>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:00:01.70\00:00:04.80 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:04.83\00:00:09.24 >>ARMAGEDDON. THIS SCARY WORD FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION 00:00:09.27\00:00:12.81 IS AN ENIGMA FOR MOST BIBLE SCHOLARS. IT ONLY APPEARS 00:00:12.84\00:00:16.04 ONCE IN SCRIPTURE AND IT IS FOUND NOWHERE ELSE IN GREEK 00:00:16.08\00:00:19.35 WRITINGS. MANY BELIEVE IT'S CONNECTED 00:00:19.38\00:00:21.92 WITH THE VALLEY OR THE HILL OF MEGIDDO, LOCATED IN ISRAEL. 00:00:21.95\00:00:25.22 BUT BIBLE TRANSLATOR AND SCHOLAR, ROBERT MOFFETT ARGUED 00:00:25.25\00:00:28.72 STRONGLY THAT THE WORD REALLY REFERS TO THE BATTLE OF GIDEON, 00:00:28.76\00:00:32.69 WHEN A SMALL BUT DIVINELY CHOSEN ARMY GAINED THE VICTORY OVER A 00:00:32.73\00:00:36.23 POWERFUL AND VASTLY LARGER ENEMY. ARMAGEDDON COMES FROM 00:00:36.26\00:00:40.50 THE HEBREW WORD 'AMAR GID' OWN,' WHICH CAN BE TRANSLATED 00:00:40.54\00:00:44.51 FROM 'YEHOVAH AMAR GID' OWN,' MEANING, 'THE WORD OR 00:00:44.54\00:00:49.01 CHALLENGE OF JEHOVAH TO GIDEON.' IT'S ALSO NOTEWORTHY THAT THE 00:00:49.04\00:00:53.25 BATTLE OF GIDEON WAS FOUGHT IN THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO. 00:00:53.28\00:00:57.22 REVELATION CHAPTER 16, VERSE 14 CONNECTS ARMAGEDDON WITH THE 00:00:57.25\00:01:01.66 BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY, BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS 00:01:01.69\00:01:06.26 THIS MYSTERIOUS BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON? 00:01:06.29\00:01:09.03 AND WHAT'S INVOLVED IN IT? WHAT'S AT STAKE AND 00:01:09.06\00:01:11.40 HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU? TOGETHER, LET'S TAKE A CAREFUL 00:01:11.43\00:01:15.57 LOOK AT THESE ANSWERS. >>I DON'T KNOW HOW 00:01:15.60\00:01:21.61 TO BREAK THIS TO YOU. THE BIBLE TELLS US 00:01:21.64\00:01:24.41 THAT WE ARE AT WAR. THERE IS A WAR GOING ON. 00:01:24.45\00:01:28.48 IF YOU HAVE NOT FELT THAT WAR IN YOUR MIND, THEN I WONDER IF 00:01:28.52\00:01:32.25 YOU'RE TRYING TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE. 00:01:32.29\00:01:34.16 BECAUSE, IF YOU ARE CHRISTIAN, AND YOU ARE TRYING TO BE GOOD IN 00:01:34.19\00:01:37.53 A BAD WORLD, YOU FEEL CONFLICT. JESUS SAID, 'YOU WILL BE HATED 00:01:37.56\00:01:43.20 OF ALL NATIONS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.' 00:01:43.23\00:01:45.40 THERE IS A GREAT CONTROVERSY THAT IS GOING ON IN 00:01:45.43\00:01:48.24 THE WORLD BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND THE FORCES OF EVIL. 00:01:48.27\00:01:52.71 WE SEE IT PLAYING OUT THROUGH HISTORY. 00:01:52.74\00:01:55.84 JESUS SAID THERE WILL BE WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS AND THERE 00:01:55.88\00:01:58.31 HAVE BEEN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND WE SEE IT PLAYING 00:01:58.35\00:02:01.35 OUT IN OUR LIVES, THIS BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL - THE 00:02:01.38\00:02:06.05 DESIRE TO DO GOD'S WILL BETWEEN OUR OWN WILL, WHICH IS OFTEN THE 00:02:06.09\00:02:11.13 WILL OF THE EVIL ONE TOO. NOW, THAT TAKES US TO THE 00:02:11.16\00:02:17.20 ULTIMATE BATTLE OF BATTLES, WHICH IS WHAT THIS SERIES IS 00:02:17.23\00:02:20.57 ABOUT, BETTER KNOWN AS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 00:02:20.60\00:02:25.01 THE VERY WORD 'ARMAGEDDON', IT'S USED A LOT OF DIFFERENT TIMES - 00:02:25.04\00:02:28.24 IT'S SORT OF OMINOUS - AND IT TALKS ABOUT JUST THE ULTIMATE 00:02:28.28\00:02:32.38 BATTLE, THE BATTLE ON STEROIDS, OF ALL BATTLES. 00:02:32.41\00:02:37.02 AND SO PEOPLE SAY THAT WORD - IT ONLY APPEARS ONE TIME IN THE 00:02:37.05\00:02:39.92 BIBLE. THE WORD 'ARMAGEDDON', AS FAR AS THE SCHOLARS CAN TELL, 00:02:39.95\00:02:43.22 IT COMES FROM THE COMPOSITE OF TWO WORDS. IT'S - IN GREEK - 00:02:43.26\00:02:48.60 IN REVELATION 16 WE SAY 'ARMAGEDDON,' BUT THEY'RE 00:02:48.63\00:02:51.97 DRAWING FROM A HEBREW WORD AND IT SAYS, IN THE HEBREW TONGUE, 00:02:52.00\00:02:55.37 IT WOULD BE 'HAR MEGIDDO' - HAR MEANS 'HILL OF'. MEGIDDO WAS A 00:02:55.40\00:03:01.41 HILL OUTSIDE OF THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL, A VERY FAMOUS PLACE. 00:03:01.44\00:03:05.48 MATTER OF FACT, WE'VE GOT A PICTURE OF THAT UP ON THE SCREEN 00:03:05.51\00:03:07.25 FOR YOU. THOSE ARE THE ANCIENT RUINS OF MEGIDDO. 00:03:07.28\00:03:10.49 NOT VERY BIG, BUT WHAT IT WAS IS A REMARKABLE WATCH TOWER - A 00:03:10.52\00:03:15.59 VILLAGE OR A LITTLE KINGDOM - IT WAS A WALLED 00:03:15.62\00:03:18.06 FORTRESS THAT OVERLOOKED A VERY IMPORTANT STRATEGIC VALLEY KNOWN 00:03:18.09\00:03:23.63 AS THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL. AND THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL HAS 00:03:23.67\00:03:28.14 BEEN THE SITE OF ABOUT 34 DIFFERENT BATTLES. 00:03:28.17\00:03:32.31 AND SO, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT ARMAGEDDON, IT MEANS THE BATTLES 00:03:32.34\00:03:36.51 FROM THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL. IT'S IN THAT BATTLE 00:03:36.54\00:03:41.22 WHERE GIDEON FOUGHT. MATTER OF FACT, SOME HAVE 00:03:41.25\00:03:44.05 WONDERED IF ARMAGEDDON IS REALLY REFERENCING JUDGES CHAPTER 6 00:03:44.09\00:03:49.99 BECAUSE WHEN IT SAYS THE LORD SAID TO GIDEON IT SOUNDS LIKE 00:03:50.03\00:03:53.76 'YAH MAR GIDEON' - VERY SIMILAR TO ARMAGEDDON. 