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Sorcery, Baby Seth, The Sacrifice Of Jesus Christ

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Participants: Steve Wohlberg

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01:01 I'd like to introduce my friend, your friend,
01:04 Pastor Steve Wohlberg.
01:06 Steve come on out.
01:09 Thank you. We're thankful that you were able to come
01:11 on ah... You're kind of a minuteman. Sure.
01:13 Because you came on short notice.
01:15 That's right. It's okay.
01:16 And so you were able to come tonight.
01:18 God has been doing a lot of things in your life,
01:20 and in your ministry, and your books that you've written,
01:23 and placing them in maybe new places that many Christian books
01:28 have not been able to get into. That's right.
01:29 And especially a number for our Adventist authors.
01:33 But God is doing a lot of things.
01:35 I want you to share whatever is on your heart tonight.
01:37 I know that you have some other messages that have been really
01:40 near, and dear, and on your mind also.
01:42 So we just want to thank you once again from the bottom
01:45 of our hearts for our viewers.
01:46 We know that they love you, and they support the message
01:49 that you're preaching, because they tell us about it
01:51 in their letters. And when we go places they say that we
01:54 appreciate... And how many of you will let Steve know that
01:56 you'll continue to pray?
01:57 He's on the front lines, and every hand should go up.
02:00 Because we need to be praying for our people that's on
02:03 the front lines; on the battle fields of the Lord.
02:05 Satan is not happy with Steve Wohlberg.
02:07 Satan would love to see Steve dead.
02:10 That's all there is to it.
02:11 He wants to see you destroyed because the message that you
02:14 have been giving over 3ABN, and around the world,
02:16 is exposing him for who he is.
02:19 And that he's losing ground quickly.
02:21 So we're going to uplift you, ask God for a continued
02:24 protective hedge about you and your ministry, that you can
02:27 continue to herald about the soon coming Savior,
02:31 our Lord Jesus Christ.
02:32 God bless you! Thank you, Danny.
02:38 Well, it is good to be here.
02:41 Good evening everyone. Good evening!
02:44 I guess I am a minuteman.
02:46 And I certainly wasn't expecting this.
02:47 Danny called me yesterday and he said, Can you do it?
02:50 And I said, Well, if you'll fly me up there, I think I can find
02:54 someone to preach in my church tomorrow, and I'll come.
02:57 So the Lord worked it all out and they'd booked my ticket
03:00 before I got off the phone.
03:01 And so here I am, and I'm just thrilled to be here.
03:07 It's a great privilege to be on the air, live, and with you,
03:12 and with other people that are going to be watching this,
03:14 and are watching this around the world.
03:16 Since we are live, I hope you don't if I just say hello
03:18 to a few people, one of whom is my wife.
03:21 My wife Kristin Wohlberg is not able to be here,
03:24 but she's probably watching this right now.
03:26 And honey, I love you.
03:27 It's been twelve hours since we've been apart,
03:28 and I miss you already. Ha ha!
03:31 So I just want to honor my wife.
03:34 And we also have a little baby eight months old,
03:36 and I think he's awake, and she's probably holding him
03:38 right up in front of the screen.
03:40 Hi Seth, baby Seth. It's your Daddy talking to you.
03:42 He is just the love of our lives.
03:45 And I'm going to share a little bit more about him.
03:47 I also want to thank my church at the Templeton Hills Adventist
03:50 Church for allowing me to take some excursions,
03:53 to leave them for some time, and to come here.
03:56 I have a great church there, and we also have a team,
03:59 and we actually have a ministry called The End of Time Insights.
04:02 We have a radio show, and we produce TV programs,
04:05 plus a lot of books.
04:07 And we just do a lot of things.
04:08 And we get a lot of responses from what's on 3ABN a lot.
04:11 And it's just a real joy to us.
04:14 I have a team that I work with.
04:16 Ralph Green is part of that team, Sherry Labbins,
04:19 and Fran, if you're watching, we love you, too.
04:21 She'll probably be shocked to hear her name, Fran McDonald.
04:24 She's a big part of everything we're doing.
04:26 I've got a lot to share with you.
04:29 Danny, as I mentioned, called me yesterday, and he surprised
04:32 me and he said, Come on up.
04:34 You're on the West coast and we're on the West coast.
04:36 And we'd just like you to come up in the pinch and do this.
04:39 And he said, Share what's ever on your heart.
04:40 Tell us what's going on with your ministry.
04:42 Talk about what God is doing.
04:45 And so I thought about all that.
04:46 And I thought, Well, there is a lot going on right now,
04:48 and I certainly have a lot to share.
04:50 So I put together some thoughts, and I'm going to bring them
04:54 together. And we're going to have a Bible study as well.
04:57 So if you have a Bible open your Bible's up to the book of
05:01 Revelation, Revelation 18.
05:04 And the title of my message is very different from probably
05:09 anything you've ever heard; you've probably never heard.
05:11 A lot of the evangelists that are on 3ABN, sometimes we swap
05:13 titles, you know, of our talks.
05:16 But this one nobody has.
05:18 No one's got this title.
05:19 This is going to be completely unique.
05:21 It's called Sorcery, Baby Seth, and the
05:27 Sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
05:29 Have you ever heard that title before? I doubt it.
05:32 And it will all make sense when I'm done putting
05:35 all of this together.
05:36 Sorcery, Baby Seth, and the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
05:40 Revelation 18. We're going to start with verse 1,
05:46 and then we're going to got to verse 23.
05:48 First we're going to talk about sorcery, about witchcraft,
05:51 about Wicca witchcraft, which is a movement in this country,
05:57 and around the world, that is getting bigger, and bigger,
05:59 and bigger all the time.
06:00 I don't know if you've heard of it or not,
06:02 but it's out there big time.
06:04 So let's bow our heads and let's just have a prayer again.
06:06 I know we've already prayed, but I always like to pray before
06:08 we read from the Bible.
06:09 Dear Heavenly Father, thank You that I can be here;
06:13 that we're live on 3ABN.
06:15 People are watching us around the world.
06:17 And we just pray in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son
06:22 that the Holy Spirit will be here, and use me,
06:25 and impress people powerfully with the truth that the Bible,
06:30 and above all with the sacrifice Father, that You were willing
06:34 to make when You gave Your Son to die
06:37 for the sins of the world.
06:38 In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
06:41 Okay, sorcery. If you look at Revelation 18:1;
06:47 many of you know this verse.
06:48 This verse is talking about a move of God in the world'
06:52 a burst of light right before the end.
06:55 Chapter 18, verse 1 says, After these things I saw another angel
07:01 coming down from heaven having what? he had great powers.
