>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:00:01.80\00:00:04.90 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:04.93\00:00:09.34 >>ARMAGEDDON. THIS SCARY WORD FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION 00:00:09.37\00:00:12.91 IS AN ENIGMA FOR MOST BIBLE SCHOLARS. IT ONLY APPEARS 00:00:12.94\00:00:16.14 ONCE IN SCRIPTURE AND IT IS FOUND NOWHERE ELSE IN GREEK 00:00:16.18\00:00:19.45 WRITINGS. MANY BELIEVE IT'S CONNECTED 00:00:19.48\00:00:22.02 WITH THE VALLEY OR THE HILL OF MEGIDDO, LOCATED IN ISRAEL. 00:00:22.05\00:00:25.32 BUT BIBLE TRANSLATOR AND SCHOLAR, ROBERT MOFFETT ARGUED 00:00:25.35\00:00:28.82 STRONGLY THAT THE WORD REALLY REFERS TO THE BATTLE OF GIDEON, 00:00:28.86\00:00:32.79 WHEN A SMALL BUT DIVINELY CHOSEN ARMY GAINED THE VICTORY OVER A 00:00:32.83\00:00:36.33 POWERFUL AND VASTLY LARGER ENEMY. ARMAGEDDON COMES FROM 00:00:36.36\00:00:40.60 THE HEBREW WORD 'AMAR GID' OWN,' WHICH CAN BE TRANSLATED 00:00:40.64\00:00:44.61 FROM 'YEHOVAH AMAR GID' OWN,' MEANING, 'THE WORD OR 00:00:44.64\00:00:49.11 CHALLENGE OF JEHOVAH TO GIDEON.' IT'S ALSO NOTEWORTHY THAT THE 00:00:49.14\00:00:53.35 BATTLE OF GIDEON WAS FOUGHT IN THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO. 00:00:53.38\00:00:57.32 REVELATION CHAPTER 16, VERSE 14 CONNECTS ARMAGEDDON WITH THE 00:00:57.35\00:01:01.82 BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY, BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS 00:01:01.86\00:01:06.43 THIS MYSTERIOUS BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON? 00:01:06.46\00:01:09.20 AND WHAT'S INVOLVED IN IT? WHAT'S AT STAKE AND 00:01:09.23\00:01:11.57 HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU? TOGETHER, LET'S TAKE A CAREFUL 00:01:11.60\00:01:15.74 LOOK AT THESE ANSWERS. >>I DON'T KNOW HOW 00:01:15.77\00:01:21.78 TO BREAK THIS TO YOU. THE BIBLE TELLS US 00:01:21.81\00:01:24.58 THAT WE ARE AT WAR. THERE IS A WAR GOING ON. 00:01:24.61\00:01:28.65 IF YOU HAVE NOT FELT THAT WAR IN YOUR MIND, THEN I WONDER IF 00:01:28.68\00:01:32.42 YOU'RE TRYING TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE. 00:01:32.45\00:01:34.32 BECAUSE, IF YOU ARE CHRISTIAN, AND YOU ARE TRYING TO BE GOOD IN 00:01:34.36\00:01:37.69 A BAD WORLD, YOU FEEL CONFLICT. JESUS SAID, 'YOU WILL BE HATED 00:01:37.73\00:01:43.37 OF ALL NATIONS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.' 00:01:43.40\00:01:45.57 THERE IS A GREAT CONTROVERSY THAT IS GOING ON IN 00:01:45.60\00:01:48.40 THE WORLD BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND THE FORCES OF EVIL. 00:01:48.44\00:01:52.87 WE SEE IT PLAYING OUT THROUGH HISTORY. 00:01:52.91\00:01:56.01 JESUS SAID THERE WILL BE WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS AND THERE 00:01:56.04\00:01:58.48 HAVE BEEN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND WE SEE IT PLAYING 00:01:58.51\00:02:01.58 OUT IN OUR LIVES, THIS BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL - THE 00:02:01.62\00:02:06.29 DESIRE TO DO GOD'S WILL BETWEEN OUR OWN WILL, WHICH IS OFTEN THE 00:02:06.32\00:02:11.36 WILL OF THE EVIL ONE TOO. NOW, THAT TAKES US TO THE 00:02:11.39\00:02:17.43 ULTIMATE BATTLE OF BATTLES, WHICH IS WHAT THIS SERIES IS 00:02:17.47\00:02:20.80 ABOUT, BETTER KNOWN AS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 00:02:20.84\00:02:25.24 THE VERY WORD 'ARMAGEDDON', IT'S USED A LOT OF DIFFERENT TIMES - 00:02:25.27\00:02:28.48 IT'S SORT OF OMINOUS - AND IT TALKS ABOUT JUST THE ULTIMATE 00:02:28.51\00:02:32.61 BATTLE, THE BATTLE ON STEROIDS, OF ALL BATTLES. 00:02:32.65\00:02:37.25 AND SO PEOPLE SAY THAT WORD - IT ONLY APPEARS ONE TIME IN THE 00:02:37.29\00:02:40.16 BIBLE. THE WORD 'ARMAGEDDON', AS FAR AS THE SCHOLARS CAN TELL, 00:02:40.19\00:02:43.46 IT COMES FROM THE COMPOSITE OF TWO WORDS. IT'S - IN GREEK - 00:02:43.49\00:02:48.83 IN REVELATION 16 WE SAY 'ARMAGEDDON,' BUT THEY'RE 00:02:48.86\00:02:52.20 DRAWING FROM A HEBREW WORD AND IT SAYS, IN THE HEBREW TONGUE, 00:02:52.23\00:02:55.60 IT WOULD BE 'HAR MEGIDDO' - HAR MEANS 'HILL OF'. MEGIDDO WAS A 00:02:55.64\00:03:01.71 HILL OUTSIDE OF THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL, A VERY FAMOUS PLACE. 00:03:01.74\00:03:05.78 MATTER OF FACT, WE'VE GOT A PICTURE OF THAT UP ON THE SCREEN 00:03:05.81\00:03:07.55 FOR YOU. THOSE ARE THE ANCIENT RUINS OF MEGIDDO. 00:03:07.58\00:03:10.79 NOT VERY BIG, BUT WHAT IT WAS IS A REMARKABLE WATCH TOWER - A 00:03:10.82\00:03:15.89 VILLAGE OR A LITTLE KINGDOM - IT WAS A WALLED 00:03:15.92\00:03:18.36 FORTRESS THAT OVERLOOKED A VERY IMPORTANT STRATEGIC VALLEY KNOWN 00:03:18.39\00:03:23.93 AS THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL. AND THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL HAS 00:03:23.97\00:03:28.44 BEEN THE SITE OF ABOUT 34 DIFFERENT BATTLES. 00:03:28.47\00:03:32.61 AND SO, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT ARMAGEDDON, IT MEANS THE BATTLES 00:03:32.64\00:03:36.81 FROM THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL. IT'S IN THAT BATTLE 00:03:36.85\00:03:41.52 WHERE GIDEON FOUGHT. MATTER OF FACT, SOME HAVE 00:03:41.55\00:03:44.35 WONDERED IF ARMAGEDDON IS REALLY REFERENCING JUDGES CHAPTER 6 00:03:44.39\00:03:50.29 BECAUSE WHEN IT SAYS THE LORD SAID TO GIDEON IT SOUNDS LIKE 00:03:50.33\00:03:54.03 'YAH MAR GIDEON' - VERY SIMILAR TO ARMAGEDDON. 