Moses had stretched out
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that rod or was
told to stretch out
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that rod because the
Lord had done something else.
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He had lifted
that cloud of darkness.
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And Pharaoh now looks out
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and sees Israel
escaping through the Red Sea.
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Now, you would think
that would be enough to say,
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I'm finished, I'm not
going into that Red Sea.
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But notice, stubbornness,
sin makes people stubborn.
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And his sins goes
with his whole army
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right into the Red Sea,
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the chariots leading
the way and it looks like,
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in the morning light,
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they're gaining,
gaining, gaining,
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and then the Bible says
that, "God troubled the wheels."
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He messed up the wheels,
you mean, He tear the wheels.
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I don't know if He
started letting the place
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get muddy, I don't know.
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But the Egyptians
all of a sudden said,
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"The Lord is fighting."
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There's that word,
fighting, fighting for Israel,
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and they turn and
they begin to go back.
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They were rushing right toward
the middle of the Red Sea,
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and that's when Moses
stretches out that rod
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and that sea swallows them.
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The Bible says,
"There's not one left."
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Archeologists have
by the way gone down
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and found
remnants of chariot wheels,
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and other things in that area.
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But I wanna come back to
this point of the scripture,
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because when this is all done,
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Israel is standing there
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on the other
side of the Red Sea.
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Their mouths
must have been open.
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They must have
been hugging each other
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because those Egyptians
would have destroyed them
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and the sea swallows
them and their enemies.
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The stubborn Pharaoh
and his army is gone.
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The Lord is a mighty warrior.
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And Moses put together a song
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and they began
to sing that song.
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And here's how that song went.
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We don't have time
to get into all of it.
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It's found in Exodus 15:1-3,
"I will sing to the Lord,
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for He has triumphed gloriously!
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The horse and its rider
He has thrown into the sea!"
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And then he says,
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"The Lord is my
strength and my song."
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We're gonna sing
that in the New Jerusalem.
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We're gonna sing
that on the sea of glass.
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We're gonna sing that song
with Moses and the Israelites,
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but we're gonna be
singing it over something else.
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We're gonna be
singing it over Babylon.
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"And He has become my salvation,
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He is my God, I will praise Him,
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my father's God,
and I will exalt Him.
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The Lord is a man of war,
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the Lord is His name."
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And it says in Chapter
15, continuing that song,
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"Who is like You, O
Lord, among the gods?"
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And then the end of the
song gives us the result.
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It's a wonderful
result, and it says here that,
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"You will bring them..."
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verse 17 of
Chapter 15 of Exodus,
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"You will bring them in
and plant them in the mountain
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of Your inheritance,
in the place, O Lord,
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which You have made
for Your own dwelling,
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The sanctuary, O Lord,
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which Your hands
have established."
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Yes.
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We're going to go
through a lot of trouble.
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But Jesus said
something similar.
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He said "Don't let
your heart be troubled,
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let not your heart be troubled.
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You believe in
God, believe also in Me.
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In My father's
house are many mansions
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which I have gone
to prepare for you."
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Jesus is
preparing a place for us.
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Just like God promised Israel,
that He had a place for them
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in that Promised Land
that they were being taken to.
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So we go back to
the song of Revelation.
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Let's go back to
that song of Revelation,
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song of the Lamb in 15:3.
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Now we don't have all...
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I don't think, we
don't have all the song
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of the Lamb yet
because we haven't been
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through the experience.
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So only once we go
through the experience
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of the terrors of Babylon
in the final time of trouble
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and the issues of
the mark of the beast,
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then we're gonna be able
to sing the song of the Lamb.
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'Cause I want to tell
you that in the end of time
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Jesus is going to take charge.
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He's in charge of His church.
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I don't mean that
in the wrong sense.
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He's in charge
of His church now.
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But in a unique
sense, I believe that Jesus,
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just like He took charge
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of ancient Israel on that cloud.
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That Jesus is
somehow in a unique way,
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I don't know how,
I can't explain it.
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But He's going to
take charge of His church.
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He's gonna guide His church
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through this
terrible time of trouble.
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God's people from every nation,
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kindred, tongue and people
scattered all over the world,
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suffering
terrible time of trouble,
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terrible persecution,
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not knowing
what's going to happen.
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Thinking that perhaps
they are all just going to die,
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they're all going
to give their life,
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but pleading with
God, pleading with Him,
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Jesus come soon.
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Jesus is going
to lead His church
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through that
terrible time in the future.
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And that's why
this is going to be
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the song of the Lamb
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that's going to
join the song of Moses,
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that song of the Lamb.
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In fact, someone
noted the parallels
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between the song of
Moses and the song of the Lamb.
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I want to give
those to you very quickly.
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The song of Moses was
sung beside the Red Sea,
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but the song of
Lamb will be sung
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by the crystal sea.
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And the song of
Moses was sung over Egypt.
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But the song of the Lamb
will be sung over Babylon.
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The song of Moses
described how God bought
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His people out and
the song of the Lamb
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would describe how
God brought His people in.
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The song of Moses was
Scripture's first song,
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and the song of the Lamb
is Scripture's last song.
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And that comes from
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Willmington's
Guide to the Bible.
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So I wanna come back
to these seven trumpets
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for just a moment.
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Now obviously, I
could spend three hours
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on the seven trumpets.
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But we're just...
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I'm just gonna
give you quick overview.
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Those trumpets, we
have the seven churches,
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the seven seals
and the seven trumpets.
