The Anti-Christ

I'd like to share something with you all about things that are happening in our world here. These are not conspiracy theories, these are biblical concepts. I hope you understand where the world is heading.

I'm glad God gave us light. We are all children's books, and we are the ones who are able to understand what is coming upon us, upon this world. And we're not going to be talking too much about the return of Christ or the conditions of sin that lead up to it.

But I want to go behind the scenes and look at the spirits that are at work and what they're trying to do to bring this world to a place where we can understand why things are happening the way they are, why the world is going in a direction that it is. And so, this is not necessarily a prophetic message, but I think it's something that would interest us. It's very interesting to me, I like these kind of things.

I'm a person who believes that, you know, if you teach the why, how many of our children say, why? Why? Why, why, why, why, why? When you have small children, you know, dad would say, listen, we're not small. Just do what your grandparents tell you, and that's good. It's good to spend some time of your life saying, dad says it, I'm a liar, I'm going to do it.

And as a newborn baby cries, you know, the Lord says, I don't understand why, I see. And as you get more mature in your faith, and as you grow, you begin to understand the why. Why the Lord is giving these commandments, what the Lord is trying to do, and so I like to look at the why of things that are happening in our world.

We are children of life. Let's get into it. In Ephesians chapter 2, and I want to start off here.

You can turn to Isaiah chapter 14. We're going to be there in just a minute. But in Ephesians chapter 2, it says in verse number 2, According to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit now worketh in the children of disobedience.

There's two things there that I'd like to draw on. This world has a prince. He's called the prince of the power of the air, and we know who that is.

It's the enemy of our souls, Lucifer. It's Satan, it's the devil. He is the prince of the power of the air.

So let's hear that. We walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air. That means that the devil is the one who's actually behind the scenes setting the course for this present age and this present world.

It says that there's a spirit that now works in the children of disobedience. So everyone is an individual, and everyone is being influenced down this broad road that leads to destruction. This broad road has been paved, and of course it's been set by the devil.

And of course then the children of light, they're on another road, a narrow road. That of course is a way for them to get to the spirit and believe the truth. And they're heading in a different direction.

They're going to have different outcomes, obviously, in the end. But Satan is the one who is orchestrating this whole thing, where he has his children, those who are children of darkness. That spirit is working in them and performing them a certain cause.

And he is the prince and the god of this world. Now he has a plan. So does the spirit.

I'm not going to go into any conspiracy theories, but he has a plan. He has a kingdom in mind. Just like the Lord's angels.

You and I are the children of the Lord. The Lord wants to build a kingdom. It is the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

But also, behind the scenes, there are people who have been held in doubt. In my experience, they know the origin of it. And they are working for a kingdom.

They're working for the enemy of our souls. Now, if you look at Isaiah chapter 14, and I'm going to bring the message out here. I love it.

Here in Isaiah chapter 14. Just look at the scenes. Look at the heart.

And the desire elucidates what he wants. You know, an unconverted person. For example, an unconverted person, when they're bitter, they have no way of overcoming it.

They're positive. They're positive. They're bitter.

And you know, some people are bitter. Some are okay. Or some are okay.

But what do you say to them? And you can just say to them, well, I can't just forget it. Well, there's nothing crazy about it. It's not a big deal.

It's actually a big deal. And so many of our students are people who are offensive and bitter. And all kinds of things.

And there's nothing to say to them. They're just angry individuals. And you know, the devil is that way too.

He's a calm creature. And some of us say, well, doesn't the devil understand? Doesn't he see what's happening? Oh, sure, sure, sure. But he is very angry.

He's very hateful. He's very bitter. And he has purpose for his existence and what he wants to do and what he wants to accomplish.

But he'll carry it. Isaiah chapter 14 will give a little heart of the devil. First of all, how are we going to fall into heaven? Oh, this is the first one of the morning.

How are we going to understand the ground which created the nations? For now this is my heart. I am going to put this God revealed to us. These are not words.

They're just ideas. And this is God showing us the heart of the nation. I will ascend into the heavens.

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation and the size of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.

I will be like the most high. I will ascend. I will exalt.

I will sit. All these exalted statements are to fulfill this last six or seven words. This is the heart of the devil.

If you open up the heart of Jesus Christ and you say, what's in my heart? Here's the primary thing that's in his heart. I will be like the most high. I will be like the most high.

