only
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268 have seen no war."
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The 44 years since they made this observation have
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added not a single year of peace to that meager total."
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That's less than eight years of peace for every century of
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recorded history.
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Of course, he wrote that
in 2012, a little more
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than a decade ago.
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How do you think we've
fared since then?
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As I record this program,
right now, Israel is at
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war in Gaza, Russia and Ukraine are trading dead bodies at
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an astonishing rate, and nations around the world are arming
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as if they see World War III dawning on the horizon
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like an apocalyptic sunrise.
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And our current arsenal of
weaponry is like nothing
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history has ever seen, capable of fulfilling the end-time
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conditions Jesus described in Matthew 24:22--warfare in
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which "no flesh would be saved"
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apart from God's
own intervention.
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Humanity cries out for peace.
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But the truth of our existence under Satan's rule has
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consistently matched the declaration of God
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in Isaiah 59...
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"Their feet run to evil,
and they make haste to
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shed innocent blood; their
thoughts are thoughts of
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iniquity; wasting and destruction are in
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their paths.
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The way of peace they have not known, and there is no
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justice in their ways; they have made themselves crooked
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paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace."
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Also under the Devil's rule,
our world is one of famine
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and want.
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I'm blessed to live in the
United States--a nation
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blessed with wealth and almost embarrassing access to food
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(at least for now).
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But my life is
not the norm.
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In its State of Food Security and Nutrition report for 2023,
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the United Nations noted that after years of decline,
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hunger and food insecurity is on the increase, with more than
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700 million people globally facing hunger at some
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point in the year--roughly 1 out of every 11 human beings.
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Global poverty, as well, has been on the increase in
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recent years, and who hasn't seen the growing waves of
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homelessness and illegal immigration, as
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millions seek an escape from the turmoil, danger, and want in
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their home nations.
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Further, the Devil's reign
as "ruler of this world"
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has given us a world of disease and pestilence.
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COVID-19 frightened Western nations who are used to
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feeling that rampant disease was a part of other countries'
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lives--not theirs.
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And, indeed, the constant threat of disease and infection is
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a way of life for many people
in so many nations
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around the world.
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And in nations with enough wealth to push back
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against those diseases that ravage impoverished
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countries, the specter of "diseases of affluence"
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rears its head.
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Cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, cancers,
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obesity-related and respiratory diseases, sexually
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transmitted diseases...
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In Satan's world it seems as if humanity is determined not
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to be healthy.
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As much as we cry to the heavens that we want to understand how
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life is supposed to work, that we want peace, plenty, and
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good health, mankind proves generation after
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generation that we cannot achieve those things.
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Because we continue to seek
our own ways, our own
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paths, our own ideas and values apart from the authority
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of a loving God.
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We seek to continue imagining that we can rule ourselves,
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the way we want to live.
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And in doing so, we continue to support Satan on his throne,
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as the "ruler of this world," just as Jesus Christ said
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he was.
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In fact, Revelation chapter 6 says that each of these
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conditions--ideological and religious confusion,
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warfare, famine, and pestilence--will
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eventually come to a dramatic climax in the end-times,
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symbolized by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse holding
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life-or-death sway over a fourth of the entire world.
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But, my friends, there really
is good news ahead.
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Because while six millennia of human history has proven
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mankind simply cannot solve the problem of Satan's rule,
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Almighty God can solve that problem, and He will.
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The time is coming when God the Father will send His Son,
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Jesus Christ, to this world to end the reign of the Devil
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on this planet.
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We will look at this glorious promise in your Bible in
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the next part of our program.
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But first, let's take a very small break to give you
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If you want the real truth
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the devil in your life, then
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Don't miss it.
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This clear and
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this vital truth--
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Welcome back.
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Where Adam failed to remain faithful to God and
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failed to replace Satan
on his throne, Jesus
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Christ succeeded.
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The sinless Son of God
earned the right to reign
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over this world to the glory of His Father and for the
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fulfillment of their
plan of salvation.
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Recall that earlier in our program, we mentioned
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that Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, said after His
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resurrection that...
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"All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."
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But the time when He will
act on that authority
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and take control of the kingdoms of the world lies just ahead.
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When it comes, it will be the greatest news mankind
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could ever hope to hear.
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Let's read about it, starting in Revelation 11 and verse 15...
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Then the seventh angel sounded:
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And there were loud voices
in heaven, saying,
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"The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of
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our Lord and of His Christ,
and He shall reign
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forever and ever!"
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And the twenty-four elders
who sat before God on their
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thrones fell on their faces
and worshiped God, saying:
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"We give You thanks,
O Lord God Almighty,
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The One who is and who was
and who is to come,
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Because You have taken Your great power and reigned."
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That same trumpet blast, the last trumpet, will also herald
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the resurrection and glorification of His saints,
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who will begin their
reign alongside Him.
