>> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE
THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
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ILLUMINATED A WORLD VEILED
IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION ABOUT
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THE CHARACTER OF GOD.
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AND STILL TODAY THE GREATEST
NEED OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION
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OF GOD'S LOVE AS
REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
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AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS,
"THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL"
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WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
COMING TO YOU EACH WEEK FROM
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SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
CHURCH IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA.
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DISCOVER HIDDEN
TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD TODAY.
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>> TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE
TALKING ABOUT THE BATTLE OF
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ARMAGEDDON, AND IT IS A
TOPIC OF THEOLOGY THAT HAS BEEN
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DEBATED EVER SINCE THE
WORDS WERE FIRST PENNED BY
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THE APOSTLE JOHN ABOUT 90 A.D.
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A LOT OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT
THE WORD AND WHAT THE BATTLE IS
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AND WHAT IT MEANS.
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IS IT LITERAL?
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IS IT SPIRITUAL?
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WHAT IS THE
BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON?
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A FEW YEARS BACK, AS HIS
CAREER WAS WINDING UP, GENERAL
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DOUGLAS MACARTHUR WAS ADDRESSING
CONGRESS AND HE MADE THIS
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STATEMENT: "IF WE DON'T DEVISE
SOME GREATER AND MORE EQUITABLE
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MEANS OF SETTLING DISPUTES AMONG
THE NATIONS, ARMAGEDDON WILL BE
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AT OUR DOOR."
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NOW HE SAID THAT IN THE CONTEXT
OF A GENERAL WHO HAD WITNESSED
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TWO WORLD WARS AND ALL
THE CARNAGE CONNECTED WITH
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THOSE WARS.
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SO WHEN YOU HEAR A GENERAL LIKE
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SAY, "WE'VE
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GOTTA FIND SOME OTHER WAY
TO SETTLE OUR DISAGREEMENTS OR
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ARMAGEDDON IS GOING TO BE AT
OUR DOORS," IN THE MINDS OF MOST
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PEOPLE THAT THEN CONJURES
THE PICTURES, ARMAGEDDON IS
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THE ULTIMATE WORLD WAR
WITH THE UNTHINKABLE WEAPONS.
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AND SO OFTEN WHEN PEOPLE THINK
ABOUT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON,
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THEY'RE THINKING
OF WORLD WAR III.
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JUST THE IDEA OF WORLD WAR
III MAKES MOST OF US SHUDDER
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IF YOU'VE DONE ANY HISTORY
LOOKING AT THE DEVASTATION OF
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WORLD WAR I AND THE UNTHINKABLE
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY
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IN WORLD WAR II.
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WITH THE TECHNOLOGY
TODAY AND WHAT WE SEE JUST IN
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THE GULF WARS AND
AFGHANISTAN, WORLD WAR III,
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IT IS UNTHINKABLE.
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IS THAT THE
BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON?
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WELL, I'M NOT GONNA GIVE
YOU THE ANSWER RIGHT AWAY.
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I'M GONNA TRY AND KEEP YOU--KEEP
YOU WITH ME AS LONG AS I CAN.
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FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE GONNA DO
A LITTLE COUNTDOWN THAT LEADS UP
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TO THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
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WHAT BEGINS THE
COUNTDOWN TO ARMAGEDDON?
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IF YOU READ IN REVELATION
7, THAT'S QUITE A WAYS BEFORE
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CHAPTER 16 BUT REVELATION
SORT OF GIVES THE FINAL DAYS
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IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT
PICTURES AND ONE OF THEM HERE IS
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IN REVELATION 7:1.
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IT SPEAKS ABOUT THE FOUR ANGELS
THAT ARE HOLDING BACK THE WINDS
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OF STRIFE.
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"AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW
FOUR ANGELS STANDING AT THE FOUR
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CORNERS OF THE EARTH."
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THOSE FOUR ANGELS REPRESENT THE
FOUR DIRECTIONS OF THE COMPASS,
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NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, AND WEST.
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"HOLDING THE FOUR WINDS OF THE
EARTH THAT THE WINDS SHOULD NOT
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BLOW ON THE EARTH,"
THESE ARE THE WINDS OF STRIFE,
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"OR ON THE SEA OR ANY TREE.
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THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL
ASCENDING FROM THE EAST HAVING
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THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD
AND HE CRIED OUT--" NOTICE,
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WHERE'S THAT ANGEL COME FROM?
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FROM THE EAST.
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"AND HE CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD
VOICE TO THE FOUR ANGELS TO WHOM
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IT WAS GRANTED TO HARM
THE EARTH AND THE SEA."
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NOTICE THESE ANGELS ARE
HARMING--HOLDING BACK HARM.
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THESE WINDS ARE
GONNA BRING A STORM.
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WINDS ON LAND, COULD BE TORNADO,
WINDS ON THE WATER OR HURRICANE,
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TYPHOON.
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WINDS ARE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH
STORMS, STORMS OF DESTRUCTION.
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NOW THIS IS THE PERFECT
STORM, ALL FOUR WINDS INVOLVED.
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"DO NOT HARM THE EARTH OR THE
SEA OR THE TREES TILL WE HAVE
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SEALED THE SERVANT OF
OUR GOD IN THEIR FOREHEADS."
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RIGHT NOW, FRIENDS, WHATEVER
PEACE YOU THINK WE SEE IN
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THE WORLD AND COMPARED TO WHAT'S
COMING, WE DO HAVE RELATIVE
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PEACE.
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WE'RE IN THE EYE OF THE
HURRICANE, IT'S TEMPORARY.
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AND THERE IS GOING TO BE A TIME
OF GREAT TROUBLE THAT COMES UPON
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THE EARTH.
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WHEN THOSE ANGELS RELEASE THEIR
GRIP, I DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT'S
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GOING TO BE.
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WE'VE ALREADY SEEN JUST
SOME LITTLE TREMORS ECONOMICALLY
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IN RECENT MONTHS OF WHAT
CAN HAPPEN ON A GLOBAL SCALE.
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I READ SOME REPORTS THAT SEEMED
TO BE AUTHENTIC, OR CREDIBLE,
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THAT THE WORLD'S WEALTH HAS BEEN
REDUCED BY 45% IN 8 MONTHS OR
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LESS THAN ONE YEAR ANYWAY.
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YOU THINK ABOUT IT, NEVER IN
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD HAS THE
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ECONOMY BEEN AFFECTED GLOBALLY
SIMULTANEOUSLY LIKE THIS.
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AND YOU'D BE AMAZED HOW MANY
LETTERS WE GET IN AT AMAZING
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FACTS, PEOPLE ARE ASKING, IS
THIS FINANCIAL CRISIS OR THIS
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MELTDOWN, IS THIS THE END?
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MY ANSWER WOULD BE NO, BUT
IT IS CERTAINLY A MEANS WHERE
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GOVERNMENTS ARE GAINING CONTROL
OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM AND THAT
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FALLS IN LINE PERFECTLY
WITH PROPHECY THAT TELLS US
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ULTIMATELY THE GOVERNMENT
IS GOING TO CONTROL BUYING AND
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SELLING UNLESS THE PEOPLES
OF THE WORLD COOPERATE WITH THIS
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BEAST POWER THAT IS
RISING RIGHT NOW IN PROMINENCE.
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THEN SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN
AS THESE FINAL EVENTS TRANSPIRE,
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ULTIMATELY PROBATION CLOSES.
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NOW I'VE JUST COVERED
A LOT WITH ONE SENTENCE.
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A LOT STILL HAS TO
HAPPEN, IT CAN HAPPEN QUICKLY,
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DON'T MISUNDERSTAND.
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AND THEN THE PLAGUES FALL.
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ARMAGEDDON IS IN THE
CONTEXT OF PLAGUE NUMBER SIX.
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JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF
HOW RAPIDLY THE FINAL EVENTS CAN
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TRANSPIRE, IF YOU HAD COME
TO THE ISRAELITES BEFORE THEY
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CROSSED THE RED SEA AND SAID,
"YOU KNOW, IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS
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WE'RE GONNA BE OUT OF HERE.
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WE'RE GONNA BE FREE
AND WE'RE GONNA BE RICH."
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THE ISRAELITES WOULD
HAVE SAID, "YOU'RE DREAMING.
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YOU'RE CRAZY.
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THERE'S NO
LOTTERY HERE IN EGYPT.
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WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"
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AND THEY WOULD HAVE SAID, "WELL,
MOSES IS GONNA COME, PLAGUES ARE
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GONNA FALL.
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WE'RE GONNA BE
PAID BY THE EGYPTIANS.
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WE'RE GONNA CROSS THE RED SEA.
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WE'RE GONNA BE FREE."
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FROM THE TIME OF THEIR BONDAGE
AND SLAVERY THAT HAD GONE ON FOR
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HUNDREDS OF YEARS UNINTERRUPTED,
WHEN MOSES FIRST WENT TO
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THE PHARAOH TO THE TIME
WHEN THEY CROSSED THE RED SEA,
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WOULD YOU AGREE THAT
THINGS HAPPENED VERY QUICKLY?
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WELL, THAT'S THE
WAY IT'S GONNA BE.
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THERE'S GONNA BE A VERY RAPID
TRANSITION OF EVENTS AND PEOPLE
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ARE GONNA BECOME VERY RELIGIOUS
THROUGH FEAR VERY QUICKLY.
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NOW I STILL THINK WE MAY HAVE
SOME MONTHS, MAYBE SOME YEARS
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BEFORE THAT HAPPENS.
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BUT IF YOU KNEW THAT JESUS WAS
COMING IN 4 OR 5 YEARS, WOULD
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YOU THINK YOU HAD A LOT OF TIME
LEFT TO DO THE WORK OF TELLING
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THE WORLD?
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I DON'T KNOW.
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I'M NOT SETTING ANY TIME, I'M
JUST SAYING, IT'S GONNA HAPPEN
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QUICKLY, FRIENDS.
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WHEN IT DOES HAPPEN, MOST OF
US WILL THINK IT WAS TOO QUICK.
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BUT EVENTUALLY WHEN THE FINAL
APPEAL IS MADE AND THE FINAL
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PRAYER IS SAID AND THE FINAL
PERSON HAS ACCEPTED CHRIST AND
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THE FINAL PERSON HAS REJECTED
THE OFFER, THE DOOR OF MERCY
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CLOSES LIKE THE
DOOR CLOSED ON THE ARK.
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LIFE WENT ON FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
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THOSE ON THE OUTSIDE
WERE PERMANENTLY LOST.
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THOSE ON THE INSIDE
WERE PERMANENTLY SAVED.
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PROBATION CLOSED.
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NO MORE GRACE.
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THAT'S WHAT'S GONNA
HAPPEN, PROBATION WILL CLOSE.
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AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS,
DANIEL 12:1, "MICHAEL STANDS UP
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THAT GREAT PRINCE WHO STANDS
OVER THE SONS OF YOUR PEOPLE."
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AND WHEN MICHAEL STANDS UP THAT
MEANS HE'S NOT HEARING CASES
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ANYMORE, THE JUDGMENT IS OVER.
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"AND THERE'LL BE A TIME OF
TROUBLE SUCH AS NEVER BEEN SINCE
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THERE WAS A NATION
EVEN TO THAT SAME TIME."
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HE GOES ON TO SAY THEN THERE IS
A RESURRECTION, AND THAT'S THE
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END OF THE WORLD,
GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE.
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BUT PROBATION CLOSES,
THEN YOU'VE GOT THIS GREAT TIME
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OF TROUBLE.
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YOU CAN ALSO READ
IN REVELATION 22:11,
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THERE'S A DECLARATION
MADE WHEN PROBATION CLOSES.
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"HE THAT IS
UNJUST, IS UNJUST STILL.
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LET HIM BE UNJUST STILL.
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HE THAT IS FILTHY,
LET HIM BE FILTHY STILL.
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HE THAT IS RIGHTEOUS,
LET HIM BE RIGHTEOUS STILL.
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HE THAT IS HOLY,
LET HIM BE HOLY STILL."
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THIS IS THE POINT WHERE THERE'S
A GREAT GULF FIXED, AS JESUS
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SAID, THERE'S NO
CHANGING TEAMS ANYMORE.
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RIGHT NOW IF THE WICKED MAN
FORSAKES HIS WAY AND DOES THAT
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WHICH IS RIGHT, ALL OF
HIS SINS WILL BE FORGIVEN.
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THEY'LL NOT BE MENTIONED.
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HE WILL LIVE, EZEKIEL TELLS US.
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BUT IF THE RIGHTEOUS MAN TURNS
FROM HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND DOES
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THAT WHICH IS WICKED, ALL OF HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL BE FORGOTTEN.
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IN HIS SIN THAT HE'S
COMMITTED, HE WILL SURELY DIE.
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AGAIN, EZEKIEL 18.
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AND SO PEOPLE CAN
CHANGE TEAMS RIGHT NOW.
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BUT A TIME IS GONNA COME WHEN
THE DOOR OF MERCY'S GONNA BE
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CLOSED.
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ONE GROUP IS GONNA BE SEALED
IN THEIR SALVATION, AND I'LL, IN
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ANOTHER SERMON, TALK
MORE ABOUT THE SEAL OF GOD.
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THE FOUNDATION FOR THE
SEAL OF GOD IS THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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THE FOUNDATION FOR THE MARK
OF THE BEAST IS THE SPIRIT OF
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ANTICHRIST OR THE DEVIL,
BUT YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT.
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THOSE WHO ARE SEALED WITH THE
SPIRIT OF GOD AND SURRENDERED TO
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THE LAW OF GOD ARE GONNA BE
PERMANENTLY SAVED, AND THEY'LL
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BE ANOTHER GROUP WHO AGREED
TO WEIGH THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
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THEY'VE COMMITTED THE
UNPARDONABLE SIN AND THEY'LL BE
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PERMANENTLY LOST.
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THE GREAT SHAKING TAKES
EVERYBODY WHO HAS BEEN LIVING ON
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THE FENCE.
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THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO LIVE
IN THIS NEUTRAL TERRITORY OF I'M
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NOT WITH CHRIST AND I'M NOT
AGAINST HIM BUT EVENTS ARE GONNA
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SHAKE THEM WHERE THERE
WILL BE NOBODY ON THE FENCE.
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ALL THAT ARE SAVED ARE SAVED,
ALL THAT ARE LOST ARE LOST AND
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THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO
STAY ON THE FENCE BECAUSE WHEN
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THE SHAKING COMES, I THINK MOST
OF THOSE ON THE FENCE ARE GONNA
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FALL ON THE WRONG
SIDE OF THE ISSUES.
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AND THERE ARE SOME IN THE
CHURCH NOW, MAYBE BEEN THERE FOR
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GENERATIONS, AND WE'RE
SORT OF NOMINAL CHRISTIANS.
