The book of Revelation
talks about seven last plagues
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that will soon be
poured out upon the world.
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What are they really all about?
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That's our topic
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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"Armageddon and
the Seven Last Plagues"
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that's our subject.
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Revelation chapter 16 describes
seven final terrible plagues
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that will be
poured out upon the world
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right before the
second coming of Jesus Christ,
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what is this all about,
you'll find out as we move in
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from the Bible.
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If you've got a Bible,
open up to Revelation 16
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verse 1... this is what we read.
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The voice from
heaven said, "Go... "
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"Go your ways, and
pour out the wrath of God. "
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Somebody once
said... we often complain
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that we don't get what we want
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but we should all be thankful
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that none of us has yet
received what we deserve
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and the reality is that this
world is heading for trouble
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and this world deserves...
deserves a lot of justice...
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because God has been
giving mercy for so long...
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so long... for
thousands of years...
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and yet people have
just spurned His love,
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despised His mercy
and have had no interest
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in His... in His
royal plan of salvation
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and so, because of God's mercy
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the plagues have
not yet been poured out
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this voice has not yet
been heard... up in heaven
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saying to the
angels, "Go your ways... "
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I heard a story once
about a university professor,
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he was an
Atheist... he despised God...
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he didn't believe in the Bible,
he didn't believe in Jesus
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and one day, he
looked at his class
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and he said, "Students... "
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he said, "I am
going to prove to you
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that there is no God...
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the idea of God
is just a... a myth,
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it's just a fiction in
people's imaginations... "
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and he said, "What
I'm going to do is this,
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I've got a stopwatch here
and I'm going to push my button
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and it's going to
count out 60 seconds... "
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and when those...
during those 60 seconds... "
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he said, "I'm going to swear...
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I'm going to
blaspheme, I'm going to curse...
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nobody who is up there...
I'm going to curse God...
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and I'm going to
challenge Him and say,
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'God, if you're
really there, strike me dead
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and prove that you
exist'" and he said,
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"Students, you just
watch, nothing will happen
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because there is no God... "
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so, all the
students held their breaths,
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and the university
professor pushed his button
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and for the next 60 seconds...
this man mocked and screamed
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and ranted and raved
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and said everything he
could think of against God...
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and he challenged Him...
"and if you're really there,
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strike me dead and
prove that you exist. "
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Well, at the end of 60
seconds, guess what happened?
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Not a thing...
silence from heaven...
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and so, the man
looked at his class
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and he said, "You see... "
he said, "there's no God... "
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Well, most his
students were just...
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pretty shocked by all of this
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but in the back of the class,
there were two Christians...
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two Christian boys...
and they got into a little...
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quiet conversation
about what they had just seen
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and one of them
said to the other,
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he said, "That fool, that fool,
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he thinks he can wear
out the patience of God
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in only 60 seconds... "
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those students
obviously knew their Bibles,
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because the Bible says that
God is extremely merciful...
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He's patient...
He's longsuffering...
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He's full of
forgiveness and compassion
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and for thousands of years,
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God has been
putting up with an awful lot
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and He's putting
up with a lot now,
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all kinds of crime and
horror and sin and darkness
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and evil... and just...
open rebellion against His Word,
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His love, His
law and His authority
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and He's
continuing to be patient
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but Revelation
chapter 16 tells us
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that one of these days
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God's patience is
finally going to run out.
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After the Mark of
the Beast is enforced
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and everybody
makes their final choice
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and sadly the
majority of the world
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choose the beast
instead of the Lord,
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then, finally,
after so many years,
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finally, the voice of
God is going to be heard
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up in the heavens
to His Holy Angels,
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and that voice will
say, "Go, go your ways...
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and pour out the vials of
the wrath of God upon the earth"
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and so, at that point the
seven last plagues will begin.
