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00:02 I'm John Carter in Moscow.
00:04 In Havana, Cuba. 00:07 Now in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. 00:10 I'm John Carter in Petra. 00:13 Right here in Communist China. 00:16 Reporting from India. 00:18 Hi, I'm John Carter in the Solomon Islands. 00:21 I'm John Carter in Soweto. 00:24 From El Salvador. 00:26 I'm John Carter in Sydney, Australia. 00:29 Today, John Carter will teach us 00:31 "The Origin and End of Evil, 00:34 the Great Controversy between Christ and Satan." 00:39 Hi, friend. 00:41 I'm John Carter. 00:42 Welcome today to the Carter Report. 00:45 I'm so glad that you joined us. 00:47 Our topic today is the origin of evil 00:53 and also the origin of good. 00:56 Almost every person today recognizes 00:59 that there's good and evil in the world, 01:03 especially since 9/11. 01:05 Before 9/11, most philosophers around the world, 01:09 especially those in Europe, 01:11 said there was no such thing as evil. 01:15 But today, most thinking folks believe 01:17 that there's good and, of course, 01:19 there's evil in the world. 01:21 So we're going to talk today 01:23 about the origin of evil and the origin of good. 01:27 We're going to talk about the great controversy 01:30 between two super superhuman personalities. 01:35 One is called Satan or Satan, 01:38 and one is called Christ the Creator. 01:43 In the scriptures, 01:44 there is an ancient story 01:46 that describes the introduction of evil to the human race. 01:49 You got to go back to the book of beginnings, 01:51 that's the book of Genesis. 01:54 I'd like you to get a Bible if you don't mind, please, 01:56 and turn with me to Genesis 3. 01:59 Come with me to Genesis 3. 02:02 This is a very, very old book. 02:05 It's found in the ancient Hebrew Christian scriptures. 02:08 Genesis 3:1, it says this, 02:14 "Now the serpent was more cunning 02:16 than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. 02:21 And he said to the woman, 02:22 "Has God indeed said, 02:25 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" 02:28 This is quite interesting. 02:31 Because the Bible here 02:32 talks about a being who is called the serpent. 02:37 There was this supernatural, superhuman personality, 02:42 and he existed 02:43 before the creation of this world. 02:45 And the Bible tells us 02:47 that right at the beginning of the human race, 02:49 he was there in the world. 02:52 It's interesting, he is called the snake, 02:56 the great rebel, the great Satan, 02:58 or the great Satan, 03:00 who preceded the existence of Planet Earth, 03:03 and the human race. 03:04 So evil presided in a person, a person who was called, 03:09 in the Bible, the serpent. 03:12 If you notice now, verses 2-4, 03:16 "The woman said to the serpent, 03:19 'We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, 03:23 but of the fruit of the tree 03:25 which is in the midst of the garden, 03:27 God has said, 'You shall not eat it, 03:30 nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' '" 03:35 And then if you notice, if you don't mind verses... 03:38 let's see, verses... 03:41 let me see now, verse four. 03:46 "Then the serpent said to the woman, 03:50 'You will not surely die.' " 03:52 That's the biggest lie that was ever told. 03:55 God said, "If you do this, you're going to die." 03:59 But there was this being masquerading as the serpent. 04:03 And he said, 04:04 "I don't care what God said, 04:06 because the truth of the matter is, 04:08 you're not going to die." 04:09 He is the original big liar. 04:14 And then verses 5-6, verses 5-6, 04:20 and the serpent is talking, 04:22 "For God knows that in the day you eat of it, 04:26 your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, 04:31 knowing good and evil." 04:32 In other words, God is the great liar. 04:36 God is the Great Deceiver. 04:38 And so the serpent is unmasked here as the great, 04:42 original liar. 04:45 And then if you come to Genesis 3, 04:47 let me see where it is, 04:48 verses 8-13. 