Hello, friends,
welcome to another Bible study
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here at 3ABN Worship Center.
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Thank you for tuning in,
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thank you for taking the time
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to spend this
thoughtful hour with us
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studying the Word of God
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and as you know if
you've been following,
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we're continuing on the topic of
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"The Truth About
Spiritual Babylon,"
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and because
you're tuning into 3ABN
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at the Thompsonville
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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we'd like to welcome
you with a hearty amen.
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Can we say amen? Amen.
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And we're here ready to study
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and we hope that your family
and friends will get together
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to spend this time with us
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and in just a moment
after we have prayer,
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I'll tell you where you
can get a copy of the lesson,
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how you can
follow along with us.
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But before we do anything else,
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even before our theme song,
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let's begin with
the word of prayer.
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Our Heavenly
Father, we thank You
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for the opportunity
that's presented to us.
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Lord, we know that without You,
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we can do nothing.
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And so, Lord, tonight
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we call on Your precious name.
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We ask You to
send Your Holy Spirit
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to come into our hearts,
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and to be our
teacher to inspire us
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to not only learn,
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but also to impart to our hearts
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that which we need to know,
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but give us the
strength also to live
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by the knowledge
that we gain this evening.
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And may it increase
our desire to serve You
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and to be ready
for Your soon return.
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We pray in Jesus name, amen.
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Now, for a copy of the lesson,
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go to this
website, asf.3abn.org,
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it appears on your screen
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and download lesson number 29.
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Now, some of you may say,
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I already did that.
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Well, there was
something I had up my sleeve,
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I needed to
make some adjustments
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or additions to that.
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So if you
downloaded the first page,
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you're fine,
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but go to that website
and download both pages
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because there's
some additional questions
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I added to the second page
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and you definitely
are gonna need that
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to follow us along tonight
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in our study.
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Are you all ready?
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Are you ready?
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Let's sing our
theme song together,
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"Victory in Jesus."
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I heard an old, old story
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How the Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sin
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And won the victory
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
the streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet
day I'll sing up there
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The song of victory
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Key change.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen.
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Wow, I'm glad I'm
getting over my cold,
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it's still kind
of trying to hang on.
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The spring has sprung,
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and included in that
are allergies and pollens
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and all those other things.
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But regardless of
your health tonight,
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if you have your
Bibles and your ears
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and eyes are working,
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we praise the Lord for that.
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Amen to that?
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And so tonight
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we're gonna
continue in our study.
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If you're just joining us
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after our theme song,
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you want to go to ASF,
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this is the web
address, asf.3abn.org
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and download lesson number 29,
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"The Truth about
Spiritual Babylon."
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You know, I noticed something
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as I was
preparing for the lesson.
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This happened last time
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I talked about
Spiritual Babylon.
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This happened again today.
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Every time I'm studying
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or preparing for the lesson
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to present,
something goes wrong.
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But the Lord
always brings me through,
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what do you say?
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Amen.
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And so even though sometimes
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I'm running up
to the last second
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to get ready,
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I don't need to tell you this,
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but let me just go ahead and say
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just for the fun of it.
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Just minutes
before we went on air,
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I realized
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I didn't have my
right contact lenses in.
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And I had to go home
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with just 10 minutes
before the broadcast began,
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drive home with
somebody else's car,
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change my contact lenses,
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and run back here and get ready.
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Then I realized
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the batteries in
my remote were dead
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and I grabbed new
batteries and put that in.
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And then I
realized I misnumbered
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some of the
questions on the lesson.
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And I thought,
well, they'll make it.
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And then I realize
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slide number six was missing
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and I had to drop it
in there real quickly.
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But the Lord is
still our victory,
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what do you say?
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All those things
have been corrected.
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So tonight we are ready
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to go ahead and
lay some more coal
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on the devil's head.
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Now, I'd like you
to open your Bibles
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to Revelation 18
with me very quickly,
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and I wanna springboard.
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I wasn't sure if
I covered lesson,
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question number five
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but where we don't have
that on the screen tonight.
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So I'm just gonna and
use question number five
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to lay some foundation.
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And question number five
takes us to Revelation 18.
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Now, don't look for that
to come up on the screen,
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it's not there.
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But I wanna go ahead
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and lay the foundation by...
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First of all pointing
to Revelation Chapter 18
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and I wanna look at
verse 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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Now, one of the
reasons why this lesson
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is so vital important.
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Let's go ahead and
look at verse 2, 3, 4 and 5
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in Revelation Chapter 18.
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Revelation Chapter
18, begins in verse 2.
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Well, let's go ahead
and start with verse 1
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because that's important.
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"After these things
I saw another," what?
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"Angel coming down from heaven,
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having great authority,
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and the earth was illuminated
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or lighted with His glory."
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So what happens now
what you wanna notice is,
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there's a bright,
bright, bright, bright light
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coming on all around the world,
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which means up until this point,
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there was light,
but at this point,
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it gets brighter and brighter,
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it covers the entire earth.
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And I like in the way
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that my good
friend, Marvin Moore.
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Some of you know him.
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He's the editor of
Pacific Press magazine.
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If you don't know his
name, it's not very important.
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But he talked about how
God has established His church
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around the world,
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like lights on a Christmas tree.
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And I like that
analogy because what it says
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is every year in America,
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whenever the
Christmas season is coming,
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there's a tradition
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at Radio City down
in Rockefeller Center
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and also in Washington DC,
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and does anybody know
what those two traditions are?
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What is it?
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The lighting of
the Christmas tree.
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Now, we never...
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They always tell us, "Well,
there are thousands of lights."
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But you don't
really get the impression
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until they plug it in that
there are thousands of lights.
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Until they plug it in,
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it's just a spruce
tree or evergreen tree,
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it just looks
like a big old tree.
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But when they
plug the lights in,
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what the people usually do?
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They go what kind of expression,
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they go, "Ah, wow!"
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And the eyes of the
children are just pinned
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to the blinking
colors of this tree.
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And it's just seemed to capture
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the minds of Americans
all from coast to coast north
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to south, east to west.
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When people go to Radio
City Music Hall district,
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the tree, you see the tree,
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it's the central focus.
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Not just because of the tree,
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but because of what?
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The lights that are on the tree.
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And so something is happening
at this particular point
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that God decides,
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this is the hour to
light the whole world up
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with something that
they up until this point
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have not experienced.
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So He sends an angel.
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And
specifically in this context,
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this is not a literal
angel with a flashlight.
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But the word angel
here means messenger.
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The Lord chooses
this particular time
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to make this message
resonate all over the world,
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and lights begin to
come on in every country.
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Lights begin to come
on in every denomination,
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lights begin to
come on in the minds
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of those that were wondering,
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"What does this mean?"
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And all of a sudden,
now I know what it means.
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Lights begin to
come on in every church.
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Lights begin to come on
in every political hall.
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The Lord says,
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"At this moment
the earth will know."
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And let me go ahead and tell you
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how the earth is
gonna be lighted up.
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Go with me very
quickly to Isaiah.
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Isaiah Chapter 60,
then we'll come back here.
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How is the earth
gonna be lighted up?
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And what is going to
be the result of that?
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Because I mentioned
to you a moment ago,
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it's not literal
angels but its messengers.
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And the question is,
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who will the messengers be?
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All right?
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Isaiah Chapter 60.
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I'm going there now.
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I'm almost there.
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All right?
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Here we are.
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I'm there.
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Okay. All right.
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Beautiful text.
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It fits
perfectly into the setting
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of what we just talked
about in Revelation 18:1,
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here it is.
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Let's say the
two words together,
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ready?
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"Arise," and what else?
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"Shine."
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That's what happens
when the lights come on,
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they start to shine.
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"For your light has come!"
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Remember Revelation 18 says,
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the earth shall be
lightened with the glory of God.
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Here it is,
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here's how it's gonna happen.
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"Arise, shine for
your light has come!
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And the glory
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of the Lord is risen," where?
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"Upon you."
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In other words, God is gonna
let the glory be seen on us.
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He's gonna light His church up.
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Let me go back to the
analogy that Marvin Moore used.
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He says, "You will never know
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how many messengers
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God has around the world.
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You'll never know
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where God has
established His people
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that will proclaim the truth
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at that hour, until
God plugs the power in."
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Amen?
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The day of Pentecost,
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the world did not know
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what was gonna
take place that day
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until the disciples
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and those who
prayed in the upper room
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got plugged into the power.
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He said, "Wait until
the day of Pentecost."
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And the Holy Spirit fell.
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And there was
cloven tongues as of fire,
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the Lord lit them up.
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And now here's the good news.
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If you think
the day of Pentecost
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was something that
just happened in Jerusalem,
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this is gonna happen where?
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In the entire world.
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The earth is gonna be lighted.
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And then who is gonna be
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the ones
illuminating this light.
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It says you. But
let's keep going.
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"For behold..."
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Here's the hour
that is gonna happen.
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"For behold, darkness
shall cover the earth."
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Now first of all,
that's physical darkness,
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there's something
that's gonna happen
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that there's gonna
be a physical darkness
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surrounding this earth.
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But secondly,
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there's a second
type of darkness.
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"Behold, the
darkness shall cover the earth
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and deep darkness, the people."
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The people are gonna be in dark.
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So those who are in
dark up until this point...
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And let me ask another, I
gotta, I gotta plug this in.
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This is just very potent.
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When does a
Christmas tree look best,
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in the daytime or at night?
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At night.
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They don't say,
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"Hey, we're gonna
plug the tree in at noon."
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They wait till...
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Even a firework show,
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they wait till it gets
really, really, really dark.
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Even though they set the time
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they wait till the
sun completely disappears,
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and begins the firework show
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because it's at the
darkness of the night
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that the light is appreciated.
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It's at the
darkness of the night
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that the light
really makes an impact.
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And so when the earth
is at its darkest place,
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physically and spiritually,
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God is gonna turn the light on.
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And what's
gonna 'cause the world
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to pay attention is
the physical darkness
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that proceeded
their spiritual darkness.
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Now get this, up
until that point,
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many people that love the Lord,
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many people that don't even know
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about the message
will be in darkness.
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But God is gonna
plug the power in.
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And what do you
think the power is?
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Somebody tell me.
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The Holy Spirit.