00:03:54.10\00:03:59.43 BUT HIS BATTLE TOOK PLACE IN THAT VALLEY TOO, SO IT WORKS 00:03:59.47\00:04:01.80 EITHER WAY. IT'S WHERE JOSIAH WAS KILLED. IT'S WHERE DEBORAH 00:04:01.84\00:04:06.07 AND BARAK GOT VICTORY OVER THE CANAANITES. AND SO, THERE HAVE 00:04:06.11\00:04:11.21 BEEN A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT BATTLES IN THIS VALLEY. 00:04:11.25\00:04:13.78 ONE REASON IT'S SO STRATEGIC IS BECAUSE THIS VALLEY IS THE MAIN 00:04:13.82\00:04:18.19 ROAD THAT BRINGS TOGETHER THREE CONTINENTS. 00:04:18.22\00:04:23.02 WHOEVER OWNED THIS VALLEY OWNED THE TAX REVENUE AND IT WAS JUST 00:04:23.06\00:04:28.23 FANTASTICALLY IMPORTANT FOR KINGDOMS TO POSSESS THIS VALLEY 00:04:28.26\00:04:31.70 AND THE WATCH TOWER, IN PARTICULAR. 00:04:31.73\00:04:34.20 NAPOLEON, AT ONE TIME, VISITED THE MIDDLE EAST. 00:04:34.24\00:04:38.04 AND WHEN HE WENT TO ISRAEL AND HE WENT, IN PARTICULAR, TO THE 00:04:38.07\00:04:40.44 HILL OF MEGIDDO, HE OVERLOOKED THE VALLEY AND HE IS REPORTED TO 00:04:40.48\00:04:44.21 HAVE SAID, "ALL THE ARMIES OF THE WORLD COULD MANEUVER THEIR 00:04:44.25\00:04:48.28 FORCES ON THIS VAST PLAIN... THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD 00:04:48.32\00:04:52.12 MORE SUITED FOR WAR THAN THIS... [IT IS] THE MOST NATURAL 00:04:52.15\00:04:56.49 BATTLEGROUND OF THE WHOLE EARTH." THAT'S NAPOLEON, AND HE 00:04:56.52\00:05:01.90 KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT WAR - THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BATTLE. 00:05:01.93\00:05:04.77 WELL, A LOT OF CHARISMATIC AND EVANGELICAL PASTORS HAVE READ 00:05:04.80\00:05:08.20 QUOTES LIKE THIS AND THEY SAY [THE] BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS 00:05:08.24\00:05:11.41 GOING TO LITERALLY BE FOUGHT IN THIS VALLEY. 00:05:11.44\00:05:14.28 AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE CHINA AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE RUSSIA 00:05:14.31\00:05:17.15 AND WE'LL, YOU KNOW, AMERICA AND ISRAEL AND THERE'S JUST GOING TO 00:05:17.18\00:05:21.12 BE THIS BIG - YOU KNOW, THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, 00:05:21.15\00:05:24.69 BIBLICALLY, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TOY SOLDIERS FIGHTING ON A 00:05:24.72\00:05:28.36 BATTLEFIELD THE WAY THEY USED TO DO, WHERE THEY ALL LINE UP AND 00:05:28.39\00:05:30.36 MARCH AGAINST EACH OTHER. THEY DON'T FIGHT WARS LIKE THAT 00:05:30.39\00:05:32.76 ANYMORE. LOOK AT HOW WAR HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. 00:05:32.79\00:05:37.27 NOW, THERE ARE SOME TIMES THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST - 00:05:37.30\00:05:41.60 THERE MAY BE SOME WAR - BUT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS THE 00:05:41.64\00:05:44.14 ULTIMATE BATTLE OF SATAN AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:05:44.17\00:05:48.81 IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS, YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 12, 00:05:48.84\00:05:50.95 WHERE IT SAYS IN VERSE 17, "THE DRAGON" - WHO'S THAT? 00:05:50.98\00:05:54.58 >>SATAN. >>"THE DEVIL IS WROTH" - 00:05:54.62\00:05:56.58 INFURIATED - "WITH THE WOMAN AND HE GOES TO MAKE WAR." 00:05:56.62\00:06:01.09 AND, WELL, I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. 00:06:01.12\00:06:03.16 WE'VE GOT SEVERAL OTHER WARS WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THAT. 00:06:03.19\00:06:06.80 SO PEOPLE WONDER, IS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON A PHYSICAL WAR? 00:06:06.83\00:06:09.90 IS IT A FINANCIAL WAR? IS IT A SPIRITUAL WAR? 00:06:09.93\00:06:12.57 WHY DON'T WE GO TO THE VERSE AND READ IT AGAIN? 00:06:12.60\00:06:14.77 TURN WITH ME TO REVELATION CHAPTER 16 AND LET'S JUST KIND 00:06:14.80\00:06:18.34 OF GET OUR HEADS WRAPPED AROUND WHAT'S BEING SAID HERE. 00:06:18.37\00:06:21.68 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS ACTUALLY PLAGUE #6 OUT OF THE 00:06:21.71\00:06:25.95 SEVEN LAST PLAGUES. AND, IF YOU GO TO VERSE 12, 00:06:25.98\00:06:29.18 REVELATION 16, "THEN THE SIXTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL" - OR 00:06:29.22\00:06:35.49 HIS VIAL - ON THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES, AND ITS WATER WAS 00:06:35.52\00:06:40.16 DRIED UP," - THE WATERS OF THE EUPHRATES MIGHT BE DRIED UP - 00:06:40.20\00:06:43.13 "SO THAT THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF THE EAST MIGHT BE PREPARED. 00:06:43.16\00:06:46.17 AND I SAW THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS LIKE FROGS COMING OUT OF THE 00:06:46.20\00:06:50.01 MOUTH OF THE DRAGON, OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST, AND OUT OF 00:06:50.04\00:06:53.31 THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE PROPHET. 