THE CASUALTIES OF WAR
TEXT ISAIH 14:12; REV 12:4; 9; 17
INTRO:
I am picking up where we left off last Sunday. I know we covered a lot of information that could take you months to look up everything in the word of God I taught about, but his Sunday we won’t just deal with what was, but also what is as far as dealing with the first war against God.
Obviously, after God destroyed the face of the earth and all that was on it in Judgment and had placed the worst of Satan’s followers in chains in the abyss, rendering their power useless, that Satan for however long in the distant past had nothing to rule, he basically was a spirit that wondered in dry places looking for a home.
Then Satan obviously noted that God began creation again for a light was shown in a dark place, and a moon had been set in order, the waters had been separated from the land, and the creation process began again, each time God saying it was good, and then finally, “Its very good”!
Then the trinity spoke those infamous words, “Let us make man in our image”! The creation of a creature, that could be repaired after he was damaged, and that ingenuity in the creating principle in his creation was hid from the Angels, and from the fallen Angels, including Satan.
Then the earth was green full of life again, most likely better than new with this different creature of God’s affection placed on it created in a clay shell housing an eternal soul and spirit. What wonder there was in this creation?
Satan sees the love God has for this creature and then his jealousy is provoked, if I can’t destroy God, then I will destroy what he loves, so Satan begins war with God on a secondary, terrorist level. As he began this new war then the causalities that we know of began showing up with eternal con-sequences. Causalities that couldn’t save themselves, that were blind sided by the devil, and never really knew what hit them until it was already to late. Today we are dealing with the casualties of War or the Worlds. Here is a point: Satan still has access to this world, he hasn’t been banished from it, it appears that God had it planned it that way from the beginning, know what Satan would do, knowing how deceptive he was; knowing that he would try to attack him through the creature he loved.
I. THE WAR OF THE NEW WORLD
Satan began his new war he knew that taking God head on was not an option, it was an unattainable victory, so he selects combat on an entirely different level; The Battle of the Minds!!! Now there will be a battle of philosophy rather than direct demonstration of power.
A. The War against Adam and Eve 1. The first war began with the philosophy that God didn’t mean what he said, “Hath not God said”!
a. God won’t punish you for disobedience he just afraid you will become a powerful God like him and overthrow him or not need him anymore.
2. In the battle of philosophy Satan succeeded in getting Man kicked out of the Garden of his paradise, cursed, and separated from God, which was what he wanted all along, so that God wouldn’t have a pride and joy, Lucifer is no more and now it seems Adam will be no more.
B. The Flood-
1. Satan’s influence became so pronounced that men followed every kind of evil imaginable, and their evil even influenced the animals around them.
2. There were genetic disorders, men became giants in the land, warlike barbarians with no regard of morality at all. (These Giants were not a result of fallen angels having affairs with women on earth). That is a direct violation of God’s word in Genesis 1:24-26.
3. It made God regretting that he ever made man for all the wickedness that he did and now it would break God’s heart to have to destroy all the life he had created. Man had become prideful and virtually unable to be instructed.
a. Enoch was a prophet who had sons and daughters, his testimony pleased God in the midst of a terribly perverse generation so God took him.
b. Noah was born and his name means “ He will comfort us from the work and the toil of our hands, because of the curse. Noah’s name spoke his future.
c. The rain came and it fell, the fountains of the deep broke loose and Mankind as well as the animal life that were affected by man were destroyed.
1. Satan felt like he had succeeded in getting the world destroyed again, but despite his best efforts he couldn’t destroy that ark, nor the life that was in it; that in itself also represented something new Satan hadn’t seen before.
C. The Tower of Babel; (gen 10:9)
1. The battle is once again philosophy- Man doesn’t have to use God prescribed methods to get to God, we will build a tower, or we will build a spaceship, space station to get to God.
2. Man’s language is confused, he is separated to people that can understand each language that is spoken. Most likely the languages broke up into 7 or 12 languages for there are seven continents and Antarctica wasn’t always and Ice cube.
3. Then the in Genesis 10:25, the land masses divided; now man will begin a 4000 year journey of separation, developing four basic races on the planet and virtually 100’s of types of languages over that period of time. Man was once again disunited, and many demonic religions developed over that time period and much it still affects the earth today.
D. The Battle of Abraham
1. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19)
2. Enemies of Israel born
3. The ten Plagues of Egypt
4. The Ten Temptations in the wilderness
5. The forty year plummet from Promise
7. The fall of Saul
8. The give up of Rheaboam and the take over of Jeraboam.
9. The conquest by Babylon
10. The dispersing of a chosen nation
11. The world plight without a message from God for four hundred years. ( Malachi-Matthew)
12. The attempted destruction of Christ at Calvary.
E. The Battle of the World to stop the gospel.
1. The Early Church
2. The Apostles Missionary Journeys
3. The dark ages where the attempt was made to strip the word of God off the face of the earth.
4. The world wars I & II and so much more, terrorist attacks, murdering of Babies, disease, illegal medical practice; crooked laws all designed to steal, kill and destroy.
5. The holocaust to attempt to extinguish the Hebrews in Israel, The attempt by Stalin, and even Carl Marx.
6. The war in Ezekiel 38-39 which you have heard me mention on many occasions which is yet to come.
7. Armageddon, which comes with casualties so great that the blood flows to the horses bridle.
8. The annihilation of all those who have taken the mark of the beast when Jesus comes back in Rev 19:19, and slays them with the sword of his mouth, which is his word. Rev 19:21
9. Rev 20:8-10 the armies that amass themselves against the saints and God’s holy city, where God destroys them with fire from heaven and then;
Satan’s final demise as he is cast into the lake of fire which burns forever and he will tormented for the rest of eternity with no break in the pain. For all the pain he has caused, the sufferings, the lies he has made man to believe, the separation that he has caused and the division that he brought he will burn in that flame forever and that flame was designed specifically to torment him with great pain. CONCLUSION:
The taliban, Al Queida, and many other terrorist organizations, each one designed to usher violence in at a level that is off of the scale.
Innocent people hurt and even killed, saints martyred, others imprisoned; millions of babies aborted to their deaths, Elderly allegedly abused in nursing facilities; doctors allegedly prescribing medicines just to facilitate a constant flow of income with drugs; car salesman allegedly selling you a car at high interest while you qualified for a lower interest to pocket more cash in their pockets at your expense.
The Con artist, hustlers, loan sharks, liars, cheats and host of others I don’t begin to have time this morning to name all came about as a result from the first war. You and I live in the proof that it happened.
The continual degradation of our society and world also is proof that the original failure has turned to cascade failure; all proof in itself there is no victory in rebellion against God.
1 Sam 15:22-23
22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. KJV
IF beings would have kept God first, the outcome would have been totally different. I can only imagine what it would have been if Satan wouldn’t have been arrogant, I can only imagine if Adam would have had the courage to stand, but I don’t have to imagine what it will be when My Jesus and I are together for ever.