I, in my very heart, want to be like God. I want to be like the most high. And that's to get this idea of anti-Christ.

The New Testament, anti-Christ does not mean against Christ. It simply means in the place of Christ. Someone who comes and sits in the place of Christ.

I am the Christ. I am the Christ. And I'm sitting in the place of Christ.

Now, everything, and I believe this because God reveals this to us, everything that Lucifer does, and everything his great men of divine spirit do, who drive the course of this world, are driving this thing to fulfill the greatest desire that Lucifer has in his heart, and that is to be like the most high. And that's the ultimate goal of this life. Everything's going to be like this.

And I don't want to be like the highest person, because that's the desire, the true desire of the God of the beast. I want to be like that. And I said, that's how I'm going to be, sir, I'll be God, this world, and even when Jesus came to all the earth, first, second, third, and fourth nations, one of them was this, you who fall down to the Lord's shoes, and Jesus said, Father, it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.

But you see in the heart of Lucifer, even there, Jesus said, Worship Me. That's His heart. I want to be God.

I want you, the Son of God, to bow your knee, and you worship Me. And so it's what the Bible says, out of the heart of the monster, there is the heart of the enemy, of our soul. In Revelation 13, we're going to get to that later turn there, but in Revelation 13, we get to this place.

You're very familiar with these verses, I'm sure, but it says in Revelation 13, And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome death. And power was given unto him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwelt on the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Book of Life, but the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

So what is the end game? The end game is this. The devil is trying to bring the world, and everyone in it, to a place where in the end, everyone will bow down and worship Him. That's the end game.

I will be like the Most High. If I can't get the angels to worship Me, if I can't get the Son of God to worship Me, I'll get humanity all to bow and to worship Me. So that's the end game.

First. That's us going to go through the first one. Anyway.

Worshipping. That's the direction we're headed. Heading in that direction.

Bringing humanity to the place where humanity sees Him as God, and worships Him. And I read here this morning already, in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, he who exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he is God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself as He, His God. And that's the end game.

That's our heading. Now. If that is not right, I just want to point you out a couple things here.

That will help us to see how this world, what's going on in the world today, and maybe help us to have some wisdom in getting off the train, or the train, and understand what God is trying to tell us here. Satan desires to impersonate God in this world. I want to be like God.

He's jealous. He's envious. He sees God.

He sees His amazing attributes. He sees how the world, people like us, honored, glorified by Him, lives up His name. He wants that for Himself.

Very envious, jealous. And so he says, I'll be like the Most High. The Most High is omniscient.

I'll be omniscient. The Most High is omnipresent. I'll be omnipresent.

The Most High is omnipotent. I'll be omnipotent. And on and on and on.

And so on and on. When the devil arrives, and he's working his mouth, in the end, as the person of the Antichrist, he will impersonate the truth of God. It's just hard to do so.

I will be like the Most High. There's three areas of war I'd like to mention here, and we'll talk about how this is really important. This is where we're headed.

I want to be, I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about Lucifer. Lucifer says, I want to be omnipresent. I want to be like God.

You know that God is heaven and I am me. He is everywhere. He sees everything at the same time.

By the way, the word omnipresent means universal and present. He has a universal presence. God is able to be everywhere at the same time.

The Bible says, The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the good and the evil. He has an all-seeing eye. His eyes are in all places.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the good and the evil. Be careful little hands what you do. Be careful little hands what you do.

For the Father up above is looking down upon us. Be careful little hands what you do. But, he's even less than us.

The God of heaven, the true and living God, is omnipresent. He is able to be everywhere. He sees everything.

Believe that. Not only does he see everything, he actually can see into the heart. He can see the secrets of man.

He can actually see the low bits of all creation. Maybe. Probably he can see.

But let me say this. The devil does not have that character. He wants to be everywhere.

See everything. Like God. Omnipresent.

He cannot do it like God, but he seeks to. And here's what's happening in our world today. This is the truth.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist. But he is establishing a system. And these spirits are working to establish a system of surveillance.

A system of surveillance all over the world to a place where he can be like God and he can see everyone all the time. You hear that? It's happening all the time. And you know, we're living in a generation, the last generation or two, where this is rapidly moving toward the devil, the spirits that are pretending this weren't of course.

And they're breaking it down to a place where he can sit and say, I am God and I can see everything. All God. God.

