When a hurricane, a terrible
hurricane approaches the coast,
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there's a time to leave.
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A time before it's too late.
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One of the more
recent terrible hurricanes
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that hit the United States,
I was reading the testimonies
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of people who decided not to
leave, some lost their lives.
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Some lost everything.
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And they said, "If I
had to do this over again,
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I wouldn't hesitate to leave."
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They thought they could stay,
but there's a time to leave.
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And we need to leave
while there's time to get out.
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And there's a time that
talks about that in the Bible.
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Before I go there, I want
to remind us of another time
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in earth's history.
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Germany was a great democracy.
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And yet, it ended up
buying into Hitler's formula
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for prosperity
and everything else.
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And pretty soon it became
clear where Hitler was going
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as far as his attitude
towards the Jewish people.
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And some of the
Jews decided to get out.
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But there were a lot
that decided to stay.
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They said, "Well
maybe it won't get so bad.
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Maybe it will be okay.
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I mean, we've
got our home here."
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There was all kinds of reasons.
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But there was one man
by the name of Oppenheimer
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who decided to
leave and take his family.
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So they sold everything.
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They were very
quiet about what they did.
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And they finally left
and crossed the border.
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And this is his
daughter's statement
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about what her
father had to say.
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This is Hanna Oppenheimer.
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"The minute we
crossed the German border
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my father sat me down
on his knee," she says.
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"He explained why we
were going to Jerusalem.
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He said that
Germany was no longer safe
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and the Jews would no longer
be able to lead a normal life.
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Despite the fact that
we had lived in Germany
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for generations, he
said we had to leave
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while we could."
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And they did.
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The book of
Revelation gives a call,
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a call to come out of Babylon.
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A lot of people say, "Well
how can the mark of the beast
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and all these things
you're talking about,
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how can that all take place?"
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But many people would
have said, "How could Nazism
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ever risen in Germany either?"
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But we go to the
book of Revelation,
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and the book of
Revelation is warning us.
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Revelation 18:1-5, "And after
these things I saw another angel
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coming down from heaven,
having great authority..."
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He's coming from
Jesus, the incomparable Jesus
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that we've been talking about.
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Jesus is sending a
mighty message, one last mighty
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message to the world.
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"...and the earth was
illuminated with his glory."
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So this is going to
be a worldwide appeal.
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It's going to be an
appeal that says to everybody,
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"You better listen."
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"And he cried mightily
with a loud voice, saying,
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'Babylon the great is fallen,
is fallen, and has become
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the dwelling
place of demons...'"
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That's so sad.
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Because Babylon really
calls itself a Christian church,
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or churches.
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It's an alliance of churches, a
denomination at the end of time,
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according to Scripture.
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"...has become the
dwelling place of demons,
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a prison for every foul spirit,
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and a cage for every
unclean and hated bird!"
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It shows how terrible
the deceptions will be
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in the end of time.
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Terrible deceptions.
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Then he goes on to say, "For
all the nations have drunk of
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the wine of her fornication..."
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In other words,
they've become drunk.
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They don't have good sense.
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"'...the kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her,
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and the merchants of
the earth have become rich
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with her luxury.'
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And I heard another
voice from heaven saying..."
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And here it is.
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"Come out of her, my people..."
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In other words, in the end
of time everybody is saying,
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"Hey, we got
rich. This is great.
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This is wonderful, this
is going to be a good thing."
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And yet Jesus says,
the incomparable Jesus
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who loves us, says, "Come out.
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Come out."
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Come out. Why?
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"...lest you share in her sins
and you receive her plagues."
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In other words, time is
going to run out for Babylon.
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It will no longer be
safe to stay in Babylon.
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We're not talking
about a life on this earth,
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like leaving Nazi Germany.
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We're talking
about eternal life.
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It's not going to be safe.
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Just like it wasn't safe in
Nazi Germany to stay there. Why?
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It goes on, "For her sins
have reached to heaven..."
