WEBVTT NOTE Automatic English captions made with Whisper (large-v3-turbo) on 2026-10-06. They may contain mistakes. Source: other/transcription (not uploaded); build: dlv.py subtitles --vtt-only 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.630 power of Satan and how to overcome it. And I'd like to greet you again. 2 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:10.500 It's a privilege to minister to you in the Word and to teach 3 00:00:10.510 --> 00:00:11.660 the Word of God. 4 00:00:12.410 --> 00:00:18.080 Teaching is a sacred qualification. In the ministry, it is a divine one. 5 00:00:18.310 --> 00:00:21.060 God has said in the church, Christ has said in the church, 6 00:00:21.230 --> 00:00:25.480 apostles and prophets and teachers and evangelists and pastors, 7 00:00:25.870 --> 00:00:29.720 God sets in the church those that speak His Word with authority. 8 00:00:29.930 --> 00:00:34.060 and with discernment as to the meaning of what God is speaking about. 9 00:00:34.420 --> 00:00:38.750 We are at this time in a very select group of studies. 10 00:00:38.760 --> 00:00:41.530 I'm sure you're very much aware of that. 11 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:46.150 In this group of studies, it is called Demons and Deliverance, 12 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:50.810 or Principalities and Powers. And this is Volume 1. 13 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:54.650 Volume 2, which has already been created, 14 00:00:55.060 --> 00:00:57.970 deals with many of the... 15 00:00:59.580 --> 00:01:05.830 sects and occult groups and how to avoid them, 16 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:08.270 how to have victory related to them. 17 00:01:08.550 --> 00:01:12.520 We're dealing with the basic doctrines in this syllabus, 18 00:01:12.890 --> 00:01:14.860 volume number one. 19 00:01:15.590 --> 00:01:21.310 We have now come to lesson nine in the teaching 20 00:01:21.320 --> 00:01:25.730 series here, in your teaching syllabus, which I hope you already have. 21 00:01:25.740 --> 00:01:30.930 Remember, you can get this in writing. with a large teaching syllabi. 22 00:01:31.160 --> 00:01:35.510 You can get it in the audio tape or you can get it in the large 23 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:40.970 group here with them all together or you can get them in the 24 00:01:40.980 --> 00:01:46.170 video. And so in the reading and the hearing and the seeing, 25 00:01:46.180 --> 00:01:50.870 you can get this truth and I tell you, it'll do something for you. 26 00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:52.910 It will certainly do something for you. 27 00:01:53.580 --> 00:01:56.970 In the teaching syllabus, we are at what we call lesson six. 28 00:01:57.060 --> 00:01:58.550 That's on page 27. 29 00:01:58.720 --> 00:02:02.550 But in our teaching to you, 30 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:06.490 this is the ninth segment of the lesson. 31 00:02:06.500 --> 00:02:11.760 In this area, we are teaching you relative to 32 00:02:11.770 --> 00:02:17.460 different areas in which the devil can dominate 33 00:02:17.470 --> 00:02:20.920 and have power. It is a historic fact. 34 00:02:20.990 --> 00:02:26.900 that the devil's influence can dominate and even destroy empires, 35 00:02:28.030 --> 00:02:33.490 nations. For example, in the Revelation chapter 18 in verse 2, it says, 36 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:39.470 Babylon the great has fallen and has become the habitation of devils and the 37 00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:42.770 hold of every foul spirit. 38 00:02:42.780 --> 00:02:46.820 And we can see here that even empires... 39 00:02:46.830 --> 00:02:51.560 It can be destroyed by satanic forces and satanic power. 40 00:02:52.580 --> 00:02:54.870 God speaking through his prophet Isaiah, 41 00:02:55.020 --> 00:02:57.550 one of the greatest prophets in the Bible, 42 00:02:57.820 --> 00:03:03.970 in chapter 14 and verse 12 says, How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer? 43 00:03:04.040 --> 00:03:06.270 You are the son of the morning. 44 00:03:06.300 --> 00:03:08.930 How art you cut down to the ground, 45 00:03:08.940 --> 00:03:14.870 which did weaken the nations? Which did weaken the nations? 46 00:03:15.050 --> 00:03:20.420 And so the areas of demon domination can be extensive in scope. 47 00:03:20.470 --> 00:03:23.700 It can be vast in their operations. 