Hello, friends,
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welcome to the
Adventist Virtual Camp Meeting.
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I'm Pastor John Lomacang.
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And I welcome you to
the message of the day,
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The Wine of Babylon subtitled,
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The Coalition of
Destruction. Let us pray.
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Father in heaven, we
thank You for the privilege
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and opportunity to
communicate from Your Word.
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We pray that Your Spirit
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will find fertile
soil in the hearts
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and minds of
those who are listening
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and those who are hearing.
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In Jesus' name, I pray.
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Amen.
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Friends, John the Revelator
opens the Book of Revelation
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with a sober warning from Jesus.
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His message is an urgent
call to the world's inhabitants.
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You see, since
the fall of Lucifer,
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he has ignited a
controversy against the Creator.
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His purpose continues to
be, to overthrow the law of God.
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And after being
cast out of heaven,
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Satan continues his
agenda on the earth.
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We read in Revelation 12:12
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these words about his
aim and the Bible says,
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"Therefore rejoice, O heavens,
and you who dwell in them.
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But woe to the inhabitants
of the earth and the sea,
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for the devil
has come down to you,
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having great
wrath because he knows
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that he has a short time."
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You see, friends, the great
war between light and darkness
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contains an inventory
of unfolding strategies.
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But in this final push,
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God unveils the
secrets of a dark kingdom,
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and He commissions His
servants to warn the world.
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In the final showdown,
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every God opposing
entity is involved,
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and Revelation
raises the curtain
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to introduce this final
coalition of destruction.
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In Revelation 16:13-14,
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we're gonna look
at a false trinity
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that is coalescing
together in opposition
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to the truth of God's Word.
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Listen to the words of
John in Revelation Chapter 16,
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beginning with verse 13.
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And the Bible says,
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"And I saw three unclean spirits
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like frogs coming out
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of the mouth of the dragon,
out of the mouth of the beast,
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out of the mouth
of the false prophet.
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For they are the
spirits of demons,
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performing signs, which go
out to the kings of the earth
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and of the whole world,
to gather them to the battle
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of that great
day of God Almighty."
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You see John
outlines the trinity
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that's described as the dragon,
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the beast and the false prophet.
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And when you applies
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scriptural
principles to understand
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who the dragon
is, who the beast is,
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and who the false prophet is.
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Historically, we find that
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the dragon
represents spiritualism,
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a movement of
darkness established
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in the Garden of Eden
with the very first lie,
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you will not surely die.
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When you also apply
the scriptural symbols
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into the historical scenario,
you find that the beast
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is the description of a
power that rose out of pagan
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and papal Rome that we
now know today is Catholicism
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with its system of
dogmas and false doctrines,
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which is a part of
this false trinity.
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And then the Bible
talks about the false prophet.
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Why the false prophet?
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When you study the Bible,
you discover that the prophet
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is a word that is often used
to be the spokesperson for God.
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But when a prophet is
now described as false,
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it means that he has apostatized
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from the way of God.
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And when you look into
that, you find that under
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the Protestant
Reformation, many prophets,
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many servants of God
began to rise to the forefront,
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reclaiming the
truths of God's Word.
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But Satan knowing that,
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he found a way to instill
tradition into the Bible.
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And today
tradition has taken the place
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of a thus saith the Lord.
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And that means those who
are preaching are no longer
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true prophets of God,
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but they are false prophets.
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And more specifically,
this power of the false prophet
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describes
apostate Protestantism,
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a system claiming to
be based on God's Word.
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But in fact, teaching traditions
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and doctrines
that are not founded
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anywhere in God's Scripture.
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And you might ask the question,
why is the devil doing that?
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You see, he
understands the issues.
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He understands that everything
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about this
controversy has a final impact,
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either final deliverance
or final destruction.
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He knows it is about vindicating
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the character of God
and the truth of His Word.
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Therefore, he works
overtime to lead people
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to false doctrines,
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to distort the character of God.
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He also knows
that it's about Jesus
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longing to save His people from
deception and from destruction.
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And so he flavors Christianity
with something that's enticing
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so that they are unaware of
the approaching destruction.