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Verse 2 says,
"And the first went,
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and he poured out
his vial upon the earth;
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and there fell a
noisome and grievous sore
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upon the men which
had the mark of the beast,
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and upon them which
worshipped his image. "
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Strange sores are going
to appear on people's bodies,
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they're not going to be measles
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they're not
going to be chickenpox
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they're not going
to be normal rashes
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that people get these days,
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it's not going to be a
form of skin cancer or melanoma,
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this is going to be
a supernatural judgment
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I'm sure it's going to be picked
up by all the major networks
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like CBS, NBC, CNN...
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they're going to
be doing cover stories
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on these strange...
these strange boils and sores
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that are suddenly
showing up on people's bodies,
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the media won't
know what is happening
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but those of us
who know our Bibles...
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we will know that
the plagues have begun.
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Now, notice, when
you look at verse 2...
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it says that this sore comes
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upon those that get
the Mark of the Beast...
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in our previous
"His Voice Today" program
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we spent a
whole... whole section
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talking about the
Mark of the Beast,
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we've actually been building
up, we've had a whole host of
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of programs...
dealing with the issues
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of what the Mark
of the Beast is...
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what it's going to be
like when it's enforced,
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who the beast is, et cetera...
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we're not going to go
over all of that again,
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if you missed those programs
and you want to watch them,
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just go to YouTube. com
forward slash, whitehorse media
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but now I want to make the point
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that the seven plagues...
the seven last plagues...
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the first plague only falls
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on those that get
the Mark of the Beast,
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now there's a
theory that's out there
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that says that Christians...
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that true
Christians... that the Church...
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is not going to go
through that final time
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that God's going
to get us out of here,
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before that time comes,
personally, I don't believe that
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I believe that God's
church is going to be here
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all the way to the end...
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but I believe that
God's true and faithful people
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will be protected
from these plagues.
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Verse 2 says that the...
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the first plague comes
upon those that get the mark
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but not everybody is
going to get the mark,
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if you go back to
chapter 15 and verse 2,
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the bible says,
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So, this verse tells us
that God's going to have people
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that had the
victory over the beast
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and over the
image and over the mark,
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they're not "Mark
of the Beast getters"
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and so they are
not "plague receivers"
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it's very significant when you
look at the seven last plagues
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in Revelation chapter
16 and you compare them
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to the ten plagues
that fell upon the Egyptians
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in the days of Moses,
those plagues are very similar
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there were boils in both,
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there is water
turning to blood in both...
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there is darkness in
both... there is hail in both...
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and if we go back to
the days of ancient Egypt,
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where were the Israelites,
where were God's people?
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Did God get them out of Egypt
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and deliver them from
Egypt before the plagues fell
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or did He protect them
while the plagues fell?
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The latter
answer... that's the truth...
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when you read
Exodus chapter 6, 7, 8, 9,
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10, 11, 12...
that whole section...
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you discover that the Israelites
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were right there in
Egypt but they were protected
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plague after plague after plague
because they were on Lord's side
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and it's the same
with the end of the world,
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when the Mark of
the Beast is enforced
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and multitudes
choose to go along with it,
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God's going to have
a people who stand up,
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who say, "No, I'm not
going along with this... "
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by the grace of Jesus Christ,
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they get the
victory over the beast,
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over the image and over the mark
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and so, when the
plagues begin to fall,
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the plagues don't fall on
those who get the victory...
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they only fall upon
those who receive the mark,
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so that's plague number 1,
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is boils on
those who get the mark,
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number 2 is found in
verse 3, "the second angel...
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The third plague
is similar in verse 4,
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So, the ocean... at least
part of the ocean turns to blood
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and the rivers turn to blood
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and I can imagine
people turning on their faucets
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in their houses to
get a glass of water
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and this strange
smelly red liquid
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comes right out of the faucet,
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no doubt the water
tables will be affected as well,
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and the wells and the
rivers all around the world...
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people are going to be looking
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at this strange
red liquid substance
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seeping out of their
pipes in their own homes
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and they're going to see
the same thing in the rivers
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and out in the
ocean... and I have a conviction
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that when that time comes,
people are going to finally...
