In the soul cleansing blood of the lamb
Fire garments of a sunny white as the lamb
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin
And be washed in the blood of the lamb
There's a fountain flowing for the soul and queen
Oh, be washed in the blood of the lamb
in the blood, in the soul, cleansing blood of the Lamb.
Are your garments spotless, or they white as snow?
Are you wash in the blood of the Lamb?
All right, great singing.
Welcome to First Works Baptist Church.
Just a few announcements here.
before we're seeing our next song, which will be 106.
Abide with me if you want to get that ready in your song books, 106.
If you did not get a bulletin, go ahead and raise your hand.
One of the ushers can get one for you.
Some important information on there.
Of course, we welcome you to come back to our Sunday evening service at 5 p.m.
and then we have a Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock.
We are currently going through the book of John
and we will be in John chapter 6 this coming week.
So, hope to see you then.
We are a family integrated church
their parents in the service but for your convenience there are mother baby rooms located
throughout the building should your child need some diversion if you're infant your baby gets a
little fussy gets a little out of hand you can go out of the service into one of these rooms they
we do have speakers and screens available there as well as changing tables and so you can still
tune into the preaching come back in at your discretion and so just keep that in mind if you
need to know the location of the mother baby rooms you can ask one of the ushers who are here in
and they will guide you to one of them.
You see the soul winning times
and teams listed there in the middle
and the list of expecting mothers,
if you can keep them in prayer.
And then the stats for Salvation and Baptisms
for the month of July,
there at the bottom left hand corner.
I do wanna mention this regarding souling
before I get into my announcements.
I wanna challenge our church to complete
2,000 salvations by the end of the year. We're pretty close, but let me just give you a little bit
of a challenge here for all the teams and talkers of our church. If each team, we have seven teams
in our church. If each team got seven salvations a week from here until the end of the year,
we can hit the 2,000 mark, even a little above the 2,000 mark. And pretty much we have about 60
talkers in our church approximately. And so if each talker got about one salvation a week,
we can hit the 2,000 mark.
And so I think that's doable.
And in fact, I believe we can exceed that goal pretty well.
And so I want to challenge the church to do so.
I'm doing my part.
I'm sure the team leaders are doing their part.
Get a vision for souls, amen?
To, and look, if you think to yourself,
well, you know, I just don't have time
to go out and preach the gospel,
come talk to me, we'll make time for you.
Well, you want to go out at midnight?
We can go out at midnight if you want, you know?
You want to, what time do you want to go?
We'll go, not midnight, but you know,
whatever time you need,
we'll try to arrange a time for you
where if it's like some crazy hour,
I'll get brother Hernandez or evangelist
to go with you at two o'clock in the morning.
We'll make it happen for you.
He does not mind at all.
His wife doesn't mind at all.
You can, I'll give you his number.
You can call him at speed dial.
And so,
The point is, we gotta make it happen, amen?
Wanna hit 2,000 salvations by the end of the year.
We're on track, but I just wanna cast that vision
for those of you who are preachers of the gospel
and those of you who are learning to preach the gospel.
May this be a motivation to you
so that you learn within the next couple of months
so you can be a part of this goal
that we're trying to reach for 2,000 salvations
by the end of the year.
So pray to that end, but work to that end as well.
TJ Missionist trip is coming up on Saturday.
August 30th, leaving the building at 9.15 a.m.
Of course, the expenses are paid for.
Just make sure you bring your passport
so you're not a permanent missionary.
You can talk to Brother Hernandez
for more details about that.
Men's Prayer Night, it's coming up
on Friday, September 5th,
meaning at the building at 7 p.m., dinner is provided.
Men wanna encourage you to bring your sons with you,
to pray with you.
and to go over the needs of the church.
And then of course, our church anniversary is coming up on Sunday, September 14th.
We'll give you more info as far as what we're going to do on that special day.
And please make sure you silence your phones during the preaching
so as to not be a distraction during the service.
And that is it for our announcements.
106, abide with me.
Song number 106. Abide with me.
All together, nice and strong in that first verse.
Abide with me.
Fast falls the eventine.
The darkness depends.
Earth's joys grow dimmest, glories pass away, change and decay in all around I see.
can foil the temp.
Amen. Wonderful singing. At this time, the ushers will come forth to receive the offering.
Turn your Bibles to Colossians chapter 2. Colossians chapter number 2.
in Colossians chapter number two. Colossians chapter two. The Bible reads,
For a wood that you knew, what great conflict I have for you, and for them at
Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh.
that their hearts might be comforted
being knit together in love
and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding
to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God
and of the Father and of Christ
in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
In this I say, let's tend to mention
but guile you with enticing words.
For though I be absent in the flesh,
yet am I with you in the spirit,
joying and beholding your order
and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
As you therefore receive Christ Jesus the Lord,
so walk ye in him.
rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith as he had been taught,
abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,
and ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power,
in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands,
in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.
Buried with him in baptism. We're ain't also you're raised with him through the faith of the operation of God
What raised him from the dead and you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh that he quickened together with him
Having forgiven you all trespasses blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us
Which was contrary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to his cross and having spoiled principalities and powers
He made a show of them openly triumphing over the minute
Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of an holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days
Which are which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ
Let no man begal you of your reward and a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels and treating it to those things
Which you have not seen vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind
Not holding the head from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered and knit together
increases with the increase of God
Wherefore, if he be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why is the living
in the world a use subject to ordinances, touch not, taste not, handle not, which all
are to perish with the using, after the commandments and doctrines of men, which things have indeed
to show wisdom and will worship and humility and neglecting of the body, not in any honor
to the satisfying of the flesh.
It's a prayer, dear Lord God, thank you for your word.
Thank you for this opportunity to hear a preach.
I just ask that you would bless our pastor with your Holy Spirit
now.
Please give us understanding, God bless
to be edified through the preaching.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.
Okay, we're in Colossians 2 this morning and the time I'm serving today is the doctrine
of angels and demons.
The doctrine of angels and demons.
You know, there's a lot of weird teaching out there regarding angels and demons, a lot
of stuff that just kind of sprouts out of the imagination of people who the Bible says
are vainly puffed up.
And obviously, there's various sources that they get their information from that are outside
of the Bible.
You think of the book of Enoch, for example, that the Bible specifically tells us does
not exist because Enoch prophesied of these things.
He didn't write of these things, yet you have a book called the book of Enoch.
that focuses mainly not on the Lord Jesus Christ but mainly on angels specifically fallen angels
known as the watchers and of course the Nephilim and then people get enthralled with the subject of
angels they get enthralled with the subject of fallen angels unclean spirits and then they begin
to believe and teach things that are outside of the bible that are not biblical it's essentially
delve into this particular subject of angels and demons,
we go with what the Bible says,
not what some book says,
not what something outside of the word of God says.
We need to make sure that we prove all things,
hold fast that which is good,
study to show ourselves, approve them to God
and go to the Bible itself for this particular information.
Now let me just start off by saying
that the Bible is about Jesus Christ, right?
It's about God, it's about Jesus Christ, it's about salvation.
And obviously we know that when we read the Bible, it has various forms of content in it.
It has teachings about family, it has teachings about marriage, it has teachings about how
to be successful in your life, in your business.
It has various forms of content and subjects, subject matter.
And of course it talks about angels and demons as well.
But the main subject of the Bible is Jesus Christ.
search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, and they are which
testify of angels and demons?
No, they are which testify of me.
In other words, Jesus Christ is the focal point of the Word of God and of course everything
else is essentially supposed to point towards the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now with that being said, the reason I even mention that is because of the fact that we
don't want to approach the Bible thinking that it's all about angels and demons.
Obviously, the Bible talks about these particular celestial beings, but it's not necessarily
exhaustive because of the fact that the Bible is not about them, right?
take what the Bible says about it.
Can we conjecture things about angels and demons
based upon what the Bible says?
Of course, can we come to certain conclusions,
maybe not be dogmatic about it?
Of course, but at the end of the day,
it's all conjecture if it's not explicitly found
within the word of God.
Now look at Colossians chapter two verse 18.
This is why it's important to study this subject.
It says,
Showing us that even in Paul's day, there were individuals who were guilty of the sin of worshiping angels, exalting angels, placing an unbiblical emphasis on angels.
And the Bible tells us here that they're intruding into those things which they have not seen.
They're simply prideful, puffed up.
by their fleshly mind
and not basing it off of God's word.