00:06:53.34\00:06:55.04 FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF DEMONS, PERFORMING SIGNS THAT GO 00:06:55.08\00:06:58.38 OUT TO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH AND OF THE WHOLE WORLD, TO 00:06:58.41\00:07:01.85 GATHER THEM TO THE BATTLE OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY." 00:07:01.88\00:07:08.19 NOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT - HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A RED-LETTER 00:07:08.22\00:07:12.46 BIBLE? DO YOU NOTICE THAT SUDDENLY, OUT 00:07:12.49\00:07:16.06 OF NOWHERE, THINGS TURN RED? "BEHOLD, I AM COMING AS A THIEF. 00:07:16.10\00:07:21.50 BLESSED IS HE WHO WATCHES; AND KEEPS HIS GARMENTS, LEST HE WALK 00:07:21.54\00:07:24.91 NAKED AND THEY SEE HIS SHAME." 00:07:24.94\00:07:27.71 YOU DON'T SEE ANY RED LETTERS UNTIL YOU GET TO THE END OF IT, 00:07:27.74\00:07:30.68 OR YOU GO BACK TO REVELATION CHAPTER 3. 00:07:30.71\00:07:33.55 THIS IS ONE PLACE WHERE JESUS SUDDENLY INTERJECTS A PHRASE 00:07:33.58\00:07:39.09 DURING THE SIXTH PLAGUE - AND WE'LL EXPLAIN MORE ABOUT THAT - 00:07:39.12\00:07:43.66 AND IT SAYS, "AND THEY GATHERED THEM" - VERSE 16 - REVELATION 00:07:43.69\00:07:46.83 16:16 - "AND THEY GATHERED THEM TOGETHER TO THE PLACE 00:07:46.86\00:07:50.13 CALLED IN HEBREW, ARMAGEDDON." 00:07:50.17\00:07:54.00 ALRIGHT, WELL, WITH THAT LITTLE BACKGROUND, LET'S GET BACK TO 00:07:54.04\00:07:56.91 OUR STUDY. SOME OF THIS WILL BE A BRIEF REVIEW. 00:07:56.94\00:08:00.24 YOU REMEMBER BEFORE, THERE'S A SEALING THAT TAKES PLACE. 00:08:00.28\00:08:03.75 WE READ IN REVELATION CHAPTER 7 - I DIDN'T GET TO THE 144,000 IN 00:08:03.78\00:08:07.95 CHAPTER 14, BUT I TOLD YOU IN CHAPTER 7 IT TELLS US THAT 00:08:07.98\00:08:11.39 THERE'S 144,000 THAT ARE SEALED. THESE ANGELS ARE HOLDING BACK 00:08:11.42\00:08:16.06 THE WINDS OF STRIFE AND THE WINDS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BLOW 00:08:16.09\00:08:18.79 UNTIL GOD'S SERVANTS ARE SEALED IN THEIR FOREHEADS. 00:08:18.83\00:08:21.73 AND IT TELLS US THERE ARE 12,000 SEALED FROM THE TRIBES OF JUDAH, 00:08:21.76\00:08:26.27 REUBEN, GAD, ASHER, NAPHTALI, MANASSEH, SIMEON, LEVI, 00:08:26.30\00:08:30.01 ISSACHAR, ZEBULAN, JOSEPH, AND BENJAMIN. 00:08:30.04\00:08:32.61 NOW, DOES THAT MEAN THAT GOD IS GOING TO HAVE 144,000 LITERAL 00:08:32.64\00:08:39.21 JEWS FROM THESE LITERAL TRIBES, IN THE LAST DAYS, THAT RECEIVE 00:08:39.25\00:08:43.72 THIS SPIRITUAL SEAL BEFORE THE LAST PLAGUES COME? 00:08:43.75\00:08:49.12 >>NO. >>YOU'D BE SURPRISED. 00:08:49.16\00:08:51.13 THERE ARE SOME EVANGELICAL PASTORS AND PREACHERS SAYING 00:08:51.16\00:08:54.20 THAT, AND I'M JUST, QUITE HONESTLY, SHOCKED AT THEIR 00:08:54.20\00:08:57.77 IGNORANCE, BECAUSE ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ THE BIBLE AND 00:08:57.80\00:09:02.37 YOU'LL SEE THAT, LONG BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN, BACK DURING THE 00:09:02.40\00:09:05.51 TIME OF HEZEKIAH, TEN OF THE TRIBES WERE CARRIED OFF TO 00:09:05.54\00:09:08.41 ASSYRIA - MANY OF THE TRIBE NAMES WE JUST MENTIONED - THEY 00:09:08.44\00:09:12.25 INTERMARRIED WITH THE ASSYRIANS. MANY OF THEM JUST COMPLETELY 00:09:12.28\00:09:15.88 LOST THEIR IDENTITY. THERE ARE PROBABLY SOME OF YOU 00:09:15.92\00:09:19.09 HERE THAT HAVE A LITTLE ISSACHAR IN YOU. 00:09:19.12\00:09:21.26 YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IT, BECAUSE MANY OF THEM WERE DISPERSED AND 00:09:21.29\00:09:24.13 SCATTERED AND INTERMARRIED AND - SO THE IDEA THAT GOD CAN'T DO 00:09:24.16\00:09:28.66 HIS FINAL WORK UNTIL HE GETS 144,000 PURE-BRED JEWS - 12,000 00:09:28.70\00:09:35.67 FROM EACH OF THESE TRIBES. AGAIN, THAT'S ODD, BECAUSE THE 00:09:35.70\00:09:38.71 TRIBES HAD SUCH VASTLY DIFFERENT POPULATIONS. JUDAH WAS MUCH 00:09:38.74\00:09:42.28 BIGGER THAN BENJAMIN AND EPHRAIM THAN MANASSEH. 00:09:42.31\00:09:47.22 THAT'S SO - WHY THE NUMBER 12 - EXACTLY 12 - WELL, I BELIEVE 00:09:47.25\00:09:50.75 THAT THE NUMBER MAY BE PARTICULAR, BUT THE NAMES YOU'RE 00:09:50.79\00:09:54.46 GOING TO FIND IN REVELATION - NAMES ALWAYS HAVE A SPIRITUAL 00:09:54.49\00:09:57.93 MEANING. I FEEL SO SURE OF THAT I'M GOING TO SAY IT TWICE. 00:09:57.96\00:10:00.73 THE NAMES IN REVELATION ALWAYS ARE SYMBOLIC. 00:10:00.76\00:10:06.57 WHEN IT TALKS, IN REVELATION, ABOUT JEZEBEL, WELL, DO YOU 00:10:06.60\00:10:09.90 THINK THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT REAL JEZEBEL OR WAS SHE DEAD LONG 00:10:09.94\00:10:11.94 AGO? IT'S TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE WHO DOES WHAT JEZEBEL DID. 00:10:11.97\00:10:15.14 IN REVELATION IT TALKS ABOUT BALAAM. 00:10:15.18\00:10:17.08 DO YOU THINK IT'S REALLY BALAAM RESURRECTED OR IS IT TALKING 00:10:17.11\00:10:19.41 ABOUT SOMEONE THAT HAS GREED? THEY SELL OUT ON 00:10:19.45\00:10:21.82 GOD LIKE BALAAM. AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE DRAGON, 00:10:21.85\00:10:24.55 IT TALKS ABOUT APOLLYON, IT TALKS ABOUT MICHAEL - IT TALKS 00:10:24.59\00:10:26.92 ABOUT A NUMBER OF THESE TERMS AND THEY HAVE SPIRITUAL NAMES. 00:10:26.96\00:10:31.93 WHEN YOU GET TO THE 144,000, WHAT DO THOSE NAMES MEAN? 00:10:31.96\00:10:36.80 FIRST OF ALL, YOU DO NOT FIND A LIST OF THE SONS OF JACOB THE 00:10:36.83\00:10:40.04 WAY THEY'RE LISTED IN REVELATION, ANYWHERE IN THE 00:10:40.07\00:10:41.74 BIBLE. IT IS UNIQUE LIST OF TRIBES. 