Lifewalk with Christ God

Lifewalk with Christ God
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Lifewalk with Christ God

Jun 10 2024 | 01:01:49

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Episode June 10, 2024 01:01:49

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Riscalla Victoria Smith Michael Bahas Stu Shear

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Have you ever flipped through the Bible, curious but a little intimidated? You're not alone! Join Michael Bahas, your average history buff with a thirst for knowledge, as he dives into the fascinating world of scripture on Lifewalk with Christ God this Sunday, 5:30pm on TrimRadio.com

This show takes a fresh look at the Bible, offering weekly readings from the Bible. Michael isn't a pastor, but he's passionate about exploring the stories, characters, and historical context that make the Bible such a rich and complex text. Each episode features a clear reading of a passage, followed by Michael's engaging commentary.

Lifewalk with Christ God welcomes listeners of all backgrounds, whether you're a seasoned believer, someone coming back to faith, or simply curious about this cornerstone of Western literature.

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Lifewalk with Christ God is your gateway to a deeper understanding of the Bible, fostering open dialogue and personal exploration. So grab your headphones, crack open a Bible (or not!), and join Michael on this thought-provoking journey through scripture.

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[00:00:18] Speaker A: Somebody saved me me from myself I spend so long living in hell they say my lifestyle is bad for my hell it's the only thing that seems to help all of this drinking and smoking is hopeless but feel like it's all that I need something inside of me's broken I hold on to anything that sets me free I'm a lost cause baby don't waste your time on me I'm so damaged beyond repair life is shattered my hopes and my dreams I'm a lost call baby don't waste your time on me I'm so damaged beyond repair life is shattered my hopes and my dreams what if the night sky was missing the moon. [00:02:11] Speaker B: There were. [00:02:12] Speaker A: No shooting star to use wishing on. [00:02:16] Speaker B: You. [00:02:19] Speaker A: In all of my sorrows I just washed them down. [00:02:55] Speaker B: Good evening, everyone, and welcome. Welcome to life walk with Christ. God, first thing you should know is I am not a pastor, I am not a rabbi, I am not a priest, I am not a deacon, I am not clergy, I am not anyone. I am just a simple man that loves to read the King James Version Bible. And we are on today on chapter six, the ungodly multiply. And before we start that, as christians, I think that we have made a couple of, as we all do, mistakes along the way. Some of those are in dealing with people of unbelief. And I run into multiple people that don't have a belief in God. And they're like, how could you believe in such fantasy and everything else? And most of the people all turn around and say, well, you know, that's their choice, to let them walk away, that's great, but what if they were supposed to meet people like us and they've never known and never could understand or hope to understand, because nobody has taken the time or the love to show them that Christ, God exists. And why? I mean, after all, what benefit is it, right? And thinking about this and thinking about why people are the way that they are today. And it comes down to, I hear the same answers a lot of time is, why should I worship something that is invisible, that I can't see, that? I wouldn't bet on it, I wouldn't give it any type of credence because, well, first of all, I've never seen him or anything. And I mean, seeing is believing, right? So here we are as supposed to be christians, loving people, and we already know twelve people changed the world and to their expense. So 13 really, and at their own expense. And when you look at it and you think about all that has happened and here's this book. This Bible, great book, right? And some people don't believe in it and they can't believe in it because first of all, it's very hard to understand and it's open to so many interpretations, reproof and reproach. And normally I'd be doing my welcome to the trim radio and everything, but I wanted to dive right on into this and talk about the King James Bible. 80 books in it, right? So we know in the Bible itself there's 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the new. But also in King James, really, there's a total of 80. 80 books, not 66. Very interesting. But as we're diving into this and it just happened to be out of fluke last week, I said, let's start at the very beginning. Let's go back and how do we prove God? How do we prove of God's existence in today's world and try to explain it to people? Because our minds are closed as far as being able to do that. People don't understand that. The Lord God, the creator of everything, my belief, my strong belief in Christ, God. But why? Why do I believe? Well, first of us, you know, for some of us, and first of all, we have to understand that God is outside of time, space and matter. So his existence, while provable and unprovable, as some people would say, you have to be able to think beyond this type of realm. Because if he's outside of time, space and matter, then his I am, as he has said many times, I am. And he is the alpha and the omega. So he is the beginning and the end. And when he says that, who is he really saying that to? He is the alpha and the omega. I mean, if you imply I'm the alpha in the omega, the beginning