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The very next chapter,
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Jesus made it clear,
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"The Spirit of
the Lord is upon me."
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So He proceeds it
in Isaiah Chapter 60
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by talking about the
impact on His people.
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What's gonna happen
when the Lord does that?
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Let's look at verse 2 again.
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I'll finish verse 2,
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"For behold, the darkness
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shall cover the earth,
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and deep darkness the people,
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but the Lord
will rise over," who?
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"You, and His glory
will be seen upon," who?
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"You."
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God is not gonna just
send some arbitrary person,
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but God is going
to turn the power on
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in His people,
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as He did on the
day of Pentecost.
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He's gonna turn the light
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on in the lives of His servants.
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And we'll talk
about what servant's lives
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and how those lives qualify
for the light to come on.
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And what's gonna be
the end result of that.
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This is beautiful.
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Verse 3,
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"The Gentiles shall
come to your," what?
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"Light, and the kings
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to the
brightness of your," what?
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"Of your rising."
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When the Lord
turns the light on...
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Now, why the word Gentile?
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A Gentile in the Bible is
one who doesn't know the Lord.
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At that moment,
they're gonna be people
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all over the world,
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they're gonna
gravitate to the light.
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They're gonna
come out of darkness
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into this what?
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Marvelous light.
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It's gonna be marvelous
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because it's
gonna be illuminated
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by the power of God.
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And if you think
the day of Pentecost,
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I repeat myself was something,
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you wait till God
turns the light on
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all over the world.
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Now go back with me
to Revelation Chapter 18.
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Revelation Chapter 18.
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I'm going now
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and it said Gentiles,
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and then it also says,
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"And the kings shall
come to the brightness
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of your rising."
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This is so significant.
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The word kings is so significant
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in the study of the
topic about Spiritual Babylon
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because when we
lay the foundation
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in Revelation 17,
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we discovered that the
kings have formed a coalition
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with the Babylonian harlot.
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The kings have been
affected by the wine
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that the Babylonian harlot
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has been sharing to
everybody on the earth.
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The kings of the earth
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have committed
fornication with her,
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the kings...
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The good news is,
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there are some kings
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that had accepted
the lie of Babylon
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that will one day
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accept the light
of God's glory, amen?
00:16:45.97\00:16:48.37
So not everybody
is gonna fall for it
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all the time.
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There's some people
that are in darkness now,
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but when the Lord
turns the light on,
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how glorious is
that light gonna be?
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The beauty of that is,
00:16:58.01\00:16:59.35
I don't wanna
settle in my heart that,
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"Hey, I'm the only one."
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Or that, "Hey, we're locked in."
00:17:02.12\00:17:03.85
But there are those the call
00:17:03.89\00:17:05.25
that God has placed on our lives
00:17:05.29\00:17:07.36
is to allow our light to shine
00:17:07.39\00:17:08.79
so that others
who are in darkness
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may come out of that darkness
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into this marvelous light.
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But there's an hour coming.
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Look at the next
verse in Revelation 18.
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We're gonna go to verse 2.
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"And he cried mightily,"
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the message now
that's gonna be proclaimed
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at that time.
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"He cried mightily
with a loud voice saying,"
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let's read this together, what?
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"Babylon the great is," what?
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"Is fallen, is fallen,
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and has become a
habitation of demons,
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a prison for every foul spirit,
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and a cage for every unclean
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and hated bird!"
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I got to make some
comment right there.
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If you see the
stuff that's happening
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in some churches
today, it's insane.
00:17:48.80\00:17:51.33
I mean, periodically,
some people send me pictures
00:17:51.37\00:17:55.07
or link me to videos
on YouTube, on websites,
00:17:55.10\00:17:58.51
there are churches
that are just partying
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harder than clubs.
00:18:00.21\00:18:02.44
You can go to
some churches nowadays
00:18:02.48\00:18:05.11
that will be so far
advanced beyond clubs.
00:18:05.15\00:18:08.65
The kind of dancing and
stuff that's going on in there,
00:18:08.68\00:18:14.46
I don't wanna be too graphic.
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But there are places
00:18:16.69\00:18:18.06
that have such
an absence of truth
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that they've gotta
substitute it with something.
00:18:20.76\00:18:23.03
So you know what
they substituted with?
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Emotion, they get
the people riled up,
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fired up so they think
00:18:28.50\00:18:30.61
that they have a
spiritual feeling,
00:18:30.64\00:18:32.77
when in fact, it's
nothing but a substitute
00:18:32.81\00:18:35.88
for the darkness
00:18:35.91\00:18:37.25
that really has
grasped their minds.
00:18:37.28\00:18:39.91
But God is
saying even among them,
00:18:39.95\00:18:42.18
He's gonna call them out
00:18:42.22\00:18:43.65
because we're
gonna continue to read.
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But the Bible is
in essence saying,
00:18:45.39\00:18:46.76
there's a reason why God
wants to turn the light on,
00:18:46.79\00:18:49.12
because He wants His
people to come out of the places
00:18:49.16\00:18:51.09
that are affected by demons,
00:18:51.13\00:18:53.23
by foul spirits, and
unclean and hated birds.
00:18:53.26\00:18:56.23
Now you wonder
why he says unclean
00:18:56.26\00:18:57.83
and hated birds.
00:18:57.87\00:18:59.83
Unclean and hated
birds are scavengers.
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And scavengers eat dead things.
00:19:03.04\00:19:05.44
The scavengers are feeding there
00:19:05.47\00:19:07.58
because they find
dead things there.
00:19:07.61\00:19:10.18
That's why he says that.
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The scavengers are going there
00:19:11.61\00:19:13.25
because the things
that are there are dead.
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That's why the
scavengers are described.
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Look at verse 3.
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How wide is the
impact of Babylon?
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Together.
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"For all the nations
have drunk of the wine
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of the wrath of
her fornication."
00:19:29.66\00:19:31.63
And here's the good news.
00:19:31.67\00:19:33.00
But the kings,
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not all the kings
gonna stay in darkness.
00:19:34.40\00:19:35.74
It says, "The kings of the earth
00:19:35.77\00:19:37.14
have committed
fornication with her,
00:19:37.17\00:19:39.57
and the merchants of
the earth had become rich
00:19:39.61\00:19:42.91
through the
abundance of her luxury."
00:19:42.94\00:19:45.61
That means she's
been selling goods
00:19:45.65\00:19:48.02
that are not
really from God's Word.
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That's simply what that means.
00:19:49.92\00:19:51.35
She's been selling
things that seemed like, "Whoa!
00:19:51.39\00:19:53.72
What a powerful message?
00:19:53.76\00:19:55.12
What a wonderful doctrine?"
00:19:55.16\00:19:56.49
But when you trace it back,
00:19:56.52\00:19:57.93
that doctrine has no
foundation in God's Word.
00:19:57.96\00:20:00.70
And there are many
doctrines existing today
00:20:00.73\00:20:02.60
that has no
foundation in God's Word.
00:20:02.63\00:20:04.73
But when you
listen to television,
00:20:04.77\00:20:06.33
they will be
preached like they come
00:20:06.37\00:20:07.70
from the throne of God.
00:20:07.74\00:20:09.30
Like the rapture
has no foundation
00:20:09.34\00:20:11.87
in God's Word.
00:20:11.91\00:20:13.24
Dying and going right to heaven,
00:20:13.27\00:20:14.74
no foundation in God's Word.
00:20:14.78\00:20:17.21
But almost every funeral
00:20:17.25\00:20:19.15
that happens on television,
00:20:19.18\00:20:21.15
every church I've gone to,
00:20:21.18\00:20:23.52
with the exception
of maybe a percentage,
00:20:23.55\00:20:26.15
a small percentage.
00:20:26.19\00:20:27.52
You hear they're in heaven now,
00:20:27.56\00:20:28.89
they're looking down,
00:20:28.92\00:20:30.26
and then on the heels of that,
00:20:30.29\00:20:31.89
the doctrine
that they're burning
00:20:31.93\00:20:33.26
in hell forever.
00:20:33.29\00:20:34.63
Sounds like a
doctrine from the Bible,
00:20:34.66\00:20:36.23
but it's not from God's throne.
00:20:36.26\00:20:38.87
And the list
goes on and on and on.
00:20:38.90\00:20:41.10
But that's what's
being proclaimed today
00:20:41.14\00:20:42.84
from the pulpits
00:20:42.87\00:20:44.21
that represent
Babylon's habitation.
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Let's go on further.
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What does God say about this?
00:20:48.64\00:20:50.38
And this is the good news
00:20:50.41\00:20:51.91
for those in Babylon, verse 4.
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Let's read this together.
00:20:53.65\00:20:54.98
And the Bible says,
00:20:55.02\00:20:56.35
"And I heard another
voice from heaven saying," what?
00:20:56.38\00:21:00.16
"'Come out of her," who?
00:21:00.19\00:21:01.66
"My people,
00:21:01.69\00:21:03.79
lest you share in her sins,
00:21:03.83\00:21:06.39
and lest you
receive of her," what?
00:21:06.43\00:21:08.40
"Plagues.'"
00:21:08.43\00:21:09.76
Verse 5, "For her sins
have reached into heaven,
00:21:09.80\00:21:11.93
and God has
remembered her iniquities."
00:21:11.97\00:21:14.04
You know, when you
look at the language,
00:21:14.07\00:21:17.41
it says, "Her sins
have reached on to heaven."
00:21:17.44\00:21:21.34
Why did God come down
00:21:21.38\00:21:22.71
and destroy the Tower of Babel?
00:21:22.74\00:21:25.91
Because it
reached into the, what?
00:21:25.95\00:21:27.98
Heavens.
00:21:28.02\00:21:29.35
They built it so tall,
00:21:29.38\00:21:31.19
they thought that
if the next flood came,
00:21:31.22\00:21:33.39
that they would escape it
00:21:33.42\00:21:34.76
because they built
it up to the heavens.
00:21:34.79\00:21:37.03
We don't really
have any reference
00:21:37.06\00:21:38.39
to how tall it was,
00:21:38.43\00:21:39.76
there were no
pictures taken of it,
00:21:39.79\00:21:41.30
there is no
architectural drawings of it,
00:21:41.33\00:21:43.87
there is no
reference to how tall it was.