00:03:53.80\00:03:59.13 BUT HIS BATTLE TOOK PLACE IN THAT VALLEY TOO, SO IT WORKS 00:03:59.17\00:04:01.44 EITHER WAY. IT'S WHERE JOSIAH WAS KILLED. IT'S WHERE DEBORAH 00:04:01.47\00:04:05.71 AND BARAK GOT VICTORY OVER THE CANAANITES. AND SO, THERE HAVE 00:04:05.74\00:04:10.85 BEEN A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT BATTLES IN THIS VALLEY. 00:04:10.88\00:04:13.42 ONE REASON IT'S SO STRATEGIC IS BECAUSE THIS VALLEY IS THE MAIN 00:04:13.45\00:04:17.82 ROAD THAT BRINGS TOGETHER THREE CONTINENTS. 00:04:17.85\00:04:22.66 WHOEVER OWNED THIS VALLEY OWNED THE TAX REVENUE AND IT WAS JUST 00:04:22.69\00:04:27.86 FANTASTICALLY IMPORTANT FOR KINGDOMS TO POSSESS THIS VALLEY 00:04:27.93\00:04:31.33 AND THE WATCH TOWER, IN PARTICULAR. 00:04:31.37\00:04:33.84 NAPOLEON, AT ONE TIME, VISITED THE MIDDLE EAST. 00:04:33.87\00:04:37.67 AND WHEN HE WENT TO ISRAEL AND HE WENT, IN PARTICULAR, TO THE 00:04:37.71\00:04:40.08 HILL OF MEGIDDO, HE OVERLOOKED THE VALLEY AND HE IS REPORTED TO 00:04:40.11\00:04:43.85 HAVE SAID, "ALL THE ARMIES OF THE WORLD COULD MANEUVER THEIR 00:04:43.88\00:04:47.92 FORCES ON THIS VAST PLAIN... THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD 00:04:47.95\00:04:51.75 MORE SUITED FOR WAR THAN THIS... [IT IS] THE MOST NATURAL 00:04:51.79\00:04:56.12 BATTLEGROUND OF THE WHOLE EARTH." THAT'S NAPOLEON, AND HE 00:04:56.16\00:05:01.46 KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT WAR - THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BATTLE. 00:05:01.50\00:05:04.33 WELL, A LOT OF CHARISMATIC AND EVANGELICAL PASTORS HAVE READ 00:05:04.37\00:05:07.77 QUOTES LIKE THIS AND THEY SAY [THE] BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS 00:05:07.80\00:05:10.97 GOING TO LITERALLY BE FOUGHT IN THIS VALLEY. 00:05:11.01\00:05:13.84 AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE CHINA AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE RUSSIA 00:05:13.88\00:05:16.71 AND WE'LL, YOU KNOW, AMERICA AND ISRAEL AND THERE'S JUST GOING TO 00:05:16.75\00:05:20.68 BE THIS BIG - YOU KNOW, THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, 00:05:20.72\00:05:24.25 BIBLICALLY, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TOY SOLDIERS FIGHTING ON A 00:05:24.29\00:05:27.92 BATTLEFIELD THE WAY THEY USED TO DO, WHERE THEY ALL LINE UP AND 00:05:27.96\00:05:29.92 MARCH AGAINST EACH OTHER. THEY DON'T FIGHT WARS LIKE THAT 00:05:29.96\00:05:32.33 ANYMORE. LOOK AT HOW WAR HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. 00:05:32.36\00:05:36.83 NOW, THERE ARE SOME TIMES THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST - 00:05:36.87\00:05:41.17 THERE MAY BE SOME WAR - BUT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS THE 00:05:41.20\00:05:43.71 ULTIMATE BATTLE OF SATAN AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:05:43.74\00:05:48.38 IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS, YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 12, 00:05:48.41\00:05:50.51 WHERE IT SAYS IN VERSE 17, "THE DRAGON" - WHO'S THAT? 00:05:50.55\00:05:54.15 >>SATAN. >>"THE DEVIL IS WROTH" - 00:05:54.18\00:05:56.15 INFURIATED - "WITH THE WOMAN AND HE GOES TO MAKE WAR." 00:05:56.18\00:06:00.66 AND, WELL, I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. 00:06:00.69\00:06:02.66 WE'VE GOT SEVERAL OTHER WARS WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THAT. 00:06:02.69\00:06:06.29 SO PEOPLE WONDER, IS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON A PHYSICAL WAR? 00:06:06.33\00:06:09.40 IS IT A FINANCIAL WAR? IS IT A SPIRITUAL WAR? 00:06:09.43\00:06:12.07 WHY DON'T WE GO TO THE VERSE AND READ IT AGAIN? 00:06:12.10\00:06:14.27 TURN WITH ME TO REVELATION CHAPTER 16 AND LET'S JUST KIND 00:06:14.30\00:06:17.84 OF GET OUR HEADS WRAPPED AROUND WHAT'S BEING SAID HERE. 00:06:17.87\00:06:21.18 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS ACTUALLY PLAGUE #6 OUT OF THE 00:06:21.21\00:06:25.45 SEVEN LAST PLAGUES. AND, IF YOU GO TO VERSE 12, 00:06:25.48\00:06:28.68 REVELATION 16, "THEN THE SIXTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL" - OR 00:06:28.72\00:06:34.99 HIS VIAL - ON THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES, AND ITS WATER WAS 00:06:35.02\00:06:39.66 DRIED UP," - THE WATERS OF THE EUPHRATES MIGHT BE DRIED UP - 00:06:39.69\00:06:42.63 "SO THAT THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF THE EAST MIGHT BE PREPARED. 00:06:42.66\00:06:45.67 AND I SAW THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS LIKE FROGS COMING OUT OF THE 00:06:45.70\00:06:49.50 MOUTH OF THE DRAGON, OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST, AND OUT OF 00:06:49.54\00:06:52.81 THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE PROPHET. 