cleave to the house of Jacob and the people shall take them and bring to their place and the house of
Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids and they shall
take them captives whose captives they were and they shall rule over their oppressors
and it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give the rest from thy sorrow
and from thy fear and from the hard bondage wherein thou was made to serve
that thou shalt take up this provert against the king of Babylon and say
how hath the oppressor ceased the golden city ceased
Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked and the scepter of the rulers
he who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke
he that ruled the nations in anger is persecuted and none hindereth
the whole earth is at rest and is quiet they break forth into singing
yea the fir trees rejoice at thee and the cedars of lebanon saying since thou art laid down
no fellers come up against us help from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming
it stirs up the dead for thee even all the chief ones of the earth it hath raised up
from their thrones all the kings and the nations all they shall speak and say unto thee
but thou also become weak as we or thou become like unto us
thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy vials the worm is spread under
thee and the worms cover thee how thou fallen from heaven oh lucifer's son in the morning
how thou cut down to the ground which does weaken the nations for thou said in thine
heart i will send into heaven i will exalt my throne above the stars of god i will sit
also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north i will send above the
heights of the clouds i will be like the most high yet that shall be brought down to hell
to the sides of the pit they that shall see uh see thee shall narrowly look upon thee
and consider thee saying is this the man that made the earth to tremble and in shade kingdoms
that made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof that opened not the
house of his prisoners all the kings of the nations even all of them lie in glory
everyone in his house his own house but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable
branch and as the raiment of those that are slain thrust through with the sword that go
down to the stones of the pit as a carcass trodden under feet thou shall not be joined
with them in burial because thou has destroyed thy land and slain thy people the seed of
evildoers shall never be re-owned prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of
their fathers that they do not rise nor possess the land nor fill the face of the world with cities
for i'll rise up against them saith the lord of hosts and cut off from babylon the name
and remnant and son and nephew saith the lord i will also make it a possession for the burden
bitter and pools of water and i will sweep it with the besom of destruction saith the lord of
hosts the lord of hosts hath sworn saying surely as i have thought so shall it come to pass
as i have purposed so shall it stand that will break the asyrian in my land and upon my mountains
tread him underfoot then shall is yoked apart from off them and is burdened apart from off
their shoulders this is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth and this is the
hand that is stretched out upon all the nations for the lord of hosts hath purposed and who
shall disannul it and his hand is stretched out and who shall turn it back in the year that
king a has died which was was this burden rejoice thou not thou whole palestina because
the rod of him that sponthi is broken for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a
cockatrice and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent and the firstborn of the poor
shall feed and the needy shall lie down in safety and i will kill thy root with famine
and he shall slay thy remnant howl oh gate cry oh city thou whole palestina are dissolved
for there shall come forth from the north of smoke and none shall be alone
in his disappointed times what shall one then answer the messengers of the nation that the
lord hath founded zion and the poor of his people shall trust in him let's pray to the
lord god thank you for uh allowing us to be in your house lord just hearing the preaching
of your word lord just please full pastor i'm here with the holy spirit as he preaches unto
us and that us in the church uh can take something new from your word lord and apply
to our lives we pray this all in jesus name amen amen whoa powerful what's going on there
all right we're in isaiah chapter 14 this evening and we're continuing with our bible
study on the book of isaiah let me give you a little bit of review from chapter 13 just to
get us kind of caught up on what's going on here chapter 13 is essentially preaching against
babylon and keep in mind that this is prophetic because of the fact that babylon actually
doesn't come until about 100 years after so this is preaching 100 years prior to the destruction
of babylon and you know the lord is essentially using isaiah to prophesy of the immediate kingdom
that's coming 100 years from where he's at but it's also referring to end times babylon
and so we saw a lot of the parallels there in chapter 13 in that regard and the latter end
of chapter 13 is essentially talking about the fact that babylon shall be made desolate that
kingdom will be destroyed to the point where the beasts of the field will be inhabiting the land
because no one's going to dwell there okay now here in chapter 14 is a continuation of that
destruction chapter 13 mainly deals with the destruction of the people of the land but this
judgment proceeds forth into chapter 14 and it's going to deal with the king of babylon and
just as we saw with chapter 13 that is dealing with the immediate babylon but also the future
end times babylon in like manner in chapter 14 it's dealing with the immediate king of babylon
but also the demonic entity behind that king and of course there's some end times prophecy
fulfillment there as well so keep in mind that a lot of this has a lot of near and
distant fulfillment okay and you never want to fall into this preterist trap where you think
to yourself well all this stuff has already taken place it's not going to be fulfilled
you know god has multiple layers in his word and the word of god is very much powerful and even
though this is something that's happening in their immediate future immediate albeit 100
years from where they're at it obviously has a future fulfillment and the reason we know that
is because of the language that's being used a lot of the terms the languages that are being
used are repeated once again in the new testament specifically in the book of revelation and the
reason god does that is because he wants us to connect the dots you understand he wants us
to familiarize ourselves with the past and how it plays a part in the future now here again as