07:06 Some Bible's says great authority.
07:08 Power, notice that word power.
07:10 And the earth was lightened with His glory.
07:13 So here's an angel coming down.
07:15 He's got power and there's light.
07:18 And the whole earth is going to be lightened
07:20 with the glory of God; the glory of this angel.
07:24 And I want to be part of that, don't you?
07:26 In my whole... my dream is to be a part of this.
07:29 Now as you read this whole chapter; chapter 18 tells us
07:32 there's a lot of things in this world that need light.
07:36 In fact there's a lot of darkness.
07:37 This whole chapter's talking about Babylon,
07:39 the deceptions of Babylon, the fall of Babylon.
07:41 And if you go down to verse 23, at the very end of this chapter,
07:46 right as Babylon is going down God says, And the light of a
07:51 candle shall shine in you no more at all.
07:57 And the voice of the bridegroom, that's Jesus, and of the bride
08:00 shall be heard no more at all in you for your merchants...
08:04 A lot of money being made.
08:06 ...For your merchants were the great men of the earth,
08:09 for by your... And what's that next word? by your sorceries,
08:15 the King James says and the New King James.
08:16 By your sorceries all the nations were what? deceived.
08:21 Right. And this is a non-fiction prophecy predicting that sorcery
08:27 is going to captivate the world.
08:30 And if you go back to ancient Babylon, sorcery was very much
08:34 a part of Babylon, wasn't it?
08:35 Daniel 2, remember?
08:36 Daniel and all the sorcerers that couldn't interpret
08:39 the king's dream, but Daniel could?
08:41 Sorcery is connected to Babylon, and this verse says that
08:44 the whole world is going to be deceived by
08:47 the sorcery of Babylon.
08:49 If you look at chapter 21, verse 8, Revelation 21:8.
08:53 Here's another passage about sorcery.
08:55 Revelation 21:8 says, The fearful, and the unbelieving,
09:02 and the abominable, and the murderers, and the whoremongers,
09:06 and the... And what kind of people are mentioned here?
09:09 It says the sorcerers, right.
09:11 It's sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their
09:15 part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone,
09:17 which is the second death.
09:19 So sorcerers; this is going to be a big category of people
09:24 at the end of time.
09:25 If you go to chapter 22, the last chapter of the Bible,
09:28 the very last chapter.
09:30 If you look at verse 14 it talks about those who keeps God's
09:34 commandments, and they go into the city.
09:37 Verse 15 says, for without, or on the outside of the city,
09:40 are dogs, it says.
09:41 And then what's the next group mentioned there?
09:44 Sorcerers, okay? What does your Bible say?
09:47 I heard those who practice magic.
09:51 Any of your Bibles say witchcraft?
09:53 Okay. Well, practice magic, sorcery, alright.
09:57 And then if you keep reading it lists other kinds of people:
10:01 whoremongers, murderers, idolaters,
10:03 and whoever loves and makes a lie.
10:05 And these people are outside of the New Jerusalem.
10:08 So chapter 18 talks about the sorcery of Babylon
10:11 deceiving the world.
10:13 Chapter 21 talks about sorcerers going into the lake of fire,
10:16 and chapter 22 talks about sorcery and sorcerers being
10:21 outside of the city of God; outside of the New Jerusalem.
10:24 And so when you put these pieces together it's very clear
10:27 that sorcery is a major player, isn't it in the end times?
10:32 And there's other verses in Revelation that I
10:34 haven't looked up.
10:35 There's quite a few in the Bible about this.
10:39 My little baby, our little baby, is probably still watching us
10:44 right now. I don't think he can understand this,
10:46 but at least he can recognize his father's voice.
10:50 He was born in July of last year, July 22nd.
10:56 He's in his eighth month right now.
10:59 A couple of months before he was born, my wife and I were
11:02 sitting in a lobby of a medical center not far from our house.
11:06 And we were waiting for her appointment with her OB-GYN,
11:10 who was monitoring her pregnancy.
11:13 And as we sat there waiting, you know, twiddling our thumbs,
11:16 and reading a parenting magazine or something,
11:19 waiting for the nurse to call her in,
11:22 the door opened and a woman walked in who was probably
11:26 in her, I don't know, mid-twenties.
11:28 She had long dark hair.
11:30 She was dressed in black, which was a little bit unusual
11:34 for a Spring day in May.
11:36 And she was carrying a book with a full moon on the cover.
11:40 And she sat right in front of us.
11:42 And I tried not to, you know, stare at her.
11:46 I tried not to look too conspicuous, but I just glanced
11:49 at her, and I saw her reading this book with the moon on it;
11:52 full moon. And as I just watched this, you know, the wheels were
11:57 turning in my mind.
11:58 And within a couple of minutes the lady stuck her head through
12:01 the door and said, Kristin Wohlburg,
12:03 it's time for your appointment.
12:04 And so we got up, and as we walked toward the door I
12:08 glanced back at this lady, and I noticed that she was
12:11 wearing a necklace with a five pointed star with a circle
12:16 around it, which is called a pentacle or a pentagram.
12:20 Now I can't say for sure that she was a practicing witch,
12:23 but I can tell you that the signs definitely fit;
12:27 the signs definitely fit.
12:28 I don't know how many of you are aware of this right now,
12:32 but there is a movement growing in this country,
12:35 and around the world, and it's called Wicca Witchcraft.
12:40 How many of you are familiar with this?
12:41 Let me just see some hands.
12:43 Okay, about half of you.
12:45 It is really getting big.
12:48 It really started spiking in the 1990's and into the year 2000.
12:53 There are, I hate to say this, but there are kids,
12:58 even under ten, and there are teens and young adults
13:02 around the country, and around the world, that are visiting
13:05 popular witchcraft websites.
13:08 And there's a lot of them out there.
13:09 More than you would want to know about, or any of them.
13:13 They are buying spell books on the internet fast, rapid-fire.
13:18 They are mixing potions, they're joining covens, and they are
13:21 learning how to practice magic.
13:24 This movement was really...
13:28 It's become so big that in the year 2004, last year,
13:32 it was actually noticed by the media.
13:35 And report after report came out,
13:38 including National Public Radio.
13:40 They did a big story.
13:41 I don't know if any of you heard it.
13:43 It was on the show, All Things Considered,
13:45 which is a big huge radio show.
13:47 It was coast to coast, twenty minutes, and it was called,
13:50 Teens and Wicca, Teens and Wicca, May 2004 talking about
13:54 the growth of witchcraft and how so many kids, that parents don't
13:58 even know it. They're hiding underneath their beds.
14:00 They're hiding little altars, little candles, books.
