Gross Darkness and the Spirit of Antichrist
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In “Gross Darkness and the Spirit of Antichrist,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about prayer, the Antichrist, faith. Drawing especially from Isaiah 60, Isaiah 9, Colossians 1, 1 Corinthians 4, the teaching emphasizes that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that the message examines biblical descriptions of the final adversary and the deception surrounding his rise.
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Odle focuses on the Antichrist while working through Isaiah 60, Isaiah 9. The message argues that the message examines biblical descriptions of the final adversary and the deception surrounding his rise. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Isaiah 60, Colossians 1. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that the message examines biblical descriptions of the final adversary and the deception surrounding his rise. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Isaiah 60. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that the message examines biblical descriptions of the final adversary and the deception surrounding his rise. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on the Antichrist while working through Isaiah 60, 2 Timothy 3, and Revelation 13. The message examines biblical descriptions of the final adversary and the deception surrounding his rise. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Proverbs 18. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that the message examines biblical descriptions of the final adversary and the deception surrounding his rise. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Romans 1 and John 4:24. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Proverbs 18, Proverbs 16, Romans 7. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that demonic influence must be answered through Christ’s authority and the freedom He provides. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on prayer while working through Revelation 13, Daniel 12. The message argues that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. It connects this with the conviction that the message examines biblical descriptions of the final adversary and the deception surrounding his rise. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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we're going to get to the message this morning i want you to turn you get everybody got your bibles this morning are you ready all right go ahead you can put up the first one this morning i want to speak to you we're going to start a series this morning on the end times on bible prophecy and where we are and it's not always going to be exactly what you think we need to understand that we first of all before we deal with physical things sometimes i think as christians we get a little too focused on the physical world this stuff everything that goes on with god and with the enemy with satan goes on in the spirit realm first okay and you guys need to understand and this is something i was praying in the spirit um the day before yesterday i was really praying i guess it was friday and i was praying in the spirit for a long time and and as i was praying in the spirit i began to see this this vision of i just saw people just people just kind of like that kind of represented i guess the world and i saw this darkness descending upon them and it was like almost like a veil coming down over them like a cloud coming down i could still see them but it would just be like putting on sunglasses and you could just see this darkness settling down in on them and as i saw that the lord spoke to me very clearly the the verse in isaiah that he he had reminded me of a long time ago that god actually gave me back in back in 1989 and said this one is for you always remember this verse but it's isaiah 60 actually 61 through 5 and we're going to get to it a minute but i'm just going to quote this one part of it verse 2 when he said the whole darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the people now i got that right there for a second we're going to talk about that in a minute but i thought that picture illustrated it really well that's a musician uh um you know uh artist in out of england and uh her name's sarah lee there but it says darkness between but this is really a kind of almost a picture of what i saw except more of it coming down from the sky over them but this darkness beginning to come over people and he said in isaiah 60 verse 2 darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the people but the lord will arise upon you and his glory will be seen the darkness that is now descending over the people in the world now and as the last few this last week i've really been studying where we are and there this darkness is settling in now is really the manifestation of the fullness of the manifestation of the spirit of antichrist i want you to turn with me we're going to go first though go to the book of first john because we need to talk about the spirit of antichrist before we ever get to the antichrist and you need to realize that what this spirit is doing to you already some of you don't even know and this is going to help you in your fight in your
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personal battle in spiritual warfare because a lot of you don't even realize that the spirit you've been fighting that you've been dealing with that's been wearing out your minds is the spirit of antichrist all right it is in the world it has always been in the world but this spirit now is gaining strength and the people who are following and preparing for the antichrist are actually praying against you this is what you've got that you've got to get a hold of not only are satanists and witches praying against christians but now there's a whole movement in the world for people that are in the new age or people that are beginning to follow this whole globalism uh and and mentality and this whole the whole new religion that's coming across is pray whatever you want pray the way you want to but they're all focusing on one thing and that is to bring about the one world religion the one world government and to bring in a leader who will lead the world okay and the more i studied this week i want to tell you we i've studied this for 23 years but the lord had me kind of it's like he had me take a break from it and then bring me back to it because there were things that hadn't hadn't come about yet and even some things that had not come about until 1995 that i just re that i just now i'm seeing in the world we are closer than i i could even fathom even even that i thought a year ago okay of where we are but in first john where let's see first john what did i tell you we got i got to get to this first john and this is an important study i want you to go to first john chapter 2. first john chapter 2 and then we're going to look