Will God send one final message
before the end of the world
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to get human beings ready
for the return of Jesus Christ?
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You are about to find
out on His Voice Today.
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Welcome to
another His Voice Today
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with Steve Wohlberg.
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Human history is checkered
with great discoveries.
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In the year 1492,
Columbus discovered America.
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In the year 1947, there was
a young Bedouin shepherd boy
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out in the Middle
East near the Dead Sea,
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and he was
throwing rocks into caves,
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and he heard a clink sound
and that led to the discovery
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of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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In the year 1985, there was
a group of French Researchers
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on a ship way out
in the Atlantic ocean,
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they were closely
monitoring the ocean floor
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with very
sophisticated video equipment,
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and lo and behold,
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as they were
looking into the monitor
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one night, they saw
these words materialize
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on the side of the
wreckage of a ship,
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and it was SS Titanic.
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The discovery
went from ship to shore
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and then from shore to
shore all around the world.
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Great discoveries...
but believe it or not,
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there is a greater discovery
that lies waiting for us
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in the waters
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of God's last book,
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which is the book of Revelation,
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the deep waters of God's truth
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and it is the message
of the three angels...
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three angels' messages
which we're told, in Revelation,
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have been specifically sent
by God to prepare human beings
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for the return of Jesus Christ.
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Revelation
chapter 14 verses 6 to 12
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contain these powerful messages
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and I'll just
read them right now
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just by way of
introduction and overview...
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and then we'll go a
little bit more carefully
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into the details
in a little while.
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Hold on to your
seats and listen to this.
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Revelation 14
verse 6, the Bible says:
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In verse 8 we have the
Second Angel's message.
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Verse 9 to 12 contains the
message of the Third Angel.
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Those are the three angels'
messages in Revelation 14
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and when you look
at verses 14, 15 and 16
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which follow right after,
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it tells us that right after
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these messages
sound out to the world,
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this is followed
by the great event
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of the return of Jesus Christ.
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Verse 14 says:
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So, in Revelation
14, we have three angels,
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that send messages
to the whole world,
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and in verses 14, 15 and 16,
we have a powerful description
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of the final
return of Jesus Christ
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in the clouds of heaven.
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So, three
angels... return of Jesus.
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And this is
God's way of telling us
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that He is
sending these messages
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to help people to
understand the issues
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and to get ready for
the return of His Son.
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It makes sense,
if you think about it
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that God would send
a special final message
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to His world before the end
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because He always
sends messages to humanity
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before any major event
that happens in human history.
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In the days of Noah,
God looked upon the world
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and He knew that it was wicked
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and it was time
for a cleansing flood
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to wash wickedness
away from His planet
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and so God raised
up a man named Noah
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and He gave him a special
message about building an ark
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and calling people to get in
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to that ark before
the water came down.
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When Jesus Christ was born,
many hundreds of years later
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in fulfillment of Bible prophecy
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God sent angels to
announce to shepherds
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that in Bethlehem, the baby...
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the baby of all
babies had been born
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and that baby
was Christ the Lord.
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When Jesus Christ
began His public ministry,
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he raised up a man
named John the Baptist
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and John the Baptist was called
by God to give a special message
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to announce the
coming of the Messiah.
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We read about this in Mark
chapter 1... it's very clear
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that God had a
messenger with a message.
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Mark chapter 1 verse 1 says:
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And then verse 4 and onward
talks about John the Baptist
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and God raised up a
man with a special message
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to announce that the
Messiah finally had come
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to appear in a public
ministry to the world.
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The greatest event of all
events was when Jesus Christ
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the Messiah, heaven-sent Savior
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finally gave His
life upon the cross,
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He died on the cross,
He said, "It is finished"
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and then on the third
day He rose from the dead
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on the day of Pentecost,
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the Holy Spirit
came down with power
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upon the early Christian church
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and the disciples
went out with a message
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a powerful message
which lightened the world
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in those days, that
the Messiah had come
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that Jesus Christ had died
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and that He had
risen from the dead
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and that He was,
indeed, the Savior of the world.