14:03 And they're learning how to practice magic
14:05 in their bedrooms.
14:06 And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
14:10 The kind of people that are practicing Wicca are not people
14:14 that are on the fringe that you would think, you know,
14:16 people kind of way out there, but they are mainstream people.
14:19 They are doctors, and lawyers, and sales people, mechanics,
14:23 teachers, students, CEO's, secretaries, house wives;
14:29 just about anybody in our society.
14:32 It's just, it's all the way across the board.
14:35 Wicca Witchcraft is now recognized by the United States
14:38 Federal Government as a legitimate religion.
14:40 There is a strong presence in the military.
14:44 My wife has a cousin who now he's actually out of the country
14:49 but he used to be at Fort Hood.
14:51 And there's a strong presence of Wicca there in the military
14:56 right at Fort Hood.
14:58 And it is really big on high school and college campuses.
15:01 I've got a number of books up here that
15:03 I'm just going to reference.
15:04 This one... Now I'm not recommending that you read
15:08 these books, but I have done a lot of research on this,
15:11 because God has led me; He's led me into a lot of different
15:13 areas in my life.
15:14 And in the last year or so He has unexpectedly led
15:18 me into this arena to do research on this.
15:21 I have a new book that just came out called, Hour of the Witch,
15:24 where we talk all about this.
15:25 We have a TV series actually that we produced,
15:27 and it's being edited now, that deals with this.
15:30 This book, Rocking the Goddess, just came out
15:33 just a couple years ago, and it says, Campus Wicca
15:36 for the student practitioner.
15:38 And at the back of this book there's a whole list of
15:41 countries around the world, and universities, and college
15:46 all throughout the United States, coast to coast, that
15:49 have pagan student associations: Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
15:53 Louisiana, Michigan, Massachusetts, California.
15:56 They're all listed here: New York.
15:58 And it lists all these different colleges and universities that
16:01 have pagan student associations where kids are coming together
16:05 and under the umbrella of permission from the faculty,
16:08 are learning about Wicca Witchcraft.
16:11 And this is what this is talking about.
16:13 It says on the back here that Wicca is now one of the fastest
16:16 growing religions in the United States,
16:20 especially among college students.
16:23 So we're talking about something big.
16:25 I remember when I was in high school,
16:27 North Hollywood High School.
16:28 This was, Oh how long ago? 77, that's when I graduated.
16:32 So you can date me now.
16:34 I'm forty-five. Ha ha.
16:38 Forty-five: hair's still getting greyer by the day.
16:42 But anyway, when I was in high school, North Hollywood High.
16:44 I wasn't raised in a Christian home.
16:45 I never went to Academy.
16:47 I remember back in those days, and Elly Valley College
16:50 for two years before I went to La Sierra, that there were a lot
16:54 of things going on on the public campuses.
16:56 There was a lot of drugs, there were gangs, there were...
17:00 All kinds of things were happening.
17:01 But as far as witchcraft, I mean there wasn't any witchcraft
17:04 that I was aware of.
17:05 We never heard that name.
17:07 We never heard the word Wicca.
17:09 None of the friends that I knew, that this just wasn't there.
17:14 But times have completely changed.
17:15 Just last, was it maybe, I think it was two weeks ago,
17:18 I was in Missouri.
17:20 No, it was just last weekend. Boy, time files.
17:23 Last weekend I was in Missouri, and I held, I did a series
17:27 of meetings for the Mid America ASI Conference,
17:30 at a little town called Hollister.
17:32 And there was a girl that was coming to the meeting.
17:35 She was part of a family.
17:36 She was fifteen years old.
17:37 And as we were sitting around the table talking she said
17:40 to me that she has a friend, and she goes to public school.
17:42 And she said one of her friends is really into Wicca.
17:45 And so she's wondering how do I reach this person?
17:48 How do I pray for them? What do I do?
17:51 One of my church members said they saw a
17:53 license plate of a car.
17:54 It drove right by the church on the way to church one morning.
17:56 And it said 100% Wiccan.
17:58 Another group of our church members go to a local prison
18:02 and they minister to people in the prison.
18:03 And one of the ladies told me that there's a license plate
18:06 she always sees there, about Wicca that's there from somebody
18:10 that either works at the prison or goes there.
18:11 And it's there all the time.
18:13 There's a lady that I know that I baptized.
18:18 Her name is Shea.
18:19 She was coming to our meetings.
18:21 We had Bible studies.
18:22 She eventually accepted Jesus into her heart,
18:24 and she was baptized. And she told me later on that she had come
18:25 And she told me later on that she had come out of Wicca,
18:30 or at least that was one of the things that she was into
18:31 in her BC days; in her days before Christ.
18:35 I like to call it my BC days before I became a Christian.
18:38 And once I discovered that I said to her, I said, Hey, Shea,
18:43 We're doing a documentary on this topic.
18:46 We're gathering information for television.
18:48 And could we interview you on this?
18:51 And she said to me, I'll never forget it, she said, Well,
18:54 it's a little bit of a drive for me to get to where you're
18:56 going to be filming.
18:57 And she said, I've got a better idea.
18:58 She said, I've got a friend of mine.
19:00 Her name is Diana, and she is a real witch.
19:03 And she said, You don't want to interview me.
19:05 Why don't you interview her?
19:07 So she e-mailed me her phone number, Diana's phone number.
19:10 She said, Give her a call.
19:11 And how did she say it?
19:12 She said, She's a kick. You'll love her.
19:14 That's what she said.
19:16 She's a kick. You'll love her.
19:17 So I thought okay. Wow!
19:20 I had this phone number.
19:22 I prayed about, and I finally decided to give her a call.
19:24 So I talked to her one afternoon.
19:26 We talked on the phone for an hour.
19:28 And in the course of the conversation we talked
19:31 about a lot of things.
19:32 And I had a chance to share my faith in Jesus with this woman.
19:36 She asked me a lot of questions.
19:37 I told her about the book, The Desire of Ages, and what that
19:40 book had done for me; how Christ had changed my life,
19:43 bringing me out of Hollywood, out of drugs,
19:45 and out of a lot of things.
19:46 And when we were done with the conversation she said to me,
19:49 she said, Steve, I would really like to read that book,
19:51 that Desire of Ages on the life of Jesus Christ.
19:54 And I said, Sure, I'd love to give that to you.
19:57 And I asked her if we could pray together.
19:59 And so I prayed a prayer to a loving God in the name of
20:02 Jesus Christ for this woman who who is practicing
20:06 Wicca witchcraft.
20:08 There's a lot of people out there just like her;
20:10 people that are searching, people that are confused,
20:12 people that are trying to find answers,
20:14 and they are exploring this religion.
