While I was attending Loma Linda Medical Center, located in a desert out in California, some friends and I decided to hike up a hill behind the hospital. All of a sudden we heard an ominous burst of sound! My friends were death on rattlesnakes, and before I was aware of what was happening they had stones in their hands and they were throwing them at the snake. The snake didn't have a chance. What do you think they aimed their stones at? Yes, that noisy rattling tail! That’s not the way you kill a snake, is it? You have to go for the snake's head, and so they were trying to throw stones at the snake's head, in order to put it out of commission. If you grab that snake by the tail you're in big danger. I've known people that stepped on a snake, but they didn't step on its head, they stepped on its tail accidentally and the snake reached around and bit them. There's one way to kill a snake and that is to crush its head.

“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:”1

We have here an interesting creature. There's something about his tail that is intriguing; because with his tail he was able to draw a third part of the stars. And maybe instead of being a tail, as in the tail of a monster, it is a tale, as in a story. Isaiah collaborates this fact. “The prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.”2 Satan tends to be able to draw people through vain philosophy,3 that is, through false tales.

This is the topic of Genesis after Satan told Eve his lies or tale. “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.”4 Which would you rather have, your heel bruised or your head bruised? I have a friend who bruised his heel, well, he more than bruised it, he fell off a roof and broke his heel. He's still alive, he's still thinking a lot about this, but if he had bruised his head he might not be thinking about it, or talking about it.

Jesus promised that He would bruise the Serpent's head and make sure that Satan was gone for good. But it also says that Satan will bruise Christ’s heel. When Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of which she was not supposed to eat, in essence, Satan was bruising the heel of Jesus. Every time people in the Bible gave in to temptation, Satan was, through those people, bruising the heel of the Son of God.

But how did Christ begin to bruise Satan's head? He came to this earth and took up a position just like Eve, just like Adam, and He had to meet Satan on that same ground. The first place that He started doing this, at least publicly, was in the wilderness of temptation. Jesus said that you couldn’t take a strong man's house unless you first bound the strongman.5 Jesus was, by His victory in the wilderness, starting to bind the strongman, something Eve should have done in the garden at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Jesus entered Satan's territory, and this was basically Him throwing down the gauntlet, essentially saying, this is our time to start facing off. When Satan said to the starving Son of God, well, if you're the Son of God, why don't you just make some of these stones into the bread, Jesus answered and said, “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”6 His appetite for life, His appetite for food, was not greater than His love for the word. He showed his love for you and I through unselfish obedience, thus He stood up to Satan. Satan was forced to retreat. At that point Jesus had begun the bruising of Satan's head. Jesus overcame the power of Satan’s temptation on appetite while He was in the wilderness. This was where Eve failed. Jesus was not going to receive a bruise to His head as Eve had to her head. Jesus was in the process of bruising the serpent, Satan, and He did it by resisting the strong temptation of appetite.

Ultimately, it was at the cross that Jesus bruised Satan's head. Jesus said, “now is the judgment of this world, now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” Satan, the self-proclaimed prince of this world, was to be cast out. And how did Jesus propose to accomplish this casting out of Satan? “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto Me.”7 When at the cross selfishness faced off with unselfishness, selfishness lost--Satan received a bruise to his head. How many are glad Jesus bruised Satan at the cross? We are very happy about that cross! But I'm sad to say, from my own experience, and from the testimony of other people's experiences that, although Satan's head may have received a bruise at the cross, the old bugger is still around. What happened? He's supposed to be dead, well, at least he's bruised, but for some reason he is not dead. Why not? And so we have to ask the question, “Lord, You bruised Satan as you promised you would at the cross, and we thought that a bruised head was a dying head, yet this guy still troubles us, he troubles others, he troubles our friends, and neighbors, he troubles us with sickness, with temptation, he troubles us with all kinds of things, we want to see the guy gone. How are we going to get this guy completely dead?”