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Satan also knows it's about
the Lord's desire to reclaim
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His children
from a satanic grasp.
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He also knows it's
about a loving Savior
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refusing to watch
His children perish.
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That's why today
this urgent calls reveals
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the depth of Christ's
love because after thousands
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of years of deception
signs and lying wonders,
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Jesus is determined.
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And I say that again,
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Jesus is determined to
reclaim and claim His people.
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John 10:16, listen
to the words of Christ.
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He says,
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"And other sheep I have
which are not of this fold,
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them also I must bring,
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and they will hear My voice,
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and there will be one
flock and one shepherd."
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That's right, friends,
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Jesus has
followers in other folds
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and other denominations,
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but as the
coalition comes together,
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as the dragon and the beast
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and the false
prophet works together
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to deceive and to hold
into captivity God's people,
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Jesus says, I'm
not settling for that.
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I have got sheep
that are in other folds
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and I'm not content
to leave them there.
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I'm determined that
they will hear My voice
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and there will be one
fold and one shepherd.
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But Satan knowing that
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has turned his determination
on intoxicating the world
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through false ideologies,
through false teachings,
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through false doctrines,
through religious entertainment
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and through secular enticements.
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And Revelation unfolds
his ideology and his plans.
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Listen to Revelation 18:3.
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And the Bible talks
about how wide and how broad
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Satan's determination
to deceive really is.
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It says, "For all
the nations have drunk
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of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication,
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the kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her,
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and the merchants of
the earth have become rich
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through the
abundance of her luxury."
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And who is the
Bible describing here?
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It keeps saying her,
the kings of the earth,
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the merchants of the earth have
committed fornication with her.
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The Bible is talking
about a false religious system
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described in Revelation
as the mother of harlots,
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mystery Babylon the great.
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You see, friends,
we are in the midst
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of an environment
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where religion has been tainted,
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where religion
has metamorphosized
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into other
ideologies and teachings
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that are not a
part of God's Word,
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but the political
leaders and the economic leaders
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have favored the direction
of this monolith of deception.
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And they are now pulling
the world into their grasp.
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That's why today
you've got to be careful
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with what you watch,
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be careful with what you read,
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even be careful how you worship,
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because if it is
not from God's Word,
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it is a part of the
coalition of destruction.
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And when you
understand that you'll discover
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something very clear.
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Allegiance, allegiance
is the greatest value.
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We don't serve God
for temporary benefits.
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We don't serve God
for emotional feelings.
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We don't serve God
because it feels good.
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We serve God
because we love Him.
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And to serve Him means we
have to have an allegiance
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of unwavering, determination,
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and unceasing love
for God and His Word.
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And I find this quotation
really sharpens the picture
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as you look at this
coalition of destruction,
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who this coalition is
specifically aimed at.
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Listen to this quotation
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from the book Christian Service,
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page 157, it's a sobering quote.
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"The remnant
church will be brought
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into great trial and distress.
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Those who keep the
commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus
will feel the ire of the dragon
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and his hosts, Satan numbers
the world as his subjects,
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he has gained control
of the apostate churches,
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but here is a little company
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that are
resisting his supremacy."
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And this is amazing.
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"If he could blot
them from the earth,
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his triumph would be complete.
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As he influenced
the heathen nations
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to destroy Israel,
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so in the near
future he will stir up
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the wicked powers of earth
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to destroy the people of God."
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Think about that.
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We're living down in the
toes of the image of Daniel 2.
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We're living
under the last church
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of the seven
churches in Revelation.
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If Daniel and
John were alive today,
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they would be
shouting from the rooftop,
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wake up the people
of God, wake up world,
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wake up to the urgency
and the diabolical nature
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of the hour in
which we are living.
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It's not about religion,
it's about Christianity.
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It's not about how I feel.
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It's about our dedication
to an unwavering Christ,
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to an undiluted message,
to a message that will result
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in the salvation of
every man, woman, boy, and girl
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that determines
that Christ and His Word
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is the only direction of
true allegiance because today
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religion and
truth are not the same.
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That is why
spiritual Babylon is increasing
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its determination to deceive.
