Peeking Behind The Curtain At Satan

00:00 - Speaker 1 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 00:09 - Speaker 2 Hey, we're picking up, leaving off episode number one. We're going to dive into finishing off this particular podcast on what's really in the dark, in the spiritual realm. 00:37 - Speaker 1 What is happening? What's going to happen? Let's take a look to live a more fulfilled life in Christ. Then make sure you leave us one of those five-star ratings. To us that's like saying amen or yes. Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 00:57 - Speaker 2 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Hey everybody, welcome back. We just cut it off right Almost in mid-sentence last time. Together. Part one here today. 01:06 Part two Glad you're with us right now, and so I left off by encouraging you to look at Isaiah chapter 14 and Ezekiel chapter 28 regarding the origins of Satan and angels and what we're discussing biblical demonology. I'm not going to go back and rehearse all that. However, look what happened, and for those of you who are watching, listening right now, you can't see this, but for those of you watching, look what I have a copy of we're able to get since our last recording of first episode. Here's the book Biblical Demonology by Merrill Unger. This is a fantastic resource of understanding the spiritual realm. In fact, the subtitle is A Study of Spiritual Forces at Work Today. Dr Merrill Unger, biblical Demonology Great, great book, and you can get it at Target, you can get it on Amazon. I remember when I was a younger believer it was out of print for many years. So that's awesome, that's great. 02:14 Let's dive into where we left off. Just go head first into this. So, lucifer, the angelic world being created. They were created as servant. Listen, as servant leaders. What do you mean? Leaders, servants, they were servants of the most high God, they were ministering spirits, all angels. But we know that there is at least one aspect of leadership attributes given to this one called Lucifer we talked about him last time, aka Satan After the fall in the garden. Scratch that, after the fall of Lucifer, at some point in eternity prior to creation he was. Then he was named Satan or the destroyer, diablos the destroyer. And so when I say servant leader, all angels were created to serve the Lord. The Bible makes that very clear. 03:17 But Satan, lucifer, had a special spot, special spot, and you'll read about it in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28,. Because he was tapped with being the leader of music in the angelic world. He was the one. In fact, if you read those two chapters, it tells you that when he moves, music comes out of him sounds. It says that when he moves, when he brings his hands together, they are as timbrels or as tambourines. The Bible says, the Bible says you'll read it again Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28, that there seems to be some sort of musical apparatus about his very torso. It says that there is pipes. I know this sounds crazy. Read your Bible. Just read your Bible that he is the leader of worship. He was the worship leader in all of God's heaven. That was his job, but he fell from that and he this again predates creation itself. It predates Eden. Satan was already Satan before Adam and Eve were in the garden. 04:35 But listen, I want to also introduce this to you that it's uniquely my view. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but I believe I'm right. It doesn't matter though. I believe that angels are what they are. They're angels, and a study for some other day, a podcast for some other time, is due to Genesis, chapter 6, I believe that demons are the spirits of those who drowned in the great flood, who were known as Raphaim or Nephilim or Anakim. From the Bible that's just my view. You can read Genesis 6. And I think that when those hybrids, those things, those ones that came out of the unification, Jude says of strange flesh that when those things of strange flesh perished in the flood, that they were not angels, nor were they humans. They were something else. And I believe that is the origin of demons and fallen angels or still holy angels. That's something completely different, A topic for some other day. That's the origins. Just touching on that, look at our first episode. 06:08 What about present? At present, today, in our 21st century, it's like what somebody said to CS Lewis in Mere Christianity. When CS Lewis mentioned that the devil is certainly active in some lives more than others, he said that after he made that broadcast, somebody contacted him and said you're not going to you, don't suggest that the devil is real, do you? And CS Lewis said absolutely, because Jesus said he was real. So, yeah, he's real, he's real. All right, At this present age, this present time, in the 21st century, what do we know? 06:49 We know that he's loose. We know that Satan is loose to be about this world and he has his demon powers working for him, his legions. We also know that he has one third of the heavenly hosts, of angelic creatures that he deceived, working for him. And if you say, well, I don't believe that that's okay, Read the book of Revelation. There are both demons and angels that are held captive underneath. This is creepy Underneath, not underwater, under the water, under the riverbed of the Euphrates River. That's creepy. Book of Revelation, check it out. Wow, that's something for the future. 07:39 So he's loose, there's no doubt about it, but he's limited. He's limited in power, he's limited in what he knows. He's limited in where he can be. He's not omnipresent, he's not omniscient, he's not omnip. He knows he's limited in where he can be. He's not omnipresent, he's not omniscient, he's not omnipotent, he is not omni-anything. So stop giving him so much credit. That's very, very important. You understand that he is limited. 