And so we want to make sure we avoid
this particular sin of worshiping of angels,
take a biblical view of angels
and recognize what their place is in this world.
So let's go ahead and talk about
this doctrine of angels and demons.
First and foremost, by way of introduction,
what is an angel?
Well, an angel simply means a messenger, right?
And in fact, that's literally what the word angel
means. You think of the word evangelist.
It has the word angel in it because an evangelist is a messenger of the good news of the gospel, right?
So, an angel, we often associate this particular word with a celestial being with wings and
a glorious countenance, but it simply means a messenger.
And obviously, it could be referring to a celestial being, but there's instances in
the Bible where it refers to an actual man, a person, a human being who is a messenger
of God, okay?
celestial or terrestrial. Now what is a demon?
Well we don't necessarily have the word in our English language that word demon.
We most commonly have the term devil
but demon is synonymous with devils, unclean spirits,
unclean spirits or what we would call fallen angels right?
And again fallen angels we get that from
Lucifer who fell from heaven so to speak.
And so these are all synonymous with that.
But think about this, just as the angel of God
is the messenger of God, well, in like manner,
a devil or a demon is a messenger of Satan as well.
And in fact, let me read to you from 2 Corinthians,
chapter 12 verse 7, the apostle Paul says,
unless I should be exalted above measure
through the abundance of revelations,
there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,
the messenger of Satan to buffet me,
above measure. So according to the Bible Satan himself also has quote-unquote angels, messengers
that are sent forth as we're going to look at later to essentially oppress people, you know,
possess people, tempt individuals. They are the messengers of Satan. And I do want to clarify here
by way of introduction that we have to understand that when it comes to the spirit realm of angels
Okay, Hollywood and books have often, you know, portrayed Satan as being so powerful that he has like a winning chance against God or something.
That somehow, you know, oh man, at the end of this world, we just got to make sure pray that God is able to overcome all the evil of this world.
Folks, Satan is on a short leash according to the Bible.
You know, Satan is under the control of God and in fact can do nothing in this world without the permission of God.
So this isn't the message, but let me just tell you this if you're getting attacked by Satan
You're getting tempted by Satan just know that God allowed that in your personal life
Okay, and we know that the Bible specifically teaches that Satan himself goes before the throne of God to ask for permission to attack
God's people to tempt people to do evil and there are instances where God says like he said to Job has now considered my servant Job that
There is none like him in this world a perfect and upright man
And of course Satan has to get permission so before you get bitter at God for the situation that you're going through just understand
That God deemed you fit to go through that particular trial
God deemed you as Job capable of handling that situation, handling that tribulation, and apparently he deems you worthy of trial and tribulation through the hand of Satan.
And that's the sermon for another day. The point that I'm making here is that this isn't necessarily God versus Satan.
You know, God is almighty, all powerful.
He's omniscient, He's omnipotent, He's omnipresent.
And Satan pales in comparison in his power
compared to God himself.
He does nothing without the permission of God.
Now with that being said.
You know, the Bible also says that demons are not just referred to as fallen angels, unclean spirits,
but they're also referred to as lying spirits.
Okay?
We think of an unclean spirit.
The reason it causes it an unclean spirit is because of the fact that it contaminates, right?
Anything it comes into contact with.
Well, a lying spirit, what is a lying spirit for?
It's to essentially deceive people through preaching.
Now let me read you from 2 Chronicles 18, verse 19, it says,
the Lord said, who shall entice Ahab, the king of Israel?
Now let me give you a little bit of a background what's taking place here.
Ahab is an evil king.
who is trying to start a war with a northern kingdom
and he's essentially enticing the king of Judah
to join forces with him
to fight against this particular kingdom.
And he's doing it because of greed,
he just wants to take over this particular land
and God really doesn't like Ahab at all.
Okay, he doesn't like him
and in fact he wants to destroy Ahab.
Okay, now this is not a story
you'll find in Sunday School class anytime soon.
But folks, this is what the Bible teaches, you know, God is very upset at Ahab.
He, he abhors Ahab and in fact, he wants to deceive Ahab according to this passage.
So, what we have here in 2 Chronicles 18 is this, essentially, we have this view of heaven and God is asking
the spirits who are there who are not all
Angels of God, some of them are fallen angels because fallen angels and Satan have access to the throne of God still, according to the Bible.
And he's asking these spirits, like, who's going to go to deceive him? Okay?
It says that he may go up and fall at Raymoth Gilead.
Because keep in mind, in this particular story,
Ahab is requesting the prophecy of different prophets.
So all these prophets come to Ahab,
and he's just like, hey, I need to know,
am I gonna win this battle or not, right?
And so God wants to send a lying spirit
within the mouth of these prophets
to give him the confidence that he is gonna win
so that in turn he would go into war and essentially die.
There's a great story here.
Second Chronicles 18, if you want to read it on your own.
And one spake saying after this manner,
another saying after that manner.
So basically he's like, who's going to go
and be a lying spirit in the mouth of the prophets?
And one spirit is just like, I'll do it.
It's like, how are you going to do it?
This way he's like, eh, you know,
I know it was like, I'll do it.
What are you going to say?
And he kind of just kind of writes them off, right?
Then there came out a spirit, verse 20,
and stood before the Lord and said,
I will entice him and the Lord sentenced him, wherewith?
And he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.
And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail, go out, do even
so.
So then, you know, he sends this lying spirit in the mouth of all these false prophets.
And when you read the story, you realize that the false prophets are basically telling
him like, Hey, you're going to win.
Everything's going to be okay.
God's not upset at you.
God is happy with you, you're going to succeed, this is how you're going to do it.
He even brings out an illustration of horns and he's like, this is how you're going to defeat them
and it convinces Ahab that he's going to win.
Now, side story here, there's one prophet who's not a part of these prophets, his name is Micaiah,
okay, because all these other prophets are telling Ahab what he wants to hear and then, you know, the
The other king, Jehoshaphat, he's kind of like,
is there another prophet that we can inquire of?
These guys are kind of like weak, you know what I mean?
These guys are like, I don't know,
it just seems as though these guys are saying the wrong thing.
And then he's like, well, there's one guy, but I hate him.
And of course, and that's literally what it says.
He's like, I hate him.
He's referring to Micaiah.
And he says, because he never prophesized good
concerning me but evil.
In other words, he's like, he's a hard preacher.
He's just always mean.
He's always yelling.
He's always preaching against me.
And so I don't really like him.
And he's just like, let not the king say so.
Bring him on down.
Micaiah comes and he tells him, like, you're going to die.
And he's like, see, I knew you were going to do that.
Well, he doesn't listen to Micaiah.
He actually ends up arresting Micaiah.
And then, you know, he's afflicting him with the bread of affliction and water of affliction.
And he's just like, when I return, you know, from the battle, and Makaya's like, if you return.
And, of course, we know the story, Ahab ends up dying.
The point that I'm making here is that God intentionally allowed a lying spirit into the
mouth of the false prophets to deceive Ahab in order to destroy him.
Point is, there are lying spirits in the mouth of prophets.
So just because there's a pastor out there or a church that calls himself a pastor, calls
himself a Christian, claims to be a prophet of God, doesn't mean they actually are.
What's coming out of their mouth, right?
We need to prove all things whole fast that which is good.
And often when you listen to a preacher,
they're not using the word of God,
they're preaching the false gospel,
they're preaching false doctrine.
Let me just tell you,
they have a lying spirit in their mouth, okay?
And so the Bible talks about that.
Psalm 78 verse 49 says,
he cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,
referring God, referring to God doing this to his people.
It says, wrath and indignation and trouble
by sending, listen to this, evil angels among them.
So obviously we see that God often uses fallen angels,
unclean spirits to punish his people as well.
Okay.
And there's various examples that we can give regarding this.
You know, we see this multiple times.
I think probably one of the most famous ones
is when King Saul, who's backslidden,
he gets away from the Lord
and God sends an evil spirit to trouble him, right?
He becomes delusional, he begins to become paranoid,
he becomes angry, begins to persecute God's people,
but it's because of the evil spirit
that is troubling him that was sent by the Lord, okay?
Let me skip a couple verses here.
Of course, we have unclean spirits contaminating people even in Jesus' day, right?
Often people in Jesus' day were afflicted with sicknesses and diseases.
They were cast into the fire and into the water.
They're sent to destroy people.
These are unclean spirits that are destroying people's lives.
Go with me if you would to go to Isaiah.
Isaiah chapter 14, if you would.