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And the first order of business will be the destruction of
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the assembled armies of the Devil and the banishing of
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Satan for 1,000 years.
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We read of that in
Revelation 20...
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"Then I saw an angel coming
down from heaven, having
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the key to the bottomless
pit and a great chain in
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his hand.
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He laid hold of the dragon,
that serpent of old,
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who is the Devil and Satan,
and bound him for a
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thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and
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shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should
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deceive the nations no more
till the thousand years
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were finished.
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But after these things he must be released for a little while."
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That "little while" would be the focus of a completely
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different program.
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For today's purposes, we can't fail to miss that at the
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beginning of Jesus Christ's reign on this earth,
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Satan the Devil and his influence will be
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utterly removed from this
world for the entire
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thousand-year period.
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His rule on this earth will end.
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The Apostle John wrote in
1 John 3 and verse 8...
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"For this purpose the Son
of God was manifested,
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that He might destroy the
works of the devil."
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And destroy the works of
the devil He will.
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Today's world may be shaped
by the character of the Devil,
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but tomorrow's world will be shaped by the character
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of Jesus Christ--and what a difference that will make.
18:50.229 --> 18:53.332
For instance, instead of
confusion, Christ will
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bring understanding
and knowledge.
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The world will know that
there is a God.
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They will know--and believe-- that Jesus Christ is His Son.
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And they will know the
way of life that we
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were created to live.
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In fact, look in Isaiah 11:9, which describes the world
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during the Millennium
under Christ.
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There it says...
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"They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
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for the earth shall be full
of the knowledge of the LORD
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as the waters cover the sea."
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Notice that statement...
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"They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain..."
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That's because the Bible says
that the rule of Jesus Christ
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will replace our world of warfare with one of true peace.
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Not a peace built on pretense--
based on a delicate-but-fragile
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balance of nuclear stockpiles
or treaties that are made
19:49.655 --> 19:52.024
in one generation but
broken in the next.
19:52.090 --> 19:56.194
But a real peace, founded
on the laws of God and a
19:56.261 --> 19:58.764
way of life that is built
on loving your neighbor
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instead of seeing him as means to get what you want.
20:02.000 --> 20:05.103
The Millennial reign of Christ will see peace between
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nations, yes, but also peace between families and
20:09.575 --> 20:10.742
between people.
20:10.809 --> 20:14.813
He will show us how to live
in peace--and once they've
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experienced the joy of living in a world governed by His laws
20:18.650 --> 20:22.621
and way of life, Isaiah 9:6 tells us they will call
20:22.688 --> 20:26.592
Jesus Christ, the
"Prince of Peace."
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And in that land of peace there will be plenty for all.
20:30.429 --> 20:34.933
Prophecy contains a beautiful picture of this in Amos 9.
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There God speaks of a world overflowing with produce...
20:39.237 --> 20:42.708
"Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when the
20:42.774 --> 20:46.011
plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader
20:46.078 --> 20:50.882
of grapes him who sows seed;
the mountains shall drip with
20:50.949 --> 20:54.753
sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it."
20:54.820 --> 20:57.456
And, finally, in a world where the knowledge of God
20:57.522 --> 21:02.294
permeates all of life, peace and safety reign, and food is
21:02.361 --> 21:06.198
not only plentiful, but is grown properly according to divine
21:06.264 --> 21:09.034
guidance and biblical principles, we will
21:09.101 --> 21:12.404
also experience a world of abundant health.
21:12.471 --> 21:15.607
With Satan's rule ended, the laws of God will be
21:15.674 --> 21:19.144
enforced, including the many laws He established for
21:19.211 --> 21:23.048
man's good--laws of agriculture, of hygiene, and of
21:23.115 --> 21:26.184
distinguishing between the
clean and the unclean.
21:26.251 --> 21:29.755
Just as He did during
His ministry 2,000 years
21:29.821 --> 21:33.625
ago, but on a much grander
scale, Jesus Christ will
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intervene and heal the sick.
21:35.661 --> 21:39.064
The prophet Isaiah writes
of this coming time in
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chapter 35 of his book...
21:41.433 --> 21:44.536
"Then the eyes of the blind
shall be opened,
21:44.603 --> 21:47.539
And the ears of the deaf
shall be unstopped.
21:47.606 --> 21:50.075
Then the lame shall leap
like a deer, and the
21:50.142 --> 21:52.511
tongue of the dumb sing.
21:52.577 --> 21:56.581
For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams
21:56.648 --> 21:58.116
in the desert."
21:58.183 --> 22:02.387
Instead of the confusion, war, famine, and disease of
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today's world, tomorrow's world will be filled with
22:05.924 --> 22:11.096
understanding, peace, plenty, and abundant health.
22:11.163 --> 22:14.199
For millennia, man has
been struggling and
22:14.266 --> 22:18.570
failing to turn the world
into a paradise his way,
22:18.637 --> 22:21.073
following the pattern of
Satan the Devil, who
22:21.139 --> 22:23.875
refused to do things
his Creator's way.
