WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:10.940 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. The Bible tells us that Satan is 3 00:00:10.940 --> 00:00:16.180 like a lion. Throw him in around. Your life you right here doesn't matter what 4 00:00:16.180 --> 00:00:20.520 you believe if you're hearing my voice right now. Satan tries to approach your 5 00:00:20.520 --> 00:00:25.620 life. Throw him in around like a lion seeking to devour you. What does that look 6 00:00:25.620 --> 00:00:30.260 like? I don't know. Is that how he begins to devour though? Does he take a bite of 7 00:00:30.260 --> 00:00:33.840 your marriage? Does he take a bite of your children? What does that look like? What 8 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:39.760 does he do to get you to curse God? The Bible says he is a foot. 9 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:47.520 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 10 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:52.780 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 11 00:00:52.780 --> 00:00:57.660 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us 12 00:00:57.660 --> 00:01:02.780 that's like saying amen or yes. Then that rating will encourage others to 13 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:08.300 listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack 14 00:01:08.300 --> 00:01:14.140 Hibbs. Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple and his disciples came 15 00:01:14.140 --> 00:01:19.380 up to show him the buildings of the temple and Jesus said to them, do you not see 16 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:24.000 all these things? That is the temple and the buildings of the temple. Surely I 17 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:29.160 say to you, not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown 18 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:34.240 down. Now as he said on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately 19 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:40.200 saying, tell us when will these things be and what will be the sign of your coming 20 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:48.000 and the end of the age? And Jesus answered and said to them, take heed that no 21 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:54.680 one deceives you. Father, we pray that you would open up our eyes so clear, so 22 00:01:54.680 --> 00:02:02.760 clean, so wide that we would be not deceived in these last days. In Jesus' name 23 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:09.000 and all God's people said, amen, you may be seated. So the word deceived 24 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:14.700 deception as we are looking at the days of deception. It'll play on words 25 00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:19.860 there. The word in the Greek language means this, whatever causes you to wander, 26 00:02:19.860 --> 00:02:24.180 it sounds kind of almost innocent. The word deceived is scary if you think about 27 00:02:24.180 --> 00:02:28.980 it. Nobody, listen, nobody appreciates being deceived. We're not talking about being 28 00:02:28.980 --> 00:02:34.660 tricked by your friends or by our being punked or whatever the local thing is 29 00:02:34.660 --> 00:02:40.540 about being tricked by somebody or a stunt. We're talking about a deception that 30 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:46.460 by nature is of satanic origins. This is not somebody ripping you off on a 31 00:02:46.460 --> 00:02:52.180 contract or something like that. That's bad enough. The whole context demands that 32 00:02:52.180 --> 00:02:58.820 its origins of this deception are satanic in nature and executed by demonic 33 00:02:58.820 --> 00:03:02.620 activity. Church family, the Bible tells us that there's going to be increased 34 00:03:02.620 --> 00:03:07.620 demonic activity in the last days. There's going to be strange things that go 35 00:03:07.620 --> 00:03:12.660 bump in the night, increasing in the world around us. Jesus made that very clear. 36 00:03:12.660 --> 00:03:20.780 But that word goes on to say to go astray or to be led away, to be deceived is to 37 00:03:20.780 --> 00:03:27.900 become misguided. It means that you were once perhaps on course or in the truth, 38 00:03:27.900 --> 00:03:35.220 but something happened by which, listen, you began to think differently. This is a 39 00:03:35.220 --> 00:03:39.900 terrifying thought for every one of us church. Listen to this. How do you think? 