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James Kaddis: It's so evil what the enemy is doing here. So incredibly evil. The enemy is going out of his way to make Jesus look like a complete cuckoo. So that anybody who even lays claim believing or into believing that he is legitimate will actually look crazy to the crowd. And we talked about this last week. The crowd is wrong. And the crowd is so wrong that they're accidentally We know that this is the case. You don't find strength in numbers when the numbers choose to believe the lie.

Guest (Male): Welcome again to Light on the Hill with Pastor James Kaddis. Get ready for some amazing prophecy and its fulfillment as we turn to Mark chapter 15. We were told this would happen thousands of years before it did. And when it did, everything changed. There is nothing in existence past or present that will ever be more significant than this. Here's exactly what you need to know.

James Kaddis: Okay, so um per the text here, we are in the middle of the crucifixion process and we've been talking about this. Christ, of course, is hanging on the cross now. We talked about the significance of the inscription that was above his head. Uh literally what was um consequential with respect to the irony that was associated with that because if you remember, we talked about the fact that the inscription that was over his head was the very tool that the Romans used to describe the crime that had been committed. So when somebody was being executed, they would put the name or describe the crime that would be committed above their heads.

And of course, it was a deterrent. And of course, Rome was very good at building and developing deterrents like this that put the fear of God in people's minds. I'm using the fear of God a little loosely here. Let me let me rephrase that to put the fear of Rome uh in many minds and this was done uh quite often. As a matter of fact, there was a rebellion that we read about in Roman history by which the Romans actually chose to take the wives of those that were involved in the insurrection and they only picked the pregnant women and they crucified those women on the cross.

And as a matter of fact, they had put something like several hundred women across one of the main Roman roads and they were hanging on those crosses for as many as some of them for as long as 20 days. And there were Roman soldiers who were posted in between each of those crosses and they were actually uh uh basically declaring as people would walk down the road, this is what happened when you defy Rome. So this is something that happened a lot. Rome was uh very very uh serious about these types of deterrents. They were very serious about it and it was ugly.

I mean, it was crucifixion was a painful, torturous way to die. It was absolutely terrible. So that's where we leave off. Christ is hanging on the cross just as it was prophetically said. Um we also know that in the moment that this is all happening, uh there's a lot of other things taking place, right? This is a there's a massive spiritual battle that's taking place in the midst of all of this. Now, I've said this before. I'll say it again because it's worth reiterating and I will reiterate it multiple times more as we go through Mark and even as we jump into Luke.

But understand that I believe right now we are in the most consequential time of spiritual warfare we have ever seen in human history outside of two very specific points in man's history. The first, of course, is when man fell in the garden and the second is the the time that I'm reading about right here in the book of Mark. So um the crucifixion and of course, when man fell or chose to rebel against God in the garden. I got to get away from the term fell. I have to use the term actually rebelled because it's not like you you know you have fallen away from your first love.

You've walked away from your first love. It's a consequential action that you've chosen to give yourself to. And that's kind of important. We've got to understand terminology because these words matter. So with that said, this is where we leave off. Now, again, this is very very important because when we start getting into uh you know the timing of all of this and everything that's actually going on, um this begins to make sense because now we're sort of mid afternoon here where Christ has been hanging on the cross now for quite some time and some of your translations might give a different time than what I have.

Uh let's jump in and we'll uh we'll dig right in. So it says this. It says, and when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, okay? So um uh it it just keep this in mind, all right? When when all of this happened, it probably happened around earlier morning uh or mid morning, I would say. Christ is um now been on the cross for quite some time. He's now it's now around noon that he's been on the cross and there is a time of darkness over the skies and everything that's happening until around 3:00 p.m.

And that's kind of where we pick up on this story. So kind of an interesting thing here. The timing of this is very very relevant by the way, but it's a it's a discussion that we'll pick up on when we get to um in a few weeks from now. So it's dark right now. Look at this in verse 34. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice saying which is being interpreted, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Now, this is very important. I want everybody to understand this. It is at this moment which by the way is a very critical moment.

