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for he will magnify himself above them all.\u201d\u00a0 Picking it up there with that second clause, for this coming antichrist \u201cwill show no regard for the desire of women\u201d and I told you last time that I was grateful that the time ran out so I wouldn\u2019t have to talk about that.\u00a0 And I skipped town last week so I wouldn\u2019t have to talk about it.\u00a0 [laughter]\u00a0 And I was hoping that the rapture would occur [more laughter] but it didn\u2019t, so here we are, we\u2019re going to have to talk about this.\n\nWhat does it mean here when it talks about how the antichrist \u201cwill show no regard for the desire of women\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of people will take modern headlines, which are very interesting, and read them back into the Bible.\u00a0 So as you well know there\u2019s a lot of things going on in our culture regarding gender validity, as the term is called, I call it the gender surrender.\u00a0 Some would call it the LGBTTQU, I almost run out of letters in the alphabet to describe this.\u00a0 The LGBTTQU \u00a0movement, and all of that stuff is very real, all of that, I believe, plays a very important role in the end times.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to soft-pedal on any of that whatsoever.\u00a0 And yet people will use that to develop this idea, related to the antichrist\u2019s gender preference, some would say he\u2019s going to be a homosexual, and this and that, and the theories abound.\n\nAnd this is a case where I\u2019m convinced that people are taking current events and interpreting the Bible through current events.\u00a0 I have no problem looking at current events but I think we need to start with the Bible first.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t think this verse means what everybody thinks it means in terms of the sexual preference or the sexual orientation of the coming antichrist.\n\nLet me start here with this citation from a great commentator from a prior generation, Arno Gaebelein. In his commentary on the Book of Daniel Gaebelein says this: \u201cStill more interesting is the statement \u2018he shall not regard the desire of women<\/u>.\u2019 The Lord Jesus Christ is here in view. The word \u2018desire\u2019 is in the same construct form in Hebrew (hemdat) as in Haggai 2:7 and 1 Samuel 9:20, indicating that the noun following \u2018desire\u2019 is subjective not objective; hence it means \u201cdesired by women,\u201d not a desire for women.\u201d <\/u>[Arno Gaebelein, The Prophet Daniel, <\/em>Page 188]\n\nIn other words, if I\u2019m understanding Daniel 11:37 correctly the prediction is this: when the antichrist comes on the scene it\u2019s not that he will have some kind of hatred for the natural desire in a man for a woman; rather he will hate the one that is desired by women.\u00a0 And to sort of unpack this what does it mean the one \u201cdesired by women\u201d and the antichrist hating that one?\u00a0 We really have to go back to the beginning of the Bible, we have to go back to Genesis 3:15.\n\nGenesis 3:15 is the first Messianic prophecy given in the entire Bible.\u00a0 It occurs right after the fall of man in Genesis 3 and we learn that there\u2019s coming one who is going to fix the curse that\u2019s now been ushered in by our forbearers and this is what the prophecy says, God speaking to the serpent, and no doubt Eve was standing right there when this prophecy was given: \u201c\u2018And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.\u2019\u201d\n\nNow it\u2019s very interesting here in Genesis 3:15 it talks about \u201cher seed\u2026\u201d \u201cAnd I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed;\u201d and immediately that should strike you as sort of strange because in the natural sexual relationship between a man and woman in procreation it is not the woman that provides the seed, it\u2019s the man that provides the seed.\u00a0 So if that is true and that\u2019s the normal occurrence of things why in the world would it say here \u201cand her seed.\u201d\u00a0 There must be some sort of seed supernaturally implanted into her independent of the man\u2019s contribution.\n\nAnd so what you start to see opening up here is, it\u2019s not as clear as we would like it but it starts to get spelled out in subsequent places in the Bible, the doctrine of the virgin birth.\u00a0 The seed would not be his, the seed would be hers because this Messiah, or this coming one would be born of the woman\u2019s seed, something supernatural planted in her.\u00a0 And consequently from her seed shall come one that Satan will bruise on the heel but if you back up a little bit in that verse it says this coming one will crush the serpent or Satan\u2019s head.\u00a0 In other words, Satan will inflict a lot of damage along the way but ultimately there\u2019s coming one from the seed of the woman who will take the serpent\u2019s head and crush it and once a person\u2019s head is crushed that would spell defeat.\n\nSo here at the beginning of the Bible, what you see here is a prophecy of a coming one.\u00a0 And so what did Eve, what became her ambitions at that point?\u00a0 She desired, she wanted to be the one that the Lord would use supernaturally to bring forth this Messiah.\u00a0 So Genesis 3 is followed by Genesis what?\u00a0 Genesis 4.\u00a0 Notice, if you will, Genesis 4:1, this is describing the birth of her firstborn, an individual named Cain.\u00a0 \u201cNow the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, \u2018I have gotten a manchild with the help of<\/em> the LORD.\u2019\u201d\n\nYou\u2019ll notice in this citation that \u201cwith the help of<\/em>\u201d is in italics.\u00a0 I\u2019m reading here from the New American Standard Bible.\u00a0 And many times you\u2019ll be going through your Bible, depending on what English version you\u2019re using and you\u2019ll see words that are in italics and at some point\u00a0 you have to ask yourself why are some words in the Bible, not very many of them, but some of them italicized and some of them un-italicized.\u00a0 Well, the words that are un-italicized are the words that the original text actually says; the words in italics are words that are added; for what purpose?