04:51 The Bible tells us that 04:53 Adam and Eve ate the fruit of course, 04:56 and then something strange happened. 04:59 And they could feel it in their bodies, 05:02 a dramatic change, 05:04 because they had rebelled against the Creator God. 05:07 And later on it says, 05:09 "And they heard the sound of the Lord God 05:11 walking in the garden in the cool of the day, 05:14 and Adam and his wife hid themselves 05:16 from the presence of the Lord God 05:18 among the trees of the garden. 05:21 Then the Lord God Yahweh Elohim called to Adam and said to him, 05:25 'Where are you?' 05:27 So he said, 'I heard Your voice in the garden, 05:30 and I was afraid because I was naked, 05:35 and I hid myself.' 05:36 And He said, 'Who told you that you were naked? 05:39 Have you eaten from the tree 05:41 of which I commanded you 05:42 that you shouldn't eat this tree?' 05:46 Then the man said, 05:48 'The woman whom You gave to be with me, 05:51 she gave me of the tree, and I ate.' 05:53 And the Lord God said to the woman, 05:57 'What is this you have done?' 05:59 The woman said, 'The serpent deceived me, 06:02 and I ate.' " 06:04 And so in this amazing story 06:06 that goes back to the very, very beginning of time, 06:09 you have this encounter 06:10 between the originators of the human race, 06:13 Adam and Eve, and this strange, 06:16 mysterious intruder, 06:18 who was called the great liar and the great Satan. 06:23 And the Bible tells us that, 06:25 with this transgression of the law of the Creator, 06:29 darkness came into the world and a sense of nakedness 06:34 and a sense of fear, 06:35 and man has been running from God ever since then. 06:41 And this is why, 06:43 my friend, 06:45 we have death and sin and sorrow in the world. 06:50 And that is why the human race has this sense, 06:53 this foreboding of fear, this existential threat, 06:59 "What's going to happen to me?" 07:01 The Bible says, 07:02 it goes back to the very beginning of time, 07:05 it originated in a superhuman, 07:07 supernatural, dazzling personality, 07:11 who was called in the scriptures the serpent. 07:15 And when you read the scriptures, 07:18 this is the reason 07:20 why God came down in a human body, 07:23 and He is called Jesus Christ. 07:27 Because of the sin 07:29 that Lucifer brought into the world. 07:34 Want to talk about something that's going to interest you. 07:36 It interests lots and lots of people 07:38 and lots of people don't get this, 07:39 don't understand it. 07:41 But you'll get it, you'll understand it. 07:43 We're going to talk about 07:44 the mystery of the fearsome beasts. 07:51 They did exist. 07:52 I've heard people say, 07:53 "No, no, no, it's all bogus. 07:55 Those creatures did not exist." 07:57 I want to tell you, T-Rex was a real creature. 08:03 T-Rex, tyrannosaurus rex, 08:07 the word means king, tyrant lizard. 08:10 He was not a nice sort of guy. 08:12 He was about 40 feet long. He was 12 feet at the hips. 08:17 Now we're talking about hips. 08:20 He weighed between 8 and 15 tons. 08:23 He was very mean, very nasty, and very, very angry. 08:29 He had a very, very big mouth with very big teeth. 08:34 He was the perfect killing machine. 08:37 And these things used to be in the world. 08:40 Thank God we don't have them today. 08:41 But they used to be in the world. 08:43 And the question is, who made T-Rex? 08:47 This is a question for the thinking Christian. 08:51 Because we believe, 08:52 as Christians, that God is love, 08:55 for God so loved the world, God is love, 08:57 then if God is love and if God is the Creator, 09:00 did he make T-Rex? 09:03 It doesn't sound, 09:04 he doesn't sound like something that a loving God would make. 09:07 So who made him? 09:08 There is evil in the world. 09:12 The question that I want to pose 09:14 to my thinking audience today is this, 09:18 was a superhuman personality, 09:23 who was called in the scriptures, 09:26 the serpent, 09:27 this masterful mind, 09:31 is it possible that this masterful mind 09:34 got a toehold in this world 09:38 and he became the manipulator of the genes 09:43 and that God made a beautiful creature 09:45 but Satan made T-Rex. 09:49 This is of course, 09:50 the viewpoint of the famous doctor 09:53 and ethicists from Loma Linda University, 09:56 Dr. Jack Provonsha 09:59 from Loma Linda University. 