and the end, and we all know Alpha is the top dog. We know that. So he's omnipresent, omnipotent, omnipowerful, and he's the end. Does that mean that there is a time frame of his existence? Well, no, and here's the interesting part. We have proof of, and let's just go to the proof or the different things that we have of the existence of a God and of the existence of Christ. But let's go with just proof of the existence of God himself. We already know Christ is in God. God is in Christ. So Christ God is, and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. But let's go and let's prove this once and for all. Not only do we have the writings the writings from Moses. We have the writings that were done before. We have dead sea scrolls. We have proofs of the Red Sea, how it was parted. We have proofs of the armies of pharaoh, artifacts, wagon wheels, chariot wheels from armies that are down there, shields. We have proof of ruins, the different places and of different altars and everything that were set up. We have proof of the different religions that people had back then. And the funny thing is, the religions from other people, whether you believe in the Torah, whether you believe in the Christianity, whether you believe in the Quran or everything else, it's funny. They all acknowledge that the people or the prophets and these different people did exist at these times. And there are times and dates, or are within the margin of error, which is acceptable, which is proving even more. And we have the different books, the different scrolls, dead sea scrolls. We have different, different versions from different groups of people, be the translations from greek, be it the translations from latin, aromatic, aramaic, and yet all these things. And we have all these different proofs, and we have the proofs of the different cities and how everything has transpired in those sittings and all those people. How were I to prove myself in 2000 years? How would I be able to do that? Would it be off of these streams? Would it be off of people that knew me? You couldn't go to them because they'll probably more than likely, of course, they will be gone. So did my existence? Does my existence exist? Am I sitting right here with you right now? And at this time, your eyes are seeing and believing? So you can relate to that, you can accept that. But what you're not accepting and what you're fighting about is one, well, you don't want to worship God. Why should I worship him? What has he done for me? I don't want to worship anybody. And I see my kitty cat is behind me and she's full of mischief. That is eclipse, God, the creator of all, we have this thought that there's this big bang theory and boom, it was there. Okay, if you want to put it like that, God came upon not a world, right? A void from darkness, right? So let's go back and we looked at this when God created the world, right? And as we look at this, and I'm going to leave this right here in the. In the beginning, God created heaven and earth, and earth was without form, no form and void. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. So when we read stuff like this word is our interpretation, the face of the deep darkness was upon the face of the deep space. Remember, we have to remember God is outside of time, space, and matter. So, and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, let there be light. And there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. We have found solar systems and an ever expansive solar system. It keeps not just ours, but space expanding all the time. It's never stopped. And this is what we believe. Now. We have most scientists who agree with that. And science not only proves it, and not only proves of Christ the existence Mary, it proves everything all the way down the line, Joseph. And there's different Josephs in the Bible all the way through, but we have seen also the prophetic scrolls and writings talking about Christ way before Christ came to existence. So while we have in the con, why we have in the Bible, why we have in pretty much every religion that you have out there saying, okay, well, they say he was a prophet. They don't believe him as being the messiah, but they say he was a prophet. But we're talking about existence here. So if they say he's a prophet and they disagree with him being a messiah, then he must have existed. He must have been there at that time for them to say, okay, well, he was just a prophet. We have timelines. We have date lines. We can go back. Adam lived for 930 years. Seth lived for 912. Enosh lived for 905. Kenan lived for 910. Mahalia lived for 895. Jared lived for 962. Enoch lived for 365 years. And then God took him. He never died. God just came and took him. Methuselah, the oldest person in the Bible. Methuselah, 969 years. And, of course, then the flood, and, you know, Lamech, 777 years, and Noah, 950 years, then the flood. Shem lived for 600 years. And you notice the timelines going down just as it was written in the scrolls, just as it was written in the Bible, that the timeline will go down. God will limit the time that we have here on earth. And it's been going down. You know, we're going down and down and down and down and down. I mean, to the point now, we've went through Nahor, who lived 148 years. We went from 969 years down to Shem, 600 years, Shella to 433 Iber to living down to 464 Peleg living 239 Ru, 239, Nahor, 148, Tera, 205, Abraham, 175. And then we're getting down to the chronological areas of the flood, and we know, 150 days. So we know the rain begins to fall, the rain stops. The earth is covered with water, the water begins to recede, and