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The Bible
describes the end result
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of the concoction
of spiritual Babylon.
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Listen to Jeremiah 51:7.
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Here are these
words that are sober.
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The Bible says,
"Babylon was a golden cup
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in the Lord's hand
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that made all the earth drunk.
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The nations drank her wine,
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therefore the
nations are deranged."
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Now think about that.
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The Bible says, the
nations have drank her wine,
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therefore the
nations are deranged.
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And when you look
at that word derange,
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you can come up with a lot
of suggestions or synonyms,
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deranged out of their minds,
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unable to tell the difference
between light and darkness,
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misunderstanding the
Word of God that's so clear.
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Diluted and deceived.
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Unfortunately, many
people have given themselves
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so much to feeling
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and what they prefer over
what the Word of God has said,
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that they are now at
the place after drinking
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the wine of Babylon.
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And let me make a
very important point.
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Wine does not
intoxicate you on the first sip,
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but a continual ingestion
of wine eventually inebriates
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the person that's drinking it.
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And the end result is, as
you've seen on many videos,
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when a person is pulled over
by a police officer and he says,
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walk the line, they are
unable to walk a straight line,
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that's Satan's aim.
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He wants the people of God to be
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so inebriated by false teachings
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that they can't tell
the difference between light
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and darkness, truth, and error.
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And the Bible describes
the effects of the wine
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of Babylon because you
see, friends, it's not only
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what's happening to the church,
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what is continually
happening to the world.
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And we live in the most morally
unstable time in human history.
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And I can tell
you for another hour,
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what that really means
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when I break down
the entertainment,
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the music, the things
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that are now
acceptable in society
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that are a travesty to
the righteousness of Christ.
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The world is a
theater of irrational thought.
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People do things today
that animals wouldn't even do.
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That shows you the
depth of the intoxication
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of a world under the
control of the wine of Babylon.
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Irrationality does not
only affect the world though,
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it also affects the church.
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And when you ask
yourself the question,
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how else could there be
such an irrational reaction
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to the simple request of Jesus?
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Look at that
request in John 14:15.
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And the Bible says
this, this is an amazing text.
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"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
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If I had a nickel
for the amount of times,
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I've read that passage to people
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and their response would
be, that's your interpretation.
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How else can you interpret that?
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If you love Me, Jesus saying,
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"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
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But a person that's intoxicated,
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a person that is
irrational looks at that text
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and says, that's
your interpretation.
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And that's the words of Christ.
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It is not mine.
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It's simply saying, you love Me,
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honor My commandments.
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How else can you understand
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and relate to
that particular text.
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But what has
Babylon's wine done?
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And I'm gonna focus on
two particular teachings
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that have in fact
taken the world over
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both religiously
as well as secularly.
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The first intoxicating lie
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ingested from
the wine of Babylon.
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We find in the Book of
Genesis 3:4, listen to this.
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You know, when Eve and
Adam had fallen into sin,
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the devil said to
Eve in Genesis 3:4,
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"Then the serpent
said to the woman,
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'You will not surely die.'"
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Now let's spend
a moment on that.
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He said to Eve, after
he was able to deceive her,
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he said, "You
will not surely die."
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The Lord said, "In the
day that you eat thereof,
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you shall surely die."
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Now, some people say,
well, Adam did not die that day.
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The Bible says Adam
lived to be 930 years old,
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and then he died.
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So it was, in fact, true,
death reigned upon humanity
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the moment that they
decided to ignore the plain
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thus saith the Lord.
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But the devil said,
you will not surely die.
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Now, what does this
have to do with the message?
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What does this have to do
with the intoxicating wine
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of Babylon?
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Well, here's the reality.
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The church today has swallowed
Satan's lie that you die,
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but you don't really surely die.
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You can hear today
when people die, well,
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they're looking down on me now.
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My friend is in
heaven, looking down,
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my mother is my guardian angel.
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My father is in
heaven waiting to welcome me.
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Others write books, I
went to heaven and came back
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and God gave me
a message for you.
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Some people say on
the operating table,
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I had died and
floated above my body
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and now I'm back
with a message from God.