Isaiah chapter 14 the doctrine of angels and demons let me give you a couple
things regarding angels and demons first and foremost let me just start off by
saying that angels can be classified and we already made one classification but
angels can be classified as messengers seraphims and chariobimps okay so
messengers seraphims and chariobimps let me explain what all of these are
Now, angels, as I mentioned, are messengers of God, and probably the most famous messenger
that we know of in the Bible is Gabriel, right?
We have Michael the Archangel, but I'm talking about as far as a messenger's concern, Gabriel
is pretty famous in the Bible, and in fact, he's mentioned both in the Old Testament and
the New Testament.
He sent to bring forth a message to Daniel the prophet, and then he's also sent to proclaim
Luke chapter 1 verse 19 says the angel answering said unto him I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God and am sent to speak unto thee and to show thee these glad tidings.
This is what we would consider to be an angel, a messenger of God who is sent forth to bring a particular message from God to his people.
Another example of a messenger who is an angel in the Bible is Michael the Archangel.
And Michael, the archangels, also referred to as the chief of angels.
He's essentially sent to combat and fight.
We see him combating against Satan.
We see him combating against fallen angels in the book of Daniel.
But then there's other angels.
who are sent forth, for example, you have angels
who are coming to remove the stone
from the grave of Jesus Christ,
proclaiming that he has risen.
They appear in the wilderness to strengthen the Lord.
These aren't necessarily angels that have wings.
The Bible describes them as just being in bright apparel,
what they bright counted and sent forth
to proclaim a message to God's people.
So those are the ones that we're most familiar with.
Gabriel the arch, excuse me, Gabriel the angel, Michael the arch angel, some have wings, some are
arrayed with the sword, some are arrayed in bright apparel with countenance as lightning.
They're very holy, terrifying to look upon. You know, these are the ones that Hobby Lobby wants
to depict, right? These are the ones that they like to talk about. But then there's other angels
that, you know, aren't as Hobby Lobby friendly.
Okay, and quite frankly, there's some of my favorite. Okay, and you know, you have a poly on and wormwood for example
Now we don't necessarily know what a poly on and wormwood look like. Okay?
I would assume that they would probably look similar to Michael the Archangel,
where they have wings and armor, and I would assume that they look pretty
stinking terrifying.
Now you say, what does Apollyon, and what do they do?
Do they bring a message to God's people? You know, do they come and encourage people?
Do they come and strengthen God's people when they're weak and they're depressed and
they're going through a hard time? Are they there to minister to them?
No, Apollyon is there to just kill people.
That's what he does
Like I don't know about that. Well, let me explain to you what a Polly on means because a Polly on is a Greek word that literally means destroyer
Not at a fire
Right not exorter
Not builder-upper
Not comforter. That's the Holy Spirit a
Polly on is just the destroyer
okay, and
You can see his his fingerprints throughout biblical history
For example, he was the tenth plague in Egypt, right, that killed all the firstborn and said the destroyer came and of course Revelation chapter 9 explains to us that the destroyer is a polygon which in the Hebrew tongue is referred to as a bad and both meaning the destroyer.
So he comes as a plague simply to destroy. So, you know, when does God bring out a polygon anytime he wants to destroy?
So any plague that you've ever heard of throughout history, just mark it down, that was probably a polygon.
The Spanish flu, Apollyon, he sent forth to wipe out just a large percentage of the population whenever God wants to judge this world.
It's a fact, okay?
Very powerful angel in Revelation chapter 9, and in fact, you know, he doesn't roll alone.
He has you know, some people have pit bulls and red-nosed pit bulls and and rottweilers
He carries with them a legion of locusts in
Revelation chapter 9 that torment men for five months and are terrifying to look upon as well
Who have a paralyzing agent that when they bite you you can't move and you're just you want to die
But you can't this is a polyon then you have warm wood now. These are awesome names by the way, okay?
You gotta understand is like, I shall name you Apollyon.
I shall name you Wormwood.
Wormwood is essentially the angels that sent forth
to destroy the waters of the earth,
to poison them so that men can no longer drink from them.
You understand something.
God is the God of love, but he's also God of judgment as well.
And sometimes Christians get offended at this type of message because they've only been
told that God is love, they've only been told that God is compassionate and gracious, and
we believe what the Bible says about that, but hold on a second, that is an in-balance
view of God, because guess what?
We not only have Gabriel, we also have a Polyon.
We not only have, you know, we not only have Michael the archangel, but you know, we also have a badden
We also have wormwood. We have angels that are sent forth to bring destruction as a form of punishment from God
Okay, and so these are used by God for destruction
Now I had you turn to Isaiah chapter 14, but go to chapter 6 instead. We're gonna go to 14 in just a bit go to chapter 6
So we have angels who are messengers of God and sometimes these messages are good and sometimes they're bad
Right. They're good like oh the Christ is coming. Oh, here's the answer to your prayer here's strength
But then sometimes the message is you're all gonna die
Right, and this is actually what happened to King David when he disobeyed the Lord
There is an angel that essentially was sent forward to bring a plague and it destroyed
Thousands of people and the message was this repent
Okay, because you're being punished by God so you have angels such as Michael the archangel Gabriel apolly on warm wood
And by the way, these are all good angels still
We're not even talking about the bad angels yet.
These are the good angels, okay?
But then we also have what's often referred to as seraphims, and these are only mentioned
once in the Bible.
They're alluded to later on in the book of Revelation, but by name they're addressed
only in Isaiah chapter 6.
Look at verse number 1.
It says, In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Above it stood the seraphims, each one had six wings, with twain he covered his face,
with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly, and one cried unto another and
said, Holy, Holy, Holy.
is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory.
So what do we have here?
We have these created celestial beings known as seraphims,
and this is not the English rendition
of the Old Testament or the Hebrew name.
This is literally transliterated from Hebrew to English
because this doesn't exist in the English language, okay?
So it's literally referred to as seraphim.
And this is a particular angel that has six wings.
And when it says twain, it's referring to with two.
Okay, so with two he covers his face, with two he covers his feet and the other two he uses to fly,
and this is literally the purpose for which it's created. It's just to worship God for all of eternity.
To say, holy, holy, holy, the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory.
So in heaven you have God sitting on his throne. He has a massive entourage.
celestial beings and then he has what's referred to as seraphims who are
specifically there to worship God for all of eternity saying holy holy holy
addressing what the trinity of the Bible right father son and the holy ghost go
to Ezekiel chapter one if you would Ezekiel chapter one really leases we
got turned up this AC it's getting warm in here
So we have seraphims only addressed once by name in Isaiah chapter 6 eluded to in revelation
Now we're going to look at the chariobimps and these are angels by the way, okay? You know, I know there's a lot of
Instagram videos social media videos to say oh, these are not angels. No, these are angels
And the reason we know this is because of the fact that Satan is referred to as a fallen angel
But he's also referred to as a cherub
The reason people don't like to address them as angels is because how they look
Okay, now before we get into Ezekiel chapter 1
Let me explain a couple things regarding the chariobimps, which is another transliteration of the Hebrew. Okay
Chariobimps is plural. Cherub is singular. So when we're referring to one cherub is just
Cherub and then multiple is chariobimps. Now. What are these? These are not the the fat naked babies with wings of
the Roman Catholic Church
Okay, it's very important to know that and by the way, that's weird
Okay
There's literally no biblical description of that in the Bible
Who came up with that?
Some sodomite or something is just like oh cherry-bimbs just make fat naked babies with wings
It's disgusting. Come on. It's not in the Bible and this is what I mean folks. Sometimes people get weird ideas
And they automatically assume, well, a cherub,
this is exactly how a cherub is supposed to look,
but there's no biblical description of that
portrait in the Bible though.
And in fact, it's vastly different.
The biblical description of what a cherub is
is vastly different from what the Roman Catholic Church says.
Okay?
And look, the Roman Catholic Church can say
that this is what a cherub looks like all they want.
It's not in the Bible.
Point and simple point blank. Okay. It's pretty pretty simple to see
I'm gonna show you according to the Ezekiel one what a cherub actually looks like and you can see why
After we read the description why they're so terrifying to look upon
Because it is a terrifying sight
Look at verse number five of Ezekiel one
It says also, out of the midst of thereof, came the likeness of four living creatures.
And this was their appearance, they had the likeness of a man.
So we're about to get into the description of these chariobemes, and it specifically
says they're called living creatures, like animals.
However, they have the likeness of a man.