00:21:43.90\00:21:45.53
But when Genesis says
00:21:45.57\00:21:46.97
it reached unto the heavens,
00:21:47.00\00:21:49.17
it must have been tall.
00:21:49.20\00:21:50.97
And these were people
that were great stature,
00:21:51.01\00:21:53.54
much larger in
size than we are today.
00:21:53.58\00:21:56.28
So it must have
reached great into the heavens,
00:21:56.31\00:21:58.71
and you only have the
pyramids as a reference,
00:21:58.75\00:22:01.62
and some of the
Mayan ruins as a reference.
00:22:01.65\00:22:03.52
You climb the steps of
some of the Mayan ruins,
00:22:03.55\00:22:05.69
you better go down on your knees
00:22:05.72\00:22:07.42
to come down because
it's just so nosebleed high.
00:22:07.46\00:22:11.69
But that's why the
same language is used here
00:22:11.73\00:22:13.80
because it's comparing
to the Babylon of Genesis,
00:22:13.83\00:22:16.56
the Tower of Babel,
00:22:16.60\00:22:18.03
the beginning of Babylon.
00:22:18.07\00:22:19.50
That tower is brought down
00:22:19.53\00:22:21.47
and Spiritual Babylon
is also gonna find its end
00:22:21.50\00:22:24.47
and God is gonna bring it down.
00:22:24.51\00:22:25.97
Amen just somebody?
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Now, let's go to
question number six.
00:22:27.58\00:22:29.98
When you get it,
00:22:30.01\00:22:31.35
go ahead and give
some example here,
00:22:31.38\00:22:32.71
so the reason why God
calls His people out of Babylon
00:22:32.75\00:22:35.75
is because it is everything
00:22:35.78\00:22:37.12
that God does
not want His people
00:22:37.15\00:22:39.05
to be affected by.
00:22:39.09\00:22:40.52
Spiritual Babylon
represents false doctrines,
00:22:40.56\00:22:44.06
false precepts, false concepts.
00:22:44.09\00:22:48.66
But the only good
thing about Babylon
00:22:48.70\00:22:50.17
is God's people are in there.
00:22:50.20\00:22:53.00
And He wants them out.
00:22:53.03\00:22:54.94
Amen? Amen.
00:22:54.97\00:22:56.57
Oh, that's a very
insipid weak amen.
00:22:56.60\00:22:59.01
If your family was in the fire
00:22:59.04\00:23:00.54
and the fire
department showed up,
00:23:00.58\00:23:01.94
wouldn't you want
your family out, amen?
00:23:01.98\00:23:04.15
So God is sending
a fire department,
00:23:04.18\00:23:06.61
in the persons
of His Holy Spirit,
00:23:06.65\00:23:09.65
in the persons of saints
00:23:09.68\00:23:11.15
that are waiting
for that great hour
00:23:11.19\00:23:12.89
to proclaim to the world
00:23:12.92\00:23:14.36
a message that
will rescue people
00:23:14.39\00:23:16.86
from a system that
will not be reformed.
00:23:16.89\00:23:20.13
Babylon cannot be reformed.
00:23:20.16\00:23:21.83
Babylon cannot be fixed.
00:23:21.86\00:23:23.83
It's messed up.
00:23:23.87\00:23:25.30
God didn't come down
00:23:25.33\00:23:26.67
to fix the Tower of Babel.
00:23:26.70\00:23:28.04
God came down to destroy it.
00:23:28.07\00:23:29.67
In the very same way,
00:23:29.70\00:23:31.04
God's not coming down
to fix Spiritual Babylon.
00:23:31.07\00:23:33.61
He says, "Been around too long,
00:23:33.64\00:23:35.34
the entire world
has been affected by,
00:23:35.38\00:23:36.98
there's nothing good in
it, I gotta get rid of it.
00:23:37.01\00:23:39.38
But after I get My people out."
00:23:39.41\00:23:40.98
Praise the Lord to that.
00:23:41.02\00:23:42.55
So when you see people
in other denominations,
00:23:42.58\00:23:44.32
don't write them off.
00:23:44.35\00:23:45.89
Don't think that
you're better than they are.
00:23:45.92\00:23:48.16
Don't think that, "I
know this and they don't."
00:23:48.19\00:23:51.99
Because the Lord
reveals something to me
00:23:52.03\00:23:53.43
in John 10:16.
00:23:53.46\00:23:54.80
Now you know the text.
00:23:54.83\00:23:57.03
"Other sheep I have,
which are not of," what?
00:23:57.07\00:23:59.63
"This fold, them
also I must bring,
00:23:59.67\00:24:02.74
and they will hear My voice.
00:24:02.77\00:24:04.54
There'll be one
fold and one shepherd."
00:24:04.57\00:24:08.94
Now here's the application
00:24:08.98\00:24:10.95
that the Lord
recently gave me on that one.
00:24:10.98\00:24:13.15
And I must say that
00:24:13.18\00:24:14.52
because I never thought
about it this way before.
00:24:14.55\00:24:17.62
Other sheep I have
that are not of this fold,
00:24:17.65\00:24:20.26
which means He has some sheep
00:24:20.29\00:24:21.72
that are in the correct fold.
00:24:21.76\00:24:23.96
Let me use example.
00:24:23.99\00:24:25.46
He had Judas.
00:24:25.49\00:24:28.10
Judas followed Jesus,
00:24:28.13\00:24:29.56
he was in the right fold,
00:24:29.60\00:24:31.33
but Judas was in
the wrong relationship.
00:24:31.37\00:24:34.30
So there are those
in the right location
00:24:34.34\00:24:37.87
in the wrong relationship.
00:24:37.91\00:24:40.58
But there are some
00:24:40.61\00:24:41.94
who are in the
right relationship,
00:24:41.98\00:24:44.31
but in the wrong location.
00:24:44.35\00:24:47.08
And the Lord is
saying, "They're in Babylon,
00:24:47.12\00:24:49.48
and I love them,
and they love me,
00:24:49.52\00:24:50.85
I gotta get them out,
00:24:50.89\00:24:52.55
before I destroy
that whole system."
00:24:52.59\00:24:54.29
So God's got a message
00:24:54.32\00:24:55.79
that is for every
nation, every kindred,
00:24:55.82\00:24:58.16
that's why this message
is so vitally important.
00:24:58.19\00:25:00.43
It's for
everyone to hear about it.
00:25:00.46\00:25:02.53
But you cannot
proclaim a message
00:25:02.56\00:25:04.33
to come out of Babylon
00:25:04.37\00:25:05.77
unless you know to
whom to proclaim it
00:25:05.80\00:25:08.47
and what Babylon is.
00:25:08.50\00:25:09.97
Go to question number six,
00:25:10.01\00:25:11.34
our first question
on the screen tonight.
00:25:11.37\00:25:13.01
Here it is. Question number six.
00:25:13.04\00:25:16.31
And here it is.
00:25:16.34\00:25:17.71
With what description
00:25:17.75\00:25:19.08
does the Bible
describe the rise of Babylon?
00:25:19.11\00:25:23.79
With what description
00:25:23.82\00:25:25.15
does the Bible
describe the rise of Babylon?
00:25:25.19\00:25:30.39
I just made reference to it,
00:25:30.43\00:25:31.76
but it's good now to go
ahead and see it in Genesis.
00:25:31.79\00:25:34.10
Let's go back to the beginning.
00:25:34.13\00:25:36.06
You know, in Genesis
most of the teachings
00:25:36.10\00:25:38.70
that are proliferated
00:25:38.73\00:25:40.80
and solidify
throughout the Bible,
00:25:40.84\00:25:43.07
have their inception,
00:25:43.10\00:25:44.44
their roots in
the Book of Genesis.
00:25:44.47\00:25:47.58
Genesis 11:9.
00:25:47.61\00:25:51.38
Let's go ahead and
look at Genesis 11:9.
00:25:51.41\00:25:55.68
And I gotta go to verse 5,
00:25:55.72\00:26:00.19
'cause you
wanna get the context.
00:26:00.22\00:26:01.92
Well, verse 4.
00:26:01.96\00:26:03.29
I'll tell you the context,
00:26:06.86\00:26:08.26
they did not trust God
00:26:08.30\00:26:09.83
after the flood,
00:26:09.86\00:26:11.80
this is on the
other side of the flood.
00:26:11.83\00:26:14.60
They said, and by the way,
00:26:14.64\00:26:17.51
this is amazing.
00:26:17.54\00:26:19.21
This is a powerful concept.
00:26:19.24\00:26:20.58
The system of
false doctrines exist
00:26:24.55\00:26:29.25
not because people necessarily
00:26:29.28\00:26:32.55
want to produce false doctrines,
00:26:32.59\00:26:36.52
but for the same reason
the Tower of Babel was built,
00:26:36.56\00:26:39.86
they don't trust.
00:26:39.89\00:26:42.26
They don't trust God.
00:26:42.30\00:26:45.17
If you think about that,
00:26:45.20\00:26:46.53
this whole system was
built on a lack of trust.
00:26:46.57\00:26:49.64
Well, just in case, God
decides to send another...
00:26:49.67\00:26:53.61
We can't trust His word,
00:26:53.64\00:26:55.78
so we have to
establish our own word.
00:26:55.81\00:26:58.85
Because if God's
word were accepted,
00:26:58.88\00:27:01.75
as He proclaimed it,
00:27:01.78\00:27:03.45
"I will never destroy
the world by flood again."
00:27:03.49\00:27:06.59
They would have no need
to build a Tower of Babel.
00:27:06.62\00:27:09.42
The Tower of Babel was built
00:27:09.46\00:27:13.09
for the same reason as
Spiritual Babylon is built.
00:27:13.13\00:27:15.66
And that is, they
didn't trust His Word.
00:27:15.70\00:27:21.04
Salvation by works.
00:27:21.07\00:27:22.64
They said, "Just in case,
00:27:22.67\00:27:24.01
we can't trust what God said,
00:27:24.04\00:27:26.27
we need to
build our own system."
00:27:26.31\00:27:28.61
Look at the verses.
00:27:28.64\00:27:29.98
So verse 4, Genesis 11.
00:27:30.01\00:27:33.18
And we'll bring the
answer up in just a moment
00:27:33.21\00:27:34.65
when we get on to verse 9.