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WHEN PERSECUTION COMES AND
SHAKING HAPPENS, WE'RE GONNA
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JUMP RIGHT OUT.
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WE'RE GONNA GO
WITH THE POPULAR TRENDS.
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WE'RE FOLLOWING THE WORLD NOW,
WE'RE PREPARING OURSELVES TO
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FOLLOW THE WORLD THEN.
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AND THEN THERE ARE SOME IN
THE WORLD WHO ARE LOOKING FOR
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THE TRUTH AND WHEN THAT SHAKING
HAPPENS, THEY'RE GONNA TAKE
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THEIR STAND.
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THEY'RE GONNA
COME INTO THE CHURCH.
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SO THERE'S GONNA BE A LITTLE BIT
OF CHANGING SIDES DURING THAT
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TIME.
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THEN ONCE PROBATION CLOSES,
THEN AS THE GREAT, GREAT TIME OF
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TROUBLE THAT IS SYNONYMOUS
WITH THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES.
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SEVEN OF THESE PLAGUES MIRROR
TEN OF THE PLAGUES IN EGYPT.
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NOW IT'S INTERESTING WHY
TEN PLAGUES IN ANCIENT EGYPT
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BEFORE THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL WERE DELIVERED.
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SEVEN PLAGUES IN THE
WORLD BEFORE WE'RE DELIVERED BY
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OUR MOSES WHO'S JESUS.
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WELL, DURING THE TEN PLAGUES
THAT FELL ON EGYPT, DURING
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THE FIRST THREE PLAGUES,
IT SEEMS LIKE THE ISRAELITES
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ALSO STRUGGLED THROUGH
THOSE FIRST THREE PLAGUES.
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THE MAGICIANS WERE ABLE
TO IMITATE THOSE FIRST THREE
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PLAGUES BUT DURING THOSE SEVEN
LAST PLAGUES OF THE FIRST TEN OF
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THE TEN THAT FELL ON EGYPT,
GOD PROTECTED HIS PEOPLE THROUGH
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THOSE SEVEN PLAGUES.
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THOSE SEVEN PLAGUE THAT ARE
COMING, ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT
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BELIEVE IN THE SECRET
RAPTURE ARE SO AFRAID OF THE
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TRIBULATION.
00:12:02.03\00:12:02.83
THEY SAY, "WE WANT TO
GET RAPTURED OUT BEFORE
00:12:02.83\00:12:04.10
THE TRIBULATION."
00:12:04.10\00:12:04.80
I SAY I DON'T REALLY CARE
BECAUSE GOD PROMISES IN HIS WORD
00:12:04.80\00:12:07.83
TO PRESERVE HIS PEOPLE
THROUGH THE PLAGUES, RIGHT?
00:12:07.83\00:12:10.86
SO WE DON'T NEED
TO BE AFRAID OF THAT.
00:12:10.86\00:12:12.76
MY FEAR, AS WE APPROACH THE LAST
DAYS, IS NOT THE NOISOME SORES
00:12:12.76\00:12:16.63
OR THE BLOOD IN THE WATER.
00:12:16.63\00:12:18.46
MY FEAR IS I DIDN'T WANT TO
BE ON THE WRONG TEAM WHEN THAT
00:12:18.46\00:12:21.73
HAPPENS.
00:12:21.73\00:12:23.53
I WANT TO BE--IF YOU'RE SAVED,
HE PROMISES TO PRESERVE YOU
00:12:23.53\00:12:27.40
DURING THAT TIME AND
I'LL GO BACK TO THAT THOUGHT.
00:12:27.40\00:12:30.46
SO VERY QUICKLY, I'M GOING
TO OVERVIEW WHAT THE SEVEN LAST
00:12:30.46\00:12:34.00
PLAGUES ARE.
00:12:34.00\00:12:35.10
AGAIN THIS IS A WHOLE SERMON BY
ITSELF, BUT TODAY WE'RE FOCUSING
00:12:35.10\00:12:37.90
ON ARMAGEDDON.
00:12:37.90\00:12:40.53
AND DON'T FORGET, THOSE PLAGUES
CAME ON EGYPT JUST BEFORE
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THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
DELIVERED FROM THEIR BONDAGE
00:12:44.56\00:12:47.23
AND BEGAN THEIR
JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:12:47.23\00:12:50.66
THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES COME
ON OUR WORLD JUST BEFORE WE ARE
00:12:50.66\00:12:53.50
DELIVERED FROM THIS, THE BONDAGE
OF SIN IN THE WORLD, THIS WHOLE
00:12:53.50\00:12:57.83
CREATION THAT GROANS AND
TRAVAILS AND WE BEGIN OUR
00:12:57.83\00:12:59.96
JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:12:59.96\00:13:01.63
THE MANSIONS HE
HAS PREPARED, AMEN?
00:13:01.63\00:13:04.23
PLAGUE NUMBER ONE IS A NOISOME
OR LOATHSOME SORE ON THOSE WHO
00:13:04.23\00:13:10.16
RECEIVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST.
00:13:10.16\00:13:12.23
YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE
MARK OF THE BEAST IS AND WHO
00:13:12.23\00:13:14.13
THE BEAST IS.
00:13:14.13\00:13:15.86
PLAGUE NUMBER TWO, THE SEA,
THE SALTY WATERS BECOME AS BLOOD
00:13:15.86\00:13:21.20
OF A DEAD MAN, PUTRID BLOOD.
00:13:21.20\00:13:24.90
A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE
THEORIES ABOUT WHAT THAT IS.
00:13:24.90\00:13:26.90
PLAGUE NUMBER THREE, THE RIVERS
AND WATERS, THE FRESH WATER
00:13:26.90\00:13:30.80
SOURCES BECOME AS BLOOD.
00:13:30.80\00:13:33.53
YOU REMEMBER THE
WATERS TURN TO BLOOD IN EGYPT.
00:13:33.53\00:13:35.76
PLAGUE NUMBER FOUR, MEN
ARE SCORCHED WITH GREAT HEAT.
00:13:35.76\00:13:40.40
THE ULTIMATE GLOBAL
WARNING AT THAT POINT.
00:13:40.40\00:13:45.20
PLAGUE NUMBER FIVE, THE BEAST
KINGDOM IS FULL OF DARKNESS.
00:13:45.20\00:13:50.40
WAS DARKNESS ONE OF THE
PLAGUES ON ANCIENT EGYPT?
00:13:50.40\00:13:55.16
PLAGUE NUMBER SIX,
THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
00:13:55.16\00:13:57.60
WE'LL TALK ABOUT
THAT IN THE MESSAGE.
00:13:57.60\00:13:59.50
PLAGUE NUMBER SEVEN, THIS
IS GREAT EARTHQUAKE, GREAT HAIL
00:13:59.50\00:14:02.46
AND ULTIMATELY THE
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
00:14:02.46\00:14:05.10
WHEN YOU GO THROUGH REVELATION,
BY THE WAY, YOU'VE GOT YOUR
00:14:05.10\00:14:08.80
SEVEN CHURCHES.
00:14:08.80\00:14:11.36
LAST CHURCH, JESUS SAYS HE
STANDS AT THE DOOR AND KNOCKS
00:14:11.36\00:14:14.03
AS THE COMING OF CHRIST.
00:14:14.03\00:14:15.36
YOU'VE GOT YOUR SEVEN SEALS.
00:14:15.36\00:14:17.60
THE LAST SEAL, CHRIST COMES.
00:14:17.60\00:14:19.83
YOU'VE GOT THE SEVEN PLAGUES AND
THE LAST PLAGUE IS THE COMING OF
00:14:19.83\00:14:23.10
CHRIST, SO IN THE END OF ALL THE
SEVENS, EVEN IF IT'S THE SEVEN
00:14:23.10\00:14:26.40
TRUMPETS IN REVELATION, THEY
ALL CULMINATE WITH THE GREAT
00:14:26.40\00:14:30.76
DELIVERANCE IN
JESUS' COMING, RIGHT?
00:14:30.76\00:14:33.36
SO HE IS THE FINAL CHAPTER IN
ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT SYMBOLS
00:14:33.36\00:14:37.83
AND STORIES THAT
YOU FIND IN REVELATION.
00:14:37.83\00:14:40.70
NOW, WHEN WE READ ABOUT THE
SEVEN PLAGUES, SOMETHING THAT
00:14:40.70\00:14:43.40
YOU'LL BE HAPPY TO
KNOW, THEY'RE NOT UNIVERSAL.
00:14:43.40\00:14:48.73
WHEN IT SAYS MEN ARE SCORCHED
WITH GREAT HEAT, DO YOU THINK
00:14:48.73\00:14:52.53
THAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE
SOUTH POLE ARE GONNA BE COOLER
00:14:52.53\00:14:56.10
THAN THE ONES AT THE EQUATOR?
00:14:56.10\00:14:57.83
PROBABLY.
00:14:57.83\00:14:59.40
SO THERE'S A DIFFERENCE IN
INTENSITY OF THESE DIFFERENT
00:14:59.40\00:15:04.30
PLAGUES, AND BY THE WAY,
THEY COME PRETTY QUICKLY.
00:15:04.30\00:15:07.36
HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THE
SEVEN LAST PLAGUES WILL BE?
00:15:07.36\00:15:11.10
I DON'T KNOW BUT I
HAVE A THEORY, IT'S JUST
00:15:11.10\00:15:13.13
PASTOR DOUG'S THEORY.
00:15:13.13\00:15:14.73
HOW LONG DID IT TAKE FOR THE
SEVEN PLAGUES OR THE TEN PLAGUES
00:15:14.73\00:15:17.53
TO FALL ON EGYPT?
00:15:17.53\00:15:19.43
WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY BUT IT WAS
A MATTER OF WEEKS WHEN YOU READ
00:15:19.43\00:15:22.50
THE ACCOUNT THERE FROM
WHEN MOSES FIRST WENT TO PHARAOH
00:15:22.50\00:15:26.00
UNTIL THEY CROSSED THE RED
SEA, MATTER OF WEEKS, YOU AGREE?
00:15:26.00\00:15:31.53
THE PLAGUES HAD FELL ON JOB.
00:15:31.53\00:15:33.70
HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THAT TOOK?
00:15:33.70\00:15:37.13
AGAIN, IT SEEMS THEY CAME IN
RAPID SUCCESSION BUT IT WAS JUST
00:15:37.13\00:15:40.03
A MATTER OF WEEKS THROUGH
HIS WHOLE SUFFERING UNTIL HE WAS
00:15:40.03\00:15:42.60
HEALED.
00:15:42.60\00:15:44.83
AND WHEN I READ IN DANIEL
12, I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS
00:15:44.83\00:15:49.60
INTERESTING THAT BETWEEN
THE 1290 DAYS, I BELIEVE THAT'S
00:15:49.60\00:15:56.13
HISTORIC BUT I ALSO THINK THERE
MIGHT BE A FUTURE FULFILLMENT,
00:15:56.13\00:15:59.60
AND THE 1335 DAYS.
00:15:59.60\00:16:02.50
SOME OF YOU RIGHT NOW DON'T
KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
00:16:02.50\00:16:04.13
THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE STILL
JUST ON THE MILK OF THE WORD.
00:16:04.13\00:16:06.03
THIS IS FOR THOSE OF YOU
WHO HAVE THE MEAT OF THE WORD.
00:16:06.03\00:16:08.23
THERE'S A 45-DAY
DIFFERENCE, 45 DAYS.
00:16:08.23\00:16:15.73
I THINK THAT'S INTERESTING
BECAUSE IF A DAY EQUALS A YEAR
00:16:15.73\00:16:19.76
IN PROPHECY, WHEN BABYLON FALLS,
WHICH IS DURING THE TIME OF
00:16:19.76\00:16:24.73
THE PLAGUES, IT
FALLS IN THREE SECTIONS.
00:16:24.73\00:16:27.13
IN THREE TIMES IT SAYS ONE
HOUR FINANCIAL RUIN, ONE HOUR
00:16:27.13\00:16:30.36
SPIRITUAL RUIN, ONE
HOUR ECO--PHYSICAL RUIN.
00:16:30.36\00:16:35.63
I CAN'T REMEMBER
WHAT IT IS RIGHT NOW.
00:16:35.63\00:16:37.13
BUT THREE TIMES IT SAYS FOR
ONE HOUR, ONE HOUR, ONE HOUR.
00:16:37.13\00:16:40.76
IF A DAY EQUALS A YEAR IN
PROPHECY, AN HOUR'S 15 DAYS,
00:16:40.76\00:16:44.50
24 HOURS IN A DAY, 1/24,
360 DAYS IN A JEWISH YEAR.
00:16:44.50\00:16:51.73
IT'D BE 15 DAYS.
00:16:51.73\00:16:52.63
THREE TIMES FIFTEEN IS WHAT?
00:16:52.63\00:16:54.66
FORTY-FIVE.
00:16:54.66\00:16:56.10
AND SO I DON'T KNOW IT'S JUST,
YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS TO FALL IN
00:16:56.10\00:17:00.23
LINE WITH ABOUT THE TIMEFRAME.
00:17:00.23\00:17:02.60
THE BIBLE SAYS, "FOR ALL
OF HER PLAGUES COME IN 1 DAY."
00:17:02.60\00:17:06.23
IT DOESN'T MEAN IT TAKES A DAY,
IT MEANS WITHIN 1 YEAR IT ALL
00:17:06.23\00:17:08.73
HAPPENS.
00:17:08.73\00:17:09.93
THAT'S WHY I SAID THE
FINAL EVENTS ARE RAPID.
00:17:09.93\00:17:12.10
SO WITHIN A FEW WEEKS.
00:17:12.10\00:17:14.03
AND ANOTHER INTERESTING
STATEMENT FROM THE BOOK
00:17:14.03\00:17:16.90
"GREAT CONTROVERSY,"
"THESE PLAGUES ARE NOT
00:17:16.90\00:17:20.20
UNIVERSAL," SPEAKING
OF THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES,
00:17:20.20\00:17:23.00
"OR THE INHABITANTS OF THE
EARTH WOULD BE WHOLLY CUT OFF."
00:17:23.00\00:17:26.03
DOESN'T JESUS SAY IF THOSE
DAYS ARE NOT SHORTENED, NO FLESH
00:17:26.03\00:17:29.73
WOULD BE SAVED BUT FOR
THE ELECT'S SAKE, IT WILL BE
00:17:29.73\00:17:33.10
SHORTENED.
00:17:33.10\00:17:34.90
"THESE PLAGUES ARE NOT UNIVERSAL
OR THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH
00:17:34.90\00:17:37.30
WOULD BE WHOLLY CUT OFF.
00:17:37.30\00:17:38.66
YET THEY WILL BE THE MOST AWFUL
SCOURGES THAT HAVE EVER BEEN
00:17:38.66\00:17:41.63
KNOWN TO MORTALS."