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Another way of saying that
is, she's filled up her cup.
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Even Jesus, the
great incomparable Jesus
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who loves us so much,
He can't do anything else.
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He can't do anything else.
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She's filled up her cup.
She's not going to change.
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"For her sins
have reached to heaven,
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and God has
remembered her iniquities."
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Now God remembers, God acts.
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Not that He ever forgot,
but it's a way of the Scripture
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saying, "It's time now to act."
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So this unfaithful church.
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You remember, the
book of Revelation
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is a book of contrasts.
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We have the faithful
church who is introduced
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to us in chapter 12.
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She's clothed with the
lights of the universe;
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the sun, the moon, the stars.
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And then we have this Babylon
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who everybody
really is attracted to.
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She's very seductive.
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We talked about her seducing
and how she seduces the world.
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And people are
just flocking to her.
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And she's in contrast.
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Both of these women
claim, in symbolic form,
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symbols, of people who
claim or churches who claim
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to belong to Christ.
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They claim they're His.
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But there's a true one and
there's one that's a false one.
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It's just that simple.
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So how do we know?
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How do we know
the difference between
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the true, as it
were, and the false?
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Well, we know we're
dealing with sin here.
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We're dealing
with a religious issue.
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We know what sin is
according to the Scripture.
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Sin is the
transgression of the law.
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In other words,
according to the New Testament
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it's the violation of the law.
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There's no judgment if
there's no commandment.
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So if you violate
God's Ten Commandments,
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you're asking for judgment.
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Just like if you
violate the laws of the land.
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The laws of our land, the
good ones, are given to us
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to maintain freedom.
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Well there's a lot of
people that just, you know,
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they want to do their own thing.
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But if they do their own
thing, it produces chaos.
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And we lose freedom, and
there's no freedom anywhere.
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No, law is a good thing.
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Good laws are a good
thing, and they preserve life
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and they preserve freedom.
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And that's exactly, of course,
what the Ten Commandments do.
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It's the book of James,
in James 2:10, that says
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if you break any of
God's Ten Commandments,
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I'm paraphrasing here,
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if you break any of
God's Ten Commandments,
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he says you've
broken them all. Why?
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Because they're
built on God's love,
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on unselfish love.
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So if you violate any of
them, you become selfish.
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And selfishness is not
going to be in the new earth.
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Selfishness is
the root and the cause
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of all our
calamities in this world.
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I'm looking forward to that
new heavens and the new earth
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where righteousness and
unselfish love is premium.
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And that's where people are
going to have a wonderful time.
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A marvelous time. We've
talked about that already.
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But to get back to
this, so the mark of the beast
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which Babylon makes,
she puts this together
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in order to force God's people,
to force everybody really,
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to break God's commandments.
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You know, already
we have great churches
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that are calling for the
solution to climate change.
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I'm not talking about
climate change or that argument.
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But they're calling for
solutions to climate change
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to being Sunday worship.
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Getting everybody to
come back and worship Sunday.
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We've already
seen that going out.
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We're seeing
atheists buy into that,
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we're seeing secular
people buy into that,
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we're seeing religious
people buying into that.
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People saying, "Oh, yes."
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And as disasters
become worse and worse,
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people are going to
say, "We've got to fix this."
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And Sunday will be a
solution to it in their mind.
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If they can just have everybody
rest one day of the week,
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they think they
can solve the problem.
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And they think they
can solve poverty with it,
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and a lot of other things.
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So you're going to see
this become very, very popular,
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not just among church people,
but it's going to be very, very
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popular among
people who are secular.
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Even atheists
are buying into it.
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So the mark of the
beast, of course, is to produce
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a counterfeit Sabbath.
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It breaks God's
fourth commandment.
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And it orders the murder of
those who refuse to go along.
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Just like in the days
of Esther and Mordecai
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when Haman went to the
king and talked him into
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murdering all the Jews.
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And yet, God
ended up rescuing them.
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God will rescue His people.