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Two thousand
years have come and gone
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since the days
of John the Baptist
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and the days of Jesus Christ,
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Jesus is up in heaven
and we are not far away
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from the day when He will return
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and when you study the
book of Revelation carefully
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it's very clear that
the second coming of Jesus
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is a big event
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and God wants people to
get ready for this event
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just like He
raised up John the Baptist
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to announce the
first coming of Christ
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to give a special
message, so He has sent
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in Revelation 14
three angels' messages
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with special information
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that human beings need to know
to help them to avoid deception,
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help them to avoid
Babylon and the beast
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and the mark and
help them to get ready
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for the return of
Jesus when He comes
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in the clouds of glory,
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this is what Revelation
chapter 14 is all about...
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the sending of
God's special message.
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Now, let's go back
to the days of Noah,
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and let's look at the parallels
because Jesus, in Matthew 24,
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specifically said that
what happened in Noah's day
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would be very
similar to what will happen
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at the end of the world.
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In Genesis chapter 6,
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we find the Lord
looking down upon His world,
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and it was a sad sight.
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He saw that life was
a lot different from the
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days of the Garden of Eden
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when Adam and Eve
were first created,
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when the animals
were all friendly,
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and human beings were pure.
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After Adam and Eve
sinned, humans multiplied
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and history...
fallen human history...
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our world...
onward... in Genesis chapter 6
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in verse 5 we find that
God looked upon the earth:
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Can you imagine... God's
crowning work of creation
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had strayed so
far away from Him,
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human beings were so reflecting
the image of the devil
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instead of the image of God,
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that the Lord looked at man
and said, "Enough is enough,"
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there is just too much sin,
I have to wipe the earth clean
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from humanity's wickedness,
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but thankfully in
verse 8 the Bible says that
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there was a man named Noah,
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and it says that Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord.
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God found a man, and
this man was a faithful man
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and He raised him up
and He gave him a special
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message to help people...
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at least those that
were willing to listen
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to get ready for the big event
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which was... the flood.
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In verse 14, Genesis 6 verse 14,
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God gave Noah special
instruction about what to do.
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He told him to make an ark,
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God said, "Make an
ark of gopher wood"
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and He gave him the
dimensions of the ark...
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the length, the
breadth, the width of the ark,
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and in verse 16...
this is very interesting,
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verse 16 says that the
ark was to be made up of
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three different stories,
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"there was a lower, a second and
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third stories, you
shall make of it. "
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A three-story ark
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that God told him to
make in the days of Noah.
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Now, if you think about it,
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God didn't tell Noah to make
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five boats or ten boats,
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He didn't tell Noah to give
a message to people and say,
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"Pick a boat,
whichever boat you like...
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that's the boat
that you can get in. "
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No, how many boats were
there in the days of Noah?
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The answer is obvious,
there was only one boat
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and that was the boat
that Noah was building.
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I'm sure he had
friends, people that...
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before the flood
hit that helped him
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his family helped
him, his sons helped him,
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and they built and built
for a hundred and twenty years,
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finally at the end
of those 120 years,
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the Bible tells us
in verse 17 and 18,
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that it was almost
time for the flood to come
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and God gave
instructions about what to do.
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Verse 17 says,
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"Behold, I, even I, do
bring a flood of waters
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upon the earth,
to destroy all flesh,
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wherein is the breath
of life, from under heaven;
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and every thing that
is in the earth shall die.
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But with you I will
establish my covenant;
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and you shall come into the ark,
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you and your
sons, and your wife,
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and your sons' wives with you. "
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So God gave Noah
a special message
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and He said,
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"When you're done
building this boat,
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I want you to call
as many who are willing
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to get into the ark.
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Sadly, only eight people got in
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and a vast
majority of the people
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that watched Noah build
that ark for a 120 years,
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and heard him preach and
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heard the sound of the
hammer hitting the nail,
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hitting the nails day
after day, year after year,
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their hearts were hardened
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and when the Holy Spirit
spoke to them... one last time,
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and said, "This is
it, now is the time,
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now is the time to get
into the one three-story ark
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because the
flood's about to come. "
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Sadly, the majority of people...
they rejected the call,
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and they didn't want to get in,
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and when Noah and
his family entered,
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the Bible says that the
door of the ark finally closed
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seven days went by,
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and then the rain
began to come down,
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the water hit and then
everybody changed their mind
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they realized
that Noah was right,
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he wasn't just a crazy
old lunatic with a wild idea
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but he really
was God's messenger
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with God's message, and...