00:17:41.63\00:17:43.80
USUALLY THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD ARE
MITIGATED BY THE INTERCESSION
00:17:43.80\00:17:46.66
AND MERCY OF JESUS.
00:17:46.66\00:17:48.33
"BUT IN THE FINAL JUDGMENT,
WRATH IS POURED OUT UNMIXED
00:17:48.33\00:17:51.43
WITH MERCY."
00:17:51.43\00:17:52.60
AGAIN THAT'S
"GREAT CONTROVERSY" 628.
00:17:52.60\00:17:55.43
PEOPLE WILL BE
DESPERATE DURING THAT TIME.
00:17:55.43\00:17:59.80
NOW THERE IS A SMALL TIME OF
TROUBLE BEFORE THE PLAGUES FALL,
00:17:59.80\00:18:04.16
AND WE'RE LIVING ON THE
BORDERS OF THAT IN THE CLOSE OF
00:18:04.16\00:18:07.70
PROBATION, SO
AGAIN, ANOTHER MESSAGE.
00:18:07.70\00:18:11.40
I OUGHT TO DO A WHOLE SERIES
ON THIS, BUT I JUST BECAME VERY
00:18:11.40\00:18:14.56
INTERESTED WITH THE
SUBJECT OF ARMAGEDDON.
00:18:14.56\00:18:17.10
SO NOW IF WE'RE GONNA STUDY
ARMAGEDDON, YOU'VE GOTTA OPEN
00:18:17.10\00:18:19.53
YOUR BIBLE TO REVELATION 16.
00:18:19.53\00:18:23.10
WE JUST HEARD THIS
IN OUR MEMORY VERSE.
00:18:23.10\00:18:25.60
REVELATION 16:12, WE'RE
GONNA TAKE THIS VERSE BY VERSE.
00:18:25.60\00:18:32.43
"AND THE SIXTH ANGEL POURED OUT
HIS BOWL--" WE GOT ANOTHER ANGEL
00:18:32.43\00:18:43.03
HERE WITH A LOUD VOICE.
00:18:43.03\00:18:45.53
"AND THE SIXTH ANGEL POURED
OUT HIS BOWL ON THE GREAT RIVER
00:18:45.53\00:18:50.26
EUPHRATES AND THE
WATER WAS DRIED UP."
00:18:50.26\00:18:53.53
THESE BOWLS, THESE VIALS
ARE THE PLAGUES THAT FALL.
00:18:53.53\00:18:56.53
"AND THE WATER WAS DRIED UP SO
THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF THE EAST
00:18:56.53\00:18:59.73
MIGHT BE PREPARED."
00:18:59.73\00:19:01.76
ALL RIGHT, FIRST LET'S
TALK ABOUT THE EUPHRATES RIVER.
00:19:01.76\00:19:05.73
NOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHEN THEY
READ THIS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF
00:19:05.73\00:19:08.33
ARMAGEDDON, THEY BELIEVE
THAT IT'S GONNA HAPPEN IN
00:19:08.33\00:19:11.00
THE VICINITY OF EUPHRATES.
00:19:11.00\00:19:13.86
AND YOU KNOW I CAN'T BLAME
'EM FOR WONDERING ABOUT THAT
00:19:13.86\00:19:15.93
BECAUSE, HAVE YOU NOTICED A LOT
OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS FOCUSING
00:19:15.93\00:19:19.63
ON IRAQ IN AT
LEAST THE LAST 10 YEARS.
00:19:19.63\00:19:23.16
AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT ALL
THAT'S HAPPENED OVER THE COURSE
00:19:23.16\00:19:25.66
OF BIBLE HISTORY WITH THE
KINGDOMS OF NINEVEH AND BABYLON
00:19:25.66\00:19:30.16
AND PERSIA AND THE SUMERIANS
IN THE REGION OF MESOPOTAMIA,
00:19:30.16\00:19:35.76
SO MANY OF THESE
KINGDOMS ALL REVOLVED AROUND
00:19:35.76\00:19:38.43
THE EUPHRATES RIVER.
00:19:38.43\00:19:40.06
WELL, THE EUPHRATES IS ONE OF
THE GREAT RIVERS OF THE WORLD.
00:19:40.06\00:19:43.46
IT REACHES ALL THE WAY FROM
UP THERE IN TURKEY AND IT GOES
00:19:43.46\00:19:45.93
THROUGH SYRIA INTO
IRAQ AND OFF INTO THE OCEAN.
00:19:45.93\00:19:49.50
AND IT BASICALLY IS A LIFELINE
FOR THOSE COUNTRIES, AND THERE'S
00:19:49.50\00:19:54.30
A LOT OF INTENSE SIMMERING ANGER
AMONG THOSE COUNTRIES BECAUSE UP
00:19:54.30\00:20:04.06
IN TURKEY, THEY'RE
DAMMING OFF THE EUPHRATES RIVER.
00:20:04.06\00:20:07.10
THERE'S USING MORE AND MORE
OF THE WATER, LESS AND LESS IS
00:20:07.10\00:20:09.10
MAKING IT DOWNSTREAM TO SYRIA
WHERE THEY'RE BUILDING DAMS FOR
00:20:09.10\00:20:11.76
POWER AND TAKING THE WATER FOR
IRRIGATION AND LESS AND LESS IS
00:20:11.76\00:20:15.46
MAKING IT DOWN TO IRAQ.
00:20:15.46\00:20:17.13
THAT THEN IS USING THEIR CLOUT
AND THEIR OIL TO PUNISH THESE
00:20:17.13\00:20:21.03
COUNTRIES.
00:20:21.03\00:20:22.80
AND THERE'S JUST A LOT OF
FIGHTING OVER THE WATER FROM
00:20:22.80\00:20:27.53
THE EUPHRATES
BECAUSE THAT IS THE RIVER.
00:20:27.53\00:20:29.93
NOW IN IRAQ, THEY'VE ALSO
GOT THE TIGRIS BUT IT'S THE MAIN
00:20:29.93\00:20:32.66
RIVER.
00:20:32.66\00:20:33.50
MATTER OF FACT, THE WORD
"EUPHRATES" MEANS FRUITFUL.
00:20:33.50\00:20:36.66
THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE
EUPHRATES WHEN GOD SAID TO
00:20:36.66\00:20:39.80
ABRAHAM, "I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU
ALL OF THE PROMISED LAND FROM
00:20:39.80\00:20:43.53
THE GREAT SEA, MEDITERRANEAN,
TO THE GREAT RIVER,
00:20:43.53\00:20:47.96
EVEN THE EUPHRATES."
00:20:47.96\00:20:49.20
IT'S SPOKEN OF
AS THE GREAT RIVER.
00:20:49.20\00:20:51.03
AND BY THE WAY, WHEN SOLOMON
WAS KING, FINALLY GOD FULFILLED
00:20:51.03\00:20:53.73
THAT PROMISE.
00:20:53.73\00:20:54.66
SOLOMON HAD PEOPLE PAYING
TRIBUTE ALL THE WAY FROM EGYPT,
00:20:54.66\00:20:57.93
THE MEDITERRANEAN TO
THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES.
00:20:57.93\00:21:01.70
SO EUPHRATES RIVER
REPRESENTED A BORDER.
00:21:01.70\00:21:04.10
BY THE WAY, YOU
KNOW WHAT A HEBREW IS?
00:21:04.10\00:21:06.63
THE WORD "HEBREW" NEAR AS THEY
CAN TELL MEANS ONE WHO CROSSED
00:21:06.63\00:21:09.70
OVER, ONE WHO CROSSED OVER.
00:21:09.70\00:21:12.66
AND WHEN ABRAHAM LEFT UR AND
HE CROSSED OVER THE EUPHRATES,
00:21:12.66\00:21:16.13
IT WAS A GREAT BORDER.
00:21:16.13\00:21:17.10
HE LEFT THE
COUNTRY OF HIS NATIVITY.
00:21:17.10\00:21:19.90
HE HAD FAITH TO CROSS OVER, AND
SO THEY WERE KNOWN AS THE PEOPLE
00:21:19.90\00:21:23.53
THAT CROSSED OVER BECAUSE
THEY CROSSED OVER THE EUPHRATES.
00:21:23.53\00:21:26.86
SO THERE'S A LOT I CAN SAY
ABOUT THAT IN HISTORY, BUT I
00:21:26.86\00:21:29.73
PERSONALLY DON'T THINK
IT'S TALKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT
00:21:29.73\00:21:32.63
THE LITERAL RIVER.
00:21:32.63\00:21:34.43
I'LL TELL YOU IT GOT MY
ATTENTION A FEW YEARS AGO, I WAS
00:21:34.43\00:21:38.66
IN GUAM AND I STOPPED AT THE
CHURCH HAS A CLINIC THERE, AND I
00:21:38.66\00:21:44.80
WAS GONNA GO VISIT WITH ONE
OF THE CHURCH LEADERS WHO WAS
00:21:44.80\00:21:46.93
MEETING ME THERE.
00:21:46.93\00:21:48.30
AND WHILE I WAS IN THE WAITING
ROOM, THEY HAD MAGAZINES,
00:21:48.30\00:21:50.26
AS THEY OFTEN DO IN DOCTORS'
OFFICES AND THEY HAD "NEWSWEEK."
00:21:50.26\00:21:53.80
NOW "NEWSWEEK" IN NORTH AMERICA
IS DIFFERENT FROM "NEWSWEEK"
00:21:53.80\00:21:57.03
INTERNATIONAL.
00:21:57.03\00:21:58.33
"NEWSWEEK" IS AN
INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE.
00:21:58.33\00:21:59.86
THEY ALWAYS DO THE
NORTH AMERICAN VERSION OF IT
00:21:59.86\00:22:02.73
A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE WE
SORT OF LIVE IN OUR OWN WORLD.
00:22:02.73\00:22:05.86
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU EVER
CHECKED NEWS ON THE INTERNET, IF
00:22:05.86\00:22:10.16
YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S
GOING ON, YOU BETTER GO TO BBC
00:22:10.16\00:22:12.30
OR SOMETHING BECAUSE IF YOU'RE
JUST LISTENING TO CNN NORTH
00:22:12.30\00:22:16.26
AMERICA, IT'S LIKE WE
LIVE IN OUR OWN WORLD.
00:22:16.26\00:22:18.06
WE'RE PREOCCUPIED WITH WHAT THE
MOVIE STARS ARE DOING, OUR OWN
00:22:18.06\00:22:20.20
LITTLE MINIMAL PROBLEMS.
00:22:20.20\00:22:21.66
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD,
00:22:21.66\00:22:23.66
YOU BETTER CHECK SOME OF THESE
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES OR AT
00:22:23.66\00:22:26.16
LEAST CLICK ON
INTERNATIONAL NEWS.
00:22:26.16\00:22:28.46
SO THIS IS THE INTERNATIONAL
VERSION OF "NEWSWEEK,"
00:22:28.46\00:22:31.33
AND I OPENED IT UP.
00:22:31.33\00:22:32.90
BY THE WAY, I WAS NOT ALLOWED TO
TAKE THAT COPY BECAUSE IT WASN'T
00:22:32.90\00:22:38.16
MINE AND I WAS IN GUAM.
00:22:38.16\00:22:41.46
BUT I DID LOOK IT UP
ON THE INTERNET AND IT'S
00:22:41.46\00:22:43.50
FEBRUARY 12, 1990, PAGE 24-25.
00:22:43.50\00:22:46.96
THE TITLE ARTICLE.
00:22:46.96\00:22:47.90
THIS IS A COVER
ARTICLE THAT GOT MY ATTENTION,
00:22:47.90\00:22:49.90
"WHEN RIVERS RUN DRY."
00:22:49.90\00:22:52.03
AND IN THE ARTICLE THEY TALK
ABOUT HOW THE EUPHRATES RIVER
00:22:52.03\00:22:55.16
IS DRYING UP.
00:22:55.16\00:22:56.83
SO EVEN IF YOU BELIEVE IT'S
SPIRITUAL, AS I DO, I THINK GOD
00:22:56.83\00:23:04.90
SOMETIMES GIVES US A LITTLE BIT
OF A LITERAL FULFILLMENT JUST TO
00:23:04.90\00:23:07.66
GET OUR ATTENTION.
00:23:07.66\00:23:09.30
AND IT IS TRUE THAT THEY ARE
TAKING MORE AND MORE WATER OUT
00:23:09.30\00:23:14.00
OF THE EUPHRATES.
00:23:14.00\00:23:14.93
THEY'RE USING IT FOR ELECTRICITY
AND IRRIGATION AND THE RIVER
00:23:14.93\00:23:17.56
ITSELF IS GOING
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN.
00:23:17.56\00:23:22.00
I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING.
00:23:22.00\00:23:24.10
BUT THE EUPHRATES RIVER REALLY
REPRESENTS THE LIFELINE TO
00:23:24.10\00:23:29.13
THE BEAST.
00:23:29.13\00:23:30.36
IN THE SAME WAY THAT
THE EUPHRATES RIVER IS WHAT
00:23:30.36\00:23:33.53
IRRIGATED ANCIENT BABYLON
AND WHEN IT DRIED UP THE BABYLON
00:23:33.53\00:23:38.36
FELL, THE LIFELINE FOR
MODERN BABYLON DRIES UP AND THAT
00:23:38.36\00:23:42.73
SIGNALS THE KINGS
OF THE EAST WILL COME.
00:23:42.73\00:23:45.06
NOW THAT'S OUR NEXT SUBJECT.
00:23:45.06\00:23:46.26
IT SAYS, "TO MAKE THE WAY
FOR THE KINGS OF THE EAST."
00:23:46.26\00:23:48.56
WHENEVER I READ THAT
AUTOMATICALLY MY MIND GOES BACK
00:23:48.56\00:23:50.80
TO WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN.
00:23:50.80\00:23:52.90
WHEN HE CAME THE FIRST TIME,
IT'S INTERESTING THAT THESE
00:23:52.90\00:23:57.20
MAGI, THESE KINGS,
THESE LEADERS, PATRIARCHS FROM
00:23:57.20\00:24:02.00
THE EAST CAME.
00:24:02.00\00:24:03.90
"NOW AFTER JESUS WAS BORN IN
BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA IN THE DAYS
00:24:03.90\00:24:06.96
OF HEROD THE KING, BEHOLD
WISE MEN FROM THE EAST CAME TO
00:24:06.96\00:24:11.16
JERUSALEM."
00:24:11.16\00:24:12.30
YOU'VE HEARD THE SONG BEFORE
"WE THREE KINGS OF ORIENT ARE."
00:24:12.30\00:24:16.00
THAT'S BECAUSE IN THE ORIGINAL
WORD, THEY WERE SOME SORT OF
00:24:16.00\00:24:18.53
PATRIARCHS, MAGI
LEADERS, CHIEFTAINS.
00:24:18.53\00:24:22.50
THESE WERE MEN OF HONOR
THAT CAME FROM THE EAST,
00:24:22.50\00:24:25.10
AND THEY COULD HAVE BEEN.