\u00a0 To smooth over the translation, because in languages\u00a0 you don\u2019t necessarily have a one to one correspondence; something could be articulated in one language which really doesn\u2019t make sense in another language and since we\u2019re living in the year 2018 and we\u2019re speaking English and we\u2019re reading an ancient text the translators go to work and they add words that smooth over the translation, that help the translation.\n\nAnd I would argue this: that 99% of the time the translators do a wonderful job helping us to under\u00ad\u00adstand something in our language that\u2019s reflected in the Bible.\u00a0 But there are some occasions in the Bible where I\u2019m convinced that the translation obscures the meaning and this is one of those cases, in Genesis 4:1.\u00a0 I believe that those words, \u201cwith the help of\u201d obscure what Eve is saying.\u00a0 And if you obscure what Eve is saying you miss the import of what she\u2019s talking about in Genesis 4:1.\n\nHere is what the verse look like when you remove \u201cwith the help of.\u201d\u00a0 It says this: \u201cNow the man had relations with his wife, Eve, and she conceived and she gave birth to Cain, and she said, \u2018I have begotten a manchild\u201d taking out with the help of\u00a0 \u201cI have begotten a man child, the Lord.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, Eve mistakenly believed that she had given birth to the Messiah that was predicted in Genesis 3:15.\u00a0 Why did she get this idea that a Messiah was coming?\u00a0 Because she was standing right there, presumably in Genesis 3:15, when this prophecy was given.\u00a0 And she had the natural desire to be the one who would give birth to this Messiah.\n\nNow she should have perhaps known a little better because God said it would be \u201cher seed\u201d and this child that\u2019s born, Cain, is Adam\u2019s seed.\u00a0 You see that?\u00a0 But it didn\u2019t stop the desire that she had to be the one that would be so favored of God that the Messiah would come forth from her womb. And she thought she was getting the Messiah and she got Cain and talk about parental disappointment, she didn\u2019t get the redeemer she got the world\u2019s first murderer.\n\nBut what I\u2019m trying to get us to see is the desire was there; it was a natural desire that she had.\u00a0 And as you continue to travel through biblical history, through the generations, you come to Genesis 5:29, now this is talking about Lamech, the father of Noah, concerning the birth of Noah.\u00a0 Notice what Lamech said, \u201cNow he called his name Noah, saying, \u2018This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the LORD has cursed.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 When Noah was born Lamech, and no doubt his wife, had this basic expectation that this is the guy, that this is the Messiah.\u00a0 After all, he\u2019s the one that\u2019s going to fix the curse, he\u2019s going to remedy the curse on the ground; the curse on the ground was introduced a few chapters later in Genesis 3, thanks to the fall of man.\n\nSo you again see this desire amongst godly parents to bring forth this Messiah; the Messianic expectation was always there.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why your Bible is very clear that although God did use Noah greatly in his generations he was not the Messiah.\u00a0 And that\u2019s the significance of the Bible narrating Noah\u2019s failures and that\u2019s why it draws our attention in Genesis 9 to his drunken state in the post flood world.\u00a0 I mean, Noah was no doubt a tremendous man of God but he was no Messiah.\u00a0 Certainly God used Noah to preserve the human race as we know from the Book of Genesis but he didn\u2019t quite reach that high level of being the Messiah, meaning that Messiah is yet future.\n\nAnd so my point is this desire is passed down from generation to generation to generation in pre-Messianic times and by the time the Lord found and begins the nation of Israel this was the normal desire of Hebrew women.\u00a0 They all thought that they were going to be the ones, or they wanted to be the ones who would bring forth this Messiah who would correct the fall of man and crush the devil\u2019s head.\n\nAnd we know from biblical history that there was only one woman who would be given this honor and that\u2019s Mary.\u00a0 Luke 1:42-43 says, \u201cAnd she cried out with a loud voice and said, \u2018Blessed are<\/em> you among women, and blessed is<\/em> the fruit of your womb!\u201d\u2019\u00a0 Now why is it that Mary is blessed to an abnormal degree in comparison to the rest of the women?\u00a0 Why is she blessed \u201camong women\u201d?\u00a0 Because she\u2019s the one whose desire would be fulfilled; every God-fearing woman wanted this honor but it was to Mary the honor would be given and she would begat a child, not through a man\u2019s seed but through her seed through the miraculous virgin conception, the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ.\n\nSo continuing on with this citation from Arno Gaebelein, notice again what Gaebelein says: \u201cStill more interesting is the statement \u2018he shall not regard the desire of women.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Gaebelein says, \u201cThe Lord Jesus Christ is here in view\u201d here; now he\u2019s commenting on our passage for this morning, Daniel 11:37.\u00a0 \u201cPious Jewish women in Pre-messianic times had one great desire, they wanted to be mothers, with a view to Him, who is the promised seed of the woman. His birth was desired by these godly mothers of Israel. This King\u201d now what king? The antichrist that is predicted here in the Book of Daniel, \u201cThis king then hates God and hates His blessed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d\n\nSo rather than run to current events and read those into the Bible the better approach is to let the Bible interpret itself, and that\u2019s what I\u2019ve tried to do with the interpretation that I believe in but I\u2019m now giving to you. When it says, \u201che will show no regard for the desire of women\u201d he says \u201che will show no regard for the one desired by women.\u201d\u00a0 And who is that one?\u00a0 It\u2019s the Messiah.