This Bible study was done on 6/5 and it is part review because there were many newcomers who were not at the previous Bible study and Pastor Don wanted all to begin the study of Isaiah with the same background. The review is good, we can never review too much when it comes to the Bible, and Pastor Don gave a lot of new information as well.
We live in a world that is physical but there are forces working in the world that are not physical – not all are good.
Pastor Don told us that there are unbiblical words that we use to describe the supernatural forces such as woman’s intuition, premonitions, deja vous, psychic intuition, etc.
Notice – they have women’s intuition, but not man-intuition.
Biblically we do have access to information that is not normally available in the natural – it is through the Holy Spirit.
A mom will know her child is in trouble, even if there are no external facts about it.
There are spiritual forces in the world working all the time. Men are slow to pay attention. Men are focused more on detail. An example was given about men and women shopping. Men go straight to what they want to purchase, women like to shop around, compare prices, try things on, etc.
When we sleep or dream, our life is reflected in the dream. There are voices that speak in our mind and urge us to do stupid things as a result of it. The supernatural affects the natural.
82% of crimes fall in the age range of 16-24
75% of crimes are under the influence of a drug.
We are more inclined to do stupid things under the age of 30.
If we are convinced by the world that it is psychology and life challenges, we will not have the spiritual discernment to realize that often it is God good – devil bad.
Unless we, as Christians, consent to it, the demon has no authority. If it is supernatural decision there is no fleshly baggage connected with the decision, you won’t have hurt feelings, and there will be no bias associated with the decision.
Sometimes we excuse something as a demonic when we are just trying to get our way. Even if it isn’t spiritual there will be a problem anyway.
Genesis 6 lets us know where demons come from, and from the time of Adam and Eve there has been a war with the forces of God and evil.
Genesis 6:1-4 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not striveb]’> saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
EVERY INTENT!!! They did evil CONTINUALLY. This is a new species of men, descendants of evil seed. The Bible is its own dictionary. Who are these sons of God? What does Jesus say?
Luke 20:34 Jesus answered and said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.
This was 2000 years ago, at the time when Jesus was on earth. And this will occur until He comes again.
Luke 20:35 But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;
After the Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ there won’t be marriage.
Luke 20:36 nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
Man is special, he lives in a body and has a soul. If we drop dead, our brain and heart stop working, and our vessel, the flesh decays when we die. It has been recorded that when we die we lose weight – 2 pounds 2 ounces (that is how much our Spirit weighs). Our Spirit leaves our physical body.
Pastor Don told us that when we go to sleep our spirit is still conscious, that spirit is still awake. If we as a parent were sleeping and there was something wrong with our baby, the spirit would wake us up and tell us to go get the baby.
Pastor Don shared an experience where the spirit woke him up. He was a passenger in a car coming home from work, and was sound asleep in the car. His spirit told him to wake up, and Pastor Don told us he had a debate with himself, wanting to sleep. And the spirit told him to wake up NOW. They were going 55 miles an hour and a flatbed truck was coming toward them in their lane. The driver of Pastor Don’s car did not see it. Pastor Don grabbed the steering wheel and spun the car to the right hand lane. The accident was averted. His friend who was driving did not see the truck and if Pastor Don had not been awakened by his Spirit, they would have both been dead.
Pastor Don told us that the spirit never sleeps but we forget how to get in touch with it.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but we are spirit beings having a human experience. God will tell us marvelous and wonderful things.
When we die we are equal and can call ourselves sons of God just as Jesus calls the angels.
Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.
God gave us the desires of our heart, and what we do with it is what binds you together. Are you committed to the desire of your heart?
For example a marriage covenant is a blood covenant. It isn’t about soul mates. God knows the ones who He could pick for you, and He can direct you toward the right one, but if you choose the wrong person, and marry them, you are in blood covenant with them. It is not God who gave you the wrong relationship, you just didn’t wait for God’s best for you.