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These are lies that are
not found in God's Word.
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Because the Bible clearly says,
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"The living know
that they will die,
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but the dead know not anything."
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That's Ecclesiastes 9:5-6.
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They don't know anything,
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but there is a teaching
today that when man dies,
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he has some
kind of immortal soul
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that hangs
around inside the body
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and then is released
on the moment of death.
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That teaching has come
from the intoxicating wine
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of Babylon and the evidence
of the intoxication is this,
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professed Bible
believing Christian
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don't think it
matters what they believe.
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I've heard pastor
say it over and over.
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I've heard
church members say it.
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I've been to funerals
where pastors would say,
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they're absent from the
body present with the Lord,
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ignoring all
the other scriptures
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in the Word of God.
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And Satan is using that
lie to pull the religious world
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and the secular world together
in a coalition of destruction.
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Think about it.
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If your mother or
father is in heaven right now,
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they have been
exalted from a mere human
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to some super human
angel that now has the ability
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to see way down wherever
heaven is through the clouds
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around the
corner, through buildings,
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through walls,
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right into your life,
right into your bedroom.
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And then people are saying,
they are our guardian angels,
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completely taking
Jesus and His angels
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out of the equation.
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And think about it,
even if it, in fact,
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it's true that your
mother is still alive,
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then you are open to deceiving
spirits, doctrines of devils,
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evil spirits coming to you
in the form of a dead loved one
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to lead you away from a
plain, thus saith the Lord.
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And that's
what's happening today.
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But the Bible says the reason
Satan is able to take people
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captive is simply on
the principle they ignore
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the truth of God's Word,
therefore they are his slaves.
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But look at John 8:32.
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Here's how we can break
the bondage of that slavery.
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Jesus said, "And you
shall know the truth,
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and the truth
shall make you free."
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The truth shall make you free.
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You wanna be free, friends,
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then put down
the false ideologies.
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And it's
repeated on commercials,
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it's repeated on
television shows.
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You hear it on the news.
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I was watching a
program the other day,
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a young man was
singing and he said,
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"My grandpa's
looking down on me now,
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I know that he wants me
to win this competition."
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And I'm thinking to
myself, no, he's not.
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He's resting in the grave.
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The Bible makes it
very clear when you die,
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you go to the grave.
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And why and how has
Satan been so successful
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in deleting one of the
key teachings of the Bible,
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the resurrection,
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and the second coming of Christ.
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That's the first lie.
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But the second lie is
even more intoxicating.
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You see the second intoxicating
live from Babylon's cup
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is the belief that
tradition is more important
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than God's expressed command.
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What is that command?
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That command is to remember
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the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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Tradition has replaced
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the Word of God
on multiple levels.
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Look at this quotation
from the book Evangelism,
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page 365 and paragraph one.
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Here's what we are told.
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"The fallen denominational
churches are Babylon.
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Babylon has been
fostering poisonous doctrines,
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the wine of error.
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The wine of error is
made up of false doctrines,
00:20:16.85\00:20:22.52
such as the natural
immortality of the soul,
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the eternal
torment of the wicked,
00:20:26.42\00:20:28.99
the denial of the
preexistence of Christ
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prior to His birth in Bethlehem,
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and advocating and exalting
the first day of the week
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above God's holy sanctified day.
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These and kindred errors
are presented to the world
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by the various churches."
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That's what's happening today.
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The wine of Babylon is
intoxicating the world,
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eternal torment, you never end
in the burning fires of hell,
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you'll be tormented with fire
and brimstone forever and ever,
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and ever, and ever.
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And they failed to realize
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that simply means as long
as there is something to burn,
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and they never
take into consideration
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that Satan himself is
going to be destroyed.
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Why would God burn the sinner
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that Satan
tempted and then eliminate
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Satan from existence altogether?
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What kind of God is that?
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It is about once again,
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vindicating the character of God
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and the error
is about distorting
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the character of God.
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And so therefore
the wine of Babylon,
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the intoxicating
teaching of the immortal soul,
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the wine of Babylon
eternal torment of the wicked
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is Babylon's wine.
