GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

Answering the Angels

Kameron DeVasher

Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

02 How Can an Honest God Defeat a Lying Devil?

This is Answering the Angels, now session 2.

How can an honest God defeat a lying devil?

He was cast the earth that serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world.

But before we do anything, let's start with a word of prayer.

Heavenly Father, again, we thank you so much for the opportunity to be here in Orlando.

Thank you for this great controversy theme that we can dive into and for your word giving us the answers we need.

Bless us now as we seek to understand it and apply it in our lives.

Very brief summary from our last presentation.

How can there be bad in God's good universe, essentially?

And we noticed that God did not create the devil.

And from that then God had to respond somehow.

I mean, he could have just not responded and let the whole thing go crazy, but no, he did respond by casting him out.

The central passage we looked at, by the way, if you ever want to do this Bible study with anyone, it's actually a very simple study.

You start with Matthew 13 and go through the parable.

You got Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, look behind the scenes.

You can see Revelation chapter 12 verses 7 through 9 where he casts him out of heaven.

And then you go to the, you add some great controversy in there, a little, I mean not great controversy, but just a little bit of spirit prophecy, but really not much.

It's just, I really want people to see that this concept of the great controversy and God's response to it is not like a few words from the Bible and then books and books from Ellen White where she made it.

This is a Biblical concept that simply Ellen White comments on helps clarify, but it's deeply rooted squarely on scripture.

So let's be clear about that Anyway, so our topic now is how can an honest God defeat a lying devil?

Well, let's go back to Ezekiel 28 verse 16 Let me ask this question.

What was the thing that got Satan thrown out?

Did he, I mean, and I've heard people spiritualize, well, in a sense, he broke all the commitments.

Like, okay, okay, but I mean, just logistically, what did he actually do?

We can all have guesses, and they might have some level of veracity to them, but let's see what the text says.

By the abundance of your trading, you became filled with violence within, and you sinned.'" By the abundance of your trading, what did he say?

It's like a commercial term, it's traffic.

In fact, in the King James, you'll see that word, T-R-A-F-F-I-C-K.

It's the only time it's used in the Bible, traffic.

By the abundance of your trading, you became filled with violence within, and you sinned.

Therefore, because of that, I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God.

I destroyed you a covering cherub from the midst of this fiery stone." So the question is, was Lucifer cast out of heaven for selling something?

In Job chapter 1, Job chapter 1, verses 1 through 5, is a great thing for Job.

He's a righteous man, he's got children and a household, he's got wealth and influence, yet it hasn't ruined his character.

I mean, he's just a really good guy, Job.

And it says in verse 5, I'm sorry, verse 3, so this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

And if Job only was 5 verses long, good for Job.

And if you notice, it's a sharp juxtaposition from down here on earth where Job is living this life, all of a sudden verse 6 comes along, "'Now there was a day when the sons of God "'came to present themselves before the Lord, "'and Satan also came among them.' There was a day.

Now notice it's not, it starts with Job here on earth and where he lives there in the east with his household and his family, but this is completely disconnected from that.

This meeting takes place in the presence of God in heaven, right?

Because notice, they came to present themselves before the Lord.

The Lord is calling people in and He hosts a meeting there.

There was a day when the sons of God, which should put a question in our minds, who are these sons of God?

And we'll come back to that in just a second.

But There was a day when the sons of God, which should put a question in our minds, who are these sons of God?

But there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord.

So apparently a meeting was called and they come from other places to assemble before the Lord.

And it adds, and Satan also came among them.

Now this seems to have a problem with what we had just studied in our first 1.

Didn't Satan used to live in heavenly places right there at the right hand of God?

Yes, but as we saw last time, what has happened?

He was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him.

But now, There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them.

There are several questions in this simple sentence, right?

Well, it goes on to say, and the Lord said to Satan, from where do you come?

Which strongly implies, as we just saw in the previous text, everybody at this meeting comes from somewhere else.

The Lord's the 1 who stays still, and everybody comes to Him.

So He calls a meeting, and Everybody shows up who's supposed to be at the meeting, and he's taking roll call and attendance, and all of a sudden, Satan's there, which I'm guessing changes the dynamic of the room.