10:03 I've got a property in Australia, 10:05 as some of you folks know, on the property, 10:08 which is out in the bush and I seldom get there because, 10:11 you know, my program has taken me 10:13 to live here in the United States of America. 10:15 But on my property, 10:18 there's not one but there's quite a few 10:20 Eastern brown snakes, 10:24 the second most deadly snake in the world. 10:28 Did God make the Eastern brown snake? 10:32 If it bites you, 10:34 you better get to a doctor 10:35 and get some anti-poison in your vein 10:39 because it's going to kill you. 10:40 I've seen lots of them out on my property. 10:43 As I said, I don't go there too often. 10:45 So these things sort of come out of the bush. 10:48 Some years ago, 10:50 my son David was coming down from Papua New Guinea, 10:54 and I was going to prepare the room downstairs 10:56 so he'd have a nice place to come. 10:59 So I pattered down the stairs. 11:01 It was dark, nighttime, no shoes on. 11:05 I pattered down the stairs. 11:07 And I was walking over to the room 11:09 where he used to stay. 11:12 I didn't have my glasses on. 11:14 And I didn't have the lights on. 11:15 You say that's a really dumb thing. 11:17 Yes, that's a really, really dumb thing I was doing. 11:20 But sometimes I've done some dumb things. 11:22 And this was my dumbest, one of my dumbest things. 11:25 So I was coming down the stairs. 11:27 Then I walked across the tiles. 11:30 Fortunately, it was winter, and the tiles were cold. 11:33 And snakes don't like cold stuff. 11:36 They sort of become sleepy. 11:39 And as I was walking, I stepped over. 11:42 I thought who dropped that piece of rope there, 11:45 piece of rope, 11:46 and I looked down at the floor. 11:48 It wasn't a piece of rope. 11:50 It was an Eastern brown snake. 11:56 If I had stepped, well, I got rid of him. 11:58 I got him outside. 12:00 But if I had stood on that Eastern brown snake, 12:04 it's quite likely 12:06 I would not be talking to you today. 12:09 The question is that a Christian has to answer 12:11 who made T-Rex? 12:12 Who made the Eastern Brown Snake? 12:15 I would suggest to you that Jesus didn't do this. 12:18 I don't think so. 12:19 I don't think a loving God would do this. 12:22 Have you heard of the box jellyfish? 12:24 I ask my friends today, my audience. 12:26 Have you heard of the box jellyfish? 12:30 North Queensland is very, very beautiful. 12:33 But it's not usually a good idea to go swimming 12:35 just off the coast in North Queensland in summertime 12:39 because, in the waters, there is the box jellyfish. 12:43 He's got these long, long tentacles. 12:46 And they're about 10 feet long. 12:48 Are you listening to me? It's a jellyfish. 12:51 So you wouldn't think it's too smart, would you? 12:53 let me do something about it? 12:56 Tentacles, invisible, 10 feet long. 12:59 It weighs about 4 pounds. 13:01 It swims at 4 miles an hour. 13:03 And it's got 24 eyes. 13:08 24 eyes that are marvelously advanced. 13:12 The question is, who made the box jellyfish? 13:18 Did God? 13:20 Let me talk a moment about another creature 13:22 that's even more deadly than the box jellyfish 13:24 and the Eastern brown snake, 13:27 we're talking now about human beings, 13:30 once made in the image of God. 13:34 What about 9/11? 13:35 Think of the disaster there. 13:37 Before 9/11, many philosophers, 13:39 as I told you just a moment ago, 13:41 they denied that there was such a thing 13:42 as good and evil. 13:44 I talked about things that were, 13:46 you know, more convenient or something else. 13:50 But now every philosopher, 13:51 virtually every philosopher 13:52 since the horrendous attack upon America at 9/11, 13:56 they believe that there is evil in the world. 13:59 And that evil is not caused primarily by the box jellyfish. 14:03 It is caused by human beings 14:07 that are influenced by the serpent. 