20:17 Now why is this happening?
20:19 What's happening in our country?
20:20 Why are so many people getting into this these days?
20:22 I'm going to give you three reasons:
20:24 1. Hollywood. Hollywood, television programs, and movies
20:29 that are glorifying magic.
20:32 2. The internet, the proliferation of the internet,
20:36 and the ease by which people can just type in some witchcraft
20:40 address, and they can go right on a witchcraft website
20:44 and learn all about spells, and potions, and magic.
20:47 3. The proliferation of books that are pouring off the press
20:52 right now, all about witchcraft and magic.
20:54 And a lot of them are for kids.
20:57 As far as television goes, Sabrina the Teenage Witch...
21:00 This is a big series.
21:01 Kids have watched it all around.
21:04 And it's about magic: this woman who has magical powers.
21:08 Another one is Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
21:11 Have you heard of that one?
21:12 It was one of the biggest, hottest shows
21:14 that ever came out.
21:15 A lot of young people watched that show.
21:18 Buffy has a friend in the series.
21:20 Her name is Willow, nicknamed the Willow Witch.
21:22 And there's an internet site that, the official site,
21:25 that talks about her.
21:26 And she's listed in her bio as student and witch.
21:29 And she's become a role model for kids.
21:32 Another series is called the Charmed series;
21:34 if you've ever heard of that.
21:35 One time I was down at my mother's.
21:37 And my mother's not a Christian.
21:38 And she had a big TV there in the living room,
21:39 and the Charmed series was on.
21:41 So I just, you know, kinda glanced at it.
21:44 And I'd done some reading about it.
21:45 It's about three sorceress sisters who practice magic,
21:50 and they fight against evil.
21:52 They're supposedly good witches.
21:54 And they're very; these witches are very sexy,
21:58 and beautiful, and powerful.
22:00 Now when you think of the word witch,
22:03 what do most of you think of?
22:05 You think of, okay, Danny says, you know,
22:07 the big hat, the black hat.
22:08 You probably think of an old hag with a long nose,
22:12 and a wart on the nose.
22:13 You know, that's kind of the view that a lot of Christians
22:17 have of witchcraft.
22:18 Well, I tell you, times have completely changed.
22:20 I've got a book here and it's called
22:23 The Truth About Witchcraft Today.
22:25 If you can see the picture of that girl on there,
22:27 she's a young woman, sexy, professional.
22:29 She's got her suit on.
22:31 And this book is all about witchcraft.
22:33 The witches of today are young, and sexy, and powerful.
22:38 They have a total facelift compared to the way
22:43 they used to be portrayed.
22:44 Another movie called The Craft came out in 1996
22:47 about four witches in high school.
22:49 That was really big.
22:50 Another one is The Witches of Eastwick.
22:53 Cher was in that film.
22:55 Practical magic with Sandra Bullock; that's another one.
22:57 And, of course, above all is the Harry Potter series.
23:01 Harry Potter, these books, there's seven
23:04 books in the series.
23:05 And Warner Brothers has committed to making seven
23:09 moves based on each book.
23:11 So far five books have come out.
23:13 The sixth book is on the horizon.
23:15 It's coming out in July.
23:16 Maybe you saw the NBC Today show.
23:19 They had an unveiling just about a week ago of the cover
23:22 of the next Harry Potter book.
23:24 And I mean they did it with big fanfare.
23:26 And when July 16 comes this coming summer, it's going to be
23:30 national, it's going to be global news.
23:32 There are no series of books that have been published
23:36 that have sold more.
23:37 They sold over 260 million copies.
23:40 Harry Potter, about a young boy who's a sorcerer,
23:45 going to a wizard school called Hogwart School of Witchcraft
23:48 and Wizardry, learning how to develop his magical powers,
23:51 and who fights evil with the flick of a wand.
23:53 That's Harry Potter.
23:54 So far there's five books out.
23:56 I mentioned the next one's coming in July.
23:57 The next movie; there's three movies out.
23:59 The fourth one is coming out in November.
24:01 And there's four more movies on the horizon.
24:03 So this thing is going to be around for a long time.
24:06 And what's happening is a lot of kids are watching
24:08 Harry Potter, and reading his books, and it's very easy
24:11 to take the next step from the fantasy world of Harry,
24:13 to the real world of Wicca witchcraft.
24:15 And I tell you, a lot of kids are doing just that.
24:19 That is exactly what's happening now.
24:20 Then the internet; I mentioned all the websites
24:23 that are out there.
24:24 And then as far as books; I've showed you just a couple
24:26 of these books. I've got three of them up here.
24:29 I'm going to give you a website.
24:32 I'm going to tell you a website where you can go on there
24:35 and you can find hundreds of books about witchcraft,
24:38 and sorcery, and Wicca.
24:40 And you're not going to believe the name of this website.
24:43 You don't have to go to a New Age bookstore in San Francisco.
24:49 All you have to do is go onto the computer and type in
24:53 www. Wal-Mart. com It's all you have to do.
24:58 Wal-Mart. com, and you'll find hundreds of titles that deal...
25:03 Try it! Type in Wicca on Wal-Mart. com
25:07 Type in witch, type in witchcraft.
25:09 You'll see all these books: The Truth About Witchcraft.
25:11 You'll see Rocking the Goddess.
25:13 And you'll see this book called, Teen Witch,
25:16 Wicca for a new generation.
25:18 Here you can see five teenagers on the front.
25:21 This book is written by a lady named Silver Ravenwolf,
25:24 who is a practicing witch.
25:26 This book is for teenagers.
25:28 The first chapter is a chapter written for parents,
25:31 so when the kid comes home with this book,
25:35 and the Mom or the Dad is concerned,
25:37 the child can give this book to the parents and say,
25:39 Read the first chapter.
25:40 And Silver talks to the parents.
25:43 She, this lady, is a mother of four.
25:46 She does not believe in smoking, no drinking.
25:48 She has high moral standards.
25:50 She does not believe in immoral sex.
25:53 And she's a witch.
25:55 She's a best selling author.
25:57 She's been interviewed by the New York Times.
26:00 And she used to be a Baptist.
26:02 And she tells her story in this book; how she left the Christian
26:07 religion and shifted to the craft.
26:12 And her testimony is being duplicated by teenagers
26:18 all over this country right now.
26:21 Now I don't have time to go into the details of what this
26:25 religion is all about.
26:27 It's in the TV series; it's in the book,
26:29 and there's just, there's so much.
26:31 But I can tell you one surprising thing.
26:33 Most people when they think of witches today,
26:36 they think of people that, you know, they go,
26:39 they're real scary, they paint their faces, and some of them
26:42 do, but most of them don't.