40 00:03:39.900 --> 00:03:45.580 You guys all know, A.W. Tozer said that whatever a person and however a person 41 00:03:45.580 --> 00:03:51.820 thinks about God is the most important thing that they think in life. What is your 42 00:03:51.820 --> 00:04:00.020 opinion of God? What do you know about God? That answer is eternally relevant. But 43 00:04:00.020 --> 00:04:04.820 when we look at deception today, our world is so full of it that now we 44 00:04:04.820 --> 00:04:09.580 tolerate. You and I are tolerating levels of deception. There's stuff going on. 45 00:04:09.580 --> 00:04:12.620 I don't know people get it all upset with me and that's their problem, but 46 00:04:12.620 --> 00:04:17.380 here's the thing about deception. We're being deceived by our leaders and we're 47 00:04:17.380 --> 00:04:22.980 okay with it as a nation. It's all right. It's all right. It's okay. Nobody seems 48 00:04:22.980 --> 00:04:27.860 to care. You know what? Deception, mark it down. I think it matters. Deception 49 00:04:27.860 --> 00:04:33.940 flourishes when there's apathy. If you're apathetic, deception sees it as a 50 00:04:33.940 --> 00:04:40.260 green light to go. Now I'm making deception sound like a person. I'm 51 00:04:40.260 --> 00:04:45.380 personalizing it. What I should say is when the church and culture becomes 52 00:04:45.380 --> 00:04:51.380 apathetic, then it is very clear that demonic activity increases. And this is a 53 00:04:51.380 --> 00:04:58.140 global observation that has always been since time began. That whenever there's 54 00:04:58.140 --> 00:05:04.700 a void, it's quickly filled. And so Jesus has always taught in the 55 00:05:04.700 --> 00:05:08.660 gospels to us that he wants us to be ready and watching. Church, right. We know 56 00:05:08.660 --> 00:05:13.020 this. He says be watching. Be ready. Watch. You don't know when. Have the oil in 57 00:05:13.020 --> 00:05:17.700 your lamp. That's the symbol of the Holy Spirit. Always filled up because you 58 00:05:17.700 --> 00:05:22.660 don't know the hour in which I'm coming. Be vigilant. Be on guard. It reminds me of 59 00:05:22.660 --> 00:05:29.140 my mom. Was your mom like this? For those of us maybe from my generation, which, I 60 00:05:29.140 --> 00:05:34.020 don't know, I guess I'm partial. I think it was the best. We used to be able to 61 00:05:34.020 --> 00:05:40.580 ride our bikes to the beach without getting molested. We stayed out late and 62 00:05:40.580 --> 00:05:45.860 we didn't get hurt. Nobody, there was okay. There was no pornography. There was 63 00:05:45.860 --> 00:05:51.700 no sickness like this stuff we see in our world today. All we had to do, all we 64 00:05:51.700 --> 00:05:55.980 had to do was have a nickel. So we'd stop at a pay phone and call the house and say, 65 00:05:55.980 --> 00:05:58.780 hey, mom, just check it in. It's eight o'clock. It's summer. I'm good. I'm 66 00:05:58.780 --> 00:06:03.540 final. See you later. But when we went, but when it was school time, I can just see 67 00:06:03.540 --> 00:06:09.220 my mom saying and doing things like this. She would, she would make sure my 68 00:06:09.220 --> 00:06:16.180 shirts buttoned up correctly. Shirts buttoned up, collar, fix in the hair or 69 00:06:16.180 --> 00:06:20.620 taking the food off my face, whatever it is. That's what a mom does. Now I'm not, I'm 70 00:06:20.620 --> 00:06:25.060 not being gender insensitive here. I'm just going to tell you the facts right now. 71 00:06:25.060 --> 00:06:30.180 We need moms to make sure that we're able to get to the school bus or to the 72 00:06:30.180 --> 00:06:36.300 school and that we have actual clothes on and that there's no food hanging 73 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:40.220 off of our face. And one of the things is, okay, your shirt buttoned. Okay, 74 00:06:40.220 --> 00:06:43.380 smile. Let me see your teeth. So she, let me see your teeth. So she wants to see 75 00:06:43.380 --> 00:06:49.660 what's inside there. And is your zipper up and locked, upright, zipper up and 76 00:06:49.660 --> 00:06:54.060 locked in the right position. And then she would turn you around and she would 77 00:06:54.060 --> 00:06:59.260 scoot you off either to school because I would want to school. Some kids got 78 00:06:59.260 --> 00:07:04.060 bust to school, but you got ready. And thank God for moms, by the way, back in 79 00:07:04.060 --> 00:07:11.580 those times in the 1850s and 60s. Why? Because here's what dad would have done. 80 00:07:11.580 --> 00:07:16.540 What do you stand on a round for? Get on the bus. You could be there in your 81 00:07:16.540 --> 00:07:21.060 underwear with a pork chop hanging off your face. He doesn't care. Get on the bus. 82 00:07:21.060 --> 00:07:28.820 Thank God for moms right there