And I can't wait to talk to him. That is my goal today. You know what he wants.

What he wants. I don't know what he wants. Do you know what he wants? Spirit.

I have a picture in his phone just a few days ago. He wants to see people on the internet all the time. He wants to see all the world.

He can see animals eating out of the door. He can see humans eating out of the glass. He can see how life is not all over the place.

It's not even there. They call it a surveillance tool. Our phones are surveillance tools.

They record our habits. You can put a word in it. Maybe it looks something up, and the next week you're getting all the data on that subject.

Somebody's watching. Somebody's watching everything I do. I have a couple of these phones.

I'm going to give you a quiz. I'm going to take you over there. I'm going to give you information in, but you're also sending information out.

Every word that you speak, that phone's going to pick up. It's going to pick up. Every place you go, the devil's going to, he wants to see, watch you all, all day long.

Even through the night. The Bible says the day and night are the same to God. He sees all, night or day.

That's certainly the heart of the devil. I know the technology, but this technology is like a power battle. This technology is being built to promote a demonic, ultimate agenda, and all this stuff He wants to bring humanity to the place where the devil can sit and be all pleasure for his family.

All of your life. That's what I'm going to be doing here. So, this is the heart of the devil.

First of all, he's my son. And that's what I'm going to be doing. I'm going to read a psalm here.

Psalm 139. Some of you may have already read that. Some of you haven't.

Read it. Where shall I go with my spirit, or where shall I flee to my presence? If I ascend up to heaven, down there, to my God. If I make my bed in hell, behold, down there.

If I take the leaves of the morning and dwell again in those parts of the sea, even there shall I live. Leave me in thy right hand, so hold me. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me.

Yea, the darkness shall cover not me, but the night shall enter the day, and the darkness of the night will go upon the light of the day. He's my God. Everywhere he goes, you see me.

And that's the devil. I don't believe that. I don't believe that he's a man, but he's not.

I don't believe you can see humanity everywhere he goes. You know, that's what's going on in my world. So, that's why we have this technology, because it's the devil behind it all, promoting, I want to call it the devil.

I'm not, I'm never going to get it like God, because obviously God is God, even though the thoughts and intents of the heart. But information is on view through these technologies being gathered and gathered and gathered, locations, visuals, everything to get the place for the devil to be omnipresent. How many believe that? This is the purpose.

And I like conspiracy theorists, but the Bible says that his heart would be like a dove. And he is heading this world in that direction. The second thing is omniscient.

Omniscient. Omni-science. Omni-meaning universal, science in terms of knowledge.

God is all-knowing. He is called the all-wise and the all-knowing God. Who lives above the depths of the riches, above the wisdom and knowledge of God, in the most circular of depths, the greatest path finding out.

God is where God knows everything. I want the world to know all the knowledge and all the wisdom. I want the world to look to me for all the wisdom and knowledge.

God. I don't want you to look to the Lord. I want you to look to Lucifer.

Lucifer wants to be the source of all your wisdom and knowledge. He desires it. He just wants you to look at this world.

If you have a question about life, go to the Bible. Ask the Lord in faith. What does God say? What does He say in His word? And always be looking here for direction.

Always be looking here for knowledge and wisdom. Get that thing out of your pocket. Look there.

Look here. There's a lot of knowledge and wisdom here. You know, this here is going to show faith.

Can you look this way? Looking in that other direction is not going to get any faith at all. So faith. Faith comes right here.

You can hear it in the word of God. So our generation, especially, more and more, we're looking for our answers. We're looking for wisdom and knowledge in the wrong direction.

But it's going to get more and more and more. I don't know. But the devil desires to be the all-knowing one.

It's hard. You know, it's denial. Looking to the stars.

Who should I marry? I'll check out the stars. I'll look to the stars. That's denial.

You don't worship the creation. You worship the creator. You look at him.

So we're living in a world that computers and technology are gathering knowledge. Oh my. I didn't do a lot of research on this, but I've done enough to know that these computers are gathering knowledge.

About you. About everybody. And they're becoming a source of all the world's wisdom, of all the world's knowledge.

Oh, geez. What's this? I didn't even write this. What? I almost forgot.

The only piece of the early knowledge of the computer you have to know. You didn't even have to learn that this year. Let me ask you a question.

Chapter 1. Let me get your heads up there. First thing, Chapter 1. I'm sorry to interrupt. I'm going to read the whole passage real quick.