It is at this moment that I can promise you shock waves would have ran through the very bones of anybody who was studying the word within the religious uh group here, okay? So any of the Pharisees would have understood exactly what was going on. Any of the understudies under any of the rabbis that were on you know constantly in the Old Testament, they would have easily identified what was happening here. They would have easily made the connection. They would have known that Jesus in saying this is genuinely, sincerely saying this in one respect, but in the other respect, what he's doing is he is actually quoting Psalm 22, okay?

And that 's very important because when they would have heard that being quoted immediately in you know outside of Jerusalem with the circumstances as they were, I guarantee you it would have shaken them up quite a bit because they would have made the association. Now, I promise you that even though they knew what was actually going on and I know that they knew it was going on, I promise you even though they knew what was going on, it was yet another moment where after experiencing the initial shock of what was taking place, they actually chose to harden their hearts.

And by the way, we know for a fact that these guys knew what was happening prophetically. We know because there were much more complicated Bible prophecies that were taking place in the moment that Jesus was ministering prior to this time and Jesus condemned them for not acting on what they knew was relevant to in the Scriptures to be able to understand what was going on. Palm Sunday was literally predicted right down to the day and we know exactly what was going on. We we we see the picture being given to us. Daniel predicted it and he even said from the day that the declaration is made to restore and rebuild the city of Jerusalem starts the time clock.

We know when Artaxerxes Longimanus made the declaration on March 14, 444 B.C., he makes a declaration to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. You read about that in Nehemiah chapter two and literally based on Daniel's prophecy, you have 173,880 days. You count it down and that literally brings you to March 29th, 33 A.D. Literally the day that Jesus Christ rides the donkey into the city and people are yelling and shouting Hosanna Hosanna and all of these things are happening. And again, the uh uh the religious leaders are rebuked because they refused to acknowledge what they knew was true.

They refused to acknowledge what they knew was true. By the way, that very same spirit of Antichrist that existed in that moment is something that is prevalent in ways so unique and so remarkable during this time in human history that we have never seen anything like it before. We just haven't. The level of deception that exists right now not only in the social media world, but just in general is just absolutely amazing. It is unbelievable how much so many obvious and blatant facts are just being ignored. And it's happening a lot. And so there's a lot of warfare tied to this, but we haven't seen anything yet based on what we're reading here.

Again, this is a fulfillment of Psalm 22. They would have known it. Look at this in verse 35. And some of them that stood by when they heard it said, behold, he calleth Elias, which I think it's really funny how they would make the connection that he's actually calling Elijah. Um I can understand why maybe they might say that. I actually think they're mocking him when they're saying that, right? I think they're actually uh taking a portion of the phrase that he would have said in Aramaic and they would have associated with something which again we could spend a lot of time talking about this.

They associated with something that the prophet Elijah would have been understood to have done. And again, it's interesting because there's a there's sort of a play almost like an ironic mockery that's going on because Elijah himself was one who often times complained to the Lord about the fact that he was indeed the only one going through the things and that he was forsaken not being able to completely read through or understand the whole circumstance. Of course, God rebuking him and putting him in his place, but it's interesting that they would invoke the use of the word uh or the name Elijah understanding the fact that they also knew based on the very last words of the very last set of prophecies that came from the last prophet to speak that there would be somebody who would come in the spirit and in the name of Elijah, right?

And so it's interesting that you see not only the fulfillment that we saw being given to that with John uh the Baptist, but yet Christ being the one in whom that fulfillment takes place. And so the idea of them talking about him calling up for Elijah was something that was a bit of mockery and you would not be able to really detect that or understand it unless you actually understood the language, right? Because if he's saying meaning he is crying out, my God, Elohi is the is the phrase that we'd be used. Elijah would have sounded very similar to that, right?

And and that's something that uh is what they may have uh said very clearly in that Aramaic uh tongue, but this is what they're doing. There's a play. There's open mockery going on. And what's really sad, what's really scary is the average person that does not have a tuned ear or tuned awareness to the biblical precedent or spiritual things would not listen to what they are saying and think anything of it. They go, oh yeah, he must be drunk. You know, he's calling out for the prophet Elijah. But the trained ear, the one who understands what's happening not only language wise, but would also understand what's going on very uh scripturally, they would have recognized the subtle mockery that was happening.