08:02 We also know that he's very angry, for good reason. He's angry because for a lot of things, but he's certainly angry because he thought he had defeated Jesus Christ at the cross. No doubt about that. Satan had entered possessed. By the way, this is very rare in Scripture. We know for a fact that Satan entered into Judas Iscariot. As far as we know, I could be missing something, but I don't think so. The only other account where Satan literally possesses a human that we know of will be the coming Antichrist. So Judas Iscariot, the son of perdition and the coming Antichrist the son of perdition both interesting that title is given to them both. But there's no doubt about it that Satan's very angry. Why? Because on the third day Christ rose again from the grave. The Bible tells us that when that happened, Satan was defeated. He still has his kingdom, he still has great power and he's still loose, but because Christ rose from the dead, anyone who puts their faith in Jesus Christ is now free from the tyranny of Satan. So you see, he's defeated in the lives of the believers. 09:19 We also know that he's so proficient at lying. Jesus said he's the father of all lies. Imagine that when somebody tells a lie, there's a lot of spiritual drama invisible. That's going on, and God hates a liar. God hates lies. The Bible says in the Ten Commandments thou shalt not lie. And yet Satan is the very origin of lies. 09:47 I don't mean to be funny when I say this. In fact I mean to be very, very serious about this. He's the ultimate influencer. Look at the scripture and see what Satan does in people's lives. He is the consummate influencer. We would say the tempter. Satan will tempt. 10:05 You, you say well, can Satan read my mind? I do not believe that's possible. You, you say well, can Satan read my mind? I do not believe that's possible. You say well, it seems like he can. How about this? He's been around a long time. He's been around humans a long time. He doesn't have to sleep. He studies. Look, when we go to sleep, he probably goes to some other part of the world and he studies humans to see their tendencies and their patterns and their you know, look, we're not too unpredictable, are we? And so he knows when is the right time and he knows, for example, that there's a handsome guy coming down the street or a handsome girl coming down the street and he knows to shoot a shot of temptation at you in anticipation. Or maybe there's something that he knows that you're susceptible to, let's say gambling. 10:59 I don't remember where I was at recently, Lisa and I. We were with some friends and we whatever state it was they had gambling there. We walked through this place, we walked through, we walked into the building and it was like what? And they had gambling and we were heading over to get something to eat in this place. The gambling, look, gambling. I've never been tempted in my life to gamble. 11:24 Whatever predisposition is that causes people to be tempted by gambling, I don't have it. You can, you can give me 5,000 coins and a slot machine. I won't do it. It's just not my thing. I think it's stupid. I'm not tempted by it. 11:39 So Satan doesn't tempt me about that, but he does about other things. Why? Because he knows me by studying me, but he doesn't know me because he reads my mind. That's not. I don't believe that's biblically possible. I don't think scripture is clear on that. Only God knows your thoughts. Only God can read your mind. Satan can shoot things into your mind. There's no doubt about that. That's why we're to bring every thought under the captivity of Jesus Christ. 12:02 Look at 2 Corinthians, chapter 10. We war not against flesh and blood. You and I are warned against principalities and powers and rulers of the dark age, the dark world, sinister foes that are invisible. They're not flesh, they're invisible, demonic and fallen angel, source of evil. We know that, regarding his future, that today's uh evil. Jesus said as it is today. Jesus said, as we get further down, the prophetic 17. 12:40 Read Mark 13. Evil's going to increase. Why? Because there's going to be more and more people that are giving their lives over to darkness. Satan will be taking advantage. Jesus said that just before he returns. It's going to be like it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah and as it was in the days of Noah, when people thought about evil continually. I think we're very close, if not there. So evil is going to be increasing. That's what the future is hosting in this world and in the world or the time that's coming. 13:41 We know that the Antichrist, who we label this guy, the Antichrist like he's some sort of a buffoon walking around with a Satan tail sticking out of his pants. It's got to be honestly terrifying to think that there is a human that Satan will possess to bring about. What Satan thinks is the last final attempt, perhaps, maybe, or close to the last final attempt, to throw down his cards because he thinks he's going to win. He didn't win at the cross, by the way. He didn't win at the manger either. He lost at the manger when Christ was born. He lost at the manger when Christ was born. He lost at the cross. And well, I don't want to. I have to be careful what I'm about to say In in what I can tell you that my wife and I, Lisa, years ago we were, we were in a situation where it became overwhelmingly, undeniably clear that the person that we were talking with was in fact demon-possessed, Not Satan-possessed demon-possessed and this man's eyes we watched it happen right in front of this man's eyes turned black in his head, black like black marbles. 