00:24:25.10\00:24:27.33
SOME OF THE HEBREWS THAT HAD
BEEN LEFT IN BABYLON, THEY COULD
00:24:27.33\00:24:32.10
HAVE BEEN READING THE PROPHECIES
OF BALAAM THAT SAID A STAR WOULD
00:24:32.10\00:24:34.63
ARISE OUT OF
JACOB, WE DON'T KNOW.
00:24:34.63\00:24:36.60
BUT THAT'S ONE THING I
WANT IN YOUR MIND WHEN IT SAYS,
00:24:36.60\00:24:38.76
"KINGS OF THE EAST."
00:24:38.76\00:24:39.70
THE OTHER THING IS FROM THE EAST
REPRESENTS WHERE THE GLORY OF
00:24:39.70\00:24:43.16
GOD, THE POWER
OF GOD COMES FROM.
00:24:43.16\00:24:46.00
IT DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO
WITH THE SUN RISING IN THE EAST.
00:24:46.00\00:24:49.70
EZEKIEL 43:1, "AFTERWARD
HE BROUGHT ME TO THE GATE THAT
00:24:49.70\00:24:54.43
FACES TOWARDS THE EAST AND
BEHOLD, THE GLORY OF THE GOD OF
00:24:54.43\00:24:59.33
ISRAEL CAME FROM
THE WAY OF THE EAST.
00:24:59.33\00:25:02.13
AND HIS VOICE WAS LIKE THE SOUND
OF MANY WATERS AND THE EARTH
00:25:02.13\00:25:04.70
SHONE WITH HIS GLORY."
00:25:04.70\00:25:07.10
WHEN KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME,
HE HAD TO CROSS THE EUPHRATES
00:25:07.10\00:25:12.06
AND HE CAME FROM THE EAST
AND HE DID ONE OF TWO THINGS
00:25:12.06\00:25:15.30
WITH THE ISRAELITES.
00:25:15.30\00:25:17.10
THEY WERE EITHER DESTROYED
OR THEY WERE SPARED, FAVORED AND
00:25:17.10\00:25:20.86
TAKEN BACK TO A GOLDEN KINGDOM.
00:25:20.86\00:25:22.53
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:25:22.53\00:25:23.90
WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME, HE WAS
THE KING OF THAT GOLDEN EMPIRE.
00:25:23.90\00:25:27.33
ONE OF TWO THINGS HAPPENED
TO THE CHURCH WHEN HE CAME.
00:25:27.33\00:25:30.56
THEY WERE EITHER JUDGED AND
PUNISHED OR SPARED LIKE DANIEL,
00:25:30.56\00:25:34.40
SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO,
TAKEN BACK TO A GOLDEN KINGDOM.
00:25:34.40\00:25:38.26
THAT'S EVEN A FIGURE OF WHAT
CHRIST IS GONNA DO WHEN HE COMES
00:25:38.26\00:25:40.40
TO THIS WORLD.
00:25:40.40\00:25:41.10
BUT HE CROSSED THE EUPHRATES.
00:25:41.10\00:25:42.70
MATTHEW 24, JESUS SPEAKING
OF THE SECOND COMING, "FOR AS
00:25:42.70\00:25:46.46
LIGHTNING COMES
FROM THE--" WHAT?
00:25:46.46\00:25:49.36
EAST.
00:25:49.36\00:25:50.30
LIGHTNING DOESN'T ALWAYS
COME FROM THE EAST, BUT WHEN THE
00:25:50.30\00:25:52.43
SECOND COMING IS TAKING PLACE,
HE SPEAKS OF IT AS COMING FROM
00:25:52.43\00:25:55.26
THE EAST AND FLASHING TO THE
WEST SO THE COMING OF THE SON OF
00:25:55.26\00:25:59.53
MAN WILL BE.
00:25:59.53\00:26:00.53
SO THESE KINGS OF THE EAST,
IT'S SPEAKING ABOUT THE COMING
00:26:00.53\00:26:05.33
OF THE LORD.
00:26:05.33\00:26:06.90
NOW YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW
YOUR BIBLE HISTORY TO UNDERSTAND
00:26:06.90\00:26:10.36
REVELATION.
00:26:10.36\00:26:11.76
YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY BEFORE, SOME
HAVEN'T HEARD IT SO I'LL REPEAT
00:26:11.76\00:26:14.70
IT, THERE ARE ABOUT
404 VERSES IN REVELATION.
00:26:14.70\00:26:19.70
OUT OF THOSE 404 VERSES, 278 CAN
BE FOUND ALMOST WORD FOR WORD
00:26:19.70\00:26:25.00
SOMEWHERE ELSE IN
THE BIBLE IN A STORY.
00:26:25.00\00:26:27.93
SO YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR HISTORY
AND YOUR BIBLE STORIES FOR THIS
00:26:27.93\00:26:30.50
TO ALL MAKE SENSE.
00:26:30.50\00:26:32.20
THERE IS A PIECE OF HISTORY THAT
IS NOT LITERALLY IN THE BIBLE,
00:26:32.20\00:26:36.16
BUT IT'S IN THE ANCIENT WRITINGS
AND IN THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
00:26:36.16\00:26:41.36
THAT WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
WERE IN BABYLON, JUST BEFORE
00:26:41.36\00:26:45.70
BABYLON FELL TO THE PERSIANS,
THERE WERE TWO KINGS OF
00:26:45.70\00:26:49.26
THE EAST, CYRUS AND DARIUS,
OR DARIUS, IT'S PRONOUNCED
00:26:49.26\00:26:55.06
BOTH WAYS.
00:26:55.06\00:26:56.60
AND THEY CAME, CYRUS THE GREAT,
THEY CAME TO CONQUER BABYLON.
00:26:56.60\00:27:03.36
THEY HAD CONQUERED ALL
OF THE TERRITORY OF BABYLON,
00:27:03.36\00:27:05.16
NOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR IS DEAD.
00:27:05.16\00:27:07.03
HIS GRANDSON
BELTESHAZZAR'S HAVING A FEAST.
00:27:07.03\00:27:10.23
HE WAS SORT A SPOILED
JET-SETTER HAVING A BIG PARTY IN
00:27:10.23\00:27:15.70
THE KINGDOM.
00:27:15.70\00:27:17.03
THEY WEREN'T WORRIED ABOUT
THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS,
00:27:17.03\00:27:19.30
THESE TWO KINGS FROM THE EAST.
00:27:19.30\00:27:21.73
MATTER OF FACT, I WANT TO GO
TO THE NEXT PICTURE REAL QUICK
00:27:21.73\00:27:23.70
HERE, SHERYL.
00:27:23.70\00:27:24.66
SHOW THAT PICTURE OF THE MAP,
AND SEE THAT MEDIA AND PERSIA?
00:27:24.66\00:27:28.90
SEE BABYLON, MEDIA AND PERSIA
WERE TWO KINGDOMS TO THE EAST OF
00:27:28.90\00:27:32.76
BABYLON.
00:27:32.76\00:27:34.46
OKAY, GOT THAT?
00:27:34.46\00:27:35.23
NOW GO BACK TO THE
PICTURE OF CYRUS AGAIN, SHERYL.
00:27:35.23\00:27:37.66
I WANT YOU TO PUT
THAT BACK UP ON THE SCREEN.
00:27:37.66\00:27:40.36
YOU SEE THE CITY OF BABYLON,
HOW THE EUPHRATES RIVER WENT
00:27:40.36\00:27:43.26
UNDER THE WALL?
00:27:43.26\00:27:45.06
WHEN CYRUS WAS LOOKING FOR A WAY
TO CONQUER THE CITY, THERE'S NO
00:27:45.06\00:27:49.76
WAY TO GET THROUGH THE
WALLS OF BABYLON--WERE MASSIVE.
00:27:49.76\00:27:53.00
THEY HAD CONFIDENCE IN
THEIR WALLS THAT IT COULD KEEP
00:27:53.00\00:27:55.36
HIM OUT.
00:27:55.36\00:27:56.63
INTERESTING THING IS CYRUS
HAS MENTIONED BY NAME THAT GOD
00:27:56.63\00:28:00.33
WAS GONNA CHOOSE HIM.
00:28:00.33\00:28:02.06
HE'S LIKE A TYPE OF CHRIST IN
THAT HE'S CALLED THE ANOINTED.
00:28:02.06\00:28:06.40
"THUS SAYS THE LORD," THIS IS
ISAIAH 45:1, "THUS SAYS THE LORD
00:28:06.40\00:28:10.70
TO HIS ANOINTED, TO CYRUS
WHOSE RIGHT HAND I HAVE HELD."
00:28:10.70\00:28:15.40
THAT MEANS I'M GONNA HELP YOU
TO LET MY PEOPLE GO, TO DELIVER
00:28:15.40\00:28:18.86
THEM.
00:28:18.86\00:28:19.73
"TO SUBDUE NATIONS BEFORE HIM,
TO LOOSE THE ARMOR OF KINGS, TO
00:28:19.73\00:28:23.70
OPEN BEFORE HIM THE DOUBLE DOORS
SO THE GATES WILL NOT BE SHUT."
00:28:23.70\00:28:27.53
WHEN HE KNEW HE COULDN'T GET
OVER THE WALLS, HE SAID, "WELL,
00:28:27.53\00:28:30.60
WHAT'S MY OTHER OPTION?
00:28:30.60\00:28:31.56
I CAN'T GO THROUGH THE WALLS,
MAYBE I CAN GO UNDER THE WALLS."
00:28:31.56\00:28:34.00
THE EUPHRATES RIVER RAN UNDER
THE WALLS OF BABYLON, BUT IT RAN
00:28:34.00\00:28:37.63
RIGHT UP TO WALL LEVEL
AND IT IRRIGATED THE CITY.
00:28:37.63\00:28:41.30
IT WAS THE LIFELINE TO THE CITY.
00:28:41.30\00:28:42.96
THEY HAD FOOD STORED.
00:28:42.96\00:28:44.53
THE HISTORIAN HERODOTUS SAYS
THAT THEY HAD FOOD STORED FOR
00:28:44.53\00:28:47.96
20 YEARS AND PLUS THE WATER THAT
CAME IN THE CITY, THEY COULD
00:28:47.96\00:28:52.06
WITHSTAND ANY
SIEGE THAT WOULD COME.
00:28:52.06\00:28:54.26
THE ARMIES WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO
TAKE CARE OF THEIR TROOPS LONG
00:28:54.26\00:28:56.40
ENOUGH AND SO THAT'S WHY
THE KING TO MOCK THE PERSIANS
00:28:56.40\00:29:00.46
AND THE MEDES THAT WERE CAMPED
OUTSIDE, THEY HAD A PARTY.
00:29:00.46\00:29:03.43
YOU READ ABOUT
THIS IN THE BIBLE.
00:29:03.43\00:29:04.80
THEY HAD THIS GREAT
FEAST AND THAT'S WHEN THEY SAW
00:29:04.80\00:29:07.60
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.
00:29:07.60\00:29:09.06
CYRUS AND DARIUS WERE RIGHT
OUTSIDE THE WALLS AT THAT TIME
00:29:09.06\00:29:13.43
AND THEY SAID,
"OH, WE'RE NOT AFRAID.
00:29:13.43\00:29:15.16
CITY, 15 MILES ON EACH SIDE,
OH, THEY CAN'T GET IN HERE.
00:29:15.16\00:29:18.60
IT'S AN IMPENETRABLE FORTRESS."
00:29:18.60\00:29:22.30
WELL, THE STORY GOES, ACCORDING
TO HERODOTUS OR HERODOTUS,
00:29:22.30\00:29:29.53
THE GREEK HISTORIAN, ONE
OF THE PRIZE HORSES OF CYRUS
00:29:29.53\00:29:36.36
DROWNED IN THE EUPHRATES.
00:29:36.36\00:29:38.80
IT GOT SPIRITED.
00:29:38.80\00:29:39.86
IT JUMPED OFF IN
THE WATER, IT DROWNED.
00:29:39.86\00:29:41.46
HE WAS SO ANGRY, HE SAID,
"I'M GONNA CONQUER THIS RIVER"
00:29:41.46\00:29:43.73
'CAUSE THE BABYLONIANS
WORSHIPED IT AS A GOD.
00:29:43.73\00:29:46.56
AND HE HAD HIS MEN DIG SOME
DITCHES AND DIVERT THE RIVER SO
00:29:46.56\00:29:50.16
IT WENT DOWN AND YOU
COULD FORD IT AT THIGH LEVEL.
00:29:50.16\00:29:53.96
WELL, THAT HAD HAPPENED EARLIER
IN HIS CONQUEST OF BABYLON.
00:29:53.96\00:29:57.13
WHEN HE GOT TO THE WALLS
OF BABYLON HE THOUGHT, "HEY,
00:29:57.13\00:29:58.73
I'VE ALREADY PROVED
I CAN TAME THIS RIVER."
00:29:58.73\00:30:00.50
HE HAD SORT OF THIS TANTRUM WHEN
HIS HORSE DROWNED AND HE HAD
00:30:00.50\00:30:03.33
DIVERTED THE RIVER.
00:30:03.33\00:30:05.06
DON'T ASK ME WHY A KING WOULD DO
THAT BUT MAYBE THE LORD INSPIRED
00:30:05.06\00:30:06.90
HIM.
00:30:06.90\00:30:08.13
AND HE SAID, "HEY,
THERE'S A DRY LAKE BED OFF HERE.
00:30:08.13\00:30:11.90
I'LL GET ALL MY
SOLDIERS TO DIG A CANAL."
00:30:11.90\00:30:15.53
THEY DUG THIS CANAL AND AT
THE RIGHT MOMENT AFTER THE SUN
00:30:15.53\00:30:18.23
WENT DOWN WHEN THEY HEARD HIM
PARTYING IN THE CITY, THEY BROKE
00:30:18.23\00:30:20.83
THE LAST BARRIER, THE WATER THEN
STARTED FLOODING FROM WHERE IT
00:30:20.83\00:30:25.33
WOULD NORMALLY GO INTO THIS
DRY LAKE BED AND THE WATER LEVEL
00:30:25.33\00:30:30.10
BEGAN TO DROP AND NO
ONE IN THE CITY NOTICED.
00:30:30.10\00:30:33.63
WELL, THERE WERE STILL INNER
WALLS THAT SEPARATED THE CANAL,
00:30:33.63\00:30:37.40
THE RIVER EUPHRATES WHERE IT RAN
THROUGH BABYLON, FROM THE MAIN
00:30:37.40\00:30:40.16
ENTRANCE TO THE CITY.
