Sunset Church of Christ: Confirmation of Prophecy & Judgment on False Teachers

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2. II Peter 1:16-21 Confirmation of Prophecy Private Interpretations?

3. II Peter 2 & Jude Jude 1:17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

4. Jude II Peter 2

5. Jude 4 II Peter 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

6. Jude 6 II Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day

7. Jude 7 II Peter 2:6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh,….

8. Jude 8-9 II Peter 2:10b-11 They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord. Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"

9. Jude 10 II Peter 2:12 But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

10. Jude 11 II Peter 2:15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

11. Jude 12b II Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;

12. Jude 10 II Peter 2:12 But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

13. II Peter 2:1-3: Apostasy Matthew 24:11-12 Acts 20:30 II Thessalonians 2:9-12 I Timothy 4:1-4 II Timothy 3:1-3 I John 2:18-19

14. II Peter 2:4-9: Judgment Judgment on false teachers Balaam & Angels Judgment for those who follow them Ancient world & Sodom Deliverance for the righteous Noah & Lot

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17. Psalm 21:13 Be exalted, O Jehovah, in Your own strength! We will sing and praise Your power.

18. Evilution?

19. Rejecting the Creation The Creation reveals God as Creator Romans 1:16-20 But: Man rejects it in his folly Romans 1:21-28

20. Rejecting the Creation Acts 17:32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, "We will hear you again on this matter."

21. Rejecting the Creation “The Creation is answered” “Obviously our gods did this” “No room for debate”

22. The Modern Gods Pagan gods were nothing Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. 1 Corinthians 8:4

23. The Modern Gods Pagan gods were nothing At the worst, demonic forces Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God…. 1 Corinthians 10:20

24. The Modern Gods Today, evolution has replace Zeus Accepted Theory of Evolution: • All life on Earth is descended from an universal ancestor - Repeated speciation and the divergence of life created all known life

25. The Modern Gods If this is true: It is at best empty It is at worst demonic Can we see this in the nature of evolution?

26. Four Evils of Evolution Conceived in Godlessness Born of wickedness Grown in deceit Matured in Intolerance

27. Conceived to Reject God The foundation of Evolution is Atheism Charles Darwin – Origin of Species 1859 Darwin believed in Materialism: There is NOTHING beyond what is Material Effective Atheism

28. Conceived to Reject God The foundation of Evolution is Atheism (Darwin’s notebooks) include many statements showing that he espoused but feared to expose something he perceived as far more heretical than evolution itself: philosophical materialism - Stephen Jay Gould

29. Conceived to Reject God The foundation of Evolution is Atheism Darwin often used deistic language in his publications, but much in his Notebooks indicates that by this time he had become a ‘materialist’ (more or less = atheist). Ernst Mayr

30. Conceived to Reject God The foundation of Evolution is Atheism CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN …taught us that we can understand life’s history in purely naturalistic terms, without recourse to the supernatural or divine. Niles Eldredge

31. More disquieting still is Professor D. M. S. Watson's defense. "Evolution itself," he wrote, "is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or... can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible." Has it come to that? Does the whole vast structure of modern naturalism depend not on positive evidence but simply on an a priori metaphysical prejudice. Was it devised not to get in facts but to keep out God?  C.S. Lewis

32. At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. ...... The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.“ The Descent of Man. 1871 London: John Murray. Volume. 1. p 201 Born to Promote Racism Why don’t we Read Descent of Man? Darwin called it his “big book” Full title of the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

33. It is very true what you say about the higher races of men, when high enough, replacing & clearing off the lower races. In 500 years how the Anglo-saxon race will have spread& exterminated whole nations; & in consequence how much the Human race, viewed as a unit, will have risen in rank.  Born to Promote Racism Why don’t we Read Descent of Man? Darwin called it his “big book” Full title: The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

34. If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile. . Born to Promote Racism Why don’t we Read Descent of Man? Darwin called it his “big book” Full title: The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

35. If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile. Adolf Hitler.  Born to Promote Racism Why don’t we Read Descent of Man? Darwin called it his “big book” Full title: The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

36. Born to Promote Racism Why don’t we study Darwin’s cousin - Francis Galton, Father of Eugenics - The creed of Eugenics is founded upon the idea of evolution.

37. Born to Promote Racism Why don’t we study Darwin’s cousin - Francis Galton, Father of Eugenics - The chief result of these Inquiries has been to elicit the religious significance of the doctrine of evolution. It suggests an alteration in our mental attitude, and imposes a new moral duty.

38. Spread by Deception Inherit the Wind, 1960 The Foolish schools rejected Evolution Noble teacher arrested

39. Spread by Deception Reality check: “We are looking for a Tennessee teacher who is willing to accept our services in testing this law in the courts.......Our lawyers think a friendly test can be arranged without costing a teacher his or her job. Distinguished counsel have volunteered their services. All we need now is a willing client.” – ACLU Newspaper Ad

40. Spread by Deception The Big Lies of Evolution: - It is believed by everyone - It has been observed in nature/laboratory - The fossil record supports evolution

41. Rules by Intolerance "Scientists should refuse formal debates because they do more harm than good, but scientists still need to counter the creationist message.” Eugenie Scot, New Scientist

42. Rules by Intolerance All real scientists accept evolution How do we know they are real scientists? They accept evolution(summary, BH) Defeating creationism in the courtroom, but not in the classroom," Science, 28 January 2011

43. History Repeats Itself Paul before the Jews Paul on Mars Hill Stephen before the Sanhedren Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. Acts 7:57-58a

44. Romans 1 Evolution is in step with Paul predictions How did pagan cultures culminate? Human Sacrifices How an evolution culture culminates?

45. Conclusions There is NO COMMON GROUND between Christianity and Evolution 2 Corinthians 6:15-16a And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God.

47. Even the Plan of Salvation is Taught By Creation “The seed is the word of God” Luke 8:11 “having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.” Hebrews 10:22