48 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:29.930 In that same chapter of Isaiah chapter 14 and verse 16, it says, 49 00:03:29.940 --> 00:03:32.250 Is this the man that made the earth to tremble? 50 00:03:32.260 --> 00:03:34.790 Someone looking upon Satan after his defeat. 51 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.850 It says, That did shake kingdoms. See his influence? 52 00:03:38.860 --> 00:03:43.300 That can shake kingdoms. that can make the world into a wilderness. 53 00:03:43.410 --> 00:03:47.360 Now, I was in Europe just after World War II, and you talk about a wilderness. 54 00:03:47.450 --> 00:03:49.480 I was at the beaches of Normandy, 55 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:55.390 and I saw the scope of devastation just a few days after the war 56 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:59.810 was over. And you know what it means when it says, make the world a wilderness. 57 00:03:59.820 --> 00:04:02.290 When you're in a city that you have ministered in before, 58 00:04:02.300 --> 00:04:05.850 and you look and there's only about a dozen chimneys hanging in the air, 59 00:04:05.860 --> 00:04:09.230 every building is gone, then you know what a wilderness means. 60 00:04:10.810 --> 00:04:13.220 and a dreadful situation. 61 00:04:14.040 --> 00:04:19.790 How can Satan make the earth to tremble, as it says here in Isaiah chapter 14? 62 00:04:20.410 --> 00:04:24.780 I believe that an example of this could be like Napoleon the Great, 63 00:04:24.990 --> 00:04:28.740 that the devil caused him to bring war upon the continent of Europe. 64 00:04:29.470 --> 00:04:32.760 It was totally an unnecessary situation. 65 00:04:32.830 --> 00:04:36.620 Through Napoleon, he made this earth to tremble. 66 00:04:37.140 --> 00:04:41.710 Human historians saw Napoleon destroying Europe with 67 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:47.250 bloodthirsty armies, and they called him the Great, 68 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:48.730 Napoleon the Great. 69 00:04:48.760 --> 00:04:52.590 But when God saw it, he saw Lucifer, 70 00:04:52.620 --> 00:04:58.250 his archenemy, energizing and inspiring a little man named 71 00:04:58.260 --> 00:05:03.530 Napoleon to make the earth to tremble. And so God's viewpoint of it. 72 00:05:03.570 --> 00:05:08.540 And man's viewpoint of it are always totally different. 73 00:05:08.550 --> 00:05:12.040 Totally different. This is true, not only with a man like Napoleon, 74 00:05:12.050 --> 00:05:13.660 but there's Alexander the Great. 75 00:05:14.770 --> 00:05:20.740 Humans recorded his natural forces and his natural abilities and 76 00:05:20.750 --> 00:05:23.660 his natural genius that he had. 77 00:05:23.670 --> 00:05:29.100 But God saw the driving force that made him desire to kill, 78 00:05:29.110 --> 00:05:31.980 to destroy, to exalt himself. 79 00:05:32.300 --> 00:05:38.030 above all other rulers, that Alexander was under demon possession is 80 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:42.030 easily revealed in the way that he died. 81 00:05:42.140 --> 00:05:46.890 He died in a drunken orgy at the age of 33. 82 00:05:47.080 --> 00:05:50.230 He ate and drank himself to death. 83 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:54.370 And he said at that time, there are no more worlds to conquer. 84 00:05:54.380 --> 00:05:59.770 What can I do? So there was a bloodthirsty urge within him, people to kill. 85 00:05:59.930 --> 00:06:03.340 People to say, you're under me, you know, you're under me. 86 00:06:03.500 --> 00:06:07.170 And so Satan can make the earth to tremble. 87 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:11.090 In modern times, we can see influences in the lives of men, 88 00:06:11.100 --> 00:06:14.510 like the German dictator Adolf Hitler, 89 00:06:14.740 --> 00:06:17.970 or in Italy with Mussolini, 90 00:06:19.090 --> 00:06:20.560 El Duce. 91 00:06:21.390 --> 00:06:25.960 These men made boastful statements of how they would dominate the world. 92 00:06:25.970 --> 00:06:30.140 Hitler said, for a thousand years, Nazism will dominate the world. 93 00:06:31.250 --> 00:06:32.860 Mussolini once declared, 94 00:06:33.650 --> 00:06:37.740 I would shake hands with the devil if he will give me the desires of my heart. 