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it's going to
dawn on them one by one
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what's really happening that
those who have stood up for God
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and for Jesus and chosen not
to get the Mark of the Beast,
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they were
right... they were right,
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and the rest of
the world is wrong
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and now God is sending...
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He's sending His
judgments upon the world
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and I think there is going
to be a whole host of people
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that are going to
start feeling their need
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for the blood of Jesus Christ,
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for the
cleansing blood of Christ
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but by that time...
it won't be available...
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just like in the days of Noah...
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when Noah finally entered
the Ark and the door closed...
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that was it... Noah
and his family were inside
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and the rest of
the world was outside
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and even when the
water began to come down
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and people changed their minds
and people started realizing
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that they should
have listened to Noah...
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they should have
believed his preaching...
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they should have
gotten in the Ark...
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and they started
banging on the door,
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by that time...
it was too late...
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too late... and
it's the same thing here
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in Revelation
16... when these...
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when this voice says,
"Go... " to the angels...
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and the first plague hits
and the second plague hits
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and the third plague
hits it's too late...
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for people to
change their minds...
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and to choose to
come back to God...
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in verse 7 we
have plague number 4,
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"I heard... " I'm
sorry it's in verse 8,
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verse 8 said:
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So, plague number 1 is boils
on those that get the mark,
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plague number
2... is the ocean...
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at least part of the
ocean turns to blood,
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plague number 3...
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is the rivers and fountains
of water turned to blood...
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and plague number
4... is that the sun
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is given power to
scorch men with fire.
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Fire... in the New Testament...
is represented sometimes
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as a symbol of the Holy Spirit,
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on the Day of Pentecost,
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the disciples
received the Holy Spirit
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and the evidence of
that was that they had
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little tongues of fire
that appeared on their heads.
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Fire is often used to
represent the Holy Spirit
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and when you keep reading
about this fourth plague,
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it tells us that once people
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are getting
scorched with this fire,
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it says that they will finally
repent not... to give him glory
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to give God glory...
now why don't they repent?
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You would think that
when boils are happening
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and water is turning
to blood and water tables
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and rivers are turning to
blood, you would think that
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and after the sun
starts scorching people,
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they would wake
up and they would be
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wanting to repent in droves,
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but as I said, by this
time it's going to be too late
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and the reason
why they don't repent,
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is really because
they can't repent,
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they're not able to
repent and the reason is
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because the only way that
anybody can repent of their sins
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is if God supernaturally
moves upon their hearts
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and brings them to repentance
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and that's what He does
through the Holy Spirit.
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If we don't have the
Holy Spirit in our lives,
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then it's impossible to repent
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and the fact that
people around the world
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are getting scorched with fire
and they're not repenting...
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this gives us a
very clear lesson,
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a clear message
that the Holy Spirit
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by this time has been completely
withdrawn from the earth,
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they can't repent
because there is no Holy Spirit
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to bring them to repentance
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they have resisted
all of His pleadings,
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all of His striving...
like it says in Genesis 6:3
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in the days of Noah, God said,
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"My Spirit will not
always strive with man"
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God strove with
man for 120 years
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until finally Noah entered
the Ark and the door closed
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and then the water
came down and that was it,
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when the door
closed... that was it...
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and when the voice
is heard in heaven,
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"Go" to the angels... that's it
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and if we haven't responded
to the Holy Spirit by then,
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it will be too
late... so now is the time
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Hebrews... the
book of Hebrews says,
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"Today is the day of salvation"
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let's not put off
our response to the Lord,
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we don't want to...
we don't want to wake up
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during the time of
the seven last plagues
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and realize that it's too late.
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Verse 10 says,
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and they repented
not to give him glory...
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they repented not
of their deeds... "
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same thing...
again, God is telling us
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from these verses
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that during the time
of the seven last plagues,
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it's impossible to repent
because the Holy Spirit...
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the Holy Spirit is gone...