\u00a0 It\u2019s Jesus Christ Himself.\u00a0 The antichrist therefore is going to hate a lot of things but there\u2019s one thing in particular that Daniel tells us about under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he is going to have a tremendous hatred for Jesus Christ Himself.\n\nNow let me take this a step further; what does 1 John 4:3 say?\u00a0 It says, \u201cand every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming,\u201d look at this next clause, end of verse 3, \u201cand now it is already in the world.\u201d\u00a0 You see that?\u00a0 Long before there emerges a man who will hate Jesus Christ, the antichrist, hate the one desired by woman, \u201cthe spirit of the antichrist\u201d in the world will be alive and well.\u00a0 In other words,\u00a0 you\u2019re going to be able to see the hatred of the world for Jesus as preparation long before the anti\u00adchrist even shows up.\u00a0 The spirit of the antichrist is in the world today; the spirit of the antichrist was alive and well in John\u2019s day, it\u2019s just the antichrist hasn\u2019t come\u00a0 yet.\u00a0 But the whole scenario has already been prepared.\u00a0 Do you see that?\n\nPaul says something very similar in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 in a context where he\u2019s talking about the coming lawless one or the coming antichrist.\u00a0 Paul says this: \u201cFor the mystery of lawlessness\u201d he\u2019s talking about the lawless one, verse 3, now he\u2019s talking about the spirit of the lawless one, \u201cFor the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.\u201d\u00a0 God has put a restraint on the coming of the antichrist.\u00a0 He has not shown up yet on the world scene but the spirit of the antichrist or the mystery of the antichrist is alive and well in the world.\u00a0 And this is why the antichrist will be so popular, because he will speak the language of the world; he will speak what people already believe to be true in their hatred for Jesus Christ.\n\nAnd as you look at our world today this is the only explanation you can rationally come up with to describe the condition of the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s so interesting to me that in our world, in our antichrist preparatory system spirituality is making a comeback.\u00a0 Spirituality is in vogue.\u00a0 I mean, all of these Hollywood stars and starlets talk about spirituality all of the time.\u00a0 The Oprah Winfrey network talks about spirituality all the time.\u00a0 Spirituality is good; what\u2019s not good is the moment you start talking about the exclusiveness of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 That\u2019s a game changer!\n\nOnce you talking about how Jesus said \u201cI am the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes to the Father but by me,\u201d once you start saying,\u00a0 Acts 4:12, \u201cthere is no other name under heaven \u2026 by which we must be saved.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Once you start talking 1 Timothy 2:5, that there is only \u201cone mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.\u201d\u00a0 Once you start talking Matthew 7:13-14, \u201cbroad is the road that leads to destruction and many there are that go that way, narrow is the road that leads to life, few are those which find it.\u201d\u00a0 Once you start talking like that you find yourself on the outs.\u00a0 [John 14:6, \u201cJesus said to him, \u2018I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Acts 4:12, \u201cAnd there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 1 Timothy 2:5, \u201cFor there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,\u201d\u00a0 Matthew 7:13-14, \u201cEnter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.\u00a0 [14] For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.\u201d]\n\nWhy is that?\u00a0 Why is spirituality tolerated but the claims of Christ are rejected?\u00a0 Because the antichrist is going to hate the one desired by women, the Messiah, and the Bible is very clear that that spirit is alive and well on planet earth.\n\nSo in the 1960\u2019s we had these Supreme Court cases where they throw Bible reading and prayer out of the public schools.\u00a0 No more Bible, no more prayer, no more citations of the Bible in public, and by the way, don\u2019t put the Ten Commandments on the schoolhouse wall, this is actual language from the Supreme Court.\u00a0 So you get the idea that these people are really interested in a separation between church and state.\n\nAnd then you read something like this: In the wake of September 11th<\/sup> an increasing number of California public schools must attend an intensive three week course on Islam<\/strong>, reports ASSIST NEWS SERVICE.\u00a0\u00a0 The course mandates that seventh graders learn the tenants of Islam, study the important figures of the faith, wear a robe, adopt a Muslim name and stage their own Jihad\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 Now I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re going to do that.\u00a0 Can you imagine telling a bunch of Jr. Higher\u2019s to stage their own Jihad? \u00a0\u201c\u2026students must memorize many verses from the Koran and are taught to pray \u2018in the name of Allah, the Compassionate and Merciful,\u2019 and are instructed to chant, Praise Allah, the Lord of creation.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0[World Net Daily, \u201cBrave New Schools: Islam Required in California District; Course has 7th-Graders Memorizing Koran Verses, Praying to Allah,\u201d online: http:\/\/www.wnd.com<\/u>, accessed 12 October 2009, 1.]\n\nI thought we had a separation between church and state.\u00a0 I mean, what if we went into a public school and said we\u2019re going to teach a three week intensive course on Christianity and you can dress up like any Bible character you want, pick Matthew, Mark, Luke or John for example, and we want you to recite the Lord\u2019s prayer.\u00a0 You know as well as I know the opposition that would be immediately engendered and under the guise of separation between church and state.\u00a0 But when Islam does it no big deal.\u00a0 Why the blatant double standard?\u00a0 We\u2019re incensed at this double standard, it violates our sense of equity.