26:43 And they drink blood, and they sacrifice animals,
26:46 and things like that.
26:48 Isn't that what most people think?
26:49 And they worship the devil.
26:50 They worship the devil, but guess what?
26:52 I'll tell you, witches, modern Wiccan's don't
26:54 even believe in Satan.
26:55 They don't believe there's a devil at all out there.
26:58 And that's one of the dangers.
27:01 They believe that nature has a lot of energy,
27:04 and they call people to nature.
27:06 They say get out in nature.
27:08 Spend time out there in the country.
27:09 And that's not a bad thing, is it?
27:11 Get out into the country?
27:12 And they offer people power, spiritual power.
27:15 And don't we need spiritual power?
27:17 I mean if I told you about a religion that invites you to
27:19 come to the country to connect with nature;
27:21 how you can find spiritual fulfillment, satisfaction,
27:24 and how you can connect with the power source that will help
27:27 you in your life, and get you out of things that are bad
27:30 and direct you in things that are good,
27:31 wouldn't that sound good?
27:33 Well, guess what, that's what Wicca witchcraft claims to do.
27:36 Exactly that. That's exactly what it's saying.
27:39 They feel that nature has energy, and that they can tap
27:43 into that energy, and then they can channel it
27:46 for good purposes.
27:47 Good purposes, like help you with your homework,
27:49 help you with your love life, help you with your finances,
27:54 all kinds of practical things.
27:56 Modern witchcraft is called white witchcraft.
27:58 Wicca witchcraft is called white magic.
28:00 And Silver Ravenwolf says, I don't want anything to do
28:02 with anything that is dark.
28:03 Nothing that's evil.
28:05 I only want to be involved in things that are positive,
28:08 and wholesome, and healthy, and healing.
28:10 That's what they're saying.
28:11 That's what they're teaching.
28:12 Now open your Bibles to the book of Acts 26, Acts 26.
28:17 And let me share with you something extremely important.
28:22 Where's my little book on this?
28:27 This little book, The Truth About Witchcraft Today,
28:30 has a very significant statement.
28:33 As I mentioned, Wiccan's don't believe in the devil.
28:36 They believe that the universe is full of power,
28:39 and that they can tap into that power and channel it
28:42 for good purposes.
28:44 And this is what it says here.
28:45 This is one of these little books about witchcraft.
28:48 It says, The power at work in folk magic is just that.
28:50 It is power. It is neither positive nor negative.
28:53 It is neither good nor evil.
28:55 It is the intention and the goal of the magician working
28:57 with the power that determines whether it is used for
29:01 helpful or harmful ends.
29:02 So, basically they're saying that power that's
29:05 out there in the universe is a neutral power.
29:08 And if you tap into it, and channel it for good purposes,
29:11 you're a good witch.
29:12 That's what they're saying.
29:14 That's the philosophy.
29:15 Now if you look at your Bible, Acts 26, and if you look at the
29:21 18th verse, the Bible...
29:24 This is a very significant passage.
29:26 According to the Bible there's not just one power out
29:30 there that is neutral.
29:31 How many powers are out there? two powers.
29:36 Acts 26:18. Jesus told Paul that He was sending him out
29:41 into the darkness of the world, He said, to open their eyes
29:46 and to turn them from darkness to light,
29:50 and from the power of who? from the power of Satan to God.
29:58 Right. The power of Satan to God.
30:01 According to the Bible there are two powers out there,
30:05 and these two powers are both personal,
30:09 they're both intelligent.
30:10 One of them is perfectly moral, and holy, and loving, and good.
30:16 And the other one is totally wicked, and malicious,
30:20 and destructive, and deceptive, and subtle.
30:23 And that is the power of the devil.
30:27 And we are in the midst of a power struggle right now,
30:31 aren't we? Between the two powers.
30:34 And I praise the Lord that 3ABN is a major channel
30:38 for the right power in this world.
30:41 Two powers. Now don't we all need power?
30:44 Don't fallen human beings need power?
30:47 We do. We all need power.
30:49 And Wicca is offering people power.
30:51 But the problem is that because Wicca witchcraft doesn't believe
30:56 in the devil, when they tap into power that they think is neutral
31:00 and try to channel that to good purposes, they don't realize
31:04 that they are opening themselves up to being invaded
31:08 by the powers of darkness, the powers of Satan.
31:11 And they have no clue what they're getting into.
31:15 Absolutely no clue.
31:16 There is a real battle going on, a real struggle
31:19 between two powers, and we're in the middle of it.
31:22 And this is another very significant point,
31:24 is that this verse says, Jesus sent Paul, He said, to turn them
31:29 from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God.
31:33 To turn them from darkness to light.
31:36 One of the reasons why Wicca is so appealing to people today
31:39 is because it is offering people power that they don't have
31:44 to give anything up in order to get.
31:50 Now did you catch that?
31:51 The natural human heart going the direction of the world,
31:57 Wicca is saying, We'll give you power, just the way you are,
32:02 spiritual power to lift your life, and do whatever you want
32:05 to do, but you don't need to change.
32:08 You don't need to give up anything.
32:11 This verse tells us that in order for us to get the power
32:15 of God, we need to make a decision to turn away from evil.
32:19 If you go down to verse 20, at the bottom of the verse,
32:22 Paul says that they should repent and turn to God.
32:27 Now it concerns me also that I think sometimes that even in
32:30 church services sometimes, people think that, you know,
32:34 if the music's right, and if the service is right,
32:36 that people can just get the power; they can tap into the
32:39 power without repentance.
32:41 Can't do that. We can't tap into God's power without
32:46 repentance. Now I'm all for good music,
32:48 and I'm all for a good service, but the Bible says we need to
32:52 turn away from darkness, to turn to the light;
32:55 from the power of Satan to God.
32:57 And that is something that witchcraft has no clue.
33:01 Turn to Romans. Turn to the right.
33:03 You're in Acts, just turn a couple pages to the right.
33:05 Turn right and look at chapter 15 verse 13.
33:10 Romans 15:13, Romans 15:13.
33:21 I was reading this verse on the way here;
33:25 just meditating on this.
33:26 It's a wonderful passage.
33:28 Paul said, Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace
33:35 in believing; believing the Bible, believing in God.
33:38 That you may abound in hope through what? through the power.
33:44 The power of who? of the Holy Spirit.
33:49 That's right. There is power available to us.
33:52 There's a power we don't want to be involved in,
33:55 and a power we do need to connect with.
33:58 And God's power is moral and perfect.
34:00 And it is called the power of the Holy Spirit.
34:04 There's a friend of mine said...
34:05 It was Ivor Myers.