95 00:06:37.750 --> 00:06:41.080 And that was conquest. Went into little Ethiopia and overthrew the government and 96 00:06:41.090 --> 00:06:45.520 thought he was a great big hero of overstoring that little black people there in 97 00:06:45.530 --> 00:06:49.660 Ethiopia. And he aligned himself with Hitler and was going to help be a world 98 00:06:49.670 --> 00:06:55.640 conqueror. I saw the filling station where he hung upside down until the Italians 99 00:06:55.650 --> 00:07:01.770 had kicked. his body into where his head was only a thing as big as your fist. 100 00:07:01.780 --> 00:07:07.570 They had just kicked it to pieces. He died in the deepest of ignominy and shame. 101 00:07:07.780 --> 00:07:11.830 And so the devil, the devil made him believe, you know, 102 00:07:11.840 --> 00:07:15.830 that he could bring up an empire and he would be Caesar the Great. 103 00:07:15.970 --> 00:07:20.660 You see, demons wish to destroy nations. Italy has never been a strong nation since. 104 00:07:20.790 --> 00:07:25.480 Ever since the war, her little governments topple one right after the other. 105 00:07:25.490 --> 00:07:30.010 They don't know whether they want communism or whether they want fascism or whether 106 00:07:30.020 --> 00:07:33.890 they want democracy. They can't make up their minds. 107 00:07:33.900 --> 00:07:37.090 And so one government after another falls over there. 108 00:07:38.110 --> 00:07:43.920 God said of Lucifer that he was one who made the world into a wilderness. 109 00:07:44.190 --> 00:07:48.960 The Bible clearly states that Babylon was controlled by his powers, 110 00:07:48.970 --> 00:07:53.280 his powers of evil, and that he would finally be judged. 111 00:07:53.390 --> 00:07:58.840 As we read in Isaiah 13, verse 19, Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, 112 00:07:58.850 --> 00:08:00.820 the beauty of the Chaldeans' excellency, 113 00:08:00.830 --> 00:08:04.020 shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 114 00:08:04.030 --> 00:08:08.280 You see, that was a prophecy in Isaiah 13, verses 19 to 22. 115 00:08:08.330 --> 00:08:12.960 It shall not be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to 116 00:08:12.970 --> 00:08:17.780 generation. That was the curse of God, and it's still a curse against that area. 117 00:08:17.790 --> 00:08:21.060 It's a wilderness today. It is a wilderness today. 118 00:08:21.070 --> 00:08:25.400 It is not a luxuriant place, the most beautiful spot on the globe. 119 00:08:25.630 --> 00:08:30.380 We understand that much of the world's witchcraft that is in the world today was 120 00:08:30.390 --> 00:08:36.080 born in Babylon, bred in Babylon, foisted upon other peoples from Babylon. 121 00:08:36.090 --> 00:08:40.440 It was cultivated and distributed from there to destroy the whole world. 122 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:45.070 Generation after the generation causing people to worship Lucifer. 123 00:08:45.380 --> 00:08:51.330 And so the first place that the devil would like to destroy the earth is 124 00:08:51.340 --> 00:08:52.650 by nations. 125 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:59.570 Demons that cannot be seen with the natural eye dominating nations. 126 00:08:59.880 --> 00:09:03.990 History records the sinister works of evil in this way. 127 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.410 That almost for unknown reasons, you see, 128 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:09.630 nations are destroyed because of their worship of the devil. 129 00:09:09.830 --> 00:09:13.980 It is remarkable that the people of Israel in their olden times, 130 00:09:13.990 --> 00:09:17.300 they had to fight against this sort of situation. 131 00:09:17.710 --> 00:09:20.340 They had to keep it out of their nation. 132 00:09:20.350 --> 00:09:23.280 In the book of Exodus chapter 22 and verse 18, 133 00:09:23.670 --> 00:09:27.420 God specifically warned Moses in these words, 134 00:09:27.430 --> 00:09:33.300 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. You see, God said that in his commandments. 135 00:09:33.330 --> 00:09:36.260 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 136 00:09:36.280 --> 00:09:40.430 God knew that these people would turn the entire nation over to the devil, 137 00:09:40.660 --> 00:09:44.290 would turn the entire nation over to Satan if they permitted it. 138 00:09:44.420 --> 00:09:48.390 In 1 Chronicles chapter 10 and verse 13, it says, 139 00:09:48.400 --> 00:09:53.410 God removed Saul from his kingdom and that he died for his transgression of seeking 140 00:09:53.420 --> 00:09:56.550 after witchcraft. He died because of it. 141 00:09:56.580 --> 00:10:02.130 God would not permit his people and his land to be taken over by demon power. 