FEAST OF TABERNACLES - 2000

DAY 5

“Satan’s Counterfeit Millennium”

Fred Coulter - October 18, 2000

This is day five of the Feast of Tabernacles.  And I’ve got my old reliable tie on.  I ran through all the different ones I had, and I’m back to old reliable.  Since I haven’t worn it in eight days here now, counting Trumpets, I thought I’d go ahead and wear it today.  Maybe I’ll maybe wear a different tie every day during the Feast.  So just keep the tie watch going. (Laughter)

The name of this sermon is “Satan’s Counterfeit Millennium”.  And there are forces, and there are governments, and people, and organizations, institutions, who are moving the world toward globalization.  And this September, which will be before the Feast of Tabernacles, but after these videos have been made, they are going to have a global summit at the United Nations which is planning for the next millennium.  And I think we are going to be absolutely surprised as to what is happening in this world, and in particularly after having just watched much of the Republican convention, everything they are talking about that they are saying that the American people are accepting and buying into.  You wait and see, it’s going to be according to the UN mandates.  Now we need to understand that there are some great, and there are some awesome things that are going to take place.

Now the United Nation headquarters in New York City, which the ground was donated to the United Nations by the Rockefellers… the Soviet Union at that time, the atheist communist nation, set a huge bronze statue, where there were men with hammers and anvils beating their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.  And even though they were atheists they quoted Isaiah 2, where we already covered that.  And this then brethren, we need to understand, is developing into the organization for the anti-christ.  Now we need to realize that.  And we need to watch this.  And we have been watching, and we have been keeping our eyes on this for a long time.

Now if any of you were with us at the Feast of Tabernacles in 1993 in Gulf Shores, Alabama, you’ll remember that I brought out the whole disarmament plan, which was signed and endorsed by John F. Kennedy, to reduce all of America’s arsenal and all of the arsenals of all the other nations to where then the United Nations army would end up being the biggest army and the strongest army.  And so that’s why we see continuous disarmament.  And eventually it’s going to lead to the conquering of the United States of America, and of Britain.  And there are some prophecies that are very important that are going to take place.  So we’re going to cover some of those, and we’re going to see what they actually have planned.  We are going to see how the United Nations was developed, and how that it can be nothing other than the organization for the anti-christ inspired by Satan the devil, which is going to rule and control this world in a profound way.

Now let’s begin by going to Matthew 24.  Now I did a sermon on this some time ago called “The Two Generations”.  Because there is one section here in Matthew 24 which is very interesting, which kind of gives us a time-line.  And yet it doesn’t.  That’s why I called it the two generations.  The generation during the forming of the Church with the apostles back right after the days of Christ, after He ascended to heaven, and the beginning of the preaching of the gospel.  You have that generation, which many of the things in Matthew 24 were fulfilled.  But not everything.  Now let’s pick it up here, Matthew 24:32.  And this is something for us to learn.  This is something for us to know and really watch and keep our eyes open so that we understand what is happening.

Verse 32, “Now learn a parable of the fig tree…” So we have to learn.  This tells us that we need to be watching, as we will see.  “…When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things…” And that is the key.  All of these things.  Now what you need to do is this:  you need to look at the world as a great stage.  And all the players and all the events have to be there - all these things.  Not just some of them.  Not just part of them, but all these things.  He says, “…know that it [that is the end] is near, even at the doors” (Matt. 24:32-33).  So that means it hasn’t come all the way through the doors yet, but it’s coming.

Verse 34, “Verily I say unto you, this generation…” That is the generation of the end-time.  And we’re going to see what it is that they are doing.  And we’re going to see that it’s bigger and it’s grander, and it’s more absolutely all encompassing than we have ever understood.  And we are going to see that some of the prophecies, as they were understood in the past by the Protestants, by the Seventh Day Adventists, even by the Church of God were misapplied because none of us, none of us...  It doesn’t mean that they were wrong or that they were preaching heresy.  They were probably right for the time in which they were preached in identifying the system, in identifying the religions system and the governmental system.  But no one has understood, and I don’t think anyone could really understand until we come to the end, which we are living in now where we have all these events are world wide or global.  And only when that takes place can we begin to understand.