i mentioned is that the prophet isaiah is going to be addressing the human king of babylon
but as well as the principality of that king as well and this is a really famous chapter
because it's the only place where lucifer is mentioned right and we know according to
scripture even though it isn't used anywhere else then it's referring to satan and we'll get
into that in just a bit we're going to get into some very interesting stuff here but that's
mainly why this chapter is known as because of the of the fall of satan okay is what people
would often refer to it as now in this chapter as i mentioned we're dealing with two different
characters being addressed as one isaiah speaking of the literal king 100 years from where he's
at but also the demonic entity now let me just say this is the scholars will actually not
that we care what they think but you know just to kind of put it out there they will actually
disagree with the fact that this is also talking about satan and when i read some articles and
just different things that scholars are saying it's kind of like you guys are stupid you know
how do you like think that this is only referring to an earthly king and it just has
nothing to do with satan himself but the reality is this is that the natural man receiveth
not the things of the spirit of god and unsaved people can very are very good at you know
digesting information and just getting something that's at face value but you need a spirit of god
to help you to see the undertones and the underlying spiritual truths of god's word
because the bible is not only information but it's a spiritual book as well and it's to be read
in a spiritual manner and so they completely missed the boat on this and they think that
when it talks about lucifer it's not referring to satan it's just referring to the actual
king of babylon but we're going to see in just a bit why that would be a ridiculous claim
and if you think about it you know there's a when you read the chapter there's some pretty clear
elements in this passage that have a satanic undertone to it i mean you read it and it's
just like okay they can't be referring to an earthly king because it's talking about spiritual
realms talk about the fact that he's trying to send his throne into heaven and things of
that nature and when you compare this to another instance in the old testament where god is
addressing a particular king but then he's also telling that king in ezekah 28 that was then eden
well obviously at that point he's referring to satan because the king of tyre was not in eden
okay so obviously referring to lucifer satan and we'll see the parallels the the similarities
between the two chapters in just a bit now again as i mentioned at the latter end of
chapter 13 he's talking about the destruction of babylon and how animals and beasts of the
field are going to inhabit it and then he rolls right into verse number one of chapter 14 it says
for because the lord will have mercy on jacob and will yet choose israel and set them in
their own land so this is the contrast to the destruction that's going to come upon babylon
the lord is saying however i'm going to have mercy on israel i'm going to set them in their
own land and what is that referring to is that referring to the christ rejecting nation of
israel that we know today absolutely not what this is referring to is saved israelites throughout
history that at the resurrection they will come into their own land because in actuality the
promises are to those who are the seed of christ right and who have believed on the lord
jesus christ so this is a promise to that and it says and the strangers shall be joined
with them who are the strangers it's us it's gentile believers right even though both
by our of twain are made one new man you know essentially we are all this chosen generation
of jew and gentile and it says and they shall cleave to the house of jacob now why
why will we as gentile believers cleave into the house of jacob is it because of the fact
that there is jews and israelites there no it's because jesus christ will be there
and he's going to be ruling and reigning from israel during the millennial reign and it says
and the people shall take them and bring them to their place and the house of israel shall
possess them in the land of the lord for servants and handmaids and they shall take
them captives whose captives they were and they shall rule over their oppressors now this is
something that literally happened but you know obviously the layered spiritual meaning that we
get behind that is the fact that believers are going to be ruling and reigning with christ
for a thousand years and to a certain extent you can say we're going to be ruling over the
oppressors or whatever and you know this could be referring to unregenerated people
that transition into the millennial reign from you know the three and a half years of god's wrath
being poured on this earth you know obviously that's all speculation but we know that that's
actually going to take place in the millennial reign we are going to rule and reign and we
shall rule with the rod of iron it says in verse number three it shall come to pass in the
day that the lord shall give thee rest from all from thy sorrow and from thy fear and from
the hard bondage wherein thou was made to serve that thou shall keep take up this proverb against
the king of babylon and say how hath the oppressor ceased the golden city ceased
the lord hath broken the staff of the wicked and the scepter of the rulers he who smote the
people in wrath with the continual stroke he that rule the nation nations in anger is persecuted
and none hindereth the whole earth is at rest and it's quiet they break forth into singing
yea the fir trees rejoice at thee cedars of lebanon saying since thou are laid down no
feller is come up against us so what's this referring to well the first two verses is just
kind of giving us a picture of the restoration of israel something that is repeated throughout the
book of isaiah and other books but then from verses three to eight we see a proverb for
babylon and what this is referring to is the fact that god is just reminding his people you
know that babylon will be a byword in a proverb one day because of the fact that they will be
destroyed and people will look upon them and they will say oh man the oppressor has ceased
babylon is no longer ruling over us and the golden city has come to an end you know god's
broken the staff of the wicked it's essentially addressing the fact that hey god has given us
the victory over our oppressors you know we're no longer under the wicked hand of the babylonians
and it even says in verse eight that the fir trees rejoice at thee the cedars of lebanon and
historically babylon was known for just going through lebanon just chopping down all the trees
and using it for their own interests or whatever it is that they're doing
and so it would it was made desolate during that time but here it's saying that the cedars