00:06:52.84\00:06:54.54 FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF DEMONS, PERFORMING SIGNS THAT GO 00:06:54.58\00:06:57.88 OUT TO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH AND OF THE WHOLE WORLD, TO 00:06:57.91\00:07:01.28 GATHER THEM TO THE BATTLE OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY." 00:07:01.32\00:07:07.62 NOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT - HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A RED-LETTER 00:07:07.66\00:07:11.89 BIBLE? DO YOU NOTICE THAT SUDDENLY, OUT 00:07:11.93\00:07:15.50 OF NOWHERE, THINGS TURN RED? "BEHOLD, I AM COMING AS A THIEF. 00:07:15.53\00:07:20.94 BLESSED IS HE WHO WATCHES; AND KEEPS HIS GARMENTS, LEST HE WALK 00:07:20.97\00:07:24.34 NAKED AND THEY SEE HIS SHAME." 00:07:24.37\00:07:27.14 YOU DON'T SEE ANY RED LETTERS UNTIL YOU GET TO THE END OF IT, 00:07:27.18\00:07:30.11 OR YOU GO BACK TO REVELATION CHAPTER 3. 00:07:30.15\00:07:32.98 THIS IS ONE PLACE WHERE JESUS SUDDENLY INTERJECTS A PHRASE 00:07:33.01\00:07:38.52 DURING THE SIXTH PLAGUE - AND WE'LL EXPLAIN MORE ABOUT THAT - 00:07:38.55\00:07:43.09 AND IT SAYS, "AND THEY GATHERED THEM" - VERSE 16 - REVELATION 00:07:43.12\00:07:46.26 16:16 - "AND THEY GATHERED THEM TOGETHER TO THE PLACE 00:07:46.29\00:07:49.56 CALLED IN HEBREW, ARMAGEDDON." 00:07:49.60\00:07:53.44 ALRIGHT, WELL, WITH THAT LITTLE BACKGROUND, LET'S GET BACK TO 00:07:53.47\00:07:56.34 OUR STUDY. SOME OF THIS WILL BE A BRIEF REVIEW. 00:07:56.37\00:07:59.61 YOU REMEMBER BEFORE, THERE'S A SEALING THAT TAKES PLACE. 00:07:59.64\00:08:03.11 WE READ IN REVELATION CHAPTER 7 - I DIDN'T GET TO THE 144,000 IN 00:08:03.14\00:08:07.32 CHAPTER 14, BUT I TOLD YOU IN CHAPTER 7 IT TELLS US THAT 00:08:07.35\00:08:10.75 THERE'S 144,000 THAT ARE SEALED. THESE ANGELS ARE HOLDING BACK 00:08:10.79\00:08:15.42 THE WINDS OF STRIFE AND THE WINDS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BLOW 00:08:15.46\00:08:18.16 UNTIL GOD'S SERVANTS ARE SEALED IN THEIR FOREHEADS. 00:08:18.19\00:08:21.10 AND IT TELLS US THERE ARE 12,000 SEALED FROM THE TRIBES OF JUDAH, 00:08:21.13\00:08:25.63 REUBEN, GAD, ASHER, NAPHTALI, MANASSEH, SIMEON, LEVI, 00:08:25.67\00:08:29.37 ISSACHAR, ZEBULAN, JOSEPH, AND BENJAMIN. 00:08:29.40\00:08:31.97 NOW, DOES THAT MEAN THAT GOD IS GOING TO HAVE 144,000 LITERAL 00:08:32.01\00:08:38.58 JEWS FROM THESE LITERAL TRIBES, IN THE LAST DAYS, THAT RECEIVE 00:08:38.61\00:08:43.08 THIS SPIRITUAL SEAL BEFORE THE LAST PLAGUES COME? 00:08:43.12\00:08:48.49 >>NO. >>YOU'D BE SURPRISED. 00:08:48.52\00:08:50.49 THERE ARE SOME EVANGELICAL PASTORS AND PREACHERS SAYING 00:08:50.53\00:08:53.56 THAT, AND I'M JUST, QUITE HONESTLY, SHOCKED AT THEIR 00:08:53.60\00:08:57.13 IGNORANCE, BECAUSE ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ THE BIBLE AND 00:08:57.17\00:09:01.74 YOU'LL SEE THAT, LONG BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN, BACK DURING THE 00:09:01.77\00:09:04.87 TIME OF HEZEKIAH, TEN OF THE TRIBES WERE CARRIED OFF TO 00:09:04.91\00:09:07.78 ASSYRIA - MANY OF THE TRIBE NAMES WE JUST MENTIONED - THEY 00:09:07.81\00:09:11.61 INTERMARRIED WITH THE ASSYRIANS. MANY OF THEM JUST COMPLETELY 00:09:11.65\00:09:15.25 LOST THEIR IDENTITY. THERE ARE PROBABLY SOME OF YOU 00:09:15.28\00:09:18.45 HERE THAT HAVE A LITTLE ISSACHAR IN YOU. 00:09:18.49\00:09:20.62 YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IT, BECAUSE MANY OF THEM WERE DISPERSED AND 00:09:20.66\00:09:23.49 SCATTERED AND INTERMARRIED AND - SO THE IDEA THAT GOD CAN'T DO 00:09:23.53\00:09:28.03 HIS FINAL WORK UNTIL HE GETS 144,000 PURE-BRED JEWS - 12,000 00:09:28.06\00:09:35.04 FROM EACH OF THESE TRIBES. AGAIN, THAT'S ODD, BECAUSE THE 00:09:35.07\00:09:38.07 TRIBES HAD SUCH VASTLY DIFFERENT POPULATIONS. JUDAH WAS MUCH 00:09:38.11\00:09:41.64 BIGGER THAN BENJAMIN AND EPHRAIM THAN MANASSEH. 00:09:41.68\00:09:46.58 THAT'S SO - WHY THE NUMBER 12 - EXACTLY 12 - WELL, I BELIEVE 00:09:46.61\00:09:50.12 THAT THE NUMBER MAY BE PARTICULAR, BUT THE NAMES YOU'RE 00:09:50.15\00:09:53.82 GOING TO FIND IN REVELATION - NAMES ALWAYS HAVE A SPIRITUAL 00:09:53.86\00:09:57.29 MEANING. I FEEL SO SURE OF THAT I'M GOING TO SAY IT TWICE. 00:09:57.33\00:10:00.10 THE NAMES IN REVELATION ALWAYS ARE SYMBOLIC. 00:10:00.13\00:10:05.87 WHEN IT TALKS, IN REVELATION, ABOUT JEZEBEL, WELL, DO YOU 00:10:05.90\00:10:09.20 THINK THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT REAL JEZEBEL OR WAS SHE DEAD LONG 00:10:09.24\00:10:11.24 AGO? IT'S TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE WHO DOES WHAT JEZEBEL DID. 00:10:11.27\00:10:14.44 IN REVELATION IT TALKS ABOUT BALAAM. 00:10:14.48\00:10:16.38 DO YOU THINK IT'S REALLY BALAAM RESURRECTED OR IS IT TALKING 00:10:16.41\00:10:18.71 ABOUT SOMEONE THAT HAS GREED? THEY SELL OUT ON 00:10:18.75\00:10:21.12 GOD LIKE BALAAM. AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE DRAGON, 00:10:21.15\00:10:23.85 IT TALKS ABOUT APOLLYON, IT TALKS ABOUT MICHAEL - IT TALKS 00:10:23.89\00:10:26.22 ABOUT A NUMBER OF THESE TERMS AND THEY HAVE SPIRITUAL NAMES. 00:10:26.25\00:10:31.23 WHEN YOU GET TO THE 144,000, WHAT DO THOSE NAMES MEAN? 00:10:31.26\00:10:36.10 FIRST OF ALL, YOU DO NOT FIND A LIST OF THE SONS OF JACOB THE 00:10:36.13\00:10:39.33 WAY THEY'RE LISTED IN REVELATION, ANYWHERE IN THE 00:10:39.37\00:10:41.04 BIBLE. IT IS UNIQUE LIST OF TRIBES. 