the ark rests on Mount Ararat. And now they believe that they have traces of this ark. Archaeological artifacts again. And it's very interesting in these timelines to the days that happened, to a total of 370 days. So it's very interesting. Seven days before the flood and then boom, you know, how many days that we had. And it's very interesting. People in Christianity know and people here believe, if it's so hard to believe in God with the evidence and the proof that we have, not only from the writings from the timelines, from the dates from the existence of the people, from the people themselves saying it, from the archaeological artifacts that they found, chariot wheels, wagon wheels, weapons, and everything else that they had during those timelines, to crucifixion, which everybody agrees upon, to everything that has transpired, including the prolific and prophetic futures of what these people predicted. I mean, to a t, I mean, from Isaiah, Jeremiah, you can go back on and on and John talking about revelation, Christ talking about revelation, to the different things that we're seeing today, which happening is coming true as to when nobody knows the time of the day, not even the son. The father knows that. But all these things, putting them together in pieces, going with dates in a chronological timeline and everything that's happened from the families, I mean, chronicles going all the way through, it's given you from the dates this person was begat by this person, begat by this person all the way down the line. And you have, you get to Christ now and you have these books. You know, we know Paul wrote most of the New Testament, but you have Mark, Luke, John, Matthew, and the events that they tell about, while some of them saw them in a different interpretation, but the events themselves existed, happened, were written about, were scrolled. And then you go to in between 14, I believe it's 1427 and 1439, when, you know, the Catholic, the popes and all the popes or bishops and the groups got together, Constantine, and they canonized everything, you know, 80 books at that point. And you look at all of the information of what they chose and how to be placed into the Bible, you have to understand, well, some will say, well, there's missing books. Well, I'm sure there probably was a lot of stuff missing because there's a lot of questions that people have. There's a lot of questions in the Old Testament, especially in Genesis, that last week we were asking about, you know, and God called the firmament heaven. What is the firmament? And he said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place and let dry land appear. And it was so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called seas. And God saw it was good. And God said, let the earth bring forth the tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth. And it was so. And the evening and morning were the third day. Very interesting. As you go through this, you have a lot of questions because God made two lights, and out of those he made, there are two great lights. And out of this you had the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule of the night sun and the moon. And God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning, the fourth day. Very interesting when you put it together. And could it have happened like that with God? Yes. So does that mean that I believe in a big bang theory? No, I believe in God. But how do you know that explosion wasn't like that with God? I mean, that's just how God works. I mean, how could we possibly come to understand the intricacies of Christ, God, his thinking, his wisdom, or anything else, when we know that he's so powerful? And to put it into a perspective, and I've told this to many other people, and it's a little bit long and it's a little bit winded. God knows every leaf of the tree. He knows where they're going to fall, when they're rotted out, when they're going to fall, where they're going to land, where they're going to rot up, everything else. He knows every single blade of grass. He knows every ant, where it's going, how long it'll be there, what it's, you know, he knows every single thing, how many bugs, creepy things are on the earth. He knows the seas, which way the oceans are going to go, which way they're not going to go. He knows when the storms are going to come. We know that God gave us the information to look at different signs and see different things. We can interpret when winter is coming, the leaves are falling off the tree. We don't see winter when we know it's coming. We don't see air, but we breathe it every day. We know of its existence. At least that's what the scientists tell us, right? That oxygen is real and this is what we're breathing. And then we exhale CO2, carbon dioxide, which then is in harmony with taking care of the trees, the grass, and everything else. He knows every which way the clouds are going, when it's going to rain, when it's not going to rain, when it's going to snow, when hail is coming, when tornadoes are coming, where they're going. He knows exactly how many stars are in the heavens, in the skies. He knows exactly every last detail. How many heads, how many hairs are on your head, how many times you'll blink, how many times you'll breathe, how many footsteps you'll take in your lifetime. He knows every single thought that you have, that you're going to have, or that you ever did have. He knows everything in your heart, everything in your soul. He knows every single thought. There is nothing hidden from God, because God is outside of time, space, and manner. There are no barriers for him. Omnipresent, omnipotent, omnipowerful. So