in the detail. And I see Jesus, I see Jesus 83 00:07:28.820 --> 00:07:32.860 doing that. I see Jesus kind of looking at us straightening the collar. Are 84 00:07:32.860 --> 00:07:41.220 you ready? Listen, don't get into any trouble. Stay out of fights, right? You'll 85 00:07:41.220 --> 00:07:47.420 get picked up. It could be today. But get on out there and he prepared us and 86 00:07:47.420 --> 00:07:52.220 then he turned us loose. And that's a good thing. And you need to remember that, 87 00:07:52.220 --> 00:07:57.260 that the world that you and I live in right now, there is a days of deception 88 00:07:57.260 --> 00:08:01.660 like a fog that is sweeping over the world right now in the narratives that are 89 00:08:01.660 --> 00:08:06.340 that are out there from genderism to what we've been experiencing these last 90 00:08:06.340 --> 00:08:11.780 few weeks in our United States Congress. And to help you kind of get in the 91 00:08:11.780 --> 00:08:17.780 mood because we have a tendency to laugh at these things, but now nobody is laughing. 92 00:08:17.780 --> 00:08:23.380 Nobody is laughing because of congressional testimony. And so we have to answer 93 00:08:23.380 --> 00:08:28.540 the things that you're going to deal with tomorrow at work from the Bible here on 94 00:08:28.580 --> 00:08:33.900 on a Sunday. So you can be ready for Monday. Does it make sense? And that's 95 00:08:33.900 --> 00:08:38.060 that's the spirit in which I'm bringing this to you. And of course, I'm talking 96 00:08:38.060 --> 00:08:45.100 about this incredible global explosion of people talking about things that 97 00:08:45.100 --> 00:08:49.820 they're seeing in the skies. The percentage is in the thousands of how many 98 00:08:49.820 --> 00:08:56.100 people have come forward to say, I was on deployment in Canada in the north or 99 00:08:56.140 --> 00:09:03.060 I was in South America. I was running special ops in Guatemala or I'm a Russian 100 00:09:03.060 --> 00:09:09.060 aviator or I'm a Chinese pilot. Literally, airline, you name it and they're 101 00:09:09.060 --> 00:09:12.580 saying, what happened in Congress has opened up the door? I'm going to come 102 00:09:12.580 --> 00:09:17.140 forward. Well, what happened in Congress? We'll look at the next couple of weeks 103 00:09:17.140 --> 00:09:21.180 at snippets of it because it's too long to handle. But what about the Bible and 104 00:09:21.180 --> 00:09:25.300 all this stuff? And if there are things out there, what are these things and 105 00:09:25.340 --> 00:09:31.060 where they coming from? That's what people are asking. And by the way, there's 106 00:09:31.060 --> 00:09:36.020 no one, not everybody's being shy about answering it. And that has been the 107 00:09:36.020 --> 00:09:40.340 real push about me dealing with it today because there are pastors that are 108 00:09:40.340 --> 00:09:44.860 announcing that whoever or whatever these things are, they're coming from 109 00:09:44.860 --> 00:09:50.220 other planets that God has created. And they haven't fallen. They're not sinful. 110 00:09:50.220 --> 00:09:57.180 So they're here to help us. So this whole thing ever since Roswell, New Mexico, 111 00:09:57.180 --> 00:10:02.460 back in the 40s, whatever, all this kind of stuff, little green man walking around. 112 00:10:02.460 --> 00:10:09.820 All this stuff has been the parts of movies and jokes and all this stuff. The 113 00:10:09.820 --> 00:10:14.300 Bible says that in the last days, there's going to be things that are 114 00:10:14.300 --> 00:10:21.780 unexplainable. And Jesus warned us that we better be vigilant and we better be 115 00:10:21.780 --> 00:10:27.940 believing in the Word of God because he said that if it were possible, even God's 116 00:10:27.940 --> 00:10:33.420 very elect would be deceived. Now I don't know what you think about what 117 00:10:33.420 --> 00:10:37.620 deception looks like. You think it like deception comes, is it like an Amazon 118 00:10:37.620 --> 00:10:41.940 package where it arrives at your door and it says a fragile? Does it say this 119 00:10:41.940 --> 00:10:49.620 end up? I think by nature of deception, it might look fantastic, but it's the 120 00:10:49.620 --> 00:10:55.460 opposite or it might look benign, but it's dangerous, whatever it might be. When 121 00:10:55.460 --> 00:11:01.100 you're deceived, notice the very act of deception that is placed upon you, 122 00:11:01.100 --> 00:11:05.700 misled you to believing that you were either going down the right path, 123 00:11:05.700 --> 00:11:10.820 signing the correct contract or doing the correct thing, and then you woke up to 124 00:11:10.820 --> 00:11:17.940 find out that you were deceived. By nature deception