Paul declares, “and the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.”8 “Oh Lord, you mean I have to play a role in this? Wait a minute, I don't like snakes, and I don’t want to get near this serpent!” Jesus has the snake under His feet, but we have to destroy this serpent as well. This is going to take more than just what happened on the cross, yes the power of what happened on the cross gives us the power to walk in Jesus footsteps, but we need to overcome Satan and appetite as Jesus overcame.

I have a picture of Eve reaching for the fruit, but in the background is a silhouette of the cross, because, as soon as Eve took and ate that fruit, she essentially assigned Jesus Christ to the cross. He had promised he would go to the cross if man fell, but that was the event that made the cross a necessity. Satan bruised Christ’s heel when Eve gave into appetite and ate the fruit. Denial of appetite, denial of sin, is the only way we can bruise Satan’s head. Our only hope of regaining Eden is through firm self-control. So part of our process of bruising Satan's head is to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, to deny Satan's temptations, especially in the area of appetite.

It’s like a rite of passage. What's a rite of passage? When a friend of mine was a child she decided to join a club. To be a member of this club, they decided, you had to do something that was a rite of passage, you had to swallow a goldfish, whole, alive! What kids won't think up. But since they were poor and didn’t have any goldfish, they went down to the creek and caught some tadpoles. Tadpoles had to do instead of goldfish, so they each swallowed a tadpole, as a rite of passage, to join this club. Well, our right of passage is that we have to step on the serpent's head ourselves.

In the book, “The Pilgrim's Progress” by John Bunyan,9 Christian, the traveling young man, is trying to make it to the Holy City and has a lot of things he has to go through. He ends up having to pass by all kinds of things that get in his way or threaten him, including some lions, this is his rite of passage. “Satan took the field in person against Jesus Christ, while success seems to attend the masterly activity of Satan, Jesus takes the field to contest his power, in order that man should not perish, but have everlasting life through faith in the Son of God. Through Christ they were to bruise the serpent's head and gain eternal life.”10 Between you and eternal life stands the task of bruising Satan's head. You have to make sure that he has no hold in your own life, no hold on your desires, no hold on your appetite, you have to bruise his head.

So what are we to overcome? We read in Peter, “wherefore are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises,” (how many are happy for the promises? For without the promises we'd be in trouble!) “that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature”, (we need to be like Christ,) “having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”11 The word lust here in this passage isn't just describing the desire between people of the opposite sex, this is any desire that is

out of tune with God's plan, it's covetousness, if you please, for things that are not good, an appetite for what is not in our best interest, an appetite for things that will end up bruising Christ’s heel. We have to destroy, or die to, our desire for the things of this world and through the power of Christ we have to step on Satan's head! So in overcoming the world we bruise Satan, and thus participate in His demise.

God has promised, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”12 We can have the power to over come Satan, the old serpent, and the lure of appetite! We are promised the strength to resist his temptations! “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”13 We can, in Jesus name, stomp on Satan’s head and help bring about his death. We do not have to join Eve in bruising Jesus’ heel. We can join Jesus in resisting appetite and bruising the serpent’s head.

“When man is a partaker of the divine nature, the love of Christ will be an abiding principle in the soul, and self and its peculiarities will not be exhibited. But it is sad to see those who should be vessels unto honor indulging in the gratification of the lower nature and walking in paths that conscience condemns. Men professing to be followers of Christ fall to a low level, always mourning over their shortcomings, but never overcoming and bruising Satan under their feet. Guilt and condemnation constantly burden the soul, and the cry of such might well be: ‘O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?’14 Through indulgence in sin, self-respect is destroyed; and when that is gone, respect for others is lessened; we think that others are as unrighteous as we are ourselves.”15

A lot of our modern Christian friends have the idea that we can just go on sinning. For example, lets look at the TV preacher, Jimmy Swaggart. When he was caught with a prostitute he said, “But I sinned under the blood, I'm all right, I sinned under the blood!” Can you sin under the blood? Are you bruising Satan's head when you do such foolish things or are you bruising Jesus’ heel? We have to overcome, otherwise Satan is bruising Jesus’ heel through us, yes, and he is thus bruising our heels too, or even our heads. So we must overcome or be overcome.16 “He that overcometh”, (that’s the goal, right,) “he that overcometh the same shall be clothed in white raiment and I will not blot his name out of the book of life.”17 We need to be overcomers ourselves.