if you think that the choices that you make are not already being, don't do it. No, we're, you know, pre planned. You have a choice. Free will. Understand that. But God does know the determination before you do, because he knows everything about you. I mean, after all, he created you. How could he not? He is our creator. If you can believe in these things. And, you know, sailors say, I'm ex Navy. Red skies at night sailors delight red skies in the morning, sailors take warning how do we know that? How would we know that? How would we know ever to tell when plants are about to bloom? We know that that's springtime. Says you can see these things because I've given you the ability to understand these things. When you stack up everything, the information that we have, and you put it into, and not just the books, understand God is the truth. God is the word. Word is God. And understand something that, while the Bible is wonderful, it's more important to acknowledge his one and only son being ransomed, how he ransomed himself for us to create that gap. Because we always fall short. Humans are, well, we're evil, and that's what we are inherently evil. And that is our nature. That has been our nature since the very beginning, from the time that the serpent, the crafty beast, and we've dispute, we've dispelled a lot of the false, the mythology of, oh, well, you know, she ate the apple. There was no apple. Doesn't say apple. It never did say apple. It said fruit. Fruit. And last week we talked about this. Hey, you know, he said, listen, you know, God's told you. He's put you in this garden with all these trees, and you can't eat of these trees. And she turns and she questions him and says, wait, he didn't say that. He said, we can eat freely from any of the trees in the garden. And there's two great trees in the midst of the garden, right? And we know one is the tree of life, and the other one is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And at any time, they could have sat there and eaten from the tree of life. And Adam and God had this strong relationship, divinity to humanity, relationship where God himself has said, okay, listen, I'm creating all these animals, but I am curious. I'm excited to see what you're going to call them. And whatever he named them, that's what they became. And of course, and we know that story. But now as we move along, and we know, okay, so the crafty serpent beguiled Eve, and she gave to Adam, and he did eat. He made a choice. And then, of course, what did Adam do? Adam turns. And God asked him a rhetorical question, where are you? He knows where they are. But this question is multifaceted, because in the end, Adam has a chance here to repent. Here's a chance to say, God, I erred and I made a mistake. Please forgive me. And of course, God knows how all this is going to play out because we know at some part here. And I'll go back into. And this is another book I love, the Rose Chronological Guide to the Bible, which is. Which is a wonderful book that I do enjoy. We know at some point, time and place, Genesis covers the creation of the world to the story of Joseph in Egypt around 1800 BC. And the stories have taken place in Mesopotamia, Canaan and Egypt. All these places are named in the Bible. Is the word true? Well, when you read and you go over the word and you see it, and it's pulled from the different scrolls and everything else. Now, the Torah consists of the first four or five by five books of the Bible. And then. But those books also agree with, you know, Christianity part. Right? So we, in a lot of ways thank the Jews, because really, that's where Christianity kind of evolved. They missed the boat. But then, boom, what happened? Twelve people that we're probably the most undeserving people in the world, which, you know, we can say now in our generation, we're probably the biggest sinners that there are, changed the world, but really, they didn't change it. Christ changed the world because he overcame the world. You will have trouble in this world, but don't worry, because I have already overcome this world. So going back and trying not to get off a track, because my mind does that. We look at what happened, they eat the fruit. And of course God said, we were naked and we hit ourselves. And he said, who told you you were naked? He already knows why. And he said, did you eat from the fruit of the tree? I commanded you not to eat from the woman you gave me, gave me fruit and I ate of it. And he threw God under the bus and he broke at that time that divinity to humanity relationship. And we know this, we talked about this last week, so I'm not going to carry on from there. But God immediately went to right next to her, the woman, Eve, what have you done? And her answer was, she threw Lucifer under the breath. Satan, the serpent, beguiled me and tricked me. And of course he went to the serpent, because you have done this, you will now crawl on your belly and you will eat the dust of the earth. So we were moving on from there and we were under the ungodly multiply. But we know throughout the biblical Old Testament and even a lot of the New Testament, the events and the experiences that these people had into writing. I mean, at one time, Saul was out killing christians. He was out killing multiple people that believed in Christ and Christ's prediction and Christ's fulfilling of the scriptures by being raised from the dead, overcoming the world. So much so that when Christ came to him and started yelling at him, Saul, Saul, why, why are you saying this? Knocked him right off his donkey, put him right into the ground flat, there you