This is what we would refer to as an anthropomorphic being.
In other words, they have a body of a man, but they have the countenance of a beast or
an animal.
Look what verse number four says and everyone have four faces and everyone had four wings and
and their feet were straight feet and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot and they
Sparkled like the color of burnished brass and they had the hands of a man under their wings on their foresides
And they had excuse me and they four had their faces and their wings
So the first thing we see is that they're four faced and to promorphic creatures with calf's feet
I mean that's terrifying as it is
So, it's not just one face, there's four faces, right?
And we're going to look at here that the four faces are described.
Look at verse number 10, as for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of
a man and the face of a lion on the right side and they four had the face of an ox on
the left side and they four also had the face of an eagle.
So think about this.
This is, again, the anthropomorphic body.
Legs like calf's feet kind of the way some of your calves look like you know what I mean because you haven't hit the gym recently
Someone said wow
You know the calves feet the anthropomorphic body, but then one of the faces is the face of a man, but it's still a beast though
It's still a creature. So it's not a man. It's not a human being. It just has the appearance of a man
And then the other three faces is an ox, an eagle, and a lion.
Okay?
Now, what if that just showed up to you in your room?
You're not gonna be, you're gonna be like,
you're not the cherub that I saw at the Roman Catholic,
what is this?
Okay, it's very horrifying to look upon.
And you say, why does it look like this?
Cause God made it that way.
God's like let's put a face here. Let's put a face there make this look human
Let's give it these these skinny calves here. Let's give it this body four wings. Boom, you know, I like it
Look at verse 12 here
He says, and they went every everyone's straightforward whether the spirit was to go they went and they turned not when they went
So this is describing the direction in which they travel. They don't go diagonally
They don't they only go forward
But think about this the reason they only go forward is because of the fact that they have four faces
So no matter which way they are going it's always forward, right?
So if they decide to go this way, to us it's to the left, or to you it's to the right,
but to them it's forward because they have a face facing that particular direction.
So they go like this, you know, side to side, front and back.
Now you say, what's the deal with the four faces though?
Why does it have a face of a man, face of an eagle, face of an ox,
and what's the other one that I'm missing here?
Face of an ox, face of a man, face of an eagle, and the face of a lion.
Why do they have that?
Well, because of the fact that it pictures the four gospels.
And we see this also explicitly mentioned in Revelation chapter 4 and chapter 5.
You know, the face of a lion pictures the book of Matthew because Jesus Christ is
pictured as the lion of the tribe of Judah.
but also because of the fact that the lion is the king of the jungle
just as Jesus Christ is the king of kings and the Lord of lords.
You also have the cherub that has the face of a man
which pictures the Gospel of Luke and it's the Gospel of Luke where
Jesus Christ is referred to as the Son of Man.
Then you have the face of an ox.
And what does the ox represent?
The book of Matthew, because ox,
excuse me, the book of Mark,
because ox is a beast of burden who does work.
And the book of Mark is essentially the gospel
that highlights the labor and the work of Jesus Christ.
And then lastly, of course, you have the face of an eagle that pictures the book of John, because the eagle soars in the heavens and comes down from heaven to rapture, just as we see in the book of John, Jesus Christ being pictured as the Son of God that comes down from heaven.
So obviously this is intentional by the Lord to make these look like the face of a man, eagle, ox, and so forth.
because of the fact that they're picturing the four Gospels.
And in fact, when you read Revelation chapter 4 and Revelation chapter 5,
we see that it's these beasts that have these four faces
that eventually open up the first four seals in Revelation chapter 6,
and those first four seals are an antithesis of the Gospels.
Okay, and that's a sermon for another day.
The point that I'm making here is that God intentionally made these creatures to look
like this because of the fact that they're picturing something in the future, they're
picturing the four Gospels.
Look at verse number 12 or verse 13.
It says, and as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire.
And like the appearance of lamps, it went up and down among the living creatures, and the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth lightning.
So obviously, this is a fulfillment of what the Bible says, that He makes His angels, ministers of flame of fire, right?
And the fact that they're moving like lightning. So when they go forward and backward, which is only forward according to them,
They move in a lightning speed.
It's essentially describing the rapidity by which they travel.
This is awesome.
This is way better than the naked babies with wings.
He goes on to say verse 14,
the living creatures ran and returned
as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Now we're not gonna continue this,
but in verse 15 through 20,
it essentially describes that they are accompanied
by wheels within wheels.
And if you are on social media a lot,
you might have seen some of the AI renditions
of chariobens, right?
And you're like, what people think angels look like,
what they actually look like, but they got it wrong too.
Because their rendition of what an angel is is essentially a bunch of eyes with wheels within and without but they're completely missing
The anthropomorphic creature though, right?
You know the anthropomorphic creature is the the basis of the cherub and
Then the wheels is that which accompanies the cherub within and without eyes within and without like so forth
So this is an angel. This is the cherub now go to go with me if you went to Genesis chapter 3
Now, let me just say this, just kind of food for thought here,
just to kind of give you some more information regarding
chariobimps is, I believe, cherub is just another way of saying ox.
It's actually just another way of saying ox, believe it or not.
And how do we know that?
Well, in Ezekiel chapter 10, verse 14, you don't have to turn there.
It says, and everyone had four faces regarding the chariobim.
The first face was the face of a cherub.
So in Ezekiel chapter 1, it says the first face had the face of an ox,
but then in Ezekiel chapter 10 it says it replaces ox with cherub.
So essentially showing us that cherub is synonymous with an ox.
And this is possibly why Satan is, for example,
when they're worshiping Satan will often, you know,
portray it as, what, a baphomet, which is an ox,
because of the fact that that's exactly what these beasts are.
They're cherubs, fallen cherub, cherubim,
that have that likeness, okay?
That's food for thought there.
So those are the classifications of angels.
They're messengers of good, also messengers of evil.
They are seraphims that are essentially selected,
created by God to worship God for all of eternity.
And then you have Cherubim that have the likeness of four faces that essentially symbolizes the four Gospels and so forth, okay?
Now, let me give you a point number two here regarding the doctrine of angels and demons and that is,
let's look at the first mention of angels in the Bible, okay?
Now, it's of my personal belief that they were created on the first date.
When God created the heaven and the earth,
by the way, it's heaven, not heavens.
When God created the heaven and the earth,
it's possible that's when he created
all the celestial bodies known as the angels in heaven as well.
Let me read to you from Colossians chapter one.
You're in Genesis chapter three.
Colossians one sixteenth says,
We're all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth.
Visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers,
all things were created by him and for him.
Now you say, well, where is the first mention of angels in the Bible?
You know, they're not explicitly mentioned in the creation, so where are they first mentioned?
Well, believe it or not, the first angel that's mentioned is Lucifer.
Look at Genesis chapter 3 and verse number 1.
It says here, now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made.
And he sent it to the woman, yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.
Now this is a very, very interesting story here, right?
It's a pivotal portion of Scripture for us as Christians and humanity,
because it essentially highlights the downfall of humanity through the temptation of Satan.
Now let me mention a couple of things here.
This is before Satan is referred to as Satan.
At this point, he would be referred to as Lucifer, the light bearer.
And I want to mention here that in Genesis chapter 3 verse 1,
it is of my opinion that Satan had not fallen at this particular point, okay?
Most people would believe the narrative that it's at this point,
you know, before this, Satan fell from heaven,
landed in the Garden of Eden,
and then tempt Eve to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
That's what most people believe, and you can definitely see why.
The passage doesn't seem to indicate that at all, actually.
And let me prove to you why.
First and foremost, the reason we think that,
or a lot of people buy into that,
is because it says that the serpent
was more subtle than any beast of the field.
And automatically we think,
well, serpents, serpents are bad.
Well, the reason we even think serpents are bad
is because of Satan.
But at this point, he's not bad.
And in fact, before this,
God said that everything was what?
Good.
Well, how can it be good if Satan had already fallen?
Hanging out in the garden, right?
He's just going about trying to cause Eve to, you know, to be tempted and then Adam to fall.
Obviously, I believe at this point, he is still a good cherub.
It just refers to him as a serpent because a serpent is simply a creation of God.
You say, yeah, but it says that he's more subtle than any beast of the field.
Well, I'll explain to you in just a bit why it specifically says that.
Now skip down to or look at verse 2 the woman said into the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden now
do
The serpent's talking
Right, that's not that's not a thing you guys know that right you know for animals to talk
Obviously, we have a supernatural occurrence of that later on where the donkey is talking to Balaam through supernatural means
But from the beginning it was not so
You know, animals just don't talk.