34:06 You know Ivor. You interviewed him recently.
34:08 Ivor works with me.
34:09 He's a good friend of mine, and his wife Atonte.
34:11 We've been doing radio programs together.
34:13 And Ivor said there's one thing, well, among other things,
34:16 that Satan cannot do.
34:17 He can give you power, but he cannot give you
34:20 power to do right.
34:22 He can't do that, because he doesn't have that power.
34:25 That power only comes from the Holy Spirit.
34:30 Now, so we know there's two powers in the world.
34:33 We've read that in Acts 26:18.
34:35 We know that God's power is the power of the Holy Spirit.
34:38 Let me just kind of zero in on that a little bit more,
34:41 and unpack that. Romans 1:18, Paul says, I am not ashamed
34:50 of the gospel of Christ for it is what?
34:55 It is the power, right, the power of God for salvation.
34:59 So God has power, but His power is not just, it's not just
35:04 a force. It's a personal force.
35:07 And the power of God is centered in the gospel.
35:11 And the gospel reveals the power of God.
35:17 And this is a very important point.
35:18 That the greatest manifestation of God's power ever witnessed
35:23 in the universe, in the history of the universe,
35:26 is the power of God's love when the Father willingly offered
35:37 His Son as a sacrifice for the sins of the world.
35:44 John 3:16, Let's say it together.
35:48 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten
35:53 Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
35:58 but have everlasting life.
36:01 That's right. So we need power.
36:04 The power of God is in the gospel.
36:07 And the greatest manifestation of that power is the power of
36:11 His love in giving His Son.
36:14 I've really been impressed with that text,
36:17 especially in the light of the things that have happened
36:22 in my life with my wife in the last eight months.
36:27 I don't know how many of you...
36:29 I was at Soquel, California holding a series of meetings
36:33 in the main auditorium at our camp meeting last July.
36:37 And I still remember.
36:38 It was a Wednesday.
36:39 It was July 21. I was preaching in front of the big audience.
36:42 It was being broadcast over the Tri-angel Broadcasting Network,
36:46 over the internet.
36:47 Did any of you see that?
36:48 I don't know. Probably not.
36:50 Well, anyway, I was preaching and my topic was
36:52 The Seven Years of Tribulation.
36:54 That was my title.
36:55 And there was something like the monitor right there.
36:57 There were some monitors in front of me.
36:59 It was in the main auditorium.
37:00 And as I looked at that monitor, right in the middle of my sermon
37:06 on The Seven Years of Tribulation,
37:08 the monitor started flashing.
37:10 And the flashing, it said, Labor now, labor now, labor now!
37:15 Now I had told the crowd, in fact I'd introduced my wife
37:20 to the group, and had her turn to the side, you know,
37:22 so everybody could see how she was doing.
37:24 And I told the crowd, I said, Now Kristin is due August 15.
37:30 But if by chance Seth comes early, baby Seth comes early,
37:34 I'm leaving. Well, when I saw that flash:
37:39 labor now, labor now.
37:40 I looked at that. I stuttered, I stumbled, and I said, Ah, ah,
37:43 Ah, ah, ah, I gotta go.
37:45 So the guys came up, helped me, you know; my laptop,
37:53 and close it down, and rush me to my room,
37:55 and grabbed all my stuff, and threw it in my car,
37:58 and I was on my way.
38:00 I was on my way to the hospital where my wife was.
38:03 Now I knew that she was in the hospital.
38:05 But I didn't know things were happening like that.
38:08 Earlier that morning she had been to her OB-GYN and they had
38:12 noticed, strangely, a slight irregularity in the
38:16 baby's heart rate; just slight.
38:18 And they decided to bring her in the afternoon
38:21 into the hospital, and to monitor her for a couple
38:24 hours; two hours of fetal monitoring.
38:26 And I knew that. But Seth wasn't due for weeks, and this was just
38:31 a routine kind of thing.
38:33 But I was a little bit nervous about it.
38:35 So anyway, when I saw that sign, man, I just,
38:37 I flew back to the hospital.
38:40 And when I got there I found out what happened.
38:41 What happened was when she was hooked up to the monitor,
38:45 the nurse; she was just reading a book.
38:47 She had no idea what was going on.
38:49 And all of a sudden she started having four minute long
38:52 contractions that she didn't even feel.
38:54 And Seth's heart rate went down from 150 beats a minute,
38:58 down to about 90. And it was dangerous.
39:02 I mean the danger zone.
39:03 And the doctors or nurses just rushed in with one of those
39:05 And the doctors, or nurses, just rushed in with one of those
39:06 carts, slapped a mask on Kristin's mouth, and just,
39:12 you know, ushered her out.
39:14 And put all these other tubes on her, and she was terrified.
39:17 She was terrified.
39:19 What is happening?
39:20 Well, they were able to bring his heart rate back up,
39:23 and she stabilized, and Seth stabilized.
39:25 But it was scary because we didn't know how many times has
39:27 this been happening in the last couple of weeks?
39:29 How many times has his heart rate gone down?
39:32 Has that effected the oxygen content to his brain?
39:35 We don't know. We didn't know.
39:37 So they decided, once I got to the hospital,
39:40 and we talked about this.
39:41 They said that the next day they were going to give her a drug,
39:44 and try to induce labor, and hope that Seth would come
39:47 the normal way. Well, the next day they tried to do that,
39:50 and there were still long contractions,
39:53 and his heart rate was fluttering, and the doctors
39:55 finally decided this is it; he's coming out tonight.
39:57 We're just going to do a C section,
39:59 and he's coming out tonight.
40:01 Wow! So I went home, grabbed some more things,
40:05 brought them back to the hospital, and prepared to be
40:08 there for four days.
40:09 And that night was the night.
40:11 She was supposed to go in at 6:30, she finally got in there
40:14 about, or maybe 5:30, got in there at about 6:30.
40:16 7:00 o'clock the doctors brought me in with my little mask on,
40:21 and I was nervous because I didn't know what was
40:25 happening with our baby.
40:26 I've never had a baby before!
40:27 It took me 41 years to get married.
40:30 And it took me almost 5 years to have a baby.
40:33 And this was all new to me, and new to my wife.
40:36 So, anyway, they cut her, and her face was behind a sheet.
40:42 And I went and talked to her, and prayed, and then went around
40:46 the sheet, and I was right there.
40:48 And there were four nurses right behind me in case I fainted.
40:52 I said, I know why you're back there.
40:54 Just in case I don't make it through this!
40:56 And so the next thing that happened was the most amazing.
41:00 They did the incision.
41:01 Dr. Thomas, a wonderful man...