at verse four i mean chapter four but first john two are you there all right first john two go down to verse eighteen and this is what he said here now this is uh john speaking the apostle john in a.d around a little before i guess before 1896 but he says little children it is the last time and as you have heard that antichrist shall come even now are there many antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time now of course the bible the the the the apostle john the apostle peter after jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead they called the rest of that time the last time it's always been called the last time because with god a day is a thousand years a thousand years is one day what they were saying is we have entered into the clock's ticking now human history is not going to go on forever okay but also he was writing this because he knew it would be for those who would actually be living in the last time and he says that we know we're living in the last time because of antichrist and we know antichrist will come but even now many antichrists are in the world now look at chapter four he talks about the antichrist being a spirit in first john four
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and let's let's start with verse one he says beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of god because many false prophets are gone out into the world hereby or this is how we know the spirit of god every spirit that confesses that jesus christ is coming the flesh is of god now let me say this he's talking he's not talking about every person who says jesus christ is coming he says every spirit that confesses jesus christ has come in the flesh and let me clarify this because some people have gotten confused about these verses when you say jesus christ has come in the flesh what you are saying is the doctrine of christ or who the messiah is or who christ is has to be taken from the word of god like isaiah 9 6 tells us that the christ the messiah would be the son he would be the son but it would also be the mighty god the everlasting father the prince of peace you know the christmas verse isaiah 9 6 teaches us that the son who would come the son of god jesus would be the christ the messiah and he would be known as the son but he would also be the mighty god the everlasting father the prince of peace and and and that he would have no beginning or no end that jesus christ is god so to say jesus christ you're saying jesus the messiah who is god not a god but the god has come in the flesh okay this is important to understand because a lot of people think when like say a person's demon possessed and the demons are speaking through them and they get them to say jesus christ it doesn't it doesn't mean you know it doesn't mean that that person can't say it now that spirit if you've got that spirit talking that spirit cannot say that jesus christ is come in the flesh okay but a person can't that's why like if an angel ever appeared to you or any any type of spirit appears to you the way you test it is is say you know confess jesus christ has come in the flesh if it will not do that it is not of god okay this is a test on the spirit but he goes on to say this is how we know the spirit of god every spirit that confesses that jesus christ has come in the flesh is of god every spirit that confesses not that jesus christ has come in the flesh is not of god and this is the spirit of antichrist wherever you have heard that it should come and even now is it already in the world so i wanted you to see where the apostle john said the spirit of antichrist is already in the world well let me tell you if the spirit of antichrist was already in the world at that time how much more do you think that this spirit of antichrist is in the world right now definitely here at the last time this spirit of antichrist is serious about pushing forth and and i'm going to show you what he's doing
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not not not the literal man i believe the man who's going to be the antichrist is on the earth right now i don't believe anybody really knows who he is yet we will soon he will reveal himself but the fact of the matter is his spirit is here and it is strong and it is moving against christians now all over the world and bringing great oppression even now to the minds of christians and these people are meditating and they are praying and they are focusing on destroying christians and will focus their prayers anywhere there is trouble for them anywhere christianity or any christians are getting strong or getting on the truth or telling the truth they begin to focus their attacks now i want you to turn with me we're going to go back now i just wanted to see about the spirit of antichrist that it was mentioned in the bible and i want you to go to isaiah 60 that we read a minute ago i'm going to give you some definitions here and there's good news in the midst of all this uh shroud of darkness that's covering the earth there's good news in it but you need to be aware of it you need to know how to fight it this week i want to tell you i fought it the last couple of weeks and didn't realize what i was fighting and then when i realized that when god showed me how to fight it it lifted off of me and i have felt so much better spiritually emotionally physically i felt better in everywhere and the lord showed me i was being oppressed and attacked by this spirit and christians better wake up because this thing is not going to get weaker it's going to get stronger and let me just say this at the outset i'm going to get to this toward the end but let me just say this the only way you're going to combat the spiritual forces and these spirits of antichrist and everything else that are trying to oppress and destroy you is you're going to have to have a strong spirit man yourself okay this is something the lord showed me if you let your spiritual man your spiritual life get weak you will not stand in these last days this is what i cannot seem to get across to christians and this is why so many have just fallen away and drifted away even from a church that they say has helped them they say our church has helped them i have helped them they feel the presence of god they know i'm preaching the truth but they end up going somewhere else why is that i've seen that in in years past i i know people we had a lady that came to our church back in in montgomery whose daughter was six months pregnant the baby died in her womb the doctor said remove the baby she was freaking out you know in tears everything she went and got a second opinion the other doctor said the baby's dead you need to have the baby you know removed and she was freaking out now the daughter wasn't even a christian her mom went to our church faithfully for about two years she went to our church i told her she came by it was a wednesday night she she the mother came by her house
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