Consider. First thing in Chapter 1. Starting in verse 19. Now Satan's going to hijack.

He's going to sort of gather information. That's not the reason why. It should not be the reason why.

There have been leaps and bounds in technological wisdom in the last 50 to 100 years. It's because information has been pulled together. You know, that's what they do.

They go to the Atomic Bomb. Great Korean story. Los Alamos, New Mexico.

They have a wisdom to know that a few scientists could not do it. But they gather many scientists together. Pull the information.

Get people together. And they put them down in a building in Los Alamos, New Mexico. And for a few months, great scientists, Einstein was one of them.

And they put their thoughts together. The real idea is magic order. And you know why people are jumping leaps and bounds? Well, that's because now they've got all the information pulled together.

It used to be I was a scientist in America. And my fellow scientists are in China. I don't know.

You can't pull ideas. It's a whole concept of that. Let us come together.

Let us do this together. Something great. The wisdom of this world.

Verse 21. Verse 22. Verse 23.

Verse 24. Verse 25. Verse 27.

Verse 28. Verse 30. Verse 32.

Verse 33. Verse 34. All in one.

You understand? It's one thing. It's one thing. It's like the most high.

Or he's actually going to say, I am here. And that's what the Lord has for the devil one time. I want to have authority.

I want to be the one who calls the shot in people's lives. And of course, when you get back here to the book of Revelation and you see this, God gives him the right to do this. In Revelation 13 it says that they worshiped the dragon, which gave power, authority of the beast.

And they worshiped the beast saying he was like the beast because they were made war with him. And they were given the capacity to do great things as blasphemies. And authority was given to him to continue the course of his life.

And it says here on the end of each book, saying, for from that time it was given to him all kindred and tongues and nations. And all of the books of the earth shall worship him. His name is not written in the book of the Bible.

But God is going to allow, he's allowing this to happen. God is allowing this whole thing to happen. I'm going to read it again in the book of Revelation.

Some day, you know, this is a power of authority that he's given to them. In the case of control, authority. He is the Lord.

God is the Lord, this is what we call, he being the supreme authority. But this is the one who has the position. He wants to have that authority.

He wants to get it. He wants to rule. He wants to rule.

And he creates law. There's another power of authority that he has. God is going to allow him to have it.

And that is his direct responsibility. Jesus wrote miracles. He made miracles.

He raised the dead. He made them to be saved. He called them to be saved.

Anything that is in the rank of a slave, here, even in the Revelation, the same thing happens. There's a poem about that. So how omnipotent.

How omnipotent. Omniscient. All these characteristics that are seen in God.

That certainly God is going to give it unto himself and probably to God. And this the world that we're living in, this very hot place we're in. It Hes really hot.

And we're heading to the world where we're all going to be in a river. and then that will give way to the anti-vaxxers. I am a big believer in the anti-vaxxers.

If I presented that day, you cannot get me, or I, or you cannot get me, or I, or you cannot get me, or I, or you cannot get me, or I, or you cannot get me, So he is a powerful individual. And so this is the way the world is heading. And you all have observed and seen clearly that there is a revolt that is working.

Many tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of human beings are pushing the world, this course, to bring this. Now let's think about this. What do we do, or how do we live, if we have received it? How do we know what is going on? Well, let me give you a couple of things I have thought about that I have mentioned to you.

Number one, be alert. I know there are many Christians that go to sleep, and they are going to get nervous. In fact, every time the person that is going to subscribe says, children, we are children of the day, we are not children of the night.

We are children of the night or sleep. They are drunk. And they miss what is about to happen.

As far as the Christians, they need to be sober, to be alert, to see these things. We are talking about here this morning. This is happening.

It is moving rapidly to an end. You know, we can hear it behind the curtains. The curtains are moving around.

They are setting up the stage for the final act. So this idea of being alert. Watch.

How many times did Jesus say, watch and be alert? Keep your spiritual senses alive. And the best way to do that is to be on your feet. And see and understand the truth.

Speak the truth. Speak to God. Speak to you.

And when you go down to the store, you say, oh, boy, I see it. I see it pretty clear. So be alert.

Secondly, don't overreact. I've seen so many people throughout the years overreact. Okay, if that's the case, I'm going to be caring.