We will all be the Bride of Christ (male and female), and as the Bride of Christ there cannot be a second husband. No one will be in their prior marriage. We are all sons of God and Brides of Christ. There is only one marriage in Heaven.
So where do demons come from? The nephalim die and the spirits left the bodies, but those spirits were not permitted in Heaven. They are the offspring of angels and men.
Pastor Don told us to read Jude 6-7 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
2 Peter 2:4-5 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
Hebrews 2:5-9 For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. But one testified in a certain place, saying: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You take care of him? You have made him a little lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of Your hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.
God was displeased with the offspring of this mating and the angels were violating the law. Not only had they rebeled against God but now they had committed gross sin.
We can get into trouble if we act on our own, even if we are trying to do right.
Pastor Don then was asked more about the angels and he told us there were groups of angels, not all committed these gross sins, but they had still rebeled.
The angels rebeled against God. Pastor Don gave us Isaiah 14 to read. I checked them out and picked the following passages: Isaiah 14:12-21 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,a]’> with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
Strive” (contention) – abide (fellowship)
The lifespan of a man was cut down from 900 plus years to 120 years. No one, from the time of the eating of the forbidden fruit lived to be 1000 years old. The Bible tells us in
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
God told Adam and Eve that in the DAY that they ate the forbidden fruit they would die, and they did not live to be 1000 years old.
God had wanted man to abide with Him forever, but God did not want to strive with man forever. In the physical, man cannot be in the presence of a Holy God. God’s brightness and glory would kill him.
God is not bound by our sense of time. For God a day is as 1000 years. God is not bound by 24 hour chronos time. In our struggles God is not looking at his watch, He is waiting for a spiritual change, then God will remove the obstacle.
One of the members of our group said, “Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.
We then did the calculation of the 120 years and the year of jubilee – 120 X 50 = 6000. we are coming up to a period of Jubilee – the Feast of Tabernacles and the trumpets of God are coming. Every Jewish holiday is tied to an event in the life of Christ. We are now approaching the 7th day, and the Father is going to come from Heaven and be with us – tabernacle with us. We are in the 6th day – 6000 years. Right now it is the year 5769 in Jewish time – but this is not an entirely accurate date, for the Jews left off numbers of years – such as not counting time during some periods of captivity, or when they started counting the reigns of kings. The discrepancies make us in the 6th day, 6000 years. And close to Jubilee.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
These are giants. Numbers 13:22 And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
The ANAK and NEPHALIM
Numbers 13:33 There we saw the giantsb]’> saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
This was not the case with Enoch, Methuselah, and Noah, for they did not mate with the fallen angels. Their bloodline was pure.
Chapter 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.”
Noah was blessed by God.
Although this is not part of the Bible study, Pastor Don shared with us the hidden message in the genealogy of Noah – for there were many who had never seen that.
Genesis 5 V= verse
V3 - ADAM: MANKIND
V3 - SETH: TURNED THE FACE TOWARD, APPOINT
V6 - ENOSH: MORTAL, GREVIOUS, SORROW, CALAMITY
V9 - CAINAN: TO LAMENT, TO MOURN
V12 - MAHALALEL: GOD WHO IS PRAISED
V15 - JARED: COMES DOWN
V18 - ENOCH: TO INSTRUCT, CONSECRATE
V21 - METHUSELAH: TO DIE, TO BE SENT FORTH AS A PROPHET
V25 - LAMECH: TO BE SMITTEN, SCOURGED
V29 - NOAH: TO GIVE REST
V32 - SHEM: RENOWN
V32 – HAM: BURNING
V32 – JAPHETH: WIDESPREAD
Just read the words in bold and from Adam to Japheth and you have the whole salvation story spelled out in the genealogy.
Genesis 6:9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
When it says that Noah was a “just” man it does not mean that he was perfect, just that his generations were perfect, his birthline was pure, no nephalim or fallen angels.
Noah did not fall into the sin of Genesis 6:4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Jude 6-8 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.