00:10:41.07\00:10:44.07 TWO TRIBES ARE LEFT OUT. DO YOU KNOW WHICH ONES? 00:10:44.11\00:10:47.61 NO MENTION OF DAN. WHY IS DAN LEFT OUT? 00:10:47.64\00:10:51.51 AND THERE'S NO MENTION OF EPHRAIM. 00:10:51.55\00:10:54.28 INSTEAD, IT ADDS JOSEPH AND INCLUDES LEVI. 00:10:54.32\00:10:58.82 AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE THIS LIST, WHEN YOU SAY THE NAMES 00:10:58.85\00:11:01.99 TOGETHER, TELLS THE STORY OF REDEMPTION. 00:11:02.02\00:11:04.86 EPHRAIM, THE BIBLE SAYS 'EPHRAIM IS JOINED TO HER IDOLS. 00:11:04.89\00:11:08.23 LET HIM ALONE.' AND THEN DAN, IT SAYS, IS A SERPENT IN THE WAY. 00:11:08.26\00:11:14.24 AND DAN ALSO MEANS JUDGMENT AND JUDGMENT IS PASSED, AT THIS 00:11:14.27\00:11:18.71 POINT, FOR THE 144,000. SO WHEN YOU TAKE THE NAMES THE 00:11:18.74\00:11:23.04 WAY THEY'RE GIVEN, IF I WERE TO JUST READ THE NAMES IN HEBREW 00:11:23.08\00:11:26.75 WITH THEIR MEANING, WHAT DOES IT SAY? FOR INSTANCE, THE NAME 00:11:26.78\00:11:31.12 JUDAH - JUDAH'S FIRST - WHY IS JUDAH FIRST IN THIS LIST? 00:11:31.15\00:11:34.66 HE'S NOT THE FIRSTBORN, REUBEN'S THE FIRSTBORN. 00:11:34.69\00:11:36.93 YOU SEE, IT'S A - IT'S A DELIBERATELY MIXED-UP LIST. 00:11:36.96\00:11:40.76 JOHN KNEW WHAT THE TRIBES WERE BECAUSE IT SAYS SOMETHING. 00:11:40.80\00:11:44.30 THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS, "I WILL PRAISE THE LORD" - WHEN YOU PUT 00:11:44.33\00:11:47.97 THE NAMES TOGETHER AND YOU DECIPHER THEM WITH THEIR 00:11:48.00\00:11:50.24 MEANING, IT SAYS A STATEMENT: "I WILL PRAISE THE LORD FOR HE HAS 00:11:50.27\00:11:54.74 LOOKED ON ME" - MY AFFLICTION - "AND GRANTED ME GOOD FORTUNE. 00:11:54.78\00:11:59.38 I AM HAPPY, BECAUSE WITH GREAT WRESTLING, I HAVE WRESTLED AND 00:11:59.41\00:12:03.28 PREVAILED. THUS, GOD HAS MADE ME FORGET MY 00:12:03.32\00:12:05.99 TOIL BECAUSE THE LORD HAS HEARD THAT I AM NOT LOVED. 00:12:06.02\00:12:09.42 HE IS JOINED" - OR MARRIED - "TO ME. 00:12:09.46\00:12:11.49 GOD HAS GIVEN ME MY HIRE BY DWELLING WITH ME. 00:12:11.53\00:12:16.13 THE LORD SHALL ADD TO ME THE SON OF HIS RIGHT HAND." 00:12:16.16\00:12:19.53 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STATEMENT THAT TALKS ABOUT THE PLAN OF 00:12:19.57\00:12:22.00 SALVATION, WHEN YOU PUT IT TOGETHER - THE NAMES. 00:12:22.04\00:12:25.44 SO NOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT REVELATION 7. 00:12:25.47\00:12:28.64 IF YOU GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 14 YOU'LL READ VERSE 1, "I 00:12:28.68\00:12:33.58 LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A LAMB STANDING ON MOUNT ZION, AND WITH 00:12:33.62\00:12:36.45 HIM 144,000, HAVING HIS FATHER'S NAME WRITTEN ON THEIR FOREHEADS. 00:12:36.48\00:12:43.19 AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, LIKE THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS, 00:12:43.22\00:12:45.93 AND LIKE THE VOICE OF LOUD THUNDER. 00:12:45.96\00:12:47.93 AND I HEARD THE SOUND OF HARPISTS PLAYING THEIR HARPS. 00:12:47.96\00:12:50.27 THEY SANG AS IT WERE A NEW SONG BEFORE THE THRONE, BEFORE THE 00:12:50.30\00:12:54.07 FOUR LIVING CREATURES, AND THE ELDERS; AND NO ONE COULD LEARN 00:12:54.10\00:12:56.50 THAT SONG EXCEPT THE 144,000 WHO WERE REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH. 00:12:56.54\00:13:01.51 THESE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE NOT DEFILED WITH WOMEN, FOR THEY ARE 00:13:01.54\00:13:04.48 VIRGINS..." THAT'S ODD. IT SAYS THEY'RE VIRGINS - THAT'S 00:13:04.51\00:13:07.32 FEMININE - THEY'RE NOT DEFILED WITH WOMEN. 00:13:07.35\00:13:09.78 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT? 00:13:09.82\00:13:12.32 >>CHURCH. >>WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BABYLON 00:13:12.35\00:13:14.82 AND HER DAUGHTERS, IN REVELATION, AND IT SAYS IN HER 00:13:14.86\00:13:18.23 FOREHEAD 'MOTHER OF HARLOTS,' IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? 00:13:18.26\00:13:21.46 >>BAD. >>BAD. SHE'S A BAD WOMAN. 00:13:21.50\00:13:23.47 YOU HAVE ANOTHER WOMAN WHO IS PURE - IN REVELATION 12 - SHE'S 00:13:23.50\00:13:27.60 CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. 00:13:27.64\00:13:29.74 IT'S SAYING THE 144,000 ARE NOT DEFILED WITH THE FALSE TEACHINGS 00:13:29.77\00:13:34.24 OF BABYLON AND HER DAUGHTERS FOR THEY ARE PURE. 00:13:34.28\00:13:38.71 AND IT SAYS THEY FOLLOW THE LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES. 00:13:38.75\00:13:41.08 THEY SING A SONG THAT NO ONE CAN SING EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE 00:13:41.12\00:13:44.59 REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH. YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IT SAYS 00:13:44.62\00:13:47.69 ABOUT THE 144,000 - FIRST OF ALL, HOW MANY WERE THERE? 00:13:47.72\00:13:51.56 12 TIMES 12,000. WHERE DO YOU FIND THE NUMBER 12 IN THE NEW 00:13:51.59\00:13:55.73 TESTAMENT? THE APOSTLES, FOR ONE THING, RIGHT? 00:13:55.76\00:14:00.70 DID THE APOSTLES FOLLOW JESUS WHEREVER HE WENT? 00:14:00.74\00:14:04.07 DID THE APOSTLES SING A SONG WITH JESUS? 00:14:04.11\00:14:06.44 ONLY TIME RECORDED THAT JESUS SANG IS WITH THE APOSTLES AT THE 00:14:06.47\00:14:09.21 LAST SUPPER. IT SAYS THEY'RE WITHOUT GUILE. 