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and when I think about darkness,
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falling upon the
seat of the beast,
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I'm sure that is
going to be picked up
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by all the major news networks
and people are going to be aware
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of who the beast really is
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that we talked about
in a previous program
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and I believe the reason why
God sends darkness upon the seat
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the seat of the
government of the beast
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is because the beast has brought
traditions and false doctrines
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into God's world
and has... has spread...
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the beast has spread these
doctrines all over planet earth.
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It reminds me of a
verse in Psalm 119 verse 105
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where the Bible says,
"Your word is a lamp to my feet,
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and a light to my path. "
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God's Word is the source of
our light and of our information
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and if we reject God's
Word the result is darkness
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and the world will
continue to reject God's Word
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on a wide scale... globally...
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until finally, God
withdraws His Spirit...
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He withdraws His
light... He sends His plagues...
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He basically says,
"my patience has worn out,
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I've been so
loving and so patient
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and so merciful for so long
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but you have chosen the beast...
you have chosen the Mark...
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you've chosen to go
against... against God...
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and now, only justice remains. "
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And that justice will be
poured out in those plagues.
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Back to Revelation 16, verse 12
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concerning the 6th plague
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it says:
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I've heard people
say, this is their opinion
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that the great river
Euphrates that dries up
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in the sixth plague is
the literal river Euphrates
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over in the Middle East that
flows through modern Iraq...
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but there's more to
this than meets the eye,
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when you look back in...
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we'll actually go
forward to chapter 17,
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we read about
Babylon... Mystery Babylon...
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and it says in verse 1, that
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"mystery Babylon is
sitting upon many waters"
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in the Old Testament there
was a literal city of Babylon
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that sat upon a
literal River Euphrates,
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in the book of Revelation,
there's another mystery Babylon
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and she's a woman who
sits upon many waters,
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she sits upon the mystical
waters of the river Euphrates
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and what do
these waters represent?
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In verse 15... we
don't have to guess...
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Revelation 17:15...
"the angel said to John,
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And the waters of
Euphrates represent
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all the people who
support mystery Babylon
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and the beast and
the false teachings
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that are belting
the world right now
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that are leading away
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from the simple pure
truth of the Word of God.
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We don't want to
be among that group,
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we've got to be willing
to stand up for our Lord
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and for what's right... and
for Jesus... no matter what.
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Back to chapter 16, verse 13,
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Now this is interesting,
first of all there are...
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there are three of them...
three unclean spirits like frogs
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when you look at Revelation 16,
00:18:51.26\00:18:53.53
the three unclean
spirits like frogs
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represent the
global forces of Babylon
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and the forces of deception
00:18:58.60\00:18:59.93
and those forces are in contrast
with the three angels' messages
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that are found in
chapter 14 verses 6 to 12,
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Revelation 14:6 to 12 contains
the message of three angels
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warning about the beast,
00:19:12.85\00:19:14.25
warning about the image
and warning about the Mark
00:19:14.28\00:19:16.25
and those who choose to
follow the three angels,
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they take us down on God's side
00:19:19.22\00:19:22.06
and then when the
plagues are poured out,
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they don't get those plagues
00:19:24.19\00:19:25.86
but those that
reject the three angels
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and choose the
beast and the Mark...
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they eventually
will be further invaded
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by the three unclean spirits
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like frogs that go
out around the world.
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Frogs were also one of
the plagues of Egypt...
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was one of the ten plagues
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but the Israelites were
protected from the frogs
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and God wants to
protect us from the frogs...
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the frog-like spirits as well.
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These frogs come out of...
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these spirits come out
of the mouth of the dragon,
00:19:55.22\00:19:57.03
out of the mouth of the beast
00:19:57.06\00:19:58.39
and out of the mouth
of the false prophet.