\n\nWhat the Bible is saying is to expect a double standard because the spirit of the antichrist, the hatred of Jesus Christ is alive and well in the world and in fact, it will precede the coming of the antichrist.\nYou can\u2019t teach religion in the schools they tell us.\u00a0 Listen to this, John Dunphy: \u201cI am convinced that the battle for humankind\u2019s future must be waged and won in the public school classrooms by teachers who correctly perceive their role as proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call the Divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers.\u201d\u00a0 [John Dunphy, \u201cA Religion for the New Age,\u201d The Humanist<\/em>\u00a0 (January\/February 1983): 26]\n\nOh, we\u2019re going to preach religion in the schools, it\u2019s just not your religion.\u00a0 See that?\u00a0 We\u2019re going to teach fundamentalism all right, it\u2019s just not going to be\u00a0 your brand of it.\u00a0 Well, I thought we had a separation between church and state.\u00a0 Well, what we really mean by separation of church and state is a separation of the Bible from the state, that\u2019s what we really mean, we just didn\u2019t tell you that.\u00a0 You say well that\u2019s a double standard, that\u2019s not fair.\u00a0 John is saying the spirit of the antichrist is in the world, this is normal.\u00a0 This is normal in a world that\u2019s being prepared and set up for the one that will hate Jesus Christ above everything else.\n\nI like this quote from Charles Francis Potter, back in 1935, a humanist.\u00a0 He says, \u201cEducation is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, and every public school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday-schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?\u201d\u00a0 [Charles Francis Potter, Humanism: A New Religion<\/em> (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930), 128]\n\nHe told us this in 1935.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do; we\u2019re going to take over the public schools. We\u2019re not going to get rid of religion, we\u2019re going to change religion.\u00a0 Now we may come up with an excuse for this, separation between church and state, but you can see, there is no separation between church and state here.\u00a0 It\u2019s a blatant double standard.\n\nAnd in fact, as I speak The Humanist Society has 501c3 tax exempt status.\u00a0 They sure look like a church to me.\u00a0 But why is it that when we want our views, coming from our 501c3 tax exempt status we can\u2019t get anywhere in.\u00a0 I mean, we can\u2019t even get kids, hardly, we can hardly get permission to get in and rally the kids around the pole for the National Day of Prayer.\u00a0 We can\u2019t get into the classroom, we can\u2019t authoritatively teach people the way I\u2019m trying to teach today.\u00a0 They telegraphed exactly what they were going to do and we sat there scratching our heads saying how did they pull that off?\u00a0 They told us what they were going to do, they did it, and guess what?\u00a0 The world system cooperates with them because the world system is an antichrist system; everything is okay except Jesus.\u00a0 Everything is okay except the one desired by women; that spirit would be in the world before the antichrist came into the world.\n\nYou know, you take these cases that are breaking out all over the country, and one of them is right before the United States Supreme Court as I speak, so we\u2019re going to get a ruling on this, probably in June, so you can bathe that in prayer, but all of these cases, whether it\u2019s Oregon, whether it\u2019s Colorado, there\u2019s another case in California, another one in the State of Washington, it\u2019s the same genre.\u00a0 What\u2019s the genre? People of the same sex community go into a business that\u2019s owned by a Christian, someone in the creative industry, whether it be a cake decorator, a floral designer, and they go into that business under the existing laws and they demand that these people, who are Christians, who are holding to what the Bible has taught about the issue of homosexuality for the last 2,000 years, they go into these places of business and demand that these people use their creative abilities to participate in a same sex wedding ceremony.\n\nHomosexuality is something that the Bible condemns.\u00a0 So all over the country we have our brothers and sisters in Christ tied up in litigation because a lot of them are saying we just can\u2019t participate, there\u2019s a florist down the street I recommend to you.\u00a0 But if you force me to do this you\u2019re forcing me, under the force of law, to violate what I believe to be true based on the Bible and based on my convictions.\u00a0 This is the United States of America that we\u2019re living in, supposedly.\n\nAnd I see these cases breaking out and how come it never works this way: someone goes into a Muslim bakery, a Muslim florist.\u00a0 Are there Muslim cake decorators too?\u00a0 Yes there are!\u00a0 Are they Muslim florists too?\u00a0 Yes there are !\u00a0 Do Muslims have an opposition to homosexuality?\u00a0 Yes they do.\u00a0 You think our objection to homosexuality is strong, look at what they do in Islam.\u00a0 In Islamic controlled countries they take homosexuals and throw them off two to three story buildings.\n\nWhy is it that with their stand against homosexuality I can\u2019t find a single case anywhere in the country where it\u2019s the Muslims on trial.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t people go into an Islamic owned business and demand the same thing? Why is it always the Bible believing Christians that are targeted?\u00a0 Have you ever wondered that?\u00a0 Why the double standard?\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s related to 1 John 4:3, that \u201cthe spirit of the antichrist\u201d would be operating in the world long before the actual antichrist shows up.\u00a0 [1 John 4:3, \u201cand every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.\u201d]\n\nOr take this as an example; I remember this even as an unsaved person.\u00a0 I\u2019m in the garage and I\u2019m hammering away with my hammer on a board with a nail and I miss the nail and I strike my thumb and why is it that the first word of profanity out of my mouth is condemning Jesus Christ, God the Son, the Second Member of the Trinity?