Of Lucifer, Ezekiel 28 tells us, [13] Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
"The guy's got clothing and, by the way, God always designed His creatures to have clothes," says Jordan. "All those jewels of his are in a setting of gold. This guy is the original walking jewelry store!
"In Alaska, we spent a week on the land and a week on the boat and every place we got off, God as my witness, I've never seen so many jewelry stores in my life.
"I was expecting to see arrow heads and stuff but you had to hunt for that. There were 50 jewelry stores in a town no bigger than St. Charles. I thought, 'Man, Manhattan's Diamond District didn't have this many!' They were everywhere, up in the middle of nowhere. They're not there because they're not selling.
"Ezekiel 28 refers to 'the multitude of thy merchandise.' Verse 15 says of Lucifer, 'Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.'
"Understand, Satan was created. He was in a position to magnify the Creator. You know how when you see something beautiful . . . you look at a painting and how wonderful it is and the first question you have is, 'Who painted that? Who did that?' The painting points you to the painter. This guy was designed to lead creation in praise and worship and I'm talking about real praise and worship, not this juvenile stuff you see in churches today."
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"The Antichrist, the personification of all of Satan's lie program, comes in as the prince in the 70th week of Daniel. In the middle of the week he dies, then the beast comes out of the bottomless pit and now he's the king over all the children of pride. There's a picture of the Antichrist in his first incarnation as 'the man of sin' and then he's revealed as the 'son of perdition.'
"We Believers struggle with the portions of the kingdom of darkness, the rulers of the darkness of this world, that we come in contact with.
"Our own sinful propensities are part of that kingdom. That's where the battle is. With the evil passions and pride of others, their ambitions, their spirit of revenge. With the error, the superstition and false doctrine. Evil customs, laws and opinions, employments and pleasures of the world that are a part of that kingdom.
"We fight against all that. We wrestle personally wherever we come in contact with the evil of the world. That's where the war is and it's up-close and personal kind of conflict with the wiles of the devil. His scheme is to get you to abandon God's Word and go on human viewpoint.
"That's all he has to do with you. He gets you to abandon the identity that God's Word says is real because it's a spiritual reality that can be confirmed in your physical life, but it has to be believed because it's what God's Word says.
"We don't believe it because of our experience; we believe it because God's Word says it; it comes out of our inner man. Satan wants you to swap that for human viewpoint, which gets you nowhere."
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