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They are alive because they have volition - they still have the opportunity to respond to the grace of God.

1. Pain can serve as a motivation, but in some cases pain can make a person a lot worse. 2. Pain, suffering, and adversity either makes us worse or better, but it never leaves us the same.

3. Some believers under disaster are motivated to improve, rebound, and go forward. Others turn very bitter and very sour, and eventually get locked-in to the evil and arrogance of the cosmic system.

They have five months = God always provides grace before judgment. God always provides solutions before the problem.

This has absolutely nothing to do with these days (present time). Our greatest danger from demons is our residence in the cosmic system in reversionism.

Arrogance cannot endure torture. The same humility that provides capacity for life and prosperity also provides the ability to withstand pain in time of adversity.

Those living in the cosmic system do not make decisions from a position of strength, they are making decisions from a position of weakness.

Satan is an evil and an unjust ruler, and he turns his first demon assault army on his own human servants.

The locust demons are described in terms of cavalry - they have mobility and fire power, REV 9:7.

They have a military insignia, their crowns were not gold but like gold = they think they are a victorious army, REV 9:7

Their faces were like men, indicating that demons do appear as men though they have greater intelligence and adaptability.

The significance of crowns like gold is victory; this demon assault army comes out of the abyss shouting victory, but for the demon assault army it is a false victory.

The only combat victory they have is against those members of the human race who during the Tribulation reside in the cosmic system as Satan’s servants.

REV 9:8 - At the time that this was written long hair of a woman meant beauty.

peribolaion = her long hair is a sign she is under authority; a woman using her long hair in different ways to make herself beautiful; used as a veil or a covering.

EZE 28:12 “You had the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.” EZE 28:17 “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;”

There is a relationship between the hair of women in this passage and the concept of beauty related to arrogance.

Beauty + glamour = the arrogance in the Satanic revolt against God.

SOL 4:1 “How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil; Your hair is like a flock of goats That have descended from Mount Gilead.”

PRO 6:25 “Do not desire her beauty in your heart, Nor let her catch you with her eyelids.” PRO 11:22 “As a ring of gold in a pig’s snout, So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.”

PRO 31:30 “Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, But a woman who respects the Lord, she shall be praised.”

Robert R. McLaughlin Bible Ministries

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The Angelic Conflict - Part 1 -

Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Angelic Conflict - Part 1 - 1Ti 5:21 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels Angels observe believers as a result of the angelic conflict. pres/mid/ind - [Diamarturomai] = to solemnly warn, to solemnly charge someone [enopion] = in the presence of God the Father, TLJC, and the elect angels Angels observe members of the Royal Family of God in their failure or success to execute and fulfill the predesigned plan of God. 1Co 4:9 we have become a spectacle [theatron] to to the world, both to angels and to men. Eph 3:10 in order that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. 1Pe 1:12 - the angels desire and long to look into the doctrines Church-age believers learn. 1Pe 1:12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven - things into which angels long to look. Angels observe the attitude of respect a woman has toward her husband as a symbol of her love for him, 1Co 11:3-10. Point 1. - Definition - The angelic conflict is the result of prehistoric creatures being in opposition to God, which began with the fall of Satan and continued until all angelic creatures had made a decision for or against God. It refers to two trials of Satan and the fallen angels, one in prehistoric times, the other during human history. Point 2. - The Existence of Rational Creatures - There are only two categories of rational creatures. The prehistorical category - angels, Psa 8:4-6; Heb 2:6,7; 2Pe 2:11. Psa 8:4-5 What is man, that thou dost take thought of him? And the son of man, that thou dost care for him? Yet thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. Heb 2:7 Thou hast made him for a little while lower than the angels. 2Pe 2:11 Whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord. The first category of rational creatures is the superior category; angels are superior to mankind. Angels were created in eternity past, before the creation of the human race, prehistoric times. Psa 148:2-5 “Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts! Let them praise the name of the Lord, For He commanded and they were created.” The second category of rational creatures is the historical category called human beings, mankind, or man. We have in common with angels the structure of our souls; the two are very similar. Satan is the most brilliant, most attractive, most personable creature who has ever lived. He has the greatest personality that has ever existed in a creature. His real name is Lucifer, the son of the morning, the anointed cherub! Robert R. McLaughlin Bible Ministries All Rights Reserved Robert R. McLaughlin 2001

The Angelic Conflict - Part 1 -

Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Angelic Conflict - Part 2 -

Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The Angelic Conflict - Part 2 - 1Ti 5:21 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality. Elect and fallen angels observe the human race and human history. The angelic conflict is the result of prehistoric creatures being in opposition to God, which began with the fall of Satan and continued until all angelic creatures had made a decision for or against God. It refers to two trials of Satan and the fallen angels, one in prehistoric times, the other during human history. The devil is not interested in getting people to sin. He is vitally interested in getting people to perform human good. 2Co 2:11 in order that no advantage be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes. Satan is actively interested in attacking any believer anywhere who knows Bible doctrine. Immorality is embarrassing to Satan because he is the ruler of this world. As the greatest creature ever created, this world is an insult to his leadership. Human good appeals to approbation lust, to power lust, and to the area of strength of the old sin nature. Government, morals, education, art, commercialism, vast enterprises and organizations, and religious activity are included in the Satan’s plan to deceive the human race. The presence evil in the world is not due to Satan’s intention to have it so but his inability to control the human race. Government, morals, education, art, commercialism, vast enterprises and organizations, and religious activity are included in the Satan’s plan to deceive the human race. God’s plan for the human race is not to clean up the devil’s world; it is to offer salvation to the unbeliever and knowledge of doctrine to the believer. 1Ti 2:4 He desires all men to be saved and to come to the epignosis knowledge of the truth. The devil, through his cosmic control, will give advancing believers a great deal of attention, because they constitute the greatest threat to his cosmic system. Point 2. - The Existence of Rational Creatures - The prehistorical category - angels, Psa 8:4-6; Heb 2:6,7; 2Pe 2:11. The historical category - human beings, mankind, man. Satan is the most brilliant, most attractive, most personable creature who has ever lived. He has the greatest personality that has ever existed in a creature. His real name is Lucifer, the son of the morning, the anointed cherub! He was at that time the highest of all creatures. The cherub at that time was the highest and most superior form of angelic life. Satan was the greatest of the cherubs. Today the seraphim are the highest ranking angels, above the cherubs. Anyone who believes on TLJC actually becomes greater than Adam, who was created perfect, because believers have the very righteousness of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Jo 3:9 “No one who is born of God sins, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” 1Pe 1:23 “for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and abiding word of God.” Rom 7:17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin [the sin nature] which indwells me. Rom 7:20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not wish, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. Adam was created perfect, but after his fall a higher category of humans came into existence, called the children of God. The same is true in the angelic realm. Lucifer, the son of the morning, the anointed cherub, was created perfect and was the highest ranking angel at that time. Just as anyone who follows God will become greater than Adam, so certain angels who followed God were rewarded with a higher rank than Satan! That higher rank is called seraphim, angels with 6 wings. Because of God’s perfect justice, righteousness, and immutability, we are forced to the conclusion - just as members of the human race are rewarded for faithfulness to TLJC, so angels were given rewards for living in something similar to our PPOG. 1Co 15:40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another. 1Co 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for stars differ from stars in glory 1Co 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead God never has and never will coerce or force angelic or human volition to make choices. Robert R. McLaughlin Bible Ministries All Rights Reserved Robert R. McLaughlin 2001