This overcoming appetite is like boot camp! Boot camp is where we prepare soldiers for war. If they can't make it through boot camp, they aren’t ready to go to war. “The controlling power of appetite will prove the ruin of thousands,” (sad fact, when Jesus Christ returns to this earth, the majority of the people you see on earth today will die, they will not be ready, they will not be prepared, thousands, millions,) “when, if they had conquered on this point, would have had moral power to gain the victory over every other temptation of Satan.” (This is the proving ground, this is where we start, this is where it all started with Eve, and this is where it starts with us) “But those who are slaves to appetite will fail in perfecting Christian character.”18 They will fail in bruising Satan in their own lives, and Satan will be gaining control of them.

Who in the past has been able to bruise Satan's head? Is that an important question? What is the track record? Has anybody done it among us?

“Here in the experience of Huss was a witness, a monument erected, calling the attention of the world to the promise: ‘Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life’19 Registered in the history of nations, John Huss lives. His godly works and steadfast faith, his pure life, and conscientious following of the truth that was unfolded to him,” (He didn't just sit back and say, “Well, I've heard about that teaching, but I'm not converted on that point yet.” He moved forward.)

“These (truths) he would not yield even to be saved a cruel death. That triumphant death was witnessed by all heaven, by the whole universe.” (We are a spectacle to the universe!20)“Satan bruised the heel of the seed of the woman, but in the act of Huss his (Satan’s) head was bruised.”21

We are to follow in the footsteps of the pioneers who have done their part to bruise Satan's head. Think of Joseph, when Potiphar’s wife came to him and tried to tempt him to sin. Joseph, in saying, “How can I do this great evil and sin against God”,22 was bruising Satan's head. Think about Daniel, when Daniel “purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion the King’s meat nor the wine which he drank”,23 he was bruising Satan's head; he was taking back the garden if you please. Should or can we do any less? We will either bruise Satan's head or we will bruise ourselves and Jesus. “There are those who unless they are thoroughly converted will crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to open shame....they plead for indulgence of appetite. They enjoy those things which animalize the nature.”24 What does, “animalize the nature” mean? I was at my friend’s house one day and the couple had invited me over for lunch, as they often did. This time they hadn't really prepared, but they wanted my company. They were usually meat-eaters, and so they said, “We've got vegetarian food here for you, but, do you mind if we eat leftover turkey?” I said, “Feel free to eat whatever you want yourself,” and so they did. As they started eating some turkey, almost instantly, they started having a change of disposition, which I had never seen in them before. They got very argumentative. I started feeling like I was walking on pins and needles around them. They both got in this big argument, or fight, which I didn't think they would ever have gotten into in front of me anytime previously. And it was all because they'd eaten the meat that animalized their natures. Well now, an animal is a beast, is it not? And the character of a beast is similar to the character in which these people were becoming. They were getting the character of the Beast. Well, this is the mark of the beast, is it not? The mark of the beast is the character the Beast; it’s being like a beast rather than being like Christ. Either we will be like Christ, or we will be like the Beast. And why is it that we say certain people on this earth represent the Beast? Well, is it because they show the qualities of the beast who receives his power from Satan, who said, I want to be like God, I'll be like the most high, I will, I will, I will? The people on earth who are represented as being the Beast have those same characteristics, they want to be the top of the stack. When we live for self, when we want to be the top of the stack, we are bruising Christ head, and we are not bruising Satan. We crucify to ourselves afresh the Son of God because it's owing to the self-exalting spirit of Satan that Jesus Christ ended up on the cross.

