Christmas: A Cosmic Battle of Good and Evil
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"Establish us in the confidence of Your sovereignty, that with boldness and with strength that we may face everything the world has to offer in an assurance that we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. In Jesus' name. Amen." [00:00:41]
"Christmas has become a retail season that preys upon a sappy and nostalgic feeling that has a desire to see peace on earth and goodwill to all people without a fixed truth of what is good. Love, goodness, and morality is achieved in the imaginations of self-serving sentiments that only serve to ease our gullibility. Guilt, pain, and stress." [00:04:32]
"Revelation is a book that has certainly caused confusion throughout the history of the church. And this is especially true over the last century. Most of this confusion centers around the idea that people try to explain Revelation and the things in it from an earthly point of view. Think about that. So people look at Christmas, and they want to look at it strictly through human eyes, from the human perspective." [00:09:26]
"The book of Revelation is written in signs and symbols, and God has, in fact, graciously given us the rest of His Word to understand these signs. And it is with His Word that we can make sense of Revelation in a way that it fits into the whole narrative of Scripture." [00:10:30]
"The woman in Revelation 12 is representative of all the struggles in the Old Testament to bring forth the promised seed, to bring deliverance to all nations. And because of that, when we look at Scripture in the Old Testament, we see that Satan has been at work to prevent the seed from being born." [00:12:18]
"It's important that we remember this. God did not pronounce the coming battle at creation, at the fall of man, and then let history run its course. But he sovereignly intervened and miraculously brings forth the seed. Indeed, God did not just start the world, as some philosophers would say, and just spun it out. And Satan runs havoc and he does all these things and God just, you know, he's playing defense. No, his plan marches forth." [00:16:35]
"Jesus by being faithful and staying to the test set before him by the father deceived the father of lies what seems to be the utter defeat of God's plan of redemption the death of Jesus seems to leave no way to deal with the accusations of Satan against the brethren we read in verse seven of Revelation 12 that that that war broke out and there's a heavenly war and Satan was cast out of heaven verse 8 it says but they that is Satan and all of his demons did not prevail nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer so the great dragon was cast out and again clarifying that serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world" [00:23:58]
"Returning to Revelation. Revelation 12, John hears a loud voice saying in heaven, Now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come for the accuser of the brethren who was accused them before our God day and night has been cast down. People of God, are you not full of joy with the idea of Christmas?" [00:26:06]
"The war of Christmas has brought salvation. Because? of the blood of Jesus Christ for our sins, the people of God rejoice. Cling to the work of Jesus Christ. Any sentiment at Christmas should be in the victory of the cross." [00:28:05]
"Satan has been cast out and defeated because he and his minions cannot reach king jesus his efforts are to the woman and the rest of her offspring just as israel was the woman bearing general offspring so the church today is the woman and the dragon was enraged see in verse 17 and the dragon was enraged with the woman and he went out to make war with the rest of her offspring satan can't reach jesus so he attacks the church the very people of god satan attacks the church from within and from without what did jesus talk about that satan sows weeds among the healthy fruitful grain" [00:28:38]
"The church overcomes Satan by the blood of the Lamb. That is the testimony of what Christ has done for us. The church must not love our lives and seek to preserve ourselves above all things. But rather, we are to trust Jesus' words. If we want to preserve it, lay down our life. For the kingdom." [00:32:22]
"For the generations to come. Be prepared. Have your sword ready. That is what? What does the Bible tell us the sword is? It is the word of God. Have the word of God ready. All the while, keeping your eyes out for danger. Listening for the horn being blown that it's over here." [00:37:03]
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"Christmas has become a retail season that preys upon a sappy and nostalgic feeling that has a desire to see peace on earth and goodwill to all people without a fixed truth of what is good. Love, goodness, and morality is achieved in the imaginations of self-serving sentiments that only serve to ease our gullibility. Guilt, pain, and stress." [00:04:32]
"Revelation is a book that has certainly caused confusion throughout the history of the church. And this is especially true over the last century. Most of this confusion centers around the idea that people try to explain Revelation and the things in it from an earthly point of view. Think about that. So people look at Christmas, and they want to look at it strictly through human eyes, from the human perspective." [00:09:26]
"The book of Revelation is written in signs and symbols, and God has, in fact, graciously given us the rest of His Word to understand these signs. And it is with His Word that we can make sense of Revelation in a way that it fits into the whole narrative of Scripture." [00:10:30]
"The woman in Revelation 12 is representative of all the struggles in the Old Testament to bring forth the promised seed, to bring deliverance to all nations. And because of that, when we look at Scripture in the Old Testament, we see that Satan has been at work to prevent the seed from being born." [00:12:18]
"It's important that we remember this. God did not pronounce the coming battle at creation, at the fall of man, and then let history run its course. But he sovereignly intervened and miraculously brings forth the seed. Indeed, God did not just start the world, as some philosophers would say, and just spun it out. And Satan runs havoc and he does all these things and God just, you know, he's playing defense. No, his plan marches forth." [00:16:35]
"Jesus by being faithful and staying to the test set before him by the father deceived the father of lies what seems to be the utter defeat of God's plan of redemption the death of Jesus seems to leave no way to deal with the accusations of Satan against the brethren we read in verse seven of Revelation 12 that that that war broke out and there's a heavenly war and Satan was cast out of heaven verse 8 it says but they that is Satan and all of his demons did not prevail nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer so the great dragon was cast out and again clarifying that serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world" [00:23:58]
"Returning to Revelation. Revelation 12, John hears a loud voice saying in heaven, Now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come for the accuser of the brethren who was accused them before our God day and night has been cast down. People of God, are you not full of joy with the idea of Christmas?" [00:26:06]
"The war of Christmas has brought salvation. Because? of the blood of Jesus Christ for our sins, the people of God rejoice. Cling to the work of Jesus Christ. Any sentiment at Christmas should be in the victory of the cross." [00:28:05]
"Satan has been cast out and defeated because he and his minions cannot reach king jesus his efforts are to the woman and the rest of her offspring just as israel was the woman bearing general offspring so the church today is the woman and the dragon was enraged see in verse 17 and the dragon was enraged with the woman and he went out to make war with the rest of her offspring satan can't reach jesus so he attacks the church the very people of god satan attacks the church from within and from without what did jesus talk about that satan sows weeds among the healthy fruitful grain" [00:28:38]
"The church overcomes Satan by the blood of the Lamb. That is the testimony of what Christ has done for us. The church must not love our lives and seek to preserve ourselves above all things. But rather, we are to trust Jesus' words. If we want to preserve it, lay down our life. For the kingdom." [00:32:22]
"For the generations to come. Be prepared. Have your sword ready. That is what? What does the Bible tell us the sword is? It is the word of God. Have the word of God ready. All the while, keeping your eyes out for danger. Listening for the horn being blown that it's over here." [00:37:03]
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