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by that time, it was too late
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and there was no way to get in
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because the door had been closed
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and it was closed for good
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and so the water
continued to come down
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and then finally
all the worldly-wise men
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and all the mockers
and all the scoffers
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and all the people that laughed
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and everyone thought he was
just a crazy deluded fanatic,
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eventually they ended up
under water and they died
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and God cleansed His world
with the waters of the flood.
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Now, the Bible story of
what happened in Noah's day
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is not just history,
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it's just not academic history
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for us to just enjoy and tell
our children about the story
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of Noah and the ark,
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but when we look
at the New Testament,
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you look at the book of Matthew,
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Jesus made a profound statement.
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In Matthew
chapter 24 verses 36 to 39
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in reference to His return,
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Jesus said, "But
of that day and hour
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knoweth no man, no
not the angels of heaven,
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but my Father only.
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But as the days of Noah
were," back in the past...
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"so shall also the coming of
the Son of Man be" in the future
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"For as in the days
that were before the flood,
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they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage,
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until the day that
Noah entered into the ark,
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and they knew not
until the flood came
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and took them all away,"
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and then Jesus
gives His punch line...
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He said, "so shall also the
coming of the Son of Man be"
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so shall also the
coming of the Son of Man be.
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In other words,
according to Jesus Christ
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there is going to
be a perfect parallel
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between what
happened in Noah's day
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and what will happen
at the end of the world
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when Jesus Christ returns.
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In Noah's day,
the world was wicked,
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in our day, the world is wicked.
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In Noah's day, God saw
that an end was coming,
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as God looks upon
the world right now,
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He sees that
another end is coming.
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In Noah's day,
God raised up a man,
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and He gave him a message,
He told him to build a boat,
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that had three
stories... a three-story ark...
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and He called people
to come in to that boat
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to be protected from
the water when it came down.
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And it's the same in
the book of Revelation
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chapter 14 verses 6
to 12 we find messages
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very clearly...
messages of three angels
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instead of a three-story
boat, it's a three-story message
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and that message is designed,
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instead of preparing people
for the time of the water,
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when the flood hits,
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the three angels'
messages are sent by God
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to prepare human beings
for the great apocalypse,
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for the grand finale, for
the return of Jesus Christ
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in the clouds of heaven,
and to help us to understand
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what the issues are so
we can be on God's side
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and not on the side of the enemy
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when the final crisis hits.
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So, let's go back to
Revelation chapter 14
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and let's take a closer
look at these three angels,
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and as we go on into future
programs on His Voice Today,
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we'll go deeper and
we'll look even more closely
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at these messages.
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But let's get a brief...
again... a brief overview
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and look at a few more details.
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In verse 6 the Bible
says, "I saw another angel"
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now the word "angel" in
the Greek... it's "angelos"
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which is... can
literally be translated
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"Messenger" and it's significant
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that it's the
same word that's used
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in Mark chapter 1 in
reference to John the Baptist,
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when the Bible says,
"Behold, I send my messenger
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the word is "angelos,"
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John the Baptist was a
messenger with a message
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to get people ready for
the first coming of Christ
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when the Messiah came
and in Revelation 14:6
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we have another "angelos"
another messenger with a message
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and he's seen flying
in the midst of heaven
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which means he's center stage
right in the middle of heaven
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and he has the
everlasting gospel
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which we'll talk more
about in our next program.
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The everlasting good news,
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to preach to them
that dwell upon the earth
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to every nation,
tribe, tongue and people,
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in other words...
this message is to go
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to the whole world...
it's a special burst...
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of final good news to the planet
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before the end comes.
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In verse 7, the angel
says with a loud voice,
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"Fear God, and
give glory to Him;
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for the hour of His judgment
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is come:"
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we'll talk about
that in the next program
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the hour of judgment...
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God says that
we're in a special time
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"the hour of His
judgment is come"
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and then it says,
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"and worship Him that made
heaven, and earth, and the sea,
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and the fountains of
waters," there's a special call
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to worship the
Creator of heaven and earth.