So, let's look at Satan's camp. This group of people follow the Beast. These are people who bruise Christ’s heel, that's what they do. The Apostle Paul in Philippians speaks about them; let's just read about it, “for many walk of whom I have told you often,” (this has been Paul’s repeated discussion concerning these people and so he's referring back, as if saying, “do you remember, I've mentioned them before.”) “and now tell you even weeping,” (Paul’s now getting emotional about it. Do you think of Paul as being a really emotional kind of guy, and weeping about stuff, having tears in his voice and crying? So what is he getting emotional about?) “That they are the enemies of the cross of Christ!” (And so he takes it right to the core of the Christian religion, they are enemies of the most important event of Christianity) “whose end is destruction” (he already says that they're going to hell, he's got them consigned to the worst possible place. What's one of these people like?) “whose God is their belly” (wait a minute Paul, I expected something more dramatic. What you’re weeping about and what you tell us often about, these people that are the worst enemies of the most important part of our religion, are people whose God is their belly!? Appetite is the central issue that Satan uses to overcome people. That is why Paul is so dramatic about them.) “and his glory is in their shame who mind earthly things.”25

We want to be on God's side. We don't want to be among those who cause Paul to weep, who are enemies of the cross, and who are headed for destruction. Are we digging our graves with our own forks and spoons? Are we making our belly our God? Do we eat for strength, or do we eat for

drunkenness? Do we live to eat or do we eat to live? We have this choice before us. Let's put this in perspective, it is by beholding that we become changed, is it not? If we behold Christ, we become like Him. If we behold other things, we become like them. It is by beholding that we become changed; by looking unto Christ. You know we see through a glass darkly, that glass is very dark and we wished it was clearer. But, the time will come when it will get clearer, and I'm here to tell you that the light of healthful living helps to clear the lens.

While I was out in West Virginia, the church had me doing a series of health presentations. Some of the members asked if I would talk to a couple who were having some major health problems. And so after one of my meetings I set down with this couple. The husband was a truck driver. He had experienced a massive heart attack out on a road trip and ended up in Tennessee in the big university hospital. They checked him out, but said that there was nothing more they could do. They said that he was not a candidate for surgery. They told him that he’d lost most of his heart and that he should just go home on oxygen. They basically sent him home to die. When I met him his eyes were only half open, he was on oxygen, he was sort of puffing and it wasn't clear that I was always getting through to him. He was in really tough shape. He couldn't even walk across the room without getting out of breath; he was in a difficult situation. The pastor had been trying to study the Bible with him, but wasn't getting very far. As we sat down and talked, I put together a program for him, that the Lord could bless, from the eight natural doctors,26 and he started following them. He took it seriously! He took this plan as his way of getting back to life. He decided that he was going to follow this program, that he was going to do his very best. And he did, and in two months he was walking a mile and a half a day, he started studying the Bible seriously with the pastor. I would see him at prayer meeting, and he was becoming more and more awake, he was getting into the studies, like the book “The Great Controversy”,27 and a couple of months later he came over to see me and my wife and he proudly announced, with a big smile on his face, that in two weeks he was going to get baptized. The Lord had cleared up his mind through the health message. He had cleared up the glass so he could see the truth a bit better and today he is rejoicing in the Lord. We need to clear up the lens--clear up our minds, with the good health message.