are. And he writes of this, he writes of that experience, and for three days he can't see a thing. Now he has to get led around and the Holy Spirit is going to be brought upon him. And he does 180. Did Paul exist? Yes. Paul was Saul. And we know some of the names have gotten changed in a lot of things because Simon is really Peter. So Levi, Matthew, tax collector. I mean, it's just amazing to me that when you look at all the evidence and you bring it up and where they ate and where they were and the different things that happened and who was in charge at the time, the different regimes or the different empires, the roman empire, who acknowledge the events that happen and the way that things that played out, which totally can't be explained, but we already know when, even when Christ was born, Joseph and Mary, God said, you know, okay, we know what's happening here. Herod's looking for you. This isn't good, this is bad. He wants to kill you. So what does he do? We know the events are true because he went through and killed all the newborn children two or three years and before. But God had warned him. And these people saw angels, and we know angels exist. If we don't believe in angels, then how is it easier for you to believe Satan or the devil than it is for God? How? Because, sure enough, Gabriel went down. Go to Egypt. Why? Because it was outside the jurisdiction. So Eric couldn't do a thing that's not his territory. Therefore, the life of Christ was. Was spared. We know the magi existed because we know of the gifts, we know of the artifacts, of the different things that have happened. I mean, there's so many different things that we know all the way down the travel areas, the plans, the different places where people know that he existed, showed up healed, cured, saved, healed, loved. All these people can't be wrong. They can't be wrong. One person can be wrong. But how can you discount thousands upon thousands of others to where when it was prophesied, it will change the world, and it has. What's the number one book? What is the number one book all time? I'll give you a clue. It's the Holy Bible. And yet the faith has dipped off today more than ever. And it's the way that we're approaching it, which shouldn't be in an arrogant way, but should be in a way that can be explained, because maybe there are people out there that do want to believe and do need things to be proven. You know, the tabernacle existed, the ark of the covenant, the Holy Grail. If all these things exist and the paintings were done and everything else was done to prove the existence and prove these things, then these things did exist, these things did happen. These events did take place within the chronological timeline that it was supposed to happen at scrolls. Everything else, the way the land is, the lay of the land, and everything else, the conclusion to come to then is these things are factual. So now, if we're up at that point where these things are factual, is there stuff that is hard to explain? Absolutely. The Bible and. Oh, that's the other thing people can attack. Well, the word has changed so many times from all these different people over time. Well, now that we have proven that God and Christ and everything has existed, not only from artifacts and from timelines chronological, from family lines and from paintings, from ruins, from all the different things that we found from where the wars were happening and everything else, to the prophecies that happened, to the healings that happened, to everything else, now that we have established that that is true. How can God protect the word of the Bible? Well, it's real simple. And I would tell you this. God is outside of space, time and matter. And because of that, if you don't think that he can't protect the living God that has done everything and created everything, doesn't have the ability to protect the word, the word that is written, then there's another problem there, because not to mention how it's written and in which way it's written, Christ spoke in all parables. Very hard to interpret and determine exactly what he was saying. I mean, the Pharisees knew a lot of times they were like, huh? And they were upset at him. They wanted to kill him because, hey, listen, if he takes over, the people follow him. He's going to take away our rule. And if we don't get this under control, Rome's going to come in here, and then all of a sudden they might take it away. We might be in real trouble here. It's better for one to die than for all of us to die. I mean, they knew the word. They knew the scriptures, right? The law of Moses and everything else always went back to the law of Moses with them. And Christ would turn around. It's great that you know the law of Moses, but at the same time, here I am right in front of you. Surely if you knew my father, you would know me. My father is in me. I am in him. The father has given me all things. So he put everything in parables, not only to protect it, but to protect the word also that. So people would not come to understand it. That's why it's a very hard book to understand and to read and to interpret. And you, I'm going to tell you, everyone will have their own interpretation of it. And the first place that people usually jump to is revelation. And they don't look at the wonderful things or the great gifts that happened during the New Testament. They go right to revelations. They can't tell you much about Joseph. They can't tell you much about Jacob, Isaac. They can't tell you much about Abraham. They can't tell you, usually they can't tell you about in the order of Melchizedek. They can't tell you what any of these things are, because most people don't take the time to go over it and understand it and look at it that way. It's a challenging, challenging, wonderful, and what I call it, the greatest love story, true love story of all time. Because the villain here, us, we're the villain. Yeah. I mean, there's Satan, sure. And there's demons. Yeah. But man is ultimately his own undoing the ungodly sin continually. And God saw the witness wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. How about Genesis? That's Genesis, chapter five, verse five, page eleven. The ungodly to be destroyed. