The villain of Revelation, in fact, the villain of the whole Bible, is the devil. He is the reason why there is evil in the world. Part 2 of 2

The villain of Revelation, in fact, the villain of the whole Bible, is the devil. He is the reason why there is evil in the world. Part 2 of 2

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Amazing Facts

Prophecy Encounter

Doug Batchelor

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 1

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 2

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 1

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 2

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 1

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 2

144,000 & The Seal of God, Pt. 1

The Woman of Light

A Prophet in the River

The Mark of the Beast

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 1

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 2

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For 9 months, between 1898 and 1899, 2 famous man-eating lions of Savo terrorized workers employed in the construction of a railway bridge in Uganda.

As the death toll rose, construction was brought to a virtual standstill.

The workers said they refused to continue until protection could be provided.

Finally, the reign of terror was brought to an end when Lieutenant Colonel J.H.

Patterson succeeded in tracking and killing the 2 lions that had devoured 135 men.

The lions are now on permanent display in the Field Museum of Chicago.

Even more deadly was a tigress in India that was reported to have killed and eaten 436 people in 1907 before it was killed.

But the record for man-eating goes to 1 lion that has devoured more than all these other cats combined.

1 Peter 5, verse 8 advises us, be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil is going around like a roaring lion seeking whom he might devour.

So how can we be protected against this man eater?

Join me friends today as we continue our exploration to understand the originator of sin, the devil.

Tonight we've got a subject that I think you're going to find very interesting, and I hope you'll pray as we proceed, because we're going to be talking about that arch fiend, and why is there evil in the world today, dealing with the villain of Revelation, better known as the devil.

I believe that not only does God send good angels to our meetings, I believe the devil tries to send representatives to distract and keep people from hearing the word.

Paul talks about us not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, spiritual forces of wickedness in high places.

There is a God, there are good angels, and there is a devil.

I think as you look at what's happened in history, you'd have to say that there is evil.

You look at what some terrorists do where they put a person in a cage and douse them with gasoline and videotape as they set them on fire.

1 of the reasons some people turn to God is they say, you know, I wasn't so sure about God, but when I became convinced that there was absolute evil, then I thought there must be good, there must be God.

And we can certainly see the evidence for evil in the world.

When God created Adam and Eve, what was the 1 thing He forbade them from doing?

He said, "...but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it." Amen?

I've made this beautiful world, beautiful garden.

And the devil's been told the only place that he can campaign is at the tree.

And you can choose to reject Him and resist Him and you'll never have any problems.

But if you engage Him, it could be deadly.

It said, for in the day that you eat thereof, you will surely die.

Now, what the Lord means by that is in dying you will die, is the way that reads in the Hebrew, that you will definitely die eventually.

They died spiritually the day they disobeyed, and of course Adam and Eve both died within that first millennia, The day with the Lord is like a thousand years, right?

What medium did Satan use to deceive Eve?

Well, you know, he appeared through the medium of a serpent.

Now, the serpent is just another creature, but it says it was a very hypnotic, beautiful, subtle creature.

Now, the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

And the serpent said to the woman, you'll not really die.

First question in the Bible is he questioned God's word.

You notice the cynicism, doubting the word of God.

All the sin in our world today comes from the devil doubting the word of God.

And he said, you're not really going to die, God didn't really mean what he said, and because our first parents chose not to believe God's Word and instead they believed the devil, we've got all these problems.

Revelation 12, notice Satan is also called that old serpent, the dragon was cast out, that serpent called the devil and Satan, so there's no question who the dragon, who the serpent, who the devil, you know the word Satan means adversary, and if you take the word devil and you take off the D, what do you have?

And then finally that first prophecy, the Lord says there in Genesis 3, 15, I'll put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed.

And so through the book of Revelation and all through the Bible, you see this contest going on between the seed of the woman, Christ followers, and of course Jesus is the ultimate seed of the woman, and the dragon, the devil.

You've all heard the fairy tales about the knight in shining armor that saves the maiden from the dragon.

All those are kind of rooted in some truth that you find in the Bible.

You can also see it again here in Revelation 12, 17, where it tells us that the dragon was enraged with the woman and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring.

See, Jesus, Genesis, talked about the seed of the woman.

Here you go to the end of the Bible, beginning of the Bible, you get the dragon, the serpent, the woman, the seed of the woman.

Now you go to Revelation, you get the dragon, the serpent, and the woman, and he's trying to destroy the seed of the woman.

The descendants of the woman who keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus.

And so the devil hates people that obey God's commandments.

So why was eating a piece of fruit such a deadly offense?

Why all the trouble in the world from eating the wrong thing?

Well, because first of all, God commanded them not to.

You know, every week we do amazing facts on our radio program, and I did an amazing fact about the macaniel tree.

They actually grow here in Florida and around the Caribbean, and it's called the tree of death.

They have apples and they look very luscious.

They even smell sweet, but if you eat 1, you could easily die.

It'll cause...it'll burn your throat, your throat would swell up and it can cause...

It will cause all kinds of gastronomical problems and permanent injury and liver and kidney problems.

If you're even under that tree when it's raining, the sap from the tree coming on your skin can blister your skin.

It's a very toxic tree and they've got these signs everywhere, warnings, stay away from this tree.

And I read about a tourist that was in some Caribbean island where there was 1 of these trees, they keep them for erosion on the coast and they didn't have a sign.

And she and her friends said, Oh, that looks good.

And they had all kinds of miserable problems and pain and suffering because they ate this deadly tree.

Well, God told Adam and Eve, not to eat the tree, and it wasn't that the fruit hurt them, it was the disobedience that did it.

You see, the Bible says in Romans 6, 16, Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves or servants to obey, you are the slaves of the 1 who you obey, whether of sin, leading to death, or of obedience, leading to righteousness.

And when Adam and Eve decided to follow the teachings or the suggestion of the serpent, the devil, instead of God, they surrendered the dominion of this world that God had given Adam and Eve to the enemy.

See, Adam was to have dominion of the world and Eve.

And when they chose to listen to the devil instead of God, they handed over the keys.

And the devil decided to continue his rebellion with this planet as the beachhead for his war against God.

What are some of Satan's methods that he uses to deceive, discourage, or to destroy people?

And we're going to go through a list of things here.

First of all, it says, Satan is the 1 who deceives the whole world.

Deception is the commingling of truth and error.

He will take something good and he'll mix in something bad and you don't realize how deadly and dangerous it is.

He came to Jesus in the wilderness and he tempted him.

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