142 00:10:02.140 --> 00:10:06.790 And so, The devil doesn't seek primarily for persons. 143 00:10:07.100 --> 00:10:12.770 The devil primarily seeks for nations and empires to control them. 144 00:10:13.260 --> 00:10:18.170 In our world that we live in today, as we have visited country after country, 145 00:10:18.180 --> 00:10:22.490 it makes you feel, in some of them, sad and depressed. 146 00:10:22.560 --> 00:10:25.370 Not that we wish to downgrade any country. 147 00:10:25.660 --> 00:10:30.410 As some of these countries we greatly love, such as Indonesia, for example. 148 00:10:30.580 --> 00:10:34.270 I preached in Indonesia when the Dutch ruled it before the war. 149 00:10:34.280 --> 00:10:37.790 And after the Dutch were gone, and it was a republic after the war. 150 00:10:39.260 --> 00:10:41.770 But we have lived in that country for many months. 151 00:10:41.780 --> 00:10:47.770 And I am very sincere when I tell you that I have witnessed more demon power 152 00:10:47.780 --> 00:10:53.470 there than possibly any other place. Because there are more witch doctors. 153 00:10:54.860 --> 00:10:57.330 in that country than there are medical doctors. 154 00:10:57.340 --> 00:11:02.530 And we couldn't have a meeting pleading the blood of Jesus and the power of God 155 00:11:02.540 --> 00:11:06.350 without some form of witchcraft, you know, interrupting the meeting. 156 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:10.330 You know, the devil gets angry when you are telling people about him. 157 00:11:10.340 --> 00:11:15.750 And so we witnessed and we saw where devils want to control nations 158 00:11:15.760 --> 00:11:21.590 such as the nation of Indonesia, which is so strongly steeped in witchcraft as 159 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:26.370 of this moment. Also, when we were in Singapore, 160 00:11:26.940 --> 00:11:32.150 a nation that, a little nation that is so full of heathen temples, 161 00:11:32.160 --> 00:11:38.020 we discovered that heathen worshipers in coming to Singapore must 162 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:44.810 pay their due respects to a very powerful dignitary who is a spiritual ruler, 163 00:11:44.820 --> 00:11:48.290 who is a spiritual ruler of the area. His name is Pa. 164 00:11:49.650 --> 00:11:55.340 And before they can go and worship the other Buddhists in the other temples, 165 00:11:55.350 --> 00:12:00.440 they have to come to this number one place and first pay their respects and give an 166 00:12:00.450 --> 00:12:04.260 offering. And then they can feel free to go and worship in other temples. 167 00:12:04.550 --> 00:12:07.700 The heathen worshipers must go to this temple. 168 00:12:08.190 --> 00:12:13.920 They cannot go into any temple. Pa gets very angry and will bring a curse upon them. 169 00:12:13.930 --> 00:12:17.640 And so they must not worship other places before they worship Pa. 170 00:12:17.730 --> 00:12:19.840 And this is practiced today. 171 00:12:20.850 --> 00:12:23.620 You, as a visitor, may not find out much about it. 172 00:12:23.630 --> 00:12:28.240 You have to kind of live with the people and talk to them in order to understand 173 00:12:28.250 --> 00:12:29.260 some of these things. 174 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:36.070 In most pagan countries or heathen countries who are under the power of Satan, 175 00:12:36.160 --> 00:12:42.070 they have special categories of spirits possessing various degrees of power 176 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:46.290 and authority in their lands. For example, there's the land of Tibet. 177 00:12:47.250 --> 00:12:52.730 where Satan has held supremacy for ages, for ages. 178 00:12:52.760 --> 00:12:57.610 I have personally traveled into the Tibetan country among the high mountains of 179 00:12:57.620 --> 00:13:03.150 southwest China. I have slept in their heathen temples where there, you know, 180 00:13:03.160 --> 00:13:04.610 no other place to sleep anyway. 181 00:13:04.620 --> 00:13:10.050 And I saw their idol -filled temples and listened to the strange stories of demon 182 00:13:10.060 --> 00:13:11.970 power. And, brother, they got them. 183 00:13:12.520 --> 00:13:17.250 You've never heard anything like it when they talk to you about the supernatural 184 00:13:17.260 --> 00:13:21.970 activities that take place in those areas. 