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on earth. And it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creepy thing and the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I had made them. God is not saying, okay, I am disturbed that I made man. He is. What is he? Sorrowful that he made man? I mean, how could we possibly. It's hard to understand exactly what that interpretation is. God doesn't make mistakes. So how could he feel repented? And it repented to the Lord? Okay, how could we possibly know his understanding? But after seeing all that has happened, after going through everything that has happened and how did a lot of this happen? Where exactly did a lot of this happen? So let's take a look. But we know angels and demons exist, right? I mean, it's easier for you to believe in angels and demons. And it is God after all. So though not mentioned in the Genesis creation narrative, other Bible passages reveal that God also created angels, holy messengers tasked to do his will. We know that in psalms 148, verse two through five. Job 38, verse four through seven. Joe, what a great book that is, huh? Confrontation of the Lord and everything like that with Satan. And most people say, okay, hey, wait, here we go. Here's. Here's a good part for you. What is the opposite of evil? Well, it's good. What is the opposite of Satan? And then they go back and they say, well, that's God. No, it's not. No, it's not. And here should be more proof for you. First of all, how can Satan be the opposite of God? Because God created Satan. They are not on the same level. God created Lucifer. God created the angels. Or here we are. He also created angels, holy messengers tasked to do his will. We don't know exactly when, but sometime after creation and before Satan tempted Eve, there's another important part. See, Lucifer and Satan, guess what? Same. The angels rebelled against their maker. Against their maker. Two. Peter, verse two and four, and Jude six. The chief of these fallen angels is Satan, called the devil or the prince of demons. Matthew 12, 22 32. In the end, God will completely and eternally defeat Satan and his demons. Matthew 24 25 41. Again, these are predictions now that are coming to pass and understand the predictions that were in the Old Testament about Christ and about revelations, the Christ part already came true, which then should lead you to the conclusion that God is not only real and a living God, because the other parts were not there yet. We will hear about wars and rumors about wars and different things. We're going to see things. There's going to be seven years. We're going to go through a terrible time. Will it be during our lifetime? I don't know. We don't know the times of the dates. We have people trying to predict this all the time. How could you possibly predict or understand what God's thinking is? You're never going to match it up, not with science, not with anything else, because he's beyond all of that. That's the important thing to remember. So now that we know this, we know also at a time they rebelled against God and we wanted to praise for ourselves. We don't want to worship you. You're done. You're out. Go now. You're banished. You're down here. You've rebelled. You're not coming back. And we know this why? Because when he did come back to God, his maker in job, if you remember, the angels presented themselves to God and along with them came Satan. Satan doesn't go around. Walk on up there frequently and say, okay, here I am. No, no, no, no, no. See, the angels presented themselves and along came Satan. And then what happened? And it wasn't the first time that this happened, but what happened? And most people say, well, holy, holy smokes. Job went through so much. Yeah, he did. But are you missing the most important story about this? There's so many lessons in job, all the way down, in interpretations through job, all the way down. The first thing, excuse me, I'm getting over a little bit of a sinus infection. Job is down there, and Satan is now talking with the king of kings, our lord of lords, God. And he's saying, well, you put a hedge around him, you know, nobody could touch him. It's a distinction of existence and power of God. Right away, Satan can't do anything to him because Job was an upright man, a God loving and fearing man, that issue with evil. So God agreed to take, okay, fine, but he already knows what's going to happen. He already knows the outcome of this. And what does he do? He gives Satan a command. You will not touch job. That's it. There's your parameters. You can't touch him. So what does Satan do? What is his goals? Well, it's to seal, kill and destroy. So he goes down there and he steals. He kills family members and everyone. And, you know, Job is this guy that he's so worried about sin that he even does offerings to the Lord on behalf of his children. And when that didn't work for Satan, again, the angels presented themselves to the Lord and along with them came Satan. And the next time Satan said, well, you've got a hedge around his life, you