00:10:41.77\00:10:44.77 TWO TRIBES ARE LEFT OUT. DO YOU KNOW WHICH ONES? 00:10:44.81\00:10:48.31 NO MENTION OF DAN. WHY IS DAN LEFT OUT? 00:10:48.34\00:10:52.21 AND THERE'S NO MENTION OF EPHRAIM. 00:10:52.25\00:10:54.98 INSTEAD, IT ADDS JOSEPH AND INCLUDES LEVI. 00:10:55.02\00:10:59.52 AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE THIS LIST, WHEN YOU SAY THE NAMES 00:10:59.55\00:11:02.76 TOGETHER, TELLS THE STORY OF REDEMPTION. 00:11:02.79\00:11:05.63 EPHRAIM, THE BIBLE SAYS 'EPHRAIM IS JOINED TO HER IDOLS. 00:11:05.66\00:11:09.00 LET HIM ALONE.' AND THEN DAN, IT SAYS, IS A SERPENT IN THE WAY. 00:11:09.03\00:11:15.00 AND DAN ALSO MEANS JUDGMENT AND JUDGMENT IS PASSED, AT THIS 00:11:15.04\00:11:19.47 POINT, FOR THE 144,000. SO WHEN YOU TAKE THE NAMES THE 00:11:19.51\00:11:23.81 WAY THEY'RE GIVEN, IF I WERE TO JUST READ THE NAMES IN HEBREW 00:11:23.85\00:11:27.52 WITH THEIR MEANING, WHAT DOES IT SAY? FOR INSTANCE, THE NAME 00:11:27.55\00:11:31.89 JUDAH - JUDAH'S FIRST - WHY IS JUDAH FIRST IN THIS LIST? 00:11:31.92\00:11:35.42 HE'S NOT THE FIRSTBORN, REUBEN'S THE FIRSTBORN. 00:11:35.46\00:11:37.69 YOU SEE, IT'S A - IT'S A DELIBERATELY MIXED-UP LIST. 00:11:37.73\00:11:41.50 JOHN KNEW WHAT THE TRIBES WERE BECAUSE IT SAYS SOMETHING. 00:11:41.53\00:11:45.07 THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS, "I WILL PRAISE THE LORD" - WHEN YOU PUT 00:11:45.10\00:11:48.74 THE NAMES TOGETHER AND YOU DECIPHER THEM WITH THEIR 00:11:48.77\00:11:51.01 MEANING, IT SAYS A STATEMENT: "I WILL PRAISE THE LORD FOR HE HAS 00:11:51.04\00:11:55.51 LOOKED ON ME" - MY AFFLICTION - "AND GRANTED ME GOOD FORTUNE. 00:11:55.54\00:12:00.22 I AM HAPPY, BECAUSE WITH GREAT WRESTLING, I HAVE WRESTLED AND 00:12:00.25\00:12:04.12 PREVAILED. THUS, GOD HAS MADE ME FORGET MY 00:12:04.15\00:12:06.82 TOIL BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HEARD THAT I AM NOT LOVED. 00:12:06.86\00:12:10.26 HE IS JOINED" - OR MARRIED - "TO ME. 00:12:10.29\00:12:12.33 GOD HAS GIVEN ME MY HIRE BY DWELLING WITH ME. 00:12:12.36\00:12:16.97 THE LORD SHALL ADD TO ME THE SON OF HIS RIGHT HAND." 00:12:17.00\00:12:20.37 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STATEMENT THAT TALKS ABOUT THE PLAN OF 00:12:20.40\00:12:22.84 SALVATION, WHEN YOU PUT IT TOGETHER - THE NAMES. 00:12:22.87\00:12:26.27 SO NOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT REVELATION 7. 00:12:26.31\00:12:29.48 IF YOU GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 14 YOU'LL READ VERSE 1, "I 00:12:29.51\00:12:34.42 LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A LAMB STANDING ON MOUNT ZION, AND WITH 00:12:34.45\00:12:37.29 HIM 144,000, HAVING HIS FATHER'S NAME WRITTEN ON THEIR FOREHEADS. 00:12:37.32\00:12:44.03 AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, LIKE THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS, 00:12:44.06\00:12:46.76 AND LIKE THE VOICE OF LOUD THUNDER. 00:12:46.80\00:12:48.73 AND I HEARD THE SOUND OF HARPISTS PLAYING THEIR HARPS. 00:12:48.76\00:12:51.10 THEY SANG AS IT WERE A NEW SONG BEFORE THE THRONE, BEFORE THE 00:12:51.13\00:12:54.90 FOUR LIVING CREATURES, AND THE ELDERS; AND NO ONE COULD LEARN 00:12:54.94\00:12:57.34 THAT SONG EXCEPT THE 144,000 WHO WERE REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH. 00:12:57.37\00:13:02.41 THESE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE NOT DEFILED WITH WOMEN, FOR THEY ARE 00:13:02.44\00:13:05.38 VIRGINS..." THAT'S ODD. IT SAYS THEY'RE VIRGINS - THAT'S 00:13:05.41\00:13:08.22 FEMININE - THEY'RE NOT DEFILED WITH WOMEN. 00:13:08.25\00:13:10.69 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT? 00:13:10.72\00:13:13.22 >>CHURCH. >>WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BABYLON 00:13:13.25\00:13:15.72 AND HER DAUGHTERS, IN REVELATION, AND IT SAYS IN HER 00:13:15.76\00:13:19.13 FOREHEAD 'MOTHER OF HARLOTS,' IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? 00:13:19.16\00:13:22.36 >>BAD. >>BAD. SHE'S A BAD WOMAN. 00:13:22.40\00:13:24.37 YOU HAVE ANOTHER WOMAN WHO IS PURE - IN REVELATION 12 - SHE'S 00:13:24.40\00:13:28.50 CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. 00:13:28.54\00:13:30.64 IT'S SAYING THE 144,000 ARE NOT DEFILED WITH THE FALSE TEACHINGS 00:13:30.67\00:13:35.14 OF BABYLON AND HER DAUGHTERS FOR THEY ARE PURE. 00:13:35.18\00:13:39.61 AND IT SAYS THEY FOLLOW THE LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES. 00:13:39.65\00:13:41.98 THEY SING A SONG THAT NO ONE CAN SING EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE 00:13:42.02\00:13:45.49 REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH. YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IT SAYS 00:13:45.52\00:13:48.59 ABOUT THE 144,000 - FIRST OF ALL, HOW MANY WERE THERE? 00:13:48.62\00:13:52.46 12 TIMES 12,000. WHERE DO YOU FIND THE NUMBER 12 IN THE NEW 00:13:52.49\00:13:56.63 TESTAMENT? THE APOSTLES, FOR ONE THING, RIGHT? 00:13:56.67\00:14:01.60 DID THE APOSTLES FOLLOW JESUS WHEREVER HE WENT? 00:14:01.64\00:14:05.04 DID THE APOSTLES SING A SONG WITH JESUS? 00:14:05.07\00:14:07.41 ONLY TIME RECORDED THAT JESUS SANG IS WITH THE APOSTLES AT THE 00:14:07.44\00:14:10.18 LAST SUPPER. IT SAYS THEY'RE WITHOUT GUILE. 