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Three Cosmic Messages: Earth's Final Conflict

Mark Finley

01 Jesus vs Satan

02 The Decision that Decides Your Destiny

03 Only One Church Preaches this Message

04 Will You Pass God’s Judgment?

05 Mathematical Proof We are Living in the Last Days

06 The Obedience Dilemma

07 Revelation’s Creation Connection

08 This is Why Satan Hates the Sabbath So Much

09 Avoid this False Church System

10 Satan’s Final Deception Infecting the Church

11 Mark of the Beast | Everything You Need to Know Part 1

12 Mark Of the Beast 2 | Everything You Need to Know Part 2

13 End Time Events Before the Second Coming of Christ

I'm delighted that you've joined us for this series of prophetic Bible messages focusing on the book of Revelation titled, 3 Cosmic Messages.

These presentations especially underline the prophecies in the book of Revelation, chapter 14, verses 6 to 12, called the 3 Angels' Messages.

That first angel's message that goes to the ends of the earth says, I saw another angel flying in the middle of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell on the earth, to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come, and worship Him that made heaven, earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters." In our last presentation, we looked at the significance of creation.

We saw that creation speaks of a God that is all-powerful, all-intelligent, a God of infinite design, a God of careful planning, a God of purpose, and a God that's created us unique and special.

In this presentation, we'll continue to probe the depths of the meaning of what it means to worship God as Creator.

Father in Heaven, we're thankful that we're not some speck of cosmic dust.

We're not some tin can run over by some truck that some guy's kicking down the road.

We're not merely an enlarged protein molecule part of the animal creation.

We thank you that we're created in the image of God as we study the magnificence of creation.

Open our eyes to see divine truths in your word.

If we ever needed a place of security, it's indeed today.

Come back with me to a battle that was waging in the First World War.

American soldiers with their allies were in trenches facing the Axis powers led by Germany.

There the rival armies faced 1 another across the trenches.

The wounded, the dying, the bloody were all around scattered there.

When evening came, it was Christmas 5, 1914.

And a young GI, Joe, was there in 1 of those trenches.

He began to think about the Christmas tree with all of its trimmings.

He began to think about turkey and mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables and homemade chocolate chip cookies and apple pie.

There in the trench that night, in that war, his heart longed for home.

Then surprisingly enough, he heard the familiar sound of a Christmas carol that gladdened the air.

As he listened, he recognized the tune, and he recognized that the words were German.

He recognized that old familiar carol, Silent Night, Holy Night.

He wondered, is this some kind of a ploy?

Is this something that the enemy is using to pull us out of the trenches and shoot us down on this Christmas Eve?

But then as he looked, he saw those German soldiers coming toward him singing.

He, along with other allied forces and American soldiers, got out of the trench.

And for that 1 night, that 1 brief moment in that horrible war, these soldiers were brothers.

They were linked together in a common humanity.

Acts chapter 17, verse 24 to 26 says, God who made the world and everything in it, He is our Almighty Creator.

Since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands, and He has made from 1 blood every nation of men and women to dwell on all the face of the earth.

And he's determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings that night.

Those forces, American, German, Allied Access forces, met together and there together for that 1 brief moment of time they were common humanity.

Creation links us as brothers and sisters.

Creation links the nations of this world together.

The essence of humanity's dignity is a common creation because every human being was fashioned by God.

Every human being by God was shaped and made anew.

You know, I'm told that when Swiss lace makers make their Swiss lace, at times they take a microscopic slab, a little piece of glass, and they let the snowflakes fall on that glass and then put it under a microscope.

And every snowflake is different, so no 2 pieces of Swiss lace pattern are essentially the same.

When God made you, he threw away the pattern.

You see, creation elevates us above the animal creation.

It elevates us above this evolutionary idea.

The idea of creation is the idea that establishes our human dignity.

In Christ, the Creator, every human being has priceless value in God-given dignity, whether that's the unborn, whether it is a young man who's been hit by an automobile and now is a quadriplegic and sits in a wheelchair, whether it's a young man born of and has Down syndrome, whether it is a older woman, senior citizen with dementia or Alzheimer's that has difficulty communicating and remembering.