Right, All the things got tense, things got weird.

Anselm Lorden said, "'From going to and fro on the earth "'and from walking back and forth on it.'" Where does he claim to be from?

In what condition was he in on the earth?

Apparently free to walk around up and down.

He's basically saying, I run that place and I'm here representing it today.

Well, don't we know he was stuck in a tree?

Religious Liberty Teetering on the Edge

Joe Reeves

02 Are Adventists Wrong about Revelation 13?

Heavenly Father, thank you that we can assemble this morning.

And we are getting ready to ask tough questions from Revelation 13, which are so important for us today.

Please give us open minds, open hearts, understanding, and willingness to follow where you lead.

So, are Adventists wrong about Revelation 13?

I submitted my titles a few months ago, But I think a friend of mine just sent me this text message.

There's a lot of antagonism sometimes, in some places, against our prophetic messages.

Now, Adventists have been saying The same thing, which I will show you in this presentation, about America for 170 years.

Since 1851, we've been saying the same thing about America.

Some Adventists, or ex-Adventists, or Adventists on the edge, I don't know what to call them.

He said, I was an Adventist minister for 43 years.

I have come to the conclusion that most of our prophetic interpretations are false.

We keep saying all these things will happen.

Ellen White said this would take place but it has been more than 100 years since her death.

Will it take another hundred years for this to take place?

What matters is what happens today, not tomorrow.

So I fiercely disagree with this comment and I'll show you why in this presentation.

I believe that our prophetic interpretations are more relevant today than when they were written and that we need to understand them more now than the previous generation and that they speak profoundly to what is happening now.

I believe that many prophecies have not been fulfilled because God is merciful and He's been kind to us.

And as I study these prophecies and I just, you know, read a comment like this on social media, it makes me really want to be open to what the Lord has to say and to follow and not be stubborn because I think that we are circling in this world for quite a few years because we're not ready.

So I hope 2026 is a year where you fatten up your devotional life, your commitment to God is more robust than ever before, that you have calm nerves, clear head, and responding to all kinds of craziness that will happen this year.

There's gonna be some surprises this year, too So you don't know when you wake up in the morning what's gonna happen that day in your own life or in the country what's gonna be said or anything And I think that Adventists have been caught sideways a lot of times in getting caught up with the rhetoric of the day, the responses, the passions of the day and responding to different events.

Are Adventists wrong about Revelation 13?

Well, I have some verses on the screen, but not all perhaps.

So you might want to be opening your Bibles to Revelation 13.

Now, Adventists are not the only ones that are going to the book of Revelation to get answers about what's happening in America today.

More and more as you tune into the podcast, the radios, whatever it be, you hear preachers quoting from Revelation, particularly Revelation 13.

Actually John Rich was on his show a few weeks ago again talking about prophecy.

I haven't listened to his most recent episode.

I haven't had time but I did listen to the 1 last year John Rich is a country singer from Tennessee and he he wrote a song a country song called revelation had a lot of amazing graphics and he put it on YouTube and views just went up to the millions and so Tucker had him on the show to get some country singer prophetic interpretations and John Rich told Tucker Carlson well, you know the in the Bible says you're not going to be able to buy or sell.

It actually says in the Bible, you're not going to be able to buy or sell.

And his mind was blown Because in a day, in an age of digital currency and digital everything, digital life, it's not easy to imagine how easy it'll be for governments or people in power to control the markets and control buying or selling.

Doesn't take hardly any imagination at all.

And so when you see the development of technology, and people say, whoa, this is it.

And, but something I've noticed is that not only with John Rich but other podcasts I've listened to, they quote the end of Revelation 13, no buying or selling, and they don't quote the verses before.

I'm like, okay, are they gonna quote the verses before?

Nope, they don't do it Because if you interpret the verses before it it it gives the on-ramp to the mark of the beast scenario So all the Christians are talking about the mark of the beast, but they're ignoring what it says about the image to the beast and how the mark of the beast is implemented or how it leads up to the mark of the beast.

And so we have to interpret the whole passage because that's the only way that we're going to understand the important issues at play.

There's 2 beasts in Revelation 13 and the first beast comes in verse 1 comes up out of the sea, caused the whole world to worship to follow that beast which was in power for 1260 years before it received a deadly wound.