00:30:40.16\00:30:41.30
BUT BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING
BUT THE RIVER RUNNING THROUGH
00:30:41.30\00:30:44.03
AND IT WAS ALL SEALED OFF AND
THEY KNEW THEY DIDN'T HAVE SCUBA
00:30:44.03\00:30:46.86
GEAR BACK THEN, THEY
WEREN'T WORRIED ABOUT THE ARMY.
00:30:46.86\00:30:49.10
THEY LEFT THE GATES OPEN.
00:30:49.10\00:30:51.50
THEY WERE HAVING A
FESTIVAL IN THE CITY.
00:30:51.50\00:30:53.66
AND BY THE WAY, EVEN IN MY
NOTES, THE HISTORIAN MENTIONS
00:30:53.66\00:30:57.50
THIS.
00:30:57.50\00:31:00.10
OH, I LEFT IT OUT OF MY NOTES.
00:31:00.10\00:31:04.26
I DID, SORRY.
00:31:04.26\00:31:05.30
YOU CAN READ UP
HERODOTUS FOR YOURSELF.
00:31:05.30\00:31:07.86
HE SAYS THEY WERE HAVING A
FESTIVAL IN THE CITY, THEY WERE
00:31:07.86\00:31:09.50
DRUNK AND THEY
LEFT THE GATES OPEN.
00:31:09.50\00:31:11.03
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT
SAYS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN HERE.
00:31:11.03\00:31:13.86
IT SAYS, "TO OPEN BEFORE HIM
THE DOUBLE DOORS, THE MAIN GATES
00:31:13.86\00:31:16.73
OF THE CITY WERE LEFT OPEN."
00:31:16.73\00:31:18.10
THAT'S WHY IN ONE
NIGHT, BABYLON FELL.
00:31:18.10\00:31:21.13
THE KINGS OF THE EAST
WERE THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS
00:31:21.13\00:31:23.83
THAT CAME.
00:31:23.83\00:31:24.53
THE EUPHRATES RIVER DRIED UP.
00:31:24.53\00:31:25.96
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
THE PERSIANS TOOK CONTROL?
00:31:25.96\00:31:28.86
THEY ISSUED A DECREE, THE
70 YEARS OF CAPTIVITY WAS OVER,
00:31:28.86\00:31:31.66
THE PEOPLE COULD GO
BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:31:31.66\00:31:34.26
WHEN THE EUPHRATES DRIED UP,
BABYLON FELL, THE PEOPLE COULD
00:31:34.26\00:31:38.30
GO BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:31:38.30\00:31:39.93
IN THE LAST DAYS, DO
WE HAVE A MODERN BABYLON?
00:31:39.93\00:31:43.30
IT'S A SPIRITUAL BABYLON, RIGHT?
00:31:43.30\00:31:46.16
DO WE HAVE A SPIRITUAL ISRAEL?
00:31:46.16\00:31:48.16
BUT DON'T YOU KNOW
IF YOU'RE CHRIST'S,
00:31:48.16\00:31:50.30
YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED.
00:31:50.30\00:31:51.63
SO MANY WILL COME FROM THE EAST
AND THE WEST AND SIT DOWN WITH
00:31:51.63\00:31:55.86
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.
00:31:55.86\00:31:57.13
IF YOU BELONG TO
JESUS, YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED.
00:31:57.13\00:31:59.93
SPIRITUAL ISRAEL.
00:31:59.93\00:32:01.26
SPIRITUAL BABYLON, SPIRITUAL
ISRAEL, SPIRITUAL EUPHRATES,
00:32:01.26\00:32:04.16
FRIENDS.
00:32:04.16\00:32:05.70
NOW THIS SOMETIMES CAUSES PEOPLE
TO STUMBLE BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE
00:32:05.70\00:32:09.10
GOING THROUGH THE PLAGUES,
IS IT GONNA LITERALLY BE A SORE?
00:32:09.10\00:32:14.76
YEAH.
00:32:14.76\00:32:15.56
LITERAL BLOOD?
00:32:15.56\00:32:17.10
WAS IT LITERAL
BLOOD IN EGYPT, THE RIVER?
00:32:17.10\00:32:19.63
WELL, AT LEAST LITERALLY RED.
00:32:19.63\00:32:21.66
I DON'T KNOW IF IT
WAS LITERALLY BLOOD.
00:32:21.66\00:32:25.86
OCEANS OF BLOOD, LITERALLY
SCORCHED WITH GREAT HEAT,
00:32:25.86\00:32:28.26
LITERAL DARKNESS.
00:32:28.26\00:32:29.13
THE OTHER PLAGUES ARE VERY REAL
PLAGUES AND NOW WHEN WE TALK
00:32:29.13\00:32:31.86
ABOUT SPIRITUAL EUPHRATES,
HERE'S THE KEY TO UNDERSTAND THE
00:32:31.86\00:32:36.53
DISTINCTION, ALL OF THE TERMS
AND THE NUMBERS IN REVELATION
00:32:36.53\00:32:41.43
ARE QUITE LITERAL
UNLESS YOU GET TO A NAME.
00:32:41.43\00:32:45.00
WHENEVER YOU HEAR A NAME IN
REVELATION, YOU HAVE TO APPLY
00:32:45.00\00:32:48.16
THE SPIRITUAL EQUIVALENT
FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT STORY,
00:32:48.16\00:32:51.40
YOU GET THAT?
00:32:51.40\00:32:52.56
LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.
00:32:52.56\00:32:53.86
IN THE MESSAGE TO THE
SEVEN CHURCHES, OUT OF THE BLUE
00:32:53.86\00:32:56.90
IT TALKS ABOUT BALAAM.
00:32:56.90\00:32:58.83
WAS THERE SOME GUY NAMED BALAAM
IN THOSE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA?
00:32:58.83\00:33:02.63
NO, IT IS A JEWISH
NAME OR A MESOPOTAMIAN NAME.
00:33:02.63\00:33:06.83
THERE'S NOBODY THERE, BUT THE
REVELATOR, THE LORD WANTED US TO
00:33:06.83\00:33:11.03
LOOK BACK AT THE STORY OF BALAAM
TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS HAPPENING
00:33:11.03\00:33:14.46
IN THAT CHURCH.
00:33:14.46\00:33:15.60
THEN THEY'RE TALKING ON
AND THEY TALK ABOUT JEZEBEL.
00:33:15.60\00:33:18.73
WELL, THAT WAS AN
ANCIENT JEWISH QUEEN.
00:33:18.73\00:33:21.56
SHE WASN'T EVEN JEWISH, SHE
WAS A PAGAN QUEEN OVER ISRAEL.
00:33:21.56\00:33:24.43
DO YOU THINK THERE WAS A LITERAL
MEMBER OF ONE OF THE SEVEN
00:33:24.43\00:33:27.16
CHURCHES NAMED JEZEBEL?
00:33:27.16\00:33:29.66
NO.
00:33:29.66\00:33:30.60
IT'S A NAME.
00:33:30.60\00:33:31.73
REVELATION WHEN IT SAYS MICHAEL,
WE KNOW THAT'S A SPIRITUAL NAME.
00:33:31.73\00:33:35.83
WHEN IT SAYS DRAGON, THAT'S
A SPIRITUAL NAME FOR THE DEVIL.
00:33:35.83\00:33:39.13
IS THE DEVIL REALLY A REPTILE?
00:33:39.13\00:33:42.00
ALL RIGHT, SO WHENEVER YOU HEAR
A NAME IN REVELATION, THERE'S A
00:33:42.00\00:33:44.66
KEY AND THAT'S TRUE ALL THE
WAY THROUGH THE BOOK, FRIENDS.
00:33:44.66\00:33:48.63
THESE NAMES, WHEN IT TALKS
ABOUT SPIRITUALLY CALLED SODOM
00:33:48.63\00:33:51.46
AND EGYPT.
00:33:51.46\00:33:52.46
THOSE WERE SPIRITUAL
NAMES FOR THE NATION OF FRANCE.
00:33:52.46\00:33:55.16
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:33:55.16\00:33:56.00
SO WHEN IT MENTIONS EUPHRATES,
IT MEANS THE SPIRITUAL
00:33:56.00\00:33:58.20
EQUIVALENT.
00:33:58.20\00:33:59.10
ITS LIFELINE IS
GONNA BE DRIED UP.
00:33:59.10\00:34:01.13
AND YOU READ IN REVELATION
18 ABOUT BABYLON FALLING, OKAY?
00:34:01.13\00:34:04.30
SO I HOPE--THAT MAKES SENSE
TO ME, I HOPE IT MAKES SENSE
00:34:04.30\00:34:06.63
TO YOU.
00:34:06.63\00:34:08.26
LET'S GO ON AND READ
REVELATION 16:13 NOW.
00:34:08.26\00:34:12.60
"AND I SAW THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS
LIKE FROGS COME OUT OF THE MOUTH
00:34:12.60\00:34:19.16
OF THE DRAGON, OUT OF THE MOUTH
OF THE BEAST AND OUT OF THE
00:34:19.16\00:34:23.26
MOUTH OF THE FALSE PROPHET."
00:34:23.26\00:34:25.63
WELL, BEFORE I GET TO WHO THOSE
THREE CHARACTERS ARE, LET'S TALK
00:34:25.63\00:34:28.73
ABOUT FROGS.
00:34:28.73\00:34:31.00
HOW MANY FROGS?
00:34:31.00\00:34:32.63
THREE UNCLEAN
SPIRITS LIKE FROGS.
00:34:32.63\00:34:36.40
NOW, DO WE FIND FROGS
IN EGYPT AMONG THE PLAGUES?
00:34:36.40\00:34:41.06
A LOT OF PARALLELS
THAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE.
00:34:41.06\00:34:43.23
WHEN YOU THINK OF
FROGS, WHAT COMES TO YOUR MIND?
00:34:43.23\00:34:48.13
FIRST OF ALL, HAS ANYONE
HERE EVER BEEN BITTEN BY A FROG?
00:34:48.13\00:34:52.40
OH, COME ON, NOW.
00:34:52.40\00:34:54.06
THEY MAY HAVE, THEY MAY HAVE
NAPPED DOWN ON YOU, BUT FROGS
00:34:54.06\00:34:57.43
HAVE NO TEETH.
00:34:57.43\00:34:59.26
I REMEMBER ONE TIME I WENT TO
MAKE A SALES DELIVERY AND THIS
00:34:59.26\00:35:02.83
GUY HAD THIS GERMAN SHEPHERD
THAT RAN OUT AND BIT ME ON
00:35:02.83\00:35:05.30
THE LEG.
00:35:05.30\00:35:06.50
I SAID, "YOUR DOG JUST BIT ME."
00:35:06.50\00:35:08.53
AND HE SAID,
"THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE."
00:35:08.53\00:35:09.60
I SAID, "HE JUST BIT ME."
00:35:09.60\00:35:10.90
HE SAYS, "MY DOG HAS NO TEETH."
00:35:10.90\00:35:13.46
AND SURE ENOUGH I REALIZED IT
DIDN'T REALLY HURT ME, SCARED ME
00:35:13.46\00:35:16.03
HALF TO DEATH.
00:35:16.03\00:35:18.33
HE HAD A TOOTHLESS DOG.
00:35:18.33\00:35:21.23
BUT FROGS, THEIR REAL
DANGER IS THEIR TONGUE.
00:35:21.23\00:35:27.66
THE OTHER THING WE NOTICE IS
JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA
00:35:27.66\00:35:29.76
GRAB THEM, THEY LEAP, THEY JUMP
FROM PLACE TO PLACE AND THEY'RE
00:35:29.76\00:35:33.56
SLIPPERY.
00:35:33.56\00:35:38.33
THESE FROGS, IT REPRESENTS,
AND IT COMES OUT OF WHAT?
00:35:38.33\00:35:42.26
IT DOESN'T COME OUT OF THE
EYE OR THE EAR, IT COMES OUT OF
00:35:42.26\00:35:44.00
THE MOUTH.
00:35:44.00\00:35:44.76
IT MEANS IT'S A MESSAGE.
00:35:44.76\00:35:46.13
GOD'S MESSAGES ARE SYMBOLIZED
BY ANGELS FLYING IN THE MIDST OF
00:35:46.13\00:35:48.93
HEAVEN.
00:35:48.93\00:35:49.66
THE DEVIL'S MESSAGES,
FROGS BECAUSE THEY'RE REPTILES.
00:35:49.66\00:35:55.36
THEY'RE LIKE TADPOLES
AND THEY'RE SLIPPERY AND IT'S
00:35:55.36\00:35:58.50
A MESSAGE WHERE THEY
GET YOU WITH THEIR WORDS.
00:35:58.50\00:36:02.03
HOW DID THE DEVIL GET EVE?
00:36:02.03\00:36:03.53
HE STUCK OUT THAT STICKY TONGUE
OF HIS AND HE TRAPPED HER.
00:36:03.53\00:36:07.80
AND SO IT'S
SYMBOLIC WITH THESE FROGS.
00:36:07.80\00:36:11.00
THEN IT SAYS COMES OUT OF THE
MOUTH OF THE BEAST, OUT OF THE
00:36:11.00\00:36:17.16
MOUTH OF THE DRAGON AND THEN
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE
00:36:17.16\00:36:21.66
PROPHET.
00:36:21.66\00:36:23.40
NOW WE'VE GOT ANOTHER WHOLE
MESSAGE ON WHO THE BEAST IS,
00:36:23.40\00:36:26.76
THAT HAS NOT CHANGED.
00:36:26.76\00:36:28.10
MOST PROTESTANTS BELIEVE
THAT BEAST IS THE APOSTATE
00:36:28.10\00:36:32.23
CHRISTIANITY WITH
ITS HEADQUARTERS IN ROME.
00:36:32.23\00:36:35.16
AND BY THE WAY, I'M NOT
THE FIRST ONE WHO SAYS THAT.
00:36:35.16\00:36:39.03
THIS IS WHAT YOU FIND IN ALL THE
GREAT PROTESTANT COMMENTATORS
00:36:39.03\00:36:42.03
GOING FROM LUTHER, JOHN
HUSS BACK TO THE FIRST ONES, I
00:36:42.03\00:36:46.86
SUPPOSE, THE WALDENSES AND
HERE'S A QUOTE FROM JOHN GILL.
00:36:46.86\00:36:51.53
THIS IS THE FIRST GREAT
BAPTIST THEOLOGIAN, THE BIBLE
00:36:51.53\00:36:54.76
COMMENTATOR.
00:36:54.76\00:36:56.63
"THE SAME SPIRITS THAT ARE THERE
SAID TO GO FORTH THAT GATHER
00:36:56.63\00:36:59.43
THE KINGS TOGETHER.
00:36:59.43\00:37:00.96
THESE WILL GATHER THEM TOGETHER
WILL PERSUADE THE PAPAL PAGAN
00:37:00.96\00:37:05.06
AND MOHAMMED EMPOWERS."
00:37:05.06\00:37:07.33
I THOUGHT, THAT WAS INTERESTING.