I believe this is just Satan in his actual form,
and I believe he looks like a cherub,
but he's referred to as a serpent.
You say, well, if he's a cherub,
then why does he look like a serpent?
If the cherub's according,
if the cherub's been according to Ezekiel 1 and 10,
have four faces.
Well, I believe that he is, as Ezekiel 28 talks about,
an annoying to cherub,
which means he's different from everyone else.
Anointed means he's separated from all the other ones.
He's distinctly different, and I believe a part
of his distinction is that he's a serpent.
He does not possess the four faces
as the other cherry bin possess, okay?
So this would explain why he's talking to the woman.
Why? Because angels talk.
Now skip down to verse 23.
So we know the story he tempts Eve he falls for it. She eats by the way doesn't say apple
Okay, you know, we don't know exactly what fruit it was. It was probably do long though some nasty fruit or something
You know, I don't know. No, it's probably actually probably delicious
Which is why she ate it and then of course she's eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
Which got specifically commanded for them not to okay?
She eats of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
She gives her husband, according to the Bible,
in 1 Timothy chapter two, Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was in the transgression,
meaning that Eve was deceived and tempted into eating
of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
whereas Adam intentionally willingly ate
of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
maybe because he loved Eve or who knows why.
But that's what it says.
So of course, at this point,
now they spiritually die forever,
and this is why we're in the situation
So part of the punishment is that they're cast out of the garden. They're excommunicated from the garden of God and
Within the garden you have these two trees, right? You have the tree of knowledge of good and evil
But you also have the tree of life and the reason they're excommunicated from the garden
It's because God said we need to remove them lest they should eat of the tree of life and live forever
That would go against the punishment that he's imposing upon them that they should die
You know spiritually physically eventually because of their disobedience towards God. Okay, so he removes them
And then he places guards at the tree of life to keep Adam and Eve from touching it now look at verse
23 this is therefore the Lord God sent him forth
From the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken so he drove out the man
And he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden
cherry-you-bims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life
So what do we see here? We see when he removes him he places not just any regular angel
He places cherry-you-bims to guard the tree of life less Adam and Eve should eat of it
Now you say where are you getting out here pastor?
Well, obviously the cherry-a-bimbs have a specific responsibility.
They are specifically created to guard, right?
And in fact, one thing that you see when it comes to, for example, the Ark of God, the
Ark of God has two cherry-a-bimbs that cover the Ark of God.
Essentially they're there to guard and protect the Ark of God.
These cherry-a-bimbs are sent to guard the tree of life.
Why don't we have this with the tree of knowledge of good and evil what's possibly we possibly did and the guard was Lucifer himself
That's probably what his responsibility was was to guard the tree of knowledge of good and evil less man should take of it
Okay, now go to Isaiah 14 if you would Isaiah 14
This is what I believe Lucifer's job was and isn't it interesting that Lucifer means the light bearer
And, of course, once they eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they're enlightened, so to speak,
but it's obviously a false lie in the sense of now they die, okay?
Now, look at Isaiah 14.
Just kidding. Go to Ezekiel 28.
We'll come back to it. We'll eventually go to Isaiah 14.
I just want to make sure you know how to get to Isaiah 14, you know?
I'm just trying to help you.
The reason we're going to Ezekiel 28 because it deals specifically with the Garden of Eden.
Now we'll get into this point in just a little bit but one thing you'll know about what the
Bible teaches regarding angels and demons is that the higher up demons, okay, devils
are actually sent forth to rule over the rulers of this world.
Okay, so you know hate to break it to you Republicans and Democrats and stuff
But there's demons over those people according to the Bible. Okay, that's what the Bible actually teaches
So you have these presidents and prime ministers and Rothschilds or whatever, you know all of these people have
demonic influences over them
And this is not something we're just making up
or I'm just speculating.
This is literally according to what the Bible teaches, okay?
Now let's give an example of this.
Look at Ezekiel 28, verse 12.
This is, Son of Man,
take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus.
So he's saying here,
you know, I want you to preach against the king of Tyrus,
which at this point is a literal person.
It's a literal king, right?
And saying to him, thus saith the Lord God,
thou sealest up the sum,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
He's like, okay, you know, he's full of wisdom.
The guy's handsome or whatever.
He's a good looking guy.
Verse 13, thou has been in Eden, the Garden of God.
Now let me ask you,
do you think the King of Tyrus was in the Garden of Eden?
No, this guy's not like some vampire
that lives for thousands of years or something.
Okay, at this point he's addressing the spirit behind the king of Tyrus, so he addresses both, right?
It's a dual message for not just the king of Tyrus, but for the demon that's influencing the king of Tyrus as well
So even though it says that he's full of wisdom and beauty. Yeah, he's addressing the king of Tyrus
But by proxy, he's also addressing Lucifer himself
And you said well, how do you know because Satan was in the Garden of God
Okay, he says every precious stone was like covering the sardis
Topaz and the diamond the barrel the onyx and jasper the sapphire the emerald the carbuncle and the gold
I mean this guy is every rapper's envy
Right. He's got all kinds of jewelry on him. This is how God made him
That's why he's so that's why it says that he is full of beauty
Because he's decked out with all types of stones precious stones. He's he's comely to look upon
It says in verse, towards the latter end of verse 13,
it says, the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee
in the day that that was created.
So according to Ezekiel 28, it seems to indicate that Lucifer had the ability to sing.
It says he had these tabrets and pipes, essentially referring to his vocal chords, whereby he was able to sing, make melody, so forth.
Verse 14, thou art the anointed cherub that covereth.
Now, why is he anointed?
Well, because of the fact that he's a serpent, which is distinctly different from the other cherubim,
but also because he's decked out with all these...
precious jewels that the other cherry-bims are not, right?
He also has tablets and pipes that the other ones don't.
So he's obviously very different from the other created cherry-bims, right?
And I want you to notice that it says that are the anointed cherub that covereth,
and here's the big part, and I have set thee so.
In other words, his job was to cover something.
He made him to cover something 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 day that that was created till iniquity was found in thee
So I want you to notice that in this description in verse 12 it says that he's full of wisdom
Well, let me give you a synonym for wisdom in the Bible subtle tea
subtlety is a synonym for wisdom.
So when the Bible says that the serpent
was more subtle than any beast in the field,
it's repeating what Ezekiel 28 says
that he's full of wisdom, right?
He has, and by the way, it refers to him as a beast
because that's exactly what chariobembs are, they're beasts.
So we have here, you know, if you could imagine this,
you have the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Lucifer is there to cover it as a guard, he's full of wisdom, he has, he's full of subtlety,
he has, he's decked out with all this beauty, but then iniquity is found in him, and what's
the iniquity that's found in him?
Now go to Isaiah chapter 14 if you would, okay?
Go to Isaiah 14.
is about an angel that went rogue, right?
Which is Lucifer.
It's just like a poor representation, right?
He's just like, he comes on the scene,
he had one job and he messed it up, okay?
Look at Isaiah 14 and verse nine.
Hell from beneath his move for thee to meet the at thy coming
It stirred 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
And they shall speak and say unto thee are thou also become weak as we are thou become like unto us
Thy pump is brought down to the grave the noise of thy vials the worm is spread under thee and the worms cover thee now
What is this talking about? It's referring to another king king of Babylon, but it's also addressing the spirit behind Babylon which is
Lucifer so this is not only referring to the king that's gonna go that's gonna go to hell according to this passage
It's also addressing Lucifer who's also gonna go to hell
Look at verse 12, it says,
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
Son of the morning?
How art thou cut down to the ground
which didst weaken the nations?
For thou hast sent in thine heart.
Listen to this, I will ascend into heaven.
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.
I will sit up also upon the mount of the congregation
in the sides of the north.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.
I will be like the most high."
So what is the iniquity that was found in Satan
according to Ezekiel 28?
Well, Isaiah 14 tells us pride.
He wanted to be like God.
And he became prideful in his beauty.
He became prideful in his appearance.
The way God made him, he's just like,
oh, I'm just so great.
I might as well just be God.
Now, let me just say this.
