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Middletown NY SDA Church

Spiritualism: The Serpents Appeal

Eric Walsh

The End in Sight

Christ or Revolution?

The Political Devil

So this is part 2 from this morning, and we'll get right into it.

A lot to cover, and we'll get into a little heavier stuff, I think, this afternoon.

I kind of gave you a bit of my story this morning, but I want to show you where this is all going and where it's heading.

Prophetically, this is important information.

Scripture reading Daniel 221, and he changes the times and seasons.

He gives wisdom unto the wise and knowledge to them that know understanding.

My Bible tells me, even when there is an election like this year, ultimately, who sets up kings and takes them down?

The book of Ezekiel, I'm getting ahead of myself because I haven't prayed yet, but the book of Ezekiel, when you start to read the first few chapters and you're looking at the wheel and the wheel and all of these incredible visions, when you read the Bible commentary and the spirit of prophecy on it, Ezekiel was shown those visions in a time of captivity, same as Daniel was in the same captivity, to remind Ezekiel that God is in control.

Our message for this evening is entitled, The Political Devil.

Father God, we thank you for this opportunity to study your word.

I ask now for your Holy Spirit, bind Satan, cast him far away from here, Lord.

Be it a technology, be it each of us that we'd stay focused to hear these words, Lord, especially the words of Scripture.

The story is very involved, but number 16, 1.

Now Korah the son of Izar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abram, the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.

And they rose up before Moses with certain of the children of Israel, 250 princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown.

When Satan wants to start a revolution inside the church, he picks men of renown.

Verse 3, And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every 1 of them, and the Lord is among them.

Wherefore then lift up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord." Verse 4, the Bible says, And when Moses heard it, he fell on his face.

A rebellion springs up among the children of Israel.

The Red Sea had parted and all the miracles that would follow all the way up to Jericho, all the way to the manna falling from the sky, and yet Moses constantly had to deal with the issue that the people, there were always people who believed that they should not trust Moses and Aaron.

They should not trust those that God had put in control.

Aaron was so imperfect, he was the 1 who forged the golden calf.

It is going to be rebellion from within and persecution from without.

Here's what Education, page 228 says about the times in which we live.

At the same time, anarchy is seeking to sweep away all law, not only divine but human.

She says, the centralizing of wealth and power, the vast combinations for the enriching of the few at the expense of the many, the combinations of the poor classes for the defense of their interest and claims, the spirit of unrest, of riot and bloodshed, the worldwide dissemination of the same teachings that led to the French Revolution are all tending to involve the whole world in a struggle similar to that which convulsed France.

She says that in these last days, there would be a look to sweep away all law.

Did you go to, I know if you go to Portland, Oregon, it is legal to go in and steal up to I think it's $900 and they won't do anything to you?

Listen, I grew up with some real sticky finger brothers down in Miami.

If they had that law, every store would be empty.

We talk about the 1% and how rich they are.

Ellen White is not taking anybody's side.

She's saying that the centralizing of wealth and power, the greed of what I call the hypercapitalists fuels the drive for labor unions to get more power and ultimately beyond labor unions, which this is different from labor unions, is the rise of Marxism and socialism in society.

Because there are true inequities and injustices in society.

The enriching of the few at the expense of the many.

Did you know that when you visit places like Jamaica and Haiti and parts of Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, much of Central and South America, even big countries like Brazil, did you know that they're not poor by accident?

Did you know that if you go back there's a great documentary called Life and Debt done about Jamaica back in the early 2000s where they literally, the producers show you that in fact It was the work of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, these incredible debts that they laid on poor countries all over the world, like the Dominican Republic, like Haiti.

Haiti had to pay back the money Slave owners lost when they had their slave rebellion.

And that was just settled not that long ago.

The debt that they pile on Jamaica makes it so the government has to decide whether or not to put medication in the hospital or pay the debts back to the IMF and the World Bank.

It's not an accident when you go to these countries and they're poor.

This is something that has been designed and Satan wants there to be an economic divide between certain parts of the world and certain peoples in the world because that division, that friction that's created, he can use to his advantage.

Education, page 228, she says, such are the influences to be met by the youth of when?

To stand amidst such upheavals, they are now to lay the foundations of what?

In other words, you are going to see the world convulse.

I mentioned this morning that Biden was thinking about allowing long-range missiles to be launched by Ukraine deep into Russia.

I found out just looking at my phone that now NATO or some of the European countries have now joined in and said that should be allowed.

We are living in a time where if they start to shoot long-range missiles into Russia, what do you think Russia might do back?

And as the world begins to seemingly convulse, if you do not have the character of Christ, fear will drive you to make decisions that will not be good for your eternity.

1 of the things that they've done, they sweep you into identity politics.

You know, for me, you're a black cis male and these are your pronouns and they try and tell you all this kind of stuff.

They divide you, divide you, divide you up.

I read a quote last week at my church from 1 of the evolutionists who said, or 1 of the communists who said, Christianity is the enemy of communism, in a sense, because Christianity teaches that all men are brothers.

People say they're peaceful, but billions of dollars of damage, lives lost, spray painting, vandalizing, as these protests sweep through, And it's not just people on the left, it's people on the right.

There's an idea that lawlessness can come in, that we can just kind of do whatever we want, that we can change the way the world functions.

All of these things are happening at rapid pace and rapid tick.

And if we are not ready for what is coming, if we don't have the character of Christ, like they did during the time of the Civil Rights Movement where they stood up, I mentioned it this morning, it was a Christian movement and they behaved as Christ would want you to behave and it changed the world.

This is the Stanford Freedom Project and he's talking about a Christian movement to civil rights in America.

A powerful thing, I didn't mention this this morning, but what I mentioned, what they teach our children is that Christianity is the reason for all oppression and racism and all of this stuff.

But you know, if you study world history, slavery has always existed on the planet.

Did you know there are countries that just made slavery illegal in the last century?

And even to this day, there are millions of people basically enslaved around the world.

The slavery that happened in the West, in Central, South America, North America, the Caribbean, was a horrible, depending on where you were, it was worse and better, but definitely here in the United States, it was an incredibly terrible institution.

But what's unique about American slavery is that the slave owners fought a civil war to end slavery.

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