00:27:34.68\00:27:36.45
"And they said, 'Come,
let us build ourselves a city,
00:27:36.48\00:27:40.42
and a tower, whose
top is in the," where?
00:27:40.46\00:27:44.96
Talk to me, it's in the where?
00:27:44.99\00:27:46.80
"Heavens.'"
00:27:46.83\00:27:48.16
That's why Revelation 18 says,
00:27:48.20\00:27:49.70
"Her sins have
reached unto heaven."
00:27:49.73\00:27:52.10
He said, "Let's build a tower
whose top is in the heavens,
00:27:52.13\00:27:55.90
let us make a
name for ourselves."
00:27:55.94\00:27:58.57
Whoo! That's huge.
00:27:58.61\00:28:00.68
Isaiah 4,
00:28:00.71\00:28:02.84
"Only let us be
called by your name."
00:28:02.88\00:28:05.85
Ain't that powerful?
00:28:05.88\00:28:07.22
It's all popping
out, it's just coming out.
00:28:07.25\00:28:09.75
Let's make a name for ourselves.
00:28:09.78\00:28:11.65
We don't really want the name
00:28:11.69\00:28:13.22
that you've given to us.
00:28:13.25\00:28:14.59
Let's make a name for ourselves.
00:28:14.62\00:28:16.02
Let's establish our own fame.
00:28:16.06\00:28:17.66
And Babylon is a famous city.
00:28:17.69\00:28:20.00
Babylon in the
spiritual sense is famous,
00:28:20.03\00:28:22.43
in the spiritual sense.
00:28:22.46\00:28:23.80
He goes on to say,
00:28:23.83\00:28:25.80
Genesis goes on to
say, down in verse 4,
00:28:25.83\00:28:30.34
"Let us make a
name for ourselves,
00:28:30.37\00:28:33.94
lest we scatter
abroad over the face
00:28:33.98\00:28:36.34
of the whole earth."
00:28:36.38\00:28:38.78
I like verse 5.
00:28:38.81\00:28:40.15
"But the Lord came
down to see the city
00:28:40.18\00:28:43.05
and the tower
00:28:43.08\00:28:44.42
which the sons
of men had built."
00:28:44.45\00:28:46.49
There's another thing
00:28:46.52\00:28:47.86
for the application of Babylon
00:28:47.89\00:28:50.23
is not what God
built, but who built it.
00:28:50.26\00:28:53.40
Talk to me, who built it?
00:28:53.43\00:28:55.03
Man built it.
00:28:55.06\00:28:56.73
The sons of men built it.
00:28:56.77\00:28:58.90
God built His
church on this rock,
00:28:58.93\00:29:01.87
I build my church,
00:29:01.90\00:29:04.01
but men built Babylon.
00:29:04.04\00:29:06.37
Notice the comparison again,
00:29:06.41\00:29:08.68
going to verse 6.
00:29:08.71\00:29:11.48
"And the Lord said, 'Indeed,
00:29:11.51\00:29:13.25
the people are one.
00:29:13.28\00:29:15.28
And they all have one language.
00:29:15.32\00:29:18.52
And this is what
they begin to do.
00:29:18.55\00:29:22.96
Now nothing that
they propose to do
00:29:22.99\00:29:26.06
will be withheld from them.'"
00:29:26.09\00:29:27.76
Now, I want you
guys to circle that verse
00:29:27.80\00:29:29.53
because I'm gonna show you,
00:29:29.56\00:29:30.90
circle that verse
00:29:30.93\00:29:32.27
because I'm gonna
show you in Revelation,
00:29:32.30\00:29:33.64
that just before
Babylon comes to its end,
00:29:33.67\00:29:35.67
there's gonna be a
unification one more time,
00:29:35.70\00:29:39.31
there's gonna be a oneness
00:29:39.34\00:29:40.84
that's gonna happen
in Spiritual Babylon.
00:29:40.88\00:29:42.78
There's gonna be a coalition.
00:29:42.81\00:29:44.15
There was a coalition again,
00:29:44.18\00:29:45.51
they were one,
they had one language,
00:29:45.55\00:29:48.38
and they had their minds
00:29:48.42\00:29:50.19
fixed to
accomplish their purpose.
00:29:50.22\00:29:52.55
But now let's work
our way down to the verse
00:29:52.59\00:29:54.29
that we have the answer for.
00:29:54.32\00:29:55.69
So they said in verse 7,
00:29:55.72\00:29:57.36
for God said,
"Come, let us go down
00:29:57.39\00:29:59.66
and confuse their languages
00:29:59.69\00:30:02.20
that they may not
understand one another speech."
00:30:02.23\00:30:05.47
Today, this is huge.
00:30:05.50\00:30:07.97
If you go to
Babylon, you cannot.
00:30:08.00\00:30:09.34
If you know the Bible,
00:30:09.37\00:30:10.71
and you go to Babylon
and you can understand
00:30:10.74\00:30:12.07
what they're saying.
00:30:12.11\00:30:13.54
Amen? Why?
00:30:13.58\00:30:15.88
Because another sign of Babylon
is a confusion of tongues.
00:30:15.91\00:30:19.45
Today, this false
speaking in tongues,
00:30:19.48\00:30:22.18
it's not of the Bible,
00:30:22.22\00:30:23.55
it's Glossolalia.
00:30:23.59\00:30:24.92
That's the Greek
word Glossolalia,
00:30:24.95\00:30:27.52
mean the confusion of tongues,
00:30:27.56\00:30:30.13
not languages, as the
Bible speaks of tongues.
00:30:30.16\00:30:35.40
But let's keep going.
00:30:35.43\00:30:36.77
Verse 8,
00:30:36.80\00:30:38.13
"So the Lord
scattered them abroad,
00:30:38.17\00:30:40.84
from there over the face of,"
00:30:40.87\00:30:42.27
how much of the earth?
00:30:42.30\00:30:43.74
"All the earth,
00:30:43.77\00:30:45.11
and they ceased
building their city."
00:30:45.14\00:30:48.24
Therefore, here's
the answer to number 6.
00:30:48.28\00:30:52.65
"Therefore, its
name is called," what?
00:30:52.68\00:30:55.02
Write it down.
00:30:55.05\00:30:56.58
"Babel, because
there the Lord confused
00:30:56.62\00:30:59.95
the language of all the earth,
00:30:59.99\00:31:02.56
and from there the
Lord scattered them abroad
00:31:02.59\00:31:04.79
over the face of,"
00:31:04.83\00:31:06.16
how much of the earth?
00:31:06.19\00:31:07.53
"All the earth."
00:31:07.56\00:31:08.90
So here it is,
00:31:08.93\00:31:10.27
with what
description does the Bible
00:31:10.30\00:31:11.63
describe the rise of Babylon?
00:31:11.67\00:31:13.34
What is it called?
00:31:13.37\00:31:15.10
What answer would you put?
00:31:15.14\00:31:18.27
Babel or Babel,
there's another word,
00:31:18.31\00:31:21.14
it's better to say Babel.
00:31:21.18\00:31:22.51
Because when a
baby's first born,
00:31:22.54\00:31:23.91
what do they do?
00:31:23.95\00:31:27.02
You don't know
what they're saying.
00:31:27.05\00:31:28.38
Matter of fact,
somebody once said,
00:31:28.42\00:31:29.75
you should record
it and ask them later.
00:31:29.78\00:31:31.35
"What did you mean by that?"
00:31:31.39\00:31:35.22
They don't know
what they're saying.
00:31:35.26\00:31:36.59
In the very same way,
00:31:36.62\00:31:37.96
when you listen
to things nowadays,
00:31:37.99\00:31:39.33
when you begin to compare
00:31:39.36\00:31:40.70
what some people
teach by the Word,
00:31:40.73\00:31:42.06
it's babble.
00:31:42.10\00:31:43.43
It has no
foundation in Scripture.
00:31:43.47\00:31:45.03
But let's go to
the second definition.
00:31:45.07\00:31:47.04
So with what
description does the Bible
00:31:47.07\00:31:49.20
describe the rise of Babylon?
00:31:49.24\00:31:51.07
Babble, confusion,
you wanna write that down?
00:31:51.11\00:31:54.14
Confusion, babble.
00:31:54.18\00:31:57.05
And then also the act of man,
00:31:57.08\00:32:01.48
not the trust in God.
00:32:01.52\00:32:02.92
But just write down
babble and confusion.
00:32:02.95\00:32:05.22
Now let's go to
Daniel Chapter 4.
00:32:05.25\00:32:08.16
Daniel Chapter 4.
00:32:08.19\00:32:10.23
And here we are, Ezekiel,
00:32:10.26\00:32:14.03
right after Ezekiel find Daniel.
00:32:14.06\00:32:16.30
All right?
00:32:16.33\00:32:19.43
Daniel Chapter 4.
00:32:19.47\00:32:20.90
Okay, here's
the next description
00:32:24.31\00:32:25.81
the Bible gives about Babylon.
00:32:25.84\00:32:28.74
And this was the
literal city of Babylon
00:32:28.78\00:32:31.48
built by king
named Nebuchadnezzar.
00:32:31.51\00:32:37.25
All right, we're
gonna look at verse 30.
00:32:37.29\00:32:39.39
The proclamation
of Nebuchadnezzar
00:32:39.42\00:32:41.52
at the rise of,
00:32:41.56\00:32:43.09
at the highest point
of his pride, all right?
00:32:43.12\00:32:46.16
There's so much you
can say about pride.
00:32:46.19\00:32:47.53
But truly,
00:32:47.56\00:32:48.90
he is the epitome of it
because just as he said this,
00:32:48.93\00:32:51.47
his fall came right after that.
00:32:51.50\00:32:53.03
Here we are.
00:32:53.07\00:32:54.40
Look at verse 30.
00:32:54.44\00:32:55.77
Are you ready?
00:32:55.80\00:32:57.24
"The king spoke
saying 'Is not this,"
00:32:57.27\00:33:00.58
say the next two words.
00:33:00.61\00:33:02.58
"Great Babylon,
that I have built.'"
00:33:02.61\00:33:07.48
There it is again.
00:33:07.52\00:33:08.85
"Babylon of old that I had built
00:33:08.88\00:33:10.52
for a royal
dwelling by my mighty power
00:33:10.55\00:33:14.72
and for the
honor of my majesty?"