\u00a0 I mean why is it that when we cuss and we\u00a0 use profanity and we\u2019re angry at God we never say \u201coh Buddha!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Or oh Confucius, or oh Mohammad?\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 Even unsaved people, it\u2019s always Jesus Christ.\u00a0 It\u2019s related to this longstanding hatred that would be in the world against the one desired by women, Jesus Christ.\u00a0 This is why the world hates Jesus.\u00a0 This is why we cannot and should not expect any fair shake in this world. And if we even get a fair shake in anything that\u2019s purely the grace of God because by definition we\u2019re living in enemy territory.\n\nHe goes on in verse 37 and he says not only will he show no regard \u201cfor the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god\u2026 \u201c You\u2019re dealing with someone in the antichrist who is completely and totally irreligious. He hates everything that is called God, he hates the gods of his fathers, back to the beginning of verse 37, [\u201cHe will show no regard for the gods of his fathers\u2026.\u201d] and that would even include the God of Gods that\u2019s just been described here in verse 37, even hating Jesus Christ Himself.\u00a0 Continuing on with verse 37 it says, \u201cfor he will magnify himself above them all.\u201d\u00a0 Why is it that the antichrist hates other gods (little \u201cg\u201d) including the God (capital G)?\u00a0 Because he believes he\u2019s God and all gods in the way of his self-promotion are put under derision.\u00a0 A parallel passage, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, of the antichrist, says, \u201cwho opposes and exalts himself\u201d see the \u201cme\u201d in that, \u201cabove every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.\u201d\n\nAnd I think that by the time this event that we\u2019re reading about here, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Daniel 11:37, by the time this event in prophecy eschatologically takes place I don\u2019t think people are going to be kind of scratching their heads surprised at what just happened because this will be normal, because the spirit of the antichrist will already be at work in the world.\u00a0 In fact, what the antichrist is doing here is he is simply following a script that we already follow.\u00a0 It\u2019s called the doctrine of humanism, I referred to that a little earlier.\n\nWhat is humanism exactly?\u00a0 I think we should know something about it.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably the dominant view of the west; it\u2019s what\u2019s taught over and over again in the public school system under the banner of neutrality.\u00a0 You know, the humanist, they\u2019ve got two of them, one in 1933, another one in 1973 and to those two they added humanist 2000, the latest rendition.\u00a0 Have you ever read through the Humanist Manifesto?\u00a0 It\u2019s not very long at all, it\u2019s maybe ten to twelve pages, each volume.\u00a0 It reads like a doctrinal statement of a church.\u00a0 And it is unbelievable how what they believe is now part of our thinking.\n\nI saw this clause this week in the Humanist manifesto, 1973.\u00a0 It says this: \u201c\u201cWe believe, however, that traditional dogmatic or authoritarian religions\u00a0 that place revelation, God<\/u>, ritual, or creed above human<\/u> needs and experience do a disservice to the human species\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Don\u2019t put your Bible above me is what their creed is\u00a0 \u201cWe find insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of a supernatural [being]; it is either meaningless or irrelevant to the question of the survival and fulfillment of the human race<\/u>. As non-theists,\u201d watch this \u201cwe begin with humans<\/u>, not God, nature not deity.\u201d\n\nWhat they\u2019re saying here is man is the center of all things and God, if He exists at all, and we\u2019re not even sure He\u2019s there, is essentially irrelevant.\u00a0 And they teach this over and over and over and over again in the public schools, in all kinds of different courses, masquerading as neutrality.\u00a0 And we look around our churches and say what happened to all the young people?\u00a0 I mean, I teach at a lot of prophecy conferences, I go to prophecy conference after prophecy conference after prophecy conference, I see gray-haired people.\u00a0 Praise God for gray-haired people, or praise God you even\u00a0 have hair to be gray.\n\nBut we\u2019re all sitting around scratching our heads saying where did all the young people go?\u00a0 Well the reality of the situation the other worldview has them the majority of the time.\u00a0 We get them for what?\u00a0 (I praise God we get them at all) A fraction of the time they are spent in their own seminaries by mandatory compulsion, humanistic seminaries, and we\u2019re wondering why don\u2019t we have any God-fearing young people.\u00a0 There are a few, we praise God for every one of them but that\u2019s not the norm. We\u2019ve lost an entire generation largely because of this.\n\nWhat do humanists believe?\u00a0 That God, if He exists, is irrelevant. Well, if God doesn\u2019t exist who is God?\u00a0\u00a0 You\u2019re god, I\u2019m god, man is the center of all things.\u00a0 Well, where did we come from? We went from the goo to the zoo to you in what\u2019s called evolution over billions of years. So what is man?\u00a0 Is he a sacred being deserving of dignity and [can't understand word] bearing the image of God. Not at all.\u00a0 Man is an evolved animal rather than a special creature made in the image of God.\n\nYou know, we look at these kids today and we say these kids act like animals.\u00a0 Why do they act like animals?\u00a0 Well, what you act like if you were taught you were an animal over and over again?\u00a0 You\u2019re nothing but a naked ape is what they\u2019re told.\u00a0 How come people don\u2019t treat each other with respect anymore?\u00a0 I mean, what happened to dignity, chivalry?\u00a0 What happened to a young person in a conversation saying yes sir, no sir, yes ma\u2019am, no ma\u2019am?