Now even the apostles themselves thought that Christ was going to return in their day.  And of course the apostles were not wrong, in the sense that they were preaching false doctrine.  God just had not given the understanding.  And that’s very clear when you compare the first writings of the apostle Paul with the last writings that he gave.  The writings of Peter, as reflected through the gospel of Mark, because Mark was with Peter most of the time.  And Peter’s first epistle and then his second epistle.  In his second epistle he says, “I’m writing these things down so you can have them in remembrance.”  And he’s the one who wrote and said, “A day is a thousand year, and a thousand years is a day.”  And so then we’ve made the mistake of picking up on 6000 years, or 7000 years.  Now that still may be a general parameter for us to look to, but what we need to look to is not a time-line.  What we need to look to is an event-line so that we have to see all the players on the stage.  Now, we can trust Christ.  When they’re all on the stage the end is near.

Now there’s another event that’s going to take place.  Let’s look at it.  Let’s drop back over here to verse 23.  We covered this a little before, previously.  I think we did on Trumpets but let’s just rehearse it here.  “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets…”  So you have two kinds.  Now a false christ is anyone who comes along and says, “I’m going to give you the solution to all the problems of the world.  Let’s have all the civil solutions.”  Now we know when we get to Revelation 17 that the woman rides the beast.  So the false christ then is the anti-christ.  Now we can know and understand there are two beasts in Revelation 13, and we’ll get there later.  Both of those are anti-christ.  No question about it.  False christs.

Now notice, “…and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect” (vs. 23-24).  Now this is a warning that Christ gave that we need to be alert.  We need to watch.  We need to understand.  Because the world is going to come to a time where it is going to look so good, so wonderful, so marvelous that it’s going to deceive all but the very elect.  And maybe some of them will be deceived temporarily.

Now let’s come back over here to verse 35.  “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.”  All the prophecies of Christ, all the prophecies in the Bible are going to come true at the set time that God determines, in the way that He has given in His word.  They will all take place.  “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but My Father only” (vs. 35-36).  And in the beginning of the book of Revelation God the Father gave that understanding to Christ, Who then gave it to John, who wrote the book of Revelation.

Another thing to watch for, “But as the days of [Noah] Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (vs. 37-39).  Then He admonishes to watch.

Now let’s understand something very profound here.  We are living in the days of the fulfillment of part of Psalm 2.  Let’s go back there.  We are living in a time were that all of the ungodly men of this world, which includes, and it really doesn’t make one bit of difference what they may profess as a religion, they are all ungodly men.  And these ungodly men, as we are going to see, are led and inspired and motivated by Satan the devil.  And this whole world is going to come under the grips and the power of Satan the devil in such an awesome way that it’s going to be just mind boggling when it occurs.

Psalm 2, “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”  Now what is the vain thing that people are going to imagine?  We’ll see.  We’ll just tell you: it is world government.  That’s a vain thing.  Thinking that man can solve his own problems.  “The kings of the earth set themselves [so it’s the kings], and the rulers take counsel together…”  And isn’t that what we have?  International conferences among the governments and non-government organizations of the United Nations, and different non-government organizations in the world?  They’re taking counsel together.  “…Against the LORD, and against His anointed…” (Psa. 2:1-2).

Now they don’t stand up there and say, “Well, we’re against God.”  No, they say, “We want all human beings to live in a wonderful world.  And we cannot have it as it has been in the past of everyone fighting each other and every religion against each other.  You need to get along, you need to go along, you need a new paradigm.”  Remember you heard that in Worldwide?  “We need a new way of thinking.  We need to think globally.”  Now you watch all the politics are going to be centering around on that.  So if there are any of you out there thinking the Republicans are going to lead us back to a more normal United States of America, they won’t.  And if you think the Democrats will do it, they won’t.  Because none of them are their own bosses.  They’re all working for someone else, and I’ll tell you who that is later on.