00:33:14.76\00:33:19.19
Babylon was not
built for God's honor,
00:33:19.23\00:33:22.33
Babylon was not
built for God's majesty.
00:33:22.36\00:33:26.17
Therefore, the
second description
00:33:26.20\00:33:27.74
we get for Babylon
is this great Babylon.
00:33:27.77\00:33:32.97
It's a great
city. It's a great city.
00:33:33.01\00:33:36.88
Matter of fact, if you look
at the writings of antiquity,
00:33:36.91\00:33:39.25
Babylon is the greatest
city that was ever built.
00:33:39.28\00:33:42.62
The most glorious city,
00:33:42.65\00:33:43.99
gold encompass
much of the building
00:33:44.02\00:33:47.39
of the city of Babylon
00:33:47.42\00:33:49.62
because at that time,
00:33:49.66\00:33:50.99
gold and diamonds
were just as free as grass.
00:33:51.03\00:33:54.66
They were so accessible
00:33:54.70\00:33:56.03
during that time
in human history.
00:33:56.06\00:33:57.87
God has pretty much
00:33:57.90\00:33:59.93
taken care of that for us today.
00:33:59.97\00:34:02.24
Much of that was lost
and buried in the flood,
00:34:02.27\00:34:05.57
but still post flood
still many of these elements
00:34:05.61\00:34:08.71
were accessible.
00:34:08.74\00:34:11.75
Okay, about Babylon.
00:34:11.78\00:34:13.52
So lot of these the building
00:34:13.55\00:34:15.78
or the excavation of
where Babylon used to be,
00:34:15.82\00:34:18.05
they're discovering how
greater city it really was.
00:34:18.09\00:34:20.36
Babylon is great city.
00:34:20.39\00:34:21.72
You wanna write that down.
00:34:21.76\00:34:23.09
The second description
00:34:23.12\00:34:24.46
that the Bible
gives about Babylon,
00:34:24.49\00:34:25.83
great, great Babylon.
00:34:25.86\00:34:28.06
And the third one, Jeremiah 51.
00:34:28.10\00:34:30.37
Let's go to Jeremiah.
00:34:30.40\00:34:32.53
Right before
Ezekiel you find Jeremiah,
00:34:32.57\00:34:34.67
go two books back,
00:34:34.70\00:34:36.10
Daniel, then go back, Ezekiel,
00:34:36.14\00:34:38.31
then go back, Jeremiah.
00:34:38.34\00:34:40.18
All right?
00:34:40.21\00:34:41.54
Jeremiah 51:47.
00:34:41.58\00:34:45.31
All right?
00:34:45.35\00:34:47.88
Wow!
00:34:47.92\00:34:49.58
The third
description, Jeremiah 51:47.
00:34:49.62\00:34:55.12
Here it is.
00:34:55.16\00:34:58.93
"Therefore, behold,
00:34:58.96\00:35:00.30
the days are
coming that I will bring,"
00:35:00.33\00:35:02.80
what?
00:35:02.83\00:35:04.17
"Judgment on the
carved images of Babylon,
00:35:04.20\00:35:08.94
her whole land shall be," what?
00:35:08.97\00:35:11.31
"Ashamed, and all her
slain, shall fall in her midst."
00:35:11.34\00:35:17.95
The third description the
Bible gives about Babylon,
00:35:17.98\00:35:20.88
it's a place of carved images,
00:35:20.92\00:35:25.79
carved images,
00:35:25.82\00:35:28.49
and Babylon also mean judge.
00:35:28.52\00:35:32.16
So the judgment that
will come upon Babylon
00:35:32.19\00:35:34.76
is because she has established
00:35:34.80\00:35:36.33
and align herself
against the powers of God,
00:35:36.36\00:35:39.90
she will be judged.
00:35:39.93\00:35:41.70
Three things we get,
00:35:41.74\00:35:43.41
one, the place of
babble or confusion.
00:35:43.44\00:35:46.37
Secondly, a great city.
00:35:46.41\00:35:48.84
And thirdly, a
place of carved images,
00:35:48.88\00:35:52.28
which is false worship.
00:35:52.31\00:35:54.55
Images were established
00:35:54.58\00:35:55.92
for the purpose
of false worship.
00:35:55.95\00:35:57.79
Now, a lot of
people today will say,
00:35:57.82\00:35:59.15
"Well, we don't worship images."
00:35:59.19\00:36:02.19
Call it what you may,
00:36:02.22\00:36:03.86
when you call on things
that have eyes but can't see,
00:36:03.89\00:36:06.23
and ears that can't
hear, and hands that can touch,
00:36:06.26\00:36:09.03
when you trust in these
images for your protection.
00:36:09.06\00:36:12.53
And they don't even...
00:36:12.57\00:36:13.90
They were made in
the factory somewhere.
00:36:13.94\00:36:16.17
They were produced on
an assembly line I saw,
00:36:16.20\00:36:20.71
once again, you know,
00:36:20.74\00:36:22.18
Facebook and YouTube
are just replete with this,
00:36:22.21\00:36:24.81
somebody put a video on YouTube
where in a church service,
00:36:24.85\00:36:28.42
they were walking down the aisle
00:36:28.45\00:36:29.78
and they had this huge,
huge tall statue on a view,
00:36:29.82\00:36:32.72
I wanna be respectful of
people that are where they are.
00:36:32.75\00:36:36.39
Huge, tall statue,
00:36:36.42\00:36:37.99
and four men were
carrying it on a platform
00:36:38.03\00:36:40.80
hoisted on their shoulders.
00:36:40.83\00:36:42.36
And as they got
toward the front,
00:36:42.40\00:36:43.87
one of the men
kind of stumbled some
00:36:43.90\00:36:45.87
and this tall, lifelike,
larger than human statue fell
00:36:45.90\00:36:50.47
and broke in
front of the church.
00:36:50.51\00:36:52.41
And the shock,
00:36:52.44\00:36:54.31
and the response of the
people were overwhelming
00:36:54.34\00:36:56.58
it was like, "Whoa."
00:36:56.61\00:36:59.28
And they were kind of
reaching like to say, "Oh."
00:36:59.31\00:37:01.78
And I was saying to
myself, "God is not dead."
00:37:01.82\00:37:04.92
Amen somebody?
00:37:04.95\00:37:06.42
God is not dead.
00:37:06.45\00:37:08.19
Just order you another
one, if you needed that badly,
00:37:08.22\00:37:10.06
but God is still on His throne.
00:37:10.09\00:37:11.89
And God is not a cynical God.
00:37:11.93\00:37:15.10
But if you read
in the Bible Dagon,
00:37:15.13\00:37:16.87
remember Dagon,
when the ark was stolen,
00:37:16.90\00:37:21.70
and they refused
to return the ark,
00:37:21.74\00:37:23.71
and every day
you go to God, Dagon.
00:37:23.74\00:37:25.81
Today, his hands are cut
off, then his head is cut off,
00:37:25.84\00:37:29.18
then he's pushed over,
and his feet are cut off.
00:37:29.21\00:37:31.31
God does not give any
allegiance, or loyalty,
00:37:31.35\00:37:35.75
or recognition to things
that are made by man's hands,
00:37:35.78\00:37:39.82
carved images.
00:37:39.85\00:37:41.59
That's the third description.
00:37:41.62\00:37:42.96
Let's go to number seven.
00:37:42.99\00:37:44.33
We're gonna move right along.
00:37:44.36\00:37:46.26
We're gonna move
right along, number seven.
00:37:46.29\00:37:48.66
And we might be
able to get to number 16
00:37:48.70\00:37:50.83
if we move at
the speed of light,
00:37:50.87\00:37:53.00
but probably not
tonight, but let's keep going.
00:37:53.03\00:37:56.30
Number seven, here it is.
00:37:56.34\00:37:58.77
What does the Bible describe
00:37:58.81\00:38:00.14
as the territory
of the woman's power?
00:38:00.18\00:38:03.58
That is the woman of
Revelation Chapter 17.
00:38:08.15\00:38:10.75
Let's go to
Revelation Chapter 17.
00:38:10.79\00:38:14.62
We read her
description last week,
00:38:14.66\00:38:16.89
she is sitting on a
scarlet colored beast.
00:38:16.93\00:38:20.00
But how wide and how
broad is her influence?
00:38:20.03\00:38:23.93
We talked about that
the kings of the earth
00:38:23.97\00:38:25.77
and the whole world.
00:38:25.80\00:38:27.24
But where is her
support system found?
00:38:27.27\00:38:30.71
Here it is, Revelation 17:15.
00:38:30.74\00:38:33.74
Here's what the Bible says.
00:38:33.78\00:38:35.11
Okay, let me go
on. Yeah, here it is.
00:38:38.08\00:38:40.72
"Then he said to me,
'The waters, which you saw,
00:38:40.75\00:38:46.39
where the harlot sits,
00:38:46.42\00:38:48.02
are peoples,
multitudes, nations,"
00:38:48.06\00:38:52.79
and what else?
00:38:52.83\00:38:54.16
"Tongues."
00:38:54.20\00:38:55.53
That means all of humanity,
peoples, multitudes, nations,
00:38:55.56\00:39:00.80
and every language, tongues.
00:39:00.84\00:39:04.27
So this system of Babylon,
its influence is far and wide.
00:39:04.31\00:39:10.65
And right now, I'm
trying to contain myself.
00:39:10.68\00:39:16.85
Right now, it's
getting the support of people,
00:39:16.89\00:39:20.29
multitudes,
nations, and tongues,
00:39:20.32\00:39:23.36
meaning if it has
a support of nations,
00:39:23.39\00:39:26.23
it has the support
of the nation's leaders.
00:39:26.26\00:39:29.16
Am I right?
00:39:29.20\00:39:30.53
If it has the support of people,
00:39:30.57\00:39:32.03
its influence is so powerful
that the people of nations,
00:39:32.07\00:39:36.00
regardless of their language
is supporting this system.
00:39:36.04\00:39:42.58
But the very people
00:39:42.61\00:39:43.95
that are supporting this system,
00:39:43.98\00:39:45.71
as we go further in our study,
00:39:45.75\00:39:47.12
and I don't think we
gonna get to this tonight.