00:14:09.24\00:14:13.65 DIDN'T JESUS SAY TO ONE OF THE APOSTLES, 'BEHOLD, AN ISRAELITE 00:14:13.68\00:14:16.08 IN WHOM THERE IS NO GUILE'? AND YOU START LOOKING AT THE 00:14:16.12\00:14:19.82 DESCRIPTION, THEY HAVE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP. 00:14:19.85\00:14:23.49 MY OPINION IS THE 144,000 ARE, TO THE SECOND COMING, WHAT THE 00:14:23.53\00:14:28.63 12 APOSTLES WERE WHEN JESUS CAME THE FIRST TIME. 00:14:28.66\00:14:31.60 THEY ARE LAST-DAY APOSTLES THAT DO A SPECIAL WORK. 00:14:31.63\00:14:34.54 ARE THERE ONLY 144,000 SAVED? NO, THAT'D BE PRETTY BAD. 00:14:34.57\00:14:39.24 I DID THE MATH AND THAT MEANS THAT, LIKE, 1 OUT OF 40,000 00:14:39.27\00:14:42.14 WOULD MAKE - BE SAVED. THAT'D BE DEPRESSING. 00:14:42.18\00:14:45.55 STATISTICALLY, THAT'S JUST A LITTLE BETTER THAN THE LOTTERY. 00:14:45.58\00:14:49.38 YOU'RE STILL BETTER OFF TRYING TO BE ONE OF THE 144,000 THAN 00:14:49.42\00:14:53.19 BUYING A LOTTO TICKET. DID YOU GET THAT? 00:14:53.22\00:14:55.76 BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE MANY MORE BECAUSE IT SAID THERE WAS A 00:14:55.79\00:14:59.39 GREAT MULTITUDE THAT NO MAN COULD NUMBER, WHO WOULD WASH 00:14:59.43\00:15:01.96 THEIR ROBES AND COME OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION. JUST LIKE ON 00:15:02.00\00:15:04.77 THE DAY OF PENTECOST WHEN GOD POURS OUT HIS SPIRIT. 00:15:04.80\00:15:07.17 THE TWELVE APOSTLES ARE IN THE UPPER ROOM, THEY HAD REPLACED 00:15:07.20\00:15:09.57 JUDAS, THERE'S 120 ALTOGETHER AND THEN THEY PREACH AND A GREAT 00:15:09.60\00:15:13.71 MULTITUDE IS BAPTIZED AS A RESULT. 3,000 ONE TIME, 5,000 00:15:13.74\00:15:17.15 ANOTHER, SO I THINK THE 144,000 ARE SPECIAL, SPIRIT-FILLED 00:15:17.18\00:15:21.52 PEOPLE THAT ARE READY DURING THE SEALING TIME WHEN THE HOLY 00:15:21.55\00:15:24.95 SPIRIT IS POURED OUT TO DO A GREAT EVANGELISTIC WORK AND 00:15:24.99\00:15:28.52 BRING IN A GREAT MULTITUDE. SO - BUT IT SAYS BEFORE THE 00:15:28.56\00:15:32.49 PLAGUES COME, THE ANGELS ARE HOLDING BACK THOSE WINDS OF 00:15:32.53\00:15:35.63 STRIFE UNTIL EVERYONE IS SEALED IN THE FOREHEAD. 00:15:35.66\00:15:41.50 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, IN JUST A MOMENT WE'LL RETURN FOR 00:15:41.54\00:15:44.67 THE COMPLETION OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 00:15:44.71\00:15:47.14 EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, VIRTUALLY EVERY BIBLE WRITER 00:15:47.18\00:15:51.01 REFERS TO THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. 00:15:51.05\00:15:54.32 PAUL SAYS, 'WE WILL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF 00:15:54.35\00:15:57.85 CHRIST.' IN LIGHT OF OUR COUNTLESS SINS, THE THOUGHT OF 00:15:57.89\00:16:01.39 FACING OUR LIFE'S RECORD BEFORE A HOLY GOD CAN STRIKE TERROR 00:16:01.42\00:16:04.83 INTO THE HEART OF EVERY MAN. BUT JESUS TELLS US THERE'S A 00:16:04.86\00:16:08.13 WAY TO FACE THE JUDGMENT WITH COMPLETE PEACE. 00:16:08.16\00:16:11.63 WE'D LIKE TO SHARE THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED RESOURCE 00:16:11.67\00:16:14.44 WITH YOU THAT EXPLAINS, THROUGH SCRIPTURE, WHO PRESIDES AT THIS 00:16:14.47\00:16:17.84 JUDGMENT, WHO'S THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY, THE ACCUSER, THE 00:16:17.87\00:16:21.34 SUPREME JUDGE, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, HOW TO ESCAPE BEING 00:16:21.38\00:16:25.28 CONDEMNED. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE 00:16:25.31\00:16:27.92 PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #132, OR 00:16:27.95\00:16:32.09 VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. AND, AFTER YOU READ THIS 00:16:32.12\00:16:34.66 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 00:16:34.69\00:16:37.46 LET'S GET BACK TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 00:16:37.49\00:16:40.16 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD. 00:16:40.20\00:16:44.30 >>THE KEY TO UNLOCK THE MYSTERIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 00:16:44.33\00:16:46.50 IS FOUND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. GO TO THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL. 00:16:46.53\00:16:50.57 I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE BUT, IN REVELATION, THERE ARE 404 00:16:50.61\00:16:54.21 VERSES - 278 OF THE 404 VERSES IN REVELATION CAN BE FOUND, 00:16:54.24\00:17:00.25 ALMOST VERBATIM, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 00:17:00.28\00:17:03.28 GO TO EZEKIEL 9. READ VERSE 4 - THIS IS A 00:17:03.32\00:17:08.32 SOBERING PROPHECY, BUT IT'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW 00:17:08.36\00:17:12.26 IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT WE'RE STUDYING. 00:17:12.29\00:17:14.50 "AND THE LORD SAID, 'GO THROUGH THE MIDST OF THE CITY, THROUGH 00:17:14.56\00:17:18.63 THE MIDST OF JERUSALEM, AND PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS" - 00:17:18.67\00:17:22.50 ALRIGHT, RIGHT AWAY, IF YOU WERE TO STOP READING - IF YOU HADN'T 00:17:22.54\00:17:24.31 READ THIS BEFORE - MARK ON THE FOREHEAD. 00:17:24.34\00:17:25.87 YOU'RE THINKING, 'HOO HOO, DON'T LET THEM DO THAT. 00:17:25.91\00:17:28.14 THAT'S BAD.' BECAUSE WE ALWAYS THINK OF A MARK ON THE FOREHEAD 00:17:28.18\00:17:31.88 AS ASSOCIATED WITH WHAT? >>THE BEAST. 