14:13 Are you listening? 14:14 Let me tell you some stories. 14:17 Let's think about the great tyrants like Stalin, 14:21 Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Pol Pot in Cambodian. 14:27 When we talk about this, 14:29 we're talking about something far more deadly than T-Rex 14:33 because these people put to death 14:35 hundreds and hundreds 14:37 and hundreds of millions of people. 14:41 Hundreds over a period of time, yes. 14:45 The Russians killed about 70 million. 14:49 The atheists there 14:50 who believe that there's no such thing as God, 14:53 and everything was relative. 14:55 And then the Chinese came along with Mao Tse Tung 14:58 and he killed in a short time period of time 40 million... 15:02 So we're over 100 million. 15:05 So he has become... 15:06 The human being is now the greatest, 15:09 the greatest of all predators. 15:13 I got something here 15:14 that you might be interested in. 15:16 Know what this is? 15:19 This is a spike 15:21 from the Trans-Siberian railway line 15:25 along which I have traveled. 15:26 Now they didn't cover it with gold. 15:28 But I got a number of these and I brought back... 15:31 some of these back to America. 15:33 And because I wanted to put it on my desk, 15:36 so I would never, never, never forget 15:39 what happens to the human race 15:40 when man denies the existence of God. 15:44 This is a spike, 15:46 along the Trans-Siberian railway line, 15:50 tens of millions of ordinary people 15:53 like you and me travel to their deaths. 15:57 Why? 15:58 One great philosopher said, 16:00 listen to this, he said, 16:02 "God died in the 19th century 16:05 and man died in the 20th century." 16:08 Another man said, quite aptly, 16:10 this is true, he said, 16:11 "The death of God 16:13 always leads to the death of man." 16:16 And so if there is no creator, there is really no human being. 16:23 And so we see the deaths and the deaths of millions. 16:26 So there is evil in the world, 16:28 and this evil comes from a being. 16:32 I want you to notice the text over here in Matthew 13. 16:35 This is quite an astounding text. 16:38 Matthew 13, dear hearts and gentle people, 16:42 Matthew 13:24-27. 16:46 Now please listen up. I want you to hear this. 16:50 "Another parable he put forth to them saying, 16:55 "The kingdom of heaven is like a man 16:56 who sowed good seed in his field, 16:59 but while men slept, 17:03 his enemy came and sewed tares 17:05 among the wheat and went his way. 17:06 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, 17:09 then the tares also appeared." 17:13 "So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 17:16 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? 17:20 How then does it have tares?' " 17:23 And verse 28, says, 17:25 "He said to them, 'An enemy, '" 17:29 are you listening, 17:30 "'An enemy has done this.' " 17:32 So don't blame the Creator. 17:35 Don't blame Christ. Don't blame God. 17:40 Jesus said, "No, no, no, don't blame the master." 17:43 He said, "An enemy has done this." 17:46 And so there is a fearsome enemy 17:49 at loose on Planet Earth. 17:52 And he is the originator of evil. 17:55 I want you to know this. 17:57 a supernatural being who preceded this planet, 18:01 the enemy of God and man, an enemy has done this. 18:11 But listen to this. 18:12 But there is also good in the world. 18:18 And this good goes back to a source. 18:22 There's good in the world. 18:23 I want you to just think about this for a moment. 18:25 I want you to think. 18:27 You're thinking. Are you listening? 18:29 I want you to think of a baby's smile. 18:35 I want you to think of a mother's love. 18:38 I want you to think 18:40 of the self-sacrificing love of a good person 18:44 my Father Kolbe. 18:47 Father Kolbe was a Roman Catholic priest 18:50 at Auschwitz. 18:51 The Nazis who also derided 18:54 the concept of a loving Creator God 18:56 and who believed in the concept of Germany first 19:00 and becoming a super race... 19:05 they were killing people by the thousands 19:07 and by the millions. 