41:03 I looked down and I saw this little head pop out.
41:07 He was facing that direction, and I was on this side.
41:10 And he said, Okay, here he is!
41:13 I'm going to turn his little head around.
41:15 And I looked. And then Dr. Thomas said all of a sudden,
41:19 push! And one of the nurses went poof, and the next thing
41:24 I knew, this little baby came flying out of there
41:29 like a missile from a launch pad.
41:34 And I looked, and he came out and he just, he went, Huh!
41:38 He breathed, Huh, Ah! And he screamed.
41:41 Ha, he screamed. And they grabbed him and they put him
41:44 right down next to me on this little table,
41:47 and he's waving his arms wildly, you know.
41:50 He looked great! I mean he had all ten fingers, and all ten toes.
41:54 He had a nose, eyes, a mouth.
41:55 And I've actually got, I've got 13 pictures of him right here
41:59 in my pocket, and my wife.
42:02 I'll show them to you after the meeting.
42:04 I'm a hooked husband and father.
42:09 Well, anyway, the doctors put him down right next to me.
42:16 And this kid was screaming and crying, and I looked at him,
42:20 and I said, Seth, Seth, it's your Daddy. It's your Daddy.
42:26 As soon as I said that he put his little hand on his mouth,
42:33 he opened his eyes, and he kinda looked around,
42:37 and he immediately stopped crying.
42:39 Total, total, he was still.
42:43 And do you know why he did that?
42:45 Because he heard his father's voice.
42:47 He knew his father's voice.
42:51 Because we'd read him Bible stories,
42:53 and we'd prayed for him, talked to him.
42:55 And I thought, Wow, my baby knows my voice.
42:59 I thought, Father, how I need to know my Father's voice.
43:04 And I have learned so many lessons from Seth's birth,
43:10 I cannot begin to tell you.
43:12 6 lbs. 15 ozs., 20 inches.
43:23 The first sermon I preached in my church after he was born
43:25 was called, Lessons From Baby Seth.
43:27 Ha! A whole series of lessons!
43:29 It's like a conversion experience.
43:34 I've always been leery of having kids.
43:37 I always thought, Too much responsibility.
43:41 I don't think I'm ready for this.
43:42 That's why it took me a long time, you know, to get married,
43:44 and finally have a baby.
43:46 Well, when Seth...
43:47 And I also did not like the idea of changing diapers,
43:49 that's for sure. Did not want to do that.
43:52 And I actually dated some girls before I met Kristin,
43:57 that had one or two children, and I always got cold feet.
44:01 I just wasn't ready for that.
44:02 I'm being real honest with you here.
44:04 But after Seth was born, when he came out, and they cleaned
44:08 him up, and I carried him down the hallway to some friends.
44:12 Ivor Myers was right there with his video
44:14 camera taking pictures.
44:15 And they brought him in this little room.
44:18 And the pediatrician examined him, and he shook my hand,
44:20 and he said, You have a very healthy baby.
44:22 Congratulations! And I was so excited.
44:25 When we finally took him home four days later,
44:30 and I laid him in this little crib there.
44:33 I laid him down and I looked at him.
44:36 I had this intense desire for Jesus to come.
44:42 Now I've wanted Jesus to come for twenty-five years.
44:45 But when I saw Seth, this little baby, I had this longing
44:51 to raise him in heaven.
44:52 And I thought, How much do we really want the Lord to come?
44:55 How much do we really want God to get us out of there?
44:57 How much do we really want to have all of this end?
45:01 All of this pain, and all of this suffering end?
45:03 Another thing that impressed me was the innocence.
45:06 He's so innocent! I just look at his little face,
45:11 and he's got huge eyes.
45:13 I don't know if you know about Brad Thorpe.
45:15 Brad and I were talking not long ago, and I was holding Seth
45:18 down in Semi Valley.
45:19 Brad and I were talking, and Brad looked at...
45:22 We were talking and he looked at Seth and Seth opened his big
45:25 eyes, and he just went, Wow!
45:26 He's got really big eyes.
45:28 You can actually see some pictures of him on my website.
45:31 We have a website, truthleftbehind. com,
45:34 thetruthleftbehind. com.
45:35 Anyway, the innocence of a child.
45:40 And when I looked at that, you know, click.
45:42 I mean lesson, after lesson, after lesson.
45:44 My fathers voice, and the lesson of innocence.
45:47 And I thought to myself, We've lost our innocence!
45:50 We've been corrupted by the world.
45:53 We all have. And the reason why Jesus came was to get us back.
45:59 To restore that which was lost.
46:03 The innocence of a child.
46:09 The biggest lesson I learned, of all the lessons;
46:12 one night, sometimes he doesn't sleep, always at night.
46:19 I guess that's the typical question they ask parents is:
46:22 Is your baby sleeping through the night?
46:24 We always get that.
46:26 Well, sometimes he doesn't quite make it.
46:27 And I remember one time, it was late, and I picked him up
46:30 and he was crying, and I brought him into the living room.
46:32 And I was just carrying him around, you know.
46:33 One o'clock in the morning or something;
46:35 just carrying him around, carrying him around.
46:38 And all of a sudden it just hit me like a bolt, like a bolt.
46:43 God gave His Son to save my son.
46:50 And I thought about that.
46:53 I thought, God sacrificed His Son to save my son.
46:57 And then I thought, Would I sacrifice my son?
47:01 Those of you that are parents, you know, your child.
47:05 Would you sacrifice your child for a lost world?
47:09 most of whom could care less about your son or your daughter?
47:14 Would you do that?
47:16 And I thought about that, and I thought, I don't know if I'd
47:18 be willing to do that.
47:19 And then I thought, you know, that's what our Father did
47:24 in heaven. He sacrificed His Son.
47:32 Sorcery teaches that the power that is out there is neutral.
47:37 That's not true. The power that is out there,
47:42 there's two powers: one is evil, malicious,
47:46 and deadly, and destructive.
47:48 And the other one is perfect, and more loving than you
47:52 can have any idea, any idea.
47:54 And the greatest manifestation of that love is the Father's
47:58 willingness to sacrifice His Son.
48:02 When I was five years old, my appendix erupted.
48:07 I was with my Dad.
48:08 We were down in Coronado with my brother, and my Mom.
48:10 My appendix erupted.
48:12 They rushed me to the hospital.
48:13 It was life or death, because back then medical science
48:16 wasn't as advanced as it is today, and I could have died.
48:18 And I remembered my Dad.
48:20 I still remember. He brought into this room, through the
48:22 double doors, and I was, he was holding me in his arms.
48:24 And this strange man walked through the double doors
48:27 with a mask on, and a robe on.