00:17:31.91\00:17:34.28 >>MARK OF THE BEAST. BUT WE FORGET THAT EVERYBODY'S MARKED 00:17:34.32\00:17:37.92 IN REVELATION. YOU EITHER HAVE THE MARK OF GOD OR THE MARK OF 00:17:37.95\00:17:41.46 THE DEVIL. LOOK AT THIS MARK - YOU WANT THIS MARK IN EZEKIEL 9. 00:17:41.49\00:17:45.56 IT SAYS, "PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS OF THOSE WHO SIGH AND 00:17:45.59\00:17:48.86 CRY OVER ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THAT ARE DONE WITHIN IT." 00:17:48.90\00:17:51.80 THESE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE GRIEVED ABOUT THE SIN AND 00:17:51.83\00:17:54.10 APOSTASY IN ISRAEL. THEY'RE LONGING FOR A HOLINESS. 00:17:54.14\00:17:56.64 THEY'RE SORRY FOR THE WAY THAT THE TRUTH HAS BEEN COMPROMISED 00:17:56.67\00:17:59.47 AND THE TEMPLE ABUSED. EZEKIEL TALKS ABOUT THEM PRAYING 00:17:59.51\00:18:03.01 TO IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE IN OTHER PASSAGES. 00:18:03.04\00:18:05.71 AND THEN HE SAYS TO THE OTHERS, THESE OTHER SIX ANGELS - YOU'VE 00:18:05.75\00:18:09.65 GOT THE SEVENTH ANGEL HAS A WRITER'S INKHORN AND THERE'S SIX 00:18:09.68\00:18:11.89 OTHERS, "GO AFTER HIM THROUGH THE CITY AND KILL; DO NOT LET 00:18:11.92\00:18:17.03 YOUR EYE SPARE, NOR HAVE ANY PITY. 00:18:17.06\00:18:19.33 UTTERLY SLAY OLD AND YOUNG MEN, MAIDENS AND LITTLE CHILDREN AND 00:18:19.36\00:18:23.23 WOMEN;" THIS IS TALKING ABOUT A JUDGMENT THAT'S LIKE THE FLOOD - 00:18:23.26\00:18:25.73 IT TAKES OUT EVERYBODY - "BUT DO NOT COME NEAR ANYONE ON WHOM IS 00:18:25.77\00:18:30.94 THE MARK;" - SO YOU WANT THAT MARK, DON'T YOU? 00:18:30.97\00:18:33.78 AND HE SAYS, "BEGIN AT MY SANCTUARY." 00:18:33.81\00:18:36.34 THAT MEANS AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE. HAVE YOU READ IN THE NEW 00:18:36.38\00:18:39.91 TESTAMENT WHERE PETER SAYS, 'JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN 00:18:39.95\00:18:42.22 AT THE HOUSE OF GOD'? PETER'S QUOTING EZEKIEL 9. 00:18:42.25\00:18:46.25 WELL, YOU'D START WITH TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED. 00:18:46.29\00:18:50.76 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY WHERE - JOHN CHAPTER 8 - A 00:18:50.79\00:18:53.80 WOMAN IS BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE? 00:18:53.83\00:18:55.93 THE PRIESTS ARE STANDING AROUND ACCUSING HER. 00:18:55.96\00:18:57.93 THESE ARE THE ONES WHO DON'T FOLLOW JESUS. 00:18:57.97\00:18:59.90 THEY'RE TRYING TO GET RID OF JESUS. THEY'RE JUST USING THIS 00:18:59.93\00:19:01.80 WOMAN TO ATTACK JESUS AND THEY WANT HER STONED. 00:19:01.84\00:19:06.07 AND JESUS SAID, 'HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN, LET HIM CAST THE 00:19:06.11\00:19:08.38 FIRST STONE.' AND IT SAYS, 'THEY WENT OUT ONE BY ONE BEGINNING AT 00:19:08.41\00:19:12.18 THE ELDEST.' THERE WAS A JUDGMENT IN THE SANCTUARY AND IT 00:19:12.21\00:19:15.88 SAYS, 'BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST'. KNOW WHAT IT SAYS HERE? 00:19:15.92\00:19:17.99 IT SAYS 'THEY BEGAN WITH THE ELDERS WHO WERE BEFORE THE 00:19:18.02\00:19:22.86 TEMPLE.' AND SO, THIS JUDGMENT - IF YOU'RE GOING TO JUDGE PEOPLE, 00:19:22.89\00:19:27.60 WHO WOULD YOU BEGIN WITH? THE CHILDREN WHO HAVEN'T HAD 00:19:27.60\00:19:32.10 MUCH OPPORTUNITY, OR THE OLDEST WHO HAVE HAD MORE OPPORTUNITY? 00:19:32.13\00:19:36.14 WHEN THE SEALING IS COMPLETE, THOSE - THE BIBLE TELLS US IN 00:19:36.17\00:19:39.64 MATTHEW 24, "THE GOSPEL OF THIS KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED IN ALL 00:19:39.67\00:19:42.51 THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS...AND THEN THE END WILL COME." 00:19:42.54\00:19:46.51 UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THE GOSPEL'S GOING TO GO 00:19:46.55\00:19:48.88 IN GREAT POWER, THE WAY IT DID IN THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLES. 00:19:48.92\00:19:52.59 AND WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE A PART OF THAT BUT, I'LL TELL YOU 00:19:52.62\00:19:55.39 SOMETHING, FRIENDS, IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF MEDIA THE GOSPEL'S 00:19:55.42\00:19:58.49 GOING TO GO. THERE'S A PLACE FOR THE TOOLS, 00:19:58.53\00:20:00.73 BUT WHAT GOD NEEDS MORE THAN BETTER MEDIA OR MACHINES - HE 00:20:00.76\00:20:04.63 NEEDS BETTER MEN AND WOMEN. >>AMEN. 00:20:04.67\00:20:06.53 >>IT'S GOING TO BE THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE 00:20:06.57\00:20:08.30 SPIRIT-FILLED THAT'S GOING TO MAKE THE GOSPEL GO SO FAST. 00:20:08.34\00:20:11.44 HOW DID THE DISCIPLES TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE 00:20:11.47\00:20:15.74 WITHOUT PRINTING PRESSES? HOW DID THEY DO IT 00:20:15.78\00:20:18.98 WITHOUT THE INTERNET? HOW DID THEY DO IT 00:20:19.01\00:20:20.88 WITHOUT SATELLITE? IT'S MIND-BOGGLING, ISN'T IT? 00:20:20.92\00:20:23.92 THEY HAD POWER IN THEIR LIVES THAT PEOPLE SAW, AND IT TOOK 00:20:23.95\00:20:28.06 OFF. WE NEED THAT POWER. 