This is a message from Dr. Michael Youssef, Bible teacher, on leading the way.

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My wife and I were viewing a documentary about World War II, and more specifically it was about

the German general who is known as the Desert Fox. The German army was beating us in North Africa,

and then the allies sent Field Marshal Montgomery to lead the troops.

And with a total dedication and commitment to victory, the allies began to defeat the Germans. And the men who out-faxed the Allies for a long time was defeated in the Battle of Alamein.

It's a town west of Egypt and the border with Egypt and Libya in that area.

And so Hitler recalled Rommel back to Germany.

And when Rommel went back to Germany, he began to tell Hitler that in his estimation, the Germans

are defeated and he ought to work some sort of arrangement with the allies and

bring it all to an end. Hitler agreed with him, but he would never acknowledge it publicly.

He would never acknowledge that defeat for months and months and months prior to the end of the

war. And in many ways I thought about immediately, and I thought that period between the time

when Hitler realized that he is defeated and that the German army is defeated and that the

war is over and the time he confessed it months and months later is like the time in which

we live today between the cross of Jesus Christ

and the resurrection and the second return of Jesus Christ. This is a very similar time from the

spiritual point of view. When Jesus rose from death victoriously, he totally devastated Satan. He, through his crucifixion and

resurrection, rendered Satan toothless. He rendered him powerless. He rendered him impotent. He rendered

him defeated. But the problem is Satan, like Hitler, is refusing to acknowledge it.

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