\u00a0 What happened to a man who opens a door for a lady coming into a building or getting into a car?\u00a0 What happened to all of that?\n\nWell, there\u2019s an answer to all of that---we started thinking of ourselves as animals.\u00a0 Why do we think we\u2019re animals?\u00a0 Because that\u2019s what we\u2019re taught.\u00a0 If you teach people that you\u2019re an animal and other people are animals, then there\u2019s no need to treat other people with respect.\u00a0 If you teach people that all human beings bear the image of God, even those that aren\u2019t Christians bear the image of God, that\u2019s what your Bible says, then you naturally treat people with respect.\u00a0 Why is it that there\u2019s so much short-temperedness and rudeness in people?\u00a0 Have you driven those freeways lately.\u00a0 I mean, put someone out of their way for five seconds at a stop light and you\u2019re going to get some explosive angry reaction, a horn honk or some gestures which I won\u2019t be doing here from the pulpit.\u00a0 What is going on?\u00a0 Why are people so insensitive and rude to other people?\n\nAnd then\u00a0 you throw in this whole layer of social media, talk about animalistic behavior, how people into a computer screen would say something that I don\u2019t think they would say with face to face contact.\u00a0 Don\u2019t they understand that they are talking into another person?\u00a0 Don\u2019t they understand that they are dealing with someone who is an imager-bearer of God?\u00a0 No, they don\u2019t understand that and they don\u2019t think that because of the evolutionary presupposition.\n\nFolks, ideas have consequences.\u00a0 We think we can just adopt this idea or that idea but there\u2019s always a fallout.\u00a0 There is a fallout in American culture for replacing the Judeo-Christian biblical worldview with the doctrine of humanism.\u00a0 Humanists teach that there is an absence of any morals or values; it\u2019s called situational ethics.\u00a0 There is no absolute moral standard that governs the human race, like the Ten Commandments for example, it\u2019s just whatever you think morals are to be in your situation.\u00a0 And there\u2019s complete and total confidence in the scientific method to solve the world\u2019s problems.\u00a0 Why is the world believing in global warming?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that funny?\u00a0 We\u2019re freezing to death today.\u00a0 Global warming\u2026 well science tells us global warming is true. Oh really, you mean the same scientist that tell me I evolved from a monkey, that crowd?\u00a0 You mean the same group that can\u2019t even get the weather report right is trying to tell me what the temperature of the earth is going to be like 10, 15, 20, 100 years down the road?\u00a0 That isn\u2019t science folks; that\u2019s philosophy.\u00a0 That\u2019s humanistic philosophy.\n\nAnd by the way, you might not know this but humanists themselves, they keep saying it\u2019s neutral, it\u2019s neutral, they call themselves a religion.\u00a0 Did you know that?\u00a0\u00a0 They call it, in their humanistic manifesto the advancement of religion.\u00a0 They call themselves religious humanists, or religious humanism.\u00a0 And yet they can teach what they want in the public schools and we can\u2019t and we cry foul and say it\u2019s not fair and the New Testament comes back and tells us it\u2019s not fair because you\u2019re not home yet.\u00a0 You\u2019re living in the devil\u2019s world\u2026 don\u2019t expect it to be fair. Instead of complaining about it put on the full armor of God which is your defensive armament in Satan\u2019s world.\n\nYou see, there\u2019s a reason we\u2019re called ambassadors.\u00a0 2 Corinthians 5:20 calls us ambassadors.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[2 Corinthians 5:20, \u201cTherefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.\u201d]\u00a0 What is an ambassador?\u00a0 It\u2019s somebody who represents another country on foreign soil.\u00a0 If I\u2019m America\u2019s ambassador to Iran I\u2019m representing American values on Iranian soil; the ambassador doesn\u2019t go to Iran and expect Iran to become America because that\u2019s the definition of an ambassador.\u00a0 We can\u2019t live in the devil\u2019s world and expect the devil\u2019s world to be our world.\u00a0 If that were true we wouldn\u2019t be ambassadors.\u00a0 And this is an explanation that we\u2019re getting here as to why the world hates Jesus Christ.\n\nWhat was the very first lie spoken of in the Bible.\u00a0 Genesis 3:4-5, which is what precipitated the fall of man, it says, \u201cThe serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die!\u201d\u00a0 Now she should have known better right then and there because God, in Genesis 2 says you eat from that tree you will die.\u00a0 You\u2019re not going to die, that\u2019s how Satan always works; he challenges the authority of God\u2019s Word. \u00a0[5] \u201c\u2018For God knows\u201d the serpent speaking, \u201cthat in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened,\u201d in other words,\u00a0 you\u2019re sort of na\u00efve, you poor flatterer fundamentalist, don\u2019t you know how your thinking can be broadened if you get away from this Book and\u00a0 yet you start making decisions independently of this Book, the Bible, and they\u2019re lethal.\u00a0 God, at the beginning of human history gave them His Word concerning the two trees; two trees in Eden, the tree of knowledge, tree of life.\u00a0 They probably looked exactly the same.\u00a0 And yet one tree was good for them and the other tree was going to kill them.\u00a0 They could not have known that simply by studying the two trees; they had to get a direct word from God.\n\nSo this is why Satan\u2019s original lie was to attack, to criticize, to marginalize, this Word because if he can get their eyes of this Word they won\u2019t know the difference between one tree or the other; they look the same after all.\u00a0 That\u2019s why the book of Proverbs says, \u201cThere\u2019s a way that seems right, but ends in\u201d what? \u201cends in death.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0[Proverbs 16:25\u00a0 \u201cThere is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.