shall grow they shall prosper and they will even rejoice at the fact that babylon
is removed and it says since thou are laid down no fellers come up against us this is not
uh southern saying by the way you know listen here feller a feller is someone who
fells trees in other words chops down trees okay so just you're not mistaken at that now
this is very reminiscent of revelation 14 where you have the angel saying babylon is fallen
is fallen the great city and it's a proverb that's even repeated throughout uh the book of
revelation more specifically in chapter 18 when the destruction of babylon comes into place
and really what the principle that we can learn from those verses is that you know when
uh the righteous are in authority the people rejoice right when wicked people are destroyed
when they're removed from the seat of authority the oppressors are completely wiped out people
are happy about that you know when the oppressor is removed and so in the immediate future of
israel this is going to happen but when we think about the spiritual oppressor known as satan
there will be a day where he will no longer vex the righteous right he will no longer tempt
us accuse us he will no longer attack us he will be cast into the bottomless pit and yet even
after that thousand years after the battle of gog and magog he's going to be cast into the lake of
fire his presence will be here no more and it's like we're going to rejoice at that okay because
of the fact that you know he's accused us night and day he fights us he is our adversary
he is our enemy he is seeking to devour you to destroy you to kill you and so one day that
will not be a theme in our lives it'll be a thing of the past right now look at verse number
nine we're going to look at the king's damnation now let me make a couple comments before we read
this because now we're going to get into some deep stuff here and let me just obviously we
know that when we read this this is referring to satan this is referring to lucifer but a good
question to ask is well who's the actual king though that's being addressed right like who's
the actual earthly king that's being condemned here because we can't remove one without the
other it's talking about both and each has their distinctive you know characteristics that
are being addressed in the chapter but in general both are being addressed and we know
what parts are referring to satan but what parts are referring to the king and who's the
king that's being referred to here now in general people will say that it's possibly
Nebuchadnezzar but here's the thing we don't really know for sure okay i can see why
people would think that you know when you think of the book of daniel and some of the things that
Nebuchadnezzar did in daniel where he set up the you know his form of the abomination of
desolation he's somewhat of a picture of the antichrist right you know he was very much proud
and haughty to the point where god removed his sanity for seven years so you can see you
can draw some parallels between what's being stated here in chapter 14 of isaiah and what's
going on in Nebuchadnezzar's life or what's being recorded in the book of daniel but let me
just say this and i'm not dogmatic about this this is just something that i'm going to propose
i was i would suggest that it's actually probably referring to his grandson belshazzar
okay and why is that well for a couple reasons one when you look at what the
condemnation of the king of babylon is in this particular chapter he goes to hell
okay i mean it spends a significant amount of time talking about the the fact that the
dude's gonna split hell wide open and obviously we can't prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt
but from the evidence provided in the book of daniel it would seem as though Nebuchadnezzar was
a safe person towards the latter end right he's giving glory to god obviously he was a very
proud and arrogant person initially but once he's humbled once his sanity is removed from him
and he regains his sanity he gives glory to the god of heaven to the god of israel and it
seems to paint Nebuchadnezzar towards the latter end in a good light you know almost to the extent
that it seems as though he has god's favor you know he might be a safe person and obviously
you know when we go to heaven we're like where's where's nebu at you know and it's just
like down there he's been burning ever since like oh man i thought that guy was saved you know
but you know he might be in heaven we don't know i personally think that he probably will
be i think he was saved but you know i don't doubt for a second that belshazzar was not saved
okay he's a very wicked person and if you skip down to verse 22 here's another reason why i
think that it's probably referring to belshazzar it says for i will rise up against them
saith the lord of hosts and i cut off from babylon the name and remnant and son and nephew
saith the lord and one thing you have to understand in the bible when the bible talks about
nephew we think of nephew today as being you know my brother or my sister's son but in the
bible it's actually referring to like a grandson okay and so you know it specifically addresses
the fact that he's going to cut off the nephew and of course the grandson of nebu kinesa
is belshazzar and in the context of both chapters babylon is being destroyed it's being
removed well who was the last king before it was destroyed was belshazzar right you know once
he sees the writing on the wall judgment is pronounced upon him then you have the
medo-persian empire taking over after him okay and we'll get into that just a bit so just keep
that in mind it's probably referring it might be referring to belshazzar i can't prove that
beyond a shadow of a doubt i'm not dogmatic about it but i think there's some pretty good
evidence to prove that it probably is and in fact belshazzar means bail protect the king
that's what it means you know bail referring to satan you know the wicked one the one who's
being talked about here protect the king and satan is the one who is essentially watching over
babylon at this point you understand and obviously he couldn't protect the king because
no one can protect anybody from god look at verse nine so now we're going to get into his
damnation it says hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming
it stirs up the dead for thee even all the chief ones of the earth it has raised up from
their thrones all the kings of the nations all they shall speak and say unto the earth thou
also become weak as we art thou become like unto us thy pomp and the word for pomp is pride
arrogance thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy vials the worm is spread
under thee and the worms cover thee and obviously this is addressing i'm gonna say
belshazzar just for the sake of the sermon because i'm trying to stick to the theme here
but reality is this is basically what everyone can expect who dies without christ right
hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming and you know we should never get