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And then verse 8 goes
into the second angel,
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and it's a warning...
a warning about something
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mysterious called "Babylon. "
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Verse 8 says, "there
followed another angel,
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and he said, 'Babylon
is fallen, is fallen'"
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is fallen away from God...
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"that great city, because
she made all the nations... "
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the whole world is
involved in this deception,
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"all nations drink
of the wine of the wrath
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of her fornication. "
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So, verse 6 and 7
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goes out to all the
world announcing the gospel
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and that we're
living in the judgment time
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and that we need
to worship the Creator
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and then verse 8 warns about
Babylon falling away from God
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and deceiving all the nations...
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those same nations
that need the gospel
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are being deceived by
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something called,
"the wine of Babylon"
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and as we'll see later on,
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the "wine of Babylon"
represents the false teachings
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of a
conglomeration of false religion
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that is designed
to lead people away
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from the gospel of Jesus Christ
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and the worship of the
Creator of heaven and earth.
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Verse 9 is the most
solemn warning in the Bible.
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Verses 9, 10 and 11...
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"... the third angel followed
them, with a loud voice,
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and when it says "loud voice"
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God does not want these messages
to be stuck in a corner,
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He doesn't want them to
be given with a whisper,
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He wants them to be heard
loudly all over His planet,
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just like Noah didn't whisper,
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when he said
"the flood is coming"
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Noah gave a very
clear definite warning
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and God wants a
definite warning to be given
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to humanity before
Jesus Christ comes back again.
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The third angel
followed them, saying
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with a loud
voice, "If any man... "
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this applies to the whole world,
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"worships the
beast and his image,
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and receives his mark in
his forehead, or in his hand,
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the same shall drink the
wine of the wrath of God,
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now, here we have two wines,
we have the wine in Babylon,
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those that drank
the wine of Babylon
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which means her false doctrines
and deceptions that lead away
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from the Bible and Jesus,
and if they get the "Mark"
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then they will drink the
wine of the wrath of God.
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I don't want to
drink the wine of Babylon
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and I don't want to drink
the wine of the wrath of God,
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I want to drink into my life
the pure truth of Jesus Christ
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and I hope you do too
00:20:24.25\00:20:26.05
and that's what these
messages are all about.
00:20:26.09\00:20:27.92
"the same shall drink of
the wine of the wrath of God,
00:20:27.96\00:20:31.06
which is poured
out without mixture
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into the cup of His indignation.
00:20:33.40\00:20:35.56
He shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone
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in the presence
of the holy angels
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and in the
presence of the Lamb,"
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when it mentions
the "lamb" there,
00:20:42.64\00:20:43.97
the "lamb" is Jesus
Christ, He is our Savior,
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and what Revelation is doing is
00:20:46.74\00:20:48.58
ultimately it's saying
00:20:48.61\00:20:49.94
that people have
to make a final choice
00:20:49.98\00:20:51.31
between the beast or the lamb.
00:20:51.35\00:20:52.85
I don't want to
follow the beast,
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I want to follow
the lamb don't you?
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If you had a choice
between a beast or a lamb,
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who would you choose?
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God wants us to choose
the lamb representing His Son.
00:21:00.99\00:21:04.53
Verse 11 says, "And
the smoke of their torment
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ascends up for ever and ever:
they have no rest day nor night,
00:21:06.93\00:21:10.47
who worship the
beast and his image,
00:21:10.53\00:21:12.13
and whoever receives
the mark of his name. "
00:21:12.20\00:21:14.87
And then verse 12 is the verse
that describes the safety zone.
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It's describing a final people
who don't follow the beast,
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they don't get the mark,
they're not part of Babylon,
00:21:22.11\00:21:25.58
they're not drinking the wine
00:21:25.61\00:21:26.95
but they are getting
ready for Jesus to come.
00:21:26.98\00:21:29.85
Verse 12 says, "Here is
the patience of the saints;
00:21:29.88\00:21:32.85
here are they that
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus. "
00:21:36.76\00:21:39.26
We'll talk more about
his in future programs
00:21:39.29\00:21:41.93
but God is looking for people
00:21:41.96\00:21:43.73
who believe in
Jesus, who trust in Jesus...
