So now we go to
these seven last plagues
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that will deliver
God's people and demonstrate
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His justice against
those who have pushed
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the mark of the beast.
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Very fascinating,
these seven last plagues.
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So the first one
says in Revelation 16:2,
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"So the first went
and poured out his bowl
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upon the earth, and a
foul and loathsome sore
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came upon men who had
the mark of the beast,
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and who had
worshiped his image."
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So those who have
received the mark of the beast,
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or accepted it
are going to get this,
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then this is not just people,
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religious people, this is
going to include the atheists,
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they're not going to escape,
they've accepted the mark
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of the beast,
because it was convenient.
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There's many other
people who've accepted it,
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maybe not
because they believed it,
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but because they needed to work,
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or they needed the
economic advantages.
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Many Christians have accepted it
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because they didn't
check out the Bible.
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They didn't test...
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They're clergy,
by the scripture.
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And so they just took
what the clergy told them,
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and they receive it.
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Pagans believe it,
and they receive it,
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because of the
great many miracles
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that's been
performed by this image
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to the beast that's
been given breath to live.
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And so the second
plague comes, Revelation 16:3,
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"Then the second angel
poured out his bowl on the sea,
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and it became
blood as of a dead man,
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and every living
creature in the sea died."
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So this is against the sea.
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Not long ago, I was in Panama.
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And someone very kindly
took me to the Panama Canal,
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I've never been.
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And it is an amazing
thing to see these huge ships.
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They've
constructed not too long ago,
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another canal now to
handle these larger ships,
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they're so
large, they had to have
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a new canal for them.
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It's amazing the tonnage
that's coming through there,
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coming from Asia,
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sweeping into North
America, into Europe,
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unbelievable amounts of
cargo going through there.
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So the world is
tied together globally,
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through trade,
people hope to get rich.
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If you read the 18th Chapter,
Revelation talks about Babylon,
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and it talks
about how the merchants
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and the sea merchants weep
because of the fallen Babylon
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because nobody buys
their goods any longer.
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So let me go down to this.
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So this shuts down
trade is what it does.
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And everything that
people depend on for luxury,
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or for wants,
it's put a stop to.
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You know, some
people worry about
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"What am I gonna do
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if I receive the
mark of the beast
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and, you know,
economically I get destroyed?"
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Well, let me tell you
this, in the end of time,
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everybody's going to
get destroyed economically.
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Those who receive the mark
of the beast certainly will,
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now, they may
not do it at first,
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God's people may suffer
all of that economic hardship,
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may be losing their
lives and persecution,
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they may receive it first.
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But before it's
all done, and said,
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the whole world is
going to be destroyed.
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Its economics on which
the mark of the beast promised
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the world great plenty,
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and great hope and great wealth,
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all that's
going to be destroyed.
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So this plague is against that.
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So let's go to the
next one, the third plague,
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Revelation 16:4-6,
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"Then the third
angel poured out his bowl
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on the rivers and
the springs of water,
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and they became blood.`
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And then the
angel goes on to say,
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'Oh Lord God, they deserve it,'
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because they shed
the blood of prophets,
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and of Your people.'
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" So God, He's not been asleep.
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When He's seen all
the blood of the martyrs,
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He's seen the Inquisition,
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He's seen the millions of people
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who've given up their
lives for God's truth.
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And in the end of
time, the people that refuse
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to receive the
mark of the beast,
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many of them are
going to lose their lives.
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God understands everyone
and that blood cries out to God
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from the ground.
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And God is going
to say to the world,
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"You shed the
blood of My people,
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you treated them
terrible, and awful,
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and now you are
going to drink this blood,"
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not their blood, but this blood.
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You know, Moses made
Israel after the golden calf,
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he ground up that golden
calf and made them drink it.
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Why?
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Because it's the cup
of justice, as it were.
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So in the fourth
plague, Revelation 16:8-9,
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"Then the fourth angel
poured out his bowl on the sun,
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given to him to
scorch men with fire.
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And men were
scorched with a great heat,
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and they
blasphemed the name of God
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who has power
over these plagues,
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and they did not
repent or give Him glory."
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As we learned
earlier, we talked about 666.
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We know that Sunday is
the chief god of the pagans,
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and his special number is 666.
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We know how the Christian church
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in its embracing of paganism
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changed the Sabbath
of the Ten Commandments
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from Saturday, the
seventh day of the week,
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to Sunday, the
first day of the week.
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Sunday is the day
that the great pagan gods
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were honored on.
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You can find it
in the Roman Empire.
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You can find it
in ancient history.
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But it's also a
symbol of the pagans,
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who rejected God as creator.
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And that's what Babylon
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and the ancient
pagans were all about,
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it's the reason
they didn't embrace
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the Ten Commandments.
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That's the reason they
hated the Jewish people,
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is because they did not
want God being in charge.
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Like the evolutionists,
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they don't want a
divine foot in the door,
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but there will be a divine
foot in the door, for sure.
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And so now the sun...
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remember those charms,
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those charms
from ancient Babylon
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with the 666 on one
side, and then the sun god
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on the other side,
that it would protect them
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from these evil powers,
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but there's no protecting now.
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This sun is a terrible
plague, and men blasphemed God
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because of it.
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And then the fifth
plague, very interesting one,
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Revelation 16:10-11,
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"Then the fifth
angel poured out his bowl
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on the throne of the beast,
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and his kingdom
became full of darkness."
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Now, this is a plague poured out
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on the religious leaders,
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these religious leaders.
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So when this darkness comes,
these people that are bent
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on destroying God's people
are suddenly going to wake up,
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they're going to
wake up and say, "What?