over the fact that hell is a real place amen it's a legitimate place of fire and brimstone
it's not metaphorical it's not symbolic people are tormented day and night and anybody
who dies without the free gift of eternal life will split hell wide open you know and so uh and
by the way it doesn't matter if you're poor doesn't matter if you're just a common person you
could be a king and and go to hell as well god is no respecter of people and if you reject
the free gift of eternal life that's exactly where you go for all of eternity
now go with me if you went to daniel chapter 5 hold your place there
uh in isaiah 14 and we're going to just quickly look at the story of
belshazzar we're not going to read the entire chapter but you know belshazzar was very
blasphemous and historically they actually say that when the medo-persian empire came and took
over one of the reasons they were able to catch them off guard is because the king at
that time was throwing a great feast that essentially you know uh distracted them from
being taken over and in fact daniel chapter 5 highlights the fact that belshazzar died that
night okay look at verse 22 of daniel chapter 5 in doubt his son oh belshazzar has not
humbled thine heart though thou knewest all this referring to the fact that you know he
has knowledge that nebkenezer was prideful arrogant and god had to humble him god worked
in his life it was a very public humbling right of nebkenezer and even though belshazzar
is a descendant of nebkenezer he has knowledge of this he chose not to be humble he chose to
be prideful as well and in fact he chose to go further than what nebkenezer did okay
says in verse 23 but has lifted up thyself against the lord of heaven you know he's basically
you know i will ascend up into heaven right that pride and they have brought the brought
the vessels of his house before thee and down thy lords thy wives and thy concubines
have drunk wine in them and has praised the gods of silver of gold of brass iron wood and
stone which see not nor hear nor know and the god in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all
thy ways hast thou not glorified so think about this you know he's so arrogant and prideful that
he takes the vessels of the house of god and he chooses to use them for sinful and pure
practices drink alcohol and party and then commend that unto false gods i mean you don't think
god is going to be mad at that you don't think god wants to strike vengeance upon a person
who just openly mocks god in such a manner he says in verse 24 then was the part of the
hand sent from him and this writing was written this is the writing that was written many many
tekel ufarsin this is the interpretation of the thing many god hath numbered thy kingdom
and finished it right because it's basically it ends with him and it proceeds with the
medo-persian empire tekel thou are weighed in the balances and are found wanting
now what does that mean well this is basically the resume of every single unsafe person
you know i think that when god you know when i die there's a balance god's gonna see how
much good i do how much bad i do and then he'll judge me based upon that yeah you're right
that's exact you got it that's exactly what he's gonna do but the only thing is there
is no good there's nothing to do with good or not one there's none righteous knowing i won
and so every single human being in this world who's not saved
you know they will be weighed in the balances and they shall be wanting wanting means what
lacking there's no righteousness on your part in fact the bible says that all righteousness
are as filthy rags and so this person is weighed in the balances and he's definitely
found wanting because aside from just like regular sins that he commits he's blasphemous
he's reviling god he's defiling the accoutrements of the house of god and being prideful and arrogant
this is his judgment verse 28 paris thy kingdom is divided and given to the meads and persians
then commanded belchazzar and they clothed daniel with scarlet and put a chain of gold
about his neck and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the
kingdom this is pretty funny isn't it like he like condemns him to death he's telling me
you're gonna die and it's just like that's what i'm talking about get this guy a scarlet
robe i knew you could do it he like rewards him but you know what this is how blinded people
are today i mean think about how many times you preach the gospel to someone they get it
all and they're like whoa well anyways hey man i gotta go uh i'll come visit you one day
you know see what happens and it's just like that's so weird but that's how people are
yeah because he's he's he's fearful he's like quaking right says that his knees are clanking
together so he knows the judgment is given to him he believes it but it doesn't change
anything verse 30 in that night was belchazzar the king of the caldians slain and there is
the median took the kingdom being about three score and two years old go back to isaiah chapter
14 so i believe that when belchezza were slain he went straight to hell
you know that that was he was weighed in the balances was found wanting and what a way to go
out just completely defiling the how the the instruments of the house of god praising false
gods and you know he's been there for the last couple thousand years or so because of his of his
pride and even though he lifted up himself god brought him down to hell and so um and let me
say this is that when it comes to that topic of pride you know that's the number one reason
why people don't get saved it's the number one reason why people don't get saved because
of pride i mean pride is the number one reason why people just reject anybody who could choose
the bible not just like salvation just anything i mean you run into a saved person who you're
trying to give the word of god to you trying to teach them what the bible says if they're
setting their ways just mark it down because they're prideful it's pride they're not willing
to admit they're wrong pride will be the reason why the majority of people in hell are in hell
and will go to hell but pride is also the reason why christians stunt their growth
they're not willing to learn they're not willing to humble themselves to learn from the word of
god and so the earthly king is being addressed but the person who's also being addressed is
the prince of the power of the air who we know as satan and when you read this you also kind
of see that there's you know obviously he's addressing the physical king of that time
and satan but there's also a striking resemblance to end times prophecy because you
could say like the antichrist is the king of babylon too right and of course he's thrown
into the lake of fire and then judgment is also given to satan himself because the dragon gave
him his power now let's look at the parallel to satan in verse 12 here's the famous passage here