So they take counsel together and against His anointed, “…saying, Let us break their bands asunder…”  In other words God has no control on this earth.  This, as we will see, is the great apostasy of 2 Thessalonians 2.  Now there are two things that they are doing.  They are breaking the bands of governance of Christ in an individuals life, and they are breaking the bands of the inheritance that God has given each nation.  And those are being broken down step by step, treaty by treaty, agreement by agreement.  And worldwide trade is one of the major ways in which these things are done.  “…And cast away their cords from us” (vs. 2-3).  In other words we’re going to do it without God.

“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.  Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath [Revelation 16, the wrath of God], and vex them in His sore displeasure.  Yet have I set My king upon My holy hill of Zion” (vs. 4-6).  So Christ is going to come and return, and He is going to be the one Who is going to rule.

Now then verse 7 has to do with the day that Christ was begotten.  And verse 8 has to do with His second return.  Now as we learned last time there’s a little here, there’s a little there, there’s a line here, there’s a line there, precept here, precept there.  So verse 6 is His second coming.  Verse 7 is His first coming.  Verse 8 is His second coming…all the rest.  And here’s what’s going to happen.

“Ask of Me [God the Father says of Christ], and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance [the Kingdom of God over the whole earth], and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.  Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron…” Now you tie that in with Revelation 2:26, that we’re going to rule with a rod of iron.  Now we will rule with love if they’re willing to submit and repent.  But it they won’t we’re going to rule with a rod of iron just like Christ.  “…Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel” (vs. 8-9).

So God gives counsel to the world rulers.  He says, “Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.  Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.  Kiss the Son, lest He be angry…” Now this is the message that’s going to go out once Christ has established the government of God on the earth.  “…And ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little.  Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him” (vs. 10-12).  So we’re the ones that are putting our trust in Him and in God’s word.

Now, let’s understand something concerning Satan the devil.  Some of these things we already know.  Now I think it’s good that we rehearse it.  Because Satan loves nothing better than do-gooders.  People who want to do good for the world, and good for people, and get along, go along and to break down all these barriers.  Oh, he loves that because then he’s got them deceived.  But do-gooders appear good to all people, and look what happens when we have do-gooders take over.  Things go wrong.

Now we know that Satan’s called the god of this world.  We’ll find out why he’s called the god of this world and how that took place.  He’s also called an angel of light.  So he’s not going to come to the world leaders and to the population of the world and say, “I’m going to lead you to the path of total destruction.”  No, he’s going to come and say, “Hey, I’ve got a plan.  And this is a good one.”  Why can’t people get along?  Why can’t people love each other?  When he’s the one who started the problem with all the rebellion against anyway.  I mean it’s amazing when you stop and think about it.

Now, let’s come here to Ephesians 6, and let’s understand, and much more so as we go down the road in the future.  Because we’re not dealing with just people who are well intended but somehow a little misguided.  It’s like the assumption that we unfortunately fell into in the past, which was this:  why there’s no difference between the Jews and us.  All they need is Christ.  Well, that’s like the difference between being in heaven and in the abyss.  Satan is controlling this world.  He is the god of this world.  And we’re going to see that he deceives the world.  And we’re going to see how he deceives this world.

Now Ephesians 6:10, and this is what we’re going to have to come to more, and more, and more, and more.  “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord…” And it’s a time where we have to be strong in the Lord because when things are looking good and peaceful and prosperous that’s when people are deceived the most.  This is when we need to be strong in the Lord.  This is when we need to have our guard up.  Not just when there are difficulties and problems.  “…And in the power of His might.”  Not relying on ourselves, but relying on God and His power.  “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” (Eph. 6:10-11).  Because his grand deception is coming and it’s going to look oh so good.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood [and the Greek means “we wrestle not only against flesh and blood], but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (vs. 12).  Or wicked spirits in high places.  And I suggest you get the book by Gary Kah, and unfortunately I loaned it out.  I have a habit of loaning out books, and I haven’t got it back yet.  One took me 25 years to get back but I finally got it back.  That was one on The Two Babylons.  But I loaned it out again with my name and address in it so hopefully I’ll get it back.  You need to get the one The New World Religion, by Gary Kah.  He’s the same one who wrote the book En Route to Global Occupation.  Now I don’t have any information where to get that but I’ll see if I can get that information for you.  You might check in any bookstore.  You might check with Emissary Publications or Chick Publications.  Both of those might have it.  But you need to have that.  “…Spiritual wickedness in high places.”