looks good. It looks good. 125 00:11:17.940 --> 00:11:22.820 I encourage all of you to read. It's not a big read. You should read it. It's 126 00:11:22.820 --> 00:11:29.300 called The Art of War by Sinsu. You should read this. There's many great quotes 127 00:11:29.300 --> 00:11:33.660 about deception, but his big thing about deceiving your enemy is the key to 128 00:11:33.660 --> 00:11:37.420 winning the war. Number one, he says, get your enemy to believe that you're not at 129 00:11:37.420 --> 00:11:43.060 war with him while you're warring against him. He says, for example, when you're 130 00:11:43.060 --> 00:11:47.700 near to your enemy, make him think that you're far, and when you are far from 131 00:11:47.700 --> 00:11:53.100 your enemy, make him think you're near. When you're strong, have him make you think 132 00:11:53.100 --> 00:11:59.900 you're weak, and when you're weak, have him think you're strong. And he said, by 133 00:11:59.900 --> 00:12:09.860 this manipulation of confusion, you deceive. And he said, the greatest victories are 134 00:12:09.860 --> 00:12:19.460 one when you never go to war. He said, you can defeat your enemy by deception without 135 00:12:19.460 --> 00:12:25.700 ever invading. And I think Satan knows that very well. I think we live in the 136 00:12:25.700 --> 00:12:30.940 age where it's obvious to me that a lot of Satanic repeats are happening. 137 00:12:30.940 --> 00:12:36.380 Jesus said, in the last days, you'll know that you're in the last days because you've 138 00:12:36.380 --> 00:12:41.140 got to go back into history to the days of Noah. And you study, Jesus said, what 139 00:12:41.140 --> 00:12:44.580 it was like in the days of Noah, and then you'll know how soon my coming will 140 00:12:44.580 --> 00:12:48.580 be. You see, Jack, where are you going with this? I'm going to just get the 141 00:12:48.580 --> 00:12:52.940 toothpaste out of the tube right now. I do not believe in aliens. I don't believe 142 00:12:53.340 --> 00:12:58.420 in other planets being populated. I don't believe in things flying from distant 143 00:12:58.420 --> 00:13:05.780 places just to make a movie. I don't believe that. What I do believe in is fallen 144 00:13:05.780 --> 00:13:12.100 angels and demonic activity. Why? Because the Bible teaches it. You say, well, 145 00:13:12.100 --> 00:13:18.020 what's the correlation? Thank you for asking. The correlation is to deceive. When 146 00:13:18.020 --> 00:13:24.620 you read your Bible, it proves that Pharaoh's magicians could take sticks and turn 147 00:13:24.620 --> 00:13:30.180 them into snakes. It proves that Satan, by the way, can mimic and duplicate and 148 00:13:30.180 --> 00:13:36.420 replicate miracles. The Bible says, Jesus said, in the last days, Satan will be able to 149 00:13:36.420 --> 00:13:46.940 do miracles that are line wonders and deceiving signs. Miraculous, false leading signs 150 00:13:46.940 --> 00:13:52.180 performed by demonic powers. But if you listen, but if you are going to deceive your 151 00:13:52.180 --> 00:13:59.180 enemy, the last thing you do is you do not announce that you are a demonic power. And 152 00:13:59.180 --> 00:14:04.100 I'm just saying, we're just right now. We're being one bit family right now talking about 153 00:14:04.100 --> 00:14:09.980 this issue that is now sweeping the globe in conversation and hosted in Congress and 154 00:14:09.980 --> 00:14:17.340 now deeper congressional and senator, Senate meetings are going to be taking place because 155 00:14:17.340 --> 00:14:22.420 of what has happened and what's happening. Here's the deal. Someone's got to explain 156 00:14:22.420 --> 00:14:28.740 the physics as we know it as to what's going on. And nobody has agreed nor does anybody 157 00:14:28.740 --> 00:14:35.100 say any longer that things are traveling great distances from very foreign places to 158 00:14:35.140 --> 00:14:41.860 come here to show up because we now have the technology both on this planet in our atmosphere 159 00:14:41.860 --> 00:14:50.860 and in space to detect something coming millions of miles away. Did you know that? That's 160 00:14:50.860 --> 00:14:55.260 how we know about asteroids. That's how we know how to send a missile out into space 161 00:14:55.260 --> 00:15:01.580 to deflect an asteroid. So where are these things coming from? Well, the Bible's got 162 00:15:01.580 --> 00:15:13.740 the answer. These things are not traveling on a linear physical type of thinking. These 163 00:15:13.740 --> 00:15:25.460 things enter in the exit. Pilots tell us that it appeared and then it disappeared. Jesus 164 00:15:25.460 --> 00:15:33.300 noticed this. When Jesus was ministering on earth, Satanic powers, demonic powers