how art thou fallen from heaven oh lucifer okay scholars so explain to me how is this referring
to a physical king no one starts off in heaven you know there's people who believe that stuff
it was like oh we all started off in heaven no we didn't we started off in the loins of
our father that's where everyone starts off do you know biology
this is obviously addressing a spiritual entity because it's telling them it's telling us the
reader that this person's origins began in heaven how art thou fallen from heaven o lucifer
son of the morning how art thou cut down to the ground which did weaken the nations
for thou hast said in thine heart i will ascend into heaven i will exalt my throne above
the stars of god i will sit also upon the mountain of the congregation in the sides of the north
verse 14 i will send above the heights of the clouds i will meet i will be like the most high
yet thou shall be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit now lucifer this is
actually the only time the name is used in the bible but of course we know that it's satan
for various reasons that we're going to cover but let me just talk about this phrase son of
the morning okay because the modern versions will render this as morning star right and we
know based upon the king james bible that the the true morning star is jesus christ this is
how it describes him in revelation 2 and revelation 22 but here's the thing is that
literature outside of the bible will actually refer to lucifer as the morning star and so
it's not just the modern versions of the bible a lot of literature outside of the bible
that you know outside of any dialogue of religious context will actually refer to lucifer
as being the morning star and i'm referring to literature that is describing the planet venus
because lucifer is actually the name historically of the planet venus and they actually refer to
it as the morning star okay now let me just say a couple things here because obviously we do not
agree with the translation of the modern versions that name this uh this verse or place morning star
in this particular verse why because it doesn't fit the biblical narrative of the bible and the
narrative of the bible is that jesus christ is the morning star so why do people refer to it
as that why do people refer to lucifer venus as the morning star well because of the fact that
it's a wandering star okay and we could say even that it's like a fake star doesn't cast its own
illumination it's a pseudo star so to speak you know the true star in our solar system would be
the sun and in fact the bible refers to jesus christ also in the book of malachi as the
son of righteousness s-u-n and it's not saying that he is that actual light in the sun
it's using that as a picture of symbolic representation of the true
son of righteousness okay you know we don't worship the sun helios or whatever you know
god has placed the heavenly bodies there in such a way that he can use them to illustrate
spiritual truths okay and so the the actual sun represents the lord jesus christ because he
illuminates you know he the day star it arises in our hearts it illuminates us to spiritual
truths you know he is the light of the world right which is the sun this is the light which
lighteth every man that cometh into the world the bible tells us in john chapter one
i mean over and over again it draws that parallel that jesus christ is the light of men
okay and so you know when we look at the sun it's not like oh jesus you know we're just
worshiping the sun we have the discernment we have the spirit of god that tells us
that's a beautiful picture right there of the son of god and then we just like walk away you
know we're like cool you know and that's it and in fact i mean there's a lot of parallels
you can draw between that you can't stare at the sun directly because the glory of that
physical sun can blind you amen and in like manner you know the glory of jesus some people
in the bible would see the glory of god and they just fall down prostrate and they're almost
as dead okay and so he is the true sun whereas venus would be considered the reason they consider
him to be the morning star is because of the fact that it shows up in the morning
the difference is is that when it shows up it illuminates briefly it comes before the actual
sun but once the actual sun shows up it just completely overshadows and just overtakes venus
and you no longer see venus so there's only twice that you could actually view venus once is
you know right after the sun goes down and then once right right before it comes up
and here's the thing is that any human being will be able to tell the difference between the
two right like you may see that you may see venus and be like that's not the sun
unless you're stupid
right unless you're just an idiot because there's a major difference between the two
and if anybody just wonders which one they just wait a couple minutes
and you'll know which one's the real sun right well obviously there's prophetic
undertones to that is it not because you know a lot of people will be deceived by the
antichrist who is the quote morning star he comes as a what angel of light he is the
antichrist and in fact he's trying to duplicate everything that jesus christ does
and when you look at end times bible prophecy doesn't matter what the pre-tripper say
you know the antichrist comes first
and he will show great signs and wonders to the point that if it were possible could
deceive even the very elect so people are going to say look it's the sun
you know in the desert the secret chambers but here's the thing people who are saved know
the difference they're like that's not jesus you're tripping bro that ain't jesus you're
about to go get killed if you think that's jesus but you know what you know people are just dumb
blinded unsaved mainstream christians who don't preach the right gospel who think that they're
saved they're going to look at venus aka the antichrist and think that that's the son of
righteousness but anybody who's saved who has the day star arised in their hearts will not be
deceived by that because we know that this planet venus who can be seen the physical planet
that can be seen because of its close proximity to the sun you know just because it's
close proximity to the sun they'll know that it's not the real deal and they just got to wait
a little bit if you want to get specific about it they got to wait 75 days you know what
i mean just a short little time before they see the actual sun because when you look at
anti-prophecy everything that the antichrist does everything that he does he tries to duplicate
he tries to copy because he's a counterfeit of jesus christ his new world order is a copycat of
the millennial reign even the fact that he comes back to life is a copycat of the
resurrection of jesus christ i mean the four horsemen of the apocalypse in my opinion is a
counterfeit of the horsemen that we see in revelation chapter nine everything he does even