This is not the message today,
but if you're a good-looking person,
Okay, so before you could become so prideful in your appearance in your beauty
Just understand this God made you that way and he could mar you as well if you wanted to
You know, oh man, I'm so great because I'm white you didn't make yourself white unless you know Michael Jackson or something
You didn't make yourself white
You were born that way
and so don't boast yourself in your appearance don't boast yourself in your
looks or your capabilities because at the end of the day God is the one who
made you that way and in like manner don't get mad if you don't look good or
something either okay because can the thing forward and say to him that formed
it why has that made me thus emphasis on things sometimes you know I mean you'll
get that at lunchtime
So, you know, he became prideful, he became arrogant,
and the iniquity that was found in him is that he wanted to be like the most high,
and then through that he tempted Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
and at that point he became a fallen angel.
And according to Revelation chapter 12, he brought other angels with him.
So he's not the only angel that fell, he influenced millions of angels to follow him
in his rebellion against God.
Okay. And so let's continue reading here. It says, verse 15,
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell.
to the sides of the pit.
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee
and consider thee sane.
Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,
that did shake the kingdoms,
that made the world as a wilderness
and destroyed the cities thereof,
that opened not the house of his prisoners,"
the Bible says.
So of course, this is addressing the king,
but it's also talking about Satan himself.
So what do we have in Genesis chapter three?
The first mention of angels,
and the first mention is Lucifer.
It records his fall.
It shows what he specifically did.
to become satan, the tempter, the deceiver, so on and so forth.
And so we have that.
Go to Ephesians chapter 6, if you would, Ephesians chapter 6.
Ephesians chapter number 6.
So satan is, I believe, if you're to look at satan, okay, I don't think he looks
like he's all red with the pitchfork and horns.
Obviously, that's like a Hollywood rendition of him.
I don't even believe he looks like the other cherry-you-bims
that the Bible describes.
I think he's the anointed one who looks like a serpent.
Now obviously Satanists and and cults who worship Satan they often depict him as an ox or as a goat
But I believe that's because of the fact that other chariobimms have that appearance about them
Okay, they do have that appearance about them whereas Satan himself that old serpent probably looks like a serpent
Okay, and is there any coincidence that?
various cultures who are anti-God,
anti-Christ, false religions, often worship a dragon,
they worship a serpent, they worship that animal.
I don't know about you, I don't like snakes.
You might like snakes, you might have snakes.
I personally, I feel like they just look evil sometimes,
you know?
And I feel like there's like a natural feeling
towards serpents when you look at them,
they just look deceptive.
You know, they like have no feelings or emotions.
They will turn on you if they're hungry right and I think God made them that way in such a way to kind of remind us of
How Satan is as well, okay?
He's deceptive. He's not redeemable. Don't listen to these weird stories out there
It's just like I think Satan was just you know, he's just he's misunderstood, you know, I think you'd be redeemed
I think him and God just need to talk it out, you know or something
Don't allow yourself to be duped by nonsensical stories like that now
This is the last thing I want to say regarding this point and that is that Satan and his angels are the only angels that fell
There was no second group after that. Okay, so why do you say that? Well, because again the book of Enoch
teaches that there's a second set of angels that fell after Satan and after the other angels.
And these angels essentially came down to this earth, saw the daughters of men,
went in unto them, and then created these 450 foot giants known as the Nephilim.
And then God had to flood the world in order to destroy them.
It's Christian science fiction for sure.
And you know, there's a lot of people out there that believe in the book of Enoch,
but when you show them the evidence,
that clearly shows that it's pseudopigraphal writing
that's written by apostate Jews.
They just ignore all the evidence.
They will ignore all the evidence.
And let me just briefly explain to you why it's a false book,
especially in regards to the flood.
You know, the flood, according to the book of Enoch, was done in order to destroy the giants, these 450-foot giants.
But yet, when you talk to advocates of the book of Enoch, you say,
well, can you give me an example of giants in the Bible?
They point to post-flood giants, not pre-flood.
Well, that's funny. I thought the flood was meant to destroy the giants,
but the only examples you can give me of giants are after the flood. How does that work?
Secondly, according to the book of Enoch, angels are the sons of God, and that's heresy.
Because the Bible says, behold, what manner of love the Father epistodate upon us, that
we should be called the sons of God.
John 1-12 says, but as many as received them, to them gave you power to become the sons
of God, even unto them that believe on his name.
Hebrews 1-5 tells us unto which of the angels said, he at any time, thou art my son.
That's a false doctrine. That's heresy we believers in Christ are the sons of God according to the Bible
And let me just say this you could be a son of God today if you're not saved
If you don't know be on a shadow of a doubt that you're going to heaven when you die
You can know today and let me just tell you this you better make sure you know today
Because once you go out those doors, you know life is but a vapor you can pass away and once you die
You will split hell wide open and guess what?
There's no coming back from that but the gift of eternal life is offered to you today
You're not here on accident today
You're here on purpose because God wants to save you through Jesus Christ and you can become a son of God
Now you say what's the why I mentioned the sons of God well in Genesis chapter 6, you know according to the book of Enoch
Giants are a byproduct of the sons of God,
which they believe to be angels,
you know, having relations with women,
physical women, human women.
And they're, you know, the product is giants.
But according to Genesis 6,
giants existed before that happened.
Because it says there were giants in the earth
in those days, and then it says this,
and also after that.
When the sons of God came into the daughters of men and so forth then it produced these Giants
So obviously that shows us the Giants existed beforehand
But you know what I've advocates of the book of Enoch. No, no, no, I want to believe in science fiction
And they're like, oh, it's still good writing Star Wars is better
Let me just I can't believe I'm saying this right Harry Potter is better
You know
Little wizard sitting on little brooms,
you know, flying around is better
than what the Book of Enoch has to offer.
Can't believe I just said that.
You know, it's not the best.
People are like, oh, it's really, it's horribly written.
And anybody who says it's worth the read has never read it.
I have the Book of Enoch, I've read it,
and I'm actually reading through it again, believe it or not,
and obviously I'm just doing it to educate myself
just to find more flaws within it,
but I'm just telling you right now, it's poorly written.
It's not even good science fiction.
It should be in the science fiction section of the library, but even then it's just poorly
written.
And by the way, these giants were not 450 foot.
There were giants in the Bible.
Of course there were giants in the Bible, but there weren't 450 foot giants.
The tallest recorded giant is you have all King Abatian and then you have Goliath.
They're between 10, 13 foot.
That's about it.
Nothing crazy like 450 foot giants or something, okay?
I mean, we have giants today, just really tall people
according to the Bible, okay?
Now, here's the last thing I wanna mention
about the Book of Enoch, it might be the last thing.
And that is, you know, it contradicts the Bible
on various levels, multiple times, okay?
And advocates of the Book of Enoch would say,
no, it's in line, it's in harmony with the,
no, it's not, you never read, you haven't read either.
You never read the Bible or the Book of Enoch,
how are you gonna say that?
He said, well, what's the contradiction?
Well, according to the Bible, it repented God that he had made man on earth, which is
why he floods the world, right?
Like God regrets making man.
He's just like, man, it has become so wicked.
He saves Noah and his family and he puts him in the ark and destroys man because the violence
was great upon the earth, right?
Everyone knows that.
Not according to the Book of Enoch.
The Book of Enoch, he floods the world
to destroy the Nephilim and then he's like,
oh man, it repented him that he destroyed man on earth.
He's like, oh man, I'm so sad that I just destroyed it.
I wish I had not destroyed all man on earth.
That contradicts the Bible.
In one he repents that he made man on earth
and the other he repents that he destroyed man on earth.
These contradict one another.
It doesn't jive of what the scriptures say, it doesn't exist.
And look, don't get caught up in this word, Nephilim.
Nephilim just means giant.
People attach Nephilim to like,
oh no, no, it's not just the giant, it's like a giant.
It's Gulliver's travel giant, 450 foot giant.
Folks, it just means giant, that's it.
Someone who's really large, tall, okay?
And so it's important to note that
there was no second rebellion.
After that first rebellion, essentially all celestial beings
were sealed within that position for all of eternity, okay?
Now, that being said, here's my third point regarding the doctrine of angels and demons,
and that is that there is a hierarchy within the angelic and demonic realm, okay?
So they're not unorganized in their dealings.
They're very organized.
Now here's the proof.
Look at Ephesians 6, verse 10.
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and the power of his might.
Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the
devil.
But against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
According to the Bible, there is a hierarchy in the demon realm.
Meaning that someone's at the top that someone is Satan and then there's you know
Subservient demons that go under them and so forth now. How do we know this? Well when you study the Bible you see that like the ponds for example
The dispensable demons are often sent to just torment men with disease
You know mental disease
Physical diseases, you know these was are essentially the ponds within Satan's scheme of destroying mankind
And look, I believe this exists today.