Sins of Sodom and Gomorrah are on the earth today. Devils cannot create life, they use a person to do it, possessing a person.
Pastor Don pointed out that no born again spirit filled Christian has ever been abducted by an alien.
2 Peter 2:4-5 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
The angels who sinned that Jude is talking about left their proper abode and had sexual relations with those on the earth. They are now in chains reserved for judgment, they are not on the earth now doing what they did. There are spirits of demons and spirits of idolatry that are still on earth affecting people, nations have angels and forces in the supernatural that affect the country. We can cast out demons with the authority that God gave us. Of those on earth at the time of Noah, only seven others (8 in all) were saved.
2 Peter 2:6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
Sodom & Gomorrah was reduced to this kind of sexual sin – the nephalim affected the people. If you want to find out about that, read the story of Lot (Genesis 19).
Spiritual warfare is by the grace of God and the gifts of the Spirit. If we try to fight against demons in the natural, if we try to deal with the supernatural enemy in the natural, we will not win, we need to fight with the grace of God and the gifts of the Spirit.
2 Peter 2:7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
Filthy conduct of the wicked.
2 Peter 2:8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—
Thoughts and attitudes.
2 Peter 2:9-11 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.
What are the hybrids like? God can deliver us out of temptations.
2 Peter 2:12-13 But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you,
On earth they are the anak, the nephalim and rephaim. Where do demoniac come from? Jesus called the demons and unclean spirits anakin, rephaim, etc. They are hybrids and cannot reproduce. They are the fallen angels’ children, when they died their spirit had no place to go – they can’t go to heaven and they can’t go to hell where the fallen angels are. They can only be on the earth looking for men to inhabit. They don’t want to be where God is. So if you cast them out of a person, you can’t send them to hell and they can’t go to heaven. You can tell them to leave the room, not come back to the person they are cast out of. A demon is not a fallen angel, it is a child of a fallen angel. Jesus cast out the demons from the demoniac and they went into the pigs. When the pigs died those spirits started looking for another body to possess.
Demons are small, so they oppress people in large numbers (such as a legion of them were in the demoniac). Familiar spirits are demonic, devilish, and familiar with us and our behavior. But there are a limited number of demons. There were massive numbers destroyed in the flood, and now they wait until judgment day.
Not all of the fallen angels are in hell – only those who mated with humans. In Revelation we read of principalities and powers – those are the fallen angels who still are on earth. One day God will judge them and they too will be cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:1-2 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
This is what will happen.
Revelation 20:3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
Revelation 20:7-8 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
Revelation 9:1-2 Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
Star fallen from heaven (lucifer). they are angels.
Revelation 9:4 They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Some are sealed, some are not.
Revelation 9:6-7 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.
Men will cry out and seek death,
Revelation 9:11 And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
Abaddon means destroyer, and he will be cast into the pit with the fallen angels.
Revelation 9:12 One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.
God will let them out for a time.
Ephesians 2:1-3 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
We were once caught in this as sons of disobedience, caught in the flesh, children of wrath, people who do not do right, and it is those that are subject to the spirits of demons.
Revelation 16:13-14 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth andc]’> fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
The works of the flesh are EVIDENT – blatant, and they are the things that hurt us.
Galatians 5:20-21 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,a]’> who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
We need to live our life knowing that, “I’m not guilty.” We are Spirit filled and Jesus has paid for all our sins already. We have received free grace.
Galatians 5:24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Because you have put it up on the cross does not mean it is dead yet. We are hurt. The best thing we can do is give our sins to Jesus, but they may not be dead yet. The devil will scream at you, trying to get you to claim back your past sins. You need to say: I used to be ________, but it’s up on the cross.
Galatians 5:25-26 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 6:1-5 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For each one shall bear his own load.