00:37:07.33\00:37:09.13
"THAT REMAINS OF THEM IN THE
SEVERAL PARTS OF THE WORLD THAT
00:37:09.13\00:37:12.43
JOIN TOGETHER AND MAKE ONE
EFFORT TO THE REVIVING OF THEIR
00:37:12.43\00:37:15.06
DECLINING ALMOST RUIN INTEREST
IN AN ATTACK ON THE PEOPLE
00:37:15.06\00:37:18.23
OF GOD."
00:37:18.23\00:37:18.86
BUT HE LUMPS THE THREE TOGETHER
AS THE PAGAN, PAGANISM IN THE
00:37:18.86\00:37:22.53
WORLD, PAGAN AND MOHAMMEDAN.
00:37:22.53\00:37:25.80
NOW YOU KNOW A GROWING NUMBER OF
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WONDERING ABOUT
00:37:25.80\00:37:28.50
THE INFLUENCE OF ISLAM.
00:37:28.50\00:37:31.03
AND BY THE WAY IF I'M NOT
MISTAKEN, MATTHEW HENRY THOUGHT
00:37:31.03\00:37:35.86
SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR
TO THAT IN HIS COMMENTARY.
00:37:35.86\00:37:38.80
I'M TELLING YOU WHAT'S
OUT THERE NOW, YOU GOT ME?
00:37:38.80\00:37:40.73
I'M NOT TELLING WHAT I BELIEVE,
I'M TELLING WHAT'S OUT THERE,
00:37:40.73\00:37:42.70
BUT I AM TRYING TO GET
YOU TO THINK FOR YOURSELF.
00:37:42.70\00:37:45.06
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE, THE SACRED
STATEMENT OF ISLAM IS THERE'S
00:37:45.06\00:37:51.33
NO GOD BUT ALLAH AND
MOHAMMED IS HIS PROPHET.
00:37:51.33\00:37:55.46
AND IT'S HARD TO DENY THE
EXPLOSIVE GROWTH OF ISLAM.
00:37:55.46\00:38:00.16
SOME HAVE WONDERED IF ONE REASON
THAT POPE BENEDICT CAME TO
00:38:00.16\00:38:03.23
THE U.S., WAS IT LAST YEAR, WAS
BECAUSE IN EUROPE, THEIR FORMER
00:38:03.23\00:38:10.00
BEACHHEAD, THEIR FORMER BASE
OF POWER, THEY USED TO HOLD SWAY
00:38:10.00\00:38:16.23
THERE BUT YOU KNOW
WHAT'S GROWING THERE IS ISLAM.
00:38:16.23\00:38:18.73
WHAT'S SHRINKING THERE
IS CHRISTIANITY, CATHOLICISM
00:38:18.73\00:38:21.33
AND PROTESTANTISM.
00:38:21.33\00:38:22.90
AND HE'S LOOKING ACROSS THE
OCEAN AND SEEING THE ONLY NATION
00:38:22.90\00:38:26.36
LEFT THAT REALLY IS A STRONGHOLD
OF ACTIVE CHRISTIANITY IS NORTH
00:38:26.36\00:38:30.36
AMERICA, AND
HE'S REACHING ACROSS.
00:38:30.36\00:38:35.00
I HEARD THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE
REALLY THREATENED BY THE GROWTH
00:38:35.00\00:38:37.30
OF ISLAM THAT IT'S
REALLY A THREAT TO THEIR FAITH.
00:38:37.30\00:38:40.96
IN READING ADAM CLARK'S
COMMENTARY, SPEAKING ABOUT WHO
00:38:40.96\00:38:44.73
THESE THREE POWERS ARE,
AND WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS,
00:38:44.73\00:38:47.80
ACTUALLY I'M
READING JOHN WESLEY NOW.
00:38:47.80\00:38:51.56
"THE DEVIL REPRESENTS THE
SECULAR POWER OF ANTICHRIST
00:38:51.56\00:38:54.86
AND THE ECCLESIASTICAL POWER.
00:38:54.86\00:38:57.60
THE DRAGON FIGHTS
CHIEFLY AGAINST GOD.
00:38:57.60\00:39:00.60
THE BEAST FIGHTS AGAINST CHRIST,
THE FALSE PROPHET AGAINST
00:39:00.60\00:39:03.90
THE SPIRIT."
00:39:03.90\00:39:04.70
I AGREE WITH THAT.
00:39:04.70\00:39:06.13
IN THE DRAGON, THE BEAST,
AND THE FALSE PROPHET, YOU'VE
00:39:06.13\00:39:09.96
GOT BASICALLY--YOU
EVER PLAY BASKETBALL?
00:39:09.96\00:39:13.50
AND IF YOU'RE PLAYING
3, 6 MEN, YOU PLAY 3 ON 3.
00:39:13.50\00:39:17.13
IF YOU ONLY GOT 6 PEOPLE
THAT ARE PLAYING, YOU PLAY MAN
00:39:17.13\00:39:19.46
ON MAN.
00:39:19.46\00:39:20.73
WELL, WHAT'S HAPPENING IN
THIS FINAL BATTLE IS YOU'VE GOT
00:39:20.73\00:39:23.46
A COUNTERFEIT TRINITY, THAT
COUNTERFEIT TRINITY ON EARTH IS
00:39:23.46\00:39:28.43
THE BEAST, THE DRAGON
AND THE FALSE PROPHET.
00:39:28.43\00:39:31.23
NOW HERE'S WHERE I LAND ON THIS,
THE BOOK "GREAT CONTROVERSY"
00:39:31.23\00:39:36.70
PAGE 588, "PROTESTANTS IN THE
UNITED STATES WILL BE FOREMOST
00:39:36.70\00:39:41.53
AND STRETCHING THEIR HAND ACROSS
THE GULF TO CLASP THE HAND OF
00:39:41.53\00:39:45.90
SPIRITUALISM.
00:39:45.90\00:39:47.66
THEY WILL REACH OVER THE
ABYSS TO CLASP THE HAND WITH
00:39:47.66\00:39:50.50
THE ROMAN POWER," THE ORTHODOX
CHURCHES AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
00:39:50.50\00:39:52.93
CHURCH, "AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE
OF THIS THREE-FOLD UNION,"
00:39:52.93\00:39:57.63
THE BEAST, THE
DRAGON, THE FALSE PROPHET.
00:39:57.63\00:40:00.46
"THIS COUNTRY WILL FOLLOW
IN THE STEPS OF ROME TRAMPLING
00:40:00.46\00:40:03.16
THE RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE."
00:40:03.16\00:40:04.80
SO YOU'VE GOT APOSTATE
PROTESTANTISM, APOSTATE
00:40:04.80\00:40:09.43
CATHOLICISM AND A SPIRITUALISM
THAT IS COUNTERFEITING OR
00:40:09.43\00:40:15.36
MASQUERADING AS CHRISTIANITY.
00:40:15.36\00:40:18.30
SOME HAVE WONDERED IF THE
CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT, WHERE YOU
00:40:18.30\00:40:21.13
HAVE THIS SORT OF COUNTERFEIT
HOLY SPIRIT IS THE FULFILLMENT
00:40:21.13\00:40:24.53
OF THAT.
00:40:24.53\00:40:25.93
THAT SPIRITISM IS GOING TO TEACH
THAT YOU CAN CONSULT THE DEAD.
00:40:25.93\00:40:31.00
YOU KNOW, IT STRUCK ME TODAY,
THIS MORNING FOR THE FIRST TIME
00:40:31.00\00:40:32.90
I MADE THE CONNECTION.
00:40:32.90\00:40:34.76
JUST BEFORE ISRAEL LOST A
BATTLE, THIS TREMENDOUS BATTLE
00:40:34.76\00:40:41.43
BETWEEN ISRAEL AND JUST
BEFORE DAVID TOOK THE THRONE,
00:40:41.43\00:40:45.33
THERE WAS A GREAT BATTLE FOUGHT.
00:40:45.33\00:40:47.16
THAT'S WHEN DAVID SAID, "OH,
HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN."
00:40:47.16\00:40:51.36
KING SAUL AND HIS
SONS WERE ALL KILLED.
00:40:51.36\00:40:54.13
SAUL CONSULTED A WITCH.
00:40:54.13\00:40:58.60
HE GOT INVOLVED IN SPIRITUALISM.
00:40:58.60\00:41:00.76
HERE'S A JEWISH KING.
00:41:00.76\00:41:02.40
HE'S A CHURCH MEMBER AND
HE'S GOING TO A WITCH TO GET
00:41:02.40\00:41:05.30
INFORMATION, AND HE
DIES IN BATTLE THE NEXT DAY.
00:41:05.30\00:41:08.60
AND HE CAN'T HELP BUT
WONDER IF THAT'S GONNA,
00:41:08.60\00:41:11.23
THAT'S SPIRITUALISM.
00:41:11.23\00:41:12.13
I MEAN AREN'T THERE CHRISTIANS
NOW THAT BELIEVE THAT YOU DIE
00:41:12.13\00:41:14.46
AND GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN OR
HELL AND YOU CAN COMMUNICATE
00:41:14.46\00:41:16.26
WITH THE DEAD?
00:41:16.26\00:41:18.00
AND IF SOMEONE POPS UP AND THEY
SAYS, "OH, I'M THE APOSTLE PAUL
00:41:18.00\00:41:21.70
OR I'M MARTIN LUTHER"
WHOEVER THEY WANT TO BE.
00:41:21.70\00:41:25.03
AND THEY SAY, "I'VE
GOT A MESSAGE FOR YOU,"
00:41:25.03\00:41:26.26
AND IT CONTRADICTS
THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE.
00:41:26.26\00:41:28.30
THAT'S WHAT THE
WITCH DID FOR KING SAUL.
00:41:28.30\00:41:30.26
THOSE PEOPLE ARE DOOMED
IN THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
00:41:30.26\00:41:33.23
THEY GET
INVOLVED IN SPIRITUALISM.
00:41:33.23\00:41:35.03
AND THESE DEVILS, THESE SPIRITS,
THESE POWERS, THE BEAST,
00:41:35.03\00:41:40.00
THE DRAGON, THE FALSE PROPHET.
00:41:40.00\00:41:44.10
WELL, I WANT TO READ VERSE
14, SORRY, REVELATION 16:14,
00:41:44.10\00:41:47.33
"THEY'RE THE SPIRITS OF DEMONS
PERFORMING SIGNS, WONDERS,
00:41:47.33\00:41:53.60
WHICH GO OUT TO THE KINGS
OF THE EARTH, THE GOVERNMENTS,
00:41:53.60\00:41:56.06
THE WORLD LEADERS AND THE
WHOLE WORLD TO GATHER THEM TO
00:41:56.06\00:41:59.96
THE BATTLE OF THE
GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY."
00:41:59.96\00:42:02.93
NOW THESE ARE SOME VERY
IMPORTANT VERSES TO CONSIDER.
00:42:02.93\00:42:06.43
REVELATION 13:13-14 SPEAKING
OF THE BEAST POWER, "HE PERFORMS
00:42:06.43\00:42:13.63
GREAT SIGNS SO THAT HE EVEN
MAKES FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN
00:42:13.63\00:42:17.30
ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF MEN
AND DECEIVES THOSE WHO DWELL ON
00:42:17.30\00:42:20.36
THE EARTH BY THE MEANS OF THOSE
SIGNS THAT HE'S GRANTED TO DO
00:42:20.36\00:42:23.73
IN THE SIGHT OF THE BEAST."
00:42:23.73\00:42:26.16
THERE'S LYING
WONDERS, IT TELLS US ABOUT.
00:42:26.16\00:42:31.60
2 THESSALONIANS 2:8-11, "THEN
THAT WICKED ONE WILL BE REVEALED
00:42:31.60\00:42:36.76
WHOM THE LORD WILL CONSUME
WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH,"
00:42:36.76\00:42:40.03
SPEAKING OF THE ANTICHRIST
POWER, "AND WILL DESTROY WITH
00:42:40.03\00:42:43.06
THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING.
00:42:43.06\00:42:45.06
EVEN HIM WHO'S COMING IS
AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH
00:42:45.06\00:42:49.63
ALL POWER AND
SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS."
00:42:49.63\00:42:54.06
ALL KINDS OF POWERS AND SIGNS
AND, ARE THEY TRUE WONDERS?
00:42:54.06\00:42:57.10
ARE THEY WONDERS
CALCULATED TO DECEIVE?
00:42:57.10\00:43:00.56
THE DEVIL WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE
WORLD, THEY'RE LYING WONDERS.
00:43:00.56\00:43:04.50
THERE'S GONNA BE COUNTERFEIT
MIRACLES, THAT'S WHY OUR FAITH
00:43:04.50\00:43:06.90
NEEDS TO BE ROOTED, AND
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?
00:43:06.90\00:43:09.56
NOT WHAT GREAT MIRACLE HAS
HAPPENED THAT'S ON THE NEWS
00:43:09.56\00:43:12.50
ALL OVER THE WORLD OR SOME
COUNTERFEIT CHRIST THAT MAY
00:43:12.50\00:43:16.46
APPEAR DOING WONDERS, MAYBE EVEN
BRINGING FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN
00:43:16.46\00:43:21.40
LIKE ELIJAH PRAYED AND FIRE
CAME DOWN AND OBVIOUSLY IF MOSES
00:43:21.40\00:43:25.96
PRAYS AND FIRE COMES DOWN ON
THE ALTAR, AND HERE THIS FALSE
00:43:25.96\00:43:30.30
CHRIST, HE PRAYS AND FIRE SEEMS
TO COME DOWN, IT MUST BE TRUE.
00:43:30.30\00:43:37.66
FIRE COMING DOWN IN ACTS 2
REPRESENTED THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:43:37.66\00:43:41.83
THEY WERE ALL
BAPTIZED WITH TONGUES OF FIRE.
00:43:41.83\00:43:44.30
THIS WOULD BE A COUNTERFEIT
BAPTISM OF THE SPIRIT,
00:43:44.30\00:43:47.43
COUNTERFEIT POWER.
00:43:47.43\00:43:48.86
THERE'LL BE COUNTERFEIT SIGNS
AND WONDERS, THAT'S WHY WE'VE
00:43:48.86\00:43:53.03
GOTTA GO BY WHAT
DOES THE BIBLE SAY?
00:43:53.03\00:43:55.70
JOEL 3:2, "I WILL GATHER ALL
NATIONS AND BRING THEM DOWN TO
00:43:55.70\00:44:00.86
THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT,
AND I'LL ENTER INTO JUDGMENT
00:44:00.86\00:44:05.06
THERE WITH THEM ON ACCOUNT OF MY
PEOPLE, MY HERITAGE ISRAEL WHOM
00:44:05.06\00:44:08.83
THEY HAVE
SCATTERED AMONG THE NATIONS.
00:44:08.83\00:44:11.50
THEY'VE ALSO
DIVIDED UP MY LAND."