We live in the anti-typical Day of Atonement! The time of the judgment up in heaven. Is this day to be a day for celebration, or is it a day for serious reflection? Isaiah addresses this question. In Isaiah, God calls people to the Day of Atonement experience, “and in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and a grinding with sackcloth,” (God says, I want you to humble yourselves and have this special experience, I want you to make sure that you're prepared for what's coming on the earth, I want you to have clear minds. But what does he find the people doing?) “and behold joy and gladness, slaying of oxen and killing of sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine,” (What a diet! And, what are they saying?) “Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.”28 In essence they are saying, “well, you have to die of something.” God is calling us to a special time represented by the Day of Atonement, which wasn't a feast, it was really a fast, and so it’s lesson is that we need a special diet for our time. We're told that in the time of trouble we'll have to eat only so much food as will sustain life.29 Our resources will be very limited. Bread and water will be sure,30 but not a lot of it, and so we need to be preparing for that time. We need to be prepared physically, mentally and spiritually.

Now let's get back to the serpent. The serpent or Satan gives the power to the Beast or Babylon. So Babylon, in Revelation, represents the power of the serpent on this earth. This is the system we need to see go down before Satan's head is really bruised, so he really dies for good. “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”31 The dragon, or the old serpent, Satan, has his army, his whole system. This whole system needs to be brought down. It's our job to be involved in its down fall, that's the second angel’s message,32 right? When will the serpents head be bruised? When will Babylon fall? When will the system go down?

Currently do you think Babylon is falling? It appears as though it's gathering strength. It seems like it's a long ways from falling. Oh, certainly it has fallen morally, but has it fallen financially or physically? “And there followed another angel saying, Babylon is fallen is fallen that great city because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”33 What is it going to take to make Babylon finally and completely fall? When was the last time you got out on the street corner and yelled at the top of your voice, Babylon is fallen, or even felt like doing so? Or had evidence that was so sure that you felt compelled to announce that? Well, we’ve got to see Babylon fall. But let me say that it is not going to fall until you personally are destroying the power of Satan in your own life. You're going to have to do something yourself that will help bring about the fall of Babylon.

“As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.”34 Noah did something for his generation before the flood that we need to do in our day right before the second coming of Jesus. We read this in Hebrews 11 “by faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet”, (do we have warnings by God of things not seen?) “yet moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by the which he condemned the world.”35 So what Noah did, in faith, condemned the world! If he had never done what he did, he would never have condemned the world, and become heir of the righteousness which is by faith. And so Noah did something that condemned the world. Question. Is what you do in your life and diet a condemnation to the wicked world around you? Do you do anything different in your lifestyle and diet than what the world does? Is what you do in your life starting to bring about the fall of Babylon? Do your habits of life destroy the power of Satan on this earth? Have you condemned sin in the flesh by your denial of a perverted appetite? Have you condemned the world, the Beast and Babylon?

The same thing is true of the latter rain, there's something we have to do to get it to fall. The latter rain only comes in response to something we do, “As we seek God for the Holy Spirit, it will work in us meekness, humbleness of mind, a conscious dependence upon God for the perfecting latter rain. If we pray for the blessing in faith, we shall receive it as God has promised.”36 The latter rain only comes in response to earnest prayer, and maybe more than just your own personal earnest prayer, but the earnest prayer of the united church! The fall or bruising of Babylon only comes as we condemn it by our godly lifestyles.

The same thing is true of the fall of Babylon, reading in Daniel 11, “But tidings out of the east” (the seal of God upon His faithful saints comes out of the east) “and out of the North” (the loud cry comes out of the north) “shall trouble him therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away many.”37 This is comparable to Revelation’s description of the woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because the devil has come down to them having great wrath because he knows that he hath but a short time.38 So the loud cry, from the mount of the congregations in the sides of the North, shortens Satan's time. Does what we do put Satan on notice that he has a short time? Is there any evidence that he really feels that he has a short time given your witness in this world? We’re seeing more signs of the times and of the end, and yes, he's getting more active, but I don't get the feeling that he really knows his time is short, at least not by what we're doing. We have got to make sure that our life puts him on notice. Let’s get together on these issues and bruise Satan’s head, what do you say? And so it is an important process of bringing about the fall of Babylon for us to get more serious, to get the latter rain and to get the loud cry going. So the question is, “Are there enough of us to put this serpent out of business, are we really going to pull it off?”