And for over 1000 years in Europe the state church controlled everything almost and there was not religious freedom.

And so when we came to America, we said, well, we need a new form of government.

We need to do something different over here.

And so we agree with other Protestants in identifying the first beast that came up out of the sea as the papacy and The Union of Church and State that happened at the Vatican with a crown is the leader the Pope and the second beast comes up with 2 horns, no crowns, and it comes up out of the earth.

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth and he had 2 horns like a lamb and he spoke like a dragon.

And a beast in Bible prophecy represents what?

It represents a kingdom or a nation and we don't make this up.

We get this from the Bible Daniel 7 23 4th beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth And we also know what water represents in Bible prophecy.

The waters which you saw where the harlot sits are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.

So this beast that comes up out of the earth is in a relatively less populated area of the world than the old world and that's what happened when America was born and it has 2 horns.

Deuteronomy 33 17 says, His glory is like a firstborn bull and his horns like the horns of the wild ox together with them he shall push the people." So horns is power, it's pushing, it's force, it's drive.

Ezekiel 34 21 says, because you have pushed with side and shoulder butted all the weak ones with your horns and scattered them abroad.

Now in previous beasts in Revelation they they had crowns on them.

This 1 has 2 horns without crowns because America no king no Pope we had a nation without a king and a church without a Pope and so that resulted in civil liberties and religious liberties which we are very thankful for but it continues because it says that it was like a lamb but it also spoke like a dragon.

So it means that this beast had some hypocrisy.

In other parts of Revelation, this beast is called a false prophet.

Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount to beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

So this beast looks lamb-like, but ultimately it belongs to the same family of beasts as the previous 2 beasts.

And so that's important for us to understand.

Then it says, he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed.

So, what happened before is going to happen again.

What happened in Europe during the 1260 will happen again.

He's going to exercise that same kind of power and he performs great signs so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men." So great signs.

In the Gospel of John, when he uses signs, he's describing the miracles of Jesus.

It was a sign when he healed the eyes of the blind and it was a sign when he raised the dead.

Now this group works great mighty miracles so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth and the side of men.

Can you think of any stories in the Bible where fire came down from heaven?

It was a contest over the second commandment, particularly idolatry.

He was calling the nation to account at the top of Mount Carmel.

The War for Your Mind

Scott Mayer

02 How to Avoid Deception

This 1 will be on the topic of touching a little bit on all the different types of media and how they kind of are deceptive in some way, shape, or form, but how to avoid that.

The next 1 will be on Hollywood and their war on God.

The next 1 will be on how to use the technology in evangelism.

And then The next 1 will be on how to use the technology and evangelism.

And then the next 1 will be on AI, the last 1.

So this 1 is literally on just how to avoid A lot of these things that we have in our lives today that are kind of setting our minds up for deception How many of you feel like we're kind of a bit on a carnival ride right now?

Yeah, does it kind of feel like that right?

I mean the world is changing so quick and So fast it's like if you if you really kind of get sucked into 1 thing or the other it's like real quick It's like whoa wait a minute How did I just get down that rabbit hole and that's what I kind of want to address with this particular topic right here The reason I feel passionate to talk about some of these kind of things is because this was 1 of the things that that led me away from God and I paid attention to all the media I went to school for film production and I ended up in Los Angeles for 10 years and I Lost my way And so if there's something that you can learn from our ministry that help will maybe help you not go down that same path, that is my goal, is to really help you avoid getting off on the wrong track.

And that's what we're gonna talk about today.

So as people are coming in, let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.

Dear gracious heavenly Father, Lord, we know that you have told us so many things in your precious word, Lord, that you have desired to guide our paths if we will let you to the right or to the left.

And so it is my fervent prayer, Lord, that as we come into a day and age that that the enemy of souls is is preparing for his masterpiece of deception, Lord, how are we going to protect our minds so that we don't get swept up in that deception, and specifically pertaining to media.

Lord, may this message be clear and may it be heard, and also not just heard and clear, but also to apply it to our lives.

If you haven't heard of our ministry, Little Light Studios, I do want to tell you, obviously for the sake of time, we cannot possibly present everything that is even possible to present.