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We've been on the
wrong side of this,
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the clergy, he and the priest,
and everybody have told us
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that we were okay, we
were doing God's will,
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but now we can see
this plague of darkness,"
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and they're going to wake up.
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It's poured on the
kingdom of the beast.
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"And they gnawed their
tongues because of the pain.
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They blasphemed
the God of heaven
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because of their pains,
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and their sores,
and they did not repent
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of their deeds."
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Now that fifth plague is
tied into the sixth plague,
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which is a very
fascinating one as well.
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Revelation 16:12-14,
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"Then the sixth
angel poured out his bowl
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on the great river Euphrates,
and its water was dried up,
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so that the way of the kings
of the east might be prepared."
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Now, I want to go back
and say we'll talk about
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that river
Euphrates in just a moment
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and what that means.
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"And I saw three
unclean frogs..."
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This one has a lot of
symbolic language in it,
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it's very interesting.
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"Three unclean
spirits like frogs,
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coming out of the
mouth of the dragon,
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out of the mouth of the beast,
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out of the mouth
of the false prophet,"
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that's that trilogy,
the false trilogy again,
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"for they are spirits of
demons, performing signs."
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Jesus said, "In the end of time,
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they would perform miracles,
and deceive many people.
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"Performing signs,
which go out to the kings
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of the whole world and
gather them to the battle
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of great God almighty,"
the battle of Armageddon.
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So some of this
takes place before that,
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because all this
deception before you ever get
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into the seven last plagues,
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has been going on
with these demons.
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And they are performing
all these wonderful signs,
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making fire come down
from God out of heaven,
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and the kings of the
earth are deceived, Babylon,
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that woman, also another
picture of the same thing,
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and she deceives
them by her charms.
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So the great
deception all over the world,
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and they're being
gathered to that final battle,
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but the ways of the kings
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of the east are being prepared.
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Now, let me just...
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I'll talk more about
this on another subject
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but let me just give
you a little bit right now.
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Ancient Babylon set on
a river, the Euphrates.
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In the Book of
Revelation, this new Babylon,
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Chapter 17, sits on a river,
but it's not a literal river,
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it's a river of people,
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you can read it in
Chapter 17 for yourself.
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And so they deceived,
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these demons and
this false trinity
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through the religious
leaders deceived the world.
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And so it collapses,
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the support for
Babylon collapses,
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you can read that in Chapter 17.
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And so people are
very upset and angry.
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And now these
plagues prepare the way
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for the final approach
of the kings of the east,
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like Cyrus who came to
overthrow ancient Babylon,
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and he dried up the river
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and was able to
overthrow Babylon.
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So this plague dries up
the support for the clergy,
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all kinds of clergy
that have deceived people.
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Listen, it's a
very responsible thing
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to be a
minister, to be a priest,
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it's very responsible thing.
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And so this is
dried up and people,
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they totally lose support,
and then Jesus is coming
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with the final seventh plague,
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but there's some
special instructions here,
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special
instructions for the righteous,
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for those who are
going through this.
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And He says here, "Behold,
I am coming as a thief,"
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unexpectedly but I'm coming.
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"Blessed is he who watches,"
that's the words of Jesus.
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He said, watch and
pray, stay on the alert.
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"Blessed is He who watches."
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Are you watching?
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Are we praying,
reading our Bibles every day?
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Are we in constant communion
with God like Daniel was?
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Are we endeavoring in our life
by the grace of the Lord Jesus
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and by the indwelling
of spirit, to be obedient
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to the precious Savior,
to follow His instructions?
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Are we watching?
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Are we praying?
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And then He goes on,
"Blessed is he who watches
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and keeps his garments."
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Where did those
garments come from?
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Those garments are the garments
that Jesus has given us.
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It's His righteousness,
it's not our righteousness.
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But are we
keeping those garments?
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Are we getting
sin out of our life?
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Are we getting
disobedience out of our life?
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We don't want to
spoil these garments
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with more rebellion
in our hearts, our life.
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Jesus blesses this
person who keeps His garments.
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Then when the
clothes of probation comes,
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my dear friends,
we have got to be
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so settled in our mind,
and we got to be so filled
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with the Spirit of God,
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and so filled
with the living Christ,
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that we are not going to choose,
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by the grace of
God, won't choose to sin
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between then and
the coming of Jesus.
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So it says,
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"Blessed is the person
who keeps his garments."
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In the end of
time sin is a spoiler,
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it's always been a
spoiler, it's a horrible thing.
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Look at what it's
done to the world,
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look what it's
done to all of us.
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So He says, "Lest he walk naked,
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and I see shame..."
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unless somehow, we
don't keep our garments,
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we're not ready for
the clothes of probation,
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we're not ready
for Jesus to come,
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and then we
will be put to shame.
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We lose our garment
that Jesus has given to us.
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And the seventh
plague simply says,
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"The seventh angel
poured out his bowl in the air,
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and there was a loud voice
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from heaven saying 'It is done.'
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" And it
pictures Babylon as a city
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that falls into three parts.
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It pictures a terrible
plague of hail and appalling,
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I think this is what
we're seeing when Jesus comes,
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this hail precedes
the coming of Jesus.
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Held the weight of a
talent, 50, 60, 70 pounds,
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I don't know exactly.
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But there's nothing
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that can stand
in the way of that.
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It's just destroying
the armies of the earth
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who are now no longer
listening to their clergy,
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they're just mad,
they're mad at God,
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and they hate His people.
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But these plagues are
going to save God's people,
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they're going to
deliver God's people,
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they're going
to destroy Babylon,
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who's persecuted God's people.
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But we must never
forget the admonition.
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We must stay awake.
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We must stay on the alert.
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We must keep our garments white.
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We must get sin out of our life
and put our trust every moment,
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every hour in our
precious incredible,
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marvelous Savior.
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