Now then, let’s continue on here and see how Satan gets control.  Now Satan gets control, he can’t take it, he cannot seize it, but he gets control because human beings give it to him, and then he gets permission from God, both.  Both are factors.  Now let’s go back here to Genesis 3, and it’s awfully hard to keep from going back to the beginning because after all in the book of Revelation Christ says he’s the beginning and the ending, ok?  So here’s the beginning.

Now in order for Satan to have gone into the Garden of Eden, God had to give him permission.  Now let’s understand something very profound here.  Satan was already Satan the devil when he showed up in the Garden of Eden, so his fall was way before this time.  But let’s notice how he deceives and how it was that Adam and Eve relinquished their choice, gave him permission to come into their lives, and that’s how he became the god of this world.  Now you know what he said here.  He always starts out with a challenging premise.

Verse 1, “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made.  And he said unto the woman, Has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”

Now I’m going to read from Tyndale’s Old Testament here, how he translates this.  I like the way that he translates it.  “…Said unto the woman, Ah sir, that God has said that you shall not eat of all manner of trees in the garden.  And the woman said, The fruit of the trees in the garden we may eat.  But the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, said God, See that you eat it not, and see that you touch it not lest you die.” (Gen. 3:1-3, Tyndale)  Now God gave them instructions.

Let’s understand something, Adam and Eve had a full working language when they were created.  God taught them.  God would not have let Satan the devil into the Garden of Eden until they had well sufficient enough knowledge and understanding so that when they made the choice they could be held responsible.  Because God will not hold anyone responsible if you don’t have the knowledge to make the choice.  They may be beaten with few stripes, as it says in the New Testament, but the one who knows to do his lord’s will and does it not shall be beaten with many.  So that’s a principle that we can apply here.  So Eve knew.  This was some additional instruction from God, “…see that you touch it not lest you die.”

“Then said the serpent to the woman, Tush, you shall not die.  But the Lord does know that when so ever you should eat of it, your eyes should be opened and you should be as god” (vs. 4-5, Tyndale).  And that’s the whole goal of all the religions of the world, that you finally rise to a level that you are god.  Now this means that you will make the decision as to what is right, as to what is wrong, as to what is good, as to what is evil, as to what is righteousness, and as to what is wickedness.  Instead of having God tell you what it is, and you love God and keep His commandments.

Now then, Adam and Eve, as they did in all human beings since then, set out to decide for themselves.  That’s why you find, in particularly with any of the religions of the world that have to do with the Bible - Old Testament and New Testament; one of the very first things they try and find is fault with God.  Now the reason they try and find fault with God is because they want to do their own way.  And this is exactly how Satan appeals to human nature and to human beings.  He finds fault with God and he just did right here.

“Nah…” He didn’t say God is lying.  He says, “Tush, you shall not die.  But God knows that when so ever you eat of it your eyes shall be open. You shall be as god knowing both good and evil.  And the woman saw that it was a good tree to eat of, and lusty to the eyes [or pleasant to the eyes, desirous to the eyes], and a pleasant tree for to make one wise.  And took of the fruit and ate it, and gave unto her husband also with her, and he ate.  And the eyes of both of them were opened that they understood how they were naked.  And they sewed fig leaves together and made them aprons” (vs. 4-7, Tyndale).

And of course God knew what they did when God came in the cool of the evening.  Now God was coming to help them.  God was coming because He would come and talk with them every day at that time.  They had perfect fellowship with God up to that point.  They lived right there in the Garden of Eden.  They could talk with God.  They could see God because God manifest Himself as a human being.  God could do that.  Now there are some people who are still under the assumption that Christ was a created being.