00:19:58.43\00:20:01.06
Verse 14 says, "they
are the spirits of devils
00:20:01.10\00:20:03.93
and they go out
and work miracles,
00:20:03.97\00:20:06.17
which go forth to
the kings of the earth
00:20:06.20\00:20:08.57
and the whole world, to
gather them to the battle
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of the great day
of God Almighty. "
00:20:11.77\00:20:13.68
This is Satan's last
burst of demonic darkness
00:20:13.71\00:20:17.01
to gather the world
to completely and fully
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be under his control and
to be on the devil's side
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when Armageddon finally hits.
00:20:25.22\00:20:27.62
Verse 15... Jesus
gives a warning and He says,
00:20:27.66\00:20:31.63
Jesus Himself inserts
00:20:41.24\00:20:43.91
a line right here...
right before Armageddon,
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verse 16 says:
00:20:47.64\00:20:49.78
And in verse 15,
Jesus is warning His people
00:20:52.55\00:20:55.92
in advance how to be on His side
00:20:55.95\00:20:58.32
not on the devil's side
when the final battle hits
00:20:58.35\00:21:01.32
and the way to be on His
side is to be watching...
00:21:01.36\00:21:03.83
doesn't mean to watch a
lot of television programs,
00:21:03.86\00:21:06.29
it means to be
watching out for deception
00:21:06.33\00:21:09.86
and for Satan's subtleties.
00:21:09.90\00:21:12.33
Jesus also told Peter,
00:21:12.37\00:21:14.24
he said, "Watch and pray,
lest you enter into temptation"
00:21:14.27\00:21:17.57
we need to watch and we
need to keep our garments
00:21:17.61\00:21:19.77
which represent the garments
of Christ's righteousness
00:21:19.81\00:21:22.34
not our own garments, we
need Jesus' righteousness,
00:21:22.38\00:21:24.88
His white robe to cloth us
00:21:24.91\00:21:27.15
and we need to hold
on to those garments
00:21:27.22\00:21:29.78
and keep them so
that we don't lose them
00:21:29.85\00:21:32.39
and walk naked and be
ashamed... and Armageddon...
00:21:32.42\00:21:36.39
verse 16 again talks
about that word, "Armageddon"
00:21:36.42\00:21:40.40
now what is
Armageddon really all about?
00:21:40.43\00:21:41.76
Amazingly, the
word, "Armageddon"
00:21:41.80\00:21:43.57
is only used one
time in the Bible,
00:21:43.60\00:21:45.30
it's not used
in any other place,
00:21:45.33\00:21:47.00
it's only one time and
when you read the context
00:21:47.04\00:21:50.41
it does not say that
it's just a Middle East battle
00:21:50.44\00:21:53.74
but it tells us clearly
that it's a global battle
00:21:53.78\00:21:56.71
between God and the
global forces of Babylon
00:21:56.75\00:21:59.55
at the very end of time.
00:21:59.61\00:22:01.48
When you read the
context, verse 14 says,
00:22:01.52\00:22:06.59
"it is the battle of the
great day of God Almighty. "
00:22:06.62\00:22:09.19
Verse 17 says:
00:22:09.22\00:22:11.89
So those are the seven plagues
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number one is boils on
those that get the Mark...
00:23:35.98\00:23:39.48
number two...
ocean turns to blood,
00:23:39.51\00:23:40.95
number three...
00:23:40.98\00:23:42.32
waters and rivers and
fountains turn to blood
00:23:42.35\00:23:44.99
number four... we have the
sun scorching people with fire,
00:23:45.05\00:23:48.49
number five... we have darkness
upon the seat of the beast,
00:23:48.52\00:23:51.93
number six... the waters
of the great river Euphrates
00:23:51.96\00:23:56.03
dry up which means
00:23:56.06\00:23:57.73
that the people
that support Babylon,
00:23:57.80\00:23:59.50
they realize, finally,
that they have been deceived
00:23:59.53\00:24:01.77
and their support
dries up for Babylon
00:24:01.80\00:24:05.01
and they realize that they have
made a huge and terrible mistake
00:24:05.07\00:24:08.68
this prepares the way
00:24:08.71\00:24:11.98
for the final global
gathering of the devil...