00:20:28.09\00:20:29.56 CAN YOU SAY, 'AMEN'? >>AMEN. 00:20:29.59\00:20:31.03 >>BUT THE GOSPEL'S GOING TO GO - NOT EVERYONE WILL BELIEVE - 00:20:31.06\00:20:34.23 JESUS SAID, 'AS A WITNESS' AND THEN HE SAYS, 'THEN THE END WILL 00:20:34.30\00:20:37.63 COME.' WHEN HE SAYS THE END WILL COME, HE MEANS THE BEGINNING OF 00:20:37.67\00:20:39.80 THE END WILL HIT. THAT'S WHERE YOU'VE GOT THE 00:20:39.83\00:20:42.47 CLOSE OF PROBATION AND THE PLAGUES BEGIN TO FALL. 00:20:42.50\00:20:45.04 WHEN THE PLAGUES BEGIN TO FALL, THAT'S THE END. 00:20:45.07\00:20:47.31 BECAUSE, AT THAT POINT, PROBATION IS CLOSED. 00:20:47.34\00:20:49.84 THE SAVED ARE SAVED, THE LOST ARE LOST, AND THERE'S NO 00:20:49.88\00:20:53.08 CHANGING TEAMS ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID WHEN YOU GO 00:20:53.11\00:20:56.48 OUT PREACHING, "WHOEVER WILL NOT RECEIVE OR HEAR YOU, WHEN YOU 00:20:56.52\00:21:00.32 DEPART FROM THERE SHAKE OFF THE DUST OF YOUR FEET AS A 00:21:00.36\00:21:03.02 TESTIMONY AGAINST THEM. ASSUREDLY I SAY, 'IT WILL BE 00:21:03.06\00:21:06.29 MORE TOLERABLE FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH IN THAT DAY OF 00:21:06.33\00:21:09.46 JUDGMENT THAN THAT CITY." SO PEOPLE REJECT THE GOSPEL. 00:21:09.50\00:21:12.47 WE ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THE PATIENCE OF GOD. 00:21:12.50\00:21:14.00 IS THERE A LIMIT TO THE PATIENCE? 00:21:14.04\00:21:16.57 WE HATE TO THINK ABOUT IT, BUT THERE IS. 00:21:16.60\00:21:18.84 AND GOD SAYS IT'LL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH 00:21:18.87\00:21:21.84 THAN THOSE WHO REJECT THE MESSAGE OF JESUS. 00:21:21.88\00:21:26.05 SO YOU'VE GOT THE MESSAGE OF GOD, THREE ANGELS OF HEAVEN - 00:21:26.08\00:21:30.45 THEY'RE SOUNDING FORTH WITH THE LOUD POWER OF THE TRUTH - AT THE 00:21:30.49\00:21:33.25 SAME TIME YOU'VE GOT ON EARTH, FROG MESSAGES. 00:21:33.29\00:21:37.06 THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS - THEY'RE NOT JUST SPIRITS, THEY'RE 00:21:37.09\00:21:39.49 UNCLEAN SPIRITS - "LIKE FROGS COMING OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE 00:21:39.53\00:21:42.73 DRAGON...THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST, AND...THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE 00:21:42.76\00:21:45.87 PROPHET." WHAT'S THE BIGGEST 00:21:45.90\00:21:48.17 PART OF A FROG'S BODY? NOT HIS LEGS, IT'S HIS MOUTH. 00:21:48.20\00:21:52.31 YOU KNOW, ONE FROG CAN SWALLOW ANOTHER FROG OF ALMOST THE SAME 00:21:52.34\00:21:55.58 SIZE BECAUSE THEIR MOUTHS ARE SO BIG. 00:21:55.61\00:21:58.31 AND WHAT DOES A FROG USE TO ATTACK? 00:21:58.35\00:22:00.75 >>TONGUE. >>HIS TONGUE. 00:22:00.78\00:22:03.35 IT'S GOING TO BE A MESSAGE COMING OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE 00:22:03.39\00:22:08.02 BEAST. WHAT TYPICALLY COMES 00:22:08.06\00:22:09.99 OUT OF THE MOUTH? IT'S THE WORDS. SO, THESE FALSE MESSAGES 00:22:10.03\00:22:14.03 - THESE FROGGY MESSAGES - DO YOU KNOW THE MOST POISONOUS ANIMAL 00:22:14.10\00:22:18.20 IN THE WORLD IS A FROG? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE 00:22:18.23\00:22:21.84 POISON-DART FROG THEY HAVE IN SOUTH AMERICA? 00:22:21.87\00:22:24.44 INDIANS DOWN THERE - IT GETS ITS NAME BECAUSE THEY TAKE THESE 00:22:24.47\00:22:26.68 FROGS AND THEY PUT THEM ABOVE A FIRE. 00:22:26.71\00:22:28.44 THEY DON'T COOK THEM OR BURN THEM, THEY KEEP THEM ALIVE, BUT 00:22:28.48\00:22:30.28 THEY PUT THEM ABOVE A FIRE WHERE THEY GET HOT AND THEY SWEAT AND 00:22:30.31\00:22:32.98 THAT SWEAT IS SO TOXIC THAT A YEAR AFTER THEY PUT IT ON A DART 00:22:33.01\00:22:36.28 OR AN ARROW, IT'S STILL LETHAL. AND - SO IT'S A POISON MESSAGE. 00:22:36.32\00:22:42.99 I REMEMBER HEARING IN THE NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE BEING POISONED AND 00:22:43.02\00:22:45.33 POISON GAS AND THERE'S GOING TO BE POISON WORDS THAT ARE GOING 00:22:45.36\00:22:50.13 TO BE GOING OUT. HAVE YOU HEARD OF DOCTRINES OF DEVILS? 00:22:50.17\00:22:53.27 WHAT IS THAT POISON MESSAGE? "FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF 00:22:53.30\00:22:56.87 DEMONS, PERFORMING SIGNS, WHICH GO OUT TO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH 00:22:56.91\00:23:02.58 AND OF THE WHOLE WORLD, TO GATHER THEM TO THE BATTLE 00:23:02.61\00:23:04.51 OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD." THEY'RE TRYING TO ASSEMBLE 00:23:04.55\00:23:07.55 EVERYBODY TO MAKE A LAW TO COMPLETELY ANNIHILATE GOD'S 00:23:07.58\00:23:10.49 PEOPLE AND THEY'RE USING TOXIC MESSAGES TO DO THIS. 00:23:10.52\00:23:14.99 HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU TURNED ON THE TV AND SOME PREACHER 00:23:15.02\00:23:17.66 SAYS, 'THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS TOLD ME' - 'I TALKED TO GOD JUST 00:23:17.69\00:23:21.13 TODAY AND I GOT THIS MESSAGE FROM THE LORD.' ANY OF YOU EVER 00:23:21.16\00:23:24.63 HEARD THAT BEFORE? THEY PLAY THE GOD CARD - 'GOD 00:23:24.67\00:23:26.87 TOLD ME' - I THINK YOU BETTER BE VERY CAREFUL. 00:23:26.90\00:23:29.80 I BELIEVE GOD STILL SPEAKS BUT YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL TO 00:23:29.84\00:23:32.34 SAY THAT GOD TOLD YOU SOMETHING. SO THEY ARE THE 00:23:32.37\00:23:35.94 SPIRITS OF DEVILS PERFORMING MIRACLES. THAT LEADS US TO 00:23:35.98\00:23:41.98 YOU'VE GOT THE BEAST, THE DRAGON, AND THE FALSE PROPHET. 00:23:42.02\00:23:45.09 WHEN THEY ALL GATHER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TOGETHER FOR THIS 00:23:45.12\00:23:47.99 BATTLE, THEN YOU COME INTO WHERE THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON COMES. 