00:14:10.21\00:14:14.62 DIDN'T JESUS SAY TO ONE OF THE APOSTLES, 'BEHOLD, AN ISRAELITE 00:14:14.65\00:14:17.05 IN WHOM THERE IS NO GUILE'? AND YOU START LOOKING AT THE 00:14:17.09\00:14:20.79 DESCRIPTION, THEY HAVE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP. 00:14:20.82\00:14:24.46 MY OPINION IS THE 144,000 ARE, TO THE SECOND COMING, WHAT THE 00:14:24.49\00:14:29.60 12 APOSTLES WERE WHEN JESUS CAME THE FIRST TIME. 00:14:29.63\00:14:32.57 THEY ARE LAST-DAY APOSTLES THAT DO A SPECIAL WORK. 00:14:32.60\00:14:35.50 ARE THERE ONLY 144,000 SAVED? NO, THAT'D BE PRETTY BAD. 00:14:35.54\00:14:40.21 I DID THE MATH AND THAT MEANS THAT, LIKE, 1 OUT OF 40,000 00:14:40.24\00:14:43.11 WOULD MAKE - BE SAVED. THAT'D BE DEPRESSING. 00:14:43.14\00:14:46.51 STATISTICALLY, THAT'S JUST A LITTLE BETTER THAN THE LOTTERY. 00:14:46.55\00:14:50.35 YOU'RE STILL BETTER OFF TRYING TO BE ONE OF THE 144,000 THAN 00:14:50.39\00:14:54.16 BUYING A LOTTO TICKET. DID YOU GET THAT? 00:14:54.19\00:14:56.73 BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE MANY MORE BECAUSE IT SAID THERE WAS A 00:14:56.76\00:15:00.43 GREAT MULTITUDE THAT NO MAN COULD NUMBER, WHO WOULD WASH 00:15:00.46\00:15:03.00 THEIR ROBES AND COME OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION. JUST LIKE ON 00:15:03.03\00:15:05.80 THE DAY OF PENTECOST WHEN GOD POURS OUT HIS SPIRIT. 00:15:05.83\00:15:08.20 THE TWELVE APOSTLES ARE IN THE UPPER ROOM, THEY HAD REPLACED 00:15:08.24\00:15:10.61 JUDAS, THERE'S 120 ALTOGETHER AND THEN THEY PREACH AND A GREAT 00:15:10.64\00:15:14.74 MULTITUDE IS BAPTIZED AS A RESULT. 3,000 ONE TIME, 5,000 00:15:14.78\00:15:18.18 ANOTHER, SO I THINK THE 144,000 ARE SPECIAL, SPIRIT-FILLED 00:15:18.21\00:15:22.55 PEOPLE THAT ARE READY DURING THE SEALING TIME WHEN THE HOLY 00:15:22.58\00:15:25.99 SPIRIT IS POURED OUT TO DO A GREAT EVANGELISTIC WORK AND 00:15:26.02\00:15:29.56 BRING IN A GREAT MULTITUDE. SO - BUT IT SAYS BEFORE THE 00:15:29.59\00:15:33.53 PLAGUES COME, THE ANGELS ARE HOLDING BACK THOSE WINDS OF 00:15:33.56\00:15:36.67 STRIFE UNTIL EVERYONE IS SEALED IN THE FOREHEAD. 00:15:36.70\00:15:42.54 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, IN JUST A MOMENT WE'LL RETURN FOR 00:15:42.57\00:15:45.71 THE COMPLETION OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 00:15:45.74\00:15:48.18 EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, VIRTUALLY EVERY BIBLE WRITER 00:15:48.21\00:15:52.05 REFERS TO THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. 00:15:52.08\00:15:55.35 PAUL SAYS, 'WE WILL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF 00:15:55.38\00:15:58.89 CHRIST.' IN LIGHT OF OUR COUNTLESS SINS, THE THOUGHT OF 00:15:58.92\00:16:02.49 FACING OUR LIFE'S RECORD BEFORE A HOLY GOD CAN STRIKE TERROR 00:16:02.52\00:16:05.93 INTO THE HEART OF EVERY MAN. BUT JESUS TELLS US THERE'S A 00:16:05.96\00:16:09.23 WAY TO FACE THE JUDGMENT WITH COMPLETE PEACE. 00:16:09.26\00:16:12.73 WE'D LIKE TO SHARE THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED RESOURCE 00:16:12.77\00:16:15.54 WITH YOU THAT EXPLAINS, THROUGH SCRIPTURE, WHO PRESIDES AT THIS 00:16:15.57\00:16:18.94 JUDGMENT, WHO'S THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY, THE ACCUSER, THE 00:16:18.97\00:16:22.44 SUPREME JUDGE, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, HOW TO ESCAPE BEING 00:16:22.48\00:16:26.38 CONDEMNED. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE 00:16:26.41\00:16:29.02 PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #132, OR 00:16:29.05\00:16:33.19 VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. AND, AFTER YOU READ THIS 00:16:33.22\00:16:35.76 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 00:16:35.79\00:16:38.56 LET'S GET BACK TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 00:16:38.59\00:16:41.23 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD. 00:16:41.26\00:16:45.40 >>THE KEY TO UNLOCK THE MYSTERIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 00:16:45.43\00:16:47.60 IS FOUND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. GO TO THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL. 00:16:47.64\00:16:51.67 I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE BUT, IN REVELATION, THERE ARE 404 00:16:51.71\00:16:55.31 VERSES - 278 OF THE 404 VERSES IN REVELATION CAN BE FOUND, 00:16:55.34\00:17:01.35 ALMOST VERBATIM, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 00:17:01.38\00:17:04.45 GO TO EZEKIEL 9. READ VERSE 4 - THIS IS A 00:17:04.49\00:17:09.49 SOBERING PROPHECY, BUT IT'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW 00:17:09.52\00:17:13.43 IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT WE'RE STUDYING. 00:17:13.46\00:17:15.66 "AND THE LORD SAID, 'GO THROUGH THE MIDST OF THE CITY, THROUGH 00:17:15.70\00:17:19.80 THE MIDST OF JERUSALEM, AND PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS" - 00:17:19.83\00:17:23.67 ALRIGHT, RIGHT AWAY, IF YOU WERE TO STOP READING - IF YOU HADN'T 00:17:23.71\00:17:25.47 READ THIS BEFORE - MARK ON THE FOREHEAD. 00:17:25.51\00:17:27.04 YOU'RE THINKING, 'HOO HOO, DON'T LET THEM DO THAT. 00:17:27.08\00:17:29.31 THAT'S BAD.' BECAUSE WE ALWAYS THINK OF A MARK ON THE FOREHEAD 00:17:29.34\00:17:33.05 AS ASSOCIATED WITH WHAT? >>THE BEAST. 