19:09 And there was a man being led away to the slaughter 19:12 and he cried out, 19:13 "My wife and my children... 19:14 Who will take care of my wife and my children?" 19:18 And Father Kolbe, 19:19 who was a Roman Catholic priest said, 19:21 "I will take his place." 19:23 Now the evolutionist has got a problem here 19:26 because this is self-sacrificing love. 19:29 He's not doing it... 19:31 This Roman Catholic priest is not doing it 19:34 with some personal reason 19:36 whereby he's going to be better. 19:38 No, no, no. 19:40 Self-sacrificing love, where does it come from? 19:43 Then they were the born fools in the Russian death camps. 19:47 Now I've been to Russia 49 times. 19:50 I have visited some of these terrible places in Siberia. 19:54 There was a group of Baptist Christians. 19:58 And when the communists were beating up 20:00 and torturing some atheists, 20:02 and that person 20:03 would be compulsively cursing and swearing, 20:08 the Baptist would step up and say, 20:10 beat us instead, beat us instead. 20:13 The communist said, 20:14 "Why should we beat you instead?" 20:16 And they said, 20:18 "Because when you beat up one of your fellow atheists, 20:21 poison and hatred is poured out into the world. 20:25 But when beat treat us, we are going to, 20:27 we're going to praise the name of God, 20:29 even though we are in terrible pain, 20:31 we will praise the name of God." 20:33 And so the communists called them born fools. 20:39 They were God's people. 20:41 And they were reflecting a love 20:43 that is not found naturally in the human heart. 20:47 It comes from the Creator God. 20:50 There's lots of good in the world, 20:52 more good than bad. 20:54 I think when I was in Sydney, 20:55 I left my little bag 20:57 containing my passport and all of my papers. 21:00 And this is a really dumb thing to do. 21:02 I tell you, I've done some dumb things. 21:03 I had my passport. I had my wallet. 21:05 I had my credit cards. I had my cash. 21:08 I was trying to get on the plane. 21:09 Oh, don't have a passport. 21:11 I've lost it. 21:13 I can't even make a phone call. 21:15 I've got everything in that bag. 21:17 I mean, how dumb can you get? 21:21 Just before the plane was due to leaving, 21:23 it was United, 21:25 the attendant at the desk, 21:27 waving her arm 21:28 and I came running over she said, 21:30 a young couple brought you your bag. 21:33 They went through your money. 21:35 They found out that you were flying United. 21:37 They found your ticket. 21:41 I don't know who they are. 21:44 Never met them. 21:45 Can't give them a reward. 21:47 They will get it one day. 21:48 What I'm trying to tell you 21:50 is that there is more good than bad in the world. 21:53 A friend of mine went to Russia, 21:54 a close friend of mine. 21:56 He was sick. He got the flu. 21:58 Never been to Russia before. 22:00 He was not a young man. 22:01 He got so sick he went and lay down on a park bench. 22:05 A Russian came along and took off his overcoat, 22:08 his coat and he covered up my friend. 22:12 Where does it come from? 22:14 This impulse to help others. 22:18 So I say there's more good than evil in the world. 22:21 Look at the beauty of the redwoods. 22:23 How can you look at these beautiful trees? 22:25 Look at the beauty of the redwoods. 22:28 Go to Yosemite. 22:29 No other place like it in the world, Yosemite, 22:32 look at the roses, look at the sunsets, 22:34 look at the waves breaking 22:36 and realize that good originates in a good person 22:39 who created the world. 22:43 So now I asked this question. 22:45 So please think this through 22:47 because we're dealing with issues. 22:48 This is not baby stuff. 22:51 This isn't a baby talk. 22:52 I want you to think about this. 22:54 What is God like? 22:58 Well, the Bible teaches that God is the Creator, 23:01 He's powerful, He's self-existence. 23:03 He has a name in the scriptures. 23:05 And this name is overwhelmingly awesome. 23:09 The name of Almighty God in the Scriptures is Yahweh. 