I believe I've seen demon-possessed people today
in both extremes.
You know, when you're out there and you see a guy
who's just doped up, he's on fentanyl,
he's on crack, he's on heroin,
and he's, you know, just acting all crazy.
Yeah, obviously that's the drugs,
but let me just tell you this,
those drugs opened up a door
for him to be demonically possessed as well.
You think that person is just talking to nobody?
There's a demonic presence in that person.
Okay, and I believe those are the pawns of Satan who are essentially just destroying that person's life
They have scabs all over them. They're talking into the air. They're destroying their lives. You say why would Satan do that?
What's the purpose of that?
The purpose of satanic attack for the unsaved is to keep them from the saving knowledge of the truth
That's literally what it's for. It's not to keep them from having a good job
from being a good father
From living a successful life. It's literally for the intent of keeping them from getting saved
So I don't agree with that well, let me just tell you I have 18 years under my belt of
Experience of preaching the gospel and let me tell you one of the hardest people to preach the gospel to are people who are drug induced
Very difficult now. I've gotten drug induced people saved, you know, they're high or they're drunk or whatever
You know, but they're coherent, but there's others that you just they don't get saved
Why because they don't have the mental capacity to be able to understand because the Bible says that the God of this world
Had blinded the minds of them which believe not let's the light of the glorious gospel of Christ whose damage of God should shine into them
So literally they're blinded through the gospel and the gospel is very simple to believe. It's very simple to understand
The Bible calls it the simplicity of Christ, right?
But the stronghold through you know mind-altering drugs or whatever may be can actually distort them
So they can't understand the gospel and they cannot be saved. That's literally the purpose behind that
So when you're out there, you know before we start mocking the drug addicts of that of this world
Obviously they're suffering the consequences of their actions, but let me just tell you this they're demonically possessed
And and and Satan is trying to keep them in that condition less they should be saved
So, those are the pawns, in my opinion, but then there's other demonic entities, you know, that go about and I believe these are the ones who are over governments, over presidents, over prime ministers, the rulers of this world in order to influence them, you know, for satanic agendas, okay?
And these have existed throughout history.
They will continue to exist throughout history.
And if you don't believe me,
just study the Antichrist in the Bible.
Okay.
You know, obviously he has the power of Satan.
He's gonna be the major ruler of this world, et cetera.
But, you know, we're not gonna go through all the verses
in this regard, but turn with me if you would to...
Go to Luke chapter three, if you would.
Luke chapter three.
I'm sorry, Luke chapter eight.
Luke chapter eight.
Let me read to you from Daniel chapter 12
And let me let me just say this is that you know, this is why it's important for us to realize that it's a spiritual battle
You don't battle demons physically
It's not a physical battle. You're not like, you know trying to smack a demon with your with your jacket or something like that
It's a spiritual world. Okay, and let me read to you from Daniel 10 verse 12 says then said he unto me fear not Daniel
For from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words."
So he's specifically saying like Daniel was praying for understanding, and Daniel's probably wondering like why hasn't my prayer been answered?
Well, the angel comes to him and he tells him, like, we heard your words, we're coming
to answer the prayer and then he says this, but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood
me twenty days.
So on the angel's way to answer the prayer for Daniel, there's a demonic entity who
and he's fighting against this angel.
There's like a spiritual battle taking place, okay?
So let me just say this, keep praying.
Keep praying.
You're like, oh, I don't know why I gotta answer
and answer my prayer.
Well, you know, maybe they got their hands tied a little bit
up in the spiritual realm and they're duking it out,
whatever, it's like round 10
and they're going back and forth, you know?
Sometimes you just gotta wait for that prayer to be answered.
You know, if it doesn't come as a no and it doesn't come as a yes
and it doesn't come as a maybe, just keep praying.
This is what the Bible emphasizes, importunity in prayer.
What does that mean? Keep praying and don't faint.
I just don't think this prayer is gonna be answered.
You know, you better not faint.
You better not faint.
You know, God wants us to pray and not to faint, to have faith and keep praying.
Even, let me tell you this, even if it takes years.
It's worth praying. Why? Because there is a spiritual battle taking place
You know God has heard your prayer and if you're living a righteous life
You're living a life that is according to the will of God the prayers coming
But you got to you know understand that there is
Fighting taking place in the spiritual in the spiritual realm
Let me keep keep reading here. It says then said he know what's that?
Wherefore I'm coming to thee and now will I return to fight with the Prince of Persia?
And when I am gone forth low, the Prince of Grecius shall come."
So what does the angel say?
He's like, all right, I gave you the answer and now I've got to head back.
But the same demon is going to face me when I go out.
And then the Prince of Grecius, you know, the gay, the gay demon or whatever from Greece
is going to come and try to fight against me too or whatever, hit me with his purse
or whatever.
He's just saying like, there's all these entities that are fighting against me.
And there is none that holdeth with me in these things but Michael, your prince.
So I believe this is referring to Gabriel. He's like, the only one who's fighting with me is Michael, the archangel.
Okay?
And look, when you study, we're not going to do it today, but when you study like angels fighting,
people often think that Lucifer is like the most powerful angel. And he is powerful.
He's very powerful according to the scriptures, but he pales in comparison to these other angels like Michael.
I mean, Michael and his angels will fight against Satan and his angels
and literally excommunicate them permanently from heaven in Revelation chapter 12, okay?
And then you have a Pollyon who, according to Revelation chapter 20,
binds Satan and throws him into the bottomless pit.
God doesn't even break a sweat.
Look at Luke chapter 8 verse 27 it says,
For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man, for often times he had
caught him, and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters, and he'd break the bands and
was driven of the devil into the wilderness.
So we have here a man who's possessed by devils.
He's the maniac of Godera. He has supernatural strength. He comes to meet Jesus Christ
And he thinks that Jesus is coming to punish him to torment him before the time referring to what takes place in Revelation chapter 20
Look at verse 30 and Jesus asked them saying what is thy name? And he said legion
Because many devils were entered into him now the fact that he refers to himself as legion is
Further proof that there is a hierarchy within the devil realm, right?
Because there's like a legion of demons who are sent forth just to torment people like this
understand what I'm saying and so
Understand that just as the angelic realm has a hierarchy
How do we know that Michael the arch?
Angel means that he's one of the top ones and then there's others below him in like manner
The demonic realm has the same exact thing, which is why you should not put your trust in man
of the men of this world, okay?
Well, I think this person's fine.
Folks, they all have a demonic entity influencing them.
And look, folks, you know, obviously, you know,
sometimes they influence them to do good,
but that's because in order to promote evil,
you gotta have a little good mixed in there too.
That's right.
And so very important to know,
that's a sermon for another day.
Go with me if you would to, let's see here.
Go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 10. 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 is my last point.
And I've already mentioned a little bit of this,
but angels minister and protect
while demons possess and oppress.
Hebrews chapter one, verse 13 says,
but to which of the angels said he had any time,
sit on my right hand until I make the enemies thy footstool,
are they not all ministering spirits sent forth
to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
So it seems to imply that God makes angels,
the good angels, to be what we would commonly refer to
as guardian angels, right?
We've heard that concept before, guardian angels.
And I think all parents to a certain degree know what I'm talking about right like I got I got five
I got a six one on the way. She's coming about a week and a half or so and
You know, I got these little ones and
You know toddlers who run
Right. They run everywhere and then you know, there's these things in our houses called corners
You know what I'm talking about and sometimes you know the kids are running and they're not they're not very coordinated and
Sometimes they're trying to hit a corner and they come within like inches of that and every pair is just like oh
Man because they just come with it now sometimes they do hit that corner or whatever and you know just it happens
But other instances just like they just graze it and then this is what typically my wife is like man guardian angel
You know, like guardian angels just kind of like move that child ever so slightly so as to not get hurt.
I don't know if that's the case. I sometimes believe that is.
But what I believe a guardian angel is, is possibly according to Hebrews chapter 1,
is that God designates angels to people in this world to kind of situate them so they can hear the gospel one day.
Okay? Because God wants you to be saved. Right?
So it's like as soon as you're born there's like an angel given to you to kind of like promote you to find to look for the truth
Right to kind of influence you for the truth to find the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ so that you can be saved
You know a sad, you know a child a baby to have that guardian angel
And then they grew up to be an adult and they have that guardian angel and then they just choose to reject the gospel
They either die and unfortunately they go to hell or they become a reprobate and it's
at that point that that guardian angel's job is done.