00:17:33.08\00:17:35.45 >>MARK OF THE BEAST. BUT WE FORGET THAT EVERYBODY'S MARKED 00:17:35.48\00:17:39.09 IN REVELATION. YOU EITHER HAVE THE MARK OF GOD OR THE MARK OF 00:17:39.12\00:17:42.62 THE DEVIL. LOOK AT THIS MARK - YOU WANT THIS MARK IN EZEKIEL 9. 00:17:42.66\00:17:46.73 IT SAYS, "PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS OF THOSE WHO SIGH AND 00:17:46.76\00:17:50.03 CRY OVER ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THAT ARE DONE WITHIN IT." 00:17:50.07\00:17:52.97 THESE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE GRIEVED ABOUT THE SIN AND 00:17:53.00\00:17:55.27 APOSTASY IN ISRAEL. THEY'RE LONGING FOR A HOLINESS. 00:17:55.30\00:17:57.81 THEY'RE SORRY FOR THE WAY THAT THE TRUTH HAS BEEN COMPROMISED 00:17:57.84\00:18:00.71 AND THE TEMPLE ABUSED. EZEKIEL TALKS ABOUT THEM PRAYING 00:18:00.74\00:18:04.25 TO IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE IN OTHER PASSAGES. 00:18:04.28\00:18:06.95 AND THEN HE SAYS TO THE OTHERS, THESE OTHER SIX ANGELS - YOU'VE 00:18:06.98\00:18:10.89 GOT THE SEVENTH ANGEL HAS A WRITER'S INKHORN AND THERE'S SIX 00:18:10.92\00:18:13.12 OTHERS, "GO AFTER HIM THROUGH THE CITY AND KILL; DO NOT LET 00:18:13.15\00:18:18.26 YOUR EYE SPARE, NOR HAVE ANY PITY. 00:18:18.29\00:18:20.56 UTTERLY SLAY OLD AND YOUNG MEN, MAIDENS AND LITTLE CHILDREN AND 00:18:20.60\00:18:24.47 WOMEN;" THIS IS TALKING ABOUT A JUDGMENT THAT'S LIKE THE FLOOD - 00:18:24.50\00:18:26.97 IT TAKES OUT EVERYBODY - "BUT DO NOT COME NEAR ANYONE ON WHOM IS 00:18:27.00\00:18:32.17 THE MARK;" - SO YOU WANT THAT MARK, DON'T YOU? 00:18:32.21\00:18:35.01 AND HE SAYS, "BEGIN AT MY SANCTUARY." 00:18:35.04\00:18:37.58 THAT MEANS AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE. HAVE YOU READ IN THE NEW 00:18:37.61\00:18:41.15 TESTAMENT WHERE PETER SAYS, 'JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN 00:18:41.18\00:18:43.45 AT THE HOUSE OF GOD'? PETER'S QUOTING EZEKIEL 9. 00:18:43.49\00:18:47.49 WELL, YOU'D START WITH TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED. 00:18:47.52\00:18:51.99 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE - JOHN CHAPTER 8 - A 00:18:52.03\00:18:55.00 WOMAN IS BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE? 00:18:55.03\00:18:57.17 THE PRIESTS ARE STANDING AROUND ACCUSING HER. 00:18:57.20\00:18:59.17 THESE ARE THE ONES WHO DON'T FOLLOW JESUS. 00:18:59.20\00:19:01.20 THEY'RE TRYING TO GET RID OF JESUS. THEY'RE JUST USING THIS 00:19:01.24\00:19:03.04 WOMAN TO ATTACK JESUS AND THEY WANT HER STONED. 00:19:03.07\00:19:07.31 AND JESUS SAID, 'HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN, LET HIM CAST THE 00:19:07.34\00:19:09.61 FIRST STONE.' AND IT SAYS, 'THEY WENT OUT ONE BY ONE BEGINNING AT 00:19:09.64\00:19:13.42 THE ELDEST.' THERE WAS A JUDGMENT IN THE SANCTUARY AND IT 00:19:13.45\00:19:17.12 SAYS, 'BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST'. KNOW WHAT IT SAYS HERE? 00:19:17.15\00:19:19.22 IT SAYS 'THEY BEGAN WITH THE ELDERS WHO WERE BEFORE THE 00:19:19.25\00:19:24.09 TEMPLE.' AND SO, THIS JUDGMENT - IF YOU'RE GOING TO JUDGE PEOPLE, 00:19:24.13\00:19:28.80 WHO WOULD YOU BEGIN WITH? THE CHILDREN WHO HAVEN'T HAD 00:19:28.83\00:19:33.34 MUCH OPPORTUNITY, OR THE OLDEST WHO HAVE HAD MORE OPPORTUNITY? 00:19:33.37\00:19:37.37 WHEN THE SEALING IS COMPLETE, THOSE - THE BIBLE TELLS US IN 00:19:37.41\00:19:40.88 MATTHEW 24, "THE GOSPEL OF THIS KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED IN ALL 00:19:40.91\00:19:43.75 THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS...AND THEN THE END WILL COME." 00:19:43.78\00:19:47.75 UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THE GOSPEL'S GOING TO GO 00:19:47.78\00:19:50.12 IN GREAT POWER, THE WAY IT DID IN THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLES. 00:19:50.15\00:19:53.82 AND WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE A PART OF THAT BUT, I'LL TELL YOU 00:19:53.86\00:19:56.62 SOMETHING, FRIENDS, IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF MEDIA THE GOSPEL'S 00:19:56.66\00:19:59.73 GOING TO GO. THERE'S A PLACE FOR THE TOOLS, 00:19:59.76\00:20:01.93 BUT WHAT GOD NEEDS MORE THAN BETTER MEDIA OR MACHINES - HE 00:20:01.96\00:20:05.93 NEEDS BETTER MEN AND WOMEN. >>AMEN. 00:20:05.97\00:20:07.84 >>IT'S GOING TO BE THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE 00:20:07.87\00:20:09.60 SPIRIT-FILLED THAT'S GOING TO MAKE THE GOSPEL GO SO FAST. 00:20:09.64\00:20:12.74 HOW DID THE DISCIPLES TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE 00:20:12.77\00:20:17.05 WITHOUT PRINTING PRESSES? HOW DID THEY DO IT 00:20:17.08\00:20:20.28 WITHOUT THE INTERNET? HOW DID THEY DO IT 00:20:20.32\00:20:22.18 WITHOUT SATELLITE? IT'S MIND-BOGGLING, ISN'T IT? 00:20:22.22\00:20:25.22 THEY HAD POWER IN THEIR LIVES THAT PEOPLE SAW, AND IT TOOK 00:20:25.25\00:20:29.36 OFF. WE NEED THAT POWER. 