15:18 When his eyes turned black, his voice changed and his voice didn't change from like you know, his normal voice to like Mickey mouse. His voice changed and it sounded like he was speaking through a pipe 20 feet away coming out of the guy's mouth. And the voices that came out of his mouth. You know what he said Stop talking about Jesus, Don't say the name anymore, I will not hear it. Don't mention that name. And I said Jesus Christ is coming back. He's the Lord. He died on the cross. He rose again from the grave. He's the Lord. He died on the cross. He rose again from the grave. He's the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 15:59 This guy starts getting freaked out, physically bizarre and what transpired is as vivid in my mind as it happened, as if it happened this morning. Happen as if it happened this morning. I would not give up on. Jesus Christ is Lord and he's coming back. That voice said Jesus Christ is in hell, he's rotting and we're eating his flesh. And I said Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of God, the father. And I wouldn't budge. I just kept saying that this guy became more and more agitated and then, out of that pipe, sound voice said all right, but he's not coming back. We're going to do everything to keep him from coming back. Wow, Wow, Well, they're going to lose that one too, Because he's coming back. 16:57 Folks, Isn't it interesting that the Bible warns that in the last days there's going to be people saying he's not coming back. That's exactly what Satan wants people to believe. The Bible says watch out. There's going to be people scoffing and they're going to be scoffers and mockers and they're going to be saying where's the promise of the father, Where's the promise of him coming back? All things continue as they were since creation. And the Bible says and this they are willfully ignorant. That means they choose not to believe it. It's not like they didn't know it. They chose not to believe it. Now listen, here's a before we leave off because I'm low on time again, but I do have to finish this. Think of this. This is not only a really good biblical demonology study what I'm about to say. It'll freak you out. 17:48 Satan doesn't know the end time scenario. He's trying to learn it. I think his arrogance and his pride blinds him from knowing what most of you know. You have the light. Satan doesn't have the light, which means with Israel now a nation again, since May 14th 1948, the Bible's very clear about Israel's future. So when's the rapture going to happen? Nobody knows. When's the second coming? Well, at some point, at least seven years after the rapture. Well, the Bible's pretty clear that Israel, in the last days, they're going to be deceived by the Antichrist. He's going to stand in the temple in Jerusalem 2 Thessalonians 2 tells us and he's going to declare himself to be God. You know that. You know what that means. I think every generation Satan has had to have an Antichrist waiting in the wings. He's got to shop around, just like you go up and down the aisles of Costco looking for what you can use. Every generation Satan has to have someone who fits the bill for him, that can step into the wings of the man that he's going to possess. Think of that, of the man that he's going to possess. Think of that. 19:23 The book of Daniel tells us that the Antichrist is going to arise when the world cries out for peace and prosperity. Wow, what's the world going to look like when there's no leaders Right now? Really, the undisputed leader of the world right now is Donald Trump. I don't care what you think about him, it's tough. The guy makes a comment, he changes the world markets, the guy gets to be president and other nations start voting differently and they start electing their own versions of Donald Trump's. The guy does stuff and it's like what? And wow, and prosperity starting to rise in the Middle East. Saudi Arabians, the Israelis, the Jordanians they're delighted with now, the potentiality of peace because of Trump's strength. What's going to happen when there's no world leader? Oh, Satan will produce one, and think about that for a moment. 20:23 He has to have someone who he can possess to commence the end time events that he finds himself stuck to, Because only God rules and reigns the end time events I mentioned earlier. And it's true, Satan is a defeated foe. He has no power over the believer. He only has power to sway the unbelievers. Satan is, no doubt about it. 20:53 Behind persecution, Persecution Okay, God is behind trials. You and I go through trials. Those are engineered by God. Trials make us stronger. Trials are given to us by God to drive home our faith, to knock what we know out of our head so it falls down into our heart, so it gets into our feet and our hands. That's what a trial is for. 21:19 But Satan is all about temptation. God doesn't tempt, Satan tempts and listen, and Satan is the one who goes about to perpetrate evil. And for the believer, for the believer. Satan cannot take control of our lives. He can only shoot temptations at us, but he can never possess a believer. It's impossible. 21:45 Scripture's clear on this. But he's defeated. So he's living on borrowed time, so to speak. Because we know this that his last big gig was is when he tries to throw everything in the kitchen sink at Jesus in what is called the Battle of Armageddon, and it's going to flop on him. And at the end of the Battle of well, no, not even the end of the Battle of Armageddon, In fact, Jesus puts an end to the Battle of Armageddon. It's the second coming of Christ that ends Armageddon. 22:19 Read that carefully in Scripture. I'm going to hurry up because we're running out of time. I got about five minutes. He's going to be bound for a thousand years. The rule and reign of Jesus's politics will be called the millennium he's going to. Jesus will sit on the throne of David in Jerusalem and rule and reign for a thousand years. Jesus will sit on the throne of David in Jerusalem and rule and reign for a thousand years. That's what a chunk of the book of Isaiah is about. 