All humanity, male and female, young and old, rich and poor, wise and unwise, educated and uneducated, All humanity has worth in God's sight because they were created by the living God.

Creation also provides us with a true sense of self-worth.

A true sense of self-worth is a sense not that we're superior to others, not that we're better than others, not that we lord it over others, but a true sense of self-worth recognizes that we are created by God, we have value in His sight, that He's given us unique abilities, He's given us unique gifts, and these unique abilities, these unique gifts, are to be given back in service to others.

All humanity, created by God, Understanding that creation, understanding their worth, has that sense of self-worth.

So we no longer walk with our heads down, depressed, thinking, oh poor me.

Rather we walk with our heads up, taking a deep breath with our shoulders back, and a smile on our face, and a spark on our eyes, because we know who we are.

We are sons and daughters of God, created by the King of the universe.

Nobody is exactly like you in the universe.

Because if anybody was like you, their worth and your worth would be diminished by 50%.

You know, even identical twins are not identical.

Even identical twins have their differences, their uniquenesses.

When the genes and chromosomes came together to form the unique biological structure of your personality, God threw away the pattern.

Like a masterpiece painted by Leonardo da Vinci that has incredible worth because it's 1 of a kind, because it's unique, You are 1 of a kind.

You cannot be produced on a photocopy machine.

Although somebody may take a picture of you with their digital photograph camera or on their iPhone, that's not you.

Once we go down the road of evolution, we wander down a road that dehumanizes human beings.

If we truly worship him as the creator, we will value life like he values it, and we will see every human being created in his image.

It says we evolved from the lower forms of life.

It says we are here by chance, by randomness.

So if I'm merely a genetic accident, if I'm merely an enlarged protein molecule, if I am merely a little more intelligent species than the animals, If that's all I am, then I have very, very little worth.

But if I'm created by God, if every human being is created by God, special in God's sight, then I value others through the eyes of creation as God values them.

Creation provides a moral imperative for living as well.

Creation says, the 1 that made me and created me as an intelligent, rational being holds me responsible for the choices that I make.

This is why the message of Revelation 14 is so significant.

Because in an age of evolution that says really at least 2 things here at the outset, that says number 1, that we are merely advanced animals, that dehumanizes human beings and It does not provide any basis for genuine, authentic love toward others.

In that philosophy, it is the survival of the fittest, and I simply tramp up upon others to achieve my goals.

The second thing is that if I'm just an advanced animal and a little more intelligent than the animal, I have no accountability except to myself.

Therefore, if there is no accountability except to myself, the idea of making positive moral choices and standing before the judgment bar of God 1 day to give account of those choices, that simply goes out the window.

So creation provides a moral imperative for living.

It indicates that the 1 who made me, made me responsible.

There, the message of Revelation 14 verse 7, to a generation that says they have no responsibility except to themselves, that has no moral ethic higher than the own mind.

This message of Revelation says, fear God, give glory to him, for the hour of God's judgment has come.

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Three Cosmic Messages: Earth's Final Conflict

08 This is Why Satan Hates the Sabbath So Much

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Three Cosmic Messages: Earth's Final Conflict

07 Revelation’s Creation Connection

56m

Jed Lee - Creation

Creation: How Did Jehovah Create?

1h 14m

Evolution and the Sabbath

40m

From Sabbath to Sunday

47m

Plenary Sessions

Hope’s Grace-Filled End Time Message

53m

How to Keep The Sabbath

1h 8m

Dee Casper's Weekend

04 Worship Him Who Made

54m

Sabbath, Creation, and the End Time

41m

Why the Sabbath is More Than a Day (It’s a Divine Rhythm)

44m

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sanctuary

10 Repairers of the Breach

51m

Remnant Identity: Who We Are and Why It Matters

2. The Message of the Remnant & Postmodern Youth - How Revelation’s Message Resonates with Thinking Young People Today

1h

Revelation Today Crusade

12. Antichrist’s Greatest Deception

53m

Sound Doctrine