I have been fortunately blessed with 10 people I work with in our ministry.

Not all of us go out and speak, but many times we are in many different locations around the world in the same weekend and speaking on these kind of topics.

If you want, look for this content online, Little Light Studios.

We have made lots of DVDs and documentaries over the years.

So to kind of illustrate a few points, maybe you guys have seen this before, which box A or B is darker?

Which way is this horse walking, towards you or away from you?

That's kind of like a little bit of a mind game, right?

Because you don't have all of the information, it can be flip-flopping back and forth.

Here's kind of another simple example which way the horse turns.

And if you kind of look at the dots, it's like, oh, is it turning to the left or is it turning to the right?

Now, The only reason I'm showing you these is because I want you to get the concept that basically we can all look at the same static image and see 2 different things.

And that it's just a slight mind shift that makes you go, oh, 0 yeah, now I see it's this or that, right?

Have you seen this 1 flying around the internet?

Is it going down the stairs or is it going up the stairs?

In fact, if I move the line straight across here like this, it's just absolutely straight.

Jesus in the middle of the space the E the SU.

I thought that was pretty cool Somebody needs to make a t-shirt, right?

That's a pretty cool image When Jesus was asked and he's sitting on the mountain, I think he was asked a very, very common question that I just absolutely would have loved to live in Jesus's day.

I would have asked him this question like, tell us what is, What are we gonna look at?

What kind of things are gonna let us know that the end is near?

How many of you think that the end is actually near?

But I think it's very interesting what Jesus answered here, and he said to them, and what is the sign of the coming of the age, when they asked this question, the first thing out of Jesus's mouth is, take heed that no 1 deceives you.

We know that we are coming into a day and age that deception will play a major part in this end time war.

I find it really fascinating that when God said that when you eat this fruit you will die in that day.

If a day is 1000 years to God and 1000 years is a day, nobody has lived over 1, 000 years.

He goes and and now there's a war in heaven and Satan comes to God and he says, you know what?

Sabbath School 1st Quarter 2026: Uniting Heaven and Earth: Christ in Philippians and Colossians

Mark Finley

HopeLives365

06 Confidence Only in Christ

Thanks again for joining us for our Sabbath School Lessons.

If you have friends that haven't joined us yet, be sure to help them to know where to tune to Hope Lives 365 so that they too can enjoy the blessing of the Sabbath School lessons.

We're on lesson number 6, Confidence Only in Christ.

We are studying the books of Philippians and the book of Colossians, and God is moving through these books as we study them.

It's just really amazing to see the practical life-changing lessons in both the book of Philippians and the book of Colossians.

So let's pray as we study the lesson today, confidence only in Christ.

Thank you for his love, his grace, and his goodness.

Thank you that we can have confidence in Christ and we can be changed through his righteousness, saved by his righteousness, and we can enter heaven not because of who we are, but because of who he is.

We know salvation from the beginning to end is about Jesus.

So Lord, thank you for beginning a good work in us, and we know too you're going to finish it as we trust in your grace.

You know, there is something about each 1 of us that has a difficult time accepting the gift of salvation through Christ.

I think our author is right when he writes in that first paragraph in lesson 6, there's something about us that remains suspicious about salvation by faith alone, apart from the works of the law.

That is, for some reason, we all tend to lean on our works as if they could add to our salvation.

In a rather striking way, Paul deals with this point in a vigorous polemic against those who insist that circumcision is necessary for salvation.

When you think about it historically, the church comes out of the dark ages, the Christian church, the Apostle Paul in those early centuries preached that salvation came through grace by faith alone and that grace transformed our lives so that we could perform good works.

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02 How Can an Honest God Defeat a Lying Devil?

53m

02 Are Adventists Wrong about Revelation 13?

55m

02 How to Avoid Deception

47m

06 Confidence Only in Christ

23m

06 Jesus and Buddhism

29m

01 Why Is There Evil in the Universe?

56m

01 What Will Cause the Next Civil War?

57m

01 The Real Cost of Social Media

49m

The Hero

28m

06 Confidence Only in Christ

30m

06 Confidence Only in Christ

28m

To Be Righteous or Not to Be Righteous, that is the Question

56m

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