his forerunner right the false prophet pictures john the baptist who's a forerunner of jesus christ
he's not original so he's trying to copy the lord jesus christ as best as possible
and only those who think venus is the sun are going to be deceived by it
and so you say then are you saying then that the modern versions got it right no
because of the fact that who cares what a bunch of people said venus is called
the bible says that jesus christ is the morning star
and you know there's a reason why he says it as is you know because he wants us to make a
distinction between the two and that's why the modern versions are very much questionable
translations dandable translations because they obviously try to mix the two and you can't tell
me that the modern versions of the bible do not seek to infiltrate and give undertones and you
know pervert scripture to prepare the way of the antichrist i mean that's one prime example
right there let me read you a couple scriptures here revelation 228 says i will give him the
morning star he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches
revelation 22 16 i jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches
i am the root and offspring of david and the bright and morning star the bible says
go to second peter hold your place there in israel go to second peter chapter two
you said then why is lucifer referred to as the son of the morning
well a couple things here you don't want to get you want to look too far into that because
honestly you know there's people who believe that the angels are the sons of god
but notice it doesn't say that it's lucifer the son of god says that he's the son of the morning
and there are instances in the bible where the where the bible will use son of something
in a metaphorical manner to describe where where they come from or to associate them with
the particular time frame like for example you have the antichrist who's the son of what
perdition perdition doesn't give birth to him it's just like something that's associated
with the antichrist so when it says son of the morning it's referring to the fact that lucifer is
begotten the planet being is essentially is begotten of the morning it's close proximity
to when the morning starts that's when you can see him okay and obviously you know you can
relate that to antines prophecy that when you see these things come to pass lift up your heads
for your redemption draweth nigh the bible also tell tells us and no marvel for satan himself
is transformed into an angel of light and of course the angel capital a of the lord is the
lord jesus christ and so you see those end times undertones there look at second peter
chapter 2 verse 19 excuse me chapter 1 and verse 19 it says we have also a more short
word of prophecy where until you do well that you take heed as unto a light that shineth in a
dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts and what this is saying is
that you know the word of god has the power to convert the heart and it says there that our
hearts can essentially are like a dark place why because it's an obscurity from biblical truth
doesn't know the way of salvation off hand doesn't know how to you know get saved it doesn't
have those biblical truths but the word of god shines in that dark place when a soul
winner comes and preaches the gospel he's illuminating the heart of the need for salvation
and the solution for the problem of sin and the penalty of hell and it says until the day
dawn and eventually what the day star arise in here who's the day star jesus christ
and a good way to describe this is that each and every one of us received a level of truth
throughout our lives that it eventually led us to the saving knowledge of jesus christ
you know that more short word of prophecy came to us in bits and pieces throughout our life
and we learned a little bit here we learned a little bit there until when until the day
star arose in our hearts someone gave us the complete gospel and it clicked and we called
upon the name of the lord and of course now we're saved and so this is what the bible is
referring to here the point that i'm making here is that jesus christ is the day star he is
the morning star and although the modern versions of the bible got it wrong
they're doing it wrong on purpose scholars or people writers authors of secular material
outside of the context of the bible they're doing it because they just refer to all the
planets as wandering stars and because venus is like the first plan that you see in the morning
they just refer to it as the morning star so you know they don't know any better and to a certain
extent they are right but it's just as right to say that they share the same names like
christ and then the anti-christ it's a false christ you understand so there's a false morning
star and there is a true morning star and this is why it's important to know your end times bible
prophecy because you know the bible specifically tells us that the anti-christ shall come first
the son of perdition he's the one who arises first associated with the morning he's the son of
the morning that's who everyone's going to see first in the end times and then the lord
jesus christ thereafter go back to isaiah chapter 14 i want you to notice in verse 13 of course
this is the condemnation of satan and before we continue to read let me just say this is that
you know when it comes to the fall of satan there's multiple falls of satan throughout the
bible if you think about it you know we can consider his fall in the garden of eden as being
a fall essentially that he decided to rebel against the lord and tempt eve and essentially
become what we would refer to as a fallen angel right but then also you have the instance that he
essentially falls from heaven when he's excommunicated in revelation chapter 12
when he's defeated by michael and his archangels and then you know believers have 75 days
thereafter he comes and makes war with the saints and he overcomes them and what takes place
there is that satan is removed cast out of heaven because at this point he has access to heaven
why because of the fact that he's accusing us before god day night and satan and his
principalities and powers can't do anything to you without first getting permission
so this is constant war going on in heaven where he's walking to and fro he's getting
permission and we have an example of that in job chapter one where you know he goes to god and
it's not like they just ran into each other like hey you know where has that been he's like
well walking to and fro throughout the earth you know it's just like they're not catching up or
something he's giving an account because god requires an account of satan of what his what
he's doing and then what is what does god do has thou considered my servant joe showing us
that he he has satan on a short leash understand and what you can gather from that is that
anytime you go through a difficult time just know this god allowed it don't allow that for you