23:14 The self-existent, the Almighty God. 23:19 The person who could speak the universe into existence, 23:22 what a big God. 23:24 And the Bible teaches 23:27 that this self-existent God became a man 23:29 to rescue us from the serpent. 23:32 Believe it or not, it's the truth. 23:35 His name is Jesus, 23:36 totally loving, totally understanding, 23:39 totally good, totally pure. 23:41 When it came to this earth, the self-existent God, 23:44 Yahweh Elohim, 23:46 when this Almighty God became a man on occasions, 23:50 the religious leaders dragged up some poor woman 23:53 they'd caught in the act of adultery. 23:55 They were the adulterers, of course, 23:57 these humbugs and these hypocrites. 24:01 And Jesus protected her, He took her aside. 24:05 He's been taking the side of women ever since. 24:08 And He said, "He who is without sin, 24:10 let him be the first to cast a stone at her." 24:13 So what is this God like? 24:15 This almighty Yahweh Elohim 24:18 who made the universe has a super, super, super enemy 24:24 whose name is the serpent. 24:30 He's a very, very good person. 24:33 He's a very kind person. 24:39 But listen, there is... 24:41 Are you listening to me? 24:43 There is a sinister originator of evil. 24:48 You better believe it, friend. 24:50 You better believe it. 24:52 This is not just talk. 24:55 If you turn to Isaiah 14:12-14, 24:59 this goes back to primordial days, 25:03 back before we were even thought of, 25:06 back before Planet Earth. 25:08 It says, "How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, " 25:12 there's his name. 25:14 "Son of the morning! 25:15 How you were cut down to the ground, 25:17 who weakened the nations. 25:20 For you have said in your heart, "I..." 25:22 He had I trouble. 25:23 "I will ascend into heaven, 25:25 I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, 25:27 I will also sit on the mount of the congregation 25:31 on the farthest side of the north. 25:34 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. 25:38 I will be like the Most High." 25:42 Please listen to this. 25:45 There was a supernatural being next to God. 25:50 But somehow something got inside him 25:54 and he changed from being 25:56 a star to the serpent. 26:01 We're talking today about the origin of evil, 26:04 about the great controversy. 26:08 And we'll be back 26:09 with more information in a moment. 26:25 Hi, friend. 26:26 I'm John Carter overseas, locked up in a hotel, 26:30 outside in the hallway, 26:32 there are police to make sure 26:35 that we don't break this dreadful quarantine 26:38 because of COVID. 26:40 Everything has changed. 26:42 The Carter Report goes on, 26:44 and we continue to preach the gospel around the world. 26:47 By the grace of God, we continue to do evangelism. 26:51 But listen, 26:53 we need your support as never before. 26:55 We desperately need your help 26:58 to continue to preach the gospel in India 27:02 and other countries 27:03 that are desperately needing Christ. 27:06 My friend, please hear this urgent appeal. 27:10 Write to me at the address on the screen. 27:12 We need your help now during this pandemic. 27:16 Christ is coming. 27:18 We need to preach the word. 27:20 Please write to me. 27:21 In Jesus' name, amen. 27:26 You can now find The Carter Report 27:28 anywhere, anytime, 27:31 on any Android or Apple device. 27:34 Use your cell phone, tablet, computer or TV 27:40 to access the many inspirational messages 27:43 from Pastor Carter 24/7. 27:46 For Apple users, go to the App Store. 27:49 For Android users go to Google Play 27:52 and download the free Carter Report app. 27:57 The Carter Report also has an official YouTube 28:01 and Vimeo channel. 28:02 Search for the Carter Report 28:04 and find the topic that speaks to you. 28:06 Roku users simply search for the Carter Report 28:09 and download the app free. 28:12 The same on Amazon Fire. 28:14 For Apple TV, 28:15 visit the App Store and download the app. 28:18 Reach out to the Carter Report 28:20 and experience the hope, faith, 28:23 and love of Jesus Christ. 28:29 For a copy of today's program, 28:31 please contact us at P.O. 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