185 00:13:21.980 --> 00:13:25.790 But the devil is supreme. And the leader of the land, 186 00:13:25.800 --> 00:13:28.130 of course it's under communist China right now, 187 00:13:28.140 --> 00:13:31.710 but the leader of the land and the political leaders is the same, 188 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:32.910 is the same person. 189 00:13:33.140 --> 00:13:38.930 And their witchcraft, and their oriental guruism. 190 00:13:38.950 --> 00:13:42.340 You see, a lot of people in America want to become like they are in Tibet. 191 00:13:42.610 --> 00:13:47.560 Isn't that amazing? They said that they have the high spirits. 192 00:13:47.570 --> 00:13:51.260 They do. They've had a lot of time to seek after the devil and to know him. 193 00:13:51.270 --> 00:13:53.640 But you wouldn't want him in your life like that. 194 00:13:53.650 --> 00:13:57.000 I can assure you that you would not desire it. 195 00:13:58.040 --> 00:14:01.110 Another example of the devil taking over nations. 196 00:14:01.420 --> 00:14:06.010 I strongly felt satanic power and force. 197 00:14:06.050 --> 00:14:11.280 when I traveled more than 5 ,000 miles across communist Siberia and communist 198 00:14:11.290 --> 00:14:16.560 Russia. There was an oppression and a sense of insecurity in the very air that you 199 00:14:16.570 --> 00:14:19.580 breathe. I could feel the spiritual heaviness, 200 00:14:19.590 --> 00:14:22.120 spiritual heaviness over the entire country. 201 00:14:22.130 --> 00:14:24.580 It made one sad on the inside. 202 00:14:24.590 --> 00:14:28.120 You could talk to people like news reporters or like teachers or something, 203 00:14:28.130 --> 00:14:31.780 and there they're sitting there glum as they were crossing over, and you say, 204 00:14:31.790 --> 00:14:35.480 well, how are you today? Oh, all right, I guess. 205 00:14:35.650 --> 00:14:37.740 Well, how do you feel? Well, I don't know. 206 00:14:37.750 --> 00:14:43.200 All right. Are you sad about something? Well, some way I'm sad. 207 00:14:43.370 --> 00:14:44.380 I don't know quite exactly. 208 00:14:44.470 --> 00:14:48.440 See, the sinner doesn't even understand why the heaviness is there, 209 00:14:48.450 --> 00:14:53.900 why the oppression is there, because it's on the rulership of the devil. 210 00:14:54.510 --> 00:14:59.800 All through Moscow, through the city, and through the country, 211 00:14:59.810 --> 00:15:02.720 there is a spiritual heaviness of atheism. 212 00:15:02.780 --> 00:15:05.730 Over that land where the devil says, hey boy, I'm boss here. 213 00:15:05.780 --> 00:15:08.390 I am boss here. They don't even believe in God. 214 00:15:08.740 --> 00:15:11.990 I got things under good control in this place. 215 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:16.170 And so nations, the devil wants to conquer whole nations. 216 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.830 And the devil had to do with conquering Russia. 217 00:15:18.860 --> 00:15:22.410 The spiritual people were not spiritual. God's people were not godly. 218 00:15:22.420 --> 00:15:25.390 And so the devil walked in in communism and said there isn't any. 219 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:31.690 And took over that land. God saved the rest of the world from godless communism. 220 00:15:32.230 --> 00:15:37.200 Nations of the future will also feel this impact of demon power. 221 00:15:37.550 --> 00:15:39.480 And during the great tribulation upon the earth, 222 00:15:39.490 --> 00:15:44.020 there will be great satanic worship upon the face of the earth. 223 00:15:44.030 --> 00:15:48.700 In the Revelation, that's the last book in your Bible, in chapter 13 in verse 4, 224 00:15:48.710 --> 00:15:54.850 it says we see that they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast. 225 00:15:54.860 --> 00:15:59.850 Now the dragon is the devil and the beast, of course, is the antichrist. 226 00:15:59.860 --> 00:16:01.270 And they worshiped. 227 00:16:04.140 --> 00:16:08.830 Now, it isn't that he is a beast, but his nature within him is like a devouring 228 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:13.830 beast in the jungle. Who is able to make war with him? 229 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:19.750 And so there will be political leaders of nations and of empires and 230 00:16:19.760 --> 00:16:25.610 of groups of nations that are under direct rule and relationship and the power of 231 00:16:25.620 --> 00:16:28.050 the devil. Now, that's your point number one. 232 00:16:28.060 --> 00:16:32.170 Point number two is in the middle of page 29. 