They have to leave that person and go on to their next assignment because their job is
mainly to influence people who shall be heirs of salvation.
who like kind of try to influence you.
We don't know exactly how to just essentially look
for the truth, to find the truth,
to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
And you know, once we got saved,
maybe he's not designated for us anymore.
Maybe he's just like, all right, and move on to the next.
But now we have a variety of angels who watch over us.
And you say, why do you mention that?
Well, because if you're not saved today,
maybe that guardian angel made you say yes
to come to church today.
When that person invited you to church
and said, can you come to church today?
The angel's kind of like, all right, I'll come.
And then the angel's probably in the service
just hoping that you would come to the saving knowledge
of Jesus Christ after church
when someone gives you the gospel
because they want you to be saved, you know?
And you know, the angel's like, he's talking about me.
But he brought you here. He influenced you so that you can become a saved person today, right?
It's powerful to think about it if you think about it and
So I believe that's possibly what it's for and then after salvation the Bible tells us in Psalm 91 verse 10
There shall no evil befall thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling for he shall give his angels charge over thee
To keep thee in all thy ways, the Bible says,
they shall bear thee up in their hands,
lest thou dash thy foot against the stone.
So according to the Bible,
save people who are living righteously,
we have angels protecting us all the time.
I believe that at this exact moment,
there is an army of angels
just surrounding this entire place right now.
It's protecting us.
You say, well, how do you know that?
Well, because I've experienced things in the past.
where the people wanted to kill me,
they wanted to blow me up, they wanted to harm me,
and it just never happened.
And I'll tell you why,
because I had an army of angels protecting me.
That's why I'm not afraid.
You know, I can walk through a dark alley at night,
I can go into the most dangerous neighborhood
to go preach the gospel.
I know no danger shall befall me,
no evil shall come nying to me.
Why?
Because I know I have God's angels protecting me
at all times.
I believe God's angels protect my house at all times.
They're just there guarding my house.
There's biblical examples of this, of people doing that.
And you know what?
Fear is a sin, my friends,
because it's the opposite of faith.
You know, if you're afraid, first and foremost,
you know, stop hanging around with people
that are doing shady things, you know,
and maybe that'll help with your fear a little bit.
But how about this?
Just live a righteous life and learn what the Bible says
that God is protecting you through his angels.
And it literally says like,
nothing's gonna happen to you,
let's thou dash thy foot against the stone.
So, put it this way, if something does happen to you, it's because it's your time to go.
So you know, the day that I die, the day that I die, hopefully it's like when I'm 90 and
I'm preaching and I'm being in the pulpit and I have a heart attack and boom, just fall
over and die preaching, that would be a good way to go.
If that's my law in life, praise God, you know, at that point it's my time to go.
If God allows me to suffer a martyr's death, it's because of the fact that it's my time
to go.
But you know, until then, I'm going to keep serving God, keep preaching the Word of God,
keep preaching the Gospel without fear.
Why?
Because the angels of God are surrounding me.
They are meant to protect and to minister to, but at the same time, they are there also
to possess and to oppress.
Now as a Christian, you cannot be possessed with the devil because you have the Holy Spirit
of God dwelling within you.
He's sealed there until the day of redemption.
Meaning, they can tempt you, they can influence you, they can make your mind evil-affected
against God.
Now, here's my last thing that I want to say in this regard.
And that is that we don't fight demons physically, right?
We're not Constantine over here, you know, holy water, the power of Christ compels you
and, you know, we're not Benny Hinn and, you know, trying to street, do some street fighter
Stuff doesn't exist, okay?
Let's not believe fairy tales over here, okay?
Let's actually believe what the Bible says.
Like, oh, I don't know, I feel like
I could physically attack a demon.
Oh, go ahead and read Acts where, you know,
the seven sons of Sceva got whooped by one demon.
The one demon stripped them all naked and they all fled.
That'll be you, okay?
So, how do we fight?
Well, let me just say this.
Although we don't fight demons physically,
I, and you, Christians, we fight demons every single week of our lives.
We participate in spiritual warfare every single week.
We're participating in spiritual warfare today.
We're going to do it this week.
Every single day we participate in spiritual warfare.
How do you know?
Because this is how we fight.
Look at 2 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse number 3.
It says, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
Strongholds the Bible says
Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought
To the obedience of Christ. How do we fight demons by casting down lies and imaginations?
When you're out there preaching the gospel, you know, you're doing you're fighting satanic entities
Why? Because Satan puts strongholds in the minds of people.
Oh, salvation is by works.
No, it's not. The Bible says it's not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to His mercy, He saved us.
Right?
Oh, the Bible says, I have to repent of my sins to be saved.
No, it doesn't. It says,
but to Him that works is not, but believe it on Him to justify
that the ungodly His faith is counted for righteousness.
That's spiritual warfare right there.
You're like, oh, I kind of want to, you know.
Can I just, you know?
No, you can't.
Because the weapons of our warfare are not are not carnal
Look years ago. I had a friend who had a his dad was a Pentecostal pastor, and he believed that he killed demons in his sleep
He's like my dad slays demons in his sleep, and I wasn't say that at a time like for real
He's like yeah, and you know I looked at his dad
And physically, I was thinking to myself,
yeah, you would have to kill demons in your sleep
because I don't think you could do it physically.
You know what I mean?
You know what it looks like at the time, you know?
And he's like, yeah, in his sleep, he takes out a sword,
and he just, and I'm thinking to myself,
like demons can die?
I don't know, that sounds kind of weird.
But it's fake.
It's false, it's not real.
And it contradicts the Bible.
There's no one in the Bible who's slaying demons.
I know that works for Hollywood.
And I know that feeds your carnal side,
because that's what you want to do.
But folks, let's stick to the biblical manner
of spiritual warfare, which is to cast down imaginations,
break down strongholds.
And look, we're not just breaking down the strongholds
of unsaved people, we have to break the strongholds
of saved people as well.
You know why I could save people who have strongholds,
unbiblical ideologies, unbiblical beliefs.
Just complete false doctrine, philosophies that are contrary to the Word of God.
And you know what I have to do every single Sunday?
Just destroy that stronghold, tear it down, you know, smash it to pieces.
This is how we do spiritual warfare, okay?
Not by physically fighting anybody, because the weapons of our warfare are not
carnival, mighty through God, through the pulling down of strongholds.
And so...
What's the sermon today?
I just want you to understand what the doctrine of angels
and demons are, right?
So that you don't allow yourself to be taught
by the passion of the Christ.
Like are there midget demons just kind of looking,
you know, just, you know,
Satan's like holding this baby and he just kind of,
that's fake, it's Hollywood, that's not real.
Are there 450 foot giants?
No, it's fake.
And you know what?
If you believe that, you have a stronghold.
If you believe those lies, you've bitten into the stronghold.
Satan has put strongholds through Hollywood, through movies,
through books, through fan fiction.
And I know you want to believe, I just want to believe.
I know you want to believe, but this isn't the X-Files, okay?
You know, we need to make sure we go according to what the Bible says
and realize the most effective way to fight demons and devils is through the truth.
Because we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
Amen? Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word and thank you for the exhaustive
teachings in the Bible regarding angels and demons. Thank you for protecting us through your angels
and also thank you for the protection we get from demons because we're already in
doubt by the Holy Spirit. Help us, Lord, to combat the demonic oppressions of this world
through false ideologies that are promoted through social media, YouTube, the public narrative.
The misconstruing of scriptures that's out there Lord help us as your people to fight against it through the knowledge of the Bible
And I pray that you bless this Lord as we go on our way as we go and perform spiritual warfare
Against Satan and his legions of armies. We pray the things in Jesus name. Amen
Please turn your song books to song number 152
Song number one hundred and fifty-two security song number one hundred and fifty-two
All together nice and strong on that first verse
More secure is no one ever
Than the loved ones of the Savior not young star
best-hiding, got his own doth tend and nourish.
In his holy courts they flourish, like a father kind,
he spares them.
In his loving arms he bears them, neither life,
for his love and deep compassion, come forth them in tribulation.
Little flock to joy then yield thee, Jacob's God will ever shield thee.
He takes or what he gives us, shows the father's love so precious.
We may trust his purpose wholly, tis his children's welfare solely.
Amen.
Wonderful singing.
You are dismissed.