22:23.942 --> 22:28.280
But Jesus Christ is returning, and when He does, He will
22:28.346 --> 22:31.750
end Satan's rule and
begin His own.
22:31.817 --> 22:35.287
And man will finally experience that paradise he's always
22:35.353 --> 22:39.591
longed for--once he finally gives up for good the
22:39.658 --> 22:43.595
idea of doing it his way and submits, totally and
22:43.662 --> 22:47.165
completely, to be ruled
by the Son of God.
22:47.232 --> 22:51.236
That future world, tomorrow's world, is very good
22:51.303 --> 22:52.771
news, indeed.
22:52.838 --> 22:55.907
Yet, there's even better
news to be shared.
22:55.974 --> 22:59.344
And I'll leave you with that news in our last segment.
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But first, let me take a final, short break to recommend
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23:16.461 --> 23:20.599
Demons," and, "How to
Overcome Satan."
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If you want to understand
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realm's influence in the
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23:25.837 --> 23:29.508
how Satan came to power in
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23:29.574 --> 23:33.111
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Welcome back.
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Today, we've discussed the fact that the tragic history and
25:02.801 --> 25:05.837
present condition of our world is due to the fact that it
25:05.904 --> 25:09.541
reflects the character of its true ruler, Satan the Devil.
25:09.608 --> 25:12.510
And the fruit of his reign is exactly what you would
25:12.577 --> 25:16.281
imagine it to be--resulting in thousands of years of misery,
25:16.348 --> 25:18.717
heartbreak, and human suffering.
25:18.783 --> 25:21.353
But the good news is that Satan's rule is coming
25:21.419 --> 25:22.687
to an end.
25:22.754 --> 25:25.891
In the days just ahead of us, and none too soon, Jesus
25:25.957 --> 25:29.361
Christ will appear in the clouds, ready to end
25:29.427 --> 25:32.163
the reign of the Devil and inaugurate the Kingdom
25:32.230 --> 25:35.867
of God--replacing every sorrow of this world with a joy
25:35.934 --> 25:39.938
and happiness that can only come from the Son of God who loves
25:40.005 --> 25:43.775
us and who longs to make us part of His family forever.
25:43.842 --> 25:47.012
No wonder Jesus taught
His disciples to pray:
25:47.078 --> 25:49.748
"Your kingdom come".
25:49.814 --> 25:51.783
Yet, there's even better news.
25:51.850 --> 25:54.352
That news is that you do not have to wait until the
25:54.419 --> 25:58.256
return of Jesus Christ to begin ending the reign of Satan.
25:58.323 --> 26:03.028
That's because God the Father is calling some now, in this age,
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to begin taking ground from the Devil by submitting to the
26:06.531 --> 26:11.803
reign of Jesus Christ now--in their lives now and in their
26:11.870 --> 26:14.172
family's lives now.
26:14.239 --> 26:18.910
In John 10:10, Jesus says that He came that those who follow
26:18.977 --> 26:22.948
Him may have life, and have
it more abundantly.
26:23.014 --> 26:26.785
And Hebrews 6:5 speaks of those who have the opportunity now,
26:26.851 --> 26:31.022
today, before Christ's return, to "[taste]... the good word
26:31.089 --> 26:34.592
of God and the powers of
the age to come."
26:34.659 --> 26:39.064
No, you can't end the world's confusion, but you can begin
26:39.130 --> 26:42.767
knowing the true God of Scripture better yourself.
26:42.834 --> 26:46.438
And, no, you can't end wars,
no matter who you vote for.
26:46.504 --> 26:50.342
But you can find a peace that surpasses understanding in
26:50.408 --> 26:54.079
your own life and in your own relationships with others.
26:54.145 --> 26:56.715
And you can't feed every
starving child in this
26:56.781 --> 26:59.551
world, nor heal every
suffering person.
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But you can learn the miraculous way of give instead of get,
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and get to know the One
who does provide His
27:07.325 --> 27:09.627
children's every need.
27:09.694 --> 27:14.432
You can end the Devil's
rule in your life and
27:14.499 --> 27:17.936
begin personally experiencing the blessings of the reign
27:18.003 --> 27:19.337
of Jesus Christ.
27:19.404 --> 27:22.507
In fact, those who are willing to allow Christ to end
27:22.574 --> 27:27.212
Satan's rule in their own lives in today's world are the very
27:27.278 --> 27:31.383
ones He will use to bring an end to Satan's rule over all
27:31.449 --> 27:35.487
mankind in tomorrow's world.
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Please don't forget to
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When you do, Gerald Weston,
Rod McNair, and I will be here
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waiting for you, ready to
share with you the good news
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of God's coming Kingdom,
the teachings of Jesus Christ,
27:52.537 --> 27:55.240
and the inspiring prophecies
of your Bible.
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Until then, take care.
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