00:39:47.15\00:39:48.98
As we get further in our study,
00:39:49.02\00:39:50.72
you're gonna see the
very people that support
00:39:50.75\00:39:53.19
the system right now
will one day stand back
00:39:53.22\00:39:55.86
and watch it burn.
00:39:55.89\00:39:58.16
That's why the Lord is
saying before this happens.
00:39:58.19\00:40:00.46
And this is such
a sincere message,
00:40:00.50\00:40:01.96
I praise God for His longing,
00:40:02.00\00:40:04.90
His love, and
desire to save people.
00:40:04.93\00:40:07.64
Because sometimes we can
say, "You wanna stay there?"
00:40:07.67\00:40:10.17
Fine.
00:40:10.21\00:40:11.54
But Lord is saying, "No, no,
00:40:11.57\00:40:12.94
I'm not willing
that any should perish,
00:40:12.97\00:40:15.61
but that all should
come to repentance."
00:40:15.64\00:40:18.61
So don't give up
00:40:18.65\00:40:19.98
because the final call
is gonna be made at a time
00:40:20.02\00:40:24.85
when everything
00:40:24.89\00:40:26.22
that seemed to be
credible to that point,
00:40:26.25\00:40:29.22
will immediately
lose its credibility.
00:40:29.26\00:40:32.19
And God is gonna
turn the light on.
00:40:32.23\00:40:34.66
When you turn the light
on, you can see anything.
00:40:34.70\00:40:36.77
I have this flashlight,
that 700 lumen, that's bright.
00:40:36.80\00:40:42.44
You can't look into that
light, it's huge, bright.
00:40:42.47\00:40:45.47
God is gonna
turn the whole world.
00:40:45.51\00:40:48.14
Few nights ago, matter of fact,
00:40:48.18\00:40:49.51
I think it was
either last Wednesday
00:40:49.54\00:40:51.75
or Sabbath evening,
00:40:51.78\00:40:54.55
when we had a lightning
storm, we went outside.
00:40:54.58\00:40:58.89
And it just took
one great big flash,
00:40:58.92\00:41:01.46
Marlene, to get us to
run back in the building
00:41:01.49\00:41:03.99
because it lit up the
sky for about two seconds.
00:41:04.03\00:41:07.40
And it was so bright,
00:41:07.43\00:41:08.76
it looked like we
were back at noon.
00:41:08.80\00:41:11.00
The whole place was lighted up.
00:41:11.03\00:41:12.57
Now I'm thinking,
I'm thinking to myself,
00:41:12.60\00:41:14.40
when the world
is completely dark,
00:41:14.44\00:41:16.74
and God lights up
the world with His glory.
00:41:16.77\00:41:19.71
It's not gonna just
pierce the physical darkness,
00:41:19.74\00:41:24.11
but the spiritual
darkness is gonna fall,
00:41:24.15\00:41:26.65
and be seen for
what it really is
00:41:26.68\00:41:28.98
when God illuminates the world
with the power of the gospel.
00:41:29.02\00:41:32.12
Amen?
00:41:32.15\00:41:33.49
That's the
beauty of the message.
00:41:33.52\00:41:34.86
So write the answer down.
00:41:34.89\00:41:36.22
What does the Bible describe
00:41:36.26\00:41:37.59
as the territory
of the woman's power?
00:41:37.63\00:41:39.49
Write it down,
peoples, multitudes,
00:41:39.53\00:41:41.66
nations, and tongues.
00:41:41.70\00:41:43.16
The entire world is
involved in this support system.
00:41:43.20\00:41:48.17
And you know what?
00:41:48.20\00:41:49.54
Right now, it seems
hard to go against that.
00:41:49.57\00:41:51.34
If you would go outside today,
00:41:51.37\00:41:52.91
and I've tried this as a pastor
now 28 years, going on 29.
00:41:52.94\00:41:57.78
Some pastors preach the
truth with their hearts,
00:41:57.81\00:42:00.55
with all those
strength they can muster up,
00:42:00.58\00:42:02.58
you know what kind
of reaction you get,
00:42:02.62\00:42:04.65
yeah, whatever.
00:42:04.69\00:42:06.99
If it's, if that's
what you want that's fine,
00:42:07.02\00:42:08.46
this is what I want.
00:42:08.49\00:42:10.03
But the day is gonna come
when people are gonna realize
00:42:10.06\00:42:12.66
that the thing that they believe
00:42:12.69\00:42:14.03
has let them down.
00:42:14.06\00:42:16.33
And they're gonna see the glory
and the beauty of the message
00:42:16.36\00:42:18.37
that God has been storing
up for that particular hour,
00:42:18.40\00:42:21.20
just like the day of Pentecost.
00:42:21.24\00:42:22.87
How many were baptized
on the day of Pentecost?
00:42:22.90\00:42:25.71
Three thousand.
00:42:25.74\00:42:27.08
Just like that,
then after that 5,000,
00:42:27.11\00:42:29.48
then after that
00:42:29.51\00:42:30.85
so many that the Bible
just simply says in Acts,
00:42:30.88\00:42:33.01
multitudes were
added to the church.
00:42:33.05\00:42:34.48
If you think
00:42:34.52\00:42:35.85
the day of
Pentecost was something,
00:42:35.88\00:42:37.22
you wait till God
00:42:37.25\00:42:38.59
turns a light on
and lights up the world.
00:42:38.62\00:42:40.66
Let's go to number eight.
00:42:40.69\00:42:42.06
Number eight.
00:42:42.09\00:42:43.43
Here we are.
00:42:43.46\00:42:45.19
How does the
Bible describe the power
00:42:45.23\00:42:47.63
behind the harlot woman?
00:42:47.66\00:42:51.77
The territory, now
let's look at the power
00:42:51.80\00:42:55.67
behind the harlot woman.
00:42:55.70\00:42:57.94
Revelation Chapter 17,
00:42:57.97\00:43:00.08
we're going to start by verse 7,
00:43:00.11\00:43:05.01
with verse 7.
00:43:05.05\00:43:07.12
Okay?
00:43:07.15\00:43:08.48
Because remember now,
00:43:08.52\00:43:09.85
when we talked about in
earlier part of Revelation,
00:43:09.88\00:43:13.05
we saw a woman sitting
on a scarlet colored beast.
00:43:13.09\00:43:17.86
The Bible goes further
to describe this scarlet.
00:43:17.89\00:43:22.23
What's another word for scarlet,
00:43:22.26\00:43:23.60
someone tell me?
00:43:23.63\00:43:24.97
Okay, nowadays, you
don't go to restaurants,
00:43:25.00\00:43:26.57
say, can I have a
scarlet colored ice cream cone.
00:43:26.60\00:43:29.24
We don't speak that way,
but that's scriptural language.
00:43:29.27\00:43:31.57
Because it was clear
scarlet was not just red,
00:43:31.61\00:43:35.28
it was deep red.
00:43:35.31\00:43:37.88
It was unmistakable red.
00:43:37.91\00:43:40.15
I believe if you go
back, you call it persimmons,
00:43:40.18\00:43:43.39
some people call
the Chinese apple.
00:43:43.42\00:43:45.29
But whatever you call it,
00:43:45.32\00:43:46.65
my wife likes
those Chinese apples.
00:43:46.69\00:43:48.82
You break those things up
00:43:48.86\00:43:50.19
and it's not
like a regular apple,
00:43:50.23\00:43:51.56
you don't just bite into it.
00:43:51.59\00:43:52.96
Pomegranates, like pomegranates,
00:43:52.99\00:43:54.83
like those apples, pomegranates,
00:43:54.86\00:43:57.00
and the persimmons
and the Chinese apple,
00:43:57.03\00:43:59.13
the red is so red,
00:43:59.17\00:44:00.94
they used to use
this to dye clothing.
00:44:00.97\00:44:04.01
And I wanna be honest with
you, if you have an outfit,
00:44:04.04\00:44:06.14
be careful when
you eat those things
00:44:06.17\00:44:08.04
because if sometimes
you get on your outfit,
00:44:08.08\00:44:09.78
it's not gonna come out.
00:44:09.81\00:44:13.01
But the only thing
that can remove the stain,
00:44:13.05\00:44:14.78
though your sins be as scarlet,
00:44:14.82\00:44:18.85
they should be as what?
00:44:18.89\00:44:20.22
White as snow.
00:44:20.26\00:44:21.59
Only God can
remove from humanity
00:44:21.62\00:44:24.73
what the scarlet woman
00:44:24.76\00:44:27.00
and the scarlet
beast has done to them.
00:44:27.03\00:44:29.83
Amen to that?
00:44:29.86\00:44:31.23
So there's still hope.
00:44:31.27\00:44:32.60
But let's go on.
00:44:32.63\00:44:33.97
How does the Bible describe it?
00:44:34.00\00:44:35.34
Revelation 17:7, here it is.
00:44:35.37\00:44:37.34
"But the angel said to
me, 'Why do you marvel?
00:44:40.61\00:44:46.31
I will tell you the
mystery of the woman
00:44:46.35\00:44:50.22
and of the beast
that carries her.
00:44:50.25\00:44:53.42
Now the beast,
which has," together,
00:44:53.46\00:44:57.13
"seven heads," and what?
00:44:57.16\00:44:59.03
"Ten horns.'"
00:44:59.06\00:45:00.56
So let's start with
the power behind the woman.
00:45:00.60\00:45:04.53
When you look at the
power behind the woman,
00:45:04.57\00:45:06.27
we're gonna find
out a little bit more
00:45:06.30\00:45:07.64
about the woman
in just a moment.
00:45:07.67\00:45:09.10
We're gonna talk
about her children
00:45:09.14\00:45:10.47
and how the world is
being affected by her.
00:45:10.51\00:45:13.31
But let's go ahead
and start with the power
00:45:13.34\00:45:15.04
behind the woman.
00:45:15.08\00:45:16.41
Now, what is the
power behind the Christian?
00:45:16.44\00:45:19.18
Okay, you shall receive
power after that the Holy Spirit
00:45:22.25\00:45:28.39
has come upon you, right?
00:45:28.42\00:45:29.89
Acts 1:8.
00:45:29.92\00:45:31.26
The Holy Spirit is
the continual power
00:45:31.29\00:45:34.06
that the Lord says,
I will never leave you,
00:45:34.10\00:45:36.56
I will abide with you forever.