All sin is sin, if they are overtaken it means that they have fallen and are crushed. We are to restore them, acknowledging that their sin is sin, but they are to be restored with a spirit of gentleness, in fellowship. Keep putting it out to them. Love them. Let them realize that the decision they made is not so good, don’t leave them too long, for it makes it harder for them to come back.
We took a bit of a side journey to see Jesus restoring in gentleness someone who was in sin in gentleness.
Mark 16:1 Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him.
This was after the crucifixion, the Sabbath was passed and they were going to anoint Jesus. The preparation day was the day before the Holy Day.
They years 2012, 2013, and 2014 all have eclipses on Jewish holy days. God is doing something powerful.
Mark 15:42 Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
The year of the crucifixion was a High Sabbath year, so Jesus was taken off the cross on Thursday. This was prophesied in Psalms and Isaiah, how He would be buried. If you do the math to have three days it would have to be Thursday.
Mark 16:2 Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
They came very early in the morning, right in the transition time between night and day – but it was not yet dawn. First they went by themselves, then brought friends. This would have been Saturday night/Sunday morning.
Mark 16:3 And they said among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”
They were not yet believing that He is risen.
Mark 16:4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away—for it was very large.
The tomb had been sealed with a huge stone and there were guards.
Mark 16:5 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a long white robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed.
This was an Angel of God, not a man.
Mark 16:6 But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him.
He is risen!!!!
Mark 16:7 But go, tell His disciples—and Peter—that He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you.
Notice they were told to tell the disciples – AND PETER. Peter needed to be told especially because he had denied Christ three times, and needed to be encouraged, so the Angel told them to speak to Peter.
If you are in sin, restore them in gentleness. Peter was in sin for denying Christ, and the Angel of God went to restore Peter, called him by name to bring him back.
Mark 16:8 So they went out quicklya]’> and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
Instead of changing his attitude and behavior, Cain permitted his anger to be transferred and let his countenance fall.
Pastor Don then pointed out that Hilton (in his testimony) was able not to transfer that anger. We can get so in touch with ourselves and our emotions (i.e. anger) that it does not have to spill over onto another. We don’t have to take it out on someone. We are broken because our parents have allowed their stuff to spill over on us.
Ephesians 6:10-20 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,c]’> against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. (13) Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. (14) Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, (15) and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—
Verses 13 and 14 tell us to STAND. Hilton reminded us that Superman had his Kryptonite that made him weak. For Hilton, his daughter was his Kryptonite. While Hilton is on the islands, his daughter decided to move back to New York. He prayed. In the Spirit Hilton and his wife held it together, but when the flesh rises in us it is a battle.
Ephesians 5:18-21 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. But that you also may know my affairs and how I am doing, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make all things known to you;
His wife at one point had a problem with drinking and she was possibly going to go back to that to cope with the daughter moving to New York and making unwise choices. Hilton reminded his wife where she came from, and then they stayed in prayer, holding together during the battle.
Mark 11:25-26 “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”
He had to seek the condition of his heart, in the flesh the changes he wanted for his daughter were not manifesting fast enough. But what satan meant for evil, God turns it around for good. You can quote Bible verses in your head, but do you believe it in your heart?
Mark 11:22-24 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
Hilton had to believe no matter what he saw in the natural, Hilton chose to believe God. The boy his daughter was with would not let his daughter call home. Hilton wanted to hurt this boy, but Pastor Don convinced him to wait in faith and pray.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Hilton realized that it was not his life anymore, Hilton’s life belongs to Christ. He had to put things into Christ’s hands and believe, to overcome the devil by the word of His testimony and the blood of the lamb.
The end result of Hilton staying in faith and praying is that his daughter got hurt by this boy, she escaped and reached a relative’s house, and ultimately ended up back in Hilton’s home, having learned a lesson, and realizing many things that she did not before the circumstance. Hilton stood on the Word of God and God came through.
Pastor Don then began to talk about what Hilton said and turned it into the rest of the Bible Study. I will share that with you tomorrow.
Praying your day is blessed.