22:44 When the Messiah is enthroned, the trees of the field will clap their hands. When the Messiah rules and reigns from Jerusalem, the deserts will bring forth blossoms and bloom the deserts, which is very awesome. You say, well, how's that going to happen? Well, those of us who live in California, we have got one of the greatest deserts in the world. It's called the Mojave. Did you know that when it rains a cactus, some of it will bloom? The top of it will just bloom Beautiful yellow, pink, purple, red flower, but it will still have all of the needles right on a cactus. Do you know what a needle is on a cactus? A needle on a cactus is an underdeveloped blossom. It's an underdeveloped flower. It won't mature. It's a needle. He's going to cause the deserts to bloom when he returns. When Christ returns, the deserts are going to look like bouquets. 23:47 When Christ comes back, the Bible says in the second coming, when Satan's bound, that God is going to. The Lord is going to crack open the Mount of Olives and a spring of water is going to come up and the water is going to flow to the Mediterranean and the water is going to flow to the Dead Sea and the fish from the Mediterranean are going to swim in that canal, that river made by Jesus into the Dead Sea. And it says in Ezekiel the same fish that are found in the Mediterranean will be found in the Dead Sea. When's that? When Jesus returns? A thousand year government. I know that's going to freak out some Christians. They're I don't get involved in politics. Well, you better change your mind. You better get ready, because Jesus's big politics is coming. He's going to be king, it's going to be awesome, but during that time Satan will be bound. 24:35 But yet for those who have lived into the millennium, that is, they've been judged by Christ. They're mortals. They survived the tribulation period. There's just a remnant they live in. They enter into the earthly kingdom of Christ. You and I will not be that. We will be glorified with Christ by them. We will not be subject to what they're going to go through. They will be like we are now, where we're subject to death. 25:02 The Bible says in the book of Isaiah that when a man dies in the millennium, at the age of 100, it's as though a child died. So that means longevity is going to increase, the earth's going to be repopulated, but at the end of a thousand years the Bible says Satan will be loosed to deceive those who dwell on the earth. One final time will be loosed to deceive those who dwell on the earth. One final time, and then we know that his demise will be at the end of the thousand years. Satan death, hell, all of it, Hades, all of it, Demons, fallen angels will all be cast in the lake of fire that burns forever. Wow. So these last two episodes have been kind of intense. I've just scratched the surface, and each and every one and so many more of these topics we could dig down so deep that we could actually write books on this, because many people have. 26:01 It's a theology, though, from Scripture that a lot of people avoid because, look you walk around. Satan's so smart. He's got us into thinking that if somebody believes that Satan exists, that they've just gotten too caught up in Halloween parties. Because Satan's so slick, he's got people to think that if you believe in the devil, he's all rad. He's got a black goatee, he's got a pitchfork, he's got underwear, a little bit of a belly and a bad attitude, big eyebrows. Nope, Not at all. 26:40 I'm going to end with this. Did you know that the Bible tells us in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 that the most beautiful personality, the most beautiful angel God ever made was the one who goes by the name of Lucifer? By far the most beautiful, by far the one and only worship leader. He was the crowning cherub, which means he was the top dog, and I'll leave you with this. You want to know why he messed up. How'd you like to know that? You can. 27:26 I want you to read Isaiah, chapter 14 and Ezekiel 28. You're going to find the five I wills of Satan. There's five pillars of Satan's fall, and you know what the number one thing is I want to be a God. That's one of them. He wanted to be a God. Beware of anybody who tries to convince you that you too can become a God. It didn't go over well with Satan. It didn't go over well for Adam and Eve. It's a doctrine from hell. But I'm convinced of greater things concerning you. Trust Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. 28:18 Read John's gospel, Know and become very familiar with the deity of Christ. Look, friends, you can study all 66 books of the Bible. How about this? You can study all 65 books of the Bible and you miss John's gospel. You're going to miss the great, great authorship of who Jesus really is. 28:43 In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God. John says that we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. In John, chapter 1, he goes on to say and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus Christ is the word, he's God, second person of the Holy Trinity, and he is not threatened or rivaled by Satan. 29:21 So if you want to know a whole lot more biblical demonology, Merrill Unger, get a copy of this. You can get it anywhere, apparently, from what we're told now, and I'm really happy about that because, as I said in the beginning, when I was a young believer, you had to buy old, old books like this because they didn't print them. And now they're back in print. All right, Until next time. God bless you guys. We believe here at Real Life. 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