know, but if you didn't, you know what? Like I said before, he'll curse you to your face. God said, fine, but you cannot take his life. You must spare his life. Second command. Every time Satan comes to him, he's given a command. He doesn't have a choice. So when you start thinking, what is the opposite of Satan? And you say, God, they're not on the same level. No way. Gee, Satan, for devil can only be at one place at one time. God can be everywhere, anytime, outside of time, space and matter. How many angels can you fit on the top of a pinhead? When you can give me that answer, I can answer you back. As many as God wants. And that's what it comes down to. As many as God wants, because he's outside of space. So the top of the pinhead doesn't matter. He's outside of time, could be at any time, and he's outside of matter dependence. That's how it works with God. Satan is just an archangel. So is Michael. And we already know Michael is more powerful than Lucifer and Satan. We know this because it's already been prophesied, it's already been written, it's already been scrolled. There is no way in the eternal life, in the eternal history of anything, that Lucifer wins. No way. Christ coming here and ranciding himself, bridging that gap. Because why? And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil, continually. Because we're always going to fall short. Always. I don't care how good you are. So what is our jobs here? Our jobs are to try to help make sure that we're watching over each other. We already know this, right? Because of Cain and Abel and Genesis. Cain has the audacity when God says, why is, where's Abel? He knows where Abel is. I don't know. What am I, my brother's keeper? You're going to speak to God that way. And God had these conversations with these people. They're written about the timelines, everything indicated. We're finding now the artifacts in the way that things happened in the different areas, like Sodom, Gamora. I mean, it's incredible, the things that we're discovering now, more and more and more proof all the time, new ruins, new areas that they've opened up. Wow, look at what we found. Which adds on to more layers and layers. And people go through and they say, well, you know, one heaven. No, it says heavenly realms. It's been called heaven a few times to the highest heavens in the heavenly realms. So that mythology is crushed. What that means, I really. I honestly don't know. Are there different layers to heaven? Is it just one heaven? Because why do we use heavens or heavenly realms? There's no way to know for sure. Of course, I always tell you that if you have any questions, you need to go to your pastors, you need to go to your priests, you need to go to your rabbi, you need to go to your clergy, you need to go to your deacons. You need to go to all these people that have so much wonderful knowledge in this that I do not. I'm just a guy that loves to read the Bible. I'm just a guy that has seen things in his life and experienced things in my life that have proven to me there's not a doubt in my mind, Christ, God exists. This trinity exists. I can say that without prejudice, without bias. I could say that wholeheartedly. I scream it publicly because I don't want anybody else to miss it. They get caught up into this world, to these worldly things, which means nothing because life is so fleeting in our time, as God says, I'm going to take your timeline down to about 120 years at best. It's not even that anymore. It's not even that anymore. And that was our own doing. And then he had to protect the tree of life. Thank God that they did not eat from the tree of life. But he put, what, he put a flaming sword there and a charitable in the east part of the Garden of Eden to make sure it was protected. I could probably sit here for hours with even more evidence, with even more proof. And we know. I mean, we have the holy land in the times. We have the dates from Megiddo all the way to Mount Gaboa, all the way to. I mean, to the different areas. We have witch disciples. We have everything that went on. We can go back. We can look from Ezekiel wherever you want to go, and we could do it and prove it over and over and over and over and over again. But if it just comes down to you don't want to worship him, that's what makes this the greatest love story of all time. Because no matter how many times we as human beings messed up, failed, flawed God saw the wickedness of man, was great in the earth. And then every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only continually was evil continually. He still chose us. He still wants us. And he says, but I'm going to give you free will. You have to make the choice for some of us. Just remember something. He chose us first. And he did it with his son. Next week we're going to get back to reading chapter six, the ungodly multiply. We have any more questions about the very existence of God? If you can't get it from there, with the evidence, with the proof and with the artifacts, with all the science, with every single thing that goes to support him, I'm gonna pray for you. I'm gonna pray for you. I'm not gonna tell you I'm sorry for you. Because I'm hoping that somewhere when you search your own soul deep in your own abyss, that if you just look a little bit, just a little bit, also takes just a mustard seed of faith, maybe you'll understand. I'm going to pray for you because I love you. And with that, God bless you and I'll see you next week. Have a little faith, a little hope. Hope is a wonderful thing. Faith is a great thing. God bless, folks. Take care. Bye.

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