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They all repeat and enlarge,
and they cover that time period
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between the time of
John and the coming of Jesus.
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So we are in...
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I believe right now,
we're in the seventh trumpet,
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we're in the end of time.
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But I wanna explain
to you how this works,
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and this is how this works.
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The trumpets are
trumpets of judgment.
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God's judgments don't
wait till the end of time.
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The seven last plagues
are part of that judgment.
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I'll talk a little bit
more about that tomorrow,
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or the next time we
have a session I should say.
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So anyway, let me go
back to these seven trumpets.
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The first four
are God's judgments
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on ancient pagan Rome.
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Rome in the New Testament,
in the Book of Revelation,
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Rome is the
enemy, Rome and Babylon
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is the enemy of God's people.
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Just like Egypt was
the enemy of God's people
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in the Old Testament.
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So the first four
bring in the barbarians,
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remember it's pagan Rome
that was trying to destroy
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the Christian church,
throwing them to the lions,
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and so the barbarians come
in and those first four trumpets
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and they destroy
the Roman Empire.
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The last three trumpets
are God's judgments against,
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I'll say it kindly, papal Rome.
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And each judge about
something like itself.
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The last trumpet, of course,
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is the God's
judgment on Babylon,
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but the fifth and sixth
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are God's
judgments on papal Rome.
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God...
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And I say this kindly again,
often God let something come up
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like itself to
judge, it's way it works.
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But we have now the
rise of the Muslims,
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and I don't have time to get
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into that
marvelous time prophecy.
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But it was right on schedule,
and it's a fascinating story.
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But the rise of the Muslims
put a check on the spread
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and the power of the papacy,
and the prophecy pictured them,
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and I don't have time
to get into this detail.
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But basically the Muslims
overcame the Byzantine Empire,
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and then it
became a great threat
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to Western Europe
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and it checked the papacy.
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And the emperor of
the Byzantine Empire
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wouldn't take the throne
unless he got the permission
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of the Muslim sultan.
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But that would change
at the end of the prophecy,
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it just turns around.
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And I don't have time
to tell you the story,
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it's a fantastic,
fascinating story.
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But the Muslim empire
comes under the control
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of the Christian
powers of Europe.
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What was happing
here was the rise
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of the Protestant Reformation.
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As the Protestant Reformation,
and the reason Charles V
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couldn't stop the
Protestant Reformation...
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One of the reasons I should say,
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couldn't stop the
Protestant Reformation
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was the rise of the Muslims.
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He had to go fight the Muslims.
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I'm saying this in
quick generalities here.
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He had to go fight the Muslims
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and while He is
dealing with the Muslims,
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the Protestant Reformation
grows till it's unstoppable.
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But now as the western
world and you have the growth
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of the Protestant America
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becomes a great
Protestant power.
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But now as
America is turning back
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to embrace the
popes of the Dark Ages.
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We're beginning to see the power
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of the Muslims rise again.
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Very fascinating.
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Let me share something with you
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that I got from
the public broadcast.
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They gave three
different phases.
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This is not my
invention by the way,
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three different phases
of the rise of the Muslims.
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But I looked at
the visits of the popes
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to the United States,
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and there's a very
interesting parallel to that.
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So phase one, according
to the public broadcast,
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was from 1968 to 1979,
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and that was the dawn
of modern Muslim terrorism.
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Interesting enough
Vatican II stopped in 1965,
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and the first papal
visit to the United States
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was in October of 1965.
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And then this dawn
of Muslim terrorism
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starts in 1968 to 1979.
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And then phase two,
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we have that very
popular superstar pope,
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Pope John Paul II,
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he visits the United States
in 1979 for the first time,
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would visit seven times I think.
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In phase two, they said,
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now they didn't
put these two together,
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I'm putting the two together.
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But they are
the one that came up
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with these different phases,
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and I had nothing to do
with the visits of a pope
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to the United States.
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So in phase two
started also in 1979,
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starting with a visit
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of Pope John Paul II to 1991.
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And then in 1991, and I could go
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over some of the
terrorist things,
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I don't have time for that.
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Phase three, 1991 to
2001, the rise of global terror.
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And, of course, it was
in 1993 that John Paul II
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held that great Youth
Day in Denver, Colorado.
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And then you have 1994
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with evangelicals
and Catholics together,
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and then of course
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we know all about
the World Trade Center.
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I remember that day and I
said, "This will be a watershed.
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It's going to change the world."
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And it has changed the world.
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You can't fly in an
airplane without knowing that
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this thing has
changed the world.
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And so here we are
in the end of time.
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And I want to tell you
that God is going to unmask
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the sins of Babylon.
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But people are
going to be stubborn,
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they're gonna
continue go down the road,
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just like that ancient Pharaoh
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even when they see these things.
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So I want to ask the question,
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and we should each be
asking ourself this question.
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Are we going to stand
on the sea of glass someday
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and sing the songs
of Moses and the Lamb?
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Victory over evil, Gods
church is going to be triumph.
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Evil is a terrible thing,
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and Jesus is going
to put an end to it.
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And we should rejoice over that.
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That is something
to be happy about.
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And that's what
we're going to be doing
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on that sea of glass.
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Were gonna be
singing the song of Moses
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and the Lamb
because of the great victory
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this marvelous Jesus,
this incomparable Jesus
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has won over Babylon,
and the enemies of truth.
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Here is the real question
that you and I must ask.
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Are we going to be there
standing on that sea of glass
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singing the song
of Moses and the Lamb?
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