Now again I’m going to say, please come up with an argument or come up with a doctrine that is not 2000 years old.  Now if you don’t understand that please realize this.  We have a whole series of tapes on “Who Is Jesus”.  We have a whole series of tapes on the “Prophecies of Jesus in the Old Testament”.  We have, going through the whole Old Testament showing the nature of Christ.  And you need to understand this, just because the Jews say, “We don’t believe that God can become a human being in the flesh, so therefore God can’t.”  That is an absolutely erroneous statement because nothing is impossible for God.  And after all, aren’t we made in the image of God?  And that’s precisely why God made us in His image, so He could become a human being.  No doubt about it.

Now let’s continue on here.  “And they heard the voice of God as He walked in the garden in the cool of the day.  And Adam hid himself and his wife also from the face of the Lord God…” (vs. 8, Tyndale).  And that’s what people do, they hide themselves from God.  And when you sin and don’t repent, you busy yourself with something else so you can just kind of get it out of your mind.  You don’t want to face up to God, you don’t want to go and repent, you don’t want to go and read His word.  No, you kind of go hide and deceive yourself and think that “Well, maybe in time I can get it straightened out.”  Well listen, you can never get it straightened out unless you repent.  How can you?  Can you forgive your sins?  Can you make your sins right?  No.  So Adam and Eve were in the same situation here.

“And the Lord God called Adam and said unto him, Where are you?  And he answered, I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and therefore hid myself.”  Now let’s understand something.  Perfect love casts out fear.  So he wasn’t loving God, he was sinning against God and therefore fear came in.  “And He said, Who told you you were naked?”  Now we don’t know all that went on after they ate the fruit of the tree.  But there are many indications that there was a whole lot of wrong kind of sex going on.  We can’t prove that absolutely for sure, but there are just indications of it.  “Have you eaten of the tree where I bad you that you should not eat?  And Adam said, The woman…” (vs. 9-12, Tyndale).  See you always want to blame someone else, so here he’s blaming God, just like Satan the devil did. He blamed God and said “Nah, you know God hasn’t told you all the facts.”

“…The woman which you gave to bear me company, she took of the tree and I ate.  And the Lord God said unto the woman, Now wherefore did you do so?  And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate” (vs. 12-13, Tyndale).  And then you know the rest of the story.  The curse upon Satan, the curse upon human beings, the execution of the death penalty put right within us, because in the day that you shall eat thereof you shall surely die.  Now some people think that because God did not execute His death penalty against them that day that God did not tell them the truth when He warned them.  Well the Hebrew there is: in dying you shall die. With no set specific time in which you should die.  But did Adam die?  Yes, 930 years later he died.  But he’s dead.

Now we know the society that developed through the line of Cain and as a result of all the sins human beings, and then it got to the point that the world was so corrupt and so filled with wickedness and violence and hatred, and that’s where this world is headed today because remember that Christ said as it was n the days of Noah.  Yet with all of the evil that is going on there is sort of a veneer of normality.  And part of that comes from having our hearts callused to things that are evil and we accept things that are wrong and evil and hateful because they’re just there.  And so our conscience and our emotions get callused.  And that’s what happened during the days of Noah.  That’s why they were still marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the Ark.  Well you know God destroyed the earth, and He flooded it.

Now let’s come to chapter 11 and let’s see what happens right after the flood not many generations after that.  Now let’s pick it up here in verse 1, because this is important.  I want to show you an ad here in just a minute out of this magazine, New American.  If you want to get it you can, I’ll look in here and tell you how to get it.  But this is one here… “Building a Global Gulag”.  Showing what the United Nations is going to do.  And this is quite a series of articles.  I’m going to read some of this out of it.  But there is an ad in here that I think is really something.  Not an ad… let me show it to you.  Now let’s see if we can get a zoom in on this.  Now this is a picture showing an artist conception of the Tower of Babel.  And many of the large corporations in the world, and even IBM has an advertisement showing something similar to this and they say, “What they were not able to finish we will finish.”