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the word and name "Jesus" is
the last name before the period
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at the end of the
third angel's message,
00:21:50.54\00:21:52.51
He's the
foundation of the message...
00:21:52.54\00:21:53.88
the everlasting gospel,
00:21:53.94\00:21:55.28
He's at the middle of
the message... He is the lamb
00:21:55.31\00:21:57.15
and He is at the
end of the message...
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and that we need to
have faith in Jesus,
00:21:59.75\00:22:02.22
but it also says that
we need to become saints
00:22:02.25\00:22:04.89
who keep the
Commandments of God...
00:22:04.95\00:22:06.79
we need to become moral
people whose lives are changed
00:22:06.86\00:22:09.32
by the grace of Jesus Christ.
00:22:09.36\00:22:11.13
We don't to just talk
and say that we're Christians
00:22:11.16\00:22:13.96
but we want to
really live for Christ
00:22:14.00\00:22:16.77
just like Noah did,
he lived for his God
00:22:16.80\00:22:19.37
and he was
faithful... he prepared an ark
00:22:19.40\00:22:21.87
he gave God's message...
he called people to get in,
00:22:21.90\00:22:24.47
and he was protected
when the water came down
00:22:24.51\00:22:27.34
and God is
going to be protecting
00:22:27.38\00:22:29.98
a final group of people
00:22:30.01\00:22:32.31
during the final
hours of human history,
00:22:32.38\00:22:34.78
who are faithful to
Jesus, who love the Lord,
00:22:34.82\00:22:37.29
who love the Bible,
00:22:37.35\00:22:38.72
who stay away from the doctrines
and deceptions of Babylon,
00:22:38.75\00:22:42.46
who worship the
creator of heaven and earth,
00:22:42.49\00:22:44.76
who want nothing to do
with the beast or the mark
00:22:44.79\00:22:47.76
but who want to
follow Jesus Christ
00:22:47.80\00:22:49.56
and
00:22:49.60\00:22:51.07
the Commandments of God
00:22:51.13\00:22:52.77
as written in the Bible...
00:22:52.80\00:22:54.77
they are the ones
that will be prepared
00:22:54.80\00:22:57.47
for the return of
Jesus in verse 14...
00:22:57.51\00:23:00.11
where it says:
00:23:00.14\00:23:03.61
It's harvest time...
00:23:10.62\00:23:11.95
harvest time... at the end
of the three angels' messages.
00:23:11.99\00:23:16.26
Verse 16 says:
00:23:16.32\00:23:20.36
Jesus is coming...
00:23:25.13\00:23:26.47
I don't know when He's
coming, I'm not a prophet,
00:23:26.50\00:23:28.77
but I know that
one of these days...
00:23:28.80\00:23:30.41
He will come and the Bible
00:23:30.44\00:23:32.34
describes Him
coming with a sharp sickle,
00:23:32.37\00:23:34.31
representing the
harvest where He will separate
00:23:34.34\00:23:38.18
the world into two classes,
00:23:38.21\00:23:40.15
those who follow the beast...
those who follow Babylon...
00:23:40.18\00:23:42.32
those who follow the
doctrines of the devil,
00:23:42.35\00:23:44.05
in contrast,
00:23:44.09\00:23:46.39
we have those who
are His true followers,
00:23:46.42\00:23:47.99
who truly love Him,
00:23:48.02\00:23:49.36
who believe the
good news of the gospel,
00:23:49.39\00:23:50.73
who don't just talk,
but who walk their talk,
00:23:50.76\00:23:53.29
and who have given
their whole lives to Christ.
00:23:53.33\00:23:55.90
They not only believe in Jesus,
00:23:55.93\00:23:58.13
but their belief and
their faith is manifested
00:23:58.17\00:24:01.10
by their works of
obedience to the Lord...
00:24:01.14\00:24:03.74
they love God... and they love
their neighbor as themselves
00:24:03.81\00:24:07.11
as Jesus says we
should do in His Book.
00:24:07.14\00:24:10.91
The three angels' messages...
00:24:10.95\00:24:12.51
they're in the
book of Revelation,
00:24:12.58\00:24:14.12
this is a greater discovery
than the discovery of America,
00:24:14.15\00:24:20.26
than the discovery
of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
00:24:20.29\00:24:22.19
or the discovery of the Titanic
in the waters of the Atlantic...