They would have seen it. So this is the religious people who are supposed to be the leaders who are hearing this and seeing this and they are mocking it because they fully understand actually what's going on, but do not want to be held at bay with the motion of the popular or the populist movement of the time. And I think we deal with the same thing. Those of us that teach Bible prophecy, we deal with the exact same thing. We're being called cuckoo. We're being called crazy. We're actually uh being put in one big category which I think is just absolutely insane, right?

And the modern day Satan worshippers of our time who are trying to characterize what our views are concerning these things are doing the same thing that Satan used other people to do even back in those times. And it's just it's absolutely terrible. The same tactic is being done here by the enemy when they are mocking Jesus. When Jesus is saying he's quoting Psalm 22, yet the ones that know better, the ones that understand are actually taking advantage of the play and words that exist with the name Elijah and they're actually saying that he's cuckoo. He must be drunk.

He's calling out for Elijah. He's going nuts. This is how the enemy works. And guys, I'm telling you when I say that the warfare right now is higher than it's ever been in any other time in human history, it's this type of manipulation that I am talking about right here. It's this type of serious stuff that I'm talking about. We are seeing it happening on a much larger scale today and it is absolutely unbelievable. And look, you're going to be able to see this come together. This is one of those things, guys, after I explain it to you that once you see it, you'll never be able to unsee it.

Right? It's just it's just right there. So look what happens. So they say, behold, he calleth Elias, meaning Elijah, right? And look what it says. And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink saying, let alone, let us see whether uh Elijah will come to take him down. So it's it's just completely insane what they're actually doing here, right? They're mocking him deeper. They're offering him uh basically what would have been uh a lighter version of the narcotic that was offered to him earlier.

And they're in essence basically saying he's a drunk. Let's uh let's just basically let him move on with this and we'll see if Elijah will come down and save him. So they're they're mocking him. They're literally going to the point where they're trying to discredit him because think about this, guys. The the enemy is so good at what he does. What does Jesus say? Jesus says, They do not want the enemy does not want the crowd to make an association with Psalm 22. He has no desire for the crowd to understand what Jesus is actually doing here because the very moment they make the association with Psalm 22 becomes the very moment they understand the intense validity that's being expressed by the motion that Jesus is executing at the moment.

And they begin to realize what we're looking at is the real deal. They're beginning to see it. The enemy does not want that to happen. The enemy is trying to take that away. By the way, see this happening again and again and again and again and again. And guys, it it is so bad how it is right now. You know, we talk about the whole idea of history being rewritten. It blows my mind how good the devil is at bringing people into play that is actually being used by him to rewrite history to get people that uh that he is trying to deceive to completely take their eyes off of everything that God has given them so that they may walk in complete loss in a complete deficit.

That's what's going on here. They're mocking him. They're trying to distract the real issue and it is super super evil. Look at this in verse 37. And Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost. So he yells and he dies. That's a very important thing for everybody to understand. This is a man who is tortured. This is one who is suffering. This is one who is going through extreme pain not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. He's gone through a lot. It it's so funny what the enemy is doing here. It it's not even funny.

Funny is a terrible word to use. It's so evil what the enemy is doing here. So incredibly evil. The enemy is going out of his way to make Jesus look like a complete cuckoo. So that anybody who even lays claim believing or into believing that he is legitimate will actually look crazy to the crowd. And we talked about this last week. The crowd is wrong. And the crowd is so wrong that they're accidentally We know that this is the case. You don't find strength in numbers when the numbers choose to believe the lie. Now, here's the thing that's interesting.

The Bible says that he dies. And when that happens, some pretty remarkable things take place immediately after that. But but let's talk about what happens leading into that moment. What was it that the enemy was trying to distract everybody from? Well, the first thing he was trying to distract them from was the fact that he was on the cross standing in the fulfillment of Isaiah 52 53, the fulfillment of what we read about in in Psalm 22 and many other places. Okay? But here's the thing that's even more interesting than that. He was trying to distract the people from being able to understand that God for the first time during their existence had given them a tool by which they would be able to make contact with him so that they might experience the fullness of everything that God would have from them from the very beginning.

Think about this, you guys. The generation that would have been watching Jesus be crucified was also the same generation. Think this through. Was also the same generation that had to do a series of ceremonial elements in order to come close to experiencing God and an overwhelming majority of the crowd that Jesus was ministering to weren't even able to do that. Well, James, what do you mean they weren't able to do that? Didn't they all have the right to go to the temple and do that? Absolutely. But the problem was the money changers. The problem was the people who were making an insane living.