48:29 And he grabbed me, and he wanted to take me inside this room
48:34 by myself, away from my Dad.
48:36 And I cried, I screamed, and I gripped my Dad's neck as hard
48:42 as I could. And my Dad told me, we're as close to this day
48:46 He said, the hardest thing he's ever had to do was to take my
48:50 little fingers and pry them out, and hand me to this stranger
48:56 to take me through those double doors into the operating room
49:00 so that He could save my life.
49:02 And I didn't understand any of that;
49:04 that I had to be separated from my father, in order for my life
49:12 to be saved. You have a Father in heaven who loves you more
49:18 than you have any idea.
49:20 And He was willing to sacrifice His own Son so you would feel
49:30 that power, the power of His love, and make a choice
49:35 to turn from sin, the bad things, and embrace Him
49:40 so He can put His arms around you, and forgive you,
49:43 cleanse you, make you innocent again, make you new again,
49:47 so He can save you, and bring you to be with Him forever,
49:52 and ever, and ever.
49:53 That is the power of the gospel.
49:55 God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever
50:00 believes in Him should not perish,
50:02 but have ever lasting life.
50:05 That's what Jesus did.
50:09 Now do you understand the title of my message?
50:10 Sorcery, Seth, and the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
50:18 It's all there, it's all there.
50:20 God has led me into this arena.
50:24 In the time that I've got left, let me just share with you
50:27 some very, very exciting things.
50:29 As I mentioned, we've put this together as a television series.
50:32 It's now being edited.
50:34 A lot of information.
50:35 I just kind of shared just the surface of this.
50:38 It's in the book. We have a website.
50:41 Any of you who have internet access go to
50:43 www.hourofthewitch.com, hourofthewitch.com.
50:49 You're going to see an incredible animation,
50:51 And this is what we put together.
50:54 Now let me tell you what's going on.
50:56 I also have a new e-mail address,
50:57 if you want to e-mail me: steve@hourofthewitch.com
51:00 End Time Insights is our ministry.
51:03 We have cooperated with another wonderful ministry
51:06 in Clovis, California called Prophetic Ministries.
51:09 And they have worked with us to actually fund a large
51:14 campaign. We have hired one of the biggest publicists in the
51:20 Christian world for a six month campaign that's already begun.
51:24 He is sending out press releases to major media,
51:28 and major Christian television networks.
51:31 This coming July, July 16, when the next Harry Potter book
51:35 comes out, it's called Harry Potter and the
51:38 It's going to be national news.
51:40 We have a TV series, and a book, and a publicist,
51:44 and the funding. And it's all already come together.
51:46 And it's all in the works to try to get all of this out onto the
51:50 major Christian television networks.
51:53 We're talking about Inspirational Network,
51:55 and there's a whole host of them out there that we've been
51:58 in contact with that are extremely interested
52:02 in airing this series.
52:04 And the whole goal of all of this, the goal, is to open
52:08 people's eyes to shed the light into the darkness of this world,
52:12 and to open people's eyes to the love of the Father,
52:14 and to lead them to His Son Jesus Christ.
52:17 That's what it's all about.
52:18 I've been on over 300 radio shows on different,
52:23 all kinds of different topics.
52:25 And we're just going to get all kinds of, all kinds of...
52:29 It's going to be a battle, I know.
52:31 The American Tract Society; I'm working with them.
52:33 And we're going to write a little tract that's going to,
52:36 for the people like I met last week, people like you.
52:39 If you know people that are into Wicca, you can hand a tract
52:44 to them that will be written specifically for Wiccans,
52:48 designed to show them the love of the Father,
52:52 and the love of His Son Jesus Christ.
52:54 We know that we are involved with a battle of principalities
52:58 and powers. We know that we are in spiritual warfare.
53:01 We have felt it already, and we know it's going to continue.
53:04 But God is bigger than the devil, and God has a plan,
53:09 and a message that's powerful, to lighten the whole
53:12 earth with its glory, lighten the whole earth with its glory.
53:16 And that's why we're here.
53:17 That's why you're here, that's why 3ABN is here in different
53:20 ways to preach God's message as far, and as fast as possible.
53:25 I don't have time to share it right now,
53:27 but inside The Hour of the Witch book, and it should be on the
53:30 website too, there is going to be the testimony of a young
53:34 woman, her name is Pam, and actually Lonnie Melashenko
53:36 is going to baptize her in about ten days from now,
53:40 nine or ten days. She grew up in the church.
53:43 She went off into Wicca.
53:45 She got deeply involved, almost lost her life,
53:49 went through a terrible experience, and finally God
53:54 opened her eyes, reached down into the darkness and got a hold
53:57 of her, and brought her out.
54:00 And we're in touch regularly through e-mail.
54:02 And her testimony is powerful.
54:04 She's been there. She knows what Wicca is about.
54:07 It's not friendly, it's not white magic.
54:09 They say it is, but the devil's in there.
54:12 The devil's in there, and Pam knows it.
54:15 She's been in it and God brought her out of it.
54:17 And we just praise the Lord for people like her,
54:20 and for others that God is delivering from the powers
54:23 of darkness, and bringing them into the light of His Son.
54:27 Our time is almost over, at least for me.
54:30 Let's go back to Revelation, and let me just wind this up.
54:34 Revelation 18. We know that verse 1 says
54:43 the light is going to shine.
54:45 Revelation 18:1 says another angel is going to come down
54:49 from heaven with great power, and the earth is going to be
54:52 lightened with His glory.
54:54 Verse 23, this is God's last call to Babylon.
54:58 And may the Lord open our eyes that we don't get sucked up
55:01 into these things.
55:03 Verse 23 says, And the light of a candle shall shine no more
55:08 at all in Babylon.
55:09 And the voice of the bridegroom, that's Jesus, and of the bride
55:13 shall be heard no more at all in you in Babylon for your
55:17 merchants were the great men of the earth;
55:19 for by your sorceries were all the nations deceived.
55:24 Real sorcery is going to deceive real nations at the end of time,
55:29 and that wave is here right now.
55:32 We're in the final days.
55:34 Aren't we Danny? We're in the final days.
55:37 And in the midst of all of this may God inject His light,
55:41 His power. And the heart of His power again, is His love.
55:47 The love of a Father giving His Son to save the world from sin.
55:52 May God help us, may He use us, and may He help us as we work
55:56 with people that are involved in Wicca.
55:58 Because you know what? Jesus died for witches, too,
56:02 for Wiccans, too. He loves them just like He loves you.
56:06 And may the Lord help us all to share the love of Jesus
56:10 Christ before it's too late.
56:12 Thank you for the chance to be here.


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