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The denial of the preexistence
of Christ that Jesus existed
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before the world began
is the wine of Babylon.
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And there are those today
that claim to even believe
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the Sabbath that are
falling for the ideology,
00:21:56.18\00:21:58.68
that Jesus is just
a little lower than
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His Father
00:22:01.08\00:22:02.42
and doesn't have
preexisting value.
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And then also the
exaltation of Sunday
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above the Bible Sabbath.
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But Revelation 17:4
tells us how this happens.
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The Bible says "The woman,
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speaking of Babylon,
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was arrayed in
purple and scarlet,
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and adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls,
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having in her hand a
golden cup full of abominations
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and filthiness
of her fornication."
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That's how Babylon
is distorting the world.
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This woman that
seems to be attractive
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to the eye is in fact,
the very harbor of deception
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and darkness,
full of abominations
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and filthiness
of her fornication,
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meaning she is
so unfaithful to God
00:22:42.36\00:22:44.83
while claiming
allegiance to Him,
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that people following her
will be following darkness.
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But, friends,
Babylon seeks to intoxicate,
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but Jesus is making a call
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to His people in
this crisis hour.
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John 4:23-24,
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listen to the words
of Jesus one more time.
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"But the hour is
coming, Jesus says, and now is,
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when the true worshipers
will worship the Father
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in spirit and truth,
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for the Father is
seeking such to worship Him.
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God is Spirit and
those who worship Him,"
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notice the words,
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"must worship in
spirit and truth."
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Notice that, worship is
not something that's optional.
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Well, let me rephrase that.
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It is optional, but how to
worship God is not optional.
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Jesus doesn't say, worship Me,
how you feel or how you'd like.
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He says, worship Me
in spirit and in truth.
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And today the world is taking
people down a path of feeling
00:23:44.69\00:23:47.56
and emotion and entertainment,
and ideologies and hype,
00:23:47.59\00:23:51.83
and lights and camera in action.
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And people are ignoring
the plain thus saith the Lord.
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And Satan is saying,
I've got you where I want you.
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No wonder Jesus
made the statement
00:24:01.90\00:24:04.17
that He did in Matthew 24:4,
00:24:04.21\00:24:06.61
as He talked about
the signs of the end.
00:24:06.64\00:24:08.48
Look at the very
first thing that Jesus said
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about the signs of the end.
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Matthew 24:4, He says,
00:24:12.35\00:24:15.08
"And Jesus
answered and said to them,
00:24:15.12\00:24:16.65
that as to His disciples,
00:24:16.69\00:24:18.12
'Take heed that no
one deceives you.'"
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Notice, that no
one deceives you.
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Now, why would
Jesus bring out deception
00:24:24.33\00:24:26.90
as the very
first sign of the end?
00:24:26.93\00:24:29.40
And when you follow
the unfolding thoughts
00:24:29.43\00:24:31.80
of the signs of the end,
00:24:31.83\00:24:33.17
He says false
christs and false prophets
00:24:33.20\00:24:35.70
will arise and deceive many.
00:24:35.74\00:24:39.14
And if you've been the devil
00:24:39.17\00:24:40.51
and you've been
around for 6,000 years,
00:24:40.54\00:24:42.54
you better believe at
this point in your existence,
00:24:42.58\00:24:45.68
you are able to sharpen
your skills of deception.
00:24:45.71\00:24:48.68
But listen to this
quotation in the book
00:24:48.72\00:24:50.65
Darkness before Dawn,
00:24:50.69\00:24:52.29
page 32 in paragraph one.
00:24:52.32\00:24:55.59
"Through the two great errors,
00:24:55.62\00:24:57.79
the immortality of the
soul and Sunday sacredness,
00:24:57.83\00:25:02.60
Satan will bring the
people under his deceptions.
00:25:02.63\00:25:07.10
While the former lays the
foundation of spiritualism,
00:25:07.14\00:25:10.81
the latter creates a
bond of sympathy with Rome.