00:44:11.50\00:44:13.43
NOW THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS
NOT A BATTLE, AS MACARTHUR WAS
00:44:13.43\00:44:17.46
SUGGESTING BETWEEN THE NUCLEAR
POWERS OF THE WORLD, BETWEEN
00:44:17.46\00:44:22.06
RUSSIA AND CHINA AND THE UNITED
STATES AND IRAN AND WHOEVER ELSE
00:44:22.06\00:44:26.16
IS OUT THERE, AND PAKISTAN AND
INDIA AND EVERYBODY JUST KIND OF
00:44:26.16\00:44:29.93
ALL BLOWING OURSELVES UP,
ALL THE ARMIES OF THE WORLD
00:44:29.93\00:44:34.76
BEING MOBILIZED AND GATHERING.
00:44:34.76\00:44:36.53
OH, I REMEMBER ONE TIME, I
WAS--MY SECOND TRIP TO ISRAEL,
00:44:36.53\00:44:40.76
I WENT WITH A GROUP OF MINISTERS
FROM ALL DIFFERENT FAITHS.
00:44:40.76\00:44:43.40
AND ONE OF THE PLACES THEY
TOOK US WAS TO THIS MOUNTAIN,
00:44:43.40\00:44:46.93
MOUNT MEGIDDO ABOVE THE
VALLEY OF JEZREEL, AND DIFFERENT
00:44:46.93\00:44:50.93
PASTORS TOOK THEIR TURNS
DOING DEVOTIONALS AS WE CAME TO
00:44:50.93\00:44:55.33
DIFFERENT PLACES.
00:44:55.33\00:44:56.16
THEY NEVER DID ASK
ME TO DO A DEVOTIONAL.
00:44:56.16\00:44:58.10
THEY KNEW I WAS A
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST.
00:44:58.10\00:45:01.03
OH, I REALLY
WANTED TO DO SOME THOUGH.
00:45:01.03\00:45:03.03
AND I REMEMBER HE STOOD THERE
AND HE POINTED AT THIS VALLEY
00:45:03.03\00:45:06.86
THAT YOU COULDN'T EVEN TURN
AROUND A 747 IN THIS VALLEY,
00:45:06.86\00:45:10.13
POINTED TO THIS VALLEY SAID,
"ALL THE ARMIES OF CHINA AND ALL
00:45:10.13\00:45:13.13
THE ARMIES OF RUSSIA AND
ALL THE ARMIES OF THE U.S.
00:45:13.13\00:45:15.56
AND THE WORLD WILL GATHER
IN THIS VALLEY AGAINST ISRAEL."
00:45:15.56\00:45:17.96
AND I'M LOOKING, I'M GOING, I
LOOKED AT A METHODIST PASTOR WHO
00:45:17.96\00:45:20.50
SORT OF AGREED WITH ME AND
WE SAID, YOU CAN'T FIT ALL OF
00:45:20.50\00:45:24.76
THE CHINESE ARMY IN THIS VALLEY.
00:45:24.76\00:45:27.83
THEN HE GOES ON HOW THE BLOOD'S
GONNA REACH UP TO THE BRIDLES
00:45:27.83\00:45:31.30
AND IT'S JUST
SUCH A FANTASTIC STORY.
00:45:31.30\00:45:35.53
I MEAN IT JUST, IT'S NO
WONDER SOME PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE
00:45:35.53\00:45:37.93
THE BIBLE WHEN YOU HEAR
IT INTERPRETED THAT WAY.
00:45:37.93\00:45:41.20
THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS NOT
A BATTLE THAT'S GONNA TAKE PLACE
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IN A LITTLE BITTY
VALLEY OVER THERE IN ISRAEL.
00:45:44.66\00:45:47.10
IT IS THE GREAT BATTLE IN THE
LAST DAYS BETWEEN--THE BATTLES
00:45:47.10\00:45:50.60
OF REVELATION ARE
TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AND SATAN.
00:45:50.60\00:45:53.76
IT'S NOT A BATTLE TALKING
ABOUT IRAN, PAKISTAN, INDIA,
00:45:53.76\00:45:58.16
THESE LITTLE NATIONS.
00:45:58.16\00:45:59.93
IT'S DEALING WITH THOSE
WHO FOLLOW GOD, THE GREAT
00:45:59.93\00:46:02.53
CONTROVERSY AND
THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE DEVIL.
00:46:02.53\00:46:05.50
ARMAGEDDON IS THE FINAL
MOBILIZATION OF THE POWERS
00:46:05.50\00:46:09.30
AND ARMIES OF THE WORLD TO
EXTERMINATE GOD'S PEOPLE LIKE
00:46:09.30\00:46:13.53
THEY DID WITH JEHOSHAPHAT.
00:46:13.53\00:46:15.73
BUT WHEN THAT TIME
COMES, THE TABLES ARE TURNED.
00:46:15.73\00:46:19.06
IT LOOKS HOPELESS, BUT
GOD FIGHTS FOR HIS PEOPLE.
00:46:19.06\00:46:23.23
NOW I'LL SAY MORE
ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:46:23.23\00:46:26.40
WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN
TO THE WORD ARMAGEDDON YET.
00:46:26.40\00:46:28.90
GO WITH ME NOW TO
REVELATION 16:15, "BEHOLD I AM
00:46:28.90\00:46:35.96
COMING AS A THIEF.
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BLESSED IS HE WHO WATCHES AND
KEEPS HIS GARMENTS, LEST HE WALK
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NAKED AND THEY SEE HIS SHAME."
00:46:41.86\00:46:43.86
CHRIST IS ISSUING A WARNING
FOR YOU AND FOR ME AND FOR
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THE CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:46:46.33\00:46:47.86
HE SAID, "I'M COMING
SOON, IT WILL BE A SURPRISED.
00:46:47.86\00:46:49.83
DON'T GET LAZY BECAUSE YOU THINK
YOU'VE GOT TIME AND START TO
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BESMIRCH YOUR
GARMENTS, YOUR WEDDING GARMENT.
00:46:55.26\00:46:58.40
KEEP THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST
ON YOU BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU'LL
00:46:58.40\00:47:03.40
BE CAUGHT UNPREPARED."
00:47:03.40\00:47:05.23
NOW MANY PEOPLE THINK COMING
LIKE A THIEF, THAT'S A SECRET
00:47:05.23\00:47:07.33
RAPTURE.
00:47:07.33\00:47:08.33
THAT JUST MEANS IT'S A SURPRISE
WHEN JESUS COMES AS A THIEF,
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IT TELLS YOU HOW THAT HAPPENS.
00:47:11.86\00:47:13.40
THE WHOLE 2
PETER 3:10, I BELIEVE.
00:47:13.40\00:47:18.03
"THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME
AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT IN WHICH
00:47:18.03\00:47:20.90
THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY WITH
A GREAT NOISE AND THE ELEMENTS
00:47:20.90\00:47:24.60
WILL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT.
00:47:24.60\00:47:26.56
BOTH THE EARTH AND THE WORKS
THAT ARE IN IT ARE BURNED UP."
00:47:26.56\00:47:29.36
WHEN THE LORD COMES AS A THIEF,
DOES THE LIFE GO ON FOR 7 MORE
00:47:29.36\00:47:32.06
YEARS OF TRIBULATION, OR IS
THAT THE END OF THE TRIBULATION?
00:47:32.06\00:47:35.20
WHEN THE LORD COMES
AS A THIEF, THAT'S IT.
00:47:35.20\00:47:39.70
1 THESSALONIANS 5:2, "FOR YOU
YOURSELVES KNOW PERFECTLY THAT
00:47:39.70\00:47:43.73
THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL SO COME
AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT FOR WHEN
00:47:43.73\00:47:46.86
THEY SAY PEACE AND SAFETY, THEN
SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMES UPON
00:47:46.86\00:47:50.60
THEM AS LABOR PAINS UPON A
PREGNANT WOMAN AND THEY SHALL
00:47:50.60\00:47:53.93
NOT ESCAPE.
00:47:53.93\00:47:55.60
BUT BRETHREN, YOU ARE NOT IN
DARKNESS THAT THAT DAY SHOULD
00:47:55.60\00:47:59.50
OVERTAKE YOU AS A THIEF."
00:47:59.50\00:48:01.16
GOD DOES NOT WANT YOU
TO BE CAUGHT LIKE A THIEF.
00:48:01.16\00:48:04.16
HE WANTS YOU TO BE AWAKE.
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HE WANTS YOU TO BE READY
AND ALERT WHEN IT HAPPENS.
00:48:05.53\00:48:08.33
HE'S GIVING YOU WARNINGS IN
HIS WORD AND SO WE SHOULD BE
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WATCHING.
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REVELATION 3:3 JESUS SAID,
"REMEMBER THEREFORE HOW YOU'VE
00:48:14.76\00:48:17.70
RECEIVED AND HEARD.
00:48:17.70\00:48:19.03
HOLDFAST AND REPENT.
00:48:19.03\00:48:20.60
THEREFORE IF YOU WILL NOT WATCH,
I'LL COME UPON YOU AS A THIEF."
00:48:20.60\00:48:24.43
MEANING IF YOU DO WATCH,
YOU WON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN
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IT HAPPENS.
00:48:26.70\00:48:28.26
SO WE'VE GOTTA BE WATCHING,
THAT'S WHY I'M PREACHING
00:48:28.26\00:48:30.13
A MESSAGE LIKE THIS, GIVING YOU
ADVANCED WARNING SO WE CAN BE
00:48:30.13\00:48:33.40
READY WHEN IT HAPPENS.
00:48:33.40\00:48:36.13
"IF YOU DON'T WATCH, I'LL COME
AS A THIEF AND YOU'LL NOT KNOW
00:48:36.13\00:48:38.63
WHAT HOUR I WILL COME."
00:48:38.63\00:48:40.73
IF YOU DO WATCH, IT'S IMPLIED
YOU WILL KNOW WHEN HE'S COMING.
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NO MAN WILL KNOW THE DAY
AND THE HOUR, BUT YOU'LL KNOW.
00:48:44.93\00:48:47.80
REVELATION 16:16, "AND
THEY GATHERED THEM TOGETHER TO
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A PLACE CALLED IN THE
HEBREW TONGUE ARMAGEDDON."
00:48:53.43\00:48:57.03
NOW HERE IS THE REAL CONUNDRUM,
YOU CAN'T COMPARE THIS WORD
00:48:57.03\00:49:01.50
REALLY WITH ANOTHER USE OF THE
WORD IN THE BIBLE 'CAUSE IT'S
00:49:01.50\00:49:04.73
THE ONLY TIME THE WORD APPEARS
IN GREEK LITERATURE ANYWHERE.
00:49:04.73\00:49:08.23
AT LEAST THEY HAVEN'T FOUND
ANYTHING YET, AND IT DOESN'T
00:49:08.23\00:49:11.06
REALLY APPEAR AS
THIS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:49:11.06\00:49:13.93
HERE YOU'VE GOT A JEWISH
WRITER, JOHN, HE'S AN OLD MAN.
00:49:13.93\00:49:18.43
HE MOSTLY SPEAKS ARAMAIC.
00:49:18.43\00:49:20.93
HE'S IN PRISON BY THE ROMANS, A
LATIN COUNTRY ON A ROMAN ISLAND.
00:49:20.93\00:49:25.83
AND WHEN HE WROTE IT OUT,
THE BEST THEY CAN FIGURE IT HAS
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SOMETHING TO DO WITH
THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO.
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HAR MEANS HILL OF MEGIDDO
AND SO BUT THAT WAS REALLY
00:49:31.23\00:49:36.70
EITHER MOUNT TABOR.
00:49:36.70\00:49:37.86
IT'S A CONFUSING PHRASE AND
EVERYONE TRIES TO POINT ON A MAP
00:49:37.86\00:49:41.10
WHERE IS THIS BATTLE.
00:49:41.10\00:49:42.40
THEY'RE GATHERED TO
THIS PLACE CALLED ARMAGEDDON.
00:49:42.40\00:49:45.46
NOW WHAT DID I TELL YOU
ABOUT NAMES IN THE BIBLE?
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ARE THE NAMES
LITERAL OR SPIRITUAL?
00:49:47.83\00:49:51.23
THEY'RE SPIRITUAL AND SYMBOLIC
SO WHEN YOU READ ARMAGEDDON,
00:49:51.23\00:49:54.16
YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW WHERE
IN THE BIBLE DOES THIS POINT?
00:49:54.16\00:49:57.83
IF IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE
VALLEY OF MEGIDDO, THAT'S FINE.
00:49:57.83\00:50:01.80
THERE ARE THREE STORIES IN THE
BIBLE THAT HELP US UNDERSTAND
00:50:01.80\00:50:05.50
THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
00:50:05.50\00:50:08.93
JUDGES 4, GIVE IT TO YOU
QUICKLY, YOU CAN READ IT WHEN
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YOU GO HOME AND 5.
00:50:11.36\00:50:13.73
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD WANDERED
FROM GOD, THEY WERE OPPRESSED
00:50:13.73\00:50:15.83
FOR 20 YEARS BY PAGAN COUNTRY.
00:50:15.83\00:50:18.83
THE CANAANITES AND FINALLY GOD
ROSE UP A PROPHETESS BY THE NAME
00:50:18.83\00:50:24.66
OF DEBORAH.
00:50:24.66\00:50:26.30
DEBORAH CALLED FOR BARAK.
00:50:26.30\00:50:28.26
HE SAID GATHER ALL THE PEOPLE
TOGETHER AT MOUNT TABOR AND THEY
00:50:28.26\00:50:31.20
FOUGHT WITH THE
GENERAL NAMED SISERA.
00:50:31.20\00:50:35.13
THEY HAD 900 IRON CHARIOTS.
00:50:35.13\00:50:37.80
IT'S LIKE 900 ABRAM TANKS TODAY.
00:50:37.80\00:50:41.13
THEY HAD A MASSIVE ARMY.
00:50:41.13\00:50:42.06
THERE WAS NO WAY THAT
THEY COULD DEFEAT 'EM.
00:50:42.06\00:50:43.63
THEY HAD BEEN
OPPRESSED FOR YEARS.
00:50:43.63\00:50:45.06
ALL OF THE ISRAELITES HAVE
IS, YOU KNOW, GARDEN SHOVELS
00:50:45.06\00:50:49.03
AND THINGS TO FIGHT
WITH, PRUNING HOOKS.
00:50:49.03\00:50:51.86
AND SHE SAYS,
"GOD'S GONNA BE WITH YOU."
00:50:51.86\00:50:54.13
HE SAID, "IF YOU
GO WITH ME, I'LL GO."
00:50:54.13\00:50:55.36
SHE SAID, "I'LL GO WITH YOU, BUT
YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET THE CREDIT.
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THE CREDIT'S
GONNA GO TO A WOMAN."