233 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.290 And if the devil cannot take a country, he would like to take a city. 234 00:16:37.830 --> 00:16:39.180 He'd like to take a city. 235 00:16:39.190 --> 00:16:44.280 I don't know that God ever intended for man to live in urban areas. 236 00:16:46.650 --> 00:16:48.880 The first place a city is mentioned in the Bible. 237 00:16:48.890 --> 00:16:51.020 It's not in a good connotation at all. 238 00:16:51.790 --> 00:16:56.320 Not only does the devil seek to rule empires, he seeks to dominate cities. 239 00:16:56.520 --> 00:16:59.050 Now, if you'll study this with me extensively, 240 00:16:59.060 --> 00:17:03.450 you'll find that what I'm saying to you is a tremendous reality. 241 00:17:03.660 --> 00:17:07.590 Listen to the book of Revelation, chapter 2 and verse 13. 242 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:11.110 God says, I know your works, talk into a city. 243 00:17:11.660 --> 00:17:16.270 Where you dwell, you dwell even where Satan's seat is. 244 00:17:16.460 --> 00:17:19.370 Here the devil had his throne in this city. 245 00:17:19.770 --> 00:17:21.380 Where Satan's throne is. 246 00:17:32.770 --> 00:17:37.360 Isn't that something? Here you have a city, and Satan has a headquarters there. 247 00:17:37.410 --> 00:17:41.380 He has a throne there. And then it's where Satan dwelleth. 248 00:17:41.390 --> 00:17:43.220 He just made his habitation up there. 249 00:17:43.310 --> 00:17:45.740 Now, there are cities that are different from cities. 250 00:17:45.770 --> 00:17:49.140 And I'd like to say to all of America, be careful where you live. 251 00:17:49.170 --> 00:17:54.140 for your children's sake you can feed your children to the devil in a very wicked 252 00:17:54.150 --> 00:17:58.860 environment when if you weren't so ambitious and you could live for a little less 253 00:17:58.870 --> 00:18:03.340 you could have your children in a rural situation of where they would be brought up 254 00:18:03.350 --> 00:18:08.500 in holiness and cleanliness and godliness and also happiness and heaven now this 255 00:18:08.510 --> 00:18:12.120 city that he was talking to here was pergamos it was one of the churches of the 256 00:18:12.130 --> 00:18:17.550 apocalypse in the book of revelation it is located in a in a great 257 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:21.410 and a historic area. It was a beautiful place. 258 00:18:21.420 --> 00:18:23.130 I have been there personally, by the way. 259 00:18:23.140 --> 00:18:28.310 And the Bible says it was a city where Satan was located in their town. 260 00:18:28.320 --> 00:18:32.390 This indicates that there are cities where devils set up their thrones and their 261 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:36.550 areas of ruling in these cities. The devil's power is centralized. 262 00:18:36.990 --> 00:18:41.580 such places to control multitudes of people in these cities the devil has greater 263 00:18:41.590 --> 00:18:46.480 strength than he has anywhere else to perform his horrible deeds that he does in the 264 00:18:46.490 --> 00:18:50.800 lives of people there are two areas mentioned here where Satan dwelleth and where 265 00:18:50.810 --> 00:18:54.900 Satan's seat is he dwells there and his seat of power is there this speaks of his 266 00:18:54.910 --> 00:19:00.640 headquarters from which Satan operates and a throne from which he dictates his evil 267 00:19:00.650 --> 00:19:04.960 spirits to tell them what to do in order that he might rule over them. 268 00:19:04.970 --> 00:19:10.520 And so you have two aspects there where you have his seat, which is his throne, 269 00:19:10.530 --> 00:19:13.640 and you have his dwelling place in an area where he dwells. 270 00:19:13.650 --> 00:19:17.540 He lives in a certain place and he sends out his directives from that place. 271 00:19:17.670 --> 00:19:22.440 Now, historically, you can point out such cities. 272 00:19:22.450 --> 00:19:27.300 For example, ancient Babylon gave itself over to sorceries, to witchcraft, 273 00:19:27.310 --> 00:19:32.980 to cults, and without doubt, She was a queen city, outwardly, very beautiful, 274 00:19:32.990 --> 00:19:35.400 very gorgeous. Boasted of its hanging gardens, 275 00:19:35.410 --> 00:19:38.720 which have never been duplicated in any other city in the world. 