\u201d Proverbs 14:12, \u201cThere is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.\u201d]\n\nThey\u2019d gotten away from the Word, they couldn\u2019t tell the difference between the two trees, they ate from the wrong tree and the process of death started that very day!\u00a0 And part of the lie was flattery, you\u2019re going to become more sophisticated once you get away from that Word,\u00a0 you\u2019re going to become more nuanced, and you know what?\u00a0 I think God is holding out on you after all!\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 Because He\u2019s trying to keep you back from fulfillment.\u00a0 Do you realize how many people today stay away from Jesus Christ because they think Jesus Christ is going to destroy their lives?\u00a0 What\u2026 the father of lies, Satan, what a colossal lie that is.\u00a0 You don\u2019t even figure out why you exist and what your purpose is and what life is all about until you come into a relationship with Jesus Christ. John 10:10, Jesus said I have come to give them life, and life to the what? To the full.\u00a0 [John 10:10, \u201cThe thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.\u201d NIV]\n\nThe moment you move in the direction of Christ, that\u2019s enlightenment.\u00a0 Proverbs 1:7 says, \u201cThe fear of the LORD,\u201d\u00a0 it is the beginning of wisdom but let\u2019s not misquote the verse, let\u2019s go back to the first one, Proverbs 1:7, \u201cThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;\u201d you start getting smart when you submit to the authority of God.\u00a0 The brain starts to work like God intended it to work under submission to the authority of God.\n\nAnd people today are telling us that we fundamentalist Christians are anti-science.\u00a0 Folks, do yourself a favor; get the book by Henry Morris, Men of Science, Men of God<\/em>, that\u2019s the title.\u00a0 He documents as clearly as it can be documented how every major branch of science was founded by somebody who believed this Book the way we believe it.\u00a0 In fact, probably one of the greatest scientists of all time, Isaac Newton, the discoverer of the law of gravity, did you know that Isaac Newton spent more time studying the Bible than he did the laws of gravity or nature?\u00a0 Watch the humanist in print condemning Isaac Newton for this: oh, Isaac Newton, if he would just use his brilliant mind that he had to put away the Bible, to put away the superstition and start studying science think how far ahead we would be.\u00a0 Let me tell you something, it was Isaac Newton\u2019s belief in the Bible that gave him the incentive to study science.\u00a0 Isaac Newton believed that God has revealed Himself, not just in Scripture but in nature.\u00a0 And it was his obligation as a Christian to discover the laws, like the law of gravity, for example, that the Creator Himself had put into nature.\n\nIf you don\u2019t have the Bible you don\u2019t have science; this idea that we\u2019re anti-science, anti-knowledge, I can\u2019t think of a greater 180 degree misrepresentation than that one.\u00a0 And what does Satan say here?\u00a0 \u201cyou will be\u201d like what? \u201cGod.\u201d\u00a0 What does the humanist say?\u00a0 You are God!\u00a0 What does the new age movement say?\u00a0 You can become like God.\u00a0 You can even become God yourself through the proper path of enlightenment.\u00a0 What does Mormonism say?\u00a0 Throughout the eons you\u2019re going to be God and you\u2019re going to be governing your own planet.\n\nAre we seeing here a common thread?\u00a0 This isn\u2019t New Age, this is old life\u2026 old life!\u00a0 And yet the antichrist will walk into the rebuilt Jewish temple and he will say I am God, and by the time he does that the world will be so conditioned with its New Age and it\u2019s humanism that people will look at that and think it\u2019s normal.\u00a0 This is why the world hates Jesus Christ.\n\nMoving down to verse 38, looking at the antichrist\u2019s military power,\u00a0 \u201cBut instead he will honor a god of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know\u2026.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 You can\u2019t just remove God from a person\u2019s heart;\u00a0 you have to replace it with an artificial substitute because humans are designed for a relationship with God and if they don\u2019t know the true God you have to fill\u00a0 the void with something else.\n\nSo what is the antichrist worshipping here? He is worshipping wealth and power.\u00a0 Those are probably the two best substitutes you can have other than God.\u00a0 I mean, if you\u2019re not in a relationship with Jesus Christ your Creator, your Redeemer, then you\u2019ve got to fill the void with something else.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to fill the void with an artificial substitute and the two best replacements that I know of are number 1, power, and number 2, pleasure.\u00a0 This is the whole problem with the woman at the well.\u00a0 She was replacing a relationship with God that she knew nothing about with promiscuity.\u00a0 She had had five husbands; the person she was currently with she wasn\u2019t even married to.\u00a0 And are you condemning her for that?\u00a0 I\u2019m not because if\u00a0 you don\u2019t know God you\u2019ve got to have something.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to fill the void with something else.\n\nSo what does Jesus come along and talk to her about?\u00a0 Man, you need to get yourself morally straightened up woman!\u00a0 That\u2019s not what He says.\u00a0 He says I have water that you don\u2019t know anything about; what I can do with living water is replace the thirst that\u2019s inside of you, that you are trying to fill with all of these experiences and I can replace that with a relationship to Myself.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Christianity is.\u00a0 Christianity is not don\u2019t do this, don\u2019t do that, stay away from this, stay away from that.\u00a0 It\u2019s not \u201cNO,\u201d it\u2019s better; better than what you have you can have Me is what Jesus said.\u00a0\u00a0 I think sometimes we miss this in our evangelism. We\u2019re so worried about people\u2019s behavior in the unsaved world; the fact of the matter is they\u2019re doing what you would do and what I would do if we didn\u2019t know Christ.