to become bitter towards god just understand like god's in control they didn't catch god off guard
it's not like god doesn't know about this he allowed it to happen to prune you to make
you a better christian to help you to increase your faith and obviously it's not
pleasant when we go through a hard time but you know what it is necessary i don't know any
person who goes through a hard time is just like yes all right
it sucks you know but you know it's important to have the right mindset though and to bring
your mind into alignment and recognize okay what are the principles that i learned as a christian
i'm going through a hard time all right god allowed it satan is attacking me because i'm his
enemy but there's no temptation taking but such is common to man like that's when you need to
remember all those things the reason i say is because christians just soon forget when they go
through a trial they just freak out and then they just do the exact opposite of everything i
told them to do they just every sermon just goes out the window all their bible reading
goes out the window because they just panic but don't panic when you go through a trial just like
let me remember everything that i've that i've learned because you know i'm here for such
a time as this and you know this is what god's preparing me for is for this trial i'm getting
pruned right now okay but the point that i'm making is that satan will attack you and he'll
continue to attack you to the point where he's cast out of heaven excommunicated permanently
and then he's going to physically attack people it's called making war with the saints and he's
going to put them to death and he's going to overcome them so you have the fall of satan
where he rebels against the lord in the garden of eda i'm preaching an entire sermon called
the biography of satan which i strongly encourage you to go listen to that just go on
pastor bruce media sermons.com someone made that website it's a really cool website and it has
just all of my sermons and you you hit the command f option you type in biography and
biography of satan will come up you will not be disappointed in that so it's a really cool
sermon and it'll explain a lot about the fall of satan i'm just giving you like a condensed
version here so you you know he had that fall then you have the fall from heaven where he's
excommunicated but then you have another fall when he's thrown into the bottomless pit
after the battle of armageddon the final fall of satan is when he's cast into the lake of
fire at the great white throne judgment and that's what this chapter is referring to when
he says how art thou fallen from heaven oh lucifer he's referring to the fact that he's looking
into the future where satan falls because it's referring to hell and there's no other time where
he's permanently in hell other than at the white throne judgment but isn't it interesting
that he says how art thou what fallen now what is that past tense so there's times in
the bible where god speaks of future events in the past tense because obviously from his
personal will i will ascend well there's a man of perdition in the end times who will oppose
and exalt himself above all that is called god or that is worshiped so that he as god
sitteth in the temple of god showing himself that he is god
so you have that now go to ezekio chapter 28 ezekio chapter 28
because you know you you read this and it's just like oh for sure this is referring to
the devil because it has to be referring to satan but then scholars are like nope
there's actual king named lucifer nothing to do with the devil you know it's just like
oh it's just poetic you know things that are just being stated there
so you i i'm sure you're also going to tell me that jonah was actually in hell right
but you know luckily we have another we have another chapter where god essentially does the
same thing to the prophet ezekiel and he addresses satan once again as being the king of tyre
and uh you say well you know i thought babylon you know what's well you know satan throughout
the ages essentially just rules over kingdoms you know he was over the babylonian empire
babylonian empire the egyptian empire the asyrian empire the medo-persian empire
the grecian empire the roman empire america oh wait you know the american empire
he's still operating that's why it refers to him as being a principality power the rulers of
the darkness of this world he's constantly puppeteering the rulers of this world
to perform his bidding understand and so we have another example look at ezekah 28 verse 11
moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying son of man take up a lamentation upon
the king of tyros and say unto him thus saith the lord god thou sealest up the sum full
of wisdom and perfect in beauty thou has been in the in eden the garden of god okay now for
sure it's not referring to the actual king every precious stone was thy covering the sardis
topaz the diamond the barrel the onyx the jasper the sapphire the emerald the carbuncle and gold
this guy is decked out he is every rapper's envy
the workmanship of thy tabards and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that was created
thou art the anointed cherub that covereth for sure not referring to a king
you don't call kings cherub a cherub and i've said these so that was upon the holy
mountain of god that was walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire
that was perfect in thy ways from the date that that was created till iniquity was found in thee
by the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence and thou
has sinned therefore i will cast thee as a profane as a as profane out of the mountain
of god and i will destroy the or covering cherub from the midst of the stones of fire
thine heart listen to this was lifted up because of thy beauty
thou has corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness i will cast thee to the ground
i will lay thee before kings listen to this that they may behold thee when you read isaiah
14 that's exactly what he does to the king of babylon he cast them to hell and then kings
are going to look at him and be like this is the guy who destroyed us this is the guy who
destroyed nations he says in verse 18 that was to follow thy sanctuaries by the multitude of
thy iniquities by the iniquity of thy traffic therefore will i bring forth a fire from the
midst of thee it shall devour thee i will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight
of all them that behold thee all they that know thee among the people shall be astonished
at thee thou shall be a terror and never shalt thou be any more and so we see the parallels
there with isaiah chapter 14 because when he cast them down into hell he spends a considerable
amount of time just just highlighting the reaction of those who are in hell towards
lucifer they're like this is the guy who kept us in bondage in fact go back to isaiah 14
we'll finish up here look at verse 16 they that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee
and consider thee saying is this the man that made the earth to tremble that did shake the
king shake kingdoms and when i think about that this is how i see like when it says narrow
narrowly looked upon thee it's like this is the guy he's the one who just like is responsible
for all this freaking chaos i mean think about that because one thing about satan is that he
suffers the same eternal punishment as everyone he's joining them right he's being
and in fact i mean he's being thrown in there first so when people go down they're just like
this is the guy he says that made the world as a wilderness and destroy the cities thereof
that open not the house of his prisoners now obviously there could be some very similar
parallels to the actual king because these are exploits that he could have done in his reign
right but you can see the spiritual parallel there because satan does keep people in bondage
he does imprison people in vice he imprisons people with philosophies vain deceits false
beliefs false religion you know this is the reason why people have to overcome
in order to be saved they have to overcome their false beliefs
i mean folks have you ever preached the gospel to someone and it's just like it just goes over
their head they just don't get it and you want to shake them and be like you know it's so simple
but it's because they're imprisoned like their mind is in prison to to deceit and lies
and you know think about it for a minute how you were before you got saved
the fact you didn't know how to get saved and think about that moment where it just clicked to
you and you're just like i get it like what what the heck you know you're just like awake to the
truth you know what the bible refers to as it refers to as you recovering yourself out of
the snare of the devil that's what it refers to us because everyone prior to salvation you're
just enslaved to the false doctrines and the philosophies of this world and you're just kind
of like in the course of this world you're going according to the course of this world
according to the prince of power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children
of disobedience you know just serving the lust of your mind and just kind of living life
but then the truth is given to you and it's just like oh man i'm going to hell wait a minute
and then you're given you you know they tell you they believe on jesus christ it's a free
gift it's eternal you can never lose it it's not by works not by repenting of your sins
and just clicks clicks clicks clicks and then you're just in a different world after that
then you're just like i get it you know what that is it's like you're out of prison
it's not until you get saved that you're like i was in this prison and i didn't even know it
all the kings of the nations even all of them lie in glory everyone in his own house and you
know what's amazing is that there's going to be multitudes of people in hell
throughout the ages who just wasted their life in frivolous matters of nations that nations
waste their time in all for what for hell
what shall the prophet man if he shall gain the whole world lose his own soul
julius caesar conquered the known world he's one of the most famous people
you know in history everyone wants to be like him the guy's in hell
all that was for nothing for not it is not it is not saved the buyer
many kings throughout this throughout the ages just died and went to hell
yeah they did great alexander the great did great exploits he's in hell
right all of them are and you know they're they're gonna see satan and they're gonna be like he's the
one who deceived us into all of this and so um the point that i'm making here is that
you know let's not take preaching the gospel lightly not that we do but you know
let's not even take us being saved lightly
thank god for the soul winner thank god for the person who preached the gospel to us
who helped us recover ourselves from the snares of the devil who came to us and helped us i
mean i mean folks just think about it you could man it you could have died you could have
gone to hell right and there's going to be multitudes of people who are in hell they're
in hell now the main thrust of this sermon of this chapter is the fact that satan is the
one responsible for a lot of the chaos of this world but at the end of the day he's going
to get his this is a proclamation of judgment upon lucifer the light bearer
the pseudo god the false king and what this is showing us is that god will leave
no stone unturned everyone's gonna get theirs he's gonna punish
anyone and not even the principalities will survive god's judgment upon them
and and here's the thing is that you're like well i want to see it in my day why is
it preaching and it didn't happen till like 100 years after so you know this is god's program
and you know he's the one who decides when it takes place and when it doesn't
and so you know thank god for salvation and thank god that our adversary the devil will be
vanquished one day because this is it's already written in the bible so therefore it's settled
in heaven in heaven and you know you kind of wonder like do devils read the bible every
once in a while just kind of like you know they're like oh man i don't want to read this
part right here this is i know what that says you know it was written thousands of years ago
but you know what it doesn't matter how long ago it was written god's gonna keep it it's gonna
happen and so let's pray father we thank you so much for your word lord help us to not take
salvation lightly not take preaching the gospel lightly but also help us not to take our
adversary the devil lightly either he's a master at deception he's a master at being having
cunningly devised fables and even though we've recovered ourselves out of the snares of the devil
when we got saved and we came to the saving knowledge of jesus christ even though to a certain
extent we defeated satan by the fact that we believed on you for salvation lord he can greatly
hinder us in this lifetime as a christian and lord as as your people i pray that we remain
vigilant and may we have wisdom lord and help us to take on the whole armor of god
and realize that satan is walking about as a roaring lion he's seeking who he may whom he
may devour he's trying to disable christians through sin through bitterness through distractions
through covetousness many avenues by which he's trying to just stop the work of god
i pray that lord you'd help us to pray lord may we walk with you all the days of our life
may we read the bible and put you first lord and when you do allow satan to attack us
and even to destroy our lives to a certain extent lord help us to realign our minds to the
word of god and remember the things that we have learned so that we don't go astray
and uh become a casualty and so lord may you bless us as we go on our way give us a great
weekend to follow we love you we thank you we pray these things in jesus name amen