They were lying doing it. They were cheating. They were stealing. They were making an insane living. And so we know this for a fact it's historically substantiated. There were a ton of people that were not able to make contact with the true living God using the temple that he created for that purpose. Jesus even told us this was going on. When Jesus went in there and he turned over the tables, he said, this is what my house is to be used for and you've turned it into a den of thieves. So people had lost direct access direct access to God.

And Jesus came to tell them, I am going to be the person that will give you the access that you've never been able to have. That's what he's telling them. When he's dying on the cross, if people were in tune to all of this, if the spiritual leaders were teaching it and they were aware, they would have been overwhelmed because they were watching history happening and they would have known exactly what was going on. Instead, what they were doing was they were losing all hope in the moment that he was being crucified completely.

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Now, let's get back to our Bible study as Pastor James makes an interesting connection. Forgive me for drawing a parallel, but I think it's an important one to draw because we've never seen anything like this in human history outside of the time of Christ. I want you guys to see this in a way that you will never be able to unsee it. But I want you to understand that right now as we sit, history is being rewritten. I beat up all the time on the young generation. I talk about all the crazy things they're doing, but let me make one very important statement and that is this.

This young generation many of whom are sitting in this room many of whom are represented by by nephews and my nieces. This generation is the smartest generation to ever live in human history. Here's the problem. They're also the one that's the most lied to. They're also the one that's being told a series of lies very similar to the one that the people were being told at the time that the Lord was being crucified. Think about this, guys. At the time that the Lord was being crucified, there was a massive group of people that were losing all hope because at that moment they felt like their very contact with God had been removed and there was no other way.

There was no other way that they could now have the kind of contact with God that they were beginning to experience in Christ because he was being crucified and not only were they not being consoled by their religious leaders, they were actually being mocked by their religious leaders. And so the reality of it is they didn't have enough money to go in the to into the temple with their pigeons and worship the way God had prescribed for them to worship because they were being ripped off. And now they've lost any hope of being able to worship the true and living God as they told they were given the opportunity to because Christ had died.

They had no foreseeability. They had no ability to be able to tell what was coming soon. They they just didn't know it. I think the same thing is going on here. I think the same thing is happening. Guys, I want you to understand something. This is the very reason why this year I've been placing a massive emphasis on teaching all these generations to be prepared on the financial side because I think this is the vector that the enemy is using right now to attack the mindset of the younger generation. This is why I've been placing an emphasis on this.

This is why I'm going out of my way to say now in this time in history in this country, there has never been an easier time to build wealth in your family. Never been an easier time. You want to know why I'm saying that? Because it is this very issue that the youth is being lied to concerning. And they're using that lie that's being communicated to them to allow the blessing of God to be stripped away. Why? Let me show you how it's working. Let me let me just tell you how it's working. You can't buy a home, kids.

You'll never be able to because of inflation. You'll never be able to to to even do anything that remotely resembles what your mom or dad used to do because the market won't allow you to do it because you've been ripped off because of all the debt that we're in. And by the way, if your name is Steve Bannon or any of these other people, you know what they're also telling you? They're also telling you as kids that the reason why you can't buy a house or anything like that has everything to do with Israel. We're spending so much money on Israel that the record inflation, we're going to war, we're not able to do this, we're not able to do that.

Actually, here's the loving truth. Here's the loving truth. If you are a young person and you are finding yourself in a place of difficulty to do any of these things, first of all, my guess is you're listening too much to a bunch of liars who are distracting you from what's in front of you and what you can do now and what you can do today. Number one Number two Israel's not responsible. You are. What? It's true. But you know the reason why the enemy wants to use the narrative of Israel to get you upset because God said, I will curse those that curse Israel.

And the fastest way you can get this brilliant generation to be cursed is to take their focus off of everything that God has given them, the abundance that they have and focus it on one narrow thing that they don't have and allow their focus on that narrow thing that they don't have to hate Jews. That's what's happening. We'll save the rest of this message for next time. Light on the Hill with Pastor James Kaddis is brought to you by Calvary Chapel Signal Hill.

Guest (Female): I have found the peace only comes from you. I have found the joy only comes from you. 'Cause all I need is you.