I just went to a funeral a few months ago in Vancouver. I knew a number of years. He was one of these individuals who, in a way, from this whole thing, I'm going to move to the jungles of caring.

You know, a lot of those people, let's just run away. Let's hide ourselves in the wilderness. Just dig a cave.

Let's have a little love. God is not the direst cross to hide. Jesus said, I was supposed to go to the whole world and preach the gospel.

And love, this is it. Love and with you always, even unto death. End of the age.

In other words, you're going to be genius, and I'm going to go with you all the way to the end. It's not like we'll make it close to the end. You better run and hide.

No, it's all the way. So, don't overreact. And here's something I think that we really need to have some wisdom for.

Some young people, you're going to face a lot more of these as we move down the road here. Paul said it this way. I like it.

Let's turn to 1 Corinthians 10. I mentioned this verse a few months ago. I'd like you to read it again.

1 Corinthians 10, verse 26. This is Jerry. Another Jerry's version.

He's talking here about, by the way, I want to elevate single men. That's what I call it. And I don't think we're going to look down on the single people.

I think we're going to look up. Because Jesus was a single man. And God said, here's an example.

Follow my son. I don't know what to do other than just cut it. What's wrong with it? I was considering.

I have one of these. It might be in my garden shed. I could cut it all down.

I don't know. The only problem is all those things are temples and everything that is a temple, you're not set here in order to use it. So don't get too wrapped up in it.

Leave, but realize that you're using your own temple. Rejoice, but realize that you're using your own temple. Marry, that's fine, but marry someone temporary.

Use this world, it's a temple, it's going to pass. Don't abuse it. You know what the word abuse is? I don't know if it's the same word.

Abuse means to overly use it. And I want you to commit, use this world, but don't get too hard on yourself. Amen? Use this world, but don't get your heart wrapped up in it.

Use a car, but don't love it. Use money, I have some in my wallet. Use a horse, but don't love it.

That's called idolizing. So we're going to be in this world. And yes, technology is here.

Yes, we have to run some business. We have to call and phones. We do these things.

Use it, but don't abuse it. Use it, but don't set your heart on it. Because if your heart is more cheap, spiced, and you have these things, when the devil arises and the antichrist comes, you'll see clearly.

But you know what? If your heart begins to fall, you're going to be blinded by it. You're going to lose your vision. You're going to be caught.

And there's some examples of this in the Bible. Jesus actually warned us of this very thing when he talked about the second coming of Christ. And I was sharing with a brother this week about this passage.

But let me read to you what the Lord says. He's talking about his return. In Luke 17, he says, He's right there.

His stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away. And he that's in the field, let him not likewise return back. Remember not twice.

And what happened to Lot's wife? Well, you know, Lot, he got caught again in the river of Sodom. The well watered plain. He fixed his tent that way.

Instead of being a tent-lover, not having his part, he fixed it himself. And he started to get tired of fixing his tent. And his wife did too.

And she started to fill the house up with paint and paint herself and set her fixings on things there in Sodom. And all that. And the angels climbed on the fence and said, It's time to get out of here.

It's time to destroy the house. And he did. He fixed his tent.

And he said, We don't have to do this anymore. And he said, So he got in Sodom and she burned the house down for a year. And she started to use to use this world that she also abused.

He sent her out of Sodom. And I said, You know what? All of us in the world did the same thing. And so he said, That's amazing.

I mean, I believe it's going to happen. And that day, Jesus got up on the cross. And he stopped in that doorway and he said, There will be a meeting before noon and Jesus will appear in the heavens.

And they were like, Oh my Lord, it's coming. They're so passionate. He didn't even care about it.

And they were like, What's going on? He's just like God's wife. He's just like God's wife. And he turned to his wife and said, He said, He is in the field letting out a tent.

Working on the cross. Oh my Lord, it's coming. Oh my God.

A pot of money under the house. And they started running to the house to get that pot of money. And he said, Oh my God, that's going to break the heart.

They're so passionate. But it seems to me it won't be with Jesus. So remember what I was telling you.

I remember reading a story of Tom Faye getting there many, many years ago. But then a man took a great deal of criticism and a man took a great deal of criticism and a man took a great deal of criticism and a man took a great deal of criticism a man a man a man a man a man a man a man a man a man a man a man a man Tom Faye The man the bottle the man the bottle the bottle So, using this world, not abusing it. So, I'm going to go ahead and show you an article.

Here's another example of this.