00:50:57.56\00:51:00.53
NOT ONLY DID THE CREDIT GO TO
A WOMAN, DEBORAH, BUT THE CREDIT
00:51:00.53\00:51:03.06
WENT TO ANOTHER WOMAN NAMED JAEL
BECAUSE WHEN THE ISRAELITES TOOK
00:51:03.06\00:51:06.66
ON THE CANAANITES IN THE VALLEY
OF MEGIDDO, THEY WERE CONQUERED.
00:51:06.66\00:51:13.36
THEY WERE ROUTED.
00:51:13.36\00:51:14.10
AND AS THEY FLED, THEIR
CHARIOTS GOT STUCK IN THE MIRE.
00:51:14.10\00:51:16.80
IT HAD RAINED EVIDENTLY
AND SISERA GOT OFF AND HE FLED
00:51:16.80\00:51:19.83
AND HE FOUND A TENT OF THE
KANANITES WHICH WERE SORT OF
00:51:19.83\00:51:24.60
A NEUTRAL PEOPLE.
00:51:24.60\00:51:25.66
AND HE SAID, "LOOK, YOU
KNOW YOU'RE NOT AN ISRAELITE.
00:51:25.66\00:51:27.93
YOU'RE NOT ONE OF US, BUT WILL
YOU SHOW ME SANCTUARY, HIDE ME."
00:51:27.93\00:51:30.76
SO THE GENERAL HIDES UNDERNEATH
THIS RUG AND SHE ENDS UP
00:51:30.76\00:51:34.03
PIERCING HIS EAR WHILE HE SLEPT
EXCEPT SHE WENT A LITTLE TOO FAR
00:51:34.03\00:51:40.56
AND KILLED HIM.
00:51:40.56\00:51:42.03
AND HE--SO SHE GOT
CREDIT FOR DESTROYING THE ARMY.
00:51:42.03\00:51:46.50
THEN YOU'VE GOT THE STORY OF
GIDEON, NOW THIS IS ESPECIALLY
00:51:46.50\00:51:52.73
INTERESTING WHEN YOU
STUDY THE WORD OF ARMAGEDDON.
00:51:52.73\00:51:57.63
THEY WERE
COMPLETELY OUTNUMBERED.
00:51:57.63\00:51:59.63
ANOTHER BATTLE IN
THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO.
00:51:59.63\00:52:01.96
WHEN YOU READ IN JUDGES
7:2, SEVERAL TIMES IT SAYS GOD
00:52:01.96\00:52:09.90
SPOKE TO GIDEON AND
IT'S YEHOVAH AMAR GID'OWN.
00:52:09.90\00:52:14.73
YOU GOT THAT?
00:52:14.73\00:52:16.40
SPOKE TO GIDEON, AND
THAT'S VERY SIMILAR TO THE WORD
00:52:16.40\00:52:21.60
"ARMAGEDDON."
00:52:21.60\00:52:23.06
NOW IN THE STORY OF GIDEON,
YOU'VE GOT THE SAME THING YOU
00:52:23.06\00:52:25.53
HAVE IN REVELATION.
00:52:25.53\00:52:26.80
THERE WAS A THREE-FOLD POWER,
THE MIDIANITES, THE AMALEKITES,
00:52:26.80\00:52:31.46
THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST
GATHERED AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE
00:52:31.46\00:52:34.26
AND OPPRESSED THEM.
00:52:34.26\00:52:35.43
ALL GIDEON HAD
WAS 300 MEN, AGAIN, 3.
00:52:35.43\00:52:39.10
HE DIVIDED THEM
INTO THREE COMPANIES.
00:52:39.10\00:52:41.26
THEY WERE ALL GIVEN THREE
THINGS, GIVEN A TRUMPET, GIVEN
00:52:41.26\00:52:45.36
A PITCHER AND THEY HAD A SWORD.
00:52:45.36\00:52:47.33
ALL SYMBOLS OF THE WORD.
00:52:47.33\00:52:49.13
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE, LIFT
UP YOUR VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET,
00:52:49.13\00:52:51.86
THE WORD OF GOD IS
SHARPER THAN A TWO-EDGED SWORD.
00:52:51.86\00:52:54.33
AND AT THE RIGHT MOMENT, THEY
BROKE THE PITCHERS, THE LIGHT
00:52:54.33\00:52:56.50
SHINED, THEY BLEW THE TRUMPET,
THEY WAVED THEIR SWORDS AND THEY
00:52:56.50\00:52:59.16
SHOUTED.
00:52:59.16\00:53:00.06
NOW WHAT DID THE ENEMY DO?
00:53:00.06\00:53:01.80
THEY WOKE UP IN DISARRAY
AND CONFUSION CONFOUNDED BY
00:53:01.80\00:53:05.43
THE NOISE, THE BLARING TRUMPETS.
00:53:05.43\00:53:07.13
THEY SAW THE
LIGHTS AROUND THE HILL.
00:53:07.13\00:53:08.76
THEY THOUGHT THERE WAS THIS VAST
ARMY, AND THEY ALL TURNED ON
00:53:08.76\00:53:12.66
EACH OTHER AND SELF-DESTRUCTED.
00:53:12.66\00:53:16.93
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IN THE END.
00:53:16.93\00:53:19.76
GOD FIGHTS FOR US FROM HEAVEN
IN THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
00:53:19.76\00:53:24.00
THE BIBLE TELLS US CHRIST COMES.
00:53:24.00\00:53:26.93
MATTER OF FACT, THAT'S THE
SEVENTH PLAGUE IS JESUS COMING.
00:53:26.93\00:53:37.40
FINAL THING, FRIENDS, I JUST
WANT TO GO BACK TO REVELATION.
00:53:37.40\00:53:41.46
I'M JUST GONNA READ IT TO
YOU SO I CAN TIE OFF THIS,
00:53:41.46\00:53:43.73
THIS SEVENTH BOWL.
00:53:43.73\00:53:45.93
I READ ABOUT
WHAT ARMAGEDDON MEANS.
00:53:45.93\00:53:48.40
ARMAGEDDON IS TALKING ABOUT--OH,
YOU KNOW I KNEW I WAS FORGETTING
00:53:48.40\00:53:51.26
SOMETHING.
00:53:51.26\00:53:52.16
THERE'S A THIRD
STORY ABOUT ARMAGEDDON.
00:53:52.16\00:53:54.53
THE FAVORITE YOUNG KING, HE WAS
IN HIS 30s RIGHT ABOUT THE AGE
00:53:54.53\00:53:58.10
OF CHRIST NAMED JOSIAH.
00:53:58.10\00:54:02.03
HE DIES IN THE VALLEY OF
MEGIDDO DEFENDING GOD'S PEOPLE.
00:54:02.03\00:54:08.83
AND SO WHENEVER YOU SAY
THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO TO
00:54:08.83\00:54:12.10
THE ISRAELITES, IT TALKS
ABOUT A KING THEY LOVED WHO
00:54:12.10\00:54:14.70
SACRIFICED HIMSELF.
00:54:14.70\00:54:17.16
YOU WITH ME?
00:54:17.16\00:54:18.16
IT TALKS ABOUT BATTLES THAT ARE
WON WHEN GOD FOUGHT FOR THEM IN
00:54:18.16\00:54:22.26
A MIRACULOUS WAY.
00:54:22.26\00:54:23.90
AND SO WHEN IT SAYS
THEY'RE GATHERED TOGETHER LIKE
00:54:23.90\00:54:26.53
THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT,
THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO, IT LOOKS
00:54:26.53\00:54:29.93
HOPELESS, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE
GOING TO BE DESTROYED BUT AT THE
00:54:29.93\00:54:32.86
LAST MINUTE, GOD
FIGHTS FOR US, AMEN?
00:54:32.86\00:54:35.63
ALL THE FORCES OF THE WORLD ARE
GONNA BE GATHERED AGAINST THOSE
00:54:35.63\00:54:38.63
WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS
00:54:38.63\00:54:41.73
IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:54:41.73\00:54:42.43
THAT IS THE
BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
00:54:42.43\00:54:45.23
AND JUST WHEN THEY'RE GETTING
READY TO LAUNCH THE BATTLE
00:54:45.23\00:54:46.83
AGAINST US, THE REAL
FORCES COME FROM OVER THE HILL.
00:54:46.83\00:54:50.43
YOU EVER SEEN THESE STORIES
BEFORE WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT LOOKS
00:54:50.43\00:54:53.06
LIKE THIS LITTLE TROOP IS
COMPLETELY OUTNUMBERED AND
00:54:53.06\00:54:56.00
THEY'RE SURROUNDED AND
IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S ALL OVER.
00:54:56.00\00:54:59.16
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU HEAR
IN THE DISTANCE, A TRUMPET...
00:54:59.16\00:55:04.60
AND THE CALVARY COMES RIDING
OVER THE HILL JUST LIKE A WAVE,
00:55:04.60\00:55:08.03
AND THEY COME TO THE RESCUE AND
THAT'S WHAT IT'S GONNA BE LIKE.
00:55:08.03\00:55:11.36
IT'S GONNA BE THE GREAT RESCUE.
00:55:11.36\00:55:12.70
AND YOU KNOW WHO'S
GONNA BE LEADING THAT CALVARY
00:55:12.70\00:55:14.76
FROM HEAVEN?
00:55:14.76\00:55:16.33
JESUS IS GONNA COME RIDING.
00:55:16.33\00:55:18.40
THAT'S WHEN HE COMES RIDING ON
THE WHITE HORSE WEARING HIS RED
00:55:18.40\00:55:20.90
GARMENT SAYING THE WORD OF GOD
WITH A SWORD COMING OUT OF HIS
00:55:20.90\00:55:23.76
MOUTH AND HE COMES
TO DELIVER HIS PEOPLE.
00:55:23.76\00:55:27.13
AND THAT'S WHEN THE WICKED FLEE
FROM HIS PRESENCE AND RUN AND
00:55:27.13\00:55:29.66
CALL FOR THE ROCKS AND
MOUNTAINS TO FALL ON THEM.
00:55:29.66\00:55:32.00
SO I SAID I WAS GONNA
READ TO YOU THE SEVENTH PLAGUE.
00:55:32.00\00:55:36.36
VERSE 17, "THE SEVENTH ANGEL
POURED OUT HIS BOWL INTO THE AIR
00:55:36.36\00:55:40.73
AND A LOUD VOICE CAME OUT OF THE
TEMPLE OF HEAVEN FROM THE THRONE
00:55:40.73\00:55:44.46
SAYING, 'IT IS DONE.'"
THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID ON
00:55:44.46\00:55:47.16
THE CROSS.
00:55:47.16\00:55:48.30
"AND THERE WERE NOISES AND
THUNDERINGS AND LIGHTNINGS AND
00:55:48.30\00:55:52.26
THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE,
SUCH A MIGHTY EARTHQUAKE AND SO
00:55:52.26\00:55:56.36
GREAT THAT NO RICHTER
SCALE COULD MEASURE IT."
00:55:56.36\00:55:59.16
I THREW THAT IN.
00:55:59.16\00:56:00.83
AND IT SAYS, "NEVER OCCURRED
SINCE MEN WERE ON THE EARTH."
00:56:00.83\00:56:04.23
THAT GREAT CITY WAS DIVIDED IN
THREE PARTS JUST LIKE THE FORCES
00:56:04.23\00:56:08.40
IN THE STORY OF GIDEON.
00:56:08.40\00:56:10.13
"AND GREAT BABYLON WAS
REMEMBERED BEFORE GOD."
00:56:10.13\00:56:13.16
IS THAT LITERAL OR
SPIRITUAL BABYLON THERE?
00:56:13.16\00:56:16.13
SPIRITUAL BABYLON, YEAH.
00:56:16.13\00:56:17.76
"TO GIVE UP THE CUP OF THE WINE
OF THE FIERCENESS OF HIS WRATH.
00:56:17.76\00:56:21.50
THEN EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY AND
THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND."
00:56:21.50\00:56:25.43
SO IF YOU'RE PART OF THE COUNTRY
LIVING CLASS, DON'T MOVE TO
00:56:25.43\00:56:27.46
KAUAI.
00:56:27.46\00:56:30.36
"AND GREAT HAIL FROM HEAVEN FELL
UPON MEN, EVERY HAILSTONE ABOUT
00:56:30.36\00:56:35.33
THE WEIGHT OF A
TALENT, 75 POUNDS."
00:56:35.33\00:56:38.40
AND THEN BLASPHEME GOD
BECAUSE THE PLAGUE OF HAIL WAS
00:56:38.40\00:56:41.00
VERY GREAT.
00:56:41.00\00:56:41.66
THIS IS THE FINAL HAIL IT TALKS
ABOUT, THE COMING OF CHRIST
00:56:41.66\00:56:44.00
WHERE JESUS
COMES AND RAPTURES UP.
00:56:44.00\00:56:45.90
I DON'T MEAN TO USE THAT
WORD "RAPTURE" LIKE IN SECRET
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RAPTURE, BUT THEY'RE CAUGHT UP
TO MEET HIM IN THE AIR AND THIS
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IS THE SECOND COMING.
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SO THIS IS WHAT WE'VE GOT
BEFORE US, I BELIEVE, FRIENDS.
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WE NEED TO CONTINUE
STUDYING THESE THINGS.
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BELIEVE ME, I'M
NOT THE LAST WORD.
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I KNOW I DON'T UNDERSTAND
IT ALL, BUT I WANT YOU TO
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UNDERSTAND WHAT I THINK I DO
UNDERSTAND AND TO BE PREPARED.
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ONE THING I WANT YOU TO KNOW IS
IN SPITE OF WHAT'S COMING, YOU
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DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID.
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DON'T HAVE TO BE
AFRAID OF THE PLAGUES.
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GOD MAKES A PROMISE IN HIS WORD.
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YOU'VE READ THIS BEFORE.
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WE'VE READ IT TO
YOU IN RECENT WEEKS.
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PSALM 91:9-10, "BECAUSE YOU'VE
MADE THE LORD, WHO IS MY REFUGE,
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EVEN THE MOST HIGH, YOUR
DWELLING PLACE, NO EVIL WILL
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BEFALL YOU, NEITHER SHALL ANY
PLAGUE COME NEAR YOUR DWELLING."
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NOTICE REVELATION 15:2,
"AND I SAW SOMETHING LIKE A
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SEA OF GLASS MINGLED WITH FIRE.
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AND THOSE WHO HAVE THE VICTORY
OVER THE BEAST, OVER HIS IMAGE
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AND OVER THE MARK AND NUMBER OF
HIS NAME STANDING ON THE SEA OF
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GLASS HAVING HARPS."
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SOMEONE'S GONNA BE ON
THAT SEA OF GLASS WHO ESCAPES
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THE PLAGUES, THAT CAN BE YOU.
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I WANT TO BE ONE OF
THOSE PEOPLE, DON'T YOU?
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