276 00:19:38.730 --> 00:19:43.720 But it was dominated by a certain Babylonian spirit, you know, 277 00:19:43.730 --> 00:19:46.860 that this spirit had made its habitation there. 278 00:19:46.910 --> 00:19:52.020 And this spirit kept Daniel's prayer from being answered when he lived in Babylon. 279 00:19:52.070 --> 00:19:56.580 He couldn't get his prayers through because of this dominating spirit in that area. 280 00:19:56.870 --> 00:20:01.040 In Daniel 10 and verse 20, the angel said that when he left Daniel's presence, 281 00:20:01.050 --> 00:20:04.260 he would have to fight a spirit called the Prince of Greece. 282 00:20:04.650 --> 00:20:08.580 The angel said that only Micah was available to assist him in this warfare. 283 00:20:08.590 --> 00:20:13.320 This reveals evidently that there are cosmic battles which take place over big 284 00:20:13.330 --> 00:20:16.600 cities. Big cities. That's right. 285 00:20:16.610 --> 00:20:22.460 And so coming into him, he had a battle with a prince that was over Persia. 286 00:20:22.470 --> 00:20:24.940 Going back, he had a battle over the Prince of Greece. 287 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:28.830 And so evidently there are princes set up over certain areas that rule, 288 00:20:28.840 --> 00:20:32.630 and they make their strong points the great cities. 289 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:37.290 For example, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are remarkable examples of demon 290 00:20:37.300 --> 00:20:42.450 habitation. These cities gave themselves to a very peculiar and terrible sin, 291 00:20:42.460 --> 00:20:47.650 which bears the name of one of the cities until this day, Sodomy, 292 00:20:47.740 --> 00:20:51.250 from Sodom. You see, it didn't have to bear such a name. 293 00:20:51.260 --> 00:20:54.730 The spirit that controlled there caused men to make love with men, 294 00:20:54.870 --> 00:20:59.140 rather than with women. Only the devil could have caused this thing to happen. 295 00:20:59.230 --> 00:21:00.230 Only the devil. 296 00:21:01.460 --> 00:21:07.010 Sodomy became so dominant that God was obliged to wipe off the face of the earth 297 00:21:07.020 --> 00:21:10.010 that sinful city. He could not tolerate it. 298 00:21:10.020 --> 00:21:15.550 He could not stand it. It was out of his regular form of operating on the earth. 299 00:21:15.560 --> 00:21:19.250 He said, I won't do it. So Sodom was a city where Satan's seat was. 300 00:21:19.320 --> 00:21:24.870 And it was where Satan dwelled. And here his dominated power was supreme. 301 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:27.030 as he commanded the people of that city. 302 00:21:27.080 --> 00:21:31.250 And so the devil not only wants to control empires, nations, 303 00:21:31.420 --> 00:21:37.230 particularly he wants to involve himself over a city to control a city. 304 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:42.790 Now you might say, could you bring that into any modern description? 305 00:21:42.800 --> 00:21:48.370 And I believe I could. I don't like to be offensive to cities, but I think I could. 306 00:21:48.380 --> 00:21:51.890 There are modern cities which have given themselves over to certain sins. 307 00:21:51.970 --> 00:21:56.180 You see, the sins of New York and the sins of Hollywood are very different. 308 00:21:56.410 --> 00:22:02.060 The sins of Las Vegas and the sins of Paris, France, are different, you see. 309 00:22:02.070 --> 00:22:05.440 The spirits that rule them are different spirits. 310 00:22:05.490 --> 00:22:10.400 I'm sure you're aware of the fact that every city has a spirit in it and that no two 311 00:22:10.410 --> 00:22:12.440 cities of the world possess the same spirit. 312 00:22:12.870 --> 00:22:17.100 Now, I'm not speaking of an evil spirit or a good spirit, 313 00:22:17.110 --> 00:22:21.420 but every city has its own personality. Every home has its own personality. 314 00:22:21.490 --> 00:22:24.580 There are no two homes on the face of the earth that have exactly the same 315 00:22:24.590 --> 00:22:26.440 personality. When you walk to the door, 316 00:22:26.450 --> 00:22:29.400 the spirits of the people that live there, you can feel their personality. 317 00:22:29.410 --> 00:22:30.780 The same is true of a city. 318 00:22:31.470 --> 00:22:35.060 And I've been preaching over a thousand cities of the world. 