00:24:12.01\00:24:16.95
gathering all of his
masses who have made a mistake
00:24:16.99\00:24:20.56
but who have no Holy
Spirit left in their hearts
00:24:20.59\00:24:24.13
to bring them to repentance
00:24:24.16\00:24:25.49
and bring them
back on to God's side.
00:24:25.53\00:24:27.26
"He gathers them all
together for the great day
00:24:27.30\00:24:29.83
of the battle of Armageddon"
00:24:29.86\00:24:31.53
and the word
"Armageddon" literally means
00:24:31.57\00:24:34.04
"mountain of slaughter"
00:24:34.07\00:24:36.10
referring to the global mountain
of the devil's government
00:24:36.14\00:24:39.64
that comes crashing
down during the 7th plague
00:24:39.67\00:24:44.61
when the islands sink...
the mountains disappear...
00:24:44.65\00:24:48.02
the cities of
the nations crumble
00:24:48.05\00:24:50.25
and all around the world
00:24:50.29\00:24:51.62
human beings who've
chosen sin and Satan
00:24:51.65\00:24:56.12
and Babylon and deception
00:24:56.16\00:24:57.49
finally realize... to
their horror what they have done
00:24:57.53\00:25:02.30
and prior to all of this
Jesus gives us the warning
00:25:02.33\00:25:06.94
to watch out and
to keep our garments.
00:25:06.97\00:25:09.54
I heard a story
once about two men
00:25:09.60\00:25:11.87
that decided to
take a river ride
00:25:11.94\00:25:14.18
and they got into a little
boat, they had two life jackets,
00:25:14.21\00:25:16.98
they got into the boat
and they went down the river,
00:25:17.01\00:25:19.61
one of the men decided
to put his life jacket on
00:25:19.65\00:25:22.18
the other one put it on
the seat next to him and said,
00:25:22.25\00:25:25.52
"I'll put it on
later if I need it"
00:25:25.55\00:25:27.86
and as they were
going down the river,
00:25:27.89\00:25:30.16
they went around the turn and
ran into some unexpected rapids
00:25:30.19\00:25:33.40
the boat turned over and
the two men went into the water,
00:25:33.43\00:25:36.46
the man that had
put the life jacket on
00:25:36.50\00:25:39.10
before the boat ride
began, he popped up...
00:25:39.13\00:25:41.70
he swam ashore
00:25:41.74\00:25:43.20
but the one who decided,
"I'll put it on later... "
00:25:43.24\00:25:45.34
he went down and he
never did come back up...
00:25:45.37\00:25:48.84
never did come up...
00:25:48.91\00:25:50.25
and that impresses me that
we need to put on the garments
00:25:50.28\00:25:53.68
of Jesus Christ's
righteousness now...
00:25:53.72\00:25:56.28
we can't afford to
wait until the crisis
00:25:56.32\00:25:58.55
because when the crisis comes...
00:25:58.59\00:25:59.92
when the plagues
start falling, it's too late
00:25:59.95\00:26:01.99
now is the time
for us to choose Jesus,
00:26:02.02\00:26:04.39
now is the time for
us to put on the armour
00:26:04.43\00:26:06.76
and put on His
robe of righteousness,
00:26:06.80\00:26:08.40
to follow the Word of God,
to walk with the Holy Spirit,
00:26:08.43\00:26:11.33
to follow Jesus and to
be cleansed in His blood
00:26:11.37\00:26:15.10
because when the
final crisis hits,
00:26:15.17\00:26:17.51
and when the plagues fall
00:26:17.54\00:26:19.14
and Armageddon decimates
the world by that time,
00:26:19.17\00:26:22.21
it will too late.
00:26:22.24\00:26:23.85
Jesus said in verse 15...
00:26:23.88\00:26:27.02
May God help us
to be on Jesus' side
00:26:33.25\00:26:35.62
and to put on
our life jackets now.
00:26:35.66\00:26:38.49
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