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That doesn't mean that many
aren't going to lose their life.
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It's going to be
terrible persecution coming.
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But listen, it's going
to be worse for Babylon.
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When Babylon falls, everything
is going to come apart.
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Everything they wanted, all
the economy, all the luxury,
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everything they've put their
hopes in, this earthly life.
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Just like the Sadducees and
Pharisees in the days of Jesus.
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They didn't want a
self-sacrificing Jesus.
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They wanted a king
that would come and
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give them, make Jerusalem
the center of the world,
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and earthly power.
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So that's what
Babylon, in the name of Christ,
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offers the world.
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But it's not going to work.
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It's going to be
far worse for Babylon.
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It might be worse for
God's people to start with,
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but it's going to be
far worse for Babylon
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in the end of time.
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So this
murdering of God's people,
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this persecution of God's people
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will call down the
seven last plagues.
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Listen to the book
of Revelation 18:23-24.
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Listen to what it says.
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It says, "The
light of a lamp shall not
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shine in you anymore..."
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Talking about the
destruction of Babylon.
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"...the voice of the bridegroom
and the bride shall not
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be heard in you anymore.
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For your merchants were
the great men of the earth,
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and by your sorcery all
the nations were deceived.
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And in her,"
Babylon, "was found the blood
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of the prophets and the saints
who were slain on the earth."
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So there's going to
be terrible persecution
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by Babylon in the end of time.
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Now Revelation
19:2 tells that God is
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righteous for judging her.
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"For true and
righteous are His judgments,
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because He has judged the
great harlot who has corrupted,"
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corrupted, "the earth
with her fornication."
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In other words, because
of being unfaithful to Jesus
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and embracing the leaders
of the world for their wealth
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and their power,
she's been unfaithful,
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and this fornication has
made the world become drunk.
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But God knows what it is.
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And it says that,
"He has avenged on her
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the blood of His
servants shed by her."
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Do you love the Lord enough
to give your life for Him?
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I mean, your life is
not going to last that long.
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I mean, in this world we live
70, 80, 90, maybe 100 years?
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Maybe. Maybe.
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But it all goes fast.
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Have you noticed
how fast time goes?
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It goes quickly.
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I mean, you know, when I
was 10 years old it felt like
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I was walking with a turtle.
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By the time I was
15, I was on a bicycle.
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By the time I'm 25, I'm riding
down the interstate, in time.
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By the time you reach my
age, I'm on a space shuttle.
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Time speeds up, it goes fast.
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You look back over your life and
you say, "Where has it gone?"
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That's why I
want life everlasting.
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I mean, if you get everything in
this world for this little life,
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what have you got
if you lose your soul,
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if you lose eternal life?
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So God says to
people, "Get out of Babylon."
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But where do you go? If
you leave, you go where?
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Well, there's two
women that are symbolic here.
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One is the faithful church,
one is the unfaithful church.
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And this is just
as simple as ABC.
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God is saying this, He's
saying, "Leave the unfaithful,
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unfaithful church, and
go into a faithful church.
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Because I'm going to protect
that faithful church in the end.
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Even if many
people lose their lives,
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a lot of them are going to
go through terrible persecution.
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And they're going to
be ready for Me to come,
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and I'm going to protect them.
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I'll resurrect
them, I'll save them.
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They'll be ready
for Jesus to come.
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But you need to
get into that church.
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You need to get
into that church."
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You know, it's like
being in Noah's ark.
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And the hawk...
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I'm making this up, of
course. It's a parable.
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The hawk says to the little
dove, "I'm going to eat you."
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And the little dove says,
"I'm going to fly out of here.
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I'm going to get out of here."
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And the hawk moves closer.
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But something to the little
dove says, "Stay in the ark.
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Stay in the ark, because
there's a flood outside."
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Jesus said, "There
might be difficulty
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in the faithful church, but
you better stay in that church.
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You better get into that church,
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because there is
coming a storm outside."
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