00:20:29.39\00:20:30.86 CAN YOU SAY, 'AMEN'? >>AMEN. 00:20:30.89\00:20:32.33 >>BUT THE GOSPEL'S GOING TO GO - NOT EVERYONE WILL BELIEVE - 00:20:32.36\00:20:35.53 JESUS SAID, 'AS A WITNESS' AND THEN HE SAYS, 'THEN THE END WILL 00:20:35.56\00:20:38.93 COME.' WHEN HE SAYS THE END WILL COME, HE MEANS THE BEGINNING OF 00:20:38.97\00:20:41.10 THE END WILL HIT. THAT'S WHERE YOU'VE GOT THE 00:20:41.14\00:20:43.77 CLOSE OF PROBATION AND THE PLAGUES BEGIN TO FALL. 00:20:43.81\00:20:46.34 WHEN THE PLAGUES BEGIN TO FALL, THAT'S THE END. 00:20:46.37\00:20:48.61 BECAUSE, AT THAT POINT, PROBATION IS CLOSED. 00:20:48.64\00:20:51.15 THE SAVED ARE SAVED, THE LOST ARE LOST, AND THERE'S NO 00:20:51.18\00:20:54.38 CHANGING TEAMS ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID WHEN YOU GO 00:20:54.42\00:20:57.79 OUT PREACHING, "WHOEVER WILL NOT RECEIVE OR HEAR YOU, WHEN YOU 00:20:57.82\00:21:01.62 DEPART FROM THERE SHAKE OFF THE DUST OF YOUR FEET AS A 00:21:01.66\00:21:04.39 TESTIMONY AGAINST THEM. ASSUREDLY I SAY, 'IT WILL BE 00:21:04.43\00:21:07.66 MORE TOLERABLE FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH IN THAT DAY OF 00:21:07.66\00:21:10.83 JUDGMENT THAN THAT CITY." SO PEOPLE REJECT THE GOSPEL. 00:21:10.87\00:21:13.84 WE ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THE PATIENCE OF GOD. 00:21:13.87\00:21:15.37 IS THERE A LIMIT TO THE PATIENCE? 00:21:15.40\00:21:17.94 WE HATE TO THINK ABOUT IT, BUT THERE IS. 00:21:17.97\00:21:20.21 AND GOD SAYS IT'LL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH 00:21:20.24\00:21:23.21 THAN THOSE WHO REJECT THE MESSAGE OF JESUS. 00:21:23.24\00:21:27.42 SO YOU'VE GOT THE MESSAGE OF GOD, THREE ANGELS OF HEAVEN - 00:21:27.45\00:21:31.82 THEY'RE SOUNDING FORTH WITH THE LOUD POWER OF THE TRUTH - AT THE 00:21:31.85\00:21:34.62 SAME TIME YOU'VE GOT ON EARTH, FROG MESSAGES. 00:21:34.66\00:21:38.43 THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS - THEY'RE NOT JUST SPIRITS, THEY'RE 00:21:38.46\00:21:40.86 UNCLEAN SPIRITS - "LIKE FROGS COMING OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE 00:21:40.90\00:21:44.10 DRAGON...THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST, AND...THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE 00:21:44.13\00:21:47.24 PROPHET." WHAT'S THE BIGGEST 00:21:47.27\00:21:49.54 PART OF A FROG'S BODY? NOT HIS LEGS, IT'S HIS MOUTH. 00:21:49.57\00:21:53.68 YOU KNOW, ONE FROG CAN SWALLOW ANOTHER FROG OF ALMOST THE SAME 00:21:53.71\00:21:56.95 SIZE BECAUSE THEIR MOUTHS ARE SO BIG. 00:21:56.98\00:21:59.68 AND WHAT DOES A FROG USE TO ATTACK? 00:21:59.71\00:22:02.18 >>TONGUE. >>HIS TONGUE. 00:22:02.22\00:22:04.79 IT'S GOING TO BE A MESSAGE COMING OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE 00:22:04.82\00:22:09.46 BEAST. WHAT TYPICALLY COMES 00:22:09.49\00:22:11.43 OUT OF THE MOUTH? IT'S THE WORDS. SO, THESE FALSE MESSAGES 00:22:11.46\00:22:15.46 - THESE FROGGY MESSAGES - DO YOU KNOW THE MOST POISONOUS ANIMAL 00:22:15.50\00:22:19.63 IN THE WORLD IS A FROG? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE 00:22:19.67\00:22:23.27 POISON-DART FROG THEY HAVE IN SOUTH AMERICA? 00:22:23.30\00:22:25.87 INDIANS DOWN THERE - IT GETS ITS NAME BECAUSE THEY TAKE THESE 00:22:25.91\00:22:28.11 FROGS AND THEY PUT THEM ABOVE A FIRE. 00:22:28.14\00:22:29.88 THEY DON'T COOK THEM OR BURN THEM, THEY KEEP THEM ALIVE, BUT 00:22:29.91\00:22:31.71 THEY PUT THEM ABOVE A FIRE WHERE THEY GET HOT AND THEY SWEAT AND 00:22:31.75\00:22:34.42 THAT SWEAT IS SO TOXIC THAT A YEAR AFTER THEY PUT IT ON A DART 00:22:34.45\00:22:37.72 OR AN ARROW, IT'S STILL LETHAL. AND - SO IT'S A POISON MESSAGE. 00:22:37.75\00:22:44.43 I REMEMBER HEARING IN THE NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE BEING POISONED AND 00:22:44.46\00:22:46.76 POISON GAS AND THERE'S GOING TO BE POISON WORDS THAT ARE GOING 00:22:46.80\00:22:51.57 TO BE GOING OUT. HAVE YOU HEARD OF DOCTRINES OF DEVILS? 00:22:51.60\00:22:54.70 WHAT IS THAT POISON MESSAGE? "FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF 00:22:54.74\00:22:58.31 DEMONS, PERFORMING SIGNS, WHICH GO OUT TO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH 00:22:58.34\00:23:04.08 AND OF THE WHOLE WORLD, TO GATHER THEM TO THE BATTLE 00:23:04.11\00:23:06.01 OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD." THEY'RE TRYING TO ASSEMBLE 00:23:06.05\00:23:09.05 EVERYBODY TO MAKE A LAW TO COMPLETELY ANNIHILATE GOD'S 00:23:09.08\00:23:11.99 PEOPLE AND THEY'RE USING TOXIC MESSAGES TO DO THIS. 00:23:12.02\00:23:16.49 HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU TURNED ON THE TV AND SOME PREACHER 00:23:16.52\00:23:19.16 SAYS, 'THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS TOLD ME' - 'I TALKED TO GOD JUST 00:23:19.19\00:23:22.63 TODAY AND I GOT THIS MESSAGE FROM THE LORD.' ANY OF YOU EVER 00:23:22.66\00:23:26.13 HEARD THAT BEFORE? THEY PLAY THE GOD CARD - 'GOD 00:23:26.17\00:23:28.37 TOLD ME' - I THINK YOU BETTER BE VERY CAREFUL. 00:23:28.40\00:23:31.31 I BELIEVE GOD STILL SPEAKS BUT YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL TO 00:23:31.34\00:23:33.84 SAY THAT GOD TOLD YOU SOMETHING. SO THEY ARE THE 00:23:33.88\00:23:37.45 SPIRITS OF DEVILS PERFORMING MIRACLES. THAT LEADS US TO 00:23:37.48\00:23:43.49 YOU'VE GOT THE BEAST, THE DRAGON, AND THE FALSE PROPHET. 00:23:43.52\00:23:46.59 WHEN THEY ALL GATHER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TOGETHER FOR THIS 00:23:46.62\00:23:49.49 BATTLE, THEN YOU COME INTO WHERE THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON COMES. 