00:23:48.02\00:23:51.96 YOU LOOK AND THE SEVENTH PLAGUE IS NOW POURED OUT. 00:23:51.99\00:23:55.03 AND WHAT IS THAT? THE LORD COMES. 00:23:55.06\00:23:58.03 IT TALKS ABOUT - GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 16. 00:23:58.07\00:24:04.07 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 16 YOU READ IN VERSE 17, "THEN THE 00:24:04.11\00:24:08.81 SEVENTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL INTO THE AIR, AND A LOUD 00:24:08.84\00:24:12.58 VOICE CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN, FROM THE THRONE, SAYING, 00:24:12.61\00:24:16.02 'IT IS DONE!'" - IT'S OVER - "AND THERE WERE 00:24:16.05\00:24:19.72 NOISES AND THUNDERINGS AND LIGHTNINGS; AND THERE WAS A 00:24:19.75\00:24:23.69 GREAT EARTHQUAKE, SUCH A MIGHTY AND GREAT EARTHQUAKE AS HAD NOT 00:24:23.73\00:24:27.76 OCCURRED SINCE MEN WERE ON THE EARTH. 00:24:27.83\00:24:30.17 NOW THE GREAT CITY WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS, AND THE CITIES 00:24:30.20\00:24:33.80 OF THE NATIONS" - IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE FALL OF BABYLON. 00:24:33.84\00:24:36.00 YOU READ IN CHAPTER 18, "WAS REMEMBERED BEFORE GOD AND THE 00:24:36.04\00:24:39.27 CUP OF THE WINE OF THE FIERCENESS OF HIS WRATH. 00:24:39.31\00:24:42.38 EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND. 00:24:42.41\00:24:45.71 A GREAT HAIL FELL FROM GOD UPON MAN. 00:24:45.75\00:24:47.85 EACH HAILSTONE ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF A TALENT. 00:24:47.88\00:24:50.52 MEN BLASPHEMED GOD BECAUSE OF THE PLAGUE OF THE HAIL, SINCE 00:24:50.55\00:24:54.29 THAT PLAGUE WAS EXCEEDINGLY GREAT." 00:24:54.32\00:24:56.66 SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THE WAY THAT IT'S SET, THIS GREAT EARTHQUAKE, 00:24:56.69\00:24:59.86 THIS GREAT PLAGUE, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE WRITER COMING ON 00:24:59.89\00:25:02.50 HIS WHITE HORSE. NOW, I WANT TO CLOSE WITH THE RED LETTERS. 00:25:02.53\00:25:07.30 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE SEVEN PLAGUES, BUT REMEMBER WHAT IT 00:25:07.34\00:25:11.34 SAYS IN REVELATION 16, VERSE 15? "BEHOLD, I AM COMING AS A THIEF. 00:25:11.37\00:25:17.71 BLESSED IS HE WHO WATCHES AND KEEPS HIS GARMENTS, LEST HE 00:25:17.75\00:25:20.88 WALK NAKED AND THEY SEE HIS SHAME." 00:25:20.92\00:25:23.35 JESUS, IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS, IS TELLING US, 'I'M COMING.' WHY 00:25:23.39\00:25:27.02 DOES HE TELL US THAT? HE'S SAYING, 'I WANT YOU TO 00:25:27.06\00:25:29.12 COME' - HE'S SAYING, 'I WANT YOU TO BE BLESSED. 00:25:29.16\00:25:31.66 I WANT YOU TO BE READY,' BECAUSE WHEN HE COMES LIKE A THIEF IT'S 00:25:31.69\00:25:35.26 GOING TO BE TOO LATE FOR MOST. EVERYONE THINKS 00:25:35.30\00:25:37.27 WE'VE GOT FOREVER. YOU COULD READ IN MATTHEW 24, 00:25:37.30\00:25:41.80 "THEREFORE," - VERSE 44 - "BE READY FOR THE SON OF MAN IS 00:25:41.84\00:25:45.71 COMING AT AN HOUR YOU DO NOT EXPECT." 00:25:45.74\00:25:48.91 LOOK IN 1 THESSALONIANS 5, VERSE 2, "FOR YOU, YOURSELVES, KNOW 00:25:48.94\00:25:53.01 PERFECTLY THE DAY OF THE LORD IS COMING AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT. 00:25:53.05\00:25:55.92 FOR WHEN THEY SAY, 'PEACE AND SAFETY!' 00:25:55.95\00:25:57.15 THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMES ON THEM, AS LABOR PAINS UPON A 00:25:57.19\00:26:01.19 PREGNANT WOMAN. AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE. 00:26:01.22\00:26:03.89 BUT YOU, BRETHREN, ARE NOT IN DARKNESS, THAT THAT DAY SHOULD 00:26:03.93\00:26:07.00 OVERTAKE YOU AS A THIEF." WE WANT TO HAVE OUR GARMENTS ON. 00:26:07.03\00:26:12.10 REVELATION 3:3, JESUS SAYS, "REMEMBER THEREFORE HOW YOU HAVE 00:26:12.13\00:26:15.97 RECEIVED AND HEARD; HOLD FAST AND REPENT. 00:26:16.00\00:26:18.77 THEREFORE IF YOU WILL NOT WATCH, I WILL COME ON YOU AS A THIEF, 00:26:18.81\00:26:23.68 AND YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT HOUR I WILL COME UPON YOU." 00:26:23.71\00:26:25.95 THE LORD IS LOOKING FOR A WORLD OF PEACE - AND WE ALL WANT PEACE 00:26:25.98\00:26:30.62 - AND UNFORTUNATELY, SOMETIMES TO HAVE PEACE, YOU NEED TO BE 00:26:30.65\00:26:33.42 WILLING TO FACE WAR. AND THE LORD IS GOING TO CREATE 00:26:33.46\00:26:36.66 A NEW WORLD WHERE THERE'S PEACE. >>AMEN. 00:26:36.69\00:26:39.49 >>BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A MIGHTY BATTLE, IN THE END, TO 00:26:39.53\00:26:44.03 BRING ABOUT THAT PEACE. >>DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST 00:26:44.07\00:26:51.41 TODAY'S LIFE-CHANGING FREE RESOURCE. 00:26:51.44\00:26:54.01 NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL, YOU CAN 00:26:54.04\00:26:56.34 DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY STRAIGHT TO YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE 00:26:56.38\00:26:59.11 DEVICE. TO GET YOUR DIGITAL COPY OF TODAY'S FREE GIFT, SIMPLY 00:26:59.15\00:27:03.15 TEXT THE KEY WORD ON YOUR SCREEN TO 40544 OR VISIT THE WEB 00:27:03.18\00:27:07.72 ADDRESS SHOWN ON YOUR SCREEN. 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