After the Battle of Armageddon, the believing remnant in Israel looks at the Antichrist and Satan being cast into hell and mocks them with the words found in Isaiah 14:
[12] How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
[13] For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
[14] I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
[15] Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
"Satan was originally created as Lucifer the light-bearer, the one whose strong right arm was to hold up the torch of light and truth in the creation and lead creation in worship of God," explains Jordan. (Editor's note: The Statue of Liberty was conceived by Freemasons, financed by Freemasons, built by Freemasons and installed by Freemasons in a Freemasonic ceremony.)
"As John writes in Revelation 17:
[3] So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
[4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
[5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
"Speaking about the Antichrist and the woman he's riding, the woman turns out to have a name. It's Mystery (meaning secret).
"By the way, her name has 13 words in it, which is kind of an interesting thing. The description of her is BABYLON THE GREAT. This takes you back to Genesis 11 and the Tower of Babel and the confusion of the languages.
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"Talking about Lucifer, Ezekiel 28 says,
[15] Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
[16] By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
[17] Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
[18] Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
"He starts out perfect until something happens. There came a point where rebellion came into his heart. It was found in him. That's where sin entered into the universe.
"I Timothy says his sin was pride; his heart was lifted up because he was beautiful and he was the sum of wisdom. Verse 12 says, [12] Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
"He said, 'Look at me, there's nothing in the universe as beautiful as me that's been created. There's no other creature as smart and wise and intelligent as me--as crafty and able to figure things out like me.'
"Because of his brightness, because of the dazzling nature he had as beautiful and wise, and because of who he understood himself to be, and lifted himself up to be, he's corrupted his wisdom. He took the wisdom he had and developed a wise plan of his own. Look again at verse 18: 'Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick.'
"I want you to see that issue of him trafficking. He's taking this wise plan he's got and he's selling it to people; he's merchandising it. He's got a product he's selling. We talk about somebody selling drugs; we call them drug traffickers. Why? Because they're out PUSHING it. They're getting it out.
"This dude's out here selling his product; he's promoting his goods. He's out promising to fill people will all kind of goods: 'I've got all this merchandise!' When you go down to a store and they've got all this merchandise, what do you want? You want it! You can give them your money, pile it in the back of your car, go home with it and enjoy it.
"Satan says, 'I've got stuff that you're going to enjoy, that you're going to benefit from, that's going to lift you up, and all you got to do is come pay me and take it! Come join my game, get on my squad, use my credit card and take it home, dudes!'
"He's got a plan where he's enlisting the angelic host to come and benefit from it. There's a whole SCHEME going on here and the thing, in my mind, that I wonder, 'What in the world would he have used to entice people to do that?'
"By the way, notice in verse 16 he says, 'By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence.' Listen, this stuff never brings peace. It always brings violence.
"Never think Satan is sitting on the top of a tea kettle that's cool and running smoothly. The lid's boiling all the time. That's what sin does. Isaiah 57 says, [20] But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. [21] There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
"Satan is crafty enough to keep the lid on. He's smart enough, he's wise enough, he's scheming enough to be able to CONTROL even the boiling pot of iniquity, and the sin and wickedness that following him produces.
"He corrupted his wisdom and the key to his selling tactic is in Ezekiel 28:
[3] Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
[4] With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
[5] By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
"You see the idea here? As he's trafficking this stuff--and he's cunning enough to entice you and make you want to get it--it's all associated with his ability to interface with a secret . . . He had a plan to entice people into his court, but there was something hidden in the background. Can you think of a Bible account that has to do with knowing something?
"Genesis 3: [1] Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.
"All that stuff in Ezekiel about his merchandising; you know what you do when you merchandise to people? 'Hey, we've got a sale, everything's 40 percent off, so come on in!'
"I got something the other day where the manager told me, 'We'll give you a 50 percent discount on your next purchase.'
"Merchandising has a, 'We're going to do YOU good,' but who's really benefitting? Hopefully it's a win-win but oftentimes you experience buyer's remorse. But they don't tell you that up-front. They don't say, 'Hey, we're having this 30 percent off sale, come on down here so I can make enough money to take my wife to Hawaii.'
"That's not the way you merchandise stuff. There are hidden meanings in all of merchandising and it's all done SUBTLY. When you study marketing, the whole issue is, 'I need to create a need in you that you don't yet know you have, and that need is for my product.' "
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