appeared 165 00:15:33.300 --> 00:15:38.940 and then disappeared. Notice that good angels appeared and disappeared. Did they not? Think 166 00:15:38.940 --> 00:15:45.620 about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. What happened? God sent two angels down to those 167 00:15:45.620 --> 00:15:50.340 cities to destroy them. Do you remember? You read that in your Bible? And those who, the 168 00:15:50.340 --> 00:15:57.900 men who lived in that city, cities it said, wanted to have sex with them because they thought 169 00:15:57.900 --> 00:16:03.780 they were visitors. Not aliens. They had never been with those guys before. So they said 170 00:16:03.780 --> 00:16:08.620 they knocked on lots of door, almost tore the door down and said those two men who came 171 00:16:08.620 --> 00:16:16.540 into your house today give them to us. We want them. And pathetic lots is take my virgin 172 00:16:16.620 --> 00:16:22.380 daughters instead. They didn't want them. They wanted the guys. Sodom and Gomorrah. You 173 00:16:22.380 --> 00:16:29.100 can read about in your Bible. The Bible says that at one point it was so hostile and violent 174 00:16:29.100 --> 00:16:36.660 that the angels stuck out his hand out through the door and blinded those men that were trying 175 00:16:36.660 --> 00:16:44.740 to reach in. That's a case where angels looked just like you and I, but they had come to 176 00:16:44.740 --> 00:16:51.740 rescue lot. I want you to remember that in your thinking. What do we know for sure is 177 00:16:51.740 --> 00:16:56.740 Christians? We know that we're 2000 years from the birth of the church to this moment. We 178 00:16:56.740 --> 00:17:01.580 know from the things that are going on around our world in many ways, including most importantly, 179 00:17:01.580 --> 00:17:06.700 the rebirth of the nation Israel that we're living in the last days. We know that there 180 00:17:06.700 --> 00:17:12.460 are prophetic markers starting to rise. The Soviet Union is no longer the Soviet Union. 181 00:17:12.460 --> 00:17:18.100 It's now Russia. Exactly as the book of Ezekiel said, it would be in the last days. Not the 182 00:17:18.100 --> 00:17:24.260 Soviet Union. It would have to be Russia. Jesus said, watch out when the nations of the 183 00:17:24.260 --> 00:17:29.820 world begin to talk about wars and rumors of wars. Might I add to that Jesus did not have 184 00:17:29.820 --> 00:17:36.020 access to the internet or Google or Alexa? How did Jesus know that at the end one of the 185 00:17:36.020 --> 00:17:42.380 markers would be the constant threat of global war? How did Jesus know that? Because he was 186 00:17:42.380 --> 00:17:51.780 God in skin. What do we know for sure? It's certain Corinthians chapter 2, verse 11, the Bible 187 00:17:51.780 --> 00:17:57.620 says, less Satan should take advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices. You know, 188 00:17:57.620 --> 00:18:03.420 the Bible commands us not to be fooled by Satan's abilities. The Bible tells us that Satan 189 00:18:03.420 --> 00:18:09.900 is like a lion, like a lion roaming around your life. You right here. It doesn't matter what 190 00:18:09.900 --> 00:18:15.460 you believe. If you're hearing my voice right now, Satan tries to approach your life roaming 191 00:18:15.460 --> 00:18:22.900 around like a lion seeking to devour you. What does that look like? I don't know. But listen, 192 00:18:22.900 --> 00:18:26.900 is that how he begins to devour though? Does he take a bite of your marriage? Does he 193 00:18:26.900 --> 00:18:30.980 take a bite of your children? What does that look like? What does he do to get you to curse 194 00:18:30.980 --> 00:18:38.620 God? But the Bible says he is a foot. I don't believe in the Bible. Then he's really got you 195 00:18:38.620 --> 00:18:49.260 dudes because Jesus did. And then there's demonic activity. There's no record in the Bible 196 00:18:49.260 --> 00:18:56.060 where a fallen angel or a holy angel possessed a human being. But there is overwhelming evidence 197 00:18:56.060 --> 00:19:03.300 in the Bible where a demon possessed a human being. Or an animal. What's going on here? What do we 198 00:19:03.300 --> 00:19:08.420 know for sure? We know that God has warned us in advance that in the last days, there's going to be 199 00:19:08.420 --> 00:19:15.100 deception so great that unless you're protected by God's word, you will be fooled. 200 00:19:19.820 --> 00:19:24.820 This Jack Kemp's podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, our listeners 201 00:19:24.820 --> 00:19:31.780 are supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibs.com 202 00:19:31.780 --> 00:19:34.260 to learn more and stay connected.