00:23:49.52\00:23:53.46 YOU LOOK AND THE SEVENTH PLAGUE IS NOW POURED OUT. 00:23:53.50\00:23:56.53 AND WHAT IS THAT? THE LORD COMES. 00:23:56.56\00:23:59.53 IT TALKS ABOUT - GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 16. 00:23:59.57\00:24:05.64 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 16 YOU READ IN VERSE 17, "THEN THE 00:24:05.67\00:24:10.38 SEVENTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL INTO THE AIR, AND A LOUD 00:24:10.41\00:24:14.15 VOICE CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN, FROM THE THRONE, SAYING, 00:24:14.18\00:24:17.59 'IT IS DONE!'" - IT'S OVER - "AND THERE WERE 00:24:17.62\00:24:21.29 NOISES AND THUNDERINGS AND LIGHTNINGS; AND THERE WAS A 00:24:21.32\00:24:25.26 GREAT EARTHQUAKE, SUCH A MIGHTY AND GREAT EARTHQUAKE AS HAD NOT 00:24:25.29\00:24:29.33 OCCURRED SINCE MEN WERE ON THE EARTH. 00:24:29.36\00:24:31.73 NOW THE GREAT CITY WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS, AND THE CITIES 00:24:31.77\00:24:35.37 OF THE NATIONS" - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE FALL OF BABYLON. 00:24:35.40\00:24:37.57 YOU READ IN CHAPTER 18, "WAS REMEMBERED BEFORE GOD AND THE 00:24:37.61\00:24:40.84 CUP OF THE WINE OF THE FIERCENESS OF HIS WRATH. 00:24:40.88\00:24:43.95 EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND. 00:24:43.98\00:24:47.28 A GREAT HAIL FELL FROM GOD UPON MAN. 00:24:47.32\00:24:49.42 EACH HAILSTONE ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF A TALENT. 00:24:49.45\00:24:52.09 MEN BLASPHEMED GOD BECAUSE OF THE PLAGUE OF THE HAIL, SINCE 00:24:52.12\00:24:55.86 THAT PLAGUE WAS EXCEEDINGLY GREAT." 00:24:55.89\00:24:58.23 SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THE WAY THAT IT'S SET, THIS GREAT EARTHQUAKE, 00:24:58.26\00:25:01.46 THIS GREAT PLAGUE, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE WRITER COMING ON 00:25:01.50\00:25:04.13 HIS WHITE HORSE. NOW, I WANT TO CLOSE WITH THE RED LETTERS. 00:25:04.17\00:25:08.94 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE SEVEN PLAGUES, BUT REMEMBER WHAT IT 00:25:08.97\00:25:12.97 SAYS IN REVELATION 16, VERSE 15? "BEHOLD, I AM COMING AS A THIEF. 00:25:13.01\00:25:19.35 BLESSED IS HE WHO WATCHES AND KEEPS HIS GARMENTS, LEST HE 00:25:19.38\00:25:22.52 WALK NAKED AND THEY SEE HIS SHAME." 00:25:22.55\00:25:24.99 JESUS, IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS, IS TELLING US, 'I'M COMING.' WHY 00:25:25.02\00:25:28.66 DOES HE TELL US THAT? HE'S SAYING, 'I WANT YOU TO 00:25:28.69\00:25:30.76 COME' - HE'S SAYING, 'I WANT YOU TO BE BLESSED. 00:25:30.79\00:25:33.29 I WANT YOU TO BE READY,' BECAUSE WHEN HE COMES LIKE A THIEF IT'S 00:25:33.33\00:25:36.90 GOING TO BE TOO LATE FOR MOST. EVERYONE THINKS 00:25:36.93\00:25:38.90 WE'VE GOT FOREVER. YOU COULD READ IN MATTHEW 24, 00:25:38.93\00:25:43.44 "THEREFORE," - VERSE 44 - "BE READY FOR THE SON OF MAN IS 00:25:43.47\00:25:47.34 COMING AT AN HOUR YOU DO NOT EXPECT." 00:25:47.38\00:25:50.55 LOOK IN 1 THESSALONIANS 5, VERSE 2, "FOR YOU, YOURSELVES, KNOW 00:25:50.58\00:25:54.65 PERFECTLY THE DAY OF THE LORD IS COMING AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT. 00:25:54.68\00:25:57.55 FOR WHEN THEY SAY, 'PEACE AND SAFETY!' 00:25:57.59\00:25:58.79 THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMES ON THEM, AS LABOR PAINS UPON A 00:25:58.82\00:26:02.89 PREGNANT WOMAN. AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE. 00:26:02.92\00:26:05.59 BUT YOU, BRETHREN, ARE NOT IN DARKNESS, THAT THAT DAY SHOULD 00:26:05.63\00:26:08.66 OVERTAKE YOU AS A THIEF." WE WANT TO HAVE OUR GARMENTS ON. 00:26:08.70\00:26:13.80 REVELATION 3:3, JESUS SAYS, "REMEMBER THEREFORE HOW YOU HAVE 00:26:13.84\00:26:17.67 RECEIVED AND HEARD; HOLD FAST AND REPENT. 00:26:17.71\00:26:20.48 THEREFORE IF YOU WILL NOT WATCH, I WILL COME ON YOU AS A THIEF, 00:26:20.51\00:26:25.38 AND YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT HOUR I WILL COME UPON YOU." 00:26:25.41\00:26:27.65 THE LORD IS LOOKING FOR A WORLD OF PEACE - AND WE ALL WANT PEACE 00:26:27.68\00:26:32.32 - AND UNFORTUNATELY, SOMETIMES TO HAVE PEACE, YOU NEED TO BE 00:26:32.35\00:26:35.12 WILLING TO FACE WAR. AND THE LORD IS GOING TO CREATE 00:26:35.16\00:26:38.36 A NEW WORLD WHERE THERE'S PEACE. >>AMEN. 00:26:38.39\00:26:41.16 >>BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A MIGHTY BATTLE, IN THE END, TO 00:26:41.20\00:26:45.73 BRING ABOUT THAT PEACE. >>DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST 00:26:45.77\00:26:53.11 TODAY'S LIFE-CHANGING FREE RESOURCE. 00:26:53.14\00:26:55.71 NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL, YOU CAN 00:26:55.74\00:26:58.05 DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY STRAIGHT TO YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE 00:26:58.08\00:27:00.88 DEVICE. TO GET YOUR DIGITAL COPY OF TODAY'S FREE GIFT, SIMPLY 00:27:00.92\00:27:04.92 TEXT THE KEY WORD ON YOUR SCREEN TO 40544 OR VISIT THE WEB 00:27:04.95\00:27:09.49 ADDRESS SHOWN ON YOUR SCREEN. 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