00:25:10.84\00:25:15.01
The Protestants
of the United States
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will be foremost in stretching
their hands across the gulf
00:25:17.48\00:25:22.38
to grasp the
hand of spiritualism,
00:25:22.42\00:25:25.45
they will reach over the abyss
00:25:25.49\00:25:28.16
to clasp hands
with the Roman power,
00:25:28.19\00:25:31.03
and under the influence
of this threefold union,
00:25:31.06\00:25:35.30
this country will
follow in the steps of Rome
00:25:35.33\00:25:39.60
in trampling on the
rights of conscience."
00:25:39.63\00:25:43.44
And if you've been
around for any length of time,
00:25:43.47\00:25:45.54
you know that the
right of conscience
00:25:45.57\00:25:47.08
is something
that's dear and precious.
00:25:47.11\00:25:49.11
And we are losing the
right of conscience in America.
00:25:49.14\00:25:52.91
You see, Babylon's final
coalition is being formed.
00:25:52.95\00:25:55.78
The political
economic and religious world
00:25:55.82\00:25:58.75
are being drawn into
an alliance against God.
00:25:58.79\00:26:02.19
Nothing thrills Satan more
00:26:02.22\00:26:04.46
than knowing that
he has deceived you.
00:26:04.49\00:26:06.73
But let me say this,
nothing thrills Jesus more
00:26:06.76\00:26:11.20
than knowing that you have
responded to His invitation
00:26:11.23\00:26:15.94
for Him to save you.
00:26:15.97\00:26:17.31
And I pray, friends,
that you are willing.
00:26:17.34\00:26:19.37
You see, this is the crisis
hour that Jesus is saying,
00:26:19.41\00:26:22.71
don't fall for Babylon's lies.
00:26:22.74\00:26:25.38
Don't swallow Babylon's wine.
00:26:25.41\00:26:28.65
Don't consider it to be
something of a light matter.
00:26:28.68\00:26:31.75
It's about
destruction on one side,
00:26:31.79\00:26:34.72
deliverance on the other and
00:26:34.76\00:26:36.99
eternal life to those that
listen to the voice of God.
00:26:37.03\00:26:40.76
You see, as God's
servant, as God's servant,
00:26:40.80\00:26:44.00
it is my
responsibility to extend to you
00:26:44.03\00:26:46.57
the invitation
of a loving Savior.
00:26:46.60\00:26:49.00
Revelation 18:4,
we read these words.
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"And I heard another
voice from heaven saying,
00:26:53.48\00:26:56.21
'Come out of her, My people,
lest you share in her sins,
00:26:56.24\00:27:01.18
and lest you
receive of her plagues."
00:27:01.22\00:27:04.22
God is saying
today to His people
00:27:04.25\00:27:06.22
who are in various
parts of the world,
00:27:06.25\00:27:08.36
various walks of
life, various denominations.
00:27:08.39\00:27:11.29
He is saying, I
know you love me,
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but I want you to
come out of darkness.
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I want you to come out of error.
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I want you to turn
your back on false teachings
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and a false day of worship.
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And while Babylon is building
its system of deception,
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Jesus is calling.
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Revelation 22:17,
listen to His words.
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"And the Spirit and
the bride say, 'Come!'
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And let him who
hears say, 'Come!'
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And let him who thirsts come.
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Whoever desires, let him take
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of the water of life freely."
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Friends, today
the wine of Babylon
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is still being poured on
the world and its leaders.
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It's still being
poured in the church.
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But my question to you is this,
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are you ready to
accept the invitation
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of a loving Savior
to come out of Babylon?
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Are you ready to
walk away from tradition
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and false teachings
and stand firmly on a plain
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thus saith the Lord.
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Are you wary of
chasing the wealth and fame
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of Babylon's rainbow
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and you wanna
be under the banner
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of truth and God's Word?
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Are you longing for freedom
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from the intoxicating
influences of false teachings?
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If the answer is yes,
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the only safety from a
coalition of destruction
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is the person of Jesus Christ.
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This is the hour where Jesus
is inviting you to come out.
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And I pray that
you hear His voice,
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that you respond,
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that when the coalition
of destruction goes down,
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you are ready to
go up in Jesus Christ.
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God bless you.
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