\n\nI would be doing the exact same thing because as Blaise Pascal said, \u201cThere is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0There is an ache in the human soul for God and yet if\u00a0 you don\u2019t know God you\u2019ve got to fill that void with something because if there\u2019s something true about human beings they\u2019re incurably religious.\n\nKarl Marx, the initiator of communism, called religion the opiate of the masses.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t understand why these people kept worshipping thing, no matter what culture you\u2019re in they\u2019re worshipping something.\u00a0 They\u2019re worshipping because that\u2019s how they are designed.\u00a0 And if they\u2019re not worshipping God in spirit and truth you\u2019ve got to fill the void with something else.\u00a0 The problem is when that \u201csomething else\u201d takes root you don\u2019t have room any more for the truth.\n\nJesus, in Matthew 6 and verse 24 says, \u201cNo one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.\u201d\u00a0 This is how to look at people doing a bunch of things that we as Christians would never do in an unsaved state; they\u2019re just filling a void with an artificial substitute.\n\nAnd this is where evangelism can take on so much power because you can talk to them about how, \u201cyou know, I used to do that\u201d whatever \u201cthat\u201d is, \u201cbut you know, no matter how many times I tried it I just came up empty.\u201d\u00a0 Have you discovered that in your personal life as you ask them?\u00a0 Well, yeah, you know, I do this and the fix wears off so I do this again and I\u2019ve got to keep doing it worse and worse and worse and worse, and now the conversation is opened up and now you can say well let me tell you about something that worked for me.\u00a0 And you\u2019re using the same evangelistic model that Jesus presented to the woman at the well and the conversation is opened and you can begin to talk to them about a relationship with Jesus Christ.\n\nYou see, this antichrist,\u00a0 you\u2019ll notice the word \u201cinstead.\u201d\u00a0 Because he\u2019s rejected any semblance of God instead, opting to worship himself, he\u2019s just filling this void with power, money, wealth and pleasure.\u00a0 And I\u2019m out of time, we\u2019ll pick it up, the second part of verse 38 next week.\n\nI can\u2019t think of a better Segway into the gospel; I mean it could be that you\u2019re here today having tried a bunch of stuff in 2017 that really hasn\u2019t satisfied you; I\u2019ve tried the career and I\u2019ve got the career and it really isn\u2019t all that everybody said it was and I\u2019ve accumulated all this money and power, I\u2019ve even accumulated fame and you know what?\u00a0 I it\u2019s sort like chasing the wind. Well, if that\u2019s your condition then praise God because you recognize it\u2019s an artificial substitute.\u00a0 The fact that you even recognize it\u2019s an artificial substitute is the work of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 And right now, where you\u2019re seated or if people are listening or viewing this on a computer screen or whatever they can change their predicament right now simply by trusting in what Jesus has done, which is the gospel.\n\nThe gospel is good news because Jesus said in His final breath, \u201cIt is\u201d what? \u201cfinished!\u201d\u00a0 Everything necessary to bridge the gap between lost humanity and a holy God, that broken fractured relationship has been resolved.\u00a0 All you do under God\u2019s conviction is you receive it as a gift by faith.\u00a0 Becoming a Christian is not a twelve step-process; it\u2019s a one-step process where you trust exclusively in what Jesus Christ did for you on the cross of Calvary, 2,000 years ago and as that happens (and that\u2019s something you can do right now where you\u2019re seared, you don\u2019t even have to walk an aisle to do this, you don\u2019t have to bow your head and raise a hand, in fact there is no biblical evidence anywhere in the Bible of people bowing their heads and raising their hands in evangelism.\u00a0\u00a0 The Philippian jailor just said \u201cWhat must I do to be saved?\u201d\u00a0 Paul didn\u2019t say okay, bow your head, and when I talk put your hand up. The revivalist tactics that we brought into the church, not that God can\u2019t use that, I\u2019m just trying to get us to the simplest point, based on the Bible, you receive what He has done as a free gift, which is faith.\u00a0 Faith is another way to say trust or rely, or depend upon.\u00a0 You trust not only no longer in yourself, your humanism, your good works, your sincerity, your denomination you trust Him for salvation alone.\n\nAnd the moment that happens is the moment God does the work.\u00a0 He gives you 33 things you didn\u2019t have before, including the indwelling Spirit.\u00a0 The Holy Spirit, the third member of the Trinity, takes residence in your life.\u00a0 THAT is what fills the void that we go through our lives so frequently trying to fill with other things.\u00a0 You can receive that now, even as I am speaking, in the quietness of Your mind, the quietness of Your thoughts.\u00a0 And if it\u2019s something that you need even more information about I\u2019m available after the service to talk.\u00a0 Shall we pray.\n\nFather, we\u2019re grateful for the Book of Daniel and the things that it reveals to us about our condition and the world around us.\u00a0 Help us to walk these things out this week by faith.\u00a0 And I pray this, Father, that\u00a0 You would give us an opportunity, everyone in this room, to start a conversation and share this gospel with at least one person.\u00a0 Can I pray that, Father, for this whole group?\u00a0 Can I pray that\u00a0 You would orchestrate everyone\u2019s lives in such a way that this would be, they would have an opportunity to share this with one person.\u00a0 I ask that You will do that work. We\u2019ll be careful to give you all the praise and the glory.\u00a0 We ask these things in Jesus name.\u00a0 And God\u2019s people said\u2026 Amen!","series_sermon_number":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t