00:45:36.60\00:45:38.43
The church
without the Holy Spirit
00:45:38.47\00:45:39.93
is a church without power.
00:45:39.97\00:45:42.57
But the power behind
Babylon is not holy at all.
00:45:42.60\00:45:47.01
So let's write the answer down,
00:45:47.04\00:45:49.44
the power is the
beast with seven heads,
00:45:49.48\00:45:55.25
and what else?
00:45:55.28\00:45:56.62
Ten horns.
00:45:56.65\00:45:58.15
Write that down.
00:45:58.19\00:46:00.12
Now, we're gonna
walk methodically
00:46:00.16\00:46:01.56
through this description
because it is unmistakable.
00:46:01.59\00:46:04.13
And I wanna make this point
before I go to the next text,
00:46:04.16\00:46:06.93
which you can turn there,
it's in Revelation Chapter 12.
00:46:06.96\00:46:09.26
The reason why I wanna go there
00:46:09.30\00:46:11.83
and the reason I
wanna make this prepared
00:46:11.87\00:46:14.90
or segue into this
very effectively as this.
00:46:14.94\00:46:18.21
The Great
Controversy or the power between
00:46:18.24\00:46:20.81
or the battle
between light and darkness,
00:46:20.84\00:46:24.78
truth and error is
between Christ and who?
00:46:24.81\00:46:30.25
Satan.
00:46:30.29\00:46:31.62
Revelation 12
describes that battle
00:46:31.65\00:46:33.02
very carefully.
00:46:33.05\00:46:34.46
The dragon fought with
his angels against Michael
00:46:34.49\00:46:39.03
and his angels.
00:46:39.06\00:46:40.80
And Michael is Christ,
00:46:40.83\00:46:42.16
is the preexisting Jesus
before He was called Jesus.
00:46:42.20\00:46:45.80
He is Michael, the archangel,
the one above all the angels,
00:46:45.83\00:46:49.70
the commander of
the heavenly hosts.
00:46:49.74\00:46:52.64
But now let's go
ahead and find out
00:46:52.67\00:46:54.44
what other description
the Bible gives to this beast
00:46:54.48\00:46:58.15
with seven heads and ten horns.
00:46:58.18\00:46:59.81
Revelation Chapter
12, let's go there now.
00:46:59.85\00:47:01.98
Because here's one of
the very important principles
00:47:02.02\00:47:04.05
of Bible prophecy,
whenever a symbol is given,
00:47:04.09\00:47:07.66
you must get the description
00:47:07.69\00:47:09.76
or the definition of
that symbol from the Bible.
00:47:09.79\00:47:12.93
You follow that?
00:47:12.96\00:47:14.30
You cannot make up a symbol.
00:47:14.33\00:47:15.66
I can't say,
00:47:15.70\00:47:17.03
"Well, let me tell you
what I think it means."
00:47:17.07\00:47:19.20
The only place
that you find safety
00:47:19.23\00:47:20.94
is you allow the Bible
to define its own symbols.
00:47:20.97\00:47:26.14
Anytime you find a
definition anywhere else,
00:47:26.17\00:47:28.34
it could sound good
but if it ain't scriptural,
00:47:28.38\00:47:31.08
it's just a good
sounding description.
00:47:31.11\00:47:33.45
Let's find out
what the Bible says
00:47:33.48\00:47:34.98
about the beast with
seven heads and ten horns.
00:47:35.02\00:47:37.12
And by the way,
this is the first time
00:47:37.15\00:47:39.65
the beast with
seven heads and ten horns
00:47:39.69\00:47:41.39
is described in the Bible.
00:47:41.42\00:47:43.22
Period.
00:47:43.26\00:47:44.79
Period.
00:47:44.83\00:47:46.16
Here we go Revelation 12.
00:47:46.19\00:47:48.20
And let's go ahead
and start with verse 3.
00:47:48.23\00:47:52.27
I'll just dive right into it,
00:47:52.30\00:47:53.87
because before
that we find the woman,
00:47:53.90\00:47:55.74
the pure woman
clothed with the sun,
00:47:55.77\00:47:57.41
the moon, the stars.
00:47:57.44\00:47:58.81
Now verse 3, here it is.
00:47:58.84\00:48:01.81
"And another
sign appeared," where?
00:48:01.84\00:48:08.12
"In heaven:
behold, a great, fiery,"
00:48:08.15\00:48:13.05
what's the next word?
00:48:13.09\00:48:14.79
"Red dragon having together
seven heads and ten horns,"
00:48:14.82\00:48:20.70
and what else?
00:48:20.73\00:48:22.06
"Seven diadems or
crowns on his heads."
00:48:22.10\00:48:26.17
This is huge.
00:48:26.20\00:48:27.54
Seven heads, ten horns,
and seven crowns on his head.
00:48:27.57\00:48:32.11
Another, there will be
no crowns on the horns.
00:48:32.14\00:48:35.84
There'll be crowns on the heads,
00:48:35.88\00:48:38.61
seven heads, ten horns,
seven crowns on his heads.
00:48:38.65\00:48:44.12
All right?
00:48:44.15\00:48:45.92
That's vitally important.
00:48:45.95\00:48:47.49
So now let's see how the
Bible describes who this is.
00:48:47.52\00:48:51.93
Let's go to verse 9.
00:48:51.96\00:48:53.53
Let's go to Revelation 12:9.
00:48:53.56\00:48:58.03
Are we ready?
00:48:58.07\00:49:00.44
So the great
dragon was cast out,
00:49:00.47\00:49:06.88
that serpent of
old, called the Devil,"
00:49:06.91\00:49:11.01
and what else?
00:49:11.05\00:49:12.38
"Satan, who
deceives the whole world,
00:49:12.41\00:49:15.48
he was cast to the earth,
00:49:15.52\00:49:18.32
and his angels
were cast out with him."
00:49:18.35\00:49:21.32
What is the connecting point
between verse 3 and verse 9?
00:49:21.36\00:49:25.36
Someone tell me
I don't often ask.
00:49:25.39\00:49:27.86
Thank you, the great red dragon.
00:49:27.90\00:49:31.83
The dragon, fiery red.
00:49:31.87\00:49:36.10
Red is another word for scarlet.
00:49:36.14\00:49:38.64
It always amazes me that
whenever you see pictures,
00:49:38.67\00:49:41.31
a lot of times you see a
woman sitting on a leopard.
00:49:41.34\00:49:43.45
Bible doesn't
describe her leopard,
00:49:43.48\00:49:44.85
it describes a beast with
seven heads and ten horns,
00:49:44.88\00:49:47.98
more specifically a dragon,
00:49:48.02\00:49:49.65
which you look at
ancient Asian art,
00:49:49.68\00:49:52.02
it's more like a Leviathan.
00:49:52.05\00:49:54.06
And you've seen the picture.
00:49:54.09\00:49:55.42
You see that very common
in Asia in their culture,
00:49:55.46\00:49:57.73
you see the dragon,
sometimes you see the dragon,
00:49:57.76\00:50:00.06
they all...
00:50:00.10\00:50:01.43
During certain ceremonies
and celebrations of the year,
00:50:01.46\00:50:04.13
in certain parts of
Asia, they put the head on,
00:50:04.17\00:50:07.00
the fireworks going on,
and they have the moving dragon
00:50:07.04\00:50:09.04
as people under them.
00:50:09.07\00:50:10.41
That's a very symbolic
representation of the language
00:50:10.44\00:50:14.01
in that region of the world
00:50:14.04\00:50:16.04
because the Bible
comes out of Asia,
00:50:16.08\00:50:17.58
Asia Minor, very significant.
00:50:17.61\00:50:19.15
So they use a language
00:50:19.18\00:50:20.58
that they
understand in a better word,
00:50:20.62\00:50:22.48
as talked about in the
Book of Job as the Leviathan.
00:50:22.52\00:50:25.52
And the Bible gives the
dragon also the description,
00:50:25.55\00:50:28.12
the serpent of
old, so it's serpentine,
00:50:28.16\00:50:31.83
not leopard like.
00:50:31.86\00:50:33.63
The woman's not
sitting on a leopard,
00:50:33.66\00:50:35.43
she's sitting on
a serpentine beast
00:50:35.46\00:50:37.83
that looks like a dragon.
00:50:37.87\00:50:39.60
And that is described as Satan.
00:50:39.63\00:50:41.50
So let's go ahead and
come to the conclusion.
00:50:41.54\00:50:44.71
How does the Bible describe
00:50:44.74\00:50:46.34
the power behind
the harlot woman?
00:50:46.37\00:50:48.48
Revelation 12:3, 9,
what word can we put there?
00:50:48.51\00:50:51.68
What singular
word can we put there?
00:50:51.71\00:50:55.88
Say it again.
00:50:55.92\00:50:57.25
Satan.
00:50:57.29\00:50:58.72
Satan.
00:50:58.75\00:51:00.09
The Lord built
His church on Christ,
00:51:00.12\00:51:03.89
the solid rock.
00:51:03.93\00:51:05.89
The woman has the
support of the people
00:51:05.93\00:51:09.46
and the multitudes and nations,
00:51:09.50\00:51:11.03
but the one behind her is Satan.
00:51:11.07\00:51:13.74
He sets up a counterfeit,
to try to counteract the truth.
00:51:13.77\00:51:17.57
But praise God,
00:51:17.61\00:51:18.94
the truth is more
powerful than darkness.
00:51:18.97\00:51:20.38
What do you say?
00:51:20.41\00:51:21.74
So God is not gonna be offset
by what Satan has established.
00:51:21.78\00:51:26.31
But it seems like it's got
the whole world in his hands.
00:51:26.35\00:51:29.88
Every multitude,
nations, languages,
00:51:29.92\00:51:32.49
tongues, peoples, kings,
00:51:32.52\00:51:34.99
seemed like the
whole world is sucked in
00:51:35.02\00:51:37.59
by what's happening right now.
00:51:37.63\00:51:39.66
But the good news is
Jesus the message of God's Word
00:51:39.69\00:51:43.33
will have the final hurrah.
00:51:43.37\00:51:46.67
And praise the Lord,
how glorious it's gonna be.
00:51:46.70\00:51:49.57
All right now.