The whole history of this world is hanging on us. Hebrews says, “And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.”39 We are to finish the work of others, we have to finish burying the snake. Yes, Joseph did his part, yes, Daniel did his part, yes, Jesus did his part, but

we have to do our part as well. The world is waiting on us! We are the ones that need to take the power of God and act. And so, let's stamp out Satan!

This is like when Abraham approached God about the inhabitants of Sodom, and he wanted to save them, and he kept asking, “And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.”40 For tens sake He would not have destroyed Sodom. Are there enough of us to bring about the fall of Babylon, the fall of Satan? We need to strive with all the power that God has given us to be among the 144,000,41 so basically we need more than 10, as Abraham asked for, we need 144,000 in order to accomplish this, “and they overcame him”, Revelation says, “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto death.”42 They didn't have such a strong appetite for life that they weren't willing to give it up for God. Jesus didn't have such a strong appetite for life that He wasn't willing to give it up for us. We have to be ready to put all our power behind accomplishing this task, that is the only way it's going to happen.

“When men and women are truly converted,” (that's the goal isn't it? True conversion?) “they will conscientiously regard the laws of life,” (it's all tied together, you can't have one without the other) “that God has established in their being, thus seeking to avoid physical, mental, and moral feebleness.”43 Feebleness! Moral feebleness!

“The subject of health reform has been presented in the churches”, (we've had it for over a hundred years) “but the light has not been heartily received.” (The only thing more popular than preaching about health reform is likely preaching about dress reform. These topics may not gather a crowd.) “The selfish, health-destroying indulgences of men and women have counteracted the influence of the message that is to prepare a people for the great day of the Lord.” (Wait, I thought there's other messages that were more important to prepare the people for the second coming? Well, they all work together, but this one is to prepare a people for the great day of the Lord, this is part of the three angels messages, right?) “The Lord does not now work to bring many souls into the truth because of the church members who have never been converted and those who were once converted but who have backslidden.”44 (Having trouble getting your church to grow? Could it be that there are people in your church who are not stepping on Satan's head, they're stepping on his tail, still giving into appetite as did Eve?)

Let's look at the book of Ephesians for a little bit, because we need to have a church that's pure. Christ loves the church, He loves you and me individually, but He, “loved the church, and gave Himself for it; That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”45 We need a holy church, we need to submit to the refining process of Jesus Christ or our church is never going to put Satan on notice. We need to have a majority, we don't have a majority of our church working on this, “the great out pouring of the Spirit of God which lightens the whole earth with his glory,” (the other angel, that of Revelation 18, that adds this message to the third angel, “will not come until we have an enlightened people,” (Oh people, yes, it has to be a whole group,) “that know by experience what it means to be laborers together with God. When we have entire wholehearted consecration to the service of Christ, God will recognize the fact by an outpouring of His spirit without measure, but this will not be while the largest portion of church are not laborers together with God.” (Hands down, it's not going to happen without a majority,) “God cannot pour out His spirit when selfishness and self-indulgence are so manifest.”46

When we follow the world, we look like the world and we end up with the same medical problems they have, and sadly, we go for the same solutions they use. It doesn't work, it isn't going to fix the real problem! And so how are we ever going to get a purified church? I mean, how are we going to

get a majority? There is a way and it's called the shaking! “Soon the battle will be waged fiercely between those who serve God and those who serve Him not. Soon everything that can be shaken will be shaken, that those things that cannot be shaken may remain.”47

God will have a church, it will be purified, we will have the Holy Spirit, it has been predicted. But in order to have a majority, in order for that to happen, the shaking time must take place. What brings the shaking? Certainly the straight testimony,48 we're also told that religious persecution brings a shaking,49 but teaching temperance in health reform brings the shaking.50 The health message is a part of the shaking message, and it's part of what will cleanse the church. If we don't follow on to bruise Satan, in our lives, then Satan is going to get our head!