00:24:22.22\00:24:27.00
this is a Titanic
discovery in God's last Book...
00:24:27.03\00:24:31.33
the message of the three angels.
00:24:31.37\00:24:33.34
I found that a
little bit humorous...
00:24:33.40\00:24:35.34
some time ago
when I read an article
00:24:35.40\00:24:37.31
that came out of
the Associated Press,
00:24:37.37\00:24:38.97
about a swarm of crazy
ants that invaded Houston.
00:24:39.01\00:24:45.05
Here's the article... it
says, "In what sounded like a...
00:24:45.08\00:24:47.18
sounds like a
low-budget horror film,
00:24:47.22\00:24:49.68
voracious swarming ants
that apparently arrived in Texas
00:24:49.72\00:24:53.02
aboard a cargo ship are
invading homes and yards
00:24:53.05\00:24:56.16
across the Houston area,
00:24:56.19\00:24:57.53
they are shorting
out electrical boxes,
00:24:57.56\00:24:59.56
messing up computers,
00:24:59.59\00:25:00.93
the hairy,
reddish-brown creatures
00:25:00.96\00:25:03.06
are known as
'Crazy Rasberry Ants'
00:25:03.10\00:25:05.33
'crazy' because
they wander erratically
00:25:05.37\00:25:07.74
instead of marching
in regimented lines,
00:25:07.80\00:25:10.07
and "Rasberry" after Tom
Rasberry, an exterminator,
00:25:10.11\00:25:13.88
who did battle
with them early on.
00:25:13.91\00:25:16.54
'They are itty, bitty
things, about the size of fleas
00:25:16.58\00:25:19.21
and they're just
running everywhere,'
00:25:19.25\00:25:21.08
said Patsy Morphew of Pearland
00:25:21.12\00:25:24.65
who is constantly
sweeping them off her patio
00:25:24.69\00:25:27.12
and sweeping them out
of her pool by the cupful.
00:25:27.16\00:25:29.52
'There's just thousands and
thousands of them,' she said,
00:25:29.56\00:25:32.49
'they're going fast,
fast, fast, they're crazy... '"
00:25:32.53\00:25:36.16
and then the article
concludes by saying that the
00:25:36.20\00:25:38.87
Texas Department of
Agriculture is working with the
00:25:38.93\00:25:41.57
Environmental
Protection Association
00:25:41.60\00:25:43.87
to stop the ants,
00:25:43.91\00:25:45.47
stop the ants... ants
all around the world...
00:25:45.51\00:25:48.28
as I think about those ants,
00:25:48.34\00:25:49.68
I can't help but
think about the devil
00:25:49.71\00:25:51.51
and his
deceptions and his delusions
00:25:51.55\00:25:53.45
which are all around the world
which have invaded Planet Earth
00:25:53.52\00:25:56.85
which are trying to
distract us and to lead us away
00:25:56.89\00:25:59.69
from the truth of Jesus
Christ and the message of heaven
00:25:59.75\00:26:03.19
to get ready for His return.
00:26:03.22\00:26:04.69
God has a message
that will stop the ants,
00:26:04.73\00:26:07.06
it will stop the Babylonian
delusions of this world
00:26:07.10\00:26:09.83
and the message is the
message of the three angels
00:26:09.86\00:26:13.23
in Revelation 14 verses 6
to 12, designed to prepare us
00:26:13.27\00:26:16.60
for the return of Jesus Christ.
00:26:16.64\00:26:18.27
Just like in Noah's day,
00:26:18.31\00:26:19.64
God had a boat
with three stories
00:26:19.67\00:26:21.44
so in the last days He
has a message of three angels
00:26:21.48\00:26:25.28
to prepare you and me for
the return of Jesus Christ.
00:26:25.31\00:26:29.08
May God help us to
study these messages,
00:26:29.12\00:26:32.15
to discover them,
they're bigger than the Titanic,
00:26:32.19\00:26:34.12
or the Dead Sea
Scrolls or America,
00:26:34.16\00:26:36.39
and through discovering them,
we'll be ready for His return.
00:26:36.42\00:26:39.66
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