00:51:49.60\00:51:50.94
Gotta go transition.
00:51:50.97\00:51:52.37
So the answers you have
seven heads and ten horns,
00:51:52.41\00:51:55.28
Revelation 17:7,
00:51:55.31\00:51:56.91
there's seven
heads and ten horns,
00:51:56.95\00:51:58.45
first described in
Revelation 12:3, 9,
00:51:58.48\00:52:01.12
and that is Satan.
00:52:01.15\00:52:03.12
He was against a
woman from the word go.
00:52:03.15\00:52:06.22
And when you look at
the rest of Revelation 12,
00:52:06.25\00:52:09.26
this did not just
begin on the earth,
00:52:09.29\00:52:11.53
where did it
begin, somebody tell me?
00:52:11.56\00:52:14.23
There was a war in heaven.
00:52:14.26\00:52:16.10
When Lucifer was cast
out, he was no longer called.
00:52:16.13\00:52:20.27
This is huge.
00:52:20.30\00:52:21.64
He was no longer
called the son of the morning.
00:52:21.67\00:52:24.31
He was a bright angel.
00:52:24.34\00:52:28.28
But his brightness
will never supersede
00:52:28.31\00:52:29.98
the brightness
of the glory of God.
00:52:30.01\00:52:32.91
So what appears
to be light today
00:52:32.95\00:52:35.25
really is masked darkness,
00:52:35.28\00:52:38.45
because it's coming
from the former Lucifer,
00:52:38.49\00:52:41.26
now Satan, that serpent
of old called the devil,
00:52:41.29\00:52:43.49
the dragon, the Leviathan,
00:52:43.53\00:52:45.19
the one who is the
master of deception.
00:52:45.23\00:52:47.80
He's the father of lies.
00:52:47.83\00:52:49.73
He lied from the very beginning.
00:52:49.76\00:52:51.50
And lies today are
connected right back
00:52:51.53\00:52:53.50
to its original source.
00:52:53.54\00:52:55.10
Now, this is very important.
00:52:55.14\00:52:56.60
Let's transition to
question number nine.
00:52:56.64\00:52:58.87
I say that a lot.
00:52:58.91\00:53:00.24
Every question is important.
00:53:00.28\00:53:01.91
But we're gonna show
you some comparisons here.
00:53:01.94\00:53:04.05
And I think we'll get these
two before we go on to the...
00:53:04.08\00:53:06.31
We'll get to
number nine and ten.
00:53:06.35\00:53:08.22
Here it is, number nine.
00:53:08.25\00:53:10.15
In what manner does
the Bible describe Jesus?
00:53:10.19\00:53:13.82
We're gonna go
to Revelation 1:8.
00:53:13.86\00:53:16.36
In what manner does
the Bible describe Jesus?
00:53:16.39\00:53:22.70
Revelation 1:8.
00:53:22.73\00:53:24.63
And here it is, in
the interest of time,
00:53:24.67\00:53:26.90
we'll go ahead and
bring it to the screen.
00:53:26.94\00:53:28.27
Here it is.
00:53:28.30\00:53:29.74
"'I am the Alpha and the Omega,
00:53:29.77\00:53:34.94
the Beginning and End,'
00:53:34.98\00:53:37.08
says the Lord who," together,
00:53:37.11\00:53:39.35
"who is, and who
was, and who is to come,
00:53:39.38\00:53:43.45
the Almighty."
00:53:43.49\00:53:45.72
So write this down.
00:53:45.75\00:53:47.36
In what manner does
the Bible describes Jesus?
00:53:47.39\00:53:49.76
Here it is, "Who is, who was,
00:53:49.79\00:53:54.70
who is to come."
00:53:54.73\00:53:57.37
Write that down.
00:53:57.40\00:53:58.87
He is, Jesus never...
00:53:58.90\00:54:00.74
Jesus has never passed.
00:54:00.77\00:54:02.70
So when you put
this all together,
00:54:02.74\00:54:04.77
the only way
that it was is saying,
00:54:04.81\00:54:08.14
yesterday, today, and forever.
00:54:08.18\00:54:12.25
When you go back
to the days of Mary,
00:54:12.28\00:54:14.68
He was there.
00:54:14.72\00:54:16.05
Today, He is here,
and He will be there.
00:54:16.08\00:54:18.99
That is the was, is, is to come.
00:54:19.02\00:54:22.16
Amen somebody?
00:54:22.19\00:54:23.53
He's never absent.
00:54:23.56\00:54:25.23
He's the ever present one,
00:54:25.26\00:54:27.03
the beauty of
the presence of God.
00:54:27.06\00:54:28.40
So He is, who was,
and who is to come.
00:54:28.43\00:54:30.70
Quickly now, number 10.
00:54:30.73\00:54:32.07
We can get it in there.
00:54:32.10\00:54:33.60
Number ten, I'm showing
you the Great Controversy.
00:54:33.64\00:54:35.77
I'm showing you the battle
between darkness and light,
00:54:35.80\00:54:38.61
which
encompasses every darkness,
00:54:38.64\00:54:41.68
encompasses every
false religious system,
00:54:41.71\00:54:45.08
every false
denomination will be affected
00:54:45.11\00:54:48.55
under the auspices of Babylon,
Spiritual Babylon, that is.
00:54:48.58\00:54:52.55
Okay, now quickly,
00:54:52.59\00:54:53.92
how does the Bible describes
Satan's different states?
00:54:53.96\00:54:57.33
How does the Bible describe
Satan's different states?
00:54:57.36\00:55:01.10
Question number 10.
00:55:01.13\00:55:03.03
All right, let's
go to the answer.
00:55:03.06\00:55:05.30
And the answer is
found in Revelation 17:8.
00:55:05.33\00:55:09.50
Revelation 17:8.
00:55:09.54\00:55:11.84
Here we are.
00:55:11.87\00:55:13.68
The Bible says,
"The beast that you saw,"
00:55:13.71\00:55:17.01
together, "was,
and is not," and what?
00:55:17.05\00:55:23.69
"Will ascend out of
the bottomless pit,"
00:55:23.72\00:55:26.76
and what else?
00:55:26.79\00:55:28.12
"Go into perdition.
00:55:28.16\00:55:29.59
And those who dwell
on the earth will marvel,
00:55:29.62\00:55:32.93
whose names are not
written in the Book of Life,"
00:55:32.96\00:55:36.93
go to the next slide,
00:55:36.97\00:55:38.77
"from the
foundation of the world,
00:55:38.80\00:55:41.10
when they see the
beast that," together,
00:55:41.14\00:55:43.54
"was and," what?
00:55:43.57\00:55:45.67
"Is not, and yet is."
00:55:45.71\00:55:48.24
We're gonna wind up on this,
00:55:48.28\00:55:49.61
let's put the
answers together here.
00:55:49.64\00:55:50.98
How the Bible does describe
Satan's different states?
00:55:51.01\00:55:53.52
Under A is, what is it?
00:55:53.55\00:55:56.15
Under A is what?
00:55:56.18\00:55:57.65
Was, put that down.
00:55:57.69\00:56:00.02
Secondly, is not.
00:56:00.06\00:56:02.89
Thirdly, will ascend
out of the bottomless pit.
00:56:02.92\00:56:08.93
And fourthly on
line a, go to perdition.
00:56:08.96\00:56:14.77
That means he's got destruction
at the end of his short reign.
00:56:14.80\00:56:19.94
And I say short
because it's short
00:56:19.97\00:56:21.31
compared to eternal life.
00:56:21.34\00:56:22.68
What do you say?
00:56:22.71\00:56:24.05
That's the first
description of that verse.
00:56:24.08\00:56:25.81
And the verse ends
by giving him a second,
00:56:25.85\00:56:27.45
it makes it very clear.
00:56:27.48\00:56:28.88
The second
description it gives him
00:56:28.92\00:56:30.25
in that very same verse,
00:56:30.29\00:56:31.62
Revelation 17:8 is this.
00:56:31.65\00:56:33.76
Who was, is not,
00:56:33.79\00:56:39.16
yet is.
00:56:39.19\00:56:41.23
Was, is not, yet is.
00:56:41.26\00:56:45.53
I'll go back to that so
you get that on the screen.
00:56:45.57\00:56:49.07
Last one, was, is not, yet is.
00:56:49.10\00:56:52.84
Prior to that was, is not,
00:56:52.87\00:56:55.28
and will ascend out
of the bottomless pit
00:56:55.31\00:56:59.15
and go to perdition.
00:56:59.18\00:57:01.58
Satan has got...
00:57:01.62\00:57:03.22
Satan has an appointment
that God has set for him.
00:57:03.25\00:57:05.59
And that is the what?
00:57:05.62\00:57:07.29
Lake of fire,
that's the perdition,
00:57:07.32\00:57:10.49
that is the place
of final destruction,
00:57:10.53\00:57:13.80
that all who align
themselves with Satan.
00:57:13.83\00:57:16.67
And by the way, you
know, nobody should be lost,
00:57:16.70\00:57:18.77
nobody has to be lost,
00:57:18.80\00:57:20.60
because the Lord
has made provision
00:57:20.64\00:57:21.97
for everyone to be saved.
00:57:22.00\00:57:23.34
Forget this very
quickly before we wind up.
00:57:23.37\00:57:25.57
Jesus was, is, is to come.
00:57:25.61\00:57:29.41
Satan was, is not,
00:57:29.44\00:57:31.71
and will ascend out
of the bottomless pit,
00:57:31.75\00:57:34.15
go to perdition, and
also was, is not, and yet is,
00:57:34.18\00:57:39.25
we're gonna leave
that as a cliffhanger.
00:57:39.29\00:57:41.42
How was He was?
00:57:41.46\00:57:45.79
And why is He is not?
00:57:45.83\00:57:48.46
And at the same time, yet is.
00:57:48.50\00:57:50.47
We'll find out about
that when we cover the lesson
00:57:50.50\00:57:53.17
on our next broadcast.
00:57:53.20\00:57:54.90
But, friends, I tell you
keep studying God's Word.
00:57:54.94\00:57:57.44
if it doesn't make
sense, I guarantee you one day
00:57:57.47\00:57:59.84
it will come
into A Sharper Focus.
00:57:59.87\00:58:02.51
God bless you.
00:58:02.54\00:58:03.88