Let's look at Joshua for a minute and think about him. “But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accused thing,” it says speaking of the incident with Aiken at Jericho. But wait a minute, the whole children of Israel? Well yes, but only in Aiken, “for Aiken... took of a cursed thing and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.”51 See, the problem is where we aren't putting Satan on notice, as too many of us are like Aiken, we're still hiding sins in our tent, especially sins of appetite! And so we need to deliver the death blow to Satan, as a community of believers, once and for all!

In summary, we have the Eden promise, the Serpent's head will be bruised. How many are happy for that promise? Yes, we’re going to see this guy's head bruised. Jesus had success, He did His part, He started the bruising of the head of this serpent and we too must bruise the serpent in our lives, in our generation, in our experience and in our appetites. So recruit some friends, the job's going to take quite a group. How many want to see Satan's head totally bruised? How many want to see it in their own lives?

1  Revelation 12:3-4, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


2  Isaiah 9:15, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


3  Colossians 2:8, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


4  Genesis 3:15, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


5  Mark 3:27, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


6  Matthew 4:4, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


7  John 12:32, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


8  Romans 6:20, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


9  Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. The Pilgrim's Progress : from This World to That Which Is to Come. Philadelphia; Chicago :S.I. Bell, 1891.

10 White, E. G. (1988). Lift Him Up. Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association. p. 197.

11 2 Peter 1:4, King James Version of the Holy Bible.

 

12 Luke 10:19, King James Version of the Holy Bible.

13  1 Corinthians 10:13, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


14  Romans 7:24, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


15  White, E. G. (1901). Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press 
Publishing Association. p. 52.

16  2Peter 2:20, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


17  Revelation 3:5, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


18  White, E. G. (1875). Testimonies for the Church, vol. 3. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press 
Publishing Association. p. 491.

19  Revelation 2:10, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


20  1 Corinthians 4:9, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


21  White, E. G. (1990). Manuscript Releases, vol. 9 [Nos. 664-770]. Silver Spring, MD: Ellen G. White 
Estate. P. 276.

22  Genesis 39:9, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


23  Daniel 1:8, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


24  White, E. G. (1993). Manuscript Releases, vol. 21 [Nos. 1501-1598]. Silver Spring, MD: Ellen G. 
White Estate. p. 405.

25  Philippians 3:18,19, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


26  White, E. G. (1905). The Ministry of Healing. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing 
Association. p. 127.

27 White, E. G. (1911). The Great Controversy. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association.

28  Isaiah 22:12-14, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


29  White, E. G. (1890). Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene. Battle Creek, MI: Good Health 
Publishing Co.. p. 152.

30  Isaiah 33:16, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


31  Revelation 13:2, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


32  Revelation 14:8, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


33  Ibid. 


34  Luke 17:26, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


35  Hebrews 11:7, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


36  White, E. G. (1923). Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers. Mountain View, CA: Pacific 
Press Publishing Association. p. 508.

37  Daniel 11:44, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


38  Revelation 12:12, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


39  Hebrews 11:39-40, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


40  Genesis 18:32, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


41  White, E. G. (1905, March 9). “A Stirring Exhortation.” The Review and Herald. 


42  Rev 12:11, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


43  White, E. G. (1901). Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing 
Association. p. 369.

44 White, E. G. (1901). Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. p. 370.

45  Ephesians 5:25-27, King James Version of the Holy Bible. 


46  White, E. G. (1896, July 21). “The Cheerful Giver Accepted.” The Review and Herald. 


47  White, E. G. (1909). Testimonies for the Church, vol. 9. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press 
Publishing Association. p. 15.

48 White, E. G. (1882). Early Writings. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association. p.270.

49 White, E. G. (1946). Evangelism. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association. p. 360.

50 White, E. G. (1901). Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. p. 111.

51 Joshua 7:1, King James Version of the Holy Bible.