319 00:22:35.070 --> 00:22:37.860 I've never been in two cities that have exactly the same spirit. 320 00:22:37.930 --> 00:22:42.400 And when you come there, you have a ministry that you involve yourself in and a 321 00:22:42.410 --> 00:22:47.880 different spirit, you see, from what you would find in another spirit. 322 00:22:48.540 --> 00:22:51.050 So the devil has not changed. 323 00:22:51.100 --> 00:22:56.550 There are spirits where certain sins and certain evils are very strong there. 324 00:22:56.560 --> 00:23:02.530 And certain spirits dominate until there are no two cities on the face of the earth 325 00:23:02.540 --> 00:23:04.850 that are dominated by the same spirit. 326 00:23:04.860 --> 00:23:09.190 I am very sensitive to feeling that spirit when I go to any city. 327 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:14.750 And so naturally, some cities have good spirits and others have bad spirits. 328 00:23:14.820 --> 00:23:17.830 No doubt you have heard different ministers say that in a certain city, 329 00:23:17.840 --> 00:23:19.770 it's very hard to preach there. 330 00:23:20.460 --> 00:23:24.530 Yeah, that city has given itself over, over to spirits. 331 00:23:24.620 --> 00:23:26.210 Very hard to work in there. 332 00:23:26.360 --> 00:23:30.590 Another says, you know, such and such a city is so open, so open, 333 00:23:30.600 --> 00:23:34.150 that the movement of the Spirit of God is so easy there. 334 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:35.630 You see what I mean now? 335 00:23:36.320 --> 00:23:38.390 That means you should decide where you want to live. 336 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:41.950 Don't live in an oppressive city, an oppressive city. 337 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:46.010 New York City is one of those oppressive cities. 338 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:50.250 A pastor of a great church there came and stood in this pulpit right here. 339 00:23:50.460 --> 00:23:54.610 And he said, though I've been there all my life, grew up there, 340 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:58.530 when I get about 20 miles out of town, a spirit lifts off of me. 341 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:04.350 It's a hindering, oppressing spirit that hangs over my city of New York. 342 00:24:04.360 --> 00:24:09.230 And he says, when I go back, when that airplane starts to come down into that city, 343 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:14.610 I can feel that oppression of the great city of New York as it comes down upon me. 344 00:24:14.660 --> 00:24:19.030 Now, that is from a man that has a very large church in that city. 345 00:24:19.080 --> 00:24:24.710 Any large metropolis like New York is a possessor of some certain kind of spirit. 346 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:28.570 The larger part of the population, like New York City, 347 00:24:28.580 --> 00:24:33.450 does not attend church anywhere. Many of them live in the deepest, deepest of sin. 348 00:24:33.780 --> 00:24:38.490 New York is a center of commerce for the whole world, for the entire world. 349 00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:41.690 And more recently, a center for world government. 350 00:24:41.700 --> 00:24:44.750 For world government, New York City is its center. 351 00:24:46.530 --> 00:24:48.560 It's one of the spiritual eyes. 352 00:24:48.730 --> 00:24:54.640 If mine could be open, no doubt we'd be able to see the strong and evil spirits 353 00:24:54.650 --> 00:24:59.980 that seek to rule that place. We would be able to see them. 354 00:24:59.990 --> 00:25:03.220 And I have a deep burden for cities like this. 355 00:25:03.230 --> 00:25:06.940 And our next lesson, I want to continue with this thought right here. 356 00:25:06.950 --> 00:25:12.230 I have a deep burden for such places that God will give me strength to... 357 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:15.350 And that's what Jesus meant, that if you go to take a prey, 358 00:25:15.420 --> 00:25:17.850 that you first bind the strong man. 359 00:25:17.860 --> 00:25:22.910 If you go to take like a city like New York or like Paris or like Las Vegas and you 360 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:27.530 go there to take the city, you first bind the strong man or you can't take the prey. 361 00:25:27.580 --> 00:25:32.550 That it is not possible to take the prey if you don't bind the strong man.