Now let me read what this says.  “Rebuilding the Tower of Babel is the vision of the European Union architects, if we take seriously this Counsel of Europe poster…”, which was the first one with the stars on top.  And notice they were all upside down Satanic stars too.  “…They apparently failed to learn the lesson of the Biblical account of the Tower of Babel portrayed in the portrait by the 16^th century Flemish artist, Bruegel.”  Now I’ll come back to this a little later.

Now let’s look at the account in Genesis 11 here now.  “And all the world was of one tongue and language.”  Now we are of that again in two ways.  One, English is the spoken language of the world.  Two, computer language.  We are of one language.  And then consider the worldwide net.  “And as they came from the east they found a plain in Shinar and there they dwelt, and said to one another, Come on, let us build brick and burn them with fire.  So brick was their stone.  Slime was their mortar…” Now this is thick asphalt, because there in the area of what Shinar was is the area of Iraq and Kuwait, and so forth today.  And the oil just oozed out of the ground.  So that’s what they used.  “And they said, Come now, let us build us a city and a tower that the top may reach unto heaven and let us make a name.  For peradventure we will be scattered abroad over all the earth” (Gen. 11:1-4, Tyndale).

Now Josephus fills in.  Now he adds to this showing that all the peoples there knew that they were going to go to their different inheritances that God had given them around the world.  And they didn’t want to do it.  And we know from Genesis 10 that they had Nimrod as their leader, who was the world tyrant at that time, who was an anti-christ in place of God.  So they didn’t want to do it.

Now let’s see what God did and let’s see what happened because that’s very important for us today.  “And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam had builded.  And the Lord said, See the people is one and have one tongue among them…”  Now this is exactly what they’re trying to do to all the people of the world today.  To make them of one thought, of one mind, of one culture, of one government, of one attitude, etc.  That’s what’s happening.  That’s what they had then.  “…And this they have begun to do and will not leave off from all that they have proposed to do” (vs. 5-6, Tyndale).  Now the King James translates this, “…and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”

And so then God came down, “…scattered them from there over all the earth, and they left off to build the city, wherefore the name of it is called Babel because there the Lord confounded the tongue of all the world, and because that the Lord from there scattered them abroad upon all the earth” (vs. 8-9, Tyndale)

Now those are some very important things which give us understanding of what we need to watch for today and the things that we need to be alert to because they’re going to happen.  And we’ll see how they are doing this.  And just understand all this reform that they are doing today in education is to rear an occult society.  That’s why all of these things are taught beginning in the smallest grade level.  Now we’ve never had that before.  But this is the generation that it’s talking about in Matthew 24, where they’re teaching spiritism and witchcraft, and all of those things which are not right, and to be able to have a moldable generation of people.  Because you see, they think with the evolution of man that man has now reached a point where he can be transformed.  His whole modus operandi now is going to improve.  And man can finally come to the transformation of transcending all of the things that human beings have been held down to before and we will have a new civilization, a new government.  We will have world government.  We’ll have world trade.  We’ll have all of these things and for all people.

And they are planning it, and it’s way down the road this is going to happen.  They look at the even of the Tower of Babel this way: God, if there is a God, turned back our progress.  Now how could God do that?  What a terrible and miserable thing for God to do that.  Let us take ourself, let us cut off all the bands of the old religion, let’s make the old religions all new.  Let’s get along, let’s go along, let’s make all the governments in the world so they will not be able then to fight against each other.  That we will have a super-international government, which will control all nations so there won’t be any more war.  We’ll educate the little children, bring them along so they’ll learn to get along in diverse society.  And all of this is going to make us all at one, with one government, one language, one globe, one everything, one education, everything together.  And so this is what they are going to do and we’ll see that in just a little bit.  But this is really profound what is taking place.

So you see, human beings must give Satan permission and turn it over to him and his demons, and then Satan also gets permission from God to go the next step, just like they did here in Genesis 11.